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System Documentation: A Symposium on Printed Documentation for Computer Systems
Denise Kaplan, Lare Mischo, Linda Bills, Joe Matthews, Victor Rosenberg, Barbara E. Anderson, Brian Alley and James LaRue
Good system documentation is the backbone to the success of any automated system, for only through complete and thorough documentation can the user fully understand and…
Good system documentation is the backbone to the success of any automated system, for only through complete and thorough documentation can the user fully understand and utilize a system's capability. This symposium focuses on printed documentation and the many related applications that affect the daily lives of computer users. Printed documentation takes different forms, including user and reference manuals, tutorials, reference cards, and “cheat sheets.” The various forms are produced by both system vendors and system users, the latter frequently adapting and modifying vendor‐prepared documentation to reflect local practice and meet specialized training needs.
Library Hi Tech, vol. 7 no. 4
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/eb047772
Universal Display Corporation: Go Long or Short?
Robert Korajczyk, Linda Vincent, Matthew Galas, David Mathews, Danielle Qi and Saurabh Goyal
This case asks the student to take a stance on whether an portfolio manager should take a long or short position in the equity of Universal Display Corporation (PANL). The…
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This case asks the student to take a stance on whether an portfolio manager should take a long or short position in the equity of Universal Display Corporation (PANL). The stock is polarizing, in that reasonable arguments could be made for both long and short positions. The case suggests a number of steps that an analyst might follow when valuing a company
Discounted cash flow valuation, comparables valuation, short selling. After students have analyzed the case they will be able to value the equity of a publicly traded company and take a position on whether a portfolio manager should buy or sell the stock.
Kellogg School of Management Cases, vol. no.
Type: Case Study
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/case.kellogg.2016.000394
Publication date: 1 September 2005
Continuous quality improvement using a practice improvement model
Stephen Kellett, Suzanne Clarke and Linda Matthews
Cape and Barkham's practice improvement model (PIM) describes how healthcare systems can be designed to facilitate the usage of self‐generated clinical outcomes in the…
Cape and Barkham's practice improvement model (PIM) describes how healthcare systems can be designed to facilitate the usage of self‐generated clinical outcomes in the delivery of subsequent interventions. This article aims to describe the application of the PIM in the implementation of group‐based cognitive‐behavioural therapy, for clients referred from Primary Care with anxiety disorders.
The groups were evaluated using and pre‐ and post‐intervention design using a variety of validated measures of psychological functioning as part of a wider audit and evaluation system. The conclusions drawn from the audit and evaluation system, in the form of PIMs, were fed‐back into the design of successive groups in the attempt to increase subsequent effectiveness. Group 1 had no PIM applied, group 2 had a single PIM applied and group 3 had two PIMs applied.
The introduction of the single PIM for group 2 increased the effectiveness of clinical outcomes, while for group 3, the introduction of two PIMs increased effectiveness again in comparison to group 1, but not in comparison to group 2.
Practice implications
The results indicate that the active use of feedback of outcomes from interventions conducted can be utilised to design and then evaluate the application of resultant PIMs. This represents attempts to introduce and operationalise the concept of continuous quality improvement in the delivery of a clinical service.
The evaluation of PIMs is in its practical and methodological infancy and this initiative represents the first attempt to utilise PIMs in the design of Primary Care psychological services.
Clinical Governance: An International Journal, vol. 10 no. 3
Chapter 6 How and When Leader Behavior Affects Intergroup Liking: Affect, Approval, and Allophilia
Todd L. Pittinsky, R. Matthew Montoya, Linda R. Tropp and Anna Chen
We report on research that investigated the emotional mediation of leader behavior on observers’ affinity for the members of a leader's group. Participants (N=181) read a…
We report on research that investigated the emotional mediation of leader behavior on observers’ affinity for the members of a leader's group. Participants (N=181) read a vignette describing the positive, negative, or neutral behaviors of a national leader, and the approval or disapproval of that leader's followers for that behavior. Results revealed that liking (i.e., allophilia) for the leader's followers decreased when the group leader behaved negatively and group members expressed approval for their leader. These changes in allophilia were mediated by the amount of anger experienced by the participant. Implications of these findings for future work on leadership and intergroup relations are discussed.
Affect and Groups
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S1534-0856(07)10006-2
Publication date: 6 November 2007
Need for achievement, business goals, and entrepreneurial persistence
Sibin Wu, Matthews and Grace K. Dagher
The purpose of the study is to employ the need theory to investigate whether a need for achievement has an effect on persistence behavior among entrepreneurs, and whether…
The purpose of the study is to employ the need theory to investigate whether a need for achievement has an effect on persistence behavior among entrepreneurs, and whether a need for achievement and business goals interact to influence such persistence.
A longitudinal study of nascent entrepreneurs was conducted by a field survey in a metropolitan area of a mid‐western state in the USA. Logistic regression was used to test the hypotheses.
Need for achievement is found to be positively related to entrepreneurial persistence. Business goals are found to moderate the relationship between need for achievement and persistence.
The time span between the two waves of data collection in the longitudinal study might have been too short.
This study highlights the importance of matching need for achievement and business goals. For complex tasks, a strong need for achievement should be accompanied with moderate business goals if persistence is to occur. Venture capitalists and government agencies can improve entrepreneurial success by keeping a close eye on the match.
Few studies have explored the issue of entrepreneurial persistence. The present study contributes to a better understanding of motivation and other variables that influence entrepreneurial persistence.
Management Research News, vol. 30 no. 12
Marketing students' meta-skills and employability: between the lines of social capital in the context of the teaching excellence framework
Linda Anne Barkas, Jonathan Matthew Scott, Karen Hadley and Yvonne Dixon-Todd
The purpose of this article is to examine the role of social capital and higher order meta-skills in developing the employability of marketing students at a UK university.
This conceptual article, bolstered by illustrative primary data, provides a broader conceptualisation of employability. This is to address the specific research question on how social capital (contacts and connections) is deployed (via capability-based higher order meta-skills) in a UK university developing the employability of a specific group of students. The article is situated in the highly fraught context of teaching excellence measurement schemes [such as the teaching excellence framework (TEF) in the UK].
The research findings highlighted the role of social capital and higher order meta-skills in developing the employability of marketing students at a UK university.
While the illustrative primary data are not generalisable, as they are limited to one group of marketing students in one UK university; the conceptual development, including a new social capital based definition of employability that incorporated the capabilities, provided by higher-order meta-skills, is widely applicable.
The article has highlighted how the impact of social capital, etiquette and meta-skills, while being “between the lines” of the employability discourse and the metrics of the TEF, explains the differing perceptions of the value of employability initiatives. The article highlights the grey area of between the reasons given as to why some candidates are valued over others. Perhaps no rhyme or reason sometimes, just the “hidden” perception/interpretations of the interview panel of the “qualities” of one candidate over another.
The difficulty in ascertaining the influence of social capital (and how it can be deployed through higher-order meta-skills as capabilities) results in challenges for universities as they endeavour to respond to the data requirements of “learning gain” within teaching excellent measurement schemes such as the UK teaching excellence framework.
Education + Training, vol. ahead-of-print no. ahead-of-print
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/ET-04-2020-0102
Marketing students
Beyond the dyadic: customer engagement in increasingly networked environments
Linda D. Hollebeek, Elina Jaakkola and Matthew Alexander
Journal of Service Management, vol. 29 no. 3
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/JOSM-05-2018-410
“For Better or Worse You Inherit Me”: Linda Gray Sexton and Searching for Mercy Street and Half in Love
Jeffrey Berman
Mad Muse: The Mental Illness Memoir in a Writer's Life and Work
Principals' succession and educational change
Dean Fink and Carol Brayman
A demographic time bomb is ticking in many school jurisdictions. Up to 70 per cent of present leaders in the private and public sectors will retire within the next five to…
A demographic time bomb is ticking in many school jurisdictions. Up to 70 per cent of present leaders in the private and public sectors will retire within the next five to ten years as the “baby boomers” move on. While succession planning has become a major initiative in the private sector, leadership succession in education tends to hew to old paths. Where are new educational leaders to come from? How should their succession be orchestrated? The traditional source of succession at the secondary level, the department headship, is no longer an attractive route for many teachers. Many potential leaders do not perceive the role of principal or assistant principal in a positive light. These roles are increasingly being associated with managing the standards/standardization agenda with which many professionals profoundly disagree. While it is premature to declare a leadership crisis in education, it is not too early to call on policy makers to attend to the growing need for succession planning at all levels in education. Based on an examination of change over times in four schools in Ontario, this article addresses issues of leadership succession in education and, more precisely, examines the influence of principals’ succession on the principals themselves and their schools.
Journal of Educational Administration, vol. 42 no. 4
Publication date: 1 February 1987
Electronic Information Delivery Systems: Reports on Five Projects Sponsored by the Fred Meyer Charitable Trust
Douglas K. Ferguson
The Fred Meyer Charitable Trust, Division of Library and Information Resources for the Northwest, has funded five research projects that will demonstrate the potential of…
The Fred Meyer Charitable Trust, Division of Library and Information Resources for the Northwest, has funded five research projects that will demonstrate the potential of various techniques and new technologies to facilitate communications and resource sharing in the Northwest. The experience and information derived from these projects will be of value to all libraries and information centers, not just those conducting the research. The techniques and technologies being evaluated include: simultaneous remote searching, which uses inexpensive terminals and modems; a mini‐computer‐based union list and resource sharing network (INFONET); networks using facsimile machines; networks that transmit documents that have been optically scanned into bit‐map image files; and use of optical character recognition equipment to capture ASCII machine‐readable information that can be broadcast by television stations to user‐sites. Contributors of reports are: Verl Anderson, Linda Brander, Millard F. Johnson, Jr., Bruce Morton, and Steve Smith. Summary observations are provided by Joseph R. Matthews.
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This Week in Tesla: New OTA Update Provides Helpful Features, Autopilot Receives High Marks from Euro NCAP Report
By: Charlie O'Mara
New Software Update Provides Helpful Features -
New Tesla software update 2020.40 includes two small yet convenient features that will provide a new aspect of safety and convenience to Tesla owners. The first feature is that one can now assign a pin code to open the glovebox so that if one is lending the car to someone or even worse, the car is stolen, the glove box is locked without the pin. The other new feature enables owners to set a priority device for bluetooth. This means that when entering the car, the Bluetooth system will automatically try to connect to the priority device before it connects to others. This is helpful when there are multiple people in the car who have connected in the past, and rather than connecting to any of their phones, it will just connect to the priority device if it can.
Autopilot Receives High Marks from Euro NCAP Report -
The European New Car Assessment Programme (NCAP) recently tested all of the driver safety and driver assistance features in several cars, grading each on a scale of 0-100 in three categories. This video explains the new grading system. In summation of the video, the NCAP looks to find the best balance between reliable driving assistance features and maintaining driver alertness while the systems are engaged. As can be seen in the chart below, Tesla was the clear winner in both the categories for vehicle assistance, and safety backup. The vehicle assistance category grades cars on the reliability and functionality of the driver assistance systems, and the safety backup system category grades cars on the reliability and functionality of the systems meant to avoid an accident as a result of driver error (ie. automatic emergency braking, lane departure avoidance etc.). While Tesla dominated the vehicle assistance and safety backup categories, they were last by a large margin in the driver engagement category. This is likely a result of the fact that while autopilot is engaged, the driver only has to put their hands on the wheel every so often, as opposed to constantly as is the case in many other cars.
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The Handbag Experiment
Ahem!!! (could I have some water please? Thank you!).
Principal! Distinguished colleagues!
I am not going to be modest here: My research team and me have made a discovery that will shake the very foundations of modern science.
This originally started out as a gender study of male sexist prejudice. In the end we had to get help form our esteemed colleagues in the physics department to find an explanation for this phenomenon.
We set out to find out how long we would be able to get an American male to hold a woman's handbag before his discomfort became ethically intolerable.
It turns out most healthy men do not last for more than 45 seconds in the presence of others, at which point they will throw the handbag away. This period may be prolonged to 65 seconds if they believe themselves to be alone.
When we added a reward -- 10 dollars per minute -- some were able to hold the bag for as long as 2 minutes and 32 seconds.
What we did not know, however, was that one of our test subjects, Jason Cameron, being unemployed, desperately needed the money.
He was able to hold on to the handbag for 14 minutes and 35 seconds, at which point the was a flashing light, a loud crack, and Mr. Cameron was replaced by a woman. That is: Mr. Cameron had become a woman.
This amazing discovery proves once and for all the basic principle of quantum physics, that reality is caused by the interaction between reality and our minds.
In this case the emotional conflict in Mr. Cameron's mind caused an unknown superimposed gender state to collapse and switch his physical being into its female counterpart.
Basically, the human mind is incapable of handling the psychological conflict of gender ambiguity and changes reality in order to protect its sanity.
Repeated experiments show cisgendered male persons can sit in the driver's seat of a red Beetle for 20 minutes before becoming a woman, 8 minutes wearing an apron with flowers, 26 minutes wearing a neutral, gray, apron, and 2 minutes and 5 seconds wearing a mini-skirt-- unless the person in question is a crossdresser or believes himself to be at a carnival.
There is no similar effect for women carrying gender typical male attire, which indicates that this is partly a cultural phenomenon.
I am proud to say that because of this research, our department of sociology has now achieved gender equality.
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If only... one can dream, yes?
Ian 11/07/2013
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Rachel's Haven is looking for TG short stories for...
Grandmother's Medallion
Ode to Womanhood
The Transformation Witch Club
The Other Side of Your Soulis Back
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Dreamwalker 2
Guest Cap: Becca and the Boob Fairy
Another Red String Body Swap
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Ferrari Trento promotes a culture of drinking responsibly which is part of the Italian Art of Living.
It is a culture linked to the ritual nature of food and the celebration of convivial occasions, in which consumption is moderate and informed.
Enter the ferraritrento.com website only if you share this approach and if you are of the legal age to drink alcohol in your country: a world of excellence awaits you!
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Ferrari Winery ready to shine at Prowein to celebrate the success of its Ferrari Brut Trentodoc
For yet another year, Ferrari Winery stands ready for the opening of Prowein, major wine exhibition that opens its doors on March 19 in Düsseldorf.
Ferrari Winery will be present at the fair at Hall 16, booth A03, with a stand where all wines produced by the company will be available to taste, including the still wines of Lunelli Estates and the grappa produced by Segnana.
It will be the “debut” for the latest wine crafted by the winery, Ferrari Perlé Bianco, which will be officially presented to the public. Furthermore, the company will seize the opportunity provided by this event to celebrate the success of Ferrari Brut Trentodoc, which was named “World Champion” in the categories “Blanc des Blancs” and “Best Italian Sparkling Wine” at the last edition of The Champagne & Sparkling Wine World Championships.
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Ferrari together with Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli Team for the first races in the waters off Auckland 16 December 2020
Ferrari Brut is the best sparkling wine in Italy according to The 2020 Champagne & Sparkling Wine World Championships 11 December 2020
Ferrari Brut Trentodoc in the New York Times 11 December 2020
Ferrari is once again one of the world’s best in the 2020 edition of The Champagne & Sparkling Wine World Championships 3 December 2020
GIULIO FERRARI ROSÉ 2008 TRENTODOC
In the last few days, Ferrari Trento has launched the 2008 vintage of Giulio Ferrari Rosé. This is the third vintage to be released of this special reserve wine, already a well-established icon among Italian sparkling rosés. The “pink” version of the legendary Giulio Ferrari Riserva del Fondatore shares that wine’s elegance and finesse, […]
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In just a few hours’ time, the adventure of the 36th America’s Cup will begin: 17th December sees the start of the competitions leading up to the 2021 edition of the America’s Cup, when the AC75 boats of the teams from New Zealand, Italy, U.S.A., and Great Britain will finally begin racing one another in […]
Ferrari Brut is the best sparkling wine in Italy according to The 2020 Champagne & Sparkling Wine World Championships
Following its great success in terms of medals – no less than 9 Golds and 4 Silvers – Ferrari Trento is now celebrating a new triumph at The Champagne & Sparkling Wine World Championships. The Company’s most iconic product, Ferrari Brut Trentodoc, has in fact been consecrated as Italian National Champion: in other words, Italy’s […]
Ferrari Brut Trentodoc in the New York Times
Eric Asimov, the New York Times’ historic and authoritative wine and food critic, has picked out Ferrari Brut Trentodoc among the sparkling wines he mentions in an article for his Wine School column. The article, under the title “Among Sparkling Wines, the Other Half Lives Pretty Well”, is in fact devoted to discovering the […]
Ferrari is once again one of the world’s best in the 2020 edition of The Champagne & Sparkling Wine World Championships
With 9 Gold Medals and 5 Silvers, the Lunelli Group’s is the most award-winning winery in Italy and second in the world in the most authoritative international competition devoted exclusively to sparkling wines. Ferrari Brut and Maximum Blanc de Blancs are among the Gold Medal winners The Champagne & Sparkling Wine World Championships, the […]
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evo at the Ring 24 hours
evo's Chris Harris to race with Walter Rohrl in a GT3 RS at the Nurburgring 24 hours
by: Stephen Dobie
Evo’s Chris Harris will be racing at the 2010 Nurburgring 24 hours in May. Not only that, he’ll be doing it alongside Walter Rohrl in Porsche’s new 911 GT3 RS supercar. Chris you probably know from the wealth of evo videos he’s produced (including riding in a GT3 RS alongside Francois Delecour), while Walter is a double World Rally Champion and, more recently, a Porsche brand ambassador and professional test driver. He’s taken every production Porsche since 1993 around the Nordschleife, so he should be a force to be reckoned with when it comes to lengthy stints during the 24 hours. Read Chris’s reaction to his Ring 24 hours racing seat Alongside Harris and Rohrl in Porsche’s team will be German Touring Car ace Roland Asch (who’s driven a 911 GT3 Cup in the Dubai 24 hours) and Horst von Saurma, a German motoring journalist who’s driven 911s in the Ring 24 hours before, as well as setting a Nordschleife lap record in a Porsche Carrera GT. Our Harris is the baby of the team, and at 35 is little more than half Rohrl’s age. Preparation is underway now, and the four of them will contest two VLN races in the GT3 RS to familiarise themselves with both track and car in time for the Ring endurance race on May 15 and 16. Needless to say, there’ll be plenty of coverage of the event and Chris’s progress before, during and after the race, so keep your eyes on evo.co.uk for the latest news. Read Chris Harris’s blog on his racing seat with Rohrl See Chris get a ride to remember in a GT3 RS on video See how evo’s John Barker got on in last year’s 24 hours
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WWE to Celebrate Triple H’s 25th Anniversary
By Vijayabalaji Apr 11, 2020
WWE will be celebrating 25 years of The Game soon.
It was announced during tonight’s SmackDown on FOX that the celebration for 25 years of Triple H will begin on SmackDown in two weeks, on April 24.
Triple H debuted with WWE on April 30, 1995 with a win over Buck Zumhofe on Wrestling Challenge.
There’s no word yet on what WWE has planned for the celebration, but the commercial indicated that the festivities will go on past SmackDown that night.
Stay tuned for updates on the Triple H 25th anniversary celebration from WWE.
Below is a promo from WWE:
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The Best-Paying Tech Companies for Interns
Jacquelyn SmithFormer Staff
If it has to do with leadership, jobs, or careers, I'm on it.
Gallery: The 20 The Best-Paying Tech Companies for Interns
Most tech industry internship-seekers would do anything to work at Facebook, Google, Amazon or Apple. In fact, they’d probably even do it for free.
But as it turns out, all of these companies offer paid internships. And they compensate remarkably well.
Facebook interns earn an average monthly base pay of $6,056, according to Glassdoor. Interns at Google rake in $5,678 per month, on average—while those at Amazon and Apple make $5,366 and $4,914 per month, respectively.
Glassdoor.com, an online jobs and career community where people share information about their workplaces, just released its list of the 20 highest-paying tech companies for interns. To compile the list, Glassdoor sifted through thousands of anonymous salary reports voluntarily shared by interns in the tech industry over the past three years. (The average monthly salary numbers are based on at least 20 reports for each company.)
“It’s no secret that the war for tech talent continues to be fierce, and this even includes the internship level,” says Glassdoor spokesperson Samantha Zupan. “Companies are fighting for the best and brightest tech minds coming out of college, and handsome compensation packages during an internship are just one way to entice a talented young tech employee to potentially stay with the company upon graduation.”
While interns at the Internet’s “Fantastic Four” are bringing home heaps of cash each month--those at VMware are making even more. The Palo Alto-based software giant pays its interns a base salary of $6,536 per month, on average, making it the best-paying tech company for interns.
One former VMware technical staff intern wrote on the Glassdoor site: “I was making more than any of my classmates.”
A software engineering intern at Facebook, the second hightest-paying tech company, said: “The benefits and pay are obviously great, and since it's a well-known company it's a good place to start if you're looking to get recognized at other tech companies and startups.”
Microsoft rounds out the top three. Interns there earn $5,936 per month, on average.
In Pictures: The Best-Paying Tech Companies for Interns
“The process varies from company to company--but generally, it’s not easy to land a coveted internship at a major tech company where interns earn a higher monthly base pay,” Zupan says. “On Glassdoor, interns at several of these companies talk about an interview process that can include three different interviews, technical problem solving questions, and in some cases, personality tests. Because internships can often translate to job opportunities, several of these companies tend to treat the intern interview process similar to any other job candidate. HR’s goal is to always identify the very best talent at all levels.”
If you’re interested in one of these positions, you’ll want to start by doing some research to find which company is the best fit for you, Zupan says. “Also, it’s never too early to network,” she adds. “Check out who you already know at the company, who your friends, parents and professors might know, and see if there is an inside connection to help get your résumé noticed.”
If you’re not offered an internship position the first time around, keep applying and stay in contact with the intern coordinator. “It just might pay off and set you apart if you show that you’re really serious about contributing to the company,” she concludes.
Here are the top 10 highest-paying tech companies for interns:
Average monthly base pay: $6,536
Click here to see the complete list of the 20 highest-paying tech companies for interns.
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I began writing for Forbes in 2010. It was just as the economy was starting to perk up and a fascinating time to cover the stock market, which I did for three months…
I began writing for Forbes in 2010. It was just as the economy was starting to perk up and a fascinating time to cover the stock market, which I did for three months until I switched beats in September 2010. Now I contribute to the Leadership channel, with a focus on jobs and careers–-another hot topic in a time when people are vigorously hunting for jobs or desperately trying to hold on to the ones they have. I have a BA from the University of Arizona and a master's degree in journalism from Hofstra University. Follow me on Twitter @JacquelynVSmith, subscribe to me on Google+, or email me at jsmith [at] forbes [dot] com.
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Ionia lies in central Western Anatolia (Asia Minor) on the shores of the Aegean Sea. The region is rather small and mountainous unsuited for agriculture but excellent for seafaring. Greek settlement took place in the 11th to 10th Centuries B.C. despite hostilities with the native Luwians (Indo-European people related to the Hittites and Lycians). After resisting fairly well to the Cimmerian invasion, the Ionians were gradually conquered by the Lycian Kingdom, and later by the Persian Empire. Ionia was freed by Alexander but became a contested prize for the Hellenistic kings, until the last king of Pergamum bequeathed his land to Rome. Ionia offered the world countless philosophers and men of science, and a fabulous school of art.
Erythrai, Ionia, c. 3rd Century B.C.
The ruins of Erythrai are north of the town Ildiri in the Cesme district of Izmir Province, Turkey. The city did not lie exactly on the coast, but some little distance inland, and had a harbor on the coast named Cissus. Erythrae was never a large city, but was renowned for its wine, goats, timber, and millstones, as well as its prophetic sibyls, Herophile and Athenais. The Erythraeans were for a considerable time subject to the supremacy of Athens. About 453 B.C. Erythrae, refusing to pay tribute, seceded from the Delian League. A garrison and a new government restored the union, but late in the Peloponnesian War, in 412 B.C. it revolted again with Chios and Clazomenae.
GB96789. Bronze AE 17, SNG Munchen XX 339; SNG Cop 636; SNGvA 1956; SNG Tubingen IV 2868; BMC Ionia p. 129, 104; Kinns 214, gVF, a little off center, weight 2.602 g, maximum diameter 15.6 mm, die axis 0o, Ionia, Erythrai (north of Ildiri, Turkey) mint, magistrate Agasikles, c. 3rd century B.C.; obverse head of Herakles right, wearing Nemean Lion skin, scalp over head, forepaws tied at neck; reverse EPY / AΓAΣIKΛHΣ / ANTIΠA/TPOY (Erythrai, Agasikles, son of Antipatros) in four lines; ex CNG e-auction 463 (11 Mar 2020) lot 90; ex Philip Peck collection; $120.00 (€110.40)
Klazomenai, Ionia, c. 386 - 300 B.C.
The ruins of Klazomenai (or Clazomenae) are in the modern town Urla near Izmir in Izmir Province, Turkey. It was one of the first cities to issue silver coinage. Clazomenae was attacked by the Lydian king Alyattes II in the 6th century. During the 5th century it was for some time subject to the Athenians, but about the middle of the Peloponnesian War, c. 412 B.C. it revolted. After a brief resistance, it again acknowledged the Athenian supremacy, and repelled a Lacedaemonian attack. In 387 B.C. Klazomenai and other cities in Asia were taken over by Persia, but the city continued to issue its own coins. Under the Romans, Clazomenae was included in the province of Asia, and enjoyed an immunity from taxation.GB88963. Bronze AE 17, SNG Cop 63; SNG Munchen XX 471; BMC Ionia p. 26, 82; SNG Tubingen IV -; SNGvA -, F, dark patina, corrosion, weight 3.540 g, maximum diameter 16.6 mm, die axis 0o, Klazomenai (Urla, Turkey) mint, c. 386 - 300 B.C.; obverse head of Athena right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet; reverse ram recumbent right, KΛAZOME/NIΩN in two lines above, wreath (control symbol) lower right; ex ECIN; rare; $75.00 (€69.00)
Heracleia ad Latmon, Ionia, 165 - 140 B.C.
Beautiful style in very high grade!SH28907. Silver stephanophoric tetradrachm, Pozzi 2453, SNGvA 1976, SNG Lockett 2824, SNG Cop -, Choice EF, weight 17.005 g, maximum diameter 34.0 mm, die axis 270o, Heracleia ad Latmon mint, 165 - 140 B.C.; obverse head of Athena right wearing richly ornamented crested helmet; reverse HPAKΛEΩTΩN, club right, below owl standing right flanked by two monograms, all withing oak wreath; Heracleia ad Latmon; SOLD
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Cuomo takes aim at houses of worship, mass gatherings in hot spots
By FOX 5 NY Staff and The Associated Press
New York takes action on COVID clusters
Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the return of restrictions on businesses, schools, and religious services in several coronavirus hot spots in New York.
NEW YORK - New York state will reinstate restrictions on businesses, houses of worship and schools in and near areas where coronavirus cases are spiking, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday, saying the severity of shutdowns would vary by proximity to the hot spots.
Set to take effect no later than Friday, the new rules will affect parts of Brooklyn and Queens in New York City, sections of Orange and Rockland counties in the Hudson Valley, and an area within Binghamton in the Southern Tier.
The planned restrictions include school and business shutdowns in some areas; others will see limitations on gatherings and restaurant diners.
But an Orthodox Jewish organization called the action "appalling to all people of religion and good faith" and threatened to explore all options to undo it.
The plan marks a sizeable step back after a cautious reopening this spring and summer in New York, an early U.S. hot spot of the pandemic and the deadliest. While the daily toll dropped dramatically after a surge in March and early April, more than 33,000 New Yorkers in all have died of COVID-19, more than in any other state, according to figures collected by Johns Hopkins University.
NYC business owners say they won't survive another shutdown
"This is about protecting people and saving lives," Cuomo, a Democrat, said at a news conference in Albany.
In the hearts of the hot spots — color-coded as red zones — schools will close to in-person learning, only essential businesses could remain open, houses of worship could convene no more than 10 people at once, and restaurants could offer only takeout. (Story continues)
Houses of worship in NYC hot spots
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said that coronavirus spreads the fastest because of gatherings of large groups of people. That is why houses of worship in hot spots have to restrict activities and events, he said. Cuomo acknowledged that this is a sensitive topic.
Those areas are surrounded by "orange" or yellow" zones, according to maps the state released later Friday.
In orange zones, schools also will be remote-only, and nonessential enterprises considered high risk — such as gyms and personal-care businesses — will be closed. Religious institutions are to be restricted to 25 people, and restaurants can offer limited outdoor dining, with a maximum of four guests per table.
In yellow zones, businesses and schools can stay open, with mandatory weekly testing of a yet-to-be-determined percentage of students and teachers. Religious institutions can operate at half capacity, and restaurants may seat parties up to four indoors and out. (Story continues)
Broome County hot spot map
Brooklyn hot spot map
Orange County hot spot map
Queens hot spot 1 map and hot spot 2 map
Rockland County hot spot map
Rockland County Executive Ed Day, a Republican, said he backed the governor's plan and would do what he could to help implement it, calling the restrictions "measured and clearly focused." He urged residents to embrace their "civic duty to do what is right, not only for ourselves but for our entire community."
In Broome County, where part of Binghamton's west side will be subject to "yellow" zone rules, County Executive Jason Garnar said the restrictions could benefit an area that went from about 60 active cases 10 days ago to 458 on Tuesday.
"A lot of what we've seen is spread through the restaurants and the bars," said Garnar, a Democrat. He added: "Just as quick as we got into this, we can get out of this." (Story continues)
Gov. Andrew Cuomo, center, with Health Commissioner Howard Zucker, left, and Melissa DeRosa, the secretary to the governor, in Albany, N.Y., Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2020. (Governor's Press Office photo)
New York City's implementation is likely to begin Thursday, according to a tweet from Bill Neidhardt, a spokesman for Mayor Bill de Blasio.
A message seeking comment was left with officials in Orange County.
After a harrowing spring, New York boasted a steady and relatively low transmission rate over the summer. But clusters have sprouted recently, with rising infections.
In New York City, about 11,600 people have tested positive since Sept. 1, compared with less than 7,400 in August. In early April, 5,000 to 6,000 people or more tested positive each day.
The city has been averaging around four deaths from COVID-19 per day since Sept. 1, compared with nearly 550 daily in April. (Story continues)
FROM THE GOVERNOR'S OFFICE
The initiative will divide clusters and the areas around them into three categories with successively higher restrictions within each one:
Red Zone — Cluster Itself
Houses of Worship: 25 percent capacity, 10 people maximum
Mass Gatherings: Prohibited
Businesses: Only essential businesses open
Dining: Takeout only
Schools: Closed, remote only
Orange Zone — Warning Zone
Mass Gatherings: 10 people maximum, indoor and outdoor
Businesses: Closing high-risk non-essential businesses, such as gyms and personal care
Dining: Outdoor dining only, 4 person maximum per table
Yellow Zone — Precautionary Zone
Houses of Worship: 50 percent capacity
Businesses: Open
Dining: Indoor and outdoor dining, 4 person maximum per table
Schools: Open with mandatory weekly testing of students and teachers/staff for in-person settings. The New York State Department of Health will establish a percentage of teachers and students/staff who need to be tested by Friday.
The new restrictions came a day after Cuomo ordered the closing of schools in nine Brooklyn and Queens ZIP codes that have accounted for more than 25% of all new infections in the city over the past two weeks while representing just 7% of the population.
De Blasio had also proposed closing nonessential businesses in those areas, but Cuomo suggested that the boundaries needed to be drawn more broadly.
"We are at a crucial moment in our fight against the coronavirus," the Democratic mayor said at a virtual news briefing before Cuomo's announcement. "We have to bring everything we can to bear. We have to be tough about it."
The affected areas in the city are largely Orthodox Jewish strongholds, and some community members have complained of being singled out for enforcement.
Agudath Israel of America, an Orthodox Jewish umbrella organization, criticized what it said was a "surprise" measure and the 10-person limit in red zones, saying religious practices were being targeted.
In response to Cuomo saying earlier that he had productive conversations with community leaders, David Zwiebel, executive vice president of Agudath, said in the statement it "was largely a one-way monologue, and contained no mention of this new plan."
North of the city, Orange County Health Commissioner Dr. Irina Gelman ordered school closures for at least two weeks in Kiryas Joel, an Orthodox Jewish community where schools are already closed this week because of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot.
An average of nearly 28% of coronavirus tests have come back positive over the last three days in the village, also known as the Town of Palm Tree. Statewide, the daily average has been around 1% in recent days.
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Venezuelan military helicopter crashes, 7 officers killed
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CARACAS, Venezuela – Seven Venezuelan military officers have been killed when their helicopter crashed while heading to a state where President Nicolas Maduro appeared alongside troops Saturday.
The Cougar helicopter hurtled into a mountain outside Caracas in the early hours of an overcast day in the capital.
REP. ILHAN OMAR FIRES BACK AT VP PENCE FOR SAYING SHE 'DOESN'T KNOW WHAT SHE'S TALKING ABOUT' AMID VENEZUELA REMARKS
Pro-interim government opposition leader Juan Guaido, and pro-Nicolas Maduro supporters, separated by members of the uniformed Secret Service, rally outside of the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, Tuesday, April 30, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
The armed forces in a statement said the chopper was heading to San Carlos in Cojedes state. That's an hour away from a military academy where Maduro appeared early Saturday overseeing training exercises in a display of confidence in his armed forces following a week of intrigue that saw a small cadre of soldiers turn against him in an opposition-led uprising.
On board were two lieutenant colonels as well as five lower-ranking officers.
The statement didn't say if the chopper was part of the presidential delegations.
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Budget Blinds:
Budget Blinds Partners with Designing Spaces, Airing on Lifetime Television, to Help Transform the Home of a Family in Need
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A Grandmother and Her Four Grandchildren Receive a Home Makeover of a Lifetime
Orange, CA (PRWEB) April 02, 2013 - Budget Blinds – the leading window coverings franchise in the nation – recently partnered with the Lifetime channel’s popular home improvement show Designing Spaces™ to help renovate the home of a family in need. The show travels all over the country redefining and redesigning spaces by incorporating decorating trends, do-it-yourself projects, and step by step home improvements. The Designing Spaces episode featuring Budget Blinds will air on Lifetime television on Thursday, April 4th at 7:30am EST/PST as part of a three episode “Spaces of Hope” segment.
When the Broward County Sheriff’s Office found Florida resident Joy Stewart and her four grandchildren living in a run-down home with little food, no heat, no running water and no electricity, they immediately called on the community for help. Joy had rescued her four young grandchildren from a local shelter after they had been abandoned by their mother. Since then, she has struggled to keep the family afloat due to very limited financial resources.
Budget Blinds was honored to be among those who answered the call for help. Working closely with the dream team at Designing Spaces, Budget Blinds installed cordless honeycomb shades throughout the home. Cordless honeycomb shades were the ideal window coverings solution since they are kid-safe and provide a layer of insulation to help keep the home warm in winter, thus lowering the Stewart family’s heating expenses.
The honeycomb shades were made possible through a generous donation from Budget Blinds' trusted manufacturing partner Custom Brands Group, and by the hard measuring and installation work done by Budget Blinds franchisees and design experts Connie Bolton and Tom Kay.
“Since Joy has limited financial resources along with four grandchildren living in the home, it was important that we used child-friendly and energy efficient window coverings for this project,” said Connie Bolton. “A beautiful set of cordless honeycomb shades were the perfect solution. All of us at Budget Blinds are so proud to have been a part of making a difference in the Stewart family’s lives.”
The transformation of the Stewart family home on Designing Spaces - Spaces of Hope will span 3 episodes. The first airs April 4th, the second featuring Budget Blinds airs April 11th, and the last episode featuring the big reveal airs April 18th. They will all air on the Lifetime channel at 7:30am EST/PST. Be sure to tune in to watch Budget Blinds, Designing Spaces and others give Joy Stewart and her family a home makeover of a lifetime!
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Budget Blinds was founded in 1992 and is a Home Franchise Concepts® brand.
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Articles in press Sociodemographic aspects of the older population in front of COVID-19 pandemic in a...
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Sociodemographic aspects of the older population in front of COVID-19 pandemic in a developing country: the case of Peru
Aspectos sociodemográficos de la población adulta mayor frente a la pandemia de la COVID-19 en un país en vías de desarrollo: el caso de Perú
Juan-Diego Mendoza-Saldaña
juan.mendoza.s@upch.pe
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, J. Enrique Viton-Rubio
School of Medicine Alberto Hurtado, Peruvian University Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru
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Table 1. Cases, deaths by COVID-19 and case fatality rates (data updated September 9, 2020).
On August 2020, National Institute of Statistics and Information updated population data (32,625,948 citizens)1 in which Peru became the second country with the highest mortality rate from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) around the world with 91.5 deaths per 100,000 people and a case fatality rate (CFR) of 4.32%.2 It is known public health system deficiencies could contribute to high mortality rates but sociodemographic features of individuals over 60 years old (older adult) are also matter factors which may explain the impact of the disease.
First of all, older adults are a risk group for severe COVID-19 and represent 12.7% of the national population1. In fact, almost 70% of COVID-19 deaths have been of this group age in Peru. We did not have access to the quantity data of stratified age groups but present CFRs by age and sex in Table 1. Our findings determined that males between 90-99 years was the most affected age group (CFR=39.35%). In accordance with the current evidence,3,4 we corroborated older adults and men were the most affected groups.
Cases, deaths by COVID-19 and case fatality rates (data updated September 9, 2020).
Over 100 years
Cases Total 17731 31731 117138 154091 137889 113166 70551 36254 15264 2666 117
Women 8492 16514 56590 72760 62502 50358 31662 15754 6794 1365 74
Men 9239 14662 60548 81331 75387 62808 38889 20500 8470 1301 43
Deaths Total 78 62 241 834 2444 5495 8432 7399 4269 849 20
Women 35 26 87 245 613 1344 2495 2314 1446 337 8
Men 43 36 154 589 1831 4151 5937 5085 2823 512 12
Case fatality rates Total 0.44 0.20 0.21 0.54 1.77 4.86 11.95 20.41 27.97 31.85 17.09
Women 0.41 0.16 0.15 0.34 0.98 2.67 7.88 14.69 21.28 24.69 10.81
Men 0.47 0.25 0.25 0.72 2.43 6.61 15.27 24.80 33.33 39.35 27.91
On the other hand, 42% and 29.5% of nuclear and extended families had at least one older adult respectively; and 19.6% were one-older adult households1, so they might be exposed to potential cases. In order to contain COVID-19, Peruvian government has implemented several strategies and diffuse mainly precautionary measures through the media. Nevertheless, 66.3% and 61.1% of households with at least one older adult do not have internet service and cable television, respectively and almost 17 out of every 100 older adults are illiterate at the national level1. These conditions may make it difficult the access to preventive information.
Staying at home has also been recommended but this is unlikely because 14.9% of older adults are in poverty, more than half who work (53.5%) are independent and 63% does not have any retirement system3. Furthermore, 63% of the national population, with at least one older adult, do not have a refrigerator.1 These characteristics influence this group in order to go out street or to work in informal jobs, exposing themselves to contagion risk and possible adverse outcomes.
Finally, another recommendation to avoid COVID-19 is frequent hand washing. Indeed, it has been recognized as the most efficient form of prevention among Peruvian general population (98.2%).5 Although, 10% of households, with at least one older adult, still do not have a public water supply network.1
COVID-19 pandemic affected Peru in a vulnerability context for the older population. This letter suggests sociodemographic components, including age, sex, type of household, the situation of internet service and cable television, illiteracy, economic situation, job category, the state of retirement system, the possession of refrigerator and the condition of water service, are potential key factors in shaping the pattern of COVID-19 deaths across the country. It is necessary to find a suitable way to support and reach this risk population.
The data of COVID-19 cases and deaths used in this letter are freely available online in Spanish at National Open Data Platform: https://www.datosabiertos.gob.pe/search/field_topic/covid-19-917?sort_by=changed.
J.D. Mendoza-Saldaña and J.E. Viton-Rubio contributed to conceptualization, data curation, formal analysis, writing-original draft, writing-review and editing. Authors guarantee the precision, transparency and honesty of the data and information contained in the letter; no relevant information has been omitted; and that all discrepancies between authors have been adequately resolved.
Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática. Estado de la población peruana 2020. Lima; 2020. Available at: https://www.inei.gob.pe/media/MenuRecursivo/publicaciones_digitales/Est/Lib1743/Libro.pdf.
Worldometer. COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. 2020. Available at: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?.
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The contribution of the age distribution of cases to COVID-19 case fatality across countries.
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M. Alkhouli, A. Nanjundappa, F. Annie, et al.
Sex differences in case fatality rate of COVID-19: insights from a multinational registry.
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Knowledge, perception and attitudes in regard to COVID-19 pandemic in Peruvian population.
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Flipkart Republic Day sale kicks off, discount on a wide range of mobiles, tablets and other electronics
Flipkart kicked off its Republic Day sale yesterday. It has collaborated with the State Bank of India in order to offer 10 percent instant discount to the bank’s credit card holders. Moreover, Flipkart is going to offer a bundled payment and exchange offers with a few products. For your convenience, we have enlisted some of them here for you, the best discount offers in specific gadgets. The first one is the Apple iPad Pro 10.5-inch model. The price has been cut down to Rs 42,999 from Rs 50,800. There is an additional Rs 14,900 discount with an exchange of an old smartphone.
