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Home/chile/After 15 years of release of Pikmin 2, a new easter egg was found
After 15 years of release of Pikmin 2, a new easter egg was found
chile January 7, 2019 chile
Over time Game Cubes saga Pikmin Nintendo has become one of the most popular developers and requires Nintendo Switch monitoring. Until then, series followers continue to enjoy existing stills and, recently, someone has found Easter Egg really curious
This special Easter egg becomes true Totaka song (Totaka Song), The melody of the 19 notes that only appear in specific cases that appear in Kazumi Totaka's soundtrack titles. Well then 15 years since the launch of Pikmin 2It has also been found that it appears in the second half.
In order to be heard, access is required If there is no cave game and no memory card Game in Cube. At this time, a message will appear if we want to save the game or not, so we have to do everything patiently for more than three minutes before the song Totaka is launched.
Previously, it was already discovered that the same subject was heard Results screen After the Pikmin 2 cave is over. You only need four minutes to listen. Is there another Nintendo video game hidden behind this melody and has not been found yet?
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What gaming memories are your “back in the day”?
The phrase “back in the day” gets thrown around a lot in many genres but not so much in gaming. If, however, you were asked to reflect on your gaming experiences, what would be your “back in the day” gaming memory?
As a member of SNR, I can’t speak for all of us, but for me personally it would have to be when the hard choice was between the Nintendo 64 and the PlayStation 1. Back then you had the new player on the block being Sony’s PlayStation 1 (released 1994), and the established power house of Nintendo releasing their new Nintendo 64 (released 1996).
For me it was no contest because back then I was a Nintendo fan through and through (come on next gen console!). There were two key games that stood out for me on the Nintendo 64. The first was Super Mario 64. This game just blew me away, and must be mentioned because it could be its own “back in the day” story. It was easily the first real attempt at an open 3D platform game, and one of the reasons I was so strongly supportive the of Nintendo 64 console.
The second would have to be Golden Eye. Golden Eye was great on its own merits. What really makes it a “back in the day” gaming memory for me though, was when my friends and I would set up both the PlayStation and Nintendo consoles in the same house. Five to ten guys in each room all with distinct views on which console was better, and which game.
In the Nintendo room was Golden Eye. It’s hard to imagine today, but back then we had four controllers playing split screen on a 34cm TV. Think about that, that’s just over 13 inches. Most T.V.’s now are easily 55 inches and that’s no way a big TV.
Back then no one knew better, or even cared, because they were so intently focused on playing multiplayer Golden Eye, and it was awesome! This was my first introduction to co-op game play and I believe it’s why I still love that interactive chat and online gameplay with friends today.
I would of course occasionally check out the other room and queue up for a turn on Mortal Combat, and don’t get me wrong, it was great. At the end though, I always I ended regretting losing my place in the only queue that mattered, Nintendo 64 Golden Eye. “Back in the day for sure”.
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Coworking Space to Continue their Growthpath in 2018
"SMEs and large corporates are looking to co-working spaces to maximise their productivity,” JLL India CEO and country head Ramesh Nair.
SMEStreet DeskJanuary 8, 2018 1:41 pm 0
The way entrepreneurship culture is growing in India, the momentum of co-working spaces in 2017 is likely to continue 2018, as well as large corporates, look at consolidating businesses to maximise their productivity, says experts. Co-working, also known as alternative workspaces, is recognised as a style of working as well as refers to the physical space where such a sharing community exists.
The co-working concept is not new, but what is exciting about it is the tremendous growth it has seen around the globe in the past several years as it is essentially the private sector’s response to meet today’s activity-based work requirements. According to a study by property consultant Jones lang LaSalle, co-working is expected to receive investments worth USD 400 million by 2018. The potential market size for the segment across the country currently stands in the range of 12-16 million seats. “The demand for co-working spaces is no longer only limited to freelancers or start-up employees. The staff at small emerging businesses, as well as large corporate offices, are also looking to co-working spaces to maximise their productivity,” says JLL India CEO and country head Ramesh Nair.
While freelancers are primarily focussed on the cost factor, start-ups and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) focus on cost as well as infrastructure. For large corporate firms, on the other hand, travel convenience is a high priority, and hence the prime office location is important as is infrastructure, he said. Knight Frank India chief economist and national research director Samantak Das said co-working space is witnessing an increasing momentum as seen in not just the volumes of space taken up but also the diversity of players that are now queueing up to serve occupiers in this quality-starved office space market. “In 2018, the shrinking availability of quality-leased office assets coupled with yields reaching historic lows will push investors to look at alternative segments like retail and warehousing.
On the other hand, signing built to suit deals will become imminent for office occupiers,” he said. Realty services provider SILA founder and managing director Sahil Vora said co-working spaces have led to a significant supply in many micro markets and more planned for 2018. “In the next couple years, we expect few large players to dominate and consolidate each market, which may lead to a painful exit for smaller players. The increased competition may also squeeze margins until the sector consolidates,” he added.
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RIOCAN Property Services is Canada's largest real estate investment trust. Its assets total approximately $3 billion and consist of ownership interests in nearly 150 retail properties across Canada with a combined total of over 23 million square feet of space.
RIOCAN strives to deliver to its unit holders stable and reliable cash distributions which continuously increase over time.
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A Voter’s Guide to California’s 17 Statewide Ballot Measures
By Jennifer Wadsworth @jennwadsworth / September 21, 2016 13
All manner of initiatives will grace the November ballot and potentially become law in California. (Photo by Vrysxy, via Wikimedia Commons)
Thanks to the state’s longstanding tradition of direct democracy, every California voter becomes a lawmaker at the ballot box. But this year more than ever, citizen legislators of the electorate better do their homework. Seventeen state initiatives have made their way onto the fall ballot, including some of the most complex laws ever put to a popular vote.
Among the raft of statewide measures are proposals to legalize recreational cannabis, end the death penalty or speed it up, ban plastic bags and cap prescription drug costs. Not since 2000 have Californians been asked to wade through so many propositions. That’s not even counting a slew of local initiatives, which stand to make the Nov. 8 voter guide a record-setting 224 pages. In an exceedingly blue state where the presidential race is a given, high-stakes battles that affect our daily lives will play out by way of citizen-lawmaking. Study up now or get lost on Election Day.
Prop. 51: School bonds
Originally pitched by the state lawmakers as a way to help local schools, Prop. 51 would authorize $9 billion in bond debt to modernize K-12 and community college campuses. But the proposal bankrolled by the construction industry has drawn fierce criticism from reformers and a number of local public school advocates. Opponents of the measure say it would bolster the status quo—a school-bond industrial complex that enriches developers on the taxpayer dime—instead of improving upon on it. Gov. Jerry Brown called it “a blunderbuss effort” that would allow wealthy districts to cut in line before low-income communities.
Prop. 52: Medi-Cal funding
Should it pass, Prop. 52—arguably one of the most complicated initiatives on the ballot—would protect the state’s ability to fund Medi-Cal. California has long failed to put up enough money to trigger the max amount of federal matching funds indigent health care. That forces the 400 or so hospitals that accept Medi-Cal patients to operate at a huge loss. When the Great Recession hit in 2009, hospitals offered to pay the state fees to use as matching dollars. But when the economic crisis morphed into a state budget crisis in 2011, lawmakers spent $500 million from those fees on services that had nothing to do with Medi-Cal. Prop. 52 would protect those fees by keeping them in place and requiring a two-thirds vote of the Legislature to spend them on anything but they’re intended purpose: health care for people who can’t otherwise afford it.
Prop. 53: Revenue bonds
General obligation bonds, which are paid back by taxing the public, need approval from the electorate to pass. Prop. 53 would simply extend that requirement to revenue bonds, which are paid for with money generated by the project. The initiative would require statewide voter approval for government construction funded by more than $2 billion in revenue bonds. Wealthy Central Valley farmer Dean “Dino” Cortopassi penned the prop as a way to reign in state debt by making it harder for bureaucrats to run up a tab on pet projects. Opponents—including Gov. Jerry Brown, whose proposed bullet train and Delta tunnels comprise two of the biggest public works projects in state history—say it would prevent much-needed infrastructure from getting built.
Prop. 54: Public review
Two influential Republicans—former state Senator Sam Blakeslee and Palo Alto-based GOP donor Charles Munger Jr.—drafted Prop. 54 to prevent lawmakers from making last-minute changes to bills headed for the governor’s desk. The initiative would force the Legislature to post bills online for public review at least three days before a final vote. The measure would also expand access to live video of legislative action and allow people to later use that footage in political campaigns.
Prop. 55: Tax on the wealthy
Voters will be asked to add another 12 years to the life of a tax on incomes over $250,000 a year. Prop. 55 would allow the 1 to 3 percent surtax to sunset in 2030, with proceeds spent on public schools and healthcare programs.
Prop. 56: Cigarette tax
Four years after a similar measure was rejected at the ballot, voters will have yet another chance to raise the tax on tobacco. This time, with Prop. 56, the tax would amount to $2 a pack and apply to both traditional smokes and their newfangled electronic counterparts.
Prop. 57: Prison parole
Part of Gov. Jerry Brown’s broader effort to undo some of the tough-on-crime laws he helped usher in decades ago, Prop. 57 would qualify more nonviolent prisoners for early release based on credits for good behavior and taking classes during incarceration. It would also prevent juvenile offenders from getting shunted right away to an adult court hearing.
Prop. 58: Bilingual education
This would end a ban on bilingual education passed by California voters as part of a public backlash against multiculturalism in 1998. Prop. 58 would give county education offices far greater freedom to teach bilingual students in English and in their native tongue.
Prop. 59: Citizens United
As an advisory measure, this proposition asks voters whether they want state policymakers to work toward repealing the U.S. Supreme Court’s controversial Citizens United decision on money in politics. The 2010 ruling held that corporations have a First Amendment right to spend unlimited amounts of cash on national campaigns. But overturning the decision would require the radical step of amending the U.S. Constitution. Because there’s such a high bar for revoking Citizens United, state legislators took to the ballot to ask for the blessing of California’s electorate.
Prop. 60: Condoms in porn
Adult film performers would have no choice but to use condoms in explicit sex scenes under this initiative. Violations would result in penalties and fines, but only movie producers would be on the hook.
Prop. 61: Prescription drug pricing
Big Pharma dropped tens of millions of dollars into a campaign opposing Prop. 61, which would ban state agencies from paying more than the lowest price the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs spends on the same drug. The “price ceiling,” however, would apply to only one buyer: the state.
Prop. 62: Repeal death penalty
Two rival death penalty measures will appear on the November ballot (see Prop. 66), making for a historic showdown over the future of state-sanctioned executions. Prop. 62 would overturn the 1978 law that necessitates capital punishment for the worst crimes. It would also direct more money made from prison work to restitution for victims.
Prop. 63: Gun control
Drafted during the intense public debate about gun laws and mass shootings, this initiative would ban the sale and possession of high-capacity ammunition magazines in California. Prop. 63 would also require background checks for buying ammo and create new felony charges for gun thefts.
Prop. 64: Marijuana
One of the most talked-about measures on the fall ballot, this initiative would legalize marijuana and hemp under state law. Though cannabis would remain illegal by federal standards, Prop. 64 would render it taxable by state and local governments and sellable to anyone over the age of 21.
Prop. 65: Carry-out bags
The plastic bag lobby is backing this measure, which would require fees charged for paper or reusable bags to fund environmental programs. Under the existing plastic bag ban, retailers can only use those fees for compliance measures, consumer education and bag costs. Prop. 65 would simply redirect them.
Prop. 66: Speed up death penalty
This initiative is backed by former NFL player Kermit Alexander, whose mom, sister and two nephews were murdered in their own home in 1984. Their killer remains on death row. Alexander wants Prop. 66 to pass because it would accelerate capital punishment by imposing new time limits. It would also curtail the appeal process, which is worrisome for people who have been wrongly convicted.
Prop. 67: Plastic bag referendum
Prop. 67 allows voters to decide whether to uphold or repeal a statewide plastic bag ban. The ban passed through the Legislature in 2014, and now requires approval from a majority of Californians before it becomes law. Most cities in Santa Clara County have already 86’d single-use plastic bags. If Prop. 67 passes, the ban would become statewide.
Jennifer Wadsworth is the news editor for San Jose Inside and Metro Silicon Valley. Email tips to [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter at @jennwadsworth. Or, click here to sign up for text updates about what she’s working on.
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sjoutsidethebubble Sep 21, 2016 @ 11:23 am
Prop. 54: Public review YES
Prop. 66: Speed up death penalty YES
Prop. 67: Plastic bag referendum YES
Everything else is garbage and safe to ignore.
Sal Sep 21, 2016 @ 11:59 am
‘Garbage safe to ignore.’
Just like you.
sjoutsidethebubble Sep 21, 2016 @ 5:30 pm
Thanks, Sal.
I’m just doing it for the attention.
Robert M Cortese Sep 22, 2016 @ 4:09 pm
SJO,
Sal’s just doing it because he cares about fitting in with the other curmudgeons on the site. Although I did agree with his “Too much misogynistic comments” on the tampon tax article the other day.
DWSJ Sep 22, 2016 @ 11:56 am
The scary one is prop 57. I heard a good interview with a SoCal DA that went through the crimes that ARE NOT classified as violent under CA laws. One example is rape of an unconscious person (where are all the people who righly protested the weak sentence for the Stanford case now that prop 57 will make all those perpetrators eligible for even earlier release?). The proposition also says penalties should only be based on the base crime, not previous crimes, so 3-strikes sentences will be eigible for parole as will cases where the defendent pled down a violent crime to a non-violent conviction (on a side note, I despise the culture of llea bargains our DAs so rely on). This is totally a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
toby1981 Sep 22, 2016 @ 1:04 pm
pretty easy – vote no on all
or vote yes, could not care leaving CA thank godness
Sal Sep 22, 2016 @ 2:41 pm
Kyle H Sep 22, 2016 @ 2:32 pm
Prop 60: it’s a lot more complex than that. Voting yes on this would provide too much economic incentive to return to the days of exploitation in the sex movie industry — currently, a lot of the performers -are- producers, and having to put their name and address on everything will open them up even more to the same type of stalkers that led to a crackdown on availability of personal information from the DMV. And creating a new private right of action against the producers if the state doesn’t act on complaints will only clog the courts.
Mandatory condoms in porn is one thing, but this doesn’t provide funding for the attorney general to take the actions this bill would need — and because private persons don’t have the AG subpoena mechanism for requesting information before a suit is filed, the suit would have to be filed and discovery initiated before producers would even know that they would have to provide the proof that condoms were worn in the first place.
There’s a lot more that’s bad about this proposition. The underlying drive is good, but everything attached to it is just an excuse to force porn performers to expose their information for harassment purposes. There’s not even a “false private prosecution can cause the plaintiff to pay for the defendants’ legal fees” clause, so it will become a “bankruptcy by litigation” attack.
John Galt Sep 22, 2016 @ 9:10 pm
Out of respect for my childhood hero, Kermit Alexander, I’ll be voting NO on 62 and YES on 66.
craig Sep 29, 2016 @ 2:05 pm
The article begins with a statement I disagree with adamantly:
“Thanks to the state’s longstanding tradition of direct democracy, every California voter becomes a lawmaker at the ballot box.”
The statement makes it sound like “oh boy, we get to pass a law.” Well the truth is our legislators do not want to pass certain laws because it is not politically a great idea. Our legislature is simply, LAZY.
The other tings that is bothersome about this initiative process is the voter base is too ignorant onthe issues and too lazy to get educated on them.
sjoutsidethebubble Oct 4, 2016 @ 11:17 am
A useful voter guide.
But, it seems that the election authorities make it very difficult to know what percent of vote is required to pass a measure.
For example, it appears that Proposition 51 authorizing school bonds requires a 55% supermajority to pass. But I have yet to find that explicitly stated in any of the physical or online documentation of the measure.
The only source I have found that offers a generic explanation is Ballotpedia:
https://ballotpedia.org/Supermajority_requirement
“A supermajority requirement is a requirement in some votes and elections where more than a simple majority of those voting must vote in favor of a proposal in order for it to be considered to have been approved.
Examples of supermajority requirements:
Parcel tax elections in California. Local parcel tax ballot measures must win a 2/3rds supermajority in order to pass.
School bond elections in California. Local school bond ballot propositions require a 55% supermajority vote to pass.”
Great. But if these are just “examples”, what is the FULL STORY?
Election authorities need to be open, transparent, and explicit about these things.
Andie Tran Oct 23, 2016 @ 2:16 pm
Vote NO to Madison Nguyen ( California Assembly Election )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI99fg3oxXU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9lk-jA7-cw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgCzu-FkmbM&list=PLCB60AC887D81BFC5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naRwv1aSyv4&list=PL45910FEA6A89765E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQei-s9Syrk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ5T9_rPEIk&list=PL8050252C121A71EB
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qI-GrvtS0U
http://www.siliconvalleyoneworld.com/2016/06/23/judge-former-councilmember-madison-nguyen-guilty-of-political-miscalculation-not-misconduct-in-naming-east-san-jose-business-district/
http://littlesaigoninside.blogspot.ca/2016/06/press-release-by-city-council-member.html
http://staging.sanjoseinside.com/2016/10/05/questions-arise-on-dark-money-influence-in-south-bay-politics/
https://bacaytruc.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1590:ti-sao-toi-khong-bu-cho-madison-nguyn-&catid=34:din-an-c-gi&Itemid=53
http://tieng-dan-weekly.blogspot.ca/2016/08/cui-madison-nguyen-nau-au-cong-ong.html
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Chances Of A Big Earthquake Occurring In California Went Up
The chances of a big earthquake occurring in California in the following 30 years have increased significantly, researchers announced this week, based on enhanced forecasting methods.
Quakes are known to be tricky to anticipate and while seismic dynamic in California has been moderate in the last hundred years, specialists project that a major one will strike eventually – they simply don’t know exactly when.
US Geological Survey reported:
“The likelihood that California will experience a magnitude 8 or larger earthquake in the next 30 years has increased from about 4.7 percent… to about 7.0 percent.”
An analysis, named the Third Uniform California Earthquake rupture Forecast, recognizes the complex way of fault lines and employs new approaches to measure future risks.
USGS researcher Ned Field and main author of the study explained that the new data was the result of the incorporation of conceivable pluri-fault breaks, where seismic quakes are no longer linked to separate single faults, but can, once in a while, burst several faults at the same time.
Field emphasized:
“This is a significant advancement in terms of representing a broader range of earthquakes throughout California’s complex fault system.”
While the danger of a major earth tremor went up, that of a more mild one decreased since the last evaluation in 2008. According to the new report, the assessed rate of seismic tremors with an average magnitude of 6.7( like that of the 1994 Northridge earthquake) has dropped around 30 percent. The normal recurrence of such occasions statewide has decreased from an mean one every 4.8 years to around one every 6.3 years.
Tom Jordan, chief of the Southern California Earthquake Center and a co-researcher in the study, further noted that the scientists are now aware of tectonic movements consistently increasing in the springs of the San Andreas faults framework and making huge shakes a certain fact. He added:
“The UCERF3 model provides our leaders and the public with improved information about what to expect so that we can better prepare.”
The discoveries, Field noted, will aid updating building codes and seismic insurance policies, and will influence how specialists built tall buildings, medical facilities, scaffolds, schools and water systems.
David Oglesby, an earthquake expert at UC Riverside who wasn’t included in the study, said the report will likewise add to crisis response strategies.
Researchers have long cautioned that the southern area of the San Andreas Fault is past due for major quake — partially because the last time a major one hit the region was around 1690.
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iPad download
I'm trying to download the ebook version of a book to my iPad. There is not a link to download it. Help!
klein512 14 mai 2013 02:03 Partager
Search the knowledge base for "iPad" and you'll find a FAQ showing how to do this.
.....Tony
Tony Frankland 14 mai 2013 07:55 0 votes Partager
Tony - No, not that I can find.
nis350ztt 23 juillet 2013 16:16 0 votes Partager
Hi klein512,
Looking over your account I'm not actually seeing any created ebooks. If you're having trouble creating an ebook from an existing project, you may want to look over this FAQ.
You can read how to download and open your ebook file here.
-Padraic
Padraic 23 juillet 2013 22:12 0 votes Partager
Having already brought the paperback I'd thought I'd get the ebook, but it doesn't seem to download,I've checked my purchase account but it only mentions my paperback copy, no mention of my ebook download though according to paypal it's been paid for,my computer skills are very basic and I'm trying to download to my iPad .
APOEL 4 novembre 2013 14:05 0 votes Partager
The keyboard on my laptop just took a dump and I'm in the middle of a project... Trying to download booksmart to my ipad2..... HELP...
Cali Franklin 30 décembre 2013 05:27 0 votes Partager
Where can I find the download option for ipad
JessFigueira 15 avril 2014 22:30 0 votes Partager
Yeah padraig but THOSE INSTRUCTIONS DO NOT WORK!!!! and yes I have ibook!
and besides they are NOT the instructions sent with the order and link! Nothing mentioned about logging in there.
and when you try to log in you get asked to create a user name - which results in an error - like maybe 10 times!
Short story - software for blurb is VERY buggy and Blurb does not care and does not fix things!
RickPCN 15 août 2014 10:25 0 votes Partager
REALLY, I've been trying now over 2 weeks to download an ibook (or ebook) that I bought! First took 2 hours to even get into site, plus when they answered, told me to upload WEBex (Can't get in to it???) I have an IPAD, new verison and sureyly BLURP can download to IBOOK. WHAT THE DEAL???? PLEASE help. Cookie (about to crumble)
Cookie 7 novembre 2014 13:19 0 votes Partager
Social Media Lessons from Ford
To generate real results and accomplish long-term goals over social media, businesses need to think beyond simple, one-off campaigns and make a regular commitment to marketing and customer engagement on social media. social media marketing campaign That's what Ford Motor Co.'s global head of social media, Scott Monty, said today at the "Social Wheels in Motion" session during Social Media Week, which kicked off yesterday in New York City.With nearly 90,000 followers on Twitter, Monty blogs about social media marketing and has developed a reputation as one of the top thought leaders on all things social.Examining some of the campaigns he's managed at Ford, Monty offered attendees some lessons for managing social media for brands.At the core of Ford's social media efforts is an effort to give the company's fans and followers a chance to experience the brand in ways they never expected -- and be rewarded for it. Before the unveiling of the 2011 Explorer, Ford created a Facebook page that gave itssocial media marketing degree fans sneak peeks at features and video interviews with the design team and chief engineer. Another example, the Ford Social site, allows customers to claim badges based on their interests, win exclusive access to industry events and even submit suggestions for new vehicle features.Every Tweet is time stamped, which can be found in gray text directly below any Tweet. The timestamp is also a link to that Tweet’s own URL.Top Tweets are determined by a Twitter algorithm to be the most popular or resonant on Twitter at any given time. They are usually Tweets by people with the most followers or by people who Tweet often.With over 150 million Twitter users Tweeting over 500 million Tweets a day, some topics become more popular than others. When a major earthquake hits Japan or a terrorist bomb explodes in the Middle East, effective social media marketing thousands if not millions of people start Tweeting about the event. Usually they will add a hashtag to their Tweets so people can easily follow that topic. The Trends list on Twitter is a real-time summary of the most popular topics being Tweeted about at that moment.
Do something people will remember
Social media, when done right, can build trust and relationships between brands and fans. social media marketing campaigns Geoff Alexander, president of Wow Bao, an Asian-steamed bun chain based in Chicago, has received national attention for the company's knack for transforming negative reviewers into brand ambassadors, by sharing their most memorable moments.In 2010, a customer on his way to a business dinner at Wow Bao tweeted, "Can any1 tell me if it's going to suck as much [as] reviews suggest." Almost immediately, @BaoMouth, Wow Bao's Twitter avatar and voice of Wow Bao, responded, offering him a free meal. A reporter with the Associated Press spotted the exchange, wrote a story about it, and Wow Bao gained a brand ambassador and national media attention with a single tweet.The little things are the big things when it comes to social media," says Dave Brown, director of digital strategy for New York-based experiential marketing agency MKG, who has created buzzworthy events for Evian and NBC Universal. Brown's clients participate social media marketing resume in conversations on social media that are important to their brand, like Evian's commitment to health and fitness, and engage with fans, such as offering an exclusive Q&A Facebook chat with tennis star Maria Sharapova.Brown says businesses should offer something of value to fans, whether the interaction is in person or online. While your business might not have the budget to pull a celebrity, you can offer meaningful experiences to fans such as hosting a meetup or breakfast for top Twitter followers or Facebook fans to launch a new product or simply engage with fans of your brand.Searches can also be performed at http://search.twitter.com. Twitter Search works just like any other search engine, but the results are limited to Twitter content. A short code is the five-digit phone number used to send and receive social media marketing conference Tweets via text message.Stories on Twitter are found in the Discover tab. Think of Stories as expanded Trends. Stories are the Trends plus the links to the video, images, blogs, and web content mentioned in the Tweet.
What's a Pinterest board and what kind should I create
A board is where you organize multiple pins by topic or theme. social media marketing service You can customize your boards based on themes that directly or indirectly relate to your products and services. For example, Etsy, a popular online arts and crafts marketplace, curates 61 boards for some 235,000 followers with themes that range from handmade gift ideas to holiday decor to wedding accessories.Marketing professionals from all over the country descended upon New York City this week for Social Media Week to learn from industry leaders on how to create engaging content, respond to customers during a crisis, incorporate humor into your tweets and more. The goal: learn something new about social media marketing that they can use for their own companies and startups.We were there, too, in the trenches taking notes, networking and live-tweeting all the relevant sound bites. social media marketing strategy template We collected a variety of tweets from attendees -- including some of our own -- that might give you a taste for how the event went down.You might want to host a "Pinterest party" to encourage others to pin alongside you in real-time. HGTV recently had a Holiday Pinning Party, that let followers pin their favorite holiday decorations, gifts and recipes, while interacting with HGTV editors in pin comment fields.Following other users shows that you are an active Pinterest community participant and that you aren't just there to promote your products and services. So, make a habit of following people, brands and influencers who share similar pinning topics and themes in related industries. You can repin their images and comment on their pins.To discover so-called "power pinners" who share your interests and can potentially boost your reach on Pinterest, click on the Popular link at the top of every Pinterest page. social media marketing los angeles It will tell you which pins are trending and who is pinning them.A Pinterest gallery of humorous videos that feature well-designed textual infographics, and offer how-to tutorials can be an engaging way to bring your products and services to life.
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For many Philadelphia's Starkweather are still an untapped band for the masses yet they have been cited as influence to many of today's top selling metal/hardcore bands. Metal Maniacs says on an early listen to Croatoan, their long awaited new album, "rare is a band who personify, quite accurately, agony and despair through tranquil yet devouring movements. One of underground metal's soon-to-be classics, all hail Starkweather!"
Produced by Pierre Remillard (Cryptopsy) and featuring artwork by renowne dartist Paul Romano (Mastodon, Earth, Godflesh), Croatoan is the result of years of meticulous work. Perfectionists in every regard, Starkweather have nurtured the album (as they have their entire career) in their own way. And through it all, the band as always deliver a quality recording, a memorable performance and a charisma that is all their own.
Formed in 1990, Starkweather have two full-length albums as well several seven-inch recordings and compilation collaborations. Croatoan, released overseas in late 2005 on vinyl only (featuring exclusive artwork also from Paul Romano) via Hypertension Records, is the band's first new recording in over five years. The band toured Europe for the first time in mid-2005, visiting the Netherlands, Germany, England, France and other countries. The band plans to visit again during the year. The band are confirmed to open for Emperor on the band's farewell New York dates with additional American dates expected and to be announced shortly.
“Croatoan” features guest performances from Liam Wilson (Dillinger Escape Plan) and Jim Winters (Earth Crisis/Turmoil).
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Facebook pivots to what it wishes it was
Zuckerberg gets aspirational
Josh Constine @JoshConstine / 2 years
In Facebook’s dreams, it’s a clean and private place. People spend their time having thoughtful discussions in “meaningful” Groups, planning offline meetups with Events or laughing together in a Facebook Watch party.
In reality, Facebook is a cluttered mess of features that seem to constantly leak user data. People waste their time viewing inane News Feed posts from “friends” they never talk to, enviously stalking through photos of peers or chowing on click-bait articles and viral videos in isolation. Facebook will never shake this reputation if it just keeps polishing its old features.
That’s why Facebook is rolling out what could be called an “aspirational redesign” known as FB5. Rather than polishing what Facebook was, it tries to spotlight what it wants to be. “This is the biggest change we’ve made to the Facebook app and site in five years,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg said to open Facebook’s F8 conference yesterday.
The new Facebook
Most noticeably, that starts with sucking much of the blue out of the Facebook interface, making it look sparse and calming — despite a More button that unveils the social network’s bloat into dozens of rarely used features. A new logo features a brighter blue bubble around Facebook’s distinctive white f, which attempts to put a more uplifting spin on a bruised brand.
Functionally, FB5 means placing Groups near the center of a freshly tabbed interface for both Facebook’s website and app, and putting suggestions for new ones to join across the service. “Everywhere there are friends, there should be Groups,” says the head of the Facebook app, Fidji Simo. Groups already has 1 billion monthly users, so Facebook is following the behavior pattern and doubling down. But Facebook’s goal is not only to have 2.38 billion people using the feature — the same number as use its whole app — but to get them all into meaningful Groups that emblematize their identity. Indeed, 400 million already are. And now Groups for specific interests like gaming or health support will get special features, and power users will get a dashboard of updates across all their communities.
Groups will be flanked by Marketplace, perhaps the Facebook feature with the most latent potential. It’s a rapidly emerging use case Facebook wants to fuel. Just a year and a half after launch, Marketplace had 800 million monthly users. Zuckerberg took Craigslist, added real identity to thwart bad behavior and now is bolting it to the navigation bar of the most-used app on earth. The result is a place where it’s easy to put things up for sale and get tons of viewers. I once sold a couch on Marketplace in 20 minutes. Now sellers can take payments directly in the app instead of with cash or Venmo, and they can offer to ship items anywhere at the buyer’s expense. By following Zuckerberg’s mandate that 2019 focus on commerce, Facebook has become a viable Shopify competitor.
If Groups is what’s already working about Facebook’s future, Watch is the opposite. It’s a product designed to capture the video viewing bonanza Facebook observes on Netflix and YouTube. But without tentpole content like a “Game of Thrones” or “Stranger Things,” it’s failed to impact the cultural zeitgeist. The closest thing it has to must-see video is Buffy the Vampire Slayer re-runs and a docu-series on NBA star Steph Curry. Facebook claims 75 million people now Watch for at least one minute per day, though those 60 seconds don’t have to be sequential. That’s still just 4 percent of its users. And a Diffusion study found 50 percent of adult U.S. Facebook users had never even heard of Watch. Sticking it front and center demonstrates Facebook’s commitment to making Watch a hit, even if it has to cram it down our throats.
Not the old Facebook
The products of the past got little love onstage at F8. Nothing new for News Feed, Facebook’s mint but also the source of its misinformation woes. In the age of Snapchat and Zuckerberg’s newfound insistence on ephemerality to prevent embarrassment, the Timeline profile chronicling your whole Facebook life got nary a mention. And Pages for businesses that were the center of its monetization strategy years ago didn’t find space in the keynote, similar to how they’ve been butted out of the News Feed by competition and Facebook’s philosophical shift from public content to friends and family.
The one thing we heard a lot about but didn’t actually see much of was privacy. Zuckerberg started the conference declaring “The future is private!” He spoke about how Facebook plans to make its messaging apps encrypted, how it wants to be a living room rather than just a town hall and how it’s following the shift in user behavior away from broadcasting. But we didn’t see any new privacy protections for the developer platform, a replacement for its chief security officer that’s been vacant for nine months or the Clear History feature Zuckerberg announced last year.
“I get that a lot of people aren’t sure that we’re serious about this. I know that we don’t exactly have the strongest reputation on privacy right now, to put it lightly,” Zuckerberg joked, without seeming to generate a single laugh. Combined with having little to show to enhance privacy, making fun of such a dire situation doesn’t instill much confidence. When Zuckerberg does take things seriously, it quickly manifests itself in the product, like with Facebook’s 2012 shift to mobile, or in the company, like with 2018’s doubling of security headcount. He knew mobile and content moderation failures could kill his network. But does someone who told Time magazine in 2010 that “What people want isn’t complete privacy” truly see a loose stance on privacy as an existential threat?
Interoperable, encrypted messaging will boost privacy, but it’s also just good business logic given Zuckerberg’s intention to own chat — the heart of your phone. Facebook’s creepiness stems from it sucking in data to power ad targeting. Nothing new was announced to address that. Despite his words, perhaps Zuckerberg doesn’t aspire to make Facebook as private as he aspired to make it mobile and secure.
Wired reported that Zuckerberg authored a strategy book given to all employees ahead of the IPO that noted “If we don’t create the thing that kills Facebook, someone else will.” But F8 offered a new interpretation. Maybe given the lack of direct competitors in its league, and the absence of a mass exodus over its constant privacy scandals, it was the outdated product itself that was killing Facebook. The permanent Facebook. The all-you-do-is-scroll Facebook. The bored-of-my-friends Facebook. Users were being neglected rather than pushed away or stolen. By ignoring the past and emphasizing the products it aspires to have dominate tomorrow — Groups, Marketplace, Watch — Facebook can start to unchain itself from the toxic brand poisoning its potential.
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HiBoost Cell Phone Booster: You Can Hear Me Now
News August 21, 2020 techietr
We would love to find that cellphone provider who gives us coverage everywhere. The reality is — it’s not possible. But, what is a...
We would love to find that cellphone provider who gives us coverage everywhere. The reality is — it’s not possible.
But, what is a game changer is to use a cell phone signal booster, which is also known as a signal repeater and cellular amplifier. The cell phone booster device may be the most helpful device that not many people have ever heard of. One product available from HiBoost offers a way to get a better signal everywhere.
I tried the HiBoost 10K Plus cell phone booster, and here’s what happened.
Cell Phone Booster Features
The HiBoost 10K Plus Pro is compatible with U.S. and Canadian carriers, including AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, Sprint, Straight Talk, U.S. Cellular, and more.
It is designed to amplify 4G LTE, 3G, and 2G cell phone signal for your home and office. The result is faster data speeds and no more dropped calls. The stronger cellular signal connection and higher speed apply can simultaneously work with your smartphone, tablet, data card, Wi-Fi Hotspots, and notebook.
The HiBoost 10K Plus Pro cell phone booster has two indoor antennas, which includes one built-in antenna and secondary panel antenna.
It also features a Smart Auto and manual gain adjustments function. With the automatic gain controlling system, the signal gain is controlled automatically and depends on the input signal strength. The manual gain controlling system provides the option to control the signals manually.
The coverage varies but should give you between 6,000~12,000 square feet, which is some of the highest ranges found among available cell phone signal boosters. It may take some time to locate the best outdoor antenna position by HiBoost app or LCD display.
The cell phone booster is FCC- and IC-Certified and comes with a three-year warranty.
The pros are its extraordinary coverage range, smart features like Auto and Manual gain adjustments, and full support. It can handle up to 150 simultaneous users, making it a good investment for a company. It also supports all the carriers in the United States and Canada.
The Hiboost cell booster seems to be built well with commercial quality materials and standards. They also have good U.S.-based tech support that you can reach through an online app chat and ticket, phone, or email. The support team was very responsive, knowledgeable, and friendly.
There really is no con for this cell phone booster. Although it seems expensive, its capabilities and coverage for up to 150 users make it a value-priced solution for a company.
The booster comes with a signal repeater kit that makes installation straightforward. It also includes a user manual, installation guide, six-foot cable, DC power adapter, and a few other accessories.
You can buy this cell phone booster on Amazon as well as Newegg.com, eBay, Walmart, and SignalBoosters.com.
Hiboost signal booster 10k works great as a signal booster for large homes and offices. It does come with a high price tag, but the cell phone booster is substantially less than the competition. The smart features like Auto and Manual gain adjustments make it a real standout, especially for an office or company.
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Mac certificate check stokes fears that Apple logs every app you run
News November 16, 2020 techietr
Last Thursday afternoon, Mac users everywhere began complaining of a crippling slowdown when opening apps. The cause: online certificate checks Apple performs each time...
Last Thursday afternoon, Mac users everywhere began complaining of a crippling slowdown when opening apps. The cause: online certificate checks Apple performs each time a user opens an app not downloaded from the App Store. The mass upgrade to Big Sur, it seems, caused the Apple servers responsible for these checks to slow to a crawl.
Apple quickly fixed the slowdown, but concerns about paralyzed Macs were soon replaced by an even bigger worry—the vast amount of personal data Apple, and possibly others, can glean from Macs performing certificate checks each time a user opens an app that didn’t come from the App Store.
For people who understood what was happening behind the scenes, there was little reason to view the certificate checks as a privacy grab. Just to be sure, though, Apple on Monday published a support article that should quell any lingering worries. More about that later—first, let’s back up and provide some background.
Meet OCSP
Before Apple allows an app into the App Store, it must first pass a review that vets its security. Users can configure the macOS feature known as Gatekeeper to allow only these approved apps, or they can choose a setting that also allows the installation of third-party apps, as long as these apps are signed with a developer certificate issued by Apple. To make sure the certificate hasn’t been revoked, macOS uses OCSP—short for the industry standard Online Certificate Status Protocol—to check its validity.
Checking the validity of a certificate—any certificate—authenticating a website or piece of software sounds simple enough, but it has long presented problems industrywide that aren’t easy to solve. The initial means was use of certificate revocation lists, but as the lists grew, their size prevented them from working effectively. CRL gave way to OCSP, which performed the check on remote servers.
OCSP, it turned out, had its own drawbacks. Servers sometimes go down, and when they do, OCSP server outages have the potential to paralyze millions of people trying to do things like visit sites, install apps, and check email. To guard against this hazard, OCSP defaults to what’s called a “soft fail.” Rather than block the website or software that’s being checked, OCSP will act as if the certificate is valid in the event that the server doesn’t respond.
Somehow, the mass number of people upgrading to Big Sur on Thursday seems to have caused the servers at ocsp.apple.com to become overloaded but not fall over completely. The server couldn’t provide the all clear, but it also didn’t return an error that would trigger the soft fail. The result was huge numbers of Mac users left in limbo.
Apple fixed the problem with the availability of ocsp.apple.com, presumably by adding more server capacity. Normally, that would have been the end of the issue, but it wasn’t. Soon, social media was awash in claims that the macOS app-vetting process was turning Apple into a Big Brother that was tracking the time and location whenever users open or reopen any app not downloaded from the App Store.
Paranoia strikes deep
The post Your Computer Isn’t Yours was one of the catalysts for the mass concern. It noted that the simple HTML get-requests performed by OCSP were unencrypted. That meant that not only was Apple able to build profiles based on our minute-by-minute Mac usage, but so could ISPs or anyone else who could view traffic passing over the network. (To prevent falling into an infinite authentication loop, virtually all OCSP traffic is unencrypted, although responses are digitally signed.)
Fortunately, less alarmist posts like this one provided more helpful background. The hashes being transmitted weren’t unique to the app itself but rather the Apple-issued developer certificate. That still allowed people to infer when an app such as Tor, Signal, Firefox, or Thunderbird was being used, but it was still less granular than many people first assumed.
The larger point was that, in most respects, the data collection by ocsp.apple.com wasn’t much different from the information that already gets transmitted in real time through OCSP every time we visit a website. To be sure, there are some differences. Apple sees OCSP requests for all Mac apps not downloaded from the App Store, which presumably is a huge number. OCSP requests for other digitally signed software goes to hundreds or thousands of different certificate authorities, and they generally get sent only when the app is being installed.
In short, though, the takeaway was the same: the potential loss of privacy from OCSP is a trade-off we make in an effort to check the validity of the certificate authenticating a website we want to visit or a piece of software we want to install.
Apple speaks
In an attempt to further assure Mac users, Apple on Monday published this post. It explains what the company does and doesn’t do with the information collected through Gatekeeper and a separate feature known as notarization, which checks the security even of non-App Store apps. The post states:
Gatekeeper performs online checks to verify if an app contains known malware and whether the developer’s signing certificate is revoked. We have never combined data from these checks with information about Apple users or their devices. We do not use data from these checks to learn what individual users are launching or running on their devices.
Notarization checks if the app contains known malware using an encrypted connection that is resilient to server failures.
These security checks have never included the user’s Apple ID or the identity of their device. To further protect privacy, we have stopped logging IP addresses associated with Developer ID certificate checks, and we will ensure that any collected IP addresses are removed from logs.
The post went on to say that in the next year, Apple will provide a new protocol to check if developer certificates have been revoked, provide “strong protections against server failure,” and present a new OS setting for users who want to opt out of all of this.
The controversy over behavior that macOS has been doing since at least the Catalina version was introduced last October underscores the tradeoff that sometimes occurs between security and privacy. Gatekeeper is designed to make it easy for less experienced users to steer clear of apps that are known to be malicious. To make use of Gatekeeper, users have to send a certain amount of information to Apple.
Not that Apple is completely without fault. For one thing, developers haven’t provided an easy way to opt out of OCSP checks. That has made blocking access to ocsp.apple.com the only way to do that, and for less experienced Mac users, that’s too hard.
The other mistake is relying on OCSP at all. Because of its soft fail design, the protection can be overridden, in some cases purposely by an attacker or simply due to a network failure. Apple, however, is hardly alone in its reliance on OCSP. A revocation method known as CRLite may ultimately provide a solution to this failing.
People who don’t trust OCSP checks for Mac apps can turn them off by editing the Mac hosts file. Everyone else can move along.
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About Isagenix
Current: Sustainability
“As we grow larger as a company, our environmental footprint also continues to expand. In keeping with our goal to impact lives across the globe, we are committed to doing what’s right in terms of impacting the planet. That means striving to increase our sustainability efforts and constantly seeking new ways to do even more. At Isagenix, we are committed to working as One Team to take action today so we can have a healthy planet for our future.”
Erik Coover, Isagenix Chief Visionary Officer
Our Commitment to Sustainable Packaging
We’re committed to choosing environmentally friendly packaging for our products and integrating sustainable materials wherever feasible.
Our goal of zero-waste packaging by 2028 is an ambitious stretch goal that we know won’t be easy to attain. Nonetheless, through advancements in sustainable packaging materials and greater adoption of recycling technologies in communities across the world, we aim to convert all packaging components to be zero waste over the next 10 years.
The philosophy of zero waste is that there is no such thing as waste. Our goal is to convert all packaging components to be made of recyclable, reusable, compostable, or recycled materials by 2028. For tips on recycling our products, check out our flyer.
