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Squiz delivers expanded digital experience platform for powerful CX and introduces SaaS for greater flexibility and lower costs
Easy-to-use, integrated and open solutions for high-quality digital customer engagement and services in the new normal
Sydney, Australia – 21 September 2020 – Squiz, an Australian-founded, global Digital Experience Platform (DXP) company, announced new and updated products in its DXP and a Software as a Service (SaaS) delivery model to allow organisations to choreograph personalised digital experiences and services.
The Squiz DXP is a suite of open, fast and flexible products that includes new versions of Squiz Matrix and Squiz Funnelback, Squiz Datastore, and the new Squiz Connect product.
Squiz Matrix 6.0 offers easy content management with a new drag and drop user interface. A new page building, inline editor experience, and easy integrations that enable content teams to create and manage new sites quickly with less reliance on IT resources. Squiz Funnelback 16 is a web search platform that uses advanced machine learning to deliver personalised search results and content analytics so organisations can optimise digital content.
Matrix and Funnelback are now also available as a service, hosted on the Amazon Web Services Cloud, to give customers greater flexibility, scalability and reduced management costs.
New Squiz Connect, launched today, is a cloud-based integration platform that makes it easy to integrate data from applications such as CRM, marketing automation, learning management, and HR systems into a site to improve personalisation and automation. It supports digital teams struggling to integrate tech stacks by removing the need for custom coding, reducing the time and cost to build integrations, and allowing them to leverage existing application investments.
Squiz Datastore, a data service to store and serve the customer data that drives personalised experiences, features improvements to enable more self-service and speed up project delivery.
Squiz today also introduced the Squiz Experience Cloud platform so users can quickly and easily manage and access all their Squiz applications from one central portal.
“With budgets under more scrutiny than ever, calculating the ROI for a new DXP is critical. A big factor in ROI is ongoing costs, which is where closed DXPs often start to spiral. The majority of the effort and cost involved in a DXP program can be spent on integrations with internal and external systems. With the introduction of Squiz Connect, we aim to cut the cost of typical integrations by at least 50%,” said John-Paul Syriatowicz, Squiz Co-Founder and Global CEO.
“The new solutions and SaaS deployment Squiz announced today in the largest launch in our history supports our customers as they adapt to the new normal, where CX-driven digital transformation and digital services are core to future organisation-wide strategy.”
For further information about the new Squiz Experience Cloud, visit www.squiz.net.
About Squiz
Squiz is a global company that improves digital customer experiences and services through products and services that include content management, advanced search and content analytics, integration platforms, data services and experience applications. Squiz believes in open technologies that enable users’ systems, applications and data to work together to deliver better customer outcomes.
Squiz was founded in Australia in 1998 and now has more than 660 customers across Asia Pacific, the UK, Europe and North America. For more than 20 years, it has empowered some of the world’s most recognisable institutions and brands to deliver seamless digital experiences and services. Its customers span the public sector, higher education, financial services, private sector and more. Squiz has been recognised by analyst groups including Gartner (Magic Quadrant for Digital Experience Platforms 2020 and Magic Quadrant for Insights Engines 2019) and Omdia (Leader in Decision Matrix: Web Experience Management 2018/9).
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Jethro Tull / Aqualung deluxe vinyl LP
November 5, 2018 by Paul Sinclairtags: 1970s, jethro tull, steven wilson
The Steven Wilson stereo remix of Jethro Tull‘s 1971 album Aqualung will be reissued as a deluxe vinyl edition at the end of November.
Steven Wilson’s remix first appeared – on vinyl, CD, DVD and blu-ray – in the 2011 super deluxe edition but received a standalone vinyl release back in 2015. This new deluxe vinyl is identical, save for presentation. This new release is packaged as 12-inch casebound book with 28-page booklet. The record is pressed on the same 180g black vinyl, as before.
Aqualung deluxe vinyl is issued on 30 November 2018.
aqualung - steven wilson mix deluxe vinyl in casebound book with 28-page booklet
Amazon de 32.95 Order
Amazon fr 25 Order
Amazon it 36.2 Order
aqualung - steven wilson mix previous standard vinyl
Amazon uk 57 Order
Amazon de 57 Order
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1. Aqualung
2. Cross-Eyed Mary
3. Cheap Day Return
4. Mother Goose
5. Wond’ring Aloud
6. Up to Me
1. My God
2. Hymn 43
3. Slipstream
4. Locomotive Breath
5. Wind-Up
28 responses to Jethro Tull / Aqualung deluxe vinyl LP
Couldn’t resist any longer! Just pre ordered the deluxe vinyl.
Karl Probst says:
Jimi Hendrix 50th anniversary of Electric Laydyland went down $20 cdn woohoo!!!
Fortunately I have the original SDE, which, for all it’s limitations, will have to suffice, particularly as the vinyl is excellent and identical. That was one of the few SDEs I felt I overpaid for and it still niggles, paying £80 for it and it is quite easy to still pick it up for half that a few years on.
I wouldn’t agree the original 2011 box is (or has ever) been easy to pick up cheaply – I couldn’t find a copy today on Amazon or Ebay for less than about £100. I agree it seemed overpriced at the time of release though!
If you look hard enough, you can find it for $50 US…..on eBay you just need patience…I’ve bought at least 3 for that amount including shipping
Fair enough … recently I’ve only seen the 2016 re-issue at that sort of price. ( I bought the original box 3 or 4 years ago and the cheapest I could find new was about £70. )
Would not this be the exact same one as the one which was in the very first Aqualung SDE (with the Blu ray, LP, DVD and CSS)?
Paul Taylor says:
There was also the green vinyl Sainsbury’s exclusive a couple of years ago….
It’s a great album but it seems a bit of a hike in price for a few embellishments. That said if you don’t have it already and you’re a fan it’s a nice set to have. The current price won’t put off serious fans but I think it would need to drop a bit for the casual collector
Hi Paul . Still got my 2009 clarity edition 4 x 12 inch vinyl singles . Sealed copy !
Not sure it was Sainsbury’s , I got the green version from Burning Shed.
Sheldon Cole says:
It was initially available in Sainsbury’s but you are right, Burning Shed also sold it for a time.
https://twitter.com/jethrotull/status/786897589018955776
andrew R says:
You know the more they reissue remaster reprice etc.
the more i seek out originals 2nd hand . There is a school of thought that says the only guy(s)
who know what they wanted sonic wise from any classic lp are the guys in the studio creating it in the first place sometimes good or bad that is the sound of that lp Anybody agree /disagree?
I think you have it wrong in this case, Andrew. Even Ian Anderson has admitted that Aqualung has never sounded very good. The original mix was quite poor and murky. Even first pressings weren’t great.
This being a remix, rather than a remaster, means there was a chance to truly make Aqualung live up to its full potential – and boy, did Steve Wilson ever deliver!
This remix is truly the only way to listen to Aqualung. Even if you own it before, it’ll be obvious this is the superior version. I’m not into Vinyl, so can’t speak of the pressing of this one, but having listened to Aqualung for 40 years, I can assure you this new one is the real deal.
Hi dean. You love this guy’s remixes ok your call but it like this guy is some sort of magician he can make bad good ? For every artist in his universe. which for some reason is vast? I don t want t this guy remixing every classic album ever made which he seems to do? I don t get it !!
Hey Dave. I don’t know about being a magician, but Steve Wilson is certainly highly skilled, and he sure knows what audiophiles want. In the specific case of Aqualung, the original mix was simply poor. There’s a murkiness about it, a lack of detail. You get this with the remix. That said, Aqualung is never going to be a reference recording, because the actually recording at the original sessions weren’t top notch. it’s just the way it is. What Steve Wilson does is to bring out the best from what he’s got to work with.
As for remixing every classic album…. most of his work has been in the Progressive Rock genre. Yes, he’s remixed a lot of the top Progressive Rock titles, and for me he’s done a fine job. You can still get the original mixes if you choose (I myself own 5 copies of Aqualung in various formats). I have to say, this newer mix is my favorite (I even have the original Vinyl).
We live in a world where there are countless “remasters”. Many of these do nothing but ruin the music by compressing it and destroying the Dynamic Range – such as the recent Soft Cell box set, rendered useless by mastering). The flip side are the Steve Wilson remixes, which bring a whole new light to the music.
Is it possible that the problem with aqualung originals is
pressing quality .The very first had a small white I to denote an island pressing
set into the chrysalis label. Island used either pye or emi to press their records
two of the better plants of that era. Also remember at this time music was booming
masters literally got worn out from continual pressing as you got further and further from the original mother sound also suffered . Vinyl is pressed in much smaller heavier quantities these days they have the ability to take a part the original mix and reassemble
and yet i buy them and they don’t satisfy on some level .Weird .Thanks for your point of view anyway i shall give it a listen.
fernand says:
that seems like a good idea/philosophy, but…
1. the technology then is not the technology now.
2. for some records, the artists/engineers learned since then.
3. compromises in mixing were done, so that it would play well in cars, boomboxes, etc. **
there is something to be said for remastering that vanishes the “flavor of the time”, more so for the 1960s, and this includes the reduction in dynamic range (“loudness wars”) for CDs earlier.
in essence, I welcome the use of the original masters to make a perfect duplicate (SACD), and do change the stereo mix if new tools allow for a better representation intended for nice stereo systems, versus mixing it for a boombox.
in other art forms, the same subject is photographed/painted with different tones/daylight… why not have it here? who gains by one true-sound?
**heck, there is that anecdote of the bass being turned down on a Steely Dan track so the turntable needle would not skip.
I totally agree 100% , i am not interested in all these reissue/remastered vinyls. It’s worth the while to search out a decent copy of the original LP, as close to the first press as possible.
Wazza says:
To me it seems like every album that we fell in love with suddenly sounds like shit and gets torn apart bit by bit the second an upcoming remaster is mentioned . Ooh I love that album but I never liked the drum sound or the guitar needs to be louder or the triangle solo should have been on the left and not the right
Just how many last breath s does this guy have left !!!
He’ll keep breathing while the flowers keep blooming.
Rasputin says:
Even now, there is a magnificent box set 5099908799616
That’s some price hike comparing the Canadian and UK prices nearly £25. Rip off Britain indeed.
Andy Haines says:
I agree. As usual, UK fans get ripped off whilst the rest of the world gets it for a sensible price!
Amazon are getting really bad for that lately bumping up the prices of stuff and the only competition they have is HMV. I wish Sainsburys would start selling CD’s and Blu-rays again online.
Well they bumped DOWN the price of The League of Gentlemen box by £45 a week before release, they bumped down the Lindsey Buckingham vinyl box by a similar amount… prices on Amazon go up and down all the time and I’m not noticing any kind of ‘bumping up’ trend. The only thing that happens semi-regularly is that the initial prices can be quite high, but they almost always come down. Competition is good though and that’s why it’s good that HMV exist and do well. Worth pointing out that HMV boast that they sell more physical music in the UK than Amazon, so they are not the ‘underdog’ or a David to Amazon’s Goliath that many here make out.
That League of Gentlemen price drop was really strange. It happened twice. The first time was a couple of weeks after news broke. Then it went back up to £139.99 from the £95.99 it had been for only a day. I expected it to stay at £140 to be honest, until launch and then depending on how many were made (no one knows) and depending on how well it sold it would hang around the launch price until it disappeared. Let’s face it, at £140 for a 12LP and single 7″ set is still quite good value. But then in what was only a fortnight before launch it drops for another day down to £96. The only thing that does is drag anybody who bought at £139.99 down to the lower price level. I would imagine that cost Amazon quite a few hundred quid for absolutely no reason. The ONLY thing I can think of was that it’s launch was delayed and maybe someone forgot to tell the algorithm.
The thing to be with amazon is diligent. It’s no good going away for a weekend then something happens and complaining about it. If you are interested in something, stick it in your wish list and check it at least twice a day. If that feels like too much hard work then don’t complain if you miss out. The other thing I don’t get is people who say, pre-launch, “That’s too much I will wait for it to come down”…there is, and always has been a price promise that you will pay the lowest advertised price before launch for an item. Waiting for a price drop before ordering is suicidal. With the above example you would have missed out on the, frankly stupid, £95.99 price. 9 items out of 10 that I order have either a small or large price drop before launch or the initial price hasn’t been well thought out and if you are quick you will have a bargain in your basket. So..see it, want it, order it. Then that’s where a bit more effort comes in, keep an eye on your open orders and if an item has NOT dropped I would cancel at least two days before launch. It’s a tiny bit of effort.
Sorry to the majority for whom I am teaching granny to suck eggs but this comes up so often there really ought to be a compulsory FAQ and quiz, that you have to pass before you can post.
Personally, I feel you can criticize amazon for many things, if that is how you feel, but pricing just isn’t one of them, I must have saved many hundreds (thousands?) on retail prices over the last couple of years. It just takes a little effort. It’s no different to our parents saving, sorting and using their coupons for (insert name of supermarket here). With a little effort it can save you hundreds, but it does require SOME effort.
There are many reasons for what can seem significant price differences between countries and continents, those who just shout “Rip-Off Britain” need to think a bit more and those who see a major price difference on the day a widget goes live just need to have a bit of patience before turning purple and launching into whiney mode, as Paul says they invariably come down. If The UK price is £20 and the German price is £40 no one shouts “Rip-Off Germany”.
No-one wants to waste money, it’s tight, with a lot of great product coming, but it does require some effort from us too.
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Search - John Garvey, Jack Logan, Gate 5 Ensemble :: The Harry Partch Collection Volume 3
John Garvey, Jack Logan, Gate 5 Ensemble
The Harry Partch Collection Volume 3
Genres: World Music, Jazz, Soundtracks, Classical
Track Listings (14) - Disc #1
The Dreamer That Remains - A Study in Loving
Rotate the Body in All Its Planes - Ballad for Gymnasts
Water! Water! - An Intermission with Prologues and Epilogues
The four works on this newly remastered CD are eloquent testimony to Harry Partch?s aesthetic of corporeality. The music he composed for The Dreamer That Remains, for Rotate the Body in All Its Planes, for Windsong, and fo... more »r Water! Water!, was intended as only one component in the total artistic experience. In these works music joins with drama, with film, with dance, even with gymnastics, as integral parts of the composer?s vision. "The eloquent and affecting The Dreamer That Remains (1972) was Partch?s last work. It was commissioned by the patroness Betty Freeman for her film on Partch which was directed by Stephen Pouliot. Rotate the Body in All Its Planes (1961) was a spin-off of the "Tumble On" sequence in Partch?s large-scale theatre piece Revelation in the Courthouse Park. It was premiered at the National Collegiate Gymnasts Championship in 1961. Windsong (1958) was also written for film, the soundtrack to a film by Madeline Tourtelot in which Partch saw the Greek myth of Daphne and Apollo. (A later version of the work was named Daphne of the Dunes). Finally, somewhat akin to a Broadway musical, Water! Water! (1961) is perhaps Partch?s most lively and lighthearted work. It pokes fun at many targets, especially the rush of audiences for water at the interval; thus the subtitle: "An Intermission with Prologues and Epilogues. « less
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All Artists: John Garvey, Jack Logan, Gate 5 Ensemble, The Harry Partch Ensemble, Harry Parch, Freda Pierce
Title: The Harry Partch Collection Volume 3
Label: New World Records
Original Release Date: 1/1/2005
Styles: Avant Garde & Free Jazz, Opera & Classical Vocal, Chamber Music, Historical Periods, Classical (c.1770-1830), Modern, 20th, & 21st Century
SwapaCD Credits: 1
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The four works on this newly remastered CD are eloquent testimony to Harry Partch?s aesthetic of corporeality. The music he composed for The Dreamer That Remains, for Rotate the Body in All Its Planes, for Windsong, and for Water! Water!, was intended as only one component in the total artistic experience. In these works music joins with drama, with film, with dance, even with gymnastics, as integral parts of the composer?s vision. "The eloquent and affecting The Dreamer That Remains (1972) was Partch?s last work. It was commissioned by the patroness Betty Freeman for her film on Partch which was directed by Stephen Pouliot. Rotate the Body in All Its Planes (1961) was a spin-off of the "Tumble On" sequence in Partch?s large-scale theatre piece Revelation in the Courthouse Park. It was premiered at the National Collegiate Gymnasts Championship in 1961. Windsong (1958) was also written for film, the soundtrack to a film by Madeline Tourtelot in which Partch saw the Greek myth of Daphne and Apollo. (A later version of the work was named Daphne of the Dunes). Finally, somewhat akin to a Broadway musical, Water! Water! (1961) is perhaps Partch?s most lively and lighthearted work. It pokes fun at many targets, especially the rush of audiences for water at the interval; thus the subtitle: "An Intermission with Prologues and Epilogues.
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British men aiming for European qualification
The Great Britain Under 19 men’s team have arrived in Antalya, Turkey, ready to kick off their qualification campaign for the European Championships on Friday.
The qualification tournament for Group B will be taking place at the Süleyman Erol swimming pool from May 6-8, with GB set to face Montenegro, Belgium and hosts Turkey.
Click here to read an exclusive interview with Great Britain Under 19 player Joe Hazeldine on AquaZone magazine.
The top two sides will progress to September’s European Championships which take place in Holland and will be contested in Alphen aan den Rijn between September 11-18.
After a five-day training camp in Malta, including a series of matches against the Maltese Under 19s team, who are also preparing for their European qualifiers, the British squad are felling well prepared for their tough opening game against Montenegro.
Ahead of the tournament, head coach Tim Dunsbee commented, “There is a very strong, positive mind-set within this Great Britain squad and this has been nurtured throughout our training camps over the last 12 months.
“As part of our preparations for our three games in Antalya, we have closely studied videos of the Montenegro and Turkey players in action. Montenegro obviously have a great tradition in water polo and they will undoubtedly be expected to win the group and qualify.
“Playing Turkey in Turkey will also be a tough challenge. We face the hosts on Saturday evening, so we’re expecting a large partisan crowd to be inside the arena. Our final match is on Sunday morning against Belgium, a team we have little data on, but we will be able to watch them play twice before we meet.”
During a break in the Maltese training camp, City of Manchester’s Chris Ray said, “Training with the squad here in Malta has been awesome. I’ve enjoyed all the preparation we’ve done as a team and I can’t wait to play in this week’s qualifying tournament in Turkey.
“As a team, I think we’re really strong and we have a good chance of qualifying. It will be tough, but we’ve done everything we can to prepare for this tournament.”
The GB team will face Montenegro at 17:00 local time on Friday, hosts Turkey at 19:00 on Saturday, before taking on Belgium in their third and final match at 10:00 on Sunday.
The Great Britain team for the European U19 Water Polo Championships Qualification Tournament
Aaron Winstanley (captain) – City of Manchester
Dan Paddon (vice-captain) – City of Manchester/Chelmsford
Dylan Green – City of Manchester
Joe Hazeldine – Worthing
Ben Riding – City of Manchester
Chris Ray – City of Manchester
Matt Kelly – Solihull
Kameron Powell – Exeter
Matt Madden – Solihull
Joel Leighton – City of Sheffield
Jordan Elliot – Solihull
Ashley Castle – Bristol Central
Peter Pickford – Watford
There are four under 19 qualification tournaments taking place across Europe, held in Turkey, Malta, Georgia and Azerbaijan.
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PTI Health Sep 3, 2020, 2:13 pm
CDC tells states: Be ready to distribute coronavirus vaccine on Nov. 1
The federal government has told states to prepare for a coronavirus vaccine to be ready to distribute by November 1.
The timeline raised concern among public health experts about an October surprise” a vaccine approval driven by political considerations ahead of a presidential election, rather than science.
In a letter to governors dated August 27, Robert Redfield, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said states in the near future will receive permit applications from McKesson Corp., which has contracted with CDC to distribute coronavirus vaccines to places including state and local health departments and hospitals.
CDC urgently requests your assistance in expediting applications for these distribution facilities and, if necessary, asks that you consider waiving requirements that would prevent these facilities from becoming fully operational by November 1, 2020, Redfield wrote.
He wrote that any waivers will not compromise the safety or effectiveness of the vaccine. The Associated Press obtained the letter, which was first reported by McClatchy.
The CDC also sent three planning documents to some health departments that included possible timelines for when vaccines would be available.
The documents are to be used to develop plans for early vaccination when the supply might be constrained, according to one of the documents, which outlined a scenario in which a vaccine could be available as soon as the end of October.
The COVID-19 vaccine landscape is evolving and uncertain, and these scenarios may evolve as more information is available, the document reads.
Another of the documents says that limited COVID-19 vaccine doses may be available by early November and that supply will increase substantially in 2021.
It also states that initially available vaccines will either be approved by the Food and Drug Administration or authorized by the agency under its emergency powers.
The documents encourage health officials to work out now which groups to prioritize for a vaccine, identify providers who will administer the vaccine, and take other steps to prepare. The planning documents were first reported by The New York Times.
Redfield told Yahoo Finance that officials were preparing for what I anticipate will be a reality, is that there’ll be one or more coronavirus vaccines available for us in November, December.
The CDC was offering an aggressive but necessary timetable and that public health agencies were mobilising to prepare detailed plans.- James S. Blumenstock, a senior vice president at the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials.
Several public health experts pointed out that final stage trials of experimental vaccines are still recruiting, and are at best halfway through that process.
The vaccines are two doses, and each is given a month apart. The experts told the AP they did not understand how there could be adequate data on whether the vaccines work and are safe before Nov. 1.
Being ready is reasonable. Cutting short phase 3 trials before you get the information you need isn’t.- Dr. Paul Offit, a Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia immunisation expert who sits on the FDA’s vaccine advisory committee.
Peter Hotez, dean of Baylor University’s tropical medicine school, said he was very concerned about whether the FDA would use an emergency use authorisation to approve a vaccine before knowing whether it works and is safe.
“It gives the appearance of a stunt rather than an expression of public health concern,? Hotez said.
FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn previously said the agency wouldn’t cut corners in evaluating vaccines, though it would aim to expedite its work.
He told the Financial Times this week that it might be appropriate to approve a vaccine before clinical trials were complete if the benefits outweighed the risks.
Unlike a therapeutic that is given to sick people who may have no alternative, a vaccine is given to healthy people, so you have a much higher burden of proof.- Ashish Jha, dean of Brown University’s public health school.
I think it’s reasonable to be communicating to hospitals and saying at some point late in the fall or winter,” Jha said. November feels awfully early.
Michael Osterholm, a University of Minnesota infectious disease expert, said he was concerned about an October surprise with a vaccine being rushed through ahead of the election.
The public health community wants a safe and effective coronavirus vaccine as much as anybody could want it, Osterholm said. But the data have to be clear and compelling.
He said there was a credibility gap between doctors and the FDA about how rigorously products are being evaluated during the pandemic.
Some state officials said Wednesday that they were working on the next steps while still awaiting details from CDC, and some sounded a cautious note.
Kris Ehresmann, Minnesota’s infectious disease director, told the AP the state would only move forward once we know it is safe.
She said they would take their lead from the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which she said will only recommend a coronavirus vaccine that has met the safety criteria.
The Oregon Board of Pharmacy said it would expedite McKesson’s applications but wouldn’t waive requirements necessary to maintain public health and safety.
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on 9 Aug 2019
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Based on subject-specific data, computational community representations are generated, and the equations of momentum and mass transfer are automatically constructed and solved. This computer-assisted evaluation will give physicians access to detailed 3D CFD simulation results including velocity profiles and streamlines as well as hemodynamic risk issue such as the common wall-shear stress or the RRT values. Currently, solely engineers and scientists can carry out these costly simulations, limiting profit to sufferers. But improving access to these rigorous computational outcomes would inform physicians concerning the possible threat that the endovascular pathology stenosis poses to downstream blood vessels or possible redistributions of cerebral blood circulate.
For these reasons, modern graduate packages like the University of Texas at Arlington’s online Master of Education in Curriculum and Instruction in Science Education incorporate appropriate applied sciences and digital platforms into coursework in science instruction. Gaining fluency each utilizing and instructing in these applied sciences can assist educators and curriculum designers in making certain that students are well-prepared for an increasingly know-how-saturated world. Studies of know-how and science offers insight into the understanding and data of technology, science and information from the viewpoint of the humanities and the social sciences. Throughout the course of examine students will turn out to be familiar with amendments of social and cultural analyses of recent science and technology in interplay with social, political, economical and cultural processes of change. Technology, information and science are basic in trendy contemporary society.
Before collaborating in the program, Brenna’s concern was how a lot help she ought to present students in an inquiry exercise. Participating in these actions helped Brenna understand a teacher’s position in an inquiry exercise. Creating classroom management and organization is likely one of the greatest challenges for beginning science academics (Roehrig & Luft, 2004). These challenges become more complicated when integrating know-how into instructing.
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An integrative approach for species delimitation in the spider genus Grammostola (Theraphosidae, Mygalomorphae)
Laura Montes de Oca, Guillermo D' Elia, Fernando Pérez-Miles ,2015
The mygalomorph genus Grammostola (family Theraphosidae) is endemic to South America. The species Grammostola anthracina is one of the largest spiders in Uruguay and reputed to be the longest lived tarantula in the world. This nominal species has two distinct colour morphs comprising black and reddish-brown forms with controversial taxonomic status. Here, we present a phylogenetic study based on molecular characters (cytochrome c oxidase subunit I) of haplotypes of G. anthracina and closely related species. Our analysis together with new morphological data and biogeographical information indicates that the two morphs of G. anthracina constitute different species that are not sister to each other. Consequently, a new species, Grammostola quirogai is described, diagnosed and illustrated to encompass the black morph. Phylogenetic relationships and new taxonomic characters for Grammostola species included in this study are discussed.
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Nancy Hsueh
House Calls (1978)
Targets (1968)
Lt. Robin Crusoe, U. S. N. (1966)
The Spy With My Face (1966)
Cheyenne Autumn (1964)
Targets - Actors Don't Retire!
Targets - Open, The Terror
Targets - Actors Don't Retire! Early scene in which director Peter Bogdanovich (playing a director, "Sammy") pleads with retiring star Byron Orlock (Boris Karloff) who is then seen in rifle sights by Bobby (Tim O'Kelly) in Targets, 1968.
Targets - Open, The Terror Climactic scenes from Roger Corman's "The Terror," (1963) under the credits as Boris Karloff (as "Byron Orlock") watches "himself," the opening of Peter Bogdanovich's Targets, 1968.
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Home AM Technology News BiologIC Technologies installs Stratasys J826 3D printing system to produce 'desktop PC of biology'
BiologIC Technologies installs Stratasys J826 3D printing system to produce 'desktop PC of biology'
by Sam Davies
BiologIC Tech
Left to right: Dr Colin Barker, Richard Vellacott and Nick Rollings.
BiologIC Technologies is using Stratasys’ full-colour, multi-material J826 3D printing platform to produce a device that seeks to scale down laboratory processes and enable scientists to design biology within a smaller footprint.
The company is one of the first in Europe, and the first in the UK, to install the machine which Stratasys launched earlier this year. Its flagship bioprocessing unit is to be prototyped and manufactured using the same technology, with J850 platforms expected to be added as the business scales.
Founded by an interdisciplinary team of biologists, engineers and semiconductor experts, BiologIC is hoping its device will become the ‘desktop PC of biology.’ The ‘lab in a box’ system features a 3D printed bioprocessing unit which plugs into a universal instrument to run a particular biological workflow. It aims to simplify existing lab processes which often comprise of scientists mixing and moving liquids to different robots, working with pieces of technology that don’t easily integrate with each other and exerting energy on manual tasks.
Harnessing Stratasys’ J826 machine, BiologIC is able to utilise the VeroUltraClear material’s transparency to allow users to monitor the biology moving through the system, while the flexible Agilus30 photopolymer is said to provide added functionality. With this machine, nine bioprocessing units can be printed in one build, and thanks to 3D printing, BiologIC has been able to invite potential customers to take a look at the device.
BiologIC Technologies
“They’re fascinated by it,” Chairman Richard Vellacott told TCT. "We’ve been working with customers since day one and they can see straight into the design, build and tests of these products. We can turn the whole conventional life science instrument development model on its head, rather than waiting five to ten years to get something out to a customer and hope they want it.”
The company says the device could be harnessed in the food, fuel and medical sectors, with the development of therapies, treatments and vaccines for various illnesses a potential application in the latter. BiologIC’s inspiration for the device comes from computing technology; in much the same way mainframe computers have reduced in size to laptops, tablets and smartphones, BiologIC’s vision – a grand one, Vellacott is not afraid to confess - is to create a lab space within a Rubik’s Cube-sized footprint.
“Our ‘lab in a box’ draws inspiration from advanced in 3D printing and the semiconductor [industry’s] long and successful history,” co-founder of BiologIC Nick Rollings commented in a press release. “Importantly, our instrument could be used to create biology by design and on-demand, whether it’s to treat patients on-site or make the latest biofuels. We believe this device will enable the next industrial revolution. But the cost and time implications of creating such a device and bringing it to reality with a working prototype was the stumbling block. Ultimately, 3D printing was the technology capable of overcoming this problem. Indeed, without the J826, we wouldn’t be moving ahead as a company as we wouldn’t have a product.”
As the business does move ahead, the company is targeting a scale up to thousands of bioprocessing units being additively manufactured, they also would like to expand their usage of Stratasys materials to incorporate eight into the design rather than four, and is confident it will be able to tackle various designs within the same platform if required.
Of course, there is some path still to tread in the development of the device, but once the usual regulatory hurdles have been cleared, the hope is medical professionals, for instance, can accelerate the development of their medicines. BiologIC knows there exist laboratory innovations that could lead to potential therapies, treatments and vaccines, and the team only has to flip open their laptops or swipe a finger across their phones right now to be reminded of the urgency.
“There are so many clear and pressing needs for some new solutions, that the life science space can’t wait five or ten years for conventional technologies to develop those solutions,” Vellacott said. “If we can automate all of these [lab] processes, we can free up scientists to do what they do best, which is understand biology, design experiments, get results. We want to deploy these people not in mindless capacities, but in mindful creation.
“If we execute this nicely, hopefully we will make a big difference in the world.”
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Faculty, students administer COVID-19 tests in Dakota County
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, testing is one of the many ways people can keep themselves and others safe by tracing the virus and notifying infected people so they can distance themselves and avoid spreading COVID-19 further.
St. Catherine University’s Assistant Professor of Nursing Gretchen Moen, DNP, APRN, CPNP-PC, is the clinical director of Dakota Child and Family Clinic (DCFC) in Burnsville, Minn. In the summer of 2020, her clinic partnered with Dakota County and added four weekly drive-through COVID-19 testing clinics, which are free to recipients.
In addition to helping to trace COVID-19 through the Twin Cities community, the drive-through clinic provides valuable clinical hours to nursing students, many of whom lost their clinical opportunities due the pandemic’s effects, such as limiting students in clinical spaces for safety reasons. Moen says, “we reached out to undergraduate nursing programs in the area and have been able to offer clinical hours for students, under their community health unit, to help staff these clinics.” Many St. Kate’s undergraduate nursing students have signed up to participate, giving them an opportunity to give back and receive clinical hours at the same time.
In each four-hour testing clinic at the DCFC, the nurses and students administer an average of 150 tests. Moen and the clinic coordinators work tirelessly to coordinate the careful precautionary logistics that the testing requires. “It’s quite a public health undertaking,” remarks Moen. Additionally, Moen and the DCFC care coordinators supply all the personal protective equipment (PPE), training, and onsite supervision.
This is not the first time that Moen has gone above and beyond for St. Kate’s nursing students. At the beginning of the pandemic in spring 2020, many hospitals and clinics were not able to offer clinical placements to nurse practitioner students as was originally planned. To help these students graduate on time, Moen took on an unprecedented 12 nurse practitioner students to precept at the DCFC clinic. These extraordinary efforts earned her and her clinic the Nurse Practitioner Preceptor Award at St. Kate’s Community Partners Recognition Event in December.
As for the COVID-19 testing drive-through clinics, they will continue for as long as there is a need. Moen plans to have nursing students from St. Kate’s and other schools continue to work at these clinics. During these challenging times, “it’s another way to get students involved,” says Moen.
Learn more about St. Kate's nursing programs
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Northamber returns to profit for full year
27 September 2012 | 08:42am
StockMarketWire.com - Northamber reports a return to profit for the full year of £37,000 pre tax, reversing the £418,000 pre tax loss reported at the 31 December interim stage.
This was achieved despite an anticipated fall in revenue to £101 million from the £121 million for the prior year. The rate of revenue decline for the second half of this year was lower than the comparative period of last year. The reduced level of turnover needs to be seen within the context of the need to re-profile the company's offerings away from empty revenue and towards more value added content.
The change in the profit profile also came from a combination of improved gross margins and ongoing containment of overheads.
Gross margins improved from 6.8% for the year to end June 2011 to 7.7% for the year ended June 2012 and demonstrate the stated ongoing policy of seeking the higher margin business rather than just volume and turnover. Overheads were also reduced from £8.5 million to £7.9 million, a saving of £0.6m. These were achieved principally by a reduction in the wages bill, a necessary if unpalatable consequence of the general economic climate and its effect on demand. The company remains debt free, with Net Assets of £24.1 million or 85.7p per share compared with 86.5p per share for the previous year.
Cash reserves at 30th June 2012 were £4.3 million, which following our £6.8 million warehouse freehold purchase including costs compares with the £10.7 million a year ago.
At 8:42am: [LON:NAR] Northamber share price was 0p at 35p
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The Best Books of 2017, According to Texas Authors
From investigative nonfiction to funny memoirs to moving novels, here are the books Texas authors loved this year.
Doyin Oyeniyi
https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-daily-post/best-books-2017-texas-authors/
Texas has nurtured many a great literary talent. With writers like Jan Reid, Melissa Del Bosque, and Attica Locke, there’s no shortage of Texans writing. And who better to ask for a book recommendation than an author you admire? This year, we asked some of our favorite Texas authors to recommend their favorite book from 2017. In their selections, some looked to Texas authors on their bookshelves, while others recommended reading beyond our state’s borders. As you reflect on 2017 and peruse the list, remember: it’s never too late (or early) to get started on that New Year’s resolution to read more literature.
You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me
by Sherman Alexie
“This memoir is brilliantly messy and untamed — full of stories, chants, spells, songs, lies, accusations, promises, complaints, jokes, tall tales, lists. He never lets you forget it is a book of mourning, and indeed you will mourn as you read it, for all the misdeeds of humanity, all the damaged people with good and not-so-good intentions. The book feels like it burst out of his chest when his heart broke into pieces. And it is funny, which is crazy, considering the subject matter.”
Recommended by Deb Olin Unferth, author of Wait Till You See Me Dance: Stories
Secrecy World: Inside the Panama Papers Investigation of Illicit Money Networks and the Global Elite
“In Secrecy World, author Jake Bernstein traveled the world to report on the massive Panama Papers leak, and through his deep knowledge of the subject, he explains how multinational corporations and the global elite siphon their money into secret offshore accounts, paying few if any taxes, as inequality escalates around the world. Bernstein lays it all out — the political corruption, the fraud and greed on a global scale — in a compelling, fast-paced narrative that I found both enlightening and deeply troubling.”
Recommended by Melissa del Bosque, author of Bloodlines: The True Story of a Drug Cartel, the FBI, and the Battle for a Horse-Racing Dynasty
by Julie Buntin
“This debut novel seems cold-pressed from the mystery of friendship itself. Cat and Marlena are so connected and endangered and empowered and intense, in that way teen girls can be, that it seems like they might own the world. And for a beautiful and tragic moment, they did own mine.”
Recommended by Jardine Libaire, author of White Fur
Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West
by Tom Calvin
“I love history and I love the history of the Old West, and this is a prime example of what it was really like back then, and what it was really like is quite different from the myth. Still, the book picks at the roots of certain myths concerning Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson, as well as other famous names in the West, all associated with Dodge City. It’s a prime example of how history becomes myth.”
Recommended by Joe Lansdale, author of Hap and Leonard: Blood and Lemonade
Bloodlines: The True Story of a Drug Cartel, the FBI, and the Battle for a Horse-Racing Dynasty
by Melissa Del Bosque
“We’ve all heard the stories of stash houses literally filled with drug cash along the border; ever wonder where all that money goes? In Bloodlines, Melissa Del Bosque follows the money to a destination disturbingly close to home. Long known for her ace reporting at the venerable Texas Observer, here Del Bosque shows off her writing—intimate, exciting, and detailed.”
Recommended by Nate Blakeslee, author of American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West
by Jennifer Egan
“It was beautifully written, with excellent and evocative descriptions of New York during World War II, specifically of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where the main character, Anna, becomes a diver, a position open only to men until that time. Suspense, organized crime, prejudices faced by women, an unusual love story: this novel provides us with all these and more.”
Recommended by Chitra Divakaruni, author of Before We Visit the Goddess
Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine
by Joe Hagan
“Sex, drugs, and rock and roll could have been the title to this book, which is as much a gripping cultural history of the late 20th century as it is the story of a man and his magazine. Journalist Hagan traces the career and exploits of founder Jann Wenner from counterculture upstart to slick media mogul, with appearances by John Lennon, Hunter S. Thompson, Annie Leibovitz, among many others. It’s a deep dive into celebrity, debauchery, and the mixed legacy of the Boomer Generation. Sticky fingers, indeed: I couldn’t put it down.”
Recommended by Sarah Hepola, author of Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget
by William Hauptman
“William Hauptman, a native of Wichita Falls, is a prize-winning playwright and fiction writer. His new novel, Journey to the West, follows an aspiring actor’s adolescent years in such a place, his coming of age as a university student in Austin, and his rocky paranoid ride through the 1967 Summer of Love in San Francisco. He tells a friend, ‘I’m playing the role of a normal guy so I won’t get thrown into an insane asylum.’ The centerpiece of his life story and intellectual quest is an erotic first love so tender and touching it brought tears to my eyes.”
Recommended by Jan Reid, author of Let the People In: The Life and Times of Ann Richards
“This book gave me immense joy during a year that I think we can all agree was a challenge to every American’s joy center. Eleanor Oliphant is a remarkably memorable character, a socially awkward curmudgeon who often made me laugh out loud at the ways she is impervious to social conventions. It was pure pleasure watching her change and grow over the course of the book, her heart opening slowly like a late-blooming flower.”
Recommended by Attica Locke, author of Bluebird, Bluebird
White Fur
by Jardine Libaire
“In the tradition of Denis Johnson and James Salter, it’s a gritty, lyrical love story. I fell hard for Jardine’s heroine, Elise Perez, with her ‘phosphorescent eyes’ and ‘makeup reminiscent of Cleopatra.’ The book is set in Manhattan–and who couldn’t love a novel with a climactic scene set in Trump Tower in 1988?”
Recommended by Amanda Eyre Ward, author of The Nearness of You
Bluebird, Bluebird
by Attica Locke
“Attica Locke writes thrilling murder mysteries, all set in Texas, that deal head-on with the most profound of subjects: the collision of race and justice in America. Her latest features a new hero, black Texas Ranger Darren Mathews, who is working his way through East Texas, looking for the killer of a black man and white woman whose bodies were fished out of the muddy waters of a bayou. Invariably, he runs into the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas. When someone asks him if the ABT is like the Klan, Mathews replies, ‘Worse. It’s the Klan with money and semi-automatic weapons.’ For all of the gritty realism, Locke writes lyrically, her sentences like good blues music.”
Recommended by Skip Hollandsworth, author of The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America’s First Serial Killer
A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa
by Alexis Okeowo
“It’s about ordinary people in Africa who are standing up against terrorism. I was really moved by their heroism and by the effortless storytelling skill. This book took me into the hearts of people I didn’t know but came to deeply admire.”
Recommended by Lawrence Wright, author of The Terror Years: From Al-Qaeda to the Islamic State
Maigret, Lognon and the Gangsters
by Georges Simenon
“I’ve been reading the brilliant and prolific Georges Simenon, who wrote hundreds of books in his long career, including about seventy-five novels featuring Detective Chief Inspector Jules Maigret of the Parisian Police Judiciaire, now appearing chronologically in new translations from Penguin Press. The Maigret novels all tend to blend together in my memory — this year I’ve read sixteen, I think, including Maigret, Lognon and the Gangsters, published in August. Simenon’s writing is moody and atmospheric, a mélange of beautifully described impressions and feelings, an endless procession of heavy meals and aperitifs, manhunts and interrogations at the Quae des Orfévres, in an office overheated by an antique wood-burning stove, with a tray of sandwiches and beers sent up from the Brasserie Dauphine.”
Recommended by Roger Hodge, author of Texas Blood: Seven Generations Among the Outlaws, Ranchers, Indians, Missionaries, Soldiers, and Smugglers of the Borderlands
by Don Winslow
“An epic novel about an elite—and compromised—NYPD detective unit. ‘All Denny Malone ever wanted to be was a good cop,’ Winslow writes, but this gritty story of corruption and redemption rises to Shakespearean heights. I loved it, and love Denny Malone even more than I hate him.”
Recommended by Meg Gardiner, author of UNSUB
Ten Texas Books We Loved in 2020 By Texas Monthly
Lawrence Wright on the Politics of the Pandemic By Rose Cahalan
How to Hunker Down Like a Texan By Texas Monthly
Texas Authors on Their Favorite Books of 2019 By Doyin Oyeniyi
From the Editor: Books Are Back By Dan Goodgame
We Need to Talk About Secession By Casey Michel
In Her Tender Poetry Collection, Lucy Griffith Commemorates a West Texas Figure By Naomi Shihab Nye
Texas Outlaw Country Gets a Major Exhibit at the Country Music Hall of Fame By Dan Solomon
The Best Thing in Texas: Shea Serrano Fans Are Sending a Whole Bunch of Copies of His Basketball Book to Soldiers Deployed Overseas By Dan Solomon
The Trailer for Hulu’s ‘The Looming Tower’ Brings Lawrence Wright’s Book to Terrifying Life By Dan Solomon
American Airlines Will Award Passengers Miles for Enduring the Inconveniences Of Air Travel By Dan Solomon
Cole Beasley is the Latest in a Tradition of Dallas Cowboys Musical Acts By Dan Solomon
Tags: Books, Attica Locke, Jan Reid, Lawrence Wright, Melissa Del Bosque, Nate Blakeslee
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therecord December 21, 2020 Successes
Whilst serving the final year of her sentence at an open prison in Kent, Karen was volunteering at Unlock as a helpline advisor when the prisons interpretation of a new ROTL policy framework saw all voluntary work placements revoked. This article originally appeared on The Prison Reform
therecord December 8, 2020 Struggles & Stigma
Whether you’re applying for a college/university course or a job, disclosing a conviction could potentially make it more difficult. Is it any surprise therefore that some people with a criminal record never reach their full potential simply because the fight goes out of them. In 2015 I
therecord November 16, 2020 Struggles & Stigma
Back in 2014, Chris Grayling introduced the privatisation of the probation service. The system was heavily criticised by MP’s and Mary’s story demonstrates just what was going wrong. Several years ago, along with an accomplice, I “earned” approximately £2000 by claiming refunds for items I owned which
therecord November 6, 2020 Successes
Unlock has been really fortunate over the years to find so many generous people that are willing to give their time and talents to help others. Here Roger tells us what he’s gained from his volunteering experience at Unlock. As many of us know, getting a job
Organisations can’t be diverse or inclusive until HR professionals recognise the value of people with convictions
therecord October 27, 2020 Posts relating to supporting and challenging employers, Struggles & Stigma
Despite having worked as a nurse for many years, Janice feels that HR departments are more interested in her conviction from 20 years ago than her abilities as a nurse. I’ve been a nurse for over 11 years and have worked in the same hospital department for
How can one question determine your career opportunities?
therecord October 19, 2020 Successes
Whether you’re applying to university or for a job, as a person with a criminal record there will be a point in the process when you’re asked about your conviction(s). James has likened this to a judge passing sentence, the feeling that somebody else is making a
“Computer says no” – appealing the disclosure of my spent conviction
therecord September 29, 2020 Successes
Having successfully had his SOPO revoked Phil was confident that his conviction was spent and wouldn’t be disclosed on his basic DBS certificate. In practice however, things were not quite so simple. Nine year ago I entered a guilty plea for the possession of indecent images and
Google, ‘Do the right thing’ – don’t take my spent conviction into account when making recruitment decisions
therecord September 23, 2020 Posts relating to supporting and challenging employers, Struggles & Stigma
In 2019 Google adopted the motto “do the right thing” to encourage it’s employees to be civil to one another and not break the law. However, as George discovered, this didn’t stop them from flouting the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and taking his spent conviction into account
I’m following a different path but looking forward to the journey – accepted to study at university
A criminal record may necessitate a change to some of the plans we’ve made for the future but as Lachlan discovered, that doesn’t have to be a bad thing. I don’t think I’m a bad person but I’ve definitely made some bad choices. Unfortunately, it was one
Facing possible rejection again – applying to Google to have links to my name removed
therecord August 26, 2020 Posts relating to stopping the 'Google-effect' with spent convictions, Views & Reviews
As far as she’s aware, the fact that there is information online about her criminal record hasn’t had too much of an impact on Lucy. However, since her conviction became spent she has started to feel very strongly that either the articles themselves, or links to them
I can’t erase my past mistakes, I can only learn from them to be better.
therecord August 20, 2020 Struggles & Stigma
Over the last 3 months the number of people claiming out of work benefits has more than doubled. Like many people with a criminal record, Robbie is worried about how this will further impact on his chances of getting a job. Every time I turn on the
Domestic violence against men: It’s no laughing matter
therecord August 12, 2020 Successes
Whilst abuse of women is widely known about, it’s not widely recognised that men can be victims too. Finn’s story highlights the lasting impact that this lack of understanding and empathy can have. I’m a 38 year old male student nurse. My life is pretty good at
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Pension rules reform must find balance, says Bernardino
Open-access content 21st March 2012
European pension regulation reform needs to find an adequate balance between security and affordability, according to the chairman of the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority.
Gabriel Bernardino said using liability valuations and risk assessments that 'deny' market reality could not continue. Failing to reflect the true risk stakeholders are facing perpetuates the continued existence of 'clearly unsustainable' schemes, he said.
Speaking in London last week, he said that: 'The inevitable consequences in the short to medium term will be a sudden lowering in the value of pensions for the members and beneficiaries, higher concentration of costs for employers and ultimately intergenerational conflicts.'
Mr Bernardino said EIOPA's proposed use of a holistic balance sheet to detail schemes' assets and liabilities had the potential to ensure 'further transparency' on schemes' solvency. But, he said that the model would have to be tested.
He also stressed that 'in regulation, one size does not fit all'. 'In fact, different sectors have different business models and consequently different risks', he said, citing systemic risk as an example of this.
In terms of the impact of Solvency II regulation on the insurance market, Mr Bernardino acknowledged that rules would bring 'some level' of volatility to funds because it was grounded on an economic-based valuation of assets and liabilities and a total balance sheet approach to resources and risks.
But, he added, this volatility could be mitigated - especially for illiquid liabilities like annuities and pensions - by adjusting the relevant 'risk-free' rate used to discount the liabilities.
He added: 'If we want to reinforce consumer protection it is fundamental to preserve the basis of Solvency II as a sound framework for risk based supervision, giving the appropriate incentives to better risk management and enhancing transparency,' he said. 'Appropriate consideration' would however, be given to the transition periods needed for existing business, he added.
Mr Bernardino also said that, while EIOPA was committed to convergence of supervisory practices across Europe, this 'does not mean harmonisation'.
'The process of convergence should encompass the issuance of guidelines and recommendations on the common framework for the supervisory review process and the development of best practices in the different supervisory areas,' he said.
'Importantly this should leave sufficient flexibility to judgement by national supervisors,' he added.
This article appeared in our March 2012 issue of The Actuary.
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Charles Cowling on the double
Open-access content 2nd February 2016
It seems that having run 10 marathons in 10 days for charity in 2014, JLTs Charles Cowling has got the bug for charity marathon running.
It seems that having run 10 marathons in 10 days for charity in 2014, JLT's Charles Cowling has got the bug for charity marathon running. We caught up with him after his last double - New York and Kirkstall Abbey, Leeds.
"The New York marathon was very special. From the start on Staten Island with its American National Anthem and Frank Sinatra send-off, through Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Harlem and finally finishing on 5th Avenue and into Central Park, it was full of evocative sights and sounds.
"The fantastic crowds gave us amazing support and the great mix of bands and music cheered us on our way. It was a bit tougher than I was expecting as, surprisingly, it's not very flat. The many bridges are hard work and most of the last two or three miles along 5th Avenue are uphill which seems very unfair, even if the grandstand finish in Central Park and a time of four hours nine minutes made it all worthwhile.
"My second marathon at Kirkstall Abbey couldn't have been more different. A tough and muddy trail just north of Leeds was the setting for the annual reunion of the Brathay 10in10 Club (those few souls foolish enough to have completed the 10 marathon challenge). The wind was blowing a gale and it was bitterly cold, but otherwise it was a beautiful day and the rain and snow stayed away.
"It was very muddy and we were sliding around all over the place and continually getting bogged down in waterlogged shoes. But I was delighted to get round in four hours 15 minutes. Much of the Yorkshire scenery was very beautiful in lovely autumn colours and with so many friends out on the course it was a joyous if very tiring day."
We congratulate Charles on his fundraising efforts - with a magnificent sum raised of around £10,000 (generously supported by JLT) for the wonderful charity for disabled children Get Kid's Going. Charles is not stopping there and is planning more marathon fundraising in 2016, see uk.virginmoneygiving.com
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New fund management rules unveiled
Open-access content 5th February 2019
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has today published new guidance to help asset managers better communicate how they invest consumers money.
The rules will require fund managers to outline why they use particular benchmarks, and if they don't, explain to investors how they should assess their performance.
Managers that use benchmarks will have to reference them constantly across documents under the guidance, which also sets out how to describe objectives and policies to investors.
This comes after the FCA found weak price competition in the UK's asset management industry, leading to lower returns for savers, pensioners and other investors.
Executive director of strategy and competition, Christopher Woolard, said the regulator was working to protect those least able to actively engage with their investments.
"Today's remedies build on those we've already introduced and will make it easier for investors to choose the best fund for them and help them achieve their investment objectives."
UK asset managers oversee more than £1trn for individual investors, and approximately £3trn on behalf of pension funds and other institutional investors
The new guidance requires those that present a fund's past performance to do so against all its benchmarks, using them as a constrain on portfolio construction or as a performance target.
They will also need to ensure that, where a performance fee is specified in the prospectus, it must be calculated based on the scheme's performance after the deduction of all other fees.
This comes after reforms were confirmed at the end of last year by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to boost competition in the UK's £1.6trn pension market.
Trustees will have to run a competitive tender with at least three firms before choosing a fiduciary manager under the new rules, and provide clients with clear fee information.
John Wotton, chair of a CMA investigation into the market, said the reforms would help ensure pension scheme trustees are getting value for money for members.
"Some lack the information they need to compare providers and so could be sticking with their existing fiduciary manager when there are better options available," he said.
"It's therefore imperative we make these changes so that the sector works better for those it is meant to support - pension scheme members."
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A tale of two coaches: A greater legacy awaits either Scott or Hardwick
By Caroline Wilson
If the road to the 2020 grand final has been for Geelong and Richmond a test of toughness like no other then for Chris Scott and Damien Hardwick the challenges have presented their own obstacles.
It is six years since two premiership coaches have contended for the final play-off and for one of Scott, 44, or Hardwick, 48, late on Saturday night a significant new extension beckons to their legacy in the game.
For Chris Scott, the intelligent, well-spoken mentor whose loathing of defeat has threatened to consume him at times, it would be his fourth flag as an AFL player and coach and his second at Geelong, nine years after his maiden coaching victory.
The legacy beckons: Geelong coach Chris Scott. Credit:Getty Images
Boasting far and away the best win-loss record of any current coach Scott has missed finals once in his decade with the Cats and missed the top four on just four occasions.
Scott has always bristled at both external and internal criticism that he focuses too much on the elite few on his list at the expense of younger, developing players and victory would probably put paid to that. Not to mention the so-called "lazy journalism" focusing upon his poor record in finals.
And it will silence the vocal Geelong elite who have never accepted the narrative put forward by their educated long-serving coach, who will pass Mark Thompson next season to stand second behind Reg Hickey.
Certainly this year, off the back of a 2019 season in which he was too often distracted away from his primary focus, there has been no complaining from Scott as he placed coaching as his only football priority.
COVID-19 has meant the Cats have been embedded in NSW, Western Australia and Queensland with not a word of dissent. Organisers placed Geelong as close to the top in terms of co-operation and acclimatisation - a far cry from the club and coach that was still complaining into September last year about being robbed of finals at Kardinia Park.
Scott observers note that with time and experience the losses only hit harder and losing to Richmond in the 2019 preliminary final shattered the coach and has been one driving force for the team all season. Some among those observers predict that alone could give Geelong the edge on Saturday night in what looms as a 50-50 contest between two of the game's genuine heavyweights.
Hardwick came into coaching, unlike Scott, mistrusting and disdainful of the media but laid himself publicly bare when he went back to basics and reinvented himself at the end of 2016. For him demons of another kind threatened to defeat both him and the Tigers in the early weeks of return-to-play over May and June.
Hardwick passed Tom Hafey several weeks ago as Richmond's longest-serving coach and a third flag in an 18-team competition - and fifth as player or coach - places him in rarefied air not only at Richmond but at the helm of the game.
Damien Hardwick and Chris Scott. Credit:Getty Images
He entered 2020 full of optimism. The Tigers had prepared over the pre-season as strongly as they ever had and the premiership window remained wide open. But the system described as the best-drilled in the competition was hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic.
So was Hardwick, who could not initially accept that his well-oiled plans were being dismantled by forces beyond his control. The coach took his frustration out on all manner of things. He even blamed the MCC curators for the dew on the ground after the Tigers drew with Collingwood in round two and his on-field leaders cast doubt on their and their teammates' willingness to leave home for an indefinite period to continue the season.
Unable to train together as a group briefly overwhelmed Hardwick and after successive losses to Hawthorn and St Kilda, the view of the Tigers hierarchy was that the team could not get out of Melbourne quick enough.
Nick Vlastuin on the eve of the 2017 grand final likened the team over the previous four seasons as a puzzle Hardwick was attempting to put together with square pieces. "It's like we were building a puzzle but all trying to be the same shape," he said. "Now the puzzle has started to come together because we're all different shapes and the coaches are celebrating that and not so much talking about what we're doing wrong."
That's how it was when Richmond arrived on the Gold Coast, hoping to move into the Royal Pines near Metricon Stadium but quickly adjusting to the more spartan KDV resort, where they have lived since June and where Hardwick, who had been walking on eggshells in June, became in a sense the boss of the entire club as it adapted to life in exile.
Interspersed among the Tigers' significant off-field missteps, one of which has probably cost them a second ruckman in the grand final in Callum Coleman-Jones, have been occasions like the coach's 48th birthday in August and the expressions upon his players' faces at the presentation of a cake.
The Tigers team has come together despite the lengthy absences for family reasons of Shane Edwards and Bachar Houli - who both trained over two months in Melbourne with a group of 10 teammates under the astute gaze of assistant coach Sam Lonergan, certain to be promoted next season as Hardwick loses yet another pair of assistants in Justin Leppitsch and Craig McRae, who has been poached by Alastair Clarkson.
For the second successive year the Tigers have had lengthy injuries to key players and notably Toby Nankervis, Dion Prestia and to a lesser extent two-time premiership captain Trent Cotchin. The Cats also lost Gary Ablett for personal reasons. He, too, has returned in superb condition and lines up for his fourth grand final.
Both the playing and coaching careers of Hardwick and Scott have been punctuated by a combination of brutal intensity and a refusal to accept defeat along with a zeal and readiness to challenge authority.
In Hardwick's case it was a chronic dislike of the micro-management that increasingly crept into the game over his playing career including the plethora of weekday meetings and zealous match-day preparation.
Hardwick complained so frequently about warm-ups and other training requirements that his teammates at Essendon believe he would have become a tiresome footballer if he hadn't been so funny about it. Matthew Lloyd on 3AW last week wondered how Hardwick coped with regular meetings given how much he resisted them as a player.
And yet everyone both loved and felt safer playing with him and Lloyd points to his forced exit at the end of 2001 along with Justin Blumfield, Blake Caracella and Chris Heffernan as a major part of the club's downfall while Kevin Sheedy agreed it was one of the worst periods of his coaching career.
Former Brisbane football boss Graeme Allan described the arrival at Brisbane of the teenaged Chris Scott along with Nigel Lappin and Justin Leppitsch as the influx that created the nucleus of one of the game's greatest playing combinations.
Scott, a vice-captain to Michael Voss, was one of that club's great leaders and yet his temper could be terrifying. Football staff still talk about one post-game occasion when assistant coach Gary O'Donnell took Scott, who had been reported during the match, to task. Those who entered the room attempting to settle the situation looked into Scott's eyes and walked out.
Perhaps one of his greatest moments of leadership as a player came with his greatest disappointment on the day of the 2003 grand final when Scott, who had overcome injury, kitted up and warmed up with the team only to be forced to change back into his club suit when the injured and heavily jabbed Lappin was deemed fit to play. Scott remained silent and never complained.
Hardwick and Scott have played against each other twice in grand finals - 2001 and 2004 - for one win each. Each have played in two premierships and one losing grand final with Hardwick having achieved premierships as a player and coach at three clubs. His performance both in the lead-up and notably the first half of Port Adelaide's maiden AFL premiership has become part of that club's folklore.
An interesting series of sliding doors moments involving all four 2020 preliminary final coaches began in late 2007 when outgoing Melbourne football boss Chris Fagan recommended Hardwick to the Demons coaching panel that ultimately selected Dean Bailey. Hardwick also missed out on the Essendon job that went to Matthew Knights that year.
Two years later Hardwick won the Richmond role, defeating Ken Hinkley by a whisker, and the following year Hinkley missed out again on the coaching role he had coveted at Geelong when the Cats selected Scott who was an assistant coach at Fremantle.
The Tigers sent Hardwick to Harvard at the end of 2016 - the club and coach's annus horribilis where most of his assistants were replaced, No. 1 draft pick Brett Deledio departed and Neil Balme was recruited in to oversee the flagging football operation.
He was not overly enthusiastic about the trip and arrived having done little of the recommended preparation but famously came home with the idea to bring his team closer together with a series of group sessions kicked off by Hardwick in the 2017 pre-season where he spoke of his love for his wife Danielle.
Less than a year later Hardwick became the first premiership coach to thank his wife on the MCG dais. In what has been his toughest road to a grand final Hardwick has done it largely without his wife by his side. Sarah Scott spent four weeks at the Cats' Southport hub but returned home with the couple's daughter while a record number of club directors, officials and family members of players flew in.
''Mrs Hardwick'' joined the Richmond coach with the couple's two daughters for a month on the Gold Coast but returned home to be with their son when schools re-opened some weeks ago. The woman who told Hardwick back in 2016: "You're not the man I married"; told him he had overstepped the mark in July when he criticised Sydney's tactics after the Tigers' narrow victory over the Swans.
It is not known what Danielle Hardwick made of her husband's "crying" sledge aimed at former Melbourne player and commentator David Schwarz but the Tigers camp on the Gold Coast loved their coach's defence of Tom Lynch. Even if it raised eyebrows at board level and was portrayed on the club's website with the offending line deleted.
Interestingly, and despite the experience of their coaches, both Brian Cook and Brendon Gale have spent lengthy periods living in the team hubs while less experienced coaches and notably Rhyce Shaw never had the physical support of the North Melbourne CEO Ben Armafio.
Two of the game's most respected club chiefs - and two shortlisted for the top AFL job in 2014 that went to Gillon McLachlan - the view of Cook and Gale was that their clubs' operation was where the teams were living. And that their presence and with football bosses Simon Lloyd (Geelong) and Tim Livingstone (Richmond) took that pressure off their senior coaches who in the view of both clubs have never performed better nor been more focused upon their craft.
Teamwork, strength and talent win premierships but in a season demanding greater resilience, adaptability and experience than ever before it follows that two of the game's all-time greats confront each other at the Gabba on Saturday night.
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Caroline Wilson
Caroline Wilson is a Walkley award-winning columnist and former chief football writer for The Age.
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Amazon case study | Management homework help
Amazon.com Case Study Analysis
Amazon.com—Keeping the Fire Hot
Amazon.com has gained the No. 1 spot as the world’s largest Internet retailer. But never content to rest on past laurels, CEO Jeff Bezos keeps introducing and upgrading Amazon products and services.
It’s hard to keep pace with new versions of the Amazon Kindle Fire, Prime Instant Video TV, and movie content streamed on demand. There’s a variety of cloud computer services. And, Bezos keeps increasing investments in new distribution centers staffed increasingly by robots. It’s all part of a push to make Amazon the go-to choice for fast—even same-day—deliveries of as many of the products we consume as possible.
