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Five-0 Redux
Making the deal
By Wendie Burbridge / Special to the Star-Advertiser
COURTESY CBS
After Chin is kidnapped by a cartel in Mexico, Five-0 must find and rescue him before he is executed by the group that’s out for revenge. Also, Grover goes undercover as a car salesman to investigate a murder that turns out to be far more complex and dangerous than expected.
If I made any kind of resolution for January, it had to be that I would not give up hope in this new year. This thought might have been inspired by the shocking cliff hanger “Hawaii Five-0” left us with on Dec. 16, 2016– when we watched a scary Mexican cartel drag Chin Ho Kelly (Daniel Dae Kim) away, pull a black bag over his head, and let us all wonder if Chin was going to come out alive. Way to wish us a Merry Christmas, Five-0.
In this week’s episode, “Ka ʻaelike” (pronounced Kah Eye-lee-kay) which means “the deal” in Hawaiian, we finally got the conclusion we have been waiting for these last three weeks. Talk about a long cliffhanger– and sadly, one that was wrapped up within minutes. It was all so very anti-climactic. The rest of the episode sort of went off into La La Land– which never bodes well for a Five-0 episode. Still there were a few moments within the episode that helped salvage my feelings about the latest offering from season seven.
I did love that the Hawaiian theme of the episode– “The Deal” was woven nicely into the episode. We also got a few more “deals” than I think we had originally bargained for, and the episode ended on a better note than I expected after getting such a swift wrap up of Chin’s Mexican Cartel ordeal.
The episode was written by David Wolkove and Matt Wheeler and directed by Joe Dante– all veteran Five-0 crew members. Wolkove– currently a co-executive producer on the show– has been involved with writing at least 27 episodes since 2010. He also has been a story editor since the start of season two. Wheeler started as a story editor at the end of season four and his first writing credit was coincidentally, the last episode Dante directed for Five-0, the season six Halloween episode “Na Pilikua Nui” (“Monsters”).
Wheeler also wrote two popular season six episodes– “ʻO ke aliʻi wale no kaʻu makemake” (“My Desire Is Only For The Chief”), this one with executive producer Peter Lenkov, and also the fan favorite Valentine episode “Hoa ʻĪnea” (“Misery Loves Company”). Currently Wheeler is an executive story editor and wrote two other episodes with Wolkove this season– “No ke aliʻi wahine a me ka ʻāina” (“For Queen and Country”) and “Ka Hale Hoʻokauweli,” (“House of Horrors”). He solo wrote last week’s “Kāʻili aku” (“Snatchback”) which led into this week’s “Ka ʻaelike.”
If anyone could pull off this episode, it would have to be a director like Dante, who did a good job keeping the three different storylines moving along and not tripping over each other too badly. The violence factor was pretty high– but as Dante is known as a veteran horror film director– this helped me understand where it came from. I know, it’s an action show, there’s always action, and violence, and killing– yada yada yada. But still, did we have to kill a cop who is just doing his job, in such a shocking way? He wasn’t even a cop we disliked or was working for the Yakuza or anything that would justify literally hitting him with a truck mid sentence. Even for someone who has directed three of the six “Hawaii Five-0” Halloween episodes– that was really gross. And didn’t August March (Ed Asner) die the same way in season three? It was really the first thing I thought– “oh, they killed August March like that too.”
Which means one of two things– I have watched too many episodes of “Hawaii Five-0” (well, all of them probably too many times) or I have a low tolerance for gory killings on TV. All bad omens for someone who writes a weekly column about a television show.
But I digress– the episode itself had parts I loved and parts I wasn’t a fan of considering that it was the first episode of the new year. So I’m going to focus on what I loved and let you just watch the episode so you can see the rest.
Things I loved about this episode:
1- Loved how Adam (Ian Anthony Dale) showed up in Mexico to help get Chin back. But really– couldn’t we have seen him get in the action a little more?
2- Loved how McGarrett (Alex O’Loughlin) came out of the forest in all his tactical gear and big gun to assure Chin he was saved. And then took the time to return Chin’s badge without giving him a hard time. Add in my love for a good McG/Chin bro-hug and it was perfect.
3- Loved Chin and Sara’s (Londyn Silzer) sweet reunion. And while her Aunt and Uncle signing over guardianship to Chin was a bit sudden– I’m glad that all worked out, albeit a little too neatly.
4- Loved Lou (Chi McBride) posing as a car salesman. Really– a perfect role for him to go undercover. He did a nice job using his big personality and his mega-watt smile to impersonate a successful car salesman.
5- Loved Max (Masi Oka) coming clean with McGarrett. It was so sweet and sad when McGarrett tells Max how proud he is of him. We’ll all be sad to say goodbye to Max in next week’s episode “Ua hoʻi ka ‘ōpua i Awalua” (“The Clouds Always Return to Awalua”) on Jan. 13. But that ending scene pretty much made the episode.
6- Loved that Jerry (Jorge Garcia) and Kamekona (Taylor Wily) added humor to the episode that helped the case and led McG to find out about Max’s plans. Jerry’s admission of “sleep eating” was just perfect. And Kamekona asking Paul Burnett (Ron Melendez) about seat warmers and to hold the wheel while he sent a text was hilarious. Jerry does need to get an apartment, and that was a perfect lead into finding out that Max was moving out of his.
7- Loved how Chin and Adam mended some fences with a friendly talk and a backyard beer. I suppose it was worth Adam violating his parole in order to prove to Chin once and for all that he loves Kono (Grace Park). It was a perfect moment as we all love Adam and Chin, and we want them to love each other as well.
Really all of what I picked out helped to make the episode. The rest of it was so strange and unrealistic. Nuclear material smuggled in a car that was sold at the car dealership where Lou had been undercover was just too out there for me to buy. I know– I know– it’s a television show– but it can still be based in reality, right? Sure, it was clever how the team figured out what the bad guys were smuggling the radioactive material into Hawai’i and how this wrapped back around to Max who uncovered this secret, but I’m just so over the whole “save the world” storylines that Five-0 is expected to solve. Can’t they just work cases that make sense for Hawaiʻi? And can’t they just work cases that focus on the team? I think there’s plenty of drama and action to be had if they stopped trying to be an FBI group or CIA operatives or anything other than Five-0.
I’ve said this before, sometimes the cases want to be bigger than they need to be– and really we just want them to focus on five things– namely McGarrett, Danno, Chin, Kono, and Lou. We don’t need the team to have to save the island from being blown up in a mini-mushroom cloud. We just need them to save each other, and themselves, for us to tune in each week.
So while this episode had the team making a deal to save Chin, then Chin making a deal with Jorge (Felix Solis) and Maria (Diana Chavez) to bring little Sara home to Hawaiʻi, as well as Lou wheeling and dealing while undercover– the biggest deal for me was when Max told McGarrett about his plans to leave. It about broke my heart when he said that Hawaiʻi is his only home. And when McGarrett tells Max he will always have a home– in Hawaiʻi and with the Five-0 ʻohana– this is exactly why we watch, to see the team support each other.
Because it doesn’t no matter if they are coming back to the ʻohana, or making plans to leave. The deal is– they always have a home, no matter what.
REDUX SIDE NOTE
CBS released more information about their ratings and said yesterday in a press release that their network is “averaging more viewers across multiple platforms this season than during the comparable period 16 years ago, when only live viewing was measured.” They looked at the first six weeks of the 2016-17 season where they held an audience of 12.62 million viewers. They compared this to their 2000-2001 season, where they only had live audience ratings available, and they averaged a similar 12.61 million viewers.
“Hawaii Five-0” was ranked 7th during this early six week time period– giving more fans more fuel in their battle against Five-0 naysayers. Last week, CBS ranked the show 18 out of 25 for the first half of the 2016-17 season.
CBS ratings now take into consideration live viewing, as well as “plus 35 day” viewing to take into account DVR, video on demand, and streaming viewers. Five-0 had 13.45 million viewers and their lead in “MacGyver” was ranked 11th with 11.79 million viewers. “Blue Bloods,” which airs after Five-0, ranked 4th with 15.32 million viewers.
Wendie Burbridge is a published author, playwright and teacher. Reach her via Facebook and follow her on Twitter and Instagram
The best ‘Hawaii Five-0’ episodes of 2016
Bidding a fond aloha to a Five-0 favorite, Masi Oka
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Merck Presents Promising New Data for Three Investigational Medicines From Diverse and Expansive Oncology Pipeline at ESMO Virtual Congress 2020 – The…
KENILWORTH, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep 20, 2020--
Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, today announced the presentation of new data for three investigational medicines in Mercks diverse and expansive oncology pipeline: vibostolimab (MK-7684), an anti-TIGIT therapy; MK-4830, a first-in-class anti-ILT4 therapy; and MK-6482, an oral HIF-2 inhibitor. Data from cohort expansions of a Phase 1b trial evaluating vibostolimab, as monotherapy and in combination with KEYTRUDA, Mercks anti-PD-1 therapy, in patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC; Abstract #1410P and Abstract #1400P), and first-time Phase 1 data for MK-4830 in patients with advanced solid tumors (Abstract #524O), demonstrated acceptable safety profiles for these two investigational medicines and early signals of anti-tumor activity. Additionally, late-breaking Phase 2 data for MK-6482 showed anti-tumor responses in von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) disease patients with clear cell renal cell carcinoma (RCC) and other tumors (Abstract #LBA26).
The new data for these three investigational medicines are encouraging and highlight continued momentum in our rapidly expanding oncology pipeline, Dr. Eric H. Rubin, senior vice president, early-stage development, clinical oncology, Merck Research Laboratories. Over the past five years, KEYTRUDA has become foundational in the treatment of certain advanced cancers. Our broad oncology portfolio and promising pipeline candidates are a testament to our commitment to bring forward innovative new medicines to address unmet medical needs in cancer care.
Vibostolimab (Anti-TIGIT Therapy): Early Findings in Metastatic NSCLC (Abstract #1410P and Abstract #1400P)
Vibostolimab in combination with KEYTRUDA was evaluated in patients with metastatic NSCLC who had not previously received antiPD-1/PD-L1 therapy, but the majority of whom had received > 1 prior lines of therapy (73%, n=30/41) in Abstract #1410P. In Part B of the first-in-human, open-label, Phase 1 trial ( NCT02964013 ) all patients received vibostolimab (200 or 210 mg) in combination with KEYTRUDA (200 mg) on Day 1 of each three-week cycle for up to 35 cycles. The primary endpoints of the study were safety and tolerability. Secondary endpoints included objective response rate (ORR), duration of response (DOR) and progression-free survival (PFS) based on investigator review per RECIST v1.1. In this anti-PD-1/PD-L1 nave study, vibostolimab in combination with KEYTRUDA had a manageable safety profile and demonstrated promising anti-tumor activity. Treatment-related adverse events (TRAEs) with vibostolimab in combination with KEYTRUDA occurred in 34 patients (83%). The most frequent TRAEs (20%) were pruritus (34%), hypoalbuminemia (29%) and pyrexia (20%). Grade 3-5 TRAEs occurred in six patients (15%). No deaths due to TRAEs occurred. Across all patients enrolled, treatment with vibostolimab in combination with KEYTRUDA demonstrated an ORR of 29% (95% CI, 16-46) and median PFS was 5.4 months (95% CI, 2.1-8.2). The median DOR was not reached (range, 4 to 17+ months). Among patients whose tumors express PD-L1 (tumor proportion score [TPS] 1%) (n=13), the ORR was 46% (95% CI, 19-75) and median PFS was 8.4 months (95% CI, 3.9-10.2). Among patients whose tumors express PD-L1 (TPS <1%) (n=12), the ORR was 25% (95% CI, 6-57), and median PFS was 4.1 months (95% CI, 1.9-not reached [NR]). PD-L1 status was not available for 16 patients. Median follow-up for the study was 11 months (range, 7 to 18).
Additional data from a separate cohort of the same Phase 1b trial evaluated vibostolimab as monotherapy (n=41) and in combination with KEYTRUDA (n=38) in patients with metastatic NSCLC whose disease progressed on prior anti-PD-1/PD-L1 therapy (Abstract #1400P). In the study, 78% of patients had received > 2 lines of prior therapy. In the study, patients received vibostolimab monotherapy (200 or 210 mg) or vibostolimab (200 or 210 mg) in combination with KEYTRUDA (200 mg) on Day 1 of each three-week cycle for up to 35 cycles. The primary endpoints of the study were safety and tolerability. Secondary endpoints included ORR and DOR. Vibostolimab as monotherapy or in combination with KEYTRUDA had a manageable safety profile and demonstrated modest anti-tumor activity in patients whose disease was refractory to PD-1/PD-L1 inhibition, most of whom had previously received several lines of therapy for advanced disease prior to enrollment. Grade 3-5 TRAEs occurred in 15% of patients receiving vibostolimab monotherapy and 13% of patients receiving vibostolimab in combination with KEYTRUDA. The most common TRAEs (10% in either arm) were pruritus, fatigue, rash, arthralgia and decreased appetite. One patient died due to treatment-related pneumonitis in the vibostolimab and KEYTRUDA combination arm. The ORR was 7% (95% CI, 2-20) with vibostolimab monotherapy and 5% (95% CI, <1-18) with vibostolimab in combination with KEYTRUDA. The median DOR was 9 months (range, 9 to 9) with vibostolimab monotherapy and 13 months (range, 4+ to 13) with vibostolimab in combination with KEYTRUDA.
Data from these cohort expansion studies are encouraging and support the continued development of vibostolimab, which is being evaluated alone and in combination with KEYTRUDA across multiple solid tumors, including NSCLC and melanoma. In the ongoing Phase 2 KEYNOTE-U01 umbrella study ( NCT04165798 ), substudy KEYNOTE-01A ( NCT04165070 ) is evaluating vibostolimab in combination with KEYTRUDA plus chemotherapy for the first-line treatment of patients with advanced NSCLC who had not received prior treatment with an anti-PD-1/PD-L1. Merck plans to initiate a Phase 3 study of vibostolimab in NSCLC in the first half of 2021. Ongoing trials in melanoma include the Phase 1/2 KEYNOTE-U02 umbrella study comprised of three substudies evaluating vibostolimab in combination with KEYTRUDA across treatment settings (substudy 02A: NCT04305041, substudy 02B: NCT04305054 and substudy 02C: NCT04303169 ).
MK-4830 (Anti-ILT4 Therapy): Initial Results in Advanced Solid Tumors (Abstract #524O)
In this first-in-human Phase 1, open-label, multi-arm, multi-center, dose escalation study ( NCT03564691 ), MK-4830, Mercks first-in-class anti-ILT4 therapy, was evaluated as monotherapy (n=50) and in combination with KEYTRUDA (n=34) in patients with advanced solid tumors. The majority of patients enrolled in the study (51%) had received three or more prior lines of therapy. MK-4830 was administered intravenously at escalating doses every three weeks alone or in combination with KEYTRUDA (200 mg every three weeks). The primary endpoints of the dose escalation part of the study were safety and tolerability; Pharmacokinetics was a secondary endpoint, and exploratory objectives included ORR per RECIST v1.1, evaluation of receptor occupancy and immune correlates of response in blood and tumor.
Findings showed that MK-4830 as monotherapy and in combination with KEYTRUDA had an acceptable safety profile and demonstrated dose-related evidence of target engagement in patients with advanced solid tumors. No dose-limiting toxicities were observed; the maximum-tolerated dose was not reached. Any-grade adverse events were consistent with those associated with KEYTRUDA. Treatment-related AEs occurred in 54% (n=28/52) of patients who received MK-4830 in combination with KEYTRUDA and 48% (n=24/50) of patients who received MK-4830 monotherapy; the majority were Grade 1 and 2. Preliminary efficacy data showed an ORR of 24% (n=8/34) in patients who received MK-4830 in combination with KEYTRUDA. All responses occurred in heavily pretreated patients, including five who had progressed on prior anti-PD-1 therapy (n=5/11). Some patients received more than one year of treatment, and treatment is ongoing in several patients.
These early data support the continued development of MK-4830 in combination with KEYTRUDA in patients with advanced solid tumors. Expansion cohorts of this study include pancreatic adenocarcinoma, glioblastoma, head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (recurrent or metastatic; PD-L1 positive), advanced NSCLC and gastric cancer.
MK-6482 (HIF-2 Inhibitor): Results in VHL-Associated RCC and Non-RCC Tumors (Abstract #LBA26)
In this Phase 2, open-label, single-arm trial, MK-6482 was evaluated for the treatment of VHL-associated RCC ( NCT03401788 ). New data include findings for MK-6482 in VHL patients with non-RCC tumors and updated data in VHL patients with RCC. First-time data in VHL-associated RCC were presented in the virtual scientific program of the 2020 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting. The study enrolled adult patients with a pathogenic germline VHL variation, measurable localized or non-metastatic RCC, no prior systemic anti-cancer therapy, and Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status (PS) of 0 or 1. Patients received MK-6482 120 mg orally once daily until disease progression, unacceptable toxicity, or investigators or patients decision to withdraw. The primary endpoint was ORR of VHL-associated RCC tumors per RECIST v1.1 by independent radiology review. Secondary endpoints included DOR, time to response, PFS, efficacy in non-RCC tumors, and safety and tolerability.
Promising clinical activity continues to be observed with MK-6482 in treatment-nave patients with VHL-associated RCC. Among 61 patients, results showed a confirmed ORR of 36.1% (95% CI, 24.2-49.4); all responses were partial responses, and 38% of patients had stable disease. The median time to response was 31.1 weeks (range, 11.9 to 62.3), and median DOR was not yet reached (range, 11.9 to 62.3 weeks). Additionally, 91.8% (n=56) of patients had a decrease in size of target lesions. Median PFS has not been reached, and the PFS rate at 52 weeks was 98.3%. Median duration of treatment was 68.7 weeks (range, 18.3 to 104.7), and 91.8% of patients were still on therapy after a minimum follow-up of 60 weeks.
In patients with non-RCC tumors, results in those with pancreatic lesions (n=61) showed a confirmed ORR of 63.9% (95% CI, 50.6-75.8), with four complete responses and 35 partial responses. Additionally, 34.4% had stable disease. In those with central nervous system (CNS) hemangioblastoma (n=43), results showed a confirmed ORR of 30.2% (95% CI, 17.2-46.1), with five complete responses and eight partial responses. Additionally, 65.1% had stable disease. In patients with retinal lesions (n=16), 93.8% of patients had improved or stable response.
In this Phase 2 study, TRAEs occurred in 98.4% of patients, and there were no Grade 4-5 TRAEs. The most common all-cause adverse events (20%) were anemia (90.2%), fatigue (60.7%), headache (37.7%), dizziness (36.1%) and nausea (31.1%). Grade 3 all-cause adverse events included anemia (6.6%), fatigue (4.9%) and dyspnea (1.6%). One patient discontinued treatment due to a TRAE (Grade 1 dizziness).
As announced, data spanning more than 15 types of cancer will be presented from Mercks broad oncology portfolio and investigational pipeline at the congress. A compendium of presentations and posters of Merck-led studies is available here. Follow Merck on Twitter via @Merck and keep up to date with ESMO news and updates by using the hashtag #ESMO20.
About Vibostolimab
Vibostolimab is an anti-TIGIT therapy discovered and developed by Merck. Vibostolimab binds to TIGIT and blocks the interaction between TIGIT and its ligands (CD112 and CD155), thereby activating T lymphocytes which help to destroy tumor cells. The effect of combining KEYTRUDA with vibostolimab blocking both the TIGIT and PD-1 pathways simultaneously is currently being evaluated across multiple solid tumors, including NSCLC and melanoma.
About MK-4830
MK-4830 is a novel antibody directed against the inhibitory immune checkpoint receptor immunoglobulin-like transcript 4 (ILT4). Unlike current T cell-targeted antibodies (e.g., anti-PD1, anti-CTLA-4), anti-ILT4 is believed to attenuate immunosuppression imposed by tolerogenic myeloid cells in the tumor microenvironment. MK-4830 is currently being evaluated alone and in combination with KEYTRUDA across multiple solid tumors as part of ongoing Phase 1 and 2 trials.
MK-6482 is an investigational, novel, potent, selective, oral HIF-2 inhibitor that is currently being evaluated in a Phase 3 trial in advanced RCC ( NCT04195750 ), a Phase 2 trial in VHL-associated RCC ( NCT03401788 ), and a Phase 1/2 dose-escalation and dose-expansion trial in advanced solid tumors, including advanced RCC ( NCT02974738 ). Proteins known as hypoxia-inducible factors, including HIF-2, can accumulate in patients when VHL, a tumor-suppressor protein, is inactivated. The accumulation of HIF-2 can lead to the formation of both benign and malignant tumors. This inactivation of VHL has been observed in more than 90% of RCC tumors. Research into VHL biology that led to the discovery of HIF-2 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2019.
About KEYTRUDA (pembrolizumab) Injection, 100 mg
KEYTRUDA is an anti-PD-1 therapy that works by increasing the ability of the bodys immune system to help detect and fight tumor cells. KEYTRUDA is a humanized monoclonal antibody that blocks the interaction between PD-1 and its ligands, PD-L1 and PD-L2, thereby activating T lymphocytes which may affect both tumor cells and healthy cells.
Merck has the industrys largest immuno-oncology clinical research program. There are currently more than 1,200 trials studying KEYTRUDA across a wide variety of cancers and treatment settings. The KEYTRUDA clinical program seeks to understand the role of KEYTRUDA across cancers and the factors that may predict a patient's likelihood of benefitting from treatment with KEYTRUDA, including exploring several different biomarkers.
Selected KEYTRUDA (pembrolizumab) Indications
KEYTRUDA is indicated for the treatment of patients with unresectable or metastatic melanoma.
KEYTRUDA is indicated for the adjuvant treatment of patients with melanoma with involvement of lymph node(s) following complete resection.
KEYTRUDA, in combination with pemetrexed and platinum chemotherapy, is indicated for the first-line treatment of patients with metastatic nonsquamous non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), with no EGFR or ALK genomic tumor aberrations.
KEYTRUDA, in combination with carboplatin and either paclitaxel or paclitaxel protein-bound, is indicated for the first-line treatment of patients with metastatic squamous NSCLC.
KEYTRUDA, as a single agent, is indicated for the first-line treatment of patients with NSCLC expressing PD-L1 [tumor proportion score (TPS) 1%] as determined by an FDA-approved test, with no EGFR or ALK genomic tumor aberrations, and is stage III where patients are not candidates for surgical resection or definitive chemoradiation, or metastatic.
KEYTRUDA, as a single agent, is indicated for the treatment of patients with metastatic NSCLC whose tumors express PD-L1 (TPS 1%) as determined by an FDA-approved test, with disease progression on or after platinum-containing chemotherapy. Patients with EGFR or ALK genomic tumor aberrations should have disease progression on FDA-approved therapy for these aberrations prior to receiving KEYTRUDA.
Small Cell Lung Cancer
KEYTRUDA is indicated for the treatment of patients with metastatic small cell lung cancer (SCLC) with disease progression on or after platinum-based chemotherapy and at least 1 other prior line of therapy. This indication is approved under accelerated approval based on tumor response rate and durability of response. Continued approval for this indication may be contingent upon verification and description of clinical benefit in confirmatory trials.
Head and Neck Squamous Cell Cancer
KEYTRUDA, in combination with platinum and fluorouracil (FU), is indicated for the first-line treatment of patients with metastatic or with unresectable, recurrent head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC).
KEYTRUDA, as a single agent, is indicated for the first-line treatment of patients with metastatic or with unresectable, recurrent HNSCC whose tumors express PD-L1 [combined positive score (CPS) 1] as determined by an FDA-approved test.
KEYTRUDA, as a single agent, is indicated for the treatment of patients with recurrent or metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) with disease progression on or after platinum-containing chemotherapy.
Classical Hodgkin Lymphoma
KEYTRUDA is indicated for the treatment of adult and pediatric patients with refractory classical Hodgkin lymphoma (cHL), or who have relapsed after 3 or more prior lines of therapy. This indication is approved under accelerated approval based on tumor response rate and durability of response. Continued approval for this indication may be contingent upon verification and description of clinical benefit in the confirmatory trials.
Primary Mediastinal Large B-Cell Lymphoma
KEYTRUDA is indicated for the treatment of adult and pediatric patients with refractory primary mediastinal large B-cell lymphoma (PMBCL), or who have relapsed after 2 or more prior lines of therapy. This indication is approved under accelerated approval based on tumor response rate and durability of response. Continued approval for this indication may be contingent upon verification and description of clinical benefit in confirmatory trials. KEYTRUDA is not recommended for treatment of patients with PMBCL who require urgent cytoreductive therapy.
KEYTRUDA is indicated for the treatment of patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma (mUC) who are not eligible for cisplatin-containing chemotherapy and whose tumors express PD-L1 [combined positive score (CPS) 10], as determined by an FDA-approved test, or in patients who are not eligible for any platinum-containing chemotherapy regardless of PD-L1 status. This indication is approved under accelerated approval based on tumor response rate and duration of response. Continued approval for this indication may be contingent upon verification and description of clinical benefit in confirmatory trials.
KEYTRUDA is indicated for the treatment of patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma (mUC) who have disease progression during or following platinum-containing chemotherapy or within 12 months of neoadjuvant or adjuvant treatment with platinum-containing chemotherapy.
KEYTRUDA is indicated for the treatment of patients with Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG)-unresponsive, high-risk, non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) with carcinoma in situ (CIS) with or without papillary tumors who are ineligible for or have elected not to undergo cystectomy.
Microsatellite Instability-High or Mismatch Repair Deficient Cancer
KEYTRUDA is indicated for the treatment of adult and pediatric patients with unresectable or metastatic microsatellite instability-high (MSI-H) or mismatch repair deficient (dMMR)
This indication is approved under accelerated approval based on tumor response rate and durability of response. Continued approval for this indication may be contingent upon verification and description of clinical benefit in the confirmatory trials. The safety and effectiveness of KEYTRUDA in pediatric patients with MSI-H central nervous system cancers have not been established.
Microsatellite Instability-High or Mismatch Repair Deficient Colorectal Cancer
KEYTRUDA is indicated for the first-line treatment of patients with unresectable or metastatic MSI-H or dMMR colorectal cancer (CRC).
KEYTRUDA is indicated for the treatment of patients with recurrent locally advanced or metastatic gastric or gastroesophageal junction (GEJ) adenocarcinoma whose tumors express PD-L1 (CPS 1) as determined by an FDA-approved test, with disease progression on or after two or more prior lines of therapy including fluoropyrimidine- and platinum-containing chemotherapy and if appropriate, HER2/neu-targeted therapy. This indication is approved under accelerated approval based on tumor response rate and durability of response. Continued approval for this indication may be contingent upon verification and description of clinical benefit in the confirmatory trials.
KEYTRUDA is indicated for the treatment of patients with recurrent locally advanced or metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus whose tumors express PD-L1 (CPS 10) as determined by an FDA-approved test, with disease progression after one or more prior lines of systemic therapy.
KEYTRUDA is indicated for the treatment of patients with recurrent or metastatic cervical cancer with disease progression on or after chemotherapy whose tumors express PD-L1 (CPS 1) as determined by an FDA-approved test. This indication is approved under accelerated approval based on tumor response rate and durability of response. Continued approval for this indication may be contingent upon verification and description of clinical benefit in the confirmatory trials.
KEYTRUDA is indicated for the treatment of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) who have been previously treated with sorafenib. This indication is approved under accelerated approval based on tumor response rate and durability of response. Continued approval for this indication may be contingent upon verification and description of clinical benefit in the confirmatory trials.
KEYTRUDA is indicated for the treatment of adult and pediatric patients with recurrent locally advanced or metastatic Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC). This indication is approved under accelerated approval based on tumor response rate and durability of response. Continued approval for this indication may be contingent upon verification and description of clinical benefit in the confirmatory trials.
KEYTRUDA, in combination with axitinib, is indicated for the first-line treatment of patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC).
Tumor Mutational Burden-High
KEYTRUDA is indicated for the treatment of adult and pediatric patients with unresectable or metastatic tumor mutational burden-high (TMB-H) [10 mutations/megabase (mut/Mb)] solid tumors, as determined by an FDA-approved test, that have progressed following prior treatment and who have no satisfactory alternative treatment options. This indication is approved under accelerated approval based on tumor response rate and durability of response. Continued approval for this indication may be contingent upon verification and description of clinical benefit in the confirmatory trials. The safety and effectiveness of KEYTRUDA in pediatric patients with TMB-H central nervous system cancers have not been established.
KEYTRUDA is indicated for the treatment of patients with recurrent or metastatic cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cSCC) that is not curable by surgery or radiation.
Selected Important Safety Information for KEYTRUDA (pembrolizumab)
Immune-Mediated Pneumonitis
KEYTRUDA can cause immune-mediated pneumonitis, including fatal cases. Pneumonitis occurred in 3.4% (94/2799) of patients with various cancers receiving KEYTRUDA, including Grade 1 (0.8%), 2 (1.3%), 3 (0.9%), 4 (0.3%), and 5 (0.1%). Pneumonitis occurred in 8.2% (65/790) of NSCLC patients receiving KEYTRUDA as a single agent, including Grades 3-4 in 3.2% of patients, and occurred more frequently in patients with a history of prior thoracic radiation (17%) compared to those without (7.7%). Pneumonitis occurred in 6% (18/300) of HNSCC patients receiving KEYTRUDA as a single agent, including Grades 3-5 in 1.6% of patients, and occurred in 5.4% (15/276) of patients receiving KEYTRUDA in combination with platinum and FU as first-line therapy for advanced disease, including Grades 3-5 in 1.5% of patients.
Monitor patients for signs and symptoms of pneumonitis. Evaluate suspected pneumonitis with radiographic imaging. Administer corticosteroids for Grade 2 or greater pneumonitis. Withhold KEYTRUDA for Grade 2; permanently discontinue KEYTRUDA for Grade 3 or 4 or recurrent Grade 2 pneumonitis.
Immune-Mediated Colitis
KEYTRUDA can cause immune-mediated colitis. Colitis occurred in 1.7% (48/2799) of patients receiving KEYTRUDA, including Grade 2 (0.4%), 3 (1.1%), and 4 (<0.1%). Monitor patients for signs and symptoms of colitis. Administer corticosteroids for Grade 2 or greater colitis. Withhold KEYTRUDA for Grade 2 or 3; permanently discontinue KEYTRUDA for Grade 4 colitis.
Immune-Mediated Hepatitis (KEYTRUDA) and Hepatotoxicity (KEYTRUDA in Combination With Axitinib)
Immune-Mediated Hepatitis
KEYTRUDA can cause immune-mediated hepatitis. Hepatitis occurred in 0.7% (19/2799) of patients receiving KEYTRUDA, including Grade 2 (0.1%), 3 (0.4%), and 4 (<0.1%). Monitor patients for changes in liver function. Administer corticosteroids for Grade 2 or greater hepatitis and, based on severity of liver enzyme elevations, withhold or discontinue KEYTRUDA.
Hepatotoxicity in Combination With Axitinib
KEYTRUDA in combination with axitinib can cause hepatic toxicity with higher than expected frequencies of Grades 3 and 4 ALT and AST elevations compared to KEYTRUDA alone. With the combination of KEYTRUDA and axitinib, Grades 3 and 4 increased ALT (20%) and increased AST (13%) were seen. Monitor liver enzymes before initiation of and periodically throughout treatment. Consider more frequent monitoring of liver enzymes as compared to when the drugs are administered as single agents. For elevated liver enzymes, interrupt KEYTRUDA and axitinib, and consider administering corticosteroids as needed.
Immune-Mediated Endocrinopathies
KEYTRUDA can cause adrenal insufficiency (primary and secondary), hypophysitis, thyroid disorders, and type 1 diabetes mellitus. Adrenal insufficiency occurred in 0.8% (22/2799) of patients, including Grade 2 (0.3%), 3 (0.3%), and 4 (<0.1%). Hypophysitis occurred in 0.6% (17/2799) of patients, including Grade 2 (0.2%), 3 (0.3%), and 4 (<0.1%). Hypothyroidism occurred in 8.5% (237/2799) of patients, including Grade 2 (6.2%) and 3 (0.1%). The incidence of new or worsening hypothyroidism was higher in 1185 patients with HNSCC (16%) receiving KEYTRUDA, as a single agent or in combination with platinum and FU, including Grade 3 (0.3%) hypothyroidism. Hyperthyroidism occurred in 3.4% (96/2799) of patients, including Grade 2 (0.8%) and 3 (0.1%), and thyroiditis occurred in 0.6% (16/2799) of patients, including Grade 2 (0.3%). Type 1 diabetes mellitus, including diabetic ketoacidosis, occurred in 0.2% (6/2799) of patients.
Monitor patients for signs and symptoms of adrenal insufficiency, hypophysitis (including hypopituitarism), thyroid function (prior to and periodically during treatment), and hyperglycemia. For adrenal insufficiency or hypophysitis, administer corticosteroids and hormone replacement as clinically indicated. Withhold KEYTRUDA for Grade 2 adrenal insufficiency or hypophysitis and withhold or discontinue KEYTRUDA for Grade 3 or Grade 4 adrenal insufficiency or hypophysitis. Administer hormone replacement for hypothyroidism and manage hyperthyroidism with thionamides and beta-blockers as appropriate. Withhold or discontinue KEYTRUDA for Grade 3 or 4 hyperthyroidism. Administer insulin for type 1 diabetes, and withhold KEYTRUDA and administer antihyperglycemics in patients with severe hyperglycemia.
Immune-Mediated Nephritis and Renal Dysfunction
KEYTRUDA can cause immune-mediated nephritis. Nephritis occurred in 0.3% (9/2799) of patients receiving KEYTRUDA, including Grade 2 (0.1%), 3 (0.1%), and 4 (<0.1%) nephritis. Nephritis occurred in 1.7% (7/405) of patients receiving KEYTRUDA in combination with pemetrexed and platinum chemotherapy. Monitor patients for changes in renal function. Administer corticosteroids for Grade 2 or greater nephritis. Withhold KEYTRUDA for Grade 2; permanently discontinue for Grade 3 or 4 nephritis.
Immune-Mediated Skin Reactions
Immune-mediated rashes, including Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS), toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) (some cases with fatal outcome), exfoliative dermatitis, and bullous pemphigoid, can occur. Monitor patients for suspected severe skin reactions and based on the severity of the adverse reaction, withhold or permanently discontinue KEYTRUDA and administer corticosteroids. For signs or symptoms of SJS or TEN, withhold KEYTRUDA and refer the patient for specialized care for assessment and treatment. If SJS or TEN is confirmed, permanently discontinue KEYTRUDA.
Other Immune-Mediated Adverse Reactions
Immune-mediated adverse reactions, which may be severe or fatal, can occur in any organ system or tissue in patients receiving KEYTRUDA and may also occur after discontinuation of treatment. For suspected immune-mediated adverse reactions, ensure adequate evaluation to confirm etiology or exclude other causes. Based on the severity of the adverse reaction, withhold KEYTRUDA and administer corticosteroids. Upon improvement to Grade 1 or less, initiate corticosteroid taper and continue to taper over at least 1 month. Based on limited data from clinical studies in patients whose immune-related adverse reactions could not be controlled with corticosteroid use, administration of other systemic immunosuppressants can be considered. Resume KEYTRUDA when the adverse reaction remains at Grade 1 or less following corticosteroid taper. Permanently discontinue KEYTRUDA for any Grade 3 immune-mediated adverse reaction that recurs and for any life-threatening immune-mediated adverse reaction.
The following clinically significant immune-mediated adverse reactions occurred in less than 1% (unless otherwise indicated) of 2799 patients: arthritis (1.5%), uveitis, myositis, Guillain-Barr syndrome, myasthenia gravis, vasculitis, pancreatitis, hemolytic anemia, sarcoidosis, and encephalitis. In addition, myelitis and myocarditis were reported in other clinical trials, including classical Hodgkin lymphoma, and postmarketing use.
Treatment with KEYTRUDA may increase the risk of rejection in solid organ transplant recipients. Consider the benefit of treatment vs the risk of possible organ rejection in these patients.
Infusion-Related Reactions
KEYTRUDA can cause severe or life-threatening infusion-related reactions, including hypersensitivity and anaphylaxis, which have been reported in 0.2% (6/2799) of patients. Monitor patients for signs and symptoms of infusion-related reactions. For Grade 3 or 4 reactions, stop infusion and permanently discontinue KEYTRUDA.
Complications of Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (HSCT)
Immune-mediated complications, including fatal events, occurred in patients who underwent allogeneic HSCT after treatment with KEYTRUDA. Of 23 patients with cHL who proceeded to allogeneic HSCT after KEYTRUDA, 6 (26%) developed graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) (1 fatal case) and 2 (9%) developed severe hepatic veno-occlusive disease (VOD) after reduced-intensity conditioning (1 fatal case). Cases of fatal hyperacute GVHD after allogeneic HSCT have also been reported in patients with lymphoma who received a PD-1 receptorblocking antibody before transplantation. Follow patients closely for early evidence of transplant-related complications such as hyperacute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), Grade 3 to 4 acute GVHD, steroid-requiring febrile syndrome, hepatic veno-occlusive disease (VOD), and other immune-mediated adverse reactions.
In patients with a history of allogeneic HSCT, acute GVHD (including fatal GVHD) has been reported after treatment with KEYTRUDA. Patients who experienced GVHD after their transplant procedure may be at increased risk for GVHD after KEYTRUDA. Consider the benefit of KEYTRUDA vs the risk of GVHD in these patients.
Increased Mortality in Patients With Multiple Myeloma
In trials in patients with multiple myeloma, the addition of KEYTRUDA to a thalidomide analogue plus dexamethasone resulted in increased mortality. Treatment of these patients with a PD-1 or PD-L1 blocking antibody in this combination is not recommended outside of controlled trials.
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Sunrise Fundraising Principles
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State of the World
Our economy is broken. Between March and June 2020, while 40 million people lost their jobs due to the coronavirus pandemic, America’s billionaires amassed more than half a trillion dollars.
Much of this money — no one can be sure how much — will be hoarded in philanthropic institutions that serve as legal tax havens to facilitate the transfer of wealth from the many to the few. In order to escape paying their fair share of taxes to contribute to the economy they benefit from, the elite will spend a small percentage of this wealth under the auspice of charity. Like so many nonprofits in the movement ecosystem, the legal entities of Sunrise will receive a sliver of this small percentage to fund our work fighting for the Green New Deal.
In that same period between March and June 2020, when those 40 million people were out of work, our movement raised $600,000 through grassroots donations in increments of just about $22.00 each.
These two worlds of fundraising — old school philanthropy and the digital grassroots — feel like microcosms of the world we’re trying to escape and the world we’re trying to build. Much as we all still use fossil fuels to organize ourselves out of the fossil fuel economy, we still rely on the fundraising structures that exist to fund our visionary goals.
As our movement organizes for the Green New Deal — and a federal government that reins in the massive wealth hoarded by millionaires and billionaires and instead invests in community resiliency and infrastructure — our fundraisers reckon with the shortcomings of philanthropy as we fund our transformative work and build our grassroots donor base.
We have set up legal entities, drawing on the legacy of social movement organizations from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the 1960s to United We Dream today, in order to accept and spend the funds we raise. We acknowledge that these centralized organizations represent only a fraction of our entire movement.
Our Fundraising Principles
1. Fundraising is organizing.
Whether it means mobilizing thousands of people to give in small amounts or moving large checks from the monied to the movement, fundraising is about organizing people and organizing money. We all bear responsibility in this, which is why volunteer and staff fundraisers train Sunrise members to build their fundraising skills. We are creative in experimenting with methods of financing our hubs and moving resources to our base, in order to overcome the legal barriers put up by the establishment to disempower young people, communities of color, and the working class.
2. Donations take many forms, including time.
A monetary contribution is only one way to give to the movement. Many young people choose to give their time to building their local hub or phonebanking for Green New Deal champions, and we recognize these volunteers as the lifeblood of Sunrise. We hold ourselves true to Sunrise Principle #6, “we ask for help and we give what we can.”
3. We do not change who we are or how we present for funders.
We are a movement of young people and we let that show, dressing for funder meetings in the same way we’d dress for a training. We recognize that philanthropy has long been used as a tool to uphold capitalism and white supremacist culture. We resist the power that philanthropy attempts to hold over us by growing our small dollar donor base. We recognize we may lose foundation support for saying this.
4. We do not accept contributions with strings attached.
We have turned down checks that come with expectations of input on our strategy and will continue to do so. Occasionally we will solicit project-based grants from foundations to fill gaps in our organizing, leading with the needs of our movement and not with the desires of funders.
5. We believe that money amassed through the wrongs of history should be spent righting them.
Capitalism and white supremacy leave precious little wealth in this country unspoiled by pain and exploitation. We accept money in service of dismantling the systems that created our country’s massive wealth inequality in the first place. Ultimately, a donation is a reflection of alignment, not of endorsement.
6. Our vision of resources is rooted in abundance, not scarcity, and we live this out as fundraising partners with our movement allies.
We issue joint fundraising appeals, make connections for each other, and organize owning class donors in our movement to give directly to other organizations. We push our institutional funders to rethink their funding priorities, asking them to resource our partners, from visionary community groups led by people of color to organizations that likewise build mass movements for transformational change.
7. We know we must spend money on elections to build our political power.
Electing Green New Deal champions into office is a core part of our theory of change. Our endorsed candidates, often BIPOC working class individuals, lack the funds and networks of establishment politicians. We use all the tools in our toolbox, including our federal PAC, to resource our champions in compliance with election law. Using these tools to their fullest potential is how we win.
8. Billionaires should not exist — but so long as they do, we view philanthropy as an imperfect form of redistribution.
Our movement organizes for real redistribution that breaks up the monopoly on wealth held by the elite, creating a more equal society through reparations and taxing the rich. We welcome funders who wish to join us in this fight, encouraging them to embrace risk by investing in youth movements.
Donate to help grow the climate revolution. Together we can win.
Sunrise is a movement of young people to stop climate change and create millions of jobs in the process. We’re building people and political power to make this a country where all of us can have a livable future – no matter the color of our skin or where we come from.
Can you make a donation today to help us fight for a Green New Deal and win?
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Coventry Free Public Wifi
Coventry city centre turns of free public WiFi for the first time.
21:21 23 November 2018
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Coventry city centre will be turning on not just its Christmas lights on but also its free WiFi service that local businesses and members of the public can take advantage of.
The service, which is expected to be rolled out across Coventry in early 2019, was made possible by Coventry City Council and IntechnologyWiFi, who will monitor and maintain the equipment in the city.
Councillor Jim O’Boyle, Cabinet Member for Jobs and Regeneration, said: “This is great news for Coventry as it’s really important as a city we keep moving forward.
"Wi-Fi is an absolute necessity today for everybody so it’s great that people can access this free public Wi-Fi via their phones, laptops and computers.
“An added benefit is that it can increase access to the digital economy, improve digital skills and support business growth which is what Coventry is all about.
“Ultimately this will help to create a cleaner, greener and healthier city and raise the profile of Coventry as a modern, dynamic and successful place.”
Natalie Duffield, Chief Executive of IntechnologyWiFi, said: "Free public WiFi for the benefit of residents, tourists and businesses in Coventry city centre is just the beginning.
“Our network also provides a city-wide platform for the Internet of Things (IoT), one of the first of its kind in the UK.
“This will allow the development of innovative and insightful new applications for use in transport, environment, healthcare, retail and leisure settings.
“The platform is secure and will be open to public and private sector organisations, from council departments which need to deliver public services online to start-ups with great ideas for new products.
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Dyson's move a sign of Singapore's attractiveness to global firms
Analysts cite stability, FTAs and IP protection as pull factors but say move alone unlikely to have big impact on economy
Dyson founder Mr James Dyson. Dyson said that its corporate head office will relocate from Britain to Singapore, where a rising proportion of its executive team will be based.PHOTO: AFP
Dyson, known for its bladeless fans and bagless vacuum cleaners, is moving its corporate head office from Britain to Singapore.ST PHOTO: LIM YAOHUI
Seow Bei Yi
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Jan 24, 2019, 5:00 am SGT
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The shift of British technology company Dyson's head office to Singapore is a "significant and symbolic" move as it shows that the Republic - with its political stability, policy planning and free trade agreements (FTAs) - remains attractive to global brands.
This is despite the relatively high labour and land costs here, economists have told The Straits Times.
A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on January 24, 2019, with the headline 'Dyson's move a sign of S'pore's attractiveness to global firms'. Print Edition | Subscribe
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Area Information for Southdown Road, Harpenden, AL5 1PA
Southdown Road in Harpenden is in the Eastern region of England. The postcode is within the Harpenden West ward/electoral division, which is in the constituency of Hitchin and Harpenden. This page combines information for the address Southdown Road, Harpenden, AL5 1PA, and the neighbourhood in which it resides. If you wish, you can also view information for the whole of AL5 here. For more details on the exact area these statistics cover, please see the map below and click "Show Census Area Covered" immediately below the map.
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There have been no house sales reported to the Land Registry in this postcode since January 1st 1995.
The postcode AL5 1PA does not show a significant deviation from the average figures for the UK. In the UK as a whole, the average figures are approximately as follows for relationship statuses: 34% single, 47% married, 3% separated, 9% divorced, 7% widowed, and 0.2% same sex.
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Athlone Extrusions: Management Buy-out
Ireland’s Athlone Extrusions has undergone a management buyout from the Quinn Group, for a sum reported at EURO55m. A report in the Irish Times said Athlone managing director James McGee, together with Enda Cunningham and Jackie Brown, had bought the company. A Quinn Group spokesman confirmed the business had been sold. He said the factories in the Czech Republic and at Newbridge, south of Dublin, will remain under Quinn ownership.
Athlone was part of the Barlo Group, which was bought by Northern Irish family firm Quinn Group earlier this year. An MBO at Athlone was originally mooted when Barlo chief executive Dr. Anthony Mullins announced plans to buy out the Barlo Group. When Mullins’ bid failed, the sale of Athlone was put on hold.Athlone Extrusions manufactures extruded sheets and film in PS, ABS and PMMA/ABS.It has installed capacity of around 27,000tpa and has sales offices in Birmingham, UK and Tilburg, the Netherlands.
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Camille Silvy: Photographer of Modern Life 1834-1910
Camille Silvy
I just happened to be in London the other week and walking past the National Portrait Gallery with some time to kill and I noticed an exhibition was currently showing for Camille Silvy. Not having heard of him until now, I decided to pop in for a viewing.
‘Camille Silvy was a pioneer of early photography and one of the greatest French photographers of the 19th century’
‘Working under the patronage of Queen Victoria, Silvy photographed royalty, aristocrats and celebrities. He also portrayed uncelebrated people, the professional classes and country gentry, their wives, children and servants.’
Exhibition text – National Portrait Gallery
The Camille Silvy exhibition was divided into various sections, detailing particular times/genres in his life.
Introducing Camille Silvy
Camille Silvy started off as an amateur while working as a French diplomat. The first section of the exhibition consisted of family and self portraits, and I was struck by his stature; he was a large powerful looking man and caused me to think of a cross between Brian Blessed (with the think bushy beard) and the fictional character of Harry Flashman; perhaps not the most complementary of images, but that’s what came into my head and this is my blog!
If you have ever read the Harry Flashman novels you will think of the dashing cavalry officers of the 19th century (think charge of the light brigade) with those elegant and elaborate uniforms of the officer class.
The other thing that struck me about these early portraits where his use of props; the elaborate uniforms and costumes, but also chairs tables, ornaments and especially books; either a bookshelf in the background or holding a book, quite different from more contemporary photographs. Although a different age and style I though back to an Irving Penn exhibition with minimal props so that your attention is directed to focus the inner ‘character’
Silvy also used a technique where he produced a photograph of the same image 4 times – Think of a 19th Century Andy Warhol!
Early Photographs: Algeria and Rural France
There were 2 photographs from his early years Algeria; ‘the courtyard of the library’, which had really nice use of light and shadow that created perspective and depth to the photograph.
The other image photograph ‘Hashish smoker on balcony’ also used light and shadow to create depth, but also the use of diagonal lines drawing the eye to the centre. I did find the position of the ‘smoker’ a little eccentric as they were very close to the left edge of the frame, but somehow the use of directional light (coming into the balcony) and leading lines still makes the photograph ‘work’
Although not a particularly remarkable photograph, the old building in his ‘Cider Press’ photograph 1858 (France), did attract my attention to its texture details of the roof tiles, a great use of light to create dimension.
River Scene, France
One of Camille Silvy’s more famous photographs from France was ‘La Vallée de l’Huisne’, (River Scene) 1858. This was really fascinating, not only for the composition and lines creating movement in the frame but also the technique Silvy employed to produce the image.
The photograph was actually a composite of more than one shot and a combination of filters; 2 photographs one for the sky and one for the landscape detail. By joining the negatives together he created a more evenly exposed ‘photograph’. The exhibition text explained that Silvy used other techniques to further improve the overall photograph by ‘cropping’ the frame appropriately and using a technique called burning to darken other parts of the photograph.
These techniques made me think about how photographs are produced in our time, compared to those in Silvy’s and how those techniques remain remarkably unchanged albeit using different mediums. The idea of combining shots at different exposures to produce a final result and the use of ‘burning’ and creative cropping are still employed to day on both film and digital formats. It turns out photography hasn’t really changed as much as we think! Thought provoking…
‘The Emperor’s Order of the Day’
Techniques aside (will return to this idea later) the historical value of seeing older works is fascinating. Another famous image from his collection ‘The Emperor’s order of the day’ and history was that of a group of men reading a poster in the streets of Paris; A message from the Emperor Napoleon III while campaigning in Italy to drive out the Austrians. The photograph has a subtle triangle that leads up to the poster, a great image. I later found out that the photograph was actually staged and the people in the shot where instructed to stand in their positions by Camille Silvy! To have taken the shot candidly would have taken a long exposure and if it were not staged then the photograph would not have worked.
In 1859 Camille Silvy moved to London and started his own photography studio. A lot of the photographs depicted his love for horsemanship, men in elegant riding clothes and elaborate military uniforms (think Harry Flashman books again!). What struck me most about his studio photographs though was the use of props.
There appeared to be a lot of props in his photographs; the use of furniture, leaning onto desks and book cases, standing behind chairs. The male subjects were often holding a book or Hat and standing very formally, similarly the female subjects were often seen to be holding a fan or hankie and generally more feminine objects than the men. Some of the studio work had picture backdrops or elaborate curtains too
I kept thinking about the difference between more contemporary studios with clean and bare environments, they also made me think of the Irving Penn exhibition I saw a while ago where his use of minimal ‘clutter’ made you concentrate of the character of the subject.
One really good photograph that caught my eye was that of ‘The Missus Booth’ 1861 a picture of two sisters with one faces the camera and the other facing away; however her face is reflected in a mirror that is behind them. In terms of composition there are a lot of triangles, both pointing up and inverted that leads you to the centre. I also see a heart shape between the sister’s arms signifying their love: I really liked this portrait.
Another photograph that stood out was a still life of ‘game’ (Rabbits, hairs) however he played with the idea over more traditional still life paintings by Jan Weenix 1642-1719 by introducing modern objects such as cutlery and even a newspaper with the date, showing as a sort of Juxtaposition between the modern (for the 19th century!) and traditional times.
As well as having clients including members of the Royal family (Queen Victoria never had her picture taken by him though) he took a lot of photos of actors and actresses. To improve his reputation and portfolio he would take the pictures for free so that he gained experience and his name spread but then his customers could then sell prints or use them as a sort of business card (Carte de visite) to their fans as well as their own portfolios.
Sun; Twilight; Fog – Studies on Light 1859
This section of the exhibition had to be the most fascinating part for me. There were 3 photographs each depicting an area of lighting; Sun, Fog and Twilight; with each one showing a different use of light. In the sun photograph of an Indian street sweeper you have strong direct light on the subject creating a hard shadow. However the next 2 images were even more interesting.
Silvy was able to create a finished ‘photograph’ that would not be possible by just taking a single shot of a scene. He used various techniques to create the final print. In the ‘Fog’ image (with the 2 musicians) some of the tree has actually been hand drawn in to add more details.
In ‘twilight’ one of his best known images is actually made of a number of images joined together, (one for the background, one for the street lamp, one for the wall and one for the 2 figures under the lamppost) much the same in the ‘river scene’ I also read somewhere (can’t find the reference though now so don’t shoot me!) that some of the lamppost was also drawn in by hand to bring in some more details. I also believe it is one of the earliest intended images depicting motion blur.
What I like about this set and especially with ‘Fog’ and ‘Twilight’; it’s the way that Silvy adapted what equipment and processing techniques he had to create the photograph he wanted, very much knowing exactly what he wanted in the frame for the final image. I really like this idea as it is very similar to how I like to work. Controlling the scene and subject to create what I want.
Later on in life Camille Silvy moved back to France due to ill health and he also came up with a new technique to photograph battlefields and one of the final images in the exhibition was of a 360 degree panoramic photograph taken from the center of the Champs Elysées. Another example of manipulation of the equipment and post processes.
I really enjoyed the exhibition – not bad considering I went by chance, with of the most interesting things I took away was the idea that photo manipulation has been around since photography itself!
Of course let’s not get carried away with this after all there is more to photography than manipulation and processing; it’s about light, composition, design and the idea of getting the photograph ‘right’ in camera first time, but you will still hear arguments like “but with Photoshop you can just crop that, burn this, merge those together, stitch them together and so on..” But taking the composition (and medium) aside, when it comes to making a photograph as best it can be , how different is it from what Silvy was doing 150 years ago?
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Saint Vincent College Concert Series
As a liberal arts college, Saint Vincent is dedicated to bringing fine arts to our students, alumni and the community. We do this through a wide variety of performing arts events, fine arts galleries and exhibits, concerts and other special performances.
For a full schedule of upcoming events, click our Event Calendar for dates and ticketing information.
Your 2019-2020 Drum Major Carly Belich and Field Commander Abigail Uhrinek
Now in its second decade, the March of the Bearcats is the largest performing musical group on the Saint Vincent College campus. The band has grown from a student club to a fully credited class that fulfills graduation requirements. The band has appeared in three consecutive Steeler Pre-season games and performs nearly every weekend from the start of classes through November for all home Bearcat football games and select away games, as well as at various marching band festivals and parades.
Please visit and subscribe to the official March of the Bearcats YouTube Channel.
Additional photos of the March of the Bearcats my be found here.
Marching Band MU171
MU171 Marching Band.
It it the goal to fill every spot to balance the available instrumentation. Ability to play more than one instrument is helpful but not required. In addition to Brass, Woodwinds, Percussion, Color Guard, and Majorettes, there are openings for equipment managers, videographers, and announcers for the 2019-2020 season. Even managers, videographers, and announcers for the band can receive credit for performing these important roles.
Audition material will be accepted through YouTube Video. Submission deadline for Marching Band Auditions will be Saturday, July 13 at 11:59:59 p.m. EST for all new performing members. Drill writing will begin on July 15, we need your video to save you a spot in the drill.
A two week Band camp will being August 7, 2019 for Percussion, Guard, and Majorettes. Brass and Woodwinds will report on August 11, 2019. Starting August 27, 2019 band will begin Tuesday and Thursday evening rehearsals plus Saturday mornings for every home football game and festival performance. Please see the season rehearsal and performance schedule below.
2019-2020 Audition material is now available.
(4) 2019 PICCOLO
(8) 2019 CLARINET
(6) 2019 ALTO SAX
(4) 2019 TENOR SAX
(12) 2019 TRUMPET
(6) 2019 MELLO
(8) 2019 TROMBONE
(4) 2019 BARITONE
(6) 2019 SOUSA
(4) SNARE (2) TENORS
(5) BASS (3) CYMBAL
(9) FRONT ENSEMBLE
(MARIMBAS, VIBRAPHONE,
XYLOPHONE, TYMPANI,
SYNTHESIZER, ELECTRIC
GUITAR, ELECTRIC BASS)
2019 DRUM LINE & FRONT ENSEMBLE
(16) GUARD
(8) MAJORETTE
Please email your YouTube link to marchingband@stvincent.edu. Winds, please prepare the B-flat and E-Flat Concert scales and Stars and Stripes excerpt found on the pdf download above. Percussion please prepare materials in the 2019 Drum Line and Front Ensemble pack found on the pdf download above. Guard please prepare materials as demonstrated on the Guard video link above. Majorettes please prepare materials found on the pdf download above.
All members of the March of the Bearcats Marching Band must also be registered for MU171 as well as fill out the medical travel form to attend Band Camp. Students who have reached their credit limit can take MU171 for 0.0 credits.
Please feel free to email with questions.
Basketball Pep Band MU175-2
MU175-2 Basketball Pep Band & Indoor Drumline.
At the conclusion of marching band season and starting in November the band transitions to a basketball pep band which includes Indoor Drumline and Indoor Guard. The groups perform at all home women's and men's basket ball games, including playoffs. Attendance is required at scheduled home games on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Because the stand music from marching band season will be used at basketball games, rehearsals are minimal for stand performances. Indoor Drumline and Guard will have additional rehearsals to learn the 3-5 minute show. Indoor Drumline and Guard will also travel off campus on select Saturdays to participate in local Indoor Shows.
All members of the March of the Bearcats Basketball Pep Band, Indoor Drumline and Indoor Guard must be registered for the class to participate. Students who have reached their credit limit can take MU175-2 for 0.0 credits.
Concert Band MU172
MU172 Concert Band.
In 2016 the Concert Band became a class, with the growing interest from marching band students. The concert band's reappearance ended a 60 year absence on campus. Photos from our most recent concert may be found here.
Concert band rehearses on Monday evenings and performs four concerts a year. In the fall semester the concert band performs a Pop's Concert for Homecoming and a Christmas Concert on Founders Day. In the spring semester the concert band performs a Literature and Repertoire concert and Potpourri concert.
All members of the Concert Band must be registered for the class to participate. Students who have reached their credit limit can take MU172 for 0.0 credits. Students enrolled in MU171 may use the provided Clarinets, Saxophones, Trumpets, and Trombones. Piccolo, E-Flat Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Baritone Saxophone, French Horns, Euphoniums, Tubas, and Concert Percussion will be provided. All other instruments are the responsibility of the student.
Members of the concert band are eligible to apply for and participate in Pennsylvania Intercollegiate Band. This yearly honors band is comprised of students attending Pennsylvania Colleges and Universities.
Past PAICB Participants
2017 Ryan Schwartz - Percussion
2019 Ryan Schwartz - Percussion, George Reich - Tuba
Marching Band Staff
Director of Bands - TBA
Percussion Instructor Marching Band and Indoor Drum Line - TBA
Haley Shiver, Majorette Instructor
Since the age of three Haley Shiver has been actively involved in baton twirling. Competing individually, and on a team for over twenty years she has earned a long line of accolades. A former Grand National Twirling Champion, Miss Majorette of America, and several time national, state, and regional twirling champion. She has been apart of NBTA USA Twirling Team in, Holland 2006, Belgium 2009, and Switzerland 2012. Bringing home a total of three gold medals, and a silver in individual and team events. In 2011, Haley was invited to be a US Twirling Ambassadors to Peru, spending two weeks performing and raising funds for charities.
Attending The University of Mississippi in fall of 2013, Haley held the position as the Feature Twirler for the Pride of the South Marching Band for five season. Performing at the Sugar Bowl, Peach Bowl, Music City Bowl, Chick-fil-a Kickoff game, and every home game. While attending the university she studied Integrated Marketing Communications, with a minor in Business Administration.
Teaching individual students for over 13 years now, Haley has taught many regional, state, and national champion baton twirlers.
Gilbert & Sullivan Club
The Saint Vincent College Gilbert and Sullivan Players is an amateur student organization dedicated to performing the classic works of W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. The club exists for the benefit and enjoyment of every individual in the group and recently celebrated its tenth anniversary. We put on two performances each school year, including a play by Gilbert in the fall and a musical by Gilbert and Sullivan in the spring. We love to have anyone and everyone who is interested become involved!
Follow Gilbert & Sullivan (@SVCGillySully) on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SVCGillySully
Like the Gilbert and Sullivan Players on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SVC.GilbertandSullivanPlayers/
Adviser: Mr. Christopher Plummer
Studio SVC
Studio SVC is a performing arts club on campus whose mission is to welcome and foster all varieties of dance backgrounds. Throughout the year, Studio SVC holds open workshop classes where no experience is needed such as ballet, jazz, tap, modern, African, hip-hop and other dance genres. The club also holds a yearly spring dance recital that includes a variety of dance styles as well as singing, poetry reading, instrumental pieces and more! Studio SVC is only a second-year club, but is growing and developing with more in store for the future such as flash mobs and dancing competitions.
Adviser: Lauren Churilla
SVC Radio Club
SVC Radio Club is devoted to bridging the gap between our small campus and the fantastic Pittsburgh music scene through inviting bands to play concerts free to the SVC community, as well as streaming radio shows from campus via the intranet.
Swing Dance Club
The Swing Dance Club provides the Saint Vincent College community with an alternative style of dance, one which had dominated the music and dancing of the US between the 1920s and 1940s, and has made a comeback in the 1990s. The club aims to teach swing dance as a fun way to introduce students into dancing.
Adviser: Dr. Patricia Sharbaugh
The Company was the first entirely student-run musical theater organization in Western Pennsylvania. They perform two shows a year: a musical in the fall semester and a cabaret-style show in the spring semester. Some of the past shows we have performed are Hello Dolly, Grease, Footloose, Little Shop of Horrors, Young Frankenstein, and 9 to 5. The Company's mission is to enlighten, enrich, and entertain the students and audience that bring it to life. We are always looking for new and talented members with a passion for performing!
Learn more about The Company including past shows, social media and more here.
Adviser: Mr. Greggory Brandt
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Nepal's Hidden Wildlife Reserve
Suklaphanta Wildlife Camp
Suklaphanta Reserve
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Recorded Bird Species
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Suklaphanta Camp is located less than five minutes’ drive from Suklaphanta Wildlife Reserve, which covers 305 square kilometres and protects some of the richest and most extensive grasslands in Asia, as well as both Sal and riverine forest. This mixed habitat supports an estimated 20 Tigers, one of the highest densities in the world today, although this particular population is shy and not habituated to man’s presence as in the popular Indian reserves where tourists abound! The international border between Nepal and India demarcates both the reserve’s western and southern boundaries. Between the reserve’s Sal and riverine forests span the largest phantas (grasslands) in Nepal and these are of international importance on account of the unique selection of threatened birds and other wildlife that they hold.
Habitat and Birdlife
Four small lakes — Rani Tal, Salghaudi Tal, Kalikitch Tal and Shikari Tal — add significantly to the reserve’s biodiversity. The reserve has many tall watchtowers, which are, in effect, raised hides overlooking grassland, forest lakes and swamps. These optimise your chances of seeing wildlife as they place you above the reserve’s tall grasses, and offer wonderful views of the passing wildlife. It is the reserve’s unrivalled selection of rare grassland birds that will be the main attraction for many visitors — Bengal Florican (best seen displaying in summer), Swamp Francolin, Great Slaty Woodpecker (one of the largest of the world’s woodpeckers), White-naped Woodpecker, Finn’s Weaver, and both Bristled and Rufous-rumped Grassbirds being among the resident specialities, whilst Hodgson’s Bushchat occur in winter. The park also supports a particularly wide range of other woodpeckers, warblers and bush warblers, and such rarities as Jerdon’s Babbler and Jerdon’s Bushchat.
The reserve offers a density of all mammals that is hard to match anywhere else in Nepal, amongst a wealth of species it supports the world’s largest population of the nominate race of Swamp Deer. Of the mammal species recorded here, there is a moderate chance of encountering a Tiger, though you are much more likely to see Golden Jackals, numerous Swamp, Spotted and Hog Deer, and both Rhesus Macaques and Terai Langurs. Other mammals in the reserve include Nilgai, Barking Deer and Smooth-coated Otter, as well as Leopard, Asian Elephant and Great Indian One-horned Rhinoceros. A night-drive (if permitted) would provide a chance of seeing the little-known Hispid Hare.
UK booking office: 01962 733051 Nepal booking office: 014355609
Email: rajan@naturetrek.co.uk
© Suklaphanta Wildlife Camp 2019
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Cancellations mean European action resumes with knockout matches
The Champions Cup and Challenge Cup group stage has been abandoned (Niall Carson/PA)
Europe’s final two rounds of group matches will be cancelled with the Champions and Challenge Cups moving straight into the knockout phase, Premiership Rugby has confirmed.