While zero waste is our goal, the quality of our products remains our No. 1 priority. We are always looking for high-quality materials that will allow us to reduce our environmental impact while maintaining product integrity.
Isagenix began transitioning its IsaLean® Shake and IsaPro® canisters to 100 percent postconsumer recycled (PCR) plastic in 2018. Today, more than half of the company’s products packaged in bottles and canisters are made with 100% PCR plastic taking us one step closer to our goal of having all bottles and canisters made of 100% PCR by 2023.
In November 2019, Isagenix stopped placing plastic shrink-wrap around boxes of Chocolate Decadence and Lemon Passion Crunch IsaLean Bar and Fiber Snacks™. As a result, approximately 550,000 boxes will not be shrink-wrapped this year.
Additionally, Isagenix is discontinuing plastic bottle neckbands for future production of nine products, including Isagenix Joint Support™, IsaKids® Essentials, and IsaOmega™. This equates to removing about 2.3 million neckbands per year, which equals 53 miles of plastic.
Our Commitment to Sustainable and Ethical Sourcing
We’re committed to sourcing ingredients sustainably and ethically.
Since 2002, we’ve sourced most of our dairy from suppliers in New Zealand to meet and maintain our high-quality standards. To support growing demand for our products worldwide, Isagenix has expanded to using quality suppliers in Australia and in the northwestern United States that align with our no-compromise standards. Read more about our responsible dairy sourcing.
We seek out ingredient suppliers who demonstrate a focus on sustainability. These include suppliers of important ingredients such as botanicals, natural sweeteners and flavors, and vitamins and minerals.
We use our influence to encourage our ingredient suppliers to strengthen ethical and sustainable production practices. We’re dedicated to continuously improving our ingredient sourcing and resource management to reduce our carbon footprint and decrease landfill waste.
Our Commitment to Being a Green Headquarters
At Isagenix World Headquarters, we’re committed to making sustainable changes that will reduce our impact on the environment.
Our corporate office is LEED certified for its exterior. LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification is a globally recognized symbol of sustainability.
Installed on parking structures in 2018, our solar panels are expected to provide approximately 463,000 kilowatt-hours of renewable energy annually*, allowing clean energy to power nearly one-fourth of our headquarters.
Since their installation last year, three electric vehicle charging stations have helped 12 drivers with electric vehicles avoid 12,472 kilograms of greenhouse gas emissions, which is the equivalent of planting 320 trees and letting them grow for 10 years.
We offer a trip-reduction program that monetarily incentivizes employees to reduce emissions by taking alternative transportation to work such as carpooling, biking, or riding the bus.
*Based on average energy production from June 2018-January 2019 and projected energy production from February 2019-June 2019.
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Jose Mourinho Still Hasn’t Learnt His Lesson As Spurs Drop Points Late Again
by Daniel Feliciano on December 28, 2020 December 27, 2020
Tottenham Hotspur were victims of a poor mindset yet again as they conceded late to throw away yet another lead in their draw with Wolves on Sunday night.
Tanguy Ndombele scored after just 57 seconds with a strike from the edge of the box, before Spurs sat back for the next 85 minutes with ten men behind the ball looking to counter through Harry Kane and Heung-Min Son.
Wolves were able to nullify those moments well and controlled the game, with Pedro Neto and Daniel Podence dangerous throughout. They struggled to create clear cut chances though, while Fabio Silva could’ve got a penalty very early in the second half. When Wolves finally equalised in the 86th minute, it was thanks to a corner kick headed in by central defender Romain Saiss.
It’s the third time in the last four Premier League games that Spurs have conceded a goal in the last ten minutes of the game, costing them points each time.
First was against Crystal Palace, where they once again took the lead in the first half and just decided to sit off and defend for the remainder of the game. Against Liverpool they had chances to win through Steven Bergwijn, but ultimately they gave Jurgen Klopp’s side the ball and invited the pressure on. This led to an injury time header from Roberto Firmino giving the champions all three points, before the trip to Wolves.
Mourinho has been doing this for years though, it shouldn’t be new to any fans of the sport.
He has made a career off getting very talented squads to defend well in a low block and be able to soak up pressure against teams that can cause them a problem.
But there is a time and a place for it. If a game is tight and you revert to that style late on, then fair enough. If it’s a game where you’re expected to get battered, fair enough. But after going 1-0 up in the first minute against a team who had previously only scored 14 goals in 14 games? Seems excessive.
All it did was invite pressure from the opposition, leave them nothing to worry about themselves and as the team sank deeper and deeper into their own half, a mistake or lapse in concentration became inevitable.
The longer you are defending for, the more likely it is that you will concede. You have to concentrate more, for longer periods of sustained pressure and eventually the mistake will happen.
Spurs scored 15 PL goals in their first five games this season. They've since scored 11 in ten.
Mourinho's still rattled by that West Ham game but he shouldn't be, look at Son+Kane, Ndombele today, they've got the players to play fast football and outscore opponents regularly
— Jude Summerfield (@judesummerfield) December 27, 2020
There is a reason that the top teams try to see tight games out with the ball rather than without it. The likes of Real Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Liverpool, Manchester City and Juventus will all look to keep possession of the ball in the opposition half late on in the game and will take minimal risks.
It’s the complete opposite of what Mourinho does and we’re seeing the results of it when the defence isn’t up to scratch. After six years without a league title, you’d expect him to have realised that things change and this approach just doesn’t work in the same way it used to.
At the moment, his pride and stubbornness is costing Spurs points just as much as their performances on the pitch are.
The players are responsible for giving their all and winning the games, but the manager is responsible for preparing them the correct way for each game to get the best chance of a positive result.
From genuine title contenders to falling out of the top four in a matter of weeks, Spurs need to freshen up their approach and fast.
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August 23, 2018 By Store Reporter Leave a Comment
Labor Day opening for Cabin John restaurants, Nike store closes at Pike & Rose, Cava’s surprise buy
Restaurants ready to open at Cabin John
The upcoming Labor Day weekend will be a busy one at Cabin John Village, with the arrival of Le Pain Quotidien and possibly Shake Shack as well. Tables and chairs already have been set up outside Le Pain, which is scheduled to open for business on Monday, Sept. 3. Construction is almost complete at the neighboring Shake Shack, which will make its debut the same day if all goes smoothly. The two restaurants will join Cava, which opened earlier this month, and the upcoming Sisters Thai, which is expected to arrive this fall. What’s next for Cabin John? A major expansion. Click here for more.
Nike runs out of Pike & Rose
Surprise closing this week at Pike & Rose: The Nike Factory Store is exiting after just two years in the prominent corner spot facing Old Georgetown Road. This is the second sporting goods store to close at that location; original tenant City Sports lasted only a year before its parent company filed Chapter 11 in 2015. At the Nike store, staffers tell us that sales were slow the first year but business picked up in 2018 as Pike & Rose added more tenants and attracted more visitors. Apparently, though, the upward trend wasn’t promising enough for Nike. A company spokesperson declined to discuss Pike & Rose, but said there are no plans to close other nearby Nike stores in D.C., Georgetown and Clarksburg.
Cava’s surprise buy
D.C.’s Cava Group surprised the restaurant industry last week when it announced plans to acquire Texas-based Zoë’s Kitchen for $300 million. Cava, founded a dozen years ago by three longtime friends from the Rockville/Bethesda area, has 66 locations nationwide compared with 260 for Zoë’s Kitchen. But Cava is on a rapid expansion path with significant backing from venture capital firms, while Zoë’s has seen its sales decline in recent years. Still unclear: Whether the two restaurants, which serve similar fast-casual Mediterranean menus, will retain separate identities or merge into one big Cava chain after the acquisition.
New look for Noodles & Company
Noodles & Company at Congressional Plaza is closed for renovations, with plans to reopen in mid-September. The Rockville location is one of just three Noodles and Company restaurants left in Montgomery County after last year’s closing of two Bethesda locations.
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Filed Under: Burgers, Cabin John Village, Clothing and Accessories, Congressional Plaza, Pike & Rose
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The gravitational rainbowish text
april 1, 2018 Lise Andreasen Skriv en kommentar
Recently I’ve been reading Gravity’s Rainbow, Pynchon. It’s a book I’ve heard about. And some times a book like that will just grow and grow until I finally find a way to get it and read it. In this case the library had it, yeah.
One of my first impressions was that the language was – well, different, hard to read. Long sentences. Let’s take a closer look. I am going to base this little analysis on the first few pages, 1077 words.
If I look at the whole text, I get this result from haubergs.com: “The index is 31. The text should therefore be considered normal to read. There were 89 sentences, 1077 words, and in average 12.1 words per sentence.”
The third paragraph begins with this beauty:
“Inside the carriage, which is built on several levels, he sits in velveteen darkness, with nothing to smoke, feeling metal nearer and farther rub and connect, steam escaping in puffs, a vibration in the carriage’s frame, a poising, an uneasiness, all the others pressed in around, feeble ones, second sheep, all out of luck and time: drunks, old veterans still in shock from ordnance 20 years obsolete, hustlers in city clothes, derelicts, exhausted women with more children than it seems could belong to anyone, stacked about among the rest of the things to be carried out to salvation.”
There’s a period at the end and a colon sort of in the middle. This time the verdict is: “The index is 75. The text should therefore be considered very difficult to read. There were 2 sentences, 98 words, and in average 49 words per sentence.”
So there. The feeling that this is hard to read is real.
I’ll try to construct a picture of some of the structure here, only showing which sentence bit refers back to which other bit. This is important because you have to decode this structure on the fly. (The picture is also a link to a larger version.)
Parts of the structure:
“Inside the carriage, he sits in velveteen darkness…” (colored green) could work on its own, but “which is built on several levels” is added in the middle. So, when you reach “he sits”, you have to decide, does this continue “which is built on several levels” or “Inside the carriage”?
Part of the sentence could be shortened to a list: “feeling metal, steam, a vibration, a poising, an uneasiness, all the others”. While reading that you have to decide, is this one more item in the list or a continuation of something earlier?
“all the others pressed in around, all out of luck and time” (colored yellow) could work on its own, but “feeble ones, second sheep” is added in the middle. So, does “all out of luck and time” refer back to the sheep or something earlier?
Part of the sentence could be shortened to a list (again!): “feeble ones, sheep”. While reading that you have to decide, is this one more item in the list or a continuation of something earlier?
This is one more reason these sentences are hard to read. You keep skipping back and forth to connect things up correctly.
Another long sentence:
“No, this is not a disentanglement from, but a progressive knotting into—they go in under archways, secret entrances of rotted concrete that only looked like loops of an underpass . . . certain trestles of blackened wood have moved slowly by overhead, and the smells begun of coal from days far to the past, smells of naphtha winters, of Sundays when no traffic came through, of the coral-like and mysteriously vital growth, around the blind curves and out the lonely spurs, a sour smell of rolling-stock absence, of maturing rust, developing through those emptying days brilliant and deep, especially at dawn, with blue shadows to seal its passage, to try to bring events to Absolute Zero . . . and it is poorer the deeper they go . . . ruinous secret cities of poor, places whose names he has never heard . . . the walls break down, the roofs get fewer and so do the chances for light.”
And one more, bold added by me:
“All this while, light has come percolating in, along with the cold morning air flowing now across his nipples: it has begun to reveal an assortment of drunken wastrels, some in uniform and some not, clutching empty or near-empty bottles, here draped over a chair, there huddled into a cold fireplace, or sprawled on various divans, un-Hoovered rugs and chaise longues down the different levels of the enormous room, snoring and wheezing at many rhythms, in self-renewing chorus, as London light, winter and elastic light, grows between the faces of the mullioned windows, grows among the strata of last night’s smoke still hung, fading, from the waxed beams of the ceiling.”
Who’re snoring? The wastrels. Everything between these 2 words could be left out, grammatically speaking.
Here’s another technique:
“There is no way out. Lie and wait, lie still and be quiet. Screaming holds across the sky. When it comes, will it come in darkness, or will it bring its own light? Will the light come before or after? / But it is already light. How long has it been light? All this while, light has come percolating in, along with the cold morning air flowing now across his nipples: it has begun to reveal an assortment of drunken wastrels…”
What happens here is the revelation that everything before “But it is already light” was a dream. Deal with that.
A few more quotes:
girders old as an iron queen
more children than it seems could belong to anyone
Only the nearer faces are visible at all, and at that only as half-silvered images in a view finder
the rush of souls, of cold plaster where all the rats have died, only their ghosts, still as cave-painting, fixed stubborn and luminous in the walls
un-Hoovered rugs
London light, winter and elastic light
How old is an iron queen? How many children can belong to one person? Ghosts of people/souls or rats? Etc. Every time you hit something like this, you have to stop and decide on a meaning.
Remember that sentence “All this while, light has come percolating in”? This sentence does a lot. It describes the light, the air, a “him”, the wastrels, the furniture, the house keeping and the room. This could have been done in shorter, simpler sentences. It also leaves out bits at this stage. Who is “him”? Who are the wastrels? What is this place? Note these questions, they will hopefully be answered later.
All of this combines to this is hard to read.
I think some people love this. They find a beauty in this kind of language. I am not one of those people.
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NYC Quintessential: Eat at Joe's Pizza
Slice: New York
Pizza reviews in NYC.
For a classic New York slice, visit this iconic Greenwich Village pizzeria.
Published: February 18, 2011 Last Updated: October 2, 2018
[Photographs: Adam Kuban]
You could view it as a strange sort of testament to Joe's Pizza in Greenwich Village that we've never formally reviewed it or Daily Sliced it on this site. After all, who doesn't know what Joe's is like?
Tourists, that's who — as I was reminded by a framed magazine blurb on the wall written by Alan Richman. And since I often send tourists to Joe's when they email for pizza-itinerary suggestions, I figured I should post something to point them to.
But is Joe's good enough to send them there?
The answer is yes. Allow me to quote Richman's blurb from the wall here. It manages to encapsulate Joe's in not too long a stretch:
Once, this slice defined New York City. That was before pizza slices were supersized, became entire meals laden with wacky toppings and extra cheese. Joe's crust, thin and flexible but not too soft, is perfect for street pizza. Atop it is not much cheese and not much sauce, merely enough, in ideal symmetry. You can ask for a topping, but then everybody in the tiny, cramped shop will know you're from out of town...
...The crust has a few lovely burned spots, but the New York slice isn't about the search for the perfect crust or the perfect sauce. It's the perfect New York experience. A friend who came with me said, sadly, "In my youth, stores like this ruled the earth. Now they're almost extinct." You do know how to fold a slice like this, don't you? No? I guess you are from out of town.
Joe's is not the greatest slice you've ever had or ever will have in New York City, but it's still pretty damn good — especially in light of some recent clunkers — and remains my favorite slice joint in this area. The crust is thinner than most (see above) and, as Richman says, takes on some lovely burned spots (see below).
It's a great light slice, too. As owner Pino "Joe" Pozzuoli says on his website, "People don't always want stuff that's too rich or heavy. I've been making and watching people eat pizza for over 50 years, I know what they want."
There's a near-perfect balance among crust, sauce, and cheese — and yes, not that much of any, so you'll definitely want two slices at least if you're looking to fill up. But for a "street slice" to tide you over on the run, one would do. The sauce, too, is worth noting for its bright, fresh flavor. It's very lightly seasoned, if at all, and tastes more along the lines of the sauces at the coal-oven pizzerias, which don't get cooked down before going on the pies.
As Richman says above there's not really much point to topping your slice at Joe's. Besides a sad-looking pepperoni pizza, I didn't see any other topped pies in the slice-pie case. Save that for a whole pie — but who gets whole pie's at Joe's?
As one of the quintessential New York slice joints, Joe's holds up. I'm happy to say I'd feel confident in sending folks there looking for "classic New York pizza."
7 Carmine Street, New York NY 10014 (Sixth Avenue/Bleecker; map) 212-255-2946 or 212-366-1182; joespizzanyc.com
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18 Things Girls Learned From The Early 2000s
By Brianna Wiest, June 20th 2013
About Dating:
1. “Talking.” Need I say more? This was the new form of dating, and it was really nothing more than just… talking. But you couldn’t talk to anybody else like this and it wasn’t actually talking as much as it was texting and IMing.
2. Instant-rejection complex from shows like Next and Room Raiders. MTV seriously freaked us out with the dating scene because if someone doesn’t like how you look you’ll be alone and back on the bus left to bitch with the other contenders. Worse, one day you may unexpectedly get pulled out of your house and put in the back of a van while prospective dates who you do not know analyze your room to make judgments about you.
3. “Ex-boyfriends are off-limits to friends. That’s just, like, the rules of feminism.”
4. How to stalk your crush, prior to ease-of-access Facebook. Xanga gives you a play by play from their own perspective, so, gold mine obviously. And if you need to stay updated on their relationship status just make sure their AIM profile doesn’t say: 4/28-F0REVER iLYSM BABE ♥
5. That you’re everywhere to me. And when I close my eyes it’s you I see.
About The Internet:
6. That if you want to seem put-together, make sure your AIM profile and Instant Messenger fonts/colors coordinate. Also, keep up to date on having away messages that replace O’s with zeros, g’s with q’s and lyric quotes that are designed in boxes and perfectly align when highlighted. Times New Roman 12 and “I’m away from my computer right now” will not cut it.
7. That chatrooms were potentially dangerous and the internet was full of hidden threats but you were invincible, so no worries. Also, you only talked to your friends in a chatroom anyway, lolololololololz.
About Friendship:
8. That you need to define who is your friend and who is not. So your AIM profile needs a section with the initials of your friends and your Myspace can’t just be left to have the default people there like Tom. You need to tell these people whether or not they made the cut.
9. That you need to keep an eye out for who of your friends is psychic and is trying to scheme to make sure your life works out RAVEN BAXTER.
10. Your place in your group of friends, that being, whether you’re the Monica, Rachel or Phoebe.
About Life Skills:
11. How to take a proper selfie, which is so much more difficult with a digital camera. What will usually work is just one arm extended above your head, facing forward, and glancing up at the camera with angst. Throw some Evanescence lyrics in the caption and you’re good.
12. How to play DDR.
13. What high school life is supposed to be like, à la Laguna Beach.
14. That it was okay to do really creepy things like make dolls on Dollmakerz and dress them up in all these weird and sometimes perverted outfits or wear pants that said things like “Angel” or “Princess” on the behind…
About Style:
15. Here’s the concept: you want to look like you have old, worn, ripped jeans, but you’re going to pay $75+ for them at A&F because they are ripped in a certain way and it’s so ironic, lol.
16. How to rock the geek chic phase. Things you will need: Hot Topic, a streak of unnaturally colored hair, a lot of rubber bracelets, a stance on the Green Day vs. Blink-182 debacle, a studded belt, Vans, something with a black and white checkered pattern and a lot of eyeliner.
17. Alternatively, pop yo colla.
18. Other style staples: Von Dutch hats, Juicy Couture tracksuits, chinese slippers and volatile sneakers. But other than that, just brand yourself to death and you should be good.
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Pakistan FM Shah Mehmood Qureshi strongly exposes Indian plans against Pakistan
Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi says India is conspiring to destabilize Pakistan, but it will not succeed in its nefarious designs, as the government is taking diplomatic steps to foil the conspiracies.
Addressing a ceremony in Multan, he said the government has solid evidences of Indian involvement in patronizing terrorists and banned organizations to create unrest in Pakistan.
The Foreign Minister said the international community has already been informed about Indian involvement in terrorist activities in Pakistan by sharing dossier in this regard last month.
He said the Disinfo Lab has also exposed India's conspiracies against Pakistan.
Shah Mahmood Qureshi said India has earmarked billions of rupees to damage China Pakistan Economic Corridor and sabotage peace process in Afghanistan.
He said due to inhuman measures by Modi's government, voices are also being heard against the fascist regime from inside India.
He said India's nefarious designs can create law and order situation in the region and its consequence would be disastrous.
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Grey's Season 16: TVLine Readers Pick the Alum That They Hope Is Returning
By Charlie Mason / August 25 2019, 2:00 PM PDT
Courtesy of ABC
Grey’s Anatomy showrunner Krista Vernoff gave many a fan palpitations in August when she revealed that she hoped to lure back to the ABC drama a former cast member. And, although we still don’t know which alum it is that she’s after, only that “it’s a real maybe,” we do now know which character you most hope it is.
Reading through your many (many!) comments on TVLine’s original article, we’ve tallied the “votes” and are prepared to count down the six doctors whose returns would go the furthest toward making your EKGs spike. So fingers crossed your insurance covers comeback-related heart conditions!
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Among the M.D.s that made the cut are one who’d have to be scrubbing in from that big O.R. in the sky, one whose Seattle-based story seemed to have already been wrapped up in a bow, and one whose visit to Grey Sloan wouldn’t even require them to travel from another city. Who made your list — and, arguably just as interesting, who didn’t?
Click on the gallery above to find out (or go here for direct access), then hit the comments. Do you think the doc at No. 1 will really turn out to be The One? And do you think Grey’s will be able to seal the deal?
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2018 Mid-Term Election MAGA Guide
Published on : January 23, 2018 January 22, 2018 Published by : Jacob Palmieri
ARTICLE FROM MAGAPILL.COM:
Alright folks, it’s time to get engaged and do some research. By now you’ve learned that we cannot let the GOP decide our fates. The GOP has been infiltrated by the establishment swamp and they share the same agenda as the Democrats.
Primary elections decide who is going to be on the ballot. They are usually largely ignored but we cannot let that happen this time. We need to be as enthusiastic about these elections as we were for President Trump. Because a vote in these elections IS a vote for Trump.
Now more than ever we need to elect fresh Patriotic Americans who openly support President Trump and the MAGA platform. We cannot sit on the sidelines and wait for the swamp to tell us what our choices are going to be. We need to take action now.
Who wins the primary elections are just as important as who wins the general elections and those dates are approaching fast for some states.
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The links below will lead you to the candidate information for the House Seats that’s available as of now. A State in Bold indicates the Senate seat is also up for grabs:
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Exclusive: Tastemade Acquiring Dining and Drinking Guides Platform ChefsFeed
Food media company Tastemade announced today that it is acquiring dining and drinking guide platform ChefsFeed. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Tastemade is the company behind a number of food, travel and home design-related video shows including Broken Bread with Roy Choi, Make This Tonight and Thirsty For.
ChefsFeed uses culinary experts to create a variety of different types of food- and drink-related content, including restaurant and bar guides for cities around the world, video recipes, mini-documentaries and live-streamed cooking classes.
In a press statement emailed to The Spoon, Tastemade said this acquisition will give the 6,000-plus culinary experts (chefs, mixologists, sommeliers, etc.) a larger platform on which to share their work.
Food-related video content took on a new purpose this past year as the pandemic limited travel abroad and shut down much of the restaurant industry. Rather than being just aspirational (Maybe I’ll try to make a soufflé some day), food and cooking content became something more necessary. Cooped up in our houses, video was our only way to experience far off places or learn how to cook new types of food.
Online video was also one of ways restaurants themselves tried to pivot. With dining rooms shut down, some restaurants turned to live online cooking classes to generate revenue.
How our relationship with food video content will change as the pandemic recedes remains to be seen. But one thing is for sure: there is a lot pent up desire to travel in people right now. When they’re able to do so more freely again, having expert bar and restaurant guides like those from ChefsFeed for destination cities could prove to be a savvy play by Tastemade.
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Don’t Brick My Fridge!
Product manufacturers face many new challenges when they introduce smart, connected appliances and devices into the market. New business models, extended support windows, rapid technology changes, supply chain adjustments, post-support deprecation planning, and information security are all factors that companies developing connected products now need to consider and address.
The former CEO of Ford is famously quoted as saying that Ford now sees itself as a technology company. The shift that appliance manufacturers must make in their businesses to produce and support connected products is no less significant. In the old world, you could build and distribute your big metal box and move on to the next thing. Consumer feedback contributed to the next model, if there was one. But connected appliances are a whole different business. Now you’re creating and maintaining back-end software services, and you’re possibly maintaining and updating device firmware and customer-facing apps. And, in addition to investing in regular updates to the software and back-end services to keep them running on the devices and platforms you support, you’ll also find that your customers expect that app to improve and add functionality over time.
Then there’s the data. What are you going to do with all the telemetry data these connected devices are collecting? How can you use this data to guide future product decisions, optimize your support and failure prediction models, and enhance your customers’ experience?
One of the panel discussions at this year’s Smart Kitchen Summit, “Don’t Brick My Fridge,” focused on exploring these very issues. With a diverse panel of speakers, we looked at these challenges from multiple perspectives. Joe Britt, CEO of Afero, and Jonathan Cobb, COO at Ayla Networks, addressed key factors about the requisite data and infrastructure platforms; Cristian Ionescu, Head of Smart Home at Renesas, discussed some of the supply chain and distribution channel challenges; and Chris McGugan, GM of Innovation at Sears & Kenmore, gave some perspective from an appliance manufacturer’s point of view.
Don’t Brick My Fridge from The Spoon on Vimeo.
Based on how technology evolves and ages, your refrigerator is likely to outlive the Android screen built into its door…or even the communication chip integrated onto its circuit board. So manufacturers need to consider new support models. Just like some parts may be warranted longer than others, perhaps connected features or components get supported for a specified, limited period.
These realities could potentially support new business models. Refrigerator as a service? Would consumers consider leasing connected appliances, like they do now for phones, cars, and some other products, ensuring that they can readily upgrade to the latest model every few years? Some companies are exploring this as an option.
And what happens if your company doesn’t survive, like the recent announcement from Teforia? Or say you decide to deprecate a product from your company’s portfolio. Once your app or back-end services are no longer supported, can your customers still use the appliance they likely paid a premium for? If your oven, for example, needs an app to set temperatures or cooking modes, what happens when—when, not if—that app is no longer available? You should ensure that the core features of your product still function. Have you provided customers with a local, analog control option? Deprecation issues can (and likely should) even impact a product’s industrial design.
There’s far more to consider than can be discussed in half an hour, but the panel did touch on some of the key challenges and concern for most companies. If you’re in that space—if your company is introducing connected kitchen products—be sure you’re ready for the new, longer support commitment you’re making, the new factors you need to consider (like data and security), and the long-term viability of your product as a stand-alone device. Without proper planning, budgeting, and even restructuring, you risk leaving your customers with useless metal boxes instead of the smart, connected appliances you designed.
About the Author: Richard Gunther is the Director of Client Experience at Universal Mind, a digital agency in Denver, CO. He’s also the Editor of the Digital Media Zone and hosts Home: On, a podcast about DIY home automation products and technology.
Connectivity Should Add Value, and Other Lessons We Can Learn From Juicero’s Business Model (VIDEO)
When Doug Evans decided to start a new company a few years ago, he asked himself one question. “What could I do that would have the biggest effect on human health?” he wondered. “The answer was juice.”
That might sound like hyperbole when talking about Juicero, the first connected-kitchen countertop cold-press juicer. We are talking about liquid kale, after all. But because of the company’s goals, functionality, and business model, which Evans discussed at the 2016 Smart Kitchen Summit in Seattle (watch the video below), it’s so much more. Here are three ways Juicero exemplifies a progressive mindset.
Make Something Useful
Unlike the big, bulky juicer that I have in my closet and never use, the Juicero is designed for people to use one to two times per day. It requires one touch to work and doesn’t need to be cleaned. Juicero provides ready-to-go packs of vegetables and fruit, delivered straight to your door.
“Is [a product] adding value to me as a consumer, or is it a liability because it means you have to maintain those services and consumers have to rely on those services?”
The company has set up an ecosystem that others can now use to maximize consumer health. “We have a cold supply chain, farm direct produce, IoT channel, appliances — You can use your imagination to think what else you can put through there that would make it easier for people to have other items that are made with fresh, ripe, raw, organic produce,” Evans said.
Connectivity Should Add Value
“Is [a product] adding value to me as a consumer, or is it a liability because it means you have to maintain those services and consumers have to rely on those services?” Richard Gunther of Universal Mind asked. These are essential questions in this wild west of connected-kitchen gadgets. In Juicero’s case, its app does everything from ordering automatically for enterprise accounts to telling home users that a pack in their refrigerator is about to expire. A scanner inside the juicer syncs with your app to tell you what you’re drinking, and if the pack is expired, the Juicero will not juice it. Talk about fresh.
Think Outside the Home
Evans is wisely following Keurig’s business model, focusing on restaurants, businesses, and other food service opportunities before moving to the end user market. The system only needs 10 square feet of space to work and doesn’t require someone to wash, peel, and juice produce as well as get rid of waste, making it an easy addition for restaurants and more.
Right now Juicero is only available in California and is available for purchase online. Watch the video to find out more!
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Texans’ Mario Williams out for the season
HOUSTON — Mario Williams, the Houston defensive end who went to the last two Pro Bowls, is out for the rest of the season.
The Texans said Wednesday that Williams had been placed on season-ending injured reserve. He’s struggled with injuries since September, and a groin injury was listed as the reason.
The team also placed wide receiver David Anderson (shoulder) and guard Mike Brisiel (calf) on injured reserve.
The Texans (5-8) play at Tennessee (5-8) on Sunday. If AFC South rival Jacksonville wins just one of its last three games, Houston will be eliminated from postseason contention for the ninth straight year.
(via khou.com)
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Justin Beiber music video shoot takes three days longer than expected due to uncooperative hair
March 16, 2010 Briana HansenLeave a comment
Young pop sensation Justin Beiber has won a lot of teenybopper hearts with his literal boyish charm and generic good looks. Perhaps what sets Beiber apart from so many other boys his age, and what sets the hearts of his fan’s on fire, is his meticulously side-swept dirty blonde hair.
In every music video the young star creates, his hair seems to steal the show. During the filming of his latest video “Baby”, a duet featuring hip hop artist Ludacris, Bieber’s hair was being rather uncooperative.
Rather than simply staying on whatever side it had been carefully combed to, the hair would-on occasion- fall in the star’s face making him look more like your average emo teenager than the rising pop icon he is. Every time the hair became unruly, all filming and production had to stop in order to attempt to tame it.
One of the eight stylists on set to take care of Beiber, suggested a different cut for the young star. When everyone became silent and stared him down, he smiled uncomfortable and suggested maybe they just even it out so it’s not such a pain to work with.
The stylist was fired on the spot.
Though the shoot took three days longer than expected, Beiber’s hair managed to remain in the perfect positioning throughout the shots in the video, often defying gravity and keeping itself parallel to the ground while sitting on his head.
Beiber personally declined to comment because he was fully engrossed in his afternoon nap while this story was being written. His publicist said simply, “It’s very important for a boy his age to get plenty of sleep in the afternoon. He’s still growing, after all.”
Posted in UncategorizedTagged baby, comedy, current events, hair, humor, Justin Beiber, music, parenting, pop culture, pop music, satire
After purchasing her first Miley Cyrus song, woman dies a little inside
Though there was a part of Paula Frenner that knew it would be inevitable to hold off from some day purchasing a song by the Hannah Montana star she loathed, but she had no idea the day would come so soon.
The sun shone brightly on that Spring day as Frenner scrambled to put together a presentation for the next day’s board meeting. In her presentation, she was to show she was still connected to youth culture-specifically young girls. In this interactive presentation, she needed a song to seem connected…and she knew turned to the dark side.
“I didn’t know where else to turn,” Frenner explains, almost crying. “I knew Miley Cyrus would make me seem hip and cool…but…” Frenner began to trail off, seemingly lost in her own sorrow.
The song, “Rockstar” by Cyrus, cost Frenner $1.29. Monetarily, it was not a huge hit. Her soul and dignity, however, continue to struggle with the decision.
“I feel like a part of me, the feisty flame I often felt when looking down upon fans of the untalented entertainer, has extinguished,” she explains. “I just don’t know where to go from here.”
Frenner claims the board presentation went well, and her managers seemed impressed. Nobody, however, commented on her song choice which has made her since wonder if they even noticed and if she could have saved herself the trouble. It’s a thought that she has to immediate dismiss as soon as it arises because it keeps her from sleeping at night.
Posted in UncategorizedTagged comedy, current events, disney, hannah montana, humor, Miley Cyrus, music, pop culture, pop music, rockstar, satire
Several parties waiting for singer Ke$ha to walk in so they can begin
February 23, 2010 Briana HansenLeave a comment
Pop sensation Ke$ha’s number one hit has had an impact on social lives everywhere, beyond simply giving a good beat to dance to while out on a weekend night.
In the song, she claims that “the party don’t start til I walk in.” Many of her fans and party-goers across the nation have taken her words, yet again, to heart. Thousands of parties have been put on hold, waiting for the young blonde to walk in so they can begin.
The phenomenon has been inconvenient to many college parties, but it is simply devastating to a number of wedding receptions that have been sitting and waiting awkwardly but patiently for Ke$ha to allow the party to begin.
Take the Gerstein wedding. Rachel and Mark Gerstein, a happily newly wedded couple, had everything go perfectly for their long-planned ceremony. That is, until they hit the reception. Both husband and wife are big fans of Ke$ha’s pop hit, and knew better than to attempt to begin a party before she walked in. So they sat. And their guests sat. They assumed that Ke$ha would know where the party was and would simply gravitate to it.
The result was a long and uncomfortable pause filled with silence and anticipation.
Ke$ha never came.
“We eventually had to attempt to begin the party without her,” Rachel Gerstein said. “Nobody really knew how.”
The Gersteins are simply one case out of thousands who have been stood up by the pop singer while waiting to begin a party. It is believed that the phenomenon will continue as long as Ke$ha’s song gets air time.
Posted in UncategorizedTagged comedy, current events, humor, Ke$ha, kesha, music, p. diddy, pop culture, pop music, satire, songs
Haitians grateful for American pop singers’ “Help for Haiti” music to help them while cleaning up dead bodies
After the disastrous earthquake attacked Haiti recently, destroying much of the country and killing hundreds of thousands, American pop musicians did everything they could to help out. They sang their pop hits and created a compilation CD of their hits and gave profits to help with disaster relief.
While many are applauding their effort, some critics accuse the celebrities of not doing enough. Harrison Wyley, a local man who has donated a lot of money to Haitian relief, is not impressed by the singers’ showy efforts. He claims, “If I have $10, and somebody needs help, and I raise $100 for them by doing my job, I can feel pretty good about what I’ve done…but I still have $10. I haven’t given anything of myself to them.” For Wyley, a parallel situation is happening with the pop singers and Haiti relief efforts. Only multiplied by a million.
Haitians themselves are grateful for the songs. They claim hearing American pop music specifically geared or lyrically changed to highlight Haiti makes a day of cleaning up dead bodies fly by much faster.
Posted in UncategorizedTagged comedy, current events, haiti, humor, music, pop culture, pop music, satire, tragedy
Pop singer Ke$ha diagnosed with multiple cavities from brushing her teeth “with a bottle of Jack”
Though pop singer Ke$ha’s hit single “Tik Tok” has put the young artist on the music map, her poor hygiene habits have put numerous cavities in her mouth.
In her debut song, the singer admits that, “before I leave/ brush my teeth/ with a bottle of Jack”. The heart-felt lyrics, though delivered superfluously, are tremendously important to understanding the singer’s condition.
Dr. Ray Cartier, her childhood dentist, claims he doesn’t know where her lack of care for her teeth stemmed from. “As a child, I always told Ke$ha how important it was to brush her teeth with proper toothpaste and floss twice a day,” he says, “She seems to only remember that it’s important to brush, not what to brush with.”
Cartier and other dental experts appalled by the lyrics agree that there is no question as to why she has numerous cavities. They agree that a night of drinking alone can wreak havoc on healthy teeth between the alcohol and sugar that are consumed. Let alone attempting to brush your teeth with Jack Daniels Whiskey in the morning.
Because of the money Ke$ha has made from her hit single, she will have access to the proper medical and dental care to improve her teeth and overall hygiene situation. The fear for many experts is the far-reaching implications her lyrics may have on younger generations.
“It’d be good if Ke$ha could explain herself,” Dr. Cartier says. “Let her cavities be an example of a path little girls who look up to her don’t want to take. She could be a real role model in the dental community.”
Ke$ha was too drunk to coherently comment on the situation.
Posted in UncategorizedTagged alcohol, blonde drunk chicks, comedy, current events, humor, jack daniels, Ke$ha, music, p. diddy, pop culture, pop music, satire, tik tok
Record label signs actual singer
December 15, 2009 Briana HansenLeave a comment
Amarika Records, a small local label based out of San Diego, has just announced that it will sign a music deal with up and coming singer Alicia Watts. Though the precise details of the contract have yet to be worked out, the deal is a groundbreaking one for the entire nation because Watts is an actual singer.
The recent trend in the past decade for many major companies has been to sign people based on any number of other requirements, though they often remain a mystery. The most obvious qualification for signing a record deal is the the desire to be famous at any and all costs-including sacrificing your body, your style and your dignity in order to get attention and cell more music.
Watts, however, is a rare find in the music industry. She is a genuinely talented musician who is truly interested in growing in her style and expressing herself through song. Though she would like to make a living being a musician, she has no desire to sacrifice everything she has created for herself in order to fit into some wacky, pop star mold built out of supposed expectations. She just wants to sing.
The strangest part about Watts, for a singer, is her ability to hit actual notes in tune and stay in specific keys. Not much except over all balance and color changes need to be added by the recording studio after she lays down a song. Not only is there certainly no need to tweak certain notes because she can hit them, there is no auto-tune placed over her voice in order to make her sing like a singer.
Watt’s success will depend mainly on a number of unforeseeable factors, like if people are willing to pay big bucks to see actual singers sing-or if they just expect huge, outlandish experiences from the performers. Only time will tell, but if Lady Gaga’s success is any indication of the decision the public is making, the future may not be too bright for Watts.
Posted in UncategorizedTagged comedy, current events, humor, Lady Gaga, music, pop culture, pop music, satire, singer
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Posted on August 10, 2015 by Chadsworth Columns
HISTORY of THE CORINTHIAN ORDER
GREEK CORINTHIAN ORDER
The Corinthian Order, named so after the city of Corinth, was infrequently utilized by the Greeks in comparison to their Doric & Ionic orders, and its origin is vague simply because elements of the Corinthian Order were scattered throughout designs from a plethora of buildings. A fun myth of the order’s origin is described by Vitruvius about the Athenian sculptor, Callimachus. It is said that as Callimachus walked by the grave of a young Corinthian girl, he noticed a possession-filled basket placed atop the grave directly above the root of an acanthus plant. The leaves grew to surround the basket, which was topped off with a flat, square tile that protected the goods inside. This event is mythically said to have been the inspiration for Callimachus’ invention of the Corinthian capital, and interpretations of the capital have been sketched to show what Callimachus saw.
The establishment of the Corinthian Order did not distinguish itself, immediately, as it was first incorporated within the Ionic Order capitals. The first noted example, at the Temple of Apollo at Bassae, appeared centrally among a troupe of Ionic columns, and this specific Corinthian-esque column holds much significance because the acanthus decoration was often linked with Grecian funeral celebrations; and the column may have been built to portray one of the many characteristics of Apollo, which was Sudden Death.
Although the Greeks did not use the Corinthian Order as much as the Doric or Ionic, one of their earlier examples of Corinthian influence was at the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates in Athens; and arguably the most recognized model of the Greek Corinthian Order is at the Tower of the Winds. Because of the capital’s unconventional layering of acanthus leaves in only one row with only one row of water leaf designs above that, the Tower of the Winds capital distinguished itself from the Roman version of the order and, in turn, has become synonymous with the Greek Corinthian Order as a whole. The two are often interchanged in dialogue.
The Corinthian Order, similar to the Ionic Order, is classified by slender proportions and has a column height of 10 diameters, while the column shaft is predominately fluted (24) times around with the flutes being rounded off before meeting both the capital and the base. Post-Renaissance, Corinthian columns were also seen having no flutes. The column shaft terminates downward to an Ionic (or Attic) base that consists of two convex tori (an upper and lower ring) that are divided by a concave section called a scotia. The Corinthian capital is undoubtedly the most discernible aspect of the order, but details in the Greek version of the capital varied greatly because the acanthus plant has many species that reveal different-looking leaf forms. Standard, though, is the inverted bell-shape platform that is separated from the column’s shaft by an astragal molding. A single tier of identical acanthus leaves decorate the lower portion of the capital, with an upper tier of water leaves supporting a square abacus that has (4) concave sides that curved outwardly to a point. The only Greek exception was the Tower of the Winds capital that had a square abacus with no curvature. In some instances, on each face of the abacus, floral ornamentation – usually an anthemion or palmette accent – was centrally positioned.
Both Corinthian & Composite entablatures are the tallest of all the orders at a height of 2 diameters, and consist of 3 main parts (bottom to top): the architrave, the frieze, and the cornice. The architrave, in regards to detail, is identical to the Ionic architrave – having 3 fasciae that overlay on each plane and have little to no decoration. The frieze was typically plain or either featured a continuous panel of sculpted ornamentation. The uppermost part of the entablature, the cornice, was the most distinct section due to its increased embellishments. It maintained the use of dentils but also incorporated the use of bracket-like decorations that were situated under the corona and evenly spaced along the spans of the entablature. The cymatium was the top level of the entablature, and it extended past the frieze.
Overall, the Greek Corinthian Order displays elaborate decoration that reflects a sense of lavishness and luxury. Corinthian columns are versatile because their style can adapt to a wide spectrum of applications – and according to Vitruvius – Corinthian columns represented the delicate and pristine nature of the female persona. As so, Greek Corinthian columns are best utilized for projects that call for supreme opulence and prestige.
ROMAN CORINTHIAN ORDER
Roman architects established a deep affinity for the Corinthian Order because of its elaborate decoration, elegance, and versatility; the order quickly became a Roman favorite and was vastly utilized for structures and buildings that were constructed to honor deities. The Corinthian archetype the Romans fancied was seen at the Temple of Zeus Olympios in Athens, and it was this order that was predominately implemented during the Empire.
A fun myth of the order’s origin is described by Vitruvius about the Athenian sculptor, Callimachus. It is said that as Callimachus walked by the grave of a young Corinthian girl, he noticed a possession-filled basket placed atop the grave directly above the root of an acanthus plant. The leaves grew to surround the basket, which was topped off with a flat, square tile that protected the goods inside. This event is mythically said to have been the inspiration for Callimachus’ invention of the Corinthian capital, and interpretations of the capital have been sketched to show what Callimachus saw.