Decision Making and Innovation
From its modest beginning in Jeff Bezos’s garage in 1995, Amazon.com has grown into the most megalithic online retailer. Bezos continues to diversify Amazon’s product offerings and broaden its brand. Beyond simply finding more and more products and services to offer, he knows that he has to innovate in order to prevent his brand from becoming stagnant. No one is ever sure what will come next under Bezos’s guidance. His guiding question is: “What kind of innovation can we layer on top of this that will be meaningful for our customers?”
Amazon’s Kindle almost single handedly launched the ebook revolution. Also, Amazon Prime could be seen as a revolution. Prime members get free two-day shipping and discounted one-day shipping as well as access to Amazon Instant Video, movie, TV and music streaming, and free content. It’s all designed to keep customers plugged into Amazon. Bezos calls Amazon Prime “the best bargain in the history of shopping, and it’s going to keep getting better.”
There’s no shortage of competition. Amazon has squared off against Netflix, Apple, and Google in realms of both hardware and digital entertainment. It bought top-shelf audio book vendor Audible.com and later added shoe and clothing merchant Zappos.com. Then came acquisition of Boston-based Kiva Systems. Kiva’s automated guided robots deliver product to workers at pick stations, allowing Amazon increased efficiency (and reduced labor costs) in its worldwide distribution centers.
Bezos as a Decision Maker
Rather than sticking to just the analytical step-by-step process, Bezos isn’t afraid of informed intuition. He uses creativity, flexibility, and spontaneity when making key decisions. He seems comfortable with abstraction and lack of structure when making decisions and also isn’t afraid to fail.
Seeming not to worry about current earnings per share, Bezos keeps investing to make his company stronger and harder to catch. Its millions of square feet of distribution fulfillment space keep growing domestically and around the globe. The firm’s products and services are continuously upgraded and expanded. Drones are ready to fly Amazon deliveries to customers. But will these investments pay off? Is Bezos making the right long-term choices?
Even as Amazon’s stock values fluctuate, Bezos still believes that customer service, not the stock ticker, defines the Amazon experience. “I think one of the things people don’t understand is we can build more shareholder value by lowering product prices than we can by trying to raise margins,” he says. “It’s a more patient approach, but we think it leads to a stronger, healthier company. It also serves customers much, much better.”
Amazon.com has quickly—not quietly—grown from a home operation into a global ecommerce giant. By forging alliances to ensure that he has what customers want and making astute purchases, Bezos has made Amazon the go-to brand for online shopping. After its significant investments in new media, services, and distribution, does the company risk losing its original appeal? Will customers continue to flock to Amazon, making it the go-to company for their each and every need?
Source: Schermerhorn Jr., J.R., Bachrach, D.G. (2016) Amazon.com—Keeping the Fire Hot”. In Exploring Management (Cases for Critical Thinking).
Case Analysis Questions
Answer the following in up to 350 words each.
1. Bezos once said: “Amazon may break even or even lose money on the sale of its devices.” The company expects to recoup the money later through the sale of products, with a further boost from its annual Prime membership fee.
Explain how this strategy shows Bezos as a systematic and intuitive thinker.
2. It seems like everyone is streaming these days and there are a growing number of providers. Amazon is a player in the digital entertainment market, but hasn’t taken a clear lead.
Determine, based on the strengths of the company, what decisions should be made to ensure that Amazon jumps ahead and becomes the “No. 1” source for digital content streams.
3. Compare the latest initiatives coming out of Amazon with those of the actual or potential competition.
4. Conclude whether or not Bezos is making the right decisions as he guides the firm through today’s many business and management challenges.
Discussion for module 7: organizational controls
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BENEATH THE HAIR: TP Interviews StageArt’s Robbie Carmellotti
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Ever wished you could get inside a directors head before you put yourself on the line and throw yourself into an audition process? Well here’s your chance, we spoke with one of StageArt's Executive Producers, and Director, Robbie Carmellotti about the process, some inside tips and the structure involved with casting StageArt's highly anticipated touring season of HAIR.
Auditions begin this week, and are open to everyone.
Registrations via: www.stageart.com.au
How is the upcoming audition process designed and how is it different to most?
We are really excited to be running a very different style of audition process for this season of HAIR. It is based on how the casting was done for the Broadway revival production where an open call audition welcomes one and all to attend, and those auditioning get to work in a hands on workshop style audition directly with myself and the other production team members. As this is a group setting, it is a far more relaxed way to introduce yourself to a panel and we all get to meet each other as people and have fun few hours without the barrier of a production table.
Are all roles open for audition or are previous cast members guaranteed roles?
All roles are definitely available. This production is not pre cast in any way.
Why did you decide to re-audition, rather than tour the cast from the February season?
The main reason behind this choice is because the show is based on a very close and loving tribe of people, who all need to share a connection and an energy, so it isn’t about having one or two characters who connect, it’s about having a harmonious link between 16-20 people. So we either wanted the whole cast to return, or start from scratch and build a brand new tribe, and given some cast members from the previous season are not available, or are not wanting to further their experience with the show as it can be quite an emotional journey, we opted for the latter of the two scenarios.
I personally am thrilled to put together a new cast, and re-immerse myself in all of the teachings required to get this message across.
Do you find people are hesitant to audition because of the nude scene?
I think it’s understandable if people are hesitant to take their clothes off, yes. Nudity is not a requirement of auditioning, nor will it stop someone getting into the show if they don’t want to do it. From experience, even those who had said they were not willing to do the scene changed their mind very quickly once the understanding of the scene and the blocking was done, as it is certainly not a sexually crass experience, but an extremely emotional one that people can connect with on a level far greater than bare skin. The scene is about hope, acceptance, power and freedom.
You are an independent theatre company, what does that mean for your artists?
We put our artists first, and want them all to have the experience of a lifetime. As a company our key focus is on marketing and publicity. We want to get our artists seen publicly, acknowledged by their peers and gain exposure to the industry without them having to do much more than have a photo and write a bio.
The previous season saw us get a double page article in the Herald Sun which featured three lead actors, as well as images and stories across 45 different print publications and 50+ online publications. Also we invite every talent scouts, agents and industry managers/producers to our shows, and we can proudly say that every show we have produced has seen many artists gain professional work or higher representation from being seen on a StageArt stage.
How big of a commitment is the HAIR tour?
It is a standard 8 week rehearsal process, then once the shows open it is relatively easy. We have an 8 show day in Melbourne, but all the other venues are weekend performances.
What will cast get out of the HAIR tour?
Based on the previous casts experience, I can honestly say this is a once in a lifetime opportunity. The emotional journey involved with this particular production is one of both elation and sorrow. The cast will be immersed into the life and times of the youth of 1968 and learn such things as:The War which was killing their family and friends, the government which was lying to them and sending them to war against their will, the segregation which was tearing their country apart, the prejudice and racial molestation which was visible on every corner and the success off political propaganda in the minds of their elders. On top of these harrowing topics, the cast will enjoy learning how these activists fought for their freedom of speech, freedom to love, freedom to be one amongst race and gender, freedom of choice and most importantly freedom to live.
Katherine Armstrong & Robbie Carmellotti from StageArt
INSIDE TIPS
What is the first thing you look for when casting a role in HAIR?
Passion is big selling factor with this show. If someone can believe in what they are doing, and show a great connection with the topics – freedom, equality and choice then they shine brightly in my eyes. This also forgives any missed notes or forgotten words.
What advice do you give to anyone auditioning for HAIR?
Make sure you know the show and be prepared to immerse yourself into the process. Look at it as a fun experience and learning curve for yourself. Don’t compare yourself to others, but be prepared to enjoy the talents that other people bring. Try not to focus on your weakness’s and let your strengths shine.
What do you say to people to help ease the nerves of an audition so that they can perform to their best ability.
Even though we may seem scary, WE WANT TO CAST YOU! We are very much on your side. Every production team member has been a performer and has been in your shoes. We are no better than you and we do not judge you, we just have a different job to you. Use your nerves as a positive and have fun with them.
HAIR: Summer of Love
Victorian Tour
Open Call Auditions, Sunday November 3rd
No bookings on the day
Pre register via: www.stageart.com.au
Any questions email [email protected]
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Gravity anomalies on the Moon. Credit: Konopliv et al. Icarus 150, 1–18 (2001).
A new mission to map the gravity field of the Moon.
On September 10, 2011 NASA launched the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) satellites on a mission to the Moon. GRAIL-A and GRAIL-B are nearly identical spacecraft, except that B is designed to follow A around the Moon in the same orbit. The Lunar Gravity Ranging System will measure the distance between the two spacecraft, watching for minute deflections caused by anomalous mass concentrations or mass deficits beneath the Moon’s surface.
In the image at the top of the page, anomalous areas of increased and decreased expectations were mapped by the Lunar Prospector in 1998-1999. Anything in yellow indicates what computer models of the Moon predicted. Red and purple mean that there is a higher gravity field than expected, while blue and green indicate a lower field. On the left, red concentrations that do not correspond to simulations do correspond to the great maria, or “seas” on the Moon. The five largest are Mare Imbrium, Mare Serenitatus, Mare Crisium, Mare Humorum and Mare Nectaris. On the right, or the farside of the Moon, circular areas of lower gravity can be seen.
There is a major elevation difference between the two hemispheres, as well. The nearside of the Moon is flat, with vast maria, whereas the farside is dominated by mountains and is heavily cratered. This considerable dichotomy is reminiscent of the planet Mars.
In previous Picture of the Day articles, the north and south poles of Mars were contrasted. The south pole on Mars is covered with dust and debris greater in area than the State of Texas, about 430,000 square kilometers. There are thousands of craters at every scale: from the largest crater in the Solar System, Hellas Basin, to those too small to see with the highest resolution cameras.
The north pole of Mars might be considered a crater in itself, since, as terrain mapping instruments in orbit reveal, the northern latitudes are six kilometers below the mean elevation of the planet. Perhaps the central plateau at the pole is the “central peak” of a vast circular formation?
This correspondence to similar features on the Moon is striking. It could be that both Mars and the Moon experienced the same kind of forces at some period. Were those forces the result of impacts by rocky bodies, vulcanism, or flowing water emptying from now long-extinct oceans? Could they actually have come from a source that is rarely considered by planetary scientists: electricity?
Electric Universe theorists presuppose that planets and moons exist within a Solar System that could have been more electrically energetic in the past. Each celestial object is insulated within an individual charge sheath. However, if those sheaths touch, electric charge can be exchanged. Those electromagnetic exchanges are what might have created what we see today.
Magnetic anomalies on the Moon exhibit high albedo material also associated with areas of crustal magnetism imprinted on the lunar surface. It is probable that the magnetic and mass anomalies are related.
When electric arcs pass around a body like the Moon, as it oscillates up and down in an electromagnetic field, they erode material from it. At some time in the recent past, a flow of electric charge appears to have impinged upon the Moon, removing material from one hemisphere (nearside) and depositing it on the other (farside).
Plasma discharges that linger before jumping to another location will excavate a crater while melting the surrounding material. Electrons are yanked toward the center of the discharge channel, ripping apart the rocks and dragging the neutral material along with them. Finely divided dust is then sucked up into the vortex channel and ejected into space. This explains why the bottoms of the lunar maria are smooth and flat, with little or no blast debris. Subsurface electric currents tend to melt and concentrate matter, which may also explain why there are mass anomalies associated with the maria.
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Avenue Q (School Edition) is undoubtedly one of FDR’s best productions thus far. This musical brought back all of our childhood feelings because of the similarities it had to “Sesame Street.”
The creatures may not have feet of their own, but it wouldn’t have been the same without them. It starts off with a puppet named Princeton, who believes he is becoming old- since he’s turning 23. He has an existential crisis, because he isn’t sure where a B.A. in English can get him in life. He falls in love in a puppet named Kate, but soon enough, their relationship falls apart. Princeton can’t commit to Kate, because he still hasn’t found his purpose.
In the midst of all this, Kate a monster puppet, gets fired from her job as a teacher’s assistant. She becomes devastated, because this could’ve helped her get closer to her dream of opening a school for monsters, like herself. Towards the end of the musical, her friends surprise her by raising enough money for her to pursue her dream. This touches the entire audience’s heart, showing us how important friendships can be. Except when a puppet named Nicky becomes homeless, because he exposes his friend for being gay. Nicky’s friend kicks him out, and no one will take him in because of how messy he is. Thankfully, they make up in the end, and all is well- teaching the audience about accepting others, as well as being comfortable with who you are. The show highlights how helping others can actually help you feel good about yourself. This is done through catchy, upbeat, and funny songs.
All in all, this show was very well directed and fast paced, causing constant laughter and giggling from the audience! A big New Dealer congrats to Mr. Meyers and the whole cast and crew!
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Anthony McIntyre
Anthony McIntyre picks his way through the noise and dust thrown up by the Bobby Storey funeral.
Three weeks dead and not a day of it in peace. For Bobby Storey, his name continues to bobble at the top of the daily news feed, courtesy of the fall out from the manner in which Sinn Fein managed his funeral. Some not happy that he has already been cremated seem to want him burned all over again, this time in their make believe Hell, as the symbolism of their bright orange 11th night bonfires has so searingly reminded us. Regrettably, there are still those who find hate a comfort zone.
Sinn Fein's critics have been circling the prey while the party rather than head this one off at the pass has instead circled the wagons. Michelle O’Neill continues to insist she acted responsibly in the manner she observed social distancing guidelines at the funeral of Bobby Storey when seemingly more than just the usual detractors see her as having failed, albeit to varying degrees.
Believing her to have been at fault does not translate directly to a demand for her resignation. Despite the posturing and faux outrage, it suits neither Sinn Fein nor the DUP to see the executive brought down again. Citizenry, North and South, would probably settle for a mild rebuke were some sort of, even mumbled, acknowledgement of a breach on O'Neill's part forthcoming. They are more likely to echo the thought of Taoiseach Micheal Martin that it is important not to be "overly judgmental" than to seek the Free P moonshine of sackcloth and ashes. The party that burned enough ash to fill a motorway of cloth sacks lacks the moral authority to credibly make that call.
For O'Neill, it would be a political apology rather than a personal one as she probably feels her personal errancy was at the milder end of the scale. Politically is where her transgression lies, and which makes her an easy target for lampers eager to emblazon her as someone making the rules for others to observe while failing to observe the rules she makes. As Sam McBride concisely put it:
When a government minister openly and unashamedly disregards advice which she has told the public was crucial to save lives, there are inevitable political repercussions.
There is no reason to disagree with O'Neill's insistence that she did not mean to give offence by attending the funeral. However, her dogged determination to insist that there was no fault, is itself coming to be appear as the bigger fault, ultimately causing even greater offence. Nor is it those who rise before dawn every morning to ensure they catch the first offence of the day ahead of everybody else, who are genuinely offended. A lot of people have been unable to attend funerals of ones held dear because of the type of restrictions Michelle O'Neill has rightly insisted on being observed during the global pandemic.
Belfast City Council's seemingly inexplicable decision to deny eight grieving families the ability to attend the the cremation of their loved ones has not helped Sinn Fein, even if if the party did nothing to sway the council's decision. When a daughter claims 'Mummy had to be cremated alone ... we were told this was the rule', it is not hard to imagine the sense of public concern and sympathy generated. Ironically, there is no need to buy into the misty-eyed drivel of Bobby Storey the "gentle giant" to appreciate that it was not in the Storey character to hog "special treatment" in these type of matters, particularly when it had such a huge impact on other grieving families. But these are the things that tend to get lost in the heat of the moment.
Sinn Fein is feeling the heat, so much so that Sam McBride who was widely praised for his determined work on the Cash For Ash scandal has suddenly been turned into a villain by the Bot Brigade, ever eager to engage the enemy in the pretence that name calling and bullying is somehow active service. His crime was to do exactly what he did when RHI wanted its own funeral pyre to be quickly extinguished: he persisted in asking the burning question.
In a place that is home to unlimited exaggeration and the worst crisis ever the DUP''s Christopher Stalford must have spent a month choking the chicken to have pulled off what can only be described as wanker's wisdom. In a fine example of wish being father to the thought he claims Sinn Fein is behaving in a “fashion that would shame the Trump administration". While it is a given that Sinn Fein has been encouraged since the days of Gerry Adams to have an aversion to truth, and also useful to learn that Stalford believes the Trump cabal has behaved in a manner that is indeed shameful, there is no one, Sinn Fein, the DUP, or anyone that could shame the Don and his mob. As an alternative, Stalford should try rubbing the genie's lamp rather than his own.
To paraphrase a poet, eventually it will pass, the noise will fade and the dust shall settle. But for now the Bot Brigade and the Bonfire Bigots will vie with each other in the race to the bottom, as many others are reminded of dreary steeples while hoping it is not a truism that people deserve the government they get.
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Steve R 10:49 PM, July 12, 2020
From what I gather it was the Provo's flexing muscle at Roselawn which rankled most, but what astounding hypocrisy from the Duppers to call for M'ON resignation after the RHI balls up.
Henry JoY 12:10 AM, July 13, 2020
The people may hope all they want, but they'll still get the governments they deserve.
Besides the appalling behaviour of the pseudo-political wing of the Provo's at Storey's funeral we have a dearth of leadership here in the south also. Their collective actions ensure that the electorate continues to get what they deserve.
In facilitating Barry Cowen's continuation as Minister for Agriculture Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, The Green Party and Sinn Féin, either as parties to government or as leaders of the opposition have all abdicated their responsibilities for authentic leadership yet again.
If the people in either state on the island are to be expected to follow guidelines about their behaviour during a pandemic they will have to have authentic and consistent leadership. Billy Kelleher arriving from Europe and Michelle O'Neill from the North to attend Micheál Martin's appointment as Taoiseach contravened Public Health guidelines in doing so.
Given such example, its hard to be critical of those who disregard guidelines whether they're attending prostitutes, Provo funerals or bonfires!
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Give me a nine handed economist, for democracy’s sake
Blog 18 Jul 2016 1 Comments
Tony Greenham
Former Senior Associate, Inclusive Finance
Economists and politicians often portray economics as a science with a single set of truths. But understanding that there are many different schools of economic thought is fundamental to a healthy democratic debate.
President Truman once quipped that he wished he could hire a one-handed economist. He was frustrated with their tendency to equivocate between alternative answers to any given question - “on the one hand…but on the other.”
Over the past few decades you could easily argue that we have had the exact opposite of Truman’s problem. Armies of one-handed economists have promoted one particular school of thought – neo-classical economics - as if it were the only source of truth. In turn this has contributed to a narrowness of economic thinking and debate in politics and policymaking. Any attempt to stray from a defined set of orthodox policies is liable to be labelled ‘economic illiteracy’.
But where has this rigid orthodoxy led us? We face persistent economic problems which the standard economic policy toolkit seems to be unable to help us solve. The theoretical structure of neo-classical economics was poorly equipped to predict the financial crisis, or even diagnose its causes afterwards.
In the RSA’s new Animate, Economics is for Everyone, Ha-Joon Chang mounts a compelling and entertaining case for a diverse approach to economics. Chang outlines nine different schools of economic thought, and points out that you could easily extend this list to identify more variations.
This matters greatly for economics. Economics is a social science that studies systems that are complex and ever adapting to changing circumstances. Its subject matter is people, who have an annoying habit of not necessarily behaving how you expect them to, particularly when they interact with each other. Creating models of the economy can create useful insights, but all models rely on making simplifying assumptions and no model can hope to be comprehensive. We need many different models to help us understand different aspects of the economy.
To make this point, Chang argues that the economically successful city state of Singapore cannot be explained by the orthodox economic theory that dominates global economic institutions and Western economic thinking. In fact, he argues that no single school of thought is sufficient to understand why it works. Orthodox economists emphasise the city’s openness to foreign trade and investment and small government. But they somehow forget to mention that 85% of the housing is provided by the government and 22% of economic output is created by state-owned enterprises.
To switch to a different metaphor, relying on a single tool was never an option for a skilled craftsman. Yet successive UK governments have resorted to repeatedly smashing the economy with a free-market deregulation hammer when they could have been deploying a fuller range of intellectual and theoretical tools to create the market and macroeconomic conditions for much greater success.
The student-led Rethinking Economics movement arose after the financial crisis to demand more pluralist teaching in universities because the students recognised that they needed to leave with more than a hammer in their toolkit. Likewise, the Institute for New Economic Thinking has funded academics whose research hypotheses stray too far from the path of orthodoxy to receive research grants. To their credit, UK research councils have recently responded by inviting tenders for a network to encourage alternative thinking in understanding the economy.
Perhaps we are moving to a more flexible and diverse theoretical approach to economics, but this is not the only point made by Chang. He also passionately believes that any citizen can engage meaningfully in economic debate, and hold valid opinions about the economy, without having any technical training.
You probably have strong views on the Iraq war or climate change without degrees in international relations or climate science. Surely you can have sound judgements on economic issues too?
During the Brexit referendum debate, it seems that politicians succeeded, whether deliberately or not, in dragging experts down with them into a quagmire of disrepute and mistrust. Perhaps experts have contributed to their own downfall and economists should take Chang’s advice to “be humble about the validity of your own economic theory”. The next time you read a newspaper column offering a supposed truth about the economy, why not test it against this yardstick.
But the logic of Chang’s argument is not to ignore experts, nor to dump neo-classical economics. Instead, we need to put expert advice into its proper relationship with democracy.
My take on this can be summarised in three points:
Let the people decide.
Let’s hope that the people will listen to (appropriately humble) experts before they decide.
Even more importantly, given the social fractures revealed by Brexit, let the people talk with each other before they decide.
It is with the final point in mind that the RSA’s Citizens’ Economic Council is convening a series of deliberations around the UK’s economic goals and the policies used to achieve them. By bringing together 50-60 citizens from all walks of life in deep reflection and respectful dialogue we aim to show not just that economics is for everyone, but that economics is for all of us together.
Ian Bright
While sympathising with the sentiment of this video, theview of economics as having only one way of thinking has never been true.
I have often had the impression the everyday press - and dareI say financial market pundits – have contributed to the view of economicshaving only one or two sets of ideas. This could be because it is easier to presentarguments as “true” or “false” rather than describe uncertain and complex trade-offsoften necessary when making economic decisions.
Similar sentiments appear to have been expressed by SimonWren-Lewis who has written about “mediamacro”and for many years previously by Andrew Smithers using the term “stockbrokereconomics”.
Mainstream economics was dominated by a few schools ofthought dominated before the financial crisis but even then these schools wereactively challenged well before the financial crisis.
For example, efficient markets theory was challenged by the collapseof LTCM and the collapse of the TMT dominated equity market of the early 2000s.The Washington consensus was challenged in the late 1990s by the Asianfinancial crisis and the growth success of countries such as China and other countriesin Asia partly by limiting capital flows. Economists in the UK have highlightedmarket failure in UK and its effect on reducing house building for years. The BarkerReview of Housing Supply was published 12 years ago in 2004!
The cries for more relevant economics have been around for along time. The global financial crisis has added urgency to these cries. Thoughtfulsurveys of the variety of ways to think about economic issues are given notonly by Ha-Joon Chang but also by Diane Coyle in her 2009 book, The Soulful Science: What EconomistsDo and Why It Really Matters and Dani Rodrik in his 2015 book Economics Rules: TheRights and Wrongs of the Dismal Science. Many educators have set up the CORE economics programme to “makeeconomics accessible and relevant to today’s problems”.
Economics and economists suffer from overconfidence. Morehumility is needed. Much needs to be done to improve the relevance of subjectto the problems societies face. Much also needs to be done in reportingaccurately what the subject actually says – rather than what some interestedparties think it should say.
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Artist enjoys act of creation
Therresa Worthington
Many artists get their start when they retire and find an empty hole in their life; doing something becomes a necessity to feel fulfilled.
Deena Millecam said Tuesday during the Brown Bag Lecture she began painting for that very reason and has enjoyed it since.
“You know, you quit working and out comes the paint brushes and it’s an ongoing experiment from there,” she said.
More than 30 people came to the Mesquite Fine Arts Gallery to see what Millecam had to offer.
She first painted with oils but quickly found she preferred watercolors, Millecam said.
“It’s just so neat how you can manipulate it,” she said.
But, when things don’t always go the way she wants she isn’t against washing the paper in the bathtub and restarting, she said.
For that reason she typically buys heavier paper for her pieces, she said.
Millecam has traveled to England in her artistic ventures, as well as just plodded along with paints and easel in hand when going on outings, she said. When painting quickly where she’s at isn’t an option, she pulls out the camera and goes from there.
She showed many of her paintings, some were done on the spot while others took time and patience to finish, Millecam said.
One thing about her is that she doesn’t paint to sell her work, she does it for herself and her family, she said.
“Though it’s neat to say that some of my work is part of a collection, even if it’s just my mother’s collection,” she joked.
She and her mother Shirley Riley have come together and produced a book of Millecam’s art with coinciding poetry written by Riley, she said.
Millecam gave each Brown Bag audience member a copy of the book.
Millecam was raised in Payson, Utah and retired from the Uintah School District. Her work has been seen in St. George, Logan, Ogden and Vernal.
The next Brown Bag Lecture is scheduled noon, Sept. 2 at the Mesquite Fine Arts Gallery, 15 W. Mesquite Blvd. Call 702-346-1338 for more information.
The Virgin Valley Artists Association hosts the monthly lectures.
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Turkey is going down the authoritarian route.
ChaoticButterfly
"Usually it takes a scandal or a massive policy blunder to force a sitting head of government to resign. But Thursday morning, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğluannounced that he'd be leaving his job on May 22 — without a scandal or policy blunder in sight. Instead, Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, forced Davutoğlu from his job.
On paper, this is strange: Turkey has a parliamentary democracy, so the prime minister, not the president, is supposed to actually run the government. But it's long been clear that Erdoğan has actually been calling the shots, with Davutoğlu serving mostly as his sidekick.This is a grim development for Turkish democracy.
Davutoğlu was forced out because he couldn't get on board with Erdoğan's plan to revamp the Turkish constitution to concentrate a dangerous amount of power in the office of the presidency. Davutoğlu's ouster is a clear signal that Erdoğan is about to proceed with his plans to seize power."
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ODES_PDES
Erdogan has lost the plot, in my opinion
From the same article.
"Wealthy democracies don’t become dictatorships. For a generation that adage has provided one of the firmest laws of modern democratization," Jason Brownlee, a professor of government at the University of Texas Austin, writes in the Washington Post.A democratic collapse in Turkey would be the first obvious case to break this pattern. It would suggest that what was previously seen as a law might just have been an accident of history. Democracy might not be as safe as we think, even in wealthy countries."Authoritarianism in Turkey," Brownlee writes, "would cast a pall over other high-income countries where democracy seems assured."So the battle over Turkish democracy, kicked off in earnest by Davutoğlu's departure, doesn't only matter for Turkey. It raises questions about a fundamental building block on which our modern world is built: the stability of democratic governments.
SemiteLog
Turkey is a democracy and Erdogan is a president elected by people. You dont like democracy when it does not work for your interests ?
IAmNero
(Original post by SemiteLog)
What are you on about? Turkey is anything but a democracy! North Korea is called The DEMOCRATIC Republic of Korea, but they aren't democratic. Look beneath all the propaganda!
(Original post by IAmNero)
He and his party is chosen by people. You should go to wailing wall or an international court, I dont know ...
chemting
Lol he was chosen by his people, but then when he got into power and is now trying to change the constitution to be more un-democratic. Bit like the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt... or even the (counter-)revolution in Iran.
But if you think he was chosen by people, you must have a very dim view of the Turkish people
(Original post by chemting)
Constitution change is going to be done by election. So people will decide whether or not to change it.
Appearently you have a problem with democracy when it does not work for you.
Try telling that to the people of Iran and Egypt
That's not always the case.
I have no problem with democracy when it "doesn't work", I have a problem with authoritarian pricks like Erdogan, and it is my democratic right to be able to criticise him (inb4 he shuts down TSR...)
Right now, Turkey is a democratic country: there's no denying that. But once Erdogan manages to change the constitution to his will...? who knows?
Someones cant be "authoritarians" in democracies. Do you know what is democracy ?
I repeat, the constitution is going to be changed by election, not according to will of someones, can you understand that ?
I suggest you stop playing with semantics, you know well I didn't mean authoritarian as a strict political science term.
You say that with certainty? according to the constitution (article 175), it can be changed via the national assembly or a referenda (or the President may do both if he feels like it). If you think Erdogan will hold a referenda on every single change, then I guess I have nothing to quibble with you about.
You say that with certainty? according to the constitution (article 175), it can be changed via the national assembly or a referenda (or the President may do both if he feels like it). If you think Erdogan will hold a referenda on every single changes, then I guess I have nothing to quibble with you about.
Whuatttt ? Is not it the worst thing that putting an article in a constitution that you cant change the constitution anymore ? LoooooL this is tragic comic. This is ridiculous. LoL Article 175: "You cant change the constitution anymore because we decided for the best for you. You have no right to change it for ever." da daaa
Now you started to make predictions ? So you think Erdogan is a bad president because he "may" violate constitution LoL.
Are you aware of it, you have an obsessive-compulsive disorder. No offense. You have obssessive ideas and cant get rid of them despite I gave you logical descriptions.
Every constitution has an article on how to change/amend it and what processes are required You said, it will only be changed by the people - and that's not strictly true is it... article 175 that I have mentioned does NOT say "you cant change the constitution anymore...", it says how you can change the constitution. God! can you not read?
I'm sorry - shall we ignore the prediction you made? You seemed to have made with absolute certainty,
I simply infer what he could do according to law, not what he will do. You seem to know the future with absolute certainty.
What logical descriptions? you made an utopian argument "that the people will change the constitution and that's for certain"...
What ideas am I obsessed with? Do you think taking Turkey back to the Ottoman principles (neo-Ottomanism) will make all the ills go away?
Al-farhan
How dare you slander el-sisi, he is the savior!
Sorry my mistake, because there are also articles in current democratic (?) Turkish constitution that you can never change. Article 175 expalins how to change constitution in democratic ways. There is a need for enough parliamentarians votes. AKP parliamentarians will offer to change constitution. If the big part of parliamentarians accept the offer, they submit the offer to the president, if the president accepts the offer then public votes decide for the change.
Okay your majesty ??? do you allow them to change it now ? LoL
(Original post by ODES_PDES)
That's a very mild way of putting it.
He is a blatant dictator...
That's one way yes. If they get more than 3/5ths but less than 2/3rds of the vote, it has to go to the public. Does all the amendments go to the public? What about if they get a qualified majority, i.e. more than 2/3rds
Also, assuming all the amendments will magically be chosen by the people, democracy can be used to get rid of democracy. People can, ironically vote in an undemocratic govt. I've mentioned that before.
What? What are you talking about?
And that's your emirate to you...
Why do you interested to extend this issue this much ? Simply accept it tht you dont like democracies when it does not work for your interests and dont forget you are a kingdom.
I don't like democracies when people use it to destroy democracies but I accept that you don't care about the people Erdogan is hurting. "Justice" eh?
and dont forget you are a kingdom.
I see you don't understand the political ideologies the AKP support
I don't like democracies when people use it to destroy democracies but I guess you don't care about the people Erdogan is hurting. "Justice" eh?
In democracies, people cannot destroy democracies according to their will. Learn what is democracy first.
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This Las Vegas casino company is paying guests $20 to wear masks
Ed Komenda Reno Gazette Journal
LAS VEGAS – Wearing a mask inside a Caesars Entertainment casino?
Someone from the company may tap you on the shoulder and slip you $20 to gamble.
The operator of five reopened hotel-casinos on The Strip has launched the promotion to encourage guests to wear masks and prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Over the weekend, a promotions team walked through Caesars Palace, Paris, Flamingo, The Linq and Harrah's to find people wearing masks while gambling or strolling the casino floor. All told, 375 guests got $7,500.
The promotion applies only to Caesars Rewards members wearing masks, but anyone can sign up for a chance to get the free money, according to the Reno Gazette Journal, which is part of the USA TODAY Network.
When will the limited time promotion end? That’s a little complicated, according to Caesars Entertainment public relations specialist Gia Silvaggio.
“The promotion would end if wearing masks became mandatory,” she said in an email to the USA TODAY Network.
Will everyone soon have to wear masks?
Caesars’ free-play giveaway comes when COVID-19 is gaining steam in Nevada, and state officials are getting pressured to require masks for all casino visitors.
The Nevada Gaming Control Board updated its health and safety policy for casinos last week, tightening rules for gamblers sitting down to play.
Nevada gamblers are now required to wear face masks at table games that have no barriers, an update that came less than two weeks after casinos opened in Nevada following a shutdown that lasted almost three months.
But the Silver State’s most powerful labor union is calling for state leaders to require visitors to wear masks in all public spaces at hotel-casinos to protect workers.
"Workers have fears," Culinary Union Secretary-Treasurer Geoconda Argüello-Kline said Monday.
Argüello-Kline demanded that Nevada officials follow the lead of California, where Gov. Gavin Newsom announced last week that citizens now must cover their mouths and noses in most indoor settings and outdoors when social distancing isn't possible.
“The numbers are not going down," Argüello-Kline said. "They’re going up."
Last week, two Flamingo employees tested positive for the coronavirus, and restaurants inside the Bellagio and Linq Hotel – including Guy Fieri's Las Vegas Kitchen Bar – closed after workers there got COVID-19.
COVID-19 cases surge in Nevada
The state reported 330 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday, bringing the total to 13,535 known cases. Health officials also reported three additional deaths on Monday, bringing the total number of people who’ve died from coronavirus to 489.
The state’s four highest single-day increases have all been recorded within the past week, according to state data.
Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak said he would also support local leaders who set stricter restrictions and encouraged business owners to mandate employees and customers to wear face masks.
“We’re not in a post-COVID time,” Sisolak said last week. “We’re in the middle of a COVID-19 pandemic. We’re right dead-smack in the middle of it.”
Ed Komenda writes about Las Vegas for the Reno Gazette Journal and USA Today Network.
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OPPO A92s Tipped Specifications And Price
Information has spread throughout Weibo regarding about the OPPO A92s. By the looks of it, this is OPPO’s new strike in the midrange market. OPPO is known, atleast in our market, by their midrange devices especially with the F series. Judging its specification, OPPO is honing their speciality as its processing prowess.
Immediately addressing what’s under the hood, OPPO has clawed one of MediaTek’s newest mobile processors, the MediaTek Dimensity 800. This a chip announced by MediaTek months ago, promising significant uplift in performance and support for the latest 5G networks.
Other than the system on a chip, the A92s boasts the 120Hz refresh rate display. The panel is an LCD panel which expands diagonally at 6.57 inches, the setup is familiar since its the same with the Redmi K30 4G/5G though smaller. Like the Redmi device, it coincidentally bears a pill punch-hole cutout for the selfie cameras, albeit on the top left side.
Teaming up with the processing package, the A92s is bundled with an 8GB RAM and 128GB storage.
The setup on the rear is a quad-camera array. A 48MP Sony IMX 586 is in the front line for primary usage. This is backed up by the 8MP shooter which is in charge for ultrawide shots. The setup is completed by a depth sensor and a macro shooter both of which are 2MP. As for the selfie department, it resides at the punch-hole cutout on the front. These are the 16MP Sony IMX 471 and a depth shooter.
Juicing the device is a 4000mAh battery that features Power Delivery 3.0 rated at 18W charging.
The lone variant of the device is suspected to retail at 2499 CNY, this is about PHP 18K.
Local availability is yet to be announced
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Devs Start Bringing Windows 10 to Android Phones From Samsung, OnePlus
By Nathaniel Mott 03 December 2019
The OS has already been installed on a OnePlus 6.
(Image credit: Alberto Garcia Guillen/Shutterstock)
Some developers are bringing Windows 10 on Arm (the processor architecture, not the appendage) to flagship Android smartphones, as reported by Windows Latest this week.
These efforts are in their early stages. A developer called "Lemon1Ice" told Windows Latest that Windows 10 on Arm can be installed on the OnePlus 6 and is being ported to Xiaomi's Mi Mix 2S, but much of the operating system (OS) is unusable. Another developer called "Enviso0n" is attempting to bring the OS to Samsung's Galaxy S8.
Windows 10 on Arm enables this kind of tinkering because smartphones and so-called always connected PCs use many of the same chips (often from Qualcomm). Microsoft didn't intend for the desktop version of Windows 10 to reach smartphones, but the shared Arm architecture makes it possible, at least in theory.
Like other projects, these efforts might serve little practical purpose. Microsoft announced in January that it would end support for Windows 10 Mobile at the end of the year, indicating that people don't even want to use a mobile-optimized version of Windows on their smartphones. Who'd want to use the full desktop version?
The real value in these projects comes from demonstrating the power of the Arm architecture and the value in supporting it. Microsoft brought Windows 10 to Arm, so it could make PCs with Qualcomm chips that never have to go without Internet access, and in doing so, it opened up a world of possibility for many other devices.
bwohl 04 December 2019 12:28
I’m so glad I kept the Surface2 with a Tegra chip on the garage shelf. Will it finally get Win10? 😭😂🤣
djayjp 04 December 2019 13:58
No, the real power of this is that you'll only have one device and you'll hook your phone up (or wirelessly) to a monitor, keyboard, and mouse or to something like the Mirabook. I can't wait for this to happen.
Mandark 04 December 2019 14:23
djayjp said:
that would be cool. i would get an andriod just for that, my notebook is so horrible and crappy next to my phone.
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Member for Barker Tony Pasin has been inundated with surveys rolling in from across the electorate since its launch in June.
“I have been overwhelmed by the number of constituents who have returned their surveys having their say on what is important to them,” Mr Pasin said.
“I asked the constituents of Barker to tell me about the issues that matter to them and they have done that,” said Mr Pasin.
With the help of his staff Mr Pasin has been reading through the returned surveys and collating data on the issues raised.
The survey results show an overwhelming number of people are concerned about their electricity prices, with 86 per cent of the surveys returned listing this as a major concern. 70 percent of people were worried about a carbon tax being re- introduced and 75 per cent are not in favour of paying more for electricity in the interests of reducing carbon emissions.
“This tells me that energy policy must address the key issues of affordability and reliability. The State Government’s failed energy experiment was focused entirely on reducing emissions which resulted in higher prices and increased blackouts. Labor’s policy is clearly not what the people of Barker are telling me they want out of an energy policy.
“I’ve heard that the people in Barker want lower energy prices, no new electricity taxes and a policy that will keep the lights on,” Mr Pasin said.
According to the survey results health and hospitals were another theme that stood out across the electorate.
“The Federal Government have just announced the first ever Rural Health Commissioner which is great news for Barker constituents. We are committed to improving access to health services for everyone who calls regional, rural and remote Australia home. The appointment of our National Rural Health Commissioner is integral to achieving this outcome,” Mr Pasin said.
While developing pathways for rural doctors is a top priority, the Commissioner will also consider the needs of the nursing, dental health, pharmacy, Indigenous health, mental health, midwifery, occupational therapy, physical therapy and allied health workforce in rural and regional areas.
Other themes through-out the survey include:
55 % of people want improved mobile phone coverage
62 % of people believe reducing taxes and red tape on small businesses is the best way the Government can support job growth
85 % of people are concerned about Australia’s level of deficit and debt
89 % of people feel safe and secure in their neighbourhood
79 % of people support drug testing welfare recipients
65 % of people think local schools should be given greater autonomy to make decisions
69 % of people support the Australian Government’s border protection measures
85 % of people support measures to strip foreign fighters of Australian citizenship if they are dual nationals
85 % of people believe State Government health and hospital funding needs to be significantly increased over time
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Whilst today a convoy of trucks carrying donated hay rolled into Lucindale, welcomed by a cheering crowd of locals. This relief effort was facilitated by Adam Smith and a dedicated group of volunteers at the Mount Gambier Hay Run.
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Thanks tony for your kind words. You also jumped on and helped our cause at short notice. I know it was only a small part. But it’s all the 1 per cent people that make it a huge thing. And I thank you. Means so much. Cheers
Thank you for calling in Tony. We know that the Avenue Range and Lucindale communities are grateful for the support that you and Nick McBride - Member for MacKillop have shown. Thank you.
Thank you for calling in Tony & Nick. A huge thank you to you both for supporting this community in its time of need. it is greatly appreciated.
I was so relieved to hear that my brother ( who lives in Lucindale) was safe and so was his home. A Huge Thank You to all who helped
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Iron-doped ordered mesoporous Co3O4 activation of peroxymonosulfate for ciprofloxacin degradation: Performance, mechanism and degradation pathway.
Sci Total Environ. 2019 Mar 25; 658:343-356.ST
Ordered mesoporous Co3O4 (OM-Co3O4) displayed superior performance for peroxymonosulfate (PMS) activation. While, the separation and recovery of the catalyst after catalytic oxidation needed tedious operation. In this study, the as-synthesized iron-doped OM-Co3O4 not only inherited the merits of ordered mesoporous materials such as high surface area and abundant mesoporous structure, but endowed them with ferromagnetism, facilitating their separation from the solution. Compared with spinel Co3O4, iron-doped OM-Co3O4 showed superior catalytic activity, wide application scope, excellent reusability and long-term stability, fully validated that iron-doped OM-Co3O4 can be a promising heterogeneous PMS activator for environmental application. High catalyst loading and PMS concentration were both beneficial to CIP degradation. The best CIP degradation occurred under base conditions. Chlorine and bicarbonate presented completely opposite two-side effects. The mechanism of CIP degradation was primarily attributed to SO4- and OH to a lesser extent. The rapid redox cycles of M2+/M3+ (M = Co, Fe) and O2-/O2 ensured the continuous generation of reactive oxygen species and the efficient degradation of CIP. The cleavage of piperazine ring, hydroxylation and defluorination were identified as the main oxidation pathways for CIP degradation in iron-doped OM-Co3O4 activated PMS system.
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Deng, Jing, et al. "Iron-doped Ordered Mesoporous Co3O4 Activation of Peroxymonosulfate for Ciprofloxacin Degradation: Performance, Mechanism and Degradation Pathway." The Science of the Total Environment, vol. 658, 2019, pp. 343-356.
Deng J, Xu M, Feng S, et al. Iron-doped ordered mesoporous Co3O4 activation of peroxymonosulfate for ciprofloxacin degradation: Performance, mechanism and degradation pathway. Sci Total Environ. 2019;658:343-356.
Deng, J., Xu, M., Feng, S., Qiu, C., Li, X., & Li, J. (2019). Iron-doped ordered mesoporous Co3O4 activation of peroxymonosulfate for ciprofloxacin degradation: Performance, mechanism and degradation pathway. The Science of the Total Environment, 658, 343-356. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.12.187
Deng J, et al. Iron-doped Ordered Mesoporous Co3O4 Activation of Peroxymonosulfate for Ciprofloxacin Degradation: Performance, Mechanism and Degradation Pathway. Sci Total Environ. 2019 Mar 25;658:343-356. PubMed PMID: 30579192.
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Highly efficient activation of peroxymonosulfate by cobalt sulfide hollow nanospheres for fast ciprofloxacin degradation.
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UnifiedCommunications.com Introduces Device-as-a-Service Solution
Houston, TX (PRWEB) 22 June, 2015
UnifiedCommunications.com, a provider of industry-leading unified communications solutions, has introduced their new Device-as-a-Service solution. This market-ready solution enables UC Cloud Service providers to bundle headsets with their Unified Communications as a Service subscriptions.
UnifiedCommunications.com has introduced their new Device as a Service (DaaS) solution, as an innovative approach to managing devices for leading UC platforms like Microsoft’s Skype for Business.
Available initially to customers with 100–2500 users over a 12, 24 or 36-month service duration, this subscription service provides customers with an OPEX solution to access both cloud-based unified communications services and the audio devices that users need to properly utilize the service.
Ryan Herbst, VP of Device Strategy at UnifiedCommunications.com, says that the new approach will benefit agile businesses who have embraced UC and appreciate the advantages of an operational cost model with a comprehensive service-level agreement.
“Many customers have already benefitted from other ‘as a service’ models, and with unified communications projects, the capital expenditure related to hardware has been a challenge. The introduction of Device-as-a-Service eliminates this CAPEX concern by providing a single monthly fee for the entire solution. We’ll initially be enabling the bundling of headsets and will later extend this offer to include other audio and video endpoints.”
In partnership with Plantronics, a global leader in audio communications, UnifiedCommunications.com will roll out the new solution with bundles including Plantronics Voyager, Savi, and Blackwire Bluetooth, wireless and wired headsets.
Plantronics VP of Global Channel and Field Marketing, Erna Arnesen says, “Plantronics Device-as-a-Service Pro is designed to be easy, flexible and budget friendly.” Furthermore, Ms. Arnesen says, “It also eliminates compromises and allows companies to match the right headset to users’ work styles for enhanced user satisfaction.”
This new approach demonstrates UnifiedCommunications.com’s commitment to implementing comprehensive unified communications solutions that serve their customers’ changing needs. With more unified communications users transitioning to cloud-based infrastructures, Unified Communications as a Service is enjoying significant market growth.
Visit http://www.unifiedcommunications.com/t-Device_as_a_Service.aspx to explore the full range of devices and services on offer and learn how a DaaS solution could serve your organization.
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For more information, please visit unifiedcommunications.com or call (800)641-6416.
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Vela: No vote on USMCA until Nov. or Dec.
ASHEVILLE, N.C. — The House is unlikely to vote on the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement on trade until November or December, Rep. Filemon Vela, D-Texas, said here Monday at the American Sugar Alliance’s International Sweetener Symposium.
Vela is chairman of the House Agriculture General Farm Commodities and Risk Management Subcommittee.
Republicans have called on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., to bring up the USMCA for a vote in September or October, but Vela said, “I feel confident that won’t happen.”
The concerns of Democratic progressives, members from the Southeast concerned about seasonal surges of Mexican exports of fruit and vegetables to the United States, and border members concerned with infrastructure have to be addressed before the trade pact can pass the House, Vela said.
Republicans say there are enough votes for the pact to pass now, although it might not get a majority of Democratic votes, but Vela said he does not believe there are at the present time.
Vela noted he had gone on the recent trip organized by the House Ways and Means Committee to Mexico where the delegation looked into issues related to labor, the environment and pharmaceuticals.
During that trip, Vela said, Rep. Stephanie Murphy, D-Fla., told Mexican officials her concern is that the agreement does not cover the issue of seasonal surges in Mexican exports of tomatoes that upset Florida and Georgia producers. Murphy noted that the entire Florida delegation is concerned with the issue, Vela said.
Mexican officials “took a hard line,” he said, saying Mexico would not make any concessions on that point.
But Vela said that if Mexico does make concessions on seasonality he and other representatives from Texas and California will have problems supporting the agreement because the Texas and California Farm Bureaus are opposed to seasonal provisions.
(Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue has acknowledged that members of Congress from Florida and his home state of Georgia keep raising the seasonality issue. Perdue told them that the agreement does not address their concerns, but urged members to vote for the pact because it does not go backwards and will help other agricultural sectors.)
Vela said “progressives,” including Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., who also made the trip, are not close to being satisfied with the USMCA.
Vela said his own demand is for improvements to bridges and the ports of entry along the border. Trucks are sometimes lined up for six hours before they can get through on the American side headed south, he said.
U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer initially said that the issue of border infrastructure was “not in my lane,” but he has “come around” to recognize its importance, Vela said, noting he and House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson, D-Minn., recently had lunch with Lighthizer and that he finds Lighthizer easy to work with.
Peterson has been encouraging farm groups to invite his subcommittee chairs to meetings instead of him, and Vela spent a considerable amount of time explaining the Democratic membership of the committee to the beet and cane growers.
The Democrats won control of the House in the election, but only five Democrats who served in the last Congress besides Peterson stayed on the committee, which has meant an extensive learning experience for the 20 new members, he said.
“It’s important to have Peterson there,” Vela said.
Rural representatives in the Democratic caucus are “few and far between,” which means that the re-election of members such as Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Va., whom Peterson named chair of the Conservation and Forestry Subcommittee, is important in order “to protect rural interests in the Democratic caucus,” Vela said.
Republicans and Democrats on the committee had a “pretty big disagreement on nutrition” in the 2018 farm bill debate, but if “we don’t have to deal with those kinds of policies in the future farm policy will be stable,” he said.
(In 2018, the nutrition issue was resolved by the conference committee adopting the Senate nutrition title.)
Vela noted that he is one of only two Texans serving on House Agriculture, and that when Rep. Michael Conaway, R-Texas, the ranking member and former chairman retires, he will be the only one. Conaway’s retirement will have “a profound effect” on Texas agriculture, Vela said.
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Pennsylvania soldiers suffer their deadliest day of the Iraq war
PHILADELPHIA – Pennsylvania is mourning the deaths of seven National Guard soldiers killed in Iraq in less than four days, including five slain during the deadliest day of the war for the state’s soldiers, the governor announced Wednesday.”It brings home the crushing reality of this war,” Gov. Ed Rendell said at a Capitol news conference.The five killed Tuesday include Gennaro Pellegrini Jr., a 31-year-old Philadelphia police officer; John Kulick, a 35-year-old firefighter from Montgomery County; and Nathaniel DeTample, the 19-year-old son of a Bucks County detective.The National Guard declined to say Wednesday how or when the three died, or to confirm the deaths of the two other soldiers Rendell was counting. Two additional Pennsylvania National Guard soldiers were killed Saturday in Iraq.National Guard officials planned news conferences Thursday, said Guard spokesman, Capt. Cory P. Angell.Given the number of Pennsylvania guardsmen in Iraq – about 3,000 troops – the state has been “relatively lucky,” Rendell said.In Ohio, the 3rd Battalion Marines’ Lima Company recently lost 16 Marine reservists over a 10-day period.Just weeks before Pellegrini left to train for Iraq, he won his first professional boxing match with a fourth-round knockout at the famed Blue Horizon club in Philadelphia.”He had a lot of heart, a lot of determination,” said police Capt. Lou Campione, Pellegrini’s superior officer. “He was there for you. He covered your back.”Whitpain Township Fire Marshal David M. Camarda learned of Kulick’s death early Wednesday. Kulick was the township’s assistant fire marshal and had worked in the department for seven years.”John was just a dependable individual,” he said. “He was the guy that if the shift started at 9:30 p.m., he was there at 8:30 to make sure everything got done right.”DeTample, a graduate of Pennsbury High School, was the son of police detective Glenn DeTample in Lower Makefield Township. “He was loved by all the police officers. He was a good, good boy,” said township Police Chief Kenneth Coluzzi.The recent list of the dead also includes Sgt. Brahim Jeffcoat, 25, of Philadelphia, and Spc. Kurt Krout, 43, of Spinnerstown. Both died Saturday when their convoy struck a bomb 60 miles north of Baghdad.
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Vail Jazz Festival marks 18th season with more programs
Daily staff reportnewsroom@vaildaily.comVAIL CO, Colorado
Special to the Daily/Ned Radinsky
VAIL – The Vail Jazz Foundation announced its 2012 Vail Jazz Festival season this week. Ticketed and free events will take place throughout Vail from June 24 through Sept. 3. The 18th annual festival brings international jazz artists to indoor and outdoor venues, highlighting a variety of jazz styles from swing and Latin jazz to Big Band, straight ahead and “new bop.””We go all out to bring the very best jazz to Vail – whether for our free concerts or the Labor Day Weekend Party,” said Howard Stone, artistic director for the Vail Jazz Festival. “We can promise some of the finest jazz music of all genres, and in this naturally magnificent rocky mountain setting, it just doesn’t get any better than that.” Beginning June 24 the Jazz Festival presents Jazz at the Market – midday concerts held at the Jazz Tent at Solaris in conjunction with the Vail Farmer’s Market. Each of the 10 performances features regional and national artists in an improvisational format. Sunday evenings through the summer will be marked by Jazz at Kelly Liken with Vail jazz favorite Tony Gulizia and special guests. Liken’s Sunday Night Harvest Dinners feature menu items from local farmers. Owner/Chef Kelly Liken says, “Over the past few years, these dinners have become a locals’ favorite place to be; the dining room is always filled with guests we know well and we’re excited for our new partnership with the Vail Jazz Festival.”Also beginning in June, The Life & Times of Dave Brubeck exhibit will be on display at the Visitor’s Center in Vail Village. The free exhibit highlights one of the most extraordinary living jazz musicians in America. Now 91, Brubeck, whose sons perform in Vail, will be the subject of a Multi-Media Salute by Grammy-winning musician, Bill Cunliffe on Aug. 31.For the first time ever, the Vail Jazz Festival teams up with the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival for “Swingin’ with Curtis Stigers” and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra on July 2 at the Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater. The evening features legendary vocalist, Stigers and guest pops conductor Jeff Tyzik. Tickets for the Bravo! season go on sale April 23. Following three Bravo! performances in 2012, the Vail Jazz Festival and Bravo! partner to present Jazz After with select orchestral musicians in a jazz jam-format at Larkspur Restaurant. Details on Jazz After will be announced soon.July 5 marks the return of Jazz at Vail Square at The Arrabelle in Lionshead. These partially ticketed and free concerts will feature The Brubeck Brothers, Marcia Ball, the Air Force Falconaires and Cuban sensations, Wil Campy y su Gran Union, among others. Reserved seating is $20 and a Thursday night jazz pass is available for $99, which includes reserved seating at all nine Jazz at Vail Square concerts. The summer of non-stop jazz culminates with the Labor Day Weekend Vail Jazz Party from Aug. 30 – Sept. 3. The celebrated Vail Jazz Party hosts a variety of the world’s most renowned artists for eight events and 30 hours of music. Concerts, multi-media salutes, late night sets and a Gospel Prayer Meeting are included in the $385 Patron Pass and individual event tickets are also available. The complete lineup of musicians will be announced soon.Tickets for the 2012 Vail Jazz Festival are on sale now and may be purchased online at http://www.vailjazz.org or by calling 888-VAIL-JAM (824-5526). Discounted lodging for the Labor Day Weekend Vail Jazz Party is available through partner and Jazz Party headquarter hotel, Vail Marriott Resort & Spa. The Vail Jazz Festival is presented by the Vail Jazz Foundation.
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1 Summer, 50 Concerts
[32] Vivica Genaux and New York Baroque Incorporated at Caramoor | #1Summer50Concerts
Her outfits are to die for
WHO: Vivica Genaux, mezzo-soprano; Aisslinn Nosky, violin; New York Baroque Incorporated
WHAT: Works by Corelli, Vivaldi, Handel, Hasse, and Geminiani
WHERE: The Venetian Theater at Caramoor
WHEN: June 30, 2019 at 4pm
Concert #32: In Which I Was a Bad Gay
June 30, 2019 was World Pride. Four million people poured into the lower quadrant of Manhattan and celebrated with rainbows and glitter and hoopla. I was not one of them. This could just be me, but being stuck in a four-million person crowd with no place to go to the bathroom doesn't exactly sound like my idea of a good day.
Plus, I rationalized, it's not like I hadn't been prideful for the entire month leading up to World Pride. I will direct you to concerts #23 and #25, which literally had the word queer in their names.
The truth is, I actually just made a dumb scheduling mistake. I was 100% convinced that the pride march was on Saturday 6/29, so I made plans with a friend's mother to go see this concert on 6/30 (yes, I'm that kid who makes plans with his friends' parents). Turns out I was wrong, and I decided that I wanted to see Vivica more than I wanted to buy a rainbow shirt and ruin it in one go by standing for eight hours in the sauna that is the West Village. Sue me.
Anyway, I think I made the right choice. Katonah is absolutely gorgeous. Everything is green. The air smells less like garbage (why doesn't NYC have dumpsters???? anyone????). I love NYC, but it's anything but a relaxing place. I took one step off the greenery-lined platform at the Katonah Metro-North stop and it was as if my responsibilities vanished -- crazy considering that I was probably ten concert reviews behind at that point.
Weirdly enough, Vivica Genaux never comes to the US. She made only two appearances stateside this year, and she has not a single one scheduled for the 2019-2020 season. Based out of Italy, she gives most of her concerts in western Europe.
The concert, at face value, looked like old-people bait. That one Corelli concerto grosso that everyone knows (D major, Op. 6, No. 4). The obligatory concerto from The Four Seasons. Vivaldi. Handel. Vivaldi knockoff. You know.
But New York Baroque Incorporated did a great job of treading the line between crowd- and connoisseur-pleasing. Their Corelli was whimsy and spontaneous as concertmaster Aisslinn Nosky goaded solo second violin Alana Youssefian with a twinkle in her eye; on passages of repeated notes, Nosky dared Youssefian to rival her creative ornamentations (Youssefian obliged with a smirk).
The video looks a little bit like one of my fifth-grade iMovie projects, but the playing is top-notch!
Aisslinn Nosky stole the instrumental portion of the show. When I saw her in ChamberQUEER a few weeks before, her motions were moderate (the audience, after all, was about five feet in front of her), but her playing still effectively colored her the badass-du-jour. On the stage of the Venetian Theater, she let loose. Her stylings on "Winter" from The Four Seasons were agitated and overflowing a controlled, but chaotic energy; Nosky's emotion seemed more like that of a rock guitarist than that of a baroque violinist, her blood-red hair barely keeping its faux-hawk. And though harpsichordist Avi Stein was sitting in the conductor's chair, it was obvious throughout the concert that Nosky actually wore the pants in the ensemble -- once again the badass-du-jour.
Badass-du-jour, of course, apart from Vivica Genaux. As soon as she (and her dress-tail) swept on-stage, the presence was palpable. She alternated with facility between the opera seria archetypes: from lovesick, woebegone, and hopeless to oozing bravura at the very touch. Her technique was a little weird -- she produced vibrato and pitch changes by wobbling her lower lip, so even in the arie di bravura she still looked a little bit sad. But close your eyes, and you couldn't tell the difference. In the second half of the concert, she changed to a white pant-suit to sing Handel's cantata Armida abbandonata, the heart-rending story of a Saracen queen's lost love. She continued on with two encores written for Handel's favorite castrato (look it up if you don't know what it is) Farinelli, each delivered with joy and pizzazz.
Did you know one of the B's in ABBA stands for baroque? True story.
So TL;DR, no, I don't regret my decision. I came back to the city in the late evening and I was hydrated, fed, and had Handel in my ear. I heard World Pride was a spectacle to behold. But honestly, my biggest regret was not seeing the MET float, complete with Anthony Roth-Costanzo in drag and Stephanie Blythe in flashy surrealist garb. All the other corporate BS, I was happy to do without.
Caramoor's summer is almost over -- make sure you stop by before the end of the summer festival or for one of their precious few year-round performances!
Labels: 1Summer50Concerts, baroque, Caramoor, concerto, Italian, mezzo-soprano, orchestral, violin, vocal
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[47] Final Faculty Concert at Kinhaven Music School, Weston, VT | #1Summer50Concerts #ConcertGetaway
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Malala Lauds Sheikha Fatima’s Support for Women
Front, Headlines, GCC
(Abu Dhabi) – Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani school pupil and education activist, said she was impressed with the achievements realised by Emirati women under the guidance and leadership of H.H. Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak, Chairperson of the UAE General Women’s Union (GWU) and of the Family Development Foundation (FDF).
Malala applauded the GWU’s vital role in serving and empowering Emirati women. The Pakistani education campaigner made her remarks during a visit today to the GWU’s premises, where she was welcomed by H.E. Noura Al Suwaidi, GWU Director, who took her on a tour of various facilities of the GWU including the Jewel Hall where she viewed local, regional and international awards and honours that Sheikha Fatima had received in recognition of her support and empowerment of women. Al Suwaidi informed Malala about the GWU’s vision, mission and achievements.
January 1, 2014 /by Asiya Mahar
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How Real People Lost Weight on the Whole30 Diet
Lindsay TigarUpdated: Dec. 17, 2019
If you've ever heard of the Whole30 diet, you've probably heard about how limiting it is. But some people have completed one (or more!) rounds of this program. Here, they share their stories of losing weight.
What is the Whole30 plan?
The brainchild of two sports nutritionists, Whole30: The 30-Day Guide to Total Health and Food Freedom was published in 2009 and became a best-seller. The plan is set up as a challenge to eliminate inflammation-promoting foods from your diet for a full 30 days to see how your body feels. At the top of the list of Whole30 rules: No alcohol, added or artificial sweeteners, dairy, grains of any kind, soy, legumes, food additives, or processed junk food for 30 days.
The plan’s claim—for which most nutritionists say there is little scientific evidence—is that a diet heavy on these foods contributes to out-of-whack hormones and harmful inflammation that impact general health as well as blood sugar, cravings, and body weight. (Most registered dietitians recommend avoiding diets that restrict entire food groups and instead opt for lifestyle changes and patterns of eating that include a healthy mix of food and can be maintained over time.)