The French government has blocked the Top 14 clubs from competing in cross-border competition this month due to its fears over the Kent strain of coronavirus, which has sent the number of cases in England soaring.
The remaining two pool rounds were initially postponed but PRL chief executive Darren Childs says they have now been abandoned because of the lack of space in an already full schedule.
Tournament organisers EPCR will decide within the fortnight what format the competitions should take, with a knockout phase launched by a round of 16 the likely option.
Darren Childs said it was a straightforward decision to cancel the remaining group games (Andrew Matthews/PA)
“The decision was made very quickly by the executive at EPCR that we would not try to reschedule those games,” Childs said.
“We have a tough season. There’s no space at the end of the season because of the Lions and we have no spare weekends in our season once we resume.
“To play European rounds when the Lions is taking place would have been very damaging to the European tournament. So it was decided very quickly by all three leagues CEOs that we would complete the tournament in the four remaining weekends.
“Everyone is managing their domestic and international calendars to the best of their ability. The exact structure has not been agreed and we’ve already started those discussions.”
Upon learning of the French government’s decision on Monday, PRL opted to implement a break rather than bring forward Gallagher Premiership fixtures to fill the empty weekends.
The decision not to change the league’s existing schedule was made to protect the welfare of players and staff, especially on the medical side.
“We’ve had 70 players in the last three weeks who have tested positive for COVID. In that period of time we lost five games,” PRL director of rugby Phil Winstanley said.
“It made absolutely no sense to bring games forward from later in the season to this period, when COVID is at its highest prevalence and highest risk.
“Moving them forward would give us the biggest chance of losing those games and determining the outcome by allocation of points. That made no sense.
“From a public health perspective, you’ve seen in the last 24 hours serious concerns about sport at the moment and how it’s portraying itself.
“By not moving games, this has presented the opportunity to give ourselves a break and support the health and welfare of some of the players.”
Childs revealed that Premiership broadcaster BT Sport approached PRL on Monday asking if any games could be allotted to this Saturday’s schedule, but by then it was too late.
“The decision had already been made,” said Childs, who insisted no club had raised an objection to the break.
“Moving games and changing schedules is a hugely complex issue. Had we been given more notice and time, we might have been able to think it through as an option.
“BT Sport were very accepting of the rationale and there was no animosity at all. Hopefully this break will help us get the remaining nine rounds done.”
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FERPA | Disability Services | Plagiarism | Grievances
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FERPA affords students certain rights with respect to their education records. They are:
The right to inspect and review the student's education records within 45 days of the day the university receives a written request for access.
The right to request the amendment of the student's education records that the student believes is inaccurate or misleading.
The right to consent to disclosures of personally identifiable information contained in the student's education records, except to the extent that FERPA authorizes disclosure without consent.
The right to file a complaint with the U. S. Department of Education concerning alleged failures by Texas A&M International University to comply with the requirements of FERPA.
For more information contact the Office of the University Registrar or visit their page for more information.
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Plagiarism and Cheating
Plagiarism is the presentation of someone else’s work as your own.
When you borrow someone else’s facts, ideas, or opinions and put them entirely in your own words, you must acknowledge that these thoughts are not your own by immediately citing the source in your paper. Failure to do this is plagiarism.
When you also borrow someone else’s words (short phrases, clauses, or sentences), you must enclose the copied words in quotation marks as well as citing the source. Failure to do this is plagiarism.
When you present someone else’s paper or exam (stolen, borrowed, or bought) as your own, you have committed a clearly intentional form of intellectual theft and have put your academic future in jeopardy. This is the worst form of plagiarism.
Here is another explanation from the 2010, sixth edition of the Manual of The American Psychological Association (APA):
Plagiarism: Researchers do not claim the words and ideas of another as their own; they give credit where credit is due. Quotations marks should be used to indicate the exact words of another. Each time you paraphrase another author (i.e., summarize a passage or rearrange the order of a sentence and change some of the words), you need to credit the source in the text.
The key element of this principle is that authors do not present the work of another as if it were their own words. This can extend to ideas as well as written words. If authors model a study after one done by someone else, the originating author should be given credit. If the rationale for a study was suggested in the Discussion section of someone else's article, the person should be given credit. Given the free exchange of ideas, which is very important for the health of intellectual discourse, authors may not know where an idea for a study originated. If authors do know, however, they should acknowledge the source; this includes personal communications. (pp. 15-16)
Consult the Writing Center or a recommended guide to documentation and research such as the Manual of the APA or the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers for guidance on proper documentation. If you still have doubts concerning proper documentation, seek advice from your instructor prior to submitting a final draft.
Use of work in Two or More Courses: You may not submit work completed in one course for a grade in a second course unless you receive explicit permission to do so by the instructor of the second course.
Penalties for Plagiarism: Should a faculty member discover that a student has committed plagiarism, the student should receive a grade of 'F' in that course and the matter will be referred to the Honor Council for possible disciplinary action. The faculty member, however, may elect to give freshmen and sophomore students a “zero” for the assignment and to allow them to revise the assignment up to a grade of “F” (50%) if they believe that the student plagiarized out of ignorance or carelessness and not out of an attempt to deceive in order to earn an unmerited grade. This option should not be available to juniors, seniors, or graduate students, who cannot reasonably claim ignorance of documentation rules as an excuse. Caution: Be very careful what you upload to Turnitin or send to your professor for evaluation. Whatever you upload for evaluation will be considered your final, approved draft. If it is plagiarized, you will be held responsible. The excuse that “it was only a draft” will not be accepted. Caution: Also, do not share your electronic files with others. If you do, you are responsible for the possible consequences. If another student takes your file of a paper and changes the name to his or her name and submits it and you also submit the paper, we will hold both of you responsible for plagiarism. It is impossible for us to know with certainty who wrote the paper and who stole it. And, of course, we cannot know if there was collusion between you and the other student in the matter.
Penalties for Cheating: Should a faculty member discover a student cheating on an exam or quiz or other class project, the student should receive a “zero” for the assignment and not be allowed to make the assignment up. The incident should be reported to the chair of the department and to the Honor Council. If the cheating is extensive, however, or if the assignment constitutes a major grade for the course (e.g., a final exam), or if the student has cheated in the past, the student should receive an “F” in the course, and the matter should be referred to the Honor Council. Under no circumstances should a student who deserves an “F” in the course be allowed to withdraw from the course with a “W.”
Student Right of Appeal: Faculty will notify students immediately via the student’s TAMIU e-mail account that they have submitted plagiarized work. Students have the right to appeal a faculty member’s charge of academic dishonesty by notifying the TAMIU Honor Council of their intent to appeal as long as the notification of appeal comes within 5 business days of the faculty member’s e-mail message to the student. The Student Handbook provides details.
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File a Grievance against Students (Section 8.01 of Student Handbook):
Any member of the University community has the right to file a grievance against a student that is in violation of the Student Code of Conduct. Grievances should be filed in writing within fifteen (15) University working days of the discovery of the alleged infraction to the Office of Student Conduct and Community Engagement via reporting system (http://www.tamiu.edu/reportit). The time lines for the grievance process may be extended for good cause shown or upon the unilateral discretion of the Office of Student Conduct and Community Engagement.
File a Grievance against Faculty (Section 4.03 of Student Handbook):
Conflicts between faculty members and students that do not relate to faculty decisions regarding such academic issues as course policies and grades will be considered the subject of grievances. The process for resolving grievances between faculty members and students is as follows.
Before a grievance is filed, the aggrieved faculty member or student must make a good faith effort to meet with the other party about his or her concerns. If the other party is unwilling to meet, if the aggrieved party has reasonable concerns about his or her physical safety, or if the meeting produces no resolution to the conflict, then the aggrieved party may initiate a grievance by following the steps outlined below.
If the grievant is a faculty member, he or she will file a written complaint with the Office of Student Affairs. If the grievant is a student, he or she will file a written complaint with the faculty member’s department or division chair. In either case, both parties will receive a written acknowledgement of the complaint within five working days.
The student and faculty member will meet with the Associate Vice President for Student Affairs or designee, and the faculty member’s chair. Both the faculty member and the student must be present, unless one party waives that right. This meeting will take place within five working days of the acknowledgement of the grievance.
If the complaint remains unresolved after meeting with the department chair and the Associate Vice President for Student Affairs or designee, then within five working days of the meeting with the chair and the Associate Vice President for Student Affairs or designee, both the student and the faculty member will meet with either the Dean of the respective college (or academic administrator to whom the chair reports) if the grievant is a student, or with the Vice President Student Success if the grievant is a faculty member. Both the faculty member and the student must be present, unless one party waives that right.
If the complaint remains unresolved after that meeting, it will then be heard within five working days by an ad-hoc committee consisting of the faculty member’s department or division chair, the Associate Vice President of Student Affairs or designee, a member of the Student Government Association selected by the President of the Student Government Association, a member of the Faculty Senate selected by the Faculty Senate President, and a person selected by the non-grieving party from his or her peers. The chair of the committee will be the Associate Vice President of Student Affairs (or the Vice President Student Success’s designate) if the grievant is a faculty member, or the department chair if the grievant is a student. The chair of the committee will ensure that the committee is formed appropriately and meets on schedule. After hearing from both sides in the dispute and examining whatever documentation has been provided by the parties involved, the ad hoc committee will make its recommendation in writing to either the Provost or the Vice President Student Success, as appropriate. Both parties involved in the complaint should receive the written recommendation within three working days after the committee concludes its deliberations.
The Provost or the Vice President Student Success will notify in writing both parties of his or her final decision to resolve the grievance within three working days of receiving the committee’s recommendation.
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Pangeon claws its way onto PC
Alex Southgate
So I was sitting reading the news last night, (videogame news obviously, none of this real-life nonsense here), and I spotted an interesting bit about a new roguelike. Whenever we’re given a new reason to kill ourselves off multiple times and really enjoy doing it I’m all over it like a rash. This being said my little ramble today is going to be about Pangeon which has just found its way to PC.
Pangeon, by Polish developer MrCiastku, is a tribute to the classic dungeon crawler. It’s being touted as combining the best elements from various well-loved games of the genre. As I’ve already mentioned Pangeon is also a roguelike which is focusing on the single-player experience.
The player will undertake an almost suicidal mission to explore the various dungeons in the game. You will have to eliminate a host of enemies across eight diverse, secret filled levels if you are to survive your journey. As with all good dungeon crawlers, it’s not all doom and gloom, though. Treasure lies in the depths and you will be able to equip yourself with various items and 10 types of weapons.
If you’re wondering where this title comes from, Pangeon is the name of a secretive organization who have hidden themselves away in the dungeon system. As with all good evil organizations they’re bent on destroying the world so you’d better hop to it and stop them. With this title being a roguelike I can absolutely guarantee that this will be easier said than done. Eight levels might not sound like much but when you don’t have lives and have to complete the lot in one go it’s a challenge worth its merits.
Pangeon is going for a retro-feel and this shows in both the graphics and musical score that’s been used in the game. Interestingly for a roguelike, this title is also in the first person. From my recollection, the vast majority of games in this genre go for a more isometric approach. This adds a different vibe to the play style which can only be a good thing.
If you’re in the mood for a bit of masochistic fun you can already find Pangeon on Steam. Console owners who are wanting to join the action will be getting their own copies at the end of this year. RPG fans, roguelike fans and those of you that love a good retro experience should all find something to love here. Very interesting, indeed.
All images courtesy of Games Press
DRAW CHILLY claws its way from the underworld
About the author: Alex Southgate
Hailing from Southport England, Alex started his gaming career in the late 80s on a Commodore 64. Since that time he's either owned or played on virtually every console released. Alex happens to... Read more...
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Brisbane have distanced themselves from reports they are keen to bring Israel Folau back to the NRL. The Broncos were linked in media reports to a potential move to sign the former Wallabies winger after he reached an out-of-court settlement with Rugby Australia earlier this week over his wrongful termination claim. Within hours of the reports being published on Sunday however, the Broncos issued a brief statement saying they had no intention of bringing the 30-year-old back to Red Hill. "Contrary to media speculation, the Broncos have not been part of discussions of any kind with the player," the Broncos said in the statement posted on their website. "The club's roster is settled for the 2020 season. "We wish Israel well in the future." News Corp Australia reports Folau has been training hard to get himself fit for a preferred return to rugby league. Folau's sporting future is uncertain despite settling his claim with Rugby Australia relating to his axing over an infamous homophobic post on social media. ARL Commission chairman Peter V'landys has previously publicly insisted that a return to the NRL for devout Christian Folau would be difficult given his controversial stance on homosexuality is incompatible with the game's ethos. The News Corp Australia report claims Folau would be willing to allow the NRL to vet his future social media posts if it allowed him to move back to the competition. Folau played for Melbourne and the Broncos in his four-season NRL career between 2007 and 2010 before switching codes to join expansion club GWS in the AFL. He played 13 AFL matches for the Giants before joining rugby union in 2013 and going on to make 62 Test appearances for the Wallabies. Australian Associated Press
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December 8 2019 - 3:25PM
Broncos not keen on Folau despite reports
Ed Jackson
Former Wallabies star Israel Folau is eyeing a return to the NRL, according to media reports.
Brisbane have distanced themselves from reports they are keen to bring Israel Folau back to the NRL.
The Broncos were linked in media reports to a potential move to sign the former Wallabies winger after he reached an out-of-court settlement with Rugby Australia earlier this week over his wrongful termination claim.
Within hours of the reports being published on Sunday however, the Broncos issued a brief statement saying they had no intention of bringing the 30-year-old back to Red Hill.
"Contrary to media speculation, the Broncos have not been part of discussions of any kind with the player," the Broncos said in the statement posted on their website.
"The club's roster is settled for the 2020 season.
"We wish Israel well in the future."
News Corp Australia reports Folau has been training hard to get himself fit for a preferred return to rugby league.
Folau's sporting future is uncertain despite settling his claim with Rugby Australia relating to his axing over an infamous homophobic post on social media.
ARL Commission chairman Peter V'landys has previously publicly insisted that a return to the NRL for devout Christian Folau would be difficult given his controversial stance on homosexuality is incompatible with the game's ethos.
The News Corp Australia report claims Folau would be willing to allow the NRL to vet his future social media posts if it allowed him to move back to the competition.
Folau played for Melbourne and the Broncos in his four-season NRL career between 2007 and 2010 before switching codes to join expansion club GWS in the AFL.
He played 13 AFL matches for the Giants before joining rugby union in 2013 and going on to make 62 Test appearances for the Wallabies.
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Celebrity chef Ben Milbourne will close his Devonport restaurant CharlotteJack due to financial hardships and troubles with the lease. The upmarket eatery opened to much fanfare in 2018 and was a keystone tenant of the Living City development Providore Place. But the lease needed to be renegotiated after the beleaguered manager of Providore Place ceded control to Devonport City Council at the beginning of 2020. The council said in a statement they had sought a new lease arrangement with Milbourne, however, "suitable terms could not be reached". Milbourne said the restaurant had been running into debt and it wasn't "economically viable" to sign another lease. He said there were problems well before the coronavirus pandemic and they largely had to do with Providore Place's failure to attract significant foot traffic. "We tried basically everything we could to get enough customers in there and enough turnover to make it economically viable," he said. "We opened seven days a week, we did breakfast and lunches and dinner and tried absolutely everything but there just isn't enough patronage of that area to make it economically viable." But Milbourne didn't believe the location was a lost cause and thought its prospects would improve once the Living City waterfront park and hotel precinct opened. "It's a great community space and I wish it just got used a bit more," he said. IN OTHER NEWS: Milbourne was satisfied he could leave the site because Devonport City Council already had "a couple of really strong expressions of interest". But he had also been struggling to manage the restaurant along with his other business and media commitments. "When you open a restaurant it's a full time gig. You've got to commit 100 per cent to it," he said. "I did that for the first 14 months and then I needed to go back to productions and Masterchef and all those things and I just didn't have the 70 hours a week to do it anymore." Milbourne said it was a "very emotional" decision to leave because it was his first restaurant "and named after my kids". "I really wanted to make it work and pushed as much as I could," he said. Devonport mayor Annette Rockliff was not overly concerned about struggling to fill CharlotteJack's shopfront because the council's leasing agent, Knight Frank, "seem fairly confident". "They're the experts in the field but we will just have to wait and see," she said. Cr Rockliff said "recent interest in tenancies has been promising and aligns with information we are hearing in regard to increasing market activity generally across the city". Knight Frank is also currently trying to secure new lease arrangements with other Providore Place tenant but Cr Rockliff was "not prepared to comment" on whether there had been troubles with those also. When asked whether the loss of CharlotteJack reflected poorly on Living City, Cr Rockliff said the project was "much bigger" than Providore Place. She said Providore Place "remains a core element" of Living City and the development of the nearby $40 million waterfront park and hotel precinct would "provide a timely foundation for jobs and economic activity in the region" "... Along with an exciting platform to support the recovery of the tourism and hospitality sector post COVID-19," she said. Restaurateur and Devonport Chamber of Commerce and Industry president Dane Layton was not aware of the precise factors that caused CharlotteJack's lease to end. But he said the coronavirus had ushered in a "really tough time" for the hospitality sector. "What we've been through in this industry recently has no doubt been tough and tougher for some over others," he said. "Unfortunately I think people knew there was going to be some causalities involved but it's always sad when any business has to shut down." Mr Layton was less optimistic about the chances of filling CharlotteJack's lease and said it was "not a good look" for Providore Place to have a restaurant close. "Coming out of COVID-19 as well I think that's going to be bigger than anything as a barrier for people moving in there," he said. "It's a very tricky game to get into at the moment."
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July 1 2020 - 7:30PM
Celebrity chef Ben Milbourne to shut Providore Place restaurant CharlotteJack
Celebrity chef Ben Milbourne will close his Devonport restaurant CharlotteJack due to financial hardships and troubles with the lease.
The upmarket eatery opened to much fanfare in 2018 and was a keystone tenant of the Living City development Providore Place.
But the lease needed to be renegotiated after the beleaguered manager of Providore Place ceded control to Devonport City Council at the beginning of 2020.
The council said in a statement they had sought a new lease arrangement with Milbourne, however, "suitable terms could not be reached".
'I REALLY WANTED TO MAKE IT WORK'
Celebrity chef Ben Milbourne was appointed food ambassador of Living City in 2015. Picture: Brodie Weeding
Milbourne said the restaurant had been running into debt and it wasn't "economically viable" to sign another lease.
He said there were problems well before the coronavirus pandemic and they largely had to do with Providore Place's failure to attract significant foot traffic.
"We tried basically everything we could to get enough customers in there and enough turnover to make it economically viable," he said.
"We opened seven days a week, we did breakfast and lunches and dinner and tried absolutely everything but there just isn't enough patronage of that area to make it economically viable."
But Milbourne didn't believe the location was a lost cause and thought its prospects would improve once the Living City waterfront park and hotel precinct opened.
"It's a great community space and I wish it just got used a bit more," he said.
GRAND OPENDING: Apprentice chef Luke Schiedl and head chef Lynton Tapp making the final preparations ahead of the opening of CharlotteJack in 2018. Picture: Brodie Weeding
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Milbourne was satisfied he could leave the site because Devonport City Council already had "a couple of really strong expressions of interest".
But he had also been struggling to manage the restaurant along with his other business and media commitments.
"When you open a restaurant it's a full time gig. You've got to commit 100 per cent to it," he said.
"I did that for the first 14 months and then I needed to go back to productions and Masterchef and all those things and I just didn't have the 70 hours a week to do it anymore."
Milbourne said it was a "very emotional" decision to leave because it was his first restaurant "and named after my kids".
"I really wanted to make it work and pushed as much as I could," he said.
MAYOR OPTIMISTIC FOR NEW LEASE
Devonport mayor Annette Rockliff was not overly concerned about struggling to fill CharlotteJack's shopfront because the council's leasing agent, Knight Frank, "seem fairly confident".
"They're the experts in the field but we will just have to wait and see," she said.
Cr Rockliff said "recent interest in tenancies has been promising and aligns with information we are hearing in regard to increasing market activity generally across the city".
Knight Frank is also currently trying to secure new lease arrangements with other Providore Place tenant but Cr Rockliff was "not prepared to comment" on whether there had been troubles with those also.
When asked whether the loss of CharlotteJack reflected poorly on Living City, Cr Rockliff said the project was "much bigger" than Providore Place.
She said Providore Place "remains a core element" of Living City and the development of the nearby $40 million waterfront park and hotel precinct would "provide a timely foundation for jobs and economic activity in the region"
"... Along with an exciting platform to support the recovery of the tourism and hospitality sector post COVID-19," she said.
'SOME CAUSALITIES' EXPECTED
Devonport Chamber of Commerce and Industry president Dane Layton. Picture: Simon Sturzaker
Restaurateur and Devonport Chamber of Commerce and Industry president Dane Layton was not aware of the precise factors that caused CharlotteJack's lease to end.
But he said the coronavirus had ushered in a "really tough time" for the hospitality sector.
"What we've been through in this industry recently has no doubt been tough and tougher for some over others," he said.
"Unfortunately I think people knew there was going to be some causalities involved but it's always sad when any business has to shut down."
Mr Layton was less optimistic about the chances of filling CharlotteJack's lease and said it was "not a good look" for Providore Place to have a restaurant close.
"Coming out of COVID-19 as well I think that's going to be bigger than anything as a barrier for people moving in there," he said.
"It's a very tricky game to get into at the moment."
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About 22 years ago, Kim Sinstead saw something that changed her life forever. She was working as a teacher's aide and witnessed a troubled student completely transform after they were taken in by a foster carer. "I saw the difference in the child and knew that's what I wanted to do," she said. Mrs Sinstead would spend the next two decades caring for more than 60 different children along with her partner Lee. IN OTHER NEWS: The children have stayed with the Somerset couple for varying lengths of time, "some for a weekend, others for 18 years". Mrs Sinstead said there were definitely some special moments, like just seeing a confident and "happy child going off to school and waving goodbye". "It's challenging but very rewarding," she said. "And everyone can make a difference." The incredible impact of carers like the Sinsteads is being celebrated this week as part of Foster and Kinship Carer Week. Care organisation Life Without Barriers this year is highlighting the significant role cares play in supporting the education of children. Children in care generally have worse educational outcomes but "caring foster carers can make a real difference", Life Without Barrier executive director of children, youth and families Jane French said. "Children in care have often been through difficult life circumstances and may have experienced trauma," she said. "So we need empathetic people who are understanding of behavioural issues, can advocate for children's needs at school and build positive relationships with teachers and staff." Life Without Barriers is holding "drop in" information sessions across the state this week to encourage people to become carers, including one at Smithton on Friday. "We welcome individuals and families from all cultural and linguistic backgrounds or marital status - single parents, same sex couples, de facto or married couples, with or without children - who are willing to open their hearts and homes to vulnerable children and young people in our communities," Ms French said. "We're less concerned about age, income or relationship. We need carers with attributes and beliefs we know are good for children, including an ability to understand the value and role of education in a child's life." Mr Sinstead said there were a lot of children in need of carers and encouraged people to consider it. "You can't just wait for foster care week," he said. The Life Without Barriers Drop In Session will be held Friday, 12pm to 2pm at Time Out, 61 Emmett Street, Smithton. To learn more visit beafostercarer.com.au
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September 16 2020 - 8:00PM
Foster cares help children live a 'life without barriers'
About 22 years ago, Kim Sinstead saw something that changed her life forever.
She was working as a teacher's aide and witnessed a troubled student completely transform after they were taken in by a foster carer.
"I saw the difference in the child and knew that's what I wanted to do," she said.
Mrs Sinstead would spend the next two decades caring for more than 60 different children along with her partner Lee.
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The children have stayed with the Somerset couple for varying lengths of time, "some for a weekend, others for 18 years".
Mrs Sinstead said there were definitely some special moments, like just seeing a confident and "happy child going off to school and waving goodbye".
"It's challenging but very rewarding," she said.
"And everyone can make a difference."
DEDICATED: Lee and Kim Sinstead currently have three foster children in their care along with their biological son. Picture: Brodie Weeding
The incredible impact of carers like the Sinsteads is being celebrated this week as part of Foster and Kinship Carer Week.
Care organisation Life Without Barriers this year is highlighting the significant role cares play in supporting the education of children.
Children in care generally have worse educational outcomes but "caring foster carers can make a real difference", Life Without Barrier executive director of children, youth and families Jane French said.
"Children in care have often been through difficult life circumstances and may have experienced trauma," she said.
"So we need empathetic people who are understanding of behavioural issues, can advocate for children's needs at school and build positive relationships with teachers and staff."
Life Without Barriers is holding "drop in" information sessions across the state this week to encourage people to become carers, including one at Smithton on Friday.
"We welcome individuals and families from all cultural and linguistic backgrounds or marital status - single parents, same sex couples, de facto or married couples, with or without children - who are willing to open their hearts and homes to vulnerable children and young people in our communities," Ms French said.
"We're less concerned about age, income or relationship. We need carers with attributes and beliefs we know are good for children, including an ability to understand the value and role of education in a child's life."
Mr Sinstead said there were a lot of children in need of carers and encouraged people to consider it.
"You can't just wait for foster care week," he said.
The Life Without Barriers Drop In Session will be held Friday, 12pm to 2pm at Time Out, 61 Emmett Street, Smithton. To learn more visit beafostercarer.com.au
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Kulfi Kumar Bajewala written update, May 2, 2019: Amyra copies Benaam group's song for the finale
Updated May 02, 2019 | 23:48 IST | Zoom TV Digital
In tonight's episode of Kulfi Kumar Bajewala, Amyra steals Benaam group's original track for the finale with Chitu's help.
Kulfi Kumar Bajewala written update, May 2, 2019 |  Photo Credit: Instagram
Tonight's episode begins with Kulfi and her Benaam group practising their performance for the finals. Everything is wondering where Chitu is as he has been acting very strange. Chitu then arrives for the practice. He gives an excuse over why he was missing. But the gang give him a lecture on how he must not miss any practice as they want to win the title. Amyra tells Sikander that winning Little Superstars is her only big and last dream. Hence, she wants to make sure that she wins the title. Sikander encourages her and she walks away. However, he feels bad as he is torn between both his daughters. While he is happy that they have reached the finals, sadly they are both pitted against each other. The finals begin and Udit Narayan performs on Pehla Nasha. Amma Ji and Rajan both arrive at the show and are in the audience. Loveleen recognises her and is worried for Benaam group. Sikander and Kulfi also notice them and are super worried. A coin toss takes place to determine who will perform first. Amyra wins the round and goes up on the stage to perform first.
Amyra is seen exchanging glances with Chitu. As she starts her performance, the Benaam group realise that Amyra has used their song. Chitu starts crying as he is the reason why this happened. The host then announces that they will return for Benaam's performance after a break. Kulfi and gang immediately rush outside and are crying because they don't know what to do. They then ask Chitu if he has something to do with Amyra's performance.
Chitu is unable to say anything as they claim that he betrayed them. He apologises and admits that he told Amyra about their song. Usha Uthup is called up on the stage to perform. The Benaam group are called up to perform next. Chitu states that he had a big problem and hence had to give in to Amyra's demands.
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Netflix addiction: Nimhans gets its first case, 12 signs you’re addicted to Netflix
Nimhans in Bengaluru received its first case of ‘Netflix addiction’, says report. Watch out for these 12 possible signs you're addicted to Netflix.
Signs you’re addicted to Netflix |  Photo Credit: Thinkstock
Bengaluru: Like many people, who now have fallen victim to the Netflix addiction (a subcategory of screen addiction), have you also thought of watching the entire season of your favourite sitcom once at a stretch? If not, you may count yourself lucky. Whether it's a drama, romance, or something silly, this stunning website (Netflix) has something to match every mood. Perhaps, Netflix has become the new opium of the masses as many people are now obsessed with it. But the consequences of binge-watching shows on video-on-demand platforms and streaming services like Netflix can be deadly, taking a toll on your health, social life, emotions and more. Sitting for long stretches of time is linked to an increased risk of various health issues, including heart disease, diabetes, obesity, cancer, etc.
It has been shown that addiction can have a serious negative impact on a person’s life. Recently, the Service for Healthy Use of Technology (SHUT) clinic at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (Nimhans) in Bengaluru received its first case of ‘Netflix addiction’, as per a report in The Hindu. Netflix addiction may provide users with a sense of relief and in some cases, even a type of high. The victim, a 26-year-old man, turned to Netflix to stay away from reality for more than six months, said the report. Read: Pornography has same effect on brain as cannabis, finds NIMHANS study
According to Manoj Kumar Sharma, professor of clinical psychology, Nimhans, who heads the SHUT clinic, apparently, the man, who was also unemployed, started spending more than seven hours a day binge-watching films and shows on Netflix, which helped him feel good. “Whenever his family pressurised him to earn a living, or when he saw his friends doing well, he would watch the shows on offer continuously. It was a method of escapism. He could forget about his problems, and he derived immense pleasure from it,” Dr Sharma was quoted as saying by the Daily.
The report added that the first thing he did as soon as he woke up was to turn on the TV. But the pleasure was temporary as he could not exercise any form of self-control. This has resulted in eye strain, fatigue, and disturbed sleeping patterns. To help the young man overcome his addiction problem, doctors are treating him using therapy, prescribing relaxation exercises, said the report.
What are the signs and symptoms of ‘Netflix addiction’?
Here are some possible signs that tell you’re addicted to Netflix:
You feel like Netflix is your best friend or first love.
You binge-watch and don’t realise you’re at the last episode.
You move from one show to the next without a break.
You keep watching the same shows and movies again and again.
You constantly refresh the home page, waiting for the new shows and movies to be added.
You haven’t left your bed in three days.
You haven’t changed your clothes for a few days - you don’t bathe or brush your teeth.
Your eyes have become red and you can barely open because you’ve been staring at the same screen for hours on end.
You feel physical pain when you’re not home binge-watching.
You cry over fictional characters more than you do in real life or when seasons of your favourite show get added.
You have Netflix on all devices.
Netflix certainly has become your most visited website.
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BJP MLA takes selfie as fire rages behind him
Updated May 10, 2017 | 20:59 IST | Times Now, Agencies
The MLA took a selfie as the fire continued to burn down several houses on the spot.
 Photo Credit: Indiatimes, Representative Image
Jaipur: In Bharatpur district of Rajasthan, as a fire spread and gutted down several houses, a BJP MLA found it appropriate to post a selfie on Facebook at the time of the incident.
Bachchu Singh, who represents the Bayana assembly seat, later removed the controversial picture taken in front of houses that were engulfed in flames but claimed that he had posted it only to inform officials that he was on the site.
"It was not a selfie," he insisted when asked if it was proper for him to have acted in such a way while he was surrounded by victims of the fire incident on Tuesday.
The MLA rushed to the spot to assess the situation as soon he was informed about the fire.
According to some eyewitnesses, soon after he promised necessary help to the victims, he proceeded to take a "selfie" with his phone.
Nobody said anything at the time even though most of the people were quite surprised by this action. Objections were raised as soon he posted the same on Facebook.
"This is not the time to take selfie,” one user said while another added, "It would have been better if you had poured two buckets of water to douse the fire.”
The MLA initially tried to explain away but later removed the photograph. He also said, "Why would I take a selfie of such an unfortunate incident?"
"It is a matter of perception. I had posted the photo to let administrative officials know that I am on the spot.
"The SDM was not picking up my call. Then I called up the ADM saying that I am on spot and I am sending you live photograph so that you can act," he said, and also dismissed queries on why he chose to use the front camera and not the back camera.
(With inputs from PTI)
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Premier League: Crystal Palace captain Luka Milivojevic happy without VAR despite Mohamed Salah 'dive'
Updated Aug 21, 2018 | 20:56 IST | AFP
Crystal Palace's Luka Milivojevi said he had asked Egyptian Mohamed Salah to tell match referee Michael Oliver he should reverse his decision to award a penalty on the stroke of half-time in Monday's match.
Palace had been reduced to 10 men when Oliver sent off Aaron Wan-Bissaka in the second-half for bringing down Salah |  Photo Credit: AP
Liverpool: Crystal Palace captain Luka Milivojevic says he prefers playing without Video Assistant Referee (VAR) even though his side felt hard done by in going behind to a controversial penalty in the 2-0 loss to Liverpool. The 27-year-old Serbian midfielder said he had asked Egyptian Mohamed Salah to tell match referee Michael Oliver he should reverse his decision to award a penalty on the stroke of half-time in Monday's match.
Salah, who has been accused of diving by among others Palace manager Roy Hodgson, refused. However, Milivojevic believes the Premier League is better off without VAR even though they are the only hold-outs of the major, top-flight leagues to do so.
"I do not want VAR in this league," he told the Crystal Palace website. "In this country you have the best referees in the world. I do not think VAR will help. "They are human beings, and they make mistakes sometimes.
"In his opinion he (Oliver) did the right thing. "As players, we have to respect the referee. We are not a team who will cry over that penalty, we just carry on."
Despite his dislike of the VAR system Milivojevic -- who is Palace's go to man for taking penalties -- has no doubt that Oliver was fooled into awarding the penalty taken by James Milner when Salah went down under a challenge by Palace centre-back Mamadou Sakho.
"I told him 'Say to the referee it's not a penalty'," said Milivojevic who played for his country at the World Cup finals. "But he said it was. From his point of view it was a penalty.
"It was not a penalty. During the game that was my opinion and after the game when I saw the image, Mama tried to touch the ball, he did not touch the ball and in my opinion he did not touch the man."
Liverpool wrapped up the three points when Sadio Mane slotted home in the 90th minute after Palace had been reduced to 10 men when Oliver sent off Aaron Wan-Bissaka in the second-half for bringing down Salah.
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Line dance leader Kit Cheung teaches her class of Chinese-American women in an unlikely place: the parking lot of a local library. No other public location offers both the outdoor space and sun cover the group requires for their twist on the traditional Chinese exercise of tai chi. The relationship that forms between the initially reluctant library and Kit’s dance group has created some unexpected opportunities.
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“While in the Mindoka concentration camp, Idaho, during World War II, Frank Yamasaki refused his draft order. As a result, he was imprisoned at the McNeil Island Penitentiary, Washington.”
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Sports Picks > Free College Football Picks > Toledo Rockets vs Buffalo Bulls 11/20/2019 Picks Predictions Previews
Buffalo Bulls VS Toledo Rockets
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Spread: Buffalo Bulls -8.5
Over/Under: 54.5
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The Toledo Rockets take their trip towards “The Big Apple” to contend with the Buffalo Bulls in UB Stadium at the University of Buffalo’s North campus in Amherst, New York. Toledo had two previous victories in a row over the Eastern Michigan Eagles (37-34) and the Kent State Golden Flashes (35-33), before the NIU Huskies snapped them out at a score of 28-31 at Glass Bowl Stadium in Toledo. The Rockets are 6-4 overall and 3-3 at 4th place in the MAC West Division.
Toledo lost QB Mitchell Guadagni to an undisclosed injury last month that sat them back
In the competition. Backup QB Eli Peters took over the reins and is meshing up with the team. Peters connected 26 of his 38 throws for 300 yards with 3 passing touchdowns in an attempt to rally from behind but fell short to the Huskies. RB Shakif Seymour rushed for a total of 133 yards on 19 handles of the skin while WR Bryce Mitchell snatched 6 passes for 125 yards in the loss to Northern Illinois. Toledo is 4-2 SU in its last 6 matches against the Bulls and 1-4 ATS in its last 5 games versus Northern Illinois.
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The Buffalo Bulls are back with a road loss in tow from the Kent State Golden Flashes to a score of 27-30 at Dix Stadium in Kent, Ohio. Buffalo had three straight games won over the Akron Zips (21-0) at InfoCision Stadium–Summa Field in Akron, Ohio, the Central Michigan Chippewas (43-20) at home, and to the Eastern Michigan Eagles (43-14) at Rynearson Stadium in Ypsilanti, Michigan. The Bulls are 5-5 overall and 3-3 at 2nd place in the MAC East Division.
Buffalo had the game in its hands when the Golden Flashes explode from a run-from-behind win to rob them of their victory. Buffalo was up at 27-6 in the 4th frame when Kent State exploded to defeat them at 27-30 in the match. Bulls QB Kyle Vantrease completed 9 of his 22 throws for 134 yards with a passing touchdown. RB Jaret Patterson dashed the pitch for a total of 141 rushing yards on 30 skin totes while WR Daniel Lee grabbed 4 passes for 58 yards in the heartbreaking loss from Kent State. Buffalo is 6-1 ATS in its last7 matches at home and 4 out of its last 6 games went over the totals with the Rockets.
Toledo Rockets vs Buffalo Bulls. The NCAAF pick for this game is the Buffalo Bulls -8.5. Rockets QB Mitchell Guadagni (undisclosed) and RB Bryant Koback (leg) is not sure to play in this match while DE Terrance Taylor is out of the season serving a suspension notice. Bulls Punter Evsan Finegan (leg), WR Jovany Ruiz (knee) and QB Matt Myers (neck) are out of the season. Buffalo is at 6th rank in offense with 28 ppg that is dependent on its ground assault and the top running defense in the Mid American Conference which the Rockets will have difficulty in penetrating. Bulls win this match to a predicted score of 36-18.
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Verts Prices
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While the United States is a melting pot of cultures and cuisines, there are still many quintessentially European foods that aren’t readily available. This is where the VERTS Mediterranean Grill comes in! While it’s a relatively young restaurant chain, it has made a positive impact on the restaurant industry due to its innovative approaches.
1 Build Your Own
2 Chef Creations
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7 What They’re Famous For
8 Why Eat Here
In fact, the chain is a multi-awarded organization with recognitions like Top 25 Fastest-Growing Fast Casuals (2016, Restaurant Business Online) and 10 hot restaurant brands to watch (2017, CNBC). Dominik Stein, a co-founder, was also recognized on the 2017’s Forbes 30 Under 30 for the Food & Drink category. The chain also created the smallest food truck in 2011 – it was a smart car – a testament to its willingness to shake things up.
Verts is now called Noon Mediterranean. View Noon Mediterranean prices.
Below are the latest Verts menu prices.
Pita (Beef & Lamb) $9.55
Pita (Turkey & Mushroom Meatball) $7.55
Pita (Chicken) $7.55
Pita (Falafel) $7.55
Pita (Veggie) $7.55
Pita (Slow-Cooked Pork) $8.55
Bowl (Beef & Lamb) $10.55
Bowl (Turkey & Mushroom Meatball) $8.55
Bowl (Chicken) $8.55
Bowl (Falafel) $8.55
Bowl (Veggie) $8.55
Bowl (Slow-Cooked Pork) $9.55
Salad (Beef & Lamb) $10.55
Salad (Turkey & Mushroom Meatball) $8.55
Salad (Chicken) $8.55
Salad (Falafel) $8.55
Salad (Veggie) $8.55
Salad (Slow-Cooked Pork) $9.55
Quinoa Bowl (Beef & Lamb) $10.55
Quinoa Bowl (Turkey & Mushroom Meatball) $8.55
Quinoa Bowl (Chicken) $8.55
Quinoa Bowl (Falafel) $8.55
Quinoa Bowl (Veggie) $8.55
Quinoa Bowl (Slow-Cooked Pork) $9.55
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The Original Beef & Lamb Pita $9.55
Traditional Falafel Pita $7.55
Greek Salad with Chicken $8.55
Spicy Meatball Rice Bowl $8.55
Chicken Quinoa Bowl $8.55
Slow-Cooked Pork Rice Bowl $9.55
Summer Meatball Pita $7.55
Summer Corn & Falafel Salad $8.55
Spicy Chicken & Grilled Corn Rice Bowl $8.55
Summer Pork Quinoa Bowl $9.55
Pita Chips & Hummus $2.95
Dip Trio $5.95
Fries $2.25
Sweet Potato Fries $2.45
Falafel $2.25
Pita & Hummus Plate $4.25
Pita Bread $1.25
Fountain Drinks $2.05
Dasani Bottled Water $2.00
Izze Sparkling Soda $2.95
Organic Valley Lowfat Chocolate Milk $2.00
Maine Root Bottled Soda $2.95
Honest Tea $3.50
Cuvee Black & Blue Cold Brew Coffee (Can) $3.50
Bottled Juices $2.25
Blondie Brownie $2.95
Chocolate Chunk Brownie $2.95
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In 2011, Michael Heyne and Dominik Stein founded Verts after their graduation from the University of Texas’ business school in Austin, Texas. Their goal was to offer people in the United States the best European food that restaurants weren’t offering then. Such was their success that many more branches opened in the subsequent years including in several cities across Texas, as well as in Philadelphia, Massachusetts, and Washington D.C.
According to the company, there are more than 20 locations included in the fast casual restaurant chain. The headquarters are in Austin, Texas.
The chef-inspired Mediterranean dishes on the menu continue to earn raves from food critics and foodies alike. This isn’t surprising because very dish is created from scratch and from the freshest ingredients possible to order. The menu has a decadent Mediterranean feel with an American sensibility to them, from the pitas and falafels to rice bowls and quinoa bowls.
If you’re new to Verts, you should download its free app and you will then be updated about the regular promos that keep customers happy. You will also get your first bowl for free – and that’s as good a reason as any to eat at the nearest Verts restaurant in your area. Your stay will likely be a happy experience, too, thanks to the awesome community the chain has nurtured since its founding.
Fresh fruits and vegetables as well as premium meats, spices and herbs, among other ingredients, are what every Verts restaurant is all about! Many people say that the Verts brand is an upscale Cabo and Chipotle with better dishes and desserts offered at still-reasonable prices – and we agree. Even diners who have limited knowledge about Mediterranean cuisine agree that the dishes are awesome in their appearance, flavors and textures.
The quinoa and rice bowls are must-haves on every visit. The quinoa and rice are fluffy, the perfect complement to the savory flavors of the vegetables, meats and sauces. Every bowl is also a meal on its own although many diners also order the appetizers and entrées so that their palates and tummies can be satisfied to the fullest.
The bar also offers a wide selection of beers and wines, which can obviously be paired with the dishes on the menu. The Verts restaurants are kid- and family-friendly, too, thanks to the kid-suitable meals and drinks. The alcoholic drinks are geared toward the adults who prefer to chill out in the restaurant while enjoying a hearty meal.
The service from the crew members is always fast, friendly and efficient even during peak hours. Many diners even reported that crew members went out of their way to accommodate their special requests.
While not all Verts restaurants offer outdoor seating, the ones with al fresco seating have a more relaxed vibe. Diners can enjoy both the laidback ambiance and the delicious food while seeing other people and being seen by them.
There are no Wi-Fi and television facilities in the restaurants. But this is a good thing considering that these are only distractions from the focus of your visit – to enjoy the delicious dishes and desserts! Besides, it’s always better to connect with your fellow diners through good conversations, even laughter, instead of being hunched over your smartphones.
The noise level in the restaurants is average even on peak hours. The casual dress code means that the crowd is a mix of students, young professionals, and aspiring entrepreneurs as well as families with and without kids. The restaurants are also clean, especially in the restrooms with their bright lighting and interiors.
The chain also accepts catering services in schools, offices and homes, among other venues. For diners in the restaurants, there’s no need to make reservations but catering clients have to work with the team in advance of the scheduled day.
The Verts restaurants are great places to bring your family and friends for lunch and dinner. You can pay in cash and credit cards while Apple Pay and Android Pay are limited in most restaurants.
To learn more about Verts or to find a location near you, visit their website at www.eatverts.com.
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Global Martial Arts Academy of Traditional Wing Chun Kung-Fu
Wing Chun (Southern Shaolin Kung Fu)
This quite simply is one of the last Shaolin Kung-Fu Styles developed to produce a well rounded fighter in 3 to 5 years compared to the 15-20 years needed to master a complete animal system in the Shaolin Temple, China; Designed for the individual that would not need to use power to reach their objective. Speed, Directness, and Deflection added to constant crashing pressure correctly describes the attributes of Wing Chun Kung Fu. Largely based on Defending the "center line" running throught the vertical axis of a person. Notable Artists that were trained in this system include: Yip Man, Bruce Lee, William Cheung, Moy Yat, and has experienced a large following since the system seems to enhance many views that are often not as emphasized in other arts. Notes on the style: features high horse, evasive footwork, impressive combo attack and single direct attacks, simultaneous attack and defense, also: kicks are geared to break bones and specialize in blitz attacks.
Most noticeable contributors in recent times:
Grand Master Yip Man, Sifu William Cheung and Bruce Lee (Jun Fan Gung Fu).
The history of Wing Chun, has historically been passed from teacher to student verbally rather than through documentation, making it difficult to confirm or clarify the differing accounts of Wing Chun's creation. Some have sought to apply the methods of higher criticism to the oral histories of Wing Chun and other Chinese martial arts. Others have attempted to discern the origins of
Wing Chun by determining the specific purpose of its techniques. Wing Chun starts to appear in independent third-party documentation during the era of the Wing Chun master Leung Jan, making the subsequent history of Wing Chun and its divergence into branches more amenable to documentary verification. Oral histories
Yip Man was born in the year 1898 in the town of Fatshan in Namhoi County, Kwangtung Province, in Southern China to a wealthy merchant family. The Yip family permitted Wing Chun master Chan Wah Shun to live and teach a small group of disciples in the family temple, since Chan's local reputation as a fighter discouraged thieves and highwaymen from attacking the family businesses.Yip Man would watch Chan Wah Shun drill his disciples in the ways of Wing Chun. Soon the boy's visits became more regular until, Yip Man was about nine years old he approached Chan and asked to be accepted as a student. Chan Wah Shun was about 60 years old at the time and didn't want to accept another disciple this late in life.To discourage him, Chan told Yip that he would admit him as a student as soon as he could pay the tuition price of three taels of silver. But when Yip Man returned the next day with 300 pieces of silver, which was his entire life savings. So once Chan and Yip Man's parents saw that this boy had such a strong desire to learn Wing Chun, his parents agreed to let him study. And Chan Wah Shun accepted him at which point, Yip Man became the last of Chan's 16 disciples.Yip Man studied with Chan Wah Shun for four years, until the old master's death. Yip subsequently spent another two and a half years training with his senior, Ng Chung So. When Yip was 16 years old, his parents sent him to Hong Kong to attend St. Stephen's College. There, he quickly fell in with a clique of classmates who liked to offer and accept kung fu challenges. He welcomed the opportunity to put his Wing Chun training to the real test.Yip discovered that he liked to fight. He would accept a challenge on the slightest provocation. On one such occasion, a classmate named Lai dared Yip to go after an old kung fu practitioner who worked at the silk company of Lai's father. The man was well into his 50s and very eccentric, but Lai insisted the man's kung fu was very good.That evening Yip Man found the man living on a fishing boat anchored near the typhoon breakers in Hong Kong Bay. Yip first performed the entire Siu Lim Tao form of Wing Chun. After that the old man agreed to a match. Yip promptly attacked the old man and quickly found himself in Hong Kong Bay. After repeated attempts and repeated soakings, Yip Man wanted to learn from the old man. Yip Man soon found out that the old man was Leung Bik. Leung Bik explained the difference in his Wing Chun compared to Chan Wah Shun's and proceeded to take Yip Man as a student. Yip Man studied with Leung Bik for two and a half years.Yip Man returned to Fatshan and told his seniors about the old man that he had met. When his seniors scoffed at him, Yip Man challenged them and defeated them with his newfound knowledge. Yip Man stayed in Fatshan where he was involved with the police and raised a family. In 1948 Yip Man fled to Hong Kong during the People's Movement.In Hong Kong, a homeless and penniless Yip Man was given refuge at a restaurant. Yip Man watched the instructor(Leung Sheung) there conduct a kung fu class. Leung Sheung at the time was a practitioner of Bak Mei and Dragon kung Fu. After watching the class for a time, Yip Man demonstrated his skill to Leung Sheung and Leung Sheung promptly became Yip Man's first student in Hong Kong. After this Yip Man started teaching Wing Chun to the Restaurant Worker's Association. Yip Man eventually moved his place of instruction.Yip Man trained excellent fighters, chief among them are Wong Shun Leung, Grandmaster William Cheung, and Bruce Lee. After 20+ years of teaching in Hong Kong, Yip Man passed away in 1972.
Yip Man
Crane & Snake Method
Chi Sao
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Siu Lim Tao
Rice Wall Bag
On November 22, 1998, Grandmaster William Cheung was inducted into the 1998 Blitz Hall of Fame, receiving the award for "Lifetime Tribute for Martial Arts".He has been called the Masters' Master; he was considered by Bruce Lee to be the "ultimate fighter": William Cheuk Hing Cheung was the sole inheritor of the Traditional Wing Chun Kung Fu system, and was the person responsible for introducing Bruce Lee to Wing Chun Kung Fu.In 1951, at the age of ten, Cheung started his training in Wing Chun Kung Fu under the late Grandmaster Yip Man. From 1954 to 1958 Cheung was a live-in student of Grandmaster Yip Man. It was during this time that he inherited the complete system of Traditional Wing Chun Kung Fu.Between 1957 and 1958 Cheung won the Kung Fu elimination contests in Hong Kong, defeating opponents with many more years' experience. In early 1954 Cheung introduced Bruce Lee to Grandmaster Yip Man, and became his personal trainer. Throughout the four and a half years the two men developed a very close friendship, and Cheung passed on to Bruce Lee most of his techniques and helped developed his overall confidence and experience in fights. In later years he was to use these techniques in competitions, and also in his movies.In 1959, after completing his training under Grandmaster Yip Man, Cheung left Hong Kong to pursue an academic career at the Australian National University in Canberra. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Economics.After moving to Melbourne to teach Wing Chun professionally in 1973, Cheung began operating a very successful Martial Arts School. In 1976 he was elected the President of the Australian Kung Fu Federation.Cheung was appointed as Chief Instructor to the U.S. Seventh Fleet based in Yukosuka, Japan, during 1978 to 1980. Throughout this time, he was in charge of the intensive mental and physical development program of close quarter hand to hand combat for the marines.Many of Cheung's students have achieved international recognition for their martial arts prowess. In 1982 his students, Joe Moahengi and Rick Spain, won the heavyweight and middleweight divisions respectively in the World Invitation Kung Fu Championships held in Hong Kong. Furthermore, Cheung himself, in 1983, was inducted into the "Black Belt Hall of Fame" as Kung Fu Artist of the Year and again in 1989, into the "Inside Kung Fu Hall of Fame" as Martial Arts Instructor of the Year.From 1979 Grandmaster Cheung and many of his juniors conducted special programs for special law enforcing officers and special operation groups in the Armed Services in U.S.A. and other countries, teaching unarmed combat, restraining and disarming assailants and a fire arm retention program.It was at the Harvard University, Boston, in 1984 that Grandmaster Cheung set the world speed punching record of 8.3 punches per second . To promulgate his ideas and stimulate and enliven the art, Cheung has authored a variety of books for the general public including "Wing Chun Biu Jee", "Wing Chun Butterfly Swords", "Wing Chun Dragon Pole", "Advanced Wing Chun", "How to Develop Chi Power", "Wing Chun Kung Fu" (in French), "A Comparison of Wing Chun and Jeet Kune Do" Volumes I and II. He has also produced a number of videos, including the well-known "The Wing Chun Way", "Tao of Wing Chun" and "PRO-TEKT: A Personal Protection Program".From his early training in Martial Arts, Grandmaster Cheung has become an expert in Meridian, Pressure Points and Meditation dealing with internal energies. Over the last ten years he has used this knowledge to develop many successful programs treating sports injuries and teaching stress management. Grandmaster William Cheung has been honoured by the China Guangzhou Medical University and Hospital Research Institute as a Research Professor for his Cheung's Meridian Therapy (CMT) program. This appointment is for the two year period from January 2000 until January 2002. As the result of these, Grandmaster Cheung's seminars, workshops and treatments are now much sought after all over the world.
Other origins for Wing Chun have been suggested, typically involving connections to the Triads, revolutionary groups (often anti-Qing), or the Hakkapeople of southern China. Almost all extant lineages of Wing Chun, with the exception of the Pao Fa Lien branch, claim descendance from themembers of the mid-19th century cohort of the Red Boat Opera Company.
Espionage and assassination
According to one theory, opponents of the Qing Dynasty used the Red Boat Opera Company as a cover to disguise themselves as a troupe oftravelling entertainers. Their identities as Chinese opera performers provided a cover for martial arts training; however, the flashy moves of operastyle martial arts were not suited to the activities of espionage and assassination, which required specialized skills. Even though assassinationsthemselves would be carried out using poison or knives, their targets were usually protected by bodyguards who, on discovery of an intruder, wouldseize the person, call for help, and disable the person to be held for interrogation. Therefore, according to this hypothesis, Wing Chun was designedto deal with an opponent who seized rather than struck and to silence that opponent immediately. This would explain certain technical aspects ofWing Chun, such as its emphasis on close-range combat and its many strikes to the throat and diaphragm.
Wing Chun City
Also of note is the existence of a city called Yongchun (literally, "Eternal Spring") in Fujian Province, China. In Mandarin, the pronunciation of themartial art and the pronunciation of the town are identical: Yongchun. In Cantonese, the pronunciations are virtually the same: wing cheun (martialart) vs wing cheun (municipality). The name of the town is written with the character yong/wing meaning "always", whereas the lineages ofWing Chun that descend from Yip Man, Yiu Kai, Yuen Kay-San, the Cho family, Tam Yeung, Fung Sang, Yeung Fook, and Leung Kwok-Keung writethe name of their martial art using the character yong/wing meaning "sing." However, the lineages of Wing Chun that descend from Pan Nam,Nguy-Công, Way Yan, the Wang family of Saiquan, and Pao Fa Lien use the yong/wing character, making the name of their martial artidentical with the name of the town.Several other Chinese martial arts come from Yongchun and the surrounding area, most notably the Fujianese style of White Crane, one branch ofwhich is even called Wing Chun Bak Hok Kuen, or Wing Chun White Crane boxing. Li Wenmao, a historically verifiable operaperformer and leader in the 1854–1855 Red Turban Rebellion in Foshan, is said to have been a Wing Chun White Crane practitioner.There is a story that White Crane was created by Ng Mui after she was inspired by a fight between a snake and a crane, as in the Yip Man oral historyof Wing Chun. Another White Crane legend states that the art was created by a young woman who combined her observation of cranes with themartial arts she learned from her father—in some versions a refugee from the destruction of the Fujian Shaolin Temple—and later taught her art toher husband, as in the Yiu Kai oral history of Wing Chun. Most stories name this young woman as Fong Chut-Neung, to use the Cantonesepronunciation, but other stories name her Fong Wing-Chun and the Shaolin disciple she marries as Hung Hei-Gun to whom she teachesher Crane style which he combines with his Tiger style to create the famous Hung Family Tiger Crane style.Oral history aside, the technical similarities of Wing Chun and Fujian White Crane suggest that the two are related. As Yip Man's student Leung Tingput it, "Wing Tsun System is derived from the Fukien System of kung-fu, which is related to the Hakka System. Their common features are thatduring fights, pugilists of these systems prefer short steps and close fighting, with their arms placed close to the chest, their elbows lowered and keptclose to the flanks to offer it protection. Another characteristic of these two systems of kung-fu is, unlike those of Kwangtung Province and NorthernChina, their boxing forms are rather simple Fujian White Crane and Okinawan Karate are indisputably related and Guangdong is much closer toFujian than Okinawa.
Chi Sao (Chinese, Cantonese chi sau, Mandarin chishou) or "sticking hands". Term for the principle, and drills used for the development of automatic reflexes upon contact and the idea of "sticking" to the opponent. In Wing Chun this is practiced through two practitioners maintaining contact with each other's forearms while executing techniques, thereby training each other to sense changes in body mechanics, pressure, momentum and "feel". This increased sensitivity gained from this drill helps a practitioner attack and counter an opponent's movements precisely, quickly and with the appropriate technique.
Chi Sao is similar to the hubud-lubad drills of Eskrima. It looks somewhat like the push hands training of T'ai Chi
Ch'uan. Chi Sao is also taught in the Jeet Kune Do traditions, and uses modified versions of some of the component techniques such as the bong sao and jut sao.
Chi Sao additionally refers to the Luk Sao (methods of rolling hands) drills. Luk Sao participants push and "roll" their forearms against each other in a single circle while trying to remain relaxed. The aim is to feel forces, test resistances and find defensive gaps. Other branches do a version of this where each of the arms roll in small separate circles. Luk Sao is most notably taught within the Pan Nam branches where both the larger rolling drills and the method where each of the arms roll in small separate circles are taught.
In some branches (most notably the Yip Man and Jiu Wan branches) Chi Sao drills begin with one-armed sets (Dan
Chi Sao) which help the novice student to get the feel of the exercise. Each practitioner uses one hand from the same side as they face each other.
Chi Sao is a sensitivity drill to obtain specific responses. It must not be confused for sparring/fighting. Though can
be practised or expressed in a combat form, in particular MMA in the clinch is a fine example of where Chi Sao can be expressed as well as used in other arts.
Balance, Structure and Stance
Wing Chun practitioners believe that the person with body structure will win. A correct Wing Chun stance is like a piece of bamboo, firm but flexible, rooted butyielding. This structure is used to either deflect external forces or redirect them into the ground.Balance is related to structure because a well-balanced body recovers quicker from stalled attacks and structure is maintained.Wing Chun favours a high, narrow stance with the elbows kept close to the body. Within the stance, arms are positioned across the vitals of the centerline. Shifting orturning within a stance is carried out variantly on the heels, balls, or middle (K1 or Kidney 1 point) of the foot depending on lineage. All attacks and counter-attacksare initiated from this firm, stable base. Wing Chun rarely compromises structure for more powerful attacks because this is believed to create defensive openingswhich may be exploited.Structure is viewed as important, not only for reasons of defence, but also for attack. When the practitioner is effectively 'rooted', or aligned so as to be bracedagainst the ground, the force of the hit is believed to be far more devastating. Additionally, the practice of 'settling' one's opponent to brace them more effectivelyagainst the ground aids in delivering as much force as possible to them.
Softness (via relaxation) and performing techniques in a relaxed manner, is fundamental to Wing Chun.* Tension reduces punching speed and power. Muscles act in pairs in opposition to each other (e.g. biceps and triceps). If the arm is tensed, maximum punching speedcannot be achieved as the biceps will be opposing the extension of the arm. In Wing Chun, the arm should be relaxed before beginning the punching motion.* Unnecessary muscle tension wastes energy and causes fatigue.* Tense, stiff arms are less fluid and sensitive during trapping and chi sao.* A tense, stiff limb provides an easy handle for an opponent to push or pull with, whereas a relaxed limb provides an opponent less to work with.* A relaxed, but focused limb, affords the ability to feel "holes" or weaknesses in the opponents structure (See Sensitivity section). With the correct forwarding these"holes" grant a path into attack the opponent.* Muscular struggle reduces a fight to who is stronger. Minimum brute strength in all movement becomes an equalizer in uneven strength confrontations. This is verymuch in the spirit of the tale of Ng Mui.
While the existence of a "central axis" concept is unified in Wing Chun, the interpretation of the centerline concept itself is not. Many variations exist, with somelineages defining anywhere from a single "centerline" to multiple lines of interaction and definition.The most commonly seen interpretation emphasizes attack and defense along an imaginary vertical line drawn from the center of the practitioner's chest to the centerof the enemy's chest. The human body's prime striking targets are considered to be on or near this line, including eyes, nose, throat, solar plexus and groin.Wing Chun techniques are generally "closed", with the limbs drawn in to protect the central area and also to maintain balance. In most circumstances, the hands donot move beyond the vertical circle that is described by swinging the arms in front, with the hands crossed at the wrists. To reach outside this area, footwork is used.A large emphasis and time investment in training Chi Sao exercise emphasises positioning to dominate this centerline. The stance and guard all point at or through thecenter to concentrate physical and mental intent of the entire body to the one target.Wing Chun practitioners attack within this central area to transmit force more effectively, since it targets the "core center" (or "mother line", another center defined insome lineages and referring to the vertical axis of the human body where the center of gravity lies). For example, striking an opponent's shoulder will twist the body,dispelling some of the force and weakening the strike. Striking closer to the center transmits more force directly into the body.
The Wing Chun Punch
Because of the emphasis on the center line, the vertical fist straight punch is the most common strike in Wing Chun. However, the principle of simultaneous attack anddefence suggests that all movements in the Siu Nim Tau with a forward execution flow into a strike if no effective resistance is met, without need for recomposure.Other explicit examples of punches can be found in the Chum Kiu and Bil Jee forms, articulating an uppercut and hook punch respectively.The vertical punch is the most basic and fundamental in Wing Chun and is usually thrown with the elbow down and in front of the body. Depending on the lineage,the fist is held anywhere from vertical to horizontal (palm side up). The contact points also vary from the top two knuckles, to the middle two knuckles, to thebottom three knuckles. In some lineages of Wing Chun, the fist is swivelled at the wrist on point of impact so that the bottom three knuckles are thrust forwardadding power to the punch while it is at maximum extension.The punches may be thrown in quick succession in a 'straight blast' or 'chain punching'. When executed correctly, it can be used as a disorienting finisher but is oftencriticised for encouraging weaker punches that don't utilise the whole body.Wing Chun favours the vertical punch for the following reasons:* Directness. The punch is not "loaded" by pulling the elbow behind the body. The punch travels straight towards the target from the guard position (hands are heldin front of the chest).* Protection. The elbow is kept low to cover the front midsection of the body. It is more difficult for an opponent to execute an elbow lock/break when the elbowoccupies this position. This aids in generating power by use of the entire body structure rather than only the arm to strike.* Strength and Impact. Wing Chun practitioners believe that because the elbow is behind the fist during the strike, it is thereby supported by the strength of the entirearm rather than just a swinging fist, and therefore has more impact. A common analogy is a baseball bat being swung at someone's head (a round-house punch), asopposed to the butt end of the bat being thrust forward into the opponent's face (wing chun punch), which would cause far more damage than a glancing hit and isn'tas easy to evade. Many skilled practitioners pride themselves on being able to generate "short power" or large amount of power in a short space. A commondemonstration of this is the "one-inch punch," a punch that starts only an inch away from the target yet delivers an explosive amount of force.* Alignment & Structure. Because of Wing Chun's usage of stance, the vertical punch is thus more suitable. The limb directly in front of the chest, elbow down, verticalnature of the punch allows a practitioner to absorb the rebound of the punch by directing it through the elbows and into the stance. This is a desirable trait to a WingChun practitioner, where in contrast the rebound of a horizontal, elbow-out punch promotes torque in the puncher's body. This is because the limb and elbow arenow directing rebound force outwards instead of inwards due to the positioning of the hinge-structured elbow. This aids in generating power by promoting use ofthe entire body structure rather than only the arm to strike. This can be easily demonstrated; hold your fist vertically, in front of you, your elbow pointing down, onefoot behind the other. Make sure your elbow is in your centerline. Then ask a friend to push into your fist while you attempt to resist. You will feel the pushpressuring your legs and stance. Repeat with a horizontal fist, elbow at shoulder height and to the side. You will feel the incoming push twisting you sideways.
Kicks can be explicitly found in the Chum Kiu and Mook Jong forms, though some have made interpretations of small leg movements in the Siu Nim Tau and Bil Jee to contain information on kicking as well. Depending on lineage, a beginner is often introduced to basic kicking before learning the appropriate form. Traditionally, kicks are kept below the waist.
Variations on a front kick are performed striking with the heel. The body may be square and the knee and foot are vertical on contact (Chum Kiu), or a pivot may be involved with the foot and knee on a plane at an angle (Mook Jong). At short distances this can become a knee.
A roundhouse kick is performed striking with the shin in a similar manner to the Muay Thai version with most of the power coming from the body pivot. This kick is usually used as a finisher at closer range, targeting anywhere between the ribs and the back of the knee. This kick can also become a knee at close range.
Other kicks include a stamping kick (Mook Jong) for very close range and a sweep performed with the heel in a circular fashion (Bil Jee).
Every kick is both an attack and defence, with legs being used to check incoming kicks or to take the initiative in striking through before a more circular kick can land. Kicks are delivered in one movement directly from the stance without chambering/cocking.