Details within the Corinthian Order, in essence, owe their beginnings to their Ionic predecessors. The order is classified by slender proportions and has a column height of 10 diameters, while the column shaft is predominately fluted (24) times around with the flutes being rounded off before meeting both the capital and the base. Typically, a Roman Corinthian column is fluted, but there are several examples – one being the Pantheon – where the Romans left the shaft unfluted. Post-Renaissance, fluting was considered optional for Roman Corinthian columns. The column shaft terminates downward to an Ionic (or Attic) base that consists of two convex tori (an upper and lower ring) that are divided by a concave section called a scotia. The Corinthian capital is undoubtedly the most discernible aspect of the order, and the Roman Corinthian version varied greatly from the Greek version. Standard, though, is the inverted bell-shape platform that is separated from the column’s shaft by an astragal molding. The usual Roman Corinthian capital consisted of two tiers (as opposed to one tier by the Greeks) of 8 acanthus leaves in each tier. NOTE: the species of acanthus leaves used on the Greek & Roman Corinthian capitals also differed. The Acanthus spinosus was likely the model for the Greeks due to its spikier and taller characteristics, and the Acanthus mollis was likely the model for the Romans due to its more blunt leaf ends and shorter height. Above the upper level of acanthus leaves, rise 8 caulicoli that form the third tier of leaves and encircle the capital. The upper portion of the caulicoli transition into helices that are positioned to support the diagonals of the abacus that has (4) concave sides that curved outwardly to a point. Each face of the abacus is adorned with a centrally-placed fleuron ornament.
Both Corinthian & Composite entablatures are the tallest of all the orders at a height of 2 diameters, and consist of 3 main parts (bottom to top): the architrave, the frieze, and the cornice. The architrave, in regards to detail, ranged in design – from generally plain designs to extravagant ornamentations. The frieze typically featured a continuous panel of sculpted ornamentation. The uppermost part of the entablature, the cornice, was the most distinct section due to its increased embellishments. It maintained the use of dentils but also incorporated the use of bracket-like decorations that were situated under the corona and evenly spaced along the spans of the entablature. The cornice showcased a vast repertoire of circular ornamentations and modillions, that were highly enriched with acanthus designs. The cymatium was the top level of the entablature, and it extended past the frieze.
Overall, the Roman Corinthian Order displays sumptuous decoration that reflects a sense of lavishness and luxury. Corinthian columns are versatile because their style can adapt to a wide spectrum of applications – and according to Vitruvius – Corinthian columns represented the delicate and pristine nature of the female persona. As so, Roman Corinthian columns were favored for use on religious, civic, and imposing buildings; they are best utilized for projects that call for supreme opulence and prestige.
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CLASSICAL APPLICATIONS
• Choragic Monument of Lysicrates (Greek)
• Tower of the Winds (Greek)
• The Temple of Zeus Olympios (Roman)
• The Temple of ‘Jupiter Stator’ (Roman)
• The Maison Carrée (Roman)
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Book Review: The Country Will Bring Us No Peace by Matthieu Simard
March 31, 2020 / The Furious Gazelle Editors / 0 Comments
Translated by Pablo Strauss
Review by E. Kirshe
The Country Will Bring Us No Peace is a strange and eerie book about grief; not overcoming it, but being overtaken by it. Grief haunts the mean and dying streets of the country town our city-born protagonists move to, a move which they hoped would bring them past their own private tragedy, the grief of which is slowly taking them down as well.
The story switches back and forth, abruptly, between the husband and wife narrators Simon and Marie. We get an internal monologue from each of them either giving new information or sometimes their thoughts on the same event. The way it’s written with them switching between being in and out of sync was just one example of how this is a uniquely told tale.
The story gets more surreal as it goes on, as well as darker. It starts with merely stark narration. Continue reading
Book Review: Open Me by Lisa Locascio
August 8, 2018 / The Furious Gazelle Editors / 0 Comments
Review by Tess Tabak
When a mixup sends Roxana, an 18-year-old girl, to Copenhagen, a mysterious Danish man named Soren whisks her away to live out one of his sexual fantasies.
I’m not quite sure I’d describe Open Me as an erotic novel, even though it’s marketed as such. It contains elements of that genre – the story exists in somewhat of a fantasy state. Through a series of odd circumstances, our heroine is trapped in another country, completely alone, at the mercy of an attractive stranger. But I’m hesitant to label this book erotica. There is a strong sense of the body in this book, but actually very little sex. It dwells more on the protagonist, Roxana, and her growing understanding of what it means to be a woman. She feels a strong desire at the start of the book to be acted upon, to be a completely passive participant in lovemaking. By the end, she learns that passivity isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
Erotica or not, Open Me is a gorgeously written book. The author, Lisa Locascio, takes impossible-to-describe feelings and puts words to them. Roxana talks about her “cathedral feeling,” the private thrill she felt when hearing music played on a church organ for the first time. The author has an intimate understanding of the inner workings of young girls, and the loneliness of not being able to share those special feelings. When Roxana tries to tell her best friend about the cathedral feeling, a sarcastic comment bursts the bubble. “And again I was a bag of feelings with no start and no end, a tunnel through which sensation moved.” Continue reading
Book Review: This Mournable Body by Tsitsi Dangarembga
In This Mournable Body, a woman named Tambudzai grapples with the harsh realities of living in Zimbabwe after the Revolution of the 1990s.
The author, Tsitsi Dangarembga, writes on familiar topics (anxiety, existential dread) but set against a backdrop that’s truly harsh and depressing. Tambu is mistrustful of white people living in Zimbabwe – but this isn’t the crystal clear “us vs. them” of books set further in the past, like Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. The white people in this novel are somewhat further removed from the atrocities of their ancestors. In modern Zimbabwe, the lines have blurred. The white people that Tambu loathes haven’t done anything “wrong,” per se, except for profiting off the crimes of previous generations. Tambu acknowledges her advantages – she received a Western education at a prestigious school – but oppression means that she still can’t find a suitable job, unable to tolerate the way that white men steal her work for their own, or how she’s paid far less than her peers just because she’s black. Continue reading
In Conversation with novel translator Tina Kover
July 3, 2018 / The Furious Gazelle Editors / 1 Comment
As a translator, Tina Kover bridges gaps between cultures. For over ten years, she has been translating novels from French into English, so that they can be read and appreciated by a wider audience. This year alone, Kover has translated two wildly different books: Disoriental by Negar Djavadi (read our review here) and The Beauty of the Death Cap by Catherine Dousteyssier-Khoze, forthcoming this fall from Snuggly Books.
This year, Kover even helped to bridge the gap between a married couple. “[Catherine’s husband] doesn’t speak French, so he actually couldn’t read her book until I translated it, which is quite funny.”
When asked if he liked the book, Kover laughed. “He loved it,” she said. “But [Catherine] said she was a little frustrated because as he was reading it, he kept saying more about how much he liked the translation than the book itself.” Continue reading
Book Review: Sick, a memoir by Porochista Khakpour
June 4, 2018 / The Furious Gazelle Editors / 0 Comments
When a slew of mysterious symptoms leaves you terribly ill, how long does it take to have your illness validated, to receive a diagnosis? If you are a woman, especially a young woman of color with patchy health insurance and little money, it can be a very long time.
In Sick, Porochista Khakpour takes us through her journey as she struggles with poor health, drug addiction, and a quest for a diagnosis. She also takes us through her history with Lyme, both in herself and others: a boyfriend’s mother who became seriously ill with it; a dog she adopted that suffered from the disease; the many places she visited where she saw and ignored Tick Check warnings.
Sick is engrossing, reading somewhat like a lurid “it happened to me”-type article, written by a literary master. She spares few details, including raving emails she sent to friends at the height of her desperation about the undiagnosed illness: “I’ve realized my urine is entirely too alkaline.” Continue reading
Book Review: Disoriental by Négar Djavadi
April 16, 2018 / The Furious Gazelle Editors / 0 Comments
By Tess Tabak
Disoriental, a new novel by Négar Djavadi, tells the epic story of a family, the Sadrs, across a century of true Iranian history. Kimia, the youngest daughter of Darius and Sara Sadr, is the self-appointed keeper of family lore. She tells her own story through the lens of her extended family’s history, weaving the tales in and out of each other like a modern day Scherzerade. The family currently lives in France and Disoriental’s message is particularly poignant, and relevant, in today’s political climate, when refugees are not freely welcome in many Western countries.
The novel opens slowly, on Kimia attempting to receive fertility treatment, in a room filled with couples desperate for a child. She is the only one who came to the appointment alone, without a partner. Once you get started this is a hard book to put down. While she waits for the doctor, Kimia braids her present story in and out of her family’s history, set against the backdrop of Iran’s tumultuous political history. Anecdotes fluidly move from one into the other, and the tale jumps back and forth between spans of 20 to 50 years at a time (there’s a helpful key in the back of the book if you lose track of the characters). Continue reading
Book Review: Where Night Stops, by Douglas Light
January 6, 2018 / The Furious Gazelle Editors / 0 Comments
Where Night Stops, a new novel by Douglas Light, is a gripping thriller written in deliciously literary prose. The protagonist ends up over his head in a money laundering scheme when a homeless man named Ray-Ray hands him a message in a bar of soap. That message leads him to the local library, which sets him off on a series of jobs that seem easy enough, and pay well. There’s just one problem: he has no idea what he’s doing, no idea why someone is paying him $300 to pick up checks from pre-arranged points and deposit them in library books. He calls these mysterious jobs “Kam Manning,” and inches in further and further, convincing himself that he’s not doing anything wrong.
The novel unravels slowly. It starts with our narrator in a bar with a woman who complains of being ugly. She sits next to our protagonist, trading a few lines of witty banter. She says that “My heart is a divided Vienna,” referencing Orson Welles’s The Third Man. Continue reading
Book Review: Searching for Someday by Jennifer Probst
December 23, 2017 / The Furious Gazelle Editors / 0 Comments
Searching for Someday is like a lollipop. You unwrap it, excited. I shouldn’t be reading this, you think. It has no real sustenance. But then you do read it, and you think, ugh, this is too sweet. And the prose is horrible. Did I ever use to like these? But it goes down quick before you really have a chance to think about it.
As a bodice-ripper, this book sort of succeeds. I’m saying “sort of” because it was page-turning and somewhat engrossing, which is really the only thing one asks for in books like this. I finished it in about three days. But the cringe factor is very high. I’ll leave aside the ridiculous nature of the premise – Kate runs a matchmaking agency called Kinnections, where she uses a combination of her supernatural ability to detect compatibility and real world dating advice to create lasting connections for her clients. She is also cursed to find one true soul mate in life. No one else will do it for her. OK, that part is fine.
Where the book starts to fall apart is when Slade enters the picture. A no-nonsense, super hot divorce lawyer, he becomes Kate’s client as a way of keeping tabs on his sister, who’s recently signed up for Kinnections. No. No no no no. Kate and her friends frequently cite Slade’s “protectiveness about his family” as a plus, but really? His behavior toward his sister is controlling, obsessive, unhealthy. Continue reading
Book Review: Dead Spider, by Victoria Houston
In Dead Spider, the 17th installment in Victoria Houston’s Loon Lake mystery series, Charles Pfeiffer, the wealthiest man in town is murdered. It’s up to police chief Lewellyn Ferris and her deputy coroner Paul Osborne to find his killer. Dead Spider is a standalone story, and Houston briefly tells you anything you need to know about the characters in the first few pages so you don’t need to read any of the other books in the series before picking this one up.
A fast moving story, Dead Spider is a good beach read. It’s a light, airy page turner with a well-crafted mystery. The book relies on some mystery tropes (the murdered man has a bitchy daughter-in-law and a gold-digging wife, for example), but colored with Houston’s charming cast of small town characters, and the active fly fishing economy, it feels fresh. Loon Lake is based on the small Wisconsin town where Houston grew up, and you can tell she has a deep love for the area. Continue reading
Book Review: Forest of a Thousand Lanterns by Julie C. Dao
December 9, 2017 / The Furious Gazelle Editors / 1 Comment
This debut novel by Julie Dao is the first book in the Rise of the Empress series. The series explores the imagined youth of Snow White’s Evil Queen in an East Asian-inspired fantasy setting. Xifeng, the protagonist, is a strong, complex young woman struggling to choose between a path of light and dark. She knows the right thing to do, but a voice inside of her urges her on towards evil.
There’s a lot to praise about this novel: Xifeng, our heroine, is strong and powerful, but at the same time she is not immune to the culture and mores of her time. She has to be careful to seem humble and ladylike as she forges her way towards becoming the next Empress of Feng Lu. At the same time, she is more spirited than the women in classic fairy tales. She propels herself by her own choices, not quietly accepting what the world throws at her. Another divergence from the norms: following her destiny for greatness means leaving behind Wei, Xifeng’s handsome boyfriend who longs to marry her and live a quiet life together. We are told that Wei is meant to play some role in Xifeng’s fate, but it’s clear that Xifeng’s journey will be more about realizing her destiny than finding her one true love. Continue reading
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Sneak Peek: A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire by Jennifer Armentrout
A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire, an all-new sexy fantasy novel in the A Blood and Ash Series by New York Times bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout is coming September 1st and we have an exciting sneak peek!
“We go home to marry, my Princess.” As in get married? To him? Suddenly, I thought of all those girlish fantasies I’d had before I learned who I was and what was expected of me—daydreams given life because of the love my parents had for one another. Never once did those little-girl dreams include a proposal that wasn’t remotely an actual proposal. Nor did they incorporate it being announced at a table full of strangers, half of which wanted me dead. And those dreams surely hadn’t involved what had to be the kingdom’s worst—and possibly most insane—non-proposal of marriage to a man currently holding me captive. Perhaps I had some sort of ailment of the brain. Maybe I was experiencing hallucinations brought on by stress. After all, there had been so much painful death to process. His betrayal to deal with. And I’d just learned I was descended from Atlantia, a kingdom I’d been raised to believe was the source of all the evil and tragedy in the land. Stress-induced hallucinations seemed a far more believable reason than what was actually happening. All I could do was stare at the larger hand holding my much smaller one. His skin was slightly darker than mine as if kissed by the sun. Years of wielding a sword with deadly, graceful precision had left his palms callused. He lifted my hand to an indecently well-formed and full mouth. To lips that were somehow soft yet unrelentingly firm. Lips that had spun beautiful words into the air and whispered heated, wicked promises against my bare skin. Lips that had paid homage to the many scars that riddled my body and face. Lips that had also spoken blood-soaked lies. Now, that mouth was pressed against the top of my hand in a gesture that I would’ve cherished for an eternity and thought exquisitely tender just days or weeks ago. Simple things like hand-holding or chaste kisses had been forbidden to me. As were being wanted or feeling desire. I had long since accepted that I would never experience those things. Until him. I lifted my gaze from our joined hands, from that mouth that was already curving up on one side, hinting at a dimple in the right cheek, and from the slowly parting lips that revealed just a hint of fatally sharp fangs. His hair brushed the nape of his neck and toppled over his forehead, and the thick strands were such a deep shade of black, it often shone blue in the sunlight. With high and angular cheekbones, a straight nose, and a proud, carved jaw, he often reminded me of the large, graceful cave cat I had seen once in Queen Ileana’s palace as a child. Beautiful, but in the way all wild, dangerous predators were. My heart stammered as my eyes locked onto his, orbs a shade of stunning, cool amber. I knew I was staring at Hawke— WANT MORE: Download the entire chapter here>> https://BookHip.com/RNZCCJ
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Is Love Stronger Than Vengeance?
A Betrayal…
Everything Poppy has ever believed in is a lie, including the man she was falling in love with. Thrust among those who see her as a symbol of a monstrous kingdom, she barely knows who she is without the veil of the Maiden. But what she does know is that nothing is as dangerous to her as him. The Dark One. The Prince of Atlantia. He wants her to fight him, and that’s one order she’s more than happy to obey. He may have taken her, but he will never have her.
A Choice….
Casteel Da’Neer is known by many names and many faces. His lies are as seductive as his touch. His truths as sensual as his bite. Poppy knows better than to trust him. He needs her alive, healthy, and whole to achieve his goals. But he’s the only way for her to get what she wants—to find her brother Ian and see for herself if he has become a soulless Ascended. Working with Casteel instead of against him presents its own risks. He still tempts her with every breath, offering up all she’s ever wanted. Casteel has plans for her. Ones that could expose her to unimaginable pleasure and unfathomable pain. Plans that will force her to look beyond everything she thought she knew about herself—about him. Plans that could bind their lives together in unexpected ways that neither kingdom is prepared for. And she’s far too reckless, too hungry, to resist the temptation.
But unrest has grown in Atlantia as they await the return of their Prince. Whispers of war have become stronger, and Poppy is at the very heart of it all. The King wants to use her to send a message. The Descenters want her dead. The wolven are growing more unpredictable. And as her abilities to feel pain and emotion begin to grow and strengthen, the Atlantians start to fear her. Dark secrets are at play, ones steeped in the blood-drenched sins of two kingdoms that would do anything to keep the truth hidden. But when the earth begins to shake, and the skies start to bleed, it may already be too late.
About Jennifer L. Armentrout #1 New York Times and #1 International Bestselling author Jennifer lives in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. All the rumors you’ve heard about her state aren’t true. When she’s not hard at work writing. She spends her time reading, watching really bad zombie movies, pretending to write, hanging out with her husband and her Border Jack Apollo. In early 2015, Jennifer was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a group of rare genetic disorders that involve a breakdown and death of cells in the retina, eventually resulting in loss of vision, among other complications. Due to this diagnosis, educating people on the varying degrees of blindness has become of passion of hers, right alongside writing, which she plans to do as long as she can. Her dreams of becoming an author started in algebra class, where she spent most of her time writing short stories….which explains her dismal grades in math. Jennifer writes young adult paranormal, science fiction, fantasy, and contemporary romance. She is published with Tor, HarperCollins Avon and William Morrow, Entangled Teen and Brazen, Disney/Hyperion and Harlequin Teen. Her Wicked Series has been optioned by PassionFlix. Jennifer has won numerous awards, including the 2013 Reviewers Choice Award for Wait for You, the 2015 Editor’s Pick for Fall With Me, and the 2014/2015 Moerser-Jugendbuch- Jury award for Obsidian. Her young adult romantic suspense novel DON’T LOOK BACK was a 2014 nominated Best in Young Adult Fiction by YALSA. Her adult romantic suspense novel TILL DEATH was an Amazon Editor’s Pick and iBook Book of the Month. Her young adult contemporary THE PROBLEM WITH FOREVER is a 2017 RITA Award Winner in Young Adult Fiction. She also writes Adult and New Adult contemporary and paranormal romance under the name J. Lynn. She is published by Entangled Brazen and HarperCollins. She is the owner of ApollyCon and The Origin Event, the successful annual events that features over a hundred bestselling authors in Young Adult, New Adult, and Adult Fiction, panels, parties, and more.
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March 28, 2012 by Jessica Marie Gutierrez 1 Comment
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Entravision Communications Corporation (NYSE: EVC) announced that it was honored with two Medallas de Cortez Awards at the Hispanic Radio Awards hosted by Radio Ink in San Diego. Entravision’s Matt Cardenas, the General Sales Manager for Entravision’s radio cluster in Los Angeles, California, was honored with the “Sales Manager of the Year: Markets 1-25” award and El Gato KDLD-FM and KDLE-FM Los Angeles, California received the “Station of the Year: Markets 1-25” accolade.
Cardenas leads national and local advertising for Entravision’s Los Angelesradio stations: Super Estrella 107.1 FM, El Gato 103.1 FM and Jose 97.5 FM. He has been a member of Entravision’s sales team for the past three years.
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“Entravision has a long history of providing the best content to our listeners and, with stations in 47 of the top 50 fastest growing U.S. Hispanic markets, we are well positioned to continue to entertain and inform Hispanic audiences for years to come,” said Jeffery Liberman, President of Entravision’s Radio Division. “We are thrilled to be honored among this prestigious group of Spanish-language broadcasters. Congratulations to Matt and the staff of El Gato 103.1 FM, as well as all of our stations and employees who were nominated this year. We are proud of all of their hard work, dedication and service to our local communities.”
The Medallas de Cortez awards were created by Radio Ink Magazine to recognize outstanding achievements and leadership in the Hispanic radio marketplace. The awards are named after Raoul Cortez, a pioneer in Hispanic radio in America.
The Hispanic Radio Awards were held as part of Radio Ink’s Hispanic Radio Conference, held March 21-22 also in San Diego. Key members of Entravision were present among the prestigious group of speakers and panelists speaking at the event including Jeffrey Liberman, President of Entravision’s Radio Division, Phillip Woodie, President of LER (an Entravision company) and Christopher Moncayo, Vice President and General Manager of Entravision Phoenix properties.
About Entravision Communications Corporation
Entravision Communications Corporation is a diversified Spanish-language media company utilizing a combination of television, radio and digital operations to reach Hispanic consumers across the United States, as well as the border markets of Mexico. Entravision is the largest affiliate group of both the top-ranked Univision television network and Univision’s TeleFutura network, with television stations in 19 of the nation’s top 50 Hispanic markets. The company also operates one of the nation’s largest groups of primarily Spanish-language radio stations, consisting of 48 owned and operated radio stations. Additionally, Entravision has a variety of cross-platform digital content and sales offerings designed to capitalize on the company’s leadership position within the Hispanic broadcasting community. Entravision shares of Class A Common Stock are traded on The New York Stock Exchange under the symbol: EVC.
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By Alex Hobson December 25th, 2020
Team Switzerland enters the 2021 World Junior Championship coming off of two of the best performances in the nation’s tenure at the tournament. Finishing fifth place in last year’s tournament and fourth place the year before, the Swiss found themselves finishing higher than household names like Team Canada and Team Sweden in 2019 and Team USA in 2020. The Swiss actually had a great 2020 tournament, finishing third in seeding behind only Sweden and Canada. Unfortunately, they were matched up with the sixth-seeded Russians in the quarter final and lost 3-1.
Unfortunately for the Swiss, they only have five returning players in total and zero NHL prospects. This means that this year’s team is going to be an inexperienced one, and it wouldn’t be far fetched to suggest that they will take a step back. Here is the final roster Team Switzerland will be icing this year.
Thibault Fatton (Lugano U20), Andri Henauer (Bern U20), Noah Patenaude (Saint John Sea Dogs)
The Swiss’ net will be the most inexperienced part of their team. All three goalies named to the roster are newcomers. The only name that wasn’t a given to be named of the three was 18-year-old Noah Patenaude, but they opted to cut fellow 18-year-old Lucas Rotheli in favor of the Swiss-Canadian dual citizen.
Between these three, I think it’s safe to say the Swiss are going to lean on Fatton between the pipes at least to start. The oldest of the three, he won the starting job for Lugano U20 and he’s done nothing but thrive in that role, putting up a record of 9-3-0 to go along with a goals-against average (GAA) of 2.42. He’s pretty small for a goalie, standing at 6-foot and weighing in at only 154 pounds, but he definitely has the skill to make up for it.
If it doesn’t end up being Fatton, then there’s no question they’ll turn to Henauer in net. He’s putting together a nice season for himself with a record of 4-3-0 to go with a 2.45 GAA for Bern U20. He’s also spent half his season with SC Langenthal of the Swiss league, which is the second-highest tier of pro hockey in Switzerland. He has a record of 5-1-0 with a save percentage (SV%) of .910 and a GAA of 2.41. Like Fatton, he’s on the smaller side at 5-foot-11 and 170 pounds.
The third and final goalie on the roster is Patenaude. He spent 11 games with the Saint John Sea Dogs of the QMJHL this year before they postponed the season. Through those 11 games, he mustered a record of 4-3-3 with a 3.62 GAA and .889 SV%. The Swiss have a habit of only using two out of the three goalies on the roster, so it’s unlikely Patenaude will see any playing time unless the other two brutally falter or go down with injury. Regardless, it will serve as a good learning experience and could open a door for him to be Switzerland’s starter next year.
Inaki Baragano (Lausanne U20), Giancarlo Chanton (Langenthal), Noah Delemont (Biel U20), Cedric Fiedler (Western Michigan U), Bastian Guggenheim (Langnau), Noah Meier (GCK Zurich), Rocco Pezzullo (HC Ambri-Piotta), Alessandro Villa (Lugano U20), Nathan Vouardoux (Lausanne U20)
This year’s Swiss defense features mostly newcomers with a couple of 2021 NHL Draft prospects to keep an eye on as well as two returning players. Representing Switzerland for the second year in a row will be Guggenheim and Pezzullo. Both players are currently undrafted, but still, carry the most experience of anyone they have on the back end and will likely be relied on in crucial situations.
Guggenheim has played at every level of hockey in Switzerland this year, spending five games apiece in the U20 league, the Swiss League (second tier) and the National League (top tier). Offensively, he’s seen the most success with Langnau U20 where he has five assists through five games. Pezzullo has spent the majority of the season with HC Ambri-Piotta of the National League where he’s been held pointless through 15 games.
Baragano is another intriguing player to watch. He was a last-minute cut as an 18-year-old last year, so he’ll surely be returning with a chip on his shoulder and some extra motivation this year. He has 16 points through 22 games with Lausanne U20 of the Swiss league and put up 16 points in 60 games for the WHL’s Kamloops Blazers last year. Also looking to add to the offense from the back end will be Vouardoux, who’s a teammate of Baragano’s and has 15 points in 22 games as Lausanne’s captain.
Inaki Baragano Kamloops Blazers (Photo Credit: Allen Douglas / Kamloops Blazers)
The back end also features a pair of prospects for the 2021 NHL draft in Meier and Chanton. Meier has mostly spent this season with GC Kusnacht Lions of the Swiss League where he has five points in 17 games, and Chanton is back in Switzerland after a one-year stint with the OHL’s Niagara IceDogs. He has two points in 11 games for SC Langenthal of the Swiss League. Another name to keep an eye on for a full-time roster spot is Biel U20’s Noah Delemont, who spent last season in the QMJHL with the Acadie-Bathurst Titan.
Assuming the players listed above make up the starting defensive core, the final two defensemen to round out the roster and compete for ice time barring injury are Fiedler and Villa, two 19 year-olds who will each be making their debuts for the Swiss World Junior team this year.
Lorenzo Canonica (Lugano U20), Simon Knak (HC Davos), Ray Fust (Chilliwack Chiefs), Gaetan Jobin (HC Fribourg-Gotteron), Joel Salzgeber (SCL Tigers), Valentin Hofer (EVZ Academy), Dario Allenspach (EVZ Academy), Keanu Derungs (EVZ Academy), Ronny Dahler (SC Langenthal), Lionel Marchand (Timra IK J20), Stefano Bottini (Penticton Vees), Attilio Biasca (Zug U20), Elvis Schlapfer (SC Langenthal)
Team Switzerland’s forward group this year is bleak compared to last year. That’s not to say they aren’t capable of scoring, but the roster up front features only three returning players. Granted, they have lots of young talent that could step up and provide a stable supporting cast to the team’s core.
Among the returning forwards this year are Knak, Jobin, and Salzgeber. Knak scored two goals in five games at last year’s tournament and will be serving as team captain this year. He surprisingly went undrafted last year despite a successful 34 point campaign through 49 games with the WHL’s Portland Winterhawks, so you can expect him to kick into another gear to impress scouts in time for next year’s draft. Meanwhile, Jobin and Salzgeber put up three and two points respectively last year.
Simon Knak Portland Winterhawks (Photo Credit: Keith Dwiggins / Portland Winterhawks)
The most exciting name the Swiss have this year is 17-year-old Canonica. He has 19 points through 20 games for Lugano U20 and he’s projected to go in the mid-rounds of the upcoming NHL draft. Another name to watch is Fust, a 6-foot-2 winger who spent last season playing high school hockey in the United States, but has yet to play a game this year. He’s under contract with the Chilliwack Chiefs of the BCHL, who haven’t had a season thus far.
The Swiss will have two teammates representing EVZ Academy of the Swiss League this year in Allenspach and Derungs. Allenspach has been the better producer of the pair, sitting at eighth in team scoring with six points through 15 games. Derungs has only three points through 16 games.
Another pair of teammates that peak my interest are Biasca and Hofer. Biasca is one of the younger players on the team along with Canonica and has 18 points through 19 games with Zug U20. Meanwhile, Hofer has 17 points in 15 games for the team which leaves him and Biasca at fifth and fourth in team scoring, respectively. The pair have also appeared in a handful of games for EVZ Academy with Allenspach and Derungs. Hofer has two points in five games and Biasca has one point through four.
Speaking of teammates, how about another pair? Dahler and Schlapfer both play for SC Langenthal of the Swiss league. Dahler has two points through 14 games and Schlapfer has four points through 12 games. This leaves us with Bottini and Marchand as the final two players to round out the selected forwards.
Bottini, who’s under contract with the BCHL’s Penticton Vees, has yet to play a game this year. Granted, he impressed with Lugano U20 last year where he had 40 points in 43 games. Marchand is under loan with Timra IK J20 of the Swedish junior leagues where he has five points in 12 games.
To be completely honest, I see the Swiss taking a significant step back this year. I’m confident that they’ll have a respectable tournament and making the quarter finals is certainly not out of the question. But to me, they’re too inexperienced to see the same success as the fourth-place finish in 2019 or the fifth-place finish last year. The fact that they only have five returning players leaves them with a lot of guys making their tournament debut, and having that extra leadership from guys who have been there before can be crucial to the success of a team like Switzerland.
Granted, I don’t think this is anything Swiss fans should sulk over. This year is a transition year, and they’ve got lots of promising young players who could come back stronger than ever next year. Also, the fact that there’s no possibility of relegation this year will take some of the pressure off. The Swiss kick off their tournament on Christmas Day against Team Slovakia, and to be completely honest I think this game will dictate where the Swiss finish in the pool.
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Clifton Chenier : The King of Zydeco – Bon Ton Roulet!
Posted on July 9, 2017 by Thom Hickey
‘People been playing Zydeco for a long time, old style like French music. I was the first to put the pep into it.’ (Clifton Chenier)
‘Clifton was the biggest thing in Zydeco. Nobody else has ever measured up to him. He was the King’ (Chris Strachwitz Founder of Arhoolie Records.)
Like Elvis I like all kinds of music.
In the expanse of the subterranean chambers where my record collection lies there is music from many, many genres.
Deep racks of Jazz, Blues, Country, Bluegrass, Folk, Gospel, Rhythm & Blues, Rockabilly, Rock ‘n’ Roll, Soul and Doo-Wop shimmer in the half-light as I peruse the shelves searching for the perfect sound for Now.
Yesterday, I took a left turn at New Orleans Jazz and came, whooping delightedly, upon the section labelled, ‘Cajun and Zydeco’.
Now, I like to have a framed picture of my favourite artist from each genre displayed proudly above each of the appropriate racks.
So, for Jazz it’s Louis Armstrong.
For Blues, Mississippi John Hurt.
Bluegrass nestles under Bill Monroe (of course!).
Folk has Woody Guthrie atop the US section while Sandy Denny and Dolores Keane are the eminences of the British and Irish scenes.
Gospel has Mahalia Jackson face to face with Sam Cooke.
The High Priest, Ray Charles, looks out over the serried R&B racks while Wanda Jackson looks after all those wild Rockabilly Rebels.
Elvis himself takes pride of place in the Rock ‘n’ Roll section.
Aretha Franklin reigns over Soul.
There’s a group portrait, from an Alan Freed Show of The Orioles, The Moonglows and The Five Satins, above the deep Doo-Wop collection.
Bob Dylan and Van Morrison stare moodily out above their special enclaves.
Above the Cajun Section I’ve hung Iry Lejeune.
There was never any question who would represent Zydeco.
The King of the Music. From Opelousas Louisiana, Clifton Chenier!
Being in a feisty mood I looked for a distinctive yellow Specialty 45 and laughed in anticipation as I pulled out, ‘Ay – Tete Fee’ (loosely, all my translations from Creole French are loose, ‘Hello Little Girl’).
This is a piquant gem, from 1955, indicative of the floor filling, floor shaking sound that echoed around Texas and Louisiana Dancehalls deep into the night when Clifton was in town.
Eh bien, mes Chers amis I think we can safely say that Clifton was right about the Pep!
With faithful brother, Cleveland, by his side on ‘Frottoir’ (a metal rubboard, of Clifton’s devising, played with bottle openers) and a successsion of brilliant guitarists like Philip Walker, Lonnie Brooks and Lonesome Sundown, Clifton burned up hall after hall with his indefatigable Band The Zydeco Ramblers.
A later Zydeco star, Rockin’Sydney recalls that in Louisiana in the mid 50s even Elvis wasn’t seen as being a big a star as Clifton!
He was born in 1931 in St Landry Parish and picked up the rudiments of accordion from his father, Joseph.
All around Opelousas there were house party dances, fais – do – dos, where sharp eared Clifton heard waltz time creole songs, Cajun two steps and fiddle work outs.
As he moved into his teenage years he heard, on the radio, Cajun, blues, R&B, Country weepers and hillbilly boogie.
He stored all these sounds away and thought about how he might integrate them all into his own music.
The roots of the name Zydeco for the music Clifton came to define are open to many explanations.
Sparing you the scholastic debate I’m going with it emerging, mysteriously, out of the old folk song, ‘Les Haricots Sont Pas Sale’ (the beans are not salted!)
Clifton’s debut recording, Clifton’s Stomp, had been cut in 1954 at a Lake Charles studio after the astute producer J R Fulbright correctly observed that he played, ‘Too much accordion for these woods!’
Clifton had created a wildly addictive music that merged R&B attack with romantic Creole sway. Excellent records, well regarded locally, unknown nationally, followed for Specialty, Chess and Zynn.
While Clifton could always fill halls in Louisiana and Texas he wasn’t able to sell records in big numbers. So by the early 60s he was playing without a band in Houston roadhouses and bars.
Enter, the extraordinary Chris Strachwitz, a true hero of American roots music.
Almost the same age as Clifton their backgrounds could not have been more different!
Chris, from an aristocratic German family, arrived in America in 1947 and was knocked for six by the sounds of Jazz and R&B on the radio and in clubs, ‘I thought this was the most wonderful thing I had ever heard’.
Chris Strachwitz was not a man to be a bystander.
Soon he was recording artists like Jesse Fuller and in November 1960 issued the first record on his Arhoolie Records, Mance Lipscomb’s, ‘Songster and Sharecropper’ in an edition of 250 copies.
Chris was a big fan of Lightnin’ Hopkins so naturally accepted his invitation one night in 1964 to go and see a cousin, one Clifton Chenier, in a Houston bar.
And, the chance encounter turned out to be immeasurably enriching for both men, Zydeco Music and music fans of taste and discretion all over the world!
Chris was stunned by Clifton’s presence and the combination of low down blues and old time Zydeco emenating from the stage.
The music he heard and felt in his heart, soul and gut was life enhancing music.
Music filled with heart and history.
Music filled with toil and tears.
Music filled with longing and love.
Music filled with jumping joy!
The very next day they were in Goldstar Studio cutting ‘Ay Ai Ay’ and a crucial artistic and personal partnership was born.
For the next decade and more Clifton as an Arhoolie artist produced a series of superb records which established him as a major figure and essentially defined the sound and repertoire of Zydeco music.
Clifton was a natural showman who was also a questing musician always looking to develop his sound. He was a virtuoso on the piano accordion so that in his hands it seemed to have the power and variety of a full band in itself.
He could handle any tempo from funereal slow to tarmac melting speed while maintaining swing and sway.
The early Arhoolie albums were matched with singles which came out on the Bayou Label.
In addition to relentless touring on the Crawfish circuit he began to play Roots Music Festivals where his brilliance attracted approval from journalists like Ralph J Gleason who recognised what an extraordinary musician Clifton was.
Here’s a delightful clip of Clifton at a Festival in 1969 with a lovely relaxed performance of the anthem of Zydeco.
Ca c’est tres bon n’est ce pas?
Clifton now put together a truly great Band, ‘The Red Hot Louisiana Band’ which to these ears stands with Muddy Waters pluperfect 1950s Chicago blues band.
John Han on tenor sax, Joe Brouchet on bass, Robin St Julian on drums, Paul Senegal on guitar with the stellar Elmore Nixon on piano combined with Clifton and Cleveland were a wonderfully vibrant group which no audience could resist whether live or on record.
The next selection today may be my all time favourite bluesy Clifton track.
A mesmerising, ‘I’m On The Wonder’ is the work of a master musician who lives and breathes and prays through the music he plays.
Now ain’t that the playing of a King! Yes, Sir, nothing less than a King.
And, a King has many moods. Many moods.
Here’s a dreamy waltz (and anyone who’s ever taken some turns around a hardwood floor always welcomes a waltz!) to bring some languorous Louisiana warmth to your day wherever you may be!
The 1970s saw Clifton in his glorious pomp. A truly regal musician exploding with life and creativity. He WAS Zydeco Music and the recipe he created was one tasty gumbo!
Clifton died in December 1987 having given his life to the music he loved and nurtured.
What I crave, above all in music is flavour and when it comes to flavour it really doesn’t get more appetising than the music of Clifton Chenier.
All hail The King!
To conclude here’s a very evocative clip showcasing Clifford appearing at the legendary Jay’s Lounge and Cockpit in Cankton.
I sure would like to have seen Clifton tear that place up!
There’s a superb compilation of Clifton’s pre Arhoolie sides on the Hoodoo Label entitled, ‘Louisiana Stomp’
On Arhoolie I recommend – ‘Louisiana Blues and Zydeco’, ‘Bogalusa Boogie’ (generally rated his best single album), ‘Zydeco Legend’ and, ‘Live at Longbeach’.
Clifton is the star of an excellent 1973 documentary film directed by Les Blank, ‘Hot Pepper’.
Two highly recommended photographic books :
‘Musiciens cadiens et creoles’ by Barry Jean Ancelet
‘Cajun Music and Zydeco’ by Philip Gould.
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Review: The Other Lamb
Posted on October 16, 2020 October 16, 2020 by Peter Cox
Director: Małgorzata Szumowska
Stars: Raffey Cassidy, Denise Gough, Michiel Huisman
There are a couple of notable firsts happening in Małgorzata Szumowska’s new folk-horror, which has arrived on MUBI. It marks the Polish director’s English-language debut, immediately making her work more accessible to UK audiences. And, in addition, it marks the first time Raffey Cassidy has taken a credited lead role, having previously proven herself a clear highlight in both Yorgos Lanthimos‘ The Killing of a Sacred Deer and Brady Corbet’s Vox Lux (in which she technically put in more screen time than anyone).
But what does Szumowska make of her? The Other Lamb takes place at a remote commune in the midst of a bleak midwinter, cloistered among dying trees on the hills of some endless moorland. This chilly landscape is overseen by Michiel Huisman’s leader Shepherd; a man of many wives and, seemingly, only daughters (eerily bringing to mind John Hawkes’ opportunistic figurehead from Martha Marcy May Marlene). His women are The Flock.
Teenage daughter Selah (Cassidy) is favoured among the young women, though she has not yet had her first period; something indoctrinated as being, by nature, unclean. When it comes, this event – which coincides with the portentous premature birth of a lamb – triggers in Selah a kind of awakening from Shepherd’s thrall. She begins to reevaluate her circumstances, and the sometimes cruel practices which she previously perceived as merely routine. When the group are evicted from their land, Shepherd casts the news as an opportunity, but Selah is troubled.
Szumowska makes outstanding use of the location shooting in Ireland, and is absurdly well-blessed in the stark landscapes her team have helped her find as backdrop to this icy cult drama. The siting of an isolated shack on a hillside of diagonally protruding trees is enough to take your breath away; as though the very land were conspiring to tell Selah that her world is literally off-kilter. In an equally striking design choice, Shepherd cordons off areas of the forest for worship with the winding of string around the barren tree trunks. It’s perhaps a rather brazen visual metaphor for the feminine imprisonment at the heart of Szumowska’s piece, but on an aesthetic level it is undoubtedly striking. Colour-coded costuming also pops against the often pallid backdrops. Red for the wives, blue for the daughters; something which harks back to M Night Shyamalan’s own folk-horror The Village.
The iciness of the landscape is matched in the stiff visual majesty with which Szumowska and her DP Michal Englert bring this story to bear, evoking most fervently Robert Eggers’ The Witch. The music is also reminiscent of Mark Korven’s work for that project, further prompting this association. There’s a keenness here to conflate burgeoning womanhood not with occult potentiality, however, but instead with more sinister bloodletting and the cruelties of the natural world. It’s a pretty grim motif that only folds into Shepherd’s evident suspicion and hatred of his company. There’s a lot of stifled emotion, befitting of the frigid climate and themes of repression. This also means, however, that the actors are all rather rigid and remote. Cassidy is mostly given little to do other than show us a variety of stern or incredulous looks. She’s all eyes in this one.
“Why do you stay?” Selah asks Sarah (Denise Gough), one of the mistreated wives, and it’s a question that bugs throughout the picture when applied to all of its characters, irrespective of Sarah’s answer. Shepherd’s power over these women is rather woolly (pardon the pun). Perhaps Huisman’s part is underwritten but, as a contemporary story, The Other Lamb feels a little anachronistic. We’re offered little in the way of good reason for any of them to be in this predicament. Without this, the whole scenario comes rather too close to falling apart. The Flock’s beliefs and objectives are unclear. If the purpose of this is for us to imprint our own ideas or meanings onto the cult, the outcome instead feels ill-thought-out or perhaps just poorly communicated. These women aren’t unaware of the modern world. Shepherd beats a woman then turns to his congregation and says, “We must have faith”. Why any of them follow him another step isn’t really made tangible.
The paucity of dialogue may intend to echo the sparseness of their lives and the sullen hold Shepherd has over them, but without voices these women communicate little. Their histories, their hopes, their choices… all feel unknowable. Any feminist clout the piece might have had feels as though it’s been expunged. All that remains is dour misogyny and an ending that takes aim for enigmatic, but instead hits as both dreadfully mean-spirited and daft.
With it’s landscapes and choice lighting and framing, The Other Lamb is often quite beautiful, but on a fundamental storytelling level it doesn’t give enough, and the ugliness of what it does give doesn’t nearly satisfy, making it feel like one of the year’s most impeccably crafted missed opportunities.
Tagged Denise Gough, folk horror, Małgorzata Szumowska, Michiel Huisman, MUBI, Raffey Cassidy
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Mercedes find bug that robbed Hamilton of victory
By Alan Baldwin
29 March 2018, 4:42 am
Formula One F1 - Australian Grand Prix - Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit, Melbourne, Australia - March 25, 2018 Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton before the race Saeed Khan/Pool via Reuters
Formula One world champions Mercedes have found the computer bug that cost Lewis Hamilton victory at the season-opening Australian Grand Prix and taken steps to ensure it does not happen again.
Trackside engineering director Andrew Shovlin said in a debrief on the Mercedes website http://www.mercedesamgf1.com that the problem was not what had been originally suspected after Sunday's season-opening race in Melbourne.
"The issue isn't actually with the race strategy software that we use," he said. "It was an offline tool... and we found a bug in that tool that meant that it gave us the wrong number."