Converts say the diet helped them sleep better, get rid of cravings, heal myriad gut-health problems, control autoimmune flares, and ultimately make beneficial long-term changes.
You can learn more about the Whole30 plan here.
courtesy Judith Forman
There is a Whole30 community
When Judith Forman says her life changed because of Whole30, she isn’t joking. The first time she tackled this tall order, she was inspired to push past her post-pregnancy weight gain and collect control on her body and health again. “What I discovered during that first round was that when on Whole30, I felt the best I had ever felt in my life. My thinking was clear, my energy was sky-high, my sleep was deep and rewarding, and my fitness levels exploded. I could run faster, jump higher, squat lower, and lift heavier when I was on Whole30,” she shares. And she says she couldn’t have done it without the good vibes from the Whole30 Facebook support group, of which she’s now an administrator. Racking in more than 38,000 members (and growing), she now eats, lives, and breathes Whole30 (she’s completed five 30-day rounds of Whole30, and one 60-day round), and serves as a guide and cheerleader for newbies. “It is one of the first things I talk about when I meet someone and I am always recruiting people and coaching them along when they decide to jump in,” she shared. “I am teaching my four-year-old daughter about the importance of eating healthy and that, to me, is priceless. It’s given me my strongest, leanest, and happiest body yet—at age 41!”
Use these tricks to become a more mindful eater.
Courtesy Laura Gonzalez @lgsworldcrush
Celebrate the non-scale victories
As life-changing and inspiring as traveling the world is, Laura Gonzalez knows what an impact it has on your body. Six months into her trip around the world via the digital nomad program, Remote Year, she realized what a toll being constantly on the go was taking on her overall health and wellness. Her energy levels were dropping, she was always hankering for sweets, and her psoriasis was acting up. That’s when a fellow traveler on her trek suggested she try Whole30 as a way to recenter, balance, and prioritize her health. She ended up pulling off an impressive feat: completing Whole30 not once, but twice—first in Spain and then in Colombia. She’s now trying it for the third time and coaching others who are first-timers.
Shedding weight was motivation, but she’s also learned how to celebrate victories that don’t translate to the scale. “When someone changes their eating style for the better, a main driver might be weight loss, but there are multiple victories that should be acknowledged throughout the process. These smaller victories keep you focused on overall health and happiness versus losing a few pounds,” she says. (For Gonzalez, it was the added benefit of watching her skin clear up and having more energy.) “I now focus on consuming foods that contribute more energy to my body than they require to digest, which helps me maintain extraordinary levels of energy all day long.”
Courtesy Susan Palladino
You can follow a ‘loose’ Whole30
Susan and Thomas Palladino used their youngest son’s departure as the opportunity to do something for themselves. Realizing they weren’t exactly leading a healthy life that would allow them to live well into their golden years, they decided to give Whole30 a chance. It was a move that turned everything upside down and around—in a great way. During their first month, they both dropped 20 pounds and felt so rejuvenated, they’ve continued to adopt a “loose Whole30” mentality. This means they’ll complete strict 30-day sessions every once a while, but mostly keep to the rules of the program the rest of the time. It’s also an experience that’s brought them closer together since it’s a shared hobby where they motivate one another and keep each other accountable. “Whole30 has been nothing but a success. At the time I was seriously considering gastric bypass but decided to give this new diet a try. I am now down more than 40 pounds and I truly feel like a different person,” Susan says. “I have noticed how much energy I have and how when I do cheat, I feel sluggish after having a cookie or cheese. It has changed my lifestyle for the better, I have more energy, my cholesterol is 52 points for the better, my skin is cleared, and I have fewer aches and pains.”
Courtesy Alisha Owner
Think about long-term health, not short-term wins
When Alisha Owner was pregnant, her first trimester was miserable, prompting her to bury her feelings and anxiety with processed carbs, bread, and sugar. Even though she knew it wasn’t the smartest idea, she felt like she couldn’t stop herself from overeating and managed to pack on 60 pounds by the time she gave birth. Though she did lose 25 pounds once her baby arrived, the extra 35 proved nearly impossible to rid of. She decided to try Whole30. In those first 30 days, she dropped 19 pounds. But the big benefit was in realizing how much of a difference it made for her overall mood and happiness.
“I think about diet as a means of improving my health and not solely as a way to lose weight just to look better. I have a more patient approach with myself now and try to navigate my long-term eating habits,” she shared. “I know that making a lasting lifestyle change is a journey and will take time and lots of adjustments along the way, but now that I have so much more knowledge about nutrition—and have been actively pursuing more and more understanding of the topic—I know that I will be able to refine my diet so that I am eating with my best possible health and longevity in mind.”
Courtesy bstpierrestudio.com
Make time for meal prep
Bonnie St. Pierre grew up in a time where she was served large plates of food and lots of sugary and salty snacks, resulting in extra pounds. Though she tried fad diet after fad diet that severely limited her calorie intake, she never could shake off the pounds once and for all.
At 208 pounds and size 18 at the age of 54, she read about Whole30. Determined to get into shape, she convinced her husband to join her, bought and read the books, and found herself dropping the weight and to a size 12 in a month. “The most important thing we learned is how to avoid processed foods, and enjoy healthy and satisfying meals,” she shares.
To keep up with the Whole30, meal prep is essential. To make it easier to stay the course, St. Pierre uses RealPlans, an online subscription meal planner. “The food guidelines of Whole30 are the way we should be taught to eat when we are young before we build those horrible, unhealthy habits that plague us as adults,” she shares.
Find out 37 secrets nutritionists won’t tell you for free.
courtesy Danielle Page
Strike a balance
Writer and editor Danielle Page found herself not only extremely overweight but overworked, stressed out, and taking out her anxiety via boxed macaroni and cheese, ice cream, Beefaroni, and other comfort foods. That’s when she noticed a pal post on Facebook about doing another round of Whole30 after completing a successful cycle the year before. Given this friend was also a writer and knew the work grind, she decided it was worth a shot. These days, Page has completed three rounds with another underway and has lost more than 30 pounds in total.
“My go-to post-workout weekend bagel used to be a bacon-egg-and-cheese or one slathered in bacon scallion cream cheese. Now it’s a mini whole-wheat everything bagel with two eggs and tomatoes,” she explains. She makes the occasional exception to eating “Whole30ish” for brunches or happy hours. “It might seem strange that such a ‘restrictive’ diet taught me balance, but I was never able to strike the right mix of eating healthy and making exceptions until I realized how good my body felt when I was doing the right thing for an extended period of time.”
Read on for 42 proven tips for fast weight-loss.
Whole30.com
Hartwig, M. and D. The Whole30: The 30-Day Guide to Total Health and Food Freedom, Houghton-Mifflin, 2015.
Originally Published: February 14, 2018
Lindsay Aurora Tigar is an experienced digital editor and blogger in NYC. Her blog, Confessions of a Love Addict, has a large following around the world, thousands of subscribers and hundreds of thousands of unique visitors a year. A book project based on her blog is under development and represented by theJames Fitzgerald Agency.The New York Post named her New York City's most eligible single in January 2014. She was also selected as one of New York's most desirable singles by the lifestyle dating website, Rachel & Chris, and has partnered with several popular dating blogs to create viral content. She is part of the HerCampus Blogger Network and spoke at their summer conference in New York on "How to Be a Powerhouse Blogger." She's a social media and digital media guru with big followings on Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest.She freelances for several sites, including Shape.com, eHarmony.com,AskMen.com, Engagement 101 and more. She's also the resident dater forWomen'sHealthMag.com, writing weekly about her dating adventures in her 'Dater Diary' column.
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Midland-Wachusett says no to middle school sports
High school sports will run with many changes
Danielle Ray Correspondent
The Midland-Wachusett Interscholastic League, which includes student athletes and school sports in a number of school districts, including Wachusett Regional School District, received the Mass DESE guidelines last month for Interscholastic Sports for the 2020-21 school year. The Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association Board of Directors voted to approve the guidelines, which means high school fall sports are moving forward with a detailed and lengthy list of protocols and regulations in place.
After careful consideration, the league voted unanimously to forgo running middle school sports for the fall 2020 season.
“The decisions moving forward will be based on a season-by-season basis,” the Midland-Wachusett League Athletic Directors wrote in a statement. “Please be patient as our twenty-six school districts individually tackle the DESE parameters and logistics of implementing their return-to-learning models. … Please know we all want to see as many student-athletes return to the competitive playing field this fall. Our students' health and safety are paramount in any and all of these future decisions.”
Deadlines for students to register for sports teams are up to the individual schools. The Midland-Wachusett League/Worcester County Athletic Conference protocols for Division A, which includes WRSD, detail how sports will be played and organized for the school year.
“Through a modified, pod-based, competition structure, the Midland-Wachusett League/Worcester County Athletic Conference … seek to creatively reimagine what is possible within the constraints of the new health and safety protocols that have been established in response to the ongoing pandemic. By limiting competition to geographic bubbles, the Midland-Wachusett League/Worcester County Athletic Conference aims to create a sustainable model for school-sponsored athletics throughout the duration of this pandemic.”
Jay Costa has been chairman of Midland-Wachusett League for 13 years and athletic director at Shrewsbury High School for 15 years.
“Not sure what to expect this season, but it's not about the wins or losses,” Costa said. “It is more about getting kids back to playing sports and being around their peers and coaches. I feel that all our protocols and guidelines that we put in place are safe for all athletes, coaches, and fans. I'm excited to get things back to normal and extremely excited to get sports back into our schools.”
Mask wearing and social distancing by athletes and coaches will be in place when possible. Midland-Wachusett League, Worcester County Athletic Conference and MIAA District 2 and 3 in Central Mass divided all schools into closely located pods for all scheduled contests. The pods will be designed primarily based on geographic proximity. Schools may not play other schools outside of their pod.
Wachusett Regional High School Principal William Beando is the Midland-Wachusett League president.
“Even though it will look different for our student athletes, I'm glad we will be offering them the opportunity to participate in athletics,” he said. “Of course, I have some trepidation, as ultimately we want to keep all of our kids safe and healthy and will need to be vigilant with our precautions. The document we have developed is pretty exhaustive in taking the appropriate and necessary steps to ensure student safety.”
Beando said the yeoman’s work of putting together the extensive document was done by the Midland-Wachusett school athletic directors.
“They put countless hours in over multiple meetings and conversations while ultimately presenting a final draft to the group of Mid-Wach principals for consideration,” Beando said. “At that point, we took input from Mr. Costa, the liaison from the athletic directors to the principal’s group, and discussed the document and how it would impact and play out with our individual schools while ultimately approving it. Although we may often compete on the fields and gymnasiums, I believe the Mid-Wach principals and athletic directors are a pretty tight group that are looking out for the best interest of all of our students.”
Tryouts for fall sports teams at Wachusett Regional High School started Sept. 18. Beando said many students and coaches are looking forward to the opportunity to play sports. In addition, Beando said he and the rest of the district administration, staff and teachers are looking forward to one day welcoming students back into the school buildings.
“I am looking forward to getting our kids back in school, having them in class, teachers teaching to live students, as this is when we are at our best,” he said. “We are fortunate to have such great kids, and we look forward to having them back on campus, wearing the green and white, and hope to have them back in the building very soon as well.”
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Enjoy really high tea at the Spinnaker Tower
Visit the Café in the Clouds for a high tea with a difference.
Woo your true love in Stratford-upon-Avon
Relax by the river, recite a romantic sonnet, indulge yourself in Shakespeare’s England. It is a heavenly break for you and your true love.
Relax in Idyllic St Ives
St Ives is a picturesque fishing village with an artistic flair. Take in the character and charm of this quaint retreat.
Location: St Ives, Cornwall
Rainy Day Activities: Discover Bath’s 13 marvellous museums
Discover the incredible and diverse collection of museums, galleries and exhibitions, all within a short stroll of one another, on a rainy day in Bath.
Experience York's Literature Festival
Rub shoulders with best-selling authors as York gets all bookish.
Location: York, North Yorkshire
Follow in the footsteps of William the Conqueror
The Battle of Hastings in 1066 changed the course of English history forever. Explore the site and learn about history’s most famous date.
Location: Battle, East Sussex
Celebrate Christmas past in Mortimer Country
Enjoy a Christmas celebration with a historical twist at Berrington Hall and Croft Castle in Mortimer Country.
Location: Yarpole, Herefordshire
Take the kids to Fantasy Island
Round up your little devils and set off to Fantasy Land - a fun-packed amusement park, in the seaside resort of Skegness, with attractions for all the family, even the smallest members!
Location: Skegness, Lincolnshire
October events: Get giddy at the Nottingham Goose Fair
The Goose Fair is one of Europe’s largest travelling fairs and is one of Nottingham’s oldest traditions, dating back more than 700 years.
Relax and reconnect on a romantic Cornish coastal break
It’s all about you and your time together at Headland Hotel and Spa, where you can connect with each other, the ocean and the wild Cornish coastline.
Location: Newquay, Cornwall
Discover the Secrets of Castle Combe
Step onto the big screen on a visit to Castle Combe, where you are following in the footsteps of the stars.
Magic and mystery in the Forest of Dean
Follow in the footsteps of Dr Who, Merlin and Atlantis, explore the Clearwell Caves or ride through the forest on the steam railway.
Location: Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire
Take a walk with the wildlife in the Lake District
Keep your eyes peeled and cameras at the ready for some serious Cumbrian wildlife spotting.
Re-live the Age of Steam at Great Central Railway
Make your childhood dreams come true by driving a steam locomotive train, or sit back and travel in comfort.
Location: Loughborough, Leicestershire
Soak up the autumn colours in Greenwich Park
There is no better place to take in the change of the seasons than London’s Greenwich Park, home to the Royal Observatory and the Prime Meridian Line.
Find a romantic spot in Suffolk
Escape to the Heart of Suffolk this winter for a romantic getaway, and enjoy cosy accommodation with roaring fires, luxurious treats and plenty of beautiful countryside to explore.
Fill your belly at the Liverpool Food and Drink Festival
Sample the best of Liverpool’s thriving food and drink scene at this weekend of gastronomic delights.
Take a cruise along the River Ouse
The city of York owes its existence to the rivers. Escape the city rush and admire the scenery from the comfort of a Yorkboat.
May events: Cheer on the cyclists at Lincoln Grand Prix
Take to the streets of Lincoln’s Cathedral Quarter to show your support for some of England’s top cyclists during a two-day festival of cycling.
Join Nottingham's famous ghost walk
The Original Nottingham Ghost Tours will take you on a spine-tingling walk around a city which is steeped in history.
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Emergency measures in international transport will take effect on Saturday
From Saturday, traveling abroad will be restricted to passenger cars only, as cross-border bus, train and ferry passenger transport will be suspended. The new measures will also affect international air passenger transport.
As part of the declared state of emergency measures and at the proposal of the Minister of Transport Karel Havlíček, the government has banned all carriers in international road, rail and water public transport from transporting passengers across the Czech border. Czech citizen will be enabled to return to the country and foreigners will be enabled to leave the Czech Republic.
The restrictions on roads apply to regular and occasional passenger transport using vehicles that can carry more than 8 passengers, and regarding railway and water transport, they apply to all international passenger trains and ferries. The government has also banned cross-border commercial passenger flights from using airports other than Prague Vaclav Havel International Airport (Prague Ruzyně, LKPR).
The government enables citizens to return to the Czech Republic
As part of the crisis measure, the government allows the Czech citizens to return to the Czech Republic in vehicles that can carry more than 8 passengers. Similarly, foreigners will be allowed to leave the territory of the Czech Republic.
Carriers in international road passenger transport based in the Czech Republic as well as carriers based outside the Czech Republic are allowed to move their empty buses without passengers across the Czech border in either direction.
Similarly, carriers in international railroad passenger transport based in the Czech Republic as well as carriers based outside the Czech Republic are allowed to move their empty trains without passengers across the Czech border in either direction.
Carriers in international cross-border river ferry passenger transport based in the Czech Republic as well as carriers based outside the Czech Republic are allowed to move their empty vessels without passengers across the Czech border in either direction.
Government Resolution on the adoption of crisis measures
Following the Government Resolution dated March 12, 2020, passed pursuant to Articles 5 and 6 of the Constitutional Act No. 110/1998 Sb., on the Security of the Czech Republic, the Government declared a state of emergency on the territory of the Czech Republic in response to the public health threat posed by the occurrence of the coronavirus known as SARS-CoV-2 and within the meaning of Section 5(a-d) and Section 6 of Act No. 240/2000 Sb., on Crisis Management and the Amendment of Certain Acts (the Crisis Act), as amended, in order to address the occurred crisis situation, decided to adopt crisis measures, thus within the meaning of Section 6 para 1(b) of the Crisis Act, the Government
I. p r o h i b i t s
All carriers in international road passenger transport using vehicles that can carry more than 8 passengers from carrying passengers across the state border of the Czech Republic, with effect from March 14, 2020, 12:00 AM.
All carriers in international railroad passenger transport from carrying of passengers across the state border of the Czech Republic, with effect from March 14, 2020, 12:00 AM.
All carriers in cross-border river ferry passenger transport from carrying of passengers across the state border of the Czech Republic, with effect from March 14, 2020, 12:00 AM.
All air carriers from using airports other than Prague Vaclav Havel International Airport (Prague Ruzyně, LKPR) for cross-border commercial passenger flights, with effect from March 14, 2020, 12:00 AM.
II. p e r m i t s
Return to the Czech Republic for Czech citizens and foreign nationals with temporary residence over 90 days and permanent residence in the Czech Republic using services of occasional international road passenger transport provided using vehicles that can carry more than 8 passengers.
Departure from the Czech Republic for foreign nationals using services of occasional international road passenger transport provided using vehicles that can carry more than 8 passengers.
Cross-border transfer of empty buses without passengers across the Czech border in either direction for carriers in international road passenger transport based in the Czech Republic as well as carriers based outside the Czech Republic.
Cross-border transfer of empty trains without passengers across the Czech border in either direction for carriers in international railroad passenger transport based in the Czech Republic as well as carriers based outside the Czech Republic.
Cross-border transfer of empty vessels without passengers across the Czech border in either direction for carriers in international cross-border river ferry passenger transport based in the Czech Republic as well as carriers based outside the Czech Republic.
III. s t i p u l a t e s
That exceptions to these emergency measures may be granted by the Minister of Transport.
Source: Ministry of Transport
The Minister of the Interior, based on Government Resolution No. 198 of 12 March 2020, orders
1. The prohibition of entry, as referred in point I. of the Resolution, does not apply for:
international transport: lorry drivers, bus drivers, transport aircraft crews, train drivers, train crews and wagon examiner, ship's captains and crew members, crew of vehicles of road managers; the exception also applies for persons who are working in international transport abroad – we highly recommend that the employer fill in in this form, see bellow;
members of the mission under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, members of the consular posts under the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, and officials of international organizations, including their family members;
members of rescue services, such as fire brigade, rescue service and mountain rescue service, police in performance of their duties;
persons who demonstrably regularly crossing internal borders, in particular cross-border workers working within 100 km from the national border;
citizens of Germany, Austria, Poland and Slovakia who demonstrably regularly crossing internal borders, in particular cross-border workers working within 100 km from the national border;
experts in the fight against epidemics, humanitarian and medical aid;
Members of the European Parliament;
holders of diplomatic and service passports issued by the Czech Republic;
minors up to 18 years of age, if they are EU-nationals and his/her parent is a national of the Czech Republic;
persons transferring blood, bone marrow for the purpose of transplantation, and transplantation center collection teams transporting organs for transplantation;
persons undergoing surgery or serious medical treatment abroad because of their serious medical condition;
persons arriving in the Czech Republic after using airport transit through high epidemic risk country.
2. The prohibition of exit to high risk epidemic countries, as referred in point I. 5. of this resolution, does not apply for:
foreigner with a permanent residence permit or temporary residence permit (stay over 90 days) who expresses an interest in traveling abroad; such persons will not be entitled to re-enter the territory of the Czech Republic during the state of emergency;
citizens of the Czech Republic with a proven residence permit in high epidemic risk country;
diplomatic officers, administrative officers, consular officers and technical officers, including their family members, pursuant to Section 2 of Act No. 150/2017 Sb., on Foreign Service and amending certain acts;
Source: Ministry of Interior
Ministry of Industry nad Trade
Ministry of Interior (borders, security)
Current information on Covid-19 caused by the Chinese coronavirus on the website of the Ministry of Health – information for citizens and healthcare workers, current data.
Traveling During the State of Emergency
The European coronavirus response team.
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Measures adopted by the Czech Government against the coronavirus
Government proposes meal voucher reform, decides on support for organisers of cultural events and at-risk children
Bill on substitute child support heading to Parliament, government also to help municipalities with roads damaged by loggers
The government will propose increasing the budget deficit to 500 billion, has prepared a law mitigating the impacts of lower tax revenue to villages
Government decides that border controls will end at noon on Friday, Czechs do not have to provide a test
Government provides millions in financial assistance to sports organisations. "Traffic-light" travel allowed
Government to propose lowering VAT on accommodations and tickets, has decided to open all road and railway crossings with Germany and Austria
Government approves COVID III guarantee programme for companies and releases 2.5 billion for Care-giver’s Allowance for SEP programme
Students taking secondary school & university entrance and final examinations will not have to wear face masks
Selected social services will start up earlier, government will reward rescuers and social workers for their extraordinary efforts during the epidemic
Government approves further proposals to help businesses, from 11 May cross-border passenger transportation to resume
Government approves the rules for relaxing emergency measures from 11 May, state of emergency remains in force until 17 May
Government Extends Antivirus Job Support Programme to End of May
The government to ask Chamber of Deputies to extend state of emergency until 25 May
Government accelerates scenario for loosening extraordinary measures, larger establishments can open starting Monday
Government Proposes Extending Financial Assistance to Self-Employed through May, Plans to Increase Contributions on Behalf of State-Insured Persons
The government has proposed an increase in the care allowance and confirmed from Monday the partial relaxation of certain measures
Government discusses proposal for gradually easing exceptional measures
The government has decided to extend the state of emergency until 30 April, more than a billion crowns of support for cultural institutions
Exercising alone to be allowed without face masks. Government to allow some shops to re-open from Thursday
Government asks MPs to prolong state of emergency by another 30 days, will present Coronavirus aid-law package to Parliament
Government approves CZK 25 000 for self-employed persons, also launching programme for supporting employment retention
Restriction of free movement, retail sale and services extended to 11 April; smart-quarantine project launched
Benefit applicants will not have to go to the office, government proposes. Also approves a subsidy programme for care allowance for the self-employed
The government has decided to extend restrictions on public movement until 1 April, and has also approved further steps to support employers
Government agreeed to extend the payment of care allowance during an emergency; the self-employed will also get money
The government requires the wearing of protective equipment and reserved time for pensioners to do their food shopping
Due to the spread of the coronavirus epidemic, the government has restricted the free movement of people to the essential minimum
The government is strengthening preventive measures, closing shops and restaurants to the public for ten days
The government has taken further extraordinary measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus
Due to the spread of the coronavirus, visits to hospitals and social care institutions will be prohibited, with some exceptions
To prevent further spreading of coronavirus cultural, sporting and social events involving over 100 people are banned
New obligation for foreigners living in the Czech Republic
Czech citizens returning from Italy must go into quarantine, the state will arrange possible compensation for employers
National Security Council discusses further measures in connection with the spread of coronavirus
National Security Council declares protective measures against spread of coronavirus; Czech Republic to stop flights from South Korea and north Italy
National Security Council does not recommend travelling to Lombardy or Veneto
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Chiropractor accused of killing 4 at North Dakota business
Police vehicles are seen in the backside of RJR Maintenance and Management, a property management company, Monday, April 1, 2019, Mandan, N.D. Authorities say police responding to a medical call at the North Dakota business have found "several" bodies. The Mandan Police Department issued a three-sentence news release confirming that officers had found "several people who were deceased inside" the business in the city of about 22,000 just across the Missouri River west of Bismarck. (AP Photo/Blake Nicholson)
MANDAN, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota man charged Friday with killing four people at a business that manages the mobile home park where he lives tried to avoid detection by picking up shell casings, changing his clothing, and cleaning a knife and gun with bleach, according to court documents.
Court documents allege that after shooting and stabbing the victims, Chad Isaak, 44, took one of the company’s vehicles to drive about one block, then walked to his own truck parked less than a mile (1.6 kilometers) away at a McDonald’s. Authorities traced his steps with help from surveillance video at businesses along the route, the documents say.
The affidavit and complaint filed Friday offer the most details yet on a mystery that has gripped the area since authorities found the bodies of four people Monday morning at RJR Maintenance and Management in Mandan, a town of 22,000 near the state capital of Bismarck.
A judge set bond for Isaak at $1 million after a hearing where Morton County Assistant State’s Attorney Gabrielle Goter argued that the killings “show a level of preplanning and a level of intent to disguise his actions” that suggested that witnesses and others could be at risk if he is freed.
“It appears that RJR was targeted,” said Goter, although court documents do not reveal a motive.
Isaak’s attorney, Robert Quick, had requested $100,000 cash bond, citing “zero criminal history” and family in community.
Isaak, a chiropractor and Navy veteran, faces four counts of murder and other charges. The victims were RJR co-owner Robert Fakler, 52; employee Adam Fuehrer, 42; and married co-workers Lois Cobb, 45, and William Cobb, 50.
The police affidavit portrays a grisly crime scene in which the Cobbs and Fuehrer were shot and stabbed several times. Fakler had multiple lacerations and stab wounds, and first responders tried in vain to resuscitate him. Fuehrer and the Cobbs were all dead when officers arrived. Lois Cobb’s death was attributed to a cut of her neck, though she also had been shot, according to the affidavit.
Surveillance video shows the assailant entering RJR wearing brightly colored clothing, then leaving in dark clothing about 15 minutes later, the documents say. An employee at the McDonald’s told police that she saw a man wearing a camouflage ski mask, dark pants and dark shoes get into a white Ford F-150 that morning.
Police later linked the vehicle to Isaak, who lives in the small town of Washburn, about 35 miles north (56 kilometers) of Mandan. At his home, they found clothing matching what they had seen on video, nine spent shell casings, a knife with a bent tip, and gun parts in a kitchen freezer. The clothing, knife and gun parts all smelled of chlorine bleach, court documents say.
RJR began managing the mobile home park after Rolf Eggers bought the property last fall. Eggers, a Bismarck resident who spends his winters in Florida, said he never met Isaak and that Fakler never mentioned any issues with him.
The previous owner, Mike Nelson, described Isaak as “a model tenant.”
“Paid his rent on time. Took care of his property,” Nelson said.
Navy records show Isaak enlisted in the service in 1992 and left in 1997 as a hospital corpsman 3rd Class, with a Good Conduct Medal and National Defense Service Medal.
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Isaak appeared in court Friday in a black-and-white striped jail uniform, cuffed at the wrists and waist, and showed no emotion. He spoke only to say, “Yes sir,” when Judge James Hill asked him whether he understood the charges.
Dora Sorenson, a client of Isaak’s chiropractic business, told The Associated Press that he called her the day before the killings and asked to change her appointment from noon Monday to 4 p.m. because he said he had a dental appointment.
“He didn’t appear any different. He was just … Chad,” Sorenson said. “I am in total shock.”
Felony murder carries a maximum punishment of life in prison without parole; North Dakota does not have the death penalty. Isaak is also charged with burglary, unlawful entry into or concealment within a vehicle and unauthorized use of a motor vehicle.
Kolpack reported from Fargo, N.D. Associated Press news researcher Rhonda Shafner contributed to this report.
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#101 • Dec 30, 2019
Oy, that's rough :laugh:
(and also hits on a pet peeve of mine: WHY ARE THEY ALWAYS HAVING TO CRASH LAND THE FALCON?)
Because J.J. thinks it looks cool. Except in this movie you don’t actually see it crash, and 10 minutes later they’re flying away in it with no repairs and the landing gear work fine after that.
Egz
'16 Fusion Hybrid, '67 Datsun Roadster
The landing gear shares the same circuitry as a Delorean's horn. All you have to do is hit it hard enough for things to work.
Star Wars plays it so fast and loose with gravity and physics. It’s like Lucas decided day 1 that he wasn’t ever going to deal with it and that’s that.
Look at The Expanse for the polar opposite take.
Sporin said:
That’s not what we’re talking about. The Falcon has crash landed in two J.J. Abrams movies and zero Lucas movies.
It’s not about the movie physics, it’s about J.J. and his silly contrivances that don’t make sense. There are no consequences for anything. The Falcon crash lands and 10 minutes later it’s fine. Chewie dies and 10 minutes later he’s fine. 3p0 gets memory erased but later he’s fine. Ben dies but he’s immediately Force healed. Zorii Bliss’s planet gets blown up and she can’t leave because she gave the officers medallion to Poe, but later she and cutesy poo droid mechanic show up and they’re both fine.
I might overlook it if it only happened once in the movie, but it happens again and again and again, so it robs any of it of any emotion. There are zero stakes, you just know they’ll be fine later. Except Ben, who dies at the end but there’s no weight to it because you’re left wondering if he and Rey will just sit there healing each other all day. Oh he disappeared, whatever.
I understand that. My point is that I think the ignoring of gravity and physics is all part and parcel with the Falcon crashes. None of it matters.
Even in the Mandalorian the Jawas tear his whole ship apart then he and the Ugnaught put the whole thing back together easy as Legos.
Chili Bigot
A muscle car (mine), a bugout vic (hers), and a beater (the boy's)
The Mandalorian does what the movies (aside from Rogue One) fail to do; create meaningful stakes. I forgive that sequence you mentioned because it had to show a montage of reassembly within the constraints of a TV episode that lasted, what? 35 minutes?
"I've studied authoritarianism for a very long time - for 40 years - and they're started by people's attempts to control the ideological and linguistic territory."
-Dr. Jordan Peterson
Fans of the latest movie really want to minimize all of Star Wars to the level of this movie. :laugh:
Not really, I’m just drawing some parallels across the universe to how little they care about the physics of all of this in the Star Wars universe. Garage time, crashes, gravity, physics of any sort really, it’s all mostly downplayed regardless of the director, Lucas included.
I get that you hate RoS. I get that you are annoyed that I don’t. I certainly didn’t love it, I just think the hate is overblown, and that we really shouldn’t be taking little digs at each other over our differences of opinion either way.
The ship doesn’t crash land because of physics, they literally say the landing gear don’t work. Until 10 minutes later when they’re fine and they take off and land again with no further trouble or repair or anything.
In two previous Star Wars movies, the hyperdrive breaks and it must be fixed. With tools! It’s a thing in the story that ties in and is resolved.
In this movie the landing gear break and after that they’re ok and no one mentions it again, and the ship is completely undamaged.
That’s not physics, that’s just stuff that doesn’t make sense or resolve in any way. And so much of the movie is like that! Random crap that doesn’t resolve or is unnecessary or confusing.
You liking the movie isn’t annoying. You dismissing all negative opinions as “hate” is annoying.
As for the Falcon landing gear details you outlined, I guess it didn’t imprint on me like it did you.
Which sort of underscores why we seem to be at odds on this one, you care a lot about those details, and it effects how much you can enjoy the movie, and that’s fine. I clearly didn’t. And that’s fine too.
I guess we just need to agree to disagree.
Put it this way: if I were watching a movie where the heroes’ car lost its wheels and wrecked and a few minutes later they jump in and drive off and the car is just fine... yeah that would definitely bother me.
Finally going to see it tonight with my sons. We know the spoilers and how it ends, but we've got enough invested in the whole dang thing, so seeing the end on the big screen was warranted.
DarkSideGTI
That is one of the things Rogue One got right. They crash land a ship and then have to find a different one in order to leave the planet.
I "ruined" a limited edition .:Race car
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Yep. In fact, I'd say Mando almost goes too far in the other direction because they flat out killed off two of the best characters in S1.
I have spoken.
saw it last night. wife wasn't a fan of it, but I liked it... for what it is - a Star Wars movie. It's not Citizen Kane. It's not Se7en. It's not Wall-E.
Yes, there are flaws. To the argument above about physics, etc.: you've always had to suspend your belief. Even from the very first movie. The gunner pods in the Falcon, for instance.
but here's the problem with the Falcon crashing in this movie: it's completely unnecessary. Because the Falcon can hover. In TFA, they came out of lightspeed on Starkiller.
Another guffaw moment was when Finn and Lando's lovechild jumped aboard the Falcon and were casually walking on it as it was flying.
Rey's heritage was weaksauce.
Fan service was pretty good for only a few moments.
The PG-version Burning Man festival? Really?
A lot of story packed into the movie, which left things unfleshed and under-developed
Palpatine is basically GladOS now?
And who the hell were all those people in hoods (I know, Sith, but really?)? Living on what looks like a rock planet, what do they eat? And why were there thousands? Was this a clone army? Dark Force army?
Who's flying all those ships? If a Starship Destroyer takes 2000+ crew, there were, like 200+ ships. They can get hundreds of thousands of troops there at the drop of a hat? Impressive.
The Final Order fighters are two tortilla chips linked together?
The Final Order fleet is a rip-off of the lost fleet from the Thrawn story.
I told my wife last night that these movies would never live up to expectations because people have 40 years of exposure to the SWU, have read books, loved certain characters, etc., and everyone has their own opinion on what would make the movies better.
People love The Mandalorian because they have no expectations of it. I think it's actually a slow story that isn't offering anything of consequence, other than world-building of the SWU. Yes, the child is cute. But we barely know anything about it, still. Apparently in the SWU everyone forgets things super quick. It's only been 5 years or so since ROTJ, but everyone's forgot about The Force? What about Boba Fett? How about we see Mandalore?
Were you ever a fan of the A-Team tv show? :laugh:
It’s not about expectations, it’s that this movie was a choppy rushed jumbled mess. It was objectively a badly edited movie, without even touching any Star Wars expectations.
There were six character death fake outs in this movie. Six!
Chewie is dead, oh wait no he’s fine was just over behind this hill.
3p0 memory wiped goodbye friends! Oh R2 has a backup he’s fine.
Kylo Ben gets stabbed wait no he’s healed by Rey.
Zorii Bliss gave Poe her Imperial coin that allows her and cutesy poo tiny guy to get off planet, she can’t leave now and the planet gets blown up, wait no she’s in her spaceship later, she’s fine, she just got off planet anyway somehow.
Ben gets yeeted into the pit, wait no he’s fine, he climbed out.
Rey gets killed, wait no Ben heals her back she’s fine.
I think the knife subplot should have been left out entirely. It would have left a big chunk of the running around out of the movie and provided more time for character scenes and interactions to breathe and have emotion.
I’ve been seeing rumors that J.J. had a 3 hour cut of the movie that made a lot more sense, and Disney execs meddled in things and had the movie edited down for a shorter run time. We may never really know.
Saw it last night with my sons. I had really low expectations since I followed all the hub-bub and spoilers. I have to say that I really enjoyed it and thought the ending was a nice way to wrap everything up. Like others have said, I have a few issues with the movie. But I was entertained and I love the feeling of being "in the StarWars Universe".
That and Keri Russell :heart: and Rey in an X-wing fighter pilot helmet :heart:
Yes, we will. Roughly 6 months after the movie is released on disc.
Also, the Imp coin didn't allow Zorii to leave, it made it easier to evade capture by the Imps.
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Bill Pullman Filmography
Born: Dec. 17, 1953
"Ruthless People" (1986)
"Spaceballs" (1987)
"The Accidental Tourist" (1988)
"Rocket Gibraltar" (1988)
"The Serpent and the Rainbow" (1988)
"Cold Feet" (1989)
"Home Fires Burning" (1989)
"Brain Dead" (1990)
"Going Under" (1990)
"Sibling Rivalry" (1990)
"Bright Angel" (1991)
"Liebestraum" (1991)
"Crazy in Love" (1992)
"A League of Their Own" (1992)
"Nervous Ticks" (1992)
"Newsies" (1992)
"Singles" (1992)
"Malice" (1993)
"Mr. Jones" (1993)
"Sleepless in Seattle" (1993)
"Sommersby" (1993)
"The Favor" (1994)
"The Last Seduction" (1994)
"Wyatt Earp" (1994)
"Casper" (1995)
"While You Were Sleeping" (1995)
"Mr. Wrong" (1996)
"Independence Day" (1996)
"Lost Highway" (1997)
"The End of Violence" (1997)
"Zero Effect" (1998)
"A Man Is Mostly Water" (1999)
"History Is Made at Night" (1999)
"The Thin Red Line" (1999)
"Lake Placid" (1999)
"Brokedown Palace" (1999)
"The Guilty" (2000)
"Titian A.E." (2000) (voice)
"The Virginian" (2000)
"Lucky Numbers" (2000)
"Ignition" (2001)
"Igby Goes Down" (2002)
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Meteor sighting reported by hundreds on East Coast
Sighting of meteor reported from Maine to South Carolina
Tina Gilmore Greene SOURCE: Tina Gilmore Greene
Hundreds of residents from Maine to South Carolina reported seeing a meteor streaking across the sky Sunday night, according to reports on the American Meteorological Society website.While there was no immediate confirmation, reports of a green fireball were reported by drivers on Routes 128 and 495 in Massachusetts just after 5 p.m."Just saw a meteor over the Blue Hills in Milton," posted one user to Twitter."(I was) traveling north on 495 in Middleborough (and) saw ball of fire shoot across sky," a wcvb.com visitor wrote in an email. Other reports came from Connecticut, New Hampshire and Rhode Island. There were also reported sightings in Europe.
Hundreds of residents from Maine to South Carolina reported seeing a meteor streaking across the sky Sunday night, according to reports on the American Meteorological Society website.
While there was no immediate confirmation, reports of a green fireball were reported by drivers on Routes 128 and 495 in Massachusetts just after 5 p.m.
"Just saw a meteor over the Blue Hills in Milton," posted one user to Twitter.
"(I was) traveling north on 495 in Middleborough (and) saw ball of fire shoot across sky," a wcvb.com visitor wrote in an email.
Other reports came from Connecticut, New Hampshire and Rhode Island. There were also reported sightings in Europe.
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Essay on Christians
Free Essay On Ocean County College
Type of paper: Essay
Topic: Christians, Church, Religion, Rome, Jesus Christ, English Language, Military, Time
Decline and fall of the Roman Empire. Did it really fall or change into something else?
The great Roman Empire existed as an important power for about 1000 years. During its existence, the Romans are credited for having brought order, prosperity, and stability, thus creating a civilized society. The empire had well maintained roads built originally for military purposes that connected the vast regions of the empire with the capital at Rome. The decline and fall of Roman Empire is a historiographical debate first introduced by the influential English historian Edward Gibbon. The Roman Empire is thought to have started 753 B.C. and began crumbling a millennium later around 476 A.D (Gibbon 23). During the rise of the Roman Empire, the inhabitants of the city of Rome fought with surrounding neighbors to expand the empire’s territories. Hundreds of years of battle saw the Empire succeed in expanding towards the Far East, encompassing the Middle East, todays modern Europe, and North Africa. Notably, as the Roman territory kept expanding, conquest succeeded in fueling further conquest. Consequently, this pattern became unsustainable with time because some of the new conquests simply turned out unprofitable. For instance, Emperor Trajan’s conquest of Dacia failed to pay for the expenses of the whole expedition (Ott 2). These factors made the emperor begin to stagnate by the mid-third century. The paper will analyze in details other factors too that contributed to the decline and fall of the Roman Empire. The other factors that contributed to the decline are poor leadership, establishment of Christianity, political corruption and invasion.
How Christianity contributed to the Decline
When the empire started, Jesus had not been reported to exist and there was no religion such as Christianity. After the execution of Jesus because of treasonous behavior, his followers gained enough influence to win over imperial support of the empire Constantine after the 4th century. The second century was arguably the height of the Empire. The three great emperors who reigned at the time spread peace and prosperity throughout the vast emperor. The old Roman religion and gods were dying out, but new Gods were coming in too. Among the soldiers, Mithraism, a Persian religion, and the Egyptian Gods Osiris and Isis were very popular. Judaism also had a great appeal but converts had to undergo circumcision, a painful process that deterred them from joining the religion. This made Christianity more popular because of several reasons among them was the fact it was viewed as an intellectual religion that combined Greek philosophy and mysticism of the Jews (Ermatinger 71). The empire Constantine became actively involved in Christian policy-making. With time, church leaders became influential, for instance, Emperor Theodosius was forced to comply with demands made by Bishop Ambrose because of the threat sacraments would be withhold. By 379 A.D, Emperor Theodosius made Christianity the official religion of Rome and all other religions were considered pagan and illegal. Historians believe the establishment of deep roots of Christianity in the Emperor made the Roman inhabitants into Pacifists, that is they held the belief disputes should be settled through peaceful arbitration and not through war and violence that are unjustifiable. This made it difficult for the Roman Empire to defend itself against attacks by the Barbarians. Furthermore, the money spent on religious icons such as the pope and on churches could have been used to safeguard the empire but this was not the case.
Another reason that can be cited to have contributed to the decline of the great Roman Empire was excessive military spending. This shifted resources meant for financing vital activities such as providing public housing and maintenance of quality roads towards military conquest expeditions. For instance, the emperors were forced to maintain an army along the empires borders to safeguard against constant attacks by the Barbarians. This drained the government heavily leading to inflation at one point. This inflation of the second half and the third century affected the artisans, the middle class, and even the upper echelons of the Roman society. This was the situation the century before Constantine. For instance, during the time of Claudius ll Gothicus, silver in a 100% silver denarius was only 0.02%. This inflation coupled with over taxation pushed the Roman citizens to the extreme. Over taxation resulted to progressive abandonment of lands that produced food for the empire, and eventually resulted to impoverishment.
The other factor cited as a cause of decline of the empire is lead poisoning. According to Nriagu, “the most obvious incontestable fact that led to the rapid decline of the Roman Aristocracy was lead poisoning which led to Aristothanasia. The great men became imbeciles and underachievers.” It is believed lead found its way into water used by the inhabitants through glazes and pipes and eventually came to contact with beverages and food. The substance was also absorbed through the skin pores since it was an ingredient of the cosmetics used by the Romans (Ermatinger 19).
Finally, after the Roman Empire adopted Christianity and the inhabitants became pacifists, the Germanic tribes called the Visigoths were allowed to move into Rome to pave way for the barbarian huns. While inside Rome, they conquered and destroyed sections of the city. By 453 A.D, the Huns and Attila started attacking the Romans and took their land. Two years later, a Germanic tribe called the Vandals conquered Rome city. Most historians date the final fall of the Western Roman Empire as 476 A.D when the Germanic general called Ocacer overthrew Emperor Augustulus Romulus. The Germanic chieftain henceforth assumed leadership of the empire. Fields were left untilled, the bridges and roads were in despair. Bandits and Pirates invested the trade routes making then unsafe. Consequently, cities did not receive constant supply of goods from upcountry farms and trade and business declined effectively, which symbolized the fall of the once great Roman Empire.
Did it really fall or change into something else?
Before we answer the above question, it is important we first note that during its peak, the Roman Empire had succeeded in expanding eastwards and encompassed today’s Europe, the middle east and North Africa. When Emperor Theodosius died in 395 AD, the Roman Empire was divided into two. Arcadius, the eldest Son received the Eastern segment whose capital was Byzantium. The youngest son named Honorius received the Western segment, which is the one that fell on 476AD. The Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman empire) survived for another millennium and fell on 1453 to Ottoman Turkish onslaughts (Ott 54).
Concisely, we can argue that what fell was the economic power and military prowess of both the Western and Eastern Empire. Features of the Roman culture have survived while some have faded away. For instance, the Roman culture features that have survived include art, literature, engineering, the field of jurisprudence, road network, city planning, architecture, and language.
Ermatinger, James William. The decline and fall of the Roman Empire. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 2004. Print.
Gibbon, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Boston: MobileReference.com, 2010. Print.
Ott, Justin. "The decline and fall of the Western Roman Empire." Iowa State University Graduate Theses and Dissertations (2009): 1 - 71. Print.
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Albania: Officials try to deter protest over police shooting
A Christmas tree is on fire near the Prime’s Minister office during clashes in Tirana, Albania , on Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020. Clashes have broken out in Tirana during a protest by hundreds of Albanians demanding the interior minister’s resignation over the fatal police shooting of a 25-year-old man who had breached a coronavirus-linked curfew. (AP Photo/Hektor Pustina)
TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albanian authorities urged respect for a pandemic ban on public gatherings, ahead of a new planned protest Thursday over the fatal police shooting of a man during curfew hours.
The appeal came after violent demonstrations in central Tirana, Wednesday, where hundreds of people clashed with police and tried to enter government buildings. Authorities said 16 police and two demonstrators were injured.
The protests came in response to the shooting, early Tuesday, of 25-year-old Klodian Rasha. Police said he ignored officers’ calls to stop and ran away. One policeman has been detained over the incident, pending an investigation.
The protests were largely organized over social media.
Police called on protesters Thursday to respect pandemic restrictions, including the ban on gatherings of more than 10 people, mandatory use of masks, social distancing and the overnight curfew.
“Gatherings and rallies are a breach” of the coronavirus rules, a police statement said. It added that authorities would not allow new protests, saying that “organizers and participants would confront the power of law.”
On Wednesday hundreds of Albanians defied pandemic rules to hold the protest. Many threw stones and flares at police while trying to force their way into the Interior Ministry, and the main government building that includes the office of Prime Minister Edi Rama.
They also damaged the New Year decorations at the main Skanderbeg Square.
Police fired tear gas to disperse them.
A police statement said three alleged organizers of the illegal protest have been arrested, and another four people were freed after being charged.
Prime Minister Rama, who is in the United States, said he would speak on Rasha’s death later Thursday.
The U.S. embassy in Tirana warned its citizens to avoid public buildings where the protest may be held.
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Well-preserved Ice Age woolly rhino found in Siberia
This photo taken in Aug. 2020 shows the carcass of a woolly rhino, taken in Yakutia, The well-preserved carcass with most of its internal organs still intact was released by permafrost in August and scientists hope to transport it to the lab for studies next month. (Valery Plotnikov/Mammoth Fauna Study Department at the Academy of Sciences of Yakutia via AP)
MOSCOW (AP) — A well-preserved Ice Age woolly rhino with many of its internal organs still intact has been recovered from permafrost in Russia’s extreme north.
Russian media reported Wednesday that the carcass was revealed by melting permafrost in Yakutia in August. Scientists are waiting for ice roads in the Arctic region to become passable to deliver it to a lab for studies next month.
It’s among the best-preserved specimens of the Ice Age animal found to date. The carcass has most of its soft tissues still intact, including part of the intestines, thick hair and a lump of fat. Its horn was found next to it.
Recent years have seen major discoveries of mammoths, woolly rhinos, Ice Age foal, and cave lion cubs as the permafrost increasingly melts across vast areas of Siberia because of global warming.
Yakutia 24 TV quoted Valery Plotnikov, a paleontologist with the regional branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, as saying the woolly rhino was likely 3- or 4-years-old when it died.
Plotnikov said the young rhino likely drowned.
Scientists dated the carcass as anywhere from 20,000- to 50,000-years-old. More precise dating will be possible once it is delivered to a lab for radiocarbon studies.
The carcass was found on the bank of the Tirekhtyakh river in the Abyisk district, close to the area where another young woolly rhino was recovered in 2014. Researchers dated that specimen, which they called Sasha, at 34,000 years old.
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GA lawmakers negotiate Delta tax break after threat from lieutenant governor
By: Richard Elliot, WSB-TV
Updated: February 27, 2018 - 6:59 PM
ATLANTA — Georgia lawmakers are negotiating what to do with the proposed Delta Air Lines jet fuel tax break after Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle promised to kill that legislation because of the airline’s controversial decision over the National Rifle Association.
State Sen.Jeff Mullis said he and other Senate Republicans are siding with the lieutenant governor over Delta’s decision to end discounts for NRA members.
"The lieutenant governor represents the extreme majority of the Senate and how they believe that bill should be," he said.
Cagle announced Monday that he would kill any Delta jet fuel tax break, even though it was attached to a comprehensive tax overhaul bill that included tax cuts for Georgians.
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"Certainly, Delta is a wonderful corporate partner. We can fight for jobs, but we can also fight for our values and that's exactly what I'm going to do," he said.
That decision prompted a series of tweets from leaders in other states encouraging Delta to move there.
Bill supporters pointed out that the Federal Aviation Administration ruled that the way Georgia used the jet fuel sales tax, to help Clayton County Schools rather than the airport, was against federal regulations.
Sources said all sides in the debate are working hard behind the scenes to smooth over the controversy, and there are hopes that the full Senate will vote on the tax cut bill, with the jet fuel tax break, Thursday.
Mullis said he's ready to move on the tax bill, but isn't sure yet about Delta.
"We'd like to move forward on our tax cut for the people of Georgia and we'd like for Delta to capitulate and agree with our side of this," he said.
Channel 2's Richard Elliot contacted Delta for a comment, but did not get a response.
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American Welding Society warns of future welder shortage
The group gets its data from Economic Modeling Specialists International and says the industry is predicting a shortage of more than 375,000 welders by 2023.
Author: Luis de Leon
Published: 12:08 AM EST December 12, 2019
Updated: 12:09 AM EST December 12, 2019
ROUND ROCK, Texas — The American Welding Society says the United States may see a big time shortage in welders in a few years.
The group, which said it gets some of its data from Economic Modeling Specialists International (EMSI), said the industry is predicting a shortage of over 375,000 skilled welding professionals by 2023.
At Austin Community College in Round Rock, the department chair of the Welding Technology Program said they've actually seen an increase in the amount of students coming through their program.
“There’s been a lot of advertisement lately for – because of the shortage of welders and I think people are starting to realize that this is a nice career," Troy DeFrates said. "They can get a job in welding and work anywhere in the world or country.”
DeFrates said one of the possible causes of the predicted shortage is because there are a lot of older welders out there.
“We have welders that are retiring, reaching retirement age and so there tends to be – seems to be a shortage of welders because of that," DeFrates said. "I think we’re trying hard to meet the demand, but I think right now the demand is still outweighing the number that we can put out.”
He also said the demand in manufacturing and construction across America – including Austin – is playing a role.
"I also think that manufacturing in America is increasing. Construction is increasing in America and Austin," DeFrates said.
And welding isn't the only trade seeing a shortage: 48,000 more electricians, 49,000 HVAC technicians and 75,000 more plumbers will be needed over the next five years.
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DeFrates said that he's still confident in the welding industry's future and getting the word out about the demand is helping.
“The more people know there’s welding is even a career option, then you know the more we’ll build up our workforce," DeFrates said. “Right now, we’re starting to work with high schools or even starting to work with junior high students so they know this is even an option for them.”
He also said he believes welding is a career that's a good alternative for those who are not sure about attending a four-year university. KVUE found that, according to LifeHacker, a four-year degree costs $127,000 on average, while the cost of a two-year trade school certification is around $33,000 on average.
To learn more about ACC's welding department, visit the department website.
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Protests challenge state oil & gas leases in Red Desert
Wyoming's Red Desert is covered by sensitive lands including wildlife habitat and potential wilderness areas. Wyoming should not lease some of the property for oil and gas development as proposed, groups wrote Gov. Matt Mead. (Ecoflight)
July 31, 2018 by Angus M. Thuermer Jr. 3 Comments
Several groups are asking state officials to reject oil and gas lease bids on 36 state parcels in the northern Red Desert and the Gold Triangle area because of potential impacts to historic trails and sensitive wildlife habitat.
The Office of State Lands already received lease bids for the parcels that the groups say should be withdrawn. In addition to cultural and environmental values, the groups say leasing some of the parcels would complicate proposed state-federal swaps designed to benefit the state by divesting of areas that are difficult to access and profit from due to restrictions on surrounding federal property.
In some instances, for example, road-building may be prohibited or restricted, earning the lands — state school trust property — the moniker of “stranded” state parcels.
Those stranded state parcels — located in federal wilderness areas, wilderness study areas and “areas of critical environmental concern,” are under study by a legislative committee considering how and whether to exchange them for more accessible federal lands. Yet as the legislative gears grind, a separate state board is scheduled to consider Aug. 9 whether to accept the contested bids.
“A lot of the parcels up for sale are ID’ed on [the legislative committee’s] spreadsheet as appropriate for an exchange,” said Steff Kessler, program director for the Wyoming Outdoor Council, one of the groups contesting the lease sale. “An oil and gas lease would complicate the [exchange] issue,” she said. “It adds a monkey wrench to the process.”
The State Board of Land Commissioners that’s scheduled to approve the bids at its Aug. 9 meeting is made up of Wyoming’s top five elected officials. Wyoming obtained the land from the federal government at statehood.
The board is charged by the state Constitution “to realize the largest possible proceeds” from the school-trust lands.
“That’s their core responsibility,” said Jason Crowder, assistant director at the Office of State Lands and Investments. The bulk of revenues are earmarked for K-12 education. The proposed leases are conditioned, however, with stipulations that seek to protect natural and historic values, Crowder said.
“There are development rules that have taken into account these wildlife and cultural resources,” Crowder said. Those include restrictions on when drilling might occur, for example, or setbacks from waterways.
“So, they have that Constitutional mandate, but they’ve taken that a step further,” he said of the State Board of Land Commissioners that oversees the property. “We can require a lessee to abide by certain stipulations to protect those [other] resources.”
Funding schools
Wyoming is struggling to fund its educational system, long reliant on mineral revenues, after a downturn in that sector in recent years. The bids on 21 parcels in question would garner $50,995 from energy interests. The leases cover 8,885 acres according to calculations made by WyoFile, based on bids posted on the state land office website. Successful lessees also will pay $1 an acre in annual rental fees for the five-year lease terms.
In addition to the 21 leases, located in the Red Desert, the state received bids on another 15 leases in sensitive wildlife habitat where no development has occurred, the groups say. The state held the online auction between July 11-18. The other 15 leases fall in an undeveloped area known as the Golden Triangle located at the southwestern edge of the Wind River Range and valued for its wildlife habitat. Among other resources, the triangle has sage grouse leks or breeding grounds that host more than 100 strutting males at a time.
The Golden Triangle southwest of the Wind River Range is an undeveloped part of Wyoming that’s rich in wildlife habitat, including this sage grouse lek that Wyoming Game and Fish biologist Tom Christiansen surveys for signs of birds. Several groups say Wyoming’s plan to accept bids on oil and gas leases there upsets a potential exchange that would preserve state financial and wildlife interests (Angus M. Thuermer Jr/WyoFile)
The groups are asking the land commissioners to withdraw the 36 leases when it meets next week. Tom Rea, president of the Wyoming Chapter of the Oregon-California Trails Association; Jason Baldes, a member of the Eastern Shoshone Tribe who operates the Tribal Partnership Program with the National Wildlife Federation; and Mike Burd, a Green River sportsman and trona miner joined the Outdoor Council in protesting the leases.
Leasing would create “future management conflicts,” WOC executive director Lisa McGee wrote Gov. Matt Mead (R), chairman of the land board. “This is because some of these areas are so fragile, pristine or so easily disrupted, that a single well could significantly erode the integrity of the landscape or resource.”
There’s a better alternative, she wrote, one “that will ultimately be more lucrative than oil and gas leasing.” That alternative would be to follow the lead of the joint Agriculture, State and Public Lands and Water Resources committee and seek to exchange the state property for more accessible, less sensitive federal lands.
“At its last meeting, the committee voted to draft a resolution for the upcoming legislative session that would task our [federal] delegation to pursue, as many other western states have done, an exchange via federal legislation,” McGee’s letter said. “We believe the state will have far greater economic development opportunities with a coordinated land exchange involving these Northern Red Desert parcels (and others). Leasing these parcels now forecloses this future option.”
Lawmakers on the joint agriculture committee in June received a statewide list of so-called stranded lands amounting to 101,246 acres. Some are constrained by surrounding federal property designated as wilderness, where roadbuilding is prohibited. Other tracts are in federal wilderness study areas that must be managed to preserve wilderness characteristics. Others, still, are in areas where federal land managers have earmarked the landscape as an area of critical environmental concern.
In a report to the joint agriculture committee, the state lands office said Wyoming earned $194,122 from stranded properties in FY 2017.
Will there be oil rigs on the Oregon Trail?
What alarms McGee, Rea, Baldes, Burd and others are that two of the state parcels that received bids cover national historic trails. They “lie directly on top of or within the corridors of the Oregon/California/Mormon/Pony Express trails,” WOC wrote in an email to its members. Furthermore, four parcels are in or adjacent to federal Bureau of Land Management wilderness study areas. No drilling is allowed on the BLM lands and the state parcels are “far from roads and infrastructure,” the release said.
Four parcels are in the boundaries of BLM-designated areas where oil and gas leasing is prohibited to protect cultural and natural resources, the alert said. Three parcels are in the BLM’s designated South Pass historic landscape where views from the emigrant trails are “nationally significant,” the alert said.
Finally, 15 parcels contain crucial big game winter range or greater sage grouse core habitat.
This map depicts the lease sales around South Pass that have alarmed conservationists. Several groups and individuals hope the state will withdraw the leases and instead work to exchange sensitive parcels with federal land elsewhere that might be more appropriate for development. (Wyoming Outdoor Council)
The parcels were auctioned because they were nominated for sale, Crowder, the assistant director at the state lands office said. “It was 100 percent nominated by industry,” he said of the parcels in the recent statewide auction.
The state lands office offered 187 parcels covering 65,335 acres in 15 counties, according to a recent auction announcement posted on its website — far more than the 36 parcels the groups are contesting. At the July 11-18 sale, bidders made successful offerings on 128 parcels covering 40,915 acres.
The state received a total of $6,943,324 in bids in the statewide sale, according to the auction announcement. More than $6.2 million would be deposited in the state’s common school fund for K-12 education if the Board of Land Commissioners approves all the bids on Aug. 9.
In addition to the bid money, Wyoming would earn a royalty of 16 and 2/3 percent of production or market value of extracted minerals.
State seeks to protect lands with restrictions
Wyoming understands that its school trust property holds a variety of values, Crowder said. When parcels are nominated for sale, a list of them is circulated to the Wyoming Game and Fish Department and the State Historic Preservation Office for input.
Feedback is then incorporated in stipulations that limit what a lessee can do on the property, Crowder said. Stipulations that are applied to some of the protested leases include provisions to protect archeology, prevent the spread of aquatic invasive species, protect greater sage grouse core areas and big game winter range and to guard streams and lakes.
There are no provisions to protect views, like those along the historic trails, Crowder said. But, energy companies have been cooperative in such cases where conflicts arise, he said.
“Every company that we have worked with … they’ve really been good about moving around the parcel,” and developing in appropriate locations, he said. “They can hide pump jacks.”
But the stipulations or protections aren’t enough to satisfy critics. “We don’t think the stipulations were tailored to and reflect the circumstances of surrounding lands,” WOC’s Kessler said.
“The fact that the state could offer a lease parcel under the Boars Tusk — the most iconic symbol of the Red Desert, and not know what they are doing is concerning,” she said. The Boars Tusk lease was later withdrawn, Kessler said. The state delayed that lease sale to ensure proper stipulations were in place, Crowder wrote in an email.
But other worrisome leases remain, including ones “smack dab on the Oregon Trail, in wilderness study areas where drilling is not allowed and access is pretty much impossible,” Kessler said. “It just doesn’t make sense.”
If it’s leased is it lost?
Conservationists have long promoted a warning about oil and gas leasing, telling the public that “once it’s leased, it’s lost.” This is because an energy company obtains various rights once it has paid its lease bid and rental fee. Conservation groups focus scrutiny of federal mineral leases on plans that propose what areas are appropriate for leasing, and then on the actual lease proposals themselves, weighing in early.
But WOC and others appeared blindsided by the state process. There was no widespread state call for public comment on whether the offered parcels were appropriate to develop, Kessler said.
“We found out this was up on the docket some time in June,” Kessler said. Added Crowder, “There’s really not a point [set aside] for public input in that process,” before the leases go in front of the state land board.
Bidding is “the first opportunity,” for a company to look into the feasibility of leasing, he said. “If they don’t have the lease, they can’t start that process of [conducting due] diligence.
“Once they get to that parcel, they have right to access that mineral,” Crowder said. A state lease does not give a company access rights through neighboring property. “They still have to comply with all the BLM regs to access that parcel.”
Contrary to the conservation maxim, “I would not say all is lost at that [leasing] point,” Crowder said. And while the Constitution protects education’s endowment, it’s silent on cultural and environmental resources. “The Constitution doesn’t take those into account,” he said.