Uncommitted Techniques
Wing Chun techniques are uncommitted. This means that if the technique fails to connect, the practitioner's position or balance is less affected. If the attack fails, thepractitioner is able to "flow" easily into a follow-up attack. All Wing Chun techniques permit this. Any punches or kicks can be strung together to form a "chain" of attacks.
Trapping Skills and Sensitivity
The Wing Chun practitioner uses reflexes and sticking hands to probe for holes in the opponent's defence through touching.
The practitioner controls an opponent by contacting through a block or a strike and maintaining contact or "sticking" to the opponent. If the opponent attempts to
withdraw or redirect the hand, the practitioner follows, often using the motion to facilitate a trap or a strike.
A common Wing Chun saying is "greet what arrives, escort what leaves and rush upon loss of contact", regarding the importance of trapping incoming force and advancing quickly when an opening is sensed.
Wing Chun teaches practitioners to advance quickly and strike at close range. While the Wing Chun forward kick can be considered a long range technique, many Wing Chun practitioners practice "entry techniques" - getting past an opponent's kicks and punches to bring him within range of Wing Chun's close range repertoire.
This means that theoretically, if the correct techniques are applied, a shorter person with a shorter range can defeat a larger person by getting inside their range and attacking them close to their body.
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Nikki Haley Says Trump’s Accusers Need to Be Heard
By Amanda Arnold@aMandolinz
Nikki Haley. Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images
Appearing on Face the Nation on CBS, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said that all people deserve to have their stories of sexual misconduct heard — even when the alleged perpetrator is Donald Trump.
“Women who accuse anyone [of sexual misconduct] should be heard. They should be heard and they should be dealt with,” she told host John Dickerson. “And I think we heard from them prior to the election. And I think any woman who has felt violated or felt mistreated in any way, they have every right to speak up.”
While Haley typically comes to Trump’s defense, most recently about his decision to officially recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, she said this morning that she does not consider the allegations against the president to be a “settled issue.” Trump has been accused by countless women of everything from making inappropriate comments to rape, and just the other day, a former Fox News host revealed that Trump had kissed her on the lips after a professional lunch meeting.
“I know that he was elected,” Haley said. “But, you know, women should always feel comfortable coming forward. And we should all be willing to listen to them.”
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BBDO parachutes Jim Moser into Europe as St John Walshe named Americas CEO
By Katie Deighton-05 November 2018 18:34pm
Jim Moser (left) heads to Europe while St John Walshe moves to the US
BBDO has shuffled its regional management structure to name St John Walshe as chief executive of BBDO Americas and Jim Moser as chairperson of BBDO Europe.
Walshe is currently managing director of BBDO’s European business, where he leads the global Mars account. He will move to the US in 2019, taking over from Chris Thomas.
Thomas announced he would be stepping down from the role last month in order to be closer to friends and family in Australia and Singapore.
Meanwhile Jim Moser, currently chairperson of Clemenger BBDO in Melbourne, Australia, has taken on the chair role for BBDO Europe. He will relocate to AMV BBDO's offices in London next year.
Both will report into Andrew Robertson, president and chief executive of BBDO Worldwide.
Robertson described Walshe as “an exceptional people picker, talent developer and team builder”, adding that “he is restless, curious and innovative”.
Of Moser, he said: “He may be an American moving from Australia, but he loves Europe. And there is no more passionate believer in BBDO, its people and what we stand for than Jim.”
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JUDD: It's beginning to look a lot like March, again
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https://www.theheraldreview.com/sports/article/Total-domination-14357789.php
Martin Slagter
Published 7:36 pm EST, Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Reed City runs over Clare, 49-7, to reach third straight district final
REED CITY — Reed City coach Monty Price and his coaching staff dialed up the expectations and intensity this week in preparation for its Division 5 district opener against Clare on Friday. It’s safe to say those expectations were met following a 49-7 win over the Pioneers that will send the Coyotes (10-0) to their third consecutive district final. Reed City was a machine in the first half, making stops and churning out drives to build a 36-0 lead at halftime behind a run game sparked by Andre Jones. The sophomore ran for 141 yards on eight carries with two touchdowns, while adding a 35-yard touchdown catch in the win. “We revved it up this week and kind of raised our expectations for our execution and our effort overall,” Reed City coach Monty Price said. “We wanted more from these kids, and in typical fashion, they produced. It was just a solid effort, the kids played hard and dominated the game.” Reed City didn’t take long to get on the board on its first possession when Jones took off for a 50-yard touchdown run he bounced to the outside to make it 6-0 with 6:57 left in the first. Clare would drive the ball down to the Reed City 17, but was stopped on fourth down turning it over to the Coyotes. Reed City quarterback Chad Samuels delivered a 38-yard completion to tight end Kyle Wright down to the Clare 5. From there Collin Hatfield scored on a 1-yard run to make it 14-0 after Jones ran in the conversion. The Coyotes continued to pour it on in the second quarter when Jon Green took a handoff straight up the gut and sprinted 36 yards for the score to make it 22-0. By then it was apparent the Coyotes were ready for their first postseason challenge. “I thought we played with extreme focus and discipline and the numbers speak for themselves,” Price said. “We held them to 83 yards rushing and 104 passing with 75 (yards) coming on that last play. I think it was complete domination and hats off to these kids, they’re the best.” After stopping another Clare drive that went into Reed City territory, the Coyotes permanently stole the momentum of the game on a fourth-and-two from the Clare 39. Lining up in a punt formation, the Coyotes snapped the ball directly to PJ Jones, who raced the distance for the score to make it 28-0 with 2:16 left in the half. The play was one that came after a long time in the making, Price said. “That play has been one that we’ve been working on since Aug. 12,” he said. “We haven’t used it all year and we really focused on it this week. We knew that when we went to our punt formation that they were going to line up in a 61 front and have two deep. We knew we’d have the numbers game and PJ got the opportunity and took it to the house. It was a big, big momentum changer for us.” After making a quick stop, the Coyotes got the ball back and hammered one more nail in the coffin on a 35-yard touchdown pass from Samuels to Andre Jones on a wheel route to make it 36-0 going into the half. Jones started the second half where he left off, breaking multiple tackles on his way to a 55-yard touchdown. Jones said the Coyotes’ success was all about effort. “Our whole team had effort and that’s what it’s about,” he said. “We came out confident, but not too confident, because we know Clare has a great football program. We just did what we had to do.” Reed City would score once more for good measure on a 47-yard touchdown run by Devin Ward to make it 49-0. Clare would score its only touchdown with 5:52 on the Coyotes’ lone breakdown of the game — a 75-yard touchdown pass from Emonte Waff to Charlie Bugbee. The Coyotes also got 86 yards from Green on 11 carries, while Collin Hatfield had 42 yards on five carries and a touchdown. Samuels was 2-for-4 through the air for 71 yards and a score. The defense was led by Taylor Pelton with 13 tackles while Eric Grannis had seven and Patrick Jobes had six. The Coyotes now look to claiming a district title next weekend against Muskegon Oakridge (9-1), which defeated Newaygo, 35-14. Samuels said the Coyotes have been in this position before and are hungry to take the next step. “It would mean so much to us,” he said. “We’ve been there the last two years and we couldn’t get it done. Our focus is now on Week 2 and that game. We’re going to find our opponent, get film and memorize it like the back of our hand.” REED CITY 49, CLARE 7 RC 6 30 7 6 — 49 CL 0 0 0 7 — 7 Scoring summary First quarter RC — Andre Jones 50 run (run failed), 6:57 Second quarter RC — Collin Hatfield 1 run (Jones run), 11:56 RC — Jon Green 36 run (Jones run), 9:28 RC — PJ Jones 39 run (run failed), 2:16 RC — Chad Samuels 35 pass to Andre Jones (Jones run) Third quarter RC — Jones 55 run (Dean Eichenberg kick), 7:59 Fourth quarter RC — Devin Ward 47 run (kick failed), 7:36 CL — Emonte Waff 75 pass to Charlie Bugbee (Camden Dice kick), 5:52 Individual statistics Rushing: Reed City (Andre Jones 8-141, Green 11-86, Hatfield 5-42, Ward 2-57, PJ Jones 1-39) Passing: Reed City (Samuels 2-4-71-1-0) Receiving: Reed City (Kyle Wright 1-36, Andre Jones 1-35).
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Happily Ever After Review; Your Prince is in another Castle
Unlike Fergully, I have memories of watching Happily Ever After as kid. It was sort of special to me because I could only watch it at my friends’ house. That being said there is no power of nostalgia or sentiment clouding this movie for me, this movie is terrible. It’s psychically hurts.
It was made by in 1988, completed in 1990 and released in 1993 by Filmation. It’s been in moratorium since October 25th 1996. It only saw actively for three years. What does that say about the quality of this movie?
Snow White and the Shadow Man
Happily Ever After is a sequel to Snow White in a general sense. It starts with the Evil Queen’s minions partying and celebrating her death. Then the Evil Lord Maliss (too subtle), the Queen’s brother, comes in and is pissed off and plots revenge on Snow White.
Snow White and her nameless prince are on route to invite the dwarves to their wedding. Why didn’t they send an invitation via mail? The Plot says so, damn it. They get attacked by Maliss in dragon form and Snow White gets away but the Prince isn’t so lucky.
Snow White runs into a dark forest and reaches the dwarves’ house but now their cousins live there, the seven Dwarfelles, chick dwarves. They all have have super powers that are based on their names, convenient isn’t it. They take Snow White to Mother Nature at Rainbow Falls (sounds likes something for a Skittles commerial) for help on how to get her Prince back. But Maliss shows up and tells Snow White that if she wants her Prince back to come to his castle in the Realm of Doom (still way too subtle). Hey movie, subverting a stereotype doesn’t really correct it. But whatever, at least Snow White has to do something.
So off they all go. Along the way, they encounter a shadow man who looks like Orko from He-Man, so I’m just going to call him Orko. The Dwarfelles don’t really trust Orko but Snow White figures out that Orko seems to be helping her. Hmmmmmmm, I wonder who Orko could really be, hmmmmmmm, it’s so hard to figure out!
Then Snow White is captured by Maliss. But what’s this, her Prince is there in castle and leads her to some place with creepy statues. Hmmmmm, he is acting lot less bland than he was a the start of the movie, hmmmmmmmmmmmmm, I wonder why that could be?
OH, because it was really Maliss in design, OH geeze, movie, how you tricked me……….
Maliss’ plan is to turn Snow White into stone with a cloak. Remember when they mentioned that Maliss has a cloak that turns this into stone earlier? Neither do I! Anyway the dwarfelles try to save her but fail and get turned to stone all except the inept Thunderella. Orko also tries to help but gets K.Oed. I do like Snow White bitch slapping Maliss but then she gets tied up.
Anyway, Thunderella gets her weather powers under control which gives Snow White the chance to throw the cloak over Maliss. And then every one is better but Orko. However Snow White’s tears or love or some BS save him but what’s this? Orko was really the Prince under Maliss’ spell. OH WHAT A TWIST, I DIDN’T SEE THAT COMING AT ALL! And yeah happy ending.
Sunburn and Scowl
This movie is a mess from start to finish. It doesn’t come across in my little write up but this movie, like the 1939 Gulliver’s Travels, focuses a lot more on the side characters, the Dwarfells and the evil minions, Scowl the Owl and Batso the Bat. Oh, the clever geniuses that thought up those names. Scowl and Batso are very annoying to the point of killing brain cells. They are heavy focused and really add nothing to anything.
Furthermore, I really dislike how bats are portrayed in children’s movies. Bats are awesome creatures who can eat mosquitoes. I know I dissed Batty from Ferngully last week but Batty is a billion times better than Batso. I mean they could have cut Scowl and Batso out but they need stupid goofiness to combat the creepiness.
The Dwarfelles (I die a little each time I type that) were also annoying especially Sunburn. I hated her saying “that really burns me up” over and over and over again and again and again. It was painful.
Snow White and her Prince
Other than the outright goofy characters we have the supposed main characters; Snow White, Mr. Prince “Orko” Shadow Man and Lord Maliss. They are all bland. Prince is more interesting in his cursed state but then it becomes a Beauty and the Beast thing.
Also I want point out that by the Prince helping Snow White at every turn doesn’t it help to subvert the damsel in distress stereotype that they were truing to go for, so this movie just plays into it.
Lord Maliss
Maliss I want to say is interesting because his motive comes from place of love for his sister. But why is he after Snow White? She didn’t kill the queen, wasn’t she like dead when that happened?
Anyway Maliss is just evil and not really delightfully so either. I wished he had done away with Scowl in a quicker fashion than that stupid candle rope thing. I mean he has the cloak, instant death. I really hate Scowl. I hate this movie………. cries
Snow White, well she does look like Snow White, that a plus. She is fairly bland, I mean she does tries to defend herself and is nice. It’s not really her fault that she lacks interest.
The movie doesn’t care about her as character, she is a plot point for the side characters. I wished the movie had explored her more as the movie follows her but I think the movie would have rather not, it would rather been about Scowl and Batso, grrr hates.
The Shadow Man a.k.a The Prince a.k.a an Orko Knock-off
I mentioned that the Prince’s Shadow Man form looked liked Orko from He-Man but prior to that I thought the Prince in his regular form looked like something out of He-man. And I was right, Filmation is the studio who did He-Man and this abomination.
The animation is not good. It looks old even for 1988 when it was made. Snow White was clearly rotoscoped which like have said in other posts, looking jarring with clearly non-rotoscope characters exist in the same scene.
Snow White hugs Thunderella
Then were have the songs, which are also mind-numbingly painful. I just point out, NOT ONE OF THE MAIN CHARACTERS GETS A SONG! Scowl gets one as do Thunderella and Mother Nature. Snow White’s voice actress Irene Cara sings the credit song but still, only side characters get the chance to sing.
I also take issue that Thunderella’s song, which is like a hopeful self empowerment and existential song is done BEFORE HER NAME IS GIVEN. I don’t know this character yet so I can’t feel for her through this cheesy song. They are so old and dated sounding it’s insulting to my rotting mind.
Snow White bitch slapping Lord Maliss
I would bet that Happily Ever After’s budget went to hiring the voice talent, which have some heavy hitters but it neglected the animation, writing and everything else. This movie is a massive fail.
And just to insult the viewer more, Scowl gets top billing. I really loath this movie.
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Do-it-yourself Internet anonymity
A step-by-step tutorial
Thomas C Greene Wed 14 Nov 2001 // 12:46 UTC
Along with the recent government hysteria over terrorists, we've seen legislative measures and 'emergency powers' inviting law-enforcement agencies worldwide to conduct Internet surveillance on an unprecedented scale. But because the state-of-the-art of electronic dragnets makes it difficult if not impossible to exclude the comings and goings of innocent citizens, we thought this a good time to run down the basic techniques for ordinary, law-abiding folk to come and go anonymously on the Net, and keep their private business private.
How do you make a truly anonymous post to a newsgroup or a BBS? How do you keep the Web sites you visit a secret? How do you send e-mail and ensure that its contents can't be read by someone who intercepts it? How do you chat anonymously?
We'll invoke our foil, Windows addict Harry Homeowner, and lay it out in terms the average user can profit from, though with hopes that even you power users might learn a thing or two in the process.
These are your first line of defense, so let's start with them. Proxies provide a useful layer of mediation between your machine and the Internet. There are several types, but Web proxies and Socks proxies are the two most relevant to our purposes.
Grossly oversimplified, a proxy is a remote machine which you connect through to the Net, which forwards your IP traffic, and which you then appear to be originating from. When you contact a Web site via an anonymous proxy, it's the proxy's IP which shows in their logs.
You can use either Web or Socks proxies with your browser, and Socks proxies with other Net clients to obscure your IP from prying eyes. But you do have to choose them with care.
Socks proxies are the best, general-purpose proxies. This is so because Socks are non-caching, which means, for example, that there won't be a record of the Web pages you fetched while connecting through one, except on your own machine -- and this you can fix rather easily (more on that in 'Browser Settings'). It also means they're slow, but if you want anonymity, you shouldn't quibble.
But older versions of Internet Explorer and Netscape don't support Socks. What to do? You can upgrade, but I prefer an older browser with fewer 'features', which I equate with fewer security leaks (though these should be patched regularly, of course). Rather than upgrade, you can download an application called SocksCap, and use it to 'socksify' any IP client you use. It will work with browsers, e-mail clients, telnet, SSH, chat clients, even your l4me e-mail bomber. Test it; socksify your e-mail client and send a message from one of your accounts to another. Check the header. Is the originating IP your proxy? If so, your e-mail now appears to originate from the proxy's IP. This can be extremely useful, as we'll see below.
Useful but not foolproof. Of course the proxy machine's admin can easily learn that you connected to it after perusing his logs, so a proxy doesn't actually conceal you; it just adds a layer between you and whatever you're contacting on the Net. This layer can be thick or thin, depending on where the proxy machine is physically located. If your proxy is located in a country unlikely to cooperate with requests for their logs from foreign officials, or a country where your mother tongue is rarely spoken, it can be, in practical terms if not theoretical terms, quite an effective layer of protection.
It's easy to determine a proxy's country of origin with the $20.00 Patrick Project DNS utility, which will resolve IPs to addresses and vice versa, and a good deal more to boot. You cheapskates out there can go to SamSpade.org and do it all for free.
Now you know how to determine your proxy's location. The more exotic the better: Korea is better than Japan; Thailand is better than Korea; Indonesia is better than Thailand; Papua New Guinea is pure gold. Kenya is better than Morocco; Ghana is better than Kenya; Guinea is better than Ghana; Burkina Faso is pure gold. You get the picture.
Now you need to test the proxy for anonymity. Some of them can leak appalling amounts of information, like your true IP, for example. There are several environmental variables checkers on line which will tell you just what information your proxy is leaking to the world, and a nice links page to a heap of them is located at Proxys4all.com.
And what do env checkers tell you? The chief variables you need to know about are:
REMOTE_ADDR: Your apparent IP, which should be the proxy. If not, use another proxy.
REMOTE_HOST: Your apparent address, which should resolve to the proxy IP. or better yet not be resolvable at all. If it resolves to you, use another proxy.
HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR: Sometimes your true IP is revealed -- get another proxy.
HTTP_USER_AGENT: Your browser type -- unimportant.
FORWARDED: Reveals the fact that you're using a proxy; not fatal, but better if blank.
VIA: Reveals the fact that you're using a proxy; not fatal, but better if blank.
CLIENT_IP: Sometimes your IP is revealed -- use another proxy.
HTTP_FROM: Sometimes your IP is revealed -- use another proxy.
You can use a free application called ProxyHunter to scan ranges of IPs and find your own proxies. These you can evaluate, determining location and anonymity according to the guidelines above.
A scan such as this is non-invasive and non-destructive, but it's still possible one may get a nastygram from one's ISP for performing them.
Socks proxies are located on port 1080, so you'll want to use that in most searches with ProxyHunter. HTTP proxies on ports 80, 3128 and 8080 are useful, and can be loaded directly into your browser, but they're not quite as secure.
You can load a good Socks in your chat clients like IRC and ICQ; and with SocksCap you can run your telnet and e-mail clients and browser through one as well.
For even more anonymous surfing, you can give yourself an added measure of security by connecting to a Web proxy like Anonymizer through a Socks (or even a decent HTTP proxy). Feel free to e-mail me if you can't figure all this stuff out -- but please, I beg you, give it a fair go on your own first. I'm a humble news reporter, not a help desk.
When you find a Socks proxy with ProxyHunter, or by perusing the many public Web sites where they're listed, and you get satisfactory results from the env check, and your proxy is located on some God-forsaken corner of the Earth, then you've acquired a decent layer of protection. Congratulations. But that's far from the whole shebang.
Anonymous dialups
Whenever you dial in to an Internet connection, your ISP can determine your phone number with caller ID. This information is recorded, and can be turned over to nosy Feds on request with an administrative subpoena, which doesn't require a judge's approval.
If you've got a regular ISP account billed to a credit card, your ISP knows perfectly well who and where you are, so concealing your phone number from them is hardly an obstacle to associating you with your Net activity. In much of Europe, the telco is the ISP, so the possibility of making anonymous dial-ups is remote. In that case, all I can suggest is trying to find a data-capable pay-as-you-go mobile phone, and of course paying cash for it. If you're asked your name, lie. If you're asked for ID, leave.
However, there are free ISPs like NetZero on which you can register with totally fictitious personal information, and to which you can connect with caller ID disabled. This isn't a solution in itself, but combined with the judicious use of good proxies, it can add a second layer of anonymity to your comings and goings. It can make you a bit more difficult to identify.
These ISPs don't allow you much free surfing time -- usually something like ten hours a month; and they feed adverts to you and they're slow (made slower still by proxy use); but they can be a superb means of connecting when you need to be even more anonymous than usual, such as when you make a controversial post to a newsgroup or BBS, or send a sensitive e-mail.
Get your ducks in a row: first, go to an Internet cafe or a library. If they require identification, go elsewhere. When you find a public place where you can surf anonymously, set up an account with NetZero using fictitious personal information. Even better, go through a Web proxy while you're at it.
Record your login, password, and a dialup number convenient for your home location. Now go home, and disable caller ID (contact your phone company for instructions), and dial in to your new fictitious account. And always dial in with caller ID disabled.
Finally, use an anonymous Socks proxy with your e-mail client for newsgroups, and a Socks along with a Web proxy for BBS posts. Theoretically, you can still be traced because the phone company knows what you're up to; but unless you're under active surveillance by the Feds, you can safely gamble that no one from NetZero is ever going to peg you.
You're getting very close to effective anonymity, and you still haven't gone beyond what our friend Harry Homeowner can handle.
There are other things you can do with this caller-ID-off+Netzero+Socks+Web-proxy setup. You can, for example, open a Web-based e-mail account with fictitious personal information and send and receive anonymously, so long as you set up your NetZero account properly, and always connect to it with caller ID disabled, always use a Socks with your browser, and/or always use a Web proxy.
You've got ten hours a month. Spend them wisely, and you can surf almost anywhere or post almost anything on line with no repercussions.
But what if your e-mail is intercepted by something hideous like the FBI's packet sniffer Carnivore? Unless you stupidly identify yourself in your mail, you're almost certain not to be identified -- but you still may not want the contents read by anyone but the intended recipient. You don't have to be a criminal to desire privacy, much as the Feds like to pretend otherwise.
Now this is funny. If you use a nice, free crypto program like PGP, you can easily encrypt your e-mail. Just follow the instructions -- there's really nothing to it.
The problem here is that the Feds, if they happen to be watching, can gather that you sent an encrypted message to Recipient X, a fact which you may not wish them to know.
If you follow the scheme above, you can send a message anonymously via a Web-based account. But unless I'm missing something, you can't use PGP to encrypt Web-based e-mail messages.
So how do you have your cake and eat it too? It's quite simple: you create an encrypted text file and attach it to your Web-based anonymous e-mail, or copy it into the message body.
Now all the Feds can determine is that Recipient X got an e-mail message with an encrypted body or an attachment from Monica_Lewinski666@hotmail.com or whatever.
Easy peasy, even for our Harry.
Browser settings
Proxy or not, your browser can leak ghastly amounts of information about you. Fortunately, tightening it up is easy when you know what to do.
Since our Harry almost certainly uses MS Internet Explorer, we'll deal with that, though Netscape users should find this information easy to apply to their own setups.
Get into Tools/Internet Options. Set 'days to keep pages in history' to zero. Go to Tools/Internet Options/Security. Go to 'Custom Level' and disable 'Download unsigned ActiveX Controls' and 'Initialize and script ActiveX Controls not marked safe for scripting'; set 'Java permissions' to 'High Safety'; disable 'Meta Refresh'; disable 'Launching programs and files in an IFRAME'; set 'Software Channel permissions' to 'High Safety', disable 'Userdata persistence'; disable 'Active scripting', 'Allow paste operations via script', and 'scripting of Java applets'.
Accept session cookies but not stored cookies. Never use in-line auto-complete, and never allow Windows to save any of your passwords.
Now go to Tools/Internet Options/Advanced and clear 'Enable Profile Assistant', select 'Do not save encrypted pages to disk', clear 'Enable page hit counting', and select 'Empty Temporary Internet Files folder when browser is closed'.
That should about do it.
While you're about it, pop over to Control Panel/Network and ensure that File and Printer sharing are disabled.
While you're on the job, never do anything with your company's computer that you wouldn't want your Grandmother to know about. Spyware is ubiquitous in the work place. Don't even mess with a company-issued laptop, which may well contain 'remote administration' features which will enable a company admin to connect to it. If you want to be anonymous, use your own equipment. If you're using anyone else's hardware, assume that anonymity is impossible.
You can get a fab program for detecting Trojans called The Cleaner for $30.00 from Moosoft. A number of Trojans fail to be detected by the fine products of the popular anti-virus companies, in spite of their powerful suggestions to the contrary. Moosoft picks up most of them.
Most software firewalls are notoriously bad at stopping, or even notifying you, when a malicious program sends data out from your machine. An application like The Cleaner can go a long way towards assuring you that no such contaminant exists on your box.
PC Hygiene
There's a crucial difference between deleting a file and wiping it. A deletion leaves a file's entire contents on your disk, until the space it occupied happens to be overwritten by a subsequent file. In the mean time, the data can be recovered with forensic techniques. A proper wipe, on the other hand, overwrites that space immediately so the file's contents can't be recovered. Utilities capable of this include BCWipe, Norton Wipeinfo, Evidence Eraser, and PGP.
The only certain way to keep your machine free of incriminating files and alien malware is to wipe your HDD periodically and clean-install your OS from original media while preserving those files and progies you can't do without. If you're serious about anonymity and file preservation, then you'll cough up the $200.00 or so needed to maintain two HDDs, because nothing beats a spare, non-removable magnetic storage device; and nothing beats a true file wipe, which is the only insurance against forensic probing.
This is how I do it -- and I do it frequently: I have two HDDs in my Windows box. When I get ready to wipe my primary, I've already done an fdisk and format /u and a thorough 'government wipe' on the secondary using Norton Wipeinfo. I simply copy all the files and progies I wish to preserve onto that thoroughly-wiped secondary disk. I then switch the primary and secondary, and install Windows from original media onto the wiped disk, from which I'll boot. I install Norton Utilities, naturally.
I then fdisk and format /u the former primary and do a thorough 'government wipe' using Norton Wipeinfo. Thus it's ready, and spotless, whenever I need it. I tend to do this every two or three months, depending on what I've been up to.
As soon as I get a sense that my current primary contains material I'd rather not preserve for posterity, I repeat the process. With two HDDs, it all takes about forty-five minutes. With this method you wipe not only your files, but your registry and swap file too. Forensics, as it's normally practiced, becomes futile.
If this seems too extreme, a utility called the Evidence Eliminator Eliminator (E3) by Radsoft (not to be confused with Robin Hood Software's lame 'Evidence Eliminator') will wipe a good many of your messes and excesses for a cool $80.00. It's considerably cheaper than a spare HDD, and pretty thorough. It doesn't merely delete files, it wipes them properly. To add to its effectiveness, you can use a proper file wipe utility like BCWipe or Norton Wipeinfo to eliminate your swap file, where a good deal of what you've been up to is stored. The file is in your C:\ directory and is named Win386.swp.
One final item; whenever you clean-install your OS and apps, always use an alias for yourself and your machine. MS Word, for example, includes user info in your documents. So make sure this info is not specific to you. And never send any MS Office document to any destination when you're concerned about privacy. Just copy the contents into a text editor like Notepad and send the .txt file, or copy and paste it into the body of an e-mail.
Follow these basic guidelines, and you'll be quite safe, though not perfectly safe. It's a bit like copulation -- there are quite effective birth control methods, but the only way to be absolutely certain you won't ever get pregnant is not to do the deed.
But that's no fun. And neither is never using a computer. So practice safe computing and stop fretting. As with the pill, the odds are immensely in your favor. So smile, relax, and enjoy. ®
In an 18 October article entitled SafeWeb ain't all that I'd promised to post this follow-up in a week's time. Unfortunately a family emergency intervened, and subsequent news demanded my attention. My apologies to those who've been waiting. -- tcg
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ISRAELI FOOD TASTING WITH CHEF ERAN GEFFEN
The Answer to the Eternal Question, "What is Israeli Food?"
Even the first snow and the cold temperature did not deter almost 50 people from getting together for a tasting night with a great Israeli chef in Warren, RI this November.
The Rhode Island-Israel Collaborative (RIIC), together with Hope & Main produced this event as part of Israeli culinary month, which included a lecture with Israeli TV food critic, Gil Hovav, and a demonstration event of Israeli wine tasting. Both were successful events.
Without a doubt, the tasting event was the final highlight of a great month. Chef Geffen, who orchestrated the event and previously worked as the head chef of Dan Hotel in Haifa and a sous chef at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem (where he cooked for head of state), now runs a catering business in Boston.
The event took place at Hope & Main, an incubator whose mission is to help support initiative in the food industry. The venue is located in an old school which was transformed into a hub for food activities. To date, they have supported more than 170 businesses and initiatives. Lisa Raiola, the founder and president who opened the event said,
"In time, it's possible to do almost everything online - still one cannot eat through the internet and food brings people together in a special way."
Avi Nevel, the president and founder of the Rhode Island-Israel Collaborative (RIIC) commented,
"This is exactly the reason we planned the event at Hope & Main, a place that connects people through food," the RIIC's mission is to connect the Rhode Island community with Israel.
Chef Eran Geffen added that the food he prepared represents the memory and the culture of Israel, where he grew up. That food does not represent one kitchen but a treasure of diversified cultures of Jews who came from all over the world, and also, he pointed out most importantly, high quality ingredients.
The main event was set with serving tables on both sides of the hall. One side had a couscous dish with spicy fish that represented the influence of Moroccan cuisine and the other side had a goulash, full of flavor and texture representing European cuisine. There were also other common Israeli dishes, such as Jerusalem mixed grill, (pieces of chicken spiced with aromatic middle eastern spices) and a variety of stuffed vegetables. In an Israeli evening, how could you have an Israeli tasting event without hummus? The hummus was as good as the hummus in the old city of Jerusalem.
In between the two sides, there were multiple tables that had many great dishes and salads, such as, mixed greens with a tangy sauce, burghul and pieces of marinated fish (herring), carpaccio of red beets, baked eggplant and a unique gazpacho soup that was smooth and tasty.
The guests used pita bread and beautiful challah bread to dip into the hummus and compliment the salads. These were prepared by Guy Hanukkah, an Israeli baker who resides in Rhode Island and received his education at Johnson & Wales University.
Chef Geffen put a lot of thought into the evening and to end the meal, prepared a very light malabi dessert that was fluffy and perfect, adding to a great food sampling. Throughout the evening, the guests enjoyed Israeli wine from Barkan and Carmel wineries, courtesy of Royal Wine.
Not only the food and the wine were Israeli. Throughout the evening, two very talented Israeli student musicians from the Berkeley School of Music played Israeli music, which added to the Israeli flavor of the evening.
So for a long time, there was the question, "What is Israeli cuisine?" and we shared so many of the famous dishes that are considered a big part of Middle East cuisine, and a good many other cuisines from around the world. Jews who immigrated to Israel, brought with them their cuisine from their respective countries. Chef Geffen demonstrated to us exactly what Israeli cuisine is!
What is Israeli Cuisine?
A cuisine that integrates culture and great food, cutting edge fusion and is created in a unique way.
To learn more about Israeli cuisine, see the link to a trailer YouTube video
about Israeli cuisine by Chef Michael Solomonov, who visited the Jewish Alliance in Rhode Island in May. Some of the other chefs and critics visited us in Rhode Island, as well; Gil Hovav and Janna Gur.
Follow other events of the RIIC and Hope & Main and make sure not to miss them.
Thank you to the sponsors,
Consulate General of Israel to New England
Sid Wainer & Son
Martin Hymowitz of Royal Wine Corp.
#RonitCohenKott #GilHovav #EranGeffen #HopeMain #LisaRaiola #Warren #GuyHanukkah #AviNevel #RIIC
Israel Cuisine
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Watch What It Takes to Dress the Choir on Tour
Watch what it takes to dress the choir on tour.
Do Choir members stuff their dresses, suits and ties in their suitcases and hope for an iron when they get to the hotel before the concert? That was the case years ago. In the late 1960s the men had to buy their own suit coats—light blue, the best color on camera. They got a discount at Penny’s where one of the members worked. The women wore apricot blouses with black skirts. They had to sew their own from fabric and pattern provided by the Choir.
Today, getting the wardrobes on tour for the men, women and Orchestra members is a well-oiled machine down to the right necklace with the right dress. Valorie Jensen, women’s wardrobe manager and former member of the Choir, manages the whole process from making the dresses—every one made to fit each member—to packing them up and sending them on the trucks.
Ten days before the Choir flew east, Choir members hung their concert attire in large containers—10 for the women, 9 for the men. Instructions posted on the walls carefully outlined the process. Dresses—in Choir number order, altos first, and in concert order— “Fuchsia, Raspberry, Blue, Turquoise.” Women brought bright ribbons to help identify their own cluster of clothes. The men had a similar process for their jackets, shirts, ties—and shoes.
Shoes were put below the clothes in a plastic bag. Shoes. Black. Comfortable. No sandals. The women provide their own shoes as do the men. Flat, cushioned, and comfortable have become the standard. Dresses are hemmed to fit the heel height. Choir members dress at the venue in the specified dress, jacket and tie and then change back into their clothes after the concert before boarding busses to return to the hotel.
From Bar of Soap to Choir
Want to Sing with the Choir?
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New Hollywood
The NEW HOLLYWOOD project was started by Brian Green in 1999 and it came to fruition via the success of an edutaining event he was financially supporting called the HOUSE DANCE CONFERENCE (HDC)
This project he shipped around the planet with his choreography and teaching career. Asking major organizers around the globe of a BOOMING STREET DANCE CONTEST circuit IF they wanted to join in. They’re 100% answer was, “NO”, and one even going far enough to say, “NO, “that’s your stupid Jesus Christ mission”….that famous bboy organizer still widely supported today.
So what’s the NEW HOLLYWOOD CONCEPT?
It’s making projects that give on-going royalties (percentage) to GIFTED artists from video, online, and other merchandise sales. Brian was doing this with vhs/dvd sales in the early millennium; giving featured guests royalties. Also, brian was giving royalties to great teachers from the dance styles popping and locking that were infiltrating the COLONized East coast, and DEFINITELY making a mark on dancers focused on those DANCE STYLES….all while he was focused on bringing back WHACKING and TRYING to get KEITH “Boogie” WILLIAMS (R.I.P.) CREATOR of “STREET JAZZ” to come back to either teach or just talk about what he did in DANCE that changed the inDUSTry that threw him away but sucked up the obvious gift he was given.
When the monthly event slowed down around 2010 and completely closed in 2013, from his pocket he still gave royalties to DANCE CONTEST winners/runner-ups of the HDC contests; WITHOUT selling ANYTHING (SOME taking the royalties, & others realizing it’s from Brian’s own choreography/teaching work they declined).
Currently, Brian has CREATED THE DANCE POLICE that features a guest gifted teacher each ONLINE DANCE CLASS that assists Brian in clarifying HISTORY in dance styles and teaches some basics for the ONLINE student to improve. DANCE POLICE is an on-going adventure in the NEW HOLLYWOOD project.
Along with the “guest teacher idea”, Brian has added GIFTED guests in ANY ART and age that can assist in making the ONLINE DANCE CLASSES better (producer, editor, director, teacher etc…).
DANCE POLICE features guest TAP DANCE TEACHER, ANDREW J. NEMR (and there will be different guest dance style teachers in the future).
HOUSE DANCE TRANSITIONS introduces filmmaker/editor MAX WOO from COLONized land labeled, “ATLANTA, GA”
MUSIC ON THE ONLINE DANCE CLASSES are made by singer, producer, and musician, CMINOR from COLONized land labeled, “PHILADELPHIA”
NOTE: ONLY the BEGINNER 2 PART ISOLATIONS ONLINE DANCE CLASS, the music is produced by BBOY MAURIZIO from COLONized country labeled, “ITALY”.
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‘Sunshine Of Your Love’: Cream’s Majestic Dawn Surprise
The Jack Bruce/Pete Brown composition from 'Disraeli Gears' gave the band their Hot 100 debut, long before the song's UK chart appearance.
Bid For Final Tickets For Eric Clapton’s Sellout Ginger Baker Tribute
International disability charity Leonard Cheshire, which will receive proceeds from the concert, has announced that a number of tickets are available to bid for.
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It was recorded at the International Sports Arena in San Diego, one of three complete concerts on the US tour to debut in the set.
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The group may have split, but their version of Robert Johnson’s ‘Crossroads’ became a US single just as they were entering the UK charts with ‘White Room.’
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From its glitzy beginnings to its hair metal heyday, we’re tracing the history of the Whisky a Go Go, one of the most storied clubs in America.
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The set will feature three complete concerts on the band's final US tour in October 1968 and their ensuing last UK date at the Royal Albert Hall.
Eric Clapton Announces One-Off February 2020 Tribute To Ginger Baker
'Eric Clapton & Friends: A Tribute To Ginger Baker' will feature other specially-chosen guests to be announced in due course.
Cream’s BBC Sessions: Proof The Trio Were Rock’s Greatest Live Act
Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce… together they turned live shows into an art form, but the best Cream live performances reflect their individual brilliance.
‘White Room’: The Definitive Cream Recording?
There's no question; if we had to pick just one track by Cream that epitomises Jack Bruce’s vocal delivery it would be ‘White Room’.
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Images depict Clapton's live career from the age of 19 with the Yardbirds to the present day.
Fresh Cream And Strange Brews: Life With Ginger, By Nettie Baker
uDiscover Music talks to Ginger Baker's daughter about her life and her memoir, 'Tales Of A Rock Star's Daughter.'
The 10 Best Power Trios In Rock
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Jack Bruce was a genuine legend who died at 71. His brilliant bass playing, distinctive voice and sense of musical adventure live on.
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First issued in 2003, it's a remarkable record of the BBC sessions recorded between 1966 and 1968 by Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker.
Greta Van Fleet Are “Evolving Rock’n’Roll” Says Guitarist Jake Kiszka
With Elton John calling ‘Anthem Of The Peaceful Army’ “the best rock’n’roll I’ve heard in 20 f__g years!”, Greta Van Fleet are taking the world by storm.
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Harbor Boats, Doha
James Nyika
Watercolor painting on Paper New
Signed on front
16" h x 20" w |0 lbs. 1 oz.
In stock $600 https://www.ugallery.com/art/watercolor-painting-Harbor-Boats-Doha
"Doha has an amazing skyline, further enhanced each evening by the beautiful violet skies typical of the Arabian sunset," says artist James Nyika. "With its modern neon lighting, it can look like a mini-Las Vegas from a distance. Probably much more interesting though is the juxtaposition of the old and the new - as seen in this picture. The old fishing boats typical of its former pearl economy still exist and we capture them contrasted with the changes that have occurred over the years."
The artwork image is 15.25" x 19" on paper that measures 16" x 20".
Upper Marlboro, Maryland
Artist James Nyika paints the glowing atmosphere of cities across the world. As a child growing up in Kenya, he found art materials at the student bookshop and also borrowed just about every art history volume from the British Council library in Nairobi. "I checked out the same books over and over just to stare at the art, to try and understand how it was created," says James. With family encouragement to study engineering, James moved to the U.S. and immersed himself in science studies at Boston University. Several years after embarking on a tech career, he set a goal to create at least one painting a week, never throwing away any works and learning as much as possible in his off hours. Today, James still balances his full-time career designing large software systems with his prolific output as a painter. "Painting is a great antidote to the regularity of a computing profession and I really value it for the uncertainty that it brings - something frowned upon when writing code."
Here's more work from James you may enjoy
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NewSpace Summit
October 4, 2019 @ 9:00 am - 4:15 pm
« International Day of Peace: Sophie McNeill Lecture
UNAA SA United Nations Day Dinner »
With the formation of the Australian Space Agency, a message was sent to the world: Australia has finally taken a step into the final frontier. Today, we widely seek support for this initiative.
The United Nations Association of Australia takes great pleasure in announcing our NewSpace summit, collaborating momentum and excellence from all regions of business and academia.
Through the summit, we aim to inspire, educate and empower those interested in helping Australia make this giant leap.
The future of a growing space economy has great potential for furthering the sustainable development of your agencies; the NewSpace summit will showcase opportunities for those involved in law, science, engineering and business.
Australia is now in a prime position to lead an expansion into space. The United Nations Association of Australia looks forward to assisting in this ambitious and rewarding endeavour.
Doors Open: 8:30am – 9:00am
Opening Addresses: 9:00am – 9:30am
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, James Larsen, Chief Legal Officer – 10mins
Australian Space Agency, Karl Rodrigues, Executive Director, International and National Engagement – 10mins
National Space Society, Kirby Ikin, Chairman of the Board | Chief Executive Officer, Asia Pacific Aerospace Consultants – 10mins
Space Law & Policy: 9:30am – 10:35am
Steven Freeland, Professor of International Law, Western Sydney University – 10mins
Bird & Bird, Thomas Jones, Partner, Co-Head of the firm’s Global Satellite and Space Activities Group – 10mins
Azimuth Advisory, Donna Lawler, Principal – 10mins
Allens Linklaters, Connie Ye, Associate – 10mins
Herbert Smith Freehills, Peter Dunne, Partner – 10mins
Q&A – 15mins
Space Science: 10:35am – 11:40am
Dr Gordon Cable AM, Chair, Space Life Sciences Committee, Australasian Society of Aerospace Medicine | Director and Co-founder, Human Aerospace – 10mins
CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science, Dr Sarah Pearce, Deputy Chief – 10mins
Gilmour Space Technologies, Adam Gilmour, CEO & Founder – 10mins
Arup, Jason Carr, Australasia Hydrogeology and Digital Water Lead – 10mins
Boeing, Darin Lovett, Senior Manager – Systems Analysis Lab (SAL), Phantom Works International – 10mins
Lunch Break: 11:40am – 12:40pm
Space Business and Commercialisation : 12:40pm – 1:45pm
Australian Trade and Investment Commission (Austrade), Daniel O’Toole, Senior Adviser, Space Industry – 10mins
Deloitte, Dr. Geraldine Baca Triveno, Consultant, Technology, Strategy & Innovation – 10mins
Main Sequence Ventures – The CSIRO Innovation Fund, Martin Duursma, Partner – 10mins
KPMG, Ben Sakker-Kelly, Associate Director, Space Industry Advisory – 10mins
PwC, Imelda Alexopoulos, Partner, Future Industries Leader – 10mins
Space Engineering: 1:45pm – 2:40pm
Royal Aeronautical Society Australian Division, AVM Mark Skidmore AM, President of the Division – 10mins
Nova Systems, Sean Tuttle, Senior Systems Engineer, Space Capability Co-ordinator – 10mins
Airbus Defence & Space, Thomas Pfister, Head of Sales Space and Services Australia, New Zealand and Pacific – 10mins
Northrop Grumman, Amanda MacKinnell, Australian Industry Capability Manager – Aerospace – 10mins
Closing Addresses: 2:40pm – 2:55pm
Niklas Hedman (Mr.) Chief Committee, Policy and Legal Affairs Section, Office for Outer Space Affairs United Nations – 15mins
NewSpace Fund Pitches: 2:55pm – 3:20pm
Macquarie University Orbital, Keira Chrystal, Satellite Project Team Lead – 5mins
USYD Rocketry, Andre Bauer, Executive Director – 5mins
BLUEsat UNSW, Olivia Yem, Satellite Project Team Lead – 5mins
https://events.humanitix.com.au/newspace
L14 Tower Three, International Towers Sydney Exchange Place, 300 Barangaroo Ave
Barangaroo, NSW 2000 Australia + Google Map
gregory.hunter@unaa.org.au
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Publications Magazines
Uncut – July 2019
The Black Keys, David Bowie, The Cure and Rory Gallagher all feature in the new issue of Uncut, in shops from May 16 and available to buy from our online store.
Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney make their debut as Uncut cover stars this month, as we travel to Nashville to hear all about their new album, “Let’s Rock”. Struggling to overcome physical injury, psychological burnout and communication breakdown in the wake of the mammoth world tour for their previous LP, Turn Blue, the duo explain how they rediscovered the anxieties and delights of collaborating. “You can’t be best friends with the person you’re in a band with,” they explain.
We also explore how David Bowie cured his ’80s malaise with “a band of fucking heathens”, Tin Machine, while Lol Tolhurst recalls the early years of The Cure, from jamming in Robert Smith‘s extension to losing their minds in Strasbourg.
As a new boxset devoted to Rory Gallagher is released, we discover how his febrile talent came at a high cost: “For good or ill, Rory ran his own race,” admits his brother Donal.
Uncut heads to North Carolina to meet Jake Xerxes Fussell, a skilled interpreter of American song who’s “bringing the magical to the mundane”, while Screaming Trees recall the creation of “Nearly Lost You”.
Some of Mark E Smith‘s bandmates recall the creation of the finest records by The Fall, from Live At The Witch Trials to New Facts Emerge, and Liz Phair picks some of the most important music of her life.
In our expansive reviews section, we look at new albums from Bill Callahan, PJ Harvey, Flying Lotus, Peter Perrett, Buddy & Julie Miller, Black Peaches and more, and archival releases including Tangerine Dream, Bob Dylan, Neil Young and Mort Garson.
Our Instant Karma front section features the return of Bruce Springsteen, The Pop Group, David Berman, George Harrison, Jamila Woods, and an audience with PP Arnold, while we catch Bikini Kill and Ride live, and review films, DVDs and TV including David Crosby, How I Won The War, Thunder Road and Beats.
The issue comes with a free CD, Tighten Up!, which features 15 tracks of the month’s best new music from PJ Harvey, Peter Perrett, Black Peaches, Richard Hawley, Calexico And Iron & Wine, Jake Xerxes Fussell and more.
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Marianne Faithfull and Warren Ellis confirm release of new album
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The Rabbi's Cat
Rated NR · 1 hr 40 min · 2011
Adventure, Animated
Based on several stories of his graphic novel, director Joann Sfar’s tale about Jewish identity in 1920s Algeria is a vibrant and snappy animated film. After eating a talking parrot, a rabbi’s cat is instantly blessed with speech. When he’s not debating the merits of the Talmud or yearning for a bar mitzvah, he’s serving as a Greek chorus to the wide array of characters from different religious and geographical backgrounds that constantly philosophize and bicker with each other. The film shifts gears halfway through when it becomes a road movie; the sequences that follow hop back and forth between drastically serious and laugh-out-loud funny, including a reference to Tintin that had me roaring. While the story can be a bit inconsistent and a chore to keep up with at times, the crackling, old-fashioned animation never falters. This clever, engaging cartoon for adults is a rare gem.
Antoine Delesvaux
Maurice Benichou
Hafsia Herzi
Mohamed Fellag
Sava Lolov
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RTL's n-tv news television centre in Cologne has become one of the first customers for a new robotic camera system, RoboKam, developed by Robotics Technology Leaders GmbH and debuted at IBC.
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RTL’s n-tv news television centre in Cologne has become one of the first customers for a new robotic camera system, RoboKam, developed by Robotics Technology Leaders GmbH and debuted at IBC.
Incorporating both face-tracking and object-tracking, the new system is controllable from a standard PC. Three RoboKam systems have been sold for use at n-tv and further trials are now in progress.
“We were asked by the German broadcaster RTL if we could make a really versatile robotic system for the n-tv news television centre in Cologne,” explained RTL CEO, Dr. Stefan Riesner. “Existing commercial systems lacked the features and repeatability RTL required. They were also expensive and in some cases too noisy for use in a live television studio. RoboKam is based on a high-precision robot mechanism which is available worldwide.”
RoboKam is designed for live or automated control of film and HD or SD television cameras. It can readily be combined with a pan/tilt unit for fixed or mobile operation modes, including virtual studio applications. Multiple RoboKams can be programmed to execute a coordinated sequence of movements with fully-automated switching between cameras.
RoboKam may be used with robotic arm mechanisms of varying size, dependent on the required load capacity, speed, working space and noise level. Complete 6D camera movement can be achieved within a spatial precision of 0.05 mm and a temporal accuracy of 4 to 16ms, enabling frame-accurate synchronisation. The operator is warned automatically if a requested trajectory will lead to a collision with another object in the studio environment or with the robotic arm itself.
The system ships with a full motion-control package including an intuitive user interface allowing recording images to be viewed in realtime. A limitless number of camera positions can be stored and then combined to create motion along multiple trajectories. Realtime live control can be achieved using joystick-like input devices such as 3DConnexion’s SpaceBall. It can be operated from a fixed base, on rails, on freely steerable wheels or overhead. Face-tracking and object-tracking can both be offset by a predefined amount to match a producer’s specific image composition. The tracking system employs two cameras (vertical and lateral) and does not require a performer to wear a tracking sensor.
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Live 2 Free makes difference on campus, in community
Nov 02, 2017 Samantha De La O 774 0 0
Although it began nearly 20 years ago, Live 2 Free is a club that is gaining momentum and visibility on campus.
Founded by Dr. Sandra Morgan, under the name The Lydia Today Foundation, Live 2 Free was born after Morgan witnessed countless trafficking incidents in Greece while serving as a missionary. According to club president Jazmyne French, Dr. Morgan saw a need for an organization that could raise awareness about the risks of human trafficking, and created Live 2 Free to fulfill that.
French described Live 2 Free as an anti-trafficking mobilization team on campus, but what club members do over the course of the semester goes far beyond the confines of Vanguard.
Every year Live 2 Free visits 20 to 30 high schools, middle schools, and churches outside of Costa Mesa, giving hour-long presentations about what human trafficking is, how the individual is involved, and what they can do to help. They then show students videos and engage them in skits to involve them with the material.
“You learn all this stuff in class. I’ve taken family violence, commercial exploitation of children…all these heavy topics. And you get so angry, because you don’t know what you can do about it. But then we have Live 2 Free, [where] you are kind of able to channel that passion…and really plant seeds,” French said.
As for what they are doing on campus, Live 2 Free hosts three events per year, two in the fall and one in the spring, but French hopes that they will do even more campus events in the future.
The first event is a Fair Trade Fashion show, which took place mid October. The next fall event is called the Solitary Sleep out, in which participants spend the entire night outside, in Scott Courtyard, in order to raise awareness about homeless youth.
“We know that us sleeping… in Scott Courtyard, with Campus Safety aware, is not going to alleviate the issue of homeless youth, but it does give us a taste of what it may be like to be in their shoes for one night,” French said.
Live 2 Free’s final event, held in the Spring, is called Night of Hope, and it includes poetry, figurative dance, and even sign language, in order to bring the community together for the cause in a positive way.
“We want students to know that even though trafficking is a dark and heavy topic, there is hope in this, and there is light,” French said.
Live 2 Free has a specific set of goals that they aspire to achieve this year. The first being club cohesiveness followed by the will to inform Vanguard students about what Live 2 Free does, so that their events can grow, and more students can become involved.
The club’s third goal is to make Vanguard a certified fair trade campus through Fairtrade America. French explained that Vanguard is very close to achieving this goal, as the final few steps are currently in the works. Live 2 Free’s fourth and final goal, is to involve Costa Mesa schools and youth groups specifically, so that the youth of Costa Mesa can be a part of what of everything the club is doing.
“If we can give students tangible ways to make little differences, it can make a big impact,” French said.
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Delivery Hero signs agreement to acquire Glovo in Latin America
17th September 2020 (Last Updated September 17th, 2020 12:37)
German delivery app Delivery Hero has signed an agreement to acquire on-demand delivery start-up Glovo’s operations in Latin America in a deal valued at €230m.
The acquisition enables Delivery Hero to expand its Latin American presence to five additional countries. Credit: Davide Cantelli / Unsplash.
The deal amount also includes a €60m performance-based earn-out.
According to the agreement, Delivery Hero will acquire Glovo’s business in all Latin American countries, including Peru, Ecuador, Argentina, Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras and the Dominican Republic.
The company already has a footprint in Argentina, Panama and the Dominican Republic, and the newly acquired assets in these markets will be combined to its existing businesses at closing.
The company said that Glovo will continue to operate the business in these countries until March next year.
Delivery Hero CEO and co-founder Niklas Östberg said: “Latin America is a region with exceptional growth potential for online delivery.
“Acquiring Glovo’s local operations gives us the opportunity to double down on our efforts to drive innovation, continuously improve customer experience and support local vendors in the region. We have been working closely with Glovo for many years and are proud to incorporate their Latin American services into our global network.”
Glovo CEO Oscar Pierre added: “This deal will allow us to strengthen our presence in those markets where we are already very strong while also allowing us to invest in new markets where we see huge growth potential and opportunity. We truly believe that Delivery Hero is the best possible partner to take the business we have built in Latin America to the next level.”
Subject to closing conditions and regulatory approvals, the transaction is expected to close within the next few weeks.
Last month, Delivery Hero acquired a 100% stake in online grocery marketplace InstaShop in a deal valued at $360m.
Last year, the company agreed to acquire South Korean food delivery app operator Woowa Brothers for $4bn.
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How Productivity Increased by 27% in a Warehouse [CASE STUDY]
How to manage growth with a warehouse at maximum capacity
Hampton Build Ltd (not its real name) is a distribution company with a problem that many companies would kill for: they were growing too quickly and struggling to manage the process.
Hampton’s sales had increased by 25%, but their warehouse was already at maximum capacity. There was no room to hire extra workers and they had no time to build another warehouse, and their dispatch process was slowing down in the meantime.
They needed an increase in employee productivity — and they needed it fast.
It’s all about accountability
The practical capacity of a warehouse is usually estimated at about 80% of its theoretical capacity, but in Hampton’s case it was estimated at about 63.5%. A change of work culture with a higher focus on productivity was required.
As a result, senior management decided to offer an incentive scheme to encourage healthy competition between employees. A monthly bonus was awarded to each of the winners in four different categories:
Highest number of lines prepared for delivery
Highest number of orders
Largest total volume
Greatest total weight
By creating four different categories, Hampton removed the chance of an employee winning outright at the start of the month thanks to a “lucky” order. They knew that if there was only one category and someone took a huge lead at the start of the month then there’d be no incentive for employees to try to catch up.
We developed an application which imported SAP data about each “Goods Issue for Work Order“. The application saved the data and then computed the KPIs that the scheme required. The results were then displayed in a dashboard using intuitive data visualization tools.
Note: Receiving accurate data in (close to) real-time from SAP was an interesting challenge that we might delve into as a dedicated case study. Keep your eyes peeled!
Based on the transparency principle, the dashboard was available for everybody involved, from management and team leaders to individual workers. Large displays were installed in the active zones and in the restroom that showed current rankings and recent changes for each category.
The layout also displayed a comparative analysis and was supported by an intranet page on which employees could see details about other workers’ activity.
No one likes to come last
The incentive
The incentive scheme worked. The chance of winning prizes and recognition and of being a part of the company’s success led to an overall increase in productivity of 27%. Better still, Hampton was able to deal with its sudden growth and to buy itself some time to build a new warehouse.
The overall result was that thanks to the 27% increase in productivity, Hampton saw a return on investment for the software application in less than five months.
The work culture has also significantly improved. Offering formally recognized performance measurement and tangible awards to top performers led to a drastic change in the company’s culture — and it’s all for the good.
The secondary effect: accountability
Low performers could no longer hide behind the team as the numbers clearly showed individual performance. Some employees discovered an amazing ability to boost productivity while others decided to look for a new job. This allowed Hampton to remove the dead weight and to change employee attitudes for the better.
The 5th bonus: Hampton also introduced an incentive for all team members if the general productivity level reached an ambitious target that was set on a monthly basis. This meant that low performers faced additional pressure from the rest of the team, who pushed them to work harder.
And just think – it was all possible thanks to the “simple dashboard” that made everything so fair and transparent.
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It might not work for everyone
This case study represents a small part of a larger project. It doesn’t represent our professional advice on any given situation and may not be applicable to any other company. Every company is different and without taking a look at the bigger picture, the solution for Hampton might not work as intended.
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Angry lion
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Smiling chimpanzee
The common chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) which, along with the closely-related bonobo, is the closest living relative of modern man. [Argentina, 2013]
A loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) in Cape Town. These sea turtles typically grow to around 1.0m/130kg, although specimens up to 2.8m/450kg have been discovered. [South Africa, 2013]
The jaguar (Panthera onca), similar to though more robustly-built than the leopard, and the only Panthera species found in the Americas. [Argentina, 2013]
A snowy owl (Bubo scandiacus) in flight. [England, 2014]
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A male lion (Panthera leo), having just woken, and looking the direction of the setting sun. [Namibia, 2013]
A Scarlet Ibis (Eudocimus ruber): similar in form to most members of the ibis species, but distinguished by its brilliant red colouration. [South Africa, 2012]
Ragged tooth shark
Ragged tooth shark (Carcharias taurus) - a.k.a. sand tiger shark/grey nurse shark - in Cape Town. [South Africa, 2011]
Green iguana II
A green iguana (Iguana iguana), a.k.a. common iguana - a large, arboreal, mostly herbivorous species of lizard. [South Africa, 2014]
Erindi giraffe
A giraffe - the world's tallest terrestrial animal - grazing on some tall branches. [Namibia, 2013]
Jaguar II
The jaguar (Panthera onca), similar to though more robustly-built than the leopard, and the only Panthera species found in the Americas. [Brazil, 2015]
A bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus), a bird of prey found in North America. It is both the national bird and national animal of the United States of America. [England, 2014]
Wide angle elephant
A wide-angle view of an elephant at a water hole. [Namibia, 2016]
A female hummingbird (Calypte anna) spotted in the gardens of the Huntington Library in Pasadena. [United States, 2013]
Lions killing a warthog
Peacock iridescence
The stunning tail feathers of the male peafowl (peacock). Being iridescent, the feathers appear to change colour as the angle of view or illumination changes; the purple feathers here appear deep green from other angles. [South Africa, 2013]
Hershey, post-kill
A cheetah named Hershey with blood around his mouth, basking in the setting sun after hunting and killing an antelope. [Namibia, 2013]
White steenbras
The white steenbras (Lithognathus lithognathus), a species of fish in the Sparidae family. It is endemic to South Africa. [South Africa, 2012]
Crocodile trail
A crocodile glides silently towards prey. [Namibia, 2016]
Greater kudu female
A greater kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros) female enjoying some breakfast. [Namibia, 2013]
Alcatraz and alcatraz
Alcatraz Island (background, far left) and an alcatraz (foreground; 'alcatraz' is Spanish for 'pelican'). [United States, 2012]
Marmoset II
A marmoset (Callithrix jacchus): a highly active though rather primitive species of monkey. [South Africa, 2014]
Eurasian eagle-owl
A Eurasian-eagle owl (Bubo bubo) in the process of devouring a young chick. [England, 2014]
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Water hole at night
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A Southern Ostrich (Struthio camelus australis), subspecies of the Common Ostrich. [South Africa, 2013]
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An inquisitive seagull near Galata Tower, overlooking Istanbul. [Turkey, 2013]
A golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) prepares to take off. [England, 2014]
A toucan with a nut - moments before flinging the same nut out of its bill and onto the photographer. [South Africa, 2014]
Ragged tooth shark IV
A turn of turtles
A concregration of coastal plain cooters (Pseudemys concinna floridana), a.k.a. Florida cooters, a species of large herbivorous freshwater turtle. [Brazil, 2015]
Yawning hippo
Ragged tooth shark II
Boulders penguins
African penguins (Spheniscus demersus) - a.k.a. jackass penguins - on Boulders Beach just outside Cape Town, towards Simon's Town. [South Africa, 2014]
Early morning bird reflections
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Disability Snooker to be Showcased at Crucible Theatre
By Matt Huart In Events, General News, WPBSA Updated: May 29, 2019 Comments Off on Disability Snooker to be Showcased at Crucible Theatre
Four leading players from the 360Fizz World Disability Billiards and Snooker Tour have earned the opportunity to compete at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield this August for the first time.
To be staged as part of the 2019 ROKiT World Seniors Snooker Championship, the session will take place on the morning of 18 August from 10:00am and feature four highly decorated players who compete regularly on the WDBS circuit.
Among those in action will be Daniel Lee, who plays in the Group 2 wheelchair category and earlier this year was named as the Vic Hartley Player of the Season in recognition of his success during the 2018/19 campaign.
He will be joined by Daniel Blunn, who was born with cerebral palsy and competes as a Group 4 player. Blunn has been a part of the WDBS family since our first event in November 2015 and has to date claimed an incredible eight events, including three during the current campaign.
Representing sensory disabilities are Coventry’s Nick Neale, a six-time winner of competitions for players with visual impairments and deaf player Shabir Ahmed, who has established himself as the dominant player in his category with six titles and was last year recognised at the Deaf Sports Personality of the Year Awards by finishing in third place in the overall voting.
The event will be the first as part of a three-year agreement which will also see disability snooker return to Sheffield in 2020 and 2021.
Nigel Mawer, WDBS Chairman said: “This is a wonderful opportunity for our players to be able to play at the home of snooker and from speaking to them already I know just how excited they are to be able to live their dream and walk out on the same stage as their heroes.
“The event is going to be a real celebration of disability snooker and I would like to encourage all of our players to come along and support those competing and make it a day to remember!”
Tickets are already on sale at the price of just £1.47 when purchased with a full-price ticket to any other session at the ROKiT World Seniors Snooker Championship, so book now to avoid disappointment, by phone 0114 249 600 or online HERE.
The ROKiT World Seniors Snooker Championship will run across four days from 15-18 August 2019 and feature several all-time greats of the game including ‘King of the Crucible’ Stephen Hendry and 10-time ranking event winner Jimmy White.
There will also be a session on the morning of Saturday 17th August held to showcase the talent on the World Women’s Snooker Tour.
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Hwy 37 turnout to Iskut Village (Googlemaps image) Hwy 37 turnout to Iskut (Googlemaps image)
Northern B.C. homicides paralyze isolated village
Tahltan community of Iskut renews plea for RCMP detachment in wake of killings
The village of Iskut is reeling from a tense week in Northern B.C. that left three people dead and two suspected killers on the run.
The tiny Tahltan village of 330 sits 80 km south of the nearest RCMP detachment in Dease Lake, and just 25 km from the Stikine River Bridge on Hwy 37, the site where police found the abandoned, burning truck of two missing teenagers and the body of an unidentified man down the road in a highway pullout.
Iskut Band Chief Marie Quock
“We felt incredibly vulnerable because of the unknowns,” says Iskut Band Chief Marie Quock. “Seeing Facebook posts about a serial killer on the loose didn’t help.”
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Iskut stretches out along the side of Hwy 37, the only paved road in or out of an area cherished for it’s wilderness and isolation. In the summer the highway is noisy with road-trippers and camper vans, a procession of unknown faces travelling to or from the Alaska Highway.
Villagers already suspected that whoever killed a young couple the week prior, half a province away, was probably using this route. And when the burning truck and the body were found just north of Iskut, all residents knew for certain was three people were dead, two were missing, a murderer was at large, and Iskut stood in the path of where the violence was travelling.
“The fact we don’t have an RCMP detachment here, and being on the highway, was something a lot of people were thinking about constantly. There was just fear and uneasiness… It wasn’t good around here,” says Quock.
“It’s going to take a while for everybody to get back to normal, if we ever do, but, yes, there is a big sense of relief.”
On July 23 RCMP officially named Kam McLeod, left, and Bryer Schmegelsky suspects in the homicide of Lucas Fowler and Chynna Deese, two tourists who were found shot south of Liard Hot Springs on the Alaska Highway the morning of July 15. On July 24 RCMP laid charges against the teens in absentia for the second degree murder of Leonard Dyck, from Vancovuer. The suspects are still on the run and considered armed and dangerous.
That relief came Tuesday following the RCMP’s shocking announcement that the two Port Alberni teenagers, Kam McLeod, 19, and Bryer Schmegelsky, 18, were no longer considered missing and feared dead, but prime suspects in the shooting deaths 500 km away near Liard Hot Springs of couple Chynna Noelle Deese, 24, of North Carolina and Lucas Robertson Fowler, 23, of Australia.
To Iskut’s relief the suspects were no longer in the area, RCMP said, and now on the run in northern Saskatchewan. Later that afternoon witness reports placed them in Manitoba.