Shovlin explained that the tool was used to create delta lap times, in this case the difference between Hamilton's car remaining on track under virtual safety car conditions while Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel pitted.
"It's never quite an exact science because you don't know how fast a car is going to be able to come through that pit entry, you don't know quite how closely they'll stick to the delta," Shovlin added.
Mercedes had thought their four-times world champion needed to be within 15 seconds of Vettel to retake the lead from his rival, whereas the actual margin was "slightly short of 13".
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The difference was crucial, with Vettel re-emerging in front of the surprised Briton on a circuit where drivers struggle to overtake and need to save fuel, engine and tyres in the later stages.
Had Hamilton known, he could have gone faster after his earlier stop to give himself a greater margin.
During a virtual safety car period, all cars on track have to slow down but there is a short stretch between the safety car line and the start of the 60kph pit lane limit where anyone pitting can speed up.
"We thought we had a bit of margin and then obviously you saw the result," Shovlin said.
"In future we're going to make sure we have more margin because we want to be able to cover for Vettel doing an amazingly good in-lap to the pits, or having an incredibly fast stop," he added.
Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff had said immediately after the race that he suspected a "software glitch" had cost Mercedes what looked like a certain victory with Hamilton leading from pole until his stop.
The Briton finished second for the second year in a row.
Shovlin said an extensive analysis had been carried out and processes put in place "to make sure that we don't have a repeat".
The second race of the season is in Bahrain on April 8, where Ferrari also won last year.
(Reporting by Alan Baldwin; Editing by John O'Brien)
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Ireland, Ireland : Classification : Ships
Royal Navy and Merchant Navy Ships have played a huge part in defining British history. Many websites have details on both the ships and their officers and crew, often including many photographs of the vessels.
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Title: 1820 Settler Correspondence - Cape of Good Hope
Link: https://www.eggsa.org/1820-settlers/index.php/
Description: Letters from the Settlers of the Cape of Good Hope
Extra Info: This correspondence concerns the immigration scheme for the Cape of Good Hope following the Napoleonic Wars. HMS Weymouth was used to transport the settlers. A log of the journey is also transcribed.
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Link: http://www.britainssmallwars.co.uk/
Description: Britain's Small Wars - Forgotten Wars
Extra Info: Details of many of Britain's 'forgotten' conflicts, with details of memorials and stories.
Classification: RAF / RFC / RNAS, Navy, Army, Marines, World War I, World War II, Boer Wars, Other Battles / Wars / Conflicts, Prisoners of War, Pictures / Photographs, Aircraft, Ships, Other Transport, Hospitals / Nursing, Academy / Training / Cadets, Information, Other
Title: British Pathe Film Archive
Link: https://www.britishpathe.com
Description: British Pathe Film Archive 1896-1970
Extra Info: All sorts of social and military history on film.
Classification: RAF / RFC / RNAS, Navy, Army, Marines, World War I, World War II, Boer Wars, Other Battles / Wars / Conflicts, Prisoners of War, Pictures / Photographs, Aircraft, Ships, Newspapers
Title: Guardian Newspaper
Link: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/31/-sp-...
Description: Guardian Newspaper - How it Covered the Last Century
Extra Info: The newspaper articles cover the period 1899-1999.
Classification: Graves / Memorials / Roll of Honour, Navy, World War I, World War II, Service Records, Pictures / Photographs, Ships, Medals / Awards, Uniforms / Badges, Diaries / Log Books / Letters, Information
Title: Naval-History.Net
Link: http://www.naval-history.net/
Description: Naval-History.Net
Extra Info: Comprehensive history of the British Navy with full search facility. Includes details of ships of the Royal Navy 1914-1919, some with log books details, service history of ships in WW2, timelines, casualties from WW1, and much more.
Classification: RAF / RFC / RNAS, World War I, World War II, Aircraft, Ships, Newspapers
Title: Newspapers Online via Google
Link: https://news.google.com/newspapers
Description: Newspapers Online via Google
Extra Info: Many newspapers are being put online. Currently there are only a handful from the UK and Ireland, but this is growing. Many newspapers from USA and Canada that mention British ships and British events.
Classification: Graves / Memorials / Roll of Honour, World War I, World War II, Boer Wars, Crimean War, Other Battles / Wars / Conflicts, Ships, Other Transport
Title: The Roll of Honour
Link: http://www.roll-of-honour.com/
Description: The Roll of Honour - Lest We Forget
Extra Info: As well as the main rolls of honour the site includes an overview of the Somme, information about tanks and submarines in WWI and much more.
Title: The Ships List Website
Link: http://www.theshipslist.com/
Description: The Ships List Website
Extra Info: Click on fleet lists for details of ships that have been requistioned into military service, were disguised as HM ships or those in foreign service and sunk by HM ships.
Classification: Navy, Other Battles / Wars / Conflicts, Ships
Title: Three Decks - Warships in the Age of Sail
Link: https://threedecks.org/
Description: This site aims to be the premier web resource for researching naval history during the Age of Sail.
Classification: RAF / RFC / RNAS, Navy, Army, Marines, World War I, Pictures / Photographs, Aircraft, Ships, Hospitals / Nursing
Title: World War One - Photographs and Pictures
Link: http://www.ww1photos.com/
Description: World War One - Photographs and Pictures
Extra Info: Includes postcards of WWI, many photographs of the trenches, a special gallery of Gallipoli photographs, animals in war and more. Many free photos, others may be purchased.
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The Data Reduction Pipeline for the SDSS-IV MaNGA IFU Galaxy Survey
David R. Law, Space Telescope Science Institute
Brian Cherinka, Johns Hopkins University
Brett H. Andrews, University of Pittsburgh
Matthew A. Bershady, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Guillermo A. Blanc, Universidad de Chile, Chile
Michael R. Blanton, New York University
Adam S. Bolton, University of Utah
Joel R. Brownstein, University of Utah
Kevin Bundy, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Yanmei Chen, Nanjing University, China
Niv Drory, University of Texas at Austin
Richard D'Souza, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Germany
Hai Fu, University of Iowa
Amy Jones, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Germany
Guinevere Kauffmann, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Germany
Nicholas MacDonald, University of Washington
Karen L. Masters, University of Portsmouth, UK
Jeffrey A. Newman, University of Pittsburgh
John K. Parejko, University of Washington
José R. Sánchez-GallegoFollow
Sebastian F. Sánchez, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico
David J. Schlegel, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Daniel Thomas, University of Portsmouth, UK
David A. Wake, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Anne-Marie Weijmans, University of St. Andrews, UK
Kyle B. Westfall, University of Portsmouth, UK
Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory (MaNGA) is an optical fiber-bundle integral-field unit (IFU) spectroscopic survey that is one of three core programs in the fourth-generation Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-IV). With a spectral coverage of 3622–10354 Å and an average footprint of ~500 arcsec2 per IFU the scientific data products derived from MaNGA will permit exploration of the internal structure of a statistically large sample of 10,000 low-redshift galaxies in unprecedented detail. Comprising 174 individually pluggable science and calibration IFUs with a near-constant data stream, MaNGA is expected to obtain ~100 million raw-frame spectra and ~10 million reduced galaxy spectra over the six-year lifetime of the survey. In this contribution, we describe the MaNGA Data Reduction Pipeline algorithms and centralized metadata framework that produce sky-subtracted spectrophotometrically calibrated spectra and rectified three-dimensional data cubes that combine individual dithered observations. For the 1390 galaxy data cubes released in Summer 2016 as part of SDSS-IV Data Release 13, we demonstrate that the MaNGA data have nearly Poisson-limited sky subtraction shortward of ~8500 Å and reach a typical 10σ limiting continuum surface brightness μ = 23.5 AB arcsec−2 in a five-arcsecond-diameter aperture in the g-band. The wavelength calibration of the MaNGA data is accurate to 5 km s−1 rms, with a median spatial resolution of 2.54 arcsec FWHM (1.8 kpc at the median redshift of 0.037) and a median spectral resolution of σ = 72 km s−1.
Published in The Astronomical Journal, v. 152, no. 4, 83, p. 1-35.
https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-6256/152/4/83
This work was supported by the World Premier International Research Center Initiative (WPI Initiative), MEXT, Japan. A.W. acknowledges support of a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship. M.A.B. acknowledges support from NSF AST-1517006. G.B. is supported by CONICYT/FONDECYT, Programa de Iniciacion, Folio 11150220. Funding for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV has been provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Participating Institutions. SDSS-IV acknowledges support and resources from the Center for High-Performance Computing at the University of Utah.
Law, David R.; Cherinka, Brian; Yan, Renbin; Andrews, Brett H.; Bershady, Matthew A.; Bizyaev, Dmitry; Blanc, Guillermo A.; Blanton, Michael R.; Bolton, Adam S.; Brownstein, Joel R.; Bundy, Kevin; Chen, Yanmei; Drory, Niv; D'Souza, Richard; Fu, Hai; Jones, Amy; Kauffmann, Guinevere; MacDonald, Nicholas; Masters, Karen L.; Newman, Jeffrey A.; Parejko, John K.; Sánchez-Gallego, José R.; Sánchez, Sebastian F.; Schlegel, David J.; Thomas, Daniel; Wake, David A.; Weijmans, Anne-Marie; Westfall, Kyle B.; and Zhang, Kai, "The Data Reduction Pipeline for the SDSS-IV MaNGA IFU Galaxy Survey" (2016). Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications. 451.
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How to Transfer a United Airlines Ticket Voucher
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Kathryn Walsh, Leaf Group Updated February 07, 2019
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Hey, no one's perfect – and certainly, no airline is perfect. United is one of the world's largest carriers, operating an average of 4,800 flights at 353 airports each day. As with any business that serves millions of customers each year, United leaves some of them displeased. The airline provides several communications options for dissatisfied customers. Any one will connect you to assistance, but some complaint methods are more likely than others to pay off.
Complaining in Person
If trouble arises while you're in the airport, or you want to complain right after you get off a flight, head straight to the nearest United customer service desk. Usually a terminal that serves United flights will also have a staffed help desk. A gate agent or ticket agent may also have the necessary authority to address your problem.
Remember, airline staffers take a lot of abuse from stressed and unhappy customers. Being friendly, patient and polite will sometimes make an agent more inclined to go above and beyond to help you. Vowing that you'll never fly United again won't motivate an airline employee to help you.
Complaining Online
Using United's Customer Care portal is an efficient way to contact the company. By logging into your MileagePlus account, the site will automatically fill in some personal information and your recent flight information. Then, all you have to do is write a description of the issue in 1,000 characters or fewer.
Using the airline's social media channels is a good option if you want to complain about something in real time. Tag @united on Twitter, or send a direct message to contact a customer service rep privately. During business hours, United staff tend to reply fairly quickly to tweets from distressed customers. This is a viable way to resolve minor issues, such as getting answers to questions about flights, but don't expect to get a refund or resolution to a major issue over Twitter.
Complaining by Phone or Mail
Online communication may be popular with modern travelers, but United is still reachable by traditional methods. Customers can contact the company with complaints by phone or by mail. (Don't bother dusting off the fax machine: United, like many companies, has totally phased out faxing.)
There are two major United Airlines phone numbers, and the one you need depends on the nature of your complaint. If you need an urgent solution to a problem, such as if you've been bumped from a flight, call the main customer service line at 1-800-UNITED-1 (1-800-864-8331). To complain about a past trip, call the company's post-travel feedback line at 1-877-624-2660. It's a voicemail system, so think in advance about what you want to say.
Prefer to put pen to paper? Send a complaint by mail to Customer Care, United Airlines, Inc., 900 Grand Plaza Drive NHCCR, Houston, TX 77067-4323. Include your MileagePlus number, flight numbers, confirmation numbers, and any other supporting information related to the issue or include copies of your travel documents.
What to Expect From a United Complaint
No matter how major or minor your complaint, expect to hear back from United Airlines customer service. The carrier has a commitment to acknowledge written complaints within 30 days and to provide a "substantive written response" within 60 days.
The key to getting what you want from a United complaint? Be ready to name the exact kind of action that you want the company to take, and make sure your request is reasonable. If you were stuck in a broken seat, for example, United may be willing to give you some airline miles as an apology, but don't bother asking for a $5,000 travel voucher.
If United doesn't address the complaint in a way that you deem satisfactory, file a consumer complaint with the U.S. Department of Transportation. DOT will contact the airline on your behalf. Absolutely contact DOT if you feel you experienced discriminatory treatment.
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United Airlines has a "Customer Commitment" that states its policies addressing many areas of consumer dissatisfaction. Hold authorities to these standards when filing your complaint.
Avoid being sarcastic or rude, no matter how upset you are.
Be sure your suggestions for resolution to your problems are within reason, or risk not being taken seriously.
If you have a concern about the safety of an aircraft, call the Federal Aviation Administration toll-free at 866-835-5322.
Kathryn Walsh has been writing about travel topics for more than 10 years, but has been feeding her inner travel bug for much longer. Her favorite place to visit is Scotland, and her work has appeared on sites including USAToday, AZCentral and Choice Hotels.
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#2MinuteCivics promotes upcoming elections
Bobby Watson|February 21, 2018
Maria Luisa Cesar, left, is the senior policy advisor and deputy communications director for Mayor Ron Nirenberg. Cesar was one of five panelists, joined by Diego Bernal, center, Brencia Berry, George Rodriguez and Ana Sandoval to discuss local issues and politics. The event was moderated by sophomore Travis Boyd, right. photo by Amani Canada, photo editor.
Tigers for Liberty (TFL), Trinity Progressives (T-Prog), The Contemporary, and the off-campus organization MOVE San Antonio hosted #2MinuteCivics, a crash course in local issues, to prepare attendees for the upcoming March primary election. The groups brought a panel of five civic leaders to discuss local issues.
The event was formatted similar to a Q&A session. Sophomore T-Prog member Travis Boyd brought up local issues and the panelists would have two minutes to address and discuss their positions. Roughly 30 people attended the event, a group of both students and San Antonio community members.
MOVE brought in the first four speakers: Councilwoman Ana Sandoval, state Rep. Diego Bernal, the City Council District 2 chief of staff Brencia Berry and Maria Luisa Cesar, the senior policy adviser deputy and communications director for San Antonio mayor Ron Nirenberg. TFL brought George Rodriguez, a former member of the Ronald Reagan and George H. Bush administrations and current tea party activist.
The first issue brought to the panel was lack of funding for San Antonio’s education system. The first four speakers were in unilateral agreement that the city needed to address school funding in a reasonable and effective manner.
“A lot of frustration comes from spending more money while our schools aren’t getting better,” Bernal said. “So we’ve got two things to solve: One, we need property tax reform, and we have to make sure we keep up with the changing demographics of our schools and making sure everyone gets a fair shot.”
Rodriguez disagreed with his colleagues. He first highlighted the fact that he was the only conservative on the panel, claiming that college universities exclude conservative voices. Then he replied to the question by suggesting that public funding be shut down due to its large expenses.
“I am a single person. Why should I pay for public education?” Rodriguez asked. “To keep asking for more and more [money] than you already have is an education industry.”
Issues like transportation overflow, smoking restrictions and racial inequalities, as well as the question of who civil servants serve were all brought up. On every issue the progressive speakers agreed calling for support of government intervention and planning, while Rodriguez had the opposing view of complete disenfranchisement of the government in these issues.
George Rodriguez was the only panelist representing conservative views at the event. Rodriguez expressed his concern about paying for public school education and challenged the reality of climate change. Photo by Amani Canada, photo editor
Tensions rose a few times throughout the event, as when Rodriguez questioned the audience’s religious beliefs and commented on “how sad” many of the students’ reactions were whenever he challenged climate change.
At one point, Berry accused Rodriguez of being disrespectful after Rodriguez took the microphone from her hands immediately after she finished speaking. Three students who attended the event told the Trinitonian that Rodriguez’s behavior was inappropriate.
MOVE is dedicated to mobilizing young voters and involving them in politics on all levels, especially through events like this. The event was intended to highlight partisan differences and get students thinking about politics and civic responsibility.
“[MOVE] is very big in terms of their whole mission statement on just getting out the vote and registering people to vote and educating people about local politics. Naturally that’s something that is a pretty bipartisan commitment,” said Isaiah Mitchell, co-president of TFL.
According to Mitchell, this event is one of the first political collaborations of T-Prog and TFL.
“We figured it would be a good idea to do some sort of collaborative panel discussion, followed by a banner-making session where we’ll talk about the issues that young people care about and write them on a banner. We’ll then post it as a sort of get-out-the-vote reminder,” said Alyssa Pope, food organizer of MOVE.
The event was held on Feb. 15, early enough to remind students of the upcoming primary election in March.
Councilwoman Ana Sandoval joined four other panelists at the #2MinuteCivics event. Sandoval was one of four panelists who represented the liberal perspective on local issues. Photo by Amani Canada
“As you probably know, early voting starts next week for the primaries,” Pope said. “So we really wanted to highlight how important local issues are right now, and how you can make a change in your local community.”
Students supported both the push for bipartisan participation and the spotlight on political activism.
“I’m excited about [TFL and T-Prog’s collaboration]. I think its important for people to come together and discuss issues, even if they disagree on them,” said Carson Bolding, first-year and public relations officer of T-Prog.
Despite the differences between the two parties, the panel shared their sides of the political spectrum and encouraged students to become politically involved.
“It is so exciting that young people have these questions and are talking about these things, pondering these things, trying to figure these things out,” Berry said. “We’re happy to be a part of this conversation.”
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Holmes O'Malley Sexton Scholarship Prize 2015 - Therese Madden
The Holmes O’Malley Sexton Solicitors scholarship prize is presented to Therese Madden, a fourth year Law and Accounting student. The prizegiving was held in the Millstream Common Room
The Law School was delighted to host a recent Holmes O’Malley Sexton Solicitors scholarship prize that was awarded to Therese Madden, a fourth year Law and Accounting student, who achieved the highest QCA results in her final year. The Limerick based firm has for many years now offered a very generous award to the final year law student who begins their final year with the highest marks. Holmes O’Malley Sexton are a leading Irish law firm in a complete range of commercial and personal legal services, and represent local, national and international corporate and private clients. They have a long standing relationship with the Law School, and generously fund scholarship prizes. A very generous prize of €2,500 was presented to Therese by Donal Creaton and Harry Fehilly, partners in the firm. The event was attended by Mr Justice Donald Binchy (High Court), Law School staff, solicitors from Holmes, O’Malley, Sexton, and Therese’s family and friends.
Pictured: Therese Madden with Donal Creaton, Holmes O'Malley Sexton and Professor Shane Kilcommins, School of Law, University of Limerick
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How to Watch The Big Short and Stay Smarter Than the Average Chimp
By Declan Taggart • March 4th, 2016
Are you as smart as a chimpanzee? Don’t worry, most people aren’t. If you’re not sure, you can take a test here.
The point of that test is to show that most people under-estimate how well things are going in the world. Fewer people in the world are in extreme poverty than ever before. Girls have better access to education. Everyone’s healthier.
We are, despite all the war, prejudice, corruption and ice-cap melting, living at an apex of civilization. Perhaps at the apex: things might get better, rather than worse, especially if we ignore our problems. That’s why The Big Short was the most important film this year not to win an Academy Award for Best Picture.
The Big Short tells the story of the stupidity, corruption and negligence behind the 2007-2008 financial meltdown that tore the rugs from under the feet of a lot of people (by detaching those people from the houses containing those rugs). It’s the kind of tale that you’d ordinarily see on the Facebook wall of a weirdo. Not a bad weirdo, but someone you hung out with a bit at university, and was weird in a scatty, harmless way, but has lately turned it up to 100% crank-weird. Yet no-one really disagrees with anything The Big Short says, not even the people blogging under names that are just a patina of decorum away from being “Ayn Rand was right fuck everyone else I’m the only one who’s important here”.
It answers a lot of questions about why the stupidity and corruption could happen and provokes another important one: why are we letting it happen again?
Every time something terrible happens in the world – a refugee child is found dead on a beach; the financial systems of the world crumble like Wensleydale cheese under a hot grill; tiny things like that – the public is outraged, media outlets demand change, the people in power bow and scrape and apologize, and then nothing really happens and people start to overlook it.
Why? Where does all that pressure go? Why does the boiling rage of the collective simmer down to a flavorless consomme of apathy, resentment and mistrust?
Partly it’s just the way we’re built. Human brains are apathy machines. Whenever something isn’t directly affecting our short-term goals, most people push it to one side to deal with later. And whenever we meet someone else who’s apathetic too, that just increases our own apathy.
I think when we come up against something as big and complex as the financial systems of the world, we feel too small to affect it in any meaningful way, so we burrow deep into that smallness, wrap ourselves up in a cloak of parochialism and just blame something else. Something easier to condemn, that doesn’t shroud itself in numbers and jargon, or something that marks itself out as problematic by stupidly having a different skin color or wearing cheaper clothes or having a funny accent.
Humanity should be able to overcome those impulses. It should be able to fight off its naked biology by putting on the trappings of civilization. Sometimes we do – that’s why the world is such a good place today that even the African great ape is aware of it – and sometimes we need a reminder. Sometimes we need films, books and TV shows like The Big Short.
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How Do You Cook Raw Beets
By Carly Schuna
Beets are in season during summer, fall, and winter, so "How do you cook raw beets?" becomes a pertinent question for anyone who's itching to prepare meals that include seasonal produce. Beets have a rich, earthy flavor and a beautiful color, and they make a stand-out addition to a variety of salads and main dishes. They're also packed with vitamins and minerals. Because their raw texture is so tough and their pigment is so strong, they tend to intimidate some home cooks, but it's not difficult to work with them.
7 Ways to Cook Beets
Beets are more versatile than you might think.
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If you want to cook and serve whole beets, try to choose beets that are similar in size so they cook in the same amount of time. Their leaves should look strong and colorful, and the beets themselves should be firm. Chop off the beet greens, and save them for later. They can be cooked just like spinach, collards, kale, or other hearty greens. Leave about 1 inch of stem at the top of each beet. Rinse the beets thoroughly and wipe them dry.
Boiling is one way to prevent beets from bleeding too much color when you cut into them. Use a large pot of water so that beets have enough room to bounce around, cook evenly, and stay covered. If you want to preserve the deepest color in the beets, add a small spoonful of vinegar to the boiling water. Place the beets in the pot, cover it, and boil the vegetables for about 45 minutes or until they are tender and cooked through.
Raw and near-raw beets can be enjoyed in a simple salad for a refreshing taste and texture. To blanch beets, immerse them in boiling water for up to 5 minutes, and plunge them into a bowl of cold or ice water immediately afterward. When the beets have cooled, peel them with a vegetable peeler and grate them for use in your salad or another dish.
Steamed beets are moist, with a concentrated flavor and a pleasant, crisp-tender texture. Place a steamer or colander in a large stockpot filled with a few inches of simmering water. Put the clean beets in the steamer or colander, and let them steam for about 40 minutes. When a knife or fork can pierce them all the way through, they're ready to be used.
Prepare sauteed or pan-fried beets as you would potatoes or carrots. Chop the beets into cubes or thin slices. Warm a heavy skillet over medium-high heat, and pour in some cooking oil or butter. When the oil or butter is hot, add the chopped beets. Sauté, stirring occasionally with a wooden spoon, until they are tender. Depending on the heat of your burner, the process could take 8 to 20 minutes.
Roasting beets leaves them with a great texture and is an ideal preparation technique for many recipes. Preheat your oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit, and chop beets or leave them whole. If you do chop them, bear in mind that they'll take less time to roast and will burn more easily. Place them on a baking sheet covered with foil, and wrap the foil around the beets to keep them moist. Put the sheet in the oven, and roast the beets for about 45 minutes or until they are tender.
With the aid of a microwave, the question "How do you cook raw beets?" becomes almost irrelevant. It's simple to clean a few beets and just pop them in the microwave until they're ready to go. Prepare the beets as you would for boiling, and place them in a single layer in a heat-proof dish. Cover the beets, and microwave them on HIGH for 10 to 25 minutes, depending on how many beets you are cooking. Stop the beets every 3 to 5 minutes to turn them and pierce them to check their progress. When they are tender, they're done.
Pick Your Favorite Method to Prepare Beets
With so many ways to cook raw beets, you can easily incorporate them into your recipes and your menus. Try a few of the methods mentioned here and decide which one delivers the best flavor for your tastes.
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After receiving her M.S. in Health Physics from the University of Alabama in Birmingham, Misty began applying that interest to her role as a Medical Health Physicist. Her projects for Versant Physics vary extensively, ranging from radiation regulation research and on-site radiation safety support to radiation safety program training and development. In addition, she frequently conducts radiation area surveys and dose discussion with workers, calculates radiation shielding designs, and helps to calculate patient therapy doses using internal radiation dosimetry.
Her background in patient care and strong knowledge of nuclear medicine procedures not only sparked her interest in the field but has allowed her to continually bridge the gap between radiation safety and effective, practical patient care. This, she says, is one of her strongest motivators.
“I enjoy the variety of work I do. It has been an amazing learning experience for me to see so many different aspects of medical and health physics all in one job. I still have a great appreciation for patient care, and I love to see that my work helps sites not only do the right thing according to regulations, but also according to the patients and their needs.”
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Danil V. Chayun, Konstantin G. Kletsov
The Model of Competitive Program for Series and Main Starts in Sports Aerobics
The solutions to physical, technical and disposition provision tasks in gymnastics, acrobatics, and figure skating require a compl...
sports aerobics
model characteristics
theoretical model
precompetitive provision
Kenesar K. Koyshe
About mutational nature of contemporary eurasian linguistic identity of russian-kazakh border region
The article deals with the processes of interpenetration of languages in the structure of modern Eurasian linguistic identity, reveals the nature of the interference...
Modern Eurasian linguistic identity
the Russian-Kazakh border area
the Russian-speaking linguistic identity’
Ksenia L. Simantyeva
Peculiarities of Air Traffic Control Communications as a Base for Designing Exercises in English for Specific Purposes
Initial English language training of air traffic controllers used in pilot-controller communications is carried out in accordance ...
content-based training
professional communication
Konstantin O. Shokhov
From the Greek World of Ideas to Non-Figurative Thinking in the Graphic Arts
The paper makes an attempt to review the genesis of non-figurative
art in respect to aesthetic anthropology. Analysis of “non-figurative features” as an
Aesthetic anthropology
non-figurative art
image in the art
Kristina S. Shelemekha, Sergey A. Komarov
Poetics of A. P. Chekhov Works of the 1890s-1900s: The Spatial Function of Music and the Olfactory Component
This article studies the spatial function of the music and the olfactory components in the works of A. P. Chekhov of the...
olfactory component
non-classical poetics
Konstantin I. Zubkov, Viktor P. Karpov
Russian projects in the Arctic: the continuity of tasks and solutions
The Soviet strategic approaches to the development of the Arctic in the 1920s-1930s are studied. The focus is on the first Soviet...
Soviet experience
the Northeast Passage
Elena K. Spitsyna, Kira A. Andreeva
Comparative analysis of emotional dominants in the representation of the concept «passion» (Based on A. N. Tolstoy’s «The Road to Calvary» and G. H. Lawrence’s «Women in Love»)
The present paper investigates the emotional dominants «strast’» / «passion» in the first parts of the trilogy «The Road to Calvary» by Aleksei Tolstoy and «Women in...
Linguistics of emotions
emotional concept
emotional dominant
Kira A. Andreeva, Tatiana O. Chervyakova
Textual modality from the point of view of discourse perspective
The present paper investigates the category of modality of literary texts from the point of view of interdisciplinary approach uniting the results achieved in logic,...
discourse perspective
polyphony
Sergey A. Komarov, Kristina S. Shelemekha
Topos of the “Garden” as a Spatial Dominant in Anton Chekhov’s Works in the 1890s—1900s
This article studies the evolution of the topos of “garden” in Anton Chekhov’s works in the 1890s —1900s. The lexical analysi...
expand artistic impression
symbolization
Kristina M. Tsayzer, Elena G. Novikova
Existential fear as a category of creative experiment in the novella “The Kreutzer Sonata” by L. N. Tolstoy
Fictional works of L. N. Tolstoy, written after the spiritual crisis of 70s-80s, lose their firm integrity and uniqueness. T...
L. N. Tolstoy
the category of fear
existential aesthetics
Emotional concept «love» in the «ocean of time» (integrated analysis)
The present article introduces a new, almost unknown type of emotional doublecomponent concept, in our case «Time of Love» into linguistic research. Every component ...
Emotional two-member concept
technologies of cognitive analysis
categorization of emotions
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CEA Seville, Spain - International Business (Outgoing Program)
Locations: Seville, Spain
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Business Administration, Communication Studies, Cultural Studies, Economics, Finance, History, Marketing, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, Spanish
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Study Abroad in Seville
Attend class alongside other international students at our partner, Pablo de Olavide University (UPO), and the centrally located CEA Seville Center as you study business concepts through an international lens in this hybrid program. As Spain’s only inland port, Seville has long served as a center of trade and commerce in the region; visits to local businesses enhance lessons learned in the classroom and enrich your experience. Business courses and elective courses are taught in English and Spanish.
Semester/Term Eligibility Requirements Rec. Semester Credits
Semester 2.9 Min GPA; High School Graduate; All levels of Spanish 12-15
EXPLORE THIS PROGRAM APPLY WITH CEA
Students take classes at the CEA Seville Center and Pablo de Olavide University. Enjoy interactive courses that incorporate a global perspective at the CEA Seville Center. Your learning comes to life through hands-on experiences that turn Seville into a living classroom. The Center is conveniently located in the center of the city, near Seville’s stunning la Giralda cathedral. Set on a pleasant campus just outside of the city center, Pablo de Olavide University offers modern amenities not often found in an urban setting, including athletic, laboratory, and technical facilities. Enjoy an immersive experience at this exclusive university. Students receive a transcript from the University of New Haven, CEA's School of Record, and Pablo de Olavide University upon completion of their program.
24/7 Onsite Emergency Assistance
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Tarifa & Baelo Claudia
CEA has several ways to help you fund your program, including scholarships, grants, and vouchers. Find out more about what we have to offer.
Learn more about funding
Call CEA 1-800-266-4441
CEA offers a wide variety of services and amenities, Below is a list of what is included in your program price.
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Lagos, Portugal
Study Abroad with CEA in Seville, Spain
CEA Seville Center & Pablo de Olavide University
With roots as one of the Spanish Empire's economic centers -- and possessing the only inland port in Spain -- Seville is the perfect city in which to explore international business concepts. This program is intended for students from all majors and language levels who wish to study business from an international perspective. You can take courses in English and Spanish at the CEA Seville Center and at Pablo de Olavide University with other Spanish, European, and international students.
Session/Term Eligibility Requirements Rec. Semester
Semester Min 2.9 GPA; All Language Levels 12 - 16
Learn More About This Program
Experience Seville
With a population of less than 1 million, Seville offers a down-to-earth lifestyle and relaxed cultural experience. Located in southern Spain, Seville is considered the guardian of all that is traditional in Spanish culture. Seville boasts a pedestrian-friendly,a centralized historic district that's, among the largest in Europe. Renowned as the birthplace of flamenco, Seville also is home to stunning architecture, including the Alcazar palaces and the world's largest Gothic cathedral, La Giralda.
Engage in true Seville culture through a myriad of traditional Spanish activities, including bullfighting, flamenco dance, and festivals, such as Semana Santa and Feria de Abril. Terrace cafés where people meet to enjoy their afternoon café con leche line the streets; you can join them to practice your Spanish. Sunbathe by the river banks, then relax at a local tapas bar where you'll enjoy good food and conversation after a day spent strolling through the shaded, winding alleyways of the Barrio Santa Cruz, the old Jewish quarter.
CEA provides study abroad programs in 12 countries and 21 cities around the world. Contact your CEA Admissions Counselor today: 1-800-266-4441
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Legislation Could Help Virginia Homeowners Blocked By HOAs From Installing Solar
Shervelle Marquina has been working to change her HOA's covenants to allow more homes to install solar. (Photo Courtesy Shervelle Marquina)
VPM Intern Patrick Larsen contributed audio to this story.
Shervelle Marquina lives in the Thomasson Crossing subdivision in Triangle, Virginia. The graphic and web designer was attracted to the quietness of the neighborhood. Marquina really liked the corner lot house and the nearby school. After moving in, she began researching solar. She wanted to help the environment and her pocketbook. And with the program she signed up for, there were no upfront costs.
“That was really appealing to me, being that I’m a single mom, every penny counts,” said Marquina.
But when she put an application in to her HOA, she got a letter stating her request was against bylaws. According to Thomasson Crossing’s restrictive covenants, solar panels are limited to the rear yard and they must be concealed by an “approved privacy fence” -- which means they couldn’t be on the roof at all.
"I get calls from homeowners quite often, usually with complaints about the existing law," said Ken Jurman, solar energy program manager for the state of Virginia.
Jurman works on trying to expand solar access in Virginia, both residential, commercial and with the big utility companies. Jurman says while state law prohibits HOAs from completely banning solar panels, it can impose quote "reasonable restrictions."
"One person's reasonable, is another person's deal-killer," said Jurman.
HOAs often have restrictions so the panels aren’t visible from the road. But Jurman points out that if the back of the house faces north, it might not be the best place to get maximum exposure to the sun, reducing efficiency and output from the panels.
Since 2014, HOAs have blocked more than 300 solar installations in Virginia, according to the local chapter of Solar United Neighbors. They surveyed solar companies who estimate a loss of more than $6 million for the industry.
“I get emails at least on average once a week from a residential homeowner who says their HOA is blocking them from going solar. It is a substantial problem,” said Aaron Sutch, Virginia program director for Solar United Neighbors.
Sutch adds that HOAs often have legal counsel retained and can threaten lawsuits.
“And the challenge being is most homeowners or ever the industry doesn’t have the bandwidth or the financial and legal resources to push back,” Sutch said.
Pia Trigiani is an attorney specializing in Community Association Law and says covenants and restrictions are designed to limit the aesthetics of a community.
“I often suggest to folks, you really don’t look at your own home, you look at your neighbor’s home,” said Trigiani. .
But she adds restrictions should be reasonable. She collaborated with solar advocates on legislation brought forward in the General Assembly.
“We’ve worked hard with them and they’ve worked with us so it’s been a good partnership,” she said.
House Bill 414, introduced by Delegate Karrie Delaney of Fairfax, clarifies the “reasonable restrictions” HOAs can put on solar. The restrictions become “unreasonable” If it raises the cost of a solar project by 5% or decreases the efficiency by 10%.
For example, if the HOA requires solar panels to be somewhere that doesn’t get enough sun or requires building a costly fence to hide them.
“That was reached by meeting with stakeholders and understanding what are the costs of solar right and what are the kind of changes that these designers and installers are sometimes needing to accommodate that are unreasonable,” Delaney said.
Advocates hopes the bill decreases costly litigation and expands renewable energy options to homeowners. A companion bill was introduced in the Senate by Chap Petersen.
As for Shervelle Marquina, she was tired of waiting and went ahead and got the solar installed last summer.
“Most people don’t even know I have them up there, they blend pretty well with the rooftop,” she said.
After the HOA instructed her to take the panels down, Marquina went door-to-door in the 100 plus degree summer heat educating her neighbors about the solar restrictions. Now known as the “solar panel lady,” she got nearly half of the homeowners to sign a petition, enough to get the HOA to agree to hold a town hall to discuss changing the bylaws. That meeting is expected to take place in the coming weeks.
The Thomasson Crossing HOA did not respond to VPM’s request for comment before deadline.
Some homeowners and solar companies have had to hire lawyers to intervene. But Joe Ordia says the process usually goes smoothly. He’s the president and co-founder of PEG Solar and has worked with more than 100 homeowners in HOAs.
“Once we present the system owner and the homeowner’s association board with the figures, generally they’re very favorable towards the projects,” said Ordia. “Solar not only improves of the home its directly powering, but it also helps improve the values of the homes in the neighborhood as well.”
Catherine Komp
D.C. Residents Reflect On The City's Atmosphere Ahead Of Joe Biden's Inauguration
Listen: Eyewitnesses Recount The 1954 Shooting Attack On The U.S. Capitol
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iPhone 12 Pro Costs Around $406 to Make, With the Most Expensive Component Being Qualcomm’s 5G Modem
The iPhone 12 Pro recently got the teardown treatment, but even those experts weren’t able to provide details on the costs of the components belonging to Apple’s flagship. Fortunately, a fresh report discusses the ‘Bill of Materials’ for the iPhone 12 Pro. Surprisingly, the company has maintained its price at $999.99 despite sporting a costly component; the Snapdragon X55 5G modem from Qualcomm.
The OLED Panel From Samsung Is Cheaper Than the 5G Modem From Qualcomm, Says Latest Report
A component costs breakdown from Fomalhaut mentions the total amount of the iPhone 12 Pro arriving at $406. Nikkei also reports that 26.8 percent of those parts originate from South Korea, while 21.9 percent are from U.S.-based companies. This reveals Apple is sourcing from different vendors very aggressively, most likely to command greater pricing leverage. Unfortunately, one area where the California-based giant doesn’t have an iron grip is procuring 5G modems.
Qualcomm Working on an M1 Competitor With Internal Number ‘Snapdragon SC8280’ and Support for up to 32GB RAM
With a deal struck with Qualcomm, Apple is expected to stick with the San Diego baseband chipmaker until 2024, or when it has an in-house modem of its own, which is still several years away, according to industry experts. This would explain why the Snapdragon X55 5G modem running in all iPhone 12 models costs an estimated $90 per unit. This makes the component more expensive than the OLED panel sourced from Samsung, costing Apple $70 per panel. In fact, the latest estimates reveal that the company’s A14 Bionic costs less than half the price of the Snapdragon X55 5G modem, which is $40 per unit.
What makes the iPhone 12 Pro even more expensive in terms of parts is that Apple can price it consistently while providing twice the base model's internal storage and 50 percent more RAM compared to its direct predecessor, the iPhone 11 Pro. The ‘Bill of Materials’ is lower than the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra’s figure, however, which accumulated a total of $549 in parts alone.
These component costs only narrate half the story, however, as such costs are affected by the yield rate, meaning the total expenditure for Apple could be higher. Also, we haven’t taken into account other costs such as R&D, operations, logistics, marketing, and promotions, not to mention investments in the supply chain. Looking at the $406 ‘Bill of Materials’ figure, do you think the iPhone 12 Pro is priced adequately? Tell us down in the comments, and while you’re at it, you can check out the individual components and the breakdown of their costs below.
iPhone 12 Pro OLED panel from Samsung– $70 per unit
Qualcomm Snapdragon X55 5G modem - $90 per unit
A14 Bionic – $40 per unit
SK Hynix DRAM – $12.8 per unit
Samsung flash memory – $19.2 per unit
Sony CMOS sensors $7.4 – $7.9.
Image Credits - iFixit
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macOS Big Sur 11.2 Beta Code Reveals Apple Could Block Users From Sideloading iOS Apps
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Valkyria Chronicles 4 Rolls Out a Release Date and Launch Edition Details
Jun 19, 2018 17:15 EDT
Anime-loving strategists out there, rejoice! Sega has announced a September release date for Valkyria Chronicles 4 and those who buy the game at launch are in line for an extra treat. In North America, the launch edition of the game will include a controller skin featuring adorable medic pup, Ragnarok. Europeans will get a Ragnarok sticker.
Persona 5 Strikers Gets Action-Packed New Trailer
Of course, Sega is also offering the Valkyria Chronicles 4 “Memoirs from Battle” Premium Edition, which includes a variety of goodies, including a rad vinyl tank. Get more details about the Premium Edition, right here. You can check out E3 2018 Valkyria Chronicles 4 trailer, below.
Valkyria Chronicles 4 marks a return to the classic turn-based tactical action of earlier games in the series. Here’s a rundown of the game’s features:
A Coming-of-Age Story in a Time of War - Valkyria Chronicles 4 takes place in the same timeframe as the original Valkyria Chronicles, but focuses on a whole new cast of main characters. Players will take command of the eager, young Commander Claude Wallace, engineer/heavy weapons extraordinaire Riley Miller, hotheaded Darcsen Raz, ice-cold ace sniper Kai Schulen, and more. Together, they will experience the painful realities of war -- will the bonds of Squad E's friendships survive the frozen battlefield?
The Next Generation "BLiTZ" Battle System - The part overhead turn-based strategy, part RPG, and part real-time 3rd person shooter "BLiTZ" battle system returns to the field. New features include an explosive new class called the Grenadier, numerous offensive/defensive battleship support options, chances for a unit to have a "Last Stand" action before death, and more. Plus, fight the imperial threat with more units on larger-scale maps than ever before.
CANVAS Aesthetics - The series' signature hand-drawn visual style is back and overhauled for the newest generation. Inspired by watercolor compositions, the CANVAS Graphics Engine blends visual elements of reality and imagination to create an expressive world filled with colorful emotions. Watch the journey of Squad E unfold like an interactive painting!
The Return of a Legendary Composer - The illustrious Hitoshi Sakimoto, original composer of the Valkyria Chronicles series and countless other emotional epics, returns to provide a sweeping orchestral score for Valkyria Chronicles 4.
Valkyria Chronicles 4 marches onto PC, Xbox One, PS4, and Nintendo Switch on September 25.
Valkyria Chronicles 4 Debuts on Google Stadia Next Week
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Humankind Interview – Talking Stadia, OpenDev and More with Amplitude
Chris Wray • Oct 31, 2020
Humankind Gets a Release Date, is Coming to Stadia and You Can Try it Now
Yakuza: Like a Dragon Xbox Series X Trailer Delivers Impressive Visuals and Utter Insanity
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Built on Principle: “The Modesty Martyrs” – vocal ballistics over shimmering beats
January 25, 2019 staff
Formed in 2014, the group Built on Principle consists of members Saint Mike who takes care of production, mixing and mastering, and vocalists Empuls and BeWill. “The Modesty Martyrs” EP is the first album from this hip-hop and rap group based out of Virginia. Released via Stonemaple Music Works, This album gives me chills. I grew up listening to that infamous “Golden Era” of hip hop of the mid 90s and “The Modesty Martyrs” EP delivers that feeling. I’m almost disappointed that we only get 8 tracks, but I understand that’s just how things are these days. And in this case less is more. I got 8 tracks and I’m dying to hear more. Which is why we need to support groups like Built on Principle. The production by Saint Like would send many of his peers in the industry running for cover. Also, Empuls and BeWill prove themselves amongst the elite of hip hop spitters. They consistently deliver throughout the album.
Built on Principle are building bridges here, as they seem interested in bridging the gap between the new school and the old on “The Modesty Martyrs”. The feel of the album right the way through is gritty and full of angst, like the very best rap albums have always been.