The next in line is the Realme 2 Pro smartphone. This mobile is available at a temporary price of Rs 16,990 from its original amount of Rs 17,990. Just like the iPad Pro 10.5-inch model, there is a special discount if you exchange your old smartphone when buying this gadget. The special offer is worth Rs 13,900. The Realme 2 Pro has a single 8GB RAM variant that comes with a 128GB internal storage. It sports a 6.3-inch full HD+ display and a dual rear camera setup. The smartphone is powered by Snapdragon 660 SoC.
The Asus ZenFone Max M2 32GB variant can also be purchased at a discounted price of Rs 9,499. This limited period offer has been established by cutting down its original price that was Rs 12,999. The smartphone has a 3GB RAM and is powered by Snapdragon 632 processor. The device houses a large 4,000mAh battery and has a dual rear camera setup. The front facing camera meant for taking selfies consists of an 8MP sensor.
The Acer Nitro Ryzen5 Laptop, Microsoft Xbox One S 1TB and the Motorola One Power 64GB variant are offered at discounted prices of Rs 49,990, Rs 18,990 and Rs 13,999 respectively. Contrastingly, their original prices are Rs 79,999, Rs 30,999 and Rs 18,999. Other devices which have very attractive discounts is the Nokia 5.1 Plus (32GB variant), Nokia 6.1 Plus (64GB variant) and Acer Predator Helios 300.
The Nokia 5.1 Plus which was earlier priced at Rs 10,999 will now cost Rs 9,999. The Nokia 6.1 Plus price drop has reduced its amount from Rs 17,600 to Rs 14,999. The Acer Predator Helios 300 can now be bought at Rs 94,990 because of its substantial price cut from Rs 1,39,999.
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Google Photos app starts receiving the dark mode with a new update: Here are all the details
The dark mode on Google Photos comes before the launch of Android Q.
Dark Mode has gained a lot of popularity in the last few months because it puts less strain on users’ eyes and saves battery life. A number of apps and platforms have rolled out the Dark Mode for their users and some are working on it. The latest app to join this list if Google Photos as the technology giant has already started rolling out the Dark Mode to it.
The version 4.17.0.249919200 of Google Photos comes with the much-awaited dark mode however, currently it is not being rolled out to all the users of the app. It will take some time for the application’s roll out with the dark mode for all the users. With this, Google Photos has become another product from Google to receive a dark theme after Google Chrome, Drive, Keep and Auto. We should mention that much like other Google applications to receive the dark mode, Google Photos does not have a pure OLED theme black but a dark grey. Other colourful aspects of the application have also been dialed down to a darker shade.
Earlier, when Android Lollipop was launched, Google decided to White-out every app along with the Android system. It did not include just the system settings, quick tile panels and the app drawer window, but even all of its Google-made products which were present in the device. It is already known that the AMOLED display panels are great in displaying colours, and they display the black colour better than the LCD display panels. That is one of the reasons the app developers and the device manufacturers themselves have started putting new dark theme to their system UI or the application itself. OF course, the fact that it saved the battery life of the smartphones is also a very key reason. Popular applications such as Reddit, Twitter, Pocket, YouTube and Messenger have already got the Dark Mode and Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook developing this mode.
Google will soon be launching its new Android Q and the company has also said that it will be rolling out a system-wide dark mode with the new operating system version. Other than the apps mentioned above to get the dark mode, Google is trying to bring the dark mode for all its platforms and services before the launch of the stable version of Android Q. At the Google I/O 2019, Android Q beta 3 was rolled out and it came out with an option with which the user can properly enable the system-wide dark mode. Once activated, the supported applications will also get darkened out.
Currently, Google Photos’ new update is being rolled out with the new mode but it is not available for all the users. To activate the dark mode, users would need to enable it through a server-side switch.
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As Fortnite Popularity Rises, PUBG Dev Admits Its Game Has "Fallen Short" In Some Areas
Eddie Makuch
April 21, 2019 at 7:30PM PDT
"There's so much work we have to do to truly deliver on PUBG's potential."
This time last year, it was PUBG setting the records and getting most of the attention in the battle royale genre, but now Fortnite is dominating in almost every way. Part of what makes Fortnite so appealing is that developer Epic Games updates and the game on a near-constant basis with new content and tweaks, which encourages players to continue coming back to see what's new and improved. And that in turn gets more people spending money on the free-to-play game's microtransactions, which have reportedly been incredibly lucrative. PUBG also updates regularly, but now developer PUBG Corp. has acknowledged that the game has "fallen short" in some ways.
In a blog post recently, the studio said it's been focused on hiring as part of its effort to "invest in [PUBG's] ongoing development." Alongside the hiring, the studio is working on new content--like the Sanhok map--and various "quality of life" improvements. On top of this, the studio is working on a "series of aggressive anti-cheat measures" for PUBG. The studio has made strides and the game is generally speaking in a better place now, but it hasn't all been sunshine and rainbows for PUBG Corp.
"Although we've made some meaningful improvements to PUBG, we've fallen short in other ways," the developer said. "Players have rightfully called us out for failing to address complaints about performance, and recently we haven't done the best job of communicating about the changes we're making to the game."
To address this, PUBG Corp. published the first in a series of "Dev Letters" that aim to give the player community and update on what's been going on at the studio and what they can expect from PUBG going forward.
The full blog post is very in-depth and well worth a read for PUBG fans. In short, the company listed off three main priorities that PUBG Corp. will focus on in the future, and these include performance, server-side optimization, and cheating.
Looking ahead, the new map Sanhok should be available on PUBG's live servers "before the end of June." After that, the studio will new vehicles and one weapon that will be exclusive to Sanhok.
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"We'll have a lot more to share about the other goodies coming to Sanhok in the coming weeks," the developer explained. "There's so much work we have to do to truly deliver on PUBG's potential."
While PUBG may not be as popular as it once was, it remains an absolute juggernaut. It had more than 1.5 million concurrent players on Steam today, which puts it firmly at the top of Steam's most-played game chart. That number is down from a record peak high of around 3 million. The game is also on Xbox One and mobile where it is also incredibly popular.
For lots more on the battle royale genre, check out GameSpot's recent feature, "Battle Royale Games Explained: Fortnite, PUBG, And The History Of A New Trend."
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Sigma Star Saga Weapon Customization Spotlight
Namco producer Philip Cohen discusses the innovative weapon customization system that is featured in the shooter sections of this upcoming RPG.
By Gamespot Staff on May 17, 2006 at 3:08PM PDT
Currently scheduled for release in North America next week, Sigma Star Saga is a GBA-exclusive role-playing game in which you'll assume the role of a starfighter pilot. It makes perfect sense then that the game will feature side-scrolling shoot-'em-up sequences. Developer WayForward wasn't content with just putting out a garden variety shooter, though, so it came up with an intriguing weapon customization system, as producer Philip Cohen explains.
Gun Data Options
By Philip Cohen
Creating your own custom weapons is as easy as constructing a sentence.
When I first sat down with WayForward to hammer out how we would handle custom weapons, one of the guys (I don't remember exactly who, but it was probably Matt Bozon) brought up this idea they were working on independently for an easy-to-use customization system. It would work like piecing together a sentence…you have a beginning, middle, and an end. By replacing one of the three sections with different variables, you could have an amazing amount of custom weapon possibilities. It's sort of like "Mad Libs" but in a game.
After a bit of work, the weapon customization menu was up and running! All of us would waste an amazing amount of time just trying out every combo we could think of and throwing it into a very early version of one of the current stages to see how it would behave. Truthfully, we only had a sliver of an idea of the types of custom weapons that would be possible. We couldn't believe the outcome of some of the combinations!
While tweaking the customization options, it became clear to us that some of the Gun Data we had just wasn't behaving properly when combined with other Gun Data, and they had to get the axe because we had to master the final version before we could fix them (time is the root of all good and evil in development). In some cases, the Gun Data would work fine, but was just way too powerful when combined correctly. Those were the ones that hurt the most to get rid of. My favorite of these, which I hope to see in a potential sequel, was the flamethrower! Slap it together with the Triple Node Orbit and you would have a circular wall of fire that surrounded your ship, eradicating anything it touched. You could just fly through the game and run into everything to defeat it. Though it got pulled from the final version, you can still see it briefly on the weapon customization menu with a Single Node Orbit in one of the videos we've released online.
Gun Data that you find on foot will afford you more weapon possibilities when you climb into your starfighter.
With so many possible combinations of Gun Data to discover and mess around with, it can seem a bit overwhelming at times. Be sure to search everywhere as thoroughly as possible, and use your Scanner Tool everywhere you walk to find all the Gun Data. Be sure to help your buddies that are playing the game to find the Gun Data also, and see what combos each of you likes. One of the great things about Sigma Star Saga is that each player will have his or her favorite combo, which makes for a unique gameplay experience for everyone!
My favorite combos are the ones that tread the line between raw power and just zany behavior that's fun to watch. Here are three of my favorite combos (cannon type, bullet type, impact type):
Triple Node Orbit, Bounce Shot, Boomerang
With this combo, your shots will be bouncing all over the place--and when you hit anything the shots will bounce back in the opposite direction! You're basically raining down chaos. Alternately, you can switch out the impact type with Splinter, and you'll have even more objects flying around onscreen.
Triple Cannon, Super Wave Shot, Barrier
Here's a powerful Gun Data combo you can reasonably obtain by Chapter 4 (though I think you can start messing around with the Triple Cannon around Chapter 2, which I recommend doing because then you'll be cool like that). This combo creates a chaotic wave of crisscrossing bullets that make it nearly impossible for anything in front of you to get by, and when an enemy gets hit, a wall of energy forms in front of them that any enemy coming up from behind them smashes into! Not so great for tight spots though, so watch out!
Max Spread Cannon, Bubble Shot, Bubble
Hehe--this one isn't really all that useful, but it makes me laugh. What a way to go--killed by an onslaught of bubbles. Actually, you'll find that it's more effective than you would think in wide-open areas. And you're attacking with bubbles, which also makes you cool. Try swapping out the Cannon Type with whatever you desire to see other crazy weapon behavior.
Sigma Star Saga is currently scheduled for release on August 16. Expect a full review early next week.
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Micro-transactions and pay-to-win in video games
It’s 9:30AM, you’ve just returned home from your local Gamestop, having purchased the title that you’ve been waiting longer than you thought was possible to release. It’s finally in the disc drive of your console, the install is done and you’re ready to play. You work your way through the campaign, enjoying every blissful second.
Euphorically, you hit ‘multiplayer’ – you’re ready to face to challenges that online multiplayer has to offer. It’s time to prove to the universe what you’re worth. Matchmaking is quick, within minutes you’re in a game; only to be greeted with players who have weapons that are tiers above yours, armor that could stop a nuclear missile and outfits that make them look absolutely badass while they one shot you from a barely conceivable distance. Angrily, you exit the lobby. Immediately you’re greeted with a pop-up linking you to the store:
‘Visit the store now to purchase ‘X’ weapon and armor. Only $29.99. Alternatively, you can purchase our season pass and immediately have access to one bonus weapon normally not available until level 12,000’.
It dawns on you: the people you were fighting so aggressively against put their credit card details in and purchased their way to the top of the game. Your enjoyment has been hampered, the multiplayer feels skewed in favor of those with money that are prepared to spend whatever it takes to get the latest and greatest equipment in the game.
The terms ‘micro-transactions’ and ‘pay-to-win’ carry a damaging connotation with them. Without the want or ability to spend an additional ‘$XX.XX’, you’re either going to spend hundreds of hours to get that solid gold Desert Eagle or you’re simply not going to be able to get it at all.
I’ve spent some time researching the definitions of both ‘micro-transaction’ and ‘pay-to-win’, because I believe that there are some cases where the purchase of additional in-game items is perfectly reasonable. Shark Cards in Grand Theft Auto, for example, are not a requirement to participate in Grand Theft Auto Online. You’re able to earn money by completing missions, robbing stores or selling stolen cars. Granted, you have to work for it, but it’s not unattainable.
Through all my research, I’ve come to the conclusion that the definition of both ‘micro-transaction’ and ‘pay-to-win’ are as follows*:
Micro-transaction:
‘Micro-transactions’ reflect a business model which enables players to purchase virtual goods via micro-payments.
Pay-to-win:
‘Pay-to-win’ reflects games that allow the player to purchase better gear or items, via ‘micro-transaction’, that are either unavailable without purchase or require an unfathomable amount of play-time to attain. An advantage that cannot be attained any other way.
A ‘pay-to-win’ game generally features ‘micro-transactions’, but a game that features ‘micro-transactions’ doesn’t automatically become ‘pay-to-win’. An example of this is Forza 6. The player is given the ability to purchase in-game tokens, which enable purchase of vehicles otherwise unaffordable without playing through the campaign. These cars become available via game progression, but can be fast tracked via a ‘micro-transaction’.
It gets quite difficult to distinguish the two, especially when you factor in how many games are being released in an unfinished state, or have season passes available for purchase that include twice the amount of gameplay included in your original $60 purchase for one more small payment of $60.
Gaming today is a messy, business riddled entity that quite often preys on unsuspecting gamers, whether it be parents purchasing for their children or people such as myself who actively game as a hobby. The introduction of ‘micro-transactions’ has opened up a plethora of avenues for game developers and publishers to reach further into the pockets of consumers, without the need to produce substantial amounts of content such as new environments or story missions.
I myself am guilty of pulling out my credit card to purchase currency in Grand Theft Auto Online, purchasing a brand new car or jet – but more often than not, I’m quick to find others that have made the same purchase as me, having worked their way to a decent in-game bank account and reaped the benefit of their play time.
‘Pay-to-win’ games are a separate entity altogether – to group the general population of ‘pay-to-win’ titles with any triple A release, indie release or old-school title is cardinal sin. No great game is ‘pay-to-win’. Clash of Clans is ‘pay-to-win’, Adventure Capitalist is ‘pay-to-win’.
Steer clear of ‘pay-to-win’ titles. They’re designed to have players reaching into their pockets deeper and deeper with every day that passes, providing just enough joy and flashing lights to make you want more; preying on your natural urges. The flipside of that is, if you want to reskin your gun in CS:GO, and it’s going to cost you $2.99, go for it – you’re not getting an unfair advantage over other players, you’re not buying your way to the top. Who cares?
Gaming is something that should be enjoyed. The introduction of consoles was designed to make gaming an affordable household hobby, which it is. Even a top-end gaming PC isn’t a unachievable feat anymore. Make sure you invest your money where it matters, and not on 30 more coins to save a 100 hour wait to advance to the next level.
There are several different trains of thought on the definitions of both ‘micro-transactions’ and ‘pay-to-win’, I’d love to hear yours and discuss this further. Let me know your thoughts in the comments section below.
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Ferry to Kefalonia
Ferry destinations
Kefalonia is the largest and greenest island of the Ionian Sea, Greece. It is located between Lefkada and Zakynthos. It is a beautiful and authentic island with beautiful beaches and villages.
You will find below information about how to get to Kefalonia by ferry, where to buy your tickets and information about Kefalonia and its ports, with many photos.
HOW TO GET TO KEFALONIA BY FERRY
Ferries to Kefalonia depart from the ports of Kilini and Patras, in west Peloponnese. The ferry trip from Kilini to Kefalonia lasts for 1 and a half hours and from Patras to Kefalonia for 3 hours. Kefalonia island is directly connected by ferry with Bari and Brindisi in Italy, Zakynthos, Corfu and Ithaki. Note tha Kefalonia has 4 ports: Sami and Poros are the main ports, but Argostoli and Lixouri are local ports making ferry routes from one another.
Ferry schedules to Kefalonia
There are daily ferries to Kefalonia from Kilini and Patras ports. In the summer, ferry routes are more frequent and there are also many daily ferries to Kefalonia from other Ionian islands.
Ferry from Kilini to Kefalonia (Poros)
At least 3 ferries from Kilini to Kefalonia (Poros port) depart every day from morning to night. The duration of the ferry trip from Kilini to Kefalonia is 1 and a half hours. The cost of the ferry ticket for this itinerary is '10' 'EUR' (10 Euros).
> Book your ferry tickets to Poros Kefalonia from Kilini
Ferry from Patras to Kefalonia (Sami)
There is at least one ferry connection between Patras and Kefalonia (Sami port) on a daily basis. The ferry trip from Patras to Kefalonia lasts for 3 hours and the cost of the ferry ticket is '13' 'EUR' (13 Euros).
> Book your ferry tickets to Sami Kefalonia from Patras
Ferry from Ithaki to Kefalonia
There are many ferries from Ithaki to Kefalonia (Poros and Sami) every day. The duration of the ferry trip is 20-50 minutes and the cost of the ferry ticket is '2' 'EUR' (2 Euros) - '8' 'EUR' (8 Euros).
> Book your ferry tickets to Kefalonia from Ithaka
What types of ferries travel to/from Kefalonia?
The only type of ferry that travels to/from Kefalonia is the conventional ferry. The main ferry company that serves itineraries to Kefalonia is the Ionian Group ferry company.
Island-hopping from Kefalonia
Kefalonia is a good base for island-hopping to the Ionian islands. Some of the most popular island-hopping routes from Kefalonia are from Kefalonia to Zakynthos, from Kefalonia to Ithaki, and from Kefalonia to Corfu.
Travel tips to organize your travel:
Kefalonia has 2 ports, Poros and Sami, so make sure you double-check at which port you arrive. Usually, ferries from Kilini arrive at Poros port, and ferries from Patras arrive at Sami port.
The best way to plan your trip to Kefalonia is to book your ferry tickets in advance, as Greek ferries may be fully booked, especially in July and August.
Patras is 3 hours away from Athens and Kilini is 3.5 hours away from Athens. The best way to reach these ports is either by car or by bus from the Central Bus Station in Kifisos.
HOW TO BOOK FERRY TICKETS TO KEFALONIA?
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INFORMATION ABOUT KEFLONIA
Kefalonia became known all over the world when it constitued the wonderful setting for the Hollywood movie “Captain Corelli’s Mandolin”. Scenes from the film were filmed in Sami, Argostoli and Antisamos.
Kefalonia is the largest and greenest island of the Ionian Sea. It is located between Lefkada and Zakynthos, with frequent connections by ferry to Kefalonia. The island has a population of 45,000 permanent inhabitants, whose main resource comes from agriculture, fishing and tourism. The landscape of Kefalonia is very mountainous. In fact, its highest peak is Mount Ainos, which has been declared a National Natural Park.
Excavations have shown that the history of Kefalonia started in the ancient times. However, the island reached its cultural peak during the Venetian rule, which lasted from the 15th till the 19th century. That period, many schools and theatres opened, while the local noblemen would go to Italy to study. Important public works were also built, like bridges, public buildings, lighthouses and roads. Unfortunately, the earthquake that hit Kefalonia in 1953 destroyed many of these works and caused severe damages.
The capital of Kefalonia is Argostoli, a place with nice architecture. The trademark of Argostoli is the De Bosset Bridge, which was built in 1833 and connects the town to the opposite peninsula. Other beautiful villages on Kefalonia are Fiscardo, on the northern side, and Lixouri, right opposite Argostoli. Both these villages have colorful houses and lovely ports with lots of fish taverns and relaxing waterfronts to stroll around.
Apart from traditional villages, Kefalonia also has wonderful beaches. In fact, they are considered among the best beaches in the Mediterranean. The most photographed beach of Kefalonia is certainly Myrtos, a large bay with exotic blue water. Other beautiful beaches on Kefalonia are Antisamos, Skala and Xi.
Why visit Kefalonia?
Hop on a ferry to Kefalonia for amazing beaches, emerald waters, beautiful natural landscapes, and yummy food!
The Hollywood movie “Captain Corelli’s Mandolin” was filmed in Kefalonia.
The island has a population of 45,000 permanent inhabitants, whose main occupations are agriculture, fishing, and tourism.
The landscape of Kefalonia is very mountainous. Its highest peak of the island is Mount Ainos, which has been declared as a National Natural Park.
The most popular beaches in Kefalonia are Myrtos, Antisamos, Skala, and Xi.
The best season to visit Kefalonia
The best season to visit Kefalonia is the summer, if you want to enjoy the island’s beaches and nature. However, Kefalonia is also beautiful in spring, when nature is in full bloom and the weather is warm.
Is Kefalonia for you?
Kefalonia is a great option for holidays with family and friends, as it offers a wide variety of landscapes and accommodations for every taste.
Sightseeing in Kefalonia
In Kefalonia, you’ll find many amazing places for sightseeing. Melissani Cave, Drogarati Cave, the Archaeological Museum, Katavothres, and the Castle of Saint George should be on your list!
More about Kefalonia
Discover more online resources about Kefalonia island:
Kefaloniaisland.org: The official website of Kefalonia.
Kefalonia by Wikipedia: Kefalonia by the most famous online Encyclopedia.
Photos of Kefalonia
Available ports in Kefalonia
Kefalonia has 4 ports:
LIXURI
POROS (KEFALONIA)
About Argostoli Port
Connected ports to Argostoli
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Port description
Argostoli is the capital town of Kefalonia, one of the most beautiful islands of the Ionian Sea. The port of Argostoli is frequently connected by ferry to Lixouri, another town in Kefalonia built just opposite the bay of Argostoli. There are also ferries from Argostoli to Killini, in mainland Greece.
There are frequent buses that connect Argostoli to the most popular villages in Kefalonia, including Sami, Skala, Fiscardo, Agia Efimia and other smaller villages along the way. The bus stop is a walking distance from the port of Argostoli, opposite De Bosset Bridge.
Photos of Argostoli port
About Lixuri Port
Connected ports to Lixuri
Lixouri is a port town in Kefalonia, just opposite Argostoli. The port of Lixouri receives mostly ferries from Argostoli every 30 min and in summer there are ferries from Killini via Argostoli.
There are local ferries from Argostoli to Lixouri every 30 min in summer. Buses also connect Lixouri to Sami, Atheras and smaller villages in the peninsula of Palliki.
Photos of Lixuri port
About Poros (Kefalonia) Port
Connected ports to Poros (Kefalonia)
Ithaki, Pisaetos - Kilini - Zakynthos
Poros is the main port of Kefalonia. It is located on the eastern side of the island and receives ferries from the port of Killini in Peloponnese.
Green buses connect the port of Poros with Skala, the closest tourist place, and Argostoli, the capital of the island, crossing the valley of Livathos.
Photos of Poros (Kefalonia) port
About Sami Port
Connected ports to Sami
Igoumenitsa - Ithaki, Pisaetos - Ithaki, Vathi - Kilini - Patra - Italy, Bari - Italy, Brindisi
Sami is a port in the north eastern side of Kefalonia that gets very busy in summer. Ferries connect Sami to Patras and Astakos in mainland Greece, Italy, Pisaetos in Ithaca and Nydri/ Vassiliki in Lefkada.
There are buses to Sami from Argostoli, Poros, Fiscardo, Agia Efimia and other villages on the way. There are also many taxis on the island.
Photos of Sami port
Frequent Ferry Connections
kilini
italy, bari
italy, brindisi
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MAN FROM UNCLE Takes Over Turner Classic Movies Tomorrow
November 5, 2007 Rich Drees Movie News
Open channel D . . . Errr, channel TCM.
Last month we recommended hunting down the most recent issue of CinemaRetro magazine, in part due to its first installment of a multi-part series on The Man From UNCLE series of theatrical features made from episodes of the classic 60s spy series.
Well tomorrow Turner Classic Movies is running all eight of the Man From UNCLE compilations between 6 am and 7:30 pm, starting with 1964’s To Trap A Spy, a 92-minute re-edit of the television series’ original hour long pilot.
One change that fans will notice right away is the absence of UNCLE mastermind Mr. Waverly, played by Leo G. Carroll. When the pilot was originally produced, the head of the spy organization was named Mr. Allison and was played by Will Kuluva. However, when Kuluva was unable to commit to the series, his scenes were re-shot with Carroll for the broadcast version of the pilot, but they were left intact in the expanded film version. Also, there was a legal question surrounding the use of the name THRUSH for the villainous organization that Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin, as personified by Robert Vaughn and David McCallum, would be up against, so the name WASP was overdubbed instead.
You can check out the complete day’s schedule here.
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Little Miss Sunshine USA 2006 | 99 min | OV | | FF 2006
JONATHAN DAYTON (*1957) and VALERIE FARIS (*1958) have made numerous music videos and TV series. Their debut feature Little Miss Sunshine (2006) won numerous prizes, including two Oscars. The film had its German premiere at FILMFEST HAMBURG.
JONATHAN DAYTON (*1957) and VALERIE JEAN FARIS (*1958) are a pair of US film directors. Their debut film Little Miss Sunshine (Hamburg 2006) was a huge hit and won two Oscars. Previously, the two had developed show concepts for MTV, made music videos for bands like REM and Oasis and were active in the TV. series segment.
Grandpa takes coke, 15-year-old Dwayne does not speak, Uncle Frank is suicidal, Pops a hapless selfmade-man, Mummy thinks nutrition is fast food with a salad, and seven-year-old Olive wears spectacles as grand as her dreams. Welcome to the Hoovers, the most broken family in film history. Great performances (Toni Collette, Alan Arkin, Greg Kinnear) earned standing ovations at the Sundance Film Festival.
Original title: Little Miss Sunshine
Language and subtitles: OV
Director: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
Screenplay: Michael Arndt
Cast: Abigail Breslin, Greg Kinnear, Paul Dano, Toni Collette
Producer: Marc Turtletaub, David T. Friendly
Director of Photography: Tim Suhrstedt
Music: Mychael Danna, Devotchka
Production Design: Kalina Ivanov
Editor: Pamela Martin
Format: 35 mm
German Distributor: 20th Century Fox of Germany
World Sales: Twentieth Century Fox, 10201 West Pico Boulevard, Los Angeles CA 90035, USA, e-mail: www.foxmovies.com
Production: Big Beach Films, Bona Fide Productions
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A Celabration of Life - Jose "Chuy" Ramirez
Rafael Gutierrez
Nico Moya
Jared Chavez
Mariana Holt
Daniel Ramirez is organizing this fundraiser.
It is with a heavy heart that I must inform family and friends that our father, Jose "Chuy" Ramirez, passed away on 12/4/2020 due to complications stemming from the COVID-19 virus. Leaving behind his loving Wife, Children, Brothers/Sisters, His Parents and Countless friends.
Our family is shocked and saddened by this unexpected loss and unfortunately not financially prepared.
We are in disbelief, and cannot fully express the pain we feel after losing the biggest piece to our puzzle. Chuy constantly provided the greatest memories for us growing up and gave the absolute best lives to our family. He was self-made, hard-working and so dedicated to his family.
For those of you who knew him, understand the devastation and impact that this will have on both his Family and Friends. He truly enjoyed making everyone laugh and always had sound advice.
There was something very special about him when he walked into a room. His smile was contagious, and his humor was infectious.
Our Father’s passing has shown how many lives he touched, and how big his community is. It is truly amazing how he has brought both happy and sad tears to see and hear all the memories he shared with so many people that he encountered. His one of a kind soul will be carried throughout this earth for eternity.
It’s heartbreaking to know that he was alone to fight for his life then pass without loved ones by his side. This coronavirus disease causes complete devastation, separation, anxiety, and heartbreak to the sick and their loved ones.
My family is forever Grateful and appreciates every single one of you who can help raise funds on Chuy's behalf.
This will sincerely help our Mom with any costs: memorial and other expenses as she painfully tries to adjust to life without her "Chuy".
From the bottom of our hearts the Ramirez Family is truly THANKFUL for all your prayers and support during these difficult times.
Dad.... go play catch with Sergio!
Ramirez Strong!!!
Daniel Ramirez
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Jose Medrano: Medical and Memorial Fund
Randall Dana
Zak Taylor
Jose Gris
Rosa Medina
Tamela Derosso
Novema Medrano is organizing this fundraiser on behalf of Metotisi Sanele.
Written by Alma, Jose’s niece:
For those of you who knew my uncle, you’d know that he was a fighter. He would always set his mind to something and fight whatever and whoever to make it happen. It was this way that he fought to provide for his family. It was this way that he built his company from the ground up. It was this was he lived his life.
Knowing the way he fought, makes this especially difficult.
On Friday, November 6th, while at work he fell from a roof and ended up breaking 3 discs in his back and 6 ribs. At first, the doctors said they could so surgery to fix his back after the swelling went down, but unfortunately due to the damage his lungs sustained after a few days they let us know, that it was no longer an option.
Knowing his fighting spirit and his stubbornness, we prayed and hoped that he would be alright, after all this was a man that never stopped moving. He was a man that at 53 years old could school almost anyone in a game of racquetball... Unexpectedly, he developed pneumonia and later on his renal system began to fail.
On Thanksgiving, after 3 weeks of praying, hoping and fighting we got a call from the doctors letting us know it was time to say goodbye.
Due to covid-19 restrictions only my Aunt and my dad (his brother) were allowed to go in person. The rest of our family, his kids included, bid our farewells through one last FaceTime.
My Uncle never like asking for help. However, he was always the first one to offer it. He would always welcome family into his home when needed, send money to family whenever they fell on hard times or help out a friend in an instant. He was a pillar of strength in our family.
While he wouldn’t have it this way, asking for help, at this point we don’t have another choice as he was the sole provider for his family. He leaves behind his loving wife and 3 children, who are now responsible for 3 weeks worth of ICU medical bills, his funeral arrangements, and day to day expenses.
If you have the means to help, it would mean the world to us and we would be forever thankful.
Novema Medrano
Metotisi Sanele
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by Goldstein & Goldstein, LLP | Sep 20, 2013 | Car Accidents
A driver’s negligence is probably the most common cause of a car accident in the United States. A driver who sends text messages while driving and fails to comply with traffic laws is considered a negligent driver. If a motor vehicle accident occurs, factors such as distracted driving are often scrutinized, which will determine if the driver was negligent. This could also determine if the driver is also liable for the victim’s compensation.
From Newark to Graniteville is approximately a 20-minute drive and that is the route where a recent car accident occurred. A police officer rushed to help a pedestrian who was struck by a vehicle, and while the police officer assisted the victim, another car struck the officer. It was reported that car was driven by a driver with a suspended license.
The 52-year-old police officer sustained injuries and was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment. He is listed in stable condition. The driver with the suspended license was apprehended by the police. He may receive citations and other charges following the accident.
The responsible driver in a case like this might face criminal charges. Aside from this, the driver may be held liable for the injuries sustained by the victim. Following a car accident, a victim may obtain compensation by filing a personal injury lawsuit against the responsible party. A victim will receive awards and damages once he or she has proven the negligence of the defendant.
A car accident victim needs to understand that filing a personal injury lawsuit is not always a simple task. It involves a legal process that may require the assistance of a legal professional who can navigate the legal system. In New Jersey, a car accident victim may seek legal advice from a professional who can ensure the protection of the victim’s rights throughout the proceeding.
Source: NY Daily News, “Driver smashes into Staten Island cop car as officer rushes to help injured girl,” Mark Morales, Sep. 5, 2013
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Fauci: 'People Should Feel Confident' New COVID Vaccines Safe, Effective
by By Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
WEDNESDAY, Nov 25, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- The turnaround time -- from the emergence of the new coronavirus to the advent of multiple vaccines to prevent it -- has been nothing short of "breathtaking," said Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's leading expert on infectious disease.
Still, many Americans are still uncertain about getting a COVID-19 shot.
Speaking on Thursday with HD Live!, Fauci said "it's understandable that people might be concerned when there's something new that's put in front of them." Especially when initial projections had the approval of the first COVID-19 vaccine taking at least 18 months.
But that was then, he said.
"People need to understand that the speed of [vaccine development] is a reflection of the extraordinarily exquisite — breathtaking in some respects — advances in science which are allowing us to do things in weeks to months that formerly took years," Fauci explained. "Without compromising safety and without compromising scientific integrity."
Currently, pharmaceutical companies Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca have all presented trial data on their respective vaccine candidates that shows each to be highly effective and safe.
In trials involving tens of thousands of volunteers, vaccines from the first two companies have demonstrated about 95% effectiveness in preventing infection — a rate that exceeded most experts' expectations. The AstraZeneca vaccine has shown an effectiveness of between 70% to 90%, depending on the regimen used.
'Umbrella of protection'
Despite this good news, poll after poll shows many Americans still distrustful of any vaccine developed in so short a time.
One CNN poll, taken early last month, found just 51% of Americans saying they'd get a COVID-19 vaccine should one arrive.
That's disheartening, since it would take "somewhere between 75% and 80% of the people to get vaccinated in order to get a real umbrella of protection over the community — the 'community' being the United States of America," Fauci said. "When you get that much protection, the virus really has no place to go."
Fauci, who directs the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, believes many Americans may simply be unaware of the rigorous science involved in vetting a vaccine.
"Perhaps because of the divisiveness in our society, and mixed signals that we might get from Washington," many people still worry about oversight, he said.
Those worries are unfounded, Fauci stressed. That's because the process of vaccine approval has always been kept separate from either the pressures of politicians or the financial incentives of industry.
"There are so many levels of independence and transparency there that people should feel confident — I do — that the vaccine is determined to be safe and effective," he said.
'Crushing the outbreak'
First and foremost, he said, Americans need to know that the results of clinical trials into a candidate vaccine are scrutinized by career scientists placed on longstanding committees at both the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
At that point, the vaccine maker "is not involved in this — you separate them so that the Data and Safety Monitoring Board does [its review] independently," Fauci said.
Only after committees from both the FDA and CDC confer and agree on the data would FDA officials decide that "'we're going to do an EUA' — we are going to have an Emergency Use Authorization," Fauci explained.
As soon as that EUA is issued, another independent expert committee — this time at the CDC — "makes a determination of how you are going to distribute the vaccine," he added.
The final and perhaps most crucial step: Convincing hundreds of millions of Americans, and billions elsewhere around the world, to get immunized against COVID-19.
How soon might that process begin?
"We know that we are going to start getting doses of vaccine towards the middle and end of December to the higher-risk groups," Fauci said. "As we get into the first quarter of 2021, January, February, March, more and more people will get vaccinated."
"Hopefully that can get done worldwide so that we globally crush this outbreak," Fauci said.
He said that when his turn comes, "I will take the vaccine. And I certainly will advise my family and friends when their turn comes, to take the vaccine."
Find out more about the search for a coronavirus vaccine at the CDC.
SOURCE: HD Live! interview with Anthony Fauci, MD, Nov. 24, 2020
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Performance and Evaluation of Lisp Systems
rpgpoet.com • 66 points • 2 citations
Looking at Gabriel's 1985 book on the performance of Lisp systems (lispm posted a link in another thread: http://rpgpoet.com/Files/Timrep.pdf) we see many benchmarks using 0 GC time. His "Boyer" theorem-proving benchmark (p.133, 142/294) very commonly uses as much time in the "GC" column as in the "CPU" column (½ of the total), twice as much on SAIL (⅔ of the total), and almost never less than about half as much (⅓ of the total).
I'd like to claim that one of the four configurations of VAX Franz Lisp shone here, since it spent only about ⅐ of its total execution time in the GC. However, it spent roughly as much absolute time in the GC as the other three Franz Lisp configurations; it's just that it took 6× as long as normal to do the non-GC part of the benchmark; "normal", for context, was several times slower than SAIL. It's not clear that this counts as a performance improvement in any sense!
But, since many of his benchmarks use 0 GC time, I don't think I can justify the statement that GC just before the introduction of generational GC normally used 50% of a program's total run time; most programs did not consist primarily of evaluating tree-rewriting rules, which obviously are allocation-intensive. (Boyer isn't the worst, though. On Vaughan Pratt's Deriv symbolic differentiation benchmark, SAIL spends almost 90% of its total CPU time in the GC, though some other collectors handle it better.)
Reading through some of the other benchmarks, Franz Lisp commonly comes out rather GC-heavy, though less so than SAIL; on div2, for example, Franz spends 80% of its time in the GC. It may be significant that Wilensky was using Franz to write the book I got my original impression from.
I'm somewhat surprised that the FFT benchmark is written to use GC time, since normally I think of FFTs as not requiring any allocation at all, much less significant numbers of allocations of separate objects...
So, in conclusion, I do think it's justifiable to say that there were significant classes of programs for which all Lisp systems continued to spend ⅓ to ½ of their time in the GC, or 80% to 90% in bad cases, right up until the introduction of generational GC shortly after Gabriel's book. But it's probably not justifiable to apply that statement generally to all Lisp programs. Your 5%–10% number sounds quite reasonable as an overall average.
above the 90s were mentioned. SPARC systems shipped in the late 80s, 87something. At that time (90s) Lisp systems on stock hardware had already quite useable GCs, especially the big three commercial CL implementations on Unix (Lucid, Allegro and Lispworks). Even MCL on Mac OS had a useful ephemeral GC.
It's hard to say how many time was spent on GC in a Lisp program in the 70s. The installations were different, programs were different. How much time did a Multics Emacs written in Maclisp spend in GC? I have no idea. A macsyma running for some hours? AN early rule based system? Probably there were taken some benchmark numbers, but one would need check the literature to find them.
To see how different benchmark numbers were:
http://rpgpoet.com/Files/Timrep.pdf
There are also pathological cases where Memory is mostly full and time would be spent mostly in GC, or where a lot of virtual memory is used, and much time is spent in IO paging in/out memory.
Note also that the invention of generational GCs was triggered by the availability of larger virtual memory based systems and the programs using it - available to the market outside of the original research. Before that, most of them were quite a bit smaller or very rare. Systems like the Symbolics 3600 were extremely rare and expensive. When they first shipped, GCs were copying and compacting, but not generational. Systems like that did not exist on the market before.
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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
General Cardiovascular Medicine
Takatoshi Kasai
Juntendo University, Japan
Harry Staines
Independent researcher
Maurizio Acampa
Siena University Hospital, Italy
Front. Cardiovasc. Med., 06 August 2019 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fcvm.2019.00108
Central Sleep Apnoea and Arrhythmogenesis After Myocardial Infarction—The CESAAR Study
Alexander Reshetnik1*, Swetlana Puppe2 and Hendrik Bonnemeier3
1Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health; Department of Nephrology, Berlin, Germany
2Department of Psychiatry, Evangelisches Krankenhaus Königin Elisabeth Herzberge gGmbH, Berlin, Germany
3Department of Cardiology, Universitätsklinik Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany
The prevalence of sleep disordered breathing (SDB) after acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is high. However, little is known about predominant SDB type and the impact of SDB severity on arrhythmogenesis. We conducted a prospective single-center observational study and performed an unattended sleep study and Holter monitoring within 10 days after AMI, and an unattended sleep study 11.3 months after AMI. All patients were included from the Department of Cardiology at the University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Lübeck, Germany. A total of 202 subjects with AMI (73.8% with ST-elevation; 59.8 years; 73.8% male) were included. The mean BMI was 27.8 kg/m2 and the mean neck/waist circumference was 41.7/103.3 cm. The mean left ventricular ejection fraction was 56.6%. The SDB prevalence defined as apnoea-hypopnea-index (AHI) ≥ 5/h was 66.7% with 44.9% having central (CSA), and 21.8% obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA). The mean AHI was 13.8 1/h. In 10.2% nsVT was detected in the Holter monitoring. AI >23/h was independently associated with higher risk of nsVT in the subacute AMI period. SDB is highly prevalent and CSA a predominant type of SDB in the subacute phase after uncomplicated AMI treated with modern revascularization procedures and evidence-based pharmacological therapy. Severe SDB is independently associated with higher risk for nsVT in the subacute AMI period and its course should be monitored as it can potentially have a negative impact on relevant outcomes of AMI patients. Further prospective studies are needed to assess long-term follow up of SDB after AMI and its impact on mortality and morbidity.
Ischemic heart disease is one of the major causes of death worldwide. Introduction and widespread use of modern revascularization procedures and evidence-based pharmacological therapy improved the long-term prognosis after acute myocardial infarction (AMI) significantly (1, 2). However, strategies to further improve the outcome of patients with AMI are highly welcome. One strategy is to focus on the impact of comorbidities, such as sleep-disordered breathing (SDB). SDB results in intermittent hypoxia (3), stress and sympathetic activation, which can negatively influence the outcome of patients after AMI through induction of myocardial oxidative stress (4), additional ischemic injury, and limited recovery of left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) (5). Several epidemiological studies demonstrated high prevalence of SDB after AMI (6–9). Central sleep apnoea (CSA) is a type of SDB common in patients with congestive heart failure (10–12). Several pathophysiological changes such as pulmonary congestion, impaired autonomic function, and sympathetic hyperactivity, which occur after AMI, are known causes of CSA (13, 14). However, reports regarding CSA prevalence after AMI and its impact are scarce (6, 15, 16), which is in part due to simple polygraphy (PG) devices used without the opportunity to differentiate between central, obstructive, or mixed apnoea events. We conducted a prospective single-center study to observe the prevalence of SDB and CSA in particular in the subacute phase of AMI and to assess the impact of SDB severity on the prevalence of non-sustained ventricular tachycardia (nsVT) as a known predictor of sudden cardiac death in post-infarct patients (17, 18).
