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How to disable pre-edits with new Fortnite feature
In a recent update, Epic Games added the ability for players to disable pre-edits in Fortnite. Here’s how to do it yourself.
Epic Games has finally added in the option to disable pre-edits, a long-awaited feature from the Fortnite community.
Pre-edits have been a hot topic of debate amongst the Fortnite community since release. Many have hailed it to be a useless feature, becoming an annoying obstacle in combat.
Finally, Epic have listened to the community by adding a feature to disable this edit option.
What is “pre-editing?”
Pre-editing is the process of editing a structure before you place it on the ground. This used to be useful for players on controller who wanted better access to ramps in the Combat Pro era, but has seen a sharp decline in use and is now just an annoying feature that can be accidentally activated.
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Accidently activating a pre-edit can be a frustrating experience, and can even result in lost build battles if you make a big enough mistake.
There are still some niche uses for pre-edits, like the one below, but they get in the way more often than not.
"Pre-edits are useless"
…😳@Makenfn pic.twitter.com/LHW5NcNYF7
— Fortnite News (@FortniteINTEL) January 12, 2021
How to turn off pre-edits
To disable this feature, you’ll have to go to the settings tab in-game, then scroll down to the “building” section. Here, you’ll find the option to toggle the setting off.
That’s it! You no longer have to worry about pre-edits getting in the way of your game sessions. You can always toggle this option back on later if you want to do something specific with your structures.
You can read about all of the newest fixes that dropped with the pre-edit toggle here.
Image Credits: FortniteIntel, Epic Games
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Fortnite jetpack glitch lets players fly forever in Floor is Lava tournament
Fornite players are taking advantage of a ridiculous new glitch that allows players to fly forever in a jetpack.
Fortnite has a weird new exploit that allows you to tower over your enemies, forever. The new jetpack glitch uses lava to make your character an unintentional superhero in Season 5.
There are only two months to go until the end of Fortnite Season 5. Aside from a few minor bugs, the first few weeks of it has been a relatively easy ride run thus far with few major stumbling blocks.
But a new problem has been discovered that is giving Fortniters a big boost over their rivals by exploiting an accidental mechanic.
Fortnite Season 5 jetpack glitch
The new jetpack exploit is one that will become less effective as it becomes notorious. But in this moment, it’s making for a huge advantage, particularly in endgame circumstances.
First posted by Reddit user monty775 the new glitch requires the player to have access to a jetpack and to be within touching distance of lava.
The exploit only applies to the “The Floor is Lava” LTM as well. The main game is thankfully safe. But for anyone wanting to enjoy this exciting new mode, vigilance will be key.
As demonstrated in the video, our player jumps into some deadly lava which causes them to bounce up into the air. But they simultaneously trigger their jetpack which causes them to permanently ascend.
The player keeps their jetpack engaged and they continue to rise up into the air. It’s been confirmed that you’ll be able to go as high as the natural limits of the jetpack. So there is no floating off into space sadly.
Using up your jetpack while getting hit by lava makes you fly up from FortniteCompetitive
But as we said, if there’s only a few of you left and you’re miles above the ground peppering the enemy with almost phantom shots, you are increasing your chances of victory.
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This isn’t an easy exploit to pull off. Given the precise timing needed to activate your jetpack, you could also just as easily become a toasted marshmallow. So it’ll all boil down to your conscience and whether or not you feel the risk is worth the reward.
Either way, this is a potentially game-breaking glitch for players that are unaware of its existence in the mode. Epic Games will have their eyes on it sooner or later and it will become a non-issue quite quickly.
Image credits: Epic Games
How to sign up for the monthly Fortnite Crew Pack
Epic Games has announced more exclusive items coming to the Fortnite Crew subscription. Here’s how to subscribe.
Epic Games has announced more exclusive items coming to the Fortnite Crew subscription.
Fortnite Crew is a subscription service created to give Fortnite players the best value each month for Battle Passes and exclusive cosmetic rewards. These items cycle each month and will never be offered to players who don’t have the subscription, so be rest assured the items are truly exclusive.
Over time, rewards from the subscription will become rarer and rarer, so early adopters are the most likely to have some of the most exclusive skins in the future.
What’s in the Crew Subscription?
For $11.99 USD, players will receive the following items each month.
The current premium battle pass. (If you have already purchased it prior to buying the Crew Subscription, 950 V-Bucks will be refunded to your account)
1,000 V-Bucks on the 5th of each month
An exclusive member skin
Limited Time: Crew Emote
You’ll want to first make sure you have an active credit card attached to your Xbox, PlayStation, or Epic Games account so the subscription can renew. You’ll then want to go to the Battle Pass or Store tab, then select “The Crew” to subscribe.
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You’ll immediately be granted your membership and bonus skins. The current exclusive skin is DC’s Green Arrow. You’ll also get the tactical quiver back bling and boxing glove pickaxe.
Where to find & destroy Slurp Barrels for Fortnite Week 7 challenges
Here’s how you can complete the Fortnite Season 5 Week 7 challenge that requires you to destroy Slurp Barrels.
Fortnite Season 5’s Week 7 challenges include an Epic Quest that has you destroy Slurp Barrels. Luckily, you can find these in one location so here’s the best way to complete this objective.
Week 7 of Fortnite Season 5 is here, and Epic Games have released brand new challenges for you to complete to level up and get cool new gear. This week has eight tasks available that you can learn more about in our weekly guide.
Many of these are fairly easy to complete such as visiting houses or consuming shield potions. One Epic Quest requires you to destroy a set number of Slurp Barrels. Here is where you can find them on the map.
Where to find Fortnite Slurp Barrels
As the name implies, you will come across a ton of Slurp Barrels when exploring Slurpy Swamp. This location is a huge Slurp factory, so you won’t face any trouble finding the barrels after a quick look around.
Another Epic quest from this week requires you to visit 3 Houses in Slurpy Swamp during the same match, so you should land directly at Slurpy after jumping from the Battle Bus. Once you’ve gone through the houses, you can focus on your other objective.
Fortunately, the Slurp Barrels often come in sets of two or three, which makes them easy to locate. It shouldn’t take you too long to find them all. There’s a building on the northeast end of this area that contains many of them.
Make your way towards that building if you want to destroy multiple Slurp Barrels at once. We’ve marked its location on the map below.
Once you come across the barrels, all you need to do is pull out your pickaxe and destroy them. The Slurp Barrels are all over this location so finding 10 should be easy enough, and you can destroy them all in a single match.
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Just be careful about other players that you will probably encounter while exploring Slurpy Swamp. Due to this week’s challenges, many of them will have the same idea to land there, so be ready for a fight.
Destroying all 10 barrels will net you 20,000 XP, so be sure to try this challenge out. While you’re at it, be sure to search for Chests in the area to complete another Epic Quest.
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Chauffeur Translations
Hyaku ma no Shu
Posted on December 17, 2016 March 20, 2017 by lightfowl
Hyaku ma no Shu Chapter 13
The words for the first time have colors.
TLN: I will change “Demon Kings” to “Demon Lords” from now on. I’m also thinking about Elma’s sword’s name, the choices are “Krisher” or “Krishura”, tell me what you think in the comments, I’ll be using “Krishura” during this chapter so that you guys can see how it feels.
It was quick to understand the information.
Merea doesn’t really know information about the lower world.
However, in order to complement the missing information rapidly, he listened to their words while speaking with the demon lords.
Then, some facts came to be highlighted.
「Did everyone come to the Lindholm Sacred Mountain as a result of escaping from pursuers who wanted the power of the demon lords?」
「There is no mistake as long as you listen to the story. The problem is that there were people being pursued from all directions, whether this is accidental or not, it is a very difficult situation.」
[Sword Empress] Elma followed the words of Merea.
And, as Elma says, Merea also thought that a priority should be given to the circumstances when they have pursuers from all sides, east, west, north and south.
「Well, that, if pursuers gather from all directions now — It will be a big deal… right?」
They were easily found to be in a bad predicament.
Somehow, they were aware of the state of escapism they were in until now.
『Please wait a moment. I didn’t make tombs with this in mind.』
They might have been stuck in the moment and may have been thinking about what to do while being confused and distracted, but if possible they wanted to know earlier what Merea’s real intention was.
When Merea groaning asked the Demon Lords that were there, Elma answered the question rightly.
「It may be so, although it has been said that it is largely divided into four sides, if there are so many Demon Lords we will be buried from all directions, we are just expecting the pursuits that come from the same direction to have a conflict.」
「To have a conflict…」
「That kind of possibility is big. Because they are seeking the power of the Demon Lords in order to obtain the advantage against the other powers quickly. We are being chased because of the age of war, but because it’s the age of war the situation may be a little better.」
Elma emphasized that it’s only wishful thinking.
「The most troublesome thing is not them conflicting but cooperating. Let’s arrange which directions each of you came from so that we can predict that to a certain extent — I’m from the east.」
Elma took the initiative and made recommendations.
She said while swaying the demon sword Krishura with one hand and her black hair in the wind.
Then, in answer to Elma’s recommendations
「I-I’m from the north」
[Aizu] who visited the summit next to Elma was tidy, but was conveying the information firmly.
After that, a young man carrying a bag and a girl with red hair said.
「I’ll be brief. My name is [Shaw]」
「I’m [Lilium]. Lilium ⋅ Ausbalt ⋅ Claire ⋅ Miu –」
「That was long, and time is synonymous with money, that means, it’s a waste of money.」
「– Lilium is fine, Because adding three more names makes it too long. I and this gold-addict came from the west.」
Three sides were no good.
All that is left is the south.
Then, following the two people, the 『Maid』who stood as if she was delirious and ordered at the same time shook her silver hair.
「I’m [Mariza]. I’m from the south.」
Mariza bowed to Merea, and Merea received by giving a bow with his head.
「Re-Really? …」
At this point all sides are closed off.
After that, the demon lords repeatedly reported the direction in which they were pursued, and each time Merea’s unpleasant premonition was confirmed.
Unpalatable.
This is probably bad.
Apparently Lindholm Sacred Mountain is going to get caught in an unexpected battle.
Merea felt something close to certainty about that.
If you look at them, they have a thoughtful expression on them.
– Merea, what are you going to do?
What is more important in this situation will be your own opinion.
Merea thought about the puzzle that was in his heart for the first two minutes, but for the other eight minutes he thought.
In the first place, it doesn’t fit.
It’s an unusual situation that we just met each other.
First of all is how you think.
Amidst this situation, just 『what』 has grown in myself when I heard their story?
『What do you want?』
The last thing to believe in at last is surely that kind of 『Impulse』.
It accurately identifies it.
But in fact, to Merea,
– Something… Please be there.
There was such hope, such thought.
Merea had noticed somewhat that there was no strong impulse to himself.
No, it may be true, but because of me not being involved with the world, its exposure has not yet existed.
So I can’t be sure.
An enclosed connection in an enclosed space, with evil.
When you live in the present world, I could not predict what I thought myself.
– Think something properly
I remember the lessons learned by the spirits, their thoughts and such things firmly.
But, as their beliefs, can you set it as the basis of your actions?
I didn’t understand because I didn’t get involved with the world.
So as he hoped, Merea stretched out his mind to his heart.
Actually, it was a little — frightening.
When I thought of not having anything there, my heart beat earnestly.
– What do you think?
Unexpected visitors.
An unexpected connection.
But thin. — really thin.
A relationship line that does not exist.
– That’s it.
For some reason — It’s hard to trow it away.
For me it’s the first connection with the outside world.
– They are 『Demon Lords』.
The former words of Flounder were remembered.
『You are to, cooperate with the Demon Lords.』
Although there is a preface to say that if you are made to be a Demon Lord, it was honestly felt by Merea as it’s a decision that was made.
There was something about the future stone fiunace, and Flounder’s words that was somewhat confident.
How did you answer at that time?
『Well, then let me aim to be a hero for the Demon Lords』
If they wanted to reach out and wanted their hand to be taken.
I said so.
I seriously said it.
But that was a gray word.
I really do not know if I think like this from the bottom of my mind, If that’s the case.
There was such thought.
That’s why there is no color on that word.
In relation to the world, that word to have color for the first time.
If so, now is the time that will determine it.
Now, I began to engage with the existence of the world called Demon Lords.
– They have been atrocious.
I did not listen to everything, but as I heard their story about it, it seems to be true for most people.
People persecuted from things that can only be unreasonable or absurd.
The state of the Demon Lords in this era heard from Flounder. The demons of tragedy, covered with a devil’s hide. It’s like a sacrifice to the era of war.
Trying to look at each individually, it’s impossible to judge good and bad words as long as you talk more.
However, when they looked from a broad perspective, they fled so far that they wanted to be saved in spite of being impulsively burdened with unreasonableness.
– Demon Lord.
Apparently, they seemed to be swallowed already in the violence that comes with the word.
– Flounder, everyone.
Merea reminds of the many spirits who have watched over him.
– It was everyone’s urge to want to save someone.
Heroes were born in that way.
A savior.
I still can’t reach them.
There is not even a hand on their shoulders.
In the first place, I may not be a hero to a large number like them.
– It’s true that you think you can’t leave it alone.
There was a certain 『Impulse』 whithin Merea.
When he noticed it, Merea remembered the elevation.
At the same time he remembered a little — relief.
I guess that it surely would be able to add color to that word.
In Merea’s mind, that word shone with color for the first time.
◆ ◆ ◆
「What to do, escape, but we have been surrounded on all sides.」
「The city-nation army who is pursuing me has a military operation corps.」
「Why are you being chased by them?! Which Demon Lord are you?」
「[Sword Empress]」
「Oh, the family of the evil sword … Seriously, [The 38 heavenly sword brigade]. Moving the operation corps as well.」
「It’s not what it used to be, it has been a long time and the name of the brigade has declined.」
「Well, the demon name still is [Sword Empress]. It’s a pretty name.」
「Well, is that the same [Sword Empress] that splits ocean with bare hands?」
「That is a bit of an overlooking tale. — Anyway, I heard roughly, there are a variety of things from great forces to minor forces, perhaps the minor forces are checked by the major forces before coming to the sacred mountain and will be regulated and go back.」
「As a result, the most troublesome thing will approach sacred mountain.」
「haha — I shouldn’t laugh …」
While Merea was thinking, the story was progressing among the other demons.
For some time someone will not set a guideline, the place is unlikely to be settled.
Merea who seized it said in a low voice while trying to smoothly advance the group discussion.
「Well, we have to look for a place where they are the weakest at.」
The next moment.
An unexpected incident was hitting the spot.
「Wh…! Something… is coming!」
It was a girl’s voice.
The lineage of the demon king [Tenma]. A girl named [Aizu] sensed something and made everyone pay attention to something.
Immediately afterwards,
A pure white flash penetrated the summit of the Lindholm Sacred Mountain.
It’s as if it was a bombardment of light.
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talons claw says:
Oh shit… Everyone dun goofed… They messed with the graves!! It’s time to kick ass!
Nex says:
Thanks for the chapter !
Tasear says:
this cliff! Should I still say thank you? :O
Hilltopy says:
Thanks for the chapter. And here is a small PR dump:
They were easily found to be in a bad prediction. -> They were easily found to be in a bad predicament.
Somehow, they were aware of the state of escapism they were until now. -> Somehow, they were aware of the state of escapism they were in until now.
Elma emphasize that it’s only -> Elma emphasized that it’s only
lightfowl says:
Fixed it, thanks for your help.
kenchan223 says:
「That is a bit of an 」
「That is a bit of an overlooking tale.
Was there an error here?
LOL cornered on all 4 sides!!
Yup, it was an error, thanks for your help.
macktheknife123 says:
The group gathering together reminds me the scene in the manga and anime Tsubasa where the three heroes meet the first time with Dimensional Witch. She said that they brought together by fate sounds like the same with this one. Thanks for the chapter.
sfcipher says:
thediabolicalgenius says:
Thanks for the chapter. Things are finally getting interesting.
With all of them showing up as soon as the last of the spirits leave as he’s making their graves, it’s hard not to see some force at work, bringing them together deliberately.
I hope this work actually reveals what going on with that, rather than just leaving it as some obscure fate at work.
gmartinezsite says:
sybziro101 says:
Haano? says:
Wait a sec here, so when everyone was asking each other on which side did they came they didn’t even notice that Merea was the only one that didn’t come from any direction?
qinqingchen says:
I think it because he is the 1st there and he is clearly at there for a reason (not chased) like them. I mean if a person chased they will go from the place they are chased, right? And since he is calmly making grave i think some of their conclusion is that he is not chased? (So the direction he come also useless)
ty 4 the chap
Namorax says:
Are you looking for an Editor? I rather like the series and would like to help a bit.
Reading the chapters I get the feeling the english narration could flow a bit better, so I thought I could ask. If you want references, I helped with Overlord and Skeleton Knight, if those names mean something to you…
Is this still dead?
darkloki2 says:
Thanks for the chapter, the army are dead now. They attacked where Merea’s important memories was created
Apologies and return(maybe)
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November at Chichester Hall Care and Residential Home in Cumbria
Bonfire Night at Chichester Hall
November at Chichester Hall Care and Residential Home in Cumbria started dull and wet, but it went with a ‘BANG’ on the 5TH, when we had a controlled bonfire and fireworks display! This was was amazing, and enjoyed by all. Hot Dogs, Burgers, Soup and Carlins (black Peas) were enjoyed during and after the event. Many thanks to Darryl and Friends for providing the fireworks, food and organising and controlling the event. We very much appreciate you giving your time and effort. Churchlakecare.com/chichester_hall/
Remembrance Sunday Chichester Hall Care and Residential Home in Cumbria
From the ooh’s and aah’s of the fireworks, we went into a quiet reflective mood with Remembrance week-end. It was not possible to attend the organised service in Silloth as we have in years past, due to Covid-19. So, we had our own little act of Remembrance, under the cherry tree on the front lawn, the weather was against us unfortunately. As residents watched from the windows, a cross of poppies and other smaller crosses were laid, in respect of the fallen. We would like to thank Shona at the local RAFA Club for ensuring we had poppies for the residents
Birthday Tea at Chichester Hall
On the 10th November all enjoyed a birthday tea for Iris. This lovely lady was quite overwhelmed during a robust rendition of ‘Happy Birthday’. As requested, her daughter was sent photographs of the occasion, and was delighted to receive them. I can envisage some great parties once this dreadful pandemic is over, but we must be patient. We have been Covid free throughout and desperately hope to keep it so. We will do everything possible to keep our lovely residents and staff safe, all of whom have continued to provide Negative test results.
Visiting at Chichester Hall
Visiting once again has had to be suspended during the last lockdown. Cumbria is in tier 2. We are at the moment re-organising safe visiting areas, and we await guidance on ‘Rapid Testing’ from the Authorities. Residents and family members have had to be separated for so long now. New rapid testing is a glimmer of hope for them to be reunited before the holiday season. Family members remain very supportive of the home and continue to keep in touch with their loved ones by Zoom, Whatsapp, telephone and by writing letters and cards
Christmas begins at Chichester Hall Care and Residential Home in Cumbria
Talking of the Christmas season, we have had to curtail our decorations this year, but we do have our usual tree in the lounge and dining room. We have taken delivery of a 12 ft tree for outdoors. Many many thanks to Jeff and Becky for delivering it to us, really a kind gesture, and to all at ‘Stribers Farm in Haverthwaite for choosing our tree. It certainly is a beautiful specimen it’s the ‘Best one Yet ’all Brian has to do is decorate it !! He has made a good job of re-decorating the dining room, it looks fresh and clean with new colourways, staff were very much involved in choosing the decoration
Sam, our artist, has done a great job with the windows, looking very festive!! Everyone loves them, big Thanks to Sam.
New colleague at Chichester Hall Care and Residential Home in Cumbria
We welcomed a new member of staff Michelle, we hope she enjoys working with the team at Chichester Hall. Michelle has previous experience in care, and is proving a very popular member of the team. We are also in the process of acquiring two cooks for the home, both are very excited about joining our team. We look forward to many more scrumptious dishes. Chichester hall welcomes them both.
Chichester Hall also welcomed a visit from Alan Jebson CEO and Neil Reid, Chief Operations Officer of Churchlake Care. Staff and residents we delighted to put faces to names at last. It has been very difficult for them to visit due to Covid-19 restrictions. Thank you for coming, it was much appreciated.
It has been an eventful year, on so many levels, but we have worked together as a team to ensure everyone keeps safe. We live in a stunning location, surrounded by special people, who make our lives worthwhile on a daily basis. Someone recently said, ‘You are truly Blessed’. We fully agree!
As we make our way into December we would like, to thank the many friends of Chichester Hall for all the kindnesses shown during the past long months of the pandemic. We wish you all a ‘Peaceful and Safe and Happy Christmas’ from all Residents and Staff at Chichester Hall.
Chichester Hall are continuing to grow our Facebook page please like the page and share updates as much as you can. We would really appreciate it. www.facebook.com/chichesterhallcarehome
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October news at Chichester Hall Care and Residential Home
Welcome to the September News from Chichester Hall
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Case Studies 3 min read
How Neptune Software engages their customers with community-driven support
Customer support has undergone some dramatic changes in recent years. Find out how Neptune Software creates customer advocates with their community.
Nicolas Deskos Marketing Lead at Crowded
Customer support has undergone some dramatic changes in recent years. Gone are the days where you would phone a call center during business hours to find a solution to your problem— and probably wait on hold for an hour. Today's consumers expect on-demand customer support, on their terms.
While this might be particularly true for B2C companies, B2B software companies are increasingly expected to deliver timely and empathetic support to their clients.
But that's easier said than done. According to Zendesk's Customer Service Benchmark study, software companies spend over 53,000 hours a year on support requests on average. And not all organizations have an army of support agents at their disposal.
That's why companies, like Neptune Software, are beginning to shift their main support channel from an online helpdesk to a community platform to provide a open source knowledge network for their customers—reducing time spent on support requests, and boosting customer satisfaction and retention.
Check out the Neptune Software community.
Neptune Software is a development platform for creating enterprise apps with over 2,000,00 licensed users. Before moving to Crowded's community platform, Neptune faced an overwhelming amount of support requests via their helpdesk which was incredibly time consuming and costly. In fact, most of the time, their clients were simply asking the same support questions over and over again.
While a centralized knowledge base was one solution, Neptune Software also wanted to put the smart people who use their platform every day in the spotlight, and empower them to help other users. Their goal was to create customer advocates who would help Neptune users with product advice and technical guides.
Finally, Neptune Software wanted to work more closely with their network of 85 global partners, and provide a platform for their partners to share their insights and get more exposure.
Neptune Software decided to launch an open community platform for developers working with the company's software. From the CTO to development support reps, the whole organization is extremely active in the community, and are always on hand to troubleshoot support requests and share best practices with the community.
The company started off by compiling helpful documentation to highlight all the features and functionalities of the platform, but quickly moved towards community-driven support—even allowing Neptune users to write and publish technical implementation articles to provide support for other customers.
The Neptune Software community homepage.
As Neptune Software quickly discovered, you can drive a lot of initial traction to your community by creating valuable and relevant content. Now their community platform is an engaged support hub for their customers. Since launching, there have been over 1100 support questions answered in the community forum by both Neptune employees and product users—saving the Neptune Software support and product teams valuable time.
Neptune community members responding to support questions.
No one knows the Neptune's products more than their customers who use it the most. That's why their community members continue to offer peer-to-peer support, become advocates for products, and provide valuable expertise on a daily basis.
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D.3.03. Health Record Structure: Software Prototype v1
CrowdHEALTH_D3.3 Health Record Structure Software prototype v1.1.pdf
Pending of final acceptance by the European Commission
This document describes the first implementation of the Holistic Health Record (HHR) Model and related specifications. The implementation consists of two components: a Java library and a machine-interpretable mapping from the HHR model to the FHIR1 model.
The Java library, called HHR Manager, allows to instantiate and modify in-memory Java objects that are compliant to the HHR conceptual model (see deliverable D3.1). In order to produce it, the HHR model has been first formalized using a language called "HHR mapping language". This is an XML language, specifically designed for the HHR model, that allows to specify in a machine-interpretable way the structure of HHR types and map them to the structure of corresponding FHIR resources. The HHR mapping language is basically a declarative language for defining and mapping document oriented (i.e. tree-like) data structures and exploits the FHIRPath language2 to navigate such structures. The HHR mapping language can be considered an alternative to the FHIR mapping language3, that is currently being specified as part of the FHIR standard. The FHIR mapping language is an imperative language and arguably more powerful than the "HHR mapping language", but often produces complex descriptions. Instead the "HHR mapping language" is intended to be more lightweight.
The machine-interpretable mapping document, expressed with the "HHR mapping language", represents a formalization of the HHR model that deliverable D3.1 presents in an informal way.
The code of the HHR Manager has been partially produced in an automatic way, by exploiting the formal specification of the HHR model, and the rest has been produce in a manual way. The same formal specification will be used at runtime by the "DataConverter" component to convert HHR objects to FHIR resources (see deliverable D3.9).
In summary, the following process has been followed: (1) the "HHR mapping language" has been specified; (2) the formal specification of the HHR model has been authored using this language; (3) the HHR Manager has been implemented; (4) the formal specification has been completed by adding the mapping to FHIR.
The rest of this document is organized in two chapters. The first chapter describes the HHR Manager and the HHR mapping language. The second chapter describes how to download and use the HHR Manager and the machine-interpretable mapping to FHIR.
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Obama Attacks Trump’s Presidency
Image credit: Politico
In a rare public address, Obama says Trump poses such a threat to America that it forced him to speak out.
The night before the 2016 election, Barack Obama said Donald Trump was “uniquely unqualified” on the economy, “temperamentally unfit” on foreign policy, couldn’t be trusted with the nuclear codes and had “utter contempt for the values that make this nation great.”
Friday, the former president took the stage here in a University of Illinois auditorium and said it had been all that and worse.
For all the unprecedented moments Trump’s presidency has brought, Obama’s speech, which kicked off his midterm campaigning, marked a new one: a former president going on the attack directly against his successor—and arguing directly that the man in the Oval Office isn’t just a political opponent, but a threat to the core of America itself.
“I’m here today because this is one of those pivotal moments when every one of us as citizens of the United States need to determine just who we are, what it is that we stand for,” Obama said. “As a fellow citizen, not as an ex-president, I’m here to deliver a simple message, which is that you need to vote, because our democracy depends on it.”
Laying out a brief history of America — starting with George Washington’s decision to step out of public life after leaving the presidency — Obama framed the 2018 elections as more significant than ever before.
And for the first time since leaving office, he said Trump’s name. Obama unfurled a paragraph-by-paragraph condemnation of Trump, his presidency and what he has uncorked in American politics.
“It did not start with Donald Trump. He is a symptom, not the cause,” Obama said to applause. “He’s just capitalizing on resentments that politicians have been fanning for years.”
It’s not just about Trump, Obama said. It’s about Republicans “who know better in Congress … bending over backwards to shield” Trump. They’re hypocrites, he said, and they’re just as dangerous to America. At times mocking them and at times laying into them, Obama said they’ve abandoned all that they’re supposed to stand for as Republicans, and as citizens of this country.
“None of this is conservative. I don’t mean to pretend I’m channelling Lincoln now, but that’s not what he had in mind, I don’t think when he formed the Republican Party. It sure isn’t normal. It’s radical. It’s a vision that says our protection of our power is all that matters,” Obama said.
He added later, “Over the past two decades … the politics of division and resentment and paranoia has unfortunately found a home in the Republican Party.”
Nor, Obama said, should anyone feel good about the idea, expressed in the anonymous New York Times op-ed earlier this week, that there are adults in the room managing Trump.
“That is not a check. That’s not how our democracy’s supposed to work. These people aren’t elected,” he said. “They’re not doing us a service by actively promoting 90 percent of the crazy stuff that’s coming out of this White House, and saying, ‘Don’t worry, we’re preventing the other 10 percent.’”
Speaking shortly afterward at a campaign rally in North Dakota, Trump poked fun at Obama’s address without responding to its substance.
“I watched it but I fell asleep,” Trump said. “I’ve found he’s very good for sleeping.”
There was nothing subtle about the speech. He slammed Trump’s policies on everything from the environment to veterans affairs to the negligent response to hurricane recovery in Puerto Rico, calling them a mismanagement of government, but also morally wrong.
“Even if you don’t agree with me or Democrats on policy, even if you agree with more libertarian economic views, even if you are an evangelical and the position on social issues is a bridge too far,” Obama said. “I’m here to tell you that you should still be concerned and should still want to see a restoration of honesty and decency and lawfulness in our government. It should not be Democratic or Republican. It should not be partisan to say that we do not pressure the attorney general or the FBI to use the justice system as as a cudgel to punish our political opponents.”
Everyone in the country, he went on, should be able to agree that journalists aren’t the enemy of the people, that people shouldn’t be persecuted because of what they look like, that everyone should be able to stand up to Nazi sympathizers.
“We are Americans,” Obama said.
As Obama was speaking, Trump was flying to North Dakota on Air Force One, telling reporters that he wants Attorney General Jeff Sessions to investigate who the author of the Times op-ed is.
This is all “exploitation” Obama said, saying that with “electronic versions of bread and circuses … demagogues promise simple fixes to complicated problems. They’ll promise to fight for the little guy .. They’ll promise to clean up corruption even as they plunder away.
They’ll appeal to racial nationalism that’s barely veiled, if veiled at all.”
“Sound familiar?” he said.
Obama has carefully avoided exactly these kind of comments in public for the past year-and-a-half. He has felt bound by a sense of deference that former presidents typically show to their successors, but also reminding allies that Trump and Republicans have always benefited from having him as a foil.
To wit, the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, Rep. Steve Stivers said at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast in Washington on Friday: “For three cycles, President Obama fired up Republicans like nobody, and I’m happy it he wants to do it again.”
Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, a friend of Obama who said he’s spoken with him about when and how to criticize Trump, said Obama “is trying to be very careful. Former presidents have a limited function, and I think he wants to invest his time and name wisely.”
But in private, Obama has been paying close attention to Trump’s actions in office. While cautious about whom he shared his opinions with, Obama has made clear he’s very worried.
Six weeks out from Election Day, Obama decided that the time had come to let loose to make sure that Democrats actually turn out to vote in ways that they traditionally haven’t in midterm elections. He knew there was probably only one moment for him to unleash on Trump with maximum impact, and he wanted the timing to be right.
The location was chosen deliberately. Beyond being back home in Illinois, the speech was in a part of the state, two-and-a-half hours south of Chicago, that was representative of where Democrats failed in 2016. In the immediate aftermath of the election, Obama reminded people repeatedly that in his 2004 Senate run he’d competed in parts of the state outside of cities, suburbs and traditional Democratic centers. Obama was making a very deliberate point when he noted, at the beginning of his speech, that he had pointed out to staff what corn and bean fields look like as their plane landed that morning.
While Obama said his argument went beyond policy, he pointed to a number of issues that he thinks voters need to stand up for this year: criminal justice reform for African-Americans, booting out politicians who “see your lives as more important than a campaign check from the NRA,” standing up for the #MeToo movement, and stopping white supremacists from feeling emboldened.
The country needs to rejoin the world by reversing Trump’s decision on the Paris climate accords, Obama said. He dismissed Republican claims that their tax bill revitalized the economy.
“When you hear about this economic miracle going on … suddenly Republicans are saying, ‘It’s a miracle!’ I have to remind them that those job numbers are the same as they were in 2015, 2016.”
But in a measure of the attention Obama’s speech immediately drew and the way he made the case against Trump, the Republican National Committee quickly emailed reporters who covered the speech. Its response: Obama created the resentment they led to Trump. “In 2016, voters rejected President Obama’s policies and his dismissiveness towards half the country. Doubling down on that strategy won’t work in 2018 either,” RNC spokesman Michael Ahrens said in a statement.
Former Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar, a Republican who made clear in 2016 that he wouldn’t support Trump and stresses the importance of moderates, sat in the front row for the speech, echoing many of Obama’s thoughts.
“There is more shielding going on by Republicans than there should be,” Edgar said. “I’ve been disappointed in the Republican leadership that they have not chastised the president.”
Next up for Obama is a Saturday rally in Irvine, California for seven Democrats looking to take Republican-held House seats. On Thursday, he’ll be in Cleveland campaigning for Democrats running for governor, Senate and other offices. He’s expected to do more campaign events throughout the fall.
For all the Democrats who’ve been wondering when Obama would speak up more, the former president provided an answer.
“People ask me what are you going to do for the election. The question is, ‘What are you going to do?’” he said. “I believe in you. I believe you will help lead us in the right direction. And I will be there with you every step of the way.”
source: politico.com
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Alice Caruso says:
He did enough damage to America. It’s time for him to let it go.
Bob Hunt says:
For an ex President Obama is about as close to nothing as I’ve ever seen, staying in Washington and running his mouth daily about President Trump!
James Herman says:
OBAMA is the threat to America!!!
Nothing Forces this America Hating AHole to just speak out! He can’t accept the fact that he is no longer relevant and needs to STFU and go away. The only thing that makes him come out from under his rock is “The Almighty Dollar” and nothing else. The Libturd Left has made this Monkey Rich and he can’t stand the fact that Our Commander in Chief (President Trump) has truly MADE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
Go Away you worthless POS!