Saint Mike beats are solid, layered and beautifully realized – the perfect canvas for Empuls and BeWill’s pitch perfect posturing and belligerent bravado. No two tracks have a similar tone, so it never feels like one long song as on many other current releases. It stays consistently great without ever being monotonous.
Built on Principle are so vicious from the outset, on the insistent, but soulful groove of “Duh Feat Myka 9”. If you were in any doubt where Built on Principle ranks as a collective in Hip Hop right now, this song instantly ends any feeble debate. Saint Mike can put together a distinctive soundscape that defines an entire album.
His chemistry with Empuls and BeWill is fundamental in bringing out the best in the rappers. Which is exactly what they deliver on the forward momentum of “Smooth Unison feat Vast Aire”, where the team kick vocal ballistics over a shimmering funky beat.
The old school sounding “Devolution feat Qwazaar (Cuts by Scratch Johnsonic)” is evocative of mid ’80s classics. The beat fits in with the fierce verbal displays, purposely suggesting a throwback to an era when lyricism was central to an emcee’s identity.
Built on Principle then explore the other side of the coin with “Hypatia’s Son” a keyboard and string dominated song. That this collective are at the point in their careers where they can do whatever they want, is clear on “SR-91 AURORA” ft. Sev Statik, probably one of the best orchestrated tracks on the album.
Built on Principle are both brutal and beautiful in their capacity to construct lyrics that deconstruct your mind. Tracks like, “Run of the Rosicrucian” and “Nuthin Yet” ft. Kev Adventures, have the crew blazing through words as if they’re literally spitting flames, which leave you lit. Once again the vocalists shine brightly, due to Saint Mike’s beats being an undeniable fuel.
But even without that gorgeous musical backdrop, Built on Principle would be enthralling enough to make your head nod, what with their nimble flow and inventive rhymes. The group rises to the occasion time and again with stunning one-liners and evocative lyrical imagery, finally closing the show down with the atmospheric “Without Water” ft. Main Flow.
From beginning to end, “The Modesty Martyrs” EP is just so captivating you can’t but help but go back and play it again. And I didn’t even get into the narratives behind the storytelling, as we don’t even have enough pages for that. Anyway, to cut a long story short – If you don’t have money to buy this album, then steal it. It’s an essential piece of independent hip-hop which you need to add to your urban music collection now.
OFFICIAL LINKS: MUSIC STREAMS – BANDCAMP – TWITTER – INSTAGRAM
THE MODESTY MARTYRS [EP] by Built on Principle
BeWill, Built on Principle, Empuls, Hiphop, Rap, Saint Mike, The Modesty Martyrs, Virginia
Revolushn: “Little Red Dolls” – total performance confidence!
Brazil Hill: “In a Minute” – smooth yet appealingly angular!
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Successful High-Dose Vitamin C Treatment of Patients with Serious and Critical COVID-19 Infection
by Popnowlin · March 18, 2020
by Richard Cheng, MD, PhD
(OMNS Mar 18, 2020) A group of medical doctors, healthcare providers and scientists met online March 17, 2020, to discuss the use of high dose intravenous vitamin C (IVC) in the treatment of moderate to severe cases of Covid-19 patients. The key guest was Dr. Enqian Mao, chief of emergency medicine department at Ruijin Hospital, a major hospital in Shanghai, affiliated with the Joatong University College of Medicine. Dr. Mao is also a member of the Senior Expert Team at the Shanghai Public Health Center, where all Covid-19 patients have been treated. In addition, Dr. Mao co-authored the Shanghhai Guidelines for the Treatment of Covid-19 Infection, an official document endorsed by the Shanghai Medical Association and the Shanghai city government. [1]
Dr. Mao has been using high-dose dose IVC to treat patients with acute pancreatitis, sepsis, surgical wound healing and other medical conditions for over 10 years. When Covid-19 broke out, he and other experts thought of vitamin C and recommended IVC for the treatment of moderate to severe cases of Covid-19 patients. The recommendation was accepted early in the epidemic by the Shanghai Expert Team. All serious or critically ill Covid-19 patients in the Shanghai area were treated in Shanghai Public Health Center, for a total of 358 Covid-19 patients as of March 17th, 2020.
Dr. Mao stated that his group treated ~50 cases of moderate to severe cases of Covid-19 infection with high dose IVC. The IVC dosing was in the range of 10,000 mg – 20,000 mg a day for 7-10 days, with 10,000 mg for moderate cases and 20,000 for more severe cases, determined by pulmonary status (mostly the oxygenation index) and coagulation status. All patients who received IVC improved and there was no mortality. Compared to the average of a 30-day hospital stay for all Covid-19 patients, those patients who received high dose IVC had a hospital stay about 3-5 days shorter than the overall patients. Dr. Mao discussed one severe case in particular who was deteriorating rapidly. He gave a bolus of 50,000 mg IVC over a period of 4 hours. The patient’s pulmonary (oxygenation index) status stabilized and improved as the critical care team watched in real time. There were no side effects reported from any of the cases treated with high dose IVC.
Among the international experts who attended today’s video conference were: Dr. Atsuo Yanagisawa, formerly professor of medicine at the Kyorin University, Tokyo, Japan, and the president of the International Society for Orthomolecular Medicine; Dr. Jun Matsuyama of Japan; Dr. Michael J Gonzalez, professor at University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences, Dr. Jean Drisko, professor of medicine, and Dr. Qi Chen, professor of pharmacology, both at the Kansas University Medical School, Dr. Alpha “Berry” Fowler, professor of pulmonary and critical care medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Dr. Maurice Beer and Asa Kitfield, both from NutriDrip and Integrative Medical NY, New York City; Dr. Hong Zhang of Beijing; William T. Penberthy, PhD of CME Scribe, Florida; Ilyes Baghli, MD, president of the Algerian Society of Nutrition and Orthomolecular Medicine (SANMO); Drs. Mignonne Mary and Charles Mary Jr, of the Remedy Room, New Orleans; Dr. Selvam Rengasamy, president of SAHAMM, Malaysia. I, Richard Cheng, MD, PhD of Cheng Integrative Health Center of South Carolina, and Senior Advisor to ShenZhen Medical Association and Shenzhen BaoAn Central Hospital, coordinated this conference.
Albeit a brief meeting of less than 45 minutes due to Dr. Mao’s limited time availability, the audience thanked Dr. Mao for his time and sharing and wished to keep the communication channel open and also able to talk to other clinicians working at the front line against Covid-19.
In a separate meeting, I had the honor to talk to Sheng Wang, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Critical Care Medicine of Shanghai 10th Hospital, Tongji University College of Medicine at Shanghai China, who also served at the Senior Clinical Expert Team of the Shanghai Covid-19 Control and Prevention Team. There are three lessons that we learned about this Covid-19 infection, Dr. Wang said:
1. Early and high-dose IVC is quite helpful in helping Covid-19 patients. The data is still being finalized and the formal papers will be submitted for publication as soon as they are complete.
2. Covid-19 patients appear to have a high rate of hyper-coagulability. Among the severe cases, ~40% severe cases showed hyper-coagulability, whereas the number among the mild to moderate cases were 15-20%. Heparin was used among those with coagulation issues.
3. The third important lesson learned is the importance for the healthcare team of gearing up to wear protective clothing at the earliest opportunity for intubation and other emergency rescue measures. We found that if we waited until a patient developed the full-blown signs for intubation, then got ready to intubate, we would lose the precious minutes. So the treatment team should lower the threshold for intubation, to allow proper time (~15 minutes or so) for the team to gear up. This critical 15-30 minutes could make a difference in the outcome.
Also, both Drs. Mao and Wang confirmed that there are other medical teams in other parts of the country who have been using high dose IVC treating Covid-19 patients.
For additional reporting and information on China’s successful use of intravenous vitamin C against COVID-19:
Mar 5, 2020 Vitamin C Saves Wuhan Family from COVID-19
Mar 3, 2020 Shanghai Government Officially Recommends Vitamin C for COVID-19
Mar 1, 2020 News Media Attacks Vitamin C Treatment of COVID-19 Coronavirus
Feb 28, 2020 Vitamin C and COVID-19 Coronavirus
Feb 23, 2020 TONS OF VITAMIN C TO WUHAN: China Using Vitamin C against COVID
Feb 21, 2020 Three Intravenous Vitamin C Research Studies Approved for Treating COVID-19
Feb 16, 2020 Early Large Dose Intravenous Vitamin C is the Treatment of Choice for 2019-nCov Pneumonia
Feb 13, 2020 Coronavirus Patients in China to be Treated with High-Dose Vitamin C
Feb 10, 2020 VITAMIN C AND ITS APPLICATION TO THE TREATMENT OF nCoV CORONAVIRUS: How Vitamin C Reduces Severity and Deaths from Serious Viral Respiratory Diseases
Feb 2, 2020 Hospital-based Intravenous Vitamin C Treatment for Coronavirus and Related Illnesses
Jan 30, 2020 Nutritional Treatment of Coronavirus
Jan 26, 2020 Vitamin C Protects Against Coronavirus
1. Expert consensus on comprehensive treatment of coronavirus disease in Shanghai 2019. Chinese Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2020, 38: Pre-published online. DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.issn.1000-6680.2020.0016 and http://rs.yiigle.com/yufabiao/1183266.htm (in Chinese).
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Nairobi, Saturday, 1st August, 2020 . . . . Wakilisha Creative Enterprise (“WAKILISHA”) announced today the beginning of their adoption of a Humanistic approach to creative content aimed at raising public awareness of Covid-19, a novel virus that was characterized as a pandemic by the World Health Organization on March 11th 2020. WAKILISHA plans to produce locally relevant creative content in collaboration with Kenyan creatives and other partners to help reduce the spread of Covid-19 as scientists across the world race to find medicines and vaccines for fighting the disease.
Banking on the wide spread of internet access across Kenya, WAKILISHA will be looking to engage painters, poets, musicians, authors, cultural experts and other creatives to come up with public awareness messages on Covid-19for their local communities. WAKILISHA strongly believes that a humanistic approach can be used by creatives in Kenya as one of the main tools to curb the spread of Covid-19, monitor public sentiment and empower local communities for an eventual eradication of the deadly virus. The adoption of a Humanistic approach to content creation will aid greatly in adequately tackling a health crisis that requires understanding most.
James Beautah, Founder of WAKILISHA, said, “We are doing this because we believe it is the right way to tackle this unprecedented health crisis of such magnitude. County governments, especially, should enlist creatives in their counties to produce humanistic-centered content that not only informs the community of the facts surrounding Covid-19 but also puts emphasis on educating people about the responsibility of each individual to make the right choices when called upon during such a time as we are in. We see a lot of opportunities to mitigate the effects Covid-19 is having on many communities. Through partnerships and collaboration as enshrined in our national anthem (na tukae na undugu), we can get through this tough period and build a stronger foundation for future crises management.”
Humanism is a modern philosophy that advocates for the individual and collective ability and responsibility of humans to be decent. It is probably best encapsulated in the proverb about planting a tree whose shade you will never sit under. Humanism advocates for the good of humans as the ultimate goal for the existence of humanity. Most people who identify as humanists are not religious but that does not mean there are no religious humanists.
While there are various factors affecting the spread of Covid-19 in Kenya like lack of proper social amenities in certain areas and willful disregard of safety measures by a small percentage of people, a huge reason for the increased spread is due to lack of proper information and misinformation. 4 months into the pandemic and there are still many Kenyans who remain skeptical about the reality of Covid-19. The World Health Organization has endorsed wearing a face mask because it cuts down any risk of exposure to Covid-19 enormously and yet, many Kenyans still aren’t wearing face masks. Many others who are wearing face masks, are wearing fabric masks that only protect them from dust, without doing anything to protect them from Covid-19.
A humanistic approach to Covid-19 public awareness will involve the communication of important information to the public through emotive content made in their local dialects and languages. In a country of 53 million citizens with diverse backgrounds and cultures, using popular media only to raise awareness is not enough to reach everyone.
Speaking to journalists on a Zoom call, James Beautah added, “We won’t stop the spread of COVID-19 by burying our heads in the sand but by proactively fighting misinformation and lack of information with relevant information disseminated by the right people, to the right audiences.”
About Wakilisha Creative Enterprise
WAKILISHA is a creative enterprise based in Kenya. WAKILISHA is involved in the conception, creation, and production of cultural products. These products are goods, services and intellectual works related to literature, music, the visual arts, applied arts, live performances, cinematography and audio visuals, archives, libraries and museums as well as cultural heritage and innovation processes connected to it. For more information on WAKILISHA, please visit www.wakilisha.africa.
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'We'll never see these homes again': demolition begins for historic Winnipeg mansion
Charles Lefebvre Supervising News Producer - Digital
@CLefebvreCTV Contact
Published Wednesday, November 25, 2020 11:28AM CST Last Updated Wednesday, November 25, 2020 9:32PM CST
WINNIPEG -- A mansion more than 100-years-old in Winnipeg has been torn down.
The home built at 514 Wellington Crescent was demolished Wednesday morning.
Crews told CTV News Winnipeg they began work at 7 a.m. Heavy machinery is visible at the site of the former home.
The mansion was built 111-years-ago. In 2019, a permit was granted to the new owner to demolish the structure. Demolition was originally scheduled for June 7, 2019, but a stop-work order was issued June 6 to halt the demolition of the building, after the city attempted to have the neighbourhood declared a heritage conservation district.
On Wednesday, the city said it lifted the stop-work order on Tuesday, saying the structure met two conditions that allow for demolition.
In a statement, a city spokesperson said the structure “represents an unsafe condition such that delaying demolition of the building represents a risk of harm to the health or safety of persons or to property,” and “refusing to issue the demolition permit, or failing to lift the suspension of any existing demolition permit, will cause undue prejudice to the demolition permit applicant.”
The spokesperson added the city regrets the loss of the community landmark, and is working with the owner to determine if “key elements and materials” can be salvaged.
Cindy Tugwell, executive director of Heritage Winnipeg, said the building contained significant history.
“Basically you’re looking at, through the history of the home, very elite people (who lived there),” she said, noting Senator Doug Everett was the last owner of the home.
“Significant architecturally, historically, culturally, aesthetically on all levels. Just a beautiful home.”
Tugwell was disappointed to see the demolition of the building, saying it’s a blow to the city’s heritage.
“We’re homogenizing our city, is what we’re doing,” she said. “Whether it’s a heritage commercial building, or it’s a heritage home, people have to understand heritage doesn’t just mean old, it means the beautiful type of architecture, the way it was built. Most properties for about 20 years at the turn of the century will never be built like that again. We’ll never see these homes again.”
She added in the past five years, the city is at an unprecedented rate of having these homes vacated and purchased unprotected by developers.
“We have to demand more from our city council and our mayor to be able to protect these beautiful heritage properties for future generations,” Tugwell said.
In an email to CTV News Winnipeg, property owner Jeff Thompson said he is committed to maintaining the original concept of an elegant signature building.
“Before we do anything on the site now, we feel it is important to reengage with the city planners and work together to agree on the best long-term building option for the site,” he said.
-With files from CTV Winnipeg’s Jon Hendricks and Kayla Rosen.
The historic home at 514 Wellington Crescent was demolished on Nov. 25, 2020. (CTV News Photo Scott Andersson)
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How Long Does Paracetamol Stay In Your Liver?
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A feeling of sickness (nausea) and being sick (vomiting) may occur a few hours after taking the overdose.
After 24 hours there may be pain under the ribs on the right side (where the liver is) and there may be yellowing of the whites of the eyes and the skin (jaundice)..
In June 2009, an FDA advisory committee recommended that new restrictions be placed on paracetamol use in the United States to help protect people from the potential toxic effects.
Paracetamol reduces fever by affecting an area of the brain that regulates our body temperature (the hypothalamic heat-regulating center). Paracetamol is about as effective as aspirin and ibuprofen at relieving mild to moderate pain and reducing fever, but unlike these it doesn’t reduce inflammation.
Symptoms of chronic liver failure feeling tired or fatigued. loss of appetite. nausea or vomiting. mild abdominal discomfort or pain.
You must be one of the tolerant ones, although the vomiting may have helped get some of the drug out of your system. The liver has great powers of regeneration, so even if you had caused some damage at the time, it would have recovered and I am sure is now working normally.
Even taking one or two more tablets than recommended can cause serious liver damage and possibly death. Paracetamol overdose is one of the leading causes of liver failure. Adults can usually take one or two 500mg tablets every 4-6 hours, but shouldn’t take more than 4g (eight 500mg tablets) in the space of 24 hours.
Drinking a small amount of alcohol while taking paracetamol or ibuprofen is usually safe. Paracetamol should be used with caution if you have certain health conditions, such as liver problems.
The usual dose for adults is one or two 500mg tablets up to 4 times in 24 hours. Always leave at least 4 hours between doses. Overdosing on paracetamol can cause serious side effects. Do not be tempted to increase the dose or to take a double dose if your pain is very bad.
Taking both medicines together You can take paracetamol and ibuprofen at the same time or spaced apart. Ibuprofen is best taken with food or on a full stomach. Follow the instructions on the label or leaflet about how to take the medicines, and to make sure you do not take too much of either.
For most older adults, the safest oral OTC painkiller for daily or frequent use is acetaminophen (brand name Tylenol), provided you are careful to not exceed a total dose of 3,000mg per day. Acetaminophen is usually called paracetamol outside the U.S.
Therefore, a serum level taken before 4 hours is not recommended. Clinical or biochemical evidence of liver toxicity may develop in one to four days, although, in severe cases, it may be evident in 12 hours.
This medication can have an effect that lasts as long as seven hours, which is a bit shorter than other opioid drugs. It can only be detected via blood test for up to twelve hours after the last dose. Urine tests can detect it for as long as three days, and for saliva tests, the window is four days.
Paracetamol is a very well tolerated drug, but that is if no more than 4 grams is taken per day. So by taking 1.5 the recommended dose, (or 1500mg in a single dose) in a day, that’s going up to 6 grams per day. That’s classified as an overdose. Chronic dosing at that level would not be a good idea,” Dr Williams said.
A new review of previous observational studies found that long-term use of paracetamol was linked with a small increased risk of adverse events such as heart attacks, gastrointestinal bleeds (bleeding inside the digestive system) and impaired kidney function.
The liver, however, is able to replace damaged tissue with new cells. If up to 50 to 60 percent of the liver cells may be killed within three to four days in an extreme case like a Tylenol overdose, the liver will repair completely after 30 days if no complications arise.
The liver is very resilient and capable of regenerating itself. Each time your liver filters alcohol, some of the liver cells die. The liver can develop new cells, but prolonged alcohol misuse (drinking too much) over many years can reduce its ability to regenerate.
DO NOT take acetaminophen (Tylenol, Paracetamol, etc.) with alcohol, it interferes with liver function and cause hepatoxicity and even death. If you take for hangover symptoms, wait until most of the alcohol has been eliminated ( the liver gets rid of one standard drink an hour). This is a serious warning.
Paracetamol increases the stomach’s absorption of alcohol, particularly when taken an hour or so before drinking. … It also makes the alcohol stay in your system for longer as your metabolism is a lot slower.
Can I take painkillers on an empty stomach? Ibuprofen, aspirin and other NSAIDs (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) can irritate the stomach lining, so it is best to take them with food, or a glass of milk. Paracetamol doesn’t irritate the stomach lining so it won’t matter if you haven’t eaten.
It’s typically used to relieve mild or moderate pain, such as headaches, toothache or sprains, and reduce fevers caused by illnesses such as colds and flu. Paracetamol is often recommended as one of the first treatments for pain, as it’s safe for most people to take and side effects are rare.
Paracetamol works better as a painkiller if taken regularly every 4-6 hours rather than when taken occasionally or as required. The concentration of the drug slowly builds up in the blood stream and in the body tissues when taken regularly therefore giving more pain relief.
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Intel collaborates with Dell, Lenovo, Microsoft and HP to bring 5G laptops next year
By Virendra Soni on February 23, 2018 No Comments
Intel has announced its partnership with Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Microsoft to launch 5G laptops with Intel modems, in the second half of 2019. The Intel 5G laptops will enable fast computing with benefits to users like high-quality video access on the go, advanced gaming and smooth traversing capabilities across cellular and Wi-Fi networks.
2018 is the year when leading telecommunication companies like Verizon, Qualcomm, and Ericsson, started testing 5G networks, which is quite interesting. 5G networks are expected to offer speed of five gigabits per second (gbps).
Intel will use Mobile World Congress (MWC) as a platform to showcase the first sneak peek of 5G-connected PCs concept, by livestreaming a video. These laptops will be detachable 2 in 1, powered by 8th Generation Intel Core i5 processors, and connected by Intel XMM 8000 series commercial 5G modems.
These 5G modems can deliver multi-mode support for both standalone and non-standalone networks, which means that the users will be able to use these 5G laptops for New Radio (NR), 2G, 3G and 4G legacy modes. Intel 5G PCs will also support eSIM functionality which is an essential feature for connected devices.
“5G is coming. Not only will it bring a substantial amount of data needing processing but also new experiences for PC owners. Imagine immersing in untethered VR from anywhere in the world, or downloading a 250-megabyte file in seconds from a parking lot. Or imagine being able to continue participating in a multiplayer game as you ride in an autonomous vehicle on the way to class. Radically different. This is just a sampling of the experiences 5G will reimagine for the mobile PC. As this transformation of data continues, it’s critical for PCs to be ready with 5G,” wrote Intel in a blog post.
At MWC in Barcelona this year, Intel will also showcase 11ax Wi-Fi service, which will be a critical part of connected future using 5G technology.
5G is on a roll and last month only, Verizon had announced its plan to use Samsung’s Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) to offer initial 5G network commercial services by the end of 2018.
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wogma rating: Beg or borrow, but do watch (?)
Facebook. That's all the motivation one needs to go and watch this movie. It is the story about the founders of Facebook. And I say 'founders' because it is as much the story of Eduardo Saverin (Andrew Garfield) as it is of Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg). It is the story of how money and success changes the equation between the people behind Facebook. The tagline of the movie couldn't have been more accurate - You don't get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies. We've seen it with Bill Gates and now, we've seen it with Zuckerberg. You can't achieve so much without stepping onto some stones. And Mark sure stepped on plenty. So this movie is about heartbreak, friendship, greed, betrayal, success and of course, Facebook.
Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake
Categories: Oscar Nominations
Genres: Based on true life story, Biography, Diaspora
With over 500 million users, Facebook is by far, the largest social networking site around. Facebook started in a Harward dorm room in 2003 by Mark Zuckerberg who went on to become the youngest billionaire in the world. The movie uses the lawsuits against Mark, to tell the back-story of how he came to achieve all that he did, pretty much like Slumdog Millionare used the show 'Who wants to become a millionaire' to carry their story forward. And like Slumdog Millionare, here too, the formula worked like a charm. In pieces, it showed the changes in Mark's character from the time he was a neglected undergrad to the time he became a billionaire.
I've grown up reading stories about Bill Gates and how many people he allegedly wronged on his path to success. Its Zuckerberg's time to be under the torch. The movie would leave you with mixed emotions. You'd love Mark for his genius and his passion towards Facebook. At the same time you'd hate him for his cockiness and betrayals. So after the movie, be prepared to jump in to the intense debates of who wronged whom and how much of the movie is fact and how much is fiction. Its good fun, as from ex-Facebook CTOs, employees and founders all are having their say over the matter.
Coming back to the movie, Aaron Sorkin did a great job with the script. It was driven with sharp dialogues that make this movie a fast paced entertainer, and not a documentary. The surprise package for me was Justin Timberlake in the role of Sean Parker. I had little hopes from him, but he pulled off the role pretty nicely. Also, if you don't know the story behind Sean Parker, do read it after watching the movie and you'd love his character more.
All in all, The Social Network, is a brilliant movie to watch, to enjoy, to get inspired and to have a healthy debate with friends. Release date for India couldn't have been timed better with all the heat between Google and Facebook. Also Facebook is rumored to launch its alleged Gmail-killer soon. And we thought Microsoft vs Apple was the epic battle. I won't be surprised to see a sequel a few years down the line about either Facebooks downfall or about it, dominating the world. Time shall tell. The only turn-off for me was all the programmers in the movie were made to talk really fast. They always make the geeks talk fast. Its like an unsaid code. We-don't-talk-that-fast. Wait. May-be-we-do. Dayum!
This article is by guest author Aniket Thakkar. Aniket Thakkar, is a writer and web developer, and he loves to talk about himself in third person. When he is not busy devising evil-genius plans of world domination, he can be found writing at his website http://flashfiction.in Ever since he took the red pill, he is on an ongoing mission to find out how deep this rabbit hole goes. Aniket Thakkar also blogs at http://flashfiction.in/.
External reviews for this movie are not available
Yay! Thumbs Up, by Aniket Thakkar
Yay! Thumbs Up, by kay
Yay! Thumbs Up, by Nikunj Modh : Excellent must watch movie
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Yay! Thumbs Up, by Rahul
Yay! Thumbs Up, by [email protected] Tickets Broadway : Very good movie
Language: A few curse words, but thats about it.
Nudity & Sexual content: Nothing visual. Has a couple of suggestive sexual scenes.
Concept: Story of people behind Facebook and how money & success change their equation.
General Look and Feel: Mostly shot in college campus.
The Social Network - Cast, crew, links
Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca, Cean Chaffin
Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake
Armie Hammer, Max Mingella, Brenda Song, Rooney Mara
Based on book by Ben Mezrich
Jeff Cronenweth
Kirk Baxter, Angus Wall
Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross
Aniket Thakkar
Oscar Nominations
Based on true life story, Biography, Diaspora
I watched this movie last night and I must say that I loved it. It moves along at a fast pace, respecting the intelligence of the viewer as events roll along at a fast place. The fast geek talk is actually enjoyable (to me), interspersed as it is with technically accurate terms.
The dialogues are witty and fun. I would say it is a must watch.
Rahul has given this movie a Yay! Thumbs Up. Rahul has posted 87 comments and has rated 16 movies. See Rahul's page for more details.
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I just don't know if I trust everything I saw.
kay has given this movie a Yay! Thumbs Up. kay has posted 16 comments and has rated 11 movies. See kay's page for more details.
@Rahul: Yes, the dialogues were surely the high point of the movie. And I too loved that they managed to keep the technology part right, in the movie. Right down to the part where Mark is always seen using his Vaio and working on a terminal screen.
@Like Movies: The people who have been working for Facebook from the start are also defending Mark, that though he did make some tough calls that others might not approve, he is nothing like the guy they have portrayed him to be. Mark went on to say as much on his comment on the movie that, apart from the kind of clothes he wears they have portrayed nothing the way it is. And I for one believe after every war, the winner has the right to tell the story. But it still, made up for a good movie though.
@W2: I'm sorry to have disappointed you. To me the high points of the movie were the screenplay and the performance of Justin Timberlake as Shaun Parker, which I did mention in the review.
Now, I would have loved to get in details, like the story behind the scene when Shaun asks Mark to go to that meeting in bathrobe. And how they managed to keep the details like the sign of "Use of fireplace, prohibited". But getting into it would give the movie away - which is so against, what WOGMA stands for. So I chose to walk around those corners, and apologize if that resulted in your disappointment.
Aniket Thakkar has given this movie a Yay! Thumbs Up. Aniket Thakkar has posted 7 comments and has rated 3 movies. See Aniket Thakkar's page for more details.
Nikunj Modh
Watched movie yesterday
Superb excellent work done
Dialogues were excellent and yes the business of CEO which says "I am CEO - Bitch" i loved it!
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Azure Edge Zones will enable a new era of 5G applications
By Dan Oliver 01 April 2020
Microsoft has partnered with the mobile industry to unlock new 5G scenarios with Azure Edge Zones.
(Image credit: Microsoft)
Microsoft has announced its new Azure Edge Zones service, which enables customers to use edge computing to connect to existing Azure ‘services’, opening up a new era of 5G use cases, especially in the areas of online gaming, remote meetings and events, and smart infrastructure.
Microsoft is hoping to take advantage of the low-latency and speed of 5G by enabling local data processing at the edge of the network, whilst working in tandem with distributed applications across cloud, or on-premises. And with Azure Edge Zones, customers will also get consistency across the user experience, via Azure Portal, APIs, and Microsoft’s security tools.
“This will enable developers to build optimized and scalable applications using Azure and directly connected to 5G networks, taking advantage of consistent Azure APIs and tooling available in the public cloud.”
Yousef Khalidi, Azure Networking.
In a blog post to promote the launch of the new service, Yousef Khalidi, Corporate Vice President of Azure Networking, explained how the new service would work.
“Building on our previous work with AT&T, we’re announcing the preview of Azure Edge Zones with carriers, connecting Azure services directly to 5G networks in the carrier’s datacenter,” said Khalidi. “This will enable developers to build optimized and scalable applications using Azure and directly connected to 5G networks, taking advantage of consistent Azure APIs and tooling available in the public cloud.”
For its initial roll-out Microsoft will be working with AT&T, one of its key technology partners in the telecoms industry. In 2019, Microsoft Azure was the first public cloud to announce 5G integration with AT&T in Dallas, and now the two companies will work on delivering resources to the edge.
“This is a uniquely challenging time across the globe as we rethink how to help organizations serve their customers and stakeholders,” said Anne Chow, chief executive officer, AT&T Business. “Fast and intelligent mobile networks will be increasingly central to all of our lives. Combining our network knowledge and experience with Microsoft’s cloud expertise will give businesses a critical head start.”
Three key areas
The collaboration with AT&T on a new Edge Zone, targeted to become available in Los Angeles in late spring, will enable customers and partners to get a taste of what can be achieved via edge computing.
Azure Edge Zones will enable customers to connect to Azure services, enabling a host of new use cases. (Image credit: Microsoft)
And according to Microsoft, these new zones will boost application performance, providing an optimal user experience. And the company outlined three key areas that it expects to :
Online gaming: Every press of the button, every click is important for a gamer. Responsiveness is critical, especially in multi-player scenarios. Game developers can now develop cloud-based applications optimized for mobile, directly accessing the 5G network at different carrier sites. They can achieve millisecond latency and scale to as many users as they want.
Remote meetings and events: As the prevalence of digital-forward experiences continue to rise in response to global health challenges, we can help bring together thousands of people to enjoy a real-time shared experience. Enabling scenarios like social engagement, mobile digital experiences, live interaction, and payment and processing require ultra-low latency to provide an immersive, responsive experience.
Smart Infrastructure: With the rise of IoT, organizations are looking to create efficiency, savings, and immersive experiences across residential and commercial buildings, or even citywide. With 5G and cloud computing, organizations can reliably connect millions of endpoints, analyze data, and deliver immersive experiences.
Those looking to take part in the Microsoft and AT&T Los Angeles partnership can now apply to do so as an early adopter.
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Rare Coles Stikeez Attracts $20,000 Bid On eBay
A single mum hoping to score $100 by selling a rare Coles Stikeez figurine on eBay to pay for her sons’ school excursion, eventually sold it for an eye-watering $20,100.
Her ‘Golden Billy Banana’ was one of only 100 that Coles gave away as part of their latest promotion.
After listing the starting bid for the collectable banana at just $10, it wasn’t long before the bids started rolling in, sending the price, well, bananas.
Sixty-five bids later, the price hit $20,100.
She told Daily Mail she didn’t believe the final bidder was serious.
“The auction finished on $20,100, but it would have just been people having a laugh, so I don’t expect to receive a cent to be honest,” she said.
“I was hoping for $100 to send my sons on their school excursion.”
She said she knew it was a joke when the price got too high.
“If I did dare dream about $20,000, I would get a car and bedroom furniture for the kids… I’m a single mum-of-five so the money would be awesome to buy us a reliable car.”
She’s yet to hear from the bidder.
“I’ll message them in a day or two,” she said.
The ‘Golden Billy Banana’ has been going for as much as $7,500 on eBay.
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‘Parks and Recreation’ cast to reunite for charity special set amid COVID-19 pandemic
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(NEXSTAR) – The cast members of “Parks and Recreation” are coming together for a half-hour NBC special set in the coronavirus pandemic that will help raise money for Feeding America.
The scripted special will feature your favorite Pawnee public servants played by Amy Poehler, Rashida Jones, Aziz Ansari, Nick Offerman, Aubrey Plaza, Chris Pratt, Adam Scott, Rob Lowe, Jim O’Heir and Retta.
“It’s true! We’ve already filmed the episode!,” Mouse Rat frontman Chris Pratt said on Twitter. “Many are saying it’s the greatest episode of television ever to be filmed in Quarantine. It’s not a competition. But if it was… we would easily win.
It’s true! We’ve already filmed the episode! Many are saying it’s the greatest episode of television ever to be filmed in Quarantine. It’s not a competition. But if it was… we would easily win. PLUS we’re donating… https://t.co/6v1oPIJGRY
— chris pratt (@prattprattpratt) April 23, 2020
The special is filmed at the characters’ homes and will document Leslie Knope’s concerted efforts to keep her friends close while social distancing, according to Deadline.
The hit show about the parks department of Pawnee, Indiana ended five years ago after seven seasons.
See Amy Poehler’s announcement below:
Leslie Knope wants to let you in on a secret… On April 30, #ParksAndRec is returning to NBC for “A Parks and Recreation Special”. Our workplace proximity associates, along with our neighbors at @StateFarm, are raising money for @FeedingAmerica. Join us! https://t.co/YuyWBTYmrH pic.twitter.com/ZId6Lq3rkJ
— Parks and Recreation (@parksandrecnbc) April 23, 2020
You can also donate to Feeding America before the special.
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Man City complete signing of defender Philippe Sandler from PEC Zwolle
City have snapped up the 21-year-old from Eredivisie club PEC Zwolle in a move that has gone under the radar in a summer of big spending in the Premier League.
Sandler came through the system at Ajax but has made an impression since moving to Zwolle.
The Dutch under-20 international can also operate in the holding role in midfield, and is understood to be viewed as a player with potential to develop under Pep Guardiola.
City had been tracking the player over the past year, and first opened talks with Zwolle in January about agreeing a deal.
It is believed they have paid £2.5million to the Dutch club for the youngster, who has agreed a four year deal at the Etihad Stadium.
City have been operating shrewdly in the transfer market trying to identify young players who can be nurtured through to first team regulars.
And the prospect is that Sandler will either spend a year in the development squad or sent out on loan to continues his development with the view to being drafted in to Guardiola's first team squad in a year.
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Reza Farahan Teases Shahs of Sunset's Insane Season
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The mustache may be gone, but the drama remains.
After much anticipation, Shahs of Sunset returns to Bravo this evening where Reza Farahan and his friends will open up their lives for the camera once again.
Time and time again, the cast including Golnesa “GG” Gharachedaghi, Mercedes “MJ” Javid and Mike Shouhed have provided OMG moments for viewers at home. And guess what? Season seven is no different.
“This season is so lit! We deal with weddings, death, building houses, starting businesses, hookups, threeways, trying to hook up when you have someone in your life already—literally it’s the most insane season,” Reza teased to E! News ahead of tonight’s season premiere. “I can’t believe it just keeps getting better so I can’t wait for the fans to experience what we lived and I’m really proud of it.”
Throughout the new season, fans will watch Reza and his husband Adam Neely begin the process of starting a family. And while loyal viewers remember some hesitation on Reza’s behalf in past seasons, he’s ultimately turned a corner.
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“Ultimately, at a certain point, life becomes all about family especially if you’re Persian. We’re all about our families and getting together,” he explained to us. “It’s cute to be running around when you’re 30, it’s ok to still be running around at 40, it’s questionable to be running around at 45, but I think at 50 and older there’s someone that shows up at the club and says listen queen, thanks for coming but please don’t come back here again. At some point, you have to transition into having something when you’re older and if you don’t have any kids, what are you going to do?”
Another cast member hoping to expand their family is close friend MJ. In addition to watching her fairytale wedding to Tommy Feight this season, fans will witness her go through IVF in hopes of getting pregnant.
“It’s amazing to have her and the prospect of us doing this together and having our kids at the same time warms my heart,” Reza shared. “If I saw our kids playing together, the thought of it just makes me want to cry. It’s amazing.”
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Perhaps what has some fans really pumped about the new season is whether or not GG has been able to maintain friendships with the group. According to Reza, who recently launched a new haircare line titled Reza Be Obsessed, viewers may see a different side of the longtime cast member.
“As she’s getting older, she’s working on herself so it’s nice to see a milder GG at times,” he joked with us. “In California, there are certain things that have been legalized and whether they smoke it or ingest it, from what I understand, GG partakes and I think that helps.”
And in regards to those rumors that Mike and Destiney Rose could be dating—have you seen some of those Instagrams?!—Reza said it’s just not the case.
“I can confirm 1000 percent that there is nothing going on between the two of them. Unless pigs started to fly in California since I got to New York,” he joked. “The last person I texted with was Destiney, completely unrelated to Mike. But, Mike is very charming and very seductive and his private parts are very active so, you never know?”
New episodes of Shahs of Sunset air Thursday nights at 9 p.m. only on Bravo.
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Based on the CyberConnect2 HIT GAME, now will be released in a CG Movie! The Movie will be placed in the storyline of each .hack//G.U. games trilogy. The story follows Haseo, a player in the online MMORPG called The World:R2 at first depicted as a PKK (Player Killer Killer) known as the "Terror of Death", a former member of the disbanded Twilight Brigade guild. Haseo encounters Azure Kite (believing him to be Tri-Edge and blaming him for what happened to Shino) but is hopelessly outmatched. Azure Kite easily defeats Haseo and Data Drains him, reducing his level from 133 to 1 and leaving him without any items, weapons, or member addresses. He is left with a mystery on his hands as to the nature of the Data Drain and why Azure Kite is in possession of such a skill. Eventually Haseo gains the "Avatar" of Skeith. Acquiring the ability to call Skeith and wield his abilities, such as Data Drain. With Skeith as his strength, Haseo begins the quest for a way to save Shino. He is seen seeking out a PK (Player Killer) known as Tri-Edge, whose victims supposedly are unable to return to The World after he PKs them. Haseo's friend, Shino, was attacked six months prior to the events of the game by Tri-Edge, and the player herself, Shino Nanao, was left in a coma. (Source: AniDB)
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Great accessible UK weekend breaks: Derby
Being the most central city in the UK, Derby is very accessible for a weekend break. The city is great value for money, friendly, full of culture and a great base for you to visit the Peak District.
There is so much to see and do in Derby and this ranges from incredible cuisine to fun attractions you can enjoy with friends and family.
The city is easy to get around for those suffering from mobility problems so if you would normally need stair lifts at home or a wheelchair you don’t need to worry about accessibility.
How to get to Derby
Travelling to Derby by road
Being just 15 minutes from the M1 junction 24 and being accessible via the A6, A50, A38 and A52 makes travelling by car easy. National Express also have buses travelling to Derby from all four corners of the UK.
Travelling to Derby by rail
There are over 30 direct services travelling from London to Derby every day, taking around one hour and 30 minutes. Nottingham, Leicester and Birmingham are under 30 minutes away.
Travelling to Derby by air
The East Midlands Airport connects Derby to destinations all over the world and train connections are on offer from the city to the airport as well as a shuttle bus to the terminals.
Best accessible attractions to visit
Derby is home to a number of great attractions to visit and here are three accessible places you can visit.
If you’re in Derby with your family, then the Crich Tramway Village is one place you should certainly visit as it offers a fun day out.
You can go on unlimited tram journeys and call in at various stops along the one-mile route. There is a sculpture trail, indoor exhibitions and a period village scene that you can enjoy.
Amanda Blair, the marketing and business development manager at Crich Tramway Village, tells us why you should visit:
“Crich Tramway Village offers a great family day out where you can step back in time. Vintage trams run through a period village a mile into the Derbyshire countryside and back. There are exhibitions, play areas and a woodland walk and sculpture trail to explore. We have special events throughout the season.”
There are ramps or lifts to areas on the second level, but the main exhibition hall, assembly rooms and tram depots are on the ground level. A map provided on arrival shows the ‘smooth-way’ for wheelchairs and pushchairs. An access tram which can take four wheelchairs will run at 11.30am and 2.30pm if requested on arrival at admissions.
Derby Museum and Art Gallery
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The Derby Museum and Art Gallery is home to a variety of exhibitions that show off paintings and a host of interesting artefacts.
The Joseph Wright paintings and Soldier’s Story exhibition, which displays weaponry and other military and personal objects, are extremely popular displays. There’s also the archaeology gallery and several temporary exhibits that come every year.
The museum might be based on three floors but, with lift access from the ground floor to all levels, visitors with mobility issues can see all the exhibitions. There is plenty of seating throughout the museum if older adults need to sit down during their visit as well as accessible toilets.
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If you or any of your group are motorheads then a visit to Donington Park is a must. It is one of the most historic race tracks in the UK with the first motorcycle race taking place way back in 1931.
In 1993 it played host to the third round of the Formula One season and this is regarded as one of the greatest races in the history of the sport.
Today, visitors can enjoy British Superbikes, British Touring Cars, World Superbikes and the British Superkart Grand Prix to name just a few. The track is also home to the world’s largest collection of Formula One cars.
The circuit is accessible to visitors with mobility problems and carers for disabled visitors are even able to enter the circuit for free.
Best restaurants in Derby
Derby is home to a number of top restaurants that serve up foods from across the world and here are some of the most accessible.
Carluccios
This famous Italian restaurant is located on the second floor of the into Shopping Centre meaning you can combine a shopping trip with a delicious meal.
Carluccio’s offers a broad range of classic Italian food and has vegetarian, gluten-free and vegan options on offer.
You can try mains such as mushroom risotto, chicken Milanese and steak or desserts like gelato or tiramisu. The restaurant also offers special menus for summer, autumn, winter and spring.
The restaurant has wheelchair access and welcomes visitors with mobility problems. There are also accessible toilets available.
Exeter Arms
We're open at 10.30am this morning for pre match food and drinks. @dcfcofficial @derbycounty @VisitDerby pic.twitter.com/qNRmzaCQ1k
— The Exeter Arms (@exeterarms) April 11, 2015
The Exeter Arms was voted pub of the year at the Derby Food & Drink Awards 2018 and it should certainly be down on your bucket list as a place to eat.
It boasts the charm of a rural pub that is actually in the urban sprawl of the city centre as visitors often feel like they’ve been transported back in time.
The modern-day, award-winning food and ales from Derby’s ‘Dancing Duck’ brewery is well-loved by locals, with dishes for you to try including a variety of nachos, wraps, rolls, toasties and burgers.
The pub is mobility-friendly with easy access from the street and lots of seating on offer. Although the building is old, the building is lit very well for older people who aren’t very steady on their feet.
The Wonky Table
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The Wonky Table is in the unique Cathedral Quarter area of the city centre and it is a quirky café that has been inspired by the bistros of Europe.