Late Wednesday afternoon, RCMP also connected McLeod and Schmegelsky to the highway pullout murder just north of Iskut. Police identified the victim as Leonard Dyck of Vancouver, and laid second-degree murder charges against the two teens in absentia, clearing the way for a Canada-wide arrest warrant.
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Quock said the RCMP had not visited Iskut until the night before telling press the suspects had left the province. To fill the security void families and neighbours were banding closer than usual in the already-close community.
Two Iskut men were also conducting car patrols of the streets and highway from 11 p.m. to 8 a.m.
Other reports say some residents were unlocking their hunting rifles and shotguns to keep them within arm’s reach.
“We had people not getting sleep at night,” Quock said. “We’ve got a number of women and children who are alone for two weeks because their spouses are in camp. These women were really having a hard time being alone.
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“We can breathe easier now knowing no one’s lurking around. But there’s still the fact we’re on a main highway. We never know who’s passing through. I think now our people are going to be more vigilant, and when travelling I know they’re going to be very careful.”
For 20-odd years both Quock and the previous chief have pushed for an RCMP detachment in Iskut. For her community and the thousands of travellers every year passing through, Quock says it makes sense for increased police presence in such isolated territory with almost no cellular service.
In the wake of these murders, Quock says she and council will again make a formal request for an RCMP detachment or satellite office in Iskut, but she’s not hopeful.
“We’re so used to hearing ‘no.’ It’s always something,” she says. “They say the population is too low, and yes, it is low but we’re still people, we’re still at risk. The RCMP is over an hour away. Anything can happen here and by the time a police officer arrived it could be too late.”
– With files from Katya Slepian and Canadian Press
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Chynna Noelle Deese of the North Carolina and Lucas Robertson Fowler of Australia were found dead from gunshot wounds roughly 20 kilometres south of Liard Hot Springs on July 15. (New South Wales Police Force/Facebook)
On July 23 RCMP officially named Kam McLeod, left, and Bryer Schmegelsky suspects in the homicide of Lucas Fowler and Chynna Deese, two tourists who were found shot south of Liard Hot Springs on the Alaska Highway the morning of July 15, as well as another man found two kilometres from the missing teens’ truck. The suspects are still on the run and considered armed and dangerous. On July 24 RCMP laid charges against the teens in abstentia for the second degree murder of Leonard Dyck from Vancovuer.
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State lays out game plan for mass vaccination site at Gillette Stadium
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Gillette Stadium has been home to a near-undefeated football season, two outdoor hockey games, a Major League Soccer final, dozens of concerts, and next week, it will host another landmark event: the first mass vaccination site in Massachusetts.
Next Monday, Gillette will open its doors to hundreds of first responders per day who can receive COVID-19 vaccinations, then continue to scale up capacity to serve more people as they become eligible, Gov. Charlie Baker announced Tuesday.
After touring the Worcester Senior Center that started vaccinating first responders on Monday, Baker said the stadium will become the first of several locations to host large-scale immunization efforts in the state.
"These vaccines are safe and effective, and millions of doctors, nurses and health care workers are getting vaccinated across our country," Baker said. "This is a huge step forward in our fight."
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Massachusetts started making COVID-19 vaccines available to police, firefighters, EMTs and other emergency personnel on Monday at more than 100 local sites and individual departments.
The Worcester Senior Center alone surpassed its initial capacity and hosted 376 vaccinations on Monday, Baker said, citing an "overwhelmingly positive response from first responders to get vaccinated."
When Baker unveiled a plan last week to vaccinate the more than 45,000 first responders in the state, he said mass vaccination sites would serve as a key pillar to support the effort and then expand to other populations.
Tuesday's announcement puts a clear timeline on the start of that segment: on Thursday, staff who will administer the vaccinations will receive their own vaccines, and then Gillette will open to first responders on Monday. Those eligible can schedule appointments at mass.gov/covidvaccine.
CIC Health will operate the site, while Brigham and Women's Hospital will serve as medical director and Fallon Ambulance will support clinical staff.
"Gillette plans to start out doing 300 vaccines per day, but is going to build up to administering 5,000 vaccines per day and potentially much bigger numbers than that over time," Baker said.
More:Baker outlines vaccination plan
Baker also announced that his administration "in the coming days" will press forward into the next step of vaccine rollout, which will make doses available in congregate care settings such as correctional facilities and shelters. He promised more information "later this week."
That step would take Massachusetts into the fourth population group of six included in the opening stage of the vaccine rollout, leaving only home-based health care workers and health care workers doing non-COVID-related care remaining on the Phase One list.
The original plan Baker and his administration outlined in December anticipated the second phase, with four targeted subgroups prioritized, starting in February, then the vaccine becoming available to the general public in April.
Through Thursday, Massachusetts had administered about 140,000 first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine and received about 328,000. That data is published once a week.
"I said back in December that I expected that the early part of this rollout would be bumpy, and it's more than lived up to my expectations with regard to that," Baker said Tuesday. "But that's partly because there was a lot of debate and discussion about how long the manufacturing process would take to ramp up, how the distribution model would work with respect to both the vaccines that would be delivered directly to providers."
Baker urged federal leaders to provide states with clearer information about vaccine distribution so they can plan more efficiently, citing challenges that come with only having a few days of projections.
Baker, who last week bumped up the priority level for Massachusetts residents 75 and older, said he would consult a group of medical experts that have advised the state's vaccination plan on the potential new guidance.
Governors are scheduled to speak with Vice President Mike Pence in the afternoon about COVID response. Asked about the prospect of pressing Pence to trigger the 25th Amendment and remove President Donald Trump from office after last week's riot in the Capitol, Baker replied that he intended to focus on vaccine rollout.
"I'm pretty sure most of that dialogue is going to be about the vaccination rollout program and a big push on our part to get more visibility into this so that we can plan on a more forward-looking basis and put more shots in people's arms when vaccines become available," Baker said.
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Steeped in a history that stretches back across countless millennia, Egypt is home to some of the world's most iconic monuments. This classic overland journey takes you along the fertile ribbon of the Nile Valley and into the very heart of ancient Egypt. The journey begins in Cairo, home to the great Pyramids of Giza, the last of the great wonders of antiquity. You’ll have an opportunity to visit the famous pyramids at both Giza and Saqqara, as well as the treasures of the city’s Museum,...
Steeped in a history that stretches back across countless millennia, Egypt is home to some of the world's most iconic monuments. This classic overland journey takes you along the fertile ribbon of the Nile Valley and into the very heart of ancient Egypt. The journey begins in Cairo, home to the great Pyramids of Giza, the last of the great wonders of antiquity. You’ll have an opportunity to visit the famous pyramids at both Giza and Saqqara, as well as the treasures of the city’s Museum, which include the remarkable horde of artefacts taken from the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922. You then head along the timeless landscapes of the Nile Valley to Aswan, where you can visit the beautiful temple of Isis on the island of Philae and take to the Nile in a traditional felucca sailboat before driving to Luxor, site of the ancient capital of Thebes. Here you will have a chance to explore the spectacular remains of Karnak and Luxor Temples and the vast mortuary temples of the Valley of the Kings, some of the greatest creations of the Pharaohs of the Eighteenth Dynasty.
Wander round the immense ancient pyramids of Giza and Saqqara
Float down the Nile by traditional boat in Aswan
Explore the west bank of Luxor’s temples and tombs
Admire the architectural masterpieces of the ancient kings in Karnak
See the ancient treasures of Tutankhamun
Experience the hustle and bustle of downtown Cairo
This is a suggested itinerary. Our experts have all travelled widely in the region and will be happy to tailor any of our itineraries to suit your tastes, or build a trip from scratch.
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COLLAPSE ALL ITINERARY DAYS
DAY 1: ARRIVE CAIRO
Arrive in Cairo and transfer to your hotel. The evening is then free to relax and explore Cairo.
Conrad Cairo Hotel
DAY 2: CAIRO
Today you will have the opportunity to see the awe-inspiring Great Pyramids of Giza, royal burial ground for Memphis (ancient capital of Egypt). Drive along the Giza Road to the Giza Plateau, home of the mighty pyramids. View the three pyramids of Cheops, Chephren and Mycerinus from a panoramic view point before driving down to the great pyramids, where you may like to go inside one of the tombs. From the Pyramid of Chephren, walk down to the solar boat museum and then onto the Sphinx. In the afternoon, visit the oldest pyramids in the world at Saqqara. The complex of Djoser is one of the oldest known structures to have been constructed completely with natural stone. It was built at the beginning of the third dynasty, around 2625 BC, and was intended as a funerary complex for King Djoser.
After breakfast travel by road to downtown Cairo and visit the Egyptian Museum, home to many of the greatest treasures of antiquity, including Howard Carter's spectacular finds from the tomb of Tutankhamen. In the afternoon enjoy a guided tour of the Old Islamic District. Visit the main Citadel (Al-Qalaa), a crusader-style fortress dating from the time of Saladin and home to Egypt's rulers for almost 700 years. From here, head to the medieval bazaar of Khan al-Khalili, the most intriguing part of the Old Quarter, to challenge your bargaining skills.
DAY 4: CAIRO - ASWAN
Transfer to Cairo airport for your flight to Aswan. Arrival to Aswan airport and transfer to your hotel. Today you will visit the beautiful Philae Temple, passing the Nile Dam, an engineering miracle built in the 1960s to regulate the flow of the Nile. The Temple of Philae is a well-preserved monument and was the centre of the cult of Isis. Continue to the Unfinished Obelisk, a gigantic obelisk weighing 200 tonnes dating from the new kingdom era that lies in an ancient granite quarry. The afternoon is free for you to relax or explore the town.
Movenpick Elephantine Island Resort
DAY 5: ASWAN
Today you are at leisure. Maybe spend time exploring the cataracts or take a trip in a traditional felucca sailboat, perhaps stopping off at the Botanical Gardens on Lord Kitchners Island. You may also like to take a short flight to Abu Simbel to visit the great rock cut temples of Ramses II (optional tour). The entrance to the main temple is marked by four colossal 20-metre-high statues of Ramses II, and the interior has been intricately decorated with hieroglyphic. The second temple was dedicated to Nefertiti (Ramses' favourite wife).
DAY 6: ASWAN - KOM OMBO - EDFU - LUXOR
Drive to Kom Ombo to visit the Temple of Sobek and Haroeris - dedicated to a crocodile-headed river god, as there used to be many of these creatures in this part of the Nile. Continue north to Edfu, the scenery is spectacular changing from desert to lush and green. Visit to the well preserved Temple of Horus, dedicated to the falcon headed god Horus and second in size only to Karnak. You will then continue to Luxor.
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DAY 7: LUXOR
An early start and over to the West Bank Necropolis, with your first stop at the Valley of the Kings, an isolated gorge in Western Thebes that lay below a natural pyramid-shaped mountain peak. Then drive to the imposing Temple of Queen Hatshepsut, an 18th-dynasty pharaoh, one of only a handful of female rulers in Ancient Egypt. Return to Luxor via the Valley of the Queens. Spend the whole day here or return to the town and wander the bazaar or visit Luxor Museum.
This morning you will visit the largest temple complex in Luxor; the magnificent Temple of Karnak dedicated to the Sun God, Amun-Ra. The Hypostyle Hall is found after passing through the Second Pylon; the hall is considered to be one of the world's greatest architectural masterpieces. Today you also visit Luxor Temple. The afternoon is left free and there is plenty to see in Luxor town, including the vibrant souk and splendid museum.
DAY 9: DEPART LUXOR
Transfer to the airport for your return flight.
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Our rating: Premium | Property style: Hotel
Rising above the Nile River, the four star Conrad Cairo is located in the downtown area of the city along the Corniche, conveniently close to museums, shops and offices, yet only 45 minutes from the Pyramids and Sphinx area. The hotel offers 617 elegant rooms, all overlooking the Nile and featuring private balconies. The six restaurants and bars make the Conrad a good choice for dining and entertainment, featuring International, Italian and Seafood specialties. The hotel's facilities further include a heated outdoor swimming pool, a fully equipped health club and a world class casino.
Although more informal than its illustrious neighbour (The Sofitel Winter Palace), the same high standards are provided at the Winter Pavillon with an equally enviable setting in the beautiful gardens of The Winter Palace. Surrounded by tropical gardens and just a short walk from the Luxor Temple, the Temple of Karnak or the Luxor Museum, the Hotel Winter Pavillon comprises 118 rooms, on 5 floors, each equipped with modern facilities and private balconies. The hotel has a good restaurant and other facilities are shared with its sister hotel, including a wide selection of restaurants and bars offering both international and regional cuisine and an outdoor unheated pool.
Our rating: Luxury | Property style: Hotel
A secluded oasis surrounded by exquisite gardens on Elephantine Island and accessible only by private boat, the five star Elephantine Island Resort Aswan was established in 1975 and underwent extensive renovation in 2007 under Movenpick Hotels & Resorts management. The fully-appointed 235 guestrooms feature Nubian-style decor and balconies overlooking the Nile, Aswan city or the desert. Diners can head for the Orangerie restaurant, which serves International and local dishes, while the La Perla serves Traditional Italian dishes in a Mediterranean-style setting. The hotel also offers a fitness centre, sauna, Turkish steam room, outdoor swimming pool and tennis courts.
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Accommodation listed here is intended as a guide only, to give you a taste of what we can do. Our experts can tailor any aspect of this itinerary and accommodation to suit your budget and tastes.
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Animal Battle
Animal Battle semi-final 2: tongue-eating louse vs. naked mole rat
A tiny parasite that chomps off fishes' tongues and lives in their mouths faces off against a bizarre animal with death-defying abilities
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What is Animal Battle?
Animals are awesome. But which is the ultimate champion? Over seven weeks, we are pitting some of nature’s most remarkable creatures against one another in a series of virtual battles. Two animals per week, head-to-head, in a ruthless knockout tournament. And you get to decide who wins.
This isn’t a battle in the conventional sense – after all, how can you judge a fight between a tongue-eating louse and a naked mole rat? We want you to vote for the animal you think is the most amazing, the most hardcore, the cutest, the ugliest, the deadliest, the weirdest. In short: vote for the best. The inaugural series of Animal Battle is running for seven weeks, after which you, the voting public, will crown the first champion. May the best animal win...
In our second semi-final, the truly disturbing tongue-eating louse faces off against the cancer-defying naked mole rate. The winner of this battle will face the tardigrade in the final of our inaugural series of Animal Battle. Who wins? You decide.
Animal Battle Semi-final 2: Tongue-eating louse vs. Naked mole rat.
One chomps off fish tongues and lives in their mouths, the other can survive without oxygen for 18 mins. Who wins? You decide. https://t.co/V3VjxJV5Ql
— WIRED UK (@WiredUK) December 22, 2017
Animal Battle final: tiny tardigrade vs. death-defying naked mole rat
By James Temperton and Matt Reynolds
Tongue-eating louse
Killer feature: Pretends to be a fish's tongue
Special ability: Transforms from male to female when it finds a home
Location: In oceans worldwide
This parasitic crustacean crawls into a fish's mouth through its gills and then severs the blood vessels in the base of the tongue. Once the tongue has fallen off, the louse uses its legs to attach itself to the stump left behind. It then proceeds to nibble on the inside of its host's mouth, feeding on blood and mucus. Nasty.
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Strangely, it doesn't seem that the parasite causes much harm to its host, although fish that have more than a couple of the parasites clinging to their tongues tend to be underweight. Fish with just one tongue buddy, however, are able to move about the parasite just like it's their actual tongue.
Animal Battle semi-final 1: tardigrade vs. Greenland shark
These parasitic pests have also mastered how to change sex. Once a male louse enters a fish, it transforms into a female – as long as there's no other parasite present – growing massively as it settles into its new home. Its eyes also shrink during this process, as it no longer has to watch out for a new fish to climb inside of.
Naked mole rat
Killer feature: Can survive with almost no oxygen
Special ability: Feels no pain
Location: East Africa
Naked mole rats aren’t going to win any beauty awards – the lack of any fat layer in their skin means they bear a close resemblance to a wrinkly sausage adorned with comedy-sized teeth. But they more than make up for their aesthetic challenges thanks to their bizarre death-defying qualities.
These guys can last up to 18 minutes without oxygen and stick around for more than five hours in low-oxygen environments that would kill similarly-sized mammals in fifteen minutes. Handy for an animal that spends most of its life in deep, oxygen-deprived burrows. To do this, the naked mole rats switch to powering their cells by fructose rather than glucose – a process that doesn’t require any oxygen.
But naked mole rats have another trick up their sleeves. They’ve evolved so they their skin barely registers any pain, even if exposed to acid. Researchers aren’t sure how this adaptation helps the animals – usually pain receptors are a crucial way of steering creatures away from danger – but it might help them conserve energy. Oh, and in case all of that isn’t death-defying enough, naked mole rats seem to have an uncanny ability to resist most cancers, letting them reach lifespans well beyond what’s normal for a mammal of their size.
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Portman predicts close win for Romney in Ohio
GOP senator praises volunteers in Butler Co.
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The guy who portrayed President Barack Obama for Republican Mitt Romney's debate prep said the next 12 days are crucial in southwest Ohio. Sen. Rob Portman heaped praise upon Romney volunteers Wednesday morning in Butler County, telling them that he believes there are more undecided voters than the polls reflect. "I think it does come back to the Midwest," said Portman, a Miami Township Republican. "You know, Ohio once again will be at the heart of it all, but also states like Wisconsin and Iowa." Campaign officials said Romney would spend some time in every part of Ohio in the next two weeks, including a visit Thursday morning to a Bond Hill manufacturing plant. "I've never seen the rallies bigger, I've never seen more phone calls being made," Portman said. "We've made three times more phone calls this year than all of 2008." The latest Rasumussen poll shows Obama, who campaigned Tuesday in Dayton, tied with Romney in Ohio, with about 3 percent of voters undecided. "A lot of it right now is to give people something to think about, let them know that there is an option," Portman said. One element that won't show up on polls is early voting, which Democrats have embraced more fully than Republicans. Portman said the GOP isn't willing to risk losing Ohio. "A Republican has never won without taking Ohio, and I think we will win Ohio," Portman said. "I think it's going to be close."
The guy who portrayed President Barack Obama for Republican Mitt Romney's debate prep said the next 12 days are crucial in southwest Ohio.
Portman disputes Obama comments on auto bailout plan
Sen. Rob Portman heaped praise upon Romney volunteers Wednesday morning in Butler County, telling them that he believes there are more undecided voters than the polls reflect.
"I think it does come back to the Midwest," said Portman, a Miami Township Republican. "You know, Ohio once again will be at the heart of it all, but also states like Wisconsin and Iowa."
Campaign officials said Romney would spend some time in every part of Ohio in the next two weeks, including a visit Thursday morning to a Bond Hill manufacturing plant.
"I've never seen the rallies bigger, I've never seen more phone calls being made," Portman said. "We've made three times more phone calls this year than all of 2008."
The latest Rasumussen poll shows Obama, who campaigned Tuesday in Dayton, tied with Romney in Ohio, with about 3 percent of voters undecided.
"A lot of it right now is to give people something to think about, let them know that there is an option," Portman said.
One element that won't show up on polls is early voting, which Democrats have embraced more fully than Republicans.
Portman said the GOP isn't willing to risk losing Ohio.
"A Republican has never won without taking Ohio, and I think we will win Ohio," Portman said. "I think it's going to be close."
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This Mother Of 4 Died After Her Migraine Turned Out To Be Something Much Worse
Here's what you need to know.
By Nina Bahadur
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When 41-year-old Lee Broadway texted complaining of the worst headache of her life, her husband Eric rushed home to care for her during what they thought was a severe migraine episode. Hours later, she was declared dead due to complications from a ruptured brain aneurysm.
"An aneurysm is a bubble off of an artery that can rupture and cause bleeding," Johanna Fifi, M.D., assistant professor of neurosurgery, neurology, and radiology at Mount Sinai, says. "Aneurysms are caused by a weakness in the wall of a blood vessel which cause the blood vessel to balloon outwards often in a pouch-like sac. What causes this weakness is unknown in most patients."
According to the Brain Aneurysm Foundation, common symptoms of a ruptured aneurysm include a sudden and severe headache, dilated pupils, blurred or double vision, pain above and behind the eye, weakness, numbness, trouble walking or speaking, and a stiff neck.
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Eric Broadway told People that he immediately knew something was seriously wrong with Lee when he received her text because he had seen her deal with pain before. (Subscribe to Women’s Health newsletter, So This Happened, to get the latest trending stories sent straight to your inbox.)
“She was begging to have the pain go away,” he said. “As a husband, you want to protect your wife and help her, but there was nothing I could do.”
Fifi says that headaches from aneurysms usually start suddenly and patients usually describe it as the worst headache of their life. If this happens to you, Fifi says to call 911 immediately. A brain aneurysm can cause damage in minutes.
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"Doctors call it a thunderclap headache. It does not go away completely even with migraine medications. If the leak is large, the patient can quickly progress to lethargy then coma. If the leak is small, then headache can be the only symptom but re-bleeding can re-occur at anytime," Fifi says.
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Lee, a mother of four, underwent a seemingly successful surgery to repair the rupture, once she and her husband rushed to the ER, but she tragically died of complications from the procedure hours later.
The bottom line: If you suddenly experience a severe headache that you would categorize as the worst headache of your life, even if you're prone to migraines, get it checked out right away.
Nina Bahadur Writer Nina is a health and culture reporter who has written for SELF, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, the New York Times, and more.
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Trump And Internet Nazis Got No More Free Speach
Several social media companies took action against a bunch of rightwing hate-vomiters Monday, including a temporary ban on content from Donald Trump on the video streaming service Twitch, YouTube's removal of several white supremacist channels, and Reddit's finally lowering the boom on the subreddit r/the_donald and a bunch of other subreddits that had repeatedly violated the service's content rules, including — both sides! — a forum for the "dirtbag left" outlet Chapo Trap House. That led to another round of whining that Big Tech is censoring "conservative" speech. You might think that good decent conservatives wouldn't want to be associated with white supremacists and neo-Nazis, but that just means you are a social justice warrior who doesn't appreciate Free Speach and you want to set up gulags for all who will not conform to your fascistic insistence on "basic decency" and "not advocating white power."
Yes, we are very sad about all of it, so very sad.
Donald Trump's channel on Twitch, the video service that's mostly known for livestreams of video games, was temporarily suspended Monday for "hateful conduct," which appears to be the first time the Great Man has been given a timeout on any social media platform. It was probably his smallest outlet, too, since the account had something like 125,000 followers, compared to the 83 million Trump has on Twitter. The New York Times has the deets:
The site, which is owned by Amazon, said two recent streams on Mr. Trump's channel violated its rules. One stream was of a rebroadcasted 2015 campaign event in which Mr. Trump made comments about Mexico sending drugs, crime and rapists over the border. The other was of his recent rally in Tulsa, Okla., where he talked about a "very tough hombre" breaking into a woman's house at 1 a.m.
"Hateful conduct is not allowed on Twitch," a Twitch spokeswoman said in a statement. "In line with our policies, President Trump's channel has been issued a temporary suspension from Twitch for comments made on stream, and the offending content has been removed."
The site didn't say how long Trump's channel would be down, so there's no telling when people will once again have the chance to see stuff that's readily available elsewhere. Twitch has also been under pressure to clean up its act, since video game voice chat is notoriously full of racist and misogynist speech. How the gaming industry is supposed to survive if 14-year-olds can't scream the n-word every three seconds has not yet been determined.
YouTube also swung the banhammer yesterday, permanently banning multiple far-Right channels including those for the white nationalist outfits American Renaissance and Radix Journal, as well as poor David Duke and Richard Spencer. In addition, YouTube axed American Renaissance's podcast channel. The biggest idiot to get the banhammer was wingnut manosphere asshole Stephan Molyneux, who liked to say that women wearing lipstick was exactly like men going around with a great big simulated boner in their pants.
Youtube said it had removed the channels for repeated violations of rules prohibiting "videos alleging that a group is superior in order to justify discrimination, segregation or exclusion based on qualities like age, gender, race, caste, religion, sexual orientation or veteran status," which it says have led to the deletion of over 25,000 channels since the rules went into effect in 2019.
Molyneux is somehow still on Twitter, where he cried that YouTube had "just suspended the largest philosophy conversation the world has ever known." The immortal shade of Aristotle replied by giving Molyneux the finger and farting in his general direction.
Reddit also did its part to end freedom as we know it by banning "r/The_Donald, r/ChapoTrapHouse, and about 2,000 other communities," although the vast majority of removed subreddits were already inactive or had fewer than 10 subscribers. The biggest to go was the Trump-fan site, which had no official connection to Trump or his campaign, but was a constant source of the greatest, most brilliant memes for triggering libs. Since Reddit managers "quarantined" the subreddit last year, many users had been leaving for more welcoming online sewers anyway.
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said yesterday in a conference call with reporters that the move represented a change from Reddit's early, damn-near-anything-goes days:
I have to admit that I've struggled with balancing my values as an American, and around free speech and free expression, with my values and the company's values around common human decency.
Or to put it a bit more bluntly, as the Verge's Casey Newton did, that's a "major reversal" for a company that used to define "free expression" so broadly "that it once allowed users to distribute stolen nude photos freely on the site."
Get ready for lots of sad denunciations of how awful these moves are, from people who are certain that if you don't let Nazis shit in the punchbowl, then John Stuart Mill will roll over in his grave.
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Remodeling market continues to show growth
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Current and future remodeling business conditions continues to improve, according to third-quarter data compiled by the National Association of the Remodeling Industry.
Quarter-over-quarter increases are evident in nearly all subcomponents measuring remodeling activity.
Entering into the holiday season, which has been a slower season in recent years, remodelers are reporting the highest overall rating on business conditions at 6.41, up from 6.31 reported during the second quarter. This rating has steadily increased in the six quarters the group has been tracking.
“From the comments on the Remodeling Business Pulse survey, pent-up demand continues to drive the current remodeling market,” association strategic planning and research committee chairman Tom O’Grady said in a statement. “The general sense is that consumers are tired of waiting and feel more secure about spending money, which is also reflected in the higher values in jobs sold.”
Growth indicators in the third quarter of 2013 are as follows (rating is from 1 to 9, where 1 is much worse than a year ago and 9 is much better; 5 is about the same as last year):
• Current business conditions was rated 6.41 (from 6.31 last quarter)
• Number of inquiries up was rated 6.55 (from 6.50 from last quarter)
• Requests for bids remained the same as last quarter, at 6.45
• Conversion of bids to jobs was rated 6.00 (from 5.91 last quarter)
• Value of jobs sold was rated 6.31 (from 6.12 from last quarter)
“As we enter the holiday season, inquiries about projects don’t slow, but the conversion rate inquiries to sales tends to, which has been reflected in the last two third-quarter Remodeling Business Pulse surveys,” O’Grady said. “It’s hard to judge for sure, after consumers spend money during the holidays, how serious they will be in the new year to get that remodeling project under way.”
Other significant contributors to overall activity:
• Postponed projects continue to be the key factor in remodeling business growth at 85 percent
• Improving home prices came in at the secondary at 72 percent of respondents (up from 65 percent last quarter)
• Certainty about the future moved into the No. 3 spot at 48 percent (edging out economic growth, which came in at No. 3 in the second quarter).
October 2013 5th
Continued growth predicted for remodeling market
The robust pace of spending on home renovations and repairs is expected to stay strong over the coming quarters, according to the Leading Indicator of Remodeling Activity from the Remodeling Futures Program at the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University.
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Annual growth in the national market for home improvement and repair is expected to slow considerably by the end of the year, according to the Leading Indicator of Remodeling Activity released by the Remodeling Futures Program at the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University.
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Thrashbird's Valley of Secret Values
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If street art’s central tenet is visibility, granted by the wide audience that a public location entails, then American street artist Thrashbird’s latest project, located miles away from any populated area, is an act of subversion both in content and form. Known for the cheekiness with which he subverts mainstream culture, his work is subtle social commentary served with a teaspoon of humour and satire. Now for Thrashbird's Valley of Secret Values, he has gone one step further, abandoning the billboards above the busy highways of Los Angeles to take over a series of monoliths in an abandoned concrete plant in Lime, Oregon, which he has transformed into luxury handbags.
Perhaps taking its name from the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, an elaborate burial place for pharaohs and noblemen, a vanity project if there ever was one, Thrashbird’s project was conceived three years ago when he was scouting for locations. Visiting the decaying plant he was struck by the surreal ideas of discovering some kind of graveyard for giant designer purses, in what was a vivid hallucination that was just begging to come true. As he eloquently explains, “one's imagination is a playground of boundless adventures. I try to bring those adventures to life,” and that is exactly what he did.
Exuberantly spray-painted using stencils and ingeniously accessorized with tyres as chain straps and rocks as beads, the crumbling concrete boulders have been revamped into designer handbags, from Gucci, Chanel and Prada to Givenchy, Louis Vuitton and Alexander McQueen, becoming the very antithesis of their derelict nature. It is this bewildering dissonance that drives home Thrashbird’s message, of how absurdly we systematically assign value in a society where consumption of possessions is a reflection of our social standing.
The transformation of the oversized, towering plinths into symbols of craftsmanship, luxury and status also alludes to the artist’s own personal struggle with ego and grandiosity, while the forsaken site also points out the destructive consequences that the overproduction of ephemeral goods has on our planet.
On another level, the project can also be said to be an honest, or at least symbolic, attempt to reclaim the wastelands that our civilization’s meteoric expansion has left behind in its accelerated consumption of resources. Ironic in subtext as they may be, Thrashbird’s spray-painted artworks are beautiful in appearance, their vivid colours and playful patterns bestowing upon the run-down site an unexpected charm that hints that no place is beyond rescue while at the same time nostalgically conjuring the site’s imaginary past.
Part cautionary tale, part beautification project, whatever message one derives from it, “Thrashbird's Valley of Secret Values" is a mesmerizing feat of ingenuity which, as faith would have it, is currently being torn down. Scheduled to be completed in June 2018, the demolition is part of the local council’s efforts to sell the site to a new industrial entity, but could very well be an allegory about the futility of the pursuit of status or a forewarning that no good deed goes unpunished.
Thrashbird is represented by JM Art Management.
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Montgomery County rescinds law enforcement transition agreement amendment with Woodlands
By Catherine Dominguez
Published 5:16 pm CDT, Tuesday, August 11, 2020
Sheriff Rand Henderson said the transition agreement with The Woodlands Township was created with the plan for the township to place the incorporation item on the November ballot. Now that the township has decided not to place the item on the upcoming election ballot, Henderson said he wanted to renegotiate the terms of the proposed contract.
Sheriff Rand Henderson said the transition agreement with The Woodlands Township was created with the plan for the township to place the incorporation item on the November ballot. Now that the township has
Photo: Jason Fochtman, Houston Chronicle / Staff Photographer
Montgomery County commissioners rescinded an amendment to a law enforcement transition agreement with The Woodlands Township on Tuesday after township officials accused the county of intentionally leaving part of the original agreement out of the amendment.
In a 3-2 vote, commissioners originally approved the amendment July 28 that would have added two years to the existing contract related to the potential incorporation of The Woodlands.
The agreement was set to expire Dec. 31. Precinct 1 Commissioner Mike Meador and Precinct 3 Commissioners James Noack were the nay votes.
The Woodlands Township Board of Directors Chairman Gordy Bunch spoke to commissioners during the court’s July 28 explaining the township agreed put their plans to place incorporation on the November ballot on hold due to the current COVID-19 pandemic. That action prompted the township to request an extension from the county.
However, county officials balked at the accusation and said the township only requested the two-year extension reflected in the amendment and never addressed leaving in three one-year automatic renewals to the original contract for the transition following approval of incorporation by public vote.
“What we were asked to do was to extend the term of the contract from 2020 to 2022, and that was what we did,” said Assistant County Attorney Amy Dunham. “It was never our intention to delete or remove anything and in fact, we didn’t, all we did was change the effective date of the term.”
“We have learned a lot since they brought in a consultant group to look at what law enforcement transition would look like. Because of that, we are better prepared to make some changes to what the county would provide the city of The Woodlands.”
One area Henderson noted needed clarification was the drawdown of the employees.
“It doesn’t say who the personnel are so I would like to designate those personnel,” Henderson said. “I really what to be able to give a sense of stability to my employees especially during this defund the police movement that’s going on. We have quite a bit at stake with this incorporation.
“If (incorporation) is going to be pushed back two, three years, I think we need to look at this a little different.”
Precinct 3 Commissioner James Noack noted the county needed to ensure it was protected to avoid having to fund more than 80 employees if the township becomes a city.
“(The agreement) does nothing to provide certainty for law enforcement officers that are on contract with The Woodlands Township,” Noack said. “In order for us to provide certainty and peace of mind, we need the township to say ‘hey, we understand this is a civil service issue for you and we are going to put into a pot for the county for a year’s worth of salary.’ Right now, the county is on the hook for every one of those deputies.”
Noack said the county has every desire to work with the township on a contract that is fair and benefits both entities.
County Judge Mark Keough suggested the court table the issue and Henderson work with the township to renegotiate the contract for the transition period.
In May 2019, the township approved a series of agreements with Montgomery County that would ensure an orderly transition and continued law enforcement services and road maintenance services if the township board put the incorporation question to voters for possible approval to become a city and voters approved the issue.
Because the township is a special purpose district and not a municipality, it has no authority to operate or manage any level of law enforcement duties unless the community approves incorporation.
The Woodlands is patrolled by several outside law enforcement agencies, primarily the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office, which provides 88 total staff, including patrol deputies in The Woodlands Division, and the Harris County Precinct 4 Constable Office, which provides 11 patrol officers and one sergeant.
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Juniper Networks eyes bigger role for India hitting 10th anniversary
A decade since the opening of its India Excellence Center, staff numbers have grown from 10 to 2,300. The India business is now eyeing a bigger global role, such as managing the manufacturing in China.
By Mahesh Sharma | May 29, 2013 -- 09:32 GMT (02:32 PDT) | Topic: Tech Industry
BANGALORE--Juniper Networks's Indian R&D resources have grown from ten employees that worked out of an office in April 2003 to 2,300 employees that support the company's various initiatives.
Sridhar Sarathy, managing director of its India Excellence Center (IEC), told ZDNet this includes 1,700 engineering workers and the remainder manage the global organization's financial, back office and call center infrastructure .
Sridhar Sarathy, managing director of India Excellence Center at Juniper Networks.
The IEC is the largest such facility outside the headquarters in Sunnyvale, California, representing about 40 percent of the networking gear manufacturer's R&D resources, and constitutes about a quarter of its global workforce.
When Juniper established the IEC a decade ago, executives consciously decided that it would not simply be a backwater facility to test products. For example, they would not just conduct regression testing to check whether new features affect existing functions, Sarathy said.
The company decided that it would engineer hardware and software products in India. "Typically what companies have tended to do in India in the past is testing, because it has a high impact but relatively low risk," he said.
"What we set out to do from the beginning was that we're going to create an infrastructure, and also hire people, that lends itself towards product ownership," added Sarathy.
It took just nine months before the IEC hit its first major milestone; they contributed a feature to a release of the Junos operating system , which powers all of Juniper's products .
"The first two to three months were not exactly productive. Engineering staff were trying to set up and get legal and compliance," Sarathy said.
While it was a significant achievement, he said that within three years the IEC stopped counting the number of features or lines of codes it contributed. Sarathy added this stopped that once they got to the point where they were part of the fundamental product development.
"The challenge initially was to reassure people their investments in India are being put to productive use and that we're as efficient as anyone else," he said.
When asked about headcount growth plans , the Juniper executive said India would continue to constitute 30 to 40 percent of the global workforce.
"What is more important is that we may take up more of the other operations not already done in India, for example managing the manufacturing in China ," Sarathy said.
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Jari Arkko
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Last week, I visited the ICANN50 meeting in London. The meeting was held at a location well known to us at the IETF – the Hilton London Metropole.
IANA being discussed at ICANN50. Photo: Martin Levy
The meeting drew a record 3100 attendees on site, ranging from governments to businesses, civil society, and technical community. The hot topic of the week was the transition of NTIA’s stewardship of the IANA functions to the global multi-stakeholder community. This topic was discussed at almost very meeting during the week.
On the last day of the meeting, Patrik Fältström and I moderated a session that focused on the transition. The NTIA made its announcement in March, and there has been a lot of discussion about how to go about the process in the months that followed. In late April, the IAB made a widely recognised contribution on the topic. In June, ICANN published an outline of the process that will be used for the transition, known as “the plan for the plan”. Among other things, the process calls for the establishment of a Coordination Group to assemble a proposal from components provided by respective communities. The final proposed plan should be delivered to the NTIA by September 2015.
Patrik and I believe that the real work in moving forward with planning IANA stewardship without NTIA should now begin. A big part of this work rests on the individual communities (e.g., IETF, RIRs, gTLD and ccTLD communities) that are the IANA functions customers. Our session discussed expectations both for the communities and the community’s expectations of the Coordination Group moving forward.
The session was organised as a set of invited introductory talks around a number of topics, followed by open discussion with the community. The introductory talks were given by members from various constituencies, Alissa Cooper from IETF, Heather Dryden from the Government Advisory Committee (GAC) of ICANN, Olaf Kolkman from NLnet Labs (for ISOC), and Marilia Maciel from At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) of ICANN. All introductory slides are available here and the transcript here.
Patrik and I talked about how IANA works and lessons learned so far in the three-month process. We also pointed out that the transition is not rocket science: for instance, we at the IETF are likely pretty close to what is required for the transition, with our agreements, role definitions, groups that track the relationship, and so on. Alissa talked about the role of the communities vs. the coordination group, which is an important topic for us at the IETF, as the IAB’s model for evolution of IANA is that the IETF can control its own destiny.
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Lessons learned about IANA as shown at ICANN50. Photo: Olaf Kolkman
The session ended with with an hour of community discussion in the room and from multiple remote hubs. My summary of the input that we heard was as follows:
There is a need for continuity in the transition, as the Internet and the registry and other systems are operational. The transition needs to be an adjustment of the existing mechanisms, rather than replacing them with new organizations and mechanisms.
Accountability has been a big topic for debate at ICANN. But for the purposes of the transition, what matters are those aspects of accountability that relate to the IANA functions. And those aspects need to be addressed in the transition. There are other aspects of accountability in the ICANN system that may require a different and longer process.
We should strive for diverse participation in the Coordination Group, but not employ strict geographic assignment.
The role of the communities is key in the process, and the coordination group is only for coordination. It is not the centralised place for designing the transition solution.
The room supported this summary. Interestingly, this support was measured with the first-ever ICANN consensus hum :-) (see RFC 7282).
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We need not just new stories, but a whole new shape to what a story is. And it will start with our writing. Where was Boudica from? Boudica was said to be Queen of the Iceni. So where did this come from? The Roman writer Tacitus is our primary source and the only one who gives us any detail.
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At the ripe old age of eleven, Breaca, later named Boudica, Bringer of Victory kills the man who attacked and killed her mother.
We follow Breaca as she matures into a heroic warrior who slowly but surely assumes the mantle of leadership in her community. Manda Scott Boudica: Dreaming the Eagle by Manda Scott is the first of four books on the life of Boudica of the Eceni tribe, the female Celtic warrior who defended Britain against the invading Roman army beginning in the year 43 C.
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She serves a tale of epic proportions. Scott plunges us into the world of 1st Century Britain with its tribal conflicts and alignments, its Dreamers who predict the future through their dreaming, its animals perceived as emissaries from the gods, and its spirits of the dead who frequently appear to the living to warn them of impending disasters and to guide them forward.
Painted in vivid detail, this is a world simultaneously brutal and sensitive, a world in which battle scenes are littered with bloodied corpses and mangled limbs, a world of horrific torture and desecration of the dead.
But it is also a world in which warriors value honor, loyalty, and oaths that bind; in which cultural rules are adhered to and respected even at the cost of personal sacrifice; in which the elderly are honored; and in which the spirit of community and sisterhood is in full display as the women rally around Breaca after the death of her mother and celebrate with her at the onset of her menarche. Love connections weave their way throughout this tapestry, including illustrations of parental love, sibling love, heterosexual love, and homosexual love.
Manda Scott has packed a great deal into this novel. And perhaps that is its biggest downfall. She has packed too much. The novel is long and unnecessarily drawn out. At times it was difficult to follow the complex technicalities of the battle scenes and to keep track of which tribe was situated where in the battle lines.
This required re-reading whole passages to distinguish the real from the visionary. But these shortcomings diminish in significance when one considers the work as a whole. Manda Scott has written an exciting novel immersing us in her fictional re-imagining of the life and times of Celtic Britain and the remarkable woman credited with challenging the Roman Empire.
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College students call for increased COVID-19 testing before leaving campus for home
Students want to see exit testing done on campus
Should colleges tests students for COVID-19 before they head home for Thanksgiving?
By: Megan Sanctorum
INDIANAPOLIS — As COVID-19 cases continue to increase across the state, there is a concern that college students heading home for Thanksgiving and the end of the semester could spread it to their families.
Some college students we spoke with said they are worried about being an asymptomatic carrier and they don’t plan on heading home without a COVID-19 test first.
On Butler University’s Campus, students are calling on school leaders to provide “exit testing.”
“I just want to make sure that I'm safe to other people… I'm in the age group where I'm not really worried about getting it myself, but I don't want other people who I live around like my family members to get it from me,” said Madison Pius, a student at Butler University.
“I have family members who work in a hospital and I just think it would be nice to know that you are definitely negative before you go home,” said Anna Kemper, another Butler student.
A spokesperson for Butler said they are continuing their symptomatic and asymptomatic testing through the end of the fall semester, but there are no plans for specific “exit testing.”
“We already got tested coming in, so it would be nice to get it on the way home,” said Pius.
Students even created a petition to send to university leaders.
"There's a petition going around basically to say that you do want exit testing, so I know I've signed it and it's been circulated around campus,” said Kemper.
The petition mentions that other schools are providing “exit testing."
One of them is Indiana University. Next week they will stop mitigation testing and convert to “departure testing.”
Leaders at IU say the departure test will not be required, but it is recommended for all students, faculty and staff.
“We left a good amount of capacity available so we could do that testing, hopefully get results back reasonably quickly, and allow people to know exactly what is going on before the semester ends,” said Dr. Aaron Carroll, director of testing at IU.
A spokesperson for Butler University said, “Butler is aware of the petition. To date, we have administered more than 8,500 COVID-19 tests, and we are increasing the testing of students through the end of the semester.”
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‘A long time coming’: Friendship Retirement Community administers COVID-19 vaccine to residents, staff
Around 200 people at Friendship South receive vaccine
Residents and staff at the Friendship Retirement Community in Roanoke County received the COVID-19 vaccine on Jan. 3, 2021. (WSLS 10)
ROANOKE COUNTY, Va. – The COVID-19 vaccine is starting to show up at long-term care facilities; residents and staff at a Roanoke County retirement community got their chance to take the shot on Sunday.
Around 200 people at the Friendship South retirement community were vaccinated throughout the day, including Friendship CEO Joe Hoff.
“The vaccine is a great thing for us, and if people see us leading the way taking this, hopefully, others will get on board,” Hoff said.
The COVID-19 vaccine is not mandatory at Friendship, but Hoff told 10 News 90% of residents and 80% of staff members chose to get vaccinated.
“We’ve got a fear of COVID, so the residents want to take advantage of it,” Hoff said. “It’s been a long time coming.”
The vaccinations may eventually open the door for visitors like Kathleen Nordstrom to visit loved ones in person again.
“I remember the last time we could see them: March 13, at 3:30 PM,” said Nordstrom, whose mother, Jean Kowalski is a resident at Friendship South.
Kowalski took the vaccine, and Nordstrom said she will do the same whenever it is available for her.
“I had to explain to her and say, ‘Mom, this gets me on the other side of the window,’” Nordstrom said. “Whatever I need to do, I will be right there to get it. If it gets me closer to seeing her, that’s all I need.”
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Taj Simmons joined 10 News as a reporter and multimedia journalist in January 2019.
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How to Troubleshoot iOS Crash Reporting and Help Your Customers
David Howell ON Mar 24, 2020
Every Mobile Developer’s Biggest Nightmare
If you develop a successful iOS app you’re certain to find yourself in this situation: end users report that the app is crashing or behaving strangely. You’re struggling to help because you don’t have any iOS crash reporting information about what’s happening in the app on their device.
If they’re encountering a problem you can’t reproduce, debugging and fixing user-reported issues can be a major headache — more so if your users rely on your app to help them manage critical business processes. In this post, I’ll outline how the iOS development team at xMatters has approached this problem.
Mobile Apps at xMatters
Mobile apps for iOS and Android are an important part of our product. Rich functionality and push notifications instead of SMS messages have resulted in a strong mobile user base.
If you’re encountering a problem you can’t reproduce, debugging and fixing user-reported issues can be a major headache.
Since users rely on our apps for notifications about events that are potentially disruptive to their business operations, it’s important for us to solve problems quickly. At minimum we need crash reports, but ideally we also want access to device logs to see what was happening leading up to the crash.
To accomplish our goal of being less reactive and more proactive, we have to detect when problems in the app are affecting users — before they begin to report issues. And we want to know as quickly as possible if a new app release has introduced an issue that affects users.
Why we don’t rely on Apple crash reporting tools
Like most iOS developers, we started with the troubleshooting solutions that Apple provides, since we’re already making daily use of tools like Xcode and App Store Connect.
While Xcode shows crash reports in its Organizer window, it reports crashes only for users who have chosen to share analytics with app developers, which requires the user to know where this setting is. (BTW, your users are a lot more likely to share analytics if you take security seriously, which we do.)
With some digging and upfront investment, we’ve been able to implement the troubleshooting tools we need to quickly hunt down and resolve iOS app issues.
Additionally, Xcode doesn’t provide an easy way to track the rate of crashes per app release. You can’t customize or enrich the iOS crash reporting information with identifiers that indicate which users are experiencing crashes. And while you do get a ‘symbolicated’ (human readable) backtrace for each crash, you don’t get any logs or event history to indicate what was happening prior to the app crashing.
App Store Connect, under App Analytics, presents trends for crashes over time, per release. However, there’s no way to get from the crash counts to the crash reports.
(It’s worth mentioning that we often make use of the Phased Releases for Automatic Updates feature of App Store Connect. This updates users in stages over a period of 7 days, starting with small groups of users and gradually increasing the proportion of users upgraded.)
Why we chose Firebase
Given these limitations, our iOS development team adopted Google’s Firebase product for crash reporting and mobile analytics. The core Firebase SDK is simple to add to an iOS app, and starts forwarding crash reports to its Crashlytics component within an hour of the crash occurring.
Firebase has some great features that behave like a black box on an airplane:
It associates a user ID with the crashes and analytics events that originate from a given device. We populate this with a UUID (Universally Unique Identifier) that we persist on the iOS device in a way that survives the app being reinstalled, providing us visibility of a given user’s experience over time.
It enables you to set custom keys in Crashlytics that are included in crash reports to provide information about the state of the app at the time of the crash.
Another Firebase feature we use a lot is the Latest Release screen:
The Firebase Latest Release screen feature allows us to see how quickly users are adopting our latest app release.
This allows us to see how quickly users are adopting our latest app release, as the metrics per release show crash-free users and crashes per 10K sessions.
Even better, Firebase monitors crash reports and reports emerging stability issues if a release starts to report crashes at higher-than-normal levels:
Extending crash reports with device logs
Often the stack trace from the iOS crash reporting is all you need to pinpoint a bug in the app. However, sometimes the app has crashed because of an error that occurred sometime earlier and that isn’t evident from the stack at the time of the crash. In situations like this it would be ideal to have console logs similar to what Xcode displays when you run an app as a developer.
While full-fledged remote logging solutions exist for iOS apps, we didn’t want to add another third-party product into the mix. And Firebase Crashlytics supports custom logs which we have used in the past.
Hopefully, our experience will save you a time and toil and inspire you to evaluate tools that can accelerate your iOS development.
The solution that we chose was influenced by our wider use of Google BigQuery and the capability that Google provides to integrate your Firebase project with BigQuery. You can enable the Firebase / BigQuery integration in seconds, although you may have to upgrade your Firebase project to the Blaze plan, which has pay-as-you-go pricing. Once they’re integrated, you can search your analytics events using the BigQuery Query Editor.
So we have created a custom “Log” analytics event in Firebase that registers significant app events. These Log events are visible along with other Firebase events in Crashlytics crash reports on the Log tab, but we usually view and filter device logs using BigQuery so you can view the records directly or save them to a CSV file.
In summary, our app uses the Firebase SDK to send analytics events to Firebase, which in turn forwards them to BigQuery. In BigQuery we can construct queries that track events from a single user over time, or analyze the behavior of all users of the app.
From Theory to Practice
The screenshots above actually show this system in action. Last year we released version 3.24.1 of our app, and later that same day we started to get notifications from Firebase about an issue with the stability of the new release. The Crashlytics and Latest Release screens in Firebase reported increased crash rates.
The stack traces in the crash reports showed that the app was crashing when retrieving account settings from the keychain. We hadn’t changed that code in the new release and couldn’t see anything unsafe going on at the point of the crash. The crash report also showed that our app was running code on another thread at the time of the crash, but it wasn’t clear how that situation was arising.
Fortunately, the crash report includes the user’s ID:
The Firebase crash report includes the user IOD.
We headed off to BigQuery and got the logs from that device for the period leading up to the crash. They showed that the app had just been launched and was starting in the background in response to a push notification from xMatters.
That information led us to examine the code that handles background notification processing and ultimately to discover that a code change was incorrectly using a background thread to process the notification. We were able to reproduce the problem and publish a new release containing a fix to the App Store.
Look beyond standard tools for leverage
With some digging and upfront investment, we’ve been able to implement the troubleshooting tools we need to quickly hunt down and resolve iOS app issues. We’ve learned that the basic reports built into Xcode are a good start but they’re simply not robust enough for serious development. Hopefully, our experience will save you a bunch of time and toil and inspire you to evaluate Firebase, BigQuery and other tools that can accelerate your iOS development — and save you from trying to track down crash nightmares in the ‘dark.’
Isn’t this a great time for automation?
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Yadkin Valley Wine & Beer Passport is Your Ticket to Winter Fun
Beer Wine Mount Airy Dobson Elkin
Published Oct. 4, 2019
The Yadkin Valley Winter Wine & Beer Passport provides a fun and economical way to experience North Carolina wine country this winter.
Each passport serves as a ticket to tastings at 15 partners - 10 award-winning wineries, four craft breweries and one distillery in Surry County, located in the heart of the Yadkin Valley wine region.
The number of tasting experiences has increased from last year. Yadkin Valley’s newest winery, Haze Gray Vineyards in Dobson, joins the rotation this winter, along with Thirsty Souls Community Brewing and White Elephant Beer Company, located across the street from each other in downtown Mount Airy.
Mayberry Spirits, also in downtown Mount Airy, comes on board this year as the first distillery to participate.
Passport holders also receive a commemorative keepsake gift at their first tasting. This year's gift is a five-piece wine & beer opener set that comes in a decorative bottle-shaped case. Other perks include special deals at seven lodging properties convenient to the vineyards, along with discounts at several restaurants and shops.
The passports are valid for nearly four months, starting Nov. 29 of this year and running through March 22, 2020.
“It’s an enjoyable way to celebrate winter – a treasure map to great wineries and breweries throughout Surry County,” says Louis Jeroslow, winemaker at Elkin Creek Vineyard.
Participating wineries for the winter of 2019-20 are: Adagio Vineyards, Carolina Heritage, Elkin Creek, Grassy Creek, Haze Gray, Roaring River, Round Peak, Shelton Vineyards, Slightly Askew and Stony Knoll. The breweries on tap this winter are Angry Troll, Skull Camp, Thirsty Souls and White Elephant.
“This is the 10th year we’ve offered the program, and people love it,” says Pat Colwell of Carolina Heritage Vineyard & Winery. “And it makes a popular Christmas gift for people who like wine and beer.”
Colwell likes to point out the passport time period is long enough for folks from outside the area to buy a passport and make more than one visit throughout the season and not feel like they have to hit every tasting room during a single trip.
For those looking to stay overnight, five wineries offer discount lodging on-property: Carolina Heritage, Elkin Creek, Grassy Creek, Round Peak and Slightly Askew. Special pricing is also available at Hampton Inn & Suites Shelton Vineyards in Dobson and Fairfield Inn & Suites in Elkin.
Early bird pricing for the Yadkin Valley Winter Wine & Beer Passport is $65 for individuals and $99 for two people through Nov. 28. Regular pricing begins Nov. 29 with rates of $75 for individuals and $115 for two people. The estimated value of each passport is $250.
For details or to purchase a passport, click here or call the Yadkin Valley Chamber of Commerce at 336-526-1111.
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Although NC's Yadkin Valley is wine country, there are nice options for lovers of craft beer. Within the past few years several breweries have bubbled up in the small towns of Surry County, serving excellent beers in interesting environments.
Budbreak Wine and Craft Beer Festival Welcomes New Growing Season
Celebrate the start of a new Yadkin Valley vintage with wine, beer, food and music in downtown Mount Airy.
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Everyone knows Bradley Cooper is painfully private about his dating life. However, he was recently seen publicly flirting with a certain Hollywood celeb, which has us wondering, ” who is Bradley Cooper dating now? On Wednesday, Aug. They looked incredibly cozy and happy! Future step-mom in the making? Apparently, their chemistry was phenomenal, so a fling wouldn’t surprise us.
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Bradley Cooper and Irina Shayk were one of Hollywood’s most enviable and good looking power couples until they announced their split in June, Below, we take a look back at all of Cooper’s high-profile relationships during his years in the spotlight. The pair dated for less than a year before announcing their engagement in October of Their marriage was seemingly short-lived as Esposito filed for divorce just four months after they tied the knot.
Although much of their romance was left to speculation, Cooper and American casting agent Isabelle Brewster coupled up in before parting ways a year later. Speculation was rife after Cooper and singer Jennifer Lopez were spotted intimately dining together in , following news of her divorce from Marc Anthony. The duo had a brief stint for a couple of months before realising that a romantic relationship could not come to fruition.
Supermodel Irina Shayk started dating Cooper in early , soon after her split with Portuguese soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo. Cooper and Shayk have been together for almost four years and welcomed their first child, a daughter named Lea De Seine, in March The pair announced their split in June, Jennifer Esposito Get more from Marie Claire.
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Bradley Cooper has undoubtedly become one of the actors who is giving more talk in recent times. In every sense. We were moved as a participation in ‘A star.
Remember when Twitter went gaga for that steamy “Shallow” duet at the Oscars? Lady Gaga wants to reassure fans there’s nothing else she was searchin’ for with co-star Bradley Cooper. After starring together in ‘s “A Star Is Born” remake , Gaga and Cooper’s red carpet and award show appearances had fans buzzing with speculation over whether they had translated their on-screen romance to real life. The Oscars performance in particular raised eyebrows: The collaborators looked each other lovingly in the eyes as they sang about taking a leap of faith, all while Cooper’s then-girlfriend and mother of his son, Irina Shayk, watched from the front row.
For me, as a performer and as an actress, of course we wanted people to believe that we were in love. And we wanted people to feel that love at the Oscars. We wanted it to go right through the lens of that camera and to every television that it was being watched on.
Continue Reading. Like most moms, Jennifer Garner reads with her kids—a lot. And like many moms, she has favorites books, that is. Okay, it’s also hysterical.
While the photos did leave a few tongues wagging, a couple of sources pulled the plug on the dating rumours. A source told Us Weekly that.
Jennifer Garner in renowned for keeping her relationships lowkey as compared to her ex-husband, Ben Affleck. But according to sources, last week Jennifer Garner raised a lot of ears when she was spotted with one of her old friends, Bradley Cooper. After being spotted with Bradley Cooper, it is reported that Jennifer Garner was quite happy as she was posed as a victim in the whole divorce fiasco.
After the separation from Ben Affleck in , Jennifer moved onto John Miller who she recently cut ties with. An inside source has revealed that there is no question that two always were attracted to each other. The source added that Garner is fed up with people feeling sorry for her not just how Affleck treated him, but also how he is seen often more than not with Ana De Armas. And now rumors are circulating her and Bradley Cooper. The two have been friends for more than 2 decades now.
There is a good chance that they might have started dating.
Is something brewing between Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Garner? Well, fans began speculating after the Alias co-stars were seen enjoying a summer’s day out at the beach. The paparazzi caught Bradley sporting a mini man bun and red swim trunks while Jennifer stepped out wearing a sweater and skirt. The duo’s spotting came amid rumours of Jennifer’s split with beau John Miller.
While the photos did leave a few tongues wagging, a couple of sources pulled the plug on the dating rumours.
A newly-single Jennifer Garner and her longtime friend and Alias co-star Bradley Cooper were photographed having a “flirty” day on the beach this week while spending time with Cooper’s three-year-old daughter (with ex.
It takes a very special kind of person to get a celebrity to confess their truth. The pop culture icons talked about a myriad of topics with one of them centering in on if she and Bradley Cooper who turns 45 today, January 5 really did hook up during the A Star Is Born phenomenon that swept the world over the past two years. There was speculation for months over if they had an affair with one another while being romantically involved with other people her with ex-fiance Christian Carino , 51, him with ex-girlfriend Irina Shayk , Turns out that it was simply just that… speculation.
The media legend has talked about those dating rumors with Bradley in the past. Oprah interviewed Gaga separately for Elle Magazine last year where she herself had actually chatted with the multiple Oscar nominee about them while spending time with him. How did you feel about all that at the time. You handled it so well. And we wanted people to feel that love at the Oscars. We wanted it to go through through the lens of the camera and to every television that it was being watched on.
Welcome to PopCrush’s Daily Break! Here’s a breakdown of today’s hottest pop culture and lifestyle stories as heard on PopCrush Nights, airing across the country. The two were on the show Alias together from until and have remained close friends since.
Lady Gaga wants to reassure fans there’s nothing else she was searchin’ for with co-star Bradley Cooper in that steamy “Shallow” Oscars.
Bradley Charles Cooper born January 5, is an American actor, film director, producer, and screenwriter. Cooper appeared in Forbes Celebrity on three occasions and Time ‘ s list of most influential people in the world in Cooper enrolled in the MFA program at the Actors Studio in after beginning his career in with a guest role in the television series Sex and the City.
He made his film debut in the comedy Wet Hot American Summer He first gained recognition as Will Tippin in the spy-action television show Alias — , and achieved minor success with a supporting part in the comedy film Wedding Crashers His breakthrough role came in with The Hangover , a critically and commercially successful comedy, which spawned two sequels in and
Lady Gaga isn’t denying the chemistry she shares with B radley Cooper. In a new interview with Oprah Winfrey for Elle , the year-old singer addresses the dating rumors surrounding herself and Cooper after they portrayed a couple in A Star Is Born and performed their emotional hit song from the movie, “Shallow,” at the Oscars. For me, as a performer and as an actress, of course we wanted people to believe that we were in love.
We wanted it to go right through the lens of that camera and to every television that it was being watched on,” she continues. We mapped the whole thing out — it was orchestrated as a performance.
Cooper is a major superstar on his own, so the idea he was dating a glamorous model piqued the public’s interest. After all the highs and lows of.
Skip navigation! Story from Pop Culture. When supermodel Irina Shayk started dating Bradley Cooper in mid, their relationship took Hollywood by storm. Both stars were at the peak of their careers at the time, Shayk dominating high fashion runways all over the world and Cooper starring in films such as Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. But, one child and four years later, the couple broke things off. Now several months removed from her relationship with Cooper, Shayk has decided to open up about her personal life.
Shayk told Enniful that she recognizes that her relationship with Cooper was a mix of both the good and the bad. She and Cooper, who started dating after ending their previous long-term relationships Shayk dated soccer icon Cristiano Ronaldo for five years, and Cooper broke things off with Chloe Sevigny after a two-year relationship , relied on each other heavily while they were together — so much so that adjusting to life as a single mother to their toddler Lea De Seine has proven to be somewhat difficult.
Still, Shayk’s unwavering determination which she attributes in the interview to her upbringing in the small Russian town of Yemanzhelinsk has helped her press forward. The supermodel has been flourishing in the time since the split; when she’s not hard at work, Shayk is treating herself to Instagram-worthy vacations and celebrating the holidays in style. Goes to show you that a breakup doesn’t have to be the end — sometimes, it’s just the beginning.
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Wednesday Lunch at Lowy: A Focused Force - Hugh White presentation
At the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy on 15 April, Visiting Fellow Hugh White spoke at the launch of his new Lowy Institute Paper, 'A Focused Force: Australia's defence priorities in the Asian century', in which he argues for Australia to abandon the 'Balanced Force' concept and refocus its defence efforts
Wednesday Lunch at Lowy: GFC: Cause and consequences - Warwick McKibbin presentation
At the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy on 8 April 2009, Professor Warwick McKibbin explored how well the global financial crisis can be understood as a series of unexpected shocks, what these shocks were and how conventional economic models explain the global adjustment and the implications of alternative
What the G-20 wants back
Lowy Institute Director of Studies, Andrew Shearer and Program Director International Economy, Mark Thirlwell contributed to an online forum of The Chicago Council on Global Affairs and The Managing Global Insecurity project out of The Brookings Institution on the topic, 'What the G-20 wants back
By Mark Thirlwell, Andrew Shearer
Wednesday Lunch at Lowy: Asian Development Outlook - Donghyun Park and Craig Sugden presentations
With much of the developed world in recession, Asia's economies are suffering as exports crumble, capital flows reverse, and business and consumer confidence deteriorates. The ADB's Senior Economist Donghyun Park addressed these issues within the context of the Asian Development Outlook 2009, ADB's
By Donghyun Park ,
Wednesday Lunch at Lowy: China and the financial crisis - Professor Leong Liew presentation
One if the biggest questions facing Asia, and Australia, is how is the global financial crisis affecting China and will the Chinese government's policy responses be effective. The front and opinion pages of Australia's broadsheets have been full of stories and editorials on this topic. At the
By Leong H. Liew
Australia and Indonesia: Partners in a New Era
Last month, the Australian government, in cooperation with the Lowy Institute, held a major conference in Sydney on the future of Australia-Indonesia relations. The conference drew to Australia one of the largest and most senior delegations ever from Indonesia. Discussion and debate over the two
Distinguished Speaker Series: The future of Iraq - H.E. Nuri al-Maliki presentation
On 13 March 2009, as part of its Distinguished Speaker Series, the Lowy Institute was pleased to host His Excellency Nuri al-Maliki, Prime Minister of Iraq. Prime Minister al-Maliki spoke about the future of his country and its prospects for political stability and economic development
By Nuri al-Maliki
Distinguished Speaker Series: Colombia: The transformation of a country - Mr Luis Guillermo Plata presentation
News which reaches us from Colombia often paints a picture of a country at war with itself. But Colombia is experiencing a transformation. Security has improved sufficiently to support sustained economic growth, despite the current profound global economic turmoil. What does this mean for Colombia'
By Luis Guillermo Plata
Paul Keating speech
On 5 March 2009, the Lowy Institute hosted a roundtable discussion in the run-up to the G-20 meeting of world leaders to be held in London on 2 April this year. The roundtable was supported by the British High Commission in Canberra and was part of the British Government's efforts to reach out to
By Paul J. Keating
International security in 2008: The year in review
In this lecture to the NSW Royal United Services Institute, International Security Program Director Rory Medcalf identifies some major events and trends of 2008 - from the Russia-Georgia war to Somali piracy and the global financial crisis – in the light of their long-term implications for global
Economic crisis and political conflict
On Thursday 26 February, Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman delivered the Lowy Institute's third annual Canberra Lecture. The Canberra Lecture recognises those individuals who, in their professional careers, have been able to bridge the worlds of academe and international policymaking. The 2008
By Lawrence Freedman
Wednesday Lunch At Lowy: Australian strategy - Dr Peter Edwards presentation
At the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy on 4 March 2009, historian Peter Edwards placed the current debate in the context of the long history of debates between those who see global alliances as central to Australia's national security and those who emphasise the importance of self-reliance and regional
By Peter Edwards
Distinguished Speaker Series: The values of the multilateral trading system - Mr Pascal Lamy presentation
On 2 March 2009, as part of its Distinguished Speaker Series, the Lowy Institute hosted a speech by Mr Pascal Lamy, the Director-General of the World Trade Organization, on the values of the multilateral trading system
By Pascal Lamy
Distinguished Speaker Series: Nuclear disarmament - Sir Lawrence Freedman presentation
The global threat from nuclear weapons is growing, yet so too is a new international push for nuclear disarmament. On Wednesday 25 February 2009 at a lecture in the Lowy Institute's Distinguished Speakers Series, Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman examined what realistic assessments of the developing
Strengthening the Global and Regional Fight against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
The Symposium, Strengthening the Global and Regional Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, co-sponsored by Pacific Friends of the Global Fund, AusAID and the Lowy Institute for International Policy, was held at the Lowy Institute in Sydney on 24 February 2009
By Bob McMullan, Michel Kazatchkine
If 2008 was the year of the financial crisis, 2009 is set to be the year of the real economy fallout. According to the latest IMF projections, world economic growth is set to fall to its lowest rate since the Second World War. World trade is contracting. Capital flows to emerging markets are
Distinguished Speaker Series: The future of international whale conservation - The Hon. Peter Garrett MP presentation
On Wednesday 18 February 2009, as part of the Institute's Distinguished Speaker Series, the Lowy Institute hosted the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts, the Hon Peter Garrett MP, who outlined the Australian Government's forward agenda on international whale conservation.With the
Wednesday Lunch at Lowy: The year ahead for the Asia Pacific - Cook, Hayward-Jones and Medcalf presentations
On 4 February, at the first lunch for 2009 in our Wednesday Lunch at Lowy series, three Lowy Institute scholars, Dr Malcolm Cook, Jenny Hayward-Jones and Rory Medcalf, discussed prospects for the Asia Pacific region this year, under the very challenging circumstances of the global financial crisis
By Malcolm Cook, Rory Medcalf, Jenny Hayward-Jones
Barack Obama inaugural address: a view from Washington, DC
The inauguration of Barack Obama as president of the United States on 20 January was observed intently by billions of people around the world. One of the unusual aspects of Obama's candidacy for president was that he is such a gifted writer and speaker, a fact which has already led to comparisons
Is Australia foreign investment regime in the national interest?