Study Collective and Design
This was a prospective observational study. We screened 1,935 patients with AMI, who were admitted to the Department of Cardiology of the University Hospital of Lübeck, Germany, between October 2006, and March 2009. Inclusion criteria were defined as follows: confirmed AMI diagnosis (ST-elevation myocardial infarction and non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction) defined according to the criteria of European Society of Cardiology (19, 20) with a completed coronary angiography, and revascularized culprit vessel. Exclusion criteria were defined as follows: patient not able or not willing to complete written informed consent; hemodynamically or respiratory instable subjects; concurrent therapy with oxygen; current SDB therapy or previously diagnosed SDB based on the findings of a polysomnography; age ≥ 80 years; dementia; severe chronic obstructive lung disease; any current medication able to induce central sleep apnoea; AMI event happened longer than 10 days ago. From the 19,35 eligible patients 202 subjects who fulfilled the inclusion criteria without any of the exclusion criteria were included in the study protocol. All of them completed written informed consent. The ethics committee of the University Hospital of Lübeck, Germany, approved the study.
An unattended overnight sleep cardiorespiratory PG and a Holter electrocardiography (ECG) over 24 h were performed in the subacute phase of myocardial infarction (day 2–10). Follow-up sleep study was performed in the long-term after AMI. Demographic and medical data were collected from medical records and patient interviews. Study schematic is shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1. Study flow chat. AMI–acute myocardial infarction.
Sleep Monitoring
Initial unattended portable sleep monitoring was performed with PolyMESAM® (MAP, Munich, Germany), which is a validated level 3 modified unattended portable sleep monitoring device (21). Heart rate and oxygen saturation were measured by finger pulse oximetry, nasal/oral airflow by thermistor, chest, and abdomen wall motion by inductance plethysmography, and body position were recorded during sleep monitoring. Obtained data were automatically analyzed with the device software in terms of heart rate changes, desaturations, apnoea, and hypopnea events. The findings were validated manually by study investigators (AR, SP), who had received appropriate training in validating the findings of PG, according to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) scoring recommendations (22). Event duration was defined as the time from the nadir preceding the first breath being significantly reduced to the beginning of the first breath that approximates the baseline breathing amplitude. A central apnoea event was defined as a complete or almost complete (>90%) cessation of airflow for at least 10 s in the absence of chest and abdomen wall motion. An obstructive apnoea event was defined as a complete or almost complete (>90%) cessation of airflow for at least 10 s with chest and/or abdomen wall effort. A hypopnea was defined as a reduction in airflow of at least 30% from baseline associated with a fall in oxygen saturation ≥ 3% from pre-event baseline for at least 10 s. To express the severity of SDB, we calculated the number of events per hour of sleep and defined as index: apnoea-hypopnea-index (AHI), central (CAI), and obstructive apnoeas per hour [obstructive apnoea index (OAI), and the total number of hypopneas (hypopnea index (HI)]. The total sleep duration was defined as a time with stable breathing pattern in the sleep study. The severity of desaturation events during sleep monitoring was expressed as the number of episodes of desaturation below 90% per hour–oxygen desaturation index (ODI). SDB was diagnosed when AHI was equal to or higher than five events per hour. We considered subjects having CSA when more than 50% of apnoea events were classified as central or having obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA), when more than 50% of apnoea events were classified as obstructive according to AASM criteria. Cheyne-Stokes respiration pattern was defined when at least three cycles of crescendo and decrescendo change in breathing amplitude occurred and CAI was five or more events per hour.
Holter Monitoring
A 3-lead Holter monitoring (Tracker III, Reynolds, Hertford, UK) was used. Obtained data were automatically analyzed with the device software and validated manually by the experienced study investigator (HB), who was blinded for the results of sleep monitoring. nsVT was considered, when a run of at least three consecutive ventricular beats with a rate more than 100 per min and a whole event duration shorter than 30 s occurred. Sustained VT was considered when the event duration was longer than 30 s.
The prevalence of high-grade tachycardic (nsVT, VT, ventricular fibrillation) and bradycardic (AV block 2° and 3° and asystole) arrythmias was analyzed. Single ventricular extrasystoles were not included in the final analysis. The impact of SDB on the high-grade arrhythmia type with the highest incidence was then analyzed.
Statistical analysis was conducted with a commercially available software package (SPSS version 13.0; SPSS Inc., Chicago, USA). Continuous variables are shown as mean ± standard deviation (SD). Categorical variables are shown as numbers and percentages. Continuous variables were tested for normal distribution with the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test. T-test was used to compare normally distributed continuous variables. In case the normal distribution was not present, Mann-Whitney U-test was used for the comparison. Chi square test was used to compare categorical variables. Binary logistic regression was used to assess the impact of SDB on arrhythmogenesis. “nsVT occurrence” was used as a dependent dichotomous variable (“yes” if at least one nsVT was detected in the Holter monitoring and “No,” if no nsVT events were detected in the Holter monitoring). All available demographic, cardiovascular, and sleep study parameters were consecutively inputted in the univariate regression analysis as independent variables. EF was converted in a dichotomous variable as EF <35% (“yes” vs. “no”), as severely impaired EF has major effect on the incidence of CSA. For SDB severity indices with significant impact on nsVT occurrence in univariate tests different cut-off values were further tested for their impact on nsVT occurrence. Parameters which showed significant impact on nsVT occurrence in the univariate tests were entered into multivariate regression analysis, whereby SDB severity indices were inputted as values above the cut-off, which was significant in the univariate test. A two-sided p-value of <0.05 was considered statistically significant. No adjustment was made for multiplicity.
Two hundred and two subjects were included in the study. Mean age of the study collective was 59.8 years and the mean BMI 27.8 kg/m 2.73.8% were male. 56.4% had hypertension, 16.3% diabetes mellitus, 69.3% hyperlipidemia, and 58.4% smoked at the time of study inclusion. Mean measured waist circumference was 103.3 cm and the mean neck circumference was 41.7 cm at the study inclusion. The mean age of SDB-group was 61.7 years and significantly higher than in non-SDB-group (56.7 years). The mean BMI in SDB-group was 28.6 kg/m2 and significantly higher than in non-SDB-group. The prevalence of hypertension was significantly higher in the SDB-group (64.4 vs. 42.4%, respectively). Significantly more subjects smoked in the non-SBD-group (71.2 vs. 50.8%, respectively). The neck and waist circumference were significantly higher in the SDB-group (42.4 vs. 40.4 cm and 105.6 vs. 99.2 cm, respectively). Further baseline characteristics for the whole study collective, SDB- and non-SDB groups, are shown in Table 1.
Table 1. Baseline characteristics of the study collective, sleep disordered breathing (SDB) group and non-SDB group.
Ninety five percentage of the included patients were treated by primary percutaneous coronary intervention, which included angioplasty and stenting. The majority of included subjects had a ST-elevation myocardial infarction (71.8%). The mean ejection fraction was 55.1%. Subjects in the SDB-group had significantly higher rates of angiographically confirmed Triple-Vessel coronary artery disease (42.4 vs. 23.1%, respectively) and significantly lower rates of Single-Vessel coronary artery disease compared to non-SDB group (22.7 vs. 43.1%). Further specific cardiological characteristics for the whole study collective, SDB-, and non-SDB-group, are given in Table 2.
Table 2. Specific cardiological characteristics of the study collective, sleep disordered breathing (SDB) group and non-SDB group.
Two-thirds of the study cohort (66.7%) had SDB with 44.9% of them having CSA and 21.8% OSA. Ten percentage had Cheyne-Stokes respiration pattern. The mean AHI was 13.8 1/h, the mean AI was 6.0 1/h, the mean CAI was 4.7 1/h, the OAI was 1.3 1/h, and the mean HI was 7.8 1/h. 43.4% of the study subjects had between 5 and 20 AHI events per hour. 11.4% of the SDB-group had >30 AHI events per hour. Prevalence of the different AHI-ranges is shown in Figure 2. The mean oxygen saturation was 93.0% and the lowest oxygen saturation was 81.4%. The mean ODI was 14.3 1/h. Compared to the non-SDB-group, subjects in the SDB-group had significantly lower mean oxygen saturation (92.7 vs. 93.7%), significantly higher ODI (19.3 1/h vs. 4.3 1/h) and spent significantly more time with oxygen saturation <90% (4,096 vs. 592 s). Detailed sleep study characteristics for the whole study collective, both the SDB-, and non-SDB-groups, are given in Table 3.
Figure 2. Prevalence of the different apnoea-hypopnea-index (AHI) ranges in the study collective.
Table 3. Sleep study characteristics of the whole study collective, sleep disordered breathing (SDB)- and non-SDB-group.
Valid overnight polygraphy study and Holter monitoring were available in 193 patients. The incidence of atrial fibrillation was 1%. We observed no sustained VT or ventricular fibrillation and no high-grade AV block and asystole episodes during Holter monitoring in any patient. nsVT was detected in 20 patients. Comparing to patients without nsVT, patients with nsVT had a significantly higher incidence of hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and significantly lower ejection fraction. Detailed characteristics of the patients with and without detected nsVT are given in Table 4. We did not observe a statistically significant impact of AHI, oAI, or HI of any severity on nsVT. AI of 15 and more events per hour and cAI of 10 and more events per hour was statistically significant and associated with higher occurrence of nsVT in the binary regression analysis (Figure 3). We included these parameters, the hypoxia parameters as well as “hypertension,” “diabetes mellitus” and “ejection fraction,” which differed significantly between the groups in the univariate statistical analysis with and without occurred nsVT in the multiple binary regression analysis. We found a significant independent association of AI of 23 and more events per hour, LVEF <35% and hypertension with higher risk of the nsVT occurrence (Figure 4).
Table 4. Baseline, cardiovascular and sleep study characteristics of the patients with and without non-sustained ventricular tachycardia (nsVT).
Figure 3. Association between different cut-off values of apnoea index (AI) and central apnoea index (cAI) and risk for non-sustained ventricular tachycardia. OR-odds ratio; CI-confidence interval.
Figure 4. Independent predictors for occurrence of non-sustained ventricular tachycardia in study patients. OR-odds ratio; CI-confidence interval.
LVEF was statistically significant and inversely proportionally associated with AI and cAI (Pearson correlation index −0.16 [p = 0.026] and −0.17 [p = 0.017]. There was no correlation between LVEF and AHI and oAI. Mean cAI was 4.0 ± 7.2 1/h in patients with LVEF ≥ 50% and 6.2 ± 12.0 1/h in patients with EF <50% (p = 0.89).
We found high prevalence of SDB in the subacute phase after uncomplicated AMI, which was markedly increased compared to the general population (23). Similarly, high SDB prevalence has been already observed in previous studies reporting data of patients in the subacute phase after AMI (6–9, 24, 25). Noteworthily, a comparison between different studies in terms of reported SDB prevalence is often difficult, because discrepant definitions for SDB, and its severity have been used. The predominant SDB type in our study collective was CSA. Existing scientific literature describing prevalence of CSA after AMI is limited, mainly because the cardiorespiratory sleep monitoring devices used did not differentiate between the different types of SDB (6, 15, 16). Available studies reported either a similar prevalence of CSA and OSA (6, 26) or a predominance of OSA (15). Only few studies have reported CSA as a predominant SDB type after AMI or acute coronary syndrome (27, 28). CSA is common in patients with congestive heart failure and mainly correlated with significantly impaired LVEF. Previous studies demonstrated attenuation of CSA severity when LVEF improved (29–31). Based on the findings, impaired LVEF could be a major reason for the observed high CSA prevalence in our study collective. However, several pathophysiological mechanisms in the post-AMI period beyond the impairment of LVEF could cause CSA pulmonary venous congestion, which can contribute to dilated, and disturbed answer of chemical breathing controller on changes in homeostasis (32), increased sympathetic activity (27), and impaired autonomic cardiac nerve activity (13, 32, 33). Autonomic alterations are associated with SDB, which play an important role in the developing of atrial cardiomyopathy that may represent a pathogenic factor for occurrence of ischemic stroke (34). Although we detected a statistically significant inversely proportional association between LVEF and CAI consistent with the findings of the afore mentioned studies, the mean CAI did not differ significantly between patients with preserved or mildly-impaired LVEF compared to patients with moderate to severe-impaired LVEF in our study. This is a novel finding suggesting that pathophysiological changes occurring after AMI could cause SDB and in particular CSA independent from the LVEF impairment.
Though the prevalence of SDB after AMI is high, studies investigating its impact on cardiovascular outcomes are scarce. We observed statistically significant independent impact of severe CSA on the prevalence of nsVT in the subacute phase after uncomplicated AMI with preserved mean LVEF. Preserved LVEF and revascularized culprit vessel would be possible reasons for the very low incidence of atrial fibrillation and absence of sustained VT, ventricular fibrillation, or high-grade bradycardic arrhythmias in our study collective. The presence or severity of OSA had no impact on the prevalence of nsVT. These are novel findings, which have not been reported. Our results suggest that only severe SDB is associated with higher arrhythmogenesis in the subacute phase after AMI. In our study, only 15 patients (7.4%) would be at higher risk for nsVT occurrence, when we consider the observed cut-off value of AI = 23/h as an independent risk margin. The exact mechanism linking SDB with arrhythmogenesis remains to be elucidated. However, several pathophysiologic considerations suggest possible link between CSA and arrhythmias: periodic alterations in ventilation promote oscillations in blood pressure and heart rate (35), which can promote higher cardiac workload and arrhythmias. Periodic hypoxia during and after the apnoea phases causes an increase in sympathetic nerve activity, which is a potentially arrhythmogenic feature (36). Hypoxia itself as a consequence of SDB has been shown to be associated with cardiac arrhythmias (37). Moreover, patients with CSA hyperventilate, causing hypocapnia (38), and sympathetic nerve activity increases more during hypocapnic hypoxia compared to isocapnic hypoxia (39). Acknowledging the possible important role of hypoxia in arrhytmogenesis, we analyzed the impact of hypoxia parameters (ODI, mean saturation level, and highest desaturation, time with saturation below 90%) on nsVT. We did not observe any significant association between the hypoxia parameters, and nsVT in our study collective. Arousals contribute to autonomic disturbance and enhance sympathetic activity (40). Some evidence points to the deterioration of cardiac hemodynamics caused by CSA although the association is not as clear as in OSA, which generates negative intrathoracic pressure. Yagishita-Tgawa et al. observed more paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea and increased levels of atrial natriuretic peptide in patients with heart failure and predominant CSA compared to those with predominant OSA (41). Previous studies demonstrated the association between severe SDB and the prevalence of nsVT not only in patients with congestive heart failure or already known SDB, but also in the general population (42–44). Our results suggest the possible association of severe SDB with arrhythmogenesis beyond the impact of impaired LVEF in a collective of patients with uncomplicated AMI, which has not been described so far. Therefore, our data support the afore mentioned pathophysiologic considerations regarding the link between CSA and arrhythmogenesis and extend the evidence as the majority of available data come from patients with congestive heart failure. Thus, it would be a reasonable consideration to screen patients after AMI for SDB and–in case severe SDB would be detected–to monitor its course and its association with arrhythmias in the long-term follow up.
We acknowledge several limitations of the study: PG and not polysomnography (which includes EEG monitoring) has been used in the sleep studies and the total sleep time was not measured based on detection of the sleep stages by EEG, which can potentially bias the calculation of sleep apnoea severity indices. Another major limitation is that we did not classify hypopnea events as central or obstructive, which could bias the overall prevalence rates of CSA and OSA. Though consensus definitions for obstructive and central hypopnea exist, they are sophisticated and require standardization and validation. Many indicators such as paradoxical movement, snoring, and inspiratory flattering need to be included for distinction between obstructive and hypopnea event. These indicators require visual interpretation and definition of exact cut-offs, which are not yet defined, and would increase interobserver variation significantly. Moreover, some of these factors can easily be confounded, like snoring, which can be confused with several non-snoring sounds, and change in distance between sensor and nose/mouth. In this context and acknowledging the low median CAI of the study population, the observed significant impact of CAI on arrhythmogenesis could attenuate or become non-significant once hypopneas would be classified in central, and obstructive and the prevalence rate of CSA and OSA would change.
Potential arrhythmogenic factors caused by an AMI event itself could not completely be ruled out, although fully revascularisation of the culprit vessel, and the impact of LVEF as potential important factors were considered in the analysis.
Prevalence of SDB is high and CSA is the predominant type of SDB in the collective of patients with uncomplicated AMI treated with modern revascularization techniques and evidence-based pharmacological therapy. Severe SDB is independently associated with a higher risk of nsVT and its course should be monitored as it is a comorbidity, which potentially has negative impact on the relevant outcomes of AMI patients. Further prospective studies are needed to assess long-term follow up of SDB after AMI, and its impact on mortality and morbidity.
The ethics committee of the University Hospital of Lübeck, Germany approved the study. All study participants obtained written informed consent.
AR: conception of study design, acquisition, analysis and interpretation of data, drafting the article. SP: acquisition, analysis and interpretation of data. HB: analysis and interpretation of data, drafting the article.
We acknowledge support from the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Open Access Publication Fund of Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin.
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Keywords: central sleep apnoea, sleep disorder breathing, acute myocardial infarction, non-sustained ventricular tachycardia, arrhythmogenesis
Citation: Reshetnik A, Puppe S and Bonnemeier H (2019) Central Sleep Apnoea and Arrhythmogenesis After Myocardial Infarction—The CESAAR Study. Front. Cardiovasc. Med. 6:108. doi: 10.3389/fcvm.2019.00108
Received: 09 May 2019; Accepted: 19 July 2019;
Published: 06 August 2019.
Takatoshi Kasai, Juntendo University, Japan
Harry Staines, Sigma Statistical Services, United Kingdom
Maurizio Acampa, Siena University Hospital, Italy
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*Correspondence: Alexander Reshetnik, alexander.reshetnik@charite.de
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Bad Lieutenants
Now, I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but I’ve done some research and found out that “the police” are a controversial topic right now that some people are quite upset about. As such I thought we’d take a look at two documentaries that will go some way to explain why people may not think they are being served and protected, with Abel Ferrara’s 1992 Bad Lieutenant, and, of all people, Werner Herzog’s 2006 Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans.
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I’m no Abel Ferrara historian, but based on my hazy memories of King of New York I think by the nineties he’d settled down a bit from his video nasties phase that brought him to public attention with Driller Killer and Ms. 45, the latter being the sort of film that credits him with an acting performance of the character “1st rapist”, as though it’s an orchestra or something. At any rate, Bad Lieutenant is very much the sort of film that would have caused Mary Whitehouse to get all hot and bothered about.
Harvey Keitel takes the lead as our unnamed Noo Yawk copper, who in short order after we’re introduced to him will have stolen evidence from a crime scene, a bag o’drugs, in order to sell to his pet drug dealer, smoked a bit of the ol’ crack, cheated on his wife and got himself deeper in debt with his bookie on a series of failed baseball bets. And somehow he’ll get much worse over the course of the piece.
In as much as there is any kind of narrative driver to the film, it’s to track down the rapists of Frankie Thorn’s young nun, an act which we are not spared, although any such sleuthing will have to wait until The Lieutenant has sexually assaulted two young women after a traffic stop.
This ridiculous spiral will continue until the stress of impending retribution from the bookies and the metric butt-ton of drugs and booze causes him to have a meltdown in a church, mewling like Beaker off the Muppets and hallucinating a vision of Christ, which Mark Kermode says makes this a rightly hailed powerful tale of redemptive Catholicism, but which I’ll simply call stupid.
And so it goes. I first watched this back in my teenage years, and I didn’t think all that much of it then and I don’t think time has shifted my opinion of it. It’s, obviously, a filthy old film, but where as something like Taxi Driver at least presented a character you’d want to pick apart and see what makes Travis Bickle tick, here The Lieutenant is so cartoonishly, pulpishly dreadful that there’s little interest to be had with him. We are left only hoping that we will see him being fed into a woodchipper, and that this doesn’t happen is surely cinema’s biggest missed opportunity.
We can’t fault Keitel’s performance, I suppose, as he’s certainly committed deeply to the role. Indeed, we see far more of him than any sane person would want to, and if you so desire I suppose there’s some axes that you could judge this as not being a bad film.
My overriding issue with this, however, is that I do not discern any useful point to this sleazefest. Kietel is a Bad Lieutenant, that much is driven home, but I cannot accept a drug induced freakout, then aiding felons to elude justice, then getting shot, as being any sort of redemptive character arc, particularly for a character who deserves much worse. I suppose I’m just too Old Testament.
This film is like wallowing in mud for ninety minutes, and I suppose there’s a use for something like this in cinema, even if I’m damned if I can see one. If cinema is about feeling, then there’s perhaps a time for something that makes you feel gross and dissatisfied, like you’re covered in a thin film of grease.
In short, I’m glad that I do not have to think of this film ever again.
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans was, to put it mildly, in a right old state. We begin Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans with police officers Terence McDonagh (Nic Cage) and Stevie Pruit (Val Kilmer) deciding quite what to do with a prisoner in a holding cell, flood waters rising. Pruit says why waste your nice clothes diving into a river of muck to spare someone who is presumably a lost cause but, despite protesting the resultant state of his $55 underwear, McDonagh jumps in nonetheless and opens the cell, earning himself a promotion to Lieutenant and an injury that manifests as crippling back pain for his heroism.
It’s an interesting choice to open the movie on a moral act of McDonagh’s, because from here on in it’s all downhill for the character. One quick prescription for Vicodin and a “6 months later” caption, and McDonagh is out on the streets shaking down petty criminals for either their cash or their class A drugs, and quite happy to hold a boyfriend at gunpoint while they watch their partner engage in arrest-avoiding sexual favours. How the mighty have fallen.
Shortly thereafter McDonagh finds himself investigating the murder of a family of five Senegalese illegal immigrants, the patriarch of which appears to have been involved in dealing crack. Thus begins the police procedural aspect of the movie, though the emphasis throughout remains very much on the increasingly unhinged and depraved behaviour of Cage’s character as he works the case, using every aspect of his investigation to leverage those involved for the benefit of his now rampant drug habits. After all, there’s nothing wrong with benefiting personally from an active murder investigation, right?
In some respects this movie is not what I imagine a Herzog narrative movie to be, and I say that because aside from his documentary work I realised recently that I’ve only ever seen this and Rescue Dawn. Without the involvement of Herzog and Cage (more of him in a minute), BL:PoCNO would be a pretty run of the mill corrupt cop B movie with an absolutely perfunctory procedural overlay. Somehow, however, in playing freeform jazz with William M. Finkelstein’s script as the movie was shot, Herzog has injected just enough of his own leftfield signature to elevate it from the norm, and has given Cage just enough run on the line to make it a thoroughly entertaining, if occasionally depraved piece of entertainment.
Yes, we get crazy, whooping Cage here, but the tone of his performance remains just sombre enough to convince us that events are either believable, or convincingly explained away as the interpretation of a crack-addled mind. Much as Leaving Las Vegas gave us the occasional alcohol-fuelled aside as a window into that performance, here among other things we get hallucinated iguanas seemingly shuffling about to the strains of Johnny Adams singing “Release Me,” which of course no one but McDonagh can see no matter how much he protests to his colleagues on a stakeout. It’s actually one of the more enjoyable performances Cage has given in the last twenty years, notwithstanding the straight to VOD material I have no compulsion to check, and with the caveat that “enjoyable” does not condone McDonagh’s actions.
The supporting cast is a surprisingly robust assortment of familiar faces, some of whom I had completely forgotten in the intervening decade since we originally reviewed this. Eva Mendes is criminally underused as McDonagh’s call girl partner, more of a means for the crooked cop to crowbar money and drugs out of clients than anything substantial character-wise. Other notable mentions go to Shea Whigham (“oh yeah!”) as someone McDonagh really ought not to have shaken down, and Xzibit as a local drugs kingpin who, if nothing else, got to be on set the day Nic Cage delivered the line “shoot him again; his soul is still dancing!”
With no real moral judgement to seemingly make, no purpose other than to stir things up a bit, and an ending that comes in at 90 degrees to the madness, it is hard to commit to something so fragile as words exactly what it is Port of Call manages to achieve. In 2010 Scott described this film as “absolute garbage, but really, really brilliant garbage.” We struggled then to qualify quite what was so great about it, but we very much enjoyed it. Despite having forgotten everything bar the “soul still dancing” in the intervening years, I was surprised to find that age has largely not wearied Port of Call, and I once again thoroughly enjoyed it. Much as back then I think you should really watch it, though I make no case for it.
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Carla Bruni’s reps dismiss pregnancy rumours
By Glamour
Carla Bruni is not pregnant, despite reports that surfaced last week.
A spokesperson for the former French First Lady told French website VOICI.FR that the rumours that she was expecting Nicolas Sarkozy's second child were false.
The famous couple were delighted to welcome their first child, Giulia, in October last year.
On 29 June 2012, we wrote...
Former French First Lady Carla Bruni is rumoured to be pregnant.
The moment Versace shut down Milan Fashion Week
A voice declared: "Gianni, this is for you."
A French magazine reported the 44-year-old's pregnancy, which would be her second child with husband and former French president Nicolas Sarkozy.
"For several weeks people have been asking why she had not been able to shift the extra weight for her last baby. But we can now reveal Carla Bruni-Sarkozy is pregnant again. And with her stomach looking ever more round, she can no longer hide it."
"She clearly wants to nurture this pregnancy with the utmost care, because, like the last one, it is later in life so all the riskier, and she has therefore been advised to take as much rest as possible."
"The revelation comes after numerous reports this week that Bruni had "fallen into depression" after Sarkozy was defeated in last month's presidential election. Friends of Bruni told France'sVSDmagazine this week that she was currently "at her lowest" since returning to normal life.
A source said: "She has not been doing well since the birth of Guilia. She had baby blues, which have now become presidential blues."
Sarkozy has two sons, Pierre, 25, and Jean, 23, from his first marriage to Marie-Dominique Culioli, and a 13-year-old son Louis from his second marriage to Cecilia Ciganer-Albeniz.
SOURCE: DAILY MAIL
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Tag : nintendo switch
title : Nintendo E3 2017: Metroid Prime 4 Comes To Nintendo Switch in Holiday 2018
summary : Nintendo's Metroid Prime 4 announcement surprised everyone at E3 2017. The Japanese gaming company said its fourth Metroid game is now in development for Nintendo Switch. A short teaser for the game is now available on YouTube.
title : Nintendo’s Physical Game Boxes Has No Games Within
summary : Nintendo tries out a new sales strategy that will see the sales of physical game boxes sans games within.
date : May 25, 2017 08:11 AM EDT
title : Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Update Removes Potentially Offensive Gesture
summary : The latest update for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe has seen the removal of a gesture that is deemed to be offensive in certain cultures.
title : Switch eShop Saves Your Credit Card Information For Easier Transactions
summary : Want to perform transactions hassle-free on Nintendo Switch’s eShop? It is now easier to do as you can save your credit card information.
title : Want A Free Nintendo Switch? Drop By A McDonald’s Restaurant Near You
summary : The Nintendo Switch is not the easiest console to find at the moment, so why not try your luck at a local McDonald’s?
date : Apr 28, 2017 09:00 AM EDT
title : The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Update 1.1.2 Hits The Nintendo Switch, Wii U
summary : Expect your gaming sessions with The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild to be more balanced and composed with update 1.1.2 arriving on both the Nintendo Switch and Wii U.
title : Want $20,000? Nintendo Offers Reward For Nintendo Switch Security Information
summary : Nintendo is willing to part with a cool 20 grand if you are able to point out any security loopholes or risks in their latest Nintendo Switch console.
title : Nintendo Switch Buying Guide: How To Avoid Scams, A Broken Heart And An Empty Wallet
summary : You might find the Nintendo Switch to be rather scarce in your area, and in your desperation to play The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, you could let emotion take over common sense and stumble onto a deal that is too good to be true. Learn how to avoid the pitfalls of a Nintendo Switch scam.
title : Best Buy Stock Of Nintendo Switch, NES Classic Edition, Sold Out In A Matter Of Hours
summary : The NES Classic Edition and Nintendo Switch can be said to be akin to unicorns, selling out almost as fast as they are put on store shelves.
date : Mar 29, 2017 11:38 PM EDT
title : Nintendo Switch Is A Future Pokemon Platform, Based On Game Freak's Latest Recruitment Drive
summary : Will the Nintendo Switch feature a Pokemon game in the future? It sure looks like it, based on the latest round of hiring by Game Freak.
title : How Not To Lose Your Save Files In Zelda: Breath Of The Wild
summary : The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has shot to fame right away since its release, and has made its way into video game history as one of the best games ever, period. However, gamers run the risk of losing their save files if they do not switch accounts when starting a new game.
title : Old Browser Exploit Allows Hacking Into Nintendo Switch
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title : Nintendo Switch: Problems And Growing Pains
summary : The newly released Nintendo Switch might have captivated gamers worldwide, but this does not mean that the hybrid console is free from problems of its own.
title : Nintendo Switch To Get Super Smash Bros
summary : The newest Nintendo console, the Nintendo Switch, is slated for yet another triple A title: Super Smash Bros.
date : Mar 11, 2017 07:24 PM EST
title : Nintendo Switch Controllers Play Nice With The NES Classic
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date : Mar 09, 2017 06:14 AM EST
title : Nintendo: Netflix, Amazon, Hulu Arriving In Due Time On The Switch
summary : The Nintendo Switch has debuted with much fanfare, and it is going to come with far more than regular gaming as Nintendo has mentioned that the likes of Netflix, Hulu and Amazon are set to be made available in the future.
title : Nintendo Switch Day One Sales: Sold Out Worldwide, Orders Delayed
summary : The Nintendo Switch sold out worldwide as expected on the day of its release, and those who placed pre-orders will simply have to wait as Nintendo copes with the massive demand.
title : Nintendo Switch Day One Update: eShop, Friend Codes Return
summary : The growing pains of a new console are unavoidable, but has Nintendo committed hara-kiri with the introduction of Friend Codes for multiplayer gaming on the Nintendo Switch?
title : Frontier Days: Founding Pioneers Is Another Nintendo Switch Launch Title
summary : The Nintendo Switch will be released tomorrow, and here we are with yet another launch title revealed that might just make you line up for the hybrid console on March 3.
title : Nintendo Switch And Voez, The Portable-Only Launch Title
summary : Voez is going to be a launch title for the Nintendo Switch, but the beauty of this rhythm-based game is this: it is playable only in portable mode, and will not function should you want to enjoy it on a big screen TV.
title : Nintendo Switch Launch Titles And Games List Confirmed Before March 3 Release Date
summary : The Nintendo Switch hybrid console is all set for a debut in March 3, 2017. Check out some of the confirmed accompanying launch games as well as other titles.
title : Experience Nintendo Switch Now Before Its March 3 Release Date; Price and Where to Buy
summary : Want to get a feel of the Nintendo Switch hybrid console before it is officially released this March 3? Check out the following dates, times and places and see if you can be there.
title : Nintendo Switch Latest News: Double The Power When Docked Thanks To NVIDIA Innards
summary : A docked Nintendo Switch could eventually end up with at least twice the processing muscle.
title : NES Classic Edition Goes on Sale on Dec. 20 on a First-Come, First-Served Basis
summary : If there’s one gift that seems elusive this Christmas season, it would be the NES Classic Edition console. It’s an in-demand product that doesn’t stay too long in a store’s shelf. Furthermore, there is not enough stock rolled out to retail stores. But Best Buy just announced that more than 1,000 of its Big Box stores will be selling the Nintendo console on Dec. 20.
title : Nintendo Switch Update: Latest Rumors, GameCube Virtual Console Support
summary : Nintendo is yet to reveal further details about its upcoming Switch at on online event in January. Avid gamers still have to wait until March to really get a hold of the new console. For now, there are a number of rumors that have been circling online. The recent one is a report that claimed the Nintendo Switch will be adding a support of GameCube games in its Virtual Console.
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News Catherine Zeta-Jones, Michael Douglas Marriage Getting 'Fresh Start' After 'Rough Year'?
Report: Kelly Clarkson 'Regrets' Divorce, Infuriating Estranged Husband, Friends
B Brianna Morton
9:00 am, November 24, 2020
(Life & Style)
Was Kelly Clarkson regretting her decision to file for divorce from Brandon Blackstock? Sources told one tabloid that the singer-turned-talk show host had alienated those close to her, including The Voice co-judge Blake Shelton and former stepmother-in-law Reba McEntire, by asking her estranged husband to reconcile after filing for divorce in June. Gossip Cop has the answers on what’s really going on.
Kelly Clarkson "Regrets" Divorce From Brandon Blackstock?
Life & Style reported last month that Kelly Clarkson was rethinking her “split decision” to divorce her husband of almost seven years Brandon Blackstock. The tabloid heavily implied that the couple fought over how many children they wanted, with Blackstock not wanting more and Clarkson admitting to having “baby fever” on her talk show.
The buzz is she thinks pushing for more kids is what ruined everything. Now her big question is, is it too late to save their marriage?
(DFree/Shutterstock.com)
"A Rash Choice?"
In the early days of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, things were going fairly well for the now-estranged spouses, a source told the outlet. “Kelly and Brandon basically had a good marriage,” the insider snitched, adding, “Their respective families got along, they had amazing kids together, they juggled their careers pretty well and seamlessly blended his children from his previous marriage.” But things soon turned sour, and Clarkson filed for divorce in June. Now, however, the “Because Of You” singer was “experiencing some serious remorse.”
She’s definitely having second thoughts. Kelly’s admitted that the split has been very difficult and it’s taken an emotional toll on her. She also just misses Brandon, though - he was always her rock. Now she’s regretting being so quick to file for divorce.
According to the source, Clarkson had already “broached the subject of a reconciliation with Brandon,” but added, “it didn’t go well.” In fact, Clarkson’s alleged back and forth on the subject infuriated Blackstock and confused the rest of his family as well.
She’s the one who filed for divorce first, publicly humiliating him, and now she wants to get back together? Brandon is absolutely furious. The rest of his family was also left scratching their heads.
Clarkson’s former stepmother-in-law Reba McEntire was singled out, with the source telling the outlet that before Clarkson filed for divorce, McEntire had “warned” her “not to throw away a good thing over some hurt feelings. The country music legend wasn’t the only one upset with Clarkson over her decision to divorce. Fellow The Voice judge Blake Shelton, who is managed by Blackstock, was also feeling “betrayed” by Clarkson.
Blake can’t help but feel a little betrayed. Brandon was blindsided by the divorce. So he’s Team Brandon all the way.
These days, the source concluded, “the smallest thing sets her off. Some nights she’ll cry herself to sleep. It doesn’t help that all of this Brandon stuff is happening during a pandemic - she can’t seek solace with friends and family. She feels so alone.” Let’s get one thing straight: the only two people that know anything about Kelly Clarkson and Brandon Blackstock’s divorce are them. No one outside of the couple promising juicy details knows anything, let alone L&S’ anonymous, unverified “insider.”
(lev radin/Shutterstock.com)
Gossip Cop's Take
The article is grossly insulting towards Clarkson. She wouldn’t have made a “rash” decision to end her marriage, especially when there are several children involved, lightly and without reason. She is not in any way obligated to share those reasons with the public, which is why the tabloid has to settle for blaming the singer’s “baby fever” for the couple’s split.
The tabloid revealed with every line it wrote that it had zero insight into Clarkson’s personal life, which calls every other claim it made into question. Are Blake Shelton and Reba McEntire really upset with Clarkson for ending her marriage? Probably not. It’s Clarkson’s marriage, why would her Voice co-star and her former stepmother-in-law, who is divorced from Brandon Blackstock’s father, be part of the equation at all? Only in this tabloid’s twisted imagination.
It's no surprise to Gossip Cop that Life & Style would stoop so low as to make up an article claiming Clarkson was regretting her divorce. This tabloid specializes in stirring up drama where there is none. Take, for instance, the outlet's claim that Kelly Clarkson and Gwen Stefani were feuding behind-the-scenes on The Voice. The two women have nothing but respect for each other, we found, which made coming to a ruling on the rumor quite easy for us.
Brianna Morton was once duped by a tabloid. Once. Since then, she’s dedicated her life to exposing those gossip rags for the liars they are. Nothing’s better than celebrity gossip, and nothing’s worse than falling for false rumors.
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‘2020 UN Population Award’ for HelpAge India
First Indian NGO to receive the honour
Geetanjali Minhas | December 12, 2020 | Mumbai
#Covid-19 #NGO #civil society #senior citizens #United Nations #HelpAge India #Pandemic
Argentina Matavel Piccin, Representative India, UNFPA, presents the UN Population Award certificate to Rohit Prasad, CEO, HelpAge India
HelpAge India has become the first Indian non-profit to win the ‘2020 UN Population Award’ in the institutional category for raising awareness and devising solutions to the issues faced by the elderly population for the past four decades.
HelpAge India has been working in the field of care of disadvantaged older persons for more than four decades in 125 districts spread across 25 states. The award is recognition for its impactful work with and for disadvantaged elderly.
Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, HelpAge India has reached out and provided relief and aid to more than 10 lakh elders and their families, destitute and homeless persons and migrants across India though various relief initiatives.
The UN agency partnered with HelpAge India during Covid-19 to meet and address the challenges and special vulnerabilities and risks faced by older persons in India. The programme reached out to more than 3,00,000 older persons through different interventions across 17 states including Delhi, Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Telangana, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Assam, Maharashtra, and Tamil Nadu.
The award recognises HelpAge India’s outstanding contribution to population issues and its efforts in the realisation of older person’s rights in India since 1978. It includes a diploma certificate, a gold medal and a monetary prize which were handed over at a felicitation ceremony organised by UNFPA India Country Office in New Delhi on Friday.
Every year the United Nations honors an individual and/or institution for outstanding contributions to population and reproductive health questions. Besides Helpage India in institutional category, Indira Gandhi and JRD Tata are the only individuals from India so far to have received this award, in 1983 and 1993 respectively.
“This is a moment of immense pride and joy for all of us working here in India, especially for those of us who are working in the field of ageing and care of the elderly. To place the elderly and their needs squarely on the policy and budget allocations agenda of the country is a major priority. Your (HelpAge India’s) tireless and consistent efforts have finally paid off and caught the world’s attention whether it is in operating one of the largest mobile healthcare networks, providing employment to the elderly or promoting inter-generational exchanges or linking young people with the aged. We must change the narrative and refocus on the elderly as a resource, a repository of vast knowledge. UNFPA is very proud of our partnership with HelpAge India,” said Argentina Matavel Piccin, representative, UNFPA India, at the awards ceremony.
“In India, an overwhelming proportion of the elders are financially dependent on their families, and live with them. In many cases, they are perceived as a burden and this sometimes results in ill-treatment and even violence. The many issues facing elders have been greatly amplified and expanded over the last one year as we seek to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic. Elders are even more vulnerable and need to take special care. UNFPA is among our most important and valued partners who have helped to take work forward in the entire space of elders,” said Kiran Karnik, chairperson, HelpAge India.
Prakash Narayan Borgaonkar, head, HelpAge India, Maharashtra and Goa, said, “For more than 42 years we have been working in the field of elder care and help them become self-reliant. We have received help from our various supporters, donors, supporters and well wishers without whom it would not have been possible for us to reach far and wide and amplify our work.”
HelpAge India runs one of the largest mobile healthcare programmes through its mobile healthcare units spanning across country and providing free healthcare services to 3 million vulnerable and destitute elders. It helps elders become self-reliant and independent through the formation of elder self-help groups in rural India and supports 95,584 older persons through 7,415 such groups in 16 states. Helpage India conducts cataract surgeries to restore their sight, looks after their basic needs though its Support-a-Grain ration programme. It provides homecare support to bed-ridden patients and works hand-in-hand with senior citizens associations and runs digital literacy workshops for seniors so they can lead independent and active lives. It also runs a school advocacy program sensitising young children towards elder needs and treating elders with love, care and respect.
#NGO
#civil society
#senior citizens
#United Nations
#HelpAge India
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Mumbai air ‘very poor’, activist calls for tackling individual sources
Very high particulate matter at garbage dumping sites, finds NGO’s survey
Geetanjali Minhas | January 7, 2021 | Mumbai
#Mumbai #Maharashtra #Aaditya Thackeray #Sumaira Abdulali #Awaaz Foundation #environment #pollution #air quality
Sumaira Abdulali on her rounds to measure air pollution levels at gargage sites
On the New Year’s day, Mumbai, India’s financial capital, recorded the second worst air quality index (AQI) since 2016. On Thursday it worsened and dropped to 'very poor' category.
Pointing this out, city-based anti-pollution activist Sumaira Abdulali has written a letter to Maharashtra environment minister Aaditya Thackeray, saying that the burning at garbage dumps is increasing pollution levels.
She has appealed the state government to identify every individual source of localised air pollution and tackling them one by one. Unless this is done, it is impossible to control air pollution solely through generalised air quality index (AQI) monitoring, she adds. “In several countries localised information about air pollution sources are used to augment AQI data,” she says.
Abdulali, convenor, Awaaz Foundation, a member of the Clean Air Collective, has said that since 2016,the NGO has documented numerous sites of burning garbage in Panvel, Dharamtar, Poynad, Chondi and others along the Mumbai-Alibag road, the garbage disposal site at Alibag city centre, Bhiwandi, Kalher and other sites in Thane district and found that in absence of adequate municipal systems for disposal daily heaps of garbage is lining highways and roadsides.
