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__label__cc	0.517267	0.482733	Missouri Info Illinois Info Kansas Info Oklahoma Info The Importance of Exhibit Books at Trial Kirk C. Stange, Esq. Most divorce and family cases settle before trial. To get to a settlement, parties should almost always send a settlement… Serving the Midwest in St. Louis, Kansas City, Columbia, Springfield, Wichita, Tulsa, Oklahoma City and the surrounding areas. Schedule a consultation! Stange Law Firm on Twitter! Stange Law Firm on Facebook! Stange Law Firm, PC Locations: 120 South Central Ave, Suite 450, Clayton, MO 63105 \| 16024 Manchester Road, Suite 103, Ellisville, MO 63011 16 Municipal Drive, Suite C, Arnold, MO 63010 \| 2268 Bluestone Drive, St. Charles, MO 63303 \| 5 South Oak St., Union, MO 63084 20 Centerline Drive, Troy, MO 63379 \| 1506 Chapel Hill Road, Suite H, Columbia, MO 65203 \| 256 NE Tudor Road, Lee’s Summit, MO 64086 901 E. St. Louis, Suite 404, Springfield, Missouri 65806 \| 2300 Main Street, Suite 948, Kansas City, MO 64108 (by appointment only) 100 S. 4th Street, Suite 549, St. Louis, MO 63102 (by appointment only) 115 Lincoln Place Ct., Suite 101, Belleville, IL 62221 \| 25 Professional Park, Suite B, Maryville, IL 62062 \| 400 s. 9th Street, Suite 100, Springfield, IL 62701 \| 1012 Ekstam Drive, Suite 4, Bloomington, IL 61704 116 W. Mill Street, Waterloo, IL 62298 (by appointment only) 7300 West 110th Street, Suite 560, Overland Park KS 66210 \| 2024 North Woodlawn Street, Suite 407, Wichita, KS 67208 \| 800 SW Jackson Street, Suite 812, Topeka, KS 66612 6660 S. Sheridan Road, Suite 240, Tulsa, OK 74133 \| 2601 NW Expressway, Suite 411 W, Oklahoma City, OK 73112 Note: The choice of a lawyer is an important decision and should not be based solely upon advertisements. 2018 by Stange Law Firm, PC. All rights reserved.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line809
__label__wiki	0.843751	0.843751	Born this week Born this month Died this week Died this month City, States, Provinces & Districts Diseases & Disabilities Grouping of People Famous people died in 1868 Thaddeus Stevens was a 19th century Republican politician who was one of the most powerful members in the U.S AmericanApril 4, 179293 views Léon Foucault Leon Foucault was a famous French scientist who explained rotation of earth about its own axis using a pendulum FrenchSeptember 18, 1819145 views Kit Carson was an American frontiersman and soldier who played an important role in the westward expansion of the United States AmericanDecember 24, 1809187 views Gioachino Rossini was a great Italian composer, who left an everlasting impression on the successive generations ItalianMarch 1, 179283 views Black Kettle Black Kettle was a leader of the Southern Cheyenne tribe of Native Americans in the 19th century, who repeatedly strived for securing peace for his people AmericanDecember 7, 1803185 views James Buchanan was the 15 President of the United States of America who ruled during one of the most difficult phases of the American history AmericanApril 23, 1791108 views Copyright FamousBio ©2020 All rights reserved This template was inspired with love by Colorlib This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience. By using our website, you agree to the use of cookies	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line810
__label__wiki	0.738194	0.738194	Feedback \| Print Entry Ties, Draws, and a Boxing Decision for the Ages After a record breaking March where we saw multiple Streaks of W40 and above, everyone's success came back to earth in April. In the new and improved 2016 Streak gameplay we've really opened up the board, peppering each day with props that are generous odds wise in the hopes of simply making everything more fun. And even with the big odds on our side it was still hard to get a W10 going! Brad F. of Wolcottville, IN managed to find a way though, breaking through the ranks with a W28 that he amassed through his patient and savvy picking. His Streak began on April 1st; it ended April 30th. If that isn't a tutorial in patience, find me what is. And with a record of 28-0 and no one within reach on the active leaderboard heading into the final day of the month Brad was able to take a free shot at the extra $10,000 stash. He elected to take the early morning Premier League prop that none of the 5 matches at 10 am ET would have 5+ Goals scored, and everything was looking good until the sometimes beloved but often dreaded "Streak Classic" struck. Soon to be relegated Aston Villa had a 2-1 lead in the 2nd Half but was on a red card, and in true Aston Villa 2015-2016 form they opened the floodgates to Watford in stoppage time. Not one but two goals poured in in a matter of two and half minutes, ending Brad's Streak and a chance at the extra $10,000. Nevertheless he still takes home $25,000 via a tiebreaker for a great effort in April - not a bad consolation prize! The "Most Wins" contest was controversial to say the least, and to be quite honest I feel bad about the fact that a decision that is so clearly steeped in corruption had to effect our great contest. But that's the sport of boxing and we all have to live with what is out of our control. And that shouldn't take away from Donald J.'s immaculate victory who battled all day on Saturday to remain tied with the former leader heading into the final prop of the month. Luke, the competitor, decided to get crafty and select Badou Jack to win by decision, a side that was only being picked by 8% of streakers despite being -120 in Vegas, thinking that Donald would be taking the lesser picked side in hopes of picking something opposite and jumping him. And yet, Donald out-thought Luke and won the first of the two crucial battles - they were now locked in on different sides and the winner would take home $5,000. Anyone who watched the fight saw the champion Jack work Bute over round after round, probably winning eight of the first ten based on the judges scorecards that were circulating around the internet and the unofficial @SHOStats twitter account which is always a credible source for in-match scorecards. Bute fought back in the final two rounds and showed a lot of heart, but when it came time for the announcement it couldn't be more clear that Jack was going to retain his title. But this is boxing, and nothing is ever as it seems unfortunately. Two judges scored the bout 114-114 and thus it went down as a quite rare majority draw which begrudgingly I was forced to score as "Any Other Result" based on the official boxing rules. As our ESPN colleague Mike P. would say, "it is what it is", and although Donald won a controversial decision he should be commended for grinding it out all month to reach 140 wins and for outsmarting the competition by getting his opponent to pick opposite him on the last prop of the month, keeping him alive. Congrats to Donald! The Streak Stash was not won so we will tack on another $10,000, meaning if you win the month of May with at least a W30 you'll take home $45,000! And, as always if you finished ahead of me, the StreakMaster, in the "Beat The StreakMaster" Group be sure to check your email over the next week here to see if you are 1 of the lucky 20 to be randomly drawn to win an awesome "I Beat The StreakMaster" t-shirt. Streak Winners Longest Streak Stunt Event Winners Tip-Off Marathon11 Super Thursday11 NFL Draft09 Christmas Day Stunt09 Odds Links covers.com oddschecker.com Live Score Links goalwire.com wsn.com ESPN ScoreCenter Thank you, Streak fans Game Blog Being Retired...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line811
__label__cc	0.704972	0.295028	+ Explore all categories the CAT’S EYE - Ace Collins The Storyteller TheCatsEye_interior_final...the CAT’S EYE Fans Are... Transcript of the CAT’S EYE - Ace Collins The Storyteller TheCatsEye_interior_final...the CAT’S EYE Fans Are... the CATS EYEFans Are Talking About In the Presidents Service Ace has a rare gift to blend history and fictional characters, in a way that is both true to the facts and compelling to read. As a history teacher, it meant a lot to me that he structured this series to be both accurate and fun to read. The In The Presidents Service books show Aces writing at its most versatilefrom wartime intrigue to personal crisis to murder mystery to political scheming, and then back again, all in the space of a small number of pages. And the story keeps the reader hooked from beginning to end. If you are a fan of World War II fiction, of great detective stories, or of just plain old excellent writing, get into this series. Ace will not disappoint you! Mike Messner, Mountain View, CA Ace Collins takes these short novellas to a new height. He researches and loves history so the details come out in his writings. All this series sheds new light on the people and places which played such a role in World War II. How some people tended to not be loyal to a flag but to the power they could gain by playing one side against the other. This made for some very tense moments as well as some very lethal enemies. Caliegh These books remind me of the old serial movies on Saturdays back in the day! Cant wait for the next one. Helen Meeker started with The Yellow Packard and I have read them all. Keep them coming, Ace!! The reason I loved the story so much is because it has mysteries that weave together throughout the story to keep me glued to the book. I love the way the author piques the interest of readers by his brilliant storytelling. I am excited to read the next installment in this intriguing story. Thank you for writing with great details, having interesting characters, and a storyline that takes us back in history. I read this on my computer and after realizing the book was complete, I had to look to be sure. Oh, my goodness, I need to find out what happened. Ace Collins, do you have Episode 9 finished because I want to read it! This story takes place during World War II. Espionage, mystery, and kidnappings abound. Its fast paced and well written with researched historical facts. The scenes are in England, Europe, and the United States. The characters are well developed and continue to grow throughout. The author has an element of faith interwoven. If you want a clean, suspenseful story that moves quickly, In the Presidents Service is your series. Shadows in the Moonlight is Episode 8. Even though I have read only one other in the series, I could pick up what was happening. Ace Collins makes this story build with intensity and suspense, introducing new twists and turns in the plot. Now in the third installment, Helen Meeker is severely wounded and not expected to live even if the doctors can find someone with her B- blood type. The Third Reich is using humans for guinea pigs to be able to build super soldiers who would heal completely at a remarkable rate when wounded. Helen needs a miracle as evil seems to be progressing on the war front. At the White House, the discovery of a mole infiltration sets everyone under a microscope until he or she is removed. Not all the characters are working for the benefit or destruction of a nation as some are using the chaos war brings for selfish benefit. As I read the tale, I was kept guessing as to what was happening not only because of characters actions or words, but sometimes because the author wasnt revealing what happened to certain players. The sacrifice called upon by the President in the story wasnt happening overseas or on the home front, but in ways many people didnt know of in this fictional plot. I dont want to spoil the series for you, but one thing I will say is when a new major turn of events happens that puts the very foundation of American government at risk, I sure was surprised! I never anticipated or thought of that angle to the plot; it was not just amazing, but in my opinion raised the climax of the episodes up several notches. All I can say is dont miss reading In the Presidents Service A Date With Death #1, Dark Pool #2 or Blood Brother #3 and anticipate further episodes coming soon! Ace Collins is a master storyteller and historian. He has made me view war so much differently than my simplistic views before. Never had I considered there could be masterminds behind the major powers, minds not claiming loyalty to one nationality or another, but simply addicted to power. Ace Collins is a brilliant and masterful storyteller with great plots and characters. His research of history comes across in his books. This has been an amazing story of danger, espionage, suspense, twists and turns that keeps you on the edge of your seat. the CATS EYE The Cats EyeBook 14 In the Presidents Service First edition. Copyright 2017 by Ace Collins. The information contained in this book is the intellectual property of Ace Collins and is governed by the United States and International copyright laws. All rights reserved. No part of this publication, either text or image, may be used for any purpose other than personal use. Therefore, reproduction, modification, storage in a retrieval system, or retransmission, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, or otherwise, for reasons other than personal use, except for brief quotations in reviews or articles and promotions, is strictly prohibited without prior written permission of the publisher. This book is a work of fiction. Characters are the product of the authors imagination. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. Cover and Interior Design: Melinda MartinEditing: Ren Holt, Deb Haggerty PUBLISHED BY: Elk Lake Publishing, Inc., 35 Dogwood Dr., Plymouth, MA 02360 Library Cataloging DataNames: Collins, Ace (Ace Collins)The Cats EyeBook 14 In the Presidents Service/ Ace Collins382 p. 23cm 15cm (9in 6 in.)Description: Elk Lake Publishing, Inc. digital eBook edition \| Elk Lake Publishing, Inc. POD paperback edition \| Elk Lake Publishing, Inc Trade paperback edition \| Elk Lake Publishing, Inc. 2017.Identifiers: ISBN-13: 978-1-946638-33-5 (e-bk) \| 978-1-946638-34-2 (POD) \| 978-1-946638-35-9 (Trade)Key Words: Helen Meeker, Teresa Bryant, World War II, The Manhattan Project, Nazis, Suspense, MurderLCCN 2017948778 Fiction the CATS EYEBOOK 13 Ace Collins Plymouth, Massachusetts CHAPTER 1Wednesday, November 18, 19359:45 a.m.Farm just outside of Oslo, Norway Though she deflected the compliments, Anna Olson knew her five-year-old daughter, Elga, was the most beautiful child in the areaperhaps in all of Norway. Her arctic-blue eyes were mesmerizing. Like magnets, they attracted and almost hypnotized everyone the child met. As the news spread of those clear and strikingly beautiful eyes, complete strangers traveled miles just to have a glimpse of them. Once visitors pulled their gaze away from Elgas eyes, they were just as struck by Elgas creamy, flawless complexion and her soft, wavy, straw-colored hair. She was literally the most beautiful girl most had ever seenthe embodiment of Nordic perfection. But in this rare case, beauty was far more than just skin deep. Beyond her obvious attractiveness, Elga radiated all the other qualities parents prayed for in their daughters. She was reading by age three, playing piano at four, and now solving math problems that often stumped fifth graders. She was outgoing, friendly, talkative, and unassuming, as well as bright and curious, but she was neither spoiled nor conceited. All signs pointed to a great future, limited only by her dreams and her parents meager resources. Yet, that Elga was seemingly unaffected by the adulation showered upon her was most remarkable. Every parent prays for a child like Elga, but in this rare case, the prayers were fully answered. This Wednesday morning was much like all the others at the Olson home, beginning with a hearty meal provided by the farms bounty, followed by daily chores. Elga followed her father through the fields, into the barn and down to the creek. With the work completed, the tall, lanky, and deceptively strong twenty-nine-year-old Sven hitched up a team of horses to a sixty-year-old wagon to make his weekly trip to town for supplies, leaving his wife and only child alone for a few hours. As crime was unknown in this small, tight-knit community, he was unconcerned about his familys safety. As fate would decree, he should have been. He had no way of knowing people had been watching the house for weeks, their eyes drawn strongly to Elga. These were not the eyes of harmless admirers, but rather the eyes of those with intentions too evil to imagine. Fifteen minutes after Sven left, Anna had cleaned up the kitchen, finished the breakfast dishes and started the laundry. The petite, blue-eyed woman was scrubbing her husbands soil-stained shirt on a washboard when she heard a knock on the door. After setting her laundry to one side and drying her hands, she made her way from the back of the tiny four-room home to the front door, where she smoothed her apron before opening the wooden entry. On the other side, she found two strangers. May I help you? Anna asked, her tone showing both innocence and trust. The taller of the two men, dressed in a long, dark leather coat, looked beyond the woman to where Elga played with her doll in the corner of the small living room. His expression stern, he studied the ch 143d Transportation Command (FORWARD) Twists & 2006-11-30آ Twists and Turns is published in the interest Plot twists Stealth CAT’s Magnetar Twists: Fermi / GBM Detecon of SGR 1550â€گ5418 Magnetar Twists: Fermi / GBM Detecon of SGR Musique : This cat’s on hot tin roof Product/Market Fit Twists and Turns Understanding your cat’s KIDNEY CONDITION your cat’s KIDNEY CONDITION ® ® Most processes occur Springwise Weekly \| The world’s first cat’s eye bike, and the rest of this week’s most exciting new business ideas — 20-26 March 2014 Henry P. Becton Region High School The Cat’s Eye s Eye View/April Issue.pdf · Volume XLV, Issue The Cat’s Meow By Angelia Crouch Hap Shawl Center Square in Cat’s Paw Lace 143d Transportation Command (FORWARD) Twists & Turns 2006-11-30آ Twists and Turns is published in the Cri du Chat: The Cat’s Cry Cat’s In The Cradle TwisTs, Turns, & Time Tunnels Twists, Turns, & Time Tunnels will introduce you to a variety of eras Unraveling the Twists of Fight Club Some Unknown Facts About Lehsunia / Cat’s Eye Gemstone CENTER STORE NEW TWISTS ON PASTA ... Eye-catching packaging can even help with merchandising, allowing Twists and Turns: Issue 1 Security Testing & The Depth Behind OWASP Top 10 Yaniv Simsolo, CISSP Image: Hubble Telescope: The cat’s eye nebula.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line815
__label__cc	0.648468	0.351532	Pherekydes of Athens 3F4 (Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker 1, ed. F. Jacoby, 2d ed. [1957], p. 60): Since Diktys and Polydektes were sons of Androthoe daughter of Perikastor and Peristhenes son of Damastor son of Nauplios son of Poseidon and Amymone, as Pherekydes says in the first book (translation by Silvio Curtis). Pherekydes of Athens 3F11 (Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker 1, ed. F. Jacoby, 2d ed. [1957], pp. 61-62): When Perseus was living in Seriphos with his mother and had grown into a young man, Polydektes, Diktys’s brother through his mother, king of Seriphos, happened to see Danae and desired her, but he was at a loss how to sleep with her. And he prepared a lunch and invited both many others and Perseus himself. And when Perseus asked what price the meal was being celebrated for, and he said for a horse, Perseus said for the head of the Gorgon. But after the meal on the next day, when the other participants brought in the horse, Perseus did too. And Polydektes wouldn’t accept it, but demanded the head of the Gorgon according to the promise. And he said that if he didn’t bring it to him, he would take his mother. And Perseus went away sorrowfully, mourning the disaster, to the end of the island. But Hermes, seen by him and bringing the question to him, learns the reason for the lament. And he leads him first, telling him to cheer up, to the Graiai, daughters of Phorkos, Pemphredo and Enyo and Deino, with Athena preceding them, and he steals away their eye and their tooth as they hand them to each other. And they, noticing, cry out and supplicate him to give back the eye and the tooth, because the three of them made use of one by taking turns. And Perseus says he has it and he will give it back if they direct him to the nymphs who have the cap of Aides and the winged sandals and the pouch. And they tell him, and Perseus gives back what he took. And he goes away to the nymphs with Hermes, and after asking and getting them he ties on the winged sandals and hangs the pouch on his shoulders and sets the cap of Aides over his head. Then, flying, he goes to the ocean and the Gorgons, with Hermes and Athena following with him. And he finds them sleeping. And the gods with him explain to him how he must cut off the head while turned away, and they show him Medousa, who alone was mortal of the Gorgons. And he gets near and cuts it off, and puts it into the pouch and flees. But they notice and chase him and don’t see him. And Perseus gets to Seriphos, goes to Polydektes, and tells him to collect his people so he can show them the Gorgon’s head, knowing that if they saw it they were going to be rocks. And Polydektes assembles the crowd and tells him to show it. And, turning himself away, he takes it out of the pouch and shows it. And when they saw it they turned to rocks. But Athena takes the head from Perseus and sets it in her aegis. And he gives the pouch away to Hermes, and the sandals and the cap; and Hermes gives them back to the nymphs. And Pherekydes records it in the second book (translation by Silvio Curtis). ApB (Apollodoros, Bibliotheke [Library]) 2.4.2 So he [Polydectes] called together his friends, including Perseus, under the pretext of collecting contributions towards a wedding gift for Hippodamia, daughter of Oenomaus (original Greek). Euripides, Diktys (see I. Karamanou, Euripides, Danae and Dictys: introduction, text and commentary [2006], and a review by A. Markantonatos)	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line826
__label__wiki	0.604331	0.604331	GearACUDA Tech Gears And Gadgets Latest Tech Gears And Gadgets Technology Gears And Gadgets Sometimes Red Means Go—When It Comes to Bus Rides The first thing you need to know is a too-long acronym, one that sits—almost literally—in the center of every US street: MUTCD. It stands for the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways, which is the guiding light for the nation’s transportation engineers. Why are stop signs always red octagons? MUTCD. Why do traffic lights use the same colors; and highway signs use the same font (Highway Gothic); and “Do Not Pass” signs come in the same size on all single lane roads (24 inches by 30 inches)? MUTCD. The manual is a set of road standards issued and maintained by the Federal Highway Administration, part of the US Transportation Department. It is updated infrequently—the last edition published in 2009—and changes only come with lots of thought, care, science, and lobbying from transportation and engineering groups. Want the latest news on mass transit in your inbox? Sign up here! MUTCD is due for an update in the next few years. Until then, the highway administration sometimes issues “interim approvals” of changes. This month, it approved a change that sounds minor, but could have an outsize effect on US urban traffic patterns: Cities can now use red-colored pavement to separate transit lanes from lanes open to other sorts of traffic. Red transit-only lanes aren’t new. Several American cities, including New York, Austin, Washington, DC, Baltimore, and Los Angeles, have used the pavement color as a relatively inexpensive way to speed transit service in traffic-y areas. But prior to this new approval, each city using federal dollars to complete those projects had to wade through layers of bureaucratic red—yes, red—tape. Often, city governments had to ask state governments to apply to the Federal Highway Administration for an “experimental” approval, which might take weeks, months, or even years. If you don’t live in a city that’s put down red lanes in the past few years, you might not know the kind of woe the color has caused. In San Francisco, for example, business owners have argued that restricting some lanes to buses makes it harder for customers to access their stores. Locals in San Francisco, New York, and Albuquerque, New Mexico, have sued over the issue, slowing city projects designed to keep buses moving more quickly. The interim change in the design manual should make it much quicker for cities to obtain approval to use red lanes—and make government officials less nervous about them. “If you go outside the [manual], it puts jurisdictions in a potential liability situation when one goes wrong,” says Jeff Paniati, the CEO and executive director of the Institute of Transportation Engineers, which pushed the Federal Highway Administration to make the change. “Interim approval gives jurisdictions more protection to defend themselves. It shows we didn’t invent this ourselves.” While local transportation departments don’t legally have to follow the manual, noncompliance with MUTCD is often cited in civil lawsuits. “Simple solutions, like red paint, can make big impacts in the daily lives of millions of people.” Corinne Kisner, National Association of City Transportation Officials The federal government’s decision on red pavement should especially benefit small cities, Paniati says, which don’t always have the resources to pull off more “experimental” transportation projects. For transit advocates, that’s a very good thing. A summary of research published by this year by UCLA’s Institute of Transportation Studies suggests that bus-only lanes speed riders’ door-to-door travel times by 5 to 15 percent, and that faster rides can increase bus ridership by 2 to 9 percent. In cities choking in traffic and the emissions spikes that it brings, those are modest but impressive improvements. Brian Zumhagen, a spokesperson for New York City’s transportation department, said the agency was “very pleased” with the change. Previous: The RetroBeat: Christmas Nights is the best game for the holidays Next: Free Technology for Teachers: The Week in Review New Orleans declares state of emergency, shuts down its network after a ransomware attack on Friday, says it had found no signs that data was lost in the attack (New Orleans Times-Picayune) Free Technology for Teachers: The Practical Ed Tech Podcast – Episode 23 Space Photos of the Week: Starkiller Base? 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__label__cc	0.725281	0.274719	Toni Natalie Guest View: Setting the record straight – in Defense of Toni Natalie Recently a commenter who uses the moniker “The Retard AKA Bangkok” made these remarks about Toni Natalie: “Toni lived with Keith and was his able Lieutenant during his Consumer Buyline Ponzi Scam. Toni appeared on video ‘praising’ Consumer Buyline and helping Keith to sucker more victims into that Ponzi scam. Is that considered a ‘moral’ activity…? “Toni was likely benefiting from the ‘fruits’ of that Ponzi scam. If Keith supported Toni or paid any of her expenses EVER, then she was benefiting from his Ponzi Scam. “I’m guessing that the home or condo she lived in (back in the 90’s) was probably bought or rented with money from Consumer Buyline at some point. “Plus, her food and entertainment expenses were likely paid for from the fruits of that Ponzi scheme. When Keith took her out to dinner or on vacation (or simply bought her weekly groceries), where the fuck do you think that money came from? “She wasn’t an ‘innocent’ girlfriend, she was seen on FUCKING VIDEO praising Consumer Buyline. “Did Toni ever attempt to make amends with the victims of that Ponzi scam and pay some of that money back? I don’t know for sure, but I’m guessing NOT. “…She’s not the worst person in the world, but she’s no angel. That’s sim By Nut Job To Bangcock – … I originally assumed you had some NXIVM connection due to the hot air you spewed. After reading this pathetic post, it’s clear you are clueless. Not sure if anything you typed is accurate. Since you’re throwing darts while blindfolded, you might as well save your response and move on to your next instigating opportunity. Here are some facts: – Toni Natalie came to the Keith relationship with her own money. – Toni was a successful business person and had also become very successful at CBI BEFORE meeting Keith. (anyone see a pattern in the women Keith preyed on?) – When CBI was shut down, Keith was supposedly broke after paying his fines. He lived off of Toni and her money. – Toni used her own money to start the next MLM idea that Keith came up with. That idea was shit. Toni lost her investment and was left broke. – Toni left Keith during the first 6 months of ESP, and was dead broke as she somehow managed to get away. As to your specific questions… they are all basically the exact same question: “Toni had a boyfriend that ran an MLM and Toni was a part of the MLM. That makes her bad, right?” Thanks to the great Scott Johnson, the world is now aware of the evilness of MLMs. The 80s and 90s were different. Toni being a part of an MLM does not make her any worse than half the population. And the fact that she was good at selling memberships to a buying club makes her a good salesperson. Saying she knew it was a Ponzi scheme as she sold the memberships is an example of you throwing shit at the fan and is patently false. You are trying to make us believe that because she dated Keith, he told her all about the shady back-office shit with CBI. If you pay any attention to Frank Report, you know that is also false. Toni doing a video praising CBI is no different than when Scott Johnson did that video with his mom in the 90s that praised Amway soap. Toni and Scott were both clearly drinking the MLM Kool-aid when they made the videos, and they both came out with guns blazing once they realized the ugly truth. We all have lots of reasons to call out Scott, but I doubt any of us honestly fault him because he was once a member of Amway. He’s earned his stripes on that front – just as Toni has earned hers. Keith doesn’t pay for his women and he didn’t pay for Toni. His women support him, and Toni supported Keith for much of their time together. Think Toni is happy about her part in CBI? Hell no. Think she would take back her support of Keith and CBI? Hell yes. Is Toni an angel? Nah. But if you want to cut somebody off at the knees by saying “they’re no angel”, then be able to come to the table with something better than “they were a girlfriend of Keith.” or ” they were part of an MLM.” The Retard, AKA all retards on FR, you give retardness a bad name. The Retard says: Is Toni Natalie really a ‘victim’ of Keith? Or was she one of his ‘enablers’ during the Jurassic Period of NXIVM, way back before the era of cell phones? I’m not so sure. She claims to be a ‘victim’ but she’s got dirt on her hands, if you ask me. She was a TOP salesperson for Consumer Buyline (according to those news articles) which means she was one of the top people who suckered others into Keith’s Pyramid scam. How many people did Toni sucker into Consumer Buyline? How many lives did she help to financially ruin? How can she sleep at night, knowing she was right there helping Keith with Consumer Buyline? I think we need to explore this topic and let the whole truth come out. Why is THIS topic off limits? Just as honey flows from a bee’s ass, I think the truth should be allowed to flow into the open. I’d very much like to see Toni take a polygraph test. I’d like her to confirm if she truly KNEW or DIDN’T KNOW that Consumer Buyline was a Ponzi Scam from the EARLY days of her relationship with Keith. Right now, all I have is Toni’s ‘word’ which is nothing more than SELF SERVING crap. Toni is from the Jurassic Era of NXIVM and most of those dinosaurs were enablers of Keith. Thus, I find it hard to believe that Toni was any better than Pam Cafritz or Barb Jeske or Karen U or any of his other harem members who have dirt on their hands. I want justice for NXIVM victims. I want the truth. 🙂 Nutjob says: – Are you also guilty of your boyfriend’s crimes? – The topic is not off limits and you can explore all you want. But everyone and their brother knows you’re wasting your time if you think you’ll find any indication that Toni thought anything was sideways with CBI. – Toni was barely a part of ESP. She went to a few classes and was given a coaches sash. She was running her own failing business (Keith’s brainchild of a business) at the time of ESP’s infancy and didn’t have time for ESP. I doubt she even went through the first 20 modules. – You have more than Toni’s word. You have the word of everyone else who was there and witnessed it. There is literally nobody else saying anything different other than your ignorant self. – Does Scott need to re-teach you his lesson on the difference between a ponzi scam and an MLM? – Toni ejected when she realized Keith was cheating on her. She was never a part of a harem. – If you really want justice for NXIVM victims, why do continually manufacture opportunities to victim bash? Scott Johnson says: How long is a typical NXIVM module? About an hour, I think. But they were designed for a group setting with small groups and discussion. Listen, I’m on board with what’s being said here, but as a frequent reader of this blog, it’s bad enough that I occasionally read the freak show that is the comments section. I know, I’m commenting right now. Irony! But seriously, there are some unhinged people that post here. I guess you have to be a little off, myself included, to be fascinated with a MLM scheme turned sex cult that also somehow involved Z-list actors and truly bizarre day-care centers run by a quack pop psychologist. Please, stop giving attention to these people by responding to them. It’s what they want, and I surmise it’s because there’s something missing in their life. Also, it’s the internet. People love to fling their own feces on the condition of anonymity because it would be undignified for the public to know that you don’t mind holding your own turds in your hand. I was once semi normal like you…then one day by chance I made a similar comment regarding “commentors” , just like you did. I commented on the banal comments of one Scott 3in Johnson. I was quickly sucked into a world of arguing and debating bullshit. Occasionally I still make some lucid comments. Matt I have been drinking and commenting ever since. I pray Matt that you turn away before it’s too late and the Frankreport claims another lost soul….. Stop making comments before you get sucked in. It’s not too late. 🙂 Somebody says: Well said, Matt. And welcome! Nutjob, Great article in regards to Toni Natalie and an incredible work of fiction in regards to Scott. Scott’s whole self declared crusade against MLM’s is as fictitious as Keith Raniere’s IQ. Nutjob, it was good of you to stick up for Toni Natalie; she deserves some respect and recognition. My heart goes out to anyone involved with NXIVM. Except Keith. People’s lives in NXIVM are riddled with self deception, mind bending, good and bad memories, and just a slew of good and bad things. I say “good” for them. Those who tried to do good. But in the end the NXIVM fruit was rotten and bitter and leaves one poisoned. Perhaps for the remainder of their lives. Pointing out that people are good or bad doesn’t cut it. I say anyone involved with Keith’s nightmare are victims. Even those who helped push it along. The only person who isn’t a victim is Keith himself. Hey, that’s fitting for someone who taught there are no victims. Well, everyone was and is – aside from keith of course. Toni, Barbara, Catherine, all victims. Even Allison. Keith took good lives and twisted them into evil. Moreso with Allison than anyone else. That doesn’t take responsibility away from anyone, as we all have free will. My point is, if Keith never existed, all of these people would have led decent lives (I would hope). Keith is the reason for all misery associated with NXIVM. He is the corrupt root. I feel bad for everyone affected by him. Yes, Allison and any others need to answer and stand trial for what they’ve done. But Keith is at the root of all of that evil. The world would be such a better place had he not been born. In that case, why not put the blame on Raniere’s parents, or the first MLM scam that taught him everything he needed to know going forward, Amway? We should blame your parents for having you. My parents are proud of me, so blame away. LOL Sure they are proud of you. Taking on a multi-billion dollar/year scam business and winning? Why wouldn’t they be proud? You guys are hilarious. Keith’s parents can’t be blamed because they had no idea they were giving birth to an evil pile of shit. Every bit of evil in and around NXIVM goes back to Keith. So you think Raniere’s behavior is 100% genetic and 0% environmental? Quote from news article about Toni Natalie: Another time, when her conservative Catholic upbringing made her reluctant to engage in oral sex, she was invited to attend a class Raniere created on the subject. She said he told the students, including Natalie, that mothers in some developing nations perform oral sex on their children to soothe them. She suspects the class was organized just for her. https://www.timesunion.com/local/article/In-Raniere-s-shadows-3341644.php Now, what kind of a person would remain with a guy like Keith Raniere AFTER he just talked about SICK and TWISTED things like that? Think about how SICK that is. Any REASONABLE person would have RUN AWAY FROM KEITH AT THAT EXACT MOMENT. Did Toni immediately leave Keith and run for the hills after that class? Keith didn’t teach that a mother SHOULD do that to their child. He stated as fact that in some developing nations it occurs in an effort to stop crying. He then posed the question “Is that ok?” This example was used hundreds of times over the years. And yes, I’m sure it was being taught that specific day as a way to get to Toni. Keith was fucked up and used some fucked up things in his courses. Usually, it was presented in the form of a question. This one, and the “Is suicide (or murder) ever good” question were a couple of the worst. His reasons for doing it this way have been discussed often on Frank Report, and are now fairly obvious. Well, it does say she was Catholic. Have you seen the Catholic stories in the news for the past couple of decades? The retard : stop your bullshit please. I heard this fact from one university course. It came from a serious research by american anthropologist Margeret Mead. By the way, if you understand a little bit how a cult works, you should know that brainwashing with various tools and tecnics on a long period of time its how it get done. That would explain irrational behaviours that look so weird for the majority of us, although when you’re involved, it seems like the only thing to do. I don’t understand how everything you said should make us believe that Natalie is an evil person. Exactly correct, Alex. Another death caused by an MLM scam, and these are only the ones making media stories: https://www.businessforhome.org/2019/03/nu-skin-offers-condolences-for-chinese-customers-death/ The world is not aware of the evilness of MLM scams. If they were, MLMs wouldn’t exist, because the turnover exceeds 50% annually. In the U.S. alone, 4-5 million people turn 18 years old. This means the primary target age, the 18-28 young adult population, is 40-50 million, with 1/10 of it being “refreshed” every year. Multiply those numbers by 20 to get the worldwide numbers. MLMs being scams is not taught in schools. While the internet has helped educate people, it isn’t a panacea. It takes more than one person (me) to educate the world. Get off your lazy a$$e$ and DO something for a change, rather than look in your rear view mirror at the NXIVM roadkill you just drove past. Just because you know something doesn’t mean everyone else does, too. Get a clue. Someone call a therapist says: Bangkok, You shout too loud about the dog poop in the back yard way too often when it’s been raining for months. It’s beginning to look like you’ve been on bended knees with the great and powerless Vanturd way too often. Bangkok, you might need some therapy to deal with your anger and self hatred issues you project on others. Instead you are using the blog to lash out at victimz so you don’t have to look at your own victimization. Honey get some therapy. orangecountydreams - OCD says: Nut Job: Excellent and accurate commentary. Bangkok, IMO, you are leaping to conclusions long after the fact. At the time, many people praised Consumers Buyline and its seemingly benign, innovative leader. As NJ pointed out,this was in the early 90s before the wide availability of the internet. CBI was hailed as an innovative, exciting and novel concept at the time – a “win-win” for everyone. The people I met involved with CBI in the 90s were positive, jazzed, enthusiastic, and trusting of Keith. It is so easy now to cast stones in hindsight. Snorlax says: Anyone who voluntarily joins any MLM is completely retarded and should not be allowed to make financial decisions. Natashka says: You say in 2019. The world was a different place 30 years ago. No need to mock and judge Many thanks for the excellent comment. Some of our regulars cry out to be mocked and judged. It would be rude not to oblige. The world may have been a different place 30 years ago, but MLM scams still thrive in 2019. How do you explain that? Mitch Garrity says: 30 years ago people knew Amway was bs. 40 years ago people knew mlms were bs. 50 years ago… You don’t need the internet to avoid scams or too good to be true business opportunities. The internet can be used to find the truth or reenforce lies And should be sent to death camps? Snorlax, You must be under 30. Back in the day you had extremely limited information about anything. Seriously even if you went to the library and followed the tv news and the news papers. MLM’s fooled many. Post internet people have limited excuses. Post internet MLM scams are focusing on minorities that do not have as much access to the internets and stick together. You are white. What was your excuse? I joined Amway in 1993. You should know that, try reading my websites for comprehension next time. 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__label__cc	0.592625	0.407375	Unique fusion of a top-down shooter and tower defense strategy. You are the X-Morph - an alien species that invades Earth to harvest its resources and terraform the surface. Strategize in the build mode by carefully selecting various types of alien towers or throw yourself right into the heat of the battle. Build mazes for incoming enemies in an environment that provides exceptional planning freedom. Tear down buildings and collapse bridges to support your defense or to simply indulge in a spectacle of unprecedented destruction. Possess a range of unique alien weapons and use defense strategies like you've never seen before in this genre. Your goal is to defend the X-Morph harvesters from waves of incoming human forces. Each enemy wave is preceded by a setup phase in which the player can check what types of enemies are going to be attacking him and to observe their paths. There is no time limit for this phase, so the player can carefully plan his defenses or choose to start fighting immediately and place towers when needed during the battle. One of the game's key features is the ability to build towers virtually anywhere on the map and to shape enemy paths by connecting towers with laser fences. The player can choose between building long mazes out of basic towers or placing more advanced towers which are more effective at different types of incoming enemies. Advanced tower types specialize in dealing with specific enemy types e.g. flame towers are great for destroying fast moving ground units, artillery towers are best at countering large groups of slow enemies, anti-air laser is ideal for shooting down heavy bombers. As the X-Morph fighter you can engage enemy units directly with a diverse arsenal of weapons. You can morph into four distinct forms which specialize in dealing with different kinds of threats. Each form has a basic attack and a special charged attack mode. The Plasma Fighter is the most universal form - good at destroying both air and ground units. The Dark Matter Bomber is great at decimating groups of ground units. It can also slow down time and release a dark matter bomb that can cut down buildings. The Shredder fighter is perfect for annihilating large numbers of human air units and clearing the sky. Finally, the Laser Destroyer is best for smelting large single units. It can also charge up a gravitational anomaly that sucks in smaller enemy units. A large variety of weapons and enemies along with a dynamic, fully destructible environment provides a rich arcade shooter experience. The game's environments are constructed with a lot of attention to detail and they are almost completely destructible. From small picket fences to huge skyscrapers. Any bridge or building in the game can be collapsed and it's destruction is dynamically simulated using realistic physics. The destruction is not only a visual effect as it can significantly influence the layout of the battlefield. The combination of dynamic environments, laser fences and real-time calculated enemy paths creates unique gameplay scenarios. Humans are desperate to defend their homeworld. They have created huge, building size, mechanical war machines to fight against each other, but now they will use them to destroy the X-Morph. Each boss fight is unique and heavily influences the gameplay environment. Entire cities will be destroyed. X-Morph: Defence includes a split screen co-op mode. All missions have different gameplay scenarios designed specifically for co-op play. Enemies attack in larger numbers and from new directions making good cooperation essential to winning. In this mode the game can be played in many different ways, one player can focus on optimizing tower placement while the other shoots at enemies or they can both focus their firepower on the strongest attackers. https://store.steampowered.com/app/780310/The_Riftbreaker/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/220820/Zombie_Driver_HD/ Windows 7 64bit Service Pack 1 Processor: i3 2.6Ghz or AMD equivalent GeForce GTX 460 or AMD equivalent DirectX compatible sound card 4Players.de Well executed mixture of tower defense and twinstick-action with challenging missions and chaotic destruction. X-Morph Defense is a pleasant surprise. The blend of shooting action and tower defense fits rather well, and the constant action keeps things at a very frantic pace almost all of the time. It could've used more weapon variety and more modes outside of co-op, but as it stands now, X-Morph Defense is an enjoyable romp for fans of either genre. Title: X-Morph: Defense Genre: Action, Indie, Strategy Developer: EXOR Studios Publisher: EXOR Studios Includes level editor Steam Leaderboards	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line835
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__label__wiki	0.835371	0.835371	Green CBD HEMP Vape Hemp Comes Home In a former tobacco warehouse in Kentucky’s horse country, a silver-haired seventh-generation hemp farmer sits with his business partners. As Andrew Graves, the chairman of Atalo Holdings, leads a discussion of seed varietals and soil consistencies, the group snacks on hemp nuts, grabbed in handfuls from a sack. In the warren of rooms just behind them, oils drip from stills as lab techs figure out formulas for supplements and vapors. No one in the room is younger than 50. No one talks about marijuana, and honestly, they’d rather you not bring it up either. Kentucky’s new face of hemp looks remarkably like the old one. A really old one. For much of its history, the Bluegrass State grew hemp, otherwise known as Cannabis sativa—the same root that produces marijuana, though hemp doesn’t share its psychoactive properties. (Marijuana‘s active ingredient is THC, which can get you high. Hemp’s is cannabidiol, or CBD, which can’t. The plant does contain a trace amount of THC, but not enough to get anyone stoned.) Kentucky grew more hemp than any other state; by 1850, it was producing more than 40,000 tons. Kentuckians spun the fibrous stalks into rope, clothing, shoes, and American flags. Hemp seeds became a food, and hemp oil became a base for medicines and salves. In 1938, Popular Mechanics touted hemp as a “billion dollar crop” and estimated it could produce more than 25,000 products. A decade later, nearly all the hemp was gone. The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 required farmers to buy an expensive “stamp” for the right to grow cannabis, whether or not it was the kind that can make you high. Most Kentucky farmers couldn’t afford it and turned to tobacco; nationwide, farmers turned to corn, soybeans, and other commodity crops. (Popular Mechanics might have had an early deadline, or else they didn’t get the memo about the tax.) A brief reprieve came in World War II, when the government lifted the tax because the Navy needed rope and sails for its ships. One government film, Hemp for Victory, declared it American farmers’ patriotic duty to grow hemp. The U.S. Department of Agriculture even gave the seed to the prospective farmers, which it forced Graves’ grandfather to sell to them at way below its value. When the war ended, the stamp came back. By then DuPont was making synthetic fibers like Nylon for less than the labor costs to process and dry hemp, and the market went bust. In 1970, President Richard Nixon designated both hemp and marijuana Schedule I drugs, the government’s category for the most dangerous controlled substances. There they remain today. Hemp, a plant as likely to produce a high as a cup of radishes, is as dangerous as heroin, according to the feds. The Graves family hemp fields became tobacco farms. But Graves, who grew up hearing hemp stories from his father and grandfather, never lost hope that he would one day grow his own. He knew that there was a market for hemp products: Foreign-grown hemp was being used to produce door panels for BMWs, high-end clothing and housewares for Giorgio Armani and Ralph Lauren, and insulation for homebuilding. With a coalition of Kentuckians that included Tea Partiers, university researchers, Louisville businessmen, Lexington tobacco farmers, and Sierra Club activists, he pushed in Frankfurt and Washington for a law legalizing hemp. Three years ago, they got it—sort of. The 2014 farm bill authorized state agriculture departments to create and commercialize industrial hemp research programs in partnerships with universities. The amendment allowing the hemp program was sponsored in the House by Republican Rep. Thomas Massie, a Kentucky cattle farmer, and two Democrats, Jared Polis of Colorado and Earl Blumenauer of Oregon. (Both Colorado and Oregon legalized hemp along with marijuana.) Massie had been skeptical the amendment would survive; the fact that it did, he says, meant that the libertarian-leaning Kentuckian had to hold his nose and vote for the full farm bill. In the other house of Congress, Kentucky’s two Republican senators—Rand Paul and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell—championed the amendment and protected it from add-ons that drug warriors tried to insert, such as a ban on commercializing the crop or a requirement that hemp growers install 24-hour surveillance cameras. Once the new farm bill authorized hemp, James Comer didn’t waste any time. The longtime Kentucky state representative had been elected agricultural commissioner in 2011 on a platform of legalizing hemp. Like Massie, Comer raises beef cattle; he didn’t know much about hemp at the time, except that some farmers thought there might be a market for it. With the new law in place, he set up a program to register growers under a partnership with University of Kentucky and Murray State and to get hemp in the ground. This year more than 200 Kentucky farmers will grow close to 13,000 acres of industrial hemp—more than all other states combined. Kentucky has about 40 processors, and the agriculture department has approved 525,000 square feet of greenhouse space for extraction and cultivation. Hemp, illegal just four years ago, is now a multimillion-dollar business that employs hundreds of people. In 2016, Kentucky’s First District elected Comer to Congress by a wide margin. Comer and Massie, along with Polis and Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R–Va.), sponsored a bill in July that would remove hemp from the drug schedule, making it more like corn or soybeans. (Hemp enthusiasts say it’s not a perfect bill, but they’re willing to work with it.) The proposed law has failed twice before, but Massie is optimistic. The farm bill amendment, he jokes, was “gateway legislation.” Now Congress may be willing to pass something more sweeping. Hemp—a plant as likely to produce a high as a cup of radishes—is as dangerous as heroin, according to the feds. In 1970, Richard Nixon designated it as a Schedule I drug. “It’s a narrow path of opportunity that we have given farmers,” Massie says. “They are creative, they are entrepreneurial, and they have found ways to maximize this amendment for the good of society. And it makes me wonder, how much more could they do if we widen the path? We have every advantage, and the only thing that’s holding us back is the federal legislation.” The Kentucky Hemp Experiment Kentucky’s fields may have once grown hemp, and its politicians may have been eager for the crop to take hold. But the state was still starting from scratch. No seeds remained from the days before World War II; no agronomists in the state had been working on the plant. Fortunately, several were ready to dive in. Hemp’s chief uses fall into four categories: fiber, fuel, food, and medicine. For fiber production, the plant’s stalks rot in the field, a process called “retting.” They break down and become separated into bast fibers and woody hurds, also known as pulp. The hurd can be used to make building materials, absorbents for wastewater plant spills, cement, and animal bedding. Fuel production centers around hemp oil, which can become biodiesel to run tractors and automobiles (though this use seems less promising than hemp’s many other ones, in part because of the energy needed to extract the fuel). For food, the hemp seeds are crushed to make meal for birds, livestock, or human beings. They can be shelled into a trail mix snack, or pressed into oils for cooking or salad dressings. (The seed oils are also used for soaps and balms.) The medicinal uses involve CBD: Researchers are looking into its capacity to treat inflammation, nausea, and anxiety; particularly promising is its proven ability to reduce seizures in epileptics. Kentucky’s hemp entrepreneurs are exploring all four paths. Graves’ Atalo (Greek for “new beginning”) is a co-op of farmers growing hemp for CBD oil, which the company processes and markets nationwide. In Louisville, Trey Riddle, the founder of Sunstrand, processes hemp fiber that will become raw material for sporting goods, building material for the construction industry, and plastic moldings for coffee cups, while the wood core will become animal bedding and absorbents for wastewater spills. Sharing his 25,000-square-foot space is Chad Rosen of Victory Hemp Foods, whose protein powder and oils are now in Whole Foods stores across the state. On the smaller scale is Katie Moyer of rural Christian County, who is making salve and lip balm from hemp in a small kitchen with her mother and husband. There is no ConAgra, no Archer-Daniels-Midland. Massie thinks those companies may come looking to buy out what’s already there. But they’re risk-averse. They’re willing to let the current crop of entrepreneurs make the mistakes. Rosen agrees. “Hemp lends itself really well to a cottage industry,” he says. “It serves so many different agendas.” A Drug War in the Way Decades of foolish drug-war policies have put hemp advocates in a strange position: They need more regulation to be less regulated. One over-arching federal law that removed hemp from the dangerous drug list and made it legal everywhere would, as Comer says, keep the feds off the farm. On June 30, five senators, including Rand Paul, sent a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions asking him to clarify the federal government’s position on industrial hemp. Farmers were having difficulty getting bank loans, because those are backed by a federal government that currently regards hemp as a dangerous drug. Paul’s staff declined to comment; at press time, Sessions had not responded. Since the farm bill amendment passed, 15 states have established research programs allowing farmers to grow hemp legally. A new nonprofit group, Vote Hemp, is encouraging more of them to do so. But even in those 15 states, hemp growers still face serious artificial barriers. Consider the case of Kim Phillips. The state of Montana authorized her to grow hemp, but then the federal Bureau of Reclamation denied her request for irrigation. More precisely, she was allowed to spend her own money to grow a crop and then helplessly watch it die. Farmers can’t get crop insurance for hemp, thanks to the plant’s ambiguous status. Bankers won’t lend hemp farmers money, prompting the senators’ letter. In North Dakota, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents told state officials that farmers who grew hemp could not ship it out of state. In Virginia, a hemp farmer had to tell his Mennonite family that they would all need to be fingerprinted—a tall order for a group of people who prefer minimal contact with government. Even in hemp-friendly Kentucky, this year officials confiscated some growers’ seed because its THC levels were higher than the .003 percent the current law allows. (Comer is looking at what limits may be possible in his new legislation; he’d like to keep the permitted THC levels low, but even in the confiscated seed, there wasn’t enough THC to produce a high. It can be difficult to keep seed varieties at precise levels, however, especially for CBD crops.) Meanwhile, the Food and Drug Administration will not bestow upon hemp food products the coveted “generally regarded as safe” designation. Such approval would broaden the customer base for hemp protein powder, seeds, and oils and make them legal to produce everywhere. In states where it’s not legal to grow hemp, importing it to make products is also somewhat tricky. The hemp hearts I buy originate in Canada and travel to California for distribution before I pick them up at a Trader Joe’s in Maryland. When I met Rosen in Louisville, by contrast, he handed me a bottle of nutty-flavored oil made from hemp grown a few hours away and processed five miles from where we stood. Such a thing would not be possible in my home state. In Maryland, that hemp is not legal to grow; it’s unclear if it could be imported, and in what form; and no one is licensed to manufacture products from it in the state under current law. “It’s not being treated like any other crop,” says Eric Steenstra, Vote Hemp’s president. “It’s being treated like some sort of scary controlled substance. Ultimately, the industry is not going to take off until we remove the chains that have kept it in this box.” Comer learned that the hard way when DEA agents seized the state’s first batch of hemp seeds en route to Louisville researchers from Canada. Time was of the essence: They needed to plant for growing season. The agriculture commissioner felt he had no choice but to take the DEA to court. “In my 17 years of public service, that was the biggest government overreach that I’ve been witness to,” Comer says. A judge agreed, and the seeds were released. Paul and McConnell worked on legislation forbidding the DEA to use any of its money to enforce prohibitions on hemp; it became law in December 2014, part of a budget bill. That did not make the agency soften its stance. Last year, the DEA attempted to classify CBD oil and marijuana extract as controlled substances, though it later hair-split that, saying legality would depend on which part of the plant the oil came from. The Hemp Industries Association, which represents growers and processors, has filed suit over that and several other hemp-related issues. In 2013, Colorado hemp farmer Michael Bowman got a hemp flag flown over the U.S. Capitol on the Fourth of July to celebrate hope for the hemp amendment. Then–DEA chief Michele Leonhart declared it the “worst day of my 33-year career.” She stepped down from the job two years later, after some DEA agents in Colombia were accused of joining cartel-financed sex parties. Comer came to Congress in January hopeful about hemp. A businessman president pledging to rescind regulations would understand impediments to a beneficial industry, he reasoned. And surely the old drug warriors could be brought around—they had convinced Mitch McConnell, after all. It had only taken Comer five months to get seed in the ground after the 2014 farm bill became law; the energetic newcomer figured he’d have a bipartisan hemp bill passed by spring. But Washington isn’t Frankfort. “It seems like 99 percent of what we do here is a party-line vote,” Comer says. “It’s a good thing we don’t have to vote to adjourn.” Comer has talked to new Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, who has come around on the issue. He plans to reach out to Sessions, who wants to recriminalize even small amounts of marijuana but has not made any public statements on industrial hemp. (The Department of Justice declined to answer my hemp questions.) Graves and his fellow Kentucky farmers aren’t worried about Sessions; Steenstra is, saying the new attorney general is “definitely not going to be our friend.” Massie thinks Sessions may be less of an obstacle as attorney general than he would have been if he’d stayed in the Senate. “It’s the House and Senate’s job to make the laws, not the attorney general,” he says. “I do not anticipate Sessions being adversarial toward an agricultural crop that’s going to help the red states.” As for Trump, Comer recently spent a couple of hours with the president on Air Force One and Marine One. He wanted to bring up hemp, but decided to wait. “This is going to come as a surprise to you, but he did most of the talking,” Comer says. “I didn’t want to do anything to spook him on the first date.” Hemp Beyond the Hype Hemp enthusiasts sometimes oversell the plant’s benefits, claiming that it will stop climate change or cure cancer. But it is a genuinely useful plant, and its return to its old Kentucky home has unquestionably been good for the state. Graves, who never felt good about growing tobacco, reports that he feels great about the Kentucky hemp experiment. Now, he says, it’s time to let everyone in. “For me, I have it in my craw to not only raise that seed again, but to put it in the hands of the growers for the good of all the citizens, and not for some war, and for some government that wanted us to understand they were in total control,” he says. “It feels good, for once in my life, that we are growing something on our own land that helps people to feel better.” Does Topical CBD Oil for Alopecia Really Work? PSA: Fake Shatter Explained – Silica, Pine Resin, or Gum Arabic – Cannabis News \| Way of life Recommendations \| Professional Opinions Each Reside Resins From California – Cannabisthrives.com Sure Jell / Certo Drug Test Detox – Does It Really Work? 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__label__cc	0.674382	0.325618	Local Campaign Events Waste Policy 1. All people have a right to clean air, fresh water and unpolluted soil. 2. Waste as a by-product of industry and individual living should initially be minimised and ultimately eliminated. 3. The transportation of hazardous waste must be minimised, and the Australian community must be fully informed about its location, disposal and transportation. 4. Cleaner production technology, reducing unnecessary packaging and waste generation, recycling product and packaging waste, and diverting organic waste from landfill are crucial for protecting our environment. 5. Governments must practise waste avoidance in their own operations. 6. Waste should be treated as a resource and reused and recycled in ways that result in the least environmental harm. 7. To improve the longevity and repairability of products, manufacturers, importers and distributors, of products and packaging and retailers, are best placed to take financial and physical responsibility for their products and packaging at the end of life. 8. The full social, environmental and economic costs must be measured and factored in to decisions about creating, managing and disposing of waste. 1. The phasing out of waste disposal in landfill by: a. implementing a State phase out of the use of landfills for the disposal of unsorted waste; b. documenting and monitoring the generation of different waste streams, with a focus on hazardous materials, with the aim of keeping all stockpiles and newly generated hazardous waste to a minimum; c. identifying non-recyclable and hazardous material to be phased out of use; and d. improving the recovery of organic waste from current levels via improved and expanded collection mechanisms and appropriately managed large-scale composting and anaerobic digestion facilities. 2. To reach agreement with other states to implement national producer-run take-back and recycling schemes for problematic wastes, with at least 75% recovery, and with penalties for failure. 3. Legislation to require a deposit-refund system for drink containers. 4. A ban of non-recyclable and excess packaging, including take-away food and drink containers. 5. Legislation to ban the free distribution of plastic bags and support plastic bag free initiatives. 6. Improved mandatory health, safety and environmental standards for waste disposal and storage with proper enforcement. 7. Strict enforcement of and higher penalties for the illegal disposal of waste. 8. Support for harmonisation of nationally consistent waste disposal and landfill regulation and levies to prevent cross-border avoidance. 9. The establishment of a government procurement framework aimed at the verifiable reduction of the environmental impact of equipment and consumable goods used by government departments and agencies. 10. Better regulation of landfill sites to limit material accepted, and increased landfill levies set at levels that effectively discourages landfill as a waste disposal option. 11. Improved administration and use of landfill levy funds for waste minimisation, anti dumping and anti litter initiatives with timely disbursement of funds and transparent reporting. 12. All local governments encouraged to provide recycling and green waste disposal services to all properties (both residential and commercial) for non-industrial scale waste. 13. Manage existing and landfill sites better, including by ensuring maximum possible methane capture, improving the environmental standards for operating landfills, and banning unstabilised organics from landfill. 14. Support for research, development and public consultation on new and emerging waste management technologies, with a focus on reducing greenhouse gases and other pollution. 15. Promote a precautionary approach to the adoption of new technology. Public investment in waste reduction and management should reflect the waste management hierarchy (reduce, re-use and recycle.) 16.. Oppose incineration for the disposal of materials that can be re-used, recycled or composted. 17. Incineration (all thermal treatment of waste, with or without energy recovery) should not be classified as renewable energy if feedstock includes materials produced using fossil fuels or otherwise are not carbon neutral or negative. 18. Ensure the Environment Protection (Industrial Waste Resource) Regulations 2009 and the National Environment Protection Measures for the Movement of Controlled Wastes between States and Territories are strictly enforced. 19. Establish treatment facilities using the latest in waste disposal science, close to industry which produces such waste and/or can use the treated waste, and away from residential and environmentally sensitive areas. 20. Ensure all toxic waste material plants operate at the highest safety level, and are regularly monitored and audited by appropriate Government authorities. 21. Require the Government Purchasing Board to develop clear environmental purchasing guidelines and targets, and provide training in tender specifications and contract management. 22. Ensure official Government and Government sponsored events are Waste Wise, with provision for evaluation and continual improvement. 23. Prohibit the export of hazardous waste and e-waste unless similar health, safety and environmental standards exist in the importing country. Waste Policy as amended by State Council on 10th February 2018. Authorised by Martin Shield for the Australian Greens Victoria. Level 1, 45 William St, Melbourne, VIC 3000 (03) 9912 2992 \| office@vic.greens.org.au	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line855
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__label__cc	0.604056	0.395944	Tag Archives: Astro City American Chibi, the Uncanny Valley, and the Grotesque Genius of Astro City June 7, 2013 J. Nisen 1 Comment You ever heard the term “uncanny valley”? It’s generally used to describe animated computer renderings of humans that achieve an amount of realism that just falls short of believable, causing people to find it revolting. The arch example of this is probably Tom Hanks’ animated vehicle The Polar Express, but there are many others to be found. But not generally in comics*, which tend to conform to house styles or individual artist styles, and the 2-D probably helps prevent even the most realistically rendered art from approaching uncanny valley territory. But then Kurt Busiek and Brent Anderson, in the new iteration of their classic title Astro City #1, had to introduce their newest hero “American Chibi.” And we all say “yuck.” Because it works. Continue reading American Chibi, the Uncanny Valley, and the Grotesque Genius of Astro City → American ChibiAstro CityBrent AndersonKurt BusiekUncanny Valley Comic Rack! Superman News, Infinite Wolverine, & Astro City Returns! March 11, 2013 Adam Popovich Leave a comment Welcome to Comic Rack! My pick of the top five comic news stories in no particular order… Marvel’s Infinite Comics Launches New Weekly Wolverine Title! Digital comics are weird. On one hand, they’re obviously the future of the medium, and I don’t mind them per se, but I’ve always preferred the idea of trades being released digitally, rather than individual issues. The bang per buck of a digital trade makes a lot more sense to me than a single issue for $2 or whatever the price may be. I can appreciate the attempt to give digital comics some added value over the printed page, specifically by utilizing the medium of a digital format in creative ways. That doesn’t mean I like it, exactly, and in my opinion I find it a bit redundant. It’s why I never liked “motion comics” or anything, because to me the beauty and simplicity of comics was the utilization of static images to convey motion and a sense of movement in every scene. It’s one of those things that sounds a bit fluffy when you describe it, but it’s a legitimate complaint, I believe. It’s yet to be seen if Infinite Comics will prove to otherwise be successful, but for not it’s an interesting idea, and this Wolverine comic will probably prove if Infinite Comics has legs or not. Chris Sprouse Leaves Adventures Of Superman! A lot has been said about Orson Scott Card and his planned Superman story. The thing about it is, I truly can’t get behind reading the work of a man that vile and terrible. He’s pretty (obviously) famous for his vitriolic and terrible political opinions, and while at heart I think that shouldn’t affect the work itself, it definitely does. I’ve had a couple of discussions about separating the art from the artist and have generally come to the resolution that it’s amicable to do so, but ultimately impossible. A great piece of art can and will be tainted by the real life nature of the person who created it. It’s the focal point in some cases, as with serial killers and their art that is occasionally sold or displayed in museums. Did I just compare Orson Scott Card indirectly with the likes of John Wayne Gacy? Yes, but you know, F the both of them. A brilliant character who stands for acceptance, love and hope like Superman doesn’t need to be written by a hateful bigot like Card anyway, so good on Sprouse for deciding to leave the story. Obviously he can’t full on come out and admit exactly why, but c’mon, we all know why. A side of me is curious as to what Card’s story would have been though. Curious, but glad it didn’t happen. Scott Snyder and Jim Lee Unchain Superman In other, much better Superman news, there’s the wonderful announcement that Scott Snyder and Jim Lee are taking over Superman soon with Superman Unchained, a new book coming out just in time to coincide with Zack Snyder’s Man Of Steel. Aside from there obviously being a terrifying conspiracy between all those named Snyder working on Superman projects, this sounds and seems pretty damn amazing. For those who haven’t or aren’t reading Scott Snyder’s work on Batman right now, he’s absolutely killing it. Just balls out, hands down killing it every damn month. Normally I’d be pretty worried by a book with just the mere idea and title of a book called Superman Unchained‘, because let’s be honest, that’s kind of a lame title. But the Snyder’s (Scott and Zack, respectively) seem to understand that you can inject some of that tried and true Gritty Edge™ the kids love these days and still keep the Superman character intact. Hopefully they will, anyway. I have more faith in Scott Snyder because he’s a pretty brilliant writer, and the idea of trying new things with the character is an interesting mission statement for the book. I’m looking forward to reading it in line for Man Of Steel come April. Astro City Returns! I’m not terribly familiar with Astro City, I am pretty familiar with Kurt Busiek’s myriad DC works. He’s written a ton of great story arcs in the past and is one of those names that I see on books all the time. He’s not a super notable stand out for me, but I do know the name and know he means quality. It’s not like you’d jump into a book of his and find yourself reading something awful. That being said, perhaps it’s my own ignorance of Astro City that’s kept Busiek from joining the list of names that I immediately gravitate towards every time I approach the wall at my local comic shop. Here’s the description of the book, via [ComicsAlliance]: [quote]Astro City began as a sort of anthology series in 1995 and followed the superheroes, supervillains and everyday citizens who lived in the eponymous city. Critically-acclaimed, and the recipient of a number of Eisner and Harvey-awards, the series has been on an indefinite hiatus since May of 2010. The new series will be available in June, but you can find the original series collected at your local comic shop or public library.[/quote] It certainly sounds interesting, and is yet another title to put on my increasingly longer list of books to read, when I have the time and money. Marvel’s New Teasers Showcase New Savage Wolverine Creators! New teasers from Marvel are no surprise, and lately have been hitting pretty much every other day. These new ones are unique in the fact that they are both promoting a new book with very minimal taglines that are very vague… which actually makes them not unique at all and well in line with the rest of Marvel’s teasers. So the teasers obviously showcase both Wolverine and Spider-Man, along with the creative team of Zeb Wells and Joe Maduiera. It just so happens that this story, which had been previously teased as a Wolverine/Spidey/Elektra mini-series, will now follow Frank Cho’s arc over in The Savage Wolverine, which is apparently aiming to be a team-up book like Avenging Spider-Man. Wells and mad previously worked together on the opening arc of Avenging, and I am looking forward to this new arc for Savage. Seeing Joe Mad draw Wolverine always takes me back to the 90s X-Men stories like Onslaught that I remember so fondly, and I am definitely interested in this new story. – S. Fraser That’s all for this week’s edition! We’ll see you next time at the Comic Rack! 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__label__cc	0.659725	0.340275	Business U.S. Stocks Close Broadly Higher As Investors Eye Election U.S. Stocks Close Broadly Higher As Investors Eye Election Tuesday, November 8, 2016 at 10:54 pm \| ז' חשון תשע"ז Investors remained in a buying mood on Election Day, sending U.S. stocks broadly higher and building on big gains from a day earlier. Safe-play stocks such as utilities and phone companies were among the biggest gainers Tuesday. Energy companies were essentially flat. Investors focused on the U.S. presidential election, which rattled financial markets in recent weeks as polls between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump tightened. Wall Street has largely seen Clinton as more likely to maintain the status quo, while viewing Trump’s polices as less clear. Tuesday’s rally, coupled with Monday’s market gains, which marked the end of a nine-day losing streak and the best day for stocks since March, suggest the market anticipated a Clinton win. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 73.14 points, or 0.4 percent, to 18,332.74. The average was briefly up as much as 140 points. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index gained 8.04 points, or 0.4 percent, to 2,139.56. The Nasdaq composite index added 27.32 points, or 0.5 percent, to 5,193.49. Priceline Group climbed 6.6 percent after the online travel booking company reported quarterly earnings that easily beat analysts’ forecasts. The stock gained $97.80 to $1,578.13. Marriott International gained 2.7 percent after the hotel chain posted a big increase in earnings and revenue for the most recent quarter. The stock added $1.92 to $73.02. Other companies’ latest quarterly report cards failed to impress investors. Hertz plunged 22.5 percent after the car rental company’s latest quarterly earnings came up far short of what analysts anticipated. The stock, which was down more than 50 percent at one point, slid $8.04 to $27.70. Valeant Pharmaceuticals International slumped 21.7 percent after the Canadian drugmaker reported a third-quarter loss. The company also slashed its guidance as it continues to face scrutiny over its business practices. The stock lost $4.15 to $14.98. Markets overseas closed mostly higher. In Europe, Germany’s DAX rose 0.2 percent, while France’s CAC-40 gained 0.4 percent. London’s FTSE 100 added 0.5 percent. Earlier in Asia, stock indexes closed mostly higher. Benchmark U.S. crude rose 9 cents to close at $44.98 a barrel in New York. Brent crude, used to price international oils, slid 11 cents to close at $46.04 a barrel in London. Other energy futures were also mixed. Wholesale gasoline was little changed at $1.37 a gallon. Heating oil also held steady at $1.44 a gallon. Natural gas fell 18 cents, or 6.5 percent, to $2.63 per 1,000 cubic feet. In metals trading, the price of gold slid $4.90 to $1,274.50 an ounce, while silver gained 21 cents, or 1.1 percent, to $18.36 an ounce. Copper added 7 cents, or 3.1 percent, to $2.38 a pound. Bond prices fell. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note rose to 1.86 percent from 1.83 percent late Monday. In currency markets, the dollar rose to 105.05 yen from 104.58 yen. The euro weakened to $1.1016 from $1.1040. The Mexican peso, which has become an indirect proxy among investors for Trump’s chances to win the White House, rose against the dollar. The U.S. currency fell to 18.42 Mexican pesos from 18.68 pesos. A Rare Tumble for Tech Stocks Pulls U.S. Indexes Lower Technology Companies, Retailers Send U.S. Stock Indexes Higher Stocks Erase Morning Losses, Continuing Strong Start to Year Stocks Climb as Investors Shake Off Inflation Worries Technology Companies Help Pull Stocks Lower	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line867
__label__wiki	0.65515	0.65515	HienaLouca Receive the latest celebrity news pictures personalised to your interests. Beautiful women 2018-2021 Free Money: Grab $2,289 Heterosexual drag queen says he is regularly mistaken for a woman by strangers May 16, 2019 Dianne Reeves Femail A heterosexual drag queen, who often introduces his female alter ego to his dates, has revealed that he is regularly mistaken for a women by strangers. Freelance videographer, Logan Tritt, 24, from Kansas, became fascinated by drag in October 2014 during his first year of university in Arizona where he was still settling in and finding friends. As a creative outlet, he decided to explore the world of drag. He created a feminine look, called Jess Anderson, which was inspired by Zooey Deschanel’s character, Jess, from comedy series New Girl. He now goes out in public at Jess once a week. Transformation: Logan Tritt, 24, has revealed that he is regularly mistaken for a women by strangers when he is dressed as his alter ego Jess Anderson (R) Wow! The freelance videographer, from Kansas, became fascinated by drag in October 2014 during his first year of university in Arizona Creative: Pictured as his alter ego, Jess, Logan said he decided to explore the world of drag in college as he had ‘no connections and no pre-existing friendships in Arizona’ Over the next few years he began taking Jess out in public and he says that strangers assume that he is a woman until he speaks and the ‘illusion is over’. He had one negative experience while trying clothes in a local charity shop; an employee, after hearing his voice, pulled him out of the women’s dressing room and told him he needed to be in the men’s. Bizarre: He created a feminine look that he called Jess Anderson, which was inspired by Zooey Deschanel’s character Jess from comedy series New Girl After years of Jess being half of him, he has now decided to tell the girl he is dating on the third date about his alter ego and even posts pictures of him as Jess on his online dating profiles. He says Jess has taught him so much about the female experience and now empathizes more with women through his drag personality, as he takes an hour-and-a-half to transform into Jess, including wearing makeup, shaving, wearing skirts, dresses and he even wears fake boobs. ‘I first got into drag during my freshman year of college. During my freshman year of college, I had no connections and no pre-existing friendships in Arizona,’ Logan said. ‘This, in combination with a heavily textbook-based film school, left me desiring a creative outlet. I’ve always for some reason seen the feminine aesthetic as the ultimate creative canvas. ‘After purchasing the most obnoxious neon eye shadow palette I was hooked; I have a handful of creative inspirations behind Jess. ‘The name Jess Anderson comes from a combination of Zooey Deschanel’s character in New Girl “Jess” and filmmaker Wes Anderson,’ he added. Logan said Zooey is his inspiration ‘in terms of aesthetic’, while Wes is someone he aspires to be like in terms of film-making and storytelling. Identity: Logan said the name Jess Anderson comes from a combination of Zooey Deschanel’s character in New Girl, ‘Jess’, and filmmaker Wes Anderson, who is his inspiration in film making Process: When Logan wants to transition into Jess, he begins the process of getting ‘glammed up’ by shaving and doing a face mask the night before he goes out in public ‘The normal process for Jess actually starts the night before I want to get glammed up. In the shower the day before I’ll shave everything and do a face mask afterward. ‘The day of starts with styling the human hair wig, then makeup; I’ll start by shaving my face, using a concealer to cover any remaining beard shadow. Transition: The next day, Logan wears a wig, applies makeup, and shaves his face before gluing two ‘silicon boobs’ onto his chest ‘Next, I’ll do my eye makeup, brows, foundation, powder all of that down with a setting powder. Contour. and finish it off with lip color and a setting spray,’ he added. Next, Logan glues two prosthetic silicon boobs onto his chest using ‘an intense amount’ of medical adhesive. He explained: ‘It takes the girls about fifteen minutes to fully dry onto my body. Once they are dry, they are stuck. ‘I can go bra-less, go swimming, even exercise without fear of them falling off. I use a B cup size prosthetic. The boobs are very realistic in terms of weight and feel. ‘I go out in public as Jess probably once a week; I’ve developed enough bravery to go just about anywhere I would go to if I wasn’t glammed up. ‘That being said, on days when I need to sit and edit videos for work, I love getting glammed up and going to the public library. ‘If I’m going to look fabulous, I want to be out and show it off, not sitting in my room. I have got to the point that in public second glances are minimal. ‘It’s not too often that I get clocked when just keeping to myself. However, the moment I use my voice in public, the illusion is over and the glances begin. ‘I’m very fortunate in that I have only had one negative interaction out in public. Otherwise, people are very friendly and ask good questions. ‘I’ve always been nervous of doormen at bars but have yet to have an issue. They typically say nothing or have a very nice compliment for me,’ he said. Confident: Logan, pictured as himself (L) and as Jess (R) said he goes out in public as Jess about once a week, and that he has ‘developed enough bravery’ to go most places Problem: Logan, pictured as himself (L) and as Jess (R) said he has faced just one negative public interaction, which involved him being kicked out of a women’s dressing room Secret: While Logan’s sister (L), aunt and friends know about Jess and have been accepting of his hobby, he hasn’t yet told his parents. However, he plans to tell them ‘one of these days’ Logan explained that his negative experience arose when he was trying on clothes at a local charity shop. He was dressed as Jess and he was in the women’s dressing room trying on clothing when a store employee heard his voice and told him to leave the dressing room. He explained: ‘The store employee upon hearing my male voice pulled me out of the women’s dressing room and told me I needed to be in the men’s. A very embarrassing experience having to walk past all the onlooking women, to say the least.’ Dating: Logan said he tells his dates about his alter ego while on their third date Logan even opens up to girls he is dating about Jess and uses his female personality when online dating to be open from the start. While his sister, aunt and friends know about Jess and have been accepting of his hobby, he hasn’t yet told his parents. ‘Currently I’m still working my way out of the closet. At this point all the most important female friends in my life know and have met Jess. A couple of my male friends know,’ he said. ‘In terms of direct family, an aunt and my sister know. My parents don’t know yet. My rule is I tell people who it’s of benefit for me to tell. ‘At this point, there’s just not a benefit to share this information with my parents. We will get there one of these days, but not yet. ‘Jess only affects how I approach dating; Jess isn’t going away because of a relationship. My philosophy is to tell a date about Jess on the third date. ‘The third date gives me enough time to evaluate if the connection has any substance and if the girl would be open to Jess. ‘If I choose to tell someone on the first date that would most likely be very overwhelming information to receive. ‘But waiting longer than the third date might lead to doubt about what other secrets I might be hiding. It’s a balance. ‘Now in terms of online dating, Jess is on my profile; everyone knows exactly what they are getting into the moment we start talking. Risk: Pictured with a friend (R), he said: ‘The third date gives me enough time to evaluate if the connection has any substance and if the girl would be open to Jess’ Open: Pictured with friends, Logan said his online dating profile includes pictures of Jess (R), so a potential dater ‘knows exactly what they are getting into the moment we start talking’ Learning: Logan said Jess (R) has given him ’empathy towards the female experience’, as he said he has learned about ‘daily female struggles that I otherwise wouldn’t have known about’ ‘I love that drag provides the ultimate opportunity for self-expression and escapism. Drag provides the opportunity to be a totally different person for a moment of time, and it’s a persona that can be one hundred percent controlled. ‘Jess can be manipulated in terms of appearance, personality, and gusto in any way I choose,’ he said. Logan added that dressing as Jess gives him a chance to take his mind off his everyday issues. Positive message: Logan, who regularly shares funny videos on Instagram, said he hopes he can be a source of inspiration for other ‘closeted dressers and queens’ He explained: ‘Having this alternative persona, if you will, gives me a whole new level of bravery to try new things. I would put money on the bet that in fifteen years the line between masculine and feminine aesthetics is going to be totally grey. ‘Cross dressing/androgyny will be the norm in the near future. I think there are early signs of it now; examples range from the rise of drag on cable television, to male makeup artists having such a large social media presence, and finally once feminine clothing becoming masculine like rompers. ‘If nothing else, at the end of the day, Jess has given me an abundant amount of empathy towards the female experience. ‘I have learned so much about daily female struggles that I otherwise wouldn’t have known about. I’ve gone running fully glammed up and learned about the back pain that’s caused by bouncing weights on your chest. ‘I’ve learned about the chaffing that happens when wearing dresses and skirts. And I’ve learned about the struggles of sitting on leather chairs. ‘While the things I have learned are just the tip of the iceberg to what a cis woman would experience, I believe knowing these things could/will make me a better man and future partner,’ he added. Logan, who regularly posts funny videos and photos to his 4,000 Instagram followers, said he hopes he can be a ‘speck of inspiration’ to others. ‘I want to get other closeted dressers and queens out and fully embracing the feminine side of themselves,’ he said. ‘I just want to grab another dresser and say, “put your bra on, let’s go”. Right now is the best time in history to be in the cross-dressing community; The social acceptance is on the exponential rise,’ he added. 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__label__cc	0.703569	0.296431	high education life The Significance of Top Universities in Australasia For Study Abroad Programs The significant Australasia nations like Australia and New Zealand are a lot of cutting edge in exchange, trade, innovation, instruction, human asset improvement and social arrangement. Australia with numerous profoundly positioned colleges of the world conveys a similar degree of scholarly essentialness as the USA, UK or Canada. New Zealand isn’t a long ways behind as well. As English is the essential method of instruction in the two nations, they are the key objections for worldwide understudies. The greater part of the colleges in Australia are overseen and financed by the central government. There are eight best Australian colleges that have notoriety everywhere on the world for acquiring insurgencies the field of examination. The instructive needs and affirmation systems of every foundation are directed by the domain or state which it is working in. Some top colleges in Australia are Australian National University (ANU), University of Sydney (US), Melbourne, and Queensland, Charles Darwin and Bond University. ANU is effectively discernable in view of its serious exploration exercises. The foundation flaunts an eco-accommodating grounds to lessen the effect of its activities on the climate. It offers lone wolf and ace level courses in archeological practice, expressions, biotechnology, business organization, software engineering, designing, money, bookkeeping, applied financial aspects, biotechnology and visual expressions. Set up in 1850, US had started a portion of the noteworthy practices throughout the entire existence of Australian colleges. It was the premier foundation in the nation to permit the affirmation of ladies. It likewise began the affirmation of understudies based on instructive deservingness rather than financial class or religion. There are 10 grounds and 13 libraries in the instructive foundation to offer a wide range of conveniences to global understudies. Also, the University of Melbourne, established in 1853, is said to have the second greatest examination foundation in the nation. Aside from research, it centers around social variety, information sharing and network interest. New Zealand with English-talking individuals is home to a wide scope of high-class colleges. The nation with spectacular areas follows the British instruction framework. Consequently, global understudies subsequent to finishing their courses here can without much of a stretch find a new line of work back home or in other English-talking countries. The top colleges in New Zealand incorporate Victoria University of Wellington (VUW), University of Canterbury (UC) and Auckland, Massey and Lincoln University. Previous PostPrevious Follow Your Dreams – Chinese Students Enjoy Their Lives in Sydney Next PostNext Advice About Nursing Courses vvvh jggf biii bbv hhhg nvgg	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line875
__label__wiki	0.833523	0.833523	Highland Marketing is an integrated communications, PR and marketing consultancy with an unrivalled reputation for supporting UK and international health tech organisations, built over 20 years. Drop us a line to find out how our research, content, PR, marketing and sales acceleration services can support your health tech business, or call us now on +44 (0)208 103 1010. Get our Healthcare Roundup in your inbox every Friday, with an essential summary of the week’s NHS and health tech news, and original analysis, interviews and blog posts from our expert team. 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Highland Marketing in the pressSome of the articles we have published Health IT latest Healthcare RoundupOur essential weekly round-up of NHS, health and technology news Commentary and analysisVital insight into the NHS and the UK healthcare technology market Guest interviewsTalking to healthcare technology leaders Event coverageLatest news, developments and talking points from industry events Home / Commentary and analysis / Advisory board round table: the NHS Long Term Plan Advisory board round table: the NHS Long Term Plan NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens launches the NHS Long Term Plan. By Lyn Whitfield The first meeting of Highland Marketing’s reconstituted advisory board discussed the NHS Long Term Plan and what will be needed to make it a success. Leadership, investment spent on the right things at the right level, and empowerment to drive change emerged as key themes. Lyn Whitfield listened in. The NHS Long Term Plan was published at the start of January. The 134-page document sets down how the health service in England will spend the £20.5 billion a year “birthday present” that the government unwrapped for its 70th anniversary last July. Alongside headline-grabbing initiatives on mental health and primary and community care, the plan lays out an ambitious agenda to return hospitals to financial balance, while progressing the Five Year Forward View’s vision of population-level planning and funding, aligned with more integrated health and social care. The plan says accountable care organisations – now called ‘integrated care services’ – will be rolled out across England by 2021, while a new ‘service model’ is developed to give individuals more ‘differentiated’ options for treatment, support and advice. Almost every element of the plan depends on IT and technology gets its own chapter to outline proposals to complete the deployment of electronic patient records in hospitals, develop a new model for integrated care records, abstract and use data, and enable individuals to interact with the NHS through personal health records and apps. A week after the launch at Alder Hey Hospital in Liverpool, Highland Marketing’s advisory board met to discuss the plan and what will need to happen to make it a success. “Was this,” asked chair Jeremy Nettle, “the birthday present that the NHS wanted?” Great, but what about implementation? The consensus was that it probably was, although there is a lot in the plan that is familiar, and implementation will be critical. “It is encouraging, because it is more substantive than the Five Year Forward View, and it is proposing to invest in technology,” said James Norman, healthcare CIO, EMEA, DellEMC. “The question is how to do it.” The ideas in the Forward View were supposed to be taken forward by 44 sustainability and transformation partnerships. But most have made only limited progress and just 14 areas of the country are “working towards” ICS status at the moment. Meanwhile, acute deficits have hit £1 billion a year, and NHS performance against key targets has slipped. The advisory board argued that to make progress this time, board-level leadership will be vital. Also, that where it’s missing – or distracted by deficits and day to day pressures – the centre will need new levers to pull. NHS England is already using the NHS operating framework and financial regime to move towards joint control totals for commissioners and trusts and to push CCGs to merge. But the plan lays out legislative proposals to undo some of the structural and competitive elements of Andrew Lansley’s 2012 reforms; and the advisory board felt these would be needed. “It is hard to believe ICSs will not happen, because NHS England has said so hard that they will happen,” said Andy Kinnear, the director of digital transformation at NHS South Central and West Commissioning Support Unit. “But this is a hard agenda, and it will need legislative change.” However it is achieved, the board felt that consolidation on a 1/7/44 model (a merged NHS England / NHS Improvement, working through seven regions announced just before Christmas, and mapped to 44 STP/ICS footprints) is the right way to go. Jeremy Nettle, a health tech industry veteran who started his career in the NHS, argued the NHSE/I regions are already “looking a lot like the old regional health authorities” and that this was a good thing, because they had the coherence and authority to drive change in their patches. Andy Kinnear agreed. “I am missing the old strategic health authorities,” he said. “I never thought I would say that, but it is true.” Related case study Selling into the NHS; it’s not about luck, it’s about having the right approach Mark Venables, chief executive of Highland Marketing, takes issue with commentator Roy Lilley, who argued it’s almost impossible to sell innovation to the NHS. Roy Lilley is a long-term observer of the NHS management scene… By Mark Venables Tech needs leadership and investment The board felt similar issues would apply to the technology agenda set out in chapter five. Andy Kinnear said board level leadership would be particularly important for IT welcomed its call for a chief information officer or chief clinical information officer on every board. He warned, though, that these new CIO and CCIOs would need appropriate skills and training. Money will be required. Both Andy Kinnear and James Norman noted that a lot of money has gone into NHS IT over the past decade and a half. The National Programme for IT in the NHS had £17.4 billion to spend on national infrastructure, services, and contracts to roll-out EPRs, while former health secretary Jeremy Hunt launched tech funds for ‘paperless’ initiatives, such as e-prescribing. Yet NPfIT mostly failed, and tech fund money was diverted to other uses. So, while money is undoubtedly needed, it will need to be spent wisely and its impact will need to be monitored. Also, it will need to be spent at the right level. “At the moment, there is a lot of duplication,” Andy Kinnear pointed out. “Service desks, infrastructure, almost every hospital running its own IT department. There is a lot of money being spent to replicate things, so there are massive savings to be had from working together.” Organising IT at a healthcare community level would also make it easier to get neighbouring hospitals onto the same EPR systems, or to roll-out a consistent architecture for information and data sharing, he suggested. That said, there are no quick fixes. “One of the things I had on my list to talk about was ‘patience’,” he said. “These things take years. Connecting Care [the integrated care record that NHS SCW CSU runs for Bristol and the surrounding area] has been going since 2012 or 2013, and it is only in the past four or five months that it has become embedded into the system. “It’s taken that long for using it to become normal behaviour; and the plug could have been pulled at any point in the four or five years it wasn’t seen to be working.” One reason that tech projects can take so long to make an impact is that they are often not so much tech projects as business process change projects; and changing NHS pathways, processes or working patterns is notoriously difficult. Ravi Kumar, the chair of Zanec Software Technologies who was chief technology officer at iSOFT, argued that the NHS will need to get better at going faster. “The whole point of the ICSs is to make structural change, but the question is how they will do this,” he said. “Technology is an enabler, but that is going to be the bigger question.” Advisory board members felt the NHS would need to make a big investment in Lean and other industrial improvement methodologies to shift the dial. Yet Cindy Fedell stressed that even if it did this, it would need to make sure technology was pulling in the same direction. “Sorting out clinical pathways is a huge focus for work at the ICS level,” she said. “But something we talk about a lot is how we make that happen when all our IT is set up to work within organisational boundaries. “How can we make sure that a district nurse, who is being sent out to work differently on behalf of three organisations, can do that without using three logins to three different systems?” Naturally, Andy Kinnear agreed. The plan may focus on creating integrated care records, but at a local level, he argued, the real need is for integrated infrastructure. “The plan can’t talk about that, because it sounds too boring and not transformational enough, but we need to get the low-level stuff right, because if we do it will make the rest a whole lot easier.” Exit the SCR and enter the PHR When it comes to integrated care records, the plan seems to envisage turning the old Summary Care Record plus a care plan into a basic record, rolling this out at local health and care record exemplar level, and then abstracting data for population health management, research and other uses. The advisory board had few problems with the idea: the old NHS Summary Care Record struggled to become established and still exists in only the most basic form, while the more advanced LHCREs, like Bristol, are finally seeing information shared to support both services and planning. Andy Kinnear pointed out that the plan seems to think that LHCREs will need to be bigger than most of the information sharing projects that exist at the moment, and that they will need to work within a consistent architecture to realise NHS England’s data ambitions. But he was more interested in the personal health record aspects of the plan, which both envisages that patients will interact with their care plans, and access booking, clinic, and advice services through the NHS App and an ecosystem of third-party apps using its NHS Login. “I talk to a lot of CIOs who think that their job is to build a PHR for their organisation, and I don’t think that is right,” he said. “I think the job is to create a vendor neutral platform that makes data available from the clinical record to apps that share it back with the patient and their health team.” Cindy Fedell said she agreed and wondered if those who didn’t had “misunderstood the use case.” “This is not just about data, it is about managing the plan for health and wellness,” she said. Beware the disruptors Some organisations have already got this. Andy Kinnear praised University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust for building a PHR that has improved efficiency (a prostate cancer app delivers routine test results, cutting outpatient appointments) while delivering unexpected benefits (the same app has been used to organise support and social events). But he argued that if the NHS as a whole didn’t move in this direction, it would find itself under pressure from disruptive new entrants. Primary care, he pointed out, has already been rocked by the GP at Hand service that has so impressed Matt Hancock and by Livi, which has just employed Juliet Bauer, who lead the Empower the Patient Programme behind the NHS App. Ravi Kumar suggested that ICSs might even use services to do the disrupting; breaking up the traditional GP practice to create, for example, “digital first” packages for working people and dedicated visiting services for care homes. Jeremy Nettle suggested the real need is for policy makers, commissioners and providers to think differently. “At the start of this discussion, we were talking about how the challenge facing the NHS Long Term Plan was going to be implementation,” he said, “but now I think it is empowerment. The key insight is that people will need to be empowered to take its ideas and drive change.” More investment will be needed to deliver the proposals in chapter five to complete the digitisation of hospitals, create integrated care records, make better use of data, and roll-out personal health records and apps. However, costs could be avoided and savings could be made if more health and care organisations shared IT services; and bought the same systems. Many technology projects are business process change projects, and the NHS will have to make more consistent use of Lean and other techniques to deliver the plan. But even if it does, it will need to make sure it has the infrastructure in place to support new pathways and processes. The development of personal health records and apps linked to the NHS App are a major opportunity for the health service to develop new services for patients. If it fails to grasp it, it could see disruption by new entrants. The key to the success of the plan may be empowerment: people need to be empowered to take up ideas and the potential of new technology to drive change. Health tech communications in the second wave of Covid-19 – and beyond The arrival of the novel coronavirus was shocking, but it had a positive impact on the uptake of technology in the NHS. Now, as the health service prepares for winter and a ‘reset’ next spring,… By Susan Venables Lyn Whitfield Lyn is a journalist by background. After completing her training in local papers, she specialised in coverage of the public sector in England, the NHS, and healthcare IT. This has enabled her to follow closely the many twists and turns of recent health policy; and to report on them for specialist audiences. It has also given her an exceptional ability to advise clients on the reality of working with the NHS, and on communications that work for them. Lyn’s skills include strategic thinking, managing projects with a communications and publication element, editing, research, interviewing and writing. A little about Lyn: Lyn has an impressive educational record, with a first degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University, and a Masters degree in Social Policy and Planning from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Before taking up her current post, her journalism employers included the Health Service Journal and digitalhealth.net (formerly EHealth Insider). Over her career, she has also worked with think-tanks, including the King’s Fund and the Nuffield Trust, and major companies, such as Microsoft. Lyn is a proud Yorkshire lass, but lives in Winchester with her partner, a political cartoonist with his own live-drawing business. Her ‘downtime’ activities include Pilates and running; she has completed a number of marathons. Latest posts by Lyn Whitfield (see all) Guest interview: Silvia Piai - 9th December 2020 Getting the NHS ready for digital - 19th November 2020 The big picture on NHS IT: what’s been happening through Covid-19? - 12th November 2020 HealthChat with Alastair McLellan - 5th November 2020 Seven fab sessions from the seventh Fab Change Day - 22nd October 2020 Want more articles like this one? Our free newsletter drops into your inbox every Friday to bring you... 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__label__cc	0.709525	0.290475	“I got a promotion… but what do I do?” Now you’re a leader what do you do? Being “thrown in” to a leadership role can feel traumatic. Often, those who were once successful in a previous role discover the added task of leadership is not intuitive. You will make many mistakes, and that is because the way to learn to lead is by leading. Three techniques to help you gain credibility quickly: Lead a project or committee Be in-charge of an important change/activity Seek out a mentor Hire a leadership coach Ron Rael travels around the country delivering powerful and tailored keynotes for organizations and companies. Request Ron Rael to Present a Keynote at Your Event Specific training with your organization’s goals in mind, designed by the High Road© Institute. Request Training Information The High Road© Institute offers webinar training for companies that prefer a more economical or consistent leadership support. 