Even as Crowder’s agency sells leases, it continues to work with the joint agriculture committee, he said. “Now we’re at the point of prioritizing those [stranded parcels] so we can talk to the Legislature,” he said.
The Office of State Lands and Investments received bids on 128 parcels covering 40,915 acres across Wyoming during its July 11-18 oil and gas lease sale. If all are approved, Wyoming would receive $6.9 million, most of it earmarked for K-12 education. (Wyoming Office of State Lands and Investments)
Meantime, the State Board of Land Commissioners will determine the fate of the controversial parcels. While there’s no formal deadline for comment, leasing critics nevertheless urge residents to lobby the land board. A report and recommendation to the board is due five days before the Aug. 9 meeting, Crowder said.
Kessler and her supporters hope the leases would be withdrawn or deferred without harm to the state’s education system. “We understand and support the mandate for these state land parcels,” she said. “Because of that we’ve been working with the state ag committee on a proactive solution.
“Instead of kind of setting yourself up for conflict or frustration, it makes much more sense to exchange, consolidate your state lands in a place where you can access them,” she said. “What states have been turning to is putting this in Congressional legislation where the language essentially tells the BLM ‘You will do this land exchange with the state.’”
Such laws identify parcels and acreages and give the federal agency a timeline to act, she said. “It kicks up to a higher priority in the BLM where they allocate the resources.”
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There should be little difficulty in determining what’s a fair trade, Kessler said — a critical component in exchanges where the value of underground resources like oil and gas may be obscure.
“Most of these issues have been sorted out,” including in successful exchanges in Utah, she said. “It just takes research to ID the best way to go about the valuation and exchange. It’s been done enough. This is not rocket science.”
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Sharon O'Toole says
Without addressing the content of the article, I note that the photo is of “Dobe Town, which is a wonderful worthy area. However, it is a fallacy that it is part of the Red Desert, which ends with the Great Basin many miles north at the Haystacks. Wamsutter is known as the “Gateway to the Red Desert,” not the “Heart”. This is like saying that the Greater Yellowstone encompasses the whole state.
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Karen Jerger says
Helpful, timely coverage of a topic that is critical to WY wild lands. Thanks.
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Marly Jung says
In Nov. 2014 when the Dep. of Interior distributes some of the receipt money gathered on federal lands Wyomings Gov. Mead was handed a check for One Billion dollars. The other states gov. got their usual million or so and some protested WY getting so much. But, Wyoming did, so why was not some of that money used for the educational system if needed so badly. Does anyone know what the Gov. did with the excess?
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Are Naomi Osaka And Ellen DeGeneres Feuding? All The Deets On How She Feels Ellen 'Did Her Wrong'
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Sep 18, 2019, 01:15 EDT
Stars, as the tabloids are quick to remind us as often as they can, are just like us. They go to the grocery store, they pick up their's dog's waste, and yes, they have crushes on movie stars from their favorite flicks, too! Who is Naomi Osaka? Well, in addition to being a sensational professional tennis player from Japan, she's also got a huge celebrity crush of her own. She recently went on Ellen where she confronted the TV host about totally mortifying her in front of her very own celebrity crush. Are Naomi Osaka and Ellen DeGeneres feuding? Here's what you gotta know.
1. Meet Naomi Osaka
Professional tennis player, Naomi Osaka, 21, recently appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show and she was not remotely friendly with the lovable dancing host! That's right! Naomi's got beef, and she let the audience know it. Apparently, the last time the tennis star was on the show, Ellen asked her about which celebrity in Hollywood she had the biggest crush on. Naomi, a player known for her honesty, told Ellen that she was massively crushing on Hollywood hottie, Michael B. Jordan. When she made another appearance on the show, she called out Ellen for texting the star!
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2. Ellen Did Her Dirty
One of the things that Ellen (and her other fans) like the most about Naomi is the fact she keeps it real when she is interviewed after her tennis matches. While other athletes are content to spit out empty-sounding truisms and other pointless sound bites, Naomi speaks up. However, she pointed out to Ellen, being so open and honest can often get her into trouble or into awkward situations. “Why does that get you in trouble?” asked Ellen. “Well, you know, last time I was here you just did me dirty,” said Naomi. “All I did was try to fulfill a fantasy of yours. You said that Michael B. Jordan was your crush, so I reached out to him, and then he texted and I think I put out there what he said. I mean he loves you, and it was just unfortunate because he didn’t get back to me in time, while you were still here, but he loves you, he really was a huge fan," explained Ellen.
Naomi Osaka announces end to her partnership with Jermaine Jenkins. https://t.co/yCKtlFZBUx
— WTA Insider (@WTA_insider) September 12, 2019
3. Ellen's Sense of Humor
Ellen, of course, understood to take Naomi's gentle chiding of the TV host in stride. In fact, she wasn't afraid to give Naomi a little bit of a hard time for what she was able to work out with Michael B. Jordan as a surprise for the tennis star. “Michael B. Jordan on Twitter invited you to go see Creed 2, and you didn’t even respond to him or show up. How is that possible, I try to hook things up, I get it all set up for you, then you don’t even respond or go to the premiere. Why wouldn’t you do that? You’re never gonna get a man, when someone puts it out there for you, take it! Let me tell you how to get a man," joked the star.
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4. Not Letting It Go
Naomi gave as good as she got when it came to pulling practical jokes, one of Ellen's favorite pastimes. When the host asked Naomi who she had a crush on now, asking if it was anyone new she coyly revealed that she did have a new Hollywood crush...Ellen herself! The joke landed and Ellen was clearly flattered. Unable to get Jordan to appear on Naomi's second visit to the show, Ellen still had a little bit of a surprise up her sleeve. "I didn’t want to embarrass you, he’s not here. But what we did, this is outside…” and with these words, Ellen revealed a photoshopped image of the two together. “You just really did that,” responded Naomi dryly.
In the jungle pic.twitter.com/AAgnIGW6Pw
— NaomiOsaka大坂なおみ (@Naomi_Osaka_) September 10, 2019
5. Real About Defeat
Prior to her Ellen appearance, Naomi was competing in the 2019 U.S. Open, hopeful that she would defend her title in women's singles, but sadly in spite of her hopes, she lost in the 4th round. After the match, Naomi shared a post to Instagram that was just as touching as it was honest. “So I was gonna post an inspirational quote about how today went but that would be a lie lol. Honestly most of the time I don’t really know what I’m doing, but if there’s one thing I know it’s that I’m stubborn," she wrote. Anyone who has fallen down and taken a breath before getting back up knows it isn't always easy. That's what makes this so relatable.
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6. Words To Live By
“Fall on my face 18million times and I’m gonna get up 18million times anyways just wanted to say I’m probably gonna fall down a couple of dozen times in the future but hey, the kid is resilient love you NY, (but you already knew that haha), see you next year!” Those were Naomi's final thoughts on the subject, and you have to admire her dedication and passion, as much as you have to admire her total honesty. Being a celebrity isn't easy, and when you're an athlete too it can be even more challenging. Thankfully, it seems like Naomi is handling herself just fine.
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Australian prime minister sends WeChat message to Chinese diaspora in spat
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has used Chinese social media platform WeChat to criticise a "false image" of an Australian soldier posted on Twitter by the Chinese government.
Updated: Wed, Dec 02, 2020
China has rebuffed Morrison`s calls for an apology after its foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian posted the digitally manipulated image of an Australian soldier holding a bloodied knife to the throat of an Afghan child on Monday.
China`s embassy said the "rage and roar" from Australian politicians and media over the image was an overreaction.
In a WeChat message on Tuesday night, Morrison wrote that the diplomatic dispute over the image of the soldier "does not diminish respect and appreciation for the Chinese community in Australia".
He defended Australia`s handling of a war crimes investigation into the actions of special forces in Afghanistan, and said Australia is able to deal with "thorny issues" like this in a transparent manner.
Australia has previously said 19 soldiers will be referred for potential criminal prosecution for the killings of unarmed Afghan prisoners and civilians.
WeChat told an Australian government inquiry in October it had 690,000 active daily users in Australia. Morrison`s message had been read by 50,000 WeChat users by Wednesday morning.
Zhao`s tweet, pinned to the top of his Twitter account, had been "liked" by 54,000 followers, after Twitter labelled it as sensitive content but declined the Australian government`s request to remove the image.
Twitter is blocked in China, but has been increasingly used by Chinese diplomats who have adopted combative "Wolf Warrior diplomacy" tactics this year.
China on Friday imposed dumping tariffs of up to 200% on Australian wine imports, effectively shutting off the largest export market for the Australian wine industry, amid a worsening diplomatic dispute that has seen a serious of trade reprisals imposed by China.
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4 ex-officers due back in court in George Floyd's death
The four former Minneapolis police officers charged in the death of George Floyd are due in court Monday.
It's the second pretrial hearing for the men. Derek Chauvin is charged with second-degree murder and other counts, while Thomas Lane, J. Kueng and Tou Thao are charged with aiding and abetting Chauvin.
Floyd died May 25 after Chauvin, a white police officer, pressed his knee against the handcuffed Black man's neck for nearly eight minutes.
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Through a local lens
Snapping the classic ‘holding up the Leaning Tower of Pisa’ pic, or marvelling at the neon lights of Vegas might be on many people’s bucket list. But if you’re after a more authentic travel experience, make Peregrine your first port of call. You’ll travel away from the crowds and unearth the day-to-day uniqueness of your destination.
From Italy, Portugal, Germany and Spain to the far-flung corners of Africa, Asia, South and Central America and even the Arctic or Antarctic, Peregrine offers over 300 intimate small group itineraries, to more than 80 destinations. Each adventure allows you to truly immerse yourself in the destination, culture, food and wine you’re exploring.
Each small group tour is limited to 12 travellers (typically like-minded souls), and is led by an English-speaking local. Born and raised in your chosen destination, they make you feel part of the community. As you inhale uniquely personal moments, you’ll enjoy an insider’s understanding of the region.
Where larger tour groups struggle to get seats in backstreet bodegas and tiny bars, your expert leader – through their trusted local network, can get you a table in the best locations.
The up-close-and-personal approach also affords entry to lesser-known haunts, like a winery that serves “Bull’s Blood” wine in Egar, “The Valley of Beautiful Women”, at the foot of the Tatra Mountains in Slovakia, or the best Jamon in the side-streets of Barcelona.
Off the Eaten Track
Peregrine also understands that getting to know a community is largely taking in its food and drinking ethos. Food Brand Manager, Neil Coletta has the enviable job of designing and managing the company’s food collection range. His golden rule? Strictly no tourist restaurants allowed. Get set for some unforgettable edible experiences.
“It’s simple to visit any website to find out where other travellers have eaten and enjoyed. However, most struggle to find a genuinely local food experience – street food, a home-cooked meal or rustic local gems serving the best fare in town. We facilitate food experiences that travellers would be hard pressed to arrange – or even find, on their own.
“Small group tours are an exceptional path to understanding regional customs, as well as a wonderful way of interacting with locals – from ordering a meal to buying produce in a market. We encourage our travellers to come with an open mind and open mouth.”
As for a decent drop, Peregrine has your back there, too. From what you should drink in Portugal, to the best wine bars in Buenos Aires, rest assured, you’ll taste the finest local wines, ports or spirits on offer. Key wine destinations include Argentina, Spain, Portugal, Italy and Central Europe.
Stay in Local Style
Forget sterile, sanitised accommodation. On most trips, you’ll stay in boutique locally-run hotels with plenty of character and history. Peregrine’s destination experts handpick each hotel, keeping creature comforts front of mind, including a private bathroom, air-conditioning, and a central, convenient location.
Seamless Sojourn
Peregrine's itineraries have been fine-tuned over 40 years, so everything is considered (think: day-to-day-tipping and private arrival transfers in all destinations). And because you’ll journey at a slower pace than most tour groups, you’ll get to truly explore and soak up the ambience, unwinding at your leisure.
Types of Tours
Some travel for relaxation, others to tick off a bucket list item or many to conquer a challenge they’ve set themselves. Peregrine caters to every traveller.
Choose from food experiences, cruises on small ships that have better access to land, walking tours, wildlife safaris or even polar expeditions to the remotest parts of the planet.
You can also opt for a Limited Edition Tour where you can combine a special interest with your love of travel. Think watching the annual migration of Wildebeests in the Serengeti National Park or gaining a rare glimpse into ancient Inca life in Peru.
Travelling with Conscience
Twenty years ago, Peregrine became the first travel company of its kind to exclusively employ local leaders, finding and training passionate people who could expose the unique heart of their region.
Then in 2002, The Intrepid Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation, was launched to support the regions Peregrine visits. Since its inception, it has helped raise over $6 million for more than 100 community organisations worldwide.
What’s more, small group sizes mean a smaller ecological footprint, preserving local experiences for future generations. Peregrine encourages guests to say no to plastic and offsets carbon emissions from its tours on the passenger’s behalf. It also doubles any donation tour travellers make, dollar for dollar, up to $400,000 each year.
So when you think small group travel through a local lens, think Peregrine.
Visit peregrineadventures.com
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Officials identify Batavia couple injured in boat explosion
by: WETM Staff
HAMMONDSPORT, N.Y. (WETM) – William and Carol Kistner of Batavia were injured after a boat explosion at the 37th annual Wine Country Classic Boat Show in Hammondsport, according to Steuben County Sheriff Jim Allard.
William Kistner was treated at Ira Davenport Memorial Hospital for lacerations on his head, and his wife was airlifted to the burn unit at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester for severe burns on her legs.
There is no update at this time on their condition.
The Chief of the Hammondsport Fire Department said excessive fumes were most likely the culprit.
A boat blower is used to ventilate explosive fumes. The Chief said the 1955 Century Coronado either did not have the blower on or didn’t have one at all.
Bystanders said the blast shot up more than a dozen feet and pushed debris close to the shore.
“I’d say stuff flew 30 to 40 feet in the air, I mean, just everything blew,” Donny Schneider of Williamsport Pa., who witnessed the blast, said.
Schneider recalled the panic at the scene moments after the explosion.
“I’m sure people wanted to go into help, but they needed to stay back so they could get it out,” Schneider said. “It was pretty somber after it went, everybody’s worried.”
The boat show wrapped up early as the fire departments, State Police and the Steuben County Sheriff’s Office picked up the pieces of a horrific day on the lake.
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Smoke shrouds Sydney’s skyline as wildfires burn nearby
Smoke haze covers Sydney, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019, as wildfires burn near the city. The annual Australian fire season, which peaks during the Southern Hemisphere summer, has started early after an unusually warm and dry winter. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)
SYDNEY (AP) — Thick smoke from wildfires has shrouded Sydney and its surrounding areas with health experts warning residents with medical conditions to remain indoors.
The Sydney skyline was barely visible with air quality in some parts of the city reaching over hazardous levels early Tuesday.
Shane Fitzsimmons, the state’s rural fire commissioner, says firefighters would be challenged by high temperatures and wind conditions.
Most of the coastal areas of the New South Wales are under very high fire danger with 48 fires burning across the state.
Fires have destroyed 577 homes in New South Wales during the wildfire season, which peaks during the Southern Hemisphere summer but has started early after an unusually warm and dry winter.
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Teen wanted by Florida authorities found, taken in for questioning in grandmother's death
Updated: 11:35 PM EST Nov 24, 2017
Twitter: Jax Sheriff's Office https://twitter.com/JSOPIO?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.11alive.com%2Farticle%2Fnews%2Fnation-now%2Fpolice-grandmother-buried-in-florida-yard-missing-teen-armed-and-dangerous%2F85-494492371 SOURCE: Twitter: Jax Sheriff's Office https://twitter.com/JSOPIO?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.11alive.com%2Farticle%2Fnews%2Fnation-now%2Fpolice-grandmother-buried-in-florida-yard-missing-teen-armed-and-dangerous%2F85-494492371
The body of a woman was discovered Thursday and Florida authorities are now questioning a member of the woman’s family in relation to her death.The Jax Sheriff’s Office near Neptune Beach has taken Logan Mott,15, as a person of interest in the death of 53-year-old Kristina French. French was reportedly discovered in the backyard of the home the pair where they were said to be living. Recently they both were reported missing. Eric Mott, Logan’s father, came home from a vacation to find the house empty. He told authorities that it appeared to have been broken into at the time, reported 11alive in Atlanta, Ga.Mott then fled the state and was believed to be armed and dangerous.The Jax Sheriff's Office said it detained Mott by U.S. Customs and Border Thursday evening as he tried to enter Canada from the Buffalo, NY area.
The body of a woman was discovered Thursday and Florida authorities are now questioning a member of the woman’s family in relation to her death.
The Jax Sheriff’s Office near Neptune Beach has taken Logan Mott,15, as a person of interest in the death of 53-year-old Kristina French.
French was reportedly discovered in the backyard of the home the pair where they were said to be living. Recently they both were reported missing.
Eric Mott, Logan’s father, came home from a vacation to find the house empty. He told authorities that it appeared to have been broken into at the time, reported 11alive in Atlanta, Ga.
Mott then fled the state and was believed to be armed and dangerous.
The Jax Sheriff's Office said it detained Mott by U.S. Customs and Border Thursday evening as he tried to enter Canada from the Buffalo, NY area.
Logan Mott has been detained by U.S. Customs and a Border as he tried to enter Canada from the Buffalo, NY area. A big thank you to everyone for sharing and helping us get #LoganMott detained quickly. pic.twitter.com/OHNXqGU9ap
— Jax Sheriff's Office (@JSOPIO) November 25, 2017
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WORKHOUSE Twenty / One x David LaChapelle
Legendary photographer David Lachapelle & WORKHOUSE CEO, Adam Nelson
In 1999, one of America’s greatest photographic visionaries David LaChapelle, rolled the dice to become the very first client of a fledgling public relations agency called Workhouse
Last year — almost to the day some twenty years later — I was proud to support LaChapelle’s latest “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?’ at Staley-Wise Gallery, the vestige of our very first exhibition together.
A riveting reunion of sorts transpired as a number of LaChapelle’s original team banded together to both serenade and share stories of a time indelibly illuminated by his artistic sound and fury.
From your candy color kaleidoscopes, to the creative culture you effortlessly reimagine, I forever salute you, David LaChapelle
As Workhouse celebrates its 21st anniversary, with offices in New York and New Jersey, we are forever grateful to all of our clients, staff and associates who believed small could make stardust.
WORKHOUSE TWENTY / ONE
In 1999, I started Workhouse in a decrepit, rented kitchen on a wayward side street in Soho.
Since inception, the wealth of our work has traversed every imaginable sphere and space from arts and culture, retail and hospitality, publishing and automotive, to design and architecture within a city that has withstood the aids crisis, superstorms, stock market crashes, blackouts, and the horrors of 9/11.
New York has survived more than any city in the country and it’s still standing.
But the pain I feel for those who have been adversely affected is staggering. Entrepreneurs who enlightened, engaged, and innovated. Brands who made bold and beautiful broad strokes. Artists that electrified and enthralled now lost in a new world order where work for so many has been eliminated or culturally cratered. I care deeply about those who face unequivocal adversity. Who no longer have the means to make momentary magic.
And yet, as solemn as it seems, I look over our lost landscape and realize we still have optimistic opportunities among us. To seek and ascend. As we contend with global Covid concerns that threaten any semblance of stability and safeguard, I am reminded these are the moments that matter.
As Workhouse celebrates its 21st anniversary, with offices in New York and New Jersey, we are forever grateful to our clients, staff, and associates who believed small could make stardust. Importantly, our work could not have been possible without the city that sheltered us. In celebration, we ask you to join the #SaveNYC campaign to proclaim cultural city heritage matters — now more than ever
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Prince William Supposedly Once Broke Up With Kate Middleton Over an Hour-Long Phone Call
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Although Prince William and Duchess Kate Middleton are happily married now, William once reportedly broke up with his now-wife over the phone during the early stages of their relationship.
Robert Lacey's new tell-all book, Battle of the Brothers, claims that in 2007, William broke up with Kate during an hour-long phone call while she was in a meeting.
Lacey reported that on April 11, 2007, Kate had to excuse herself from a meeting with the fashion store, Jigsaw. She spoke in a room within the earshot of her fellow buyers who allegedly overheard parts of the conversation.
"She shut the door for more than an hour," he wrote, in an excerpt of his book published by The Daily Mail. "When she came out, she was single."
"William had found dating difficult, for a start, when a surprising number of young women from his circle turned him down flat," he continued. "They could suss out the truth about where his heart lay, even if he himself could not.”
“Suddenly girls from Brazil no longer seemed so glamorous, and the prince missed his family — which by now meant the Middleton family," he explained in the book. "One pillar of William‘s year at Sandhurst had been his regular Friday night escapes to Bucklebury, where he could collapse and be mothered by Carole — and also fathered by the quiet and affectionate Michael who, whisper it, could provide a better ear for confidences, on some issues, than Prince Charles."
Shortly after, William and Kate began talking on the phone once again. A little over ten weeks after their supposed breakup, they were photographed kissing at a party in Bovington, Dorset.
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Watch Deutschland Online
Watch Deutschland 83 Full Series Online. A gripping coming-of-age story set against the real culture wars and political events of Germany in the 1980s. The drama follows Martin Rauch as the 24 year-old East Germany native is pulled from the world as he knows it and sent to the West as an undercover spy for the Stasi foreign service. Hiding in plain sight in the West German army, he must gather the secrets of NATO military strategy. Everything is new, nothing is quite what it seems and everyone he encounters is harboring secrets, both political and personal.
Director: Anna Winger, Jörg Winger
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The 1883 Kodaline Playlist Takeover
Where can you find a track from the Nightmare Before Christmas soundtrack, a David Bowie & Bing Crosby collaboration, and a new song from Irish rock band Kodaline? On Kodaline’s curated Christmas themed playlist, exclusively for 1883.
Christmas time is the time to spend with family & friends, but with everything that has transpired this year, celebrating with one another might be difficult. That’s why 1883 asked our favourite Irish rock band Kodaline to curate a holiday-themed playlist full of tracks that remind them of Christmas’ past & present to brighten spirits in what turned out to be a dismal year. Their new festive song ‘This Must Be Christmas’, out today in conjunction with the release of their deluxe album, brings us back to the pub in what the band calls an ‘anti-Christmas’ song.
Check out the tracks the band curated, including their new song, to get you settled into the Christmas spirit!
‘This Must Be Christmas’ – Kodaline
‘We’ve always wanted to write a Christmas song but we never actually got around to doing it until now. We’re excited to share ‘This Must Be Christmas’ with you. I suppose the song was influenced by The Pogues’ ‘Fairytale Of New York’, it’s kind of an anti-Christmas song about drowning your sorrows in the pub on Christmas. Anyway, we hope you enjoy it!’
‘Lonely This Christmas’ – Mud
‘I grew up listening to this song at Christmas time in my parent’s car heading out to my granny’s house, my Dad would usually have a Christmas playlist on c.d and this was always one of those tracks. I always thought it was an Elvis song as the singer sounded exactly like him, I later realised that it was actually by a band called Mud. I decided to do a cover of it with the guys a few years back for an absolute radio Christmas event.’
‘Fairytale of New York’ – The Pogues
‘This song can’t be more perfect—in my opinion, it’s one of the greatest Christmas songs ever written. We also covered this song before at a live show in Dublin’s 3Arena at Christmas time a few years back, we were joined by Imelda May singing Kirsty MacColl’s part. For me, this is the Christmas song of all Christmas songs!’
‘White Christmas’ – Bing Crosby
‘Another classic Christmas song that has stood the test of time is White Christmas by Bing Cosby. Such a beautiful but simple song, this was also on my Dad’s Christmas playlist CD as a kid.’
‘Christmas Lights’ – Coldplay
‘Coldplay is a band we look up to so when they released this song back in 2015 I think we listened to it at least once a day! Just a great Christmas song that not a lot of people know about.’
‘What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve’ – Ella Fitzgerald
‘Ella is a legend and her version for this classic is amazing and always gets played in the build-up to New Years.’
‘Silent Night’ – Tom Waits
‘This is everything you’d expect from Tom Waits singing a Christmas song, it ticks all the boxes for a quintessential Christmas song but once you hear the raspy, jagged vocals of Tom Waits on top, you’re immediately immersed into his world.’
‘Little Drummer Boy’ – David Bowie and Bing Crosby
‘These absolute legends from different generations suit perfectly together on this Christmas classic. Their low voices meditate an almost seamless harmony throughout.’
‘Wonderful Christmas Time’ – Paul McCartney
‘I’ve always been obsessed with this song for as long as I can remember. Even before I discovered and fell in love with The Beatles I’ve associated this song with being a kid at Christmas. It’s laced with the optimism of Paul McCartney and has truly stood the test of time.’
‘What’s This’ – Danny Elfman
‘This is one of my favourite songs and movies to watch around the holidays. My wife and I have Jack and Sally dolls beside the bed and this film comes on as soon as October hits and will be watched until the new year.’
‘Something To Talk About’ – Badly Drawn Boy
‘Another song from a movie but it reminds me of Christmas when I was younger.’
‘Happy Christmas’ – Toots and the Maytals
‘This is such a fun song to have on while making the Christmas dinner, even when it’s freezing outside this makes you feel like you’re on a tropical island, Toots was one of the greats.’
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The 1883 Good Times Playlist
1883 cover stars Why Don't We drop a new album, the latest from Flo Milli, and more on this week's 1883 Playlist. On this week's playlist, Essy wants her lover to give them her all in 'Cry For Me', Orla Gartland gets confessional
The 1883 Penultimate Playlist
We might be gearing up to say goodbye to 2020 and hello to a new year, but we're still celebrating the latest & greatest in music on the second-last 1883 playlist of the year. ‘Twas a week before Christmas and we're
The 1883 Wonder Playlist
The latest from Madison Beer, Spencer Sutherland's emotional and optimistic EP, and a new single from the second new album from Taylor Swift in 2020 all on this week's 1883 playlist. When the world woke up yesterday morning, not many anticipated the
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3rd-strike.com | The Good Lie (DVD) – Movie Review
Follow Genre: Drama
Director: Philippe Falardeau
Distributor: eOne
Duration: 110 minutes
The Good Lie (DVD) – Movie Review
May 28, 2015 - Elexus - No Comments
Good: Very good plot, great acting, emotional rollercoaster
Bad: Reese Witherspoon's character feels a bit out of place
Sometimes, when choosing a movie to see in the evening, you just want to watch something emotional, realistic and stirring and preferable a movie which tells us a story based on true events. The Good Lie is one those movies and it’ll certainly keep you pondering over the plot while the end credits roll over the screen as to say to the viewers: now it’s time to think about what you’ve just witnessed.
The Good Lie sets of in Sudan where a group of friends must flee from the civil war that’s destroying everything in its path. People are killed in cold blood, children taken away by men with rifles and knifes and anywhere you go, you might end up as another sacrifice of the horrific fighting. As they make their journey to Ethiopia (where it’s supposedly safe enough to live) the children have to endure a lot of suffering like the lack of any water and food, the heat burning on their skin and meanwhile, they have to stay hidden from the enemy soldiers who linger around.
Theo (young Theo is played by Okwar Jale, old Theo is played by Femi Oguns) and his little brother Mamere (young Mamere is played by Peterdeng Mongok, old Mamere by Arnold Oceng) are part of the group and as Theo is the oldest and strongest of the pack, he’s soon promoted to the rank of chief. The others follow him blindly in everything that he does while Theo himself tries to keep up the spirits and makes sure no one gets left behind on his watch. Unfortunately, the journey costs the lives of several children and one morning, when Mamere wakes up and tries to stand up in a field, hostile soldiers spot him and eventually it’s Theo who decides to take the fall. Luckily, the soldiers don’t shoot him on sight but instead, take him with them. That’s the last of Theo you’ll see for a while.
Eventually, the group finds a refugee camp in Kenya and many years later, they get the chance to leave Sudan and build a life in the States. Here, they meet social worker Carrie Davis (Reese Witherspoon) who’s assigned to find jobs for our friendly pack of friends. Eventually, you’ll see them struggling with adapting in a whole new culture and some other great developments follow but if I say much more, you’ll probably know the whole movie already and that’s certainly not the point of this review. Overall though, the story proves to be a very strong one with lovely characters a viewer will really care about. Keep in mind that all the things you see in the movie are based on true events. Knowing this makes the story that much more engaging and emotional.
As you might’ve noticed, you’ll see a lot of young and old(er) versions of cast members as the story progresses. There’s a huge leap in time at one point and of course, it’d be rather weird not to see the main characters grow up, wouldn’t it? First of all, I want to give a shout-out to the actors and actresses who took up the roles as children fleeing from a gruesome battlefield. Their performances are really top-notch and that’s a great thing to see at such a young age. Especially Okwar Jale who plays Theo in the very beginning of the movie knows how to put down a believe performance. The older versions of the personages are also portrayed by very skilled actors and actresses. We’ve already mentioned Femi Ogens and Arnold Oceng but Ger Duany (Jeremiah), Emmanuel Jal (Paul) and Kuoth Wiel (Abital) make this movie a very pleasant one to watch.
The only one who felt a bit ‘off’ in the movie was Reese Witherspoon. In her defense, her acting was very good and she’s a great actress in general but her character just felt a bit too disconnected with the main cast. This is probably ‘caused’ by the vision of the director who wanted her to look like a superficial and not that friendly person in the beginning of the movie but it felt quite annoying at times. If that’s really how social workers react to people who just fled one of the bloodiest battlefields in that time, then sure, the choice of character suits the movie but otherwise, she could’ve been a little bit more ‘human’ in her interactions.
Extras wise, The Good Lie offers some deleted scenes and in the featurette The Good Lie Journey the cast and crew tell us a bit more about the movie, the different characters and the whole meaning behind the events.
The Good Lie is an emotional rollercoaster with a very strong story and characters you’ll care about deeply. Young actors/actresses and the old(er) ones alike bring about an incredibly convincing acting performance which raises the quality of the movie with another few notches. Reese Witherspoon’s character felt a bit out of place at times and could’ve been better worked out but in general, The Good Lie is an incredible experience to witness.
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3rd-strike.com | The Interceptor: Season 1 (Blu-ray) – Series Review
Follow Genre: Detective, Crime, Drama
Distributor: Just Entertainment
Duration: 50 mins (per episode)
The Interceptor: Season 1 (Blu-ray) – Series Review
December 28, 2015 - Drydwen - No Comments
Good: Narrative is a good concept
Bad: Stuffy acting; too short; lack of action, character traits, humor, one-liners
The Interceptor is a British drama and crime miniseries from BBC comprised of eight parts. The series is not your standard crime series although the narrative falls in line with the genre seeing as the show is about a new law enforcement team tasked to hunt down some of Britain’s most wanted criminals and organizations.
Inspired by the book of the same name, The Interceptor details the career of Customs Officer Marcus ‘Ash’ Ashton (O.T. Fagbenle). Together with his partner Customs Officer Tommy (Robert Lonsdale), they take down smaller fishes whom are part of large criminal organizations. When they successfully capture a drug shipper during one of their operations at the London Waterloo Station, Tommy is thrilled. Ash however is tired of dealing with the small fish and wants to capture a criminal higher up the food chain. Naturally their boss is over the moon for having taken 3kg of cocaine off the streets. A follow-up investigation may lead them to something bigger and both officers take this chance with both hands. During the operation that will hopefully lead them to a bigger shark, Tommy is severely injured in a car crash. Ash blames it on his superior but eventually they all blame him for being reckless and Ash is suspended from duty. Not long after, he is approached by Cartwright (Ewan Stewart), the head of the top-secret Undercover Narcotics Investigation Team better known as UNIT.
Ash decides to join UNIT, hoping to finally take down a criminal organization. When he enters UNIT’s headquarters he is met with a friendly face, namely his former Customs training officer Valerie (Lorraine Ashbourne). She explains that Ash has been on UNIT’s radar for quite a while now and that the operation at Waterloo Station was certainly respectable but it also double-crossed UNIT’s operation. When Ash finds the person responsible for Tommy’s injuries, he butt-headingly jeopardized the entire mission of UNIT. When things calm down, Ash brings in Tommy. Together they continue their work at UNIT but not without a few issues along the way. Both men care strongly about the innocent that have been lured in the organized crime and they jeopardize a few more missions. They combine their forces with colleagues Kim (Anna Skellern), a former Met Police Flying Squad member and Martin (Charlie De Melo), a former MI6 agent and learn to help the smaller fish without ruining the end goal of capturing the still unknown boss of the criminal organization. In the meantime, Ash is struggling to keep his wife Lorna (Jo Joyner) in the dark while Cartwright and his team at UNIT are being investigated by Chief Inspector Stannard (Simon Armstrong) from the Metropolitan Police.
The general narrative in all eight parts of The Interceptor is the career of Special Agent Ash as well as the criminal organization he is chasing at UNIT. However, each episode reveals a different part of the criminal organization and the arrests they make range from smaller fish to larger sharks but they have a long way to go if they ever want to arrest the head of the organization. This type of narrative derails from the standard crime series we know. There’s not a lot of action going on in the series either. The enormous lack thereof makes The Interceptor a rather dull and boring crime drama.
As for the acting performance, each member of the cast performs below average. It is hard to tell whether the actors are simply bad at projecting their characters or if it’s just horrible directing. Neither of the characters are truly interesting and none of them are actually likeable so the viewer can’t really form an emotional connection with any of characters. In fact, each character feels almost soulless. Character development is almost non-existent but then again, the series is simply far too short to really see a character grow. The dialogue, no matter the character or scene, is absolutely awful. Witty one-liners and humor are missing in the show. This in combination with the lack of drama causes the series to be long-winded and monotonous to a point where you’d rather stop watching it.
Not only is the entire series quite displeasing to watch thanks to the lack of action and invigorate character irks and quirks, the boxset itself is disappointing too. Spread out in only two discs, they could’ve added quite a few extra footage on a third disc. Perhaps extra footage like character development or research of the topic, would have been able to add some spirit to the series.
The narrative itself seems great as a concept but the show lacks passion, action and stunning dialogues for it to truly shine. Characters don’t really have traits one can like or dislike and the viewers can’t bond with any of them. This makes the acting performance less than average. The Interceptor is a boring crime drama and its execution is absolute rubbish.
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National Guardsmen briefed on IED threat to Capitol
Anonymous Wed 13 Jan 2021 21:25:11 No.768947 ViewReplyOriginalReport
Quoted By: >>768958 >>769236 >>769551 >>771019
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/13/national-guardsmen-capitol-threats-459002
National Guard units are being told to prepare for the possibility that improvised explosive devices will be used by individuals plotting to attack the Capitol in the days surrounding the Inauguration, according to two Guardsmen briefed this week.
The briefings indicate that Washington, D.C.-area law enforcement believe the IEDs planted last week at the Republican National Committee and the Democratic National Committee headquarters were not an isolated incident. The individual who planted those bombs has yet to be apprehended, and FBI agents have been going door to door in D.C. this week asking residents for any photos or video they might have that could help identify the suspect, two of the residents told POLITICO.
In addition to the IED threat, the Guardsmen are being briefed that protesters could be heavily armed. Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy has authorized the National Guardsmen protecting the Capitol, previously only carrying protective gear, to carry lethal weapons including M-9 handguns. A “significant majority” of soldiers are also carrying M-4 rifles, one of the Guardsmen said.
A Guard spokesperson declined to say whether law enforcement had briefed units at the Capitol on an IED threat.
“Our primary objective is to provide support to local authorities,” said spokesperson Tracy O’Grady Walsh, noting that the Guard’s mission during the inauguration is to provide crowd management, traffic control, parking coordination and medical and logistical support to local authorities. “The public’s safety is our top priority.”
Anonymous Wed 13 Jan 2021 21:25:35 No.768948 Report
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Up to 20,000 Guardsmen could be stationed around D.C. in the coming days, at the request of the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department and other civil authorities. On Tuesday night, hundreds of armed Guardsmen deployed to the Capitol ahead of lawmakers beginning a second round of impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump.
It’s not clear whether National Guardsmen are preparing to respond themselves to potential IEDs, and the briefings about potential IEDs have left some uneasy, the people familiar with the matter said.
Guard members are trained in the use of lethal and nonlethal force, the use of protective equipment and “deescalation techniques,” as is standard for civil disturbance response missions, O’Grady Walsh said. Some Guard units, including Guard combat engineers, infantry and military police units, typically train for IED response ahead of overseas deployments, but not all Guardsmen are so trained.
“The most important element of defeating IEDs is knowing what to look for, knowing where to look, and understanding how to either quickly defuse or mark them for eventual destruction,” said retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling, noting that IED training principally involves “early reconnaissance of anticipated routes by drones and engineers and scouts, the use of intelligence to plot and predict potential locations of placement of IEDs that would cause the most damage or destruction, and the interference of networks.”
An unclassified intelligence bulletin compiled by the U.S. Secret Service, obtained by POLITICO, warned that at least one right-wing extremist group, Patriot Actions for America, “is organizing and encouraging a violent demonstration” on Jan. 16 at the Capitol.
The bulletin, which primarily relies on open-source information from social media and was first reported by The Daily Beast, said law enforcement is also tracking a separate “Million Militia March” being planned by two other groups for Inauguration Day itself, warning that “although no civil disobedience has been confirmed, organizers have encouraged attendees to bring weapons to the event through the use of images of weapons on promotional materials for the event. The group claims they will not attack, but defend.”
President-elect Biden was briefed on Wednesday by senior FBI and Secret Service officials about the threats surrounding the Inauguration, and will continue to receive daily briefings on "security and operational preparations to ensure the transition unfolds smoothly," Biden's transition team said in a statement.
Biden's national security team "is engaging with the current administration to gain as much information as possible on the threat picture, and on the preparations being put in place to deter and defend against violent disruptions or attacks," the statement said.
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What's Professor X doing there?
Trump would somehow be allies with Magneto.
It's Brian Mast, one of the many republicans who just betrayed their oath to defend the consitution by refusing to impeach Trump and made a royal ass of himself on international by asking on the house floor if any rioters have said that they acted because of the president.
Roll tape
https://twitter.com/drewharwell/status/1349436733889404928
Anonymous Thu 14 Jan 2021 02:10:01 No.769178 Report
Trump would be like that senator in the first movie who mutated into water and died
> Up to 20,000 Guardsmen could be stationed around D.C. in the coming days
On the bright side, Biden can say that 20,000 people attended his inauguration.
God, I wish that were me.
Or, at the least, Ted Cruz.
That would definitely be Graham or any of the other early strong objectors to Trump who later completely acquiesced to his will.
Can they just call in the Marines pls why does only the guard get to do shit? These guys are all fat and barely trained
So are the trump rioters. Difference is that the entire national guard present in D.C will be in complete communication with solid chains of command, acting in concert and heavily armed.
Mark my words it is going to be an embarrassment how they handle it.
Trump was surrounded by 11,000 strangers. He didnt look nervous. I wonder if all future democratic functions will need to be surrounded by 20,000 adoring military?
imagine trying to overthrow the government and then blaming the government for increasing security posture
Who would that be? Charles Xavier?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_RS3oBFMjc
Can't have the standing army deployed on US soil.
imagine thinking there was even the remotest chance they were going to actually overthrow the US government
Imagine thinking they weren't dumb enough to try anyways
It was the gallows they brought and the chanting of "hang mike pence, hang pelosi" that was scaring the congresspeople. They thought the day of the rope had come.
Hope fully it will soon once the Military lawyer Sidney Powell get her hands on them
Seems stupid. Can't they just ignore or change that?
>national gaurd
More like national Lard lmao
Even the statues in the back of the room are chubby boys.
Anonymous Sat 16 Jan 2021 04:41:40 No.771019 Report
When did the National Guard become a genetic garbage dump?
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A Much Needed Spa Treatment Ch. 06
Reader: This story is a continuation of the “A Much Needed Spa Treatment” series. For the most part it will stand alone, but some might make more sense if you have read the whole series. Thanks for any comments you might want to leave!
Just a few short hours ago, George had been in his office looking over resumes for the drafting and mechanical engineering job he and Ben had created at his company. It had been hard to concentrate. Ben had narrowed the field of applicants down to a half –dozen. He could of let Ben do the interviewing and hiring, but, as good a general manager Ben was, he was still young. George would let Ben give his opinion, but in the end it was his company and his decision. He gave each of the resumes a cursory glance and stuffed them in his briefcase. He would look them over more carefully later.
All thoughts of the office where behind him now. He was sitting naked on the patio of the Bermudan resort. He sipped his drink as he watched his beautiful wife shave her crotch with the electric shaver. He was certain he had just witnessed an orgasm. Life was good!
He had not been real happy with her decision to open the spa. They didn’t need the money and he had finally arrived to the point with his own business that he could take time off to travel and enjoy the fruits of his labor. The spa, he knew, would consume much of Ellen’s time and put a crimp in his plans, but it was something she wanted to try and since he loved her, he went along. He wanted her to be happy, so gave moral, physical and financial support to her venture. A small price for the dividends and rewards he was now reaping.
The place had yet to show a profit. In fact, with all of the travelling Ellen had done for “research” and the initial costs for the equipment, he figured it would take another year or two to break even. It wasn’t monetary rewards he was enjoying, it was the change in his wife and the impact of her happiness on life that was the dividend.
Her latest trip (and latest reward) had been to a seminar on body hair removal. She had decided that the spa should offer “bikini trims”. She came home with a wide variety of depilatories, waxes, an electric shaver and a completely bald beaver.
George smiled as he took another sip. Ellen was smearing a cocoa butter and vitamin E lotion on her freshly shaved bug.
“You like what you see?” She asked with a smile of her own.
“I still can’t believe you did that. Makes me want to jump face first between those beautiful legs and eat you whole!”
Ellen stood up, exposing herself to anyone beyond the balcony, and approached her husband. She straddled his legs and she pulled his face to her bosom. George’s hand found her smooth, greasy mound. His middle finger sought and found the opening to her sex. “Hmmm,” she cooed as she squatted more to give his probing digit better access. Moments later she shivered as a small quake of pleasure passed through her.
“We still have time before our reservations.” George said. His cock was hard and he wanted to replace his finger with his tongue.
Ellen pulled herself away. George saw a mischievous look in her eyes. She placed her hand on his engorged organ, gave him a deep kiss and then placed her mouth to his ear. “I have a deal for you.” Ellen manipulated George’s oozing member. “I’ll go to the nude beach tomorrow if you go completely naked.”
If it was possible, George’s cock got even harder. He had always wanted to take her to a nude beach, but Ellen never would. She had no problem going naked around the house and she had gotten very comfortable being naked around Peter and Patty, but to be around a large group of naked bodies she would not do.
“You know I’ll drop my pants anywhere.”
“That’s not what I had in mind.” He hand tightened around his manhood. “I mean COMPLETELY naked,” she paused, “They say that shaver works on men too.”
Because of the ministrations she was doing to his cock and her willingness to go to the nude beach, it took a moment for him to realize what she was suggesting. He pushed her face away from his ear. “You want to shave my ENTIRE body?”
Ellen smiled when she saw the look of terror on his face. She gave his cock a couple of long easy strokes. “Not your entire body.” She the fingers of her other hand through his very wooly chest. “We can just trim this back a bit.”
“You want to shave little George?”
Ellen let go of his cock and began to lightly pull on his pubic hair. “I think it’s only fair. Besides, we’re going to selling the shavers and some of our clients might want to know if it works on their men.” Ellen’s voice was low and seductive. “And, maybe, without all this hair, I might want to spend a lot of time doing this.” She lowered her head, gave the head of his prick a couple of licks and took the head into her mouth.
George was reeling. Ellen really knew how to get to him- a blowjob. But the idea of having a sharp tool getting close to his cock and balls was a bit unnerving. Ellen lowered her mouth further down bahis firmaları his penis and slowly withdrew it. George put his head back and moaned.
Ellen pulled her self away before George exploded in her mouth. She stood reached out her hand. “Come. We’ll do this in the bathroom.” It was obvious she wasn’t going to take ‘No’ for an answer.
George looked at her, drained his glass. “Why not?” With reluctance, he followed her into the bathroom.
“I see you had this well planned,” George said when he saw Ellen pull an electric barber’s clipper from her cosmetic bag.
Ellen gave him a mischievous smile. “Get in the tub.”
While George stood in the tub, Ellen used the clipper and trimmed his chest and back hair to less than an inch. When that was done she began to work around his genitals, ever so carefully removing all the hair on his scrotum, inner thighs and pubis until only a short stubble remained.
She stood back and admired her work. “That wasn’t so bad. Was it?”
George had to admit that the vibrations from the clippers had felt quite wonderful.
“Now to finish,” Ellen took a bottle of talcum powder, poured a generous amount in her hand and rubbed it all over his cock and balls. She then grabbed the new shaver (the one she had just used on herself) and with great care and gentleness she used it to remove the remaining stubble until his crotch was as naked as the day he was born.
When she was done, she moved her hand over her handy work. “Take a shower and rinse off the hair. I’ll be waiting for you on the bed.”
When George arrived at the bed, Ellen was waiting for him with a jar of the Vitamin E and cocoa butter salve. He lay on the bed and let his wife apply salve. He had to admit that without hair, her fondling felt very different and very good. Ellen rubbed the mixture in until he was rock hard and his own juices helped with the lubrication. “I think I like the way this feels,” Ellen said lovingly.
All George could say was, “Me, too.” The combination of her attention on the balcony, the shaving process and her work with the balm had built a great deal of pressure in his scrotum.
As promised, Ellen began to give him a long deep blowjob. She turned around, straddled his chest and lowered her dripping sex onto George’s eager mouth. It didn’t take long in the sixty-nine position that they both came. He squirted his semen into her mouth and she squirted her juices onto his face.
They had enjoyed a beautiful Bermudan day on the beach. George was surprised that he was a bit hesitant about stripping naked. It was because of his new look, but as soon as he saw his wife remove her light dress, revealing her luscious tits and naked crotch, he joined her.
“I don’t know why I have resisted doing this so much in the past,” Ellen said to him as they soaked in the warm sun. “I love doing this at the camp.”
“Feels wonderful. You up for a swim?
Without a second thought, they got up and walked across the beach and waded into the water. Once they were up to their bellies, they settled into the clear blue water. Ellen faced him, wrapped her legs around him and gave him a big kiss. “I’m sorry about what happened while I was gone last week.” It was only the umpteenth time she had apologized for the added stress her absence had placed upon him.
“Forget about it,” He said for the said number of times. He felt Ellen shift her hips causing her pussy to rub against his cock. “You do much more of that and it will be a while before I will be able to get out of the water.”
With her arms wrapped around his neck, she looked at him. She had that look, the dirty look he liked so much. “Really,” she chucked. She ground herself into him again. “I’m in no hurry.”
Trying to take his mind off of what she was doing, he changed the subject. “What do you want to do tonight?”
Keeping the look and continuing her gyrations she replied, “Well, I was thinking we should go back to the room and that I should clean out that cute ass of yours so I can stuff it. Think you can go to dinner and a little dancing plugged in.”
So much for changing the subject. The thought of it and her constant grinding was bringing little George to attention. George looked nervously about. Ellen let go of his neck with one hand and slipped her arm into the water between them and guided his erection into her.
“You know this is poor etiquette.”
Ellen laughed. “Now who’s the prude. Nobody can see what is happening out here. Look,” she pointed down the beach.. There were no less that a dozen other couples in the same position. “Can you see that they are having sex?”
“No, but…” Before he could finish, Ellen covered his mouth with hers.
She kisses him long and deep and the motion and buoyancy of the salt water gave a natural, effortless motion to their lovemaking. Ellen squeezed her vaginal muscles. She had used the Jinglou balls for months and her pelvic floor muscles could open a coke bottle (another benefit of the spa). Her uniquely kaçak iddaa feminine muscles milked his cock. It wasn’t long before he was ejaculating into her accepting love canal.
She broke the kiss and with love in her eyes like he had never seen, said, “There, it won’t be long before you can leave the water and no one will be the wiser. I love you, George!”
“I love you, too, dumpling.” With that the kissed again until his waning hard-on slipped out of her.
. As they approached their lounges, they noticed that another couple had set up within a few feet.
“I hope you don’t mind,” the woman said when George and Ellen approached. “It’s the only shade left on the beach.”
Ellen flashed her a smile. “No problem, we probably won’t stay much longer anyway.”
George found it difficult not to stare at the naked woman. She was late twenties or early thirties and brunette. Her body was bronze and well muscled. Her tits were not large, but well proportioned to her five foot five inch frame and the well perfectly round and firm. Her crotch was covered with long, thick, black hair. And she had the face of a goddess.
“I’m Ellen and this is my husband George,” Ellen began the introductions.
“Terry and my husband is Ken.” The woman extended her hand.
Ken was as handsome as his wife was gorgeous. Both, George noted, had firm handshakes. He also thought he recognized them, but he was certain he had never met them- he would have remembered.
“I’m going to the bar. Anybody want a drink?” George asked.
“I’d like a pina colada.” Ellen replied.
“Ken? Terry?”
“I’d love a daiquiri, but without the rum. I’m drinking for two.”
Ellen perked up. “You’re pregnant? How many weeks?”
“Just 6.”
“How wonderful. I just became sort of a grammy.” Ellen began talking about Trish. George knew that whatever idea he had for a quiet afternoon with his wife had just been blown.
“What can I get you, Ken?”
“I guess I’ll go with you.” He and George took off for the beach bar and left the women to their chatter.
“Where you from?” Ken asked.
“Central Maine.” He replied. “You?”
“Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Where abouts in Maine.”
“Waterville. I little town just north of Augusta.”
“I know the place. My family has a camp in Belgrade on Long Pong.”
“Really!” George replied. “What do you do in Portsmouth?”
“Well, I used to be a mechanical engineer for a fabricating company, but they closed last week. We had this trip planned weeks ago and I didn’t think to take out the trip insurance. What do you do in Waterville?”
George immediately realized why he recognized the couple. Ken had submitted a resume for the job he had open. Small world!, he thought to himself. He couldn’t remember if Ken had made Ben’s short list, so he played evasive. “I’m self employed.” Wanting to change the subject. “How long you here for?”
“The week.” They got to the bar and got their drinks. When they returned to the women, the sisterhood was in high gear.
“Honey,” Ellen said to her husband. “Terry is a masseuse and does Reflexology. I was just telling her about the spa.”
“Sounds like my kind of place,” Terry infused. “There isn’t anything like that in Portsmouth.”
George settled into his lounge. “Ellen has worked hard building it up. Ken tells me that his family has a camp in Belgrade. You should come over a take a look, I bet Ellen would throw in a wrap .”
The ladies continued their banter until Ken finally put an end to it. “I’ve had enough beach. We have time to check out a couple of the shops in the resort.”
“How about you two joining us for dinner?” Ellen said as Terry and Ken gathered their stuff and got dressed. “We’re eating at the ala carte Italian.”
“We’ll discuss it. We’re in 307, you?”
“212. Our reservations are for eight. I’ll give you a call later.”
“Nice meeting you, George. If we don’t make dinner, we’ll have to get together tomorrow.” Terry and Ken walked away.
“I like her.” Ellen said. “She reminds me of Patty. What did you think of Ken?”
“Nice kid. Let’s head back.”
“I didn’t know you were hiring?” Ellen said while looking over Ken’s resume.
“We haven’t had much time to discuss my business.” His comment wasn’t intended to make Ellen feel guilty, but it had. She was so involved in the spa that she often forgot about George’s business.
“Small world,” she replied. “No wonder Terry seemed a little distracted. She’s pregnant and he’s unemployed. Did you tell him about this?”
“No, I knew he had sent in a resume, but wasn’t sure he made the short list. It stood out that he had submitted a picture of both he and his wife. That impressed me.”
“Are you going to hire him?”
“He is certainly qualified, but I didn’t talk to him enough to decide if he’ll fit in.”
“If you hired him, I’d hire her. You know I don’t believe in coincidence. This is fate!”
“I’d like to talk more with him and Ben should be a part kaçak bahis of this. He’s the one that will be working with him the most.”
“Ben will trust your judgement, besides it’s your company.”
“They probably didn’t accept our dinner reservation because they can’t afford it. I’m going to call their room and insist. Besides, if it is a job interview, the dinner is tax deductible.”
“I was looking forward to having a romantic dinner with you alone. You were going to plug me in. Remember?”
“Then, we’ll have breakfast with them. Fair?”
“Good enough.” George embraced his wife and gave her a big wet kiss. “Now what we were going to do tonight?”
George had been cleaned and his butt plug was firmly in place. He was wearing shorts without underwear. Ellen was wearing a flowery sun dress without under wear. “I think you are underdressed,” George said to her. He picked up the colorful box that held her Jinglou balls.
“You don’t expect me to go out with those inside me?” Ellen was definitely shocked. “What if I sneeze or cough and one of them comes out and rolls across the floor?”
“Then I will yell ‘GRENADE’ and we will get the hell out.” George kissed his bride of thirty years. “Besides, what was it you said to me yesterday when you wanted me to shave my balls? Fair is fair?”
“OK, but if I am in distress, they come out.” She kissed him. “Besides, I was hoping you’d suggest the balls.” George knew that he was lucky being married to such a wicked woman. Ellen hiked her dress, lay back on the bed and let George insert the greased balls into her vagina. Ellen rocked her hips a couple of times so that he could hear them clang and chime for him. “OK, lets go.”
Their gates were slow and deliberate as they walked to the restaurant.
“OH, YES!” Ellen cried. She had George held firmly by the ears, pulling his face into her crotch. “Make me come, baby! Lick me! OH Yes!! Just like that!”
They had barely made it back to the hotel room. His plug and her balls had made them so horny. In fact, her dress was just pulled up. George hadn’t taken the time to remove it. He pushed her onto the bed. Pushed up the dress and dove headfirst into her sopping snatch.
George took a finger and stroked the peritoneum (that little patch of skin between her vagina and anus). When his finger got close to her anus, Ellen thrusted her hips looking for penetration, but George teased. “Oh God, George. What are you doing to me?”
George didn’t answer. His mother had always told him never to talk with his mouth full and right now his mouth was full of his wife’s clitoris. But, he teased. Two fingers entered her vagina and sought the little nubs on the roof of her sex that he knew of as her spot. His fingers rubbed, his fingers pushed and his fingers moved in and out. When he thought she was ready, a finger from his other hand plunged into her well-lubricated anus. Her response was instant. Her hips pushed into the air and her sex was pushed onto his tongue. A moan, another moan and then, a full out scream. “I’m coming!” A stream of her vaginal fluid gushed into his mouth. Her anus clamped onto his finger and her vaginal muscles gripped his fingers.”
“I… came…I came…” she spoke haltingly and tried to pull away from his mouth and fingers, but he continued his ministrations until she cried for mercy. From start to finish, her orgasm had been minutes long.
“I need you in me.” Ellen had come down from her orgasm, but her body still shook and spasmed from his attention.
“I can wait until tomorrow,” he whispered in her ear. “Tonight, is for you.” With that George lowered himself back to her sex and began licking again. He licked until she passed out, not from blis.. She was so wracked from orgasm, he stripped her and tucked her in. “Tomorrow my love,” he said to her. “We’ll do this again.” Ellen moaned. George snuggled into her and they fell asleep.
“Are you willing to relocate?” George asked Ken. They were having breakfast. Terry and Ellen were doing aerobics. Ellen had arranged it so that George could be alone with Ken. He had yet told Ken who he was, so their conversation was easy and candid. For George, it was the best possible way to interview a prospective employee.
“To a point,” Ken answered. “Terry’s family lives in Portsmouth and her mother is not in the best of health. I got an offer from an outfit in Nevada, but that is too far away. I didn’t tell her about it, because I know how she feels.”
For George, the interview was over. He didn’t need to know any more. Ken was not thinking about himself, but about his wife and her feelings- not himself.
“You ever hear about an outfit called “GTSE Fabrication?”
“Of course, they’re up your way. We lost a couple of contracts to them. I sent a resume to them last week.”
George smiled “Do you know what GTSE means?”
“I assumed it had something to do with the initials of the owners. Do you know them?”
“It stands for ‘George Therlow Structural Engineering’ and. Yes I know them.”
Ken was quick on the uptake. “And you’re George Therlow.” It was not a question.
“That’s right and you are hired. I’ll pay you 45K the first year. If you work out, I’ll move it to 50.”
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Battle Armor Skeletor: Evil Lord of Destruction (1984)
Posted on May 12, 2017 May 8, 2020 by Adam in Evil Warriors
My mother got me Battle Armor He-Man as a replacement for my original He-Man after it was destroyed. However, I still had my original Skeletor, and in that case mom logic dictated that I didn’t need Battle Armor Skeletor, since I still had the original. Kids and collectors understand that owning a standard action figure and owning a variant are two different experience, but I couldn’t make that case as a seven-year-old.
So, I had to make do with my Kellogg’s puffy sticker, and of course I played with my friends’ figures whenever I could. I was endlessly fascinated by both the designs and the action feature of the Battle Armor variants.
Kellogg’s puffy sticker, artist unknown
Battle Armor Skeletor reuses the arms, legs, head, crotch and weapons of the original Skeletor, but includes a spring-loaded, rotating drum in the chest that could be activated with slight pressure, exposing three versions of a bat insignia showing varying levels of damage. The action feature was invented by Ronald H. MacBain and Tony Rhodes, and the patent was filed December 29, 1983. Martin Arriola also worked on the figure, which was trademarked on January 27, 1984. The original version of Skeletor was designed by Mark Taylor.
The cross sell artwork was based on the actual toy, so it had more accurate and updated arm “fins” and boots than the original Skeletor’s cross sell artwork:
Battle Armor Skeletor cross sell artwork.
Close-up cross sell art, featured in The Art of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
A similar action feature was also used in Mattel’s Hot Wheels Crack-Ups cars, which debuted in 1985:
The front of Battle Armor Skeletor’s card has a burst describing the function of the action feature. Unlike most figures released in the toy line, there is no tag line underneath his name, although he is tagged with “Evil lord of destruction” when he appears in cross sell artwork.
Image courtesy of Deimos
Incidentally, when Skeletor was first released in 1982, his tag line was “Lord of destruction.” “Evil” was added to the front of it starting in 1983.
Errol McCarthy illustrated the fight scene on the back of the card along with the instructions, and also illustrated the figure in artwork for use in the 1987 Style Guide as well as on T-shirts and other licensed products:
In the 1987 Style Guide, Skeletor (depicted with his battle armor) is given the following bio, which draws upon the various updates and retcons done to MOTU canon over the years:
Image via He-Man.org
Once the student of Hordak on his home planet of Etheria, Skeletor trapped his mentor on Etheria and escaped through a dimension gate to Eternia. Now Skeletor embodies all that is evil in Eternia. His goal is to one day rule all of Eternia, bringing upon its citizens an unending reign of terror. For dozens of years, Skeletor waited, polishing his magical skills in anticipation of the day when he would break through the Mystical Wall that separated the good and evil areas of Eternia. On the 18th birthday of Prince Adam, Skeletor finally prevailed. It was on this fateful day that Prince Adam first transformed himself into He-man, thus saving Eternia from the evil advance of Skeletor. Skeletor is now committed to destroying He-Man and his allies.
The style guide also mentions Skeletor’s Dragon Blaster and Battle Armor variants:
Weapons: Skeletor stalks the land with his evil pet, freezing foes with the dragon’s vicious paralyzing venom. His Battle Armor gives him the power to withstand the mightiest blows of battle.
Battle Armor Skeletor was sold in a number of gift sets, which include the following:
Battle Armor Skeletor/Webstor
Battle Armor Skeletor/Webstor/Mer-Man
Battle Armor Skeletor/Panthor
Battle Armor Skeletor/Screeech
Battle Armor Skeletor/Panthor/Man-E-Faces
Battle Armor Skeletor/Land Shark
Battle Armor Skeletor/Battle Armor He-Man
Image source: Hakes Americana
The figure was also released in a number of unique Canadian gift sets (images from Grayskull Museum):
India-based Leo Toys released an unusual version of the figure, which featured the torso from Battle Armor He-Man in purple:
Battle Armor Skeletor, strangely, never appeared in the minicomics or in the Filmation cartoon. It does appear in the Golden Book story, The Magic Mirror (albeit with the skirt from the original Skeletor design), and on the cover of Dangerous Games:
Battle Armor Skeletor appears quite frequently on Masters of the Universe Box art, showing up in numerous paintings, most by William George:
Battle Armor Skeletor and Panthor
Battle Armor Skeletor and Screeech
Snake Mountain
Bashasaurus
Battle Bones
Dragon Walker (Euro Edition)
Fright Zone
Land Shark
Land Shark & Battle Armor Skeletor
Spydor
Fright Fighter
He also appears in a 1984 poster by William George:
The same artist also illustrated both Battle Armor Skeletor and Battle Armor He-Man for the 1985 board game, Battle For Eternia (thanks to Øyvind for the reminder). The illustration on the front depicts Skeletor and He-Man taking part in the board game with a couple of children, which is strikes me as a stroke of genius. I think a lot of us imagined what it might be like to interact with these characters in real life.
