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Yankee Freedom III – Dry Tortugas National Park Ferry
100 Grinnell Street
365 Days a Year. Open 8am-8pm. All schedules are subject to change.
info@yankeefreedom.com
http://www.drytortugas.com
DAY TRIP PRICING Adult $180 Children (4-16) $125 Student (17+ with ID) $170 Active Military (with ID) $170 Seniors (62+) $170 CAMPING TRIP PRICING Adult $200* Children (4-16) $145* We Operate 365 Days A Year! Due to limited availability, camping reservations must be made by phone. We recommend calling 8-12 months in advance to check…
Sunset Watersports
9:00AM til 9:00PM
sunsetwatersportskeywest@gmail.com
http://www.sunsetwatersportskeywest.com
PARTICIPANT: KEY WEST
VACATION PASS KIDS FREE
Sunset Watersports, the Oldest Parasailing Company in the United States has been leading the way in Watersports excursions for over 30 years. Don’t trust just anybody with your hard earned Key West vacation, take a trip with Sunset Watersports and see why we have been a leader in providing fun, safe, watersports activities for over…
Key West Butterfly & Nature Conservatory
1316 Duval Street
Conservatory Hours 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM daily (last ticket sold at 4:30 PM) Gift Shop and Gallery Hours 9:00 AM to 5:30 PM daily
info@keywestbutterfly.com
http://www.keywestbutterfly.com
The Key West Butterfly & Nature Conservatory has been voted by The People’s Choice Awards the #1 Attraction in Key West for the past four years in a row. It is home to hundreds of butterflies and exotic colorful birds from around the world. The Conservatory is truly a magical experience filled with lush tropical…
Sunset Sail Key West Weddings
202 Williams Street
sailing@sunsetsailkeywest.com
http://www.sunsetsailkeywest.com
Weddings What could be more romantic than a beautiful sailboat, your closest friends, a sunny afternoon and a gorgeous sunset – the perfect way to say “I do!” With space on our prettiest flagship vessel High Tide for up to 10 guests she is the perfect way to enjoy an intimate, fun and unusual wedding…
Audubon House & Tropical Gardens – Events
205 Whitehead Street
365 days per year
events@audubonhouse.com
http://audubonhouse.com/wedding-events/
You are cordially invited to hold your next unforgettable event at Audubon House and Tropical Gardens. Imagine your special event held in a historic, romantic, tropical garden setting. Imagine your guests wandering paved brick pathways among orchid-filled trees, the night lit with the soft glow of antique copper lanterns. Audubon House and Tropical Gardens in…
The Perry Hotel Key West
7001 Shrimp Road
305-296-1717 (24 hours a day)
info@perrykeywest.com
https://perrykeywest.com/
Just one bridge from Key West, the Perry’s award-winning 100-room boutique hotel is located waterfront at the state-of-the-art Stock Island Marina. Discover the allure of the original Key West at The Perry’s luxury accommodations, two sea-to-table restaurants, scheduled shuttle service to Old Town, waterfront pool, direct marina access to South Florida’s best water activities, and more. The Perry Hotel is only 2 miles from Key West International Airport and 5 miles from Duval Street.
Recipient of the 2019 Travel + Leisure and Conde’ Nast Traveler Reader’s Choice Award for One of the Best Hotels in Florida, the 100-room boutique hotel offers an upscale twist on Stock Island’s iconic maritime heritage. Host your friends and family amongst idyllic turquoise waters at one of the 11 waterfront venues, then celebrate your vows with award-winning American coastal comfort food from our fantastic onsite restaurants. Make The Perry Hotel Key West your one-of-a-kind destination wedding getaway today.
Booking & More Information
Sebago Watersports
8:00am-8:00pm Open daily 365 days year!
info@keywestsebago.com
https://keywestsebago.com/
VACATION PASS
For over 25 years, Sebago Watersports has delighted guests on Key West’s pristine waters. We take great pride in being Key West’s favorite on-the-water tour company sailing the island’s only fleet of both modern sail catamarans and historic tall-ship schooners. Share a romantic sunset sail, snorkel the reef, or spend a full day of family…
Ocean Wellness Spa
829 Simonton Street
Daily: 9am-7pm
http://www.oceanspakeywest.com/
Ocean Wellness Spa & Salon is a full-service day spa that includes nail services, acupuncture, massage therapy, body treatments, facials nutrition and skincare. Since 2013, they have been providing wellness, pampering, and beauty services to both visitors and residents of Key West. They also offer rejuvenating treatments like detox herbal massages, couple’s massages, and a full service Aveda Salon delivering some of the island’s finest bridal services.
Fury Water Adventures
Call Center phone lines open from 8am to 10pm
https://www.furycat.com/
One of Key West’s most popular attractions is the crystal blue water surrounding our island paradise. For almost three decades, visitors and locals alike have been choosing Fury Water Adventures as their #1 excursion in and on the waters of Key West. Fury’s got it all. From sunset cruises, morning and afternoon snorkeling trips, glass…
Harry S. Truman Little White House
Open daily for tours from 10:00 am until 4:00 pm.
brentton.lyons@historictours.com
http://www.trumanlittlewhitehouse.com
The Harry S. Truman Little White House is one of Florida’s greatest historic treasures. The home was used as the White House of the United States during the Truman administration. Step back in time to experience the house as it was redecorated for President Truman in 1949. Most of the furnishings are original and used…
The Studios of Key West
533 Eaton Street
Office & Gallery Hours: Tues-Sat, 10am-4pm
info@tskw.org
http://www.tskw.org/
The Studios of Key West is a professional non-profit cultural organization celebrating its tenth year as a multidisciplinary presenter, arts center, artist residency provider, and maintains long-term studio spaces dedicated to Florida Keys artists. Through classes, performances, lectures, gallery exhibits, partnership projects, and special events, The Studios unites Pulitzer Prize-winning authors and world-renowned artists with local audiences and art practitioners at all stages of their creative careers.
Admission to our galleries and campus is always free of charge. As a non-profit, community organization, we offer discounted fees for classes, performances and events to members of The Studios. If you are interested in the benefits of membership visit our website today!
The Studios was founded with the vision of bringing world class artists to the island, connecting them with local audiences and artists, and offering space for both to explore their creativity. Every month hundreds of people visit The Studios to take in new experiences and catch up with old friends at our workshops, exhibitions, studios, performances and more!
Workshops are our largest program, serving over 1,000 people each season, with more than 50 distinct classes in a range of media for artists from beginners to professionals. Our instructors include year-round, local artists and artists visiting from across the globe, either as one of The Studios’ Artists-in-Residence or just to teach what they know.
The Studios has exhibition space over three floors. Our first floor has a large gallery space and a smaller project gallery. The third floor space is dedicated to the XOJ Gallery and offers plenty of space for exhibitions. The second floor’s lobby provides additional exhibition space, when we’re full to the brim with artist’s work. With each season we strive to balance established and emerging artists, both local and from out of town.
Studios are offered to both those in our Artist-In-Residence program, which draws about 36 artists annually to Key West from across the country and overseas, and local artists who can rent a work space year-round and benefit from being at the heart of Key West’s cultural scene.
Performances in our rollicking concert series feature roots-oriented music from folk and blues to world music and jazz. Cutting edge performances at The Studios include dance, performance art, small-scale theatrical productions and burlesque and circus arts.
Community Engagement has long been something we’ve embraced. Our goal of breaking down barriers in the arts and being an integrated part of Key West life are central to our community programs. These engagements focus on youth education programs in out-of-school settings, presented in collaboration with other institutional partners. We’ve recently expanded upon initiatives including a Spring Break art camp at the Douglass Center in Bahama Village, and a summer ArtCamp in collaboration with the Key West Art & Historical Society.
Margaritaville Resort and Marina
info@margaritavillekeywestresort.com
http://www.margaritavillekeywestresort.com/
PARTICIPANT: KIDS FREE
The Margaritaville Resort and Marina is ideally located on the waterfront in Old Town, within walking distance of attractions, restaurants, shopping and much more! The resort offers multiple dining venues and marina vendors with a variety of watersport activities. The nightly Sunset Celebration on the pier makes The Margaritaville Resort and Marina as desirable a location as Key West itself.
Located within the Key West Margaritaville Resort lies all of your dining needs. Ocean view and glorious sunsets await within Bistro 245 and our Sunset Deck restaurants. Our Bistro 245 offers casual dining inside or out with breathtaking reviews of the Key West Harbor. Open Daily from 7am-10pm. We have the best Sunday Bruch on the island!
www.margaritavillekeywestresort.com/resort-dining
We’ve Got the Keys
922 Caroline St
Monday - Friday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Weekends by Appointment
nadene@wevegotthekeys.com
http://www.wevegotthekeys.com
We’ve Got the Keys – Incentive Travel & Corporate Events ‘We’ve Got the Keys’ provides the local expertise, enthusiasm and energy to enhance your Key West Program from concept through completion; sure to exceed your expectations! Let us share our local knowledge and planning know-how to maximize the destination experience for you and your participants!
Hemingway Home and Museum
Open 365 days from 9am-5pm.
info@hemingwayhome.com
http://www.hemingwayhome.com
Hemingway Home and Museum – Explore the tranquil environment where one of America’s foremost authors and Nobel Prize winner, Ernest Hemingway, penned many of his most notable works. Visit the descendants of his legendary cats. Step back in time with a guided tour of the home and gardens. The Hemingway Home can be your venue…
Danger Charters
245 Front St. Key West Margaritaville and Marina
Summer Hours:
Full-Day : 10 AM - 4:30 PM
Half-Day (morn): 9:30 AM - 2:30 PM
Half-Day (even): 3:30 PM - Sunset
Wind & Wine: 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Full-Day: 9:30 AM - 4 PM
Half-Day: (morn) 9 AM - 2 PM
Half-Day (even) Varies with Sunset Time and Wind & Wine Varies with Sunset Time
dangercharters@gmail.com
http://www.dangercharters.com
When you sail with Danger Charters, you sail to another world and time; to a place where the wildlife is still “wild”, and your interaction with nature is intimate and authentic. You feel as if you’ve stepped back in time, back to the days when the Florida Keys backcountry was home to traditional, shallow-draft sailing…
Grand Café
314 Duval Street
11am until late
info@grandcafekeywest.com
http://www.grandcafekeywest.com
Located in a breathtaking Victorian Mansion the Grand Café serves fine wines, perfect martinis, and of course delicious seafood and meats. You are invited to spend a lazy afternoon having lunch in our garden, take your time with starlit meals on our wraparound porch, and enjoy our newly renovated bar and lounge. Grand Café owner Maria Wevers and Grand Café Chef Paul Menta are dedicated to serving a quality meal prepared with the freshest produce, meats and seafood. Our bar features cocktails from around the world, including the best Mojito outside of Havana.
El Meson de Pepé
Open 11am-10pm 7 Days a Week
elmesondepepe@aol.com
http://www.elmesondepepe.com
Located in the heart of Mallory Square, El Meson de Pepe’s is a family owned and operated Cuban Restaurant here in Key West for over 20 years. Chef Pepe Diaz and family first opened in 1984, bringing locals and tourists alike delicious Cuban favorites. El Meson de Pepe is dedicated to great quality food and the preservation of Cuban-Conch Heritage in Key West. Dance the night away with the sounds of our live entertainment while you watch the sunset from the only restaurant in Mallory Square. Also, you can visit our cigar shop for a fine cigar after dinner.
At El Meson de Pepe we treat you like family. Book us for your next function. Both indoor and outdoor space is available for corporate events, family reunions, or weddings.
The Gardens Hotel
526 Angela Street
reservations@gardenshotel.com
http://www.gardenshotel.com/
The Gardens Hotel, named “The Prettiest Hotel in Key West” by The New York Time’s List, is quite simply the finest lodging establishment among Key West hotels. Rich in history and architecture, The Gardens Hotel estate houses 20 pristine guest suites within the estate of The Peggy Mills Botanical Gardens. Once the largest private estate in Key West, the expansive grounds of The Gardens Hotel comprise over an acre of lush, tropical landscaping just steps away from Key West’s infamous Duval Street. The Gardens Hotel calls to mind the best of elegant “boutique” hotels, but with a decidedly “Key West” atmosphere. Make sure to stop by our d’vine Wine Gallery during your stay to grab a refreshing glass of wine. By far, The Gardens is in a class all by itself.
Rated by Conde Nast Traveler as Top 50 Small Hotels and consistently rated 5 stars of Excellence by Tripadvisor.
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Abhimanyu Sir
August 23, 2019 January 3, 2020 ~ The Koboi Project
The magnificent Rajini Sir seems unable to avoid being the embodiment of mythology. Recently, he has been equated to the Trojan Horse from the Odyssey, suggesting that his appealing Dravidian cinematic persona may be packed with a BJP / Arya Samaj political intent, waiting to be let in past the Dravidian gates of Tamil Nadu governance. Now, with his own Mahabaratha reference in the context of the Modi government’s move to revoke Article 370, he has been equated to Abhimanyu the warrior son of Arjuna. In an open letter to Rajinikanth Arun Ram, Resident Editor, of the The Times of India, Tamil Nadu, writes, ” I am happy that you have found your Krishna and Arjuna in Amit Shah and Narendra Modi, though you are not sure who is who. That’s fine, as long you realise that you are the Abhimanyu the BJP badly needs in Tamil Nadu.”
Abhimanyu is the son of Pandava champion Arjuna and nephew of the Lord Krishna himself. At the tender age of 16 he was the most powerful, and perhaps vainglorious, of warriors. But despite wreaking havoc on the Kauravas in the battlefield he is killed and his role in the plot of the Mahabaratha seems to be much more as a catalyst of victory than as a victor. You see, his father Arjuna is ambivalent about using his powers to destroy the enemy. The Kauravas are after all the cousins of the Pandavas! With the killing of his beloved son, however, Arjuna is personally afflicted and is open to the martial wiles of the masterful Lord Krshna.
Abhimanyu was a dispensable element in the plot of the Mahabharata. I hope Rajini Sir will avoid the pitfalls of personifying such figures from Indo Aryan mythology as the dissembling Trojan Horse and the tragic Abhimanyu, on the political battlefield of Dravida Nadu.
Image: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/chennaitalkies/letter-to-rajinikanth-please-be-bjps-abhimanyu/
https://www.mahabharataonline.com/stories/mahabharata_character.php?id=78
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Baby Driver Movie Grows Bad is Newest Summer Hit!
Summer is always the biggest stomping ground for your average blockbuster movie, still Summer 2017 has dropped some pretty amazing films. We fell in love with Wonder Woman, were terrified by The Mummy, and said farewell to old friends in Cars 3, but now audiences everywhere can prep themselves in VROOM into summer’s newest hit movie, Baby Driver! The film centers around…
/ Hey Mikey! /
Summer is always the biggest stomping ground for your average blockbuster movie, still Summer 2017 has dropped some pretty amazing films.
We fell in love with Wonder Woman, were terrified by The Mummy, and said farewell to old friends in Cars 3, but now audiences everywhere can prep themselves in VROOM into summer’s newest hit movie, Baby Driver!
The film centers around “Baby” (Ansel Egbort) an amazing getaway driver who works on demand for a crime boss to pay off a debt from his past. Baby works without question wanting nothing more than a clean break from his life of crime. Seeking freedom and love he finds himself in even hotter water when his final heist goes horribly awry. Baby must fight not only for his life, but the people he loves!
cast of “Baby Driver” movie minus Jamie Foxx; Eiza González, Ansel Elgort, Edgar Wright (director) and Jon Hamm
We have to say Baby Driver is like The Fast & The Furious meets Kill Bill! The film has some of the most amazing car chase scenes and stunts we have ever seen and when you see how this kid fights back you will have no choice but to root for him all the way ’til the end. Ansel’s performance as Baby is a far cry from his role of “Caleb Prior” in The Divergent Series, and we are completely here for it! Just as interesting are the villains of the film. The hitmen and bank robbers Baby is forced to drive for are nothing less than sadistic. Even the sanest criminal among them proves to be the most deranged when he loses something he loves. Let’s not forget to mention you will LOVE Jamie Foxx in this role--one like you have never seen him--a heartless, kill ready, crazed criminal with no morals!
The fill has earned a coveted 98% on Rotten Tomatoes as of today, but you can judge it for yourself when you can catch Baby Driver in theaters everywhere tomorrow!
Written By: Michael “Hey Mikey” Fanning
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Hey Mikey!
WHO AM I? That’s probably what you’re thinking? It’s simple I’m this generation’s “Dear Abby!” I was raised in the Fourth Ward of Atlanta, educated in the School of Hard Knocks, and rescued by the concrete and steel of New York City. Life at best will always be bittersweet. The sooner you accept that, the better off you’ll be. I’d prefer to be on your sweeter side. Everyone needs a listening ear, extra shoulder, and open arms when life gets rough. I’m your new best friend, whe it all goes south remember I’m a mouse click or tweet away. Hang in there kids, you’re gonna love kickin’ it with me!!! -MIKEY
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Columba Silver Project
Copalito Silver-gold Project
La Cigarra Silver Project
Promontorio Silver Resource
La Negra Silver Project
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Northair Silver Corp. Acquires Los Cuates Gold Project, Mexico
Assigns El Reventon Silver Project
Vancouver, British Columbia, Northair Silver Corp. (TSXV: INM) and its wholly owned subsidiary Grupo Northair de Mexico, S.A. de C.V. ("Northair" or the "Company") announces that it has signed two binding agreements; one with Serengeti Resources Inc. ("Serengeti") to acquire 100% the Los Cuates gold project ("Los Cuates") adjacent to its Cigarra silver deposit, located in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico; and the other with Northern Empire Resources Corp. ("Northern Empire") whereby Northair will assign and transfer the El Reventon silver project ("El Reventon") located in Durango State, Mexico to Northern Empire.
"The decision to acquire the Los Cuates is consistent with Northair's goals and objectives of advancing its flagship La Cigarra silver project," said Andrea Zaradic, President & CEO of Northair. "Furthermore, assigning the El Reventon Project will provide additional resources to the Company as it continues to explore, permit and develop La Cigarra in parallel to completing an updated NI 43-101 mineral resource estimate anticipated in early 2015."
Los Cuates Gold Project
The Los Cuates gold project consists of 3 concessions covering 365 hectares and is situated immediately west of the Company's flagship La Cigarra silver project, totaling approximately 32,000 hectares. Los Cuates is road accessible using a series of gravel roads from the nearby historic mining city of Parral, which is located approximately 26 kilometres to the southeast.
Since 2010, work carried out by Serengeti on Los Cuates included geologic mapping, surface sampling, trenching, ground geophysics and diamond drilling. Results of the exploration programs defined an epithermal gold-silver target area measuring 2,000 metres in length by 500 metres in width in the western portion of the project area, which appears to be associated with a number of prominent east-west trending structures and pervasively altered and oxidized sedimentary host rock formations.
In 2012, Serengeti carried out an induced polarization (I.P.) survey over an area consisting of three sub-parallel east-west trending structures, which had returned the best gold values. To follow up on this program, a nine hole reverse circulation (RC) drill program totaling 987 meters was completed to test both the east-west trending structures as well as a quartz vein in the western portion of the concessions. Highlights of the drilling are summarized in the following table:
Los Cuates Project - Significant Drill Hole Intervals
(metres)
(g/t)
C01 70.5 72 1.5 0.15 1.1
C02 No Significant Results
C03 63.0 66.0 3.0 1.06 5.7
C06 63.0 66.0 3.0 0.35 11.8
36.0 39.0 3.0 Tr 5.5
C09 86.5 88.5 3.0 Tr 10.7
153.0 154.5 1.5 0.1 3.2
The drilling completed in the program covered a relatively small portion of the property and only focused on shallow depths, but confirmed that the mineralized zones continued at depth. Northair will evaluate the exploration results of the Los Cuates concessions in conjunction with the other property wide targets that exist on its La Cigarra silver project.
The Los Cuates Agreement with Serengeti
Subject to an Assignment Agreement, Serengeti has agreed to assign and transfer to Northair its 100% interests (the "Los Cuates Assignment") in the Los Cuates mineral concessions. In consideration of the Los Cuates Assignment, Northair will pay US$1,533 (plus value added tax) and grant to Serengeti a one percent (1%) net smelter royalty from any future production on Los Cuates. Northair shall be entitled at any time to buy-back the full net smelter royalty by paying US$1,000,000.
The closing of the Los Cuates Agreement shall be subject to receipt of all necessary regulatory approvals.
The El Reventon Agreement with Northern Empire
Subject to an Assignment Agreement dated December 19, 2014, Northair agreed to assign and transfer to Northern Empire its 100% interest in three mineral concessions comprising the El Reventon Project. In consideration of the El Reventon Assignment, Northern Empire has agreed to pay Northair the sum of C$10,000; issue to Northair 200,000 common shares in the capital of Northern Empire; and grant Northair a one percent (1%) net smelter royalty from any future production on the Project. Northern Empire shall be entitled at any time to buy-back the full net smelter royalty by paying to Northair C$1,000,000.
The closing of the El Reventon Agreement shall be subject to receipt of all necessary regulatory approvals.
About Northair Silver Corp.
Northair Silver Corp. is a mineral exploration company engaged in the acquisition and development of silver properties in Mexico. Northair is focused on advancing its flagship La Cigarra silver project located in the state of Chihuahua, which currently hosts a NI 43-101 Resource estimate of 50.49 million ounces of silver in the Measured & Indicated categories grading 76 g/t silver (13.09 million ounces of Measured grading 65 g/t silver and 37.40 million ounces of Indicated grading 80 g/t silver) and 3.5 million ounces of silver in the Inferred category grading 61 g/t silver constrained by a Whittle pit shell at an economic cutoff grade of 30 g/t silver (assuming metallurgical recoveries of 84% silver). The project boasts a significant land package of over 32,000 hectares located within the Parral silver district and is 26 km from the city of Parral. The mineralized system at La Cigarra has been traced over 6.5 kilometres and is defined at surface as a silver soil anomaly and by numerous historic mine workings. The La Cigarra silver deposit also contains appreciable amounts of lead, zinc and gold.
For further information please see the Company's Technical Report entitled "San Gregorio/Las Carolinas Resources Technical Report La Cigarra Project, Chihuahua Mexico" dated effective February 26, 2013 which is available under the Company's profile at www.sedar.com.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD,
NORTHAIR SILVER CORP.
"Andrea Zaradic"
Andrea Zaradic, P. Eng.
For further information please contact Andrea Zaradic, President & CEO or
Chris Curran, Manager of Corporate Communications at 604-687-7545 or 1-888-338-2200
Website: www.northairsilver.com Email: info@northair.com
Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this news release.
Caution Concerning Forward-Looking Statements
This news release may contain forward looking statements which are not historical facts, such as statements regarding the use of proceeds, the closing date, ore reserve estimates, anticipated production or results, sales, revenues, costs, or discussions of goals and exploration results, and involves a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, metal price volatility, volatility of metals production, project development, ore reserve estimates, future anticipated reserves and cost engineering estimate risks, geological factors and exploration results. See Northair's filings for a more detailed discussion of factors that may impact expected results.
Cautionary Note Concerning Estimates of Measured, Indicated and Inferred Mineral Resources
This news release uses the terms "Measured and Indicated Resources" and "Inferred Resources", which have a great amount of uncertainty as to their existence, and great uncertainty as to their economic and legal feasibility. It cannot be assumed that all or any part of a Measured and Indicated and/or Inferred Mineral Resource will ever be upgraded to a higher category. Under Canadian rules, estimates of Inferred Resources may not form the basis of feasibility or other economic studies. Northair advises U.S. investors that while this term is recognized and required by Canadian regulations, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission does not recognize it. U.S. investors are cautioned not to assume that part or all of a Measured, Indicated and Inferred resource exists, or is economically or legally minable.
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The 36th Agora Awards: A Beacon of Marketing Excellence
Hello Sweeties!
I had the honor of attending the Media Conference of the very prestigious Agora Awards and the Agora Best Talks of the Philippine Marketing Association at the Podium recently.
Marketing is a dynamic and continuously evolving field. Every year, Filipino companies come up with innovative and effective marketing campaigns that change the mindsets of consumers and build brands. These are campaigns that embed themselves in the minds of people, creating results and bringing success.
In the Philippines, one award recognizes these marketing breakthroughs. An award with a long history of recognizing the best of the best in Philippine marketing. It’s an award that’s highly regarded and most prestigious that it’s known as “The Oscars of Philippine Marketing.” It’s better known in the Philippines as The Agora Award.
Want to learn more? Read on
Alpha Allanigui, Agora Director-in-Charge
“The Agora Awards are a testament to the passion, dedication, brilliance and commitment of excellent individuals and companies in the marketing industry,” says The Agora Director-in-Charge, Alpha Allanigui.
The Agora Awards started in 1979 to recognize outstanding efforts in marketing by individuals and companies in the industry. This was a project of the Philippine Marketing Association or PMA, and was one of the highlights of their silver anniversary that year. It was the brainchild of Guillermo T. Garcia, and was introduced under the leadership of then president Agustin Bengzon.
Now on its 36th year, The Agora Awards continues this legacy of marketing excellence, and celebrates the programs and people who have created an indelible mark in marketing. People who are an inspiration to their peers as well as the younger generation. As Allanigui explains:
“We wish to highlight that we have more professionals and companies to recognize in this field, and that the younger generation can have professionals to emulate and Filipino companies to be proud of. The Agora Awards honor the best creative and strategic minds in the marketing industry. We hope that as we honor we can also build on the aspiration to be an Agora while thinking of having to give back to the Philippines. ” she adds.
The first Agora Awards had three categories, namely Marketing Management, Marketing Education and Entrepreneurship. Through the years, additional categories were added to include Marketing Company, Advocacy Marketing, Overseas Marketing, Export Marketing, and, last year’s new category, Marketing Communication.
Recognizing the roles of entrepreneurship in innovating the marketing field, a category on Entrepreneurship was also introduced in The Agora Awards. Divided into 3 categories according to the size of business: Small-, Medium-, and Large-Scale, this category has been well received by Filipino entrepreneurs. A fact that can be seen in the number of entrants and nominees in the category these past years.
Left to right: Pinky Yee of Goldilocks Bakeshop Inc, Alpha Allanigui, Donald Lim, Henry Tendero PMA President, Maritess Rotaquio-Guevarra Agora Overall Chairman
The PMA also recognizes the work of public figures who have marketed and advocated the beauty of the country and its people. With this as inspiration, the Honorary Agora Award will now be presented to individuals who have made great contributions in Nation-building. This Honorary Award is recommended by The Agora Committee and is only awarded upon the consensus and unanimous vote of The Agora Board and Awards Committee. This year, a distinguished personality will receive The Honorary Agora for Nation-Building.
The 36th Agora will also be the venue for one of PMA’s programs, the Agora Circle Conference. Presided over by former Agora Awards winners, attendees of the conference will learn first hand the personal stories of the awardees on what inspired them to create their winning marketing campaigns. Their insights and talks are designed to inspire participants to apply these same lessons and strategies in their own businesses. Here, they will also discuss latest developments and trends in marketing.
Donald Lim, member of The Agora Awards board of advisers
The Agora Circle Conference is one of the initiatives that the PMA has brought back for The 36th Agora. “This year, we decided to revive it, because we saw that people are really looking for avenues to learn more about marketing, its trends and innovations,” says Donald Lim, member of The Agora Awards board of advisers. “We saw that in the conference last July when a lot of people attended. They really wanted to get in touch with new marketing tips.”
Best Talks 50 Speakers… Only the elite members of the Agora Circle are invited to be speakers.
This year’s Agora Circle Conference follows the theme “Fifty Shades of Marketing Darker.” Aside from former Agora winners, it will also feature some of the country’s best speakers, members of the academe, industry professionals and students discussing topics that are of interest to the local marketing industry. These include topics on branding, entrepreneurship, social responsibility, and technology. All talks shall be made available online to serve as a resource for marketing professionals and students.
“Marketing is all about being first, in any way and in any form,” Lim says. “Our challenge is to always innovate one’s self. Since the needs of consumers change, so should the products and services you’re offering.”
In its totality, The 36th Agora – through its awards and the Agora Circle Conference – will serve as a beacon of marketing excellence. This is part of the PMA’s commitment to continuously uplift the country’s marketing industry and discipline.
Nominations for The 36th Agora Awards are being accepted until September 8. 2015.
For details and nomination requirement, visit www.theagora.ph
For details about the 36th Agora Awards, visit www.theagora.ph.
For information about the Philippine Marketing Association, visit philippinemarketing.net.ph.
Check out the Agora Facebook Page : https://www.facebook.com/AGORA.AWARDS/
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2021 Honda Odyssey EX-L Mini-van, Passenger FWD Automatic
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Wheels: 18 Machine-Finished Alloy -inc: shark gray insert
Radio: 160-Watt AM/FM/HD/SiriusXM Audio System -inc: 7 speakers including subwoofer
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What's new for the 2021 Honda Odyssey EX-L
The Honda Odyssey gets a refreshed exterior and updates to the interior for 2021 while the Honda Sensing suite of safety features is now standard.
The Honda Odyssey is available in six trim levels: LX, EX, EX-L, Touring and Elite. All are powered by a 280-horsepower, 3.5L V6 engine, which is mated to a 10-speed automatic transmission.
Honda endeavored to make the Odyssey's body very rigid, which helps make it one of the most refined-riding and precise-handling vans on the market. The ACE body structure with improved frontal area is intended to make the Odyssey one of the safest minivans available.
Inside, Honda has worked to make the Odyssey as comfortable as possible for all occupants. The Odyssey can carry up to eight smaller-size occupants, or six larger adults in comfort. With a "3-mode" design, the second row can be folded forward for cargo, stretched wide for adult-size seating space, or made narrower for easy access to the third row -- when carrying a full load of kids to the soccer game, for instance. The third row carries on with Honda's "Magic Seat" arrangement, which folds easily with a single hand strap into the cargo floor when not in use. Coupled with second-row seats that are also completely removable, this allows for a very impressive cargo capacity. The Odyssey's extensive use of sound insulation and active noise cancellation system -- standard on all Odysseys -- means a quiet ride.
Cargo capacity and storage must have ranked high on the Odyssey's design priorities. With the Odyssey's third-row seat folded down and the second-row seats removed, Honda says that a 4x8-foot sheet of plywood will fit inside the Odyssey. With the front console removed 10-foot 2x4 studs will fit. There are more than enough cup holders (6) for all, and the back of the center console includes a ring for easily mounting a trash bag. Altogether, the Odyssey provides 38.4 cubic feet of storage behind the third row and 93.1 cubic feet behind the second row.
There's quite an equipment range from base LX models up to the Touring and Touring Elite, but even the LX models come quite well-equipped and include air conditioning, cruise control, one-touch turn signals, Bluetooth hands-free connectivity, power front seats, SMS text messaging functionality and a 7-speaker sound system with auxiliary input. The EX adds a 3-zone climate-control system, heated side mirrors, alloy wheels, a garage-door opener, LaneWatch blind spot display, and push-button start, while the Elite features an ingenious vacuum cleaner system called HondaVAC, with a hose long enough to reach every corner of the Odyssey. The EX-L models get leather upholstery, heated front seats, forward collision warning and lane departure warning.
Safety features such as stability control, anti-lock brakes with brake assist, front side airbags, side-curtain bags for all three rows and active front-seat headrests are all among the standard features.
A DVD rear entertainment system with 10-inch ultra-wide display is standard on the Touring and Elite. It offers an HDMI input and the capability to display two different programs -- a video game and a movie, for example -- simultaneously. In the EX-L model and above, there's an intelligent multi-information display that allows access to a range of vehicle settings. A navigation system with voice recognition is also on the options list for the Odyssey EX-L and standard on Touring and Touring Elite; it's driven by a 60GB hard-drive system and includes traffic information, a highway guide and point-of-interest information for gas stations, restaurants and other attractions.
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Derik Badman's Journal
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Went to the Pax Unplugged show in Philly on Saturday with some friends. It was an overwhelming number of people and stuff and we only went into the one giant room at the convention center that had the vendors and the open gaming tables. There was a whole other floor for scheduled gaming events. We just walked around the vendor area looking at stuff, most of which looked pretty boring or redundant. There seem to be a ton of variations of a limited set of games/styles/genres. There are also a number of the kind of high end gaming accessory vendors (really fancy gaming tables, really fancy dice, etc). On the whole for me, I ended up just tired and bored. I don't need another role-playing game in some genre I already have a game in. I don't ever have the time or opponents with time to play any of the miniature games I have. Hell, I haven't even ever played the copy of Catan I bought... probably 2 years or more ago now.
I ended up buying one book Hamlet's Hit Points by Robin Laws which looked like it might be an interesting book about game mastering.
Sunday we had our in person session. I continued running _The Cursed Chateau_ which [we started back in October](/entries/2019-10-27-09:01), uses the "we'll make up the characters as we go" method, which isn't turning out too bad, except in the first combat everyone basically had to figure out a number of attributes, so it probably would have been faster to decide some of those all at once in the beginning anyway. I guess it really wasn't much of a time saver. Maybe if we had at least just rolled attributes before starting.
The party had just entered the chateau and moved into a covered walkway at the back of the middle wing of the house. Three armchairs and two armoires animate and attack and that combat took way too long for how unimportant it was. There were some good ideas from the players, though, like sitting on the chairs and riding them like bucking broncos, or pushing over the armoires into an oil puddle on the floor and lighting it up. After awhile I not so subtle suggested that running away is always an option (this group has never really done that), so they moved out of the walkway, which causes the furniture to stop attacking.
The actress PC spied into the kitchen and saw the two servants in there, but did not enter. The party went up the stairs (it was a literal toss-up to decide on going up or down). In the library they met one of the insubstantial maids, and the dashing lord swashbuckler PC at least helped her in tidying up the place a bit. The maid was also questioned a bit, and the party did learn that the master bedroom is in the west wing of the house (they were in the east wing). They also learned that the master has other books in the study, after searching for anything of interest in this room. Someone thought to look for a family bible, which seemed like a logical thing, so I left them find that and discover how the current lord's parents had died when he was very young.
Crossing over to the southern wing, lookig for a way to the west they found the winter dining room, wherein one of the footmen was found. He offered to show them somewhere, but instead they convinced him the staff in the kitchen needed his attention. The next room to the west was a gallery overlooking the main dining hall. A dessicated corpse stood in front of a stained glass window. The dragoon captain looked at the window and managed to pass a save against its (unknown to them) magic (which was disappointing as the results could be pretty hilarious). The nun used her sling to break the window.
At a dead end for getting west, the party went back downstairs and tried the room below the winter dining room, this time a servant's quarters of some kind, empty of any inhabitant at the time. The next room over was the pantry, wherein one of the other maids, this was looking very ghoulish and crazy, was looking for... something... the party directed her one direction, she went the other.
The combat took up too much of the time. The random table you roll on when the party enters each room is... often pointless. Little things that have no significance, don't add much to the atmosphere, and have no real interaction to them. At least once it actually came up with one of the servants (all the other cases were ones where the servant was in a specific room x% of the time). But in all cases the servants disposition and interaction was pretty clear, which goes against the adventure's instructions about how the servants disposition should be randomly decided with a reaction roll. Maybe I was just finding specific ones that contradicted that.
We decided after we stopped playing that Ian is going to take over DMing next. He's going to run us through one of the 5e adventures (the one that takes place in Waterdeep). He had started running that for a different group (including me) earlier in the year, but we never got very far. So I'll get a break from the DMing for a bit, though maybe I will instead try again to start up a game for some of my work colleagues, as we have a lot of people who have or do play rpgs.
All in all it was a busy weekend and now it's Monday and I don't feel like I got a lot of rest or anything (being on my feet at the convention for like 3 hours was a lot).
— 2019-12-09 08:48
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Books, authors and all things bookish
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Festival of Books: mystery writer T. Jefferson Parker
T. Jefferson Parker is the author of popular mysteries set in Southern California; his latest, "Iron River," takes his protagonist Charlie Hood back and forth across the border into Mexico. He'll be at the LA Times Festival of Books on Saturday, April 24, on the 11 a.m. panel "Mystery: The Kingpins" with Michael Connelly and Robert Crais. He answered Jacket Copy's questions via e-mail. Tickets for the festival, which are free with a $1 processing fee, will be available from Ticketmaster this Sunday.
Jacket Copy: "Iron River" is your third novel featuring the character Charlie Hood, an L.A. County sheriff. Do you spend time with the sheriff's department for research?
T. Jefferson Parker: Sure, great people. But Charlie has joined an ATF task force, so I’m talking more with the federal guys. Very interesting world, the ATF. They do lots of undercover work, make lots of gun buys from bad actors, as they call them. It’s all tied into the drug wars in Mexico.
JC: What are you currently reading?
TJP: "The Devil and Sonny Liston" by Nick Tosches and "Inherent Vice" by Thomas Pynchon.
JC: What's your favorite thing about the Festival of Books?
TJP: Seeing my writer friends. We can gossip, like around the water cooler in an office. Once a year -- perfect! And I also like it that my son, who is 11, can always find cool books, and my wife enjoys the day, too.
JC: What do you plan to see or do at the festival this year?
TJP: No real plans. We’re staying at a hotel in walking distance to the campus. We really enjoy that walk over in the morning.
JC: Do you have a favorite book or movie about Los Angeles?
TJP: "True Confessions" by John Gregory Dunne would be my favorite L.A. book, with many close seconds. Movies? Man...well "Chinatown" still tops the list for me.
-- Carolyn Kellogg
Photo: T. Jefferson Parker in 2004. Credit: Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times
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An investigation of the pharmacokinetics of flunixin meglumine in swine using noncompartmental analysis and nonlinear mixed-effects modeling: An emphasis on pre-wean piglets
Heather Kittrell, Iowa State University
Veterinary Diagnostic and Production Animal Medicine
Population Sciences in Animal Health
Locke Karriker
With the transdermal (TD) application of flunixin meglumine (FM) now approved for pain control in cattle, Animal Medicinal Drug Use Clarification Act (AMDUCA) algorithms suggest that the product should be considered when treating pain in other food animal species. The use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory products may reduce the pain associated with castration and tail-docking during piglet processing. Confirming that FM reaches useful serum levels would allow development of dose regimens for pre-wean piglets.
The first objective of this dissertation was to establish the pharmacokinetics (PK) of intravenous (IV), intramuscular (IM), oral (PO), and TD administration of FM in pre-wean piglets, and evaluate the ability of TD FM to reach therapeutic levels that mitigate pain in other species and adult pigs. In order to measure the PK in pre-wean piglets, FM was administered to 39 piglets, 5-10 days of age, weighing less than 10 pounds. The study was divided into two phases: Phase I evaluated the PK of PO, TD and IM administration and phase II evaluated the bioavailability of TD FM using a crossover study design of IV and TD administration. The dose for IV and IM was 2.2 mg/kg while the PO and TD dose was 3.3 mg/kg. Blood samples were collected from the jugular vein at 27 consecutive time points from 0-9 days post-administration. Plasma FM concentrations were determined using ultra high-performance liquid chromatography and analyzed with noncompartmental analysis and nonlinear mixed-effect modeling techniques. The median (± standard deviation, sd) C0 for IV was 11653.3 μg/L (±5491.69) and CMAX for the IM, PO, and TD routes of administration were 6543 μg/L (±1463.3), 4883 μg/L (±1715.91), and 31.5 μg/L (±23.79), respectively. The median AUC∞ (± sd) were estimated at 1,339,300 (±1,017,190) min*µg/L, 1652770 (±644053) min*µg/L, 1971720 (±657684) min*µg/L, and 125218 (±77262.5) min*µg/L for IV, IM, PO, and TD, respectively. The time points of peak FM concentrations (Tmax) were estimated at 30 min, 1 hr, and 24 hrs for IM, PO, and TD, respectively. The absolute bioavailability of PO FM was estimated at greater than 99%, while the bioavailability of TD FM was estimated to be low, 7.86%.
An additional objective was to use covariates of age and weight and a collection of data from previous research to establish PK in various production classes of swine. A literature review was performed using PubMed and American Association of Swine Veterinarians with the following search terms: swine OR pig* OR sow* OR gilt* OR boar* OR hog* AND flunixin. Original research was comprehensively analyzed for inclusion of swine-specific FM PK data. Authors were contacted for release of data. Data from four studies, including one study from this dissertation, were pooled for nonlinear mixed-effects modeling. The population parameters were estimated at 2.58 L/hour, 3.36 L, 13.2 L for the clearance, central volume, and peripheral volume, respectively and absolute bioavailability was estimated at 44% for IM, 4.26% for PO, and 4.67% for TD administration. Body weight, log transform of body weight, and IM study occasion were included as covariates in the model, at a threshold of p < 0.05. The study provides the first comprehensive characterization of pooled population PK of FM across a broad range of swine production classes.
Overall, this dissertation establishes the low bioavailability of TD bioavailability, and therefore is not an option for pain control in swine.
https://doi.org/10.31274/etd-20200624-216
Heather Kittrell
Kittrell, Heather, "An investigation of the pharmacokinetics of flunixin meglumine in swine using noncompartmental analysis and nonlinear mixed-effects modeling: An emphasis on pre-wean piglets" (2020). Graduate Theses and Dissertations. 18037.