The food is locally sourced and if you’re heading to the Wonky Table for lunch you can enjoy bites to eat like the soup of the day and braised beef shin croquette or larger meals like fish and chips or the famous Wonky Yorkshire pudding wrap.
The restaurant is wheelchair friendly and very accessible to visitors with mobility problems as there are lots of seated areas and space where diners can sit down.
Best accessible tours
If you are looking to go on a tour around the city there are lots available and here are the best ones visitors with mobility issues can go on.
Tour Derby Theatre
Derby Theatre since partnering with the University of Derby has transformed to put learning, mentoring and artistic excellence at its heart.
Now the theatre is thriving and puts on a variety of performances for visitors. To get a glimpse of what goes on at a busy theatre such as this there are a variety of tours you can go on.
A highly recommended tour you can go on is the Tea and Tour. This allows visitors to look backstage and meet members of the team that keep this popular theatre-going.
Derby Cathedral Tour
To get a great insight into Derby’s fascinating past you should look to visit one of its most iconic features: its cathedral.
It has the second tallest tower in England and by going on a tour of Derby Cathedral you can learn about the history and intriguing stories about the stunning cathedral.
Those with mobility problems will not be able to scale up the steps to the top of the tower but can explore the rest of the cathedral.
Pride Park stadium tour
Football is a major part of Derby and for sports fans, there is no better tour than the Pride Park stadium tour.
The tour is accessible for all and it will offer you the chance to look around the home changing room and the tunnel as well as lots of other sections of the stadium.
The exclusive tour also covers areas such as the hospitality lounge, dugout area, director’s box, press room and the Derby County trophy cabinet. You will also find out some fascinating facts about the club and stadium as well as hear some funny stories from your tour guide about former players and managers.
East Midlands Aeropark
The Aeropark is an aviation museum where visitors can get a great insight into planes from years gone by as well as being a place that you can view the modern-day planes landing and taking off from the nearby airport.
The viewpoints are north of the east/west runway and these offer unrestricted views across the airport, so you can guarantee yourself a good photo opportunity.
On display, there are more than 20 aircraft and inside the hangar, you can see the likes of a Rolls Royce Avon, Rolls Royce Gem, Rolls Royce Spey, Rolls Royce Viper, Bristol Hercules and Gyron Junior.
The hangar is accessible and those with slight mobility issues that can still walk a bit can go to the viewing mounds to watch the planes come in and leave.
Explore Kedleston Hall
In 2019 Kedleston Hall is celebrating 250-years since it first welcomed visitors to the attraction and today people from across the globe come to explore the incredible interiors that are on show. You can take a trip back to the 1760s with a visit to the mansion and experience why the house was designed for lavish entertainment.
There is also parkland, and this is home to a variety of marked trails that you can follow and in good weather, there are plenty of picnic spots you could stop at and enjoy a bite to eat.
The access to this 18th-century palace is very good with mobility parking available to blue badge holders in the main car park. There are also accessible toilets and manual wheelchairs available to hire. Access to the first floor might not be achievable to all as there is a small staircase to get up to this.
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Aviation Fuel Market Size, Growth, Top Key Players, Analysis and Trends by Forecast To 2023
Global Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) Market.
The Global Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) Market is projected to be valued at USD 2,786 million by 2025, expanding at a CAGR of 20.61% between 2019 and 2025. Growth in the air passenger traffic has significantly contributed to the growth of the ADS-B market. High competition owing to the presence of a large number of players in this market is forcing manufacturers to continuously focus on product innovation and development. Furthermore, stringent government regulations regarding ADS-B is also encouraging aircraft manufacturers to invest in the technology. For instance, in the US, The Federal Aviation Admiration requires all aircraft to be equipped with ADS-B Out to fly in most controlled airspace.
Market USP
Increasing development of advanced air traffic management systems to drive the growth of the market.
Growth Opportunities in the Market
ADS-B In segment expected to witness higher growth in the market: ABS-B In transmits alerts of crucial flight information such as closed runways and flight restrictions and assists pilots in avoiding terrains in low visibility situations. Thus, it offers enhanced situational awareness to pilots and flight crew.
Line-Fit to remain a popular choice: The line-fit of ADS-B minimizes the need for customization and hence decreases the time taken to deploy the aircraft. Hence, the segment is expected to witness a higher growth during the forecast period.
Receiver segment expected to grow at the highest CAGR: Receivers provide inflight traffic alerts and precise time stamps. Therefore, the segment is expected to grow at the highest CAGR during the forecast period.
ATC surveillance segment expected to grow at a higher CAGR: The development of advanced air traffic management systems to manage the rising airspace congestion is expected to drive the growth of the segment.
Fixed-Wing to remain a popular choice: The growing manufacturing of new aircraft to cater to the rising air passenger traffic is expected to drive the growth of the segment. Furthermore, the increasing demand for new aircraft from developing regions such as Asia-Pacific is expected to further increase the segment growth.
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Scientists race to find wild, ancient bananas to save the popular fruit from climate change
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Posted WedWednesday 25 NovNovember 2020 at 7:31pmWedWednesday 25 NovNovember 2020 at 7:31pm , updated WedWednesday 25 NovNovember 2020 at 8:48pmWedWednesday 25 NovNovember 2020 at 8:48pm
A man carries a bunch of exotic red bananas found in Papua New Guinea. (Supplied: Sebastien Carpentier)
Scientists are racing to find and save the living ancestors of modern-day, cultivated bananas that grow in the rainforests of Papua New Guinea.
Scientists are saving wild, ancient banana varieties in Papua New Guinea
The genetics can help protect cultivated bananas from climate change
Some wild varieties grow 15 metres tall and have hard seeds
These wild bananas have genes capable of protecting one of the world's most popular fruits from climate change, pests and diseases.
However, deforestation and fires are destroying tropical forests across the South Pacific, and scientists say there is a risk of losing both the ancestors and the possible future of commercial bananas.
Bananas are second only to tomatoes in popularity as a fruit, with the global industry worth more than $US31 billion last year.
The Australian Banana Growers Council says the industry is worth $1.3 billion a year to the national economy.
Species unique to PNG
Belgium-based scientist Sebastien Carpentier led an expedition to Papua New Guinea last year to collect and conserve the genetics of these wild bananas.
"Papua New Guinea contains very unique species that only occur on the island of Papua, and it is one of the main ancestors of the commercial bananas we have now," he said.
Scientists are trying to save wild bananas, some of which produce hard seeds, to preserve the species before they disappear due to deforestation. (Supplied: Sebastien Carpentier)
Dr Carpentier is the team leader of banana characterisation and evaluation with the Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT).
His job is to save these unique bananas before they disappear from the natural world.
"We see that a lot of forests are disappearing," Dr Carpentier said.
"Times start to change when people start doing commercial agriculture or mining and start destroying whole areas of forest, then, of course, the species cannot survive and will disappear."
Researchers have discovered an endangered banana variety in Papua New Guinea that grows 15 metres tall. (Supplied: Sebastien Carpentier)
Only the fittest survive
Dr Carpentier said the most recent expedition uncovered some unusual varieties, such as endangered plants that grow 15 metres tall and bear fruit with hard seeds, instead of the typical soft, yellow flesh of commercial bananas.
Genetic diversity is key to protecting cultivated varieties, such as cavendish and ladyfinger, from the adverse effects of climate change and pests and diseases, according to Dr Carpentier.
For example, the variety Musa balbisiana has superior water use efficiency and was found persevering in open land recovering from fires, so its genetics could help breeders adapt bananas to resist future droughts.
"The reason why we have nice, delicious bananas is because farmers protect them — they would be quite vulnerable if you left them," Dr Carpentier said.
"[Wild bananas] contain unique genes, since they are exposed to the natural threats of the environment and only the fittest survives."
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Dr Carpentier said one of the greatest threats to worldwide banana production, the Panama disease, has devastated industries in some countries.
"If forests disappear and you cannot go back to individual plants that contain unique traits, in the long term you might lose the crop, because the bananas we have now are very vulnerable," he said.
The specimens collected from the wild are stored in the world's largest banana gene bank in Leuven, Belgium.
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Barbara Ann" is a song written by Fred Fassert that was first recorded by the Regents as "Barbara-Ann". Their version was released in 1961 and reached No. 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The most famous cover version was recorded in 1965 by the Beach Boys, issued as a single from their album Beach Boys' Party! with the B-side "Girl Don't Tell Me". The Beach Boys recorded their version on September 23, 1965. Dean Torrence of Jan and Dean is featured on lead vocals along with Brian Wilson.
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BARBARA ANN written by Fred Fassert performed by the Beach Boys tab transcribed by Collins Crapo. party noises throughout). Ba-ba-ba-ba-Barbara Ann Ba-ba-ba-ba-Barbara Ann. G. C. Barbara Ann, take my hand. Barbara Ann. D. You got me rockin' and a-rollin'. D7. Rockin' and a-reelin', Barbara Ann Ba-ba-ba-Barbara An. .Went to a dance lookin' for romance Saw Barbara Ann, so I thought I'd take a chance. Barbara Ann, come take my hand. Rockin' and a-reelin', Barbara.
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Album: Beach Boys' Party! ; Released in December 20, 1965 lyrics : Ah, ba ba ba ba Barbara Ann Ba ba ba ba Barbara Ann Oh Barbara Ann, take my hand Barbara Ann You got me rockin' and a-rollin' Rockin' and a-reelin' Barbara Ann ba ba Ba Barbara Ann Went to a dance, lookin' for romance Saw Barbara Ann, so I thought I'd take a chance. With Barbara Ann, Barbara Ann Take my hand You got me rockin' and a-rollin' (Oh! Oh!) Rockin' and a-reelin' Barbara Ann ba ba Ba ba ba ba black sheep Ba ba ba ba Barbara Ann Ba ba ba ba Barbara Ann Barbara Ann,.
Barbara Ann" is a song written by Fred Fassert and performed (as "Barbara-Ann") by The Regents in 1961. The recording reached a peak position of on the Billboard Hot 100 record chart. The most famous cover version is by the American rock band The Beach Boys.
F oh, take my hand Barbara An. C You got me rockin' and a rollin', B F rockin' and a reelin', Barbara Ann. F Bar bar bar bar Barbar Ann. Chorus: F Say, Bar bar bar, bar Barbar An.Bar bar bar bar Barbar An.Right Arrow Key. 5 sc backward.
A Space Girl 2:56
B Barbara Ann 2:37
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F4067 The Earth Boys Space Girl / Barbara Ann (7") Capitol Records F4067 US 1958
F4067 The Earth Boys Space Girl / Barbara Ann (7", Promo) Capitol Records F4067 US 1958
Performer: The Earth Boys
Title: Space Girl / Barbara Ann
Style: Rock & Roll, Doo Wop, Novelty
Other Formats: MOD MIDI MP2 AIFF XM AUD VOC
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Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, people locked up in immigration detention facilities have feared for their lives. Detainees have raised concerns over their inability to practice social distancing and lack of sanitation materials — even basic soap to clean their hands and cells. Instead of addressing these concerns, detention officers have responded to detainees’ pleas for help by punishing them, placing them in in solitary confinement, and even tear-gassing detainees asking for safer conditions.
This risk is imminent: Yesterday, news broke that two officers at the Richwood Correctional Center in Monroe, Louisiana died of COVID-19 after facility officials barred them from wearing face masks. As of today, at least 449 immigrant detainees have now tested positive for the virus; 45 percent of ICE detainees tested have come up positive for COVID-19. These numbers are likely a severe undercount and will continue to grow. Earlier this month, ICE Acting Director Matt Albence confirmed to Congress that ICE had tested less than two percent of detainees nationwide. Albence also testified that ICE did not plan to release any additional detainees to slow the spread of COVID-19 in detention facilities, as such release could give the impression that the administration is “not enforcing our immigration laws.”
The rapid spread of COVID-19 in immigration detention facilities is a prime example of everything that has gone wrong with immigration detention. Justice Free Zones: Immigration Detention Under the Trump Administration, a new report released today by the ACLU, Human Rights Watch, and the National Immigrant Justice Center, looks at the origins of this humanitarian crisis. The report shows how the Trump administration laid the groundwork for the current disaster of COVID-19 in immigration detention facilities. It is little coincidence that a disproportionate number of detention centers that now have confirmed cases of COVID-19 came online under the Trump administration. The report explores the vast expansion of immigration detention under the Trump administration; how private prison companies have increasingly profited off this growth; and the ways in which ICE has designed the system so detained people have no clear path out.
While researching this report, our teams conducted site visits to five detention centers in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Arizona, all opened under the Trump administration. Three of these five detention facilities now have confirmed COVID-19 cases, including the Richwood Correctional Center, where two officers have already died from the virus. Today, 10 of the 28 ICE detention facilities with confirmed cases of COVID-19 are facilities that have opened under the Trump administration. And unless ICE quickly releases medically vulnerable people from detention, COVID-19 outbreaks at these facilities will are set to overwhelm local hospitals and intensive care units.
Based on interviews with 150 detained people, detention facility site visits, and analysis of countless records — including some we had to sue to access — Justice Free Zones documents the inhumane growth of the immigration detention machine under the Trump presidency. Our intention is not to suggest that other administrations did not have problematic policies and practices related to detention: The trend toward increased detention and the increased role of private operators has been underway since the early 2000s and rose sharply under the Obama administration. That said, the Trump administration’s approach to immigration detention has created a situation more dire than any in recent memory.
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Arab citizens of Israel and ultra-Orthodox (“Haredim”) Jews have at times rejected the formation of the Israeli state. Today, both populations are at a crossroads, managing internal and external tensions as they seek a balance between societal integration and separation, and between tradition and modernity.
The Covid-19 crisis has especially exposed both the tensions and opportunities in these communities. We will discuss these issues with leading activists in both communities, comparing their challenges, understanding better the differing world views in Israeli society, and charting a course towards the common good.
Esti Solomon, a Haredi woman and graduate of Shaharit’s 120 leadership program, is a political and social activist working to integrate Haredi women in employment, cultural life, and additional sectors of public life. Esti is currently the director of an organization for integrating Haredi women into the IDF. Esti, a resident of Beit Shemesh, held a prominent role in the election campaign of Aliza Bloch, a Religious Zionist woman who is now the mayor of the predominantly-Haredi Beit Shemesh. Esti is additionally part of an initiative promoting dialogue between populations in Beit Shemesh, and has been active in efforts promoting gender equality for over a decade.
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Lectures of Martyred Ayatollah Beheshti
Sayyid Muhammad Husayni Beheshti
Imam Khomeini on Ayatollah Beheshti's Martyrdom
1. Islam and Nationalism
2. Liberalism
3. Islam and Specialization
4. A New Class in Our Society
5. Islam and Social Relations
There are so many fabulous and wonderful phenomena found everywhere around the globe. In each chunk of earth we explore, we encounter a magnificent order that compels us to humbly submit to its grandeur. In our own time, man has discovered such a marvelous order in even the tiniest organ of the human body that has distracted his mind from the majesty of the cosmos.
Our world overflows with sensational phenomena, some of which have constantly puzzled but enthused man. One of these phenomena is life. For centuries man has engaged his mind in quest for the origin and essence of life. He has spared no effort to determine the answer to this question which has haunted him for ages. Voluminous works have been written on this matter and man's investigation of the phenomenon has led to the birth of various sciences that are devoted to finding the answer to the riddle of life.
When was the first time man took note of life itself? There have been times when man was not aware of facts which seem axiomatic to us today. It will not then be surprising to learn that at a juncture in human history man was not aware of life at all. It is certain, however, that it took man centuries to heed what seems self-evident to us in modern times. It would then not be illogical to investigate about the time when man first took notice of life. What event led to his discovery of this mysterious and wonderful phenomenon called life?
Looking at religious literature, one can easily say that the divine prophets were the first who brought the issue of life and spirit to man. They were the ones who first posed the question of life, its origin and end, death and the Hereafter.
An attempt to find the answer to this question in sources other than the prophetic teachings would avail us of no substantial conclusion. We may only be confronted with a series of vague hypotheses almost impossible to prove. With this in mind, we may then opine that eras passed without man recognizing any of his privileges over other animals in his surroundings. It was probably because a particular .cause or motivation was needed to awaken his- senses to many issues and such a motivation had then not yet occurred in him.
Knowledge through comparison of opposites is a proven scientific method of thinking. In acquiring knowledge of his environment, man needed to note the contradiction existing in nature. A typical example is light and darkness, without knowing the latter, no clear understanding of the former would be gained. So, it is likely that men, unaware of life, came across the lifeless corpse of an animal or man. Examining it, he found no signs of life such as breathing, movement, speech and sound. He might have thought what bad caused the immobility of the creature which was moving about until the day before. He probably examined the limbs and parts of the body and found to his surprise that every organ was still in its place.
Why then such immobility? The more he reflected on the issue, the more he sank into confusion. In the next few days he probably forgot about the whole thing. But he kept on observing the same phenomena of death repeatedly. He, thus, gradually developed the idea that there must be another factor which, though invisible, caused movement in those bodies before. It must then be, he thought that an unseen and indescribably intangible factor had caused all the motion, motives and activities of the now immobile creature.
Man called this invisible mysterious thing "spirit" or in philosophical term, "the soul". Through experience and observation man realized that some beings are imbued with an invisible element the soul which is the nucleus of all their activities. Our Islamic scholars also support it.
In his book Al-Asfar, Sadrul Mutaallihin (Mulla Sadra) defines soul as "a source of power with which a human body is infused, enabling it to act and employ its various parts to perform activities necessary for sustaining life"
Judging from the aforementioned philosophical and scientific definition, the soul is the fountain of power that drives man to perform his daily activities. In other words, the main characteristic of life is activity, endeavor and struggle. A being which ceases to function and struggle cannot then be considered a living being. Furthermore, scientists have also discovered that evidences of life are not limited to mere movement and struggle.
A grain of wheat (if kept in a vacuum) will never evolve into a seedling. But once it is sown and watered, it grows. Evidences of life are soon manifested when its roots reach out to get nutrition necessary for growth. Such movements result in the sprouting of the grain which later develops leaves and finally bears dense spokes of wheat grains. The various stages of development and reproduction are manifestations of plant life. When a wheat grain reproduces, it completes its evolutionary cycle. This type of evolution which is mainly characterized by an increase in number through reproduction can be called quantitative evolution.
A higher form of life is animal life. Although very similar to plant life in many ways, the range of animal activities and struggle for survival is more extensive. A wheat grain cannot travel or move in space and it withers when it fails to acquire nutrition or the farmer neglects to irrigate the wheat field.
In other words, lack of food and water is enough to block its development. An animal, on the contrary, is capable of employing various techniques on a wider scale for ingestion and survival. It can look for and choose the environment that suits itself. It utilizes multifarious means of defense or offence against its enemies and can develop a more complete method of reproduction. This wide range of activity and struggle is due to the animal's employment of a different means necessary for a more complete life, and i.e., feeling and understanding.
Although animal life, like plant life, pursues the same objective (reproduction and survival), it is still different in the sense that is range of activity is much wider. The highest form of life is that of a human being who leads a much more complicated life with a broader range of activity. Moreover, man pursues a lofty and sublime objective in the process of human evolution to attain perfection.
Life is generally categorized as follows: plant life, animal life and human life. But today, I wish to discuss another kind of life, namely the life of a society. Just like plants, animals and men, the human society, too, is a living thing. According to sociologists, the society goes through evolution, childhood, puberty, adolescence, perfection, old age, decline and death. The society they observe, possesses a certain understanding of its individual members. Its life, they hold, is superior to that of a human being as evidenced by the struggle a society launches in the course of its evolution. The society, however, may resemble a living being or a lifeless thing.
With this sublime concept in mind, let us now study verse 24 of Surah Al-Anfal of the Holy Quran:
"Oh You who believe, reply to the call of Allah and His messenger who call you to that which enlivens you and know that Allah intervenes between man and his heart and it is If.; Him you shall return." The holy Quran (8:24)
Now what do you, gentlemen, understand by the "thing which enlivens you." Let us first scrutinize the views held by Quranic exegetists who believe the verse to bear four different meanings. Some have interpreted it as the "life and its revival" as eternal life in the Hereafter. Another group says "life" in this verse refers to science and knowledge of the Quran. A third party of interpreters hold the belief that the verse is calling people to faith as the heart of the faithful is filled with hope and alacrity while the unbeliever’s heart is smitten with grief and sorrow. A fourth interpretation is that the verse invites people to jihad in the way of God. This latter group of exegetists so contend because the Holy Quran says in another verse that those who are killed defending the cause of God should not be reckoned as dead. "They are but alive in the presence of God and are given nourishment."
These interpreters argue that "God had His messenger call people to jihad in His path so that they dedicate their lives to His cause and thus join the rank of martyrs who are eternally alive. A subgroup of this latter category hold the view that "revivification" in the verse refers to the life of the society.
The society can survive they say, only through jihad (against corruption) for the preservation of the sanctuaries and rights of the society. Islam is then inviting the people toward the most essential aspect of human life for their own sake (and salvation) and society; it is jihad which grants them eternal life.
Now, which one of these various interpretations do you consider most appropriate for this holy verse? I would like to remind you of the fact that the verses preceding and following this verse mostly concern jihad. There are also evidences that the verse was revealed after the Battle of Badr. In that battle, the Muslims emerged victorious and were jubilant. It was then time for them to further solidify their ranks and take measures to promote the Islamic cause through concerted efforts. The aforementioned factual account indicate that these verses had been sent to encourage the Muslims and prepare them for greater battles and struggles ahead.
I personally believe that this verse has a truly comprehensive meaning. The reference, I think, is made to revivification of the people by Islam which brings up aware and dynamic followers, thus forming a living society.
By living society, I mean a thriving society which is progressive and marked with struggle, mobility and dynamism, one that never ceases to endeavor to establish ideal social conditions and encourage a community that fosters and boosts virtue, piety and decency as it repels corruption and profanity. This is the kind of society Islam aims to establish.
Did Islam practically succeed in setting up such a society? Yes. Islamic history shows that the divine teachings of Islam could establish a dynamic nation 'Ummah' out of a moribund society of the Arab people in only 23 years (after the initial prophetic revelation). A glance at Islamic history reveals accounts full of life, struggle, endeavor and progress in the early Muslim society.
The Islamic community did attract people of alien cultures just as it repelled elements of corruption. It did absorb and make use of the knowledge of other nations while encompassing them with rich Islamic culture and science. Islam has had a glorious past indeed. But regrettably, today's Muslim community is characterized by regression and extreme sluggishness. It is now centuries that Muslims are enwrapped in neglectful slumber, a state totally contrary to that of the early centuries of Islam.
Recently, I have read the book, 'Murujul Dhahab' by Mas'udi, who elucidated on points that struck my interest. As you know, one of the characteristics of modem European thought, i.e. of the post-Renaissance era which swept the Western society was the urge to replace the inductive and analogical approach to natural phenomenon with a deductive and empirical method. I was quite surprised to see Mas'udi endorse such a need (replacing the inductive with the deductive) in many instances in his book.
On one occasion, he has quoted Ja'hidh to have written in his book, 'Ajaibul Buldan' that the Sind River of lndia was connected to the Nile of Egypt. Mas'udi marveled at such an impudent statement by Ja'hidh who, he said, sat in a corner of his library and thought about geographical phenomena that required empirical observation, not pure imagination and induction. "Ja'hidh," wrote Mas'udi, "reasoned out that since the two rivers were inhabited by crocodiles, they must then be convergent.
Such ambiguities came to be expressed because Ja'hidh and people like him would rely on fictitious analogies unsupported by factual observations and investigation of issues they wanted to discuss." Mas'udi wrote his book in the year 332 of the Hijra calendar in the fourth century after the advent of Islam.
Yet, one cannot but wonder at his sharp insight and scientific understanding. A scholar devoted to Islam, Mas'udi loved and respected the Household of the Holy Prophet, Imam Ali and his descendants. He was a typical example of men who gave shape to a dynamic society based on Islam, a society which was by far ahead of the West in establishing a scientific outlook of the world.
But it is a pity that Muslim communities, especially that of Iran have actually been dormant and asleep for centuries. Sleeping in one sense, connotes death. A sleeping man may be alive with blood circulating in his body, but he is bereft of all movements that reflect the virility and activity of a living man. Today our Muslim societies are petrified in a rigid state of negligence and ignorance. Can our communities still recover from such stagnating inactivity? You, gentlemen, should note that this phlegmatic temperament has dominated over Muslim societies since ten centuries ago.
In describing Constantinople and the Black Sea of Turkey in the same book (Muruj al Dhahab) that dealt with history and geography, Mas'udi wrote: "Not far from Constantinople, there lies the Gulf of Constantinople. At one end where the Gulf tapers the Romans (Byzantine Empire) have built a fortification to repel Muslim warships which would frequent the region to conquer the empire and its remnants in the Mediterranean Sea. But unfortunately, such a glory has ended; those expectations have come to a halt and the Muslims have retreated to their own borders. The Romans do not fight them in Constantinople; they now fight the Muslims in the Muslim territories instead."
From Mas'udi's words, we may draw the conclusion that the decline of the Muslims has actually began around the fourth century after the Hijra that is, it has been ten centuries that Muslim societies have become stagnant. Is it still possible to revivify such a society and cure its ailments? During this long period there came forth certain opportunities to awaken the society but Muslims ignored the chance.
There was a good opportunity for Muslims to quell this sluggish attitude during the last 50-60 years when the Western culture and so-called civilization plagued Islamic lands. Had they taken advantage of it, they could have led an honorable life that they deserved. In my view, it was a very great opportunity to awaken and enliven our vigilance, but we lost it. Even then, there were clear sighted intellectuals who called Muslims to action and struggle but which, unfortunately proved of no avail.
Last summer, I was reading the book of late Ayatollah Naini called "Tanbih al-Ummah wa tanzib al-Millah." I observed vividly how this great contemporary religious leader expressed his views on social matters in a bid to awaken his society. For obvious reasons, the late Ayatollah endangered his own position by publishing this book.
However, the book, although written by a prominent religious leader, did not prove as effective in awakening the people as expected. It failed due to the fact that there were not many such reformist thinkers in those days. A glance at the pages of history proves there were very few elements who were both clear sighted and at the same time religious at that time. This was why our society derived but little benefit from such an auspicious occasion. But in spite of the poor response, the assiduity of the Muslim thinkers in a way motivated Muslims in general to think of improvement.
Today, the more we advance in time the more the number of Muslim intellectuals increases. I think we can confidently claim that in our own time, the reformist, intellectual Muslims have now formed a special new class in our society. They are not few anymore and one can find them in many parts of the country. I myself have come to know a considerable number of these people in Tehran, Mashhad, Shiraz, Qum, Isfahan and other cities.
Efforts must be taken to establish close ties and understanding among the members of this group so that they join hands in waking up the nation from this 10 century long slumber.
The Holy Prophet of Islam (S) said: "There are different kinds of God-sent breezes that blow at certain times; expose yourself to such."
The "breezes" of course refer to Divine occasions. There have been several valuable opportunities for a nationwide vigilance but we regretfully let them slip from our hands. Presently, however, we still have a chance and should not let it go wasted. The faithful intellectuals who want to improve their society are now forming a big group and can easily, certainly, render great services in both spiritual (religious) and material (worldly affairs) spheres. But they can serve only upon certain conditions which form the gist of my speech tonight.
One should take lessons from bitter experience of the past and avoid committing the same mistakes. The Constitutional Movement that provided the Muslim nation great chance to rise and eradicate their afflictions and misfortunes and restore their Islamic dignity, was not void of certain pitfalls, the consideration of which will be beneficial to our cause today. A group of intellectual reformists chose to concentrate on the then existing differences in views rather than unite with other faithful people. How can one justify antagonism adopted by a group of believers towards another merely because of their divergent opinions.
Why should Muslims ever use their pens against one another and defame each other for the sake of difference in views? Thus, we can say the efforts for the constitutional movement were more destructive than constructive in nature. One group aimed at denigrating the other and vice versa. Endeavors were then more diffusive rather than harmonious. While a group would negate modern education in a bid to have the support of the newly freed Muslim people, the other would mock at religion thinking it retarded the advent of modern culture and civilization. God forbids that we commit the same mistake and let it strike us again. Such a mistake may only be avoided if the faithful from different walks of life and social state establish more contact, and thus develop a strong mutual understanding.
Recently a group of university students have come to Qum to attend the commemoration ceremony at the 40th day of the demise of the late religious leader, Ayatollah Burujerdi. Numbering about 200, they joined another group of religious intellectuals from the Qum Theological Center in a certain gathering.
In my address to them. I recommended the establishment of such ties between the Theological Center, which is the Muslims' great scientific institution and the university which is a great educational center of the young generation. Such relations, I said, would certainly lead to a further and better understanding between the two. However this is not enough. All of us must strive to promote such relations to a still higher level. We, as I mentioned earlier, should take all possible efforts to know one another fully. The more extensive and diverse such gatherings are, the more they will contribute to our cause.
We, as Muslims, can fully bridge many gaps and settle our differences through peaceful discourses in a friendly and unbiased atmosphere. In this process, as the first step towards a wide scale unity, we should also be careful not to discuss issues of which we do not possess thorough knowledge. No educated person who is specialized in a certain scientific field should permit himself to reject or support any Islamic concept without having sufficient knowledge of the matter. Nor should a theologian versed in Islamic jurisprudence allow himself to express improper views on non- jurisprudential issues. Each should confine his judgment to his area of specialization in which he is most qualified.
Regarding fields of expertise in which we still lack, we should take measures to train people and refrain from making uncalculated and pointless statements in the absence of qualified persons; statements made without thorough understanding of the subject may only serve to widen the gap and create grounds for discord.
In addition to aspects aimed at the negation of the ruling order we also deem it necessary to take positive reformistic measures. Indubitably certain reforms (changes) will require an all-out and multi- dimensional struggle through the negation of the existing order. Just as we disinfect our hands when contaminated, some social reforms simulate the action of a disinfectant; and no improvement can be expected without such disinfecting- moves, i.e., the negation of the whole system. But still we must not neglect positive modes of struggle in the course of an all- persuasive jihad.
We must, by launching positive activities, augment our force and meet the demands of our Islamic community. How can one ever oppose those who take beneficial steps to improve social affairs in various realms by establishing sound and decent educational centers, for instance, or other socio-political institutions in accordance with Islamic teachings.
A society cannot be regarded as living unless it turns into a correct, orderly and active organization. I call your attention to the fact that should we not embark on extensive, constructive activities, all our pleas for improvements will go unanswered. Such pleas may serve to spread the message of Truth and imbibe it in the minds of the people, but they will never be enough to transform the society into a progressive Muslim society.
It is most proper that all Muslim brothers, from any social stratum they may be, allocate a part of their physical, mental, financial and social potentials to the improvement of the constructive reforms that can serve the society both at present and in the future.
Haste should be avoided. We must not expect to derive immense benefits from small effort made in a short time. Haste is a sort of popular ailment among us. We hasten even in our daily chores. This same social illness applies to us when personal growth and perfection is concerned. W€ delude ourselves expecting great benefits from minor efforts we make in this realm, too. It is like wishing to rear crops before their harvest season.
We, as Muslims, endeavoring to improve our social conditions, should get over this defect, and achieve our goal through implementation of long-term plans. We should also make reservations for the future generations if we can. Even if we know that the succeeding generation will reap the fruit of our present efforts, we should not stagger in performing our duties. We as Muslims, believe that efforts taken in promoting Islam are all registered in a clear record with God. We ourselves, are today, enjoying the fruits of the efforts taken by early Muslims about 1400 years ago.
Let us all live again the epic of Karbala where our third holy Imam, Hadhrat Hussein (Peace be upon him) and his companions, family members and relatives dedicated everything they had, including their lives in order to defend Islam. Could they achieve their Divine objective at the time they took stand against the then corrupt ruler, Yazid, of the Ummayad Dynasty? Certainly not. They endured all sorts of hardships and ultimately chose martyrdom in order to guard Islam against evil. But their holy goal was achieved by the Shi'ite community several centuries later.
Brothers, gentlemen, let us not forget that we are followers of noble leaders such as Imam Hussein. We must undergo all kinds of hardships for the sake of Islam and the welfare of our Muslim brethren. May God Almighty grant us success in our efforts to follow at the heels of the faithful fighter of the Dawn of Islam.
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Birmingham schools, neighboring systems among most income segregated in US, report shows
Updated Jan 13, 2019; Posted Aug 23, 2016
By Erin Edgemon | eedgemon@al.com
Scott Dixon
Students Vestavia Hills East Elementary School in Vestavia Hills, Ala., raise their hands during a presentation in this AL.com file photo. (Mark Almond/malmond@al.com)
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The income divide between Birmingham and six of its neighboring school systems are among the worst in the country, according to a new report.
Non-profit EdBuild says it is a case study in gerrymandering.
Over time, affluent cities in Jefferson County have used their wealth and influence to carve out their own school districts, according to the Fault Lines: America's Most Segregating School District Borders report.
Now, Birmingham is surrounded by 13 school districts - almost triple the national average.
Six of these school districts landed on EdBuild's list of the 50 most income segregated in the country. Birmingham's divide between Vestavia Hills and Mountain Brook, ranks No. 2 and 3 with some of the largest poverty differences in the country.
"EdBuild's analysis reveals Birmingham City School District to be uniquely segregated from its neighbors along economic lines," Rebecca Sibilia, the founder and CEO of EdBuild, said in a statement to AL.com. "When we ranked all the country's non-rural school district borders, borders between Birmingham City and its neighbors comprised six of the 50 most segregating in the country.
"In fact, Birmingham alone has more of these most-segregating borders than 46 states," she continued. "The small communities that have seceded from the larger Jefferson County school district to create their own districts have increased the number of segregating borders around Birmingham and created a vastly unequal local environment.
The poverty rate of Birmingham's students is 49 percent while the poverty rate for students in Vestavia Hills is only 6 percent. In Mountain Brook, the student poverty rate is 7 percent.
The other four school districts on the list are: Trussville at 10 percent student poverty rate, Hoover at 11 percent, Shelby County at 11 percent and Homewood at 15 percent.
According to the report, these cities (excluding Shelby County) used their "considerable property tax wealth to create new mini-districts."
Enrollment at school districts like Vestavia Hills and Mountain Brook are growing and leaving Birmingham with a smaller and poorer student body, according to the report.
The Fault Lines report states Birmingham City Schools had 41,839 students in 1994-95 but by 2013-14 that number had dropped 41 percent to only 24,858 students.
Over that same time period, enrollment in Vestavia Hills City Schools grew by 61 percent, from 4,164 to 6,762 students, and Mountain Brook grew by 23 percent, from 3,650 students to 4,477 students.
"The ramifications of such enrollment shifts have an impact on many urban districts throughout the country, Birmingham included, leaving them increasingly poor and under-enrolled, while wealthier, suburban neighbors like Vestavia Hills and Mountain Brook are often unaffected," the report states. "Of all the barriers Birmingham's students must overcome, the district borders arguably are most harmful."
Surprisingly, Alabama is the only southern state on the list (unless you count Kentucky).
Sibilia told NPR that her team expected to see more income segregation in the South. But one explanation could be that in much of the South, county borders also act as school district borders, she said.
The Fault Lines report is based on an EdBuild algorithm that identified all 33,500 school districts in the country and compared their school-aged child poverty rates.
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Anderson Lloyd represents Otago Polytechnic in New Zealand’s first judgment ordering a court-ordered enforceable undertaking
On 18 June 2020 Judge Kevin Phillips delivered a judgment sentencing Otago Polytechnic for an offence under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015. Instead of ordering a significant fine, the judgment ordered New Zealand’s first ever court-ordered enforceable undertaking.
Otago Polytechnic, represented by James Cowan and John Farrow from our Employment Team, pleaded guilty to a charge under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 (Act) after a carpentry student suffered a partial amputation to a finger on his left hand following an incident involving a draw saw. The draw saw was inadequately guarded and earlier risk assessments had failed to identify the guarding as a health and safety risk.
A court-ordered enforceable undertaking (court-ordered EU) is a sentencing option available under the Act. An order for a court-ordered EU involves the court requiring an offender to give an undertaking that the offender will complete specified conditions within a timeframe of up to two years.
A court-ordered EU means money that would otherwise be used to pay a fine (in this case from one Crown entity to another) is instead spent on activities such as health and safety training.
WorkSafe New Zealand (as prosecutor) opposed the court-ordered EU and has a published operational policy which confirms it will not support court-ordered EUs.
Otago Polytechnic sought and was successfully ordered to give a court-ordered EU on terms that it would:
Complete an awareness raising campaign promoting safety;
Deliver safety training courses including to construction industry workers; and
Provide scholarships for construction courses.
Court-ordered EUs are unlikely to be common, but are at the court’s discretion and will sometimes be an appropriate and proportionate outcome in sentencing under the Act.
Otago Polytechnic is uniquely placed to be in a position to deliver the undertaking activities. The court-ordered EU activities will be beneficial in promoting construction industry safety as Dunedin readies itself for the upcoming construction boom.
WorkSafe New Zealand v Otago Polytechnic [2020] NZDC 11114
ODT article I Otago Polytechnic landmark ruling after student injured
RNZ article I Otago Polytechnic convicted after student’s finger partially amputated
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PDF version: New Zealand’s first judgment ordering a court-ordered enforceable undertaking
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Charlie Parker: Charlie Parker: The Complete Masters 1941-54
The Complete Masters 1941-54
It is possible that more "complete" collections of the work of Charlie Parker have been released than there were recordings made by the saxophonist. And as you beat your way through the box set undergrowth, caution is required. Few of the collections are, in fact, complete, even within the parameters (complete live, complete studio, complete with strings, etc) by which they define themselves. In the hands of record company marketing departments, "complete" can take on a stretchability that would be the envy of Marvel Comics' Elastic Man.
Universal France's 13-disc set, The Complete Masters 1941-54 is more complete than most, with only a few omissions within its parameters. It is left to the purchaser to work out, however, what those parameters are; no definition of "complete masters" is given in the 68-page liner booklet. What it seems to mean is: the complete studio master takes made under Parker's or others' leadership and released during Parker's lifetime or shortly after his death, plus selected tracks from the far greater number of live, broadcast, "unofficial" or private recordings (the content on discs 12 and 13).
So, for instance, all 14 "masters" comprising the two original albums titled Charlie Parker With Strings (Mercury, 1950) are included, but not the ten additional "master takes" included on Verve's 1995 reissue, Charlie Parker With Strings: The Master Takes. So, too, only one track ("Wee") is included from the "unofficial" live album Jazz At Massey Hall (Debut, 1953), on which Parker was originally credited as Charlie Chan to avoid contract violation.
Because The Complete Masters 1941-54 cuts out the many alternate takes, works in progress and band or recording breakdowns which have been added to Parker's posthumous releases, it is an ideal starting point for anyone venturing into the thicket of "complete" Parker collections: it is 24 carat from start to finish. Almost all of the original-release, studio master takes Parker recorded under his own name—for Savoy, Dial, Mercury, Norgran, Verve and Clef—are included; so too are almost all of those made under the leadership, actual or titular, of trumpeters Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis, guitarist Tiny Grimes, pianist Clyde Hart and others, along with early outings in bands led by pianists Jay McShann, Slim Gaillard and Sir Charles Thompson and vibraphonist Red Norvo.
The live, broadcast, "unofficial" or private recordings compiled on discs 12 and 13 throw up some less celebrated gems. The berserk 1947 recording of Dixieland warhorse "Tiger Rag" made with Barry Ulanov and His All Star Metronome Jazzmen; once heard, not to be forgotten (though not necessarily to be replayed often). Two incandescent live cuts ("Move" and "The Street Beat") broadcast from the Birdland club in June 1950 with trumpeter Fats Navarro, pianist Bud Powell, bassist Curly Russell and drummer Art Blakey. The searing solo entrance Parker makes to "April In Paris," broadcast from the Café Society club in the spring or summer of 1950, which silences the chattering audience in a beat. Four great tracks ("Hot House," "Be-Bop," "Oop Bop Sh'Bam" and "Anthropology") made with a variety of line-ups including a septet with vibraphonist Milt Jackson ("Anthropology"), broadcast from the Royal Roost club between December 1948 and March 1949.
The Complete Masters 1941-54 delivers a muthalode of some of most exciting jazz recorded up to the mid-1950s or since. No "bonus" tracks, just the solid gold real deal with which Parker and his fellow travelers revolutionized jazz. And the immaculate disc mastering, by Studio 101, does the material justice.