Barack Obama, of ALL people, has absolutely no place to “trash” President Trump after the unspeakable harm he has caused this great nation! Obama-not worthy to be referred to as president-through his nefarious and egregious actions has almost irreparably brought this country to its ruin. I cannot think of a single positive thing he accomplished in eight years of economic havoc-wreaking, moral eroding, political debasing, ambassador killing, Clinton kowtowing, taxpayer spending, etc. etc. etc. Obama was so bad that he made Jimmy Carter look good!
Alecia Sanchez says:
Criminal, traitorous ex-Presidents should be behind bars, not running around stumping for these crimes to continue. OBAMA did so much incredible, horrible damage – nationally and internationally – to this country that we may NEVER get to the bottom of it all. Every day produces another new “shudder” about the eight years of his Presidency, and his insidious, anti-American “plots” have rocked our constitutional framework and “tainted” the fabric of our institutions and America’s reputation throughout the world. As someone who’s been using the word T-R-E-A-S-O-N about Barack Obama for the last 10 years, I continue to ask: “What in HELL has taken America so long to DO something about him?” Richard M. Nixon approved just one (1) physical break-in of Democratic Hdqtrs, and he was CRUCIFIED. Compare that to Obama – He and his criminalized Justice Department and FBI, who together performed literally THOUSANDS of illegal and treasonous acts against the citizens of this country (mostly in secret) – and WHAT?–we just do NOTHING?? Are we all just supposed to forget about Obama’s horrendous crimes and conspiracies, and say NOTHING while he comes out from under his rock once more to spread his poison rhetoric, supporting chosen others whose intentions are both to cover up his crimes and further perpetrate his America-hating, Socialist agenda? Why should we continue to reward Obama with our tax dollars, paying his pension, funding his lavish living quarters, allowing him continued Secret Service protection and tolerating – and allowing him – unlimited air time to take swipes at our incredible new President who has saved America’s economy and rebuilt its reputation? I’ve gotta ask – What the Hell is WRONG with us anyway? — and I’m speaking mainly to Conservatives now. Obama was, is and will always BE a “traitor” to this country in every sense of the word. Where in HELL was our Justice System for eight years? Oh, right, they and the Left coddled Obama and snuggled up to this half-black, America-hating, Muslim-lover who ran all over the globe apologizing for America, lying to us and weaponizing our FBI and Justice Departments, while Liberals intellectually perpetuated their own superior “innocence” about the last 200 years of history, intimating to us “Deplorables” that THEY alone were the designated “Elite”. Hell, America didn’t even properly VET Obama because, as both parties put it, Obama at least “cleaned up well…that is, for a Black”. So voters just “looked the other way” and allowed Obama to screw this country for eight long years — and screw America he certainly did. And NOW – here he comes again, wanting MORE air time to spread his poison. Well, I say he’s already HAD his AIR TIME – and we are sorely aware of what he did with it. Maybe sooner than later, we may all find out the full extent of his purposeful destruction, and we may finally find our voices. Finally, as to Obama’s belief that he is some kind of expert speech-maker, I sure got an unexpected “YUK” yesterday from one of POTUS’s tweets. It respectfully admitted: “Yes, I “tuned in” to Obama’s speech. I fell asleep. His speeches are very good for sleeping” Funny, I thought, that’s exactly the way I feel — that the main problem with Obama’s speeches are not that they are BORING but the fact that he neve.r SAYS ANYTHING! If Obama had 24 non-stop hours to speak, it would be like being trapped in a damp, clammy classroom in the heat of summer – with no air conditioning – listening to the teacher drone on, and on, and ON about the principles of……NOTHING! Making speeches is only ONE of his many problems. yawn (*sic)
With due respect, he is President Trump. Just like you were President Obama.
Melvin Creamer says:
Donald Trump never show his income tax report. What a shame on the Republic party. We people have rights to know what’s going on since we pay taxes and we vote you. So i don’t trust the Republic party because of too many hide the agenda. We need more Democrat party.
Merridee says:
Obama is not a represented of our Country as he is not in power, he should have no say what soever, he isn’t in power and you should not even listen to him, he is angry because he is no longer in power. Obama is also a big liar and is trying to take credit for everything President Trump has done. In anything Obama hurt our country for 8 yrs, committed treason against our country, let in terrorist, gave terrorist pallets of our hard ear tax money, armed the terrorist, allowed prisoner out of jail in Cuba and allowed them to immigrant to our nation; allowed illegals into our country gave them citizenship so that democrats would get votes, had them commit voters fraud (which democrats have done for years to stay in power) he helped cover up many of the democrats crimes, he was not an American citizen and never should have been president. HE lied about his birth place, received free education here in America, took his board exams to be an attorney CHEATED on them therefore was not given degree for practicing law. He is evil and lives on the dark side, and drags innocent people to follow him because they don’t know any better and want to believe his deceptive words. He wants control of America, he wants to make America a socialist/communist country, he is part of the deep state (if not one of top leaders) Vote REPUBLICANS and get the criminal democrats out of office. democrats are against the people L(look up the word) and Republicans are for the people (look up meaning of word) Are you for AMERICA or against? If your against they why do you till live here? President Trump has work hard to keep his promises to the America people even thou the democrats have put tons of stumbling blocks before him. Who was behind the Russian collusion HILLARY a democrat, who is investigating our president ALL DEMOCRATS and if you check Muellers skeletons in his closet they out way your own I am sure. Democrats trying to prevent Kavanagh from supreme court another honest man with great credentials and they are trying to delay it, until after November elections as democrats feel they will regain the power because of obamas help. DON;T LET THIS HAPPEN, REPUBLICANS need to help America get healthy again following the straight and narrow path of JUSTICE not two sets of rules one for criminal democrats and one for honest Republicans. No democrat has been held accountable for their crimes, Hillary, soros, walters, lynch, Obama, bush, bill Clinton We need to UNIT together, Pray together, get along, unit together, respect one another, do away with all anti this and that groups that all more crimes to be committed such as abortion- this is a group that murders innocent the unborn child, one of God’s creations, immunity to criminals, immunity to ILLEGALS who broke our laws. this is WRONG, if you or I broke the law wed be in jail, and theses criminals get a get out of jail free pass this is not right. SOROS paying people to protest the courts where Kavanaugh hearings are being held, people were caught receiving and giving out money to create chaos in the court, SAD they have to be so evil to delay work to move forward. IT IS TIME TO STAND UP FOR AMERICA TAKE HER BACK FROM CRIMINALS, LIARS, THIEVES, VOTE REPUBLICIAN and report any voters fraud you see going on. If democrats are caught doing this that person should be arrest and the person on the democrat ballot should not be allowed to take any position they are running for and remove from ballot immediately. democrats are evil, and cheaters
OMG the man is delusional. Pres. Trump has accomplished more for this country and the world in less than 2 years than this ex-president did in 8. Talk about fake news. The sad thing is people still fall for his smooth talk. Go home Obama. You just want to sell us off to your global interests. Not interested!
Jim Grimm says:
Obama has done all he could to destroy our nation while he was in office. He now needs to shut his mouth, and crawl back under his rock, before he does any more damage!
Criminal, traitorous ex-Presidents should be behind bars, not running around stumping for these crimes to continue. OBAMA did so much incredible, horrible damage – nationally and internationally – to this country that we may NEVER get to the bottom of it all. Every day produces another new “shudder” about the eight years of his Presidency, and his insidious, anti-American “plots” have rocked our constitutional framework and “tainted” the fabric of our institutions and America’s reputation throughout the world. As someone who’s been using the word T-R-E-A-S-O-N about Barack Obama for the last 10 years, I continue to ask: “What in HELL has taken America so long to DO something about him?” Richard M. Nixon approved just one (1) physical break-in of Democratic Hdqtrs, and he was CRUCIFIED. Compare that to Obama – He and his criminalized Justice Department and FBI, who together performed literally THOUSANDS of illegal and treasonous acts against the citizens of this country (mostly in secret) – and WHAT?–we just do NOTHING?? Are we all just supposed to forget about Obama’s horrendous crimes and conspiracies, and say NOTHING while he comes out from under his rock once more to spread his poison rhetoric, supporting chosen others whose intentions are both to cover up his crimes and further perpetrate his America-hating, Socialist agenda? Why should we continue to reward Obama with our tax dollars, paying his pension, funding his lavish living quarters, allowing him continued Secret Service protection and tolerating – and allowing him – unlimited air time to take swipes at our incredible new President who has saved America’s economy and rebuilt its reputation? I’ve gotta ask – What the Hell is WRONG with us anyway? — and I’m speaking mainly to Conservatives now. Obama was, is and will always BE a “traitor” to this country in every sense of the word. Where in HELL was our Justice System for eight years? Oh, right, I remember. Justice and the Left were busy coddling and snuggling up to this half-black, America-hating, Muslim-lover who ran all over the globe apologizing for America, lying to us and weaponizing our FBI and Justice Departments, while Liberals intellectually perpetuated their own superior “innocence” about the last 200 years of history, intimating to us “Deplorables” that THEY alone were the designated “Elite”. Hell, America didn’t even properly VET Obama because, as both parties put it, Obama at least “cleaned up well…that is, for a Black”. So voters just “looked the other way” and allowed Obama to screw this country for eight long years — and screw America he certainly did. And NOW – here he comes again, wanting MORE air time to spread his poison. Well, I say he’s already HAD his AIR TIME – and we are sorely aware of what he did with it. Maybe sooner than later, we may all find out the full extent of his purposeful destruction, and we may finally find our voices. YESTERDAY, I got a real “YUK” today from one of POTUS’s tweets. It respectfully read: “Yes, I “tuned in” to Obama’s speech. I fell asleep.” Funny, I thought, that’s exactly the way I feel — the main problem with Obama’s speeches are not only that they’re BORING but that he never SAYS ANYTHING! If Obama had 24 non-stop hours to speak, it would be like being trapped in a damp, clammy classroom in the heat of summer – with no air conditioning – listening to the teacher drone on, and on, and ON about the principles of……NOTHING! Making speeches is only ONE of his many problems. yawn (*sic)
Criminal, traitorous ex-Presidents should be behind bars, not running around stumping for these crimes to continue. OBAMA did so much incredible, horrible damage – nationally and internationally – to this country that we may NEVER get to the bottom of it all. Every day produces another new “shudder” about the eight years of his Presidency, and his insidious, anti-American “plots” have rocked our constitutional framework and “tainted” the fabric of our institutions and America’s reputation throughout the world. As someone who’s been using the word T-R-E-A-S-O-N about Barack Obama for the last 10 years, I continue to ask: “What in HELL has taken America so long to DO something about him?” Richard M. Nixon approved just one (1) physical break-in of Democratic Hdqtrs, and he was CRUCIFIED. Compare that to Obama – He and his criminalized Justice Department and FBI, who together performed literally THOUSANDS of illegal and treasonous acts against the citizens of this country (mostly in secret) – and WHAT?–we just do NOTHING?? Are we all just supposed to forget about Obama’s horrendous crimes and conspiracies, and say NOTHING while he comes out from under his rock once more to spread his poison rhetoric, supporting chosen others whose intentions are both to cover up his crimes and further perpetrate his America-hating, Socialist agenda? Why should we continue to reward Obama with our tax dollars, paying his pension, funding his lavish living quarters, allowing him continued Secret Service protection and tolerating – and allowing him – unlimited air time to take swipes at our incredible new President who has saved America’s economy and rebuilt its reputation? I’ve gotta ask – What the Hell is WRONG with us anyway? — and I’m speaking mainly to Conservatives now. Obama was, is and will always BE a “traitor” to this country in every sense of the word. Where in HELL was our Justice System for eight years? Oh, right, I remember. Justice and the Left were busy coddling and snuggling up to this half-black, America-hating, Muslim-lover who ran all over the globe apologizing for America, lying to us and weaponizing our FBI and Justice Departments, while Liberals intellectually perpetuated their own superior “innocence” about the last 200 years of history, intimating to us “Deplorables” that THEY alone were the designated “Elite”. Hell, America didn’t even properly VET Obama because, as both parties put it, Obama at least “cleaned up well…that is, for a Black”. So voters just “looked the other way” and allowed Obama to screw this country for eight long years — and screw America he certainly did. And NOW – here he comes again, wanting MORE air time to spread his poison. Well, I say he’s already HAD his AIR TIME – and we are sorely aware of what he did with it. Maybe sooner than later, we may all find out the full extent of his purposeful destruction, and we may finally find our voices.
Jewel Stark says:
We’ve heard enough from him in the last 8 years while he was president. Now sit down and SHUT UP!!!!!!
Criminal, traitorous ex-Presidents should be behind bars, not running around stumping for these crimes to continue. OBAMA did so much incredible, horrible damage – nationally and internationally – to this country that we may NEVER get to the bottom of it all. Every day produces another new “shudder” about the eight years of his Presidency, and his insidious, anti-American “plots” have rocked our constitutional framework and “tainted” the fabric of our institutions and America’s reputation throughout the world. As someone who’s been using the word T-R-E-A-S-O-N about Barack Obama for the last 10 years, I continue to ask: “What in HELL has taken America so long to DO something about him?” He and his criminalized Justice Department and FBI, who together performed literally THOUSANDS of illegal and treasonous acts against the citizens of this country (mostly in secret). Now, he comes out from under his rock to spread his poison rhetoric. Why should we continue to reward Obama with our tax dollars, paying his pension, funding his lavish living quarters, allowing him continued Secret Service protection and tolerating – and allowing him – unlimited air time to take swipes at our incredible new President who has saved America’s economy and rebuilt its reputation? Where in HELL was our Justice System for eight years? Oh, right, I remember. they were busy coddling and snuggling up to this half-black, America-hating, Muslim-lover who ran all over the globe apologizing for America, lying to us and weaponizing our FBI and Justice Departments, while Liberals intellectually perpetuated their own superior “innocence” about the last 200 years of history, intimating to us “Deplorables” that THEY alone were the designated “Elite”. America allowed Obama to screw this country for eight long years — and screw America he certainly did. NOW – here he comes again, wanting MORE air time to spread his poison. Well, I say he’s already HAD his AIR TIME – and we are sorely aware of what he did with it. Maybe sooner than later, we may all find out the full extent of his purposeful destruction, and we may finally find our voices.
Criminal, traitorous ex-Presidents should be behind bars, not running around stumping for these crimes to continue.
What about that Woman he had KILL
For bringing his baby to him OBAMA
Patricia S Hiatt says:
obama, you were a awful president that we had to put up with for 8 yrs. so please, shut your pie hole an leave us alone!!! An maybe President Trump with lots of help from his people and us can fix the mess you made!!
Obama is an idiot and was the beginning of the demise of the America that our fathers and grandfathers fought for. No past President has criticized the current and past President like this Muslim. Obama wants to be the terrorist leader of this country, actually he did a lot of the things that he is accusing President Trump of doing. Obama and his ugly cohort Hillary should both be charged with treason, theft, and other things that they did while in office. I am really sick of Jeff Session’s inability to do his job or his refusal to do his job. And that clown Mueller needs to end the charade that is costing taxpayers too much. If the left would stop lying and creating riots maybe we could appreciate what the President has done.
What else would you expect from that Narcissistic ASSHOLE FAILURE?? And, a crying shame that the stupidest people of this country voted him in TWICE!!!! This guy should have rotted off a rope a long time ago.
Buck Ofama !
Michael Galvis says:
Buck Ofama
Jerry Muccianti says:
Our country was weakened for 8 years under the Obama leadership. President Trump has been a God send. Mr. Trump is undoing everything Obama started to destroy in our great country. He is trying to brainwash our young people into thinking Trump is a disaster. Obama should go away, back where he was born and try to help his 3rd world nation improve. Obama tried to make us a socialist country, a proven disaster for any country. Go away Obama leave our democracy alone. President Trump loves our country, Obama, you loved yourself.
Lois Jones says:
Obama and the liberals are sore losers,.They know they are being judged by the general public for their trying to destroy our democracy! and they think they can cover up on all their bad judgements by trying to turn the table on the Conceratives! I (We) voted for Trump because Obama and his radicals were about to let the foreign enemies take over our precious America. I believe he was giving our country to the Muslems, who want to destroy Christians in order to force their religion on the whole world. Wake up America! Obama is a deceiver and liar! God Bless our America!!
Maryrose Fazio says:
Obama should understand he is not president and his comments aren’t needed.
To You are being unfair to not publish my point of view!
Randy Berendt says:
Mr. Squeaky Clean, no scandal, Obama is a dirt bag. He proved it while president and is affirming with these hate speeches against Mr. Trump. Talk about a desperate man trying to retain/regain power…
Steve Gobble says:
This punk had his time in office and he screwed it up and now he’s given advice to Trump? What an ego this POS has. When you give a speech and mention yourself 104 times in 60 minutes, what is this speech really about? Obama will be indicted on Treason charge’s so this LOSER will soon be making speeches in a court room.
I and we, don’t give a “ flip” what that “ black” bastard says, he’s a “ has been” anyway, , past presidents usually keeps their mouths shut after their “ rein” ends, but “ no” not this a*****, he keeps flappy his lips,constantly, he apparently can’t help himself, the black , BUFFONE!! I absolutely detest this black “ thing”!!!!!!!!
petru says:
1- according whith his grandma, he was born outside of u.s.a.
2-hw was a ILLEGAL pres.
3- he “”DONATE”” 30 BIL. to muslim cause =IRAN.
4- HE SUPPRES FREEDOM OF SPEACH( DE SOUZA CASE SEND TO PRISON FOR CRITICIZE OBAMA)
5- HE AND H. CLINTON SOLD 20% OF U.S URANIUM TO OUR “”FREND COUNTRY=RUSSIA”” THIS IS BLATANT TREASON
Richard Dupree says:
Obama keeps spewing his rhetorical BS, same as he has for eight years. He points out what he thinks Trump is doing wrong but never says why he didn’t do that while in office. He is really bringing out the GOP voters , the DEMS are making a big mistake if they ride his horse
James Workman says:
Does he actually expect anyone but his cult followers to believe all that nonsense?
did you learn weel the lesson at your time at Lomonosov “”academi””from moskva about CENZURA, BUT YOU MUST TO KNOW: THE TRUTH CAN NOT BE SUPPRES FOR A LONG TIME.
Does he actually expect anyone but his cult followers to believe that nosnsece?
Samuel Edens says:
Highly likely Obama is going to be the first president, to go to prison!
when will this un american lying muslim bast— dry up and blow away. we had enough of his crap and treasonous acts for 8 years –enough is enough go back to kenya
Helen S,Higgason says:
That black bastard was and is THE treat to America, not our present President Trump, he fixing or trying to fix, ALL the ignorant mistakes that THING did when he was in office, BUT it’s really to do, folks, HE made America more vulnerable than ever, not past President has ever been so BRAZEN as this A*****, I’ve detested him when we first set eyes on, the lousy fool!
The more that comes out about the corruption of obammer’s rule in office , the less and less you’re gonna see this moron. Listen when he criticizes the President. What he accuses Trump of ,you can rest assured that he is guilty of by 10 times . And he has the gall to stand up there and take credit for this booming economy. BUT he stood up during the presidential campaign and said all of what Trump was promising has no chance of coming to fruition. “What’s he gonna do, wave a magic wand?” That’s what obammer said. Pull it up on u-tube. More than that ,he has not said even ONE thing he has ever done to make our economy grow. Not one thing. If any of ya’ll know of something, please let me know.
Helen S. Higgason says:
Only the lowest of the low, would make hateful remarks about a sitting President , like this hateful obama is doing , this is absolutely outrageous, folks, this black thing should be ashamed of himself, BUT u know he want ever be ashamed, he’s not got enough intelligence to be ashamed, folks, lol!
russell remmert says:
how dare the worst illegal president we have ever had make such comments he should be in jail
Our great President Trump will look past this” low life”, and pay NO attention to him, what’s so ever, he’s not worth commenting on, all u great Conservatives, lol!
Helen S.Higgason says:
Would u expect anything different from a low-life like obama? I surely wouldn’t, this man will eventually will found out his real intentions, he rally wants to destroy the conservatives most of all, because they are telling the very TRUTH folks, and he very well knows it!
DAVID MARNEY says:
look at him pretend to address the balcony – both sides = he thinks we’ll believe he can draw a crowd like Trump…even the applause sounded faked. What a specimen of pure rotten chit this person is.
Daniel Rhoads says:
He must be getting worried that the Democrat Party is going to lose the Congress to the Republicans!! He has reason to be because he may have his ass thrown in jail if Republicans win with all of the laws he broke in the 2016 election!! Also , he has to worry that Hillary Clinton may just throw him under the bus and send him to jail if she is going to jail for her 115 felonies!! With a Democrat Congress all of that will be covered up!!! The whole criminal Democrat Party crime wave will be destroyed with a Republican C ingress, remember that American voters!!!
Mel Abramovitz says:
Did not read since from the worst Pres. we have ever had
CHUCK ROSS says:
OBAMA IS A BIG ASS JERK, A FOLLOWER OF SAUL ALINSKY RULES FOR RADICALS . A AMERICAN HATER, DID NOTHING FOR AMERICA ,DID EVERY THING FOR TERRORIST COUNTRIES IRAN, NORTH KOREA, SUDAN, SYRIA , CUBA, IRAQ, LIBYA. TOTAL LOSER, HILLARY TO WAS A SAUL ALINSKY FOLLOWER. THANK GOD TRUMP IS MY PRESIDENT.
Monte Stamper says:
Please put this guy behind prison bars where he belongs for his traitorous activities against our nation and our President.
Robert L. Kahlcke says:
obama the muslim swine, should be with his new daughters China recently cloned.
Obama wouldn’t know how to act like a president if it jumped up and bit him in his homosexual, Muslim a55, so who is he to criticize?
Wylena says:
Obama is the Leader of the push for Socialism. Socialism is where the Leaders own all of the products of the Country and then dole a small amount of the food and products out to the common people. The common people as a rule get the rejects of the Leaders. All of the common people have to work hard for what they get. Disabled individuals have to depend on the Family.
wilma johnston says:
Obama is disgusting. He tried to bankrupt & destroy this country with all his regulations & new laws. Another 4 years of Obama & we wouldn’t have a country. He had no experience in any thing but Community Organizing. We now have a president who cares about all the people & making this country profitable for all the people, not just the politicians who are supposed to care about all Americans. It appears the Dems. can’t except Trump won. They had a terrible candidate that most Americans were tired of the Clintons & all their Illegal money makers for the last 8 years. They should be in prison.
Dave Dudley says:
Crap sandwich
Mary Barkel 6 says:
I said from the beginning Trump would be this way. He is a complete narcissistic, hateful, vengeful person. Most of the Republicans are too and Democrats are almost as bad. All the little boys and girls hollering “I’ll get you” at each other. They ALL are playing with our lives and they don’t care, any of them, cause they are taken care of, health care, retirement, everything. I have no faith in any of them, Republicans, Democrats, independents.
JEANETTE FOSSUM says:
when is this idiot Muslim going away. he did Nothing for 8 years except to bring division in America.
Darlene Deschane says:
Obama’s ideas and ideology were soundly defeated in 2014 and his socialist agenda again
in 2016. America does NOT want tribes like the Mideast has or groups of people who are
“Special” like blacks, illegals, dreamers, women, LGBTQ persons, brown persons criminals
Etc. “United We Stand” or we,America, will fail. We cannot survive Obama’s and the lefts
divisive rhetoric to tear this country apart. Remember Obama promised to “change America
As we know it”. He ALMOST succeeded. Government taking control over EVERTHING, even a
private pond on your property!, increased taxes, more freebies for those who don’t want to work,
a 40 million Redon increase in food stamp that working American CiTIZENS has to pay for!,
and healthcare paid for all by taking 500 million or more from Medicare and taxing, taxing, taxing.
Hopefully most Americans can see who Obama really is and it isn’t the protector of American values. He is a wolf in sheep’s clothes. A liar and the one who created the divisions in this country. He purposely has tried to create chaos in such a degree as to convince the people in America that our constitution needs to be updated and rules revised so he can become president of America once again as her first ever dictator and leader of the NEW UNFREEZE WORLD. He must be exposed as the traitor and treasonist that he has become.
Look in the mirror Barry Soetoro, you wasn’t all that great.
President Oboma spent his entire time as president attacking the former president Bush. He spent the time saying over and over what a great job he( president Oboma was doing).
Anyone that has actually listen knows this is self promoting with little truth.
The one thing president Oboma did was divide the country. We also have more community organizers than needed.
Ronald E. Riggs says:
This ignorant foreigner is too dumb to realize America isn’t going to be fooled again by him, the Clinton clowns or any more of your demorats. You clowns almost divided and destroyed America with your 8 years of partying in our White House. Booker T. Washington long ago explained there is another class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs – partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. Guess you have guessed by now who he was talking about in this todays world.
Jennifer Himmelreich says:
I CAN NOT BELIEVE the crap coming out of Obama’s mouth. Like he has any room to talk. He is just jealous of POTUSs accomplishments in just 2 years. If i were him i would br looking for a good hideout, because he may be going to jail just like all his little buddies.
Also…look at the state of illinois. His state, he governed. 2016 had more murders alone than NYC and LA combined. Sounds like obama shouldnt be criticizing anyone on anything at this point. What a joke.
BUCK Ofama! Turd with legs!
Obama Go away!!! You were the worst thing for this Country. You and your apologetic tour making America look weak, your Presidency was what was weak.
This is from a former pres. who gave scads of our money to Iran? Our enemy Iran? He’s an enemy of ours also still performing his jihad against us. You should be locked up Obalmy.
Donl Longo says:
The ONLY threat to America, Was RACIST O’BAMA.
We got the TRASH out of the White House..It keeps trying to come back……Evil needs to be GONE!
Obama and his gang were and still are the Biggest threat to this country in history. They are out to destroy this country from within.
Vernon Taft says:
Here we go again, Wastful spending Obamie loved to spend money more than any Pres. ever did, I think the Asshole is a monkey, he is the worst pres. we have ever.
Jerry E. Beckley says:
Please note that the last Bush Whitehouse occupant did not, and has not ever diminished the Obama Whitehouse by rude comments! This is a sign of CLASS, something Obama does not, and will never have.
Obama believes he can run again for POTUS. I don’t think so, as he accomplished very little while in either of the two Federal Government offices he held. He has often tried to take credit for the Osama killing, while he was never in any mortal danger watching TV coverage of the action, the Seals were, and should get “ALL the Credit”! The minority peoples in the U.S.A. had their President, and gave him 8 very benign years. President Trump was elected by another minority in the U.S.A., those who truly believe, “America is, was, and always will be, the Greatest Nation on Earth”.
wyomingman says:
I find this repulsive. This sorry excuse for a past president can’t remember just how bad his presidency was. The division all began under his administration and continues today as a result. If anyone should be ashamed he should. He took this country back decades and has created one of the most divisive times in our history. He just needs to go away and shut the hell up. He has no honor or conscience.
Richard Cunningham says:
Obama attacks Trump presidency. Well how about that! Lets see now. Under President Trump we have more secure borders making the U.S. more of a sovereign nation. We have over 4% economic growth. We have more people working, and they’re getting higher wages and bonuses. We have fewer on welfare. We have a national defense that can once again stand up to enemies of our country. There’s much more and I could go on and on. Now for Obama. He tried to wear Air Force One out while going around the world apologizing for our greatness and kissing the asses of enemies of our country. Obama gave millions of dollars in unmarked currency to Iran, an enemy of the U.S. and is a sponsor of terrorism. He and his secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, sold 20% of our uranium stock to Russia. It would be nice to know where that uranium is now. In the hands of terrorists? In Iran? In North Korea? Then there’s the Benghazi Consulate. Who gave Hillary Clinton orders to releive two U.S. Army Generals and a Fifth Fleet Admiral literally seconds after they announced they have assets ready to relieve the consulate. When that fraud, Obama, was in power, employment was practically non existent. Welfare went through the roof. And there was that fiasco called Obamacare. And last but not least, Obama announced that the U.S. was a Muslim nation when we all know it’s Judeo Christian. Now, Obama obviously wants to violate the Constitution and be president for a third term. Perhaps even life. Do we need that? I think not.
Rose P says:
After Obama’s dismal 8 year failure, he claims President Trump isn’t doing a good job???? Employment is highest in American history, salaries way up, military greatly growing, veterans getting help & our borders protected. ALL the things Obama ignored & went on more vacations than ALL previous Presidents combined!! Go Trump “MAGA”
Emil Gamm says:
I think the past president should stay out of the political arena. He did his time and screwed things up. He tried to turn our country into a socialist country, almost succeeded. If Hillary would have been elected, we would be well on our way to socialism. President Trump put a stop to their progressive move toward socialism and this has everyone up set, democrats ,some republicans, and big business. These people are the ones that are blocking everything the president is trying to do to make our country great again. Deep state, I believe is the federal reserve,they control most of the money in the U.S.. When you control the wealth of a country, you have control over what’s happening. For a former president to chastise the sitting president, he should think all about what he did that was illegal. When we finally get the people mentioned above to work with the president, we will begin to correct the problems of the past and stop the move toward socialism.
country boy says:
i just wish that whiny POS just sit down and STFU. the pimp is crying because his best whore named hitlery rotten cunton didn’t win the election and he is losing his cut of the money she gets from her johns
Roy Bailey says:
I can’t believe the worst President in history is making bad remarks against Pres Trump, and I believe this is the first time a former President is bad mouthing his successor ( not surprising from this one (Obama) though)
Rodger Shull says:
he the communist fake 44th kenyan, has absolutely no right to bad mouth another PRESIDENTS , admin. being that his was a sell out to our enemies. this coming from the weakest wimpy-est PRESIDENT ever. He shows off his STUPIDITY , every time he opens his mouth. We know he is a STUPID ASS HAT and when he talks, he proves THE RED WAVE, we are right. Why don,t he run his mouth off at a PRO-TRUMP RALLY, no he don,t or won,t, preys on the mind of the young an weak.
Thomas J Coyne, jr. says:
Obama is not one to talk about someone else’s qualifications in the office of President of the U.S. Is he not the President who violated the Constitution by telling the people it should be abolished as it is outdated and he wanted to eliminate it anyway as his idea was to develop a socialistic type government. I believe his duty as elected President before assuming the office of President is to swear to uphold the Constitution and protect it, eh? He obviously lied about that. Isn’t it true that Obama along with Saudi Arabia developed arab spring and Obama used his influence as President to use military force to assist sunni invaders to overthrow middle east governments that were mostly working democracies with religious freedoms and it was the intent to convert them all to sunni islam dominated societies? Isn’t it true that Obama developed and weaponized isis as a terror organization to spread fear into population starting with Iraq and Syria using any methods to terrorize the people, including beheadings of captured citizens from any nation including the U.S., kidnapping of children for sex slaves for isis fighters and associated organizations, murder of women and children and seek refuge through Turkey of recruited sunni fighters from around the world for arab spring and for isis. Did isis and the arab spring fighters in Syria overthrow a weapons cache in Syria including chem weapons and were these used against populations in Syria in order to blame Assad of these acts to turn world opinion over against him? When faced with a Russian interference on behalf of Syria did Obama not develop an overthrow of Ukraine to keep them busy so arab spring and isis could go ahead with their plans, then blame the Ukraine affair on Russia and cause U.S. sanctions against Russia? Did Obama and Soros and Saudi Arabia not develop the open border and refugee situation in Europe and in north America for eventual overthrow of those nations by hidden terror groups alighned with isis. Wasn’t the invasion of Yemen a program of Saudi with U.S. military assistance to finally overthrow Yemen and convert the people to sunni and for Saudi to overthrow the government there? Wasn’t it Obama and his administration responsible for furthering racism in the U.S. and develop hatred for law enforcement and reduction in law enforcement for the idea to overthrow the U.S. and cause reasoning for eventual martial law? Wasn’t it Obama who developed and promoted reduction of U.S. military personnel and equipment in order for easy losses to any foreign invasion? Wasn’t it Obama who forced the outing of any military leaders to be retired in order to replace them with those loyal to Obama and his objectives? Wasn’t it Obama and his administration who caused the development of fake news and fake stories to depict opposition with any imperfection through deceit, lies and deception? Isn’t it true that Obama and his administration developed the dossier in order to develop hatred for and accusations against Trump in collusion with Russia, having the dossier developed by foreign sources using all fake reports and made up stories paid for by Obama’s democratic party and campaign funds for Hillary’s campaign for President? Isn’t it true that the people of the U.S. actually saw through all the terrible things Obama did and lied about and his plans to overthrow the U.S. cause Obama’s downfall and loss in the election to the Presidency, as Obama was responsible for all this with his mentors and his goals to make a one religion world, a one government world under his royalty and a one world trading effort to control world domination, a conspiracy never before seen in the world, even worse than any WW?
ARNOLD says:
Obama is in a serious meltdown. His speech was full of lies. This will become evident to voting Americans and the midterm elections will secure a Republican majority for generations to come.
Thank God for our hugely successful President.
President Trump isn’t the problem. Its people like Obama who by the way was the worst President in the history of our country. He went out of his way to create hate between black and white Americans. There were dozens of young blacks attacking young and elderly white people. But Obama allowed this to happen as he stayed silent. He only voiced comment when a young black was killed by a security guard. Obama then made the comment “he could have been my son.” this led to blacks attacking whites raping young girls and adults. This is very sad to realize that this president could stir up so much hatred against one another that young blacks ended up going to jail thus destroying their lives. Not good.
obama is the biggest ASSHOLE this country has ever seen, he did nothing in 8 years in office , and now the ASSHOLE wants to take credit for everything Pre. Trump has done, he needs to grow up and get a life.