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The Charleston Orphan House : children's lives in the first public orphanage in America
Murray, John E.
The first public orphanage in America, the Charleston Orphan House saw to the welfare and education of thousands of children from poor white families in the urban South. From wealthy benefactors to the families who sought its assistance to the artisans and merchants who relied on its charges as apprentices, the Orphan House was a critical component of the city's social fabric . By bringing together white citizens from all levels of society, it also played a powerful political role in maintaining the prevailing social order. John E. Murray tells the story of the Charleston Orphan House for the first time through the words of those who lived there or had family members who did. Through their letters and petitions, the book follows the families from the events and decisions that led them to the Charleston Orphan House through the children's time spent there to, in a few cases, their later adult lives. What these accounts reveal are families struggling to maintain ties after catastrophic loss and to preserve bonds with children who no longer lived under their roofs. An intimate glimpse into the lives of the white poor in early American history, The Charleston Orphan House is moreover an illuminating look at social welfare provision in the antebellum South.
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Softball Hosts Missouri State In Mid-Week Non-conference Action
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Looking to bounce back from a two-game setback to the 11th ranked Oklahoma Sooners in last weekend’s conference opener, Kansas softball (23-8, 0-2 Big 12) will take a brief break from conference play to host Missouri State (14-5, 3-2 MVC) in a doubleheader Wednesday, March 28 beginning at 3 p.m.
About Kansas
After dropping two games to No. 11 Oklahoma in its Big 12 Conference opener, Kansas softball (23-8, 0-2 Big 12) will take a break from conference play for a mid-week matchup with Missouri Valley member Missouri State. Junior Dougie McCaulley leads the team with a .392 average, good enough for ninth in the Big 12. McCaulley is also fourth in the league standings with 38 hits. Fellow junior Val Chapple is hitting above .300 at a .344 clip. Her 52 total bases, 21 RBIs and six home runs lead the Jayhawks, as well as her 76 assists on defense. Freshman Brittany Hile, who is hitting .247, has tallied a team-high seven doubles and is second on the squad with 18 runs batted in. Sophomore Amanda Jobe and junior Stevie Crisosto also have double digit RBIs with 14 and 10, respectively. From the circle, junior pitcher Val George paces KU with a 1.18 ERA. It is the first time since Feb. 15 that George has had an ERA over 1.00 and prior to last weekend’s matchup with Oklahoma, she stood at the top of the Big 12 rankings. Her 1.18 ERA is still good enough for third in the conference and she is ranked in the top five of five Big 12 pitching statistics. Sophomore Sarah Vertelka and freshman Allie Clark also split time from the pitcher’s circle. Vertelka is 15th in the Big 12 with an earned run average of 2.03.
After winning its series with Illinois State over the weekend 2-1 and picking up a road win at No. 11 Oklahoma last Wednesday, Missouri State has won three of its last four games as they bring a 14-5 (3-2 MVC) mark into tomorrow’s doubleheader. The Bears made a stop at WichitaState Tuesday night before coming to Lawrence. Senior Michelle Armentrout paces MSU with a .365 average and shares the team-high of 19 hits and 12 runs. She has also batted in 13 runs, trailing only senior Melissa Porshe who has 14 and a team-high three home runs. Junior Jessie Smith is hitting .340 with 18 hits and seven RBIs, while freshman Tyler Porter has a .311 average on 19 hits to go along with four runs batted in. Other Bears hitting over a .300 clip include freshman Ashley Knehans and junior Jana Shewmaker who are each averaging .310. In the bullpen, Porshe, this week’s MVC Pitcher of the Week, holds an MVC-leading 0.92 ERA in 83.2 innings pitched. As a team, the Bears lead the MVC with a 1.74 ERA. She has appeared in 17 of the team’s 19 contests and accumulated 108 strikeouts, while limited opposing batters to a .181 average from the plate. Sophomores Lauren McGinley (3.71 ERA, 28.1 innings) and Megan Ramsey (2.52 ERA, 16.2 innings) provide depth in the circle and have combined for a 6-2 record.
The Bears are coached by Holly Hesse who is 494-455-2 in her 19th season at MissouriState.
Kansas leads the all-time series with MissouriState 60-14 and has won the last eight meetings and 13 of the last 15 with the Bears, including last year’s doubleheader in Springfield.
Against the MVC
Missouri State will mark the fifth Missouri Valley Conference school faced by the Jayhawks this season. KU, who has already met up with MVC members IllinoisState, Southern Illinois, Bradley and IndianaState, is 8-0 this year against MissouriValley foes.
Four Score
It seems that if the Jayhawks can just get four runs on the scoreboard they are in the clear as Kansas is 17-0 when scoring four or more runs in a game.
Crisosto Heating Up
After struggling from the plate for much of the season, junior Stevie Crisosto has been heating up from the batter’s box as of late. In the last four contests, Crisosto has batted .571 and is currently riding the team’s longest hitting streak at four games. She also tallied her 24th career double at Oklahoma on March 21 and is just five shy of breaking into KU’s top 10 career doubles list.
Chapple Named National And Big 12 Player Of The Week
Softball junior Val Chapple was named USA Softball National Player of the Week by the Amateur Softball Association as well as Big 12 Softball Player of the Week for the week of March 10-16. Going 7-for-8 at the plate, including four home runs and a double in three games, the 5’3″ power assisted Kansas to three wins at the KU Invitational. Chapple is the first KU softball player honored with national and Big 12 player of the week awards since Kassie Humphreys accomplished the feat on May 16, 2006.
Kansas returns to conference action this weekend as they host Texas Tech for a two-game series, March 29-30. Saturday’s game against the Raiders will begin at 1 p.m. The following day, the team’s will square off at noon. The Jayhawks then head to Creighton April 2 in the start of a six-game road trip. KU’s doubleheader against the Bluejays will is scheduled to start at 2 p.m.
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Food Styling / Producer
Recipe and Art
Mirepoix Culinary
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Jeannie Chen
Jeannie Chen Jeannie Chen Jeannie Chen
Jeannie brings to everything she does the same unique mix of experience, expertise and eye that she has acquired over the years. Her background includes a mix of arts and culinary, having earned a Bachelor of Arts in fashion design from Parsons School of Design, and later a culinary arts certificate from the Institute of Culinary Education.
As a fashion designer and illustrator, Jeannie refined her visual eye and artistic talents to be used in both worlds. Her years of design experience in corporate settings further refined her sense of professionalism and conduct. However, it was the love of food from cooking with her mother during childhood that inevitably drew her back to the culinary arts.
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JEF MARINUS – Cd release, Casino, Sint-Niklaas (B), March 7, 2018JEF MARINUS is a household name on the Belgian music scene. Anybody who needs a good steel guitar player knows how to find Jef. He’s got also a busy career with his own band and as band leader for American country singer Doug Adkins who tours Europe on a regular basis. He’s also a regular visitor of Nashville and takes masterclasses over there with his musical heroes. Jef is on a level now that equals the big names on the instrument. Although he has played on many records as a guest artist, he never made an album of his own. ‘Puzzle Steel’ is his debut as a solo artist and is meant to be a kind of showcase of his abilities. Tonight he presents the cd in the cute and warm environment of the Sint-Niklaas Casino. Besides his own band (Chris Peeters on guitar, Ivo Opdebeeck on drums and Rik Lenaerts on bass), he invited all the special guests of the album. Belgian star Paul Michiels (Soulsister) sings a new version of ‘Rewind’, Dutch fiddler Peter van den Bos is a guest on three numbers and Doug Adkins came over from Montana with his backing singers to sing his hit ‘Whiskey Salesman’. Jef plays the complete album that goes from diehard country instrumentals (Hank Williams Medley) to jazz (Duke Ellington’s ‘Caravan’), a wonderful interpretation of Elton John’s ‘Blue Eyes’ and a dazzling interpretation of Morriconi’s ‘Once Upon A time In The West’. These pieces in particular show the eclectic mastership of Jef Marinus. This release show ended up to be an excellent concert with a focus on a lesser known instrument with a very characteristic sound. His own composition and title track ‘Puzzle Steel’ rounds off the presentation and shows his incredible mastering of licks and tricks. Marinus plays a varied and enjoyable show because he doesn’t stick only to country standards, but also trips around pop, jazz, easy listeningand swing. His professional band brings everything up to an international standard along the master. The cd will be on sale at his shows and on www.jefmarinus.com . (Geert Ryssen)
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Tuesday, August 4, 2020 | History
2 edition of sleepless moon found in the catalog.
H. E. Bates
by H. E. Bates
Published 1964 by Penguin in Harmondsworth .
Originally published: London, Michael Joseph, 1956.
Statement H.E. Bates.
The data show that around the full moon, brain activity related to deep sleep dropped by 30%. People also took 5 minutes longer to fall asleep, and they slept for 20 minutes less time overall. Sleepless is a science fiction and noir detective novel by Charlie Huston, published in Set in California in a dystopic alternate present, the novel portrays a world wracked by a sleeplessness pandemic caused by a ten percent of the population are infected, and, unable to find sleep, die painfully within a year. Society is on the verge of breakdown, and armed bands have Author: Charlie Huston.
Buy a cheap copy of The Sleepless Moon book by H.E. Bates. Free shipping over $ Bates refers to the book twice in his autobiography, once (The Vanished World, 83) recalling a garden from his childhood which "must have made on my young mind an impression at once permanent and endearing, for it is from this garden and its adjoining stone house that the tragic heroine of The Sleepless Moon walks to her wedding in the.
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The Sleepless Moon begins with the marriage of Constance to Melford, a much older and respected pillar of the community. It turns out to be a passionless marriage, then Constance meets the new young pianist Frankie.
Beautifully written with descriptions of the countryside. You can almost smell the scent of the flowers and hear the bird song/5. The New York Times Book Review “[Charlie Huston is] one of the most interesting writers working the crime/mystery/ supernatural beat [Sleepless] is a serious novel full of ideas about our future, concerns about our present and dead-on characterizations.”—Associated Press/5(79).
Get this from a library. The sleepless moon. [H E Bates] -- Story of a doomed marriage in a prosperous town in the west of England in The moon was full tonight its silvery light shone into Peter’s window.
“Mummy why doesn’t the moon go to sleep?” “It does in the daytime.” He was still puzzled. Peter put his slippers on and padded out to the garden. He asked an owl in the tree, “Why is the moon awake at night?” “Whoo whoo. So I can see to catch my dinner.”/10(83). The second book is of course, Sleepless, by Lou Morgan.
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"The Sleepless Moon" is about the bleak and unforgiving nature of insomnia, of restlessness, repressed passion and dislocation. Orlingford is a town where it is hard to differentiate between pleasure and pain: the wonder of a moment is ignored, misconstrued or overridden by the fear of it /5(7).
The Sleepless Moon had managed to slip through my grasp until just now. I think this has to be his best written book. The story moves quickly over a period of a few years in a small town where the very young and shy Constance marries the immovably stubborn, soul-less and much older Melford Turner/5(6).
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No ratings or reviews yet. Be the first to write a review. Best Selling in Fiction & Literature. See all. “Black Moon is the kind of book I envy as a writer, though a few retain their ability to sleep and thus become pariahs to the multitudes of the sleepless.
At the center of the novel are Biggs (a "sleeper") and his wife, Carolyn, who's given over to the telltale signs of insomnia, including physical symptoms like red-rimmed eyes and Brand: Random House Publishing Group.
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Bates, with perhaps his finest book in some years, returns to the mood, of his earliest work and his latest short stories, as against his more obviously popular writing of the war years (Fair Stood the Wind for France, etc.).
Here, in a rural tragedy, there is that particular sensitivity to the countryside and its seasonal changes which matches and accentuates the emotional character of. 'Sleepless Flame' (Book 1) by Odin Oxthorn. Published by Odins Musings Mapages.
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Author information: (1)Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Berne, Berne, Switzerland. [email protected] by: Book Review: 'Black Moon' In Kenneth Calhoun's debut novel, no one can sleep — and the insomnia's driving people crazy. Reviewer Jason Heller says Black Moon isn't. THE FULL MOON AND SLEEPLESS NIGHTS My Top Tips For Seamless Slumbers.
I can’t lie – I love sleep and adore my bed. I just came across this article, which attributes lots of nasty conditions to sleep deprivation – including dementia.I knew I was on the right track getting my. In Charlie Huston's SF/noir novel Sleepless, insomnia is an infectious disease affecting about a tenth of the population; the sleepless die painfully after about a year as their body slowly degrades.
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moon, with the darker shadow on the left side of. Here is a diagram of a. The fourth phase of the moon is called the waxing. This is the phase when a lot of the moon is very. visible from Earth and only a small part of the left. side of the moon is covered in shadow.
Here is a diagram of a.The Moon The moon is really important to the Earth. The moon makes the waves. Belive it or not. The moon creates waves because the moons gravitational.
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Regulations Exempting Departments and Parent Crown Corporations from the Requirements of Subsections 65.1(1) and 131.1(1) of the Financial Administration Act (SOR/2011-62)
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Regulations Exempting Departments and Parent Crown Corporations from the Requirements of Subsections 65.1(1) and 131.1(1) of the Financial Administration Act
FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATION ACT
Registration 2011-03-07
T.B. 836029 2011-03-07
The Treasury Board, pursuant to subsections 65.1(4)Footnote a and 131.1(4)Footnote b of the Financial Administration Act Footnote c, hereby makes the annexed Regulations Exempting a Department and Parent Crown Corporations from the Requirements of Subsections 65.1(1) and 131.1(1) of the Financial Administration Act .
Return to footnote aS.C. 2009, c. 31, s. 58
Return to footnote bS.C. 2009, c. 31, s. 60
Return to footnote cR.S., c. F-11
1 The Canadian Security Intelligence Service and the Communications Security Establishment are exempted from the requirement of subsection 65.1(1) of the Financial Administration Act .
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2 The Blue Water Bridge Authority, the Canadian Dairy Commission and the National Arts Centre Corporation are exempted from the requirement of subsection 131.1(1) of the Financial Administration Act for the first fiscal quarter ending after April 1, 2011.
3 These Regulations come into force on April 1, 2011.
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The Ultimate '80s Slang Quiz
By: Ryan Choate
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Every generation can be identified by its cultural contributions in music, films and even the language we speak. Generational language is a broken form of made-up words and catchphrases, which we know as slang, and is used to communicate with friends and eventually becomes woven into the fabric of society. Some of the greatest and yet most outrageous slang terms and phrases were born out of the neon and synthesizer decade of the '80s. With phrases like "Gag me with a spoon" one might be confused when speaking to someone with a heavy slang vernacular.
Pop culture is always a snapshot of a decade's music, fashion and films. The '80s were a decade where films like "Valley Girl," "Fast Times At Ridgemont High," and "Heathers" produced iconic slang terms and firmly put the lingo into society's rhetoric. Even stuffy politicians were using terms like awesome and radical. Some of these terms can transcend a generation or decade and maintain stature in modern day language. Some words become so synonymous with a movie or TV show that we will always associate the two together for decades to come. Don't worry, we don't think you're a dweeb if you can't remember all the slang terms. See if you can get a wicked score on this quiz and show us your tubular skills on the ultimate '80s slang quiz!
What is the name of the portable music player common in the '80s?
A large portable music player is referred to as a boom box. It often contained double cassette players to dub or record music.
If you came upon something that was particularly gross, what phrase might you say?
Barf me out!
Just say no.
A common slang term for something gross or disgusting is to exclaim, "Barf me out!" Other terms might be grody to the max or gag me with a spoon.
How would you describe someone who wants to be with the in-crowd?
Someone who wants to be popular and with the in-crowd is often called a poser. A poser will dress like the popular kids in hopes of gaining status in a group.
Which '80s movie made the phrase, "I'll be back" famous?
The classic futuristic movie, "The Terminator," gave us the famous phrase, "I'll be back." Star Arnold Schwarzenegger was an action star with a noticeable accent as he hailed from Austria. The phrase is synonymous with the movie and used in a variety of ways in modern pop culture.
Which of the following terms was actually coined in the '60s but made famous by a TV character in the '80s?
What's your bag, man?
Don't have a cow.
That's a drag.
"The Simpsons" is an animated show that started in 1989. The character Bart Simpson famously uses the term, "Don't have a cow" when he wants someone to relax.
How would you describe a nerdy person in the '80s?
Dweeb
Basketcase
There are many terms that refer to a nerdy person. Dweeb is a particularly popular term. Other terms might be geek or doofus.
If someone directed an insult at you, what could you say as a comeback?
So generic
Nice play, Shakespeare
Your momma was a comeback that could be used when someone insulted you. This could also be returned with a series of jokes based on the weight of one's momma.
What would be some advice you would give to someone who needs to relax?
Take a chill pill.
Eat my shorts.
When people are spazzing out, a friend might tell them to take a chill pill. While not an actual pill, this was a popular way to calm down a friend in distress.
What term would you use to describe someone who is into heavy metal music?
Glam Jock
People in the '80s who listened to heavy metal music were referred to as Headbangers. These individuals often smoked cigarettes, grew long hair and banged their heads to loud music such as Quiet Riot.
This classic slang phrase is used to ask what may be wrong with a person.
Whatchu talkin' about?
When someone suspects there may be something wrong with a friend they may ask, "What's your damage?" This can also be used with a stranger to assess an unsavory situation.
What phrase might someone utter when they want a person to shut up?
Not even
Bag your face
Used in the classic movie, "Valley Girl" the term, bag your face means to shut up. This does not refer to the actual suffocation one might assume from an actual bag over the face.
Someone who screwed up or failed at something completely might hear which term?
Smooth move, Ex-Lax
In another life
Way to go, dummy
If you screw up, your buddy might say "Smooth move, Ex-Lax." It is in reference to the constipation medication by the same name.
What is a dance style typically associated with punk rock or hardcore music?
Spazzing
Moshing
Ralphing
A form of dancing that involves slamming into other concert goers in an aggressive matter is called moshing. Moshing is typically associated with punk and heavy metal music.
Which fast food restaurant gave us the famous '80s catchphrase, "Where's the beef?"
A commercial in the '80s for Wendy's famously coined the expression, "Where's the beef?" The commercial became a sensation and is still synonymous with Wendy's.
If I was referring to a person as a nerd or geek, what term might I use?
A more obscure way to refer to a person as a geek or nerd is also noid. The term was used in the movie "Valley Girl."
In the movie "Fast Times At Ridgemont High" how does the surfer character, Jeff Spicoli, describe waves?
Spicoli describes waves as tasty. He is describing a perfect scenario for himself which also includes a cool buzz.
You just spotted a good looking guy/girl in the park. How might you describe them?
Hellacious
The term bodacious can be used to describe someone who you are attracted to. This can be used by either sex.
If you are overly excited, someone might say that you are what?
An airhead
A bimbette
Someone who is overly excited might be spazzing, or spazzing out. The term can refer to someone who is a bundle of nerves or a nervous wreck.
If you need to get out of a situation in a hurry, you might do what?
Get crackin'
Peel out
Jam down the road
When you need to take off quick, you might say it is time to motor. The term simply refers to getting to a place or from a place in a quick manner.
If you disagree with something or believe that it's wrong, you might declare it what?
Unsavory
Grody
Bogus became a popular way to describe something as wrong or unbelievable. It can also describe something that is fake or counterfeit.
What is a term that refers to a cool or popular person?
Preppie
Dweeby
A preppie is someone who is associated with a prep school look. They appear to have money and dress in sweaters, loafers and collared shirts. Sometimes referred to as snobs.
If something is beyond awesome, how might you describe it?
Trippendicular
Awesome can be one-upped with the term trippendicular. This describes something next level. It can also be used in conjunction with something that is totally amazing.
If you want to give someone praise for being correct, you might say what?
Yeah, that's the ticket!
Okay dokay!
For shizzle my nizzle!
Usually, this is an indication that an explanation was just created. It originated from a "Saturday Night Live" sketch with Jon Lovitz who was a habitual liar in the sketch.
Which '80s movie character might you call someone who was a nerd?
McSwain
In the movie, "Back To The Future" the main character's last name is McFly. When he goes back in time he sees his father is a nerd and gets bullied in school. Thus the term McFly for a nerdy person.
What suffix phrase was added to '80s slang terms in order to magnify the effect of a word?
Down the road
Up a creek
Out the door was a common suffix phrase to add an additional amount of exaggeration to a term Example: "Gag me out the door" or "Gross me out the door."
How would you define the term radical?
Something nerdy
Extremely hip and cool
Something that is mellow
Something that is extremely hip and cool can be radical. This term is closely related to awesome, tubular and righteous.
Of the following definitions, which best describes the word bad as it was used in the '80s?
It's average
I can't stand it
Bad was a term used in the '80s to describe something that was good. It can also refer to a person who is a little mysterious and dangerous.
Another term for a pair of shoes is what?
Kicks is a slang term for shoes. It can refer to any type of shoe or sneaker. This term is still popular today.
What movie from the '80s does the term, "Say hello to my little friend" refer to?
In the movie "Scarface," the main character of Tony Montana finds himself barricaded in his house. He exclaims, "Say hello to my little friend" referring to a gun, before he blasts through the closed doors.
Who uttered the phrase, "I pity the fool" in an '80s TV show?
Mr. Roper
Mr. T uttered the phrase on his TV show "The A-Team." He played B.A. and had several catchphrases that outlasted the show.
What is the definition of the word gnarly?
A person who is nerdy
A bad boy
Cool and excellent, beyond rad
Difficult and dangerous
Gnarly can mean something that is extreme, cool and beyond rad. It is used in the same vein as awesome.
Which utensil is commonly used to gag one's self when finding something gross?
Gag me with a spoon is a common term used in the '80s to describe something that is gross. It can also be synonymous with barf me out the door.
The term "duh" or "no duh" can be used to do what?
Express dislike
Express bewilderment
Tell someone to shut up
Say something is obvious
If a person wants to make sure that something seems very obvious, they may say "duh" or "no duh." This makes sure that the other person knows they are way ahead of them.
What are you doing if you use the term psyche?
Saying someone is dumb
Faking someone out
Giving psychological advice
Psyche can be used to fake someone out or express a vibe that you are just kidding or joking around. Not always directly related to the word psychology.
What does the word "righteous" mean in '80s slang?
Something expensive
A person full of themselves
Very extreme
If something is righteous, that means it is out of this world and totally cool. The term can be used to refer to anything like food and experience.
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Report: Mobile fingerprinting a core tool in US deportations
By FRANK BAJAK - Associated Press
BOSTON (AP) - A mobile fingerprinting app U.S. immigration agents use to run remote ID checks in the field has become a core tool in President Donald Trump’s deportation crackdown, a pair of immigration rights groups say in a new report based on a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.
The 2,500 pages of documents obtained through the 2017 lawsuit show that the app, known as EDDIE, has helped Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents ramp up deportations of migrants not intentionally targeted for removal, the report states. Such people are often detained as “collaterals” picked up in operations aimed at others, the activists say in Monday’s report. They say that field use of the app exacerbates racial profiling in immigrant communities.
For instance, an internal agency newsletter released with the documents described immigration agents using the app during traffic stops in collaboration with local police in Escondido, California, in 2017. That report credited the operation with “333 illegal alien arrests” in a 12-month period, although it provided scant additional context.
Used routinely by U.S. immigration and border agents, mobile fingerprinting figures in a biometric data collection scheme the Trump administration is seeking to broadly expand in its final weeks. A regulation proposed by the Department of Homeland Security on Sept. 11 would formalize the collection of face, iris and palm prints of non-citizens, as well as their DNA, in addition to the fingerprint data now collected.
“EDDIE is a way to bypass oversight and accountability,” said Paromita Shah of the nonprofit Just Futures Law, which produced the report with the immigrant rights group Mijente. “It allows agents to do the booking, to do the interrogations out of sight, out of the public’s view,” she said. “And in those places, abuse is most likely to occur.”
ICE spokesman Mike Alvarez rejected those allegations. He said field use of the mobile app, which is paired with Bluetooth-enabled fingerprint readers, does not replace detention booking at a local office. “There is no way to know” whether its use increases collateral arrests, he said, because the agency doesn’t collect such data.
The app allows field agents to remotely check fingerprints they collect against those registered in DHS and FBI databases. Courts have questioned federal databases’ reliability when used as the sole basis for detention decisions.
Under extraordinary pandemic-related powers beginning in March, Border Patrol agents have used mobile fingerprinting devices to assist in immediate expulsions to Mexico without giving migrants a chance to seek asylum.
The FOIA lawsuit was brought by the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild and Mijente, who say the collection and sharing of biometric data by DHS leaves non-citizens vulnerable to both civil rights and data privacy abuses. The EDDIE app accesses a person’s immigration history, any outstanding arrest warrants and previous encounters with U.S. law or immigration officers. It collects location data and time stamps and has been used in all U.S. immigration field offices as well as abroad, the documents show.
Becca O’Neill, a Charlotte, N.C., immigration lawyer, said ICE agents routinely use the app when pulling over vehicles linked to deportation orders, trying to fingerprint everyone inside. Agents do the same at targeted homes, she said. O’Neill tells migrants they have a constitutional right not to submit to mobile fingerprinting. Alvarez, the ICE spokesman, said it is voluntary. But activists say immigration agents’ behavior often contradicts that claim.
Immigration officers cannot force their way into homes without a court-issued warrant, so they often use such deceptive tactics as identifying themselves only as “police,” immigration activists say. Such behavior can be seen in the Netflix documentary miniseries “Immigration Nation,” where EDDIE is seen being used on “collaterals.”
In its platform, the campaign of President-elect Joe Biden vowed to “ undo the damage ” of Trump’s anti-immigration policies but did not address data-collection issues. Biden’s transition team did not reply to requests for comment.
Sarah Pierce of the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute think tank is worried the Trump administration will rush into place the proposed expanded biometric collection rule prior to leaving office on Jan. 20.
The rule could effectively place non-citizens - including children - under a continuous surveillance regime that would be complicated for the Biden team to dismantle, she said.
AP immigration reporter Elliot Spagat contributed to this story from San Diego.
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New hotspots driving cost hikes in key data centre markets - thriving market in South Africa
Major global data centre markets are seeing soaring construction costs as development in new and emerging hubs continues to heat up, according to research from global professional services company Turner & Townsend.
Published in Africa, International Property News
Positive momentum in global construction sector will help support economic growth, says Turner & Townsend
Despite the headwinds facing the world economy, the global construction sector entered 2019 with significant momentum, having seen growth of five percent in 2018.
Published in Construction, Energy and Infrastructure
Turner & Townsend appointed partner by Department for International Trade in UK-China Initiative in Africa
The UK Department for International Trade (DIT) has appointed professional services company, Turner & Townsend, as partner of choice in leading their UK-China Initiative in Africa.
Published in Office, Retail, Industrial, Hotels and Residential
Sasol head office future-proofs tech for the long term
Working in partnership with Sasol’s Information Management Services (IMS) to develop and deliver an integrated IT solution for its new head office in Sandton, professional services company Turner & Townsend has helped Sasol create a world-class workspace not only for today, but also for the future.
Global Coalition transforms construction cost reporting
Despite rapid globalisation with investment funds flowing across borders and money pouring into constructed assets, the construction profession has until now, lacked a common language and framework for classifying and reporting construction costs.
Thursday, 08 June 2017 17:49
New York tops league table of most expensive cities for construction as global skills shortage deepens
New York, San Francisco, Zurich, Hong Kong and London top the league table of the most expensive places to build.
Women Property Network 2017 Leadership Conference
Women’s Property Network (WPN) will host their third annual Leadership Conference on the 10th February.
Turner & Townsend appointed to project manage major Hilton Hotel refurbishment in Durban
Well-situated adjacent to the Durban International Convention Centre, the Hilton Hotel is currently undergoing a major refurbishment, which is being undertaken in five phases.
Office sector is all about ‘agile’ working, says Turner & Townsend
While the look ahead will be challenging for the South African property industry as a whole, there are still pockets of opportunity for investors, landlords and tenants, says Tim Cable, director, who now heads up the real estate sector in South Africa for global professional services consultancy, Turner & Townsend.
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Title: Technology Advances
On each end of the screen there were two bars and the object was to hit a square pixel back and forth in an attempt to score. These types of games were good, but as technology advanced , graphics and sound were in demand. From the ATARI came NINTENDO ( I am skipping a few minute advances in technology like the ODDESY) Then Nintendo, which dominated the market at the time, soon had competition with SEGA. Both of these systems were 16 bit. Theses machines still weren't enough to satisfy consumers for a while so thay came out with the most significant change yet. The change from cartridges to CD's...
Effects of Technology: Computer Technology
Effects of computer technology in schools
A Quantum Computer... A Future Technology
Computer Technology and the Effects on Society
Computer Technology: Good Prevails Over Evil
Computer database technology
Misconception of Computer Technology Careers
The impact of computer technology
Computerized World
Effects of Technology
Personal Computer Games
Techonology is Great
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About Mental Health
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Mental Health & Related Organisations in Scotland
Peer Support Workers are individuals with personal experience of mental health who are trained to support others.
What is Peer Support?
Peer support is a system of giving and receiving help founded on key principles of respect, shared responsibility, and a mutual agreement of what is helpful.
Peer support is not based on psychiatric models and diagnostic criteria.
It is about understanding another’s situation with empathy through the shared experience of emotional and psychological pain where people are able to ‘be with each other’ without the constraints of traditional (expert/patient) relationships.
What is a Peer Support Worker?
People with experience of mental health problems, who are trained to work in support of other people’s recovery.
Peer Support Workers can be described as modelling recovery, offering a lived example of the possibility of progression and growth.
What is a Professional Development Award (PDA)?
A Professional Development Award (PDA) is a Scottish Vocational Qualification (SCQF) which contributes to continuous professional development for employed participants.
Developed in the 2010’s, the PDA in Mental Health Peer Support is a (relatively) new award which has been designed to meet the needs of peer support workers in Scotland and provide them with a robust accredited award which will not only serve to set standards but also to contribute to the creation of a recognised employment and career pathway.
Peer support is a system of giving and receiving help, founded on key principles of respect, shared responsibility, and mutual agreement.
It is about understanding another person’s situation with empathy through shared experiences of emotional and psychological pain.
Thanks to peer support, people who have experienced mental health issues offer insight and understanding and can draw on their own experiences to help.
This first-hand experience combined with professional support is a valuable tool for mental health workers.
The results from these shared experiences show that peer support is a meaningful, effective and innovative approach to assist people in their recovery from mental health issues.
What is the Purpose of the Course?
The PDA in Mental Health Peer Support is designed to facilitate candidates in the role of peer support worker.
The PDA equips candidates with the knowledge, skills, and values which are necessary to carry out this role.
It was developed by the Scottish Recovery Network and Scottish Qualifications Authority.
This PDA has been developed to facilitate learning for people with the lived experience who wish to act in the role of Peer Support Workers either in a voluntary or paid capacity.
The only conditions of entry are that individuals should:
Have personal experience of mental health problems.
Be able to provide evidence of good written and oral communication skills (at least SCQF level 5).
This can be either in an interview situation or through production of relevant qualifications.
Be in paid or voluntary work, working with individuals with mental health problems prior to starting the course.
Academic Level of the Course
The PDA will be awarded on successful completion of a total of 2 credits. The PDA carries 16 SCQF credit points at SCQF level 7.
Course Format Content
The course consists of two units, each lasting 13 weeks (40 hours each, notionally):
Mental Health Peer Support Recovery Context:
SQA credit value: 1, SCQF credit: 8.
Mandatory unit.
Mental Health Peer Support Developing Practice:
During the PDA individual will:
Explore the development of the recovery approach in mental health.
Define and understand peer support and its role in recovery.
Describe and explain the key concepts of formalised peer support.
Apply a range of theories and concepts in the peer support role.
Develop relationships based on peer support principles.
Understand perspectives of the work role.
Unit 01 is aimed primarily at individuals who have personal experience of mental health problems.
It may also be of value to those with an interest in mental health recovery.
It is designed to provide candidates with the underpinning knowledge, skills and values to understand recovery and peer support.
The individual will understand the development of the recovery approach and learn and understand the concepts of empowerment and mutuality.
The individual will develop their understanding of peer support and its role in recovery.
Unit 02 is designed to provide individuals with the knowledge and skills and values required to provide peer support.
It will also enable individuals to understand and reflect on the peer relationship and how this can be used to support recovery.
Individuals will gain knowledge from a range of theories and concepts used to inform the peer support role, they will gain a greater understanding of the principles and perspectives of the role.
Individuals will consider the work role and function of a peer support worker and relate this to their own personal experience.
Unit 01:
Assessment of this unit should be carried out in an integrated fashion with other units in the Group Award wherever possible.
The recommended assessment for Outcome 1 is an assignment of approximately 1,000 words and the assessment for Outcomes 2 and 3 is a portfolio of evidence prepared by the candidate which covers the Evidence Requirements of both Outcomes.
This portfolio should be no more than 1,500 words. Portfolio evidence should relate to real work activity and be authenticated by an appropriate person.
Holistic assessment presented as a portfolio of evidence using real work experience in which the individual undertakes an analysis of their use of theories and concepts to support people to identify their desired outcomes, set their own goals and recognise their own expertise.
Individuals are asked to relate learning to real work practice and are expected to produce evidence relating to the role and function of peer support.
The total word count of this portfolio should not exceed 2,500 words.
An SCQCF Level 7 Professional Development Award in Mental Health Peer Support is awarded on successful completion.
You can find further information on the PDA at the Scottish Qualifications Authority.
AndrewM@Mental-Health-Matters.org
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Rey Ordóñez’s Unbelievable Throw From His Knees
Mets Players
It’s opening day 1996 at Shea Stadium and Rey Ordóñez‘s major league debut playing shortstop for the Mets. He makes it memorable with a throw from his knees to home plate while in shallow left field.
Three years earlier, Ordóñez defected from Cuba during the Summer Universiade in Buffalo, New York. The Mets won the rights to sign him in a 1993 lottery drawing among the MLB clubs. He spent a few years in their minor league system, earning a reputation as a defensive wiz kid.
In the top of the 7th of Opening Day the Mets are trailing St. Louis 6-3. The Cardinals have Royce Clayton on first base with two outs. Ray Lankford hits what looks to be a run-scoring double to left field off of Mets pitcher Jerry Dipoto.
Bernard Gilkey chases the ball down and throws it to Ordóñez in shallow left field. Rey turns and from his knees makes a spectacular, one-hop throw to Todd Hundley at the plate to nail the runner.
Related: Who made the most errors for the Mets?
The New York Times said that Ordóñez’s throw was 150 feet. The Mets rallied to win the game 7-6, including a single by Ordóñez. He would play for the Mets from 1996 to 2002. While never hitting much at all, Ordóñez would win three straight Gold Gloves from 1997-1999.
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Chinese state visit to the UK
© London News Pictures 20/10/2015. Major Benjamin Jesty was joined by president Xi and the Duke of Edinburgh inspecting troops from 1st battalion Grenadier Guards on Horse Guards Parade during the ceremony
More than 1,100 soldiers and 230 horses joined HM The Queen, HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall, the Prime Minister, Senior members of the Cabinet, the Lord Mayor of London, the Mayor of London, and the Defence Chiefs of Staff for the ceremonial welcome to Britain of The President of The People’s Republic of China and Madame Peng Liyuan . Photo credit: Rupert Frere/LNP
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Band Bandsman Buckingham Palace Ceremonial Changing of the Guard Cold Farrier GSM Garrison Sergeant Major Guard of Honour Her Majesty The Queen and His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh Horse Guards Household Cavalry Household Cavalry Bands Major General Edward Smyth-Osbourne General Officer Commanding The Household Division kingstroop rha ktrha london
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My Role In The Release Of Kankara Schoolboys – Zamfara Governor, Matawalle
Zamfara State Governor, Bello Muhammed, has explained the role he played which led to the release of 344 students of the Government Boys Science School, Kankara, Katsina State.
Speaking on Tuesday night in Abuja when the PDP National Working Committee led by its Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus paid him a condolence visit over the death of 8 people in the recent attack on the convoy of the Emir of Kaura Namoda, Matawalle said he was able to secure the release of the students through a dialogue with some of the repentant bandits.
Matawalle said:-
“As soon as the boys were kidnapped, we stepped in. We reached out to repentant bandits in the state. Negotiations were made and that was how they were released. The boys were released in Zamfara before they were moved to Katsina.”
The Governor also said the reign of bandits in Northern Nigeria will come to an end if all governors in the region formed an alliance to destroy their (bandits) camps in Zamfara State.
Describing Zamfara as the epicentre of banditry in the north, the governor said while dialogue had worked to some extent, not destroying the bandits camps most especially in Zamfara remained a risk to ending their activities.
“Zamfara is the epicentre of banditry in the North…and if the issue of banditry was taken serious in Zamfara State, I assure you the whole issue of banditry in Northern Nigeria will end”
“So I’m calling on my colleagues and the security agencies to put more effort in Zamfara State so that we can identify all the camps of the bandits and destroy them.
“If we don’t destroy them, we may not be able to end the issue of banditry in the North or Nigeria at large. No matter what the bandits tell you about dialogue or reconciliation, we must be able to mop the weapons in their hands, without doing so, we are not doing anything.
“How we restored peace in Zamfara”
The Governor added that when he came on board, he invited all the stakeholders to discuss the modalities to tackle the issue of insecurity in the state adding that the meeting resolved that dialogue was the best option for the state.
“As you’re all aware, Zamfara is one of the most peaceful states before and one of the richest in Nigeria but this banditry was created in order to scare away investors so as to prevent them from coming to invest in the state.”
“I submitted myself to everybody and if all governors can be accessed anytime by their locals, we can be able to tackle that issue.
Why I pardoned Nabena
The governor also said the intervention of the APC National Caretaker Committee and the Governors forum made him stopped the plan to institute a legal action against the acting National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Yekini Nabena, over an alleged comment credited to the APC spokesperson which the governor considered libelous.
The APC spokesman had last week Thursday accused one of the Governors of the North West States of harbouring the activities of the bandits in the region following the abduction of the Kankara Schoolboys.
The Governor said he was miffed by the allegation but has decided to stop the plan to sue the APC spokesperson:-
“pending the decision and action to be taken by the party in discipline Yekini for the unsubstantiated allegations he leveled against me and my government.”
“Following interventions by the APC National Caretaker Committee, the Nigeria Governors’ Forum and the Progressives Governors’ Forum, I have decided to hold on to my decision of taking legal action against the Acting National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress APC, Yekini Nabena, for some libellous comments that tantamount to accusations against my personality and governments.
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Fri, 19:00
Sat, 18:00
Sun, 12:00
ballet in two acts
music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky
one interval
6+for viewers over 6 years old
45 minutes Interval 30 minutes 45 minutes
Masha — Anastasia Smirnova
The Nutcracker/Prince — Leonid Sarafanov
Conductor — Alexey Repnikov
Libretto by Marius Petipa after the fairytale by E. T. A. Hoffmann revised by Nacho Duato
Choreographer: Nacho Duato
Stage Designer: Jérôme Kaplan
Lighting Designer: Brad Fields
Costume Technology: Alla Marusina
Choreographer’s Assistants: Tony Fabre, Gentian Doda
Répétiteurs: Zhanna Ayupova, Elvira Khabibullina, Kirill Myasnikov, Denis Tolmachov
The performance features the Perezvony («Chimes») Choir of the Glinka Children’s School of Arts
Director of the Choir: Larisa Yarutskaya
The text in Act I is read by Nikolay Burov
Premiere of the production: 12 December 2013
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s ballet The Nutcracker is considered a symbol of life’s magical transformations and constant renewal. The story of how a wooden doll became an enchanted prince, who, with the help of a kind and selfless girl named Masha, defeated the evil Mouse King, is not just a beautiful fairytale. It’s a story of time’s passing and how a carefree childhood gives way to the bright sorrow of youth and the dreams of love and harmony.
The Nutcracker, staged by Nacho Duato, constituted „the choreographer’s heartfelt farewell to Russia.“ Together with French stage designer Jérôme Kaplan, the Spanish choreographer „created an homage to the city that astounded him with its grandeur, its artists, and its audiences.“ The creators of the ballet chose to place the action in pre-revolutionary Russia, the Silver Age of Russian culture. After the premiere, critics noted that „Duato does not play with the classic, but tries in earnest to follow its style and strict canon,“ they admired the „free breathing plastique“ and the „bright discoveries“ of the choreographer who, in his work on the ballet, managed to harness „genuine inspiration.“
Christmas Eve. In a few hours, the clock will strike midnight — a time of magic and of dreams. Our story begins as the loving but mysterious uncle Drosselmeyer gathers all the children at the family party to give them Christmas presents: a beautiful Princess, a handsome Prince and a wicked Mouse King. Finally, the surprise gift, the Nutcracker doll, Drosselmeyer gives to his godchild Masha. Masha is fascinated by the Nutcracker. She cuddles and comforts her favorite toy. As the evening grows late, the guests depart and the Stahlbaum family retires for the evening. Masha, worried about her beloved Nutcracker, sneaks back to the tree to check on him, falling asleep with him in her arms. As the clock strikes midnight strange things begin to happen. The toys around the tree come to life while the room fills with an army of mice, led by the wicked Mouse King. As the Nutcracker awakens, he leads his army of toy soldiers into battle with the mice. The Mouse King drops to the floor and the mice run away, carrying off their leader’s lifeless body. The Nutcracker turns into a Prince and takes Masha on a journey to the Magic Land, where they are welcomed by dancing snowflakes.