Tracks: CD1: 1941-1945: Swingmatism; Hootie Blues; Dexter Blues; Lonely Boy Blues; The Jumpin' Blues; Sepian Bounce; Tiny's Tempo; I'll Always Love You Just The Same; Romance Without Finance; Red Cross; What's The Matter Now; I Want Every Bit Of It; That's The Blues; G.I. Blues; Dream Of You; Seventh Avenue; Sorta Kinda; Ooh Ooh My My Ooh Ooh; Groovin' High; All The Things You Are; Dizzy Atmosphere; CD2: 1945: Salt Peanuts; Shaw 'Nuff; Lover Man; Hot House; What More Can A Woman Do?; I'd Rather Have A Memory Than A Dream; Mean To Me; Hallelujah; Get Happy; Slam Slam Blues; Congo Blues; Takin' Off; If I Had You; 20th Century Blues; The Street Beat; Warming Up A Riff; Billie's Bounce; Now's The Time; Thriving On A Riff; Ko-Ko; Meandering. CD3: 1945-1947: Dizzy's Boogie; Flag Foot Floogie; Popity Pop; Slim's Jam; Diggin' Diz; Moose the Mooche; Yardbird Suite; Ornithology; A Night In Tunisia (The Famous Alto Break); A Night In Tunisia; Max Making Wax; Lover Man; The Gypsy; Bebop (Dizzy's Fingers); Home Cooking 3 (I Got Rhythm); Homecooking 2 (Cherokee); Homecooking 1 (Opus); This Is Always; Dark Shadows; Bird's Nest; Cool Blues (Hot Blues); Cool Blues (Blow Top Blues); Cool Blues. CD4: 1947: Relaxin' At Camarillo; Cheers; Carvin' The Bird; Stupendous; Donna Lee; Chasin' The Bird; Cheryl; Buzzy; Milestones; Little Willie Leaps In; Half Nelson; Sippin' At Bells; Dexterity; Bongo Bop; Dewey Square; The Hymn; Bird Of Paradise; Embraceable You (Take A); Embraceable You (Take B); Bird Feathers; Klactoveesedstene; Scrapple From The Apple. CD5: 1947-1948: My Old Flame; Out Of Nowhere; Don't Blame Me; Driftin' On A Reed (Big Foot); Quasimodo; Charlie's Wig; Bongo Beep; Crazeology; How Deep Is The Ocean?; Another Hairdo; Bluebird; Klaunstance; Bird Gets The Worm; Repetition; The Bird; Barbados; Ah-Leu-Cha; Constellation; Parker's Mood; Perhaps; Marmaduke; Steeplechase; Merry-Go-Round. CD6: 1948-1949: No Noise Parts 1 and 2; Mango Mangue; Overtime (Short Version); Victory Ball (Short Version; Overtime (Long Version); Victory Ball (Long Version); Okiedokie; Cardboard; Visa; Segment; Passport (Version 1); Passport (Version 2); Diverse (Segment); Just Friends; Everything Happens To Me; April In Paris; Summertime; I Didn't Know What Time It Was; If I Should Lose You. CD7: 1950: Star Eyes; Blues (Fast); I'm In The Mood For Love; Bloomdido; An Oscar For Treadwell; Mohawk; My Melancholy Baby; Leap Frog; Relaxin' With Lee; Dancing In The Dark; Out Of Nowhere; Laura; East Of The Sun (And West Of The Moon); They Can't Take That Away From Me; Easy To Love; I'm In The Mood For Love; I'll Remember April; Celebrity; Ballade. CD8: 1950-1951: Afro-Cuban Jazz Suite; Cancion; Mambo Part 1; Mambo Part 2; 6/8; Jazz; Rhumba Abierta; Au Privave; She Rote; K.C. Blues; Star Eyes; My Little Suede Shoes; Un Poquito De Tu Amor; Fiesta; Why Do I Love You?; Blues For Alice; Si Si; Swedish Schnapps; Back Home Blues; Lover Man. CD9: 1952: Temptation; Lover; Autumn In New York; Stella By Starlight; Mama Inez; La Cucaracha; Begin The Beguine; La Paloma; Night And Day; Almost Like Being In Love; I Just Can't Get Started; What Is This Thing Called Love?; The Song Is You (I Hear Music); Laird Baird; Kim; Cosmic Rays. CD10: 1952: Jam Blues; What Is This Thing Called Love?; Ballad Medley (All The Things You Are, Dearly Beloved, The Nearness Of You); Funky Blues. CD11: 1953-1954: Compulsion; The Serpent's Tooth 1; The Serpent's Tooth 2; 'Round About Midnight; In The Still Of The Night; Old Folks; If I Love Again; Chi-Chi; I Remember You; Now's The Time; Confirmation; I Get A Kick Out Of You; Just One Of Those Things; My Heart Belongs To Daddy; I've Got You Under My Skin; Love For Sale; I Love Paris. CD12: 1940-1946 Broadcasts, Concerts, Private Recordings: Moten Swing; Coqette; Oh Lady Be Good!; Honeysuckle Rose; I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles; Cherokee; Cherokee; Ko-Ko; My Heart Tells Me (Should I Believe My Heart?); I Found A New Baby; Body And Soul; Floogie Boo; Dizzy Atmosphere; Groovin' High; Shaw 'Nuff; I Can't Get Started; After You've Gone. CD13: 1947-1953 Broadcasts, Concerts, Private Recordings: 52nd Street Theme; Groovin' High; Tiger Rag; Hot House; Be Bop (Dizzy's Fingers); Oop Bop Sh'Bam; Anthropology; April In Paris; Move; The Street Beat; Cool Blues; 'Round Midnight; A Night In Tunisia; Wee; Don't Blame Me; Now's The Time.
Personnel: Charlie Parker: alto saxophone, tenor saxophone; various lineups.
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25 Hidden Celebrity Talents The World Never Knew (Until Today)
By Bibhu Prasad Panda December 8, 2020No Comments
When we think of actors, we see them as talented in only one skill – acting. Musicians are seen to be only good at writing and/or singing songs. But what if we told you some celebrities are true over-achievers. They have secret and unique talents you never knew.
Angelina Jolie – Knife Throwing
You thought she was just a brilliant actress with an even more brilliant cheekbone structure? Angelina Jolie has trained for years in the art of Knife Throwing. She honed her skills while filming for the Tomb Raider movies.
Pierce Brosnan – Fire-Spitting & Painting
He may be one of most hated James Bond actors. But Pierce Brosnan is not just an actor. The suave and stylish celebrity is a well-known fire eater. He has shown his fire spitting skills on various talk shows. He is also an accomplished painter.
Neil Patrick Harris – Magician
Barney from How i met your Mother has always had this magical charm. Neil Patrick Harris took that charm and turned it into a lifelong hobby.
Harrison Ford – Hollywood’s Most Accomplished Pilot
Interesting fact about Harrison Ford – He originally wanted to be a pilot. But due to financial constraints, he had to leave his pursuit of becoming a pilot midway. After becoming one of the industry’s highest paid actors, Ford retook his flying lessons. He is now trained to fly everything from a Cessna to a Commercial Cargo Freighter.
Jamie Lee Curtis – Inventor
Jamie Lee Curtis is not just a pretty face. She is the sole inventor of a device that is a life-saver for moms everywhere. She invented a diaper with a water-proof compartment to hold baby wipes. She patented her invention. Companies that approached the actor were instructed to only use biodegradable materials. The patent soon expired and her invention never saw the light of day.
Steve Martin – Grammy Award Winner
He was won an Emmy, Grammy, and an Oscar, just inches away from bagging a Tony and becoming a member of the coveted EGOT club. The popular comedian won his Grammy for his Best Bluegrass Album “The Crow: New Songs For The 5 String Banjo”. Yep he knows how to play the Banjo.
Matthew Perry – Nationally Ranked Tennis Player
Although he never managed to defeat Monica in Foosball, Matthew Perry is a Pro level Tennis Player. He was selected for the State level junior team as well.
Geena Davis – Olympic Level Archer
The Fly actor is an Olympian. She is a skilled archer. She was part of the 1999 Olympic Archery event. Geena Davis was a semi-finalist.
Margot Robbie – Tattoo Artist
She wowed the audience with her tattooed version of Harley Quinn in Birds Of prey. But Margot Robbie is the real deal when it comes to the art. She is a celebrity tattoo artist. Amongst the nearly 100 celebs she has tattooed, one of them is her Suicide Squad co-star Cara Delevingne.
Jennifer Garner – Saxophone Expert
The Elektra and Alias star claims she is as skilled as a Hillbilly. One of her prime hobbies and skills is with the Saxophone, which she uses on sets to entertain her fellow co-stars.
Cara Delevingne – Beatboxing
She is not just someone who made thick eyebrows vogue again. Cara Delevingne’s beatboxing skills are legendary. Rapper Black thought of The roots was stupefied after hearing her in The Tonight Show.
Ellen Page – Expert Juggler
Page has won numerous awards for her marvelous works in Juno and The Umbrella Academy. But did you know she is is very good at juggling. Not the metaphorical one, we mean the real skill. Just take a look at the pic and you will know.
Ed O’Neill – Black Belt In Jiu-Jitsu
He made his name after starring in shows like Married…With children and Modern family. He also knows his way around the fighting arena. Ed O’Neill is a martial artist. He is a Black belt in the Brazilian Martial Arts form.
Andrew Garfield – Gymnast
The Amazing Spider-Man star was once a skilled gymnast. As a matter of fact, he even participated in competitive gymnastics as a teen. That was part of the reason why Sony chose him to become the next Peter Parker.
Rachel Weisz – Unicycle Rider
One of the hottest actors in Hollywood, Rachel Weisz could start a career in the circus if need be. She is very talented in riding the uni-cycle. Other actors who are known to have the skill are Harry Potter‘s Rupert Grint and 17 Again’s Leslie Mann.
Patrick Dempsey – Race Car Driver
When he is not out winning hearts and souls with his sinisterly charming grin, Patrick ‘McDreamy’ Dempsey is out being a race car driver.
Jennifer Lawrence – Talented Mime
Apart from a distinct voice and a commanding character, Lawrence is also gifted in the art of enacting silence. Her miming skills are second to none.
Justin Bieber – Rubik’s Cube Specialist
The singer is a Rubik’s Cube genius. He can solve the cube in under 2 minutes!!
Christopher Walken – Lion Tamer
The was his profession until the age of 16. The Prophecy star regularly talks about his past profession in vivid detail in talk shows.
Taylor Lautner – Competitive Martial Arts Champion
How many of you know Taylor Lautner earned his black belt in Karate at the tender age of 8? He went on to compete in various national elevl events. That was before he joined Twilight and the rest is history.
Susan Sarandon – Ping Pong
Susan Sarandon is surprisingly passionate about the sport. In 2009, she opened up a chain of Ping Pong clubs with her then boyfriend Jonathan Bricklin.
Bob Dylan – Metalworks
The legendary singer and song-writer of 20th century hails from a small town in Minnesota. He credits his humble beginnings as a child the reason why he is so into metalworks when he is not writing the next super hit song.
Mike Tyson – Pigeon Racing
Mike Tyson may be the toughest and roughest inside the ring. But when he is in his home, he likes to show off his sweet side. Mike tyson is well-versed in the suburban art form of pigeon racing.
Tom Cruise – Fencing
Tom Cruise is Hollywood royalty. The seemingly ageless actor has a private room in his sprawling mansion where he practices the art of fencing. Sometimes his friends like Will Smith and David Beckham join in.
Charlie Sheen – Inventor
Actor Charlie Sheen keeps jumping into and out of controversies. he has other skills though. He once invented and patented a Chapstick dispenser that you can use one handed, without removing the cap. He created the device for use by car drivers who needed to have a hand on the steering wheel.
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Innovative by Design
by ANSYS Staff
Over the past decade, the name “Dyson” has become synonymous with product innovation. This privately held British company has revolutionized many familiar household products, from vacuum cleaners to hair dryers, by questioning their most foundational design principles. How does this phenomenally successful company maintain the energy and drive of a startup? And how has Dyson created a culture of risk-taking and innovation? Dimensions spoke with Jimmy Lirvat, who heads the aerodynamic research team at Dyson, about these and other topics.
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The story behind Dyson’s incredible global success has become the stuff of legend. In 1978, frustrated with the performance of his household vacuum cleaner, James Dyson disassembled it — then set out to create a better design. While touring a sawmill, he saw the air being cleaned by industrial-sized centrifugal separators and wondered if this same “cyclone” technology might be applied to household vacuums. Five years and 5,127 prototypes later, Dyson had revolutionized an entire product category by inventing the world’s first bagless vacuum cleaner. To date, Dyson has sold more than 10 million vacuum cleaners (corded and cordless) in 70 countries.
But that’s not the whole story. Dyson has also broken new ground with its innovative designs for self-activated commercial hand dryers and bladeless residential fans. In 2016, Dyson rewrote the engineering rules for hair dryers with its Dyson Supersonic, which delivers an enormous amount of drying power in a sleek, lightweight design. The company has reinvented and reenergized many common household appliances whose designs had remained unchanged for decades.
"While Dyson has brought innovation to many product categories, the process always begins with asking, ‘How can we do it better?’” says Jimmy Lirvat, who leads the aerodynamic research team at Dyson’s headquarters in Malmesbury, Wiltshire, England. “We look at a product like a household fan and ask, ‘How can we move more air? How can we eliminate air turbulence? How can we reduce the number of mechanical parts that might eventually fail?’ Our engineers are not constrained by any accepted design principles — such as the notion that a fan needs to have blades. That’s how we arrive at game-changing innovations. When you throw out everything you think you know about a product like a fan, there’s no telling what might happen. That philosophy gives our product development team incredible freedom."
According to Lirvat, nearly two decades after James Dyson noticed problems with his vacuum cleaner, his company still encourages engineers to deconstruct existing products and question their underlying concept. With a worldwide staff of 2,000 engineers, Dyson is constantly pushing the boundaries of product development and exploring new areas of innovation.
Case in Point: The Dyson Supersonic
For example, the Dyson Supersonic hair dryer began with a couple of simple questions: Why do all hair dryers look alike? And how could the Dyson product development team radically improve a design that has been unchanged since the 1960s?
Dyson engineers began by studying the science of hair. They analyzed exactly how human hair dries, how it becomes shiny, and how it can be subjected to heat and air without being damaged. They consulted with hairdressers. They bought more than 1,000 miles of human hair samples — creating a global hair shortage — and tested them in labs that were built from scratch. Four years and £38 million (about $47 million US) later, the Dyson Supersonic hair dryer was launched to global acclaim.
Powered by an approximately one-inch V9 digital motor and an air compressor that is positioned in the dryer’s handle, the Supersonic is capable of delivering 13 liters of air per second. But it is incredibly lightweight and easy for both consumers and professionals to use.
"If you look at the Supersonic, it looks nothing like previous product incarnations, which is business as usual for Dyson,” says Ludovic Desvard, who heads the aero/acoustics/ compressor research department. “By beginning with a surprising design concept — moving the compressor to the dryer’s handle — Dyson has been able to rethink the size, weight and efficiency of the conventional hair dryer."
Desvard notes that more than 100 engineers, including many from his department, worked on the Supersonic’s design over a four-year period. The company also partnered with aerodynamics and acoustics experts at leading universities. “At Dyson, we’re committed to devoting the appropriate human resources to a design project that we believe in,” states Desvard. “If specialized expertise is needed, it will be found and leveraged to bring a new product to market successfully.”
The process always begins with asking,
"How can we do it better?"
Product Innovation via Engineering Innovation
That commitment extends to engineering technology investments as well. "Because we're an innovative company, Dyson has an appreciation for leading-edge technology," Desvard explains. "Dyson tends to seek out and apply the most advanced engineering solutions, including engineering simulation."
While James Dyson built 5,127 physical prototypes of his original vacuum cleaner design, since 1998 the company has relied on simulation software from ANSYS to design and test products in a virtual space. Not only has engineering simulation helped reduce the time and cost involved in product development, but Lirvat notes that it also supports the idea of "reinvention" that's so central to Dyson's commitment to innovation. Simulation allows for the multiple, rapid-fire design iterations that are needed to achieve a complete redesign of a traditional product.
"Simulation helps us investigate numerous degrees of freedom and minimize the time involved in optimizing our designs."
"If we're talking about a radical concept — like removing the blades from a residential fan — that's much easier to visualize and accomplish in a simulated environment. As engineers, we can quickly assess and reject dozens of ways to achieve this, without any degree of risk or financial exposure," Lirvat states.
"Pushing the limits of design can be time-consuming and expensive when you're talking about building a physical model," Lirvat continues. "But, with ANSYS software, we can come up with crazy ideas and make mistakes quickly, without any significant consequences. That frees our engineering team to be extremely creative."
When Dyson does produce a physical prototype, the company relies on advanced prototyping technologies such as 3-D printing. "While simulation is invaluable, building stuff is in the DNA of Dyson," says Lirvat. "Thanks to 3-D printing, we can now make a prototype in less than a week. We can test that product, experience what the user will experience, then feed that back into the engineering simulation process."
Adds Lirvat, "Physical prototypes will always have value, because we're not just concerned with whether products work on a mechanical or aerodynamic level — we're trying to create an entirely different consumer experience. But today, prototyping and simulation work closely together in a back-and-forth process. We create a design using simulation, we quickly make and test a prototype, then we take our findings and apply them to the next simulation."
Dyson tends to seek out and apply the most advanced engineering solutions, including engineering simulation
Fostering the Creative Spirit
Lirvat points out that Dyson's commitment to innovation doesn't end with the engineering department. Founded with a spirit of creativity, the company clearly places an emphasis on the unconventional. "If you visit our employee cafeteria, you'll see a World War II military aircraft hanging from the ceiling," he says. "And there are similar unexpected objects across our campus in Malmesbury. If we're taking a disruptive approach to product design, it only makes sense to create a physical environment that's interesting and surprising."
The company specifically recruits employees who are creative, passionate and able to communicate their ideas effectively. "You can have the best concept in the world, but you need to express that concept to others and work as a team to bring it to market," Lirvat points out. "We're really a closely knit community, and we have a lot of fun."
One unexpected, but regular, occurrence is catching a glimpse of founder James Dyson. "While many executives of James' stature might be enjoying some time off, James is very much a presence here at Dyson today," notes Lirvat. "He is still passionate, still in meetings, still rolling up his sleeves and working alongside us. His commitment to entrepreneurship and innovation is really an inspiration for every engineer who works here. He ensures that, even with 7,000 global employees, this company still feels like a disruptive startup."
About Jimmy Lirvat
After graduating as an aerospace engineer in Toulouse, Jimmy Lirvat joined the Oxfordshire headquarters of the Renault F1 team where he used modeling and simulation to develop the twice World Champion car. He later worked with Renault on more traditional road cars. He currently manages the aerodynamics research team of Dyson and looks after a variety of problems that includes all categories of Dyson products.
About Ludovic Desvard
Ludovic Desvard graduated as a mechanical engineer in France before completing a Ph.D. in acoustics and vibration in collaboration with Renault. He joined Dyson seven years ago as a noise and vibration engineer, and now leads a team of experts in the fields of acoustics, fluid dynamics and compressor development. The main focus of the team is to ensure the steady delivery of new technologies, fundamental understanding and lean methodologies to fuel the pipeline of new products across all categories in Dyson.
Dyson at a Glance
2015 revenues: £1.74 billion
Number of employees: 7,000
Headquarters: Malmesbury, Wiltshire, England
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March 23, 2016 | Adjournment matter
Rosanna – Banyule Roads
My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Roads and Road Safety, and the action I seek is that the minister assess and fund safety improvements for pedestrians at the traffic light intersection at Banyule and Rosanna roads, Rosanna. I note from an article in the Heidelberg Leader, ‘Young lives at risk — mum pleads for safety’:
A worried mum is begging Banyule council to step in before someone is killed by speeding cars running red lights at a busy Rosanna Road intersection.
And while authorities have a plan to fix the dangerous crossing, no level of government has stumped up the money needed to solve the growing problem.
Ms Cassar has two young children — a three-year-old who attends kinder and a six-year-old prep at Banyule Primary School — and both have to cross the rat-run arterial road.
‘The number of times that I and other parents have not only witnessed but almost had to pull our children back from cars racing through red lights at that intersection is beyond belief’, Ms Cassar said.
Last week I was with Ms Zoe Cassar at that intersection and understand why perhaps it does not meet the warrants for a supervised crossing, because most parents would make sure that they do not allow their children to cross at that intersection, given the danger. We do need to improve pedestrian access and safety at that intersection, just as we do at Darebin Street and Rosanna Road near Heidelberg Primary School, which actually has a supervised crossing, but there is no 40-kilometre zone there. There are no flashing lights or warnings for motorists that they need to slow down, yet that is a supervised crossing. I know that because we take our daughter across the road to the Goodstart childcare centre, and we have a rule that we do not walk across that crossing; we drive across and park out the front of the childcare centre because of the risk at that intersection.
That is outside a school-supervised crossing, but the maximum speed there is 60 kilometres per hour. There is no 40-kilometres-per-hour zone there. That is another issue, but it just shows that we need to improve safety along Rosanna Road and we need to improve access for pedestrians.
I note that VicRoads, in its comments to the Heidelberg Leader, said that it had developed a road safety proposal for Rosanna Road. That is something that I think needs to be actioned by the government, and the minister needs to take a closer look at that. We have worked hard to implement our election commitment for a curfew on trucks on Rosanna Road, which has been in place for some time now and has alleviated many issues for residents. But what is important is that families in Rosanna — and I am a Rosanna resident — want to cross the road and get to Banyule Primary School, so the intersection of Rosanna Road and Banyule Road needs to be improved.
Banyule City Council has indicated that it does not want to involve itself in this matter. I am not interested in buck shoving. My view is that local elected representatives have to defend and advance the interests of their community and they have to take responsibility. I will continue to work with Rosanna residents to ensure these matters are dealt with and that we improve safety at that intersection for all pedestrians. I know that the Minister for Roads and Road Safety will act on this matter. I look forward to continuing to work with him to resolve this issue.
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ANOTHER OUTSTANDING YEAR OF GCSE RESULTS
We are delighted to report another successful year of GCSE results, with 100% of pupils achieving at least five GCSE passes graded 9-4 (including Maths and English), with 75% of pupils securing at least nine GCSE passes in total.
Andrew McCleave, Headmaster at Ballard School, said:
“I am so pleased that our pupils have achieved the grades they deserve. Every single pupil has gained five GCSE passes at a grade of 9-4, with the majority receiving over nine GCSE passes in total. A considerable number of pupils have achieved the top grades of 9 to 7 with 47% of grades achieved by girls were grades 9-7 grades; three of our young people gained 10 passes at these top grades.
“Ballard’s teachers worked tirelessly to ensure the predicted grades were fair and just. Owing to this, we have seen a number of results upgraded by the OFQUAL exam algorithm. Overall, grades are 5% higher than we initially predicted.
“We are all immensely proud of each and every Year 11 pupil, some of whom have been with us since nursery.”
The School enjoyed particular success, achieving 9-7 grade passes across all subjects, including the following: Food Technology (91%), Physics (71%), Chemistry (65%), Geography (65%), Design & Technology (58%), Spanish (54%), and Art (50%).
Andrew McCleave continued:
“The results achieved mean that all pupils can now continue their academic and personal development at their first choice post-16 option. On behalf of the School, I’d like to wish all of our Year 11 pupils the best in the future. We look forward to marking the end of their Ballard journey officially with a prom and our annual GCSE certificate evening, later in the year.
“This has been a challenging year for every pupil here, but there have been many silver linings. I am very proud of the entire Ballard family for how we have all shown such resilience through this unsettling period. Our whole school community very quickly adapted to remote learning, we kept everyone connected through remote sports and arts initiatives, and we all celebrated being shortlisted for ‘Co-educational School of the Year’.”
Ballard has also seen a 10% increase in this year’s admissions as a result of its continued educational achievements, extra-curricular activities, successful online learning during lockdown, and the bespoke and holistic education on offer. Andrew McCleave said:
“Our year-on-year success has been highlighted in the increase in admissions; 88 new pupils are joining the Ballard family in September. Parents are joining us having been very impressed with our remote learning during lockdown, the broad range of experiences on offer, and most importantly, our continued exam success.”
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SuperCoach BBL: Ultimate final week checklist
Final week checklist and all the latest BBL news you need to know
by SC Plus Article
6th Dec 2020 7:09 AM
We're just days away from the start of BBL and that means it's time to get your KFC SuperCoach team sorted.
In this week's exclusive SC Plus article, to help get your Round 1 side in order, I've compiled a last-minute checklist, covering all the latest news, the must-have players and all the little things to remember - especially if you are new to the BBL version of KFC SuperCoach.
Pick Glenn Maxwell
Even if you didn't see his three ODI innings against India - 45, 63* and 59 - you should still be picking Maxwell ($185k BAT-BWL) in a double-game round. He averages 32.87, with a highest score of 145 not out and a strike rate of 158, at T20I level and he's taken 28 wickets in 65 matches. He's prone to the odd low KFC SuperCoach scorer but you could really fall behind if you don't have him.
Pick Marcus Stoinis
Maxwell has the better international record but last year's second-ranked KFC SuperCoach scorer, Stoinis ($186k BAT-BWL) could open the batting - twice - for the Stars in the opening round. And he's been bowling well, taking 3/26 three days after he blasted 65 of 46 balls in the latter stages of the IPL.
Marcus Stoinis KFC SuperCoach BBL stats
But monitor his injury
Stoinis sustained a side injury bowling during the first ODI against India. There's been no official word on whether it will affect his BBL campaign, but keep your eyes peeled.
Speaking of injury, Scorchers coach Adam Voges has said it would be a 'bonus' if Mitch Marsh ($164k BAT-BWL) was ready for the BBL opener.
The other Stars to consider
As I've alluded to above, double-game rounds are key to KFC SuperCoach BBL - and Melbourne Stars kick the year off with two matches in Round 1. Aussie spinner Adam Zampa ($184,100 BWL) is right behind Maxwell and Stoinis as a must-have. He finished with seven wickets in the three ODIs, before taking a very economical 1/20 off his four overs in the first T20.
Nathan Coulter-Nile ($138k BWL), Hilton Cartwright ($115k BAT) and new signing Dilbar Hussain ($62k BWL) are the other three you should be considering.
Scratch Jonny Bairstow from your trade plans
Unfortunately, one of the BBL's main attractions this summer won't make it here after all, following his recall to England's Test side. Bairstow wasn't set to land in the BBL until late December, anyway, so it shouldn't - at least I hope - affect your Round 1 team. But it's time to work towards another upgrade target.
Andre Fletcher will be here instead
As excited as I was to see Bairstow in my KFC SuperCoach team, I think the switch is a win. Experienced West Indies T20 gun Andre Fletcher ($138K WKP-BAT ), who was part of his country's 2016 T20 World Cup winning team, will be Bairstow's replacement at the Stars. Even better, he's a WKP-BAT in KFC SuperCoach and will be here for the Round 1 double.
West Indies teammate Nicholas Pooran will not
Despite the completion of the white-ball series, allowing for Fletcher's arrival for the start of the tournament, his star teammate Pooran ($175k BAT-WKP) will remain in New Zealand as part of the West Indies A side. He's a player you will want when he lands at the Stars, though.
Don't start with Mujeeb
He's the second-ranked T20 international bowler, but Mujeeb Ur Rahman ($116k BWL) has been diagnosed with COVID-19 while serving his mandatory 14-day quarantine period and is now in doubt for the Heat's opening three matches.
Same goes with Nabi and Ahmad
Renegades pair Mohammad Nabi ($191k BAT-BWL) and Noor Ahmad ($62k BWL) are also set to miss the first couple of games of the tournament with their quarantine period set to delay their arrival in Hobart. And popular Stars spinner Zahir Khan ($130k BWL) is another who is likely to miss Round 1 because of similar issues.
And don't plan for Tom Banton
In a blow for the long-term trade plans of KFC SupeCoaches, the English batsman has been granted a release from his Heat contract due to the strain of a year of biosecurity bubbles and COVID induced tension.
D'Arcy Short KFC SuperCoach BBL stats
Don't forget about Rounds 2 and 3
We've talked about Round 1 - and rightly so - but with the Hurricanes and Strikers set to dominate the following two rounds, you need to be planning ahead. Adelaide has the bye in Round 1 and it's unlikely you can afford to carry Rashid Khan ($192k BWL) on the bench, even with consecutive double-games in Rounds 2 and 3. But stashing Matt Short ($65k BAT) could be something to consider. And if you're happy with your team balance, you could do the same with Danny Briggs ($138K BWL) and Jake Weatherald ($122k BAT). Back to Khan, though, you just can't go without him from Round 2 onwards, so work out now who you will trade him in for after the first lockout ends.
Hobart's Round 2 double makes D'Arcy Short ($245k BAT-BWL) a no-brainer, even at the top-price. The same goes for England all-rounder Will Jacks ($148k BAT-BWL), who was named player of the recent Vitality Blast. Power-hitter Colin Ingram ($125k BAT) is also likely to play a big role for the Hurricanes early in BBL10.
Chris Lynn.
That's it.
But, seriously, reconsider him
After blasting 20 sixes on his way to 154 of 55 balls for Toombul in Queensland Premier Cricket T20 game last week, Lynn ($132k BAT) made not one, but two, more rapid-fire centuries for his club on Saturday. Lynn pummelled 104 of 41 balls in the morning before hitting 143 of 43, a knock which included 14 sixes, in the second game later in the afternoon. And, if you didn't realise, he's severely under-priced after a disappointing BBL09.
Chris Lynn KFC SuperCoach BBL stats
What about his 'Bash Brother' Max Bryant?
He's had a nice tune-up, too. And, like Lynn, is coming off an inconsistent tournament last summer, which has seen him hold his rookie price-tag. Bryant ($68k BAT) also blasted two tons on Saturday, making 123 of 52 balls and 132 not out of 68 in his two appearances.
Speaking of form, do you have Dan Christian?
In Thursday's practice match against the Thunder, Christian ($105k BAT-BWL) showed why his price-tag is a bargain. The 37-year-old, who is coming off a lacklustre BBL09, smacked 10 sixes on his way to 100 of 33 balls, before chiming in two wickets off his own.
He's likely to play Tom Curran's role in the Sixers side for the opening month of the tournament, too.
Will you be starting with Aaron Finch in KFC SuperCoach? Picture: Scott Barbour/AAP
What about Aaron Finch?
He's expensive but Finch ($185k BAT) be available all tournament and his white-ball form against India so far - 115, 60 and 75 in the ODIs as well as top-scoring for the Aussies with the 35 in the opening T20 - proves why he will be towards the top for overall points.
Make sure you are across the international schedule
If you don't already know, Tom Curran (owned by 26.4% of teams), Liam Livingstone (10.5%) and Dawid Malan (8.9%) won't be in the country for the start of the tournament.
Matthew Wade (15.5%) will definitely be preparing for the first Test, while Cam Green (32% of teams), Will Pucovski (28.2%) and Sean Abbott (10.2%) are in the squad. Get across it, my friends.
Originally published as SuperCoach BBL: Ultimate final week checklist
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India All India 02 Jul 2020 Delhi sets up plasma bank to treat COVID-19 patients; Kejriwal urges people to help out
Delhi sets up plasma bank to treat COVID-19 patients; Kejriwal urges people to help out
Published : Jul 2, 2020, 4:45 pm IST
Updated : Jul 2, 2020, 4:45 pm IST
The government has set up the plasma bank at the state-run Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences (ILBS).
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. (PTI)
New Delhi: A plasma bank to treat novel coronavirus started functioning in Delhi on Thursday, with Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal saying that COVID-19 patients can donate their plasma 14 days after recovery.
Addressing an online media briefing, Kejriwal said the eligibility for being a plasma donor is "very strict", and hoped that with this bank the number of COVID-19 deaths will decrease in the national capital.
The chief minister said people who have recovered from the virus can contact 1031 and WhatsApp number -- 8800007722 -- where they can get details for plasma donation. The donor will also be given an appreciation letter.
"A government doctor will contact the person willing to donate his plasma and get basic details regarding his medical history and other eligibility requirements.
"Thereafter, the person can come to ILBS to donate his plasma. The government will also bear transportation expenses ," he said.
About eligibility parameters for donors, Kejriwal said that those aged between 18 and 60 and weighing not less than 50 kg can donate their plasma.
He said that a women, who has been pregnant in her life, cannot donate plasma, adding that those people, who take insulin and their blood sugar level is not stable, also cannot be donors.
"Those, who have heart, kidney and lung disease, are not eligible to donate their plasma. People having a complaint of hypertension also cannot donate," he said.
Plasma therapy involves taking antibodies from the blood of a person who has recovered from COVID-19 and transfusing those into a coronavirus infected patient to help kickstart the immune system to fight the infection.
During the briefing, Kejriwal said that plasma bank will be successful only when people come forward to donate their plasma for coronavirus patients.
"Till yesterday, around 58,000 people have so far recovered from the virus. With very strict eligibility, a few people will be left, who can donate their plasma for COVID-19 patients," he also said.
"Plasma will be given based on doctor's prescription and the hospital concerned will have to approach ILBS to get the same. I request people to not approach the plasma bank directly," he added.
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Party house neighbours 'may have a claim in nuisance' if ability to enjoy property is compromised
A solicitor from a Queen Square-based firm has set out the legal rights of those living next to large holiday let homes
Sam Petherick-bathNews editor
Jake Stacey of Mogers Drewett has given his expert opinion on party house legal rights
A Bath solicitor has set out the legal rights that residents of party houses have.
Jake Stacey is an associate solicitor in Mogers Drewett’s dispute resolution team.
He deals with property litigation matters, including trespass, nuisance, property damage and landlord and tenant issues at the Queen Square-based company.
He explains that residents may be entitled to claim for nuisance if their ability to enjoy their house is compromised.
Belvedere residents 'sandwiched' between party houses say Grappa Wine Bar was quieter
Mr Stacey wrote this comment article for the Bath Chronicle:
One of the more prominent issues in the Chronicle recently is the short-term letting of city centre properties to groups of people for events such as stag and hen parties, leading to one wag recently dubbing the phenomenon ‘Hen Houses’.
To date, much of the focus has been on whether such activities should require planning approval and concerns as to fire safety, which are matters of public law, but not much has been said about the private law remedies available to residents on an individual basis.
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The starting point is that a property owner is free to carry out any lawful activity on their land, provided it does not interfere with their neighbour’s ability to enjoy their own property. If the activities of the property owner do interfere with their neighbour’s ability to use and enjoy their property, then the neighbour may have a claim in nuisance.
The law says that in considering whether such conduct constitutes an actionable nuisance, regard must be had to the character of the neighbourhood; what may be lawful in a busy city street populated with bars that open late may not be acceptable in a quiet residential road, for example.
'Heavy-handed red tape' and new £90 fee puts Bath community events at risk, group says
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Even if planning permission or licensing approval has been obtained, it does not necessarily follow that acts which would otherwise be a nuisance are permitted. Essentially the courts will look at the duration and intensity of the matters complained of and will consider whether or not they constitute a nuisance. Whilst the occupiers may only be there for the weekend, the property owners could be liable for causing or permitting a nuisance by the very act of letting.
Where such conduct continues in the face of objections from neighbours, it may be possible to obtain an injunction to prevent a continuing nuisance, and also to claim damages for the interference from the land owners.
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High Noon Flatland Saturday Night (CD)
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High Noon: Flatland Saturday Night (CD)
1-CD Digipak (6-plated) with 40-page booklet, 32 tracks. Total playing time approx. 78 minutes.
32 track compilation of the Rockabilly Trio
Purist vision with modern energy
Extensive liner notes by Bill Smoker
Includes complete discography
Beautifully re-mastered for CD release
Best sound quality for this material ever presented
The music that ignited the contemporary rockabilly scene
In the blistering Austin, Texas summer heat of 1988, High Noon took American roots music by storm with its masterful presentation of real, string band rockabilly. Impassioned vocals, acoustic rhythm guitar, electric lead guitar, and upright slap bass. To hell with the drums, this was rock and roll played the way Elvis, Scotty and Bill had unleashed it on the world in 1954.
Over the next decade, High Noon, the Rockabilly Trio - Shaun Young, Kevin Smith and Sean Mencher - put plenty of sweat into their "back to the beginning" sound. The band seized every opportunity to perform, honing their craft from Austin's clubs and honky tonks to farmer's markets. The band proved the power of great songs played by guys with an encyclopedic knowledge of rock and roll, hillbilly, and rhythm & blues. Suddenly, rockabilly was new again.
Flatland Saturday Night is cherry-picked from High Noon's three Goofin' Records long players. Listen to the title track, Rock Too Slow, I’m Not Blue and Stranger Things and you'll instantly understand High Noon's important contribution to the all-time rockabilly canon. And if you don't find yourself dancing and singing along, you need to see a doctor.
Every track included on the collection is played with intensity and attitude. The High Noon boys proved who they were on their first foray into the studio, knocking out their 11 song debut LP (select cuts presented here) in four hours. Later, on the road through Tennessee, the trio tracked down Scotty Moore for an in-person discussion of how the Sun Studio sounds were developed. Then they made them their own.
From 1988 to 1996, from Helotes to Helsinki, Texarkana to Tokyo, High Noon rocked the world. They joined forces with their first generation rockabilly hero Ronnie Dawson and barnstormed Carnegie Hall. They transported Conan O'Brien's NBC television studio to Monkey Beat City. Then they took a long break. They still convene when the spirit moves them, and their power still leaves audiences Glorybound. Flatland Saturday Night captures the decade when it was High Noon for rockabilly and three cats from Austin cast a long shadow…
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Interpret: High Noon
Album titlle: Flatland Saturday Night (CD)
Genre Rock'n'Roll
Label Bear Family Records
Price code AH
High Noon - Flatland Saturday Night (CD) CD 1
01 Glorybound High Noon
02 Stranger Things High Noon
03 She Forgot Her Memory High Noon
04 When She's Good High Noon
05 Let's Go Daddy-O High Noon
06 Long Empty Stretch Of Highway High Noon
07 My Ex Is Why High Noon
08 Beautiful High Noon
09 Rock Too Slow High Noon
10 Rockin' Wildcat High Noon
11 Rockin' Beauty High Noon
12 Old Habits High Noon
13 Flatland Saturday Night High Noon
14 Bluebonnet Boogie High Noon
15 Not For Nothin' High Noon
16 Rattlesnake Man High Noon
17 Mixed Signal Mama High Noon
18 Fishing Hole Boogie High Noon
19 I'm Not Blue High Noon
20 Gotta Lotta That High Noon
21 Doggone That Cat High Noon
22 Now You're Gonna Be Loved High Noon
23 Comanche Moon High Noon
24 Kiss And Tell Baby High Noon
25 Slow Down Baby High Noon
26 It's The Beat High Noon
27 High On A Hill High Noon
28 Hanging From The Old Oak Tree High Noon
29 My Little Thrill High Noon
30 Call Of The Honky-Tonk High Noon
31 Quick Hand (demo) High Noon
32 My Heart Cries Yes (demo) High Noon
High Noon Sixty years after its heyday, a thriving subculture continues to celebrate... more
"High Noon"
Sixty years after its heyday, a thriving subculture continues to celebrate Rockabilly music in the 21st century, with thousands of fans attending hundreds of festivals and gigs around the world each year. Among the countless bands catering for this audience, those that play in a purely Rockabilly style are often mediocre at best, churning out uninspired covers of the same tired standards. Meanwhile the bands that are good frequently have little discernible Rockabilly in their sound. The Texas trio High Noon achieve the rare distinction of playing a purist vision of Rockabilly that sits firmly within the genre, yet remains modern, innovative and exciting. Despite their relative lack of mainstream fame, Shaun Young, Sean Mencher and Kevin Smith have had an immense influence on generations of revivalist acts, and done more than almost anyone else to revitalise the US Rockabilly movement since the 1980s.
Vocalist Shaun Anthony Young (born 22 January 1969, Wheatridge, Colorado) was first exposed to 1950s music via his parents' record collection. "My Dad is a big Buddy Holly fan and both of my parents love the Everly Brothers. They would sing Everly songs in harmony together when I was young. Mom liked Ray Price, George Jones and Elvis. My dad was stationed in Korea in the early '60s. He had a reel-to-reel recorder that he'd record armed forces radio shows on, and he'd record all of his buddies' LPs. So I got into those things when I was a kid. Those armed forces radio shows were the first place that I heard 'Summertime Blues' by Eddie Cochran. I just really liked that sound. After digging into their records I started to search out stuff myself and found out about Gene Vincent, Johnny Burnette, Sid King and all the classic Rockabilly."
Bassist Kevin W Smith (born 12 December 1967) also found roots music via his parent's records. "My Mom and Dad had records lying around, from Elvis to Willie and Waylon, to bad pop stuff like Supertramp. I loved playing them, and I loved the Elvis stuff the most."
"When I was about 11, I was walking home from school and someone had thrown their parents’ 45s all over the neighbourhood. I grabbed a bunch and took them home to listen to. The best two I found were Buddy Holly and the Beatles. 'She Loves You' and 'Peggy Sue' blew my mind! I wore them both out. The only other music I heard back then was album rock on the radio and it was hard for me to relate to the sound. I wanted to hear the guitars; I wanted to hear the room! The minimalism was what attracted me. A little later, in the early days of MTV, they played punk and roots bands had that minimalist sound and feel that I was craving but never heard on the radio. Then the Stray Cats hit on MTV and put it all together. They hooked me on the modern idea of Rockabilly."
"I met a few Rockabilly guys in Denver about that time, including Todd Wulfmeyer, who had just met Shaun and was joining the Shifters. Pete Nalty from the local band Bop Street worked at Wax Trax records in Denver, and he had great taste in music. Through him I found out about Howling Wolf, Joe Clay, Ronnie Self, Ronnie Dawson etc. The Bop Street guys would sneak us into clubs to see them play (we were underage) and we saw them open for that Paladins. I'd never seen an upright bass player, much less one like Thomas Yearsley. That was what I wanted to do."
Shaun founded the Shifters with some schoolmates in late 1986. They were soon playing local gigs in the Denver area, building up a loyal following among the nascent Rockabilly revival scene that was gaining momentum in the US at that time. By the fall of 1987, Kevin Smith was part of the line-up. "When Todd joined the Shifters, I started going with him to their rehearsals, and their bass player rarely showed up. I knew enough music to get through a couple of tunes on bass, so I eventually got the gig!"
Today, Shaun and Kevin are dismissive of these first forays into professional music, but the little that survives of the Shifters' recordings demonstrates a confidence and ability that belied their callow teenage years. As their reputation grew, bookings came in from further afield, and in January 1988 the Shifters toured through Texas. Amazed by the scale and quality of live music in Austin, in less than a month the band had left the snowy slopes of Colorado behind and relocated permanently to the buzzing city.
At the same time, guitarist Sean Robbin Mencher (born Washington DC, 16 March 1961) was being drawn to Austin for similar reasons. The wide range of roots music acts that pass through Washington, along with a thriving bluegrass scene and local Rockabilly acts such as Tex Rubinowitz and Danny Gatton, had motivated Sean to take up the guitar at 18 years of age. Hours of daily practice led to a distinctive thumb-picking style inspired by his guitar hero Merle Travis, plus a strong jazz influence from players such as Charlie Christian and Oscar Moore. Eager to be a professional musician, it was inevitable that his musical highway would also lead to Texas. It did not take long for his talent to be spotted by the Austin cognoscenti. There were steady bookings with the country band Chaparral and the acclaimed singer Jimmie Dale Gilmore, among others. It was only a matter of time before the new arrivals met.
Sean first saw The Shifters at the Black Cat Lounge in Austin, in the early spring of 1988. He immediately recognised that these were kindred spirits in their musical vision, so he made a beeline for Shaun and Kevin the moment they came off stage. Talking animatedly until late into the night, the three young men explored their mutual passion for mid-‘50s music, and their shared desire to faithfully recreate it. They agreed to get together for a jam session at the earliest opportunity. Kevin picks up the story: "After we got to know Sean a little better, we discussed our common love for the stripped down Sun Records-type sound and got together to play a little. I hadn't really started playing upright yet, but we had a blast! In the mean time, The Shifters had broken up, and Todd and I got offered a chance to play with our friends Bop Street in Denver in their new band called the Jinns. I moved back home and realized that I wanted to play upright, and that might not happen in Denver. I moved back to Austin and we got to work right away."
In the asphalt-melting heat of late August 1988, Shaun, Sean and Kevin gathered in a cramped garage (where else?) in a down-at-heel district of Austin to play together as a band for the first time. They started with the big bang of Rockabilly, by playing all of Elvis Presley's seminal Sun recordings in the order they had been originally released. Moving on to early classics by Buddy Holly, Carl Perkins and others ("a top 40 of Rockabilly " as Shaun describes it), they realised that were creating something special that deserved a wider audience. The band needed a name for their first public performance. Inspired by the western she had seen that afternoon, Sean's then-wife Leslie suggested they be called High Noon. The name stuck.