Much better President than you could ever Mr. Obama. That’s why most of your shit went by the wayside.
Sue Kinsey says:
Obama should go back to the hole he just crawled out of. The speech he gave against President Trump really showed his ignorance. I believe that very soon they are going to find out just how corrupt he was and still is part of the swamp. Obama and the Clintons should be in prison. President Trump is doing a great job for our country and all the people should stand behind him. The people that don’t care about him need to look past him and see what he’s doing for our country. Think about this, President Trump has done more for our country than the last five Presidents. It’s a shame that you are not going to publish this.
Joseph D Rose says:
Barack Obama. Hahaha. He loves to talk. Just talk, more talk, but no action. For his 8 years in the Oval office. He did nothing for the country, but just talked. Thanks Joe Rose. UNITED STATES NAVY RETIRE. GOD BLESS AMERICA.
Barbara Moody says:
Obama wants Demorats to vote to lead this country “in the right direction.” That direction is Obama’s direction and it wasn’t good enough when he was in office or Trump wouldn’t be in office. Trumps’ morality is less of a problem to me than Obama’s morality.Obama has no morals.He is pure evil and always has been.
Jeff L Padgett says:
Shut the hell up Obummer! He was the absolute worse president in all the world. Trump is the best president ever! Thank you President Trump!
Steve Broussard says:
Obama should be in jail, awaiting his hanging, for treason.
I wish he’d shut his racial blowhole.
larry e austin says:
Obama was anti-American gave millions of tax payers money to Islam terroist and committed Treason in Russia and Iran with dead soldiers he knew with Clinton, gave uranium to Russia
Theresa Heider says:
Obama wasn’t even born in this country! He was given a birth certificate after his mother gave birth to him in another country a birth certificate that you couldn’t even read the doctor’s name on and of course was no longer alive. Obama divided this country with black and white and he is a bigot. From the ages 3 to 10 he lived in Jakarta India and his middle name is Hussein. Sound familiar? He looks like a cross between the Planet of the Apes and the Muslim Brotherhood along with his b**** Valerie Jarrett! He should crawl back in his hole and go play on his own Netflix Channel. He wanted to change the rules and stay in for a third term and destroy this great country even further! So Roseanne Barr gets her life ruined for a simple comment about someone who doesn’t even matter yet the ex president of the United States can come forward and degrade our reigning president? No class!!!
Gladys Booth says:
Mr. Obama is an embarrassment. I believe unequivocally that his purpose goes beyond destroying Mr Trump, but it is to destroy our beloved America. As an American veteran who loves and honors our country
, I am saddened by the fact this “questionable elected” former-President, Mr. Obama is influencing the masses, especially the young, with his feigned patriotism. Fortunately, he cannot influence all of us who believe in America, One Nation Under God. God Bless America..
kim stone says:
Eight years of him was enough. If he was so loved Hilary would have won
Elisabeth Crowellnone says:
Obama making such statements is ridiculous, he is the one that botch everything he touched.
Susan Marie. says:
obomination must keep his pug nose out of the MESS he has left America in – which a MAN is trying to sort out. The Manchurian Candidate had his 5 minutes of infamy – now he must piss off to his herd of goats and do what seems to come naturally to him….
Stephanie Murray-Robinson says:
Such a great respectful person. Love that he never allowed Trump to pull him as low as Trump is. Wish he could run again
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The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/2006/09/29/mens-soccer-hosts-penn-looking-for-second-win/)
Men’s Soccer Hosts Penn Looking for Second Win
By Lance Williams | September 29, 2006
The men’s soccer team will look to make a statement to the rest of the Ivy League tomorrow when it takes on a talented Penn (5-2, 1-0 Ivy) team in its Ivy League home-opener at Berman Field. Despite recording only one win so far this season, the Red (1-3-3, 0-0-1 Ivy) — led by its deep and talented sophomore class — has shown a great deal of promise, most notably in battling No.19 Boston University to a 1-1 draw Sept. 17.
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“We go into this game expecting it to be difficult and expecting to win,” said head coach Bryan Scales. “Every game in our league is difficult but we put our team through a very tough week of training, so the guys are in shape, hardened and ready to go.”
Not only does Cornell enter the game in prime physical condition, but the team also is the healthiest it has been all year.
The Red returns several key contributors for this weekend’s game, including the most experienced player on its roster, senior midfielder Brain Scruton. Sophomore forward David Browning — who is coming back from an ACL injury — and junior midfielder Aaron Vieira will also return to action.
Cornell will face a motivated Quaker team, however, as the Red defeated the squad in a 2-1 upset last year, knocking No.18 Penn out of the national rankings.
“Penn is obviously a very dangerous and formidable team,” Scales said. “That can be supported by the fact that they scored three goals on Harvard last week, a squad which I think is probably the most talented in our league.”
The Quakers’ potent offense is led by sophomore forward Mike Klein, who leads the team in points (11) and assists (five) and had an All-Ivy honorable mention rookie campaign last season. Senior Ryan Tracy paces Penn with four goals on the year.
“They are a very dangerous team going forward as they have a lot of different guys that can get into the box and score goals,” Scales said. “Usually they have at least three forwards and two midfielders moving forward at once. We will have to concentrate on controlling these players.”
Penn has outscored its opponents, 16-7, so far this year, with experienced senior goalkeeper Daniel Cepero anchoring the defense.
Cepero has started every game since his sophomore year and has amassed three shutouts, 25 saves and a 1.00 goals against average this season.
Cornell, on the other hand, has been outscored, 8-5, so far this year. The Red has yet to find a consistent rhythm on offense, but has been steadily improving on its ability to put shots on goal.
“One key for our team this weekend is to be good in possession with the ball, especially in critical areas on the field,” Scales said. “Hopefully that will translate into some scoring opportunities for us.”
Sophomore forward Dana Flanders, who has a team-high three points on the season, will lead the offensive charge, but should be aided up front by the senior leadership of Scruton.
Co-captains junior Kyle Lynch and senior Dan Marks lead a stingy Cornell defense. This has proved to be no problem as of late, with sophomore goalkeeper Luca Cerretani posting a 0.44 goals against average and a .910 save percentage over his last four games.
“The team is not even thinking about challenging for a championship right now,” Scales said. “We’re just trying to win one Ivy League game at a time and hopefully the rest will take care of itself.”
Golf Team Hosts Invite
By Zack Slabotsky September 29, 2006
Avid golf fans rejoice; the opportunity Cornellians have been waiting for has arrived. This weekend, the Red will participate in the Cornell Invitational, providing the only chance Cornell students have to watch their beloved golf team in action without leaving the friendly confines of Ithaca.
W. Soccer Chases Its First Win In League Play Against Penn
By September 29, 2006
The women’s soccer team sure is glad to be home. A dreadful six-game road trip — in which the Red lost all six matches — is finally over. Cornell (1-6-1, 0-1 Ivy) will face Penn (4-2-1, 0-1 Ivy) tomorrow in the friendly confines of Berman Field.
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The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/2010/05/05/hes-got-rhythm/)
He’s Got Rhythm
By The Cornell Daily Sun | May 5, 2010
Welcome to Cornell Diaries, where we print the anonymous recorded lives of Cornell students. While The Sun maintains the confidentiality of each writer, all facts have been verified and all diaries record the truth.
Monday, May 3rd
3:00 a.m.: When you finish your work at 3:00 a.m, it’s generally a poor decision to start partying to celebrate. But, as a senior starting the last week of his undergraduate career, it’s okay to burn the candle at both ends — if you have any wick left.
9:00 a.m.: Barely four hours of sleep and the sun is angrily pouring through the Venetian blinds, punishing me for another late Sunday night. With the skill of a master necromancer animating a corpse body, I drag myself out of bed and into the shower.
9:05 a.m.: Water streaming down my face and a stomach churning to find so.mething to absorb the alcohol, I remind myself these are the best days of my life.
9:40 a.m.: Coffee, two cups. I sip the first as I check out the Sun online, scanning every article for any mention of the words “Slope” and “Day.”
9:43 a.m.: I pound the second cup as I rush out the door and head through Collegetown.
10:10 a.m.: Sitting in a human resources class in Ives.
10:11 a.m.: Class just started and the kid directly to my right already keeps nodding off. There are 20 people in the class and this kid is falling asleep. Luckily, the professor masterfully pushes on, monotonously opting to continue presenting boring bullet point after boring bullet point.
10:20 a.m.: I’m taking this two-credit class to fulfill some long-forgotten freshman year requirement, so I spend my time thinking more about human nature than human resources — mainly, how does anyone working in H.R. ever find happiness? I wonder …
10:30 a.m.: The answer eludes me as I doodle away.
10:40 a.m.: Still doodling.
11:37 a.m.: Camped out in Libe Café, waving to friends as they file through for their coffee fix. My years at Cornell have made me love the libraries, even to the point where I go there even when I don’t actually have work to do. I know that sounds lame, but its true.
11:38 a.m.: Like a woodland creature reacting the slightest of sounds, I suddenly cock my head to the side, trying as discretly as possible to listen in on the conversation two hipsters are having directly behind me. “This is going to be the WORST. SLOPE. DAY. EVER. Seriously, who the fuck voted for Drake?”
11:39 a.m.: Me, that’s who. Complaining about the Slope Day headliners is number 126 (on the infamous Big Red Ambition list of 161 things to do before graduating) and it seems like everyone’s managed to check that bad boy off. Torn between educating these dissident intellectuals about selections and letting them continue on in their own blissful ignorance, happily bashing something they don’t understand, I opt for the latter. Pick your battles.
11:42 a.m.: Trashing my entire year’s work with the littlest of regard, I leave Libe Café feeling like a fat girl at the most chauvinistic frat party, barreling away as cruel, half-audible insults fly around me.
12:15 p.m.: More chatter. A few mentions more mentions of Slope Day this, why not Lady Gaga that.
12:25 p.m.: Lunch at the Ivy Room. I prefer sitting in the Pizza Palace sitting area, solely for the reason that it’s called the Pizza Palace. Sometimes it’s the simple things in life. C’mon, a pizza palace. I think that was also suggested as a legitimate SlopeFest idea.
1:00 p.m.: I head to Ho Plaza to quarter card for Slope Day guest tickets. A complete quarter carding hypocrite, I usually avoid quartercarders like they’ve got the plague when I’m walking by. Now, I harangue passers-by with a fake enthusiasm like I’m a vaudevillian performer.
4:45 p.m.: Meeting on campus to discuss Slope Day logistics.
5:30 p.m.: Two more meetings. I chose the more pressing one and get flack from the one I miss.
6:15 p.m.: I return to my place in Collegetown, throwing off my backpack and usually launching into a tirade to my floormate about all of the bureaucratic bullshit I endured during the early evening meetings.
6:30 p.m.: Struggle with job search. Convince myself everything will work out. This usually continues until I trick myself into thinking I’ve made some forward progress.
9:00 p.m.: Decide to stop by my frat house for a weekday mixer. Not having really enjoyed a mixer since I was a sophomore, I now go more out of nostalgia. To a senior like me, my frat house is one of the final strongholds of shameless irresponsibility.
9:15 p.m.: The house has Keystone and better beer. After dumbing down my taste for years, I go with the Keystone. Delicious, delicious Keystone. With all of the safety management and alcohol-reduction efforts I’ve been working on, partying has a welcomed ironic tinge to it.
1:47 a.m.: Find the last sober ride to back to Collegetown from the mixer.
1:59 a.m.: Lay down in bed, rinse, repeat.
Want to share your diary?
Send us an excerpt of your day, week or month at daze-editor@cornellsun.com. RLD
A Night to Forget
By The Cornell Daily Sun May 6, 2010
This is the story of Constance McMillen a lesbian high school senior whose First Amendment speech rights were violated by the school officials of Itawamba Agricultural High School. This story begins with a memorandum that IAHS issued to all its juniors and senior on Feb.
After 30 Years, Cornell Continues Debate Over Suicide Barriers
This is the second in a series of stories examining the suicide barriers on bridges around campus and the University’s plans for future suicide prevention. The first story can be found here.
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Ibrox hot seat vacated once again
Rangers director Easdale snaps up 1m shares in bid to retain control
Terry Murden, Editor | January 19, 2015
Rangers director Sandy Easdale has demonstrated a determination by the board to hang on to power at Ibrox by buying another one million shares.
The board announced this morning that the football club chairman bought 1.04m shares, meaning he now owns 5.256m equal to 6.451% of the company. He has voting rights over a further 16m shares or 19.672%, which gives him total voting rights over 21.284m shares or 26.123% of the share capital.
His purchase of the shares last Friday (16th) came ahead of the latest twist in the Ibrox tale when caretaker manager Kenny McDowall (pictured) resigned less than four weeks after taking on the role.
The club confirmed the 51-year-old, who stepped in after Ally McCoist was put on gardening leave before Christmas, would be leaving, but would serve his 12-month notice.
McDowall – in charge for just three matches – said he was leaving for “personal reasons”. No further details were released.
Only last week he said: “It is an absolute honour to be in charge of Rangers, whether it is caretaker, manager or whatever post. At the moment, I’m at the helm and I have to get this team winning games and see where that goes.”
But he also said it had been “a nightmare three years” at Ibrox and felt McCoist would benefit by being free of the stress.
Another former player Ian Durrant was demoted from his role as first team coach and this latest development suggests there is further tension between the club board and those managing team affairs.
The club is in desperate need for cash but has rejected all offers to provide support apart from loans from Sports Direct tycoon Mike Ashley.
Some believe the off-field battle for control of the club has affected the playing staff.
Mr Easdale’s share buying coincided with South Africa based businessman Dave King lodging papers calling for a general meeting of shareholders to dismiss the current directors and replace them with himself and two others.
The board has issued a statement indicating that it will resist the move.
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Watch: BLM Protestors Put Guillotine with Trump Dummy Outside White House
Company Offers 6 Days PTO to Non-Smoking Employees to Make Up for Smoke Breaks
Stacey Abrams Cries: ‘Racism’ Runs Through the Republican Party
Boo-hoo! Sore loser Stacey Abrams, who lost to Brian Kemp in the Georgia Democratic gubernatorial election, is constantly crying and whining about President Donald Trump and the Republican Party.
On Monday, during MSNBC's “The ReidOut,” Abrams had a meltdown about the bill introduced by Senator Tom Cotton, in which he wants to cut funding from teaching a history that America was founded on slavery.
He said that the Founding Fathers saw slavery as a "necessary evil," to which Abrams responded, “There is no such thing as a necessary evil. Evil is evil, and slavery is one of the ultimate evils. And I think having this conversation on the day when John Lewis lays in state is a critical moment of reckoning.”
She continued, “If Tom Cotton is sincere in his desire to understand history then he should be celebrating the 1619 Project. He should be celebrating The Voting Rights Act renewal. He should be celebrating Black Lives Matter because the continuity of evil in our country has led us to this moment."
Abrams concluded, "We can only extinguish evil by acknowledging that it exists and doing everything in our power to defeat it, not to celebrate it, not to excuse it, and certainly not to use it as a polemic way to justify the racism that runs through the party that is lifting up Tom Cotton and his language as something that’s legitimate as part of the argument about what our children should learn about this country.”
In addition, she also ranted about President Donald Trump (what else is new), claiming that Republicans will use "voter suppression" in the upcoming presidential election.
Never Trumper Robert De Niro Took $28 Million in Coronavirus Loans
With small businesses all over the United States closing, millionaire Never Trumper Robert De Niro took $28 million in funding from the Payroll Protection Program (PPP) for his restaurants and hotels.
While De Niro is constantly attacking President Trump on Twitter and on TV he was more than happy to take funds from the Trump administration's business funding assistance. How about making a successful movie? Nah, he'd rather leach off of government funding.
Israeli Forces Protect Netanyahu's Home From Protestors with 'Water Cannons'
Israeli forces showed protestors they aren't messing around when a group of them showed up at Prime Minister Netanyahu's home.
When the group of unruly protesters showed up they were greeted with a massive water cannon. The crowd quickly dispersed when the cannon was unleashed.
FAIL: Black Lives Matter Moron Shoots At Motorist, Hits Protester Instead (VIDEO)
Over the weekend in Aurora, Colorado, the Black Lives Matter protesters proved once again how terribly violent creatures they are.
Honestly, I'd like to believe that the movement is just being hijacked by a bunch of idiotic white Antifa kids, but I don't see anyone denouncing this violence from the organization.
Sheriff’s Office Confirms There WILL Be Charges Filed Against BLM Supporter Who Kneeled on Neck of White Baby
Occasionally, I come across some current events that I just refuse to write about for some reason.
More often than not, I choose not to write on something because I find it too sad or depressing to write about and I don't even want to know the details of what happened.
Navy Veteran Raises More Than $3 Million In Bid To Dethrone This Long-Time House Democrat
There are at least a dozen or more Democrats that definitely need to hit the road after this upcoming election. Truth be told, all of them need to go, but that's almost impossible.
Nancy Pelosi, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Adam Schiff, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, Hank Johnson, Sheila Jackson Lee, Al Green...and that's just to name a few of them, but they all are long overdue for a new job.
HIDDEN CAMERA: Hollywood Actor Gets Visit from Secret Service After Making Threatening Tweet
If you were wondering how deep Trump Derangement Syndrome can run, well look no further than this.
The sad truth is that most liberals hate President Trump so much that they end up making threats against either the President, his family, or his supporters. None of which are acceptable in a civilized society.
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A.F. Branco Cartoon – Creeping Revolution
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Dalmuir Barclay Church
Serving God by creating a caring, inclusive community through Faith in Action
Our New Website is under construction.
Thank you for being patient.
We are doing some work on the site and will be back shortly.
This Church of Scotland Parish Church is lively and active with a registered congregation of 155 people – around 60 of whom are regular attenders.
Situated at the junction of Durban Avenue and Dumbarton Road is the multi-functional building of Dalmuir Barclay Church. The name came about as a result of four Unions over time: Dalmuir Parish Church, Ross Memorial Church, Dalmuir Overtoun Church and Barclay Church, Old Kilpatrick. Our Church building was opened in 1995. The congregation is ministered to by Rev. Dr. Ruth Morrison MA, BD, PhD.
We are a warm, welcoming, innovative congregation of 155 in the heart of Dalmuir drawing our members from Clydebank, Dalmuir and Old Kilpatrick. We welcome everyone in God’s name, whatever their age, ethnicity, gender identity, physical or mental ability. There is always something going on like the Parent & Toddler Group, Sunday Café, Breakfast Club, the Girls’ Brigade, the Choir (DB Voices), Craft Group, Tea at 3, Piece by Peace, Messy Church and Christmas Tree Festival. There are a number of organisations who rent our premises including the Sequence Dancers, Clydebank Ladies Choir, Lynne Mcmunnigall School of Dance. The Church is also well used by West Dunbartonshire Council for elections and various meetings. We also Support Old Kilpatrick Food Parcels and are open on Wednesdays for food distribution.
Owing to the Covid-19 pandemic, our normal services, meetings, halls hire and other routine matters are currently suspended until further guidance from the Church of Scotland. We are making and broadcasting regular services via the Dalmuir Barclay Church Facebook site and the Dalmuir Barclay Church YouTube channel. Dial-a-service to hear the Sunday service on your telephone is also available on 0141-278-6595.
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Tulpa Questions & Answers
Tulpas
Will listening to white noise in my sleep hurt or help my Tulpa?
[sentience] Will listening to white noise in my sleep hurt or help my Tulpa?
By MyToasterHasInternet,
December 14, 2013 in Tulpa Questions & Answers
MyToasterHasInternet
I heard recently that listening to white noise can help you have auditorial hallucinations, which would help me assign my Tulpa a voice easier. But I got a question, would listening to white noise IN MY SLEEP hurt or help my Tulpa?
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LordV
Joined October 9, 2013
I kind of doubt that anything can really hurt your tulpa unless you actually want it to (with a few exceptions, such as brain injuries). As for whether it will help or not... I honestly have no idea.
My tulpa
Species: Anthro (red fox)
Working on: imposition
Linkzelda
>MFW Image Streaming
Joined October 27, 2012
White noise, brown noise, pink noise, binaural beats, isochronic tones, and other sounds that aid in dampening outside noises can be just as beneficial when developing a vocal tulpa.
Simply because the sounds force you to have better inward concentration. And if you check here on what human frequency-following response really is, it may be the reason why certain noises, binaurals,and isochronic tones can produce all sorts of effects that may be of benefit to you (e.g. being relaxed at a faster pace, getting into a trance state, better concentration).
Of course, constant use will eventually produce effects, so keep at it. I can only tell you from personal experience that white noises and other frequency related sounds helps a lot...in my case, for visualization and narration.
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I really don't know about "white noise helping your tulpa to become more vocal". There are benefits to white noise; like Linkzelda said it can help you concentrate, and it can also help you to hallucinate sounds. But what you're on about and where you heard it I have no idea.
Well, I don't think listening to white noise in your sleep is going to have much of an effect. It certainly won't hurt your tulpa, and I doubt that it will help any more than listening to it while awake will.
TheInogroffer
Awful Person
You took me out of context. I was trying to say that white noise has the ability to help you have auditorial hallucinations.
"Take all of my advice with a grain of salt"
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"I heard recently that listening to white noise can help your Tulpa become more vocal"
DANG IT! Sorry about that, I wasn't trying to take you out of context, I was rushing and screwed up the wording, I will edit that right away.
I was rushing this thread when I made it and said that white noise would make him more vocal, when I meant to say that it would give me auditory hallucinations, which would help me assign him a voice easier.
I edit the original post anyway, sorry about all the confusion.
(I really don't know where my head is at recently...)
What is the Difference Between a Tulpa and an Imaginary Friend?
By Lucilyn
This discussion originated from the thread Did I give the right answer? -Cat_ShadowGriffin
the "controlling" is somewhat unconscious I guess, just.. like if you imagine something (visualize) totally made up, you're doing that, even if it can happen/continue really naturally, like that
tulpas just have a little more going on y'know
Possible fading?
By Kalushar
Recently, I’ve been feeling head pressures, which I believe to be my Tulpa gaining sentience. However, as of late the feeling has been weaker and I don’t feel it as much. I was wondeing what this might be and what I could do to fix it.
How can I feel the love of my tulpa?
I have a romantic relationship with my tulpa, but I would like to feel the emotions of love that she feels for me (I guess this is related in some way to the sentience)
She is not vocal yet, she has a certain level of judgment and I communicate with her through music, but I want to communicate in other ways with my tulpa so that she can transmit me the emotions of love she feels for me. How else can I communicate with my tulpa?
Tulpa Vocalisation
By teapup
I'm not sure if how I hear my tulpas voice is correct.
It sounds exactly like my own, quiet and in the back of my head. I can only hear her when I really focus on listening, and I feel sometimes I accidently parrot her responses. It's because her talking is very quick and very far back under my mental "layers" of voice and is hard to hear. Im not sure if this is promising, or is actually my mind voice having like multiple layers if that's normal?
Learning vs Knowing: Do Tulpas Need Time to Understand Things in Their Own Way?
By Cat_ShadowGriffin
Last night, Ranger wanted to chat again and I asked if he wanted me to explain some Calculus concepts to him. He expressed interest in fronting during class time, but he was dormant for most of my time in calculus class so I wanted to make sure he was up to speed. Since he knew I figured out something I was confused about, he asked me to talk about the vectors problem I did during my homework.
I was experimenting with the idea of explaining this concept to someone else before Ranger asked for my explanation, so I went with telling him the explanation I already came up with. He told me my explanation didn't make sense to him and he asked for me to use "layman's terms". After going back and forth a few times, I finally showed him that vector addition resulted in the destination point after moving in the direction of the first vector and then in the direction of the other vector. Suddenly everything clicked, and he told me that it made sense to him.
On the first day of class, one of the reasons Ranger was a little uncomfortable was because he never took notes, much less learn Spanish in school before. He was capable of note taking the way I did it, but this bothered him. When we went over the homework the next day, he perked up and seemed more engaged when he gave suggestions for how to organize the notes. I bet he would have been happier if he had a note taking system he had to craft and tweak over time, and I have the feeling our note taking style will change throughout the semester so he's more comfortable with it.
In the past, Ranger has also explained that he likes my brother re-explaining things to him because he said even though he understands "how" or "what", he doesn't know "why". I wonder if this too is about learning the information for himself. Literally, he could explain "the why" if it's a simple fact. Then again, he currently isn't looking for a deeper explanation for why the sky is blue.
Re-learning how to do something isn't always valuable for a Tulpa. For example, Ranger learned how to speak English and write using knowledge I already learned, muscle memory, and accessing my memories. But if a Tulpa is asked to explain something as complex as calculus, do they really have the greatest understanding of the material just because their host understands it?
My ultimate question is this: Even though Tulpas are capable of gaining information and knowledge from their host's memories, is it better if they take the time to process certain things for themselves?
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The Phenomenology of Carryover Effects Between Show-Up and Line-Up Identification
Ryann M. Haw, BIG BEND COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Jason Dickinson, Montclair State UniversityFollow
Christian A. Meissner, University of Texas at El Paso
This study explored carryover effects from show-ups to subsequent line-up identifications using a novel paradigm in which participants rendered multiple identification judgements. A total of 160 participants studied a series of faces and subsequently viewed a series of target-absent and target-present show-ups. Following a retention interval, participants then made identification judgements from a series of target-absent and target-present line-ups. Remember-Know-Guess judgements were collected to assess the phenomenological basis of carryover effects in face identification. Our results indicated clear carryover effects from show-ups to line-ups, such that repeated exposure to a face increased the likelihood that it would later be identified, regardless of whether or not it had been presented at the time of study. The phenomenological basis for these carryover effects is discussed, as are the implications of these findings for police conduct of multiple eyewitness identification procedures.
Haw, Ryann M.; Dickinson, Jason; and Meissner, Christian A., "The Phenomenology of Carryover Effects Between Show-Up and Line-Up Identification" (2007). Department of Psychology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works. 518.
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joe & caspar
Photos: Joe & Caspar’s Hit the Road USA Live
Ticketmaster / Wed 26 October
Internet sensations Joe Sugg & Caspar Lee are currently touring the country as they bring their Hit the Road USA – Live show to the UK for the first time ever!
Take a look at these amazing, exclusive snaps from the Sheffield show on 23 October – and there’s good news for fans of the duo, as tickets still remain for their remaing shows (details below the gallery!). Plus, there’s also an opportunity for some of their biggest fans to get up close and personal with the boys for a VIP Meet & Greet prior to the show!
Remaining dates for Joe & Caspar’s tour are below:
26 – Manchester, O2 Apollo
28 – Newcastle, City Hall
29 – Glasgow, Clyde Auditorium
30 – London, Eventim Apollo Hammersmith
You can buy tickets and Meet & Greet packages via Ticketmaster.co.uk now. Don’t miss out!
Photos: Check out Upstart Crow in production
David Mitchell makes his West End debut in the critically acclaimed adaptation.
Tickets to see Upstart Crow, now showing at London's Gielgud Theatre, are available now.
Tom Stafford
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Star Wars #TheForceAwakens
As I’m sure everyone is aware, STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS is now playing in theaters everywhere! If you haven’t seen it yet, I promise it will live up to your wildest expectations!
Don't believe me? The film set a new all-time domestic debut record with an estimated $238M and with a five-day international debut of $279M, the film has taken in $517M globally.
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This new Star Wars has crushed several all-time domestic box office records, including:
· biggest Thursday preview gross - $57M.
· biggest Friday and single-day gross - $120.5M.
· first film ever to post a single day over $100M.
· fastest film to $100M and $200M.
· biggest December debut (nearly 3 times previous record of $84.6M).
· biggest IMAX Thursday night preview ($5.7M), single-day ($14M, Friday), and weekend ($30.1M).
· highest theater average for a wide release ($57,568).
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS debuted day-and-date internationally in nearly every market (except Greece and India, which open Dec. 24, and China, which opens Jan. 9) and set records in many including:
· biggest opening weekend of all time in UK (4-day), Australia, Russia, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Austria, Poland (3-day), Denmark (5-day), Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Croatia, Ukraine, Iceland, Serbia, New Zealand. Second biggest opening weekend in France, Belgium, Israel, Chile.
· biggest IMAX global debut of $48M.
The Force is strong with critics and audiences everywhere, whose enthusiastic reactions have powered a 95% Rotten Tomatoes score and an excellent A CinemaScore, with an A+ among women and younger audiences.
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14-12-2009, 09:01 AM (This post was last modified: 14-12-2009, 09:06 AM by Bernice Moore.)
History miniseries takes on the Kennedys - Yahoo! Canada News
History miniseries takes on the Kennedys
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The History cable network has cast its vote for "The Kennedys," developing an eight-hour miniseries about the iconic American clan.
The project, slated to begin production in the spring for a 2011 premiere, hails from "24" co-creator/executive producer Joel Surnow, a noted Hollywood conservative. It marks the channel's first foray into scripted programing.
"The Kennedys" revolves around John and Robert Kennedy, opening with the 1960 presidential election won by the former and ending with the 1968 assassination of the latter. It also features flashbacks to their earlier years, and depicts the brothers' relationship with their father, Joe, and their wives.
The story line draws parallels to "The Godfather": a manipulative, egocentric father determined to live out his own ambitions through his sons, who in turn spend their lives dancing to his tune while trying to stand on their own.
The big political events of the 1960s -- the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the civil rights movement -- will be featured in the miniseries, but "we will play them as background to the personal stories of the relationships between brother and brother and father and son," Surnow said.
Since the miniseries largely will shy away from the big conference rooms and well-documented speeches in favor of private conversations, research for the project wasn't easy, especially given History's strict requirements for accuracy.
All eight scripts were written by Kennedy scholar Stephen Kronish, a former "24" co-executive producer. He said he included private scenes only if they were supported by multiple sources, relied on public records as well as his own extensive library and previous Kennedy documentaries.. No members of the Kennedy family or their inner circle have been interviewed.
"I didn't want this miniseries to be a Valentine -- there have been plenty of them -- neither did I want it to be a hatchet job," said Kronish, a self-professed liberal. "I think it is a fairly even-handed look at people who achieved big things at amazingly early ages. We're really trying to see them as people and to strip away some of the patina that has attached itself to them because of their early deaths and to show them, warts and all."
Canadian-based Muse Entertainment is producing the miniseries, whose budget is said to be in the $20 million-$25 million range, in association with Asylum Entertainment.
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PRESS RELEASE: Congressman Harris’ Office Charges 20 Year Old Student With Felony
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CONGRESSMAN ANDY HARRIS’ OFFICE CHARGES 20 YEAR OLD STUDENT WITH FELONY
Harris Tries to Make an Example Out of Young Activist Who Recorded Staffer Without His Permission During Group Meeting After Multiple Protests
SALISBURY, MD – On Tuesday, October 2, 2018, Salisbury University progressive student activist Jake Burdett attended a medical marijuana protest against Congressman Andy Harris organized by Maryland’s new cannabis advocacy group Maryland Marijuana Justice (MDMJ). At the meeting inside the Congressional office that resulted from the protest, Mr. Burdett briefly livestreamed one of Harris’ staffers without his permission, which Mr. Burdett did not realize was a felony – or even illegal in the state of Maryland at all. Mr. Burdett deleted the livestream the following day after he found out his recording was illegal, but Congressman Harris dropped the hammer on Burdett to try to make an example out of him by deciding to press felony charges.
“Jake, who is a serious student leader, has a bright political future ahead of him that Representative Andy Harris wants to tarnish. In his honest attempt to provide the public with transparency into actions of a Congressional office that regularly insults marijuana reformers with false accusations, Jake’s livestream served as a conduit for the public to witness the endemic corruption in Salisbury,” says Adam Eidinger, Co-Founder of MDMJ. Eidinger adds, “MDMJ activists protested Harris for his backwards views on cannabis and refusals to meet with cannabis reform activists, so we feel Jake is being treated unfairly because of his role in the Democratic Party as Vice-Chair of the Wicomico Democratic Central Committee.”
Although Mr. Burdett is pleading guilty and he has personally apologized to Congressman Harris’ staffer, he did not realize the nonconsensual livestream was against Maryland’s “all-party consent” law at the time. “Is it unreasonable for a 20 year old to think that it’s legal to record a staffer of a United States Congressman in a public space? In a society that supposedly values transparency in government, I do find it odd that Jake can be found guilty of the ‘crime’ of recording the staff of elected government representatives in a taxpayer funded space,” says MDMJ Co-Founder Kris Furnish.
“By deciding to throw the book at Mr. Burdett for an honest mistake, one that was fixed almost immediately, it shows how partisan and petty Congressman Harris has become. He clearly wants to chill citizen participation in government,” says Eidinger. “Rep. Harris is adding to his recent list of bad PR moves that includes meeting with known White Supremacist Chuck Johnson, and planning to meet with the leader, Tomio Okamura, of a far right wing party in Czech Republic, whose secretary called for the gassing of ‘Jews, gays, and Roma’.”
“Mr. Burdett’s plea, which will take place on March 1, in Wicomico County, and Harris’ slew of prior racist scandals, should not distract from the original issue that brought me and other advocates to the protest in the first place – the legalization of cannabis,” says Furnish. “Rep. Harris wants to pretend to be victimized by a 20 year old’s deleted livestream, while he supports the racist war on drugs that actually victimizes thousands of people a day by locking them up for the victimless crime of smoking marijuana, a non-addictive substance with many medicinal benefits. Rep. Harris is a medical doctor, so I’d think he of all people would recognize the medicinal benefits of marijuana, and how it could be used as an alternative to pharmaceutical drugs such as painkillers, which are an epidemic in Rep. Harris’ district right now. We can’t help but wonder if Rep. Harris’ seemingly irrational opposition to legal marijuana has anything to do with the $42,200 he’s accepted from the pharmaceutical lobby in the 2017-2018 election cycle, which vehemently opposes any form of marijuana legalization,” concludes Furnish.