The toys of the Magic Land are celebrating the victory over the Mouse King. They dance different dances from all over the world. Masha and Prince are happy. Masha knows that she has to leave this wonderful dream but it will stay with her forever.
Jerome Kaplan: “My most interesting offers have come from the world of dance”
The celebrated French set designer Jerome Kaplan is joining Nacho Duato to work on a new production of The Nutcracker. A true Parisian, he brings a ‘family nostalgia’ for Russian culture to his sets and costumes for ballet.
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Gabe Jones & Hydra Flame Trooper — Marvel: Cap: TFA Wave 1(TRU)
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When it came time to do the Minimates for The First Avenger, the film’s titular character was featured in most of the sets, but he did get to take a break for a few packs. This includes today’s focus pack, which is perhaps the most obscure pairing of the bunch, Howling Commando Gabe Jones and the Hydra Flame Trooper.
This pairing uses the same basic packaging as the Golden Age Cap/Dugan and the basic Wave 40 releases. It relies pretty heavily on the official The First Avenger branding from Marvel. It’s perhaps a little dull, but it showcases the included figures well enough. There are still no bios, which hurts this set a little more than the others, given Gabe’s lesser-known status.
Gabe Jones
Gabe is perhaps a less distinctive member of the Howling Commandos than Dum Dum, but he’s an important one nonetheless, and one that’s stuck around for quite a while. He also has the notoriety of being Marvel’s first African American hero, albeit not quite one of the “super” variety.
Gabe is constructed using two add-on pieces. The first is his helmet, which is shared with Frontline Captain America. It’s a decent, standard-issue piece, so it works well enough. His second add-on piece is his vest, a unique piece to this particular figure. It’s definitely another solid piece, and it has some pretty excellent detail work, especially on the bandolier. Like others in this particular set, there’s a holster attached; I still like them better as separate pieces, but it doesn’t look terrible.
The paintwork on Gabe is pretty standard stuff. The application is all pretty cleanly handled. He’s a little bit drab, but that’s just his design. His face is sporting a pretty decent likeness of Derek Luke, but, as with Dugan, the likeness isn’t that far removed from Gabe’s comic incarnation, should you want to swap this head onto one of the comic book agent bodies.
Gabe is packed with a rather large machine gun, just like the one he was carrying around in the film. He can hold it surprisingly well, given that it’s a two-hander. He also includes a standard issue side-arm, which is the same as the one included with Cap and Bucky.
Gabe isn’t the star figure in this assortment, but he’s exactly the sort of figure you like to see come out of movie assortments. A fun second-tier character who wouldn’t otherwise get a figure.
Hydra Flame Trooper
The Hydra Flame Trooper, like the basic Hydra Agents packed with Peggy and Howard, was first offered up as part of the single-packed army builders case, before being offered up a second time here. It’s actually a pretty sensible way of filling in the line-up, since I doubt anyone’s really going to complain about a duplicate here.
The figure uses four add-on pieces for the mask/goggles, chest cap, and flamethrowers. The mask is the same one used on the basic Agents, which is good for consistency’s sake. The chest cap and flamethrowers are big and bulky, and a little bit restricting, but that was the case in the movie as well, so it’s not really a complaint here. Lastly, the figure swaps out the upper legs for a pair of more detailed ones, used from the Hammerdrones.
The Flame Trooper’s paintwork is pretty straightforward stuff, really. It’s black, with thin white detialing. It actually looks quite good, and makes for rather a striking figure.
The Flame Trooper included no accessories, but given all of the sculpted extras, I suppose that’s excusable.
Another fun addition to the Hydra army, based on one of the cooler designs from the movie.
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The Vera Cruz, the True Cross of Caravaca de la Cruz
The holy relic of Caravaca has defined the history and development of the city
The Cross of Caravaca represents many things to many people, and since the Middle Ages it has come to define the nature of the city in which it appeared and is kept. For some it is a memento brought from the Middle East during the Crusades, for others it is a religious treasure which was guarded first by the Order of the Templars and then by the Order of Santiago, and there are those for whom it is the result of a miracle which occurred when south-eastern Spain was still ruled by the Moors.
Whatever the truth behind the Cross, though, whether it is legend or fact, the True and Holy Cross of Caravaca remains a powerful attraction in the 21st century, as is witnessed by the thousands of pilgrims who take part in the Holy Jubilee to venerate the relic and obtain plenary indulgence every seven years.
The Cross of Caravaca and its reliquary
The Cross of Caravaca is a “lignum crucis”: in other words, a piece of wood which comes from the cross on which Jesus Christ is crucified. As such, its appearance is not spectacular, and to a certain degree not important, as it is on account of its origin that it is significant to Christians: it has been recognized as genuine by the Catholic Church for centuries, and in 1794 it received the status of “latria” (being worthy of worship).
However, the reliquary in which the fragment is kept is quite another matter. This is a patriarchal cross consisting of one vertical bar measuring 17 centimetres and two horizontal crossbars, with widths of 7 and 10 centimetres, and its origins lie in the Middle East. This style of cross was used by patriarchs as a symbol of greater importance for certain dioceses.
Tradition has it that the cross belonged to Robert of Jerusalem, who visited the Holy City as part of the First Crusade in 1099 during which it was captured from the Muslims, and that it was brought west in 1230 after Emperor Frederick II visited one of Robert’s successors. Two years later, it was in Caravaca.
The legend of the Holy Cross of Caravaca
Many mysteries surround the cross, but all versions of events talk of its appearance in the castle of Caravaca on 3rd May 1232 (or 1231 according to some versions). At that time Caravaca and the rest of Murcia were still under Moorish rule, and thousands of Christians were taken prisoner and imprisoned by the ruler of Valencia, Abu Zeit.
Among them was a priest named Ginés Pérez de Chirinos, whose profession and religious beliefs provoked the curiosity of the Abu Zeit, who questioned him about the form of his religion and what he believed.
Abu Zeit ordered him to perform Mass so that he could see for himself what this entailed, but during the ceremony Pérez Chirinos realized that he was unable to complete the Mass without there being a crucifix present on the altar. Legend has it that at that moment the chamber was flooded with a brilliant light and two angels appeared, bearing a 2-armed cross, the Vera Cruz of Caravaca, containing the lignum crucis, wood from the true cross of Jesus Christ.
Overcome by the vision, Abu Zeit fell to his knees and converted to the Christian faith, and news of the Vera Cruz spread as it gained a reputation as a powerful protector and healer in the centuries to come.
This event led to the cross becoming known as the “True Cross”, and it was subsequently incorporated into Caravaca’s coat of arms.
(Another rather more prosaic version explaining the presence of the Cross in Caravaca is that it was brought here from the Holy Land by the Knights Templar, and protected by them until their order was disbanded by Pope Clement V in 1312. However, this is thought to be an attempt to marry the mystique and romantic idealism of the warrior knights to conveniently fit a legend, as they are not believed to have been in the area until 1241.)
Over the centuries the identity of Caravaca became inextricably intertwined with the Cross, and as the city grew it welcomed numerous religious orders: hence the proliferation of old churches, monasteries and convents in the city today.
However, the legend took on new twists in the 20th century.
On the night of the 13th/14th February 1934, the Cross disappeared from its sanctuary, and as the word spread a terrified mob gathered in the street, panicking that their protector had been lost. The chaplain was seized and dragged out to the street, with accusations of being involved in the theft ringing in his ears. Although he denied all knowledge of the disappearance he was executed in broad daylight with a single pistol shot from the impassioned townspeople.
Rumours abounded over what could have happened: some believed it had been taken for its own protection by the Knights Templar, others that it had been taken to Rome for safety in the face of the impending Civil War in Spain, and others maintain that it is still hidden somewhere in Caravaca.
The Civil War passed and still there was no sign of the cross, but following discussions with the Vatican, Pope Pius XII decided to give the town two splinters from another section of the cross of Jesus, a treasure guarded for centuries within the walls of the Vatican. These were given in 1942, and in 2006, to celebrate the 775th anniversary of the appearance of the cross, 200 pilgrims travelled from Caravaca to the Holy Land and were given a third splinter of the true cross.
The reliquery holding the cross was re-fashioned based on the original design,
The angels who brought the Cross to Caravaca
It is significant that there are angels present in the legend of the appearance of the Cross in Caravaca, as this lends the story greater prestige in the eyes of the Catholic faith. This was particularly important in the Middle Ages, when there was an abundance of holy relics, some of them more credible than others, and in order to mark out the more valid of them a style of reliquary developed in which the relic itself was housed inside a cross-shaped case carried by angels.
This shape was brought to western Europe from the Byzantine Empire in the east, and the format can be seen in the Cathedral of Naples, in Saint Mark’s in Venice and in the Abbey of Scheyern in Germany.
The large outer case in which the small reliquary in Caravaca is housed was donated by Suárez de Figueroa in the 15th century, although in this case the angels are neither guardians nor protectors: instead they are carriers depicted in the act of bringing the holy relic to Pérez de Chirinos.
The Cross of Caravaca and Military Orders
The dates in which the Order of the Templars was in Caravaca are not exactly certain, but historians generally agree that their presence lasted from around 1266 to 1312 and that from their base here they controlled a large area of land through a network of castles. At this time the Order was close to being dismantled in western Europe, but there developed a close association between their activities and the existence of the Cross in Caravaca.
A generation after the Templars left the region of Murcia, King Alfonso XI granted power over Caravaca to the Order of Santiago, and the city remained under the control of this Order for most of the following 550 years. Caravaca and its Cross thus became inseparable from the Order, which was responsible for the rituals which grew around the relic and for the emblematic “cross of Santiago” appearing on all of the major buildings in the city.
Church recognition of the Cross of Caravaca
The validity of the lignum crucis in Caravaca was recognized by the Catholic Church soon after the relic appeared, as is shown on numerous documents housed in the Basilica-Sanctuary, including a bull issued by Clement VII during the Avignon Papacy in 1392. Like many other Popes, he granted indulgence to pilgrims who paid homage to the Cross, and among those who followed in his footsteps were his namesake Clement VIII in 1597, Paul V (1606), Alexander VIII (1690) and Clement XI (1705). In 1736 the status of “Latria” (an item worthy of worship) was granted during the papacy of Clement XII.
The name of “Vera Cruz” which is given to the relic in these documents is one which gradually became more and more closely associated with the cross of Caravaca, and the adjective was not used lightly by the Church. The prestige is known to have rubbed off on the city as early as 1285, when a document in the Cathedral of Murcia describes the town’s coat of arms as featuring a cross and a cow, a design which exists to this day.
The fame of the Cross spreads
Almost as soon as Caravaca was relieved of the precarious situation of being practically on the border with the Muslim kingdom of Al-Andalus by the re-conquest of Granada in 1492, the fame of the Cross of Caravaca spread rapidly, not only in Spain but also throughout Europe. This is doubtless due to the prestige, power and influence of Spain on the international stage during the reigns of the Catholic Monarchs, Carlos I, Felipe II and the House of Austria, and among the religious orders to establish themselves here were those led by Santa Teresa de Jesús and San Juan de la Cruz: the latter visited Caravaca no fewer than seven occasions, and founded the Convento del Carmen in 1586.
Word of the Cross brought noble families to Caravaca, as can still be seen in the architecture of the city, and at the same time missionary priests spread it across the Empire to South America and to the rest of Europe, where they visited other establishments belonging to their Orders.
As Caravaca rid itself of its frontier mentality, so the business of pilgrimage and worship grew in importance, and while special Jubilees were held to attract more visitors new rituals were inaugurated and the Sanctuary (now a Basilica) was built.
Crosses of Caravaca as gifts
The tradition of giving likenesses of the Vera Cruz de Caravaca as gifts dates back at least as far as the 16th century, when it is known that one such image was presented by the Carmelite nuns to Santa Teresa: this item is now housed in the convent of the Barefoot Carmelites in Brussels. The Saint herself notes receipt of the present in 1576, and the prior existence of the custom cannot be discounted.
The significance of the gifting of a Cross of Caravaca is that it embodies affection, peace and love.
This tradition is one of the reasons for the existence of so many likenesses of the Cross of Caravaca, and there is a collection of them on display in the Museo de la Cruz.
Rituals of the Cross
The rituals which surround the worship and commemoration of the Cross of Caravaca took on their current format in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and are now a central part of the annual fiestas which also include the racing of the Wine Horses.
In chronological order, the nine rituals which are observed every year in early May are the following:
- Holy Mass to commemorate the appearance of the Cross.
- The Blessing of the wine and first bathing of the Cross.
- The Blessing of the flowers (together with the blessing of the wine).
- The Procession of the Cross as it leaves its Sanctuary.
- Holy Mass to celebrate the finding of the Cross.
- The Procession to the bathing place (the Templete) prior to the blessing of the waters.
- The Bathing of the Cross.
- The Cruz de Impedidos, a procession through the streets in which the Cross is taken to those who most need it, and cannot visit the Sanctuary.
- The Procession in which the Cross is returned to its Sanctuary, followed by a blessing of the fields and of Nature.
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The Most Underappreciated Comedic Actor of Our Time? Yes He Is.
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A warning up front up – this might start reading like a love letter to Anthony Michael Hall. It isn’t, I’ll tell myself everyday. If the name isn’t setting off your familiar-meter you’re either younger than 25 or deprived of the most spirited period in comedy film history, neither of which are an issue. You’ll read plenty about him.
I’m not some weirdo. I value comedic actors and find myself easily hypnotized by the charm of characters, thus emotionally invested in them.
It’s a lot easier to love a character you’ve only seen through a window of 90 minutes on film than it is a real person, which is why we hold comedic actors so dearly. Their performances give life to the funny flicks we treasure in our hearts and revisit on a lonely evening, depressed, bombed, or both.
We all have a favorite all-time comedic actor, or several, and our lists of most beloved likely overlap. Certain names arise in discussion more frequently than others, like Gene Wilder, Jim Carrey, or Steve Martin to name a few. Some serve their years in the spotlight and fade away, while others continue on with time, starring in funny roles for the majority of their lives.
The 80s were a standout decade for light and silly comedies; a heyday for slapstick snobs vs. slobs ventures and stories of family vacations gone array, and a span of time in which a lot of the funniest films ever came to be. Naturally, a laundry list of funny legends entered our lives throughout these years, or were at least at their busiest.
Many of comedy’s most notable names were in fullest form from 80 to 89: Tom Hanks. He’s had an incredible career beyond the 80s, but the better part of his most delightful performances were the driving force in breezy 80s efforts like Big, The Money Pit, Bachelor Party, and The ‘Burbs.
Eddie Murphy had his fair share of comedy smashes with Beverly Hills Cop, Trading Places, and Coming To America. John Candy delivered us his charming classics Uncle Buck, Summer Rental, The Great Outdoors, and a tear-jerking, laugh-riot of a performance in Planes, Trains, & Automobiles. Even Bill Murray was at the height of his game in the 80s, though more cultured people would say the 90s or 2000s. Plus he’s more relevant than ever for galavanting about, crapping into wishing wells, or whatever he’s up to (he hasn’t actually pooped in a well, I don’t think.)
Regardless of what people want to say about Chevy Chase- stuff along the lines of he’s a mediocre comedian or generally despicable person – he was a staple of hilarity in the 80s, and even his more underseen efforts are timelessly funny romps worth the occasional revisit (i.e. Funny Farm or Fletch Lives.) Call me blinded by a chemical imbalance that leads me to believe 80s comedies hold the importance necessary to position a frame of reference, but I see the good in Chevy and think he’s more talented than Johnny Carson’s corpse would tell you he is.
Think of your favorite comic actors, include them with those just mentioned, and there you have the extent of names that come up in the “best comedic actors” conversation. One brilliant underdog is always left out. He’s a guy who ate up one lovably fun role after another in the 80s; had some of the funniest lines in history’s most near and dear comedies, and still doesn’t receive his credit as one of the greatest comedic actors ever. That man is Anthony Michael Hall.
If you’ve watched at least a few of John Hughes’ best films, you’ve seen a performance from Hall that lands somewhere between endearing and uproariously funny; often a bit of both. He was an integral part of several 80s heavyweight comedies, supplying a mixture of heart, innocence, and snark to flicks that wouldn’t be so memorable without him.
Hall waltzed into comedies in the early 80s with a kind, all-american look, like the personification of what’s depicted in a Rockwell painting – blonde, gentle eyes, not remarkably attractive but pleasant in appearance. He looked exactly like who he was in films, an insecure kid with good intentions who carried the witty, sarcastic edge of someone who suffered too many reminders they weren’t popular or enough of a certain something. His characters resonated and still do with the teen guys and young adult men wandering confused and unsure outside standard social circles; those who aren’t classically handsome enough to draw attention from the “hot girls,” or guy’s guy enough to befriend the athletes. Hall’s characters not only speak to these crowds, they offer hope to them.
Though all of his most prominent 80s roles were some variation of dweeb, one even simply being named “The Geek,” Hall’s characters weren’t one-note dorks. Beneath the beaten-down, nerdy exteriors were sharp, funny guys who recognized their worthiness but had been programmed to suppress confidence. In their moments of self-belief, though, we saw surprisingly smooth, enigmatic individuals. Hall paired a swagger with his vulnerability. A sharp wit with his naivety. His dishonesty, bred from a lack of confidence, was always followed with eventual truth. He came armed with memorable one-liners to match the rejection he grew to expect, all delivered with his unique, fed up with bullshit dryness. Hall exuded dorky likeability, exhibiting an unmatched blend of real heart and cut-up dickishness.
His introduction to the mainstream came in 1983 with National Lampoon’s Vacation, in which he starred as Rusty Griswold. The film remains a widespread favorite today, especially amongst your dads, as it tells the all-too-relatable tale of a well-meaning yet klutzy and emotionally immature father who drags his family along for a trip full of mishaps. Rusty, a sheltered pre-teen, has the good nature of a kid from a decent home, but the edge and inclination to more mature thinking of a child whose goofy dad can’t relate, and whose mother has been driven to exhaustion by a screw-up, unfaithful husband. Though Hall mostly plays the straight man to Chevy Chase’s lunacy, he delivers his matter-of-fact remarks with impeccable timing, and shows all the signs of a funny young prodigy. It goes without saying he’s still the best Rusty Griswold.
The following year came Sixteen Candles, featuring what a large crowd might call Hall’s funniest performance in his role as “The Geek.” The Geek isn’t your run-of-the-mill, socially inept loser. He’s the unfortunate result of a late puberty, and the snarky sort of prick one needs to be when they’re small, skinny, and still without a single armpit hair in the heat of society’s most ruthless popularity contest. The Geek has all the arrogance and bravado of a chiseled ladies’ man, despite his social standing and outward appearance. A guy as compassionate and complex as The Geek can’t uphold that facade for long, though.
He’s a creepy little pervert with enough social intelligence and heart to make the sleaziness feel innocent (and funny.) When he drops the guard he’s loveable and misunderstood. The Geek may request a pair of your worn panties, but he’ll be candid about why he’s doing so. Hall plays a wonderfully funny delusional horndog. He embodies The Geek and every layer that character requires to be more than a sad, sex-crazed dork. He has a few of the film’s most hysterical lines – “Nice ma – nice manners, babe?!” His nervous screeches seem to derive from a hilariously genuine place. His self-aware transitions from embarrassing behavior to playing it cool are the brilliant maneuvers of a funny person who understands how to be authentically funny. The Geek is forever thanks to Hall. Sixteen Candles, though racy by today’s standards, is a sincerely funny mild classic that isn’t met with enough praise.
The Breakfast Club arrived a year later, showing the downright freakish work ethic and consistency of writer/director John Hughes. It was another opportunity for Hall to bring his comedic sensibility to Hughes’ writing, this time with a more subdued character in Brian Johnson. Johnson’s a sweet soul. A shy guy without a mean bone in his body. Hall isn’t given much of a chance to serve mean-spirited jokes, as Johnson isn’t acting out as a response to low self-worth. Regardless, he’s easy to feel for and fun to watch. He’s insanely believable as Brian. It may just be his most recognizable role. Brian, just like Rusty and The Geek, IS Hall. He might not be manic or over-the-top in The Breakfast Club, but he’s lightly funny and eerily representative of someone we’ve all known and cared for.
Soon after came Hall’s shot at a starring role in Weird Science, a deceivingly hilarious gem that’s almost as underappreciated as Hall’s run throughout the mid-80s. It’s not one of the more spoken of Hughes classics, due largely to how it’s aged. 2 geeks design their ideal woman with a computer. That was fairly inventive in 1985, but today the campiness is hard to look past. Some relish in the cheese, myself included. Others don’t share that same strange love for corny special effects; thus knocking Weird Science out of the running for “Funniest Comedies.” Hear me out- It most certainly is one of the funniest films ever, and Hall’s at his most hysterical in it.
Hall plays Gary, you guessed it, a dork who isn’t exactly killing it with the ladies. His career trajectory would look tiresome on paper, but Hall brings a special something, like unique range, to all of these dorks, making them anything but generic. Gary and his buddy Wyatt create a real, in-the-flesh beautiful older woman with Wyatt’s computer. She’s ready to help the 2 dweebs transform into hip, social guys, but matters get out of hand in their pursuit to earn the envy and acceptance of their classmates. Gary’s your textbook bad influence friend whose heart is in the right place. He masks insecurities with an onslaught of jokes. It’s a spot in which Hall thrives. He’s at his most sarcastic in Weird Science. It’s where he exhibits his most notable range in funny – from subtle quips to goofy physical comedy.
The bar scene, in my stupid opinion, is (maybe) the funniest scene ever on film and where Hall truly shines. Gary gets hammered drunk at an all-black jazz club and tries his best to fit in, reminiscing on past failed relationships and dropping knowledge on the art of attracting women. He’s eventually carried out and driven home in a convertible by Wyatt, who can’t legally or properly drive.
A description can’t do it justice. Hall summons his best drunken suburban white kid, desperate to think he can relate to mid-50s black jazz musicians. He plays along that fine line between blacked out/unable to speak and conscious enough to assume an embarrassingly fake identity. There’s never been a funnier inebriated white guy appropriating culture. In my drinking days I did tend to think I could freestyle rap, which I’m deeply ashamed of to this day, and perhaps Hall just speaks to me here. But we all know the white guy who’s suddenly from the hood when he’s drunk. This may be mid 1980s, but Hall’s performance is hilarious and pertinent today.
Several years after Weird Science, Hall took on a different role in a particularly divisive film, Johnny Be Good. Alright, maybe it was more reviled than divisive. Hall was pushed out of his comfort zone, from the shy geek who’s bullied by jocks to the jock himself. He stars as Johnny Walker, one of the most sought after high school football players in the country. College coaches will go to any length to attract him. He’s treasured in his hometown. He has a popular girlfriend whose cop father hates him. Johnny’s the envy of everybody. Despite being a die-hard Hall Monitor (Anthony Michael Hall Fan, I promise to never say it again) I can admit it doesn’t work. I’ll still defend this film; not passionately, but I’ll put up a timid, almost indifferent fight.
It’s odd to see Hall as the big man on campus, yet he provides a softer side and more complexity to the stereotypical all-american athlete, which I do find compelling. The movie has a handful of good lines, and a couple enjoyable characters. Paul Gleason, for one, is quite funny as Johnny’s coach Wayne Hisler. He’s a deceitful, overly macho douche, and Gleason can make that work. Uma Thurman is delightful as Johnny’s girlfriend, Georgia. Aside from everything just mentioned, there isn’t much to write in its favor.
The weight of the humor in Johnny Be Good doesn’t fall upon Hall, and that’s a detriment. Audiences in 1988 maybe weren’t fully comfortable seeing him transition from outrageous dork to a below surface-deep jock whom we’re supposed to empathize with as “more than just a beloved athlete.” Having said that, he’s still a delight to watch on screen as a more serious character in a mediocre satire. A true testament to his presence. Though the film wasn’t a box-office disaster, it’s sitting at a 0% on Rotten Tomatoes (not good,) and Roger Ebert once wrote, “The people who made this movie should be ashamed of themselves.”
Still, Hall’s career was far from over. He’s maintained an outstanding and consistent life in acting despite my writing sounding as though I’m eulogizing a deceased person. The man’s alive and well. He’s played varying levels of roles in dozens of great films over the last 30 years, like Edward Scissorhands, Pirates of Silicon Valley, and The Dark Knight. Anthony Michael Hall always has been and always will be a talented thespian, but the end of his time in Hughes’ films signified the end of an era; one in which he was a monumentally funny and key part in some of the most cherished comedies we’ve ever seen.
Hall making the gradual progression from on-screen goof to more refined actor wasn’t a downfall, nor was it a reflection of his ability as a comedic powerhouse. He simply got older. Hall only suffered due to aging, and by suffered I mean “outgrew clownish teen parts.” His distancing from classic comedies wasn’t his fault. It was Hollywood’s fault. They stopped casting him in roles where he could flex his silly chops. It was audiences’ fault. They grew too accustomed to seeing him as a gangly and awkward jokester. Hell, it’s possible he chose to move forth from geek roles. Hall was unusually gifted comedically quite young, which can be a curse for some. When people see, recognize, and love you for being a goofy kid, it isn’t easy coming to terms with you aging.
Luckily for the great Anthony Michael Hall, his growing older wasn’t a sudden end to acting. Luckily for us, the timeless, pleasing comedies of which he’s a quintessentially hilarious part are still available. It’s that Hall I’m making a case for. Yes he went a more serious route, but Hall as a teenager was one of the funniest people in film. He had the comedic arsenal – delivery, a likeable look, spastic movements, and a brilliant balance of dorkiness and smoothness which he fluctuated between with greatness. Hall made all-time great comedies infinitely funnier. He also brought heart to them, and in the process instilled a little more confidence in shy nerds worldwide. When we list off “best comedic actors ever,” the name Anthony Michael Hall should be mentioned. Signed, a skinny dork who peaked in his teens.
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Michael is a former YouTuber (sorry,) a failed rapper (even more sorry,) and a longtime writer primarily on pop culture. He has a special love for 70s horror and 80s comedies.
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"Two Thumbs Up!" rave Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper and the Movies. Billy Elliot is the heartwarming story of a young boy from a working-class family who discovers a passion that will change his life forever. Eleven-year-old miner's son Billy Elliot is on his way to boxing lessons when he stumbles upon a ballet class. Billy secretly joins the class, knowing that his blue-collar family would never understand. Under the guidance of his teacher, Mrs. Wilkinson (Academy Award® nominee Julie Walters), Billy's raw talent takes flight. But when his father discovers his son's ambition, Billy must fight for his dreams and his destiny. With Oscar®-worthy performances, Rex Reed (The New York Observer) calls "a triumph!" Don't miss Billy Elliot - the triumphant tale of one boy who reaches beyond his place in the world to follow his heart's desire.
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Critics Consensus: Billy Elliot is a charming movie that can evoke both laughter and tears.
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It's as raw a slice of escapism as you could wish for.
Terrific story of young ballet dancer has strong language.
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The film about atypical artistic pursuits in a blue-collar community that "The Full Monty" sought to be. Peter Darling's choreography dexterously captures the defiance in the dancing - rage against economical and emotional repression in a motherless home.
When sticking with Billy and his inspirational story, director Stephen Daldry hits all the right steps.
Parents need to know that the uplifting dramedy Billy Elliot is rated R primarily for language (an edited version was released on DVD with a PG-13 rating, but it's no longer easy to find for rental or sale) -- everyone in the movie uses extremely strong language all the time. There are also references to transvestism and homosexuality, some discussion of sex among young characters, and a brief glimpse of bare buttocks when one character moons another. Some teens may be upset by the way that family members treat each other -- they're insulting, neglectful, and cruel, and one parent hits a child and threatens another -- but the overall takeaway is a heartwarming one.
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Actor David Oyelowo and his wife Jessica are a modern day couple who honored an old religious tradition ahead of getting married. The two met in college and fell in love, as noted by The Guardian. But, Oyelowo had already had his eyes set on Jessica, so he joined the school’s drama club in hopes of courting her. The two thespians eventually hit it off and began dating.
With him having a strong religious faith rooted in his Nigerian background, and Jessica being a born-again Christian, the young couple became engaged when the Selma actor was just 20 years old. But, as college sweethearts, many of their peers thought they were crazy when they announced their decision to abstain from sex until they got married two years later. When asked if he got made fun of for the bold decision, Oyelowo did not shy away from sharing the harsh jokes his friends would make.
“Absolutely. There was utter bemusement,” the Gringo star confessed. “I had a friend who mocked me so mercilessly. He would shout from across the set: ‘You going to take her off and pop her cherry, are you?’ Just the most awful things. But yes, Jess and I were virgins when we got married. It’s tied to our faith, but it’s also who we are, and what we connected over.” And the couple’s strong bond continues to endure to this day.
Inside David and Jessica Oyelowo's two-week rule
In the end, David and Jessica Oyelowo got the last laugh. After getting married in 1998, the two lovebirds made a vow to never go longer than two weeks without seeing each other, he revealed to The Guardian. The two classically trained actors wanted to ensure they dodged all of the “divorce and dysfunction” they witnessed in the acting world. “So much we have done in our life together was mocked,” Oyelowo explained. “And to be perfectly frank we’re having the last laugh.”
With more than two decades of marriage and four children under their belts, the star of A United Kingdom boasted about how solid his connection is with his wife. “I love my wife even more than I did 24 years ago,” he declared. “Our marriage is strong … because of some of the foundational choices we made early on.” As for their two-week rule, Oyelowo noted that, because it works so well, he and Jessica have actually inspired other actors to follow suit. “We’ve seen other people emulate that, which is the greatest compliment they can pay us,” Oyelowo added. Perhaps we could all learn from their profound example!
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1 U.S. SIF: The Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment, Report on US Sustainable and Responsible Investing Trends, 2018.
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Incidence Rate Ratio of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in Persons with a Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD; 1994–2012).. public-library-of-science. 2015
Incidence Risk Ratio of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in Relation to Individual and Parental Diagnoses of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD; 1994–2012).. public-library-of-science. 2015
Incidence Risk Ratio of Specific Diagnoses of Autism Spectrum Disorders in Relation to Individual and Parental Diagnosis of Obsessive-compulsive Disorder (OCD; 1994–2012).. public-library-of-science. 2015
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Autism Spectrum Disorders: Longitudinal and Offspring Risk. public-library-of-science. 2015
The effect on cognition associated with the number of days as inpatient with infections in Denmark between birth and draft board examination.1. public-library-of-science. 2015
The effect on cognition associated with the number of hospital contacts with infections in Denmark between birth and draft board examination.1. public-library-of-science. 2015
The effect on cognition of a hospital contact among persons with infections according to the infection site.1. public-library-of-science. 2015
The effect on cognitions among persons with infections according to the time since last hospital contact with infection in Denmark (1986–2011).1. public-library-of-science. 2015
Characteristics of the study population given as medians (5–95% range) and percentages.. public-library-of-science. 2014
File S1 - Stability of the Associations between Early Life Risk Indicators and Adolescent Overweight over the Evolving Obesity Epidemic. public-library-of-science. 2014
Medians (5% and 95% percentiles) and percentages of outcomes and risk indicators in the NFBC1966 and NFBC1986.. public-library-of-science. 2014
Predictive values of 5 year BMI in the top 10% and maternal overweight (incl. obesity).. public-library-of-science. 2014
Predictive values of 5 year BMI in the top 5% with different outcomes.. public-library-of-science. 2014
Preschool Weight and Body Mass Index in Relation to Central Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome in Adulthood. public-library-of-science. 2014
Relative risk of generally used adiposity measures and metabolic syndrome at 31 years linked to percentile division of weight at 5 months and 1 year and BMI from 2–5 years.. public-library-of-science. 2014
Relative risk of individual components of the metabolic syndrome at 31 years linked to percentile division of BMI at the age of 5 years.. public-library-of-science. 2014
Relative risk of overweight at the age of 15 years according to the IOTF associated with early weight and BMI measures in the NFBC1966 and the NFBC1986.. public-library-of-science. 2014
Relative risk of overweight at the age of 15 years according to the IOTF associated with pre-and perinatal risk indicators in the NFBC1966 and the NFBC1986.. public-library-of-science. 2014
Relative risk of overweight at the age of 9 years according to the IOTF associated with early weight and BMI measures in the NFBCC1966 and the NFBC1986.. public-library-of-science. 2014
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Rate of hospitalization due to infectious disease and rate of death with infection among biological and adoptive siblings, in predisposed siblings compared to non-predisposed.. public-library-of-science. 2013
Standardized Mortality Ratios in the period 1926 to 2006 of the 13,111 Danish adoptees with the general Danish population as reference.. public-library-of-science. 2013
The 2829 diseased siblings divided into deaths and survivors by disease status of the adoptee (95 adoptees deaths with infections, 827 diseased adoptees and 698 not diseased adoptees).. public-library-of-science. 2013
The 9971 siblings according to their own disease status and by disease status of the adoptee (1440 diseased adoptees and 1139 not diseased adoptees).. public-library-of-science. 2013
Genetic and Familial Environmental Effects on Suicide – An Adoption Study of Siblings. PLoS ONE. 2013
Paternal Age and General Cognitive Ability—A Cross Sectional Study of Danish Male Conscripts. PLoS ONE. 2013
Pattern and predictors of sick leave among users of antidepressants: A Danish retrospective register-based cohort study. Journal of Affective Disorders. 2013
Temporal stability of entries and predictors for entry into out-of-home care before the third birthday: A Danish population-based study of entries from 1981 to 2008. Children and Youth Services Review. 2013
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Home Television Drama First Churchills, The
TV Shows - 1960s
First Churchills, The
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12 x 60 minute episodes
A passable BBC costume drama charting the rise to glory of Sir Winston Churchill’s soldierly 17th-century ancestor, John, who wrestled for power in the court of King Charles II.
Putting his military skills to good use in assorted European battles, Churchill won from the sovereign the title of the first Duke of Marlborough.
The demure Susan Hampshire (who rather put it about in 1960s/1970s period pieces The Forsyte Saga and The Pallisers) played Churchill’s demure wife, Sarah, a lady-in-waiting to the future Queen Anne.
Susan Hampshire
Sidney Godolphin
John Standing
James Villiers
Life With Johnny
Inside Man, The
Adventures of Floris, The
Sat’day While Sunday
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Sullavan Brothers, The
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1 9 7 1 - 1 9 7 2 (USA) 24 x 60 minute episodes James Garner plays the titular Nichols, a violence-weary drifter who wanders back...
Hill of the Red Fox, The
1 9 7 5 (UK) 6 x 25 minute episodes Young Scottish lad Alasdair Cameron (Mark Rogers) has lived in London with his mother for many years...
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Coretta Harris, left, chair of the 2019 Gold Shield Faculty Prize Committee; Paul Barber; and Karen Sears, ecology and evolutionary biology department chair, who nominated Barber for the award.
Marine scientist Paul Barber named 2019 Gold Shield Faculty Prize winner
Evolutionary geneticist is being honored for his record of undergraduate teaching, research and university service
Wendy Soderburg | June 10, 2019
On the very first day of his “Introduction to Marine Science” class, Paul Barber tells his students an amusing story about himself. It has to do with how a guy from Tucson, Arizona — in the middle of the Sonoran Desert — became a marine scientist.
Full of twists and turns, the story is also an inspiring one. It tells how Barber, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, grew up in a low-income family and attended an inner-city middle school where he once had a .45 caliber handgun pointed at his head.
“It was in the middle of class, and my teacher never even noticed,” Barber said.
Military recruiters, not college recruiters, came to Barber’s high school. But he studied hard and won a full-ride Flinn Foundation scholarship, which enabled him to attend the University of Arizona. His interest in terrestrial evolutionary genetics was sparked by classes in animal behavior and herpetology, which is the study of amphibians and reptiles. Yet it took a roundabout series of adventures while he was a graduate student at UC Berkeley — involving frogs, mongooses, hyenas, clownfish and mantis shrimp — to bring him to his current position at UCLA.
“The punchline I tell the students is that, here I am, teaching a marine science course, and I’ve never taken a marine science course in my entire life,” Barber said. “And the fact that they are in that class means that they are so much further ahead of where I was at this point in their studies. If I can do this, never having done a marine science course in my life, then they are well-positioned to succeed.”
It’s this humility that endears Barber to both his students and his peers, several of whom endorsed him for the 2019 Gold Shield Faculty Prize — a $30,000 award presented annually by Gold Shield, Alumnae of UCLA, to an exceptional mid-career full professor with a distinguished record of undergraduate teaching, research and university service.
Almost since his arrival at UCLA in 2008, Barber has served as the director of the Program for Excellence in Education and Research in the Sciences, known as PEERS, a two-year program for outstanding students who wish to pursue careers in the life or physical sciences. In particular, PEERS emphasizes the recruitment and retention of students from groups traditionally underrepresented in science. Studies of the program show that its students are nearly twice as likely to complete a science degree and earn better grades than similar students not in PEERS.
Equally impressive is a summer program Barber founded 16 years ago, The Diversity Project, that he now runs with UCLA colleague Peggy Fong, also a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology. The Diversity Project is designed to increase diversity in marine science — a field with a very low percentage of traditionally underrepresented minorities — and provides undergraduate students with opportunities to conduct research outside the United States, ultimately inspiring them to continue in marine science.
“We go to amazing places, like Indonesia, that have the most diverse and spectacular coral reefs on the planet,” Barber said. Nearly 70% of program alumni go on to graduate school. Among the schools from which they have earned degrees: Harvard, Stanford, UC Santa Cruz, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and UCLA.
“Dr. Barber is a strong mentor, and I know for a fact that I am a stronger scientist because of his support,” said Camille Gaynus, an alumna of The Diversity Project. “His mentorship is embedded in me, and I strive to pass on the same sentiments to the undergrads and high school students I currently mentor. Because of Dr. Barber, I know I will become a professor and continue to provide opportunities to young scientists, particularly Black females like myself.”
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MDC Partners Announced New Board Of Directors Member
By NewsWalkingadminpanel / July 10, 2020
MDC Partners has announced that the company has appointed Asha Daniere as the new member to its Board of Directors on June 25, 2020. The company has further added that the newly appointed company’s board of director will also serve on the company’s Audit Committee.
The newly appointed Asha Deniere has got vast experience in leading different companies. She is an independent strategic advisor to the companies in the media and technology sector. Most recently, she served as the Executive Vice President, Legal & Business Affairs at Blue Ant Media, where she helped the company major level deals and transactions. Furthermore, she also served as the SVP and General Counsel of Score Media.
Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of MDC Partners, Mark Penn said, “Asha brings to MDC sophisticated experience in fast-moving media and technology companies.”
“At this stage of our transformation, that expertise will be invaluable, particularly as we realize the true potential of data and creativity for marketers amidst a newly disrupted landscape. We have a real opportunity to upend the traditional models and outsmart the competition, and Asha will be an enormous asset to us as we do just that,” Mark Penn further added in the statement.
Sharing her thoughts over the new appointment, Ms. Asha Deniere said, “This is an extraordinarily exciting time to be joining MDC Partners. The company’s transformation over the last year has been both diligent and swift, bringing a distinctive and modern point of view to the industry.”
“In my experience, smart pivots, operational rigor, and strategic investments are critical elements of sustainable growth and success, and I’m thrilled to be able to contribute to MDC at this crucial point in its journey,” company’s newly added Board of Directors member, Ms. Asha Deniere further added her statement.
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Disability Studies Theory
Physical and Cognitive Difference in Victorian Literature and Culture
What counts as a disability? How do ideas of normalcy inflect our discussions of race, class, and gender? This course provides a graduate-level introduction to Disability Studies theories and methods of literary analysis. Because many of our ideas about disability were in the process of being formulated and contested throughout the nineteenth-century, we will take Victorian literature and culture as our case study. Together, we will examine the representation of cognitive and physical difference in a variety of novels, poems and cultural texts ranging from journalism to medical monographs. We will read Disability Studies theory alongside these nineteenth-century texts in order to think about how and why certain bodies and abilities become marginalized. We will study both canonical and non-canonical authors, including Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Henry Mayhew, and Dinah Craik. Disability studies theorists on our syllabus will include Lennard Davis, Martha Stoddard Holmes, and Tobin Siebers.
Texts and Readings
Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press.
Craik, Dinah. John Halifax, Gentleman. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press.
Dickens, Charles. Our Mutual Friend. New York: Oxford University Press.
Eliot, George. The Mill on the Floss. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press.
James, Henry. Daisy Miller. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press.
*All Broadview press books are available as a discounted course pack at the campus bookstore.
*NB Selected Theoretical and Critical Readings will be linked on the course website.