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16 thoughts on “Battle Armor Skeletor: Evil Lord of Destruction (1984)”
Manic Man says:
I must say the backart is a bit odd.. not bad but skeletor’s eyes… nothing like Errol McCarthy’s normal style for them.. I can’t remember.. did McCarthy Ink his own work?
battleram says:
Yeah, the bug-eyes are odd. I think he did all aspects of the art given that he has all the line art and colored art, but I don’t know for sure
wolfstor says:
You Go into so much effort doing this…Awesome! And you woke up my remembrance of Hot Wheels Crack Ups after plus 30 years… 🙂
Alessandro says:
Great post as always!
Thank you ince again for digfing in the memories !!!!
Greetings from Italy
Thank you Alessandro!
LBD "Nytetrayn" says:
These were my first He-Man and Skeletor, as I recall. Fortunately, my parents were cool with variants at the time… sadly, they were less so with Transformers (even Hot Rod and Rodimus Prime were too close for them to budge on the former!).
The gimmick was neat, but I found it too easy to knock loose, so they usually sat in “double damage” mode.
DarkAlex1978 says:
You are right: neat but quirky. At least in my copy of BA Skeletor more often than not the chest switches direclty in “double damage, skipping the “one damage”.
P.j. Gathergood says:
Not a whole lot more to say on BA Skeletor than I did on my comments for BA He-Man (thank heck for that, as I wrote a mini-essay on that one!)
Although I never had any of the variants (other than Flying Fists He-Man, who I got very late on, mostly as a replacement for my by-then battered original He-Man), I actually did come tantalisingly close to owning BA Skeletor. Whilst visiting relations once, my aunt gave me a figure as a present. She knew I liked MOTU but beyond that didn’t know which was which and what I had, so had “picked one she hadn’t seen before”. It was Tri-Klops, which I did indeed already have (one of my favourites). We didn’t have the receipt, so a few days later in our local town my grandmother took me into a toyshop to pick out another figure and ask in hope they’d let us swap it. I picked out… Battle Armor Skeletor. He was in my hands, holding him in my hands as we went to the checkout to explain and ask if we could swap. After much “I’ll check with the manager”-ing… we were told no. I had to put him back!
We went along to another nearby toyshop, where I hoped to pick out BA Skeletor again, but they didn’t have him. I settled on Sy-Klone (newly released and the first time I’d ever seen him)… and never did get ol’ Battle Armor Skeletor for my collection! (Not till many years later where I collected the line second-hand).
When putting together that complete set of the line many years later, I acquired numerous BA Skeletor’s, though I found nowhere near as many variants as with BA He-Man, save for the “some with original hollow head, others with the mid-line “solid rubber but not hard plastic” head.
Dyl K says:
This was probably the most used toy from my childhood.
Skeletor is cool in a way to me that he could be bigger or smaller than the other characters, to a degree, depending on situation.
With all the magic and the muscles, I could see him somewhat towering over my TMNT toys, a little smaller than my Transformers, etc.
This toy just made my imagination go wild, Skeletor was already an amazing design but you add that Battle Damage, and it was just ten times better.
I think I played it basically that he’d go until two swipes of damage before he’d cowardly retreat.
Or even “cheat” and heal some of the damage as the heroes kept retaining theirs.
I had thousands of toys but this guy always stayed in rotation..well..I think in 2002 when the new one came out with no special feature but sounds and a VHS, he was finally retired.
Lewis Curry says:
I would like to know which figures are at the bottom/background of the castle watching BA He-Man and BA Skeletor fighting? I am pretty sure one of them is Man-At-Arms. Thanks.
Did you find out what characters are at the bottom of the Battle Armor Skeletor box art package? I am pretty sure that one of them is Man- At-Arms. Help is appreciated. Thanks.
Unfortunately I don’t have a better image than the one provided. One does look like MAA. Another could be Fisto. The one by MAA almost looks like BA Skeletor again, but it is hard to say for sure!
Thanks for trying. Maybe we need to ask Errol to clear up the background who is at the bottom. Just a thought. Thanks again.
ManicMan says:
i doubt the line art would help much as they are pretty rough, from the best quality I can find, the three figures are:
Teela running from the back, ID on her is fairly easy as while the angle makes a lot of the legs thin they are more feminine legs and are bare, which pretty much limits the character to having to be Teela
Man-at-arms standing below her, has a weapon in one hand which is long-ish with a ball at the end, has orange armour, a piece on one arm and one leg but not the other and appears to have some blue on the head, though with the heavy blacks, tricky to see the head clearly, but it’s pretty clearly Man-at-Arms.
Fisto standing next to him. This is the really tricky one.. chest is stripped with dark and light bands, which for the figures at the time, Fisto is pretty much the only option. a mis-coloured Buzz-off is also an option. Holding a weapon in one hand which doesn’t help ID, there appears to be one hand colour light, BUT for Fisto, this is the wrong hand so I think that can be discounted. the thicker body doesn’t do much as it’s not much thicker then Man-at-arms, but appears to lack wings which would say Buzz-off.
Did you see that someone put out the Meteorbs commercial not too long ago? Also the Jitsu/Stridor commercial has appeared on youtube. Now with some of the late masters like Scare Glow, Ninjor, Sorceress, Clamp Champ, etc. They are credited for 86 and 1/2 year. They came out 86 for sure but I guess they were too late for credit that year so that is why they get 1/2 credit. I wrote Mattel many years ago and that was in the letter on the right hand side. Also the Meteorbs came out in 86 not 87 as stated by some sites. If I find the letter, would you like a copy? LMK. Thanks!!!
Hi Lewis, thank you for the info! I hadn’t see those commercials, so I will look them up! I definitely believe Meteorbs came out in 1986 – the packaging was marked 1985 and they were promoted in 1986 issues of MOTU Magazine. I would love to see a copy of the letter if you can find it. Thank you very much!
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The Australian gold rush, which lasted from 1851 until around 1914, saw thousands of workers relocate to areas where the precious metal had been discovered. Many of the old mining towns continue.Ghost town explorers indeed. Picture an old west movie. Walking down a dusty main street with wooden sidewalks and saloon doors swaying in the wind. Now come back to reality, there are no ghost towns like that. Real Ghost towns vary from only foundations and can dumps to fairly modern towns with rows of abandoned houses with garages and refrigerators. We’ve tagged quite a few post here with.
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7 elements of drama
Of various forms of drama, plays are the most popular. Came up with 7 necessary elements for a play to be called a play. Tragedy – Tragic dramas use darker themes, such as disaster, pain, and death. It is the most important element in the tragedy and almost every hero/heroine of a Shakespearean tragedy possesses a tragic flaw. Buzzle.com is Coming Back! 7th Grade Elements of Drama Elements of Drama Comedy vs. Tragedy -Characters -Plot -Setting -Rising Action -Conflict -Falling Action -Climax -Resolution Structure in Drama What is drama? The elements of drama, by which dramatic works can be analyzed and evaluated, can be categorized into three major areas: - literary element - technical Element - performance element 3. are the action in the drama and it … VCADRE029. Drama on stage often reflects the life in general or the drama of daily life. Elements of Drama •Acts- long sections of a play, made up of multiple scenes, usually designed to separate the play into its main parts and to give the audience a “break” from the performance. Focus is often used interchangeably with the terms concentration and engagement, assisting the performer in the portrayal of believable characters. 30 seconds . 2. Signals the end of, the bulk of the story, all events between inciting force and climax (list). The five elements of drama are the thought, theme, and ideas; action and plot; characters; language; and music. when the outcome of something is the opposite of what is expected. 7th Grade Elements of Drama Elements of Drama Comedy vs. Tragedy -Characters -Plot -Setting -Rising Action -Conflict -Falling Action -Climax -Resolution Structure in Drama What is drama? It is important to remember that symbols can mean different things to different people so while using symbol as an Exam 1 - Aristotle's 7 Elements Of Drama; Gemma W. • 9 cards. A drama, or a play, is a piece of writing that is presented almost exclusively through dialogue. In a short film called ‘Burt’s Bees: Burt Talks to … 7 ELEMENTS OF MODERN DRAMA>> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >>. Comedy: Features ordinary people in funny situations -Usually has a happy ending -Example: 1) Plot "A sequence … It can also be a wrong action performed by the protagonist that results in his own ruin. playwright. The first four, character, plot, theme and dialogue remain the same, but the following additions are now also considered essential elements of drama. Biography. Literary elements consist of plot, theme, characters, dialogue, music, spectacle, convention, genre, and audience. The elements of drama are the ingredients that give the work its shape and character. Character the people (sometimes animals or ideas) portrayed by the actors in the play. A character is a person appearing in a play, or a person described in the story. Describe, list or explain the following as directed: introduces characters, background, setting (describe, list), the problem, or conflict that drives the rest of the story. actors. As well as characters, plot and action, consider which dramatic forms and dramatic coventions to use. It is the characters who move the action, or plot of the play forward. Jul 28, 2016 - Explore Erika Castaño's board "Elements of Drama" on Pinterest. Aristotle’s Six Elements of Drama. Some other formats are dance performances, radio shows, puppet shows, etc. Drama is the act of portraying a story in front of an audience. Arthur Miller's Tragedy and the Common Man.docx, Sheboygan North High School • ENGLISH 112200, Trinity Valley Community College • ENGL MISC. Learn more about characters, symbols, and themes in all your favorite books with Course Hero's Buzzle.com is Coming Back! Comedy â Comedies are lighter in tone than ordinary works, and provide a happy conclusion. What helps one Visualize the Play as it is read? Of various forms of drama, plays are the most popular. Elements of drama elements of drama ID: 1304142 Language: English School subject: English language Grade/level: grade 8 Age: 11-14 Main content: Elements of drama Other contents: definitions Add to my workbooks (1) Download file pdf Embed in my website or blog Add to Google Classroom These rules or principles in his days pertained to ancient Greek theatre. A drama, or a play, is a piece of writing that is presented almost exclusively through dialogue. Word Search: Includes 16 words related to drama and performances, 7 of those were presented in the Elements of Drama Lesson PPT. 6 Elements of Drama The story of the play, or the journey of the protagonist, which includes his/her conflict with an opposing force (the antagonist). Concluding our first, nine weeks, we were looking at Elements of Drama. Drama is the act of portraying a story in front of an audience. All lesson sequences come with ready-to-use differentiated learning and teaching resources and are available in an online format in this section and an e ⦠Whatever the future structure of drama may be, the plays that will survive will be those that reveal the heights and depths of Contact details. The Seven Elements of Drama-Characters-Plot-Theme-Dialogue-Convention-Genre-Audience Characters - a person in a novel, play, or movie; played by an actor Plot - the events that make up a story, or the main part of a story Comedy: Features ordinary The way the playwright arranges and presents these four narrative essentials is the structure of the play. SURVEY . Elements of Drama â¢Acts- long sections of a play, made up of multiple scenes, usually designed to separate the play into its main parts and to give the audience a âbreakâ from the performance. What dictates most other dramatic elements is the setting; that is the time period and location in which the story takes place. The KASCA drama framework breaks down the core components of the elements of drama, drama practices and drama context into a series of lesson sequences. Characters move the action, or Often this layer is implied or understood … They give us a ‘Sense of Drama’ (Poston-Anderson, 2012) and provide the tools to manipulate our engagement and approach to various drama activities and skills. The intention of dramatists in comedies is to make their audience laugh. the author of the play. acts. Protagonists often have a tragic flaw — a characteristic that leads them to their downfall. In the modern theater, this list has changed slightly, although you will notice that many of the elements remain the same. The history of drama goes back to Aristotle and his treatise ‘Poetics’ which gives a critical analysis of Sophocles’ Greek play, ‘Oedipus Rex’. when the audience knows more about a situation than the characters involved know. The KASCA drama framework breaks down the core components of the elements of drama, drama practices and drama context into a series of lesson sequences. ognY÷©>aÓÕ/+M. Elements of Drama Drama â Dr ama is a play or production whic h there is a director and actors cooperate through a script of plots of a story. Aristotle’s Six Elements of Drama --Literary Elements-- 4. plot 5. theme 6. character 7. dialogue 8. music/rythm and spectacle 9. Source Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), Australian Curriculum Version 8 The Arts: Drama, Main content: Drama single seven Other contents: elements of drama Add to my workbooks (1) Download file pdf Embed in my website or blog Add to Google Classroom Add to Microsoft Teams Share through Whatsapp - âdramatis personaeâ (persons of the play)>> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> ⦠1. Comedy – Comedies are lighter in tone than ordinary works, and provide a happy conclusion. Lighting, sound effects, costumes, makeup, gestures or body language given to characters, the stage setup, and the props used can together be considered as symbols that are elements of drama. The history of drama goes back to Aristotle and his treati⦠See more ideas about elements of drama, drama, teaching drama. 7 elements of modern drama. They refine performance and expressive skills in voice and movement to convey dramatic action. dramatic speech. Informational . The seven ‘Elements of Drama’ used in this section are drawn from the Creative Arts K6: Syllabus (Board of Studies, NSW, 2000) and are used to enhance the drama experience across all forms. Drama fosters an understanding of continuity and change, and of … Elements of Drama in The Modern Theater Check Back Soon - We're Almost Finished Building a Time Machine Out of a DeLorean A ‘tragic flaw’, by definition, is a personality trait that leads to the downfall of the protagonist. Relationship relationships are … Technical Explain how the elements of drama and production elements communicate meaning by comparing drama from different social, cultural and historical contexts, including in the drama of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Course Hero is not sponsored or endorsed by any college or university. The list of essential elements in modern theater is as follows: • Characters • Plot • Theme • Dialogue • Convention • Genre • Audience. Elements of Drama by Mrs. Alicea - Duration: 2:21. They use their experiences of drama practices from different cultures, places and times to evaluate drama from and theme. The elements of drama are the ingredients that give the work its shape and character. By the end of Year 10, students analyse the elements of drama, forms and performance styles and evaluate meaning and aesthetic effect in drama they devise, interpret, perform and view. To Aristotle, diction (or dialogue) was the way the characters speak to … FREE study guides and infographics! Just as plot has Relationship relationships are central to the action in drama The connection(s) between people, Report question . BASIC ELEMENTS OF DRAMA by Idiongo Ebong on October 06, 2017 in CRITICAL REVIEWS There are basic components which make up what we know as literature. As well as characters, plot and action, consider which dramatic forms and dramatic coventions to use. Drama has several elements that make it qualify as a different genre of literature from all others. Title: Elements of Drama 1 Elements of Drama All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players They have their exits and their entrances And one man in his time plays many parts.. (As You Like It) 2 Diagram of a elements of drama, narrative and structure in directing and acting to engage audiences. Some other formats are dance performances, radio shows, puppet shows, etc. Plays aim to s… Character. The Modern Theater. Studied the Greek tragedies and comedies of his time . These twelve dramatic elements are at the core of all drama. Jul 28, 2016 - Explore Erika Castaño's board "Elements of Drama" on Pinterest. Aristotle . Melissa Alicea 294,327 views 2:21 Elements of Drama 2017 - Duration: 9:17. These four elements are communicated through the dia-logue and action of a drama. Drama Years 7Œ10 Syllabus 8 2 Rationale Drama is an artform with a discrete body of knowledge including conventions, history, skills and methods of working. The stories and characters used in a comedy from the pith of it. 4th century BC Greek Philosopher . â¢Genre:Genre refers to the type of play. Diction: Your Tone of Voice. answer choices . Seven Elements of Drama Name _ Per _ One Flew Over the Cuckooâs Nest Describe, list or explain the following as Like a short story or novel, it has a setting, characters, plot, and even symbolism. monologue. Symbol Symbol in drama can refer to anything that is being used to stand for something else. The first layer of every scene deals with time and setting. The Elements of Drama, according to Aristotle's Poetics, are Plot, Character, Thought, Diction, Song, and Spectacle. The elements of drama are the ingredients that give the work its shape and character. elements of drama Drama is created and shaped by the elements of drama which, for the Drama ATAR course, are listed as: role, character and relationships, situation, voice, movement, space and time, language and texts, symbol and metaphor, mood and atmosphere, audience and dramatic tension. 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ROSATOM starts production of rare-earth magnets for wind power generation
Communications Department of TVEL Fuel Company of ROSATOM, PUBLISHED 06.11.2020
TVEL Fuel Company of ROSATOM has started gradual localization of rare-earth magnets manufacturing for wind power plants generators. The first sets of magnets have been manufactured and shipped to the customer.
In total, the contract between Elemash Magnit LLC (an enterprise of TVEL Fuel Company of ROSATOM in Elektrostal, Moscow region) and Red Wind B.V. (a joint venture of NovaWind JSC and the Dutch company Lagerwey) foresees manufacturing and supply over 200 sets of magnets. One set is designed to produce one power generator.
"The project includes gradual localization of magnets manufacturing in Russia, decreasing dependence on imports. We consider production of magnets as a promising sector for TVEL's metallurgical business development. In this regard, our company does have the relevant research and technological expertise for creation of Russia's first large-scale full cycle production of permanent rare-earth magnets," commented Natalia Nikipelova, President of TVEL JSC.
"NovaWind, as the nuclear industry integrator for wind power projects, not only made-up an efficient supply chain, but also contributed to the development of inter-divisional cooperation and new expertise of ROSATOM enterprises. TVEL has mastered a unique technology for the production of magnets for wind turbine generators. These technologies will be undoubtedly in demand in other areas as well," noted Alexander Korchagin, Director General of NovaWind JSC.
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Unit No. 1 at the Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant has been brought to minimum control power
Minimum control power level is reached when neutron flux is recorded in a reactor working at a level sufficient to sustain a fission chain reaction.
WANO appoints Robert Gambrill as Director of WANO Atlanta Centre
He has formally replaced Russ Brian.
We plan for the BN-800 reactor to switch from a hybrid core to an active core fully loaded with tablet MOX fuel assemblies
The complete MOX-core is planned in 2022.
Belarusian-1 has been connected to the grid
The first kilowatt-hours of electric energy delivered by the Belarus NPP to the unified power grid system is a landmark to manifest the beginning of the nuclear age for the Republic of Belarus.
Vladimir Kriventsev
The International Atomic Energy Agency brings together the fast reactor and related fuel cycle community and countries and the wider public interested in these technologies by organising the International Conference on Fast Reactors and Related Fuel Cycles: Sustainable Clean Energy for the Future or FR21.
Vyacheslav Kupriyanov,
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In a night of celebration and thanks, Africa University Board members Mrs Margaret Makadzange, Mrs Mwazvita Madondo, Mrs Grace Muradzikwa and former Africa University Director of Planned Giving, Nashville, Tennessee, Ms. Elaine Jenkins were honoured for their service and ministry with Africa University.
Margaret Makadzange who has served on the board for 11 years and was the chairperson of the Grounds and Infrastructure Committee oversaw the implementation of some of the University’s major campus development projects that have taken place within the past six years namely the Highland Park Women’s Residence and Student Union buildings as well as the Ubuntu Retreat Centre. During the dinner, Vice Chancellor Professor Munashe Furusa commended the diligence and commitment of Mrs Makadzange saying, “She was an amazing steward of the grounds of this University. She took the time to visit the new buildings that were under development and meticulously oversaw their progress into what they are today. We are truly blessed to have had her serve with us.”
Mrs Makadzange’s championing of the AU cause extended to creating ambassadors of the University among clergy within the United Methodist Church and beyond, trained to spread the message of the transformation that the institution is leading on the continent.
Africa University received from the retiree’s assurance of the bond that shall remain with the institution. In her farewell speech, Mrs. Makadzange said, “Once Africa University has you, you never leave the calling. Though this is an occasion of retirement, I have not left Africa University. I shall continue to offer my support and in saying this, I shall be contributing to the Zimbabwe Annual Conference Scholarship Fund for the new applicants who are set to begin their studies this August.” The Zimbabwe Episcopal area currently supports two students at Africa University with fully funded scholarships that cover the duration of their studies. The first beneficiaries are set to graduate at this years’ 2020 graduation ceremony in June.
Ms Elaine Jenkins, whose career with the institution spanned 18 years with Africa University’s Development Office in Nashville, generously established a scholarship in honour of her parents Esau and Janie B. Jenkins in celebration of her retirement and legacy. Elaine went on to say, “Thank you so much for supporting my ministry at Africa University. For as long as there is an heir within the Jenkins family, there will be an endowed scholarship in the name of my parents here at Africa University. In addition to this, I have included the University in my will!” Elaine’s contributions to the AU Development Offices’ Planned Giving portfolio have been tremendous with her efforts seeing USD 8.3 million raised towards the Seeding Hope. Shaping Opportunities Campaign that aims to raise USD 50 million that will define how Africa University will help to shape the future of the continent through the increase of the institutions’ endowment through investing in capital development projects that shall ultimately translate into changed lives and communities.
Accompanied by her niece Ms. Adrienne Saunders, Ms. Jenkins was afforded the opportunity to witness first-hand the incredible impact of the work done over the years and to revel in the continental powerhouse that AU has become in Pan- African Education. Ms. Jenkins said, ‘I remember vividly a story Mr. Salley used to recount upon the inception of Africa University where it was said that firstly, this University would never be built and secondly, that nothing good could ever come out of Africa. Here we are some 28 years later and we marvel at what we have created together through our shared vision and passion for the continent!”
Mrs Madondo and Mrs Muradzikwa who have dedicated 14 years and 20 years of service respectively oversaw the development of Africa University from its governance structure to strategically positioning the institution as a forerunner of diversity, inclusion and the advancement of the Pan-African agenda in higher education in Africa.
The Africa University Board of Directors is as diverse as its student and staff community and comprised of 9 members from the United State of America, 2 from Europe and 18 from across Africa (Mozambique, Sierra Leone, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe, Kenya, and Cameroon). The February Board Session that ran from the 24th to the 27th saw the addition of 3 new Board members, Dr. Yeabu Kamara – Sierra Leone, Ms. Celstine Mukalay- DRC and Mr. Denias Zaranyika- Zimbabwe.
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Healing Racial Trauma: The Road to Resilience by Sheila Wise Rowe
Adam Shields · August 5, 2020 · Book Reviews · No Comments
Summary: Trauma is real; some of that trauma is based on racism or white supremacy; the hard work of healing is essential, not just for individuals but also for communities and future generations.
I have recently joined a Be The Bridge group. Part of the method of the group is to acknowledge history and lament that history. I was asked to do a short presentation on lament. Because I had meant to anyway, I started re-reading Soong-Chan Rah’s Prophetic Lament. The opening of Prophetic Lament was helpful, but I was seeking out other resources and saw the chapter on Lament in Healing Racial Trauma. After I finished that chapter, a friend commented about how helpful she found the book as a whole and how she was leading a small group through the book. So I decided to move the book up on my list.
Part of being slow to pick up Healing Racial Trauma is my identification of racial trauma primarily with racial minorities. Most of the examples of this book are of racial minorities, but that does not mean that this book is not for those with less melanin. The strong theme throughout the book is that healing is not only for yourself (although it is that as well) but also for your community and future generations. Breaking cycles is tremendously hard, but if we want healthy communities, churches, institutions, and families, we have to do the work of breaking cycles. That means that we have to do the hard work of internal healing, which is related to communal healing.
The chapters are similar in approach, there are several stories which carry through each section, and the topic is illustrated through actual people. The chapters are Wounds, Fatigue, Silence, Rage, Fear, Lament, Shame, Addiction, Freedom, and Resilience.
When my friend recommended the book, she said that she did not think that many White people understood that minority communities often have more pressures than what is perceived from outside. That is best illustrated by this paragraph from the book:
The research of Dr. Sherman James into health disparities among African Americans identified a coping mechanism used to combat ongoing psychosocial and environmental stress, stigma, and racism. Dr. James reported that when people are “‘really trying to make ends meet going up against very powerful forces of dislocation—their biological systems are going to pay a price,’ he said. ‘That’s the situation African Americans have been in since the beginning,’ he added. ‘Now we’re seeing other groups begin to be exposed to these same forces.’”10 Dr. James named the John Henryism Hypotheses after his patient John Henry Martin, who rose from being a sharecropper to become a wealthy farmer with seventy-five acres of land. Like the mythical John Henry of folklore who died of exhaustion after beating a mechanical steam drill, Dr. James’s patient also paid a hefty price for overworking. His patient was afflicted with hypertension, arthritis, and a severe peptic ulcer, and his physical health continued to decline. Dr. James developed the John Henry scale to identify those who have physically suffered as a result of their constant striving.
Part of the importance of lament is rightly recognizing reality. If we do not acknowledge rightly, we cannot lament, and that lack of lament perpetuates the problems through our silence. As the book says, “Elie Wiesel says, “We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”
The adage, ‘hurt people, hurt people’ is true. Children and youth that are exposed to violence or are direct victims of violence are more likely to have ‘increased depression, substance abuse, risky sexual behavior, homelessness, and poor school performance.” But estimates are that only 2-15% of any age receive victim assistance, and that percentage tends to be lower among Black victims. I don’t want to talk too strongly about trauma only around violence, but that is an area where I think it is possible to see injury without as much controversy.
Personally, the big takeaway for me is that lament and acknowledgment is not just important to recognize that problems or disparities exist, but that they are a step toward action and healing, or as Sheila Rowe says, “Activism is often a byproduct of lament.”
Healing Racial Trauma: The Road to Resilience by Sheila Wise Rowe Purchase Links: Paperback, Kindle Edition, Audible.com Audiobook
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What causes a person to become radicalized?
This was the subject of a fascinating talk delivered by Tamar Mitts, an assistant professor of international and public affairs at Columbia University, at a “data science day” hosted by the school on Wednesday. Mitts studied the efficacy of Twitter-disseminated propaganda supporting the self-identified Islamic State, or ISIS, in 2015 and 2016. To avoid the “obvious ethical issues” which attend to subjecting humans analysts to ISIS propaganda, Mitts said she used machine learning algorithms to identify and sort messages and videos into various categories, such as whether they contained violence. Then she parsed her dataset to uncover trends.
Mitts’ results were a revelation. Even though people tend to associate ISIS propaganda with heinous acts of brutality—beheadings, murder, and the like—Mitts found that such violence was, more often than not, counterproductive to the group’s aims. “The most interesting and unexpected result was that when these messages were being coupled with extreme, violent imagery, these videos became ineffective,” Mitts said. In other words, the savagery for which ISIS became famous did not appeal to the majority of its followers; positive messaging found greater success.
There’s a caveat though: Anyone who was already extremely supportive of ISIS became even more fanatical after encountering a piece of propaganda featuring violence. So, while violent acts turned off newcomers and casual sympathizers, they nudged ideologues further down the path of radicalization. Extremism begets polarity.
In the wake of the Christchurch massacre, Mitts’ research gains even more relevance. Tech giants are continuing to fail to curb a scourge of violence and hate speech proliferating on their sites. World governments are, meanwhile, passing ham-fisted policies to stem the spread of such bile.
Perhaps Mitts’ discoveries could help society to avoid repeating history’s darkest moments. My appreciation for her work grew after I finished reading In the Garden of Beasts, a gripping journalistic endeavor by Erik Larson, which details the rise of Nazi Germany through the eyes of an American ambassador and his family living in Berlin. Afterward, I watched a YouTube video—an innocuous one—recommended by the author: Symphony of a Great City, a 1927 film that documented the daily life of ordinary Berliners at that time. It amazes me to think how, within a few years, these souls would come under the sway of Hitler’s bloodthirsty regime.
While the Internet makes zealotry easier than ever to incite, today’s tools also make it easier to study.
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GameSpy 2142 Server Browser List ceases operations June 30, 2014.
You can still play Battlefield sort of, using Game Ranger. For me, it was the writting on the wall, however, time to hang up the hat and do something different.
What is AIRWAR?
AIRWAR is a massive Server Side Only Mod for Battlefield 2142 developed by independent game developer, CHOPPERGIRL.
If you have Battlefield 2142 installed and updated to 1.51, there is nothing further you need to install. Just connect to the AIRWAR Server and enjoy.
What "Server Side Only" means, is that all upgrades to the game were done on the server side of the game, not the client side, the client being the software game you use to play the game. Because AIRWAR alters the game 100% on the server side, there is nothing you need to download, install, or change on your game client to enjoy playing AIRWAR. Please be sure to read the FAQ, however.
Server Side Mods are incredibly hard and challenging to make, as 4 out of 5 of the brillant ideas you have to change the game, do not work, can not be done, or they crash the game client. Working expermentally inside an officially undocumented system is very frustrating and time consuming, much like working with a black box. Please support my six years of hard continued work modding, testing, and continued programming and development on 2142 (over 5000+ hours), by making a donation using one of the Paypal buttons below. Thank you, and have fun! Choppergirl
AIRWAR in its combined versions for BF2142 Demo, BF2 Demo, and BF2142 Full Game, has been played by over 150,000 people and climbing to date, from all around the globe. You can actually see in game, what country a player connects from, as a country code is automagically added to the end of their player name when they connect and visible in the scoreboard.
Because of AIRWAR's unique Server Side Only nature, unlike other mods (and there are many excellent ones), where players have to download and install extra huge cumbersome mod packs which often they can not get to work, AIRWAR is the MOST PLAYED BATTLEFIELD MOD IN ALL OF THE BATTLEFIELD SERIES GAMES COMBINED. My intention when modding is to unlock the most intense game action for the most number of people.
Battlefield 2142 - 99 cents!
If you live in the United States, and have Origin (free) installed, you can now buy Battlefield 2142 for 99 cents!
If you are new to AIRWAR, please read the FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions.
Battlefield 2142 as a 99 cent Origin PC Download
Players - Mail in your Digital Pictures
I think it'd be cool to get some digital pictures from players around the world, holding hand drawn signs that read something like "Airwar BF2142 rocks! [playername]" or "Hello Choppergirl from [playername] and [cityname]".
So if you read this and are feeling creatively motivated, and have a digital camera and some free time on your hand, scrible something on a piece of paper and go take a picture and email it to choppergirl@air-war.org and I may just put it up around here or use it somewhere or make a page just for them. If you want to be in the picture is up to you, but if you do, put your playername somewhere in it so everybody knows who you are.
AIRWAR SERVER PICTURE
Above is a picture of the AIRWAR server. It is a Pentium 4 @ 2.4 ghz with an 800mghz bus, with 1 gb of RAM, and a 30mb harddrive. Even though the CPU runs at 100% always (because the P4 supports no kind of throttling), it stays frosty cool all the time because it is entirely open. Notice how there is no panel on the side, all the drive bays are open, and the harddrive (which produces heat itself) is not crammed into any bay, but is located as far away from a heat source as possible (the CPU, chipset, and Powersuply). It can run a maximum of 24 players. Twenty four players is more than enough. Quantity does not equal quality gaming. Anything more than 24 players and the game becomes impersonal and a stupid frag fest.
But why a Pentium 4, which is arguably 20 year old technology, and this is a box most people throw away as worthless? Because running 24/7, the most likely things to fail are the Power Supply, harddrives, and fans. 24 pin Power Supplies for dual core motherboards are expensive; 20 pin powersupplies for Pentium 4 comptuers... I can get for virtually... free (because people do throw them away as totally obsolete now). And with no players making any donations any more, even to buy a motherboard or power supply off of ebay, the server is reduce to running on "free equipment". Normally I run my server on a dual core, but here we are, reduced to this indestructiblly fundable-indefinatly-by-me-alone plan.
People have some idiot idea that the side panel on a comptuer are there, to help the case fans increase air flow through the box. That is the stupidest idea ever. If anything, they trap heat extremely, and turn your PC into a toaster oven and a room air filter (like an air conditioner) collecting dust. Side panels on a computer only exist to keep the rats out when computers are being stored (rats love to chew on IDE cables to wear away their teeth). Since I have no rats in my house (duh of course), the first thing to come off are the side panels on all my systems. I recommend unless you have a compelling reason not to (children in the house, rats, a theiving roommate), you do the same. My computers stay cool even when the house is 80F, and collect little dust this way. All I have to do is occasionally blow their fans out with a leaf blower (or hair dryer) outside.
Super Old News
I've shutdown the BF2 Demo server, which was tweaked out to the max, and fired up a BF2142 Full game server instead, as I became nostalgic for flying the gunship like in the good old days of BF2142 demo. Well, it turned out to be a smart move, because someone gave me some code, that allowed me... using some other code... to run a ranked server... AND... bypass the cursed "The game will start when X more players join" bullshit.
So now we are rocking with some hardcore gunship action on the 2142 server. Here's where to find the server in the full game of Battlefield 2142 v1.5:
Current In Game Text
CHOPPERGIRL's AIRWAR Titanium Version: 20140206- 'Airwar is Fucking EPIC'
Welcome to Choppergirl's AIRWAR ( http://air-war.org ) Est. 2008
Resident Goddess of Server Side Modding: CHOPPERGIRL
More righeous cool explosions per second than any other BF server in the world....
For six years I have run highly modded BF2142 demo and BF2 demo servers
Six years of hardcore development, bug fixes, and constant play testing...
To bring you the most EPIC, BRUTAL, and uber VIOLENT FUN game experience EVER.
I've busted my ass harcore working on my server, for thousands of bleary eyed hours.
Battlefield was never meant to be modded, hundreds of people sharing their discoveries have made this possible.
Most of the mods here I developed and perfected, or built upon the work of others.
AIRWAR is player supported, please donate so I can keep the server running.
http://donate.air-war.org or send Paypal donation to choppergirl@air-war.org
All Vehicles multispawn, are faster, and stay around as battlefield junk when destroyed
Honk the horn on Jeep to deploy explosive poison gas
Honk the horn on the Air Transport to drop Smurfberry Carpet Bombs
Watch out for Gunship Missles that missed, they will circle around and bite you
Parachutes are paragliders, Press Backwards (D) to go up
Engineer Rocket shoots Starburst Air Tracking Missles
Sniper Rifle is one shot one Kill 50 caliber
Pistols now have Double Tap Cop Killer Bullets for close range assassinations
Knife is EMP knife which screws with your visor, for epic knife fighting
There are no unlocks allowed on my server, everyone has the same weapons.
Top high last scores are displayed in game and on the welcome screen
If the server crashes during a new map reload, just reconnect
Add AIRWAR to your FAVORITES LIST by clicking on the PLUS SIGN
Ramming and all other tactics are valid tactics of war and allowed.
If someone is roof campign, pod up there and sniper rifle him
If someone is base raping, pick a different dot on the map to spawn at
Smack talk is allowed, but chat spamming and baseless insults makes you look like a fool.
Please do not be an fucktard and run aimbots, they crash servers and are slap FULL of viruses.
Tweak your keyboard settings and set your view distance and resolution higher.
There are over 800 game graphics, see them all at http://banners.air-war.org
Mr. Fu (my code foo) handles all the in game admin 24/7/365; no admins needed.
Brutal harcore players are always welcome. Play the game, and we all have fun.
If you suport hardcore gaiming, support AIRWAR with a donation. http://donate.air-war.org
I've busted my ass laying down new coding to make this server as comfy, balanced, and hella fun as possible.
Personal vendeta's and rivalries are fine, just don't let it get extreme acrimonious.
Remember, killing and being killed is how you play this game, don't take personal offense.
Lastly, I don't want to hear vague lag or cheat reports; I'm here to have fun too.
Your brain is the weapon.
Hunt your enemy, make the kill, and move on to the next target...
Lead your target
Anticipate what your enemy is going to do, what you would do, and out think him.
Set traps and killzones
If you get killed, its a moral imperitive to return and kill your killer...
...as well as... my [[[Special Thanks]] below... and... [[The Lyrics to M.I.A - Paper Planes]]]
Choppergirl's Control Key Bindings
Want a keyboard mapped like an expert? You can download my keyboard mappings here... just right click on this link Controls.con and save it to your desktop. Then rename or back up your Controls.con file in c:\Documents and Settings\YourName\My Documents\Battlefield 2142\Profiles\0001\Controls.con and place my Controls.con file in there.
Some things to note... the mousewheel click and mousebuttons are setup for seat jumping... Numpad Enter is your Parachute... the keys around WASD are perfected for your gunship look views... F to look behind you, C for flyby view, SPACEBAR to return to normal view from either (press again to toggle cockpit overlay), G for rearview (not so useful). Most everything else is the same; its the same mapping I've been using for five years, and it fixes the worst bugs (like Parachute set to 9 key... yeash). Anywhere, there is no way I could like an expert without this custom mapping.
To seat jump, press Mouse2 (Right mouse button), which will switch you to second seat... then press Mouse1 (Left Mouse Button) to fire your missle... then press Mouse3 (Middle mouse button) to return to cockpit view. Practice this while parked on the ground... you want to be able to do it very fast... because while in the second seat, there is no pilot, and your gunship drops like a rock. So unless you have a lot of altitude, you don't want to spend a lot of time in the second seat. You can also use this method to seat jump in other vehicles... tanks, jeeps, etc.
Choppergirl on Lag
I've run a game server for 4 years, and in my experience 95% of players game lag is caused by the following 3 things.
Open programs in the background (webpages with flash youtube videos or animated gifs on them are especially bad), including tons of little tray apps/icons.. esp Skype, Pidgin, Yahoo Mesenger, AIM - close them all!
Running processor and network intensive torrents / limewire / azureus / etc in the background. Note, many of these programs install themselves to run at startup as tray bar apps
Game graphics set too high, esp. antialiasing, dynamic lighting, dynamic shadows -which when you hit fog, slows your computer to a crawl - turn them off or set them to a low setting.
Before you start gaming, close all your other crap you have running, and run only the game. Set its process priority at Above Normal or High (check out Process Lasso to? do it automatically). I use a separate computer just for gaming, where I leave my favorite game open, and a separate computer for everything else (webbrowsing, etc). A gaming router is not going to fix your stupidity of having background apps open while you game.
As for anti-aliasing... do you need it? No. Anti-aliasing is only useful for taking screen snapshots in game (say, to use on a website), or if you have a very crappy monitor with low resolution (1024x800 or less). In just about all cases, a higher resolution graphic setting with no anti-aliasing is superior. I run my games at 1600x1200. Higher resolution is even better, if your graphics card can push it. At higher resolutions, any jaggies fade away... and really, while you're playing the game, you're almost always in motion and they are going to blur away anyway. Anti-aliasing is a big hit on performance.
Another thing you can do, if you are using an nVidia graphics card, is go into the Nvida traybar control panel and into the game settings for your game (BF2), and set rendering to "Best Performance" instead of the default "Balanced" or "High Quality". Best performance will render a whole lot faster with some loss of quality, but you won't notice at all. Something like High Quality, you would only use in an app like Google Earth.
AIRWAR is now on BF2 Full Game instead of BF2 Demo or BF2142 Demo
A SHUT DOWN BF2142 Demo for PC August, 2011 permanently, forever. I ported AIRWAR over to running a BF2 Demo server. I also ported AIRWAR to BF2142 full game, where I currently am running a server.
HELP, I'VE BEEN KICKED!
Follow this link to http://kicked.air-war.org to read a simplified explanation about why you got or are getting kicked.
CHOPPERGIRL's BOGO-VIOLENCE RATING
In another Choppergirl first, I've implemented a new rating system of my own, the Bogo-Violence Rating or 'BV', which is displayed at the end of the game. The Bogo-Violence Rating is in the general spirit of the BogoMips which is used in Linux land to benchmark CPU performance. A Bogo-Violence Rating for the game is displayed at the end of the game, and on the scoreboard, so that people can get a general idea how violent the last game was. Think of it as if it were a 'game thermometer'.
Choppergirl's BV Bogo-Violence Game Violence Rating (BV) Chart of the Level of Game Violence:
0 : "Non-existant"
1 : "Warm"
2 : "Toasty"
3 : "Hot"
4 : "Excellent"
5 : "Superb"
6 : "Violent"
7 : "Ultra Violent"
8 : "Brutal"
9 : "Hellish"
10 : "Nightmare"
Note that this rating of the amount of violence in a game is rather arbitrary and non-scientific and in fact, rather bogus (hence the name), and may not at all reflect the amount of violence that was actually in the game. However, hopefully it will be more often than not at least somewhere near to a general estimation, and give you some general indication of how violent a game was.
Special thanks follow... AIRWAR would not be possible without the work of these clever folks
Special thanks to Detrux for running BFEDITOR.ORG for years and years on his own dime
Special thanks to Devilman (Whitecats) for answering my first mod question ever, and his epic work
Special thanks to Awesome Atrain for publicly sharing his epic shoctgun rocket launcher code
Special thanks to Hum@noidV2 for cracking the private full game server, to run as ranked
Special thanks to Topner Harley for sharing how to get rid of "6 players needed to join" code
Special thanks to Steven 'Killing' Hartland for his groundlaying work on Modmanager
Special thanks to Jat Gotamaro for developing his Private Rank Code System
Special thanks to the demoscene modelers and hackers at D.I.C.E., and the orginal Refractor Engine Developers
Thanks to all the admins for running all the servers - its a bitching lot of work.
Thanks lastly to all the players that play the game right, bringing the violoence to you, hardcore and your face
Here forever immortalized are the KNIGHTS OF AIRWAR who guard the survival of AIRWAR
Amongst them you will find those who are truely AIRWAR HARDCORE
They put their money on the line to maintain an arena for them to battle to the most violent extreme.
To all the fallen warriors, in time you are forgotten, but the Honour of the Knights remain here engraved for all eternity.
Amount U.S.
07/14/2011 $11.64 BizzBattleBr
05/31/2011 $100.00 NewWatcher / Basttard
12/10/2010 VPS servers madz dissolvanizerx
10/06/2010 1024K RAM Rule 42
09/21/2010 $20.00 Big_Ol'_Dookie_Rider
09/15/2010 $50.00 Badnoodle
09/15/2010 $50.00 AK-1200
03/08/2010 $10.00 qqbun
03/04/2010 $5.00 UB-001
02/15/2010 $66.30 Anonymous RO
02/12/2010 $20.00 Jamie W.
02/09/2010 $10.00 UB-001
01/01/2010 VPS server nutta1
12/14/2009 $2.00 Fire$torm
12/11/2009 $5.00 Santani6
12/07/2009 $5.00 whofuqincares
10/16/2009 $22.22 ShotInTheButt
09/07/2009 $30.00 king-kong-fuzi
08/00/2009 VPS servers nutta1
05/11/2009 $40.00 Rayzor54
03/25/2009 $100.00 alt+del (zerofunction)
02/21/2009 $60.00 Joe W.
12/20/2008 $30.00 Makebelieve
11/01/2008 $12.30 Warrior77
09/13/2008 $5.00 Chaim B. (World of Warcraft Player)
03/01/2008 $200.00+? CHOPPERGIRL (plus 1500+ Hours modding work)
All funds go to pay the monthly rental bill on the game server, nothing else, so we can keep playing.
Server rental cost on average about $1 per slot per month, and it adds up real quick. :-(
(36p server = $36/month x 12 months = $432 a year. Yeah, would you pay that to run a server?)
Get your name here! Use the Quick Donate Buttons below...
Or, click the button below, and enter any amount and then remember to click the "Update Total" button...
All funds are in United States dollars, but Paypal will do an automatic currency conversion for you.
If you do not have a Paypal account, you can still donate by using a credit card without having to sign up with Paypal.
On the left it will say "Don't have a PayPal account? Use your credit card or bank account (where available)."
There will be a "Continue" link to click at the end of that sentence, just follow that link.
Be sure with any donation to put a note with your game name in it, so I know who the donation is from!
There are over 250 Battlefield servers in the world at any give time.
But you don't need to give a rat's ass about any of them, my server is the only game in town
The gameplay on them all of them sucks ass bags. Seriously. Don't believe me? Go look.
As a master game designer, I know what the fuck I am doing.
I playtest my serverendlessly, daily, every day, you know its true because you see me in the game.
I've got the highest score in AIRWAR, currently Level 31.
Practice more, you sorry motherfuckers!
AIRWAR is like a Porsche 911, refined ceaselessly over many years.
A winning formula you do not change. little tweak here, a little tweak there, until it is perfect and running smooth as silk.
Its like butter, baby! That's what I'm talking about, that's MONEY baby!
Other server admins come to my server to steal ideas from. Fuck em for not being original.
Do you're own thing. Its not that hard to be creative.
Do you even know what a fucking heat map is???? I didn't think so...
HOW TO SWEEP THE SCOREBOARD
To get any sweep, you MUST get the high scores in ALL 3 LAST GAME HIGH SCORES:
last game top pilot, last game top score, AND last game top kills. Without all 3 of theses, its not a sweep at all.
That alone, is called a 3x SWEEP (Three of a Kind). And its pretty good. But you can get even higher...
If you have all 3 last game high scores, AND have 1 top dog high score (even from a previous game), that's a 4x SWEEP!
(Four of a Kind)
If you have all 3 last game high scores, AND have 2 top dog high scores (even from a previous game), that's a 5x SWEEP!!
(Full House)
If you have all 3 last game high scores, AND have 3 top dog high scores (even from a previous game), that's a 6x SWEEP!!!
(Straight Flush) If you get a Straight Flush, and the server hasn't just rebooted, you're pretty bad ass...
If you get ANY sweep... 3x, 4x, 5x, or 6x... you capture the 7th line of the Scoreboard with your name on it. So a Straight Flush 6x SWEEP gets your name on all 7 lines of the Scoreboard! And you have swept the scoreboard! Quit, walk away, and gloat!
So you can talk all the idiot smack talk all you want, but when it comes to battle, are you the ultimate cleaning lady like CHOPPERGIRL, are you a 6x Sweeper?
IMPORTANT FOR YOU TO KNOW
New Knife Fight Only Arenas - A Game within a Game!
I have set up some dedicated knife fight areas on both my servers, consult the maps below for their locations:
On BF2142, the knife only area is inside the circle of the core flag/silo capture area in the center of the map
In BF2, the knife only area is inside the tiled area of the pool beneath the crane in the center of the map
If someone is inside these areas, you are only allowed to kill them with a knife. If you kill them with any weapon other than a knife, 20 points will be substracted from your score. This might put you below -12 and get you kicked off the server depending on your score, so beware. Only kill other players using a knife in these areas. Do not shoot rockets or drop bombs or artillery strikes into these areas, you may kill someone and get punished.
WHAT COUNTRY IS ...?
One of the pioneering mods I made was to add a country code to everyone's nickname, so players could see what country other players were connecting from and guess what language they spoke. This facilitates same language players finding and communicating with each other. This is done automatically on my server.
My country codes caught on so well that people started recreating their nickname with their country code attached, so their country code would be seen on other servers as well (I don't recommend this).
If you see a country code you are curious about and can't guess where it is, you can look it up here: Alpha-3 Codes.
AIRWAR Is Done! Final Thoughts
I am through trying to unlock all the game for everybody and be a hero to the people, when they throw stones at me and laugh at me and say "what work... you are stupid and fat" even though they clog up my server and its the most popular and most played game mod in the world.
The way I see it, even if the server lists close down, I will still be able to play against the bots on my dedicated server without any changes. All I will lose is the aerial dogfighting against humans (because bots can't do that). Oh well, at least I will still be able to fly the gunships, so that's fine with me.
All I get is insults and stupidity from these people, and all these new people that are coming into BF2142 now, go straight into my server, and think, AIRWAR is how the game came out, not how I fixed it working every week on it for 6 years.... sometimes for very long, hard, tiring stretches. They could care less about who I am or what I've done. Its just a funny stupid game to them, a place to be an ass and act stupid and be a dick to everybody.
When I started this 7 years ago, all I wanted to do was unlock the game for everybody, and play the game the way I wanted to play, as hardcore and intense as it could with as many explosions and as much action and tactics and variety as possible, with carefully tweak balance of everything, all like carefully constructed fairy chess game.
I have done that, and I am finished, AIRWAR is complete. It is beautiful and gorgeous. It is my baby. I fixed the Unlocks that went missing yesterday, and today I put the autocontroller cannons back in, and that is that. That is the final, final, final version, which I am calling, "Concrete Mix B". Because that is the version, I am going to burn out to CDROM, and that they bury me with when I'm old and grey, on a USB key around my neck...
It was the most frustrating, most fucked up, most buggy game ever to work with... you fix one thing... and that breaks something somewhere else... but I finally got all the variables write, all the hundred thousand lines of massive amounts of new code I wrote debugged...
It all... just works... the way the game should of worked, when it was sold off the shelf.... when you play on my server, what you are playing, is not 2142 any more, how the designers conceptualized it... its how I saw what the game could become, and made it so... with a lot of brutal work and pounding on the keyboard hundreds of hours all night long writing new game logic, tweaking settings, debugging, and testing... testing... testing.
New BF2 AIRWAR Waterworld Screen Snapshots
If you haven't tried out my BF2 Airwar yet, you don't know what you're missing. Check out a slideshow of some screenshots. This is not your grandpa's Gulf of Oman!
Airwar Store Prices Slashed
Since I wasn't selling anything anyway, and the world is in an economic depression, I lowered my Zazzle store prices as low as Zazzle will let me make them.
I figure its better to sell some AIRWAR stuff at a rock bottom price and make no profit at all, then to sell no AIRWAR stuff at a high price and make no profit at all. Makes sense, right. That way at least all you hardcore players can get yourself a rock bottom airwar T-shirt for as low a price as possible, or a coolio two sided one like I did for $3 bucks more. And it is pretty cool. Get yourself something new to wear, get yourself some 'airware'!
The one sided shirt is only $12.95, plus they charge you a couple of bucks for shipping (like $4). They ship it in this plastic mirror reflection anti-static bag, the same kind you get like motherboards and video cards in when you buy them new, which is cool. I don't make any money off of any of this... or running the servers, I just do it cause I love the game and have a lot of fun with it. If you think I do you're crazy cause its a bit drain of time and money. I need to get my ass in a Taco Bell uniform like the rest of you losers! So bum some money from your grandma and at least get yourself a t-shirt. Sometimes Zazzle has free shipping, like right before holidays, or other big discounts, so sometimes with their PROMO codes you can get it for even a couple of bucks less. Check out the rest of the AIRWAR booty here.
New Server Box for BF2 AIRWAR
The BF2 AIRWAR demo server has been moved to a better location in Houston (TX, USA), to clear up any lag issues. A lot of you who first tried the server ran into some hella lag; that should be gone now and from all my tests and feedback from other players so far it is. I also was able to get punkbuster to behave and run right, so the BF2 server should be showing up in the server list of everybody who still has thier PB filter box still on (set on by default with a fresh game install). Hopefully from here on out with more people seeing the server and it acting rock solid stable, we'll have a few more players join the game and stick around for good times. Download BF2 Demo
100+ AIRWAR Clan Members and Climbing!
Wow, just out of curiousity, I decided to check how many of my BF2142 players (8,800 players since GameTracker started counting!) were listing themselves as fans of AIRWAR by putting AIRWAR in their clan tag. I counted 100+, not including myself, or CGAQ dead_7c (who has to be different and use CGAW (Chopper Girl Air War) instead - hey, he was an early adopter). Here's the auto-generated list by GameTracker.
Now the question is, why aren't you on it? Especially you hardcore players who I know LIVE on my server because you're there all the time. Us AIRWAR demo dog players are the most viscious tactically dangerous players on the planet. Its time to step up and lock and load. One day the demoscene may have the opportunity to take on those pussy assed full game teamplayers, and I want the hardest of the hard in my crew who have been chiselled in the fire of AIRWAR combat.
Oh, and with a clan of so many players, how come only myself and ROCCO35 are joined up on the AIRWAR CLAN PAGE. I think most of you don't even know it exists because its so new, so I'll point it out. Under the list of clan members on that page there is a text link called 'Apply'. Sign up and be counted, and add the AIRWAR server as your favorite server and the AIRWAR clan as the clan you're associated with, so you can get linked to all the demo guys you play with.
Oh, and AIRWAR is currently ranked #27 BF2142 server out of 910 in the world (game-monitor.com). Pretty darn good for a tiny 26 player server... against all those 64 player servers with way more money than I have. Just goes to show quality trumps quality. Just adding more players does not make for a better gaming experience! Ok, I'm done being silly and tooting my own horn. Back to modding my BF2 demo server... its got starburst shoulder fired rockets now ;-)
AIRWAR SUMMER FUND DRIVE - YOU BETTER READ THIS
Well, its nearing summer time and soon the servers will be packed and clogged with kids bored out of their mind. They are already packed as it is, but its going to get way worse. So its time to start a fund drive now to raise money for more slots so all you guys will have some chance to get in and play. You're paying for yourself, and for the life of me you guys just can't get it into your thick head that if you don't donate, it only hurts yourself.
See, here's the deal... no matter how full the server is, I can always get in. I have admin powers. If the server is full and I can't get in, all I have to do is simply kick some loser out which frees up a slot for me to jump in. I can always get in. No, its you who's going to have the problem. You're going to find my server slam packed all the time and you're going to be stuck playing on sucky servers all because you won't spend a few bucks to help out. You'll readily blow this money on chips and a coke or a burger and fries in a second flat, and then its gone, and then you'll suffer for a whole month frustrated and waiting in line trying to play your favorite game or stuck for hours on a boring server that is not even in the same ballpark of fun as mine.
So, what I'm trying to do is raise $100 bucks so I can run 8 more slots over the summer, or a second 16 player server. Just $5 from 20 people, or $10 from ten people, of the 1000 of you that play my game would do it. My guess is, you won't do it. Because most of you are stupid and cheap as a rock. And all I have to say is, have fun waiting in line then. All you are doing is hurting yourself. It doesn't hurt me one bit, I always get to play. And I'm not paying your guys way to play. I pay only the bare minimum for myself to have the smallest server possible for me to play. I've done my share a thousand times over working long stretches of hours to make AIRWAR as fun as it is. Its not on me to pay for you to play for free. If you want to play for free, well, there's ten other servers that won't ask you for a dime. No, AIRWAR is special, in fact, its way more special. Its for those who want to pay a little bit more so they can have an awesome game experience, rather than a mediocre one. There is no shortage of players. But there is only one AIRWAR and only 16 slots. There's 8 billion plus people on the planet. Yes, do the math. The odds are not in your favor of being special just because you are a player, you like my server more than any other else, and you know where it is.
I'm offering to up the server slots for you guys; all I have to do is message the server company to raise the number of slots and bill me more. So its up to you. Pay a couple of bucks each and play your heart out on an insanely fun 24 or ever 32 player AIRWAR server all summer long... or slog it out waiting in line to get onto a tiny 16 player server. Remember how fun the 26 player server was, and that was before my awesome player kicker existed to churn the noobz and kick the trash out. Remember how you hated to see it go, because nobody donated? Yeah. You all thought let someone else donate and I'll mooch. Let someone else do it, someone else will. Well with everyone thinking that like the stupid monkeys you were, it never happened. And I had to slash costs to the bone to the barest minimum.
I don't run this for a profit, I run this because I love to play the games; you guys could never pay me even at $5/hour for the 1000+ plus hours of work I've done on the server. I didn't do all that work for you. I did it for me. All I want you guys to do is pay your own way for the slot you play in. Thats it. The cost to the game server company to host the game. And its not a whole heck of a lot of money at all. One stop at the gas pump costs me as much as it would cost to run a 24 player server for a month.
So visit the donate page and make a donation through paypal to choppergirl @ air-war.org. Nobody else is going to do it. Its on you. You play, its on you. A lot of these players are stupid kids who can't set up a paypal account even if they had the intelligence beyond monkey level of how to do so, or foreign players that can't even read my website.
For those of you who have already donated, I'm not asking you, consider yourself exempt, and, THANK YOU for doing your share to help out, and I hope you enjoy my server to the max as much as I do (I'm sure you do). This is instead addressed to all those who have yet to donate at all.
Big Dog Scoreboard and 5/12 Player Kicker
Just a quick update, this week I've written some new Python code which is running on my server, which tracks Pilot kils and reports them on a scoreboard, along with Highest Player Score and Player Highest Kills. So if you're a gunship pilot who wants to test his metal against other gunship pilots, there's plenty of them on my server and you can now try to beat their top pilot score per game or top pilot score since reboot. This will encourage more people to fly on my server, and since its a big map with a few slots, this brings people into combat contact a lot quicker in the gunships and leads to far more action. The more people flying on my server the better, as it increases the combat action, and adds dramatically to the ground air interaction and the amount of debris falling out of the air from destroyed aircraft in air battle.
How it functions: pilot score tracks only kills made when you are (piloting so to speak) in an air vehicle: gunship, air transport, parachute, or pod. You get 2 points for each kill; however, unlike player score, you do not loose a pilot point if you are killed or die. So it can only go upward. You don't necessarily have to be driving to get a pilot score, for example, you will also get it as long as you are in an air vehicle when you make the kill. For example, the gunship gunner position will get it if he kills someone, as well as the gunners on the transport. Even if either is parked on the ground. And you should also (though I have not confirmed this yet) get a pilot score if you kill someone by piloting a pod to crash land on their head or vehicle and kill them. Parachuters shooting rockets and killing aircraft or ground targets will also get a pilot score. As long as you're in an air vehicle when you make the kill, your pilot score is increased 2 points.
Also even better, I've enhanced the kicker code to kick poorly skilled players out of my server so its a field of battle for hardcore veterans only. Players have 12 minutes (ample time) to make a score of 5 of they get kicked... this does a wonderful job of kicking all the retard monkeys and noobs off who would clog up my slots. This code is written to let the server fill up to 100%... only when its completly full will it start kicking retards off (they make acceptable targets until then). After that it will start kicking idlers and retards every 10 seconds to always keep one slot open so "someone better out there" can join. It does an awesome job of filtering out the goombahs over time so there's a much higher percentage of highly skilled players on my server, which makes for a far better and more competitive and action packed gaming experience. But at the same time on offhours (like Monday morning) it lets noobz play to their hearts content when nobody else is around. And even when its full at high periods during the day, it at least lets noobz get in and get at least 12 minutes worth of play round robin style.
Bouncers, Bouncers, Everywhere...!
Perhaps you're wondering what all these bizarre Claymore looking red things on the ground are. A devilish new invention of mine, they are new anti-jeep mines which I call 'Bouncer Mines', or simply 'Bouncers'. I always liked the 'thumper bumpers' in pinball; you know, the round things that when you hit them with the ball, they kick the ball back outward and spice things up your game play. Same principal. AIRWAR is a game after all, so lets add even more fun game elements.
Hit any of these mines with the tire of your jeep at a some rate of speed, or detonate them accidentally by deploying jeep poison gas pellets near them, and they will explode with a percussion that tosses your jeep well into the air, or in some direction away from the mine was when it detonated. More often than not, your jeep will land upside down and your will have to make a hurried exit and run from the jeep as it will quickly catch on fire and explode.
What's so fun about them, is that sometimes they'll send you careening far into the air with a lot of super fast rotation, so you're hurtling through the air spinning wildly around and around. Other times you're playing the game and have completly forget about them and you hit one, and it will explode unexpectedly on you and scare the bejeezus out of you.
They will detonate if you shoot them (don't stand close or the massive percussion will kill you), or if you drive anything over them such as tanks or APCs and probably if you land an air transport or gunship on them just right, but the bounce is not as pronounced as these vehicles have quite a bit more mass than the jeep. They'll also explode from bombs from the air transport, adding even more damage and random chaos and hurtling vehicles in the explosions that follow. Lots of fun.
And of course, being yet another one of the many unique mod creations of mine, these are only found on AIRWAR... and AIRWAR alone... you will not find them on any other BF2142 server anywhere!
DICE and EA have announced Battlefield 1942, which according to their website uses the Frostbite Engine (destructible environments) and the really exciting part, it will be available for the PC. If so, lets hope they have a demo server so I can run one... Frostbite on the PC side, its about time. This looks a lot more interesting than Battlefield Heros... you can check out their website at http://www.battlefield.com/1943/. Why they haven't contacted me and scooped me up as a developer is beyond comprehension.
Thanks to Devilman, I took off the NO-FLY zone (technically called the Combat Area boundaries) on my server. I've been wanting to do this for a long time. You can now walk, drive, and fly out into the yellow zone of no man's land to explore all the extra terrain out there. Who cares, you say? Well, I care, because I can build some neat stuff out there like some stunting obstacle courses and so on in these areas that are generally hidden and off the beaten path of the main game melee. And, if I were to make a client side mod, that built whole towns out there, I could expand the basic SIDI map and you'd be able to see it all by downloading a custom BF Demo Client developed by me, which you could use to replace what's currently installed on your PC. All the other demo servers would play as normal and you'd see no changes at all, until you went on my (or any other demo server) that had the NO-FLY zone turned off... then you could fly out there and access the whole new towns and battle areas.