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The Have a Good Day Café by Frances and Ginger Park #Korean #DiverseKidsBooks #WeNeedDiverseBooks
Frances Park and Ginger Park’s picture book, The Have a Good Day Café, tells the story of Mike and his family’s food cart where they sell his favorite American foods like pizza, pretzels, and popcorn. When his Grandma moves from Korea she has trouble adjusting to her new American lifestyle, and Mike becomes frustrated with her, wishing that she wouldn’t “day dream so much about the past.” As the summer progresses Mike’s family encounters too much competition for street food and he and his Grandma work together, ultimately creating the “Have a Good Day Café.” (more…)
Duck for Turkey Day by Jacqueline Jules #Vietnamese #DiverseKidsBooks #WeNeedDiverseBooks
Adults may find turkey dry and tasteless, but for Tuyet a turkey is symbolic of being the cultural majority, of fitting in, doing what one is supposed to do. Duck for Turkey Day follows a little Vietnamese American girl, Tuyet, who’s terribly upset her family is having duck for Thanksgiving. What follows is an engaging story of accepting of one’s heritage as well as general diversity.
Immigrants often have to negotiate how to preserve and honor their traditions while allowing their children to grow up American, and this book portrays a matter-of-fact immigrant family that plans on cooking some delicious duck regardless of what their little girl thinks. Some parents may give in to their Americanized kids and cook American food, but as Tuyet finds out, some of her classmates had noodles, enchiladas, or tofu turkey on “turkey day” as well. (more…)
Lakas and the Manilatown Fish/Si Lakas at ang Isdang Manilatown by Anthony D. Robles #WeNeedDiverseBooks #DiverseKidsBooks #BilingualKidsBooks
A colorful, English-Tagalog bilingual romp from Manilatown through San Francisco Bay, Lakas and the Manilatown Fish presents a modern, colorful tale of the legendary kissing fish.
The story begins in a realistic manner: Lakas’s father takes him to the Happy Fish Man to buy a fish to make sinigang. But the fish turns out to be a talking fish and escapes from its tank, kissing people along the way and making them fall “dizzy in love.” It kisses a bus driver and takes her bus, kisses a manong and takes his clothes and teeth, all the while chased by Lakas, his father, the Happy Fish Man, and the manong. When everyone falls into the ocean, the fish jumps in and rescues them. That night, the fish returns home with Lakas and his family and they all eat rice, chile and tomatoes (no fish).
An action-filled story showcasing Manilatown and San Francisco buildings and scenery, Lakas and the Manilatown Fish has the familiar repetition and climactic buildup that will certainly make kids say, “Again!” after each reading. The lovely illustrations by Carl Angel add additional character and color to this striking children’s book.
Recommendation: Recommended; ages 6 and up
Reveiwer: Yu-Han Chao
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Lakas and the Makibaka Hotel/si Lakas at Ang Makibaka Hotel by Anthony D. Robles #WeNeedDiverseBooks #Diversekidsbooks #BilingualKidsBooks
A hopeful, bilingual English-Tagalog tale about activism and a little boy motivating adults to fight for their rights, Lakas and the Makibaka Hotel is so much more than a mere vehicle for morals, providing musical writing and expressive artwork from cover to cover.
The lines here are filled with vivid metaphors and musicality, such as a sky the color of mangoes, a woman whose face “looked like a tomato,” and one of the first characters Lakas meets sings, “The roof was leaking in my hotel room / and the rain hit my buckets, TICK-A-BOOM! TICK-A-BOOM!”
The illustrations by Carl Angel make each page an explosion of color, with endearing depictions of working class characters and the little boy, while the rich landlord wears a hideous outfit of green thousand dollar bills.
Lakas gives all his change to the men singing or dancing in the street, and even surrenders his lucky dime to the rich landlord in hopes of changing his mind about evicting Lakas’s new friends, the tenants about to be displaced. Lakas organizes the tenants in a protest, and like the tenants of the Trinity Plaza Apartments in San Francisco in 2002, they win their battle.
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Hannah’s Way by Linda Glaser
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Inspired by a 1996 exhibit at the Minnesota History Center named Unpacking on the Prairie: Jewish Women in the Upper Midwest, comes a heartwarming picture book written by Linda Glaser and illustrated by Adam Gustavson. Hannah’s Way tells the story of Hannah, a young school age girl who has moved with her family from Minneapolis to a new town in northern Minnesota. The reader is brought along with Hannah as she overcomes the anxieties of moving to a new school and trying to make new friends. The central conflict hinges on her class picnic falling on a Saturday, the day of rest for Orthodox Jews in which they cannot work or ride in cars. As the story unfolds Hannah tries desperately to appease her family and her religious beliefs, while also wanting to make new friends that will love and accept her.
Gustavson’s illustrations are detailed works of art with a feel of historical authenticity. The images are large in scope, depicting Hannah’s world with a narrative power as strong as the story.
Hannah’s Way is an uplifting story not only for those who have felt isolated due to religious differences, but for any school age child who has had to move from a previously familiar place to a new home. Although Hannah struggles to balance what it means to be true to her faith, while also wanting to fit in with her classmates, at the end of the book she learns an unexpected lesson about kindness that will move any reader.
Recommendation: Highly Recommended Ages 3+
Reviewer: Erin Koehler
Ghosts for Breakfast by Stanley Todd Terasaki
Stanley Todd Terasaki’s Ghosts for Breakfast is a read that Japanese American families may enjoy reading together, but that not every child will be able to appreciate.
The story begins with three old men knocking at the door to tell the young narrator’s family that they have seen ghosts in the neighboring field. This tale, as explained on the book jacket, is based on an experience of the author’s ancestor, and takes place in a Japanese American farming community in the 1920s. The body of the story provides no explanation of the time and place, and the vague setting might not grab or hold the attention of children who are looking for something more relatable. What may engage them is the comic flavor of the three old men, referred to as The Troublesome Triplets, and the scared feeling evoked by the ghosts they describe. The suspense builds as the narrator and his father go out to the neighbor’s field to investigate. (more…)
The Way We Do It In Japan by Geneva Cobb Iljima
In the United States, much is made of accepting minorities and “exotic” cultures, but The Way We Do It In Japan reverses this scenario by dropping a little American boy, Gregory, and his mixed family (Jane from Kansas and Hidiaki from Japan) in the middle of Tokyo.
Gregory learns to do things “the way we do it in Japan” when it comes to bathing, sleeping, and speaking Japanese. But at school he finds that his peanut butter sandwich is “the wrong kind of lunch” as everyone else has rice, fish and fermented soybeans. The next day, however, the cafeteria makes peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for everybody to make him feel included. In real life, however, while this may very well happen in Japan, school cafeterias in the U.S. are unlikely to all of a sudden serve fish and fermented soybeans to show their acceptance of Japanese students. So is the message here that foreign countries will always whole-heartedly embrace Americans?
The illustrations that accompany this thought-provoking story are feature exaggerated facial features, and the father’s shifty-looking facial expressions can be particularly distracting. Despite that and the debatable lesson, this book still presents a positive model of cultural acceptance, and also teaches some Japanese terms, pronunciation, and culture.
Elan, Son of Two Peoples by Heidi Smith Hyde
Elan, Son of Two Peoples by Heidi Smith Hyde and illustrated by Mikela Prevost is an artistically captivating and rustic story about thirteen-year-old Elan’s journey to becoming a man across the cultures of Judaism and the Acoma Pueblo. Set in 1898, Elan and his parents travel from their home in San Francisco to Albuquerque, New Mexico where his mother’s family lives. Elan’s father is a Jewish immigrant from Eastern Europe, and his mother is the granddaughter of a Pueblo Indian chief. The story takes place just days after Elan’s thirteenth birthday, a very important coming-of-age marker in both cultures. The reader does get a glimpse of his Bat Mitzvah and his Jewish culture, but a majority of the story focuses on Elan’s trip to New Mexico and the ceremony that honors him as a Pueblo tribesman. (more…)
Flowers from Mariko by Rick Noguchi and Deneen Jenks
This book, written by husband and wife team Rick Noguchi & Deneen Jenks, is a real gem. It tells the story of a young Japanese American girl, Mariko, and her family as they return to California after being imprisoned in American concentration camps (also known as internment camps or relocation centers; simply referred to as ‘Camp’ by Japanese Americans of that time) during World War II. An authors’ note provides additional context at the end of the book.
I found this book to be excellent in several ways. To begin with, the artwork of Michelle Reiko Kumata is a revelation. It is apparent that the illustrations were based on actual black-and-white photos from the 1940s, but Kumata’s pictures bring the story to life in beautiful full color. Drawn with bold outlines, her pictures are full of patterns and textures from period fabrics, shadowing that adds depth to every scene, and subtle, authentic details such as the furoshiki-wrapped bundle that one woman carries on her way to Camp. Though the story’s subject matter is far from uplifting, it was still a joy to gaze at every page of this book. (more…)
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Lacteal Secretion, Fetal and Maternal Tissue Distribution of Dasatinib in Rats
Kan He, Michael W. Lago, Ramaswamy A. Iyer, Wen-Chyi Shyu, William G. Humphreys and Lisa J. Christopher
Drug Metabolism and Disposition December 2008, 36 (12) 2564-2570; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1124/dmd.108.022764
Kan He
Michael W. Lago
Ramaswamy A. Iyer
Wen-Chyi Shyu
William G. Humphreys
Lisa J. Christopher
Dasatinib [N-(2-chloro-6-methylphenyl)-2-[[6-[4-(2-hydroxyethyl)-1-piperazinyl]-2-methyl-4-pyrimidinyl]amino]-5-thiazolecarboxamide; BMS-354825] is a potent and broad-spectrum kinase inhibitor used for the treatment of chronic myeloid leukemia and Philadelphia chromosome positive (Ph+) acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Dasatinib exhibited extensive lacteal secretion in Sprague-Dawley rats following a single p.o. dose of [14C]dasatinib (10 mg/kg, 300 μCi/kg). Radioactivity was detected through 72 h postdose, with a milk/plasma area under concentration-time curve from 0 to infinity (AUC0-inf) ratio of approximately 25. The majority of the total radioactivity in milk was attributed to unchanged dasatinib. After a single dose of [14C]dasatinib to pregnant Sprague-Dawley rats at gestation day 18, radioactivity was extensively distributed in maternal tissues. The radioactivity detected by tissue excision or quantitative whole-body autoradiography was highest in adrenal gland, mammary tissue, lungs, kidneys, liver, and placenta. Compared with maternal tissues, a relatively low level of radioactivity was detected in fetal tissues. The concentrations of dasatinib-equivalents in fetal liver and kidneys were <13% of the respective maternal organs. The Cmax of dasatinib-equivalents in fetal blood was approximately 39% of that in maternal blood; however, the AUC values were comparable. Fetal brain/blood ratios of Cmax and AUC0-inf were approximately 1.58 and 1.48, respectively, which were much greater than the maternal ratios of 0.12 and 0.13. In summary, dasatinib was extensively distributed in maternal tissues and secreted into milk, but its penetration into the adult brain was limited. Transporters may be involved in mediating dasatinib distribution in the adult rat, whereas in the fetus, tissue and blood exposures were similar, suggesting that distribution in the fetus is predominantly mediated by diffusion.
ABBREVIATIONS: BMS-354825, N-(2-chloro-6-methylphenyl)-2-[[6-[4-(2-hydroxyethyl)-1-piperazinyl]-2-methyl-4-pyrimidinyl]amino]-5-thiazolecarboxamide; LSC, liquid scintillation counting; LC/MS/MS, liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry; HPLC, high-performance liquid chromatography; AUC0-t, area under concentration-time curve from 0 to the last measurable time point; AUC0-inf, area under concentration-time curve from 0 to infinity; BCRP, breast cancer resistance protein.
Received June 6, 2008.
Accepted September 10, 2008.
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Drug Metabolism and Disposition December 1, 2008, 36 (12) 2564-2570; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1124/dmd.108.022764
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Integrating With File Storage vs. Object Storage
In this post, we’ll consider the benefits of integrating with different types of storage services.
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There are two broad categories of cloud storage for unstructured data:
File Storage: A personal cloud that users use to synchronize and collaborate on files. Examples include Dropbox and Google Drive.
Object Storage: A component of an application’s stack that stores unstructured binary data as files or “blobs.” Examples include Amazon S3 and Google Cloud Storage.
When consumers mention “Cloud Storage,” they almost always mean data sync and collaboration tools like Dropbox and Google Drive that let users store files remotely. Both categories of services above store file data and offer APIs to access them, but the primary user of file storage is usually an individual, whereas the primary user of object storage is usually an application.
In this post, we’ll consider the benefits of integrating with each type of storage service.
Why Integrate?
First, apps must decide which set of cloud storage providers to integrate with and why.
File storage platforms offer access to end-user data. Applications that enable end-user workflows, such as productivity tools, find this data valuable to transfer into or out of their application. User-generated content is rarely in a single app, but collectively represents a source of truth. Hence, apps must access each others’ APIs to enable the workflows that users demand.
On the other hand, users rarely use object storage services such as Amazon S3 directly to create, sync, and collaborate on content. However, an application’s user-base may collectively generate a large quantity of content, such as new versions of images, annotated PDFs, or their own files uploaded to the app. An application can integrate its backend with an object storage service to abstract away scaling concerns when storing this vast quantity of data.
This key difference manifests itself when gaining access to the remote storage system in the first place. Apps prompt users to grant access to their data in cloud storage by guiding them through an OAuth 2.0 flow. However, apps access object storage using just a secret key provided by the storage service.
Features and Performance
User-facing cloud storage services offer a myriad of features to differentiate themselves from each other. Most of these features center around boosting end-user productivity. They enable users to view, edit, and collaborate on content flexibly across all their platforms. With some exceptions such as Box, storage services do not prioritize exposing this functionality for applications built on their platform to white-label.
However, object storage services’ primary value proposition centers around performance and cost at scale. These services bill on the quantity of data stored and accessed rather than the number of users accessing them. Their APIs offer higher rate limits and lower latency, especially within an app’s own hosting provider. They offer flexible approaches to store and transfer content, including which data-center stores an app’s data, data durability guarantees, CDNs, custom headers for caching, and more.
Alternate Perspectives
Despite the contrasts described above, we’ve seen applications use cloud storage providers such as Google Drive as a backend for application data uploaded by users. Apps might want their own staff or other users to require direct access to end-user content.
We’ve also seen apps access their users’ object storage accounts directly. They use integration platforms to abstract object storage providers’ key-based authentication schemes behind a consistent authentication flow to enable easy access to a user’s own S3, Azure, Google, or other S3-compatible services. Tech-savvy customers realize the cost-savings gained by directly using the infrastructure that powers file sharing platforms. Users access object storage directly using open-source file browsers or other tools.
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Interview: Solar Mowing Founder and Author Lynda DeWitt
Ethan Goffman December 24, 2017
Back in 2009, Lynda DeWitt left behind a successful career in environmental journalism — she wrote and edited for National Geographic and Discovery as well as penning children’s books — to launch Solar Mowing, a Bethesda, Maryland-based company that runs a fleet of battery-powered mowers, trimmers and blowers fueled 100% by renewable energy (from solar and wind). Customers love using Solar Mowing because not only are they doing the right thing by the environment but the equipment is much quieter than its conventional gas-powered counterparts. EarthTalk’s Ethan Goffman caught up with DeWitt recently in a Bethesda coffee shop to get the low-down on her inspiration, implementation and goals…
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EarthTalk: What led you to start a solar mowing company? What concerns and opportunities did you perceive?
Lynda DeWitt: Hi Ethan, thanks for inviting me on Earthtalk. I started solar mowing in 2009. I was a writer and an editor, always working on natural history and environmental issues. So I was always talking about and writing about the environment and finally, in 2009, I decided I wanted to do something about it. I had a gasoline powered mower and every time my husband or I would mow, we would bring in the kids and the dog and shut the windows and mow with our gasoline mower. When I discovered that gasoline mowers pollute more in an hour than a dozen cars pollute in an hour, I thought, this has got to stop. So I got a real mower, one of those bladed push mowers and in our area, you really have to use those about every three days to keep up. So that didn’t quite work. So I got a battery powered mower. We’ve always had renewable energy at our house; we buy wind, we’ve bought it for 20 years. We have energy choice in the mid Atlantic and now, we have solar panels on our roof. So I charged my battery powered mower with renewables and I thought, if this is something that I really love, other people might love it too. So I put a solar panel on a couple of trucks and took it on the road. Again, that was in 2009, so next year will be my tenth year.
E: Great. Strangely enough, I have a similar story because I also had a push mower, switched to an electric, and have solar panels. But how would you describe your business philosophy then, once you got off the ground, other than obviously wanting to help the environment?
DeWitt: Well, that’s pretty much it. I was determined — the premise I made to the customers was that we would use only emission free, low noise equipment when we did their lawn. We’re still driving to our customers in a combustion engine pickup truck and transit, Ford transit; although I’d love to get electric vehicles. But our promise is that we will not use something that’s going to pollute their environment, their yards. It’s not going to add to the soot in their lungs and it’s not going to add carbon to the environment. Nor is it going to harm their ears with the large racket that most equipment, especially blowers, the noise that they emit. When we do our leaf clean ups, we use actually emission free blowers which are very effective, and rakes, old fashioned rakes and they work very well.
E: I use just a rake on my yard which is a small yard. I think you’ve covered most of what makes your equipment so environmentally friendly but anything else about your equipment or your procedures or your solar source?
DeWitt: Sure. The thing I’d like to say is, for those, if there’s anyone out there thinking about getting a battery powered lawn mower to replace their gasoline, that is all well and good but if they’re still charging their batteries from a coal derived kilowatts, then they are still polluting. Maybe not in their own backyard but it’s still emitting carbon into the air, wherever the plant is from. So they need to charge their batteries with renewables to make it 100% emission free. So the other thing we do is that we mow according to the weather and not the calendar. We’re not out there every Friday at ten o’clock, mowing someone’s lawn. Many customers don’t need it every week, even in the spring; some do but not everyone does. So we mow high, we leave the clippings on the grass and those water-based clippings decompose in a matter of weeks and they fertilize the soil. So it’s a win/win for everyone. We don’t mow as often, often as big commercial mowing companies do, and we mow with eco-friendly equipment.
E: And longer grass is actually better for biodiversity too.
DeWitt: Absolutely, yeah. It not only promotes root growth but the longer grass shades the soil and helps prevent weeds from germinating and more lawn care. More animals, earthworms and bees and flowers. We don’t think that clover is a bad thing in our yards. It used to be a part of grass seed. Grass seed used to include seeds of clover. It’s a nitrogen fixing plant; it takes nitrogen out of the air and puts it in the soil. So it’s a very critically good, good so-called weed. When the weed killers came out in the 50s, they killed everything but the grass so it gave clover another beneficial, so called weed, a bad name. But clover is good.
E: And your method also greatly reduces fertilizer and pesticide use, right?
DeWitt: Right. We don’t advocate using any pesticides. We use organic fertilizers if a customer wants that. We also will top dress lawns with a thin layer of compost which is nothing but fertilizer really. So we don’t use chemically based fertilizers, nor do we ever use pesticides.
E: If mowing lawns is the heart of your business, what other services do you provide?
DeWitt: We provide to our mowing customers, weeding in their beds, mulching, and pruning. We do reseeding in the spring and in the fall, leaf clean up. So to our mowing customers, we provide a whole range of other services.
E: Great and those are also environmentally friendly.
DeWitt: Yeah, some of them are just neutral; weeding, pruning your shrubs. It’s not good or bad. It’s just something that needs to be done in most landscapes. And we say we mulch and we do put down mulch, but we will also, when we do our leaf cleanups, will mulch the leaves that are on the grass, collect them in a bag and put that bag of mulched leaves and grass on the beds as a mulch. It’s basically what mulch is, it’s just plant parts. So a lot of people have their own mulch, falling from their trees and shrubs already; so we just utilize that and feed the beds, spread the wealth around.
E: I know there are a lot of green businesses in the Bethesda area. But the Federal government is currently not what you would describe as green friendly. So how are kind of larger trends like that affecting your business?
DeWitt: The populous as a whole is becoming more aware. Everyone knows that climate change is a problem, that carbon is bad and we all need to reduce our footprint. Yesterday we should have done it, today is pretty good; tomorrow is a little late. We need to all be doing this. The Federal government isn’t really relevant. Our county in Maryland, Montgomery County. I could have the numbers wrong but they just passed a very progressive — some progressive goals on carbon to be carbon — to get rid of all carbon by 2035, I think, and 80% by 2027. Again, my numbers might be off but it’s very challenging. So more and more people want to do the right thing and I’m hoping that companies like mine will make it easier for them to have some choices.
E: I know the county does have aggressive goals and a lot of local government is working hard and local businesses. What about future plans, like are you delighted with the way your company is going now or where do you see it heading in the next few years?
DeWitt: Truthfully Ethan, I thought by this time that I would be bought out or just pushed out of the way by bigger, more well financed companies. But to my surprise and disappointment, I guess you could say, no one is really doing this. At least very few companies are, so it’s left this big opening for us. We try to keep our customers within a five mile radius of our headquarters and we just have one headquarters at this point, but there’s such demand out there in all parts of the D.C. Metro area where we’re located. I would love to see us have hubs where we can charge our batteries with renewables and try to service all around the beltway and in D.C. We’re in parts of D.C. but not all, so there’s a big demand for this and I’d be happy if other companies jumped in and started doing this. Battery technology is probably part of the problem. We’ve put up with a lot of headaches over these past ten years. It’s come a long way since 2009, I will say that. And my dedication, if I can toot my own horn, I guess; charging batteries late at night when they took 12 hours to charge and getting them right off the charger in the mornings. So it was sort of a lot of upkeep and it took a lot of time in the beginning. And still, there is not a large riding mower that is battery powered. Maybe that’s the hang up for bigger companies, but most of our customers don’t need riding mowers. And I will say one more thing if I may about the big, heavy mowers, including riding and just gasoline. Our mowers are light and most battery powered mowers are lighter in weight than the big gasoline and certain riding mowers, and that is critical to grass and soil health. The big mowers compact the soil; that is death for soil. It’s death for the roots, the grass. So my fear is that as the mowers — as battery power improves, mowers get bigger, we may not be benefitting the lawns as much. Truthfully, most of the lawns in the Metro areas are small, we don’t need riding mowers. So I don’t know why other companies haven’t got on board but…
E: Do you think the profit margins might be smaller, especially if you’re more natural, you don’t mow as often.
DeWitt: That could be. Maybe they think if you’re not going to mow every week and you can get on and off your riding mower in seven minutes, that quite possibly is an issue. We pay our help very well, way above minimum wage. But the profit margin may be a concern.
E: Of course, Patagonia has made a lot of money saying, don’t buy new stuff from us. So maybe it’s just a question of finding a way to change your frame of reference.
DeWitt: Right, and I advise people who are just moving into a place or just building a house in our area what they’re going to plant and if they’re going to have grass. I encourage people to minimize grass. I’m a child of the suburbs, I love my grass because it’s an open space in my lawn. But the beds where there are trees and native plants and undergrowth, where birds and small mammals can thrive. That’s the heart and soul of my property, and while I do have a small lawn and back and front, I would encourage people to keep it small.
E: Great, thank you very much.
DeWitt: Thank you, Ethan, it’s been a pleasure.
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Lizzo’s Body is Nobody’s Business But Her Own
January 27, 2020 / Alexis Conason / Body Image
Last week the internet erupted over comments that Jillian Michaels, former host of The Biggest Loser and well-known fatphobe, made about Lizzo, a larger-bodied black female artist who has been making waves in the hip-hop community for over a year now.
Lizzo’s music is often hailed as some of the best pump up, body-positive jams out there. Songs like “Good as Hell” and “Tempo” have become body-positive anthems, and seeing someone like Lizzo on stage and having a successful music career means a lot for young black girls.
Why, then, would Michaels be publicly commenting on Lizzo’s health? It’s a great question, and one that might boggle the mind if you didn’t live in diet culture. But we do! And that means that everyone’s body is up for public commentary, even though we have really good research that tells us that body commentary is never a good idea.
Not only does Michaels believe that she has every right to comment on Lizzo’s body, but Michaels went onto suggest that Lizzo’s body size is indicative of her health, and that Lizzo is “promoting obesity” and an unhealthy lifestyle by not attempting to change her body size. This is an insult often hurled at fat individuals. Somehow, their mere existence “promotes” a lifestyle of a certain kind, one that the culture assumes is filled with junk food, laziness, and all-around poor health behaviors and outcome.
Truth be told, we have a lot of evidence that Lizzo is actually in pretty great health. She performs internationally, dances on stage while also singing and playing a flute, and is very clearly a vivacious young woman who appreciates her body and where it can take her in this life. We also have a lot of evidence that Michaels is a repeat offender when it comes to being fatphobic. She built her career on it and continues to profit from making us feel like shit about ourselves so we buy her weight-loss products and tune-in to her gross tv show which is premised on hating fat people. Nothing new here, even if she’s trying to couch it in the language of “self-love.”
More importantly though, Lizzo’s health is irrelevant. It’s awesome that she can dance around, sing, and play the flute. It’s also awesome that thinner stars can do that too. It shouldn’t be any more shocking that a fat person has that level of fitness/stamina than any other person. And to be clear, it’s a feat at any size. We need to shift the focus away from a fat person’s health as if the fact that they are healthy makes it okay for them to exist. Fat people are deserving of respect regardless of their health status. And someone else’s health really isn’t any of your business.
So what’s the moral of our story here? Well, there’s a few:
Your body is nobody else’s business. Other people’s bodies are also not yours to comment on.
Weight does not determine someone’s health, and someone’s health does not determine their worth as a human being.
We all deserve respect and autonomy, no matter our size.
Judging by some of the pushback Michaels got on social media, 2020 may be a new year for diet culture. I have my fingers crossed, and I hope you do too.
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Alfa Romeo working on more 4C variants
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by Nick Tragianis | October 16, 2013
The Alfa Romeo 4C will be making its Canadian debut this weekend during the Montreal Grand Prix
Alfa Romeo hasn’t returned to North America just yet, but the Italian automaker is already planning more variants of its darling sportscar, the 4C.
Among the models in the works is a more powerful Stradale variant. Based on the Launch Edition, a limited-run model focused on saving weight and squeezing out the most performance out of the car, Alfa Romeo is planning an even more powerful Stradale variant, according to AutoEdizione (hat tip to WorldCarFans).
Similar to what Ferrari, Lamborghini and Maserati have been doing with its Stradale models, the 4C Stradale will likely eke out more power from its 1.75-litre turbocharged four-cylinder engine, and sport beefed-up suspension components and an even lower curb weight. Currently, the 4C pumps out 240 horsepower and 258 lb.-ft. of torque, and weighs in at a smidgen under 900 kg dry. The Stradale model is rumoured to pump out anywhere between 260 and 300 hp.
Alfa Romeo is also planning a more luxurious variant of the 4C. A Targa version is in the works, complete with a removable roof panel and more upscale trimmings inside. And if you’ve been up-in-arms about the 4C’s headlights, you can put them down now: Marco Tencone, Alfa’s head designer, says the 4C will have its current headlights swapped, in favour of a set similar to the ones found on the concept.
While this news makes us want the 4C even more, none of this changes its exclusivity: No more than 3,500 cars will be produced per year, and about 500 Launch Editions are pegged for North America.
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What the ‘Perfect’ Woman’s Body Looks Like, According to Men and Women
An eating disorder specialist weighs in on the mental health ramifications of a recent survey
It’s probably not a huge surprise that men and women have different ideas about what constitutes the “ideal” body for women. Now, a recent survey is spotlighting just how different.
The survey, conducted in January on behalf of RiverMend Health and Rosewood Centers for Eating Disorders, revealed that women are more likely to describe the “perfect female body” as athletic, while men prefer a curvy body type. More than half of the 1,004 respondents–54%–agreed that an athletic physique, like David Beckham’s or Michael Phelps’s, is the ideal for a man. The results for a woman’s body, however, varied. Forty-nine percent of women said an athletic body type (think: Jennifer Lopez or Gwen Stefani) is ideal, but 38% of men voted for a curvier frame (like that of Kim Kardashian West or Mariah Carey).
Certified eating disorder specialist Dena Cabrera, PsyD, executive clinical director of Rosewood, tells Health women’s critical approach may boil down to a marketing problem. “Women are inundated with pictures of the ‘ideal,’ and we tend to view ourselves in a way that taints how we see ourselves and the way we’re valued,” she says. “Women put a lot of value into body shape and size and weight.”
But women weren’t the only ones concerned with their appearance. More than 75% of survey respondents said they would give up something they love if it meant they could achieve the “perfect” body overnight. Those sacrifices included cutting out fried food, alcohol, social media, and even sex. A small percentage of people–3%–said they would go so far as to give up their homes, and 2% said they would give up a relationship with someone they love for that idealized physique.
Unsettlingly, the survey also found that men were more likely to want their partners to take extreme measures to achieve what they believe to be the perfect body. Thirteen percent of men said they would want their partner to exercise to the edge of their physical limits every day regardless of pain compared to just 5% of women; 5% of men said they would want their partner to skip meals compared to 1% of women; and 3% of men said they would want a partner to consume laxatives or to throw up after eating compared to zero women.
Cabrera, also author of the book, Mom in the Mirror: Body Image, Beauty, and Life after Pregnancy, doesn’t think men necessarily mean any harm. “I don’t think they’re equating it with negativity,” she says. “They’re not connecting it with self-esteem or self-worth.”
Still, she says she’s had at least one patient with a partner who was so aggressive about her body, the romance became abusive. “The relationship became about fulfilling [the man’s] needs and negating [the woman’s] own needs, self-worth, and value,” she says. “A relationship should be about two equal partners and about connection, not about looks.”
Some eating disorder signs are obvious: dramatic weight loss, a refusal to eat, retreating to the bathroom for long periods after meals. But anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating disorder also reveal themselves in more subtle ways. How can you tell if a friend or family member is at risk? There’s no surefire way, since people with eating disorders display a wide range of symptoms. (Not to mention personal characteristics: Eating disorders, once associated almost exclusively with adolescent girls, are now recognized more frequently in younger children and adults.) That said, these easy-to-overlook signs may help you spot an eating disorder—or disorder in the making—sooner.
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Label: Addison Records
by Michael Clarke September 27th, 2001
The world isn't short of melodic guitar bands. In fact they're about as rare as a novelty record at No.1 at this very moment. Coldplay were 'the new Travis', Starsailor are this years Coldplay and no doubt next year we'll see the new Starsailor. Is it just me who thinks this nu-acoustic lark is getting a little bit boring and predictable?
Well perhaps that's what I thought before hearing this debut release from Birmingham's Theory Of Everything. A few listens to this record will make you see, and believe, that emotional and melodic alternative music still has something new to offer. OK, so 'Return To Eden' isn't totally 100% original, something the band themselves unashamedly admit ("individuality in music comes from stealing from a wide variety of sources.") but it sure is refreshing to hear music as tender and as good as this.
'Return To Eden' is a powerful, sweet and emotional track, which offers something new with every listen. If it's not the startlingly catchy chorus ("I will be holding you close, if only for a little while, we still have time") it's the soft heartfelt vocals and lyrics coming from frontman Ben Richards. The flip-side 'Yeah, It's A Weight' is a 2-tone offering and almost as impressive as the A-side.
With an ever increasing fanbase built up through touring and local airplay, big things can be hoped of this band, and on the basis of this, that isn't a bad thing at all.
Next year's Starsailor, anyone? Piss off.
Theory Of Everything's debut album 'The Failure Of Arithmetic' is out at the end of October through Addison Records, distributed via Shellshock. For extra info contact sibristoll@hotmail.com
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Wychavon Parish News Update – 12th June 2020
Saturday, 13th June 2020 /in News Updates /by Clerk
Covid-19 (Coronavirus) update: 12 June 2020
You can keep up to date with all our public messaging by following our social media accounts or checking the coronavirus update page on our website.
If you are aware of anyone who is vulnerable and in need, please make sure they fill in the form or call the number on the Worcestershire Here 2 Help website.
If have any concerns or need specific support related to the Covid-19 outbreak you can contact
or ring 01386 565168.
Test and Trace service
The new NHS Test and Trace service launched across England on 28 May. This means that anyone who develops symptoms of coronavirus can quickly be tested to find out if they have the virus, and also includes targeted asymptomatic testing of NHS and social care staff and care home residents.
The service will help trace close recent contacts of anyone who tests positive for coronavirus and, if necessary, notifies them that they must self-isolate at home to help stop the spread of the virus.
Update on council services
Our Customer Contact Centres in Droitwich, Evesham and Pershore remain closed. You can still use our online services or contact us by phone.
The Exceptional Hardship Fund has been temporarily replaced with the Covid-19 (coronavirus) Council Tax Hardship Fund 2020-2. Visit the page for further information Exceptional Hardship Fund.
All children’s play areas are closed. Our parks remain open but you must follow social distancing rules.