ENGL 607 | Grad Seminar | Dr Bourrier
Office: SS 1140
Office hours: Tuesday 11am to 12pm
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Masters snooker final: 20-year-old Yan Bingtao beats John Higgins
Watch the best shots as 20-year-old Yan Bingtao comes from behind to beat John Higgins and win his first Masters title.
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Labour calls on Boris Johnson to give millions a “helping hand” by extending £20 Universal Credit uplift.
Yesterday at 22:10 PM, via CNN
Russia’s leading opposition figure and chief Kremlin critic, Alexey Navalny, has left Berlin on a flight bound for Moscow, where he will likely be greeted by his supporters as well as authorities poised to arrest him.
Russia’s leading Kremlin critic, Alexey Navalny, was detained by local police, moments after his return to the country and five months after he was poisoned with the nerve agent Novichok. CNN’s Frederik Pleitgen reports Navalny had originally been scheduled to land at Vnukovo airport, where a crowd of hundreds of supporters and journalists waited. CNN has been unable to establish why the flight...
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We’ve had endless reviews of policy. Now those who live each day in real hardship should be put at the heart of reform
The photo of two blackening bananas, a tomato, two potatoes, three apples, a loaf of bread, about 200g of pasta, two carrots, slices of cheese, two mini-malt loaves, a can of baked beans and three Frubes is one of the defining images of our times. Posted on Twitter by...
Public urged to help stop the total liquidation of the Mandela House Museum
The Soweto Tourism Association has called for the public’s support to help stop the total liquidation of the Mandela House Museum in Soweto.
Saturday at 18:33 PM, via BBC News
Another 4,262 people have also been admitted to hospital with the virus, the government says.
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Carol’s Daughter + Mary J Blige My Life ~ new perfume
Posted by Robin on 30 April 2010 25 Comments
Singer Mary J Blige will launch her debut fragrance, My Life, this July in conjunction with Carol's Daughter. My Life is named for Blige's 1994 album of the same name.
My Life features notes of gardenia, pear, freesia, tuberose, jasmine, lily, apricot blossom, cashmere woods, praline, sesame and incense.
Mary J Blige My Life will be available in 50 ml, concentration unknown, for $46. It will retail on HSN, and will come with a clutch purse. (via wwd)
Tagged With: carols daughter, celebrity perfumes, mary j blige
eminere says:
30 April 2010 at 12:52 pm
Oh Mary. You look like a drag queen in the pic.
NaturalSelektion says:
Yes, she most definitely looks like a drag queen. That is not supposed to be a bad thing. Drag queens are fabulous…the fabulousness just didnt translate well in this picture. Oh well, I’ll have a sniff. Carol’s Daughter has a decent product line.
Don’t know her, of course (I never know anybody). So no idea what she normally looks like, but didn’t think drag queen when I saw this.
miss kitty v. says:
I don’t think she looks like a drag queen, nor would I consider that an insult. But I do think she looks sort of… stoned. Disinterested? Would that be a nice way to put it? She has sort of a “just get this photo shoot over with” look going on.
True. But that’s what I think people always look like in these shots where they’re trying to look sexy. So wonder if that’s what she’s doing…trying to look sexy.
Very good point, NS.
datura5750 says:
Beautiful bottle!
It’s not bad.
BChant says:
I like this ad. There is a certain casual elegance about it that harkens back to when every perfume ad was glamorous. I suppose my only critique would be the maker, Carol’s Daughter, a brand who’s scents are only marginally preferable to the smells emanating from the sewers of third world countries.
lovethescents says:
This sounds verrrrrrrrrrrry sweet!
Yeah, could be.
cmm says:
Love Mary, hate the bottle. Anyone who knows Mary (or listens to her music, rather) knows there is nothing soft, cliche or heart-like about her such as this bottle, or even the notes in the fragrance suggest. BIG misrepresentation. She’s more like a diamond in the rough and whatever that smells like, but I suppose CD’s design team couldn’t venture that far out on a limb.
I won’t be trying this, but kudos to Mary for supporting a smaller company since she could have almost any of her choosing. Her MAC Viva Glam ads were fab…
dissed says:
She doesn’t look like a drag queen. She looks like herself, which is the way drag queens wish they looked. Furthermore, she’s always looked that way. I think she’s beautiful. Good on her for choosing this company. I’ve never tried their wares, but I’ve read good things about them.
vanessahall says:
I agree!!!!
Gael says:
For God’s sake. Is it about her appearance or the product? Time to change the litterbox here. I lose my mind sometimes with these type of remarks. Unbelievable.
And by the way, Mary J. Blige is a nine times Grammy recipient with 8 multi platinum albums. What is the fragrance like should be the question.
Thea S. says:
sesame? really?
sesame… now that is something you don’t see very often
APassionateJourney says:
I really wanna smell this! Hope they’re giving out samples! Why would this go to HSN and not stores???
6 July 2010 at 10:29 am
They might sell more that way than they would in Macy’s…they can really build up the hype, and it probably costs them less to promote.
Smelled this in Essence with Janet Jackson on the cover. Too.Much.TUBEROSE!
I think Mary looks wonderful!!!!! after everything that has happened in her life.. what a perfect name for your fragrance.. “MY LIFE”.
pattimast says:
She looks sensuous and relaxed. Her eyes are heavy lidded..makes me think of…Cleopatra maybe? Sailing down the Nile at noon day..
some thick dark kohl eyeliner would totally complete it.
I bought some of this yesterday. It’s a beautiful and unusual fragrance (in the good way..at least for me!)
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search filter All ContentJournal of Palestine Studies
Research Article| April 01 1981
The Palestinian Wedding: Major Themes of Contemporary Palestinian Resistance Poetry
Abdelwahab M. Elmessiri
Journal of Palestine Studies (1981) 10 (3): 77–99.
Abdelwahab M. Elmessiri; The Palestinian Wedding: Major Themes of Contemporary Palestinian Resistance Poetry. Journal of Palestine Studies 1 April 1981; 10 (3): 77–99. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/2536461
Copyright 1981 Journal of Palestine Studies
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Palestine Unbound
Review: The Movement and the Middle East: How the Arab-Israeli Conflict Divided the American Left, by Michael R. Fischbach
Review: The ABC of the OPT: A Legal Lexicon of the Israeli Control over the Occupied Palestinian Territory, by Orna Ben-Naftali, Michael Sfard, and Hedi Viterbo
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Pizza Paradise at Valhalla Restaurant & Axe Throwing
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Carb Heaven at Venesian Inn
Author Kevin Shalin
Those in Northwest Arkansas have long been familiar with Venesian Inn, the Springdale eatery cranking out Italian classics since 1947. That is 73 years for the advanced mathematicians out there. Throw in a 2018 Arkansas Food Hall of Fame induction, and you’ve got one of the most iconic restaurants in the state.
And as someone who prides himself in covering food in The Natural State, I would say it was high time I checked out the restaurant, which I did with a recent takeout experience.
For those who have been living under a rock for the past seven decades, Venesian Inn is known for two things: fried chicken and pairing said fried chicken with house-made spaghetti. While this may sound like an odd pairing, just know that it definitely works. I found this out first-hand from my sampling of the “Special.” It’s a sizable plate of food that included three pieces of fried chicken, spaghetti, and a chicken ravioli.
The distinguishable characteristic of fried chicken is its thick, well-seasoned crust that acts as somewhat of an armor from the juicy meat. I found myself eating the crust and meat separately, which, sounds strange, yet it was quite enjoyable. As for Venesian Inn’s spaghetti, the unmistakable slight chewiness of fresh-made pasta separates it from 99% of other restaurants who take the easier way out by not making their own. The hearty meat sauce was also a hit.
To get the true essence of the menu, we also opted for the Venesian Inn Sampler. It’s another heavy-portioned offering with some of the restaurant’s more popular options—lasagna, Fettucine Alfredo, and chicken Parmesan–all in one dish. I particularly enjoyed the creamy fettuccine. The other members of my family hurriedly scarfed down the lasagna and chicken Parm. One thing is for certain at Venesian Inn, they are not stingy with anything. And that includes the amount of cheese and sauce incorporated into every dish, as well as the doughy rolls that come with each meal. There is even a simple shredded iceberg lettuce salad with creamy Italian dressing.
While the Venesian Inn Sampler and Special were both winners, I would probably pass on ordering the Italian Chicken Sandwich (grilled chicken, sauteed onions, mushrooms, bell peppers, and mozzarella) again, at least for takeout. The tasty sandwich got a little messy and soggy during transport. The accompanying french fries were also a pass, needing at least another 2-3 minutes in the fryer. In the grand scheme of things, these were minor issues.
For my next visit, I plan to try the sirloin steak, eggplant Parmesan, and Polenta & Umido, a fan-favorite dish of polenta topped with a tomato and chicken mixture. It will also be nice to dine-in and soak up some of that Venesian Inn nostalgia. The restaurant looks well-kept but virtually untouched after all these years.
I imagine that is just the way most folks like it.
Venesian Inn
582 W Henri de Tonti (Springdale)
Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 5 p.m.-8 p.m.
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A little about Kevin Shalin.
Kevin Shalin is a food writer living in Little Rock with his wife, Sara, and two daughters, Natalie (12) and Sydney (7). He started his own blog, The Mighty Rib, seven years ago while living in Houston. Six months later, he began writing for Eating Our Words, a Houston Press food blog. After a year in Boston, he moved to Little Rock, where he’s been for almost five years. During that time, he’s written for Little Rock Soiree, Rock City Eats, Treatsie, and Bourbon and Boots.
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The eagerly-awaited J.B. and Johnelle Hunt Family Ozark Highlands Nature Center in Springdale opens its doors to the public Friday, Dec. 11.
There is certainly no lack of family-friendly activities in Northwest Arkansas, but this adds the urban outdoor element to complete the package, and I can’t wait for another weekend getaway from Central Arkansas.
Like the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission’s other nature centers around the state, this one emphasizes the organization’s mission of ensuring the protection, conservation and preservation of various species of fish and wildlife in Arkansas. But this 32,000-square-foot facility on 62 acres appears to be the crown jewel in AGFC’s collection.
“The J.B. and Johnelle Hunt Family Ozark Highlands Nature Center is modeled after the very best of all the other centers,” Commissioner Bobby Martin said. “We have used decades of experience running these facilities to design a state of the art facility that is a launching point to the outdoors. The Ozark Highland Nature Center has been expanding to have a 3D archery course, a Marksmanship Center, wildlife restoration habitat and a large classroom facility. These expansions allow us to host more outdoor skills and conservation training courses on site. Additionally, it allows this facility to be a launching pad for conservation and outdoor-related activities. We hope that it becomes a hub for the conservation community.”
My family has spent lots of time at the Witt Stephens Jr. Central Arkansas Nature Center at the River Market in Little Rock, but I was surprised to learn that these nature and education centers exist all over the state:
Governor Mike Huckabee Delta Rivers Nature Center sits between Lake Saracen and Lake Langhofer in Pine Bluff
Forrest L. Wood Crowley’s Ridge Nature Center is on the southern edge of Jonesboro
Janet Huckabee Arkansas River Valley Nature Center in Fort Smith is built on 170 acres of land that was part of Fort Chaffee
Rick Evans Grandview Prairie is located in rural Hempstead County in Southwest Arkansas off Highway 73 near Columbus
Potlatch Conservation Education Center at Cook’s Lake near Casscoe is located 20 miles southeast of Stuttgart on the Dale Bumpers White River National Wildlife Refuge.
Elk Education Center in Ponca
Fred Berry Conservation Education Center on Crooked Creekin Yellville
In fact, more than half a million people travel through the AGFC nature centers annually. These facilities offer a valuable and crucial conservation education interactive experience.
Some of the fun activities awaiting visitors at the Ozark Highlands Nature Center include:
Seeing live wildlife and fish in a large aquarium
Interacting with fun and high-tech exhibits such as a lifelike cave, quail habitat and virtual stream
Practicing marksmanship skills at the indoor archery and BB gun marksmanship center and extensive outdoor 3-D archery range
Walking on the connected Razorback Greenway trail and around the 25-acre facility
Looking ahead to the spring, as more teachers and educators begin to plan for possible field trips and outings, the new nature center also will offer some limited small group experiences in its outdoor facilities.
Visitors can reserve their timed tickets free of charge. Visiting the Ozark Highlands Nature Center is free, thanks to Amendment 75 and the 1/8th-Cent Conservation Fund. But reserved entry tickets will be required to coordinate visits and manage attendance in accordance with social-distancing guidelines. Guests may reserve tickets at www.agfc.com/ozarkhighlands in advance of their trip. Up to 10 tickets may be reserved per party.
The center will be open 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday and 1-5 p.m. Sundays.
Photos courtesy of Arkansas Game and Fish Commission
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Oct 07, 2016 Humor, World 3 Comments
Some Words on Encountering an Evangelical Literary Panel
Yesterday evening, as I am sometimes wont to do, I parked myself at the café of Baker Book House’s expansive facility in Grand Rapids. The store, which is still fairly new, is geared primarily toward Protestants of the Evangelical variety, though it also boasts a fairly sizable Catholic section and an extremely modest Eastern Orthodox one. The two store’s two gems are its collection of remainder/lightly damaged titles from primarily Christian academic publishers (e.g., Baker Academic, Eerdmans, and even Ave Maria Press) and an extensive used book section (though most of the volumes are Protestant). The café is typically quiet in the evening, but not always. For instance, a month or two ago, I made the mistake of sitting there while “Movie Night” was going on. The film in question, God’s Not Dead 2, won’t be winning any academy awards next year, but so it goes. Another mistake was made last night when, after 30 minutes of peace and quiet, I noticed a flood of people (mostly women) enter the store and start sitting around the small stage area across from the café. Much to my chagrin, a panel of four Christian authors were speaking about their work; offering up some readings; and answering questions about the writing and publishing process. As someone who has almost no interest in penning fiction, let alone Evangelical fiction, I wanted to flee—but I couldn’t. For almost immediately I found myself transfixed by the well-meaning but ludicrous spectacle of listening to people who sound like they’ve never read a real book in their life tell others how to write.
Ok, perhaps that’s a bit harsh. One of the speakers, whose literary work revolves around an arsonist setting fire to her house and then purchasing a pug, was a former champion of the Moth Radio Hour’s “Story Slam” competition. She clearly knew how to string some words together and deliver them for comedic effect; she just wasn’t very funny. I say that because I find it grotesque that someone would take an obvious tragedy which greatly impacted their family and leverage it for laughs. As for the pug gimmick? Pure kitsch. When this individual began reading her work, I was equal parts mesmerized and horrified; how could anyone laugh at this? And it wasn’t just the arson; it was the fact she led off her story about acquiring the pug as if she was about to engage in a tawdry affair behind her husband’s back, and latter capped it all off with an anal-sex joke. Is that the Evangelical version of “blue humor”? I really don’t know, nor do I care to find out.
Two of the other speakers, both women, were a little easier to take. One had acquired her PhD at Princeton some time ago and spent her time writing and offering spiritual counseling. One thing that jumped out to me during her discussion is how often Evangelicals only openly confess to “positive sins,” that is, those which are typically considered virtues by contemporary secular society. For instance, this author made mention of her sins of “perfectionism” and “focusing too hard on her work,” as if neither aren’t already part of the Protestant work ethic. I also got the sense from her talk that the only times Evangelicals recognize sin is if they “feel convicted in their hearts” (or something like that). In other words, sin is defined as a subjective feeling rather than an objective abrogation of God’s Law. Strange. As for the third female speaker, she had recently penned a book of prayers that aligned with the alphabet; I must admit I had mostly checked out by the time she spoke.
The real highlight of the night was actually the panel’s first speaker, a middle-aged gentleman who writes a series of action novels revolving around a Christian cage fighter and former Philosophy major at Yale who, after beating bad guys to a pulp, tells them to go read The Bible. (No, I am not making this up.) To make matters worse, he also writes and self-publishes (of course) a miniseries about a vigilante nun entitled . . . wait for it . . . Force of Habit. (Were I a braver man, I should have reached into my pocket, removed my Rosary, and began loudly reciting the Sorrowful Mysteries.) During the course of his presentation and the Q&A session, this gentleman revealed that he had formerly been a lawyer (I knew it); that he had come to writing late in life and was often told he could never do it (obviously); and that anyone can learn to write (wrong).
And then the panel was over, and there was much rejoicing in Heaven.
Dec 03, 2015 Economics, Humor, Politics 2 Comments
Everyone Knows…
Note: This post from the Opus Publicum archives is a tongue-in-cheek followup to “How Libertarians Win Arguments.” It first appeared on January 20, 2014.
Jul 08, 2015 Humor Post a Comment
Too Many Options
After months of painstaking research and serious scholarly inquiry, I have uncovered a comprehensive list of all of the available “Options” that we Christians of 21st Century liberal America can exercise during these most unsettling times. You’re welcome.
Mar 19, 2015 Catholic Social Thought, Humor, Integralism Post a Comment
Friendly Fascism, #friendlyfascism, Integralism, and Reality
Update, 3/20/15: The link to Twitter below is incomplete due to John Zmirak deleting his Tweets. A number of them are, thankfully, archived at The Mitrailleuse here.
I am a tad bit embarrassed to say this, but “friendly fascism” — sometimes used on social media as #friendlyfascism — isn’t real. That is to say, it is not an actual tag which can be meaningfully applied to any political, social, or intellectual position that I am familiar with. Although it has been used as a gag expression before, it seems to have entered the stream of Catholic quibbling due to a tongue-in-cheek line I deployed in my Front Porch Republic piece, “Illiberal Catholicism One Year On.” I have also, jokingly, made reference to it here on Opus Publicum. Now comes John Zmirak and Elise Hilton of the Acton Institute to both treat “friendly fascism” as if it were a real thing and then, amusingly, misapply it to Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig. My apologies to Ms. Stoker Bruenig. I think it is safe to say that her brand of Christian socialism is not what I had in mind when I first used the term.
Jan 22, 2015 Humor Post a Comment
New York #rabbits
It doesn’t mean much in the end, but my observations on international aviation law have made their way into The Atlantic, Financial Times, and Reuters. I never did make it into the New York Times — that is, not until I started discussing #rabbits.
Does anyone know the official Eastern Orthodox position on #rabbits? Has it developed or just been obscured over the decades?
— Gabriel Sanchez (@OpusPublicum) January 20, 2015
Next goal: Get #friendlyfascism trending worldwide.
#friendlyfascism
Compassionate conservatism was a thing in the late 1990s and 00s. For the life of me I can’t recall the last time I heard the expression used in a serious conversation. Maybe that’s because compassionate conservatism, like most political orientations packed into a slogan, wasn’t serious. It certainly didn’t help that the expression conjured up an image of regular old run-of-the-mill conservatism as downright mean, even frightening. Anyway, I don’t expect it to return to the forefront of our politics anytime soon, especially not in the era of “Tea Party” conservatism and, on the opposite end of the spectrum, a gross mixture of social libertinism and state-managed capitalism. This is why I am issuing a modest, measured, and above all mirthful call for #friendlyfascism. In a day and age when so many traditionally disenfranchised, even oppressed, groups have “taken back” certain words of derision, is it not time for us, concerned citizens of the United States who have grown indifferent toward, nay, disgusted with the present socio-economic ordo to take back the original F-Word?
Dec 28, 2014 Humor, Liturgy Post a Comment
St. Lawrence Press has done a great service in the mighty cause of exonerating, nay, privileging the Missale Romanum and Divine Office of 1962 over the manifestly inferior “1954 books” (or — *shudder* — “1939 books”). As I flipped through the Press’s 2014 Ordo Recitandi for one of the last times this year, I was appalled to discover that there was a dark time, not too many decades ago, when this, the Sunday in the Octave of the Nativity, was displaced by the Feast of the Holy Innocents. Imagine my relief when, just before hearing today’s Mass, the priest ascended the pulpit to calm the crowd by reminding them that in the holy, indefectible, and manifestly superior 1962 liturgy, we would indeed be celebrating the Lord’s Day while commemorating the Holy Innocents. On this point even the Byzantines agree as they today celebrate the Sunday After Nativity; they would never countenance preempting and transferring such a day as this, even for a venerable body of witnesses like the Holy Innocents.
Moreover, the faithful who had made the trek and sacrifice to attend Mass today could breathe a sigh of relief that unlike their forebears, they would not have to endure the abomination of seeing a Sunday Mass celebrated on the next available feria, which is December 30. No, sir; no church of mine “is going up on a Tuesday.”
So, at last, we need not hear anymore of this 1954 (1939) contra 1962 nonsense. The matter has been settled. The controversy is closed. While I look forward to thumbing through my freshly received copy of the 2015 Ordo Recitandi, reflecting on the celebratory horrors and confusions my poor ancestors once endured, that pales in comparison to the mirth which now consumes my soul over the knowledge that never again shall I bear witness to trad-on-trad polemical violence stirred up by such a minor, indeed hardly noticeable matter, as the perfect books of sweet, sweet ’62.
Jul 31, 2014 Eastern Orthodox Church, Humor, Politics Post a Comment
A Free Market for Religion
I have been accused before of being uncharitable and harsh toward the Acton Institute and all of its works. Some claim I am distorting what they are “really doing” while unduly demonizing them when I should be praising their pro-market, pro-freedom agenda. Then I read thing like Dylan Pahman’s “Consumerism, Service, and Religion” over at the Acton Power Blog and quickly remember why I, a professing Catholic, cannot flatter Acton’s troubling worldview. Pahman, an ex-Calvinist Orthodox Christian, isn’t happy with Fr. Dwight Longenecker’s recent piece on “The Spoiling of America.” Why? Well, for one thing Longenecker’s anti-consumerist ethos doesn’t jibe with Pahman’s free-market religion, which includes lauding a free market for religion. Using Alexander Hamilton’s somewhat famous observation that “it is . . . absurd to make [religious] proselytes by fire and sword,” Pahman concludes that markets are the better — perhaps only? — alternative. On this point I’ll let the man speak for himself. Pardon the extended block quote.
Jun 18, 2014 Humor Post a Comment
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Easton Pharmaceuticals Inc (OTCMKTS:EAPH) Shares React to New Product Launch
Easton Pharmaceuticals Inc (OTCMKTS:EAPH) is a micro-cap stock we have covered extensively in the past the 6 months. There are multiple catalysts in play and Easton stock has been a momentum favorite on the OTC since October, when shares were priced around a fifth of a penny each. The company’s most recent catalyst is its announcement of a successful product launch of “Gynofit” and a further announcement of the final-stage agreement with multinational Gedeon Richter for the distribution of Easton / BMV’s AL-Sense (AmnioSense) product.
According to the release, Easton and BMV representatives attended a product sales conference launch, held in mid-February by partner Gedeon Richter and Gedeon Richter Mexico S.A.P.I. de C.V. This product sales launch was for the recently signed distribution agreement of Easton / BMV’s Gynofit product for Mexico, which Gedeon is commencing. The product sales launch conference was attended by approximately 65 full time sales reps as Gedeon Richter “allocated considerable resources towards a very detailed and professional sales presentation, which included product packaging, videos, literature and educational material describing BV (Bacterial Vaginosis) and how Gynofit can not only treat the condition, but prevent and provide a healthy Vaginal Flora.”
Easton Pharmaceuticals Inc (OTCMKTS:EAPH) frames itself as a specialty pharmaceutical company, designs, develops, and markets various topically-delivered drugs and therapeutic health care products.
Its products include Nauseasol, a motion sickness gel; Skin Renou HA, an anti-aging wrinkle cream using hyaluronic acid, which keeps the skin smooth; Kenestrin Gel used for arthritis, knees, elbows, shoulders, wrist, and back pain; Viorra, a hormone free, non-toxic, and topical gel that improves sexual functioning of women; and female sexual arousal disorder drug.
The company is also developing XILIVE, an early stage cancer drug. In addition, it is involved in the medical marijuana business. The company was formerly known as LAM Industries, Inc. and changed its name to Easton Pharmaceuticals Inc. in March 2010. Easton Pharmaceuticals Inc. was founded in 1997 and is based in Toronto, Canada.
According to company materials, “Easton Pharmaceuticals is a diversified specialty pharmaceutical company involved in various pharmaceutical sectors and other growing industries. The Company previously developed and owned an FDA-approved wound-healing medical device and currently owns topically delivered drugs to treat cancer and other therapeutic products to treat various conditions that are all in various stages of development and approval. Easton has partnered with BMV Medica and together, own the exclusive distribution rights in Mexico and Latin America for patented women’s diagnostic and preventative care products, along with two generic cancer drugs Paclitaxel and Docetaxel.”
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As noted above, the key catalyst right now for Easton stock was its product launch in for the recently signed distribution agreement of Easton / BMV’s Gynofit product for Mexico, that Gedeon is commencing.
According to the company, BV (Bacterial Vaginosis) is projected to affect almost all woman at least once in their lifetime, with many being treated for BV (Bacterial Vaginosis) several times as more awareness and education is gathered on the condition.
Apparently, an estimated 65 full time sales reps are being deployed to sell “Gynofit” throughout Mexico with other Latin American countries expected to soon be introduced. Easton / BMV has now delivered the first PO shipment of “Gynofit” to Gedeon for their product launch. That could be extremely important when it comes to nailing down the numbers.
As related in the latest press release, in the week prior to the “Gynofit” sales launch conference, Easton / BMV met with representatives of multi-national pharmaceutical company, Gedeon Richter, Mexico President in New York City, as part of negotiations to sign an additional exclusive distribution agreement, whereby Gedeon Richter, Mexico, would distribute Easton / BMV’s AL-Sense (AmnioSense) product which Easton / BMV hold licensing rights for in Mexico and many other parts of central and South America.
As we understand it, these negotiations continued in Puerto Vallarta this past week with an agreement expected to be finalized in the coming days. Gedeon Richter Plc and their Mexican / Latin American subsidiary Gedeon Richter Mexico S.A.P.I. de C.V. have provided a proposal to Easton / BMV for distribution of AmnioSense for Mexico.
“Pricing, packaging, logistics and an estimated launch date of AL-Sense were discussed and agreed to, which would result in an expected launch of AL-Sense for June / July of this year with an anticipated PO to be provided to Easton / BMV in March or April following the signing of the distribution agreement.”
Earning a current market cap value of $34.5M, EAPH has virtually no cash on the books, which is balanced by about $115K in total current liabilities. One should also note that debt has been growing over recent quarters. The company is pre-revenue at this point. This is an exciting story, and we look forward to a follow-up chapter as events transpire. For continuing coverage on shares of Easton stock, as well as our other hot stock picks, sign up for our free newsletter today and get our next hot stock pick!
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The Epic Rise of Rexahn Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSEMKT:RNN)
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Rexahn Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSEMKT:RNN) it appears this micro cap biopharmaceutical company is preparing for a “Transformative Year” in 2017. Rexahn Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSEMKT:RNN) is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company involved in the discovery, development and commercialization of cancer treatments. The company is currently burning through R&D expenses for the development of three new clinical-stage drug candidates, but the company’s CEO hinted at the end of February that big news could be coming in 2017 about two of these drug candidates.
That’s resulted in some truly stratospheric changes in the company’s stock price. On a YTD basis, shares of RNN are up 203.1%. Currently, the company has a stock price of $0.460, giving RNN a total market capitalization of $109.13 million. Over the most recent 52-week period, shares have traded as low as $0.13 and as high as $0.56. On February 27, shares were trading at just $0.258 but had skyrocketed to $0.449 by March 13. In the first two weeks of March alone, the company has risen more than 75% purely on anticipation of future good news.
Rexahn Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSEMKT:RNN) has several huge catalysts scheduled to occur before the end of 2017. The first two of these involve RX-3117, the company’s lead asset and most promising clinical drug candidate. In a Phase I trial, the drug showed therapeutic potential for four different types of cancer: pancreatic, bladder, colon and lung. It’s currently undergoing Phase II trials for the treatment of both pancreatic and bladder cancer.
The company plans to release data on the Phase II trial of RX-3117 in the second quarter of 2017 – and at the latest by 3Q 2017. RX-3117 is very similar a drug that that has already received approval (gemcitabine), except that it works slightly differently and is less toxic to the patient. As a result, higher dosages can be administered, and that boosts efficacy. Long story short: this is a new and improved version of a drug that already exists and signs look good for RX-3117 to get eventual problem. The question is not “if,” but “when.”
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At the end of February, the CEO of Maryland-based RNN promised a “potentially transformative year” as a result of the clinical trials going as planned. One big positive is the potential for a speedy FDA approval process. Rexahn Pharmaceuticals is hoping to receive approval for an accelerated pathway from the FDA. That would be huge because it means the company could essentially skip any required Phase III trials and get to market faster.
The other big catalyst is a Phase II trial for Supinoxin (RX-5902), which is a small molecule inhibitor of phosphorylation of p68. The company expects to receive more guidance on how the Phase II trial for Supinoxin is going by the end of 2017.
Since RNN has announced that big news on the RX-3117 trials could be coming as early as the beginning of April, it’s obvious why investors have been piling into the stock ahead of any future runoff. It’s time to get in now, ahead of the news.
Of course, the opposite scenario could play out: the company might announce that Phase II trials of RX-3117 are not going as planned, and they might not be ready for a full Phase III trial. Remember – in a best case scenario, the company is hoping to skip the Phase III trial altogether, so this would be a big setback. Of course, bad news about RX-3117 wouldn’t be disastrous, because the company would still have the Phase II trial of Supinoxin to look forward to in the second half of the year.
Since the company is still developing its three major clinical drug candidates, investors are keeping a close eye on the company’s “runway” to get these to market. Things look good for now, with total cash reserves of $20 million as of 4Q 2016, giving the company enough runway through early 2018.
So get ready for a wild run in 2017 for RNN. Right now, only a handful of analysts currently cover the stock, and the consensus price target is $2.50. That might not sound too impressive, but it represents a more than five-fold increase in the value of the stock in just the next 12 months. For more news on $RNN and other fast-moving penny stocks, please subscribe to OracleDispatch.com below.
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The following piece was written by guest contributor Representative John E. Davis (R), 76th through 83rd Legislative Sessions, and former Chair of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Article II – Health and Human Services.
During my tenure in Austin representing Houston’s House District 129, I had the privilege of serving as Chair of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Article II for the 78th, 79th, and 80th Legislative Sessions. As the committee worked on budget recommendations related to Texas’ Health and Human Services agencies, one thing hit me that few people realize – the tentacles of mental health issues run through all parts of our state budget. Beyond health care and social services, mental health costs touch criminal justice, education, housing – everything.
That was a big take away for me. What I want legislators and taxpayers to understand about mental health is, “you can pay now or pay later, but you will pay a price.” It is not only the cost of mental health services. There is a family price, and a social price. Speaking strictly from a dollar-wise perspective, it is smarter to pay at the front end because mental illness touches every part of our public services, and the cumulative price is far greater.
Throughout my time in office, I have advocated for access to health care, including mental health care, for all Texans. The point is people need to know where to go, and there shouldn’t be a wrong door. Here is where we took large and significant steps during my time in the House.
Reorganize the System
While not fully implemented, HB 2292 (76th session) was the first to begin the restructuring and streamlining of 12 state agencies into four under the Health and Human Services umbrella to provide services in a more client-responsive and cost-effective manner.
The 80th Texas Legislature appropriated $82 million to the Department of State Health Services (DSHS) for mental health and substance abuse crisis services. This funding allowed the local mental health authorities to provide recommended crisis services to Texas communities and is still being funded today.
SB 1 (83rd session) promoted more efficient use of health and human services dollars and prioritized preventive health services for women, mental health, and programs to assist abused and neglected children. SB 58 (83rd session) sought to improve outcomes for mental health care and reduce costs by better coordinating services through Medicaid and in the managed care setting.
Promote Collaboration
In addition, The Healthy Community Collaborative (Rider 90, 83rd session) allocated up to $25 million to fund grants for programs serving the homeless with mental illness. This legislation recognized that
1.) programs have to be scalable and tailored to the community,
2.) public/private partnerships are necessary for sustained outcomes, and
3.) collaboration between local agencies is essential to holistically treat an individual with mental illness whether he or she is in health care, social services, criminal justice, or education setting.
Two positive examples of that came out of Rider 90 are the Haven for Hope in San Antonio and The Bridge in Dallas. Both programs utilize case managers to help navigate individuals to the right path for care and fit in those communities the way they envisioned it should. This success can be replicated.
Those legislative accomplishments were needle movers, but improving mental health services across a state as vast and diverse as Texas is complex. We have to keep chipping away at this issue, educating people, and be willing to talk about mental illness.
The 84th Legislative Session is continuing that effort by making mental illness a priority. The Sunset Review recommendations have sparked new bills taking on mental illness issues on multiple fronts – from further streamlining Health and Human Services to fully integrating mental health services. Legislation is moving to address workforce shortages, help veterans, and ensure the mentally ill in our criminal justice system get the help they need.
Overlaying all of this is a rider in the Senate version of HB 1 that brings all of the state agency players together to create the first coordinated mental health strategic plan. If all of the state’s resources acted in unison, I think we’re going to see remarkable results.
It may not all be perfect, but from my perspective, it is wiser to pass and adequately fund these direct measures now rather than lose the opportunity to do so in the next session. As I have learned, mental health issues touch every part of our state’s budget, and the price we will pay later on are its greater, hidden costs.
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The transition from one curriculum to the next happens every seven years, and despite all preparation, it is always a challenging year: there are two sets of syllabi and two sets of assessments.
The most dramatic content-based changes come in the Prescribed Subjects. Although this can cause anxiety, it is also the area where there is less focus on content and more focus on skills. You may need to adjust the content you focus on, but the skill set is largely the same so this is the place where it is easiest to make a leap to less familiar territory. The cost of purchasing new materials may be a deterrent for trying something new but the availability of valid source material on the Internet increases every day, and a bit of ingenuity and research could yield more than you may ever use.
A novice teacher may ask: What are Prescribed Subjects? For first year IB students there are five Prescribed Subjects that any school can choose to cover. These are content areas that correspond to a source-based test and the acquisition of source-based skills. The IB recommends you spend 40 hours on this part of the curriculum – that generally translates into 6 to 8 weeks on these subjects, both in teaching appropriate skills and providing enough content that your students will have a good understanding of the material you will be asked to evaluate.
The Prescribed Subjects for first examinations in 2017 are:
Military leaders
Conquest and its impact
The move to global war
Rights and protest
Conflict and intervention
With each of these subjects, there are two case studies, each from a different region. For example, with military leaders, the two case studies are Richard I and Genghis Khan. To fulfill the curricular requirements students must have knowledge of both of them. Both case studies have material for detail study that is divided into three categories. So, for Conquest and its impact, the material is divided into: Context and motives; Key events and actors; and impact. Then, for each case study there are further details. In the Spanish conquest of Mexico and Peru, the material in Key events includes Hernán Cortés and the campaign against the Aztec Empire; alliances with indigenous populations; and Francisco Pizarro and the campaign against the Incas; alliances with indigenous populations; and the Key actors are Diego de Almagro, Malinche, Atahualpa, Moctezuma II; and Las Casas against Sepúlveda.
Students need to know all of the material in all of the bullet points so that you will be prepared with any content area that may appear on the exam. While there is no comparison of the two case studies in the material, it is assumed that teachers will make connections and draw comparisons across the two. In most IB classes the students will do this naturally; the material for detailed study makes this highly accessible if not inevitable.
If you recall, there are three main components in History: skills, concepts and content. The Prescribed Subject is the most skills-heavy part of the curriculum. It is expected that you will teach historical skills through this the content. If you choose to focus on the Global move to war, you should provide students with a variety of sources relevant to the case studies. These sources may include official documents such as the Lytton Report to the League of Nations regarding the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, along with a historian’s account of the events. Not only should students understand the content and be able to explain it in their own words, but they also need to understand the importance of the provenance of sources, including the motivation for their generation, and students should be able to both evaluate them and use the information in them to respond to bigger picture questions. The skills for the Prescribed Subjects may be introduced and reinforced in other units, but the extent of the sources you expose students to in this subject will help them in source-based exam.
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Katie began working at Pediatric Therapeutics in October of 2007. She has also worked in a school for children with autism where she evaluated and conducted treatment sessions for children ages 3 to 21. She worked closely with teachers, staff and parents while consulting and presenting workshops about topics including sensory integration, handwriting, and home programs. She has a special interest in sensory integration as a way to increase focus and allow for an optimal learning environment.
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Firms and Foreign Markets: Internationalization Activities and Attitudes Toward Foreign Economic Policies
31 Pages Posted: 31 Aug 2011 Last revised: 6 Nov 2018
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University College London - School of Public Policy
Date Written: November 5, 2018
Firm heterogeneity has been extensively linked to patterns in market engagement, particularly where foreign markets are concerned. Recent studies have extended the effects of firm heterogeneity to political markets, identifying its influence on policy stances and engagement in the policy process. This work has largely focused on trade, ignoring other aspects of economic policy with foreign-engagement implications. Using an original and representative survey of Japanese manufacturers, I identify patterns in a range of internationalization activities - direct and indirect importing/exporting, offshoring, and FDI - and assess the influence of these behaviors and heterogeneity in firm characteristics on attitudes toward a range of foreign economic policies including monetary policy, inward FDI, and temporary immigration. The results generate insights for the potential for coordinated political efforts between diverse producers for an understudied range of policies.
Keywords: Firm Heterogeneity, Foreign Direct Investment, Intermediated Trade, International Trade, Internationalization, Japanese Economy, Outsourcing
JEL Classification: F13, F14, F15, F23
Plouffe, Michael, Firms and Foreign Markets: Internationalization Activities and Attitudes Toward Foreign Economic Policies (November 5, 2018). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1916815 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1916815
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Getting Started with Office 365 Planner By Russell Smith in Office 365 | Intermediate
Getting Started with Office 365 Planner
Russell Smith | Jul 13, 2016
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In today’s Ask the Admin, I’ll walk you through the key features of Planner, the latest addition to the Office 365 fold.
Back in April, I wrote an overview of Microsoft’s lightweight project management solution, Introducing Office 365 Planner. Since then, Planner has reached general availability for those with Enterprise, Business Essentials, Premium, and Education subscriptions, and now it’s time to put it through its paces. I’m happy to say that it more than lives up to my expectations.
Long overdue in filling the gap between Wunderlist and Microsoft Project, Planner provides similar features to rival Trello, which is based on the Kanban scheduling system developed by Toyota. But what makes Planner shine is the integration with other Office 365 apps, such as Notebook, Files (think SharePoint/OneDrive for Business), Calendar, and Conversations (Outlook).
It’s possible to link apps together yourself by using Groups. But Planner does all the hard work for you by creating workspaces in the aforementioned apps, which are all tightly integrated with plans, to which you can invite Office 365 users or external users if you’ve created accounts for them. And as you’ve probably guessed, this integration is based on Office 365 Groups.
Planner is launched like any other Office 365 app, through the app launcher in the portal. Or you can directly access Planner by using the tasks.office.com URL.
Starting Planner for the first time requires a bit of a wait while Microsoft sets up the system for you. The ‘It won’t take long’ message turned out to be the best part of a day for me, but Office 365 was experiencing problems at that time. I’d expect under normal circumstances that this should takes minutes and not hours.
Create a New Plan
Once you get access to Planner, you’ll be redirected to the Planner hub where you can create new plans and see your outstanding tasks. You can also create a list of favorite plans for quick access. To create a new plan:
Click + New plan in the top left of the Planner hub.
In the New Plan dialog, give the new plan a name and email address.
Create a new plan in Office 365 Planner (Image Credit: Russell Smith)
By default, new plans are public. This means any user in your Office 365 sub is allowed to see the plan. If you want to invite only selected users, set Make this plan public to No.
Optionally, you can give the plan a description.
Click Create Plan to complete the process.
Once the plan has been created, you’ll be directed to the new plan’s page.
Advanced plan options in Office 365 Planner (Image Credit: Russell Smith)
Add Members to a Plan
If you chose to make the plan private, you’ll probably want to add one or more other Office 365 users.
Click Add Members in the top right of the plan page.
In the Members dialog, type the name of an Office 365 user and select the username when it appears.
To remove members from a plan, repeat the above procedure but instead of searching for members to add, click the three dots to the right of the user you’d like to delete and click Remove.
Working with Tasks and Buckets
Now that we’ve got a plan and some Office 365 users have access to it, we can add tasks and buckets. You can create standalone tasks in your plan, or create buckets, which are simply tasks organized into lists.
Buckets and task cards in Office 365 Planner (Image Credit: Russell Smith)
To add a task, type a task name into the dialog under To do, and click Add task. Optionally, you can set a due date and assign the task to an Office 365 user.
A card for the task will then appear under To do. To get more advanced options for the task, click the card.
In the task dialog box, you can add the task to a bucket, set a start date, change the progress status from Not started to In progress or Completed. Also, it’s possible to add a description, hyperlinks or file attachments from OneDrive, create checklists and add comments. Colored labels also help categorize tasks.
To add a bucket, click + Add new bucket on the plan page, give it a name and press ENTER.
Now drag the task created in the To do list and drop it in the new bucket.
Complete the task by hovering over the card and click the green checkmark that appears.