“Burning is the easiest disposal and many of these dumps are deliberately or accidentally set on fire. Numerous heaps of burning garbage which are ubiquitous along roadsides in areas surrounding Mumbai are not identified as part of any specific initiative. These garbage dumps consist of mixed bio-mass and plastic and are a major contributing source of localized air pollution. The NGO Waatavaran conducted a one-month long test on air pollution in Taloja, Bhiwandi Panvel in Thane and Raigad districts and found that people were exposed to 17 hours a day of unhealthy exposure of extremely high level of air pollutants. There are no AQI monitoring systems in these areas most of which are recognized among the 18 non-attainment cities of Maharashtra and among the most polluted in the country. There is also no comprehensive data on the sources of pollution,” she writes in the letter.
Awaaz Foundation measured PM2.5 at some of these sites and found that pollution levels had a direct co-relation with the size of the garbage dump burning with the dump at Bhiwandi stretching for several kilometers alongside a busy road showing the highest level of PM2.5. The measurements were taken at 1-minute, 5-minute and 15-minute intervals at various times from January to December 2020. PM2.5 at Bhiwandi at 1-minute intervals recorded 612µ/mg3, at Panvel Naka - 182µ/mg3, and at Dharamtar it was 181µ/mg3.
PM2.5 are minute particles of 2.5 micrograms or smaller in diameter and contain a mixture of solids and liquids that include acids like sulfates, nitrates, ammonium, carbon and mineral dust.
Emissions are a major cause of climate change and burning plastic is especially toxic and can cause cancer, liver failure, respiratory and other diseases.
Mumbai is one of 40 cities worldwide committed to reduce emissions by 2030. Abdulali has appealed to the environment minister to ask all civic body across Maharashtra to prepare a road map to ensure no garbage is burnt as well as implement solid waste management rules to stop waste burning across the state on a priority basis.
She also cited the report of the Indian council of medical research (ICMR) published on December 22, 2020, listing ‘air pollution control initiatives’ which include reference to the ‘Promotion of Agricultural Mechanisation for in-situ management of crop residue in the states of Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and NCR of Delhi’ and that 160.8 million US$ from 2018-2020 were released to tackle air pollution and subsidize machinery required for in-situ management of crop residue in these states.
“In Delhi, air pollution from burning stubble (a bio-mass) contributes to its status as one of the most air polluted cities in the world. As per the ICMR report, 1,39,118 people, i.e.; overall 16.7% people had premature air pollution related deaths in Maharashtra, the second highest number of air pollution related deaths in India even as it pegged GDP loss of Rs 7,200 crore due to air pollution. We request that lessons learned from the year 2020 when we saw both the cleanest air in decades as well as the first detailed reports of the actual death rate by air pollution and the GDP loss will result in a long-term action plan,” says Abdulali.
#Maharashtra
#Aaditya Thackeray
#Sumaira Abdulali
#Awaaz Foundation
#environment
#pollution
#air quality
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Scunthorpe MP votes for his favourite pub in the area in awards
Scunthorpe MP Nic Dakin has picked his favourite pub in North Lincolnshire
Scunthorpe MP Nic Dakin has voted for his favourite pub in the area (Image: Getty)
Scunthorpe's MP has put forward his pick for an award celebrating pubs in the community.
Nic Dakin has nominated The Dog and Gun in East Butterwick for a Parliamentary Pub of the Year award.
The competition is in its first year and gives 650 MPs the opportunity to nominate a pub.
The main criteria for nomination is a pub that is great at what they do. This can include the range of beer or food provided, the dedication to serving the local community or a specialism in music or sports.
The Dog and Gun in East Butterwick has been nominated for a Parliamentary Pub of the Year award
Mr Dakin said: "It is a celebration of the role of the pub in the heart of our communities really. In Scunthorpe, Bottesford, Kirton and around, there are lots of great pubs with some fantastic work being done by a lot of people, which is greatly appreciated by many people.
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"The Dog and Gun in East Butterwick is a commercial entity in an interesting place doing interesting things, making a real go of it.
"They have a micro brewery, they serve food and it is warm and welcoming. It is all about a celebration of the community pub."
Scunthorpe MP Nic Dakin has picked his favourite pub
Toby Perkins, the Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Pub Group, said: “Pubs are crucial to our communities as well as to our economy. Britain’s pubs employ over one million people and pay around £9 billion in taxes. It is so important that we support our much loved locals.”
If you would like to look at the nominations as they come in, follow the Parliamentary Pub of The Year awards on Twitter @ParliPubOTY or visit parlipuboty.wordpress.com
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No place for ‘Talibani justice’ in this country: Former Delhi HC judge on Telangana encounter
By Press Trust of India | New Delhi
PUBLISHED ON DEC 09, 2019 08:14 AM IST
If an accused dies in police custody, some investigative agency has to check whether the person was killed by the police or not, Sodhi said, adding that according to the guidelines of the Supreme Court, an independent inquiry must be conducted in such cases.
Police at the site of the alleged encounter of the four accused in the rape and murder of a veterinary on the outskirts of Hyderabad on Friday morning.(PTI PHOTO.)
Hyderabad encounter: Telangana high court stays funeral of 4 rape accused
By Srinivasa Rao Apparasu | Hindustan Times, Hyderabad
The bodies of the four accused were supposed to be buried by 10 pm after the autopsy was completed at 8:30 pm on Friday. It was not clear immediately if the autopsy was done in line with the court’s order or if it will be repeated.
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IIM Ahmedabad Endowment Fund appoints Chhavi Moodgal as CEO
By PTI | Posted by Nilesh Mathur | New Delhi
Chhavi Moodgal, an alumna of Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, has been named as the first CEO of the recently set up IIMA Endowment Fund.
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Two IIMs, ISB feature among world’s top 100 business schools
By Amandeep Shukla | New Delhi
UPDATED ON SEP 27, 2019 12:30 AM IST
It has been ranked 40th while IIM Bangalore (IIMB), too, features in the top 50 institutes in the rankings at the 44th position. IIMA was ranked 48th while the IIMB 71st in the rankings last year. Among Asian institutes, IIM Ahmedabad has been ranked sixth on the list.
The web portal was a result of an NGO previously launching a marriage bureau for HIV-positive people.(HT File Photo)
NGO launches marriage portal for HIV+ people
By Press Trust of India | Ahmedabad
The online platform has been created by Gujarat State Network of Positive People (GSNP+), a non-profit organisation, with the technical support of the IIMA’s Centre for Management of Health Services.
The IIM Act, which came into force on January 31, 2018, empowers IIMs to confer a master’s degree in place of the post-graduate diploma awarded to those who clear its two-year management programme.(Photo courtesy: IIMA website)
Will rethink awarding management degrees if UGC approval made mandatory: IIMA director
By Press Trust of India | Press Trust of India
UPDATED ON APR 16, 2018 12:53 PM IST
Director of IIM Ahmedabad, Errol D’Souza, said the institute was waiting for the government to frame rules regarding the IIM Act before taking a call on whether to award degrees in management, and also on what to call these degrees.
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Liquor shops owners prepare for ‘contactless’ sales as stores open from May 4
By Neeraj Chauhan | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON MAY 02, 2020 10:27 AM IST
There are, however, strict social distancing norms in place. People going to such stores/shops will have to maintain at least six feet distance from each other.
The Goa government has moved to ban the sale of alcohol in industrial estates in the state in the interest of ‘safety of workers’(HT Photo)
Goa to ban the sale of liquor in industrial areas: Minister
By Gerard de Souza | Panaji
UPDATED ON OCT 29, 2019 07:52 AM IST
The move is the latest in a crackdown on the sale of liquor in the state after the government passed a law banning the drinking in public in “tourist areas” and imposed fines ranging from Rs 2,000 to 10,000.
DCW chairperson Swati Maliwal gave the police 10 days to sort out the complaints and asked them to provide the required information to the commission in 72 hours.(PTI/File Photo)
DCW notice to two police stations over illegal sale of liquor and drugs
By HT Correspondent | New Delhi
The Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) on Thursday issued notices to Jahangirpuri and Bhalswa Dairy police stations after receiving complaints of sale of illicit liquor and drugs in the area.
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Tekashi 6ix9ine Subliminally Disses Pop Smoke on Instagram Live – “Tell These N*ggas Stop Dissing Me From Hell” [VIDEOS]
Pop Smoke’s Manager Confirms More Music Is On The Way
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Tekashi 6ix9ine officially became a free man yesterday as he was off house arrest. Today, he got right back to work as he shot a new music video in his hometown of Brooklyn as well.
6ix9ine is now back to entertaining beefs again as this time, it appears he’s coming after the late Brooklyn rapper, Pop Smoke, how was shot and killed In Hollywood Hills in February. 6ix9ine took to Instagram Live to say “Tell these niggas stop dissing me from hell.” This is likely addressing Smoke having a record on his posthumous debut studio album last month titled “Snitching” featuring Quavo and Future.
6ix9ine continued to diss smoke when he addressed why he has so much security with him. He said “Your favorite rapper dead right now with bullet holes in his face.” Social media has since been canceling 6ix9ine as prior to Smoke’s tragic death, he was turning into a star and became even bigger with his posthumous album.
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Federal Agencies Partner to Strengthen ShakeAlert Earthquake Early Warning Capacity Along the West Coast
A lone solar panel in the middle of California’s largest national forest is powering a seismometer able to detect Earth’s vibrations, a piece of the puzzle necessary to help protect life and property by providing critical seconds of warning that an earthquake is occurring and shaking is imminent. Keep Reading
DHS Awards $1.5M to Small Business for First Responder Emergency Alerts Technology Development
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DHS S&T Joins Coalition Seeking to ‘Flush’ Out COVID-19 in Wastewater
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9 Fun Facts About Skiing Hucksters
Learn more on these nine cool facts about skiing that will whet your appetite before you head out!
Wikipedia states that “skiing can be a means of transport, a recreational activity or a competitive winter sport in which the participant uses skis to glide on snow.” Until the 1800’s, skiing was primarily used only for transport; it was after the turn of the 18th century that it became a recreational sport. Commercially, the popularity of skiing holidays took off in the 19th century which increased substantially during the mid-1900s until today.
While that’s a basic and informative description of the sport, most people know this stuff… and it’s not exactly getting anyone pumped for a session in the snow, is it? Don’t worry though; we’ve got nine cool facts about skiing that will whet your appetite before you’re on your cheap snow holidays!
Take a look and see…
Where does the word ski come from?
The word ‘ski’ originated from the Norwegian word ‘skíð’ which translates to mean a split piece of wood.
When did downhill racing start?
The first downhill skiing race to ever be officially recorded was in Sweden, in 1879.
When did Alpine skiing enter in the Winter Olympics?
Alpine skiing first debuted in the Winter Olympics of 1936 and the German-born Franz Pfnür was the first ever man to take gold in the championship.
‘Skiing’ is the only six-letter word in the English language that has a double ‘i’ precisely in the middle.
Who is the patron saint of skiers?
St Bernard of Montjoux is! He was proclaimed a saint by Pope Pius XI in 1923 after Bernard spent four decades completing missionary work throughout the Alps. In fact, St. Bernard dogs are named after him too!
Who introduced skiing to the Swiss?
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was the man who did this after coming back from one of his ski trips in Norway; he returned with some skis. He thought Switzerland had the perfect terrain for sport – wasn’t wrong, was he? In his own words, ‘I am convinced that the time will come when hundreds of English men will come to Switzerland for the skiing season’ – definitely not wrong about that either!
What’s the fastest speed recorded on skis?
Skiing is one of the fastest sports on land that has no assistance from a motor. In 2006, Simone Origone set a world speed skiing record at 156.2 miles per hour!
Are there any skiing traditions?
Many skiers invoke the name of ‘Ullr’ the Norse God of winter and make small offerings to get him to bring about a big dump on certain mountains. We’re not sure anyone will need his help for the 2017/18 season, as it’s looking pretty sweet so far!
Space training with skiing?
Astronaut Harrison Schmitt said that astronauts travelling to the moon should learn the art of cross-country skiing. Why? Well, he thought that the techniques used in skiing would help walking on the moon become easier. He also had visions of ‘lunar skiing holidays’ in the future, but I don’t think we’re quite ready for them just yet.
Image: Zach Dischner under Creative Commons.
Always wear your helmet and be mindful of the position your skis are pointing when carrying them around to avoid accidentally hitting anyone.
If you're looking for 5* accommodation where chalet girls wash your feet and sing you to sleep, just stop reading now. If you're not one of the privileged elite, but still want to see snow once or twice a year, head here. I cannot really fault any aspect of the holiday. If you want a low cost skiin...
Hucksters, are to be highly recommended as they offer a very personalised service at package deal prices and take a genuine interest in making sure you have a good time. I have done 4 trips with them in the last 2 years so they must be doing something right!
We just wanted to say, we had the most marvellous time in the Mont Blanc recently. We were very happy in the Petit Mont Blanc Annexe & the staff were absolutely fantastic. They all went out of their way to ensure we had a fantastic holiday.
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Even and Odd (Hardcover)
By Sarah Beth Durst
A half-magic girl learns about heroism and taking action when she and her sister confront a wizard who endangers others for her own gain.
Even and Odd are sisters who share magic. Lately, though, it seems like that’s the only thing they have in common. Odd doesn’t like magic, and Even practices it every chance she gets, dreaming of the day she’ll be ready to be a hero.
When the hidden border between the mundane world the sisters live in and the magical land they were born in shuts abruptly, the girls are trapped, unable to return home. With the help of a unicorn named Jeremy, they discover a wizard is diverting magic from the border to bolster her own power. Families are cut off from each other on both sides of the border, and an ecological disaster is brewing. But the wizard cares nothing for the calamitous effects her appropriation of magic is having. Someone has to do something to stop her, and Even realizes she can no longer wait until she’s ready: she needs to be a hero now.
Sarah Beth Durst is the author of fantasy novels for children, teens, and adults. Winner of the Mythopoeic Award and an ALA Alex Award and thrice nominated for the Andre Norton Award for YA Science Fiction and Fantasy, she lives in New York. www.sarahbethdurst.com, Twitter: @sarahbethdurst.
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And While We're Talking Indian Cricket, Let's Revisit THAT Cheesy Brett Lee Video
This must never happen again.
By Anthony Sharwood
Pleeeeease give me some singing lessons? I'm sorry Brett, there are some things I just can't do.
Australia is about to start a Test tour of India. Meanwhile overnight, people paid obscene amounts of money for Australian cricketers (and others) in the auction for India's IPL Twenty League.
What does this have to do with this unbelievably cheesy Brett Lee music video below? Not much. Except that anytime we think of Australians playing cricket in India, we think of it.
If you really couldn't bear more than a few seconds, you should know that our favourite verse goes thus:
Please give me one chance
I know I'm not an Indi
I promise I'll make you laugh
I'll even learn some Hindi
Less kind people than us might suggest Lee takes singing lessons before he brushes up on his Hindi. But we're not that blunt.
The Sydney Morning Herald via Getty Images
Bollywood singer Asha Bhosle plays the mother of Brett Lee's love interest in the video. She's laughing with him here, not at him. We think.
Anthony Sharwood Sports Editor, HuffPost Australia
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Home » Historic Getaways » Plymouth MA: The Rock, Faith, and Libations
Plymouth MA: The Rock, Faith, and Libations
December 28, 2020 November 23, 2019 by Malerie Yolen-Cohen and Sandra Foyt
WHY GO: So, you think you’ve seen all there is to see in Plymouth MA. You’ve taken photos of “The Rock” and most likely have engaged with some of the original Pilgrims at Plimoth Plantation.
But did you make it up to the National Monument to the Forefathers? To the Pilgrim Hall Museum? Or one of the few historic homes built in the 1600’s?
If not, your visit to Plymouth, originally charted and named by John Smith in 1614, was incomplete.
Plymouth Harbor MA
Plymouth has rebranded itself as “America’s Hometown” and of course our country’s history is the initial draw. But the Mavens throw in a fashionable winery, a gallery-rich main street (parallel to the tourist-rich street along the waterfront), a new boutique hotel, and lush spa resort for an enticing historic Getaway.
Plymouth MA – America’s Historical Attraction
TOUR: Plimoth Plantation
More Things to Do in Plymouth MA
TOUR: Mayflower II
SEE/PHOTO OP: Plymouth Rock
What’s Left of Plymouth Rock?
WALK: Both Plymouth Rock and the Mayflower II
SEE/PHOTO OP: National Monument To the Forefathers
VISIT: Pilgrim Hall Museum
TOUR: Jabez Howland House
TOUR: Plimoth Grist Mill, Town Brook, Burial Hill Cemetery
TOUR: Jenney Museum
VISIT: Mayflower Society House
TOUR: Three Plymouth Antiquarian Society Homes
TOURS: There are tours galore in town
Day Trip From Plymouth MA
TOUR: Flax Pond Farm Bog Tours, Cranberry Bog, Carver, MA
The Art of Cranberry Cultivation
Restaurants in Plymouth MA
THANSGIVING DINING
DRINK/BITES: 1620 Wine Bar
1620 Winery
EAT/BREAKFAST: Local Yolk Co.
BREAKFAST/BAKERY: The Blueberry Muffin
EAT/LUNCH: Blue Blinds Bakery
PUB: The New World Tavern
Hotels in Plymouth MA
STAY/CENTRAL: Hotel 1620 Plymouth Harbor
STAY/DINE: Mirbeau Inn and Spa, The Pinehills
B&B:By The Sea Bed and Breakfast
FAMILY: John Carver Inn
More Weekend Getaways Near Plymouth, Massachusetts
Coastal Massachusetts was not the ultimate destination for the 102 Mayflower passengers, a group consisting of religious Puritans (Saints) and fortune hunters (Strangers). Intending to settle “well south” of here in New York, they were blown off course, and in doing so had to deal with the harsh realities of winter in New England.
Half of them died within the first year.
Cooking Demonstration at Plimoth Plantation
A current introduction would not be complete without mention of Plymouth 400 – an umbrella organization that, before Covid-19 hit, was coordinating the activities of member attractions and organizations hoping to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrim’s Landing in 2020. (Some event were conducted online. Others have been rescheduled for sometime in 2021).
To whit – the Plymouth Harbor was dredged (for the first time ever) in anticipation of the return of the Mayflower II (now back in town after restoration at Mystic Seaport in Connecticut), and to allow larger vessels to enter the inner harbor.
Wampanoag Settlement Plimoth Plantation Plymouth MA
A “Path of Pilgrims and Wampanoug” Tourist Trail, much like the Freedom Trail in Boston, has been established. This Quadricentennial celebration will not ignore America’s first residents – the Native Americans who had lived here for over 10,000 years before first welcoming our country’s first immigrants with feasts of Thanksgiving – who perished in droves from foreign diseases and in battle with increasingly hostile newcomers.
Plans are in the works for a Wampanoag Ancestor’s Walk and Indigenous History Conference and Powwow to address this disconcerting aspect of America’s origin story.
Entrance to Plimoth Plantation Plymouth MA
Several miles from its original placement, Plimoth Plantation was built in 1947 as a Living History Museum to recreate the structures and conditions of the Plymouth Colony in 1620.
Start in the Visitor’s Center with a 15-minute orientation film, and then follow a well marked path, first to the Wampanoag Settlement, where Native American interpreters play the part of their ancestors who lived here, and then to the 17th Century English Village, built to look like the one established by the Mayflower Pilgrims.
Costumed Docents at Plimoth Plantation
You’ll find costumed docents cooking, gardening, doing chores, or gossiping with one another. Much of the fun comes from engaging these villagers in conversation. We stumbled upon Master Hopkins snipping hops buds from vines “to make beer out of ale.”
This is Plymouth’s most popular attraction for a reason. Open daily Late March to Sunday after Thanksgiving, 9-5, $28 adults, $16 kids. Plimoth Cinema on site shows first-run movies daily.
In 1620, 102 men, women, and children sailed for ten perilous weeks from England to Plymouth, MA aboard the original Mayflower ship. No one knows what happened to the original, but its replica, the Mayflower II, recreated that journey in 1957.
Upon arrival, it was tied down to a pier where it remained until being restored to sailing condition in 1990. Now, she sails occasionally but mostly she is available for tours led by costumed guides who describe the dangerous journey and share the history behind the Mayflower Compact while escorting visitors through the ship’s narrow confines.
In 1741, when a certain rock on the shoreline of town was in danger of being concealed by a proposed wharf, a 94-year-old Church elder, Thomas Faunce, claimed that his father’s friends, who had arrived on the Mayflower, told him that the boulder was the first stepping stone on land for the 102 disembarking passengers in 1620.
The wharf project was tabled, and the once large boulder became ever smaller as locals got wind of its importance. They chiseled it away, using pieces for stone floors and home decor.
The actual Plymouth Rock MA
Now under shelter, what’s left of “The Rock” would fit in the back of a pick-up truck: not quite the stirring sight you’d expect. The jury is still out on whether it was this exact rock, but many believe that the granite stone – standing alone amid thickets of brush and trees – would have certainly been a landmark to steer by, if not the actual landing site.
Today, just 1⁄3 of the top portion remains, under cover of a multi-column portico designed in 1920 by McKim, Mead and White for the Tercentenary Celebration of the landing. Look for “1620” clearly carved on its face, it’s a later addition from about 1867.
We tend to agree with Bill Bryson in Made in America:
The one thing the Pilgrims certainly did not do was step ashore on Plymouth Rock. Quite apart from the consideration that it may have stood well above the high-water mark in 1620, no prudent mariner would try to bring a ship alongside a boulder on a heaving December sea when a sheltered inlet beckoned from near by.
Regardless, Plymouth Rock is an important symbol of America, and not to be missed.
These icons are located at Pilgrim Memorial State Park, along Plymouth Harbor, where there are a number of other monuments worth seeing. Look for the Pilgrim Mother Statue & Fountain across the street from Plymouth Rock, and climb Cole’s Hill for a scenic view of the waterfront as well as the statue of Native leader Massasoit and a sarcophagus holding the remains of several early pilgrims.
National Monument to the Forefathers in Plymouth, Massachusetts
The 81ft tall monument, including the looming 36ft-tall granite rendering of Faith, stands on a hill several blocks from the waterfront and can be seen by boats entering Plymouth Harbor. Yet not many tourists know about this imposing structure.
First conceived in 1820 as the 200th year memorial to the Mayflower’s arrival in the New World (Abe Lincoln sent a $5 donation), construction of the Pilgrim Monument was put on hold due to the Civil War. Finally completed in 1889, Faith is surrounded by sculptures representing four other Puritan values: Morality, Liberty Education, and Law.
The Pilgrim Story Pilgrim Hall Museum Plymouth MA
In 1820, local citizens and descendants of the 102 Mayflower passengers realized that treasured family artifacts – those transported here and handed down through the generations – were disappearing and would likely be gone in a few more generations unless they did something to preserve them.
And so, in 1824, the group spearheaded a fundraising campaign to build Pilgrim Hall – now considered the oldest continuously operating museum built as a museum in the country – in order to house the wares brought over on the Mayflower. Wings were added over the years, the latest a 2008 addition for handicap accessibility.
Cradle from the Mayflower Pilgrim Hall Plymouth MA
The museum tells the story of the Puritan sect that had first moved from England to Holland in 1609 to practice their own form of Christianity. Within 11 years, parents were dismayed to find that their children were “becoming Dutch,” and so made plans to create a new life in another land.
It is quite astounding to be within inches of William Bradford’s bible and the cradle that Susanna and William White took with them from England in anticipation of the birth of their child, along with packing trunks, bibles, and other cherished and necessary items that all traveled to the New World in 1620. Open daily Feb – Dec., 9:30-4:30, $12.
Jabez Howland House, Plymouth MA
John Howland, 13th signer of the Mayflower Compact, fell off the ship during a terrible storm and lived (he held onto a line and was pulled back aboard).
Good thing, too, as he was then able to marry fellow passenger, Elizabeth Tilly (who was 13 during the voyage) several years later, and have ten children who all lived into adulthood (practically unheard of at the time) and who each had passels of kids of their own.
One of those children was Jabez Howland, who purchased the home in 1670. John moved in with his son and family in his later years and died in 1673.
Inside Jabez Howland House Plymouth MA
On your 30-minute tour of the last existing house where a Mayflower passenger actually lived, you’ll see letters from Jabez to Reverend Cotton Mather, a 1635 “upside down” world map of Europe and the New World, and unearthed artifacts from an ongoing excavation of John Howland’s Rocky Nook Farm. $6, Memorial Day to early October, 10-4:30 daily, tours on hour and half hour.
Plimoth Grist Mill, Plymouth MA
First built in 1636, the original gristmill burned down in the 1940’s. This replica was constructed on its former footprint in the 1960’s. Visitors can see a working water mill in action, purchase fresh-ground cornmeal, and then meander along the brook where the Pilgrims first came for water.
The now-commercialized Leyden St. was the site of the first Plimoth Settlement. Burial Hill, where some of the Mayflower passengers are buried, is directly behind First Congregational Church. Mill open daily March – Nov. 9-5, $7 adults, $5 kids.
Jenny Museum Plymouth MA
Run by Pilgrim Pursuit of Happiness author, Leo Martin, the Jenney Museum tells the story of the earliest abolitionists for whom family and faith were everything. More a history museum than a “house museum”- this place belonged to entrepreneur, John Jenny, who ran the Grist Mill next door as well as a brewery and bakery.
Upending their lives in England to travel to the New World, the Pilgrims sought “Five Liberties:” Spiritual, Religious, Political, Constitutional, and Economic. This pursuit came with a considerable cost: Within the first year, 51 of the 102 passengers died. Each themed room throughout the museum sparks discussions.
Martin also leads Historic Plymouth Walking Tours from here, including Discover Plymouth, National Monument to the Forefathers, Conversations With A Pilgrim, and more. Reservations required. Open April – mid November, Mon-Sat. 9:30-5, $7 self guided, $15 guided tours.
Mayflower Society House Plymouth MA
Housing the headquarters of the General Society of Mayflower Descendants, this high-ceiling manor also serves as a museum open to the public.
There are an estimated ten million Mayflower decedents all over the world – those Puritans were a prolific bunch – and a guided tour here depicts several notable ones: for example, Ralph Waldo Emerson, who, in 1835, married Lydia Jackson in front of the fireplace framed with bible-themed Delft Tiles.
Bible-Themed Delft Tiles, Mayflower Society House Plymouth M
Built in 1754 for politician and Loyalist, Edward Winslow (who fled back to England in 1781), this reproduction of an English Manor House cycled through a succession of owners, and served as a Red Cross Station, until Chicago clothier, Charles Willoughby left it to the Mayflower Society in 1941.
Visitors come to see the space-saving double floating staircase and formal dining room with black walnut woodwork and Waterford crystal chandelier, as well as to peruse the stunning gardens out back. A genealogical library is open by reservation. Open Mid-June to Early October, Thurs-Sun 11-4, $7 for guided tour.
1670 Harlow Old Fort House, 1749 Spooner House, and 1804 Hedge House Museum tell the story of Plymouth MA as it evolved from the 1600’s to the 1800’s.
Whale Watching Tours Plymouth MA
Ghost Tours, Pedicab Tours, Captain John’s Whale Watching, and more. You can spend the better part of a week here and not see/do everything.
Flax Pond Farm Carver MA
It’s a bit of a drive (about 20 minutes) from Plymouth to Carver, but worth it to learn about the Cranberry biz from Dot and Jack Angley, Ocean Spray grower-owners. (Flax Pond Farm is one of the 800 plus farms that make up the Ocean Spray cooperative, formed in 1936.)
Cranberry Bog Tour Flax Pond Farm Carver MA
Everything you know about cranberry growing (admit it, from the two guys on Ocean Spray commercials) is wrong. Or at least partially wrong. The ads depict a now rarely-applied “Water Harvest.” Before modern irrigation techniques, cranberry bogs were flooded, causing the berries to rise (and allowing for the eye-catching sea of red in which the Ocean Spray guys stand).
Transporting Cranberries by Helicopter, Flax Pond Farm Carver MA
Flax Pond Farm is a “Dry Bog” where berries are grown for fresh fruit (rather than for juice or jellies), first planted in 1893. By the time the Angley’s purchased the bog in 1967, it was a decades old operating farm. Jack’s Dad was a Harvard-trained doctor with a patient who needed to sell his bog. Jack – 27 at the time – knew nothing about cranberries, or farming for that matter, but was “up for a challenge.”
He and Dot have now been growing heirloom varieties on 36 acres “for 52 years.”
Dot and Jack Angley, owners, Flax Pond Farm Carver MA
A tour here takes you through the timeline and process of cranberry cultivation – from pollination (bringing in the bees), to harvest, sorting, and finally being picked up by helicopter (in half ton bins), and flown to flatbed trucks that offload at a mega Ocean Spray plant in Middleborough MA.
There, the berries are cleaned, screened, and packed in those 12oz packages you buy to make fresh cranberry sauce for Thanksgiving dinner. While here, be sure to pick up something cranberry-related in the barn gift shop: soap, jam, juice, or even Ocean Spray Bloody Mary Mix, generally sold only to bars and restaurants. Tours Sept and October Weekdays 1-4, weekends 10-4, free.
1620 Winery Tasting Room, Plymouth MA
People come from all over the world to experience the traditional Thanksgiving meal at Plimoth Plantation, but it’s only scheduled a few times a year. Never fear! There’s a whole slew of themed meals planned spring through fall.
Bought by Robert and Raquel Mullaney over three years ago, the former Plymouth Winery now references the year of the Mayflower landing.
The 1620 Wine Bar, located at Village Landing Marketplace on Water St., serves up its own wines and vintages from around the world – as well as homemade tapas – in a beautifully designed upscale, clubby space.
Filled with patrons on a mid-week afternoon, 1620 Wine Bar is a very hot spot at the moment. “We don’t have a wine club,” says Raquel. “We have a wine cult.”
Robert and Raquel Mullaney, owners, 1620 Winery, Plymouth MA
Robert concocts the house wines, calling some of them, like the cold-brew Coffee Wine, his “chemistry projects.” Pilgrim Off White (Oaked Chardonnay), Plymouth Rock White (Pino Grigio), Plantation White (Sauvignon Blanc), Plantation Red (blend), Wampanoag Red (Sangiovese), and Bug Light Red (Zinfandel), are popular dry wines, with Black Magic Rose – made with black currants – on the sweeter side.
The 1620 Winery itself is situated at Cordage Park, former home of Plymouth Cordage Co., the 1829 rope-maker that sold to tall ships all over the world. (In the early 1900’s, Plymouth Cordage made the rope for the USS Constitution.) It’s now a top spot for weddings and wine pairing dinners.
Local Yolk Co Plymouth MA
This tiny space overlooking the harbor is sweet both in décor and service – and tends to be jam-packed on weekend mornings. That’s because the locally sourced eggs make for simply good breakfasts.
Described as the “best breakfast on the south shore,” servings are fresh and plentiful. The bakery is pretty good too, pick up a muffin to go.
Blue Blinds Bakery and Cafe Plymouth MA
With outside curb appeal and a kitschy, mural-parlor-tea-house interior, this bakery/sandwich shop is a local favorite.
Vela Juice Bar, Plymouth MA
Vela Juice Bar – next door to Pilgrim Hall and perfect for a mid-day healthy pick-me-up, East Bay Grill, Wood’s Seafood (on a pier where fishermen unload their catch), and Lobster Hut for unpretentious dining, The Tasty for great drinks and small bites, and Waterfront Bar and Grill for the views, beer, and Buffalo Chicken.
Family-friendly, the menu is a cut above the usual pub fare. Located in the historic downtown, it’s a fun hangout spot with live music on weekend nights. Locals rave over the char-broiled flatbreads too.
Hotel 1620 Plymouth MA
You’ll never forget where you are as you enter the newest boutique hotel in Plymouth: there’s a huge projection of a couple of Pilgrims over the reception desk – welcoming you to “America’s Home Town” and the Hotel 1620. An upstairs seating area features a small, but well done, homage to The Mayflower Passengers, who arrived to these shores in, yep, 1620.
Mayflower Passengers Seating Area – Hotel 1620 – Plymouth MA
Like most boutique hotels, The 1620 draws from and capitalizes on local history – but besides the common areas, it’s not so in-your-face, and therein lies its charm. What the hotel lacks in harbor views (it’s not on the waterfront), it makes up for in crisp décor and excellent service.
Guestroom Hotel 1620 Plymouth MA
Ship-shape rooms are done up in nautical blues and grays with yachting life furnishings. Bathrooms are bright, with gleaming glass showers clad in Navy Blue tiles.
Indoor Pool Hotel 1620 Plymouth MA
Many room balconies overlook a large indoor pool that takes center stage in an enclosed courtyard. The fitness room is small but has state of the art equipment. Room rates start at $120 off season and start at $350 in season.
Mirbeau Inn and Spa, The Pinehills MA
Opened in 2014, Mirbeau’s French Country décor, bewitching gardens (with “Monet Bridge” popular for wedding photos), and well-regarded spa appeal to brides and Boomers alike. And, of course, girlfriend groups.
Fifty guest rooms are quietly luxurious – not overdone – and common areas, with fireplaces, are the go-to spots on a snowy winter’s eve. If you don’t plan to stay here, at least reserve a table for lunch or dinner at The Bistro & Wine Bar – a fantastic meal that begins with addictive popovers and honey butter.
Reasonably priced starters and entrees, like Warm Mushroom Salad ($11) and Steak Frittes ($29) are deftly prepared, and service is top notch. Rooms from $300 – $400 per night in season, from $220 off season.
Guests rave about the view and location. Located on Plymouth Harbor, the B&B sees stunning sunrises from the front porch and guest room windows, and it’s in easy walking distance from most historical landmarks.
Kids (and kids at heart) love the pool at the John Carver Inn. Who could resist a 80′ water slide winding through a replica of the Mayflower and a whirlpool set in a mock Plymouth Rock? The hotel itself is charming, equally suitable for family or romantic getaways, and interestingly enough, it’s located on the site of the original pilgrim settlement.
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ECG app for Apple Watch will reportedly launch with watchOS 5.1.2
Christian Zibreg on November 28, 2018
Apple’s ECG app that will permit Series 4 watch wearers to take an electrocardiograph reading on the go will release publicly as part of the watchOS 5.1.2 software update.
MacRumors learned about this from an internal Apple Store training document.
The ECG app is exclusive to Apple Watch Series 4, which has a new electric heart rate sensor in addition to the existing optical heart rate sensor. The user fires up the software and then touches the Digital Crown for about thirty seconds, which prompts electrodes built into both the Digital Crown and the back crystal to read your heart’s electrical signals.
This in turn generates an ECG waveform. The app even indicates whether your heart rhythm shows signs of atrial fibrillation, which is a serious form of irregular heart rhythm.
The generated ECG is similar to a single-lead electrocardiogram.
The captured data is saved in the Health app on iPhone. Apple has worked with the FDA to obtain clearance so that users could send their ECG reading as a PDF to a doctor.
“It’s a momentous achievement for a wearable device that can provide critical data for doctors and peace of mind for you,” Apple claims.
Because the app is regulated, it’s only available in regions cleared for use. Initially, it’ll be limited to the US. Series 4 models sold worldwide also have the electrical heart sensor and Apple is apparently working on future expansion in Europe and elsewhere.
International users that don’t have access to the app might be able to force it to appear on their device by changing their regional settings to English (US), which also enables other features with limited availability, like Apple News, Siri and more.
watchOS 5.1.2 is currently being beta tested.
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Yubico launches first Apple approved physical security key that works with USB-C & Lightning
Christian Zibreg on January 8, 2019
Yubico, a company that produces NFC-based physical security keys for passwordless login and two-factor authentication, announced at the CES 2019 show today that it is developing a hardware key that works with both iOS devices and Macs that have USB-C.
A physical security keys can be used on desktop by plugging it into an NFC reader that’s attached to a computer via USB-C. Up until today, there were no viable options for iOS customers who wanted to elevate their security with a hardware key aside from connecting such an accessory to an iOS device through Bluetooth, which was both insecure and unreliable.
“The industry’s ended up with Bluetooth as the best way to connect with iPhones,” said Yubico’s SVP of Product, Jerrod Chong. “We felt that wasn’t good enough. If you want users to get over the hurdle of using a security device, you have to solve that usability problem.”
YubiKey has Lightning on one end and USB-C on the other, letting it be used not only with iPhones and iPads but also with newer Macs and other USB-C devices, such as 2018 iPad Pro.
For two-factor authentication, the device can generate a one-time passcode and send it to the requesting app via NFC. This improves the two-factor authentication experience on iOS because you can authenticate with just a tap of your YubiKey against your phone.
And as the the latest hardware authenticator from Yubico, YubiKey is built to last. It’s made in the USA and Sweden with reinforced fiberglass that is hermetically sealed and injection molded into a monolithic block, delivering exceptional physical l durability.
This is the first such device approved by Apple.
Physical keys are more secure than passwords or one-time codes so YubiKey should be perfect for strong multi-factor, two-factor and single-factor passwordless authentication.
Developers wanting to support YubiKey authentication must sign up for Yubico’s YubiKey for Lightning program, currently in a private preview, to update their apps accordingly. “The key doesn’t solve anything if the application doesn’t support the device,” Chang told The Verge.
The company’s existing NFC-based security key products work out of the box with hundreds of services supporting FIDO U2F and FIDO2 authentication protocols.
Aside from Microsoft, the list includes Google, Facebook, Twitter, Dropbox, in addition to a growing list of password managers and a bunch of FIDO2/U2F-compatible websites.
It’s unclear when general availability might start—Yubico hopes the new key will go on sale sometime in 2019—so keep your eyes peeled and watch this space for the latest.
In the meantime, you can purchase existing YubiKeys by visitting Yubico’s online store. The NFC edition that we mentioned earlier is available beginning today for $27.
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Celebrity sightings and up-and-coming indie flicks are a given at the annual Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, but this year something else is drawing attraction on the red carpet: faith on film.
A small but noticeable number of films at Sundance — where crossover movies like Reservoir Dogs and Little Miss Sunshine broke into the mainstream — tackle issues of religion, spirituality and faith, Religion News Service reports. Out of 120 Sundance features scheduled to show at the January 20-30 festival, 12 are overt stories about religion, or chronicle protagonists largely defined by faith, says John Nein, senior programmer for the festival.
“There are definitely more films (exploring spirituality) that ended up in the program this year than in years past,” he said, noting an uptick in the number of submissions that touch on religious themes.
Christianity is a central theme in most of the films, from the star-studded satire Salvation Boulevard, featuring Pierce Brosnan as a popular preacher who frames a born-again Christian follower for a crime, to the riveting documentary The Redemption of General Butt Naked, about a Liberian warlord-turned-preacher facing the loved ones of people he killed.
The Italian film Lost Kisses centres around a Sicilian community’s reaction to a 13-year-old girl who may perform miracles. Two films explore Christianity and Islam, with Kinyarwanda set during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, and the documentary Position Among the Stars tracing the lives of an impoverished family in Jakarta, Indonesia.
The Japanese Abraxas focuses on a depressed Zen monk who reconnects with punk rock, while the bizarre American comedy The Catechism Cataclysm centres on a priest who loves heavy metal music. Three American features — Martha Marcy May Marlene, Kevin Smith’s horror film Red State and Vera Farmiga’s directorial debut Higher Ground — are concerned with cults and religious sects on the fringe.
Religion, of course, isn’t totally new territory for Sundance — previous fest fare included Saved!,Jesus Camp and Shape of the Moon, a precursor to this year’s Position Among the Stars.
Most Sundance religious fare tended to be satirical or derisive with Saved! a prime example — said Dick Staub, author of The Culturally Savvy Christian and a columnist for Religion News Service, who has participated in the Windrider Film Forums around Sundance that bring together directors and audiences to talk about faith on film.
William L. Blizek, founding editor of the Journal of Religionand Film and professor of philosophy and religion at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, said religion may have a higher profile at Sundance this year because “religion has become a much more visible part of our culture”.
With more openness toward religion, there is more freedom to make movies about it, some Sundance filmmakers say.
Position director Leonard Retel Helmrich says he tried pitching documentaries dealing with religious themes in the `80s and`90s in his native Netherlands but could not get financing until recently. Flash forward to 2010 and Catechism director Todd Rohal said there were no concerns from funders that his film had a priest for a protagonist or a “ridiculous” Catholic-infused title.
Sundance’s John Nein said this year’s selections “indicate a wide array of approaches” toward religion, including politics and current events, blatant inspiration (Salvation and Red State) and more personal stories of redemption and soul-searching (Tyrannosaur, about a Christian charity worker, and The Ledge, a thriller where a woman wrestles with her personal faith).
Some films highlight the connection between religion and society while still telling personal stories. Mr Helmrich, whose family has ties to Indonesia and both Islam and Christianity, was drawn to making a documentary about the lives of a Muslim family with a Christian matriarch in the nation’s most populous Islamic country.
Butt Naked is a personal story of a man seeking redemption after a 14-year civil war had killed 250,000 Liberians. Several scenes show the allegedly reformed warlord face-to-face with relatives of his victims, but why and how they forgive is left to the viewer to speculate, along with the question of whether such a sinner can truly be redeemed.