Droitwich, Evesham and Pershore Leisure Centres are closed.
Public toilets – Broadway Activity Park and Pershore High Street (due to maintenance issues) are closed.
Libraries (run by Worcestershire County Council) are closed. You can still download free audio books.
Committee meetings are being held virtually.
Our bulky waste collections have re-started. Garden waste and waste and recycling collections are unaffected.
Our licensing functions have also been affected. Visit the Worcestershire Regulatory Services website for more information.
Car parking – all of Wychavon’s Pay and Display Car Parks are now free to use. NHS Staff and health care staff can also park for free in any on-street parking bay, for any length of time, while carrying out essential duties, as long as they are displaying evidence of employment. See our parking page for more information.
Household recycling centres
The HRCs in Droitwich and Hill and Moor are now open and operating in line with the social distancing requirements.
Residents are being encouraged to check the website for full details of the social distancing measures, opening times and other restrictions before they visit an HRC. These measures include a ‘one in, one out’ access policy, no staff assistance to remove items from vehicles so those visiting need to be able to remove their own waste, and additional services such as compost sales and charity reuse points will be closed until further notice.
Sites are expected to be very busy so residents may have to queue for a long time before they are able to access the site as only a limited number of cars will be allowed in at any one time. Worcestershire County Council has worked with colleagues in Highways and will have traffic management in place where possible and will monitor this to try and keep disruption to the network to a minimum.
By the end of May we had paid 2,347 of business grants to Wychavon businesses totalling £27.4 million.
In addition we have been given £1.5million of discretionary grant funding to help businesses not eligible to receive either the cash grant for retail, hospitality and leisure businesses or the small business grant.
Guidance has been issued by the Government and the types of business that are expected to benefit from this new funding are:
Businesses in shared offices or other flexible workspaces. Examples could include units in industrial parks, science parks and incubators which do not have their own business rates assessment
Regular market traders with fixed building costs, such as rent, who do not have their own business rates assessment
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Businesses must also demonstrate they have been significantly affected by the Covid-19 outbreak. Visit our website for more details and how to apply. The deadline for applications is 5pm on 19 June 2020.
Our Covid-19 information business page contains lots of other information and advice for businesses including reopening businesses safely, making shops Covid-19 safe, links to government guidance for different types of businesses and other sources of financial support.
Crowdfund WYCHAVON launched
All community groups operating in Wychavon can apply for funding as part of our Spacehive crowdfunding platform. Crowdfund WYCHAVON has now been launched and the deadline for expressions of interest is 15 June.
Supporting our communities to respond to the coronavirus pandemic isn’t just about dealing with the immediate crisis. It also requires a long-term commitment to helping our residents and businesses recover from the impact of the virus. Helping our local economy and our communities to rebuild is important to our overall recovery plan for the district.
We want to get behind projects that have the support of the community and make a positive difference, we believe that Wychavon’s community groups are a key part of this. We have pre-selected some groups and organisations that we know are providing important services and support and would benefit from additional financial help to allow them to continue their vital work.
To support groups to reach their target, we will pledge up to 50% to each group, funding a maximum of £200. The remaining funds will need to be pledged by members of the community and other interested funders, over a six week period unless the total is reached sooner. Groups will receive support from both Wychavon District Council and Spacehive to generate interest and access other sources of funding.
Expressions of interest can be completed here. If successful, a group’s crowdfund will be live shortly afterwards and will run until 31 July.
If you have any questions, please email
Changes to electoral canvass
The Government has extended the date revised electoral registers need to be published by in response to coronavirus.
The annual electoral canvass starts in July and will pose some difficulties this year due to social distancing rules, availability of volunteers and concerns about door-knocking. As a result, the Government has amended the final date for the publication of this year’s revised registers from 1 December 2020 to February 2021. This will give councils more time to complete their canvassing and maintain the accuracy of their registers.
And finally …..
Don’t forget to check our Support for community groups and charities page for the latest sources of funding support available to community groups and charities affected by the Covid-19 outbreak. We are adding new sources of funding regularly.
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Next Parish Council Meeting
Parish Council Meeting will be held on Tuesday 9th February, 2021 at 7:30 PM
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Mixed feelings, and general malaise, about the new Met season (Or: Where is Jonas? John Relyea? Stefan? Rene?)
Published on 3 March, 2019 3 March, 2019 by Rachel Anne Murphy5 Comments
Speaking of “malaise,” the overworked pace of 2018 kept me on a restricted opera regimen–and, actually, a restricted regimen of any life outside of work!–and I regretted having missed most of the Met’s HDs and radio broadcasts and many of the other broadcasts I would love to have seen and heard. (I’ve generally been MIA from my favorite opera groups online. I miss my dear opera pals so much!) However, things are looking up, and on this restful Sunday morning I’ve been spending time reviewing the recent announcements on the Met’s 2019-2020 season, both on stage (radio, for me!) and cinema.
Overall, nothing stands out in the way that La Fanciulla del West did this past season, with the return not only of this too-little-performed Puccini opera, but of Jonas Kaufmann. Nor have any of my long-term hopes been realized: another big HD role for John Relyea and Štefan Kocán–both of whom are notably absent from any Met performances in the coming season; nor my perhaps quixotic hope that the Met will one day put on a gloriously heartbreaking production of Don Quichotte with Ferruccio Furlanetto, capturing this iconic role in HD for the ages; nor yet the promised all-star Don Carlos in the 5-act French version. Nor do I see anything with King René Pape.
On a few underwhelming notes, what we do have are some of the standby, albeit beautiful Zeffirelli productions–La Bohème, Turandot. (Frankly, I was hoping that they wouldn’t HD the latter again until Jonas Kaufmann finally sings Calaf.) We have an Anna Netrebko feast, with her special concert, as well as the reprisal of her Lady Macbeth and Tosca roles. But we also have Marco Berti back, and Aleksandrs Antonenko.
But I’d rather stick to a few more exciting, positive highlights:
To hear the great Luca Pisaroni‘s Guglielmo and Gerald Finley‘s Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte, although not an HD of the season, alas.
The return of Sir Bryn Terfel, in Der Fliegende Holländer, conducted by Valery Gergiev in a new production.
Stars such as Elīna Garanča, Bryan Hymel, and Ildar Abdrazakov in Berlioz’s Faust.
Morris Robinson’s Sarastro, although the shorter, English Magic Flute.
Diana Damrau and Jamie Barton in Maria Stuarda.
Angel Blue and Eric Owens in Porgy and Bess.
Luca Pisaroni again, as Figaro in the Nov/Dec Nozze.
Luca Salsi as Germont in Feb/March La Traviata–though I’m not overall a huge fan of the opera–and Quinn Kelsey in the Jan/early-Feb performances.
Kate Lindsey and Joyce DiDonato in Agrippina.
Other intriguing cast members: Peter Mattei and Tamara Mumford (Wozzeck); Roberto in Bohème; roles with Matthew Polenzani, Javier Camarena, and the great Željko Lučić.
I decided to write this after being informed about the announcement by my dear opera pal Gaby, but before getting back on my beloved opera groups, and I’m intrigued to hear others’ reactions. Similarly underwhelmed? Or perhaps intrigued and inspired? I’d like it to be contagious, if the latter.
In any case, here’s to a new season–not to mention, grateful for a lineup of fantastic performers–and, hopefully, pleasant surprises.
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Month #1 of (mostly) Met-on-Demand
Published on 12 November, 2016 13 November, 2016 by Rachel Anne MurphyLeave a comment
*Note #1: if we’re friends on Facebook, you’ve probably seen these notes already…
**Note #2: These are very informal–and too lengthy–impressions from an opera newbie!
***Note #3: “Cliff’s Notes” Version of this post: Please see the 2011 Don Giovanni and the 2007 Eugene Onegin, if I absolutely must narrow it down. Also, fell head-over-heels with three bass singers: René Pape, Štefan Kocán, and John Relyea! (Already loved bass Ildar, of course!)
Oscar Wilde said that “the only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it”. Well, apparently I’ve been following this advice with the opera addiction. The subtitle to this post might be: “Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Give into My Met-On-Demand Addiction”. (It might also be subtitled: “The Month of the Bass and Baritone”.)
What enabled me to watch an unusual amount of recorded opera this month is that I happened to be, at several points, involved in an aspect of my sewing work which is too rare: that which allows for multitasking! (Mostly the hand-sewing part, which alone took a good 18 hours lately. YES!) So…here goes! Not necessarily in the order in which I watched them.
Don Giovanni (Met, 2011)
Thanks to my friend and enabler, Viv, and partly inspired by seeing the recent HD cinema showing of the current Don Giovanni with Simon Keenlyside–which I had mixed feelings about overall, but enjoyed, particularly Simon himself–I finally watched the 2011 Don Giovanni (same set/production) with Mariusz Kwiecien, Luca Pisaroni, Štefan Kocán, Marina Rebeka, Barbara Frittoli, and Ramón Vargas.
Oh my. I have fallen in love with this opera all over again, and simply cannot get it out of my head. Mariusz is a most charming, seductive Don, and what shall we say of Luca? I see why he is a legend in this role of Leporello ~ vocally, it just doesn’t get better, but added to that is an impeccable comic timing and complete naturalness in the role. I particularly loved the way Mariusz and Luca play off one another ~ I have never seen a production which captures so well the relationship between Giovanni and Leporello, love-hate though it is, as Luca has expressed his interpretation in a recent interview…however much they may betray one another, is not unlike a dysfunctional married couple, each knowing the other so well. There are even moments of tenderness. When the Don makes his final act of defiance to agree to come to dinner with the Commendatore, there is a moment of farewell between them, which I have not quite seen anything like. (And indeed, Luca’s Leporello looks somewhat lost without his villainous master in the final minutes…)
This production captured the comedy of this incredible opera, and both the direction and the conducting–Fabio Luisi–kept a sprightly pace. In fact, the whole production felt sprightly and energetic! The Anna–dang, she’s great!–Elvira, Masetto, and Zerlina were also wonderful. I went from moments of irrepressible laughter–such as when Leporello imitates the Don in seducing Donna Elvira–to tears, as in Mariusz’s “deh vieni alla finestra”…yes, that charming Don manages to seduce his audience every bit as much as he did the 1800+ ladies.
Then, there was the new-to-me discovery of the glorious bass Štefan Kocán, the Commendatore! Wow! (Thank you, Gabriela, you were so right!!) It was some time before I could move on to the rest of the opera after the Commendatore’s death in the opening, so beautiful was his final minute of singing with Giovanni and Leporello that I had to rewatch it again and again. (By this point I must have watched that moment probably two dozen times altogether.) And of course, at the end, he returns in a most gloriously haunting finale…
All this, in a production that was done only 2 weeks after Mariusz had back surgery! Amazing. Needless to say, I highly recommend it. If you haven’t already fallen in love with this opera, this production will probably do the trick. 🙂
Il Trovatore (Met, 2015)
Be prepared for tears on this one. Not so much due to the operatic tragedy of the story, as the reception by the Met audience and orchestra of beloved Dmitri Hvorostovsky, who returned to his role of the Count di Luna after the announcement of his brain tumor and the months of chemotherapy that followed. (Just wait until the final bows and curtain calls…have tissues handy!)
This was only the second time I’ve seen a recorded production of this opera. I marvel at the vocal gymnastics that are required of our leads, and Anna Netrebko had me breathless as Leonora, particularly in her Act IV arias…dang! Dmitri, of course, shone as the Count di Luna, with such a powerful stage presence alongside the extraordinary bass Štefan Kocán as Ferrando…amazing! Dolora Zajick was a wonderful Azucena, and I very much liked Younghoon Lee as Manrico ~ very dynamic.
Loved the Goyaesque set and the period costume. Overall, a beautiful production.
Now looking forward to seeing the earlier Trovatore, from 2011…!
**Movie Break!** (Not from the Met:) Kenneth Branagh’s The Magic Flute, 2006
So…now for The Magic René–oops, I mean, The Magic Flute.
Okay, I actually watched this one before most of the others, and it’s not Met, but I thought it worth a mention, as I’ve become so hopelessly enamoured of René Pape. I’ve been remotely following him for months, but was utterly smitten after his performances in both Parsifal (Met, 2013) and his King Marke in the Met Live in HD Tristan und Isolde in early October.
I have never seen a production of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte…nor Der ZauberRené for that matter ~ so, please take this with a grain of salt, but I thoroughly enjoyed Branagh’s quirky, random humor transposed into a fantastical World War I setting with an anti-war focus. Not to mention the Gilbert-and-Sullivanesque English libretto by Stephen Fry. Joseph Kaiser (Tamino), Amy Carson (Pamina), and glorious, mesmerizing magician-bass René Pape (Sarastro) led the cast. (Yes, as much as I adore Branagh, I daresay you know who was the magician that drew me to THIS movie…) The CGI effects are pretty cheesy in spots, but it’s somehow in keeping with the magical, goofy oddity of the whole.
Le Nozze di Figaro, Met, 2014
Another lighthearted moment was the Met’s Le Nozze di Figaro from the 2014-15 season (available on Met on Demand), with Ildar Abdrazakov, one of my favorite bass voices! Again, as familiar as much of the music is to me, I’d never seen a production and didn’t know how delightful and hilarious it is! I loved it. Ildar, as the witty servant Figaro, couldn’t be more adorable if he tried, and Peter Mattei (wow, another beautiful voice, and a new favorite!) as the womanizing Count Almaviva was just fantastic. The whole cast was delightful, and had me laughing up in the workshop…
Il Trovatore, Met, 2011
After the wonderful 2015 Il Trovatore that I watched the previous week, I watched the same wonderful David McVicar production–with some of the same cast, notably Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Štefan Kocán, and Dolora Zajick–in their earlier 2011 production, and was intrigued and delighted with the similarities and differences. It’s really hard to choose overall.
In both, Dima shines as the Count di Luna, Štefan Kocán is an irresistably ruthless bass Ferrando, and Dolora Zajick strikes me as a master of the gypsy Azucena. But here we have a different Leonora and Manrico, sung in 2011 by Sondra Radvanovsky and Marcelo Alvarez. While I thoroughly appreciated the Netrebko/Lee combination of 2015, and vocally it is really hard to choose–and I am naturally a little more drawn to Netrebko’s vocal quality–yet I must say Sondra really won me over in this role, and particularly the chemistry between her and Marcelo, who was also a very endearing and strong Manrico. The character interpretation of Leonora was less melancholy than Netrebko’s, and one really gets behind Sondra, whose expressive face and adoring love for Manrico are so evident. I thoroughly enjoyed both, but I must give the edge to the Radvanovsky/Alvarez combination for our two leads. (That being said, if one has time for only one of the two productions, I might choose the 2015 if for nothing else than the beautiful reception for Dima, and the endearing and heart-wrenching applause and roses for him at the end…)
Eugene Onegin, Met, 2007 and 2013
A real highlight of this past opera week for me was the new-to-me discovery of Tchaikovsky’s opera Eugene Onegin, another which I did a double header on, seeing both the 2007 production with Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Renée Fleming, and Ramón Vargas, as well as the more recent production with Mariusz Kwiecien, Anna Netrebko, and Piotr Beczala. I had not known this story previously ~ about inaccessible love, haughty rejection, and the pride that destroys friendships and romantic love ~ based on the verse-novel by Alexander Pushkin. Okay, so I do have a tendency to love anything 19th century anyway, but I was captivated by these characters, and utterly loved it. It is *quintessentially* 19th century in its themes, with an ending I wouldn’t have expected in an opera. I won’t say more, but I’d like to write a more fleshed-out post on this opera alone at some point, rather than just pointing out a few highlights of these productions.
Both Anna and Renée are absolutely luminous in the role of the shy but stronger-than-she-appears Tatiana, and I really cannot choose between the two whose interpretation I prefer. (But I was more invested in Renée’s struggles, perhaps because it was my first Eugene, and I loved the whole production so much altogether.) Piotr and Ramón were both wonderful as the honorable, lovable, but almost irrationally-jealous Lenski…it was my first time seeing Piotr in anything and I was so impressed! For Eugene, I would be hard pressed to give a preference as to their vocal beauty in the role; but in terms of interpretation and sheer force of presence, undoubtedly, Dmitri has the commanding, striking haughtiness that instantly catches one off guard, as this character does Tatiana. He is positively statuesque. I mean, this Eugene really out-Darcys Mr. Darcy, and is more aimless and cynical than a Eugene Wrayburn. Unquestionably, I would choose Dima for the role, if I were forced to choose. (But I would very highly recommend both.)
Visually, both productions are luscious, and the costumes stunning. The 2013 is quite glorious to look at. My own preference, though, is decidedly in favor of the earlier 2007 production with Dima and Renée: it is utterly magical in its stark simplicity. A very minimalist set with a slightly “boxed-in” look (thematically in keeping with the bounded-in-a-nutshell situation of the characters…), but with the most stunning colors–I’d like to create a photo collage of the different scenes–and falling leaves, as though reflective of the beauty of romantic love even in it’s autumn…when it is rejected and inaccessible.
Both are so beautifully and feelingly conducted by Valery Gergiev, and there is a wonderful behind-the-scenes mini-documentary on this after the 2007 stream.
I will be rewatching both versions again and again no doubt, but particularly the 2007 version, which will probably go down as one of my favorite opera productions. 💙 💔
Of course, Eugene Onegin will be live in the cinemas from the Met in April of 2017, again with Dmitri, in combination with Anna Netrebko and Štefan Kocán…I absolutely cannot wait!
Now that I’ve practically written a novel of notes, I thought I’d also mention that these are only a few of the opera beauties I’ve heard and seen this month, which includes a live-stream with Mariusz of Donizetti’s La Favorite, and the Met Live in HD Tristan und Isolde with Nina Stemme and René.
A few radio highlights include a really marvelous radio transmission of a Don Carlo with René (Philip II), Mariusz (Rodrigo), and Michael Fabiano (Carlo) from the San Francisco Opera of June 2016; also, another Don Carlo audio with René and Dima from the Met-on-Demand (audio only)…both stunningly beautiful. Also, it’s been great fun to experience, via radio, this year’s Met production of Guillaume Tell, with Gerald Finley (Tell), Marina Rebeka (Mathilde) and another magician-bass, John Relyea (the evil Gessler! A new bass love!!). Then, this past week, another live radio broadcast of the Met’s Don Giovanni, this time with Ildar Abdrakazov in the lead! A most marvelous Don…perfect! And this has not remotely covered it all.
It’s a huge joy to be part of the Sirius Opera Fans group and Met Opera Live in HD Fans group (both on Facebook), which have been such inspiring places to discuss opera love, to learn, and to share insight. (And to find more opera-enablers!! 😉 )
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UFO sightings in South Africa
This is a list of alleged sightings of unidentified flying objects or UFOs in South Africa.
1 1914 phantom monoplanes
2 1960s sightings
3 1970s sighting
5 21st century
6 Crash claims and hoaxes
6.1 1989 Kalahari crash
6.2 1995 Lesotho crash
1914 phantom monoplanes[edit]
From 11 August to 9 September 1914, thousands of South Africans in various parts of the country observed what they believed to be a nighttime monoplane, or believed to observe its headlights, while in some cases the aerial vehicle performed sophisticated maneuvers.[1][2] This was in the weeks leading up to the South West Africa campaign during the First World War, and many suspected a hostile German monoplane on a possible spy or bombing mission. However, these possibilities were discounted and the provenance of the plane remained unknown.[3] Likewise its destination, landing or refueling places and the identity of its pilot remained unknown, causing some to examine it as a case of mass hysteria.[2]
1960s sightings[edit]
In January 1960, mr. D. Coetzee, manager for a large insurance firm in Port Elizabeth, noticed a noiseless, silvery cigar-shaped craft while travelling home at 17:40. It had no visible means of propulsion but was slowly moving eastwards at an estimated 20,000 feet (6,100 m) altitude, when it suddenly accelerated and disappeared in seconds.[4]
1970s sighting[edit]
Bennie Smit, owner of Braeside farm near Fort Beaufort in the eastern Cape, claimed to have fired shots at an unknown object during the morning of 26 June 1972. He was alerted to it by his labourer, Boer de Klerk, who at 9:00 noticed a fireball of some 2.5 feet (0.76 m) in diameter, moving about at treetop height. Smit accurately fired eight shots at it, but these had no visible effect. In stead the object reacted to their presence and voices by shying away and hiding.[5] Police sergeant Piet Kitching and police station commander P.R. van Rensburg arrived at 10:00 and fired additional shots. They stated that the object had been changing its colour up to this point, but now assumed the appearance of a gunmetal grey, somewhat oval-shaped 44-gallon drum. When Smit fired two final shots from a mere 10 to 18 m distance, the object lifted off, entering impenetrable woods where it could be heard crashing through the undergrowth.[5] Smit had a final sighting after 12 noon, but subsequently heard its sound at night. Six council members at Fort Beaufort also reported watching the object though binoculars. Nine imprints (three sets of three)[5] of its supposed landing gear were found in hard clay.
Though the Grahamstown army regiment was said to have investigated the site, the base could later not produce any records of the event.[6] The incident received coverage by international press, and led to businesses capitalizing on the incident, with a tavern calling itself the "UFO Bar" and painting flying saucers on the walls[7] and the local Savoy Hotel keeping clippings of the stories posted on its walls.[8] In a humorous editorial, the New Scientist stated the apartheid South African government was "very fastidious about the sort of immigrants she welcomes and little green men may very well be on the prohibited list".[9]
On 7 April 1991, at 11:15 pm a hovering triangular craft with red central light, and white star-like lights on each extremity, was observed by a family at Baviaanspoort, Pretoria. A similar craft was sighted in the nearby Eersterust township on the evenings of 8 and 9 April, either stationary or moving.[10][11][12][13] These sightings occurred about a year after the Belgian UFO flap concluded. A decade later another hovering triangular craft was reported by a family travelling in the Hartbeespoort area, about 50 km to the west.[14]
On 18 November 1993, at 10:15 pm, Messrs du Plessis and Venter, residents of Sasolburg, observed a craft arriving from the direction of Vereeniging. The craft departed in a flash in the direction of Parys, but returned some three minutes later. The craft, similar in appearance to a water droplet, was observed to change colour and shape. With time individual lights were distinguished, and the body was determined to be cigar-shaped. While contained in a yellowish to orange glow, it emitted a downward blue light, before once again departing in a flash, upwards.[15] A nearby town resident claimed to have found imprints of a small craft's landing gear, some two months later.[16]
In September and October 1994 a farmer at Warrenton claimed to have made repeated observations of a noisy, nighttime craft travelling at great speeds, besides what he described as a 'mothership'. The craft's noise was compared to the sound of a helicopter or Volkswagen Beetle engine. The farmer's general claims were supported by four independent observers.[17]
M1, Johannesburg
Stilbaai
Merweville
Sighting locations during the March–April 1995 flap, which included a report of a landed craft at Coligny
A UFO flap swept South Africa from late March to mid April 1995, which was widely reported in the media.[18][19][20] At De Brug a hovering object was videoed by a mrs Erasmus, and the police notified at 02:20, who could confirm its presence upon arrival. Around 08:30 that morning a farmer, Jan Pienaar, reportedly encountered a landed craft that blocked his way for three minutes on a rural road south of Coligny.[18]Physical effects were reported; at Coligny, the small truck's engine cut out and the observer felt as if pinned to the ground, while the landing site was left scorching hot to the touch. At Lindley the observers reported that their digital watches stopped as the object passed by.[19]
At 4:00 am on 28 August 1996 a glowing disc was videoed by on duty Sgt Nico Stander of the Adriaan Vlok police station, Pretoria,[21] and Pretoria resident Johann Becker noticed it hovering over Erasmuskloof. The pulsating disc contained a red triangle, and at one point emitted bright green tentacles. A chase ensued involving some 200 policemen and a Bo-105 police chopper, piloted by Supt Fred Viljoen. The chopper with five officers took to the air at 5:30 am and spotted the object over Mamelodi. Viljoen was in contact with radar operators at AFB Waterkloof, who reported radar clutter in its vicinity.[21] While pursued by the chopper, it performed vertical and horizontal undulating movements, while outpacing the chopper at maximum speed (some 270 km/h).[22] The chase was given up at 10,000 feet (3,000 m) in the Cullinan area, when their fuel ran low and the object made a vertical ascent.[23][24] An object was sighted in the area again during the early hours of 31 August and 1 September.[25] cf. Petrozavodsk phenomenon
Around the end of July 1997 a hovering, cylindrical light or shiny cloud, was filmed by Andreas Mathios in the sky above the town of Trichardt, in the current western Mpumalanga province. Besides Mathios, it was independently observed by three other persons around 6:50 am. The light suddenly dropped and rose again before disappearing. Sasol 2 and 3 allegedly had a temporary power outage that morning. Andreas Mathios phoned air traffic control to get information about any objects detected in the airspace. Trichardt was also the scene of a 1985 sighting.[26]
On 8 May 2000, at 3:24 am, police inspector Kriel claimed to have observed an approaching UFO while travelling on the N3 freeway, 70 km north of Warden in the eastern Free State province. The orange, oval-shaped light was fitted with two cupolas, one above and another below, and was wide enough to cover four lanes of the freeway. After a close approach the craft receded again. A follow up report claimed that the vicinity is known for moving light apparitions.[27]
21st century[edit]
On 27 June 2004, Roshnie Naidu observed and video-taped a very bright, colourful light that was suspended near her home in Durban for three hours. She was able to alert family members and neighbours to its presence, and observed it changing shape from circular to oval.[28][29]
In 2009 two formations of high-flying, orange-red objects, were seen by many witnesses, and video-recorded by some, as they travelled between the towns of Middelburg and Witbank, 25 kilometres (16 mi) apart. The first formation of seven objects were seen at 21:51 on 27 February, as they flew westwards from Middelburg towards Witbank. Due to their altitude they eventually disappeared behind clouds. At 20:00 on 6 March, they were noted again high in the sky, but this time greater in number, 23, and traveling in the opposite direction.[30][31]
On the evenings of 21 and 22 July 2010, residents of Booysens, Pretoria, observed a triangle of bright lights which hung motionless in the sky for two hours. In each instance the object commenced a slow descent towards the horizon at 20:30. Binocular observation revealed nothing more than a blue and emerald light, with a white light which shone straight downwards.[32][33]
On the evenings of 11, 20 and 21 May 2011, a host of silent, orange lights with consistent luminosity were observed as they travelled faster than a commercial aeroplane over Tierpoort near Pretoria (some 20 objects) and Krugersdorp respectively.[34] On 15 June seven of these objects were observed and some photographed as they crossed the sky in single file over Tierpoort.[35] At 22:00 on 30 October 2011, a Mr van Greuning photographed two of the five silent fireballs which he observed traveling southwards in low cloud near the town of Harrismith.[36]
Two Prestbury residents noticed an orange orb in the sky over Pietermaritzburg in November 2015, and obtained a blurry photograph. Shortly afterwards, on 22 November 2015, Ian Carbutt managed to take another cellphone photo of the last of four orange orbs travelling swiftly in single file over Roberts road, Clarendon, in the direction of Greytown.[37] Six days later, on the evening 28 November, social media was abuzz with various reports of what seemed to be a green light hanging in the sky over Long Street, Cape Town.[38]
Around 21:30 on 12 December 2016, while on an eastward course some 10 nautical miles offshore from Jeffreys Bay, the captain and co-pilot of a Boeing 737 cargo aircraft saw an unidentified glowing green object rise past their cockpit. It reached a cloud layer some 1,000 feet (300 m) above their plane before turning back to earth, this time speeding downwards past their cockpit. A green parachute flare was suspected, but then ruled out due to the altitude reached. Officials at Port Elizabeth Airport suspected that a stricken vessel or aircraft might be involved, but the NSRI found that none were overdue or missing.[39]
Crash claims and hoaxes[edit]
1989 Kalahari crash[edit]
According to supposed leaked documents an alien craft was shot down by South African aircraft, some 80 miles (130 kilometres) into Botswana, on 7 May. Two alien beings were claimed to have been captured on site. To date no primary witnesses have been traced, while the supporting documents, some obvious fakes, were all obtained from James van Greunen. Researcher Tony Dodd[40] lent Van Greunen some credibility in Quest magazine, but other researchers were highly skeptical.[41][42][43][44][45][46] The claims have nonetheless been widely circulated, either as fact or as a case deserving investigation.
1995 Lesotho crash[edit]
According to supposed leaked documents an alien craft crashed in Lesotho on 15 September. It was claimed that South African forces retrieved the craft and took three alien beings captive. The source of these documents is unknown, but is once again suspected to be James van Greunen. Failing to trace any key individuals or witnesses, researcher Michael Hesemann denounced it as 'a complete hoax'. Other researchers, though skeptical, held out hope to trace witnesses.[41][47][48]
List of reported UFO sightings
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^ Evans, Hilary; Bartholomew, Robert E. (2009). Outbreak!: the encyclopedia of extraordinary social behavior. Anomalist Books, LLC. pp. 487–488. ISBN 9781933665252.
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^ a b c Van Heerden, Harry (September 1990). "Fort Beaufort and those little green men". Martello (Fort Beaufort Museum). 61: 4–10. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
^ Breytenbach, Willem (27 June 1997). "Fort Beaufort se VVV" [Fort Beaufort's UFO] (in Afrikaans). Beeld newspaper. p. 13.
^ Getaway (2010). Twenty-one Years of African Travel Writing. Jacana Media. pp. 64–. ISBN 9781770098862. Retrieved 25 October 2014.
^ Armstrong, Kate (2006). South Africa, Lesotho & Swaziland. Lonely Planet. pp. 274–. ISBN 9781740599702. Retrieved 25 October 2014.
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^ Correspondent (8 April 1991). "Ma en seun sien 'n helder VVV". Beeld. p. 6.
^ Van der Westhuizen, Gert (9 April 1991). "VVV se skynsels was soos 'n ster s'n". Beeld. p. 4.
^ Botha, André (10 April 1991). "G'n verklaring kan vir Pta.-VVV gegee word". Beeld. p. 4.
^ Snyman, Dana (10 April 1991). "Vreemde voorwerp vlieg wéér oor Pta". Beeld. p. 4.
^ [omitted], Christof (9 November 2015). "Black Triangle in Hartbeespoort Area in 2001". UFORSA. Retrieved 21 October 2019.
^ Taylor, Bruce (23 November 1993). "Vreemde ding in lug bo SA dorp". Beeld. p. 4.
^ Taylor, Bruce (14 January 1994). "VVV op Sasolburg". Beeld. p. 3.
^ Van der Walt, Sarel (13 October 1994). "VVV's bo sy plaas klink soos 'n Volksie". Beeld. p. 3.
^ a b Correspondent (31 March 1995). "Ruimtepiering land by boer". Beeld. p. 1.
^ a b Correspondent (6 April 1995). "5 Voortrekkers sien VVV op kamp". Beeld. p. 9.
^ Correspondent (19 April 1995). "Iets vreemds hang in lug". Beeld. p. 3.
^ a b "Was it a hoax or was it little green men? (translated from Afrikaans)". Rapport. 1 September 1996. Retrieved 21 October 2019.
^ Chavunduka, Alyce (28 August 1996). "UFO over Pretoria". Jan van Tonder, YouTube. SABC News. Retrieved 20 October 2019.
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^ Coetzee, Sandra (30 August 1996). "VVV by Pta bly 'n raaisel". Beeld. p. 3.
^ Pienaar, Antoinette (2 September 1996). "Opgewondenheid oor VVV het nog nie gaan lê". Beeld. p. 3.
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1566 celestial phenomenon over Basel
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Kenneth Arnold (1947)
Roswell (1947)
Mantell (1948)
Chiles-Whitted (1948)
Gorman Dogfight (1948)
Mariana (1950)
McMinnville photographs (1950)
Sperry (1950)
Lubbock Lights (1951)
Carson Sink (1952)
Nash-Fortenberry (1952)
Washington, D.C. (1952)
Flatwoods monster (1952)
Ellsworth (1953)
Kelly–Hopkinsville (1955)
Lakenheath-Bentwaters (1956)
Antônio Villas Boas (1957)
Levelland (1957)
Trindade Island (1958)
Barney and Betty Hill abduction (1961)
Lonnie Zamora incident (1964)
Solway Firth Spaceman (1964)
Exeter (1965)
Kecksburg (1965)
Westall (1966)
Shag Harbour (1967)
Finnish Air Force (1969)
Pascagoula Abduction (1973)
Travis Walton incident (1975)
Tehran (1976)
Petrozavodsk phenomenon (1977)
Operação Prato (1977)
Zanfretta UFO Incident (1978)
Valentich disappearance (1978)
Kaikoura Lights (1978)
Robert Taylor incident (1979)
Val Johnson incident (1979)
Cash-Landrum incident (1980)
Rendlesham Forest (1980)
Trans-en-Provence (1981)
Japan Air Lines (1986)
Voronezh UFO incident (1989)
Belgian UFO wave (1990)
Varginha (1996)
Phoenix Lights (1997)
USS Nimitz UFO incident (2004)
Campeche, Mexico (2004)
O'Hare Airport (2006)
Alderney (2007)
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Strange how often the Millennium has been at hand. The idea is peace on Earth, see, and the way to do it is by figuring out angles.