Click Charts on the plan page, and you’ll be presented with some diagrams that give you an overview of the progress of all tasks in the plan.
The charts dashboard in Office 365 Planner (Image Credit: Russell Smith)
Now click Board to return to the default view.
Click the small arrow to the right of Buckets in the Group by menu in the top right corner of the plan page. This allows you to group cards by Progress or Assigned to.
Notebooks, Conversations, Files, and Calendar
Office users that are added to the plan automatically get access to the workspaces set up in other Office 365 apps. So you don’t need to worry about setting permissions separately on the plan calendar or OneDrive, for example. To open the plan OneNote notebook, just click Notebook at the top of the plan page. OneNote notebooks and files can be synced to your PC like in any other Office 365 scenario, using the OneNote Office desktop program and OneDrive sync client, respectively.
Other apps can be found by clicking the three dots to the right of Notebook. Other options in the same menu are available to subscribe to the plan, leave it, or edit the plan properties.
No Slack or Mobile App
Planner is easy to use and ties in other Office 365 apps, with Groups as the underpinning, while removing complexity for end users. This is a real win for Microsoft. But that’s not to say it’s perfect.
Planner is a useful tool from the get-go, but I’m looking forward to see it develop further. Though Outlook Group conversations are not directly part of the Planner app, I’m not keen on them and much prefer to use Slack. So I’ll be sticking to Slack for the time being. In addition, Planner’s lack of mobile app is something that might stop me from moving to Planner full time, although Microsoft has promised to release a mobile app for iOS, Windows, and Android by the end of the year.
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The Story of Gardening: A Cultural History of Famous Gardens from Around the World
Author(s): Penelope Hobhouse; Ambra Edwards (As told to)
A fully updated and revised edition of a gardening classic.
From the cooling fountains of the Alhambra to the imposing palace grounds of Chinese emperors and the clean lines of the formal French parterre, this inspiring history charts the fascinating evolution of gardening over thousands of years, bringing to life the world's most beautiful and magnificent gardens.
The Story of Gardening explains the origins of the most influential gardening styles. Acclaimed garden designer and plantswoman Penelope Hobhouse draws on her extensive experience and shows you how an appreciation of style and techniques from all over the world helps us to understand how modern gardens have developed. Unrivalled in its coverage and written with the author's characteristic clarity and authority, this exceptional book is guaranteed to appeal to gardening enthusiasts or all ages and levels of expertise.
Chapters include:
The Origins of Gardening: the gardens of Mesopotamia, Egypt and Persia.
Gardens of Ancient Greece and Rome: The beginnings of botany and herbalism and design developments in the Classical world.
The Gardens of Islam: the 'fourfold' garden's spread from the Middle East.
The Medieval Gardens of Christendom: The layers of meaning in the gardens of the Middle Ages.
The Renaissance Vision in Italy: The transition from classical villa gardens.
The Flowering of the European Garden: Louis XIV's power-gardening.
Plants on the Move: Early plant enthusiasts who searched for new species.
The English Landscape Garden: The 18th century Landscape Movement
The Eclectic 19th Century: European gardening during technological change.
The Americas Gardening's evolution on the American continent.
Gardens of China: Chinese gardening's links with the landscape and painting.
The Japanese Garden: Japanese design's influence on the rest of the world.
From Naturalism to Modernism: Pioneer voices as gardening goes global.
Visions of the Future: The faces shaping gardening in the 21st century.
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Author : Penelope Hobhouse; Ambra Edwards (As told to)
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Rightmove extends helping hand to AgentsGiving
February 8, 2017 February 7, 2017 | Marc Shoffman
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Rightmove has committed to another year of fundraising through Agents Giving.
The Rightmove Grant is available to support the fundraising activities for all letting agents, estate agents, house builders and developers.
When planning a charity event, dedicated organisers can apply for the support grant of up to £1,000 through the Agents Giving website.
During the past two years it has helped agents raise more than £1.2m for over 70 charities.
Zoe Ryder, sales negotiator at Sowerbys, who has benefited from the grant, said: “Over the past six years I have been raising money for Dereham Cancer Care and Macmillan Cancer after my brother was diagnosed with the disease at the age of 29.
“Sadly he passed away at 35, but he has left us a legacy, the annual Lee Parker Memorial Dance. The dance is held in our local village hall, with the Lee Vasey Band performing. To stage an event like this has a lot of upfront costs and this is where the Rightmove Grant has helped us.
“In the past Rightmove has helped us raise money by donating goods for the raffle, but when I spoke to our account manager and told him about the dance, he introduced me to the Rightmove Grant.
“It was easy to apply for, and we were given a significant amount of money towards the event. The grant helps pay for the venue and the band, meaning that more money raised can go to our charities, and this year we will be giving back to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, as well as our two charities.”
She has raised more than £12,000 over the years and is looking to raise over £5,000 this year for Dereham Cancer Care.
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Home Article WINNING THE ARGUMENT.
WINNING THE ARGUMENT.
If vice-presidential picks are a reflection of a campaign's conclusion midway through the general election, then this is what Biden says about the Obama campaign's lessons thus far: Voters don't believe in change. Not yet, anyway, They're open to it. But they're skeptical. They need to be persuaded, cajoled, convinced.There was a hope in the early days of the Obama campaign that simple, sharp difference would be enough. Obama was different in aesthetics and experience and age and ideas. Different would assert change. Hence the long and enlivening Kathleen Sebelius boomlet. Obama/Sebelius would have represented change. Visually, her and Obama on a stage together would have been the most powerful image of political transformation in decades. But a choice like her presupposed belief. Otherwise, you'd be adorning a cathedral that had no promise of parishioners. As the election wore on, though, and Obama's poll numbers slackened and fell, they realized they needed to make their case. They needed an arguer. Someone able to make the case that the other guy is wrong, and Obama is right. That's, fundamentally, what Biden represents. Biden doesn't presuppose belief. He's a persuader. Sometimes at great length, sometimes to the point of virtual self parody, but fundamentally, his political style has always been to argue until everyone else agrees.For progressives, this is encouraging pick. More encouraging than Bayh, or Kaine, or even, in a way, Sebelius. More encouraging than picks who might have been more progressive, but less pugnacious. Elevating Biden suggests that the Obama campaign has decided to have an argument. Not try to win on momentum and inspiration and GOTV, but to engage, and win, an argument about which set of ideas is better for the future of the country. And in Biden, they've engaged at the point of greatest vulnerability and opportunity for Democrats: National security.A political history of the past few years in Democratic politics is a history of the party's failed attempts to dance away from foreign policy discussions. There was the Thomas Frank school of thought: Pivot from "national security to economic insecurity." There was the George Lakoff approach: Reframe the language. There was the Kerry approach: "How can they be opening firehouses in Baghdad and closing them in Boise?" But even if these approaches had succeeded -- they didn't -- they would still have bespoke long-term weakness in the Democratic Party: A fundamental inability to win arguments about American foreign policy. A Democrat has not been elected during wartime in over 50 years. A healthy party cannot only prosper when the world is at peace and the waters are quiet. But seven years of Republican incompetence and failure have generated tremendous mistrust in the conservative foreign policy approach. Iraq was a historic blunder, Osama bin Laden is loose, America's international standing is dismal. There's an opening for Democrats to press the advantage, argue that they, in fact, have the better record, and the sounder ideas, on national security. But they have to actually engage the argument. They can't hope that events will do the work for them. Picking Biden, the Obama campaign signaled that this is a project they want to take on, and a project they realize will have to be engaged affirmatively and aggressively. The fact of Obama, the fact of Iraq, it's not enough. You need to actually win the argument.Imaged used under a Creative Commons license from Reuben Ingber.
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BlizzCon 2011 Tickets Going On Sale May 21 & 25
criado 12/4/2011 em 17:33 por Miyari
Blizzard has just announced that BlizzCon tickets will go on sale Saturday, May 21 at 10 a.m. PDT and on Wednesday, May 25 at 7 p.m! Each ticket will cost $175 USD (yes, $25 more than last year) and can be purchased through the official BlizzCon website. BlizzCon 2011 will take place on October 21 and 22 this year. Tickets will also be available for the BlizzCon Benefit Dinner, priced at $500 each.
Not planning on going to BlizzCon? Don't worry, you can still purchase the BlizzCon Virtual Ticket for online streaming coverage or the DIRECTV stream for televised HD content for $39.99 USD.
Mark your calendars! Tickets for BlizzCon 2011 will go on sale at on Saturday, May 21 at 10 a.m. PDT and on Wednesday, May 25 at 7 p.m. PDT through the official BlizzCon website (www.blizzcon.com). In addition, a limited number of tickets to an exclusive pre-BlizzCon Benefit Dinner will go on sale Saturday, May 28 at 10 a.m. PDT. BlizzCon tickets will be available at $175 USD each, while tickets to the BlizzCon Benefit Dinner (which include admission to the show) will be priced at $500
Cryptozoic Shows Off New WoW TCG Loot Cards!
Log off of that alt and into the real world - we're talking World of Warcraft Trading Card Game here! Our friends over at Cryptozoic Entertainment have just given us the heads up on a spotlight of their latest expansion War of the Elements, which hits the shelves on April 26, 2011, and will be available in French, Italian, German, and English all on the same day! My favorite part? New loot cards!
I'm sure many of you have purchased packs in the past and been disappointed to find that the super-rare items were indeed as super-rare as advertised. Well, unlike previous World of Warcraft TCG expansions, Cryptozoic's War of the Elements set contains a common quality loot item that is no longer a consumable (such as the Biscoito de Ajudante do Jeito Antigo do Papa Hummel, though admittedly they were the best)! Instead, the common-quality loot item is now a companion pet! So even if trading card games aren't your thing (but they should be, really) you can still have a good chance at obtaining another companion for your collection!
The War of the Elements expansion includes loot cards rewarding three
Cataclysm Midnight Release Events For US & EU
criado 04/12/2010 em 23:02 por Miyari
Cataclysm is coming! December 7th is upon us, and Blizzard has posted extensive information detailing midnight release locations for both American and European players!
Our very own Malgayne will be there covering the Southern California event detailed below, so I'm sure we'll see lots of fun pictures and details, so be sure to check out our blog on Monday night!
Join us at 9 p.m. PST on Monday, December 6 at the Fountain Valley Fry’s Electronics in Southern California for the Cataclysm midnight launch. Help us celebrate the dawn of a new age with the powerful music of The Artists Formerly Known as Level 80 Elite Tauren Chieftain, an epic /dance competition, autographs from the development team, and more.
The party begins at 9 p.m. so be sure to arrive early, and get your copy* signed by the developers when the store opens at midnight on December 7.
If you don’t live close eno
News Roundup: Dungeon Level Ranges, Holiday Contest, Explorer's League Journal and More!
Lots of interesting news from Blizzard in this week leading up to the Cataclysm!
Blizzard has recently posted updated level ranges for dungeons (and we've got 'em all in a chart for you guys), as well as offering feedback on their recent Vengeance tanking mechanic blog and giving away some awesome swag in their holiday contests! All that, plus a great new community spotlight and the mission of a group of individuals playing WoW for a cause! What is there not to like?
Be sure to check out these spotlights after the break!
Not Going To BlizzCon? Get the Virtual Ticket or DTV Stream!
Every year getting BlizzCon tickets proves to be a phenominal pain in the butt for the majority of Blizzard fans - no matter how much they streamline the purchasing process (which, I'll admit, was significantly better this year) the truth is that most fans won't get tickets. Some people can't justify the expense for the tickets or the travel - after all, other than the "experience" of actually being at BlizzCon, you aren't missing out on much considering there's always more than enough coverage of the events and panels, and thousands of pictures and YouTube videos of every waking second of the convention!
If that isn't enough, though, you can enjoy BlizzCon 2010 from the comfort of your own home without the experience of red-eye flights or sharing a hotel room with 6 people (what was I thinking?) by ordering one of the two BlizzCon live feeds available this year! You'll even get the BlizzCon 2010-exclusive "Deathy" World of Warcraft pet (Ovo de Murloc Fumegante) and StarCraft II in-game items!
If you aren't a DIRECTV subscriber, don't worry! Blizzard offers a Virtual Ticket for 39.95 USD which grants you live coverage over four "inte
BlizzCon 2010 Schedule of Events Now Available
It's almost time for BlizzCon, and Blizzard has just posted the BlizzCon 2010 Schedule of Events to their BlizzCon website! The website also now features fully detailed descriptions and information on all of the panels and events taking place at this year's BlizzCon!
If you aren't going, don't worry - you can still order a live feed and enjoy the Blizzcon goodness from your own home or just check out your favorite World of Warcraft site(s) for the latest news! Of course, we here at Wowhead will be all over BlizzCon, providing you guys with as much information from the floor as possible - here's all of the World of Warcraft panels we have to look forward to this year!
All times detailed are in Pacific Standard Time (PST)!
WORLD OF WARCRAFT DUNGEONS & RAIDS
Friday 1:30pm, Main Stage
World of Warcraft's raid and dungeon designers discuss how the game's most epic PvE encounters are crafted.
WORLD OF WARCRAFT QUESTS AND LORE
Friday 3pm, Developer Panel S
It's Talk Like A Pirate Day in World of Warcraft, Too!
September 19th (today) is Pirates' Day in World of Warcraft, an in-game version of the international holiday Talk Like A Pirate Day! There's nothing new this year, so I'm just going to repost last year's guide for you guys, in case there's some new players out there who haven't had to opportunity to participate! While Pirates' Day not a full-blown holiday (such as Winter's Veil or the Midsummer Fire Festival), it still provides an amusing distraction from the everyday grind - complete with pirate costumes and flagons of grog!
The 2010 Blizzard Global Writing Contest
criado 24/6/2010 em 13:50 por Queggy
Some of you may remember a contest that Blizzard had back in 2009 where you were all called to write your best fan-fiction and submit it. Well, it's back once more, and waiting for you!
Official contest page
Submission page, including contest rules
I'm not going to list everything here for y'all to read, just the important stuff.
Grand Prize: The grand prize winner will receive a trip to Blizzard's headquarters in southern California, where you'll meet and eat with the Blizzard writing staff. You'll also receive your choice of a Diablo III "OVERTHROWN" barbarian diorama or a Frostmourne sword.
Runners-up: Seven runners-up will each receive a prize package of the Diablo Archive, the Warcraft Archive, the StarCraft Archive, and the Warcraft: War of the Ancients Archive, all signed by Chris Metzen, the cover artists, and Blizzard's writing staff.
E3 Coverage on ZAM!
If you're interested in following the latest developments in the MMO world—and in games in general—there's no better place to get your E3 coverage than ZAM!
Our own Mike B aka Fony has hit the show floor to get coverage and interviews on a ton of new games, including Star Wars: The Old Republic, TERA, LEGO Universe, Final Fantasy XIV, League of Legends, Jumpgate Evolution, LOTRO, and more.
Come check out all the info on the ZAM site!
http://www.zam.com/story.html?story=22531
A Personal Aside
This has nothing to do with WoW, MMOs, or Wowhead, but it's very important to me personally so I wanted to take a moment to talk about it with you.
Some of you remember my brother, William. He blogs here occasionally under the name SBMrClean. He's also suffering from a chronic, debilitating, incurable illness called Crohn's disease.
Crohn's is an auto-immune disorder of the digestive tract. Basically what happens is that the antibodies in your digestive system go a little nuts, and they start attacking your body's own tissue. The results are abdominal pain, dietary restrictions, diarrhea/constipation, infections, and frequent surgery. William himself has been forced to have his intestines re-sectioned twice, at the age of 25.
Because of this, he and I are taking part in a fundraising walk this Sunday for the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America. I mention this here because we are still looking for pledges and donations, and anything you can provide will help.
If you're interested in making a donation, the site is here:
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Reminder! First Batch of BlizzCon 2010 Tickets on Sale Today!
Just wanted to make a quick post to remind you guys that the first batch of BlizzCon 2010 tickets go on sale over at the Blizzard Store today - Wednesday, June 2 - at 7 PM PST! (you can check a time zone converter to find out what time they go on sale where you live)
BlizzCon 2010 will take place October 22 and 23 at the Anaheim Convention Center, and tickets cost $150 USD each. This will be the first of two opportunities to purchase tickets to this year's event, and tickets will definitely sell out fast. Another batch of tickets will go on sale Saturday, June 5 at 10 AM PST. Pending ticket purchases will be put in a queue and transactions will be processed in the order they are received - I was late 2 minutes last year at getting on the site and throwing tickets in my cart, and I was already 24000+ in queue (and didn't get tickets), so try not to be late! And as for the wait—don't worry, Failoc-alypse is still t
Bidding for Good: World of Warcraft Basket
criado 20/4/2010 em 15:41 por fewyn
The website Bidding for Good is running a charity auction to support the Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District. You may be wondering why you are seeing this mentioned on a World of Warcraft site? Well, there seems to be a rather nice basket of items that everyone might be interested in...
World of Warcraft Collector's Edition (Signed by the Development Team)
World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade Collector's Editions (Signed by the Development Team)
World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Collector's Edition (Signed by the Development Team)
World of Warcraft TCG Comerciante de Almas Etéreo Loot Card
World of Warcraft TCG Tigre Espectral Loot Card
World of Warcraft TCG Tigrinho Espectral Loot Card
World of Warcraft 1 year Subscription Card
World of Warcraft Grifinho Plushie with In-game Companion
World of Warcraft Manticorinha Plushie with In-game Companion
You can check this basket out here.
The auctions run until April 26th, and while this i
Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Fundraiser for WoW Players
About a week ago I got a letter that was very affecting. It almost got lost in the inbox shuffle, but fortunately I caught it only a few days late, because I found it really affecting.
It warms my heart to see gamers coming out to do something really good for society, and considering the way mainstream media only seems to notice when a gamer shoots up a school, it's more important than ever that we work together to get the word out.
My name is a Maria, a SF Bay Area geek and a very avid gamer. From the age of 7 when my Dad got me into gaming and bought me an NES Action Set/Bundle, I’ve been hooked. Aside from the typical console gaming and having a day job, I am still very active playing PC games especially within World of Warcraft. I was recruited into the guild Conquest on Kilrogg (US) and have since then learned how to split group mobs and teleport through walls. :P
Anyway, the reason I’m writing is because I’m reaching out in hopes that you could help me promote a little fundraising for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. I’m running a triathlon this year whic
Ozzy Osbourne Rocks Blizzcon
criado 11/8/2009 em 13:18 por ArgentSun
Hail, brothers and sisters! If you are reading this, you are either just curious about what's going on (which is fine), or you have the fiery blood of one who listens to rock and metal. Which is even better for this announcement, for you are about to receive a grand facemelt.
Remember the Tauren Chieftains? Also known as Level 60 Elite Tauren Chieftains and L70ETC? The guys that show up at Blizzcon every now and then and perform a WoW-themed rock song like I am Murloc!? Well, if you liked them, chances you are going to like this - Ozzy Osbourne, the Prince of Darkness, one who challenged the Lich King himself for that title... This very man is going to perform live on Blizzcon 2009! Links below, full announcement - after the break, as usual.
Blizzard Official Announcement
criado 21/4/2009 em 21:42 por 94043
WotLK Launch Party Picture Gallery!
criado 14/11/2008 em 04:30 por Malgayne
So the traffic coming back from Anaheim was a little more difficult than I'd hoped, meaning I didn't get home to post these until late. The pictures are here, though, so I hope you enjoy them in all of their low-resolution, poorly lit glory.
Be sure and take a look at Allakhazam's Image Gallery too!
You can find 25 pictures of the event after the break.
WotLK Launch Event in Anaheim
This is just a short one, since I don't want to spam you with blog posts too early. I did want you guys to know, though, that our sister site Allakhazam has posted some great coverage of the WotLK Launch Event at the Fry's Electronics in Anaheim. Tamat from Allakhazam and I got the chance to wander around and meet some of the people attending, and Tamat managed to score an interview with Jeff Kaplan, which will be posted on their news site on Friday. We got to meet a huge number of Blizzard employees (183 in all!), as well as some staffers from Tom's Hardware, who deserve a link just for being cool.
A host of stories and interviews will be posted on the Allakhazam site over the coming days, including an exclusive interview with Jeff Kaplan, as well as interviews with some of the denizens of the line--including John Finch (the guy who camped out at the front of the line and told everyone who arrived after him that they were in line for Hello Kitty Online Adventure), and Eugene Gray (who checked out of a hospital, against doctor's orders, to stand in line).
I also have some pictures to post, which I'll try a
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Brown Threat : Identification in the Security State
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What is “brown” in—and beyond—the context of American identity politics? How has the concept changed since 9/11? In the most sustained examination of these questions to date, Kumarini Silva argues that “brown” is no longer conceived of solely as a cultural, ethnic, or political identity. Instead, after 9/11, the Patriot Act, and the wars in Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan, it has also become a concept and, indeed, a strategy of identification—one rooted in xenophobic, imperialistic, and racist ideologies to target those who do not neatly fit or subscribe to ideas of nationhood. Interweaving personal narratives, ethnographic research, analyses of popular events like the Miss America pageant, and films and TV shows such as the Harold and Kumar franchise and Black-ish, Silva maps junctures where the ideological, political, and mediated terrain intersect, resulting in an appetite for all things “brown” (especially South Asian brown) by U.S. consumers, while political and nationalist discourses and legal structures (immigration, emigration, migration, outsourcing, incarceration) conspire to control brown bodies both within and outside the United States. Silva explores this contradictory relationship between representation and reality, arguing that the representation mediates and manages the anxieties that come from contemporary global realities, in which brown spaces, like India, Pakistan, and the Middle East pose key economic, security, and political challenges to the United States. While racism is hardly new, what makes this iteration of brown new is that anyone or any group, at any time, can be branded as deviant, as a threat.
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Published — August 5, 2020 Updated — August 6, 2020 at 2:00 pm ET
White House warns 10 local areas about coronavirus numbers in private call
Pedestrians with and without face masks walk in downtown Omaha, Neb., July 31, 2020. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)
Family gatherings could cause “superspreader events,” Dr. Deborah Birx tells officials.
Liz Essley Whyte
The White House Coronavirus Task Force sees troubling coronavirus numbers in 10 local areas across the country, even as its data shows improvement in Sunbelt states, according to a private call between task force leader Dr. Deborah Birx and state and local officials Wednesday
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“We are seeing encouraging signs across the South,” Birx said on a recording of the call obtained by the Center for Public Integrity. “We are concerned that both Baltimore and Atlanta remain at a very high level — [also] Kansas City, Portland, Omaha [and] of course what we talked about in the Central Valley [of California].”
Birx then pointed to four additional cities that are doing relatively well — Boston, Chicago, Detroit and Washington, D.C. — and yet are seeing small increases in the percentage of positive COVID-19 tests, according to White House data. Those areas need to “get on top of it,” she said.
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Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee and Virginia are also “concerning,” Birx said. She continued to emphasize that the current outbreaks differed from those in the spring because they’ve penetrated more rural areas. She said similar things over the weekend, telling CNN that the pandemic had entered a “new phase.” President Donald Trump later criticized her on Twitter, calling her “pathetic.”
On Wednesday’s call, Birx also said residents in “red” or “yellow” counties — places with a high percentage of coronavirus cases or positive tests — should stop family gatherings.
“If you’re in a red or yellow county, bringing together family members will create, potentially, particularly if indoors, superspreader events,” she said. “We’re finding that across the South and moving up into the Midwest.”
The White House report detailing which counties are “red” or “yellow” has not been made public, though it is distributed to governors. Public Integrity first revealed the report dated July 14, and the New York Times obtained the July 23 report.
A Public Integrity analysis of publicly available data shows that 23 states would now be in the red zone for cases per population, based on the White House Coronavirus Task Force criteria.
Birx said on the private call that California and Nebraska had recently joined the red zone, and Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia had fallen out of it based on the percentage of positive tests in the last week. Experts have said test positivity rates can indicate whether an outbreak is under control.
Birx did not comment on schools, which the president has insisted must reopen.
In a similar briefing two weeks ago, Birx warned 11 cities that they should take “aggressive” action to combat rising coronavirus cases.
Thousands of state and local officials are invited to attend the calls, which are hosted by the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, according to White House official William Crozer, who introduced Birx on the call Wednesday. But it’s not clear which local leaders are hearing Birx’s warnings.
Leaders in several cities were not on the call two weeks ago when Birx pinpointed them, or did not know about it.
The White House did not respond to a request for comment.
Chris Zubak-Skees contributed to this report.
Updated on August 6, 2: p.m.: White House spokesman Judd Deere provided this comment on Birx’s private call and the unpublished data she was discussing: “The White House Coronavirus Task Force is providing tailored recommendations weekly to every governor and health commissioner for their states and counties. From the beginning, this has been a locally executed, state managed, federally supported response as local leaders are best positioned to make on-the-ground decision for their communities armed with CDC guidelines and best practices to limit the spread of COVID-19. As the President has said, the cure cannot be worse than the disease and the United States will not be shut down again.”
Read the White House’s secret coronavirus red zone reports
The Trump administration doesn’t make these reports public, but we’re collecting and publishing the COVID-19 data and recommendations for states and counties.
On private call, White House’s Birx recommends robust testing for colleges
The advice comes as nine states remain in the ‘red zone’ and some universities see outbreaks.
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SARS-CoV-2 antibody prevalence in blood in a large school community subject to a Covid-19 outbreak: a cross-sectional study
Clin Infect Dis. 2020 Jul 10;ciaa955. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaa955. Online ahead of print.
Juan Pablo Torres 1 , Cecilia Piñera 2 , Verónica De La Maza 3 , Anne J Lagomarcino 3 , Daniela Simian 4 , Bárbara Torres 3 , Cinthya Urquidi 5 , María Teresa Valenzuela 5 , Miguel O'Ryan 6 7
1 Departamento de Pediatría Oriente, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Antonio Varas, Providencia, Santiago, Chile.
2 Departamento de Pediatría Sur, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Barros Luco, San Miguel, Santiago.
3 Dirección de Innovación, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Av. Independencia, Independencia, Santiago, Chile.
4 Subdirección de Investigación, Dirección Académica, Clínica Las Condes, Estoril, Las Condes, Santiago, Chile.
5 Departamento de Salud Pública y Epidemiología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Los Andes, Monseñor Álvaro del Portillo, Las Condes, Santiago, Chile.
6 Programa de Microbiología, ICBM, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Av. Independencia, Independencia, Santiago, Chile.
7 Millenium Institute of Immunology and Immunotherapy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile.
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciaa955
Background: A SARS-CoV-2 outbreak affecting 52 people from a large school community in Santiago, Chile was identified (March 12), nine days after the first country case. We assessed the magnitude of the outbreak and the role students and staff played using a self-administered antibody detection test and survey.
Methods: The school was closed on March 13, and the entire community was placed under quarantine. We implemented a home-delivery, self-administered, IgG/IgM antibody test and survey to a classroom stratified sample of students and all staff from May 4-19. We aimed to determine overall seroprevalence rates by age group, reported symptoms, contact exposure and to explore dynamics of transmission.
Results: Antibody positivity rates were 9.9% (95%CI: 8.2-11.8) for 1,009 students and 16.6% (95%CI: 12.1-21.9) for 235 staff. Among students, positivity was associated with younger age (P=0.01), lower grade level (P=0.05), prior RT-PCR positivity (P=0.03), and history of contact with a confirmed case (P<0.001). Among staff, positivity was higher in teachers (P=0.01) and in those previously RT-PCR positive (P<0.001). Excluding RT-PCR positive individuals, antibody positivity was associated with fever in adults and children (P=0.02; P=0.002), abdominal pain in children (P=0.001), and chest pain in adults (P=0.02). Within antibody positive individuals, 40% of students and 18% of staff reported no symptoms (P=0.01).
Conclusions: Teachers were more affected during the outbreak and younger children were at higher infection risk, likely because index case(s) were teachers and/or parents from preschool. Self-administered antibody testing, supervised remotely, proved to be a suitable and rapid tool. Our study provides useful information for school re-openings.
Keywords: SARS-CoV-2; antibodies; outbreak; school; seroprevalence.
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It had been a sweet dream. The best years of his life. All around him were familiar faces and their expressions were nothing but joy.
Suddenly, that merry scene faded into darkness. A pair of crimson eyes emerged from said darkness, gazing at him into his very soul. The eyes became bigger in his sight as it drew near.
Before the baleful gaze could reach Argon, his hand sprang up caught something that had approach him.
“Eeek!” cried a feminine voice.
Argon opened his eyes and he woke from his slumber. He found himself staring at a crouching girl in a cloak with her hood pulled up and her arm in his grasp. Even though her face was in the shade of her hood, Argon could make out she was quite a looker. She looked as young as his current self or maybe even younger and she had some brawn to her sleeveless arms. In her other hand, she was holding a sack.
“Can I have my hand back please?” the girl asked.
Argon tightened his grip around the woman’s hand to gauge for her reaction.
“Hey hey! Calm down!” she entreated in an alarming tone. “I meant you no harm.”
“What were you trying to do?” asked Argon. For some reasons, Argon wasn’t feeling nervous in front of a pretty girl like her. He usually stammers when talking to females, especially young ladies. Maybe it was because of the circumstances, he thought.
“I was just trying to wake you up,” the girl answered.
“Canting his head, he questioned, “why?”
“In case you don’t know, you do not want to be out here when it gets dark.”
Looking at the sky, Argon saw that the sky had darken. It was dusk.
Was I out for that long?
After confirming that the girl truly meant no harm to him, he let her hand go. “Right, sorry about that. Thanks for telling me,” he said and pushed himself to his feet. He was still feeling kinda wobbly but it was probably just the effect of waking up.
“Are you alright?” the girl asked as she stood up along with him.
“What makes you say that?” he shot back her question.
“Well…” Her eyes darted at his clothes. “You’re sleeping on a rock and your clothes were…” Her sentence trailed off.
Realizing her meaning, Argon turned away from her and tidied up his robe. He did put it on hastily before dozing off. And he was even sleeping on places one would never sleep on under favorable circumstances. He must had look like a victim of a sexual assault. He didn’t forget to bandage up his ample chest.
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Remembering what he did just before he lost conscious— or rather, why he he lost conscious, red flushed his cheeks as his shoulders quivered slightly. He was also reminded of the Innate Skill he acquired just after his o̲r̲g̲a̲s̲m̲. It was an innate, which mostly likely meant that he had no control over the activation. He made a mental note to look for garments with ample coverage and to sate his carnal desire occasionally.
“Are you alright?” she asked again when she noticed Argon’s mildly shaking shoulders.
“I’m fine,” Argon answered, turning back to face her once he calmed his thoughts. “I was not assaulted nor r̲a̲p̲e̲d̲ if that’s what you’re thinking.” There was some shaking in his voice but he hoped she didn’t notice it.
“Well, if you say so.” She held a dubious glance at Argon.
It was understandable. There were a lot of cases where women kept quiet about their “ordeal” to avoid lowering their worth to the eyes of the public. This was especially the case for bachelorette.
“I’m Lyra,” the girl introduced herself with a her right hand on her chest and a slight bow. “What’s your name?”
Argon froze. He wanted to say his real name but he wasn’t sure it was a good idea. Even if he claim that he was Argon Raze, he didn’t have his signature skill and strength to prove it. Against his reluctance, he answered, “Erinthea. My name’s Erinthea.”
For now on, I am Erinthea, provisionally.
“Erinthea… what a beautiful name.” Lyra mused. She uttered the last part in a whisper but Erinthea heard it all with her sensitive ears. “May I called you Erin?” she asked.
Erin shrugged. It wasn’t her real name anyway, so she didn’t care that much. Now that she had a good look at Lyra, Erin realized she was taller than Lyra by half a head.
Hmm… I’m quite tall for a girl, aren’t I?
Lyra was donning leather armor that fit her slender body frame so well. Her muscles did not diminish her charm a single bit. On her back strapped a bow and a quiver of arrows. Her gears weren’t high grade but it couldn’t be said to be low either. Erin could vaguely make out her dark bluish hair color and similar dark bluish eyes to match under her hood.
“You’re not an adventurer, are you?” Lyra tossed such a sudden question.
“What gave it away, I wonder?”
Lyra chuckled at her foolish response but she humored her anyway. “You’re not armored, not even lightly. You don’t have a sack for carrying your spoils. And most obvious of all, you don’t have a weapon.”
“I had a weapon.” Erin didn’t know what an adventurer was but she could roughly guess what kind of profession it was judging from the name itself. “Is there a problem if I’m not an adventurer?”
“Instead of problems, it raises a big question. If you’re not an adventurer, what’s a fox-kin like you doing all the way out here? This forest isn’t a place for anyone to just stroll in. Only adventurers or fighters dare walk to enter this forest.”
“It’s a long story.”
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“I see.” Lyra understood what Erin’s overtone implied. “Well, I’m heading back to town now. Care to be my companion for this short journey?”
Erin had the Spirit Magic, Fae Guide if she ever needed directions but since Lyra had proven herself to be quite amicable, Erin saw no reason to refuse the offer. Plus, it was better to travel with a companion in such a place. “Of course, just lead the way.”
With Lyra taking point, the two walked downstream by the river. As they trod down the path, Lyra was sneaking glances at Erin, more precisely, at her swaying tail and ears.
After a few minutes, Erin had enough of Lyra’s occasional sneaky glimpses and decided to confront her.
“Is there a problem?”
“Nothing,” Lyra said. “It’s just that… Demi-humans are a rare sight around here. I hope you won’t mind the stares back in town.”
“That depends on how hard they stare.”
Beast-kin or any demi-humans for that matter, was also a rare sight for Erin in her former life. She probably had only seen two or three demi-humans in the four decades of her previous life.
“Um… can I ask request something quite personal from you?”
Erin’s brows raised with a crease. “Depends on what you’re requesting?”
“W-well… can I touch your tail and ears?”
“No,” Erin replied instantly and sharply. She didn’t know the ethics of Fox-kin but considering how sensitive they were, it was probably frown upon to be touched so casually by others.
“Yea… I figured as much.” Lyra looked down. “Sorry of asking. Just… I hope you won’t be offended when some of the townspeople asked the same thing. Some of them get kinda curious here in Green Scar.”
Hearing some foreign name, Erin furrowed her brows. “Speaking of… “here”, where are we exactly?”
Lyra blinked. “You don’t know? And you’re here, in such a place?”
“Well, we are in the forest of Green Scar.”
“Green Scar? Where is that?”
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“I’m not sure on how I should I answer that.”
After some thinking, Erin asked another question. “Do you know Evaren?”
“Evaren?” Lyra gave her an odd look. “If you’re talking about the continent, of course I do. This is Evaren.”
Erin widened her eyes. She didn’t hear her wrong. This was Evaren, she said. However, Erin didn’t know any place named Green Scar in Evaren. Evaren wasn’t a large continent nor was it small. It was just on the average tier. Erin had explored most of Evaren. She knew its every nook and cranny. For the parts that she missed in her exploration, she knew their name. That said, she couldn’t recall any of the place was call Green Scar.
Just where the hell am I? Is this somehow a different Evaren?
“Are you really fine? You don’t look fine.”
“I’m okay. Just where in Evaren is Green Scar?”
“Somewhere in the northwest, I guess?”
“You guess?”
“I don’t know. I’m not a cartographer.”
“But you’re an adventurer.”
“Hey, I’m a starless adventurer.”
“What’s a starless adventurer?”
Lyra stopped in her tracks and stared. “Do you even know what’s an adventurer?” she asked.
Erin too stopped to match her gaze. “I don’t,” she replied promptly.
“Okay… you didn’t know where you are and you don’t know what’s an adventurer?” Suspicions filled Lyra’s gaze. “That’s very concerning, are you aware of that?”
Erin sighed. “Like I have said, it’s a long—”
[Sixth Sense activated. Imminent Threat Detected]
Her sentence was interrupted by a warning from Sixth Sense. Her ears and tail stood straight up with the warning.
“C-cute…” Lyra muttered. “Um… I mean, what’s wrong?”
Shortly after, a loud roar spanned across the whole forest.
“This early?” Lyra blurted out.
“What was that?” Erin asked, directing a worried look at Lyra.
“That— is why you don’t want to be out here during the night and why we should start running now.”
Saying so, the two began to run. Much like her appearance suggested, Lyra was in better form than Erin. She easily overtook Erin’s pace but she took heed to match her pace with Erin.
With her sensitive ears, Erin could pick up the sounds of other animals and small monsters scampering away from the roar. She even heard some monsters slightly larger than Rot-rats running downstream.
Remembering that she had two Ability Points from her level up prior to her sleep, she dumped them all into Might.
[Might: 9 has been increased to 11]
“I don’t mean to disparage you but do you have any movement-accelerating skills?!” Lyra shouted.
Using her old knowledge, Erin poured Magic to her feet to speed herself up. The sudden acceleration almost toppled her balance but she managed to hold her bearings.
[Combat Arts: Fleet Foot Lv. 1 – Acquired]
Oh damn, it worked. So, it’s called Fleet Foot, huh.
“Well, I’ll be damned!” Lyra exclaimed. “You’re not as delicate as I thought you are after all.” She also sped up by pouring Magic to her feet.
The huge roar echoed out again and shook the forest.
Hearing the roar that somehow felt nearer than before, Lyra increased her speed and Erin allocated one point into Fleet Foot.
[Fleet Foot: Lv. 1 has been increased to Lv. 2]
Erin still wasn’t at the speed of Lyra but she was definitely a tad faster.
“What are we running from?” Erin asked with her voice raised as they ran.
“A Razor Grizzly,” Lyra replied. “The king of this forest.”
Erin knew about Red Grizzlies and Black Grizzlies but he had never heard of a Razor Grizzly. She wasn’t even sure if Razor Grizzly was even something remotely similar to a bear at all. “What do you mean just now when you said it’s early?”
“It’s suppose to only come out during the night when the sun has set completely. Something must had awakened it sooner than the intended time.”
“Or someone.” Erin recalled the bandits. “Could be bandits.”
Lyra gave a short laugh. “There are no bandits here unless it’s a huge group.”
“Because—” They jumped over a large log in their path. “—if Adventurers knew, we will band together and hunt them down. They are a threat to us Adventurers and our pockets.”
“But I saw some bandits just this afternoon.”
“Well, they must be new.” The dodged low under a fallen tree. “If they are the one who woke the Razor Grizzly up, good riddance, then.”
“How much further to the town?”
“Not far. Just another mile and more.”
Just another mile and more… you said it like it’s so easy… Hmm? What’s that?
It was fast in hiding itself from her view but Erin saw it in the semi-darkness due to her Night Vision innate skill. There was something following them on the other side of the river. It was extremely silent with its movements. Erin could neither smell or hear whatever was stalking them. She had thought that Lyra was the one who woke her up but after knowing Lyra, she couldn’t have been the one who woke her up with an intimidating aura.
Erin put herself on full vigilance in case it attacked them at any moment’s notice— but it didn’t. It stopped following them after a while.
What the hell was that?
“Hey, don’t slow down now. Are you getting tired?” Lyra asked without a strain to her voice.
“I-I’m f-fine,” Erin struggled to reply.
Using her own level system’s standard as a measure, Lyra’s Might must be much higher than hers since she could easily run for this long without loosing breath, as oppose to her own current condition. She was already drawing quick breaths.
While she was undeniably better than she was during the day, Erin was still no where near her expected optimal level.
Still, with her eleven points of Might and another minute run, she managed to reach safety along with Lyra as they finally exited the forest and the town came into view.
We’re saved…. I’m saved.
Erin gave one last view to her back.
It truly had stopped following them. She relaxed her breath but until they safely made it to the town, she wouldn’t be letting her guard down.
Erinthea – Forest-kin: Fox-kin
Level: 4 | Status: Moderate Exhaustion | Strained (Legs)
Might: 11 | Arcane: 10 | Finesse: 10
Magic Arts – Spirit Magic Lv. 3,
Combat Arts – Sword Art Lv. 5 | Arcane Edge Lv. 1 | Fleet Foot Lv. 2
Innate Skills – Self-appraisal Lv. Ex | Night Vision Lv. Ex | Sixth Sense Lv. Ex | Toxin Resistance Lv. 1 | Lust Deviant Lv. Ex
Level Progression: 0%
Skill Points: 2
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Top 2011 Religion Stories That Weren’t
Time magazine’s religion top ten list had Mormonism in the spotlight. The Religion Newswriters Association voted Osama bin Laden’s death (and the faith response to it) their number one story in a list that included Harold Camping, Rob Bell, and Mississippi’s Personhood initiative. Oh, and the top religion author of 2011? Tim Tebow, whose life story is a runaway bestseller for our friends at HarperOne.
But what about the stories that shoulda been, but weren’t? We’re thinking this list, drawn up Peter Laarman, might provide a template for 2012 coverage. —The Eds.