“We were interested in knowing if somebody made a transformation this extreme, what would it look like?” said co-director Daniele Anastasion. “How much do you have to do to balance the scales? Is it even possible to balance the scales?”
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alt.economy: Ethnographic Explorations of Alternative Economic Imaginaries
by Journal of Cultural Economy July 21, 2016
In the wake of a unique convening of activists and academics at the University of California, Irvine, Journal of Cultural Economy Reviews Editor Taylor C. Nelms, who also helped to organize the UC Irvine workshop, has reflected on some of the central points of discussion and debate in the pages of the Journal. We are pleased to publish a short extract of that reflection here.
Recent years have seen an upsurge in interest in how financial upheaval, state action, technological change have disrupted economies across the globe and shaken confidence in familiar systems of economic organization. And yet, in the rush to grapple with the implications of highly visible government interventions and mass protests, everyday efforts by a diverse range of expert, state, academic, and public actors seeking to imagine and instantiate new or alternative forms of finance and economy have often been overlooked.
In January 2016, a group of activists, organizers, and academics convened on the campus of the University of California, Irvine to discuss some of these alternatives. The workshop, tentatively called ‘alt.economy: Ethnographic Explorations of Alternative Economic Imaginaries’, sought to foster a dialogue between those developing concrete proposals for financial or economic alternatives with the scholars who are studying and sometimes directly involved in their creations.[1] Those in attendance included organizers from the Debt Collective; Highlander Research and Education Center; Southern Grassroots Economies Project; the Working World; and Robin Hood Minor Asset Management.
Over the course of two intensive days, participants at the workshop identified and debated the shared strategies, common tensions, and recurrent challenges of alternative economic imaginaries. These include:
—The transition from non-cooperation as a form of critique and resistance to the generation of group solidarity and active construction of cooperative institutions as a strategy for the positive creation of alternative forms of economic practice and organization within hegemonic systems;
—Creative attempts to turn the means of existing systems to other ends, ‘parasiting’ off existing infrastructures while ‘tinkering’ with or ‘hacking’ their legal, technological, and institutional ‘nuts and bolts’;
—The danger of overlooking historically embedded, structural logics of inequality—especially race-based forms of discrimination, dispossession, and violence—in embracing this strategy of parasiting;
—The simultaneous importance and challenge of education and the ways organizers can guide others as they seek to incite moments of systemic insight into the operations of power;
—The promises and pitfalls of new technologies, such as the blockchain, a distributed, peer-to-peer software architecture made popular by the cryptocurrency Bitcoin; and
—The place of the university in the work of alternative economic organizing.
These themes are elaborated on in the full conference report and review essay.
While we frequently hear about ‘disruption’ and ‘innovation’ from London to New York to Silicon Valley, this corporate rhetoric too often occludes radical experiments taking place all the time, all around us. But the creative labor of those who are rethinking and remaking the economy cannot be dismissed. In searching out the alternative, there is never a simple switch to flip, no real ‘alt’ key to press. Alternatives take work: institutional and organizational work, legal and political work, knowledge work, relational and affective work. Alternatives are often risky and short-lived: to experiment with cooperative organization or hazard a proposal to remake finance are gambits, without guarantees. Those actively working to make such projects real in the world must ask not only how to define the alternative, but also how to make it durable. Finally, efforts to imagine and create alternatives often rely on or reproduce their own forms of exclusion. The key question is, as Elandria Williams of the Highlander Center emphasized at the workshop, who gets invited to the table? For the university to offer a space for communities to consider their own economic futures and for diverse participants to confront the strategies, tensions, and challenges of imagining and making real alternative economies, that is our challenge.
Photo credit: Erik Parker. Used under a Creative Commons license.
[1] The gathering was sponsored by JCE, as well as the Dean of the UCI School of Social Sciences Bill Maurer (also a member of the JCE Editorial Board), the Center for Ethnography, and Institute for Money, Technology & Financial Inclusion (IMTFI), both also at UCI. It was organized by Maurer, Nelms, Hannah Appel, and Joan Donovan. Daromir Rudnyckyj offered initial inspiration (and our title!) and contributed significantly to the event’s conceptualization.
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Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, the world's latest sea level satellite, is in orbit and ready to begin taking critical ocean measurements for the next five-and-a-half years.
The newest satellite to monitor global sea level is ready for its journey into space. Here's what to expect. .
The U.S.-European collaboration aims to measure sea level and will launch from the California coast in late November. .
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A new study tracing the sources of carbon dioxide, the most significant human-generated greenhouse gas, reveals the unexpectedly large influence of vegetation in urban environments. .
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Details about the physical transformation of over 200 of the island's coastal glaciers are documented in a new study, in which the authors anticipate environmental impacts. .
U.S.-European Sea Level Satellite Gears Up for Launch
The Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich spacecraft will soon be heading into orbit to monitor the height of the ocean for nearly the entire globe. .
Meet the People Behind the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich Spacecraft
Launching soon from the California coast, the satellite will track sea levels worldwide. A new video series introduces some of the NASA JPL scientists and engineers involved in the mission. .
5 Things to Know About Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich
Set for launch in November, the Earth-observing satellite will closely monitor sea level and provide atmospheric data to support weather forecasting and climate models. .
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A Practical Model is Equivalent to the BALAD or BALAD-2 Score in Predicting Long-term Survival after Hepatectomy in Chinese Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Hua He1,2, Bai Ji3, Zhifang Jia1, Yangyu Zhang1, Xueying Wang1,2, Xuerong Tao1, Yahui Liu3✉, Jing Jiang1,2✉
1. Division of Clinical Research, the First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun 130021, Jilin Province, China
2. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Jilin University, Changchun 130021, Jilin Province, China
3. Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, the First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun 130021, Jilin Province, China
Yahui Liu and Jing Jiang. Both authors make an equal contribution to this article.
He H, Ji B, Jia Z, Zhang Y, Wang X, Tao X, Liu Y, Jiang J. A Practical Model is Equivalent to the BALAD or BALAD-2 Score in Predicting Long-term Survival after Hepatectomy in Chinese Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma. J Cancer 2021; 12(5):1474-1482. doi:10.7150/jca.51593. Available from https://www.jcancer.org/v12p1474.htm
Aim: To evaluate the predictive value of the BALAD and BALAD-2 scores on long-term survival after hepatectomy in Chinese hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients and to attempt to establish a more practical or effective model.
Methods: A total of 251 HCC patients underwent hepatectomy were recruited. The BALAD and BALAD-2 scores were calculated with total bilirubin, albumin, alpha-fetoprotein, Lens culinaris agglutinin-reactive fraction of alpha-fetoprotein and des-gamma-carboxyprothrombin. The associations of the two scores and their components with the overall survival were analyzed. Finally, three prediction models were explored and constructed.
Results: We observed that HCC patients had 5-year survival rates that worsened with increasement of BALAD and BALAD-2 scores. The BALAD and BALAD-2 scores demonstrated fine value in predicting overall survival with Harrell-C statistics of 0.665 (0.618-0.712) and 0.603 (0.554-0.636). After two variables, largest tumor size and BMI, were included in BALAD [0.720 (0.671-0.769)] or BALAD-2 [0.701 (0.649-0.751)] multivariate models, the Harrell-C statistic increased significantly than BALAD (P=0.048) or BALAD-2 (P<0.001) alone. Taking into account availability and expense, an equivalent BAA-BS model was established based on total bilirubin, albumin, AFP, BMI and largest tumor size. The Harrell-C statistic of BAA-BS model [0.723(0.674-0.772)] was similar to that of BALAD (P=0.820) or BALAD-2 (P=0.209) multivariate model. And, the continuous net reclassification index and integrated discriminatory improvement were not statistically different. Finally, a nomogram of the equivalent BAA-BS model was constructed to assist surgeons and patients in predicting 5-year survival rates.
Conclusion: Both BALAD and BALAD-2 scores were highly suitable for predicting long-term survival after hepatectomy in Chinese HCC patients. A significant increase in predictive efficacy was observed after the addition of largest tumor size and BMI to BALAD or BALAD-2 score. Even if AFP-L3 and DCP are not detected, an equivalent BAA-BS model also obtained an excellent discriminatory performance.
Keywords: Hepatocellular carcinoma, Hepatectomy, Survival, BALAD, BALAD-2
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Who’s first wins? International crisis response to Covid-19
China has sought to demonstrate that its authoritarian political system has been more efficient at dealing with the coronavirus crisis than Western liberal democratic systems. This Brief examines the validity of this hypothesis, and concludes that predispositional factors – notably the demographic and age profile of a country – as well as whether a state had been previously exposed to a pandemic or not, were more important in shaping the authorities’ response than the political system in place.
Towards urban decoupling? China’s smart city ambitions at the time of Covid-19
Alice Ekman, Cristina de Esperanza Picardo
China is rapidly consolidating its expertise in building smart/safe cities, with the Covid-19 crisis significantly accelerating this trend. The crisis has also seen China step up its activism in the global promotion, donation and export of some of its smart city technologies with dual-use capabilities. What risks does this pose for Europe?
Arctic stress test
In the three decades after the Cold War, the perception of ‘Arctic exceptionalism’, the sense that the Arctic region is immune from broader geopolitical tensions, prevailed. However, this notion is currently being challenged: climate change is accelerating the opening of new maritime trade routes and exploitation of natural resources in the region, while great power competition between the US, Russia and China in the Arctic is intensifying, changing regional power dynamics.
Beyond Yemen’s militiadoms
Eleonora Ardemagni
The ongoing conflict in Yemen is complex and multi-layered, with the involvement of rival regional powers adding a geopolitical dimension to the war. As the national framework has disintegrated, local rivalries have intensified, leaving more room for foreign state interference in the country. In this fragmented political landscape, militias and other armed groups have come to play a prominent role in Yemen’s security governance. This Brief analyses the intertwined layers of conflict in Yemen and their implications for war resolution efforts, arguing that reforming the state on the basis of a decentralisation of power is key to rebuilding national institutions and achieving peace.
Cyber conflict uncoded
Patryk Pawlak, Eneken Tikk, Mika Kerttunen
The complex nature of cyber conflicts makes it difficult to design effective, targeted conflict prevention instruments. Yet existing approaches to prevent conflict in cyberspace have, so far, brought about very little change in state behaviour. How might the EU lead the way in preventing conflicts from escalating or breaking out?
The CSDP in 2020
Pedro Serrano, Claudia Major, Christian Mölling, Dick Zandee, Lucie Béraud-Sudreau, Ana E. Juncos, Gustav Lindstrom, Roderick Parkes, Jean-Pierre Maulny, Giovanni Faleg
This book provides an analytical overview of the key historical CSDP developments and critically appraises the last two decades. A host of leading think tank analysts and a senior EU official look at issues such as institutional design, operations and missions, capabilities, industry and civilian crisis management.
Russia's forays into sub-Saharan Africa
Giovanni Faleg, Stanislav Secrieru
Russia is mounting a remarkable political comeback in sub-Saharan Africa through a ‘low costs, high returns and visibility’ approach. Can a coherent strategy be discerned behind this push? And how is sub-Saharan Africa reacting to Russia’s overtures and what does it mean for the EU?
A blacklist is (almost) born
In the sanctions practice of the EU, human rights motivations feature prominently, reflecting their centrality to the Union’s foreign policy. This Brief discusses plans to create a new EU sanctions regime addressing gross human rights violations. It examines the various challenges surrounding the initiative and its implementation, and argues that the way forward could be to disaggregate the proposed sanctions regimes into two separate strands: one dealing with breaches of international humanitarian law and a second addressing human rights abuses linked to large-scale transnational corruption.
Digitalising defence
Digital technologies can vastly improve the operational readiness and effectiveness of Europe’s armed forces. As this Brief shows, however, the EU needs to better understand the risks and opportunities involved in the digitalisation of defence and it needs to financially invest in its technological sovereignty.
Digital divide? Transatlantic defence cooperation on AI
In the wake of the Artificial Intelligence Strategy unveiled by the US Department of Defense in 2019, this Brief examines the implications of the initiative for Europe and for transatlantic defence cooperation. It argues that Europeans need to develop a strategy for military innovation, including Artificial Intelligence (AI), while the transatlantic partners need to design a common approach to AI governance.
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Young Ontario entrepreneurs to get a $1 million funding boost
Candice So
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Published: May 28th, 2013
Young entrepreneurs in Ontario may soon get a jump start in building their own companies, as $1 million will be going into programs geared towards their success.
On Tuesday, the Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) and the Canadian Youth Business Foundation (CYBF) announced they will be investing in up to 10 projects over the next two years. OCE and CYBF made the announcement at the OCE Discovery conference in Toronto.
The projects are aimed at entrepreneurs between ages 18 and 39, with a focus on businesses stemming from Ontario’s colleges and universities. Each project would receive a total of $100,000, with a a $50,000 grant from OCE and mentorship from CYBF in the first year. Then in the second year, projects would get another $50,000 of funding from CYBF and the Business Development Bank of Canada.
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In a statement, CYBF CEO Julia Deans said she’s looking forward to working with OCE to boost young entrepreneurs in business through funding, mentorship and coaching.
“Together, we want to encourage youth to view entrepreneurship as a viable career option and give them the right tools to set them up for success,” she said.
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Candice is a graduate of Carleton University and has worked in several newsrooms as a freelance reporter and intern, including the Edmonton Journal, the Ottawa Citizen, the Globe and Mail, and the Windsor Star. Candice is a dog lover and a coffee drinker.
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Digital Services Act: Google asks European Commission to clarify responsibilities
The tech giant submitted a 135-page document calling for greater clarity around expectations
by: Sabina Weston
Google has responded to the European Commission’s public consultation regarding the Digital Services Act, submitting a 135-page document which points out the need to clarify the EU’s expectations towards tech companies.
In the submission, Google urged the European Commission to avoid a 'one-size-fits-all' approach, as well as elaborate on the responsibilities to which the tech industry will have to adhere if the legislation is passed.
The Digital Services Act, which was first unveiled in 2019, is expected to provide the EU with a raft of legal powers to influence how social media platforms govern hate speech, extremist material, and political advertising.
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The legislation would directly impact Google’s video-hosting service YouTube, which has been criticised in the past for spreading harmful conspiracy theories, fake news, and hate speech.
In the document submitted to the European Commission, Google agreed that tech companies should act fast in order to immediately remove or disable access to harmful or illegal content. However, the tech giant also raised the concern that hosting platforms may be forced to prioritise speed over cautious decision-making.
In a blog post announcing the submission, Google’s SVP of Global Affairs Kent Walker said that the Digital Services Act “should reflect the wide range of services offered by the tech industry”, as opposed to adopting a common approach for every company.
“No two services are the same and the new act should be rooted in objectives and principles that can be applied, as appropriate, across this broad, diverse ecosystem. This will ensure that everyone - platforms regulators, people and businesses - are responsible for the parts they play,” he said.
Walker added that Google is “committed to providing greater transparency for our users and governments so that they better understand the content they are seeing and how to notify us of concerns”.
“The DSA should support these kinds of constructive transparency measures while ensuring that platforms can continue to protect user privacy, ensure commercially sensitive information is not revealed and prevent bad actors from gaming the system,” he said.
The consultation period for the Digital Services Act is set to conclude on 8 September.
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GENEVA 2019-CONTINENTAL GT NUMBER 9 EDITION BY MULLINER
Distinctive Continental GT celebrates Bentley’s centenary year
Mulliner will handcraft just 100 limited edition collectors cars
Unique design inspired by Bentley’s illustrious motorsport heritage
Number 9 badging honours Birkin’s historic ‘Blower’ Bentley
Each model features wood insert from seat of his Le Mans race car
Two exterior colour options available – Viridian green or Beluga black
Heritage hides echo those found in cars from the ‘Bentley Boy’ era
Exclusive British Jaeger dashboard clock inspired by 1930 dials
18K gold plated organ stops inspired by those of vintage race car
Limited edition makes global debut at Geneva Motor Show
(Crewe, 4 March 2019) Bentley has created the ultimate collector’s version of the all-new Continental GT to celebrate the company’s centenary in 2019.
The Continental GT Number 9 Edition by Mulliner is inspired by Bentley’s illustrious motorsport past and incorporates a number of distinctive features into the world’s most luxurious Grand Tourer. Just 100 examples will be handbuilt by Mulliner in Crewe, England, based on the Continental GT this year.
Number 9 Edition by Mulliner pays homage to Sir Henry Ralph Stanley ‘Tim’ Birkin – one of the original, ‘Bentley Boys’ of the 1920s and ‘30s. Birkin was a Bentley customer, investor and a racing driver, full of entrepreneurial spirit and ambition – and through the determined collaboration of man and machine, the 4 ½ litre ‘Blower’ was born.
No.9 was the supercharged Bentley ‘Blower’ Sir Tim raced at the 1930 Le Mans 24 Hours. He commissioned the production of a series of 4 ½ Litre Bentleys, powered by a supercharger developed with independent engineer Amherst Villiers. Power increased from around 110 bhp to 175 bhp with the supercharger installation. The imposing green car has since become the iconic racing Bentley of the pre-war years.
The Number 9 Edition by Mulliner is distinguished by No.9 badgework and a bold, matching front grille graphic. Customers have the option of either Viridian green or Beluga black exterior paint, with 21”, 10-spoke wheels also in these colours, plus Black Line Specification and carbon bodykit.
Inside the Number 9 Edition by Mulliner customers have the choice of Cumbrian Green or Beluga heritage hides, with increased gloss levels to the seats, inner door panel and other areas. Debossed ‘B’ logos adorn the seat headrests and door panels as they did the door pads of the 1930 ‘Blower’.
A uniquely crafted dashboard features Engine Spin on the centre console. Often known as ‘Turned Aluminium’, Engine Spin was a popular racing car and aviation finish in the 1920s and ‘30s as it limited light reflection.
The centre console of the vehicle is enhanced by the inclusion of an exclusive British Jaeger clock face. Developed through a partnership between Mulliner and British Jaeger, the clock is inspired by the original No. 9 ‘Blower’s’ dials and uses the same traditional manufacturing methods of race car dials from the vintage era.
The Continental GT’s revolutionary Bentley Rotating Display has been further enhanced with a Bentley ‘Blower’ artefact. The Continental GT Number 9 Edition by Mulliner features a wood insert from the seat of Birkin’s iconic 1930 No. 9 Le Mans race car, which was removed during a sympathetic renovation. This backlit piece is set in resin and situated in the middle of the centre dial of the rotating display, adding a piece of history to each car.
Each of the 100 cars also features 18K gold plated organ stops inspired by those in the No.9 ‘Blower’ and ‘1 of 100’ treadplates.
Bentley’s Centenary Celebration
Bentley will celebrate its centenary year on 10 July , 2019. From the very first prototype created in a London mews to the phenomenally powerful and exquisitely crafted cars driven across the world today, Bentley has transformed the face of luxury motoring. W.O. Bentley founded Bentley Motors in order to ‘build a fast car, a good car, the best in its class’. That principle has remained at the heart of Bentley’s vision ever since.
Every Bentley built during 2019 will have a collection of carefully curated design touches on both the interior and exterior of the car. On the outside, the badges on the bonnet, boot and wheel centres will feature a specially created metallic finish around the ‘B’ in the logo in Centenary Gold. The bonnet and boot badges will also display the years 1919 to 2019.
On opening the door, a welcome light illuminates the ground with a Bentley symbol, while treadplates highlight the key years. Inside, the Bentley wings and Bentley ‘B’ on both the steering wheel and gear shifter are adorned with Centenary Gold, as is the ‘B’ on the key.
New Continental GT – A Powerful Statement of Intent
The latest, all-new Continental GT combines spirited, focused performance with handcrafted luxury and cutting edge technology.
Lighter, faster and even more refined, the W12 TSI-powered Continental GT will sprint to 60 mph in 3.6 seconds (100 km/h in 3.7 seconds), with a top speed of 207 mph (333 km/h) and a range of 500 miles. [WLTP drive cycle: fuel consumption, mpg (l/100km) - Combined 20.8 (13.6). Combined CO₂- 308g/km.]
Mulliner – Rare by Design
Mulliner exists to respond to the requirements of Bentley’s most discerning customers. Any type of personalisation can be undertaken to create a unique Bentley of individual taste.
Mulliner's roots date back to the 1500's – the firm's original focus was creating luxurious horse-drawn carriages. In 1923 Mulliner showcased work on a Bentley chassis for the first time, exhibiting a two-seater 3 Litre Bentley at the Olympia Show in London – just four years after Bentley Motors was founded.
In 1953, Mulliner coachbuilt one of the most iconic Bentleys ever – the R Type Continental. This model inspired the design of today's Continental GT. In 1957, Mulliner introduced the Continental Flying Spur, a special four-door saloon built on the Bentley Continental chassis. Mulliner officially became part of Bentley Motors in 1959, setting up its workshops in Crewe.
**many thanks to Bentley for the text and images**
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DraftKings Football Thanksgiving Selections
By Rich King (@RichKingFF) November 27, 2019 May 27th, 2020 No Comments
Thanksgiving Selections, I’m not talking about turkey or sides I’m talking DraftKings! Week 13 is a bit of an odd one, with a larger slate of games on Thursday, due to Thanksgiving. With a three-game slate it’s a case of getting in some of the must-plays and looking for value elsewhere to slot them in. So let’s get into them!
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Thanksgiving Selections: Quarterbacks
Drew Brees ($6,800) is the obvious selection at the position this week. Every other quarterback has a difficult matchup, and this game is expected to be the highest scoring. Brees travels to Atlanta who have been more effective on defense in recent weeks, but even so, the ability of the veteran should allow for a big game.
Matt Ryan ($6,400) is the other quarterback that I would consider playing in the slate, as even though New Orleans has been an effective defense, Atlanta are likely to need to throw the ball in this matchup. Ryan is likely to see lower ownership this week, after his struggles against Tampa Bay
Thanksgiving Selections: Running Backs
Running back options are limited this week, with the big players meaning you are limited at the receiver position. That has forced me to look at the next tier of players at the position this week.
David Montgomery ($5,400) has disappointed a lot of season-long fantasy owners, but that shouldn’t put you off selecting him for this week. Montgomery is the lead back in Chicago, facing a Detroit team that have given up an average of 30.7 points to the position. This is a great price for a back with a huge amount of upside & allows us to do some great things elsewhere.
Devin Singletary ($5,800) has been impressive in his rookie season, as a dynamic change of pace from the veteran Frank Gore. Buffalo is expected to be trailing in this game, which should give the opportunity to Singletary to be involved in the passing game this week.
Frank Gore ($3,900) is my final consideration at running back. Now stay with me. The price means you are needing low double digits to meet value, which could be a struggle against Dallas who could force Buffalo into throwing the ball. That being said, this price allows you to go and grab both of the blockbuster receivers on the slate this week.
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Thanksgiving Selections: Wide Receivers
Thanks for staying with me through the running backs. Sorry about what we had to do there, but making those selections should allow us to grab some elite talent at the receiver position
Michael Thomas ($9,100) is the most expensive player on the slate this week, with good reason. New Orleans passing attack is back to it’s best with the return of Brees, and Thomas is the best receiver in the league right now. Thomas has a high floor, scoring at least 16 DK points in every game this season, and has a limitless ceiling against Atlanta.
Randall Cobb ($5,000) might not be the first name that you think of when you think of the passing offense in Dallas, I understand that. But in his last three games he has caught 14 passes for 307 yards and two touchdowns. That production can’t be sniffed at- Buffalo are likely to have to deal with the downfield threats of Amari Cooper and Michael Gallup, meaning Cobb should be able to rack up plenty of receptions.
Cole Beasley ($4,700) has found himself into the vast majority of my lineups, due to his price and floor. Beasley returns to face Dallas if you want to buy into the revenge game narrative. If you don’t then his last outing against Denver where he was able to catch six passes for 76 yards and a touchdown should give you an idea of the production that he can hit in his role.
Now the next selections depend on if you went full Gore at running back.
If you did, then congratulations you can add Julio Jones ($7,300) to your lineup this week. Atlanta are expected to be trailing in this game and will be looking to move through the ball through the air. Jones is the lead receiver and while that will attract primary coverage- if anyone can overcome it Jones can. Jones hasn’t had one of those typical boom games for a while, what better time than the holidays!?
If you didn’t, then it’s Calvin Ridley ($6,600) who is the second receiving option for Atlanta. We know what Ridley can do if he is allowed the space to operate. Mixing in a combination of the Ridley and Jones is the way forward this week.
Thanksgiving Selections: Tight Ends
Jared Cook ($4,800) is in the top tier of talent at the position this week. That should really tell you everything you need to know! Looking elsewhere allows you to save salary to spend elsewhere, but Cook has failed to score less than 11 points since the opening four weeks of the season.
Dawson Knox ($2,900) is the tight end in my lineup if I don’t select Cook. Primarily as I think he is the cut off at the position while giving the maximum saving to use elsewhere. Dallas have given up an average of 13.9 points to the position this season, and Knox is the lead tight end for Buffalo
Note: In selecting Knox you are then able to upgrade Beasley with Ridley at receiver.
Thanksgiving Selection: Defense & Special Teams
Chicago ($2,500) are the play this week, and really are the only option at the position, given the price. Chicago were the unit that I wanted before looking at the prices- and are in the bottom half of the options (in relation to cost). Chicago have been struggling this season, but now face Detroit who are without Matthew Stafford and Kerryon Johnson. Slot them in and move on.
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Woman Who Says She Was Taped in New York Hotel Shower Sues for $100M
By Michael Hill | December 6, 2018
A woman who claims hidden-camera footage of her in a hotel shower was posted on a dozen pornographic web sites by someone who tried to extort her filed a $100 million lawsuit.
The Chicago resident, identified only as Jane Doe in the lawsuit, alleges the nude video was taken at a downtown Albany Hampton Inn and Suites in July 2015 while she was taking the New York bar exam. The lawsuit filed Friday names the hotel’s owners and the Hilton chain as defendants.
The woman found out about the secret taping this September when an anonymous emailer sent her a link to the video, which was posted on a pornographic website with her full name. The emailer said “I’m a perv” and at first demanded more private images from her, but eventually demanded $2,000 up front and $1,000 a month for a year, according to the lawsuit.
The woman did not give into the demands as more postings were made to popular porn sites. She monitors sites to seek the video’s removal when she sees it.
Links to the video also were emailed to friends and associates of the woman from an account made to look like they were from her. The bogus emails said it was for a friend’s art project and asked recipients to “let me know what you think and leave a like!” A separate email to her seeking bitcoin payments said “you want me to stop. Right?” according to the lawsuit.
“It was just absolutely traumatizing because these are people I went to law school with,” the woman told Good Morning America, which first reported the lawsuit. “They’re friends, they’re co-workers. And they were sent a link to what looks like an email I sent.”
A hotel spokesman told the Associated Press in an email they were shocked by the lawsuit’s allegations. While no recording devices were uncovered during a recent renovation, he said they will continue to work with authorities to discover the perpetrator.
A Hilton spokesperson said in an email that they will support the hotel’s independent ownership and management as they investigate and cooperate with any law enforcement investigations.
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'Green Arrow' to Introduce a Trump-like Mayor in Seattle
Benjamin Percy says Green Arrow is the most politically relevant character and will resume fighting social injustice when he returns from "Island of Scars."
Eric Francisco
When Oliver Queen is done shutting down a drug ring on a deserted island, Benjamin Percy’s Green Arrow will witness the bow-wielding hero against a new enemy when he returns to Seattle. A political figure not unlike Trump, the Green Arrow’s new foe wants to make Seattle great again and will outnumber the vigilante with a hostile police at his command. On top of that, there’s an “Arrow Killer” looking to frame Green Arrow, and the Wild Dogs, a street gang looking like Jack Wheeler’s former identity, are running amok.
There’s no rest for the weary.
Although DC’s Green Arrow comic bears semblance to the popular Arrow television series on the CW, Percy’s ongoing book goes harder into timely social justice storylines than its TV cousin. “Green Arrow is a left-leaning character,” Percy told Inverse at New York Comic Con last Saturday. “From the moment I was brought on, I was told, ‘Emphasize that.’”
Emphasize he did, evoking the politically-charged Dennis O’Neil/Neal Adams run from the ‘70s. In Percy’s Green Arrow post-Rebirth, Oliver has fought against human traffickers, villainous bankers, predators profiting off restless teenagers, and old allies turned Yakuza assassins.
All right, so maybe Yakuza assassins aren’t a hot-button issue, but saving Seattle has allowed Ollie to learn what it takes to truly become “a social justice warrior.” With his fortune gone (and never coming back), Queen will return from the two-parters “Island of Scars” and “Murder on the Empire Express” — a “two-shot sequence” in an undersea railroad — to battle institutions without a fat bank account to help him. Thankfully, he’s got friends. “You have this team of people [in] this urban environment, working from the shadows. Robin Hood needs Little John,” Percy says about the book’s supporting characters like Black Canary, Emiko, and Diggle, Ollie’s uneasy partner after “Island of Scars” wraps up.
Cover of 'Green Arrow' #12, which kicks off the "Emerald Outlaw" arc from Benjamin Percy.
The new arc, “Emerald Outlaw” beginning with Issue #12 in December, will be “like The Wire meets Green Arrow” with “lots of political corruption” allowing Percy and artist Juan Ferrayra to wrestle with “issues ripped from the headlines.”
Which headlines? “We’ve got a mayor running for office who might sound a little bit like a certain orange-faced candidate,” said Percy in a not-so subtle jab at the GOP candidate. There’s also a corrupt police force without accountability against the Green Arrow. “We’ve got corruption within the police department. A good segment of the force is really upset as a result of the showdowns in the streets.”
There’s also a few X-factors looking to make Green Arrow’s life hell in Seattle. “We have an ‘Arrow Killer’ on the loose, someone trying to frame Green Arrow and smear him the way Oliver Queen was ruined. And the Wild Dogs are coming.” Neither Percy nor Ferrayra would divulge on the Wild Dogs, a gang donning obscure Jack Wheeler’s old identity en masse, but Ferrayra’s cinematic covers have been teasing them since Issue #1 and will come into play in “Emerald Outlaw.”
All in all, Oliver Queen will be a little busy in the coming months to care about Doctor Manhattan and the events of DC’s Rebirth. Percy says a few DC books like his Green Arrow and Dan Abnett’s Aquaman are very much on “their own,” but Rebirth is still “going to creep into every corner” What does that mean for Oliver’s crusade? Well, Percy pleads the fifth. The Green Arrow respects that right.
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The rise of Retallica
As befits a keen mechanic who was brought up to know his way around souping up classic vehicles, New Zealand’s Brodie Retallick is the All Black who provides the main engine, the horsepower, and the oil for this 2019 juggernaut
Sat, 21 Sep, 2019 - 10:02
Ian Chadband
When he was helped off the pitch, huge body hunched over, right arm cradling his left and mouth agape from the sheer agony of a dislocated shoulder, New Zealand held its collective breath at the sight of their felled monster.
A World Cup without Brodie Retallick? The All Blacks without their destructive lynchpin? Well, why wouldn’t a nation fret?
For here was a man so absolutely key to the champions’ hopes of a third straight world title that, even while no-one could be sure Retallick would be fully recovered from the injury caused during that South Africa draw, Steve Hansen took the plunge and selected him for Japan anyway. Even knowing that he would probably not be fit for any of the matches in an unthreatening group stage, the coach gambled that he would be ready for the real fray, even if potentially undercooked, by the quarter-finals.
And there was good reason for this. This 2019 New Zealand squad, as ever, is blessed with sumptuous talent, from the world’s best scrum-half, Aaron Smith, to that mighty trio seeking a record third winner’s medal — captain Kieran Read, magician of a centre Sonny Bill Williams, and Retallick’s second-row partner in mayhem, Sam Whitelock.
It also features the thrusting back row man of the moment Ardie Savea, Super Rugby’s leading try scorer of 2019, young flyer Sevu Reece, a rejuvenated class act in Ben Smith and a two-time world player of the year in Beauden Barrett.
Yet forget Beauden’s dazzle and Read’s inspiration for a moment. Isn’t it Retallick who now best represents the power and glory of these All Blacks? As befits a keen amateur mechanic who was brought up to know his way around souping up classic vehicles, he’s the one who provides the main engine, the horsepower, and the oil for this 2019 juggernaut.
He’s a fascinating mix; the kind of straightforward, old-fashioned bruiser that New Zealand has always adored in its locks — you can almost hear the late, great ‘Pinetree’ Colin Meads purring in appreciation — while simultaneously executing the new roles demanded of the modern, complete tight-five powerhouse with élan.
“He can score tries, he tackles, he poaches, he’s stealing lineouts, he’s winning lineouts. Yeah, he’s making us look bad now, the rest of us,” noted Devin Toner with a rueful smile last year.
What a mix. Retallick seems like an unshowy throwback to a more uncomplicated All Blacks age but also a throw forward to what a third Millennium player can be, a giant whose non-stop athleticism can see him late in the game rampage 30 metres for a try after chucking in a preposterous dummy to leave his defending fly-half floundering. That try against Australia last year to cap Retallick’s performance for the ages? It still makes you want to laugh out loud for its audacity.
Voted the year’s top try, it was accompanied by a momentary bit of showboating that would doubtless have brought the odd ‘tut, tut’ from the traditionalists not impressed with a player raising his arm in triumph before he’d even crossed the line.
Yet even if that celebration seemed a mite out of character, it perhaps also demonstrated just how much Retallick is in love with his job. He’s not the only All Black who, as NZR Chief Executive Steve Tew says, “puts his body on the line each and every time he plays” but it’s his evident relish for everything from the physical collisions to the odd, fancy offload that makes it seem as if he’s having such a whale of a time out there.
Of course, locks are supposed to be the unglamorous workhorses, not the shiny Frankels. There’s a lovely clip on the All Blacks website of Retallick and Whitelock musing comically about why second row behemoths like them never landed the lucrative advertising gigs, with big Sam suggesting to his waywardly-toothed partner: “Hey, you ever thought about Colgate, with your big gnashers there?” To which Retallick nods: “Yeah, I guess the crockery’s not the best shape, so if anybody wanted to help out with them, I’d be more than happy to step up….if anybody’s out there.”
The truth is, though, that Retallick has been a star, and definitely a cult figure in New Zealand rugby, ever since he was voted in 2014 as the youngest-ever world player of the year at just 23. Though he’s not been on the short-list in subsequent years, he darn well ought to have been.
For while sport has its fair share of Special Ones and Chosen Ones, how about this? “Retallick is One from outer space,” reckoned Hansen, not usually one for eulogising, last year.
Are we talking here about the world’s finest rugby player and the most influential in this tournament? The bare stats are compelling. Of all the players in this World Cup who’ve played 20 tests or more, Retallick’s 92.20% success rate is better than anybody’s.
Of the 77 tests he’s played since making his debut against Ireland in Auckland in June 2012, the All Blacks have lost only four — to England at Twickenham in 2012, to Australia in Sydney 2015, to the Lions in Wellington 2017 and, of course, the historic defeat by Ireland at the Aviva last year. Yet in the 24 matches that Retallick didn’t play for them over that same period, the All Blacks lost five. The difference is stark; when he’s part of the team, there’s effectively a one in 13 chance of them losing; when he’s not there, it’s more like one in five. The bottom line is that Hansen’s alien is their comfort blanket.
And when you consider this extraordinary record, don’t discount just how much of it stems from Retallick’s burning desire to win, which is instilled mainly by not wishing to let any of his teammates down.
“I guess that’s what really drives me,” he said, back in that all-conquering 2014 season when he didn’t experience a single defeat with the All Blacks. “I don’t want to be that person who gets left behind and causes the team to lose, that’s a really big thing for me.”
He seems so manically driven out there, that it’s hard to picture him as the “low-key guy” who’ll tell you when in bespectacled mode that he “just likes to chill out and enjoy life.” Remember that splendid moment at a pre-Test news conference in 2014 when, asked to name any of his England opponents, Retallick could only come up with “Michael Laws”, thus mixing up a New Zealand radio host with Courtney Lawes? Well, he wasn’t being facetious; it was just Brodie being Brodie.
New Zealanders had to chuckle. They like their sports heroes to come packaged with quiet strength, humility and understated humour. They like to see blokes they can relate to. Brodie fits that bill, too; the Metallica fan who likes his rock music loud - “Retallica…Monster of lock” as the T-shirt legend has it — and his cars fast.
Growing up near Christchurch, he’s from one of those outdoor-loving, rugby-mad families that still seem to be the enviable bedrock of New Zealand rugby. He’s one of eight players in the squad who have another All Black in the family, his uncle John Ashworth having propped the New Zealand scrum on 52 occasions. Presumably, scrumming down on Christmas Day one-on-one in your backyard with the bloke who once famously stamped all over JPR Williams is a fearful education in itself.
Retallick is someone who plays with such intensity that he almost makes it look as if every game could be his last out there, yet off the pitch he’s just the dad of two who knows how to have a bit of fun. While the nation was fretting about his fitness last month, he didn’t mind one bit adding to their anxiety by going sledding in the snow on Mount Ruapehu. “Jesus Brodie keep that shoulder safe mate!!!!” came the wails on social media.
He did and he’s back in business, in theory at the peak of his powers at 28, recovering well and even suggesting that he might be ready to return to action before the end of the group stages. That would then raise the alarming prospect that, having picked up a full head of steam, Ireland just might be unlucky enough to run into a peak Retallick in the quarter-finals. And just ask Hansen how good that is.
Yes, out of this world.
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Deadlock Continues, As Judge Tells Sunrise Beach Fire Board To Sort Out Their Differences
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photo courtesy Osage Beach Fire Protection District
SUNRISE BEACH, Mo. — The Sunrise Beach Fire Protection District Board is in a deadlock, and a circuit judge says the district's two board members will at least have to agree to bring the problem to him, before he can decide anything.
But first, the two board members would have to agree about when to meet.
Elections for the board—which voters have agreed to increase in size from 3 members to 5 members—will take place in April. One seat on the board is currently vacant after board member Brian Layman resigned in 2020.
The board's Facebook page published a press release on Jan. 8, discussing the issue. Director Bob Hemen (one of the board's two current directors) sent a reply to LakeExpo. We have published both, below.
SBFPD Facebook Page - Press Release
On January 7, 2021 the petition filed in Camden County Circuit Court, Sunrise Beach Fire Protection District v. Bob Hemen, was presented in the court room of Judge Kenneth Hayden.
Prior to the hearing, District Counsel Tom Loraine advised President Dill and Chief LaPlant of an option to offer Bob Hemen a settlement out of court. Counsel Loraine advised this would be the best option for all involved. Mr. Hemen refused.
After numerous delays due to court scheduling Judge Hayden was able to schedule the case, all parties gathered in the courtroom at 4:30 pm. Judge Hayden called legal counsels for both sides into his chambers prior to addressing the court room. Upon concluding that meeting, Judge Hayden took to the bench and dismissed the case.
Judge Hayden stated that because the Fire Chief signed the petition, there was no order from the board as a quorum authorizing such action.
When asked if the petition could be refiled with President Dill’s signature, the Judge stated that the District is subject to statute and a quorum would still need to vote to authorize such action.
Chief LaPlant asked for clarification and argued that the existence of a quorum was in question under 321.200.2. Judge Hayden stated that Mr. Hemen stated he has not resigned and that a quorum existed. Chief LaPlant then asked that it be explained to Mr. Hemen that meeting times are set by quorum, to which Judge Hayden stated the Board should be able to settle this dispute.
Legal Counsels for both sides, Mr. Hemen, Mrs. Dill and Chief LaPlant met in a private room outside the courtroom to resolve this matter.
Mr. Hemen insisted the Board Meeting times be changed to 7:00 pm, to which Mrs. Dill refused. Mr. Hemen’s legal counsel attempted to make light of the situation and wanted to flip a coin to determine meeting times. Chief LaPlant stated that the Board Meetings could continue at 5:30 pm until April when the new members were sworn in and then the new Board could decide on a meeting time change, to which Mr. Hemen replied that Mrs. Dill just wanted to do everything with a full board. Mr. Hemen’s legal counsel abruptly ended the meeting and Mr. Hemen and his counsel left.
This District’s legal counsel advises there is no path to appeal based on the judge’s decision. This means that the District will continue to conduct business as it has, per District policy, and meetings will either happen if Mr. Hemen attends at the Board set time of 5:30 pm until a quorum changes that time or meetings will continue to be scheduled and called no quorum if one of the two Board Members are not in attendance until April when the new members of the board are elected and sworn in.
Legal Counsel Tom Loraine stated the crux of this case is that any lawsuit has to have a authority of quorum of board members to be valid, we simply do not have that because Mr. Hemen will not vote to have a court decide anything, even if the legal work to accomplish is donated.
SBFPD Director Bob Hemen's Response Sent To LakeExpo
On January 7, 2021, a lawsuit was heard purporting to be filed by the Sunrise Beach Fire Protection District. Joe LaPlant and Mary Dill were the persons who filed the Petition without a board vote or authority to file the lawsuit. The lawsuit was NOT filed by the Sunrise Beach Fire Protection District. Prior to the hearing, District Counsel Tom Loraine communicated an offer made by Mrs. Dill and Mr. LaPlant that the District would pay $5,000.00 to Mr. Hemen if he would resign as a member of the board, and that they would couch the agreement as a payment of his attorney fees. Mr. Hemen declined the offer.