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__label__wiki	0.582318	0.582318	Explore the Natural Beauty of Harbor Country Let’s Hike Zoom Presentation by Carol Line Fernwood Botanical Garden and Preserve Fernwood Executive Director Carol Line gave an online talk about the “Greats,”–55 naturalists, botanists, plant explorers, preservationists and more–who are memorialized at Fernwood’s Sims Education Center. For those who’d like to do further research on the 55, here’s the list: Janaki Ammal, Indian Botanist; John James Audubon, American ornithologist, naturalist and painter; Liberty Hyde Bailey, American horticulturalist and botanist; Joseph Banks, British naturalist and botanist; John Bartram, American botanist, horticulturalist and explorer; William Bartram, American naturalist; Basilius Belser, German apothecary and botanist; Kathryn Boydston, Fernwood founder; Luther Burbank, American botanist and horticulturalist; Roberto Burle Marx, Brazilian landscape architect; Rachel Carson, marine biologist and conservationist; Dale Chihuly, American glass artist; Thomas Church, American landscape artist; Charles Darwin, British naturalist, geologist and biologist; Marjory Stoneman Douglas, journalist and environmentalist; Andrew Jackson Downing, American landscape designer; David Fairchild, American botanist and plant explorer; Beatrix Farrand, American landscape gardener and landscape architect; Harrison Flint, American author and professor of horticulture; Clarence Godshalk, American landscape architect; Jane Goodall, British primatologist and anthropologist; Asa Gray, American botanist; Dan Hinkley, American horticulturalist and nurseryman; Joseph Dalton Hooker, British botanist; William Jackson Hooker, British botanist and botanical illustrator; Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist and explorer; Gertrude Jekyll, British horticulturalist and garden designer; Jens Jenson, American landscape architect; Dan Kiley, American landscape architect; Aldo Leopold, American author, philosopher and environmentalist; Carolus Linneaus, Swedish naturalist and explorer; Warren Manning, American landscape designer; Mildred Mathias, American botanist; Maria Sibylla Merian, German naturalist and scientific illustrator; Andre Michaux, French botanist and explorer; Henry Moore, British sculptor; J. Sterling Morton, American founder of Arbor Day; John Muir, father of American national parks; Frederick Law Olmstead, American landscape architect; Piet Oudolf, Dutch garden designer; Roger Tory Peterson, American naturalist, ornithologist and educator; Beatrix Potter, British children’s author and conservationist; Peter Raven, American botanist and environmentalist; Pierre-Joseph Redoute, Belgian painter and botanist; Charles S. Sargent, Founder of the Arnold Arboretum at Harvard; Ellen Biddle Shipman, American landscape architect; Edwin Way Teale, American naturalist and photographer; Henry David Thoreau, American essayist and naturalist; Calvert Vaux, American architect and landscape designer; Edward Voss, American botanist; Warren H. Wagner, American professor and fern expert; Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist and explorer; Aaron Montgomery Ward, American mail-order catalog king and protector of Chicago’s lake front; E.H. Wilson, British plant collector and explorer, and E.O. Wilson, American biologist and naturalist. Dune-Pocked Wetlands Warren Dunes State Park About 30 hikers, including several new members, walked the trails of Warren Dunes, ending with a climb up a dune and a panoramic view of Lake Michigan. Along the way, hike leader and HCH President Pat Fisher pointed out areas of standing water where the ground level is lower than the lake and ground water has filled in the depressions. The wetlands are part of the Grand Marais Embayment, a relic of Lake Chicago. Lake Chicago was a precursor to Lake Michigan, and it covered much of what is now shore land. Now that the trees are bare, it’s easier to get a sense of the magnificence of the park’s 260-foot dunes. Green Friday at Fernwood Fernwood Botanical Garden and Nature Preserve The Hikers’ “Green Friday” ramble through Fernwood’s nature preserve was meant to offer an alternative to the traditional post-Thanksgiving start to holiday shopping, and about three dozen people agreed with the idea. Fernwood’s Steve Bornell, facility and grounds keeper, led hikers through the trails of Fernwood in Niles. Along the way, Bornell spoke about the different habitats in the nature preserve’s 55 acres, and the plants and wildlife that call those habitats home. He also gave a short history of Fernwood along the way. The hike followed a series of trails downhill to the St. Joseph River, then uphill 125 feet to the preserve’s reconstructed tallgrass prairie. Fall along the Galien Galien River County Park In the third of its round of hikes in Berrien County parks, about three dozen hikers walked the trails of the county’s newes property, the Galien River County Park. The park is probably best-known for its canopy-level overlook, but its ravine trail and marsh boardwalk to the eponymous river are equally instructive. Hike leader and county parks naturalist Derek Pelc again led group, and noted how the marsh changes with varying water levels. Since the level of Lake Michigan has gone down over the past few months, the large swaths of duckweed have virtually disappeared. So have the cattails, and with them the muskrats that use cattails to build their lodges. A highlight of the hike: a stag either swam, waded or both across the marsh in the distance. Fall in Madeline Bertrand Madeline Bertrand County Park For the second of its fall visits to Berrien County parks, HCH members and guests visited Madeline Bertrand County Park in Niles. The 121-acre park includes rolling hills and forest trails that lead to a view of the St. Joseph River. Madeline Bertrand was the Potawatomi wife of Joseph Bertrand, a French fur trader who established a trading post in the area in the early 19th century. Included in the park is the “Parc des Vaches,” or cow pasture, a reference to the buffalo that used to graze the pasture. Hike leader Derek Pelc, a county parks naturalist (that’s him in the dark jacket and baseball cap), pointed out native and invasive plants along the trail. Fall in Love Creek Love Creek County Park The Hikers journeyed to Love Creek County Park in Berrien Center for the first of three outings to Berrien County’s parks. Led by naturalist Derek Pelc, the group of about two dozen trekked the trails in what some consider the county’s finest park. Love Creek offers mountain bike and cross country ski trails and 170 acres of meadows, forests, marshes, creeks and ravines. Bird Migration at the Great Marsh Egrets, cranes and herons–oh my! About 30 hikers (and other groups of birdwatchers and oil painters) got a closeup look at sandhill cranes, majestic birds with wingspans of up to seven feet. The Great Marsh is on a migration path for the cranes and other waterfowl as they make their way south for the winter. After a talk on the history of the Marsh and Beverly Shores and some sandhill facts from Hikers President Pat Fisher, the group hiked the trails and spotted a family of sandhill cranes feeding about 50 yards from the trail. Despite some parking problems, the hike turned out to be quite entertaining. Chikaming Township Park & Preserve “The fifth season,” Hikers President Pat Fisher explained, is the few weeks between summer and fall when plants and animals put on a burst of activity to prepare for winter. For animals, it may mean adding winter fat or storing food for the cold months. For plants, it may mean ripening fruit and dispersing seeds. The group of about 20 people walked a section of trail unexplored so far by the hikers, and saw wildflowers–asters, sunflowers, goldenrod and more–and a few stray monarchs that hadn’t yet begun their journey south. Sue Petterson, a member of the Chikaming Township Parks Board when the preserve was created, gave some insights into its development. The weather was cool but humid. Several first-timers showed up and three new members joined. Flash Hike–Brincka Cross Gardens The Brincka Cross Gardens and house in Michigan City is a popular destination, especially in the spring and early summer when its daffodils are in bloom. This time of year, the hostas and wildflower gardens are out in force. The hikers walked about two miles of trails behind the house and gardens during this early evening Flash Hike. One Hiker commented that the woods looked like “something out of Jurassic Park,” with their occasionally unusual species and natural, minimally maintained vibe. Coffee Creek Watershed Preserve Not a lot of hikers on Saturday, but those who did show up were treated to wonderful weather and a pretty assortment of wildflowers. Coffee Creek, so called for its dark brown color, meanders through the preserve’s 157 acres. The creek creates sections of wetland with pawpaw trees getting close to dropping their fruit. The hikers encountered other walkers, runners, bicyclists and dog-walkers along the way: the preserve is very popular with those in nearby communities, but there’s enough trail–three miles’ worth–that it doesn’t feel crowded. The preserve also has an ADA-compliant trail that runs around a large pond. Goldberry Woods Trails Hikers turned out on a glorious morning for a walk through the trails of Goldberry Woods, an inn/bed-and-breakfast in Union Pier. Innkeeper Julie Haberichter (center in photo above) led the way along the banks of lake Potawatomi, a natural lake that partly silted in during the early days of settlement thanks to overcutting of timber for growing cities along Lake Michigan. New Buffalo’s yacht basin is a small remnant of Lake Potawatomi. Goldberry also has trails that lead to the banks of the Galien–a future hike, perhaps. After the hike, Haberichter spoke to the group about ticks and lyme disease, and how ticks can be controlled without indiscriminate use of insecticides. Some of the hikers made tick tubes, toilet paper rolls stuffed with insecticide-laced cotton. According to Haberichter, mice play a role in tick lifecycles. The rodents take the cotton from the tubes and use it for bedding–killing any ticks they carry. Prairie Seed Mix Several people who attended the Butterfly hike on August 8 asked for information about where to find seeds for prairie flowers and grasses like those used at the New Buffalo Elementary School’s recently planted prairie. The seeds came from Shooting Star Native Seeds (shootingstarnativeseed.com). Seeding rate: 3 lbs. per acre (21.7 seeds per square foot). Acres to plant: 5 acres. Total forbs lbs.: 5. Total grass lbs.: 10. Butterfly Hike, New Buffalo School Trails (Sponsored by the Friends of the New Buffalo Library) About 15 people, including kids, turned up at the New Buffalo Elementary School to learn about butterflies, check out the new prairie flowers and walk the school trails and the adjoining Turtle Creek Preserve. President Pat Fisher gave a detailed account of the lifecyle and migration patterns of monarch butterflies, and talked about how a well-balanced prairie builds the monarch population by providing milkweed for caterpillars and flowers for the nectar that monarchs and other butterflies need to survivie. Along the trail, Fisher pointed out different tree species that populate local forests and ground-hugging plants like ferns, poison ivy and skunk cabbage. Building and Restoring Environments Chris Thompson Memorial Preserve Chikaming Open Lands (COL) acquired the Chris Thompson Memorial Preserve about a year-and-a-half ago. The 49 acres were originally farmland, with some forest and floodplain along the Galien River. Currently, COL is in the planning stages of turning the preserve into a prairie and a wooded area, according to the group’s Executive Director Ryan Postema. Invasive species are common in the preserve, and building materials and stacks of felled trees and bushes, left over from a development planned before COL bought the property, litter one area. Postema noted a lot of work lies ahead, including removing invasives and seeding the prairie portion with native grasses and other plants. About two dozen hikers, including some newcomers, showed up for the walk along a newly-mowed trail, and sampled the wild blackberries along the way. The preserve includes a half-mile loop trail and a second loop of a little more than a mile. In the photo above, Postema shows off a teasel, an invasive plant whose prickly tops, when dried, were once used in the manufacture of cloth. Mary Burke writes: I found this moth (deceased) next to my deck. I Googled info about it. It is the largest native moth in North America (hyalophora cecropia). I haven’t been on a HC hike in a while, but maybe nature is just showing up at my door! Be well. Mary Butterfly Refuges Burns Prairie Preserve About 20 hikers showed up on a hot afternoon to view a gorgeous prairie, planted with native grasses and summer-blooming wildflowers–black-eyed Susans, cone flowers, butterfly bushes, asters and more. The recently blazed trail through the prairie let the hikers get up close with monarch butterflies. Hikers President Pat Fisher gave a detailed talk about the migrations, stages of development and lifecycle of monarchs. Three Oaks Township Conservation Area And Kesling Nature Preserve The Hikers took their first planned trek since the COVID-19 shutdown at the Three Oaks Township Conservation Area and the adjacent Kesling Nature Preserve. The Conservation Area trail started with prairie, then followed a ravine into woodlands. The Kesling Preserve trail, with its entry a short walk away, followed a branch of the Galien River. Both trails covered what was once farmland–remnants of fence posts and barbed wire were reminders of that. Despite torrential rains the night before, the trails were practically mud-free, and the bugs weren’t too noisome. About 20 hikers showed up and, as the photo above shows, wore masks and followed social distancing guidelines. Flash Hike Our first hike in what seems like forever–about 20 of us turned out on a beautiful afternoon for a flash hike at the Galien River County Park. Michigan just changed the rules of outdoor gatherings: it now allows groups of up to 100 people, as long as all keep six feet from one another–and we did (see photo). All also wore masks. Water was high in the river and the adjoining wetlands–not surprising, since the lake is so high–and there was lots of duckweed growing in still areas. Not many signs of wildlife, though a few hikers saw a muskrat making its way across the river a little later in the afternoon. Hikers President Pat Fisher announced that we’ll have our first regular hike later in the month. Keep an eye on the Events page of this website and on our Facebook page for more information, and expect an email announcement as we get closer to the event. Rock Art Rocks, 5/16 From Pat Fisher Last week I was asked if I would be willing to help spread the word that a fun-loving neighbor of the NBAS Study Trails had painted a bunch of rocks and placed them along the trails for people to enjoy, take, leave or move. I thought this sounded like a fun family thing to do. I researched it and found Rock Art is enjoyed by all ages and in many places. I also found a few considerations we should be mindful of. Properly plan for your rock-placing outing. Have the items or equipment you need to safely enjoy your adventure.” If you place a rock, make sure it’s legal in your area. National Parks are banning this activity as they view the painted rocks as not being part of the park environment. Be conscious of where rocks are placed (durable surfaces). Be mindful of how traveling to and from a rock can cause trampling, erosion, etc. Consider the impact that placing a rock can have on both plants and animals (e.g., use non-toxic paints). Be mindful of other visitors who may also enjoy the same areas as you. As always, get out, enjoy the outdoors responsibly and leave no trace I have been told there are other good neighbors painting rocks. Take your children and/or grandchildren on a hike through the Nature Study Trails, and don’t be surprised if you stumble onto a game to play along the way. For a map, go to NBAS Nature Study Trails Map From the New York Times, 5/14 The new ‘get out’ push When the coronavirus lockdowns began almost two months ago, the outdoors seemed like a scary place. It was where you could get infected by a neighbor, jogger, public bench, doorknob or any number of other things. The better move, as a popular hashtag put it, was to #StayHome. As more virus research has emerged, however, the outdoors has begun to look safer. It still brings risk (like those doorknobs). But they are fairly small. One study of 1245 coronavirus cases across China found that only two came from outdoors transmission. Beside the research, something else has also begun to make outdoors seem more attractive. People have started to go stir crazy. This combination is leading to a surge of new expert advice that might be boiled down to: Get out. Wear masks when you do. Be careful about getting close to other people or touching surfaces. But experts are arguing that it’s time to think about how to move more activities outdoors–including socializing, eating, shopping, attending school and holding work meetings. …Marty Makary of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health put it this way…”The outdoors is not only good for your mental state. It’s also a safer place than indoors.” Many cities are now expanding outdoor activities. Oakland has closed almost 10 percent of roads to traffic, CNN noted. Cincinnati is closing parts of 25 streets “so restaurants can expand outdoor seating”…San Jose may let restaurants open in parking lots and public parks….Several states are reopening beaches, parks and golf courses. Tell us about Your Solo Hikes These days, all of us are hiking solo, and we’ll miss one of the best things about Harbor Country Hikers–sharing our experiences with others. To make up for that, we invite you to share your solo hiking experiences here on our blog page. Email us at harborcountryhikers@gmail.com and tell us where you went and what you saw. Please keep it to 50 words and one photo. The following folks (names in red) have already responded. Mary Burke, Her Woods Walking around my woods last week, I disturbed a turkey, which ran away. Yesterday (4/24), near the same spot, I found an egg in a nest of leaves. Googling it, I found that turkeys are skittish nesters, so I doubt she will be back to lay more eggs. Food for a hungry racoon? Beth Beson, Moon Valley Trail, Long Beach Park Preserve Dry and wide. A very pleasant path. Patricia Rowan, Potato Creek Last week I drove south to Potato Creek State Park. Dark, windy and cold day so a little daunting at first. Began with Porter Cemetery, then took Trail 4 for one of the most satisfying hikes I’ve done. Easy clear trail. No need to hurry. Met only two other people. Many spring ephemerals popping up, so took lots of photos. Sense of peacec and healing pervaded. Bob Mueller, Warren Woods Went out to Warren Woods yesterday (4/19). Happy to report that the wildflowers are out in force and should be in full bloom in a few more days. Plenty of spring beauties and trout lilies. The trillium are almost there–some open, some almost open. The May apples still have a couple of days to go. There were lots of people in the park on Sunday–maybe a dozen cars in the parking lot. Everyone we encountered was in good spirits. A great day for a walk in the woods. Kate Mell, In the Woods Just walking in my woods. Saturday there were field of just green leaves. Sunday there were flowers. What a difference a day makes in the spring. The Trilliums are already budding, too. Mayflowers opening and skunk cabbage everywhere! Ellen H., Warren Dunes Since the weather was perfect, Loesken and I enjoyed a hike in Warren Dunes State Park on Easter Sunday. As you can see…we were careful to stay 6 feet apart at all times. Bob Mueller, Jens Jensen Preserve RoseAnna and I walked the trails at Jens Jensen yesterday (April 10). Two other couples left just as we arrived, and we had the place to ourselves. Despite the recent rain, the trails were dry. Not much sign of wildflowers except for these Mayapples (I think) about to bloom. Mary Burke, Tending Trails Hello fellow HCH. I hope your are well! I’ve been running amok on our 13 acres trying to keep the wooded trails open by cutting back/cutting down honeysuckle bushes, Russian olives, multi flora rose, before the hot weather arrives. Ducks in the wetland, wild ramps on our burgers–life is going along. I miss our exotic hikes! Enjoy Spring and be well!! Lynne Chmura-Siemon, Her Hayfield Dear Hikers, I joined the group a couple months ago. I have yet to go on a hike, but I am walking 7 miles a day around my hayfield. I am looking forward to meeting some of you in the group! Stay safe! Edward Ravine, Warren Woods Dear fellow Harbor Country Hikers, Above is a photo of Warren Woods last fall. “Live life like a river flows, continually surprised by your own unfolding.” My best to all. Shelley Stern Grach, Friendship Gardens Mark and I had a lovely 2-mile walk today at Friendship Gardens. We saw some crocus, daffodils and many bushes just starting to bloom. Beth Beson, Chikaming Township Park and Preserve A 4.4-mile solo hike. Wet but wonderful! Jean DeWinter, Lydick Bog Today my son and I, along with our dog, hiked the Lydick Bog. We went early and saw no one except a giant crane overhead. We caught up to him in the field where he was stalking something. We enjoyed the quiet hike immensely. What You Would Have Learned about Flatwoods If We Hadn’t Have Had to Cancel Our Hike at Ambler Flatwoods Unfortunately, we had to cancel our hike on March 21 due to the corona virus threat, but here’s what you would have learned from hike leader Pat Fisher (gathered from a variety of sources): Flatwoods occur on level or nearly level terrain in landscape position above the floodplain and are underlain by a subsurface layer that limits permeability (hardpan). Soils are low in available nutrients. Poor drainage results an a seasonally perched water table and ponding in microdepressions, especially during the late dormant season. During the summer months, due to evapotranspirational drying of the soil, the habitats can become extremely dry. Because soil moisture fluctuates widely by season, the moisture class is not included in the classification. In sand flatoods, the slowly permeable horizon (i.e., lakebed) may be below depth of classified soil horizon units. What kind of plants grow in this habitat? At least four varieties of club mosses, lots of hair cap mosses, turkey tails and shelf mushrooms (conks). The size of some of the trees is stunning. Large specimens of sassafras, cherry, tulip poplar, birch, beech and maples, and plenty of white and red oak. Muscle and iron wood trees are always fun to see. The numbers of hummocks (pit and mounds) and vernal pools, and the widths and speeds of the rivulets is amazing. To get a feel for just where the water table is, just look around. The tops of the vernal pools all around you is the height of the immediate water table. In the spring, the wildflowers should be amazing. More trillium and May apples than you can count, and pretty much every woodland wildflower and fern you can find in the Calment region. Wetland plants such as skunk cabbage, marsh marigolds and Jack-in-the-pulpits can also be found. Repeating a comment I heard, “This place is like a wonderland!” (Photo: club mosses at Ambler Flatwoods. Photo by Pat Fisher) Ambler Flatwoods Around 20 Hikers and several canine friends crunched through the western Ambler Flatwoods trails as winter birds were singing and drumming their morning sounds. Even though the frozen ground made for a mud free hike, we were able to see an assortment of mosses including ground cedar, ground pine, northern running-pine and shining clubmoss. We also saw lots of hair-cap moss, some wintergreen and even a holly plant. We decided it would be fun to revisit this conservation area through all four seasons. So far we’ve visited it in fall and late winter and we’re anxious to see wetland wildflowers spring to life in another month or so. Eight of us hiked another three miles through the eastern Ambler Woods trails. We saw more green stuff and running rivulets, frozen vernal ponds, several chipmunks and deer. (Photo by Pat Fisher) Hiking and Health New Buffalo Township Library Dr. Margaret Bailey, family practice specialist and Hikers member, explained how a good walk in the woods can restore physical and mental health better than almost anything else. Hiking, she said, improves cardiovascular health and strengthens bones and the body core, especially for senior citizens. She cited studies that show that people who spend time in nature recover from the wear and tear of daily life much more quickly than those who remain in an urban environment. (Photo: Dr. Bailey with HCH Secretary Evie Rowley and President Pat Fisher. Photo by Janet Hayes.) Winter Botany Lydick Bog, South Bend, Ind. A warm, sunny day for late February helped draw a good crowd, including some newcomers, to the Lydick Bog Nature Preserve. Doug Botka, with the Shirley Heinze Land Trust (That’s him in the blue-green coat and sunglasses near the center of the photo.) explained that lighting conditions can make identifying trees by their bark misleading. Better, he said, to consider alternating and opposing branches, leaf placement and bud and twig identification. An interesting fact about Lydick Bog: It was rediscovered by a botanist using Google Maps when the property just happened to be for sale. The hike ran about two miles and took about two hours with multiple stops along the way. The Hikers encountered hills, snow, ice and mud on the trails, but everyone made it back with smiles on their faces. (Photo by Pat Fisher) The Postglacial History of Robinson Woods Three Oaks, Mich. The weather was a bit chilly, flurries were falling and the trails were slushy, but 10 hardy hikers–including a first-timer–showed up to learn about the glaciers that shaped our landscape. Hike leader and HCH President Pat Fisher talked about the moraines (glacial ridges) left behind as the glaciers retreated, and how lake levels–much higher than today’s–deposited sandy soil and dunes. Large puddles and a rapidly flowing drainage ditch served as a reminder that Robinson Woods contains many wetland areas, and club mosses provided a few patches of green in the otherwise gray landscape. (Photo: What is this? Some hikers thought it was a small animal skull someone had stuck on a tree, but a lack of teeth and parchment-like texture led others to think otherwise. If you think you know what this is, write us at harborcountryhikers@gmail.com.) Appalachian Trail, Anyone? Member Mike Brown writes: I would like to team up with anyone wanting to hike a portion of the Appalachian Trail–I have hiked many parts of the trail over the years. Thinking from 1 to 3 weeks, April through October. I’m 67 and don’t hike at a blistering pace–but I eventually get from A to B. Generally 8 to 12 miles per day. I prefer to be the driver–room for 3 more. Let me know if you’re interested and we can work on an itinerary. Email owner@bluebirdmeadows.com. Bridgman, Mich. A bit more than 20 Hikers turned up to welcome 2020 with a New Year’s Day Flash Hike. Plenty of sunshine and a temperature near 40 made for pleasant hiking, though leftover snow and puddles turned parts of the trail wet and muddy. The remaining snow was nice to look at and the leafless trees allowed for rare, unobstructed views of the park’s wetlands and huge dunes. What better way to start off the New Year than a walk in one of the region’s wonderful parks and preserves? (Photo: Hikers walking a Warren Dunes trail. Flash Hikes are announced only by email a few days beforehand. There is no theme and no leader–just a group walk in the woods with friendly people.) Christmastide Hike New Buffalo Area Schools Nature Study Trails New Buffalo, Mich. Our first annual Christmas Hike drew more than two dozen hikers, kids included, to the Nature Study Trails behind the New Buffalo Elementary School. We got an amazing, sunny, warm (for late December) day as children and adults walked the trails and looked for pine cones, spider webs, birds and other objects on a nature bingo card for prizes. Afterwards, everyone gathered in the school cafeteria for hot chocolate and prizes and gifts from Santa’s helpers. (Photo: Santa’s helper and HCH President Pat Fisher points the way.) Little Calumet River Trail Porter, Ind. Two dozen hikers walked the historic Indiana Dunes National Park trails in the Little Calumet River area near Porter, Ind. Well before there was a country, the river and trails were important migration routes for local Indians. French-Canadian fur trappers and traders later roamed the area, among them Joseph Bailly, whose family house still stands on park land. Bailly moved to the area in the early 1820s and opened a trading post, which became a gathering place for trappers and Indians. Nearby, the Chellberg farm, owned by Swedish immigrants, is also maintained by the Park Service. The hikers visited the Bailly cemetery, a square structure about eight feet tall, filled with earth and the bones of early Baillys, and topped by a large wood cross. Although one can see US12 from atop the structure, it seems isolated and out-of place in the woods. (Photo: Hikers make their way along the Calumet River Trail.) Hikes Inspire Art HCH member and artist Ed Ravine writes: I’ve so enjoyed these brief journeys through the gems of southwest Michigan. Quick study of our Grand Mere traverse. Ed’s work is on display at the Local Color gallery in Union Pier. Grand Mere State Park Stevensville, Mich. A touch of remaining snow from the previous week contributed to some gorgeous vistas in this little-visited portion of Grand Mere. The Hikers climbed the back side of a foredune for a look at Lake Michigan on one side, and one of the three inland lakes left behind by the glaciers. Originally, there were five such lakes, but two have silted in over the centuries, and the remaining three eventually face the same fate. Other trails led past swampy areas adjacent to the lake, filled with fallen trees. Tracks in the snow showed the presence of deer and other animals. About 15 hikers came out for this chilly, but sunny, outing. (Photo: Hikers climbed a high dune for a look at the Lake Michigan shore and one of Grand Mere’s inland lakes.) Moon Valley, Long Beach, Ind. Moon Valley is a 200-acre collection of preserves and parks in Long Beach, mostly owned by the town but partly privately owned. A group of local people is looking for ways to prevent the privately owned property from being developed, and to discourage the town from opening the portion it owns to development. The group is inviting individuals and groups in the area to hike the preserves, in order to develop awareness of it and to gather support to keep Moon Valley undeveloped. More than two dozen HCH members and guests showed up for this hike among the dunes, our largest attendance so far at a Flash Hike. (Photo: Hikers work their way up a dune near the entrance to Moon Valley during a November 10 Flash Hike. Flash Hikes are announced only by email a few days beforehand. There is no theme and no leader–just a group walk in the woods.) Fernwood Botanical Gardens and Nature Preserve Niles, Michigan The Hikers got a private look at the trails of Fernwood, led by Fernwood Naturalist Corey Hopwood. Following a warm welcome by Executive Director Carol Line, Hopwood–whose knowledge of local flora and fauna seemed encyclopedic–took the group along the Ridge Trail, to the River Trail, through the Wilderness Trail and finally gave the Hikers a quick look at Fernwood’s Prairie (the subject of a future hike, we hope). He pointed out the different species of trees, and how some (oaks, beeches) prefer dry environments while others (sycamore, paw paw) prefer wetter surroundings. Wildlife stayed well-hidden, but Hopwood pointed out evidence of their presence: a tree nearly gnawed through by a beaver, for instance. Along the way, he gave a brief history of Fernwood. The preserve’s original 12.5 acres were bought in 1941 by a family called Boydston. Mrs. Boydston was an avid nature lover, and her property became a gathering place for those who shared that love. She planted some species, like ferns, that weren’t originally native to the property, and gave the place its name. The property was acquired for a botanical garden in 1964 and grew to its present size of 105 acres. Many of the hikers, even some who visit Fernwood frequently, were surprised at the extent and variety of its trails. (Photo: How do you tell a male spider from a female? Fernwood Naturalist Corey Hopwood explains. Photo by Maggie Galloway.) Ambler Flatwoods, Michigan City, Ind. A great morning for a hike. Brisk fall weather, leaves falling like snow and carpeting the trails. Fourteen people, including some newcomers, turned out for our third Flash Hike. Ambler Flatwoods is a Shirley Heinze Land Trust property–more that 500 acres and almost five miles of trails–with some rare species and trees commonly found at more northerly latitudes. Flatwoods are characterized by low, flat topography, poor drainage, and acidic, sandy soil. (Photo: Technicolor leaves paved the trails for our third Flash Hike. Flash Hikes are announced only by email a few days beforehand. There is no theme and no leader–just a group walk in the woods.) Sarett Nature Center About 20 Hikers showed up on another gorgeous fall morning for a trek through Sarett Nature Center. The trail was a little treacherous here and there, but everyone made it back from the two-hour, two-mile hike tested but unscathed. Rob Pearce, Sarett Grounds Manager and Naturalist, led the hike through the center’s upland and lowland trails. Rated moderate, some of those who hiked the trail said it felt more like moderate-plus. Half the group followed Pearce to the end of the River Trail, which added another 1.6 miles to the hike. (Photo: Rob Pearce, Sarett naturalist, shows off the different shapes of sassafras leaves. The leaves come with one, two or three lobes; the two-lobed leaf is said to resemble the state of Michigan. Photo by Janet Hayes.) Great Marsh Trail Twenty hikers turned out on a beautiful fall morning for a walk through the Great Marsh, part of the largest wetland complex in the Lake Michigan watershed. Drained for development in the early 20th century, the Park Service began restoring the marsh in 1998. The Marsh Trail follows old roads created in anticipation of residential building. The Marsh is a resting stop for migrating birds that follow the Lake Michigan shoreline, and it is popular among birders. The hikers saw a hawk, many red-wing blackbirds, woodpeckers and Canada geese, and heard–but did not see–sand cranes. (Photo: Hikers listen as HCH President Pat Fisher talks about the history of the Great Marsh) Members-Only Social And New Buffalo Township Park Hikers turned out for our first members-only social. The party started with a hike through Galien River County Park, followed by a bonfire, s’mores and games across the street at the New Buffalo Township Park. To close the evening, Garth Taylor, president of the School of American Music in Three Oaks, led the group in campfire songs. (Photos: Taylor on the pavilion stage and members enjoying the bonfire) Building Wetlands Watkins Memorial Park Hikers heard from Berrien County Drain Commissioner Christopher Quattrin, who spoke about the advantages of creating wetlands as part of a rainwater drainage system. Wetlands, he said, create natural filtration and quickly soak up–and slowly release–water. They also slow the flow of water and prevent erosion and host many plant and animal species. Quattrin noted that the system of drain commissions in Michigan preceded statehood, and was a successful effort to create farmland. After Quattrin’s talk, the Hikers–two dozen of them on this trek–viewed the Schwark Drain, a manmade wetland, and hiked the adjacent Hoadley Trail. The trail originally was set up with exercise stations along the way, and the equipment, mostly overgrown lumber and pipes at this point, still exists. Hikers President Pat Fisher pointed out plants, invasive and native, along the way. Hickory nuts were plentiful on the trail. The nuts, by the way, are edible and sometimes tasty. They were a popular forage food for local Indians, who valued them for their high calorie content and either ate them raw or boiled them in water to make a kind of porridge. Pecans are the nut of the southern hickory. (Photo: Hikers have a peek at the Schwark Drain from at overlook. Photo by Janet Hayes.) Our First Flash Hike A small but convivial group walked the trails of Jens Jensen Preserve and the adjacent Pepperidge Dunes on the Hikers’ first Flash Hike. Flash Hikes are informal walks through local parks and preserves, and are announced just days beforehand by email only. The Wednesday evening hike featured nearly perfect weather and not too many bugs. Along the way, the hikers reviewed how to read the trail markers designed by HCH President Pat Fisher. Those who joined the hike agreed the Flash Hikes should continue and remarked that the format was great for socializing and offered a measure of safety that solo walks in the the woods might not. What Tree Is It? Arborist Christian Siewert of C&A Arborists pointed out stressed trees along the trail, and noted that stressors may include lack of water or disease. Symptoms of stress include dried or curled leaves and premature leaf shedding. Overwatering isn’t usually a problem, he said, in our locally sandy soil. Siewert advised against pruning unless an overhanging limb threatens a roof, for example. “All pruning wounds the tree,” he said. Another threat to trees is compacting soil around their roots. This can happen when vehicles or construction equipment drives over root systems. A recent threat to oaks, Siewert said, is oak wilt, a fungus spread through roots or by beetles that carry the fungus. He recommended severing the roots of infected trees and avoiding pruning in the summer when the beetles are active. The hikers ran into a recently fallen tree that blocked the trail until member Bob Vondale found a way around it. Altogether, more than 50 people showed up for the hike–our biggest attendance ever. (Photos: Top–Christian Siewert points our a stressed tree along the trail. Bottom–A fallen tree blocked the trail, but the hikers found a way around it.) The Sights and Sounds of Dusk Chikaming Township Park and Preserve About 20 hikers, many of them first-timers, came for a dusk hike at the Chikaming Township Park and Preserve. Hikers President Pat Fisher ran through a list of nocturnal animals native to the area, and pointed out the sounds of cicadas and frogs along the way. Most of the critters stayed well clear of the group, but a bat and some water birds put in a showing, and a gibbous moon provided plenty of light after the sun went down. Far-Flung Hikers Send Greetings Harbor Country Hikers Joe and Marian Kelly are hiking the foothills of Kilimanjaro (Tanzania) today [August 9]. Cannot wait to share our adventures when we get back. Hiking for Those with Limited Mobility Glenwood Dunes Trail Jim Dolph, an intrepid hiker who lost his legs in an industrial accident, shared his hiking experiences before and after his accident. Kim Swift, from the Park Service, presented a list of existing trails that are ADA friendly and one that is still in the planning stages. She brought along a Freedom Trax, a device that transforms a conventional wheelchair into an off-road vehicle that can traverse sand, snow, gravel and mud. Dolph strapped his wheelchair onto the Freedom Trax and joined us on a one-mile hike that took us up and over hills and through the woods. He remarked that this was the first time he’s been in the woods since his accident, and that he will certainly add a Freedom Trax to his Christmas list. (Photo: Jim Dolph talks with the hikers. A Freedom Trax is in the foreground. Photo by Pat Fisher) Genetically Altered Species Harbert Road Preserve Invasive species educator Jared Harmon spoke on genetic species alteration on a hike through the Harbert Road Preserve. About 10 Hikers showed up–warnings of excessive heat may have kept some away, though it never got above the 80s during the hike. Harmon said genetic engineering can, for example, make mosquitoes or rats infertile in a location within a few generations. The danger is that the genetically altered species can spread to other locations, where they may form an important part of the ecosystem. New techniques, he said, are addressing that problem. Along the trail, Harmon showed off a variety of locally invasive species like autumn olive, barberry and some types of thistle. (Photo: Harmon explains the differences between invasive, hybrid and native species of cattail.) Lake Michigan Water Level Ties Record for July Wonder where the beaches went? The water level in Lake Michigan has tied a July record set in 1986, according to a July 5 report from the Army Corps of Engineers. Currently, the lake is three feet above its long-term average for July. The July figure is four inches above the comparable figure for June and 15 inches above last July’s level, and the Corps of Engineers is predicting the lake will rise another two inches in August. Pinhook Bog and the Valparaiso Moraine The Hikers visited Pinhook Bog, part of the Indiana Dunes National Park, then hiked the surrounding trail up and through the Valparaiso Moraine. Both the bog and the moraine are artifacts of glacial activity thousands of years ago. The bog formed when a chunk of glacial ice fell and made a dent in the area’s clay soil. The clay formed a lining which is impervious to water, and since the bog has no inlet or outlet, its only sources of water are rain and snow. Over the millennia, the bog filled with moss and other plants that give it the appearance of solid land, even though it is not. Carnivorous plants abound in the bog, as do species of orchid. Seven hikers continued on to the moraine hike, perhaps our toughest trek yet. The moraine marks the edge of the glacier, and is one of the highest points in northern Indiana. But the trip through multiple environments–forests, a pond, grasslands–made the tough walking well worth it. (Photo: Unusually heavy rains caused bog waters to splash over the boardwalk at Pinhook Bog, as this photo of the entrance to the boardwalk demonstrates.) Hiking Tips (and More) For Walking the Camino de Santiago Mary Rooney, a retired hospital worker from South Bend, told the story of her five pilgrimages on the Camino de Santiago, a 500-mile trail that starts in France and ends up at the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain. Speaking at a program sponsored jointly by the Hikers and the Friends of the New Buffalo Library, Rooney told the audience she packs lightly–a maximum of 12 pounds. She carries one change of clothes, a pair of sandals, a sleeping bag and little else. Even the journal she keeps is made of tracing paper, to keep weight down. On slow days on the trail (depending mostly on geography), she walks eight or nine miles; on her best day ever, she hiked 28 miles. For aspiring pilgrims, Rooney said, some things have gotten easier since she began walking the trail in 2001. The albergos (inns) have gotten better, and there are more places to find meals. Rooney’s favorite things about walking the Camino: the opportunity to meet people from all over the world, being in nature and living in the present, without everyday distractions. How Much Nature Is Enough? 120 Minutes a Week, Doctors Say (From the New York Times, 6/13/19) It’s a medical fact: Spending time outdoors, especially in green spaces, is good for you. A wealth of research indicates that escaping to a neighborhood park, hiking through the woods, or spending a weekend by the lake can lower a person’s stress levels, decrease blood pressure and reduce the risk of asthma, allergies, diabetes and cardiovascular disease, while boosting mental health and increasing life expectancy. Doctors around the world have been prescribing time in nature as a way of improving their patients’ health. One question has remained: How long, or how frequently, should you experience the great outdoors in order to reap its great benefits?…According to a paper published…in the journal Scientific Reports, the answer is about 120 minutes each week. The study examined data from nearly 20,000 people in England who took part in [a survey] from 2014 to 2016, which asked them to record their activities within the past week. It found that people who spent two hours a week or more outdoors reported being in better health and having a greater sense of well-being than people who didn’t get out at all. Spending just 60 to 90 minutes in nature did not have as significant an effect. And five hours a week in nature offered no additional health benefits. “…Two hours a week was the threshold for both men and women, older and younger adults, different ethnic groups, people living in richer or poorer areas, and even for those living with long term illnesses,” [according to Matthew P. White, an environmental psychologist who led the study]. Beach Appreciation Beaches of Chikaming Township Hikers who walked the Chikaming Township beaches on June 1 got a first-hand look at the effects of beach erosion and the unusually high waters of Lake Michigan. Originally set for Townline Beach to Warren Dunes, the route was changed, from Cherry Beach to Warren Dunes and back, because there were spots along the original route where there was no beach. In many places north of Cherry Beach, the sand was only a few feet wide. Before the Hikers set off, David Bunte gave an update on efforts by the Township to acquire additional lakefront adjacent to Cherry Beach. Chikaming Fire Chief Mike Davidson spoke about beach safety and the township’s marker system that helps guide emergency teams to beach-goers in trouble. As if to underscore high-water problems, the Hikers passed a tent recently pitched on the beach that had been partly dismantled by the lake’s waves. (Photo by Janet Hayes) Mud Lake Bog, Buchanan, Mich. Mud Lake Bog began as a kettle lake, a glacially formed depression that filled with melt water as the glacier retreated. When kettle lakes have no outlet, their water becomes acidic and plants like sphagnum mosses grow on the lake’s surface, intertwine and create the vegetative mats characteristic of bogs. Hike leader Jack Pizzo, an ecologist and landscape architect, pointed out native and invasive plants to the 30-plus hikers who showed up for the outing, and noted some of the species that favor the habitat–carnivorous plants like pitcher plants and sundew, and orchids among them. Pizzo also noted that the boardwalks and other structures in the preserve are in need of repair, and that volunteers and donors are being sought to bring them up to par and to help control invasives. (Photo: Ecologist Jack Pizzo–in the orange cap–explains bog environments to the Hikers) The Micro World of Vernal Ponds NBAS Nature Study Trails Ecologist Brock Struecker led about 18 hikers to a pair of vernal, or ephemeral, ponds along the trails behind the New Buffalo elementary school. Vernal ponds form in depressions in forests and prairies, and last long enough to serve as nurseries for larvae of amphibians and insects, Struecker said. Because the ponds have no inlet or outlet, they have no fish that might prey on the larvae. Strueker showed photos of a variety of frogs, toads and salamanders that reach maturity in vernal ponds, and he spoke about the environments the amphibians prefer. After Struecker’s talk, the Hikers continued to turtle pond, through fields of wildflowers and skunk cabbage. (Photo: Struecker shows off a red-backed salamander found near a vernal pond) May 2, New Buffalo Township Library Harbor Country Hikers members re-elected incumbent officers (President Pat Fisher, VP Stacey LaRocco, Secretary Evie Rowley and Treasurer Bob Mueller) at a general membership meeting on May 2. Fisher gave a report on hikes and other events the Hikers have sponsored since the group’s inception in 2017, and presented a list of planned hikes for the next several months. He also said the club’s trail marker program should include most of the trails in New Buffalo, Three Oaks and Chikaming townships by the end of the year, thanks in part to widespread buy-in by parks and preserves authorities and donations from civic groups and individuals. Mueller reported that the Hikers is in good financial shape, with most of its income coming from member dues and donations. He added that the club currently has 126 members, many from well outside the boundaries of Harbor Country. Member input included suggestions for a social event, so members could get to know one another better, and hikes at more distant locations. Fisher said the board would consider carefully both suggestions. Sunday, April 28 Spring Wildflower Walk and Talk Warren Woods State Park Arch Hopkins, HCH member and PhD botanist, led 23 hikers for a look at the many wildflowers in bloom at Warren Woods. Hopkins noted that the flowers bloom only briefly–once the overhead canopy fills in, they can’t get enough sunlight to flower. Among the species he pointed out: wild ginger, purple violet, wild geranium, white and red trillium, Jack-in-the-pulpit, May apple, Dutchman’s britches, spring beauty, bloodroot and round-lobed hepatica. Hopkins said some wildflowers were considered medicinal because some feature of those plants resemble parts of the human body. Bloodroot, for example, has red sap, from which early pharmacists concluded it was good for the blood. An unusual late snowstorm the day before the hike left patches of white in the woodlands, but most had melted by the time hikers headed back to the parking lot. (Photo: Arch Hopkins, on the right, points out a wildflower species.) Prairie Management Two dozen hikers came on a glorious spring Saturday to learn more about how controlled, or prescribed, fires help preserve native prairie plants. Chikaming Township Parks Board member Deborah Hall-Kayler described how her board tries to do a prescribed burn of the prairie lands in the Park and Preserve every three years. She described a recent burn, and told how the experts controlled the fire, taking into account winds and types of vegetation. Hike leader Buffy Dunham, an experienced monitor of prescribed fires results, noted that some native plants are fire-dependent–that is, they depend on fires–deliberately set or natural–to clear the landscape of invasive species. She counseled balancing the effects of prescribed burns to take into account not only plants, but animal and insect species living in the burn area. After Dunham’s talk, the hikers walked around some of the burnt prairie, then worked their way into the wooded portion of the property. (Photo: Buffy Dunham stands in front of a portion of burnt prairie.) Forgotten Skills–How the Indians Survived Michigan Winters Ever wonder how Michigan’s Indians survived winter without central heating and trips south? Turns out some actually did head south–to southern Michigan, that is–to better winter hunting and fishing grounds. Snow made tracking game easier, and kept meat fresh longer. Some lived on fish caught through holes in the ice. Local Indians lived in wigwams or long houses, which kept the wind out, and they kept fires going. They dressed in layers and avoided sitting on cold ground. And some–the old, the infirm, the careless–didn’t survive winter. Some tribes developed good weather forecasting abilities that enabled them to predict snow and blizzards and stay indoors when they came. Despite rain just before the hike, about 20 hikers showed up on the 30th. A few tried their hands (and their knees) climbing dunes like the one pictured. (Photo by Pat Fisher) HCH/BASE Program Enters Second Year The signs of spring were subtle, but definitely there as volunteers from the Harbor Country Hikers led a dozen youngsters from the New Buffalo BASE (Bison After School Enrichment) program through the educational trails behind the elementary school. The ravines were full of burbling water and the crows were busy alerting the animal kingdom to our invasion. We even heard a chipmunk rustle through the leaves, and deer tracks and scat were also in evidence. After checking out the budding beech trees–still holding onto last year’s leaves–we ventured into a ravine to find the skunk cabbages that were everybody’s favorite last year. The partnership between the Hikers and the BASE program is meant to provide children with exposure to nature and to promote trail safety and etiquette. Sugar Maple Hike Bendix Woods County Park About 14 hikers made the trip down to Bendix Woods County Park in New Carlisle for a look at how maple syrup is made and at the trees that ultimately produce it. The group traveled over some fairly rough terrain and climbed the steep Carlisle Hill, the second-highest point in St. Joseph County, Ind. The hikers passed through a “sugar bush”–a stand of maples used for making syrup–and visited the park’s sugar shack to see how maple sap is turned into maple syrup. They also walked through the Studebaker pine forest, a group of pines that spells “Studebaker” when viewed from above. (Photo by Janet Hayes) Bendix Woods will be making maple syrup next weekend, if the weather cooperates. see http://www.sjcparks.org/1185/Sugar-Camp-Days for more information. Ice Formations in Lake Michigan New Buffalo Beach Unfortunately, no sunset for this evening hike and presentation, but plenty of ice in the lake. Twenty-eight people showed up for the presentation on ice formations and most walked to the ice shelf afterwards. A few walked to the end of the beach, up the dune stairs, across the walkway and back down the parking lot stairs. It wasn’t an especially long hike–we rated it “easy”–but it was a nippy evening. (Photo by Phil Eichas) Mild Weather (for February) Brings Out Hikers for Animal Tracking Lesson More than 30 hikers, including some first-timers, turned out on February 17 at the Jens Jensen Preserve in Sawyer to learn about animal signs from Chikaming Open Lands’ Casey Struecker. The weather was balmy by mid-February standards–just above freezing with light snow. Despite the fresh covering, the hikers were able to find some tracks and everyone learned a little about tracks and scat. Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore Changes Last Name to ‘Park’ From the South Bend Tribune The Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore has changed the last word of its name to “Park.” President Donald Trump on Friday signed the name change into reality, tucked into the broader bill from Congress that provides $1.4 billion for Mexican border fencing. For two years, regional leaders in Congress had been pushing for the word “Park” as a way to gain greater recognition for these 15,000 acres along Lake Michigan, which already are a national park. The change, which is immediate, won’t affect how the park operates or its funding, apart from signs and literature, but leaders are hoping that it will boost tourism, drawing more people who seek out national parks. It is now the 61st such “National Park” in the U.S., and the first in Indiana. “This action provides our shoreline with the recognition it deserves,” said U.S. Rep. Pete Visclosky, D-Merrillville, “and I hope further builds momentum to improve open and public access to all of our region’s environmental wonders.” The park contains some of the most diverse flora of the national parks, ranging from dune grass to forests, oak savannas, prairies, a bog and wetlands, some of which are considered globally rare. Websites about Helping Birds in Winter http://www.thespruce.com/winter-bird-feeding-tips-386586 http://www.lifegate.com/people/lifestyle/bird-feeders-recycled-materials Helping Birds Survive Winter Nearly 30 hikers turned out on a sunny, late fall Saturday to learn about helping birds through the winter and walk the trails of the Harbert Road Preserve. HCH President Pat Fisher talked about how to create backyard habitats from brushwood. The habitats can provide shelter in bad weather and hide birds from predators. During winter, Fisher said, birds need food that’s high in fats and proteins–definitely not bits of stale bread and crackers. He also showed some pictures of bird feeders made from discarded materials like plastic milk and soda bottles and even worn-out shoes. The trails were muddy and sometimes covered in water. Trails in the Preserve, Fisher explained, cross a moraine, where the soil drains well, and a lower-lying area where the soil contains a lot of clay, which does not drain well. HCH Member and Chikaming Township Parks Board member Deborah Hall-Kayler pointed out “bluebird boxes” along the trail. The boxes, and others like them in local parks and preserves, provide shelter and food for the bluebirds, which otherwise might have died off in our area. Wild Lake Michigan The Hikers and their guests learned about the recreational opportunities our own Lake Michigan offers, and also about the environmental threats to it and the dangers it poses. HCH Director and owner of Sand Pirate Janet Schrader spoke about the environmental threats to the lake, from plastics and agricultural chemicals to invasive species and sewage brought by unusually heavy rainfall. Stacey LaRocco, HCH vice president and project coordinator for Chikaming Open Lands, listed some of the dangers the lake poses and how to avoid or escape them. She discussed different types of currents that can threaten swimmers, dangerous weather and infectious bacteria, among other potential dangers. HCH President Pat Fisher spoke about hiking the Lake Michigan beaches safely and with respect for lakeside landowners. He also discussed winter hiking and some of the equipment he uses for his cold-weather hikes. Eve Moore won the door prize–a collection of photos of the lake by Phil Eichas. Eichas’s photos appear in the Harbor Country News and he is official photographer for Friendship Gardens. National Take-A-Hike Day Hoadley Trail, Three Oaks Despite a light drizzle and a soggy trail, 15 hikers–including some newcomers–showed up at Hoadley Trail in Three Oaks to hike in honor of national Take-A-Hike Day. President Pat Fisher gave a brief talk on trail safety, and showed off the new trail markers installed the previous Saturday. Our youngest hiker so far, Sean Nicka, age 2, came along to check out the scenery, along with parents Emily and John. Hiking the Appalachian Trail with Fred Jolly Nearly 70 people, both HCH members and non-members, showed up to hear New Buffalo resident Fred Jolly talk about his experiences through-hiking the Appalachian Trail. Jolly started his hike last March 25, his 62nd birthday, and hiked 2,190 miles through 14 states to become one of fewer than 500 people over the age of 60 to complete the trek since the trail was created in 1937. One of the biggest surprises, Jolly said, was the number of hills the trail runs over. Although there were bears and snakes along the way, a larger annoyance were bugs–ticks and mosquitoes–and mice chewing through gear in search of food. One of Jolly’s goals was to raise $25,000 in donations for the National Park Foundation. Although he’s exceeded that goal, he still encourages giving to the Foundation. Check out his website, http://www.athike.jollyoutthere.com, to read the full story of his hike and to make a donation. (Photo by Pat Fisher) Hoadley Trail, Watkins Park A hardy band of Hikers and members of the Harbor Country Rotary Club braved cold weather and mud to install trail markers along Hoadley Trail in Three Oaks. The markers, designed by Hikers President Pat Fisher, are meant to give uniform guidance throughout parks and preserves in Berrien Country, with directions forward and back to the trailhead and a unique number that can pinpoint the location of hikers in trouble for emergency services. The Hoadley Trail markers, contributed by the Rotary Club, are the second set installed so far. (Photo: HCH Secretary Evie Rowley drives home a trail marker while Fisher and Treasurer Bob Mueller look on. Photo by Janet Schrader) Dune Ridge Trail Indiana Dunes/Beverly Shores Thirty-three hikers turned out on a partly sunny day to hike the Dune Ridge Trail and enjoy the beautiful fall colors. Along the way, they discussed the glacial history of Northwest Indiana and the more recent history of the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. After the hike, President Pat Fisher led a caravan of five cars that stopped to view the Century of Progress houses in Beverly Shores, the National Lakeshore Lakeview Picnic Area and the Great Marsh. (Photo by Janet Schrader) Amazing Fall Migrations A dozen-and-a-half hikers turned out on a glorious Saturday morning to spot birds along a Warren Dunes trail. Lisa Doyle-Schaller (that’s her in the red coat) gave a brief talk on fall bird migrations and called out birds–visually or by their calls–along the way. Areas like Warren Dunes provide refuge for migrating birds as they head south. Fall Ravine View Hiking Kip Miller, chief naturalist for Berrien County Parks and property manager at Love Creek Park (in the black shirt at the center of the photo), led 27 hikers through about 2-3/4 miles of Love Creek’s six miles of hiking trails. Along the way, hikers got spectacular views of beech-maple climax forests, saw some late-blooming wildflowers, peered into deep ravines from atop trails that followed them, and learned a little about Love Creek Park. Miller noted that the park offers off-road bicycling and cross-country skiing in season, as well as hiking. Shifting Sands: The Film and the Hike (New Buffalo Township Library and Cowles Bog) In this two-part event, the Hikers watched an excellent film called Shifting Sands, about efforts to preserve Northern Indiana dunelands from industrial encroachment–efforts that eventually led to state and national parks. The film did a fine job of presenting both sides of the story, and of tying together the stories of many small groups that, together, saved this diverse region. Rumor is the New Buffalo Township Library is getting a copy. Following the film, the Hikers walked the 3-1/2 mile trail at Cowles Bog, one of the areas mentioned, and saw an egret, sand cranes, lots of monarchs and some unfamiliar plants and flowers. New Buffalo Resident Nearing End of Appalachian Trail Hike New Buffalo resident Fred Jolly reported on August 22 that he had covered 1700 miles of the Appalacian Trail, and had another 490-odd miles left in New Hampshire and Maine to complete the 2190-mile trek. Jolly, 62, will be one of fewer than 500 people over age 60 to have hiked the length of the trail when he completes it. He set out in May from Georgia, partly with a goal to raise money for the National Parks. See Jolly’s website, http://www.athike.jollyoutther.com, to learn how to contribute. We hope to persuade Jolly to talk to the hikers about his experiences when he returns. More than two dozen hikers turned out for a Saturday morning hike through the Chikaming Township Park and Preserve. Before the hikers set out, HCH VP Stacey LaRocco spoke about how wetlands improve water quality. Wetlands filter out nitrogen, phosphorus and pesticides from agricultural runoff. They slow the flow of water and prevent downstream erosion and flooding. They also provide habitats for birds and mammals. Afterward, hikers had a look at some of the many ecosystems the park and preserve contains–a planted bluestem tallgrass prairie, a pond, wetlands, the Galien River floodplain and more. New Buffalo Elementary School Trails On a hike co-sponsored by the New Buffalo Township Library, hikers learned a little about how trees survive Michigan winters–and how trees may communicate and what they say to one another. Hike leader and HCH President Pat Fisher explained that different trees have developed different strategies to deal with cold weather. Some develop bulb-like underground structures that store nutrients for the winter. Others create sugars that dissolve in water carried by the tree’s vascular system. These act as a sort of antifreeze that lowers the water’s freezing point. Some fairly new research suggests trees can communicate with one another. Trees are connected by microscopic networks of mycorrhizal fungi that attach to their roots. These symbiotic networks, the researchers say, allow the trees to share water and nutrients and send each other distress signals about disease, insect attacks and drought. Some trees also release pheramones when they’re attacked by insects or even leaf-eating animals. The pheramones inform other trees of the attack and, in some cases, cause them to release chemicals that make their leaves bitter and unappetizing to predators. Robinson Woods Preserve The Hikers got a preview of a new trail marking system developed by HCH President Pat Fisher. The system is being tested at Chikaming Open Lands’ Robinson Woods Preserve, and the plan is to roll it out into other COL properties, as well as township and county parks. The goal, according to Fisher, is to have common, easy-to-understand signage throughout Harbor Country parks and preserves. Each marker carries a unique location number that will eventually help emergency services locate lost or injured hikers. It also gives directions to the next marker, identifies the trail and carries other information when appropriate. Separate trailhead signs show a trail map, list rules and identify the type of trail–hiking, cross-county skiing, biking and so on. Spicer Lake Nature Preserve The Hikers journeyed to Spicer Lake Nature Preserve in New Carlisle, Ind., home to two kettle lakes, swamps, and numerous plants and animals. Michaele Klingerman, a naturalist with the St. Joseph County (Indiana) Parks, explained that kettle lakes formed when large chunks of ice fell off retreating glaciers during the last Ice Age, and left a water-filled dent in the ground. The three-dozen Hikers who made the trip also saw evidence of beavers and several different bird species–Spicer Lake is known as a good birding destination. Klingerman told the story of how an Audubon Society member raised money to buy the original 70 acres of preserve. Some came in nickels and dimes raised by children. Today, additional land purchases have expanded the preserve to 300 acres. Kesling Nature Preserve About 20 hikers explored the unusual geology and thick forest of the Kesling Nature Preserve last Saturday. Kesling is regarded as a prime bird-watching location. A Thank-You Note from Andrea Brown and the BASE Kids Mt. Baldy Sunset Hike The Hikers–along with scores of others–scaled Mt. Baldy for a nice view of the sunset the Friday before the Labor Day weekend. Along the way, a Park Service Ranger explained some of the geology behind the dune’s formation. Mt. Baldy, he said, is actually two dunes–an ancient dune that goes back 8,000 years and a newer dune–less than a thousand years old–that sits on top of it. Mt. Baldy is a “living dune;” that is, it continues to move southward. Plants, especially marram grass, bind the dune together with their roots. Buried trees, according to the ranger, were responsible for creating the hole that swallowed and nearly killed an Illinois boy in 2013. The tree trunks decompose, leaving a hard crust around their circumference that keeps the hole from filling in with sand. Park officials are still looking for other holes, and parts of Mt. Baldy are still off-limits. From the top of the dune, the ranger pointed out the Valparaiso Moraine to the south, a ridge that marks the edge of an Ice Age glacier. (Photos by Andrea Brown) Turtle Pond with the BASE kids Turtle Pond, a small patch of preserve connected by trails to the New Buffalo Elementary School and Turtle Creek Preserve trails, was the destination for the school’s after-hours hiking program, sponsored by HCH. The trails were wet and muddy, and the hikers got a good look at animal tracks along the way. The pond itself was home to noisy frogs, but the turtles kept well-hidden–and quiet. That’s BASE director Andrea Brown in the sun glasses and HCH President Pat Fisher lurking in the background. New Buffalo Elementary School Christian Siewert, certified arborist and founder of C&A Arborists (in the yellow teeshirt), donated a tulip tree to the New Buffalo Elementary School, and he and the after-school BASE kids–along with local boy and girl scouts–helped plant it on the school grounds for Arbor Day. The children decided the tree needed a name, and called it Bob. After the planting, Siewert led the group on a walk through the trails behind the school and pointed out different tree species and facts about them. (Photo by Janet Hayes) Spring Wildflower Hike, Warren Woods Two dozen hikers made it to our Wildflowers Hike April 21. Member and botanist Arch Hopkins led the group through Warren Woods, Michigan’s last surviving beech-maple climax forest. At one time, Hopkins said, beech-maple forests extended all the way from the East Coast to the Great Lakes. But the climax forests thrive on exactly the same sort of soil that makes ideal farmland, and most were cleared for agriculture. Wildflowers in the forests are around only briefly, according to Hopkins. Once the overhead canopy fills in, there isn’t enough sunlight for them to bloom. Along the way, hikers discovered cut-leaved toothwort, wild leek, Dutchman’s britches, bloodroot, round-lobed hepatica and trout lily. Hopkins suggested hikers return in about two weeks—around May 5—when additional spring wildflowers will be in bloom. Harbor Country Hikers Partners With New Buffalo Elementary School On ‘Connecting with Nature’ Program Harbor Country Hikers and the New Buffalo Elementary School BASE program have joined forces to get students onto local trails. We will be presenting the program from a naturalist’s perspective during the third trimester at BASE. The nature hikes will take place on Thursdays from 4:45 to 5:45pm for 10 weeks, starting March 12. Since this time period spans the spring months and American National Wetlands Month (May), we will concentrate on observing the re-leafing of trees, awakening of the wildflowers and hibernators, and exploring the surrounding wetlands. This program will provide casual exposure to nature and promote trail safety and etiquette. New Buffalo Resident Plans to Hike Entire 2200-Mile Appalachian Trail Fred Jolly, who recently moved to New Buffalo, is planning to spend this summer hiking the entire length of the Appalachian Trail, from Georgia to Maine. The 62-year-old former Chicagoan recently visited all 59 national parks during a 2-1/2-year road trip. Though no stranger to hiking–Jolly has been on several HCH hikes–he admits to very little experience camping out on trails. He points out that the average age of those who walk the entire 2200-mile length of the Appalachian Trail is 29, and that fewer than 500 individuals 60 or older have completed the trail in its 81-year history. Jolly is hiking the trail in part to raise funds for the National Park Foundation, and is asking HCH members and others for their support. Donors can find out more at crowdrise.com/freds-athike or on his Facebook page, Fred R Jolly. If you’re interested in following Jolly’s progress, you can do so at his Facebook page, on his website, athike.jollyoutthere.com, or on Instagram @jollyoutthere. Jolly has agreed to give a talk to the Hikers about his experiences when he returns in the fall. In Like a Lion: Ice Formations of Lake Michigan This evening’s hike had some good news and some bad news. The bad news: a streak of unusually warm weather has melted most of the ice on the lakeshore. A collection of photos, most taken locally by President Pat Fisher, showed the most common ice formations, the hazards some represent and the protection they provide for our beaches. The good news: another terrific sunset with views of Chicago and the sun reflecting off the glass in the Willis Tower. (Photo by Pat Fisher) An Introduction to Off-Trail Hiking At least 15 hikers showed up for a cross-country, off-trail hike on the New Buffalo Elementary School and Turtle Creek preserves. No snow for snowshoeing, but the hikers were able to traverse the frozen wetlands without getting their feet wet. Hike leader and HCH President Pat Fisher pointed out natural features and winter plants. The pileated woodpeckers have been busy pecking at the trees. Hot Chocolate and wafer cookies were delivered at the end of the hike. (Photo by Janet Hayes) Clean Your Boots, Other Gear To Prevent Spread of Invasives Jared Harmon of SW X SW Corner Invasive Species Management Area writes: The New Year is a time where individuals make an effort to address their personal flaws or change their behavior to better themselves or the world around them. Many will attempt to make these changes but unfortunately most will falter and slip back into their former habits after a short time period. One change I encourage everyone to make this year is to be mindful of spreading invasive species into the natural areas they visit by decontaminating their gear and equipment when entering and leaving natural areas. When we think of the principle of “Leave No Trace” we often think that applies only to human recreational impact to the environment but we should also include the introduction of invasive species from human activity. Decontamination not only applies to hikers but includes cleaning off tires, gear, equipment, clothing, pets, and anything that comes into contact with soil that could contain seeds and pathogens. An easy way to decontaminate boots is to keep a hoof brush/pick or a simple boot brush in a hiking pack to use before and after a hike. The recent detection last summer of Japanese Stiltgrass on a trail in Niles demonstrates how important it is to decontaminate in order to protect our local ecosystems. The only other introduction of Japanese Stiltgrass in Michigan was in Ann Arbor with the closest populations being found in parts of Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana. New Year resolutions can be difficult to keep but decontamination takes only a couple minutes and is an important measure to protect the natural world that we enjoy so much. Sadly many gyms will soon be empty as resolutions are broken but fortunately keeping our gear and clothing clean is easy and requires little effort on our part. For more information, contact Harmon at jared.harmon@macd.org. January 6, 2018–Cross-Country Skiing At Love Creek County Park The Hikers’ first activity of the year was a cross-country ski trip to Love Creek County Park. Turnout was good, considering the weather–some experienced skiers, some first-timers. The trails were well-groomed with plenty of snow, though there was no wind and no falling snow while the group was there. Love Creek County Park a ‘Huge Destination’ For Cross-Country Skiers About our January 6 cross-country ski trip to Love Creek Park (see Events page), Mrs. Daniels of Porter Country, Ind. writes, “You say ‘this place is in the middle of nowhere’ but Love Creek County Park is a HUGE destination for us X-C skiers. Anyone who X-C skis knows that Love Creek is the only X-C ski facility, within a huge area, that grooms their trails for classic style and skating technique. We drive for hours in the winter to get to Love Creek. No place in NW Indiana grooms, nor other trails in Berrien County nor SE Chicagoland. The next X-C area that grooms is Madeline Bertrand Park in Niles and the adjoining park directly south on the Indiana state line and in Indiana–St. Patrick’s Park. A further drive for many of us. Love Creek rents X-C ski equipment, fat tire bicycles and snowshoes. We X-C skiers who wait in anticipation for Love Creek to open their winter trails have our own equipment. Enjoy the trails of Love Creek County Park; you should have plenty of snow.” New Cross Country Ski Trails in New Buffalo New Buffalo has some brand new cross-country ski trails on several blocks of undeveloped city right-of-ways, a portion of the New Buffalo Area Schools’ Nature Study Trails and Turtle Creek Preserve. Bring your own skis and be patient: this is a voluntary effort by local residents and friends. You can access these trails from the corners of Washington and Chicago or Eagle and Clay. Limited parking is available at New Buffalo’s Turtle Pond Nature Preserve. The trails are also accessible from the Elementary School, where more parking is available. The photo above was taken after our Christmas Eve snowfall. Imagine how nice they are with all the snow we’ve had since! Follow this link for maps and driving directions. (Scroll down for second map.) December 13, Night Hike at the New Buffalo Area Schools Nature Trails Despite chilly winds, 14 hikers showed up for our first night hike. HCH President Pat Fisher led the group past a network of ravines created when the prehistoric Lake Baroda broke through its banks and created rivers and streams headed ultimately for Lake Michigan. Fisher also spoke about ecological succession, how grasslands gave way to oak/hickory forests and, eventually, beech/maple climax forests. He also noted that many tree species native to climates further north could be found in Southwest Michigan. Cloudy skies prevented a look at the Geminid meteor shower, but after the hike, participants paused for a cup of hot chocolate and a talk by VP Stacey LaRocco on where to look for the meteors in coming days. When and if the clouds dissipate over the next day or two, look to the northeast sky, near the constellation Orion. In case you didn’t finish the grip on your hiking stick at the library last weekend (or if you’d like to try on your own), check out this video. November 19, The Great Marsh Trail The Hikers showed up for this trek to the Great Marsh in Beverly Shores, Indiana, but the birds…not so much. Hike leader Stacey LaRocco, HCH VP and Chikaming Open Lands Project Coordinator, explained how migratory birds use the Lake Michigan shoreline to help navigate on their way south, and how this helps funnel them into the marshes of Southwest Michigan and Northwest Indiana. After a cold front comes through, birds hitchhike on northerly winds, and this can lead to a large concentration of them on the lake’s southern shore. LaRocco also gave a brief history of the marsh. Early in the 20th century a real estate developer drained the marsh with a view to building high-end houses near the lake. Environmentalists blocked development, but only recently were the drainage channels blocked and the marsh restored. Exotic Fungus Threatens Local Oak Trees Oak wilt fungal spore mat courtesy of MSU Extension Oak wilt is an exotic fungal disease that impacts both red and white oaks but is particularly deadly to the red oak family. Oak wilt kills trees by clogging sapwood vessels and inhibiting the transport of water, and can kill red oaks as quickly as one to two months. Oak wilt has two methods of spreading and this is done by grafting through tree roots or transportation by beetles visiting wound sites on infected trees. The DNR recommends to not prune or damage oak trees from April through July when the beetles are most active. However, these beetles are known to be active when temperatures are above 40 degrees and will visit oaks as quickly as a few seconds after being damaged. If trees are to be pruned it is recommended to immediately cover the wound with latex paint or wound dressing. Symptoms of oak wilt include premature leaf drop in the summer, cracks in bark, and the presence of fungal pads. There are a number of pests and diseases that resemble oak wilt and it is recommended to consult a professional for identification and diagnoses. The best way to prevent this disease from further impacting our forests and landscapes is continual education of the public and proper tree management. For more information about oak wilt please contact me at jared.harmon@macd.org or DNR-FRD-Forest-Health@michigan.gov or by phone at (517) 284-5895. Oak Wilt in Michigan’s Forest Resource How To Identify, Prevent, and Control Oak Wilt October 21, Galien River County Park Thirty-five hikers. some from as far away as Utah, took advantage of a beautiful fall Saturday to walk the trails and boardwalks, and of course visit the canopy overlook, of the Galien River County Park in New Buffalo Township. Hike leader Kip Miller, naturalist with Berrien County Parks, pointed out ash trees that had fallen to the emerald ash borer and muskrat lodges built of cattails in park’s marsh. He also explained how the marsh waters rise and fall with the water levels of Lake Michigan. Saturday’s hike attracted our youngest hiker yet, Sean Nicka of Bridgman, pictured above with parents Emily and John. October 15, Chikaming Park and Preserve A small but hardy group of hikers braved a drizzly, windy day for a look at the flooded Galien River, swollen by heavy rains the day before. They discussed some future stewardship projects (more on this later) and took in the changing leaves at this outstanding park and preserve. What gives fall leaves their color? Turns out that despite all the hues we see on trees during this season, only three pigments color leaves: chlorophyll, carotenoid and anthocyan. Chlorophyll, of course, is the green chemical in plants that enables the conversion of sunlight and carbon dioxide into the energy that supports plant growth, stored as carbohydrates. An important byproduct of the process is most of the oxygen we breathe. Carotenoids are yellow and orange pigments, the same chemicals that color corn, carrots and bananas. Carotinoids are always present in leaves, but are masked by chlorophyll during the growing season. When trees stop producing chlorophyll in the fall, the carotenoids show through, and leaves turn yellow, orange and brown. Anthocyan is present in only some species, and is produced as a form of protection. It allows the plant to recover nutrients in the leaves before they fall off, and helps prepare the tree for the next growing season. Anthocyan is responsible for the bright shades of red, purple and crimson in maples, sassafras and sumac. September 30, Grand Mere Two dozen hikers hit the trails of Grand Mere State Park last Saturday, and got beautiful, early-fall weather for exploring this little-visited collection of landscapes found nowhere else in the world. Grand Mere contains three ancient lakes formed by glaciers 10,000 years ago. Originally, there were five, but two have filled in over the centuries and the remaining lakes will, too, eventually. The park includes a mile of Lake Michigan shoreline, backed by high dunes, and spectacular views. Its wetlands and dunes are significant for migrating waterfowl and songbirds. Grand Mere was made a National Natural Landmark in 1976. (Photo by Phil Eichas) September 17, Cherry Beach Janet Schrader, Harbor Country Hikers and Chikaming Parks Board Member, led hikers in a beach trash cleanup at Cherry Beach in Harbert. The stewardship project was part of a Great-Lakes-wide cleanup day sponsored by the Great Lakes Adopt-a-Beach program. After filling buckets with bottles, a few stranded beach toys and lots and lots of styrofoam, the hikers were treated to a typically spectacular Lake Michigan sunset. September 16, Hoadley Trail/Watkins Park Jared Harmon, Berrien Conservation District Invasive Species Specialist, led hikers through this Three Oaks trail, pointing out invasive plant and insect species along the way. The biggest threat invasive plant species like phragmites (a reed) and Japanese knotweed pose is that they crowd out native species that provide food and shelter for insects, small animals and birds. Insect invaders like the emerald ash borer already nearly have destroyed the native ash population, and the Asian longhorn beetle threatens maple trees, Harmon said. Oak wilt, an invasive fungus, could decimate the area’s oak trees. Chikaming Open Lands Executive Director Ryan Postema walked about 20 hikers through the process of trail construction. Postema said he tries to keep trails away from areas likely to get wet or muddy, and makes sure they lead hikers past interesting plant and geological features. His trails avoid endangered species and, when obstacles like streams get in the way, he looks for simple ways around or over them. The most important trail-making tools: pruning shears, loppers and rakes. Trail blazing, he told the group, refers to marking new trails, not constructing them. August 19, Warren Woods Warren Woods is the last remaining climax beech maple forest in Michigan. When early European settlers arrived in the area, this type of forest, now rare, was common. The climax beech maple forest is the final stage in an ecological succession that might start with weeds, progress to conifers, then oak hickory and finally beech maple–all over a period of centuries. The Harbor Country Hikers walked part of the 3-1/2 miles of trail in the 311-acre forest, and discussed plant and insect pests, deforestation, wetland draining and extinction of wildlife in Southwest Michigan. The conversation ended on a hopeful note, with an update on the successful reintroduction of wildlife and conservation practices that have kept it in our area. August 12, Jens Jensen Preserve & Pepperidge Dunes Nature Sanctuary Hikers got a beautiful Saturday afternoon for walking the trails at Jens Jensen Preserve (administered by Chikaming Open Lands) and the adjoining Pepperidge Dunes Nature Sanctuary (a property of the Michigan Nature Association). These two properties, connected by common trails, now densely forested, once lay at the bottom of Lake Chicago, a precursor of Lake Michigan. Lake Chicago, formed by a retreating glacier 11,000 to 13,000 years ago, once stretched 10 to 15 miles inland from the present-day Lake Michigan shore in Michigan, and covered all of Northwest Indiana and stretched as far west as La Grange, Illinois. Before the hike got underway, Dave Johnson, news editor of Harbor Country News, gave a brief talk on digital photography for nature photographers. August 5, Three Oaks Conservation Area Two dozen hikers followed trails through a prairie and woodlands at the Three Oaks Conservation Area last Saturday. The Conservation Area is part of an ancient lakebed. The lake, Lake Baroda, eventually drained into Lake Michigan, substantially raising its water level and creating several rivers in the process, including the Galien. Note that kids and teens are always welcome and encouraged to join HCH’s hikes, as long as they’re accompanied by an adult. So, bring the kids or grandkids for a few hours in nature. July 29, Grand Beach Marsh Chikaming Open Lands’ Grand Beach Marsh Preserve was a hit. More than 30 people walked the trail, and COL’s Casey Strueker and Stacey LaRocco helped set the scene with a talk about rare coastal plain marshes and the environments they create. Along the way, hikers sampled wintergreen leaves and wild blueberries, spotted ghostly Indian pipe and watched baby toads hop off the trail. Thanks to member Ellen Frankle for letting visitors park on her property near the Marsh. View harborcountryhikers’s profile on Facebook	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line879
__label__wiki	0.732824	0.732824	The South Australian Libs can't win with Redmond By Matthew Donovan \| 18 September 2012, 6:13pm \| comments \| The repeated blundering and political naiveté of South Australian Liberal leader Isobel Redmond is so abject, writes former Liberal candidate Matt Donovan, there is now no chance of her winning the next election. Former SA Opposition Leader Martin Hamilton-Smith and his successor Isobel Redmond. ALMOST CERTAINLY, the SA Liberal Party will not win Government with whoever takes Isobel Redmond's place as Opposition Leader. Then again, who would want the job now? That is, after Redmond has made the gaffe of all gaffes; a gaffe of such astonishing proportions that Liberal Party insiders have been left in a state of head-shaking bewilderment. Isobel Redmond said on Thursday that she would cut 20,000 public service jobs, before later retracting her statement. From The Advertiser (14/9/12): Yesterday, she indicated she would cut about one in four public servants - 20,000 full-time jobs - before later issuing a statement saying she had been mistaken and an independent razor gang would be charged with determining a number. Liberal MPs and powerbrokers today said the party could win the 2014 election under Ms Redmond. There are fears the comments will be used in a WorkChoices-style campaign at the next state poll. The despair is being felt across both factions of the party and by aspiring marginal seat MPs. Not only that, but news came out today that she ignored the (bleeding obvious) advice of her predecessor that putting a number on job cuts would be political suicide. From The Australian (18/9/12): SOUTH Australian Liberal Opposition Leader Isobel Redmond ignored warnings from her predecessor, Martin Hamilton-Smith, that putting a number on public service job cuts before the next election would be "political suicide", it has emerged. The Australian understands Mr Hamilton-Smith, the party's health spokesman, delivered his warning to the Liberal partyroom in April and pushed for the opposition to adopt as its policy an audit commission to recommend the number of job cuts after the next election, due in March 2014. Ms Redmond seemingly ignored this last week when she told reporters up to 35,000 public-sector jobs would be axed during the first term of a Redmond government. She retracted the announcement six hours later, after it had been reported across all media, and sought to reaffirm the party's commitment to Mr Hamilton-Smith's policy. Hamilton-Smith is right ― to come out and say that she will get rid of 20,000 to 35,000 public service jobs is akin to signing your own − and your Party's − death warrant. Sacking one in four workers from the State's biggest employer? In one thoughtless moment, Redmond the Destroyer has unleashed a wave of public apprehension that will keep the State Liberal party from winning government for at least another five years. This gaffe must have Labor popping champagne corks as they pre-celebrate yet another election win. You can see the ALP ads now: “Keep your job, vote Labor” “Redmond will put you on the street” “You will lose you job and your house with Liberal” “No matter what they say , they will slash jobs , you might be next” I thought of those in 60 seconds ― you can be assured that the Labor Party will do much better than that; just wait until you see the TV ads with sad faced children sleeping in a car because mummy and daddy lost their job and have now lost their home. It will be a bloodbath. Liberal power brokers must be pulling their hair out now and wondering what on earth can they do now. Considering that the SA Liberal Party is funded entirely with donations and fundraising, they need a good story to tell; they need a strong and competent leader with saleable policy that appeals to all voters ― after all, who would donate to a party that is going to lose the election. Now that Redmond has come out and said that 1 in 4 public service jobs will be going, that puts in doubt the votes from 10 per cent of the voting public, as well as their spouses and a proportion of their children, parents and other family members and friends. I would say that this gaffe alone will cost a minimum 100,000 votes and perhaps as many as 200,000. As Labor people say to me, they love Isobel Redmond ― she is their best ally. What this Liberal leader apparently does not understand is that Australia is gripped by the highest levels of household and mortgage debt ever. And with BHP shelving its Olympic Dam mine, and Isobel Redmond telling people that their jobs are no longer safe, then the secure warm feeling you have about your mortgage and the home that you and your family live in has suddenly become a nightmare of insecurity and dread ― as people start to wonder how they will survive, where they may sleep. So, how immediately bad is this for the Liberal opposition leader? Well, probably not as bad as some may think because, now that she has destroyed the chances of the SA Liberals winning the 2014 election, then who would want to take her job? The only options, as I see it, are Martin Hamilton-Smith, Iain Evans or Steven Marshall. If Hamilton-Smith or Evans take over, it means they will sandbag Marshall’s seat to keep him in Parliament and let him take over as opposition leader around 2016. Evans and Hamilton Smith should then resign and let the new blood into Parliament and possibly even Government in 2018…if they win. Chances are, they will lose 4 seats or more − including all the new blood like Steven Marshall and Rachel Sanderson − and be forced to use the 2018 election to recover some of those lost seats. Steven Marshall, John Gardner and Rachel Sanderson must all be fuming, now that their slim margins have now been whittled away by what must be one of the most stupid comments ever made by a current opposition leader. It seems she has as much regard to her marginal seat MPs in her own party as she does of people struggling to pay ever increasing household bills and mortgages in voter land. There is talk of an outsider taking over, although the spectre of a Campbell Newman style slash and burn leader taking over in South Australia would no doubt be used by the Labor Party in their campaigning after Redmond's comments. In any case, a new leader is definitely needed − or perhaps a new party − but whatever happens, people need work and families need hope; putting 20 000 people on the street in a volatile time will only cause unnecessary pain and suffering. What needs to be done is to grow the economy and give incentives to attract investment and growth. I suspect a challenge to Redmond is imminent ― but if it doesn’t come, then it can only mean that no one in the S.A. Liberal party believes they have a snowball's chance in hell of winning Government. POLITICS SOUTH AUSTRALIA Campbell Newman Iain Evans Isobel Redmond Liberal party Martin Hamilton-Smith Matt Donovan Matthew Donovan Olympic Dam South Australian politics Steven Marshall Recent articles by admin Remembering the Battle of Semakh 100 years on 5 October 2018, 4:30pm Commemorating the events of the Battle of Semakh in World War 1 is a recount passed ... 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__label__cc	0.725266	0.274734	Home/social network/Researchers found critical vulnerabilities in popular PGP and S / MIME email encryption protocols Researchers found critical vulnerabilities in popular PGP and S / MIME email encryption protocols They are popular among journalists, corporations and governments. A group of researchers on cybersecurity from three European universities reported new vulnerabilities in the basic protocols of e-mail encryption. Through the attack, attackers can inject malicious code into intercepted messages and steal messages from the user’s mailbox. The vulnerability concerns the PGP and S / MIME encryption protocols, and allows attackers to access, among other things, messages that have been sent in the past. The success of an attack depends on the implementation of the protocol in the specific client program. However, experts noted that many popular email clients are vulnerable, among them Apple Mail, Mail application on iOS, as well as Thunderbird and Outlook. If the message was sent through these programs and the attackers intercepted it, then due to the vulnerability they can add malicious HTML code to the letter, even before it reaches the recipient. When he opens the message, this code will send the attacker an open message text. As noted by The Verge, S / MIME encryption is popular among corporations and government, so an attack can affect many existing systems. Experts explainedthat while the vulnerability can only be protected by one method – do not use encrypted mail. Companies were advised to disable automatic encryption of messages on their own servers. In the human rights organization EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) also recommended to stop using PGP and S / MIME and go to messengers. Detailed information on the vulnerability was promised to be published on May 15.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line894
__label__cc	0.582744	0.417256	Top 10 Anime Girl with Silver Hair Anime Characters [Article Category] Ingoknox amazon jp Silver hair is associated with ageing, but in the anime world, characters practically can rock any hair color. Silver hair color is seen as a cool hair color to have, and the characters tend to have a cool, emotionless, and intelligent personality too. Nowadays, it seems to be a trend in real life as well, but the upkeep seems too difficult especially if you are blessed with dark hair. What’s there not to like about anime girls with silver hair? We bet there are many of you, like us, who are highly attracted to anime girls with silver hair, so we have compiled this list for you: 10. Laura Bodewig from IS: Infinite Stratos Aired: Jan. 2011 - Apr. 2011 Laura Bodewig is initially an antagonist in the story, but she later joins forces with Ichika Orimura. At the IS Academy, she is a first year transfer student who is also the IS Representative Candidate of Germany. As she was a super soldier created to be a weapon, she lacks the social skills of the average person. Laura Bodewig has a few unique qualities about her looks. Aside from the beautiful silver locks, her eyes are red and yellow, of which the latter is covered with a black eyepatch. Ichika had mentioned that Laura’s eyes are like gemstones. Among all the heroines, Laura is the shortest and most petite, which makes her the most fun-sized of all! Her petiteness gives her a doll-like appearance. 9. Nao Tomori from Charlotte Aired: Jul. 2015 - Sep. 2015 Nao Tomori is the Student Council President of Hoshinoumi Academy. Her brother, Kazuki Tomori, has the supernatural ability to make air vibrate. The siblings are raised by a single mother who have them transferred to a boarding school run by scientists who are researching about people with supernatural powers. This girl with silver hair is one of the main characters in Charlotte. Nao is a joyful girl who innocently enjoys using the camcorder to record proof of others’ supernatural abilities. Like her brother, she also has a supernatural ability, which is to become invisible to one person. 8. Tomoyo Sakagami from Clannad Aired: Oct. 2008 - Mar. 2008 Tomoyo looks like sweet girl with a gentle disposition but as the saying goes, do not judge a book by its cover. Tomoyo has a reputation for being violent and beating people up. She beats up some delinquents from her previous school which surprises Youhei, who then challenges her. Tomoyo defeats Youhei easily which shows that she is a tough fighter. It is always more refreshing to see a female character who is physically strong as opposed to one that is a damsel in distress. Her strength is frequently used as a gag in the anime. Sunohara often challenges Tomoyo for silly reasons, and then loses against her. We love strong female characters, so Tomoyo is easily one of our favorite anime girls with silver hair! 7. Eucliwood Hellscythe from Kore wa Zombie desu ka? (Is This a Zombie?) Aired: Jan. 2011 - Mar. 2011 Eucliwood Hellscythe is a necromancer. A boy named Ayumu Aikawa was killed by a serial killer. She then brought the boy back to life as a zombie, and they have lived together ever since. She has the very powerful ability to alter reality by making her words come true. Eucliwood can make a person die just by saying the word ‘die’, for example. Eucliwood Hellscythe looks like the quiet, cool type. She does not talk but communicates with others by writing on her notepad. The reason being that her powers are uncontrollable and dangerous. Besides refraining herself from speaking, she also wears armour to suppress her power. She appears emotionless but she is really a kind-hearted person. Since she is such a formidable character, it’s hard not to like this silver-haired girl! 6. Suigintou from Rozen Maiden Aired: Oct. 2004 - Dec. 2004 Suigintou seems like a gothic Lolita doll, and that’s because she is one. She is shown to have a sadistic personality with the strongest desire to win the Alice game as she wants to get her “Father” to notice her. Like Pinocchio, her “Father” is a dollmaker. Suigintou is not afraid to use whatever means in order to obtain victory in the game, even if the methods are brutal. Forget Barbie, Suigintou is the coolest and most beautiful doll there is! Her red eyes compliment her silver hair which give her a slightly creepy yet striking appearance. Her dark outfit also contrasts strongly with her silver hair. She stands out from the rest of the dolls in the anime as she is the only one who has wings. 5. Koneko Toujou from High School DxD In High School DxD, Koneko Toujou is a Nekomata. Nekomata are youkai which are cat-like. They look like humans for the most part, except for their feline ears and two tails. Now that sounds like a common design but Koneko is also a Nekoshou which is a rare and strongest variant of Nekomata. In her Nekomata form, Koneko looks cute with her white cat ears and tails which complement her beautiful silver hair. She is also capable to temporarily make herself grow older through the Shirone mode. Her name reflects who she is, as Koneko means ‘cat’, and she is certainly as cute as the creature! 4. Isla from Plastic Memories Aired: 2015 - Jun. 2015 Like many other anime girls with silver hair, Isla seems to be cold and emotionless. That’s because she is a Giftia, a type of robot said to be the most accurate imitation of human. The main difference between Giftia and humans is the lifespan. Unlike humans who can usually live until 70 years old, Giftia has a maximum lifespan of 81,920 hours. If a Giftia is not deactivated before their lifespan ends, it would become a “Wanderer” which acts on instinct and not memories, so they are often violent. Isla is innocent and does not seem to display much emotions, but she can get jealous easily when it comes to Tsukasa Mizugaki, who is her partner. Isla can be seen sporting two pigtails and wearing a white uniform with white boots. She is quite the fashionista, therefore making her one of our top favorite silver-haired anime girls! 3. Kyouko Kirigiri from Danganronpa: Kibou no Gakuen to Zetsubou no Koukousei The Animation Kyouko Kirigiri has a stoic personality and can be seen to be calm in most situations which would horrify others. It’s cool to see a character who is so level-headed and would not scream her head off in at the sight of a dead body. Unlike many other characters we have shown so far in this list, Kyouko is not the cute, petite type of character. She is tall and exudes an aura of elegance and sophistication. Her pale complexion matches her silver hair beautifully. Kyouko is very mysterious due to her amnesia so there is not much known about her. However, she is later revealed to have a cool family background! If you are interested in the identity of this mysterious silver-haired girl, you should totally check out Danganronpa. 2. Fremy Speeddraw from Rokka no Yuusha (Rokka: Braves of the Six Flowers) Fremy Speeddraw has a fragile and weak appearance, as if she has anemia. However, this is anime so she should not be mistaken as a weakling. She is one of the Braves of the Six Flowers which is a powerful group of 6 people selected by the Goddess of Fate to defeat the evil entity known as Majin. Therefore, you can expect Fremy to blow you away with her power! This frail beauty is half-human and half-Kyouma. Kyouma is a type of monster, and thankfully, Fremy looks like a human instead of an ugly monster. Fremy has a cold and mistrustful personality but deep within, her original personality is kind and caring. You need intelligence to pull off the cold and powerful personality, and as expected, Fremy is highly intelligent. Therefore, this nearly perfect being is among our favorite anime girls with silver hair! 1. Kanade Tachibana from Angel Beats Aired: Apr. 2010 - Jun. 2010 Kanade Tachibana is a student at Afterlife school and she is nicknamed Angel due to her unique abilities. She is not only skilled in hand-to-hand combat, but she has supernatural abilities which would be activated by voice. Among her abilities include being able to create a clone and create an invisible shield which is strong enough to deflect bullets. Besides that, she is the School’s Council President who is in charge of making sure that all the students are able to cope with their personal issues. Kanade is our top choice of anime girl with silver hair, mainly because of her beautiful silver hair. Yeah yeah, we get it, all the others have beautiful silver hair too, but Kanade’s hair seems to be slightly tinted with blue, so her hair color is often mistaken as blue in the Light Novel. She is truly an angel, don’t you think so? 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__label__wiki	0.878757	0.878757	Michigan football hires Mike MacDonald as the next defensive coordinator The former Facebook Exec shares Orwellian’s plan to purge the Conservatives of Bronson Stocking Russell Crowe defends his film “Master and Commander” on Twitter Troll – Deadline DHEC reports 4,584 new cases of COVID-19, 76 deaths on Sunday – WIS10 Apple is expanding its 13-inch MacBook Pro backlight repair program LA County has reported more than 1 million cases of coronavirus From cars to Armstrong Fans of the bills flood Lamar Jackson’s charity with donations Yellen to clarify that the United States is not looking for a weak dollar Home https://server7.kproxy.com/servlet/redirect.srv/sruj/smyrwpoii/p2/ Health https://server7.kproxy.com/servlet/redirect.srv/sruj/smyrwpoii/p2/ NC coronavirus update on November 30: Wake County facilitates test for COVID-19 NC coronavirus update on November 30: Wake County facilitates test for COVID-19 Health 0 Views RALEIGH, NC – Here are the latest updates on COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, in North Carolina. Questions about the COVID-19 vaccine? Send them to us here As temperatures drop, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services will issue automatic payments to help seniors and people with disabilities maintain heat. The state’s low-income energy assistance program will help eligible households pay their utility bills. The program begins on Tuesday, December 1, and is available to those who: are aged 60 or over or a person with a disability who receives services through the Department of Aging and Adult Services Anyone who is currently receiving Food and Nutrition Services and Anyone who has received a LIEAP in the 201 9-2020 season “More of our neighbors may face financial difficulties due to COVID-19, and this funding can help eligible households with heating costs this winter,” said NCDHHS Secretary Mandy Cohen, PhD. “We want to provide for the elderly and people with disabilities are healthy and safe during difficult times of the year. “ You must register for the program to receive payments. You can find information on how to apply here. 10 in the morning Raleigh’s bar was quoted as saying there were too many people inside after Sunday night’s shooting. Police found that the Rose Bar Sports Bar & Lounge exceeded the state’s maximum employment rule during COVID-19 after responding. Three people were injured. MONDAY MORNING STORIES Wake County simplifies the process to get a free test for COVID-19. You no longer need to fill out a detailed registration form before receiving a test. From Tuesday, to get a test in Wake County, just schedule an appointment online and bring an ID to the test site. Wake County also opened a new test site for COVID-19 on Tuesday. The site is at 5809 Departure Drive in Raleigh. Tests are available Tuesday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. this week. You do not need to register to take the test. The tests are still available in the Sunnybrook car park at 2925 Holston Ln. in Raleigh. United Airlines has begun delivering the first batches of the COVID-19 vaccine on charter flights. The United States currently has more than 13,300,000 cases of COVID-19, according to the Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center. North Carolina health officials reported another 3,820 cases of COVID-19, resulting in a total of 361,778. After 95% of hospitals reported, North Carolina set a new record in COVID-19 hospitals with 1,885. That’s 45 for Saturday. There are another 21 deaths from COVID-19 in the state, resulting in a total of 5,240. The percentage of positive state tests rose to 8.6% from 7.8% on Friday. Fauci: Expect similar travel restrictions with COVID, Christmas holiday tips 7:30 in the morning According to data from Johns Hopkins University in the United States, there have been 13,247,386 cases of COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic. Copyright © 2020 ABC11-WTVD-TV / DT. All rights reserved – The Associated Press contributed to this report. Los Angeles becomes the 1st U.S. district with 1 million cases of COVID-19 as the region confirms the 1st case of the UK COVID variant This is the best news about Moderna’s COVID vaccine	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line898
__label__wiki	0.835127	0.835127	The Duchess of Alba Gives Up $5 Billion for Love by Marissa Chen Over the past week we’ve had to contend with civilian riots in London, the collapse of global stock markets, bombings in Pakistan. But bless, isn’t it nice to know that amidst the doom and gloom of the modern world, a phenomenally wealthy person has found true love? But then, Spain’s Duchess of Alba has always been in a class all her own. There is, first of all, her name—María del Rosario Cayetana Paloma Alfonsa Victoria Eugenia Fernanda Teresa Francisca de Paula Lourdes Antonia Josefa Fausta Rita Castor Dorotea Santa Esperanza Fitz-James Stuart—which has doubtlessly served as inspiration for many a madrileño drinking game since her coronation in 1955. And throughout her life, the Duchess has made headlines for over-the-topness that could put the current uproar over Kate Middleton’s vacation wardrobe to shame. Her lavish wedding to the Duke of Sotomayer in 1947 was one of the most expensive in history. Then she had the gall to marry a Jesuit priest. Oh, and she possesses the most number of titles ever bestowed upon a single living royal (47), including the Queen of England. A distant relative of the late Princess Diana and a runner-up on Vanity Fair’s Best-Dressed List in 2009, these days the Duchess, 85, has reclaimed the limelight once more by boldly relinquishing her $5 billion fortune to marry civil servant Alfonso Diez. If you’re rich, how else do you prove your love? The inheritance, which includes a cluster of palaces and a priceless collection of Rembrandt paintings, will be divided among her six children and eight grandchildren.”Alfonso doesn’t want anything,” the Duchess insisted proudly in an interview earlier this year, “All he wants is me.” Her decision was made in response to protests from the younger royals. Apparently, the age gap between their mother and Alfonso was enough to cause concern that the latter may be a gold-digging toy boy. He’s 61. 08.11.2011 – Hint Blog / Alfonso Diez / Duchess of Alba / fortune / heir / inheritance / Kate Middleton / love / marriage / marry / Princess Diana / Queen of England / Rembrandt / Spain / title	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line903
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__label__wiki	0.953571	0.953571	The BlackSheep Podcast HM Live Memphis May Fire’s new album a big sales hit July 9, 2012 By Doug Van Pelt Memphis May Fire’s Challenger Cracks the Billboard Top 20, Landing At #16 In Its Debut Week Catch MMF on Vans Warped Tour All Summer Long Dallas, TX’s Memphis May Fire’s latest Rise Records LP, Challenger, made an impressive debut last week, landing in the Top 20 at #16. The band’s follow-up to 2011’s The Hollow also reached #3 on the Top Hard Music chart and #3 on the Indie chart. Memphis May Fire is currently canvassing the country as part of the 2012 Vans Warped Tour where they continue to build on their rabid and rapidly growing fan base. Challenger features guest appearances by Sleeping with Sirens’ Kellin Quinn and Asking Alexandria’s Danny Worsnop. As front man Matty Mullins explains, “Challenger is a crystal clear representation of our growth as a band. It’s heavier than anything we’ve done before & packed full of the most honest & transparent lyrics I’ve ever written. Catch Memphis May Fire (with new guitarist Anthony Sepe) on the entire Vans Warped Tour this summer. Memphis May Fire is: Vocals: Matty Mullins Guitar: Kellen McGregor Drums: Jake Garland Guitar: Anthony Sepe Bass: Cory Elder www.facebook.com/MemphisMayFire www.riserecords.com The Space for Rebirth On Age of the Abstract's new EP, 'Rebirth,' the duo explores what a new sound looks like apart from the day-job in Canidria. Here, contributing writer Andrew Voigt talks with Julio Arias about influence, vision, and how writing in the wake of his father's death propelled the band forward. By Andrew Voigt Full Feature More from Age of the Abstract In a World of Hurt ...a kind word goes a long way. "When it comes to writing and music, these are the gifts God has given me and that’s what I want to use to further the Kingdom and return those things back to God." Full Feature More from Earth Groans Droning On The world came to a halt in 2020, but London-based Drones trudged on, giving a voice to the hurt that circulates with (or without) a pandemic: "You shouldn’t underestimate the power of writing things down or literally speaking them out loud, which I’m learning. I’m glad I made these songs, no matter how personal they are." By Danielle Martin Full Feature More from Drones Changing Focus When Weathered wrote their debut album, 'Stranger Here,' it was an introspective take on life as they knew it. The appropriate way to follow it up? Turn the mirror around and tell the stories of those around you. Full Feature More from Weathered Vols. 6 and 7 United We Skate Review by Nao Lewandowski Everything in Slow Motion Browse HM About HM Magazine HM is an online magazine dedicated to honestly and accurately covering the current state of heavy music. Read more about us » letters@hmmagazine.com Subscribe to our world-class newsletter. ©1985–2021 HM Magazine. All rights reserved. Site design and development by David Stagg.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line907