The trio seized every opportunity to play, with gigs on four or more nights every week. When there was no gig they rehearsed, developing and writing new material. There were early morning outdoor shows at the Austin Farmers Market from 10am to 2pm. The band was paid in produce! A pound of okra or a pound of coffee, it was one way to keep the food bills low.
The trio were certain of their objectives from the outset. "When I see old video of High Noon I'm surprised at how much we sound the same now as then," says Shaun Young. "We did however evolve and refine the sound, becoming better players and songwriters as we went along. I think we all had a certain individual style that just meshed real well and produced a strong combined result." Sean Mencher explains further, "Once we three had found the right ingredients to 'cook' with, we strived to be our best, in service of the sounds and feeling that our favourite rockin' music gave to us. We wanted to make, and contribute, and carry-on the tradition, and share the music. Remember that this was before the internet or mobile telephones. So we searched the hard way, in person, for the answers that would help us in our somewhat quixotic quest. For example, when we toured through Nashville, Tennessee for the first time, I looked up Scotty Moore in the telephone book and we called him from the pay phones at the gas stations. We found out where he was working, drove over there, and inundated him with questions, like 'How did you get the sound? Why did you use a thumb pick? How did Bill Black get the slap sound?' etc."
High Noon's long association with Finland began in May 1989, when they met Janne Haavisto...
High Noon Flatland Saturday Night
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Customer evaluation for "Flatland Saturday Night (CD)"
From: Mika Kuusela On: 4 May 2020
Glory bound?
Everything falls into place with this trio and this compilation: songs, sound and energy. Trust me, hard to find a better neo-rockabilly set.
From: BF Presse On: 3 Nov 2015
Recommended without reservation
Now Dig This 11/15 "As one would expect from Bear Family, the fold-out digipak is furnished with a superb 40-page booklet containing an illustrated biography of the trio. Recommended without reservation."
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Flatland Saturday Night (CD)
01 Glorybound
02 Stranger Things
03 She Forgot Her Memory
04 When She's Good
05 Let's Go Daddy-O
06 Long Empty Stretch Of Highway
07 My Ex Is Why
08 Beautiful
09 Rock Too Slow
10 Rockin' Wildcat
11 Rockin' Beauty
12 Old Habits
13 Flatland Saturday Night
14 Bluebonnet Boogie
15 Not For Nothin'
16 Rattlesnake Man
17 Mixed Signal Mama
18 Fishing Hole Boogie
19 I'm Not Blue
20 Gotta Lotta That
21 Doggone That Cat
22 Now You're Gonna Be Loved
23 Comanche Moon
24 Kiss And Tell Baby
25 Slow Down Baby
26 It's The Beat
27 High On A Hill
28 Hanging From The Old Oak Tree
29 My Little Thrill
30 Call Of The Honky-Tonk
31 Quick Hand (demo)
32 My Heart Cries Yes (demo)
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About Bettina
It’s just not cricket
Well, what about that sea of pink at the cricket last Saturday? So many men in pink showing their support for breast cancer. What a wonderful display of men’s natural chivalry and kindness. But also a brilliant virtue-signalling effort destined to win brownie points from their female companions.
Too cynical? Well, perhaps. Obviously it is very touching that so many people are throwing their support behind the McGrath Foundation’s efforts to raise money for breast cancer. The tragic death of Glenn McGrath’s young wife Jane resonated throughout the cricketing world and it is laudable that so many people are working so hard to save other women from this fate.
But we are now ten years into this fund-raising effort and every year it gets bigger. Not just a pink day anymore but rather a pink test. Five days of fundraising and an amazing $1.3 million extra to support breast cancer nurses around Australia. That’s to add to the $20 million donated by the Turnbull government for the same cause last year. That means plenty of funds to support the 119 McGrath breast cancer nurses now working across Australia – adding to the hundreds funded through government and other sources, now likely well in excess of the 257 cited by a McGrath Foundation 2015 report. Wonderful news for the many women dealing with this confronting issue.
But perhaps not such great news for the huge numbers of men gathered around the cricket ground, including the many older men likely to fall prey to cancer. Fifty seven per cent of cancer deaths are male. The risk of dying from cancer before the age of 85 is 1 in 4 for males and 1 in 6 for females, according to the 2017 Australian Institute of Health and Welfare Cancer in Australia Report.
There’s something very odd about all the men in pink, given that most people realise that if there was a level playing field men rather than women would be receiving the greater slice of the cancer health funding dollar.
People know that but just don’t dare say it. Last Saturday wasn’t exactly a thrilling day at the cricket so I wandered around asking people why they were dressed in pink – it made for an entertaining YouTube video – It’s just not cricket.
Yes, it’s probably true we should be wearing blue today, sheepishly acknowledged two brightly dressed men in blushing hues. The one in the pink wig and matching hat knew where his bread was buttered: “I’ll stick with pink… it’s safer, yeah it’s safer.”
“It could be a men’s thing, burying their head about the situation. And mother nature to look after the women,” explained a younger man who admitted it was proof that women’s lives matter more than men at the moment. And was that fair? “That’s the way it is,” he said. He and his mate are allowed to go away once a year to spend a week at the cricket – so there’s no way these two were complaining.
Then there was the woman who talked about her elderly father who’d died of prostate cancer. He would have hated seeing the sea of pink, she said. “He didn’t understand why breast cancer got so much more exposure… and why prostate cancer is any less important” she said.
Why indeed? Prostate cancer is actually more likely to end the lives of the men in pink than the chances of breast cancer striking down their female companions. In 2017 there were 3,452 deaths due to prostate cancer compared to 3,087 breast cancer deaths in women.
There’s always been incredibly few prostate cancer nurses in Australia. There were only 28 last year when the Federal Government promised just over $13 million over the next three years which will bring the number up to 43 for the whole country. Currently available figures suggest there will be probably ten times as many breast cancer nurses even when those new numbers click in.
It just doesn’t make sense for men to be given so much less support. It is a national disgrace how few men are being given proper help to regain normal functioning following the debilitating effects of prostate cancer treatments. Incontinence and erectile dysfunction are problems which desperately require the care and education that only specially trained professionals can offer. Teaching a man to inject his penis is not an easy business.
Maybe it is just that men are too squeamish to even think about such things. But women have done such a great job convincing us all to talk publicly about breasts and their care that surely we can make a bit more effort to look after men’s nether regions and protect their lives in the process.
Ok, you cricket followers. Who’s up for lobbying for a blue test next year?
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It was sex that first made Bettina Arndt famous. She started out as one of Australia’s first sex therapists before becoming a respected social commentator on gender issues. Alarmed by the unfair treatment of men in our society, she’s now devoting all her time to making YouTube videos, writing and making media appearances about men’s issues and the anti-male feminist agenda. See her CV here.
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Ronnie’s: Ronnie Scott & his World Famous Jazz Club rhapsodises Soho in blue
Oliver Murray’s doc elegises the late jazz impresario and his time and place, with look-ins for any number of legends he hosted.
By Nick James
Ronnie’s: Ronnie Scott & his World Famous Jazz Club (2020)
▶︎ Ronnie’s: Ronnie Scott & his World Famous Jazz Club is available on BBC iPlayer in the UK.
London’s glorious bohemian Soho, as it was in its 1950s-80s heyday, has all but vanished – undermined (literally) by Crossrail’s construction and otherwise by high street chains moving in and blanding it out – yet it remains as potent a symbol of creative ferment as 19th-century Montmartre. In Ronnie’s, a moving history of Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club, director Oliver Murray evokes that morally complex alcoholic Eden of clubs, cafes, theatres, sex shops and singular food emporia as a wraparound for an elegiac story told mostly in voiceover commentary from Ronnie’s’ habitués.
Cockney saxophonists Ronnie Scott and Pete King, the club’s founders, were so in love with Bebop they joined ‘Geraldo’s Navy’, an Atlantic cruise liner dance band, so they could experience the music first hand in New York at small clubs like the Three Deuces. In imitation of such dives, Scott (the “bringer of stardust”) and King (the “businessman”) set up Ronnie Scott’s in 1959 in Gerrard Street and moved it to its current Frith Street location in 1966, partly because Ronnie wanted to be able to book bigger bands.
Opening night invitation, 1965
One indication of how Soho worked in those days is their ‘friendly’ relationship with gangster ‘Italian Albert’ Dines, who brought them a Magnum of champagne to be opened when their debts were cleared – the bottle still sits there, unopened. Such vivid anecdotal remembrance comes not only from Scott, a compère of few words but mordant wit, and the straightforward King, captured on archive footage, but also richly from Quincy Jones; Sonny Rollins; Barbara Jay and Georgie Fame; chat show host Michael Parkinson; DJ Gilles Peterson; jazz critic John Fordham; photographer Val Wilmer; and not least Scott’s two partners, Mary Scott and Françoise Venet; his daughter Rebecca; and King’s wife Stella.
Mercifully we don’t have to see these memoirists. Through poetic use of split screen effects and jazz album cover framing, Murray immerses their tales in the mood of the club, its performers and its environs. Best of all are the fabulous live archive performances from Nina Simone, Miles Davis, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Sarah Vaughan, Dizzy Gillespie, Buddy Rich, Ben Webster, Van Morrison, Chet Baker and Ella Fitzgerald, presented unsullied by voiceover. With a slightly appalled sense of wonder, we hear Jimi Hendrix performing with Eric Burdon’s War on the last night of his life.
Stan Tracey performing at Ronnie Scott’s
Structure is the film’s one weakness. Ronnie Scott, most agree, was difficult to know. He suffered from bipolar disorder, had addiction problems and, it’s implied, may have assisted his own demise after a failed dental reconstruction meant he could no longer play sax. Murray holds back much of Scott’s troubles to use as a prelude to his death in 1996, putting all the weight of an upbeat ending on Sarah Green’s subsequent refurbishing of the club. Heartening as that revival story is, it lacks the emotional power to drag us out of the mood of despond and melancholy in which Scott’s demise places us – although I suspect to the man himself that lack may have brought a dark chuckle.
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Neuromuscular Diseases
A Practical Approach to Diagnosis and Management
Authors: Swash, Michael, Schwartz, Martin S.
theoretical information that will be useful to managing patients with neuromuscular problems. Both authors are recognised experts in the field of neuromuscular disorders and the book is based on their extensive and continuing clinical and research experience.
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Nine years have elapsed since the second edition of this book was published. In this time the principal advances in neuromuscular diseases have been in the application of molecular genetics to understanding the aetiology and pathogenesis of this group of disorders. As a result many previously unrecognised disorders have been charac terised. Some clinical syndromes, such as the limb girdle dystrophies, have become better defined. In many such instances the new genetic information has led to major advances in knowledge of the biology of cell structures, for example, the membrane structural and channel proteins. The clinical syndromes themselves, and their patho logical and electrophysiological characteristics, however, remain as important as ever, since they constitute the clinical problem itself and, indeed, the database from which all other concepts emerge. Knowledge of the pathogenesis, genetics, and molecular biology of neuromuscular disorders is essential both in developing and applying new therapies and preventive measures, and in formulating genetic and prognostic advice. However, this informa tion does not necessarily always define clinically useful syndromes. Myotonia, for example, is an electrophysiological finding in some syndromes in which it is un detectable by clinical examination, although the phenomenon itself was originally defined as a clinical entity. The limb girdle muscular dystrophy syndromes can be defined by severity, distribution of weakness, age of onset, sex distribution and other characteristics and many of these can be better understood by study of the under lying defect in cell structural proteins.
Table of contents (21 chapters)
Clinical Assessment and Measurement
Swash, Michael, MD, FRCP, FRCPath (et al.)
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Electromyography, Nerve Conduction and Other Neurophysiological Techniques
Muscle and Nerve Biopsies
Pathophysiological Correlations and Compensatory Mechanisms
Classification of Neuromuscular Diseases
Diseases of Anterior Horn Cells
A Clinical Approach to the Neuropathies
Nerve Entrapment and Compression Syndromes and Other Mononeuropathies
Nerve Root and Plexus Lesions
Genetically Determined Neuropathies
Acquired Polyneuropathies
Myasthenia Gravis and Other Myasthenic Syndromes
Inflammatory Myopathies and Related Disorders
Myotonic Syndromes
Childhood Myopathies
Inherited Metabolic Myopathies
Endocrine Myopathies
Drug-Induced Toxic and Nutritional Myopathies
Cardiomyopathy in Neuromuscular Disorders
Miscellaneous Disorders
Michael Swash
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Springer-Verlag London
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10.1007/978-1-4471-3834-1
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Prof. Abdallah Schleifer on the Divine Order
Date of source: Monday, December 9, 2019
Earlier this year, a group of five interns from Arab-West Report had the privilege of visiting emeritus professor Abdallah Schleifer at his home in Cairo. Prof. Schleifer is a prominent Middle East expert, former journalist, and leading Muslim intellectual who was among the group of...
4-Sufi orders celebrate the Mulid of Husayn and al-Sisi's victory
Date of source: Wednesday, June 4, 2014
“Happiness is Double, in the Maulid (religious celebration) of Sayyidnā al- Hussayn”, stated the followers of the Sufī tariqas in the Maulid of al- Hussayn, grandson of prophet Muhammad, in expression of their happiness about of Sīsī’s success in the presidential elections.
40. Tayīb warns of Western schemes to divide Islamic, Arab world
Date of source: Thursday, September 29, 2011
Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Ahmad al-Tayīb warned of Western plans to divide the Arab Muslim world into smaller states and spark "detestable ethnic differences." "I warn all Iraqis of falling into the detestable ethnic traps. The Iraqis need one title, not several ones like Shiites, Kurds and Sunnis...
27. Ministry of Awqāf bans preachers from going to Tehran
Date of source: Monday, July 25, 2011
*/ The Ministry of Awqāf (religious endowments) has banned preachers from travelling to Tehran, stressing that Egypt is a predominantly Sunnī country, but is still respectful of Āl al-Bayt. It was mentioned that there should be greater convergence between Cairo and Tehran, and in the preaching of...
3. Your Excellency Dutch Parliament Member … we are the reason
Date of source: Tuesday, January 6, 2009
This article sheds light on the Western insults directed toward Muslims every now and then. The author suggests that working hard and depending on one’s self is the best reaction toward confronting such insults. He urges Muslims not to be distorted or shaken by these incidents as this is the main...
37. A Shi‘i penetration of the Sufi tariqahs!
Date of source: Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Sūfī leaders in Egypt have debated a U.S. conference on international Sūfism, fearing it might lead to the spread of the Shī‘ī creed in the country.
9. Those are the ancestors and that is how they are thinking
Date of source: Tuesday, July 3, 2007
The author records the two Muslim trends of thought throughout history.
73. The Jihad Group’s “revisions;” are they marginalizing or integrating for cultural communities in Egypt?
Date of source: Thursday, June 28, 2007
al-Aḥrār published a file about the three minorities in Egypt: Copts, Shī‘ah and Nubians. The file sheds light on the historic backgrounds and the current situations of these minorities. Nāhid al-Nibrāwī, editor of the file presents an observation of reality and viewpoints of minorities leading...
28. Unattended NGOs become nests of extremism
Date of source: Sunday, April 8, 2007
The article says that a lack of supervision has provided an opportunity for the establishment of many non-governmental organizations [NGOs] whose purpose is to spread extremism.
20. The Shi‘ah’s penetration into Ṣūfism in Egypt
The author presents the opinions of the ṣūfī shaykhs about the claims that Egyptian Ṣūfism is the way to Shī‘ah in Egypt.
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What’s in store for workers' comp under the Trump administration?
By Joe Guerrierro January 20, 2017, 12:02 p.m. EST 4 Min Read
The stakes are high for healthcare as 2017 ushers in a new administration under President Trump. As the industry waits for the dust to settle around coming changes, employee benefit and worker’s comp professionals can count on one thing: the momentum powering value-based care will continue unhindered.
The last few years have seen worker's compensation moving toward a value-based model in an effort to bring down costs and shift focus to an employee's long-term health and well-being.
The Department of Health and Human Services is pressing forward with plans to tie 50% of payments to value by 2020, while many private groups are aiming for 75%. As such, employee benefit and worker’s comp professionals must prepare for the future of risk-bearing healthcare models.
Historically, occupational health providers and payers have led the industry in this regard. They have bridged the gap between employer-based health services and community-based health through evidence-based absence management practices. These well-established models deliver the most effective, cost-efficient clinical guidance by leveraging tools such as duration tables, predictive modeling capabilities, evidence-based guidelines and analytics to drive performance improvement.
Regardless of the new administration’s new policies or programs, it is likely that leveraging evidence-based clinical decision support technology and protocols will only become more essential as employers and government agencies try to reduce healthcare costs while helping employees/patients return to health safely and quickly.
Free-market and infrastructure plans to impact workers’ comp
With this unhindered advance toward value-based care, expect free-market solutions to take precedence over the ACA’s individual and employer mandates under a Trump administration. While new legislation will likely keep current requirements for pre-existing conditions and dependent coverage, many believe a Trump agenda may bring back traditional underwriting and begin navigating the complexities of allowing carriers to sell across state lines.
In addition, a Trump platform will embrace expansion of health saving accounts, especially for younger Americans who tend to have fewer healthcare costs and are thus willing to pay higher deductibles in exchange for lower premiums. As part of any tax reform initiative, employee-sponsored healthcare benefits — and their tax-free status — are expected to be analyzed and potentially adjusted.
Positive impacts are expected on worker’s comp premiums based on the $550 billion infrastructure plan laid out by President Trump to repair and/or upgrade roads, bridges, airports and waterways. That said, many other questions remain regarding the impact of coming changes. For instance, will ACA amendments impact the ability of workers to acquire healthcare coverage for worker’s comp cases settled previously under the existing law? Or, how will Trump administration appointments approach worker safety issues and wage and hour regulations?
Worker’s comp laws are managed on the state level, which means that most impacts will be indirect. Likewise, expected immigration law changes will also affect states differently, such as the ability of undocumented workers in California to receive worker’s comp. Or, they could provide a path to citizenship, opening the door to more claims and coverage needs.
Value-based care: A certainty
For these injured workers, occupational health providers need to adopt the evidence-based decision support tools that can help them deliver the value-based care that fully aligns with the known elements of the Trump healthcare platform. A strong supporter of price transparency and consumer empowerment, clinical outcomes performance and cost will remain a focal point of future strategies. In fact, leading industry groups such as the American Academy of Family Physicians agree that the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) will be minimally impacted — if at all — and notably advance adoption of risk-bearing reimbursement models.
While the evolution of value-based care will continue, expectations are that a Trump administration will take a less-regulated approach to alternative payment programs. In addition, new leadership will likely put the performance of current initiatives — such as Medicare shared savings programs and accountable care organizations — under a microscope. Many experts predict a pivot away from these models and increased focus efforts on bundled payment expansion and Medicaid reform instead.
The reality is that current efforts and future plans are likely to increase risk. For instance, MACRA introduces penalties for organizations slow to participate in the Quality Payment Programs included in the law. Meanwhile, bundled payment initiatives shift the burden of managing cost to health networks instead of employers, who will continue to demand faster returns to activity.
Future preparedness and positioning
Until changes are introduced, employee benefits and worker’s comp professionals must remain focused on complying with current laws related to reporting under the ACA. In addition, they should remain undeterred in their efforts to prepare for value-based care by leveraging tools that efficiently and effectively move patients from illness to wellness — and back to work.
When providers are equipped with clinically validated, evidence-based guidelines, they can partner with patients to set recovery and return-to-work expectations. This framework promotes stronger engagement and a more rapid, cost-effective return to health — the overriding goal of advancing value-based care models.
Joe Guerrierro
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CSS Aspect Ratio — natively.
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Say good-bye to the old CSS aspect ratio box hacks and hello to the native aspect-ratio property. Learn how to create containers that keep their aspect ratio when resized — natively!
With a single line of CSS, you can create native aspect ratio boxes that will keep their aspect ratio when resized (think iframes that can be set to fluid widths but must have a fixed height).
aspect-ratio: 16 / 9;
CSS Aspect Ratios — natively.
My most popular post demonstrates how to create responsive iframes by implementing a CSS hack with intrinsic ratios. It was first published back in 2014 and since has become the most widely used solution to creating containers that keep their aspect ratio.
While the CSS hack continues to work great, there’s an even better, native way to create aspect ratio boxes with the release of Chromium 88 and Firefox 85.
Say good-bye to CSS hacks.
Introducing the aspect-ratio property. In short, this property allows you to define a preferred aspect ratio on elements. Check out the example below:
The aspect-ratio-box container will have an aspect ratio of 19:9. Since the width is set to 75vw, the resulting height will be 75vw / 16 * 9 = 42.19vw.
Allowed Values
The default value for the aspect-ratio property is auto. This indicates that the box has no preferred aspect ratio and should size itself as it normally would. Other values for the CSS aspect ratio property can include:
It typically consists of two numbers separated by a /. The first parameter targets the width and the second one the height.
It’s also allowed to pass in just a single number. In that case, the second number will be considered to be 1. E.g. a <ratio> of 2 will translate to 2 / 1.
Passing in a 0 for either of the numbers is not allowed.
The spaces around the / are not required, so 2/1 is also a valid <ratio> value.
CSS Aspect Ratio Browser Support
Unfortunately, there’s not enough browser support for the aspect-ratio property to rely on it in production websites. Chrome Canary and Firefox (nightly build) are the only browsers that currently support it, but it’s coming and quick. You can track the status to stay up-to-date on the CSS aspect ratio property below:
Chromium: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1045668
Firefox: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1528375
Webkit (Safari): https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47738
But that doesn’t mean you can’t start using it. Luckily, there’s a fallback for browsers that don’t support aspect-ratio that allows you to start using the property right away.
aspect-ratio Browser Fallback
Thanks to the powerful @supports CSS query, it’s possible to add a fallback for browsers that don’t support aspect-ratio. The example below shows how to use the old intrinsic ratio technique as a fallback for CSS aspect ratios.
/** Fallback (current, using intrinsic ratio technique) */
@supports not (aspect-ratio: 16 / 9) {
.aspect-ratio-box::before {
padding-top: 56.25%;
.aspect-ratio-box:after {
After 6 years of wanting and waiting for a feature like this to land and become native, it’s here and works incredibly well. Though it’s still a Working Draft right now, creating CSS aspect ratio boxes can be done right now with the intrinsic ratio fallback.
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Bruce Bond’s trilogy of sonnet sequences explores trauma and self-alienation and the power of imaginative life to heal—to reawaken with the past; to better understand its influence, both conscious and unconscious; to gain some measure of clarity, empathy, and freedom as we read the world around us.
I. The Lost Language | 5
II. Scar | 47
III. Narcissus in the Underworld | 89
Bruce Bond is the author of twenty-three books including, most recently, Immanent Distance: Poetry and the Metaphysics of the Near at Hand(U of MI, 2015), Black Anthem (Tampa Review Prize, U of Tampa, 2016), Gold Bee (Helen C. Smith Award, Crab Orchard Award, Southern Illinois University Press, 2016), Sacrum (Four Way Books, 2017), Blackout Starlight: New and Selected Poems 1997-2015 (E. Phillabaum Award, LSU, 2017), Rise and Fall of the Lesser Sun Gods (Elixir Poetry Prize, Elixir Press, 2018), Frankenstein’s Children (2018) and Dear Reader (Free Verse Editions, 2018). Five books are forthcoming, including the critical book Plurality and the Poetics of Self (Palgrave). Other honors include the Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Award, River Styx International Poetry Award, Laurence Goldstein Poetry Award, the Allen Tate Award, the Natalie Ornish Best Book of Poetry Prize, the Colladay Award, the Richard Peterson Prize, the Knightville Poetry Award, the New South Poetry Award, and fellowships from the NEA and the Texas Institute for the Arts. At UNT, he has received the Kesterson Award for Graduate Teaching, the Toulouse Scholars Award, and the UNT Foundation's inaugural Eminent Faculty Award.
Bruce Bond’s Scar is full of scars, yes, on wrists and brows and arms, but full, too, of questions, each punctuated with a period rather than a question mark. “Who are we deceiving.” “Is the knife still there.” “How many fingers. What’s your name.” “Is it the same with you.” “Why is it gods always talk in echoes, / if at all, their words buried in words.” Bond’s book echoes, too. With the words of the gods buried in its words, how could it not. — H. L. Hix
Bruce Bond’s exquisite new collection, Scar, opens in a Terezin haze, set after the slice of war, where the instruments of the dead seem to signal a traceable echo back to old traumas. Dantean, a book of dark woods, Scar studies how we cast our inner wound onto outer worlds, where “every home is the one I lost to fire,” and it follows the echo to its source, to Hell and the long climb upward through the canal of the ear, as it were, in this collection that leaps with such deftness between memory and myth. The title poem, a meditation on scars and scarring, sustains breathtaking attention on the war-destroyed uncle, and the cutter, and the self being born “through a tear/in the fabric” of the world. These unrhymed sonnets, as if one whole note struck repeatedly from beginning to finish, are technically superb, but the genius of Scar is its faithful translation of an ache. I know no other poet writing today whose capacity of perception is so sensitive to the harmonies of language and truth, sphere music composed by the difficult, nearly impossible, work of listening closely and hearing what is real. —David Keplinger, Another City
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Tiny, duck-billed T. rex cousin identified 21 years after fossil discovered in New Mexico
May 6, 2019 / 1:27 PM / CBS/AP
Scientists have identified a new cousin to the Tyrannosaurus rex 21 years after its fossilized bones were discovered in New Mexico. Sterling Nesbitt, a paleontologist at Virginia Tech, made the find when he was just 16. The new dinosaur is called Suskityrannus hazelae, named after the Zuni word for coyote.
Nesbitt's discovery came on land once populated by the Native American tribe. The duck-billed dinosaur dates back 92 million years, about 20 million years before the T. rex stomped the Earth.
This illustration shows a Suskityrannus hazelae, foreground, a cousin of the Tyrannosaurus rex. Andrey Atuchin / AP
The newly discovered cousin — which was three times longer than it was tall — weighed between 45 and 90 pounds, almost nothing compared to the nine-ton king of the dinosaurs. Suskityrannus hazalae isn't the first or even smallest of the Tyrannosaurus family tree, but Nesbitt said it provides the best example of how this family of modest-sized dinosaurs evolved into the towering T. rex.
Suskityrannus hazalae's size is what initially threw scientists for a loop back in 1998. It was only until other small tyrannosauroids were discovered that they began re-examining this important find, which Smithsonian Institution paleobiologist Hans Sues believes is "the first really good record of the early tyrannosaurs in North America."
Though Suskityrannus hazelae may have been Nesbitt's first major discovery, it certainly hasn't been his last. Nesbitt and a team of paleontologists unearthed Teleocrater Rhadinus fossils in 2017 on a dig in Tanzania. WTKR reports that, despite walking on four legs like a crocodile, the fossils revealed that the Teleocrater was more closely related to the dinosaurs that eventually gave way to present-day birds.
Sterling Nesbitt, an Assistant Professor of Geobiology at Virginia Tech, sits for a photo next to the fossilized bones of Suskityrannus hazelae, a miniature adult Tyrannosaurus dinosaur relative. He found some of the original fossils when he was 17 years old. Erin Williams / AP
First published on May 6, 2019 / 1:27 PM
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The exodus of students, professionals and working people of North East from different parts of the country, continue with paranoia and fear in minds. This is the most unfortunate part of the story, that people do not feel safe to live across the country because they are branded as a generic class with indistinguishable characteristics.
The tragedy is the woeful paucity of knowledge of the rest of India about India's North East, a place seen as one distinct entity, as opposed to mainstream dialectics of a different kind of identity consciousness. Hardly any attempt is made to reflect North East culture and history in studies of university, and colleges, taking each state as distinct identities. Hence the ignorance about these states, a generic view on them, based on mistaken identities, knowledge and culture, and classification of the people as inheritors of one common ethnicity.
Coming to the present crises, and with trouble not showing signs of abating in Kokrajhar and allied districts, the good augury is that Parliament has raised one indelible voice to root out divisive elements, and uphold strongly the oneness of the country. The efforts of the Karnataka Government especially are noteworthy. Impassioned pleas are being made by both state and central governments, not to pay heed to rumours.
Who are spreading all these virulent fears is the question. In the midst of all this chaos the media could do well to give assurances in the form of examples where the people, as in Bangalore are cutting across racial and religious lines to express solidarity with the people of North East India, living elsewhere. This is absolutely necessarily.
Sanjoy Hazarika writing in The Outlook Magazine has pointed out how such instances of individual help to one another are taking place in the riot affected areas of Assam. It is imperative that the media both electronic and print highlight embattled forces of help and those rising above all narrow considerations, to help each other.
It is puerile and ridiculous to classify all North East Indian people as one, in being residents of a place where the trouble is taking place. For example why are students from Manipur being interviewed, they are not remotely connected with the trouble. This stems out of ignorance and amorphous geography. At the same time it is true that incidents of threat and attack did take place. But the media should have separated the chaff from the grain, and not sensationally highlighted these.
At this point in time it is difficult to pin point statistics as fact and fiction, are blended in horrendous ways. The people who spread canards, are the ones who want discord. Better sense must prevail, wisdom and prudence must take over and the voice of the community pleading for peace and positivism must take over. And please, the media must exercise restraint to curb tonality of sensationalism, which only excites passion. PLEASE!
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Lantmännen acquires Tate & Lyle’s oat ingredient business
Swedish agricultural cooperative Lantmännen has acquired Tate & Lyle’s oat ingredient business, which is based in Kimstad, Sweden.
As part of the deal, Lantmännen is acquiring an oat mill with a capacity of 55,000 tons and an oat ingredients manufacturing facility.
The purchased facility has around 35 employees and currently produces oat protein, beta glucan and oat flour. Completion of the transaction will take place on 29 March 2019.
Joan Braca, president of food and beverage solutions at Tate & Lyle, said: “We are pleased to reach this agreement with Lantmännen which represents a good outcome for our oat ingredient employees and customers and enables us to focus our business on serving our customers in our main food and beverage categories. We wish Lantmännen and its employees every success for the future.”
Lantmännen said the additional oats capacity will enable it to meet growing demand from customers in the Nordic food industry.
The company has three oatmeal mills in Sweden, Denmark and Norway, and markets food and ingredients based on oats to the food industry. It is currently pursuing research and innovation to develop new oat products.
Per Olof Nyman, CEO of Lantmännen, said: “Oats are a strategic investment area for Lantmännen and the further development of our oats business is a key part of our ‘Field to Fork 2030’ strategy.
“We are already strongly positioned in oats and this acquisition gives Lantmännen access to a modern mill that complements our existing production capacity within oats and creates a unique opportunity to develop and manufacture ingredients based on oats as the raw material.”
Once the acquisition has been completed, the facility will become part of the Lantmännen energy sector.
Magnus Kagevik, head of the energy sector at Lantmännen, said: “Lantmännen’s energy sector already has specialist expertise within the processing of wheat, and oat products will be an excellent complement to our current business.
“The acquisition enables Lantmännen to increase the production capacity of heat-treated oats significantly and gives us an opportunity to create added value within oat processing. It also creates synergies both within the energy sector and our other businesses at Lantmännen.”
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When Erica Meyer started Kinkaid's swimming program eight years ago, the Falcons struggled to place competitors in the finals.
But Kinkaid has steadily progressed to become one of Southwest Preparatory Conference's leaders.
"Every year, we get a little bit better," Meyer said. "We've gotten to the point where we should be top three (at SPCs) every year."
Kinkaid's girls won the SPC crown during the 2000-01 season and took second the past two years. The boys have posted back-to-back third-place finishes.
Meyer expects Kinkaid to be one of the teams to beat at the SPC Championships Feb. 14 at the Carroll Independent School District Natatorium in Southlake.
Dallas Hockaday is the defending champion in the girls' division, with Austin St. Andrew's, Dallas Greenhill and Kinkaid in hot pursuit.
On the boys' side, perennial power Dallas St. Mark's is the favorite, with Texas Military Institute and Kinkaid next on the list.
"Our girls will be fighting for second place, and if things go our way, maybe first," Meyer said. "The boys should be in the hunt, too. A lot of things have to happen to get first or second."
Meyer said the Falcons are hurt by a lack of depth, but there is no question Kinkaid boasts several quality performers capable of earning medals.
Kinkaid graduated Katie Schlesinger and Caroline Murtaugh, who combined to win three races and swam legs on the victorious 200-yard freestyle relay.
Meyer admits it's been difficult to replace Schlesinger and Murtaugh, but she has several athletes who could fill the void.
Senior Jill Ballard has a legitimate shot at sweeping the 50 and 100 freestyle races -- something Schlesinger did last year.
Ballard's best time in the 50 freestyle is 27 seconds. She also has been clocked in 1:01.00 in the 100 freestyle.
"Jill is the best sprinter in the SPC," Meyer said. "She's the No. 1 contender in the 50 free and has a shot at the 100 free. She should do really well."
The outlook is equally positive for junior Julia Coskey, who could claim the gold in the 100 backstroke. Coskey has lost only one race all season.
"Julia is one of the top backstrokers in the conference," Meyer said.
Coskey also is capable of medaling in the 100 freestyle if she can break a minute.
Sophomore Emily Yudofsky should be one to watch in the 200 individual medley, 100 freestyle or 100 butterfly. Yudofsky trains with Dad's Club, a local U.S. Swimming program, at the nearby Westside YMCA.
"Emily is our most versatile athlete," Meyer said. "She can swim any distance, from the 50 free to the 500 free, and she can swim any stroke. She should be top 3 in whatever race she enters."
Senior Meredith Pickett is a possible medalist in the 100 breaststroke and is a capable sprinter.
"Meredith has won the breaststroke in a few meets," Meyer said. "That's definitely her strongest event."
Newcomer Caroline Bell, a freshman, may swim the 200 IM, 100 butterfly or a freestyle event. Other up-and-coming swimmers include sophomores Kaight Vilutis and Lindsay Floyd, both distance specialists.
As usual, Kinkaid's relays should match any team in the SPC stroke for stroke.
"We should be solid in the 200 medley and 200 free relays," Meyer said. "We'll miss Katie and Caroline in the 400 free relay, but we'll be OK."
Meyer said Kinkaid will have a diver for the first time. Junior Ashleigh Newton could be a surprise on the board.
While Kinkaid's girls were third at the Greater Houston Private School Championships in December, the boys have gradually improved.
One constant has been the overall excellence of sophomore Tommy Gray.
Gray swept SPC titles in the 200 and 500 freestyle as a freshman. He could swim either of those races at SPCs, or he may try his luck in the 100 backstroke.
"Tommy is a machine," Meyer said. "You watch him in a race and you can't help but be amazed."
Meyer said Gray's best times are 1:47.00 in the 200 freestyle and 4:48.00 in the 500 freestyle. But he could challenge the conference record if he swims those events.
"It's going to take a great race to beat Tommy," Meyer said.
Senior Charles Lawry could medal in either the 100 breaststroke, 50 freestyle or 100 freestyle.
"Last year, Charles made the top six, but he's improved considerably," Meyer said. "He should be top three."
Sophomore James Eihlers (200 and 500 freestyle) and juniors Mike Evans (50 and 100 freestyle, 100 butterfly) and David Roosth (50 and 100 freestyle) should give the Falcons quality points and secure spots on various relays.
Other competitors who can make an impact are sophomore Peter Mugno and Michael Rogers and freshman Eddie Millard. Mugno and Rogers have already qualified for SPCs, while Millard hopes to do the same.
The Falcons will compete in a quad-meet against St. John's, Second Baptist and Houston Christian on Saturday at the University of Houston's new Campus Recreation & Wellness Center Natatorium. Kinkaid also will meet St. John's in a Feb. 6 dual at the Lamar High School Natatorium.
With a number of athletes qualified for SPCs, Meyer is excited about her team's prospects.
"We've got a few seniors, but most of our kids are youngsters," Meyer said. "They've been training hard and getting better. I can't to see what they can do in a big meet like SPCs."
The Kinkaid girls basketball team graduated its three best players, leaving first-year head coach Stacey Johnson with a bit of a predicament.
"We lost probably 85 percent of our offense right there," said Johnson, alluding to former standouts Katie Anding, Aline Brown and Jennie Simmons.
But neither Johnson nor the Falcons have written off the 2003-04 season as a lost cause. To the contrary, Kinkaid, which is scheduled to play Arlington Oakridge at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, is winning its share of games and is confident of a high Division I finish.
"It's hard to replace seniors, but our kids are trying," said Johnson, who replaced Molly Higby after serving as an assistant and eighth grade coach last season. "They're getting better."
The Falcons posted a 38-28 victory over Episcopal last week to improve their season record to 8-5. With key South Zone games over the next few weeks, Johnson believes her squad is finally starting to hit its stride.
Johnson said the Falcons won't be easily intimated by anyone, not after playing in the Houston ISD Tournament in December. Kinkaid drew top-seeded Madison in the first round and were outclassed 93-24. But the Falcons bounced back to beat Milby 65-11 before falling to Yates 67-41.
"We're not going to see any teams better than Madison or Yates," Johnson said. "I think it helped our young kids grow up in a hurry."
Claire Gerall is one of the youngsters who have been thrown into the fire. The 5-foot-6 freshman has provided capable leadership at point guard, averaging 9.8 points and 3.3 assists to lead a balanced Kinkaid attack.
Gerall scored a team-high 15 points against Yates and had 14 points to help the Falcons beat St. John's.
"I knew Claire was a good basketball player, but she's a freshman at a new school," Johnson said. "I wasn't whether she would adapt, but she's surprised everyone."
Jessica Simien, a 5-8 sophomore, has complemented Gerall at the two-guard. Simien, the younger sister of all-conference receiver Peter Simien, is averaging 9.3 points. She scored a season-high 23 points in a 46-39 win over HCYA.
Johnson said Simien has distinguished herself by her shot selection. She has hit 6-of-8 shots from 3-point range.
"Jessica hasn't shot many threes, but she's made nearly all of them," Johnson said. Jennie Ballard, a 5-7 junior and the lone returning starter, has been playing three-guard for Kinkaid. While she only averages 4.5 points per game, she comes up with five steals.
"Jennie is our defensive stopper," Johnson said.
Kinkaid's post players have held their own all season and continue to develop.
Hilary Sealy, a 5-10 junior, is averaging 9.5 points and 7.5 rebounds at forward.
"Hilary is really consistent," Johnson said.
Andrea Brown, a 5-11 senior, came off the bench last season.
But she has settled into her role as the starting center, giving the Falcons eight points and eight rebounds per game.
"Andrea has been huge for us," Johnson said.
Kinkaid primarily uses a seven-player rotation.
Julie Mackay, a 5-6 freshman, has played all three guard spots. She had 11 points against Milby.
Britney Blodget, a 5-10 sophomore, has been a key back-up at post.
Erin Atmar, a 5-11 freshman, plays some post, while Anna Rogers, a 5-6 junior, and Blair Barrett, a 5-10 junior, are in the guard rotation.
Johnson said the South Zone figures to be brutal. "We don't get a breather at all," said Johnson, who wants Kinkaid to be battle-tested for the SPC Championships Feb. 13-14 in Dallas.
"As young as we are, nobody expects a whole lot from us," Johnson said. "But if we go up there and play three good games, we've got as good a shot as anybody."
JEFF JENKINS
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When 17-year-old Autumn from Pennsylvania finds out that she‘s pregnant, she only tells her cousin Skyler about it. With little money and the address of a clinic in her bag, the two make their way to New York City.
Never. Rarely. Sometimes. Always. 17 year old Autumn (Sydney Flanigan) is supposed to answer using these words as a councellor asks her very personal questions at a New York Planned Parenthood. Autumn came to the liberal big city from rural, religious Pennsylvania with her cousin Skylar (Talia Ryder) in order to have an abortion. “Do you use protection during sex?” “Has your partner balked at using a condom?” “Have you had sex without wanting to?” “Has someone ever hit you?” asks the councellor. Never. Rarely. Sometimes. Always. She keeps repeating the multiple choice answers while Autumn thinks about about the answers while getting more and more upset. You can tell on her face that this is the moment when she understands just how much violence is part of her normal everyday, how often “sometimes” or “always” are the right answers, and how wrong that is.
That is nearly all we know about the background of Autumn’s pregnancy. Some scenes in the beginning outline a family with many siblings and little care. A father who refuses to show understanding towards his older daughter who is obviously not doing well. “It’s all in her head.” A mother, who puts a jacket on her youngest child and then puts one on the father. A job at the supermarket, where inappropriate come ons are the order of the day. A school where someone calls her a “slut,” maybe because she’s a bit stranger than the rest, fits in less. We don’t really know, but it’s enough of an impression in order for us to guess why Autumn doesn’t want this child. When Autumn goes to her local family planning center, the councellor shows her an anti-abortion video and the gynecologist is gushing about the ultrasound. “This is the most beautiful sound that you will ever hear.” She won’t find any support here. Without much talking, her cousin Skylar does help her.
With a heavy suitcase and too little money, the two get on the bus to New York, where they will unexpectedly have to spend two nights. Eliza Hittman’s film mostly shows the time that the two young women have to kill, which is interrupted by the consultation at the abortion clinic. They sleep on benches, play in arcades, call the guy that hit on Skylar on the bus. They’re hungry and very, very tired. As Autumn gets paler and paler due to a lack of sleep and pain, Skylar keeps up the facade with occasional make up sessions in the bathroom. Nothing very bad happens to them, but some situations are pretty uncomfortable and many are intrusive. But the two friends always stick together.
Never. Rarely. Sometimes. Always. Eliza Hittman’s film, that won the Silver Bear at the Berlinale, isn’t just explicitly political because it shows an abortion as a matter of course at a time when the abortion laws in the US are vehemently contested and women’s rights are increasingly being impinged upon, but also because NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS taps into how far society really is when it comes to equality in every scene and every encounter. In what kind of a world do Autumn and Skylar assert themselves in? How often do they experience their boundaries being crossed in smaller and bigger ways? And what should the answer to these questions be? Never, rarely, sometimes, or always?
Hendrike Bake (INDIEKINO MAGAZIN)
Translation: Elinor Lewy
Original title: Never Rarely Sometimes Always
USA/Großbritannien 2020, 101 min
Director: Eliza Hittman
Author: Eliza Hittman
DOP: Hélène Louvart
Montage: Scott Cummings
Music: Julia Holter
Distributor: Universal Pictures
Cast: Talia Ryder, Sidney Flanigan, Théodore Pellerin, Ryan Eggold
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