Low Flying Clouds
Here are some snapshots of some low flying clouds I've come up with. As you may have never noticed, there are no low flying clouds in the game. What I want to do is have these as explosive bursts at the end of the ground Anti-aircraft cannons, to look like flak bursts, which you would of course be flying through and dodging, but I can't change the burst effect at the end of the life of the AA projectile... its rendered client side, so I am going to have to figure out something clever. Of course, the demo game was never meant to be modified, so its a nightmare of beating against code that does not want to cooperate or do this. Its not easy, at all, its rather a nightmare to create anything new inside the demo world. You guys have no freaking clue. I often spend many days straight with hours at the computer, trying a million different things, over and over with slight changes, to unlock some feature or get something I dreamed up to exist inside the game.
Above: note the low flying clouds over the base which do not exist anywhere normally in BF2142
Below: drifting through my clouds in a parachute. In the game you'd be dogfighting and flying
all through them, and of course also through the already existing debris fields of exploding aircraft.
Extra Weapons for all the Soldiers and Vehicles
Well, this should get you excited...
I have been trying to figure out how to get the ALT-FIRE key to work inside the game for me, so I can add second alternative weapons to all the soldiers and vehicles. For example, left clicking will still fire your standard weapon. , but by clicking the ALT-FIRE (right mouse button by default), I could have the gunships drop bombs, the air transports drop poison gas, the tank fire a tv guided missle, the jeep drop mines, and all the soldiers throw grenades depending on what type they are... i.e., frag grenade for assault, emp grenade for sniper, poison gas grenade for support, etc. all when you left mouse click instead of right mouse click.
Second 16 player Server
I have a second server I've bought on the way, to replace the gone 26 player server, but there are some technical problems with getting it online, so it will be a few more days. Of course, I took the 26 player server down because it was too expensive, and you guys never donated. It was a shame to see it go.
I've installed some other games such as Quake Wars, COD4, etc to see about running a server on them as well, but without donations or support, its not going to happen. To be honest I wasn't impressed by them... some had better graphics but game play was too scripted and vehicle huds were poorly done. AIRWAR on BF2142 is still way more fun to play.
One goddamn good pilot
In memory of Hugh Thomspon, Jr. (died 2006), a helicopter pilot from Georgia during the Vietnam War, for his quick assessment of the situation, humanity in battle, unbelievable bravery, and courage to do whatever he could to stop the Mai Lai Massacre, a mass murder of 347 to 504 unarmed citizens in South Vietnam, entirely civilians and some of them women and children, conducted by U.S. Army forces on March 16, 1968
"Thompson took off again, and Andreotta reported that Mitchell was now executing the people in the ditch. Furious, Thompson flew over the northeast corner of the village and spotted a group of about ten civilians, including children, running toward a homemade bomb shelter. Pursuing them were soldiers from the 2nd Platoon, C Company. Realizing that the soldiers intended to murder the Vietnamese, Thompson landed his aircraft between them and the villagers. Thompson turned to Colburn and Andreotta and told them that if the Americans began shooting at the villagers or him, they should fire their M60 machine guns at the Americans."
Serving as one door-gunner was his crew chief, Specialist Four Glenn Andreotta and as the other was Specialist Four Lawrence Colburn. All three men received recognition for their heroism at My Lai, although Andreotta died in combat three weeks after the event.
AIRWAR V-2
There's only so far you can push the BF2142 demo, and then its time to move on. I'd like to play some new maps, for example, of my very own, something you can't do in the demo we currently play. So I've started developing my own first person multiplayer shooter, Choppergirl's AIRWAR (version 2, so to speak, or V-2 for the V-2 missles that may be in the final game). All the keycontrols and player control feel will be as close to possible as I can get them to the same to what you are already familiar with, so anyone who migrates over to have some fun alpha testing it can do so without having to learn a bunch of new controls. It will have the same (default) WASD and mouse controls, F# keys to change weapons, Crouch, Fire, etc that everyone is already use to. I myself don't feel like having to do the mental switch when I switch games and switch my brain out to new controls, and when I jump I want to be able to jump just as high and no higher than I do in my other game. I want the physics to behave as realistically as possible and I want as many destroyable objects as possible.
Below is a super quick castle I made by duplicating my tower for four corners, to test terrain and building render speed... in this test map, 40,000 polygons at 200fps... way too many polygons used in this quick terrain I made... for the real game I'm going to build the island from scratch by hand using as few as possible, and build the island like a skin around the mountain's interior spaces which I will design first. With no dynamic lighting, from experiments I'm hoping I'll have 2 million polygons to push and play with at 30fps. Remember, I still have to add trees, vehicles, players, planes, explosions, a gazillion bullets flying about, smoke, water, broken building and vehicle parts, dead bodies, etc.
Welcome to Anarchia
You guys could care less about plot or game concept, you just want to frag stuff, but never the less I'm going to build my first map around an atmosphere (and guess what, I won't be limited to playing on just one map over and over again, either). Since my first server will probably only be 16 players, with a max I'm hoping of 32 players, I'm going to make my map smaller that what you may be use to, to squeeze everyone closer together, and have fewer control points to fight over which will intensify the action for a server with fewer players on it. You know how it sucks to play on a big map with only 16 players... a smaller map should fix that and make even a 16 player server a riot of action. There will still be more than plenty of places for micro battles and to hide all over the map, especially with one central object which dominates the map and will draw people to fight over it.
Imagine a small south pacific island, off the radar map beyond the fringes of civilization, on which exists in the center an extinct volcano. This island is the micronation... or rather... anti-nation... of Anarchia... where I live. On top of this volcano, in the center of this island, has been built a castle inhabited only by myself. Up in the very top of the castle, is my office, through which you will be able to peek through a window and see the back of me working away at a desk at a computer. Try to blow the door off with a rocket launcher and interrupt my work, and you'll get the bird from me. Adjacent to my office, there'll be a small runway which exits out the roof, which will have a black *special* triplane in it (of course it will multi-respawn!) which you will be able to steal and fly out the side roof of the castle. Various staircases and spiral stairways will lead down to rooms and floors below. A bridge will cross a moat to the front castle entrance, and there will be plenty of sniping locations from the towers and walls, and the front door on the first floor will even be wide enough to drive a tank or jeep or crash fly an airplane into, should you want to make a spectacular entrance.
Below the first floor of castle, in the hollowed out center of the extinct volcano, exists vast warehouses and tunnels carved out by the now gone lava flows as well as by machine equipment. This area inside the volcano, is Choppergirl's Weapons Lab, where all my newest weapons and mods are flushed out and become reality. There are half finished missles, an old ME-262 under construction, helicopter parts, handheld guns being developed in various stages, glass cases filled with weapons of all sorts. Its a virtual museum of study of weapons from all periods of human history, from your basic spear to a particle ray gun.
Down below further, there's also a core, which represents the 'server', which is a large computer circuit motherboard with a central CPU and other chips as big as jeeps. You're literally inside the server's virtual reality matrix, and you can see pulses traveling allong circuit traces, see the blinkey lights on the network card, even follow the the network cable down an access tunnel and out the mountain past a waterfall and the wreckage of a helicopter lost in the jungle, down across the beach and into the sea. Want to crash the game? Shoot at the server, and you may make everone's display shimmer and glitch out for a second... or maybe just the enemy's.
Above on the surface of the island, there's an old abanonded airfield from WW2, with a crashed Zero on, as well as rusting hangers and huts and other such things. There's an old pirate or sunked battleship in the small harbor. Roads wander around the island, and there are various waypoints in the jungle, including three V2 missle sites which are capture points in the game. You can get into the castle by following any of the many secret tunnels which exit at various hidden locations in the jungle below or inside abandoned buildings (Vietcong style).
There's jeeps and tanks and biplanes and triplanes, and maybe even some pterodactyls, some Dutch windmills, Vietnam Hueys, elephants, and all this crazy mixed in stuff to give it a cyberpunk feel. Whats the object of the game, you say? Well there's two main zeppelins floating over the water, one for each team, which you must take down by capturing the V2 missle silos and or holding the castle. Planes will respawn inside the Zeppelins and lower down to a hook below the Zeppelin, from which you can jump in and fly away from. If you need to repair your plane there's the airstrips down below you can land at.
There's a winding road up to the castle, with a bridge to that crosses a moat that is in front of the castle, and there' be lots of sniping from the towers and inside the castle. You'll be able to upload a custom logo graphic for your player, which will be displayed on your player uniform, tank, airplane, jepp, zeppelin, or control point flag or on the castle flag as soon as you capture it, as well as your own selected color scheme or that of your team.
When am I going to be finished with this, you ask? No time soon. I've just started, and I'm just one person, not fifty people like a typical game design studio might employ on a project. And I'm not terribly commited to it as there is no payoff, its just something I want to do because I'm passionate about gaming. So don't nag me and don't ask me cause at this point its just a phantom idea kicking about around my brain with an ass of work necessary to bring such an epic undertaking into reality.
First I'll get a map going where you can run around on it and shoot each other on foot, and multiplayer mode established so people can connect, and some code so it automagically updates itself everytime a new version comes out so people won't have to always download and update the game with the latest beta, it will be automatic. Once I get those three things established, I can just add and build upon it incrementally so it gets better over time. Gain a beachhead, and from there let my magic improving skills do the rest. Flush out the vehicles, and add one vehicle at a time, starting with the jeeps and tanks. The flying stuff is going to be trickier.
BF2142 Video Settings - Learn from mine
You can tweak your video settings by checking your frame rates in the game... to do so, bring up the console with the tilde (~) key, and enter the command "renderer.drawfps 1" and press ENTER. You can then close the console with tilde (~). This will draw your framerates in the upper left hand corner of your screen (higher is better), and inversely, the milliseconds between frames refreshes (lower is better). In a super ideal world, you want your frame rate to always be above the refresh rate of your monitor (60/72/75/80 Hertz). However, for fluid motion such a high rendering is not necessary for the eye to perceive fluid motion... for example, standard television runs at 30 frames per second.
From lots of experience in game play, I will say you want this to be between 30-40 frames per second, or at least 20-30 frames per second. When things drop down to 15 frames per second or lower it gets ugly. An occasional super low framerate is tolerable, like in massive explosions when you die and so on. Generally though, at 15 frames per second or lower you're probably not happy. Of course, the numbers in the corner are not necessarily a true gauge... let your gaming experience of 'if it feels fast enough' be your guide.
Also you should know, the TITAN map is going to be about 10 frames slower everywhere on average than the CONQUEST map simply because all the extra geometry of computing two big honking TITANS in the air and their insides. I try to aim for a ballpark of 40-50 frames/second on the CONQUEST map, and 30-40 frames/second average on the TITAN map. Explosions (effects) also slow things down considerably if they are big and going on at the screen at the moment.
Here's my video settings for a Nvidia 7800GT on an AMD X2 3800, what I consider a baseline average gaming system. Its somewhere in the middle between the latest and the greatest, and some system that is barely playable. After much tweaking to figure out what did what, my settings render a very beautiful immersive world which is still right above the borderline of slickly fast and responsive 90% of the time.
Notice how I don't have everything JACKED UP all the way to high on everything, which is what a beginner will do out of hubris... and what I myself did... the thinking goes like this: "I got this kick ass video card I spent some serious bucks on, it can do anything!" Well yeah, my two 7800GTs cost $400+ retail each at one time (I didn't pay that much for them, I bought them from a crackhead, he did, I probably paid $20 each for them new). After playing a long time though, I realized, I could improve things by turning off stuff that put a performance hit on drawing frames but contributed negligable or disposable improvement.
As a rule of thumb, you can turn everything up in the left column to high, and everything in the right column off. As you can see, I've done further tweaking than this. I like to turn my TERRAIN and TEXTURE to High, as this renderes a beautiful world and totally makes up for the right column being off. Geometry I'm not sure what it does, but I assume it involves CPU cycles and not Graphic card power, so I set that at high as I have ample CPU power. As for effects, Nvidia's dont handle effects very well (things like smoke), so I set this at Medium... you don't want to go lower than that for effects, and I can tell no difference between Medium and High on Effects. Lighting takes a big performance hit and you don't need it. The same goes for Dynamic Shadows, Dynamic Light, Anti-aliasing, and Texture Filtering... all of these incure a big performance hit. I set my view distance at 100% because I do a lot of dogfighting in the sky and I want to see my enemy coming from a long way away. You can probably get away with the standard 90%. Enhanced Lighting Effect at the very bottom, you definatly want to switch to off.
I'm running at 1600x1200, and at that resolution I don't need anti-aliasing. Yes, there are jaggies on lines, but when you're in motion, it all blends together. You don't need anti-aliasing at all unless you are doing screen captures or running at a low resolution. Of course, do not set this to higher than what your monitor will do, or you will lock yourself out of being able to see the game when you run it entirely, and have to delete your settings in your Documents/BF2142 folder and reinstall the game - don't say I didn't warn you, I've been there several times myself. Also, here I'm running at 75hz instead of a much more monitor widely compatible 60hz, as higher supposedly reduced eye fatigue. As a rule though you should probably stick with 1280x1024@60hz if you don't know what to do here, or are running an older 3D video card. And you should proably stick with 60hz period, as just about every monitor in the world can do it.
Setting your Texture Filtering Quality from 'Quality' to 'High Performance'
in the Nvida Control Panel will boost your frame rates and I notice little difference.
When you are tweaking out your own card, I recommend you do the reverse of what I did... I started out with everything at High and worked my way down. Instead, you should chose the screen resolution at what you want it to be, and then turn everything down to low and off. From that point, raise your Terrain and Textures up, as both of those return the biggest bang for the buck. Of course, if you've got a super new graphics card, even a bargain basement one, you can jack everything up to high, but for playability it would be indistinguable from my settings. In the game it doesn't really matter if your parked gunship on the ground casts a shadow or not, or if the lightpoles look smooth or a little pixy jaggy when they are at a long distance away. Its nice, but not necessary. Start from the bottom with your settings all the way at low and off, and watch your framerates and see what kind of headroom you have to work with. As you enable things you want you are watching for them on average to go down... and by how much... until you've exhausted your headroom and are hovering around or above the 30 mark (30-40 for Titan, 50-60 for Conquest).
Fore some more information, check THIS PAGE and also the BF2 Tweak Guide. Unlike this article, however, I suggest however you set your Audio settings to 'Hardware' and not 'Software'... software is compatibility mode, hardware offloads the work to your sound card (desirable). I also suggest if you can to set your Audio to "High" instead of "Medium", esp. if you have a 5.1/6.1/7.1 surround sound system, as you hear quite a few extra sounds you wouldn't hear otherwise. At any rate, sound is going to be processed by your CPU (software setting) or even better, your Sound Card (hardware setting), and not your graphics card. Using Taskmgr running in background showing the CPU usage history graph while you play the game, you can check taht you've got plenty of extra CPU cycles to burn. In my case I'm running a dual core, and both CPUs are at 60%, so yes I have plenty. On my old 3500 single core processor, I was running at 100% on a single core, so on a single core you may not have extra CPU overhead to play with.
Eject midair from the Pods
You can now Eject from my Pods in flight. Its tricky, and there's a trick to it, because you'll kill yourself and commit suicide if you don't have enough forward or backwards momentum to distance yourself from the explosive force that shatters the pod when you eject.
To practice doing this without dying from the pod blast, spawn as Assault troop, switch weapon to holding Med Kit (default press "4"), launch in a pod out of an APC and get lots of forward or backwards momentum (default "W" or "S"). Then near the top of your arc while you are moving forwards or backwards, eject (default "E"), and your Pod will detonate the bolts that hold it together and explode and you'll be free falling. Open your Parachute (default "Spacebar") so you can float down and try it all over again.
You can do this with any troop types, but you take damage. The more forward or backwards momentum you have, the further you'll be from the pod blast and the less damage you'll take, and I find it works easiest near the top of your arc. Note that if you die from doing this, two points (-2) is subtracted from your score as its counted as a suicide, so watch your score while practicing so that you don't get kicked from excessive negative score.
You can do this with any troop class, but its easiest to practice in the beginning with an Assault troop holding the Med Kit, to learn how to do it successfully while the damage you take from the pod blast as much as possible.
You can also do this from the Titan pods, the trick is not to do any forward momentum at all, just let it shoot you out and then eject from the pod. Once you're free, you can deploy your parasail and windsail anywhere you want to go.
New Trick! I've found I can do this and take very little damage (my best is no damage at all), by doing this very close to the top of the arc and I was using no forward momentum. You want to do this as close to the top of arc as possible with a little upward momentum, but not past the point of the top of the arc when you start to fall, or you'll die instantly. You will need to experiment around until you get proficient at learning the best time to eject near the top.
HollyWood Tank Trap
In designing my maps, I always moved the action out away from the center of the map. My theory is the center of the map is always going to get plenty of action just from its location, in the very center. It will be traversed across just by about every vehicle and body in the game at some point. However, spreading the action out from the center, this left the center kind of actually empty, with everyone fighting like mad over the other control points and just kind of forgetting about the center. Plus there were these two long big boring bridges there, sitting flat and empty, tempting me, and I had do something with them. I always wanted to write my name inside the game, but never could find an object that would work well to do so. Until yesterday, when I had an epiphany.
So I decided to build a jeep and tank trap on the bridge, to slow down and stop tanks until the tank trap was destroyed. This trap consists of crates of explosives, which I've tweaked to be a bit harder to explode. When I first made the trap if you hit one crate, they would all go up at once, which was one awesome explosion, but devastating on the frame rates. So I designed around the problem and fixed it.
I call it the Hollywood Tank Trap, because AIR*WAR is written inside the game just like the HollyWood Sign (I had even considered writting it on the side of a mountain, but the bridge was always my number one candidate). I actually slipped up right before I finished, and got my letters transposed so it spelled "RAW AIR" which was kind of funny if you're into purile fart type jokes. It made me chuckle for a moment anyway when I first saw it.
This trap doesn't effect walkers, they can walk right past it, as well as men on foot... if you're in a tank or jeep you can shoot your way through it, using the machine guns... or hand held rocket launcher. The air transport is particularly devanstatingly against it. If you run into the trap with a tank or jeep they will explode, so watch out... it will stop the unwary from zipping across the bridge to get to the center. Of course you can bypass it all together via another route, but it does its job well. You can actually stand on a crate and blast it, which will throw you into the air, and you can deploy your parachute and press the backwards key and actually launch yourself airborne that way.
So here it is, I present to you, for the first time ever, in the history of BF1942/BF Vietnam/BF2/BF2142 (what, like 3000+ servers?), the FIRST and ONLY server EVER to have a word written inside the game. Think of it as my signature on my level. You saw it first here. Yet another BF2142 mod first from me, and you've seen a lot of them. Enjoy! And yes, be my guest, you can blow it up... that's what its there for.
How to Update Your Punkbuster
In many cases your punkbuster software will fail to update, in which case you might get kicked with a "PB Client Failed to Update" error. I see this happen a lot. Its a problem with your Punkbuster install having slipped out of date, not you or your playing. Or you may just have a really ancient version of Punkbuster and need to update it. Here's how to update your Punkbuster:
1. Download the PBSetup program and run it. Its easy. Instructions and Downloads are on THIS PAGE.
2. Once you run it, accept the licence aggreement, and install it, you'll get a blank Window that looks like THIS.
3. Click the "ADD GAME" button and click on the DROP DOWN ARROW in the game name field, and select "Battlefield 2142". It will add an entry for your game into the empty window.
4. IMPORTANT! PBsetup hasn't done anything yet. Click the "CHECK FOR UPDATES" Button for PBsetup to update your punkbuster software for the games (Battlefield 2142) you added to the list. This is where the magic happens.
Be sure you add a game ("Battlefield 2142") as an item in the list in the previously blank window and then click the Check for Updates Button for any install or upgrade of Punkbuster to actually take place. Give it a moment, you will see it downloading and updating the version number.
5. When its done you can click the "QUIT" button and fire up BF2142 Demo and play the game without any problems (you hope).
For more information about Punkbuster for BF2142, you can check the Evenbalance website .
KiwiClam posted some of his action screenshots from the game in the forum. If you were playing the game at the same time he was, maybe you'll get to see your name in lights in the scrolling chat box captured in a screenshot. Or your name on the receiving end of his sniper rifle, whichever the case may be. Thanks KiwiClam!
I have some idea for some LEADERBOARD type scoreboard code of high scorers to be displayed inside the game and on the main page here of the website, but the code is turning out to be more tricky to figure out where all this is stored than I thought. And more serious, I don't have time at the moment to work on it. But maybe someday down the road in the future, you may see the MONTH's, WEEK's, and DAY's TOP 10 SCORES displayed inside the game on my leaderboard. The leaderboards for each category will rotate like the messages do with the start of each new game so you could sit through three games to see them all, or just pull up the website here. You'll also be able to check todays, this week's, and this months top scores in more detail on the front page of my website here, such as the top 50 scores for each category (instead of just the top 10). And for those people who have autoready turned on (dummies) and never see the screen below, I'll also show the top 3 scorers for each category inside the scrolling messages in the game. Of course, the coveted position will be 'this month's #1 high score', but don't take it too seriously because it really doesn't mean a whole hill of beans. You never know, maybe the poser was using an AIMBOT.
Here is an idea of how it would look inside the game... I just picked filler names of whoever happened to be playing when I made this graphic... there is going to be a math problem I'm going to have to figure out because in game this area uses a variable width font, so I am going to have to do some insanely clever math or just blow it off, to get the second column to come even close to lining up straight.
PARAGLIDERS!
After 8 hours of work, I finally got the parachutes to work like they should of from the very start in the game... you can now steer and control them with the standard WASD key layout! My server is the only 2142 server with drivable parachutes / paragliders that drive like the real thing, so knock yourself out and enjoy them.
Spawn as an Engineer so you have the rocket launcher, take an aircraft up, jump out, hit Spacebar to deploy them, and hit your backwards key to gain even more altitude. Cruise leisurly over the battlefield taking pot shots at flying aircraft or swoop in on ground forces below, and catch a thermal to ride on out of there.
FORWARD - Press your forward key and hold it down (default: W) to go forward. These open some flaps on the chute and you'll drop suddenly for a bit until you gain speed and then move forward).
UP - Press your backwards key (default: S) and hold it down to try and catch a thermal or a gust of wind, and go up. You'll also go backwards a bit so be sure to turn to counter it and keep from going off the edge of the map.
STEERING - steer with your normal steering keys (default A and S). Once you get momentum going in a direction you'll keep going that way, so to stop it, you'll need to turn and face in the other direction and use the forward key to try and counteract your momentum and flare out and slow down.
If you don't press forward or backwards, and just steer like before, they act just like the regular chutes and let you gently decend onto the ground. Keep in mind that when you first press forward, you're opening some flaps in the chute and you'll drop quickly at first... this can be useful when you deploy near the ground and want to get down quicker. But if you're too close to the ground, you'll drop and land on the ground before you ever get a chance to move forward. So if you want to drive a chute around and play with it, make sure you have some altitude first, and when you start to run out of altitude, you can always catch a gust of wind with your back key.
Useless, you say! Now here's the best part. You know how when you get shot down in the middle of nowhere, and have to hoof it back to the nearest vehicle to get back to a base and find an APC to launch, or fend off some attacking gunship on the ground with just a rocket launcher? No more! Now as soon as you think your gunship is going to blow, jump out, hit your parachute, and hit your backwards key to gain some altitute. Then just paraglide out of harms way or back to a friend base or nearest vehicle, or even back up to your Titan.
Holy crap! Probably stored in some farmers barn for almost 100 years and then drug out with a tractor!
Now left to rot in the rain! No!!!!!
You know I want it!!!! Some super rich person donate lots of $$$ so I can save this
100 year old dream gunship and classic piece of world history from the elements!
If you don't know what it is, its a Sopwith Camel from World War 1
and there are only seven original Camels left in the world.
I CRUSH YOUR RAPPER BLING BLING HUMVEE
My friend Christina says "we girls just roll like that"
Fans of Airwar, put AIRWAR as your clan tag!
Being kind of a loner warrior so to speak, I'm not really big on the ideas of clans or being a team player; however some people are and they like to be part of a group and I understand this. So for all the fans of AIRWAR, I'm authorizing you (authorizing? Woo! I guess. I have no control over the idiotic actions of the masses) to put AIRWAR as your clan tag if your a fan of AIRWAR. Think of it not as a clan, but rather more like a fan club (fans of airwar, so to speak), so feel free to express that my server is your favorite if you so desire by putting it in your clan tag!
I know everybody's got crazy nicks out there, so feel free to capitalize it anyway you like to match your nick (i.e. AIRWAR, airwar, AirWar, Airwar, airWar, aIrWar, airWAR, aIRwAR, etc. whatever!) however the freak you like, even with whatever funky characters or symbols in it you like.
Likewise, if some dwork is out there being a dwork with AIRWAR as their clan tag, I'm not in any way responsible for their actions or behavior, it just means my server is their favorite server to play on.
Yeah, I know, I should of said this six months ago for all those people that wanted to join my "clan", but better late than never. Actually, it wasn't my idea, I saw some fan put AIRWAR as clan tag, and didn't think to much of it at the time, but after a while it grew on me that it wasn't such a bad tag after all. Short and sweet, and it says just what its meant to say, that Airwar is your favorite server to play on.
AIRWAR servers now in Battlefield 2 demo and BF2142 full game!
If you're tired of playing Sidi Power Plant over and over again, here's the fresh change you've been waiting for. I'm running a 5 player test bed BF2 server I've been working called, of course, CHOPPERGIRL's AIRWAR. I'll eventually move this over to a 16 player dedicated server.
Download the free BF2 demo client (google search, try the first link first its the best), tweak up your video and audio and control settings (I recommend max everything up except antialiasing and dynamic lighting - turn those off), click on Multi player and uncheck all the search filter boxes just like you do in BF2142 demo, and look for "CHOPPERGIRL's AIRWAR".
If you have the full game of BF2142 you're in for a real treat, because I've modded four BF2142 full game maps to have multi spawning gunships and vehicles. In fact, I need some people to pile in there and favorite it because most people on the full game side don't know about it yet, AND they are obsessed with getting unlocks and ranks. Which means playing on unmodded ranked servers. Which is stupid and lame. So we've got to show them what we in the demo community already know, that its all about fun, not playing to weevil your way up some stupid ranking system! Just load all thousand plus servers in the Advanced tab, and do a search for "AIRWAR" and favorite it.
How much does AIRWAR cost to run?
People ask me all the time, how much does it cost to run your own server, and why am I get so bent out of shape about getting people to donate to run a server that is my own choice to do so? Well, the truth is not pretty, its rather very expensive in time and money. Your first deceptively cheap cost is a server rental, where you're paying for the bandwidth and electricity on a box to run your game. This runs you anywhere from $1 to $2 U.S. per gamer slot. Because I shop around aggressively, a 26 player slot server such as mine, costs me $26 a month, or $312 dollars a year. That's $300 a year someone like you would be spending to get a Wii, or PS2 or XBOX, or a new video card. Because I run AIRWAR and basically paying for your slot and everybody elses slot to play on my server, I'm going without. Add into that a monthly broadband connection at $55 a month (I live way the freak out in the stix, I consider myself lucky to have an option to something other than a god awful modem phone line), to upload files, playtest the game, police the game, maintain the website... and that's another $660 a year. No, I don't need internet for buttkiss anything else. After you watch a couple of Youtube videos, you realize, most of the internet sux. Electric for my computers here, probably another $100 over the course of a year on these 400 watt power supplies. So I figure its costing me just in raw materials, probably around $1200 a year, and I really question my sanity to spend so much to play a game the way I want to play it, considering I don't even like it anymore! Yeah, you have to be a pretty hardcore gamer to spend that much.
Unfortunately, beware my enthusiastic sever admin wannabe, the costs don't end there. You don't just don't go shopping for mods at some BF2142 Walmart style modding site, pick out the ones you want to steal for free, and plug them in. There is no such thing. It just doesn't exist anywhere, because I can count the number of BF2142 modders on my two hands. There's just that few of them, and they don't share secrets. You have to make your own. Yes, you can run a stock server out of the box, but as 800 always empty BF2142 full game servers testify to, nobody wants to play on an unranked stock server at all. They just suck. The plain vanilla server just... sucks. BF2142 was meant to be a vehicle intensive game, I saw it from the moment I laid eyes on it, and stock servers are stingy as heck with their vehicles. Hell, just about all the full game Conquest maps have no vehicles in them whatsoever! Insane. My god, how boring can that be, walking all over a city map every time you die just to get to the center again to be killed by some asshole sniper.
Further, the things you think should be easy, for example, placing a new AA gun in a map, is devilishly and unnecessarily difficult. Somewhere near the center of the map is coordinate 0,0,0. That's the X,Z, and Y center from which all other coordinates are measured. You want to put your AA gun up on a hill, this is what you do. You guess what coordinates it might be, located it far up in the air, add it to a file, rezip the file, restart the server, reconnect via IP to your game, fly to the air, try and find your new object (sometimes its way off and you have to hunt all over for it, that's why its good to put it first way up in the air), and then try and guess how F***ing far it is off from where you want it to be. You reedit your config file, and repeat the whole slow process. When you get it sort of where you want it as far as X and Y are concerned, you start slowly lowering it in steps, until you get down to inches above where it must be. You don't want it buried under the ground, nor do you want it hovering over it. I'm a perfectionist at this point, I have to get it sitting just right. Go to any of my objects in the game, and you'll find, they are sitting just perfect on the ground, if I've done my job right, you can get down on the ground and not look under them. You tweak left/right, backwards/forwards, up/down, over and over again with small changes until you get it just right and every change is a guess. Sometimes you totally go the wrong direction +/-, and throw your object way off.
I recently put in nine new AA guns on the roof, and it took me half the day and into the night, working as fast as I could, doing every single one of them at once. Even at my fastests, and I've had lots of practice by now, that's how much work it is. I do it because I love it, to throw more spicey toys into the mix. I don't expect to get paid for my hours, that's my contribution, but all the raw materials that I have to spend real money on... yeah, it sure would be nice to get some help. I'm not rich, and I don't pretend to be, and running this thing is really beyond my means.
So donate people. So we can keep AIRWAR in the air, and play the way we want to play. You play on it, you know how fun it is. There is no other place like it, no other place to fly 10 friggin gunships in the air and have debris and action falling all around you. Not even in the full game. And I'm running my Classic AIRWAR maps on the demo side. How sweet is that for you. Yes, there are other servers, with even more slots. And yes if I can no longer afford to keep AIRWAR running and it falls off the grid forever, you will still be able to play on some demo server somewhere. But god how bad will that suck for all of us. If AIRWAR blinks out forever, it will be the end of a golden age. Don't fool yourself and think other people will donate to cover your ass... because quite frankly, nobody is.
Very soon I am going to have to get a real job, and am not going to have time to play on AIRWAR anymore. I have worked hard on it and at this point, all I have to do to keep it going is pay the server bill every month. I would like to keep it running for all the rest of you, but somehow it needs to get to be self sustaining where it at least pays for itself. Otherwise, the horrible axe shall fall as I won't have time to play on it like I do now and will wonder why I'm paying for a bunch of people I don't even know to play on a server that is so popular I can't even get into it myself most of the time if I even had the time when I was not working a full time job to do so.
New Lasar Cannons and AA guns
Yes, its lasar tag war... and you probably have no clue yet how devastating these little over looked babies are as a sniper weapon... yes, even against lone infantry. Here's the clue: you think these puppies are horribly inaccurate... and you might be right... but did you ever think to ZOOM them? Like you do your sniper rifle or other hand held weapon. Yes, hit your ZOOM button and BLAMMO, these things become pixel perfect deadly from a long range. Remember they shoot from one side, so your lasar line of fire is at an angle towards infinity, so you may need to aim a pixel or two to the left of your target in the distance. Most people won't be looking for you. But keep in mind, repeated firing will give away your position. These are great to snipe with if you haven't respawn as a sniper, but want to do some sniping just the same.
I've also added some more Anti Aircraft guns around the Conquest map Home bases, to make base raping a bit more difficult. A lot of action tends to happen around the main bases as people fly in in a gunship and jump out and start mixing it up. If people start mounting them, the added AA guns are there to make the main bases a hornets nest of AA gunfire and more perilious for these kind of commando attacks to be executed. The problem is too many of them repeatedly tie people to action and fighting in the main base, and they get distracted and never can get out to mix it up on the rest of the map and capture flags. Its a big map and fighting needs to be 'out there', not constantly at the main bases. So use those AA guns. They are up on the towers and roofs. Podsurf up there or climb a ladder.
Rattlesnake Jeeps
Ah, what's the one never before seen thing you won't find in the full game of BF2142 that Choppergirl whips up for you wicked unemployed deadbeat little lay-abouts enjoyment... besides Carpet Bombing Air Transports... *AND* Starburst Shoulder Fired Rocket Launchers... *AND* 50 caliber Sniper Rifles... *AND* Multispawning Gunships and Vehicles... *AND* Dirty Harry style hand cannon Desert Eagle Pis.... oh never mind. That's right, you guessed it (no you didn't)... POISON GAS!!!
And what better way to deploy poison gas, than through a little bout of Grand Theft Auto style road rage. You come home from work, perhaps you've had to sit through a lot of boom boom rap from some retard dweeb next to you at the stop light (where do these people breed at?)... and what you want to do most is gas the heck out of some bastards. I say, go to it, and stomp on that horn in one of my Rattlesnake Jeeps, so named for the distinctive and errie hissing sound they make when the gas pellets ignite and throw up clouds of poison gas smoke as one passes you by. But don't stand to close or you'll feel the bite of the snake. And the snake does bite, and bite hard... those pellets can devastate vehicles as well... if you haven't figured it out by now, yes, you not only can take out infantry with a Rattlesnake Jeep, but walkers and tanks as well.
Special Thanks to Wecome of JOD for collaboration on the code for this neat little mod.
The Awesome Power of the Air Transport
Unless you've been living under a rock, you've noticed the Air Transports drop bombs in my game, and are the equivanent of a heavy strategic bomber. They are also one of the trickiest weapons to master in the game, even harder to master than the gunship, and here's why: an amateur transport pilot is just as likely to kill his own players with collateral damage as he is enemy players. Even worse, with people being TK punish happy as they are even when its unjustified, a person can quickly rack up a negative score flying around indiscriminatly bombing enemy targets. Even a master pilot will rack up a negative or zero score even though he's killed a lot of enemies; TK punishes drastically affect your score (minus 4 each?) and it only takes a few to keep knocking you down to zero or below. You may have killed 16 of the enemy with your bombing campaigns and think you're doing a heck of an awesome job (you are), but you're sitting at zero in the scoreboard because you've had four teamkills along the way. The Air Transport is a deceptively hard weapon to master and I meant it to be; however that does not mean you should not take advantage of it if you see the right opportunity to do so. It is a visciously powerful weapon and if used very carefully to avoid killing your own team members that may be down below or jumping out of your plane, it can be like having your own personal and mobile Oribital Strike.
To help you guys out, here's my own little micro guide to tactically and effectivly using the Air Transport.
The bombs are on a time delay fuse... which means they will detonate after a short period of time, which effectively limits the height they can be dropped. Dropped from too high, they will simply explode in the air doing no damage to anyone whatsoever.
The bombs have a wide and devastating blast radius... which means they do hella a lot of damage, but if you are flying too low, they will do damage to you as well. You can be doing damage to your own Transport and blow up it up by bombing too low to the ground; the blast radius is pretty great so you must find a safe bombing corridor height which is not too low, but also, not too high.
The bombs bounce... which makes them very effecitve if you are bombing tighty enclosed places like the Offices, but nearly useless if you are trying to bomb a target in the air (say a gunship), something on a hill or tower or roof, or in a fast pass over the top of the Titan.
If you're in a turn, the bombs will sling out much further than your Transport in a wide radius... you may be doing a tight turn over your target thinking you are dropping bombs on them, when in reality your bombs are being slung outward in a wide arc.
Set your keys up so you can look forward and backwards... the default to rotate through views is the "C" key, but I find I have to redefine this. I define the "F" key to look backwards, and the "C" key to return my view to forward cockpit. By occasionally looking backwards while flying, you can check your tail for enemy aircraft, and also see how your bombs are behaving and what they are doing, or not doing.
There are a few different methods I've found to work in different situations. Which you use will depend on your target.
The Straight Pass
This is very effective when you see a lone infantry man running across the ground; fly a medium low straight line over him holding down on the horn. Be sure not to curve or you will cast your boms off to the side. You want a straight line of explosions to pass right over him. This is also an effective tactic to use against AA turrets, even on roofs.
Saturation Bombing
This is very effective against the enemies main base, or against a silo or flag that is crawling with respawned enemy soliders. Hover over the area, and saturate the area with a continuous dump of bombs. Do not stay still, but make little passes back and forth being sure to hit whatever vehicles are in the area over and over for extra explosions. Bomb whereever they may respawn and behind buildings, and always go after soldiers that come back.
Hover Bombing
This is very effective against armored vehicles, particularly Walkers and Tanks. Fly over them and hover directly, dropping a continous stream of bombs straight down. Bombs when droped in a pass tend to bounce and go right through and past walkers without much effect, but even walkers can't survive this waterfall barage of bombs from straight above. Its devastatingly destructive. However, keep in mind you're right above a walker with its awesome anti-aircraft capabilities; if there's any fight in it more than likely the outcome will be mutual destruction.
The Camper Kill
If there's a camper continuously being a pain and returning to the top of your Titan to shoot hand held rockets at your gunships leaving the Titan, this is what you can do. Get in the Air Transport, fly up, and as soon as you leave the safety of the shields hit the Air Transport shields (the default key being "X") and start bombing and sway slightly ever so backwards over the top of your Titan so you are hovering directly above it dropping a torrent of bombs on the top roof of your Titan. It won't do any damage to your Titan, but it will bomb the daylights of anybody up there, even with bombs bouncing off eveywhere. If they blow you out of the air, try it again and again until you drive them off.
One last thing to keep in mind, is that your own teammates will be respawning in your Air Transport and parachuting out. These daft morons in some cases will jump out right into your bombing malestrom even though they can hear you holding your foot down on the horn. Either they are unaware of the bombing modifications, or just unaware that a horn noise means a warning that bombs are being dumped out below. Almost always these daft people will punish you for their own stupidity, so be aware of them. Even though you may have no passengers when you leave the Titan, they can respawn into your Air Transport by clicking your moving dot on the map.
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“It’s on three levels and has views from each one. It feels like you’re living in the view rather than just looking at it.”Ms Skuza said the house itself was a blank canvas so it would be easy for someone to come in and put their own stamp on it.Big enough to host extended family on both sides, the home features an expansive entertaining area and a new kitchen. “If you’re going away, everyone will keep an eye on your house and water the plants if they look like they’re dying.”The suburb is also known for its native forna, making birdwatching from the house a morning ritual. “Bob walked across the creek quite frequently to go fishing, and it was just lifestyle that attracted us and the fact that it’s such a beautiful house,” Ms Skuza said.“I’ll miss sitting on the big veranda on Sunday morning and watching all the bird life coming in; the brolgas in the park, the jabiru, whistle ducks — all kinds of stuff.” READ MORE: Sneak peek at Strand’s new $50m Marina Residences “Having a guest room downstairs is great, and it’s been everything from a movie theatre to hosting discos over the years.”Located in a family-oriented neighbourhood, she said residents felt comfortable that their homes were watched over if they were away. “It’s a very friendly neighbourhood, everybody knows everyone and usually by their dog’s name before the owner.“We have a lot of dinner parties and footy competitions, so it’s a real community feel and a feeling of belonging. House of the Week: Beauty by the beach “We’ve just put in the kitchen two years ago, I designed it myself — it’s got a work station so you don’t need to put all your utensils away and there’s a place on the bench for everything,” she said.More from news01:21Buyer demand explodes in Townsville’s 2019 flood-affected suburbs12 Sep 202001:21‘Giant surge’ in new home sales lifts Townsville property market10 Sep 2020Ms Skuza said the family had hosted Christmas at the house for the past 16 years, with about 38 people joining in the celebrations last year. “It has a huge oven that’s really deep and high; it’s called an American oven because it’s made to fit huge turkeys,” she said.Spread over three levels, the house has four separate living spaces, a downstairs granny flat, and a large in-ground pool, perfect for a Sunday afternoon swim. This house at 42 Seaward Crescent, Pallarenda, is on the market for $900,000.For more than a decade, the Skuza family have enjoyed the lifestyle that comes with living beachside in Pallarenda, including endless afternoons on their front deck watching the sunset paint the Pinnacles dusty pink.With a work transfer to Wollongong, Bob and Michele Skuza are bidding a sad farewell to the white walls and cathedral-style ceilings that their daughter grew up with.“It’s a house that has seen us through various stage of our lives, including a new child — we built the nursery upstairs,” Ms Skuza said. “It’s a very welcoming house, the way it’s been designed is open-plan but there are still rooms to escape to; there are two lounge rooms on the middle level, one lounge on the bottom floor, and one lounge at the top on the mezzanine deck,” Ms Skuza said. “The downstairs guest room has a kitchenette and that’s where our parents used to stay when they’d come to visit — so that was a space where they could stay for extended periods because they had their own little hideaway. It pays to buy in Townsville MORE REAL ESTATE NEWS
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DIGITAL HUMANITIES 473
A Study of Festivity
Festivals: Culture in the Making
Miranda Limonczenko
Dale Ralston
Leanne Ray
Drew Robertson
Alexa Williams
Reflection: Final Thoughts
Week 13: Down to the Wire
Week 12: Layout
Week 11: Building the Site
Week 10: Progress …?
Cathy Kroll on Week 11: Building the Site
Tanya Soraya Ruys on Week 9: Interviews
Tanya Soraya Ruys on Week 10: Progress …?
Cathy Kroll on Week 10: Progress …?
Published by Tanya Soraya Ruys on May 10, 2016
As I attended yet another film festival last weekend (Film Fest Petaluma), I kept in mind several questions:
What are the main functions of a film festival?
Why do people attend? What are their expectations/experiences?
What do film festivals contribute to the community? To society in general?
In the beginning of my research, I knew very little about film festivals, although I fancy myself a student of film. I started out researching a single festival, the Silver Scream Film & Comic Festival, which debuted this year at the Roxy 14 Theater in my hometown. My research on this led me to want to compare it to other film festivals in the area. I soon found several active festivals, many which specialized in certain cinematic fare and/or targeted key audiences. I settled on two others to add to my list: the Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival and the Sonoma International Film Festival.
Each of these events boasted their own distinctive mission statements, style and appeal. The one thing they all had in common was a passion for both storytelling and the storyteller. Each festival wanted to support, honor and celebrate those who use the medium of film/video to educate and entertain. Whatever reason the filmmakers had for making their film, these festivals gave them the chance to expose their visions to an audience. And all of them depended on the support of the local community to make it happen. They were often run by dedicated volunteers, some who worked year-round to make sure the festivals would return every spring to a devoted audience. And there apparently is a huge source of creative talent out there willing to do what it takes to obtain a screening at one of these festival, no matter how small or specialized they might be. Filmmakers from all over the world are participating in these local events, bringing their worldly visions home to us in our own theaters.
And this is what I love about our film festivals. I loved going to each and every one of them. I loved the experience of sitting with hundreds of other spectators engaged in the act of observation. I loved feeling them react around me, and being a part of the buzz in between showings. Film is magic to me, and film festivals, because of their nature, are all the more magical not only because of the devotion of its creators and faciliators but also because of its audience. It’s a collective experience that reveals many things about who we are, and it shows us where we’re at as a society.
Let me explain briefly. A controversial film was screened at SIFF this year that was shown to a class at SRJC. It was about necrophilia. A young man digs up a dead woman and has sex with her one last time. The response from audience members was mixed, ranging from shock to disgust to outrage to indifference. It sparked lively debates between students, especially between men and women. Films of this sort visually expose us to concepts and ideas we normally wouldn’t experience in our lifetimes, often triggering surprising discoveries about ourselves in how we react, physically and emotionally, to what we see and experience on the screen.
In short, the cinematic experience has the ability to transform audiences in unexpected ways. Film makes statements we can’t easily erase from memory. Film festivals offer a collective experience that can bind us together by moving us emotionally, by compelling its audience to care.
So, how does this tie in with everything we’ve learned about festivals this semester? I feel that film festivals are not the result of a decaying tradition but instead a promise of a dynamic future. They cleverly use cinematic nostalgia to its advantage, in a way that propels us into the present and helps us to envision a better future. They also help to identify and break down cultural limitations by fostering an ever-increasing freedom of expression that perpetually keeps alive the creative spirit.
And that’s my experience. Thank you for being a part of it.
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Dennis DeYoung And The Music of STYX
Live In Los Angeles
Best of Times
Lorelei Video
I thought that's how it sounded. Who are those guitarists shredding the place up?
Cheers, dennis
Hello God
Just saw this on YouTube. I think this was written by the "show me the way guy". No not Peter Frampton.
cheers ddy
Click image above to play the video
Dawn returns totally unplanned at a sold out show in Reno and sings her ass off. Just like old times...I mean the best of times.
Love dennis
Styx Inducted Into the Ultimate Classic Rock
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New Blue Collar 2013
Dennis Rocks Toronto
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Dennis & Hammond USA
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ALL HONOR ALL GLORY TO THOSE WHO MADE THE SACRIFICE
Thanks to Deana Lofrano and Shannon for finding the pics and putting the video together.
Happy 43rd Anniversary
"Japan, The Budokan, 1982 the last show of the Paradise tour a Japanese TV production". What a band! Who is that guy at 6:57?
- ddy
Concert Review: Dennis DeYoung: The Music of Styx with The Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Artistshouse Music Interview
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Huffington Post Interview (7.9.12)
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Backstage Axxess Interview (7.2.12)
Stuck in the '80s Episode 257 Podcast (2.15.12)
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Goldmine Interview
Reposted on
Classic Rock Revisited
read the interview
I Turned Down The Cover For Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue For This
Anyone who has seen me in a Speedo knows why.
Thanks for this posting. This is the band I remember.
Hit Rewind
I met House of Representives Dan Lipinski at a concert where I was performing a few years back and he mentioned to me how the lyrics to Rockin the Paradise held special meaning to him.
Dennis Voted #22 Greatest Rock Keyboardist
"From accordion player to this. I would have been higher if polkas had been considered."
Click here to see the list
Dennis Voted #38 Greatest Male Rock Vocalist
"I am flattered but I don't know how Steven Tyler, Lou Gramm, John Lennon, Bob Seeger, Rod Stewart, Don Henley, Sting, John Foggerty and some others are all after me."
Come visit my YouTube Channel: Click here
Hey kids,
I did this last week and holy cow. Unbelievable so thanks to everyone who watched and left a comment.
Dennis Trending
Here are a couple of songs from my new album "26 East: Volume 1", EAST OF MIDNIGHT and TO THE GOOD OLD DAYS.
Thanks to Jim Peterik, Serafino and the kids at Frontiers and Tim Orchard for making this possible. If you listen and like it, download baby and keep the music alive.
Download To The Good Old Days
Download East Of Midnight
Dennis DeYoung Announces 2020 Tour and New Album Featuring a Duet with Julian Lennon
Dennis DeYoung's new album "26 East: Volume 1,” will be released Spring 2020 via Frontiers Records and will feature the duet "To The Good Old Days" with Julian Lennon.
DeYoung has previously announced this will be his last album but has added an update.
"This was supposed to be my final album but there were so many songs written that Serafino Perugino, CEO of Frontiers, suggested dividing it into two albums rather than one,” DeYoung states. “This is Volume 1, which sounds pretentious to me, but the marketing folks wanted you to know there are going to be two of them, so hey kids, there are two of them; this is Volume 1."
The collaboration with Julian Lennon came about when DeYoung wrote a verse and chorus of a song with Lennon in mind. Lennon heard the demo and said he would be honored to participate. Lennon's vocals were recorded in October at Mission Sound in Brooklyn, NY.
DeYoung shares, "The moment we sang together in the studio it felt magical. I wrote the song specifically for our two voices. I had never met Julian previously but I have been an admirer since Valotte."
It all started when Jim Peterik, a fellow Chicagoan and nearby neighbor, sent a song demo to Dennis.
"If not for Jim Peterik’s encouragement, talent and prodding I would not have recorded this music,” said DeYoung. "He once told me the world needed my music; to which I replied 'have the world text me for verification.' We collaborated from the get go, happily and seamlessly and at this time we have written 9 songs together of which five will be on Volume 1. Just two Chicago guys doing what they do best, making music and having a laugh.”
The album title “26 East” was the address where DeYoung grew up in Roseland on the far south side of Chicago. This is where the band was formed in his basement in 1962. Across the street lived the Panozzo twins John and Chuck who along with DeYoung would go on to form the nucleus of Styx. The cover artwork features 3 locomotives traveling through space, representing the original members leaving Chicago on their journey to the stars.
To kick-off the release of the album, DeYoung will appear at the House of Blues Chicago, 329 N. Dearborn St., Chicago on April 3rd 2020, with a live concert and sneak preview of the album. Every attendee will receive the new CD of “26 East”. In addition, the album will be played in its entirety on the house PA, followed by a Q&A session with DeYoung and Jim Peterik to discuss the new music. It will be followed by the live performance of The Music of Styx. Attendees can expect to hear a few songs from the new album, also performed live. In support of the release of “26 East,” DeYoung will tour heavily throughout 2020.
#julianlennon #houseofblues #albumreleaseparty
Order the 2CD/DVD version of
Live In Los Angeles at:
http://geni.us/DDYLiveAMZ
A big thank you to all of the Canadian fans for making the Blu-Ray version of DENNIS DEYOUNG AND THE MUSIC OF STYX LIVE IN LOS ANGELES the #1 selling music video in Canada! This is the first #1 in Canada for Dennis, so again, THANK YOU to the fans for the support!
More YouTube Videos
With Rock Symphony
• Lady
• Come Sail Away
• Mr. Roboto
• Mr Roboto - (NOTP Germany)
• Best of Times
• Don't Let It End
• Mr. Roboto I am the Metal Man With Tats inked in Japan
• Arnel Pineda of Journey Sings First Time
• Come Sail Away (Grand Valley State University)
• Mr. Roboto (A Cappella, The Real Six Pack)
New Band
• Desert Moon Featuring the Great Jimmy Leahey ('12) HD
• Born For Adventure ('12) HD
• Show Me the Way ('12) HD
• Blue Collar Man ('12) HD
• Foolin Yourself (A Man and His Oberheim) ('12) HD-NEW
• Too Much Time ('10)
• New Band Compilation ('10)
• Babe - Niagara Falls
• 100 Years with Eric Lapointe
• Dennis in Puerto Rico
• Don't Let It End (Unplugged)
• Ruth Eckard Hall, Sold Out ('12)
• Show Me the Way
VH1 & MTV
• Desert Moon
• Don't Wait for Heroes
• Call Me
• Boomchild
A special thank you to all whose videos we have shared on this website.
This is a video of a song from Jim Peteriks new World Stage album that we co wrote. It will also be on my new album.
I have been spending the majority of my time on my Facebook page and have not been here all that much. Below is a series of Podcasts I am doing for Cox Media Group that airs in six cities. They are taken from two separate interviews I did awhile back and touch on various topics that might be of interest to you. Check them out when your bored I think they're pretty insightful and funny.
Dennis introduces his new podcast and talks about the origins of the song "Lady".
Dennis tells us why he thinks "Rock is Dead" and what has replaced it.
Dennis talks about the Paradise Theatre Tour and Album and meeting President Ronald Reagan.
Dennis talks about why "The Song is King. All that remains is the songs in the very end."
Dennis talks about how Styx gravitated to the "prog rock" genre.
Dennis talks about the history of Styx.
How Dennis got started in the biz.
Dennis talks about a song he wrote that made it #1 in Quebec.
Dennis talks about some of his favorite music.
Dennis talks about career paths, his own middle-class upbringing, and technology replacing jobs like the one his father had.
Back in December Adam Sandler asked me if I would be his guest at his annual Holiday bash and perform Grand Illusion, Lady and Come Sail Away with his Cracker Jack band. Of course I cried, will there be a buffet. Turns out there was an unbelievable buffet including free cocktails for everyone. "And the fun never ends as long as he's". Adam throws this party yearly as a gift to all his friends and employees. I estimated around two thousand people were there. Regular folks mingled with show biz types and the atmosphere could only be described as BIG FUN.
The day before at rehearsal I met Adam for only the second time (the other being the Big Daddy premiere) and had a lovely chat about life, Big Daddy, music and specifically Styx. I do not claim to know him very well but both times he has impressed me as a down to earth, unpretentious, cool guy. Plus he really dug Styx which qualifies him as a certifiable genius.
The list of performers at the party included Gene Simmons, Don Felder, Courtney Love, Rick Springfield, Kevin Cronin, Vanilla Ice, Rick Derringer, Tom Morello, the Romantics, Adam himself and a player to be named later.
Suzanne, Tim, August and Michelle my lawyer Rob Allen and his wife sat in the green room which was quite large for around three hours waiting to perform. Spent some time with Kevin Cronin and his wife Lisa, David Spade, Tom Morello, Taylor Lautner, Patrick Warburton, Cheri Oteri, and Brad Elvis. I was surprised to learn Tom Morello was a big Styx fan telling me about his attending the Paradise Theater in the last row of the Rosemont horizon back in 1981. I told him if only he had told me he was going to end up becoming Tom Morello I would have gotten him front row seats. All had lovely stories about listening to Styx when they were young except Cronin who kept humming Keep on Lovin You. (Did not) Adam sang back up on every song and we I did the "all the same same same same" echo thing on Grand Illusion by alternating the singing instead of with delay. If you would have told me this would happen back when I wrote the tune back in 77 I would have said who's Adam Sandler. He was 11. The crowd was younger but wildly enthusiastic especially for me which I attributed to them being sufficiently liquored up by the time I went on. Free booze boo yah.
I would remiss if I did not mention Brooks Arthur Adam's record producer and right hand man who set everything up. Google him and marvel at the career he has had as an engineer. He's as good as it gets as a person and talent.
I have never been a schmoozer or the hanging out cat and kept pretty much to myself in Chicago with my family and friends but I must say I really enjoyed myself. Thanks Adam.
On a related note I have decided to do the hang and put a bid on the Playboy Mansion to start throwing parties with Hef. Just kidding Suzanne.
Hey kids I just came across the Rolling Stone review of the Grand Illusion album by Joe Fernbacher from 1977. This guy singles but one song out on the album and that's Miss America. No mention of Grand Illusion, Foolin Yourself or ComeSail Away, the three songs still being played on radio today. But being completely wrong about his musical prescience is really not the issue it's his ignorant and malicious evaluation of the songs lyrical content that enrages. He accuses JY of being a misogynist (woman hater) based on his interpretation of the lyrics. At this time JY and I were best friends traveling together by car to many drivable Midwestern cities and sharing motel rooms to save money. Roomies. I witnessed first hand the agony and feeling of helplessness he endured as his beloved wife Susie was stricken with Porphyria a disease for which there is no cure. She nearly died and she has bravely dealt with health issues ever since. Through it all he was by her side taking over when Dr.s had no answers. To this day he has been by her side through everything. A mensch if ever there was one. She was his Miss America and the lyrics reflect that using the metaphor of a beauty queen (which she was to him) who had lost her crown. Every chorus ends with the words "Our love". I suggest you reread his lyrics with that in mind. If this Fernbacher character is still alive he owes JY an apology.
Landed in LA yesterday and was greeted with the news of the day in San Bernadino. My deepest sympathies to all those whose lives have tragically been touched by this madness. Although I wrote a song entitled turn off CNN when these things happen it's difficult not to want to know what happened and why. The why, as is the case with too much of human behavior is tough to make sense of.
STILL SEARCHING FOR SOME REASON
AT THE SCENE OF THE CRIME
WITH PEOPLE KILLING PEOPLE EVERYWHERE ALL THE TIME.
On a happier note I'm in LA to play at Adam Sandler's private Holiday bash. I will be joining a bevy (that's 2 more then a bunch) of Adam's favorite musicians to spread some musical cheer to all those in attendance. I rehearsed last night with a great group of musicians led by Waddy Wachtel and will be playing Grand Illusion, Lady, and Come Sail Away. Adam was there and will be joining in on background vocals. More tambourine less cowbell. More on this later.
Wow! This just showed up on YouTube. I had never seen this before but coincidentally I was just asked about this very day last week by author Dave Hoekstra who interviewed me about a book he was writing. This was the last game the White Sox played in Comiskey Park which at the time was the oldest park in Major League Baseball. Because of my personal relationships with former manager Tony LaRussa and owner Jerry Reinsdorf I was asked if Styx would do it. Are you kidding. Quite an honor for a kid whose dad brought him to his first game at this very park when he was nine. My dad and I had spent countless un air conditioned hot summer days listening to the games on the transistor radio. So it was great that my parents and my family were in attendance to witness it all. I was the only Sox fan in the group. John was a Cubs fan and the other guys including John were more Blackhawk and Bears fans then baseball enthusiasts. If you needed some musician or celebrity to do this for the Cubs the line would have been a long one but the White Sox celebrity fan list was very short. In 1990 no one knew who Barack Obama was so who was left, Mayor Daley, Jessie Jackson? Side note, I've heard that in 2017 these 3 are considering forming a singing group to perform Bee Gee's covers in Vegas. "Staying aliveahiveahive".
Anyway my dad passed his love of baseball and the Sox on to me and I did the same for my son Matthew. In fact he became more dedicated then I ever was what with his season tickets and every app invented to check up on his team. As a parent you occasionally get things right. Anyway Matthew bought me a green bleacher seat and a brick from the old ballpark that I will always cherish along with the myriad of memories of time spent with my dad my friends and my family. Cheers Dennis
HAPPY BIRTHDAY one day late to my girlfriend and wife Suzanne. Love from your boyfriend and husband.
I certainly hope none of you ever discover how many times I check on you tube for my current video's or old Styx video's when I'm bored because it would be embarrassing. Or the number of times I google myself. Google has begun to send me messages beginning Hey dude get a life. Kind of like the Lite beer commercial when Troy Aikman claims to not dwell in the past and then his ring tone goes off screaming "Aikman touchdown unbelievable".
I believe those who claim to not be interested in themselves or their past are secretly wanted for transporting illegal goods across state lines, or their lying. I mention this because this video popped up in that ever helpful or intrusive function on you tube that appears under "recommended for you". Now if one of these videos turns out to be "Sexy Sabrina and her frisky Python" trouble could be right around the corner. You know who you are.
Thankfully for me and Suzanne it was Dennis DeYoung at Manny's deli 2000 not Sabrina, Suzanne is deathly afraid of snakes I did not post this because it shows me in the most glamorous light, quite the contrary but because I believe it demonstrates essentially who I am as a person and performer. Manny's deli was the TV station's idea not mine and when Suzanne, Carrie and I who was my publicist at the time arrived at 6 am my first thought was, I wonder if it's to late to become an aluminum siding salesman. It was clear that the early morning crowd at Manny's were clueless as to I was or why I was interrupting their breakfast. I believe that when the camera panned around the room FBI alerts were sounded causing a momentary ruckus as fugitives escaped. I made that last part up. So faced with situation I did what I always do and made the best of it. Anyone can accomplish things under the best circumstances it's the vast majority of life we must somehow manage to get through. I had recently been replaced in the band I founded and had been given the opportunity to headline the Rosemont Theater by Tim Orchard who ran the joint.
It was much to big a venue for someone like me, capacity 4300 but Tim convinced me to play it with a 50 piece orchestra. The orchestra show was his idea and he put up all the money (a lot a scratch) convinced he would sell it out. He did not once but twice leading to our partnership for the last 15 years. So there I was at Manny's of all places trying to stir up ticket sales for a show I was convinced no one would attend. On the curb and all alone without the mighty Styx name behind me I did what I had to do, which was playing Lady of Spain on the piano in front of a bewildered bunch. Wait a minute I just realized where the idea of Lady came from..."Lady of Spain I adore you". Remember "winners are losers who got up and gave it one more try".
Tonight we end our year and play the final show of a three day run here in Epcot, the happiest place on earth. "Everyone please have a magical day". This is the fourth time Disney has hired us to perform at their Eat to the Beat international Food and Wine Festival. I'm perfect for this shindig because as my family will tell you no one "wines" more than me. Each night the venue has been filled with enthusiastic fans from all over the U.S., even with the rain last night. Thanks to all who have attended.
This year we have played 54 shows between the U.S. and Canada and that's more then I have done since the 60 plus I did the year of The Night Of The Proms, the Germany tour. Suzanne, the band and I would like to thank you all for attending our shows and helping keep alive all the wonderful songs that Styx and I have created. We feel we are the go to destination for all the Hits.