__label__cc	0.533925	0.466075	Ex-Met Detective John Wedger provides final nail in Hampstead SRA hoax coffin Over the past year and a half, we’ve noticed that a former Metropolitan police officer, Jonathan Wedger, has been peddling tales of “police corruption at the highest levels” to almost anyone who’ll listen. Mr Wedger has been quoted extensively in the tabloids, as well as by Brian Gerrish of UK Column, making claims that the Met deliberately covers up the sexual abuse of children. He has also stated that he now suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of the bullying he received when he attempted to bring this situation to the attention of his senior officers. Following some time on sick leave, he has now been dismissed from the force and is attempting to sue for psychiatric injury. We have our own opinions of his allegations, which we will share at a later time. However, today we’d like to talk about ex-DC Wedger’s contribution to closing the police investigation into the Hampstead SRA hoax. We can now reveal that in September 2014 ex-DC Wedger played a small but critical role in ensuring that the police were aware that the claims made by Ella Draper and Abraham Christie were in fact a complete—and intentional—hoax. Who let the cat out of the bag? Long-time readers might recall that Abraham and Ella wrote to a well-known and influential troofer on 11 September 2014. The email, addressed to Brian Gerrish of the UK Column, was a laundry list, setting out all the salacious details which Gerrish would be able to publicise if he backed the hoax. It was meant to tempt him into joining in, but in fact it had the opposite effect. This tweet from Drifloud on 8 March 2016 contains the email, and indicates that it was sent only to Gerrish: Keep in mind that this email was sent while the Hampstead case was still under active investigation by the Child Abuse Investigation Team (CAIT). In a YouTube comment in early 2016, Abraham and Ella complained bitterly that this email had been sent, via a circuitous route, to DC Steve Martin, who was then working on the Hampstead investigation. Here’s what Abrella said: On or around the 16th of September 2014 Steve Martin received an email that had “found it’s (sic) way to S.O.E.C.A. (Sexual Offences, Exploitation and Child Abuse) via D.P.S. (Directorate of Professional Standards)” The sender explains that having read the contents of said email it appeared “IDENTICAL to a current investigation of yours 2419891/14 concerning allegations of sexual and ritual abuse at Christchurch Primary School.” “The email appears to be one in (sic) the same sent by the MOTHER TO THE INFORMANT and the contents appear on your CRIS.” BRIAN GERRISH of UK Column was the ONLY person to have received that email/file from the mother on the 11th of September 2014 . But ,but Brian couldn’t be the informant , he sent the email to Bill Maloney on 15-09-14 who sent it to Nathan ‘NumNuts’ Wedger who sent it to P.C. Paul Armstrong, who in turn sent it to Anna Bewley at D.P.S. H.Q. saying that he’d received a disturbing email which includes serious allegations of wrongdoing by MPS officers … Then via two internal D.P.S. emails from Anne and PC Craig Langley the email “found it’s (sic) way” to DC Victoria BARNES SC&036 -SOECA LIT 29th Floor (East Block), Empress State Building, and thence back to Steve Martin , who had the original email from the original INFORMANT, which as Vicky noted was already in Steve’s CRIS report. Q. Name original informant, AAND (sic) subsequent informants used to distract from original informant. For a bonus prize explain why Brian never said a word about the case till MSM’s attempted hatchet job on the Whistleblowers, ella & abe and WHY BILL MALONEY HAS SAID F-CK ALL. nemesis )+( nerd Shortly after posting the above comment, Abrella wrote on the same YouTube comments thread, Bill Maloney in an interview with Lou Collins .(connected to Danielle la Verite)speaks out about the tattoo on Leon Brittan’s pubenda (sic!) that a victim (Andrew) of Leon Brittan described and drew during an interview with a newspaer (sic) almost 2 years ago , so when Maloney and Gerrish received Ella’s email describing the Tattoos and distinguishing marks on the cult members (sic) pubenda (even more sic) they were well aware of this corroborating the testimony of Leon Brittan’s victim. Why then have neither of them said anything apart from the few times that Gerrish mentions the case on UK Column when the MSM had attempted a hatchet job on Abe and Ella, and he had to say something ? Now it’s clear why the info re Tattoos was buried buy (sic) Maloney, Gerrish AND the police and exposes Maloney and Gerrish as Shills ! Quite apart from the fact that Maloney passed the email onto a Nathan “NUMNUTS” (sic) Wedger a known police informant ; and the email eventually “found it’s (sic) way” to investigating/cover up Freemason, DS Steve Martin. mmmmmm… Abe and Ella were aware of the path which the Gerrish email took, since they were now in possession of Ella’s court bundle, turned over to her by her solicitors when she sacked them in December 2014. But why were they so angry that Nathan “Numnuts” Wedger had sent it to the police? Who is Nathan ‘Numnuts’ Wedger? Despite our best efforts, we were unable to determine the identity of Nathan “Numnuts” Wedger, the “known police informant” who bridged the gap between Bill Maloney and PC Paul Armstrong. However, when a recent interview between Lou Collins (yes, she’s back!) and ex-DC Jonathan Wedger came to our attention, we wondered: how common a surname is “Wedger”? And could this former cop have had anything to do with unveiling the true purpose of the Hampstead SRA hoax? As it turned out, Wedger is not a very common surname, and the only “Nathan” we found would have been a young teenager in 2014, so unlikely to have been involved in this case. However, we did discover that someone else named Nathan Wedger has a mostly unused Pinterest account: He has only one follower, whom he follows back: And looking at his account URL reveals something even more interesting: So we knew that someone named “Nathan Wedger”, with a friend named Tasha Leach, uses the online tag “numnut2009”. After a bit of digging through public records, we discovered that Ms Leach’s maiden name was “Wedger”, and she has a twin brother: Jonathan. It was at this point that the obvious struck us between the eyes: remove the letters “Jo-” from “Jonathan”, and you have…. In our searches we found a few confirmatory details: Jonathan and Natasha Wedger were born in 1970 in London. In his interviews, ex-DC John Wedger has stated that he is 47 years old. And on a site called Healer Practitioner Association International, we found a “Jon Wedger” using the email address <numnut2009@hotmail.co.uk>: Jon Wedger, “healer practitioner”, gives his address as Hemel Hempstead; ex-DC John Wedger mentions that he lives in Hemel Hempstead as well. Now we only needed to confirm the connection between Jonathan Wedger and Bill Maloney. As it turns out, Mr Wedger mentions Bill several times in his interview with Lou Collins. In fact, at one point in the second part of the interview, he mentions that he and Bill are good friends, and says he’s known him at least eight years. Ex-DC Wedger cracks the case Suddenly, the chain between Brian Gerrish and DC Steve Martin becomes crystal clear. On 9 September, the CAIT team receives the content of an email from “the informant”—Abraham’s brother-in-law Jean-Clement Yaohirou—which is logged in the CRIS report: The content of this email is virtually identical to the email which Abe and Ella would send to Gerrish on 11 September, the same day the children were taken into protective custody. In fact, the children were taken into custody shortly after 7 p.m., and the email was sent to Gerrish at about 10 p.m. This was also three days after Gerrish had sent one of his colleagues, Finn Hagan, to check out the children’s stories. It’s difficult to say whether Gerrish remained unconvinced by Finn’s account of the visit, or Abe was sending the email in an attempt to stir up interest in the story before word got out that he and Ella had coached and abused the children. On 15 September, Gerrish forwards the email to his friend Bill Maloney, perhaps wishing for a second opinion as to whether he should get behind Abe and Ella. Maloney, also concerned, sends the email to his trusted friend at the Met, DC Jonathan Wedger. Surely he’ll know how to deal with something like this? Ex-DC Wedger has stated that he began “whistle-blowing” in 2014, and was put on sick leave, which explains why Maloney sent the email to his personal email address, “Nathan Wedger” at <numnut2009@hotmail.co.uk>. Abe would later notice this detail and add it to his angry comment, possibly in an attempt to humiliate “Nathan Wedger”, who he blamed for alerting police to the hoax. Ex-DC Wedger, realising that this email contains very serious allegations which ought to be investigated, forwards it to another officer, PC Paul Armstrong, who in turn sends it to Anna Bewley, who works in the Directorate of Professional Standards (DPS) at the Met. From there, the email proceeds to DC Victoria Barnes at the Sexual Offences, Exploitation and Child Abuse (SOECA) unit. DC Barnes recognises the details contained in the Gerrish email as identical to those in a case currently under investigation by the CAIT, and so she forwards it to DC Steve Martin on 18 September 2014. This is recorded in the CRIS: At this point, DC Martin has received one email from the original informant—Jean-Clement Yaohirou—forwarding an email J-C received from Abe and Ella. And now, nine days later, he receives a second, identical email, originating not with Jean-Clement or even with Ella, but with two known conspiracy theorists, Brian Gerrish and Bill Maloney. And he can see from the email address that it had been sent to Gerrish by none other than “hempstarsdynamics”…that is to say, Abraham Christie. (Oh, and did we mention that DC Martin already knows Abraham from a previous encounter, when Abe assaulted his own son?) Abe and Ella were clearly attempting to hawk the children’s story round to Gerrish while the police investigation was in progress. Anyone who has ever been involved in a criminal investigation will be well aware of the police warning not to discuss the case with anyone else, lest the evidence be contaminated, and the case destroyed in court. Yet Ella and Abe were not just discussing the case, they were sending details of it to Gerrish, in a kind of “troofer news release”. If you were DC Martin, do you think you might have smelt a rat at this point? If Ella and Abe had all this information about the alleged cult, why had they not immediately reported it to the police? Why would they have sent this information to Gerrish instead? And why did they send it to Gerrish within hours of the children being taken into police custody? If their aim was to shut down a cult, why would they interfere in the investigation in this way? Could it have been because they were in the process of attempting to engineer a gigantic publicity stunt? While the bulk of the police investigation had already taken place by the time the Gerrish email reached DC Martin’s desk, the email would have provided the proverbial icing on the cake. It would have demonstrated conclusively that this case, as Ella would later admit, had never been meant to reach the police and CPS. It was a hoax through and through. And sure enough, in the closing pages of the CRIS report, we find this notation: By the end of the police investigation, the Gerrish email had made one thing very clear: the police were onto Abraham. They understood that this wasn’t about “saving children”, but about attracting attention from the conspiracy community. And for this final nail in the Hampstead SRA investigation’s coffin, we can thank ex-DC Jonathan Wedger. We can now give him full credit: whether intentionally or not, he helped to demonstrate the real nature of the Hampstead SRA hoax, and bring the investigation to its rightful conclusion. 02/01/2018 in Investigating the hoax. Tags: Abraham Christie, Bill Maloney, Brian Gerrish, criminal charges, Ella Draper, Jean-Clement Yaohirou, Jonathan Wedger, police investigation How credible are ex-police detective Jonathan Wedger’s corruption allegations? Gerrish admits: ‘Involved’ with Hampstead SRA hoax from ‘earliest days’ Why did Maloney spurn the Hampstead SRA hoax? ← Happy New Year! from all of us at Hoaxtead Research How credible are ex-police detective Jonathan Wedger’s corruption allegations? → 168 thoughts on “Ex-Met Detective John Wedger provides final nail in Hampstead SRA hoax coffin” The Sole of Justice says: Judging by that last notation about Abraham, that he was circulating interviews of the children and might continue, it’s clear that the police understood the meaning of the Gerrish email. What I don’t understand is why they didn’t pick Abe up on this basis, even if they couldn’t arrest him for child abuse since he’d made the kids say he only hit them when they were not on British soil? Surely circulating videos of the children would have been illegal too? Old Rat Watcher says: Something about the CRIS that hadn’t really hit home for me before: the “Inft” or “informant” was Jean-Clement. Any information given to police seems to have come from him, not from Ella. Of course this makes sense, as she has said they never expected the case to go to the CPS, but this makes it brutally clear. The children’s mother didn’t go to police to report their alleged abuse. That was left to her boyfriend’s brother-in-law. Pretty effed up if you ask me. Good reporting EC. It seems to me that ex DC Wedger did the right thing by forwarding the email to the police, as would be expected from someone with his experience. As you said, he might not have intended it, but he showed Abe up good and proper. I listened to the Wedger/Collins interview. Note to Lou Collins. Learn to say ‘Haut de la Garenne’ properly. That’s what a real journalist would do. Thanks, Fnord! I wonder how Lou will like knowing that her friend was the one who showed Abe and Ella for what they are? And may I add some more advice to Lou? Stop snuffling and snorting like an old steam engine while your interviewee is talking. Also, an interview is not a good time to decide to rearrange your pots and pans. #ProTip Yes, re-reading the CRIS after all this time is enlightening. Details that might have seemed inconsequential in the past really leap out at one. That’s a good point, and I don’t know the answer. Clearly, if they knew he was going to circulate the children’s videos, they ought to have acted at that time, whether by arresting him or by placing some sort of restraining order on him. We don’t know that that didn’t happen though, since the only material we have available to us has been put online by Abe, Ella, or Sabine. Anything which doesn’t fit their controlled narrative has simply been withheld. It all seems to move so slowly and I think they’d have picked Abe up eventually if he’d hung about. He knew that and that’s one of the reasons he sodded off to Spain or Russia or wherever he is. Personally I think he’s on that island with Patrick Cullinane, making plans to overthrow the New World Order, whilst listening to Elvis, still crooning from his zimmer frame. Laughing at Abrella calling Wedger a ‘police informant’. What do they expect an experienced copper to do with info like that? He’s bound to pass it on isn’t he? Anyway, there’ll be no love lost between someone like Abe (thirty plus previous convictions) and Wedger who was a seasoned Police Officer. I don’t think that Abe realised Wedger was a copper. Maloney sent the email to ex-DC Wedger’s “civilian” email address, as they were friends and he wouldn’t have used his work address. So all Abe would have seen was the “numnuts2009” address, and the name “Nathan”, which Mr Wedger seemed to use online, probably to avoid recognition as a police officer. I think Abe called him “a known police informant” because as a lifelong criminal himself, that was one of the worst things he could call someone. He added the “numnuts” thing as a nasty jibe, I think. “It all seems to move so slowly and I think they’d have picked Abe up eventually if he’d hung about. He knew that and that’s one of the reasons he sodded off to Spain or Russia or wherever he is.” Yes, I remember that Abe buggered off right away quick after the kids were taken into care. I remember people on the Icke Forums talking about how he’d basically abandoned Ella. I think he came back early in 2015 when it looked like the cops weren’t going to do anything. ‘If Ella and Abe had all this information about the alleged cult, why had they not immediately reported it to the police? Why would they have sent this information to Gerrish instead? And why did they send it to Gerrish within hours of the children being taken into police custody? If their aim was to shut down a cult, why would they interfere in the investigation in this way?’ Because they’re troofers and paranoid? From what I’ve read they didn’t intend to take the matter to the police in the first place. Once the police got hold of it they knew they were in trouble. They were panicking and looking for backup from the Conspiracy community who, unlike the Police, would swallow the hoax all the way. They were interfering with the police investigation on other occasions too – like when they took the kids for a taxi ride round to identify houses the night BEFORE the police intended to do it. Not that they were coaching the kids in what to say or do or anything. (That’s sarcasm) As I recall the taxi driver was so disturbed at Abe’s behaviour towards the girl that he called the police and reported him. Yes, that’s right. And I think you’re absolutely right about why they sent the Gerrish email in the first place: they knew they were in deep trouble, the kids would probably retract as soon as they were out of Abe’s clutches, and they wanted to call in the conspiracy community to put up a stink and act as a diversion. I get it! Thank you for clarification. He called him a known police informant, in my opinion, because the oft convicted Abraham Christie couldn’t conceive of someone informing the police of something and being an informant as anything other than how he views it as a criminal. Providing information to police as a concenrned citizen vs dirty secret grass. Victim/witness/informant is just how things are recorded on the CRIS records. I have just loooked up a few FOI responses from the MPS. I have called 999 on occasion so I am sure I will be recorded as an informant. It bothers me not. Of course, Abraham isn’t exactly blessed in the brains department. I think the police may have known that Abraham was circulating the videos, because he was, and one of the parents went to the police themselves when they found out. That is according to Abraham at least. This means that right at the very beginning he was sending the videos out to people who were not part of the police investigation. I believe that Abrella might counter that the authorities never intended the case to be prosecuted, but that they did. Why they were looking up conspiracists in Morocco is odd though, right. They failed to convince the court it was true on the lower civil standard mind. And they cared so much that Abraham turned up outside the court, cunningly disguised in an ill fitting suit, in an area well covered by CCTV, frequented by police, making a spectacle, with banners, probably even used his oyster to get there. Apparently, actually going inside and giving evidence scared the little man witless though. https://maps.met.police.uk/globalassets/foi-media/policies/covert-human-intelligence-sources—policy I had forgotten all about the taxi driver being disturbed at Abe’s behaviour towards the girl that night and reporting him for it. This post was some good detective work, EC. Costa can only dream about such excellent dot-joining, as hers is so poor, it’s laughable. Thanks, Jake. I do wonder how many of those currently pushing Mr Wedger (Costa included) are aware of his role in the Hampstead hoax? Yes, a bit like Georgie Porgy—running away at first sign of danger. They wouldn’t be pushing him if they did. Cassie Crowhurst was championing him in her videos too. Yes, I expect he’s just modest and didn’t want to take credit for upsetting the Hampstead hoax applecart, LOL. 😀 Frickin’ BRILLIANT! Totally excellent work – you and your team are Champions 🙂 This is what I do, when postings here make me happy & excited…I post back a music video that makes me happy & excited. Like this one! 🙂 Thanks so much, Justin! 😀 Great choice! 🙂 Here’s a vaguely related post-script… Early in 2015, I believe, I went to the Exaro site and posted a long comment in which I stated flatly that some “retired” and some currently serving Met officers must be conspiranoid True Believers totally sucked in by the likes of David Icke etc. Of course, I had no idea WHO those persons might be…but I felt so certain that this was the case. And that it had to be stated publicly. And that no one else was saying it! So I did. I was hanging out on another blog’s comments at that time. I sent that person an email, telling him that I’d gone to the Lion’s Den and yelled: BOO!! (metaphorically), just to see what might come scurrying out. And I did learn some things from that, though not directly. Well, you were right on the money, Justin. It certainly seems that in some respects, Mr Wedger has swallowed the conspiranoid line. I am not wholly unsympathetic to him, as he seems to have gone through a great deal in his career which would cause severe psychological stress in almost anyone. But he seems to add one plus one and come up with 42 in some cases. More on this to follow! There were/are others. I had no idea about this one until you started talking about him. You know that I’m patient enough to wait weeks, months, even years for the right time & place to “speak out”. When the right time comes… Am I alone in thinking using words like “Main action” denote a sort of flippant attitude that demonstrates a lack of seriousness in the supposed subject of murdered children? No, you’re not alone. Abe and Ella treated this as if they were producing a particularly bad television show. Which they were, in a way. Bill Maloney was with Jon Wedger at the Whiteflower’s meeting at Parliament in January 2015. I know as I saw them together there. Lou Collins confirmed the pair were “mates” the other day on one of her posts where she was complaining that none of her real friends were sharing her video/s of Jon Wedger. I haven’t listened to the latest video, but I did listen to the one Gerrish did in July 2016 so I don’t know if it’s any different or has added contents. Is Mr. Wedger “dodgy” as Baloney sure is? That’s a hard question to answer, worth a post of its own. The short version, I suppose, is that while Mr Wedger did some exemplary work in a tough job, some of the statements he’s made left us scratching our heads. It seems as though perhaps he’s spent a bit too much time in the company of troofers, and some of it has rubbed off on him. Nice work, EC. Interesting about Wedger’s involvement in Hampstead. Kristie Sue will love that! That’s how she latched on to Cassie – it was her video about Wedger that started the whole Cassie phenomenon: (Thanks to Jake Blake for jogging my memory on this video in his comment higher up the page.) It’s also on YT, btw: What an idiot… Deluded newbie obviously… Fascinating finds, Jake. What a deranged personage 😮 Thanks for sharing. Will add those to the Random Twats & Psychos collection. Drifloud’s appalling grammar is making me sic. Nice reveals, EC! And superbly analysed. Oh dear, only 3 years late to the party. Why should/would the father make videos?? And Ella has long forgotten about all her children imo. Dammit, EC – you’ve pipped Kristie Sue to that oh so coveted award again! I’d love to see Kristie Sue’s explanation as to why Abe & Ella blatantly scuppered the police investigation by leaking the details to an alt news channel. I doubt we’ll get one, though. Just finished reading this and seriously, EC, you’ve surpassed yourself with this one. This will go down as a classic ‘boom’ moment, I reckon. What a promising start to the new year! That’s a sobering thought, EC. God knows what else could be out there that could potentially blow the lid on this blatant hoax (again). Actually, Elvis is on that island with them, so listening to him is easier than you might think. Personally, I reckon he’s behind the whole thing, uh-huh. Oh, how interesting! I don’t think I knew about him doing a bunk without Ella (or I’d forgotten about it – hedgehogs have notoriously short memories). The plot, as they say, thickens! Reame Ember-Sandlings says: And did Abe also kiss the girls and make them cry? The truth is out there. Bill McLooney says: @Fnord Baloney always had trouble pronouncing that too, to hilarious effect. So, Baloney always said he was working closely with the Met. Could this be what he meant? Danielle and Lou had an insy-winsy fallout over Hampstead in March 2015 and it precipitated Danielle’s gradual isolation from the troofer community. She was then trolled heavily over her refusal to believe the hype and over her character assassination of Ella. Christ, when even someone who believes that Cliff Richard fertilises his vineyards with the bodies of murdered babies calls bullshit, alarm bells should ring! You’ll never know how close this blog came to being called Scamden Research 😀 Blimey, at 3:08 Danielle echoes what EC says about not wanting to discuss the case in case it scuppered any court proceedings. And at 4:49 she says that the children’s anonymity should have been protected for their own safety. And at 5:18 she describes Abe as “shifty as fuck” 😀 I hate to say it (seeing as she has so much else to answer to) but in this instance fair play to her! The greasy one will be gutted too, as he’s only just latched on to the Wedger thing and has been promoting it on his blog that no one reads 😀 Sorry, GoS, I posted mine below before I saw yours. Seems Spiny’s mind-reading skills have rubbed off on you! Great Minds think alike and they gather here to present the truth, Last I checked, Angela was the accuser of the people. Angie's Playlist says: I always have sympathy for policeman as they can often see the most terrible things involving humans and can be severely affected by it. So hated their attacks on Cliff Richard. Never a fan of his music but he strikes me as a genuine and extremely nice person who is very sincere in his Christian beliefs. But as usual when someone won’t reveal their personal life (why should they?) some people assume the worst. Given Abe’s 30 plus convictions why hasn’t he been deported as an undesirable alien? Morocco isn’t part of the EU so why has he been able to remain so long in the UK breaking the law? Mind you I’ve been to Morocco numerous times and have always liked the people so it would be a shame they were saddled with him as well. Then again they have Hope Girl, another scam artist. EC has won many awards as you & I have shown. I hear he’s up for the much coveted Koala Gold Badge but don’t tell anyone as it’s a surprise. The silly woman can’t even get the basic facts right- ones that those on opposite sides don’t dispute, so this new revelation with the ex-copper will probably throw her for six. What a strange life she is leading. Living in a US state and absolutely obsessed with an imaginary hoax in the UK. Out of curiosity, did you ever meet him? So Abe was an immigrant to the UK? I must admit I didn’t know that. But since he was “invited” in by the real Met to attend an interview re the disastrous “Nick” allegations I think Mr Maloney is now following a new interest. Something safe like lawn bowls or similar. And as for the charming Mr Fay, there is no love lost between those two. Always sad to see such close friend fall out. Angie should just cut to the chase and accompany every post with “please send me a fiver”. Sorry if we’ve already had these but this is Lou Collins’ interview with Wedger (it’s in two parts): Terri Stewart – the British Government is NOT accountable to people in Indiana or other parts of America. You put a stop to this when you dumped our tea in the dock in Boston. Sod off and sort America’s problems out. This. What does she do all day? She’s a mother and a wife…. how much time does she actually spend on being those things? To be honest, I feel sorry for her family – can you imagine what it must be like to live with an obsessive. Moreover, a person whose obsessions are the vilest, sickest, weirdest things that human beings can do, pretty much. And bad enough it they’re true (best left to the professionals imo), but what a total waste of time, that could be spent hanging out with your kids and partner, rather than discussing sodomy and satanism with your fake friends on the internet. Weird doesn’t really cover it. Unless you want a one world Government of course in which case ‘we the people’ will be everyone. hahahahahahahahahahahahha He’s British, more’s the pity. I think the above post refers to Morocco letting him lounge about there. Difficult to hate Cassie but boy, is she one of the most annoying you tubers to date. Imagine living with her !. Yes, thanks! We’re planning to discuss those on tomorrow’s blog. Gerrish really has had a charisma bypass. Always have to give thanks to those with stronger stomachs who can sit through the mind-numbing boring presentations. Now Mad Moo- she’s like a performance artist with a stunning climax. What a brilliant post to start the new year with, well done indeed EC. Great piece of detective work that you have done here, the Met could do with your skills. Thanks, AP! Glad you like it. 🙂 A classic video there featuring ole Wiggy. I must make a point of going back and re-watching the old videos made by friends of Hoaxtead Research. Their attacks on Cliff Richard are still ongoing. The truthers believe that he was a visitor at the Elm Guest House and is nick-named Kitty. Yet another made up story that the fruitloops all fell for. I agree with JS in that what you have done here is fantastic EC. An excellent piece of detective work showing us how you got to where you did. How the troofers must wish they had your intelligence. Yes that’s a good point GOS. I was just saying to a friend recently about how at times i may slag the police off but whenever there is trouble or people need help then the police are there for them. If a bomb goes off everybody runs from the scene but the police have to be brave enough to run towards the scene without knowing what dangers they may encounter there. Thanks, WW. 🙂 I certainly do like it EC 🙂 You never fail to impress me with your detective skills and your writing. Thanks for that. I hadn’t heard that one, I had only heard the Gerrish interview. He said something interesting about spotting a child who is lying and knowing when a mother has made a child say things about their dad. Wonderful delving and reportage EC and team. There is an immense chasm between the balanced,objective analysis witnessed here and the imagined output of peddlers of perversion who unconscionably use children as human shields to play out their vile,loathsome and entirely inept charades. A wee spoon based tunette to celebrate wolf moon and the inevitable turning of the screws.Productive and resonant howlings one and all. 🙂 Yes, Abe is a UK citizen. He took the kids to Morocco to bully them into saying what they did. At one point in the police interview the little girl is asked where they were when Abe hit them. She is very careful to say “only Morocco”; this is because Abe drilled it into them that they must not say he ever hit them while they were in England. He was well aware he’d be up on charges if that came out. It makes me happy to see Dave Grohl – and even more so, Pat Smear – prospering 🙂 Because I remember all the way back to The Germs and even farther. In a way Pat represents for me a redemption for all the failed gutter-punks who crashed & burned along the way, like Darby. I doubt he sees himself that way, but… Yes, EC. I couldn’t agree with you more on that description of Wedger. Well said. Excellent choice, Mik and a happy new year to you. May your gifs run-a-plenty this year. 🙂 I’ve met him twice, briefly for promotions. Very friendly and not all ‘starry’- will chat to anyone. My mistake. He’s quite dark so I always assumed he was Moroccan seeing he had connections there. But the name of course isn’t Arabic. David Howard needs to read your post, EC. He’s left this comment under the Wedger interview.. Oh yes, thanks Jake. I meant to post that earlier 🙂 What threw me was “Why has he been able to remain so long in the UK?” Yes, I’m quite certain that when they are arrested and brought to trial (I know, I’m an optimist) we will discover all sorts of fascinating details they “neglected” to share with their drooling public. She also claimed that ‘Carrie’ was Cliff’s cryptic murder confession, blissfully unaware that he didn’t write it. Slain Crater says: Someone forgot to lock Kane’s cage again. How’s this for projecting your own sick fantasies onto others? Seriously, how sick and perverted must Kane be to interpret an innocent photo in this way? Thanks, Spiny & Jake! I’m going to add in the details to the FAQ at some point today. 🙂 HAHAHA!! Love it, thanks Spiny! Oh dear. Wonder if he said Trump called him a “helluva man, just a helluva man”? https://hoaxteadresearch.wordpress.com/2016/09/09/david-howards-polygraph-fixation-a-brief-history/ Great choice, Mik! We’re rocking in the office today. 😀 Indeed and the confused look on the office cat’s face is priceless! 14:29 – “Then [age] 7 to 12, which is, like, the spirit of homosexuality that reigns over the UK and over Hollywood and over New York…” No homophobia there, then. Some thoughts for Angie: Heterosexuality is cursed: Genesis 3:16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire [shall be] to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. In the ten commandments, God condemns heterosexual lust. Gay lust is not listed in the ten commandments as a sin. This shows God’s disapproval of heterosexuality. Exodus 20:17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife. Heterosexual acts are unclean: Leviticus 15:18 The woman also with whom man shall lie [with] seed of copulation, they shall [both] bathe [themselves] in water, and be unclean until the even. Clearly God recognizes the inherent filthiness of heterosexual relationships. Leviticus 20:18 And if a man shall lie with a woman having her sickness, and shall uncover her nakedness; he hath discovered her fountain, and she hath uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of them shall be cut off from among their people. Heterosexual relationships during a woman’s period are so disgusting that even God indicates those who have sex then are to be cut off from His people. Want more evidence? Check this out: http://www.createdgay.com/satire.html Kudos to anyone who managed to carry on listening to this after Angie started condoning child rape for anyone who repents. She finally gets round to whining about us at 28:32 😀 She’s once again denying that smoking causes cancer. Good luck with that, Ange. She thinks she’s a shadow of her former MK Ultra Kitten-self and complaining her weight gain may be down to remote targeting and no-consent childhood medical experiences catching up with her. “The fear of losing my looks” 😂 Moosnight says: No, Debs – this family needs you to leave them the fuck alone, you interfering old witch. That train done left the station, Angie. Once again proving the theory of survival of the fittest. This was the vid wherein he says nothing but: “fuckity-fuck-fuck-fuck!” – yes? Update from Dr. Mahmoudieh: She’s just annoyed that we don’t bother with her any longer. She has nothing of interest to say, and now that her protegé Rupert is out of the picture, why would we mention her? 49:34 – “I’ve fallen out with one of my best cyber-friends, on quite a profound level.” Ooh, do tell, Angie! 🙂 This kind of BS feigned concern really burns my butt 😦 She knows nothing about, and wouldn’t give two sh*ts about, all the Pretty Boys who never made it adulthood for so many tragic reasons. The Glasgow train-spotter boys, the kiddies from The Cup in L.A., some of whom ended up in trash bags by the highways of California, the boys from Vancouver and Houston and Chicago and on & on. Sick old bitch. THE OUTLAW 🤠 (@outlawjimmycom) says: Reads pretty much like a slam dunk from where I am sitting. Well done EC and the team, and may Hoaxtead Research go from strength to strength in 2018. Many thanks, Jimmy! 🙂 Happy New Year, Jimmy. 😀 58:21 – “I declare and decree that we will have a breakthrough by then and the investigation will be re-opened, the alleged paedophiles described in intimate details will be arrested, three years later, will have their computers and phones and so on forensically examined, will have their identifying body marks – piercings, tattoos, scars and so on – either verified or not. Steve Martin, Rupert spoke highly of you and said that you just did what you did to get along in your career… And I just appeal to you and everybody else that’s been involved with that case to do the right thing.” Good luck with that, Angela. That’s it, Debs – you tell ’em 😂 Another day, another new spelling of ‘Hoaxtead’ 🙂 Good to hear things are swinging up at HQ. Self inflicted stress addict Sabine”madame crocodile”McNeill would be well advised to take a leaf out of your book and learn to loosen up a little too,what with that extensive brood of chickens heading back to roost in 2018 and eveything.The shifty cow might even learn a few new moves. Yeah, Moo’s stolen her limelight somewhat. LOL Yay, it’s Jimmy! Thanks for stopping by, mate. And happy new year to you. Keep up the good work in 2018. By the way, I don’t know if you’ve heard but our mutual fiend Malcolm Paedogilvy thinks you’re me. Flattering for me but not so much for you. Come join us, Mik. It’s really swinging in here. And I’ll tell you what, mate – Liza sure has got some moves… It is quite understandable that having no real friends or family left to fall out with and Mr God flatly refusing to take her calls,the next best thing for a self absorbed nobody and terminal liar is to start creating imaginary friends to thoroughly piss off. Angela may well be utterly devoid of worthwhile human qualities,but to be fair,she provides an excellent example of precisely how not to live existence on a planet where other beings also happen to exist. Too much Vodka – according to Kristie Sue. Too much lounging on the sofa – according to Rupert. Remote targeting, wtf! She’s having a Giraffe. As for no-consent childhood medical experiences. How could she consent, even if that is true, which I simply do not believe? She would have been a child, she wouldn’t be in a position to consent. As for MK Ultra!! Pleeeeaaaase, pull the other one, it’s got bells on. What a load of old tosh. Nothing changes there. Good to see you back, Mik. You’ve been sorely missed 🙂 Clarky Cat says: Blame Rev Bruce – he’s the one who brought in that giant vat of homebrew. Those vicars sure know how to put it away! “Yes, am a nasty, horrible person” A rare moment of self-awareness from the Mooster. Nice 🙂 Thankyou Liza.Glad to be back at base camp after travelling about all over the place.I know he now gets long downtime just ordering elves about and stuff and probably receives decent mileage allowance but I have much admiration and respect for Santa still doing winter excursions at his ripe old age. Far too many to mention but certain grifters,by comparison need to have a long hard look at themselves and then hang their heads in shame. You all ready for your daily dose of Moo? Indeed Spiny,all she needs to do now is acknowledge she has got everything ARSE ABOUT TIT and slide back under the STONE from whence she came and HUMANITY wil be a FAR,FAR better PLACE. I can assure you that it could be a lot worse Norman. Assorted online nutters have ‘outed’ me over the years, as being everyone from a female mainstream media journalist, the real author of Justice Paulfrey’s report into the Hampstead case, the Llandudno killer Howard Hughes through to one of the murderers of toddler James Bulger with a new identity. You are dealing with the kind of people who when alone, take off their socks, and make hand puppets out of them just so they have somebody else to lie too. I have long given up trying to figure out what goes on in the minds of people like Ogilvy …. Along that road lies madness. Happy New Year to you too. 6:04 – Have I misunderstood or does Moo not get the difference between fraternity and paternity? She’s based an entire rant about the Masons on the notion that they’re supposed to have a fatherly outlook on life, based on her thinking they’re a ‘paternity’ instead of a fraternity! Again….hahahahahahahahahahahahah Well effin hell Dave – we all now know who needs to take a lie detector test don’t we! Why does this demented pervert keep asking to see an innocent man’s “willy”? 7:23 – “People like me, who are talking reason and sense.” Shit, there goes that self-awareness. Oh well, it was good while it lasted. Jake should really try focusing his attention on tieing up his shoelaces and negotiating his way out of his arse before blithely accusing outer gas giants of making his life shit. Astral Plane says: The really funny thing is that without Abe publicising this detail we never would have known. Another borderline death threat for the collection 7:44 – “So ignore me and take what’s coming, because, I tell yer, there is a consciousness out there that would like to crucify paedophiles and chop their heads off and chop their bits off and all kinds of horrific things.” This really did me head in. I had to get a cuppa and sit down. Is she real? Angie. It’s not ‘work’. It’s pratting about on the internet. Work involves effort, hopefully, is useful. I hope Deborah tells the police this when they pick her up. Tick tock as they say….. I’m still confused about why she thinks the Red Cross is a Christian organisation and that was about three videos ago. She then goes on to threaten them with “consequences” and says they’ll “feel the wrath” (which she can’t pronouce, btw). Check out this crap: https://archive.is/mtm93 I hope Jake never focuses on Uranus. Pingback: How credible are ex-police detective Jonathan Wedger’s corruption allegations? \| HOAXTEAD RESEARCH Pingback: CRIS report highlights troofer lies about Ella Draper \| HOAXTEAD RESEARCH Pingback: Hoaxtead FAQ: Updating the hoax timeline \| HOAXTEAD RESEARCH just another hit piece in my opinion Well that’s just, like, your opinion, man. Ian Leapingwell says: I am interested to know your opinion about DC Jon Wedger, his work investigating and exposing child abuse throughout the UK and his allegations that his bosses repeatedly shut down his investigations and threatened him with dire consequences if he continued.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line908
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AUTOSKETCH 9 HANDBUCH PDF ligamento coracohumeral – English Translation – Word Magic Spanish-English Dictionary It is thicker above and below than elsewhere, and is coracoohumeral remarkably loose and lax, that it has no action in keeping the bones in contact, but allows them to be separated from each other more than 2. Retrieved from ” https: Reinforcing the anterior glenohumeral joint capsule, the superior, middle, and inferior glenohumeral ligaments play different roles in the stability of the head of the humerus depending on arm position and degree of rotation. 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If you would like to delegate to the Minnow Support Project you can do so by clicking on the following links: Recuerda Votar— Seguir – Resteem romulexx. Coracoacromial Superior transverse scapular Inferior transverse of scapula Synovial: It’s a witness project run by aggroed, ausbitbank, teamsteem, theprophet0, someguy, neoxian, followbtcnews, and netuoso. It is strengthened, above, by the Supraspinatus; below, by the long head of the Triceps brachii; behind, by the tendons of the Infraspinatus and Teres minor; and in front, by the tendon of the Subscapularis. Curr Rev Musculoskelet Med. In human anatomy, the glenohumeral ligaments GHL are three ligaments on the anterior side of the glenohumeral joint i. The humerus is flexed drawn forward by the Pectoralis major, anterior fibers of the Deltoideus, Coracobrachialis, and when the forearm is flexed, by the Biceps brachii; extended drawn backward ligwmento the Cogacohumeral dorsi, Teres major, posterior fibers of the Deltoideus, and, when the forearm is extended, by the Triceps brachii; it is abducted by the Deltoideus and Supraspinatus; it is adducted by the Subscapularis, Pectoralis major, Latissimus dorsi, and Teres major, coracohuumeral by the weight of the limb; it is rotated outward by the Infraspinatus and Teres minor; and it is rotated inward by the Subscapularis. ASROCK P67 PRO3 MANUAL PDF Views Read Edit View history. Sin embargo, esto puede afectar la calidad de su experiencia de usuario al limitar sus posibilidades, ya que algunas partes del sitio pueden dejar de funcionar correctamente. The tendon thus traverses the coravohumeral, but it is not contained within the synovial cavity. Learn how to contribute on our website and join llgamento new open source economy. The ligaments do not maintain the joint surfaces in apposition, because when they alone remain the humerus can be separated to a considerable extent from the glenoid cavity; their use, therefore, is to limit the amount of movement. The Physiology of the Joints: The ligaments of the shoulder are: By rotating the humerus laterally, this contact is delayed because the greater tubercle is pulled back so that the bicipital groove faces the coracoacromial ligament. Bursitis icb terapia – Screen 22 on FlowVella – Presentation Software for Mac iPad and iPhone The articular cartilage on the head of the humerus is thicker at the center than at the circumference, the reverse being the case with the articular cartilage of the glenoid cavity. Capsula articular Ligamentos glenohumerales: There is more to SteemSTEM than just writing posts, check here for some more tips on being a community member. The second, which is not constant, is at the posterior part, where an opening sometimes exists between the joint and a bursal sac under the tendon of the Infraspinatus. No vale pero esto esta demasiado bueno!! Join the Utopian Community on Discord https: Usted puede, a riesgo de afectar la calidad de su experiencia de usuario, cambiar las siguientes configuraciones:. During abduction of the arm the middle and inferior ligaments become taut while the superior ligament relaxes. The joint is protected above by an arch, formed by the coracoid process, the acromion, and the coracoacromial ligament. Anatomical terminology [ edit on Wikidata ]. There are usually three openings in the capsule. ANEURISMAS MICOTICOS CEREBRALES PDF BRECHA ANIONICA PDF FISICA GENERAL BURBANO ERCILLA PDF ELECTROTERAPIA EN MEDICINA ESTETICA PDF FOTOGRAFIA ESTENOPEICA PDF DECRETO IMMEX 2012 PDF FORMAS ALOTROPICAS DEL AZUFRE PDF APLICACIONES DE BDOO PDF CURVA GOMPERTZ PDF	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line920
__label__wiki	0.761962	0.761962	Q. E. National Park Amazing Tour $1780 $1710 per person Queen Elizabeth wildlife safaris is a combination of professionally crafted safaris consisting of itineraries tailored to suit different activities carried out at queen Elizabeth national park. The most common activities carried out while on queen Elizabeth wildlife safaris include game drives in the park to watch multiple wildlife species, chimpanzee trekking at Kyambura gorge and Kalinzu forest reserve, birding safaris at the park, launch cruise at Kazinga channel, site seeing, forest walks, view of the craters, river tails and many more. Queen Elizabeth National Game Park Entebbe Laico Hotel Please arrive by 10:15 AM for a prompt departure at 10:30 AM. Approximately 6:00 PM. Casual, comfortable athletic clothing, hiking shoes, hat and light jacket. Fully escorted by Igeno Safaris guide Airport pick-up and return Personal Guide This is Photoshop's version of Lorem Ipsum. Proin gravida nibh vel velit auctor aliquet. Aenean sollicitudin, loreendum auctor nisi elit consequat ipsum, nec sagittis sem nibh id elit. Day 1: Welcome to Uganda – the Pearl of Africa Entebbe International Airport, our guide/driver will pick you up and take you to the picturesque Laico Lake Victoria Hotel – a mere seven-minute drive from the airport – where you'll spend the night ahead of your eight-hour journey to Queen Elizabeth National Park tomorrow. Time allowing you'll go on a tour of Entebbe and browse local markets, shop locally, or check out some of this chick colonial town's popular eateries and pubs as you mingle with the locals – Africa's friendliest people. Journey Time: 7 minutes Accommodation options: Laico Lake Victoria Hotel Day 2: Transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park After breakfast in the morning, you'll embark on an eight-hour journey to Queen Elizabeth National Park, which plays host to 95 species of mammals, including 5,000 hippos, 3,000 elephants, more than 10,000 cape buffaloes. And if you are a fan of birding, this is it! Up to 619 bird species have been recorded here – the most significant number of bird species you can find in a single protected area in the whole of eastern Africa. The drive to western Uganda will fascinate you as you as you soak in views of lush green vegetation and beautiful hills farmed in terraces. You will stop at one of the towns on this route for lunch before continuing through the verdant countryside to Queen Elizabeth National Park. Upon arrival, you will go for a late afternoon boat ride along the Kazinga Channel, which connects Lake Edward with Lake George. The boat safari will offer you the most epic game viewing in Queen Elizabeth National Park – sightings of thousands of hippos, buffalo, elephant as well as multitudes of fish-eating birds. After the boat ride you'll check into your hotel in the Ishasha area of the park for dinner and overnight ahead of tomorrow's game drive. Journey time: 8 hours Accommodation options: Mweya Safari Lodge Day 3: Tree-climbing lions of Ishasha After breakfast, you will head out for a game drive in the Ishasha plains whose fig trees are a hideout for lions ready to pounce on herds of unsuspecting prey, especially the Uganda Kobs. During the game drive, you'll see some lions perched high on tree branches. Buffalo, topi and the Uganda kob are some of the other animals you're likely to see during this game drive. Today's lunch will be served at Ishasha Wilderness Camp, on your way out of the park. After lunch, you will be driven back to Laico Lake Victoria Hotel in Entebbe ahead of your departure flight tomorrow. Journey time: 8 hours Accommodation options: Laico Lake Victoria Hotel Today is your final day with Igeno Safaris. In the morning after breakfast, you will be driven to Entebbe International Airport to catch your flight back home. The park is Uganda's tourism holy grail, playing host to 95 species of mammals, including 5,000 hippos, 3,000 elephants, more than 10,000 cape buffaloes and up to 619 bird species. History of QENP Size: 1,978km². Queen Elizabeth spans the equator line; monuments on either side of the road mark the exact spot where it crosses latitude 00. The park was founded in 1952 as Kazinga National Park, and renamed two years later to commemorate a visit by Queen Elizabeth II. The park is home to over 95 mammal species and over 600 bird species. The Katwe explosion craters mark the park's highest point at 1,350m above sea level, while the lowest point is at 910m, at Lake Edward. Queen Elizabeth National Park is understandably Uganda’s most popular tourist destination. The park’s diverse ecosystems, which include sprawling savanna, shady, humid forests, sparkling lakes and fertile wetlands, make it the ideal habitat for classic big game, ten primate species including chimpanzees and over 600 species of birds. Set against the backdrop of the jagged Rwenzori Mountains, the park’s magnificent vistas include dozens of enormous craters carved dramatically into rolling green hills, panoramic views of the Kazinga Channel with its banks lined with hippos, buffalo and elephants, and the endless Ishasha plains, whose fig trees hide lions ready to pounce on herds of unsuspecting Uganda kob. As well as its outstanding wildlife attractions, Queen Elizabeth National Park has a fascinating cultural history. There are many opportunities for visitors to meet the local communities and enjoy storytelling, dance, music and more. The gazetting of the park has ensured the conservation of its ecosystems, which in turn benefits the surrounding communities. Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth National Park is truly a Medley of Wonders! Source: Net	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line922
__label__cc	0.672926	0.327074	Top Christian Movies Everyone Should See By Pure Flix Editors on September 30, 2017 Faith-based movies are clearly rising in popularity and have hit the mainstream with their meaningful messages and strong production values. Now there are multiple ways to see the top Christian movies of the season – including PureFlix.com, a faith and family-friendly based streaming service. Don’t miss these six Christian flicks that everyone should see. “To Joey, with Love” This touching ‘vlog’-style Christian movie, written and directed by Rory Feek, tells the story of a beloved country music star’s battle with cancer. Written in honor of his late wife, Joey Feek, the movie includes actual video footage of the couple and their young daughter, as well as interviews with the country music duet prior to Joey’s passing. It’s a sad, yet inspiring testament of a husband’s faith after tragedy. Watch “To Joey, With Love” → “A Man Called Jon” This popular Christian movie centers on one man, Pastor Jon, who struggles to find his place after his congregants refuse to accept his worship style. His unusual style of praise forces him to switch churches multiple times in an effort to find a congregation where he fits in. This heartwarming comedy-drama points out that sometimes God uses us the most through what makes us different. Watch a Man Called Jon → “God’s Not Dead 2” The highly anticipated sequel to “God’s Not Dead” involves a high school teacher (played by Melissa Joan Hart) who gets into legal trouble after answering a student’s question about Jesus. It explores the heated political environment teachers must work in today, and how to balance work and faith. Watch the “God’s Not Dead 2” trailer. Watch “God’s Not Dead 2” → Based on an inspiring true story, “The Way Home” explores the strength of faith and community in the most difficult times. A small town rallies around a distraught family after a 2-year-old boy goes missing. The true story took place in the town of Carrollton, Texas involving a man named Randy Simpkins. Actor Dean Cain portrays Simpkins during this terrifying time. “The Way Home” presents an extreme test of faith. Watch “The Way Home” → “The Case for Christ: The Faith Documentary” Lee Strobel's bestselling book comes to life in this unforgettable documentary that chronicles the reporter's journey from atheism to faith. The former legal editor of the Chicago Tribune draws upon his investigative skills to examine the historical viability of the Gospels, the claims and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Was Jesus the Son of God? Did He die for the sins of the world? Was His resurrection from the dead a myth or the most important event in human history? Watch “The Case for Christ: The Faith Documentary” → “Shake Off The World” Based on a true story. After a rising High School football star is sidelined by his Coach. A chain of events begin, he is forced to tackle life's greater obstacles. As he navigates his new friends and family, Austin finds himself on a collision course with bullies at his new school. He realizes that "winning" the game of life is best accomplished through faith! Watch “Shake Off The World” → Looking for More Top Christian Movies? Wondering what top Christian movie to watch next? Download your free movie guide to get the details on the most popular faith-based movies available. Find helpful lists like, “Top 10 Christian Movies for Your Family,” and, “5 Best Romantic Comedies” for easy browsing. Make your next movie night a hit. 6 Modernized Bible Story Movies to Watch Today PureFlix.com: Your Home for Religious Education Content	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line928
__label__cc	0.544723	0.455277	« Getting in to Oxbridge The CBI gives bad advice again on the EU » Government stability By johnredwood \| Published: November 13, 2017 Remain, Labour and many in the media are running endless stories about the possible fall of the PM or the government. These stories are false mischief. Let me remind you of the process to remove a Conservative PM. 15% of the Conservative MPs have to ask for a Confidence vote in the leader.Then more than half the MPs have to vote No Confidence. As most Conservative MPs support the Leader neither of these two events are about to happen. For there to be an early General election the government would have to lose a Confidence motion in the Commons. I know of no Conservative. MP who would vote to do that. The DUP are not after an early election either. Then the media in this country can justifiably be accused of being the creators of ‘fake news’ and one of those happens to be a Public Service Broadcaster than I be live they are in breach of their charter. Time for government to act ! As if. ‘False mischief’ they may be but the realpolitik is the big story now. Most people have made up their mind on Brexit and are not for changing. The question is can it be delivered. If so, how quickly and in what form. One minute we hear Shapps has thirty something MPs ready to unseat the PM. The next we hear there are forty MPs looking to remove two troublesome ministers said to be Gove and Johnson. We do not know the internal machinations of the government but they are of interest. The media are well aware of this. Get us out of the EU then get rid of May. All else is tosh One suspects that the EU is behind many of these attacks and probably channels funding to many pro-EU pressure groups The desperation of the pro-EU establishment tells me they will stop at nothing to prevent Brexit. If they can stop Brexit by bringing down a democratically elected government they will do just that Is there any possibility that we can see some Tory MP’s with guts, confidence and a large dollop of defiance? Defend the UK, never apologise and always stand up for the silent majority who believe in democracy and who want to see the EU referendum result implemented in full Speak to that world beyond the inner sanctum of political London and the Westminster bubble Quite. Out of the EU, construct a new and effective government united behind a new, strong, charismatic and popular leader, then concentrate on winning in 22. Everything else is secondary. Morgan and Grieve defying the William of the people by their comments on the Brexit bill, date of pasture and ECJ. Starmer on the same issue, these people want to stay in the ECJ single market and customs union and somehow want us to believe this is leaving or enacting our will. We voted leave, no extension, no ECJ, our laws, our courts, our borders and our money spent at home. Grieve, Morgan, Soubry and Clarke are subverting the will of the electorate. Thy have no place in parliament if they do not accept the democratic will o the electorate. No third country status for the EU army, the one Clegg lied about in his TV debate with Farage, dismissing it as pure fantasy! The establishment are desperate to stop Brexit and every weapon in the armoury will be deployed against May. If you don’t deliver your finished. alan jutson Yes the BBC last night in their news programme trying their best to try and ensnare Gove into the Iran prisoner story. I saw his interview with Andrew Marr and thought Gove handled the questions well, his words of course being edited, and taken out of context for the news report. It really is quite disgraceful how so called news is being manipulated by our so called media and our National broadcaster in Particular. Not a word about the very positive James Dyson interview of course. Denis Cooper As far as the Remoaners are concerned everything is now about stopping Brexit. They don’t care about the truth, they don’t care about democracy, let alone about our national sovereignty, and they don’t care how much damage they are doing to the country. All the time they are automatically on the side of the EU and against the UK and they will stop at nothing short of violence, indeed in some cases they might even be prepared to use violence. They are a ……..lfifth column in….every powerful or influential element of our society, including of course both Houses of Parliament and the government, and they will never accept that what they want can be defeated by ordinary people voting in a referendum. But May and Hammond need to finally start doing some sensible things for the economy – easy hire and fire, cheap energy, bonfires of red tape, relaxed planning, cutting the size of the bloated state sector and cutting and simplifying taxes. We shall see was Hammond does next week I expect the productive will be kicked in the teeth yet again. Ian, Whilst your assessment is probably right, many Tories will regard this as an empty threat. They are wrong. The Tory party needs to be reminded of 1972 which, to borrow a phrase, was a year of infamy. Mrs May’s deal will be scrutinised in hindsight for decades, like Heath’s 1972 deal. Every nuance of appeasement will be exposed to ridicule. Iain Gill To be honest if they go through with destroying diesel car drivers at the budget they are finished anyways The pro-EU establishment is using personal attacks on any prominent Brexiteer they can find some angle on at the moment, including our host, Boris and Nigel. All tosh but to appeal to the less sensible. What a disastrous situation this country finds itself in and all started by that weasel Cameron who left the UK in the lurch, despite all his promises to the people and with a few twists and turns and some serious back stabbing, left us with the current weak leader May. Doesn’t she realise that if she actually made the decision to tell the EU to bog off, she just might get this government back on track and do something to gain the trust of the electorate? We only want what we democratically voted for and were promised. Even if May goes that does not automatically trigger a general election. Brown took over from Blair, no election. May took over from Cameron, no election. Any conservative remainer who wanted a general election at the moment could well be committing political suicide for themselves. Do the majority in the Country really want Corbyn ? If Mrs May delivers a good deal (no more money) on Brexit, and she stands absolutely firm against EU pressure and demands, then her fortunes and support will rise. Failure to do so will of course result in her demise, along with that of the Conservative Party Interesting that the only strong public pushback from Davis to the leaks and threats from the EU was on the one about the EU’s plans to separate Northern Ireland from the rest of the UK. Obviously the DUP demanded he do that. They, rather than Brexit MPs like John, are the only ones Mrs May seems keen to placate. I don’t understand you John. A staunch Brexiteer and yet you back two pro-EU politicians as PM and Chancellor. We need Johnson and Gove at the helm. Why do I get the feeling that Tory MP’s are more concerned about petty jealousies and party politics than achieving full Brexit? We need two Brexit politicians at the helm of the Conservative Party. We don’t need two EU apologists The constant media and opposition chatter re government stability is tiresome and unhelpful but the MPs in your Parliamentary party could banish the talk by shutting up. Ms Soubry and Morgan, Mr Grieve and Mr Johnson. All the usual suspects could consider their party instead of their profiles. In my experience negotiating is best performed without an audience which ups the ante for concessions. Conservative MPs are contributing. Today a ‘senior Conservative MP’ is quoted -anonymously – of saying the govt smells of decline. Yesterday I read another say “we need a period in opposition”. Please give your colleagues a kick in the backside – they are the ones who need it. In the Sunday Times so fake news. On the topic of national and government stability what is your view on the impact of the legal blocking of the EU withdrawl Bill raised in yesterday’s piece by Professor David Campbell “Henry VIII clauses and the new legal challenge to Brexit”. He is concerned that the grab for power by the legal profession to take sovereignty away from Parliament has passed out of their control and predicts a major constitutional crisis with unpredictable outcomes. Labour’s attacks on Boris is an attempt to destabilise the govt are helping only the hostage takers. The fake news media are going along for the ride. Shameful. Explain this. The Guardian reporting what Boris had been told before he was pilloried. He did not say she was teaching journalists in Iran, only that her job before was the reason she was vulnerable. How does the BBC come out of this mess? She was working in a minor role for a BBC Agency which fed BBC Iran. I watched the original select committee proceedings and it is clear the reptiles have deliberately misrepresented him – or as he politely put it, misconstrued him – in order to get him sacked and HMG destabilised. This means they have also deliberately put the hostage at risk, in order to achieve their object. Everyone knows the more these cases are talked up, the more perilous it becomes for the prisoners as their value increases. Furthermore, if you tell the IRG you will get the FS sacked if they extend the sentence, what are they likely to do? And what else will they do to get even more of an effect? The headlines should have read: “Iranians misrepresent Foreign Secretary to put pressure on British Government.” Bert Young At the moment the timing is not right to challenge the leadership ; negotiations with the EU are top of the list of priorities and we must continue to negotiate without any disruption . Having said this , I do not believe that Theresa can sustain her role beyond this vital point . Well before the next election we have to have someone in charge whose strategy and belief is firmly right of centre . Timing of this change is critical . You are forgetting resignation, illness, and death. I sincerely hope that the last two will not happen, but the first is a distinct possibility. The Conservatives will need a better salesperson for the next election. There is no rush. And in the meantime sales ability is less important. BartD Please tell us who is on the list of 40– you must know some of them? Reply What list? I cant name any, other than the one man leadership election campaign of last month where no-one else supported. Just been listening to Dominic grieve on sky and the guy still hasn’t come to terms with the referendum result no matter how much he says he as, this mp along with all the other undemocratic should be kicked out of Parliament, i still believe we need a Brexit march to shut these remoaners up and let Brussels know which side won the referendum and that we are LEAVING there club in March 2019 no matter what obstacles they or the remoaners in Westminster try to use project fear tactics It became evident years ago that Dominic Grieve is a eurofederalist. This is from 2009: http://johnredwoodsdiary.com/2009/07/15/supremacy-of-parliament/ “Curiously it seems that Bill Cash had somehow managed to get official Tory support for this amendment, but in March 2008 he didn’t get official support for his New Clause 9 to affirm and defend the supremacy of Parliament against possible attack by Declaration 17 attached to the Lisbon Treaty. Apparently Dominic Grieve incorrectly advised that it would “create a constitutional contradiction” – obviously incorrectly, as EU law has no force in this country other than that allowed to it by Parliament, and Parliament can decide that it will not consent to a certain EU law taking effect.” The Conservative party certainly needs a change of leader. I observe Theresa May has possibly strong views most of which I would not subscribe to and worst of all she prefers to let events shape actions rather than take the lead herself and shape actions to create events. Put simply she prefers to hide behind a shield and hope that the slings and arrows of misfortune will pass her by. It is all part of a determined campaign to frustrate Brexit. The attacks on prominent Brexiteers such as Boris Johnson is part of the same campaign, So far it has claimed one scalp, that of Priti Patel. I think that the visit to the EU Commission by Clarke, Clegg and Adonis last week was not coincidental. May is the Establishment, her role is just to sound convincing and buy time. There is a concerted effort,media wholly involved, on destabilisation. Insufficient data whether the thwarting of Brexit is necessarily the reason. In politics, various groups jostle for power, without a care for Country. Boris seems the focal point. So it could be the Mrs May clique which includes many in Labour. Boris poses a major threat to Khan’s position, May’s position and any hope of the Labour Party coming to power irrespective of his stance on Brexit. His seeming boo-boos just endear him even more to the public. Other politicians are desperately afraid of a politician with accepted flaws. Same as Trump, too real to fight. He just gets stronger with every body blow. Just makes him like Every Man. I seem to recall Tony Marlow once called John Major a loser in the Commons. I asked him about it and he said he just wanted Major to be ‘robust’ (and I still have the letter if JR needs to verify its authenticity). That’s pretty much what this is all about, the fact that Mrs May won’t stick it to these EU people who are holding out for more and yet more of our cash. But we need to ask ourselves this question, would we really put a 7 stone weakling in a boxing ring with Mike Tyson? The answer is simply ‘No, we’d get somebody who was up to the job. A Churchill, not a Halifax or Chaimberlain. The country is crying out for strong and stable ladership, but quite evidently, we still dont have it. So what are the alternatives, stay with what we have – somebody whose judgement was so impaired they really wanted to remain in the EU – and get fleeced, or do we get a leader who can really take the fight to the enemy? I know which I’d rather have, any day of the week! Anybody who thinks May is good at her job is seriously deluded. I don’t think anybody thinks that, just that a contest before Brexit would be suicidal. Suicidal in that Corbyn might be the ultimate beneficiary of such a contest? He’s just proved himself to be an untrustworthy turncoat on Brexit. He’s also shown himself to be an opportunist by offering a raft of things he could never hope to deliver without bankrupting the country. That is the mark of a con-man. Corbyn might have temporarily struck a chord with young impressionable people who are politically naïve, but even they eventually grow up and then recognise the stark political reality. I think the Corbyn phenomena might have already hit the high water mark and the tide will now recede as people see through him. A strong Tory leader would make that diminution in Corbyn’s popularity even more likely. It’s precisely what the British people deserve, but we certainly don’t need any more remainers in that position. I don’t think May’s government will last after the crash out. I think we can expect the crash out by Christmastime and elections in the spring. After that there will be a Labour government and talks with the EU will resume..I don’t see it any other way. The present government is a disaster- without naming names some of the government ministers are a disaster..we all know who? and it’s all happening under Mrs May’s Tory watch. My guess is that it will be ten years before the conservatives get back into power again. With the more green crap promise by Gove and banks sending more borrowing leverage to the EU and staving businesses here of money, one can only think that is going to get a lot worst in the UK in the years ahead, in or out of the EU. Politicians/ councillors and banking with the BOE and treasury have got in for the people of the UK, and they are loving it, while they are filling up their back pockets. The laws that will be coming in next few years will be designed to crush the small people of this country. The media, political opposition, a few geriatric retired conservatives and a small number of your own MPs may wish to destabilise the government for their own political ends. Ignore them a la Donald. Mrs may deserves support and there is no clear alternative. Drive relentlessly towards Brexit with or without a confirmed EU agreement. Their jam tomorrow must be terminated and soon. There is no point in hanging about beyond the end of December. A positive decision carried through with conviction is better than indecision. Let the EU play catch-up when they realise how far they are up that well defined creek. useful idiot Read a comment today that said something along the lines of The EU is about to abolish Tax Havens and that is why ” useful idiots ” are being used to promote Brexit. I hope that is not so. Shame, she,and especially Hammond and others need to to go. I hear Hammond is planning a fresh attack on self employed and small business in the budget, he tried that last time and made himself look a dick. Have the Tories got a suicide death wish? They will likely put taxes up for people with children and cut taxes for gay couples. Well, Mr. Redwood, time for you and others to get your colleagues into line behind the leader. If I were leader there are some that would feel the imprint of my boot on their backsides – and rather than let them fester on the back benches – I would personally visit their local associations to get them de-selected. M. Davis The last thing we need is a General Election! Give the woman a break! EU Exit Negotiations Statement to the House 13th November 2017 Mr Davies Brexit Minisiter says the EU has NOT agreed to EU citizens voting in UK Local Elections therefore, he says he will advance and progrees the rights of EU citizens to interfere with our politics by “Bi-Lateral agreements” instead. Who, just for whom and for what on earth, is Mr Davies working for???? There’s a very big difference between being deported from a country and just not being allowed to vote in that country’s elections. Of course both difficulties can be solved by successfully applying for citizenship of the country. Please tell this to Nicky Morgan, Mr Redwood. False mischief’ they may be but the realpolitik is the big story now. There will be a vote on the Brexit agreement. Cue cheering from the Remain supporters in the media. Now we hear if the vote is against the Brexit agreement we leave anyway with no deal. Suits me. More evidence of the progress of negotiations now being of more interest than the pros and cons of Brexit. Reapolitik. We wait apprehensively for any bad news of setbacks or slippage while the hardline Remainers welcome it. It will be a case of “take it or leave it”, cue massive indignation from Remoaners who have apparently forgotten that every past EEC/EC/EU treaty has been presented to Parliament on a “take it or leave it” basis: http://johnredwoodsdiary.com/2017/10/29/why-are-house-prices-so-high/#comment-897374 “Off-topic, I saw Hilary Benn on TV waxing indignant that MPs might not be able to have a meaningful vote on an EU exit deal if it had already signed by the government … ” “… he was in the House to participate in all the meaningless votes on the Nice Treaty, which having been signed by Robin Cooke on February 26th 2001 was duly approved by MPs without them being able to change as much as a comma even if they wanted to, which as far as I can tell did not bother Hilary Benn or any other Labour MPs who may now have belatedly discovered the paramount value of parliamentary sovereignty. Then there was the Lisbon Treaty, by which time he was a minister urging MPs to vote for a treaty which had been signed by Gordon Brown and David Miliband and then dumped down on MPs as yet another fait accompli … ”	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line936
__label__cc	0.721591	0.278409	Pushy French are world's worst tourists; Japanese are top: study July 10, 2009 07:29 am JST July 10, 2009 \| 07:29 am JST Penny-pinching, rude and terrible at foreign languages: French people are the world's worst tourists according to a study of the global hotel industry released on Thursday. Carried out last month by TNS Infratest, the study asked 40,000 hotels worldwide to rank tourists from 27 countries based on nine criteria, from their politeness to their willingness to tip. Clean and tidy, polite, quiet and uncomplaining, Japanese tourists came top of the crop for the third year running. At the other end of the spectrum, French holidaymakers and business travelers were the least generous or ready to tip, and ranked next-to-last for their overall behavior and politeness. Pushy French travelers made amends on elegance -- classed third -- as well as for their discretion and cleanliness. But the French were the least ready to try a new language, unlike U.S. tourists who were most likely to swallow their pride and order a pizza, baguette or a paella in the local lingo. U.S. tourists also got top marks for generosity -- as the biggest spenders and tippers -- but fell short on other counts as the least tidy, the loudest, the worst complainers, and the most badly dressed. Despite cliches about beer-guzzling hordes descending on Mediterranean resorts each summer, Britons came a surprise second for their overall behavior, politeness, quietness and even elegance -- second for dress sense only to the Italians. But the model Japanese were followed by Canadians as the least likely to whinge when a trip goes wrong. France's rivals for the "worst tourist" tag, Spaniards and Greeks came near the bottom of the pack in almost every category. © Wire reports northlondon July 10, 2009 11:19 am JST French-speaking Chinese are the worst. July 10, 2009 06:01 pm JST I think French people that studied in China, lived in Japan and have many American friends are the worst tourists. This article seems to encourage broad generalizations about groups of people. If the French were a race, this would be racist, and if the Japanese had come out last in the survey with similar slur terms applied, I suspect the article would not be published. terrible at foreign languages don't understand this- the French can speak pretty good English if they can be bothered to. Did they not confuse the Japanese with the French here? Where are the Chinese? Not the best tourists as far as I am concerned. tokyotom i can believe this japanese have great rep in the world for being polite (not counting those special vacations to thailand........) sansamp the French can speak pretty good English if they can be bothered to. good luck bothering a french :) (french speaking here) the chinese get "don't spit" training what do the french get? no "snob" training? saitamakid japanese usually go on an organized trip, that's why they are comfortable.. and complaints are minimal. most of them may not directly slap someone else's face but they can be verbally rude once u understood what they're talkign about. the funniest tourists are the russian! boracay island, in the philippines, is experiencing a huge influx of russian tourists and my friends there told me that they're the funniest and craziest foreign tourists ever! however, in most of my foreign travels, i find the chinese to be the most annyoing, but i guess it's bcoz i couldnt understand what they're talking about, and they can be really loud!! DickMorris Whilst eating my freedom fries i agree the Freanch are the worst. I won't even talk to them, they have no manners or backbone. I don't have too much troublde with Japanese, but i think of a better study was mad Americans with their friendliness and good humor would top the poll by far. cooeecobber I don't think the sub-heading summarises the story. In any case, cultural stereotyping, like tipping, on question banks invariably leads to skewed results. Isn't this a German company? Surprise, surprise! i think TNS is UK company, used to be anyway A UK company? Surprise, surprise! DenDon the worst complainers really? you surprise me? are they the worst complainers on JT too? nooo, surely not. IvanCoughalot What fantastic news this is. All you empty-headed, deluded birds who still believe the french self-publicity about how charming and romantic they are, take not. TNS Infratest. a German company pawatan I've had to tell off rude French tourists in Japan more than once, and I have a long fuse. U.S. tourists also got top marks for generosity—as the biggest spenders and tippers—but fell short on other counts as the least tidy, the loudest, the worst complainers, and the most badly dressed. Yah, that sounds like Americans. You gotta take the bad with the good, though. Ce n'est pas vrais mon ami! ranchan00 I am almost embarrassed to admit it but I have travelled with large groups of Japanese and I do appreciate their "raikyaku bunka". Basically, when they go abroad they act as if they are visiting a relative or a friends house. They are quiet and keep their manners on at all times. They also dress to impress. I have learned a lot about travelling from our Japanese brothers and sisters. On the other hand, we Americans like to show that we are American. I am sure that many of you know what that means. We don't penny pinch and we insist on tipping everywhere we go. We are obsessed with getting our money's worth. Americans love a good show or story. Entertain an American abroad and you have a "real" friend for life. maybe China was not included in the list of 27 countries ?? hmm.. the Freanch are the worst. I won't even talk to them Nice generalisation, whole races can be crammed into one stereotype. There are no exceptions. I am being heavily sarcastic. Spanishwoman The willingness to tip depends on one's culture at home. We don't do it in Spain as a rule, only in small bars if someone brings you the drinks to your table, but NEVER in a chain restaurant like Pizzahut. I got bad looks from a cashier at Pizzahut in the US because I paid just what was written on the menu, but I swear i just FORGOT because I am not used to that. The study did not take this into account, I guess. French people from Paris and people from Southern France act totally different --- from my limited experience... hmm. This is a silly survey anyways... American tourists stick out like a boner in sweatpants, but they're generally a friendly bunch. Always the odd few who whine that things aren't the same as in America though, and they tend to be oversensitive to good-natured ribbing of their country. timtak Where is the original survey? I can't seem to find it. Either by searching the global site http://www.tnsglobal.com/ Or http://www.tns-infratest.com/branchen_und_maerkte/verkehr_tourismus_transport.asp Despite cliches about beer-guzzling hordes descending on Mediterranean resorts each summer, Britons came a surprise second for their overall behavior, politeness, quietness and even elegance—second for dress sense only to the Italians. This is clearly a joke and someone has been fooled here. Britons overall behaviour ? Quietness ? Elegance ! And I'm British. A widespread joke perhaps http://www.newstin.com/rel/us/en-010-016046360 I'm British, incredulous and have written to TNS Infratest and Expedia, who funded the survey, to ask for the results. knackerz I'm glad to see that the Brits aren't just judged by the yob minority. Any Brits I've met on holidays in Japan or back home in Ireland have been really friendly and polite DeepAir65 People ask about the Chinese - but what about the Russians? They seem to be taking over South East Asia and try getting near the buffet if there are Russian teenagers in the room - worse than American teenagers if you can believe that. I often find the French the worst at trying to us language even though like most countries they learn English for 6 years at school you would not believe it!! flatearther Are there are a lot of vacationing Russian teens where you are? I live just outside of Tokyo, and the only Russians I see are females, and not teen aged. For all those saying the Chinese are the worst ... One of the most 'ignorant' perhaps, in terms of a lack of knowledge about the other culture but not in terms of intentionally fight/complaining, etc. What's more, compared to the quieter Japanese people (in general), of COURSE someone who speaks more loudly will be deemed as 'louder', but that shouldn't be a character judgement unless it's accompanied by boisterousness. I agree the Japanese deserve top rank, or very near it. I do, however, feel that they are quite ignorant of other countries, as are the Chinese. They travel almost exclusively in guided tours, get around on expensive buses even in third world countries, stay in $200/night hotels when you can get one for $5 down the street, and even refer to the native people of a country as 'foreigners' when recounting the trip after getting home. Hell, I talked to a guy this morning who went to England and said he tried to use English with as many foreigners as possible!! Again, though, as to complaining, being cheapskates (they sometimes don't know how to or forget to leave a tip), dressing well and behaving, etc. the Japanese are some of the best tourists around. I don't know about the French, but I agree that SOME Americans fit the bill described above to a T. And there's NO WAY Germans can escape the worst position for style... no way! Who outside of the tourism industry really cares? Personally I avoid the big tourist spots like the plague. bsosaka 40 000 or just 4500? http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-07/10/content_11683641.htm Personally I find Americans are the worst tourist. Totally unable to look after themselves. You have to baby sit them on even the simplest task. I never had a problem with the French and as tipping is a typically cultural thing as are most of the questioned highlighted in the survey this is just a nonsense. onibaku Stupid "study", real bullshit. Doing some statistics which would look like something scientific would require huge data collection. How many countries were surveyed? How many regions per country? What class of hotels? And I'm not even discussing the criteria (which would have to be relatively culture-independent as already mentioned)... Klein2 "Basically, when they go abroad they act as if they are visiting a relative or a friends house. They are quiet and keep their manners on at all times." Yep. If I were in the tourism industry, I would always smile at seeing busloads of Japanese drive up. They spend. They don't even hardly look at prices. They buy kitsch by the suitcase-ful. They are not going to bother other guests at hotels or steal the towels. They will not try to immigrate, and they will not have passport or other problems. They don't pass funny money. They don't even have kids anymore. Other people who have travelled with Japanese know what I am talking about. They get the best service wherever they go because the locals know that if word of DANGER or POOR SERVICE gets back to JTB or kuchikomi in Japan, the gravy train will stop somewhere else. Which is as it should be. BigInJapan To rank tourist to be good or bad from the practical point of view of some major hotel chain, is pretty limited and ignorant. Come on: how much they tip (yeah, we love money), how clean they are (yeah, we dont like to clean the room)? Even if they are valid criteria, it tests a certain category of tourist, during a certain activity. I cannot see how would it be representative to the Britons in Mallorca fornicating with drunk wales. flatearther -- I live just outside of Tokyo, and the only Russians I see are females, and not teen aged. Well, that is because most middle class Russians cannot afford to travel abroad.. even when they have the money, they are not allowed to travel around without a visa and a sponser in the country where they are visiting. Those female Russians you see in your neighborhood or/and Tokyo area hold work visa or spouse visa.. Since very few Russian men are married to Japanese women while more Russian women married to J-men, it makes 100% sense that you see only Russian women and not teen aged. dracpoo2 I wonder what the flip side of this survey would show??? How is Japan rated as a tourist destination in comparison to all other countries of interest. Jkanda Those female Russians you see in your neighborhood or/and Tokyo area hold work visa or spouse visa. And some of them are 'English' teachers! Never believe these surveys. Comparison is an old trick to lure more customers. aj2o1 In general, Chinese tourists are as bad as ugly Americans - loud, complaining and ignorant. bogva Japanese don't complain!? Yes they do not straight to the hotel but they rip of their Japanese leader for years to come. I hate to work with Japanese tourists and I've done on several occasions. MakusuSun That's not fair for the following reasons: -French don't tip because tip is included in the bill in France -Americans tip because tip is not included. So; we always add 15% or more. -Americans are not the worst complainers. It is just that standards are lower in Europe and elsewhere, and we will give you piece of our mind whenever necessary. Overall, I agree: Japanese are "Le Top" as we say in France. And Japanese girls can eat crackers in my bed. Ganbare Nihon. imacat In my backpacking days I remember that Israelis were frequently identified as somewhat disagreeable tourists, amongst the backpacker set at least. Kwaabish Yeah, I would have to agree that the Chinese are the worst also. Lack of hygene, no manners (no concept of order in a queue), obnoxious, etc... Antonios_M France’s rivals for the “worst tourist” tag, Spaniards and Greeks came near the bottom of the pack in almost every category. Ha ha...i was sure about that!!! Proud to be Greek! (although, i would consider myself as a "kind" and "quiet" Greek tourist). ca1ic0cat yah, Canadians will put up with just about anything with a smile but I'm surprised the Americans scored so well. Seiharinokaze Several years ago I happened to share an elevator with a white lady who looked in her forties in a hotel in Bangkok. As I was standing near the floor button panel, I asked her in English "What floor?". Then she looked somewhat annoyed and just said "Deux". She seemed to think it beneath her dignity to speak English even in an Asian city though it's geographically near Cambodia and Vietnam. But I felt her attitude not to speak English somehow kitsch though brusque. I didn't get to dislike her or the French people for that. Japanese may think themselves as visitors from an out-of-the-way place while the French themselves as visitors from the center of the world perhaps. Here in Switzerland japanese tourist have a good reputation, maybe it's because we are kind of same ;) ... When it come to the other side, there were clearly the russian, southkorean, indien and chinese folks, who leave a negative taste. But that could be, because of their natural born habbits... Hah! Been talking (and laughing) about this nonsense all day. Hubby used to work as a tour guide for Japanese tourists in Paris. He has no time for Japanese tourists (even though technically he IS one whenever he leaves Japan,) and claims the reason they never complain is because of the language barrier and they complain non-stop to the tour guide if they have one. The reason they're good tippers (chippers even) is because they've read or been told that they're supposed to and they don't want to be rude or annoy the staff. They're quiet because no-one around them except their companions speak Japanese. This is also quite a good description of British tourists, the main exception being that they only speak English instead of Japanese. That's probably why we came second in this ridiculous study. Don't believe it's nonsense? Did you know that Brits came second in elegance? After Italians and before French? How ridiculous can they get! Actually it was done for expedia. Here's more info, including who to contact for more info http://press.expedia.co.uk/press-releases/2009/holidaying-brits-worst-behaved-in-europe.aspx "order a pizza... in the local lingo" Pizza Hut staff: Pizza Hut de gozaimasu" Me: Hi, I'd like to order a pizza. Pizza Hut staff: Odenwabango oshieteitadakimasendeshouka. Me: 03-12345678 Pizza Hut staff: 5-6-21 Semai Haitsu no Sarge san deshouka? Me: Yeah, that's me. Pizza Hut staff: Gochumon dozo. Me: One large Deluxe pan crust pizza. And I have a 1000 yen off coupon. Pizza Hut staff: L-saizu delakkusu pan kurastto, senen off kupon de, nisenhappyaku yen desu. Yonjupun kakarimasunode. Me: Thanks! CoolCali Right on Sarge------soooooo true I remember when I thought I would try ordering a pie one night using the local lingo and the girl just said, "Engrish prease." But I was persistent and she repeated herself, so screw it I use the international lingo. And I live in a pretty rural area. usaexpat Funny, I have a couple of German friends that always say the Germans are the worst in Europe but it's a toss up between the US and Germany when you talk about the whiole world. I tend to agree as Germans and Americans typically want wherever they're going to be just like home. I missed that: US most badly dressed, I almost peed myself, damn skippy. So if you fly into any airport in asia and there are only a handful of westerners how do you know which one is the American? Easy, it's the 400 pound lady in the moo moo chugging down the concourse screaming "hold the plane" at the top of her lungs. Elbuda Mexicano French or Chinese? In Mexico we have few Chinese now, so we can not really get angry with them yet, but most Mexicans know that the French are arrogant, cheap and stingy so we do not bother giving them the time of day. In Mexico tipping is very, very important, the French will never understand this so we just ignore them, while the gringos, the USA tourists are usually very good at not only tipping but also at just spending money like water! Viva la USA! nigelboy agree the Japanese deserve top rank, or very near it. I do, however, feel that they are quite ignorant of other countries, as are the Chinese. They travel almost exclusively in guided tours, get around on expensive buses even in third world countries, stay in $200/night hotels when you can get one for $5 down the street, and even refer to the native people of a country as 'foreigners' when recounting the trip after getting home. Hell, I talked to a guy this morning who went to England and said he tried to use English with as many foreigners as possible!! I doubt that he used the word "gaikokujin" instead of "igirisu-jin". And as for Chinese, pleez. The behavior of Chinese tourists were so bad that the Chinese government had to step in and implement an etiquette education. Where do the Aussies rank? Everywhere I've gone I've had a good time with the Australians I've met. Must be the common bond of liquor. OssanAmerica I don't really see how being dressed poorly has anything to do with being a good or bad tourist. Next they'll be holding it against us for being the most "obese" tourists. Funny, the last couple of groups of really lost looking tourists that I've approached and asked if they needed help, only to be looked upon with utter disgust and distain, and then subsequently ignored, were Europeans. Spaniards and Italians (not necessarily in that order) as I recall. I was surprised at their reaction but just shrugged my shoulders and walked away. I suppose they were thinking "How could YOU possibly help US, foreign girl!?!" Of course it make sense to ask the natives for help when in a foreign country, so I can kind of see why they refused my help. I find that American tourists visiting Tokyo are usually friendly and not afraid to ask a fellow non-Japanese person for help. My favorite French Tourist story. I was in Amsterdam transiting back to the states. I'm in line at the gate for the exist interview when the customs agent comes up to me: "You, you're American right?" "Yeah." "It's your lucky day, come to the front of the line." "Alright." "We've got a huge french tour group, they refuse to speak anything but french. We only have one agent that speaks french. They should know better. When you travel you speak English." So, here I am, in a Amsterdam, with an customs agent that isn't a native English speaker (though speaks it very well) telling how all travelers should speak English. Outstanding. nigelboy: "I doubt that he used the word "gaikokujin" instead of "igirisu-jin"" You cherry-picked from my comment without the context. Anyway, he didn't use either. He used 'foreigner', as I said (we were speaking in English), to refer to the English in England. I usually let this slide, but after the third time I pointed out that they are probably not foreigners there, whereas he would be. He chuckled and said, in a good enough voice, that I was right and he simply wasn't thinking. He's a good guy, but unfortunately I think a whole lot of people, good or bad, don't 'think' under such descriptions of their travel from Japan to foreign countries. As for the Chinese, again, I never said they WEREN'T bad, I just wanted to point out that they are not DELIBERATELY trying to be offensive or vulgar, or what have you, they are just, as has been pointed out, in many cases oblivious. They need some sensitivity training, the likes of which you pointed out, but don't forget that the Japanese get it too (just more willingly), particularly in terms of 'tipping'. And by sensitivity training of course I mean a crash course manual from their local JTB guidebook on where they're going. Anyway, I still say Germans... at least the men... get the worst-dressed award. A generalization, I know, but I see it everywhere I go. You cherry-picked from my comment without the context. Anyway, he didn't use either. He used 'foreigner', as I said (we were speaking in English), to refer to the English in England. Oh yeah. I forgot about the part where you don't speak the language. So let me get this straight. He talked about his STAY in U.K. and yet he went out out of his way to use the word "foreigner" instead of "guy/lady", "person/people", "man/woman", or "they/them"?? Hmm. If it was in Japanese as I mistakenly claimed, you may have fooled some posters here but you have successfully alienated them as well with the corrected version. Moderator: Back on topic please. bahomopre tourists from third world countries are the best tippers, they usually have a lot of money in order to travel. Raja Kumar I think this survey is bias, I have met many very fine tourists from france. They exist too. It is very bias to categorise france people like these. There is also a big majority of fine tourists from france. isthistheend One day i was riding in the local train line I live on, narry a foreigner do I see. But one day there was a group of brightly dressed, talkative French people carrying on like they were in Paris. The Japanese sitting quietly and French buzzing right along. At first I was deligthed. Then after 5 minutes I wish they'd tone it down. Everything in balance as they say. Freespeech TNS = TOTAL NONSENSE And tipping is an archaic behaviour, offensive to the dignity of whoever expects it or asks for it. In France we have abolished it more than 40 years ago, when "service compris" became the law. We do tip, rarely, rather discreetely and only when we feel that we have some special consideration for a person who has treated us in a non-standard way. Not so different from life in Japan, after all ! But where it becomes different is when French people travel : they do not know that tip is sometimes an institution (the US) or that people have corrupt minds (SE Asia for instance) ; they aggravate people in not tipping, but on the other hand they reaffirm a principle in which they believe. The Japanese, on the other hand, tip liberally because the poor chaps have been taught into doing it ; but by so doing they corrupt, and they create undesirable expectations in countries which would never be tip-minded if it was not for misguided J- and US tourists. dabeach LOL France..... i was discussing this survey with a student yesterday, and i'm not surprised to find japan at the top of the list. HOWEVER, we need to bear in mind that most japanese tourists keep quite a distance from the locals, probably don't speak enough of another language to complain or get into any quarrels. this certainly avoids conflict, but makes me think that pretty much zero cultural exchange takes place when japanese travel abroad. japanese don't learn much about the people they encounter, and people abroad learn little about the japanese. He used 'foreigner', as I said (we were speaking in English), to refer to the English in England. i've experienced the same thing. the explanation is that "foreigner" is the english word mostly commonly used to translate gaijin/gaikokujin. it might be better translated as outsider, or non-japanese. thus, it's perhaps not fair to criticise him for his word choice, but by using a translation of "gaijin" does go to expose the rather dichotomous way in which many japanese see the world... EUgirl Re: trying to help other foreigners in Japan, this came to my mind. I was at Yurakucho, when 2 American women asked me where the International center is. I pointed where it is and explained where they have to go. They started whining really unpolitely that I pointed towards a building. Well, I did, as the int. center was right behind that building. Some American man came to the same spot and the women immediately turned to him, asking the same, and then thanking him with all smiles etc. without giving even a look at me or thanking me. I swore this was the last time I try to help American b-tches with no manners nonesoever. Any Japanese woman in a similar situation would have looked at everybody and thanked everybody who tried to help. Pukey2 I swore this was the last time I try to help American b-tches with no manners nonesoever. Give them the wrong directions next time! ;p I find the French working at CDG Airport in Paris to be very rude. The Japoanese abroad may be the worlds best tourists, but here at home, in Tokyo especially, they are surely extremely rude. Japanese politeness has all but disappeared. SebastianFlyte Americans worst dressed - what a surprise!? telecasterplayer I appreciate the way Japanese tourists bow and apologize for being in the way when I drive by on a vespa and snatch their bags. notimpressed Nigelboy, i know you like nitpicking and flaming anything that offends your adopted country, but you can be a bit full of it sometimes mate. I have had conversations in Japanese in my home country with Japanese people where they referred to the locals as Gaijin, including me, even to my face. I did politely remind them, that there, they are the Gaijin, and after a stunned-mullet face lasting 20 seconds they clicked and understood. Its important to keep in mind that we are the visitors when we are abroad and that we reflect on our compatriots that follow us. A little research into customs of wherever you are going makes sense, but so many people just buy tickets, sunscreen, and pack theier bags as a sum total of thier preparation. Or buy pre-packaged tour group deals. I really admire the Japanese friends I have made abroad that buck this stereotype and go out to experience real life, not the sanitized, safe, Japanese bubble version. Nigey boy, you don't have to jump on every criticism of Japan/japanese so vehemently, sometimes its just true, because they are not perfect, even if you are a fanboy. Just because you don't see something does not discount its existence. All in all most of us like Japan etc but are comfortable with constructive criticism or honest frustration with unpleasant realities. Dont put the disgruntled ALTs in the same bag as all of us, thanks. 2009 World's Best Tourists : 1/ Japan 2/ Britain 3/ Canada 4/ Germany 5/ Switzerland 6/ Holland 7/ Australia 8/ Sweden 9/ USA 10/Denmark Source: lovetobookhotels.com By the way, I would like to raise a point. It would be interesting to learn about the impact of the multiculturism in these countries on the behavior of their population as tourists abroad. Look, if we take Japan's example, japanese tourists are ethnically homogeneous. Homogeneity applies as well to a large number of Asian countries and I would add even a large number of countries of the East and Far East and even of Central Europe. well in that case Canada is hardly homogeneous chotto Americans most willing to speak a foreign language? What planet are they on? If "most willing to speak a foreign language" means "most willing to shout louder and louder, and slower and slower and complain and demand everything be like it is in the US" then they're spot on I guess. As for MakusuSun's comment about "standards being lower in Europe", get a clue. torsoaho 'U.S. tourists also got top marks for generosity—as the biggest spenders and tippers' No surprise ! Americans have led the world in charitable donations and charity events for dozens of years. 'but fell short on other counts as the least tidy' -Hey we're on vacation ! Laeve the laundry and tableware for the staff to take care of ! 'the worst complainers' Easy to explain, life in America is first rate. The standard of living is top notch, the quality and quantity of food outstanding, and prices for consumer goods are dirt cheap. One really wonders why Americans would bother to travel outside their own borders. When Americans experience inferior conditions they feel free to tell you so. My advice, instead of whinning about it, listen up and make the necessary changes... after all the customer is god ! and the most badly dressed. Chotto, Chotto !!! 'Americans most willing to speak a foreign language? What planet are they on?' No, what planet are you on ? One that obviously doesn't recognize that the USA is made up of immigrants with over 50 million current American residents being born in another country... yeh, thats right, they probably speak a different language other than English at home. My oh my where do you all come from ? ersby Well, this is confusing. Last night I heard a radio talk-in about another survey that put us Brits at the bottom of the pile. JoeBigs So true, I enjoy watching my fellow Americans and having a good laugh. I actually heard one complaining that the Japanese do not speak "American". The guy was so mad and so bloody amusing......LOL OhioDonna There are quite a fews surveys that would disagree with this one. There are some that acutally rank the Japanese as the worst not because they are impolite but because of the obessessive photo taking. The Japanese tourits have been reported to be quite pushy when it comes to getting a good photo. I was also with a tour group once when the guide announced several times that photos would not be allowed and that cameras should be put away. Guess which group sneaked a few photos? However I would not judge other Japanese tourists by the actions of this one group. We were on a boat and I was afraid to take pictures because we were touring a naval base. I bought postcards. By the way, I do not put much faith in surveys. Jeff Huffman DenDon at 09:53 AM JST - 10th July TNS Infratest. a German company LOL. Not having traveled to Europe but knowing people who have, they pretty much concur that the Germans are worse than Americans. The Japanese really aren't far behind precisely because too many insist on traveling in large groups. griff at 07:16 PM JST - 12th July . . . , but by using a translation of "gaijin" does go to expose the rather dichotomous way in which many japanese see the world... Yep. I caught a friend out with this who was staying with us in the States. I gave her no end or grief for referring to Americans as gaijin. I know nothing about Chinese culture, but knowing how they think of themselves and their culture historically, I wouldn't be surprised if they don't view the world in more-or-less the same way. torsoaho at 04:17 PM JST - 15th July No, what planet are you on ? One that obviously doesn't recognize that the USA is made up of immigrants with over 50 million current American residents being born in another country... yeh, thats right, they probably speak a different language other than English at home. That's the problem with being a "American" - it's a political as well as cultural designation. Of the 50 million immigrant "Americans" you speak of, the majority are Spanish speakers from Mexico and Central American. How "American-ized" they are, even after two generations, is open to debate. Many more of your 50 million are economic and political exiles. It can be argued that a good portion of these people (particularly the Chinese, S Korean, SE Asians, S Asians, and Africans) would probably return home tomorrow if the political and/or economic situations changed. Categorizing all these people as "Americans" to win an argument on the Internet(s) about foreign language proficiency in the U.S. is disingenuous at best. sfjp330 For a business, long as they spend money and you are respectful and don't break the law, it really doesn't matter. fightfan2008 I think Japanese tourist tend to be somewhat low maintenance/easy going. I haven't had contact with many French tourists, but from my experience a lot of them have been pretty friendly while others can seem 'standoff-ish.' But all in all they actually don't seem that bad IMO. ALL tourists are annoying. lordomni I'm not surprised about the language bit for Americans. Nothing to do with immigrants, people from the US are terrible with foreign languages because most never need to deal with it. However, I have never known someone to travel who didn't buy phrase books and do a little with it. I'd say Americans are more willing to try (and often fail miserably) at foreign languages, while many other countries like Japan have schooling in them from early age. But we do really enjoy complaining, lol. I'm not so surprised about the result for French, my experiences have generally been pretty unpleasant dealing with French travelers. Many I've met understood and spoke English, but did so tersely and disdainfully. I've also been told that Japanese are a bit troublesome as tourists, or at least incredibly unfriendly as they stay in their group and are just a nightmare if separated from the guide. Thats from my friends in the US who worked in hotels. I can imagine it, I suppose. the chinese believe that they are in fact descended from homo-erectus, not homo-sapiens like the rest of us. look it up Aug. 31, 2019 12:11 am JST A British company that incenses Anglo-Americans, unlike the French, is not new, this study did not take into account the behavior of British drunken alcohol and drugs, very often aggressive and brawler, impatient and rude , insulting stupid stereotypes towards the natives. https%3A%2F%2Fwww.express.