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W counting himself, and the room was blue with expensive cigar smoke. "Hi, Charlie," one of them called as he came in. The rest broke off conversation long enough to wave a casual greeting at him. As a watchbird manufacturer, he was a member manufacturer of salvation, he reminded himself wryly. Very exclusive. You must have a certified government contract if you want to save the human race. "The government representative isn't here yet," one of the men told him. "He's due any minute." "We're getting the green light," another said. "Fine." Gelsen found a chair near the door and looked around the room. It was like a convention, or a Boy Scout rally. The six men made up for their lack of numbers by sheer volume. The president of Southern Consolidated was talking at the top of his lungs about watchbird's enormous durability. The two presidents he was talking at were grinning, nodding, one trying to interrupt with the results of a test he had run on watchbird's resourcefulness, the other talking about the new recharging apparatus. The other three men were in their own little group, delivering what sounded like a panegyric to watchbird. Gelsen noticed that all of them stood straight and tall, like the saviors they felt they were. He didn't find it funny. Up to a few days ago he had felt that way himself. He had considered himself a pot-bellied, slightly balding saint.
H his chief engineer, "Mac, a new day is coming. Watchbird is the Answer." And Macintyre had nodded very profoundly—another watchbird convert. How wonderful it had seemed then! A simple, reliable answer to one of mankind's greatest problems, all wrapped and packaged in a pound of incorruptible metal, crystal and plastics. Perhaps that was the very reason he was doubting it now. Gelsen suspected that you don't solve human problems so easily. There had to be a catch somewhere. After all, murder was an old problem, and watchbird too new a solution. "Gentlemen—" They had been talking so heatedly that they hadn't noticed the government representative entering. Now the room became quiet at once. "Gentlemen," the plump government man said, "the President, with the consent of Congress, has acted to form a watchbird division for every city and town in the country." The men burst into a spontaneous shout of triumph. They were going to have their chance to save the world after all, Gelsen thought, and worriedly asked himself what was wrong with that. He listened carefull as the overnment man outlined the distribution scheme.
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T had been agreed upon, and only the Presidential go-ahead had been lacking. "Fine," the representative said. "If that is all, I think we can—is there a question?" "Yes, sir," Gelsen said. "I want to know if the present model is the one we are going to manufacture." "Of course," the representative said. "It's the most advanced." "I have an objection." Gelsen stood up. His colleagues were glaring coldly at him. Obviously he was delaying the advent of the golden age. "What is your objection?" the representative asked. "First, let me say that I am one hundred per cent in favor of a machine to stop murder. It's been needed for a long time. I object only to the watchbird's learning circuits. They serve, in effect, to animate the machine and give it a pseudo-consciousness. I can't approve of that." "But, Mr. Gelsen, you yourself testified that the watchbird would not be completely efficient unless such circuits were introduced. Without them, the watchbirds could stop only an estimated seventy per cent of murders." "I know that," Gelsen said, feeling extremely uncomfortable. "I believe there might be a moral danger in allowing a machine to make decisions that are rightfully Man's," he declared doggedly. "Oh, come now, Gelsen," one of the corporation presidents said. "It's nothing of the sort. The watchbird will only reinforce the decisions made by honest men from the beginning of time." "I think that is true," the representative agreed. "But I can understand how Mr. Gelsen feels. It is sad that we must put a human problem into the hands of a machine, sadder still that we must have a machine enforce our laws. But I ask you to remember, Mr. Gelsen, that there is no other possible way of stopping a murderer before he strikesunfair to the many innocent people killed. It would be every year if we were to restrict watchbird on philosophical grounds. Don't you agree that I'm right?" "Yes, I suppose I do," Gelsen said unhappily. He had told himself all that a thousand times, but something still bothered him. Perhaps he would talk it over with Macintyre.
The country was to be divided into seven areas, each to be supplied and serviced by one manufacturer. This meant monopoly, of course, but a necessary one. Like the telephone service, it was in the public's best interests. You couldn't have competition in watchbird service. Watchbird was for everyone. "The President hopes," the representative continued, "that full watchbird service will be installed in the shortest possible time. You will have top priorities on strategic metals, manpower, and so forth." "Speaking for myself," the president of Southern Consolidated said "I expect to , have the first batch of watchbirds distributed within the week. Production is all set up."
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As the conference broke up, a thought struck him. He grinned. A lot of policemen were going to be out of work!
T his sidekicks, rarely bothered to turn past the sports pages. "Well," the captain said, trying to remember what he had read in the Sunday supplements, "these scientists were working on criminology. They were studying murderers, to find out what made them tick. So they found that murderers throw out a different sort of brain wave from ordinary people. And their glands act funny, too. All this happens when they're about to commit a murder. So these scientists worked out a special machine to flash red or something when these brain waves turned on." "Scientists," Celtrics said bitterly. "Well, after the scientists had this machine, they didn't know what to do with it. It was too big to move around, and murderers didn't drop in often enough to make it flash. So they built it into a smaller unit and tried it out in a few police stations. I think they tried one upstate. But it didn't work so good. You couldn't get to the crime in time. That's why they built the watchbirds." "I don't think they'll stop no criminals," one of the policemen insisted.
"N red hand across his forehead and leaned against the captain's desk. "Ain't science marvelous?" Two other policemen, late of Homicide, nodded glumly. "Don't worry about it," the captain said. "We'll find a home for you in Larceny, Celtrics. You'll like it here." "I just can't get over it," Celtrics complained. "A lousy little piece of tin and glass is going to solve all the crimes." "Not quite," the captain said. "The watchbirds are supposed to prevent the crimes before they happen." "Then how'll they be crimes?" one of the policeman asked. "I mean they can't hang you for murder until you commit one, can they?" "That's not the idea," the captain said. "The watchbirds are supposed to stop a man before he commits a murder." "Then no one arrests him?" Celtrics asked. "I don't know how they're going to work that out," the captain admitted. The men were silent for a while. The captain yawned and examined his watch. "The thing I don't understand," Celtrics said, still leaning on the captain's desk, "is just how do they do it? How did it start, Captain?"
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O wings. Silently it flew. Silently, but with all senses functioning. Built-in kinesthetics told the watchbird where it was, and held it in a long search curve. Its eyes and ears operated as one unit, searching, seeking. And then something happened! The watchbird's electronically fast reflexes picked up the edge of a sensation. A correlation center tested it, matching it with electrical and chemical data in its memory files. A relay tripped. Down the watchbird spiraled, coming in on the increasingly strong sensation. It smelledthe outpouring of certain glands,tasteda deviant brain wave. Fully alerted and armed, it spun and banked in the bright morning sunlight. Dinelli was so intent he didn't see the watchbird coming. He had his gun poised, and his eyes pleaded with the big grocer. "Don't come no closer."
"They sure will. I read the test results. They can smell him out before he commits a crime. And when they reach him, they give him a powerful shock or something. It'll stop him." "You closing up Homicide, Captain?" Celtrics asked. "Nope," the captain said. "I'm leaving a skeleton crew in until we see how these birds do." "Hah," Celtrics said. "Skeleton crew. That's funny." Sure," the captain said. "Anyhow, I m going to leave some men on. It seems " ' the birds don't stop all murders " . "Why not?" "Some murderers don't have these brain waves," the captain answered, trying to remember what the newspaper article had said. "Or their glands don't work or something." "Which ones don't they stop?" Celtrics asked, with professional curiosity. "I don't know. But I hear they got the damned things fixed so they're going to stop all of them soon. " "How they working that?" "They learn. The watchbirds, I mean. Just like people." "You kidding me?" "Nope." "Well," Celtrics said, "I think I'll just keep old Betsy oiled, just in case. You can't trust these scientists." "Right. " "Birds!" Celtrics scoffed.
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"You lousy little punk," the grocer said, and took another step forward. "Rob me? I'll break every bone in your puny body." The grocer, too stupid or too courageous to understand the threat of the gun, advanced on the little thief. "All right," Dinelli said, in a thorough state of panic. "All right, sucker, take—" A bolt of electricity knocked him on his back. The gun went off, smashing a breakfast food display. "What in hell?" the grocer asked, staring at the stunned thief. And then he saw a flash of silver wings. "Well, I'm really damned. Those watchbirds work!" He stared until, the wings disappeared in the sky. Then he telephoned the police. The watchbird returned to his search curve. His thinking center correlated the new facts he had learned about murder. Several of these he hadn't known before. This new information was simultaneously flashed to all the other watchbirds and their information was flashed back to him. New information, methods, definitions were constantly passing between them.
N plant. Orders were being filled on time, with top priorities given to the biggest cities in his area, and working down to the smallest towns. "All smooth, Chief," Macintyre said, coming in the door. He had just completed a routine inspection. "Fine. Have a seat." The big engineer sat down and lighted a cigarette. "We've been working on this for some time," Gelsen said, when he couldn't think of anything else. "We sure have," Macintyre agreed. He leaned back and inhaled deeply. He had been one of the consulting engineers on the original watchbird. That was six years back. He had been working for Gelsen ever since, and the men had become good friends. "The thing I wanted to ask you was this—" Gelsen paused. He couldn't think how to phrase what he wanted. Instead he asked, "What do you think of the watchbirds, Mac?" "Who, me?" The engineer grinned nervously. He had been eating, drinking and sleeping watchbird ever since its inception. He had never found it necessary to have an attitude. "Why, I think it's great." "I don't mean that," Gelsen said. He realized that what he wanted was to have someone understand his point of view. "I mean do you figure there might be some danger in machine thinking?" "I don't think so, Chief. Why do you ask?" "Look, I'm no scientist or engineer. I've just handled cost and production and let
G action. No one is monitoring them." "So that's the trouble," Macintyre said. "I've been thinking of getting out of watchbird." Gelsen hadn't realized it until that moment. "Look, Chief," Macintyre said. "Will you take an engineer's word on this?" "Let's hear it." "The watchbirds are no more dangerous than an automobile, an IBM calculator or a thermometer. They have no more consciousness or volition than those things. The watchbirds are built to respond to certain stimuli, and to carry out certain operations when they receive that stimuli." "And the learning circuits?" "You have to have those," Macintyre said patiently, as though explaining the whole thing to a ten-year-old. "The purpose of the watchbird is to frustrate all murder-attempts, right? Well, only certain murderers give out these stimuli. In order to stop all of them, the watchbird has to search out new definitions of murder and correlate them with what it already knows." "I think it's inhuman," Gelsen said. "That's the best thing about it. The watchbirds are unemotional. Their reasoning is non-anthropomorphic. You can't bribe them or drug them. You shouldn't fear them, either." The intercom on Gelsen's desk buzzed. He ignored it. "I know all this," Gelsen said. "But, still, sometimes I feel like the man who invented dynamite. He thought it would only be used for blowing up tree stumps." "Youdidn't invent watchbird."
you boys worry about how. But as a layman, watchbird is starting to frighten me " . "No reason for that." "I don't like the idea of the learning circuits " . "But why not?" Then Macintyre grinned again. "I know. You're like a lot of people, Chief—afraid your machines are going to wake up and say, 'What are we doing here? Let's go out and rule the world.' Is that it?" "Maybe something like that," Gelsen admitted. "No chance of it," Macintyre said. "The watchbirds are complex, I'll admit, but an M.I.T. calculator is a whole lot more complex. And it hasn't got consciousness." "No. But the watchbirds canlearn. " "Sure. So can all the new calculators. Do you think they'll team up with the watchbirds?"
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"I still feel morally responsible because I manufacture them." The intercom buzzed again, and Gelsen irritably punched a button. "The reports are in on the first week of watchbird operation," his secretary told him. "How do they look?" "Wonderful, sir. " "Send them in in fifteen minutes." Gelsen switched the intercom off and turned back to Macintyre, who was cleaning his fingernails with a wooden match. "Don't you think that this represents a trend in human thinking? The mechanical god? The electronic father?" "Chief," Macintyre said, "I think you should study watchbird more closely. Do you know what's built into the circuits?" "Only generally." "First, there is a purpose. Which is to stop living organisms from committing murder. Two, murder may be defined as an act of violence, consisting of breaking, mangling, maltreating or otherwise stopping the functions of a living organism by a living organism. Three, most murderers are detectable by certain chemical and electrical changes." Macintyre paused to light another cigarette. "Those conditions take care of the routine functions. Then, for the learning circuits, there are two more conditions. Four, there are some living organisms who commit murder without the signs mentioned in three. Five, these can be detected by data applicable to condition two." "I see," Gelsen said. "You realize how foolproof it is?" "I suppose so." Gelsen hesitated a moment. "I guess that's all." "Right," the engineer said, and left. Gelsen thought for a few moments. Therecouldn'tbe anything wrong with the watchbirds. "Send in the reports," he said into the intercom.
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But that wasn't so important. You could regain lost money—never a lost life. Gelsen was ready to admit that he had been wrong about the watchbirds. They weredoing a job that humans had been unable to accomplish. The first hint of something wrong came that morning. Macintyre came into his office. He stood silently in front of Gelsen's desk, looking annoyed and a little embarrassed. "What's the matter, Mac?" Gelsen asked. "One of the watchbirds went to work on a slaughterhouse man. Knocked him out. " Gelsen thought about it for a moment. Yes, the watchbirds would do that. With their new learning circuits, they had probably defined the killing of animals as murder. "Tell the packers to mechanize their slaughtering," Gelsen said. "I never liked that business myself." "All right," Macintyre said. He pursed his lips, then shrugged his shoulders and left. Gelsen stood beside his desk, thinking. Couldn't the watchbirds differentiate between a murderer and a man engaged in a legitimate profession? No, evidently not. To them, murder was murder. No exceptions. He frowned. That might take a little ironing out in the circuits. But not too much, he decided hastily. Just make them a little more discriminating. He sat down again and buried himself in paperwork, trying to avoid the edge of an old fear.
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large and strong, with many locked doors, but the watchbird was there— To stop a murder. "Get that thing out of here!" the warden shouted, and reached for the switch. The watchbird knocked him down. "Stop that!" a guard screamed, and grabbed for the switch himself. He was knocked to the floor beside the warden. "This isn't murder, you idiot!" another guard said. He drew his gun to shoot down the glittering, wheeling metal bird. Anticipating, the watchbird smashed him back against the wall. There was silence in the room. After a while, the man in the helmet started to giggle. Then he stopped. The watchbird stood on guard, fluttering in mid-air— Making sure no murder was done. New data flashed along the watchbird network. Unmonitored, independent, the thousands of watchbirds received and acted upon it. The breaking, mangling or otherwise stopping the functions of a living organism by a living organism. New acts to stop. "Damn you, git going!" Farmer Ollister shouted, and raised his whip again. The horse balked, and the wagon rattled and shook as he edged sideways. "You lousy hunk of pigmeal, git going!" the farmer yelled and he raised the whip again. It never fell. An alert watchbird, sensing violence, had knocked him out of his seat. A living organism? What is a living organism? The watchbirds extended their definitions as they became aware of more facts. And, of course, this gave them more work. The deer was just visible at the edge of the woods. The hunter raised his rifle, and took careful aim. He didn't have time to shoot.
W the other end, then placed the receiver gently in its cradle. "What was that one?" Macintyre asked. He was unshaven, tie loose, shirt unbuttoned. "Another fisherman," Gelsen said. "It seems the watchbirds won't let him fish even though his family is starving. What are we going to do about it, he wants to know " . "How many hundred is that?" "I don't know. I haven't opened the mail." "Well, I figured out where the trouble is," Macintyre said gloomily, with the air of
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Beatles - A Group of Tony Sheridan Records, Autographs, and Photos (Polydor/Star-Club, 1962-1964)....
Beatles - A Group of Tony Sheridan Records, Autographs, and Photos (Polydor/Star-Club, 1962-1964). First is the Tony Sheridan and Beat Brothers album, a collection of the tracks recorded by Bert Kaempfert in 1961 and 1962, the Beatles appearing as The Beat Brothers. Condition: overall VG-EX 6 (has a tape tear in the middle of the front cover) / GEM-MT 10 (disc). Second LP is a signed sleeve only, with no disc included Tony Sheridan Vol. 2 Singles 1965-1968 boldly signed by Tony in silver marker on the front cover, some moisture warping but overall Very Good. Also a 1963 German EP, Tony Sheridan With The Beatles, featuring "My Bonnie", "Cry For A Shadow", "The Saints" and "Why". Condition: EX 7 /VG-EX 6.
With a unique set of individually signed pay stubs from the Star-Club for Tony and his backing band from 1962: Roy Young, Collin Melander, Johnny Watson, Ricky Barnes, and Sheridan. Stubs are dated 1962.
Finally, two period photographs of Sheridan in Germany, two one measuring 3" x 4.5" and the second 4" x 6". All stubs and photos in Excellent condition. From the Uwe Blaschke Beatles Collection. COA from Heritage Auctions.
The movie quite literally changed my life. I have included a pic of me in Sly's Rocky 3 Cashmere overcoat, would much appreciate if it is possible for you to forward this email to Sly to let him know the overcoat is in good hands, and will be well taken care of, (as will be the Rambo knife forging tools, the other lot I won!) Wish you very happy holidays and a great 2016!
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If You Smoke Pot, Your Anesthesiologist Needs To Know
By Health | August 2, 2019
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DENVER — When Colorado legalized marijuana, it became a pioneer in creating new policies to deal with the drug.
Now the state’s surgeons, nurses and anesthesiologists are becoming pioneers of a different sort in understanding what weed may do to patients who go under the knife.
Their observations and initial research show that marijuana use may affect patients’ responses to anesthesia on the operating table — and, depending on the patient’s history of using the drug, either help or hinder their symptoms afterward in the recovery room.
Colorado makes for an interesting laboratory. Since the state legalized marijuana for medicine in 2000 and allowed for its recreational sale in 2014, more Coloradans are using it — and they may also be more willing to tell their doctors about it.
Roughly 17% of Coloradans said they used marijuana in the previous 30 days in 2017, according to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, more than double the 8% who reported doing so in 2006. By comparison, just 9% of U.S. residents said they used marijuana in 2017.
“It has been destigmatized here in Colorado,” said Dr. Andrew Monte, an associate professor of emergency medicine and medical toxicology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and UCHealth. “We’re ahead of the game in terms of our ability to talk to patients about it. We’re also ahead of the game in identifying complications associated with use.”
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One small study of Colorado patients published in May found marijuana users required more than triple the amount of one common sedation medicine, propofol, as did nonusers.
Those findings and anecdotal reports are prompting additional questions from the study’s author, Dr. Mark Twardowski, and others in the state’s medical field: If pot users indeed need more anesthesia, are there increased risks for breathing problems during minor procedures? Are there higher costs with the use of more medication, if a second or third bottle of anesthesia must be routinely opened? And what does regular cannabis use mean for recovery post-surgery?
But much is still unknown about marijuana’s impact on patients because it remains illegal on the federal level, making studies difficult to fund or undertake.
It’s even difficult to quantify how many of the estimated 800,000 to 1 million anesthesia procedures that are performed in Colorado each year involve marijuana users, according to Dr. Joy Hawkins, a professor of anesthesiology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and president of the Colorado Society of Anesthesiologists. The Colorado Hospital Association said it doesn’t track anesthesia needs or costs specific to marijuana users.
As more states legalize cannabis to varying degrees, discussions about the drug are happening elsewhere, too. On a national level, the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists recently updated its clinical guidelines to highlight potential risks for and needs of marijuana users. American Society of Anesthesiologists spokeswoman Theresa Hill said that the use of marijuana in managing pain is a topic under discussion but that more research is needed. This year, it endorsed a federal bill calling for fewer regulatory barriers on marijuana research.
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No matter where patients live, though, many nurses and doctors from around the country agree: Patients should disclose marijuana use before any surgery or procedure. Linda Stone, a certified registered nurse anesthetist in Raleigh, N.C., acknowledged that patients in states where marijuana is illegal might be more hesitant.
“We really don’t want patients to feel like there’s stigma. They really do need to divulge that information,” Stone said. “We are just trying to make sure that we provide the safest care.”
In Colorado, Hawkins said, anesthesiologists have noticed that patients who use marijuana are more tolerant of some common anesthesia drugs, such as propofol, which helps people fall asleep during general anesthesia or stay relaxed during conscious “twilight” sedation. But higher doses can increase potentially serious side effects such as low blood pressure and depressed heart function.
Limited airway flow is another issue for people who smoke marijuana. “It acts very much like cigarettes, so it makes your airway irritated,” she said.
To be sure, anesthesia must be adjusted to accommodate patients of all sorts, apart from cannabis use. Anesthesiologists are prepared to adapt and make procedures safe for all patients, Hawkins said. And in some emergency surgeries, patients might not be in a position to disclose their cannabis use ahead of time.
Even when they do, a big challenge for medical professionals is gauging the amounts of marijuana consumed, as the potency varies widely from one joint to the next or when ingested through marijuana edibles. And levels of THC, the chemical with psychoactive effects in marijuana, have been increasing in the past few decades.
“For marijuana, it’s a bit of the Wild West,” Hawkins said. “We just don’t know what’s in these products that they’re using.”
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Colorado health providers are also observing how marijuana changes patients’ symptoms after they leave the operating suite — particularly relevant amid the ongoing opioid epidemic.
“We’ve been hearing reports about patients using cannabis, instead of opioids, to treat their postoperative pain,” said Dr. Mark Steven Wallace, chair of the pain medicine division in the anesthesiology department at the University of California-San Diego, in a state that also has legalized marijuana. “I have a lot of patients who say they prefer it.”
Matthew Sheahan, 25, of Denver, said he used marijuana to relieve pain after the removal of his wisdom teeth four years ago. After surgery, he smoked marijuana rather than using the ibuprofen prescribed but didn’t disclose this to his doctor because pot was illegal in Ohio, where he had the procedure. He said his doctor told him his swelling was greatly reduced. “I didn’t experience the pain that I thought I would,” Sheahan said.
In a study underway, Wallace is working with patients who’ve recently had surgery for joint replacement to see whether marijuana can be used to treat pain and reduce the need for opioids.
But this may be a Catch-22 for regular marijuana users. They reported feeling greater pain and consumed more opioids in the hospital after vehicle crash injuries compared with nonusers, according to a study published last year in the journal Patient Safety in Surgery.
“The hypothesis is that chronic marijuana users develop a tolerance to pain medications, and since they do not receive marijuana while in the hospital, they require a higher replacement dose of opioids,” said Dr. David Bar-Or, who directs trauma research at Swedish Medical Center in Englewood, Colo., and several other hospitals in Colorado, Texas, Missouri and Kansas. He is studying a synthetic form of THC called dronabinol as a potential substitute for opioids in the hospital.
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“We know very little about marijuana because we’ve not been allowed to study it in the way we study any other drug,” Hawkins said. “We’re all wishing we had a little more data to rely on.”
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How to Become an Electrician in Gulf Shores Alabama
The initial step to becoming an electrical contractor or tradesman is enrolling in an electrician trade school near Gulf Shores AL. But with so many technical schools to select from, just how do you undertake making sure that you enroll in the best one? Particularly since there are so many points to consider. For instance, many students will begin by looking for schools that are nearby their residence. When they have found some that are within driving range, they will choose the one with the cheapest tuition. Although cost and location are of importance, they are not the sole things that should be examined. Also critical are the accreditation and reputations of the schools, in addition to their graduation and job placement rates. These and additional qualifications should help mold your final judgment when picking an electrician school. We will talk about that checklist in greater detail later in this post. But first, let’s talk a little bit about being an electrician and the instructional options that are accessible.
Electrician Degree, Diploma and Certificate Options near Gulf Shores AL
There are several options to get electrician training in a technical or vocational school near Gulf Shores AL. You can select a diploma or certificate program, or earn an Associate Degree. Bachelor’s Degrees are obtainable at some schools, but are not as common as the first three alternatives. Frequently these programs are offered combined with an apprenticeship, which are required by the majority of states in order to become licensed or if you would like to earn certification. Following are short explanations of the 3 most prevalent programs offered.
Diploma and Certificate Programs are typically provided by Alabama vocational and trade schools and take approximately a year to complete. They provide a good foundation and are geared towards students who wish to join an apprenticeship more quickly as a journeyman electrician.
Associate Degrees involve 2 years to finish and are offered by Alabama junior or community colleges, usually as an Associate Degree in Electrical Technology. They provide a more comprehensive education while supplying the foundation that prepares students to begin their apprenticeship program.
As previously mentioned, Bachelor’s Degree programs are accessible at certain Alabama colleges, but are less popular at four years than the other shorter programs. Most states require that an apprenticeship of at least 2 years and more typically 4 years be performed before licensing. For that reason, many students are anxious to commence their paid apprenticeship, especially if it’s not part of their educational program.
Electrician License and Certification Criteria
Electricians in Gulf Shores AL can undertake a multitude of duties, including installing, replacing and testing electrical systems, and ensuring that the wiring in houses and buildings are up to code standards. After concluding an apprenticeship, journeyman electricians are mandated to be licensed in most states or municipalities. The duration of apprenticeship varies by state, but usually around 4 to 5 years of prior experience is called for in order to take the licensing exam. The exams usually test electrical theory and general knowledge, as well as knowledge of the National Electrical Code (NEC). Receiving certification is also a voluntary way for an electrician to identify him or herself as a experienced and skilled professional. The certifications offered vary by state and may be obtained in various specializations, such as cable splicing as an example. The certification procedure usually involves 3 levels of competency:
An experience requirement
Passing a written exam
Passing a practical exam
Examples of certifying organizations include the National Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee (NJATC) as well as the National Institute for Certification in Engineering Technologies (NICET). It’s imperative that the electrician tech school that you select not only furnishes a solid educational foundation, but also helps ready you for passing any certification and licensing examinations that you may need to take in the future.
Attending Electrician Programs Online in Gulf Shores AL
An option that you might have contemplated is enrolling in an electrician online program to earn a degree or a certificate. Even though online schools have become more accepted as a way of attending class without needing to travel, in this situation they are not entirely internet based. Pretty much all electrician schools require some attendance on campus to obtain practical hands-on training. But since the rest of the classes may be attended online, internet learning might be a more accommodating alternative for students that have limited time for education. And as an added benefit numerous online degree programs have a reduced tuition cost compared to their on campus counterparts. Driving expenses from Gulf Shores AL are also lessened and a portion of the study materials may be accessed on line also. Each of these advantages can make online electrician vocational schools more affordable and accessible. And many are fully accredited, which we will address in our due diligence checklist.
Points to Ask Electrician Training Schools
Once you have decided to obtain a certificate, diploma or degree, you can start to refine your training options. Because there are so many electrician tech and trade schools in the Gulf Shores AL region, it’s essential to have a checklist of criteria that each program must meet. The initial 2 that we mentioned were location and tuition expense. If you are interested in earning an degree online, then that must be a feature that your final school offers. And although all three qualifiers may be important when making your decision, there are additional factors that must be considered also. Following is a checklist of those additional qualifications that you will need to assess before enrolling in an electrical technical school.
Accreditation. Many electrician vocational programs have received either a regional or a national accreditation. They may earn Institutional Accreditation, which focuses on the school’s programs overall, or Programmatic Accreditation, which relates to an individual program, such as electrical technology. Make sure that the Gulf Shores AL school and program are accredited by a U.S. Department of Education approved accrediting agency, for instance the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology. In addition to helping guarantee that you get an excellent education, it may assist in securing financial assistance or student loans, which are often unavailable for non-accredited schools. Furthermore, a number of states require that the electrician training course be accredited for it to be approved for licensing.
High Completion and Placement Rates. Ask the electrician training programs you are looking at what their completion rates are. The completion rate is the percentage or portion of students who enroll in and finish the course. A low completion rate might signify that students were disappointed with the program and dropped out. It may also indicate that the instructors were not competent to instruct the students. It’s also imperative that the schools have higher job placement rates. Older and/or more reputable schools may have a broader list of graduates, which may produce more contacts for the school to employ for their apprenticeship and job placement programs. A high job placement rate will not only validate that the school has an excellent reputation within the trade, but additionally that it has the network of contacts to assist Gulf Shores AL students secure apprenticeships or jobs.
Apprenticeship Programs. Many electrician technical programs are taught along with an internship or an apprenticeship program. Those participating vocational and technical schools will help place you in an apprenticeship program within their network of electrical contractors or labor unions. Find out if the schools you are reviewing have working partnerships with Gulf Shores AL area electricians or electrical professionals. An apprenticeship not only offers a rewarding experience by supplying practical training, but it also furnishes job opportunities and helps to build relationships in the regional electrician professional community.
Modern Facilities. Make certain that the school facilities and the equipment that you will be trained on are up-to-date and what you will be using on the job. If you are already in an internship or an apprenticeship, consult with the electrical technician you are working with concerning what you should be expecting. If not, ask a local Gulf Shores AL electrical company if they can provide some pointers. Additionally bear in mind that unless you can relocate, the school needs to be within commuting distance of your Gulf Shores home. Take note that if you decide to attend an out-of-state school, in addition to moving costs there can be increased tuition charges compared to in-state residents.
Smaller Classes. It’s desirable that you receive as much individualized instruction as possible, which can be difficult in larger classes. Ask if you can sit in on some of the classes so that you can observe how big they are and witness first hand the interaction between teachers and students. Speak with some of the students and get their feedback regarding class sizes and instruction. Finally, speak to a few of the teachers and find out what their level of experience is and what certifications or degrees they hold.
Flexible Scheduling. Confirm that the class schedules for the schools you are assessing are flexible enough to handle your needs. If you can only go to classes at night or on weekends near Gulf Shores AL, confirm that the programs you are comparing provide those options. If you can only attend part-time, be sure that the school you select offers part-time enrollment. Also, find out what the policy is to make-up classes should you miss any due to work, sickness or family emergencies.
Considering Attending an Electrician School near Gulf Shores AL?
Following is a little bit of background information about the Gulf Shores AL area.
Gulf Shores is located on the Gulf of Mexico at 30°16'4.069" North, 87°42'5.285" West (30.267797, −87.701468).[4] It is the southernmost settlement in the state of Alabama.[5] It is served by Alabama State Route 59 (Gulf Shores Parkway), which leads north to Foley. Route 182 (Beach Boulevard) runs east-west along the shore front, while Route 180 (Fort Morgan Road) runs parallel to it, north of Little Lagoon. Gulf State Park occupies a large eastern part of the city.
Gulf Shores is located 33 miles (53 km) west of Pensacola, Florida, 54 miles (87 km) south of Mobile, 197 miles (317 km) east of New Orleans, 194 miles (312 km) south of Montgomery, and 55 miles (89 km) west of Navarre, Florida.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 28.0 square miles (72.5 km2), of which 23.2 square miles (60.0 km2) is land and 4.8 square miles (12.5 km2), or 17.24%, is water.[3]
Choose the Right Electrician Tech School near Gulf Shores AL
Choosing the best electrician trade school will probably be the most important decision you will make to launch your new career. As we have discussed in this article, there are a number of factors that you will need to examine and compare between the training programs you are looking at. It’s a necessity that any electrician training that you are considering includes a considerable amount of hands-on instruction. Classes should be smaller in size and every student should have their own equipment to train with. Classroom education should provide a real-world context, and the training program should be current and in-line with industry standards. Training programs differ in length and the type of credential offered, so you will have to ascertain what length of program and credential will best satisfy your needs. Every program offers unique options for certification as well. Perhaps The ideal way to research your final list of schools is to go to each campus and speak with the faculty and students. Invest some time to sit in on some classes. Inspect the campus and facilities. Make certain that you are confident that the training program you decide on is the right one for you. With the right training, effort and commitment, the end result will be a new occupation as a professional electrician in Gulf Shores AL.
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10 Facts about Declaration of Independence
Friday, July 22nd 2016. | History
If you are interested to learn about the history of United States, check Facts about Declaration of Independence. On 4th July 1776, the Second Continental Congress meeting was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to adopt the Declaration of Independence. The 13 colonies of America were announced in the statement. It marked the historical time that the thirteen colonies now were not under the rule of Britain and they were independent sovereign states. They created a new nation called United States of America consisting of 13 colonies. Here are other interesting facts about Declaration of Independence:
Facts about Declaration of Independence 1: John Adams
The leader for pushing the independence of 13 colonies in America was John Adam. There was no opposing vote cast when the independence was passed on July 2nd.
Facts about Declaration of Independence 2: the draft of formal Declaration of Independence
The draft of formal declaration of independence had been made by a committee of five members. It was ready before the vote on independence was held by the congress.
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Facts about Declaration of Independence 3: Declaration of Independence
In the document, the term Declaration of Independence is not used. The committee was persuaded by John Adams to pick Thomas Jefferson to create the draft of this important document. The final version of the draft would be edited by the congress. Check facts about Colonial America here.
Facts about Declaration of Independence 4: the vote for independence
The vote for independence was conducted on July 2nd. It was an important day for America.
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Facts about Declaration of Independence 5: the Independence Day
Even though the vote was made on 2nd July, the celebration of United States’ Independence Day falls on July 4th. The date is selected because that’s the day when the congress signed the Declaration of Independence.
Facts about Declaration of Independence 6: the forms of Declaration of Independence
Actually there were several forms of Declaration of Independence issued by the congress after the document was ratified.
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Facts about Declaration of Independence 7: the publication
The initial publication of Declaration of Independence was meant to be read by the public so that they realized the independence for American people. Get facts about American Independence Day here.
Facts about Declaration of Independence 8: the source of copy
Unfortunately, the source copy of Declaration of Independence was lost. Probably, Thomas Jefferson had it.
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Facts about Declaration of Independence 9: Library of Congress
You may come to Library of Congress if you want to know the original draft of Declaration of Independence written by Thomas Jefferson. You can also find changes by Congress, Benjamin Franklin and John Adams.