The matter was heard by the Court. The Honorable Judge Hayden explained that the lawsuit was improper and was not filed as authorized by the board of the District. Judge Hayden dismissed the lawsuit as Mr. LaPlant, who Verified the lawsuit, nor Mrs. Dill, could properly bring the lawsuit as individuals or on behalf of the District against Mr. Hemen.
After the court dismissed the lawsuit, Mr. LaPlant, Mrs. Dill, Mr. Hemen and the attorneys met. Once again Mr. Hemen requested of Mrs. Dill that she move the District board meetings to 6:30pm or later, so that more of the public could attend the meetings, for transparency, and so that Mr. Hemen could attend. Mrs. Dill is aware Mr. Hemen has business obligations, making it not possible at times for him to attend meetings at 5:30 pm and creating a financial hardship for him. Mrs. Dill again refused his request. Mrs. Dill was reminded of her fiduciary duty as a board member to act in the best interest of the District and to fulfill that duty. All she had to do was agree to move the meetings 1 hour to 6:30 pm so that a quorum could be present to properly conduct the business of the District. Mrs. Dill again refused to move the meeting time. Mr. Hemen let Mrs. Dill know, yet again, that he would do his best to attend meetings scheduled at 5:30 pm but may not be able to attend for the stated reasons. Mr. Hemen has notified Mrs. Dill that the District and its taxpayer monies should not pay for the improper lawsuit as dismissed by the Judge. Mr. Hemen requested that she confirm 1) whether she would move the meetings to 6:30pm and 2) that the taxpayer monies of the District would not be misused to pay for the improper lawsuit. As of this release, Mrs. Dill has failed to respond.
Robert J. Hemen
Director, Sunrise Beach Fire Protection District
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Goth In The Front: How Marilyn Manson Became A Hip-Hop Icon
A look at how the king of satanic filth metal has earned the respect of a generation of rap artists.
WORDS: Chris Krovatin
When Marilyn Manson showed up at Travis Scott’s Astroworld this weekend — a hip-hop festival where Manson was the only real rock act — plenty of fans were surprised, delighted, and even a little weirded out. Even louder in their amazement and confusion, however, were the press, who played up Manson’s appearance, and the bewilderment of some rap fans, as a massive deal. Hip-hop is gangster dance music, Manson’s a bible-burning goth — who would’ve thought the two could work so well together, right?
Fans of both metal and hip-hop, however, know better. Manson has long positioned himself as a friend of hip-hop culture, and has fostered a cult of personality that rap fans respect. And now that he’s become a senior representative of rock music at both its most theatrical and its most honest, his cultural awareness is paying off.
Even before Manson collaborated with hip-hop artists, the central theme of his persona aligned with something rap has always promoted: scaring the shit out of polite society. Early hip-hop artists like NWA and Public Enemy were all about thrusting the truth of being black in America into the faces of privileged white people who would never understand their experiences. Gangsta rappers like Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac, meanwhile, laughed at the stodgy standards of rich white folks, showing that they could make as much money as any judge or stock broker on the streets or in the rap game. Manson’s target may have been evangelical Christians first and foremost, but his message was consistently the same: fuck your precious sheltered life, fuck your hypocritical lies, and fuck you.
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The first notable instance of Manson collaborated with a rapper was on The Omen, a track from DMX’s 1998 album Flesh Of My Flesh, Blood Of My Blood. The song has the god of fuck reciting the chorus in a steady, occultish rasp that feels like it could summon an evil spirit. DMX had always been aligned with Manson’s love of blood and blasphemy, presenting himself as more aggressive and biblical than most; Flesh Of My Flesh… also includes lyrics about fucking corpses, and its follow-up album is titled Its Dark And Hell Is Hot. That he got THE scary, satanic heavy metal star of the time to guest on his track showed that he saw something in Manson, a voice as genuine and scary to the worst people as his own.
Perhaps even more powerful was Manson’s appearance in Eminem’s The Way I Am video. By the time the track blew up, Marilyn was elevated from scary rock star to root of all evil, having been scapegoated by parents and moral authorities for the Columbine High School massacre in 1999. Eminem, similarly, was suddenly the poster boy for every troubled white kid who chose rap over metal. The lyrics of The Way I Am mention Manson specifically and call out parents for looking everywhere except at themselves to figure out what went wrong with their children. The appearance of the shock rocker in the video — shirtless and stark, looming behind Eminem like America’s deformed child locked in the attic — illustrated the brutal truth behind all the pyro and feather boas he was known for.
Manson’s most visible statement of his appreciation for hip-hop was probably the video for his cover of Tainted Love from the soundtrack of Not Another Teen Movie. Here, Marilyn looks the part to an exaggerated degree, complete with a lowrider, a grill, and a breakdancing spooky kid in a shirt that says, ‘Ain’t nothing but a Goth thing’. What saves the video for smacking of cultural appropriation is that Manson doesn’t do anything to act like a rapper — he’s still the same slithering, sexy horror show we all know, just in flashier clothes than usual. At the same time, the point of the video is that Marilyn’s goth cadre is showing up, freaking out a bunch of suburban teens who think they’re cool, and watching an insane dance show — exactly what most rappers spend their nights doing.
It’s also not as though Manson had never worn bling before the Tainted Love video. Starting with his Mechanical Animals era in the late ‘90s, the singer truly embraced his role as rock royalty, albeit in a dark and esoteric kind of way. But there’s an understanding in his elaborate goth preening, similar to that of most rappers, that the peacocking is fun but at times meaningless, a symbol of surviving life’s horrific shitshow as an individual rather than getting a seat at the table. And never has that idea been more relevant in hip-hop than right now, as mental illness, drug addiction, and the realities of race in America have re-emerged in new, hyper-aggressive ways.
For all of his work with rappers and appreciation of their style, that’s what first endeared Manson to hip-hop fans — his music. Marilyn Manson’s songs don’t have the harsh, all-angles blaze of extreme metal or the lacy, melancholy death rock of goth; instead, they throb with primal rage and march to a thick, pneumatic beat. One can mosh to Manson’s music, but one can dance, have sex, and get fucked up to it just as easily. With his lyrical themes of disillusionment, nihilism, and fury at the powers that be keeping him down — most notably God — the singer offered a level of grimy sincerity that plenty of other artists never quite understood, but that young listeners immediately appreciated as universal truth.
The new combination of rock and rap that’s unfolding before our eyes in 2019 has a notable unifying principle: pain. On the surface, hip-hop is all diamonds rings and rock is all flame tattoos, but younger audiences who have experienced the bullshit nature of those concepts are now turning into the stars of today. Their message is very firmly that they’re not okay, and that the party is more an escape than a lifestyle. Genre boundaries have become less important, with young musicians focusing on those artists and public figures who have remained active, insightful, and true throughout their careers — all of which describe Marilyn Manson, who has never shied away from the dark side of life even as he embraced his stardom. A guy like Lil Uzi Vert rocking Manson shirts and bling of the rocker dressed as Mickey Mouse is just a declaration that he’s not playing the game.
In 2019, the world often feels like a whirlpool of turmoil, confusion, and hypocrisy — an environment in which Marilyn Manson’s confrontational honesty has always thrived. As hip-hop has become the mainstream and therefore fallible, and as its new dark stars embrace not giving a fuck, Manson has come to represent their ability to make art out of unhappiness. His tireless commitment to showing society the monster in the mirror has made him an icon for all of those, regardless of cultural boundaries, who will never be one of the beautiful people.
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My "Business Card", above, cites a broad range of engineering related subjects in which I have experience. Having graduated a Business Major, I offer to defer to engineering or architectural diplomates in matters so requiring. Being known for little or no patience for red tape, naysayers or gratuitous democracy, I'm the consultant who skips ahead to the end product when solutions cannot be acquired through the usual channels. It is surprising how often imaginative ideas get shot down when brought to the table..."Ridiculous!, Cost prohibitive!, 'Can't be done!": all common noises emanated by the contemporary marketplace. The simple truth is, very little is impossible. Pictured below is Whistling Pines Ranch, a 1300 acre commercial farm where invention and automation are the order of the day. Established in 1953 by Young Farmer of the Year Award winner, Roger W. Williams, this is where I spend each work day. Machinery on grand scale helps us to produce from the earth tens of thousands of tons of commodities such as Tifton, Coastal Bermuda, Beans, Peas, Corn Silage and Beef each year.
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Involvement in Politics is essential to preserving the charter of our nation. Pictured left: my father, Kingsley H. Thomas following a meeting with President Jimmy Carter in July, 1978. His expertise in OTR Logistics and Port Operations proved an invaluable resource to the Carter Administration as deregulation of America's Trucking industry took shape. My own involvement in politics is far less stellar. To state it simply, I actively campaign for candidates who support constitutional LIMITED government, whose voting record demonstrates a commitment to preserve individual liberty, while reducing and restricting the size and scope of government. While party politics often entails the displeasure of accepting the bad with the good, close involvement with the representatives invites a personal discourse to which no other means of communication can compare. Kingsley Thomas Jimmy Carter
Of those I have met within the RNC, It is my opinion that congressman J.C. Watts (R. OK, ret.) remains one of the few individuals in public service with a profound grasp of the American Purpose. An orator of unparalleled brilliance, he deftly illustrates how Free People exist only by virtue of a Limited Government. Frequently asked why he considers himself a Republican, he answers: "Because as a Republican, I don't have to march in lockstep with anyone- As a Republican, I can be myself." Importantly, we share a common belief that charity ceases to be such the moment it flows from government. Charity is our duty as an individual. For every measure of "help" you accept from government, you lose an equal portion of freedom. rren Thomas JC Watts
The Political Campaigns are fascinating animals. They differ by party, but moreover, they differ by ideology. Due to the fact that Republican and Libertarian Executive Committees are comprised of people who are highly self-reliant, these organizations are frequently rife with internal competition, and a strained chain of command- "All Chiefs, and no Indians", and "Like herding cats", they often say. Couple that with the product they are selling: "As your government, we will do less for you", it is a wonder Republicans win as many elections as they do. Conversely, the remaining political parties appeal to populist emotions, usually with a specific focus on envy or victimhood. Their marketing plan to secure votes is an inherently easy sell: "As your government, we;ll provide everything for you, and we'll provide it to you at the expense of an expendable minority of voters, aka "the other guy". This political strategy, however, addicts people to lifelong, multi-generational dependence on government. In reality, it is nothing less than the systematic institutionalization of targeted races or colors, and if followed to its logical, demonstrated conclusion, presents genocidal consequences. Pictured Left, meeting with former Senator / Presidential Candidate, Bob Dole as a delegate to the Southern Republican Leadership Conference in Charlotte, NC.
Among my favorite projects is the New Fellowship Hall as constructed at Kanapaha Presbyterian Church. The design of this building had to be carefully scaled and themed to complement the 1886 Sanctuary to which it adjoins. Steeply pitched rooflines and an octagonal "gazebo" vestibule are elements borrowed from 1880's architectural examples. Many thanks to the architectural firm who processed these plans to make this project a reality. The Steeple which sets atop the bell tower was designed and fabricated right here in our farm shop. The Steeple is constructed with an all-welded steel inner skeleton to withstand hurricane-force winds, and is finished in Norman Type-A Metal Roof tiles manufactured in a 105 year-old drop press. It has four gothic windows which pneumatically swing open seconds before the big bell strikes the top of the hour, or anytime the bell tower rope is pulled. The two automated systems inside are both custom designs which are not available through any commercial supplier. Our latest project involves Housemoving the "Anchorage", a 2-storey house 11 miles from Gainesville to Archer. Working with T & T Housemoving, this decidedly impossible task became a reality on November 20, 2006.
Daughters, Nathalie and Josie keep us on our toes. A sound code of ethics, along with a good dose of reading and musical stimulation pay big dividends toward raising resourseful and capable young citizens. Music, language arts, physics and self-reliance can be observed and shared with children at any age as a matter of routine conversation. Civic and Political education is an important family value which must be instilled by parents, lest we forfeit this lesson plan to baser influences. Appreciation for God, family and our providential constitution are a must. Careful instruction in firearm safety and marksmanship add yet another dimention to a well-rounded education. Nathalie Thomas Josie Thomas
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Home News Bishop_Nulty Bishop Denis blesses new Community Playground in Sallins
Bishop Denis blesses new Community Playground in Sallins
Bishop Denis celebrated Mass for the Official Opening of Sallins Community Playground on Friday 22 November in the Church of Our Lady of the Rosary and Guardian Angels, Sallins.
It is great to join you today for another visit to Our Lady & the Guardian Angels Church here at Sallins. Another visit with you the Sallins community. A community within the larger family of Naas, Sallins & Two Mile House.
I recall other visits here, already a number of beautiful Confirmation ceremonies here; I look forward to joining you again on the Leap Day – February 29th for two ceremonies next year. I recall being here in July 2014 to bless the Church after the wonderful renovation work led by Fr Kevin then. I recall a later visit that year to mark the ninetieth anniversary of this church. I remember telling the story then that I was glad to make the ceremony that day because my predecessor Bishop Foley was unable to preside over the Dedication Mass ninety years earlier because of a cold! It was left to the local priest Fr. Norris to preside on the day. I recall other ceremonies honouring Moira your retired sacristan.
It’s great to be back again this November morning with Fr. Liam, Fr. Alex, Fr. Colum. Fr. Eddie & all of you … marking another momentus moment in forging a new identity for the community of Sallins. An identity that has four aspects – the playground, the garden, the pitches and the meeting rooms. I welcome warmly our guests who join us from Kildare County Council, from Down Syndrome Ireland St. Laurence’s School as well as Parish Finance Committee members and others.
Matthews gospel reminds us “not too worry” and yet we do, so much of our worrying is caught up in our feeling of inadequacy, unworthness, insecurity. Always remember in His embrace we are always held; in His mercy we are always secure and so we pray …
Homily:
Fr. Norris, who had to step in that day, now 95 years ago to dedicate this Church apparently lived until he was 103 and he spearheaded the project here. Fr. Liam & Fr. Alex there is great longevity for priests serving in these parts! Back at that time 95 years ago the committee raisded £400 – a substantial sum in the early years of the twentieth century. Initially he intended to build a new school for the children of Sallins and convert the old school into a chapel. But the outbreak of World War 1 saw the project and the plans put on hold. The War years saw construction prices soar and plans for the new church were scaled down, a more economical structure was decided upon.
Of course worship of a faith community in Sallins goes much further back than the 1920’s – while there was no chapel of ease or parish church here, there were people of deep faith here who travelled to attend Mass in Naas in the worst of weather conditions.
So there is an altruistic spirit in these parts going back generations. What would the £400 be valued at in todays money? Listening to this mornings radio there wouldn’t be much point investing it, interest rates are pretty much as rock bottom as they can be. So putting it to good use makes perfect sense then and now.
I read recently where Sallins is seen as Dublin 28[1] according to a recent Irish Times article by Jennifer O’Connell. I’m not sure. Sallins was ranked the most densely populated town outside of Dublin in the 2011 Census as evidenced also in that article. A town defined by a Canal has more than doubled in population in the past twenty years. O’Connell reminds us “Sallins apparently has the lowest density of jobs to workers in the country, with 86% of the working population commuting”[2]. Fr. Liam tells me todays population is close to 7,000. And yet identity was never so important.
Isn’t parish identity very important to us all – it determines where our children go to school, where we worship on a Saturday evening or a Sunday morning, where we play our football, hurling, rugby or soccer and ultimately where we want to be buried. And while Sallins is today very clearly a part of the greater Naas and Two-Mile-House grouping, it still has an identity of it’s own – this morning that identity is further nourished.
I am so delighted to see four stakeholders in this mornings projects. The Parish, the Down Syndrome Association, Kildare County Council and the School. I am so delighted Down Syndrome Ireland is part of this initiative. I think of my former parish, St. Mary’s Drogheda where the Arch Club gathered each week in our Parish Hall at the Old Hill. I think of Pat Clarke, who served on our Parish Finance Committee so involved with the Down Syndrome organisation. I think of Michael O’Dowd, Anne McAdam & many others.
I also read a recent statistic[3] suggesting that in 2011, eight years ago 43% of those who lived in Sallins had a third level education. I imagine it’s much higher now. It is incumbent on us all to use those skills, those talents, those resources for the betterment of our community and the wider parish of Naas, Sallins, Two Mile House.
[1] O’Connell, Jennifer: ‘They Call Sallins Dublin 28’, The Irish Times, Saturday 29 June 2019, News Review, pg. 4. [2] ibid [3] Healy, Alison: ‘A Tale of Two Towns’, The Irish Times, Saturday August 16, 2014, News Review, Pg. 2.
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Chief Public Health Officer Theresa Tam speaks during a daily briefing Wednesday May 13, 2020 in Ottawa. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
Non-medical masks can help when physical distancing not possible, says Tam
Messaging over non-medical mask wearing has shifted over the course of pandemic
May. 13, 2020 1:25 p.m.
Canada’s chief public health doctor says Canadians in communities where COVID-19 is still spreading should consider wearing non-medical masks when they can’t stay physically distant from others.
Dr. Theresa Tam told reporters at her daily briefing Wednesday that recommending masks for all is “easier said than done” and that making sure masks were even available for all has been a consideration in whether to make masks orders mandatory.
“We have to make sure people have access,” said Tam.
Quebec Premier Francois Legault recommended Tuesday that residents of his province wear masks when in public but stopped short of making it a requirement yet.
READ MORE: Canada’s top doctors defend mask advice as country tops 50,000 COVID-19 cases
Public health advice on the use of face masks has changed markedly in Canada since COVID-19 was first detected here, with Tam and others early on recommending against their use, but shifting that thinking in recent weeks particularly as it became clear that carriers of the illness can spread COVID-19 to others even if they are not showing symptoms themselves.
There were some fears early on that the public would use or hoard medical-grade masks that are badly needed for front-line health staff. In the last month, there has been an explosion in the production and sale of non-medical masks, both cloth and paper versions.
In some countries hit early by COVID-19, including South Korea and Hong Kong, public use of face masks became common early on.
Tam said Wednesday that the importance of masks really depends on the level of disease in a community. However she said if a person can’t stay a certain distance from others, such as on public transit or in a grocery store, wearing a non-medical mask can help reduce the chance he or she will unwittingly spread the novel coronavirus.
Tam also said Canada’s health-care system cannot forget the lessons it has learned from COVID-19 when it comes to our long-term care centres, where residents have paid the biggest price for the pandemic thus far. Tam said Tuesday more than 80 per cent of all people in Canada who have died from COVID-19 were residents of long-term care centres, and one-fifth all confirmed cases of the virus are connected to the centres.
Several provinces have implemented tight restrictions for long-term care homes to try to stem the outbreaks, which have affected hundreds of care homes and thousands of patients and workers.
Ontario on Wednesday became the latest to step in to manage privately run long-term care centres, enacting an emergency power to allow it to control the management of such places when they haven’t been able to get an outbreak under control.
READ MORE: Wearing non-medical masks can stop spread of COVID-19 before symptoms start: Tam
Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced the order Wednesday morning, saying in a statement it will mean Ontario is better prepared to “immediately swing into action if a home is struggling to contain this deadly virus.”
Quebec, Alberta and British Columbia have all taken control of some centres in their provinces in recent weeks.
Ontario reports it has 180 homes with COVID-19 outbreaks. At least 1,269 Ontario long-term care residents have died of COVID-19, as have several staff members.
Canada sent in more than 1,000 members of the military to help staff long-term care homes in Quebec and Ontario, with thousands of nurses and health care workers out sick or requiring isolation because of possible exposure to COVID-19.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau also released details of more financial aid for small businesses that haven’t qualified for other programs. He said the new $962-million Regional Relief and Recovery Fund will be delivered through regional economic development agencies.
The government said in particular, small and medium-sized businesses in the country’s hard-hit tourism sector have struggled to qualify for benefits like the federal wage subsidy for employers that has lost substantial revenues.
Tourism has all but ground to a halt as Canadians stay home to avoid the spread of COVID-19, but some businesses haven’t suffered the worst yet because their normal high seasons are still to come.
Trudeau also announced Wednesday that students looking for help through the Canada Emergency Student Benefit can begin applying on Friday. The benefit offers up to $1,250 to individual students, and $2,000 for those with dependents or disabilities.
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Shah Rukh Khan Shares This Lovely Quote For Suhana Khan & Gauri Khan’s Picture!
SRK’s next venture is Anand L Rai’s Zero which will also see Anushka Sharma and Katrina Kaif in lead roles.
Superstar Shah Rukh Khan is a loving father and is the cool dad on social media. Very recently his wife Gauri Khan shared a few candid pictures with her daughter Suhana Khan online. Suhana is currently studying at Ardingly College in Sussex.
Shah Rukh Khan obviously being the dad he is reshared one of the pictures and admiringly wrote, “Was reading and came across this line….’ Life doesn’t come with a manual, it comes with a mother ‘ and then this picture of the ladies…sach hi hai!!”. In a candid interview recently he revealed that his daughter thinks that his editing skills are a bit extreme. Thankfully he did not edit before re-sharing the cute picture.
In the meantime, rumourville is excited to see Suhana Khan on the silver screen and fans cannot stop looking for clues to prove the same. It’s also known that Suhana has a keen interest in acting and even veteran actress Shabana Azmi has praised her skills. While its her last year at Ardingly, Suhana will fulfill his father’s wish of completing education and then enter into Bollywood.
Take a look at this adorable picture:
Was reading and came across this line….’ Life doesn’t come with a manual, it comes with a mother ‘ and then this picture of the ladies…sach hi hai!! pic.twitter.com/sk0CwIMoMP
— Shah Rukh Khan (@iamsrk) June 10, 2018
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Zero is scheduled to release on December 21,2018. Exciting!
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From The Cambridge Chronicle: Cambridge bike program helps homeless
By LIFT on March 11, 2011
Categories: Our Work, Social Connections
Cambridge — Under different circumstances, the vintage French Motobecane bicycle suspended in the air of Quad Bikes’s basement workshop might have ended up being sold on eBay for a few hundred dollars, rather than languishing in disrepair.
But a second chance waits.
Tonight, LIFT Bike Project volunteers are fixing the bicycle, in an effort to provide transport to homeless and low-income members of the Cambridge community. The bike project sources bicycles for repair from the Cambridge Department of Public Works. Quad Bikes, an employee-owned, not-for-profit bike workshop stationed slightly north of Harvard Square, provides the workshop space. In operation for 18 months, the project has recently opened up for Monday night volunteering sessions.
Four bikes are undergoing repairs. Quad Bikes manager Dave Tucker, 26, attacks the frame of another bicycle with rusted bearings, dressed in a grease-stained apron. The volunteers are watched over by project organizer Liz Powers. Powers, 22, has no mechanical expertise, contributing instead structure, youth and enthusiasm to the project. She is happy with how the volunteer element of the project, now in its second week, is going.
On a recent night, there were two in attendance. Tonight there are 15, Powers says.
The bike project is the brainchild of Powers, a recent Harvard graduate, born and raised in Wellesley, Mass. Powers began volunteering for LIFT four years ago to meet a course requirement for her sociology major. LIFT, formed in 1998, is a support network stretching across five states for the homeless and low income.
The idea for the Bike Project developed slowly as the issue of transport emerged repeatedly as a barrier to employment, and the project is her contribution to the services of LIFT in Cambridge.
“Not being able to afford to take the T every day is a stupid reason to be unemployed,” Powers said in a follow up interview over a cup of tea. “People cannot walk an hour and a half to and from work.”
Powers took matters into her own hands in the summer of 2009, supported by a Steiner Public Service Fellowship, buying abandoned bikes from whoever was willing to sell them. “I’d be biking all across town to pick them up, going down into basements of people I didn’t know, it probably wasn’t the safest,” she said, laughing.
An ally emerged in Dave Tucker at Quad Bikes, who contributed the store’s network of volunteer labor. The LIFT Bike Project was a natural fit for Quad Bikes, Tucker said during an afternoon in the workshop. Each bike fixed represents a labor investment of up to five hours, and on average about twenty dollars in new parts. The most common issues are broken chains, missing brake and gear cables, and rust.
Five bikes were handed out in October of 2009, and ten in the spring of the 2010. In October last year, Boston Mayor Thomas Menino announced his ‘Roll it Forward’ campaign, seeking to collect, repair and donate 1,000 bikes to Boston neighborhoods. Motivated by this, Powers hopes to hand out as many as 40 refurbished bikes to those in need in 2011.
Applicants for the bikes, through the LIFT office in Cambridge, must demonstrate need, submit a personal budget, undergo safety training and volunteer for ten hours.
Richard Bucci, 55, a former construction worker and limousine driver, was homeless for 18 months after battling what he called “a history of drug and alcohol abuse.” LIFT assisted him in reestablishing himself, helping him into public housing in May 2010, and with his legal and medical problems.
Bucci received a bike in April last year. “Thank God for organizations like this,” Bucci said in a thick Boston accent, sitting in the Cambridge LIFT office wearing an eye patch from a recent hockey injury.
It has given Bucci a freedom he didn’t expect to have again. “Many people my age who were homeless in the shelter sort of give up,” Bucci said.
Powers is off to Scotland in August to do her master’s degree at the University of Edinburgh. She hopes the new volunteer evenings will, in part, help the bike project survive her absence.
The volunteers, many of who had never met before tonight, work at a steady pace underwritten by beer and pizza provided by Powers.
Jay Constantinou, 27, is a portly chemical engineer “taking some me time” before starting graduate school. A longtime volunteer at Quad Bikes, he thinks it is a great way to spend a Monday evening.
“First time you come here, you get hooked,” Constantinou says.
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> Building resilience to face the challenge of uncertainty
In my blog ‘Leading in Complexity and Uncertainty’ I looked at how complexity and uncertainty – which are constant factors in the consideration of organisational flourishing – can be usefully addressed by the leader who allows in and opens up the rich perspectives offered by embracing them and engaging with them rather than trying to pin them down, avoid them, simplify them, or aim to know all the answers.
The COVID factor
Uncertainty has always been a constant in organisational life, but COVID adds something new to the mix. At any moment another local or national surge may challenge the processes and structures that any organisation has in place. The wider picture includes threats to the supply chains and infrastructure of all kinds that organisations rely on.
Personal uncertainty
Human beings crave certainty. The effects of uncertainty on individual members of the workforce include anxiety, and concomitant weariness (which I’m sensing consistently around me). It seems to me that COVID has created a generalised undercurrent of anxiety in society at large – and it’s tiring. The loss of mental energy means that people lose focus and motivation, and may also lose physical energy. They can easily become distracted.
Organisational uncertainty
Faced with even more uncertainty than usual in the face of unpredictable threats to physical health, organisations of all kinds have been obliged to engage in detailed contingency planning of precautions against COVID, and the implementation of those precautions – which certainly entail resource and very likely entail expense. Many of them have found that they’re slowed down by these precautions and that they’ve lost some of their previous robustness, responsiveness and pace.
It’s resilience that’s needed
Both individuals and organisations need agility to respond appropriately and promptly in the face of the unexpected, robustness to meet the challenge of the change that’s happening, and versatility to be able to repeatedly create or choose the appropriate response in a series of changing situations. In sum, they need resilience. Dr Carole Pemberton defines resilience as the capacity to remain flexible in our thoughts, feelings and behaviours when faced by a life disruption or extended periods of pressure, so that we emerge from difficulty stronger, wiser and more able. She points out that central to resilience is the ability to remain adaptive when under strain and to re-orientate to the new situation. Inherent in this is the importance of learning from the disruption or pressure.
Resilience helps to make uncertainty more manageable and less of an inhibitor to effectiveness.
How can the leader nurture their team’s resilience?
Nurturing that flexibility and a consistent ability to learn from adversity and keep building strength, wisdom and ability is one of the most important contributions a leader can make to equipping his or her team to negotiate a successful journey through uncertainty.
Key to this is for the team to be both clear about, and committed to, their purpose: what are they there for, how does this fit with the wider organisational purpose and how does it fit with their own personal purposes? This exploration and definition isn’t the work of a single meeting, but needs to be built over time. It demands the leader’s capacity to empathise and equally to hold a clear vision.
Each team member needs to feel and experience the support of their colleagues through a feeling of connectedness and the nurturing of compassion. Little is as corrosive to resilience as a sense of being alone, unsupported or unheard.
Each team member needs to be clear about their own and their colleagues’ strengths and natural talents – the assets that come with every individual – and to value the diversity that builds strength.
They will benefit from what American psychologist Dr Carol Dweck calls a growth mindset, which is based on the belief that you can cultivate your basic qualities through your efforts.
Albeit challenging to find the time when so much of a team’s effort will be going into how to manage and integrate uncertainty into building success, the value of reflection can’t be underestimated – reviewing the past and learning from our actions and thinking patterns, without negative emotion such as regret or anxiety, and building on that review process to plan for the future. Reflection enables the helicopter view that equips us better to face reality, learn from how we encountered any given situation, and adjust our path rationally and with awareness.
An ongoing activity
Nurturing resilience is an ongoing activity: the leader who engages with this as part of their role builds awareness in individuals and the team as a whole and will be equipping the team to encounter uncertainty at the most testing of times.
Photo by Simon Berger on Unsplash
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Chinese lòukōng sword guard
83.5 x 78 mm
6 mm thick
Iron, gold, shakudō
Anything similar for sale?
A Chinese sword lòukōng sword guard of the 17th century. Lòukōng (鏤空) consists of the words lòu (鏤), "to carve", and kōng (空), "hollow". It is used to describe pierced work, openwork or fretwork.
This example has a beaded outer rim and a smooth inside rim, with in-between alternating stylized lotus petals. Such lotus petal borders are also seen on the base of Buddhist statues, where the lotus symbolizes the path towards enlightenment: It grows from the murky bottom upward towards the light, and exposes itself as a pristine flower above the surface.
The center of the guard is pierced and chiseled with two facing dragons among narrow tendrils, both reaching for a stylized cloud at the top. Such a cloud is also dubbed rúyì
(如意), meaning "as you wish" and as such it is seen as a wish granting emulet. There is another on the bottom, just above three stylized stones that represent the mythological Kūnlún (崑崙) mountains.
In the center of the guard is a rectangular plate with the opening for the sword's tang. It is smooth on the side facing the hilt, and ribbed on the exposed side where the blade comes out.
Japanese modifications
The guard was at some point imported into Japan where it got the addition of a kozuka-hitsu-ana, a small hole that was meant to accomodate a utility knife that was often worn inside the scabbard alongside the Japanese sword.
At some point, the hole fell into disuse and it was the Japanese habit to then plug the hole. In this case, it ewas plugged with shakudō, a prized alloy of copper and gold that was artificially patinated to a "raven black" color, resembling lacquerwork.
Another modification is the alignment of the tang opening. In the original configuration the sword would have been worn suspended from a belt, edge down.
A Chinese imperial saber with a full set of openwork mounts, from the Max Dreger collection.
Auctioned in 1925. Purchased by George Camerion Stone.
Now in the Metropolitan Museum, New York.
The Japanese katana was customarily worn edge-up stuck through a sash called the obi. So its Japanese orner had the tang opening changed, so that the dragon would still face up when worn on his sword. Copper was used as a filler to provide a tight fit to the Japanese sword tang, or nakago.
Dating & attribution
The earliest provenanced examples of these guards are all associated with the Manchu aristocracy of the early 17th century. The earliest of which is a saber attributed to Hong Taiji, who ruled from 1626-1643, who founded the Qing dynasty in 1636.
A saber that once belonged to Hong Taiji, in the Shenyang Palace Museum.
Superimposed on the right, this guard.
By the end of the 17th century, the style had become finer, less bold and the beaded rim less defined. This is seen among others in the guard of a saber that was presented to a Mongolian temple by the Kangxi Emperor in the year 1697.1
A saber presented by Kangxi in 1697. Now in the Ningbo Museum.
Notice the difference in workmanship to our piece, and the Hong Taiji piece.
Looking at these two benchmark pieces, our guard is probably latter Jin to early Qing dynasty imperial work, probably dating from between 1600-1650.
A nice example of an early 17th-century Chinese sword guard of a type of which rather few survive today. Its resemblance to the work on a guard attributed to Hong Taiji is uncanny.
Sword guards like these gave rise to an entire sub-genre among so-called nanban tsuba and Asian export sword guards. In the 19th century, the type was known in Japan as Kwanto-gata or "Kanton style" / "Canton style".2 Despite the name there is no evidence that they were were made in Guangzhou or even South China, the work seems to have been primarily made in the north under imperial patronage. Kwanto-gata probably sprang from Nagasaki dockside slang, referring to the Chinese merchants who imported them who mostly sailed from the port of Canton (Guangzhou).
1. Chen Mingliang; An analysis of the Kangxi imperial saber in the Ningbo Museum Published in Wenwu tiandi (文物天地), ‘Cultural relics world’, 2017-3.
2. Boxer, C.R. European Influence on Japanese Sword Fittings, 1543-1853. Transactions and Proceedings of the Japan Society. London. Volume 26, pages 151-178. 1931.
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Qing openwork saber guard
A very rare Chinese saber guard dating from the height of the Qing dynasty.
Pierced iron saddle
Executed in the Tibetan style, exhibiting dragons in foliage chasing flaming jewels.
Chinese Shan presentation dha
Presented by the local Dai nobility to a British customs officer in 1936.
Tibetan style pierced saddle plate
With designs of four dragons in scrollwork around a "wish-granting-jewel"
A Chinese hook sword
A rather well-made example of its type.
Iron ship sword guard
A chiseled iron sword guard depicting a Dutch ship with a figure on its stern.
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Contact & Residence
Parental rights & responsibilities
CONTACT & RESIDENCE SOLICITOR PERTH
When relationships break down a potential source of conflict and worry are the arrangements surrounding contact & residence of your children. Where should the children live and with whom ? What about contact with the children & non resident parent ? What happens if you cannot see eye to eye with your partner on a suitable arrangement ? Orders may need to be obtained at Court. All are common problems that I have successfully addressed over my career as a family law solicitor in Perth. Need help with a contact or residence issue ? Call me on 07310 164 305 or use the contact form for a free 10 minute consultation with a solicitor.
I often hear the terms ‘access ’ and ‘custody ’ used when referring to children. What do these terms mean ?
‘Access’ & ‘custody’ are outdated terms no longer used in Scots Law, albeit the terms still tend to used a lot by parents & the public. The correct terms are ‘contact’ and ‘residence’. If a child is not resident with you then you would seek contact with that child. Residence refers to which parent ( or a grandparent/aunt ) a child resides. Post separation, after consideration of the suitability of prospective arrangements, parents often decide themselves where and with whom a child will reside. However, where there is conflict, the Court may be called upon to decide. Guided by common law & The Children (Scotland) Act 1995 the Court will consider the welfare of the child, the views of that child and what is in the best interests of the child before issuing any orders.
The court, in consideration of issuing orders concerning children, will not exclusively focus on the merits of the claims of parents, with no parent seen as ‘ better ‘ than the other. The court will take a multidisciplinary approach by obtaining the views of the children, testimony from teachers, social workers, child psychologists and other expert opinion as the court may see fit. The court will always make a decision based on what is in the ‘ best interests ‘ of the child.
My partner and I are separated. Relations between us are strained. She is stopping me seeing our children. What can I do about this ?
As a family law solicitor I have a great deal of experience in dealing with issues of this nature. Ideally, after separating parties should come to an arrangement for children to see parents & grandparents. If your wife, or an ex partner, is preventing you from seeing your children, then an action for contact would be an option. The court would hear the parties pleas and the court would decide on contact times. The court must be satisfied when making any order that the proposed order is in the best interests of the child & that it would be better for this order to be made than no order at all. The welfare & best interests of the child is the court’s primary concern; not that of parents. Often the court will decide on interim contact arrangements with a view to assessing how contact progresses between children & parent.
We had a contact agreement but it is not working. What can I do ?
You may already have an agreement drafted by your solicitor which incorporates arrangements for child contact & residence, and this agreement did provide continuity & stability for the children. However, for parties where agreements are being flouted or ignored or where the agreement is clearly failing then one can ask the court to enforce the order or the court may take a view on the current fitness of the order regulating contact and residence. I would always hope to resolve an issue like this through negotiation and agreement with another skilled family lawyer thus avoiding court action, however should an impasse be met and court action required, I have a great deal of experience in this area of family law.
We don’t get on with our son’s ex wife and we never see our grandchildren. Can we as grandparents obtain a contact order ?
The situation above is one of the unfortunate side effects of the breakdown of a marriage or cohabitation. Relations between children and their extended family may wither away or stop entirely. The Children’s (Scotland ) Act 1995 allows for an interested party to apply to the court seeking an order; namely contact, residence or parental rights & responsibilities. The court does not look at the application from the perspective of how grandparents may benefit from the order; the court will always look at the application from the perspective of the child – is the proposed order sought in the best interests of the child & that it would be better for this order to be made than no order at all ? And if the child is able and wishes to express a view, that child should be given an opportunity to express that view and the view taken into account.
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Extremely popular stamp subject gets second United Nations set
Mar 11, 2017, 4 AM
Venetian dancers at a masquarade ball are pictured on the pane of 1-franc stamps for use from the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.
The colors and festive atmosphere of the samba and Carnival in Brazil is captured on this pane of €0.68 stamps for use from the U.N. post office at the Vienna International Center in Austria.
The United Nations Postal Administration is celebrating international dance on stamps being issued March 23. Polynesian dance is featured on the pane of 49¢ stamps for use from the U.N. headquarters in New York City.
A second pane of International Dance stamps for use from U.N. headquarters shows Pascal Campion’s illustrations of native American dance.
The Japanese fan dance is represented on the pane of 1.50-franc stamps saluting international dance.
The pane of €0.80 stamps in the U.N. International Dance issue reveals the beauty of ballet.
By Denise McCarty
The United Nations Postal Administration will issue a second set of stamps devoted to international dance March 23.
The first set was issued April 29, 2016, in conjunction with International Dance Day (Scott U.N./New York 1132-1333, Geneva 617-618 and Vienna 583-584).
According to Thanawat Amnajanan, UNPA chief, the International Dance series is being continued because of the extreme popularity of the first issue with collectors.
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Also, in announcing the new stamps, UNPA said: “According to UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), dance promotes a lively manner, reciprocal knowledge and respect of diversity. Dance is both an art form and a method of communication in cultures around the world.”
Like the first set, the second International Dance issue includes six panes of six stamps each forming a single continuous design. Three artists created the illustrations for the stamp panes.
The illustrations on the 49¢ and $1.15 stamps for use from the post office at U.N. headquarters in New York City are by French-American illustrator and animator Pascal Campion.
The pane with six 49¢ stamps represents three traditional Polynesian dances. A blue sky, palm trees and brightly colored birds are pictured in the selvage.
Native American tribal dance is portrayed on the $1.15 pane.
Depictions of the quadrille and the Japanese fan dance by French illustrator Jean Francois Martin are featured on the 1-franc and 1.50fr stamp panes, respectively. These stamps are for use from the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.
A dance with four couples, the quadrille originated in in France in the late 18th century and soon spread across Europe and to other parts of the world.
The dance on the 1fr pane appears to be part of a Venetian costumed ball. All six dancers shown on the stamps are wearing masks, and one is wearing a chequered Harlequin costume. Symbolic images of Venice’s gondolas and red and white striped mooring poles are pictured in the selvage.
Fans have long been a part of traditional Japanese dance. Umbrellas, or parasols, have been used as well, and one of the dancers shown on the pane of 1.50fr stamps is holding an umbrella instead of a fan.
The €0.68 and €0.80 stamps for use from the Vienna International Center in Vienna, Austria, portray the samba and ballet. Victo Ngai, a Los Angeles-based illustrator from Hong Kong, created the illustrations.
Samba, associated with Brazilian Carnival parades and festivals, evolved from the dances of African slaves in that South American country. In addition to samba dancers, the stamp pane depicts drummers, a large parade float, and what looks like fireworks and confetti.
Beginning with court dances during the Renaissance, ballet moved to the stage in the late 17th century. The stamp pane pictures a group of ballerinas performing what appears to be Swan Lake, composed by Tchaikovsky.
Sergio Baradat designed the stamps. Cartor Security Printers printed them by offset lithography plus hexacrome in the following quantities: 22,000 each of the 49¢, $1.15, 1fr, and 1.50fr panes; and 28,000 each of the 0.68 and 0.80 panes.
Each stamp measures 30 millimeters by 40mm and is perforated gauge 13 by 13¼; the pane is 140mm by 170mm.
For ordering information for the U.N. International Dance stamps, visit the UNPA website; send an email; telephone 800-234-8672; fax 212-963-9854; or write to UNPA, Box 5900, Grand Central Station, New York, NY 10163-5900.
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Samsung’s mission to make its marketing more scientific
Since taking on the European CMO role, Benjamin Braun has brought a focus on measurement to its marketing strategy, while also hunting for creative ideas that can demystify technology.