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fworld%2F1162361%2Fspain-news-visit-spain-holiday-majorca-tourists-arran-protest-group https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mirror.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fuk-news%2Fsun-sand-stabbings-knifes-drugs-18790802 Tips in France do not exist, waiters have a living wage, that's why the French do not give and also because they do not know or are used to give in another country. Surely the Chinese are worse than the French? The more I think about this, it HAS to be Chinese tourists. They're loud like the Americans, rude and pushy like the French, as well as untidy, unhygenic, stingy hagglers. DJJapan Without a doubt it is the Chinese who are the worst. They have no idea about personal space. They will stop at an exit when there is a crowd of people behind them. They are noisy and spit. I have never had a bad experience with a French person and I have come across a couple of people who were full of themselves, but they were O.K. pffft...the chinese are the worst, be a mile...the japanese are usually ok but not the top in my opinion...they do spend money though, so they're welcome everywhere The Chinese must not have been included in this survey, otherwise they would have easily outdistanced the French. On recent trips to Saipan, South Korea, the US (California and Hawaii), I have never witnesses such deplorable behavior. They are completely oblivious to those around them, see nothing wrong with ignoring in-flight and taxiing regulations, and when one of the little buggers started pushing me in the back as we were waiting to disembark from the plane in San Francisco, I just had to push back on him and let him know (in no uncertain terms) that we were on my turf and to stop acting like a jackass. Whether he understood or not, he backed off. Don't get me started on the Israelis.... knowitall The Chinese are the worst tourists I have encountered in Japan. Just the other day, I took visiting family to Disneyland and knew the Chinese behind us would cut in line once the gate opened. They performed as predicted. And at the hotel, a group that was broken up into separate rooms (I assume) kept the doors open half the night going back and forth between rooms and chatting in the hall in front of my door. The Chinese do as they want and don't care at all what others think about it. 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__label__cc	0.602367	0.397633	Tag Archives: Gigi Gryce JOYOUSLY CONNECTED: “BLOCK PARTY,” featuring DAN BLOCK, ROB BLOCK, NEAL CAINE, TADATAKA UNNO, AARON KIMMEL Dan Block, Rob Adkins, Ehud Asherie at Casa Mezcal, October 25, 2015 Dan Block is high on my list of heroes — lyrical, inventive, quirky, passionate, expert, warm. I could go on, but it would just be prose. Better than prose is his new CD, BLOCK PARTY: A SAINT LOUIS CONNECTION (Miles High Records) which features him on tenor saxophone and clarinet alongside his very talented brother Rob, guitar; Neal Caine, string bass; Tadataka Unno, piano; Aaron Kimmel, drums. And the subtitle? Dan, Rob, and Neal are from the Mound City. And it’s even more of a family affair: Dan’s daughter Emma did the artwork and photography; cousin Joe Schwab (of Euclid Records) wrote the liner note. If you want further evidence of the eminences involved here, Andy Farber and Mark Sherman produced the session; Bill Moss was involved in the mastering. Dan does so many things well — no, splendidly — that it would be foolish to expect that a CD of his would be monochromatic, although listeners will not feel an artificial reaching after “innovation” from one track to another. But he brings a deeply felt intelligence to his music; his range is wide. Consider the song list: DINNER FOR ONE, PLEASE, JAMES (which I associate with Marty Grosz and British dance bands of the Thirties); NO, NO, NO (by the little-known songwriter Phil Springer, who wrote SANTA BABY and HOW LITTLE WE KNOW — read about Springer here); LIGHT BLUE and SMOKE SIGNAL (unhackneyed jazz classics by Monk and Gigi Gryce, respectively); WONDERFUL ONE (by Ferde Grofe, 1922); CHANGES (Walter Donaldson, both associated with Paul Whiteman, the latter with Bix and Bing); BY THE FIRESIDE (a gorgeous Ray Noble melody); OPTION CLICK (Block’s own response to modern technology); THERE AIN’T NO LAND LIKE DIXIELAND (associated with Bix and Tram); IT WAS WRITTEN IN THE STARS (lovely Harold Arlen). The song list might seem homage to Dan’s many working associations, from Twenties recreations to free-blowing contemporary jazz, but all of the performances are at heart melodic, curiously inquiring of the music, treating the originals with love but not as museum pieces. Dan’s spacious imagination does not pop compositions into stylistic cubbyholes (“This goes in the Hank Mobley section; this goes in the Harmony Records file”): the music is animated by affection and ease. Although I’ve heard and admired Rob Block in person several times in New York, this is a wonderful re-introduction to his lyrical, swinging selves. Like brother Dan, he is technically fluent, yet his phrases breathe and his solos have logical shapes. He plays the guitar; it doesn’t play him. Listen to the fraternal joy on WONDERFUL ONE, for one example. The members of the rhythm section are spectacularly good in duo and trio and as soloists: I found myself listening to several tracks a second and third time to savor what they were doing, memorably uplifting. As a player, Dan is . . . what superlatives do I write here? He respects melodies but also adores surprises; he never plays a predictable phrase but takes us on his journeys — which are quietly thrilling. I’ve known him as clarinetist, saxophonist, even trumpeter, pianist, and singer, for almost fifteen years now, and a Dan Block performance is something I cherish. The casual but expert arrangements on this CD are also great gifts to us. No piece goes predictably from ensemble to solos to ensemble; each performance contains splendid little landscapes, as solos give way to duets. The result is often elegant but never slick. I’ve been playing and replaying this disc, always with delight. I would even suggest that listeners begin at the end, with the touching duet for the brothers Block on IT WAS WRITTEN IN THE STARS. Obviously the title is true. If you know Dan’s work, you will find this disc exceedingly rewarding; if he’s new to you, I guarantee you will have found a new hero. BLOCK PARTY can be found here and here (with sound samples). Tagged Aaron Kimmel, Andy Farber, Bix Beiderbecke, Dan Block, Emma Block, Gigi Gryce, Hank Mobley, Harold Arlen, Jazz Lives, Joe Schwab, Mark Sherman, Michael Steinman, Neal Caine, Phil Springer, Ray Noble, Rob Block, SANTA BABY, Tadataka Unno, Thelonious Monk, Walter Donaldson THE SEARCH FOR A GOOD REED, TWICE The quest, as enacted by reedman SMIGLY (thanks to Allen Mezquida, whose nimble playing is heard on the soundtrack): You can find more SMIGLY here or here. The simpler answer, at least in 1957 terms, although any musician knows that buying a box of the reeds Lucky Thompson plays will not automatically result in your sounding like Lucky . . . but the search continues! Posted in It's A Mystery, Pay Attention!, That Was Fun! Tagged Allen Mezquida, Danny Bank, Gigi Gryce, Jazz Lives, Jerome Richardson, Lucky Thompson, Michael Steinman, reed, saxophone reed, SMIGLY, Tony Scott, Vibrator Reeds, Zoot Sims PIANO SUMMIT at SOFIA’S (Part Two): Dec. 4, 2010 The music I heard and captured at Michael Kanan’s piano soiree at Sofia’s Ristorante (in the Hotel Edison, 211 West 46th Street, New York City) on Dec. 4, 2010, so captivated me that I decided to post another half-dozen performances from that splendid night. The participants were Larry Ham, Pete Malinverni, Tardo Hammer, and Michael, piano; Neal Miner, bass; Eliot Zigmund, drums. What continues to fascinate me is the wide emotional range in these performances — from spiky to tender, from witty to rhapsodic. Although these players know the traditions deeply and empathically, this wasn’t a repertory evening, with the ghosts of (say) Nat Cole, Bud Powell, Fats Waller, McCoy Tyner . . . etc., being feted. It was enthralling to hear these men at the piano and the warm-hearted playing of Neal and Eliot — a gathering of friends. When I met Michael about a week later (he was playing alongside Dan Block at the Brooklyn Lyceum) I complimented him on his format for the evening, where each of the four pianists played two leisurely selections, then got off the bench for the next player. I thought it went a long way in preventing the usual set-shaping that musicians fall into, but Michael pointed out one of his aims (fully realized) that I hadn’t consciously absorbed. I had seen the other players paying close attention while they were members of the listening audience — but Michael had more than this in mind: that each player would be influenced (subliminally or directly) by what his colleagues had played — making the evening an organic artistic whole rather than simply a round-robin. It worked — and it transcended my already high expectations. Here are a half-dozen more opportunities to savor this evening. Tardo Hammer, sure-footed yet loving risks, began the evening with an individualistic reading of Gigi Gryce’s MINORITY (a composition whose title I had to ask): Pete Malinverni (“It’s melody, man!”) embarked on a pair of standards, at once tenderly reverent and quietly, subversively, taking them apart from inside. Here’s I REMEMBER YOU: And a romantic MY IDEAL: Michael Kanan continued with two delicious explorations: on ALL THE THINGS YOU ARE, he didn’t presume to imitate Art Tatum, but I swear I keep waiting for Ben Webster to join in. Then he turned it into a spiky BLUE SKIES. I wonder how audible the woman who wanted to sing along is (although she had a pleasant enough voice, she was standing — by my lights — far too close). Youth must be served, I suppose: And here’s Michael’s controlled but enthusiastic reading of LET’S FALL IN LOVE: And we’ll let have Larry Ham lovingly have the last word with CLOSE ENOUGH FOR LOVE: This was a wholly gratifying jazz evening: I hope Michael can arrange piano soirees on a regular basis! Tagged Art Tatum, Ben Webster, Brooklyn Lyceum, Bud Powell, Dan Block, Eliot Zigmund, Fats Waller, Gigi Gryce, Hotel Edison, jazz blog, Jazz Lives, jazz piano, McCoy Tyner, Michael Kanan, Michael Steinman, Neal Miner, originality, Pete Malinverni, piano trio, repertory, Sofia's Ristorante, Tardo Hammer	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line942
__label__wiki	0.754938	0.754938	JPS Health Network to Restore Traditional Services amid COVID-19 Response Non-Emergency Surgery, Urgent Care, Clinics to Reopen As its response to the COVID-19 pandemic evolves, JPS Health Network is pleased to announce changes that will make it easier for people to access traditional healthcare services. Effective immediately, the Psychiatric Emergency Center lobby has been reopened to receive patients with Behavioral Health needs. This week, JPS will reopen its Urgent Care Center in its usual location on the first floor of the Main Hospital Building at 1500 S. Main Street in Fort Worth. On May 26, surgeons will resume performing non-emergency operations On June 1, some neighborhood health clinics will resume normal operation. While many vital services including emergency surgery, trauma care and cancer treatment have been ongoing over the past two months, Dr. Rick Miller, Chief of Surgery at JPS, said now is the time to expand to serve patients who need assistance ranging from an Urgent Care Center visit for cuts and scrapes to an operation to replace a degenerative knee or hip. “We have a number of patients who been waiting for elective surgeries because of COVID, and it’s important that we start to get those taken care of before they become emergent and more complicated,” Miller said. “The older the cancelation, the sooner the patient will be scheduled.” Miller said planning for the reopening of hospital services has been ongoing for a month and a half to develop procedures that will keep non-COVID patients safe. According to Miller, Phase I of resuming non-emergency surgery will include only patients who are determined through screening to be low risk including no evidence of chronic lung disease, who require 120 minutes or less in the operating room and who do not require an inpatient stay after their procedure. Initially, a maximum of 110 operations will be performed a week. Phase II would include more complicated cases and Phase III will be the full return to a normal surgery schedule. “This decision is a success for JPS, representing our ability to expand access even as we balance the ongoing needs of our COVID patients,” Dr. Michael Hochberg, Sr. Executive Vice President & Chief Clinical Officer, JPS Health Network, said. “The steps we have taken during these times, whether in regard to PPE or testing or screening or setting up COVID units are informed by science, data and most critically, safety for our patients, staff and community.” JPS in the News The Surge is Here: COVID Response Rises at JPS Just Give us Two More Days Zee, Durand Honored by their Peers JPS Owns It When It Comes To Bone Care “I’m So Thankful for the Doctors and Nurses” JPS, Cook Children's Team Up to Benefit Tarrant County Families JPS Named Top Hospital in America by Washington Monthly JPS Health Network, Lockheed Martin Partner in COVID-19 Response JPS On-Demand Urgent Care: Reconnecting Patients with Providers	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line947
__label__cc	0.658923	0.341077	Multi-day snowfall could bring up to 20 cm of snow to Waterloo Region: Environment Canada CTVNewsKitchener.ca Staff @CTVKitchener Contact Published Sunday, November 29, 2020 6:15PM EST Last Updated Monday, November 30, 2020 4:11PM EST KITCHENER -- Environment Canada has issued a special weather statement for much of southern Ontario, including Waterloo Region and Wellington County, ahead of what it's calling a "multi-day snowfall event." According to the statement, snow is expected to fall from Monday into Wednesday, bringing as much as 20 cm of snow in the process. Monday's precipitation is expected to start off as rain or snow, changing to snow by the evening and dropping five to 10 cm of snow by Tuesday morning. Another five to 10 cm of snow is possibly through Wednesday. "This snowfall is a result of a strengthening low pressure system expected to move through eastern Ontario into Quebec Tuesday into Wednesday," the statement read in part. The system is expected to move east of Waterloo Region and Wellington County by Wednesday. Drivers are advised to prepare for winter driving conditions. This will be the second significant snow fall so far this season. Earlier this month, many communities across southern Ontario saw between 15 and 25 cm of snowfall in one day. PARKING BANS IN EFFECT The Cities of Kitchener, Waterloo and Cambridge have all declared snow events in preparation for weather moving into the area on Monday night. Residents in the cities need to move their vehicles from city streets by midnight, and the parking bans remain in effect for 24 hours. Wild winter, drastic swings in store for Canada this year: Weather Network No snow days: Waterloo Region's public schools will switch to online classes in bad weather 'What the heck is winter golf?' How one company plans to keep its courses open through the winter	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line959
__label__cc	0.690309	0.309691	Kyo Lee Open-Source Cloud Blog Beyond Continuous Integration: Locking Steps with Dev, QA, and Release by kyolee310 Continuous integration: the practice of frequently integrating one’s new or changed code with the existing code repository [wikipedia] In this blog we will talk about how the continuous integration process was put in place for the new component, Eucalyptus User Console, in order to collaborate the efforts among the dev, QA and release teams throughout the development cycle of Eucalyptus 3.2. Eucalyptus User Console is a newly introduced component in Eucalyptus, whose main goal is to provide an easy-to-use, intuitive browser-based interface to the cloud users, thus assisting in the dev/test cloud deployments among IT organizations and enterprises. Eucalyptus User Console consists of two components: javascript-based client-side application and Tornado-based user console proxy server. Early Involvement The first phase of the development was to come up with a quick prototype to demonstrate how the user console would work under the given initial design of the architecture (see the Eucalyptus Console components layout diagram above). As soon as the prototype was evaluated and its feasibility was verified, the release team started creating the packages for two major Linux OS platforms: Ubuntu and Centos/RHEL. The early involvement of the release team turned out to be the best help any developers or QA engineers could ask for; since the very beginning stage of the development, the release team was able to provide invaluable information that served as guardrail for the fast-moving development. Such information included advising on how the files should be named and organized and identifying which dependencies should or should not be used in order to meet the requirements for various Linux distributions. Dealing with such issues at the later stage of the development would have been undoubtedly a major pain in the back-end. Further more, the release team was able to ensure that the development of the new user console would never go off the track against the Linux distro requirements by setting up the automated daily package-building process using Jenkins — which utilizes the VM resources from our Release cloud that runs on Eucalyptus. Keeping Up With Eucalyptus Setting up the automated process to build the packages would allow the release team to keep an eye on the progress of the user console’s development in terms of the ability to build the packages according to the constraints set by the Linux distributions. However, it would not guarantee whether the newly built packages contain the version of the user console that works with the current, up-to-date Eucalyptus cloud that was also in development. Thus, the challenge was to ensure that the latest built user console packages work with the latest built Eucalyptus throughout the development. In order to solve this issue, the QA team created a testunit that automatically installs the latest user console packages on a newly built Eucalyptus. Then, the testunit was added to the main test sequences used by the Eucalyptus 3.2 development in our automated QA system, making the installation of the latest user console packages accessible by all developers at Eucalyptus. This setup encouraged a failure in the user console package installation to be seen by any developers throughout the development, thus allowing the failure to be detected fast and reported with quickness. The testunit ui_setup can be seen in action above in the table which displays the results of the test sequence ran by the automated QA system.. Check out the link below for more details of this testunit: https://github.com/eucalyptus-qa/ui_setup As the user console evolved out of its prototype state and took the form of a more product-like shape, the QA team was working in parallel, figuring out how to set up the automated testing process for the user console. The blog here talks in detail about how Selenium was used to create the automated web-browser testing tools, se34euca. In the mid-stage of the development, as the features of the user console started functioning in reasonably stable manners, 3 automated tests were added — incrementally — to ensure that the working state of the user console throughout the development. Those 3 tests are: user_console_view_page_test – https://github.com/eucalyptus-qa/user_console_view_page_test user_console_generate_keypair_test – https://github.com/eucalyptus-qa/user_console_generate_keypair_test user_console_launch_instance_test – https://github.com/eucalyptus-qa/user_console_launch_instance_test These automated tests were to ask the 3 simple questions below on a daily basis: Can the user log in and see all the landing pages on the latest user console? Can the user generate a new keypair using the latest user console? Can the user launch a VM instance using the latest user console? Of course, it would be possible, and desirable, to ask more questions in a more complicated fashion. However, during the rapid development phase, asking those 3 simple questions on a daily basis, turned out to be sufficient, and effective, to understand whether something terrible had happened to the user console or not. The goal of these automated tests at this stage of the development was not to detect every little defect in the product. Not too soon at the moment. The main purpose is rather to serve as an indicator for the developers, QA engineers, and release engineers to assure ourselves that the change that went in the code earlier today did not ruin the delicate trust among the three groups, meaning that the build, installation, and configuration procedures are still in tact. Having such assurance in check by mechanical means has made the three groups extremely effective in discovering issues during the development since it allowed each member to narrow down exactly what was responsible for the defects in a finely reduced time frame, which was in hours, rather than days or weeks. Guardrail For Development Having the automated package build process and the automated installation/configuration process in place at the early stage of the development was proven to be extremely useful; rather than agreeing on the written procedures, the dev, QA, and release team materialized such agreements into the actual implementation, and put them into work by using various automated mechanics that run on a daily basis. Therefore, throughout the development, we were able to witness and assure ourselves that we were making progress in accordance with the plan and our self-imposed restrictions. Check out the Eucalyptus Open QA webpage to see the continuous integration at Eucalyptus in action: Eucalyptus Open QA (beta) – http://ec2-50-112-61-121.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com/open_qa.php Filed Under: agile development, cloud application, cloud computing, open source, software development Tags: agile : automation : cloud : cloud computing : continuous integration : design : develop : devops : eucalyptus : open source : QA : selenium : software development : technology : testing 8 Comments to “Beyond Continuous Integration: Locking Steps with Dev, QA, and Release” hspencer77 says: Reblogged this on More Mind Spew-age from Harold Spencer Jr. and commented: Nice blog regarding continuous integration regarding Eucalyptus UI Nice blog Kyo. Curious, where do you see the connection with eutester, testlink and Jenkins[1] in this setup? Is there a way to show the integration where eutester and eucalyptus UI testing take place in parallel? [1] http://testingclouds.wordpress.com/2012/10/01/creating-a-eucalyptus-test-harness-jenkinstestlink-and-eutester/ Harold Jr. kyolee310 says: Thank you, Harold. The automated testing tools for Eucalyptus User Console, namely se34euca, are designed to work as independent testing tools that work as Linux command line tools, such that they can be wrapped in using any types of test framework out there, including eutester. However, it would also be possible to bypass the command line option and become directly integrated into eutester as needed. Yet, the concern is the hard dependency of the tool with Selenum Remote Server. Feel free to try it out and let us know if you run into any issues: https://github.com/eucalyptus/se34euca Hey Kyo, Thanks for the reply. I guess here, I would have liked to see more integration with eutester. This way, when I pull down eutester, it gives me the entire package (mostly) for testing the cloud – commandline and UI. Was there a particular reason why you went this route instead of leveraging the eutester framework? Harold Spencer, Jr. Harold, In order for the Selenium-based Eucalyptus User Console testing tools to run, it would require a Ubuntu machine/image (for now) that runs a Standalone Selenium Web Server, which is a Java process. (check out the link here: http://seleniumhq.org/docs/03_webdriver.html#setting-up-a-selenium-webdriver-project). It was in my belief that no framework would want to build up the direct dependency that would require having a standalone java server running at all time. For this reason, it was needed that the automated testing tools for the user console had to an independent module that interacts with other testing frameworks. However, as mentioned before, the integration of such tools with any test frameworks out there, such as eutester, would be very welcome! Thanks for your response. I think you misunderstood what I meant by integrating with eutester. By integration, I meant extension. For example, if a user downloaded eutester, and there was a directory under there for selenium testing (or UI testing), the code could be there, but have the requirements listed that mentions that you need a Selenium server running. How you set up that Selenium server (whether the user runs it in an instance, remote server, or even their local machine) can be instructions, bootstrap scripts, etc. that could be present there. The point here – if you can pull down one testing functional testing framework that gives you one entry point for UI and API tests, it makes it easier for the cloud administrator. That make sense? Yes, Harold. That would be certainly possible 🙂 Thank you for the input! abhijitkharat says: Reblogged this on Abhijit Kharat. 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__label__cc	0.564685	0.435315	lambrettista.net A blog dedicated to the Lambretta, the world's finest motor scooter. Buy me a beer? Classic Lambretta Specialists New Lambretta Dealers Lambretta Clubs Scooter Clubs Lambretta Brand Scooter Sport Sites, Forums, Mags & Blogs A scooterists miscellany (everything else)… Other Marques Loved Quadrophenia? Check out this new film; Being Posted on January 29, 2016 by crocodilejock News of a new short film being shot in Brighton reached Lambrettista HQ the other day, this looks like its going to be a good one. Scheduled for a 2017 release, Being is a new film featuring a couple of actors from the classic Quadrophenia, the film that a lot of scooter riders cite as ‘life changing’. The exciting thing about this film is that you can get involved with it through Kickstarter… more of that at the end of this post. Buddy is a young carer for his Mum who has multiple sclerosis. He struggles with his responsibilities at home and is bullied at school finding escape in a world of sixties music. He befriends an out of work actor, ‘Doley’ (Mark Wingett), who was in the movie Quadrophenia. The core of the film is the struggle carers face when looking after family members. It raises the question, in a lighthearted way, why in this day and age, carers and those they care for are still marginalised and made to feel like outsiders. A nod to Quadrophenia From original cast members and the Brighton location right down to the replicas of the scooters and clothing, Being has strong cultural references to the original Quadrophenia movie. Buddy and his mother Margaret share a love of sixties mod bands like The Who, The Kinks and The Animals. Who’s on board? Director Devlin Crow has secured a stellar line-up of cast and crew, which includes Mark Wingett (Dave from Quadrophenia, one of my favourite characters) as well as Trevor Laird, (another of my favourite characters, Ferdy). Buddy is played by young actor Joshua Farley. There’s a strong team behind the camera too; cinematographer Tristan Oliver (Grand Budapest Hotel, Fantastic Mr Fox, The Wrong Trousers) and composer Barrington Pheloung (Inspector Morse, Lewis) backed up by an experienced film and television crew. But they need your help… The script has been written and many people have pledged their commitment to this project because of Devlin’s considerable charisma and his deep love for Kennedy, his wife who has MS. They do so in the knowledge that in Devlin’s hands this will be a moving and compelling work of art that will change peoples’ lives forever. If you want to be part of this exciting film here’s what you do… The Kickstarter* campaign will launch on 1st February 2016 and will run for 30 days. Their goal is to raise a minimum of £20,000. I’ll update this post with a link to the project when it launches, but I thought I’d get in early, to give my readers a ‘heads up’ on this very special project. Kickstarter Rewards Here’s how it works: They set a funding goal (£20k). You make a pledge. You choose a level of donation that suits you and in return there will be some fabulous rewards. The rewards will be detailed on the Kickstarter page, but ere are a few examples of what you might expect to receive: Devlin Crow original artwork Credits in the film Invitation to the premier Be an extra for the day Autographs from the actors Watching one of the scenes of the film being shot Lunch on one of the days of the shoot Your own Lambretta being featured in the film Invite to a party with the cast Check out the website This is only a taster of the project, there’s a lot more over on the official website, you can also follow them on Facebook and Twitter. *Kickstarter is a crowdfunding platform where people come together to make creative projects happen. When you back the project, you’ll be part of the journey to make the film happen. They’ve chosen Kickstarter because it is set up to help filmmakers like Devlin reach out to people like us, and they enjoy supporting Kickstarter projects themselves. If for some bizarre reason you don’t own a copy of Quadrophenia, You can get one on Amazon here This entry was posted in Lambretta History, Lambretta Life and tagged Being, Devlin Crow, film, Jimmy Replica, Kickstarter, Mark Wingett, movie, Quadrophenia, Trevor Laird by crocodilejock. Bookmark the permalink. 15 thoughts on “Loved Quadrophenia? Check out this new film; Being” Lambretta rider on January 29, 2016 at 8:56 am said: They could just get a job like everyone else does. Crowd funding is OK on low risk stuff but a film…crazy.. crocodilejock on January 29, 2016 at 9:04 am said: I get your point, but look at it a little differently. I think it’s a risk worth taking… you choose your risk level, make a small commitment, if you fancy it, and can afford it, and in return get a ‘money can’t buy’ opportunity to be involved in a film. If it’s not your thing, fair enough, but I think it’s a pretty good model to get a low budget film funded. There are some good ‘names’ on board. The one thing that worries me is the budget seems very small, but if it’s all done in one location, it might work. vespa hater on January 29, 2016 at 8:59 am said: Poop poop. Justin Evans on January 29, 2016 at 9:38 am said: Bloody brilliant… about time we had another original Mod classic. I love the thought that all the mod mad scooterists have a chance to be involved, imagine having the chance of being in the original Quadrophenia you’d give your left white wall! Good luck I love to see these projects work. See you on set! Justin Dublin Mike Ward on January 29, 2016 at 2:10 pm said: Brilliant! Looking forward to that! Cheers steve orridge on January 29, 2016 at 5:33 pm said: I was one of the extras in Quadrophenia. I m still scootering today. I wouldnt mind being involved with this project crocodilejock on January 30, 2016 at 10:47 am said: Were you on a scooter? It must be great to spot yourself in the film! Jannette moreton on January 30, 2016 at 4:08 pm said: Look forward to this and hopefully it will help awareness about all the young carers Pingback: Quadrophenia Immersive Cinematic Experience \| lambrettista.net Alan Shine on February 13, 2016 at 1:12 pm said: My wife has MS and the lack of knowledge people have is a joke I’m also a Mod and a Quadrophenia nut so I’m wishing this film every success it’ll bring some great Mod stuff but more importantly some very much needed awareness, I didn’t realise this was the film my had had been asked to help out in a scene his most upset lol. Goodluck! and if you need a middle aged Mod (No Scooter I’m happy to help out) Paul Dudley on February 16, 2016 at 9:16 pm said: Excited about this project love to be a part of it,I’m and old mod with 3 scooters a tv200 ,LI 150 and a series 2 Tv 175 plus plenty of mates with the gear and scooters email for pictures if needed. Pingback: Being launches on Kickstarter \| lambrettista.net Mark kelly on June 25, 2016 at 11:36 am said: Still ,, follow mod culture ,,! Myself and my wife !!! Members of the the barnsley vickings scooter club also ! And more exciting then ever is that ‘ Martin scully ‘ my mate did appear in the courtroom of the quad film 😆😆!!! And is still as nutty as ever !! Great days still with the mods ,, and what a pleasure it is to see that younger generation ,, that want even born till the late 80s !!! Follow this remarkable way !!! They don’t walk round with half of there trousers round the pants ?? Credit to all smart young mid followers !!! I have a lambretta GP 1985 model ,,, and may I say ‘ I won the trophy ,, for the best looking bike ,, a couple of months ago !!! At my local lambretta club !!! Visited me on Facebook ( Mark kelly ) ‘ get this movie started ,,, yes of course ‘ we wanna be in the spot light 👍👍👍👍 Suzanne on May 23, 2017 at 9:40 pm said: I am so looking forward to this on so many levels. One being a huge Who and Quadrophenia fan, two being from Brighton, three I fully appreciate the plight of young carers and four – Josh Farley is one of the most wonderful students I have ever taught (French, not drama 😉 ). I can’t wait. Spread the word! Robbie Taylor on August 1, 2017 at 8:32 pm said: Hi I’m Rob really interested I ride a 1960 LI series original condition, looks the part 2 seater I would be happy to show pictures Thoughts? Your comments are always welcome… Cancel reply Electric motorcycles and scooters J-range Lambretta LN Lambretta Vendetta Model D New Lambretta rideout Serveta three-wheeler	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line968
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__label__cc	0.740252	0.259748	Life of Wry The Grapes of Half I know, the title’s a little weird, but it’s late and I needed something fast. Best I could come up with. The topic’s even worse, so bear with me. Made a new recipe tonight for guests. Of course. Why would we serve some tried and true dish when we can experiment on friends? Especially when half the time they don’t come out. This one was good, but it came out nothing like the picture. This was the goal: That is Roasted Cauliflower and Grapes, found in the BittenWord food blog, which has some odd little recipes, but I like the authors. They didn’t tell us to do this, but I read somewhere that if you want to cut a whole bunch of cherry tomatoes in half, filling a plate with tomatoes, then putting another plate on top, then sliding a knife between them does the job, so I figured it might work for grapes, and it did! See?….. 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Roast in 425 degree oven for 30 minutes, stirring halfway through. Posted by Kari F L O Y D The community said goodbye to Floyd Fenocchio tonight, and wow, what a loving tribute to a man and a life beautifully lived. Seventy-six was way too young. There was so much more life to live, so much that will unfold yet that he would have wanted to see and be a part of, so much yet to give to his family, his friends, his community. And Floyd? He was so fit and young at heart and active and happy. The heart can be a fickle organ. I was so incredibly pleased to be asked to speak about our dear friend on behalf of our baseball community. And it was my great honor to do it. Here’s the program which was such a perfect blend of family, friends, colleagues, music and photos. Bob Dunning captured Floyd so well in his introduction and comments made throughout the program. Floyd’s brother and sisters-in-law were achingly sweet and their comments heartfelt. Linda’s reciting of the 23rd Psalm was powerful and her comments so gracious. Mark’s comments and especially the photos he chose and arranged and set to music told beautiful stories, each one so very moving. I’ll paste the comments I made at the end of this post. Writing about Floyd came so easily. I learned a lot about Floyd tonight… he was a sailor for one thing. For another: he was as genuinely kind, honorable and tenderhearted from the get go as he was in his later years. And he was universally loved; it is absolutely true that each person who knew him felt a special and unique connection to Floyd, and I believe each of those connections was genuine. That is a lot of love. And he loved the song Blowing in the Wind. That’s awesome. It was touching when his son Dan talked about how, when a kid is growing up, he looks up to his parents as perfect, flawless beings, but as those kids grow older they see their parents’ flaws and imperfections. He went on to say his dad remained the generous, devoted dad he had been to him as a child, every bit as attentive and loving in later years as when Dan was growing up. I can say this: the boys were lucky to have Floyd in their dugout, in all respects. They went from kids to young men on Floyd’s watch. There could be no greater gift. Deep breath of gratitude. Here is a shot of the post ceremony dinner at The Graduate: James, Daniel (Floyd’s grandson), Solly, Alex, Coach Tim (now living and working in San Francisco), Eric, Peter, Andrew, Ray and Mason. These guys have been together a long time. So, this is the sixth draft of the comments I shared tonight (minus a few extemporaneous comments here and there). Sixth draft because I kept editing the comments down in order to stay close to my allotted time. Much great stuff is on the cutting room floor… I could have talked for an hour with all the memories and stories I gathered from the other parents. It was a very moving process. I have been identified in the program as “baseball parent” and asked to speak on behalf of Floyd’s baseball community. It’s a Floyd Fan Club of a baseball community. Baseball was a really huge part of Floyd’s life, for his whole life, but especially with his grandsons in the last 11-12 years or so. According to Dianna and Mark, these last years were some of the best of his life. In my comments this evening, I’m representing many families of boys who’ve played baseball with Daniel from T-ball to the Davis High School varsity team. But mostly the families of boys who played on Davis Crush, a travel team that Floyd helped coach for four years. But while I’m mostly representing that particular swath of the baseball community, I know the comments I’m going to share are true for Floyd’s other sports communities as well, and his fellow bleacher mates everywhere. So, I contacted the families in our community and asked people to share their favorite memories of Floyd and any words that came to mind that best described him. I looked at all the words and memories that people came up with and noticed that most of them started with a letter in Floyd’s name. So that’s how I decided to organize the comments and good words. F L O Y D… so what do those letters stand for? F is for FRIEND. Floyd was a genuine, kind friend–to kids and to parents. Tim Busbin, who coached with Floyd for 3 years of the Crush years, said, “Above all, Floyd was a friend, whose example and lessons I will carry with me forever.” Dustin Tillman, one of the players, said “Floyd stood by you, no matter what you did. Even if you blew the game, or we lost by 20 runs. He was still nice to you.” Jim Frame commented that “Floyd was a friend you could count on, always there to lend a hand, take the boys to practice, let them change into their uniforms at his house, practice in his garage, and he always fed them snacks.” Theron Cosgrave said “Floyd was always looking for a way to help out. He would do anything for anybody.” L Is for LOVE. Floyd loved everyone! And everyone really felt that. He had a way of making people around him feel special and cared for. Frances Andrews said, “Floyd had a huge heart from which ran a river of love. Who could have imagined his heart would be the thing to let him down?” Theron said, “Floyd LOVED baseball and he loved just being out there–in the field, in the dugout, in the bleachers. It didn’t matter the score, it was always a good day to be alive and watching baseball.” He just loved that. O is for OASIS OF CALM Frances described Floyd as an Oasis of Calm, which was great, because I needed an O word. Floyd was an extremely easy going, roll-with-the-punches guy. Let’s say somebody’s younger sibling was playing kickball against the backstop, during a game, right behind the catcher, and let’s say your son was pitching. You might be going a little bit crazy. Floyd, however, is smiling at that little kid. He may be exchanging a knowing glance with you, but he is tolerant and patient and kind toward that ball-kicking child. He was totally unflappable. If the team had a spectacularly horrible losing streak, it was fine, no cause for worry, they’ll get ’em next time. No matter what, it’s always just a beautiful day for baseball. Attending weekend tournaments for three teams over two days covering half the state? No problem. If you asked Floyd about it, he just chuckled. Nothing but smiles in an oasis of calm. Y is for YOUTHFUL Floyd was fit and lean. And he was a great athlete. He may have been in his 70s but he’d be down there on the field with coaches half his age, or even a third his age. He’d throw with the boys, hit ground balls, catch pitchers, and stand at first base in 100 degree weather. In the bleachers, he was always the first one up to help when somebody arrived with an armload of stuff. He hauled ice chests, rearranged chairs, set up umbrellas and shade structures. And he didn’t lumber and thud down the bleachers like the rest of us, he bounced, and at the bottom, there was always this little dance in his step. Frances had this story: “When I stopped by the field last summer before that Roy Hobbs tournament, who do I find out there in the 100 degree weather weeding around the bleachers – Floyd, of course! He wanted it to look nice for the tournament. Fortunately Coach Ariola sent Pierce out to help him. That was an amusing sight under the bleachers… Pierce and Floyd weeding!” Alison Pohl said, “Brendan’s favorite memory of Floyd was after Crush won the Redding tournament, Floyd, Tim and Mark ran a victory lap while the boys waited for them at home plate.” I remember that! Watching Floyd run the bases at 70-something years old…it was 360′ feet of pure joy! For him and for us. D is for DEDICATION Floyd was dedicated to the things he loved and cared about. We in the baseball community benefitted greatly from this. Matt Biers-Ariel said, “it was his dedication that made Floyd such a great coach. He knew the mechanics of the game and really worked with the boys to help them dissect their swings.” Djina Biers-Ariel said, “And he was always there. He always showed up.” Liz Shorts added, “No matter what time of day, freezing cold or burning hot, he was always there.” I ran out of letters in his name before I ran out of adjectives. People had a few other adjectives that didn’t’ begin with F, L, O, Y or D, but describe him Floyd so well: tenderhearted There was another word that everyone mentioned in describing Floyd: Positive – Tammy Tujo said, “even when the boys would have a bad game, Floyd found the positive things and said those.” – Wes Young said, “It’s easy to cheer on a kid who has had a great performance. Floyd always had a good or encouraging word after the game for someone who was struggling that day.” – Alex Gutierrez said, “What I always remember is getting to the field early to watch the boys practice and of course Floyd would be there…I would say to Floyd “how’d the practice go?” Floyd would always say “Alex…the boys look good today”. I also remember that. That is exactly what he would say. Everyone I asked had two favorite stories about Floyd: Theron tells the first one this way: “Looks can be deceiving. When Floyd helped coach the Crush travel team, everyone saw him as this nice-as-can be grandfather helping out on the field as a first-base coach….. which made him the perfect candidate to steal signs from the opposing team’s catcher. I can still hear him bark out: “Line dive ‘em now,” — which would tell the batter that a curveball was coming. No team ever caught on.” John Timmons added “he even stole signs from his own grandson one time during practice, when Danny was catching Alex.” The other story that showed up on everyone’s list involved Floyd, a tractor, and a certain City-owned baseball diamond in the middle of town with a dirt infield that always required a lot of dragging… but I’m going to let Mark tell that story. I’m going to close with a few comments that sum up our dear, dear friend Floyd: Claire Grindall said: There are so many things that come to mind… His smile when he was with the boys, his gentle nature when he explained a play, his way of being upset at an umpire without making anyone uncomfortable, and his hand always on your shoulder as he greeted you. Lisa D’Angelo said: Some people make you a better person just knowing them, and Floyd was one of those rare people. Phil D’Angelo said: I realize that Floyd was Daniel and Jonah’s grandfather. However, on the baseball field he was a grandfather to all the boys. Tara Richardson said: The hours our boys spent with him on the field, in the batting cages, in the stands, in the car, and over meals throughout the years will continue to be some of the most treasured of their lives. Each and every one of those boys loves Floyd and loved spending time with him. I not only believe that Floyd’s example has been recognized, understood, and so appreciated by these boys, but I believe that they want to live their own lives following his example. Each of them will take a little bit of Floyd out to the rest of the world and we will be all the better for it. I think all of us wish that we could thank Floyd one last time and tell him how much he has meant to all of us. Korlyn Gibson said: We so loved this man, he will be greatly missed. And finally, from Tim: Overall, Floyd was just a beautiful human being. They closed the memorial with the Advanced Treble Choir and Madrigals together singing “Take Me Out to the Ballgame.” The entire hall–some 500 people–stood and sang along. Rest in peace dear friend. And thank you. That is Blooming Freaky Driving down F Street and see these… I’m no expert on these things (as we’ve determined), but I do know for a fact–because I gauge the start of spring (the Davis spring, not calendar spring) each year by when the trees along F bloom and it’s always mid February–that we are two weeks early. Can almost set my clock to it. And now we’re all messed up. We had narcissus blooming in December, which I think may also have been a few weeks early, but I never count those because they typically arrive in months that are still wintry and I’m used to that. But I’m not used to blooming trees along F Street in January. I’m not surprised the trees are confused.. we got not one drop of rain in the entire month of January, among other weather oddities, and it’s been near 70 degrees all week, so what the hell. I, like everyone else, am very afraid for California. By the way, Don the nursery man says it’s a pyrus kawakami, or ornamental or evergreen pear. And this one is in front of Discovery Preschool, at about 10th: Hood Improvements This is me trying to get out of my driveway this afternoon. I was temporarily trapped by this road construction truck and had to hunt down a worker to move it. This road construction is a very good development. If you’re me, you’ve always been just a wee bit let down by your neighborhood. Our house is in a great location: close to downtown and restaurants and theaters; close to campus, the Mondavi and the arboretum; close to Central Park and Farmer’s Market; close to the Co-op; across the street from Civic Center park and the baseball diamond–unbelievably convenient for many years. It’s truly a great place to be if you like to be in the middle of a lot of energy and close enough to walk to just about any place you’d need to go. But… we’re also in the middle of a big municipal block which means we have no across-the-street-neighbors. There are a fair number of student rentals, including a frat house a block away–so lots of red cups–and we have a lot of city, county and campus parking. We are long on convenience, short on aesthetics. As it turns out, I’m a person for whom aesthetics is huge. I have a great need to love where I live, I want to love looking at my home in its setting, I want to feel a rush of pleasure as I round the corner to home. I like charm, intimacy, serenity and beauty. We’re short on all that. So I whine. Not a lot, but sometimes. It’s not attractive. I really have to stop that. (I will say, our house itself is like an oasis in the midst of all the chaos, and I do love it once you’re inside the front door, so there’s that!) Anyway, on top of the no-charm factor, our street looks like it’s gone through a meat grinder. We get a lot of traffic because of the university and City and the potholes in the last year have become craters. But this week, they are patching the holes! I wish they were resurfacing the whole thing like they did on B Street last year, but it looks like that’s a ways off. Still…. this will be an improvement, and every little bit helps! I Didn’t Know the Anther I’m not much on naming flowers, but did finally learn the name of the flower that we encounter each year in Dillon Beach, the one that is always on the table when we arrive and smells so good it makes me want to cry. It’s an asiatic lily. I know now because it was one of the flowers in the bouquet my mom and brothers sent for my birthday and as soon as I smelled it a few days ago I knew it was the same flower. I took a picture, posted it on Facebook, asked if anyone knew what it was, and of course someone did. I got an immediate and seemingly definitive answer. The asiatic lily was the consensus. Here it is among its flower friends (it’s the white one): Here is a close up of an emasculated asiatic lily. Poor lily, huh? A bit of flower anatomy, in case you’ve forgotten: The stamen is the pollen-producing part of the flower usually with a slender filament that supports the anther, and the anther is the part of the stamen where the pollen is produced (who knew?). Flower farms, or flower stores maybe, remove the anthers because “lilies produce prodigious amounts of pollen, and it stains things,” says Don Shor.. my favorite source on these kinds of things. And because I’ve learned how to do macro shots on my iPhone, and took a whole bunch more photos, here are a few other flowers: I just love these pictures, but I don’t know what any of these other flowers are. Here’s how the series of emails goes with my brother Chris this morning: Me: I love the flowers! Thank you so much for sending them. I just love to be thought of .. especially by you all. Chris: Always think of you at Kari’s Corner on my walk down to surf. Me: um, where’s kari’s corner? Chris: hard to explain exactly. just a sec.. [then he posted this:] Me: love it. and YOU dubbed it kari’s corner? Chris: who else? Me: well, i guess i didn’t think it was the City of Palos Verdes. i love you more than bread and cheese with a nice red wine and some toasted pecans. that just makes my day. Chris: good deal. Seriously. That made my day. My Happy Burfday Because you don’t turn 59 every day. Jim, Peter and I tried a restaurant for brunch we’d not been to, Kitchen 428 on First Street in Woodland. A farm to fork place. Quite good. Not likely to enter the regular rotation, but definitely worth the drive. And I always forget, Woodland has a bit of historic charm: The restaurant is in the old Morrison’s location. Peter drove our car back to Davis, and Jim and I took his truck out to the 18,000 acre Conaway Ranch where Jim’s been doing a lot of levee measuring lately. My driver… …who’s smiling despite the fact I was doing this the whole time and kept saying things like, “STOP HERE” “NO, HERE,” “NO, BACK UP!” …famous wildlife photographer that I am. Ahem. (But she has fun.) Conaway Ranch is quite a place. I’m always sort of astounded at what lies beyond the interstate. You get on the smaller county and access roads, in this case a private road along a levee, and see lots of wildlife in lots of habitat that, from 113 or I-5 or I-80, look like vast expanses of nothing. Definitely not nothing. Here are some shots: First off, this is the levee, which runs eight miles due south along a canal (the part of the levee on their property anyway). It started off grey and foggy, and kind of dark for 1:00pm, which felt moody and far away: Here are a couple of hawks, probably, in a tree (definitely in a tree, and probably hawks): And some cormorants, probably: A nice shot across the rice fields and just thousands of ducks hanging out and maybe mud hens and grebes. On the way back, the haze started to lift. That might be a blue heron in flight. Used a cross-process filter on this one: There were hundreds of some kind of fat bird sitting in the reeds and bushes along the canal: A nice egret (this one I know): And more cormorants (so I’ve been told): Off the property, heading home along Rd. 25, east of Rd. 102. Jim spent a few hours in the kitchen. He baked a German Chocolate cake. Some GC cake trivia: Contrary to popular belief, German chocolate cake did not originate in Germany. Its roots can be traced back to 1852 when American Sam German developed a type of dark baking chocolate for the American Baker’s Chocolate Company. On June 3, 1957, a recipe for “German’s Chocolate Cake” appeared as the “Recipe of the Day” in the Dallas Morning Star.[2] It was created by Mrs. George Clay, a homemaker from Dallas, Texas.[2] This recipe used the baking chocolate introduced 105 years prior and became quite popular. General Foods, which owned the Baker’s brand at the time, took notice and distributed the cake recipe to other newspapers in the country. The possessive form (German’s) was dropped in subsequent publications, forming the “German Chocolate Cake” identity we know today and giving the false impression of a German origin. It had a syrup that went down as sort of a primer coat, then the coconut/pecan (and cream, etc) topping that went both between layers (four in all) and on top, and finally a rich dark chocolate frosting that coated most of the rest. Good lord. Will show you a picture in a sec. First: the dinner. Grilled salmon with a kiwi salsa, steamed broccoli and brown rice. Fantastic. Every bite, fantastic. Then presents: Then out comes the cake (the flying hair shot was better than all the others, sorry. Grateful it didn’t catch fire.): I’m not kidding. Muy rich. Killer. My mom and three brothers sent these which I loved: And that was my birthday, happy. A Ramble on Busy-ness and Inner Peace I woke up thinking about a question I got last night and wishing I hadn’t floundered around with my answer. I wondered why I was so awkward with my reply, when, in my heart, it’s not a sticky question for me. At all. The question is–and it came following a couple of hours of hearing about everyone else’s challenging work projects and promotions–“what is keeping you busy these days?” Not a snide question. Just giving me the floor for awhile. My answer, in the quiet of the early morning, is, “working hard to try and get unbusy.” And then I might have shared the things I’m doing and enjoying. My total goal these days is to be not busy, I want to be focused. I want clarity. I want to do the things I love and I want to do them well. I want to love the things I do. I want to choose them and focus on them and love them. And I want space around me so I can truly see those things, and appreciate them, and enjoy them. Every minute. I want to love and show up to every minute. With intention, with presence. That is what keeps me busy. Getting to that place. But last night, that was not my answer. Instead there was an awkward pause. Then, scrambling to fill that awkward pause (as I have learned to do because I’m socially adept), I said that the most fun thing I was working on was daily blogging. I write about my and my family’s life. I got a couple of polite, “oh, that’s wonderful!”s. I then added, a bit pathetically, “and I take pictures every day.” (I got to thinking this morning: really? Is that the most fun thing I’m working on? My most fun thing is writing about what I did? Not doing what I did? Wait, how can that be good? It was a desperation answer, I realize, though some of that is true. But I’ll come back to that, though maybe not directly in this post.) Clearly, I was trying to give some validity to what I do.. raise it to the apple level, so as to be comparable to the other apples at the table. Around that table, we were all educated, professional, coastal types who listen to Science Friday on NPR (and about which we had a great conversation). I have to make sure my busy pursuits are commensurate with those others shared around the table. So, you know, I shared that I write and that it’s a placeholder for future, real writing. Then I said how I do all this other writing for other people, and freelance editing (emphasis on free, as Jim pointed out). Surely that makes me legitimate and smart. I usta be a contenda? Is that what we’re talking about here? Are we feeling small and silly and inconsequential? No. I am not. I like this place. I am honing it to perfection. (Well, yes, that’s another issue, but we’ll get back to that one, too.) So why the little mad dance to sound relevant? I dunno. Habit, I guess. Ya know, part of the reward and beauty of retirement is the fact that it comes after a lifetime of working hard. Check. Yes I did that, I worked hard and grew in a professional position and reached a place of professional satisfaction and due acclaim. Retirement is earned and it is sweet. Another part of retirement, a lesser part and, for some, not even a relevant part, is that retirement is something you choose. This is only partially true for me. I didn’t quite orchestrate retirement from my beloved organization, so much as it became the best option for all concerned (including me). So retirement happened. It is true that I then set up a thriving post-executive work life, including forays into editing and writing (which sparked a huge passion in me and which I pursue these days with bumbling enthusiasm), and a successful consultancy. And it is true I chose absolutely to retire from that consultancy, for all the right reasons. But it still feels, sometimes, like my not working anymore is a consolation prize and something I have to explain or feel apologetic about because it ended with a whimper instead of a bang. Would that my work life ended with a huge, public going away party full of recognition for a career well served, with due accolades and plaques and stuff like that. Then maybe retirement would feel different. But I’m mostly past that. At least in my head. It is definitely a sore spot, but what the hell? Life’s full of sore spots and a huge part of life is about how we move on from those. The years after leaving my job was a time full of grieving, questioning, second guessing, overthinking. I gave it its due obsession, and then some. Enough. Besides, that was then (eight and half years ago, I might add), and this is now. I can truly, mostly, say I’ve moved on and am focusing on present sweetnesses. Of which there are lots. I don’t blame our very nice friend last night for her question. Not at all. How are you keeping busy? is a totally socially acceptable, if standard, opening volley. And good lord, she is deeply embedded in the highest echelons of professional life, where busy-ness just is. It’s not even a bad word, like I’ve come to see busy-ness. (And that is also another post for another time–the fallacy, the delusion, of busy-ness.) I have huge respect for Trish. I could listen to her talk all night because I love her intelligence and warmth and, truly, her perspective on the world. I also have to add here that she gets up daily at 4:30 in order to have time for exercise (she’s a competitive race walker and former ballerina), and time to quietly read the paper over coffee, and time to get to work by 7. And she still volunteers for numerous organizations and causes, socializes a lot, and sees family all over the country. She’s also old, well past most people’s retirement age, and just took a new, higher level job–in the dean-of-a-major-educational-institution-category–committing to many more years of working. Hats off! Really. She’s amazing. And driven. And totally thrilled. And I’m thrilled for her. But all that could make me crazy. Could maybe do it, could maybe thrive, could maybe enjoy and maybe even rock. But. More importantly, that’s not my chosen way of living. Not anymore. Emphasis on chosen. (Chosen now, anyway.) It wasn’t exactly chosen then, but now it totally is. Okay, will take that. Without stickiness, without apology. So I should be able to answer the question better! Not so much floundering next time, babe. ‘k? So I was thinking about all that this morning. Then I read Anne Lamott. Always a great read. Here are some excerpts from her musings this morning: I love not writing books. [Then she writes all about the angst of the book publishing/editing process, what happens when the book hits the street and gets reviewed, accepted, rejected and how your self esteem is all wrapped up in that… very interesting, but not relevant to the topic at hand.] But within a week of Small Victories hitting the NY times bestseller list, which is the golden calf of publication, for which we writers perform baby goat sacrifices, people started asking, What are you going to do next? Well. See, that’s the thing. What I want to do is write for free, write for you, write for me, be a part of trying to save the world for my son and grandson and my Sunday School kids. I can do this at Facebook, and would like to–walk away from the world of New York publishing, while remaining close to my agent and editor and the people at Riverhead Books, whom I adore. I have written and published 16 books, told you everything I know so far about God, Grace, families, truth, our souls, our healing, coming through, how we become resurrection stories; and writing. I have mentioned Shitty First drafts thousands of times, and that laughter is carbonated holiness. It’s all already on paper. People who love me are trying to think of a book that I could write next, that would also do well with the public and make money. I was trying to think of a new book, too–but then I had a moment of clarity, and knew I would only be doing it for the money, and because I struggle with an addiction to people-pleasing. And I was raised to believe my self-worth depended on pleasing and impressing people in power positions. But that was then. Now I want to write at Facebook, and maybe be of that kind of service in the world. I want to work on union with God, with Goodness, with loving Energy. I want to help raise my grandchild, and yours, and be a kind a kind of goofy birth coach and listener. I want to help us keep our heads above above water, in these devastating times, both in the world, and in our little galaxies. I don’t give a shit what Michiko Kakutani thinks about my work. Of course I somehow need to make a living, but maybe God, the Cosmic Muffin, will come up something. God always makes a way out of no-way. I’m not saying I’ll never write another book. I’m just saying I don’t know what I’m doing right now, except writing for you here, and wanting to be of service in the world–partly because God tells me to, and partly because it is the only way to fill up. If we want to have loving feelings, we need to do loving things. So could we all pick up litter today, even though there will be more tomorrow, and take care of the most vulnerable people we know and meet–the poor, the elderly, kids, ourselves. And maybe not know what else we are doing–together? What I read in her comments is that life matters more in the space around you than out in big, judgmental world. That we should be focused in ways that are near and dear and true. Whatever that means to you. I love the fact that she is a writer. I have zero fantasies that my writing will touch the vast and extensive audiences that her writing does, nor that I have anywhere near the talent. That is not relevant here. What she writes so well about, and what has become very clear to me, is that it’s more about process, about the journey, it’s about intention, joy, compassion, inner compassion, inner peace. Winter in Winters Met my buddy Carrie in Winters for lunch. She’s the new-ish executive director of Putah Creek Council. T’was nice. I can recommend the tortilla soup at the Putah Creek Cafe. Some shots on my way home.. In town: Out of town… a leafless orchard: And looking back toward Winters on Rd 32: Mray Ree Relp Roo? Nothing takes the sting out of car repair like eager, if slobbery, counter help. Let me see what we did the last time you came in… Yup, you need new tires. Rah Roh. I launched this blog in October of 2008 with a goal to "write" -- to refine technique, experiment with different styles, voices.. but I only posted sporadically. No experimenting was had. So, for the entire 2011 year, I tried a different approach: I wrote every day using a "photo-a-day" device to prompt daily writing. It worked, but it became more of a "photo and daily commentary" kind of journal, and was a lot less about developing writing technique. Still no experimenting was had. I felt bad about this. Like I was cheating. But I love the photos and commentary. It has been a fun way to document life, the seasons, my family, and who doesn't want one of those? I took a break in 2012 and 2013... somewhat unintentionally... but now I'm going to return to a daily photo blog, this time unapologetically. Life of Wry is now a journally thing. No cutting edge writing, no experimentation, no risk taking, no vulnerability, just easy peasy breezy writing about what's going on in my and my family's life. And photos, lots of photos. And that's that. Thanks for stopping by. 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__label__wiki	0.974032	0.974032	MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - AUGUST 07: Andrew Gaff of the West Coast Eagles arrives ahead of the AFL Tribunal hearing into his striking offence, at AFL House on August 7, 2018 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Graham Denholm/Getty Images) ‘Cease the condemnation of Gaff’ by James McKern 8th Aug 2018 3:33 AM WEST Coast Eagles midfielder Andrew Gaff learned his fate for the horrific punch he delivered to the jaw of 18-year-old Fremantle youngster Andrew Brayshaw. After lengthy cases being lodged by both sides, the jury of Wayne Henwood, David Neitz and Shane Wakelin took only 14 minutes before eventually handing Gaff an eight-week ban. The suspension means Gaff will miss the remainder of the 2018 season and is likely to miss the opening two games of next season. It matches the longest single-incident suspension handed down by the AFL, matching the eight-weeks given to Dean Solomon in 2008. Gaff's ban is also the heaviest suspension for an on-field incident in the history of the West Coast Eagles. Barry Hall initially received a 10-week ban, however thanks to an early guilty plea and the system at the time he was awarded a 25 per cent loading off the ban. "I think eight weeks was at the bottom end of the scale from my own personal point of view," Garry Lyon said on AFL 360. "Eight weeks including a finals series is a really substantial penalty and so it should be. It was unprecedented in recent times as to what we've seen and it's hard to watch. "The incident was hard to watch, the fall out has been hard to watch and the tribunal just then was hard to watch too." West Coast Eagles midfielder Andrew Gaff departs the AFL tribunal. Usual co-host of the show and the Herald Sun's chief football writer Mark Robinson was in attendance at the tribunal, but gave his thoughts on the ruling during the show. "I sat in on the tribunal as long as I could and I'm looking at a young man who was heavy with regret, he was really firm with his apologies and firm that it was an accident," Robinson said. "I kept on looking at him and he was shattered. It's an emotional game footy and I felt for him, but the evidence was overwhelming. "From the doctor, the commentary, the AFL advocate was fierce and really, really strong. "And from Chairman Ross Howie calling punching reprehensible on the field when he came back with eight weeks I wasn't surprised." Robinson then broke the news that Brayshaw's father, Mark, has pleaded for the football community to forgive Gaff. "I interviewed Mark Brayshaw before the tribunal tonight and he's revealed that Angus and Andrew Gaff are going to be meeting this week to have a talk," Robinson said. "What Mark has done as a father is call for the football community to forgive Gaff and cease the condemnation of this young man. "He's made a mistake and he doesn't want this young man to have to wear it for the rest of his footy career and the rest of his football life." Social media was divided on the ruling with several behind the ban and labelling it a fair assessment. Others however believed the AFL missed a big opportunity to give Gaff an extensive ban following the incident. The ruling not only rubs Gaff out for the remainder of the 2018 season, but he's set to become a restricted free agent at the end of the season and speculation has been rife that he's set to return to Victoria. If he does opt to leave the West Coast Eagles, it would mean his first few games at his new club would be affected by the suspension. And would also leave a bad mark on the end of his tenure at the Eagles. In recent weeks the AFL has become embroiled in a controversy, this time it encapsulates the AFLW and the season schedule. A report in the Herald Sun said the AFLW was considering a fixture comprised of six home-and-away games, plus two finals - despite expansion meaning the competition will have 10 teams. Fans eagerly keep up to date with the Gaff news were quick to point out the suspension handed down was actually longer than the upcoming AFLW season. As Gaff walked out of the hearing and spoke to the awaiting media, he mentioned just how hard the past 48 hours had been for him. "The last 48 hours has probably been the toughest couple of days of my life. People that I've spoken to and people who have seen me throughout that time know the world of pain I'm in and how much I'm suffering," Gaff said. As the blowtorch was applied to Gaff following the incident, people weren't happy with him turning the incident and appearing to come across as the victim. But while the world has taken aim at Gaff over the sickening incident, many have been quick to point out that nobody will be harder on him than he will be. Port Adelaide defender Tom Jonas says the wellbeing of Gaff needs to be taken into account following the incident and people have to remember he is still human. "It's pretty tough," Jonas told AFL.com.au. "If you do the crime, there's going to be repercussions, but at the same time, you've probably got to take into account the mental health of the person that does it because he's still a human being. "He'd be taking it pretty hard, as he probably should, but it will get dealt with in due course and both parties will come back from it and still be good footballers." Freo star opens up on ‘upsetting’ Brayshaw reunion ‘Disgrace’: Gaff’s ‘special treatment’ blasted Legend’s scary warning to disgraced Gaff Gaff reaction ‘nothing short of shameful’ afl andrew brayshaw andrew gaff editors picks west coast eagles News Here is a list of matters listed at Kingaroy Magistrates Court Weather 'I just want to open, it’s my only source of income.' 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__label__wiki	0.634241	0.634241	“2015 Oscar Shorts — Live Action”: Think globally, act briefly The “2015 Oscar Shorts — Live Action” open Friday at Sundance Cinemas. Not rated, 1 hour 30 minutes. Three stars out of four. I’ll be doing a post show chat at Sundance after the 7 p.m. show on Tuesday, Feb. 3. Of the three short-film categories at the Oscars, I always find the live action shorts hardest to predict. Do you pick the one you like best, or the one that you think Academy voters would warm to? Do you pick the one that’s most like a traditional Hollywood movie, or least like it? Funny, or serious? From Belfast to Tibet, from London to Israel, the five short films nominated this year for an Academy Award for Best Live-Action Short are a mixed bag both geographically and dramatically. All five are now playing at Sundance (along the animation and documentary shorts), so you can decide for yourself. In “Aya,” an Israeli woman (Sarah Adler) picks up a passenger at the airport, a rather aloof conductor (Ulrich Thomsen). On the drive into town, she badgers him into conversation, and it becomes clear that she’s not even his real driver, just a woman who on impulse decided to pretend to be. The energy in “Aya” comes from wondering if Aya’s goals are sinister or friendly, then romantic or platonic. As these two very different people form a strange bond on the drive, the film is quite engrossing, even if the ending is deliberately elusive. In my favorite of the shorts, Hu Wei’s “Butter Lamp,” a traveling photographer takes family portraits of Tibetan nomads, using scrims of famous landmarks (the Great Wall, the Dalai Lama’s old palace) as a backdrop. In the interactions with the families, we get glimpses into the lives of these nomads in a changing, globalizing world. Hu shoots “Butter Lamp” as a series of static shots, like portraits, never moving the camera until the very end, until the backdrop falls and we see a glimpse of the real Tibet these people live in. It’s the most memorable shot of all five films. In Britain’s “The Phone Call,” Sally Hawkins plays a crisis hotline worker who gets a call from an elderly widower (Jim Broadbent, only heard and never seen) who says he’s overdosed on anti-depressants. He doesn’t want help, he just wants somebody to talk to in his final minutes. The acting between the two is wonderful, but unfortunately director Mat Kirkby tries to inject a note of phony uplift in the last two minutes that undercuts the hard work that’s come before. In “Parvaneh,” an Afghan teenager working in rural Switzerland befriends a privileged Swiss teen while trying to send money home to her family. While the friendship strains credulity, This is yet another film in which two unlikely souls meet and bond together, and the friendship that develops between the two is genuinely poignant. Finally, the only film that comes near comedy is “Boogaloo and Graham,” and it’s set in 1978 Belfast. Two boys gets chicks as pets from their father, and are intensely devoted to the two birds to the point that they forget about the political strife around them. The brothers are really funny, even if the introduction of “The Troubles” in the climax feels a little forced. While ‘Butter Lamp” is my favorite, I think “Boogaloo” might have the edge among Oscar voters just because it does have that note of levity. But we’ll see what happens on Feb. 22. Posted by madisonmovie in Movie Review Tagged: boogaloo and graham, butter lamp, oscar shorts ← Sundance Film Festival: Three’s a crowd in the post-apocalyptic “Z for Zachariah” “2015 Oscar Shorts — Animated”: CGI takes a back seat for once →	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1005
__label__cc	0.660517	0.339483	Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown by David Whiteis Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown sometimes seems bent on packing elements of every imaginable facet of American black popular music into each set, in a kind of Texas roadhouse version of the eclectic dilettantism of Taj Mahal. But beneath the occasionally jarring musical shifts--from blues to country swing to bluegrass to hillbilly to funk--lies one of the liveliest and most sophisticated musical imaginations at work today. Gate's refusal to be pigeonholed simply reflects his affection for the varied cultural and musical influences he--and most other southern musicians--grew up with, and he never strays entirely from his blues roots. Fleet-fingered and adventurous on both guitar and fiddle, he carries sidemen capable of following him everywhere his flights of fancy dictate, and who share his apparently unrelenting enthusiasm for a wide range of musical styles. Although fans who want to see a "pure" blues show might be disappointed in the eclecticism and Gate's flair for slick showmanship, those wanting to see a soulful craftsman capable of weaving apparently disparate elements into a surprisingly cohesive musical whole are in for a special treat. And you can dance to it. Saturday, B.L.U.E.S. Etcetera, 1124 W. Belmont; 525-8989.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1012
__label__wiki	0.721518	0.721518	Food & Drink » Restaurant Review Shawn McClain's Steak House, Mod's Replacement, and the Saltaus Split by Chip Dudley, Peter Margasak, Mike Sula 500 S. Dearborn I wanted to like Custom House, Shawn McClain's third big splash (after Green Zebra and Spring) in the city's ever deepening puddle of international culinary credibility. But try as I might, I can't believe this rarefied steak house completes any sort of holy trinity. There's a lot to want to like: artful-sounding sides and mains, predominantly meat and fish, created by the semicelebrated (but not always present) chef-owner; a sleek, relaxing space in a neighborhood associated with some of the city's first modern fine-dining restaurants (and first hookers); and a mostly efficient and accommodating (if not terribly knowledgeable) staff. On a visit about a month after the opening, I was willing to forgive some disappointments no one would expect at a place this expensive. About half the dishes served to my party of eight failed to live up to their tantalizing descriptions (or their prices): the Oregon black truffle risotto was so salty they could use it to clear tarmac, and the cannellini beans served with the baby lamb were undercooked. One friend who admits "I like to be a prick about salt" and stocks more than 20 varieties in his kitchen was served the iodized granulated kind before he spoke up and got some sea salt. Another pal, a recovering wine snob, was put off by a server who tried to foist on us the costly and unpolished idea that we shouldn't get more than four pours out of a bottle. On the other hand, tender veal cheeks with tomato anchovy preserves were very good, and baby beets with mascarpone were fluorescently bright and explosively flavorful. A piece of marinated yellowtail was flopping-fresh and tasty, and the best dish at the table was a bone-in rib eye with a red onion tarte tatin. Other terrific-sounding items were nothing special: frisee with ham hocks, mustard, and quail eggs was way out of balance, and a New York strip advertised as dry aged had none of the mineral tang associated with aging--plus it came presliced and fanned out as if it were a duck breast. The desserts by Elissa Narow, formerly of Blackbird, were entirely forgettable. A month later I had a much better lunch with my friend the salt prick. A piece of cured sturgeon with julienned apples and pumpernickel toast was similar to the yellowtail we had the first time, and every bit as good. A sea bass fillet was delicately cooked, with crispy skin, but the accompanying truffled mashed potatoes lacked any truffle note. Once more, I think the best thing was the beef--my prime sirloin was perfectly cooked (and sprinkled with sea salt), but I still can't get past the kitchen's paternalistic decision to cut up steaks before serving. And again my friend was given iodized salt. Custom House is a tranquil open space conducive to business meals, prettily decorated with pebbles, twigs, and rocks like a Zen garden, but it still seems like the love is missing. PS, guys: next time it snows toss a few pence to a street urchin to shovel the west sidewalk. --Mike Sula 1520 N. Damen The interior at the snazzy new small-plate restaurant Del Toro, in the former Mod space, is meant to suggest a bullfight, from the red recesses in the bull's-hide wall to the short, hornlike light fixtures above the bar. I know this all sounds tweer than twee, but it's offset by the ambitious if occasionally pretentious menu. On a recent visit my friend and I started out with sashimi-grade tuna from the cold-plate menu, two or three little quivering bites each, accompanied by a smoked sea salt. Thinly sliced serrano ham topped with manchego was delicious, the salty meat a perfect foil for the smooth creaminess of the cheese. We next opted for the anchovy bruschetta; the tiny silver fish piled on toast with thinly sliced avocado were perhaps the best thing we ate. The only misfire of the night was a bowlful of mussels that seemed a bit past their prime. Large plates were poached halibut and something truly special--simmered pork belly with that oleaginous, ultrasalty, meaty flavor that screams pig. We finished with a bowl of mission figs steeped in red wine, accompanied by a delicately flavored ice cream made from cream cheese and Mahon, a cow's-milk cheese from the Spanish island of Minorca. The atmosphere is loungy, but there's a plus to that: the enormous cocktails are served until the wee hours, and the kitchen is open till three on weekends, two on other nights. One caveat: Del Toro can be expensive. Small plates range from $8-$15, and portions are skimpy. --Chip Dudley Saltaus 1350 W. Randolph Could a name change already be in the offing for Saltaus? The moniker's derived from the surnames of owner Nader Salti and chef Michael Taus, but two months after the restaurant's opening Taus has already departed, replaced by Brad Phillips, a former sous-chef at NoMi. Taus (who remains the chef-owner of Zealous) designed a menu that seeks to fuse Mediterranean and Asian flavors, but on a recent visit the execution was so clumsy it was impossible to judge the merits of the idea. The sumac-and-star-anise glaze on a pair of boneless short ribs was exciting, but the meat was rubbery, and the side of green papaya slaw was drowning in a dreary mayo-based dressing. The ingredients of the rock shrimp salad might have worked individually, but with the critters buried under sweet potato mousse the dish had the tooth of baby food. An appetizer of five kinds of dim sum came not in a steamer but wobbling on a plate, and the dumplings' inoffensive fillings were foiled by their gummy wrappers. Entrees fared better, though pork tenderloin medallions roasted in a pomegranate molasses arrived tough and overdone. The evening's best dish was the corvina fillet sauteed in a caper-and-lemongrass sauce, despite the rather bland turnip-scallion pancake it sat on, and a side of braised artichoke smothered in white anchovies and preserved lemons packed a wonderful punch. The Meyer lemon tart was workmanlike, and an exceptionally dry yuzu-poppyseed pound cake was topped with a scoop of sesame-brittle ice cream that was stingy on sesame flavor and crunch. Our server was friendly and eager, but when we requested a good light red that would work with both pork and fish he suggested a cab blend that he could only describe as "awesome" (we passed). Saltaus features a slick modern interior of polished wood and stark white walls; a sizable lounge overlooks the dining room. With its late hours (the kitchen stays open till midnight), the establishment seems intent on becoming a destination for the hipoisie, but if the food doesn't improve it won't be anything more than that. Does it want to be? --Peter Margasak Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): photos/A. Jackson.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1015
__label__cc	0.589907	0.410093	In the insatiable quest for natural resources, humans are searching further and deeper into the earth, threatening to unleash monsters thought to be long gone... PUBLICATION IN 10 VOLUMES - COMPLETED WORK. The megalodon, the prehistoric ancestor of the great white shark was the most ferocious predator of the seas, an 80-foot killing machine extinct for millions of years... But when divers drilling in an underwater cave are attacked by this living fossil, oceanographer Kim Melville discovers that this creature may not only have survived, but thrived, and is reclaiming its place at the top of the food chain. comiXology Unlimited5 Vol. 1: The Fortuna Island Lagoon Vol. 2: The Challenger Abyss Vol. 3: The Monster of Djibouti Vol. 4: The Koube Monoliths Vol. 5: The City of Plato Carthago Omnibus Graphic Novels5 Vol. 6: Heiress of the Carpathains Vol. 7: The Kamchatka Trench Vol. 8: Leviathan Vol. 9: The Centenarian's Pact Vol. 10: The Infinite Abyss Bandes Dessinées5 25 Humanoids Vol. 1's for $24.99 Carthago Adventures The original adventures of London Donovan and his shadowy boss, "the Centenarian of the Carpathians," in this action-packed spin-off from the best-selling Carthago. OLYMPIAN GODS. LEGENDARY MONSTERS. NOWHERE TO RUN. An action-packed tale as epic as the legends that spawned it. PUBLICATION IN 2 VOLUMES - COMPLETED WORK. In this high-octane adventure, chaos is unleashed when a group of brash archaeology graduate students and a team of ruthless mercenaries are shipwrecked together on the legendary Mount Olympus - a mountainous island populated by the deadliest m I am Legion A supernatural take on World War II espionage featuring a girl with the ability to possess other bodies. Europe, December 1942. The global conflict has reached a fever pitch. The Nazis are at the height of their power, but the Allies have had their first victories both in Stalingrad and in the Pacific. Never has the war’s outcome been so much in doubt. Amidst this chaos, the destinies of sev The Swords of Glass In a world whose time is running out, four mysterious swords must be reunited to save the planet. A spectacular saga full of wondrous creatures and settings.. PUBLICATION IN 4 VOLUMES - COMPLETED WORK. In a world threatened by the imminent death of its sun, young Yama lives a relatively happy and peaceful life as the daughter of the chief of the village. But everything changes the day a sword of g	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1016
__label__wiki	0.78438	0.78438	PhotographyNews In this section you will find international photo news, including the Photo Awards and the Photo Sales. Dominique Krauskopf : Nature on Stamps L'Œil de la Photographie 8 of his images were made into stamps: that’s the pretty story that just happened to Dominique Krauskopf. He is a journalist, photographer, creator […]… fotofever 2020 is canceled The very sad email from Cécile Schall, the founder of fotovever: “I deeply regret to announce that, despite months of determination and resistance, fotofever […]… Maison Fragile : When the 8th art meets the arts of the table Sonia Sieff, Charles Petit, Dimitri Coste: three photographers with unique universes who responded to Mary Castel‘s invitation to revisit tableware by magnifying ephemeral moments, […]… The MEP announces a transformative acquisition of works by Irving Penn The MEP acquires 46 iconic works by Irving Penn—one of the twentieth century’s most important photographers, respected equally in the fields of fashion, portraiture […]… Paris Photo 2020 is canceled ! Paris Photo announced yesterday the postponement of its 2020 edition with this message: Paris, September 25, 2020 – Following the announcement by the French […]… New York Daily News : Joe Biden and Kamala Harris We wanted to share with you yesterday’s fantastic cover of the New York Daily News, which presented together for the first time as running […]… Canson® Infinity presents its ambassador : Matthieu Cellard His name is Matthieu Cellard. He is a gourmet, passionate and a photographer from Lyon He has just been appointed Ambassador of the Canson® […]… The Mentorship of Les Filles de la Photo in partnership with Picto Les Filles de la Photo launch their first mentoring program as a career accelerator dedicated to women photographers in order to support them in […]… The Carmignac Foundation ennobles Photojournalism Jean-François Camp At the heart of its magnificent estate in Porquerolles, the Carmignac Foundation presents ten years of reporting on the Carmignac Photojournalism Prize from July […]… Fashion photographs: the Paris Court of Appeal condemns YSL for infringement the copyright of Hedi Slimane After 4 years of rich collaboration, SAS Yves Saint Laurent and its former director of creation and images are entering their fifth year of […]… Page 112345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031323334353637383940414243444546474849505152535455565758596061626364656667686970717273747576777879808182838485868788899091	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1024
__label__wiki	0.767519	0.767519	08 June 2010 New iPhone 4, new accessibility features Apple unveiled even more accessibility features for iPhone users when earlier today Steve Jobs revealed the much anticipated iPhone 4 in his keynote... 07 June 2010 DBCDE releases report on multichannels On 3 June, Senator Stephen Conroy, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, released the ‘Content and Access: The future of... 04 June 2010 Pioneer of audio description in Australia honoured John Simpson, the manager of Vision Australia 's audio description (AD) services, has been honoured with the Print Disability Lifetime Achievement... 03 June 2010 Ofcom releases first quarter access report Ofcom, the UK’s communications regulator, has released its first quarterly report on the provision of access services on television for 2010 covering... 02 June 2010 Ofcom reports on assisted living technologies for older and disabled people Ofcom, the UK's communications regulator, has commissioned a report on the potential impact of assisted living technologies (ALTs) on the social... 02 June 2010 Jetstar to rent out iPads for inflight entertainment Jetstar has confirmed that it will be running a trial program that allows passengers to rent an iPad for $10. The iPad will contain movies, TV shows... 01 June 2010 Emirates' inflight entertainment wins award Emirates has won the World’s Best Airline Inflight Entertainment award for the sixth year running at the 2010 Skytrax World Airline Awards. 31 May 2010 Major American Audio Description Conference announced The American Council of the Blind is hosting its annual conference in Phoenix, Arizona in July. As part of this, the Audio Description Project is... 28 May 2010 Apple's accessible iPad launched in Australia Crowds of people outside the Sydney Apple store brought the surrounding areas to a standstill this morning as the eagerly awaited and highly... 27 May 2010 New research makes Rock Band accessible New research from the University of California Santa Cruz in the US allows people who are blind or vision impaired to join their friends in playing... 26 May 2010 New caption software program ideal for public spaces The USA’s Computer Prompting and Captioning Company (CPC) has released a high definition closed caption video player to the market called MacCaption... 26 May 2010 DVDs celebrate Deaf students' success Griffith University has produced a set of four DVDs, Signs of Success, which look at the experiences and achievements of Deaf and hearing impaired... 26 May 2010 Senator Ludlum asks the ABC and SBS about access in Senate Estimates In Senate Budget Estimates Hearings on Monday, Greens Senator Scott Ludlum asked the ABC and SBS questions about funding access. Senator Ludlum... 25 May 2010 Game Accessibility Day 2010 Game accessibility enthusiasts will converge today in Boston, Massachusetts to attend the annual Game Accessibility Day, held as part of the Games... 24 May 2010 Building resilience in Deaf and hearing impaired students EDSA (Educators of Deaf Students Association) and the Deafness Centre, Children's Hospital Westmead, hosted a conference last week entitled ‘Building... 24 May 2010 London 2012 Olympics supports access for online video The story of Wenlock and Mandeville - the official London 2012 Olympic and Paralympics mascots respectively - can now be viewed online as an audio... 21 May 2010 Office 2010 introduces inbuilt Accessibility Checker The new Microsoft Office 2010, due for release to the general public next month, includes an inbuilt Accessibility Checker that tests common... 21 May 2010 Auckland hosts round table on access The Round Table on Information Access for People with Print Disabilities is holding a conference in Auckland from 23 to 25 May to promote the needs... 21 May 2010 Audio described theatre at Perth Theatre Trust venues AEG Ogden (Perth) Pty Ltd, venue manager for the Perth Theatre Trust venues, has introduced a new audio description service at His Majesty's Theatre...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1033
__label__wiki	0.825642	0.825642	Academy Member Catherine M. Zuck Q.C. Arbitrator, Mediator & Labour Law Consultant 218 Garrison Crescent Saskatoon, SK S7H 2Z8 Recognized for: Labour Arbitration Specialist Book an Appointment with Catherine Zuck's office Please click your preferred available date to submit a request. January 2021 February 2021 March 2021 April 2021 May 2021 June 2021 July 2021 August 2021 September 2021 October 2021 November 2021 December 2021 January 2022 February 2022 March 2022 April 2022 May 2022 June 2022 July 2022 August 2022 September 2022 October 2022 November 2022 December 2022 Avbl Half Day * Hover over marked days for public notes Calendar Last Updated Jan 12 2021 Print Available Dates Summary Catherine M. Zuck, Q.C., has practiced law for over 30 years and specialized for the last 20 years in labour law. Most recently, she was a fulltime Vice-Chair of the Saskatchewn Labour Relations Board. Her practice now is as an arbitrator, mediator, labour law educator and workplace incident investigator. She is experienced in conducting arbitration and other adiministrative tribunal hearings with procedural fairness and in accordance with the principles of natural justice. Before practicing as a labour law neutral, she presented numerous cases before labour arbitration boards and the Saskatchewan Labour Relations Board. She is experienced before all levels of court in litigating disputes involving: - labour - employment - human rights - disability and other insurance claims - health and welfaire benefit plans - family law - contracts - debt, insolvency, bankruptcy - construction contracts - wills and estates - professional negligence and misconduct. She has both mediated and negotiated a wide range of labour law and employment contract disputes. Teaching is a passion and she has lectured law at the University of Saskatchewan College of Law, Native Law School and at the Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Arts and Sciences. She has made presentations on a wide variety of labour and employment law topics at national and provincial conferences, Federation of Labour conferences, the Law Society of Saskatchewan, and Canadian Association of Labour Lawyers and at the request of a number of unions. She has extensive experience in health care, public service and school board/university disputes. She has served as a Bencher of the Law Society of Saskatchewan and therefore, also has an interest in professional discipline. Case Experience Labour/Unions COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan B.A. obtained in 1973 Major - History and Political Science, Minor - Economics University of Saskatchewan - Saskatoon, Saskatchewan LL.B. obtained in 1978 Admitted to practice law in Saskatchewan in 1979 QUEEN'S COUNSEL designation given in December, 2005. Continuing Legal Education Mediation Course(Obtained Mediation Certification - March, 1988) Resolving Conflict Constructively Training Course (March, 2001) Calgary Annual Labour Arbitration and Policy Conference (Annually since 1991) Canadian Association of Labour Lawyers Conference (Annually from 1991 to 2007) Annual Conference of Labour Board Chairs (2007) Law Society of Saskatchewan (inactive status)	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1034
__label__cc	0.663107	0.336893	About "Doggone World" ‘Major’ news: First rescue dog makes his way to the White House Biden’s dog choice brings up importance of adopting shelter dogs This is not Major, but this German Shepherd is just as cute. (Photo credit: Paul Postema/Unsplash) Let past politicians tell it, dogs are presidents’ best friends. And as President-Elect Joe Biden prepares to transition into the White House in January 2021, his two German Shepherds — Major and Champ Biden — will paw their way in, too, possibly hanging out in all the favorite spots where former President Barack H. Obama’s dogs — Bo and Sunny — used to be. But what makes Major especially interesting is he’s the first rescue dog to make it into America’s home. According to Delaware Humane Association’s Facebook page, Major was adopted in November 2018 after the Bidens had been fostering him. He joined their other dog, Champ. Photo credit: Delaware Humane Association Facebook page First there was Champ Seeing a German Shepherd tapping his way around the White House brings a level of normalcy back to the presidency — considering a historical tradition of presidents having pets. It’s also pretty cool to know that Joe Biden got the OK to get a dog right around the time Sasha and Malia Obama did. While former President Obama made his announcement about a family pet onstage during his 2008 Victory Speech in Grant Park (Chicago), Dr. Jill Biden (and upcoming First Lady) gave her husband the OK to get Champ after Biden had been vetted as VP in 2008. She even taped pictures of different dogs on the back of the seat in front of Biden on his campaign plane, according to Town & Country, so he could get ready for his new four-legged gift. Then Major joined the family 10 years later. Then there was Major Obviously it’s always a heart-warming moment for dog lovers to see pups running around or posing for photos on social media. But in this case, it’s more than just Joe Biden with a couple of German Shepherds. Their decision to choose their second dog the way they did is also significant. Major’s background should remind potential dog owners about why it’s a good idea to foster dogs (to know whether you’re fully equipped to keep them long term) and adopt rescue dogs. (Champ was from a breeder.) According to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA), approximately 6.5 million of companion animals end up in U.S. animal shelters nationwide — every year. There are only slightly more dogs (3.3 million) as there are cats (3.2 million). Oddly, this is good news because, in 2011, the number of dogs entering shelters was 3.9 million. For a variety of reasons, approximately 1.5 million shelter animals are euthanized — 670K dogs per year. Of that number, 620K are stray dogs. For dog lovers who simply don’t have the time, energy or consistent finances to house a dog, there are always opportunities to donate to ASPCA so they can help take care of homeless dogs until a permanent home is an option. Or, maybe you’re “the option.” Browse through reputable local shelters before going to a breeder. (And help spread the word about new pups for your family members and friends who opted out of neutering or spaying their own dogs. Maybe you could help pitch in for that procedure to be done to avoid the risk of them having to consistently find homes for new puppies.) While it’s easy enough to wag a finger at pet owners who cannot take care of the animals, some new dog owners are really convinced they can take care of these dogs until a vet bill rolls in. And not everyone has VP level funds to take care of two dogs at once. According to the American Kennel Club, taking care of a dog can cost anywhere from $14K-$15K for dogs who live for 10 to 15 years. Small dog: $15,051 (average life expectancy of 15 years) Medium dog: $15,782 (average life expectancy of 13 years) Large dog: $14,480 (average life expectancy of 10 years) But if you know you can afford a dog long term while worried about pricey adoption rates, pet adoption doesn’t always have to cost big bucks up front. For example, Chicago’s Animal Control rates are only $65. However, the pet adopter would be required to visit a veterinarian for any necessary shots and/or exam outside of those covered, within a 14-day time period. Chances are high that if you end up paying a higher amount in the beginning, this exam has already been completed. Make sure you get any necessary paperwork to fulfill your city’s pet requirements. But let’s say you don’t have the funds right now to foster or adopt a dog, but you still want to be around these fluffy balls of love. Consider volunteer work at dog shelters, too. (Profits for dog walkers, dog sitters and dog boarders have dramatically decreased since COVID-19 hit in March, but you can also sign up for this, too.) For potential dog owners who are on the fence, temporary dog boarding, dog walking, fostering and volunteer work will allow you to have a better understanding of what it’s like to take care of a dog if you have not done so before. In the meantime in between time, make sure to follow the First Dogs in the Biden camp to see what they’re up to in the coming weeks and years to come. Shamontiel is a dog lover to her core: 480 completed walks with 80 dogs, eight dog-housesittings and six dog boardings at the time of this publication. Would you like to receive Shamontiel’s Weekly Newsletter via MailChimp? Sign up today! 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__label__wiki	0.641066	0.641066	Memory Beta articles sourced from novels, Technology Iconian portal The Iconian portal was an artifact created by the ancient Iconian civilization in the mirror universe. It seemed to function as a miniaturised version of the Iconian gateway technology. The device was round and flat which had incised symbols on its surface. A slight dent at one edge operated a silent mechanism that opened the object like a clam shell. The devise had the appearance of an ornamental mirror, the top half being a polished mirror-like surface and the bottom a pattern of overlapping triangular leaves. The portal was much heavier then it appeared. This portal was activated when the user concentrated on the mirror surface and imagined a person or place. Once enough focus was made the artifact forced the user into it's surface where it dissolved in front of them as the person was sent spiralling into the vortex. After its use, the device became inert and it was possible to prevent teleportation by covering the mirror based surface. A study of the incised configurations and the triangles revealing the artifact being of Iconian design, with some similarities with the larger gateways. A computer analysis further determined that the casing of the portal contained a large percentage of neutronium, similar to the gateways themselves. Essentially, it served as a miniature version of the gateway technology capable of transporting individuals many light-years away. In the mirror universe one of the portals was discovered by a Breen, and was subsequently confiscated by the Bajoran Paqu, who in turn gave it to Benjamin Sisko. Sisko gave it to his employer, Kira Nerys, after he accidentally used it and appeared before her. The tested it on one of her slaves who teleported before the Empress of the Romulan Star Empire and was killed swiftly by her Royal Guards. She then made use of it as part of her plans to gain a position of power within the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance. (DS9 novel: Dark Passions) Retrieved from "https://memory-beta.fandom.com/wiki/Iconian_portal?oldid=600490" Memory Beta articles sourced from novels More Memory Beta, non-canon Star Trek Wiki 1 Ferengi Rules of Acquisition 2 USS Voyager (NCC-74656-J)	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1038
__label__wiki	0.899786	0.899786	Download Facebook Moments App If You Don’t Want Your Photos Deleted Facebook Moments will soon be a necessity. Facebook users were puzzled when they were told that their photos will soon be deleted and that they need to download Facebook Moments if they want to keep them. Although many users found the subtle warning a bit alarming, many users assumed that they were not to be affected by the impending changes on the social media platform — until they found out for themselves that the opposite is true. One user had the surprise of her life when she found out that about 12,000 of her photos were synced to Facebook without her knowing it — and now all 12,000 of those are in danger of disappearing forever if she does not download Facebook Moments, or if she doesn’t still have them stored on her phone. It remains unclear how users will be able to find out if their photos are synced to Facebook, however — and it also remains unclear how Facebook has given itself permission to sync its users’ photos without their knowledge. Critics found this new move by Facebook sinister — as the social media giant practically leaves users no choice but to download the app that the company wants them to download. This is not the first time that Facebook made a move like this, however, as its users were in the same scenario in the not-so-distant past when the social media giant forced its Facebook messenger app on its users. Meanwhile, another social media giant also has its very own ‘Moments’ feature — Twitter. But Twitter’s ‘Moments’ platform is not something to be confused with Facebook Moments, as the latter performs a completely different function. According to its developers, Facebook Moments is intended to be a photo-sharing app designed to make both sharing and managing of photos a seamless experience for its users. The same users, however, were not amused when they were told that they needed to download Facebook Moments or their photos will be gone forever. According to Facebook, users have until July 7 to download the app and save their photos.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1039
__label__cc	0.641114	0.358886	Artificial Intelligence Robotic Smart Factory Solution Predicted To Drive Intelligent Manufacturing Revolution October 6, 2019 October 6, 2019 Keith Mills Publishing Editor Advanced robotics and AI technology company Geek+ has launched the world’s first smart factory using robot arm to make mobile robots. Based in Nanjing, China the factory uses Geek+’ robots, AI algorithms and other automated solutions to manufacture new Geek+ robots. 100% of the Company’s robots are produced by the factory, a testament to performance and strength of the solution. With an increasing demand for customization and limited release products, product cycles are getting shorter and shorter, making flexible production an essential aspect of the manufacturing industry. Autonomous mobile robots in the factories are the best way to achieve flexible production and can also help companies realize a smart and agile supply chain. With this objective, Geek+ introduces the Geek+ Smart Factory Solution, using its groundbreaking smart factory as a blueprint for flexible production and intelligent manufacturing. Geek+ can adapt and implement the technology to manufacturing facilities worldwide, and easily customize the solution to meet various production and industrial scenarios. With over 200 projects across the world, Geek+ has gained considerable experience and data knowledge developing smart logistics solutions for warehousing and manufacturing environments. It has developed new AI algorithms for scenarios spanning numerous industries, from retail and apparel, to manufacturing and pharmaceutical companies. Through this, the Company has built an ecosystem with international technology partners to develop a total solution for smart warehouses and smart factories including AI vision, robot arms, and internet of things, production management system, logistics management system, big data analysis and advanced robotics. With its Smart Factory Solution, Geek+ continues to help customers upgrade their operations to an intelligent and agile supply chain. Robots Making Robots The Nanjing factory output almost doubles traditional manual production capacity, and single-shift annual production is designed to exceed 10,000 robots. Under a production logistics management system, the robots operate together. They include: Robotic arms, PLC, smart camera, automatic tightening machine for automated production Geek+ Moving System: P800 robots deployed using QR code navigation to carry shelves for inventory management, M1000 robots using QR code and SLAM navigation to store, load and unload WIPs, allowing flexible distribution in the automated production station Geek+ Forklift System: unmanned forklifts using SLAM navigation to access the entire pallet without ground modification The robots are powered by AI technologies including: Scheduling: scheduling algorithms to ensure optimal efficiency and that the robots can figure best path to move around and communicate with each other. Vision: the robot arm station is equipped with an industrial vision system. In additional to the positioning and assembly function required for the production of the robot arm, it can also identify the process of repairing the product, the remaining condition of the auxiliary materials, and the type of work in progress, so as to achieve a more flexible automated production process. Business: an intelligent operating system for the inventory and production area configured to understand and implement required business processes such as shelf heat management, work in process management and bottleneck process optimization. Once assembled, the new robots direct themselves to the calibration area to receive basic parameter settings. They automatically complete final testing and finished product inspection after which they directly proceed to the finished product area to be packaged and ready to ship. Smart Factory Management System Powered By AI To operate smart factories, Geek+ has developed a new integrated system, the Geek+ Production Logistics Management System. It powers all aspects of the facility, from inventory to the production line, integrating logistics and production into a flexible and efficient system. It connects the stock area with the production area and unifies the management of all the different robotic solutions. This system replaces the traditional conveyor belt system with a new “island production mode” of autonomous mobile robots. These production islands can be easily duplicated and the solution is a completely flexible and scalable: Multiple products can now be produced in one production line, replacing the single product line The whole process can be easily adjusted in the system, providing an effortless solution to bottleneck processes. The production line layout no longer needs to be planned in advance. It is adjustable according to the business requirements and can be implemented step by step. This new intelligent and flexible production model offers a real alternative to costly and rigid conveyor belts. A Game changer For Intelligent Manufacturing Production capacity has almost doubled, compared to traditional manual production, with annual output expected to exceed 10,000 robots. The new solution also guarantees more precise process control and higher accuracy with a straight-through rate for the final assembly are exceeding 98%, and higher traceability of the whole process, which reduces overall management cost. Yong Zheng, founder and CEO of Geek+ comments: “Smart factories will be a turning point for the entire industry as they provide a truly proven alternative to traditional, fixed production and achieve flexible production. What better way to show to the world the value of our solutions than to apply it to our own production? Our Nanjing factory is a window into the future of intelligent logistics and manufacturing.” The Geek+ smart factory solution is applicable to a wide range of industries, including automobile OEMs, auto part factories and 3C electronics factories. It is particularly well suited for industries that require more flexible manufacturing processes, to keep up with the demand for new product lines and allow for capacity expansion. With smart factories, trial production of new products and product line transformation can be easily implemented. Yong Zheng adds: “In the past four years, we have already developed and implemented game changing technologies for warehousing operations. With smart factories, we continue to pave the way for a truly intelligent supply chain.” For more information: www.geekplusrobotics.com ← Weekly ‘METROLOGY BREW’ News Bulletin NIMS Partners with OMIC to Develop Metrology Standards and Certification →	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1040
__label__wiki	0.537652	0.537652	Miu Miu / Tortoise frames lend bold visuals to these sunglasses. 