In a paper written for an IPA conference on Australia's Investment Future, the Institute's Andrew Shearer and Mark Thirlwell take a look at the politics and economics of Australia’s foreign investment regime. They examine the extent to which the regime is adequate to safeguard the national
Wednesday Lunch at Lowy: Ambition: the emerging foreign policy of the Rudd Government - Allan Gyngell presentation
Twelve months after the election of the Rudd Government, in the final Wednesday Lunch at Lowy for 2008, Lowy Institute Executive Director Allan Gyngell reflected on what we have learned about the Rudd Government's emerging foreign policy, about the Prime Minister's own contributions to it and what
Wednesday Lunch at Lowy: Malaysian politics 2008 and beyond - Professor Clive Kessler presentation
The last twelve months have witnessed a turning point in post-independence Malaysian politics. In elections last March, the Barisan Nasional coalition and its dominant member, the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), suffered serious reversals. The prime ministership of Datuk Seri Abdullah
By Clive S. Kessler
A proposed Australian strategy for Latin America to 2020
In a speech to the 2008 Annual Australia Latin America Business Council dinner, Deputy Director Martine Letts argues for a comprehensive whole of government Australian strategy to engage with Latin America to diversify and strengthen relations with an increasingly successful and influential region
2008 Lowy Lecture: Australia and the international financial crisis
The annual Lowy Lecture on Australia in the World is the highlight of our events calendar. The 2008 lecture was delivered by Mr Ian Macfarlane AC in Sydney on Wednesday 3 December 2008.In this lecture Mr Macfarlane seeks to answer the question of what is different about this financial crisis from
By Ian Macfarlane
The Alexander Downer legacy
In a major series for the Lowy Institute's blog, The Interpreter, veteran ABC journalist Graeme Dobell explores the legacy of Australia's longest-serving foreign minister, Alexander Downer. The three introductory posts to Graeme Dobell's series can be read here: Introduction, part one: http://www.
Wednesday Lunch at Lowy: - Ralph Ashton & Warwick McKibbin presentation
At the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy on 19 November, Ralph Ashton, Fellow in the Climate and Energy Program at ANU and Warwick McKibbin, Lowy Institute Professorial Fellow, discuss how to include terrestrial carbon in developing nations, in the climate change solution
By Warwick McKibbin, Ralph Ashton
Distinguished Speaker Series: Pacific regional challenges - Sir Michael Somare presentation
On 7 November 2008, as part of our Distinguished Speaker Series, the Lowy Institute hosted The Grand Chief, Rt. Hon Sir Michael Somare GCMG CH, Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea. The title of Sir Michael Somare's lecture was 'Pacific Regional Challenges'. He discussed the urgency with which the
By Michael Somare
Wednesday Lunch at Lowy: Zealous democrats - Bubalo, Fealy and Mason presentations
At this week's Wednesday Lunch, the Lowy Institute for International Policy launched 'Zealous democrats: Islamism and democracy in Egypt, Indonesia and Turkey'. The authors of this new Lowy Institute Paper, Anthony Bubalo, Greg Fealy and Whit Mason, all spoke about their ideas expressed in the
By Anthony Bubalo, Gregory Fealy, Whit Mason
Distinguished Speaker Series: Reconstruction and the whole of government approach - Lt Gen Ken Gillespie presentation
As part of its Distinguished Speaker Series, the Lowy Institute hosted an address by the Chief of the Australian Army, Lieutenant General K. J. Gillespie AO DSC CSM.In the last decade the Australian Defence Force has put a great weight of effort into activities such as stabilisation and
By Ken J. Gillespie
Wednesday Lunch at Lowy: How much has China really changed? - Dr Geoff Raby presentation
This year, China has been on public international display like no other time since the communists took power in 1949. Beijing hosted the Olympic and para-Olympic Games and 2008 is the thirtieth anniversary of China's open door economic policy reforms launched under Deng Xiaoping. The technical and
By Geoff Raby
Wednesday Lunch at Lowy: North Korea opens - Dr Marcus Noland presentation
On 1 October 2008, Dr Marcus Noland, Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, spoke about North Korea and how its nuclear ambitions and geographic position draw the attention of the other powers in Northeast Asia
By Marcus Noland
Distinguished Speaker Series: The new world of connections and talent - Dr Phil Burgess presentation
On Tuesday 23 September, as part of the Lowy Institute's Distinguished Speaker Series, Dr Phil Burgess, outgoing General Managing Director, Public Policy and Communications and Special Adviser to the CEO at Telstra, shared some parting observations about our 'lucky country' and its prospects in a
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Wednesday Lunch at Lowy: Dealing with Russia after Georgia - Robert Horvath and Graeme Gill presentations
At the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy on 10 September, two prominent Australian Russia scholars, Professor Graeme Gill from Sydney University and Dr Robert Horvath from La Trobe University, examined the policy options for dealing with a newly assertive Russia.The Lowy Institute acknowledges the support of
By Robert Horvath, Graeme Gill
Wednesday Lunch at Lowy: Running the war in Iraq - Jim Molan presentation
What lessons does the Iraq conflict hold for Australia's new Defence White Paper? In the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy on 3 September, one of Australia's most experienced and distinguished military men drew upon his experience of running a 21st century urban counter-insurgency to talk about how the nature
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Wednesday Lunch at Lowy: What makes a terrorist? - Dr Adam Dolnik presentation
At the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy on 27 August 2008, rising terrorism specialist Dr Adam Dolnik looked at the successes and failures of the field of terrorism studies, and offered some explanations about why people become terrorists
By Adam Dolnik
Wednesday Lunch at Lowy: Journeying in America - Don Watson presentation
At the Wednesday Lowy Lunch on 20 August 2008, Don Watson, one of Australia's most distinguished writers and public speakers, explored themes in his latest book, 'American Journeys', a narrative of the modern USA. He talked about the genius, optimism and freedom of the United States – and its
By Don Watson
On Thursday 31 July 2008, the Lowy Institute held its fifth annual New Voices conference for young professionals, which this year discussed the new areas of responsibility that are arising as a result of globalisation. The outcomes report can be downloaded here
Wednesday Lunch at Lowy - Roger Donnelly and Benjamin Ford presentations
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By Roger Donnelly, Benjamin Ford
Wednesday Lunch at Lowy: Rising China on the eve of the Olympics - Dr Richard Rigby presentation
At the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy on 6 August, Dr Richard Rigby, the Executive Director of the ANU China Institute, spoke about the rise of China and how the forthcoming Olympics provide some indicators — both positive and negative — of how China is travelling, and how one way or another these will
By Richard Rigby
Wednesday Lunch at Lowy: US Middle East policy under a new presient - Ambassador Martin Indyk presentation
As the George W Bush Presidency draws to a close, attention is increasingly focused on the likely policies of his successor, particularly in the Middle East. The Lowy Institute was pleased to present at the Wednesday Lowy Lunch on 30 July 2008 a speaker eminently qualified to address this critical
Distinguished Speaker Series: Australia, ASEAN and the Asia-Pacific - The Hon. Stephen Smith MP presentation
On Friday, 18 July the Lowy Institute was honoured to host a speech in our Distinguished Speaker Series by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Hon. Stephen Smith MP. The focus of the Minister's presentation was on the Government's thinking about Australia's evolving engagement in our region.
By Stephen Smith
Distinguished Speaker Series: Migration, remittances and development - Dr Dilip Ratha presentation
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By Dilip Ratha
On 14 July, the Lowy Institute hosted a dinner for the globally renowned economist and author Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs. Professor Sachs discussed the current global energy, climate, and food crises and the world's sustainable development challenges as outlined in his new book 'Common Wealth:
By Jeffrey D. Sachs
Foreign investment in Australia and China
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Wednesday Lunch at Lowy - Professor Margaret MacMillan presentation
At the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy on 9 July, Professor Margaret MacMillan, Professor of International History at the University of Oxford and the Warden of St Antony’s College, discussed how history casts a shadow over the present in more ways than we realise, in a presentation entitled 'Dangerous
By Margaret MacMillan
Wednesday Lunch at Lowy - Lieutenant Colonel Mark O’Neill presentation
On 2 July 2008 at the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy, Lieutenant Colonel Mark O’Neill offered a contemporary personal perspective on the experience of moving from theoretical considerations of counterinsurgency to involvement with actual counterinsurgency practice. Mark’s presentation drew on his
Why war in Asia remains thinkable
At a recent IISS conference in Japan, Lowy Institute Visiting Fellow Hugh White set out the case for why war between states remains thinkable in Asia.His paper can be downloaded from here:http://www.iiss.org/conferences/asias-strategic-challenges-in-search-of-a-common-agenda/conference-papers/why-
Wednesday Lunch at Lowy: Financial integration and global financial turmoil - Hamid Faruqee presentation
On 18 June 2008 at the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy, senior staff member at the International Monetary Fund, Hamid Faruqee discussed the recent market turmoil which has demonstrated just how interconnected global financial markets really are
By Hamid Faruqee
Distinguished Speaker Series - Professor James Crawford presentation
In the wake of the Iraq war, both US Presidential candidates have said they will close Guantanamo Bay and take a different view from the current Administration on water boarding. Under the next US President, can we expect a revival of US and wider interest in international law when it comes to the
By James Crawford
Labour mobility: an Australian seasonal work visa scheme for Pacific Islands labour
On 12-13 June 2008, the Lowy Institute hosted a conference to examine the questions associated with the possible introduction of a seasonal work visa scheme for Pacific Islanders in the Australian horticulture sector. The conference focused on the horticultural industry’s requirements for a
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Tea and Biscuits: Books To Be Thankful For in 2017
As its coming pretty close to Thanksgiving, where we gather together with our families, enjoy some great football games, and have a lot of delicious food, its also a time to look back at the year and see what has been so wonderful and what has really blessed our lives. So today I want to share with you all, those special books that push your boundaries, make you look at life a bit differently and made the most impact on me this year. So these books aren’t just book that were published this year, but what I read in 2017 that completely blew my mind in so many great delicious ways.
Mr. President and Commander In Chief by Katy Evans
From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Katy Evans comes a sizzling new contemporary romance.
He’s won the hearts of millions. But is he willing to lose his?
I met the president’s son when we were both young. Matthew Hamilton was handsome, polished, and intelligent. I’d never met a guy like him.
He promised me that he’d never run for president. I promised that if he did, I’d be by his side.
Three terms later, an invitation to join Matthew Hamilton’s campaign is the most exhilarating opportunity I’ve ever experienced. I’m determined to make a difference; he is determined to win.
Focused on his goal, Matt is steadfast, ruthless, and disarming. All eyes are on him and his popularity is surging. But soon, the next possible president of the United States is possessing me in more ways than one—and despite the risks, I’m helpless to resist.
We’re stealing touches, stealing moments, and stealing away at night. But our chemical connection is quickly becoming dangerously combustive, putting not only my heart, but Matt’s chance at the presidency on the line.
Winning will take everything. Walking away will be the hardest thing of all.
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Mr. President is a story that blew my mind in only the ways that Katy Evans can do. But what impressed me most was I read this in the beginning of the year, in January. So I was pretty stressed about our new Presidential situation in the States, especially being a woman. So seeing this book was simply a balm that just soothed my stresses and freaking out moments. This book made such a big impact on me because it made me realize that there are still good people in the world and even in politics that try to make a difference and better the lives of those they serve. It also made me wish that Matt (our hero) could be real as our President because in this first book you can see why he would make the best President.
The sizzling second installment of the White House series, by New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Katy Evans.
We fell in love during the campaign.
The stakes were high.
Reputations could have been ruined.
Scandal hovered over us like a cloud.
Now the man I love is the President of the United States of America.
And its not my vote he is after.
He wants it all.
My heart. My body. My soul.
He wants me by his side.
In the White House.
Normalcy will be gone from my life, privacy forgotten.
I am only twenty three. I just wanted to play a part in history. But it seems like history wasn’t done with me. The part where I lost my heart to Matthew Hamilton? It was only the beginning…
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In Commander In Chief is a story that I desperately wanted to be real. It continues on from book one, but this author captures the realism of the White House and what I am sure the families of the President have to go through especially if you are the spouse. Seeing Matt and Charlotte work through building a strong marriage while dealing with running the country and seeing them balance it all out. And seeing how the struggles they overcome together really strengthens their marriage and the intimacy they have.
Rough and Tumble by Rhenna Morgan
Live hard, f*ck harder and follow only their own rules. Those are the cornerstones the six men of the Haven Brotherhood live and bleed by, refusing to conform to society’s expectations, taking what they want and always watching each other’s backs.
A self-made man with his fingers in a variety of successful businesses, Jace Kennedy lives for the challenge and he always gets what he wants. From the start, he sees Vivienne Moore’s hidden wild side and knows she’s his perfect match, if only he can break it free. He will have her. One way or another.
Vivienne’s determined to ditch the rough lifestyle she grew up in, even if that means hiding her true self behind a bland socialite veneer. Dragging her party-hound sister out of a club was not how she wanted to ring in the New Year, but Viv knows the drill. Get in, get her sister and get back to the safe, stable life she’s built for herself as fast as humanly possible. But Viv’s plans are derailed when she finds herself crashing into the club’s clearly badass and dangerously sexy owner.
Jace is everything Vivienne swore she never wanted, but the more time she spends with him, the more she starts to see that he loves just as fiercely as he fights. He can walk society’s walk and talk society’s talk, but when he wants something, he finds a way to get it. He’s proud of who he is and where he came from, and he’ll be damned if he lets Vivienne go before showing her the safest place of all is in the arms of a dangerous man.
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This was also another title that started off my year so nicely. This brotherhood is simply wonderful, they do like riding motorcycles but they aren’t your typical MC. Its a group of men that became a brotherhood, they live to ride and to protect each other. Each brother is very unique and then we have the mothers. Two strong kind women that take care of these men that work hard to keep each other safe from any potential enemies. It takes place in Dallas, Texas and to see them spend time in places that I would hang out all the time was a unique experience. In this book, its the leaders story. We get some great background information and seeing how much these men are tied together. I love the teasing and bantering and the strong bond they have to each other.
King’s Captive by Amber A Bardan
For three years, I’ve belonged to Julius King.
Some people would think being stuck on a private island is heaven, but this is my hell.
Because I’m not here as a guest. Not even close. I’m a prisoner. I’m his.
Julius King. Powerful. Wealthy. Dangerous.
There are parts of me he wants that I can’t give him. When he looks at me, there are times I swear he sees someone else. And the scary part is that sometimes, when he touches me, I think he may be someone else, too.
Though my body might be tempted, and he might control everything else, I can’t let him have any piece of my heart. I won’t. But every day, the fight gets harder, and Julius manages to slip past my defenses in the most unexpected ways.
I have to find out the truth about Julius King. Even if it destroys me.
This book completely blew my mind in so many great ways. Its different and unique, pushes your limits but it also gives you some surprises that you just don’t see coming. Seeing a hero that is such a anti hero and you view him at first as this not so good hero and then to turn around and find out who he really is and what his real motivations are turn you upside down and sideways—but in some really great ways.
Devil In Spring by Lisa Kleypas
An eccentric wallflower…
Most debutantes dream of finding a husband. Lady Pandora Ravenel has different plans. The ambitious young beauty would much rather stay at home and plot out her new board game business than take part in the London Season. But one night at a glittering society ball, she’s ensnared in a scandal with a wickedly handsome stranger.
A cynical rake…
After years of evading marital traps with ease, Gabriel, Lord St. Vincent, has finally been caught-by a rebellious girl who couldn’t be less suitable. In fact, she wants nothing to do with him. But Gabriel finds the high-spirited Pandora irresistible. He’ll do whatever it takes to possess her, even if their marriage of convenience turns out to be the devil’s own bargain.
A perilous plot…
After succumbing to Gabriel’s skilled and sensuous persuasion, Pandora agrees to become his bride. But soon she discovers that her entrepreneurial endeavors have accidentally involved her in a dangerous conspiracy — and only her husband can keep her safe. As Gabriel protects her from their unknown adversaries, they realize their devil’s bargain may just turn out to be a match made in heaven..
Juicy Details
In Devil In Spring is book 3 of the Ravenels. Now I will say this, I was so nervous about this book because I didn’t like the heroine much in previous books. I know most readers liked her, but I found her to be annoying at times. So typical Kleypas, makes me fall in love with a character that I begin NOT liking at all. But honestly what really did this for me was the hero. To me, he was the center focus of the story. Seeing him as the son of one of my all time favorite couples, and seeing him be the good of both and this wonderful Vincent family. And of course some fun times between Sebastian and Evie that is so fun and I can’t tell you how many times I have re read those passages. This book made me happy and carefree and I just wanted to go dancing in the street after finishing it.
The Hating Game by Sally Thorne
Nemesis (n.)
1) An opponent or rival whom a person cannot best or overcome;
2) A person’s undoing;
3) Joshua Templeman.
Lucy Hutton and Joshua Templeman hate each other. Not dislike. Not begrudgingly tolerate. Hate. And they have no problem displaying their feelings through a series of ritualistic passive aggressive maneuvers as they sit across from each other, executive assistants to co-CEOs of a publishing company. Lucy can’t understand Joshua’s joyless, uptight, meticulous approach to his job. Joshua is clearly baffled by Lucy’s overly bright clothes, quirkiness, and Pollyanna attitude.
Now up for the same promotion, their battle of wills has come to a head and Lucy refuses to back down when their latest game could cost her her dream job…But the tension between Lucy and Joshua has also reached its boiling point, and Lucy is discovering that maybe she doesn’t hate Joshua. And maybe, he doesn’t hate her either. Or maybe this is just another game.
The Hating Game is one of those enemies to lovers stories that is epic and memorable and gives you a jolly good time. These two are simply fantastic together and I love how much they bicker and argue and compete but down to the core really care about each other. So its very interesting to seeing them go from hating each other to loving each other. Its just a fun and crazy ride that is perfect if you need some great laughs.
Blackthorne’s Bride by Joan Johnston
A rogue nobleman, a rescued lady, and revenge undone by romance all play a part in New York Times bestselling author Joan Johnston’s irresistible novel of best-laid plots, delicious deception, and unexpected passion.
Two years have passed since Josie Wentworth was bought from the Sioux for a gold watch and whisked back to England by Marcus Wharton, the Duke of Blackthorne. When Marcus breaks his promise to return Josie to America, she ends up as a maid in the home of his charming but neglected nephews. Once Josie’s long-lost family finds her, however, the suddenly wealthy heiress sets out to save the two boys from their indifferent uncle—and teach the duke a lesson in honor.
Learning that Marcus is seeking a rich American bride to save his estate, Josie plots to catch his eye—certain he’ll never recognize the beauty she’s become as the ragged captive he rescued. But Josie doesn’t wager on her marital charade taking a tender turn, as the nobleman she’s despised for years proves to be a very different man than she’s imagined. And there’s no denying his passionate caresses, as she falls deeper under the spell of a husband determined to claim her heart.
I have been looking forward to this book for the longest time. I think what impressed me most about this book was seeing an author that has only done westerns both historical and contemporary, do a new setting which turns from western to regency romance and it was so interesting the dynamics that she used. With some great secrets and seeing great character growth is a plus in this one.
The Sea King by C.L. Wilson
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Winter King comes a breathtaking new tale of love and adventure set in the mystical land of Mystral…
He wasn’t supposed to choose her…
Seafaring prince Dilys Merimydion has been invited to court the three magical princesses of Summerlea. To eradicate the pirates threatening Calberna and to secure the power of the Sea Throne, Dilys vows to return home with a fierce warrior-queen as his bride. But politics has nothing to do with unexpected temptation.
She didn’t dare wed him…
A weathermage like her sisters, Gabriella Coruscate’s gentleness exemplifies the qualities of her season name, Summer. Yet her quiet poise conceals dangerous powers she cannot begin to wield. Better to live without excitement, she reasons, than risk her heart and lose control— until an irresistible Sealord jolts her awake with a thunderclap of raw desire.
Until evil threatens everything they hold dear…
When pirates kidnap Summer and her sisters, Dilys is in a desperate quest to save the woman he loves. Only by combining his command of the seas with the unleashed fury of Summer’s formidable gifts can they defeat their brutal enemies and claim the most priceless victory of all: true love.
The Sea King is such a wonderful thrilling book with some fun details and what a great world building work that Wilson does with this book. Its one of the most memorable books for me, especially considering I read 600 Pages in one sitting, definitely says something. I honestly didn’t want to put this one down, and its such a comfort read in many ways. Its a book about characters with flaws, great adventures and excitement.
So I Married A Sorcerer by Kerrelyn Sparks
Growing up on the Isle of Moon, Brigitta knows nothing of her past, except that she is Embraced: born with powers that forced her into hiding. Everything changes when she learns she’s a princess, hidden away from her villainous half-brother who now rules the kingdom. But he knows about Brigitta, and he’ll do anything to get her back. Unless a certain roguish pirate has anything to say about it…
Rupert is both an infamous pirate and a sorcerer with the power to harness the wind. He’s been waiting nineteen years for revenge—and he needs Brigitta to get it. What begins as a kidnapping of the fiery beauty turns into a fierce attraction. But can he win the captive princess’s heart?
So I Married A Sorcerer is one of those fabulous books that surprised me. I loved this one more than many of this authors’ books. Because there was so much going on but the author somehow didn’t sacrifice the romance that happens. And the worldbuilding was incredible, the characters were the type that felt so real and the author just opens your eyes in so many ways with this book. Seeing characters just go after what is right and take charge of their own lives.
The Scotsman Who Saved Me by Hannah Howell
From New York Times bestselling author Hannah Howell comes a brand new series featuring the MacEnroys, a family of seven strong, seductive Scottish brothers who have come to America with nerves of steel—and who will take no prisoners when it comes to love…
A brutal attack on Emily Stanton’s family has left her for dead . . . until she is found in the woods by a handsome stranger with a thick brogue who vows to protect her. There’s only one problem: As a woman with a noble English background, she has no business keeping company with such a man.
For Scotsman Iain MacEnroy, Emily’s high-tone accent is a bitter reminder of the oppressive regime he left behind. The last thing he needs is to be burdened by the needs of a beautiful, blue-eyed Englishwoman. But taking care of elegant, educated Emily begins to transform Iain in ways he never imagined. Could it be that the deep divisions from the old world no longer apply in the new—and that Iain and Emily can share a passion as lush and wild as the Scottish highlands themselves?
The Scotsman Who Saved Me is the beginning of a wonderful series. What I loved most about this was seeing these sexy scottish brothers become cowboys. It definitely offers some unique moments and I was just drawn to this book. And it definitely has the whole “seven brides seven brothers” feels and I adored it so much. It just gave me all the feels.
Hate To Want You by Alisha Rai
Alisha Rai, one of contemporary romance’s brightest stars, makes her Avon Books debut with the first novel in the sexy Forbidden Hearts series!
One night. No one will know.
That was the deal. Every year, Livvy Kane and Nicholas Chandler would share one perfect night of illicit pleasure. The forbidden hours let them forget the tragedy that haunted their pasts—and the last names that made them enemies.
Until the night she didn’t show up.
Now Nicholas has an empire to run. He doesn’t have time for distractions and Livvy’s sudden reappearance in town is a major distraction. She’s the one woman he shouldn’t want . . . so why can’t he forget how right she feels in his bed?
Livvy didn’t come home for Nicholas, but fate seems determined to remind her of his presence—and their past. Although the passion between them might have once run hot and deep, not even love can overcome the scandal that divided their families.
Being together might be against all the rules . . . but being apart is impossible.
Hate To Want You is a diverse and fun romance novel and a new author that I am just in love with. I also adore Romeo and Juliet retellings especially when it doesn’t end in suicide. Now I think what I loved most about this book was seeing these two never being able to complety let go of each other and then to see them fight for one another in the best of ways.
Cowboy Up by Harper Sloan
New York Times bestselling author Harper Sloan returns with the third in her sultry, Western-set Coming Home series, in which the eldest Davis sibling Clay may have finally met his match—but will he be able to give up the solitary, quiet life he’s built in the name of love?
As the eldest of the Davis clan, Clayton has always tried to lead by example. Along with taking his job as head of the family business seriously, he is also determined to keep his brother and sister in line. Clay is known for being serious, silent, and stoic—completely in control of his life. And with the way he grew up, coupled with a disastrous end to the last relationship he was in, he’s just fine with his quiet, solitary life.
What he hadn’t counted on was Caroline Michaels. She’s the proverbial woman next door—the town next door, that is. Caroline hasn’t lived an easy life, but after escaping from an abusive relationship, she’s finally living for herself and no one else. The last thing the quirky, shy bookstore owner expected was a steamy one-night stand with Clay Davis.
When Caroline and Clay meet, the connection is instant, both falling into one heated night of passion before parting ways—both driven by their own reasons to deny what they clearly wish didn’t have to end. It isn’t until Caroline falls on hard times and Clay comes back into the picture that they realize just how impossible it will be to stay away from each other.
Will Clay be able to give up his rootless existence in favor of finally settling down? And, more important, will Caroline want him to?
I will say that this whole series came out this year…but Cowboy Up will have to be my top favorite of all of the books. It made the biggest impression and I am still suffering from a book hangover from this story because it was that good. I also love those romances that get rid of most of the relationship drama and you can just relax with a couple and enjoy the ride. Of course there are some other factors involved, but we see such a beautiful ending with this couple and the other two couples in the series. It would probably be one of the best endings I have ever read in romance and I adored it.
What books are you most thankful for to have read in 2017?
What are your plans for Thanksgiving? I would really like to know!!
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ALEX BOND
Illustration & Visual Development | info @ alexbondart.com
Lehua: Thumbnails
Gene Parola, the author of Lehua, Ka’ao a ka Wahine [Lehua, The story of a Woman]: A Hawaiian Noblewoman Comes of Age at a “Changing of the Gods.”, and Deborah Bond-Upson of Awesome Stories have commissioned me to paint Lehua. Above are my early thumbnails for the project. The final paintings will be included in a second print of the book and also online at Awesome Stories. We are also currently looking into whether to include these thumbnails throughout the book.
Lehua’s story is about the shift from Hawai’i’s native religion in favor of Christianity and the place of this fictional young leader in that period of cultural transition. I highly recommend it. It’s compelling, romantic, very historically accurate, and a good read for young adults. Click the image below and you’ll be taken to first edition of the downloadable book on Amazon.com.
Lehua, Ka’ao a ka Wahine [Lehua, The story of a Woman]: A Hawaiian Noblewoman Comes of Age at a “Changing of the Gods.” (The Lehua Chronicles) (Volume 1)
Master Studies: Golden Age of Illustration and John Singer Sargent
Though born to American parents in 1856, John Singer Sargent began painting under a leading French artist named Carolus-Duran, who emphasized painterly freedom and study of the works of Frans Hals, Rembrandt, Sir Anthony van Dyke, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and the Spanish master Diego Velázquez. Though he painted and won acclaim for genre scenes and subject pictures, the demand for portrait commissions defined his reputation.
Through these studies I got a feel for how he wove impressionist techniques he may have learned through association with Claude Monet while focusing with more realism on key areas like the face and hands in these portraits. Sargent’s impressionistic style compliments the realism and enhances it. I also enjoyed his exquisite use of color, especially his blues and greens that are reminiscent of Claude Monet’s palette.
Academy of Art University MFA Orientation
Wednesday, January 26th, 2011: New Graduate Student Orientation
Orientation was a required event for all of the new graduate students. We were there to meet the president and vice president of the Academy of Art University, our admissions representatives, and heads of our respective schools. I’ve quickly learned that AAU is very focused on creating professionals ready to enter the industry by graduation. And an event like this was a perfect opportunity to network and meet any and all of the new graduate students in one place. I approached it like a trade conference.
At Reed College, I quickly realized that the most interesting kids in school went there and places like it. I could spend hours talking excitedly (or ‘geeking out’ if you prefer) with any student there. At AAU, I have the impression that the most creative and driven aspiring artists go there. Same dedication, same ambition, same intrinsic motivation to learn and grow. Just my kind of people, but with a different focus.
I’m not the type to briefly exchange names and cards with as many people as I can in the time allotted. That may work for some people, and I’ll grant, it generates a lot of contacts. But I’m more comfortable with meeting 3-4 people at an event like this, talking in depth for about 20 minutes each if I can (or in a group if they know each other), and try to form lasting connections with them. These could be my collaborators or colleagues in the future, perhaps near-future if we combine forces in school. Hopefully we’d be ambitious enough to publish our own books or found our own companies. Such things have happened in AAU and schools like it.
I don’t know why people get nervous about meeting each other at an event like this. Ok, well, maybe I do because I used to be painfully shy too. I had a very negative inner monologue right up until I was settled at Reed. And maybe it does echo into my consciousness from time to time, particularly when I’m out of my element. But in reality, people want to meet each other. They are silently screaming, ‘Talk to me, please! I don’t know anyone!’ I know because that’s what I’ve thought. So I just dive in. Ask questions. Be like a reporter and interview people. People love to talk about themselves, so I give them the excuse, and my card. I love listening to them, especially when I find we’re obsessed about the same things.
After the meet & greet, I went with two new friends up to the welcome lecture. The highlight there was the spring show reel of the work that previous Masters in Fine Art (MFA) students have created. Some of their work was quite impressive. The video ended with the promise that we would create art like that. Many of us swore we would create art at that caliber. Yet some of us feared, deep inside, that there had been a mistake. We feared we weren’t qualified and didn’t have the talent.
Fear is perfectly healthy at the beginning of a long transformation such as this. It prevents one from being arrogant, complacent, and closed to new ideas. After-all, to understand is to stand under a concept for a while. But that fear isn’t completely warranted. Yes, there are schools out there that just want funding and will take (and pass) anyone. I’ve heard the horror stories. A school like this one, however, has a good reputation for working its students hard, challenge them, and pushing them out of their comfort zones. And a school like AAU reviews admission application portfolios for a reason – to find the potential in them.
Next we split into our respective schools. Those like me in the Illustration School convened with Bill Maughan, the Director of Graduate Illustration. I was a little tongue-tied meeting him, and this is why:
A professional illustrator and fine artist, Mr. Maughan received a Bachelor of Fine Art in Illustration from the Art Center College of Design. He has provided numerous illustrations for such companies as DreamWorks, Woman’s Day, TV Guide, Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, CBS, Universal Studios, Wells Fargo Bank, Chevrolet, GMC, Franklin Library, New American Library, Avon Books, Pinnacle Books, Signet Books, Tor Books, Doubleday, Harcourt Brace, Knopf, Oxford University Press, Danbury Mint, Fenwick and others. Since the early ’80s Mr. Maughan’s work, both originals and prints, has been represented by major galleries and publishers, domestically and internationally. His works of art are included in private, commercial and museum collections. Mr. Maughan’s book, The Artist’s Complete Guide to Drawing the Head, was published in 2004 by Watson/Guptill.
When he’s not teaching Academy students the fundamentals — realism-based drawing, design concepts, value, form, color and composition — he paints in his studio in the mountains of Utah.
Bill (I feel a little irreverent using his first name, but that’s the convention at school), Bill has been illustrating long before I was born; to say that he knows what he’s talking about is a grand understatement.
Bill Maughan took the time to advise us at the beginning of our careers with AAU and after. He also reviewed what the midpoint reviews and final theses will entail for each focus (or track). Mine is the Concept Art track with a focus on games.
Midpoint review will involve a few of our best examples from each of the classes we’ll be taking (or new pieces in the subjects those classes covered, they don’t need to have been presented in class – I might be better at head drawing long after finishing that class for example). This is also when I’ll pitch my final thesis project in a written proposal.
The Final thesis for Concept Art will involve a entire ‘pitch’ for a film or game. Thumbnails, three character designs (only one can be human), a turnaround, a painted background environment, and the layout design of a room from several angles.
Yeah, kinda frightening! But this is also the master who saw our portfolios and essays in our applications and believes we have potential.
So while, even as I write, my stomach is twisted in knots at what is ahead, I have faith that the school knows what it’s doing and would have turned me down if I couldn’t succeed. I just have to apply myself and work very, very hard.
Q: So what are you offering today?
Original Characters and creatures
Landscapes and cityscapes both real from photo reference and imagined
Nudity you wouldn’t mind your mom seeing
Your relatives and friends (not nude)
I work mainly in digital realistic and painterly styles, but upon request I can work in either comic book or animation styles.
Q: What’s that?
A: Full color head & shoulders of any character OR real life people if you have a good quality reference of front/side/3quarter.
Q: What do I need to provide?
A: Several good images of the character, plus a description of their personality, OR one good image of the real person and descriptions of their personality. If the subject is a real person, you’ll need the rights to the photo too (if you took the photo yourself, or have permission from the photographer).
Q: Then what happens?
A: I scurry away and sketch up an outline. I’ll show it to you and you can make your comments and I’ll tweak it. Once you’re happy with that, I’ll color and detail it in my painted style. I can’t accept revisions after it’s done, since portraits are quick and cheap. Unless, of course, it’s my own fault for getting something wrong that was clearly shown in the reference.
Q: What can I do with the image?
A: Print it, hang it up, stick it on your fridge, anything you like…just don’t make money off it or use it to create new artwork. If you post it online, I would also ask for credit when and where possible.
Q: What will you do with the image?
A: I’ll add it to my portfolio and use it for promoting my work.
Q: What else should I know?
A: I retain ownership of the final artwork and reserve the right to display it on my website, portfolios, and submit it to magazines or artbooks. It will however never be sold, used for profit, or licenced to another without your approval. You may use the image for non-profit purposes only unless agreed otherwise. Full licence agreement is available on request.
Q: I am totally cool with all that. How much?
A: Portraits……$50 US
Waist Up…….$70-$80 (Depending on costume and pose complexity)
Full body……$90-$100 (Depending on costume and pose complexity)
Scenes………$160+ (Depends on background detail, number of characters, size)$40 via Paypal.
If you want two characters in an image, double the price and subtract $10. For scenes, it’s generally $50 per extra character (eg. a three character scene would be $260).
Portraits, full bodies, and waist-ups come with simple backgrounds (ie colour gradients, textures, blurry detail) only. Adding a full background counts as a scene.
Q. Ok great, how do I hire you for a commission?
Contact Me first describing what you would like for your commission. Please provide a detailed description of the character (pose, appearance, costume, personality) and any visual references or inspiration. For commissions of real-life people, provide either one photo (I will reference it directly, guarantees likeness) or many quality photos from multiple angles (I will use them to figure out face shapes, results in unique image but may not be perfect likeness). I can then price your commission and you can return here to purchase it.
Commissions are first come, first served. Most artworks are completed within two weeks
I accept payments through Paypal only. 50% of payment is due upon approval of sketch (except for portraits, full payment is due upon approval of the sketch). Remainder must be paid before full-resolution 300dpi image is provided. Due to the fluctuating exchange rate all values are in US dollars.
To purchase your commission:
Welcome to Studio Bond
At five years old I had chosen my first favorite color: Black.
I know what you’re thinking: I must have been a death-rocker in the mid-80’s, back before black was the new pink. No, goth. Definitely goth. Robie, my good college friend, supplied this incriminating photographic evidence.
Here my dark secret is exposed: I was a goth child, seen here communing with a conch. This was the precise merger of the known and unknown, the outer shell that is seen by the outside world vs. the inner sanctum of the shell.
Photo by Leland Bond-Upson, Recolored by Robie Schriber
This was my natural state, prior to public school, genderization, and exposure to social expectation.
Seriously? No, not really. I did play with GI Joe before I picked up the Barbie habit…but I had an alternative motive for choosing black.
I loved black because I’d realized that all of the outlines in cartoons were thin black lines. I realized that black encompassed the world and imagined lines around everything. I hadn’t heard of negative space, outer space, or the spaces in-between. I just saw the common thread, and it was black.
This was the age when I became an artist.
Welcome to my site, StudioBond.net, and thank you for visiting my corner of the Interweb.
I’m a freelance artist living in the San Francisco Bay Area and I work in traditional watercolor, ink, and digital paint. I’ve worked in industries like table-top games, book covers, and fine art. I’m passionate about visual storytelling because I believe that stories are even more powerful than facts; and as artists, we have the awesome power to inspire, build empathy, and lift people up. That’s why my mission is to create artwork that empowers you to reach your dreams!
Enjoy my art and want to support me? Become my patron below or gift me a new paintbrush!
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Cleocatra
Cleocatra © 2018. Alex Bond.
Yosemite Creek
I spent a moment by a creek in Yosemite lightly
© Alex Bond 2017. All rights reserved unless specified otherwise.
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Gimme Your Answers: An Interview w/ Kodaline
- November 6, 2012
An Interview w/ Mark Prendergast of Kodaline!
A few weeks back I was introduced to Kodaline; a band with such depth in their lyrics I simply couldn’t ignore them. They have some really fantastic songs. The first track of theirs shown to me was All I Want– my friend Eoghan loves their music and I’m extremely glad he showed them my way. We each had a couple of questions for the group, so Kodaline’s Mark Prendergast took the time to speak to us about influences, their album in the works, dinner and touring!
AMBY: How would you explain your lovely music to others?
MP: We’d say our music is really honest and from the heart.. Every song has to have a meaning, if we don’t believe it ourselves nobody else is going to believe it.
AMBY: You’re recording an album as of right now, so how’s that coming along?
MP: The album is all recorded at this stage and now we just have to mix it and add a few final touches to it. We’re very excited about it because we’ve been working on it for a few years now..
AMBY: Your first headlining tour seems to be selling out almost everywhere, how does it feel to get such a huge response from fans?
MP: The response from people is amazing. We played our first headline show in Dublin a few weeks back and it was completely sold and people were singing our songs back to us.. That was pretty amazing and bizarre at the same time..
AMBY: Speaking of tours, which bands would you love to tour with?
MP: We’d love to support bands like Radiohead or Paul McCartney, we’d really love to go back in time and support Talking Heads, but we’ve no real way of going back in time so that’s not gonna happen.
AMBY: Your music videos are all really amazing, are these done by yourselves as a band or by some talented friends of yours?
MP: The videos are done by some very talented friends of ours. Our main video for All I Want was done by a friend of ours called Stevie Russell, he dreamed up the idea in his head and pitched it to us, we let him go with it and we loved it.
AMBY: Who would you say your biggest influences are as a band?
MP: We’re influenced by a lot of bands, but we sound nothing like the bands were influenced by, bands like Radiohead, LCD Soundsystem and Motown singers like Sam Cooke.
AMBY: What’s on your iPod at the moment?
MP: We picked an album each, here they are.
Steve- Jackson Brown, The Pretender
Mark- Dry The River, Shallow Bed
Jay- Jon Hopkins, Insides
Vinny- Elbow, Build A Rocket Boys
AMBY: We really dig your track All I Want, what’s the story behind it?
MP: It’s a song about that lonely place after a break-up, feeling lost.
AMBY: What do you think about the state of modern music?
MP: We think there’s a lot of disposable pop out there but there’s also a lot new great bands out too. If you look for great music you’ll find it.
AMBY: If you could invite three people to dinner who would you choose?
MP: Santa, Dave Grohl and Barack Obama.
AMBY: What is the best song of 2012 so far?
MP: The Muppets Version of Call Me Maybe
AMBY: And lastly, tell us something about the band that nobody knows, yet!
MP: We write a lot of our songs on the GarageBand app’s on our phones..
If you want to hear an admirable song and watch a video which will guarantee you to feel a river of emotions, then All I Want is the track for you. It’s the first song of their’s I heard and once you’ve had the same musical experience… It definitely won’t be the last Kodaline tune you hear either! And of course, thank you very much Mark, for giving us your answers!
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Alicia Atout & Eoghan Hynes
NBT & AMBY’s Must Hear Submissions: #2
You’ve GOT to Hear This: “Conor Oberst”
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Apteryx oweniilittle spotted kiwi
By Robert Naumann
The little spotted kiwi is found on Kapiti Island and in remote forests of South Island (New Zealand)
The little spotted kiwi lives in temperate, evergreen, broadleaf forests and shrublands. They are strictly terrestrial.
Terrestrial Biomes
scrub forest
The little spotted kiwi mates in the early spring, mostly within the first few weeks of September. They nest in burrows on the forest floor, laying one to two egg clutches. The kiwi produces relatively few but large offspring, perhaps so that the well-developed chicks have the best possible chance to survive under bad conditions such as food shortage or unfavorable weather.
oviparous
Unlike most other birds, the little spotted kiwi senses its environment by sound and smell, rather than by sight. They are nocturnal forest dwellers, and they remain in a shelter burrow during daylight hours. Little spotted kiwis are dispersed in strongly territorial pairs, relying on calls to maintain their territory. They may maintain the same territorial pairs for years.
motile
Perception Channels
Kiwis are omnivorous, eating both invertebrates and the fruit from forest trees and shrubs. The little spotted kiwi finds food on the forest floor and by probing in the soil to the full depth of its bill. Earthworms, cockchafer beetle larvae, catepillars, cranefly larvae, and spiders are the most common food sources in the little spotted kiwi's diet. Fruit off the hinau tree is also commonly consumed. Annelids make up the largest percentage of the bird's diet.
Little spotted kiwis are charismatic species, conservation efforts aimed at kiwis help to protect habitat that is critical to other species and important in ecotourism.
Positive Impacts
Little spotted kiwi conservation efforts may impact logging operations, but ecosystem, research, and ecotourism benefits might be assumed to outweigh those negative effects.
The little spotted kiwi is the most endangered of all the kiwi species. Human destruction of habitat by logging, predation, fire, disease, and the introduction of mammal species have all contributed to the decline of kiwi poulations. Efforts to preserve the kiwi include setting aside Kaptiti Island as a reserve. Captive breeding has also been attempted, but it isn't very successful. Captive breeding of the little spotted kiwi first began in the mid-1970's; however, it was not until 1989 that the first chick was successfully reared.
Near Threatened
Little spotted kiwis have a unique way of raising their young. The male tends to the nest during the 70-day incubation period for about 21 hours a day. The female renews interest in the young after hatching, and both parents escort the chick at night for protection. Adult kiwis do not feed their young. After hatching, the chicks feed from the yolk sac in the egg for the first few days, and afterwards they probe the forest for food, independent of their parents ( except when the parents escort the chick for protection).
Robert Naumann (author), University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.
Living in Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, New Guinea and associated islands.
uses sound to communicate
uses smells or other chemicals to communicate
humans benefit economically by promoting tourism that focuses on the appreciation of natural areas or animals. Ecotourism implies that there are existing programs that profit from the appreciation of natural areas or animals.
animals that use metabolically generated heat to regulate body temperature independently of ambient temperature. Endothermy is a synapomorphy of the Mammalia, although it may have arisen in a (now extinct) synapsid ancestor; the fossil record does not distinguish these possibilities. Convergent in birds.
forest biomes are dominated by trees, otherwise forest biomes can vary widely in amount of precipitation and seasonality.
having the capacity to move from one place to another.
reproduction in which eggs are released by the female; development of offspring occurs outside the mother's body.
scrub forests develop in areas that experience dry seasons.
uses touch to communicate
uses sight to communicate
Errol Fuller ed. 1990. Kiwis: A Monograph of the Family Apterygidae. SeTo Publishers, Auckland New Zealand.
Class Aves birds
Aves: information (1) Aves: pictures (7310) Aves: specimens (153) Aves: sounds (676)
Order Struthioniformes cassowaries, emus, kiwis, ostriches, and rheas
Struthioniformes: pictures (55) Struthioniformes: specimens (13)
Family Apterygidae kiwis
Apterygidae: pictures (5) Apterygidae: specimens (1)
Genus Apteryx kiwis
Apteryx: pictures (5) Apteryx: specimens (1)
Species Apteryx owenii little spotted kiwi
Apteryx owenii: information (1) Apteryx owenii: pictures (1)
To cite this page: Naumann, R. 1999. "Apteryx owenii" (On-line), Animal Diversity Web. Accessed January 17, 2021 at https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Apteryx_owenii/
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Intricacies of installation art and what makes it appealing…
What really makes for an unconventional piece of art? How can an installation appeal to the viewers?
The answer can be found in Subodh Gupta’s art practice that has managed to restructure Indian constructivist tendencies with success into the most sensuous and flamboyant theatricality of his installation pieces. They recreate themselves in our minds as a reverie. According to the artist, a work ought to leap forward, and say something strong enough to evoke a response in the viewer. He has stated:
“Installation must be understood without an artist’s explanation. It has to be simple in intent. Art should be like a ‘stream of translation’ in which an artist could monumentalize the emblem of global exchange.”
In art many permutations and gradations of space exist today. Space can be pictorial, fictive, real, mystical, geographical, social, male, mental female, architectural, whole, fragmented, distorted and compressed. Uma Nair in her ET essay points out that space could be socially charged and liberating - a prototype for anything. The works’ shared concept of art as social space should remain fresh. An installation, which causes spontaneous response, will work best. The art critic explains:
“Design and architecture are a vital part of the language of art. There is a complete embracing of the principle of pleasure, which is perhaps the most important legacy of popular culture. References to past alternative cultures are frequent, fragmented, sometimes subverted but rarely nostalgic.”
To influence the viewers and to be successful, an installation needs not only to evoke a response of amazement, but also kindle theatrical resonance. To it, intricacy of thought is more vital than just engraving or a host full of lights. If recycled material is an ingenuous idea, the end product must have a touch of newness, an unpredictable identity not seen before. Installations testify that art’s spaces have begun redefining themselves.
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Happy at Work in 2016
How Gratitude Can Transform Your Workplace | Greater Good Magazine
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Source: How Gratitude Can Transform Your Workplace | Greater Good Magazine
From nonprofits to Fortune 500 companies, learn how organizations are embracing a culture of gratefulness.
BY KIRA M. NEWMAN | SEPTEMBER 6, 2017
When consultant Stephanie Pollack was brought in to work with the state chapter of a national nonprofit, morale was low. The organization was in the middle of a transformation that brought in new leadership, a new culture, new rules—and lots of tension and uncertainty.
Her task? To teach appreciation and gratitude.
Over the course of a three-day retreat, she taught a small group of reluctant employees about the benefits of recognizing the good things in their lives and saying thank you. And something shifted. After one person wrote a genuine note of thanks on an “appreciation wall,” soon everyone was participating.
But what really surprised Pollack was the connection and authenticity that appreciation seemed to inspire. At the end of the retreat, some of the more closed-off employees opened up about the feelings and past experiences that had created their hard shells.
“They walked in with a lot of tension and frustration,” Pollack recounts. “I’m not saying they walked out with none, but there was a willingness on everyone’s part to move forward together in a different way.”
The practice of gratitude—and its close sibling, appreciation—has started to infiltrate workplaces, from new software companies to older institutions like Campbell Soup, whose former CEO wrote 30,000 thank you notes to his employees. Though research on gratitude has exploded over the past two decades, studies of gratitude at work are still somewhat limited; results so far link it to more positive emotions, less stress and fewer health complaints, a greater sense that we can achieve our goals, fewer sick days, and higher satisfaction with our jobs and our coworkers.
While expressing thanks to colleagues might feel awkward or even at odds with some workplace cultures, many organizations have been developing innovative ways to overcome those barriers. Building on—and even getting out in front of—the existing research on gratitude at work, their efforts have identified concrete and important strategies for putting this research into practice. Their experiences suggest that building cultures of gratitude and appreciation can transform our work lives, leading to deeper connections to each other and to the work we’re doing.
Why gratitude is so revolutionary
Researchers define appreciation as the act of acknowledging the goodness in life—in other words, seeing the positives in events, experiences, or other people (like our colleagues). Gratitude goes a step further: It recognizes how the positive things in our lives—like a success at work—are often due to forces outside of ourselves, particularly the efforts of other people. But this kind of thinking can seem countercultural in the realm of hierarchies and promotions, where everyone is trying to get ahead and may be reluctant to acknowledge their reliance on—or express emotions to—their co-workers.
“We tend to think of organizations as transactional places where you’re supposed to be ‘professional,’” says Ryan Fehr, an assistant professor of management at the University of Washington, Seattle, who recently published a paper summarizing the landscape of gratitude in business. “We may think that it’s unprofessional to bring things like forgiveness or gratitude or compassion into the workplace.”
Yet evidence suggests that gratitude and appreciation contribute to the kind of workplace environments where employees actually want to come to work and don’t feel like cogs in a machine.
Appreciation is a cornerstone of the culture at Southwest Airlines, named by Forbes as America’s #35 Best Employer of 2017. One way the company appreciates employees is by paying attention to special events in their personal lives—from kids’ graduations to marriages to family illnesses—and recognizing those with small gestures like flowers and cards. “We’re all encountering different obstacles in our life, we’re all celebrating different things in our life,” says Cheryl Hughey, managing director of culture at Southwest.
Southwest seems to understand what research has shown: that gratitude tends to emerge in workplaces with more “perceived organizational support,” where employees believe that the company values their contributions and cares about their well-being. And caring means valuing employee health and happiness for their own sake, not just as a way to eke out longer work hours and greater productivity.
“[Gratitude is] going to make your business more profitable, you’re going to be more effective, your employees will be more engaged—but if that’s the only reason you’re doing it, your employees are going to think you’re using them,” says Steve Foran, founder of the program Gratitude at Work. “You have to genuinely want the best for your people.”
Gratitude as a “gateway drug”
Gratitude isn’t the only emotional skill that could be valuable to the modern business. We might also hope to build emotionally intelligent and empathic workplaces, where employees practice compassion and forgiveness.
But gratitude could be a pathway to these (arguably more difficult) goals, according to Peter Bonanno, director of program development at the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute (SIYLI), a nonprofit that offers training in mindfulness and emotional intelligence to individuals and teams. Bonanno has found that, to most people, practicing gratitude is appealing, practical, feel-good, and fun. One study, for example, found that gratitude journaling for as little as 15 minutes was enough to boost positive emotions.
“I see gratitude as a gateway drug to empathy in that it’s very positive, it’s easy to get started with,” Bonanno says. Being grateful to someone who has helped you means that you recognize the intentions and effort behind their actions, which is good practice for the “putting yourself in someone else’s shoes” involved in empathy.
At SIYLI retreats, Bonanno often leads a 10-minute gratitude meditation. Participants think of someone they want to appreciate, then focus on how they were impacted by that person and what their gratitude feels like. Afterward, they’re invited to send the person a text message expressing their thanks.
“It’s a total heart-opener,” says Bonanno. “A lot of people have said that it’s helped them to open up a conversation that they’ve needed to have with a business partner or a spouse, something they’ll been holding in, something they’ve been putting off.”
In another workshop, Bonanno saw the power of gratitude to promote kindness and generosity. Some of the participants at a large technology company experienced feelings of guilt during a gratitude practice: Focusing on the good in their lives made them recognize all their privileges—enviable jobs, fun benefits, high salaries. After sharing and discussing these feelings, they left the workshop vowing to find ways to give back to people who weren’t so fortunate.
That’s an outcome you might expect from practicing gratitude: Studies show that grateful employees are more concerned about social responsibility, for example. Grateful employees—as well as employees who receive more gratitude—also perform more “organizational citizenship” behaviors: kind acts that aren’t part of their job description, like welcoming new employees and filling in for coworkers.
In fact, gratitude and kindness seem to form a positive loop in the workplace. Just as gratitude leads to altruistic behavior, research suggests that the opportunity to help others and serve a cause is one of the major sources of gratitude at the office.
Four keys to gratitude at work
Of course, not all attempts to introduce gratitude into the workplace result in heartfelt revelations or acts of generosity.
There are many reasons why gratitude initiatives might not go over well: As Steve Foran suggested, they may come off as insincere, a token nod to employee well-being that can be advertised in corporate brochures. Some people may be wary of expressing gratitude and acknowledging their debt to others, seeing it as a sign of weakness. Even if the program is generally well-received, some employees could feel left out if they rarely receive gratitude or recognition. And of course, in the busy modern workplace, programs to foster gratitude and appreciation could feel like one more thing that employees don’t have time for.
But workplace leaders and researchers have identified some strategies for avoiding these pitfalls and reaping the benefits of a more grateful workplace. Here are four of their best tips.
1. Gratitude is about the whole person
According to author and consultant Mike Robbins, some gratitude initiatives fail to do anything new: They simply repurpose recognition programs, which have existed for a long time. Recognition rewards performance and achievement—what you accomplish as a worker—whereas appreciation acknowledges your inherent worth as a person, he says. It’s the difference between celebrating record-breaking sales vs. applauding a caring and helpful spirit.
“Appreciation is about people and their value,” says Robbins, whose forthcoming book is called Bring Your Whole Self to Work. “You create an environment where people feel valued and appreciated for who they are, not just what they do.”
In one of his favorite exercises, employees take turns sitting in the “appreciation hot seat,” and others go around a circle expressing appreciation for them. People start off hesitant, feeling awkward and a bit vulnerable, he says, but the experience often ends in laughter and hugs—not because they’re praising successful business deals or admirable reports, but because they’re getting at something deeper.
2. Gratitude isn’t one-size-fits-all
Another common pitfall when companies introduce gratitude is assuming that everyone wants to be appreciated in the same way. Pollack likens appreciation to love languages: Each individual’s language of appreciation is different, and we risk miscommunication if we assume everyone likes to receive a card, a coffee, or public praise. She has compileddozens of different gratitude practices to try at work, from surprise care packages to appreciation badges to a celebration calendar.
Similarly, Pollack says, we all want to be appreciated for different things because we’re all different. Workplaces can bring together diverse people with different types of communication styles, backgrounds, and expertise, and it’s our job to recognize our colleagues’ strengths even if those strengths are different from our own. I feel valued for my passion for self-improvement and personal growth, for example, even though my fellow journalists have other specialties.
“The key is that there are things to learn from each other,” Pollack says. “Instead of being frustrated, it’s celebrating that, ‘Oh that person actually is seeing something I wouldn’t see in the same way.’ So we can learn how to appreciate that.”
3. Gratitude must be embraced by leaders
In a culture that prizes busyness and hard-driving achievement, people can feel guilty and self-indulgent taking the time to meditate at work or keep a gratitude journal. “We are taught that the busier we are, the more successful we’ll be,” says Emmy Negrin, former manager of the Yahoo Employee Foundation and Yahoo for Good. To send a different signal, she invited executives to attend a new mindfulness program at Yahoo in order to show their buy-in for the initiative.
At Southwest, the company used to send out pins to employees who had served the airline for a milestone number of years (like 5 or 10). To better honor their culture of appreciation, though, they now send the pins to leaders and invite them to recognize and celebrate the employee in a special way, transforming gratitude from a faceless gift into a relationship-building experience. In both cases, getting leaders to participate communicates that gratitude and well-being are important.
At the same time, though, gratitude isn’t something you can force. Gratitude will really take hold when it’s also embraced from the bottom-up, when employees take the initiative. SIYLI, for example, doesn’t have a formal gratitude program in their workplace. But since it’s part of their culture, says Bonanno, employees often bring up feelings of gratitude during “check-ins” that take place at the beginning and end of meetings. Communicating the value of gratitude, then offering a variety of opportunities and options for practicing it, may be the best approach. Which brings up the next tip…
4. Gratitude has to be part of the culture
For Fehr at the University of Washington, one of the keys to a successful program is consistency. For example, adding a short gratitude practice to staff meetings or infusing internal communications with gratitude keep it top-of-mind. Employee awards once a year won’t cut it, he says.
“Ultimately, it’s about creating an organizational culture around gratitude,” says Fehr. “Organizations need to, as a baseline, treat their employees well, and then on top of that the organization also needs to develop programs that help them see all of these positives.”
Organizations can’t even assume that an intensive immersion in gratitude, like Pollack’s three-day appreciation retreat, will be enough. Luckily, though, her once-reluctant nonprofit employees understood that. During the six months after participating in the retreat, they worked with her closely to build a culture of gratitude, introducing some appreciation practices into the larger organization. Today, she says, they’re “definitely in a better place.”
“Acknowledging the thoughts and efforts of people with gratitude shows that those people matter,” she says. “When I’ve seen it work, it’s just life-changing.”
No Matter Who Wins, You Still Create Your Own Reality
Nov 7,2016 Leave a comment 2016 Election, Change the World, Mindset, Your Future
This certainly has been an interesting presidential election experience…for all of us. Unfortunately, it has also been an incredibly divisive and disempowering to the American people. Did you give away your power?
Have you been paying attention to the campaign? If so, have you been noticing more negativity in your life recently? Are you feeling angrier or more stressed? Are you more skeptical and judgmental of people you don’t even know? Are you fearful about the possible outcome of the presidential election? Are you more worried about your future? Are you feeling hopeless and like things are out of control? Read More
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Are your thoughts aligned with your goal?
Oct 12,2016 Leave a comment Brain Science, Career Progression, Mindset, Neuroscience, Your Future
What does it mean to “align your thoughts with your goal” and why is it worth your time?
The short and simple answer to why it’s worth your time to align your thoughts with your goals – dreams – desires – is because doing so makes the journey faster, easier and more enjoyable. Think “flow.” Thoughts that are contrary to what you are wanting to achieve or experience, however, make the process slower, more complicated and more stressful. Think “struggle.”
We don’t consciously choose to do things the “hard” way, but when I ask the question, “What do you want?” people almost always respond in one of two ways: Read More
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Overwhelmed by “To-Do’s”?
Aug 22,2016 Leave a comment Mindset, Tools, Workplace
Overwhelmed by so many To-Do’s? It’s time to delegate to Universal Energy.
Feeling overwhelmed and paralyzed from the weight of having too much to do? As an entrepreneur and a former HR professional, this stressful state is quite familiar to me.
I’ve spent a lot of time pushing through and telling myself to work harder. This strategy was never very effective though, and always left me tired, annoyed and even less productive.
When I learned about the Law of Attraction and the flow of Universal Energy, however, I began to understand what was happening during those times of overwhelm and how to tap into the productivity of Universal Energy to get more done in less time. We can easily achieve so much more if our thoughts and energy are in alignment instead of working against each other. Read More
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40 Interview Tips (Complete List)
Aug 3,2016 Leave a comment Uncategorized
Great article on Interviewing…
http://www.anyintern.com/interview/interview-tips/
Monday Morning Mindset
Jul 25,2016 Leave a comment Brain Science, Engagement, Mindset, Tools, Workplace, Your Future
Monday morning is a great opportunity to reflect on what you want to achieve and how you want to feel by the end of the week . To help everything come together easily for you, take a moment to also make sure your thoughts are focused on what you want instead of what you don’t want to experience.
If you are thinking about the lack of … time – money – people – cooperation – resources … or if you are thinking that your week and work will be difficult and stressful, then you are thinking about what you don’t want. Read More
3 Simple Steps to Attracting More and Better Clients through Gratitude
Jul 18,2016 Leave a comment Uncategorized
This article ran in the July issue of Carolina Business Woman.
Gratitude changes everything – including all aspects of our business.
Through a conscious gratitude practice, we can attract more and better clients into our business. Try this simple 3-part gratitude practice to help you find the perfect balance of clients you love, work you enjoy and the financial rewards you desire. Read More
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How Gratitude Makes You Healthy, Wealthy & Wise — vitalink
Apr 7,2016 Leave a comment Uncategorized
The Expert Speakers’ Karin Cross talks about how gratitude can make a big difference in our lives.
Source: How Gratitude Makes You Healthy, Wealthy & Wise — vitalink
The Expert Speakers’ Karin Cross talks about how gratitude makes a huge difference in our lives.
GRATITUDE CHANGES EVERYTHING in our lives and our communities. It is not just a feeling in response to someone doing something nice for us – gratitude actually makes us healthy, wealthy and wise. And here’s how: Read More
A Workplace Gratitude Model – The Dialog Mile
Feb 19,2016 Leave a comment Engagement, Gratitude, Mindset, Neuroscience, Workplace
Through scientific research, case studies, and personal experience, we know that happiness and gratitude in the workplace significantly improve the overall performance of the organization and the general well-being of its employees. Now it’s time for employers to integrate this knowledge into the culture and day-to-day practices of their organizations.
As I consider how we can better infuse gratitude into the workplace, I recall a wonderful workplace program that I had the pleasure of facilitating a few years back when I was the Director of HR for the Dialog Corporation.
When I joined Dialog, it was a mash-up of haphazardly integrated organizations, cultures and systems. Employees in every department felt misunderstood, under-valued, under-utilized and unappreciated. Even though we had a lot of talented people who wanted to do good work and provide great service, quality and efficiency were very low and the morale even lower.
One afternoon, a group of about ten employees (representing all of the departments) and one manager approached me about developing Read More
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3 Thought Tweaks for Easier Manifesting in 2016
Jan 13,2016 Leave a comment Career Progression, Mindset, Your Future
Knowing how to manifest and thinking the thoughts that make manifesting fun and easy are two very different things.
The basic manifestation process is:
Be as clear and specific as possible about what you want. “Begin with the end in mind,” as Stephen Covey puts it. This gives you direction.
Know why you want it. Know the essence of what you want to create and what that feels like. This provides you with the motivation to take action.
Believe that you can achieve your desire. This aligns you with your desire. If you do not believe, you will not achieve…period.
Trust that each step to your goal will unfold at the right time. This keeps you open to receive your next step.
Take inspired action as each next step reveals itself. This gives you momentum and makes the journey fun.
Knowing this process is a good place to start, but unless your thoughts are in alignment with what you’re wanting, your journey is going to be difficult at best. So here are 3 simple “thought tweaks” that will help you reach your goal more easily and have a lot of fun along the way: Read More
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Usually when great actors like Hugh Jackman, Zoe Saldana, Zach Galifianakis, Emma Thompson and Steven Fry are part of a movie it should be good. And then there is Missing Link.
The story features Hugh Jackman as "Sir Lionel Frost". His dream was to join an English Adventurers Society which he was excluded from. They said he needed proof of finding a supernatural creature. Lionel decided to discover The Sasquatch.
Instead of finding fearsome creature he found a friendly creature which he named "Mr.Link" played by Zach Galifianakis. Other characters including "Adelina Fortnight" played by Zoe Saldana who's late husband had a map to the Himalayas,
There were other characters such as "Gamu" played by Ching Valdes-Aran and "The Elder" played by Emma Thompson but in spite of the cast the movie was quite borrowing.
The problem with "Missing Link" is that is too sophisticated for little kids and too boring for adults. The movie has gotten great reviews. I thought it was boring.