Thanks to August, Jimmy, John, Craig, Dave and Suzanne for bringing this music to all of you and allowing me the chance to view first hand the lasting impact the Styx catalog has had on so many. How this miracle has occurred is really beyond my understanding. I know the songs that I wrote, the concept albums I initiated and the theatricality of our stage shows were all simply things I made up as I went along. It's still a mystery to me how things worked out as well as they did. As I expressed in the lyrics to the Grand Illusion (as well as other songs), far too much adulation and credit has been assigned to politicians, athletes and show biz people like me who really don't know much more about the the way things work than the next guy. Unless the next guy is that dumb ass sitting behind you at the movies talking loudly to the screen, or Charles Manson. I know more than them. Once again I am grateful for your continuing support and will continue to come visit you until I begin to embarrass my family.
PS. I have just been informed I have one more show in Ft. Lauderdale in December. Just when you thought it was safe to live in Florida...
I am mad mad mad mad mad with recent accusations that our recent successes have gone to our heads. I categorically refute these specious, allegations as nothing more than a blatant attempt by my political enemies to besmirch our integrity. I blame the radical left the nutty right and the mushy middle for this nonsense. By the way do any of you know of a hat store that sells xxxxxxxxxtra large, winter's coming.
P.S. Thanks to my good friends in Florida for the big heads.
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=== Locality 16, Sugar Loaf Hill [SD 836 638] ===
Cross the wall and continue east for loo m to steps providing access to the footpath leading to Sugar Loaf Hill, in the High Hill fault block. Proceed 350 m southwards to the base of the conical shaped Sugar Loaf Hill. The dark grey limestones dipping at 18° immediately to the west are Lower Hawes Limestone. The base of this limestone provides a reliable datum on which the throw of the MCF can be calculated (here 170 m). Please note that this area of Hawes Limestone has been inadvertently shaded as Cove Limestone on the solid edition of the Settle 1:50 000 geological map, but corrected on the drift edition. The strata forming Sugar Loaf Hill are early Namurian (Pendleian) in age and '''unconformably''' overlie the limestones of the lower part of the Wensleydale Group. Most of the hill is composed of intercalated mudstone, siltstone and thin cherty limestone (30 m in all), collectively named the Sugar Loaf Shales, while the top of the hill is capped by 5 m of shelly (brachiopod) wackestone, the lower third of the Sugar Loaf Limestone. The local names reflect the unique character of these units, which are correlatives of the nearby Upper Bowland Shales, but more analogous in lithology to the Namurian part of the Wensleydale Group (the Main Limestone and underlying siltstones as found, for example, on Fountains Fell). The Sugar Loaf succession represents the localized deposition of a late Wensleydale Group facies on an isolated fault block, when the adjacent tract was typically characterized by the deeper water deposits of Bowland Shales. These stratigraphic relations indicate the relative independence and variable subsidence rates of the isolated blocks forming the hanging wall of the MCF.
Cross the wall and continue east for 100 m to steps providing access to the footpath leading to Sugar Loaf Hill, in the High Hill fault block. Proceed 350 m southwards to the base of the conical shaped Sugar Loaf Hill. The dark grey limestones dipping at 18° immediately to the west are Lower Hawes Limestone. The base of this limestone provides a reliable datum on which the throw of the MCF can be calculated (here 170 m). Please note that this area of Hawes Limestone has been inadvertently shaded as Cove Limestone on the solid edition of the Settle 1:50 000 geological map, but corrected on the drift edition. The strata forming Sugar Loaf Hill are early Namurian (Pendleian) in age and '''unconformably''' overlie the limestones of the lower part of the Wensleydale Group. Most of the hill is composed of intercalated mudstone, siltstone and thin cherty limestone (30 m in all), collectively named the Sugar Loaf Shales, while the top of the hill is capped by 5 m of shelly (brachiopod) wackestone, the lower third of the Sugar Loaf Limestone. The local names reflect the unique character of these units, which are correlatives of the nearby Upper Bowland Shales, but more analogous in lithology to the Namurian part of the Wensleydale Group (the Main Limestone and underlying siltstones as found, for example, on Fountains Fell). The Sugar Loaf succession represents the localized deposition of a late Wensleydale Group facies on an isolated fault block, when the adjacent tract was typically characterized by the deeper water deposits of Bowland Shales. These stratigraphic relations indicate the relative independence and variable subsidence rates of the isolated blocks forming the hanging wall of the MCF.
=== Locality 17, High Hill, eastern side [SD 837 634] ===
Continue southwards for a further 300 m to where the footpath runs close to the wall, following the line of a northwest-trending subsidiary fault, to the west of which are large replacive dolostone bodies in the Gordale Limestone. Observe the Gordale Limestone immediately to the west where well-bedded limestones are dipping at about 15°. Proceed southwards to the remains of a limekiln just west of the path. The quarried limestone section adjacent to the kiln exposes unbedded bank facies of the marginal 'reef' limestones. Notice that the bedded Gordale Limestone (previously viewed) overlaps these 'reef' limestones. The Gordale Limestone in this vicinity thus formed at the very edge of the original shelf, and would have passed into or lapped onto the marginal build-ups somewhere out of the exposure to the south; the present juxtaposition of beds reflecting erosion on the front of the shelf margin build-up.
Continue southwards for a further 300 m to where the footpath runs close to the wall, following the line of a northwest-trending subsidiary fault, to the west of which are large replacive '''dolostone''' bodies in the Gordale Limestone. Observe the Gordale Limestone immediately to the west where well-bedded limestones are dipping at about 15°. Proceed southwards to the remains of a limekiln just west of the path. The quarried limestone section adjacent to the kiln exposes unbedded bank facies of the marginal 'reef' limestones. Notice that the bedded Gordale Limestone (previously viewed) overlaps these 'reef' limestones. The Gordale Limestone in this vicinity thus formed at the very edge of the original shelf, and would have passed into or lapped onto the marginal build-ups somewhere out of the exposure to the south; the present juxtaposition of beds reflecting erosion on the front of the shelf margin build-up.
=== Locality 18, Corner of High Hill Lane and Stockdale Lane [SD 836 630] ===
Figure 2.1 Relationships and ages of principal rock units referred to in the itinerary.
Figure 2.2 Principal geological features between Gordale Scar and Settle. Abbreviations as in Figure 2.1.
Figure 2.3 Geological section across the Middle Craven Fault near Malham. Abbreviations as in Figure 2.1.
By David Mundy Talisman Energy, Calgary and Russell Arthurton formerly British Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham
5.1 Locality 1, Gordale Scar viewpoint [SD 913 634]
5.2 Locality 2, Janet's Foss, Gordale Beck [SD 912 633]
5.3 Locality 3, Gordale Lane, at the base of Cawden Hill [SD 904 629]
5.4 Locality 4 (optional), Malham Cove viewpoint [SD 897 633]
5.5 Locality 5, Burns Barn (Field Barns) [SD 893 632]
5.6 Locality 6, Pikedaw Gill [SD 882 636]
5.7 Locality 7, Pikedaw [SD 881 638]
5.8 Locality 8, Calamine Mine 'New Shaft' [SD 876 640]
5.9 Locality 9, Pikedaw Head Gate [SD 875 640]
5.10 Locality 10, Kirkby Fell viewpoint [SD 870 638]
5.11 Locality 11, Great Scar viewpoint [SD 866 639]
5.12 Locality 12, Stockdale viewpoint [SD 863 639]
5.13 Locality 13, Stockdale Lane corner [SD 848 638]
5.14 Locality 14, Attermire Scar–Warrendale Knotts viewpoint [SD 840 641]
5.15 Locality 15 (optional), Victoria Cave [SD 838 650]
5.16 Locality 16, Sugar Loaf Hill [SD 836 638]
5.17 Locality 17, High Hill, eastern side [SD 837 634]
5.18 Locality 18, Corner of High Hill Lane and Stockdale Lane [SD 836 630]
This excursion observes Carboniferous (Dinantian and Namurian) stratigraphy and structural relations at the southern margin of the Askrigg Block along the line of the Middle Craven Fault (MCF) between Malham and Settle. Features relating to mineralization, Quaternary geology and geomorphology will also be addressed.
The itinerary covers some 9 km, with an optional side trip to Victoria Cave (Locality 15). It may be tackled as a half-day or a full-day walk, starting at Gordale Bridge [SD 913 634], or for a shorter walk, from Malham itself [SD 990 636]. The excursion is entirely within the confines of the Yorkshire Dales National Park; thus hammering of the exposures is strongly discouraged.
There is a large pay-and-display car park adjoining the National Park information centre in Malham. There are several car parks in Settle; alternatively, a small number of vehicles can park on the roadside verge adjacent to the last Locality 18 [SD 836 630], thus avoiding a 1.5 km road walk to Settle.
O.S. 1:50 000 Sheet 98, Wensleydale & Upper Wharfedale; 1:25 000 Outdoor Leisure Map 10, Yorkshire Dales-Southern Area; B.G.S. 1:50 000 Sheet 60, Settle (Drift edition recommended for this traverse). B.G.S. Memoir, Settle (Arthurton et al., 1988).
Geological background
The Carboniferous (Dinantian, Namurian) palaeogeography of the North of England was greatly influenced by structurally controlled blocks of Lower Palaeozoic basement, which under a regime of largely extensional rifting, produced depositional settings of ramp, rimmed shelf and basin. The Craven Faults, and in particular the Middle Craven Fault (MCF), defined the southern margin of the Askrigg Block, a northward-dipping tilt-block of isostatically buoyant (granite-cored) Lower Palaeozoic basement. This block formed a site suitable for shallow water limestone deposition, and contrasted markedly with the subsiding area to the south, where deeper water environments were formed, characterized by both mudstone and limestone deposition.
By late Dinantian times there was a clear differentiation between a rimmed carbonate shelf developed on the Askrigg Block, with marginal carbonate build-ups (the Cracoean 'reef' limestones), and the deeper water settings of the Craven Basin. These build-ups had a unique set of facies and supported a prolific invertebrate fauna. The dip of the Malham Formation in the hanging wall of the MCF is always greater than that on the adjacent footwall, and implies northward rotation of the hanging wall. The rotation is a reflection of a concavity in the MCF plane, with the fault plane flattening out with depth; such fault geometries are described as listric. In detail, the Visean (late Dinantian) depositional history of the shelf-edge was complex, and involved syndepositional (extensional) 'growth faulting' along the MCF, followed by a major erosive phase instigated by a strike-slip component on the Craven faults with localized compressional effects. Mudstones of the Bowland Shales progressively covered these disrupted Dinantian limestones, burying the 'reefs' and lapping over the MCF; the Bowland Shales passing up into the siltier and sandier Pendle Grit Formation. After further structural upheaval and erosion, widespread across the Askrigg Block, the deltaic, pebbly, coarse-grained sandstones of the Grassington Grit Formation extended southwards across the Block and into the Craven Basin.
Excursion details
Locality 1, Gordale Scar viewpoint [SD 913 634]
View from Gordale Bridge or proceed as a side trip into Gordale Scar. The spectacular gorge in the Malham Formation was probably carved as a meltwater channel beneath the Devensian ice-sheet. Upstream of the waterfall the gorge dog-legs abruptly to the northwest, where a series of minor extensional faults have controlled the erosive path of the meltwater channel. These faults are exposed just above the tufa screen and are part of the complex set of fractures between the North and Middle Craven faults. The superb Malham Formation section in Gordale Scar exposes 43 m of the Cove Limestone Member and 94 m of the overlying Gordale Limestone Member. This location is designated as the stratotype for the latter. The contact of the two formations is a strong bedding plane defining the top of the first persistent scar feature.
Locality 2, Janet's Foss, Gordale Beck [SD 912 633]
Take the footpath which leads south from Gordale Lane into Gordale Beck. The footpath enters a wooded valley where the stream is interrupted by a small waterfall (Janet's Foss) below which is a moss-covered tufa screen. This exposure of Gordale Limestone forms the northern part of the hanging wall block of Wedber Brow. These limestones dip east-northeast at 25° towards a fault defining the eastern margin of the Wedber block. The middle and southern parts of Wedber Brow are formed by 'reef' limestones. The small cave known as Janet's Cave was, according to records, inhabited in the late 17th century by smelters working the copper mines at Pikedaw to the west. The exposed Gordale Limestone above the waterfall is notably mottled as a result of the burrowing activities of bottom-dwelling organisms. This burrow-mottling can be seen in exposures in the path on the return to Gordale Lane.
Locality 3, Gordale Lane, at the base of Cawden Hill [SD 904 629]
View the 'reef' limestones on the southern flank of Cawden from a position just west of the bend in Gordale Lane. These carbonate build-ups, first recognized by R. H. Tiddeman, were largely constructed by organisms, and had depositional topographies of over 100 m. They are not, however, analogous to present-day coral-algal framework reefs. Three principal subfacies make up the build-ups bank, flank, and framework (Figure 2.3). The bank is the poorly bedded core of the build-ups, while the flank facies formed the basin-facing palaeoslope, with depositional dips up to 35°. These subfacies contained a diverse and locally prolific biota dominated by brachiopods, molluscs, crinoids, bryozoans and corals. The lower southern slope of Cawden here consists largely of flank beds dipping southwards at about 30° (clearly seen in the old quarries just beyond the wall), whilst the middle slopes consist of flank and bank facies. The small raised feature visible at the top of the hill is a good example of the stromatolitic framework facies, which developed locally in the shallowest-water setting of the build-up. The present-day topography on this slope is a reflection of the original profile of the build-up. Proceed to Malham village.
Locality 4 (optional), Malham Cove viewpoint [SD 897 633]
Follow the road northwards through the village to the footpath gate leading to the Cove. View the geology of this spectacular section from here, or if you have the time and the energy inspect it at closer range. Malham Beck resurges from the base of the cliff. This stream receives only a small component of water from the Malham Tarn 'Water Sinks', a sink at the head of the Watlowes dry valley (which terminates at the Cove), taking the overflow water from Malham Tarn. This water source, although seemingly the obvious candidate for the Cove resurgence, does in fact flow at a deeper level and rises south of Malham as the Airehead Springs. The majority of the Malham Beck resurgence is derived from the 'Smelt Mill Sink' 1.2 km west of the Water Sinks.
Malham Cove is the stratotype of the Cove Limestone which is here 72 m thick. The top of the member is the bedding plane some 5 m above a prominent overhang (compare Gordale Scar). The basal 10 m of the overlying Gordale Limestone forms the remainder of the Cove cliff, with a well-developed limestone pavement on its top. A small inlier of dark grey grainstone referable to the Kilnsey Limestone Member of the Kilnsey Formation occurs in the valley bottom below the Cove. While you are at this locality, take the opportunity to view the western side of Cawden, where bedded Malham Formation in the hanging wall of the MCF can be seen dipping northwards at about 20°. Return to Malham.
Locality 5, Burns Barn (Field Barns) [SD 893 632]
Take the footpath from Malham heading to Field Barns and Pikedaw. The footpath crosses 'reef' limestone belonging to the Malham Formation. Small exposures in this tract show shelly limestones referable to the bank subfacies. The contact of the Bowland Shales on the reef limestones occurs 100 m west of Field Barns, and is defined by the rising ground east of Sell Gill. Although both the limestone and Bowland Shales are covered by a veneer of till, the ill-drained ground associated with the shales is conspicuous. Proceed westwards, up Pikedaw Gill, picking up the line of the MCF defined by the Malham Formation escarpment of Pikedaw to the north. Review the course of the fault eastwards from Malham.
Locality 6, Pikedaw Gill [SD 882 636]
The stream runs close to the margin of an extensive landslip, involving the Namurian formations to the south. Stop at the portal of the Pikedaw lead level beside the footpath. The portal has a stone-built arch with a keystone dated 1872, and is one of several entrances to the mine workings exploiting galena-bearing veins of the Pikedaw area. Most of the lead veins trend northwest-southeast, coincident with the general fault trend between the NCF and MCF. The Pikedaw area has a long history of mining probably dating from the 17th century, with copper, zinc and lead minerals extracted.
Locality 7, Pikedaw [SD 881 638]
Follow the footpath 200 m northeast of Locality 6 to limestone exposures bordering the footpath. Here the Gordale Limestone, close to the contact of the Hawes Limestone, is partially silicified. Brown quartz-rock has replaced limestone in irregular zones which stand proud of the limestone surface due to their greater resistance to weathering. Analogous silicified limestone forms northwest-trending replacement zones within the Hawes Limestone just to the north. These replacement bodies, clearly visible east of the footpath, weather as raised ribs carrying a more acid-tolerant flora than the limestone. The landslip on the eastern slopes of Kirkby Fell is well seen from here. The failure occurred in two episodes, each postdating the Devensian glaciation, with the Pendle Grit Formation and the lower leaf of the overlying Grassington Grit Formation collapsing to leave jumbled debris extending downslope onto the Bowland Shales.
Locality 8, Calamine Mine 'New Shaft' [SD 876 640]
A concrete cap with a metal door covers a 21 m deep shaft, dug in 1806 for access to the mine, which yielded smithsonite (calamine) from a Quaternary cavern system some 70 m in length. The mineral occurs as a sediment flooring the caverns, and was discovered during copper mining in 1788. The calamine was originally brought to surface via the difficult access of the copper mine to the west (see Locality 9). The New Shaft (rediscovered in 1944) was constructed to ease the handling of the mineral. It is estimated that up to 5000 tons of calamine, used largely in brass-making, were extracted before the mine was closed in 1830.
Locality 9, Pikedaw Head Gate [SD 875 640]
Proceed westward from the New Shaft through the gate in the wall. The disturbed ground immediately west of the wall is the result of copper workings and consists of shafts, bell-pits and their spoil. The copper deposits were in poorly differentiated veins and impregnations and were very difficult to work. The heap of limestone debris to the west of the gate is that from the 'principal copper shaft', and it was by this exit that calamine was initially brought to surface. Continuing westwards, observe the ground to the south (eg 200 m west of Locality 9). Here a line of shake holes defines the contact of the Upper Bowland Shales on the Hawes Limestone. The Namurian shales overlap an eroded limestone surface north of the MCF, a manifestation of a substantial throw in the MCF and subsequent erosion of the footwall scarp before the deposition of the shales. This buried fault-scarp is an example of the pre-Namurian topography.
Locality 10, Kirkby Fell viewpoint [SD 870 638]
The MCF crops out about 100 m south of the path, the rising ground of Kirkby Fell beyond being Pendle Grit Formation capped by Grassington Grit. To the southwest, two leaves of Grassington Grit form the prominent Rye Loaf Hill. To the west the path descends and crosses a narrow northnorthwest-trending dry valley, developed along another of the subsidiary extensional faults which cross the ground between the MCF and NCF. This subsidiary fault is linked with several others to the north, forming a complex zone of westward down-stepped slices. Silicified limestone analogous to that seen at Locality 7 is exposed adjacent to the path, and a line of small mineral workings follows the fault. Spoils have yielded sphalerite, galena, malachite, azurite and baryte.
Locality 11, Great Scar viewpoint [SD 866 639]
Continue westwards for some 400 m. The slopes and gullies to the northwest display the stratigraphy of the lower part of the Wensleydale Group (formerly called the Yoredales). This succession represents a continuation of shelf carbonate deposition, but with periodic interruption by mudstones in this area, but mudstones and sandstones (some with coals) north of the NCF. These siliciclastics were deposited during the southward progradation of a deltaic complex.
Compared with the underlying Malham Formation, the Wensleydale Group limestones are typically darker grey and contain more visually conspicuous fossils (particularly crinoids, corals, brachiopods and algae). The Wensleydale Group section exposed in the Great Scar escarpment includes, in ascending order, the Hawes Limestone (27 m), Gayle Limestone (16 m) and Hardraw Scar Limestone (14 m); the latter forming the skyline. The stepped topography is controlled by the mudstone bands separating the limestones. The top of the Lower Hawes Limestone contains several prominent fossil markers including algal (oncolite) beds ('Girvanella Band'), a Gigantoproductus brachiopod bed, and a coral biostrome dominated by colonies of Siphonodendron and Lithostrotion.
Locality 12, Stockdale viewpoint [SD 863 639]
Follow the footpath to the head of Stockdale. The Gordale Limestone produces continuous scars in the footwall fault scarp of the MCF. The position of the contact with the underlying Cove Limestone Member, on the top of the lowest scar-former, is clearly discernible and analogous to that at Malham. Northwest-trending fractures of little throw have influenced erosion, producing nicks in the escarpment. The MCF runs south of the whale-back ridge in the valley bottom. The ridge is defined to the north by the more northerly of two westerly-diverging fractures which here characterize the MCF; the other fracture, with most of the throw, occurs some 100 m to the south, concealed by Bowland Shales.
High South Bank, south of the main valley, is an inlier of Dinantian limestones forming a northward-dipping hanging wall dip-slope. This inlier is analogous to that at Malham, and is almost certainly fault-defined on its eastern and western margins. Bowland Shales are banked against the limestone. Prior to burial by these mudstones, the limestone of this hanging wall block had undergone significant erosion. A small outcrop of 'reef' limestones forms the southernmost part of the inlier (on the skyline), while the main dip-slope (locally dipping up to 30°) is formed of Malham Formation and Wensleydale Group. The latter includes the Hawes to Hardraw Scar limestones, but these have been attenuated to a 5 m interval, and contain conglomeratic units. Quarries on the northern end of the inlier expose cross-bedded grainstones, correlatives of the Middle Limestone (Brigantian) of Fountains Fell. Small mineral workings occur in the Wensleydale Group limestones, with galena, malachite and baryte in the spoils, while a large area of quartz-rock has replaced the Malham Formation. Attenuation of the early Wensleydale Group limestones and succeeding erosion of the shelf margin, suggests a slight compressional regime on the previously extensional fault line (a process known as fault inversion) before collapse of the hanging wall into a series of downthrown fault-blocks in late Dinantian times. The subsidiary faults (mostly northwest-trending) both north and south of the MCF were formed at this time, and reflect a component of right-lateral movement on the Craven fault system.
Locality 13, Stockdale Lane corner [SD 848 638]
Proceed westward to Stockdale Lane, then to the footpath gate at the bend in the lane 500 m ahead. The viewpoint, immediately north of the MCF, gives a good perspective of the High Hill hanging wall block relative to the Malham Formation footwall escarpment that includes Attermire Scar. The High Hill fault block contains 'reef' limestone exposures on the southern scarp-face and Malham Formation with overlying Wensleydale Group on the main dip slope, with dips from 15° to 25° towards the MCF. The throw on the fault using the datum of the base of the Hawes Limestone is calculated to be of the order of 170 m, much less than at Stockdale, but analogous to that at Wedber Brow, Malham. The High Hill block is truncated on its eastern margin by a fault, with Bowland Shales forming the low, poorly drained ground on the downside. The trace of this fault is not, however, shown on the B.G.S. map because the Bowland Shales overlap the fault plane (i.e. the fault is pre-Bowland Shales). This relationship clearly demonstrates the separation into blocks of the hanging wall geology by the subsidiary faults south of the MCF and also demonstrates the variation of throw of these isolated fault blocks relative to the main fault. The small roadside exposures near this viewpoint are dark grey grainstones of the Kilnsey Limestone. These are the oldest Dinantian rocks observed on this excursion; they crop out along the base of the slope (Little Banks), but are truncated by a fault east of Attermire Scar.
Locality 14, Attermire Scar–Warrendale Knotts viewpoint [SD 840 641]
Follow the footpath westward to the gate in the wall below Attermire Scar. The Malham Formation produces magnificent exposures in the fault scarp of the MCF. This escarpment is cut by northwest-trending faults which have produced zones of weakness along which narrow gullies have been eroded. These faults are part of the complex of minor fractures of very late Dinantian age which characterizes the ground between the NCF and MCF. As at Pikedaw and near Kirkby Fell, some are mineralized.
Locality 15 (optional), Victoria Cave [SD 838 650]
Take the footpath between Attermire Scar and Warrendale Knotts northwards for some 850 m. En route consider the fault-controlled topography to the west. The fault bordering Langcliffe Scars has a throw of up to 90 m. Climb the scree-strewn slope to the entrance of Victoria Cave. The cliff gives an opportunity for viewing the Gordale Limestone at close quarters. Four emergent (palaeokarstic) surfaces occur over a 17 m section of the cliff. The cave is an important site for cave archaeology and Pleistocene geology. Discovered in 1837 (the year of Queen Victoria's coronation) the cave was excavated intermittently over many years, but a major excavation was carried out between 1870 and 1878. Two distinct cave earths were found. The 'Upper' contained Neolithic cultural remains with Romano-British artifacts scattered on the surface, and the 'Lower', separated by a laminated clay and truncated by till at the mouth of the cave, was a Last Interglacial (Ipswichian) bone bed with the remains of nine large mammals including brown bear, spotted hyaena, lion, hippopotamus and narrow-nosed rhinoceros, indicating a use alternating between hyaena den and bear cave. Calcite speleothems enclosing the bones have been dated using the 230Th/234U method and give an age for the fauna in the cave vicinity at or just before 120 000 (± 6000) yrs BP. Return to Locality 14.
Locality 16, Sugar Loaf Hill [SD 836 638]
Cross the wall and continue east for 100 m to steps providing access to the footpath leading to Sugar Loaf Hill, in the High Hill fault block. Proceed 350 m southwards to the base of the conical shaped Sugar Loaf Hill. The dark grey limestones dipping at 18° immediately to the west are Lower Hawes Limestone. The base of this limestone provides a reliable datum on which the throw of the MCF can be calculated (here 170 m). Please note that this area of Hawes Limestone has been inadvertently shaded as Cove Limestone on the solid edition of the Settle 1:50 000 geological map, but corrected on the drift edition. The strata forming Sugar Loaf Hill are early Namurian (Pendleian) in age and unconformably overlie the limestones of the lower part of the Wensleydale Group. Most of the hill is composed of intercalated mudstone, siltstone and thin cherty limestone (30 m in all), collectively named the Sugar Loaf Shales, while the top of the hill is capped by 5 m of shelly (brachiopod) wackestone, the lower third of the Sugar Loaf Limestone. The local names reflect the unique character of these units, which are correlatives of the nearby Upper Bowland Shales, but more analogous in lithology to the Namurian part of the Wensleydale Group (the Main Limestone and underlying siltstones as found, for example, on Fountains Fell). The Sugar Loaf succession represents the localized deposition of a late Wensleydale Group facies on an isolated fault block, when the adjacent tract was typically characterized by the deeper water deposits of Bowland Shales. These stratigraphic relations indicate the relative independence and variable subsidence rates of the isolated blocks forming the hanging wall of the MCF.
Locality 17, High Hill, eastern side [SD 837 634]
Locality 18, Corner of High Hill Lane and Stockdale Lane [SD 836 630]
From this location, view the steep southern slope of High Hill, formed in 'reef' limestones. This topography is a pre-Namurian surface exhumed from a cover of Upper Bowland Shales, and gives an impression of the original bathymetry of the shelf margin. The extensive late Dinantian erosion on the front of the build-up has all but removed the basinward-dipping flank beds (as seen at Cawden, Malham), revealing mostly the unbedded 'core' of bank facies. Debris from this erosional episode was deposited to the south as conglomerates and boulder beds of the Pendleside Limestone and Lower Bowland Shales (as exposed nearby at Scaleber). This erosion surface has cut down progressively southwards, through the northward-dipping succession in the fault block defined by the South Craven Fault, intercepting the pre-'reefar Holkerian and Arundian succession of the Scaleber Quarry and Scaleber Force limestones (correlatives of the Kilnsey Formation). This deep erosion on the downside of the MCF (well exposed at Scaleber Beck and Scaleber Force some 600 m to the southwest) is associated with the minor compressional episode that preceded the major collapse on the faults. Continue west back to Settle via High Hill Lane (1.5 km) or rejoin vehicles parked adjacent to this locality.
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Vegas to Reno
Continuing along the vein of Grant's recovery, I had the opportunity last week to go along on quite the adventure, all within the Nevada state lines.
There's an offroad racing series called Best in the Desert, and they produce races in both Nevada and Arizona. The competitors range from trophy trucks and highly prepped dirt bikes to more attainable jeeps and dune buggies. Their showcase race is Vegas to Reno (Beatty to Dayton this year, specifically), a 550-mile tear through the desert, and the race goes off without the racers being able to see the terrain ahead of time.
I went along as an embedded journalist of sorts. Grant had an opportunity to serve as navigator for the series-leading team, Bad Apple Racing. They were exceptionally gracious to have Grant along, and I must extend my personal gratitude for the hospitality, camaraderie, and insight they provided to both me and the filmmaker, Ryan Croke. The team is run by two brothers, Steve and Chris Appleton, and they have put together quite the operation. Thanks, guys.
Just so it's not too long until you can see what we're talking about, here's what we're talking about:
I survey my kingdom
"Navigator" is kind of a loose term, as they've got the course pre-programmed into a GPS unit, but knowing that the desert is about to turn left is only a small victory in a battle that's repeated countless times throughout the 550 miles. The GPS says nothing of the terrain, the "road" condition, or the amount of dust obscuring the driver's vision. What's it really like?
Imagine having 800HP channeled through two rear wheels on a surface that, if you called it "loose," would make a nation of sluts seem virtuous by comparison, or if you called it "rough," would make the Before models in those shaving gel commercials seem like pampered pansies, and being kinda able to see where you're supposed to point this truck, but really just hoping the entire time that you're not about to drive into a boulder or a 10-foot deep wash or a tree or something, and if you catch someone, you bump them from behind to let them know you're there, cause they can't see anything, and if they don't let you by, you point the truck into the desert at 110MPH and get by them as quickly as you can, because lots of weird shit can appear in front of you when you're not on a road and covering a football field every two seconds, and if you're successful in doing this for 10 hours without killing yourself or having any day-ending mechanical problems, you're a winner. It's nuts.
Anyhow, I wrecked myself to finish my week's work before flying to Vegas Tuesday night to be there for practice and qualifying and whatnot before the race on Friday. I also came down with a beast of a head cold, only exacerbated by long hours, no sleep, and probably some stress, so I was a hot mess when I stepped off the plane into the welcoming 10-pm 95-degree cool part of the day. Shawna had been kind enough to grab the metric shit-ton of my camera gear before she and Grant drove down, so I was thankfully able to travel light otherwise.
Wednesday started with an early departure from the hotel to meet the team out in the desert. Bad Apple fielded two trucks in this race. Truck #1 was the title contender, and Truck #2 was their pre-runner, entered into this race to provide any necessary support to Truck #1. Grant's seat was in Truck #2, not quite as badass as Truck #1, but still fairly fire-breathing.
Bad Apple 2 on a practice run
After the team made sure both trucks were running to their satisfaction, we headed back into town for the registration for qualifying, and then promptly headed back into the heat. 106-degree heat. At about noon. All the makings of a fabulous day!
Grant is mildly excited as they head off to qualify
Qualifying was a bit tedious from a waiting around standpoint but also quite fun as we got to see these bombproof horsepower delivery machines wailing through a closed course and laying it all on the line for their starting position in the race. Start early and have good visibility and clean air...start late and spend all day making sketchy passes. Let's qualify well, yeah?
Trophy truck blasts through
Bad Apple 1 on the boil
Unfortunately, both Bad Apple trucks qualified poorly, #1 due to a flat tire, and #2 due to a limp-mode fault in the engine management, so they'd both have a lot of work to do on race day. Qualifying in the books, we cooled off by buying a 7-11's entire stock of cold drinks, drinking them, and then sleeping in their walk-in coolers. Maybe not that last part. Wanted to, though.
Thursday was race registration day and tech day, so Ryan and I kept busy interviewing the team members in a hotel room. It was a much quieter and cooler day, and that was a welcome respite from qualifying day. It's also the team's opportunity to shine up the trucks one last time, top up race fuel, etc. There's no doubt all the hard work had already been done in the formal race prep, but they're not willing to hang their drivers out to dry during the race, so everything gets checked one last time.
Skorg poses it out
Making it shiny inside
Topping up Bad Apple 1 with 113 octane
Where's the A/C?
Race day, Friday, brought an even earlier departure from the hotel, as we trekked north to Beatty well in advance of the 9:30AM truck start (the dirtbikes went off before dawn in the interest of safety).
Making the start line a little more spectator-friendly
Grant was fairly well-trained by now in his navigatorial duties (yes, I just made that up), so really all that was left was traversing 550 miles of inhospitable desert in a purpose-built dirt cannon, and to stay alert, fed, and hydrated along the way. That's all. And off they go!
Bad Apple 2 off to a roaring start
A buggy streaks through the desert
We're part of the traveling circus that moves from pit to pit along Hwy 95, easily keeping pace with the race since we drive 20 miles on the highway while they're driving 40 miles through the desert. Each pit stop is just for food and water when everything's going well. The trucks don't have the range to go the entire race without refueling, so there are a couple of those along the way. There are bound to be a couple tire changes, as those marvels of vulcanization transmit ridiculous power levels to the dirt, claw the truck through turns and over rock piles, and do the hard work when the anchors get thrown out. Hopefully, nothing else is required.
Race cars crest a horizon against the stark landscape
Chris keeps the focus up during a pit stop
As we work our way through the desert, the boys become evidently fatigued as mile upon mile of jostling, pounding, and smashing take their toll. The integrity of Grant's spine has been in the back of everyone's mind, but an essential part of recovery is testing the limits and taking hits that provide reassurance in repair and health. Fortunately, he's in good shape mechanically, and is doing an awesome job of providing Chris with all the information he needs and nothing more in order to safely and quickly pilot Bad Apple 2 through the mountain ranges and valleys. In short, they're tearing it up.
A buggy regains composure after nearly wadding it up on the berm
At some point, they've gone a while without radio contact, and Chris light-heartedly informs the team that they've taken a detour to inspect a tree. Grip is a mighty subjective thing on dirt, and they lost it from the front in a corner and more or less climbed a tree until they were high centered in it. This is about when I wish I had a helicopter (a proper chase vehicle) instead of being tethered to an SUV. 'Cause a truck in a tree would make for one hell of a photo. Aside from this excursion, they run strong all day and into the night; the team has done an excellent job of preparing these race cars.
Ron lets the rear off the jack after a tire change
Art fuels Bad Apple 2
Ron and Art scramble to replace a broken radio antenna
Shawna scorches up the desert
Desert sunset
As day turns to night, we take care of one last pit for them before we have to leapfrog ahead to the finish. The pits we skip are extraordinarily remote, and we would've fallen behind if we'd had any intention of going to them. Fortunately, the team is able to keep radio contact with them and they run well all the way to the finish.
A racer enters a pit just after dark
Bad Apple 2 heads into the night
Steve, Grant, and Chris trade war stories at the finish
Bad Apple 1 finished second in class and fourth overall. Bad Apple 2 fulfilled their mission 100%, and while they ran slower, they expected to due to the performance of the pre-runner compared to BA1. Grant, as expected, was exhausted but exhilarated from 14 hours of continuous and necessary focus on navigating. Everyone was in good spirits, and the team rather swiftly loaded the race car and we all made tracks for Reno. Utterly wrecked, we put the wraps on the weekend and went to sleep.
Huge thanks again to the Bad Apple guys, mostly for trusting Grant to be their navigator, but also for having Ryan and me along.
Ryan's quick cut on his view of the weekend can be found here: linky.
For more info on Best in the Desert: linky.
For more info on Bad Apple Racing: linky.
And for more on Korg 3.0: linky.
Finally, if you've arrived at this post because you're looking for photos of a particular race car...please leave a comment with some contact info and I'll see what I can do. The 2300 photos I left with just may have what you're looking for.
Onwards and upwards!
Posted by Eliot at 11:10 PM 1 comment:
We're so dang far out of chronological order now that I'm just gonna fill in the gaps where and when I can...moving on...
Ethel and I took a quick getaway to Seattle last weekend. She'd never set foot in Washington state, we swung a great deal on flight + hotel, and we had a few friends to catch up with. So, why not? Instead of a boring play-by-play of the whole trip, let's just rock out with a few photos and some selected stories. It'll probably be heavily architecture-themed, so stop here if you're not interested.
One of our stops was the Olympic Sculpture Park, a rotating exhibit of big art along the waterfront.
Rusty steel curvy things
One section of the Park holds the Vivarium, a greenhouse that is home to a Nurse Log, which is a big dead tree that sprouts all sorts of new life. Most simplistic description ever, but it really is quite cool.
Fern spores
Welded tree
We wandered to the Space Needle, where we promptly chose to avoid the cost and the lines. The complex around the Needle is also the site of the Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum, yet another tourist trap. The architecture is cool, though, and it's free to look at.
Panels I
Panels II
Panels III
Murphy poses it out
Back to downtown...
Most awesome gargoyles ever
We saddled up for an Underground Tour, an entertaining and meandering blast through the tunnels that used to be ground level before Seattle figured out that building a city on tidal flats was a bad idea. I wish we'd heard ahead of time that there was a nighttime Underworld tour also, a less family-friendly version of the Underground Tour where they don't have to call hookers "seamstresses."
The infamous Crapper
Watch your head
Ooooh, gears and stuff
Another cool stop was the Public Library, an architectural masterpiece. I easily could have spent a full day exploring the nooks and crannies of the place, but an hour would have to do.
Headed up
Top o' library I
Top o' library II
We got to catch up with Andy, Jesse, Kari, Daryl, and Melissa. We had awesome food and drink. We saw some cool stuff. So we called it good and headed home.
I've dispensed with my usual flowery writing style as I'm fighting a head cold, have a huge to-do list at work, and am leaving today for three days in the desert chasing Trophy Trucks around. More on that later!
Cheerio...
...Playa by Night
Let's pick up where we left off: dusk.
The veil falls
Extra clothes on, we sat back and enjoyed the show that nighttime brought to the desert. Many miles away from any light sources, and without a moon until the wee hours, the darkness was oppressive. In fact, it was only mitigated by the trillions of stars turning the sky into an enveloping blanket of pinpoint-driven imagination.
Some Milky Way telephoto action
As the hours wore on, we were treated to dozens of shooting stars, including the biggest one I've ever seen. It lit up the sky, changed colors, broke apart, kept going, and eventually covered about 120 degrees of arc; nearly horizon-to-horizon.
I took the time to set up a long exposure that would include the horizon and the North Star. What you see below is about 120 stacked 20" exposures. Some quick math tells me that's about 40 minutes. Easier when there's no light pollution to drown the stars out! The higher concentration of stars in the right part of the frame is due to the Milky Way. And yes, there are a couple satellites cruising through.
Then, when the clock said something-AM but still hours before the sun's arrival, a faint glow appeared near the eastern horizon and I went into photo hyperdrive. Must. Get. Right. We served witness to perhaps the most spectacular moonrise I've ever seen. The faint glow slowly warmed and grew to a disk that wasn't bright enough to overpower the stars; truly a special sight.
The moon approaches
After probably half an hour, the moon finally peeked over the horizon for an even more stunning view.
Hi! I'm far away!
Fully rejuvenated by this ridiculous stargazing, we packed up our gear and wiggled into our bags. This is stuff that not everyone gets to see.
Thanks for visiting :)
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Playa by Day...
This is going to be a 2-part post. Now that we've got that out of the way...
We made a trek out to Black Rock Hot Springs a couple weeks ago with Riley, Mike, and Dave. Our extraordinarily extended winter left a lot of extra water on the playa, and this complicated our routefinding on the way out there. Since the playa is pancake flat, it's hard to gain any vertical perspective to aid in navigation, and we ended up having to go waaaaaay north and then backtracking to the hot spring to avoid getting stuck. Permanently. Or at least for a couple months.
As soon as we got to higher ground (the hot spring is ~50' above the playa), the source of our detour became painfully obvious: a rather hard to miss 6-mile wide lake blocked our desired path. Duly noted for the way out! We arrived to an eerily calm afternoon; almost unheard of out there. The spring was in good shape although a touch hot for the air temperature; it'd have to wait 'til morning.
The hot spring attracts life
Stiff grass; the spring is surrounded by this stuff 6' tall
The desert is a very inhospitable place, but I'm always stunned by the tenacity of the organisms that have adapted to the environment. Grass, bugs, birds, bats, and more thrive while subjected to this paucity of water. The sun's heat combined with the localized heat and humidity from the spring sent us wandering up a rocky slope for a better view. We watched the sunset and the onset of dusk from up there, and mighty cathartic it was.
Murphy surveys the vastness of it all
Mike and Dave await sunset
When the sun dipped below the mountains, the temperature noticeably plummeted. By the minute. Accordingly, we wandered back down the hill and added another layer of clothes. At this point, we're going to skip ahead to the next day's exploration, and conspicuously leave out everything between dusk and dawn. Oooooooh, foreshadowing. Wonder what part two'll be about!
As soon as the sun hit the tent, I woke up and headed straight for the spring. It was stiflingly hot but restorative all at the same time; still quite a shock to the body. After a breakfast featuring both coffee and a bloody mary for everyone, we started breaking down camp. And then Mike found a new friend under his tent!
So cute and sting-y
With camp taken apart, we headed for some smaller semi-hidden playas we had heard about for a look around. They are quite special; their smaller size lends an air of privacy to them. I imagine that won't be my last visit there. Of note, we had a -great- game of frisbee out there.
Mike heads for the horizon
Now heating up rapidly, we returned to camp, loaded the cars, and retreated back across the playa, this time with the knowledge of how to avoid the massive freakin' lake. We picked a nice spot in the middle for lunch and shaded ourselves with the side of the truck.
The playa bakes as the Black Rock looms
Sandwiches fueling us, we headed home after yet another quick but successful journey to a wild and special place. And that foreshadowing from earlier? As day turns to night, the veil of darkness slips down to the horizon...
Ooooooh, colors
Stay tuned :)
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Celestial Plaything
Tour de Nez '11
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Pic story: Chinese professor engaged in field of phosphorus chemical engineering
Zhong Benhe (C) discusses with her team member and students at the lab of Sichuan University in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Jan. 8, 2021. Zhong Benhe is an outstanding professor of Sichuan University and a doctoral supervisor of the School of Chemical Engineering. She has been engaged in theoretical research and engineering practice in the field of phosphorus chemical engineering for more than 60 years and has made important contributions to the development of phosphorus chemical industry in China. At the age of 83, Professor Zhong still works on the frontline of scientific research and teaching, in a hope to lead and support scientific innovation and industrial development in China's phosphorus chemical industry at a higher level. (Xinhua/Liu Kun)
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Spring 2015 Colloquium: Dr. Julie Dunning Hotopp
How Spiderman got his Powers: A Look into Lateral Gene Transfer
“Actually, Spiderman’s powers have nothing to do with radioactivity,” Dr. Julie Dunning Hotopp clarified to the roomful of entomologists. “It was the transfer of spider DNA into his genome.” While the ability to climb walls or shoot webs out your wrists (or worse) is pure science fiction, the transfer of DNA between two different species does actually occur. Dr. Dunning Hotopp explained that this process, known as lateral gene transfer (LGT), is quite widespread and the advent of genome sequencing (determining the chemical code that make an organism unique) in the last decade has greatly expanded our knowledge on the prevalence and role of foreign DNA in animals
(The Brown Marmorated Stink Bug)
Demonstrating high LGT frequency in invertebrates, Dr. Dunning Hotopp’s team detected LGT from the bacterial endosymbionts Wolbachia in over 30% of sequenced arthropod genomes. Wolbachia is an intracellular bacterial parasite/mutualist with complex host interactions. While LGT from bacteria to animals often has no benefit to a host, in certain cases it can be advantageous. For example, the coffee berry borer, a major pest to coffee growers, and the brown marmorated stink bug both have a gene originally acquired from bacteria. The gene, HhMAN1, codes for the protein mannanse and enables insects to digest plant sugars.
Spring 2015 Colloquium: Kevin Ulrich
The alarm-defense system of Cimex lectularius and its implications for pest management
Post by Lisa Kuder
Figure 1: Cimex lectularius
Bed bugs (Hemiptera: Cimicidae) . . . the very mention of these small blood sucking parasites is enough to make most feel squeamish. While all cimicids have mammalian hosts, only three species have a strong preference for humans. Often considered a public health concern, there is no evidence that they are disease vectors. However, bed bugs can illicit allergic reactions, discomfort, anemia, and illnesses associated with insecticide treatments.
Spring 2015 Colloquium: Greg Davis
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The Challenges of Optional Sex: the case of reproductive polyphenism in aphids
Insects lay eggs, right? Well, in aphids, a speciose family of the Sternorrhyncha, females actually have the option of laying eggs or producing live young from embryos (instead of laying eggs). This is an example of reproductive polyphenism. Polyphenism is the ability of some organisms to adapt their phenotypes in response to environmental cues (Figure 1, from Ogawa and Miura 2014). In aphids the two reproductive strategies are a response to changes in photoperiod (day length) and this polyphenism is observed ubiquitously in these insects. In their life cycle, after having survived the winter as frost-resistant eggs, founder females reproduce asexually birthing live young that will produce further asexual females. Asexual females are all about high reproductive rates and dispersion. Those asexual females actually exhibit a second type of polyphenism in that some of them can develop wings promoting dispersion when its current location is experiencing crowded conditions. As day length gets shorter, indicating the coming of winter, sexual egg-laying females are produced (Figure 1). But how are those changes mediated by the environmental signals and how does the system switch from sexual to asexual reproduction?
In last week’s colloquium, Gregory Davis illustrated the complexity of deciphering the mechanisms behind reproductive polyphenism using aphids as his model. Much of this work is available in his most recent review paper (Davis, 2012). He believes that such a novelty may have developed because an initial, slight change in morphology may have stimulated a modification of life history, with changes in life history feeding back to further changes in morphology, continuously playing off each other until obvious changes in body structure and development evolve.
Spring 2015 Colloquium: Rodriguez-Saona
An Agricultural Balancing Act:
A look at the biological control consequences of crop domestication
By Lauren Hunt and Jessica Grant
Ecological theories and models that attempt to explain interactions between plant, herbivore, and predator are innumerable. But just how accurate can these theories be? How many factors can be feasibly fitted to a model without making it cumbersome? What major variables are missing from these interaction evaluations? Dr. Rodriguez-Saona cites one key aspect of agro-ecosystems that has often been ignored: anthropogenic effects of crop selection.
In terms of biological control, there are numerous top-down and bottom-up factors that play a role in the dynamic balance between plants and herbivores. Top-down factors are regulating mechanisms in which herbivore population numbers are controlled through upper trophic level organisms such as predators, natural enemies and parasitoids. In response to a lack of mobility, plants have developed an array of bottom-up mechanisms with which they can resist attack. Bottom-up controls are synergistically balanced with top-down controls in natural systems for overall suppression of herbivore populations. Plants utilize bottom-up mechanisms directly, through chemical and physical features used to resist damage and indirectly, by signaling to predators of an ongoing attack. These cries for help are in the form of volatiles (herbivore-induced plant volatiles, or HIPVs) that predators and parasitoids can respond to, finding food and reproductive hosts while simultaneously defending the plant. The HIPVs influence both bottom-up and top-down controls in this tri-trophic interaction.
Spring 2015 Colloquium: Ted Schultz
“Symbiotic Evolution and Species Discovery in Fungus-Farming Ants”
Dr. Ted Schultz has trekked the Americas in search of precious buried treasure; fungus-farming ants. Although these anthropomorphic creatures are not typically what we consider to be of monetary importance, they reveal a wealth of information about coevolution and symbiotic relationships. Fungus farming ants, like human farmers, cultivate their own food in gardens that are remarkably well cared for (Schultz, et al. 2015). However, unlike humans, fungus-farming ants have an obligate mutualism with their species-specific fungus. Imagine if we could only cultivate one type of food and that food could only survive via human agriculture. Dinner as we know it would be an entirely different experience.
Tracking these ants to their colony requires patience and dedication. To start, Dr. Shultz baits the ants with Cream of Rice and waits for an ant of interest to approach and take a bit of bait to bring back to the colony. Using a white food source makes it easier to spot the ants as they travel through the leaf litter, but it is still a difficult task. Once the ant leads him to a colony entrance, the digging starts. Fungus-farming ant colonies may be over 3 meters deep and digging requires several determined entomologists. Walls that cave in and sandy soils are no deterrents when the prize is a sample of the fungus garden and the ants that tend to it.
Spring 2015 Colloquium: Andres Baeza
Vegetation as a Climate Indicator: Modeling Malaria in the Punjab Region
The devastation malaria has wrought on humanity cannot be overstated. On the wings of mosquitoes, this disease has long evaded eradication while preying disproportionately on our developing world. Malaria relentlessly suppresses societies in arid environments by exploiting the interplay of human behavior and ecological dynamics that drives poverty in these areas. Dr. Andres Baeza intimately understands the challenges to sustainability in these regions because he spent his formative years basking in the Chilean sun. Visiting from SESYNC, Dr. Baeza described to the Entomology department colloquium how he’s using his expertise to understand and empower disease intervention in the Northwest region of India.
Dr. Baeza was quick to point out the precedent of his work in Gujarat and Rajasthan, India, with a graph (figure 1) representing fever (malaria) cases as they correlate with rainfall from a 1911 study by Sir Rickard Christophers.
Spring 2015 Colloquium: Laura Lavine
Mechanisms regulating condition-dependent growth in the elaborate weapons of sexual selection in beetles
Figure 1. Elk in the Snow (CC 2.0 by Larry Smith)
Some of the most charismatic and recognizable features in the animal kingdom are the impressive weapons they wield when competing with each other. Porcupine quills, the chelae of crayfish, and the antlers of elk all require an enormous amount of energy dedicated primarily to fighting their fellows for resources and mates. Most species get by with a modest arsenal; mockingbirds will pick fights over the best territory, but their beaks are hardly fearsome. For centuries scientists have studied and debated the evolutionary pressures that guide the creation of extreme biological weaponry we see in mastodons, kudu, and stalk-eyed flies1. Why do a few species develop these exaggerated armaments when most get by with beaks and jaws that can crack seeds not bones?Some of the most charismatic and recognizable features in the animal kingdom are the impressive weapons they wield when competing with each other. Porcupine quills, the chelae of crayfish, and the antlers of elk all require an enormous amount of energy dedicated primarily to fighting their fellows for resources and mates. Most species get by with a modest arsenal; mockingbirds will pick fights over the best territory, but their beaks are hardly fearsome. For centuries scientists have studied and debated the evolutionary pressures that guide the creation of extreme biological weaponry we see in mastodons, kudu, and stalk-eyed flies1. Why do a few species develop these exaggerated armaments when most get by with beaks and jaws that can crack seeds not bones?
Spring 2015 Colloquium: Rob Morrison
In his experiments, Rob uses a synergistic combination of BMSB aggregation pheromone (Khrimian et al., 2014) and methyl (E,E,Z)-2,4,6-decatrienoate (MDT) (Weber et al., 2014) to lure BMSB into his traps. The advantage of this technique lies in its specificity for BMSB. By using the male-produced aggregation pheromone, Dr. Morrison and his colleagues are able to selectively attract and kill the BMSB without catching other insects (such as bees present in those same orchards) in the crossfire. Since this method only targets the BMSB, the ecosystem will remain largely uninterrupted, allowing for seamless integration of these traps without fear of large-scale ecosystem repercussions. The availability of these attractants in conjunction with research looking into convenient trap designs for growers means that these strategies have real field potential.
Tired of blanketing your entire orchard with gallons of pesticides in order to combat the stink bug menace? Imagine drawing the bugs to a smaller spray area in order to deliver them to an untimely, yet well deserved, end while reducing your environmental impact. Dr. Rob Morrison at the USDA definitely thinks this is possible!
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Sheffield Hallam Staff Wellness service: Four-year follow-up of the impact on health indicators.
Flint, SW and Scaife, R and Kesterton, S and Humphreys, L and Copeland, RJ and Crank, H and Breckon, J and Maynard, I and Carter, A (2016) Sheffield Hallam Staff Wellness service: Four-year follow-up of the impact on health indicators. Perspect Public Health, 136 (5). pp. 295-301. ISSN 1757-9147 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1757913916630009
AIMS: Alongside the increasing prevalence of chronic health conditions such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes has been an increase in interventions to reverse these ill-health trends. The aim of this study was to examine the longitudinal impact of the Sheffield Hallam University Staff Wellness Service on health indicators over a five-year period. METHODS: The Sheffield Hallam Staff Wellness Service was advertised to university employees. Of 2651 employees who have attended the service, 427 respondents (male = 162, female = 265) aged 49.86 ± 12.26 years attended for five years (4 years follow-up). Each year, participants were assessed on a range of health measures (i.e. cardio-respiratory fitness, body mass index, blood pressure, total cholesterol, high-density lipoproteins, lung function and percentage body fat). Participants also received lifestyle advice (based on motivational interviewing) as part of the intervention to either improve, or in some cases maintain, their current health behaviours (e.g. increased physical activity and diet change). RESULTS: The wellness service improved staff health for those with an 'at risk' health profile from baseline. These improvements were maintained in subsequent follow-up assessments. Improvement from baseline to 1-year follow-up was observed for all health indicators as was the maintenance of this improvement in years 2, 3 and 4. CONCLUSIONS: The service demonstrates that a university-based wellness service using a combination of motivational interviewing and health screening to elicit behaviour change (and subsequent improvements in health-related outcomes) was successful in improving the health of employees with an 'at risk' profile.
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MSU study finds green in stopping kudzu invasion
The information presented on this page was originally released on December 1, 2011. It may not be outdated, but please search our site for more current information. If you plan to quote or reference this information in a publication, please check with the Extension specialist or author before proceeding.
Environment, Timber Harvest, Invasive Plants
MISSISSIPPI STATE – Kudzu can grow a foot per day, and today it covers nearly seven million acres in the South.
Now listed as a federal noxious weed, kudzu was imported to prevent soil erosion and to feed livestock. The semi-woody plant covers large tracts of land from eastern Texas to the East Coast and as far north as Maryland. Kudzu climbs, covers and eventually kills trees, destroying the timber-producing value of these lands. It reduces land productivity by millions of dollars yearly.
A recent Mississippi State University study evaluated the after-tax financial returns of controlling kudzu with herbicides and then planting pine or oak plantations on lands formerly covered by the vine.
“As the population grows and land use changes over time, the need to reclaim unproductive areas where kudzu has taken over is essential for timber production,” said Donald Grebner, forestry professor and economist in the university’s Forest and Wildlife Research Center. “Reclaimed land could also be used for wildlife habitat and recreation, improving the financial stability of local economies.”
To determine financial returns of reclaiming kudzu-covered land, scientists first needed to determine the best way to kill the creeping invader.
MSU Forestry Department head Andrew Ezell has tested different herbicide treatments on kudzu patches in the state for more than 20 years. He, along with colleagues in South Carolina, treated patches of the weed and then observed growth estimates four times after initial application.
For this study, scientists compared seven different strategies for eradicating kudzu patches and then establishing either pine or hardwood plantations. Management scenarios included using different herbicide applications, different types of chemical dispersal methods and different tree species after eliminating the vine.
“Controlling kudzu is difficult and expensive,” Ezell said. “Many of the herbicides that can be used to control kudzu affect the soil such that trees can’t be planted immediately after application.”
The study found a broadcast application of Escort XP — a selective herbicide manufactured by DuPont — to be the most cost-effective way to control kudzu patches. Escort XP is appropriate for both young and old kudzu patches, and it works for reforesting the area with pine or oak.
Forest economists used the land expectation value on an after-tax basis to evaluate the feasibility of the control regimes. Land expectation value is the present value of all future costs and revenues of an asset, including forestland.
“For example, treating kudzu aerially with Escort XP and then replanting in pine would yield an estimated $1,460 per acre in revenue after taxes,” Grebner said.
An aerial application of herbicide followed by replanting in oak would yield an estimated $317 per acre.
“The biggest difference in the two is the maturity time, with pine having multiple cuttings in a shorter period of time and oak only having one cut at 30 years and then final harvest at 50 years,” Grebner said. “However, by removing kudzu and planting in either oak or pine, the land expectation value increases.”
Ezell said controlling kudzu with herbicides can be a costly venture, especially for private landowners.
“Fortunately, there are multiple federally funded cost-share programs that offer assistance to private landowners to combat the spread of nonnative invasive plants such as kudzu,” Ezell said. “Incentive programs offered through the government have paid up to $87 per acre to eradicate the invasive plant.”
These programs can make a world of difference to landowners. Recovering any portion of initial cost to control kudzu will reduce costs and increase returns, leading to higher land expectation values.
“Clearly, landowners can reap both environmental and ecological benefits by turning unproductive, kudzu-covered land into forest,” Ezell said.
Released: December 1, 2011
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GUEST POST: Swords and Shotguns: Writing Characters in Epic and Urban Fantasy by Gail Z. Martin
Today we welcome Gail Z. Martin to Fantasy Book Critic. She is here to share her amazing insight into writing characters in epic fantasy and urban fantasy.
Gail Z. Martin stops by to celebrate the release of some amazing books. The first book is The Shadowed Path, which is the first Chronicles of the Necromancer book in 5 years.
The second book release of Modern Magic: Twelve Tales of Urban Fantasy, which is a collection of 12 full books from 12 bestselling authors.
Without further ado, please welcome Gail Z. Martin!
Swords and Shotguns: Writing Characters in Epic and Urban Fantasy
by Gail Z. Martin
People are people--how much of a difference does a couple hundred of years make?
A lot--and less than you might think.
I write epic fantasy and urban fantasy, and co-authored with Larry N. Martin, steampunk. That's a pretty broad time span, from roughly the late fifteenth century to the Victorian era, to modern day. The protagonists are all human, though some have enhanced abilities and immortality. And while being human doesn't change over those centuries, other factors that influence how we define our humanity and our place in the universe certainly do.
It's true that people remain much the same in their love, hate, ambition and failures. In every age, human beings fall in love, cherish their family and value friends, suffer betrayal and grief, take risks and make mistakes. Yet our times and our surroundings, as well as our world view, inform and constrain the choices that occur to us to consider, and shape the courses of action we believe are open to us.
My two epic fantasy series--The Chronicles of the Necromancer/Fallen Kings Cycle and The Ascendant Kingdoms Saga--take place in worlds other than our own, but with roughly the social structure and technology of late fifteenth century Western Europe. Monarchies and the nobility hold resources and power. Most people remain in or close to the villages where they were born. The lowest classes are bound to the land, and the highest classes owe fealty to a lord. Religion, alchemy and magic define how the cosmos function, and inform one's view of where one fits in that cosmology. Duty to one's king or liege lord supersedes individual choices.
Existential questions are seen through the lens of dedication to the gods and goddesses, or the teaching of clergy. Most peoples' destiny is determined by birth and caste order, as well as whether or not they can do magic. Defying convention and culture is possible, but carries heavy social and personal consequences. A great deal of personal identity is determined by group identity: family, kingdom, religion, gender, ethnicity, caste, profession. Individualism as we think of it in modern times is a radical notion which threatens the status quo. Myriad social obligations to one's family, clan, village, Guild, and kingdom define one's use of time.
In the Iron & Blood Steampunk series, it's the height of the Victorian age, and human self-confidence is at an all-time high. Science overcomes new obstacles and solves old mysteries every day, and it seems like just a matter of time until the secrets of the universe are laid bare. Technology emerges to meet every challenge, and inventions are proof of limitless creativity. Every day, in every way, the world is getting better and better.
And yet, cholera and malaria and typhus and Yellow Fever scourge cities. Life is good for the upper classes, and, well, 'Dickensian' for those who aren't. Infant mortality and childbed fever kill civilians while thousands die in places like Gettysburg and Antietam. Colonialism and racism take a horrendous toll which will not be seen or grasped for another century. Victorians bow under the weight of grief, and spiritualism is on the rise, seeking the answers science can't provide. Strict social etiquette and suffocating class and gender roles restrict and constrain, and being openly LGBTQ earns prison or worse. People are people, but the Victorian lens through which the self and the world is viewed is narrow and particular.
My Deadly Curiosities dark urban fantasy series is set in modern-day Charleston, SC with a secret coalition of mortals and immortals who eliminate supernatural threats and get haunted and cursed objects out of circulation. Cassidy is our modern contemporary, shaped from our current culture, yet her psychometry enables her to sense a whole additional reality as she reads the history of objects by touch, and her knowledge that the supernatural is real informs her choices and world view in a way that sets her apart from those who don't share her secrets. Sorren, a nearly 600 year-old vampire, knows how to adapt to changing times, yet his reactions and insights are a product of six centuries of enculturation and observation, and he will never again be part of his own time period.
When you've come face to face with Voudon loas and ancient god-like beings and battled monsters and creatures right out of legend and myth, your existential framework is going to be a little bent. When you know that the things that go bump in the night are real, when you've saved the world a couple of times though no one knows it, that changes your reactions to what's on the news, shifts your perspective about what's important, and changes your priorities.