100% UV protection Solid brown lenses Case and cleaning cloth included Acetate Made in Italy SIZE 55mm lens width 19mm bridge width 140mm temple length. Soft Accessories - Sunglasses > Saks Fifth Avenue > Barneys. Miu Miu. Color: Light Havana. photo: Saks Fifth Avenue First seen in Dec 2019 Women's 55mm Tortoise Cat Eye Sunglasses In Light Havana Available From 0 Store Product Details Shop the Look Ask a Question viewers also liked store status price Login to see price Login to see more detail Login to see more detail (4 in total) Subscribe To Alerts For This Product We'll keep our eyes out for you. Subscribe to receive automatic email and app updates to be the first to know when this item becomes available in new stores, sizes or prices. about MIU MIU Miu Miu is a high fashion brand from the Prada fashion house, opened in 1992 and headed by Miuccia Prada. The name of the collection is taken from Miuccia Prada’s nickname. In 1992, the high fashion brand Miu Miu, named after Miuccia's nickname, launched. Miu Miu catered to younger consumers, such as celebrities. By 1993 Prada was awarded the Council of Fashion Designers of America award for accessories. There are Miu Miu boutiques situated in New York, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Costa Mesa, London, Florence, Rome, Melbourne, Milan, Tokyo, Nagoya, Kobe, Fukuoka, Paris, Singapore, Hong Kong, Boston, Kuwait, Taipei, Malaysia and Hawaii. Miu Miu has also opened their first Australian boutique at Chadstone Shopping Centre in Melbourne.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1049
__label__wiki	0.580247	0.580247	What Is Tintin's Full Name? This Tintin. His full name isn't "This Tintin". Although same initial is a showbiz thing. His full name isn't "I Don't Know" either. Everybody calls him Tintin in those books and/or cartoons. It's a fictional character, so you may imagine the full name either by yourself or in a group of people. I'll start, Tinton Vczsjar Duke The Fourth. The theme music is great. No doubt about it. Sublime. The story is about adventures based on luck and some wits. It has some humor included, where, somewhere. It's a program for children so you don't counterfeit the money, don't do anything against the laws and of course stories about moon landing and UFO related to ancients. Talking about "ancient", Egypt, Greece, and Rome are surely told too. Mandatory classical. That character implicitly has plenty of cash since he could travel around the world in "World War I" period. Although he's a news media reporter of unknown, but still, you know, transportation and accommodation were very, I repeat, very expensive in that time compared to nowadays. Even in their own fictional banknotes value. Basically, like Batman or Iron Man but minus the cosplay. Superman, well, he doesn't need food originally, so being rich isn't necessary at all. Pay attention on how he wears red underwear outside, it's a red outwear. I made that up. Which one? So, how about Asterix's full name? https://monkeyraptor.johanpaul.net/2019/05/what-is-tintins-full-name.html Realm Tintin Schwarzenegger	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1050
__label__wiki	0.754436	0.754436	THE DIRECTORS SERIES (7) in Directors on 25 October 2006 25 October 2006 Bad Taste 51 [ Cheap-ass sci-fi comedy about “extra-terrestrial psychopaths” with a (bad) taste for human flesh fast-food who target a small New Zealand village for invasion. The acting is wretched and the production values are almost non-existent, but Jackson already displays intoxicating visual energy and the gore scenes are good for a few laughs. ] Meet the Feebles 23 [ Ever wonder what the Muppet flicks would be like with added gore, sex, scatological humor and hard drugs? Me neither, but I thought this might make for a funny watch. It does – for about 5 minutes. Then, as the same juvenile one-joke premise is repeated ad nauseam, it gets mighty obnoxious. ] Braindead (aka Dead-Alive) 62 [ The final film in Jackson’s “splatstick” trilogy, it still suffers from rotten acting and questionable humor, but the Kiwi filmmaker orchestrates all the mayhem and gore like a mad genius. An evil rat-monkey, the mother from hell, a kung-fu fighting priest and more raging zombies than you can wave a lawnmower at: this is what cult movies are made of. ] Heavenly Creatures 65 [ The opening is terrific, setting up both ‘50s New Zealand and impending tragedy. We then move to the Christchurch Girls High School and watch as Juliet and Pauline develop an intense friendship rooted in their fertile imaginations. Kate Winslet and Melanie Lynskey (in their debut performances) are both wonderful, managing to make these ditzy, smug, “stark raving mad” young women sympathetic. The direction is epic and the special effects are awesome, which is surprising for what is basically your usual teen angst drama… But with a lesbianish fairy tale vibe! These quirky flourishes don’t quite add up and, while the film often toys with brilliance, some stretches fall flat (everything about the parents notably). However, uneven as it may be, this is definitely a memorable film. ] Forgotten Silver 64 [ A mockumentary about an unsung pioneer of early cinema in New Zealand who brought sound, color and complex visual composition to film, all before 1920, then embarked on the tragically troubled making of huge biblical SALOME, with cruel clown Stan the Man and Josef Staline as producers! This is a clever hoax, most notable for how convincingly Jackson recreates the look and style of various kinds of silent era moviemaking. ] The Frighteners 72 [ A surprisingly potent sci-fi thriller that’s like a twisted cousin of “Ghostbusters”, with Michael J. Fox as a con man who charges people to rid them of spirits he unleashed himself. Things become more hardcore when Fox must go head to head with the ghost of a mass murderer, played with chilling intensity by Jake Busey. “The Frighteners” is premium B-movie fun, with awesome special FX and plenty of madcap imagination. ] The Fellowship of the Ring 93 [ review ] The Two Towers 94 The Return of the King 95 King Kong 67 [ Overblown, overhyped and overrated, Peter Jackon’s remake of the 1933 classic at least gets its Beauty and the Beast right. Naomi Watts is more lovable than ever, going from vaudeville comedienne to all shook up jungle queen to chorus line girl on top of the world – literally. And Kong truly is a mesmerizing creation, with lots of personality, maybe even soul… And he’s totally badass when he’s kicking a T-Rex’s ass or swatting at biplanes! Where the film almost lost me is in its endless series of non-Kong action sequences, which are loud and chaotic but desperately lack a hero for us to root for. I’m a fan of Jack Black and Adrian Brody, but the obsessive filmmaker and the sensitive writer they respectively play aren’t particularly compelling. Where’s Indiana Jones when you need him? ] The Lovely Bones 17 [ It’s pretty crazy how the same filmmaker can make a bunch of goofy genre flicks (“Bad Taste”, “Braindead”, etc.), then somehow deliver a trilogy of all-out masterpieces (“The Lord of the Rings”), go for a so-so encore (“King Kong”), and now… this? On paper, Peter Jackson’s latest sounds like a throwback to his previous small, intimate character drama (“Heavenly Creatures”), but even though that one was somewhat uneven, it’s miles less clumsy than “The Lovely Bones”. Right from the start, alarm bells rang out in my head because of Saoirse Ronan’s cloying voice-over narration, the melodramatic music, the 1970s period recreation that calls a bit too much attention to itself and, of course, Mark Walhberg, an actor who, depending on the movie, is either awesome or awful (hint: he’s awful here; castmates Stanley Tucci, Susan Sarandon and Rachel Weisz are pretty bad too). Worst of all is Jackson’s direction itself. He’s never been known for subtlety and restraint, but that was generally all right for the kind of material he handled, which called for over the top visuals. But I’m not sure a story about a murdered teenage girl and her grieving family should be full of swooping camera movements, elaborate CGI landscapes, a lot of smoke and mirrors, you know? All in all, this is a truly misguided picture. ] Hellboy II: The Golden Army	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1052
__label__wiki	0.541794	0.541794	Share this Story: Montreal International Jazz Festival 2012: Seal at Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier of Place des Arts; July 6, 2012 Montreal International Jazz Festival 2012: Seal at Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier of Place des Arts; July 6, 2012 Jul 07, 2012 • July 7, 2012 • 2 minute read Photo of Seal at pre-concert meet-and-greet by Denis Alix/ Courtesy of the Montreal International Jazz Festival Mark Lepage Montreal International Jazz Festival 2012: Seal at Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier of Place des Arts; July 6, 2012 Back to video The climax to Seal’s show in Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier was so inevitable, and so fully realized, that one might have almost forgotten the intriguingly mixed evening leading into it. But no way around it: when the oscillating, tidal keyboard riff of Crazy filled the room and the PdA crowd offered its version of an eruption, it was that rare moment when a global hit still soundsenduringly global. As the quite large Seal leapt across the stage, glad-handing fans at either end, he had both fulfilled expectations and reminded you of the ones he’d left unfulfilled. The set that preceded it offered the interesting conundrum of how a singer’s music can be both distinctive and amorphous. Identifiably… background. Which may explain why Seal built a career booster-rocket from classic old parts and released two albums of soul covers. He hadn’t needed the hits, really, or the cash, he’d needed the contrast. Launching this leg of the tour in Montreal, Seal addressed (and delighted) the crowd in French, praising the city as the perfect venue and inviting the fans to “think of the old times and the times ahead, but mostly – right here, right now!” Which meant his own yesteryear, and the further yesteryear of the O’Jays, Rose Royce and Al Green. Leavening his one-world Peter Gabriel spiritualist persona with that soul sex magick, he would flip back and forth between the catalogues, his 8-piece band (including a rare female trombonist/backing vocalist) charged with handling the vastly different approaches. Opening with If I’m Any Closer and Killer, and creditable arena lighting and visuals to go with them, he shifted into The Backstabbers and Love TKO, the Teddy Pendergrass groove being swiftly gobbled up by the SWP acoustics – more on that later. He certainly looked the part, buff in jeans tucked into boots, braces and a dangling chain, the male presence to introduce Love Don’t Live Here Anymore “now sung by a man… in tight pants” and make it stick. Seal isn’t really a soul singer, he’s identifiably post-soul, but the huskily soothing voice wasn’t unsuited. Music descended from the house era was pumped up for the stage. And you had to admire the confidence. One does not trifle with Let’s Stay Together, and if Seal doesn’t have Al’s Ferrari voice – nobody does – he could still hammer the singin’ nails to bring the song down for this crowd. They were worthy tributes, and Eddie Floyd’s Knock On Wood turned the joint out enough to momentarily forget that you couldn’t quite place how said joint could feature highs, lows and midrange in its acoustics and still get the sound all wrong. Apparently Liza Minelli had been none too amused during her own show there this past week. Seal never mentioned it. Courtly love ballad Kiss From a Rose was due, and the resultant swooning. By the time The Right Life and Crazy had punched the set into a different register, you knew why this guy remains an automatic: charm, passion, and comfort. And you also recognized the difference in stature between “automatic” and “giant.” markjlepage@yahoo.com	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1053
__label__cc	0.700707	0.299293	A Suitcase Record Shop & Arts Community MOON MELODY KING SNAKE CRAWL Soft Wounds After We Fly Al Grantham Teeth & Heart Rhythm and Roots Love Is Gone Away Introducting “Field Recordings”… Volume 1 In News on March 19, 2012 at 6:13 pm As a finale to the year 2011, Kaleb Hikele performed a selection of original songs for the camera on remote locations in his hometown of St. Thomas and London, Ontario. The audio from these on-site recordings have been made available for free download to the public. On December 27th, film talent Emily Pickering and “The Sun Harmonic” went to a gazebo in Pinafore Park to sing a new tune admist the snow and the winter surroundings. On the night of December 29th, 2011, they ventured up the stairwell to the abandoned attic of an art gallery to sing mostly new and formally unreleased songs in the quiet and cold space. A few songs appeared on 2011’s “Demonstrations” release, two off the recently revealed An Anonymous Quartet EP and one forgotten song polished from a 2008 untitled album. Each recording is accompanied by a colour motion picture that can be found somewhere on the internet- here, actually: https://vimeo.com/thesunharmonic Please download this here: http://thesunharmonic.bandcamp.com/album/field-recordings-vol-1 Thank you and please enjoy the music. « Before The Capitol’s “Far From Freedom” goes Digital… March 19, 2012 AfterThe Breaks “In Meetings” available in CD/Digital format now through Moon Melody! July 4, 2012 » Moon Melody is a suitcase record shop & arts community. A garden of original homegrown music in the 21st century. Independent Canadian artists, rooted in the city of Toronto. A Chemistry Of Collective Consciousness “Like” Moon Melody “Follow” Moon Melody On the road again! facebook.com/moonmelodymusi… 1 year ago Follow @moonmelodymusic	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1054
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Home > Formula One > Renault to buy out Lotus F1 Team Renault to buy out Lotus F1 Team Renault has signed a letter of intent with the Lotus F1 Team’s current owners to take over majority ownership of the financially struggling team, effectively triggering a return of the French carmaker as a fully-fledged constructor entry in 2016. “Renault Group and Gravity Motorsports S.a.r.l., an affiliate of Genii Capital SA, are pleased to announce the signature of a Letter of Intent regarding the potential acquisition by Renault of a controlling stake in Lotus F1 Team Ltd,” a statement reads. “The signature of this Letter of Intent marks Renault’s first step towards the project of a Renault Formula 1 team from the 2016 racing season thereby extending 38 years of commitment of the brand to world’s premier motorsport championship series. “[We] will work together in the coming weeks to eventually turn this initial undertaking into a definitive transaction provided all terms and conditions are met between them and other interested parties.” Lotus has been in dire financial straits in recent months, with a number of court hearings from unhappy creditors culminating in the latest action in London’s High Court over unpaid tax bills. The team was threatened with being put into administration unless it could prove it had the means to pay the outstanding amount, and Renault’s letter of intent was enough to give it a stay of execution until December. The final terms of the buyout have not been officially revealed, but it is understood that Renault will have a 30-day period in which to pull together a financial package whereby most of Lotus’ debts will be saddled with its existing shareholders while it secures revenue from other sources. Principally, those income streams will come from the Red Bull group (by dint of a penalty fee it will have to pay for early termination of its engine contracts for Red Bull Racing and Scuderia Toro Rosso), Pastor Maldonado’s sponsorship from the Venezuelan government, French fuel giant Total and the Formula One Group in the form of a recognition of Renault’s long-term commitment to the sport. If this income is guaranteed, it would allow Renault to borrow against future revenues to generate the cashflow it needs to pay off all equipment and facility liens and non-shareholder debts (believed to total around 55 million) and to invest in rebuilding the team back to competitiveness. The team could further strengthen its coffers by hiring a second pay-driver alongside Pastor Maldonado, with Romain Grosjean almost certain to be confirmed as the lead driver in the new Haas F1 Team. Image via XPB Images Founder & Chief Editor at MotorsportM8 Hasn't missed a Grand Prix since 1989. Has a soft spot for Minardi. Tattooed with 35+ Grand Prix circuits. 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__label__cc	0.695111	0.304889	Discover Movies and TV shows that fit You with our Mobile Application Download for iOS & Android iOS ApplicationAndroid Application The Misogynists Status: Released Where To Watch & Streaming Online In a single, fully-stocked hotel room on the night of the 2016 general election, two Trump supporters celebrate their unexpected results. A group of people venture in and out of the room as the night goes on. Some match the two's enthusiasm while others voice their terror at the prospect of the incoming president, but most struggle to find reasons to care less about the results that caused the debauched celebration occurring around them. Onur Tukel Director / Writer Christine M. Campbell Lou Jay Taylor Gioia Casella Matt Hopkins Karl Jacob Andy / Co-Producer Denisa Juhos Nana Mensah Ivana Miličević Zoë White Gigi Graff Estee Braverman Look at the other titles that might be intersting for you Her Best Friend's Husband Would you betray your best friend for your own happiness? This is the moral dilemma one woman faces after she is called upon to help save her best friend's marriage, and the unthinkable happens. She a... Rich Hall: 3:10 To Humour Catch the king of rapid fire wit perform his sell out ‘3:10 TO HUMOUR’ show. Rich Hall’s critically acclaimed grouchy, deadpan style has established him as a master of absurdist irony. Renowned for hi... The Beatles: In The Life Shooting onto the scene in the early 60’s, The Beatles took the world by storm. Their fame was new, massive and continues to this day. They are still the best-selling band of all time 183 million sale... Bert's Diary Bert is a 13-year old boy about to start eight grade. Amira is a 13-year old girl starting the same class. Amira also happens to be the younger sister of Leila, the most popular girl in school that ev... Roma Termini, Rome's central station: a urban crossroad where thousands of lives collide without touching each other. Four portraits of men who spend their day in the station, solitary unseen beings, ... SK Gaming: The Journey Follow the exciting story of five young men who rose from humble beginnings in Brazil to form the leading CS:GO (or Counter Strike: Global Offensive) team in the world, SK Gaming. After many years of ... Happy Today Sixty Minutes to Midnight On New Year's Eve 1999 a construction worker suddenly finds himself starring on a TV Game Show that kills its contestants. Celebrating Mickey When Mickey burst onto the scene in the classic Steamboat Willie, he not only stole our hearts, but went on to bring joy to generations. This collection from Walt Disney Animation Studios celebrates M... Basta Capital Fatal Sin A boy and a girl fall in love. But on the night they met, she was drunk and stoned and he took advantage of her. Although she does not remember almost anything from that night, she remembers something... Operasjon mumie When a mummy display arrives in Elvestad, a numerous unexplainable accidents happen to the employees at the museum. Rumors has it that they are haunted by pharao Tutankhamon's curse. Merry Christmas, Baby Marci throws herself into preparing for Christmas and building her new event-planning business. But when the business gets off to a rocky start and members of her family face their own hardships, Marc... Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll A filmed record of Eric Bogosian's acclaimed one-man show. Everything For All Reasons Terry Allen is an artist in a class of his own, even in the fringe world of music from the 70's. Everything For All Reasons begins with Terry's story, and ends with his most beloved songs from a conce... contacts@moviefit.me	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1057
__label__cc	0.716994	0.283006	MovieGuise 91st Oscars 91st Oscar Winner Predictions & Ranking 91st Oscar Nominee Predictions 74th Golden Globes Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) I Origins Our Brand Is Crisis Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Deux jours, une nuit Kaguyahime no monogatari Hoje Eu Quero Voltar Sozinho Golden Guiser Awards 5th Golden Guisers – 2020 Favourites MovieGuise Golden Guisers – 1st Decade 3rd Golden Guisers – 2018 Favourites Favourite Cover Song or Use of an Existing Song Favourite Scene in a Motion Picture 2nd Golden Guisers – 2017 Favourites 1st Golden Guisers – 2016 Favourites Oscar Madness 1st Academy Award Ceremony The Last Command 2nd Academy Award Ceremony In Old Arizona The Broadway Melody The Divine Lady 3rd Academy Award Ceremony The Divorcee 4th Academy Award Ceremony The Champ The Great Ziegfeld 10th Academy Award Ceremony The Life of Emile Zola You Can’t Take It With You The Philadelphia Story Mrs. Miniver Going My Way Gentleman’s Agreement 21st Academy Award Ceremony 22nd Academy Award Ceremony All the King’s Men The Heiress 23rd Academy Award Ceremony Born Yesterday On the Waterfront BUtterfield-8 Judgment at Nuremberg The Fortune Cookie Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Kramer vs. Kramer Norma Rae The Paper Chase Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore Dog Day Afternoon Coal Miner’s Daughter Hannah and Her Sisters My Left Foot Prizzi’s Honor Terms of Endearment The Accused Boys Don’t Cry Girl, Interrupted Mighty Aphrodite The Cider House Rules Erin Brockovich 臥虎藏龍 What We’ve Seen Every Feature Film the Guise Saw in 2020 Director: Hector Babenco Cast: William Hurt, Raul Julia, Sonia Braga, José Lewgoy, Milton Gonçalves, Míriam Pires, Nuno Leal Maia, Fernando Torres, Patricio Bisso, Herson Capri, Denise Dumont, Nildo Parente, Antônio Petrin, Wilson Grey, Miguel Falabella Academy Awards: Best Actor in a Leading Role (William Hurt) Also Nominated For: Best Picture; Best Director (Hector Babenco); Best Adapted Screenplay (Leonard Schrader) I First Saw In: 2015 Synopsis: Luis Molina and Valentin Arregui are cell mates in a South American prison. Luis, a trans individual, is found guilty of immoral behavior and Valentin is a political prisoner. To escape reality Luis invents romantic movies, while Valentin tries to keep his mind on the situation he’s in. During the time they spend together, the two men come to understand and respect one another. Did You Know? This was the first independent film to receive an Oscar nomination for Best Picture. Quotables: LUIS MOLINA: Like a what? Say it: like a woman. What’s wrong with being a woman? Why do only women get to be sensitive? Why not a man, a dog, or a faggot? If more men “acted like women”, there wouldn’t be so much violence: like that. And now a Word from the Guise: For being a liberal, independent film, this is infuriatingly ignorant. It’s a prime example of why straight, cis people should not play gay and/or transgender characters. Rather than playing a trans woman, William Hurt clearly portrayed Luis Molina with a man’s perception of how women act: submissive, emotional, yearning to find a man, and to have that man govern her as head of the household. Much of its flagrant ignorance can be attributed to the time it was made. But 1985 really wasn’t that long ago, and though we’ve made strides in the way of LGBTQAI and women’s rights, we still have a very long way to go. Oscar Madness Ranking – ??? out of 233	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1058
__label__cc	0.676605	0.323395	MMJ One letter at a time. One word at a time, One post at a time. MMJ Review List (A-Z) MMJ Trailer Analysis Music in Movies Specials/Lists The Gift: Movie Man Jackson Posted on August 7, 2015 August 7, 2015 by MovieManJackson “I believe a lot of the good can come from the bad.” Simon says stop sending us gifts. By moving to California from Chicago, married couple Simon (Jason Bateman), and Robyn (Rebecca Hall) are ready to start a new life. Simon has secured a great promotion working for a billionaire company, and the hope is that with less stress, he and Robyn can begin to build a family. By way of a random encounter, his old life isn’t quite ready to give way to his new one. Old classmate Gordon (Joel Edgerton), reintroduces himself to Simon through dinners with he and his wife, and simple gifts like a bottle of wine and fish food. What Robyn sees as sweet, Simon sees as annoying and uncomfortable. Is this just a well-intentioned welcome-to-the-neighborhood gesture? Or might this be only a piece of an elaborate vengeance plan? Yours truly loves crazy people thrillers, from the better made ones like Play Misty for Me and Fatal Attraction, to even the more cheesy ones like Swimfan. Let’s not talk about The Boy Next Door. Point is, this genre, though typically predictable from beginning to end, is one that I am frequently entertained with. Believing The Gift to be in line with these films all in the same category, I knew I was going to enjoy this, at least somewhat. What was unforeseen, however, was me loving just about every second of it. For the first few minutes, it would be easy to think of The Gift as nothing different than those other aforementioned movies. There is a house in relative seclusion, far enough from civilization that tons of things could happen before law enforcement shows up. A couple so perfect for each other with beautiful lives. And, of course, an individual who seems nice, but just odd enough to know their equilibrium is off. That is where the similarities end with actor and first time feature director Joel Edgerton’s movie. Without hopefully revealing anything, Edgerton decides, for all intents and purposes, to do a 180 from what is normally seen. Instead of relying on the same template, he does away with it come a certain point in the runtime. It may even be a welcome surprise to see that Edgerton’s character is not the “everywhere, everytime” character the trailers (kudos to the studios for keeping things under wraps) paint him to be. As stated previously, yours truly loves these psycho thrillers. But I realize that often times, there is either a lame explanation, or no plausible reason as to why the nutcase is like so. In The Gift, however, all of the three main characters are strongly written, with very believable motivations for their acts. And, the great thing about these characters, and the story itself, is that it doesn’t all come at once, avoiding the contrivance found in some thrillers. Edgerton puts in pieces of dialogue here and there and there with accompanying shots that end up serving a purpose down the line. Perhaps, the only thing that ends up feeling contrived is the couple moving to California, as it could be argued that none of this would have happen if they remained in Chicago. But there would be no movie then, would there? The Gift is very much a three-person film. Seeing Jason Bateman in something that is not a comedy may be odd to some, but it shouldn’t be. Even in something middling such as This is Where I Leave You, the man has proven to have dramatic talent. Rest assured, he gets a few lines here as Simon to be funny in his dry way, but this not a laughing role. Bateman succeeds in bringing focused intensity and unease to a character who, like Edgerton’s, immediately isn’t what he seems. His performance is a nice contrast to Edgerton’s “Gordo the Weirdo,” who is always in control and never really blows up even once, making his intensity not as “in-your face” as Bateman’s but just as effective. Rebecca Hall may look to be no more than the damsel in distress, but the fleshing out of her character ends up giving the story a very emotional core in between two mysterious characters embroiled in a long-standing feud. In many respects, she is the true star of the film. Once the traditional wrapping paper on The Gift’s setup is unraveled, what is left is a methodical, ambiguous, and technically sound film. The title is very fitting, just not in the obvious way expected. Photo credits go to businessinsider.com, and dailymotion.com. Follow the Movie Man @MovieManJackson Tags: 2015, film reviews, Jason Bateman, Joel Edgerton, movie reviews, psychological thriller, Rebecca Hall, The Gift, The Gift review, thrillerCategories: Movies/Film, Thriller 12 thoughts on “The Gift: Movie Man Jackson” I can’t wait for this. Seeing it in about half an hour! Great write up dude. MovieManJackson says: Thanks bro! Eager to see your thoughts. Did my best to try and refrain from anything that could be considered spoiler-ish. Have fun! I knew there was something I forgot to add. You did a good job skipping over plot details, it’s really hard to do that for me sometimes. Sounds like this was one of em. Actually, just got back from it. And it was definitely one of them! Loved it though! What a great start for Edgerton as director It seems like this one is getting some really good word-of-mouth. Honestly I had dismissed it early on taking it was just another creepy guy terrorizing a family. But it definitely sounds like more than that. I do really like the cast. Highly recommend giving a watch Keith. As you probably read, I too thought this would be not too much different from creepy person terrorizes a family/individual. But it is, the genre staples are completely flipped and/or removed. peggyatthemovies says: So I had skimmed your review yesterday and having not really been enthusiastic about seeing this from the trailers.. your review made me actually plan my day so I could see it. While it wasn’t bad.. and A- for me..is way over-rating it. Ah well.. usually we come pretty close to agreeing but I will give kudos to Joel Egerton on his first film of writing/directing & starring in..He’s not one of my favs. but did a decent job. other wise it was kinda predictable for me..and a C+ at best.. sorry.. but I like the fact that I could read your review yesterday and none of the film was in anyway spoiled by it!! another kudos on that!! 😀 I loved this one unabashedly Peggy! Sorry you didn’t like it as much. I haven’t seen as many of the smaller thrillers I would have liked to, but I liked this as much as last years Gone Girl. I actually found it fairly unpredictable aside from a moment in the first third that I knew was gonna resurface again near the end. But that is the thing, Edgerton laid all of the mystery puzzle pieces there and they all fit really well. Don’t get me wrong..I liked it.. and again kudos to Egerton.. 🙂 Pingback: Truth or Dare (2018): Movie Man Jackson – MMJ Pingback: Boy Erased – MMJ Pingback: Greta – MMJ Pingback: Ma (2019) – MMJ Leave a Reply to MovieManJackson Cancel reply Published by MovieManJackson I am Movie Man Jackson. Doing my best to share my view on movies. Not the be all end all, just one man's view. Thanks! View all posts by MovieManJackson PreviousThe Maze Runner: Movie Man Jackson NextWar: Movie Man Jackson Follow MMJ on WordPress.com	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1059
__label__cc	0.581889	0.418111	Marine Transportation System MTS Matters Posts Tagged ‘Chuck Schumer’ Budget, Chuck Schumer, Congress, Department of Labor, DERA, Donald Trump, EPA, Homeland Security, Mick Mulvaney, OMB, Port Security Grants, Senate, Spending, State Department, USDOT, VA A Budget Like None Other? In Congress, Federal Government, Leadership, President on March 20, 2017 at 9:31 am A budget that puts America first must make the safety of our people its number one priority — because without safety, there can be no prosperity. [President Donald Trump in the introduction to his FY18 Budget Blueprint] President Trump defines public safety in a way that accommodates a substantial reduction in environmental enforcement, diplomacy, and foreign assistance in order to spend more on the Pentagon and border enforcement. His zero sum approach adheres to current, statutory limits on overall Federal spending, thus there are clear winners and clear losers in his “blueprint” for the FY18 budget that was sent to the Hill last Thursday. Donald Trump’s top-line budget — most details still months away — is the sort that Congress has not been seen in my 45 years working in Washington…and probably not for many decades prior that. Certainly not since some of those departments were created. Threats to cut the budget to some extent, yes. Largely empty campaign promises to eliminate departments, sure. But not a 10 percent increase for the single largest department that already has the equivalent of all other government agencies’ discretionary spending, combined. Defense would see a $54 billion increase while the Transportation Department would see a 12.7 percent reduction, Labor Department 20.7 percent, State Department 28.7 percent, and Environmental Protection Agency 31.4 percent. Of the 13 Cabinet departments that are proposed for cuts only three are targeted for drops less than 10 percent. Only Defense, Homeland Security, and Veterans Affairs are slated to see increases. Consistent with the President’s approach to move the Nation toward fiscal responsibility, the Budget eliminates and reduces hundreds of programs and focuses funding to refine the proper role of the Federal Government. [from “Budget Highlights”] The proposed budget does nothing to reduce spending in the aggregate. In fact, it challenges Republicans in Congress to set aside their first opportunity in a while for two legislative chambers and the White House to cut overall spending. This isn’t the first time Republicans control both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue, of course. But it is as if it takes someone with no experience in government to know what are disposable missions and programs across the Federal government. Or, perhaps, it takes such a person to simply not care. Nineteen agencies — many small and obscure but among them the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the National Endowment for the Art, National Endowment for the Humanities, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, and the U.S. Institute for Peace — are specifically identified for elimination. Other unidentified agencies apparently would be substantially weakened by cuts. The president’s first budget message faces a predictably rocky road ahead. His own party may be in charge of Congress but that doesn’t protect Trump’s “skinny” budget — an average of two pages per department — from also being called “dead on arrival.” DOA is the usual label legislators apply to any president’s budget submission. However, it may be no more apropos than it is for Donald Trump’s first budget policy expression. A representative counter expression on Capitol Hill is that of fellow Republican Hal Rogers (KY) who served for six years as chair of House Appropriations. While we have a responsibility to reduce our federal deficit, I am disappointed that many of the reductions and eliminations proposed in the president’s skinny budget are draconian, careless and counterproductive. … As General [Jim] Mattis [and now Secretary of Defense] said prophetically, slashing the diplomatic efforts will cause them to have to buy more ammunition. There is [sic] two sides to fighting the problem that we’re in: There is military and then there’s diplomatic. And we can’t afford to dismantle the diplomatic half of that equation.”[The Washington Post] House and Senate members of the president’s party have found a lot not to like. Favored programs and agencies would be cut, if not eliminated, on the non-defense side of the ledger. Some Republicans have also criticized Trump’s trumpeted “10 percent” hike in defense spending as misleading and insufficient. The chairs of the Armed Services committees claim that in actuality the proposed increase is only three percent greater than what Congress funded for the current year. They want more. Then there are the Republicans whose firm ambition to reduce and ultimately end deficit spending is not served by the White House proposal. (The president’s new Director of the Office of Management & Budget, former House Member Mick Mulvaney, was in that camp just months ago.) Intentionally, the new president’s budget does not propose to change the existing multi-year agreement in law that sets an overall spending limit. Suffice it to say that the Democrats see a document that is easy to oppose. They promise to leave to the majority party the job of approving some form of it, gladly wanting the GOP to be on the record as cutting popular programs. The minority party members already are positioning themselves as not responsible for a government shutdown should the GOP not have the votes to keep the government funded. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer’s statement warns, in so many words, “don’t count on us to help pass your budget.” If Republicans insist on inserting poison pill riders such as defunding Planned Parenthood, building a border wall, or starting a deportation force, they will be shutting down the government and delivering a severe blow to our economy. [Chuck Schumer (D-NY)] As telling as the 62-page White House document is, the skinny budget will be followed in May by something resembling a full budget with greater detail that should formally indicate, for example, if the Diesel Emissions Reduction Grant program is proposed for elimination and how much less would be available for Port Security Grants. The May document might also be expected to cover other crucial detail that budgets normally provide. The bipartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget notes that “by focusing only on discretionary spending, this budget effectively ignores 70 percent of spending and 90 percent of its growth over the next decade.” That is a reference, substantially, to the defense and national security portion of the Federal budget and the Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid entitlement programs. As stated earlier, the slashing and shrinking of domestic Federal programs and agencies is proposed to benefit the Defense Department with a $54 billion increase, in addition to plus-ups for the nuclear program and border security. Nowhere in the budget document is there a reference to the substantial sums that various independent reports have identified as being in reach with the adoption of Pentagon reorganization and other efficiencies. Might that come later? 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__label__cc	0.532468	0.467532	Agenda, decisions and minutes Tandridge Local Committee - Friday, 27 June 2014 10.15 am Agenda frontsheet PDF 1 MB Printed decisions PDF 43 KB Venue: Tandridge District Council Offices, Station Road East, Oxted, Surrey, RH8 0BT Contact: Michelle Starr, Community Partnership and Committee Officer Tandridge District Council Offices, Station Road East, Oxted, Surrey, RH8 0BT To receive any apologies. Apologies received from Mr Michael Sydney. Apologies were received from Mr Michael Sydney (Chairman). Mr Nick Skellett (Vice Chairman) chaired the meeting. MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING PDF 60 KB To approve the Minutes of the previous meeting as a correct record. The minutes were agreed as an accurate record of the meeting. To receive any declarations of disclosable pecuniary interests from Members in respect of any item to be considered at the meeting. · In line with the Relevant Authorities (Disclosable Pecuniary Interests) Regulations 2012, declarations may relate to the interest of the member, or the member’s spouse or civil partner, or a person with whom the member is living as husband or wife, or a person with whom the member is living as if they were civil partners and the member is aware they have the interest. · Members need only disclose interests not currently listed on the Register of Disclosable Pecuniary Interests. · Members must notify the Monitoring Officer of any interests disclosed at the meeting so they may be added to the Register. · Members are reminded that they must not participate in any item where they have a disclosable pecuniary interest. None received. PETITIONS PDF 111 KB To receive any petitions in accordance with Standing Order 68. Notice should be given in writing or by email to the Community Partnership and Committee Officer at least 14 days before the meeting. Alternatively, the petition can be submitted on-line through Surrey County Council’s e-petitions website as long as the minimum number of signatures (30) has been reached 14 days before the meeting. One petition received. Response attached. One received. The petitioner was not in attendance at the meeting and has received the response which is attached to the minutes as Appendix A. Mrs Gillian Woods submitted a petition with 96 signatures from local residents opposing proposed parking controls in Hillbury Road and requesting that any decision on the proposed parking controls be delayed until after a consultation meeting has been held with local residents. This is in reference to the ‘Tandridge 2013/14 Parking Review – Statement of Reasons’ document taken to the Dec 2013 Local Committee meeting. Appendix A PDF 111 KB FORMAL PUBLIC QUESTIONS PDF 11 KB To answer any questions from residents or businesses within the Tandridge District area in accordance with Standing Order 69. Notice should be given in writing or by email to the Community Partnership and Committee Officer by 12 noon four working days before the meeting. One received to date. Response attached. One formal public question was received. The written response is attached to the minutes as Appendix B. Mrs Gillian Woods requested the committee give the cost for imposing parking restrictions in relation to Hillbury Road i.e. street furniture, paint etc and asked how they will be enforcing them. Appendix B PDF 11 KB MEMBERS QUESTIONS To receive any written questions from Members under Standing Order 47. Notice should be given in writing to the Community Partnership and Committee Officer of formal questions by 12.00 noon four working days before the meeting. None received to date. There were no member questions and no member questions were asked informally at the meeting. MEMBERS ALLOCATIONS SUMMARY PDF 241 KB Surrey County Council Councillors receive funding to spend on local projects that help to promote social, economic or environmental well-being in the neighbourhoods and communities of Surrey. This funding is known as Members’ Allocation. For the financial year 2014/15 the County Council has allocated £10,300revenue funding to each County Councillor and £35,000 capital funding to each Local Committee. This report provides an update on the projects that have been funded since April 2014 to date. Report and Annex 1 attached. ITEM 7_ANNEX 1 Tandridge Allocations 2014-15 , item 60/13 PDF 65 KB Declarations of Interest: None Officers attending: Sandra Brown, Community Partnerships Team Leader (East) Petitions, Public Questions, Statements: None Member Discussion – key points: · Members were reminded that all money must be spent by 28th February 2015 and that there will be no carry forward again this year. · Members discussed the anticipated projects to be funded from the remaining 2014/15 Member’s Allocation budget, such as the Support Bursary scheme for Looked After Children which was jointly supported and funded previously. · Members discussed the positive impact and opening up of opportunities through funding projects such as Street Youth Centre, Ridge Radio, erecting goals in Stafford Road and helping children access the Duke of Edinburgh Award scheme. · Two projects funded have recently received local press coverage. Members discussed their keenness to promote the Members Allocations more through press coverage and the Community Partnerships Team Leader assured the Local Committee members that the team are currently promoting the initiatives through the local pages on the Surrey County Council website and Twitter. In addition to this the Community Partnership team has signed up to corporate news in brief so all stories can be promoted via this means also. (i) The Committee NOTED the amounts that have been spent from the Members’ Allocation (revenue) and Local Committee capital budgets, as set out in Annex 1 of the report submitted. LOCAL COMMITTEE TASK GROUP REPRESENTATION 2014-15 PDF 80 KB The Local Committee is asked to review and agree the terms of reference and membership of the Youth Task Group for 2014-15. Report and Annex A attached. TABLED_ITEM 8 Task groups TOR Annex A , item 61/13 PDF 18 KB The Committee AGREED: (i) The terms of reference of the Youth Task Group, as set out in the tabled Annex A. (ii) The county membership of the task group for 2014-15 to be Nick Skellett, Sally Marks and John Orrick. The Local Committee task group enables the Local Committee to carry out its work in an efficient and expedient manner. Officers attending: Michelle Starr, Community Partnership and Committee Officer (Tandridge) · The Local Committee discussed ways in which District members could be appointed to the Youth Task Group as no nominations were received for membership. However a district member who previously attended will continue to do so. · The local committee agreed to the changes in the tabled Terms of Reference papers whereby the task group can make use of consulting with other groups · Members nominated for Mr Nick Skellett and Mrs Sally Marks to continue to represent the task group. Mr Nick Skellett nominated for Mr John Orrick to also become a member of the task group which was seconded by all of the committee. The committee: (i) AGREED the terms of reference of the Youth Task Group, as set out in the tabled Annex A. Annex A PDF 18 KB COMMUNITY SAFETY IN TANDRIDGE 2014-15 PDF 113 KB Surrey County Council is a statutory partner on Community Safety Partnerships (CSP) at a borough/district level. The Local Committee (Tandridge) has been delegated £3,294 to support community safety work in the borough, this money requires Local Committee agreement to be delegated for use by the local Community Safety officers. In East Surrey (Reigate & Banstead, Mole Valley and Tandridge), there is a long history of working together, including jointly-funded posts and co-ordinated delivery of campaigns. The conclusion of a recent review conducted by partner agencies on the CSP is an agreement to formally merge the three CSPs into a single East Surrey CSP. A County Councillor from each District or Borough area will represent the Local Committees on the new East CSP. Report attached. (i) AGREED that the community safety budget of £3,294 that has been delegated to the Local Committee be transferred to the Tandridge Community Safety Manager in consultation with the Tandridge Local Committee representative for the purposes of addressing community safety priorities, authorising the Community Partnerships Manager to carry out this transfer on the Committees behalf. (ii) NOTED the formation of a new East CSP, which includes Tandridge, and the new way of working across the East. (iii) NOMINATED Michael Sydney to represent the Tandridge Local Committee on the East Surrey CSP in 2014-15 and Nick Skellett to be a named substitute Surrey County Council is a Responsible Authority on Community Safety Partnerships and has a responsibility to be represented at their meetings. Contributing delegated funding will help to ensure that there is a sufficient budget to fund projects aimed at reducing crime and anti-social behaviour within the district. Officers attending: Gordon Falconer, Community Safety Unit Senior Manager The Community Safety Unit Senior Manager presented the report, explained the recommendations and reasoning and why the Community Safety Partnership (CSP) is moving towards an East Surrey CSP merge. He continued that the emphasis was still on keeping a local focus via the appropriate means (such as the JAG and CIAG groups) and that the response locally would still remain the same. The Vice Chairman opened up the report for discussion by the committee members. · Although members agreed that the wider partnership will ensure that the CSP has more weight, concerns were raised regarding whether Tandridge itself will be overshadowed by the other areas which have very different problems and priorities. · Members moved to make the decisions and amended the first recommendation (that the CSP budget be transferred to the CSP Manager but in consultation with the Tandridge Local Committee representative, which was seconded by Mrs Helena Windsor, Mr John Orrick and Mr David Hodge). · Mr Michael Sydney was nominated to continue to attend as the Local Committee CSP representative (which was seconded by Mr John Orrick and Mr David Hodge) with Nick Skellett nominated as a named substitute (seconded by Mrs Sally Marks). · Members agreed that they would like to know more and increase reporting to the committee on the new arrangements. · Mr Nick Skellett suggested that the Community Safety Unit Senior Manager proposes that CSP substitutes can also attend the meetings but with non voting rights. · Members requested that updates be provided at informal Local Committee meetings and a yearly report to the formal Local Committee. · Members continued that they felt they did not hear from local inspectors as regularly as they would like to and therefore often felt out of the loop regarding trends and local issues. · Concerns were raised again that Tandridge has very different needs to neighbouring boroughs and may lose out as a result of the merge. · Gordon Falconer assured members that local focus would not be lost and that he would propose at the inaugural meeting of the East CSP that they provide reports at six monthly intervals to Local Committee’s related to the CSP Action Plans; a report after 6 months outlining what has been achieved followed by a 12 month round up report. · Members agreed that an annual report brought to a Formal Local Committee meeting along with the police would help to inform and support them in their contact with Community Safety in Tandridge. (ii) NOTED the formation of a new East CSP, which includes Tandridge ... view the full minutes text for item 62/13 HIGHWAY SCHEMES UPDATE PDF 95 KB At the 13th December 2013 Local Committee, Members agreed a programme of revenue and capital highway works in Tandridge. Delegated Authority was given to enable changes to be made to the forward programme and for schemes to be progressed without the need to bring further reports to the Local Committee for decision. The capital programme has been revised following the severe winter and the need to carry out more maintenance to repair water damaged roads. This report sets out the revised capital programme and recent progress. The report also updates Members on the number of enquiries received from customers. Report and Annexes 1 and 2 attached. ITEM 10_ANNEX 1 Tan Highways Schemes Update , item 63/13 PDF 25 KB ITEM 10_ANNEX 2 Tan ITS , item 63/13 PDF 28 KB Officers attending: John Lawlor, Highways Area Team Manager The Highways Area Team Manager presented the report to the committee members and drew their attention to the schemes and progress in Annexes 1 and 2. He continued that the latest Operation Horizon update report should have been sent out to all members and was now available online. The team had responded to a huge increase in calls and the staff should be praised for their response to this. · Mr David Hodge praised the works completed to date and acknowledged that Surrey County Council had done outstanding work; the quality of work and the staff were exceptional and feedback received from residents was very positive. · Members all praised the work of the Operation Horizon team · The Vice Chairman asked the Highways Area Team Manager regarding the various lists of works and schemes that he was aware of and asked to receive copies of the lists in order to clarify what schemes are being managed from which funding or project. Lists such as the LSR, Operation Horizon, Flood recovery and P400 lists. He continued that in seeing the lists, members asked could it be made clearer whether LSR work carried out was recognised as water damage or not. Having access to the lists could also change members’ priorities and inform their work better. · The Highways Area Team Manager confirmed that he would ensure the lists are sent to all Local Committee members and will arrange a meeting to sit with the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Local Committee in order to devise a holistic list. · Members discussed further items in the report such as surface treatments failing and it was confirmed that these will be repaired at no cost to Surrey County Council. · Members were reminded that they needed to arrange LSR discussions with the Highways Area Team Manager. · The committee noted the contents of the report. Petitions, Public Questions, Statements: · Mr Simon Morrow asked whether the Farleigh Road traffic calming design will come back to the Local Committee meeting. The Highways Area Team Manager confirmed that the divisional member had had the meeting and that it has gone back to design as there were concerns regarding drainage. It is hoped however that the project will still be implemented in this financial year and assured he would keep the Local Committee updated of progress. · Members agreed that a property along this road has suffered from serious flooding to its garden and therefore agreed that the flooding issue needed to be resolved before the road works are started. (i) The Committee NOTED the report for information. REVIEW OF WINTER SERVICE ARRANGEMENTS PDF 103 KB Surrey undertakes an annual review of the Winter Service at the end of each winter season, including the effectiveness of network coverage, operational improvements, organisational changes and partnership working arrangements. This report seeks the views of the Tandridge Local Committee on the delivery of the Winter Service operations in the 2013/14 season, to feedback into the annual review. (i) AGREED to consider the current Winter Service provision and operations in their area and provide feedback, via their Local Committee Chairman, on any change requests. To give the Tandridge Local Committee the opportunity to provide feedback into the annual review of Winter Service operations. The Highways Area Team Manager presented the report and asked members to let their Local Committee Chairman know of any issues by the end of July 2014. He informed the committee that there had been a huge amount of input from parishes and the district this year in snow conditions. He continued that they should continue to be included in early discussions. · Members requested to be informed of dates when the grit bins would be filled. · Members agreed that a large amount of work has gone into the gritting routes and that the service has been working very well, however some members raised concerns that damaged grit bins coming to the end of their lives would be removed. It was felt that if a bin was there in the first instance it was because it was required and therefore should not be removed and more minor roads leading to main roads needed to also be considered. · The Highways Area Team Manager stated that a report went to the Transport Select Committee and Cabinet regarding the Grit Bin scoring assessment. Priority 1 and 2 (P1 and P2) routes should not require the grit bins as they are regularly salted and only the bins at the end of their life (scoring under 100 points) would be removed. · Members asked what the trigger was for sending the gritting lorries to grit the P1 and P2 routes as the weather forecast trigger previously had been from the Merrow office looking at the Met Office forecast. However last year, on the other side of the A22 in Tandridge the weather was very different and more similar to the Kent weather than the rest of Surrey. Members requested that the Godstone depot should have a facility whereby they can report back to the Merrow depot. It was also agreed however that sometimes these freak incidents in weather can occur very suddenly within the Tandridge District. · Members requested that John Lawlor send them the updated priority routes for each division. The Highways Area Team Manager confirmed that the Winter Service Plan packs would be out in September however he would ensure that they have received updated maps. · It was noted that 3-4 years ago meetings with parishes were held to talk through winter maintenance and highways issues and that perhaps it would be a good idea to do this once more. · Members requested that in addition an audit for each parish (equipment and processes) by division be completed as members often are not aware of what has been given and therefore an overview would be helpful. · John Lawlor confirmed that last year they worked with parishes and Tandridge District Council and also provided hand salting machines. · Members discussed whether they needed to start looking at salting pavements also. · Members asked the Highways Area Team Manager regarding replacing grit bins that were due to be ... view the full minutes text for item 64/13 ROAD SAFETY - B269 TITSEY HILL/TITSEY ROAD, TITSEY PDF 130 KB Following a fatal collision in Titsey Road in April 2014, an initial investigation into road safety in Titsey Road/Titsey Hill has been carried out. A number of locations have been identified where additional road signs and markings could be introduced to highlight the road geometry to drivers. Consideration could also be given to reducing the speed limit. A site meeting will be held early in July to consider these suggestions in more detail, the results of which will be presented to the Local Committee Chairman, Vice-Chairman and local divisional Members. ITEM 12_Annex 1 Road Safety - B269 Titsey Hill and road report , item 65/13 PDF 233 KB (i) NOTED the contents of the report (ii) AGREED to start investigating the process of reducing the speed limit (iii)AGREED to appropriate interim warning signage to be erected (iv)AGREED to seek geological assessment of the composition of the road and to ensure that it includes Titsey Hill in its entirety (v) AGREED to authorise the Highways Area Team Manager in consultation with the Chairman, Vice Chairman and Divisional member to implement the necessary traffic regulation order procedures on behalf of the Local Committee To advise the Local Committee of the work being carried out following the fatal collision in Titsey Road. [Item 12 was taken at the start of the meeting at the request of the Vice-Chairman who was chairing the meeting.] Members were concerned when several incidents took place at these locations and therefore requested for the Highways Area Team Manager to look into if anything could/should be done to improve safety measures on this road. The Highways Area Team Manager presented the report and confirmed that a discussion had already taken place and a meeting was scheduled with the police for July, where a detailed inspection and site visit would take place. However the team cannot move forward until the Police investigation has finished and the results are available in order to proceed further. · Members expressed their condolences to the families and discussed the recent tragic incident which took place. Members agreed that a commitment needs to be made to the concerned families that Surrey Highways will progress and move on the police findings (if related to road safety) as soon as possible. · Mrs Sally Marks requested for the Highways Area Team Manager to erect advisory signs in the interim period. · Members praised the Police Road Safety team representative for being in attendance at the meeting and illustrating the Police’s involvement and commitment to the incidents that occurred. · Discussion continued with regard to the speed limit on the road and the potential to reduce it via a traffic order and whether this could be dealt with separately. A recommendation was proposed to start the process of reducing the speed limit which was agreed and seconded by all members of the committee present. · Members agreed to put forward another recommendation to implement appropriate interim warning signage which was duly seconded and agreed by all members present. · The Highways Area Team Manager explained the processes involved in establishing signs and reducing speed limits to members and agreed that the process could be started at the meeting via these recommendations · Members also raised concerns about further up Titsey Hill and regarding the undulations of the road and its geology. It was agreed a further recommendation be put in place to seek geological assessment of the composition of the road and to ensure that it includes Titsey Hill in its entirety after the July site meeting. This recommendation was also agreed and seconded by members of the local committee. · Members put forward a further recommendation to authorise the Highways Area Team Manager in consultation with the Chairman, Vice Chairman and Divisional member to implement the necessary traffic regulation order procedures on behalf of the Local Committee in order to speed up the process which was agreed and seconded by all local committee members present. · Members discussed the best locations for the signs and agreed that Pilgrims Lane may be a possible location. · The Local Committee agreed that the families should be kept ... view the full minutes text for item 65/13 TANDRIDGE FREIGHT REVIEW PDF 154 KB Information reports on HGV problems and opportunities were presented to the committee on 1 March 2013 and 13 December 2013. Members requested that a more specific review of freight related issues across the whole of the Tandridge district be carried out in consultation with all its Parish Councils. This report brings the outcome of these consultations on local HGV issues together with other proposals aimed at reducing congestion on the wider road network which are expected to relieve the impact of HGV’s on local roads. Report and Annexes A and B attached. ITEM 13_Annex A Freight Review , item 66/13 PDF 160 KB ITEM 13_Annex B SatNav reporting , item 66/13 PDF 421 KB Officers attending: Peter Hitchings, Transport Policy Engineer The Transport Policy Engineer explained the report to the Local Committee and confirmed that the SatNav reporting guidance document can be publicised and circulated to the parishes also. The briefing provides step by step information on how to report an erroneous route for HGVs to the mapping companies. · Members discussed the SatNav briefing produced and suggested that perhaps Peter Hitchings could attend an informal Local Committee meeting in future in order to show a live demonstration to members (and perhaps other relevant partners could also be invited). · Members raised concerns that older HGVs with an older mapping navigation system may not however be updated and therefore would not benefit from the reporting of incorrect HGV routes. · The Transport Policy Engineer assured members that HGV specific users are actually obliged to update their systems so this would not prove to be a problem. However some members remained sceptical regarding smaller companies conforming with this and paying for updates. · Members moved on to discussing the Coast to Capital bids which were due to be announced in July 2014. · The Highways Area Team Manager and members discussed the following topics which needed addressing: - No reference to signage from the North - Tag A25 is being addressed in next year’s budget and the Local Committee Chair, Vice Chair and divisional member should be invited to the meeting - The Hooley Interchange - The Biffa site and the lack of infrastructure surrounding it, as well as the volume of vehicles · The Transport Policy Engineer confirmed that the Tandridge Transport Strategy would be out for consultation in September 2014. (i) NOTED the range of solutions to local HGV issues within the report to be included within the Tandridge Transport Strategy. (ii) NOTED the progress on the project submissions to the Coast to Capital Local Economic Partnership and their potential to reduce HGV impacts on local roads (iii) NOTED the progress on reporting satnav mapping errors ANNUAL PERFORMANCE REPORT FROM SERVICES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE PDF 94 KB The purpose of this report is to update the Local Committee on the progress that Services for Young People have made towards participation for all young people in Tandridge in post-16 education, training and employment during 2013-14. This is the overarching goal of Services for Young People and our strategy to achieve it is set out in ‘The young people’s employability plan 2012-17’. In particular this Local Committee report focuses on the contribution of our different commissions to this goal and how they have performed during the year. Please note that the majority of detailed performance information is provided in the annex to this report. Next steps have also been included to set out how we will keep the Local Committee informed about developments and our progress during the year ahead. ITEM 14_ANNEX 1 Tandridge SYP Performance Summary 2013-14 , item 67/13 PDF 887 KB Officers attending: Jeremy Crouch, Lead Youth Officer - East The Lead Youth Officer explained the report and drew members attention to the case study included; highlighting partnership working. He continued that he recognised that there were challenges ahead and reported that since the report had been written that performance had increased for Harry’s Youth Centre. The Officer confirmed that Street Youth Centre has struggled a little due to staffing issues and members were informed also that Stuart Kingsley was now the employee for the YMCA Redhill. The Officer summarised that as partnership working is improving, so is performance. · The Vice Chair updated Jeremy Crouch that Mr John Orrick had now been nominated onto the Youth Task Group and that a district councillor will also continue to attend. · Ms Sally Marks voiced concerns over Street and questioned its future direction of travel as Street is opening less than it was and despite understanding the staffing issues, this has led to the centre opening less. The commitment for Surrey was to have a vibrant centre within Caterham which is not happening. She continued to question how the insufficient staffing could be managed and how members could begin to see evidence of value for money. · The Officer responded that the YMCA contract was set up to provide a number of matched hours (so approximately 3-5 hours per week extra as agreed in the contract) and provision can be provided anywhere within a 2 mile radius of the centre. He continued that he had had a conversation with them that morning regarding opening on a Friday evening in the future. · Members continued to discuss the findings of the report and the progress made and some clarification was sought on the distance travelled, whether the performance figures were actually achievable and how attendance was recorded. · The Lead Youth Officer responded that the YMCA proposes the performance measures and then a discussion takes place on what is achievable and whether the targets are ambitious enough. · Attendance is recorded on an ‘App’ and as a result of this, reporting of attendance has improved (as the previous kit was not working successfully). · Members acknowledged the excellent NEET figures and asked for this to be publicised more widely. (i) NOTED the progress Services for Young People has made during 2013/14 to increase participation for young people in education, training or employment, as set out in the annex to this report CREATING OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE: LOCAL RE-COMMISSIONING FOR 2015 - 2020 PDF 171 KB Services for Young People (SYP) currently operates nine commissions which contribute towards the overall goal of full participation in education, training or employment with training for young people to age 19 and to age 25 for those with special educational needs or disabilities (SEND). These commissions are delivered through in-house services and external providers, where contracts were let generally for a 3 year period, all expiring in 2015. This paper explores increased delegation of decision-making in relation to local ‘Early Help’ for young people, within the context of re-commissioning for 2015 to 2020. ITEM 15_ANNEX 1 YP Outcomes Fwork , item 68/13 PDF 206 KB (i) AGREED to support increased delegation of decision-making to include the current Centre Based Youth Work so that it can be re-commissioned alongside the current Local Prevention Framework. (ii) AGREED that local priorities for the newly delegated commissions within Services for Young People will be decided by the Tandridge Local Committee informed by the work of the constituted Youth Task Group. This paper outlines plans to build on the successes of Services for Young People and proposes greater integration and working together for the commissioning of the Local Prevention Framework (LPF), Centre Based Youth Work (CBYW) and potentially other more integrated commissioning with partners such as Tandridge District Council, Public Health, Surrey Police and Active Surrey. It explains how Services for Young People plan to achieve its overall goal of employability for all young people. Officers attending: Jeremy Crouch, Lead Youth Officer – East The Lead Youth Officer explained the report and recommendations to the Local Committee which they agreed.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1074
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__label__cc	0.581177	0.418823	Home » Business » This Article LA County Invests $300 Million in New Voting System Posted by Contributing Editor on June 12, 2018 in Business \| Leave a response Los Angeles County officials voted Tuesday to spend roughly $300 million on a major redesign of its voting system in anticipation of the 2020 presidential election, even as an independent consultant investigates a glitch in the existing process that led to nearly 120,000 voters being left off polling place rosters last week. The new system, which has an electronic interface at the polling place but generates a paper ballot for record keeping, is part of a broader update that includes allowing voters to cast a ballot over an 11-day period prior to and including Election Day. The county will also do away with assigning traditional polling places and instead allow voters to drop in at any vote center convenient to them. The overall goal is to increase engagement and access, by making voting easier, as well as to ensure system security, Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk Dean Logan told the board. “While not a panacea for all issues and concerns, … this new voting model and the systems that support it will significantly reduce the likelihood of error and disruption in the voting process and will increase our ability to appropriately and quickly triage such occurrences,” Logan said. Errors are definitely on the mind of the board members moned Logan last week to question him about a printing error that forced poll workers volunteering for the June 5 primary to hand out provisional ballots to many residents whose names should have appeared on county rosters. Entire blocks of addresses from single streets were somehow and voting rights advocates worried that some voters may have walked away without casting a ballot. This spending is unrelated to that problem, which the county is hiring a third-party agency to investigate. The snafu affected the voter rolls at 1,530 of the 4,357 precinct locations. A total of 118,522 voters’ names — roughly 2 percent of registered voters — were omitted from the lists, according to the county. Like this story? Don’t miss any breaking news from MyNewsLA.com. Sign up here for your free newsletter. As for the new system, Logan said his office is “pushing hard” to have it in place by the 2020 presidential election. “There’s nothing on the market that meets the needs of a jurisdiction like this,” Logan said. One component will support the ability to verify registration status in real time. To accommodate a diversity of voters, residents will be able to choose a ballot and voting instructions in whatever language they prefer. Other conveniences will include same-day voter registration and vote-by-mail drop boxes set up across the county. Supervisor Kathryn Barger worried about the loss of public faith in the system. “I, unfortunately, think that the national dialogue has undermined the public trust in our democratic election process on a broad scale,” Barger said. “And I’m concerned that the events of last week are going to further erode that public confidence.” However, Barger expressed hope that this new investment would move the county forward. Supervisor Janice Hahn asked whether the new system would be equipped to evolve along with voter populations and other changes likely to occur through 2033. A $282 million contract with Smartmatic USA Corporation covers the cost of renewal options through that year. Another $12 million agreement with Digital Foundry, Inc. covers tabulation of ballots through 2020. “$300 million is a lot of money,” Hahn said. Logan promised that the system would be agile enough to adapt to legal, demographic and behavioral changes over what he hoped would be the next 50 years. Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas took a moment to remind Logan that people don’t like the idea of provisional ballots. “It makes it feel like voting is provisional rather than constitutional,” Ridley-Thomas said, adding that he hoped news of the upgrade, under development since 2012, would let residents know “we mean business in securing and protecting their constitutional right to vote.” Last Wednesday, county elections officials estimated that about 141,000 provisional ballots from last Tuesday’s election still needed to be tabulated. On Friday, Logan’s office issued its first ballot-counting update, having tabulated 83,267 ballots since Election Day. According to the county, the number of outstanding provisional ballots left to be counted as of Friday was 139,050, along with 296,380 mail-in ballots and 3,970 miscellaneous ballots. Another update this evening shows 128,000 provisional ballots still to be counted, along with 170,000 mail-in ballots and 600 miscellaneous ballots. The total election results count is now 1,180,472, which is nearly 23 percent of eligible Los Angeles County voters. The next update is scheduled for Friday and final certification is tentatively scheduled for June 29. LA County Invests $300 Million in New Voting System was last modified: June 13th, 2018 by Contributing Editor >> Want to read more stories like this? Get our Free Daily Newsletters Here! Posted in Business \| Tagged $300, county, Invests, Million, system, voting	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1076
__label__wiki	0.797618	0.797618	Eyal Weizman Eyal Weizman is Professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths College, University of London and a Global Scholar at Princeton University. A founder of Forensic Architecture, he is also a founding member of the architectural collective DAAR in Beit Sahour/Palestine. His books include Mengele's Skull, The Least of All Possible Evils, and Hollow Land. The Roundabout Revolutions Eyal Weizman 2019 One common feature of the wave of recent revolutions and revolts around the world is not political but rather architectural: many erupted on inner-city roundabouts. In thinking about the relation between protest and urban form, Eyal Weizman starts with the May 1980 uprising in Gwangju, South Korea, the first of the “roundabout revolutions,” and traces its lineage to the Arab Spring and its hellish aftermath. Rereading the history of the roundabout through the vortices of history that traverse it, the book follows the development of the roundabout in Europe and North America in the early twentieth century, to its subsequent export to the colonial world in the context of attempts to discipline and police the “chaotic” non-Western city. How did an urban apparatus put in the service of authoritarian power became the locus of its undoing? Today, as the tide of revolt that characterized the Arab Spring seems to ebb, when nations and societies disintegrate by brutal civil wars and military oppression, the series of revolutions might seem like Dante's circles of hell. To counter this counter-revolution, Weizman proposes that the immanent power of the people at the roundabouts will need to find its corollary in sustained work at round tables—the ongoing formation of political movements able to enact political change. The sixth volume of the Critical Spatial Practice series stems from Eyal Weizman's contribution to the Gwangju Folly II in 2013, an exhibition curated by Nikolaus Hirsch with Philipp Misselwitz and Eui Young Chun for the Gwangju Biennale. Weizman and the architect Samaneh Moafi constructed a folly composed of seven roundabouts and a round table in front of the Gwangju train station, one of the central points in the events of May 1980. Critical Spatial Practice 6With Blake Fisher and Samaneh MoafiEdited by Nikolaus Hirsch, Markus MiessenFeaturing photography by Kyungsub Shin Architecture after Revolution Alessandro Petti, Sandi Hilal, and Eyal Weizman 2013 The work presented in this book is an invitation to undertake an urgent architectural and political thought experiment: to rethink today's struggles for justice and equality not only from the historical perspective of revolution, but also from that of a continued struggle for decolonization; consequently, to rethink the problem of political subjectivity not from the point of view of a Western conception of a liberal citizen but rather from that of the displaced and extraterritorial refugee. You will not find here descriptions of popular uprising, armed resistance, or political negotiations, despite these of course forming an integral and necessary part of any radical political transformation. Instead, the authors present a series of provocative projects that try to imagine “the morning after revolution.” Located on the edge of the desert in the town of Beit Sahour in Palestine, the architectural collective Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency (DAAR) has since 2007 combined discourse, spatial intervention, collective learning, public meetings, and legal challenges to open an arena for speculating about the seemingly impossible: the actual transformation of Israel's physical structures of domination. Against an architectural history of decolonization that sought to reuse colonial architecture for the same purpose for which it was originally built, DAAR sees opportunities in a set of playful propositions for the subversion, reuse, profanation, and recycling of these structures of domination and the legal infrastructures that sustain them. DAAR's projects should be understood as a series of architectural fables set in different locations: an abandoned military base near Beit Sahour, the refugee camp of Dheisheh in Bethlehem, the remnants of three houses on the Jaffa beach, the uncompleted Palestinian Parliament building, the historical village of Battir, the village of Miska destroyed during the Nakba, and the red-roofed West Bank colony of Jabel Tawil (P'sagot) next to Ramallah-El Bireh. Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary The Commissions Book Daniela Zyman and Eva Ebersberger 2021 A massive anthology of texts, visual material, and research on TBA21's commissions and the foundation's vast collection of over 700 artworks. "What survives after the artwork?" asks curator and researcher Natasha Ginwala in one of the essays in Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary: The Commissions Book, a new and comprehensive publication by the art foundation Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21), founded by Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza in Vienna, Austria, in 2002. "The artwork is not just the thing in itself, but also the metaphysical infrastructure and unfinished relationships that produce it," Ginwala writes. In that sense, this anthology of texts, visual material, and research on TBA21's commissions and the foundation's vast collection of over 700 artworks serves as vivid testimony to the processes and relationships that enabled them. In more than 1,300 pages, The Commissions Book engages with more than 100 works of art, proposing a speculative topography that organizes and weaves together sequences of potential narratives and interrogations along with close examinations of different works of art and a collective archive of images. The stories embedded in these works, as well as in TBA21 and TBA21-Academy's practice--an itinerant site of transdisciplinary research and cultural production engaging with the oceans--is a story of making new connections, or rather creating interconnections. Bringing together visual and written material from TBA21's commissioning practice and vast history of exhibitions and live events, The Commissions Book also goes beyond the foundation's archives to present new works and commissions by Cecilia Bengolea, Claudia Comte, SUPERFLEX, and Territorial Agency, amongst many others. New essays by Natasha Ginwala's and such transdisciplinary feminist thinkers as Astrida Neimanis and Eva Hayward transcend individual artistic positions and ask questions that lie at the core of TBA21's program. Art and the Crisis of the Common Good Johanna Burton, Shannon Jackson, and Dominic Willsdon 2016 Essays, dialogues, and art projects that illuminate the changing role of art as it responds to radical economic, political, and global shifts. How should we understand the purpose of publicly engaged art in the twenty-first century, when the very term “public art” is largely insufficient to describe such practices? Concepts such as “new genre public art,” “social practice,” or “socially engaged art” may imply a synergy between the role of art and the role of government in providing social services. Yet the arts and social services differ crucially in terms of their methods and metrics. Socially engaged artists need not be aligned (and may often be opposed) to the public sector and to institutionalized systems. In many countries, structures of democratic governance and public responsibility are shifting, eroding, and being remade in profound ways—driven by radical economic, political, and global forces. According to what terms and through what means can art engage with these changes? This volume gathers essays, dialogues, and art projects—some previously published and some newly commissioned—to illuminate the ways the arts shape and reshape a rapidly changing social and governmental landscape. An artist portfolio section presents original statements and projects by some of the key figures grappling with these ideas. Simulation, Exercise, Operations Robin Mackay 2015 Collection of interventions on the status of the moving image in an age of advanced simulation, exploring the contemporary links between power, simulation, and warfare. This collection of wide-ranging interventions and discussions on the status of the moving image in an age of advanced simulation explores the contemporary links between power, simulation, and warfare. Today, technological simulation has become an integral part of military training and operations; and at the same time, media spectacle—often enabled by the same technologies—has become integrated with military power. Trained in virtual environments, army personnel are increasingly enhanced by augmented reality technologies that bring combat into conformity with its simulation. Equally, the seductions of media and entertainment have become crucial weapons for “information dominance.” At the same time as the infosphere demands that war takes on the properties of a game, hyper-realistic videogames evolved from military technology become a kind of virtual distributed training camp, as the lines between simulation and action, combatant and civilian, become blurred. Based on a round table discussion prompted by the work of artist John Gerrard, Simulation, Exercise, Operations assembles thinkers from philosophy, media, and military theory to examine the powers of simulation in the contemporary world. The Nightmare of Participation (Crossbench Praxis as a Mode of Criticality) Markus Miessen 2011 Welcome to Harmonistan! Over the last decade, the term “participation” has become increasingly overused. When everyone has been turned into a participant, the often uncritical, innocent, and romantic use of the term has become frightening. Supported by a repeatedly nostalgic veneer of worthiness, phony solidarity, and political correctness, participation has become the default of politicians withdrawing from responsibility. Similar to the notion of an independent politician dissociated from a specific party, this third part of Miessen's “Participation” trilogy encourages the role of what he calls the “crossbench practitioner,” an “uninterested outsider” and “uncalled participator” who is not limited by existing protocols, and who enters the arena with nothing but creative intellect and the will to generate change. Miessen argues for an urgent inversion of participation, a model beyond modes of consensus. Instead of reading participation as the charitable savior of political struggle, Miessen candidly reflects on the limits and traps of its real motivations. Rather than breading the next generation of consensual facilitators and mediators, he argues for conflict as an enabling, instead of disabling, force. The book calls for a format of conflictual participation—no longer a process by which others are invited “in,” but a means of acting without mandate, as uninvited irritant: a forced entry into fields of knowledge that arguably benefit from exterior thinking. Sometimes, democracy has to be avoided at all costs. Markus Miessen (*1978) is an architect, consultant, and writer based in Berlin. He runs the collaborative agency for spatial practice Studio Miessen and is director of the Winter School Middle East (Kuwait). Miessen has taught at institutions such as the Architectural Association (London), Columbia, and MIT. He is currently a Professor for Architecture and Curatorial Practice at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Karlsruhe, Germany, a Harvard Fellow, and completing his PhD at the Centre for Research Architecture (Goldsmiths, London). www.studiomiessen.com Collapse, Volume 6 Geo/Philosophy Philosophers, theorists, eco-critics, leading scientific experts in climate change, and artists assess the present state of “planetary thought.” Is there an enduring bond between philosophical thought and the earth, or is philosophy's task to escape the planetary horizon? And what is the connection between the empirical earth, the contingent material support of human thinking, and the abstract “world” that is the condition for a “whole” of thought? Real and imaginary geographies and cartographies have played a dual role in philosophy, serving both as governing metaphor and as ultimate grounding for philosophical thought; but urgent contemporary concerns introduce new problems for geophilosophy: planetary political, technological, military, and financial mutations have scrambled territorial formations, and scientific predictions now present us with the apocalyptic scenario of a planet without human thought. The sixth volume of Collapse brings together philosophers, theorists, eco-critics, leading scientific experts in climate change, and artists whose work interrogates the link between philosophical thought, geography and cartography, in order to create a portrait of the present state of “planetary thought.” Céline Condorelli 2009 Support Structures is a manual for what bears, sustains, and props, for those things that encourage, care for, and assist; for that which advocates, articulates; for what stands behind, frames, and maintains: it is a manual for those things that give support. While the work of supporting might traditionally appear as subsequent, unessential, and lacking value in itself, this manual is an attempt to restore attention to one of the neglected, yet crucial modes through which we apprehend and shape the world. Support Structures is a critical enquiry into what constitutes “support,” and documents the collaborative project “Support Structure” by Céline Condorelli and Gavin Wade. While registering and collecting reference projects in a new archive of support structures alongside its ten-phase project, different writers, thinkers, and practitioners were invited from various fields to elaborate on frameworks and work on texts, which form the theoretical backbone of the publication. The collection of contributions offers different possibilities for engaging in this unchartered territory, from propositions to projects, existing systems to ones invented for specific creative processes. Support Structures offers support through potential methodologies, inspirations and activations for practice, and addresses important questions for art and architecture practices on forms of display, organization, articulation, appropriation, autonomy, and temporariness, and the manifestations of blindness towards them. Produced in co-production with Support Structure:Celine Condorelli and Gavin Wade with James Langdonwww.supportstructures.org Contributors Michael Asher, Artist Placement Group, Can Altay, Conrad Atkinson, Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Lonnie van Brummelen & Siebren de Haan, Banu Cennetoglu, Christopher D'Arcangelo, Martin Beck, Cevdet Erek, Andrea Fraser, Buckminster Fuller, Ryan Gander, Ella Gibbs, Frederick Kiesler, Lucy Kimbell, James Langdon, El Lissitzky, Peter Nadin, “The offices of Peter Fend, Coleen Fitzgibbon, Jenny Holzer, Peter Nadin, Richard Prince & Robin Winters,” Gordon Matta-Clark, Antoni Muntadas, Lilly Reich, Support Structure, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Lawrence Weiner, Christopher Williams, Carey Young, a.o.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1082
__label__wiki	0.730943	0.730943	Archive for October 2020 Friday, October 30, 2020 [Tweets] [Favorites] 25 Years Ago: BeOS Benj Edwards (via Daniel Sandler): BeOS was unique among the computer operating systems of the ’90s due to its lack of legacy code. By the mid-’90s, Windows, Mac OS, OS/2, Solaris, Linux, and even NeXTSTEP, were evolutionary operating systems with at least a decade of history. With BeOS, though, Be dared to create an entirely new operating system from scratch to meet the needs of the era: multimedia and internet support. BeOS supported multi-threaded applications and included support for multiprocessor machines from the start. After an upgrade, it also included a multi-threaded, 64-bit journaling file system called BFS. This had a built-in database designed to support digital multimedia recording and playback, which was novel in the mid-’90s. Today, you can download and use a functional modern descendant of the desktop BeOS called Haiku. This free, open-source project is still in beta, but it’s compatible with legacy (and new) BeOS applications. It’s a joy to experiment with, on either a virtual machine or as a direct install on Windows-compatible hardware. Bill Bumgarner: I was on the pre-order list until I got the dev docs. Everything C++ — OK. Every app starts as one window w/three threads; main, window draw, window event handler. “Concurrency is difficult. Use locks sparingly. Good luck.” was basically the docs. Alastair Houghton: I keep looking back at screenshots of the old Mac “Platinum” UI, the BeOS/Haiku UI and a handful of others of similar vintage and thinking that they’ve aged remarkably well by comparison to newer UI designs (XP, Aero, early Mac OS X). BeOS C++ Programming Language Concurrency Design History Open Source More Big Sur UI Refinements Riccardo Mori: As I was saying before, I expected the first betas to be a rough design sketch, bound to be drastically improved upon (not simply refined) from beta release to beta release. Instead, all visual changes at the UI level so far have been surprisingly restrained. You may think, Well, that’s a good sign. It means that Apple really believes in this redesign. In a sense, it’s true. Apple believes to be doing good work with Big Sur’s user interface. They have a plan and they’re demonstrating they’re willing to stick with it. That doesn’t mean it’s a great plan, though. No matter how hard Apple tries to spin it, when I’m using Big Sur, I’m not feeling that the reasoning behind all these UI changes was Let’s take the great Mac OS user interface we’ve been perfecting for years and make it better. What I feel, instead, is that behind this user interface redesign there was one simple major directive that came from above: Make it look more like iOS. The transparency of menu listings has also been reduced over time: Beta 10 here is slightly less transparent than even Beta 8. And the selected menu name in the menu bar is more prominent (the background behind the text is darker). System Preferences now shows more slices of dynamic desktops. Big Sur’s Hidden Document Proxy Icon Big Sur’s Transparent Menu Bar Design and Implement macOS 11 Document Icons Disabling Wallpaper Tinting Visual Comparison of macOS Catalina and Big Sur Big Sur’s Narrow Alerts macOS 11.0 Big Sur Announced Update (2020-11-07): Daniel Martín: If you don’t like Big Sur’s new title style and want to revert to how it looks in Catalina: defaults write -g NSWindowSupportsAutomaticInlineTitle -bool false and relaunch Finder. Update (2020-11-20): Nick Heer: I have some thoughts on overarching themes and trends in Apple’s operating systems that I want to more carefully consider. But I wanted to share some brief observations on Big Sur’s design direction that, I think, feel suited to a bulleted list. I have been using betas of Big Sur since they were released in June, and have used the final release candidate since yesterday. If you have yet to install the update, I think Andrew Cunningham’s review at Ars Technica and Stephen Hackett’s screenshot library are excellent resources if you would like to follow along. Alas, the vast majority of UI elements in Big Sur have far poorer contrast than Catalina. Many toolbar elements have either entirely no background or a very subtle one. Big Sur is a victim of Apple’s current preoccupation with hiding things that only become visible when hovering. Brena Andring: Find you someone who looks at you the way Craig Federighi looks at Big Sur 🤣 Update (2021-01-04): Mario A Guzmán: Re: NSToolbar in Big Sur. I get the new design is so new, so “clean” but it’s just not useful. I spend more time looking at each icon making sure I click the right one, especially if labels are turned off by default. Update (2021-01-05): David Sparks: I have received more email about confusion over the active app in the few months since Big Sur was released. Big Sur is brighter, and figuring out which window is active is more difficult than it ever has been before. Design Esoteric Preferences Mac macOS 11.0 Big Sur Safari System Services Wallpaper MAC Address Randomization in iOS 14 Jon Baumann: What caused my issue was the fact that Apple was now defaulting to using “private Wi-Fi addresses” in iOS 14. This did not appear anywhere in the list of “All New Features” on the iOS 14 website, but there was some buzz about it for those that follow iOS news. As I am woefully behind on iOS news, I learned about it when I hit Settings->Wi-Fi->[My SSID], saw that “Private Address” was checked to “Yes”, and noted that the different MAC address my router was complaining about was being displayed on my phone. Once I turned that setting off, my expected MAC address was back and I got network access again. To be clear about the term “Private Address”, this is Apple’s term for MAC address randomization. MAC address randomization is just a systematic way of doing what many of us have done for decades: talking to your network using a different MAC address than what is actually burned onto your network card. In this case, Apple gave out a link-local MAC address which is not guaranteed to be globally unique, in an OUI which was not reserved for Apple. With “private addresses”, Apple provides a different MAC address for each network you connect to in hopes of protecting your privacy. I say “in hopes of” because I generally find it comical for a company to implement a “turn off Wi-Fi button” which helpfully says “turning off Wi-Fi until tomorrow“ and then force “private addresses” by default. Or for the same company in the same iOS release to openly say they’ll bounce the pictures you have tagged on your phone against your security cameras and tell you who they think is at the door. Or for the same company to accidentally tell you all networking is turned off when it clearly isn’t. Local Network Privacy FAQ iOS iOS 14 Networking Privacy Wi-Fi More Notarized Mac Malware Joshua Long (via Catalin Cimpanu, tweet, Patrick Wardle): For the second time in six weeks, Apple has been caught notarizing Mac malware. Intego previously reported that Apple inadvertently notarized more than 40 malware samples in August. This time, rather than the notarized malware belonging to the OSX/Shlayer and OSX/Bundlore families, the latest malware is from the OSX/MacOffers (aka MaxOfferDeal) family. The new malware uses a technique called steganography to hide its malicious payload within a separate JPEG image file, which is likely why the malware was able to slip past Apple’s notarization process. Notarized Mac Malware Code Signing JPEG Mac macOS 10.15 Catalina Malware Notarization Security Thursday, October 29, 2020 [Tweets] [Favorites] MoneyWell 3.0.15 Diligent Robot (tweet): We’re pleased to announce that we’ve just released version 3.0.15 of MoneyWell for macOS. This is a minor update to fix a few bugs. The new developers haven’t charged for an update yet, but they’ve been responsive to support e-mails and have chipped away at bugs that predated them. Syncing continues to be a problem, but fortunately I don’t use that feature. For my purposes, the app continues to work well. New MoneyWell Developer Update (2020-11-02): Diligent Robot: Moneywell had once had Dropbox syncing, but when the Dropbox version 1 API was closed down, Moneywell Sync had just stopped working, and for many, that was when their relationship with MoneyWell had come to an end. By early 2020 it had become obvious that the renovation project was not only behind schedule but probably about twice the size we had anticipated. In the spring of 2020, we panicked. We felt we couldn’t just keep going with the renovation and needed to get something out. We put the renovation on hold to return to the existing MoneyWell and started to try and patch it up with a new sync system and other fixes so that we could get something out of the door. It was the wrong move. We spent the spring and the summer producing what could only be called a Frankenstein piece of software that would have been unreliable and left users underwhelmed and disappointed. So here we are at the beginning of the fall of 2020. We have scrapped the Frankenstein edition and returned to our renovation accepting that there is still a significant amount of work to do but when done will be the right thing. Dropbox Mac Mac App macOS 10.15 Catalina MoneyWell Syncing About That 85% Jacob Eiting (via David Barnard): Turns out, the 85/15 split — which Apple is keen to mention anytime developers complain about the App Store rev share — doesn’t have a meaningful impact for most developers. Because churn. Top mobile apps like Netflix and Spotify report churn rates in the low single digits, but they are the outliers. According to our data, the median churn rate for subscription apps is around 13% for monthly subscriptions and around 50% for annual. Monthly subscription churn is generally a bit higher in the first few months, then it tapers off. But an average churn of 13% leaves just 20% of subscribers crossing that magical 85/15 threshold. According to our [RevenueCat] data, just 16% of apps manage to achieve a takehome rate above 75%. Michael Love: To me this is actually an argument against offering subscriptions; if 80% of monthly subscribers quit after one year then you’re better off charging them up front, they weren’t going to produce long-term ongoing revenue either way. David Barnard: The magic really starts happening a few years in. Great apps retain more than 20% (especially as a blend of monthly and annual), and many of those will end up retaining for years. As those cohorts stack, you can build a really strong business. Why You Should Charge More for Your App Subscriptions App Subscriptions Business iOS iOS 14 Tuesday, October 27, 2020 [Tweets] [Favorites] Unkillable “Songs of Innocence” Russ Frushtick (via Stephen Hackett): Around 2016 or 2017, a couple years after Apple launched its CarPlay service, allowing your vehicle to sync with iOS, I started noticing something odd. Whenever I got into a car and connected my phone, it would automatically play something I had purchased on iTunes: a list of options so small — just nine albums total — it meant I was incessantly hearing the same tracks over and over again. And as much as I love Huey Lewis, “The Heart of Rock & Roll” has its limits. The albums were constantly syncing to my newer devices because of some iCloud setting somewhere; even deleting them didn’t do the trick, as they’d continue to play over the cloud. After suffering with it for a few years, I found out that you could “hide” albums from iTunes, ensuring that they’re never automatically played. It saved me from the shame of hearing the first track of the Charlie Brown Christmas album for the 700th time. I was free. But one album remained: Songs of Innocence. Unlike the other albums, there was no way to hide this, and it never appeared in my purchased albums. Because I hadn’t purchased it. It was a gift from Tim Cook and Bono. And due to some quirk in iTunes, it was unkillable. A few days after writing everything you just read, I decided to give one more call to Apple support, hoping to better understand what exactly was preventing them from removing the album in the first place. Here’s an edited transcript of the unthinkable conversation that ensued[…] A a a a a Very Good Song Removing U2’s “Songs of Innocence” CarPlay iOS iOS 14 iTunes iTunes Store Mac macOS 10.15 Catalina Music Zoom’s End-to-End Encryption Has Arrived Jon Porter: Zoom’s end-to-end encryption (E2EE) has arrived, letting both free and paid users secure their meetings so that only participants, not Zoom or anyone else, can access their content. Zoom says E2EE is supported across its Mac, PC, iOS, and Android apps, as well as Zoom Rooms, but not its web client or third-party clients that use the Zoom SDK. Although E2EE meetings are more secure, they don’t work with a few of Zoom’s features. These include its cloud recording, live transcription, polling, meeting reactions, and join before host features. Participants also won’t be able to join using “telephone, SIP/H.323 devices, on-premise configurations, or Lync/Skype clients,” as Zoom says these can’t be end-to-end encrypted. Zoom End-to-End Encryption for All iOS iOS 14 iOS App Mac Mac App macOS 10.15 Catalina Privacy Zoom Sketch on Native Mac Apps Sketch (Hacker News): Native apps bring so many benefits — from personalization and performance to familiarity and flexibility. And while we’re always working hard to make Cloud an amazing space to collaborate, we still believe the Mac is the perfect place to let your ideas and imagination flourish. This is something we pride ourselves on — over the years we’ve taken design cues from Apple, working hard to make your experience feel consistent and natural whenever you switch from our Mac app to apps like Pages or Keynote. We support UI changes, such as Dark Mode, as they launch. And right now we’re putting the finishing touches to a major UI update so that our Mac app will still look perfectly at home when macOS Big Sur releases later this Fall. I love native apps, Sketch is my design app of choice, and the retro design of the blog post makes feel warm and fuzzy. But something about this worries me. Is it convincing for someone who isn’t already sold on native apps? Or who is choosing based on other criteria? Kevin Kwok (via Hacker News): The core insight of Figma is that design is larger than just designers. Design is all of the conversations between designers and PMs about what to build. It is the mocks and prototypes and the feedback on them. It is the handoff of specs and assets to engineers and how easy it is for them to implement them. Building for this entire process doesn’t take away the importance of designers—it gives them a seat at the table for the core decisions a company makes. Designs in Figma are not just stored in the cloud; they are edited in the cloud, too. This means that Figma users are always working on the same design. With Dropbox, this isn’t true. The files may be stored in the cloud, but the editing happens locally—imagine the difference between sharing Word files in Dropbox vs. editing in Google Docs. When many creative tools companies talk about the cloud, they seem to view it as an amorphous place that they store files. But the fundamental user experience of creating in their products is done via a standalone app on the desktop. Figma is browser-first, which was made possible (and more importantly performant) by their understanding and usage of new technologies like WebGL, Operational Transforms, and CRDTs. The Era of Visual Studio Code Coda to Become Nova A First Replicating Type Sketch Takes Venture Capital Electron and the Decline of Native Apps Vector Networks, an Alternative to Paths Sketch Leaving the Mac App Store Update (2020-11-19): Marc Edwards: Here’s some extremely non-scientific tests using popular design tools, where I drew a bunch of boxes with strokes and rotated them. Nova: Can a native Mac code editor really be that much better? Steve Troughton-Smith: Are you a real Mac developer anymore if you don’t have a screed on your marketing pages about how Mac-like and native your apps are? Is that something we should all be doing now? 