By Ellen Hammett 11 Nov 2019 7:00 am
Samsung’s Benjamin Braun is a self-declared tech nerd. He speaks about his old red Nokia 8210 and favourite game Snake 2 with as much enthusiasm as he does Samsung’s new ‘shelfie’-taking smart fridge and the stylus pen in his phone that makes the “disproportionate” amount of time he spends presenting things much easier.
But Braun is more than a humble "tech nerd" addicted to watching YouTube videos of people making croissants and who has, by his own admission, “wasted days” of his life playing Snake.
At the beginning of this year, he became the European marketing boss of one of the biggest consumer electronics companies in the world. That same marketer, whose most-used emojis are the thumbs up and smiling poo, has just sent the world’s first selfie into space.
“I’ve always had this natural love and passion for aesthetics and a way of taking something which is complex and making it easier to understand,” Braun says, recalling the time he decided to go against the advice of his professor and translate a 30-page university paper into a simple infographic (he got a First).
Of course, Samsung’s space selfie was slightly more complex to execute. But Braun believes “if you have a great idea, it will carry itself”. In this case, attached to a balloon half the size of a basketball court 64,000ft above ground.
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Huawei says marketing is as important as product in race to catch Samsung
As the Chinese behemoth unveils what it claims is the world’s fastest 5G foldable phone at Mobile World Congress 2019, Huawei’s UK marketing boss explains why marketing will be key to cracking the UK.
Samsung sees smart homes as a ‘gamechanger for loyalty’
Samsung believes we are not far away from the mainstream adoption of multi-branded smart tech with the power to turn our homes into connected spaces but admits there are still privacy and security concerns that need addressing.
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How Ericsson plans to make conversations around technology ‘more accessible’
As new technology emerges, from self-driving cars to healthcare and industrial applications, Ericsson will do more to showcase the real-world benefits of its offering, especially around 5G.
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Marketing to Millennials: How Manufacturing Can Make the Shift
Published by MarketScale at March 27, 2018
Manufacturing, although an industry with a long history, isn’t stuck in the past. Its operations have embraced artificial intelligence, robots and other technology, which has propelled accuracy and efficiency forward. Unfortunately, manufacturing lags behind in other areas like marketing. It hasn’t adopted modern marketing practices like content, inbound or social media marketing. Thus, it’s struggling to connect with millennials, who, according to a Forrester Report, are involved in B2B purchasing decisions 73 percent of the time. They are also, per the Pew Research Center, the largest living generation in the U.S., numbering over 75 million.
For manufacturers to retain and grow clients, they must start focusing on the millennial buyer.
What Resonates with Millennials
Yes, millennials love social media and video, but it’s not that simple. One good starting point is to look at what brands millennials admire. The Enso agency recently shared data that scored 150 different brands and looked at the differences in the opinions of baby boomers and millennials. The results were not great for older brands. It’s not always because older companies don’t understand how to relate to millennials. Some of it is relevance. Younger people aren’t going to have high esteem for Pfizer because it’s not applicable in their life. Even in industries where brands are known for speaking to a diverse group of buyers, like packaged goods giants Johnson & Johnson and Procter & Gamble, there is still a big gap for millennials. What brands do millennials love? Not much of a surprise here: Snapchat, Spotify, Honest Company, Chipotle, Kickstarter and Starbucks.
What do these brands have in common? Well, many have been disruptors in their industry. Many of these brands don’t shy away from taking a stand on social and environmental issues, which matter to millennials. Over 80 percent of millennials rank making the world a better place a priority in life, as determined by consumer goods manufacturer Unilever. Unilever also understands that millennials want a more personal relationship with brands. The company is using this approach to win them over, as demonstrated in their “Find Your Magic” campaign for Axe. These same preferences in the B2C world translate to millennial B2B buyers.
What Manufacturers Can Do to Create Relationships
Millennials want to know your brand—not just its features, but rather what it means to their lives. How can you tap into this sentiment?
Focus on the millennial as a digital native, a person raised in the digital age, who according to a Google and Milliard Brown study, start with a generic search in their research of products and services 71 percent of the time. This approach to research means buyers have gathered lots of information prior to engaging a brand. These digital natives also prefer short bits of information that is visual in nature per a Forrester Research In response, marketing and sales must interact with these buyers differently. Websites needs lots of educational information, and it needs to be apparent to them the benefits of doing business with the company.
Use content marketing to tell stories that are relevant to them. Your content should not be a commercial for how great your products are. Rather, it should follow a narrative flow that educates and offers solutions for their challenges. This allows millennials to see you as thought leaders and experts, making it more likely they will trust you. There is no better way to build trust than content marketing.
Be visual in how you represent content. It’s not that they all prefer visuals over words, but they have grown up with instant access to YouTube. Use video to bring millennials into the story. Show them how your operations work. Take them out into the field, demonstrating how your products fit the need. Animoto found that 80 percent of millennials consider video content when researching purchase decisions.
Communicate with them in the channels they prefer. Most millennials prefer email over in-person meetings, per an IBM They also aren’t a generation that will respond to cold calling. Millennials are texters, with 68 percent admitting they text a lot in a Gallup Poll. Then there is the wide world of social media, which they also use in researching brands, products and services. A University of Massachusetts Dartmouth study found 51 percent use Facebook in this way, 52% use Twitter and 59% use Pinterest. Be where they are and engage on their terms.
Take a stand on social or environmental issues that align with your company’s values as well as those of millennials. Not saying anything or trying to evolve your own internal culture will immediately be dismissed by millennials as signifying a company that doesn’t care.
Packaging Solutions Manufacturing Company Gets Millennials
Tetra Pak manufacturers packaging solutions for food and beverage. They introduced a new product with an ergonomically-oriented design that has a tilted cap for easier drinking. Then, the company sent samples to targeted leads. But these weren’t simple cardboard boxes. They had a stunning design with an Instagram-inspired foldout showing how the packaging would enhance the brand and offered links to more content online. A DMNews article championed it as a millennial focused campaign, and it worked, with the company generating over 500 inquiries with just 72 packages.
Millennials Are Your Current and Future Buyers
Marketing is always evolving. Internal and external elements have changed the world and buyers. It’s a great time to take advantage of creating that connection with millennial buyers. Speak the language they speak. Engage them where they are. Realize the benefits of this new age of marketing. It could be the shift that yields new deals and a bright future.
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087: Scott Beebe | My Business on Purpose
Scott Beebe is a strategist, teacher, business coach and founder of My Business On Purpose. He is also host of the Business On Purpose podcast.
Scott Beebe is the founder of My Business On Purpose, a business coaching, training, and strategy group that helps small business owners and organizational leaders transition from working IN their businesses to working ON their businesses. Scott is also the host of the Business On Purpose podcast; a weekly podcast where Scott interviews small business owners who share insights into how they are living their business on purpose.
Scott was born in Washington DC and lived in Charlotte NC, Houston TX, Portland OR, and Greenville SC before graduating from the University of South Carolina in 1997. After college, he moved to Texas with his new bride Ashley, where he attended and graduated Southwestern Theological Seminary, then worked as a legal drug-salesman for Pfizer selling Lipitor, Viagra, and other well-known products.
Among his many roles, Scott has served as Associate Pastor at First Baptist Church of Euless TX; he founded and served as lead pastor for LifePointe Church in Burleson TX; and he was international administrator for HELP, Inc., where he worked with multi-cultural teams both in the U.S. and Nigeria to build a platform for sustainable partnership with Nigerians through a variety of sectors, including business, finance, and agriculture.
Over the years, Scott’s numerous roles have provided him with experience in direct and B2B sales, designing and implementing organizational strategy, training and development, marketing, fundraising, teaching and speaking. The diversity of his roles and locations have shaped his unique view of businesses, churches, and cultures around the world.
From this unique perspective, Scott created the Four Steps To Business Freedom; a six-month, group coaching experience built exclusively for businesses under $25mm and under 25 employees. The program:
Helps owners and organizational leaders develop and implement a vision, a mission, and a set of values;
Helps them build systems and processes to liberate them from the chaos of working IN the business;
Leads weekly, virtual mastermind groups to uncover and implement the things they cannot see.
Scott loves to read and learn. He and his wife Ashley travel whenever possible and make enjoying time with their three children a priority. Scott and his family live in Bluffton, SC (near Hilton Head), where they spend most of their time on the water!
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When you stand in front of the Girl with a Pearl Earring, the dark background appears to recede, and the Girl herself is – visually and emotionally – closer to you. The contrast between the figure and the background also makes her look more 3-dimensional, and focuses your attention on the brightest areas of her face and earring. Apparently the trend for using dark backgrounds for portraits started with Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), then the convention was adopted by Dutch artists.
Background in the upper part of the Girl, with Vermeer’s signature circled
The background is usually described as ‘black’ or ‘dark’, but did you know it was originally a very dark green colour? Did you notice Vermeer’s signature in the top left corner?
‘Wel geblaut, wel gewaut’
Cross-section 21/4050, 400x magnification. Left: Dark Field / Right: UV. The glaze (layer 3) contains: indigo, weld, chalk, alum, lead white, and a little red ochre. Registration and curtain viewer: Rob Erdmann. View in curtain viewer.
Cross-sections and examination under the microscope showed that Vermeer built up the background in several layers. On top of the ground (1), he applied a layer of black (2). They described it as ‘bone black’, but recent analysis at very high magnification using SEM/EDX and FIB-TEM has shown that it contains charcoal black. On top of this, Vermeer painted a green glaze (3): a translucent layer of paint containing indigo (blue) and weld (yellow).
In 17th-century Holland, people used the expression ‘wel geblaut, wel gewaut’ to mean: well-dyed with blue (indigo) and well-dyed with yellow (weld). The combination of blue and yellow to make green was used to dye clothes and fabrics. I’ll discuss indigo along with the other blue pigments in a later blog, so here I’ll concentrate on the yellow colourant: weld.
Reseda luteola L., illustration from Atlas des plantes de France (1891)
Weld is a natural yellow dye made from the plant known as ‘Dyer’s rocket’: Reseda luteola L.. The flowers, stem and leaves can all be used, but apparently the best quality weld comes from the flowers. This plant grew all over Europe, and is both one of the oldest and most widely-used dyes. To turn the weld into a yellow pigment, the dye had to be precipitated onto a white powder, in this case, chalk.
Organic yellow lakes are hard to identify and to analyse because they fade when exposed to light. This might be why there are blue trees in Vermeer’s Little Street (ca. 1658) at the Rijksmuseum. Sometimes it’s possible to confirm the presence of a ‘vanished’ lake pigment if the substrate (chalk) still remains and can be detected using scientific analysis. Weld in the Girl with a Pearl Earring was first identified in the 1994 using a chromatographic technique called HPLC (high-performance liquid chromatography). As part of the recent re-examination of the samples, an enhanced version of this technique detected the luteolin and apigenin components from the weld.
Tests made by Charlotte Caspers for ‘Het Geheim van de Meester,’ showing a weld and indigo glaze layered over a black underlayer.
For the TV show Het Geheim van de Meester (Secret of the Master), Charlotte Caspers reconstructed the Girl with a Pearl Earring. She made some tests layering a weld and indigo glaze on top of a black underlayer to show what the background might have originally looked like.
One reason that the background looks patchy and mottled today is because both of the organic colourants - indigo and weld - have faded due to light exposure. The paint in the background could have deteriorated for other reasons too: environmental conditions where it was hanging in the past, previous restorations, and/or darkening of the oil medium.
Shiny area on left side of painting, which was protected under retouching
One area of the background that might jump out at you is a shiny patch near the left edge in the middle of the painting. This is actually the best-preserved part of the background, because old restoration materials shielded it from moisture and light for decades. During the 1994 restoration, the conservators decided to leave this area as-is, as it is closer to how Vermeer would originally have intended the background to look.
Vermeer’s signature, with contrast enhanced. Polarised light photo: René Gerritsen.
Vermeer signed the Girl with a Pearl Earring with his monogram ‘IVMeer’ in the top left corner (circled on fig. 13a). The letters ‘IVM’ are in ligature, i.e. they are connected together. Vermeer used several signatures throughout his career, but the placement and style of this one is most similar to the Study of a Young Woman from the Metropolitan Museum.
The signature is almost invisible with the naked eye, but you can see it in the calcium (Ca) map made by MA-XRF.
Tracing of Vermeer’s signature
Vermeer’s monogram in the calcium (Ca) MA-XRF map. Image: Annelies van Loon (Mauritshuis/Rijksmuseum).
Groen, Karin M., Van der Werf, Inez D., Van den Berg, Klaas Jan, Boon, Jaap ‘Scientific examination of Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring,’ In: Vermeer Studies: Studies in the History of Art, edited by Ivan Gaskell and Michiel Jonker, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., Yale University Press, New Haven/London, 1998. [online version]
Reseda luteola (Wikipedia)
Zegeling, Mark and Marc Pos (2017) Het Geheim van de Meester, Markmedia & Art.
Van Eikema Hommes, Margriet (2004) ‘Indigo as a pigment in oil painting and its fading problems, Changing Pictures: Discoloration in 15th-17th-century oil paintings, Archetype, London, pp. 91-170.
Johannes Vermeer: Signatures,’ Essential Vermeer website
Reconstructions: Charlotte Caspers
UHPLC analysis of weld: Art Ness Proaño Gaibor (Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands (RCE))
MA-XRF: Annelies van Loon (Mauritshuis/Rijksmuseum)
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The AS/400 and IBM's DB2 DataJoiner
Kent Milligan
Data here, data there, data everywhere. This mantra could describe many AS/400 IT departments these days. You have data scattered throughout your organization on sources that can’t talk to one another. The majority of your business data resides on the AS/400, but what happens when an AS/400 application needs information from other sources? Users, for example, want your application to display all of the information associated with a customer. They don’t care about or appreciate the fact that the customer data is stored in DB2 Universal Database (UDB) for AS/400 as well as another database such as Oracle or SQL Server. Do you hire an army of programmers? If so, what interfaces or languages are available to those programmers? Or do you avoid programmer expense with a manual approach such as FTPing data between servers and risking stale or lost data?
These factors are why IBM developed DB2 DataJoiner, a whole new kind of database middleware that lets you access, join, and update data from different sources with a single SQL-based interface. Whether your data resides in Oracle, Sybase, SQL Server, Informix, Teradata, IBM, Virtual Storage Access Method (VSAM), or another DB2 UDB server, DB2 DataJoiner can access it seamlessly. DataJoiner is not just a middleware product; it’s a full-strength relational database, including global query optimization, with special support for heterogeneous data access.
Why AS/400 and DataJoiner?
So why does your AS/400 need additional software for heterogeneous database access? DB2 UDB for AS/400 (and the IBM DB2 family) has long supported the X/Open Distributed Relational Database Architecture (DRDA) standard for remote database access and interoperability. Today, AS/400 customers can use DRDA to access the other DB2 products running on UNIX and Intel servers, but not third-party databases.
Other database vendors such as Oracle and Sybase have actually delivered tools based on DRDA. Unfortunately, they have chosen to support only part of the standard: They implemented the DRDA specs that enable them to access data in other databases, but they have chosen not to support the DRDA support that would allow DRDA-compliant databases (e.g., DB2 UDB for AS/400) to access and update their data. That’s where DB2 DataJoiner comes into play in AS/400 land. The middleware portion of the product can
speak to both DRDA and non-DRDA interfaces (Oracle SQL*Net, ODBC, etc.) supported by other databases.
Think of DB2 DataJoiner as a language interpreter. Your AS/400 applications will send DRDA requests to DataJoiner, and DataJoiner will translate that request into a language that the third-party databases can understand.
Conversing with DataJoiner from the AS/400 is as simple as issuing an SQL request.
The SQL-based interface makes it very easy to access DB2 DataJoiner from just about any AS/400 application. With the DB2 UDB precompilers, you can embed SQL statements in RPG, C, C++, and COBOL applications on the AS/400. The following is a sample of the embedded SQL that you would use to read an Oracle table with DataJoiner from an AS/400 application:
EXEC SQL CONNECT TO DJOINDB;
EXEC SQL SELECT CUSTPREF INTO :LOCPREF FROM ORCUSTOMER WHERE CUSTID=22;
This example assumes that you have already completed the needed DataJoiner setup. (I cover this setup in my sidebars at www. midrangecomputing.com/mc.)
If you have used DRDA to access data on another AS/400 or another DB2 server in the past, you’ll notice that the SQL interface is exactly the same. These embedded SQL statements can coexist with an existing application that is using the native (i.e., non-SQL) AS/400 database interfaces, so you do not need to switch the entire application over to SQL. Other SQL-based interfaces on the AS/400—such as Net.Data, Java Database Connectivity (JDBC), Call Level Interface (CLI), and DataPropagator—can also leverage DataJoiner for heterogeneous database access.
When you look at DB2 DataJoiner closely, you’ll quickly notice that it doesn’t run on the AS/400; it runs only on Microsoft Windows NT and UNIX servers. You can easily install DB2 DataJoiner on the same NT or UNIX server that’s hosting the third-party database that you need to access. A more viable option is to install the product on the Integrated Netfinity Server for AS/400 (INS) to give you tighter integration between the AS/400 and DB2 DataJoiner.
More on DataJoiner
As I mentioned, you can view DB2 DataJoiner as just a language interpreter, but it’s also a full-fledged relational database. With DB2 DataJoiner, you can create a database and store and access data in that database. Thus, you can use DataJoiner for more than just accessing other databases; you can also use it as a database server. In addition, the DataJoiner product includes DB2 Spatial Extenders that enable you to store and manipulate geographic data and features components of IBM’s DataPropagator that enable heterogeneous data replication. Those features are outside the scope of this article.
After seeing how simple the SQL is for connecting to an Oracle database from the AS/400 with DataJoiner, you might be wondering how DB2 DataJoiner knows that it should connect to an Oracle server instead of another AS/400 or DB2 server. The answer is that you have to tell your DataJoiner database how to do this interpretation with some simple, one-time configuration steps.
In the SQL sample I gave, you will see that you’re connecting to a DataJoiner database called DJOINDB. You would create that database in DataJoiner and then set up your relational database directory on the AS/400 (using the Work with Relational Database Directory Entries [WRKRDBDIRE] command) so that the AS/400 can connect to DJOINDB on your NT or UNIX server. The DJOINDB DataJoiner database will then have its own catalog that contains information on how to access the Oracle database. To access a data source with DataJoiner, you update the catalogs by using the following DataJoiner SQL statements:
CREATE SERVER MAPPING
CREATE USER MAPPING
CREATE SERVER OPTION
CREATE NICKNAME
Essentially, these SQL statements allow you to tell DataJoiner where to find the target database server, how to communicate with this target database server (ODBC, SQL*Net, etc.), and how to find objects on the target database server. Depending on the server that you’re accessing, you may also have to load a data access module (ODBC, Sybase Open Client, etc.) on the server where DataJoiner is installed. This configuration allows DB2 DataJoiner to fulfill its role as a language interpreter for the AS/400. DataJoiner receives a DRDA request from the AS/400 and then looks in the catalogs to determine how it should translate the request into a language that the target database understands.
Once this configuration is complete, you can perform just about any SQL request against that target database: retrieve data, add or change data, create database objects, and even call stored procedures. When you’re accessing data, you are not limited to accessing a single database at a time; you can actually reference tables and combine them from different databases all on the same SQL statement—hence, the join part of the product name. So it’s very easy for an AS/400 application to present a consolidated view of the data for a customer with a single SQL statement, even when the customer data is scattered across multiple database servers.
Not only does DB2 DataJoiner translate the SQL request into a language that the target database understands, but it also optimizes that request by employing global optimization. When formulating how to translate your query, DB2 DataJoiner’s optimizer considers the relative CPU speed of each server, the relative I/O speed, and the relative network bandwidth. Then, the optimizer combines these factors with the statistics that it automatically gathers on each database server and determines the most efficient path to the information you need. The optimizer in DB2 DataJoiner also incorporates a sophisticated query rewrite phase that automatically transforms poorly written queries into a better, logically equivalent form that is less costly to execute. For some database management systems (DBMSs), users can attain better performance via DB2 DataJoiner’s unique query rewrite than they can by accessing the DBMSs directly.
From an AS/400 perspective, the only deficiency of DB2 DataJoiner is that it can understand only DRDA requests that are sent over an SNA connection. Thus, you will need to set up an Advanced Program-to-Program Communications (APPC) connection between the AS/400 and the server that’s hosting DB2 DataJoiner. Note that DB2 DataJoiner is not limited to using an SNA-based connection to access remote databases; only the conversations between the AS/400 and DataJoiner require an SNA connection. In fact, most of the heterogeneous database access that DataJoiner performs will be done over TCP/IP connections.
One possible alternative to eliminating this SNA requirement is the latest version—Version 7—of DB2 UDB for NT and UNIX. This version of DB2 UDB is able to process DRDA TCP/IP requests and has integrated some of the functionality of DB2 DataJoiner. The DataJoiner functionality that has been integrated into DB2 UDB’s federated database component includes support for DB2 server access and read-only access of Oracle databases. AS/400 customers will find DB2 UDB V7.1 to be an acceptable solution as long as they require only read-only access of Oracle data or need to combine DB2 and/or Oracle data in a single SQL statement.
Using DataJoiner with the AS/400
Now that I’ve covered all of the technology and terminology, I’ll take a look at the detailed configuration steps to enable DB2 DataJoiner to work with the AS/400. This configuration really has two distinct parts because DataJoiner accepts only DRDA SNA requests. First,
you’ll need to establish the SNA connection between the AS/400 and DataJoiner’s hosting server. Once the communications pipe is set up, you need to update your DataJoiner database catalogs with the target database information. In my sample installation, DB2 DataJoiner has already been installed on the INS. You can also use these steps when configuring DataJoiner on a standalone NT server.
The first step is configuring a DRDA SNA connection between DB2 UDB for AS/400 and DataJoiner running on the INS. For this step, the NT server hosting DataJoiner must have an APPC-capable server such as IBM’s Communications Server. IBM’s Communications Server (Version 6.1) was used in building the configuration information. The sidebar “Configuring Communications for DataJoiner,” which can be found on the Midrange Computing Web site at www.midrangecomputing.com/mc, details the steps.
Configuring the DataJoiner Connection
Once you have the communications configured to allow DB2 UDB for AS/400 to talk with DataJoiner, the next step is adding the necessary mappings and nicknames into DataJoiner so that it knows which database servers and objects you want to access.
The sidebar “Accessing Other DB2 UDB Servers,” which can be found on the Midrange Computing Web site at www. midrangecomputing.com/mc, shows the steps required for configuring a DataJoiner connection between the AS/400 and various other DB2 servers. I used the DataJoiner Command Line Processor Window to perform the configuration scenarios. Note that most configurations will use DataJoiner to perform read- only access of remote database servers; therefore, these configuration samples turn off two- phase commitment control. You should use this feature only when really needed.
As you can see, DataJoiner not only allows you to access non-DB2 databases from DB2 UDB for AS/400 but also gives you the capability to combine database tables from different database servers. If you wanted to join all of the tables configured in the sidebars, you would just issue the following SQL statements on the AS/400:
SELECT * FROM PIDAORD, SSAUTHORS, ORATABLE
A Whole New Class
DB2 DataJoiner is the heterogeneous access solution that your business might need for addressing the data scattered across your IT shop. DataJoiner not only allows your AS/400 applications to access and process non-DB2 data seamlessly but—via its global query optimization—also makes sure that your applications perform this remote data access as fast as possible. Simply put, DB2 DataJoiner is a whole new class of data access middleware.
REFERENCES AND RELATED MATERIALS
• DataJoiner Application Programming and SQL Reference Supplement (SC26-9148 )
• DataJoiner Web site: www.ibm.com/software/ data/datajoiner
• DB2 DataJoiner for UNIX Systems Planning, Installation, and Configuration Guide (SC26-9145)
• DB2 DataJoiner for Windows NT Systems Planning, Installation, and Configuration Guide (SC26-9150)
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Racial Differences for End-Of-Life Care Among Kidney Failure Patients
by Enozia Vakil on April 13, 2013 at 3:05 PM Lifestyle News
Highlights: Substantial regional variation has been noticed in the cases of racial differences in end-of-life care among US adults suffering from kidney failure. Black-white differences in dialysis discontinuation and hospice referral are most pronounced in regions with the highest levels of end-of-life spending.
More than 590,000 Americans in 2010 were treated for kidney failure.
Washington, DC (April 11, 2013) — At the end of life, black patients with kidney failure receiving chronic dialysis are less likely to be referred to hospice and to discontinue dialysis compared with white patients, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (CJASN). Racial differences in care are especially pronounced in parts of the country that spend the most on end-of-life care. Efforts are needed to better understand why there are such large racial differences in end-of-life care and to ensure that such care reflects dialysis patients' goals and preferences.
There are known racial differences in aspects of kidney health such as access to kidney transplantation and pre-dialysis kidney care, and health and survival during kidney disease and after kidney transplantation. Racial differences in patterns of end-of-life care have generally received much less attention, although studies indicate that black patients with kidney failure are less likely to be referred to hospice, less likely to discontinue dialysis, and more likely to receive intensive interventions such as ICU admission at the very end of life.
Most prior studies describing racial differences in patterns of end-of-life care have not examined whether the magnitude of these differences is uniform across different regions of the country. To investigate, Bernadette Thomas, MD (University of Washington, in Seattle) and her colleagues examined data from the United States Renal Data System on 101,331 black and white adult patients who initiated chronic dialysis or received a kidney transplant between 2005 and 2008 and died before October 1, 2009. The investigators also analyzed regional healthcare spending patterns from the Dartmouth Atlas of Healthcare.
Similar to other studies, the researchers found that there were large racial differences in rates of hospice referral and dialysis discontinuation. However, when black and white patients were examined separately, the investigators also observed large differences in the frequency of hospice referral and dialysis discontinuation between high and low spending regions. "Although large racial differences in dialysis discontinuation and hospice referral were present in all regions, these differences were most pronounced in the highest spending regions," said Dr. Thomas.
Source: Eurkealert
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Saliva Gland Biopsy May Help Diagnose Parkinson's Disease
by VR Sreeraman on January 11, 2013 at 12:58 PM Research News
A new research has suggested salivary gland biopsy as a diagnostic test for Parkinson's disease.
Parkinson's affects mainly people over 50 years who suffer symptoms such as slowness, which may impede efforts to walk or to stand up, stiffness of muscles (rigidity) and tremors.
"There is currently no diagnostic test for Parkinson's disease," says study author Charles Adler, neurologist with Mayo Clinic in Arizona, US.
"We have previously shown in autopsies of Parkinson's patients that the abnormal proteins associated with Parkinson's are consistently found in the submandibular saliva glands, found under the lower jaw," adds Adler.
"Making a diagnosis in living patients is a big step forward in our effort to understand and better treat patients," says Adler, according to a Mayo Clinic statement.
The study involved a group of people averaging 68 years who had Parkinson's for an average of 12 years. They had responded to Parkinson's medication and would not have known saliva gland disorders.
Biopsies were taken of two different saliva glands: the submandibular gland and the minor saliva glands in the lower lip.
The surgical team was led by Michael Hinni and David Lott, at the Mayo Clinic and the biopsied tissues were tested for evidence of the abnormal Parkinson's protein by study co-author Thomas Beach, with Banner Sun Health Research Institute.
"This procedure will provide a much more accurate diagnosis of Parkinson's disease than what is now available," Beach says.
"One of the greatest potential impacts of this finding is on clinical trials, as at the present time some patients entered into Parkinson's clinical trials do not necessarily have Parkinson's disease and this is a big impediment to testing new therapies," Beach says.
The abnormal Parkinson's protein was detected in nine of the 11 patients who had enough tissue to study. Although Parkinson's disease can't be cured, medications may markedly improve symptoms.
These findings will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology's annual meeting in San Diego in March.
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Soon,MGM Films can be Viewed Through YouTube
by Hannah Punitha on November 12, 2008 at 4:02 PM General Health News
Online video-sharing website, YouTube has struck a golden deal with Hollywood studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's (MGM) to show full length movies in their archives.
The collaboration is mainly aimed at earning advertising revenue for both YouTube and the studio.
The partnership will result in the launch of a video-on-demand channel called Impact, which will wholly and solely cater exclusively to action films, TV shows and clips.
"I think it will grow into a nice little business," BBC quoted Jim Packer, co-president of MGM Worldwide Television, as saying.
He claimed that YouTube made up for the ideal partner with its 280 million monthly users.
"I think YouTube has something that a lot of sites don't have. They have a lot of people walking through their front door everyday. And if they are smart in how they grow this, YouTube should have a successful business also," said Packer.
There will be one more channel, which will feature episodes from the popular programme 'American Gladiators' from the 1980s and 1990s.
While downloading the videos won't cost a single penny on the viewer's pocket, but will contain advertising.
Though, the films will be available only in US in the beginning, but the service will be extended elsewhere once rights issues get cleared.
YouTube claimed the deal with MGM was the right thing to do, owing to the studio's commitment to deliver premium content online.
"YouTube is committed to helping our community of fans discover new content and reconnect with their all time favourite TV shows and movies," said Jordan Hoffner, director of content partnerships for the company.
He added: "By partnering with MGM, YouTube is strengthening its position as an entertainment destination where Hollywood studios can reach a global audience."
On YouTube's Impact channel one can watch clips from MGM classics such as Rocky, Ronin, Legally Blonde, and The Magnificent Seven.
And films, which will be featured on the channel, include Lone Wolfe McQuade and Bulletproof Monk, as well as those starring the actor Chuck Norris.
Also, the Bond movies represent a major franchise for MGM
"It's safe to say you won't see those blockbuster theatricals shortly after their release or after their TV window," admitted Mr Packer.
However, the users won't get to see any of the James Bond films playing on YouTube.
"They do very nicely on their own under existing licences and we are very protective of that content. There are plenty of other films we would like to expose," added Packer.
He also said that he did not expect to be the only studio to make these kinds of deals.
He revealed that plans are underway to launch another five to 10 channels, of which one would cater only to female viewers.
"We are in the process of figuring out a female-skewed brand. We could put up a number of say romantic clips from shows like Moonstruck and put up a number of key feature films and create a female targeted site that would get a much higher advertising rate," explained Packer.
Source: ANI
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mo4ch:>US carrier drills in disputed South China Sea as Beijing closes waters for own exercises (PHOTOS) | Mo4ch News
USS Ronald Reagan has conducted demonstrative flight operations training to promote ‘peace through strength’ in the South China Sea, next to disputed strategic atolls where China has been holding its own military drills.
To showcase the strike group’s capabilities, the US Navy has airlifted a small group of Philippine officers to the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier on Tuesday. The military brass of the island nation, which has been reluctant to side with US in any open confrontation with China, were treated to maneuvers by the Reagan’s air wing, comprised of about 70 F/A-18 jets, spy planes and helicopters.
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Tecno Spark Go Plus powered by Helio A22 SoC and 2 GB RAM launched
By Jeet On Jan 9, 2020 Last updated Jan 10, 2020
Expanding its portfolio of smartphones in India, Tecno has today announced the launch of Tecno Spark Go Plus. The phone comes with a a 6.52-inch HD+ display with 89.5 percent screen ratio, 480 nits brightness, and 20:9 aspect ratio.
Under the hood, the device is powered by 2 GHz MediaTek Helio A22 quad-core SoC paired with 2 GB RAM. It comes with 32 GB of built-in storage capacity, with the option to expand further using a microSD card slot (up to 128 GB).
In the camera department, the device features an 8-megapixel AI camera with f/2.0 aperture, dual flash and offers features like bokeh effect and AI beauty mode. On the front side, the phone sports an 8-megapixel selfie camera with f/2.0 aperture and an LED flash.
The phone runs Android Pie (Go Edition)-based HIOS 5.5.2 software. Connectivity options on the device include Dual LTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, and Bluetooth 4.2. The phone is powered by a 4,000 mAh battery, and the company claims that it can last up to six hours of video playback, 110 hours of music playback, 6.9 hours of gaming, 5.7 hours of browsing, 26 hours of talk time, and 343 hours of standby time.
The Tecno Spark Go Plus is priced in India at ₹6,299 and comes in a single 2 GB RAM + 32 GB storage option. The phone will be available in Hillier Purple and Vacation Blue colour options and will go on sale from today itself.
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Betrothal I
Frame (Dark wood w/ Gold face): 52 1/4 x 41 1/2 x 2 1/8 in. (132.72 x 105.41 x 5.4 cm)Image: 50 1/2 x 39 3/4 in. (128.27 x 100.97 cm)
The Rita and Taft Schreiber Collection
Given in loving memory of her husband, Taft Schreiber, by Rita Schreiber
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The title of Arshile Gorky’s Betrothal I alludes to a marriage. Two figures are barely discernible: on the left, a whitish one sitting aside a horse (the left-facing horse has a blue nose and a black rear hoof; its rump curves around a splash of green), and on the right, a vertical form with a lilac head like a bird’s crest. They can hardly be made out among the painting’s delicate abstract lines and supple organic shapes. But this ambiguity suggests that specific subject matter is less important to the artist than the painting’s emotional or psychological ambience, a fact heightened by the artist’s technique of layering translucent colors, creating an atmospheric effect. Gorky was interested in European surrealist artists’ attempts to tap the unconscious mind, and the flow of forms within the luminous cloudy space of Betrothal I has the character of memory or dreams.
The title of Arshile Gorky’s Betrothal I alludes to a marriage. Two figures are barely discernible: on the left, a whitish one sitting aside a horse (the left-facing horse has a blue nose and a black rear hoof; its rump curves around a splash of green), and on the right, a vertical form with a lilac head like a bird’s crest. They can hardly be made out among the painting’s delicate abstract lines and supple organic shapes. But this ambiguity suggests that specific subject matter is less important to the artist than the painting’s emotional or psychological ambience, a fact heightened by…
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Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History (Hardcover)
By Vashti Harrison, Kwesi Johnson (With)
Author-illustrator Vashti Harrison shines a bold, joyous light on black men through history in this #1 New York Times bestseller.
An important book for readers of all ages, this beautifully illustrated and engagingly written volume brings to life true stories of black men in history. Among these biographies, readers will find aviators and artists, politicians and pop stars, athletes and activists. The exceptional men featured include writer James Baldwin, artist Aaron Douglas, filmmaker Oscar Devereaux Micheaux, lawman Bass Reeves, civil rights leader John Lewis, dancer Alvin Ailey, and musician Prince.
The legends in Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History span centuries and continents, but each one has blazed a trail for generations to come.
Vashti Harrison, is the #1 New York Times bestselling author-illustrator of Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History and Little Dreamers: Visionary Women Around the World. She is an artist and filmmaker with a passion for storytelling. She earned her BA in studio art and media studies from the University of Virginia and her MFA in Film/Video from CalArts, where she snuck into animation and illustration classes to learn from Disney and DreamWorks legends. There, she rekindled a love for drawing and painting. Now she uses her love of both film and illustration to craft beautiful stories for children.
Praise for Little Legends:
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* "Inspiring and healing as it educates, this volume belongs beside its companion on every bookshelf."—Kirkus Reviews, starred review
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National Express Coventry announces changes following public consultation
Following feedback from the public National Express Coventry has announced changes to its bus network in and around the city.
The last time the network changed extensively was seven years ago. Since then there have been some significant developments across the city and surrounding areas. Travel patterns have also changed.
The bus operator has now released details of the network changes which will take effect from Sunday 22nd September 2019.
Some changes are small, such as timetable improvements, so that buses can run more often or more reliably. Other changes are larger, such as route changes, to cater for new and emerging travel needs. Some route numbers will also change.
Chris Gibbens, Commercial Director of National Express Bus, said:
“Our current network of Coventry bus routes has remained relatively unchanged since 2012, however the local population and demand for bus services has. With so much change happening we also need to consider the future of bus travel in and around this vibrant city.
“During June and July 2019 we held a consultation on the proposed changes to our services. We’ve listened to our customers, our staff, local community groups and councillors and based on their feedback we’ll be implementing our new network of bus services from 22nd September 2019.
“Overall, most customers will see an improvement with more punctual and frequent buses. Where journeys involve a change of bus we’ve worked hard to better coordinate our services to make it simpler and easier for our customers.
“We’re introducing new links to the University Hospital and Westwood Business Park as well as connecting customers from across the city to important faith, community and health centres. To support these changes we’re delighted to create more jobs in Coventry by employing more drivers and running more buses to help improve the service we offer.”
In June 2019 National Express Coventry launched a public consultation to invite feedback on its proposed changes. Around 1,500 customers, staff and stakeholders completed the survey by responding to route specific questions, with an additional few hundred individual comments on the proposals.
85% of those that completed the survey said buses should serve Eagle Street to cater for the faith, community and health centres. National Express Coventry is introducing a new 3 and 3A service along Eagle Street and Springfield Road.
92% were in favour of running more buses at peak times on the 5 and 7 through Coundon. More peak buses will be introduced and the service will be better coordinated during off-peak periods to reduce customer waiting time.
86% said they would like the 8 and 8A to run along Corporation Street in both directions. National Express Coventry is changing the route in line with this feedback.
71% thought it would be good to have a direct link between Holbrooks and Coventry rail station. The road layout at the rail station is changing in November so National Express is delaying the change to allow time to assess how the new road layout works.
Many asked for the proposed city centre route change to be reconsidered and for more buses to reduce overcrowding between Earlsdon, the University and Kenilworth. Based on the feedback received the 11 will remain on its current route from the rail station to Pool Meadow and the frequency will be increased from Coventry to the University and on to Kenilworth and Leamington.
Other main benefits of the changes are:
Buses will run more often to Allesley, Bell Green, Brownshill Green, Canley, Cheylesmore, Coundon, Earlsdon, Fargo Village, Hillfields, Holbrooks, Kenilworth, Keresley, Kirby Corner, Leamington Spa, Spon End, Tile Hill, University of Warwick, Westwood Park, Willenhall and Wood End
Improved evening and Sunday services for Canley, Cheylesmore, Coundon, Hillfields and Holbrooks
Extra early morning buses on Saturdays for many areas
Some routes benefit from extra Sunday morning buses
New direct link from Hillfields to University Hospital
New direct link from Allesley Park to University Hospital
New daytime service to Westwood Business Park from Coventry city centre and rail station
New direct links from Allesley Park and Canley to University Hospital
The disadvantages for a small number of customers are:
Some direct links across the city centre will change, so some people may have to change buses in the city centre
Buses will run slightly less often to Allesley Park and some parts of Binley to help improve reliability
Full details of the changes are available online at www.nxbus.co.uk/coventry. Printed booklets will be available from the National Express travelshop in Pool Meadow bus station from early September and staff will also be on hand to answer any questions.
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Rose connected on 12-of-23 from the field, including 3-of-7 from three-point range, to go with five assists in 32 minutes.
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Bulls finish preseason with a loss in St. Louis
By Adam Fluck | 10.24.2014 | 9:33 p.m. CT | Archive | @AdamFluck
ST. LOUIS – Derrick Rose scored a game-high 27 points but the Bulls couldn’t withstand a fourth quarter rally from the Minnesota Timberwolves, falling 113-112 at the Scottrade Center on Friday night.
Mike Dunleavy with 17 was among four other players who recorded double figures for the Bulls, who finished the preseason at 4-4. Joakim Noah hauled in 17 rebounds to go with six points and nine assists.
Minnesota came out firing, shooting 57 percent from the field and connecting on 67 percent from long range in the first half. Though Chicago jumped to an early rebounding edge of 26-15, the teams were tied up at 64 apiece at intermission. At that point, Rose had tallied 13 points, while Taj Gibson recorded 10 with nine rebounds.
The Bulls came out sharp on both ends of the floor in the third, scoring nine of the second half’s first 11 points to take a 73-66 lead. By the middle of the third frame, Rose was up to 24 points in 21 minutes and the Bulls, who trailed by as many as 10 in the first half, led by double figures. By the time Rose and Noah went to the bench in the third, Chicago’s starting unit had outscored Minnesota 20-11 in the quarter.
When the Bulls went cold in the fourth, however, the Timberwolves took advantage and an 11-0 run late in the quarter got them to within one, 104-103. Minnesota extended its lead to 111-106 before Rose’s three cut the deficit to two.
On the ensuing possession, rookie Zach LaVine connected on a pair of free throws to put the Timberwolves up 113-109. Dunleavy drained a three to pull the Bulls back to within a point with 1.6 remaining but that would be as close as they got.
Ricky Rubio led Minnesota (5-2) with 19 points, while Anthony Bennett and Thaddeus Young chipped in with 17 apiece.
Up next, Chicago will open the regular season on Wednesday in New York against the Knicks before returning home to host the Cleveland Cavaliers on Friday.
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Police Searching for Family of Man Found Beaten to Death in Alley
The victim was found naked, covered by a sheet, with a block of ice placed on his head
By John Cádiz Klemack • Published January 19, 2017
Police were asking for the public's help tracking down the family of a man discovered beaten to death in a South Los Angeles alley last Fall.
On Sept. 14, the body of 60-year-old Bruce Johnson was found in an alley near Normandie and Slauson avenues, Los Angeles Police Department investigators said.
Johnson was found naked, covered by a sheet, with a block of ice placed on his head, LAPD Det. John Flores said. A neighbor made the grim discovery.
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"The local resident saw something on the floor and there was a block of ice on it," Flores said. "He didn't know what it was so kicked over the block of ice and discovered the person's face."