How are the characters different among the subgenres? For me, they're a combination of the familiar and the unfamiliar. The aspects that make them human--love, hate, passion, the need for connection and the desire to complete a task, make a difference or right a wrong--make the characters identifiable and relatable. The aspects that are influenced by culture impart believability within the timeframe of the story and make them interesting and memorable, truly a part of their era. For an author, it's a fun challenge to bring off a mix in a way that forges an emotional connection for the reader. And as a reader, when that mix is done well, it opens a gateway to experience different lives and different times.
Check out The Shadowed Path, my newest epic fantasy collection of Jonmarc Vahanian short stories in paperback and ebook from Solaris Books. And be sure to also look for Modern Magic: Twelve Tales of Urban Fantasy, a 12 book, 13 author ebook boxed set including Trifles and Folly, the first-ever collection of 10 Deadly Curiosities Adventures short stories!
From June 21-June 30 I'll be doing my annual Hawthorn Moon Sneak Peek Event blog tour, and I hope readers will stop over to my website, find out what all is going on and where to find the posts, giveaways, contests and fun events. And of course, please look for The Shadowed Path at your favorite bookseller!
The Hawthorn Moon Sneak Peek Event includes book giveaways, free excerpts, all-new guest blog posts and author Q&A on 22 awesome partner sites around the globe. I'll also be hosting many of my Modern Magic co-authors guest posting on my DisquietingVisions.com blog during the tour. For a full list of where to go to get the goodies, visit www.AscendantKingdoms.com.
Gail Z. Martin is the author of The Shadowed Path (Solaris Books), Vendetta: A Deadly Curiosities Novel in her urban fantasy series set in Charleston, SC (Solaris Books); Shadow and Flame the fourth and final book in the Ascendant Kingdoms Saga (Orbit Books); and Iron and Blood a new Steampunk series (Solaris Books) co-authored with Larry N. Martin.
She is also author of Ice Forged, Reign of Ash and War of Shadows in The Ascendant Kingdoms Saga, The Chronicles of The Necromancer series (The Summoner, The Blood King, Dark Haven, Dark Lady’s Chosen); The Fallen Kings Cycle (The Sworn, The Dread) and the urban fantasy novel Deadly Curiosities. Gail writes three ebook series: The Jonmarc Vahanian Adventures, The Deadly Curiosities Adventures and The Blaine McFadden Adventures. The Storm and Fury Adventures, steampunk stories set in the Iron & Blood world, are co-authored with Larry N. Martin.
Her work has appeared in over 30 US/UK anthologies. Newest anthologies include: Robots, The Big Bad 2, Athena’s Daughters, Heroes, Space, Contact Light, With Great Power, The Weird Wild West, The Side of Good/The Side of Evil, Alien Artifacts, Cinched: Imagination Unbound, Realms of Imagination, Gaslight and Grimm, Baker Street Irregulars, Clockwork Universe: Steampunk vs. Aliens.
Find her at www.AscendantKingdoms.com, on Twitter @GailZMartin, on Facebook.com/WinterKingdoms, at DisquietingVisions.com blog and GhostInTheMachinePodcast.com, on Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/GailZMartin and free excerpts on Wattpad http://wattpad.com/GailZMartin.
COVER REVEAL: Children Of The Different by S. C. Flynn
They used to say “never judge a book by its cover”. Well, forget that. Just look at that cover – look at it! This is the cover that Californian artist Eric Nyquist created for my Australian post-apocalyptic fantasy novel CHILDREN OF THE DIFFERENT. The novel releases on September 17 in ebook, paperback and audiobook and is available now for pre-order. Here is the blurb:
Nineteen years ago, a brain disease known as the Great Madness killed most of the world’s population. The survivors all had something different about their minds. Now, at the start of adolescence, their children enter a trance-like state known as the Changeland and emerge either with special mental powers or as cannibalistic Ferals.
In the great forest of South West Western Australia, thirteen-year-old Arika and her twin brother Narrah go through the Changeland. They encounter an enemy known as the Anteater who feeds on human life. He exists both in the Changeland and in the outside world, and he wants the twins dead.
After their Changings, the twins have powers that let them fight their enemy and face their destiny on a long journey to an abandoned American military base on the north-west coast of Australia…if they can reach it before time runs out.
Eric’s cover is not only beautiful and striking in itself, but it also captures two key concepts of the novel. The main character, Arika, comes out of her Changing with a power that I call “mental shapeshifting”: she does not actually change physical shape. The Nyquist cover plays with this idea and shows the creatures morphing out of a kind of mental slime in Arika’s brain; they form first in the most primordial part of the brain and then move up into the conscious mind, growing lighter in colour as they go.
The other main concept that appears on the cover is the echidna at the bottom; the “evil spirit” of the Changeland appears there in this form.
The cover uses contrasting colours to bring out aspects of the story. Arika’s light blue face emphasises the strangeness of what she is going through. The animals and slime are shown in typical sun-touched “Australian” colours like orange and yellow, while the shades of the Anteater and his world suggest the underground from which he is emerging, as well as his cold psychopathic cruelty.
For me, Eric Nyquist was the only artist for this project. His feel for the beauty and the mystery of nature is exactly right. I think Eric’s creativity was really stimulated by the novel’s imagery: he sent me an amazing set of preliminary sketches for the cover and variations on the final design! Thanks, Eric, for a wonderful piece of artwork. If you like the cover and the blurb, then I am sure that you will like CHILDREN OF THE DIFFERENT.
Here is the beginning:
The group were getting ready to go on a Wrecking when Arika’s Changing started. Narrah heard the strangled choke in Arika’s throat and spun around. Arika was lying on the wooden floor of the hut, her limbs tense. Her green eyes turned up in her head and then closed. Narrah gulped. His mouth was dry and his heart was racing as he watched his twin sister turn pale and shiver like rippling water. Her little face looked very fragile under her black shoulder-length hair. The water lily drawn in dots of white clay paint that curved around her left eye from forehead to cheekbone twisted and jumped. Narrah had painted the lily on his sister’s face with his fingers just yesterday. How long ago that seemed now.
‘It’s started,’ Manya, the twin’s foster-mother said. ‘It is time.’
Manya had taken care of the twins ever since they had become orphans at five years old. Was Arika leaving him now? Narrah never wanted to feel alone like he had when their parents died. It had been raining that day and the forest was dark. He could still smell the strong eucalyptus scent rising off the huge karri trees that stood like crying gods dripping tears on the little lost humans far below. He and Arika used to think of the giant trees as forest deities. It was impossible not to, having grown up underneath their trunks, squinting into the sun every day to try and see their waving tops tickling the sky. But if they were gods, Narrah thought, then they were just as cruel and indifferent as any others he had heard about in Manya’s stories and in the Settlement’s few books she had used to teach the twins to read.
Narrah glanced at Manya’s wrinkled face and then back at Arika. Yes, it was time, he knew. Arika was thirteen.
‘Soon, it will be your turn,’ Manya said to him, ‘but not yet.’
Narrah stared down at Arika’s face, normally so like his own but now a set mask twisted by occasional spasms. Each time the nerves under Arika’s skin flickered, Narrah felt a chill run through him. Arika shuddered a little and Narrah jumped. Was she in pain? What was she feeling? Did she know he was there?
Up until a few moments before, Arika had been standing normally and Narrah had been in touch with her feelings, as he always had. The twins had shared their lives like that, from a distance, for as long as they could remember. They called it the Path. It was like a road that linked them. They could walk along it, meet and then sense each other’s precise thoughts as if they were standing together. They used the Path for their most secret and personal things.
Now the Changing had separated them. Since the Great Madness, it had happened to everyone they knew who reached their teens. It seemed to wait inside them until then. The twins had desperately wanted to understand the Changing and find the truth about the Great Madness before their time ran out. And now it had.
For months the twins had talked about it, and Narrah had sensed Arika’s fear while she had sensed his. They had known that girls entered the Changing earlier than boys, and that meant they couldn’t experience it together. Now Narrah could feel nothing of what Arika was going through. The Path had not given any warning that Arika was about to go into her Changing right at that moment, and now the Path was closed. That separation scared Narrah more than he could have expected. The simple wooden hut and the life the twins had always known seemed very small.
A kookaburra’s cackling laugh broke out nearby. Narrah glanced out the window. The chunky brown bird was sitting out there somewhere among the endless trees. The kookaburra always sounded jolly, and Arika used to love watching the family building its nest and the chicks growing up. But the kookaburra laughed just as loudly while it broke the backs of the snakes it ate.
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AUTHOR INFORMATION: S. C. Flynn was born in a small town in South West Western Australia. He has lived in Europe for a long time; first the United Kingdom, then Italy and currently Ireland, the home of his ancestors. He still speaks English with an Australian accent, and fluent Italian.
He reads everything, revises his writing obsessively and plays jazz. His wife Claudia shares his passions and always encourages him.
S. C. has written for as long as he can remember and recently decided to self-publish his post-apocalyptic fantasy novel, Children of the Different and, together with an American support team, aimed for a book as good as those created by the major publishers. He blogs on science fiction and fantasy at scyflynn.com. He is on Twitter @scyflynn and on Facebook. Join his email newsletter list here.
"The Invisible Library: The Invisible Library #1" by Genevieve Cogman (Reviewed by Cindy Hannikman)
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OVERVIEW: Collecting books can be a dangerous prospect in this fun, time-traveling, fantasy adventure from a spectacular debut author.
One thing any Librarian will tell you: the truth is much stranger than fiction...
Irene is a professional spy for the mysterious Library, a shadowy organization that collects important works of fiction from all of the different realities. Most recently, she and her enigmatic assistant Kai have been sent to an alternative London. Their mission: Retrieve a particularly dangerous book. The problem: By the time they arrive, it's already been stolen.
London's underground factions are prepared to fight to the death to find the tome before Irene and Kai do, a problem compounded by the fact that this world is chaos-infested—the laws of nature bent to allow supernatural creatures and unpredictable magic to run rampant. To make matters worse, Kai is hiding something—secrets that could be just as volatile as the chaos-filled world itself.
Now Irene is caught in a puzzling web of deadly danger, conflicting clues, and sinister secret societies. And failure is not an option—because it isn’t just Irene’s reputation at stake, it’s the nature of reality itself...
FORMAT: The Invisible Library is the first book in an adult fantasy/sci-fi series. It is a mix of mystery, action, adventure, steampunk, magic, and time travel.
The Invisible Library stands at 352 pages. It was released June 14, 2016 by ROC in the US. It was released January 15, 2015 by Tor UK.
ANALYSIS: Librarians. Secret societies. Books. Spies. Adventure. Alternate universes. Vampires and werewolves. Victorian London. Dragons. Time Traveling.
All of these things separately are things I love and the thought of combining them is a bit nerve-racking. After all, there are so many elements and none of them really related that something, somewhere will get lost, but that doesn't happen with the Invisible Library. The Invisible Library tackles the tough task of combining these elements into a book that is not only a delightful read, but probably one of my favorites for the year.
The Invisible Library tells the story of a secret society of librarians that have committed themselves to 'The Library'. Upon becoming an agent of The Library, or essentially a Librarian, these individuals vow to work on missions that involve heading to alternate realities (some of which are considered 'chaos filled' which means that magic and reality combine to create a chaotic situation) and retrieving rare/unique copies of books. Unfortunately, retrieving these rare books isn't always an easy task.
The Invisible Library follows the story of Irene, a young professional spy/agent for The Library. She – along with a novice by the name of Kai - are given the task of retrieving a rare book from an alternate London that has vampires, werewolves, Fae, and advanced steampunk like inventions. The task seems easy enough, until they get to the new universe and discover that they are not the only people looking for the book and one of those people is a man that was thought to be an urban legend amongst The Librarians.
Kai and Irene spend most of the book looking for clues and trying to sort out who has the book, who is an ally, who is an enemy, and what is going on political wise with The Library. They also trying to solve a mystery, find the book, beat a "bad guy", and learn more about each other.
I absolutely loved The Invisible Library. It is pretty much everything I look for in a book. It has action, adventure, mystery, and books – lots and lots of books. Even though The Invisible Library is a favorite of mine and I enjoyed it, it is far from a perfect book. I'll highlight some of my favorite aspects of the book and talk about some of the aspects that didn't really work for me.
A huge highlight of The Invisible Library is the way Genevieve Cogman weaves so many seemingly unique concepts into one coherent story. There are a lot of elements that could come across as disjointed or random, but it all comes together nicely.
Another aspect I found enjoyable was the way Genevieve Cogman was able to take a familiar world and give it a unique twist. Everyone knows what Victorian London is/was like, but the Victorian London we were introduced to in the book was new and unique. It felt different, which is what added to the excitement of the book.
One of the things I found a bit frustrating about The Invisible Library was some of the seemed felt awkward or a bit out of character. The scene that comes to mind is within the first 25% of the book when Kai and Irene are forced to spend a night together in a hotel that resides in their alternate London. Kai mysterious, and what feels a bit out of character, starts throwing himself at Irene. He asks if she wants to sleep with him and feels hurt when she rejects it.
Previously, there had been no indication that Kai had any romantic feelings for Irene. The two had just met a few short hours before. It just seemed out of place.
Another aspect of The Invisible Library that felt awkward was the way the world was introduced. Instead of going for a complete info dump that involved explaining how The Library worked, how alternate universes worked, the role of the Librarians and supernatural creatures, and who the bad guys were, Genevieve Cogman goes for a more 'learn while you read approach'.
The learn while you read approach is great, as it speeds up the book. You aren't bogged down by lengthy descriptive paragraphs, but it sometimes makes you feel like you missed something. There were times when I was like 'who is this' or 'what is this', only to discover that we hadn't learned about it yet and would learn the answer to that question several chapters later.
I will admit that The Invisible Library isn't overly complex. It isn't overly simple either, but if you are looking for something extremely detailed, it probably wouldn't be this book. The main focus of the book isn't in creating overly detailed characters, but in the world building and adventure. The characters develop throughout the book, but it is clear that isn't the main focus of the book.
Even though The Invisible Library isn't a perfect book, it is an enjoyable one. Immediately upon finishing it I had two things in mind. First, I wanted to become a Librarian. I mean who wouldn't want to be a time traveling spy who is on a mission to save rare books. Second, I couldn't wait for the second book.
Overall, The Invisible Library is a fun easy read. While the main plot might – to some – seem predicable, the unique world building and action more than make up for it. This is a definite must read for any book lover.
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"Every Heart A Doorway" by Seanan McGuire (Reviewed by Cindy Hannikman)
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OVERVIEW: Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children
No Solicitations
No Visitors
No Quests
Children have always disappeared under the right conditions; slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of a wardrobe, tumbling down rabbit holes and into old wells, and emerging somewhere... else.
Nancy tumbled once, but now she’s back. The things she’s experienced... they change a person. The children under Miss West’s care understand all too well. And each of them is seeking a way back to their own fantasy world.
No matter the cost.
FORMAT: Every Heart A Doorway is an urban fantasy/fantasy novella. It stands at 173 pages and was published by Tor on April 5, 2016.
Even though it is ultimately an 'adult' novel, Every Heart A Doorway could be appropriate for a more mature teenage audience. There are some graphic scenes involving dead bodies and some topics (such as the main character being asexual or the secondary character being transgender) that may make it not appropriate for some audiences.
ANALYSIS: Some books have that unique ability to capture your attention instantly. Every Heart A Doorway by Seanan McGuire was one of those book. I was barely three pages into the book and I was already immersed in the world and forming an emotional bond with our first main character – Nancy.
Every Heart A Doorway tells the captivating tale about a boarding school for young adults between the ages of 12 and 18, but unlike regular boarding schools this one is designed as a rehabilitation center of sorts. All of the young adults who are present at the school have at one point in time journeyed to alternate fantasy worlds. These worlds include everything from lands with fairies and unicorns and rainbows or Wonderland weird worlds, to just plain scary/horror universes or the land of the dead.
All of the children at the school are struggling with one major problem – they want to go back to their fantasy world, but they have been cast out from it and it might not happen. This has caused all the children to experience what can only be described as PTSD-like symptoms. Of course, the children also have to deal with other "real life" issues, such as forming relationships, dealing with parents, navigating the scary world of high school, and overcoming bullying.
Nancy, our main character of the story, is a new student at the boarding school. Unfortunately, right as she arrives at the school murders start happening. Every Heart A Doorway follows Nancy and her new friends as they work to find themselves, solve a mystery, and work to potentially find their hidden doorway that will lead them back to their fantasy world.
Every Heart A Doorway may seem – from its description – to be a light, fluffy fantasy novel, but it emotional and dark. Many of the characters are struggling with extreme emotional issues and various problems, which leads to a disturbing/creepy feel to the novel.
One of the amazing things about Every Heart A Doorway was how detailed almost all the characters were. This is only a 170 page novella, but every character from Nancy to the secondary characters of Jack and Jill, was fleshed out and felt real. A pretty amazing feat when you consider the novel also had to create a world/backstory and progress the current plot all in 170 pages.
Characters weren't the only extremely well-thought out or creative element. I was intrigued with the whole hidden door/alternative universe concept, which was extremely detailed and fascinating to me. I probably could have read an entire 400 page novel on just this concept alone, but it was extremely well-done given the short page count.
While I did enjoy the novel, I have to admit the murder mystery part of it fell flat for me. The mystery element comes in about a quarter of the way through the novel and it never really felt well developed. It had a very rushed feel to it, especially when things were solved and everything was 'wrapped up'.
Despite the clunky or rushed feeling at the end of the novel, I was impressed with Every Heart a Doorway. It certainly isn't your light, fluffy Narnia/Wonderland novel, even though it seems like it might be from the overview. It is a novel that is emotionally engaging, unique, and creepy/weird.
While it may not be my top read for the year, it certainly is up there. I would recommend Every Heart a Doorway to fantasy lovers who are looking for something unique or for those that have ever wondered how characters reacted when they left their fantasy world and returned to their real lives.
"Charmed: Fairy Tale Reform School Book 2" by Jen Calonita (Reviewed by Cindy Hannikman)
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OVERVIEW: Charmed is the exciting sequel to the wildly popular Flunked -- second in the brand new Fairy Tale Reform School series where the teachers are (former) villains. "Charming fairy-tale fun." -Sarah Mlynowski, author of the New York Times bestselling Whatever After series.
It takes a (mostly) reformed thief to catch a spy. Which is why Gilly Cobbler, Enchantasia’s most notorious pickpocket, volunteers to stay locked up at Fairy Tale Reform School…indefinitely. Gilly and her friends may have defeated the Evil Queen and become reluctant heroes, but the battle for Enchantasia has just begun.
Alva, aka The Wicked One who cursed Sleeping Beauty, has declared war on the Princesses, and she wants the students of Fairy Tale Reform School to join her. As her criminal classmates give in to temptation, Gilly goes undercover as a Royal Lady in Waiting (don’t laugh) to unmask a spy…before the mole can hand Alva the keys to the kingdom.
Her parents think Gilly the Hero is completely reformed, but sometimes you have to get your hands dirty. Sometimes it’s good to be bad…
FORMAT: Charmed is the second book in the middle school/children's series, Fairy Tale Reform School. It is a fairy tale retelling of sorts. It doesn't retell the stories, but it has the same characters and themes, but with a unique twist.
While Charmed does a good job of catching people up on what happened in Flunked (the first book), it is best to read them in order.
Charmed stands at 288 pages and was published March 2016 by Sourcebooks Jabberwocky.
ANALYSIS: Flunked, the first book of the Fairy Tale Reform School series, was a fast, fun children's novel. It followed the life of a young thief (Gilly Cobbler) who was caught and sent away to Fairy Tale Reform School. Fairy Tale Reform School is designed to help fairy tale character right their wrongs and learn how to become productive members of their respective fairy tales. After all, not everyone can be the hero, villain, or princess; some people do have to be the baker, cobbler, or famer.
Now, Charmed is the second book of the series and picks up shortly where Flunked left off. Alva (our big bad for the series and is a version of the evil fairy queen from Sleeping Beauty) has been locked up. Meanwhile Gilly Cobbler, who was once an overlooked young thief who is trying to reform herself, is now considered a hero for what she did in Flunked, but all is not well.
It appears as if Alva may have a mole inside Fairy Tale Reform and it is now up to Gilly and her friends to find them, but that may prove difficult. Gilly and her friends will be put to the test they face new situations and outside influences that will push their friendship and loyalty, as well as potentially jeopardize their quest to bring peace to the land.
Essentially, Charmed is a fun, not overly complex children's novel that is perfect for anyone looking for a quick, occasionally funny novel. The characters are surprisingly detailed for such a short novel and while the story does follow the whole twist on fairy tale characters, it does have a slightly unique touch to it that makes it its own story.
While I found Charmed enjoyable, I have to admit I didn't like it as much as Flunked. Gilly, our main character, was loveable and a delight to follow in Flunked, but that changed in Charmed. Gilly was horrible in this novel. She was egotistical, self-centered, and extremely mean to her friends. The worst part of it all was she didn't see herself acting that way and couldn't understand why her friends were so upset.
Overall, Charmed was fun and fast paced. I loved the way the world is shaping up and the friendships that are forming between the characters. The adventures they have are fun to follow, while not being overly complex. It is a great book for the age it is intended for, but adults looking for something fun to read or those who enjoy a quick fairy tale retelling will enjoy it too.
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I set aside some effort to compose a basic rundown pretty much all the Wii games that are good with the Wii Balance Board (Wii Fit Board). The majority of them are as of now discharged, some will be by right on time one year from now. I additionally incorporated a little summery for every one of the games. Les Sims 4 Gratuit
1.All Star Cheer Squad – fundamentally you need to play a team promoter who climbs to turn into the head team promoter. Beginning of as the tenderfoot who needs to go for getting acknowledged into the crew. The more you play the game the further developed schedules you will learn. You can play vocation mode or smaller than usual game mode style.
2.Academy Of Champions: Soccer – the tile says it every one of the, a game essentially for young men who love soccer. This title incorporates 12 scaled down games. Or then again play the story line to fight against a football institute. Attempt to make your group win the title.
Symbol – the game to the up and coming film Avatar. The film is by James Cameron. The game is an activity based experience game, which happens at an outsider planet. Will be discharged toward the finish of November.
Daisy Fuentes Pilates – an extraordinary exercise game for all the pilates sweethearts, yet in addition individuals when all is said in done who need to improve their stance and do some more exercise without setting off to the rec center. This game incorporates 10 pilates schedules. There are 5 pre set schedules and 5 adjustable ones. The game beginnings at the degree of amateurs, yet will climb in trouble to cutting edge. You can play this game in English or Spanish. The analyst is Daisy Fuentes that will manage all of you the route with her incredible tips in subjects like wellbeing and wellness.
DanceDance Revolution Hottest Party 3 – a continuation of the DanceDance Revolution games. You can either play with the move cushion or as the title of this article says, with the Wii Balance Board. The game can be played in exercise mode, story mode, exercise mode or children mode. This musical game is the best one up to this point, since all the past titles did exclude the Wii Balance Board. It incorporates likewise in excess of 50 tracks of music.
Diva Girls-Divas On Ice – a pleasant girlie game who need to give a shot as ice princesses. There is a profession mode accessible, yet additionally smaller than normal games. Resistant a game for young ladies for the time of 8+.
Specialist Fizzwhizzle’s Animal Rescue – a game where you need to progress in stages to save creatures. An arcade sort of game. You have in excess of 180 levels to play and can protect 60 distinct creatures. It incorporates likewise a children mode with tests about creatures.
Wear King Boxing – an enclosing game where you venture to the ring to battle against the best fighters in genuine settings like Madison Square Garden or Boardwalk Hall. Check whether you can make it to the top – in vocation mode. This is one of the top of the line rounds of this current year. You should attempt this game, regardless of whether you are not all that much into boxing. This gives you the exercise of a wellness game, yet makes it enjoyable to play. Has a high schooler rating.
EA Sports Active More Workouts – This is the continuation of the EA Sports Active Personal Trainer game that was discharged about a year back. One of the most noteworthy evaluated Wii wellness games. You can utilize the Wii Balance Board, the Wii remote and Nunchuk to play this game. This game includes 35 new activities that focus overall body. More Workouts is made to be played in the winter as it centers around warm-climate games like surfing, fly skiing and boating. It likewise keeps players spurred with a 6-week-challenge that tracks the players progress.
EA Sports Active Personal Trainer – This was likely the best game for the Wii Balance Board. You can play sports like running, bin ball, volley ball, roller skating, boxing, baseball, moving, and numerous different games. This game incorporates an elastic safe band for muscle exercises and a pocket for running and running. On the off chance that you need to play this game with a companion you can get the rigging likewise independently. Pursue the multi day challenge with its brief exercises to get into shape. This game will make your lounge room into a rec center without the need of going out.
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Buonamici, Giuseppe
Distinguished contemporary Italian pianist and writer. He was born at Florence, and studied the piano under his uncle Giuseppe Ceccherini. In 1868 he entered the Munich Conservatory, where he had for teachers von Billow and Rheinberger. After two years of study, he was appointed professor of advanced piano-playing at the Conservatory. In 1873 he went back to Florence, and here carried on his work as piano-professor. He was conductor of the "Cherubini," the Florentine choral society, and in Florence founded a distinguished trio-party. He is the author of some chamber-music, but has won special distinction with his editions of selections from great composers. He has published a set of studies on special difficulties in Beethoven; an edition of Beethoven's sonatas; fifty etudes from Bertini, this work being preparatory to Bülow's edition of Cramer's studies; has edited Bach's lesser preludes and fugues; and is the author of The Art of Scale Study. The playing of Buonamici is highly artistic, and his interpretations of Beethoven of rare beauty.
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After 13 Years of Harassment by OHA, Kauai Water Bottler Back in Business
TGI: … A family-owned water-bottling company in Koloa may have won its 13-year legal battle with the county Planning Commission.
Earlier this month, Fifth Circuit Judge Kathleen Watanabe handed down a ruling that could force the county to issue zoning and land-use permits to Kauai Springs and its owners, Jim and Denise Satterfield, after fining and forcing the business to shut down in April.
Jim Satterfield said he and his family already have Kauai Springs back up and running and have lost very few clients, despite months of down time. Some of his customers, Satterfield said, even cried when he called to tell them he could once again make their water deliveries.
“The response has been overwhelming,” he said. “This is for the good of the people — bottom line.”
The Satterfields were granted zoning and building permits by the county in 2003, allowing them to bottle and distribute water flowing down a long-defunct irrigation pipeline that originates on Kahili Mountain and carries hundreds of thousands of gallons of drinking water a day through a small parcel of land in Koloa where the Satterfields tap into the pipe.
In her nine-page decision, issued Nov. 1, Watanabe said the amount of water Kauai Springs bottles and distributes does not affect the purity of the water, and if anything has a trivial impact on the maintenance of water in its natural state, an opinion that directly contradicts arguments presented by county attorneys and Native Hawaiian practitioners (OHA).
The permits would give Kauai Springs the legal right to bottle about 650 gallons of water a day, a fraction of a percent of the water line’s 270,000-gallon daily output.
But according to Hawaiian rights activists (OHA) who testified against the Satterfields at public hearings in 2006 and submitted a petition with over a hundred signatures urging the Planning Commission to deny the permit requests, the proposed use of the water would be harmful to their traditional and customary water rights. The commissioners agreed…
2007: OHA Trustees claim ownership of your drinking water
2013: Bottled Water Battle: A Decade of OHA Harassment Continues
2013: A Decade of Harassment: Bottled Water Battle Goes to Hawaii Supreme Court
2014: Supreme Court Rejects Kauai Springs Appeal
read … Kauai Springs back in business
Waimanalo Sports Field Protesters Say They Are In Talks With Mayor
CB: … Two Hawaiian activists who are leading opposition to a controversial city-funded ball field project in a forested park in Waimanalo say they have been meeting privately with Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell to find a way to resolve the bitter impasse over the park’s future.
After a fierce standoff that has lasted seven months, Caldwell has recently twice traveled to Waimanalo to meet with two of the founders of the park-opposition group, Save Our Sherwoods, according to activists and plaintiffs in a lawsuit seeking to stop construction at the site….
The meeting with the mayor may signal a possible reconciliation over a dispute that has pitted hundreds of local residents against city officials at stormy public meetings and that led to a mass arrest of 28 protesters who were trying to block passage of construction equipment to the site.
Since then, dozens of protestors have engaged in a peaceful political protest they call “holding space,” where they have occupied land at the entrance to the park, setting up tarps to protect themselves against wind and rain. They are using it as a staging area for lectures about Hawaiian history and as a communal gathering place to share meals of donated food with supporters….
Community residents have been living and sleeping there around the clock since late September to underscore their determination to protect the site. A sign on the wall of the fenced compound bears these words written in Hawaiian: La 52, which translates as Day 52.
Construction on the site has been halted, leaving a large field of dirt and heaps of debris behind in what had once been a natural wooded landscape….
SA: Hawaii is getting to be a scarier place to live because people seem to have no respect for the law.
read … Waimanalo Sports Field Protesters Say They Are In Talks With Mayor
Kahuku Windfarm Developer was Rejected Bidder
IM: … The Na Pua Makani saga is significant because communities are often blamed for fighting projects on the basis of NIMBYism, but in this case, a rejected developer initiated the multi-year fight for a second wind farm in Kahuku.
Hawaiian Electric Company (HECO) issued a Request for Proposals for O`ahu-based Renewable Energy Projects in June 2008.
Keith Avery (West Wind Works) submitted a proposal for a Kahuku wind farm. The proposal made the shortlist of selected projects, but not the final list of selected projects.
Instead, HECO chose another company to build a wind farm in Kahuku. The wind farm is known for a three-day battery fire in August 2012 that completely destroyed the battery.
Mediation with HECO failed. West Wind entered into a partnership with Champlin Hawaii, a subsidiary, of a subsidiary, of a subsidiary, of COPRA, a European based family held holding company.
West Wind and Champlin filed two complaints with the Commission.
Long story short, the Commission dismissed the first complaint without prejudice (allowing a revised complaint to be filed) and rejected the second complaint with prejudice.
HECO reached a deal with the developer.
Hawaiian Electric filed a proposed Power Purchase Agreement with the Commission for the Na Pua Makani wind farm in December 2013.
read … PUC Hearing for Proposed Na Pua Makani Wind Farm in Kahuku
Taxpayers Spent Nearly $700,000 on Kealohas’ Legal Fees
CB: … Katherine Kealoha had the largest bill. Cynthia Kagiwada, her former attorney who resigned in July over ethical concerns, was paid more than $400,000 in expenses, including about $206,000 in direct payments to her. The rest of the funds were split among payments to Kagiwada’s associate and paralegal, as well as other expenses….
The U.S. District Court of Hawaii released a new report Thursday afternoon detailing the monies paid to the court-appointed attorneys of Katherine and Louis Kealoha and Minh-Hung “Bobby” Nguyen, who were convicted in June of conspiracy and obstruction charges.
The defense fees were paid last week, according to the court….
KHON: Kealoha fed cases run up $700,000 in taxpayer-funded attorney fees
read … Taxpayers Spent Nearly $700,000 on Kealohas’ Legal Fees
Felony Charges for Kauai Councilmember
TGI … Kauai County Councilmember Arthur Brun was indicted Wednesday on felony charges for allegedly running from police during a traffic stop two weeks ago and hitting an officer with his car in the process.
Brun, 47, faces two felony counts — assault against a law enforcement officer and resisting an order to stop a motor vehicle. Both charges are punishable by up to five years in jail and a $10,000 fine. He is set to be arraigned in Fifth Circuit Court on Dec. 11.
Police pulled Brun over on Rice Street in front of the post office around 2 p.m. on Oct. 29. A KPD press release said that when police approached the “dark-tinted silver Honda sedan” Brun was driving, he fled the scene, hitting one officer, identified in the indictment as Lt. James Miller.
Brun led police on a car chase that ended about 10 minutes later and several miles north, near the entrance to Kauai Beach Resort, according to the press release….
2002-4: Brun Convicted of meth-related crimes
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Owners of legal vacation rentals say proposed tax hike could put them out of business
HNN: … A council committee has approved increasing property taxes on short-term rentals up to the same rate as hotels, almost three times higher than they currently pay….
read … Owners of legal vacation rentals say proposed tax hike could put them out of business
Dams: 10 Years Later Nothing has Changed
SA Editorial: … despite more than a decade of spotlight on this problem, the status has not changed significantly: The prognosis for the dams is still this poor….
13 years after Kaloko, the state must accelerate its program of safety improvements. Among all the repercussions of climate change, one is that the hazards of substandard dams and reservoirs will only get worse….
read … Editorial: Increase efforts to repair dams
How The Counties Are Preparing For All-Mail Voting
CB: … The state will switch to an all-mail voting system for the 2020 elections….
SA: Hawaii election officials to ask voters to update signatures for vote-by-mail
AP: Officials warn Hawaii mail voting won’t mean faster results
KHON: Lingering concerns as state pushes forward with mail-in voting
KITV: Hawaii prepares for an all mail voting system
HTH: Ready for voting by mail?
read … How The Counties Are Preparing For All-Mail Voting
Soft on Crime: 17 Convictions out on Streets Shot Dead by Police
SA: …Kahalehoe had 17 convictions, including six felony convictions for vehicle break ins, vehicle theft, drugs and weapons violations. Spillner has six convictions, including four felony convictions for vehicle break ins and vehicle thefts….
Five Honolulu Police Department plainclothes officers fired about 20 rounds in all, killing a 30-year-old man who was wanted in a rash of armed robberies and possible carjackings, police Chief Susan Ballard said today.
Michael Kahalehoe died at the scene. He had a handgun in his waist band, Ballard said.
His suspected accomplice, Melvin Spillner, 24, tried to run away but was captured and later treated for minor injuries, Ballard said.
Kahalehoe and Spillner are “possible suspects” in a rash of recent carjacking and “they are definitely the suspects in multiple armed robberies that have been occurring on this island since Nov. 3.”
CrimeStoppers earlier Tuesday issued an alert for both men, along with a third suspect, Victor Gascon III, 25, who remains wanted for failing to comply with the terms and conditions of his probation.
Police are also looking for the female driver of a black Honda that was at the gas station….
HNN: HPD officials respond to overnight officer-involved shooting in Kapolei
read … Soft on Crime
Soft on Crime: Long Rap Sheet—now Wanted for Probation Violations
KITV: …Prince Buses -- a criminal with a lengthy rap sheet -- has not been complying with his terms of probation, and a warrant for his capture has subsequently been issued.
He was most notably involved in an armed robbery of a Charlie’s Taxi Cab driver in 2017 -- a crime for which he plead guilty for a lenient sentence.
Court documents show Buses has not been showing up to meetings with his probation officer and the has tested positive multiple times for illicit substances. Buses failed to appear at a court hearing on a motion to revoke his probation and re-sentencing in the taxi cab robbery case….
HNN: 5 convictions surprisingly violates probation
Soft on Crime: Alleged Arsonist with long rap sheet Walks Free Because of Typo
MN: … Deputy Public Defender Tyler Stevenson argued that evidence hadn’t been presented to prove the fire caused damage greater than $20,000, which is required for the first-degree arson charge.
Stevenson said a fire investigator testified the damage estimate was “124, which would be far less than the necessary amount of $20,000 to sustain this charge.”
Deputy Prosecutor Lewis Littlepage said the estimate was $124,000.
Judge Blaine Kobayashi agreed with Stevenson’s argument and said the fire investigator testified the damage estimate was “1-2-4.”
“I have no idea what that means,” Kobayashi said. “There was no clarification provided. The state has failed to set forth sufficient evidence to support a finding of probable cause.”
Before making the ruling, Kobayashi commented on the filing of two arson charges – one for each rental unit that was damaged by the fire.
“It does give the court pause to consider the number of charges the state has set forth,” Kobayashi said. “We have one structure, one house that the owner has elected to separate into two separate units. Whether the state can charge one count versus two counts is, I think, somewhat questionable.”
During the preliminary hearing, Neula’s sister testified that Neula was home when she left the residence at about 3 p.m. that day. She said she returned home 45 minutes to an hour later to find firefighters in the driveway and her home on fire….
On the day of the fire, Neula said he was under the influence of a narcotic, Katayama testified. He said Neula reported that “he was frustrated with the current situation and certain family issues and he couldn’t handle it anymore, so he set his sister’s unit on fire.”
Neula said he first lit a towel on fire and left it in the kitchen, then lit another towel and put it in a bedroom, Katayama testified.
He said Neula reported leaving and walking to his cousin’s house on Piihana Road in Wailuku.
“He said he was thinking about setting his cousin’s house on fire also, but he decided not to,” Katayama said.
He said there was extensive damage to the rear unit, where Neula’s sister was living, at the Holowai Place residence.
After the hearing, Littlepage said, “The state does plan to proceed with further charges. We feel he’s a danger to the community.”
Neula is on probation for third-degree assault, Littlepage said. He said Neula’s criminal record also includes convictions for two counts of prohibited possession of a firearm or ammunition, third-degree promoting of a dangerous drug, possessing drug paraphernalia, abuse, reckless endangering, disorderly conduct, failure to appear and third-degree promoting of a detrimental drug.
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Besides, the language also provides developers with an exquisite collection of frameworks as shared in our JavaScript framework guide which increases its popularity in the market and makes it the right fit for Linux, Mac OS X, SunOS, and Android.
2. Python
Python, which received the recognition of 'Programming Language Hall of Fame' by TIOBE Index last year, has also proven to be one of the future proof programming languages with no sign of disappearing.
The language is used for creating scalable web solutions due to its characteristics such as easy-to-use, fast and easy-to-deploy, which made it the right tech stack for YouTube, Survey Monkey, and Pinterest.
Besides, it is also considered a prime choice for sophisticated deep learning and machine learning app development processes.
3. Java
Just like Python, Java is also one of the top 10 most popular programming languages of 2019. It is mainly used for developing Android-based mobility solutions. But, it is also considered by Enterprise app development companies because of its impressive features like ease of use, enhanced performance, higher productivity, improved polyglot programming, etc.
4. Kotlin
From the day Kotlin was introduced as an official Android app development language, the language has enjoyed a skyrocketing rise in its popularity. It has not only become one of the top ten best programming languages but also found a place among the most loved languages by developers.
One of the biggest reasons behind this popularity is that it gives Android app developers an escape from the drawbacks of Java, and offers the feature of interoperability with Java codes, which also acted as the catalyst of making a number of famous apps migrate from Java to Kotlin.
5. Swift
Swift, introduced back in WWDC 2014, has also entered into the list of top trending programming languages for the year 2019 with a steep rise in its popularity as noted in the Google Trends graph below.
The programming language is faster, easy to learn, secure, and has various other features that make Swift supersedes languages like Objective-C for developing apps for iPhones, iPads, and macOS.
6. Objective-C
Since the day Swift was introduced as an official programming language, various developers have turned to convert Objective-C app into Swift. But, it is still one of the tops used programming languages for iPhone application development because of its immersive ability to employ compilers and syntaxes based on different C-based languages.
C, also called the backbone of the software world, is still one of the top programming languages to learn this year. It gives deeper insights into how software actually functions on machines and thus, is used for building embedded systems and VR-based apps.
Besides, it delivers high-end performance, reliability, and variety of context: making it the first choice of reputed brands including Oracle, Microsoft, Adobe, and Paypal.
8. PHP
Despite the competition from different server-side environments like Node.js (as covered in our 'Node.js vs PHP' blog), PHP remains the star of the sector. Thanks to its impressive frameworks like Drupal and Laravel which are used by developers for scalable and robust apps and the fact that 83% of websites on Internet are based upon PHP, it has displaced R language in the Top 10 most used programming languages list for 2019.
9. SQL
Though various database technologies exist in the IT industry, SQL (Standard Query Language) is still one of the top programming languages in demand. It is simple, reliable and offers exclusive database management services to business developers.
10. MATLAB
MATLAB, the proprietary language of MathWorks, has also landed into this list of top programming languages.
It empowers the developers to plot functions and data, implement algorithms, create user interfaces, work with codes written in C, C++, C#, Java, Python, and Fortran, etc. which, in turn, helps them to build apps with high-end GUIs, Image recognition and Data analysis needs.
While these were the Top 10 Programming Languages for 2019, there are various other languages that are gaining huge momentum in the mobile industry and are supposed to join the league. Some of those prominent names are:-
A. Scala
Another language that might enter into this list of Top 10 programming languages of the future is Scala. The general multi-purpose language has reached to 28th position as recorded in TIOBE Index for January 2019 from 34th position noted in April 2018.
Besides, it lets you enjoy the perfect blend of Functional programming and Object-Oriented concepts and is showing a considerable elevation in its popularity (as you can see in the image below), which again indicates that overlooking the language would be unfair.
B. Ruby
Ruby is yet another most-loved, easy-to-use and user-friendly programming languages used for web development. It offers exclusive features like writing a fewer line of code, getting sound community support and associated with top tech brands like Twitter, Shopify, Airbnb, and Bloomberg.
C. TypeScript
TypeScript, also known as 'JavaScript with Superpowers', is another programming language that has been predicted to join this list of top ten programming languages.
This open-source programming language is a good option for frontend development, backend development, hybrid mobile app development, and machine learning app development.
With such potential, it is gaining the attention of various reputed brands in the market, with one of the brands being Google itself.
Google considered TypeScript for its frontend development framework, Angular which helped to add a competitive advantage against React as we observed in our blog, React vs Angular: What to Choose for Your App.
D. Go
Also known as "Golang", the programming language will also make its way to enter the top web programming languages list this year. And this will all be possible because of its concise and easy-to-embrace syntax and faster compilation characteristics that makes it favorite of SoundCloud, Google, Netflix, and other such popular brands.
Now that we've covered the top programming languages used in industry, it's quite possible that you're confused with which programming language to use for your application.
Let's us help you pick the right programming language.
How to Decide Which Programming Language to Consider in 2019?
The decision of which programming language to choose majorly depends on three factors, namely:-
1. App Purpose
The main reason why you want to develop an app is helpful in picking the right language.
For example, if you want to create your presence on the web, PHP is the right programming language to go with. If you need a programming language for database management, SQL is helpful. But, if you seek for a language to add AI features to your app, Python is a good option.
2. Language Characteristics
Are you developing a native mobile app or investing in Cross-platform app development? Are you looking for an open-source or licensed option? What type of technologies and features are you planning to introduce to your app development process? What level of security do you want to add to your mobility solution? These questions will help you to understand the technical requirements of your business app solution and thus, select the best programming language.
For example, suppose you want to build an app based on the Machine Learning concept. If you are looking for a programming language with years of existence, Python is the right choice. But, if you are ready to go with a newcomer based on the options it avails, TypeScript is apt for you.
Likewise, if you are planning for making your app available only on iOS, choosing Swift is a good decision. But, when it comes to making an app for both iOS and Android, going with JavaScript is a profitable deal.
3. Local Ecosystem
Last but not least, the decision of what language to prefer also depends on what language your in-house or hired developers to know.
If you choose a programming language out of this Top 10 Programming languages list that they have expertise in, you'll experience a smooth app development experience. Your app project will face lower challenges and reach to the market at the earliest.
But, on the flip side, the app development timeline might increase, hidden costs would more often be added to the overall app cost and your app might fail to take the best advantages of the chosen language if they do not have a sound knowledge of the language you choose.
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Date: Sunday, September 12th 2004 4:00pm 1095030000 (16 years 130 days ago)
Venue: County Cricket Club
Event: Tom Hall Memorial
Location: Wantage Road Northampton England
Wilson Headstone ( Pat Fish ) ( guitar, vocals ) , Misery Wilson ( Kathy Schaer ) ( bass ) , B-Man ( Ian Botterill ) ( MC ) , G-Man ( Steve Gordon ) ( stratocaster ) , Agent Wilson ( Russell Cooper ) ( percussion )
Cricket Press Sun, Sep 12th 2004
1:00 'til 6:00 in the afternoon CAN / Tom Hall Memorial
Cricket for all knockout trophy 2004 Wilson will be playing in The Ken Turner Room.
📝 Pat Says
Wilson meet The Police
It's an overcast Sunday afternoon in Northampton. At the Cricket Club they are staging the first Tom Hall Memorial Cricket-for-All Challenge Tournament. In Abington Park there is a Gay Pride knees-up with bands and stuff. I am sitting in an otherwise empty Racehorse bar, my Burns in my lap, struggling to free the ball end of a broken 10 string from the body of the guitar. Normally this is a process for which I would employ the tiny allen-key in my gig bag, but right now my gig bag is at the Cricket club, helping to set up the PA. So, in need of some other slender but purposeful pokey item, I seize a 46 string and start to push away with that. Ninety seconds later, the 46 is trapped in the hole every bit as irredeemably as the 10. I'm sitting in the middle of a pub at two o'clock in the afterbloodynoon with this guitar in my lap, with wayward bits of wire poking out of it in all directions. Looks like it's going to be one of those days.
Misery collects me and my kit from the pub and we drive up to the Cricket Club. Inside Bot and Jamie Jab have made a marvellous job of setting up the PA. Everything is in readiness. But where are the drums? With Agent Cooper on holiday in Turkey, we had understood that Mr. Fletcher was keen to seize his opportunity to play with Wilson. We'd been a bit nonplussed when he didn't show for rehearsal on Friday night. "A bit cocky" was the general verdict at the time; but Mr. Fletcher is a proper musician, and we figured that as long as we were ready, he would hardly mess things up that much.
We hadn't figured on a no-show. "A bit cocky" is swiftly revised to read "Bottled it." Stevie G makes threats of violence, as is his way. I'm left pondering the point of saying "yes" to something when what you really mean is "I can't." I don't think I'll ever get my head round it.
No. N-O. Only got two letters, only takes a second to say it.
Thanks, Chuck D, for putting it quite so well.
So we have a large, empty space in the middle of the stage area. This corresponds in a rather sublime manner with the vast empty space that is the rest of the room. Outside a game of cricket is taking place. Occasionally a voice breaks out of the PA system - commentating!
Something else we hadn't figured on. The man who invited us to play said that we could play any time that suited us. We had figured on 4 o'clock as being as good a time as any. The event is supposed to stop at 6 o'clock, so that seemed to be pitched about right. Gratifyingly, as 4 o'clock nears, a small crowd gathers in the room.
Trouble is this: it has become clear that there is to be no noisy old music while the cricket is being played. Can't be distracting the players, you see, even if we are about a hundred and fifty yards away from them, inside a building. So we are going to have to wait until the cricket is done. The final doesn't finish until six o'clock. When I finally do enter the room to see about playing, I see that 90% of that small crowd has given up in despair and gone away again.
Never mind. At the last the cricket players will be there, keen to celebrate their winning the final, right? Well, yes. The trouble is this: the team that has just won the Tom Hall Memorial Cricket For All Challenge Tournament is a team from the Police. (Yes, indeed, that does explain why Curtis was out there on the rainy terraces, cheering desperately for the other side.) So we have perhaps twenty-five people here to see the band and perhaps potentially as many Police. And we have been waiting hours. We've waited in the toilets, we've waited in Curtis' car, listening to - uh - opera, we've waited in the special "Umpires Only" room (backstage dumper! "Hey, Bot - we should do a gig here some time!"), we've waited like proper waiters. Nuff waiting already, let us play.
The backing track begins to roll, with - appropriately enough - snatches of Police radio. I'm wondering if anybody here recognises his voice. I'm wondering if we're all going to Guantanamo. We start with Play It All Night Long, and there is venom. The programmed beats are coming back at us so hard that my monitor is cracking up. It's a good, solid start. Critters is introduced as a song about nature. I'm sure that no animal noises of any kind were made by anybody. At this point.
We bash our way through Quality People, then Curtis runs on to join in with Istanbul Connection. He's brought his own beer crate with him so that he can reach up to share my microphone, and makes a point of getting down off it between lines, then getting back up again for the next one. He's a proper nuisance, but he's a lovely set of pipeys on him. By now there is a small posse of cricket police sitting at a table at the back, about as far away from the band as you can go, looking well miserable. I have no idea what they can be making of the ensuing Secret Government (you ain't seen me, right?), but then comes the time to play Police Chief.
We set off at a fair old clip, guitars fizzing as MC Bot delivers our touching tribute to the boys who protect and serve. As things warm up, the proud new father takes to the keys on his bullhorn and - behold! - the thing can make police car noises! Naturally enthused, Bot continues to nee-naw his way through the entirety of the tune. As we are happily shouting "You've got it. We want it. What? Your currency", a small crocodile of victorious and yet somehow strangely subdued officers make their way out of the room. One of them, noting with his eagle-eyed detective skills that MC Bot might conceivably be taking something resembling the piss, mutters something along the lines of "cults" as he leaves. Mind how you go, now.
Wilson rattle on through Buffalo Sniper and Dark Agenda. Just to make a point, like.
With those who are there at the death, it goes down great. Lusty cries of "You whores!" greet the intrepid Wilson Four as they slink away from their amplifiers.
Andy Shaw, The Man from CAN, loved it, I'm told. He is a very nice man. He bought me a bottle of Pils and let me shout at the Police at some length and at considerable volume. He also gave us a lovely big bottle of Scotch with our wages. CAN is a charity dealing with drug and alcohol addiction issues.
Thanks to Andy, though, and thanks to Jamie Jab for all his help, and thanks to those who came out to one of the weirdest gigs we've done in a while.
So, chop-chop, ladies n gents - what's next?
Aaaargh! BUILTH!
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Border Shenanigans, Twitter BS, and The Thot Audit
Time to get back into the swing of the weekly news roundup things...we've got migrant caravan / border news, twitter nonsense and #ThotAudit to discuss.
Link to Dara Lind's piece on metering - https://www.vox.com/2018/11/28/18089048/border-asylum-trump-metering-legally-ports
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What's Up With All Those Black Men Who Voted Republican?
The unexpected Part 2 to "What The Hell Is Wrong With White Women?" but now it's the black men's turn! Still on the topic of the Georgia gubernatorial race but now it's the black men who voted for Kemp who are the bad guys.
Link to the stupid dumb WaPo piece I'm...
The People You Can't Reach vs The People You Can Reach
Finally my promised follow up to my Kindly Inquisitors book review where I do a deep dive on the chapters 'The Fundamentalist Threat' and 'The Humanitarian Threat' and how when you're dealing with those who wish to limit free speech you need to understand what kind of person you're dealing with. Hint - there's...
Asylum Ban, Title IX, and (possible) Criminal Justice Reform
This week was...not insane. There's actually some good news to report.
I give a quick midterm update, get into the asylum ban that NOBODY ELSE IS TALKING ABOUT, the new Title IX guidelines, and the bipartisan criminal justice reform bill that NOBODY IS TALKING ABOUT
The three part The Atlantic piece from Emily Yoffe I...
What The Hell Is Wrong With White Women?!
White Ladies. We broke the glass ceiling. We beat the white men out on something. Go us.
So you know I had to go in on the current "white women are the devil" narrative right? So here we are.
Here's the Daily Beast piece in question - https://www.thedailybeast.com/dear-white-lady-what-are-you-doing-to-us
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Juniper Rising
9:15PM Mr. Pitiful's - Presented by ClassX Radio
Indie/Country/Pop
Country music is not the first thing one thinks of when they think of the Brooklyn music scene, but thats exactly what this trad Country-inspired four-piece provides. The group released its first lo-fi spin on C&W on tape actual cassette tape via Burger Records, followed by a 7-inch single for 307 Knox Records.
YDIIYD: The Men, Those Darlins, She & Him. (MB)
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Juniper Rising takes the suggestion and jumps about five steps ahead, sinking their self-declared reverence for Loretta Lynn, Patsy Cline and other boldly un-urban legends into the lo-fi fuzz common to so many bands in the city. Their debut cassette, out now via noted rock peddlers Burger Records, pulls off that neat trick of sounding timeless while also clearly being the product of 2013
" - L Magazine, 8 bands you need to hear, April 2013
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Love Police
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Caitlin Rose 2013
Exploring your emotions can make for a good song, but it’s shining light on those which plague us all that builds the backbone of the truly great ones. Coupled with tireless melodies that seep into the small spaces between your bones; it’s the kind of music that brings on little movements when life has gotten too stiff. This is what Caitlin Rose does best.
And Sydney siders will have the chance to see just that when she returns for one special show in October at The Basement on Friday Oct 25.
Her lyrics – visceral, illustrative, witty and wry – are pieces of stories that examine matters of the heart through a unique lens that makes us all see a bit more clearly: from the loneliness of relationships, to palpable dissolving human connectivity, to the loss of love with none of the melodrama. At her core, Nashville’s Rose is a storyteller and a song-crafter who is more interested in what’s being produced than how it helps her along the way.
Her acclaimed debut album Own Side Now, released in 2010, was personally inspired and what stood out most was its ability to paint a picture and tell a near-cinematic story. What stands out with The Stand In, released earlier in 2013 and described by Uncut Magazine as “One of the first truly great Americana albums of 2013″ is she is more interested in telling tales than spilling confessionals.
“For me the intention behind any song is writing a good one,” Rose says “and to create something worthy enough to share with other people” Rose’s songs, however, are way beyond worthy. They’re downright necessary.
Joining Caitlin and band will be the latest and greatest SPUNK signing, Melbourne’s JIMMY TAIT in their first ever Sydney performance. Don’t let the name fool you, JIMMY TAIT is an ensemble of talented gals and guys delivering tunes to take listeners on a journey of heartbreak and hope, all within the confines of a four minute pop song. With their debut album out on October 4, the timing couldn’t be better.
To make this Friday night even more special, we are presenting the first ever clash of LOVE POLICE V SPUNK RECORDS DJs. Head honchos of both mobs will be spinning the fine tunes all night long making the night as ripe as a cherry. Oh, and if you don’t know, The Basement now has world class, authentic Mexican food available at the highly rated LA LUPITA.
So there you go CAITLIN ROSE & BAND, JIMMY TAIT, LOVE POLICE V SPUNK DJ CLASH all on one large night!!!
“Rose’s voice is one of the finest instruments to grace country music in decades” – Album of the Week – The Sunday Times
“Through her indie-leaning yet twanging vocals, Rose reveals a talent for conveying her emotions through opaque narratives instead of straight forward confessionals” – Rolling Stone
Also appearing at Melbourne Festival with special guest Henry Wagons | melbournefestival.com.au
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Caitlin Rose
23/10/13 Melbourne, VIC Melbourne Festival
Time: 8:00pm. Admission: $45.
With Special Guest Henry Wagons.
Tickets from MelbourneFestival.com.au
25/10/13 Sydney, NSW The Basement
Time: 7:30pm. Admission: $33.00 + Booking Fee.
with JIMMY TAIT and LOVE POLICE VS SPUNK DJ CLASH
Tickets from Love Police, The Basement & Moshtix.com.au.
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Review: Australia’s tour of England went on expected lines
Published on :Sep 19, 2013 04:41
When Australia headed to England for The Ashes there wasn’t much excitement this time round. Australia had lost the previous two Ashes series and they weren’t rated very highly for the latest series as well.
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Final ODI: Watson-Clarke partnership was the clincher
Australia haven’t had a memorable tour of England. They lost The Ashes with an embarrassing 3-0 scoreline and managed to square the T20 series 1-1. Their only hope of returning with some good memories was if they performed well in the one-dayers.
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Watson ton sinks England as Aus win ODI Series
Australia finished their tour of England with a consolation victory in the 5-match ODI Series. The tourists won the fifth and final ODI which was played under lights at The Rose Bowl in Southampton by 49 runs on Monday to take the rain-affected series 2-1.
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AUS tour of ENG: England Vs Australia 5th ODI at Southampton Live Score, Sep 16, 2013
Australia tour of England: England Vs Australia 5th ODI Live scores at Southampton, Sep 16, 2013.Match scheduled to begin at 14:00 local time (13:00 GMT)
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4th ODI: England’s gamble to be batting-heavy proved decisive
There is old saying in one-day cricket that if six batsmen cannot win you a game, there is little chance seven will. However, over the years, captains have taken on this challenge and proved that ODI games can indeed be won by packing your side with batsmen.
Tags: Australia tour of England 2013, England Vs Australia, 4 th ODI at Cardiff - Sep 14, 2013
Rain washes out Edgbaston ODI
Rain forced the third ODI at Edgbaston in Birmingham between England and Australia on Wednesday to be abandoned. This is annoyingly the second match of the series to be abandoned without a result due to rain.
Tags: Australia tour of England 2013, England Vs Australia, 3rd ODI at Birmingham - Sep 11, 2013
Manchester ODI: Clarke-Bailey partnership won it for Australia
Winning the ODI series will not heal the wounds inflicted by the 3-0 Ashes loss on Australia, but it would definitely make them feel better. The series is only one match old with the first ODI being washed out due to rain.
Tags: Australia tour of England 2013, Michael John Clarke, George John Bailey, England Vs Australia, 2nd ODI at Manchester - Sep 8, 2013
Clarke, Bailey set up huge win in Second ODI at Manchester
Australia found its first success against England on this tour with a massive 99-run win in the Second ODI at Old Trafford on Sunday. The comprehensive victory was set up by Skipper Michael Clarke, who scored his first ODI ton against England along with Vice-Captain George Bailey.
Tags: Australia tour of England 2013, England Vs Australia, 2nd ODI at Manchester - Sep 8, 2013, Michael John Clarke, George John Bailey, Kevin Peter Pietersen, Joseph Charles Buttler, Eoin Joseph Gerard Morgan
Eng-Aus opening ODI at Leeds abandoned without a ball bowled
The opening ODI between England and Australia at Headingley in Leeds was abandoned without a single ball bowled due to heavy rain.
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In Catacamas, Olancho, Honduras the Center for the Rehabilitation of Patients with Addictions -- CEREPA -- combines an environment of Christian love and teaching with a variety of proven treatments for addiction.
Centre des Enfants Handicapes of Jacmel (Pazapa)
Provides health education and treatment for physically and mentally handicapped children in the Jacmel region, on the south coast of Haiti. Pazapa has had an cooperative relationship with St. Vincent's School for the Handicapped in Port- au-Prince. Staff includes a registered nurse, a physical therapist, three health educators. Visiting physicians hold periodic patient evaluation clinics. Papaza provides surgery, orthopedic devices, physical therapy, and rehabilitation for physically handicapped children at no cost.
Centre Materno et Infantil de Boileau
The Centre Materno et Infantil de Boileau (CMIB) provides counseling, family planning, routine pre and postpartum examinations, referrals for complicated pregnancies, practical courses in health and hygiene, routine childhood examinations and vaccinations and transient nutritional intervention. The clinic is open four days a week and is staffed with two registered nurses, two laboratory technologists, a practical nurse who oversees the pharmacy and a full-time physician.
Centre Medico Social clinic services include routine primary and pediatric care, routine gynecological care, family planning, treatment of sexually transmitted diseases and pre/post natal care. In addition, there are laboratory and pharmacy services on site. The clinic is located at 76 Ruelle Nord Alexis, Limonade, Department du Nord.
Centre Sante de la Grace du Bon Samaritain (Grace of the Good Samaritan Health Center)
Centre Sante de la Grace du Bon Samaritain is located in Cazale and operated by Real Hope for Haiti, Inc. The clinic is opened Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday for general consultations from 7am-5pm. They are opened Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday from 7am-12pm for dressing changes and appointments. They charge a small consultation fee of approximately $1.50, but give medications away for no charge.
Centre Sante Lumiere (Cayes Clinic)
Centre Sante Lumiere provides a broad spectrum of out-patient services in family medicine, internal medicine, obstetrics, gynecology, pediatrics, urology, orthopedics, dentistry and community health.
Centro de Salud Barbara (Partner for Surgery)
Rural clinic in San Juan Sacatepequez,one hour outside of Guatemala City. Has 2 fully-equipped ORs at the Centro de Salud Barbara . Surgical teams welcome, lodging available. Partner for Surgery will bring in patients for these teams, from among the neediest of the poor. PFS provides all necessary patient logistics from translation to follow-up care.
Centro Medico Bournigal
Bournigal Medical Center (CMB) is a general and specialized hospital located in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic.
Centro Medico de Guatemala
Full-service hospital in Guatemala City.
Cervical Cancer Prevention Program
Cervical cancer diagnosis and treatment for women from the Leogane area. Uses Thin Prep screening and portable colposcopes. Run by Family Health Ministries.
Christ's Love Shared Community Clinic
Christ's Love Shared Community Clinic is supported by the Fellow Man International Foundation and offers services which include: general medicine, dentistry, laboratory services, labor and delivery as well as minor surgery. The clinic is located in the town of Buenos Aires, Santa Barbara, Honduras.
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