😂 Dan Grover: Native Mac app developers have become kinda like the specialty/vegan/organic brands at supermarket. They were like that before Apple’s comeback in 00’s....but it’s funny they still are. Whether or not those sites are about convincing people native apps are better, they do work to reinforce some people’s existing belief that they are. I tried Figma and don’t like it. Non-native aspects of Slack bug me. That page reinforces my preference and loyalty to Sketch. Curtis Herbert: 🔥 take: maybe you’d be able to spend less time convincing people “native” mattered if a web app wasn’t out-classing you on performance. Kyle Howells: Sketch’s big performance problems come from one of its previously biggest selling points. It renders using CoreGraphics (which renders on the CPU). So its results are native & exactly what the end result will look like on macOS. Randy Luecke: The web has only been getting faster and the Mac has only been getting worse. There will always be some native loyalist, but most of your users don’t care anymore. The tool you provide is more important than how well it blends in on a decaying platform. Imagine if Apple had spent the last decade the same way as the first decade of Mac OS X: making powerful frameworks to give native Mac apps more advantages Instead, it put most of its attention on iOS, ran the Mac App Store in such a way that encouraged Sketch—which should have been a crown jewel—to leave, introduced sandboxing, bugs, and security/privacy friction that made native apps more difficult to develop and support. And now it is flooding the Mac App Store with unmodified iOS apps. Matt Birchler: Sketch is great, and if it were up to me I’d be using it at work, but despite its “Mac-ass Mac app” bonafides, Sketch being Mac-only means it was not possible to be used in an environment where people would be using Windows as well. We’re a Figma company now, and I’m largely happy with it, but I so miss things like local files and the performance benefits Sketch brought with it. Ilja A. Iwas: Maybe the discussion is not only about native vs. web technologies, but also about $40M vs. $130M funding? Roben Kleene: For a decade, from 2000–2010, native Mac apps beat web apps without even breaking a sweat. What’s changed since then? Apple stopped investing in AppKit. The framework that had enabled an unparalleled period of innovation on the desktop culminating in Sketch in 2010. No further explanation is necessary to explain what’s happening with Figma vs. Sketch. Extrapolating a hypothesis about the inherent merits of the web vs. native is a red herring when the web has had a decade to catch up with native desktop apps. Dominik Wagner: Too few users care about this anymore, and Apple actively destroys the boundary by making native less of an edge as it becomes unhappy, slow and less consistent for years. Core Intuition: They discuss the debate sparked by Sketch about native desktop apps vs. web apps, and Daniel concedes some of the advantages of web development. John Gruber: Sketch hits all the key marks about what best defines a great, truly native Mac app, particularly deep Mac tools for professional work. Customization that allows you, the user, to shape the tool into something personal, that fits your needs and idiosyncrasies. Familiarity — the je ne sais quoi of doing things, large and small, the Macintosh way — that makes new (or just new to you) Mac apps easy to get started with and intuitive to explore. And, well, just being a beautiful work of art unto itself. Nick Heer: The hardware that is being announced at tomorrow’s big Apple event is certainly exciting, but third-party apps are why I continue my investment in the Mac ecosystem. This piece speaks to my deep appreciation for really great Mac apps — from Sketch to Nova; NetNewsWire to MarsEdit; Keyboard Maestro to Things. I live in apps like these, and they are why I use a Mac. Ben Thompson: The fly in Sketch’s celebratory ointment is that phrase “even macOS itself has evolved”; the truth is that most of the macOS changes over Sketch’s lifetime — which started with Snow Leopard, regarded by many (including yours truly) as the best version of OS X — have been at best cosmetic, at worst clumsy attempts to protect novice users that often got in the way of power users. Meanwhile, it is the cloud that is the real problem facing Sketch: Figma, which is built from the ground-up as a collaborative web app, is taking the design world by storm, because rock-solid collaboration with good enough web apps is more important for teams than tacked-on collaboration with native software built for the platform. Sketch, to be sure, bears the most responsibility for its struggles; frankly, that native app piece reads like a refusal to face its fate. Apple, though, shares a lot of the blame: imagine if instead of effectively forcing Sketch out of the App Store with its zealous approach to security, Apple had evolved AppKit, macOS’s framework for building applications, to provide built-in support for collaboration and live-editing. K.Q. Dreger: Second, it’s not about “native” and whether the app is pure Swift/Objective-C. Who cares? It’s about the feel of the thing. Can I rearrange sidebar items? Do disclosure triangles reflect the visibility of the disclosable content? Will common keyboard shortcuts work as expected? Is there consideration given to the software’s usage of my memory, CPU, and energy? Or, simply: is it tuned for the Mac? Figma Mac Mac App macOS 10.15 Catalina Marketing Sketch Web Monday, October 26, 2020 [Tweets] [Favorites] Apple University Dean on Apple’s Organizational Structure Joel M. Podolny and Morten T. Hansen (via MacRumors): When Jobs arrived back at Apple, it had a conventional structure for a company of its size and scope. It was divided into business units, each with its own P&L responsibilities. General managers ran the Macintosh products group, the information appliances division, and the server products division, among others. As is often the case with decentralized business units, managers were inclined to fight with one another, over transfer prices in particular. Believing that conventional management had stifled innovation, Jobs, in his first year returning as CEO, laid off the general managers of all the business units (in a single day), put the entire company under one P&L, and combined the disparate functional departments of the business units into one functional organization. As was the case with Jobs before him, CEO Tim Cook occupies the only position on the organizational chart where the design, engineering, operations, marketing, and retail of any of Apple’s main products meet. Matt Rogers: This article skips what I think of as the highest innovation time at Apple, back when @tfadell and I were there. iPod/iPhone were actually their separate org, which allowed for more focus and freedom from other company distractions. Tony Fadell: Charles Schlaff: Not to mention the current day orgs are still highly organized around product. I knew of like 3 people on the phone team, and I was on Watch / Health for 4+ years. Dave Edwards: Also good to remember Sina’s Apps Group, an entirely separate division with distinct P&L incl. engineering, marketing, sales, etc. A nimble source of great innovation back in the day. We existed in part b/c SJ didn’t want any functional head to own their entire function. What a shame that innovation and the organization wasn’t properly represented. Jony Ive Is Leaving Apple Understanding Apple’s Marginalization of the Mac Apple’s Earnings and the iPhone Upgrade Cycle The Influence of Organizational Structure on Software Quality Why Microsoft’s Reorganization Is a Bad Idea Update (2020-11-02): See also: Hacker News, TidBITS Talk. Apple Business History iOS iPod Mac HP Printer Driver Certificate Revoked Howard Oakley: Many users are today reporting that their HP printer software has suddenly stopped working, with worrying messages implying that their software is malicious and “will damage your computer”. You’re seeing that message because macOS is checking the signature on your HP printer software, and being told that its signing certificate has been revoked. What’s strange, though, is that this doesn’t appear to affect High Sierra and older versions of macOS. […] This may well be because they’re working with different databases. No word yet on why. It’s a shame there’s no way to tell the system to trust it temporarily, especially given that the revocation may be in error. Thomas Reed: We’re seeing a significant influx of support cases where users are seeing macOS identify what appear to be legit processes as malware, exactly what is being reported here[…] Apple Remote-Kills Long-time Developer’s Apps Beware Apple Security Certificates After October 24 Installing Old Versions of macOS Update (2020-11-10): Patrick Wardle (also: William Gallagher, Hacker News): As others have noted it appears certs used to sign apps such as Amazon Music, HP Printer drivers, etc. were revoked ...by? Thus, macOS blocks the (legit) software from running ...and implies it is malware? 🤦‍♂️ likegadgets: It is a vicious circle - Apple says to call HP as they need to provide the drivers, I have not been able to speak to anyone at HP that can help. Chris Williams: Complaints from punters are building up on the Apple and HP support forums. The Register understands from sources familiar with the matter that HP Inc asked Apple to revoke its printer driver code-signing certificates. It appears this request backfired as it left users unable to print. Howard Oakley (also: Mr. Macintosh): At some time during the night of 24-25 October, Apple PKI withdrew the revocation of HP’s certificate, presumably at HP’s request in response to the many complaints from users. HP’s software should therefore now work normally again. HP has now published a support article explaining what affected users should do to remedy this problem. Although there’s nothing to stop anyone using a security certificate from elsewhere, for macOS there’s only one source of the certificates required to sign code for Apple’s operating systems, Apple PKI. This is the team within Apple which issues signing (and other) certificates to Apple itself and its very many third-party developers. Not only do they issue certificates, but they can also revoke them, and have detailed and explicit procedures for doing both. Jeff Johnson: An unfortunate consequence of the lack of a Developer ID CRL is that you can’t obtain a list of all revoked Developer ID certs. You can only query the status of known certs one-by-one. As the Certificate Authority, Apple can revoke a Developer ID certificate at any time. This is done when Apple discovers that a cert has been used to sign malware. Unfortunately, we’ve seen cases where Apple has revoked a Developer ID cert mistakenly, such as with the indie developer Charlie Monroe. Is it possible for a developer to revoke their own Developer ID cert? The answer is no. The reason for this difference in policy is that revoking a Developer ID cert has severe consequences, as we’ve seen with HP printer software: Mac users will no longer be able to run software signed with the revoked cert. Developers are allowed to revoke their own Mac App Store code signing certificates, because those certs are only used for development purposes. HP had to contact Apple and request for the cert to be revoked. Apparently Apple granted that request. So blame must be apportioned to both companies. There have been no reports of malware or private key compromise. Therefore, no good reason exists for HP to request that their cert be revoked, and no good reason exists for Apple to grant that misguided request. Sam Rowlands: The issue is the lack of communication. The system should check on download (of a new list) to see if anything will become disabled, then inform the user what, why and how to resolve. Because this was handled poorly, it created anger and frustration. I do wonder if HP was trying to ensure that the build machines were using the latest certs and something went wrong, which they didn’t know about. So the question becomes how easy is to accidentally revoke identities? I feel that Apple is responsible for this mess, because they built the system that allows apps (& drivers) to be “killed” remotely. The solution was designed to be silent. Was this intentional or just an oversight? If Apple has designed the system to communicate to users that something they use will no longer work, why and what they can do about this. It becomes a non-issue, for two reasons. 1. HP would have to provide information to Apple as to why they wanted the identities revoked, which would help confirm that they wanted this action. 2. Customers would be aware of what’s going on, and could solve the problem themselves. Earlier, we said that the issue was mostly related to HP printer drivers. There was another issue with a couple Amazon apps – Amazon Music and Amazon Workspaces – where users were seeing the same behavior. This led to a lot of speculation and finger pointing at Apple (in which yours truly regretfully participated), but this appears to have been an unrelated and coincidentally timed issue. I have yet to hear an explanation for what happened with Amazon Music. Did Amazon also accidentally request revocation of its certificate? Amazon Music Code Signing HP Mac macOS 10.14 Mojave macOS 10.15 Catalina Printing Security Apple TV Remote App Replaced by Control Center Filipe Espósito (also: MacRumors): Apple today silently removed its “Apple TV Remote” app from the App Store, which lets users control the Apple TV from an iPhone or iPad simulating a real Remote. The app is no longer available for download from the App Store and Apple has likely discontinued it, which means that it will no longer get any updates. That doesn’t come as a surprise since Apple has added the Remote feature built into the Control Center in iOS 12, so Apple TV users can have access to all the controls on Siri Remote without having to download any app. Alan Cannistraro: I created this app on nights and weekends. I demoed it to Steve in Jan ’08. He said, “We’re going to open an App Store; let’s make this our app”. Sad to see it go. I always referred to it as “my baby”. This is the first version of the Control Center remote that works with my Apple TV 3, and it seems to fix the keyboard and focus problems that have plagued the standalone Remote app lately. Unfortunately, the connection with the Apple TV sometimes gets dropped when the phone’s screen turns off, and—unlike with the physical remote—holding down the Menu button doesn’t bring you all the way up to the top menu. Third-Generation Apple TVs Suffering From Software Update 7.6 HBO to Drop Support for Apple TV 2 & 3 This is kind of a bummer because the Apple TV Remote app has actual buttons for previous and next. The Control Centre feature is a more faithful onscreen replication of the Siri Remote, which does not have those buttons. See also: 9to5Mac, MacRumors. Apple TV Control Center iOS iOS 14 Remote.app Steve Jobs Sunset Apple TV App for PlayStation and Xbox Benjamin Mayo: The Apple TV app is officially coming to games consoles, starting with an announcement from Sony. On the PlayStation blog, the company revealed that the Apple TV app will be available on November 12, that’s the same day as the PlayStation 5 release date. On Amazon Fire Stick, the ability to purchase content is disabled as Apple and Amazon did not come to a revenue sharing agreement. However, on the PlayStation app, customers will be able to directly subscribe to Apple TV+ and other Apple TV Channels. It’s also coming to Xbox. It’s not clear to me whether all of these devices will support AirPlay. Roku Adding Apple AirPlay 2 and HomeKit Seeking Special App Store Deals Apple TV App for Amazon Fire TV iTunes Video and AirPlay on Samsung TVs AirPlay Apple TV+ Fire TV iTunes Store Sony PlayStation TV.app Xbox Google Antitrust Lawsuit William P. Barr (tweet, PDF): This morning the Department of Justice, along with eleven states, filed a civil lawsuit against Google for unlawfully maintaining a monopoly in general search services and search advertising in violation of the U.S. antitrust laws. Over the course of the last 16 months, the Antitrust Division collected convincing evidence that Google no longer competes only on the merits but instead uses its monopoly power – and billions in monopoly profits – to lock up key pathways to search on mobile phones, browsers, and next generation devices, depriving rivals of distribution and scale. The end result is that no one can feasibly challenge Google’s dominance in search and search advertising. This lack of competition harms users, advertisers, and small businesses in the form of fewer choices, reduced quality (including on metrics like privacy), higher advertising prices, and less innovation. David McCabe, Cecilia Kang, and Daisuke Wakabayashi (Hacker News): In a 57-page complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia, the agency accused Google of locking out competition in search by obtaining several exclusive business contracts and agreements. Google’s deals with Apple, mobile carriers and other handset makers to place its search engine as the default option for consumers accounted for most of its dominant market share in search, the agency said, a figure that it put at around 80 percent. Today’s lawsuit by the Department of Justice is deeply flawed. People use Google because they choose to, not because they’re forced to, or because they can’t find alternatives. This lawsuit would do nothing to help consumers. To the contrary, it would artificially prop up lower-quality search alternatives, raise phone prices, and make it harder for people to get the search services they want to use. DuckDuckGo (tweet): So, Google, given that you’ve often said competition is one click away, and you’re aware a complicated process suppresses competition, why does it take fifteen+ clicks to make DuckDuckGo Search or any other alternative the default on Android devices? Apparently being sued for antitrust is like graduating from college for tech companies. Sandeep Vaheesan: Great excerpt in U.S. v. Google on how Google shares its monopoly profits with Apple. Google pays billions for exclusive pre-installation on Apple devices--payments that are as much as one-fifth of Apple’s annual net income. Michael Y. Lee: To me it reveals how fragile their dominance is that they’d feel the need to pay apple billions for making them the default search engine on iPhones Mark Gurman: The U.S. government said Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook and Google CEO Sundar Pichai met in 2018 to discuss the deal. After that, an unidentified senior Apple employee wrote to a Google counterpart that “our vision is that we work as if we are one company.” The DOJ also cited internal Google documents that call the Apple search deal a “significant revenue channel” for the search giant and one that, if lost, would result in a “Code Red” scenario. That’s because nearly half of Google search traffic in 2019 came from Apple products, according to the lawsuit. It’s certainly not a good look when Google pays Apple $billions per year, they agree to "work as if we are one company", and both Safari and Chrome kneecap the browser extension ad blocking API. Unintended harm to smaller innovators from enforcement actions will be detrimental to the system as a whole, without any meaningful benefit to consumers — and is not how anyone will fix Big Tech. Tim Bray: It’s not obvious that end-users are hurt directly. Google provides, at the end of the day, a pretty awesome search service. The problem is (to steal a phrase from the Complaint) “monopoly rents from advertisers”. Search advertising is a context where you know exactly what the user is looking for, and it’s amazingly effective, and Google enjoys a monopoly, which means they can charge what the market will bear, and they do. Google v. Oracle at Supreme Court House Report on Competition in Digital Markets Google Ad Numbers Don’t Add Up Big Tech’s Showdown With Congress Search Ads for Competing Products Chrome to Limit Ad Blocking Extensions Apple/Google Hiring Lawsuit Finally Settled Update (2020-11-07): Hartley Charlton: The New York Times reports that Apple receives an estimated eight to 12 billion dollars per year in exchange for making Google the default search engine on its devices and services, including the iPhone and Siri. This is believed to be the single biggest payment Google makes to anyone, and it accounts for 14 to 21 percent of Apple’s annual profits. Advertising AdWords Android Apple Department of Justice (DOJ) Google iOS iOS 14 Lawsuit Legal Mac macOS 10.15 Catalina Safari Search Web Halide Mark II Ben Sandofsky (Hacker News): With all that in mind, we’re confident launching Halide Mark II at $36 (for new users). To celebrate the launch, we are discounting it to $30. Pay-Once is not going away, but we’ve decided to offer an alternative that fits quite well into our long term plans. We’re calling it a membership. We think there are three reasons to consider a membership. First, there’s price. $11.99 per year. […] Second, memberships include perks above and beyond the core Halide experience, like exclusive icons. Anyone who has already paid for Halide 1 gets Mark II for free. We’re also including a year of members’ updates. John Voorhees: The latest update is an ambitious reimagining of what was already a premier camera app, building on what came before but with a simpler and easier to learn UI. Halide Mark II puts more control than ever into the hands of photographers, while also making it easy to achieve beautiful results with minimal effort. Halide also seeks to educate through a combination of design and upcoming in-app photography lessons. One of my favorite changes to Halide is its focus control. Auto-focus is on by default, but you can swipe right on the control to manually set focus. When you enter manual focus mode, a magnifier loupe appears onscreen that zooms in on the center of the viewfinder, making it easier to precisely dial in focus. There’s also a button to turn the focusing loupe on full time and a focus peaking button to visualize focus status. Instead of saving the RAW and compressed images at the same time, which is what RAW+ does, Coverage takes two separate shots one after the other – one RAW, one compressed – and then saves them together in the same file as just like RAW+. The advantage is a higher-quality compressed image that can take advantage of Apple’s Smart HDR and Deep Fusion processing. The disadvantage is that it takes a little longer for the camera to take two shots in a row, which is why the feature is turned off by default. App Subscriptions Business Camera Halide iOS iOS 14 iOS App iTunes Connect Sandbox Testers Raw Image Format Swift Result Builders Accepted Saleem Abdulrasool: The second round of review for SE-0289 “Result Builders” ran from September 24 through October 1, 2020. You can find the review thread here. The first round of review for SE-0289 “Function Builders” ran from August 31 through September 14, 2020 and you can find that review thread here. The overall feedback from both rounds of reviews seemed positive on the functionality, but raised concerns over the attribute naming. The renamed attribute was better received, and the Core Team has decided to move forward with the new name. See also: SampleFunctionBuilder (via Ole Begemann), Function builders implementation progress. Resilient Decoding in Swift On the Road to Swift 6 Language Design Programming Swift Programming Language SwiftUI Unresponsive Keyboard After Waking Mac eptcyka: Apple seems to do all kinds of weird networking stuff. For instance, during wakeup, your T2 equipped Macbook will wait for a DNS response and then use said DNS response to synchronize time via NTP before letting the user use the keyboard. Probably checking timestamps on signatures for the keyboard firmware, or something stupid like that. This only happens if it happens to have a default route. Similarly, all macOS machines will test a DHCP supplied default route before applying it by trying to reach something on the internet. So if you happen to have some firewall rules that block internet access, no default route will be applied until the internet check times out. Apple Apps Exempt From Network Filters and VPNs checkra1n T2 Exploit macOS 10.15: Slow by Design Update (2020-11-02): Ben Kuhn: I noticed my MacBook would sometimes become unresponsive to keyboard input after opening the lid. Eventually I realized it only happened in my backyard. WTF?! Finally figured out why and the answer is... horrifying Apple T2 Domain Name System (DNS) Keyboard Mac macOS 10.15 Catalina Networking Security Time Maxwell Swadling: Some Apple apps bypass some network extensions and VPN Apps. Maps for example can directly access the internet bypassing any NEFilterDataProvider or NEAppProxyProviders you have running 😒 The new beta for @littlesnitch seems to use an NEFilterDataProvider instead of kext, I don’t think they will be able to block Maps from tile loading... Patrick Wardle (Hacker News): Previously, a comprehensive macOS firewall could be implemented via a Network Kernel Extension (kext) Apple deprecated kexts, giving us Network Extensions....but apparently (many of) their apps / daemons bypass this filtering mechanism. bucky: NEXTs = obviously more complexity than KEXTs = bigger attack surface… and all you need is a “NEXT exempt exploit” (which will definitely happen at some point), and LuLu, @littlesnitch etc. won’t be able to intercept malware traffic. Getting rid of kernel extensions “for our security”? DIRTY FUCKING LIE! Now you can’t stop Apple from phoning home. joncp: That totally breaks my use case for Little Snitch: working tethered. When I tether my laptop it thinks it has free reign with the bandwidth and all of the little background processes can kill my data in a few minutes. With a firewall, I can grant access to only the processes that I need to get my work done. Now, I guess I have to run some external firewall between my laptop and my phone. ... or better yet, abandon Apple. David Dudok de Wit (developer of TripMode, tweet, Radar): With macOS Big Sur however, that changed, as application-level firewalls now need to use the new NetworkExtensions APIs, such as NEFilterDataProvider or NEAppProxyProvider, to offer a similar level of functionality as in previous macOS releases. Starting with macOS Big Sur, users can’t: View a full, uncensored list of apps trying to access the Internet on their Mac — as Apple is hiding 56 of its own apps. Know how much data these Apple apps upload or download. Know which domains or IP addresses these Apple apps interact with. Block or allow traffic from these Apple apps. Adam Engst: I don’t believe this move shows any grand conspiracy to undermine TripMode or Little Snitch. I suspect it’s just another change that Apple has made—perhaps in the name of overall security, perhaps merely with no thought to what developers and users want—that has an unintended and undesirable consequence. It’s reminiscent of when Apple quietly prevented apps like BusyContacts and HoudahSpot from indexing Mail’s email archive in Catalina, regardless of how you set your permissions. Nevertheless, it’s disappointing, and if you’re bothered by the move, let Apple know via its Feedback Assistant. Miles Wolbe: Deleting those entries [from /System/Library/Frameworks/NetworkExtension.framework/Versions/A/Resources/Info.plist] under Big Sur turned out to be rather involved; in fact, one could be forgiven for coming away with the vague suspicion that Apple would prefer them not to be disturbed[…] Little Snitch 5 and TripMode 3 had no problem blocking the previously-cloaked processes afterwards[…] But it causes problems for the IMTransferAgent process. Little Snitch and the Deprecation of Kernel Extensions Spotlight Excludes Mail Folder on macOS 10.15 Kernel Extensions Little Snitch LuLu Mac Mac App Mac App Store macOS 11.0 Big Sur Networking Privacy TripMode Virtual Private Network (VPN) Stadium Removed From the App Store Zach Knox: Today, I launched a new web browser app for iOS. It displays webpages in full screen, allows you to change your user agent, has a way to authenticate without the user agent, and has game controller support. How strange! Stadium is specialized, but it happens to be great for using game streaming services! My app is being removed from the App Store, AMA I was “extending WebKit” by hooking it into the native GameController framework and thus Bluetooth controllers, which they didn’t like. This does seem to be against the guidelines, though I think it’s a bad rule. 4.7 HTML5 Games, Bots, etc. Apps may contain or run code that is not embedded in the binary (e.g. HTML5-based games, bots, etc.), as long as code distribution isn’t the main purpose of the app, the code is not offered in a store or store-like interface, and provided that the software (1) is free or purchased using in-app purchase; (2) only uses capabilities available in a standard WebKit view (e.g. it must open and run natively in Safari without modifications or additional software); your app must use WebKit and JavaScript Core to run third-party software and should not attempt to extend or expose native platform APIs to third-party software Although Stadium will soon disappear from the App Store, the principle of using a web app to offer game streaming on iOS isn’t going anywhere. This is the approach Amazon is using for its own Luna cloud gaming service. It’s looking like this is also the route Google will have to go down if it wants to officially get Stadia on iOS. At the moment, Stadia is unavailable on the iPhone in its current form despite a recent App Store rule change. Dan Moren: The promise of playing Xbox games on my iOS devices has been tempting me for a while; though I’m not a hardcore gamer, there are a number of titles I like to play on my Xbox One, most recently Star Wars: Squadrons. Plus, the ability to still do some gaming, even when the sole TV in our household is tied up, definitely has some appeal. So the news a few weeks back that remote play was coming to Microsoft’s iOS app was welcome indeed. Unlike the contentious Project xCloud game streaming, remote play falls into a more standard (and, to Apple, more acceptable) category of apps: it’s basically a screen-sharing client. So, the Xbox app for iPhone and iPad now lets you screen share with the Xbox in your house over your local network or, if your connection is good enough, the Internet. Amazon Luna Cloud Gaming Service New Apple Store Guidelines for Streaming Games Microsoft’s xCloud Unavailable on iOS The Hotel Cupertino Clause Update (2020-10-22): Ben Schoon: Speaking to 9to5Google, Apple provided a bit more background on why “Stadium” was removed from the App Store. While the company has respect for the creativity, they say Stadium uses public APIs in a way that Apple does not intend. Megan Farokhmanesh: Amazon’s cloud gaming service, Luna, is entering early access today, the company announced. A small number of US-based customers will receive invitations to test out the service and even purchase Amazon’s game controller if they so choose (though it’s not required to play games on Luna). Will Apple also forbid Amazon from letting its app talk to a game controller because it uses Web technologies? Update (2020-11-07): Alex Russell: Keep in mind re: that in addition to disallowing others from shimming web+bluetooth, Apple is refusing to implement the Web Bluetooth spec in their browser. This is the real-world texture of a deep, abiding commitment to a less-than-capable web. Amazon Luna App Store App Store Rejection Bluetooth Game Google Stadia iOS iOS 14 iOS App Stadium Xbox iPhone 12 Reviews Tim Hardwick: As we wait for the iPhone 12 review embargo to lift later today, more pictures are circulating of the devices in real-world lighting conditions, providing a better look at the different colors available. Dieter Bohn (iPhone 12) Nilay Patel (iPhone 12 Pro) Matthew Panzarino Chris Velazco Austin Mann (Hacker News) Review roundups On the subject of LiDAR and the Pro camera: Matthew Panzarino: The LiDAR array is very nice to have on the iPhone 12 Pro. There is one completely new mode that is not available on the iPhone 12 here — Night Mode Portraits. The autofocus improvement is active in any low light situation. The ISP and Neural Engine improvements on iPhone 12 mean that these devices can now use Deep Fusion and Smart HDR 3 on all cameras. And, of course, on the iPhone 12 Pro they also handle LiDAR integration for autofocus and even Night Mode portraits now. But Dieter Bohn says Night Mode Portraits are available on the iPhone 12: Night mode portraits are one of the major new features, and they’re worth a try, but the range of lighting conditions where they’ll look good isn’t massively bigger. Nilay Patel: Unless you are extremely committed to either AR gimmicks or night mode portrait photos, I don’t think you’ll get much value out of the iPhone 12 LIDAR sensor. When you take photos in regular light, the camera focuses just like always; the LIDAR sensor isn’t active. In many ways, it feels like LIDAR is mostly on the phone so that Apple and other people can figure out what to do with it in the future. Apple is providing conflicting information about Ceramic Shield and scratch resistance. Jason Snell: I should also be clear: Apple is making zero claims about improved scratch resistance on these phones. The improvements in materials are specifically for shatter resistance. Apple claims the iPhone 12 line has four times better drop performance than the previous models, with the same scratch resistance. (I drop my phone a lot, so I’m excited to see how this goes.) On the back, you’ll find the same type of glass as last year, but the new design should improve its drop performance as well, Apple says. One thing Apple would not tell me is how resistant this stainless steel frame is to nicks and scratches… and we’ve already put a tiny nick in the frame of our review unit, even though all it’s really done is travel from video shoot to video shoot. Tough is great, but we also wanted to make it scratch-resistant. So, using our dual ion-exchange process we use on the back glass, we protect against nicks, scratches, and everyday wear and tear. I have seen a few fine scratches crop up on my iPhone 12’s screen. I am not particularly careful with my review units, as I think it is my duty to treat these things as utility items that will get intense daily usage. Which is what they are. Nothing insanely noticeable, mind you, but whatever the improvements to overall hardness the new Corning Ceramic Shield process brings to the table it is not and will not be invincible to wear and tear. paustovsky has a great chart showing the different iPhone prices over time. Jon Porter (tweet): I think Apple’s approach is generally a good thing, but it should have gone further by switching away from its proprietary Lightning port entirely and fully embracing USB-C. Right away, that Lightning to USB-C cable would turn into a much more useful USB-C to USB-C cable that could charge basically all of your electronics. Or better still, Apple could remove the cable entirely and just ship the phone by itself, eliminating even more duplicitous waste. MagSafe 2020 iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro Lightning or USB-C on the New iPhones? Accessibility Camera iOS iOS 14 iPhone iPhone 12 iPhone 12 Pro LiDAR Scanner USB-C Apple Selling HomeKit-enabled Molekule Air Purifier Mitchel Broussard: Molekule today announced that its connected air purifier, the Air Mini+, now supports Apple HomeKit. Alongside the news, the Air Mini+ is also available to purchase on Apple.com and in Apple stores across North America, at a price of $499.95. It looks like an Apple product, it works with Apple devices, but it apparently doesn’t work. The App Store isn’t the only one with a curation problem. Apple Business HomeKit iOS iOS 14 Mac macOS 10.15 Catalina Shopping Face ID and Touch ID for the Web WWDC 2020 Session 10670: But this time, when I sign in, rather than go through a password and SMS 2FA flow, instead I just Face ID, like that. Boom. I’m signed in. Safari will only allow public key credentials created by this API to be used within the website they were created, and the credentials can never be exported out from the authenticator they were created as well. This means that once a public key credential has been provisioned, there is no way for a user to accidentally divulge it to another party. There are two important properties that Apple builds into the authenticator. The first one, as we saw, is the Face ID and Touch ID, which is used to verify users’ identity. The second one is Secure Enclave, which is a processor that manages all the private keys and guarantees that they cannot leave the device. By combining both, each sign-in performed with the Face ID or Touch ID is essentially a multi-factor authentication. The response the device sends back to the websites encapsulates two factors: something you have, the iPhone, and something you are, the biometrics. And the sign-in only takes a single tap. Jiewen Tan (tweet): What follows is the recommended way to invoke Face ID and Touch ID for the web. Attestation is an optional feature which provides websites a cryptographic proof of the authenticator’s provenance such that websites that are restricted by special regulations can make a trust decision. Face ID and Touch ID for the web offers Apple Anonymous Attestation. Once verified, this attestation guarantees that an authentic Apple device performed the WebAuthn registration ceremony, but it does not guarantee the operating system running on that device is untampered. App Attest Face ID iOS iOS 14 Programming Safari Secure Enclave Security Touch ID Web Web API WebKit How iOS Apps Adapt to the Various iPhone 12 Screen Sizes Geoff Hackworth (via Peter Steinberger): As a general rule, apps must build with the latest version of Xcode to opt in to seeing the native screen resolutions of new devices. Older apps would run on newer devices but appeared as letterboxed, pillar boxed and/or scaled versions of previous device sizes. This ensured that the old apps never ran at screen resolutions that didn’t exist when they were built. At their October 2020 event, Apple announced four iPhone 12 models[…] None of these resolutions correspond to existing devices. The iPhone 12 mini has an extra surprise in store. Just like the iPhone 6+, 6S+, 7+ and 8+, an app running on the iPhone 12 mini renders at a different resolution to what is actually shown on screen. Jonathan: So Apple seem to have forgotten they said last year apps will now always display at the native resolution of future devices 🤷‍♂️ Keith Harrison: Here’s a recap of what you need to know to update your Apps for the new devices. There’s one more curiosity with the iPhone 12 mini. The safe area inset at the top of the device is slightly larger than the height of the status bar. iOS iOS 14 iPhone iPhone 12 iPhone 12 mini iPhone 12 Pro iPhone 12 Pro Max Programming Evolution of the Programming Languages From iPhone OS 1.0 to iOS 14 Alexandre Colucci: In this new article, I will answer this question by measuring the total number of binaries in iOS. I will go one step further and also count the number of binaries using other programming languages: Objective-C, C++ and C. Finally to be as complete as possible, I ran this analysis on all major iOS releases, from iPhone OS 1.0 to iOS 14. This will provide a detailed overview of the evolution of the different programming languages over more than a decade of iOS development. iPhone OS 1.0 contained less binaries than the number of binaries in iOS 14.0 using Swift. The number of binaries using Objective-C is still growing with each iOS release. Looking at the graph, it’s scary to contemplate just how much iOS has grown. So much new code, so many potential new interactions. As with macOS, we can lament the shocking number of bugs that go unfixed, even unacknowledged, but it’s also a wonder that it works at all. Apple’s Use of Swift and SwiftUI in iOS 14 Update (2020-10-20): Malcolm Hall: Recent heavy use of stubs might be skewing the numbers. E.g. On iOS 14 the staged apps are now stubs for an app framework in the dyld cache so you might have counted the app twice or maybe three times. Apple Software Quality C Programming Language C++ Programming Language History iOS iOS 14 iOS Widgets Objective-C Programming Swift Programming Language SwiftUI Pure Programming gazzini (via ChrisLTD): I used to joke, back then, that I was a professional App Store rules explainer, because in every role, I was constantly explaining to peers, managers, and clients why we couldn’t build X because it violated Apple’s terms & conditions. I just wanted to build what our users wanted, but instead we debated endlessly about what Apple might allow. Even then, we’d still occasionally be punished by a frivolous rejection, moving us to the back of the app-review line. But Apple isn’t the villain here – this is a large industry trend. The entire internet is increasingly burdened by various governments, corporations, and everything in-between. In-app purchases. Email verification w/ various “unsubscribe” options. Sign-in with X. DUNS numbers. Applying for AWS Service Limit increases to send any emails. These “table-stakes” features are a real drag on productivity because… well, because they’re no fun to develop! It’s energizing to solve real problems, and draining to solve fake problems. Amazon SES App Store GDPR iOS iOS 14 Programming Apple Watch With Family Setup Dan Seifert: The most interesting thing is Apple’s new Family Setup service, which lets parents provision an Apple Watch for their kids to use. They can choose what apps and services their kids can access, who they can call or send messages to, and track their location through GPS. Even if you’re not a parent, the new Family Setup service is interesting because it gives us an idea of what a truly standalone Apple Watch could be. For the past few weeks, I’ve strapped an Apple Watch SE to my eight-year-old child to see what the new Family Setup service is like to use in the real world (or at least as real of an experience as I can get in the middle of pandemic lockdown). Here’s what I’ve learned. Apple Watch Children GPS iOS iOS 14 watchOS Avoiding AppleScript Security and Privacy Requests Armin Briegel: Since macOS Mojave, the Security and Privacy controls restricts sending and receiving AppleEvents. A given process can only send events to a different process with user approval. Users can manage the inter-application approvals in the Privacy tab of the Security & Privacy preference pane. I ran into another case today where macOS failed to auto-add a checkbox under Automation so that the user could approve communication between two apps. There remains no way to manually add an app to give it permission. The only solution seems be to reset the privacy database and hope that macOS will add the checkbox the next time the app tries to communicate. Over time, even though the underlying problem with hidden dialog has been fixed, this practice has persisted. You often even see AppleScript code use this with commands other than user interaction, where it wouldn’t have made sense in the first place. With the privacy restrictions in macOS Mojave, this practice has become actively trouble some, as you are sending the display dialog (or other) command to a separate process. The process running this script will require approval to send events to “System Events.” Even after you have considered the above options to avoid sending AppleEvents to another process, there will still be several situations where it is necessary. […] MacAdmins can pre-approve AppleEvents (and most other privacy areas) between certain processes with a Privacy Preferences Policy Control (PPPC) configuration profile. PPPC profiles can only be managed when pushed from a user-approved or automatically enrolled MDM. Mojave Privacy Protection Aftermath AEDeterminePermissionToAutomateTarget Added, But AEpocalyse Still Looms AppleScript Mac macOS 10.15 Catalina Mobile Device Management (MDM) System Preferences Transparency Consent and Control (TCC) Quinn: I regularly get asked questions about local network privacy. This is my attempt to collect together the answers for the benefit of all. Before you delve into the details, familiarise yourself with the basics by watching WWDC 2020 Session 10110 Support local network privacy in your app. Via Peter Steinberger: Including gems such as: “Receiving an incoming UDP multicast or broadcast does not currently require local network access but, because we hope to change that in a future update, our advice right now is that you write your code as if did” Update (2020-11-07): Rory Prior: The local network security privacy stuff in iOS 14 is a complete cluster fuck. The only reliable documentation is in Apple’s help forums, basic features like checking if the user has actually accepted aren’t shipped yet. Not all network activity actually triggers the alert even if its needed for said network activity to work properly. There’s no simple mechanism to actually trigger the alert, Apple’s sample code just spams every local network interface. These problems only became apparent in the shipping release of iOS 14 for us causing a last minute panic to fix things. Rushing major OS updates out the door with half implemented breaking changes is incredibly hostile to developers. Bonjour iOS iOS 14 Networking Privacy Programming UDP Chrome Exempts Google Sites From User Site Data Settings In Google Chrome’s “Cookies and site data” settings, accessible via the Preferences menu item or directly with chrome://settings/cookies in the address bar, you can enable the setting “Clear cookies and site data when you quit Chrome”. However, I’ve discovered that Chrome exempts Google’s own sites, such as Search and YouTube, from this setting. Some people are going to read this article and say “Use Safari instead of Chrome!” But it’s important to note that Safari doesn’t even have the feature to clear site data on quit, so Safari is actually worse. Update (2020-10-20): See also: Hacker News. Update (2020-10-22): Jeff Johnson: Someone on Hacker News indicated that this Chromium commit yesterday is the fix for my bug. If so, the bug was introduced into Chromium 5 months ago and apparently shipped in Chrome 85 about 2 months ago. So, it seems that Google actually shipped a partial fix today. In my testing it’s fixed in Chrome 86.0.4240.111 for youtube.com but still broken for google.com Google Chrome Mac Mac App macOS 10.15 Catalina Privacy Safari Web Steve Jobs Stories Drew McCormack: Steve’s anniversary was a few days ago. I always pause, at least for a moment, to remember how great those times were after his return to Apple in 1996. A rollercoaster that convinced me to leave my secure job in the scientific community, and risk everything on something new they were calling “apps”. That’s when I got the order. I would receive details of all Mental Case purchase orders in my email inbox. (Yes, there were so few I could read them all individually.) This one was different, because I recognized the name immediately. I have no idea if this was the real Steve Jobs on the line, or just a carefully crafted practical joke. (I don’t think the information about treatment in Missouri was even common knowledge at that time.) But I like to think it really was Steve, bored in his hospital bed, recovering from surgery, and just browsing through apps to see where the wind was blowing. Chris Hynes: I worked right on the hallway where he hiked between buildings, so it was very common to see him. A few days after the bicycle incident, we were walking towards each other in the hall. He looked at me, ducked his head, and did the same apologetic gesture with his hand. I couldn’t believe he remembered. He did this duck and wave about a dozen times in the next month or so. Then one time he passed me with a grin on his face and just said “Hey” Perhaps he felt he had done enough apologizing. Steve Jobs, Photographer Apple History Mac Steve Jobs The Developer Experience Gap Stephen O’Grady (via Hacker News): Fragmentation makes it impossible for vendors to natively supply the requisite components for a fully integrated toolchain. That does not change the reality, however, that developers are forced to borrow time from writing code and redirect it towards managing the issues associated with highly complex, multi-factor developer toolchains held together in places by duct tape and baling wire. This, then, is the developer experience gap. The same market that offers developers any infrastructure primitive they could possibly want is simultaneously telling them that piecing them together is a developer’s problem. Git GitHub iOS Mac Programming Visual Studio Code Thoughts on the App Store Riley Testut: As a user, I love the App Store and would hate to see it become less important to iOS. In practice though, the current App Store situation has some significant problems which are getting harder and harder to ignore — several of which Congress’ antitrust report explicitly call out, such as requiring developers to implement in-app purchases or risk being thrown out of the App Store. I’ve wrestled with these two seemingly conflicting notions for a long time, but after running an alternative app store for the past year I’ve finally been able solidify my thoughts on what I believe is best for the platform. So to celebrate AltStore’s first birthday, I decided to finally write up my thoughts on the App Store — including why I went through all this effort in the first place and why I believe sideloading is ultimately the right long-term solution for iOS. 12 years on, it’s clear that while band-aids can be applied to the App Store Guidelines every few years or so to quell developer dissent, the underlying philosophy that Apple maintains sole discretion over which apps are allowed to run on its platform is showing its age. App Review Should Be Stricter Outlining Complaints About the App Store AltStore AltStore App Store iOS iOS 14 Deliveries Switches to Subscription Ryan Christoffel: Deliveries, the package tracking app for iOS and Mac, has received a strong update today with a wide variety of quality of life improvements. There’s nothing huge or flashy here, but the sum of the many small changes should help Deliveries continue being one of the best and easiest ways to track that steady stream of packages heading your way. Joe Rossignol: A subscription will unlock all features of the app across the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch, with pricing to be set at 99 cents per month or $4.99 per year through the App Store. Deliveries until now has been a one-time purchase, with iOS and macOS versions of the app each costing $4.99. Junecloud: For those who purchased Deliveries before subscriptions were available, most of the features from earlier versions are included without a subscription. You will need a subscription to sync with Junecloud, and for new features we add in the future. You’ll get a complimentary subscription for up to 18 months from the date you purchased the app. If you bought the app more than 18 months ago, your complimentary subscription will end February 1, 2021. iCloud sync is free, however. Parcel (Sponsor) App Subscriptions Deliveries iOS iOS 14 iOS App A Warning About Glassdoor his_rotundity_ (via Hacker News): I have a very close family member that works for Glassdoor. I spoke to this person and found out that a strategic repositioning, if you will, for Glassdoor is that they are trying to become a PR company of sorts, so they are focusing on brand management for companies. As a result, they are getting very aggressive with negative review-takedowns while allowing very obviously fraudulent positive reviews to remain the same. shiftpgdn: I worked at a mid sized company that was going through a very rough patch (right before the inevitable bankruptcy.) During this time I got a call from a Glassdoor rep who explicitly offered to remove bad reviews in exchange for us moving to a high paid tier and putting up X amount of job listings. Glassdoor is just corporate Yelp. See also: Quora. Glassdoor Hiring Web Yelp Wednesday, October 14, 2020 [Tweets] [Favorites] Faster Xcode Updates Igor Kulman (via Cédric Luthi): Installing Xcode from the Mac App Store might seem like a convenient way to do so but it is too slow and inflexible. You cannot use the Mac App Store to install multiple version of Xcode at the same time if you need them, like when testing with a Xcode beta for an upcoming iOS release. Download from the Mac App Store is incredibly slow and sometimes not even available for days after release (like 11.2.1). Downloading Xcode from the Apple Developer Portal is faster than using the Mac App Store, but it can be made even better. You just need to use the right tools. This script downloads the given Xcode by URL from the Apple Developer Portal, but uses up to 16 separate connections to do so. You will see a significant download speed improvement. Paul Hudson: Pro tip: if you downloaded Xcode straight from Apple, you can use xip -x Xcode_12.1_GM_seed.xip to skip the validation step and save approximately a billion tons of CO². And don’t forget to turn off Dropbox. Dropbox Mac Mac App Store macOS 10.15 Catalina Optimization Xcode BBEdit 13.5 Bare Bones Software: BBEdit has a new feature to protect your data: in the Text Files preferences, there is an option: “Rescue untitled documents when discarding changes”. When this option is on (as it is by default), and you close an untitled document (one that has never been saved to disk), and click “Don’t Save”, BBEdit will save a snapshot of that document’s contents to disk. Added a command to the Palettes submenu: “Markdown Cheat Sheet”. This opens a floating window showing common Markdown constructions. Double-clicking on an item will insert it into the active document; you can also drag an item to insert it where desired. When running on macOS 10.15 and later, there’s an additional command on the Window menu: “Move to [Display]”, where “[Display]” is the name of an eligible attached display. I wish macOS in general had better ways of moving windows between displays and spaces. Why can’t I pick up a window, press the Mission Control hotkey, and then choose where to drop it? Instead, you have to go into Mission Control first, find the window that it just moved out from under you, and then wait for the hover animation before you can even see the other spaces. Update (2020-10-14): It looks like macOS can do what I suggested, but only if “Displays have separate Spaces” is unchecked. Alas, I really prefer my displays to be linked on the same space. Mavericks and Multiple Displays ARM Macs BBEdit Mac Mac App macOS 10.15 Catalina Markdown Multiple Displays Spaces Apple today announced that the iPhone 12 family is gaining support for MagSafe, which will offer high-powered wireless charging as well as a new ecosystem of accessories that attach to the iPhone 12. Previously, MagSafe was Apple’s brand for the MacBook’s breakaway charging cables. The company said that MagSafe will improve the charging experience on iPhone 12, with magnets that are optimized for alignment and efficiency, and support 15W of charging. Alex Guyot: Apple’s MagSafe accessory lineup starts with the MagSafe charger, a 15-watt Qi-compatible charging puck that magnetically attaches to the back of an iPhone 12 (all iPhone 12 models from the Mini to the Pro Max include MagSafe). There are also a series of new MagSafe cases which magnetically attach in the same way. These cases come in a variety of silicone colors, or in a clear design with a MagSafe circle. The magnetic connection allows the cases to be easily put on and pulled off, while staying attached during use. The case edges no longer have to bend around the front of the iPhone’s display because MagSafe is holding them in place. AirPower Canceled iPhone Charging Speeds Compared Update (2020-10-15): Robert Howard: The new iPhone MagSafe really isn’t. The whole point of MagSafe on MacBook Pro was that it would easily breakaway and keep your laptop from crashing to the floor. But the new Mag”Safe” is strong enough to hold on a case, become a dashboard mount, etc. More like MagLock… I think it’s going to be great, though. Update (2020-10-19): Juli Clover: We don’t have an iPhone 12 model on hand yet to see the actual difference between the magnetic connection of one of the new models and an existing iPhone , but just based on the marketing materials Apple has released, that magnetic ring in the iPhone is an important factor when it comes to the strength of the connection. Even using a MagSafe-compatible iPhone 12 case from OtterBox results in a connection that’s not super strong, and it appears that OtterBox, at least, has just stuck a couple of magnets in a little insert in the case to add MagSafe functionality. Update (2020-10-20): Jeremy Horwitz: A size comparison of MagSafe for iPhone and the Magnetic Charging Cable for Apple Watch. To answer a common question: MagSafe is a very large puck, but does not have the weight to remain on a flat surface when you lift up the iPhone. It will need to be held down somehow. Update (2020-10-22): Dieter Bohn: And now, some unsolicited and frankly random and incomplete thoughts about MagSafe on the iPhone 12 now that I’ve used it. Although Stern found that the MagSafe charger charged the iPhone 12 faster than a traditional 7.5W Qi wireless charger, it was still slower than plugging directly into a 20W charger. The 20W charger charged an empty iPhone to 50% in only 28 minutes, while the MagSafe took 1 hour. Update (2020-11-07): Dave Mark: If you bought or are considering a MagSafe charger, read the support article linked below. One bit: “Don’t place credit cards, security badges, passports, or key fobs between your iPhone and MagSafe Charger, because this might damage [the mag strips]” If you keep your iPhone in a leather case while charging with Apple’s new MagSafe Charger, the case might show circular imprints from contact with the accessory, according to a new Apple support document published today. rise_of_skylake: My 12 Pro is taking a charge on my Qi chargers but I’m seeing really distracting scanlines whenever it is charging. I feel like I’m looking at my CRT monitor from 2001. My XR and XS max don’t have this problem. I’d bet that the magnets are interfering. Super genius idea to put magnets between electromagnetic coils. Matt Birchler captures the incongruity of Apple’s pitch that they don’t need to include chargers in the iPhone box anymore because everyone has so many chargers already, but their new MagSafe charging only works at full capability with the new 20W adapter that no one already has. Update (2020-11-10): Josh Centers: Many people feel that the most interesting new technology in the iPhone 12 is the new MagSafe charging and accessory attachment system, but early experiences are revealing some annoying gotchas. iOS iOS 14 iPhone iPhone 12 iPhone 12 mini iPhone 12 Pro MagSafe Power Qi Charging iOS 14 and 14.1 Federico Viticci: Second, context is necessary because despite the pandemic and rocky rollout of iOS 13 and its many updates, Apple was still able to infuse iOS and iPadOS 14 with fresh, bold ideas that are tracing a path for both platforms to follow over the next few years. On the surface, iOS 14 will be widely regarded as the update that brought a redesigned Home Screen and a plethora of useful quality-of-life additions to the iPhone. For the first time since the iPhone’s inception, Apple is moving past the grid of icons and letting users freely place data-rich, customizable widgets on the Home Screen – a major course correction that has opened the floodgates for new categories of utilities on the App Store. In addition to the upgraded Home Screen, iOS 14 also offers welcome improvements to long-standing limitations: phone calls can now come in as unobtrusive banners; Messages borrows some of WhatsApp’s best features and now lets you reply to specific messages as well as mention users; Siri doesn’t take over the entire screen anymore. There are hundreds of smaller additions to the system and built-in apps in iOS 14, which suggests Apple spent a long time trying to understand what wasn’t working and what customers were requesting. We can see the results of this initiative in modernized system apps that take advantage of the iPad’s display with a sidebar, multiple columns, and deeper trackpad integration – new options that every iPad app developer could (and, according to Apple, should) consider going forward. Although some of the iPad’s oft-mentioned ongoing struggles remain unaddressed in iPadOS 14 (see: multitasking and window management), Apple is embracing the iPad’s nature as a modular computer this year, and they feel comfortable leaning into lessons learned with the Mac decades ago. Among the Club-only extras this year are three eBooks, a set of stunning, widget-friendly iPhone wallpapers, advanced shortcuts, podcast episodes, and a special edition of MacStories Weekly. Juli Clover: Following the introduction of the iPhone 12 mini, iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Pro, and iPhone 12 Pro Max, Apple has released iOS and iPadOS 14.1 golden master betas for developers, with the iOS 14.1 update presumably coming pre-installed on the new iPhones at launch. There’s no word yet on what’s included in these updates[…] iOS iOS 14 iPadOS iPadOS 14 iPhone 12 (MacRumors, event, Hacker News): Apple today unveiled iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 mini with 5G technology, ushering in a new era for the world’s best smartphone. The newly designed iPhone 12 models feature expansive edge-to-edge Super Retina XDR displays for a brighter, more immersive viewing experience, and a new Ceramic Shield front cover, providing the biggest jump in durability ever on iPhone. The Apple-designed A14 Bionic, the fastest chip in a smartphone, powers every experience on iPhone 12, and coupled with an advanced dual-camera system, delivers meaningful new computational photography features and the highest quality video in a smartphone. iPhone 12 models also introduce MagSafe, offering high-powered wireless charging and an all-new ecosystem of accessories that easily attach to iPhone. iPhone 12 Pro (MacRumors): The Apple-designed A14 Bionic chip, the fastest chip in a smartphone, powers impressive computational photography features including the all-new Apple ProRAW for more creative control in photos, and enables the first end-to-end Dolby Vision video experience, up to 60 fps. The reimagined pro camera systems include an expansive Ultra Wide camera, a Telephoto camera with an even longer focal length on iPhone 12 Pro Max, and new Wide cameras to capture beautiful professional-quality images and video in bright and low-light environments. iPhone 12 Pro models also introduce a new LiDAR Scanner for immersive augmented reality (AR) experiences[…] First, I love the return of the flat sides, last available on a flagship phone in 2013. This should make it more comfortable to hold without a case. I’m happy to see the mini, although I have doubts about the battery life and adjusting to a smaller screen. These days, all the software is designed for larger screens. I wish it were available with the Pro camera. Compared with the iPhone 5s, the iPhone 12 mini is 0.31 inches taller, 0.22 inches wider, 0.01 inches thinner, and 0.81 ounces heavier. I’m disappointed with the display resolutions of the new phones. The iPhone 12 Pro Max is way too big for me to carry, and all the other models display less on screen than the iPhone XR that I currently use. This reduction is larger than the increase that Apple touted between the iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro. I would much rather have the higher resolution than OLED. iPhone Model 5s/SE 320 pts 568 pts 8/SE 2 375 pts 667 pts 11 Pro/12 mini (scaled) 375 pts 812 pts 12/12 Pro 390 pts 844 pts XR/11/11 Pro Max 414 pts 896 pts 12 Pro Max 428 pts 926 pts Other thoughts: Does Ceramic Shield make the screen less scratchable? I never drop my phone, but recent iPhones seem to scratch more than previous ones. I would rather Apple optimize for that. It’s not clear to me whether the iPhone 12 Pro camera is much better than that of the iPhone 12. Is the LiDAR autofocus benefit only for low light? Does faster autofocus mean that the camera will be ready to take a picture sooner or that it will be less blurry? Aside from that, the benefits of the Pro seem scant. It’s heavier, and the back glass may be less durable, although perhaps it is more grippy than metal. How fast is the A14 for regular tasks? Apple says it’s “up to 50% faster CPU and GPU than any other smartphone chip.” But this is versus other brands, not the A13. Previously, Apple said the A14 was 40% faster than the two-generations-ago A12. There is unfortunately no Touch ID in the power button. The iPhone SE remains the only mask-friendly iPhone. The non-Pro iPhone 12 gets a price increase if you don’t use AT&T or Verizon. (It also includes less in the box.) I got excited seeing $699 on the slide, but for 256 GB unlocked the prices are $879 (mini), $979 (12), $1,099 (12 Pro), $1,199 (12 Pro Max). My 128 GB XR was $799 two years ago, but I’m now bumping up against the limits of that capacity. (The 256 GB iPhone 11 was $849.) Sebastiaan de With: The iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro have seemingly the same sensor as the iPhone 11 and 11 Pro. For the 12 (and 12 Pro): The main ("Wide") camera lets in 27% more light thanks to a new lens with a f/1.6 aperture. For the 12 Pro Max, though, you now get a new sensor that is significantly larger with a faster (better) lens. Smart HDR 3 now takes scenes apart to prevent its teething issue of over-smoothing faces vs. preventing noise in dark areas. Deep Fusion and Night Mode are coming to all the lenses; likely because of the extra processing power of the A14 chip. Apparently the iPhone 12 mini uses the same screen resolution as the 5.8” iPhones, according to the iOS Simulator, which makes this a 495ppi iPhone UI. The actual device screen resolution is 476ppi, which suggests everything will run scaled 6.1" iPhone models this year don’t get a ‘Plus-style’ layout, despite the 6.1" model last year doing so. iPad 8 and iPad Air My iPhone 6s and iOS 9 Experience Update (2020-10-14): Sebastiaan de With: As we said before, we really expect to see the greatest leaps in photographic improvement on phone cameras to come in software. Brian Barrett: How far has phone-size creep gone? Look no further than the iPhone 12 Mini’s introduction. “With its amazing size, it fits in the palm of your hand,” said Apple vice-president of marketing Kaiann Drance in Tuesday’s promotional video. Imagine that: A phone. That fits. In your hand. Kate Matthews (via Rahul Gaitonde): Here’s a version of my iPhone sizes sketch with the ghost of the original SE, if anyone wants that size comparison. Jason Snell (Hacker News): It’s embarrassing that Apple is hiding the real price of the iPhone 12. More troubling is the suggestion that Apple is now happy to join forces with its carrier partners to play marketing games—not just with the price of the iPhone 12 and 12 mini, but with the embarrassing amount of screen time Apple gave to Verizon’s CEO on Tuesday so he could flog his company’s 5G network. Jesper: First, Apple’s come a long way from calling carriers “orifices”. Without checking, Verizon probably got more stage time than the lidar in the iPhone 12 Pro, where it assists autofocus and plays a big role in magically making photos work out even for people who have never knowingly 3D scanned something in their life. But more importantly, the sense I’ve got is that 5G isn’t a dud technology but that it really only provides its advantages in areas where it’s really well built out. As I have written for years now, the way 5G is being sold to the public is wildly disproportionate to the actual day-to-day impact it will have on most of us most of the time. At the moment, 5G is largely a useful buzzword for when you want billions of dollars in tax breaks, a shortcut for newspapers to seem more technologically advanced, and a way to eat up phone batteries at speeds slower than LTE. Mark Sullivan: I thought Apple, with its marketing prowess, would finally make me understand the importance of having 5G on my phone. But after watching its press event for the first 5G iPhones on Tuesday, I remain unconvinced and unlikely to upgrade from my iPhone 11. Dieter Bohn: The problem with 5G is that it’s not good yet. In a comprehensive, US-wide test of 5G speeds, PC Mag found them seriously lacking. In many cases 5G speeds were actually slower than 4G speeds. And the study also found that the other hyped-up reason for 5G, low latency, also isn’t here yet. See also: Ryan Jones. Update (2020-10-15): Riccardo Mori: After watching the Apple event from yesterday, my impression is that Everything is a Remix would have been a more fitting title than Hi, Speed. MacRumors (via Michael Love): A spokesperson for T-Mobile has informed MacRumors that the carrier will also have iPhone 12 offers that will go live on Apple’s website on Friday, the day that pre-orders of the devices begin. Benchmark results for the iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro Max are beginning to surface on Geekbench, and based on the scores available so far, the new A14 Bionic chip is over 20 percent faster than its A13 predecessor in iPhone 11 Pro models. Joe Cieplinski: I don’t want a small phone that is also a “budget” phone, in other words. I want a top-of-the-line phone that happens to be small. For at least a few hours, I was truly torn about which phone to get. But in the end, how could I not get the mini? I would love to have a better camera in a hypothetical Pro mini. But, given the available choices, I’ve come to the same conclusion.. Update (2020-10-19): Thomas Brand: Apple is removing the charger and headphones from all iPhones, even models released years ago, and the price remains the same. Herewith, I believe, is the full accounting of the differences between the 12 Pro and 12 Pro Max, camera by camera[…] Apple’s upcoming ProRAW features — which will enable shooting RAW images using the built-in Camera app and a bunch of new APIs for third-party camera and photo-editing apps — are exclusive to the 12 Pro models. When you consider the camera specs alone, that seems like pure marketing spite. All iPhone 12 models have the A14 SoC with the same CPU, GPU, and Neural Engine. But there might be a technical reason ProRAW is limited to the iPhone 12 Pro models: according to the latest version of Xcode, the 12 Pro models have 50 percent more RAM than the iPhone 12 and 12 Mini (6 GB vs. 4 GB). It seems reasonable to assume that ProRAW and 60 FPS Dolby Vision encoding are RAM-hungry features. But because Apple never ever talks about RAM in iOS devices, even in the small print of their advertised tech specs, this comes across as purely marketing-driven differentiation. But I think a non-Pro iPhone Max model, in particular, would be really popular, because I think a lot of people desire big-ass phones solely for the display size. And I think Apple doesn’t make it because a lot of people who really care that much about having the largest possible display will just pay the premium for the Pro Max. This product strategy is true for the iPad and MacBook lineups, too — Apple’s biggest displays are only in its “Pro” models. Apple A14 Apple Event Camera COVID-19 Hardware iOS iOS 14 iPhone iPhone 12 iPhone 12 mini iPhone 12 Pro iPhone 12 Pro Max MagSafe Touch ID Chris Velazco (via MacRumors): At a high level, the A14 seems similar to Apple’s other Bionic chipsets. This system-on-a-chip packs a six-core CPU — two cores high-performance cores and four for lower-priority tasks — just as the A12 and A13 did. The number of GPU cores here has also remained unchanged at four. Don’t be fooled by these passing similarities, though: Because the A14 was designed for a 5nm manufacturing process, there’s more going on in this system-on-a-chip than ever before. Unsurprisingly, this year’s Neural Engine is a far cry from the first one we saw in 2017. While that original co-processor could perform 600 billion operations per second, last year’s A13 raised the bar to 6 trillion operations in the same amount of time. Meanwhile, the A14 generally obliterates the bar by performing a claimed 11 trillion operations per second. Apple hasn’t yet issued claims about the A14 Bionic’s performance improvements over last year’s A13 Bionic -- expect more on that during the company’s upcoming keynote. (A set of leaked benchmarks suggests some healthy gains over last year’s chipset, though some are less than impressed.) When Apple revealed the new iPad Air, though, it did say the A14’s CPU was up to 40 percent faster than the previous model, and that people could expect up to a 30 percent increase in graphics performance. Jason and Myke interview Apple's Tim Millet and Tom Boger about the new iPad Air and Apple silicon. Apple A14 iOS iOS 14 iPad Air iPhone 12 Apple (MacRumors, Hacker News): Apple today unveiled HomePod mini, the newest addition to the HomePod family that delivers impressive sound, the intelligence of Siri to get things done, and a smart home experience that offers comfort and convenience without complexity. At just 3.3 inches tall, HomePod mini is packed with innovative technologies and advanced software that together enable computational audio to deliver breakthrough audio quality wherever it is placed. HomePod mini will be available in white and space gray at a great price of just $99. The weak link is Siri. Update (2020-11-16): John Gruber: What I do know is that the HomePod Mini seems like just what everyone has been asking for from Apple — a much lower-priced HomePod that still sounds great. Now, you can say, “Well wait, the new Amazon Dot is just $50.” I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for Apple to make a $50 anything. The HomePod Mini might be the nicest device Apple has ever made for $100. I don’t even know what to compare it against, price-wise — I guess the iPod Shuffle, which started as low as $99 when it debuted and dropped to $50 by the fourth and final generation in 2010. Apple Event HomePod Siri Spotify Not Playing Fair SongShift Team (also: MacRumors): The Spotify Developer Platform Team reached out and let us know we’d need to remove transferring from their service to a competing music service or have our API access revoked due to TOS violation. Spotify only wants you to use the API to import, not to export. The mixlib app is also affected (via Olivier Simard-Casanova). Even putting aside that this sort of API restriction is bad for customers, you’d think that Spotify would have its eye on the bigger picture of not undermining its argument about fairness. Spotify hates how Apple tends its own ecosystem, but it has zero interest in allowing its customers to migrate metadata in any way that might make it more convenient to leave Spotify behind. That’s their decision to make, of course, but for a company that claims to support consumer freedom, it has just made a hypocritical decision designed to reduce the freedom of its own customers. Coalition for App Fairness Spotify: Time to Play Fair Amazon Revokes Delicious Library API Access Update (2020-10-14): Damien Petrilli: Until there is a regulation to prevent Apple to integrate Apple Music so tightly to iOS it’s probably safer for Spotify to prevent easy migration. It’s like asking to play fair in a game where all other players cheat and respect no rule. Update (2020-10-22): SongShift (via Petr Zvoníček): Spotify has updated their Developer TOS to allow transferring your playlists from their service, just not the ones created by them. iOS iOS 14 iOS App Music Spotify Web Web API Rust After the Honeymoon Bryan Cantrill (Hacker News): So Rust is going really well for us at Oxide, but for the moment I want to focus on more personal things — reasons that I personally have enjoyed implementing in Rust. These run the gamut: some are tiny but beautiful details that allow me to indulge in the pleasure of the craft; some are much more profound features that represent important advances in the state of the art; and some are bodies of software developed by the Rust community, notable as much for their reflection of who is attracted to Rust (and why) as for the artifacts themselves. It should also be said that I stand by absolutely everything I said two years ago; this is not as a replacement for that list, but rather a supplement to it. Language Design Programming Rust Programming Language Epic Denied Preliminary Injunction for Fortnite Juli Clover (also: Hacker News): A California judge today denied Epic Games’ request for a preliminary injunction that would have required Apple to allow Fortnite back into the App Store, which means the app will continue to remain unavailable on Apple’s iOS platform for the duration of the legal battle between the two companies. While the Fortnite app for iOS devices will not be reinstated into the App Store , Epic did successfully win an order that will require Apple to continue to allow Epic to operate its Unreal Engine developer account. Florian Mueller: While the TRO was a pre-PI decision, the PI is preliminary to a hypothetical permanent injunction that may or may not come down after the bench trial to be held in Oakland in May 2021. Whoever loses will likely appeal, and then it’s another question whether a permanent injunction coming down at that point will or will not continue to be enforced. The PI order gives both parties some guidance as to where they bear the burden of proof and on what aspects of the case they must do more going forward. For instance, Apple will later have to convince the court that what its app distribution terms are designed to achieve cannot be achieved with softer rules. Only Epic, however, is told that “adamant[ly]” taking unreasonable, “baffling” positions has already made it lose some of its credibility with Judge Gonzalez Rogers. Arguing that the hotfix to introduce direct payment was not deceptive seems like an unforced error. Epic v. Apple Hearing Court Rules on Epic’s Temporary Restraining Order Epic Direct Payment Apple Business Epic Fortnite iOS iOS 14 Lawsuit Legal Unreal Engine MacUpdate Acquired by Clario Just learned that MacUpdate was purchased by the company that makes MacKeeper in July. 👀 Andrew Okhota: MacUpdate has announced its new ownership as part of Clario. There will be no change to MacUpdate as a platform and no change to MacUpdate community teams and management. Clario will invest in MacUpdate to provide an even safer environment for downloads and support an improved experience for the MacUpdate community. Clario’s MacKeeper MacUpdate Adware Installers Acquisition iOS Mac MacKeeper MacUpdate Web Apple’s New Map: U.S. Territories, Ireland/U.K. Justin O’Beirne: On April 9th, 2020, Apple’s new map expanded to a number of U.S. territories, including Puerto Rico, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands[…] Justin O’Beirne (MacRumors): On October 1, 2020, Apple’s new map expanded to Ireland and the United Kingdom[…] This is the ninth time that Apple has expanded its new map since its public launch in September 2018. And it’s also the first time that Apple has expanded its new map outside of the United States[…] Look Around is uniquely interesting. It is the first attempt in a long time at building a true competitor to Google Street View. Microsoft’s Bing Maps has a “street level” view, but it lacks imagery for Calgary, and its last update in Vancouver occurred about eleven years ago. Meanwhile, I’ve seen Apple’s cars roaming around different cities in Alberta for about a year now. Apple Finishes New U.S. Map Apple Maps iOS iOS 14 Mac macOS 10.15 Catalina Maps Friday, October 9, 2020 [Tweets] [Favorites] Timothy B. Lee: The Supreme Court’s eight justices on Wednesday seemed skeptical of Google’s argument that application programming interfaces (APIs) are not protected by copyright law. The high court was hearing oral arguments in Google’s decade-long legal battle with Oracle. Oracle argues that Google infringed its copyright in the Java programming language when it re-implemented Java APIs for use by Android app developers. My gut feeling is that Google is in the right here — APIs should not be copyrightable — but that they utterly failed to make the argument in a clear way. See also: Miguel de Icaza, Florian Mueller (3, 4). Charles Duan: Readers of this site no doubt know that Oracle’s arguments in its lawsuit against Google, set to be argued in the Supreme Court on Wednesday, could spell disaster for the computer industry, by turning the act of reimplementing an API into copyright infringement. Back in January, I revealed in an Ars Technica piece that it could even spell disaster for Oracle itself, because Oracle’s cloud storage service reimplements Amazon’s S3 API. Oracle did not dispute my findings but shrugged them off, claiming Amazon had granted permission. I was skeptical, but at the time did not have hard evidence to prove a negative that Oracle had no license. I’ve now found the evidence for why Oracle should be worried. And more importantly, it shows why every tech company and startup should be worried about the Google v. Oracle case. Oracle Responds to Java API Copyright Amicus Briefs Amazon Amazon S3 Android Copyright Google Java Lawsuit Legal Oracle Apple Forces Telegram to Close Channels Run by Belarus Protestors Scott Chipolina (via Old Unix Geek, Hacker News): Apple is requesting that Telegram shut down three channels used in Belarus to expose the identities of individuals belonging to the Belarusian authoritarian regime that may be oppressing civilians. These channels are a tool for Belarus’ citizens protesting the recently rigged presidential election, but, with a centralized entity like Apple calling the shots on its own App Store, there’s little the protesters can do about it. Apple’s Commitment to Human Rights HKmap Live Removed From the App Store Gab Will Become a Mastodon Fork Apple Hasn’t Blocked Telegram App, But Won’t Allow Updates Update (2020-10-12): Pavel Durov (via Hacker News): Apple released a statement saying they didn’t want us to take down the 3 channels run by the Belarusian protestors, but just specific posts “disclosing personal information.” This sly wording ignores the fact that channels like @karatelibelarusi and @belarusassholes consist entirely of personal information of violent oppressors and those who helped rig the elections – because that is why those channels exist. By hiding their demands with vague language, Apple is trying to avoid the responsibility of enforcing their own rules. It is understandable: according to this poll, over 94% of Belarusian users think the channels that made Apple worry should be left alone. Previously, when removing posts at Apple’s request, Telegram replaced those posts with a notice that cited the exact rule limiting such content for iOS users. However, Apple reached out to us a while ago and said our app is not allowed to show users such notices because they were “irrelevant”. Alex Stamos: I had been looking forward to next week’s new batch of iPhones for a while, but thanks to Apple’s increasingly unethical use of DRM to enforce their rules and support of authoritarian regimes, I gotta consider moving the entire family to the Android ecosystem. Stefan Esser: In this comment it was said that Apple told Telegram to censor the info that certain posts had to be removed due to Apple. Standard apple monopoly practice. When we released SysSecInfo Apple bullied us into removing features and they forbid us to inform users about it. Facebook Rejected for Mentioning App Store Fee Update (2020-10-15): John Gruber (tweet, Hacker News, AppleInsider): This has nothing to do with relevance and everything to do with convenience. I’ve said it before and will adamantly say it again: it is prima facie wrong that one of the rules of the App Store is that an app is not allowed to explain the rules of the App Store. I’m hard pressed to think of an exception to this conviction, not just on Apple’s App Store, but in any sphere of life — whether a harmless game or the administration of the law. saagarjha: My own experience with this was that once I included a description of an OS bug I worked around in the changelog of my apps and the reviewers made me remove it with almost exactly the same verbiage–I can’t remember if they actually said “irrelevant” but the summary was “this information is not useful to your users”. My experience has also been that you’re not allowed to mention OS bugs in release notes, even if they were officially reported via Radar and acknowledged there by Apple. “Irrelevant” basically means “potentially embarrassing to Apple.” David Heinemeier Hansson: Apple reaching inside communication apps to tell the maker what users can and cannot posts is 🍌. Apple then asking that their censorship is kept private is 🤯. Apple justifying their prohibition on notices because they’re “irrelevant” is positively 1984. Phones are the primary computing device for the majority of people today. It’s completely insane that we’ve arrived at a place where two companies can dictate what can be said or installed on those devices. App Store Apple iOS iOS 14 iOS App Telegram Remote Work and Apple and Microsoft AppleInsider: Apple CEO Tim Cook participated in an interview as part of The Atlantic Festival on Monday, where he discussed a range of topics from climate change to remote work and the company's antitrust troubles. Mark Gurman (Hacker News): Cook said he doesn’t believe Apple will “return to the way we were because we’ve found that there are some things that actually work really well virtually.” Bloomberg’s headline is “Apple CEO Impressed by Remote Work, Sees Permanent Changes,” but it does not actually sound to me like Cook is changing much. As for the shift to working from home for many Apple employees, Cook said “it’s not like being together physically” and that he can’t wait for “everybody to be able to come back,” confirming that Apple is not going to be one of those companies that lets employees work from home long term. Tom Warren: Microsoft is allowing some of its employees to work from home permanently. While the vast majority of Microsoft employees are still working from home during the ongoing pandemic, the software maker has unveiled “hybrid workplace” guidance internally to allow for far greater flexibility once US offices eventually reopen. See also: 1Password (Hacker News). Working From Home Temporarily Organ Banked The majority of Apple employees likely won’t be returning to work at Apple’s Cupertino campuses before June 2021, Apple CEO Tim Cook said today at a town hall meeting, details of which were shared by Bloomberg. Cook said that while face-to-face collaboration is important, Apple’s success amid the pandemic this year could potentially lead to the company being more flexible about remote work in the future. Apple COVID-19 Hiring Microsoft Tim Cook Working Sunsetting Google Play Music YouTube Music is the new home for your music. Starting in September, we will close the Music store on Google Play. Starting in October, users will begin losing access to the Google Play Music app. To keep your Play Music library, including your purchases, you can transfer to YouTube Music or download any music that you’ve purchased via Google Takeout. After the Play Music app goes away, the transfer tool will be available for a minimum of 30 days Microsoft Shuts Down E-book Store Microsoft to Nuke MSN Music DRM keys Android Android App Google Google Play Music Music YouTube BitBar Needs a Developer Hey developer friends, it has come to my attention that BitBar development has stopped. I love this app and maybe you do too? If anyone is interested in keeping it afloat (and getting it to work well with Big Sur), here’s a github thread. See also: How bad is the air out there?. Update (2020-11-23): Casey Liss: Both @jsnell and I have been lamenting the apparent abandonment of BitBar. He has since pointed me to SwiftBar, by @melonamin which seems to be the spiritual replacement. 🎉 Update (2020-12-16): Jason Snell: I have come to rely on having little blobs of information available to me whenever I glance up to my Mac’s menu bar. Thanks to SwiftBar, I don’t need to even consider the prospect that I might have to give that up. BitBar Mac Mac App macOS 10.15 Catalina Open Source Sunset SwiftBar Thursday, October 8, 2020 [Tweets] [Favorites] ProtonMail Forced to Add IAP Sean Hollister: But also, one app developer revealed to Congress that it — just like WordPress — had been forced to monetize a largely free app. That developer testified that Apple had demanded in-app purchases (IAP), even though Apple had approved its app without them two years earlier — and that when the dev dared send an email to customers notifying them of the change, Apple threatened to remove the app and blocked all updates. That developer was ProtonMail, makers of an encrypted email app, and CEO Andy Yen had some fiery words for Apple in an interview with The Verge this week. Yen tells me there was a month-long period where ProtonMail couldn’t update its app at all, even for security reasons, and Apple was threatening to remove the app if his company continued to delay. So ProtonMail decided to raise the cost of its entire service on iOS by roughly 26 percent to satisfy Apple’s needs, eating the rest itself. Apple’s own head of app review from 2009 to 2016, spoke to Congress for its bombshell antitrust report, too. He testified that Apple’s senior executives would find pretexts to remove apps from the store[…] Recall that Tim Cook told Congress that Apple had only exempted additional categories of apps from fees and that Apple does not retaliate or bully developers. The more consistent the stories, the less Apple can claim this was all just a big misunderstanding. New Apple Store Guidelines for Reader Apps WordPress Bug Fixes Blocked Over IAP Tim Cook’s App Store Testimony HEY Rejected From the App Store Update (2020-10-09): See also: MacRumors. App Store E-mail Client In-App Purchase iOS iOS 13 iOS App ProtonMail Date Format Change in App Store Receipts Frank Illenberger: After some sweat and tears we have found the reason for the installation failures in the Mac App Store: At some point in the last weeks, Apple has changed the format of the date values in its ASN.1 receipt files. They used to look like “2020-10-03T07:12:34Z”. Now they added millisceonds like in “2020-10-03T07:12:34.567Z”. Apple’s specification only states that dates follow RFC 3339, which does not specify if there should be milliseconds or not. To make it even harder, Apple still sends out receipts containing dates WITHOUT milliseconds if an app has been originally bought before October. Daniel Jalkut: More on this: as far as I can tell the documented IAP dates are still returning dates that don’t have milliseconds. I don’t think there is a documented date field for Mac App Store receipts for the main app, as installed in the app binary. These are the documented fields for local (on a Mac) receipt validation. For server side receipt validation, there are host of other fields, including one that exposes the original purchase date in timestamp format. Rosyna Keller: The dates on the receipt documentation pages all mention they’re in ISO 8601, so you’d want to use that data formatter to read them instead of specifying an entirely manual, hand-crafted format string. Hilariously, the documentation only promises that the date format will be “similar to the ISO 8601.” Pádraig Kennedy: A base ISO8601DateFormatter will parse the non-ms version only. To avoid this issue, devs would have to make two date parsers and try them one after another. If anybody thinks ISO8601 datetime strings are a well-defined format, here’s the code in @MarsEdit that handles ISO8601 dates from various blogging platforms. Receipt Validation and AirPlay 2 App Store Certificate Checker Framework Receipt Validation in Swift Modern Receipt Validation App Store In-App Purchase iOS iOS 14 Mac Mac App Store macOS 10.15 Catalina NSDateFormatter Programming We Hacked Apple for 3 Months Sam Curry (via Steve Troughton-Smith, Hacker News): Between the period of July 6th to October 6th myself, Brett Buerhaus, Ben Sadeghipour, Samuel Erb, and Tanner Barnes worked together and hacked on the Apple bug bounty program. During our engagement, we found a variety of vulnerabilities in core portions of their infrastructure that would’ve allowed an attacker to fully compromise both customer and employee applications, launch a worm capable of automatically taking over a victim’s iCloud account, retrieve source code for internal Apple projects, fully compromise an industrial control warehouse software used by Apple, and take over the sessions of Apple employees with the capability of accessing management tools and sensitive resources. There were a total of 55 vulnerabilities discovered with 11 critical severity, 29 high severity, 13 medium severity, and 2 low severity reports. Most have already been fixed. One example: During testing the iCloud application we noticed that you could open up certain attachments from the iCloud mail application in the iCloud pages application via the “Open in Pages” functionality. When you submitted the form to do this, it sent an HTTP request containing a URL parameter which included the URL of the mail file attachment in the request.[…] If you attempted to modify this URL to something arbitrary[…] Our proof of concept for this report was demonstrating we could read and access Apple’s internal maven repository which contained the source code for what appeared to be hundreds of different applications, iOS, and macOS. Brandon Azad: It’s with both bittersweet sadness and excitement that I say goodbye to Project Zero, as I’ll be joining Apple next week to continue my work improving Apple device security. Windows XP Source Code Leaked Apple Security Research Device Program Mac Bug Bounty Program Opens Apple Responds to Project Zero Update (2020-10-09): Sam Curry: Within the article I’d mentioned that Apple had not yet paid for all of the vulnerabilities. Right after publishing it, they went ahead and paid for 28 more of the issues making the running total $288,500. Apple Bug iCloud iOS Mac Pages.app Security Web Swift “Algorithms” Package Nate Cook: I’m excited to announce Swift Algorithms, a new open-source package of sequence and collection algorithms, along with their related types. Algorithms are powerful tools for thought because they encapsulate difficult-to-read and error-prone raw loops. The Algorithms package includes a host of powerful, generic algorithms frequently found in other popular programming languages. We hope this new package will help people embrace algorithms, improving the correctness and performance of their code. It’s our ambition for the standard library to include a rich, pragmatic set of generic algorithms. We think the Algorithms package can help realize this goal by serving as a low-friction venue to build out new families of related algorithms—giving us an opportunity to iteratively explore the problem space and learn how different algorithms connect and interact—before graduating them into the standard library. I love how each one is documented and includes links to the source and tests. Introducing Swift Atomics Algorithm iOS iOS 14 Mac macOS 10.15 Catalina Open Source Programming Swift Programming Language Dan Thorp-Lancaster: Alleged source code for Windows XP leaked online this week. The leak was spread in a thread on the anonymous forum 4chan, which linked to archives of both the alleged Windows XP source code along with source code for other Microsoft products. Notably, the archive includes the Windows NT 3.5 and original Xbox source code dumps that appeared online in May. If the leak is legitimate, it could expose any remaining Windows XP-based systems to new attacks. However, Microsoft hasn’t supported Windows XP in any meaningful way since it reached its end-of-support date in 2014, which marked the end of security updates for the aging operating system. Interestingly, while this would be the first time Windows XP source code has gone public, Microsoft already shares its code with governments and university researchers around the world. Tom Warren (via Hacker News, MacRumors): Microsoft created a secret Windows XP theme that made the operating system look more like a Mac. A recent Windows XP source code leak has revealed Microsoft’s early work on the operating system and some unreleased themes the company created during its early XP development back in 2000. One is labeled “Candy” and includes a design that closely resembles Apple’s Aqua interface that was first introduced at the Macworld Conference & Expo in 2000. Although the theme is incomplete, the Windows XP Start button and various buttons and UI elements are clearly themed to match Apple’s Aqua. Mac Security Windows Wednesday, October 7, 2020 [Tweets] [Favorites] Apple Will Temporarily Stop Taking a 30 Percent Cut on Facebook Event Fees Juli Clover (also: James Vincent): Apple has decided to temporarily waive the 30 percent cut that it takes from in-app purchases for Facebook’s in-app paid event feature, reports CNBC. Facebook had accused Apple of hurting small businesses by collecting fees from the new feature, which lets users attend online classes and events through Facebook. The policy update will pertain to ClassPass and Airbnb, two companies that are also offering new digital experiences and classes within their apps. An Apple spokesperson said that Apple reversed its decision on the Facebook event fees due to the pandemic and a desire to give companies more time to adapt to digital business models. The article doesn’t make it clear, but I assume that Apple means allowing external payment processing, not waiving the fees for transactions processed through the IAP system. Steve Kovach: Apple’s reversal comes weeks after it blocked an update to the Facebook app that displayed a warning to users that a cut of transactions for paid events would go to Apple. At the time, Facebook said Apple would not make an exception to its rules to give the full amount of the transactions to the businesses hosting the events. The Apple spokesperson said the decision does not affect gaming companies because gaming businesses have not been hurt by the pandemic and have always been digital-only. It seems like a special carve-out for three big companies who complained loudly. From the House Judiciary Committee report: In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, some businesses moved physical events online, often booking through an app and holding the event through a video chat application. Educators have also shifted resources online, including through apps. The New York Times reported that Apple demanded a 30% commission from these virtual class offerings. As a result, one company stopped offering virtual classes to users of its iOS app. The Times reported that Apple threatened Airbnb that it would remove its app from the App Store if Airbnb did not comply with Apple’s demand for a share of its revenues. In interviews with Subcommittee staff, multiple app developers confirmed the The New York Times’ reporting. Airbnb spoke with Subcommittee staff and described conversations with the App Store team in which Apple said it had observed an uptick in the number of apps offering virtual classes in lieu of in-person classes due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, Apple began canvassing the App Store to require app developers implement IAP, entitling Apple to take 30% of in-app sales. Airbnb explained that Apple’s commission, plus compliance with Apple’s pricing tiers for in-app purchases would ultimately result in a 50-60% price increase for consumers. At the Subcommittee’s hearing on July 29, 2020, Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) asked Mr. Cook about the allegations that Apple was canvassing the App Store to extract commissions from businesses that have been forced to change their business model in order to survive during the pandemic. Mr. Cook responded that Apple “would never take advantage” of the pandemic, but justified the conduct, explaining that the app developers were now offering what Apple defined as a “digital service” and Apple was entitled to commissions. New Apple Store Guidelines for Outside Payments Facebook Events vs. the App Store App Store Business COVID-19 Facebook In-App Purchase iOS iOS 14 iOS App Tim Cook The House Judiciary subcommittee that held a hearing with the CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google back in July has issued a 449-page report on its findings and recommendations. The report is here. Some of the parts I found interesting: Apple’s market power is durable due to high switching costs, ecosystem lock-in, and brand loyalty. It is unlikely that there will be successful market entry to contest the dominance of iOS and Android. In response to these concerns, Apple has not produced any evidence that the App Store is not the sole means of distributing apps on iOS devices and that it does not exert monopoly power over app distribution. Apple says it does not create—nor is it aware of third-party data—that tracks market share in the app distribution market. Apple’s monopoly power over software distribution on iOS devices appears to allow it to generate supra-normal profits from the App Store and its Services business. Apple CEO Tim Cook set a goal in 2017 to rapidly double the size of the Services business by the end of 2020. Apple met this goal by July 2020, six months ahead of schedule. Apple also makes some exceptions to its rules and may change or update its rules. Industry observers have also challenged Apple’s implicit claim that the iPhone was the start of the online software distribution market. In an interview with Subcommittee staff, Phillip Shoemaker, former director of app review for the App Store, estimated that Apple’s costs for running the App Store is less than $100 million. […] Although only estimates, these figures indicate that as the mobile app economy has grown, Apple’s monopoly power over app distribution on iPhones permits the App Store to generate supra-normal profits. These profits are derived by extracting rents from developers, who either pass on price increases to consumers, or reduce investments in innovative new services. Apple’s ban on rival app stores and alternative payment processing locks out competition, boosting Apple’s profits from a captured ecosystem of developers and consumers. In Apple’s internal documents and communications, the company’s senior executives previously acknowledged that IAP requirement would stifle competition and limit the apps available to Apple’s customers. Apple in a statement to MacRumors said that it strongly disagrees with the conclusions reached in the report in respect to Apple, and that Apple does not have dominant market share in categories where it does business. See also: Hacker News, Steve Troughton-Smith, Steve Streza, Brent Simmons, Michael Love, Matt Birchler, Ben Thompson. Apple Explains Benefits of the App Store Apple Antitrust Investigations in Italy and Australia European App Store Antitrust Investigation Update (2020-10-09): James O’Leary: here’s the landing page for all the docs they referenced, segmented by company App Store Apple Business In-App Purchase iOS iOS 13 Legal Niels Hofmans (Hacker News, MacRumors): The mini operating system on the T2 (SepOS) suffers from a security vulnerable also found in the iPhone 7 since it contains a processor based on the iOS A10. Exploitation of this type of processor for the sake of installing homebrew software is very actively discussed in the /r/jailbreak subreddit. So using the checkm8 exploit originally made for iPhones, the checkra1n exploit was developed to build a semi-tethered exploit for the T2 security chip, exploiting a flaw. This could be used to e.g. circumvent activation lock, allowing stolen iPhones or macOS devices to be reset and sold on the black market. Normally the T2 chip will exit with a fatal error if it is in DFU mode and it detects a decryption call, but thanks to the blackbird vulnerability by team Pangu, we can completely circumvent that check in the SEP and do whatever we please. Since sepOS/BootROM is Read-Only Memory for security reasons, interestingly, Apple cannot patch this core vulnerability without a new hardware revision. This thankfully also means that this is not a persistent vulnerability, so it will require a hardware insert or other attached component such as a malicious USB-C cable. I’ve reached out to Apple concerning this issue on numerous occasions[…]. Since I did not receive a response for weeks […] I am hereby disclosing almost all of the details. You could argue I’m not following responsible disclosure, but since this issue has been known since 2019, I think it’s quite clear Apple is not planning on making a public statement and quietly developing a (hopefully) patched T2 in the newer Macs & Silicon. Strafach says that the T2 is indeed vulnerable to checkm8, and has been for some time, meaning that those with physical access to your computer can essentially reboot it into the device firmware upgrade (DFU) mode, and then execute arbitrary code. However, Strafach also points out that what’s less clear is whether the arbitrary code will will last through a reboot: DanyL: People should really chill down regarding T2 publicly exploited. The vulnerability has been public for more than a year now and always been there on T2. Moreover, there are plenty of other vulnerabilities, including remote ones that undoubtedly have more impact on security. If anything, our exploit enables researches to explore the internals more closely, possibly uncovering other issues that may lead to greater security on the mac; as well as allowing better repairability for otherwise pricy repairs or worse, issues Apple bluntly refuses to handle. peterindark: The biggest issue with this is that Apple cannot patch it via an update like most of other security issues Update (2020-10-09): See also: Patrick Wardle. Update (2020-10-14): Ben Lovejoy (tweet, also: MacRumors): The T2 exploit team who found a way to take over the security chip in modern Macs has demonstrated a way to do so without user intervention — using nothing more than a modified USB-C cable. The ad-hoc team, who call themselves Team t8012 after Apple’s internal name for the chip, believe that nation-states may already be using this approach. Apple A10 Apple T2 BridgeOS Bug FileVault Mac macOS 10.15 Catalina Security Text editors, on the other hand, are a software category where the most popular options are not the oldest. According to the Stack Overflow Annual Developer Survey, Sublime Text was the most popular text editor available on the Mac from 2015–2017. Sublime Text was released in 2008, a sprightly youth compared to Excel and Illustrator. Text editors have been a category with a lot of movement: In the last 20 years, TextMate, Sublime Text, and Atom have all been the text editor with the most momentum. For big complicated desktop software, has any other category ever had so much movement? I believe the era of new text editors emerging and quickly becoming popular has now ended with Visual Studio Code. VS Code has reached unprecedented levels of popularity and refinement, laying a foundation that could mean decades of market dominance. With VS Code, the extension-based text editor has seemingly reached its final form. Ever since TextMate, extensions have increased in prominence and capabilities, and with VS Code, that progression appears to have culminated. There just isn’t anywhere else to go. Correspondingly, there isn’t a way a new text editor can leapfrog VS Code the same way previous text editors have been leapfrogging each other by improving extensions. VS Code certainly has lots of features and extensions, but I remain quite happy with BBEdit and its Mac interface. Opening Huge CSV Files Electron Mac Mac App macOS 10.15 Catalina Open-source Software Programming Text Editor Visual Studio Code Luna Display for Windows Kickstarter: Tens of thousands already use Luna Display for Mac and now we’re bringing that same magic to Windows. Whether you’re working remotely, looking to maximize your workspace, or seeking more creative flexibility - Luna has you covered. As the only hardware solution on the market, you can...Turn any iPad into a wireless second display for your PC or Mac[…] Matt Ronge: We tried to use Objective-C on Windows, it didn’t work. Rust has been a GREAT choice for cross-platform work. Our core engine is in Rust and we use language bindings to C# (Windows) and Objective-C (Mac/iPad) for the UI. There’s a huge opportunity outside of the Mac ecosystem. There are literally 10x as many Windows users as there are Mac users! So we are super excited about the opportunity in front of us. Jonathan Deutsch: There’s a lot to the story; the interesting bit is a company once firmly entrenched in the Apple and Mac ecosystems now embraces Microsoft Windows. It is a bright outlook: Luna’s kickstarter just hit 2x its goal. Hell has frozen over because Apple became cold to its developers. It’s sad to see top developers pushed to Windows. However, it makes total sense for something like Sidecar to be built into iOS and macOS. And all is not lost on macOS, since Luna Display has some advantages over Sidecar. Sherlocked by Sidecar AstroPad Business iOS iOS 14 iPad Luna Display Objective-C Rust Programming Language Sidecar Windows Tuesday, October 6, 2020 [Tweets] [Favorites] Stolen Instagram Account Danny Hall (Hacker News): TLDR: some rich kid in LA now has my Instagram account because he got his friend who works at Facebook to steal it... and nobody at Facebook or Instagram is doing anything about it I’ve had the Instagram account @danny since it launched (10 years ago!). I guess its a pretty sought after @. So it seems that employees with the right access at Facebook can just give your account to someone else. What’s happened to all my data? Photos, messages... 