Facts about Declaration of Independence 10: National Archives in Washington
If you want to know the official document of Declaration of Independence, you can check it at National Archives in Washington.
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Gary Lineker Underwear, Shirtless Photos, and New Girlfriend?
Posted in Categories Men in Boxer Shorts | on April 15, 2020 by Pimmy Watson
Gary Lineker Underwear. Gary Lineker may be the British version of Wendy Williams. Of course we are not saying that he is as shady as the American talk show host. Nor are we claiming that he is as tacky or as gossipy as Wendy. Anyhoo, the TV host had to literally eat crow when she bet that Kim and Kanye’s marriage will not last more than 72 days (Kim’s previous marriage to basketball star Kris Humphries). Wendy lost her bet and, to her credit, she went ahead and ate crow on her show.
Meanwhile, Gary’s version of eating crow came in the form of him presenting in his underwear. Check him out in this video:
So why did Gary end up in the studio wearing nothing but his boxer shorts? The Guardian has the details:
Gary Lineker has fulfilled his promise to present BBC’s Match of the Day in his underwear, following months of speculation. Kind of. The former Leicester City striker had vowed to present the BBC football programme in his undies if the club won the Premier League title, which they did against the odds in May.
In the event he presented the first part of the programme in what appeared to be a large pair of white shorts with a Leicester City logo on the front, and nothing else. The 55-year-old wore the shorts for about the first 30 minutes of the show then appeared back on screen fully dressed. He said: “It is a one-off and a sporting miracle that has landed me in my underwear.”
We give props to Gary Lineker because he fulfilled his promise. Now, we’re publishing some Gary Lineker underwear photos below for those of you who can’t watch the video above. Or in case it gets deleted.
You are a good sport, mate! Want more men in boxers underwear?
Those of us who were disappointed that Gary opted to wear boxer shorts rather than skimpy briefs will have to make do with fan-generated Gary Lineker underwear images like this one:
Or this one which also features former UK Prime Minister David Cameron.
Oh wait, there’s more. Apparently, his dare to wear undies while presenting became a meme so lots of folks photoshopped Gary’s head on the bodies of male underwear models.
Does Gary have a new girlfriend? He remains a single dude after he called it quits with Danielle Bux. The two are on friendly terms and were, in fact, seen vacationing in L.A. together. Maybe a reconciliation is not out of the question, no?
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Zviad Tsikolia was born in Tbilisi, Georgia. Zviad studied at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, faculty of Industrial Design.
His first success was at the republic-wide competition at Poti in 1986, where his truck design won the Grand Prix. In 1987, Zviad was awarded the bronze medal on the Exhibit of People's Achievements in Moscow, where he presented his trailer design. In 1993 he became a leading designer at Air Georgia. One of the milestone achievements was the Frankfurt Auto Show in 1997, where Zviad presented his Bugatti Concept Car. In 2001, Zviad received an invitation from Peugeot on the position of a consultant. His Luxury Russo-Baltique Impression was exhibited in Villa d'Este in 2006 and at the Geneva Auto Show in 2007. He was hired as a leading designer by the Japanese company DCI in the same year. Zviad moved to a Georgian design bureau Delta in 2010 where he designed first Georgian armored vehicle Didgori. Zviad regularly takes part in a number of projects. He founded his own watch company UNIQ in 2011. In 2013–2014 he worked as a consultant to the company SAIC Motor, where he designed interior for the car concepts in development.
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1987 – Bronze medal awarded on the Exhibit of People's Achievements, Moscow
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2001 – Winner of the Russo-Baltique competition
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2013 – Vakhtang Gorgasali medal of 2nd degree
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The theory of perfective drift
Siebers, Johan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6030-9646 (2017) The theory of perfective drift. In: Communicology for the Human Sciences: Lanigan and the Philosophy of Communication. Smith, Andrew R., Catt, Isaac E. and Klyukanov, Igor E., eds. Peter Lang, Oxford, pp. 169-190. ISBN 9781433143748, pbk-ISBN 9781433141157, e-ISBN 9781433143724, e-ISBN 9781433141140. [Book Section] (doi:10.3726/b10835)
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Again, perfection is a notion which haunts human imagination. It cannot be ignored. But its naïve attachment to the realm of forms is entirely without justification.1
The theory of which I aim to sketch a basic outline here has to be understood as a philosophical theory of communication. Our first task, then, will be to clarify what sets a philosophical theory of communication apart from other communication theories. It is here that the contemporary scholar feels deep gratitude towards the work of Richard Lanigan. For he has, over many years and in many publications, drawn our attention like few others to the specifically philosophical aspects of communication as a concept and as a phenomenon. In particular, I wish to refer here to his seminal explorations in the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty.2 Any reading of Merleau-Ponty’s mature philosophical writings cannot fail to give us the strong impression that questions of communication were central to his investigations, but it is the contribution of Lanigan, and others, to have shown just how central the theme of communication is to Merleau-Ponty’s embodied phenomenology of relationality and expression are; and more so to have begun to make this phenomenological approach fruitful for the whole field of communication studies.
In an early publication on this topic, Lanigan highlighted the dialectical relation that exists between perception and expression in Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology.3 These functions...
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Joseph Karr convicted, sentenced to life in prison for 2014 murder of Oakland resident Kelly Turner
Published On April 4, 2016 | By Rob Arias | Crime & Public Safety, News & Commentary
Friends and relatives of Kelly Turner were provided a bit of closure on Monday as Joseph Karr was sentenced to life in prison for her 2014 murder. Karr, an Emeryville-based metalwork artisan, was found guilty last week of fatally stabbing Turner to death in what prosecutors framed as “a fit of rage”. Turner worked as a Southwest flight attendant based out of Oakland International since 2001.
Karr took the stand and reportedly tried to argue that Turner’s killing was an act of self-defense and that he “did what he had to do”. Turner was reportedly stabbed 37 times. Karr was convicted after less than an hour of deliberations at the 147th Travis County District Court. The 55-year-old Karr could be eligible for parole in 30 years.
“Kelly was a beautiful, vivacious, lover of life and adventurous soul.” noted one anonymous commenter. “Having majored in Psychology, her only fault was wanting to see and believe the best in people, and she had unyielding empathy. Joe wasn’t the first wounded bird she dated, but she was clearly in over her head with him and ignored the red flags and lost her life as a result.”
The drama that unfolded in the comment thread of this news site is unprecedented (131 comments and counting) and could serve as fodder for an episode of ABC’s Nightline. Friends, former coworkers, relatives and ex-girlfriends all weighed in on Karr’s character with many noting sociopathic behavior consistent with the alleged crime.
One curious detail about the story was an anonymous commenter that noted a connection with Karr and an unsolved 2008 murder in Denver. “Word of this just hit Denver where a few of us had neighboring studios with him. There was a murder (stabbing) in our ally in 2008 that he had been questioned by police for.” During the trial, a courtroom observer noted that Karr was also “being investigated for the Denver murder of someone he shared an art space with.” (Did The E’ville Eye just help solve a cold case?).
Man sentenced to life in prison for killing girlfriend
The Southwest Austin home where Karr killed Turner (Chris Sadeghi/KXAN)
A California man will spend the rest of his life in prison for stabbing and killing his Austin girlfriend in 2014.
Last week, a jury found Joseph Karr, 55, guilty of killing 43-year-old Kelly Turner.
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Joseph Karr sentenced to life in prison for stabbing of Kelly Turner
By Alejandro Martínez-Cabrera
A California man who was found guilty last week of stabbing and killing his girlfriend in Southwest Austin has been sentenced to life in prison.
Prosecutors said Joseph Frederic Karr, 55, stabbed 43-year-old Kelly Turner at her best friend’s house on Nov. 1, 2014. A witness said he woke up in the middle of the night when he heard Turner screaming and later found Karr pacing back and forth with blood on his shirt, mumbling while holding a knife.
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5 Responses to Joseph Karr convicted, sentenced to life in prison for 2014 murder of Oakland resident Kelly Turner
huzzah to the justice system for working as well as it can.
Relieved says:
I cannot express how relieved I am that he will be locked up for life. After dating him, I lived in fear of ever seeing him again. My heart goes out to Kelly and her family. May his karma be swift.
Did you date him when he lived in California or Denver? What was he like? He killed my family member in Denver.
Wow, so sorry:(
Kamber Sokulsky says:
Holy shit! I worked with him in Boulder and Denver. I TOLD everyone he was CRAZY. Last I saw him was about 2005. He was mumbling to himself in a bar. I saw him on the periphery a few times as I am a Blacksmith. I’m sorry for your loss.
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Disability, human rights and the limits of humanitarianism
Michael Gill, Cathy J. Schlund-Vials
Cultural Foundations of Education
Disability studies scholars and activists have long criticized and critiqued so-termed 'charitable' approaches to disability where the capitalization of individual disabled bodies to invoke pity are historically, socially, and politically circumscribed by paternalism. Disabled individuals have long advocated for civil and human rights in various locations throughout the globe, yet contemporary human rights discourses problematically co-opt disabled bodies as 'evidence' of harms done under capitalism, war, and other forms of conflict, while humanitarian non-governmental organizations often use disabled bodies to generate resources for their humanitarian projects. It is the connection between civil rights and human rights, and this concomitant relationship between national and global, which foregrounds this groundbreaking book's contention that disability studies productively challenge such human rights paradigms, which troublingly eschew disability rights in favor of exclusionary humanitarianism. It relocates disability from the margins to the center of academic and activist debates over the vexed relationship between human rights and humanitarianism. These considerations thus productively destabilize able-bodied assumptions that undergird definitions of personhood in civil rights and human rights by highlighting intersections between disability, race, gender ethnicity, and sexuality as a way to interrogate the possibilities (and limitations) of human rights as a politicized regime.
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POLL: Do you agree with President Macron that hunting is good for nature?
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Bird protection campaigners are to lodge an official complaint with the European Union accusing France of breaking rules on hunting and trapping and failing to protect endangered species.
The Ligue pour la Protection des Oiseaux (LPO) is using the 40th anniversairy of the EU’s “bird directive”, which outlaws the “massive or non-selective” killing of birds to highlight what it deems cruel and illegal methods.
Wood pigeons, skylarks, grey geese, and curlew (above) are all fair game for French bird hunters. Quotas are set for different departments, but the LPO says these are often ignored. Photograph: Alamy
These includes gluesticks covered in adhesive lime and set in trees or bushes to catch birds when they land, traps that crush the birds with heavy stones, and nooses.
The LPO says it was forced to act after the French government refused to respond to its complaints and the state council approved gluesticks, saying the method was traditional and there was no other satisfactory method of trapping the birds.
Stone crush traps, once banned for a century, were legalised in France in 2005 and are also considered unnecessarily cruel as often the birds do not die instantly.
Wood pigeons, skylarks, grey geese and curlew are all fair game for French bird hunters, despite a decline in certain species. Legal hunting periods and species quotas are set for different departments, but the LPO says these are often ignored.
Kim Dallet, the LPO spokeswoman, said the Ligue had lodged numerous complaints to the French government over methods of hunting birds and the targeting of threatened species but often without response.
Le Président de la République @EmmanuelMacron était au @domainechambord ce soir. Il a salué la contribution de la #chasse à la #nature. pic.twitter.com/m24UVc4G09
— Chasseurs de France (@ChasseursFrance) December 15, 2017
“To mark the anniversary of the EU directive, we’re taking it up to European level, which will hopefully force the French government to respond and to respect the directive,” she said.
She added: “We have species of bird in a bad way in terms of conservation that are still being hunted in France, which is absolutely against the directive. French hunters can kill around 63 different species while in other countries in Europe it’s 20-30 at the most. Also hunters in France do not respect the agreed hunting period or local prefects give them extra hours or days to hunt.
“I don’t know what it is about hunting in France, perhaps because we have more of a hunting tradition. But the situation has to evolve.”
Two reports by French researchers last year found the number of birds in rural areas had dropped by a third in 15 years, partly because of intensive farming and the “massive use of pesticides”.
The French president, Emmanuel Macron, joined a hunt during his 40th birthday celebrations at the Château de Chambord in December 2017. “Hunting is a wonderful advantage for biodiversity, development of our rural territory and a popular activity to safeguard,” he told the hunting lobby.
Chasseurs de France tweeted a picture of Macron with hunters, saying he had “praised the contribution of hunting to nature”, which brought a swift response from the Elysée that the photo should not be published as Macron had specifically banned pictures being taken.
This article was first published by The Guardian on 01 Apr 2019.
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This, coming from one of the most unpopular leaders France has ever had. The French love to eat almost anything that moves – frogs, horses etc. How can anyone with a brain believe that killing animals is good for the environment? He’s a politician, and a bad one at that. Stick to what you know Macron and stop giving in to pressure groups and the landed hunting/shooting well off brigade, who no doubt support you because of your tax policies.
Eva Ries
Emmanuel Macron is a politician, NOT a scientist. What does he actually know about the biology and ecology of habitats in France, let alone outside of his own country? As usual, he is just another politician who will sell the lives of other species off to placate “voters” without a thought to the harm and the horrors this actually causes. He is clueless as to the outdated institutional “management” tactic of selling permits to slaughter wildlife for no other reason than to “monetize” their existence to generate revenue – not to help the wildlife in any manner whatsoever. With a… Read more »
Larry Gordin
“Sport hunting’ is a sickness, a perversion and a danger and should be recognized as such. People who get their amusement from hunting and killing defenseless animals can only be suffering from a mental disorder. In a world with boundless opportunities for amusement, it’s detestable that anyone would choose to get thrills from killing others who ask for nothing from life but the chance to remain alive.” – Sir Roger Moore (seven times James Bond). Regarding animal killing contests and trophy hunting: Humans are the species that is drastically overpopulating and destroying the planet. How about a killing contest of… Read more »
Totally agree. It is the overpopulation of the planet that is a major contributor to global warming and the extinction of numerous species. More people = more pollution, more use/pollution of water, more rubbish being thrown into the seas, more forests being cut down to provide cheap cooking oil. More drilling of pristine areas to find fossil fuel for our polluting transport. If the population was considerably smaller, we wouldn’t be faced with the 6th extinction. I’m not altogether sure that the 6th extinction would be such a bad thing as humans, generally and especially in the most overpopulated and… Read more »
No, hunting is sadistic blood lust.
Julie Diana
No it’s not, anyone who thinks hunting is good or fun has something wrong with them! Who are we to destroy wildlife? Who are we to decide what lives and what dies?! If it was hunting cats or dogs then everyone would kick off to stop it! All animals deserve to live and live without fear! Only a Bunch of selfish pricks would hunt! (I like to call them hunt with a c!)
Michèle Haudebourg
NO, I DO NOT AGREE. I’M AGAINST PRESIDENT MACRON. .
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Macron – A destroyer of life in so many ways!!!
Roy Ravioli Buxton
Without humans there to hunt them, look what happened to the dinosaurs…
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I hope you’re not serious….most species evolved long before our species, please take a biology course.
Arlene Steinberg
His FB page is gone, so I don’t know what the hell that statement was about. If it was supposed to be some cretinous attempt at humor, it failed miserably. And if it WAS serious, he’s a moron.
Anne Grice
No intelligent person could ever believe such irrational statement
george mira
Human hunting has no natural relationship with normal predation. Natural predators take the injured, weak, aged, and stochastically removes more from high and dense populations of prey. Birds naturally suffer little predation once they are fledged until some incapacity I listed creates vulnerability. A hunting technology such as gun hunting has been the major driver of severe diminution of birds seasonally in Europe, only since primitive guns arrived by the 1300s. European gun hunters are the main drivers of ecological simplification worldwide, including Africa, South Asia, and the Americas – especially NorthAmerica where species diminution and even extinction have paralleled… Read more »
Lying politicians is NOT unique to any country or any particular time in history. They all have been doing it, some more than others and Macron is no exception. It’s just that here, he cannot fool the scientific minds that know that he is wrong…and why he is lying.
Anita Chauhan
In some countries, hunting is not only a sport and for wildmeat, but also regulating the wildlife numbers. This is because large predators like bear, lynx and predatory birds are absent or rare. There should be set methods of hunting /exterminating. Pesticides have caused passerine bird population to reduce drastically, it includes insectivorous birds which are beneficial to farmers.
“n some countries, hunting is not only a sport and for wildmeat, but also regulating the wildlife numbers”
It is done so in error, and actually has the opposite effect. The “management” of most large animals, especially predatory species, has been to systematically reduce numbers and eventually extirpate them altogether because they are a “nuisance” to livestock farmers – which should be banned – and a “danger” to humans.”
No species that does the rampant damage of humans, with their interference into nature that they clearly do not understand, has any business whatsoever dictating life and death for any other species.
Cameron McElroy
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Loan Watch: Campbell Scores Winner | Almunia Back On Bench | Vela Struggles
With many countries across Europe playing extra midweek games last week, our young loanees had an another chance to play and receive more valuable experience. Almunia’s spell at West Ham ended after Robert Green returned from injury, and Wellington Silva continues to miss out at Levante as their coach sticks with the same team after their fantastic start to the season – until the weekend they were unbeaten and top of La Liga, above both Real Madrid and Barcelona.
Carlos Vela:
The Mexican played a total of 180 minutes for Real Sociedad, but was unable to bag himself a goal or even his team a point. During the week, they went down 3-2 at high-flying Levante; an exciting game seemed destined to end a 2-2 draw, before Ruben Suarez stepped up and scored a magnificent free kick to win the game in the 93rd minute.
At the weekend, an extremely defenside Sociedad lost 1-0 at home to Real Madrid; Argentinian Higuain scored the only goal after 9 minutes. Deciding to line up with 5 defenders resulted in Vela, the solitary striker, being isolated and unable to affect the game whatsoever. Whilst he is a willing runner, these tactics do not suit his style of play and he is much more effective when playing upfront with a partner, or even out on the left wing.
Nicklas Bendtner:
The ‘confident’ striker featured for the full 90 minutes in Sunderland’s 2-2 draw at home to Aston Villa. A fabulous Petrov curler gave Villa the lead, but it was Bendtner’s striking partner Connor Wickham who equalised for the black cats after 38 minutes. It was looking like another loss for Sunderland when Richard Dunne headed Villa in front with 5 minutes left, but Sessegnon then lost his marker, ironically Dunne, to equalise and send both teams home with a point.
Bendtner, while having a quiet game, looked promising as he attempted to build a relationship with Wickham, at that may prove a fruitful partnership for Sunderland in the future. As mentioned by Steve Bruce last week, Bendtner has the potential to be a 20 goal a season striker and the playing time he is getting this season may help him to become this.
Pedro Botelho:
The left winger played in one of Rayo Vallecano’s two games last week, but despite scoring against Malaga, the Brazilian did not play against Villarreal at the weekend. His goal, the first in their 2-0 home win, was a simple one; he headed home a Piti corner from inside the six yard box before utilising Di Maria’s ‘heart’ celebration. Tamudo got the other goal as Rayo picked up their third league win of the season. After picking up an injury late in Rayo’s win, Botelho was unavailable for their trip to El Madrigal.
Joel Campbell:
The striker played in both of Lorient’s games, but fared remarkably differently in each. He came on as a substitute during the first half of his sides 2-1 away win in the league cup against Montpellier. Campbell scored the winner in the second half (watch the goal here), just 4 minutes after Giroud had equalised for the home side.
However, the Costa Rican had a far worse game as Lorient lost 3-1 at Brest; he was hauled off at half time after failing to take advantage of his starting place. Three first half goals, one from Toure and two from Grougi, were enough to secure the win, although defender Bruno Manga did get some consolation for Lorient in the second half.
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In the game against OM, our boys did well but they gave away balls too often especially around the opponents’ 18-yard box.This should be checked in subsequent games.
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There’s a Foxx Guarding the Ag-Policy Henhouse
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Know your farmer, know your food? Oh no, you don't, says Virginia Foxx.
In my post on the recent House Republicans’ assault on progressive ag policy, I mentioned the move to shut down USDA’s Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food initiative. The sponsor of the amendment that did the dirty deed is Rep. Virginia Foxx (R.-N.C.)—who, it turns, out, represents my district in Congress. This is the sort of thing she gets up to when she’s not defending children from the scourge of gay marriage, or lashing out at undocumented workers (who, incidentally, form the backbone of our area’s Christmas tree and nursery industries.)
As I mentioned in my previous post, Know Your Farmer is essentially a website. it gathers up and spotlights a hodgepodge of existing programs, funded by the 2008 Farm Bill, that direct modest amounts of money to rebuilding local and regional food systems and supporting new farmers.
That’s actually a significant service. The USDA’s own site is infamously unwieldy and impossible to navigate. Without Know Your Farmer, the few progressive federal ag programs we have—for example, ones that that help make farmers markets accessible to low-income mothers, or help small farmers launch profitable food businesses—would likely wither on the vine.
But Know Your Farmer isn’t just a website. It’s also the USDA’s most high-profile acknowledgement since the post-war rise of industrial agriculture that alternative food systems exist, matter, and deserve support. For decades, the USDA’s approach to agriculture could be encapsulated in the famous mantra of Ezra Taft Benson, Eisenhower’s USDA chief: “Get big or get out.” That attitude still dominates our farm policy, but Know Your Farmer shows that a rogue faction now operates within the agency, one that acknowledges that the scaling up and corporate domination of US agriculture hasn’t redounded to the public good.
Overall, Obama’s Ag policy has been wildly inconsistent, and has more often than not tilted toward the interests of Big Ag. But Know Your Farmer stands as his acknowledgement that the sustainable-food movement has earned a seat, even if not a particularly powerful one, at the ag-policy table after decades of grassroots policy work.
For Big Ag and the politicians who do its bidding, that’s apparently an unacceptable situation. Last year, three agribiz-aligned senators lashed out at Know Your Farmer in an angry letter to USDA chief Tom Vilsack. The initiative “involves subsidizing the so-called locavore niche market,” the lawmakers complained, decorously neglecting to mention that Big Ag gets many times the support in the form of crops subsidies and various ethanol goodies.
And now we get a full-frontal attack from the House, in the form of the dread Rep. Foxx’s amendment to shut down Know Your Farmer. Like her stances on gay marriage and immigration, Foxx’s jihad against Know Your Farmer is absurd. She mounted her attack based on budget concerns; but the initiative has no budget of its own. As the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition dryly put it recently, “The practical impact of the Foxx amendment is unclear. The Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food initiative is not a program per se and does not have its own budget. Hence it is difficult to know how USDA would interpret the restriction.”
I suspect Foxx’s move wasn’t really about saving money, since you don’t save much by shutting down a website; but rather about sending a message: The USDA belongs to the companies that dominate US food and ag, not to the communities working on the ground to create alternatives. There’s more at stake here than just a web site. The Know Your Farmer flap is really about whether our political system is capable of conducting even moderately progressive food and farm policy.
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Star Trek: Discovery Season Three
Scavengers (306)
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STAR TREK: DISCOVERY - SEASON THREE
EPISODE NUMBER - 306
Burnham and Georgiou act against orders to go in search of Book, who has become a slave laborer on a salvage planet run by Emerald Chain — where he says he has found a "black box" that survived the Burn.
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A solid if slightly flawed episode. All of the kind of points in the A plot felt a bit predictable with how Bunrham and Georgiou infiltrated and rescued Book. It was all good but just a little predictable.
The character moments are what are really making this season. The stuff with Adira and Stamets is gold. The scenes with Tilly are gold. The scenes between Saru and Burnham and Georgiou are perfect. I'm so glad that they're addressing head on the fatal flaw that Burnham has had throughout the show when it comes to taking authority on her own head and how Saru recognises that he was pushing for normalcy a little too soon with both himself and her.
The new upgrades to Discovery are really awesome and make sense. I know the A in the reg number is technically incorrect but I'm cool with it. It's more symbolic than anything else. I like how the detached nacelles are explained. And it was a joy seeing the bridge crew geek out over programmable matter and the new badges.
Otherwise. Lol and Grudge. Lol at Linus. **** yeah and Burnham and Book finally kissing.
Please do me a huge favour and help me be with the love of my life.
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Two questions.
First - if time travel is now strictly verboten, who (if anyone) is keeping an eye on the Guardian of Forever?
Second - does Linus have an older sister, Lucy?
Long before you and I were born, others beat these benches with their empty cups,
To the night and its stars, to the here and now with who we are.
Another sunrise with my sad captains, with who I choose to lose my mind,
And if it's all we only pass this way but once, what a perfect waste of time.
Gollumpus
When the Admiral asked Burnham to tell him what he was going to say to her, I half expected her to tell him something along the lines that she was okay with him being in charge of Star Fleet (at least for the day-to-day housekeeping stuff), and that she would be proud to take the position as his Number One and accept his orders, at least the ones which he had first cleared with her...
How does Burnham not get busted back to basic crewman status, assuming she somehow avoids an extended period in the brig, and then being drummed out of the Fleet? And how do they manage to steal Booker's ship, and of greater importance, how do they manage to do this without taking along the cat? I would imagine that Burnham would have some company on the demotion track for that screw up.
The new re-fit looks pretty shiny compared to the original design. The writers missed an obvious plot line where, for at least part of the episode the "crew", as in the faces we are familiar with, get some screen time. They could show off with regard to how bright they are while working with the re-fit teams, telling the future tech guys what would be a good interface and exchanging ideas, not just have the regular cast come in and be all agog like a bunch of kids on X-Mas morning. I got tired of Linus having trouble working his teleportation device after the first time (after that I figured it would become a running joke - the writers didn't disappoint me). If there was going to be this obvious schitck, just before the credits rolled, I'd have had it announced that there was a (medical) emergency that he had materialized into a bulkhead, and left it as a "WTF!?" moment for fans to mull over, whether he was dead or not.
And there should have been a hell of a lot more of Stamets working with some future techs regarding the spore drive, and a lot more about integrating it into the new systems of Discovery and the rest of the fleet. All we really see is Adira telling him that she updated the interface one afternoon while she had nothing to do and was bored (okay, maybe it took her all day), Still, the re-design and partial integration of the spore drive and Adira changing the interface could have made a fairly good A/B storyline for a bottle episode.
And why is Adira still on Discovery, other than for plot reasons? There is the potential of a lot of intel clicking around between host and symbiote which I suspect Star Fleet would be reluctant to have lying around. Has Adira ever received some sort of rank, even cadet?
Otherwise, speaking of dilithium, what did happen to all of the "real dilithium" that was on board of Discovery (never mind the amount that Booker had/has)? The Earth forces would have/should have discovered it when they were doing their investigation of the ship, so why didn't they (at the very least) pause to report to their superiors about this significant cache? Did Star Fleet not discover it, and then acquire a certain amount (ie. take most of it) for powering other vessels and perhaps even the station? Or is all of that still sitting in a pile in Discovery's cargo hold? (I don't know, which is why I'm asking - I've missed some episodes, deliberately) I'm assuming that Discovery has kept enough to power and transport themselves via a warp drive, as well as keeping the option of using the spore drive.
B&B being a thing is kinda' "so what?" and the only real surprise is that some intensification in their relationship hadn't happened in episode one.
The "who is going to be the new executive officer?" question holds some interest, mostly because the show hasn't really put anyone forward more than anyone else as a logical choice. Nhan or Airiam would have been among the better choices, but they are no longer with the show. I've seen/heard opinions suggesting everyone from Nilsson to Tilly (LOL, wut!?) as possible candidates.
Scary thought, the most obvious choice should be Georgiou (based on character experience and rank - IIRC she holds the rank of full commander). Yes, it would/should never happen in a real world setting, but with this Trek, who knows? I suspect that there will be at least a suggestion of this, but it will likely be shut down by the character not wanting to take on the "boring" responsibilities of the role of an exec.
Which then leads to the next question - just what the heck does Georgiou do all day while she is on Discovery? What is her chain of command? Why does Saru have her on board, outside of for plot reasons?
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Originally Posted by Gollumpus
Otherwise, speaking of dilithium, what did happen to all of the "real dilithium" that was on board of Discovery (never mind the amount that Booker had/has)? The Earth forces would have/should have discovered it when they were doing their investigation of the ship, so why didn't they (at the very least) pause to report to their superiors about this significant cache?
They hid it from Earth on Book's ship (he has technology that blocks it from 32nd century sensors). This generated the main point of tension in the episode. Saru was reticent to trust Book with their dilithium, the Titans assumed they were hiding dilithium based on how quickly they appeared on sensors and thus started threatening it while in orbit over Earth, and Burnham took Book's ship out of the hanger without permission so she could pretend to offer them the Discovery's dilithium while Saru had to piece together what she was doing.
It was revealed to the head Earth inspector that the Discovery had a hidden cache of dilithium when Burnham left the hanger with it, and she verbally expressed her surprise.
Did Star Fleet not discover it, and then acquire a certain amount (ie. take most of it) for powering other vessels and perhaps even the station? Or is all of that still sitting in a pile in Discovery's cargo hold? (I don't know, which is why I'm asking - I've missed some episodes, deliberately) I'm assuming that Discovery has kept enough to power and transport themselves via a warp drive, as well as keeping the option of using the spore drive.
It hasn't been addressed what happened to their dilithium stores since they rejoined the Federation. There's no indication that the Federation has a shortage of manufactured dilithium, and presumably the Discovery can't be as easily robbed now the ship has been upgraded. As a consequence, it appears to have been dropped as a plot point, at least for now.
EricG
LOL! Doesn't Starfleet have to approve?
Yeah, so I guess we'll see what happens next week.. although I already know the answer as I'm writing this while the following episode is on my TV...
Originally Posted by EricG
Not necessarily. Appointment of number one has always largely been up to the Captains themselves. Usually when a first officer is appointed to them it's due to a special circumstance such as there being limited options at the time. Hell even Sisko, while not asking for Kira specifically, requested a Bajoran national as his first officer so as a Commander and not a Captain he still had a choice in the matter.
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1. music box
it starts out interesting and mysterious. The instruments seem a bit bland though at first. At 2 minutes in it gets a bit better. But this could be the drums and bass guitar giving it a bit more body. Especially the orchestra seems a bit shallow mixing wise /recording wise.
Around 2:48 the guitar lacks depth. Also around here it is quite hard to follow the melodies, as they are either not finished or blend into another part of the original lba theme. What this section lacks for me is a main instrument who has the lead. If you didn't know the original melody, would you even know what's going on?
Overall it seems that the composer wanted to broaden the musical themes and trancend them somehow. But by doing so, we lose the focus of the original themes. Could also be the mixing, I am curious how the mockup sounded when they were scoring this. At times though I think it sounds really beautiful, especially near the very end, when the flute can be heard. It just didn't get through the mix very well.
2. The Empire
This one starts very mysterious as well. It sounds interesting. You know what tune this is when it starts, and I like that. The mysterous intro is what I meant with trancending it, but here I feel it works pretty cool. Around 1:54 we finally get a strong orchestra sounding! Much better....
On the other hand, at around 2:23 the original theme starts, and here the song definitely picks up. This focus was missing a bit in the beginning. From here on though the piece sounds great! This should have been the way for all the tracks. I don't mind the transcendal beginning if they snap into focus like this one! There are some parts in this one where I would sometimes play this one over the original.
3. Mother earth. Starts with a high string. Maybe this would give lba3 a darker and more introspective character. It deserves a couple of listens. Can you imagine running around with Twinsen? Or maybe Arthur? It would make an epic beginning, because it would suggest maybe things aren't so right after all, and that there is another adventure to be had. I like it that way.
Although it should be called mother twinsun should it not?
It's actually a pretty good track. I wonder how the original sounded? it must exists somewhere in Vachey's vault. There really are some beautiful strings in it. I think after all it would have made more sense to record the original tracks, and put the original version of this lba 3 music on the bonus tracks?
It isn't as catchy as the other lba musics, but it still sounds good.
4. Desert
I think the title would have been better called "white leaf desert", but it's only a title. The start is really cool! Although not very orchetral, but the sounds are cool. The new digital rendition...I like it. It doesn't sound very orchestral, but maybe that would have sounded a bit odd anyway for this one. Liking this
5. the water deity
another new lba3 music. Is this about sendell? Does she turn out to be the bad girl of the game? It is a bit short and lacking a clear theme to really give me a strong feeling. And since it is quite dramatic, it is typical that kind of music that only works when attached to a special scene, like when a person dies in a movie or game. The whispering is funny, but doesn't mean anything when it wasn't in any game. It is more atmospheric.
6. Emerald
the beginning sounds as promising as the original synths. Although a bit more thin. What could he have used in 1996? The jarre synth sounds a bit off. It is not bad perse, but it does not add to the experience. Would have been better if it was more bell like I think. Or a cello playing a solo, would have made a lot more sense to me.
This version is also very watered down, even though the original was very power full. This feels more like a reprise. Still, luckily the melodic content is still there and still super beautiful. In that light, I like this one a lot. It is more subtile. It has it's place!
7. In The Temple
Ok I got to give it is quite bold to just completely make a different instrumentation for this one. It is more suspensefull, but I can also say that I think most people would have liked a full blown orchestral version of this one, instead of this version. Once the cello's kick in it becomes a lot nicer. This one is watered down, more subtile on purpose. Would have loved a treatment like the empire here. Bit of a letdown.
8. FT LAPs
Ok this is funky town. The one track I would have think they would skip as it would be hard to orchestrate. It is cool they made it dancey, but other than that I really don't feel much about it. Maybe the bass is lacking or it could be a bit more punchey?