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"CONSERVATIVE" ACTOR JAMES WOODS, TROLLS AND SPAMBLOCKING
This blog will be watching this situation very carefully. It is our opinion that what we are seeing when it comes to twitter suspensions is fake-out troll activity on conservatives going right to big names in Hollywood, primarily under the hastag #justiceforbanghazi4". If you read this last blog post, you know in our opinion we think we've found one such player: actor James Woods.
First and foremost let's talk "conservative" The mainstream media calls Woods conservative. That's great for them, because then it looks like anyone to the right of James Woods must be 'a crazy extremist", right? Why is that good for them? Because besides James Woods himself admitting to be liberal on some issues, as we reported in the last memo his only online donation records that we could find show him donating to 1 Democrat and perhaps the most liberal Republican in the last 50 years, Olympia Snow (click on images for larger versions).
UPDATE: "Conservative" James Woods Wikipedia bio lists him as a REGISTERED DEMOCRAT. If that is incorrect, he should change it, but it seems in-line with his donation records, to be sure:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_woods
We also told you how trolls have been suspending conservatives.
People claim evil liberal forces are at work inside of twitter, targeting strong conservatives for Gulag (Twitter suspension). Then they spend all their time rallying people to use hashtags to get them out of Gulag, over and over, day after day, week after week, month after month, when those people might otherwise be contacting congress to impeach Obama, form a select committee, etc. And it turns out that the very people blaming twitter for the suspensions and leading people on a huge collective wild goose chase to get them out appear, as a group, to be the ones suspending people by organizing group spamblock operations to trigger automatic account suspensions (in violation of Twitter rules, by the way) as reported above. In other words it's obvious that it's a huge con - a set up.
We showed you indisputable screenshots of the same people, over and over, calling for "spamblocking" accounts and those people are usually looped together: Harriet Baldwin, "Boss Hogg", "Dakota rose" and.... actor James Woods. He gets along with those people just great. Very interactive, in our opinion.
He also promotes something of his own apparent creation, a hashtag called "INSTABLOCK". Repeat "INSTABLOCK". "BLOCK". Isn't that adorable?
Now what is "InstaBlock"? Is it some technical app that instantly blocks with some impossible intelligent software with huge objective awareness and an old-fasioned sense of values of what constitutes to be a "bad person"? No. It's a hashtag. It's a message. What is the message? To block whoever he says to block. Why not just block? "InstaBlock" is, IMO, very plainly a barely-veiled attempt to rally people who know the code to "mass spamblocking" while appearing innocent. They even tried it on my Twitter handle, Frank M Davis JR (trolls, don't bother calling me out on a "fake name" if you are a follower of "Boss Hogg". Thanks)
I'll make the conclusion quick and to the point: IMO what we are seeing is a massive, subversive operation which draws in celebs to play a merry game against conservatives to censor conservatives via targeted twitter account suspensions and then have lower-level "leaders" keep a large portion of the conservative twitter community wasting day after day fighting an imaginary enemy in the form of some entirely fictional evil twitter controlling force when, as Malkin's Twitchy reports, the suspensions are triggered automatically via group spamblock sessions. It is also my opinion that Woods appears to be very plainly involved in it, hooked up with pal Harriet Baldwin, self-claimed cousin of super-uber-leftist actor and left-wing political loudmouth Alec Baldwin. Harriet claims to be a conservative, too. I'd like to know what public records show her political donations to look like. I am guessing, probably like Woods - democrats and RINOs.
In my opinion you're being manipulated, spun and sent down a merry path that leads to nowhere so as to protect Obama. The libs and trolls say that about us, of course, but without mentioning one very gigantic difference: We Tea Party Fire Ants have things like these to our conservative activist credit and they don't. I guess no one is supposed to think about that:
In other words, the trolls appear to be obliquely quoting P.T. Barnum by implication when they attack us; "Who ya gonna believe - me, or your lyin' eyes?" Images, screenshots and letters from Congress are not imaginary, and it is clear that the trolls attack Tea Party Fire Ants and other Conservative activists for one reason - unlike their victims who they have chasing imaginary forces on the internet, we are getting Conservative things actually done - and that includes outing the trolls themselves.
Now, this blog may be wrong in all this. Okay. That's fine. I can live with that. But let's find out. If James Woods can urge people to "InstaBlock" (group block individuals) then we can ask him why he supported a democrat and RINO if he claims to be a conservative. Ask him why of all the people on Twitter he may know in Hollywood and elsewhere, he appears to be primarily involved with a small group of comparative unknowns just outed for organizing group spamblocking with the obvious intention of suspending targeted twitter accounts. And ask him what the function of InstaBlock really is. Oh yes, in my opinion you might also want to report him to Twitter for creating a subversive, smart-ass form of group spamblocking unless of course, Woods can answer that last question, and IMO, he should.
IMPORTANT! To get around these leftist horror shows, there's a little trick you can use that seems to work for us. Put a "." immediately in front of every name included in your tweet. This was recommended to us ages ago and I have not seen Gulag since. Somehow it fakes out the automated Twitter suspension mechanism. DO NOT FORGET to do it - make it a habit until you aren't even aware you are doing it, because you may get targeted at random just so they can make it look like there is no pattern to their activity (fat chances of that, but I digress)
This "." activity was put to the acid test 3 days ago inadvertently when Kathy forgot to put a period before 1 of three names when tweeting Barbara Boxer. She was suspended in seconds. Now, that was so fast because the trolls really hate us and watch Kathy and I 24/7. They are now trying to frighten and intimidate TPFA members into peeling off from the group, and several have, in fact, gotten nervous and left, DMing that as their reason (and I believe them. Absolutely). Okay. That's life. But whatever you do, put that period before every name. The trolls hate me more than anyone on earth, it seems, and I have not seen Gulag ever since I put that period there. I strongly suggest you make it a habit to protect yourself at all times. Can the liberals do it, too? Sure. But that's okay, because we don't believe in censorship like they do; as conservatives we know we can always win a political argument based on the merits.
We're going to win this, you know. The big picture, I mean. They can't stop us. I predict here and now Obama will be impeached for any number of offenses Congress has already acknowledged for which they could impeach Obama and probably removed well before the end of his second term. Congress appears to be getting more fed-up than frightened, and once that happens, we win almost instantly. That will be the American System properly at work, righting wrongs, and for that we should, at that time, celebrate. And then we can all celebrate together. On twitter, too, with no fear of being "gulaged" by trolls. Right? Right!
Keep the faith and keep swarming. Let's earn a few more congressional thank you's before the celebration time comes!
For more about the #justiceforBenghazi4" troll ops, read http://www.benghazi-truth.blogspot.com/2013/09/lions-and-tigers-and-trolls-oh-my.html
Personal Addendum:
Some people are very unhappy about the so-called 'bickering between groups". This isn't that. This is TPFA telling people with screenshots who are clearly, IMO, organizing spamblock suspensions of people they don't like, yours truly included. There is only one activity served by organizing mass spamblocks of individuals, and that is to trigger an automatic suspension of the victim's account.
This is no fun for us, either, but if TPFA is to live up to its obligations to the conservative cause, we have no choice but to engage these people directly. We can be Ted Cruz or Bob Dole. We can be Gingrich in his heyday or we can be Mitt Romney. We can fight or we can be polite and make things look nice on the surface while the trolls eat away every scrap of foundation beneath us. Some of us in TPFA, through a combination of effort and happenstance find ourselves well-positioned to make the fight. We've proved we can do it, too. I have no choice but to take on this battle. Propaganda is often much more deadly than any bomb attack, because the destruction is wholesale, invisible and happens often with no one seeing it until the destruction is done. having been in media for over 25 years in NYC and knowing the power of such operations, I won't sit back and watch it happen.
I'm middle-aged and lived and loved pretty well for a jerk, while millions of awkward kids in uniform serving this nation died in searing pain, clutching the cold snow or stinging desert sands while their last words were calling to their mothers because they had not lived long enough to know the love of any other woman. Will I dishonor that moment of their sacrifice by sitting it out because people are "annoyed", for God's sake?
I don't know about you, but I'm going to fight. It's easy enough to do with the evidence. Wrap your minds around the screenshots. Words are too easy for many, but the proof doesn't lie.
- Proe/Frank
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LIONS AND TIGERS AND TROLLS - OH MY!
This post is really a follow-up/extension of our now somewhat infamous - and often mentioned - BENGHAZI-TRUTH GUIDE TO STEALTH ONLINE LIBERAL TROLLS PRETENDING TO BE CONSERVATIVE If you haven't read it, I suggest you do.
IF YOU CAME TO READ ABOUT BOSS HOGG, HARRIET, DAKOTA, & TROLL PALS UNDER THE TWITTER HASHTAG "#justiceforbenghazi4"CLEARLY AND UNFAIRLY SUSPENDING CONSERVATIVES, INCLUDING THIS BLOG'S AUTHOR, ON TWITTER, SCROLL DOWN TO THE GREEN
9/27/2013 - now updated with more bile from the trolls -screenshots! Plus a surprise about
"Conservative" actor James Woods! Updates in blue
UPDATE OCT 6, 2013 - IMO THE MOST AMAZING AND JAW-DROPPING SCREENSHOTS YET. IF YOU HAVE ALREADY READ THIS WHOLE ARTICLE, SCROLL ALL THE WAY DOWN TO THE PURPLE! OCT 9, MORE SCREENSHOTS!
An amazing couple of facts presented themselves on a silver platter for all to see yesterday - yet no one else seems to have seen the significance except Tea Party Fire Ant members. Not that these facts were a surprise. Not, at least, if you read the above-linked article. What makes them amazing is that the trolls are dropping their masquerades to an astonishing degree - or are not trolls demonstrating IMO a seeming impossible disconnection from all reality. It's impossible to know if they are so confident they don't care, or are themselves so fed up with Obama they do just enough to earn their Soros-money.
1. It's pretty clear IMO that "Special Operations Speaks" management is entirely off the rails on the Benghazi Select Committee. We told you about this before but the extent to which they are now mocking and deriding Rep Wolf's HRes36 demanding a Benghazi Select committee while pushing HRes306 the sole purpose of which is to see HRes36 passed in the House. Make sense? No, of course not. Unless, that is, if you understand that it's a very good way to never get a Benghazi select Committee, since HRes306 is a Discharge petition which has, as of this writing 6 co-sponsors. the original HRes36 as you all know has 174 (Edit: now at 177), or 3/4 of the GOP House.
In this screenshot you can see Special Ops twitter account both deride HRes36 while admitting to HRes306 having only 4 co-sponsors
It's not the first time:
I have been really torn on the following for the embarrassment factor - particularly for the 1,000 vets who signed their petition - IMO requested by SOS to give a False Flag operation the unimpeachable cred of their service - but it must be shown. I will spare the gory screenshots - for now. Here's what the Special Ops Speaks admin DM'd me and told Kathy Amidon independently on the telephone:
H. Res 36 is dead in the water. Boehner refuses to bring it to the floor and Boehner won't form the Select Committee himself. It's useless
H. Res 306 goes around Boehner and forces a floor vote on H. Res 36. (Editor: TPFA thought this initially and worked for a few weeks on it before Spec Ops Speaks even existed and we learned shortly that that's all wrong - Discharge petitions never pass and would send Wolf back to the drawing board, not ensure an automatic passage and implementation) Please listen to me, I've worked in the House before and know
what I"m talking about.
Wolf has turned coward on us and is in Boehner's pocket. He is of no use to us anymore. If he really did want to force H. Res 36 to the
floor for a vote, he would have signed on to the Discharge Petition / H. Res 306
(Except if Wolf was in Boehner's pocket he would have pulled HRes36 already and not sent letters of thanks to us for continually getting more co-sponsors on the bill which is putting a great deal of pressure on Boehner now - we get that from inside several congressional offices. SOS's assertion here that Wolf wants to block a resolution that would otherwise send his own bill to victory is at the very best IMO a stupidly illogical and absurdly paranoid fantasy)
Say and do what you want sir, but in this case...legislatively, you are wrong.
Wolf is not our ally anymore. He is working for Boehner and has not intention anymore of getting a Select Committee.
In all truth, every Republican SHOULD be on board with both pieces of legislation.
We've had Wolf in conference calls and have given up trying to work with him. Wolf, Boehner, Cantor, the whole leadership is useless
(there is more)
A call to Wolf's office confirmed that no such conference call with Special Operations Speaks ever took place.
I was lucky to copy-paste and get screenshots of all this. When I told SOS we would check all his assertions with Wolf's office he deleted the DMs so fast I couldn't believe it.
Now this is what is to me the real tell-tale aspect that proves IMO that Special Ops Speaks is a derailment operation: they never say "Do both". If they were merely misguided, they would push for more reps on HRes36 and HRes306. Instead they effectively dismiss HRes36 and slam it's author who had nothing to do with HRes306. "Maybe they are too busy to do both". Okay, what have you seen them doing besides sharing stories? "Working behind the scenes?" You mean like the conference call to Wolf that absolutely, positively never happened?
The whole thing just stinks to high heaven. IMO if they are sincere, they are entirely incompetent to the point of virtual retardation. My own opinion is that they are a very carefully planned fake-out. Remember, Soros has billions and Benghazi would/can ruin Obama and the democrats with him ten times worse than Watergate did Nixon. Control of the most powerful nation in the world is something people spend money on. Don't mistake it. This looks to me like one of those things.
Benghazi-Truth challenges Special ops Speaks to recant their attacks on Wolf and HRes36 and push at least for both, with an emphasis on HRes36. Do not follow them to see what happens next - that only gives a group saying these kinds of things power that comes with the credibility of your support. We'll tell you when there is any news on it.
2. My my my! Look who is suspending conservatives! Why, if it isn't the same collective group that has been decrying that very activity. You have heard them endlessly: "My best friend is in Twitmo! Get them out!" "So-and-so's account has been hacked!" Endlessly, endlessly, endlessly, it's about almost nothing more than getting people out of Twitmo . This IMO is a duel strategy to make these people appear to be a "threat to the left" (despite the fact that they never do anything) while eating up moment after moment, hour after hour, day after day while Obama moves ahead unimpeded by the non-stop hollow ranting taking place in a chat bubble the rest of the world never hears.
You probably recall that I, myself, was accused by these people of "Suspending Boss Hogg." How I was supposed to accomplish alone, without ever interacting with him or them, this Ozian feat was never explained. Not that I didn't ask them to explain - I did, repeatedly - I just never got an answer. How I was supposed to do it supposedly completely alone since, according this knucklehead, Kathy and I are the same person, is an even greater mystery:
(Pretty good last line if I do say so myself. AHEM!)
You can see "Boss Hogg" himself perpetuating that unfounded lie even after being outed:
Considering "The Hogg" knows that this group, the Tea Party Fire ants, led by Kathy and myself, have received among several honors not one but two letters of thanks from congressman Wolf for this group's work on Benghazi (one more than almost anyone and two more than anyone), I don't see how anyone can consider Hogg as anything but an unmitigated bold-faced liar when he calls us "frauds", here. He knows better, clearly, and as usual offers no proof or specifics - everyone is supposed to take his word because he has, what I suspect from the disparity of his wall activity and the number of followers he has, 1,000's of ACORN-supplied phony follower accounts.
You see Harriet Baldwin uses the same entirely unsubstantiated generalization:
More from their trolls:
We had to include this from always-looped-in Clarence, who, while Senator Ted Cruz made his speech on the Senate floor, spent the entire 24-hour cycle almost exclusively
attacking us
Note here that he sarcastically interjects himself to blunt the message from me representing TPFA - the message being to vote against cloture. Obvious liberal troll. This is Hogg's pal. He's one of Harriet's pals. He's one of Dakota's favorites
So who are these people leading the suspension charge and sending conservatives to Twitmo? Why it appears to be none other than Dakota Rose Lexliewis888, "Surgical Strike Harriett" Baldwin, Boss Hogg BossHoggUSMC themselves and their followers! (HUGE hat tip to Kathy Amidon for catching this in the cacophony of endless Twitter characters by the billions)
How do they do it? How do they attack others the way they say I and others do to them? Well, they, as a group, spamblock the victims to twitmo/gulag. Spamblocking a single victim as a group activity triggers an account suspension in Twitter. Now it seems that not talking to them and putting a period "." in front of the "@" on each twitter handle renders this useless - I do both and have not seen Twitmo in a good few months at least. But Spamblocking in unison is how they knock people out people not doing those things. From Twitchy:
http://twitchy.com/2012/04/30/twitter-you-have-a-problem/
How do we know it's Hogg, Dakota Rose? Here's the obvious smoking gun(s). They and their group(s) are clearly behind it:
Get the picture? These people apparently use any excuse they can think of - "stalker" (no offense, but who would want to stalk whisky-throated Dakota Rose?); me presumably surgically attached to Kathy who are supposed to have nothing better to do than suspend some guy we never heard of before?.
Now this is interesting! Look who appears to be in the game! Actor James Woods!
"But - but - but, James Woods said bad things about Obama! He's a true conservative!"
Wanna bet? Who's been feeding you this spin-doctor diet of 100% pasteurized bullshit? Look at his 2008 political campaign contributions:
http://www.newsmeat.com/celebrity_political_donations/James_Woods.php
Now, I don't know what universe you live in, but where I come from, Democrat Langevin and Uber-RINO Olympia Snow are not exactly competing with Ted Cruz for the love of the Tea Party. Yet, IMO the appearances these days is that someone has been spinning Woods as some kind of Conservative actor hero. Do you feel that way from the social media these days? I do.
Officially, Langevin's liberal voting record is twice as high as his Conservative ranking:
http://thatsmycongress.com/house/repLangevinRI2112.html
Snow, from "Conservapedia":Olympia J. Snowe (b. 1947) is a former Republican United States Senator from Maine. She is a liberal on many current issues and calls herself a moderate. She supports abortion, gay rights and amnesty for Illegal Aliens. In fiscal matters and on defense, Snowe is somewhat conservative, though she rejected fiscal sanity, voting nay on Cut, Cap and Balance.
http://www.conservapedia.com/Olympia_J._Snowe
So we have people all here who are very tightly connected, clearly. The foorsoldier trolls doing the dirty work, their higher ups, also doing the dirty work, their celebrities like "Surgical Strike Harriet" Baldwin - calling for people to do the dirty and work and now actor James Woods volunteers, apparently, to Harriet Baldwin, a block maneuver. Now one might think that I have been bugging Harriet directly that any blocking would be necessary. The problem is I normally blocked (not suspension-causing spam-blocked) Harriet and have not looped her in for months. In fact, we had to unblock her to catch these screenshot moments. I can only deduce, in my opinion, that Woods gave his own little contribution to the Twitter suspension operations against conservatives, for whom his contribution record obviously suggests he probably has no love.
You can mix and match these connections any way you want:
Democrat Langevin = Woods = Baldwin = Hogg = Dakota et al
Wicked Huntress = Dakota = Hogg = Baldwin = Woods = RINO Snow.
Are you getting the picture?! Things are probably not as you have been led to believe. Unfortunately, it may be much worse. "
Well Bo Snerdly, Rush Limbaugh's right-hand man appears to really really like... Harriet Baldwin.
He also really likes.... James Woods, whom he retweeted while Woods, who is clearly not a conservative, was playing one on twitter. This is interesting because I know he has never said a thing about TPFA and my knowledge has not said anything about Overpasses To Impeach Obama - on other words., activists who do something besides politically-harmlessly complain (Obama did win re-election, as you recall).
So - back to Woods, please keep a scorecard - what is Woods doing talking like this when he is donating to democrats and ultra-liberal republicans? I don't know, but I find it unsettling that he postures like he did, above, while offering Harriet Baldwin a new way to block the founder of the Tea Party Fire Ants - Harriet, a person clearly engaged on some level in the mass spamblocking of conservatives to suspend their twitter accounts.
So you can form an opinion like this if you want, like I am beginning to:
Rush's right-hand man Snerdly = Harriet = Woods = Democrat Langevin and ultra-liberal Snow
Things could be very bad and it's all happening right under your noses. My own opinion is that they are probably laughing at the conservatives who hold them in such regard. You see the un-doctored screenshots. Doubtless you have seen Bo happily retweet Harriet, Harriet calls Woods a good friend, and Harriet is with Hogg who is with Dakota, etc al, and except for Bo, all have been caught on screenshots apparently involved in this Twitter account-blocking suspension operation of conservative accounts, though Woods' connection may be more tenuous than the others, though the way Harriet responds to Woods' apparent voluntary offering and the way he responds back is, IMO, suspicious as hell.
Many among their number will mock all this, of course. But conservatives know hollow mockery with no facts when they hear and read it, and so far that is all the trolls have offered.
My own opinion is that things, while looking very good on HRes36 and some congressmen looking into Obama's personal records behind-the-scenes, appear to absolutely horrible for Conservative on social media. When a guy with a donation record like Woods gets a respected foothold in the conservative social media, we are in the deepest trouble imaginable.
What do we do? I suggest people politely ask Woods on twitter to explain himself. he's an outspoken public figure - why not? As for me, obviously from my own experience I have rejected him utterly as anyone to listen to for a moment - obviously.
Back to the suspensions in general. It is quite clear that I was right about something else - Hogg, etc are obviously spamblocking themselves via surrogates so as to play the "victim/martyr". This is a variation of an old, old trick which Putin, Islamic Terrorist etc do: create a false enemy to solidify their power base and make sure there are "victims" to anger their followers into taking action. It's also pretty harmless compared to what Nazi spies would do; murder one of their own to prove to the allies that they were on the side of the allies.
I mean, think for one moment, seriously: They say we are "frauds" while they know perfectly well about this short version list of Tea Party Fire Any accomplishment and recognition (of which they have zero to show for themselves). I put these things up against any tea party group. Do you agree with what we have done? Do you disagree with people who know what we have done and attack and spamblock our accounts into suspension?
Dakota, Hogg, Harriet and the rest are plainly lying through their teeth in a way that defies any explanation except, in my opinion, that they are very tremendously not nice people. They know every move we make (in fact, they often claim moves for us we didn't make). The obvious answer, IMO, is they are working from the other side. It does not matter what you have been led to believe up to now. Read all this again. And again. And again. Until the doubt that makes you think "misunderstand" could account for it evaporates and you have come to a solid conclusion. What is the conclusion?
Here's mine (need I explain it?):
I implore you for the sake of your country, if you follow these people, to unfollow them, walk away and shake the habit of chatting merrily in a big plastic bubble while American goes to hell in a handbasket - and they facilitate that destruction by suspending accounts of activists while keeping everyone else busy with fantasies and imaginary enemies. Instead, learn new ways and get active! Tweet your Reps - and not the way they do it, which is meaningless, but this way, the TPFA way, which creates public pressure and works:
The time for living among the lion and scarecrow and other fantasies is over. We need to get serious about winning this thing, now. Following guys clearly caught red-handed spamblocking people will ruin this country bit by bit as surely as any Obama-created national cancer.
Now you have the evidence of who has been behind the conservative suspensions. The evidence is right there in front of you. Absorb the shock if you've been taken in by Dakota, Hogg, Harriet and their people. Accept it, and take a new path. Following those people only helps Obama. Deal with the reality of it now.
Tweet congress every night with #TPFA. We make no money from it - TPFA is entirely volunteer - and even this blog intentionally has not a single advertiser where I could be making good money from it, now. This is for America. #TPFA will never betray the cause like, IMO, the people above. Time is running out for me to convince you against the momentum their numbers have created. We need you now to close the sale on Benghazi to congress.
If you don't, never complain about Obama again. Your complacency is your contract with Obama to never do anything but empower him and condemn your children to live in the world as a spoiled, communist community organizer would have it.
America needs your energetic, activist help. Now. Today.
Join us on Twitter #TPFA and/or follow @Kathy_Amidon every night 7:15 PM EST to tweet congress as a group. We're out of time. America is out of time. This is important.
UPDATE, OCT 6, 2013!
This blog simply had to post these latest screenshots, which I believe you find both educational and entertaining, even if they make your blood boil a bit. If you have read all of the above, they need little in the way of explanations:
To begin with, the above-mentioned and their pals have really upped their attacks in recent days as we press them hard - but fairly - on Twitter to explain the screenshots. Now, to read them, you'd think I was monstrously unpopular among conservatives, right? So to put a little perspective here for balance, lest anyone reading already have wondered on Twitter (not the most amazing but not bad), here are a couple of screen shots off my twitter account:
Here's Boss Hogg seeming not asking but ordering his followers to spamblock:
Here are 4 people chosen at random IMO seeming acknowledging compliance to the order (unbelievable)
Harriet. "InstaBlock" again, Oct 6:
And yes, people are influenced by this kind of thing. I'm pretty sure "Tag Team" is another term for "group spamblocking" to send someone into suspension, but I'd be happy to be corrected.
Even after many years dealing with tough people in a tough business in the toughest city on earth, I have to say that I regard following, in my opinion, to be simply gross and alarming. If there are people out there who regard "Boss Hogg" as a representative sample of Tea Party conservatives, it's no wonder so many mainstream/centrist Republicans worry about us. I use tough language and have been know to say Goddamn" and "Jesus Christ" (pardon me), but IMO the following by Hogg, a seeming representative sample, is simply off the chart. People may want to consider this when dealing with Hogg, his close followers or if you follow him:
I find it particularly weird that we read, written with seeming steam-level fury, the remark "You have a lot of nerve to question me and side with fake personas..." coming from a guy named "Boss Hogg".
In the meantime, since this entire situation was researched and then reported in our defense after the people above attacked us first, we will continue to ask them on Twitter to.... "EXPLAIN THE SCREENSHOTS" of the seeming calls to spamblock conservative accounts into suspension. IMO it's the least of the questions they should be called upon to answer.
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“SpaceShipOne was a suborbital air-launched spaceplane that completed the first manned private spaceflight in 2004. That same year, it won the US$10 million Ansari X Prize and was immediately retired from active service. Its mothership was named “White Knight”. Both craft were developed and flown by Mojave Aerospace Ventures, which was a joint venture between Paul Allen and Scaled Composites, Burt Rutan's aviation company. Allen provided the funding of approximately US$25 million.
Rutan has indicated that ideas about the project began as early as 1994 and the full-time development cycle time to the 2004 accomplishments was about three years. The vehicle first achieved supersonic flight on December 17, 2003, which was also the one-hundredth anniversary of the Wright Brothers' historic first powered flight. SpaceShipOne's first official spaceflight, known as flight 15P, was piloted by Mike Melvill. A few days before that flight, the Mojave Air and Space Port was licensed as the USA's first commercial spaceport. A few hours after that flight, Melvill became the first licensed U.S. commercial astronaut. The overall project name was “Tier One” which has evolved into Tier 1b with a goal of taking a successor ship's first passengers into space within the next few years”. – Wikipedia
SpaceShipOne attached to White Knight takes off at the Mojave Airport, September 29, 2004 in Mojave, California. (Photo by Robert Laberge/Getty Images)
SpaceShipOne, attached to the bottom of the carrier plane The White Knight, gains altitude during flight at the Mojave Airport at the Mojave Airport, September 29, 2004 in Mojave, California. (Photo by Robert Laberge/Getty Images)
The “White Knight” circles the runway prior to landing after carrying SpaceShipOne to lauch altitude on it's second voyage in a week to reach outer space in an attempt to win the $10 million ANSARI X PRIZE at the Mojave Airport Civilian Aerospace Test Center on October 4, 2004 in Mojave, California. (Photo by Doug Benc/Getty Images)
A chase plane follows SpaceShipOne after it reached a height of 62 miles in the first non-governmental flight to leave the Earth's atmosphere on June 21, 2004 in Mojave, California. SpaceShipOne spacecraft was carried to a height of 50,000 by the twin-turbojet high-altitude research aircraft, “White Knight”, where it was launched for its final climb. The space effort was funded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and headed by aerospace engineer Burt Rutan. (Photo by Jim Campbell-Pool/Getty Images)
SpaceShipOne climbs after launching from White Knight to eventually reach a height of 62 miles in the first non-governmental flight to leave the Earth's atmosphere on June 21, 2004 in Mojave, California. (Photo by Jim Campbell-Pool/Getty Images)
SpaceShipOne is rolled to the post flight ceremonies after Pilot Michael Melvill landed to complete a successfull flight at the Mojave Airport September 29, 2004 in Mojave, California. (Photo by Robert Laberge/Getty Images)
Pilot Michael Melvill stands on top of SpaceShipOne after completing a successfull flight at the Mojave Airport, September 29, 2004 in Mojave, California. (Photo by Robert Laberge/Getty Images)
A model of SpaceShipTwo is seen with the original SpaceShipOne visible outside as Virgin Galactic unveils its new SpaceShipTwo spacecraft at the Mojave Spaceport on December 7, 2009 near Mojave, California. The eight-person VSS Enterprise, named after the Star Trek ship of the same name, is the first of a series of space-planes for customers of Virgin Galactic who have paid around $200,000 for a suborbital flight into space. British entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson is financing the spacecraft and aerospace designer Burt Rutan is building it through The Spaceship Company, a joint venture of Scaled Composites and Virgin Group. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)
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You'll see his circular arguments, his contempt for women and trans people.
They live in Norwich with their two children, Wendy (12) and Henry (10), but have been in London for the Royal Television Society awards, where Graham picked up a gong. They are both wearing dark suits, and dark hair styled into his-and-hers side-swept fringes.
Since there seemed to be ideas in common they suggested they collaborate. And then you find that you've been sitting in a meeting for half an hour squabbling about how much a cupcake should be.". "All I wanted to do was talk about The Sopranos or music. And in 2015, they went public with their story to highlight why they believe so strongly that the constitution must be changed. — JuniperTheSloth (@JuniperTheSloth) January 28, 2019, https://twitter.com/notheryet/status/1089967266345689088. After Caldwell-Kelly and Linehan entered an online fight over whether Linehan identifies as bisexual or not, Linehan penned a lengthy transphobic and Islamaphobic thread targeting Caldwell-Kelly. When their eldest daughter was ten months old, they left London and moved to Dublin and were horrified to discover that under Irish law, Helen would have been obliged to continue with the pregnancy to full-term or face prosecution. She stressed that if she had the resources to do so, his ongoing harassment is “something I’d be taking legal action over.”, “The weird thing is that he keeps escalating,” she told the Daily Dot. Another woman suggested he try approaching a local mums’ group for help. For your security, we need to re-authenticate you.
It's a really lovely place'," says Helen. "Like everything else that we do.". His behavior invalidates their identities and trivializes their religious journey. “It’s concerning enough that you start thinking, ‘do I need to go to the cops about this?’ Which also would not be the first time.”. ... Twitter users gave their condolences to Linehan’s wife.
In Sharon Horgan's comedy Motherland, the second series of which aired on BBC 2 earlier this week, the protagonist Amanda's husband is a shadowy absence. "I found myself in this different world. The concept grew out of Helen's experience of parenthood.
Though she might not have known it straight away, Graham had his sights set on Helen from the get-go.
"Mumming it," as she puts it. Saying that you've never seen a woman orgasm isn't as much of a logical own as you think it is, Graham.
So Darone is touting for a “miracle person” to step up and assist him. "If I had been in my twenties," says Helen, "and somebody had tapped me on the shoulder and said, 'This is just a little clip of your life - what it's going to be like when you've got kids.'
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the clapping song meaning
by our users: Please, do not delete tags "[e=***][/e]", because they responsible for Also we collected some tips and tricks for you: Follow these rules and your meaning will be published. contributions. Don't hesitate to explain what songwriters and singer wanted to say. Lyrics This is a song and a clapping game It's so much fun to play You can do it with a group, you can do it by yourself You can do it most every day Just … I think this shows some real maturity creeping into Aaron's songwriting, he uses some great imagery, and that thing about the goose is really subtle, very reminescent of Donne. Add links, pictures and videos to make your explanation more Provide song facts, names, places and other worthy info that may Provide quotes to support the facts you mention. Don't understand the meaning of the song? /lyrics/b/belle_stars/the_clapping_song.html. [3], The song returned to the charts in 1982, when the Belle Stars' version charted at number 11 in the UK. interesting and valuable. [3] This version did not chart in the US, although a version by Pia Zadora charted there at number 36 in 1983.
appealing. an account, The monkey chewed tobacco on the street car line, My mama told me (Told me) if I was goody (Clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, slap) (If I was good). Great use of onomatopoic expressions to convey the speaker's state-of-mind. The monkey chew tobacco on the street car line. Ask us or our community about the part of the song that interests you, We will try to respond as soon as possible. by our users: Please, do not delete tags "[e=***][/e]", because they responsible for Ask us or our community about the part of the song that interests you, We will try to respond as soon as possible. Share your meaning with community, make it it's personal feelings, strong statement or something else. Add links, pictures and videos to make your explanation more
Those that would... Before you get started, be sure to check out these explanations created Don't write just "I love this song." /lyrics/s/shirley_ellis/the_clapping_song.html. General Comment I think this song is about Aaron's Aunt Patty getting an STD from a monkey. Provide song facts, names, places and other worthy info that may [4], Learn how and when to remove these template messages, Learn how and when to remove this template message, "Shirley Ellis The Clapping Song (Clap Pat Clap Slap) Chart History", "The Clapping Song Full Official Chart History", "Pia Zadora The Clapping Song Chart History", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Clapping_Song&oldid=964715023, Articles needing additional references from May 2011, All articles needing additional references, Articles with multiple maintenance issues, Articles needing additional references from January 2020, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, The Hype Girlz released The Clapping Song on June 15th, 2015, The song was used in an advertising campaign for, The song was also featured in the TV series, The line "3, 6, 9" is referenced in the verses to, In 2016, the song was used in a commercial for the, The song was featured in the soundtrack to the 2017, The song was also featured in the soundtrack to, This page was last edited on 27 June 2020, at 04:25. Watch official video, print or download text in …
3, 6, 9 When all things come together to experience completion of a cycle. Share your meaning with community, make it Does it mean anything special hidden give readers a perfect insight on the song's meaning. Make sure you've read our simple. explanations' markup.
Make sure you've read our simple. Hey, click the icon to check the status of your Hidden between the lines, words and thoughts sometimes hold many different, Remember: your meaning might be valuable for someone, Don't post links to images and links to facts, Don't spam and write clearly off-topic meanings, Don't write abusive, vulgar, offensive, racist, threatening or harassing meanings, Do not post anything that you do not have the right to post. Songwriters: KAY WERNER, SUE WERNER, LINCOLN CHASE, The Clapping Song lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Know what this song is about? an account. Create Hey, click the icon to check the status of your
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Lyrics taken from Clap pat, clap pat, clap pat clap slap! Those that would otherwise be a "cooked goose", mankind himself, saw an inevitable end and drank wine and let go en mass.
The single sold over a million copies, and peaked at number eight in the United States[2] and number six in the UK. Create an account to credit all your contributions to your name, receive
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the line that kept the geese in accordance was broken. Know what this song is about? "The Clapping Song" is an American song, written by Lincoln Chase, originally arranged by Charles Callello and recorded by Shirley Ellis in 1965. give readers a perfect insight on the song's meaning. the monkey, or the system broke down and we were able to transcend this reality and go on to the next in the simple row boat, meaning, with just what we had on us. Highlight lyrics and request an explanation. Create rewards, status updates and get feedback from our community. Don't understand the meaning of the song?
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Describe what artist is trying to say in a certain line, whether The song is a diss track, or a song written primarily to diss another rapper or a competing rap label. explanations' markup. rewards, status updates and get feedback from our community. • Tom Waits's song "Clap Hands" from his album Rain Dogs quotes the line "they all went to heaven in a little row boat." transported to heaven. Don't write just "I love this song." Watch official video, print or download text in PDF. Lyrics taken from Comment and share your favourite lyrics. In the version of the song on the live album Big Time, Waits prefaces "Clap Hands" with the entire first verse of "The Clapping Song". The line broke, the monkey got choked And they all went to heaven in a little rowboat. Don't hesitate to explain what songwriters and singer wanted to say. Highlight lyrics and request an explanation. Describe what artist is trying to say in a certain line, whether The song was released shortly after Ellis had released "The Name Game". Three six nine, the goose drank wine.
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“Clap Back” is aimed at rappers 50 Cent and Eminem, and is just one of many diss tracks released in the beef between Murder Inc. Records (the label Ja Rule was on) and Shady Records (which signed 50 Cent and was owned by Eminem).
Find more of Belle Stars lyrics. 3, 6, 9 When all things come together to experience completion of a cycle. Explore 1 meaning and explanations or write yours.
it's personal feelings, strong statement or something else. Does it mean anything special hidden Also we collected some tips and tricks for you: Follow these rules and your meaning will be published. If this song really means something special to you, describe your feelings and thoughts. contributions. "The Clapping Song" incorporates lyrics from the song "Little Rubber Dolly",[1] a 1930s song recorded by the Light Crust Doughboys, and also features instructions for a clapping game. "The Clapping Song" is an original Barney song that was first featured in the Barney & Friends episode, "Hop to It". between the lines to you? Provide quotes to support the facts you mention. appealing. Original lyrics of The Clapping Song song by Belle Stars. Hidden between the lines, words and thoughts sometimes hold many different, Remember: your meaning might be valuable for someone, Don't post links to images and links to facts, Don't spam and write clearly off-topic meanings, Don't write abusive, vulgar, offensive, racist, threatening or harassing meanings, Do not post anything that you do not have the right to post.
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Reusable Cloth Bag
Avoid plastic, Arise cleanliness, Invite happiness.
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Eating plastic animals died, seeing plastic nature cried” So say no to plastic.
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Environment refers to the surroundings or the habitat in which an individual lives in. The humans have invented a number of useful things and one of them is of course, plastic. A plastic bag takes from 15 to 1,000 years to break down, depending upon the environment. It is also one of the major factors of Global Warming which is a big threat to nature today. Students of std 3 have taken this subject with utmost responsibility to propagate this and stop the use of plastic bags in our society.
Avoid plastic bags and let us live longer.
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Plastics give a helpful hand, but they are polluting our land.
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It was thrilling to work along with the children for the community and serve for the betterment of the society. Children learnt different ways to reuse old clothes.
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Making Things out of old clothes and putting up an “Exhibition-cum-Sale” was a great joy for the students and the teachers.
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Stories by Leroy Brown/Gleaner Writer
Overwhelming feeling! - Spence Jr elated after big win on Saturday
Published:Wednesday | December 9, 2020 | 12:17 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer
Errol Spence Jr, one of the long line of world boxing champions with Jamaican ties, successfully defended his International Boxing Federation (IBF) and World Boxing Council (WBC) welterweight titles last Saturday night, when he scored a unanimous...
Boxing referee Eddie Cotton passes
Published:Monday | April 20, 2020 | 12:17 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer
WORLD-RATED BOXING referee and judge Eddie Cotton died from complications arising from the novel coronavirus on Friday. Cotton, who lived in New Jersey, United States of America, officiated in numerous world title fights, and also in several...
‘Slick’ Ashley left stranded by COVID-19
Published:Saturday | April 4, 2020 | 12:15 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer
What was supposed to be a three-week holiday from her job in Shanghai, China, as a boxing coach has turned into a nightmare for former five-time world boxing champion Alicia ‘Slick’ Ashley, who is now under a self-imposed quarantine in Fort...
New boxing gym project draws huge praise
Published:Monday | March 9, 2020 | 12:08 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer
An emphatic endorsement of the Jamaica Boxing Board’s ‘Gloves over Guns’ project was given recently by Her Excellency Laurie Peters, Canada’s high commissioner to Jamaica, as she gave the main address at the opening of the Montego Bay Boxing Gym,...
Jamaican boxers defeat Panamanians at gym opening
Published:Tuesday | March 3, 2020 | 12:22 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer
Jamaica’s amateur boxers did themselves proud last Saturday night when they produced a scintillating performance to defeat a team from Panama 5-1, to mark the opening of the Montego Bay Boxing Gym located at the Montego Bay Cricket Club at Jarrett...
Boxing Board to open new gym in Montego Bay today
Published:Saturday | February 29, 2020 | 12:17 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer
The City of Montego Bay has been without a boxing gym for decades. This is about to end, however, because, this morning, a new gym will be opened by the Jamaica Boxing Board at Jarrett Park, home of the Montego Bay Cricket Club. The official...
I-Fight promises ‘explosive boxing’ tomorrow
Published:Friday | February 14, 2020 | 12:23 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer
Boxing fans will be treated to what has been dubbed “a night of explosive boxing” by American promoter Chris Joy tomorrow night at the Karl Hendrickson Auditorium at Jamaica College on Old Hope Road in St Andrew. Joy, who is the head of I-Fight...
‘Big 12’ Brown takes Brompton Cup
Published:Friday | February 7, 2020 | 12:27 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer
Ricardo ‘Big 12’ Brown, Jamaica’s superheavyweight boxing champion, won another international medal on Sunday night in Ontario, Canada. He took the gold in the Brompton Cup competition. This year, 500 boxers from five countries, including Jamaica,...
Stanley Couch takes second National Championships
Published:Thursday | January 30, 2020 | 12:00 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer
A good all-round performance by its team of boxers gave Stanley Couch Gym (SCG) its their second successive victory in the National Boxing Championships on Saturday. SCG scored 24 points, one point ahead of Bruising Gym, 23. The Jamaica Defence...
AIBA replaced for Olympics
Published:Saturday | December 28, 2019 | 12:40 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer
An International Olympic Committee (IOC) Boxing Task Force, led by Japanese IOC member Morinari Watanabe, who is also the head of the Japanese International Gymnastics Federation, will be in charge of the boxing competition at the 2020 Tokyo...
Jones hoping for exciting Boxing Champs
Published:Friday | December 27, 2019 | 12:41 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer
The Jamaica Boxing Board has announced that their National Amateur Boxing Championships will take place over three nights from Thursday, January 23 to Saturday January 25, 2020, at the Stanley Couch gym, located on Victoria Avenue in Kingston. The...
Sarrasague claims JN Open Tennis title
Published:Monday | December 23, 2019 | 12:58 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer
Visiting Jamaica for the holidays with his college colleague Jacob Bicknell turned out to be fortuitous for 22-year old Felipe Sarrasague as he came out as the men’s champion in the Jamaica National Bank Open Tennis. The competition, which ran from...
Holmes too good for Pompey
Richard ‘Frog’ Holmes was a cut above Guyana’s Winston Pompey in ability, stopping him by technical knockout, in less that a minute of the second round of a fight that was scheduled for six rounds during the Wray and Nephew Rum Punch Series at...
‘Bus Boy’ headlines Rum Punch fight night
Published:Friday | November 22, 2019 | 12:37 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer
Boxing will be in the limelight in St Catherine tonight when the Wray and Nephew Rum Punch series featuring both professional and amateur boxers starts at the Spanish Town Prison Oval at 7 p.m. Tonight’s five-fight card will have Jamaica’s Kevin...
The show must go on! - Fight night at Sabina Park goes ahead despite rainfall
Published:Monday | November 18, 2019 | 12:26 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer
A classic example that “the show must go on” was given at Sabina Park on Saturday night when, despite torrential rainfall, the international boxing show featuring fighters from Russia, the USA, Venezuela and the Dominican Republic took place before...
Mike McCallum planning big for homeland
Published:Saturday | November 16, 2019 | 12:23 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer
Mike ‘The Bodysnatcher’ McCallum, the first Jamaican boxer to win a world boxing title, is in the island on what he told The Gleaner yesterday is “a short holiday and fact-finding mission.” He is accompanied by Christopher Lovejoy, rated No. 10...
Jamaica is prime for boxing – JBB
Published:Saturday | November 9, 2019 | 12:00 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer
International boxing will return to Jamaica next Saturday, November 16, when American-based Uprising Promotions, in collaboration with local promoting company Creative Sport and Entertainment, put on a five-fight card featuring two title fights, at...
Frazer unstoppable in Poland
Published:Saturday | October 26, 2019 | 12:18 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer
The Jamaican flag and national anthem were seen and heard last night in the Hall of Legions, Kielce, Poland, after 25-year-old Joshua Frazer, Jamaica’s amateur welterweight boxing champion, collected his gold medal in the Leszek Drogosz Memorial...
Phillips, Bird capture Swept Away Open
Published:Friday | October 25, 2019 | 9:29 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer
Jamaica’s No. 1 male tennis player, 25-year-old Rowland ‘Randy’ Phillips, and 14-year-old junior Selena Bird were crowned Open singles champions on Monday, Heroes Day, when they scored impressive victories over their opponents to take the main...
Touch Tuina/Swept Away Clay tourney starts today
A prize of $1 million will be on the line this weekend in the Touch Tuina Couples Swept Away Open Clay Court Tennis Tournament, which serves off this morning at the Couples Swept Away Hotel in Negril at 9 a.m. The tournament, which has been the...
Stephens, Cain King Alarm Junior champs
Published:Monday | October 14, 2019 | 12:31 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer
Two of Jamaica’s top junior tennis players, Michaela Stephens and Damani Cain, stole the show on Saturday at the Eric Bell Tennis Centre in Kingston. The youngsters scored impressive victories in the King Alarm Junior Tennis Tournament, which ended...
Boxing electrifies Trench Town tonight
Published:Saturday | July 13, 2019 | 12:22 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer
The Jamaica Boxing Board will add a new element to its Gloves for Guns inner-city initiative tonight when in association with Jamaican promoting company Creative Sports and Uprising Promotions from the USA, they will add three professional fights...
Bicknell, Stephens still in ITF hunt
Published:Wednesday | July 10, 2019 | 12:23 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer
Only two players with Jamaican connections, Blaise Bicknell and Micheala Stephens, are still in the running for titles in the International Tennis Federation (ITF) Jamaica Junior tournament, which is taking place at the Eric Bell Tennis Centre at...
Bicknell, Lizariturry win Liguanea Classic
Published:Tuesday | June 4, 2019 | 12:33 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer
Jamaica’s top junior player, 17-year-old Blaise Bicknell, and 20-year-old college student Sarah Lizariturry from Spain won the men’s and women’s Open division titles in the inaugural Liguanea Club Tennis Classic at the Liguanea Club, New Kingston,...
Liguanea Club Tennis Classic gets started today
Published:Saturday | May 25, 2019 | 12:20 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer
Over $1 million in prize money will be on the line in the Liguanea Club Tennis Classic, which serves off this morning at the club on Knutsford Boulevard in New Kingston. This will be the first senior tournament this year in the Llockett McGregor...
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Who’s driving that boat? No one
Sea Machines Robotics builds Autonomous Control & Navigation Systems
to enable the new era of Advanced Oceanic Operations
From Boston Globe by Janelle Nanos
As the hulking gray vessel sluiced through Boston Harbor, all of the elements were in place for a stunning day at sea: clear blue skies, a light breeze, and calm waters.
The only thing missing was a driver.
A warning was painted on the side to explain the absence of a captain, in big red letters: “Unmanned vessel.”
It prompted a few double takes from slack-jawed boaters.
The era of autonomy is upon us, with driverless cars, airborne drones, and robot vacuums programmed to seek out and destroy dust bunnies.
So perhaps it’s inevitable that maritime engineers are beginning to develop unmanned boats for commercial use as a safer, cheaper alternative to having humans steer vessels into dangerous situations.
But just as driverless cars have raised safety concerns — most recently after the death of a man using Autopilot in his Tesla — the prospect of building unmanned ships comes with challenges.
Sea Machines' Remote Command System, called RC NXT, provides PLC-based wireless control of a vessel and is well suited for day-vessel operations such as work boats, tugs, and launches operating within 1000m of the pilot.
Sea Machines' Autonomous Navigation System, called DP NXT, uses vessel-based sensors and proprietary algorithms to give the watercraft a degree of self-awareness, enabling her to efficiently self-motor from point-to-point while avoiding active & passive obstacles or collaborate in tandem with another vessel.
The boat turning heads in the harbor earlier this month was a prototype created by an East Boston startup called Sea Machines.
Its team is developing the technology to help convert ships into drones that can be controlled remotely by their captains or programmed to operate autonomously, patrolling harbors for security purposes, or ferrying cargo back and forth.
They’re targeting the commercial maritime market, hoping that tugboat operators, oil rig overseers, and fishery mangers might want to add a robotic mate to the crew.
“If you look back to the 1700 and 1800s, the marine and shipbuilding space was really the Silicon Valley of the time. Some of the brightest engineers and the latest technology was going into those vessels,” said Sea Machines’s Michael Johnson as his cofounder, Alex Lorman, maneuvered the 24-foot boat off the dock in East Boston, using a remote control the size of a toaster.
The cofounders met while responding to the wreck of the Italian luxury ocean liner Costa Concordia after it ran aground in 2012.
While working to salvage what they could from the sinking ship, Lorman witnessed a crowded mess of boats zigzagging through the shallow waters, each with its own crew, he said.
“They were doing repetitive tasks that could easily be automated,” he said. A drone boat, they realized, would be far more efficient.
He and Johnson developed the company’s technology with the help of Jaybridge Robotics, a Cambridge autonomous-vehicle design shop that was recently acquired by Toyota as part of its push into the driverless car market.
They are now building the company through the MassChallenge accelerator and hoping that the technology will provide an alternative for dangerous maritime situations.
Tugboats, for example, are tasked with helping to maneuver hulking oil tankers as they enter a harbor, work so risky that it at times can be fatal.
Jeff Bartkowski of Sea Machines took the helm of a chase boat while a colleague controlled one of the company’s unmanned vessels during a test run in Boston Harbor.
Barry Chin / Globe staff
This concept isn’t exactly new on the open ocean.
Marine scientists at places like the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution have developed remotely operated underwater vehicles that allow them to explore the floor of the sea from the deck of a ship.
DARPA’s Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel (ACTUV) program has designed, developed and constructed an entirely new class of ocean-going vessel—one intended to traverse thousands of kilometers over the open seas for months at a time, all without a single crew member aboard.
The ACTUV technology demonstration vessel was recently transferred to water at its construction site in Portland, Ore., and conducted speed tests in which it reached a top speed of 27 knots (31 mph/50 kph).
The vessel is scheduled to be christened on April 7, 2016, with open-water testing planned to begin in summer 2016 off the California coast.
And the Navy has been using its own forms of automated vessels for over two decades, first for target practice, then for military drills, said Larry Dickerson, an unmanned systems analyst for the Forecast International aerospace and defense firm.
“The market is very much in its infancy, but it’s starting to get more attention,” Dickerson said.
He estimates that driverless boats are a $6 billion industry, which might explain why major players like Rolls-Royce are hopping on board.
In March, the company unveiled plans to develop a land-based control center that would need only a dozen people to orchestrate the movements of an entire a fleet of cargo ships as they carry goods around the world.
“Autonomous shipping is the future of the maritime industry,” Mikael Makinen, president of Rolls-Royce’s marine division, said at the time of the launch.
“As disruptive as the smartphone, the smart ship will revolutionize the landscape of ship design and operations.”
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But unmanned surface vessels, or USVs, are starting conversations about how autonomous boats would fit into the rules of the sea, many of which have been established for centuries.
Earlier this month, Lloyd’s Register, the UK-based organization that works to classify ship construction standards, outlined its first autonomy levels for cyber-enabled designs.
They range from crafts that are manual and rely entirely on humans to the most tech-savvy vessels that can operate without any human supervision at all.
And while he doesn’t expect completely autonomous ships to be out on the water in the next few years, getting protocols in place is important, said Nick Brown, the register’s spokesman.
But standardizing shipbuilding regulations might prove easier than sussing out the uncharted waters of maritime law as it applies to these new vessels, said Sam Blatchley, an attorney in the admiralty and maritime practice group at the Pierce Atwood law firm in Boston.
“In order for this to go forward there has to be change to the legal framework,” he said.
“The same kind of laws don’t apply if you’re in Boston Harbor versus if you’re in the briny blue.”
Among the challenges: determining who is responsible if an unmanned vessel crashes into another boat.
And there are maritime rules that require on having a lookout onboard, so would someone watching via a remote camera count?
An un-manned boat cruised Boston Harbor in a test run.
What regulations cover unmanned ships in international waters?
At the outset, Johnson and Lorman of Sea Machines are focused on smaller-scale commercial operations and have self-funded their efforts up to this point, they said.
And they hope to allay fears that robot boats would take jobs from humans, saying they could instead help fix the looming shortage of merchant mariners that the United States may soon face.
In March, the head of the Maritime Administration issued a warning: The country will need 70,000 more people to support the maritime fleet by 2022.
“The marine space is really the last big domain for autonomy,” Johnson said.
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Anyone who loves the smell of new cars should be forewarned that the chemicals producing that smell can be hazardous to a person’s health. A 2001 study conducted by the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in 2001 and a 2006 report released by the Ecology Center which is entitled, “Toxic at Any Speed: Chemicals in Cars and the Need for Safe Alternatives,” both show that the chemical smells given off by new cars are infect toxic and make people sick.
Overall, the smell is made up of the chemicals used for constructing the leather and vinyl which, when overheated, give off fumes. Essentially, some of the chemical compounds used in the leather tanning process and in making vinyl are carcinogens, most notably is the known carcinogen benzene. Many notable companies such as Sony Ericsson and Apple Inc. are attempting to reduce the use of these compounds in plastics production under advice from the Environmental Protection Agency. These plastics are used in producing their products. Also used in making new cars are other volatile organic compounds (made of carbon) including toluene, chloride, formaldehyde, methylene, and of course, benzene. In fact, these compounds, when heated within a new car, tend to pollute the car’s air up to 35 times more if the same compounds are used in building a new home, according to a Japanese study.
The problem with these new car smells is that it makes many people sick. The fumes given off for the first six to eight months after a car has been produced have been linked with nausea, dizziness and other symptoms that make up the sickness known as “sick building syndrome.” Sick building syndrome was noted when people started complaining of the same symptoms after moving into a newly built or remodeled home. The carpets, walls and other materials used in the construction or remodeling of that home give off fumes, thus makiThe truck is certainly the warhorse of the automotive world. Whether it’s a semi or a pickup, these vehicles toil day in and day out to facilitate drivers’ diverse needs, from cross-country long hauls to schlepping construction materials across town. And even though trucks are designed for work, they are still vulnerable to the effects of overwork. One common issue that can plague a truck in constant use is foul odor.
Yes, over time it’s possible to notice some unpleasant or even downright noxious fumes emanating from the cab of the truck in question. But there’s no need to panic; likely this odor is just the natural result of spending so much time in the vehicle.
With that in mind, here are some quick ways to curb common smelly truck cab and trailer problems:
Gas & Motor Oil Spills
The above can lead to foul smell that can quickly cross the line into dangerous territory, as gasoline and motor oil spillage can produce quite the noxious fumes. To this end, air fresheners are not enough; the gasoline odor needs to be neutralized at its source. To get rid of the stink it is first necessary to locate the source. That means searching the cab for the stain resulting from any gas or oil spills.
Once the source is located, the best plan of attack is to thoroughly clean the area using a strong upholstery cleanser like ODOREZE® Multi-Purpose Smell Remover Deodorizer/Cleaner. Another tip is too apply some VAPOREZE® Vapor Absorbing Granules to the spot after washing to draw out and remove the remaining gasoline or oil fumes. After a few hours on the spot, the smell should be history.
As mentioned above, trucks are designed for work. And if the person operating the truck has been using it for more hard labor than recreation, well, some residual body odor (bo) from an honest day’s work may linger in the cab. And, once again, oftentimes this beast is no match for a simple air freshener. That’s why it’s best to break out the big guns and use SMELLEZE® Truck Odor Deodorizer Pouches. These devices are inexpensive (around $12.99), are reusable for years, and don’t require power so can be just left in the cab 24/7. After 12 or so hours of use in a truck cab with the windows rolled up, the job should be done.
Food & Drink Spills
No shame in grabbing a quick bite to eat while driving; the shame comes later when an errant food wrapper, crumbs, or a spilled drink ferments for days on end and creates stench foul enough to make a person’s head spin. The first thing to do in such a situation is to locate any hidden food and remove it ASAP. Next, clean up spills with ODOREZE®. The rest is a breeze. To remove any lingering smells, scatter SMELLEZE® Carpet Smell Deodorizer Powder on carpets and seats, leave for few hours, and vacuum. The powder acts as a natural odor vacuum, sucking up foul odor.
By following the above steps, any truck owner should be able to remove persistent smells from the cab of his or her truck and trailer with relative ease. The best part is that these methods should kill the smells once and for all – until the next burger wrapper gets left under a seat for a few weeks.
Sean Clark is the Social Media Coordinator for NextTruckOnline.com, a marketplace for used commercial trucks, used freightliner trucks and more.
ng a new home toxic to live in for some months.
Even more importantly, the level of Polybrominated diphenyl ethers which are used in making flame retardant materials, are even more toxic than the simple “new car smell.” The problem is that these chemicals also contribute to the smell. These chemicals emit toxins so damaging that breathing in the air saturated with these chemicals after purchasing a new car can impair a child’s learning in addition to polluting the fetus’s blood, possibly exposing it to learning problems. While many Japanese car companies are reducing the use of all of the chemicals that make the “new car smell,” most American companies, such s GE and Ford Motors, are not.
Louise Baker is a freelance writer and blogger who usually does car insurance comparisons over at CarinsuranceComparison.Org. She recently wrote about finding cheap car insurance quotes.
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We have a septic tank in our YMCA that was built in 1964. It’s a 2 story building , but also has a lower floor where our pool filter and pump is located. This is where our septic tank is. Every so often, we get a bad sewer smell that goes throughout the Y. Do you have anything that will help us get rid of this nasty smell?
Thanks, Herb
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Firstly, I would recommend using Smelleze® Reusable Chemical Smell Deodorizer Pouches to eliminate the sewage odor from the air. Secondly, you can sprinkle Smelleze® Natural Carpet Smell Deodorizer Powder on the floor around the area with the odor and this should rid the odor.
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Please advice on below enquiries:
1. Does Smelleze Resusable Dead Animal Smell Deodorizer Pouch applicable to odors of rotten cancer wounds?
2. Does Smelleze Pouch has a MSDS for reference?
3. Is there any vendor or retail in Canada carries Smelleze product line?
4. How much and how long it will take for shipment to Scarborough of Ontario with postal code of M1V 5P4?
Hope forward to hearing from you soon.
1. I would recommend our Smelleze™ Reusable Hospital & Medical Smell Deodorizer Pouch for odors of rotten cancer wounds.
2. Yes we do have MSDS for smelleze and ill be happy to send one to you if you email me at service@noodor.com
3. We do not have any stores in Canada or anywhere that sells smelleze products.
4. Depending on how many pouches you order it will be it will be around $20 for shipping and take around 10 days.
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Three Truths For Building Future-Proof Organisations
December 7, 2018 Procurious HQ
Automation, artificial intelligence and emerging technologies are changing our world and redefining the future of work. Organisations need to gear up to manage this transition wisely and understand the new rules of the game.
The fourth industrial revolution has the potential to disrupt every industry in every country through large-scale automation, adoption of emergent technologies, big data and artificial intelligence. There are many predictions and estimates on how this will affect labour markets, but one thing is certain – the jobs we do, and the skills we need to perform them, will change, and rapidly.
A McKinsey report estimated that by 2030 at least one-third of the activities of 60% of occupations could be automated. This means that globally up to 375 million people may need to change jobs or learn new skills. A World Economic Forum report predicted that current trends in a disruptive labour market could lead to a loss of 7.1 million jobs, two thirds of which are in administrative roles. And a study by Oxford University estimated that 47% of total employment in the United States is at risk due to computerisation, given that automation and computerisation are no longer confined to routine manufacturing tasks. Big data and artificial intelligence are allowing a wide range of non-routine cognitive tasks to be performed by machines.
While this may sound catastrophic, the good news is that while large-scale automation may redefine the workplace it does not necessarily mean we will all be out of a job. Changes in technology also create new jobs and spawn new industries. The challenge is going to be ensuring that workers have the skills they need to transition to different jobs. The fourth industrial revolution poses a risk to job security only in the sense that not managing this transition can lead to greater unemployment and social inequality.
In approaching what lies ahead, managers and leaders should consider the following three truths.
1. Talent will be more important than capital
Klaus Schwab, Chairman of the World Economic Forum believes that “in the future, talent, more than capital, will represent the critical factor of production”. To make sure they are ready for a future that is still emerging, organisations and people need to be adaptable, innovative and responsive. If up to 65% of the jobs of tomorrow don’t exist yet – it is impossible to “train” people in the conventional sense. Rather we need to invest in their essential capabilities.
To ensure we build talent that is capable of mastering change we need to invest in resilient leadership. Leadership skills are not tied to particular jobs or industries and solid leadership development provides the kind of transferable skills likely to be needed in the future. The WEF identified the top ten skills that will be most needed in 2020 as: complex problem solving; critical thinking; creativity; people management; coordinating with others; emotional intelligence; judgement and decision making; service orientation; negotiation and cognitive flexibility. These essential skills have long been part of most good leadership development, MBA and executive education programmes – and they will need to be scaled up.
2. Education needs to be flexible too
The WEF report recommends that organisations embrace talent diversity, leverage flexible working arrangements and incentivise lifelong learning to best manage the changes ahead. Lifelong learning and executive education certainly have an important role to play in a rapidly changing job market, and these programmes also need to be flexible and adaptable to student’s and organisation’s needs.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) already offer flexible access to lifelong learning and the number of courses available is rapidly increasing to meet demand. Many perceive the downside of online learning to be the loss of face-to-face interaction, which is still regarded as critical to the quality of education – specifically when it comes to learning and practising the essential skills identified by the WEF. Educational institutions are looking to fix this by offering a mix of traditional and online learning to reskill and prepare for workplace transition. There are opportunities for combinations and blends of one-on-one and group interactions at all levels of learning.
3. The link between education and business is a two-way street
The format of what is being taught needs to be flexible but so does the content.
As the WEF report suggests, education systems need to be re-designed if we are going to tackle the transitions ahead. This entails businesses, governments and educational institutions working together to provide curricula that meet current and future needs. The McKinsey report suggests that governments have a role to play in maintaining economic growth, scaling job retraining and workforce skills development, and providing income and transition support to workers whilst retraining. But they cannot do this on their own.
Educators supply industry with critical skills, and industry has a hand in shaping the talent pool and informing educational institutions of the changes they foresee and the skills they wish to develop. Businesses that invest in long-term partnerships with educational institutions to develop skills and respond to changes in the environment will stand a better chance of building a workforce that is future proof: suitably skilled, adaptable and ready for the challenges that we collectively face. As the African proverb goes: If we want to go far, we need to go together.
Kumeshnee West is Director of Executive Education at the UCT Graduate School of Business. This article was originally published on the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business blog.
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4 American CPOs Nailing Change
June 8, 2018 Procurious HQ
A group of the USA’s most influential procurement leaders gathered at ISM2018 to discuss digital transformation, the evolution of the CPO role, procurement’s influence and the gig economy.
In a press-only event at ISM2018, ISM CEO Tom Derry brought together four CPOs from some of the world’s leading organisations to debate the biggest issues facing supply management today.
The consensus around digital transformation among this group is to take a step back and consider carefully before taking the plunge. DowDuPont Ag Division CPO and Chair of the ISM Board of Directors, Craig Reed, observed that there’s so much technology out there that everyone’s hyper-focused on it. He warns: “Some companies have a culture and a rhythm that doesn’t necessarily work at the same speed that the technology is growing. [You need to consider] how you get it, where do you use it, and what’s the benefit for the company.” Reed reports that in his organisation they’re starting to see a slight evolution where Service and Operations are looking at how digital technology can bring efficiency: “We won’t need as many people doing routine tasks”.
Reed also makes the point that first-movers are sometimes at a disadvantage. “It’s like being the first person on your block with a landline phone”, he said. “If suppliers have to standardise technology specifically for you, it’s going to be difficult [because] the cost of trying to deploy becomes prohibitive to the supplier.”
MGM Resorts International SVP and CPO Stacey Taylor drew a parallel between digital evolution and the industrial revolution, where a lot of people were doing unnecessarily manual work. “We need to be super-disruptive to the market … with a vision of where we see our teams from a talent perspective.”
Taylor notes that technology can drive process optimisation. “What can you fully optimise and automate [to function] without human intervention? The AI could do data, write the RFP, send out the RFP … right up to negotiating the contact. But at the end of the day, we’re not going to have a bot award a contract to a bot, and AI isn’t going to manage the supplier relationship.” For Taylor, human talent will also be needed to find creative, innovative ideas that shift the game.