10 years of it. Does this guy in LA now have it? Has it been deleted? Will I ever get it back? As there’s no other way to contact Facebook I’ve submitted it as a security bug in their bug bounty program but I doubt I’ll get anything other than an automated response. WORLD_ENDS_SOON: An interesting aspect to this story is that although there’s no real evidence that a Facebook employee was involved, it still seems like a believable explanation to many readers including many commenters here. If a company’s customer support is so bad that no one can tell the difference between being hacked and being abused by a rogue employee, does it actually matter what happened? I guess that it matters to the original poster, and I do hope that they do get their photos / account back, but in either case the message the message I’m taking away from the story same: your Facebook account could disappear tomorrow and you’d have no recourse. After the story gained traction, he got his account back, but without any explanation. It reminds me of this story (Hacker News) of a woman losing her Kindle books: Those friendly phone-based customer support folks couldn’t access Nygaard’s account either, and she was passed on to “account specialists” who only communicated via email. That’s when things took a Kafkaesque turn (as documented by her friend, Martin Bekkelund, on his blog). A man named Michael Murphy with Amazon UK’s “Executive Customer Relations” told Nygaard her account had been determined to be “directly related to another which has been previously closed for abuse of our policies.” Which policies? He wouldn’t say. What other account? Murphy wouldn’t share that, either. Instead, Murphy would only pass on this shrilly authoritarian boilerplate: Per our Conditions of Use which state in part: Amazon.co.uk and its affiliates reserve the right to refuse service, terminate accounts, remove or edit content, or cancel orders at their sole discretion.Please know that any attempt to open a new account will meet with the same action. And, of course, the stories about Apple developer accounts. The official channels just don’t seem to work. Tom Bridge: Does anyone know anyone at PayPal? They’ve decided to permanently limit my account. Another Developer Account Nearly Terminated Hackers Convinced Twitter Employee to Help Them Hijack Accounts Outlawed by Amazon DRM Update (2020-10-16): Miguelyto: Google disabled my husband’s account and it is giving us no reason for it. Yet it asks for an appeal in a form as the only way to restore it. Appealing a decision without knowing what you’re appealing is a recipe for success. Update (2020-10-22): Cleroth: After over 15 years of using #google, my account has been permanently disabled without any reason given. All my emails, contacts, photos, docs, accounts connecting with google, etc.... Everything is gone. Without warning or chance of recovery. I’m at a complete loss... Update (2020-11-07): Chris Stokel-Walker (via David Heinemeier Hansson): Cleroth is one of a number of people who have seen their accounts suspended in the last few days and weeks. In response to a tweet explaining his fear at being locked out of his Google account after 15 years of use, others have posted about the impact of being barred from the company that runs most of the services we use in our day-to-day lives. Update (2021-01-06): Gilbert Tang: I recently bought 4 SSDs from Amazon. When the package arrived, 3 were missing. I contacted Amazon and they said I needed to call UPS. UPS said the opposite. After tons dealing with CS to no avail, I finally canceled the $1200+ on my card. Then Amazon locked 20+ year old account. The result of this is now I’m locked out of 320+ audiobooks, 300+ Kindle books, and all the AutoRip music from vinyl record purchases. Speaking of records, on well over a dozen occasions I received them just floating in a big box. They were almost always damaged and sent back. Update (2021-01-12): Ron Paul (via Hacker News): With no explanation other than “repeatedly going against our community standards,” @Facebook has blocked me from managing my page. Never have we received notice of violating community standards in the past and nowhere is the offending post identified. The only thing we posted to Facebook today was my weekly “Texas Straight Talk” column, which I have published every week since 1976. Amazon Apple Datacide E-books Facebook Google Instagram Kindle Legal PayPal Web In Defense of XML Nicolas Fränkel (via John D. Cook, Hacker News): Ever since then, it would be an euphemism to say XML has been losing in popularity. Other formats, such as JSON and YAML, have replaced it in the hearts of developers. In this post, I’d like to: Explore some of the reasons why the mighty XML has fallen Raise some downsides of the popular alternatives And describe how XML already solved those problems JSON Web Web API XML Disk Utility’s First Aid in Catalina The description of Disk Utility’s First Aid command therefore appears incorrect. How this currently works is that performing First Aid depends on the item which is selected. If that’s a disk, then First Aid checks and repairs at that level, including the disk’s partition map and EFI partition, not its volumes. To perform full checks on an APFS volume, you should select that volume (not its disk or container) before clicking on the First Aid tool. To check and repair all volumes in a container, you must first eject each of its volumes, then select the container and click on the First Aid tool. Or run First Aid on them individually. This all makes sense, apart from Disk Utility’s apparent inability to unmount volumes in order to check a container, but isn’t what the user is told in the app’s Help book. Too bad you can’t tell it to check everything all at once, or do multiple operations in separate windows, as was possible in macOS 10.10 and earlier. Disk Utility in El Capitan Disk Utility Documentation Mac macOS 10.15 Catalina Update on Agenda’s Sales Model Drew McCormack (tweet): Unlike a freemium model, this is not an ála carte selection of features — it is all you can eat. When you purchase to move your unlock date forward, all features on or before that date get unlocked, forever. Customers appreciate this, because they keep what they have already paid for; and we like it, because we don’t have to support customers stuck on an old version who don’t want to pay to upgrade. And, as developers, we get to have our app in the App Stores, generating recurring income, without the negativity that often accompanies subscriptions. It should go without saying that we are happy. We haven’t considered abandoning the Cash Cow sales model. It’s bringing in the bucks, and we receive virtually no negative feedback about it. In fact, it’s mentioned in a significant number of App Store reviews as playing a factor in a customer’s decision to purchase. In short, the Cash Cow model keeps people engaged and using the app even when they are out-of-license, which provides us an opportunity to win their hearts, and wallets, with new feature releases. It’s a powerful aspect of the model — the app itself is your best marketing. Agenda’s Feature Unlocking Business Model Agenda Business Mac Mac App macOS 10.15 Catalina MotionX-GPS to AllTrails Earlier this year, Fullpower Technologies discontinued MotionX-GPS: After years of offering a top-rated GPS app for the iPhone, we have made the difficult decision to remove MotionX-GPS from the iTunes App Store. We realize MotionX-GPS has a large following and those who already own MotionX-GPS will be able to continue using it. If you purchase a new iPhone in the future, you will still be able to download MotionX-GPS as long as you are signed into the App Store using the same Apple ID credentials you used when it was originally purchased. In addition, there are some features that will no longer be supported in the app due to the infrastructure costs associated with ongoing hosting. These include: Sharing waypoints or tracks with others Auto Live Position Updates MotionX Road and MotionX Terrain map types (Apple, Google, Bing and NOAA maps will continue to be available). Our team’s focus has shifted to the science of non-invasive contactless bio-sensing which is helping customers worldwide in improving their sleep through sleep analysis with actionable insights. I had been using it since the early days of iOS, but with few updates and no support for newer screen sizes, the writing had been on the wall for a while. It’s a shame that they weren’t able to sustain development of what had been a very popular app. I don’t recall there being any paid upgrades. The good news is that the app I’ve replaced it with, AllTrails, works pretty well. It has far fewer features but a more streamlined interface for the most important ones. It’s never given me any battery life trouble. Some features, like exporting, only work from the Web site. And the app itself has some bugs like sometimes redownloading the same map data you’d just viewed. The social network aspect is hit-or-miss. It’s missing tons of trails in my area, and trails that I’m familiar with often have inaccurate distances or descriptions. However, it has helped me discover some new trails that weren’t documented elsewhere, and the maps themselves are good. Hopefully, the freemium business model ($2.50/month or $29.99/year to pre-download maps, print, etc.) will keep it available. Linea Sketch 3 Xtrail 1.0.1 Misconceptions About iOS Multitasking Update (2020-11-07): While I was frustrated with AllTrails forgetting its maps, I gave Gaia GPS a try. This is also a good app, and it has much more extensive labelling of trails in my area, though its actual list of trails is much shorter. Better maps are more important to me than better lists, so I’m using it for now. I also eventually learned from AllTrails support that the reason the app was forgetting maps it had just downloaded was that my Pro subscription had lapsed. That was intentional, since I had found that I wasn’t using any of the Pro features. However, it turns out that I had misunderstood what Pro includes. AllTrails markets Pro as providing offline maps, which I interpreted to mean that you can download maps at home and then go out into an area with no cell service to use them (or, to an area with service but without needing to use your data). It does let you do that. But additionally, without Pro, the app doesn’t save the map to storage at all. Simply switching to the Camera app and back to AllTrails is supposed to discard the map and make you download it again if you haven’t subscribed. AllTrails App Subscriptions Business Gaia GPS GPS iOS iOS 14 iOS App MotionX-GPS Sunset Monday, October 5, 2020 [Tweets] [Favorites] The Mac gets a lot of flack from people who are nose deep in technical specifications and price matchups. What they don’t see — or aren’t interested in — is the intangible: the culture that people with big dreams and small means have made the unconventional available, the complex seemingly simple and the advanced accessible. This culture doesn’t live or die by Apple in particular, although the original Macintosh being a product of a similar mindset helped set the tone. This culture produces things that are hard to find elsewhere, not because it’s technically impossible to do, but because the values that drive those other platforms produce different outcomes. The culture and the people and the shared values and what it all comes together to produce. That’s why I’m still here. You can live in many houses, but not all of them will ever feel like home. I’m upset with the landlord and the building manager who ignores leaking pipes and oiled floors catching on fire while upping the rent and turning a blind eye to hustlers running Three-card Monte, but aside from that, I love the neighborhood, I love the surroundings, I love that they value the things I do and I love what it can build over time. Mac macOS 11.0 Big Sur UK COVID-19 Cases Missed Due to Excel Glitch James Tapsfield (also: Hacker News): The extraordinary meltdown was caused by an Excel spreadsheet containing lab results reaching its maximum size, and failing to update. Some 15,841 cases between September 25 and October 2 were not uploaded to the government dashboard. The problems are believed to have arisen when labs sent in their results using CSV files, which have no limits on size. But PHE then imported the results into Excel, where documents have a limit of just over a million lines. The technical issue has now been resolved by splitting the Excel files into batches. Alex Hern (tweet): But while CSV files can be any size, Microsoft Excel files can only be 1,048,576 rows long – or, in older versions which PHE may have still been using, a mere 65,536. When a CSV file longer than that is opened, the bottom rows get cut off and are no longer displayed. That means that, once the lab had performed more than a million tests, it was only a matter of time before its reports failed to be read by PHE. Excel recently turned 35, and it sounds like they were using the old .xls format that was superseded in 2003. The .xlsx format has higher limits, but even 1,048,576 rows is less than one doubling away from the 516K total cases in the UK that Google currently reports. Renaming Human Genes for Excel Why Unsubscribing Can Take Time COVID-19 CSV Microsoft Excel Marco Arment: The Big Sur auto-hidden document-proxy icon is so frustrating — it hides functionality behind an invisible mode, and introduces a delay for anyone trying to use it. How does this help usability? What problem does this solve? It looks cleaner in a static screenshot, and it saves a little space for another toolbar button now that the window title and toolbar are squeezed into the same row. But I miss seeing the proxy icon, too. I drag these every day (though rarely from Finder). I would definitely argue that this change makes the whole thing harder to discover in the first place. One of the neat things about document/folder proxy icons is that they’re discoverable. All it takes is a moment of inspiration, “Hey, I wonder if I can drag that icon...?” I’m going to co-sign this. I use proxy icons all the time and Apple hiding them behind a delay and animation is infuriating. I don’t mind the look of Big Sur but this is a regression in functionality. Joe Groff: I don’t know who needs to hear this, but defaults write -g NSToolbarTitleViewRolloverDelay -float 0 People keep sending me this, but it doesn’t fix the problem — it just makes the delay shorter. (There’s still an animation delay — it just starts on hover instead of shortly after.) It’s still a needless mode with a needless delay to achieve only the shallowest visual appeal. macOS Big Sur Changes for Developers Update (2020-10-07): Daniel Jalkut: It’s not about the Finder but about a long-standing affordance for working with the file representation of any document window. Cmd-clicking in the title is a related, priceless affordance. Looks like you guys were more familiar with proxy icons than I expected! It’s still a minority of a nerdy group, so I suspect it’s lower among the general public, but still, not as niche as I assumed. Update (2020-11-07): Jeff Nadeau: Changed in macOS 11.0.1 β2: You no longer need to wait on the reveal animation before starting a drag from the proxy icon. Holding the Shift key instantly reveals the proxy icon and expanded title, and it turns the entire title region into a draggable proxy. Design Esoteric Preferences Mac macOS 10.15 Catalina 5 GUIs With its eclectic mix of AppKit, Catalyst, iOS, SwiftUI, and web apps, macOS should consider rebranding to “Five GUIs” Helge Heß (tweet): 5 GUIs is a simple file analysis tool that detects which of these 5 GUI frameworks a Mac app uses: AppKit, SwiftUI, macOS Catalyst, UIKit or Web. Simply drop a Mac application on 5 GUIs main window, and it’ll start detecting the GUI frameworks the application uses. The source code, and some cheeky screenshots, are here. Catalyst (Marzipan) Cocoa Electron iOS Mac Mac App macOS 10.15 Catalina Open Source SwiftUI Scribble in iPadOS 14 Alexander George (via Tim Hardwick): In the newest update to iPadOS, when you write with the Apple Pencil ($129), the iPad can understand your scrawl and, with Scribble, convert it to typed text. It works like most machine learning—examples inform rules that help predict and interpret a totally new request—but taps into a smarter data set and greater computing power to do what had stumped generations of previous machines. While Alexa and Siri rely on a connection to faraway data centers to handle their processing, the iPad needs to be able to do all that work on the device itself to keep up with handwriting (and drawing—machine learning also helps the Notes app straighten out an imperfect doodle of a polygon, for example). Federighi says that for Apple’s tech, static examples weren’t enough. They needed to see the strokes that formed each letter. “If you understand the strokes and how the strokes went down, that can be used to disambiguate what was being written.” iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 Announced Apple Pencil Artificial Intelligence Craig Federighi Handwriting iOS iOS 14 iPadOS 14 Karoy Lorentey (Hacker News): I’m delighted to announce Swift Atomics, a new open source package that enables direct use of low-level atomic operations in Swift code. The goal of this library is to enable intrepid systems programmers to start building synchronization constructs (such as concurrent data structures) directly in Swift. This is enabled by SE-0282, a recently accepted Swift Evolution proposal that explicitly adopted a C/C++-style memory model for Swift, and (informally) described how regular Swift code interoperates with atomic operations. In fact, most APIs in this new package come from previous incarnations of the SE-0282 proposal: they were originally developed by an extremely productive collaborative effort on the Evolution forum. Atomic access is implemented in terms of dedicated atomic storage representations that are kept distinct from the corresponding regular (non-atomic) type. (E.g., the actual integer value underlying the counter above isn’t directly accessible.) All atomic operations exposed by this package are guaranteed to have lock-free implementations. Lock-freedom means that the atomic operations are non-blocking – they don’t ever need to wait on the progress of some other thread to complete their own task. Swift System Is Now Open Source Swift 5 Exclusivity Enforcement Atomic Weapons: The C++ Memory Model and Modern Hardware Memory Models Concurrency iOS iOS 14 Language Design Mac macOS 10.15 Catalina Memory Management Open Source Programming Swift Programming Language Free Pascal (via Frank Reiff): macOS 11 Big Sur introduces many user interface changes that update the appearance of applications and make them more iOS-like. It also adds support for familiar iOS features — such as SF Symbols and text styles. By default, toolbars are taller, window titles can display inline with controls, and toolbar items no longer include a bezel. I’ve found that in order to get the new title bar and the preferences toolbar style, you have to build using Xcode 12. It’s not enough to set NSWindow.toolbarStyle. Even when using the new SDK, setting NSControlSizeLarge on the view doesn’t give you the new large icon style. To get that, you need to use NSToolbarItem.bordered, which requires macOS 10.15, instead of creating the view yourself. So that means separate toolbar implementations if you want to support macOS 10.14 and earlier. Because I’m no longer creating the view myself, I had to switch from NSSegmentedControl to NSToolbarItemGroup, but unfortunately NSMenuToolbarItem doesn’t work when inside of a group. My main Mac is still on macOS 10.14, so I’m using #if __MAC_OS_X_VERSION_MAX_ALLOWED < 101600 to make the same code compile with both Xcode 11 and Xcode 12. This blog post describes a few things I found while “adapting” my AppKit apps for macOS 11 Big Sur. Cocoa Mac macOS 11.0 Big Sur Programming Xcode Apple Removes RSS Feed Readers From Chinese App Store Tim Hardwick (also Slashdot): Apple has reportedly removed two RSS feed reader apps from China’s App Store to comply with Chinese law. Fiery Feeds and Reeder both tweeted that their iOS apps had been removed in China over content that is considered “illegal” in the country. Too bad the App Store is the only way to install iOS apps. It’s completely unclear what explains the three year gap here, and the entire policy makes no sense. Why ban feed readers but not web browsers? At a technical level, feed readers are just web browsers for RSS feeds. China’s Great Firewall should block feeds (and centralized feed aggregating sources) just as easily as it blocks websites. Perhaps because the apps make it easier to find content when using a VPN to get around the firewall? App Consoles Podcast Apps Removed From Chinese App Store HKmap Live Rejected From the App Store App Store Takedown Demands by Governments Skype Removed From Chinese App Stores Apple Pulls VPN Apps From China App Store App Store China Fiery Feeds iOS iOS 14 iOS App Reeder RSS Quality Management in Apple’s System Updates Over Time Surely the most important way to improve quality is to strengthen quality management processes throughout engineering – the principle of building it right first time, rather than expending more effort at detecting and remediating errors. Simply extending the cycle without changing quality management would be very unlikely to result in any improvement. But better quality management doesn’t entail making the cycle any longer, so cycle length is unlikely to be relevant, as was shown by Apple’s only real two-year development cycle with Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. This is right if you’re talking about the quality of next the major release when it first ships. But that’s far less important to customers than the quality at the middle and end of the release. Snow Leopard was not an unusually stable release at 10.6.0, but by 10.6.8 it was legendary, and you could keep using that version until you were happy with the state of 10.7.x. Some customers even skipped 10.7 entirely. With the yearly release cycle, major versions no longer attain that level of refinement because development stops as Apple moves on to the next reelease. And developers are forced to upgrade earlier because taking advantage of the latest SDK requires the new version of Xcode, which requires a current version of macOS. You can now choose between the still buggy macOS 10.15.7 and the soon-to-be macOS 11.0.0, which will have issues out of the gate, as all releases do. Those are not great choices. For the first few public releases of Mac OS X, Apple stuck to a development cycle of well under a year per release. Beginning with the Panther release in 2003, Mac OS X settled into something closer to an eighteen-month gap between x.0 public releases, with a long exception for Tiger. Then, with Mountain Lion in 2012, Apple stated that its intention was to begin releasing a new version of OS X every year; Mountain Lion had a shorter cycle than its predecessors, but it was still longer than any release after. In all three eras of MacOS development cycles, you will find versions that are legendary for their refinement, and those which are the complete opposite. Which recent releases are those? macOS 10.14.6 is better than any 10.15, but it retains it share of issues. macOS 10.13.6 has a common Mail IMAP syncing crash that was never fixed. macOS 10.12 was generally a rough release and retained serious PDF bugs throughout its life. My recollection is that macOS 10.11.6 was probably the best since 10.6.8. Why Public Betas? The Pace of macOS Updates The Case for Postponing macOS 10.16 Apple Software Quality Mac Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard macOS 10.15 Catalina macOS 11.0 Big Sur Liu Qia (via Ying Zhong): There are currently 8 apps. Among which the “RedLine” (aka 红线) is from January 2019 to the present, there are more than 280k users, and they have been featured by AppStore Today many times, as well as by multiple media. For more than a year, my apps’ reviews and account status are all very good. Until two weeks ago, I submitted a newly developed app called “One Aim”. This is a simple, clean, single-function app. Like my other works, I did it myself from design to development. On the evening after submission [of 1.0.1], the app changed status to “in review”. Two days later, the review was rejected, and a notice was received saying that the review needs to be extended, and no details were given. By the morning of September 23, I received a notice saying that my developer account or other accounts associated with the account were fraudulent, and decided to terminate it. He appealed but was never told the reason, so soon the “investigation was over and the termination was confirmed.” After going public with the story: I received a call from the Apple review team on the morning of October 2nd, telling me that my developer account will not be terminated. After I clearly stated that I have not violated the Apple Developer Guidelines, she hopes to continue developing and submitting apps in compliance with the guidelines in the future, and sent me the reason for rejection of the app which caused this incident, and told me to resubmit it for review after modification. Developer Accounts Nearly Terminated Guilherme Rambo Locked Out of Apple Developer Account Apple Removed Dash From the Mac App Store App Store iOS iOS 14 Programming Buildwatch Lickability (tweet): Say hello to Buildwatch—a menu bar app that keeps an eye on your compile times throughout the day. We hope Buildwatch gives developers more insight into how their time and resources are being used throughout the app development process, helping you make decisions about equipment and fix bottlenecks. Buildwatch is available now on the Mac App Store for $9.99. One could argue that such a utility shouldn’t be necessary, but there certainly seems to be demand for it. Exponential Time Complexity in the Swift Type Checker Buildwatch Developer Tool Mac Mac App macOS 10.15 Catalina Programming Xcode Six Figures in 6 Days Traf: Fast forward 7 years later, minus 6 days. I saw some people sharing screenshots of their iPhones after discovering that iOS 14 now allows you to add custom icons to your home screen using the Siri Shortcuts app. This was the first time you can really customize iOS, and it was catching on. As soon as I noticed the hype, I put together some icons in my own style, downloaded some widgets, and tried it all out. I thought it looked cool, so I shared a screenshot of it on Twitter. Right away, people started asking about the icons in the screenshot. So I quickly packaged them, uploaded them to Gumroad, and embedded them on a Notion site using Super. A lot of people paid $28 for 80 icons. Business Icons iOS iOS 14 Shortcuts The Epic Games v. Apple preliminary injunction hearing took place this morning (Pacific Time) before Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in the Northern District of California. Toward the end of the hearing, Judge Gonzalez Rogers strongly recommended putting the factual questions here (and she categorized market definition as a question of fact as well) before a jury, given that appeals courts--in her observation--don’t afford district court judges much deference for their factual determinations. Patrick McGee, a reporter for the Financial Times, live-tweeted yesterday’s hearing for the Epic v. Apple case in a lengthy thread that’s well worth reading if you’re interested in the case. Highlights have been pulled out elsewhere, including from Kyle Orland at Ars Technica, but the upshot seems to be that while solid arguments were made on both sides, Epic definitely took the brunt of the judge’s attention yesterday. There’s a video here. Transcripts are here. James Vincent (Hacker News): Judge [Rogers] expressed skepticism about Epic’s arguments, particularly its claim that it did not pose a security threat to Apple because it is a well-established company and partner. “You did something, you lied about it by omission, by not being forthcoming. That’s the security issue. That’s the security issue!” Epic certainly deceived Apple, but what’s the security issue? It’s been known since the beginning of the App Store that the review process can’t catch feature flags. That’s the real security issue. But Epic has no reason to use them to harm its own customers. According to CNN, Judge Rogers said she was “not particularly persuaded” by Epic’s argument that Apple has bundled its App Store and in-app payment system together in violation of antitrust law. The judge also said she did not necessarily agree with Epic that Apple has harmed its ability to distribute Fortnite through its control of the App Store. She seems to take the angle I’ve taken all along: Apple runs iOS as an app console, and it doesn’t hold water for Epic to argue that the Xbox, PlayStation, and Switch game platforms are fine, but Apple’s app platform is not. Apple and Epic Games do not want to have a jury trial in their ongoing legal dispute over Fortnite and Apple’s App Store policies, according to a filing submitted to the Northern California court handling the case today. It’s highly speculative why this surprising choice was made. While Apple’s in-house litigation department has hugely more experience with high-stakes commercial disputes than Epic, outside counsel for both parties is well-matched. It’s just a gut feeling, but this looks like one of the cases in which both parties believe very strongly they’re going to win--not the kind of case where a plaintiff has that strong belief but the defendant is trying a long shot and stalling, or where a plaintiff attempts a crapshoot (which often happens in patent cases). Apple Business Epic Fortnite iOS iOS 14 Lawsuit Legal Mac macOS 10.15 Catalina “Well, what do you expect from a company run by a penny-pinching beancounter like Tim Cook?” I.e. that Apple, under Cook’s leadership, has gotten cheap, and the reason for Problem X is that Apple refuses to spend money to fix it. Apple is not cheap. A miserly penny-wise/pound-foolish company does not design and build architectural marvels like this new store in Singapore. Apple spends lavishly on what they care about and consider important. There are glaring problems with Apple’s platforms that could be greatly improved by spending money. Apple is willing to do so for architecture and TV shows. And for the environment and accessibility, despite the “bloody ROI.” But not for the App Store (500 reviewers for 100,000 submissions per week), documentation, QA, user data, or repairing defective products that it sold. Either Apple disagrees that larger budgets could improve these areas or it does not consider them important. Bean counting can also be a convenient faux justification. Despite having 28 million developers paying annual membership fees, Apple recently cried poverty to the court, stating that, without the 30% IAP commission, it would “be unable to continue its on-going investment in” the App Store. The billions of iPhones sold, largely on the basis of the available apps, are counted in a different bucket. 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__label__wiki	0.858774	0.858774	“Exceptional” profiles [ January 15, 2021 ] AAPS Board of Education swears in new trustees, re-elects officers Board of Education [ January 14, 2021 ] Way to go, Nemo! Forsythe sixth grader advances in The Food Network’s Kids Baking Championship Features [ January 5, 2021 ] Dani Davis, Skyline High School Intensified Algebra teacher "Exceptional" profiles [ December 29, 2020 ] 3 questions for: Laurie Hochrein RE math education Features [ December 21, 2020 ] Virtual reception honors AAPS Board of Education Trustees Simone Lightfoot and Glenn Nelson Board of Education Ann Arbor Public Schools celebrate the newly named W. Scott Westerman, Jr. Preschool and Family Center April 28, 2016 AAPS News Editor Academics, Board of Education, Features, Latest news, News, Videos & slide shows By Andrew Cluley- Communications Specialist Ann Arbor Public Schools officials celebrated the naming dedication of the W. Scott Westerman, Jr. Preschool and Family Center with balloons, a ribbon cutting ceremony, and gifts for the former superintendent and lifelong advocate for education. While the board approved the name change nearly a year ago, Westerman says he still has to pinch himself to realize it really happened. “I really came to accept it when I was meeting with the entire faculty,” Westerman says. “I met them one by one, and I thought, oh wow, what an honor and what a delight they are, and what important work they are doing.” Westerman may be the only person in the Ann Arbor Public Schools community that is stunned by the new name of the Preschool and Family Center. In fact School Board President Deb Mexicotte immediately thought of him as the board worked on the naming policy several years ago to ensure structures in the district are named for people who have given great service to Ann Arbor Public Schools. “I remember thinking to myself, ‘I hope I’m still on the board when we get the opportunity to honor Scott Westerman,” says Mexicotte. Superintendent Jeanice Swift adds Ann Arbor as a community is a better place thanks to Westerman’s work as both a vocation, and also all of his efforts to promote education after he retired. “We began to think about the match between the man and the location,” Swift says. “We couldn’t think of a better match because we know your commitment to early childhood and to what it means, not just for their K-12 experience, but for their entire lifetime.” W. Scott Westerman, Jr. is joined by family and friends and the entire staff of the Preschool and Family Center as it’s named in his honor. While naming a school after an individual is a great honor, Westerman wants to make sure his support of education continues beyond his lifetime, well into the future. “It’s one thing to have your name on a building, but what does it do for the people who are inside?” Westerman asks. “Not much if anything, and so I thought I wanted to establish a fund on which there could be draws made to meet unexpected and in some cases maybe planned needs that aren’t easily derived from the regular budget.” Scott Westerman, Jr. Preschool and Family Center Principal Michelle Pogliano says all of the support Westerman has given to education in Ann Arbor in general, and the preschool center in particular can help inspire staff and kids to keep doing their important work. “You’ve added to our program, so we can look at the sign, and look at your name, and be inspired to continue doing this work,” says Pogliano. The AAPS District News welcomes thoughtful comments, questions and feedback. All comments will be screened and moderated. In order for your comment to be approved: You must use your full name You must not use profane or offensive language Your comment must be on topic and relevant to the story Please note: any comment that appears to be spam or attacks an individual will not be approved. More on the AAPS News District and school websites If you have questions, comments or news to share, please click here to email AAPS District News Editor Jo Mathis Ann Arbor Public Schools Click here to visit the AAPS Website	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1095
__label__wiki	0.899474	0.899474	Corruption, power struggle mar PCGG work in 2008 By ZAFF SOLMERIN/BUSINESS MIRROR Posted at Jan 05 2009 09:57 AM \| Updated as of Jan 05 2009 05:57 PM Allegations of corrupt practices and power struggles have marred the leadership of the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG), and the continuing internal conflicts could erode public confidence in the effectiveness of the agency to fulfill its mandate to recover ill-gotten wealth of the late strongman Ferdinand Marcos and his cronies here and abroad. PCGG will be turning 23 years on February 28, 2009, having been set up after Marcos was forced to leave the presidency he held for over two decades—14 of them as strongman—on the fourth day of the Edsa Revolt, a church-backed, military-initiated but civilian-driven mass action. Under the administration of the first post-Edsa President Corazon Aquino, the good government office was first led by former senator Jovito Salonga, followed by Ramon Diaz, Adolfo Azcuna (who served only for one month), Mateo Armando Caparas and David Castro. During the Ramos administration, Magtanggol Gunigundo was the only PCGG chairman—serving from 1992-1998 without being replaced. The administration of Joseph Estrada saw two appointees, Felix de Guzman and Elma Magdangal. When President Arroyo rose to power in 2001 after Estrada was forced to step down at Edsa 2, she appointed the widely respected feisty lawyer Haydee Yorac as PCGG chairman; Yorac died in 2005 and was replaced by Camilo Sabio. Smooth start, but…. Sabio’s watch in the PCGG started smoothly, but became rocky after allegations came out regarding corruption by some PCGG commissioners and government nominees in some sequestered and surrendered corporations. The most conflict-ridden was the Philippine Communications Satellite Corp. (Philcomsat). Administration senators like Juan Ponce Enrile, now Senate President, and Richard Gordon had accused some PCGG officials, particularly Commissioner Ricardo Abcede and government nominees such as Enrique Locsin of making Philcomsat their “milking cows.” Abcede and Locsin separately denied such allegations, and the word war and legal tussle is ongoing. In 2006, the Senate issued an arrest warrant and detained Sabio for refusing to answer questions—by invoking Executive Order (EO) No. 1, Section 4(b)—on whether he had the authority from the President to enter into a compromise agreement with the camp of businessman Eduardo Cojuangco Jr. on the multibillion-peso 27-percent shares of the coconut-levy fund in San Miguel Corp., Asia’s biggest food and beverage firm. Some senators were also angered by Abcede’s advocacy of forging a compromise deal with the Marcoses. Aside from these issues, the PCGG was also rocked with controversies such as the P10.35-million cash advance made by Sabio in 2006 from the Mid-Pasig Land Development Corp., a Marcos asset surrendered by J.Y. Campos which manages the 14-hectare “Payanig sa Pasig”. The still-unliquidated funds were part of the P50 million remittance made by the Independent Realty Corp., another surrendered asset, to the PCGG. Since 2006, the Presidential Anti-Graft Commission (PAGC) has been investigating the issue but has yet to come up with results. And, only last October, the Office of the Ombudsman started looking into the fund mess on the basis of a complaint filed by the PCGG Employees Association and PCGG Special Legal Counsels. Use of funds questioned The PCGG leadership was also rocked by questions on the use of government funds. Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez himself took the initiative to investigate the nearly $1-million foreign travel expenses of the Office of the Chairman from January to June 2008. The Ombudsman is also looking into the complaint. The expenses, more than half of the P87-million 2008 PCGG budget, were drawn from the $59-million sequestered Marcos funds deposited in escrow at the Philippine National Bank, which the PCGG calls its “litigation fund.” Gonzalez had ordered Sabio and other commission officials and employees involved in foreign trips to submit in 10 days their “comprehensive report”. With a view to hastening the resolution of Marcos cases, Arroyo issued EO 643 in July 2007, placing PCGG under the direct administrative supervision of the DOJ. EO 643 came at a time when “internal conflict” was already rocking the PCGG. Because of allegations that he “masterminded” the filing of a complaint on a P10.35-million fund scam before the PAGC, Commissioner Nicasio Conti was also caught in the crossfire. Twice, Sabio allegedly tried but failed to ask for the head of Conti from the President. Sometime in February last year, Sabio presented to the President former commissioner William Dichoso as Conti’s replacement, to the humiliation of the latter, who immediately filed his irrevocable resignation after the incident. He was told to stay. Sabio became controversial as well when his name was dragged in the bribery scandal where his brother, Associate Justice Jose Sabio Jr., became a whistle blower. In the course of the investigation by a special committee formed by the Supreme Court, in the legal battle between the Government Service Insurance Service and the Manila Electric Co., Justice Sabio mentioned that he learned that the Meralco case had been raffled off to his division after he got a phone call from PCGG’s Sabio. The Supreme Court had ordered disbarment proceedings to be initiated against Sabio for “impropriety” for supposedly advising his brother about the correctness of GSIS’s position. The controversy led to the filing of indefinite leave of absence by Sabio. On September 29, Arroyo appointed Comissioner Narciso Nario as officer-in-charge of PCGG. While on leave, Sabio continued to report as chairman of the Coconut Investment Industry Funds, a subsidiary of the United Coconut Planters Bank. When Nario started to introduce some basic reforms in the internal affairs of PCGG, such as weeding out of nonperforming consultants, regulating excessive foreign trips, reviewing the processes of appointing government nominees in sequestered and surrendered corporations, strategizing legal maneuvers, among others, Sabio abruptly ended his leave and reclaimed his post on October 31. But Gonzalez prevailed over Sabio to take another 30-day leave of absence. Sabio complied. He later also asked Gonzalez to ask the President to place PCGG back under PAGC, and not to allow Nario and “his cohorts” to lay their hands on the coco-levy case and the IRC. Gonzalez, the PAGC and Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita denied the request, saying such is the prerogative of the President. On December 5, Sabio reclaimed his post and shuffled the assignments of the commissioners, which is now subject for review by Gonzalez. Under the new assignment, Nario was placed in the freezer as head of the Research and Development Department, a position usually given to a director. A retired Sandiganbayan justice, Nario used to head PCGG’s Legal Department. Abcede, former Asset Management Department (AMD) chief, was transferred as cocommissioner for legal together with Bautista, while Com. Tereso Javier took over as AMD chief. Commission insiders say they are expecting more surprises from Sabio when work resumes this January. If so, it only means that the agency, tasked with a most sensitive job in the most inspired days of the post-Edsa revolution, is about to see its mandate frittered away even more so, and politics and fund squabbles ruling the place. Nation,pcgg Read More: pcgg	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1096
__label__cc	0.581634	0.418366	Newest warship arrives in PH waters ABS-CBN News Posted at Aug 02 2013 12:34 PM \| Updated as of Aug 02 2013 10:50 PM MANILA -- The Philippines' newest warship, the BRP Ramon Alcaraz, is finally home. The BRP Ramon Alcaraz passed by Casiguran, Aurora at around 9 a.m. Friday, concluding an almost 2-month journey from the United States. The warship was acquired by the Philippines from the US government. For about a year, the BRP Alcaraz underwent a $15.6 million retrofitting and extended refurbishment while its officers and crew underwent training with the US Navy. Formerly known as USCGC Dallas, the BRP Alcaraz is the second Weather High-Endurance Cutter the Philippines has acquired from the US government. The men and women aboard the refurbished warship said they are very excited to finally reach Philippine waters. The Alcaraz is set to meet with its sister ship, the BRP Gregorio del Pilar, off Bolinao, Pangasinan. The two Navy vessels will then head to Subic, Zambales where they will dock on August 6. President Aquino is expected to welcome the new ship. The ship, which will be fully commissioned in October, will be in dry-dock for maintenance and repainting. The Alcaraz is expected to strengthen the Philippines' maritime defense capabilities, especially in the disputed West Philippine Sea (South China Sea), which is being claimed entirely by China. – with ANC Nation,Top Stories,warship,BRP Ramon Alcaraz Read More: warship BRP Ramon Alcaraz	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1097
__label__cc	0.583574	0.416426	Sustainable biofuel: Design principles for bioengineered microbe catalysts The US has been stuck on corn kernels for producing ethanol, rather than woody "cellulosic" material. Efficient microbes for converting cellulose to biofuel could change the game. \| Medium Read IMAGE: Renewable resource switchgrass for heating and production biofuel. Getty Images. Biofuels that are more eco-friendly would be made from cellulose, the tough parts of plants like woody stems and corn stalks—rather than starchy kernels that yield today’s ethanol. But researchers don’t yet have an efficient way to pull the sugars in cellulose apart and then ferment them into fuel. Fei Wen, an assistant professor of chemical engineering at the University of Michigan, has shown how computer modeling could enable the design of genetically-engineered microbes that can do both jobs—break down the cellulose and ferment it. She and her collaborators recently published a paper on the work in Nature Catalysis. In “Elucidating structure–performance relationships in whole-cell cooperative enzyme catalysis,” Wen and her colleagues establish design principles that could help researchers get beyond the current trial-and-error approach of engineering microbes for producing biofuel. She answered questions about the advance from Michigan Engineering. What makes it so challenging to engineer microbes to break down cellulose? In the past, the engineering strategies relied on trial-and-error methods because it was difficult to quantitatively evaluate how enzymes assemble on the surface of microbes. Researchers could only treat these microbes as blackboxes. We developed experimental tools that enabled us to study how the enzymes were arranged on the membranes of baker’s yeast at the level of individual cells. These quantitative data in turn enabled us to build the first computational model of how these surface enzymes operate, and we uncovered design principles for future efforts. Why did you choose baker’s yeast? Baker’s yeast is easy to genetically modify, good at producing ethanol, and industrially very robust. How did you augment the yeast? With our computer model, we explored how to control the enzymes on the surface. We screened dozens of microbes—each decorated with suites of enzymes organized in different structures—to identify good candidates. The engineered microbes can break the cellulose all the way down to the smallest sugar unit—glucose—and keep the glucose on the surface of the microbes. This way, all of the glucose is available to be fermented into fuel molecules using the complex metabolic network of the microbes. This is how we achieved “one pot” conversion with the highest titer reported to date, 7.17 grams of ethanol per liter of fermentation broth. What’s the lure of one-pot biofuel conversion? One-pot conversion can greatly simplify the industrial production of biofuels by reducing the number of manufacturing steps. As a result, it can significantly cut down the cost of cellulosic biofuels to make them economically competitive with other forms of transportation fuels, which is critical to achieving energy sustainability. One of the reasons why producing cellulosic biofuel is so expensive is because the cellulosic plant material has to be softened up before the microbes can get to work. Could microbes engineered in this way work without preprocessing? Expanding the suites of enzymes used to decorate the surface of microbes, such as those that can break down hemicellulose and lignin (another two major components of plant biomass), could significantly reduce and ultimately eliminate the need for pre-processing biomass. What are some of the takeaways from your study in terms of designing baker’s yeast that is effective at converting cellulose into ethanol? The most unexpected finding is that more is not necessarily better! We found that molecular crowding is actually taking place when decorating the baker’s yeast cell surface with enzymes—although baker’s yeast is about 100,000,000 times bigger than enzymes. Therefore, future designs should focus on optimizing how to best organize these enzymes for a maximum packing on the surface to achieve the best performance. What kind of plant material did you use, and is this generalizable to other types? We chose one of the most commonly used materials, an acid-treated form of cellulose, in this study to compare the performance of our baker’s yeast with others’. We are currently testing our baker’s yeast on untreated crystalline cellulose, which is tougher to break down, and the results are encouraging. We expect similar performance enhancement for other types of plant materials, such as straw and switchgrass. Can other researchers use what you learned? Yes, they can use our model and experimental tools directly if they’d like to explore very different designs of enzymes. And if they’re using the particular design in this work, we provide guiding principles. This study was done in close collaboration with Jung-Kul Lee, a professor of chemical engineering at Konkuk University in Seoul, South Korea. Robert Ziff, a professor of chemical engineering at U-M, also contributed to this work. Support Chemical Engineering at Michigan Our leadership, world-class facilities and global impact are enabled by those who share our passion. Empower the next big thing from this department. Explore:Chemical EngineeringEnergy & EnvironmentResearchBiofuelsComputer ModelingSustainability In Memoriam: James O. Wilkes Long-time professor and mentor, department chair, assistant dean, and department historian passed away following heart surgery \| Long Read Nanomedicine crosses into brain, eradicates recurring brain cancer in mice The new approach helped seven out of eight mice fight off glioblastoma, the most common and aggressive form of adult brain cancer. \| Medium Read Scott Fogler honored as Michigan Distinguished Professor of the Year Award recognizes Fogler’s outstanding contributions to undergraduate education\| Medium Read Fei Wen Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering Robert Ziff	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1099
__label__wiki	0.964145	0.964145	Share this Story: Tennessee Gov.: Sanctuary bill to become law sans signature PMN World PMN News Tennessee Gov.: Sanctuary bill to become law sans signature Jonathan Mattise, The Associated Press NASHVILLE — Republican Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam announced Monday he will let a push against sanctuary cities to become law without his signature after complaining that it has stirred up irrational fear on both sides. Tennessee has no sanctuary cities and state law prohibits them, Haslam said, calling the legislation “a solution in search of a problem.” Tennessee Gov.: Sanctuary bill to become law sans signature Back to video But he also said the legislation is not a mass deportation bill, as immigrant advocacy groups have labeled it. The Tennessee Immigrant & Refugee Rights Coalition drew hundreds of people to rallies in Nashville, protesting the measure as a misguided effort that will drive immigrants into the shadows. The legislation bans local governments from having “sanctuary” policies or practices and threatens to withhold future state economic and community development money from those that don’t comply. Most notably, local governments would have to comply with federal immigration detainers, without requiring warrants or probable cause, for possible deportation of people who were arrested on other charges and then identified as being in the country illegally. Todd Skelton, Haslam’s deputy counsel, said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement policy currently requires probable cause and a warrant for detainers. But immigrant advocacy groups point out that federal agents are issuing administrative warrants without judicial or magistrate review. The legislation amounts to a “solution looking for a problem,” Haslam wrote in a letter to legislative leaders. Still, he said the best thing to do with his decision is to “move on from it” and focus on “real issues.” “Confusion and fear are never good,” Haslam said. “They are not good reasons to drive political decisions.” Under the legislation, which takes effect in January, Haslam said police departments won’t be able to adopt policies not to ask about immigration status in routine encounters. But officers also would not be required to ask about it, he said. The bill has become a campaign talking point for Republicans in an election year, including Senate sponsor Mark Green, who is running for U.S. House. In the race to succeed Haslam, Republican U.S. Rep. Diane Black has been the most vocal proponent of the legislation. Her GOP gubernatorial opponents, House Speaker Beth Harwell and businessmen Bill Lee and Randy Boyd, also praised the bill Monday. Republican Senate Speaker Randy McNally said Haslam’s “wise decision” ensures there will continue to be no sanctuary cities in Tennessee. In a statement, Hedy Weinberg, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee, said the group was disappointed by the governor’s decision. “Immigrants should not have to live with the constant fear that any local police officer or sheriff they encounter is a de facto immigration agent,” Weinberg said. “By allowing this bill to become law, the governor has ensured that thousands of Tennesseans will be forced to live in the shadows, in fear of reporting when they are victims or witnesses to crimes and undermining local law enforcement’s ability to use their discretion and resources in the way that they believe best protects public safety in their local community.” Nashville’s combined city-county government enraged Republican state lawmakers by proposing sanctuary city-like immigrant protections last year, and ultimately dropped the push. On Monday, Metro Councilman Fabian Bedne tweeted that he will look into what legal recourse the city may have against the state legislation. The bill has drawn mixed responses from law enforcement officials. Nashville Police Chief Steve Anderson wrote to Haslam that carrying out the unfunded mandates of the legislation will invite racial profiling accusations. He said Nashville police officers, as a practice, don’t inquire into people’s immigration status while performing public safety duties. “If there is confusion and apprehension on the part any person as to whether an interaction and co-operation with local authorities might produce a detrimental effect, then the safety of all of our communities is diminished,” Anderson wrote in the letter. But the Tennessee Sheriffs’ Association is OK with the bill, said executive director Terry Ashe, a retired sheriff. “The only time that this occurs is when they have been arrested on an unrelated charge and then we check for a status,” Ashe said in an email. “In my 30 years as sheriff, from 1982-2012, I can’t ever remember being involved on just picking someone up to only check their status.” The bill also came on the heels of a federal immigration raid earlier in April that took 97 people into custody at an eastern Tennessee meat processing plant. Haslam insisted the raid shouldn’t be taken as an example of what could happen under the bill. “The ICE raid was totally done by federal authorities and would happen the same thing before this bill as it does afterward,” Haslam said.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1108
__label__cc	0.602377	0.397623	Revitalise yourself with this easy and greatly beneficial exercise class. Tai Chi Chuan uses energy (chi) instead of muscular strength. This practice brings about a new balance of energy in the body, relieving stress. Rod has been involved in health-care management and education for over 35 years. He has been an executive administrator for a medical rehabilitation centre and has designed and delivered stress-management and meditation seminars for companies such as the Commonwealth Bank and Trowbridge Consulting. Rod has taught meditation and Tai Chi workshops for Into The Blue creative walks, has been a teacher for Nature Care College of Natural Therapies in Sydney and has developed and presented relaxation and meditation programs for Qantas and Malaysian airlines. In addition Rod established Working Balance in 2010, after 25+ years of experience in health care and education leadership roles. He delivers effective mindfulness-meditation services and strategies which enhances people’s approach to their work and organisation performance. <p>Revitalise yourself with this easy and greatly beneficial exercise class. Tai Chi Chuan uses energy (chi) instead of muscular strength. This practice brings about a new balance of energy in the 2021-02-09 Tue 09 Feb - 2021-03-30 Tue 30 Mar 2021 9am - 10am (UTC+11:00) Scots Kirk Hall Rod Lee More about Tai Chi... Tue 09 Feb 2021 9am - 10am (UTC+11:00) Scots Kirk Hall - Scots Kirk Hall Tue 02 Mar 2021 9am - 10am (UTC+11:00) Scots Kirk Hall - Scots Kirk Hall 9 Belmont Road Mosman 2088 Located near the pedestrian crossing in Belmont Road, opposite the High School. The Hall is located down the pathway on the right of the Church.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1111
__label__cc	0.588235	0.411765	Tap to Call 202.638.6222 IMPACT Conference National Cooperative Business Association CLUSA International Current Membership Creating Economic Opportunities Strengthening Cooperatives Gender Practice Area Youth Practice Area Cooperative Policy Strategies Congressional Caucus Interagency Working Group Council of Cooperative Economists State Cooperative Statute Library Homecare Co-op Development ABCs of Cooperative Impact ABCs of Consumer Co-op Impact ABCs of Credit Union Impact ABCs of Electric Co-op Impact ABCs of Farmer and Independent Small Business Co-op Impact ABCs of Housing Co-op Impact ABCs of Worker Co-op Impact Co-op Development Centers International Co-op Alliance .Coop Domains Home \| Statement from NCBA CLUSA President and CEO Doug O’Brien on violence at the U.S. Capitol Statement from NCBA CLUSA President and CEO Doug O’Brien on violence at the U.S. Capitol By: NCBA CLUSA Staff Published: Thursday, January 7, 2021 Share: Print: Subscribe Share this content with your representative United States Capitol Building at sunset – Washington, DC, USA “For 105 years, NCBA CLUSA has stood with the cooperative movement and others seeking to build democratic institutions and societies. While we have witnessed direct attacks on the democratic process in many other countries, we never imagined it could occur in ours. Just as we have condemned mob attacks around the world, we condemn the attack on the U.S. Capitol. Yesterday’s failed insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, while staggering, did finally end with Congress meeting its Constitutional duty and fulfilling the will of the American people in the presidential election. Now is the time for people in the United States and around the world to recommit to the democratic principles that ensures the will of the people is expressed by their elected officials. “The treatment of the people who stormed the Capitol versus others who have demonstrated for social change in recent months is startling. This is just the latest in a series of events of the past year that have laid bare the inadequacies of our nations’ institutions to address issues of intolerance, inequality and race. Never has there been a more important time to work against the injuries of systemic racism as we seek to bolster our democratic institutions. On behalf of the over 65,000 cooperative businesses in the U.S. who operate with democracy, equity and inclusion as part of our DNA, we will continue to strive toward a more equitable and just society.” —Doug O’Brien is president and CEO of NCBA CLUSA, where he works with the cooperative community to deepen its impact on the economy. Did you miss our final policy webinar of 2020? Learn how co-ops can help curb the affordable housing crisis Newly eligible for PPP loans, housing co-ops have a “lifeline” amid unprecedented public health and economic crisis We hope you enjoyed this article. If you did, we would love it if you would share it to your social networks! Did you miss our final policy webinar of 2020? Learn how co-ops can help curb the affordable housing crisis January 5, 2021 read more Newly eligible for PPP loans, housing co-ops have a “lifeline” amid unprecedented public health and economic crisis read more Domestic programs receive new funding through $2.3 trillion spending bill passed by Congress December 22, 2020 read more Co-ops included in the $2.3 trillion spending bill passed by Congress, providing economic relief to people and small businesses impacted by COVID-19 read more NCBA CLUSA supports Tom Vilsack for Secretary of Agriculture December 10, 2020 read more How do news outlets determine who has won each state on the night of a presidential election? They rely on a cooperative November 3, 2020 read more sign up today for co-op news, events & features 1775 I Street NW, 8th Floor	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1112
__label__cc	0.578227	0.421773	A Beginner’s Guide to All Elite Wrestling jheadey1995 Uncategorized May 16, 2019 May 16, 2019 9 Minutes So yes I am indeed as they say ‘joining the indies’ rather than be exclusive to one promotion… for now… but I honestly could not think of a better place to start with than a wrestling company who are soon to be putting on the first PPV under the banner of the most realistic alternative wrestling promotion on a worldwide level since World Championship Wrestling (WCW), which has been folded for over 18 years now. On May 25th All Elite Wrestling will hold their very first PPV. It will be emanating from one of the most famous arenas in combat sports history in the MGM Grand Garden Arena in a suburb of Las Vegas, Nevada. The show is going to be called Double or Nothing. One thing that I should make clear right away is the difference between this show and ALL IN. ALL IN was the show that took place last year put on via a combination of Cody, Matt Jackson & Nick Jackson and a whole host of various staff from all over the industry. But ALL IN was very much an independent wrestling show. A super-indie show sure with a collection of THE very biggest names in the business (Okada, Omega, Jericho, Rey Mysterio amongst others) but one without the name of a huge company attached. Double or Nothing will have every bit of the heart, passion and excitement ALL IN had but with way much more… well OK I’ll be honest Double or Nothing is an AEW show and AEW is funded by Tony Khan. The Khan family have billions of dollars in the bank. So you draw your own conclusions. Imagine ALL IN but even bigger and better. Another thing you’ll have heard all about is Starrcast 2. This is a convention like event taking place in the 4 days over the same weekend as Double or Nothing. The first of these events took place in conjunction with the ALL IN show and is essentially an incredible gathering of a collection of some of the biggest names in the industry. So many different types of events all happening in one place, and you’ll be able to watch it too. Check out the FITE app for more details. This blog would be twice as long if I explained all about this but I thought it worthy of a mention. All Elite Wrestling honestly seems like a dream for me. I really got into wrestling outside of the normal setting in 2016 when me and my friend Stefan attended a Ring of Honor house show in Leicester, I was spell-bounded by what I saw. I saw the BROKEN universe change the game once again over in Impact wrestling not long after, I watched Kenny Omega and Kazuchika Okada put on a series of matches that absolutely changed my entire outlook on wrestling and took in-ring competition to new heights over in New Japan Pro Wrestling. I saw Cody leave the nest and go out on his own, and just keep getting better and better and better. I had the pleasure of meeting Cody and his wife Brandi Rhodes and despite me literally shaking with nerves they both could not have been nicer. I watched these two brothers Matt and Nick Jackson do stuff as a tag team I hadn’t seen since the peak of Matt and Jeff or Edge and Christian or maybe even top that at times. The Young Bucks have a mantra to change the world, and for me they have done just that, and haven’t stopped yet. On the 18th August last year on the day of my 23rd birthday me and Stefan went to our 5th wrestling show together and beforehand we met The Young Bucks in person. Honestly I’m not exaggerating when I say they were so great and just like normal guys, aside from the size of their biceps. Both seemed genuinely grateful that I had spent a part of my birthday meeting them. I know they get paid for this stuff but they are paid the same regardless of how nice and personable they are. All this has taught me that whatever you want to get out of professional wrestling as a fan it IS out there, you just have to look hard enough for it. Don’t be afraid to leave the nest and what you know professional wrestling to be if it just isn’t doing it for you at the moment. I believe AEW’s Double or Nothing show will bring together a variety of all that’s great about professional wrestling today. OK so you’ve heard the buzz about AEW and the promotion of their Double or Nothing show. But what and more importantly WHO will you be watching on the show. I don’t expect you’ll have heard of everyone on the AEW roster, neither have I to be honest. I would STRONGLY recommend checking out the Nightmare Family YouTube channel and watching their series of videos entitled AEW – The Road to Double or Nothing. The weekly videos so far have done a superb job of promoting the show and giving you an insight to those involved. I’d say they’re essential viewing before you watch Double or Nothing. You also must check out the Being The Elite YouTube series. This is a mostly satirical episodic series starring the performers of AEW and others. It began as a form of video diary following The Young Bucks on their travels around the world as professional wrestlers, and gradually over time more and more people have come and gone and it’s really evolved into a show with storylines of its own. If you saw ALL IN basically all of the build and storylines going into that show all took place on Being The Elite, some of them were told over the course of many many months all culminating at ALL IN. But it also at times over the years led into storylines that played out in promotions that the stars of the show where a part of; The Bullet Club turn on Adam Cole for example was all built up to on BTE as well as what happened on ROH or NJPW Television. So All Elite Wrestling then. WHAT titles will be in the company is currently not known for sure but I’d say a safe bet would be a world championship, a women’s belt, tag titles and maybe some others. In terms of WHEN they have just announced officially their upcoming TV schedule looks to be kicking off on a weekly basis sometime in the Autumn, on the TNT network in America (the former home of WCW). You can watch Double or Nothing in the UK via ITV Box Office and the BUY IN (pre show) is available on ITV4. Other shows they have announced are Fyter Fest on June 29th and Fight for the Fallen on July 13th. An announcement on AEW’s weekly TV schedule is expected BEFORE Double or Nothing so keep your eyes and ears peeled. In terms of WHO it seems they are signing people on a daily basis but so far they’ve built up an incredible roster of talent. Here’s who is on board so far and what they’re doing, and the most exciting thing about the company is their seemed-willingness to partner up or allow their stars to compete elsewhere and ply their trade… unlike some… so why this is a list of names we know are signed, but it doesn’t mean others may not pop up here and there to wrestle under the AEW banner. So don’t be surprised if you see a few names at Double or Nothing that aren’t listed below. I’m sure though that some of the names will be familiar to you already… MAIN STAFF: Owner: Shahid Khan (Billionaire owner also of Jacksonville Jaguars NFL team and Fulham Football Club) President/CEO: Tony Khan (son of Billionaire, works also for family owned Jacksonville Jaguars NFL team and Fulham Football Club, BIG wrestling fan) Executive Vice Presidents: Cody Rhodes, Matt Jackson, Nick Jackson, Kenny Omega Chief Brand(i) Officer: Brandi Rhodes Head of Talent Relations: Christopher Daniels Main Eventers: Kenny Omega, Chris Jericho, PAC (fka Neville), “Hangman” Adam Page (legitimately one of the most promising all-rounders in the business right now, currently embarking on his ‘full gear challenge’… check BTE out for the backstory, for me he is a definite future AEW World Champion. For context Page is 27, Omega is 35, Jericho is 48), Cody, Dustin Rhodes (fka Goldust). Other Male Singles: MJF (going to be a BIG star, plays cocky, self-confident heel), Jimmy Havoc (English, death match specialist, psychopath), Joey Janela (lunatic… unique, laid back guy… I don’t know what more to add), Darby Allin (dark and mysterious character, talented MOFO), Jungle Boy (future star), Jack Evans (great talent), Kip Sabian (good reputation, fun to watch and he’s a Brit), Sonny Kiss (embodies AEW’s mantra of its openness and welcoming of all, but above that a talented individual that oozes charisma and star-power), Sammy Guevara (a VERY talented wrestler, has competed in the AAA promotion in Mexico to let you know the type of performer he is), Michael Nakazawa (largely a comedy guy, but over the YouTube series of BTE seems to have an enemy in Matt Jackson so keep an eye out for that), Peter Avalon (going to be one of ‘The Librarian’ characters… trust me it’ll make sense… it’s a long story…), Cima (experienced Japanese wrestler, actually was key in booking The Young Bucks in Japan back in the day so kind of a full circle story for them all now), Angélico (formerly of Lucha Underground, was much sought after but chose AEW as his home), Brandon Cutler (friend of the Bucks, has a story that really is fascinating and is featured in one of the YouTube episodes that I recommend seeing), Dustin Thomas (has no legs… I’m not kidding you… just an unbelievable human being), Ace Romero (pretty much impossible to miss), Brian Pillman Jr (more than just someone’s son trust me… he has IT), Sunny Daze (has a really emotional backstory, one to look out for). Tag Teams: The Young Bucks (Matt and Nick Jackson), The Lucha Bros (Pentagon and Fenix) – maybe the best tag team in the world, SoCal Uncensored (aka SCU) (Christopher Daniels, Frankie Kazarian and Scorpio Sky) – you’ll love these guys trust me. Experienced but entertaining as hell, Best Friends (Trent Berretta and Chuck Taylor) – you wont be bored watching these guys. absolutely hilarious, Private Party (Isiah Kassidy & Marq Quen) – I don’t know too much about these guys but I hear that they’re unbelievable in the ring with the stunts they do and their gimmick is basically party-goers and fun-seekers, I imagine them being super popular babyfaces as AEW progresses. Females: Brandi Rhodes, Allie (formerly of Impact, ultra babyface), Dr Britt Baker (Great in-ring performer and also a dentist – no really she is…, has a famous boyfriend… BAYBAY…), Bea Priestley (Girlfriend of Will Ospreay, via her work in Japan and on the indies has come on leaps and bounds in the ring over the last few years and is the current World of Stardom Champion following in the footsteps of previous champions Io Shirai, Toni Storm and a woman called Kairi… something…), Aja Kong (Japanese veteran), Leva Bates (another potential player of ‘The Librarian’ character… it’s a long story…), Penelope Ford (Joey Janela’s manager, had a tryout in Orlando fairly recently, a breakout star of ALL IN), Hikaru Shida (Japanese star, a Kenny Omega signing), Yuka Sakazaki (another Japanese star), Sadie Gibbs (British, Will Ospreay told her she wasn’t ready to work in Japan, Matt Jackson disagreed, one to keep an eye on), Nyla Rose (the first transgender woman to be signed to a professional wrestling company in the US, a powerhouse), Kylie Rae (nicknamed ‘smiley Kylie’ she is about as ultra and babyface as you could get, but great in the ring, a possible first AEW Women’s Champion). Commentators: Alex Marvez (sports broadcaster), Excalibur (masked guy and commentator for the PWG promotion), Jim Ross (the GOAT), Hugo Savinovich (Spanish-language commentator, and yes it’s the guy from the attitude era that used to go flying when the Spanish Announce Table was smashed). Ring Announcer: Justin Roberts (showed at ALL IN he really hasn’t lost a step). Backstage interviewer: Alicia Atout (has her own YouTube channel where she interviews wrestlers, the channel is called AMBY). AEW also has a partnership with the OWE wrestling organisation in China that will see some of the most amazing Kung Fu/high-flying wrestling hybrid style stars compete for All Elite Wrestling. They are like nothing you have ever seen before trust me. AEW wrestler Cima is the company’s president. Among a host of familiar names working for the company backstage will be Billy Gunn (producer), Glacier & Jerry Lynn. A host of referees have also been signed including popular indie refs Rick Knox, Paul Turner (formerly of ROH), Aubrey Edwards and finally Earl Hebner (who has refereed in professional wrestling a couple of times before) have also been signed. So that’s pretty much all you need to know about AEW… I think… so now you know all about the company itself lets now look ahead to their first show. So look out for a future blog that will be out just before the show where I will do a full preview of the very first AEW PPV, Double or Nothing! And as always if anyone has any questions they want to know about AEW, Double or Nothing or anything else to do with the whole thing then please don’t hesitate to ask. I’m always happy to help. 🙂 Previous Post BLOG 100: Dear WWE, I quit. Next Post All Elite Wrestling: Double or Nothing – Preview	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1127
__label__wiki	0.944137	0.944137	North-Vietnam Travel About Vietnam Cat Ba Transportation> Steam Locomotives Are Back In Service In Da Nang – Hue Route 2020 Post Author:Tony Thai Post Category:Da Nang / Hue / Transportation Brought to Vietnam by the French in 19th-20th centuries, steam trains or steam locomotives were used to transport coal, mine and people for a hundred of years. With the replace of diesel machines, those locomotives were abandoned decades ago in Vietnam. A Brief History (Tuoi Tre News) From scrap to working locomotive Nguyen Van Hien, 68, the restoration project’s chief engineer, emotionally recalled that after 1975, steam trains operated mainly in the northern region. “The trains were removed from long routes starting in 1996, and were occasionally used to carry tourists when demanded and ran within the station, before service was suspended altogether in 2003. It’s been ages since I last heard its whistle,” he added. The Tu Luc 141-190 locomotive, which was produced in China in 1966, is fueled by coal. The locomotive produces its pulling power through a steam engine. The locomotive operated on the Ha Noi- Hai Phong routes in the north. According to Hien, who knew the locomotive from its very first day in Vietnam, the engine has a boiler volume of four cubic meters. It pulls a tender which is capable of carrying 10 tons of coal and 16 cubic meters of water. This water volume is enough to pull 20 passenger wagons for 50 kilometers. After steam locomotives were replaced by their diesel successors in 1996, the Tu Luc 141-190 locomotive was shelved at a locomotive firm in Hanoi and was soon broken down into a huge heap of scrap. As Vietnam planned to restore steam locomotives for tourism in 2009, the locomotive and two others were purchased by Indochina Rail Co., a local railway tourism company based in Ho Chi Minh City. The company initially inked a deal with state-run Gia Lam Rail Firm in Hanoi. However, after the Tu Luc 141-190 locomotive was dismantled, the restoration project ground to a halt. The project resumed in late 2010, with the locomotive’s components being transported to Di An Train Co. in Binh Duong for reconstruction. Pham Hong Phi, director of Di An Train Co., said his company was short on engineers and workers who specialized in steam locomotives.The restoration project didn’t resume until February 2014. The painstaking restoration process Phi said that his engineers and workers faced immense difficulty as many parts had gone missing during transport, while others were seriously rusted and unusable. They even borrowed certain components, such as the pumping system, from the iconic steam locomotive which is currently on display in Da Lat, in the Central Highlands’ Lam Dong Province. “Though original parts account for less than 80% of the finished product, the locomotive has returned to its complete original from,” Phi said proudly. The legacy goes on Hien, the project’s chief engineer, who majored in steam locomotives, retired several years ago. However, he never lost hope that he would hear the beloved whistle from a steam engine again. “Even after retiring, my house is still packed with materials on steam engines, which I intend to be a legacy to pass on to my children. My dream finally came true when I joined the steam locomotive’s restoration project,” Hien shared. Several foreign experts were summoned for the project, but all declined to take part, as most of them specialize in specific parts, not the overall locomotive. Hien then drew on his 30 years of experience in working with steam engines and instructed the young engineers to bring the engine back to life. Tran Dinh Hung, who was trusted with overseeing the project, was one of the men who escorted the eight cogwheel locomotives from Da Lat to Europe in 1990. He was also invited to coordinate tourism steam engine services in Switzerland for several years. “My father was a cogwheel train driver on the Da Lat- Phan Rang route in the central region. I worked in the railway industry for many years. It’s so great that I could help bring back the steam locomotive, so that future generations can witness the remnant of a historically significant technology, which is also associated with a period of the country’s history,” Hung shared. Not far from where the locomotive was parked sit the components of another steam locomotive, which was also transported from Hanoi for assembly and restoration. “If the investor needs it urgently, another steam locomotive will soon be back in action,” Phi said. According to Hoang Quoc Hoi, CEO of Indochina Rail Co., his company has decided to run the Tu Luc 141-190 steam locomotive first for tours on the Da Nang – Hue railway route. “As paperwork to launch the tour is underway, we are also restoring the locomotive’s wagons and reviving the two other steam locomotives,” he said. Back Alive In 2020 Hoang Quoc Hoi, general director of Indochina Railway Service Co. Ltd, the project investor, said that the steam locomotives have been restored and fully furnished new carriages built. They are now waiting to operate on the national railway route, with a regular schedule expected to begin next year. Deputy Minister of Transport Nguyen Ngoc Dong last Thursday approved the operation of steam locomotives on the 36 km railway route from Hue to Da Nang City, a journey expected to take over an hour. As planned, the two steam locomotives will mainly serve tourists, running daily from Lang Co Station in Thua Thien Hue Province to Da Nang Station. The trains will have VIP seat carriages, restaurants, power generators and kitchens. The French-style carriages have been built by the Di An Railway Factory. They will run through the Hai Van Pass, said to be part of the most beautiful section on the North-South railway, and use railway bridges and tunnels built by the French. Tags: da nang, hue, steam locomotives, steam train How to get from Ha Giang to Sapa? How to get from Hanoi to Cat Ba Island How to get from Hanoi to Sapa? (May 2020 Update) Ninh Binh Maps: Places To Visit in Ninh Binh All In One How to get from Halong Bay to Tam Coc, Ninh Binh How To Get From Hanoi to Halong Bay Cat Ba Island: Essential things to know before you go Email: tr.thaivan@gmail.com Phone/WhatsApp/Tele: +84 984226813 Copyright © 2020 - Tony Thai	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1128
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__label__wiki	0.743514	0.743514	Saudi Arabia, the leader of… Iran Expands Its Sphere Of Influence With Iraqi Energy Deals Iraq announced two deals with… The Hottest Oil Basin In The World Apache’s most recent discovery leaves… Charles Kennedy Charles is a writer for Oilprice.com Huge Fire Erupts at ExxonMobil Refinery Near Houston By Charles Kennedy - Apr 08, 2016, 12:49 PM CDT An enormous fire erupted an ExxonMobil refinery in Texas on Thursday. The Baytown refinery caught fire, leading to huge black plumes of smoke into the air, visible from downtown Houston. Source: ABC13.com According to Reuters, the fire erupted at a lube oil hydrotreating unit, which removes sulfur from oil, a 20,000 barrel-per-day section of the refinery that produces diesel fuel. Related: Shocking Photo: Nearly 30 Oil Tankers in Traffic Jam Off Iraqi Coast The fire was extinguished Thursday afternoon and ExxonMobil stated that no injuries were reported. Exxon also said that the oil refinery’s operations were not disrupted. The Exxon refinery produces 560,500 barrels of refined product per day, enough to rank it as the second largest refinery in the United States. Almost as soon as the fire in the ExxonMobil refinery was extinguished, we got reports of a fire in a refinery belonging to LyondellBasell Industries. CNBC reported that the fire occured in the coker unit of the refinery that can process over 263.000 barrels per day. By Charles Kennedy of Oilprice.com How Realistic Is Saudi Arabia’s $2 Trillion Sovereign Wealth Fund? Why Natural Gas Prices Could Double From Here Canadian Oil Industry No Longer Sees Alberta Advantage Oil Stages Comeback On Bullish EIA Data	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1139
__label__cc	0.560334	0.439666	SNMC Newsletter South Nepean Muslim community Imam Zijad’s Corner: MOTHERS IN ISLAM-THE QUR’AN & HADITH Post author By dream The Quran reminds the believers of ‘who’ mother is: 1. “We have enjoined on a man/woman kindness to his/her parents; in pain did his/her mother bear him/her, and in pain did she give him/her birth.” (46:15).1718 2. “Thy Lord hath decreed that you worship none but Him, and that you be kind to parents. Whether one or both of them attain old age in your life, say not to them a word of contempt, nor repel them, but address them in terms of honor. And out of kindness, lower to them your wing of humility, and say: ‘My Lord! Bestow on them Your Mercy as they cherished me in childhood.'”(17:23-24) 3. “We have enjoined on man and woman kindness to parents…'” (29:8) 4. “We have enjoined on man and woman (to be good) to his/her parents; show gratitude to Me and to your parents; to Me is (the final) Goal.” (31:14) The Hadith also asserts mother’s position in Islam and what the believers must do in this regard: 1. The Prophet Muhammad said, may Allah’s peace and blessngs be upon him: Your Heaven lies under the feet of your mother. (Ahmad, Nasai)i 2. A man came to the Prophet and said, ‘O Messenger of God! Who among the people is the most worthy of my good companionship? The Prophet said: Your mother. The man said, ‘Then who?’ The Prophet said: Then your mother. The man further asked, ‘Then who?’ The Prophet said: Then your mother. The man asked again, ‘Then who?’ The Prophet said: Then your father. (Bukhari, Muslim) 3. Abu Usaid Saidi said: We were once sitting with Rasulullah when a man from the tribe of Salmah came and said to him: O Messenger of Allah! do my parents have rights over me even after they have died? And Rasulullah said: Yes. You must pray to Allah to bless them with His Forgiveness and Mercy, fulfill the promises they made to anyone, and respect their relations and their friends. (Abu Dawud and Ibn Majah) 4. It is narrated by Asma bint Abu Bakr that during the treaty of Hudaibiyah, her mother, who was then pagan, came to see her from Makkah. Asma (radiyallahu ‘anha) informed the Messenger of Allah (S) of her arrival and also that she needed help. He said: “Be good to your mother.” (Bukhari, Muslim) Action ITEM: Be KIND to your mother every day when the sun rises! It is FARD (an obligation) on every person! ← Weekly Verse → SNMC Friday Night Lecture/Discussion on March 1st–with Imam Dr. Zijad on the topic of “Mothers, mothers, mothers …and then fathers! I give SNMC Newsletter permission to collect and use my data submitted in this form. © 2021 SNMC Newsletter	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1143
__label__cc	0.637084	0.362916	Click Here to watch the remote class. North Georgia Children's Chorus Bringing the Joy of Singing to Children August 12, 2020 By Ruth In the 2019-20 school year, our focus shifted because of the young ages of our enrollees. We did a full semester in the fall, and a ¾ semester until the COVID-19 shut-down in mid-March. Using the First Steps in Music curriculum created by Dr. John Feierabend, which has always been the backbone of our training choir program, we added a segment on preliminary choral learning. This hybrid was enthusiastically received by our young singers. After the sudden cessation of lessons, one recorded video was sent out to the singers as a closing class for the term. At the present time, there are no plans for a fall 2020 session. Instead, there is a video series in development for ages 4-8, using the First Steps in Music curriculum. The summer session, Summer Fun, has completed one cycle and is about to begin a second cohort. The fall video series will be released in October. For more information about the First Steps in Music video series, please see this short introductory video. Filed Under: Chorus News November 13, 2019 By Ruth Fall Session Final Class – Primary Choir… Plus All Primary Choir… Plus parents were able to attend the final Open Class Day on Monday, November 11, Veteran’s Day. They participated right along with their super singer sudents on every singing and movement activity, which was my fondest pedagogical hope! Everyone had a great time! At the end of the class, the singers performed songs they had been practicing since September. Now we turn our attention to the Winter Quarter: Calling all singers 6+ to young 8’s for more Primary Choir… PLUS! January 27 – March 30, Mondays 4:30- 5:30 p.m. No audition required. Calling all singers 2nd-4th grade for the UPBEAT SINGERS! Our concert theme is FRESH VOICES. Rehearsals on Mondays, January 13 – March 30, 4:15 – 5:45 p.m. Please contact Ruth Purcell at 706-482-8031 to schedule a vocal interview! All new singers should schedule a vocal interview and register on our website by Friday, January 10. Click here for more details and general information about the program. May 2, 2019 By Ruth Spring Concert – Somebody’s Callin’ My Name On Tuesday, April 30, NGCC gave a beautiful spring concert, our first following three springs with no second term, due to illness and attrition! This concert, rescheduled because of the death of Ms. Purcell’s mother and entitled SOMEBODY’S CALLIN’ MY NAME, turned out to be a memorial concert. Following the opening numbers, featuring Taylor Stone of UNG on flute and featuring Rebekah Mildenhall on piano, we performed two spirituals. “Little Innocent Lamb” (Ruth Purcell accompanying, Julia Morang directing, Taylor Stone on flute) was offered in memory of Sara Ann Kronrot, a severly disabled girl of fifteen who led a full life, and who, with the help of technology, was a budding visual artist. By the grace of God she was also a soul full of love and joy who will be missed by family, caregivers and friends. The next piece, our concert’s title number, “Hush! Somebody’s Callin’ My Name” was conducted by Ms. Purcell with Gabrielle Willet accompanying, in honor of Julia Grace Pfau (Ruth’s mother), who lived to almost 95 and whose gifts of love, joy, fortitude, persistence, and grace had many decades to develop and flower. The audience greatly enjoyed the closing numbers by Georgia composer Rick McKee. Singers, family, and audience enjoyed refreshments following the concert. Stay tuned for information about our next season! March 29, 2019 By Ruth NGCC Performs with UNG singers at homecoming concert NGCC Singers performing "Shall We Gather at the River" with UNG Singers Dahlonega United Methodist Church, March 25, 2019 Director Ruth Purcell traveled and sang with the UNG Singers on their recent concert tour in south Georgia and Florida. At the Homecoming Concert, NGCC made a cameo appearance, singing two numbers from our upcoming spring concert, and an additional piece, an arrangement of “Shall We Gather at the River” for treble choir and SATB choir. Ten students who were on the choir tour learned the piece and performed it with our young singers. What a wonderful sound! It was warmly received by the audience, and was a good learning experience for the singers. Copyright © 2007–2021 North Georgia Children's Chorus Privacy Policy · Web Design by Premier Web Works	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1144
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__label__cc	0.582224	0.417776	Ridgeway Radio Presents: On The Scene SFO “On The Scene SF/O”, presented by Ridgeway Radio, is a FREE Bi-Monthly (audio) interview formatted podcast with artists, musicians and individuals of prominence who have been instrumental in creating interesting and meaningful recordings, performances or other contributions locally in the SF Bay Area, regionally, nationally, and/or internationally. Executive Producer – Jeff Denson Produced by Andrew Lion and Matt Boudreau Hosted by Andrew Lion Facebook RSS Feed Subscribe in Apple Podcasts jazz/improvised music/big band/avant-garde jazz/improvised music/orchestral/avant-garde jazz/improvised music/R&B/avant-garde jazz/rock/avant garde Rock/Americana Now displaying: November, 2017 About On The Scene SF/O “On The Scene SF/O”, presented by Ridgeway Radio, is a FREE Bi-Monthly (audio) interview formatted podcast with artists, musicians and individuals of prominence who have been instrumental in creating interesting and meaningful recordings, performances or other contributions locally in the SF Bay Area, regionally, nationally, and/or internationally. Executive Producer – Jeff Denson Produced by Andrew Lion and Matt Boudreau Hosted by Andrew Lion We are pleased to present this opportunity to promote great musicians and music personalities through the podcast medium, while creating an archive that will provide insight to those interested in what the artists are about on a more essential level. About Andrew Lion Andrew Lion (California Jazz Conservatory alumnus) is a composer, bandleader and bass player. He has performed and recorded in a variety of settings ranging from pop, rock, jazz, R&B, blues, and singer-songwriters. Performances include venues from Yoshi’s to The Fillmore and a set on ABC’s Late Night Television, Jimmy Kimmel Show! with Jeff Campbell’s band (www.jeffcampbellmusic.com). Andrew recently released a full-length studio recording with his jazz and indie rock inspired 7-Piece music collective, Negative Press Project. www.negativepressproject.com Ridgeway Arts is dedicated to developing the Bay Area educational and performance scene. Your support enables us to sustain a variety of programs and meet administrative and operational objectives. Basically, your contributions keep us moving forward in our mission to further the preservation and growth of jazz and related styles of music. Support Ridgeway Arts with a tax-deductible donation today! OTS SFO #013 with Moorea Dickason and Tarik Ragab of MoeTar Singer and creativity enthusiast, Moorea Dickason, is one half of the San Francisco/East Bay original art-rock super group, MoeTar, along with amazing musician and artist husband, Tarik Ragab. Striving to always serve the music, she shows up passionately and professionally in all that she participates in; to the extent of fearlessly baring her soul to appreciative audiences. MoeTar put 2 albums out with Magna Carta Records but struck out on their own as an independent project in January 2016. Moorea and Tarik are presently producing consistent video songs every two weeks for their growing patrons on the Patreon platform. For those who love interesting new music, unexpected covers of familiar and unfamiliar songs, quirky yet poppy originals- all done with stellar musicianship and love for art and craft- will find the fertile soil of Moorea and Tarik’s imagination, nourishment to the spirit of creatives and music lovers alike. With good humor and forthrightness, the two spoke with OTSSFO about the care and feeding of a band of virtuosos, self-awareness, making a living through creative endeavors and content, and marriage in art and life. Tracks featured throughout Episode #013: Dichotomy - From These Small Seeds Butchers of Baghdad - From These Small Seeds Where the Truth Lies - Entropy of the Century You Only Get This Life - NPR Tiny Desk Entry Ist Or An Ism - From These Small Seeds Dystopian Fiction - Entropy of the Century We Machines - Entropy of the Century Confectioner's Curse - Entropy of the Century The Unknowable - Entropy of the Century https://www.patreon.com/MoeAndTar http://www.moetar.com/ ©Bassmore Music	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1148
__label__cc	0.530498	0.469502	About Léa Subscribe to Overthinker's Dating Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive emails of all of out overthinking news! Couples Who Use “We” Vs. “I” Have Happier Relationships, New Research Finds Léa October 27, 2018 0 Comments Many of us have heard smug couples who only seem to be able to speak about their lives in terms of “we” — “we” were thinking, “we” really like, “we” are both so busy. The truth is, it can be annoying to the person on the receiving end, but it’s easy to see why people in relationships would like using that kind of rhetoric. “I think using the word ‘we’ is a sign that the relationship is getting more serious,” relationship therapist Aimee Hartstein, LCSW, tells Bustle. “It takes a little time to move from being an ‘I’ to a ‘we’ but it’s definitely a sign that the couple is forming a new unit together. I think it’s very reassuring to both parties that we are moving from being solitary to thinking about ourselves as a couple and starting to make decision about us as a unit together. It’s a small symbolic first step towards becoming more serious about one another.” But it may be more than just a symbol. New research shows that all of that “we” talk may actually have some serious relationship benefits. Using “we” instead of “I” is linked to relationships that are happier and function better, according to a new studyfrom University of California, Riverside that was published in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. The study was a huge meta-analysis of 30 studies, which covered around 5,000 participants in total. The researchers looked at relationship outcomes, relationship behaviors, mental and physical health, and health behaviors covered within the studies and found that the use of “we talk” was positively linked with happier relationships and better relationship function. What was particularly interesting was that hearing your partner use “we talk” was more strongly linked with happy and functioning relationships than just using “we talk” yourself. But, no matter who was using it, there seemed to be definite positive link between “we talk” and relationships. “By examining all these studies together, they let us see the bigger picture. ‘We talk’ is an indicator of interdependence and general positivity in romantic relationships,” Alexander Karan, a graduate student and first author this paper said in a statement. “The primary takeaway is that interdependence may bring about supportive and relationship-centered behaviors and positive perceptions of the partner — especially important in times of stress and conflict.” Sometimes something as simple as the language we use can make a big difference in how we feel about our relationships — and interact with our partner. That being said, does “we talk” make couples happier — or are happier couples using it more because they’re happier? “It is likely both. Hearing yourself or a partner say these words could shift individuals’ ways of thinking to be more interdependent, which could lead to a healthier relationship,” Robbins said. “However, it could also be the case that because the relationship is healthy and interdependent, the partners are being supportive and use ‘we talk.'” More research needs to be done to understand the nuances of the link, but this study is an interesting start. And if you want to make your relationship stronger, it may be that using “we” could be a good jumping off point. So the next time you hear a couple saying “we” this and “we” that, you may want to hold your eye roll for a second — because it may actually be making their relationship stronger. Originally posted on Bustle CategoriesDating, Love Tagsdating, love Fall Is 100% The Best Season For Sex And Here’s Why 7 Outdated Wedding Traditions — And How To Have An Inclusive Party Instead © 2021 Baseline Theme by Array. Like my articles? I've just launched a new podcast called Money Sex Power. You can check it out now on iTunes	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1152
__label__wiki	0.614599	0.614599	Melania Trump’s White House Christmas decorations hilariously savaged by comedian The White House decorations this year aim to reflect the theme of ‘America the Beautiful’. It took a total of 125 volunteers to help put 62 trees up around the White House, including 106 wreaths and 17,000 bows, according to Sky News. This year will be the last time Ms Trump will be involved in the White House’s seasonal decorations in this administration, as the president is due to hand power to Democrat Joe Biden in January. As footage of the new decorations emerged, Scottish comedian Janey Godley took it as an opportunity to provide a satirical voice-over. The comic is a regular Edinburgh Fringe performer and frequent BBC Radio 4 guest on the Just a Minute panel game. She provided a heavily-accented Scottish rendition of the First Lady as the footage showed her wandering around the White House as the displays are revealed. In one scene, as Melania studies tree ornaments, Ms Godley jokes: “Aw this is gorgeous, I got all of these out of Primark.” Elsewhere she remarks that President Donald Trump particularly enjoyed playing with a toy train that is seen running around the room. READ: Donald Trump pardon: Can Trump pardon his family members? She said: “That’s a wee train that I’ve got, Donald stayed up all night playing wae that.” Ms Godley also voiced the off-screen president, making him claim he was “hiding” from the festive tour. As well as the general ‘America the Beautiful’ theme, some of the decorations this year had particular meanings. Joe Biden refuses to sign new trade deal with Britain amid UK’s last minute Brexit push [INSIGHT] When will Joe Biden move into the White House? Trump to boycott Biden inauguration [INFO] Biden vote fraud claims: 288,000 votes shipped between state lines, says whistleblower [ANALYSIS] The designs in the Red Room, for example, aimed to focus on the nation’s frontline workers and first responders, featuring handmade ornaments. In the Blue Room, the eighteen-foot official White House Christmas tree is adorned with art from students across the US who were asked to “depict what makes their state beautiful”, according to a White House press release. Ms Trump said in a statement: “From coast to coast, the bond that all Americans share is an appreciation for our traditions, values, and history, which were the inspiration behind the decorations this year.” Meanwhile, the decorations were received with mixed reviews by social media users, many of whom criticised how much the design may have cost amid the coronavirus pandemic. One said: “This is such a waste this year. So many people without food and being evicted.” Another questioned “how many of my American neighbours could have been helped with that money wasted”. Others were more supportive. One user called the display “beautiful” and added: “Thank you First Lady Melania for your graceful presence over these past four years”. Another said: “Beautiful just like you and unlike the haters who have no class.” Joe Biden is due to move into the White House in January next year, when he becomes President. As such, the title of First Lady of the United States will be transferred to his wife, Jill Biden. Tags: autoplay_video ctp_video Melan Previous US and Britain to ‘stand shoulder to shoulder’ with Australia amid bitter China trade spat Next Dad left devastating suicide note that read ‘Covid got me’ in lockdown struggle Mafia mobsters who killed a toddler and burnt body face historic ‘maxi-trial’ Naked man electrocuted after being filmed pushing train passenger onto rails Opinion \| Raphael Warnock and the Legacy of Racial Tyranny Brexit POLL: Amid EU fears, do you back Boris’ plan to make UK the ‘Singapore of Europe’?	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1153
__label__cc	0.67215	0.32785	Home > School, College, or Department > CUPA > USP > Faculty Publications > 245 Urban Studies and Planning Faculty Publications and Presentations Nature-Based Designs to Mitigate Urban Heat: The Efficacy of Green Infrastructure Treatments in Portland, Oregon Yasuyo Makido, Portland State University Dana E. Hellman, Portland State UniversityFollow Vivek Shandas, Portland State UniversityFollow This research was funded by the U.S. Forest Service’s National Urban and Community Forestry Challenge Grant (No. 17-DG-11132544-014), and the National Science Foundation’s Sustainable Research Network Grant (No. 1444755). n. Publication of this article in an open access journal was funded by the Portland State University Library’s Open Access Fund. Urban ecology (Sociology), Urban climatology, Urban heat island -- Oregon --Portland Urban heat is a growing environmental concern in cities around the world. The urban heat island effect, combined with warming effects of climate change, is likely to cause an increase in the frequency and intensity of extreme heat events. Alterations to the physical, built environment are a viable option for mitigating urban heat, yet few studies provide systematic guidance to practitioners for adapting diverse land uses. In this study, we examine the use of green infrastructure treatments to evaluate changes in ambient temperatures across diverse land uses in the city of Portland, Oregon. We apply ENVI-met® microclimate modeling at the city-block scale specifically to determine what built environment characteristics are most associated with high temperatures, and the extent to which different physical designs reduce ambient temperature. The analysis included six green infrastructure interventions modeled across six different land-use types, and indicated the varying degrees to which approaches are effective. Results were inconsistent across landscapes, and showed that one mitigation solution alone would not significantly reduce extreme heat. These results can be used to develop targeted, climate- and landscape-specific cooling interventions for different land uses, which can help to inform and refine current guidance to achieve urban climate adaptation goals. © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos10050282 10.3390/atmos10050282 https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/28872 Makido, Y., Hellman, D., & Shandas, V. (2019). Nature-Based Designs to Mitigate Urban Heat: The Efficacy of Green Infrastructure Treatments in Portland, Oregon. Atmosphere, 10(5), 282. Find in PSU library Environmental Policy Commons, Urban Studies and Planning Commons Sy Adler Ethan Seltzer Andrée Tremoulet	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1156
__label__wiki	0.840883	0.840883	Parliamentary Lobbying and Policy Free Öcalan! Delist the PKK – Freedom and Justice for the Kurds Women’s Alliance for Kurdistan, Iraq and Syria İmralı Peace Delegation Campaign Statements Kurdistan National Congress (KNK) Kobane, the Rojava Revolution and the Kurdish Struggle: Useful Resources List of Acronyms Listen to the Refugee’s Stories Useful reading EUTCC Release Kurdish political campaigner Adem Uzun! Peace in Kurdistan Campaign & Campaign Against Criminalising Communities (CAMPACC) Press statement, 20 October 2012 We unreservedly support members of the Kurdish community who are protesting outside the French parliament today. They are protesting against the unjust and provocative arrest of Kurdish political campaigner and strategist, Mr Adem Uzun, on 6th October and the intensification of the French state’s arrest and detention operations against Kurds. According to the reports of the ANF News Agency, over 200 Kurdish asylum seekers have been taken into custody by French police for political reasons since 2007. The Ahmet Kaya Kurdish Cultural Centre in Paris has been closed by a Paris criminal court. Adem Uzun, a leading official of the Kurdish National Congress (KNK), was on a peace mission to attend a conference in the French parliament to discuss the future of Kurds in Syria. He was arrested following Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s comments in an interview on 27 September that ‘some main European countries such as Germany and France allowed “terrorist leaders” to freely live in their countries,’ (ANF, 17 October). It is scandalous to see political campaigners who are striving to find peaceful diplomatic solutions to desperate situations that the Kurds face in countries, such as Syria and Turkey, subjected to arrest as ‘terrorists’ as a result of pressure from the US and Turkish governments. Adem’s statement in the European Parliament on 29 January 2009 remains as relevant today as it was then, given that the ruling AKP party in Turkey has intensified its assault against the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) and human rights campaigners, journalists, lawyers, trade unionists and civil society activists in the name of the “anti-KCK ‘terrorist’ operations”: “It is unfortunate that those profiting from the war in Turkey are being allowed to continue escalating it. There is no limit and boundary for these actions. As much as 80% of incidents that are taking place in Kurdistan do not get reported in the press. There is bombardment in Southern Kurdistan (Northern Iraq) every day. Dust and smoke raised by US and Turkish planes reach the sky, where it joins with that raised by Iranian cannon fire. All civilian Kurdish people in the region are forced to live in fear and panic. What we have here is a grand-scale brutality and intra-state terrorism. Secret meetings to liquidate the Kurdish freedom movement are continuously being held. This approach will not only fail to solve the problem, but it will also shed more blood. Unfortunately, the EU countries do not act on this matter [positively]”. Instead, politicians like Adem – who are seeking to halt the influence of war profiteers and seeking to find a peaceful resolution to the oppressive situation in Turkey and Syria – find themselves unjustly criminalised and targeted on the absurd grounds of “suspicion of being involved in the purchase of anti-tank missiles,” (Reuters, 12 October). Adem’s targeting in France follows the shameful ‘guidance’ provided by the US Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), which earlier had, equally shamefully, sought to criminalise him, this time on the grounds of ‘drug trafficking’. As the EU Union Turkey Civic Commission (EUTCC) had commented on the matter at the time: “These outrageous, unproven accusations are just a new way of trying to criminalise well known Kurdish personalities and limiting their legitimate political activities … The new name appearing on the list is Mr Adem Uzun. Mr Uzun has been working politically on the Kurdish question for years. His impressive diplomatic capability and the way he represents the Kurdish issue and the Kurds on an international level, and particularly within the EU sphere, has helped pave the way toward promoting peaceful Kurdish diplomacy in Europe. It is obvious that the reason for the US officials’ accusations is not drug-trafficking but rather to inhibit the successful and effectual diplomatic representation of the Kurds in Europe, the US and elsewhere. Well-known Kurdish diplomats are being criminalised and efforts made to compel Interpol to hunt them. In this way the USA and Turkey” – and now, clearly, the French government – “are trying to stop the peace process in Turkey, to which Kurdish politicians in Turkey and Europe contribute the most. ‘’The fanciful unproven accusations by the US OFAC are simply made to stop well-known and acknowledged Kurdish politicians and spokespersons from travelling abroad and thereby hinder their further contact with the international media and legal institutions, particularly within the Schengen area”. We reiterate the solidarity call that the EUTCC made when Adem Uzun was criminalised by the US OFAC: “We call on political bodies, parliamentarian co-operation partners and NGOs in Europe – who work with these named Kurdish politicians (particularly Mr Adem Uzun) for a transparent political and peaceful solution to the Kurdish question in Turkey – to send out a letter of confidence and support which takes a stand against these unproven accusations”. We call for Adem Uzun’s immediate and unconditional release. 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__label__wiki	0.680655	0.680655	Saying Goodbye To Our Seniors The seniors with their fatheads after the game Media by Ellie Cummins. Caitlin McLoughlin at senior night walking with her brother Media by Lauren Joseph. Greenville University women’s soccer program dedicates a special night to show appreciation to their seniors. Defender, Caitlin McLoughlin, from San Antonio, Texas, is currently sitting out of her final season due to a torn ACL. McLouglin expressed, “This season was very hard for me because I was truly planning on this senior season, I had come in for and was feeling really good about everything.” McLoughlin found her new role on the Greenville soccer team through her teammates love and joy. She has been a role model to those struggling with injuries and a great example of Christ by loving every one of her teammates unconditionally. “I strongly believe that there is no gain if there isn’t pain, so I can’t wait to see how this season is going to end. Hopefully with all of us rushing out onto the field, well me waddling out, claiming our championship title,” McLoughlin said. Natty Hepburn Returning senior, Natilyn-Hepburn Beaty, from Jonesboro, Illinois, has torn her third ACL throughout her Greenville soccer career. Hepburn redshirted during her 2018 season, which allowed her to stay a fifth year at Greenville to play one last time. Being a fifth-year senior, her advice to any incoming athlete would be, “Soak it in. Being a college athlete is special. Life isn’t all about soccer, but soccer at GU can teach you all about life.” Michelle Grotefendt on senior night Defender, Michelle Grotefendt, from Marine, Illinois, transferred from SWIC 3 years ago. Grotefendt adapted to the Greenville way quickly and made her mark on the team. Her first season at Greenville was a little rough. Grotefendt thought that she was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. She had another biopsy done after her lungs collapsed and discovered that she had Histoplasmosis, which is a fungal infection. This lead to her sitting out of soccer for a whole year. Grotefendt expressed, “It sucked sitting out for a year. This was my first time not playing soccer in 15 years.” In the result of this, Grotefendt redshirted in order to play the next two seasons. With a setback like that, Grotefendt worked hard throughout the summer to come back bigger, faster, and stronger. “I will miss being a part of a family and knowing that I have sisters to go to for anything”, Grotefendt said. Brooklyn Haro Defender, Brooklyn Haro, from Bremerton, Washington, graduated high school with 60 college credits, which made her a junior when coming into Greenville. She is the age of a sophomore, but her credits set her ahead. Even though she is 20 years old and graduating from college, she has impacted the team with her leadership skills and ability to work hard on and off the field. Haro said, “I’m going to miss working and improving alongside my teammates and competing on the field.” Bre Thomas Media by B.J. Schneck. The midfielder, Breanna Thomas, from Carbondale, Illinois, has played an immense role on the Greenville women’s soccer team since the beginning. Thomas has started every match since her freshman year, has scored 34 career goals, and assisted her teammates 40 times. Last season, Thomas was ranked 3rd in the NCAA nation for assists. As a freshman, she was rewarded “Newcomer of the Year.” Currently, Thomas has scored 6 goals and obtained 4 assists. Her work on the Greenville University soccer team is not yet finished. However, playing soccer is not the only thing she will miss after graduating. Thomas exclaimed, “I will miss being on a team with 20 other girls and being a part of something bigger than myself.” Ellie Cummins The midfielder, Ellie Cummins, from Bethalto, Illinois, came to Greenville looking to build her relationship with Christ. From freshman to senior year, her teammates have explained how amazed they are of how God has worked in her life. She has worked hard to get to where she is now in her relationship with God, her teammates, and on the field. Her teammates have shown appreciation for Cummins’ diligent and confident leadership skills. Cummins explained, “I learned how to love people, even when they’re crapheads and how those crapheads love so differently.” Courtney Blaser playing tennis Media by Greenville Women’s Tennis. Team manager and ex-player, Courtney Blaser, from Moline, Illinois, decided to take on a different role besides being a teammate on the soccer team. She made the decision to not entirely leave the soccer program, but to become a manager in order to stay connected with her sisters. Blaser currently plays on the Greenville women’s tennis team and has been successful in her past seasons. Goalkeeper, Marjory Coates, from Decatur, Illinois, came to Greenville expecting to play the field. She had personally volunteered to become the goalkeeper. Coates handled her new position well and exceeded at it in every statistical manner. She has made 244 overall career saves, completed 14 shutouts, and has started 47 games. As a chemistry major with a minor in psychology, she stays busy in the classroom but finds time to dedicate to her sisters on the field. Marjory Coates praying with the other team after a game Marjory Coates making a save Media by Ellie Cummins Greenville Womens Soccer GUSoccer Panthers Soccer seniorseason Previous articleGUWS Road to The Championship Next articleGU Volleyball’s Newest Alumna: Maci Bonacorsi Hi, I'm Jade Taylor. I am a junior on the women's soccer team. My major is Sport Management and my minor is Business. Music, sports, and food are what makes up my life. I am from Litchfield, IL.