1. “Catholic” countries that openly flout Vatican policy
Significant defections from the Vatican party line are no longer limited to rich cosmopolitan countries with religiously mixed populations like Germany and Holland. Nobody does the Vatican’s bidding anymore. Mexico, Italy, Spain, Brazil, and others have enacted legislation that plainly thumbs the Vatican’s nose. In Ireland, where extreme deference to the Church dates all the way back to the Republic’s founding, the prime minister now goes repeatedly before parliament to blister not just a few priests and bishops but Rome itself for massive criminality and concealment. Spain’s prime minister may have gotten the boot in November, but his Socialist government didn’t go down because it had pushed through fast-track divorce and legalized gay marriage: it only went down because of IMF/EuroBank austerity measures.
2. Judaism and Real Estate
No one to my knowledge has written authoritatively in mainstream publications lately on the intensity of internal conversations about the essence of Judaism at a time when more and more Jewish leaders appear willing to follow the ultra-Orthodox in sacralizing the possession of land. There’s an argument going back decades (back at least to Richard Rubenstein’s 1966 After Auschwitz) on the theological/ethical problems relating to land possession. Mainstream media show us the fanatics, of course, but they don’t show us the extent of Jewish unease with land mania.
3. Five-Point Calvinism Inside the Southern Baptist Convention
You’d have to troll through obscure Baptist newsletters in order to see what a big deal this is in the largest U.S. Protestant body: our regular religion writers seem oblivious. While it is certainly true that all traditional Baptists take divine sovereignty seriously, early Baptists in this country decisively rejected the rigid “double predestination” views of the early Puritans who persecuted them. Practically speaking, they were Calvinists only in the sense that Arminius was a (dissident) Calvinist. Now the SBC is increasingly dominated by so-called “Five Point” Calvinists: the same kind I grew up among in a Dutch Reformed milieu. For people who take their Baptist traditions seriously, this is yet more weirdness flowing from the more basic weirdness of Baptist faith becoming doctrinal at all.
4. Identity Crisis Within a Queer-Positive Christian Denomination
The Metropolitan Community Church came into its own in the ’70s and ’80s when most other denominations were distinctly unwelcoming. Now that so many mainline churches are totally okay with gay people, the MCC is losing members in some locations and wondering about its raison d’etre. The 2007 defection of the huge Dallas-based Cathedral of Hope to the UCC may have been a sign of things to come: the 88% who voted to leave felt that the MCC’s gay-friendly platform was simply too narrow; they wanted to be a full-spectrum progressive congregation. As the MCC begins to wane in the U.S., however, it continues to grow rapidly overseas—in countries where established Christian groups remain consistently hostile to queer people.
5. Latino Catholics Distinctly More Gay-Friendly Than Latino Evangelicals
A too-little-noticed 2010 poll by the Public Religion Research Institute found that a majority of Latino Catholics in California (57%) said they would vote to allow gay and lesbian couples to marry, compared to just 22% of Latino Protestants. This same Catholic-Protestant divide within the Latino community was evident across a wide range of public policy issues related to gay and lesbian rights. The Latino Catholic latitudinariansm on marriage tracks another almost-unreported finding, to wit: that the single most gay-friendly religious body in the U.S., bar none, is the lay Catholic community. Bishops, are you listening?
6. Upside-Down Ideas about Religious Liberty
The dramatic new push for religious liberty exemptions for faith-connected providers of taxpayer-supported health services underscores the radical way in which understandings of religious liberty have changed in recent years. It’s not that the push for exemptions hasn’t made the news; it’s that no one is writing (at least in the MSM) about the radical nature of the shift. In the past, the social service arms of religious bodies understood that if they wanted public money they would need to honor public law regarding the disposition of the money: i.e., provide the full range of mandated services on a universal basis. We used to say to objectors, “If you don’t like the mandate, don’t take the money.”
Apparently such a commonsensical response is now insufficiently deferential to religion. More and more people seem willing to say that if a Catholic health care provider doesn’t “believe” in providing reproductive health care to women, that private belief can trump public law. This is a particularly thorny problem because of the many regional health care system mergers involving Catholic partners: there are now many places in the country where, if a dominant provider that toes the bishops’ line won’t provide the service, area women will be out of luck and deprived of benefits they are entitled to receive by law. Does anyone defer to them? Afraid not.
7. Special Providence on Life Support?
While the Michele Bachmanns of the world still peddle the idea of a special divine providence for the United States as part of their chest-pounding defense of American exceptionalism, that idea enjoys less and less appeal within the general population. In November the New York Times’ Charles Blow cited new Pew research indicating that far fewer Americans think there’s anything “superior” about this country. While it is still true that almost 90% of white evangelical Christians believe that God wants Americans to enjoy a wildly disproportionate share of Earth’s resources, younger people and the rapidly-growing cohort of people with no religious affiliation strongly reject the idea. This has consequences, I think, for American civil religion, where there has always been a significant undercurrent of religiously-informed modesty vis-à-vis our national destiny. Perhaps that undercurrent can begin to replace the blustering grandiosity that has occupied the main channel for far too long. The experience of accelerating national decline cries out for a much better civil religion than the cockamamie one we inherited.
8. The Council of Elders and Occupy
In mid-November, distinguished architects of the modern civil rights movement showed up at various Occupy sites around the country to give what can only be considered a historically significant blessing to the new upwelling of hope and hunger for justice. The Organizing Committee for the National Council of Elders include such towering figures as James M. Lawson Jr., Marian Wright Edelman, Arthur Waskow, Joan Chittister, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Vincent Harding, Mel White, Grace Lee Boggs, and Dolores Huerta. To my mind these leaders and all of the Elders constitute the best of the best in respect to role in shaping progressive social thought and redemptive nonviolent action. But there were two problems: (1) large numbers of Occupiers “don’t know much about history” and thus had no idea who was in their midst, and (2) large numbers of MSM people “don’t know much about history,” either, and thus found it possible to treat the Elders’ declaration and direct involvement as not worthy of their notice.
9. We Can’t Just Call it Nihilism?
Of course, we don’t expect mainstream religion writers to know much about philosophy or history, so I suppose we mustn’t be too harsh. It still strikes me as odd that no one has taken to calling either Wall Street ethics or far-Right economic beliefs by their right name, which is nihilism. There’s been some prattle in the press about Ayn Rand’s influence, but religiously the problem is so much bigger and deeper than the renewed attention paid to this minor figure. What gives the New Nihilism a certain degree of invisibility is that some of the fiercest functional nihilists claim to be staunch supporters of traditional beliefs and traditional hierarchies. Paul Ryan and Eric Cantor are no more likely to say they don’t really believe in anything than are Brian Moynihan and Lloyd Blankfein. These dudes believe in markets, of course, but they don’t choose to see that the way in which financial markets actually function today—with huge mechanical trades done at lightning speed and at great profit but without any regard to recognizable human values—perfectly expresses a high-order moral nihilism, if not a metaphysical nihilism. I can’t bring back Nietzsche or Heidegger to validate me on this. You just have to take my word for it: nihilism.
10. The Faith of the “Post-Soul” Generation
There was a tiny bit of reporting recently on a new group of mainly young African Americans who are coming out publicly as unbelievers. But to me the more interesting and unreported story is about what might be called the cultural “faith” of the post-soul generation. Black people who don’t actually go to church themselves, or who go very seldom, but who still identify in important and deeply emotional ways with the historical importance of the Black Church. It would be plain foolish to deny that this ongoing identification is still profoundly religious at its core, but what kind of religion is it—and how is it being nurtured and renewed? What are its forms and ceremonies? No doubt there are people in the academy working on this, but it also strikes me as a rich field for enterprising journalism. One might begin by exploring the possible analogy to people who remain culturally Jewish, and emotionally so, but who are no longer observant. I have no doubt the analogy would break down pretty quickly, but I for one would love to see someone take this on.
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Simon Barney, the ex-husband of “Real Housewives of Orange County” star Tamra Judge , announced that he was diagnosed with stage 3 throat cancer in an exclusive interview with People magazine on Tuesday. In his conversation with People, Barney said that he first noticed last May that he had swollen salivary glands. An ultrasound and biopsy found other affected areas, and Barney was eventually diagnosed with throat cancer.
A follow-up appointment revealed that the cancer had spread to his lymph nodes, tonsils and throat. And to speak out about it so others can see how I’ve taken this fight on with optimism, and the good this has ultimately brought my life.
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At the time, she learned the couple was not only dating but set a wedding date. Rodriguez revealed that she had three children of her own already and recently lost both of her parents. While Judge was sympathetic, she was still overwhelmed, especially when Vieth revealed he would be moving a long distance to be with Rodriguez. Eventually, Judge would also learn that Rodriquez was pregnant with her first granddaughter too. Although the couple intended to marry they never seemed to pull the trigger.
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Is ‘Selling Sunset’ Fake? Chrissy Teigen Questions if Agents are Real. Vicki has been with the show from the very start in and Tamra joined in Season 3, but it was entirely time for them to go. Would the show be okay without her? It was shocking to think about what OC would even be without Tamra around to stir the pot. Now, as the show gears up to being production on Season 15! The good news is OC has one of the most promising casts. Emily Simpson and Gina Kirschenheiter both used their second seasons on the show to open up about their lives, jump into the drama, and prove they are worthy Housewives.
Even Braunwyn Windham-Burke made enough of an impression for viewers to want to see her again — rarely the case for a newbie! And with Kelly Dodd and Shannon Beador free from the Queen Bee bullies, this show could now turn out to be so many things.
Hell hath no fury like a “Real Housewives” star accused of adultery. After denying her estranged husband’s accusations of adultery, ” Real Housewives of Orange County ” star Tamra Barney is hitting her ex where it hurts — she’s dating his friend. He didn’t say a word,” he said.
As the episode began, Shannon was on an awkward date with Vicki’s co-worker Duff, who she’d known for some time. He has a child with former.
Shannon Beador is packing on the PDA with her new man! And she is equally smitten. They make a great couple together and have been having a lot of fun. Like Shannon, Janssen, 56, is a divorced parent of three and a graduate of the University of Southern California. Shannon and Jansen, who works as a partner at an insurance firm, first met through a mutual friend and have been going strong for a few months. It really is the right guy at the right time.
The pair made their relationship Instagram official on Tuesday, with the reality star posting a smiling photo of the pair during a night out. Shannon and ex-husband David Beador split in September after over 17 years of marriage, and she filed to end their marriage in December They also agreed to joint legal and physical custody of their three daughters. ET on Bravo. FB Tweet ellipsis More. Get push notifications with news, features and more. You’ll get the latest updates on this topic in your browser notifications.
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On the left side of the set: Vicki Gunvalson and Tamra. Later in the evening, very briefly, Lauri Waring showed up to sit next to Vicki and talk about her son, Josh, who should be getting out of jail soon. Andy asked what made her think that. There was stuff going on behind the scenes, Tamra said, to make her think that. For example, about 1 a.
It’s the end of an era for “The Real Housewives of Orange County.” Two of the show’s longest-running cast members have ended their stay on.
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It seems that Judge is trying to keep the past in the past. Judge was offered a part-time role, much like her friend, Vicki Gunvalson , but told her fans that she decided to leave the show on her own terms. The reality star was evidently so upset at her lack of holding an orange, that she took to her social media and deleted Kelly Dodd and Emily Simpson.
Fans were not shocked by this revelation as Judge was feuding with both women at the end of season Simpson did try to make clear to fans that Judge had blocked her from social media months ago. While Dodd who was not social media savvy has claimed that she had never followed Judge, even though that is not exactly how Instagram works.
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Trusting the process. After talking to our financial advisor, we decided to decline the offer. I knew then God was giving me a sign and we needed to trust him. The mother of four and her beau purchased the 6-bedroom, 4. So, did their choice to relocate have anything to do with her exit from RHOC? The property is currently in escrow and Tamra knew some people were going to speculate they sold the place because of money issues.
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Member Alert: Updated COVID-19 Guidance to RMAI Members
Home/Member Alert: Updated COVID-19 Guidance to RMAI Members
March 24, 2020: In response to the COVID-19 state of emergency, the Receivables Management Association International (RMAI) will issue updates periodically with guidance for our members. While the summary below includes some information we previously communicated on 3/17/20 and 3/20/20, we have also made a few updates to reflect information which has become available since our prior Member Alerts. Please take a few minutes to read this in its entirety.
Consumer Collection Activity
RMAI expects its members to have continuing internal discussions with their employees concerning appropriate collection strategies throughout the COVID-19 crisis. As we have all witnessed first-hand, this national crisis has been evolving at a breakneck speed, which we expect will continue for the foreseeable future. As such, our members need to be prepared to make operational adjustments on a weekly, if not daily basis, to remain compliant with regulatory guidance. RMAI reminds our certified members that this is not only a best practice, but also a cornerstone of RMAI’s certification program.
When contacting consumers, RMAI encourages its members to actively listen for consumer hardships such as reduced work hours, loss of income, loss of employment, and medical issues associated with the current state of emergency and to respond appropriately. When a consumer claims a hardship, the following are among the options RMAI expects its members to consider extending based on the circumstances unique to the consumer:
Work with and be sensitive to consumers who have encountered unforeseen circumstances.
Temporarily or permanently suspend collection activities when a consumer demonstrates that he or she is experiencing significant financial hardship.
Accept consumer requests in both oral and written form.
Cease collection activities when you learn the consumer’s only source of income is from exempt sources, such as Social Security or Supplemental Security Income benefits, and that the consumer has access to no other assets.
Place collection holds with respect to the consumer, including all of the applicable consumer’s accounts you may own. In other words, all of the consumers accounts should be suspended, not just on an account-by-account basis.
Consider some other form of assistance such as an extended grace period, balance reduction, or the suspension of interest.
Court-Related Activity
Certain states have curtailed court operations and closed non-essential business. In some states, court operations are reduced to only emergency matters. Because of the limited capacity of court operations in particular locales, we suggest our members consider the following measures during the suspension of normal court functions:
Suspend new judgment executions, garnishments and other post-judgment activities.
Honor requests for forbearance of existing judgments until normal court functions resume.
Keep apprised and ensure compliance with all state and local court orders regarding any filings.
Suspend existing foreclosures of personal or real property. And, forbear from initiating new foreclosure actions unless such forbearance may materially impair the creditor’s rights or position.
Determine if applicable statutes of limitations have been tolled and suspend the filing of lawsuits during the tolling, unless such suspension may materially impair the creditor’s rights or position.
Beginning on March 17th, RMAI staff began operating remotely from home. Members are encouraged to continue normal communications with RMAI staff who will be available by email and will be actively monitoring and responding to voicemail messages with return calls. Each day, on a rotating basis, one member of the staff will work from the association office.
RMAI encourages its members to allow their employees to work from home to the extent your business operations allow, and in compliance with all local, state, and federal regulatory constraints that are imposed on the collection of debt. Where your business operations do not allow for work from home, you must comply with all applicable laws relating to leave and compensation. Importantly, if you allow employees to work from home you must maintain procedures reasonably adapted to the circumstances and ensures high expectations for the safeguarding of consumer data and privacy.
RMAI Certification
RMAI certified businesses should document their actions taken in response to the COVID-19 crisis as it impacts a number of RMAI certification standards and as such will be needed to demonstrate program compliance during your next Full Compliance Audit.
RMAI is administratively extending to June 1, 2020 the due date of any RMAI certified audit which is due in March, April, or May. This extension also applies to any previously granted audit extensions that falls within these dates. We are not granting requests for virtual or off-site audits as the onsite component is an important part of the RMAI audit process.
RMAI COVID-19 Resource Page
This week, RMAI will launch a COVID-19 regulatory resource page on the RMAI website that will be accessible through a member password. More information will be coming shortly. If you have forgotten your password, please contact Barbara Souza at bsouza@rmaintl.org.
This alert is intended for members of the Receivables Management Association International and is for informational purposes only and is in no way intended to provide legal advice. Members are encouraged to consult with an attorney of their choice for legal advice concerning this matter.
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Rising COVID-19 Cases Stall Reopening Plans for Special Programs in January
Sabina Salguero, Copy Editor|December 22, 2020
Graphic by Sabina Salguero
Following a Nov. 6 meeting, the Board of Education (BOE) released an announcement to MCPS families and staff regarding the official framework for back-to-school learning.
Though initially hoping to bring back some students as early as Jan. 12, 2021—before the end of first semester—the BOE voted Dec. 15 to delay a phased-in return and in-person instruction until at least Feb. 1, 2021, using a health metric model to monitor COVID-19 in the county. Among the first group of students to return will be certain special education programs, career and technology groups and other special student populations, according to the framework.
In the model, data is calculated using an estimated population of 1.05 million residents in Montgomery County. If the rate of COVID-19 cases is less than five percent, the likelihood of hybrid learning increases; rates greater than that begin to decrease the possibility of in-person learning.
“We can move to the next step if the health metric allows it,” MCPS superintendent Jack Smith said during the Nov. 6 meeting. “The metrics in the last few weeks have not been as positive as we would like for them to be … but that doesn’t mean we’re not going to continue to plan, work and move forward with our goal to begin bringing students back.”
In Maryland, COVID-19 cases are rapidly increasing, reaching up to three thousand cases for the first time Dec. 4—the highest it has been throughout the entire pandemic, with roughly a seven percent positivity rate. In Montgomery County, the rate is slightly above six percent. As COVID-19 cases continue to rise, experiencing its third and worst wave yet, students and staff question whether or not MCPS will reopen.
“At this rate, I’m not very hopeful of returning back to school,” SGA president Gabby Diaz said. “It would carry many negative consequences for families and staff … It really depends on the situation; we have people who are high at risk, have large families and others who struggle with mental health issues due to isolation.”
To alleviate some of these concerns, MCPS sent out a survey asking whether or not parents want their child to attend hybrid classes or remain strictly online.
New guidelines have also been issued for the state of Maryland to follow by Governor Larry Hogan. Starting Nov. 20, restaurants reduced capacity from 75 percent to 50 percent, restaurants have a 10 p.m. curfew and residents are discouraged from traveling out-of-state.
Following suit, County Executive Mark Elrich recently banned indoor dining Dec. 15, as Montgomery County is one of the most impacted areas in the state.
“It is very concerning that the numbers are going back up in the county,” principal Billie-Jean Bensen said. “At the school level, we are beginning to plan for the possible return of specialized programs and small groups in February … [however], we are aware that the metrics are not good.”
As rates and cases continue to fluctuate weekly, it is too early to gauge what COVID-19 will look like within the following months, and whether MCPS’ framework will be effective in its timeline.
“I really wish we can return, mainly because I miss the social aspect of school events and seeing my friends,” Diaz said. “But also because I want to see my teachers, do my extracurriculars, go to prom, and especially graduate in person. But if missing out on these events means I’m not putting anyone at risk, then I’m completely okay with it.”
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The EU’s Draft Constitutional Treaty and the Future of EU Sports Policy
Richard Parrish
Law & Criminology
Considers the political motivation behind moves to include sports policy in the proposed Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe focusing on the ambitions of the major sports federations to protect their autonomy and the EU's wish to expand its remit in the sociocultural area. Discusses the relevance of the proposals for sporting organisations' rights to regulate their sports with rules, EC and national competition policy and financial support for sport.
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Parrish, R. (2003). The EU’s Draft Constitutional Treaty and the Future of EU Sports Policy. International Sports Law Journal, 2003(3), 2-4.
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Characteristics of first-trimester scree...
Characteristics of first-trimester screening of non-responders in a high-uptake population
Response to letter of concern regarding »Reduction in COVID-19 infection using surgical facial masks outside the healthcare system«
Time from injury to arrival at the trauma centre in patients undergoing interhospital transfer
Face masks for the prevention of COVID-19 - Rationale and design of the randomised controlled trial DANMASK-19
Nusinersen treatment of spinal muscular atrophy - a systematic review
Hanne Trap Wolf
Camilla Bernt Wulff
Charlotte Ekelund
Karin Sundberg
Ann Tabor
INTRODUCTION: Our aim was to compare demographic, social and reproductive health-related medical factors between women who did and women who did not undergo combined first-trimester screening (cFTS) and to examine their reasons for declining a screening offer, especially whether non-participation was an informed choice.
METHODS: This was a nationwide survey conducted in Denmark in 2014. A structured questionnaire with 33 questions relating to demographical data and medical history was mailed to 1,495 randomly selected women who gave birth in 2012. Half of the women were selected among the population without cFTS, the other half from those with cFTS. A cohort of 20 women tested the questionnaire for consistency. The results are based on the responders (58%).
RESULTS: The response rate was 88% among the women with cFTS and 19% among the women without. Not having a cFTS performed was associated with the following factors: country of origin other than Denmark (p < 0.01), less education (p < 0.01) and unemployment (p < 0.01). These women more often had a religious belief (p < 0.01), and had undergone fewer induced abortions (p = 0.01). They felt less informed about the cFTS (p < 0.01) and thought it was a more difficult decision (p < 0.01) than the women who had undergone cFTS. The main reason for declining cFTS was a wish to keep the child regardless of any cFTS results (82%).
CONCLUSIONS: Women without cFTS differ from those who undergo cFTS. Not undergoing cFTS seemed most often to be the result of a conscious choice based on ethical considerations, rather than being the result of a lack of information. However, a low response rate decreases the strength of our conclusions.
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Imaging thiol redox status in murine tumors in vivo with rapid-scan electron paramagnetic resonance
Boris Epel, University of Chicago
Subramanian V. Sundramoorthy, University of Chicago
Martyna Krzykawska-Serda, University of Chicago
Matthew C. Maggio, University of Chicago
Mark Tseytlin, West Virginia University
Gareth R. Eaton, University of Denver
Sandra S. Eaton, University of Denver
Gerald M. Rosen, University of Maryland - Baltimore
Joseph P. Y. Kao, University of Maryland - Baltimore
Howard J. Halpern, University of Chicago
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Thiol redox status is an important physiologic parameter that affects the success or failure of cancer treatment. Rapid scan electron paramagnetic resonance (RS EPR) is a novel technique that has shown higher signal-to-noise ratio than conventional continuous-wave EPR in in vitro studies. Here we used RS EPR to acquire rapid three-dimensional images of the thiol redox status of tumors and normal tissues in living mice. This work presents, for the first time, in vivo RS EPR images of the kinetics of the reaction of 2H,15N-substituted disulfide-linked dinitroxide (PxSSPx) spin probe with intracellular glutathione. The cleavage rate is proportional to the intracellular glutathione concentration. Feasibility was demonstrated in a FSa fibrosarcoma tumor model in C3H mice. Similar to other in vivo and cell model studies, decreasing intracellular glutathione concentration by treating mice with L-buthionine sulfoximine (BSO) markedly altered the kinetic images.
Epel, Boris; Sundramoorthy, Subramanian V.; Krzykawska-Serda, Martyna; Maggio, Matthew C.; Tseytlin, Mark; Eaton, Gareth R.; Eaton, Sandra S.; Rosen, Gerald M.; Kao, Joseph P. Y.; and Halpern, Howard J., "Imaging thiol redox status in murine tumors in vivo with rapid-scan electron paramagnetic resonance" (2017). Clinical and Translational Science Institute. 529.
https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/ctsi/529
Epel B, Sundramoorthy SV, Krzykawska-Serda M, et al. Imaging thiol redox status in murine tumors in vivo with rapid-scan electron paramagnetic resonance. Journal of Magnetic Resonance. 2017;276:31-36. doi:10.1016/j.jmr.2016.12.015
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The Russian military reports routinely on the growing proportion of “modern types of armaments, military and special equipment” entering its forces. On November 7, Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu said:
“As a result, we have managed to increase the level of equipping troops with modern weapons by 4 times since 2012. Today it stands at 58.9 percent.”
Interviewed on October 31, MOD armaments tsar Yuriy Borisov stated that weapons and equipment in Russia’s permanent readiness units won’t be less than 60 percent modern at the end of 2017. The standing goal for GPV 2011-2020 is 70 percent.
The chief of the 46th TsNII recently gave the following percentages for modern armaments in the Russian inventory.
So Shoygu’s math above isn’t quite right — four times 16 is 64 rather than 58.9 percent modern weapons.
But what is modern? On Arms-expo.ru, military commentator Viktor Murakhovskiy not long ago described how the MOD categorizes its armaments.
The RF Armed Forces have five categories of weapons and equipment:
1st category — New types entering the armed forces from industry which are under factory warranty and in use.
2nd category — Serviceable types in use.
3rd category — Types requiring some kind of repair.
4th category — Types requiring capital repair.
5th category — Types to be decommissioned.
Murakhovskiy turns to the RF standards agency to define modern armament:
Modern armaments are defined by state standard (GOST RV 51540-2005, Military Equipment, Terms and Definitions) — modern means a type of armament which is not inferior or superior to the best analogous foreign types in its combat, technical, and usage characteristics, or does not have foreign analogues.
All of which makes timely this little expounding on a point. New doesn’t always mean modern. There is new production of old designs. But by the same token one shouldn’t doubt that old weapons can be just as lethal and effective in combat as new ones in the right tactical situation.
With the long life cycles of today’s military technology, the distinction between new and modern will remain murky.
Take Russia’s Pantsir-S gun-missile air defense system. It was designed in the late 1980s and early 1990s to replace Tunguska from the 1970s. Because of Russia’s various troubles, Pantsir-S wasn’t produced until the late 2000s, and entered service by 2012. Obviously new but how modern? Now it’s slated for modernization by 2019. The Pantsir-SM is supposed to feature increased detection and engagement range with a new missile.
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3-Alarm Fire in King Farm
April 1, 2014 / News and Events
April 1, 2014 – RVFD and MCFRS units were dispatched at 4:12am to a reported building fire in the area of Shady Grove Rd. and Gaither Rd. First arriving units found a large four story apartment building under construction with heavy fire showing from the roof. The address was corrected to a newly developed area on Upper Rock Circle in the King Farm area of Rockville. A second alarm was immediately requested.
The building, a 150-unit apartment complex, under construction but nearing completion, was reported to be vacant. Due to the heavy volume of fire, no interior attack was mounted. External master streams and aerial devices were utilized to control the fire. A third alarm and special call units were also dispatched. Units remained on the scene through the afternoon to continue to wet down the wreckage. The top two floors suffered heavy fire damage and the lower floors were heavily damaged by water.
No injuries were reported. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
First alarm – E732, E728, E703, E708, E753, AT703, AT708, RS703, A728, B/C 703, B/C 705, C703, C703C, C703E, DOC, Volunteer Chief, Operations Chief, Fire Chief
Second alarm – E731, E723, E733, E734, T731, AT723, M708, Canteen 733, Air 733, Command Post
Third alarm – E726, E722, E729, E720, AT734, AT718
Other units from around the county rotated into the scene during the day for relief, continued extinguishment and fire watch.
For more incident photos, click here.
To view aftermath photos from RVFD photographer Beverly Jensen, click here.
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‘Annihilation’ Set Pics Offer First Glimpse At Alex Garland’s Next Film
Posted July 16th, 2016 by Ben Silverio
With ‘Ex Machina’ being one of the best films of 2015, many are anxious to see what filmmaker Alex Garland would do next. The answer is an adaptation of Jeff VanderMeer’s novel ‘Annihilation’ for Paramount Pictures featuring an all-star cast of awesome ladies including Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodriguez, and Tessa Thompson. But since filming started, it has been relatively quiet on that front. So much so in fact that the production has already wrapped shooting without so much as an official still or a formal announcement with a synopsis or a release date. But thanks to the joys of social media, we have our first look at the movie.
‘Annihilation’ follows a group of women consisting of an anthropologist, a surveyor, a psychologist who serves as the group’s de facto leader, and a biologist/narrator (played by Portman) that take on a dangerous mission to a land where the laws of nature don’t apply. This mysterious place is known as Area X. However before we get any sort of official look at that place, The Film Stage did some digging and found some images that show off this bizarre location. Through the Instagram accounts of Cinematographer Rob Hardy and stars Gina Rodriguez and Tessa Thompson, you can get a sneak peek at what looks to be an extremely stunning film:
My boo. #annihilationFilm by director Alex Garland.
A photo posted by Gina Rodriguez (@hereisgina) on Jun 17, 2016 at 4:15pm PDT
Lit with the magic of movie making, on Annihilation, with my sunshine @hereisgina . Photo by director Alex Garland A photo posted by Tessa Thompson (@tessamaethompson) on Jun 28, 2016 at 12:37pm PDT
wrapped on Annihilation. quite possibly a very beautiful film. can’t wait [for you] to see.
A photo posted by Tessa Thompson (@tessamaethompson) on Jul 5, 2016 at 9:57pm PDT
Zone A photo posted by R o b H a r d y b s c (@rdhardy) on May 13, 2016 at 1:09am PDT
Smoke study
A photo posted by R o b H a r d y b s c (@rdhardy) on Jun 1, 2016 at 12:05pm PDT
Zone (Version 2) – a preparatory image taken for the current Alex Garland project, ANNIHILATION. One of a series of landscape studies. The focus here is on finding colour refractions and anomalies in the surrounding air – #bscine #alexgarland @rdhardy (I’ll be jumping in for a couple days until our next host becomes available) …. A photo posted by BSC (@bscine) on May 16, 2016 at 3:52am PDT
Relevant paraphernalia.
A photo posted by R o b H a r d y b s c (@rdhardy) on Jun 27, 2016 at 3:34pm PDT
A quiet tribute to the outer peripheries of a dressed set. Beautiful, austere and elegant, yet largely ignored in the face of brutal time restrictions and other seemingly arbitrary reasons, but somehow defiant of the fact that it will never appear in the film. #bscine @rdhardy A photo posted by BSC (@bscine) on Jun 23, 2016 at 2:47pm PDT
Keep in mind that these pictures are taken on phones. Just imagine how crazy everything will look onscreen when these locations are properly lit and such. Garland’s simple yet unsettling aesthetic certainly carries over from his last film. Although with ‘Annihilation’ being a different story, I’m anxious to find out what surprises await us (presumably) later this year.
What do you think about this glimpse at ‘Annihilation’? Are you excited for Alex Garland’s next film? Let us know in the comments.
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Ben F. Silverio received a degree from Drexel University in the Screenwriting and Playwriting Program with a minor in Television Production. While at Drexel, Ben co-founded and co-hosted a film review show called The Pretentious Film Majors, which has evolved into a multi-format form of entertainment including blogs, podcasts on iTunes, articles in the school paper, and a potential tv show. Now armed with an extremely expensive piece of paper, Ben can begin climbing the treacherous ladder of the entertainment industry, which he hopes to do while streaming WWE wrestling matches, reading Marvel comics, and blogging about the excessive amount of movies and tv shows that he watches, all on the iPhone that is permanently attached to his hand.
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Shanghai Family’s Newest Addition
By 2020-08-13 11:55:34
Living in Shanghai has cemented for me two very important things. The first is just how important it is to value yourself, your family, and your friends – no matter how little or how much time you think you have. And the second, is that everything happens for a reason.
I can say without a shadow of a doubt that that was NOT my feeling in April of this year when COVID-19 was in full swing. Unlike many who were working from home, I was running around town like a headless chicken trying to be everywhere and everything all at once, spinning plates here and manically typing up articles there. What I couldn’t see then, that I can now (hindsight is a wonderful thing), is that everything I was doing was leading me up to a single important moment. A moment where I could stand back and look at everything our team had worked so hard to build and achieve and feel proud. Despite all the odds, during a very challenging, stressful period, our team at Shanghai Family and Parents&Kids thrived and our content got better and better.
My love for these brands runs deep, just as my love for this team runs deep. I have never worked with a more dedicated nor determined group of individuals. I feel like I have achieved everything I set out to achieve during my time at with Shanghai Family and Parents&Kids and it's time to move onto a new Shanghai challenge.
It is with sadness that must I announce that I will be resigning my position as Editor in Chief of Shanghai Family and Parents&Kids. These last two years with both brands, first as Managing Editor, then Editor in Chief, have been such a thrilling and wonderful ride. Big shoutout and thank you to all you readers. Every comment, every message, and every compliment you gave made my job so much more worthwhile.
When one door closes another door opens. Just as I say goodbye, a new, very excited Editor would like to say hello!
Allow me to introduce Claire Squire. A fellow writer and editor of Shanghai that is also guilty of beginning conversations with the phrase, “I read this article the other day…”. I cannot wait to see what she has in store for the magazine going forward!
Hello everyone! It's an absolute pleasure to reach out to you all today and introduce myself. I’m very excited about joining the team at Shanghai Family and Parents&Kids. Beth and her team have built a strong brand that really serves the expat community in Shanghai. Joining the publication that’s fondly dubbed ‘The big sister of Shanghai’ is an absolute honour.
Like Beth, I am a Brit that's been living in Shanghai for the best part of five years. I adore Shanghai and it’s a city I very comfortably call home. A little about me, my big passions are writing (obviously) eating and hanging out with my dog. Ideally both at the same time if possible. But, I am sure you will all get to know me through my witty turn of phrase over the next coming months!
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Spoor and Flint’s “Threshold:” Good, Solid Space Opera
Eric Flint and Ryk Spoor’s THRESHOLD is a space opera that centers around our near-future Earth, Mars, and a bunch of long-lost alien artifacts. (The first book, BOUNDARY, while a good read in its own right, does not have to be read in order to understand THRESHOLD.) All you really need to know to start this book is that the human race has attained space and now has a small colony on Mars, and that there’s a hope that more alien artifacts (of the type found on the Earth itself and Mars during the course of BOUNDARY) may reside within the solar system.
THRESHOLD starts out with a quick recap of what has gone before (deftly incorporated into the narrative), which is this: Madeline Fathom, formerly an agent for Homeland Security, has resigned to take a new position on Mars along with her new husband, Joe Buckley. Helen Sutter, a paleontologist, and her much-younger husband, A.J. Baker, continue to puzzle out the alien fragments left behind that have been named Bemmius Secordii for two reasons: “Bemmius” is for the “bug-eyed monster” the aliens apparently looked like, while “Secordii” is the name of the person, Jacqueline Secord, who discovered the alien artifact in the first place.
Because of the alien artifacts, humans have finally been able to get out into space to stay. (Human ingenuity plus alien knowledge is the equation Flint and Spoor make, and quite credibly, too .) Now, there’s a legitimate “space race” going on, with India developing a “space elevator” for freight, the European Union building the biggest, baddest spaceship on record (the Odin), and of course Baker’s own Ares Corporation (the first private company in space, headquartered on Mars) also develops its own, small spaceship.
Over time — as much of this story is told in the form of vignettes — Fathom and the others realize there’s a real problem: the Martian artifacts, which have been freely shared with the crew of the Odin, lead to yet another artifact. The Odin’s crew, rather than telling everyone on Mars (and Earth) what they’re doing, instead cuts the Martian colony completely out of the equation, possibly so the EU will be able to put its own, massive footprint in space.
While the devious nature of the Odin is not in question, there’s a further problem. The Ares Corporation has far more work than it knows what to do with considering the alien artifacts known to be on Mars that are within its purview (as most of Mars has been parceled out to other Earthly concerns, if and when they are able to join the United States, the EU, and other major groups in space), but Fathom, a security specialist, does not believe the Odin should be left to have it all its own way. To be blunt, she emphatically distrusts the Odin’s chief of security, Richard Fitzgerald, because he’s more or less amoral — she calls him a “mercenary . . . sociopath,” which may or may not be true.
What is true, though, is that Fitzgerald is the most unscrupulous crewman on the Odin. Fathom is right to distrust him, as is the Captain of the Odin, General Hohenheim. And what Fitzgerald will do to try to gain the Odin an advantage may just start the first — and, possibly, last — interstellar war.
THRESHOLD is an excellent book that does everything right. There’s treachery, politics, love, mayhem, friendship — in short, the usual array of human personality traits and emotions — which just goes to show how well grounded Flint and Spoor are in human psychology. All the relationships (positive and negative) make sense in context, the science (both the alien and human) seems sound, and the story is well-constructed.
But be warned: as the name THRESHOLD suggests, this story leaves the reader on tenterhooks, especially in the latter half of the book. (Especially with regards to this question: will Joe Buckley survive? Or won’t he? Tune in tomorrow . . . . )
That being said, there is a sequel to THRESHOLD in the works called PORTAL (Spoor’s Web site mentions that PORTAL was accepted by his publisher, Baen Books, last September). This is a very good thing, because THRESHOLD asks more questions than it answers and left most of “our heroes” in a devilishly tight spot.
So, you have an episode in a very good space opera series, with another to follow. Excellent! (Put me on the list to read PORTAL soonest, please.)
Grade: A.
— reviewed by Barb
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#1 by seawasp on April 28, 2012 - 8:28 am
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Author(s): Carl Power; John Rasko
The dazzling promise of stem-cell treatment: does it work and will it save us? Two experts look at the hype For decades, we've been anticipating the dawn of regenerative medicine. Again and again, we've been promised that stem cells will soon cure just about every ill imaginable. If not tomorrow, then the next day, or the day after that, and so on. We're still waiting.This book is an antidote to hype and a salve to sooth the itch for stem-cell salvation. In it, Professor John Rasko, a leading physician-scientist, and writer-historian Carl Power take us on a wild historical tour of this scandal-prone field. They expose all the dirty little secrets that the hype merchants prefer to ignore - the blunders and setbacks, confusions and delusions, tricks and lies. It's a history rife with colourful characters. You'll meet Alexis Carroll, who discovered how to cultivate cells in a test tube: celebrity surgeon, scientific genius and Nazi sympathiser, he opened the field of modern cell science with an experiment so bogus it blocked the way forward for the next 50 years. You'll meet Don Thomas, who developed bone marrow transplantation - the first successful stem-cell therapy - but only after a miserable decade in which all of his patients died. Alongside true stem-cell pioneers, you'll meet charlatans who cooked their data and claimed fake cures - sometimes with fatal consequences.Is there any good news? Which of the many promises of stem-cell research have been kept? And what of the future? Rasko and Power insist that we can only know where we're going if we have a sense of where we've been. Their study tears down the hype surrounding stem cells in order to reveal what's still worth hoping for.
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BAD BLOOD chronicles how a "miracle" treatment for hemophilia became an agent of death for 10,000 Americans. Faced with evidence that pharmaceutical companies and government regulators knew the product was contaminated with deadly viruses, the hemophilia community launched a powerful and inspiring fight to right the system that failed them and to make it safer for all.
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What if your life-saving medicine contained deadly viruses - and the drug manufacturers, the government, and your own doctors knew, but failed to warn you?
In the 1960s, a new treatment derived from human blood transformed the often-fatal genetic disease hemophilia into a treatable chronic condition. This "miracle" product was approved by the FDA despite the known risk of viral contamination - including hepatitis. Even as AIDS breached the nation's blood supply in the early 1980s, hemophiliacs were advised by their doctors to keep using the drug believing the benefits outweighed the risks. By the time the medication was pulled from the market in 1985, 10,000 hemophiliacs had been infected with HIV, and 15,000 with hepatitis causing the worst medical disaster in U.S. history.
How could this have happened, and what would prevent something like this from happening again? BAD BLOOD recounts this cautionary tale from the perspective of six families affected by this tragedy and the doctors, nurses, and scientists who cared for them. Concluding with the community's inspiring fight to right the system that failed them, this powerful story stimulates the public debate about the government's role and effectiveness in regulating the pharmaceutical industry today.
Special Features include
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Producer: Marilyn Ness
"Offering a sobering and wide-ranging look at a major national crisis, this is recommended." - Video Librarian, Nov/Dec 2011
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https://sideshowsoundtheatre.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/sideshow-tell-7-04-2015.mp3Happy 4th of July! In this week´s newscast, Ian discusses the latest film music releases including Terminator Genisys by Lorne Balfe, the Woman in Gold soundtrack by Martin Phipps and Hans Zimmer, the score to Shaun the Sheep Movie by Ilan Eshkeri and Lakeshore Records´release of Burying the Ex by Joseph LoDuca. Also, Will brings you the latest news from Walt Disney World where he talks about the latest rumours from Disney´s Hollywood Studios and finally, Ian presents his pick of the week!
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Lack of state sex ed regulation puts students in danger of receiving harmful lessons, report finds
Contact: Zach Eisenstein
Phone: (202) 265-2405 ext 3330
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(Washington, DC) – Today, SIECUS: Sex Ed for Social Change released its new report, the SIECUS State Profiles, providing an in-depth and up-to-date look at the state of sex education in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and other United States territories.
“Unfortunately, we are seeing a rampant inconsistency in sex ed policies nationwide,” said Christine Soyong Harley, SIECUS President & CEO. “In many states and districts, there are no requirements for accuracy, inclusiveness, or appropriateness of curricula. This lack of regulation has fostered an environment in which many young people are particularly vulnerable to the harm caused by receiving bad sex ed, or no sex ed at all.”
Of particular concern, the SIECUS State Profiles reports a growing number of abstinence-only programs (also called “sexual risk avoidance”) being taught in schools by Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPCs). CPCs have increasingly received federal funds to deliver abstinence-only instruction to young people nationwide.
These programs often feature inaccurate and shame-based content. For example, one common lesson compares sexually active young women to used pieces of tape. The report notes that such instruction is being provided to young people in Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, New Mexico, Oregon, and Pennsylvania–among other states.
“With this iteration of the SIECUS State Profiles, we prioritized the inclusion of updates that came directly from state and local partners, advocates, educators, parents, and students,” Harley said. “These are the individuals who experience the effects of their communities’ sex ed, or lack thereof, firsthand. Many of them shared inspiring stories of advancing comprehensive sex education. However, far too many expressed that the needs of youth simply aren’t being met.”