Camille Batiste, VP Global Procurement at Archer-Daniels Midland, has seen how energised young people in her organisation are by technology opportunities. “If we bring an opportunity to automate and eliminate tactical work, they get excited about that. Then there are employees who don’t yet understand what that tech does – that’s where you get the fear. I feel we have leaders who just don’t understand the value of what this technology can bring and are very concerned about the risks. Our responsibility then is to make that clearer.” Batiste comments that we need to consider what concepts like the digital revolution, robotics and AI would mean to your average plant manager. “A lot of companies say they’re doing digital transformation, but … don’t really have an idea of what it is.”
Reed comments: “My fear is that all the great technology that’s coming out today [won’t survive] because we can’t communicate the opportunities to our organisations properly. I think the technology firms we’re dealing with [need to] help us better communicate that. How do you translate that cost reduction into operating margin and improvement?” Reed is looking at iterations of technology that can drive value for his organisation. “Look at Salesforce – it’s driving tremendous opportunity. That’s the [kind of] stuff we want to do in procurement, but it’s difficult to have that conversation and get the organisation to understand the value.”
The evolution of the CPO Role
LG Electronics VP Global Procurement Strategy, Chae-Ung Um, notes that every organisation has different levels of maturity. “We [currently] consider the CPO as the top, but whoever will become the Chief Value Officer will take the lead. I’ve been on a lot of transformation projects, and everything crosses procurement”.
Reed also talks about maturity. “How mature is your company in understanding the role of the procurement function? In some companies it can be seen as strictly commercial negotiations. In others, it’s broader – looking at things collectively to drive integrated value. But what you’re starting to see more of is that one function can’t do it by themselves – there’s a lot more collaboration.”
But who is best positioned to lead this transformation of the role? Reed says it needs to be someone business-focused, not procurement focused; someone who can look at the business strategy and demonstrate how your suppliers can provide solutions.
Tom Derry talks about meeting a professional at ISM2018 who, to him, epitomised the evolution of the CPO. “She was not only the CPO, but the CFO of IT and head of the business transformation office in her organisation. That’s the leading-edge conception of the CPO role.”
Growing Influence
“From the time I joined procurement 17 years ago, one thing I’ve thought we’ve never done well is marketing ourselves”, said Batiste. “It’s so critical … [I’m considering] hiring a marketing person to drive the internal communication of our value to the organisation.” Batiste also reiterates that support from your organisation’s leadership team is paramount. “The CEO must be talking about what procurement is doing to drive the purpose of the company. Procurement needs to be vocal, not humble, and share … all the good things we’re doing.” She recommends partnering with a strong writer (such as someone from marketing). “It’s good for influence, and for attracting talent.”
Chae has a different approach to this challenge: “If I don’t have influence, I ask our customers – who have the leverage – to help us get there. We bring in a dealmaker.”
Batiste predicts that by 2023 she’ll be seeing a much smaller organisation, with transactional work completely embedded within the business. “What the name for this is, I don’t know. Right now it’s P2P solutions. What’s it going to be in 2020?”
How much will CPOs want to invest in talent in the future? Chae warns that any major transformation will require a lot of people, but two to three years later you won’t need all those professionals. “You need to balance optimising value for the company and minimising future headaches. Having the right people makes a difference.”
Taylor says that in regard to the gig economy, it really depends on your organisation. “There are areas of my business that I just can’t get to, so I’m augmenting it by getting in consultants. Do we train and scale up everyone, or get some blackbelts and move them around key areas as projects come up? Over time, through attrition, we’re scaling back and building powerful little teams.”
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5 Reasons Business Partnering is Procurement’s Secret Weapon
May 2, 2018 The Faculty
Unlocking the benefits of business partnering won’t happen overnight, but if you can get it right, partnering can supercharge relationships between procurement, your stakeholders – and your suppliers.
“For me, business partnering is about building trust,” says Keith Bird, Managing Director of The Faculty. “It’s also a marker of the maturity of your procurement function.”
Bird is speaking at the Asia-Pacific CPO Forum in Melbourne, where he is facilitating a panel of procurement leaders from some of the region’s biggest organisations. They’re talking about how procurement can reap the benefits of business partnering, and the challenges therein. The panel raises five key reasons that business partnering is an incredibly effective way to uncover a new level of value in your organisation.
1. Business partnering is a sign of procurement maturity
We often discuss where organisations sit on the procurement maturity curve. Markers include how the function is organised (decentralised, centralised or centre-led), a focus beyond cost, and the existence of programs such as supplier relationship management (SRM) and the deployment of advanced tech including AI and cognitive procurement.
Business partnering is another such marker. Its existence suggests that the procurement team has moved beyond the traditional stakeholder engagement model to extract further value from customer relationships. Panelist Zelda Pretorius-Kovacs, Head of Category Management at Woolworths Ltd, says that business partnering is an essential part of moving from cost reduction to value creation. “It’s a way of securing the future of procurement in your organisation”, she says. “We looked at our relationships with fresh eyes. Anybody can map internal stakeholder relationships, but we wanted to take a new approach to how we partnered with the business.” Pretorius-Kovacs comments that while her wider organisation was focusing on winning the trust of external customers (shoppers), the procurement team mirrored this journey with a parallel focus on winning the trust of internal customers.
2. Business partnering builds relationships
Andre Harvey, General Manager of Procurement and Supply at Stanwell, says that the way you approach internal customers in your organisation is crucial. “We walk in with curiosity”, he says. “We look for problems that stakeholders have that we can help solve. Fundamentally, procurement has to be like water – it has to find the cracks; find the crevices, and fill them.” This means that when Harvey built up his procurement team, he’s sought to hire a group of problem-solvers and entrepreneurs that will embrace this challenge.
Pretorius-Kovacs adds that an unexpected benefit of business partnering was that the procurement team broke down its own internal silos and began working together more effectively. The team undertook the Game Changer Index to discover their unique attributes before being partnered with the right people to get the best outcomes. Her team has also improved engagement with partners by shifting the conversation to business targets, rather than procurement targets.
3. Business partnering builds trust
Stephen Jhangiani, Senior VP and Head of Supplier Relationship Management at Singapore’s DBS Bank, comments that procurement has worked hard to get internal business partners to work with them and trust procurement. “We’ve focused on being accountable back to the business”, he said. Similarly, Pretorius-Kovacs notes that business partnering is not only an opportunity to develop trust, it’s a chance to mend some bridges along the way.
4. Business partnering enables procurement to connect the dots
Through business partnering, procurement is granted access to a new level of information and visibility of the issues facing their internal customers, which often reveals ways that we can help. Pretorius-Kovacs notes that partnering is an ideal way to build a bridge between the procurement function, the business and its suppliers. “It’s a way to connect all the dots and bring innovation to our organisation in a way that other departments simply cannot.”
5. Internal business partnering will help you rethink your supplier partnerships
“If you can’t have a conversation with internal business customers, without the skepticism, how on earth are you going to have a conversation with the external market?” asks Bird. Getting your internal relationships into the best-possible shape is an important step to take before undertaking effective external supplier engagement. McSweeney notes that open and transparent conversations with customers and suppliers are key. “We want to know where we rank with them, why they’re interested in working with us – we need that level of transparency and candour.”
Delegates at the CPO Forum were polled on the concerns that their organisations had about external business partnering, with the following results.
Interested in learning more about how your organisation can unlock the benefits of business partnering? Contact The Faculty Managing Director Keith Bird via [email protected] to discuss our tailored workshops and training solutions.
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“Hey, Procurement…” The Rise of Chatbots in Supply Management
April 23, 2018 Bertrand Maltaverne
Procurement tech guru Bertrand Maltaverne explores the benefits, limitations and pitfalls of chatbots in procurement – with some animated examples!
“Hey, Siri,…”
“OK Google,..”
Digital assistants are ubiquitous. We talk to them (Siri, Alexa, Cortana, etc.). We chat with them (Twitter, Facebook Messenger, Skype, WeChat, etc.). They are in our phones, in our computers, and even in our homes. Now they are also making their way into our offices!
Procurement professionals need to start taking notice, because chatbots present a valuable and unique opportunity to provide better services and experiences for internal customers and suppliers. They can also support and assist procurement professionals with their daily activities, becoming virtual colleagues or consultants.
Of course, as with any new piece of technology, it is important not to succumb to the hype and to be aware of the technology’s limitations and constraints before deploying bots everywhere.
Value = Outcomes AND Experiences
The term “Conversational Commerce” was coined by Chris Messina in 2015. In his article, he focused on how messaging apps bring the point of sale to you. He first introduced the idea of assistants that people could interact with to buy things from a company. This is precisely what Amazon did and has popularized with Echo (the hardware) and Alexa (the AI-based assistant that “lives” inside Echo).
The idea of voice or text-based interactions with a bot can be extended to much more than B2C and to “buying things”. The value proposition of such technology is to digitise interactions and conversations while also making technology more accessible.
Here are some of the benefits:
Gains in efficiency and effectiveness because of tailored and context-aware interactions. Chatbots remember everything, they know where you are, and can tap into data from all your other applications.
Less time and effort needed to learn how to use Procurement technology: conversations replace graphical user interfaces (everybody knows how to type or speak; no need to use explicit and codified instructions).
Interoperability and accessibility: users chat in the application or channel they prefer (SMS, Instant Messaging, Skype, Facebook Messenger, Alexa, Twitter, etc.). All bots leverage one common robust back-end system that processes and interprets natural language.
All in all, chatbots contribute to the creation of omni-channel and replicable but unique user experiences for stakeholders, suppliers, and for the Procurement teams themselves. Improving experiences is one of the pillars of the digital transformation of Procurement. In addition to delivering business benefits (savings, risk reduction, innovation, growth, etc.), it contributes to making procurement a supplier/customer/function of choice.
“Every time [customers] interact with a product, a service, a person, or an automated system, they judge how well the interaction helped them achieve their goals, how much effort they had to invest in the interaction, and how much they enjoyed the interaction.” Outside In: The Power of Putting Customers at the Center of Your Business by Harley Manning, Josh Bernoff, and Kerry Bodine
Use Case 1: Guided Buying (Chatbot as an Admin.)
This is a use case that is very close to B2C: a Procurement assistant is deployed to handle demands from the rest of the organisation in order to replace or “augment” traditional eProcurement solutions. Requesters interact with a bot that proposes solutions based on:
the needs identified during the conversation,
the Procurement strategy (preferred suppliers, preferred items, contracts in place),
other factors (purchasing history, real-time availability of products, context, etc.).
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The approval process also happens via chat. If available, the chatbot adds the approver to the conversation, creating a group chat. Or, the Procurement Assistant opens a new one-to-one conversation with the relevant approver. Approvers can then ask the chatbot how much of the budget is left and then immediately approve/decline the request without leaving the chat. The same can happen for other process steps (order confirmations, goods receipts,etc.). The assistant initiates discussions to ensure the process is compliant and efficient.
Use Case 2: Operational Support (Chatbot As a Colleague/Consultant)
Chatbots can also be invaluable assistants in operational support. The most straightforward and immediate application: query management. A chatbot can become the single point of contact for internal and external queries about purchase orders, invoices, and much more. Several companies are already successfully using such capabilities in their Procurement portals to provide quick answers to a vast amount of queries, which leaves their teams with time to focus on more complex requests and value-adding tasks.
It can even go further as the following scenario demonstrates:
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Now, let’s compare what happened above with a scenario in the context of siloed organisations and where such technology wasn’t used. The purchaser would probably have learned about the earthquake on his way to work while checking the news on his smartphone. He would only have been able to assess the situation and prepare contingency plans once he arrived at work, losing valuable time. In may organisations this would take hours or even days because access to information is spread across multiple systems. This would result in a very different reaction time compared to the example above, where the cognitive agent reacted almost immediately after the event and prepared recommendations during the night.
Pitfalls and limitations
Relying on conversations instead of graphical user interfaces has many benefits, especially for the mobile worker or casual user. However, there are limitations and challenges.
Voice-based conversations are the most natural ones and are also the most challenging from a technological perspective, especially in a B2B context. This is due, in part, to the international nature of business. For example, names of people or companies are not familiar words that a chatbot can quickly recognise, and to make things worse, they are often not in the same language as the one used to converse with the bot.
In addition to technical challenges like these that will likely be solved someday, there is a more human challenge: the conversational paradox. It explains why chatbots are still not widely used. The paradox is that something very natural (a conversation) is done with another unusual counterpart (a machine), which turns the experience into a very unnatural one. So, when asking a chatbot something, the first questions people are confronted with are:
what instructions can “it” understand?
what words should I use to make sure I will be understood?
This represents both a significant barrier to usage and a risk for adoption. It is therefore important to design and deploy chatbots with that in mind and:
not to use them as the only communication channel (it should be one among many others),
not to oversell the technology as being human-like (it inflates expectations and is a guarantee for failure),
to provide cues and guidance (like the menus/lists in the examples above)
to have a smooth and almost transparent hand-over to a real person if the machine fails to understand a user.
“By 2020, 30% of web browsing sessions will be done without a screen.” –Gartner
Conversational user interfaces are still a novelty, especially in B2B. However, they will become more widely used as technology makes further progress and people get more used to it. So, for Procurement, now is the time to investigate their potential as an additional way to provide a streamlined and personalized user experience both inside and outside of the function.
In addition to delivering the right outcomes, experiences are also a crucial component of the value that the rest of the organisation gets from Procurement. Customer satisfaction is at stake.
The implementation of chatbots, like any other technology, has to be pragmatic, defined by clear use cases, and should not be viewed as a solution in itself. Chatbots will not solve all of an organisation’s problems, , but they can be used as a means to an end!
Time to learn how to say: “Hey, Procurement…”
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“Wat the?” 5 things I learnt about Watson Supply Chain in Vegas
April 5, 2018 Tania Seary
Rather than adopting the “what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas” mantra, I wanted to share some new insights into Watson that I gleaned at IBM’s mega thought leadership event – Think 2018.
1. Watson needs education – but it’s a fast learner!
When you think of Watson, you probably think of a computer that can win Jeopardy and has a PhD in a whole lot of things…but in reality, when Watson enters a new profession, it is like a child that needs to learn.
As humans, we learn from birth and can only pass on that knowledge to someone who in turn spends time learning. AI, like Watson, is similar. It learns by gathering information (i.e. data) and interacting with humans.
You could liken Watson Supply Chain today to a 5th-grader, but its rate of growth is so exponential that it will have a Master’s Degree in Supply Chain within the next three months.
How? Because IBM’s own supply chain practitioners are training it daily by feeding their US$30Bn spend through Watson, pushing through millions of documents, data elements and hundreds of real life supply chain challenges that are resolved each day in the Watson Resolution room. Last year, Watson supported $71.7 billion in revenue, managed 150,000 contracts, and supported 20,000 professionals and 11,000 suppliers to ensure 5,000,000 deliveries were made.
With every insightful response and interaction, Watson is getting smarter. The more Watson is used, the more knowledgeable and insightful it becomes.
I first met Watson at the Gartner Supply Chain Executive conference in London last year. Catching up six months later at Think 2018 in Vegas… even I could see the growth. Watson is now answering supply chain questions in natural language (plain English), and can curate what is most critical for you to pay attention to – alerting you to an impending disruption, immediately assessing the financial impact of the disruption and will help you drill down effectively to understanding what the issues are that you want your team to resolve, and quickly. Watson does this through opening a resolution room, quickly providing answers that typically reside in different system which reducing the time needed to write emails, make phone calls and follow-ups.
The team at IBM told me that their own implementation of Watson has seen disruption mitigation time reduced from days down to hours – or even minutes in some cases – which is critical when you’re moving inventory in the millions of dollars.
“Watson is brand new every day. Every time you go away, it grows and becomes more interesting, because it is constantly learning. You come into the office and there will be a new API. Watson doesn’t take a day off, it is adding knowledge and features 24/7/365.”
Watson Supply Chain Program Director, Rob Allan.
2. Watson Supply Chain is helping save lives
… literally. One of the first user test cases for Watson is a global philanthropic organisation working to improve vaccine distribution in Kenya. Local African pharmacies battle constant low stock of critical medical supplies due to lack of inventory and poor visibility across the supply chain.
It is still early days, but the IBM team is really motivated and engaged with this important humanitarian project. I caught up with IBM Watson Supply Chain’s Program Director Rob Allan, who was energised after a recent visit to Kenya. “It’s great to be putting Watson to work on such a worthwhile project. In Africa, it’s not uncommon for a mother to walk half a day to get medicines, with no guarantee that she will be able to secure what she needs. Our program will deliver vaccines and supplies to more than 4,000 delivery points in Africa. This should make a huge difference to access much needed healthcare. We really hope we can make an impact.”
3. The proof is in the pudding.
Leading companies, like Lenovo, have started mapping their thinking supply chain journey with Watson…but the biggest proof of concept is IBM itself who has been using Watson to manage its multi-billion dollar global supply chain for the last 18 months.
We all know that necessity is the mother of invention and this was certainly the case for the creation of this product. You may not know that it was actually IBM’s internal supply chain team that created Watson Supply Chain Insights.
If you listen to this webinar, you will learn that IBM’s VP Supply Chain at that time, Joanne Wright, had an “aha” moment back in 2011. A series of unthinkable events prompted Joanne to look for a solution. The Japanese Tsunami had wiped out components globally, volcanic eruptions in Iceland disrupted Nordic freight lines and floods in Thailand destroyed disc drive head production.
Joanne’s team struggled to get the right data and she dreamt of a day where she could get a smartphone alert prioritising supply chain failures, present the relevant data and even suggest solutions.
It wasn’t perfect at first. The team had to find and clean the data and learned that you must train Watson … that can’t be underestimated. They consulted the Watson Health cancer team and understood how to train Watson to talk supply chain.
It would seem that it was worth the effort, as it helped IBM’s Supply Chain save millions in inventory and freight costs, not to mention IBM reduced their supply chain data retrieval times by 75% using Watson – and helped build the technology that will drive supply chain into Industry 4.0.
4. It’s not a big a deal as you think!
From everything I have learned in the last 12 months, implementing Watson Supply Chain may not be as onerous as you think. In terms of time to implement, from London, Raleigh to Vegas I have asked numerous executives and they’re all convinced that they can overlay Watson on existing clients’ systems and have a meaningful dashboard up and running within a month.
5. Blockchain … coming soon.
Having been a Queen B2B in the late 90’s, I have long known the value of having common language and data for taking friction out of business transactions. That’s why I’m excited about blockchain. There’s certainly been a lot of hype, and, of course, the bitcoin currency part is totally out of control… but the idea of having a common ledger or “one version of the truth” for all B2B transactions, with the ability for business partners to get in and view the same information, is very appealing.
Watch this space! IBM previewed a new, blockchain-based offering called “Shared Ledgers” at Think.
Taking the plunge…
There’s definitely been a lot of hype about Watson, but there are some real reasons to start your thinking supply chain journey, powered by AI.
In explaining why Lenovo took the plunge with Watson, Bobby Bernard said, “This space is evolving quickly. We want to be an influencer about these new supply chain technologies.”
With most technology introductions, most organisations have been able to wait out the early adopters and jump on-board when the technology is mature and in widespread use.
But IBM is warning that this is not the case with AI. According to Watson Customer Engagement GM, Richard Hearn, “Everyday you’re not using AI is another day your competitor or upstart might be leveraging AI to learn, adapt and disrupt your market and you!”
Procurious Founder Tania Seary is an IBM Watson Customer Engagement Futurist and attended #think2018 as an #IBMPartner.
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Would You Order A Tesla Electric Semi?
November 20, 2017 Procurious HQ Leave a comment
Elon Musk promised that the Tesla Semi reveal would “blow your mind clear out of your skull and into an alternate dimension”. The truck is certainly a game-changer for the logistics industry, but Tesla faces some steep challenges if it plans to win over the commercial market.
We can’t wait to see these trucks on the road. The sleek, bullet-train shaped cab of the Tesla Semis will be instantly recognisable once they hit the freeways in 2020 – if Tesla can overcome the production delays which are increasingly plaguing the organisation.
What can the Tesla Semi actually do?
Equipped with a battery instead of a diesel tank, the Tesla Semi is capable of travelling 804km (500 miles) on a single electric charge – even with a full 36,000kg load. Its autopilot system will go a long way towards eliminating human error in truck accidents, with the ability to automatically:
detect instability and adjust each wheel individually to make jack-knifing “impossible”
maintain a set speed and slow down in traffic
keep the vehicle in its lane with lane detection and lane departure warnings, and
lock onto other Tesla Semis to travel in a convoy.
Charging will take place via a planned, worldwide network of solar-powered “Megachargers”, which will be added to Tesla’s existing network of 2000 Supercharger stations which are in place to power Model S sedans. For drivers in a hurry, a 30-minute charge will enable 640km (nearly 400 miles).
Inside the cab, the driver’s seat is positioned in the centre of the space (which has full standing room), allowing better visibility. The seat is flanked on both sides by touch screens that provide blind spot monitoring and navigation. The truck also comes with tracking features to be used by a fleet manager for routing, monitoring and scheduling.
What’s the cost?
Unknown – Musk didn’t reveal the unit price on stage, but claimed the Tesla Semi would cost 20% less per mile than a diesel-powered truck. Whatever the price is, it’s only likely to fall in the future as regulations on diesel continue to tighten, charging infrastructure improves and the costs of batteries fall.
Despite the unknown price, pre-orders have started flowing in from companies including Wal-Mart (15 trucks), Meijer (4 trucks), and J.B. Hunt (“multiple trucks”).
Will we see these trucks on the road in 2020?
“If you order now, you get your truck in two years”, Musk said at the reveal. The company, however, has been known to over-promise and under-deliver when it comes to production deadlines. The Model 3 sedan, for example, has been beset by 18-month delays. While the company’s consumer fans are apparently willing to tolerate delays, commercial trucking companies are likely to be less patient. The Tesla Semi notably represents the company’s first foray into the commercial vehicle market.
In other news this week:
NAFTA Negotiations Struggle Onward
Reports from the NAFTA negotiations reveal that little progress has been made on U.S. demands that could potentially sink the 1994 trade pact between the U.S., Mexico and Canada.
Officials are currently meeting in Mexico City for the fifth of seven planned rounds of talks. Upcoming presidential elections in Mexico mean that a deal needs to be reached by late March 2018.
New U.S. demands include a five-year sunset clause, and tightening of rules of origin to boost the North American content of autos. Other issues discussed include labour, gender, intellectual property, energy, and telecommunications.
While Mexican officials have said “the work is moving forward”, Canadian negotiators complained on Friday about inflexibility by the United States.
Read more: CBC News
Calvin Klein Bypasses Retailers For Holiday Shopping
Calvin Klein is offering an exclusive line on Amazon only for Black Friday sales, in a move that reflects the increasing shift away from traditional stores.
The company has announced a holiday retail experience called “Calvin Klein X Amazon Fashion”, with underwear and denim available exclusively in an online Amazon brand store and in Amazon pop-up shops in New York and Los Angeles through to December 31st.
Amazon’s pop-up stores pose another threat to brick-and-mortar retailers, in additional to the sales shift to online retail.
Read more: Wall Street Journal
New Procurement Benchmarking Report Released
APEX Analytix has released its “Procurement Leaders’ Benchmarking Report”, with best-in-class performance data from global organisations with a combined revenue of $2.3 trillion. The report reveals:
Only 10% of organisations have a combined P2P organization under common leadership
65% of businesses don’t authenticate vendors against public domain data sources prior to payment
Only 14% capture verifiable details of a vendor’s CEO, CFO or principals.
Get the report here.
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Take the Positive Procurement Pledge
October 7, 2017 Procurious HQ
Eight months after its launch, the International Standard for Sustainable Procurement (ISO 20400) has the potential to help procurement professionals stamp out the worst aspects of supply chains worldwide. But what can be done to create a groundswell of support for this voluntary Standard?
ISO 20400 creates a standard that will enable every organisation in the world, regardless of size, industry, and location, to have a flexible guidance framework on sustainable procurement. The Standard includes seven core subjects, including the environment, fair operating practices, labour issues and human rights, with a range of subtopics under those such as discrimination and gender inequality.
While some businesses have jumped at the opportunity since its launch in April, the voluntary nature of the Standard has meant that many organisations are yet to do so.
Kim Andrews, Sustainability Advisor at Good Environmental Choice Australia (GECA), says that the earliest movers regarding ISO 20400 are the ones that will get ahead.
“The conversation has moved well beyond sustainability simply being the right thing to do”, Andrews says. “Business leaders now understand that there’s a whole spectrum of concrete benefits, ranging from building resilience, future-proofing your organisation, managing sustainability risks and getting ahead of future regulatory requirements.”
GECA has recognised the need to jump-start the conversation and education around ISO 20400. To do so, the organisation has launched a challenge for businesses, government agencies, industry groups and non-governmental organisations around the world to take the Positive Procurement Pledge. By taking the pledge, organisations agree to develop, document and implement a sustainable procurement policy to govern all purchasing decisions by 31 December 2020.
“This is a chance to differentiate yourself from the competition and demonstrate leadership and innovation within your sector”, says Andrews. “It makes a lot of sense from a risk-management perspective. Here in Australia, we’re dealing with gas supply problems, water shortages, rising temperatures in summer, and climate change directly affecting resources. Companies need to start looking at these factors, identifying their own risks and planning to build capacity against that, and the ISO 20400 provides the framework to do so.”
GECA provides certifications and ecolabels across a range of standards by working with organisations to ensure they comply across multiple criteria including environmental and social aspects.
“The ecolabels do the hard work for procurement”, says Andrews. “When you see our logo, it means that yes, you can trust that all of the compliance with legal aspects and international trade laws has been addressed. The global nature of supply chains means that having an internationally recognised label is crucial, which is why we’re part of the Global Ecolabelling Network (GEN) that includes 27 members spread across 57 countries and territories.”
With so many certified products available, there has never been a better time for organisations to start their positive procurement journey.
A sustainability roadmap
Complying with ISO 20400 will take time and commitment, which is why Andrews recommends that companies follow a three-year plan to do so:
Year one: Understanding ISO 20400 and how it currently aligns with your own policies. Identifying the risks in the Standard that apply most to your organisation, and how ISO 20400 can be integrated into your ways of working.
Year two: Using the tools and resources available for companies to help build new policies aligning with ISO 20400, and strengthening policies already in existence. Identifying roadblocks such as contracts, trade agreements or a lack of understanding among suppliers.
Year three: Refinement of your organisations’ policies and seeing how far you’ve come in increasing resilience and purchasing certified products.
“Sustainable products are now a $3 trillion business”, Andrews says. “Taking the Pledge gives organisations the opportunity not only to do the right thing but to get ahead of the competition as the sustainability mandate grows.”
Interested in taking the Pledge? Learn more here. Kim Andrews will introduce the Positive Procurement Pledge to attendees at GovProcure2017 in Sydney on 6 December. Click here to learn more and download an event brochure.
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How to Make Sure You’re Not Being Sold Smoke And Mirrors
August 23, 2017 Eric Wilson
Can you spot the difference between theoretical and real ROI? Basware’s Eric Wilson gives the run-down on preventing value leakage in Purchase-to Pay.
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Buying enterprise software is no easy undertaking – there’s a lot of factors to consider, multiple stakeholders to please and a lot of due diligence that must happen to ensure you can get the ROI that is being promised. Unfortunately, in the world of Purchase to Pay (P2P), most systems available today cannot truly deliver the ROI that is being touted across marketing channels and promised by sales reps because of inherent limitations in the solution.
So, how can you be sure that you are looking at real numbers when comparing P2P solutions and not some fabricated figure that is only attainable on paper?
Ask these two questions
There are two primary questions you should ask when reviewing solutions and providers:
Is the ROI real, or is it fabricated?
Often what happens in the solution seeking process is that a business case is written, either by an internal person, or a consultant, or a solution provider. The business case includes all kinds of detail about the cost savings and efficiencies the company will achieve by implementing the solution. In the case of P2P, these cost savings are in things like reducing off-contract spend, negotiating better pricing, taking advantage of terms discounts, eliminating paper from the process, reducing or redeploying accounts payable (AP) processing headcount, and similar cost efficiencies. But there are real obstacles to achieving the level of savings being promised, and organisations need to choose a provider that can meet those challenges with real answers (more on overcoming these obstacles later).
2. Will the solution continue providing value in the future, or will it be a short-term win that sends you searching for a replacement system in a few short years?
Too often we are only looking five inches in front of our face when making a technology investment decision. The organisation is only looking at the current problem, not the long-term value. Little functional enhancements in P2P may offer some incremental value, but are not what the future of P2P is about. The future of P2P is all about deriving more value from centrally capturing and leveraging all that transactional data, all those POs and invoices, across millions of organisations. The future of P2P (and even today to a large extent) is about using applications sitting on top of that transactional data to create a competitive advantage. Apps like these will empower you to answer questions like: How am I doing against industry benchmarks? Are there opportunities for better leveraging spend in buying groups to get better pricing? Can I fund company growth initiatives through working capital optimization solutions?
Find out if the solution can process 100% of your transactions
Back to the obstacles we mention above – where do those come from and how can you overcome these challenges? Obstacles arise because of one simple factor: all the cost efficiencies in the business plan are assuming you get 100% of your purchasing and accounts payable (AP) transactions running through the system, and most P2P systems cannot accomplish that level of automation.
You must choose a provider that can help you achieve:
100% Supplier On-Boarding
First, you have to get all of your suppliers connected to your P2P system. If you don’t, you can’t access all available terms discounts; you can’t truly eliminate paper; you can’t achieve all of the supply chain efficiencies from the business case. Most P2P systems are only designed to connect to the sophisticated suppliers, who can send XML or EDI transactions. What about that long tail of mid-size and small suppliers, who aren’t that technologically advanced? What about those suppliers that still send paper invoices? You must have a solution for connecting them to your P2P system, and it has to be easy for them to do so.
100% User Adoption
Secondly, all your procurement must be processed through the P2P solution, which means the end users have to use it – not just some of the end users, or most of the end users, but truly all of your end users have to be putting 100% of their purchasing through the system. You can’t achieve that status by mandating it, and you can’t even achieve it by having a procurement system that is “user friendly.” The P2P system has to actually be designed to fit seamlessly into the way that end user is already doing their job. In other words, employees use the procurement system because it is truly the easiest way to get the stuff they need, not because it’s been mandated by the procurement department.
Lastly, all your invoices – for both direct and indirect spend – must be running through the P2P system. This is very rare in the reality of most P2P systems. Most P2P systems are only good at automating the invoices that originated from the indirect procurement solution. What about all your direct invoices? What about all your non-PO invoices, facilities invoices, invoices generated from manufacturing? If the P2P system can’t effectively handle 100% of your invoicing transactions, your ROI just got reduced tremendously, or perhaps even eliminated. The AP side of the P2P system must be a true AP transaction hub for all your invoices, regardless of type of invoice.
So, what does all of this culminate to in the end? One word: data. If the system you choose can deliver real ROI, you begin building a critical asset – a data set of all your financial data in one single location. Then, you can begin using innovative add-ons, like predictive/prescriptive analytics, robotics, artificial intelligence, etc. and see that ROI multiply.
Interested in getting started with Basware? Register for our weekly demo to see how Basware can help you build the business case for real ROI.
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Attention All Employees: Report For Microchipping
August 14, 2017 Procurious HQ Leave a comment
Does the idea of a corporate microchip implanted into your body make you squirm, or are you fascinated by the possibilities?
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“Hold your breath – one … two … [stab].”
A Wisconsin-based marketing company (Three Square Market) recently hired a piercing professional to inject microchips into 50 of its staff. The radio-frequency identification (RFID) chips are encased in glass capsules about the size of a large grain of rice. They were injected into the fleshy part of participants’ hands, between the forefinger and thumb.
Sounds like something from a corporate dystopia, doesn’t it? Don’t worry, all of the microchipped individuals were entirely voluntary – along with a handful of journalists who were eager to see what it was like.
What can the microchips do?
At present, not much. It’s entirely internal to Three Square Market’s office, where microchipped staff can wave their hand to open doors, unlock computers and pay for items in the kiosk, provided the systems have the software installed and a contactless chip reader.
But in the future, the possibilities of human microchips are only limited by the scale of the technology’s implementation. Scannable items such as passports, drivers’ licenses and credit cards would no longer be necessary. Car keys could become a thing of the past, and of course home automation systems would be operable with a wave of the hand.
There’s a good example of microchips in play in Sweden, where a company named BioHax has implanted nearly 3000 customers with chips that enable them to ride the national rail system without having the show the conductor a ticket.
For data analysts, the potential flood of information from microchip use within a company is alluring – data could be collected every time an employee makes a purchase, enters the building, or uses a photocopier.
Can microchipped people be tracked remotely?
Not yet. The microchips aren’t a GPS device, but are entirely passive until they come within a few centimetres of a compatible reader, just like a bank card. Pet owners familiar with the technology know that microchipped pets can’t be located remotely if they go missing – instead, owners must wait until their pets are handed into a vet with a chip scanner.
Will employee microchips one day be compulsory?
At Three Square, over 60% of the company volunteered to be microchipped. The remaining 40% had a range of reasons for demurring, including a dislike of needles, a fear of having foreign objects in their bodies, and privacy concerns.
The concern is that if this technology becomes mainstream, a refusal to allow your company to embed you may lead to losing out on a promotion, raise, or simply being seen as “not a team player”. Forward thinking legislators in Pennsylvania have already introduced a bill to outlaw mandatory chip embedding, with a spokesperson saying: “If the tech is out there, what’s to stop an employer from saying either you do this, or you can’t work here anymore?”
Another issue is that with an increasingly mobile workforce, a chip that only works within the walls of a single organisation would become useless once that person leaves. One day, perhaps you would simply have your chip deactivated upon your exit interview and re-calibrated by your next employer, but this isn’t yet the case. Of those 50 volunteers at Three Square Market, it’s likely that a handful will move on to other roles within the next few months, but what becomes of their chips? The company won’t be happy with non-employees being able to open doors with a wave of their hands, so will the chips be (painfully) removed? Perhaps they will simply be deactivated, meaning users are left with a useless piece of “abandonware” technology embedded in their hands.
In other procurement news this week:
Are emerging professionals being paid more than experienced hands in procurement?
Based on 3808 responses across the United States, ISM’s 2017 Salary Survey revealed that emerging professionals (with under 9 years’ experience) are earning nearly $5000 more per annum than experienced professionals (with 9+ years).
This suggests that organisations are having to offer higher salaries to attract new talent.
The survey also revealed the following average salaries: CPOs – $259,340, VPs – $135,757, Directors – $153,347, Managers – $109,401.
Coupa appoints new Chief Marketing Officer
Cloud-based spend management company, Coupa Software, has announced that digital marketing executive and veteran software industry marketer Chandar Pattabhiram has joined the company as its chief marketing officer (CMO).
Named one of five CMOs to follow this year by LinkedIn, Pattabhiram has more than 23 years of experience in both fast-paced and large technology companies including Marketo, IBM, Badgeville, Cast Iron Systems, Jamcracker, and Anderson Consulting (now Accenture).
Intel to build a fleet of self-driving cars
Intel announced last week that it will build 100 high-automated cars to test self-driving technology.
The project will showcase Intel’s $15 billion acquisition of Mobileye, which closed this week. Israel-based Mobileye makes technology that helps vehicles “see”; collecting, analysing and transmitting data about the outside world.
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Think Big, Think Business, Think People
“I’d rather regret the things I did, than the things I didn’t do.” Insights and wisdom from the career of Hans Melotte, Starbucks EVP Supply Chain and ISM Chair.
Hans Melotte is less than one year into his “wonderful new adventure” leading Starbucks’ global supply chain. At the same time, he is nearing the end of his tenure as Chair of the ISM Board of Directors. We caught up with Melotte at #ISM2017 to discuss topics close to his heart, including the importance of intellectual curiosity for procurement and supply managers.
Melotte’s Mantra
“There’s a personal mantra I’ve always tried to adhere to,” says Melotte. “Think business, think big, think people.”
Think business: “Let’s not just daydream here – as a supply management professional, you’re not the centre of the world. Your role is all about enabling profitable growth for your company, and the only way to do that is for you to think in terms of business or customer centricity.”
Think big: “Starbucks’ aspiration is very bold, and very ambitious. If we agree our role is to help the company achieve its aspirations, then it’s up to us to be equally bold, or there will be asymmetry between the company agenda and our agenda.”
Melotte makes the point that thinking big should be inherent in any leadership position: “I don’t think any company would say it’s okay to be a mediocre leader.”
Think people: “No matter what your agenda may be, everything starts and ends with people.” Melotte is delighted to see so many young professionals filling the halls of the #ISM2017 conference: “I’m so impressed by young professionals – their ambition, their resumes and their enthusiasm. It’s incredibly energising, and humbling as well.”
Moving between industries
Last year, Melotte took a significant cross-industry leap when he moved from Johnson & Johnson to Starbucks. His advice is that professionals – particularly those with high learning agility – should have confidence about moving between industries.
“There’s no right or wrong career. People have a tendency to stack-rank careers and give advice – ‘do this, don’t do that’. I believe you just have to follow your own passion and keep the fire in your belly lit. For me, this was all about starting a new adventure and seizing an opportunity that allowed me to step outside my comfort zone and grow. Life’s too short to not experiment by stepping off the proven path. I’d rather regret the things I did, than the things I didn’t do.”
The ISM Chairmanship
We asked Melotte why he took on the demanding role of ISM Chair, particularly during a time when he was transitioning his own career from J&J to Starbucks. “There was a pyramid of motives”, he replied. “I’d always recommend that people take on an outside-of-industry role. For me, one reason was that I felt grateful, and obligated to give back to the discipline. If the discipline has been good to you, be good to the discipline. Secondly, it has enabled me to access a lens to the world which allows an incredible amount of learning. The board itself is a wonderful network to be part of. Finally, there’s no denying that trying to be a worthy Chairman grows you as a person.”
What contribution is Melotte most proud of in his tenure as ISM Chair? “ISM is a well-known brand and institution, so it doesn’t need extra polish on the logo. What it does need is constant change and evolution – I took it as a great compliment from CEO Tom Derry when he told me over the phone that I’ve helped ISM think more strategically, and think more about the future.”
Intellectual curiosity
“You really owe it to yourself to constantly invest in yourself through continuous learning and continuous education,” says Melotte. “Learn from others, grow and develop. One of the pitfalls that companies step into is when they make statements like ‘we’re different, we’re unique, this doesn’t apply to us’. No matter how good you are as a company, you can always learn from other industries.”
“Intellectual curiosity means being on a learning journey that never ends. It should have no pause button.”
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Step back. step up. step in
January 17, 2021 Mike Simpson Leave a comment
The International School of Yangon is the first school I have worked in that has a performance culture in which everyone is focused on getting better than they are now.
Given that I have only ever worked in good schools, that statement might rub a few ex-colleagues up the wrong way. But the reality is that for everyone to be focused on getting better than they are now, everyone needs to accept that they have a performance gap.
If there is one thing that the 2020-2021 school year has given (and will continue to give) all of us, it is a performance gap. This is a gift that we all have received by virtue of being asked to perform in ways we have never been asked to perform before. We all have different performance gaps but we are connected by the circumstances that have caused them.
It is the gift of performance gaps that have created a performance culture that I have never experienced before and I do not think we will ever experience again unless we can replicate the pressure that we are facing now. I’m not sure that we want to do that anytime soon so I think we should go into the second half of this year accepting that we will still be under pressure but trusting that our performance will continue to improve. But we will only continue to improve if we do not get overwhelmed by our peformance gaps and that is very hard to avoid when you are under pressure.
‘Fight or Flight’ is a common phrase used to describe a person’s options when overwhelmed by pressure. People either become aggressive or just walk away. Now, given that teachers will generally do anything to avoid conflict and their sense of responsibility to their students will not let them walk away, we need another option – ‘Freeze.’
People that have frozen do not fight and they still turn up but they cannot contribute and perform as they usually would. Rather than being an active member of a team, pressure makes them passive. They might go through the motions in a way that suggests contribution and performance but really they are just trying to get by without drawing attention to themselves.
We have all had our moments but we have all handled the pressure of the last few months exceptionally well and this is what our performance culture is based on. I am just wary of the fact that the end of 2020 does not mean that the pressure is off. It might even increase in 2021. So I have been reading up on how to handle pressure and would like to share a mental movement that I picked up from the book referenced below. It is called Step Back. Step Up. Step In.
Step Back: Gain Emotional Control
When faced with a challenging situation that has the potential to cause you to Fight, Fly, or Freeze, step back to think about your own state of mind. This has direct links to an Adaptive Schools’ Norm of Collaboration: Pay attention to yourself (and others). Thinking about your state of mind activates your powerful metacognition function (thinking about thinking) and is the first step in pushing through the urge to Fight, Fly, or Freeze. You are now ready to think about how you are going to face the challenge.
Step Up: Look for Better Options
Every challenge you face provides you with a performance gap. Challenges are challenging because you need to improve your level of performance to overcome them. And before you set out to improve your performance, you need to figure out what your options are to do that. Adaptive Schools’ would suggest that you take a ‘Balcony View’ of the challenge. By stepping up onto the balcony and looking down on the challenge without you in it, you will be able to see the challenge from multiple perspectives and determine a more objective best option to improve your performance.
Step In: Take the Initiative
Once you have established your best option to improve your performance to meet a challenge, you need to take the initiative to do whatever it takes to implement that option. Importantly, that does not mean you need to improve your performance alone. Taking the initiative in this sense might be as simple as asking for help or sharing an idea with a colleague.
Asking for help and sharing ideas has defined our year so far and created a performance culture that will get us through the rest of it. As long as we do not let the pressure overwhelm us, we will meet every challenge that comes our way. I am sure that there will be plenty!
EVANS, CERI. PERFORM UNDER PRESSURE: Change the Way You Feel, Think and Act under Pressure. THORSONS, 2019.
COVID HAS MADE OUR PURPOSE COMPELLING
Recently, at the end of a comprehensive WASC reaccreditation and self-study process, our school was commended by WASC for engaging in long term relationships with outside providers that can support and sustain the work in development, implementation, and continual revision of desired initiatives. This commendation referred to our work with experts who believe in our compassionate Mission and Vision, and related strategic themes and objectives.
Dr. Linda Henke is one of these experts. Linda is passionate about developing inclusive schools and has particular interests and expertise in early childhood education that aligns with our purpose of developing compassionate global citizens, lifelong learners, and agents for positive change. Linda began working with our Early Elementary team in November last year. This was pre-COVID and Linda was able to visit our campus.
At this time we were right in the middle of our whole school WASC self-study process and Linda met with our Early Elementary team in a room that was being used to record and display that process. The walls of the room were plastered with sticky notes on posters to record what we felt we needed to do to achieve three overarching goals that we had set ourselves:
All students will be able to apply their knowledge and skills to adapt and contribute to an uncertain or unknown future.
All students will develop the self-efficacy and agency necessary to drive their own learning, control their own lives and positively influence the lives of others.
The ISY teaching faculty will feel connected and collectively capable in meeting the needs of ISY students.
Linda saw our thinking on the wall and invited me to present it at the first Convening of the Transformational Leadership Initiative (TLI) in St. Louis, Missouri. TLI is a partnership between Washington University in St. Louis and the Santa Fe Center for Transformational School Leadership which Linda founded and directs.
The convening was an opportunity for educators to share their school’s compelling purpose and how this was guiding their work in developing a culture of deeper learning. I was invited because our purpose was clear to Linda in her work with our Early Elementary team and in what she read on our walls. Our purpose comes directly from our Mission and Vision and the three goals we had set for ourselves were an expression of this purpose.
Linda introduced me to TLI’s Human-Centered School Transformation Model to develop a culture of deeper learning. The model was new to me but it’s call for high level collaboration, shared leadership, creativity and courage, empathy and compassion, and a growth mindset echoed what we had also identified as important to achieving our purpose.
I shared our thinking using TLI’s model and after two days of conversations with a very diverse group of educators all working towards their compelling purpose, I left St. Louis with a deeper understanding of our purpose and what we now needed to do and why we needed to do it.
When I left for St. Louis, no-one was really talking about COVID. When I returned to Yangon at the end of January 2020, everyone was talking about it. On March 18, we closed our campus and moved all teaching and learning online. We prepared the best we could prior to moving online and worked incredibly hard to replicate learning experiences that we had planned to deliver to students on campus.
COVID was not on anyone’s radar when we decided upon the first of our three goals but we had already decided that we needed to prepare our students for the unforeseen. We had imagined an interdisciplinary teaching and learning framework to do that and we had the beginnings of an action plan to develop and implement it over a 2-3 year period.
It soon became very clear to exhausted teachers, understandably frustrated parents and increasingly disengaged students that replicating what we had been doing prior to the pandemic will not get us through it. With no end in sight to the crisis as we neared the end of the school year, we made the choice to transform teaching and learning at ISY over a 2-3 month period.
In the last few weeks of the school year, we experimented with interdisciplinary units to get a feel for what we were about to spend our summer developing. These also gave our students and families a taste of what was coming their way in the new year.
Immediately after we finished the year, we started planning for this one. Teachers spent all summer planning interdisciplinary, multi-grade level units. We had no time to scaffold this process for those who were not familiar with what we were asking them to do. We put teachers in teams, provided a planning structure, a (very tight) timeline and asked them to come up with units that could be delivered to students in classrooms, synchronously online, and asynchronously online. Not only did we need to develop new units, we needed to develop three different learning platforms to cater for students who were spread out around the world in different time zones. All of this was compounded by the fact that almost half of our teachers were also in different time zones and those of us still in Myanmar could not get in the same room.
From the outset, we were very upfront with our teachers as to what we were asking them to do – cram 2-3 years worth of work into 2-3 months. How we were able to present to our community a new interdisciplinary teaching and learning framework on three different platforms weeks before the school year started is hard to explain. We proved that it was not impossible but it sure felt like it to all of us at some point along the way.
It helped that we had the beginnings of a plan to transform teaching and learning at our school. It was a plan with a purpose as articulated in our three goals but it was not until COVID happened that our purpose became compelling. We had to act immediately – not just to get through this crisis but so our students will be able to adapt and contribute to an uncertain or unknown post-COVID world.
We also had to act immediately to earn the trust of our families. We did that by acknowledging their need for us to develop something different and working hard to meet that need. We were then very deliberate in over communicating to them that while our new units and platforms will get us through COVID, they are part of a framework that was imagined prior to COVID to get their children through anything that the future throws at them.
As communities all around the world continue to struggle and suffer through COVID, we do not take for granted that we are in a position to prepare our students for a post-COVID world. COVID made our purpose compelling, forced us to act, and our actions earned the trust of our community. We know that we are not doing everything right yet. But schools are not transformed by people trying to do everything right. Schools are transformed by people trying to do the right thing and COVID has allowed us to define what that is for our community.
The longer we are online, the more our community wants us to get better at what we are doing now. They no longer want us to go back to ‘normal’ and they expect us to keep adapting to make sure their children are prepared to learn and thrive in an uncertain future. That was our purpose prior to COVID. As we navigate through and beyond COVID, our purpose now compels us to act and our community to trust us.
It is wrong to say that COVID will make us a better school. It is our commitment to our purpose that will make us a better school and our transformative response to COVID just proves that point. It takes a lot of creativity and courage to transform a school and these attributes are developed through partnerships with other schools. Our partnership with Linda and TLI is relatively new but we could not have connected at a better time. In times of uncertainty, it is important to fully commit to your purpose and try your best to do what is right. That was the message I left the St. Louis convening with that is what our school continues to do.
A Thread of Silver
January 17, 2021 Daniel Kerr Leave a comment
So I was walking home from the store the other day through some back alley sidestreets when I stumbled upon a dried up and sad looking Christmas tree lying right in the middle of the lane. It had been blown there by the wind I guess, or maybe just carelessly dumped there by someone who wanted to get rid of it. It had lost most of its needles and a few of the branches were snapped and barely hanging on, and I felt kind of depressed honestly when I bent down to pick it up. Just as I was dragging it to the side of the curb though, I spotted a single piece of tinsel clinging to one of the branches…a little thread of silver that flashed and sparkled and danced in the air, and you know what, it made me smile.
As I continued on my way back home I couldn’t help but think about that withered up tree, and how it relates to the year that we all just went through. 2020 was so incredibly difficult in so many ways, and all that the world wanted to do when January 1st rolled around was to throw the year out in the trash and to move on, and so did I. But what that little tree got me thinking about over the last week or so was that as difficult as last year was, there was a little thread of silver that came out of 2020, and that thread of silver is the promise of change.
As much as 2020 brought disillusion and disruption to our world and to our lives, I believe that 2021 will bring action and accountability, which will ultimately change so much of our world for the better. I believe that 2020 will serve as a wake up call, which will bring about, at the very least, social and environmental change that will end up strengthening the fabric of the global community.
On a smaller scale, I also believe that the events of last year will mobilize us as a school community to become stronger, and better, and in many ways it already has. We’ve committed to some transformative initiatives that were bolstered by last year’s events, and which have given us a renewed sense of purpose. Like our JEDI (Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) work, our peer on peer safeguarding work, our focus on assessment, and so much more. I know it’s easy to simply throw away 2020 and to not look back, and to be thankful that it’s finally over. People want to set their sights firmly on the hope for a brighter 2021, and I get it.
For so many people in the world, 2020 was a disastrous year, and now it’s a collective loud scream of good riddance. That said, I do believe that just like the sad little tree that I found when I was walking home, if you look carefully enough at that terrible year that has just passed, you might just find a small thread of silver that you can take with you into 2021. A little thread of silver that will give you some hope, and hopefully call you to action, because action is what 2021 desperately needs. Have a wonderful week everyone and remember to be great for our kids and good to each other.
If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change
– Wayne Dyer
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What if we taught gender equality?
January 16, 2021 Shwetangna Chakrabarty Leave a comment
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Recently I was asked by students to audition for the TEDxYouth event they are putting together under the theme of ‘What if…’After critically reasoning, I decided to pick a topic close to my heart, gender equality. I framed my question ‘What if we taught gender equality?’ By teaching about gender equality we can aim to achieve it.
What impact would gender equality have? By gender equality, I mean equal opportunities. Imagine if women had equal opportunities in all aspects of life. A bit of research helped to answer this question and the results were astounding!
The Power of Parity: Women’s equality can add $28 trillion to global growth! If women participated in the job market the same way as men then US$ 28 trillion could be added to the global Gross Domestic Product in the next decade. If the next decade sounds too far, let’s see some present-day data. The International Labour Organization (ILO) estimated that 865 million women in the world have the potential to contribute more fully to their economies, for example, the Asia-Pacific region would make $89 billion a year because if women had equal job opportunities. (Copyright © McKinsey & Company 2015)
So to begin answering the What if…question, just by including women in the workforce the world can get rid of poverty.
The World’s Largest Inequality: According to the statistics published by the United Nations (UN) 1 in 5 women experienced violence in the hands of a man they know; Global gender pay gap is stuck at 16%; 12 million girls are married below the age of 18. These are only some statistics, furthermore, decisions being made for women, are not been made by them; 75% of parliamentarian are men, 73% of managerial decision-makers are men, 67% climate negotiators are men, 87% of people at the peace table are men. This proves that one of the world’s largest inequality is Gender inequality! (Copyright © United Nations 2020)
Once again to answer the ‘what if’ question, we would solve the world’s largest injustice.
Further what if we taught gender equality: We would achieve success in resolving world issues. What if women had gender equality is almost like asking for permission, and this permission has to come from us, women. This all starts by educating our students to work towards a gender-balanced society as gender equality is the answer to all our current world issues.
Our economic potential would be doubled, more people would have jobs, which would bring equality in many realms of society due to reduced economic insecurity and reduced poverty. There would be better socio-economic progress as the world would be better balanced with men and women, dualism and monism, yin and yang, enthalpy and entropy and in machine language binary off and on!
The world would be a peaceful place, as per statistics from the UN, 87% men sit on the peace table and we have only seen war in the past five decades, if only we change the statistics by 10% there would be better negotiation and meaningful decision making for keeping world peace. A recent example is the of superior decision making and impactful action by women to the COVID19 pandemic; most countries that handled this crisis well had women leaders like Angela Merkel, Jacinda Ardern and Tsai Ing-wen.
Our planet would be greener and would age slower, as clearly, the climate negotiations have not been effective. In spite of great will and united efforts from leaders of the world, where 67% were men, the collapse of the planet is becoming a reality. This has to be stopped and one way to do so is to give women equal opportunity to make important decisions. If Greta Thunberg in her teens can make such an impact imagine what our girls and women can do for this planet, if, given an opportunity.
Unconscious biases that become invisible enemies like racism could be addressed if women had more opportunity in the parliament. Clearly a less that 30% representation in the parliaments of the different countries has only led to promoting discriminating based on sex, color and creed; exploiting religious beliefs for electoral gains; and changing women rights instead of changing the systems.
We are a world where female genital mutilation is a current practice; where women and girls cannot make decisions about their own bodies both sexual and non-sexual; where culture, religion, rules and policies justify segregation of women and prevent them from achieving their full potential and the world’s full potential. We have to teach equality for women and for women rights.
In summary, if there was gender equality, there would be an equal, greener and more peaceful world!
MASTERY MATTERS
January 15, 2021 Matthew Piercy Leave a comment
“At our faculty meeting yesterday we spent too much time talking about how to give final exams so kids who are home don’t cheat.” So began a Whatsapp message from a friend months ago, her frustration shared by many. COVID-19 caused more than a disruption to education. However, it may be the catalyst that was needed in order for education to reach a more authentic approach.
“The vast majority of the things we don’t readily forget are all learned from experience and interaction, not from a curriculum or a test,” Tweeted Will Richardson, co-founder of the Big Questions Institute. Nominated as a Top 5 “Edupreneur to Follow” by Forbes, Richardson’s tweet was aptly given the hashtag #justsayin.
The game has changed. We knew this as we broke into the 21st century and as the digitized world hurdled us all forward. Long gone were the days of “sit and get” and text books. Yet still “the institution” seemingly maintained some of its grip. Control handed down by tighter or even more robust curriculums. And of course the tests.
The tests. The tests. The tests.
However, need we be reminded that the game has changed?
With greater clarity we are able to see eyes to see the broken systems but moreover what ultimately matters most. The “end-all be-all” high stakes hallowed tests have fallen by the wayside. According to Fairtest, the National Center for Fair and Open Testing, “More than two-thirds of 4-year colleges and universities in the U.S. will not require applicants to submit ACT or SAT scores for fall 2021 admission. The National Center for Fair & Open Testing (FairTest), which maintains a free, online master list, reports that more than 1,570 schools are now test-optional.”
The Phoenix Flaps Her Wings
An outdated education system akin to crumbling infrastructure or even political shambles, is in transition. A re-birth of sorts. One of purpose, authenticity, personalization, and empowerment. Matt Miller, author and educator of “Ditch That Textbook” sums it up best by positing whether students rent or own their education. The renters come to class out of compliance. Whereas the owners are dedicated to caretaking for their own education. And this makes sense because the global job market no longer is about clocking in and out. Rather, it expects us to problem solve and proactively and passionately produce.
Getting students excited to have the keys to the car, their car ultimately, does however take educators to trust. “I struggled early on to accept that you couldn’t just convert your class to digital without making changes. I’ve only recently really started to embrace allowing students to own their own experiences,” reflected Jake Trinca in a recent post in response to Dr. John Spencer’s, “7 Big Ideas As You Shift Toward Online Teaching.”
Letting Students Own Their Own Experiences
Talk about liberation, step back and allow students the space to discuss, grapple, and wonder. Then, listen and remain flexible to the subtle and sometimes overt direction learning may meander, reminding yourself what this all is for. Further, who this all is for?
In “What School Could Be,” author Ted Dintersmith appeals for schools to do just this, by “prioritizing critical thinking, the scientific method, and the essentials of civil society — not high-stakes fact-based multiple choice exams.” Dintersmith makes the bold claim that, “failure to do so imperils our democracy.”
And wouldn’t this approach in itself be more democratic? Sitting eight hours a day, being talked at, and told what to do, not only is contrary to democracy and dehumanizing, but also counterproductive to any end goals we have related to student preparedness or empowerment.
A More Authentic Approach Moving Forward
At the heart of this new, or in actuality old approach, is authenticity. Proof in the power of apprenticeship is but one example. A clearer but also brighter vision of the near future is one where education is focused on core competencies and their mastery. What can students do? Not on one test but as demonstrated with evidence through their school career.
The Mastery Transcript Consortium® (MTC) officially launched in 2017 with a purpose of introducing a digital high school transcript. The intent to provide a venue for students to showcase their “unique strengths, abilities, interests, and histories fostered, understood, and celebrated.” Ultimately, this is where we are. The train HAS arrived.
This approach is not only possible but necessary because inherent in the design is authenticity but also accountability. Google and Apple are but two of fifteen companies boasting how they hire individuals without a university degree. Credentials and moreover “pedigree” are not necessarily the “golden ticket” that they maybe once were. This is because employers want to know and be able to see what an individual can do. Increasingly, it is about evidence.
“When you look at people who don’t go to school and make their way in the world, those are exceptional human beings. And we should do everything we can to find those people,” said Google’s former SVP of People Operations Laszlo Bock.
Graduates with a mastery transcript not only have gone to school but also are able to demonstrate competence. Much more telling than a fancy resume or high test score.
Tony Wagner, a globally recognized expert in education, ironically has the initials M.A.T. and Ed.D. attached to his name. Both degrees are awarded through the Harvard University Graduate School of Education. Yet, for more than a decade Wagner has exhorted how outdated the standardized framework for high school is. Carnegie Units are essentially what students have to earn if they are to graduate and they merely are measures of how much time a student sits in class. Doing time? Similar to prison. The uncanny resemblance even shows up architecturally. You can test your luck in determining whether a building is a school or prison on a fun website even.
Wagner shares how a mastery transcript goes beyond the knowledge and skills mastered. “It will also include qualities of character that make their humanity visible and help admissions officers make better decisions when it comes to an applicant’s ‘fit.’” Again, it’s all about authenticity.
Over the past few years The Mastery Transcript Consortium® (MTC) has developed into a network of 369 schools, a blend of public and private schools in the United States but across the globe. “That 99 percent of the high school transcripts follow an identical format is a vestige of an outdated industrial age,” asserts Scott Looney, Head of Hawken School.
For now, mastery transcripts may be the exception, yet we can await the day when it is the norm.
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Summer Camp: Learning without Grades
January 13, 2021 Paul Magnuson Leave a comment
With Keri Porter, Director of LAS Summer, Leysin American School.
The two of us have a lot of experience with summer camp. Combined, we count over 35 summers as a student, as a counselor or teacher, or as a program administrator.
Learning to cook
We’ve also spent many academic years learning about schooling – more than we are going to try to count! Of course we were students, and then grad students. We’ve also been teachers and administrators.
You would think that summer camp and the academic school year would inform each other. That each program would take the best of the other program, based on the evidence, and through doing so, improve the quality of both programs. In our experience, that hasn’t been the case. The style of summer camp learning doesn’t play a big role in the academic year. We think it might have something to do with perception. Summer camp emphasizes fun, while the academic year school is serious. There’s lots of freedom and creativity in summer camp. There’s a canon of knowledge to be learned during the academic year.
This is an unfortunate dichotomy. Read the paragraph above again. Which environment sounds more appealing to you as a learner?
Consider grades. The academic year generally has them, summer camp generally does not. Or in the summer camps we’ve been in, if there were grades, they were there because someone thought summer camp, to be taken seriously, had to be more like the academic year. (A pity.) Even so, grades were downplayed.
The freedom from the “seriousness” and “core” of traditional schooling allows summer camps and teachers to be more creative and to learn more naturally. The focus isn’t on a test or a grade for a transcript; the focus is more on what students are passionate about, the new experiences they can have together, and the relationships they build. The focus is more on having fun, on learning something new, and on working together and being creative. Yes, there is content, but the content is more a means to an end, where the end includes a heavy focus on the soft skills mentioned above. In summer camp there is less emphasis on quantifying growth, so there is less adult worry about whether or not the growth can be quantified, which frees one up. It opens up new possibilities for learning. In the absence of working toward a grade and deciding on a grade and valuing a grade, young people can just get down to learning – just as their counselors can get down to teaching – free of the baggage.
When a student walks into a summer camp there is a different relationship with failing. You can still fail, but the stakes are low. Failing matters less. An afternoon activity might not be something you are good at or will ever pursue. You might shoot a crooked arrow, or get lost reading a compass, or create an arts and crafts product that no one recognizes. So what? You are there to have fun and explore, the stakes are low, you learned something, and measuring what was learned isn’t very important. We certainly don’t measure summer camp learning that comes from meeting new people, staying up too late in the cabin talking, presenting skits, or having a summer romance. It would be absurd to want to measure and report on these things. Yet they are important moments of learning. As are other aspects of camp, whether it’s religion, sports, world language, or some other type of instruction. So too are the many aspects of the academic year good learning, even when not measured.
Perhaps especially when not measured. Why do we place such a focus on grades? And why don’t we bring a little more summer camp mentality into the academic year?
January 11, 2021 Margriet Ruurs Leave a comment
Not all people are the same. Recognizing yourself in a story can be a powerful experience. The right book can be a tool to reach out and help a child. Here are some books that show how people can experience different feelings, emotions and conditions.
Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge by Mem Fox is a beautifully written picture book that introduces very young readers to the concept of Alzheimers and memory loss. This story is so skillfully told that it will appeal to readers of all ages. Wilfrid Gordon lives next to a seniors’ home and knows all of the residents. Through sparse language we learn, as does he, what it means to lose memories. Wilfrid Gordon collects objects, each one of which helps his friend to remember special things in life. Highly recommended for classroom discussions. ISBN 978-0916291266
Duck Days by Sara Leach is a novel for ages 7 – 11. Third grade student Lauren has Autism Spectrum Disorder and experiences some things a bit different from her friends. Lauren has learned how to handle her own reactions and copes just fine. In this story her friend challenge her to ride a bike without training wheels. When her class has a bike workshop, Lauren is not happy but eventually overcomes her fears and triumphs. This book is part of a well written series for young kids on Autism and Asperger’s. ISBN 978-1772781489, Pajama Press
Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper is written in the first person, which is a brave and bold move by this award winning author. Because Melody, the main character, has cerebral palsy. She cannot speak, her limbs move involuntarily, she drools and makes funny sounds. What no one realizes is that Melody’s brain works perfectly. She remembers facts, she gets match, she can spell like the best of them but she cannot let anyone know. Imagine the words and thoughts all stuck inside your brain and no way to let them out… Thanks to Draper’s skillful writing, we are inside Melody’s head and feel her frustration. This book is a must-read for all booklovers, but a special eye opener for all those (educators) who work with children who have physical challenges. ISBN 141697170X (ISBN13: 9781416971702)
Other highly recommended titles include:
Petey by Ben Mikaelsen (cerebral palsy); Wonder by R.J. Palacio (disfigurement); A Mango Shaped Space by Wendy Mass (synaesthesia); Rules by Cynthia Lord (autism)
Margriet Ruurs writes books for children and speaks at schools around the world.
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Happy New Year: Resolutions for Education 2021
December 31, 2020 Shwetangna Chakrabarty 1 Comment
The much-awaited and anticipated start to a new year full of new hopes is here! As we step into 2021, we all will look back at 2020 as a year of the education revolution. Prior to COVID19, educators had been contemplating a change in pedagogy; discussing the skills required for a near future; training young adults for coping with artificial intelligence, but suddenly all of this changed as everyone woke up to a new reality-COVID19. A lot has changed since then, hence with the new year coming in, we need new resolutions for education 2021.
Well-done to Well-being
Learning is an emotional and cognitive experience; we achieve cognition if we are emotionally connected to the learning experience. Teacher and student well being is the urgent priority of the new education revolution 2021, physical well being and most importantly mental well being. With increasing pressure to adapt to a new normal, the stress level has skyrocketed, this can only be addressed by changing the teacher appraisal and student assessment objectives and strategies. The objective has to be well-being over well-done, process-oriented over product-oriented, personal growth over professional growth. Moving away from a culture of extrinsic motivation towards more intrinsically motivated teaching and learning culture has to be the number one resolution of education 2021.
Globalisation to Glocalisation.