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1162
__label__wiki	0.992753	0.992753	Sport Handball rule draws widespread ire in penalty-dominated EPL 21:41 27 september 2020 Source: ap.org More changes allowed at the Handball World Championship The coaches can nominate more players at the upcoming Handball World Championship in Egypt. The world association is thus reacting to increasing pressures. © Provided by sport1.de More changes allowed at the Handball World Championship More change options against the overload: At the Handball World Championship in Egypt in January, the 32 teams can nominate 20 instead of 18 players. This was confirmed by Patric Strub, competition director of the world association IHF, the handball week . Jose Mourinho had seen enough. © Provided by Associated Press Tottenham coach Jose Mourinho gestures during the English Premier League soccer match between Tottenham and Newcastle at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London, Sunday, Sept. 27, 2020. (Andrew Boyers/Pool via AP) The fulltime whistle had yet to be blown but the Tottenham manager stormed down the tunnel — his head down and hands in his pockets — after seeing his team fall foul of a handball ruling that has quickly become the biggest talking point of the Premier League season. Handball Supercup as a trial run for league operations © Marc Müller / dpa The Supercup between Kiel and Flensburg in Düsseldorf is the first endurance test for the HBL concept. Alcohol ban, distance requirement and stricter safety rules on arrival and departure: the handball Supercup between record champion THW Kiel and runner-up SG Flensburg-Handewitt will be a big test run for Bundesliga operations. When the two northern rivals play the first title of the 2020/21 season in Düsseldorf on Saturday (8.30 p.m. © Provided by Associated Press Manchester City's head coach Pep Guardiola reacts after Leicester scored their 4th goal of the game during the English Premier League soccer match between Manchester City and Leicester City at the Etihad stadium in Manchester, England, Sunday, Sept. 27, 2020. (Catherine Ivill/Pool via AP) It was the fifth minute of stoppage time and Tottenham was seeing out a 1-0 lead against Newcastle when a ball was pumped into Spurs’ penalty area from a free kick. A header by Newcastle substitute Andy Carroll struck the outstretched arm of Eric Dier — as the Tottenham defender was looking the other way — and loud appeals from Newcastle players reverberated around the empty stadium. © Provided by Associated Press Tottenham's Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg, left, talks to referee Peter Bankes during the English Premier League soccer match between Tottenham and Newcastle at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London, Sunday, Sept. 27, 2020. (Daniel Leal-Olivas/Pool via AP) Almost inevitably, a penalty was awarded after the referee took the opportunity to view the incident on the pitchside monitor. skin-tight tank tops? HBL boss irritated with image of women There could soon be a new dress code in HBL. Chef Frank Bohmann wants skin-tight tank tops. Bob Hanning also welcomes the proposal. © Provided by sport1.de Skin-tight tank tops? HBL boss irritated with image of women What kind of outcry would that cause if someone had suggested something similar in women's handball? The men's handball league is thinking out loud about a new dress code that should attract more female spectators to the hall. Callum Wilson converted the spot kick from Newcastle’s first shot on target all match, the visitors were about to escape with a 1-1 draw, and a disgusted Mourinho didn’t want to hang around. It was also a day to forget for Mourinho’s big coaching rival, Pep Guardiola, whose Manchester City team conceded three penalties — none of them for handball, however — and lost 5-2 at home to Leicester. Jamie Vardy scored a hat trick, with two of them coming from the penalty spot. There have already been 20 penalties in just 25 games in the Premier League this season, and there is likely to be many more as defenders struggle to adapt to a newly adopted interpretation of the defensive handball rule. © Provided by Associated Press Newcastle's Callum Wilson, background right, celebrates after scoring on a penalty kick during the English Premier League soccer match between Tottenham and Newcastle at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London, Sunday, Sept. 27, 2020. (Andrew Boyers/Pool via AP) The Premier League has fallen in line with the rest of European soccer this season and applied the ruling in a stricter way rather simply than judging it on intent. Like Robin Koch, Victor Lindelof, Matt Doherty, Neal Maupay and Joel Ward before him this season, Dier was adjudged to have made his body unnaturally bigger by having his arm out when it was hit by the ball, leaving the referee little option but to award a penalty by the letter of the law. Handball - Butagaz Energie League (D3): Plan-de-Cuques surprises Fleury, Chambray stops Bourg-de-Péage, Nantes restarts © Panoramic lbe ball After two defeats, Plan-de-Cuques scored his first success in the Butagaz Energie League at the expense of Fleury. Nantes won in Dijon as did Chambray in Bourg-de-Péage. Plan-de-Cuques achieved a very good performance. Against Fleury, former international Angélique Spincer scored their first win of the season in the Ligue Butagaz Energie . Crystal Palace manager Roy Hodgson said the newly adopted rule was “killing the game” after his team lost 2-1 by conceding a handball penalty for the winning goal. Mourinho chose not to criticize the rule for fear of collecting a fine from the Football Association, but his Newcastle counterpart had his say. “It’s a total nonsense,” Steve Bruce said. “We’ve got one today and we should be jumping for joy and through hoops, but I’d be devastated if it was against us.” © Provided by Associated Press Leicester's Jamie Vardy holds onto the match ball after he scored a hat trick as he walks on the pitch after the end of the English Premier League soccer match between Manchester City and Leicester City at the Etihad stadium in Manchester, England, Sunday, Sept. 27, 2020. Leicester City won the game 5-2. (Catherine Ivill/Pool via AP) Players past and present spoke of their opposition to the rule interpretation, too. “The FA needs to start asking themselves some serious questions,” tweeted Jan Vertonghen, the former Tottenham defender who recently moved to Benfica. “Absolutely shocking decisions and they are hiding behind the referees.” Former Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher urged the game’s governing bodies to “sort this out.” “This penalty nonsense is ruining the game,” Carragher tweeted. In the early game, Leeds won 1-0 at Yorkshire rival Sheffield United. Premier League champions Liverpool demolished 7-2 by Aston Villa . The Premier League's unpredictable nature was on full display Sunday. In what will go down as one of the biggest match upsets in Premier League history, defending champions Liverpool were destroyed 7-2 by an Aston Villa side that completely outclassed Jurgen Klopp's men for a majority of the contest. 7 - Liverpool are the first reigning English top-flight champions to ship seven goals in a league match since Arsenal against Sunderland in September 1953. Embarrassed. #AVLLIV pic.twitter.com/CAnLAPG7b5— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) October 4, 2020 The match was all but over at halftime after Ollie Watkins' hat-trick helped give Villa a shocking 4-1 lead at the break. Handball - Butagaz Energie League (D3): Plan-de-Cuques surprises Fleury,... 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__label__wiki	0.961676	0.961676	Politics Democrat fight over who should serve as Biden's Agriculture Secretary 01:40 28 november 2020 Source: dailymail.co.uk Farm support holds for Trump, but Biden may find inroads President Donald Trump tenaciously courted farmers and ranchers with an anti-regulatory agenda and a confrontational trade approach that opened some markets. But he also relied on billions in federal aid to compensate them for retaliatory tariffs and a pandemic that took a deep gouge out of the economy. Despite the mixed performance, Trump’s policies on […] The post Farm support holds for Trump, but Biden may find inroads appeared first on Roll Call. Vilsack served as Secretary of Agriculture for the Obama Adminstration from 2009 - 2017. Clyburn has blasted speculation that Vilsack should be Democrats are already clashing over whether they should push progressive policies during Biden ' s presidency, or try and appeal more to centrist The race to serve as Joe Biden ’ s secretary of State has already begun, and the signs are “Yes, a progressive president should fight for greater worker and environmental standards in trade She and Biden are said to have a warm relationship, though they disagreed over how to deal with tumult in © Provided by Daily Mail MailOnline logo A fight is breaking out among Democrats over who Joe Biden should pick to be his Secretary of Agriculture. The president-elect has yet to appoint the person who will head up the Agriculture Department, which oversees various agencies including the United States Forest Service, the United States Food Safety and Inspection Service, and the Food Stamp Program. South Carolina Rep. James Clyburn - who is widely seen as playing a crucial role in Biden's Democratic primary victory - told The New York Times on Thursday that Biden should name Ohio Rep. Marcia Fudge to the powerful position. 'You’ve got to have trust.' The strategy Joe Biden hopes will lead to agreement in a post-Trump era President-elect Biden hopes the reputation he has as a deal maker will help him push an agenda in Congress. But skepticism about that outcome is high.“John, are you saying air strikes would not help the people in Srebrenica right now? Is that what you're telling me?” Biden, then a Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said as he pressed McCain, the Arizona Republican who died in 2018. The debate over whether corporate insiders should be in the mix for Cabinet positions is shaping up to be Black business leaders that Democrats have floated for potential Biden Cabinet positions include Roger Obama nominated Weiss to serve as the Treasury' s under secretary for domestic finance Mr Klain has served as a top aide to Mr Biden since the 1980s in the Senate and later when he was Chris Coons, who took over Mr Biden ' s Senate seat in Delaware and serves on the Senate foreign The president says a key federal agency should "do what needs to be done", but he vows to fight on. Fudge - a black woman who currently leads the nutrition and oversight panel on the House Agriculture Committee - also has the support of two of Biden's closest advisors, according to the Times. © Provided by Daily Mail Fudge - a black woman who currently leads the nutrition and oversight panel on the House Agriculture Committee - also has the support of two of Biden's closest advisors, according to the Times Clyburn told the publication that he believes the Department of Agriculture should undergo drastic change, claiming it currently 'favors big farming interests' over 'little farmers in Clarendon County, South Carolina, or food stamp recipients in Cleveland, Ohio'. He also claimed the Department is disproportionately focused on majority white states in the Midwest, with the food and agricultural needs of the rural south largely neglected. 'We are a nation of laws, not tweets': Republican Sens. Romney and Sasse decry Trump efforts to challenge election "It is difficult to imagine a worse, more undemocratic action by a sitting American President," Romney said of Trump's contacts with local officials."Having failed to make even a plausible case of widespread fraud or conspiracy before any court of law, the President has now resorted to overt pressure on state and local officials to subvert the will of the people and overturn the election," said Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, in a tweet. The Biden campaign sent out over a dozen press releases on Monday, each one a new endorsement. “As such, Democrats are coalescing because they recognize we need to beat Trump and we need someone who will be strong for Democratic candidates up and down the ballot.” Castro, who served with Biden in the Obama administration as secretary of housing and urban development, appeared at the same Iowa campaign event as Warren on Saturday and also told reporters that he believes Flores. Castro said the United States needs to be a nation in which people 'I'm sick and tired of people saying that rural America is only Nebraska and Iowa,' Clyburn later stated to the New York Post. 'Rural America is South Carolina, it's Mississippi, it's Alabama. It's Georgia. It was black rural voters who helped Biden carry Georgia in the general election.' He claims Fudge is the right woman to shake up the Department, and is putting pressure on Biden to name her to the position. © Provided by Daily Mail More conservative names are also being thrown around. Former North Dakota Senator Heidi Heitkamp is being touted as a possible contender (pictured) However, more conservative names are also being thrown around. Former North Dakota Senator Heidi Heitkamp is being touted as a possible contender, as is former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsac. Vilsack served as Secretary of Agriculture for the Obama Administration from 2009 to 2017. Clyburn has blasted speculation that Vilsack will be tapped to serve again, saying that Biden's presidency should not be a third term for the Obama Administration. Joe Biden loses it at CBS reporter who asked about kids in classrooms President-elect Joe Biden got testy with CBS News reporter Bo Erickson (inset) who asked him a question on Friday in Wilmington, Delaware, about children going back into classrooms.The tense exchange took place just as Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris were wrapping up a meeting with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer in Wilmington, Delaware. Biden ’ s role in fighting student busing more than four decades ago has received renewed attention Biden said he disagreed strongly with these Southerners’ views but needed to work with them to get Biden ’ s comments set off a firestorm among his political rivals and some political analysts, who Read Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden ' s speech to the 2020 Democratic National Convention, as prepared for delivery For make no mistake. United we can, and will, overcome this season of darkness in America. We will choose hope over fear, facts over fiction, fairness over © Provided by Daily Mail Former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsac - who has already served as Secretary of Agriculture in the Obama Administration - is also being touted as a possible Biden pick 'I don't know why we've got to be recycling,' he told The Times. He added that there is 'a strong feeling that black farmers did not get a fair shake' while Vilsack was serving in the role. Meanwhile, others say Biden should choose Fudge as a sign of respect to Clyburn for the vital role he played in the Democratic primary. 'Biden owes his presidency to Clyburn, and Clyburn is going all in for Fudge. Publicly. It would be a huge slap if he picked Heitkamp at this point,' activist Ady Barkan wrote on Twitter on Thursday. Democrats are already clashing over whether they should push progressive policies during Biden's presidency, or try and appeal more to centrist Democrats and Independents. The argument comes after many moderate Democrats in swing states blamed House losses on far-left politicians who pushed for a defunding of the police. So far, Biden has not indicated just how progressive his presidency will be, with his current cabinet picks all trending toward the establishment center-left. He has also stated that he will not appoint progressive politicians Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren to cabinet posts as he needs them in the senate. © Provided by Daily Mail Some say Biden should choose Fudge as a sign of respect to Clyburn for the vital role he played in the Democratic primary Read more Joe Biden’s foreign policy vision takes shape as he selects his team . Biden’s foreign policy team is predictable. That’s not a bad thing.“It’s a team that will keep our country and our people safe and secure,” Biden said Tuesday, introducing his nominees. “And it’s a team that reflects the fact that America is back. 'You’ve got to have trust.' The strategy Joe Biden hopes will lead to... 'We are a nation of laws, not tweets': Republican Sens. Romney and Sasse decry Election 2020 live updates: Trump legal team distances itself from lawyer... Joe Biden picks for top jobs: A spy chief who fixes cars, an envoy who... Fact check: False claim that George Soros arrested for election-related crimes Joe Biden’s foreign policy vision takes shape as he selects his team Fight breaks out among Democrats over who should serve as Vilsack served as Secretary of Agriculture for the Obama Adminstration from 2009 - 2017. Clyburn has blasted speculation that Vilsack should be Democrats are already clashing over whether they should push progressive policies during Biden ' s presidency, or try and appeal more to centrist www.dailymail.co.uk The race to be Biden ’ s secretary of State is already underway The race to serve as Joe Biden ’ s secretary of State has already begun, and the signs are “Yes, a progressive president should fight for greater worker and environmental standards in trade She and Biden are said to have a warm relationship, though they disagreed over how to deal with tumult in www.politico.com Purity test: Democrats clash over Biden diversity goals - POLITICO The debate over whether corporate insiders should be in the mix for Cabinet positions is shaping up to be Black business leaders that Democrats have floated for potential Biden Cabinet positions include Roger Obama nominated Weiss to serve as the Treasury' s under secretary for domestic finance www.politico.com Joe Biden picks Ron Klain as White House chief of staff - BBC News 'Bernie is problematic on all levels': why centrist Democrats are What 2020 Democrats are saying about the allegations against Joe Joe Biden didn't just compromise with segregationists. 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__label__cc	0.564469	0.435531	Page 18FCEBD2B-4FEB-41E0-A69A-B0D02E5410AERectangle 52 Przejdź do treści This site uses cookies and other technologies. By continuing to browse the site, you agree to our use of cookies in accordance with your browser settings. Zmień na wersję polską I consent to the processing of my personal data. Read more Endorphins – or, to give them their full name, endogenous morphines – can give the human body a ... society / Article Piotr Żelazny, translated by Joanna Figiel High on Our Own Supply The Body’s Natural Morphine Illustration by Igor Kubik A Foreigner in Your Own Home Fasting to Reach the Rainbow I’d Love to Go Out on the Town Holy Silence A Mother in Lockdown Human bodies produce morphine – for our own use, of course. It can be released into the body by playing sport. As it turns out, a lot of sport. Read in 5 minutes Read similar Enthusiasm Goes by Many Names Why Choose to Lose? Magazine / society It seems clear why Olympic athletes are driven to compete in their sporting disciplines. But what about the perennial losers who persevere in the face of inevitable defeat? Andrzej Kula Masters of Flying a Falling Iron How Polish Aviators Dominated the Sport When it comes to precision and navigation rally flying, Poland leads the world. This, despite their most successful pilots developing and training against the backdrop of the communist Polish People’s Republic. Michał Szadkowski i Piotr Żelazny The Himalayan Super Express The Story of Nirmal Purja In 2019, a Nepalese man set off on ‘Project Possible’ – a plan to ascend all 14 eight-thousander mountains in seven months. In the end, he exceeded all expectations. Paulina Wilk Physical effort leads to the release of endorphins – the hormone of happiness. Nothing is better at improving well-being than decent exercise! You must have heard words to this effect for years. But perhaps each time you are forced to exercise, you feel a notable lack of energy and happiness? Maybe you want to sleep and relax rather than jump for joy? Are you wondering what’s wrong with you? Or is there rather something wrong with the theory that physical effort leads to happiness? What are these mythical endorphins? First of all, the phrase is an abbreviation – the full name is ‘endogenous morphines’ and they are a group of peptide hormones responsible for euphoric states, self-satisfaction and well-being. They really are referred to as ‘happiness hormones’. They work in the same way as some opioids – chiefly morphine, from which their name is derived. Unlike the street drug, however, hormones are secreted and produced by the body. There are ongoing discussions among physiologists and other scientists as to whether, like some controlled psychoactive substances, endorphins are highly physically and mentally addictive. Among the stimuli that cause the release of endorphins, scientists include laughter, orgasm (this is the most effective method – endorphin production increases by up to 200%), chocolate, some psychoactive substances, but also hypoxia, acupuncture and some spices (for example, in rats, even a small amount of chilli pepper can produce the happiness hormone). Above all, however, physical exercise is responsible for our internal morphine. At least, this is what scientists have been telling us since the 1970s. Today, most specialists say that – yes – the feeling of happiness arises as a result of physical effort, but it must be a long-lasting (at least one hour) monotonous effort, during which the body works very intensively (with a heart rate at the level of 80-90%). In other words, an injection of endorphins will not occur in the gym, where short and intense moments of work are interrupted by moments of rest; nor at the pool, unless you can, dear reader, swim speedily for one hour without a break; nor when practising yoga, when the intensity of the body’s work is too low; nor on a climbing wall or when playing football, basketball or volleyball, because these consist of a series of constant accelerations intertwined with moments of rest and decreasing intensity. Of course, the body produces endorphins even while we are walking, but not enough to talk about an injection of happiness. Not enough at all to be measurable. Another name for this specific feeling when the body experiences a natural high is ‘runner’s high’. And yes, long, intense running is the kind of effort that can lead to a really noticeable injection of endorphins. After about an hour of such effort, a so-called ‘oxygen debt’ occurs. The body becomes hypoxic. This causes stress, which in turn translates into strong secretion of endorphins. Their release prepares us for further effort. It makes us stop feeling pain; fatigue disappears, and we begin to feel happy. Nature has endowed us with a secret power to overcome fatigue. Thanks to this, a person can run further in search of food, water, or to escape from danger, despite the fact that under normal conditions (without stress) this effort would not be possible. Most runners compare this state to orgasm. Others say that at this point, all stimuli seem good, they feel great and have the impression that when they run, they are floating above the surface. Researchers studying the ‘runner’s high’ also claim that they have come across the term ‘a state in which the mind takes control of the body’. That’s how Janis Kuros, the legendary ultra-marathon runner, described it in 1990. Kuros, the record holder in 1000 kilometres on track, and 100 miles, 1000 miles and 1000 kilometres on road: “During the ultras I come to a point where my body is almost dead. My mind has to take leadership. When it is very hard there is a war going on between the body and the mind. If my body wins, I will have to give up; if my mind wins, I will continue. At that time I feel that I stay outside of my body. It is as if see my body in front of me; my mind commands and my body follows. This is a very special feeling, which I like very much… It is a beautiful feeling and the only time I experience my personality separate from my body, as two different things.” Of course, this is an extreme example. A shot of endorphins or a runner’s high are not only manifested at the 100th kilometre of an ultramarathon. What Kuros writes about is an experience reserved for a handful of enthusiasts. And yet, even amateur athletes experience endorphins. However, scientists agree that hypoxia is a prerequisite. Therefore, a kind of euphoria is a side effect of high-altitude disease. When the body reacts with stress to a lack of oxygen, the release of endorphins can result in mountaineers abandoning their clothing and equipment, other strange behaviour, and sometimes even hallucinations. Some online sources promise that 10 minutes of exercise a week increases the level of endorphins and thus happiness, but such a statement, of course, has nothing to do with scientific consensus. However, this does not change the fact that the same scientists agree that physical activity is the best anti-depressant – even in small quantities and not necessarily intensive from the start. Studies show that sport is not only a great remedy for depression (especially outdoor activity, not necessarily at a gym), but that it can also help manage schizophrenia. The British National Health Service (NHS) claims that 150 minutes of movement a week will ensure good mental health for everyone in the 19-65 age range. Of course, there are also those who reject the runner’s high. One reason is that it is very difficult to recreate it in a lab. Other scientists believe that we should talk about ‘runner’s calmness’ and not euphoria, because endorphins only compensate for the negative feelings that arise as a result of great effort. Even if a runner’s high is out of reach for the absolute majority of amateur athletes, an attempt to achieve ‘an injection of happiness’ is a wonderful goal worth pursuing. Especially in a country like Poland, where 68% of men and 53% of women are overweight. Translated from the Polish by Joanna Figiel A high five for “Przekrój”? Or maybe a ten? 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__label__cc	0.607187	0.392813	Perfect Daily Grind > Burundi > A Guide to Buying & Importing Coffee From Burundi A Guide to Buying & Importing Coffee From Burundi The tiny East African country of Burundi produces exceptional coffees. With its high altitudes, volcanic soil, and good processing, it’s no surprise that it has a good reputation – or that consumers ask for its coffee. But while many roasters and importers are looking here to source their coffees, it’s a different experience to buying beans from Latin America or Asia. So in today’s article, allow us to give you all the information you need to source specialty coffee from Burundi. We’ll take you through processing methods unique to the country, how to make contact with producers and exporters, and what you should consider if arranging transportation. Lee este artículo en español Guía Para Comprar e Importar Café de Burundi A technical training session in Burundi. Credit: Long Miles Coffee Burundian Coffee: The Basics Most coffee in Burundi is Bourbon or a Bourbon-derivative, which lends sweetness and body to the cup profile. Add fruity acidity caused by the great soil and altitude, and you have a delicious combination. There are 600,000–800,000 coffee producers in Burundi, according to The World Bank (2011). They produce the vast majority of the country’s coffee, meaning you may find yourself working with cooperatives of these farmers. Coffee is grown throughout Burundi, but most farms and cooperatives are in Buyenzi, Mumirwa, and Kirimiro in the northeast. (Read our guide to the different producing regions of Burundi for more information.) SEE ALSO: Introducing The Flavors & Regions of Burundian Coffee Fully washed coffee being sorted by density. Credit: Long Miles Coffee Specialty coffee production is growing, and is being promoted by bodies such as Café du Burundi/InterCafé Burundi, the country’s association for coffee professionals. Eric Wright, a coffee entrepreneur, tells me, “Producers are definitely trained in ways that they can make more money… The focus in Burundi right now is on specialty coffee.” This makes sense, given that the country’s economy relies heavily on the industry. Coffee accounted for an incredible 27% of its exports in 2015 (MIT Observatory of Economic Complexity). And according to a Deloitte report published in 2016, agriculture is responsible for 40% of the country’s GDP. At the same time, nearly two-thirds of the population live in poverty (The World Bank, 2014). Coffee buyers concerned with financial sustainability can have a real impact when sourcing from this country. Burundian coffee, from bean to cup. Credit: Padre Coffee Unique Coffee Processing Methods Washed and fully washed processing dominate Burundian coffee production. Café du Burundi states that washed coffee processing is often done on the farm. Fully washed processing, on the other hand, is typically done in coffee washing stations, with the station setting the price. Many of these are administered or regulated by SOGESTALs, private or partly privatized management companies. Also called Kenyan processing, double fermentation, or double soaked, fully washed coffee processing involves soaking the coffee for a second time after fermentation. This is a method common to East African countries such as Burundi, Rwanda, and Kenya, but rare in other parts of the world. It results in an exceptionally clean taste, as it removes all of the mucilage – even that which is inside the crack of the green bean. Cafe du Burundi further divides fully washed processing into two types of coffee: Ngoma Milds, which describe the best-quality coffees, and “normal” fully washed. And all coffees are categorized by bean size, coffee quality, and more. Gitaba Wet Mill. Credit: Brian Speckman via InterAmerican Coffee How to Buy Coffee From Burundi For many people, buying coffee from Burundi seems more formidable than, say, Central America. But while it’s a different market, this is an exciting time of liberalization for the region. The World Bank, in 2011, described the market prior to 1991 as a “state export monopoly”. Everything was controlled by the government, including prices. Then, in 1991, the government switched to an open auction, setting just the initial floor price. And finally, in 2008, direct trade became possible. Today, there are two ways to purchase coffee in Burundi: via state-run auction or direct through the exporter or coffee producer. Eric tells me that it’s not as easy to travel around and meet producers as it is in the Americas, but it’s still possible. You just need a different method. “Whether you are a roaster or importer, the first step is to establish a relationship with exporters… “Find an exporter or well-known coffee producer in that region” – he suggests looking to Cup of Excellence results for the latter – “cup their coffees, figure out which one you like, and then you go to the field and meet that producer.” Signing coffee deals on the farm. Credit: Long Miles Coffee How to Export & Import Coffee From Burundi I ask Felix Cowling of Supremo about transporting the coffee out of Burundi, and he reminds me that the supply chain here involves many hands. “The pickers will only pick, the pulpers will only pulp, and the millers will only mill. After all of this, the country is landlocked so there will be a separate process to transport to the nearest port of loading.” This means that you might need to discuss transport details with someone other than the coffee grower or the washing station. And as with any coffee, it’s important to make sure it’s packed well and transported in good conditions. Eric adds that there is currently a fuel shortage, which can make getting the coffee out of the hills difficult. Be prepared for things like this, and be patient. Buyers may also be worried about the conflict in Burundi. Yet Felix tells me, “From our point of view, we don’t have any problem with the conflict.” Buying coffee from Burundi and transporting it to, say, the US is not as easy as buying and transporting coffee from Central America to the US. But the effort, my interviewees assure me, is worth it. They are compensated by the high-quality coffee with its distinctive flavor profiles. Burundian coffee ready for export. Credit: Long Miles Coffee It’s no longer 1991. Burundian coffee is high-quality, increasingly well produced and processed, and available for specialty buyers. The process may be a little different, but the potential rewards are high for importers and roasters looking to add Burundi to their menu. Heading to World of Coffee Budapest? Discover more of the flavors of Burundian coffee with Cafe du Burundi’s cupping, workshops, and events. The Barn, Cloud Picker Coffee Roasters, Kafferostare Per Nordby, Diamond’s Roastery, Imperator, and Five Senses will all be running events – find the schedule here. Please note: Cafe Du Burundi is a sponsor of Perfect Daily Grind and was consulted in the creation of this article. They have received a courtesy copy of the article prior to publication but have exerted no editorial control over the final copy. Want to read more articles like this? Sign up to our newsletter! Alejandra Muñoz Hernandez Alejandra is a contributor based in Colombia How Much Does It Cost to Export Coffee? How Does an Award-Winning Cooperative Support Producers? What's It Like to Grow Coffee in The Galápagos Islands? 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__label__wiki	0.576705	0.576705	a blog about pop culture run by ashley clark About PPH Random YouTube video of the week archive Films I Hate: The Lincoln Lawyer Ladies and gentlemen of the jury: While deciding upon what to spend the pleasure-scraps of our well-earned dollar at the local Cinetorium, reviews are the most accessible tool we might choose to help us in our attempts not to mug ourselves. The trusted reviewer lies somewhere between benign counsellor and sage, directing our commodity-starved, impatient and anxious attention to places it might delight in. Once, through a testing process of trial and error, we’ve found a publication or source whose ethos we trust, these good-natured mystics inhabit the metaphorical space of the real friends we don’t have, allowing a feeling of smug complicity as we baulk at the foolish opinions of our co-workers, whose oafish half-thoughts we can now haughtily disregard like the primordial drivel they are. There are films that receive a level of critical adulation that surprises us into watching them. Films whose titles at which we might not have otherwise taken a second glance as we crept like shadows of beggars past the Cineplex’s intimidatingly vast, glittering façade. On the other hand, there are those that receive bafflingly good reviews from one critic or another – reviews that seem to be somewhat disproportionally favourable to what’s actually there, leading us to suspect foul play and thenceforth disregard this or that particular hack as nothing more than a money-grabbing Judas. Then there’s The Lincoln Lawyer. A film with generally glowing reviews across the board that was, in reality, so utterly charmless it might have been sat in Starbucks, laughing emphatically down a Bluetooth headset whilst scratching its balls. Badly filmed and scripted, with dialogue to the standard of the late-night soft-core television thrillers you might have seen during the early days of Channel 5, it’s directed by a man called Brad Furman (honestly, what’s the first thing that goes through your head when you read the name Brad Furman? It’s ‘Kill Brad Furman’, right?), an apparently grown and mentally able individual, who wears his baseball cap backwards in black and white photographs on the internet, and is, I can’t help but imagine, a massive fucking twat. Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to it put to you today that The Lincoln Lawyer should, nay, must, be banished to the depths of the deepest petrol station bargain buckets, never to be seen again, and the critics who have betrayed our trust brought to collective justice. I’ll endeavour to break down the case for you. Exhibit A: Genre The Lincoln Lawyer falls into that most ridiculous and unholy vein of film – the courtroom thriller. In this unforgivable sub-genre, we, the public, are invited to perform the frankly laughable task of sympathising with the kinds of odious creatures we all know take pleasure in licking the faces of crying children and gang raping immigrants at money-fuelled sex séances. It will therefore mostly be enjoyed by balding alpha wannabes approaching middle age: men who still sniff cocaine because they think it’s cool; men who listen to singers like Adele and Duffy on their surround sound set-up; men who drive fast, impractical cars down small residential streets and accidentally rub their clammy crotches against teenage daughters’ pretty friends at birthday parties. For the entire duration of a film (1 hour, 53 minutes, 26 seconds in case you were wondering), the studio expects us to imagine these no-soul creeps actually harbour feelings, dreams and hopes. What more do you expect, Furman?! Are we supposed to connect with these villains? You might as well have based an entire film on an entitled rich-kid estate agent! Ryan Phillipe as a "rich-kid estate agent" Exhibit B: Plot Louis Roulet (Ryan Phillipe) is an entitled rich-kid estate agent who hires Michael ‘Mick’ Haller[1] (Matthew McConaughey) to defend him against some rather nasty charges. A prostitute has been beaten to within an inch of her life, and poor old Louis has the feeling he’s being set up. But why has he hired a beatnik like Haller when he’s got loads of dosh? And why does the man Louis suspects of framing him only appear in a flashback, and not as an established character? Could something suspicious be going on? Do you think? The film centres on the exploits of Haller, as he unwittingly goes about finding out whodunnit. I say unwittingly because Haller really doesn’t want to know whodunit. He’s a defence lawyer, see, who specialises in defending guilty men. His approach tends to involve driving around a lot[2], looking occasionally puzzled, driving around some more and getting really drunk (real men drink to explore their feelings). Without wanting to totally ruin this film for anyone who might want to see it, here’s a brief overview: Haller drives around, gets the big case, figures out the big case, gets intimidated a bit, gets his partner killed, looks upset a bit and then kills his client’s Mum. The usual. There’s more: He has horny sex with his estranged wife while they’re drunk (in probably one of the most prudish sex scenes of the year scene backed by a band that sounds suspiciously like a ‘street’ version of Maroon 5 – can you quite imagine how awful that is?), discredits a victim of an attempted rape in court, shouts at a crying Mexican man in a flashback, gets shouted at by the same Mexican man in the present (whose new stance against crying and for shouting, presumably hardened via numerous anus-based incidents in prison, is visually illustrated by a fully shaved head and a moustache), and cracks jokes with his black chauffeur (no, seriously, it’s not what you think – the guy needed a job. He’s grateful to be driving his Haller around. Seriously. They’re friends. It’s a favour. He’s helping his friend. Come on!). Ryan Phillipe did it, if you hadn’t already guessed. Exhibit C – Writing If the above reads more like a random sequence of events than a coherent plot, then I’ve adequately summed up this film’s approach. To go into the ins and outs of the story would do a disservice to script-writers and writers everywhere; it’s genuinely too stupid for words. There’s no reason for anything that happens. Umpteen avenues and loose ends are left unexplored and loose. In some films this might be a good thing. But to return for a second to Furman (‘kill Furman’): he’s clearly a fucking idiot. Before he even touched it though, it should be given to him that any potential there was for an emotional response to these characters beyond the obligatory bile-in-mouth reaction is made nearly impossible by the writing. The script is literally[3] hammier than Lawrence Olivier sporting a suit fashioned from slabs of honey-roast with pork scratching buttons. Exhibit D: Matthew McConaughey To the intended audience of this film, however, all that plot/character malarkey is essentially playing second fiddle to the wish-fulfilment of watching Mathew McConaughey be cool. That’s what this is really about. Studios probably only green-light lawyer-type films if they get the requisite actors. If films made to manipulate women play on the idea of a classy Mr Right made accessible through his emotional vulnerability, films to manipulate men are essentially about the same thing, but with the female lead relegated to (a potentially, even preferably, multiple) female bit-part, and all the mushy, kissy stuff replaced with violence. It’s a grand acting tour-de-force for sure: McConaughey gamely flips type-casting on its head, veering from his standard job of looking creepily over-confident and sexual in countless crap romcoms to looking over-confident and creepily sexual in this – in one fell swoop switching the gender binary of his fan-base from essentially lonely, unimaginative, romantically deprived women to essentially unimaginative, lonely, romantically incapable men. Ah, individualism! How you have chastened us! Exhibit E: What’s cool? Haller is good at what he does, which is cool. So good, in fact, that he’s never been heard of by the big boys at the big law firm. But that’s cool too because that means he’s sticking it to the man. He drives around LA to a mid-90s Hip Hop soundtrack – not LA G-Funk though as you might expect, because cool has to be a tiny bit more obscure – looking (meltdowns aside) really cool, helping the lowlifes of LA get out of prison time. ‘You’d have done well on the streets.’ His driver/token black friend (does he even have a name? I honestly don’t think he has a name) says to him at one point. ‘Where do you think I am?’ McConaughey replies in his Southern drawl, an irritating shit-lipped grin on his face. He’s so fucking cool! Haller’s so cool he even manages to hold his composure sitting next to the man responsible for his best friend’s death. He’s so cool he can even convincingly defend this same man in court. So cool he can get this man he knows is guilty off the hook whilst making that silly DA (what a good-hearted dork he is) look faintly ridiculous, taking apart the main witness (the victim of an attempted rape by his client) with ease and reducing her, in the process, to a stream of infantile tears (get over it honey – it didn’t actually happen). Cool. The cracks in the façade are where we’re supposed find sympathy. Just because these people don’t air their emotions in public, it says, they’re still humans driven by the same kinds of will as our own. We just don’t see it. Thus we see Haller in a position of vulnerability. In one scene, completely alone save the camera’s beady, pervert eye, we see Mick in a private personal crisis. We know this is a vulnerable moment because the shot is zoomed unrelentingly on his wrinkled eyes, which are being anxious, and staring forward (intense thought or vacant idiocy?). This might be the scene that stirred up all those positive reviews for McConaughey. Wrinkles are a big deal for a Hollywood heart-throb. For all external appearances though, he’s the complete man, and cracks only in private. He dominates women, of course. There’s one scene where a pretty female lawyer calls him a ‘prick’, and you know that really it’s because he’s so good at law, he sexually intimidates her and really, though she might really hate him, she just wants to fuck him really badly. I read one review of this film which asserts that McConaughey’s Haller is ‘sleazy’, and this the basis the author makes for claiming his is a good performance. I would make a different claim. The film is sleazy, and as such McConaughey can’t really go wrong. "Part Just For Men, part Lassie" - William H Macy's hair, and William H Macy Exhibit F: Message Here, we come to the crux of what angers me about this film. Its principles are in total opposition to mine. I might be a bleeding-heart liberal at times, but I like ‘dark’ things as much as the next guy. It’s just that every note this film struck was a bum. Not only is Furman is an idiot, but I’d like to add ‘misogynist’ to that accusation. Moral ambiguity is great. We love moral ambiguity. Moral ambiguity can be interesting, thought-provoking. This is not moral ambiguity, make no mistake. This film is set in a macho, emotionless world of casual acquaintances where women are two-dimensional non-presences, good for fucking, leering at, outsmarting or being smug towards. They’re easy to sleep with – either you get them drunk as Haller does, or hire them as Roulet does. If it’s that easy, the film seems to ask, what’s even the point of raping them? They’re easy to discredit in court, and easy to kill. Roulet’s mother is a rape victim herself. How does that lead to him going a-raping? Why does this lead to her killing people on his behalf? The film’s casual disregard, a lack of even attempting to broach these two key questions, further proves what a moronic piece of nonsense it is. It’s so confused it doesn’t even know. Furman either doesn’t have a clue, or doesn’t care. In fact, it doesn’t say much about anything, except what it’s clearly trying not to. Haller is a cold-hearted, self-serving arsehole. He’s vile. And more shockingly, he’s not even presented as an anti-hero. He’s just a hero. There’s a weirdly misjudged line about homosexuality, and an even more oddly mishandled line about capital punishment, when Haller tells Roulet that he’ll see him squirm as the needle goes into his arm. In the light of how flawed the film seems to show the justice system as being, and the recent case of Troy Davis in Georgia, this particular line dropped like a massive clanging anvil. A film has no obligation to be morally ‘correct’. A director, however, does have an obligation not to be lazy. And reviewers have an obligation not to be idiots. Exhibit G: Style This is a more personal gripe: this film had the worst collection of haircuts you could have ever wished on a bunch of actors. William H Macy gives a game go at bringing some genuine supporting clout to the project, but is undermined at every moment of on-screen time by a ridiculous fluffy mullet thing that’s somewhere between a 1970s Just For Men advert and Lassie. It acts like a naughty animal too, stealing every scene it’s in, and shitting on it.[4] Exhibit H: Cinematography Like an episode of CSI. Totally unimaginative crap. Flashbacks, for example, are helpfully identified as such with blurry ‘we’re in the past’ figures and faded colour palettes. As you’ll no doubt have noticed, my invective has gradually lost its energy, my righteous indignation dwindling. I’m not about to watch this film again to stoke my anger, ladies and gentlemen. Life is genuinely too short. All I can attempt to say, in closing, spent and weary with the effort, is that there’s absolutely no point to any of The Lincoln Lawyer, no reason for the film to exist at all. It says nothing about anything. Which would be fine, except it isn’t a suspenseful or interesting way to say nothing. There’s, no excitement, no interest in the journey. What’s more, every potential moment of excitement is mishandled, so you feel like Furman has let off another fart in your stupid, duped face. The Lincoln Lawyer would love to think of itself driving around the edgy streets of LA, working hard and playing harder, making its own rules, saving the day. Instead, it opens its eyes to find itself a paunchy, red-eyed alcoholic, balding and depressed, desperately jerking off bathed in computer light on another grey, listless afternoon. One can only hope this is the position Brad Furman, and those traitorous critic bastards, find themselves in one day. [1] As an aside, I have to note here how it’s usually possible to spot a crap book/film by the way the characters are named. Clunky character names are usually indicative of a half-arsed writer. Just have a browse down the list of characters here. Detective Lankford and Cecil Dobbs are two of my favourites. [2] There’s the Lincoln from the title. I’m guessing the book has more on that, but it’s something to do with a certain brand of lawyer that deals with the seedy underbelly of Los Angeles. As this is left totally to our imaginations, it just looks like he’s too crap to have his own office so he works from his car. [3] In the Jamie Redknapp sense. [4] Maybe the hair is the reason for Haller’s poker-faced reaction when confronted with the body of his friend face-down on the floor, gunshot wound to the head? Contributor Ed Wall is a musician, photographer and writer. You can buy his new EP here, and follow him on Twitter @Edward1Wall This entry was posted in Features and tagged brad furman, courtroom, film, hate, Matthew McConaughey, ryan philippe, The Lincoln Lawyer on November 24, 2011 by Ed Wall. About Ed Wall Musician, photographer, writer. View all posts by Ed Wall → ← Francis Ford Coppola – a raft of reissues Take Shelter → 4 thoughts on “Films I Hate: The Lincoln Lawyer” Fred White November 29, 2011 at 8:52 pm Ed Wall YOU SHOUL DNOT BE A WRITER IF YOU DO NOT KNOW PROPER GRAMMER!!!! Ashley Clark November 29, 2011 at 11:54 pm Proper Grammer? As in Kelsey? I’d love to be introduced if you know him. x AND THE FILM WAS AMAZING!!!! YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT!!!! GET A LIFE!!!! Ed Wall Post author November 29, 2011 at 10:29 pm Dear Mr White: If you’re going to criticise my grammar, please learn how to spell the word ‘grammar’ first. Also, repeated use of exclamation marks does not make your point valid. 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__label__cc	0.620777	0.379223	The entire fake history of Ouisconsin is housed in these 15 drawers. The artwork is not currently on display. History is memory, which means that it can be molded by observers’ prejudices and politics. Fake history is the flip side of fake news. One way to challenge the assertion that “only (I/we) know the truth of what happened” is to deliberately distort historical fact. Skewering history forces us to question claims about the real world. Inventing historical facts or stretching them to absurd degrees reveals how easily history can be corrupted. On Ouisconsin: An Illustrated Historical Catalogue contains brief highlights of an alternate history of our beloved state. My hope for this fond but irreverent “re-imagining” is to stimulate a search for more accurate depictions of historical truth. So, here is a sample of an alternate history of our beloved state, reimagined fondly but irreverently in the hope of stimulating surprise and a search for more accurate depictions of truth. [Excerpts from Drawer 1: “Paleo-Pioneers” follow:] According to the current anthropological model, humans first arrived in North America over the geologically temporary “bridge to nowhere” from present-day Siberia. Their most recent migration is estimated to have occurred 12,000 to 13,000 years ago, long enough to establish permanent claim to the land if these aboriginal settlers had had the prudence to purchase title insurance from a reputable agent. This reckless oversight would come back to haunt them, big time… Upon arriving from the north, the first Americans set about preparing the land as a birthright for the Europeans to come by killing off the dangerous mastodon and manufacturing the arrowheads and spear points that would become the basis of a thriving souvenir industry. To this day, the descendants of these first immigrants left their mark on the geographic swath that came to be known as Ouisconsin (“the land of mumbled apologies”). ARTIFACT (Drawer 1): Pivoted, percussion-flaked stone cutting tool, circa 9,000 BCE, exhibiting the reddish-yellow pigmented handles characteristic of the paleo-Ouisconsin squatters who called themselves Fiskaars. In general, humans seem to have a genetic need to explore the world by poking around. The design of On Ouisconsin appeals to what might be called the “snooping gene”, a holdover from our gatherer origins. Even the most haphazard gift wrapping prolongs the delicious anticipation of “the thought that counts”. A chest of many drawers offers the viewer one gift after another. ARTIFACT (Drawer 11): Missing punctuation on this irregular foam fan finger inadvertently reinforces Ouisconsinites’ paradoxically low levels of self-esteem. [Drawer catgories:] Drawer 1: Paleo-Pioneers Drawer 2: Settlers Drawer 3: Famous Ouisconsinites Drawer 4: Disavowed Ouisconsinites Drawer 5: State Secrets Drawer 6: Official Symbols Drawer 7: Tourist Attractions Drawer 8: Beer Drawer 9: Inventions Drawer 10: State Slogans Drawer 11: State Firsts Drawer 12: Agriculture Drawer 13: Popular Culture Drawer 14: Ouisconsin Saga Drawer 15: Trivi-Addendum 2 thoughts on “On Ouisconsin: An Illustrated Historical Catalogue” Denis Kitchen on December 7, 2017 at 2:42 pm said: Hi Philip— Someone (I think my old friend James Danky, former Special Collections Librarian at the Wis. State Historical Society) a while back sent me a one-sided postcard about “On Ouisconsin,” which intrigued me as a former cheesehead and humor buff. I went on line and found the sneak preview of drawer #1 (the hilarious Fiskaars artifact) but there don’t appear to be any further drawer contents accessible online. Since I’m now living in faraway New England and can’t examine the physical drawers, is there a book, hidden web site, or another way a curious expatriate can see the humorous mysteries within??? —Denis Philip Heckman on February 16, 2018 at 10:39 am said: Alas, Denis, the rest of On Ouisconsin exists only offline. I know that an online version could be done, but it would deprive the reader of the physical sensation of uncovering secrets (what I call the appeal of the “snooping gene”.) If you ever visit the state when the catalogue is not on display, I would be honored to give you private access to the real thing. Leave a Reply to Denis Kitchen Cancel reply	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1190
__label__wiki	0.697853	0.697853	Results for 'heresay evidence' Evidence: A Guide for the Uncertain.Kevin Dorst - 2020 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 100 (3):586-632.details Assume that it is your evidence that determines what opinions you should have. I argue that since you should take peer disagreement seriously, evidence must have two features. (1) It must sometimes warrant being modest: uncertain what your evidence warrants, and (thus) uncertain whether you’re rational. (2) But it must always warrant being guided: disposed to treat your evidence as a guide. Surprisingly, it is very difficult to vindicate both (1) and (2). But diagnosing why this (...) is so leads to a proposal—Trust—that is weak enough to allow modesty but strong enough to yield many guiding features. In fact, I claim that Trust is the Goldilocks principle—for it is necessary and sufficient to vindicate the claim that you should always prefer to use free evidence. Upshot: Trust lays the foundations for a theory of disagreement and, more generally, an epistemology that permits self-doubt—a modest epistemology. (shrink) Epistemology of Disagreement in Epistemology Probabilistic Frameworks, Misc in Philosophy of Probability The Reflection Principle in Philosophy of Probability Evidence and Evolution: The Logic Behind the Science.Elliott Sober - 2008 - Cambridge University Press.details How should the concept of evidence be understood? And how does the concept of evidence apply to the controversy about creationism as well as to work in evolutionary biology about natural selection and common ancestry? In this rich and wide-ranging book, Elliott Sober investigates general questions about probability and evidence and shows how the answers he develops to those questions apply to the specifics of evolutionary biology. Drawing on a set of fascinating examples, he analyzes whether claims (...) about intelligent design are untestable; whether they are discredited by the fact that many adaptations are imperfect; how evidence bears on whether present species trace back to common ancestors; how hypotheses about natural selection can be tested, and many other issues. His book will interest all readers who want to understand philosophical questions about evidence and evolution, as they arise both in Darwin's work and in contemporary biological research. (shrink) $22.98 new $24.95 used $26.98 from Amazon Amazon page Phenomenal Evidence and Factive Evidence.Susanna Schellenberg - 2016 - Philosophical Studies 173 (4):875-896.details Perceptions guide our actions and provide us with evidence of the world around us. Illusions and hallucinations can mislead us: they may prompt as to act in ways that do not mesh with the world around us and they may lead us to form false beliefs about that world. The capacity view provides an account of evidence that does justice to these two facts. It shows in virtue of what illusions and hallucinations mislead us and prompt us to (...) act. Moreover, it shows in virtue of what we are in a better epistemic position when we perceive than when we hallucination. In this paper, I develop the capacity view, that is, the view that perceptual experience has epistemic force in virtue of the epistemic and metaphysical primacy of the perceptual capacities employed in perception. By grounding the epistemic force of experience in facts about the metaphysical structure of experience, the capacity view is not only an externalist view, but moreover a naturalistic view of the epistemology of perceptual experience. So it is an externalist and naturalistic alternative to reliabilism. I discuss the repercussions of this view for the justification of beliefs and the epistemic transparency of mental states, as well as, familiar problem cases. (shrink) Knowledge, Misc in Epistemology Perception and Knowledge, Misc in Philosophy of Mind Perception and Skepticism in Philosophy of Mind Perceptual Evidence in Philosophy of Mind Speckled Hen Problem in Philosophy of Mind Integrating Evidence Into Clinical Practice: An Alternative to Evidence‐Based Approaches.Mark R. Tonelli - 2006 - Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 12 (3):248-256.details Evidence-based medicine (EBM) has thus far failed to adequately account for the appropriate incorporation of other potential warrants for medical decision making into clinical practice. In particular, EBM has struggled with the value and integration of other kinds of medical knowledge, such as those derived from clinical experience or based on pathophysiologic rationale. The general priority given to empirical evidence derived from clinical research in all EBM approaches is not epistemically tenable. A casuistic alternative to EBM approaches recognizes (...) that five distinct topics, 1) empirical evidence, 2) experiential evidence, 3) pathophysiologic rationale, 4) patient goals and values, and 5) system features are potentially relevant to any clinical decision. No single topic has a general priority over any other and the relative importance of a topic will depend upon the circumstances of the particular case. The skilled clinician must weigh these potentially conflicting evidentiary and non-evidentiary warrants for action, employing both practical and theoretical reasoning, in order to arrive at the best choice for an individual patient. (shrink) Philosophy of Medicine in Philosophy of Science, Misc Evidence and Inquiry: Towards Reconstruction in Epistemology.Susan Haack - 1993 - Wiley-Blackwell.details In this important new work, Haack develops an original theory of empirical evidence or justification, and argues its appropriateness to the goals of inquiry. In so doing, Haack provides detailed critical case studies of Lewis's foundationalism; Davidson's and Bonjour's coherentism; Popper's 'epistemology without a knowing subject'; Quine's naturalism; Goldman's reliabilism; and Rorty's, Stich's, and the Churchlands' recent obituaries of epistemology. Evidence and Knowledge in Epistemology $3.49 used $39.05 new $44.46 from Amazon Amazon page Statistical Evidence, Sensitivity, and the Legal Value of Knowledge.David Enoch, Levi Spectre & Talia Fisher - 2012 - Philosophy and Public Affairs 40 (3):197-224.details The law views with suspicion statistical evidence, even evidence that is probabilistically on a par with direct, individual evidence that the law is in no way suspicious of. But it has proved remarkably hard to either justify this suspicion, or to debunk it. In this paper, we connect the discussion of statistical evidence to broader epistemological discussions of similar phenomena. We highlight Sensitivity – the requirement that a belief be counterfactually sensitive to the truth in a (...) specific way – as a way of epistemically explaining the legal suspicion towards statistical evidence. Still, we do not think of this as a satisfactory vindication of the reluctance to rely on statistical evidence. Knowledge – and Sensitivity, and indeed epistemology in general – are of little, if any, legal value. Instead, we tell an incentive-based story vindicating the suspicion towards statistical evidence. We conclude by showing that the epistemological story and the incentive-based story are closely and interestingly related, and by offering initial thoughts about the role of statistical evidence in morality. (shrink) Other Areas of Law in Philosophy of Law Evidence: Philosophy of Science Meets Medicine.John Worrall - 2010 - Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 16 (2):356-362.details Obviously medicine should be evidence-based. The issues lie in the details: what exactly counts as evidence? Do certain kinds of evidence carry more weight than others? And how exactly should medicine be based on evidence? When it comes to these details, the evidence-based medicine movement has got itself into a mess – or so it will be argued. In order to start to resolve this mess, we need to go 'back to basics'; and that means (...) turning to the philosophy of science. The theory of evidence, or rather the logic of the interrelations between theory and evidence, has always been central to the philosophy of science – sometimes under the alias of the 'theory of confirmation'. When taken together with a little philosophical commonsense, this logic can help us move towards a position on evidence in medicine that is more sophisticated and defensible than anything that EBM has been able so far to supply. (shrink) Medical Epistemology in Philosophy of Science, Misc What Evidence in Evidence-Based Medicine?John Worrall - 2002 - Proceedings of the Philosophy of Science Association 2002 (3):S316-S330.details Evidence-Based Medicine is a relatively new movement that seeks to put clinical med- icine on a firmer scientific footing. I take it as uncontroversial that medical practice should be based on best evidence-the interesting questions concern the details. This paper tries to move towards a coherent and unified account of best evidence in medicine, by exploring in particular the EBM position on RCTs (randomized controlled trials). Evidence, Misc in Epistemology Evidence-Based Policy: What’s to Be Done About Relevance?: For the 2008 Oberlin Philosophy Colloquium. [REVIEW]Nancy Cartwright - 2009 - Philosophical Studies 143 (1):127 - 136.details How can philosophy of science be of more practical use? One thing we can do is provide practicable advice about how to determine when one empirical claim is relevant to the truth of another; i.e., about evidential relevance. This matters especially for evidence-based policy, where advice is thin—and misleading—about how to tell what counts as evidence for policy effectiveness. This paper argues that good efficacy results, which are all the rage now, are only a very small part of (...) the story. To tell what facts are relevant for judging policy effectiveness, we need to construct causal scenarios about will happen when the policy is implemented. (shrink) Evidence and the Openness of Knowledge.Assaf Sharon & Levi Spectre - 2017 - Philosophical Studies 174 (4):1001-1037.details The paper argues that knowledge is not closed under logical inference. The argument proceeds from the openness of evidential support and the dependence of empirical knowledge on evidence, to the conclusion that knowledge is open. Without attempting to provide a full-fledged theory of evidence, we show that on the modest assumption that evidence cannot support both a proposition and its negation, or, alternatively, that information that reduces the probability of a proposition cannot constitute evidence for its (...) truth, the relation of evidential support is not closed under known entailment. Therefore the evidence-for relation is deductively open regardless of whether evidence is probabilistic or not. Given even a weak dependence of empirical knowledge on evidence, we argue that empirical knowledge is also open. On this basis, we also respond to the strongest argument in support of knowledge closure. Finally, we present a number of significant benefits of our position, namely, offering a unified explanation for a range of epistemological puzzles. (shrink) Closure of Knowledge in Epistemology Confidence, Evidence, and Disagreement.Katia Vavova - 2014 - Erkenntnis 79 (S1):173-183.details Should learning we disagree about p lead you to reduce confidence in p? Some who think so want to except beliefs in which you are rationally highly confident. I argue that this is wrong; we should reject accounts that rely on this intuitive thought. I then show that quite the opposite holds: factors that justify low confidence in p also make disagreement about p less significant. I examine two such factors: your antecedent expectations about your peers’ opinions and the difficulty (...) of evaluating your evidence. I close by proposing a different way of thinking about disagreement. (shrink) Disagreement, Misc in Epistemology Formal Social Epistemology in Epistemology Evidence, Pragmatics, and Justification.Jeremy Fantl & Matthew McGrath - 2002 - Philosophical Review 111 (1):67-94.details Evidentialism is the thesis that epistemic justification for belief supervenes on evidential support. However, we claim there are cases in which, even though two subjects have the same evidential support for a proposition, only one of them is justified. What make the difference are pragmatic factors, factors having to do with our cares and concerns. Our argument against evidentialism is not based on intuitions about particular cases. Rather, we aim to provide a theoretical basis for rejecting evidentialism by defending a (...) “pragmatic” necessary condition on epistemic justification. We argue for the following necessary condition for justification: S is justified in believing that p only if S is rational to prefer (and, hence, act) as if p. In light of this necessary condition, the price of evidentialism is skepticism, or something close to it. (shrink) Epistemic Contextualism and Invariantism in Epistemology Pragmatic and Moral Encroachment in Epistemology Pragmatics, Misc in Philosophy of Language Direct download (11 more) Evidence‐Based Policy : Where is Our Theory of Evidence?Nancy Cartwright - manuscriptdetails This paper critically analyses the concept of evidence in evidence-based-policy arguing that there is key problem: that there is no existing practicable theory of evidence, one which is philosophically grounded and yet applicable for evidencebased policy. The paper critically considers both philosophical accounts of evidence and practical treatments of evidence in evidence-based-policy. It argues that both fail in different ways to provide a theory of evidence that is adequate for evidence-basedpolicy. The paper (...) is a valuable contribution to the part of the research project that explores how evidence can and should be used to reduce contingency in science, and policy based on science. (shrink) Is Evidence of Evidence Evidence?Eyal Tal & Juan Comesaña - 2017 - Noûs 51 (1):95-112.details We examine whether the "evidence of evidence is evidence" principle is true. We distinguish several different versions of the principle and evaluate recent attacks on some of those versions. We argue that, whatever the merits of those attacks, they leave the more important rendition of the principle untouched. That version is, however, also subject to new kinds of counterexamples. We end by suggesting how to formulate a better version of the principle that takes into account those new (...) counterexamples. (shrink) Epistemological Sources, Misc in Epistemology What Evidence in Evidence‐Based Medicine?John Worrall - 2002 - Philosophy of Science 69 (S3):S316-S330.details Evidence-Based Medicine is a relatively new movement that seeks to put clinical medicine on a firmer scientific footing. I take it as uncontroversial that medical practice should be based on best evidence—the interesting questions concern the details. This paper tries to move towards a coherent and unified account of best evidence in medicine, by exploring in particular the EBM position on RCTs. Evidence in Epistemology Medical Methodology in Philosophy of Science, Misc What Evidence Do You Have?Ram Neta - 2008 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 59 (1):89-119.details Your evidence constrains your rational degrees of confidence both locally and globally. On the one hand, particular bits of evidence can boost or diminish your rational degree of confidence in various hypotheses, relative to your background information. On the other hand, epistemic rationality requires that, for any hypothesis h, your confidence in h is proportional to the support that h receives from your total evidence. Why is it that your evidence has these two epistemic powers? I (...) argue that various proposed accounts of what it is for something to be an element of your evidence set cannot answer this question. I then propose an alternative account of what it is for something to be an element of your evidence set. 1 Introduction 2 The elements of one's evidence set are propositions 3 Which kinds of propositions are in one's evidence set? 3.1 Doxastic accounts of evidence 3.2 Non-doxastic accounts of evidence 4 Elaborating and defending the LIE CiteULike Connotea Del.icio.us What's this? (shrink) No Evidence is False.Clayton Littlejohn - 2013 - Acta Analytica 28 (2):145-159.details If evidence is propositional, is one’s evidence limited to true propositions or might false propositions constitute evidence? In this paper, I consider three recent attempts to show that there can be ‘false evidence,’ and argue that each of these attempts fails. The evidence for the thesis that evidence consists of truths is much stronger than the evidence offered in support of the theoretical assumptions that people have relied on to argue against this thesis. (...) While I shall not defend the view that evidence is propositional, I shall defend the view that any propositional evidence must be true. (shrink) Epistemological States and Properties, Misc in Epistemology Internalism and Externalism about Reasons in Philosophy of Action Justification, Misc in Epistemology Subjective and Objective Reasons in Philosophy of Action Evidence of Factive Norms of Belief and Decision.John Turri - 2015 - Synthese 192 (12):4009-4030.details According to factive accounts of the norm of belief and decision-making, you should not believe or base decisions on a falsehood. Even when the evidence misleadingly suggests that a false proposition is true, you should not believe it or base decisions on it. Critics claim that factive accounts are counterintuitive and badly mischaracterize our ordinary practice of evaluating beliefs and decisions. This paper reports four experiments that rigorously test the critic’s accusations and the viability of factive accounts. The results (...) undermine the accusations and provide the best evidence yet of factive norms of belief and decision-making. The results also help discriminate between two leading candidates for a factive norm: truth and knowledge. Knowledge is the superior candidate. (shrink) Decision in Philosophy of Action Epistemological States and Properties in Epistemology Experimental Philosophy: Epistemology, Misc in Metaphilosophy Norms of Assertion in Philosophy of Language Practical and Theoretical Reasoning in Philosophy of Action Evidence Amalgamation, Plausibility, and Cancer Research.Marta Bertolaso & Fabio Sterpetti - 2019 - Synthese 196 (8):3279-3317.details Cancer research is experiencing ‘paradigm instability’, since there are two rival theories of carcinogenesis which confront themselves, namely the somatic mutation theory and the tissue organization field theory. Despite this theoretical uncertainty, a huge quantity of data is available thanks to the improvement of genome sequencing techniques. Some authors think that the development of new statistical tools will be able to overcome the lack of a shared theoretical perspective on cancer by amalgamating as many data as possible. We think instead (...) that a deeper understanding of cancer can be achieved by means of more theoretical work, rather than by merely accumulating more data. To support our thesis, we introduce the analytic view of theory development, which rests on the concept of plausibility, and make clear in what sense plausibility and probability are distinct concepts. Then, the concept of plausibility is used to point out the ineliminable role played by the epistemic subject in the development of statistical tools and in the process of theory assessment. We then move to address a central issue in cancer research, namely the relevance of computational tools developed by bioinformaticists to detect driver mutations in the debate between the two main rival theories of carcinogenesis. Finally, we briefly extend our considerations on the role that plausibility plays in evidence amalgamation from cancer research to the more general issue of the divergences between frequentists and Bayesians in the philosophy of medicine and statistics. We argue that taking into account plausibility-based considerations can lead to clarify some epistemological shortcomings that afflict both these perspectives. (shrink) Causation in Biology in Philosophy of Biology Disability in Applied Ethics Philosophy of Medicine, Miscellaneous in Philosophy of Science, Misc Philosophy of Statistics in Philosophy of Probability Scientific Practice in General Philosophy of Science Profile Evidence, Fairness, and the Risks of Mistaken Convictions.Marcello Di Bello & Collin O’Neil - 2019 - Ethics 130 (2):147-178.details Many oppose the use of profile evidence against defendants at trial, even when the statistical correlations are reliable and the jury is free from prejudice. The literature has struggled to justify this opposition. We argue that admitting profile evidence is objectionable because it violates what we call “equal protection”—that is, a right of innocent defendants not to be exposed to higher ex ante risks of mistaken conviction compared to other innocent defendants facing similar charges. We also show why (...) admitting other forms of evidence, such as eyewitness, trace, and motive evidence, does not violate equal protection. (shrink) Criminal Justice Ethics, Misc in Applied Ethics Evidence and Proof in Law in Philosophy of Law Policing in Applied Ethics The Leveling-Down Objection in Social and Political Philosophy The Value of Equality in Social and Political Philosophy On Evidence and Evidence-Based Medicine: Lessons From the Philosophy of Science.Maya J. Goldenberg - 2006 - Social Science and Medicine 62 (11):2621-2632.details The evidence-based medicine (EBM) movement is touted as a new paradigm in medical education and practice, a description that carries with it an enthusiasm for science that has not been seen since logical positivism ﬂourished (circa 1920–1950). At the same time, the term ‘‘evidence-based medicine’’ has a ring of obviousness to it, as few physicians, one suspects, would claim that they do not attempt to base their clinical decision-making on available evidence. However, the apparent obviousness of EBM (...) can and should be challenged on the grounds of how ‘evidence’ has been problematised in the philosophy of science. EBM enthusiasm, it follows, ought to be tempered. The post-positivist, feminist, and phenomenological philosophies of science that are examined in this paper contest the seemingly unproblematic nature of evidence that underlies EBM by emphasizing different features of the social nature of science. The appeal to the authority of evidence that characterizes evidence-based practices does not increase objectivity but rather obscures the subjective elements that inescapably enter all forms of human inquiry. The seeming common sense of EBM only occurs because of its assumed removal from the social context of medical practice. In the current age where the institutional power of medicine is suspect, a model that represents biomedicine as politically disinterested or merely scientiﬁc should give pause. (shrink) Feminist Philosophy of Science in Philosophy of Science, Misc Medicine in Professional Areas Philosophy of Science, General Works in Philosophy of Science, Misc Philosophy of Science, Miscellaneous in Philosophy of Science, Misc Statistical Evidence, Normalcy, and the Gatecrasher Paradox.Michael Blome-Tillmann - 2020 - Mind 129 (514):563-578.details Martin Smith has recently proposed, in this journal, a novel and intriguing approach to puzzles and paradoxes in evidence law arising from the evidential standard of the Preponderance of the Evidence. According to Smith, the relation of normic support provides us with an elegant solution to those puzzles. In this paper I develop a counterexample to Smith’s approach and argue that normic support can neither account for our reluctance to base affirmative verdicts on bare statistical evidence nor (...) resolve the pertinent paradoxes. Normic support is, as a consequence, not a successful epistemic anti-luck condition. (shrink) Epistemic Normativity, Misc in Epistemology Epistemic Paradoxes, Misc in Epistemology Epistemological Theories, Misc in Epistemology Social Epistemology, Misc in Epistemology Evidence and Agency Norms of Belief for Promising and Resolving.Berislav Marusic - 2015 - Oxford University Press.details Berislav Marusic explores how we should take evidence into account when thinking about future actions, such as resolving to do something we know will be difficult. Should we believe we will follow through, or not? He argues that if it is important to us, we can rationally believe we will do it, even if our belief contradicts the evidence. Intentions in Philosophy of Action Practical Reason in Philosophy of Action Promises in Normative Ethics The Philosophy of Evidence-Based Medicine.Jeremy Howick - 2011 - Wiley-Blackwell, Bmj Books.details The philosophy of evidence-based medicine -- What is EBM? -- What is good evidence for a clinical decision? -- Ruling out plausible rival hypotheses and confounding factors : a method -- Resolving the paradox of effectiveness : when do observational studies offer the same degree of evidential support as randomized trials? -- Questioning double blinding as a universal methodological virtue of clinical trials : resolving the Philip's paradox -- Placebo controls : problematic and misleading baseline measures of effectiveness (...) -- Questioning the methodological superiority of "placebo" over "active" controlled trials -- Examining the paradox that traditional roles for mechanistic reasoning and expert -- Judgment have been up-ended by EBM -- A qualified defence of the EBM stance on mechanistic reasoning -- Knowledge that versus knowledge how : situating the EBM position on expert clinical judgment -- Moving EBM forward. (shrink) $51.02 used $61.34 new Amazon page Rethinking Evidence: Exploratory Essays.William L. Twining - 2006 - Cambridge University Press.details The Law of Evidence has traditionally been perceived as a dry, highly technical, and mysterious subject. This book argues that problems of evidence in law are closely related to the handling of evidence in other kinds of practical decision-making and other academic disciplines, that it is closely related to common sense and that it is an interesting, lively and accessible subject. These essays develop a readable, coherent historical and theoretical perspective about problems of proof, evidence, and (...) inferential reasoning in law. Although each essay is self-standing, they are woven together to present a sustained argument for a broad inter-disciplinary approach to evidence in litigation, in which the rules of evidence play a subordinate, though significant, role. This revised and enlarged edition includes a revised introduction, the best-known essays in the first edition, and new chapters on narrative and argumentation, teaching evidence, and evidence as a multi-disciplinary subject. (shrink) $13.23 used Amazon page The Evidence for Relativism.Max Kölbel - 2009 - Synthese 166 (2):375-395.details The aim of this paper is to examine the kind of evidence that might be adduced in support of relativist semantics of a kind that have recently been proposed for predicates of personal taste, for epistemic modals, for knowledge attributions and for other cases. I shall concentrate on the case of taste predicates, but what I have to say is easily transposed to the other cases just mentioned. I shall begin by considering in general the question of what kind (...) of evidence can be offered in favour of some semantic theory or framework of semantic theorizing. In other words, I shall begin with the difficult question of the empirical significance of semantic theorizing. In Sect. 2, I outline a relativist semantic theory, and in Sect. 3, I review four types of evidence that might be offered in favour of a relativistic framework. I show that the evidence is not conclusive because a sophisticated form of contextualism can stand up to the evidence. However, the evidence can be taken to support the view that either relativism or the sophisticated form of contextualism is correct. (shrink) Relativism about Truth in Philosophy of Language Evidence.Thomas Kelly - 2006 - Philosophy Compass.details The concept of evidence is central to both epistemology and the philosophy of science. Of course, ‘evidence’ is hardly a philosopher's term of art: it is not only, or even primarily, philosophers who routinely speak of evidence, but also lawyers and judges, historians and scientists, investigative journalists and reporters, as well as the members of numerous other professions and ordinary folk in the course of everyday life. The concept of evidence would thus seem to be on (...) firmer pre-theoretical ground than various other concepts which enjoy similarly central standing within philosophy. (Contrast, for example, the epistemologist's quasi-technical term ‘epistemic justification’.). (shrink) Corroborating Evidence‐Based Medicine.Alexander Mebius - 2014 - Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 20 (6):915-920.details Proponents of evidence-based medicine have argued convincingly for applying this scientific method to medicine. However, the current methodological framework of the EBM movement has recently been called into question, especially in epidemiology and the philosophy of science. The debate has focused on whether the methodology of randomized controlled trials provides the best evidence available. This paper attempts to shift the focus of the debate by arguing that clinical reasoning involves a patchwork of evidential approaches and that the emphasis (...) on evidence hierarchies of methodology fails to lend credence to the common practice of corroboration in medicine. I argue that the strength of evidence lies in the evidence itself, and not the methodology used to obtain that evidence. Ultimately, when it comes to evaluating the effectiveness of medical interventions, it is the evidence obtained from the methodology rather than the methodology that should establish the strength of the evidence. (shrink) Robustness in Science in General Philosophy of Science Phenomenal Evidence and Factive Evidence Defended: Replies to McGrath, Pautz, and Neta.Susanna Schellenberg - 2016 - Philosophical Studies 173 (4):929-946.details This paper defends and develops the capacity view against insightful critiques from Matt McGrath, Adam Pautz, and Ram Neta. In response to Matt McGrath, I show why capacities are essential and cannot simply be replaced with representational content. I argue moreover, that the asymmetry between the employment of perceptual capacities in the good and the bad case is sufficient to account for the epistemic force of perceptual states yielded by the employment of such capacities. In response to Adam Pautz, I (...) show why a perceiver’s belief is better justified than the belief of someone who suffers a subjectively indistinguishable hallucination. I show, moreover, why the capacity view is compatible with standard Bayesian principles and how it accounts for degrees of justification. In response to Ram Neta, I discuss the relationship between evidence and rational confidence, as well as the notion of evidence in light of an externalism about perceptual content. (shrink) Naturalized Epistemology in Epistemology Evaluating Evidence of Mechanisms in Medicine.Veli-Pekka Parkkinen, Christian Wallmann, Michael Wilde, Brendan Clarke, Phyllis Illari, Michael P. Kelly, Charles Norell, Federica Russo, Beth Shaw & Jon Williamson - 2018 - Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer.details The use of evidence in medicine is something we should continuously seek to improve. This book seeks to develop our understanding of evidence of mechanism in evaluating evidence in medicine, public health, and social care; and also offers tools to help implement improved assessment of evidence of mechanism in practice. In this way, the book offers a bridge between more theoretical and conceptual insights and worries about evidence of mechanism and practical means to fit the (...) results into evidence assessment procedures. (shrink) $23.74 new $24.99 from Amazon $27.39 used Amazon page Unconscious Evidence.Jack Lyons - 2016 - Philosophical Issues 26 (1):243-262.details Can beliefs that are not consciously formulated serve as part of an agent's evidence for other beliefs? A common view says no, any belief that is psychologically immediate is also epistemically immediate. I argue that some unconscious beliefs can serve as evidence, but other unconscious beliefs cannot. Person-level beliefs can serve as evidence, but subpersonal beliefs cannot. I try to clarify the nature of the personal/subpersonal distinction and to show how my proposal illuminates various epistemological problems and (...) provides a principled framework for solving other problems. (shrink) Epistemic Regress in Epistemology Foundationalism and Coherentism in Epistemology Evidence Does Not Equal Knowledge.Aaron Rizzieri - 2011 - Philosophical Studies 153 (2):235-242.details Timothy Williamson has argued that a person S ’s total evidence is constituted solely by propositions that S knows. This theory of evidence entails that a false belief can not be a part of S ’s evidence base for a conclusion. I argue by counterexample that this thesis (E = K for now) forces an implausible separation between what it means for a belief to be justified and rational from one’s perspective and what it means to base (...) one’s beliefs on the evidence. Furthermore, I argue that E = K entails the implausible result that there are cases in which a well-evidenced belief necessarily can not serve as evidence for a further proposition. (shrink) Robust Evidence and Secure Evidence Claims.Kent W. Staley - 2004 - Philosophy of Science 71 (4):467-488.details Many philosophers have claimed that evidence for a theory is better when multiple independent tests yield the same result, i.e., when experimental results are robust. Little has been said about the grounds on which such a claim rests, however. The present essay presents an analysis of the evidential value of robustness that rests on the fallibility of assumptions about the reliability of testing procedures and a distinction between the strength of evidence and the security of an evidence (...) claim. Robustness can enhance the security of an evidence claim either by providing what I call second-order evidence, or by providing back-up evidence for a hypothesis. (shrink) Evidence-Based Neuroethics, Deep Brain Stimulation and Personality - Deflating, but Not Bursting, the Bubble.Jonathan Pugh, Laurie Pycroft, Hannah Maslen, Tipu Aziz & Julian Savulescu - forthcoming - Neuroethics.details Gilbert et al. have raised important questions about the empirical grounding of neuroethical analyses of the apparent phenomenon of Deep Brain Stimulation ‘causing’ personality changes. In this paper, we consider how to make neuroethical claims appropriately calibrated to existing evidence, and the role that philosophical neuroethics has to play in this enterprise of ‘evidence-based neuroethics’. In the first half of the paper, we begin by highlighting the challenges we face in investigating changes to PIAAAS following DBS, explaining how (...) different trial designs may be of different degrees of utility, depending on how changes to PIAAAS following DBS are manifested. In particular, we suggest that the trial designs Gilbert et al. call for may not be able to tell us whether or not DBS directly causes changes to personality. However, we suggest that this is not the most significant question about this phenomenon; the most significant question is whether these changes should matter morally, however they are caused. We go on to suggest that neuroethical analyses of novel neuro-interventions should be carried out in accordance with the levels of evidence hierarchy outlined by the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, and explain different ways in which neuroethical analyses of changes to PIAAAS can be evidence-based on this framework. In the second half of the paper, we explain how philosophical neuroethics can play an important role in contributing to mechanism-based reasoning about potential effects on PIAAAS following DBS, a form of evidence that is also incorporated into the CEBM levels of evidence hierarchy. (shrink) Neuroethics in Applied Ethics Psychiatric Ethics in Applied Ethics Evidence of Evidence is Evidence Under Screening-Off.William Roche - 2014 - Episteme 11 (1):119-124.details An important question in the current debate on the epistemic significance of peer disagreement is whether evidence of evidence is evidence. Fitelson argues that, at least on some renderings of the thesis that evidence of evidence is evidence, there are cases where evidence of evidence is not evidence. I introduce a condition and show that under this condition evidence of evidence is evidence. Is Evidence of Evidence Evidence? Screening-Off Vs. No-Defeaters.Roche William - 2018 - Episteme 15 (4):451-462.details I argue elsewhere (Roche 2014) that evidence of evidence is evidence under screening-off. Tal and Comesaña (2017) argue that my appeal to screening-off is subject to two objections. They then propose an evidence of evidence thesis involving the notion of a defeater. There is much to learn from their very careful discussion. I argue, though, that their objections fail and that their evidence of evidence thesis is open to counterexample. Bayesian Reasoning, Misc in Philosophy of Probability Confirmation, Misc in General Philosophy of Science Formal Social Epistemology, Misc in Epistemology Uniqueness, Evidence, and Rationality.Nathan Ballantyne & E. J. Coffman - 2011 - Philosophers' Imprint 11.details Two theses figure centrally in work on the epistemology of disagreement: Equal Weight (‘EW’) and Uniqueness (‘U’). According to EW, you should give precisely as much weight to the attitude of a disagreeing epistemic peer as you give to your own attitude. U has it that, for any given proposition and total body of evidence, some doxastic attitude is the one the evidence makes rational (justifies) toward that proposition. Although EW has received considerable discussion, the case for U (...) has not been critically evaluated. Endorsing U, we argue, commits one to the highly controversial thesis that whatever fixes your rational attitudes can do so only by fixing what evidence you have. This commitment imposes a relatively demanding requirement on justified belief in U, one that we argue is not satisfied by what is currently the strongest available case for U, due to Roger White [2005]. Our challenge to U makes more trouble for its proponents than do the worries about U expressed by Gideon Rosen [2001] and Thomas Kelly [2010]. Moreover, if Kelly [2010] is correct in thinking that EW “carries with it a commitment to” U—a claim which we accept for reasons similar to Kelly’s but is beyond this paper’s scope (but see Ballantyne and Coffman [forthcoming])—then our challenge to U bears importantly on EW: to the extent that our challenge to U succeeds, EW also suffers. (shrink) Rationality in Epistemology Evidence, Decision and Causality.Arif Ahmed - 2014 - Cambridge University Press.details Most philosophers agree that causal knowledge is essential to decision-making: agents should choose from the available options those that probably cause the outcomes that they want. This book argues against this theory and in favour of evidential or Bayesian decision theory, which emphasises the symptomatic value of options over their causal role. It examines a variety of settings, including economic theory, quantum mechanics and philosophical thought-experiments, where causal knowledge seems to make a practical difference. The arguments make novel use of (...) machinery from other areas of philosophical inquiry, including first-person epistemology and the free will debate. The book also illustrates the applicability of decision theory itself to questions about the direction of time and the special epistemic status of agents. (shrink) Causal Decision Theory in Philosophy of Action $24.39 from Amazon Amazon page Evidence Based or Person Centered? An Ontological Debate.Rani Lill Anjum - 2016 - European Journal for Person Centered Healthcare 4 (2):421-429.details Evidence based medicine (EBM) is under critical debate, and person centered healthcare (PCH) has been proposed as an improvement. But is PCH offered as a supplement or as a replacement of EBM? Prima facie PCH only concerns the practice of medicine, while the contended features of EBM also include methods and medical model. I here argue that there are good philosophical reasons to see PCH as a radical alternative to the existing medical paradigm of EBM, since the two seem (...) committed to conflicting ontologies. This paper aims to make explicit some of the most fundamental assumptions that motivate EBM and PCH, respectively, in order to show that the choice between them ultimately comes down to ontological preference. While EBM has a solid foundation in positivism, or what I here call Humeanism, PCH is more consistent with causal dispositionalism. I conclude that if there is a paradigmatic revolution on the way in medicine, it is first of all one of ontology. (shrink) Causation, Miscellaneous in Metaphysics Dispositions and Powers, Misc in Metaphysics Evidence-Based Medicine in Philosophy of Science, Misc Health in Philosophy of Science, Misc Tracking Truth: Knowledge, Evidence, and Science.Sherrilyn Roush - 2005 - Oxford University Press.details Sherrilyn Roush defends a new theory of knowledge and evidence, based on the idea of "tracking" the truth, as the best approach to a wide range of questions about knowledge-related phenomena. The theory explains, for example, why scepticism is frustrating, why knowledge is power, and why better evidence makes you more likely to have knowledge. Tracking Truth provides a unification of the concepts of knowledge and evidence, and argues against traditional epistemological realist and anti-realist positions about scientific (...) theories and for a piecemeal approach based on a criterion of evidence, a position Roush calls "real anti-realism." Epistemologists and philosophers of science will recognize this as a significant original contribution. (shrink) Evidence for the Epistemic View of Quantum States: A Toy Theory.Robert W. Spekkens - 2007 - Physical Review A 75:032110.details We present a toy theory that is based on a simple principle: the number of questions about the physical state of a system that are answered must always be equal to the number that are unanswered in a state of maximal knowledge. Many quantum phenomena are found to have analogues within this toy theory. These include the noncommutativity of measurements, interference, the multiplicity of convex decompositions of a mixed state, the impossibility of discriminating nonorthogonal states, the impossibility of a universal (...) state inverter, the distinction between bipartite and tripartite entanglement, the monogamy of pure entanglement, no cloning, no broadcasting, remote steering, teleportation, entanglement swapping, dense coding, mutually unbiased bases, and many others. The diversity and quality of these analogies is taken as evidence for the view that quantum states are states of incomplete knowledge rather than states of reality. A consideration of the phenomena that the toy theory fails to reproduce, notably, violations of Bell inequalities and the existence of a Kochen-Specker theorem, provides clues for how to proceed with this research program. (shrink) Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics in Philosophy of Physical Science Realism and Anti-Realism in Metaphysics Evidence Cannot Be Permissive.Roger White - 2013 - In Matthias Steup & John Turri (eds.), Contemporary Debates in Epistemology. Blackwell. pp. 312.details Evidence – Competence – Discourse: The Theoretical Framework of the Multi-Centre Clinical Ethics Support Project Metap.Stella Reiter-Theil, Marcel Mertz, Jan Schürmann, Nicola Stingelin Giles & Barbara Meyer-Zehnder - 2011 - Bioethics 25 (7):403-412.details In this paper we assume that ‘theory’ is important for Clinical Ethics Support Services (CESS). We will argue that the underlying implicit theory should be reflected. Moreover, we suggest that the theoretical components on which any clinical ethics support (CES) relies should be explicitly articulated in order to enhance the quality of CES.A theoretical framework appropriate for CES will be necessarily complex and should include ethical (both descriptive and normative), metaethical and organizational components. The various forms of CES that exist (...) in North-America and in Europe show their underlying theory more or less explicitly, with most of them referring to some kind of theoretical components including ‘how-to’ questions (methodology), organizational issues (implementation), problem analysis (phenomenology or typology of problems), and related ethical issues such as end-of-life decisions (major ethical topics).In order to illustrate and explain the theoretical framework that we are suggesting for our own CES project METAP, we will outline this project which has been established in a multi-centre context in several healthcare institutions. We conceptualize three ‘pillars’ as the major components of our theoretical framework: (1) evidence, (2) competence, and (3) discourse. As a whole, the framework is aimed at developing a foundation of our CES project METAP.We conclude that this specific integration of theoretical components is a promising model for the fruitful further development of CES. (shrink) Health Care Ethics, Misc in Applied Ethics The Evidence for the Top Quark: Objectivity and Bias in Collaborative Experimentation.Kent W. Staley - 2004 - Cambridge University Press.details The Evidence for the Top Quark offers both a historical and philosophical perspective on an important recent discovery in particle physics: evidence for the elementary particle known as the top quark. Drawing on published reports, oral histories, and internal documents from the large collaboration that performed the experiment, Kent Staley explores in detail the controversies and politics that surrounded this major scientific result. At the same time the book seeks to defend an objective theory of scientific evidence (...) based on error probabilities. Such a theory provides an illuminating explication of the points of contention in the debate over the evidence for the top quark. Philosophers wishing to defend the objectivity of the results of scientific research must face unflinchingly the realities of scientific practice, and this book attempts to do precisely that. (shrink) Epistemic Objectivity in Epistemology Experimentation in Science in General Philosophy of Science Particle Physics in Philosophy of Physical Science Science and Values in General Philosophy of Science Scientific Method, Miscellaneous in General Philosophy of Science Evidence: Fundamental Concepts and the Phenomenal Conception.Thomas Kelly - 2008 - Philosophy Compass 3 (5):933-955.details The concept of evidence is among the central concerns of epistemology broadly construed. As such, it has long engaged the intellectual energies of both philosophers of science and epistemologists of a more traditional variety. Here I briefly survey some of the more important ideas to have emerged from this tradition of reflection. I then look somewhat more closely at an issue that has recently come to the fore, largely as a result of Williamson's Knowledge and Its Limits: that of (...) whether one's evidence supervenes on one's non-factive mental states. (shrink) Consciousness and Materialism in Philosophy of Mind Respecting All the Evidence.Paulina Sliwa & Sophie Horowitz - 2015 - Philosophical Studies 172 (11):2835-2858.details Plausibly, you should believe what your total evidence supports. But cases of misleading higher-order evidence—evidence about what your evidence supports—present a challenge to this thought. In such cases, taking both first-order and higher-order evidence at face value leads to a seemingly irrational incoherence between one’s first-order and higher-order attitudes: you will believe P, but also believe that your evidence doesn’t support P. To avoid sanctioning tension between epistemic levels, some authors have abandoned the thought (...) that both first-order and higher-order evidence have rational bearing. This sacrifice is both costly and unnecessary. We propose a principle, Evidential Calibration, which requires rational agents to accommodate first-order evidence correctly, while allowing rational uncertainty about what to believe. At the same time, it rules out irrational tensions between epistemic levels. We show that while there are serious problems for some views on which we can rationally believe, “P, but my evidence doesn’t support P”, Evidential Calibration avoids these problems. An important upshot of our discussion is a new way to think about the relationship between epistemic levels: why first-order and higher-order attitudes should generally be aligned, and why it is sometimes—though not always—problematic when they diverge. (shrink) Belief Revision in Epistemology Evidence of Evidence is Not (Necessarily) Evidence.Branden Fitelson - 2012 - Analysis 72 (1):85-88.details In this note, I consider various precisifications of the slogan ‘evidence of evidence is evidence’. I provide counter-examples to each of these precisifications (assuming an epistemic probabilistic relevance notion of ‘evidential support’). Formal Epistemology in Epistemology Evidence-Based Ethics? On Evidence-Based Practice and The.Maya J. Goldenberg - 2005 - BMC Medical Ethics 6 (1):11.details BackgroundThe increase in empirical methods of research in bioethics over the last two decades is typically perceived as a welcomed broadening of the discipline, with increased integration of social and life scientists into the field and ethics consultants into the clinical setting, however it also represents a loss of confidence in the typical normative and analytic methods of bioethics.DiscussionThe recent incipiency of "Evidence-Based Ethics" attests to this phenomenon and should be rejected as a solution to the current ambivalence toward (...) the normative resolution of moral problems in a pluralistic society. While "evidence-based" is typically read in medicine and other life and social sciences as the empirically-adequate standard of reasonable practice and a means for increasing certainty, I propose that the evidence-based movement in fact gains consensus by displacing normative discourse with aggregate or statistically-derived empirical evidence as the "bottom line". Therefore, along with wavering on the fact/value distinction, evidence-based ethics threatens bioethics' normative mandate. The appeal of the evidence-based approach is that it offers a means of negotiating the demands of moral pluralism. Rather than appealing to explicit values that are likely not shared by all, "the evidence" is proposed to adjudicate between competing claims. Quantified measures are notably more "neutral" and democratic than liberal markers like "species normal functioning". Yet the positivist notion that claims stand or fall in light of the evidence is untenable; furthermore, the legacy of positivism entails the quieting of empirically non-verifiable considerations like moral claims and judgments. As a result, evidence-based ethics proposes to operate with the implicit normativity that accompanies the production and presentation of all biomedical and scientific facts unchecked.SummaryThe "empirical turn" in bioethics signals a need for reconsideration of the methods used for moral evaluation and resolution, however the options should not include obscuring normative content by seemingly neutral technical measure. (shrink) Medical Ethics in Applied Ethics Evidence-Based Ethics? On Evidence-Based Practice and the "Empirical Turn" From Normative Bioethics.Maya J. Goldenberg - 2005 - BMC Medical Ethics 6 (1):1-9.details Background The increase in empirical methods of research in bioethics over the last two decades is typically perceived as a welcomed broadening of the discipline, with increased integration of social and life scientists into the field and ethics consultants into the clinical setting, however it also represents a loss of confidence in the typical normative and analytic methods of bioethics. Discussion The recent incipiency of "Evidence-Based Ethics" attests to this phenomenon and should be rejected as a solution to the (...) current ambivalence toward the normative resolution of moral problems in a pluralistic society. While "evidence-based" is typically read in medicine and other life and social sciences as the empirically-adequate standard of reasonable practice and a means for increasing certainty, I propose that the evidence-based movement in fact gains consensus by displacing normative discourse with aggregate or statistically-derived empirical evidence as the "bottom line". Therefore, along with wavering on the fact/value distinction, evidence-based ethics threatens bioethics' normative mandate. The appeal of the evidence-based approach is that it offers a means of negotiating the demands of moral pluralism. Rather than appealing to explicit values that are likely not shared by all, "the evidence" is proposed to adjudicate between competing claims. Quantified measures are notably more "neutral" and democratic than liberal markers like "species normal functioning". Yet the positivist notion that claims stand or fall in light of the evidence is untenable; furthermore, the legacy of positivism entails the quieting of empirically non-verifiable considerations like moral claims and judgments. As a result, evidence-based ethics proposes to operate with the implicit normativity that accompanies the production and presentation of all biomedical and scientific facts unchecked. Summary The "empirical turn" in bioethics signals a need for reconsideration of the methods used for moral evaluation and resolution, however the options should not include obscuring normative content by seemingly neutral technical measure. (shrink) Experience and Evidence.Susanna Schellenberg - 2013 - Mind 122 (487):699-747.details I argue that perceptual experience provides us with both phenomenal and factive evidence. To a first approximation, we can understand phenomenal evidence as determined by how our environment sensorily seems to us when we are experiencing. To a first approximation, we can understand factive evidence as necessarily determined by the environment to which we are perceptually related such that the evidence is guaranteed to be an accurate guide to the environment. I argue that the rational source (...) of both phenomenal and factive evidence lies in employing perceptual capacities that we have in virtue of being perceivers. In showing that both kinds of evidence have the same rational source, I provide a unified account of perceptual evidence and its rational source in perceptual experience. (shrink) Epistemic Internalism and Externalism in Epistemology Evidentialism in Epistemology Propositional and Doxastic Justification in Epistemology	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1192
__label__wiki	0.609144	0.609144	Powered by QUBES Inclusive Environments and Metrics in Biology Education and Research (iEMBER) About iEMBER iEMBER Steering Committee iEMBER Newsletters Equity in Online Teaching (Known and Unknowns) Fostering Inclusive Classrooms Addressing Inequality in Biology Education Institutionalized Racism and White Privilege in STEM Education Upcoming Events/Get Involved September 2020 Virtual Conference April 2020 Networking Event NABT 2019 iEMBER 2019 iEMBER "Collaborative Pitch" Award Rubric SPARC Travel Funding Rubric The following articles were identified by iEMBER members as being of potential interest to individuals who are working to address institutionalized racism and white privilege in STEM education. These references are meant to be a start or a touch-stone on what is a personal journey; it is not a comprehensive list or path. All iEMBER members are encouraged to contribute to iEMBER's QUBEShub site. 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Darkwater: The Givens collection. NY: Washington Square Press. Du Bois, W.E.B. (2013). The souls of black folk. NY: Tribeca Books. Feagin, J. 2010. Racist America. New York: Routledge. Feagin, J.R. & Cobas, J.A. (2008). Latinos / as and white racial frame: The procrustean bed of assimilation. Sociological inquiry, 78, 39-53. Gordon, Milton. 1964. Assimilation in American Life: The Role of Race, Religion and National Origins. UK: Oxford University Press. Hirschman, C. (1983). “America’s melting pot reconsidered.” Annual review of Sociology, 397-423. Metzl, J. (2009). The protest psychosis: How schizophrenia became a black disease. Boston, MA: Beacon Press Books. Madsen, D. L. (2008). American exceptionalism. MS: University Press of Mississippi Omi, Michael & Winant, Howard. 1989. Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1980s. New York: Routledge. Park, R.E. (1950). Race and culture. The free press, Glencoe, Il. Park, R.E. (1924). 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