Detectives learned the ice came from a taco truck that parks nearby, but what they don't know yet is how it got from there to the alley.
"It's a very strange thing, it's unknown what the motive is, but clearly someone picked up that ice and brought it over here and put it on the victim's head," Flores said.
Surveillance video caught a 90s model Town & Country minivan in the alley just before the body was found, but they're not sure yet if there's a connection.
For neighbors, they worry the mystery will remain because of the fear to come forward.
"Just another day in the hood, everybody getting chopped down," South LA resident Maurice Cannon said.
Fingerprints helped identify Johnson, but police have been unable to find anyone who knows him.
"We checked all the addresses we had for him on file, including halfway houses, but we have yet to find anyone who knows him or family members," Flores said.
The LAPD released Johnson's 2002 booking photo and a sketch of what he would look like today in hopes someone will recognize him.
Anyone with information was asked to call the LAPD South Bureau.
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Lakers Win Fourth Straight, Beat Grizzlies 94-92
Anthony Davis and LeBron James each scored 26 points, rallying the Los Angeles Lakers to a 94-92 win over the Memphis Grizzlies.
By Clay Bailey • Published January 5, 2021 • Updated on January 5, 2021 at 9:57 pm
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Anthony Davis and LeBron James each scored 26 points, rallying the Los Angeles Lakers to a 94-92 win over the Memphis Grizzlies on Tuesday night.
James added 11 rebounds and seven assists, and Dennis Schroder finished with 12 points for Los Angeles.
“That’s why he’s great,” Lakers coach Frank Vogel said of James taking over the game with Davis. “He finds a way to make those superhero-type of plays. Our focus is on making sure we don’t need those superhero-type of plays to close games out.”
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Jonas Valanciunas, Dillon Brooks and Gorgui Dieng led Memphis with 13 points apiece, and Brandon Clarke added 12 points. Valanciunas finished with 11 rebounds.
On a poor shooting night for both teams, the Lakers were able to depend on James and Davis down the stretch. Los Angeles trailed 79-77 with five minutes left when the two big men combined for a 9-2 run and an 86-81 lead. The final basket came on a dunk by Davis on an assist from James.
James and Davis combined for a run of 15 points late in the fourth to take the lead to 92-83 with 31.1 seconds left.
“I have a lot of confidence in LeBron James in the fourth quarter,” Vogel said. "I don’t really know any other way to say that. I trust him.”
Memphis was able to put together some late baskets to make it close, but couldn’t overtake the Lakers, who won their fourth straight.
“Obviously in a hard fought game like that, you hope to come out with a victory,” Memphis coach Taylor Jenkins said. “But our guys were amazing.
“Effort again. But the attention to detail, the execution. These guys, for 48 minutes, were unbelievable. Came up a little short in the end.”
Lakers: Entered the game as the only NBA team ranked in the top 5 in offensive efficiency (2nd/115.7) and defensive efficiency (4th/104.5). … Both Kentavious Caldwell-Pope (left ankle sprain) and Alex Caruso (health and safety protocol) again sat out. Both appeared headed for return in the coming games, according to Vogel.
Grizzlies: Valanciunas recorded his seventh straight double-double. … Rookie Desmond Bane saw his streak of games with multiple 3-pointers end at six. That marked the second-longest streak to start an NBA career behind Chicago’s Lauri Markkanen’s 10 straight to open the 2017-18 season. … Swingman John Konchar was the latest Memphis player to miss a game after suffering a left ankle sprain.
SOCIAL JUSTICE: Several Laker players referenced news earlier in the day regarding no charges filed against the Kenosha, Wisconsin, police officer who shot Jacob Blake, who was left paralyzed. “The flame is already lit,” guard Wesley Matthews said. “It just has to continue to keep burning, but burn the right way. Not where anything can be sidetracked.” Matthews later added: “It really is disheartening. But leaders have to be leaders and everybody has to take ownership for their own community.”
LIKE ORLANDO: The NBA season has led to creative scheduling. For example, the Lakers ended a road trip where they played consecutive games in San Antonio and then Memphis. And with very little outside interaction in hopes of avoiding the coronavirus. “It’s almost like we were in the bubble, except we’re not in the bubble,” Vogel said. “You kind of go to work, go back to the hotel and not too much else.”
Lakers: Return home Thursday after a four-game road trip to host the San Antonio Spurs.
Grizzlies: Host the Cleveland Cavaliers on Thursday night.
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Desert X 2021, the Coachella Valley Art Show, Postpones
The expansive outdoor exhibition, which has featured over-sized art installations in remote locations in past years, will not open in February.
By Alysia Gray Painter • Published January 8, 2021 • Updated on January 8, 2021 at 4:26 pm
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The biennial art exhibition, which features outdoor installations placed around the Coachella Valley, was due to open in February 2021
A new opening date has not been announced
Free to see
The desert is well-known for its epic ability to bloom with beauty, from ocotillo flowers to prickly pear blossoms to the other stunning sights that dot California's arid expanses with regularity.
But sometimes mysterious forms, and strange displays, and wondrous experiences also can appear and astound us, at least when Desert X calls upon the Coachella Valley.
The biennial art exhibition, which opened to worldwide acclaim in February 2017, and returned again in February 2019, has become celebrated for its thought-provoking, offbeat, and deeply beautiful art installations.
But the team behind newest Desert X announced on Jan. 8 they're postponing the February 2021 opening.
"The Desert X Board in consultation with its team and members of the Coachella Valley community confirmed today that in light of the urgent health crisis and surge in cases of COVID-19, the only responsible way forward to protect our community, health care system, artists, visitors and all those who volunteer and contribute to the exhibition, is to wait until we are out of the lockdown period before opening to the public," said Desert X Founder and President Susan Davis in a statement.
"The artists' projects are ready, and the Desert X team and board will identify a new opening date as soon as we believe we can safely do so."
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When it does debut, Desert X 2021 will run for nine weeks. And like the 2017 and 2019 happenings, every piece will be free to see.
Not every artwork is placed in or near the desert — past installations were on view near the streets and buildings of Palm Springs, Indio, and other nearby cities — but one of the hallmarks of the exhibition is pairing a stunning natural setting with an artist's quirky or stark or vast vision.
Artist Doug Aitken's "Mirage," also known to many as "The Mirror House," was one such work in 2017, while 2019 saw Sterling Ruby's "Specter" and Kathleen Ryan's "Ghost Palm" (both pictured above).
As far as what visitors can expect to see in the 2021 show, when it does open?
You'll want to keep an eye on the Desert X site and its social pages for any updates about the 2021 artists, their biographies, and the pieces they'll be showing.
Or, of course, you can wait to be surprised by an eye-popping, idea-amazing artwork by seeing it in person, set against a desert sky, for the very first time.
When that can happen, of course. Stay tuned.
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Roosters v Knights preview
Sat 14 Jun 2014, 03:05 PM
Roosters v Knights
Saturday, 7.30 pm (AEST)
A spot in last year's premiership decider went on the line when these two teams last clashed nine months ago, and this Saturday against the Roosters the Knights have one of their last rolls of the dice if they want to reach those lofty heights again in 2014.
With two months having passed since their last win, Newcastle are in danger of forgetting the words to their own victory song and despite scoring four tries to the Tigers' three last weekend found themselves on the wrong end of the scoreboard courtesy of Pat Richards' booming right boot.
It's been one of those years for the Novocastrians, where anything that can go wrong, seemingly will, and while they're playing with the desperation of Steve Carrell in The 40-Year-Old Virgin, they'll be hard-pressed turning their fortunes around against the side that knocked them out of the finals race nine months ago without tough as teak back-rower Beau Scott and Queensland mainstay Darius Boyd.
The Tri-colours meanwhile, are not so quietly going about the business of racking up six wins from their last seven starts, beating a mixture of under-strength front-runners and competition also-rans to the tune of 154-56 with an oh-so motivating 42-10 thumping from the Cowboys smack bang in the middle of their run up the competition ladder.
With each 80-minute stint the Roosters are spending less and less time scratching about the chook pen and are fast developing the ruthless edge that saw them blow all comers off the park on the way to last year's premiership win. Even with their dynamic left-edge combination of Jennings and Tupou again being called up for Origin duty for the Blues opposite back-rower Aidan Guerra in Queensland colours, the Chooks still boast nine players in their starting side with representative experience in the past 12 months, and look primed for one of those devastating performances that the rest of the competition became all too familiar with in 2013.
The Knights have made plenty of changes from the side that was just pipped by the Tigers with big name quartet Boyd, Scott (both Origin), Joey Leilua (throat injury) and Kade Snowden (suspension) unavailable. Jake Mamo comes in at fullback, Josh Mantellato on the wing and James McManus moves into the centres for Leilua. Chris Houston jumps into the second row while Joseph Tapine and Clint Newtown have been named on an extended bench.
With Tupou, Jennings and Guerra all on Origin duty, Trent Robinson will pair Mitch Aubusson and Nene McDonald on the left flank, while giving Dylan Napa another start and bringing Kan Evans back onto the bench. Willis Meehan and Daniel Mortimer will battle it out for the final spot on the Roosters' bench.
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Watch Out Roosters: Akuila Uate is known as being quieter than a church mouse with laryngitis in both persona and performance for the majority of 2014, but he roared to life against the Tigers with a treble of tries, four line breaks, 184 running metres and a piece of club history to boot as he moved past Timana Tahu's 91 tries in the red and blue to hold the club's try-scoring record all on his lonesome. With James McManus switching to left centre to cover for the injured Joey Leilua, Roosters' winger Roger Tuivasa-Sheck will be hard pressed keeping Uate quiet if the representative duo can again turn the Knights' left edge into a one-way thoroughfare to the white stripe, especially with the Fijian flyer's power game supplemented by a seven-kilo advantage over the young Chook.
Watch Out Knights: The Tigers cut them to ribbons in the opening 10 minutes last week with some enterprising ad-lib play, racking up double-figure offloads before the Knights had time to scratch themselves, and the Roosters could do worse than sneak a peek at Mick Potter's playbook this week. The premiers may be a different kettle of fish with their supreme set plays and rapid-fire play-the-balls, but they do possess one the best in the offloading business in the form of Sonny Bill Williams, whose ability to free his arms in traffic has led to four-pointers against the Storm and Bulldogs in recent weeks. It's no secret the Knights' forwards, with Willie Mason, Jeremy Smith, David Fa'alogo and Kurt Gidley all the wrong side of 30, are not the most lateral of movers, and with the Roosters have the fleet-footed cavalry to hurt them in Tuivasa-Sheck and halves Mitch Pearce and James Maloney should the Chooks' big men start generating some second-phase play against the defence that has conceded more offloads than any other this year.
Plays To Watch: If balls were still made of cow hide Jarrod Mullen would be booting the leather off it, he features three times in the top 10 for metres kicked in a game this year; Roger Tuiviasa-Sheck to give the visitors plenty of grief if they switch off when chasing those punts like they did more than once against the Tigers; Anthony Minichiello to be a try-scoring magnet when switching out to the right wing, where he has scored five of his nine tries in 2014; The Knights to commit as few defenders as possible to the ruck, having made the most one-on-one tackles this year with Robbie Rochow (36), Chris Houston (30), Kurt Gidley (29) all adept at cutting down the opposition on their own.
Where It Will Be Won: Sitting your opposite number on their backside should rank pretty high up on any aspiring team's to-do list, and both these sides could do with an improvement in the missed tackle department, with the Knights ranking second worst in the NRL with 404, and the Roosters not too much better with 365, though they have played an extra game. While the Roosters plugged the leaks against the Storm with just eight misses, the Knights cannot afford a repeat of the whopping 47 missed tackles they recorded against the Tigers, because rest assured, the Roosters will rattle up a cricket score with those types of opportunities.
The History: Played: 47, Roosters 25, Knights 18, drawn 4. The Roosters have claimed the chocolates in their past three clashes with the Knights, courtesy of dominant second-half displays in which they have outpointed the Knights 16-0 (Round 9, 2012), 16-6 (Round 20, last year) and of course the memorable 40-minute blitz to bundle the Novocastrians out of last year’s preliminary final (28-10).
What Are The Odds: The Roosters attracting over 90 per cent of bets in the head-to-head market with Sportsbet.com.au, and three-quarters of the money in line betting (-12). The premiers are in from $1.29 to $1.22, with the Knights out from $3.63 to $4. The Roosters are clearly the standout bet of the round according to punters.
Match Officials: Referee - Gavin Badger; Assistant Referee - Gavin Reynolds; Touch Judges - Paul Holland & Dan Eastwood; Video Referees - Steve Chiddy & Steve Folkes.
Televised: Fox Sports - 7.30pm.
How We See It: The Knights are a more honest outfit than their position on the ladder suggest, but the Roosters have been building to a scarily good performance and against a visiting side down on confidence and without two of their best, this could be the week Tri-Colours really cut loose. Chooks by at least 12 points.
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Scout Report: Round 19 Fantasy Q&A
Fri 17 Jul 2015, 08:00 AM
The toughest period of the NRL Fantasy season is behind us, and with the end of the season in sight the race is on to pack your team with stars for the run home.
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Here are my answers to some of your Fantasy questions.
Will Shaun Johnson reach $600K?
(From Scott Moyes)
With a break even of 15, a price tag of $499,000 and an average of 96 points across his last three games, I wouldn't put it past him on current form. By the same token, I wouldn't be shocked if Johnson scored 30 against the Roosters this week either. Five games ago Johnson scored just 11 against the Rabbitohs, so while he has the highest scoring 'ceiling' of any half in Fantasy, he is also capable of having a very quiet game if the opposition dominates. If you're hunting for a Fantasy half, he's obviously a very good option – even if he costs about $120,000 more than Rabbitohs playmaker Adam Reynolds.
Hey Lone Scout you were the only person to beat me this year so far. My question is: is it time to jump of the Jack Bird ship?
(From Daryn Young)
Not in my book. Among halves, Bird is obviously off the pace a little with Johnson, Reynolds, Johnathan Thurston, Daly Cherry-Evans and Ben Hunt all averaging more than 50 points a game. You want three of those guys in your squad if possible. Bird isn't on that level, but at 45 points a game he's still among the best centres in Fantasy, where you should be holding him. If Bird's in your halves and you want an upgrade, you're better off selling a lower-scoring centre and shifting Bird to centre. If he's already in your centres, leave him there – any other trade will probably be sideways at best and you don't want to be wasting trades at this point of the season.
Does Nathan Friend have another price rise in him? I want to trade for Smith but also need to extra cash if he does.
(From Mathew Allan)
Yes he does. Despite that outrageous backflip pass on the weekend Friend only scored a solid 36 against the Storm, but with a break even of 21 his price will climb a little higher next week. If you're playing for overall points you may want to get Cameron Smith into your side as soon as possible, but for head-to-head give it another week to make the upgrade.
Should we be concerned about Moses Mbye on the Bulldogs bench when it comes to Michael Lichaa's minutes? Or should we hold off on any panic trading?
(From Brandon Scott Lee)
Hold off on the trade. The fear about Lichaa's minutes have been around since early in the season, but for the most part Des Hasler has been content to play Mbye in the backline, recently sharing the halves roles with Trent Hodkinson and Josh Reynolds. That could change this week, but recent evidence suggests Lichaa has become an 80-minute hooker. Since Round 6 Lichaa has spent a grand total of five minutes on the bench in 10 matches. He made 63 tackles last week. I'm holding him for now.
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Loney, do we keep Shaun Fensom? Playing reduced minutes so scores will go down and could be worth getting an 80-minute player with the potential to get bigger scores.
(From Antony Petrie)
Again, I think the fears about Fensom's minutes are a little overblown this season. The fact he isn't an 80-minute forward this year has scared me off buying him, but if he's in your team I wouldn't be selling. He's averaged about 63 and a half minutes a game, and is still scoring more than 55 Fantasy points a week. He actually ranks third among second-rowers for total points this season, and only Corey Parker, Simon Mannering and Paul Gallen are better scorers in the back row. He's a keeper.
Trying to decide on Tyson Frizell or unsung hero Bodene Thompson? What do you think? Thompson has been great the last three games.
(From Shaun Russell)
He has indeed, and he isn't a bad buy. My only concern with the Warriors second-rower is he's scored a try in each of those three games, and you can't rely on that kind of trend continuing (let's face it, the Warriors have a number of more likely try-scorers in their side). Frizell meanwhile has scored just one try all season but still has a slightly better average than Thompson. So, Thompson is the form player, but Frizell is still the safer bet, and a little cheaper. Elijah Taylor is another similar scorer if you haven't got him already.
Is Wade Graham a good option? Looking at the Sharks bench looks like he may be the only 80-minute forward they have.
(From Jarrah Miller)
He might be, but beware, he's a risk. He was massive for the Sharks last weekend with 210 metres and six tackle breaks plus a try assist and 31 tackles, for 83 points, but he still only has six scores above 50 this season from 16 games. By comparison, Elijah Taylor and Tyson Frizell average 54 and 53 points a game respectively and come at a similar price. So Graham's not a bad point of difference, but he could also be a mid-40s scorer who's just having a purple patch at the moment.
Got enough cash to upgrade Taumololo to either Corey Parker or Paul Gallen, which one's the safest bet for the finals run?
(From Cade Taikato-Wheeler)
With a better injury record and about four more points per game, Parker is the man to buy out of those two.
News on Blake Leary? Worth holding?
(From Ricky Turner)
Leary's nagging back injury just keeps him off the field, and although he will make more money after his next game I'd still be looking to sell – unless you're playing for head-to-head only and can easily make your league's finals series without him. Otherwise, now's the time to be assembling your best 17 and Leary isn't quite a keeper.
Is Greg Inglis a good POD compared to Teddy and RTS? Could he be in for a big run into the finals?
(From Buell Capital)
There's a reason why Greg Inglis costs about $145,000 less than James Tedesco and $90,000 less than Roger Tuivasa-Sheck – he's been a mid-40s scorer this year, while Tuivasa-Sheck has averaged 65 over his past three games and James Tedesco has averaged 71 over his past five. Tedesco and Tuivasa-Sheck are obviously safer bets when it comes to big scores, but Inglis is a superstar and could well be in for a big finish to the season. He admits he struggled with the club captaincy early in the year, dropping more than $100,000 in value in Fantasy, but he looms as a value buy now if you're in the hunt for a winger/fullback.
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NT-NL News: August 2018, Third Monday
August 20, 2018 | NT–NL News By Jason O'Neill
For Such A Time As This
Tomorrow / Tuesday, August 21
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and The Episcopal Church continue our united call to Pray, Fast, and Act in support of good policies and programs that provide opportunities for, and respect the dignity of, all people.
This month, we focus on programs that support higher education and learning. The U.S. economy and way of life depend on the education system to provide opportunities for a prosperous future. Education is a pathway to significantly increase an individual’s or family’s access to a stable income, better well-being, and long-term financial security. According to the U.S. Department of Education, college graduates with a bachelor’s degree will earn 66 percent more than individuals with only high school diplomas.
Each fiscal year, Congress must reauthorize current higher education legislation or introduce new legislation. On Dec. 1, 2017, H.R. 4508, the Promoting Real Opportunity, Success, and Prosperity through Education Reform (PROSPER) Act was introduced. The PROSPER Act proposes possible solutions to an array of higher education issues. Unfortunately, some of the provisions in the bill do more damage than good.
On August 21, join ELCA Advocacy, the Episcopal Public Policy Network (EPPN), and presiding bishops of The Episcopal Church and the ELCA as we #PrayFastAct.
PRAY alongside those who look to the education system to provide opportunities for a more prosperous future.
FAST in solidarity with all who struggle to gain the education and skills needed to live and thrive in the abundance of our world, particularly those who must choose between education and immediate financial requirements;
ACT by urging our lawmakers to support strong funding for our current higher education programs and oppose efforts like the PROSPER Act that threaten the affordability of higher education for students.
Here’s how to equip yourself and your congregation to #PrayFastAct on August 21:
Read the August Advocacy Resource for more information on the PROSPER Act as the ELCA and Episcopal Church continue to support strong funding for education priorities.
Visit ELCA.org/PrayFastAct to watch a message from The Rev. Elizabeth Eaton, presiding bishop of the ELCA.
Look out for the #PrayFastAct action alert on Tuesday, August 21, and join us as we pray, fast, and act in advocacy together.
“Undoing Racism” Training
Next week: August 28-30
Only TWO (2) spots left! REGISTER HERE.
The two and one-half day “Undoing Racism” workshop is being presented by the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond. The workshop is worth approximately 16 hours of continuing education units.
The Public Witness team is making this opportunity available free of charge to those in our churches who would like to attend but find the $350.00 tuition prohibitive. The team asks those who have adequate resources to make a contribution with the possibility of not only paying for oneself but also helping to defray the costs for someone else.
Undoing Racism® is the signature workshop of the Peoples’ Institute for Survival and Beyond. Through dialogue, reflection, role-playing, strategic planning, and presentations, this intensive process challenges participants to analyze the structures of power and privilege that hinder social equity and prepares them to be effective organizers for justice. The multiracial team of organizers/trainers includes more than 100 men and women whose anti-racist organizing expertise includes years with civil, labor and welfare rights struggles, educational, foster care, social service, and health reform movements, as well as youth and grassroots community organizing.
Click here to download a flyer with full details.
Questions may be directed to chuck.hubbard@yahoo.com.
In her August column for Living Lutheran, Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton asks, “Is it possible to be Lutheran and an ecumenist?” Yes, of course. For we are “scripturally, confessionally and even constitutionally wired to be an ecumenical church.” Read her column in English at https://bit.ly/2MhhULu and in Spanish at https://bit.ly/2ORpQ7X.
Featured Resources for August
Planning ahead… Rostered Ministers Appreciation (celebrated in October)
Doing God’s work in the world calls for leaders who bring a variety of training, skills, interests, and life experiences to the work they do in congregations, communities, and partner organizations. Whether serving as a pastor or deacon, rostered ministers carry out the work and mission of this church, sharing God’s love with the world through the good news of Jesus Christ.
This fall, please join us for Rostered Ministers Appreciation to thank our leaders for all they do! Using new resources, including an online peer-to-peer fundraising tool, host a Rostered Ministers Appreciation event to thank your pastor or deacon for all they do and ensure future leaders can respond to the call to serve, just like them. This is a great opportunity to show your pastor or deacon your congregation’s appreciation — all while supporting the next generation of leaders through the ELCA Fund for Leaders and Youth and Young Adults.
The Church of the Damascus Road Golf Outing and Fund Raiser
The Church of the Damascus Road is a ministry that assists those people that are imprisoned as well as those that are out and trying to start over. This ministry is in the need of funds to continue to provide services to the members of the church and to grow the ministry to help those struggling. We hope that you will join us in a day of golf and support of the important work being done!
Click here to access a flyer with all the details and to register / become a sponsor.
Bishop Gronberg:
ELCA Synod Partnership: SW PENN Synod #InMissionTogether
(https://www.ntnl.org/elca-synod-partnership-sw-penn-synod-inmissiontogether/ – published Aug. 13)
Meet ELCA Missionary Carrie Smith, Saturday August 18th at King of Glory, Dallas
(https://www.ntnl.org/meet-elca-missionary-carrie-smith-saturday-august-18th-at-king-of-glory-dallas/ – published Aug. 14)
United Lutheran Seminary, Philly, and CheeseSteaks
(https://www.ntnl.org/united-lutheran-seminary-philly-and-cheesesteaks/ – published Aug. 16)
Allegheny Synod Connections: Bishop’s Kids Unite!
(https://www.ntnl.org/allegheny-synod-connections-bishops-kids-unite/ – published Aug. 19)
Pastor Totzke:
Go West, Old Woman!
(https://www.ntnl.org/go-west-old-woman/ – published Aug. 13)
Where in the world is?
Aug. 25: Ordination of Don Strickland, Trinity, Fort Worth
Aug. 26: Ordination of Miles Holder, Grace, Carrollton
Aug. 20: St. John, Bartlett
Aug. 26: King of Glory, Fort Worth, and Ordination of Miles Holder, Grace, Carrollton
Pastora Bañales:
Aug. 20-25: Congregational Leadership Training, Seattle, WA
Aug. 28-30: “Undoing Racism” Training, Arlington, TX
Sep. 1: Bishop Installation for the Southwestern Texas Synod, San Antonio, TX
Sep. 7: The Bolder Board Training, North Texas
Sep. 9: “God’s work. Our hands.” Sunday
Sep. 15: PLMA Fall 2018, Course 1, Briarwood
Sep. 17: Boundary Training: Healthy Relationships in Ministry, Fort Worth, TX
Sep. 20-22: Synod Council meetings, Briarwood
Sep. 21-23: Middle School Retreat, Briarwood
Sep. 22: MEF Board meeting, Briarwood
Sep. 24: The Church of the Damascus Road Golf Outing and Fund Raiser, Fort Worth, TX
Sep. 24-26: 2018 First Call Retreat, Briarwood
Sep. 28-30: Addiction & Faith Conference, Bloomington, MN
Sep. 29: Panhandle Fall Conference: An introduction to The Generosity Project, Wilson, TX
Oct. 2: Mosaic Partners in Possibilities fundraiser lunch, San Angelo, TX
Oct. 4: OLOGY The Symposium: A Dialogue Between Psychology and Theology, Richardson, TX
Oct. 6: Fall Festival & Thrivent Cook-Off, Briarwood
Access our full online Calendar here. Updates made regularly.
Do you have news or announcements to share? Please submit to the Synod office (office@ntnl.org) for consideration for upcoming NT-NL News.
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Remember that Norwegian site that made readers take a quiz before commenting? Here’s an update on it
For one thing, people did really, really badly on the quizzes (although that could be due to a language barrier).
By Christine Schmidt @newsbyschmidt Aug. 11, 2017, 10:04 a.m.
This site is “taking the edge off rant mode” by making readers pass a quiz before commenting
Joseph Lichterman
When my former colleague Joseph Lichterman wrote about a Norwegian news organization that makes readers pass a quiz on the article before they can comment on it (one of the most-trafficked stories in Nieman Lab history, by the way) the site — NRKbeta, the tech vertical of Norway’s public broadcaster — was lauded for its creativity. But NRKbeta’s editors and journalists said it was too early to tell if the program was a success.
This project from @NRKbeta and @NRKno is quite possibly one of the best new journalism ideas I've seen, ever.https://t.co/DCT3s9pDty
— Amy Webb (@amywebb) March 1, 2017
But now, five months in? NRKbeta’s team says readers may have treated the quizzes on 14 articles more like reading comprehension games than as a gateway to the comments section.
As Lichterman described the feature, back in March:
On some stories, potential commenters are now required to answer three basic multiple-choice questions about the article before they’re allowed to post a comment. (For instance, in the digital surveillance story: ‘What does DGF stand for?’)
The goal is to ensure that the commenters have actually read the story before they discuss it.
‘We thought we should do our part to try and make sure that people are on the same page before they comment. If everyone can agree that this is what the article says, then they have a much better basis for commenting on it,’ said NRkbeta journalist Ståle Grut.
Forcing users to take a little extra time to think about the comment they’re about to post also helps them think about tone, NRKbeta editor Marius Arnesen said. ‘If you spend 15 seconds on it, those are maybe 15 seconds that take the edge off the rant mode when people are commenting,’ Arnesen said.
Now, five months since launching the comment-quiz, here’s what NRKbeta has to say about the results.
“On average, there is a lot more attempts — both correct and wrong — than actual comments.” In a post on NRKbeta, Grut explained that it appears more people took the quiz for reading comprehension than for access to the comments section. Some may treat it as a “fun little game after reading,” Grut wrote. Of the 14 articles that included quizzes, the highest number of comments on any one was 77. Meanwhile, more than 300 people took the quiz for that same article.
[Note: See that super-long red bar above? “Due to a human error, the right answer to one of the questions was not indicated. It made it impossible to pass the quiz. Hence the many logged wrong attempts.”]
“We have not established any set rules for when the quiz should be enabled.” NRKbeta opted not to require the quiz for every article’s comment section. While the quiz was built as a WordPress plug-in with questions randomized for each user, the team did not want to overwhelm commenters on quick and light-hearted subjects.
Grut noted that by requiring potential commenters to become more invested in the content, the comment-quiz favored “the most eager with the most time on their hands.” But it didn’t always result in better comprehension over time: “From time to time this has lead to a decline in quality and tone, causing [the reader] to often abandon the quiz module.”
Games might be a good tool for fighting fake news. Here’s what three developers have learned
“On average, there is a staggering error rate of 72 percent on the quiz.” This may have been because international readers invaded after our story got picked up, and tried to take a quiz written in Norwegian. The clearest finding, Grut noted, was that readers liked treating the quiz as a game. There has been an uptick in “gaming the news” or developing online games for audiences to consume news or to even learn about fake news. Games like these quizzes could potentially help reporters and editors determine if the wording and explanations in their articles are clear to readers, in addition to cooling the comments section’s hotheads.
“We’re trying to establish a common ground for the debate,” Arnesen told Lichertman earlier this year. “If you’re going to debate something, it’s important to know what’s in the article and what’s not in the article. [Otherwise], people just rant.”
Photo of multiple choice test by Alberto G. used under a Creative Commons license.
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OUR LIST OF 2012’S MOST INFECTIOUS EXTREME METAL SONGS: PART 9 ENSHADOWED: “MAGIC CHAOS PSYCHEDELIA”
MOURNING WOLF: “ELMHAVEN”
Album Reviews, SHORT BUT SWEET Add comments
(Wolves stick together. In this post, BadWolf reviews the brand new debut EP by Mourning Wolf.)
I’ve been hearing about Mourning Wolf since the band’s first practices. As a matter of fact, it’s about all that the project’s vocalist, Clint ‘Darkness’ Harkness, talked about for months. Readers may recognize Harkness as the lead singer of Lansing, Michigan’s The Devastator. He’s right to be excited about the project—the Elmhaven EP is rock-solid.
Mourning Wolf blends two disparate, but equally melodic strains of heavy music into a cohesive whole. In the first place, their music owes a great deal of debt to the kind of melodic metalcore that Headbanger’s Ball peddled in the naughty aughts. For example, the first segment of “Elmhaven Part II” could pass as an unreleased demo by Darkest Hour, or early Killswitch Engage. Wisely, the band avoids the saccharine clean singing and sentimental lyrics, lest the music veer into self-parody. Mourning Wolf diverge from melodic metalcore in another critical arena: the first part of Elmhaven clocks in at almost eight minutes, and its successor breaks the eleven minute mark.
The second ingredient in Mourning Wolf’s music is longform ambient black metal, the kind of music Wolves in the Throne Room and Alcest play. If Mourning Wolf were from California or Washington, someone would have called them Cascadian by now.
I’m enamored of this unlikely union’s fruit. Both elements balance one another perfectly. The more driving hardcore elements give both Elmhaven songs a necessary bit of structure, and make the music a bit more driving and aggressive than Cascadian black metal tends to be—see the opening of “Elmhaven Part I,” which segues from big drum hits into a melodic blast-run. On the other hand, the ambient sides blend both songs into one cohesive texture.
I had the chance to talk to Harkness, briefly, about Mourning Wolf and his transition from brutal death metal to this kind of music. “Elmhaven is something everyone of us has wanted to do for quite sometime. It’s more than just a piece of music, it’s a reflection of us as people. We really wanted to make music than you can feel. We’ve all done the super heavy music before, you just don’t feel the emotion and realism that you can with Elmhaven,” he said. “I am very passionate about Mourning Wolf. I have never felt so at home with any other band I’ve been in.”
By my estimation, Harkness is right to be excited. Mourning Wolf blends two commercially viable, yet completely disparate styles into a single, functional whole. I’m anxious to hear more from the project.
Elmhaven is available as a pay-what-you-want download through Bandcamp, and is embedded below. It comes highly recommended, from one wolf to another.
http://mourningwolf.bandcamp.com/album/elmhaven
http://www.facebook.com/MourningWolf
Posted by Islander at 3:30 am Tagged with: Mourning Wolf
15 Responses to “MOURNING WOLF: “ELMHAVEN””
Fantastic stuff, cheers for passing that on!
Possibly dumb question: Is “Cascadian black metal” one of those labels that gest slapped on bands that happen to be from the Pacific Northwest, or is it a semi-legit subgenre? I’ve seen it popping up a lot, probably because I’ve recently gotten into some bands that have been tagged that, and although I definitely hear some musical similarities, I don’t know if I’m hearing anything that would make me not just call them atmospheric or ambient black metal.
I’ll throw in my two cents worth since I’m in the Pacific Northwest. Although that “Cascadian black metal” label seems to have started as a way or characterizing the nature-focused atmospheric black metal of PNW bands such as Agalloch and Wolves In the Throne Room, it has come to be applied to other bands from other regions (and countries) whose music shares a similar stylistic approach. So, at least in some quarters, it has become a sub-genre term — though I think a lot of people would like to eradicate it because the label itself is more of a misleading geographic reference and conveys no information about the sound itself.
I’d hate to see the label disappear, since I tend to like nearly everything that has been labeled Cascadian BM. I’d have to fall back on my formula that if an album cover has any combination of trees/mountains/clouds/fog on it, I’ll probably end up liking it. T/M/C/F BM doesn’t have quite the same ring to it though.
It’s a pretty fuzzy term — I’ve seen it used to describe a fairly broad range of music from bands who really aren’t doing the same thing. Having said that, I’m not enough of a label purist to object to its use either. It at least gives you a general idea of what you’re in for.
I am now going to start referring to the sub genre as avant progressive treecore.
Good luck with that. 🙂
Nice find, I definitely enjoyed that!
Digging the genre-melding going on here. Dare I say there’s some almost metalcore-ish riffs in here? It’s a fine line they draw between melo-death and metalcore (black metal influences aside), but I think it’s done really tastefully. In much the same way that early Abigail Williams brought together “-core” music and Emperor-esque symphonic black metal, I see Mourning Wolf bringing “-core” and Cascadian BM (for lack of a better term) together.
Keep it up! Excited to hear more.
Omsie says:
This is excellent, thank you. Nice variation on existing atmospheric BM approaches. I want an album though! EP’s frustrate them, they’re too much of a tease… 🙁
Vonlughlio says:
awesome EP!!!!!
I am physically incapable of passing up metal music that mentions wolves.
KSmash says:
Check out my band Burn Your World from Salt Lake City, UT. http://www.burnyourworldofficial.bandcamp.com (shameless self-promotion, I know) We are somewhat similar in approach to this band Mourning Wolf, although it would seem that the influences are different; think Crowbar/Ringworm/Infest/Darkthrone/Dissection/Suffocation/Napalm Death/Himsa. Thanks for sharing this band, and I hope y’all enjoy our music from Mormontowne, USA!
Btw, we have a song called “Circle of Wolves”… all the more reason to check it out! haha
deckard cain says:
The description is spot on. A lot of darkest hour riffing to start off with, and then it veers off into alcest territory. Instant ownage!
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Explore a visual guide to the January 2015 update
New Titles Added to Reference Library
The following editions have been added to Oxford Reference Library as part of this January update. The Oxford Encyclopedia of the History of American Science, Medicine, and Technology and The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Ethics are available through institutional perpetual access.
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the History of American Science, Medicine, and Technology
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Ethics
January 2015 Quick Reference Update – Literature Focus
This quarter's subject release focuses on Literature, with two fully revised and updated NEW EDITIONS:
The Oxford Dictionary of Plays (2 ed.)
A Dictionary of Writers and their Works (3 ed.)
SUBJECT UPDATE
Literature entries across Oxford Quick Reference have been checked and updated where necessary.
As well as the new editions in the January release, there are also revised versions of Oxford Essential Quotations, the Oxford Dictionary of English, and the New Oxford American Dictionary. The revision to Oxford Essential Quotations is a selection of 20 quotations about Literature from:
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Additional Quick Reference Editions
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Cancer Patient Who Needs Surgery Gets Prison Time For Shoplifting $109 Worth In Grocery Store Items
Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman has offered to pay for the items that Ashley Menser shoplifted so that she can can the medical help she needs.
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A potentially lengthy state prison sentence for a Pennsylvania cancer patient who shoplifted a little over 100 dollars worth of items from a grocery store is drawing criticism – even from the state’s lieutenant governor.
Lebanon County Judge Samuel A. Kline sentenced Ashley Menser, 36, to a minimum of 10 months and a maximum of seven years behind bars on Jan. 22 after she pleaded guilty to shoplifting $109.63 worth of merchandise from a Weis Markets in 2018, a Lebanon County District Attorney press release provided to Oxygen.com stated.
Menser "stole makeup, hair dye, a candle and 'Super Skinny Serum' (a hair product),” according to the release.
Menser has advanced-stage ovarian cancer and requires surgery for her illness, according to local newspaper the Lebanon Daily News. She had an appointment scheduled for the same day as her sentencing, in which she was supposed to set up a surgery to prevent her cancer from spreading to her lymph nodes.
“I sat there and sat there and was like, ‘No, this can’t happen’,” Steve Via, Menser’s father, told the PA Post following his daughter's sentencing. “She must have this operation or she’s going to die.”
Ashley Via-Menser Photo: Pennsylvania Department of Corrections
Records obtained by the outlet also note that Menser has post traumatic stress disorder and a history of substance use issues.
Kline also rejected a request by Menser’s lawyer to put Menser on house arrest and opted for prison time instead, citing the availability of medical treatment in state prison and Menser’s criminal record. She has 13 prior theft convictions as well as welfare fraud and endangering the welfare of children convictions, according to the district attorney’s office.
Menser’s prison sentence prompted Lt. Gov. John Fetterman to call for the Lebanon County Correctional Facility to release Menser so she can get surgery. He even offered to pay the money back to Weis Markets.
“Calling on Judge Kline to err on the side of mercy,” he tweeted.
The case has attracted national attention.
Lebanon County District Attorney Pier Hess Graf defended the court’s decision and in that press release, obtained by Oxygen.com, noted "Our Lieutenant Governor found it appropriate to criticize the Court and the victim. [...] He failed to mention in any of his tweets, however, the extensive prior record of the defendant, her drug abuse, or the fact that her sentence ranges - as set forth by the legislature- call for jail time."
Graf also brought up in the release that Menser refused medical treatment at some point and that three of her four kids are no longer in her custody or care.
Fetterman is standing by his stance and told WPMT-TV, “I am just suggesting that they [err] on the side of compassion and allow this woman to see her doctor. This is not public enemy number one. This is not Hannibal [Lecter] that they have to, you know, wheel out in a catcher’s mask and in a gurney. This is an addict.”
Drug-Dealing Tennessee Twins Claimed Three Bodies
Woman Allegedly Climbs Into Ceiling To Avoid Deputies
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‘Param Kanchenjunga’ fastest supercomputer among NITs
The National Institute of Technology (NIT) Sikkim has recently established a supercomputer ‘Param Kanchenjunga’, which is said to be fastest among all 31 NITs, an official said.
“It is aimed to help in research and academics. Since NIT Sikkim has research areas like climate modelling etc., the supercomputer would aid in these fields as well. It is the fastest and most powerful among the NITs,” Sanjay Wandhekar, associate director and head, High Performance Computing, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) – Pune, told IANS.
The supercomputer was established jointly with C-DAC – Pune last week at a cost of Rs.3 crore, said Wandhekar.
#'Param Kanchenjunga' #Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) #climate modelling #National Institute of Technology (NIT) #Sanjay Wandhekar
India’s AI supercomputer Param Siddhi 63rd among top 500 most powerful non-distributed computer systems in world
Supercomputer centres to boost research on technical, societal sectors
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Bills’ home field temporarily being called “Bills Stadium”
by: Evan Anstey
Posted: Aug 20, 2020 / 09:27 AM EDT / Updated: Aug 20, 2020 / 09:27 AM EDT
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (WIVB) — It doesn’t have a permanent name yet, but for now, the home of Buffalo’s NFL team will be aptly named “Bills Stadium.”
The Bills made the announcement regarding the 71,000+ capacity stadium in Orchard Park on Thursday morning.
Previously known as Rich Stadium, and then Ralph Wilson Stadium for more than 15 years, the stadium was most recently called New Era Field.
“As we continue the transition process from New Era Field to a new naming rights partner, we will officially use the name Bills Stadium for our home in Orchard Park,” the Bills said.
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ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- Gov. Andrew Cuomo Sunday updated New Yorkers on the state's progress during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
"I have high hopes for New York as we enter this new year with a new administration, but New Yorkers have to do their part," Governor Cuomo said. "The COVID war still needs to be fought, and while many feel COVID fatigue, that is a luxury we cannot afford. If we tire before the enemy, the enemy wins - it's that simple. I am confident that we can defeat this and rebuild stronger than ever before. Until that day comes, I encourage all New Yorkers to keep fighting the good fight together - wear a mask, social distance and avoid gatherings."
ALBANY COUNTY, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- Albany County Executive Dan McCoy announced Sunday that the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Albany County has now climbed to 17,166 to date, an increase of 193 new positive cases since Saturday. The five-day average for new daily positives has increased to 229.8 from 228.4.
The County Executive reported that among the new cases of COVID-19, 41 had close contact with positive cases, 149 did not have a clear source of infection at this time, and three are healthcare workers or residents of congregate settings.
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