COVID19 has changed the momentum of globalisation; it has forced the businesses, organisations and people to think local. The education revolution of preparing students for a global world has suddenly being forced to change direction and this has left us with the question what next? Even though globalisation will not die a sudden death it has surely slowed down, this has compelled us to delve into the local culture, local knowledge and give it a global perspective; it has narrowed the vision of international mindedness in order to prioritise the immediate needs of the people within the community. This ability to integrate the global objectives into the local perspective and vice versa is glocalisation. The world is heading towards glocalisation hence education resolution will be to prepare a curriculum which integrates local and global perspectives equally into the curriculum. Glocalisation is the true identity and meaning of internationalism for 2021.
Infrastructure to Infostructure
Prior to COVID19 education institutions across the world invested in their physical infrastructure in order to recruit and retain students. In 2020 the physical infrastructures remained unused, teaching and learning continued in a new learning space, the hybrid and online learning space. Schools had to immediately invest into bandwidth, education software, technical support, teacher training and take to social media for communication. Suddenly the conversation changed from the effects of technology in a classroom to the effectiveness of technology in a classroom. The biggest resolution we need is to have a state of the art info-structure for teaching and learning. The education revolution 2021 will see us all investing in info-structure where a milieu of online collaboration, information exchange and artificial intelligence will be called school.
Games to Gamification
Learning by doing is changing to learning by simulations. Thanks to school closure and social distancing, physical games have been replaced by online gamification. By gamification, I mean the use of simulations and games like Minecraft that help students to apply knowledge in virtual reality. Education revolution 2021 will need more gamification software for schools along with firewalls for protection against harmful content and context. Hybrid and online learning will thrive on the gamification of education. Learning through play is a pedagogy currently practised by teachers worldwide, the mode of play has changed hence forcing games to gamification.
We need to step into 2021 with a new set of resolutions for education and new hope for mankind we thank 2020 for ushering the education revolution.
CULTURE MAPS, NOT GAPS
December 31, 2020 Matthew Piercy Leave a comment
Atop my wish list for 2021 is a post pandemic world. As it pertains to the field of education, I also hanker for increasing adroitness and understanding. Dexterity if you will, amongst people and cultures. Understanding ourselves and our identities as individuals and collective societies is preliminary. Then, fittingly as international educators, we reflect how our school cultures blend, balance, or possibly even juxtapose with the host culture.
Erin Meyer, author of “Culture Map” recently published another book alongside Netflix co-founder and CEO, Reed Hastings. “No Rules Rules~Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention,” attests to the importance of freedom and responsibility. Late in the book, cultural “maps” or charts are utilized to depict how countries compare one with another, along behavioral scales. For example, communication tending to be high versus low context. Or, leading being more egalitarian or hierarchical. The results are revelatory. For example, when using the country mapping tool comparing the Netflix culture map with the the Singapore regional hub map, the results are nearly parallel. The largest difference is in how time is scheduled. Netflix has a bit more flexible rather than linear approach to time. However, when Netflix and Japanese cultures are mapped, there is a near inversal relationship. The most striking example is how in Japanese culture there is an avoidance of confrontation, whereas at Netflix it is considered disloyal to not express disagreement if your opinion differs. Netflix even socializes the idea of “farming for dissent.”
Borrowed from: “No Rules Rules”
How fascinating but also worthwhile it might be if schools apply a similar approach? To look at an institution’s values and compare it to the culture of the host culture. In the school where I teach, what would various stakeholders say about the similarities but also possible glaring differences of our school values? In confidence the value of respect would likely be mapped the same. But what about balance? Or, courage? Would we similarly envision or even define these values?
Enter innovation stage left.
Or quite possibly stage left, right, and center! With the continued shake-up felt around the world and increasing globalization, the role of innovation continues to be the loudest voice in the room. Whether wrench in the wheel or the necessary spark to the fire, innovation is more than mere buzz word.
However, how much ultimately has resulted from 21st century education and the declaratory driving force to be more innovative?
How much remains just words?
And is innovation embedded in our school cultures? If you live in Germany, Singapore, or Korea, innovation likely already has taken root in your host country and possibly is spilling into your schools. Arguably, it is also happening in pockets throughout districts and even schools. But truly embedded or a guiding principle that is realized?
Yong Zhao, Foundation Distinguished Professor in the School of Education at the University of Kansas, cites a failure of education in its ability to catch up to technology. Moreover, professor Zhao attests to governments going at educational reform in an erroneous way. The answers do not necessarily reside in curriculum, greater testing, school accountability, or even more educated teachers. Rather, success hinges on creating environments where students own their learning.
Within a school’s mission and vision, is there a tapping into the most powerful resource? Students’ imagination, creativity, and joy. Moreover, do teachers, families, school cultures and host cultures trust students? By empowering students we ultimately will engage them in the magic that education can be.
Flexibility and adaptability are often preached, and yet so, we hold fast to certainty. And also control. Prolific is the desire to just tweak. A freshening up of the baby’s bath water, as to not let any water escape. Yet, at Netflix a very different approach is taken; the water blithely thrown out. Netflix’s heart beats from a place of trust, empowerment, risk and responsibility. Are these same variables commonplace in our schools? Amongst our teachers but also learners? And are they implicit in our school’s values?
Let’s have 2021 be the year of paradigm shift.
Naturally, a first step would be to informally audit, or least reflect on who are as an institution. So too is the importance of grappling explicitly with reality and the culture of the host nation. In international settings, this close examination is especially critical. Where are the matches? Contradictions? Furthermore, what is reconcilable? Respecting of cultures is paramount, but so too is the necessity to strategically plan for pathways of growth.
The goal to clearly see our culture maps while diminishing the culture gaps.
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Surviving The Worst Case of the Mondays…ever
December 30, 2020 Kristen MacConnell Leave a comment
2020 may go down in recent history as the worst case of the Mondays….EVER! I don’t know about you, but I experienced long stretches of time that felt like Monday was repeating itself day after day and each of those days presented new and unexpected challenges. It seemed like just when things couldn’t get worse…they somehow did. Eventually the “Mondays” turned into Blursdays…each day was so similar it was hard to tell what day of the week it actually was…
The good news is we survived…and as hard and frustrating and uncertain as 2020 has been, we learned A LOT. We learned a lot about ourselves, about teaching and learning, about wellbeing, about building partnerships with families, about clear communication, and we successfully increased our ability to effectively use technology.
How can we capitalize on our new learning? What do we understand now about teaching and learning that we didn’t know a year ago at this time? What new knowledge have we gained? What skills have we developed? What are the dispositions that have been important for successful learning? How do we incorporate all of these new learnings into our practice?
As we begin 2021, take time to reflect with your colleagues and share what you have learned so we can build a collective knowledge base of strategies, insights and resources to continue to improve and refine best practices. There are several tools that can help facilitate this process.
Success Analysis Protocol: This protocol is designed to unpack your successes in a more deep and profound way than self-reflection. The process works best in groups of 3-4 people. Taking time to reflect, discuss, and build off of current successes helps teachers unpack the impact they have in the classroom and how they work together with colleagues. The success analysis protocol works well during faculty professional learning and, in my experience, highly impacts student learning through the sharing of successful strategies while serving to inspire teachers. To read more about how you might use this protocol with your faculty or on your leadership team, read “What’s Working and How can we do More of it?“
Interviews: School Leaders, who are the teachers that thrived and innovated during 2020? What did they do to make learning effective and engaging for students? How did they communicate with families? What tools and platforms did they use? How did they find resources? How did they manage the multiple transitions from teaching in person to teaching online, transitioning to hybrid instruction and then navigating their way back to teaching in person or to teaching online (again)? Uncovering the answers to these questions will be critical for moving forward. We have so much to learn from these innovative and resilient teachers.
There are two tools in particular that can help you in this process. The first one is an interview process called, “Bright Spot Interviews.” The purpose of these interviews is to: (1) surface keystone practices and (2) understand the journey the teachers have taken- what helped these teachers grow during these uncertain times and how can these practices inform our next steps? The second interview process is the Appreciative Inquiry Interview. The example I just linked is specific to “improvement groups” but you can easily adapt the questions as needed for your purpose. The interview will help you uncover high points, success factors, three wishes for moving forward and better understand the time needed by the teacher to experience his/her successes.
Action Research: In addition to taking time to uncover and celebrate successes from 2020 we also need to use these successes for future planning. We are no longer reacting and responding to uncertainty, we are living it. How do we intentionally learn our way forward? Engaging in action research is a purposeful way to learn and innovate. The tools of improvement science can help us do this successfully. What problems of practice are at the forefront of our work? How do we use what we have learned and continue to innovate and refine our practices? What ideas do we adopt, which ideas do we adapt and which ideas do we abandon because evidence shows they haven’t worked?
In the article, “Getting Better Together,” you can learn more about how improvement science uses just enough data to accelerate teacher learning, facilitate deep reflection, and guide further action. Feel free to contact me for a copy of the article or to learn more about how to launch action research in your school using the tools of improvement science.
Congratulations on surviving the worst case of the Mondays in recent history. As we move forward into 2021 lets put our best foot forward, use what we have learned and build off of our successes because there have been a lot of them!
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Light The Cauldron
Talking about Olympic events while ramping up for the next major competition in Tokyo!
SYTYCD Week 9
It's time for the final four dancing a billion dances, but we won't know who wins until next week!
Top Four Dance
Notice how much partner work there was, where it was girl-girl and guy-guy? I thought that was pretty cool. Not sure if there was an agenda for that - I just liked that it was a change of pace. I always like change of pace - you all know that. (Note: apparently there was an agenda, according to Nigel. Blah.)
Gotta mention the intros - it seems like Valerie is leaning more on her contemporary style instead of tap, which she started with at the beginning. However, Zack still sticks with the tap shoes for his introduction.
Valerie and Ricky: African Jazz with Sean
Not really getting the whole "chase" sequence out of the dance. Great dancing, though! I liked the lifts by both of them at the end.
Jessica and Zack: Broadway with Spencer
Zack back with the stairs! (He had some in the first live episode.)
I love how the dancing matches the music very well. When it's dark and dramatic, they are dark and dramatic. But when the music speeds up, they start hoppin'. Nice ending, too. If I had to choose between the two routines so far, it would be this one as the winner.
Valerie and Zack: Contemporary with Tyce
Tyce is doing less Broadway and more contemporary now that they have Spencer Liff. FYI.
I do like that the routine is about someone lifting up someone else, but it's not because of a fatal illness. I'm not going to judge how well Valerie did blindness, but the routine was nicely done. Zack sure had to run around! Jesse Tyler Ferguson spoke truth that the routine did have joy in it, instead of simply pain and sorrow.
Jessica and Ricky: Jazz with Ray
You know it's jazz when the elbows are sticking out and someone's got a high ponytail.
They aren't really in sync with each other on their parallel movements. When they danced together it was nice, but it didn't do it for me. Between these two routines, I'd have to go with Valerie and Zack. Which means Zack is on a roll tonight! (I'd vote for him.)
Jessica and Valerie: Bollywood with Nakul
There really wasn't much substance to this routine. They did some steps, switched sides, and did some more steps! Meh.
Zack and Ricky: Hip Hop with Pharside and Phoenix
Looks like I'm watching a battle between kings. I was on the phone with a friend and only saw the routine, but it looked really jumpy and cool. Apparently it was the greatest thing EVER.
Valerie and AARON! Tap with Anthony
Aaron! It's been too long!!!
I will start by saying I hate Valerie's dress, and not because it clashes with her tap shoes. Aaron just wears cool better, and tap is cool.
Kathryn and Ricky: Contemporary with Stacey
I hated Valerie's dress, but I LOVE Kathryn's. It's got the crazy back scarf that doubles for a shawl at times, and then wings at the end.
Is the lighting a bit too dark? I know Ricky is supposed to be in the pits emotionally, but I could barely see him!
It's hard to go wrong when you're dancing with Kathryn, especially if you're name is Ricky. Great routine, even if I couldn't see Ricky part of the time.
Zack and AARON AGAIN!!! Tap with Anthony
Boy, I am loving this. Billy Joel - how can you go wrong! The tapping goes perfectly with the rhythms of the piano. Not only that, but Zack and Aaron are PERFECT together. They are right in time - and this is not easy tapping. Put Zack up against Valerie now in tapping, and there's no contest.
My favorite routine of the night. Nope - my favorite routine of the season!!!!! One of the few times this season where I wanted to rewind and watch the whole thing over again. Fantastic. Amazing. Crazy at the feet and smooth at the top. Flawless.
Jessica and Robert: Choreography with Travis
Whatever. I'm sure it was a good routine and all, but I just want to see Zack and Aaron tap again.
And now we have the finale! My post will be delayed because of other commitments, but we'll all have fun when we see it!
Keep it short, keep it clean!
A Guide to Naruto for the Curious
I have had a connection with the Japanese anime Naruto since I started watching torrents of it back in 2003. It turned into an obsession two years ago when I rediscovered it on Netflix and Hulu. Last week, the anime finally ended its run after 15 years on the air. Now I have time on my hands - I can turn my Google Chromecast to Naruto without fear of someone else coming into the room to watch something else. Unfortunately, many of my friends probably don't have that luxury. But never fear! I've got your back with this little primer. Want to know about what I'm obsessing? Want to know specific episodes to watch so you're not inundated with filler and flashbacks and only get the good stuff? Read on. Naruto isn't divided into seasons, so instead I'm going to divide everything by story arcs. Introduction ( Naruto episodes 1-5) Overview : We are introduced to Uzumaki Naruto, a very annoying 12-year-old orphan who lives in the Village Hidden in the Le
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For 15 years now (give or take a couple of years between my sister and brother) you have housed a member of my family and taught them as they prepared for the public ministry. This morning, the last of my family accepted his diploma. While the distance between Michigan and Minnesota is quite far, you, Martin Luther College, were a huge part of our lives. My brother Matt started out in 2000 after graduating from Michigan Lutheran Seminary in Saginaw, Michigan. I started in the fall of 2003, and my sister Erica joined me two years later. Finally, in 2011 my little brother Jared started on the Hill. Two pastor-track, and two teacher-track. Of the four of us, I was probably the one the most doubtful about starting at your school. It wasn't until I discovered the Parish Music program in my senior year of high school that I made my final decision to attend. We were quite a dramatic group of kids. But not in the bad way. (I hope.) We all were members of Forum and participate
Worship Conference: An Epiphany for the Musician
So I said I wasn't going to do any posting this week, but I was wrong. Currently I am attending the WELS National Conference on Worship, Music, and the Arts. (Yes, it does sound like the best thing ever, but I digress.) I have experienced many emotions and feelings over the past couple of days, and in the future I would like to expound on them more in thought-out, in-depth posts. But for now, I'm just going to get some things written down, so I remember to come back to them in the future. If I don't, feel free to get on my case. Logo courtesy of Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod 1. Worship is incredible, when done right. Today we as participants experienced two worship services. The first one was a service based out of our hymnal - Christian Worship - full of liturgy we've been singing for over 20 years, hymns that have been famous for hundreds of years, and choral pieces that fit perfectly into our theme of the service. We got to participate in the sa
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By Dante Zuniga-West
In a boy’s life, the ripe age of 14 is often synonymous with carefree memories of team sports, skateboarding tricks, or summer camps. The heavy notions of mortality or a drive to give back to one’s community are not often associated with this period of time in a young person’s life. Such is not the case with Jacob Burris, creative designer, optimist at large, and a survivor of congenital heart disease (CHD).
Burris, a local eighth grader at Shasta Middle School, is not only a survivor in the true sense of the word, but a dynamo as well. Diagnosed with CHD, a life-threating heart disease, Burris has chosen to make the most out of his hardship and raise awareness about heart health. With a little help from Nike, that’s exactly what he’s been able to do.
“There can always be something that goes wrong or happens to you,” Burris says. “When I was first diagnosed with CHD, I just wanted to help everyone else out who was like me.”
Burris was nominated by his doctor to participate in the Nike and OHSU Doernbecher Freestyle Collection. The Freestyle Collection has been providing kids the ability to design their own sneaker, and help fundraise for research, clinical care, and for families in need. The program has existed for 12 years now, and Burris’ contribution and participation led to the production of an awesome shoe that doubles as a public service announcement.
Adorned with heart graphics reminding you to “Check your BPMs,” an image of Burris’ actual thumbprint, and spectacular coloring that pays homage to his favorite superhero (Spider-Man), Burris’ custom-made Air Max ’95 sneaker is nothing short of smooth. Oh, and the tongue of his shoe sports a solid “JB” logo, in case you forget the huge-hearted kid who brought you the killer design.
“I just want to keep sharing my story and volunteering,” Burris says. “Getting to design my own shoe, it took about eight months with a team of designers that helped me, it was awesome.”
When asked if it was at all difficult to battle CHD, handle his homework, and design his own shoe, Burris replies, “Hey, there’s always time to design your own shoe.”
And it would appear that Burris’ aspiration to continue sharing his story is only evolving as time progresses. His next projects include public speaking at health conferences and more forays into the creative world.
“I plan to keep spreading the word about CHD and heart health,” he says. “Oh, and lately I’ve been doing stop [motion] animation with some stuffed animals.”
Could it be possible that we might see a short, animated indie film about heart awareness in this young man’s future? This remains to be seen, but one thing is for sure: When he’s not visiting comic book conventions, playing baseball with his brother, or hanging out with his hamster, Burris is enthusiastically committed to his creativity as well as his community.
For more information on Jacob, his story, and his custom-designed sneaker, go to jacobsheartstory.com
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Testing Resistance & Reform News: June 4 - 10, 2014
Submitted by fairtest on June 10, 2014 - 11:45am
There's no "summer break" for testing resistance campaigns as pressure builds on policy-makers across the nation to end standardized exam misuse and overuse. Note, especially, the political diversity of states with major activity. The assessment reform movement cannot be described accurately using conventional terms such as "liberal" vs "conservative" or "left" vs "right." Opposition to test-and-punish educational strategies spans the ideological spectrum
Alaska Repeals High School Exit Exam, Plans to Award Withheld Diplomas
http://www.ktuu.com/news/news/new-education-bill-could-help-those-without-diplomas/26378278
New Connecticut State Tests Mean Less Time for Teaching and Learning
http://www.norwichbulletin.com/article/20140604/NEWS/140609555
One Florida Mother Has Had it With High Stakes Testing
http://www.tampabay.com/news/education/one-mother-has-had-it-with-high-stakes-public-school-tests-whats-her-next/2183397
Union Challenges Florida's Test-Based "Merit Pay" Law as "Irrational"
http://tbo.com/news/education/teachers-and-union-appeal-state-merit-pay-ruling-20140605/
Indiana State-Federal Assessments Stand-off Illustrates Politically Driven Testing Charade
http://www.jconline.com/story/opinion/editorials/2014/06/06/editorial-istep-fight-far-classroom/10073887/
Louisiana School Grades Distort Picture of Education
http://www.theneworleansadvocate.com/opinion/9373801-171/letter-tests-dont-show-whole
Gov. Jindal Wants to Pull Louisiana Out of Common Core Testing
http://theadvocate.com/home/9382945-125/jindal-says-he-wants-state
Maine School Grading System Has Major Flaws
http://courier.mainelymediallc.com/news/2014-06-05/Editorial/Beyond_the_Headlines.html
New Massachusetts Teacher Union President Supports Three-Year Moratorium on Standardized Testing
http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2014/06/05/massachusetts-teachers-association-new-president-rejects-assessments-testing-and-other-education-policies/N4LWsYjMXyc3ON98pxnPJP/story.html#
New Jersey Testing Concerns Grow as PARCC Phase-In Begins
http://www.edlawcenter.org/news/archives/secondary-reform/testing-concerns-grow-as-parcc-phase-in-begins.html
More Questions on Accuracy of New Mexico Teacher Evaluations
http://www.abqjournal.com/412073/news/more-questions-on-evals-accuracy.html
Upstate New York School Districts Say "No" to Pearson Field Tests
http://www.rochesterhomepage.net/story/d/story/districts-say-no-to-field-testing/34312/RgeZZhyTcEKUTTnUeoLG_A
Field Test is Exercise in Futility
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/education/gonzalez-practice-testing-state-mandated-exercise-futility-article-1.1817474
Just Say "No" to NY Field Tests
http://www.wnyc.org/story/opinion-tell-parents-they-can-just-say-no-field-tests/
New Yorkers Demand Release of Test Questions for Public Inspection
https://www.votervoice.net/NYSAPE/campaigns/36307/respond
New York Republican Legislators Promote Plan to Review Common Core Assessments
http://www.longislandexchange.com/press-releases/common-core-cant-be-forgotten/
Bill Would End Pearson's Common Core Testing Contract
http://www.lohud.com/story/news/education/2014/06/04/senator-wants-pearson-ties-cut/9969003/
Why I Despise North Carolina's End-of-Grade Tests
http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20140604/LETTERS/140609887/1107/opinion?Title=Let-the-tests-begin-
Ohio's Standardized Tests: What's the Point?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/claire-klodell/standardized-tests_b_5448020.html
Oklahoma Schools Challenge Flawed Writing Test Scores
http://www.koco.com/news/school-districts-say-test-scores-inaccurate-asking-for-rescore/26314828#!UfudR
Standardized Tests for Tennessee Learning Disabled Students Make Little Sense
http://www.dnj.com/article/20140605/OPINION/306050010
Bringing Transparency to Tennessee Testing
http://www.tennessean.com/story/opinion/2014/06/09/bring-transparency-school-testing-process/10202061/
Vermont to Develop Local Proficiency Standards, Not State Exit Exam
http://www.vnews.com/news/12274494-95/vt-schools-to-create-new-high-school-proficiency-standards
Virginia Kids Are Not "All Right" Due to High-Stakes Testing
http://www.timesdispatch.com/opinion/their-opinion/columnists-blogs/guest-columnists/lehman-testing---the-kids-are-not-all-right/article_f7d8f824-72a3-5763-a7d9-2a6704d30bab.html
NCLB Falsely Labels Wyoming Schools as "Failing"
http://trib.com/opinion/columns/thompson-wyoming-schools-are-failing-try-again/article_8ace31e9-c1c2-52e8-82e6-a00b550037ec.html
Obama-Duncan Education Policies Test Our Patience
http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/books/chi-0608-biblioracle-20140606,0,3100945,full.column
What Happens When a Student Fails a High-Stakes Test
http://conversationed.com/2014/05/27/the-academic-life-cycle-of-a-non-proficient-student/
This Is Not a Test: Jose Vilson's Vision of Race, Class and Education in the U.S.
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/24112-testing-narrative-jose-vilsons-vision-of-race-class-and-education-in-the-us
You Don't Fatten a Pig By Weighing It
http://www.laep.org/2014/06/03/you-dont-fatten-a-pig-by-weighing-it/
Testing Overkill Won't Draw In Better Teachers
http://www.tallahassee.com/story/opinion/columnists/2014/06/04/sally-butzin-testing-bring-better-teachers/9978157/
Correcting a Harmful Misuse of Test Scores
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/assessing_the_assessments/2014/06/correcting_a_harmful_misuse_of_students_test_scores.html
Morality, Validity and the Design of Instructionally Sensitive Tests
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/assessing_the_assessments/2014/06/morality_validity_and_the_design_of_instructionally_sensitive_tests.html?cmp=ENL-EU-NEWS3
Common Core Assessment Sales Job is a Hoax
http://mobile.gazettenet.com/home/12038490-108/louise-law-john-stifler-look-between-the-lines-on-education-reform
National Principals Groups Seeks Pause in Common Core Assessments
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/06/03/national-principals-group-urges-slowdown-in-common-core-implementation/
"We Will Not Let an Exam Decide Our Fate"
http://conversationed.com/2014/05/30/i-will-not-let-an-exam-result-decide-my-fate-spoken-word-video/
I Am a Scientist with Learning Disabilities, And That's OK
http://blogs.plos.org/speakingofmedicine/2014/06/10/im-scientist-learning-disabilities-thats-okay/
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Testing CF3
Submitted by Martini on 9 September, 2015 - 12:15
Hello fellow Curvers,
I’ll be going through the process of what we’re doing in the office before and around our testing sessions. Since we’re working on CF3, which is a big project, I’ll be breaking it down.
Step 1: The vision
The last couple of months we’ve been very busy defining what should become the next Curve Fever experience. Not only do we need to move away from Flash, we also want to make CF3 a bigger and better game. Therefore we’re focusing on the following aspects:
New technology and server infrastructure.
More gameplay depth and variety
Step 2: Ideas
During this process we had brainstorms, lots of sketches and tons of ideas written down. A fraction of these ideas seemed realistic and something that would fit and actually make Curve Fever better. These ideas were realized in a CF3 gameplay prototype. This prototype has had a lot of iterations and improvements to be something that players can play and have a genuine opinion about.
Step 3: Testing
All of the ideas that are feasible need to be tested by a variety of players. That’s why we brought it to small game related gatherings, network lunches and most importantly, we invited our player-base to come and test with us. Since we had never done this last part before, it was a big experiment to see how the response would be.
So, we organized 2 test-days where players, all ages, were allowed to come and test our prototype.
By having people play the prototype we wanted to gather enough information about what works and what doesn’t and most importantly why.
From organizing these test-days we already learned a couple of things: - Most players don’t live anywhere close to us. - Ever more players don’t care about what’s going on behind the scenes. - Only a small group of players will show up. - There is a group that is very interested but can only join over the internet.
But that’s all fine and something I can understand. For me the most interesting thing was that it’s so much more valuable to have actual players test, compared to random players on an event. The feedback is just so drastically different.
Both sessions we had a very small amount of players (< 5) that visited us (or were able to come). However, these people weren’t just people. These were actual players that have played the game for hours and hours. These players are AWESOME! They know a lot about the game (arguably even more than me) and have gotten very good at playing it. This was way more interesting than all the small gatherings/events we’ve been at, so far. To be fair, they are also very valuable since they resemble a more 'newcomer experience' which is also something that's important. It's just different.
Events tell us if people like the game in general. These tests tell us if players liked or disliked a feature specifically, and why
Step 4a: Design accordingly
So, we gathered a lot of information from the sessions, as well as from the other small events and gatherings. Now it’s my task to process all of this information and use it to design a full fledged CF3 base experience.
But there’s more to the design part. I’m working together with an artist to define the art-style for CF3. There is also a lot of work to be done for creating all the wireframes and full fledged screens that will be used as blueprints for the final product. These wireframes can be used to discuss early on what features we want at what place. How navigation will work. And wireframes give us some flexibility to easily change things around, so we don’t have to constantly rebuild parts of the game.
Then we should combine the art-style with the wireframes to have a full representation of how we want the game to look in the end.
Step 4b: Build the online framework
In the meantime we’re switching from working on the prototype to building the actual foundation for the online components in our game. The framework and core of our online multiplayer networking. This will take us at least a couple of months.
Step 5: Make it all come together.
Like the title says. This will be a final step in finishing the game into a beta phase that can be tested, big time.
Until then we will still be testing out small ideas in the upcoming weeks (at small gatherings) and events. But, I can’t wait until we have an online version that can be used to test on a bigger scale with our online players!
Remember “Patience is a virtue.”
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COMMENT from LB:
This is an excellent point.
Obviously the PFASs have a “lipophilic (or “hydrophobic”) end” (at left) where the Fluoride atoms are located, and a “hydrophilic end” (at right):
And come to think it, the C=O (keto group) of chlordecone [below] is hydrophilic, whereas the rest of the box with Cloride atoms is hydrophobic. To those on the GEITP List who have not had chemistry since many years ago, remember the “old partition coefficient,” shaking up any chemical in a mixture of hexane and water and then determining how much of the chemical is in the water phase (on top) or hexane phase (on bottom). PFASs and, to some extent, chlordecone, would be sitting at the interface –– with its hydrophilic end pointed upward and its hydrophobic end pointed downward. 🙂
COMMENT from DWN Therefore, these chemicals would exhibit very complex interactions with specific blood lipids and specific blood proteins. In contrast, dioxins and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are much more hydrophobic than these organochlorine pesticides.
COMMENT from PG
The Kepone story is even more complicated because –– over and above its lipid affinity –– Kepone specifically binds to some proteins in the blood albumin fraction, further distorting the blood-tissue partition ratio.
I am not sure you need such a complicated explanation to question causality. When dealing with lipophilic substances –– such as PFASs, dioxins, PCBs, organochlorine pesticides (OCPs), etc –– the use of any blood measurement as “an indicator of body content” must be seriously questioned. Metabolic / nutritional manipulations can change the lipid content in blood, thereby increasing or decreasing the distribution of these chemicals from tissue stores into blood.
You will recall that early studies of 2,3,7,8-tetrachloro-p-dioxin in blood, when expressed per wet weight of blood/serum, made no sense until it was realized that the the results had to be expressed per weight of lipids in blood (actually by using a formula for the vatious kinds of lipids in blood). Moreover, weight-loss or weight-regain is known to affect such blood/tissue distribution of some organochlorine pesticides.
COMMENT FROM anonymous
I remain very skeptical. This is not a plausible explanation of causation, and is much more likely to be only an association. Everyone should be aware of Bradford Hill’s “criteria for causation” (list of nine principles).
Any clinician who has watched or experienced the “yo-yo” effect of weight issues in many patients understands that obesity, and weight-loss success, and weight-regain problems –– all represent multifactorial traits –– which as you frequently describe in your GEITP shared-mailing reflects hundreds if not thousands of genes, plus epigenetic factors, plus environmental effects (diet, lifestyle, age, diseases, drug-drug-interactions, etc.). The “environment” in this case might include PFAS levels of exposure as one small component, but obesity represents a complicated response to life stresses, habits, and innumerable extraneous subtle environmental factors (in fact, even being in the company of other overweight people). Association, yes……causation…….nope
This is a “correlation ––> inferred-causation” epidemiological study, and I would appreciate any comments/criticisms about these findings. Perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) –– especially perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) –– have been in the news a lot lately, and identified as plausible endocrine disruptors with the potential to perturb weight regulation. Evidence from animal studies has suggested that PFASs may be involved in altering energy metabolism and thyroid hormone homeostasis, likely through activation of various transcriptional factors such as the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors. However, given species-specific toxicokinetics and tissue distribution of PFASs, extrapolation from animals to humans is always difficult.
Authors [see attached] examined associations of PFAS exposure with changes in body weight and resting metabolic rate (RMR) in a diet-induced weight-loss setting. In the 2-year “POUNDS Lost” randomized clinical trial –– based in Boston, Massachusetts, and Baton Rouge, Louisiana –– which examined effects of energy-restricted diets on weight changes, baseline plasma concentrations of major PFASs were measured among 621 overweight and obese participants (aged 30-70 years). Body weight was measured at baseline and 6, 12, 18, and 24 months. Participants lost an average of 6.4 kg of body weight during the first 6 months (weight-loss period) and subsequently regained an average of 2.7 kg of body weight during the period of 6 to 24 months (weight-regain period). [Note that the annoying television ads for “weight-loss programs” describe enthusastically the ‘weight-loss period’, but fail to mention the ‘weight-regain period’.] 🙁
After multivariate adjustment, baseline PFAS concentrations were not significantly associated with concurrent body weight or weight loss during the first 6 months. In contrast, higher baseline levels of PFASs were significantly associated with a greater weight-regain, primarily in women. In women, comparing the highest to the lowest tertiles (statistical divisions of any population into three equal parts, the two extreme groups being divided by the middle group) of PFAS concentrations, the multivariate-adjusted mean weight-regain was: 4.3 vs 2.2 kgfor PFOA; 4.0 vs 2.1 kg for PFOS; 4.7 vs 2.5 kg for perfluorononanoic acid (PFNA); 4.9 vs 2.7 kg for perfluorohexanesulfonic acid; and 4.2 vs 2.5 kg for perfluorodecanoic acid.
Higher baseline plasma PFAS concentrations, especially for PFOS and PFNA, were significantly associated with greater decline in RMR during the weight-loss period and less increase in RMR during the weight-regain period in both men and women. Caveats (limitations of the study) include the possibility of unmeasured or residual confounding by socioeconomic and psychosocial factors (i.e. greater obesity among the poor), as well as possible relapse to the usual diet prior to randomization, which could have been rich in foods contaminated by PFASs through food-packaging and also dense in energy.
Authors conclude that, in this diet-induced weight-loss study, higher baseline plasma PFAS concentrations were associated with a greater weight-regain, especially in women, possibly explained by a slower return to their normal RMR levels. These data convincingly illustrate a potential novel pathway through which PFASs interfere with clinical body weight regulation and metabolism. Possible impact of environmental chemicals on the obesity epidemic thus deserves more attention.
PLoS Med Feb 2o18; 15: e1002502
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THE BRENNAN FAMILY HISTORY of Co LAOIS
St Abban in the Parish of Arles (Killabban)
St. Abban
St Abban founded a monastery here in Killabban about 650AD, in which he is said to have been interred: there are some re mains of its church. There are also remains of the old church of Aries, and of the ancient castle of Hovendon, over the entrance to which are quartered the arms of the Leinster and Ormonde families. Near Castletown church is a well, which supplies water enough to turn a mill in its immediate vicinity.
Courtesy of Portlaoise Public Library 1999.Parish in Killabban
The ancient and more proper title for this parish is Killabban. It receives its present name from the parish church being placed in modern times at Arles. This name is derived from Ard-glas, i.e. "the verdant hill;" or, according to some, from Ard-lios, i.e. "the forted hill." The earliest place of worship here appears to have been a chapel built in 1686, of which there is a description and an illustration (Pl. 34, Vol. II.) in Grose's Antiquities. It is there described as having been "built, according to tradition, by a lady of the family of Hartpole. It is erected in the form of a cross, and is thatched. In one arm of the cross is a small chapel, the place of interment for the Grace family. A long Latin metrical epitaph to Dame Frances Grace, alias Bagot, wife to Sheffield Grace, who died 3rd May, 1742, aged 32, is given; and another, in English, to Mrs. Martha Grace, wife of Michael Grace, who died Nov. 28, 1736, in the 55th year of her age." Grose's illustration shows this chapel to have been a very plain structure, with the thatch sadly in need of repair. An inscribed stone, let into the wall of the present church, records the name of the builder of the old chapel: "Madam Scurlock, alias Walsh, alias Hartpole, built this chapel, A.D. 168-" (last figure broken away).
According to the annals of the Grace family, this chapel was pulled down in 1795, and was replaced by that which existed until the present beautiful church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus was built, towards the erection of which the late Mrs. Grace Grace was a munificent contributor. The Grace mausoleum is a conspicuous object in the adjoining grave-yard. It was built in 1818, in place of the original one-erected in 1687, by Oliver Grace, Chief Remembrance of the Exchequer; by Mrs. Alicia Kavanagh, daughter of Michael Grace of Grace-field; Sir William Grace, Bart; and his brothers Sheffield Juris consult, and Percy, Admiral of the Royal fleet, for themselves and posterity, on the site of the southern wing of the church of Arles.
The following is the inscription upon it, recording the above:
"Hoc sepulchrum Alicia Kavanagh, filia Michaelis Grace de Gracefield, Arm.; Gulielmus Grace, Baronettus, et fratres ejus Sheffieldus, jurisconsultus, Perceus Regiae Classis Praefectus, poni curaverunt, A.D. MDCCCXVIII., sibi posterisque. Quo loco fuit olim Australis ala aedis Arlesianae ab Olivero Grace de Shangano sive Gracefield, Armig. Anno Salutis MDLXXXVII. aedificata, jamdiu vetustate collapsa."
This mausoleum is fully described and illustrated in the family Annals, compiled by Sheffield Grace, who traces their pedigree to Raymond Fitz William, surnamed Le Gros, who accompanied Strongbow to Ireland, and through him further back to the Ducal House of Tuscany.
(Above copied as was written)
Source: Rev M Comerford "Collections relating to the Dioceses of Kildare and Leighlin" Vol. 3 (1886)
Killabban Church c.2001
St. Abban in the Parish of Killabban
This parochial district derives its name from St. Abban, who built a monastery here, according to Trias Thaum., about the year 650, but, according to other authorities, a century earlier. The Martyrology of Donegal, at March 16th, that saint's festival, has the following :- " Abban Mac-ua-Corbmaic of MaghArnaidhe, in Ui Ceinnsealaigh, in Leinster, and of CillAbbain in Ui Muireadhaigh, in Leinster. He was of the race of Labraidh Lorc, son of Ugaine Mor; Miolla, sister of Bishop Ibhair, was his mother, as his life states in the first chapter." There are two saints Abban, commemorated in the Irish Calendars whose acts have become hopelessly entangled. St. Abban, senior, was the nephew of St. Ibhair, named by some as having preceded St. Conlaeth as Bishop of Kildare. St. Ibhair having established himself at Beg-Erin, in Wexford harbour, his nephew, Abban, went there for his education, about the year 490, being then twelve years of age (Ussher). In his Life, by Colgan, his connexion with this locality is thus referred to:-
"Sanctus Abbanus cum suis clericis, fines Laginensium intravit, et venit in plebem Huathmarchy, et ipsa plebs honorifice recepit eum, et valde gavisa est in ejus adventu. Et vir sanctus benedixit eam diligenter, et multis diversis languoribus ibi sanatis, et miraculis perpetratis, inde recessit in plebem Huarnidhi, ibique magnam monasterium construxit, et propter honorem ejus in eodem loco civitas aedificata est; et monasterium et civitas uno nomine Scoticd vocantur Ceall-Abbain." (AA. ,SS. p. 617.)
A curious passage, regarding the interment of St. Abban, occurs in his Life, by Colgan. It is here given as translated by the author of Loca Patriciana, p. 7, et seq: -" We wish to write some brief details of his decease, and how his holy remains were deposited in the earth. On a certain day when the time of his passage to the heavenly kingdom was at hand, calling together some of his brethren he mentioned to them the day of his departure. The Praepositus of his monastery, who was also the procurator of every requisite in-doors and outside, was born in the town of Ceall Abain, which is in the territory of the North Leinstermen, and which was the first place St. Abban had founded in the land of the Leinstermen-to this Praepositus, alone, he disclosed the precise hour of his dissolution. That very same moment the Praepositus determined to carry away the blessed body of the holy man, and to bring it, if he possibly could, to his own town; he sent messengers to his native place, in order that his own people should collect together the North Leinstermen to come to meet him at the appointed day, and by the road on which these messengers should determine.
These orders they obeyed with alacrity, but as the Praepositus had the oxen already mentioned in his charge, because these were for the use of the monastery, as the saint prophesied of them before they were born, they were like monks, nor was there any necessity to urge them to work, as they themselves willingly and meekly obeyed, so that the holy father and the brethren loved them much. The Praepositus placed these oxen beside the waggon in the assigned place on the night on which the holy father foretold his departure for heaven-and the angels on that night were seen visiting the man of God. The Praepositus, knowing from the lips of the saint the precise hour of his departure, ordered all the brethren to retire to rest for some time, except his own accomplices who were cognisant of his plans.
Awaiting awhile quietly till the brotherhood had retired, meanwhile the soul of the holy father ascended among the angelic choirs to the heavenly kingdom. The Praepositus with his friends forthwith carried away the sacred body from the monastery, and placed it on the waggon with the aforesaid oxen yoked thereto, which, aware of the precious burthen they carried, began their journey with the attendants. Then the angelic array descended from heaven, singing sweetly around the corpse; and light like the rays of the rising sun, or when he sets in serenity, shining from them, illuminated the whole way. They continued thus until the venerable remains were placed in the grave, while the leaders of the procession walked with quickened paces under the influence of the angelic light.
"When the brotherhood arose after some repose, they went to the place where they left the wily Praepositus; not having found him there they then placed guards on all the gates of the cloisters, and it was only then they learned that the Praepositus had carried away by stealth the remains of the abbot to his own town. With weeping and wailing and violent ringing of bells, the townsmen were gathered together; and when the sad intelligence regarding their abbot was made known to them the whole city was plunged in grief. The people and the clergy were more distressed that his body was stolen away from them than that he had departed from this world, as they doubted not that they should be delivered from every evil, and that they should be enriched with every good, and that they should obtain the wished for favours before the relics of so great a man, as they had been delivered by him while he lived among them.
Taking counsel together they despatch a number of messengers in different directions to the men of South Leinster, to induce them to follow their patron and to endeavour to recover his remains. Forthwith the populace, taking arms, go with the brethren, to fight for their saint. A great crowd being then collected from every side, they formed a large army, and went with eagerness to bring back the remains to the place whence they had been removed. In the meantime the people of the other city, with the army of North Leinster, gather together; they were more numerous and better armed than those of the South. The holy monks, the clerics, and the good and wise men on both sides, seeing that great danger was imminent, ordered both parties to remain quiet, and the corpse to be detained and placed between them, to effect, if possible, some reconciliation; but disputing with one another, it was impossible to bring them to terms.
The N. Leinster army asserted
'This saint erected our city, took us, his first people in this territory, under his protection, and we have accepted him for ever as our Patron; and our wives, our sons, and our daughters, our servants and our handmaids, even our infants, hope in him in every necessity, and we are determined to die rather than yield him up.' The people of Magher-naidhe, with the S. Leinstermen spoke thus-' This holy man was sent to us by God, he lived many years amongst us and founded many monasteries and churches in our country. He is our saint and our venerated father, he built our town, and, after many miracles wrought among us, he was taken away to the Lord. We hope to be always assisted by him, and know ye that we shall consign ourselves to death rather than we shall return without him.' At this speech the wrath of the leaders and armies on both sides was inflamed and lashed to fury-they commenced to vituperate and contend against each other. Then the monks and clerics to whom armed intervention was unlawful, went apart, weeping and wailing; they cried aloud-' Alas! alas! O Lord God, why dost Thou permit this wretched slaughter of so many noble souls on account of the corpse of Thy servant who, while alive, was the means of preventing much bloodshed and wars?
The armed ranks were about to engage each other, urged on by dire hostility, and with impetuosity to enter into deadly strife to fight for the body. Oh, wonderful and exceedingly great miracle wrought by God through the merits of the saint! Behold! in the twinkling of an eye, two oxen with a wain and corpse went to the North Leinstermen, and two oxen of the same appearance and size, with a similar waggon and corpse, went towards the men of South Leinster. Then the holy men on both sides, and all the others, seeing this wonder so quickly wrought, were appeased; and, full of joy, they cried out-' Behold how great, how excellent are the merits of the Saint Abban before the Lord.' The people indeed rejoiced exceedingly, and giving glory and thanks to the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost, praising his saint, returned with great joy and honour to their cities, and those who were suffering from various diseases were brought before the relics, and all were made whole. And the relics themselves with due honour, with canticles and hymns of praise, after solemn mass and obsequies were consigned with honour to the tomb."
'At Killabban are the ruins of an ancient Church, consisting of nave and chancel; nave, 45 feet by 22; chancel, 28 feet by 22. The chancel-arch remains; it is 15 feet wide and Norman in style. The entrance-door is in the west gable, it is 3 feet in width, and is round-headed. There is a long lancet window in the east-end, part of the stone casing of which remains, and shows it to have been well-wrought. There appears to be a gable campanile at the west end, but the ruin is so completely covered with luxuriant ivy that it is impossible to trace its architectural features satisfactorily. The fragments of a stone coffin are scattered about within the walls of the church. In Roll of Receipts, Easter term A.D. 1286, John, Clerk of Killabban, because he came not when attached, was fined half a mark. (Cal. State Documents - Sweetman). A Patent Roll, 5th and 6th of Philip and Mary, (Morrin) records the presentation of Edward Shorthall, Clerk, to the Vicarage of Killabban.
The name of Theobald Denn, Gent, of Killabban, appears in the Registry of Parish Priests taken in 1704, as surety for Rev. Brian Moore, of Killabban, Rev. Kedagh Moore, of Ballyadams, and Rev. Edmond McGinis, Killeshin. This is, no doubt, the Theobald Denn, Esq., who was appointed one of the Burgesses of Old Leighlin under the Charter granted to that Borough by King James II. On the 4th of July, 1688. Sir Richard Butler, Bart., of Poolstown, (now Paulstown) dying in 1886, Elizabeth, his widow, married Theobald Denn, Esq. (De Brett's Peerage.) In a Return dated 1731 (see Vol I. P. 269,) it is stated that there were in Killabban one Mass-house, two private chapels, four schoolmasters, and two priests; and that several itinerant priests, supposed to be regulars, frequently officiated in the said chapels.
In all likelihood, one of these private chapels was at the residence of Theobald Denn or his descendants. For the particulars supplied by a similar return, made, March 29th, 1766, by Edwd. Whitty, Protestant Curate.
The principal seats in the Parish are:
Cooper Hill, the residence of William. Cope Cooper, Esq.
Ashfield Hall, the residence of P. Gale, Esq.
Rahin, the residence of Lieut. Col. Weldon.
Tollerton, the residence of Hovendon Stapleton, Esq.
Killeen, the residence of M. Dillon Thomas, Esq.
Maidenhead, the residence of the Bambrick family.
Ardateggle the residence of U. Fitzmaurice, Esq.
Hollymount, the residence of W. Fishbourne, Esq.
The living is a rectory, in the diocese of Leighlin, and in the gift of the Crown. The tithes amount to £1,292-6s-1½d. There are two churches, one at Castletown and the other at Mayo, for the erection of one of which the late Board of First Fruits, in 1813, gave £800; and the Ecclesiastical Commissioners have lately granted £106 for the repairs of that at Castletown, and £172 for that at Mayo. There is neither glebehouse nor glebe. In the R.C. divisions the parish forms the head of two unions or districts, one called Ballylynan and Arles, which has chapels at those places and at Killeen; the other called Mayo and Doonane, which is united with the parish of Rathaspick, and has chapels at Mayo and Doonane.
About 400 children are educated in four public schools, to three of which the rector subscribes, and 640 in 16 private schools; there are also six Sunday schools.
St.Abban founded a monastery here in AD650, in which he is said to have been interred: there are some re mains of its church. There are also remains of the old church of Arles, and of the ancient castle of Hovendon, over the entrance to which are quartered the arms of the Leinster and Ormonde families. Near Castletown church is a well, which supplies, water enough to turn a mill in its immediate vicinity.
Source: Portlaoise Public Library 1999.
Abbin's Well. Arles
The Religious Heritage of St. Abban
St. Abban is very much part of our local religious heritage. At an early age he joined the monastery of St. Fiach at Sletty which was established around 640 A.D. After completing his studies at Sletty he left to build his own first monastery about 5 miles away at Killabban in the late 640’s A.D. The parish of Arles was known in older times as the parish of Killabban, Cill Abainn or the church of Abban.
Tradition has it that a pilgrim path went from Killabban to a holy well known as St. Abban’s Well. This well is situated only two fields away from Arles Parish Church (on land owned by Pat Mulhall, a local farmer). Each year a parish pilgrimage takes place to St. Abban’s Well on the 15th August. This pilgrimage recalls our ancestors who made their way to this holy well on their way to Sunday Mass. They secretly attended Mass because it was forbidden to attend Mass during penal times when the priests were hunted. Tradition has it that a priest was caught and hung nearby.
There is a common link between us and St. Abban. Tradition has it that he blessed this well in the 7th century. It has never been known to run dry. The greatest unbroken link between us and St. Abban is the common bond of our Christian heritage.
Source: http://arlesnationalschool.ie/history.php
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CASE Act - H.R. 3945 - Advocacy
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Ebook Design: More than a Simple Conversion - Webinar
2 PM ET, 1 PM CT, 12 PM MT, 11 AM PT
Approximately 1 hour + Q&A’s
We’ll Cover:
• Designing for a wide variety of screen sizes.
• Color & black and white treatments in the same ebook.
• Why add ornamentation to a simple print interior design?
• Should fonts be embedded?
• Accessibility’s role in planning ebook design
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Cedric Hohnstadt - Illustrator
Cedric Hohnstadt owns an illustration studio where he has worked for end clients ranging from Coca-Cola to Hasbro to Disney.
Jose Cruz - Illustrator
Less is more and more is less, more or less! Design illustrations, Geometrix Style, Simple & Bold. That’s what you get from me. Been doing this for quite some time. Got awards too numerous to list. Worked for everyone here and there and everywhere. Illustrate in Adobe Illustrator. Past history includes Mayan Jungle tour guide and Masked Lucha Libre Star, El Cripo for the bordertowns’ Lucha Libre and Cock Fights Circuit.
Ellen Rixford - Automata and Puppets
At present, I am working on a comprehensive book on mechanical movement for automata (mechanical figures) and puppets. The working title is Figures in the Fourth Dimension, and it will offer a large variety of work, from the simple to the complex. It will be about 400 pages, all in color, hardbound, an art book which should also serve as a technical manual. It will begin with an extensive chapter on the basics, then continue with work from over 35 world class artists from all over the planet, as well as significant work from three major museums. I welcome inquiries; my email is ellenrixford@netscape.net.
Johanna Goodman - Illustrator
Johanna Goodman is an illustrator who lives in Nyack, New York. She received her BFA from Parsons School of Design in Manhattan. Johanna’s paintings, drawings and collages have been exhibited widely and her illustrations have been featured in numerous publications including A&M Records, RCA, Rolling Stone, The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Time, The New York Times, Spin, Businessweek, The Wall Street Journal, Sports Illustrated, Forbes, MTV, Playboy and many more. She has garnered awards from numerous organizations including the Society of Publication Design, Communication Arts and American Illlustration.
Dawn Mitchell - G4G Interactive - Graphic Designer
We are professional graphic designers who have been in the industry since 1995 and have loved every minute of it! We are passionate about art, and we are committed to staying on top of the latest trends and newest techniques. We help businesses of all sizes develop marketing materials that they are proud of and that make them money (or save them money) in the long run. At G4G Interactive, we love watching our clients grow, so call us at 336.510.7467 or e-mail us at info@g4ginteractive.com to see how we can help your company get to the next level!
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Thursday, September 20th,
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Ebook Design: More than a Simple Conversion
Presented By: Kevin Callahan
1 Hour plus Q&A's
We'll examine examples of good ebook design, considering what should be standard across all books and where design choices can be made. Attendees will come away with a new way of looking at design for both print and digital use.
The 15th Edition of
The Graphic Artists Guild Handbook: Pricing & Ethical Guidelines
Considered to be the Industry Bible for Communication Design Professionals and Illustrators
The current edition continues the tradition with new information, listings and pricing guidelines. It addresses legal rights and issues such as how copyright laws affect the income and work of graphic artists. It also provides tips on how to negotiate the best deals, pricing guidelines, and includes sample contracts.
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AT&T might permanently drop Galaxy Note 7 sales
Subsequent reports about Note 7 battery explosions prompted Samsung to issue a global recall of all the almost 2.5 million units sold by the company within a couple of weeks of the handset's launch.
Airlines have banned customers from using the smartphones on flights, and the evacuation of a Southwest Airlines Co plane earlier this week was blamed on smoke caused by a replacement device.
Following reports of what was supposed to be a "safe" Note 7 exploding on Southwest Airlines, AndroidPolice is reporting that all four major United States carriers (Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint) have now elected to exchange safe Note 7s for any other phones they have in stock. A previous Tech Times report highlighted that AT&T is thinking of stopping all sales of Galaxy Note 7.
While Samsung has replaced more than one million Galaxy Note 7 devices with versions that are said to have batteries that are "not vulnerable to overheating and catching fire", at least one report suggests the replacement devices are also prone to problems. The incident has raised safety concerns of Galaxy Note 7 replacement units. "This applies to recalled, replacement and newly purchased Note7s", says T-Mobile. "Verizon online customers may also exchange their replacement Note 7 smartphones at Verizon stores beginning Saturday, October 8".
According to rumors, Samsung rushed the Galaxy Note 7 into production in an effort to outshine Apple after hearing that the iPhone 7 would not feature major design changes. The stock has recovered since losing US$22 billion of market value after the recall was announced on Sept 1 and hasn't significantly underperformed its Nasdaq technology peers in that period. Samsung and the U.S. CPSC are still investigating the Southwest Airlines incident, and Samsung still hasn't gone on the record confirming that it was indeed a replacement device. The Verge has reached out both to Samsung and AT&T for comment.
Ryan Lochte engaged to former Playboy model Kayla Rae Reid
17M-plus tweets sent about the debate, most ever
Steven Woolfe in hospital after 'altercation' at UKIP meeting
Rookie-led Cowboys are 4-1 after 28-14 win over Bengals
Cincinnati should be able to keep Elliott from having a big game, which will force Prescott to have to beat a veteran secondary. PURPLE POWER: Dalton, who grew up in Houston, said he expected as many as a couple of dozen family members and friends.
Game 3 of Indians-Red Sox ALDS rained out, will play Monday
Fans 22News spoke with in Fenway, however, were confident that Buchholz will keep the Red Sox alive in Monday night's game. Last year, the Blue Jays banned selling beer cans in the upper deck at their stadium during the AL Championship Series.
Penguins star Sidney Crosby diagnosed with concussion
While Crosby is an irreplaceable player, the Penguins are at least well-suited to absorb the blow with solid depth at center. The issue cropped up again in December 2011 and he sat out more than three months before returning in mid-March.
Green Day to play SFC
This stop is part of the band's 2017 Revolution Radio North American Tour. Against Me! will provide support for all dates.
Prater's kick, Slay's pick give Lions 24-23 win over Eagles
For Jim Caldwell and the Lions, the victory stopped a three-game losing streak that threatened to derail the entire season. Mariota bounced back with a strong game after totaling three interceptions and no TD passes in losses the past two weeks.
Paul Pogba scores on laser from long range for France vs. Netherlands
France forward Antoine Griezmann was happy for Paul Pogba after the midfielder's match-winning goal against Netherlands . It was his first goal for France in five games, with his last coming in the Euro 2016 quarterfinals against Iceland.
South African student protesters demand university shutdown
The University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg said it was re-opening Monday after being shut because of campus unrest. Africa's most industrialised economy is already contending with a skills shortage and a 27 percent unemployment rate.
Vehicle bomb attack kills 18 at Turkish military checkpoint
A bomb in the vehicle was detonated, which Prime Minister Binali Yildirim told reporters contained some five tonnes of explosives. In response to Sunday's attack on the Hakkâri province, Turkey immediately launched a military operation against the rebels.
American Music Awards News, Pictures, and Videos
The American Music Awards/AMAs will be broadcast live from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on November 20 at 8 p.m. These measurements are tracked by Billboard and its data partners, including Nielsen Music and Next Big Sound.
Trump campaign fires its Va. chair after intraparty attack
The defections came largely from Republican lawmakers facing tough re-election battles, including Sen. Supporters of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gather outside the RNC today.
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Kay Sharee “Lips And Fashion”
Bio, Diva, Fashion, Honey, Interview, Kay Sharee, Model, Sexy, Story, Vixen
How did you first get started in modeling? I first started modeling back in 2008, but I had a little break between then, but I’m back.
What can you tell us about your first shoot? I was outside in a green two-piece bathing suit and front of a graffiti wall. It was cool, but then it started to rain, but the pictures turned out GREAT.
What are your biggest assets as a model? I would have to stay what I have accomplished by myself, all the features I have been on I have grind to be there.
What body part of yours attracts the most attention? That’s an easy question… My LIPS… I get a lot of comments on them. I love the fact that no one has the same lips as me!! That’s my signature mark!!
The biggest misconception about me is… People always tend to think I’m shy or quiet cause when you first meet me I hardly say anything, but that’s only because I like to read people first.
What are some of the projects you’ve had a chance to be a part of? I have been blessed to be featured on a lot of websites, and also I had the chance to be in Plies video “Watch Dis”.
What are your hobbies? I love being with my son, well that’s not a hobby but I love it. I also love being around family and my good friends.
Relationship Status? Already taken… sorry fellas and females :-(
Ever had a one-night stand? Hmmm…. Back in my teens… That’s when I was a rebel.
Do you consider yourself a sexual person? I am a very sexual person… who isn’t?
What turns you on? I love when my dude takes control in the bedroom.
What are some of your turn-offs? I would have to say if you are boring in the bedroom, you don’t get any play.
Have you ever tried something in the bedroom you vowed never to do again? Yes, me and my dude tried this one position and I hated it…. never again.
When it comes to sex, do you like to be in control or taken control of? I like being controlling and being controlled, but most of the time I’m the controlling one.
What’s your fetish? Hmmm…. I really don’t have one.
How does it feel to know men (and women) fantasize over your pictures? I love it!! It makes me feel that all my hard work has paid off!!
What is a special characteristic about you that most don’t know? I would have to say I’m double jointed, and I play the piano.
If you had your own Reality TV show? What would it be called and why? My reality show would be called “Fashion of Ms. Kay Sharee” because I love fashion, trying new things, and staying up to date with what’s hot!!!
What is your definition of a Hustlebunny? A Hustlebunny to me is a woman that is strong, grinds hard, stays positive thru anything, and always have a SMILE on their face.
For more photos of Kay Sharee click here.
Visit Kay Sharee on Twitter @MsKay_Sharee
Lisa Raye Delves Back Into Fashion
Kristina Divine “Divine Intervention”
Rihanna Launching Fashion Collection UK
Bella Marie “Traveling With Bella”
Rihanna At Stella McCartney London Fashion Week
Kitti Kouture ‘True Hustler, Pure Goddess’
Courtney Seymour ‘Beautiful Fetish’
Stasi Quinn ‘Bad Girl’
Janese Marie ‘Natural Born Killa’
Erica Lashay ‘Sexy Damier’
Miss Diva ‘Beautiful To Sexy’
http://hustlebunny.com HUSTLEBUNNY
http://twitter.com/touchnplay matthew
Nice interview, seems like a real nice down to earth lady
Very nice and detailed.
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IACCCA
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ING Group Collection, The Netherlands
Art in the Office. Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830) Maria Mathilda Bingham, 1810-1818). ©Marijn Scheeres
Art in the Office. Jaroslaw Modzelewski (1955), Laweczk, 2000. ©Marijn Scheeres
Art in the Office. Diego Rivera (1886-1957) Retrato de la senora Beteta. ©Marijn Scheeres
Art in the Office. Dick Pieters (1941), Zwemmers, 1993, ©Marijn Scheeres
Art in the Office. Koosje van Keullen (1940) Letje en pisanello, 2003. ©Marijn Scheeres
Exhibition public space:
ING Cultural Centre
Mont des Arts/Place Royale 6,
Open: only when there is an exhibition
Open daily, from 10h – 18h
Late night opening until 21h on Wednesdays
Entry fee: Adult 8 € (at the desk); 6 € (online)
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ING Group’s collecting policy focuses on contemporary art by young and established artists; the aim is to create as much cohesion as possible among the individual artists and groups of artists from different countries. With an eye for authentic talent the collection is expanded. The artworks aim to reflect on the world and function as a thermometer of today's society of which we are part of.
The history of the ING Collection began in 1974 with the opening of a new head office for NMB (the Dutch bank for SMEs) in Amsterdam. In 1998, ING merged with Bank Brussel Lambert (BBL); and the acquisition of Barings Bank in 1995 and a majority stake in ING Bank Slaski in 2001 led to the addition of other important international collections.
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Commission program / Site-specific order(s) :
ING regularly commissions artists for specific projects:
Street artists Jeroen Erosie en Boris Tellegen received a commission for ING NL's head office, to create a monumental mural where the outside world is brought inside.
During the past year, photographers Jaap Scheeren (1979) and Ine Lamers (1954) were commissioned to give their own intriguing take on the landscape of the Netherlands. Their photographs now provide a window on the world outside at some 150 branches in the Netherlands.
For our Private Banking offices ING commissioned several talents in the field of photography to create a series of new work within a socially relevant theme: Elspeth Diederix, Krista van der Niet and Natascha Libbert.
Prize(s):
ING Unseen Talent Award
The ING Unseen Talent Award is a joint initiative by ING and Unseen that gives photography talent a platform to present their work on a global scale. 2015 saw the launch of the Benelux edition, the first step towards developing the award internationally.
One of the main aims of the ING Unseen Talent Award is to give talented new artists in the field of photography public exposure and to support them at the beginning of their career. The sharing of knowledge and expertise forms an important part of this award. The finalists take part in a series of coaching sessions, which helps them to further develop their work and introduces them to professionals in the field.
Name of the last laureates:
2015 : Sophie Jung (jury prize), Lara Gasparotto (public prize)
2014 : Anne Geene (jury prize), Maurice van Es (public prize)
2013 : Ola Lanko
Catalogs by the collection
Art in the Office
RE: SOCIETY. 40 years of ING engaging with the arts
ING Bank Group, The Netherlands
In 1881 the Netherlands launched the Rijkspostspaarbank, the State savings agency. Over the course of time, this bank was combined with the State payments service, was privatisend in merged with the commercial NMB Bank into NMB Postbank. In 1991 the bank
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Banking and financial services.
Annual revenue:
EUR 51.9 billion (2014)
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Special Route for Reactor
The 3rd hydrotreater for Angarsk Petrochemical Company (part of OAO Rosneft) has been delivered to the client. Weight of the reactor is 345 tons, vessel length – almost 35 meters, inner diameter – 3,400 mm, vessel wall thickness – 97 mm and 130 mm in the nozzles reinforcement area.
Contract between OAO Izhorskiye Zavody (part of OMZ Group) and OAO Angarsk Petrochemical Company (part of OAO Rosneft) to deliver four hydrotreaters designed for deep oil conversion and production of Euro-5 diesel fuel was concluded in 2011.
Two hydrotreaters R-201 manufactured at OAO Izhorskiye Zavody were already delivered to the client’s site, assembled and installed into permanent position. Valery Golovkin, Deputy Director of OAO Izhorskiye Zavody service center, noted: “The special thing about Angarsk and Angarsk Petrochemical Company which is the ordering party of this equipment consists in the option to use only railway or truck transport to deliver such an oversize and heavy equipment to this company.”
Reactors are usually shipped by water. But this time that was not possible. They had to involve rail transport. Valery Golovkin comments as follows: “It was challenging, as this is the maximum weight and ultimate dimensions of a carried load for this class of rail transporters. Therefore, it took a lot of time to develop a special route to bypass too curved railway sections as well as sections with small radius of curve for the carrying capacity of tracks and railway surface to meet all the requirements.”
Use of rail carriage called for change in technology of manufacturing sophisticated petrochemical reactors. The thing is, usually reactors are welded from special rings – shells – in plant shops. At the works, they are just installed at site. But this time, another technology was applied. Bottom support rings were welded to the reactors in the temporary unloading area. Craftsmen of Izhora worked out the kinks with the technology. “We made a settlement with the client: some supporting shells on which the reactor sits in the design position were not welded at our plant – the reactor was transported shortened which actually allowed it to be carried by rail. We had these parts aligned on the spot, welded them and carried out in-situ heat treatment,” told Valery Golovkin.
Discharging of two reactors off the railway platform was performed on the territory of the oil refining works by TIS using its own hydraulic gantry system Greiner.
SV Trans took over further cargo transportation. In order to haul the extra heavy reactors over the territory of Angarsk PC, the company’s engineers studied the initial data of cargoes, surveyed the route, made calculations and identified the required transport means to carry out this move. Pursuant to preliminary calculations, 18-axle Scheuerle SPMT (self-propelled module systems) was delivered to the plant and assisted in moving the load from the railroad siding to the chemical equipment installation site.
The reactor sitting on the cradles was reloaded onto the self-propelled module transporter which was rolled under it, and then hauled the out-of-gauge heavy lift to erection site. Two 500-ton cranes (crawler and mobile) managed reactor unloading.
Further installation of the vessels was preceded by assembly of reactors with bottom parts of supporting rings, field welding, heat treatment and ultrasonic testing of this welded joint, as well as transportation from intermediate site to the place of erection. Installation activities were performed by Izhorskiye Zavody service center with the assistance of subcontractors – ZAO PO UralEnergoMontazh and ZAO SpetsStroyMash Company.
Let us remind you that this is not the first time when Izhorskiye Zavody install the fabricated equipment into design position at the client’s site. In 2011, under the contract with OAO TAIF-NK (Republic of Tatarstan, Nizhnekamsk), Izhorskiye Zavody successfully fabricated, delivered to the client and installed the hydrotreater DS-302 into permanent position with the support of the service center.
Reactors R-201 are used for hydrotreatment and isodewaxing of straight-run diesel fuel aimed at production of market grades “winter” and “summer” with extra low sulphur content (Euro-5 class).
The third hydrotreater for R-101 for Angarsk PC was manufactured by OAO UralKhimMash against the subcontract. Activities to fabricate the fourth vessel were also completed at the plant.
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