The report also details which states do and do not mandate sex education; the quality of that instruction; the topics that must be covered; and related parental consent requirements through its Sex Ed State Law and Policy Chart. Highlights include:
28 states and the District of Columbia mandate sex education.
35 states require schools to stress abstinence when sex education or HIV/STI instruction is provided.
16 states require instruction on condoms or contraception when sex education or HIV/STI instruction is provided.
15 states do not require sex education or HIV/STI instruction to be any of the following: age-appropriate, medically accurate, culturally responsive, or evidence-based/evidence-informed.
Only 8 states require sex education or HIV/STI instruction to include information on consent.
Only 8 states require culturally responsive sex education and HIV/STI instruction.
11 states have policies that include affirming sexual orientation instruction on LGBQ identities or discussion of sexual health for LGBQ youth.
9 states explicitly require teachers to portray LGBTQ people negatively in health education instruction or prohibit teachers from mentioning LGBTQ people.
The SIECUS State Profiles is intended to serve as a living resource and will be regularly updated as new legislation and related activity become available.
“We are thrilled to release this newly configured version of one of SIECUS’ most utilized resources,” said Harley. “It is our hope that these profiles will help advocates, educators, parents, and young people alike in their efforts to advance sex education across the country.”
SIECUS: Sex Ed for Social Change has served as the national voice for sex education for 55 years, asserting that sexuality is a fundamental part of being human, one worthy of dignity and respect. Through policy, advocacy, education, and strategic communications efforts, SIECUS advances sex education as a vehicle for social change—working toward a world where all people can access and enjoy sexual and reproductive freedom as they define it for themselves.
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This is a 1975 Pedrazzini 28ft Super Aquamar made in Switzerland.
While Riva may be the Mercedes Benz of classic boats, Pedrazzini is the exclusive Bentley/Rolls Royce of the class. In fact, the Chairmen of Porsche/Audi/Bentley captains a Pedrazzini Special identical to this one that is available.
Here is some information from Pedrazzini’s website.
Pedrazzini runabouts: crafted from the most exquisite materials with great skill and extreme patience.
Pedrazzini has been committed to the art of boat building for over 100 years. As in the good old days, the company’s mahogany runabouts are crafted by hand. Step by step, the individual elements are meticulously finished and assembled. It can take up to nine months to complete a single runabout. Each boat that leaves the yard reflects Pedrazzini’s dedication to quality, attention to detail, and flair for timelessly elegant styling.
The Super Aquamar is similar to the more famous Riva Aquarama. Sierra Boat has done significant refurbishing on this boat. We recently re-powered the boat with fuel injected 5.7 L Mercruiser engines. This is a great boat for Lake Tahoe and easily handles Tahoe’s rough water.
ID: PICO II
Builder: Pedrazzini
Model: Aquamar
Engine: Twin 5.7L Mercrusiers
Category: Sold Boats Tags: Boat, Pedrazzini, Riva, Runabout, Super Aquarama
1969 Bertram 20ft “The Red Baron” – SOLD
1969 Bertram 20ft “The Red Baron”
This is the smallest in the Baron line of race boats. The Bertram name carries a great reputation in classic as well as modern boats as they are very well-built boats. This one in particular is one of a run of only of 20 or so in 1969. In the mid 60’s racing was popular and boat builders were looking to dominate certain classes of boat lengths. This was a tried and true hull in the early 60’s known as the Mopie fishing vessel. It had great hull lift due to the heavy interior and overall construction.
Sammy James was the heavy hitter in Bertram Racing at the time and the current seller of the boat tracked him down in Florida some years ago. He asked him if he was familiar with the boat and Sammy James said “Familiar???? Hell son, I built them. You mean there are still some left? That’s great.” Sammy James then filled the seller in on the boat. They basically stripped the Mopie and built this custom deck for the boat to go racing. The boat was a really great performer up to about 60 MPH and then it got a little sketchy. They lost about ½ the boats in testing and regrouped, sold the remaining boats (repowered with less power to control hull speed) and sold them off to recoup some funds for the next boat to test. They were powered with Holman-Moody engines and had Volvo outdrives of the period.
This boat was purchased in New York by Dick Clarke of Sierra Boat Company about 45 years ago and sat in the warehouse until Tony Brown of wood boat restoration fame bought it and it sat some more. The current owner bought it and proceeded to do a period correct refurb on it. It is not representing a restoration as there are original pieces that were not serviced or restored and the seller did take some liberties that are correct but upgraded. He installed a period correct Volvo outdrive with outboard trim rams which is rare. He also built a Holman-Moody Ford 351 Windsor engine as this was for altitude. It does 45 on GPS at Tahoe’s 6300’ elevation. The boat comes on a custom trailer that was fit to the boat.
The seller has all the receipts since he bought it. This is truly a great collector’s boat that can be enjoyed and then restored with room for future profit on a sale.
ID: THE RED BARON
Builder: Bertram
Model: Red Baron
Engine: Ford 351 Windsor
Trailer: Custom Trailer
1960 Century 19ft Resorter
This is a 1960 Century 19ft Resorter.
The 19ft Resorter is an excellent boat, but most people can’t get past the unusual square nose. After this boat suffered some damage to the bow, the owner decided to rebuild the bow with a proper pointed nose. The repair changed the look of the boat and made it more desirable.
Sierra Boat has maintenance records and has performed the work done on this boat. The deck varnish is in excellent condition and the hull sides and transom are in good condition. The upholstery, engine box and dash gauges were all new in 1998. The boat was last used in 2003 so it had very little use after the work was done. The boat is powered by a Ford Interceptor motor with 250 hp. Sierra Boat fiberglassed the bottom which had some minor repairs done to it in 1999. The fiberglass bottom is solid and is in good shape but will need some repairs before going back into the water.
This Century Resorter is the perfect family ski boat with the built-in ladder on the transom or a great first wooden boat! Price reduced to sell!
ID: ENCORE
Builder: Century
Model: Resorter
Engine: Ford Interceptor, 250 hp
Comitti Boats
Comitti Boats, long known in Europe for building the highest quality wooden and composite speedboats, Comitti S.p.A., in business since 1956 on the shores of Lake Como, deserves a close look by powerboat and yacht enthusiasts. Currently building six models from 6.5 to 10.5 meters in length with gasoline or diesel power from Mercruiser and Volvo, Comitti carefully manages its production volume to build the highest quality artisan-crafted speedboats in Italy. With designs inspired by the timeless style of La Dolce Vita, “the sweet life“, Comitti uses state of the art composite and wood boat building methods to produce a strong, lightweight, stunningly beautiful vessel that will last a lifetime with minimal annual maintenance.
(History) In 1956, Mario Comitti began building high-speed motorboats on Lake Como. His boats were at the forefront of experimental design and expressed the Italian passion for speed. Mario Comitti son, Elia, raced the boats and built their reputation as he won race after race. Racing designs evolved and gained elegance along the way. Design of the hull running surface, which had begun relatively flat, was the focus of much development. A new Comitti “V” shape evolved, which resulted in better rough water handling while providing an ideal wake for water skiing. Signature down angle lift strakes on the running surface increase speed, improve handling and provide a dry ride.
For more information on Comitti Boats, go to http://turnermarinegroup.com
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"lorraine murphy" Discussed on WGN Radio
"Mean independent candidates a growing number of independent candidates said Rachel Hinton are borrowing from cook county's democratic playbook banding together and using political tactics to try to win seats on the bench that is about the name of the place on the ballot but I'm more interested in what an independent Democrat even is Meghan belay is one of them and she's in our studios so when you go to vote on Saint Patrick's day you'll see Meghan nice to see you welcome to our show thank you so much for having me John you're running for judge I am county wide in that circuit court for the Larson vacancy so what is in India are you Democrats I am a Die Hard Democrats would but will you be listed as a Democrat I will be listed as a Democrat okay but I thought you were an independent Democrat so what we call ourselves my slate of candidates that I'm on with a lean Bandari Jacqueline Marie Griffin myself joy Tolbert Nelson Michael o'malley Amanda Pillsbury Elizabeth Walsh Lorraine Murphy and James Worley we are all what we're calling independent Democrats because we are not we did not go through that cook county democratic slating process so the Democrats of cook county not officially said you are our candidate Meghan away exactly why not well first of all I didn't even know anything about that process I'm very a political I grew up the youngest of six kids my single mom raised us in park forest Illinois I didn't have a silver spoon in my mouth I had no political connections so I was ignorant I gas to this whole democratic fleeting process that apparently begins all the way in March where you have to March around the county and meet committee men township heads and aldermen so that's when the actual cook county democratic slating process starts I did not go through that nor did most of my people in my sleep which would you say that the position of you independent Democrats is different or do take exception to some of the things that the Democratic Party in cook county is all about I believe it's different in the sense that the nine of us believe that politicians should not be picking judges the people should be and when you pick the judges we will vote for judge right exactly however the cook county Democratic Party has slated thirteen candidates that they push on in front of voters and each of those candidates are if they are chosen to be slated have to pay the party forty thousand dollars just to be slated unfortunately some of those candidates they didn't even have their judicial buyer ratings before the party chose to slay them we won't elect many Republicans on March seventeenth typically I don't even have a Republican challenger in my race so now we do not hear cook county you are running for judge correct what what kind of judges this well it will be a circuit court judge county wide so I will be at the will of Timothy Evans who is the chief judge and he will put me in whichever division he chooses however because I have a twenty one year background as a prosecutor fighting for the victims of violent crimes here in cook county I would hope that I could make it to twenty six in California to bring my talents to the bench so for how many years are you a cook county assistant attorney this is my twenty first year you are a prosecutor I am currently a prosecutor kind of cases do normally prosecute homicide cases D. ease that make you as a judge then a little biased because you are going to be more I've been also quote unquote for the victim but maybe the guy who's being charged with the crime isn't guilty but as a prosecutor you're always going after that guy how do you separate yourself from that I'm glad you I'm glad you mentioned that because that is often the misperception with prosecutors that do become judges however I want to tell you about me and how I have conducted my career as a I secured I have had the opportunity and the enjoyed the fact that I can get up in court and say Meghan Millay on behalf of the people of cook county so what does that mean that means that it is my job to make sure that everyone's rights dignity and interests are protected in that courtroom that means the victims that means offenders even that also means the right Sir and and and interest of law enforcement and the community as a whole so by having that holistic view of protecting everyone's rights because I do not want anybody to be railroaded by any system I want the system to work and be fair so that will make a good springboard for the bench I'm ready to become the arbiter I've been the advocate now I want to be the arbiter Megan malaise in our studio right now she's running for circuit court judge in Chicago cook county specifically this is the March seventeenth on St Patrick's day were voting right St Patrick's day early voting started so don't delay vote away it's gonna say you need to know monic device you need to have some catchy if you're going to win in this town Megan you also need to have an Irish name I see Kathleen is on your button as well correct so my name is Megan Kathleen lay malaise actually my married name my husband is here with me today and my mother's name is Kathleen my mom is a hundred percent Irish and she was born on St Patrick's day so when I found out the election was actually going to be on her birthday this I took on the green and the orange and am proud to put my mom's name on there but my name on the my law school grad my loss school diploma the roles of the circuit court and the Supreme Court has always been Meghan Kathleen lay that's just my name M. U. L. A. Y. M. U. L. A. Y. and my maiden name is chip Paro C. H. A. P. A. R. R. O. because I'm also half Mexican is your campaign so you sound qualified to me but is your campaign not just put this two decades worth of prosecutors periods on the bench is it is a vote for you also I'm getting tired of the democratic machine in Chicago is that a platform plank for you you know it's interesting that's not what it started off as an independent Democrat correct you're not with the democratic slate in cook county correct okay and it's so it didn't start off like that what happened was this group of nine wonderful people got together and we chose initially to take the path of just helping one another out getting signatures for the petition so we took a like you said a page out of the Democratic Party playbook and we put all nine of our names on one petition pale icy and we banded together and over the few months of collecting signatures we collected over eighteen thousand signatures and all of us made it to the ballot we continued on with our work together by sharing our calendars going to each other's events getting our name out with one another and we just proved that we could work well together so we're a group of like minded individuals we have our own slate card that people can take into the voting both with them and these are people I support and that are like minded and we are just looking for justice for all you don't have to knock the dead of the all powerful cook county democratic machine and I don't hear you doing that at all and I I I'm a lifelong Democrat and I think they prove and serve a wonderful purpose would be for some of the other races however it's my feeling for judge the error of impropriety of having to pay them forty thousand dollars also works the other way for those wonderful candidates that they did flee the forty thousand dollars is for services the party does to help you get elected right exactly okay and you either didn't play that game or didn't have that money or didn't want to do that that you didn't get slated by the Democratic Party I did not now if you had been you wouldn't be an independent Democrat then right or would you well I wouldn't call myself an independent Democrat now I I would just but it's a process that bothers you too the very fact that it's the democratic machine that's going to slate these candidates rather than well I want a chance to vote for Meghan exactly exactly unfortunately there's been some situations where I've gone to events sponsored by the Democratic Party of cook county where we're invited they invite all candidates and then I put out my palm cards or my election pieces only for them to get picked up and thrown away because I'm not a slated to Canada not on their team and and and it's disheartening to me because I come from little means that I have little means so this is a grassroots effort by all of us okay so you're the David hunter the go live Gaston the David to the Goliath and David wins and that's right and David did today yes didn't he won't well a so it has more out of time well everybody in cook county get a chance to vote for you or is it by districts everyone in cook county will see me on the ballot can I throw in one more thing this is for my brother in law Chris Sanderson the bears need a new online sorry he just wanted that to be out on the radio so he did he did but please vote Meghan Kathleen lay on St Patrick's day go to my website Meghan lay for judge dot com go to my Facebook page Meghan belay for judge and you will be able to see the nine wonderful candidates that I am running with and I do respect the Democratic Party but in selecting judges there should be no thumb on the scale of selecting judges independent Democrats you'll see some of them when you go March seventeenth nice to meet you make and thanks for coming in thank you so much eleven thirty one now Stieber trans ready with the news it is forty five degrees good morning I'm Steve Burr trend this new sponsored by victory auto wreckers dot com another McCormick place show cancels first the traffic.
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"lorraine murphy" Discussed on Podcasting Tips & Tricks with Lyndal Harris
"Post production podcast devices. Now these episode is a little bit of a different one and I am just a little bit excited to announce tickets have gone on sale for these trillion. PODCAST is collaborative live event. Now this event came about. Because I'm sure if you've had any of my previous episodes you've heard me talk about the amazing podcasting community and groups that I have on facebook called the Australian podcasters collaborative it. It really is an engaging and fantastic community even if I am a little bias but I really wanted to put on an event to bring this community together so I have named. The Australian podcast is collaborative live event as an extension of the facebook group. But of course you don't need to be part of the facebook group to come along on Friday. The fourth fourth of September to the Novatell in Darling Harbour in Sydney. This is a strategy as newest podcasting event. And it's going to be amazing. It's packed schedule. That's going to help. Hide your podcasting skills. Royal Shy Len latest worldwide trends and network with a room full of other podcasters. The best part is you'll get to make these other. podcasts share your stories and become part of the Australian podcasting community and if you are part of any groups it's you realize that is really a lovely sort of community to be in. We have some fantastic bakers. Lond up on the day as well and they include food robot. Garish Kate Tune James Crystalline. Lorraine Murphy. Cherie Cloonan Ben. Imus tiny cosentino Daniel and Hassan rely and myself and we are going to be covering a really sort of broad range of topics including the audio quality building. A community using social media. Lessons learnt from behind the scenes of publishing thousands of episodes local and international trends. You need to know about podcasting sponsorships and monetization as I of your Shari repurposing video to help promote your podcast and we're also talking about nations. PODCAST says well there will also be lots lots of other tidbits on the day but I really just. This is a conference that is really for not necessarily aimed at people who are looking to launch a show. We're not going to have any topics on the day that locates specifically launching. But if you are thinking about launching a shy you will also get value from this. Sorry it is also aimed at the seasoned podcast. I if you're looking to grow your shy if you're looking to really meet some other. PODCASTERS does the Australian industry if you wanting to know those lightest trends and if you just wanting to be surrounded by like minded podcasters tickets for the event Two hundred ninety seven dollars inclusive of GST as an early bird right now. There are a limited number of early bird tickets and then then when they sell out we will move onto the general tickets which are three hundred ninety seven dollars inclusive of GST that is for one jam packed. Die Okay as I as you heard earlier of amazing speakers fantastic topics that will really cover. A broad range of skill sets and information formation. That most podcasters will be able to take from and go away and implement into this show so what's included on the day you'll have access to these speakers and they are really amazing leading content creators podcast entrepreneurs and also thought leaders in the industry industry within the Australian business world. You'll have the Australian podcasting community. You'll walk away with actionable and practical topics. You'll have have amazing food all day. And they will also be a networking party afterwards. Which I will give you more information about lighter now now if you would like to find out some more information or buy a ticket to this event if you head over to my website podcast. Va Dot Com and Click on conference in the navigation. In many you will come to the sales pitch where you can find out a whole lot more information about it and you can also buy your ticket from the if you have any questions. I'd love for you to reach out either through social media. I'm very active on facebook. instagram linked in or send a message through my website. Josh or alternatively email and I will answer any questions you have about the event but I would love to see your name coming through. I would love to meet you on Friday the fourth of September so plays.
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Tickets On Sale for the Australian Podcasters Collaborative Event
"Post production podcast devices. Now these episode is a little bit of a different one and I am just a little bit excited to announce tickets have gone on sale for these trillion. PODCAST is collaborative live event. Now this event came about. Because I'm sure if you've had any of my previous episodes you've heard me talk about the amazing podcasting community and groups that I have on facebook called the Australian podcasters collaborative it. It really is an engaging and fantastic community even if I am a little bias but I really wanted to put on an event to bring this community together so I have named. The Australian podcast is collaborative live event as an extension of the facebook group. But of course you don't need to be part of the facebook group to come along on Friday. The fourth fourth of September to the Novatell in Darling Harbour in Sydney. This is a strategy as newest podcasting event. And it's going to be amazing. It's packed schedule. That's going to help. Hide your podcasting skills. Royal Shy Len latest worldwide trends and network with a room full of other podcasters. The best part is you'll get to make these other. podcasts share your stories and become part of the Australian podcasting community and if you are part of any groups it's you realize that is really a lovely sort of community to be in. We have some fantastic bakers. Lond up on the day as well and they include food robot. Garish Kate Tune James Crystalline. Lorraine Murphy. Cherie Cloonan Ben. Imus tiny cosentino Daniel and Hassan rely and myself and we are going to be covering a really sort of broad range of topics including the audio quality building. A community using social media. Lessons learnt from behind the scenes of publishing thousands of episodes local and international trends. You need to know about podcasting sponsorships and monetization as I of your Shari repurposing video to help promote your podcast and we're also talking about nations. PODCAST says well there will also be lots lots of other tidbits on the day but I really just. This is a conference that is really for not necessarily aimed at people who are looking to launch a show. We're not going to have any topics on the day that locates specifically launching. But if you are thinking about launching a shy you will also get value from this. Sorry it is also aimed at the seasoned podcast. I if you're looking to grow your shy if you're looking to really meet some other. PODCASTERS does the Australian industry if you wanting to know those lightest trends and if you just wanting to be surrounded by like minded podcasters tickets for the event Two hundred ninety seven dollars inclusive of GST as an early bird right now. There are a limited number of early bird tickets and then then when they sell out we will move onto the general tickets which are three hundred ninety seven dollars inclusive of GST that is for one jam packed. Die Okay as I as you heard earlier of amazing speakers fantastic topics that will really cover. A broad range of skill sets and information formation. That most podcasters will be able to take from and go away and implement into
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"This actually came up after a chat chat with somebody at a networking eventual workshop last week. And this person I was chatting to was really stuck on what to name their podcast and they really found this as a hurdle with even starting a podcast. So they knew they wanted to do on. And they're quite confident with the content that they would share but are really stuck on naming it and there were few things that we chatted about which really helped her and so it made me think it was good episode today and it might help view. If you're a little stuck on how to name your podcast now. There's a few different things that you can think about when you're naming it and there's a few different ways you can name aamot firstly. You could name after your name which there are plenty of podcasts out there that do that Sorry if your personal brand is your business then perhaps you will call it the your name show so for example one of my clients is Lauren Murphy. And her brand cheese brand anticipates no brand and sorry her show is called the Lorraine Murphy show. So you'll see a lot of people actually calling the shy your name podcast or the your name Shari sorry another way to name it. Is You know something obvious about the topic. Saw If we take my podcast example mine is all about podcasting and and sorry podcasting. Tips and tricks is very obvious what it is about by the tidal. It pretty much is what it says on the CAN. So that's another way that you can do it. You can think about humane topic or your main topics and you can name it after that. Now you can also name at something quirky which. I really love some podcasts with Quirky working night But I guess one thing you just want to be mindful of here. Is that if you do use a quirky name. Make sure you use a really good tagline. So that explains that's what the podcast is about so that you can come up in searches as well so that you sort of fed through some keywords into that tagline so that you can still. Toby found so. There's three ways that you can actually go about brainstorming. The name of your podcast. I do actually get us quite often. is how to check checking. That's already gone so a couple of places that I think is a good way to check. If that podcast name is gone is firstly to go. into some of the bigger podcast cost directories like apple podcasts. spotify and even just going into Google and typing in the name of the shark that you want to use so that will bring up any search results so google will usually bring up the search results for anything in Apple PODCASTS and spotify. That's named that but it's still worth going into the directories and having a look doc. Some people take that step. Further as well and going check business name directories and see if there is actually a business name with that because quite often a a business name where we tried marked. Sorry if you check that Business Name Directory Upfront. If it's something that is likely to be cold business name and that may be worth join because you don't want to start you podcast necessarily just to find that in a few weeks after you launch that someone comes and says that you can't use that name anymore now. Here's something that you should know if you're finding that you get stuck on actually launching your podcast. Starting your podcast. Because you can't work out the PODCAST CAS nine you can actually change it down the track now. Obviously I would say it would be great if you can work out that name upfront. But but if you re brand or something like that down the track then you can change. The name of your podcasting is actually quite an easy process. Some hosting providers. Actually ask you for a slug. When you're sitting up your Shari's I for example Lipson ask you to set up a slug? which is the word so some people will use the name of this shark Dr Others will sink a little bit bigger than the name of this show because if they want to change it down the track they can't change that would slug in Libson for example. So just be mindful when you're naming the slug of your show if you have to do that in your hosting setup that if you are thinking you're not one hundred percent sure on the ninth then maybe make it something that went down the track some hoist on the other hand provide like an ID number in the Ariza's feet or as the slug ugh. And therefore you don't even worry about that changing the name of your podcast when you're hosting on a provider that doesn't use the slug in the URL. Makes it very a easy. It's just a matter of going into the heist. Changing the name in the show settings and changing your cover art. Sorry that was really what I wanted to touch on today. This person isn't that always speaking to and a couple of people that are in the conversation were quite surprised to know. It's easy to change the name down the track and that always saying don't let that be the thing that stops you from getting your message out to the world so hopefully that has helped you. If you're stuck on your podcast nine. Look I know when I I was thinking about this Shari I really sort of bandied around. Lots of different nines in a really wasn't sure what to go within so sometimes just making that decision going ahead and stopping and then if it really doesn't resonate with you down the track you feel that you've pivoted you podcast. You can change it then so I guess the key takeaways there are sit down and brainstorm. How do you want to name your show? Do you want to name it after your name. If your personal brand do you want to name it the subject that you'll be covering or do you want to name it something quirky and give it a really smart tagline to make it obvious what it's about. What do the research and see if there is already a podcast with that name? And you can check google the podcast directories as well as business name. Directories check that but know that you can change it and don't let the name be. What stops you from starting your podcast because this is one of those things where you can just push through and just stop getting your message out there so that wraps up? Today's topic of your podcast name. And hopefully if that is something you'll getting stuck on that will help get you over the line now the short episode today. But I have actually got some fantastic interviews lined up over the next few weeks so we will be getting back into into having a mixture of interview and Solo shows so police training before I guy I just wanted to say. Don't forget the tickets. Let's go on sale for the Australian podcasters collaborative live event on the fourth of September in Sydney. And if you want to head over a to my website podcast. Va Dot Com and Click on the conference Broughton. You can join the white list and find out when tickets go on sale. Some time this as wake alternatively if you would like to jump into the facebook group the Australian podcasters collaborative group. We would love to have you in there as well so until next time. I hope you enjoy awake and I will chat Ethan. Thank you so much for listening. If you enjoyed the show make sure you subscribing you'll pod catch and say don't Miss An episode and whilst today I'd love it if you'd leave me a writing interview to help other podcasters.
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"A shy sharing quick actual tips tricks and advice to help you on on your podcasting. Hello and welcome back to another episode and this week's episode it is going to be really short sharp and sweet. Because I'm thinking that most of you are probably on your holidays or taking some time off to to enjoy the festivities with your family and friends and so today can be slightly different episode. I'm not actually going to be sharing any sort of content or tips and tricks but I have a very exciting announcement that I would like to share with you. Sorry as you've probably heard me talk about. I do have the facebook group group. The Australian podcasters collaborators which is just it just warms my heart. I absolutely love the engagement. The encouragement the advice vice and just the friendships that have grown in that group. And so I've been trying to work out a way to bring that community together a little more war and just to provide a sort of a live environment or event for people to actually come together and network and cement meant that community a little bit more and sorry in twenty twenty I am super excited to announce that I am creating a new podcasting it costing event here in Australia cold. The Australian podcasters collaborative live now. The first event is actually going to be held on Friday. The fourth of September at the Novatell in Darling Harbour in Sydney it will be a one day event and we have got just. I have managed to confirm the mice amazing lineup of speakers. We've confirmed kate. Tune Robert Garish. Cherie Kleinen Lorraine Murphy laffy James Cridland. Tiny Costantini has Sarah and Daniel lie and myself and a couple of others yet to be confirmed wjr and just so excited that these speakers are coming along to share their stories with you on the day so the day itself will be a day a full of speakers and we'll have a panel as well and then we're going to follow that with the networking event in the evening. Sorry I would absolutely absolutely love it if you would like to join us. It is a conference that is designed for people who are yet to launch a podcast outcast. Who'd like to launch a podcast for existing podcasters. Who would like to grow their show and grow that audience as well as anyone who's interested in coming thing along networking and being part of this amazing Australian podcasting community? I haven't actually got the sales page up and selling tickets just just yet but I do have a page on my website where you can join a white list and that will give you the first access to the early bird tickets. That will go on on sale in early twenty twenty. Sorry if you're interested in registering your interest for that if you head over to my website podcast. Va and it's forward. Slash Australian podcasters collaborative lives. I will put a link for it in the show. Not so that you can get there in between in each word. There is a hyphen. So Estrogen Hyphen podcasters hyphen. Collaborative Hyphen live. I would love to see. You joined that list if you've got any questions if you're not already part of the facebook group come on over and join their or otherwise feel free to reach out through my website or through any of the other social social media channels that you might use if you're not in facebook or not in that group and I also wanted to take this opportunity to say thank you so much again for normally your support of this Shari the support of my business. The support of the facebook group. It has been an absolutely absolutely massive year for me and well and my kids. Sorry I have just appreciated the support that we have received from so many of you a and wanted to take this opportunity to say I hope you have a fantastic festive season. If you are going away traveling to see family and friends then then safe travels and all the best for twenty twenty and I look forward to chatting to you then. Thank you so much for listening. If you enjoyed the show make sure subscribing your podcast and so you don't miss an episode and whilst there I'd love it if you have a writing interview to help other podcasters..
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"Come together and network and cement meant that community a little bit more and sorry in twenty twenty I am super excited to announce that I am creating a new podcasting it costing event here in Australia cold. The Australian podcasters collaborative live now. The first event is actually going to be held on Friday. The fourth of September at the Novatell in Darling Harbour in Sydney it will be a one day event and we have got just. I have managed to confirm the mice amazing lineup of speakers. We've confirmed kate. Tune Robert Garish. Cherie Kleinen Lorraine Murphy laffy James Cridland. Tiny Costantini has Sarah and Daniel lie and myself and a couple of others yet to be confirmed wjr and just so excited that these speakers are coming along to share their stories with you on the day so the day itself will be a day a full of speakers and we'll have a panel as well and then we're going to follow that with the networking event in the evening. Sorry I would absolutely absolutely love it if you would like to join us. It is a conference that is designed for people who are yet to launch a podcast outcast. Who'd like to launch a podcast for existing podcasters. Who would like to grow their show and grow that audience as well as anyone who's interested in coming thing along networking and being part of this amazing Australian podcasting community? I haven't actually got the sales page up and selling tickets just just yet but I do have a page on my website where you can join a white list and that will give you the first access to the early bird tickets. That will go on on sale in early twenty twenty. Sorry if you're interested in registering your interest for that if you head over to my website podcast. Va and it's forward. Slash Australian podcasters collaborative lives. I will put a link for it in the show. Not so that you can get there in between in each word. There is a hyphen. So Estrogen Hyphen podcasters hyphen. Collaborative Hyphen live. I would love to see. You joined that list if you've got any questions if you're not already part of the facebook group come on over and join their or otherwise feel free to reach out through my website or
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"Anticipated says when he started the the gravity of of what man was actually saying that's one moral agents cousin and they were close he in Adrian had talked about all this while it was happening and he remembers Adrian saying that at first he thought man it was just another hacker looking for information when you reach sort of critical mass of of fame you just have so many so many people come out of the woodwork so many you know people want to share something they've discovered or something they've done but the man in conversation was about breaking the law not in the ambiguous way that a drone was used to but in what seemed to him a very black and white way manning had leaked classified documents aging question about what you downloaded and manning said she didn't really look at what they were she just pass them along the more manning revealed the more unsettled aging became so we made a choice and his choice altered the course of his life and manning's to call the authorities once it became clear that it was such a serious a serious thing that that happens and if you could stand by and and really live with with the implications of just sitting on it Chelsea manning was arrested within days Adrian thought he'd be celebrated as a patriot Chelsea manning was in a war zone vacuuming of classified documents and distributing them to aid in it didn't seem like a close call here's Lorraine Murphy again and it backfired spectacularly on him when Adrian hadn't fully understood was help people in the hacker community would react he was sure he can make them see how he had no choice but to turn manning it weeks later he crashed headlong into the reality of what he had done at a New York hackers conference called hope hope stands for hackers on planet earth one more went with him and they rather naively thought it would be a great opportunity to meet people it sounds crazy now but it hadn't occurred to either one of them that agents decision to turn in manning would hijack the conference the first day of the conference there was a lot of people you know yelling out **** east one occasion that I that I recall of somebody sitting in his direction and then the organizers hastily put together a panel they called informants villains or heroes should we avoid the controversy which we dive right into it I say of course we dive right into it we confront this thing head on right with that I'd like to introduce Adrian Lamo and will let him say his piece ask some questions and hopefully learn something Adrian all right you can build the audience was clearly against major one after another people came to the microphone to the radio for violating the unwritten rules of hackers I think we need to be clear about what's what's acceptable to do and what's not acceptable to do and I think he got huge I see what you have done is treason I think you'd be loaning went down in as the group sought aging and broken the hacker code as soon as you make up your mind to choose a side politically speaking you cease to be a hacker that's a guy named mark of being better known as fiber optic he was a high profile hacker in the nineteen eighties nineteen nineties and an icon of sorts he made clear he thought agent across the line hackers was supposed to be faintly subversive not law enforcement informants you had a choice and you made the wrong choice you can just simply walked away and none of this would happen I could have but I wouldn't have been able to live with myself it was a little a little time for me to hear everybody knew who he was and up until that point agent had been know of a hero in the in the culture you know the worst thing you could be was a was a **** it didn't help matters that all this happened at a time when hackers were just beginning to consider the moral implications of what they were doing and in the early days the hackers did not think that there were rules when it came to websites it was the wild west it wasn't against the law to hack a particular website for years and years and years Adrian had forced the community to address fundamental questions like what did ethical hacking really me if you cracked into someone system but you didn't do any damage was that okay and if someone tells you they're leaking classified information are you apply just to say something they all wanted hacking to remain a force for good but they weren't quite sure how to make that happen after the conference there was no ambiguity about how the community.
"Handle the data for bank of America Ford Chrysler NASA they're very detail we hear about things like this all the time now but that's when Adrian was saying all this people were just starting to realize how unsafe the internet was Hayden was foreshadowing the future warning that one's bad actors figured out how easy it was to get into network systems no one would be safe you may remember Adrian Lamo he's been on the show is a couple of real nice guy wonderful guy he's a hacker but it kind of a grey hat hacker the screen savers show again right he doesn't feel any information doesn't take any anything using for bad he's he's a good actor I'll give you an example when Adrian and his friends were cracking into computer networks the goal was just to see if they could what they were looking for was tracking rights tinkering in order to learn Adrian was never really one monetize he was not motivated primarily by money media fame that sort of thing motivated him here's Lorraine Murphy again he wanted to be a household name some of the hacking tools Adrian helped develop back then are still being used by the hacker community today what made it even a little different from the others around him though is that he saw a darker forces forming he could imagine a day when technologies when goose step out of the pages of science fiction into our daily lives and these technologies will allow governments bad actors even companies to watch us without our knowing but even went too far when he hacked into the New York times when it all unfolded would sound familiar to anyone who is in the hacking underground at the time he was very good at figuring out passwords either getting someone to unwittingly given one on guessing at default passwords that hadn't been changed that's how he got into the internal server at the time he gave himself administrator credentials and along and and a password for their LexisNexis account then he played a little joke he added himself to the papers internal database of experts and listed himself as an expert in hockey pretty funny in a hacker kinda way but the New York times didn't exactly see the humor in it the newspaper press charges and in August two thousand three the FBI issued a warrant for Adrian's arrest a reasonable person could ask.
"Anticipated so when he started the the gravity of of what man was actually saying that's one more agents cousin and they were close he in Adrian had talked about all this while it was happening and he remembers Adrian saying that at first he thought man it was just another hacker looking for affirmation when you reach sort of critical mass of of fame you just have so many so many people come out of the woodwork so many you know people want to share something they've discovered or something they've done but the man in conversation was about breaking the law not in the ambiguous way that a drone was used to but in what seemed to him a very black and white way manning had leaked classified documents eighteen question about what you downloaded and manning said she didn't really look at what they were she just pass them along the more manning revealed the more unsettled aging became so we made a choice and his choice altered the course of his life and manning's to call the authorities once it became clear that it was such a serious a serious thing that that happens I don't think he could stand by and and really live with with the implications of just sitting on it Chelsea manning was arrested within days Adrian thought he'd be celebrated as a patriot Chelsea manning was in a war zone vacuuming of classified documents and distributing them to aid in it didn't seem like a close call here's Lorraine Murphy again and it backfired spectacularly on him when Adrian hadn't fully understood was how people in the hacker community would react he was sure he can make them see how he had no choice but to turn manning it weeks later he crashed headlong into the reality of what he had done at a New York hackers conference called hope stands for hackers on planet earth one more went with him and they rather naively thought it would be a great opportunity to meet people it sounds crazy now but it hadn't occurred to either one of them that agents decision to turn in manning would hijack the conference the first day of the conference there was a lot of people you know yelling out **** east one occasion that I that I recall of somebody spitting in his direction and then the organizers hastily put together a panel they called informants villains or heroes should we avoid the controversy which we dive right into it I say of course we dive right into it we confront this thing head on right.
"Handle the data for bank of America storage Chrysler NASA they were very detail we hear about things like this all the time now the back when Adrian was saying all this people were just starting to realize how unsafe the internet was hidden was foreshadowing the future warning that one's bad actors figured out how easy it was to get into network systems no one would be safe you may remember Adrian Lamo he's been on the show so covered real nice guy wonderful guy he's a hacker but it kind of a grey hat hacker the screen saver show again right he doesn't feel any information doesn't take any anything and use it for bad he's he's a good actor I'll give you an example when Adrian and his friends were cracking into computer networks the goal was just to see if they could what they were looking for was tracking rights tinkering in order to learn Adrian was never really he mmhm monetize he was not motivated primarily by money media fame that sort of thing motivated him here's Lorraine Murphy again he wanted to be a household name some of the hacking tools Adrian helped develop back then are still being used by the hacker community today what made it even a little different from the others around him though is that he saw a darker forces forming he could imagine a day when technologies when you step out of the pages of science fiction into our daily lives and these technologies that allow governments bad actors even companies to watch us without our knowing what Adrian went too far when he hacked into the New York times when it all unfolded would sound familiar to anyone who is in the hacking underground at the time he.
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"Was invited into the peninsula hotel just like everybody else of all and tell so she went on up there and she saw harvey weinstein but she you know she grew up she said i grew up in a tough boston neighborhood and i i was expecting you know that this was going to be happening but she said i of course i went in there i was trying to be flattery i was trying to put on my best face and nothing really happened between the two of them but she would see you know she said that if something would have happened i would have picked up a vase and cracked him over the blancan head yeah pump pale she likes the good uh blake word and say here you i love what i i absolutely love this frankness and yes until adhered fresh eggs were because it's flipping where everybody the story you think you know yes you just pay a good girl leaving my money don't ruffled faith or like dili hair and say why shouldn't they take where the la down yeah absolutely the fact that she said that that no one else is thought to see that is like the hashtag me too i mean it's like it's so obvious we can't even see it yeah so the full thing is on the hollywood reporter i definitely recommend that we should amend ellen pompeyo today am i going to have to go back and watch that show knife as much as it religiously but i gave we gave we let you had near always find things again on his anyone hurt watched the new i'm sorry nine one one knows where eighty thousand now with peter cows at the ryan murphy lorraine murphy run i know if additives roger it's around renewed yeah it looks weird well it's just i don't really have to watch procedural god's word jay black lightning because wag it's on the cw in rhode island look superheroes feeling of rain murphy tonight is the premier.
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Using ICs To Shrink Auto’s Carbon Footprint
How chips will play an increasingly vital role in improving efficiency of cars and infrastructure.
December 3rd, 2020 - By: Ann Steffora Mutschler
A large portion of the burden for reducing greenhouse gases is being handed off to makers of automotive chips and systems, which are being tasked to make vehicles drive further using less energy and with zero emissions.
The effort is critical in battling climate change. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the transportation sector represented 28.2% of 2018 greenhouse gas emissions, which is the single largest component. These emissions are primarily from burning fossil fuel for cars, trucks, ships, trains, and planes, which today is more than 90% based on oil. And those numbers don’t factor in the manufacturing of the vehicles themselves.
“If we are serious about decarbonization, vehicle electrification is critical,” said Puneet Sinha, director in the New Mobility Mechanical Analysis Division at Mentor, a Siemens Business. “To get a picture of the carbon footprint of vehicles, the baseline is the internal combustion engine vehicle. If an internal combustion engine vehicle is driven between 120,000 and 150,000 miles, its lifetime carbon footprint is approximately 260 grams per kilometer, out of which 160 to 165 grams per kilometer comes from the tailpipe. Approximately 50 grams per kilometer is the fuel cycle, with the manufacturing of the vehicles about 45 grams per kilometer.”
Hybrid vehicles are more efficient. Tailpipe emissions are about 60% to 70% lower than an internal combustion engine due to improved fuel efficiency. For pure electric vehicles, the tailpipe emissions drop to zero, but there are still emissions from manufacturing and the generation of electricity. Even if the electricity is from a clean energy source, there is a carbon footprint for manufacturing the generation equipment. That electricity also needs to be stored in a battery, and manufacturing of battery cells and packs is energy-intensive.
“If you look at the landscape of electric vehicles, while the tailpipe emission goes away, battery manufacturing carbon footprint is added on top of the footprint from manufacturing of the vehicle, and the fuel cycles,” Sinha said. “And since these activities depend on electricity, the mix of electricity also matters to the overall carbon footprint. The more renewable the grid is, the less carbon footprint there will be. Here, the semiconductor industry has a role to play because to have that renewable energy, and given the periodicity of renewable energy generation, whether it’s solar or wind, you do need to have power electronics to convert that energy to use in the grid.”
Others agree. “For an internal combustion engine to move a vehicle down the road, it must convert the energy stored in the fuel into mechanical energy to turn the wheels and into electrical energy to power all the electronics (i.e. safety, comfort, emission controls) controlling the vehicle,” said Joseph Notaro, vice president of worldwide automotive strategy and business development at ON Semiconductor. “Any wasted energy not used for these purposes will just increase the vehicle fuel consumption and CO2 emissions. One way to lower this wasted energy is by reducing the amount of electrical power dissipated in the car and reducing overall weight. Higher voltage power semiconductors are at the heart of new 48V architectures that provide significant fuel savings by enabling more efficient energy recuperation, and by driving large loads (pumps, compressors, power steering, etc.) more efficiently. Every mW counts, so improved efficiency of DC-DC converters, lower standby currents for power supplies, smarter data processing reducing the number of bits needed to be distributed in the car, are all contributing to increasing the vehicle fuel economy and reducing the amount of CO2 emitted.”
More chips, less power
Semiconductors will play a key role in all of this, both in electric vehicles and those with internal combustion engines. And with different classes of electric and electronic systems in the car, there are opportunities for the technologies to be put to better use.
“Number one are standard electric systems like seat heating, air conditioning, wipers, and fans,” said Robert Schweiger, director of automotive solutions at Cadence. “These consume quite a bit of energy. Then, there are the car driving functions like power steering, anti-lock systems, electronic stability programs. This is much more the domain of semiconductors, and currently there are a few issues. First, there is an electronic control unit for each function. Second, there is a mix of technologies. For a power steering system, I’ve seen a presentation from a Tier 1 vendor showing what system has made the biggest impact on power savings, and it was the change from hydraulic power steering to a drive-by-wire power steering. Instead of always empowering the hydraulic system to keep the pressure up, there is an electric motor that is driven by a wire. That is what changes the direction of the car, but only while it is needed. You need energy for the motor, and eventually to steer the car. This is an important area with a lot of potential for innovation, and lots of those things are underway by the OEMs.”
There also are multiple functions under the infotainment umbrella, but those tend to be much lower consumers of power. “There’s a lot of stuff happening, but infotainment systems have already evolved to be quite integrated systems,” said Schweiger. “We always had powerful audio systems and navigation systems. Now, there are new systems coming online, such as AI-based speech or voice recognition and driver monitoring, but they do not consume so much energy.”
Fig. 1: Comparison of systems consuming power in vehicles. Source: Cadence/ADAC.de
“Semiconductors have helped make cars more efficient in terms of functions such as gas consumption where engines have certain patterns, and the semiconductors help to regulate certain things that go on, both in an engine, and within the car itself,” said Steven Woo, fellow and distinguished inventor at Rambus.
But those semiconductors have to become more energy-efficient, as well. “All the techniques the industry has been working on, both within a chip to do things like lowering voltages — as well as what we do in memory and interfaces to reduce the power needed to move the data as quickly as possible — those are all things that help reduce the carbon footprint. It means you don’t draw as much energy from the batteries, and it means you may not have to recharge as often. That pushes all the way back into the source of the increase of the carbon footprint. The trajectory the semiconductor industry has been on for decades is exactly what we need to help reduce the carbon footprint, because all these things about integration, energy efficiency, better interfaces, better memory, and better chips are integral to reducing the carbon footprint.”
Chips are increasingly important in all functions within a vehicle, from safety and driver assistance systems, all the way to battery management and electronic drivetrain control. Automatically adapting the speed to the current traffic situation and looking ahead to road blocking situations is enabled by more sensors, data processing and communication of cars with each other as well as with the infrastructure.
“This is only possible with low-power, high-performance semiconductors, including memories for storing high resolution maps, for instance. That leads to a reduced carbon footprint,” said Roland Jancke, head of department, design methodology at Fraunhofer IIS’ Engineering of Adaptive Systems Division.
According to a recent Strategy Analytics report, by 2027 EVs of all types will comprise about 40% of global light vehicle output. California has mandated that in 2035, all new vehicles sold must be zero-emission. The challenge is that automakers need to anticipate what customers will need at least seven years out, and that puts pressure on chipmakers to build some flexibility into their architectures.
“It’s clear that vehicles in general, and EVs in particular, are increasingly integrating greater semiconductor-enabled electronics capability, whether it is for immersive in-vehicle experiences, or to add safety capabilities through features like lane keep assist (LKA), or to manage drivetrains,” said Chet Babla, vice president in Arm’s Automotive and IoT line of business. “The biggest industry concern about the success of EVs — safety aside, which is a given — is ensuring maximum driving range for a given battery capacity to address consumer ‘range anxiety.’ Simply put, the electronics in EVs must be as power-efficient as possible for given workload demands to ensure battery capacity is predominantly available for the drivetrain to power vehicle motion, and not drained by the vehicle’s electronics before the vehicle has even moved. By deploying heterogenous semiconductor computing architectures that combine multiple compute elements, such as CPU, GPU, ISP, and dedicated accelerators, the processing efficiency for complex workloads such as forward vision, multi-screen graphics and battery cell management can be maximized, and so deliver optimal usage of the EVs battery capacity.”
Rethinking chips and architectures
Improving efficiency affects a long list of chips and systems. All of those need to be optimized, and that optimization needs to include both hardware and software, said Marc Serughetti, senior director of product marketing and business development at Synopsys. “Components of this optimization include digital, analog and power electronics components. Addressing requirements such as reducing costs, efficient battery management, maximizing range and performance, and module integration leads to increased system complexity, and as a result, new design and development challenges both on the hardware, software and system sides.”
That requires a lot of exploration, prototyping, modeling, and testing in order to find the best tradeoffs within a particular chip or system. Serughetti pointed to the following requirements:
An integrated multi-discipline solution (power electronics system design, embedded software development, system testing, calibration) to serve a broad range of users including controls systems developers, application software developers, firmware developers, power electronics engineers, battery management system developers, motor drive engineers, reliability engineers, functional safety engineers, calibration engineers and system/software integration engineers;
Ability to deliver application-focused model libraries, including power electronics, microcontrollers, and AUTOSAR software simulation;
Multi-level fast simulation from abstract to high fidelity for detailed analysis;
Debug, analysis and test for functional safety, hardware, software, variation, coverage, calibration; and
Open interfaces (FMI, VSI, etc.) to integrate into existing automotive tools flows.
But that effort also extends to the overall approach to semiconductors in cars in the first place.
“The issue is with these rapid switching speeds,” said Willard Tu, senior director of the automotive business unit at Xilinx. “If you’re not able to harness them, then you’re not able to maximize the efficiency of the motor or the charging.”
Achieving those switching speeds requires a different technology. At least one carmaker reportedly has converted to silicon carbide transistors, which use big power IGBTs that are used to drive the motors. Specialized devices are able to parallelize the computations to close the timing loop to make sure that happens.
“From that standpoint, we’re starting to see successes with onboard charging,” Tu said. “And we’re starting to see successes with EV motors. The industrial sector has embraced silicon carbide a little bit faster because they’re willing to pay more. They’re lower volume, but they’re more about the technology, whereas the EV car manufacturers really want low cost. There will be a transition at some point because with silicon carbide technology, not only can you get a more efficient motor, you get a smaller motor, and it’s a smaller motor with lighter weight. That lighter weight means the vehicle is going to not be as heavy, so you’re going to get greater range. Ultimately, all of this benefits the consumer at some point.”
Eliminating or reducing redundancy can help, as well. While cars are truly becoming supercomputers on wheels, at the same time there’s less redundancy. “There’s more compute power, but it’s compensated by systems that are more elegant,” said Guillaume Boillet, product management at Arteris IP. “There is rationalization of the traffic, and of course, as the technology improves, over time the chips consume less and less, so it’s a balancing act.”
Software plays an increasing important role as well within the vehicle, even as the overall system grows in complexity. “Increasingly, we’re seeing things that were not been able to be controlled by software in the past, now being controlled by software. You’re seeing replacements of hydraulics and such things with smarter electromechanical systems, along with more centralized control to optimize the overall system,” Boillet noted.
Technology outside the vehicle
All of that happens inside the vehicle. There is a flurry of activity outside the vehicle, as well. In the United States, for example, the century-old power grid will need a major upgrade in order to charge vehicles the same way that gas stations do today.
To that end, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Electricity has developed a Smart Grid concept that mixes power generated from natural gas with power generated from renewable sources. The plan relies on Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs), which are sensors to ensure that electricity continues to flow around outages and other problems that might occur. Included in the concept are large batteries to meet surges in demand.
“If you have to reduce the carbon footprint of charging these vehicles, you need a more renewable grid,” said Mentor’s Sinha. “With sharply decreasing battery prices, it is easy for automakers to put in increasingly bigger batteries. That’s why 60- to 100-kilowatt hour battery packs are becoming common. Still, with all these cars running around a lot of energy is being used. Yet 90% to 95% of the time our cars are parked. We carry a lot of ‘distributed energy’ in these vehicles. So by applying V2G technology, this can be leveraged.”
Another piece of the puzzle is a faster and more efficient communications infrastructure. 5G is expected to help by increasing the amount of data that can be moved using the same or less energy.
“5G has a tremendous role to play, and semiconductors for 5G hardware, but also software, especially the AI technologies that can help understand every user is different and every consumer behavior is different. How I’m using my vehicle may be very different from how you use yours; what is your charging preference versus my charging preference, and all that information, taking all those weather patterns; where the chargers are in the city we are living in, our infrastructure. All of those information variables are critical to chew upon, to bring a more reliable V2G technology, which is where AI and 5G fit in,” Sinha said.
To be sure, the semiconductor industry plays a foundational role within the automotive industry to reduce the carbon footprint.
The interplay between systems, and understanding how to make efficiency gains is a significant challenge because so much with a system depends on other systems in the vehicle.
“Now that we know which system is consuming in terms of how much energy, the important thing is to find a way to reduce the power consumption,” Cadence’s Schweiger said. “I can put a smaller battery into the car. If I have a smaller battery, I need a smaller generator. If I have a smaller generator, basically the wire harness gets thinner because I drive these currents through my wires. And then, if I have smaller wires, the car gets lighter, and for the same acceleration, I can use a smaller engine. If I have a smaller engine, I eventually can put in some lighter type of body construction, because the car gets lighter. I can use smaller breaks and so forth. It’s a spiraling effect, and that’s why some OEMs incentivize their development departments. If they can save one amp of power consumption for their system, then they can spend, for instance more money on other systems, because they are aware that power consumption is driving the cost up or down if you can reduce it.”
Yet another important consideration is the hundreds of ECUs within a vehicle. “By going to the next generation of EE architecture, which is a zonal architecture, the OEMs will heavily consolidate ECUs,” Schweiger noted. “That means if you have a multifunctional zonal controller, you can use this device to realize multiple functions. But the box itself as we know, semiconductors, do not consume a lot of power. So if we make them more powerful in terms of performance, using the latest process technology, sometimes the power consumption even goes down. And it can do more. so that’s another potential to save power in a car. It’s already underway with domain-based controllers, and will be leveraged much more going forward to the next generation architecture.”
All these improvements will result in cleaner vehicles that require less time and energy to be charged and can be driven for much longer ranges without any impact to the environment. The semiconductor industry is at the heart of this revolution with energy efficient innovations being engineered, and that is only going to continue.
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Hugh L says:
Why the emphasis on fossil fueled vehicles?
With an EV your explanation of the increased efficiency can stop with “I can put a smaller battery into the car.” or continue with then get a high MPGe
Ed Sperling says:
Fossil fuel vehicles will be sold until at least 2035 in California, which is the most aggressive state in the United States, and they are still being churned out by companies in Europe. So better efficiency until they are no longer available will be essential, and the only way to make that happen will be with electronics. As for EVs, more batteries will provide better range, but better batteries and more efficient utilization of energy will provide extended range without adding batteries, which in turn will lower cost and reduce the carbon footprint. But the charging infrastructure will have to be built out to enable electric vehicles. It’s one thing to wait until the next filling station to get more gas. It’s quite another to find a charging station in remote areas.
The potential efficiency gains in ICE vehicles from the electronics is relatively small. There are plenty of other ways to produce much larger gains. The easiest way is to shift manufacturers from large profit margin SUVs to smaller profit margin hatchbacks. The weight reduction and drag reduction produce a bigger difference in efficiency than the entire electrical system of the average vehicle. But there are many other options like smaller wheels + bigger tires, reduced ground clearances, using larger strokes and smaller bores, improving valve timing/duration/lift flexibility, increasing boost pressures, moving to HCCI combustion physics, not selling AWD systems to people who don’t need it, etc. Even better would be to design vehicles to last say 25 years instead of ~13 today.
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Mark Levinson Announces New 5000 series Components
Published: 15 October 2020 15 October 2020
At a live stream ‘Mark Levinson Reveals’ global Press event today, a team of key Mark Levinson personnel announced the launch of the highly anticipated additional new 5000 series electronics.
Mark Levinson’s new 5000 series hits the market at a more affordable price point, a strategy that offers the company’s renowned quality, performance and brand cache to a wider audience. The new components round-out the previously released 5000 series integrated amplifiers.
The new components offer a complete electronics signal path solution from source to amplification. For starters, the new № 5105 Turntable (AU$12,499) will cater for analogue enthusiasts wanting a superb vinyl rig solution. The № 5105 comes complete with a bespoke dual gimbal tonearm in carbon fibre and aluminium construction while the package can be optioned with or without an Ortofon Quintet Black cartridge (AU$14,499 with cartridge). The selection of the Ortofon cartridge was arrived at after extensive listening sessions by a Mark Levinson auditioning panel headed by Director of Engineering Todd Eichenbaum where the cartridge was chosen for its balance of dynamism, neutrality, detail and musicality. The № 5105 is now designed and built in-house as opposed to the VPI Industries-based № 515.
For digital playback Mark Levinson offers the 5101 Network Streaming SACD Player & DAC (AU$9999). The № 5101 is built around the latest ESS PRO Sabre 32-bit DAC technology and Mark Levinson’s proprietary PurePath circuitry. There’s of course, a dedicated SACD transport, multiple digital inputs (including asynchronous USB) and streaming is available via either Ethernet or Wi-Fi connectivity. NAS and USB thumb drive playback is also available. Playback capabilities allow for resolutions of 24-bit/192kHz and DSD128 in addition to a wide variety of file formats.
Released some time ago as the first 5000 series sampler was the № 5805 integrated amplifier (AU$15,000). The № 5805 is rated at 125 watts per channel into 8 ohms and features a 500VA transformer and six 15A high-current bipolar output devices. It features a stream of analogue (balanced and unbalanced) and digital inputs in addition to in-built ‘Pure Phono’ Moving Magnet/Moving Coil (MM/MC) and ‘Main Drive’ Headphone stages. Digital compatibility goes to 32-bit/384kHz and quad DSD resolutions. High quality Bluetooth is via aptX-HD and there’s on-board MQA compatibility. Also released at the time, and with an almost identical features set barring analogue inputs, was the slightly more affordable № 5802 integrated amplifier (AU$12,495) for exclusively digital source-based systems.
The 5000 series is crowned by the № 5206 preamplifier (AU$15,995) and № 5302 bridgeable stereo power amplifier (AU$15,995). The № 5206 is a fully discrete, direct-coupled, dual-monaural preamplifier which builds on the preamp stage of the № 5805 integrated amplifier including also offering ‘Pure Phono’ Moving Magnet/Moving Coil (MM/MC) and ‘Main Drive’ Headphone stages. It also includes a variety of analogue and digital input options in addition to the highest quality Bluetooth aptX-HD streaming capabilities. Resolutions available go up to 32-bit/384kHz and quad DSD while it also complies with MQA technology.
The № 5302 is a fully discrete, direct-coupled bridgeable dual-mono Class-A/B amplifier capable of outputting 135 watts per channel into 8 ohms and is said to double to 270 watts into a 4 ohms load (550 watts at 4 ohms bridged). The amplifier’s stout power supply features a 1.1KVA transformer, a capacitor bank totalling 80,000 mF and six 15A high-current bipolar output devices. The new industrial design scheme is continued here, of course, however in order to improve practicality (and in light of the № 5302’s heavyweight construction), Mark Levinson has machined ‘Cosmetic Grade’ solid aluminium bead-blasted front handles finished to the same high standards as the traditional ‘hourglass’ controls on the № 5206 preamplifier.
Carried across the entire 5000 series is a beautiful and award-winning new industrial design language which is minimalistic and aesthetically elegant while maintaining the components’ full feature sets. In terms of materials, assembly and overall quality, the 5000 series seems to show no compromise. The 5000 series components are “proudly designed, engineered and precision crafted in the USA.”
Mark Levinson is heavily investing in global marketing campaigns which include extensive Social Media, ‘Influencer’ and event strategies in addition to a new website presence. There’s little doubt that Mark Levinson is on an aggressive drive to further penetrate the high-end audio space.
As VP of Global Brand Development Kheri Tillman told SoundStage! Australia, “State-of-the art turntables and streaming audio players are perfect for today’s consumers. We know that great brands create great product design, engineering and audio technology but the truly great brands tell a great story. Mark Levinson is on a journey to show that it can unlock a deep appreciation for sound.”
Here at SoundStage! Australia we look forward to getting our hands on the 5000 products and put them through their paces via formal reviews.
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Members of the Fehinty African Theatre Ensemble at the 2017 Diaspora Dialogues. Photo courtesy of Fehinty African Theatre Ensemble.
All the City’s a Stage
A non-comprehensive guide to South Side theater
Published on March 3, 2020 March 3, 2020
By Jessica Eanes
The South Side has a rich and deep cultural history often characterized by ambition and innovation in performance. From classic playwrights such as Oscar Brown Jr., who penned ten musicals in addition to his activism and work in poetry and songwriting, to the eta Creative Arts Center, which has been staging productions in South Shore since 1971 and operating as a hub for original theatre and art, there’s no shortage of opportunities for audiences to engage with this legacy. Yet mainstream reviewers and audiences typically focus on the downtown and North Side theatre scenes. This focus creates a cycle of reinforcement where those venues get attention, and the attention sets them up for recognition and support denied venues and groups working in other parts of the city. This divide was highlighted by Free Street Theater artistic director Coya Paz in an article on review coverage published at the end of January in the Chicago Reader, and later backed up by a spreadsheet breaking down reviews from the Tribune by geography. Of thirty reviews included in the dataset—the most recent reviews on the Tribune’s website at the time—only two step outside the downtown/North Side corridor or the suburbs, and then only to the University of Chicago’s campus.
The conversation around this dataset has followed predictable channels, ranging from assertions that there simply aren’t venues on the South Side (aside from the couple that do get regular coverage), or that reviewers focus on venues that are members of the League of Chicago Theaters. While it is an important organization, membership in the League is not based on any particular standard of professionalism. Besides, the League itself lists twelve South Side member theaters, or six times as many as appeared in the dataset. These arguments, as is often the case with responses to criticism that draws attention to blindspots in mainstream media, work better as post-hoc justifications rather than genuine explanations.
For theater reviewers and audiences interested in everything the city has on offer, here’s a non-comprehensive overview of South Side venues and ensembles you can check out and follow.
Beverly Arts Center
2407 W. 111th St. beverlyartcenter.org
This Beverly/Morgan Park-based venue has been around since 1967 and hosts productions that run the gamut from dance, music, and theater to film and the visual arts. In addition to a varied and full calendar of events and productions, they take the education portion of their mission seriously. With a school of fine arts, summer camps for youth, and school outreach campaigns, they engage with their community as much as their audiences engage with their performances. Their recent, intimate production of Pulitzer Prize–nominated Love Letters went up for Chicago Theater Week. Check out their upcoming performance of Next to Normal, a musical exploration of a family coping with a mother struggling with bipolar disorder, running from April 16–19.
Court Theatre
5545 S. Ellis Ave. courttheatre.org
The professional theatre of the University of Chicago, Court has been performing the classics since 1955 and is consistently the one South Side venue to get attention from the rest of the city. Any given season is likely to see representation from the traditional canon as well as modern classics and contemporary works that engage directly with that canon. They’re currently in the middle of staging August Wilson’s Century Cycle; King Hedley II opened their 2019/2020 season, and Two Trains Running will be opening 2020/2021. Court does some community engagement with discounted tickets for students and youth, as well as a reading series of plays by artists of color.
4701 S. King Dr. broadwayinbronzeville.com
The Bronzeville-based Harold Washington Cultural Center is a hub for top-notch theater and music performances as well as a community center. Born of an idea (originated by the eponymous mayor) that spent ten years in development after the initial groundbreaking, the sixteen-year-old venue serves as home base for Broadway in Bronzeville, the tap dance collective M.A.D.D. Rhythms, and the Sammy Dyer School of Dance and Theater, among others. In addition to serving as a venue for theater, dance, film, and more, the venue supports extensive community engagement programs by providing studio space and training for aspiring artists. See it for yourself by checking out Desi Alexander’s Tired of Adulting Tour when it stops in on May 9.
eta Creative Arts
7558 S. South Chicago Ave. etacreativearts.org
Dedicated to producing and supporting work that “tells our story,” the venue has “Protest” as the theme for its 2020 schedule. With a new executive director, Kai El’ Zabar, who was installed in June of last year, eta is poised to close out a half-century of work focused on authentically presenting the lives of African-American people. They offer summer camps and classes for youth and adults, as well as providing gallery space for visual artists. September will bring a six-week run of an updated My Vagina. My Voice. If you can’t wait for their upcoming performances, swing by their regular open mic events on the first and third Monday of the month or, beginning in April, their Easy Wednesday events with live jazz.
Free Street Theater
Storyfront Theater, 4645 S. Ashland Ave. freestreet.org
Headquartered at the Pulaski Park fieldhouse in West Town, Free Street Theater has strong ties to the South Side, including a second venue in Back of the Yards, the Storyfront, that turns a former refrigerator repair shop into an intimate cultural hub. The theater also regularly puts on performances in city parks. As the name implies, admission to Free Street shows is free, or pay what you can, and has been for more than fifty years. Founded after the 1968 riots with a mission of fighting segregation in the arts, Free Street’s history in the city is a narrative rife with drama of its own. Now, in addition to developing work focused on Chicago and underrepresented artists in the city, Free Street also facilitates difficult conversations for institutions and communities and offers workshops for developing skills such as artistic direct actions. They celebrated turning fifty with 50 in 50, a set of performances in every ward of the city all on the same day. (See “Land of the Free,” also in this issue.)
Green Line Performing Arts Center
329 E. Garfield Blvd. arts.uchicago.edu/apl/glpac
If you want a venue that still has that quintessential new-theater smell, the Green Line Performing Arts Center is here for you. Newly opened by UofC in 2018 as part of the arts block in Washington Park, the space supports everything from theater and dance to a regular art vendor fair and knitting groups. With onsite rehearsal space, they host workshop space and artist residencies for theater (including an “ensemble in residency”) and artists. Their first ensemble residency, featuring Fehinty African Theatre Ensemble (whom you can read about below), just wrapped up in early March, but their tenure featured Friday night dance parties and the 2020 Diaspora Monologues. In addition to the residencies, they offer employment and training opportunities to local residents through “stipend-based training in technical theater, including sound, lighting, and scenic design, and front-of-house and back-of-house management.” Workshops and talks are common events, so it’s worth keeping an eye on their full, and eclectic, event calendar.
Beverly Theatre Guild
2153 W. 111th St. beverlytheatreguild.org
Founded in 1963 and one of the cofounders of the Beverly Arts Center, this guild currently calls the Baer Theatre at Morgan Park Academy home. Their typical season has three productions, often tackling a variety of popular, award-winning fare. Their 2019/2020 season is a comedy sandwich with musical bread: They opened with Urinetown: The Musical and followed it with the absurdist comedy Picasso at the Lapin Agile. They’ll close out their season in May with Matilda, the musical based on the beloved children’s book of the same name. They’re often lauded for providing a downtown theater experience at significantly more accommodating prices, and you can pick up season ticket packages for an even better deal.
Collaboraction
collaboraction.org
This Otto Award-winning ensemble is explicitly focused on social issues and has been turning that focus into impressive theater for twenty-three years. While they’re currently housed at Kennedy-King College, they get out and into the community, staging performances at a variety of venues around town and appearing in parks, too. They focus on theater, dance, and spoken word performances, and if you can’t make it out to one of their performances, they’re available for hire to create a custom experience for your event.
Fehinty African Theatre Ensemble
fehintytheatre.org
The first ensemble in residence at the Green Line Performing Arts Center, Fehinty is building bridges and featuring stories from Africa and its diaspora. Founded in 2004, the group is the first theatre ensemble in the city comprised entirely of immigrants from Africa, and that identity has suffused its journey and growth in the time since. When the group lost their original performing space at a two-story African restaurant in Uptown, they adapted by staging rogue productions of African folktales in the parks. That work led to official backing from the Park District’s Night Out in the Parks program.
Warmth and enthusiasm for the ensemble and its work sizzles off artistic director Teju Adesia as she describes Fehinty’s history and current work. The residency at the Green Line Performing Arts Center is its first major engagement with the South Side. According to Adesia, the ability to expand the group’s audience and connect with creatives who might not make the trek to the North Side has been one of the highlights of the residency. She says it’s been “great to offer things directly to the community.”
The ensemble’s recent work includes Fatty Bum Bum, a play written in Nigerian pidgin; Va-Na-Ku-La diaspora monologues; and a series of Friday night dance parties featuring music of the diaspora, ranging from reggae to Afro-pop. Even with the residency wrapping up, Fehinty is going to stay in touch with its new South Side audience—perhaps, Teju posited, by returning to its roots and coming to the parks.
When speaking to the ensemble’s future, Teju captured the spirit underpinning so much work happening on the South Side: she pointed out that Fehinty doesn’t have a staff and most of the people involved in the ensemble are engaging out of love for the culture, the art form, and the community. “The people we’ve been able to engage with makes it worth continuing the company. But we need support. Support is really important,” she said.
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If that whets your appetite for South Side theater and performance, do yourself a favor and branch out to some of the unique and innovative opportunities available as well. Open mics, storytelling sessions, and performance in unexpected spaces are staples across South Side neighborhoods. Last year’s arts issue has profiles for several arts-and-events spaces you can use as a starting point for a pivot into exploring the wide range of creative endeavors thriving here.
Jessica Eanes is a freelance writer and editor living in Chicago. She last wrote for the Weekly in November about a book on the history of Black politics and education reform in Chicago.
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Raiding the Cherries: Bournemouth reject West Ham bid for duo
By Nicholas MendolaMay 16, 2016, 7:18 PM EDT
Photo by Tony Marshall/Getty Images
West Ham is hoping to deepen its attack at the expense of the South coast.
The Hammers reportedly had a $36 million bid for striker Callum Wilson and midfielder Matt Ritchie rejected by Bournemouth.
Wilson, 24, missed six months for the Cherries after scoring five times in his first 7 Premier League matches. That includes a hat trick against the Hammers.
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Ritchie, 26, was critical to Bournemouth’s safety campaign, scoring four goals and adding six assists in 36 PL matches. He played mainly on the right side.
The Cherries will be one an interesting team to follow this offseason, after weathering significant injuries to stay in the Premier League. Under the guidance of chairman Jeff Mostyn, they could well be buyers, not sellers.
West Ham formally announced the long-rumored pickup of Borussia Monchengladbach defensive midfielder Havard Nordveit earlier Monday.
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Mr. Marmalade (Outside the March) 2011 SummerWorks Review
August 5, 2011 Jenna Rocca 1 Comment
Outside the March presents and exciting, immersive Offsite SummerWorks production of Noah Haidle’s Mr. Marmalade. This darkly comic play sees the world through the eyes of four-year old Lucy (Amy Keating) who interprets it, as most children do, through play. This makes for a profound, reflective, and satisfying theatrical performance. Who knew watching grown-ups play children playing dress-up could be so emotionally satisfying? Or psychologically complex?
A foreboding introduction sees Lucy playing in a manner in which Ken basically rapes Barbie on their wedding night, all through the innocent lens of playtime and imagination and not without “normal” child-like aggression coupled with an alarming self-awareness. Hence the comedy.
The Offsite space is a kindergarten classroom, elaborately set to look just so. I could not tell where the production began and the classroom ended, the attention to detail was that complete. Of course there are a lot of prop possibilities when you are working with children’s toys; there must be at least five kitchen-sets in a row in one section of the roughly one thousand square-foot space.
You never know where the action will proceed and audience members are invited to follow the actors as closely as possible, sitting in designated children’s chairs labelled with shaped cut-outs and avoiding construction paper stop-signs on the floor. Indeed characters do emerge, as in Lucy’s imagination, from the most unlikely places. In this respect alone the production was astonishing, and perhaps the most well-executed and elaborate site-specific show I’ve ever seen.
Former Canadian Stage Artistic Director David Storch is the terrifying Mr. Marmalade, at first a kind of “boyfriend” to Lucy, for whom he must find time in his “busy” schedule. Their relationship is contrasted with that between Lucy and a new, real-life friend: the gangly, adorably awkward and suicidal Larry (Ishai Buchbinder). Jason Chinn and Katherine Cullen take up a few different, ageless “adult” characters each with their own set of disturbing influences on Lucy.
This all makes for a very pointed, distrubing, charming and even amusing commentary on the cultural roles children are taught from a very young age, and how sensitive they really are to even what seem like minor actions of adults. Lucy’s understanding of sex, love, and relationships is expressed in her destructive relationship with Mr. Marmalade, who is basically a paedophile, and per playtime spans decades within one night. Do not let that scare you away, though, because of course the sexual content is not as off-putting as you’d think since we know he is merely of Lucy’s own innocent design. Or is he?
What’s really scary is how similar he is to some real life people we may know.
Mr. Marmalade is a brave and impressive production and I urge all theatre-lovers to visit the classroom as envisioned here by Outside the March.
– playing at St. Mary Catholic School. 20 Portugal Square (one block North of King and Bathurst). Kindergarten Room 219 on:
Saturday, August 6th at 3:00 pm
Sunday, August 7th at 3:00 pm
Monday, August 8th at 8:00 pm
Tuesday, August 9th at 7:00 pm
Wednesday, August 10th at 7:00 pm
Thursday, August 11th at 7:00 pm
Saturday, August 13th at 3:00 pm
– All individual SummerWorks tickets are $15 at the door (cash only). Tickets are available online at www.artsboxoffice.ca, by phone at 416.504.7529, in person at at the Arts Box Office (located at Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson Ave., One block North East of Bathurst & Queen W. M-F 12PM-7PM, Weekends 10AM-8PM) (Advance tickets are $15 +HST and $1 service fee)
– Several money-saving passes are available if you plan to see at least 3 shows
Photo of Amy Keating as Lucy by Simon Bloom.
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Review: Eurydice (Soulpepper)
May 29, 2015 Lin Young
Soulpepper brings the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice to the Young Centre Stage in Toronto
Soulpepper’s adaptation of Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice, now playing at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts, claims to be a retelling of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice from the perspective of the great musician’s dead wife.
Really, though, the play is so much more than a mere perspective-flip: the myth acts as a framing device for Ruhl, the playwright, to explore lofty themes such as loss, memory, and connection. When paired with Soulpepper’s understated staging, this adaptation of Eurydice is both powerful and provoking in its depiction of death as a kind of cerebral Wonderland.
I was a bit worried for Eurydice at first. The events leading up to Eurydice (Michelle Monteith)’s early death initially struck me as a bit hard to go along with, even in the poetic world it establishes. Why, for example, would Eurydice follow a stranger, one who had previously tried to lure her away, back to his apartment on the pretext of an unseen letter from her dead father? Stuart Hughes is both creepy and funny in the role, but this direction makes it hard to see why anybody would ever believe his oily claims, much less a woman who had been previously tipped off as to his seedy intentions.
However, once Eurydice arrives in the underworld, the play takes a running leap and sticks the landing wonderfully. Ruhl’s script is lyrical and poetic, almost painterly in the way it casts images out of intangible things such as loss, music, and love. In this underworld, language and memory are constantly tangled together. Memory is built, maintained, and evoked through language, through common interpretations of words, which makes it desperately fragile.
While all the characters are speaking English, they nonetheless struggle to communicate with one another, each hopelessly wrapped up in the individual meanings of their own symbols and patterns. Only Eurydice and her father are eventually able to find some common language, reconnecting after their mutual deaths in a way that turns reunion into tender reconstruction.
The staging is not overly elaborate, choosing instead to make the most of relatively sparse space. As Eurydice wanders the stage, Orpheus storms up and down the side-aisles, a nice visual metaphor for the lovers’ separation. Later, her father painstakingly builds a room for his daughter out of string, making a giant cube on the stage in real time.
One powerful (yet subtle) image comes when Eurydice’s father packs up this string house, packing it away in a suitcase alongside the relics of his daughter’s stay in the underworld. As her father sits in the empty space where the room once stood, it becomes a kind of reverse-mourning, where the dead father laments his daughter’s return to the living. The play is full of moments like this, where unspoken emotions are allowed to echo quietly.
Some tribute must also be paid to the music, which gives even small moments a cinematic feel. There’s a tension and fragility to the sound that’s subtle, but affecting. It augments the moment rather than taking it over.
As I left the theatre, my mind was buzzing. Can love and loss still exist if those involved no longer recall their origins? Can they be transported into other people through witness, in the same way someone’s painting or song can touch a viewer? Does remembrance make something more or less real? How are we haunted by love, by language, by memory, by the dead?
The play doesn’t explicitly ask all of these things, but it certainly provokes questions like them. It’s a generously ambiguous play that I expect every audience member will pluck something different out of. In that way, it’s a little lofty: this might not be one for casual viewers looking for a light time out. My guest, however, did enjoy it despite it not being his usual fare.
Eurydice is a striking and provocative production that wraps itself around your brain and digs in deep, if you’ll let it. At 90 minutes it doesn’t overstay its welcome, but it’s the kind of theatrical experience that–somewhat ironically–follows you home and lingers for a good while after you’ve left.
Eurydice run until June 18th at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts (50 Tank House Lane).
Regular tickets start at $29.95, with $24 tickets available on select dates for youth under 30 through Soulpepper’s Stageplay program.
Soulpepper makes $5 rush tickets available to youth under 21, available before each performance, depending on availability.
Photo of Alex McCooeye, Courtney Ch’ng Lancaster, Oyin Oladejo & Michelle Monteith by Cylla von Tiedemann.
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Anamanaguchi talks Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game, 10 years later
Like Ramona skating into Scott’s life, PlayStation fans fell hard for Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game when it hit PS3 in 2010. To develop the lovingly retro-inspired adaptation of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s story, Ubisoft partnered with talented creators like pixel artist Paul Robertson and chiptune pop / rock band Anamanaguchi. The art and sound gelled magically with the co-op beat ‘em up gameplay — an instant classic was born.
A decade later, Ubisoft is rereleasing the nostalgic side-scrolling adventure. To mark the occasion, we conducted a Q&A interview with Anamanaguchi. The band reflects on the critical reception of the game, the evolution of their music since 2010, favorite characters, and more.
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game – Complete Edition contains the original adventure, plus playable DLC characters Knives Chau and Wallace Wells. It launches on PS4 January 14, and is playable on PS5 via backwards compatibility.
PlayStation.Blog: When you see or hear the name “Scott Pilgrim” these days, what is the first thought or emotion that comes to your mind?
Peter Berkman: That the game is finally being re-released!
Luke Silas: When I hear “Scott Pilgrim,” I remember the funny little tattoo of Scott in a tanuki suit that I got after we finished the soundtrack in 2010.
PSB: Which playable character is the favorite of each Anamanaguchi member, and why?
PB: I didn’t get a chance to play the game after the DLC came out, so I’m gonna play as Wallace when I can.
Ary Warnaar: I’m really bad at this kinda game, so I’d honestly rather watch the rest of the band play… but Kim Pine.
James DeVito: I gotta stick with the bass brother, Scott Pilgrim.
LS: I play heavies, so I go with Ramona and do lots of big hammer hits.
PSB: What track from Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game do you feel best represents Anamanaguchi’s sound in 2010?
PB: Probably the theme song – we wound up releasing a lot of singles that summer – one of them was another song in the running for that!
AW: I remember being super into “Rox 300” back then ~as a sound for us~.
LS: I think either “Another Winter” or “Just Like In The Movies,” those were both as nuanced and punky as our non-OST material back then! We’ve expanded a lot, but at that point I think most people considered us pretty splashy and fun like those levels.
The track “Subspace Highway” plays as Scott navigates a reality-bending path.
PB: The “Subspace Highway” sound design sounds like it’d fit nicely on our latest album, [USA].
AW: I really like the chord progression in “Vegetable Rock.” Kinda grunge-y. I’ve been looping it and playing it back at half-speed recently.
LS: “Leave The Past Behind!” It’s dynamic and bittersweet, and has a lot of different energies in one song. Feels like something we might work on today.
PSB: The track “Another Winter” perfectly captures the Scott Pilgrim world’s vibe of fun and melancholy. As players listen, what is happening on a musical level to evoke those feelings?
PB: I personally love the tension of 7th chords and 9th chords – stacks of complicated feelings – and it’s all over a lot of our music. In that song there’s some cute little call and response that breaks to a long yearning kind of melody. I had just had my wisdom tooth taken out, haha. In that song everything’s really held together by the drive of the drums. Revisiting a lot of these songs it’s funny how the tracks in major keys feel a bit melancholy and the ones in minor keys feel a bit energetic.
Stage 1’s bittersweet music track, “Another Winter” plays.
PSB: Why do you think Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game achieved such adoration from players that has persisted over the years?
PB: I think so much of it comes from the feeling Bryan (Lee O’Malley) was able to tap into with his comics. As for the game itself, it’s really for people who love games. The art is really sick. Everybody involved really wanted it to be good so they put a lot of care and little unexpected details into it. ‘They didn’t need to go so hard’ goes all around there. It’s a kind of “love letter” to having friends over and playing beat ‘em ups on the couch with some snacks.
AW: On top of that, I think the art is a big part of the longstanding appreciation of the game. It’s definitely aged well. Paul Robertson really brought out the best of this style of pixel art, without ever being stuck in the “retro” world.
PB: True! Kinuko (Mariel Kinuko Cartwright, artist) and Persona (Jonathan Kim, artist) brought so much of that animation to life, too.
PSB: Did you have to adapt or adjust your general musical sound to suit the world of Scott Pilgrim, or was your signature sound of the 2010 timeframe already a perfect fit?
PB: Our style was a natural fit for the general vibe, but it was a lot of fun to flex and adapt for certain moments that a ‘band playing shows’ doesn’t normally get to do. Like a bossa nova shop theme, or boss songs.
AW: There were a handful of prompts that took us out of our comfort zones. Some of those styles were definitely just for the game, but others started to shape sounds that became a bit more normal to us. Dance-tempo four to the floor tracks were a pretty new thing to us back then!
PSB: Looking back, which track from Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game is your favorite?
PB: Level 4’s train music (“Suburban Tram”) always makes me really happy!
JD: “Just Like in the Movies” is a really fun one to play and also makes me happy.
AW: There’s a super short interlude, called “Kiss 2” as far as I know, that I think is still very pretty.
LS: There’s a full version of “This Is The End,” the “perfect ending” music, that hasn’t been released before; not to be a tease, but for me it’s gotta be that. Maybe everyone will get to hear it more readily someday soon.
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Georgia’s CFP Chance Hit Big After South Carolina Defeat?
By Jeff-Wellin October 12, 2019 College Football News 0 Comments
ATHENS, Ga., Sporting Alert -Georgia’s chances to reach the College Football Playoff took a big hit on Saturday after the No. 3 Bulldogs were stunned at home by South Carolina.
Coming into this game, George (5-1, 2-1 Southeastern Conference) had just 2 home defeats as an AP Top-3 team in the AP Poll Era, but this was the first time they were losing to an unranked opponent.
The third-ranked team in the nation entered Week 7 as one of the favored ball clubs for a playoff spot, but went down 20-17 to the Gamecocks in double overtime at home after Rodrigo Blankenship saw his 42-yard field goal attempt drifted wide left.
“That was a great college football game, and you hate for anyone to lose in that situation, especially the way it happened,” South Carolina coach Will Muschamp said, about to Blankenship’s missed attempt.
“My heart goes out to him in losing in that fashion.”
South Carolina (3-3, 2-2), which had entered the contest as a 20-point underdog on the road, was beating an AP Top 5 team for the first since 2010, while it was the largest upset in an SEC game since 2014 when Texas A&M beat No. 3 Auburn.
Both teams played to a 17-17 tie at the end of regulation, while the score stayed the same at the conclusion of the first overtime play.
However, Parker White, who missed a game-winning try in the first overtime, recovered put away a 24-yard FG and Blankenship, one of the top kickers in college football, failed when it was his turn.
“I had confidence that I was going to get to go out there and have a chance to win the game for us in the next overtime,” White said.
Although they are not quite out of the runnings yet, the defeat on Saturday saw Georgia’s chance of securing a CFP spot dropped to 16 percent, according to the Allstate Playoff Predictor.
The Bulldogs still have a strong schedule ahead of them and if they can win out and also bagged the SEC tournament – with the addition of that big win over Notre Dame earlier this season – then it is likely they can still make the playoff.
On Saturday, the Gamecocks overcame losing quarterback Ryan Hilinski to what looked like a knee injury, when Israel Mukuamu returned the first of his three interceptions 53 yards for a touchdown in the highlighted moments of the game.
Bulldogs quarterback Jake Fromm passed for 295 yards and a touchdown, but he also had four turnovers at Sanford Stadium.
“You can’t beat anybody when you have a 4-0 turnover margin,” Georgia coach Kirby Smart said.
“We didn’t force any on defense. We didn’t cause any problems on defense and we didn’t take care of the ball.”
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Jeff-Wellin
I am your everyday laid back person who has been writing for over seven years after doing night classes to learn about my trade. I really like my job and work hard at doing it. I also like to take some time to just chill at the beach with my family when I am not traveling.
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