9. Purple
This was never my favourite as it is just a simple melody. It is exactly like the original which would have been cool elsewhere.
10. opening for lba
this one is superb, like the rest ought to be. Great composition. Minor detail is that the orchestra doesn't sound very full. Like there are not many players. But could be me
11. Hamalayi
This one also got more depth, and the string action is excellent! love this rework. it really is an addition to the original
12. The Quest
If I see this as a completely new work, it is kinda beautiful. But it feels a bit like a romantic movie, which wasn't the idea for the quest. At least, that is what I think. I miss the urgency, pain and intense beauty despite that pain.
Will go back to the piano works later
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I think it's unanimous:
Originally Posted by elmuerte
Listing to the new rendition is clear how a lot of songs really were made to be played by an orchestra. The Opening for LBA (...) so good
Originally Posted by rob_c
Feels more like a movie soundtrack to me. Some of the themes are very cool like (...) 'opening for lba'
I'm really happy with the Opening for LBA
Originally Posted by wannie
The highlights for me are Opening for LBA (...) And something needs to be said about Opening for LBA. I listened to this track and what I found was the exact grandiose result I was expecting to see emerge from when I imagined LBA's soundtrack being played by a real orchestra. I listened to this track and had to go back and listen to it again. Phenomenal work. I can't help but imagine how hard it must have been to get the whole orchestra with all its distinctive parts move together in sync as one.
Originally Posted by SpaceGuitarist
such approach has its place, it's a hell lot atmospheric, but definitely not akin to the opulent orchestral work of the originals (save for (...) Opening for LBA)
Originally Posted by Polaris
So anyway, I was pretty disappointed up until... Opening for LBA
I'm probably not objective, since this one has always been my favourite but...
It's almost the only song he didn't ditch the structure of. Melody line is still here, coming strong and clear, no constant musical carpet in the background.
And even the dynamic problem is somewhat solved by the fact that there are quite a few short moments when there's only silence.
That song hurled me back to a nostalgia-fueled tornado, all the way to when LBA1 was to me the greatest game of all time and again, dreaming endlessly of seeing an LBA3.
That track alone was worth my 15€. I don't regret anything.
Originally Posted by CS2x
it is becoming increasingly disappointing to these ears (apart from three or four good moments, and a more than competent rendering of the LBA Opening - a real highlight.)
Originally Posted by Neko
opening for lba
this one is superb, like the rest ought to be. Great composition. Minor detail is that the orchestra doesn't sound very full. Like there are not many players.
... this is the one track that truly cuts to the chase, the one Vachey got right from start to finish, what every other track should have sounded like, perhaps because of its great dynamics and because it follows closely the original melody with very few significant changes that only enhanced it, while keeping its orchestral parts symphonic-sounding just like all of us had expected from a symphonic suite.
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What made it impossible to record the others? Budget constraints?
Empire is pretty cool too btw
elmuerte
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an actual release of a brand NEW song by Vachey we'd be running crazy in circles not knowing how to cope with the excitement
Music alone doesn't do it for me. It's about the complete package. The new songs are just new songs... they were not part of any adventure I had.
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Glad to know I'm not the only one who felt this whole suite had very few great moments, quite a bunch of "meh ok" things going on and a ton of "wtf, why did you do that?! nooo!!! u ruined it " type of moments. Again, I could not even listen to the songs fully 'til this very day, I found so many things I don't like in most songs that I think my brain's trying to conserve the past memories in their untouched state, like emotional defense mechanisms activated. I could only skip through the tracks here and there ONCE, then never played them again.
Emerald Moon is by far my most beloved track in the whole LBA universe, I used to listen to it when I was happy, sad, sick, ill, etc.. And the new version starts really cool for the first few seconds then it goes to complete shit with that electronic BS... sad and poor artistic choices I will not understand to be honest :/
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Impossible. It went 258% over the original necessary budget. Fans gave all support needed. Within very few days the campaign was funded and a couple weeks later it went way above the goal. I don't know the story, so these are suppositions, but I think his ambitions made it collide with the unexpected coronavirus situation, which then might have caused budget problems.
The coronavirus restrictions possibly made recording in itself and buying studio-time a lot more expensive than initially estimated, and probably had to gather way less musicians than the usual orchestra (to avoid gatherings), which also might have affected recording (few people far appart from eachother - so for instance to microphone a section of violins that would affect the sound). Probably, restrictions also affected the possibility to book other recording dates, so afaik everything was recorded in one day, and with this lack of recorded material another long months was needed with post-production adding synthesizers to 'fill in' (I am not saying all synthesizers weren't intended originally, but it seems many of them were added later for this purpose). His ambitions led to that because we all know that before you even start a kickstarter you work in advance everything that is needed to make the project doable (for instance, to be able to include all 15 songs as promised). All songs are already done, there is no work involving transcribing notes by ear like fans need to do. He has all the originals, with every single instrument and every single note. The work that would need to be done is to compose new parts (extending them, not substituting main melody lines) and adapt it to a real orchestra. He was ambitious to change everything around, and spend valuable months rearranging the songs, which led to actual recording of the material only in May 2020, a year later. Only to be delivered in December 2020. The fact that it was so constantly delayed probably consumed the budget, too.
The project was presented in May 2019 and during all previous years this rearranging could've been done beforehand. But, let's suppose he waited the green light of the kickstarter before getting into work. Even then, only minor rearranging was needed if he was not so ambitious, because honestly, the originals were already eagerly waiting to be played by a real orchestra. The very fact that talented soloists would be playing the lead lines would have made it new, grand and fresh, without the need to change the melodies or have to work in post-production adding synths to fill lead melodies and give it strange twists. He could've spent a lot more money and time after the green light and happy news of the kickstarter campaign success to just work closely with the orchestra and soloist talents to express LBA's tunes as vibrantly as possible, with little emphasis on the "transcend" aspect because that's an extra, a bonus, but not the core material fans waited for. So, had it been done this way, we'd have a true symphonic suite done by the end of December 2019 which was the deadline, and he wouldn't have run into budget problems later.
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There's truth into this, but had Water Deity and Mother Earth been epic, I could easily imagine myself in new adventures on an imaginary LBA 3...
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Originally Posted by Quetch
Yeah...'Emerald Moon' I think particularly inspired me to write my long ramble on the previous page. You're not alone in your feelings, that's for sure!
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sad and poor artistic choices I will not understand to be honest :/
Unfortunately, people change, the world has changed... If we compare the differences in style and composition from 1994's LBA1 and 1997's LBA2 and realize that there was only a 3 year time difference between these very different compositions and then realize it's been 20 and 3 years since that to this new symphonic suite, then that explains a lot (plus all the shenanigans I explained above).
remakes are often tricky. I now know how to recreate my old tunes right, but you must use the same samples, otherwise you have a problem already
very few great moments, quite a bunch of "meh ok" things going on and a ton of "wtf, why did you do that?! nooo!!! u ruined it " type of moments
Have to agree 100% on you on that... BUT, there IS one really good side of this suite which are the 4 piano songs on the 2nd CD! Those you can listen to safely without worrying for wtf moments -- even if there's some improvisation that deviates from the original score, it's all good stuff. The pianist executed those with class.
“FT LAPs” is also provably the weakest sounding thing I have heard in 2020 on an official release. It could have been fun (although I don't particularly understand its conclusion over other things) but the mix and sounds...!
For real. Even his Toy Commander Soundtrack from 1999 sounded much, much better and ahead of its time in composition compared to "FT LAps".
edit: listen to this build-up from 2:24 to 3:50
Last edited by SpaceGuitarist; 2021-01-16 at 10:37.
Sgk i meant remake is always going to be difficult
I acknowledge two different Emerald Moons. The new one, with the synth, is going more into a John Carpenter direction. The song's application has been limited by this though. It works for Emerald Moon, but it does not work on Zeelich.
If we're talking about the worst track. I want to nominate In the Temple. This song is used in a lot of really iconic parts of LBA1... the new version either has the wrong instruments, or wrong mixing.
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Cool, but hey you've quoted my name when actually it was Quetch who said that. :) (and yesss In The Temple instrument choices suck so bad... and btw, maybe it's just me, but I've always remembered it to be called 'Citadel' as its the song that plays when you first exit the citadel while still in nurse clothes.)
But there was nothing to remake, the songs were already perfect, begging for an orchestral treatment. :)
Cool, but hey you've quoted my name when actually it was Quetch who said that. (and yesss In The Temple instrument choices suck so bad... and btw, maybe it's just me, but I've always remembered it to be called 'Citadel' as its the song that plays when you first exit the citadel while still in nurse clothes.)
Its called in the temple
Was a suprise when we first found out.
Agreed on the choice....but to me the quest too
But there was nothing to remake, the songs were already perfect, begging for an orchestral treatment.
Fully agree, they announced it as a Symphonic Orchestra Suite which should have been a re-recording of ALL (ahem ahem) LBA tracks + the nice music box novelty playing the main theme. So.. I don't really get the whole remake/revamp/modernizing needs that popped out of nowhere and ruined almost every song in more than just 1 way
Cool, but hey you've quoted my name when actually it was Quetch who said that.
looks I had a leftover from the multi-quote and I didn't clean my post correctly. It's fixed now
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I was reading the comments and reviews that where posted here on this forum of the symphonic suite.Seems like a lot are disappointed with the end result.
In my opinion the quality could be better and not all songs are great maybe because the original where already perfect but that’s what your own taste is and that different for everyone.I like they did some new things with the original music and sometimes it does not always work out right.
People had way to high expectations of this project I think.
Yes they funded 3 times more then what they had in mind but with that money they got a real orchestra and there were some additional numbers and piano tracks.
A lot of the money will also be used to produce the rewards for the backers so I don’t think they made a lot of profit.
In the end we should be glad it happened and lets hope there will be a LBA 3 in the future!
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Originally Posted by danielsan
Last edited by SpaceGuitarist; Today at 16:05.
It's not about expectations, or personal taste, it's about delivering what was promised, which wasn't the case. The premise is very simple: we were promised all lba songs played by a real orchestra. What we got are 3 actual purely orchestra played songs (Empire, The Quest and Opening for LBA) and the other 7 tracks (while still missing 5 other lba tracks without any explanations) are a mix of re-sampled synths of the original melodies juxtaposed with some orchestral bits here and there with intermittent deviations in its melody, which basically categorizes those as musical "covers" and not "symphonic suite of little big adventure soundtrack". Get it?
And not only that, sorry for always being the a$$ who complains about this, but a few of us suckers paid 800 bucks to meet Phil and join recording session. Yes, 400 out of 800 were for all the material goodies (CD, Vinyl, Medallion, Music Box, etc.), but the other 400 were for the event itself which never happened, so I'm really not going to slow down on this one. Either a refund, or ship me 2x the material stuff. I only see it fair with one of those 2 options.
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Having collaborated in over 400 online recording projects, there are a few lessons that I’ve learned for achieving the best results. I thought I’d pass on some of these on an ad-hoc basis. In this post, I’m sharing a few simple thoughts about how to play “tightly” together when you and your collaborators are not in the same room (or even in the same hemisphere).
When we play live, we know that without a strong connection between the drummer and the bass player the chances are that the band will sound sloppy. It’s essential that these guys work to lock things together and set the groove for everyone else to play in.
The order in which the tracks are recorded is key to achieving this, virtually.
Drums should always be recorded first. Assuming we’re recording a cover, the drummer plays along to either the original recording or to a metronome click track. The completed drum track is then shared with everyone in a shared drive.
Bass should always record next, playing along closely with the drum track. Unless there are parts of the song with no drums, the click track (or backing track) can be ignored. Or, otherwise, it can be edited to only keep time during those periods of silence. It’s the bassist’s role to lock-in to the drum track to ensure a strong foundation. The bassist shares the completed track with everyone in a shared drive.
The remaining rhythm section members (keys, guitars, percussion) all record in any order, playing tightly with both the drums and bass track. The click track (or backing track) is optional by this stage. All tracks that have been recorded are shared so that successive musicians can play along with them, which they most certainly should do.
Vocals, horns, and strings, all of which tune by ear, can all record now. They should play along to shared tracks only. By now, the original backing track should be discarded and no longer used for recording. Share all tracks in the shared drive.
Recording this way, from the ground up, we’re able to form and then build upon a strong rhythmic and chordal foundation. And since backing tracks can sometimes be out of tune, we avoid potential tuning catastrophes by ensuring that the backing track has been removed before vocals, horns, and strings can be trapped by it.
When I’m asked to collaborate on trumpet, I almost always wait until the rhythm section has completed its tracks before recording my own. This allows me to better play “in the pocket” rhythmically, while also avoiding the risk of accidentally tuning to a backing track that is not quite on A440.
Do you have any thoughts on this? Or better practices that you follow? If so, please share by adding a comment!
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Ok, so it's under normal view, not bshort and I suppose the problem you're pointing at is that I pretty much made all plot views for units ONLY oneline because the volume of information being displayed on plot information for even one unit overwhelms the display and is completely useless as a result. Is that pretty much the sum of it? And is that why you're asking for:
What's the point of any display that overwhelms the hover panel? It's going to hide critical information simply in the fact that you can't scroll in that panel. If you show all information on a unit the help hover will be overwhelmed (with the majority of units anyhow.) and this to me sounds like it would conceal the outcome display anyhow.
Might I suggest that the outcome information that you're intending to display be moved to the combat help hover or rather one of the pages there instead? It seems to me that's what we're really looking for anyhow right? If I'm not mistaken it's only by combat that you can get an outcome result such as what you're talking about is supposed to be displaying so shouldn't it be under the combat help hover anyhow? Given that its a detail regarding combat - not something about the plot.
I'm not putting it past myself to be a little off as to what I'm thinking about how you're saying the outcome display mechanism is working though. I've never actually seen it in game anyhow and always wondered how I was supposed to.
It is just supposed to tell you what you get from killing something (usually some animal) and when you are interested in that there is usually only one unit on a plot (the animal). So I guess either displaying that info as standard when there is only one unit or on the combat estimation hover is fine (though that one actually has considerably more info than what is displayed for a single animal now).
I'm looking for where you're able to specify this information comes up on hovering over a potential opponent and I'm not finding it. You're usually good at utilizing unexpected processing routes to get to a given result so I'm probably just not finding it because I'm looking where I would expect to find it. I found this under 'void CvGameTextMgr::setUnitHelp(CvWStringBuffer &szString, const CvUnit* pUnit, bool bOneLine, bool bShort)' under 'if (!bShort)' under 'if (bNormalView)' under 'if (!bOneLine)' (which all correlates to what you're saying here):
//Outcome Missions
CvOutcomeListMerged mergedList;
mergedList.addOutcomeList(pUnit->getUnitInfo().getKillOutcomeList());
for (int iI = 0; iI < GC.getNumUnitCombatInfos(); iI++)
if (pUnit->isHasUnitCombat((UnitCombatTypes)iI))
UnitCombatTypes eCombat = (UnitCombatTypes)iI;
mergedList.addOutcomeList(GC.getUnitCombatInfo(eCombat).getKillOutcomeList());
What I'm NOT seeing is where this
when you hover over an enemy unit
is somehow adapting the display.
If you're getting any of the display from void CvGameTextMgr::setUnitHelp(CvWStringBuffer &szString, const CvUnit* pUnit, bool bOneLine, bool bShort), the only reason you'd be getting it coming up at all is if you're hovering over your own unit so how can you ALSO be hovering over an opponent unit at the same time?
EDIT: Wait... ok, you're saying if ONE of your units is selected and you're looking for information on the opponent unit then that's when getKillOutcomeList() will display the outcome of a battle between your unit and that one. And since I've made it impossible to get as much information on opponent units this has been disabled. So to port this over to the combat help hover would be a bit of a REwrite rather than a simple move of the existing code. hmm... that's more complicated than I thought it would be. It may be beyond my ability to follow the way you refer to the outcomes to derive this information enough to move it over. But I'll look at least and see if I can make heads or tails of it enough to do so.
Side note: While clever, as a player I would never have intuitively suspected to derive further useful information in this manner - I'd have expected to find it in the combat help hover in the first place. That's where I'd expect to find any information regarding a conflict between the selected unit and the unit I'm considering doing battle with.
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When they work as teachers, why would they give rather then ?
It is not a "loss" for your nation is it just a "not gain" of it, which means 0. These slaves can only be settled in your city from captetives. So they origin from another nation. If they have the potential to be a great artist: bad luck. You don't actively lose from that, all you do is just not get any more .
True, but the same is true or captured Warlords and such.
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Faustmouse, Feb 15, 2014
@TB,
As it stands now when you build a new unit it's very hard to tell what you are actually getting from each promotion. In part I'm trying to remember what each promotion gives (especially those like Bamboo armor which gave multiple) and then add them up. So it's become a guessing game of sorts. While the AI "Knows" what each promo does, I do not. Definite advantage AI.
They would work as teachers IF the nation was dedicating its commerce to research, right? Commerce means Research, Culture, Espionage and Gold at the nation's option based on the sliders.
You don't feel that a slave based culture would potentially move backwards where culture is concerned? I would think that if ANYTHING could cause culture to erode and move backwards (culture being the general appreciability of a nation's artistic signature) it would be a culture where most people don't have the right to express themselves freely.
No argument there.
Ok, so I'm playing devil's advocate here but I must admit that between your arguments and those my wife has made I'm not going to 'stick to my guns'. As a sales person I sometimes have that mentality to 'rebuttal to death' in support of any position I'm taking. If y'all feel it's irrational to have the negative commerce and would instead like to see it expressed as negative gold I'm not against that change.
Not sure how you wouldn't be seeing the breakdown of promotions as you're selecting them on a new unit. Are you complaining about the way they compile their values into the previous ones on the same promotionline? Or am I reading too strongly into 'build a new unit' and you're talking about trying to judge the value of opponent units in the field with the plot hover that isn't giving you all the info you were able to previously obtain?
If you're looking for totals, try using... I think it's CTRL... when right clicking over an opponent unit to get additional combat factor totals like total withdrawal etc... Just the combat hover alone without any hotkeys will tell you how much added combat str % they have and such.
In short, explore the different ways to bring up information and you should find there's no lack of info - it's just condensed and so that the info isn't overwhelming and therefore hiding even more important information (in many cases the NAME of the unit itself) it's no attempting to deliver it 'all at once' but rather through hotkeys.
And if some of the inability to get pure information on enemy troops is making for a + for the AI, that's a VERY good thing considering how many game elements are a plus for the player due to insufficient AI programming. Helps to even the field a little. The AI may be able to see all that information but that doesn't mean it will use it in as advanced a way as a player would so it certainly has its own handicaps.
we DO have a Slave Specialist that gives pure ....
MOST prople? It starts as soon as you add one Slave to your 100 Pop megacity... What would you otherwise do? Imagine you didn't capture this slave. Your would be the sum of your populations creativity. Then you have your slave and force him to work in a Stone Quarry. Why would you get LESS then? It just doesn't make any sense. Even if 1000 Slaves work in your Quarry, they don't sabotage your nations artists. The only thing that could considered as "loss" in is that you don't allow your slaves to freely express themself. But that is, as I stated, not an acutal loss but just a not-gain.
Why not? If you capture a Warlord or even a General, they can join your forces and LEAD them. Even against their motherland. Why don't they have a negative ? Why hasn't ANY unit a negative ? They all are fighting rather then contribute to your nations total culture... And as a General who leads your troops, he has way more power/knowledge that he can sell to your enemies, and he doesn't have any penalty for ...
EDIT: Wait... ok, you're saying if ONE of your units is selected and you're looking for information on the opponent unit then that's when getKillOutcomeList() will display the outcome of a battle between your unit and that one. And since I've made it impossible to get as much information on opponent units this has been disabled.
So to port this over to the combat help hover would be a bit of a REwrite rather than a simple move of the existing code. hmm... that's more complicated than I thought it would be. It may be beyond my ability to follow the way you refer to the outcomes to derive this information enough to move it over. But I'll look at least and see if I can make heads or tails of it enough to do so.
It might be a simple move.
Yes I had.
Could I suggest you still display a pop-up. (it helps new players) I only realised I had banditry when I got my next civic and went to see what it gave.
The yes button could be removed or grayed out - so it can't be selected. This way you can see the big picture or say no.
If you could also show in the pop-up the number of turns before you could select the new civic, that would be useful too.
Another way would be to delay the pop-up until it could be selected.
No nation has ever had more slaves than free men. Culture loss due to the majority not being able to express themselves should be represented in the civic choices already.
Slaves are always a positive thing for the owners (the nation's rich members), the slaves would usually not be a part of the nation if free (captured in other lands), the only real negative i see is that they should increase revolution status or cost some money to keep alive, and content (content meaning you have to pay for guards to watch, punish and guide the slaves).
This is probably the argument that holds the most merit to me that tells me to concede. If you're continuing to debate purely to 'pick my brain' and see why I only partially agree however, it's because I feel that every person is interconnected. If you enslave one you will all share in a part of that experience. Your culture dims if you enslave due to the basic repulsive nature of it. I could probably go on and on with weak side-arguments here but again, I'm going to not so much say I outright agree that the cost should be gold as to say I no longer feel like resisting that movement because I can see how irrational it can appear to players to have slaves costing a base commerce (and how counterintuitive a situation it can setup.)
When I said "no argument here" I was saying 'I agree with you' not 'your point makes no sense'!
Another thing I can do that would be much easier in the meantime would be to move outcome displays to an isolation that excludes the !bOneLine check - but it's going to REALLY highlight ALL outcome abilities on units - to a fault I think. For now, it's the simple way to go. That buys me a bit of time to try to learn some things about your programming structures that I don't currently understand enough to build a text string from your generic programming.
See... the big difference when putting it into the combat context is that it should be displaying YOUR unit's outcome possibilities against THAT unit rather than THAT unit is displaying the outcome possibilities against itself from whatever unit happens to be selected. Vice versa should show too... its outcome possibilities towards you should be shown also. So that's an honest rewrite from go on the outcome text call and the way you go about those are so fragmented and utilizing methods I struggle to follow.
For example: mergedList.addOutcomeList begins the process of building the display. Then I go there to add OutcomeList and find that the variables that determine the amount of outcomes are generated in some other function and on and on like this and I get lost in the maze of function calls until I've traced my way through it 10-20 times. Then if I look at it again the next day I'm starting all over at the maze doorway. It intimidates me to even ATTEMPT to work with it.
I suppose if I were a patient programmer who charts out the flow charts of all the processing I work with it might make the structure easier to work with... I recall a friend of mine in his first year of programming schooling being taught to do this.
Sorry man... I gotta break down some of these statements and embrace the joy of argument for a minute - I'm not really doing so with an agenda anyhow since I think I'm fairly convinced of the ultimate point of the argument from your side anyhow but...
No nation has ever had more slaves than free men.
Looks like historically all manner of population percentages have existed... 30% being common but also as high as 90%. This document was one interesting one outside of the Wikipedia page on slavery. It mentions many historical civilizations and give some average population percentages that were enslaved.
Culture loss due to the majority not being able to express themselves should be represented in the civic choices already.
Slavery is no longer a civic and the greater the population enslaved, the more the drain.
Slaves are always a positive thing for the owners (the nation's rich members)
In and of itself debatable. People tend to spoil and become selfish, lazy, sucked into power mongering and self-gratification when they have such power over others. It's to say that the pursuits of slave owners tend to move away from the benefit of the community and purely into the benefit of self (which often still benefits the community as it often drives commerce - but not in any way that compares to an actively competing company.) Am I REALLY suggesting its a bad thing for the individual whom has obtained wealth and power over others, particularly when earned by birthright rather than merit? Yes. Most assuredly. The cost is just harder to realize it's being paid. Struggle is where most innovation is born. The privileged stagnate.
the slaves would usually not be a part of the nation if free (captured in other lands)
I don't recall that there was a mass migration to Africa that should've then ensued after the Emancipation Proclamation... Honestly though it really would depend on how long the generations of that family have been enslaved.
Note to DH: this would mean that after a while we should allow the data on what unit a military slave was before being captured to be 'forgotten'.
the only real negative i see is that they should increase revolution status or cost some money to keep alive, and content (content meaning you have to pay for guards to watch, punish and guide the slaves).
Being as this is the easiest effect to understand for most players observing and interacting with the game I can agree that this may be the best way to encapsulate the cost of a slave.
Ah, but then you don't really need to understand the interior workings unless you want to change the text that is generated itself.
The mergedList stuff just merges kill outcome lists from different sources on the same unit into one list (as you could have some outcomes on different unit combat types and some on the unit type).
Finally it runs the display text generation on the resulting list for a given killing unit (the killed unit determined the lists to merge).
If it's to be moved to a combat help display then the way it defines the opponent unit would have to change and I'd imagine we'd want both your outcomes and their outcomes displayed (under another hotkey page anyhow.)
To me it seems like we'd have to do a complete rewrite for this adjusted purpose.
Ok, that helps to know. I'm sure I'll have more confusions to bring up with you if I start delving into it deeper. For now I'm opting with the 'quickfix'.
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seems one of my caravels got guerrilla i dont think hill warfare works well with ships.
ChaoticWanderer, Feb 16, 2014
Not my point, I meant general personal freedom should already be represented in the civic choices. There is no rule against slaves expressing themselves or having freedoms, slavery can be liberal or not liberal just as anything else.
Technically we don't have "freedom of speech" in Australia only the polies do, and only when they are talking in Parliament. The defamation, libel and slander laws are very strong and there is nothing in any of the laws of the land that gives us that right. Things are changing but it is still not a right.
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the Heroic II promotion still give a golden age even if you're in golden age (normaly it was tweaked in rev 6974)
I play with last svn, tell me if you need a save
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Filochard, Feb 16, 2014
Repeatable CTD
I still get a reap . . CTD with this one, new save and mini attached.
EDIT: Also this 2nd game(ZuluPM.zip) is taking 10 times longer to next turn, nothing should be over 1 minute.
That CTD an old one and neither Thunderbrd or myself where able to fix or fully understand it.
With what revision did you start that Game?
Pressing Alt S add a sign to the map. The sign only remains visible for that turn. It is removed from the map next turn.
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BRexit : Shall UK stay in EU or go now?
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Dr_Grip said:
Now I am pretty sure there is no majority in Commons for No Deal, question is whether there will be one for an article 50 extension.
If the muppets in Westminster vote to avoid no deal but vote against extension, I doubt if I'll want to live in a country lead by such incompetent people much longer.
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Theresa May's Brexit deal has been defeated in the Commons by 391 votes to 242, a majority of 149.
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So what happens next?
The next step is... another vote (this one on Wednesday). MPs will vote on a motion on whether to allow the UK to exit the EU on 29 March without a deal - a so-called "disorderly" or "no-deal" Brexit.
Leaving the EU without a deal - and therefore without the 21-month transition period provided for by the deal - carries significant risks for trade, immigration, health, and more, and parliament will almost certainly reject that possibility.
Rejection of a no-deal Brexit would then set up... yes, you guessed it: another vote.
This one would decide whether Mrs May will go back to the EU to request an extension to Article 50 - the formal name for the notification from the UK that it is leaving the union.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-47542925
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Why the **** are they voting for the Malthouse compromise? It cannot be implemented or enforced. FML.
Other vote is against a no deal, which it cant do unless they vote for May/EU deal or vote to revoke Article 50, otherwise its no deal.
Also brexiteers have been working on getting their Fascist euro buddies to help block an Article 50 extentsion, which needs unanimous support at the EU level.
https://www.theguardian.com/politic...bby-for-european-veto-of-article-50-extension
As for what happens next, one Tory MP judged: “Fuck knows”. Welcome to Fuckknowsville. Population: us.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/13/theresa-may-deal-europe-eu-mps
No deal tariffs
https://www.theguardian.com/politic...d-how-do-they-affect-the-prices-consumers-pay
https://parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/70f2ab78-af53-4cc1-ac15-58178d882629
Votes expected at about 7pm and 7.15pm UK time.
Tory co-sponsor of vote against no deal tried to withdraw it!
The successful amendment was put forward by Yvette Cooper
312 for v 308 against
No deal Brexit off the table
Former Labour adviser Ayesha Hazarika says "there's every chance" that Theresa May could bring back her deal for a third vote.
"I think we're in very very tricky territory" she says, because either the PM chooses a deal which is closer to the EU, or she calls a general election or referendum.
George Parker, political editor of the Financial Times, says that Mrs May might agree to a series of indicative votes on what Brexit should look like.
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/uk-politics-parliaments-47529293
MPs reject the 'Malthouse Compromise' amendment
164 for
374 against
The Malthouse Compromise - called for a delay to Brexit from 29 March to 22 May to give time to leave without a deal
Confirmed by a Government source: the plan is now to whip against the main motion. The one Theresa May said this afternoon she would be backing, which also had Labour support, which might for once have achieved consensus.
Voting on the government's amended no-deal Brexit motion.
The original motion said the that the UK would not leave the EU without a deal on the 29 March, meaning the UK could leave the EU in a no-deal scenario at a later date.
However, after the government defeat on the Spelman amendment, which called for no-deal to be removed as the default option if a deal does not achieve a consensus among MPs, the motion now states that MPs would not leave the EU without a deal.
Of course, this is simply an expression of the will of MPs, and not a binding decision.
MPs have voted to approve the amended motion.
So there needs to be an EU deal agreed or vote to revoke Article 50, or vote to extend Article 50, otherwise its no deal.
SNP David Linden asks when the meaningful vote 3 will be "so we can prepare for that nonsense".
Tomorrow MPs will be asked to accept a new state of play: If they back her deal (vote to be held before 20 March) there could be a short extension. If they refuse to back PM’s deal it’ll be a longer extension and EU will decide terms.
For a longer extension all EU 27 will have to agree to length and terms, which could involve cash. For shorter one sense is EU would be OK with a date of June 30 because UK would not take part in European elections
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I found this infographic of the projected Brexit outcome:
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Cabinet source says ministers were told it was ok to abstain despite the three line whip - in what was described as 'pandemonium', they say the Chief whip couldnt answer question on whipping and PM didnt know what was going on
May trying to get people to vote for her deal for the 3rd time:
I really hope Bercow denies it.
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That's a brilliant description.
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Online Seminar “”Unconventional multi-band superconductivity at two-dimensional oxide interfaces” by Gyanendra Singh (Wed, 2 Dec 2020)”
We would like to invite you to the the following Invited Online Seminar:
Unconventional multi-band superconductivity at two-dimensional oxide interfaces
by Gyanendra Singh, Department of Microtechnology and Nanoscience MC2, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. Wednesday, 2 December 2020 @ 12 pm Online Invited Seminar by Zoom. Register here to attend.
A presence of two-dimensional superconductivity at the interface between LaAlO3 and SrTiO3, together with strong Rashba spin-orbit coupling, is of particular interest as theory predicts unconventional superconducting pairing and topological superconductivity [1,2]. While these interfaces share the interesting properties of bulk SrTiO3, quantum confinement, crystal orientation, and electrostatic gating also offer extra degrees of freedom to engineer the electronic band structure [3]. The filling of the bands can be precisely controlled with a gate voltage [4]. Using, resonant microwave experiment to extract the phase rigidity and the gap energy of the superconductor, and upper critical magnetic field, we demonstrate that multi-condensate superconductivity can occur at the interface as theoretically predicted. In addition, we observe a transition from single-band to two-band superconductivity at the Lifshitz transition corresponding to the filling threshold of the highest energy band. Interestingly, the superconducting gap is suppressed when the second band is populated, which challenges the standard Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer theory. We ascribed this behavior to the presence of repulsive interaction between the two condensates leading to an unconventional s±-wave superconducting state [5]. Moreover, we have investigated the current-voltage characteristics as a function of gate voltages, temperature, and the dimension of the superconducting nanowires of these interfaces. The critical current shows very strong anomalous enhancement with magnetic fields applied perpendicular to the plane, which cannot be explained with the classical model of superconductivity. We argued that the presence of Rashba spin-orbit-coupling and multi-band occupation leads to the formation of superconducting channels with intrinsic 0 and p phase shifts.
Gyanendra Singh completed his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur India in superconducting-ferromagnetic thin-film heterostructures. Then, he moved to ESPCI Paris, France, for his first postdoctoral position in the group of Prof. Jerome Lesueur. In 2018, he moved to Chalmers University of Technology Gothenburg, Sweden, for his second postdoctoral position in the QuantERA EU program project. There he has researched on two-dimensional oxide interfaces. His main research achievement is to discover multi-band superconductivity in oxide interfaces by using microwave spectroscopy. Hosted by Gervasi Herranz, ICMAB researcher at the MULFOX group
D. Caviglia et al. Nature 456, 624–627 (2008).
S. Scheurer Nature Commun. 6, 6005 (2015).
Gervasi Herranz et al. Nature Communications 6, 6028 (2015).
Gyanendra Singh et al. Nature communications 9, 407 (2018).
Gyanendra Singh et al. Nature Materials 18, 948 (2019),
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Invited talk at the META 2019, the 10th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics
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Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal, July 23, 2019 – July 26, 2019
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Punitive Damages Could Prove an Existential Threat to Grace Church
By @gracealexwatch | June 10, 2020
With perjuring priest Bob Malm now facing potential punitive damages claims against him and by implication the parish itself, the vestry and individual church members should understand that such damages could threaten the very existence of the church and school. Additionally, they could result in personal liability for vestry members and church members alike.
What are punitive damages? Simply put, they are not compensatory, but rather intended to punish bad behavior. An example would be attempting to use a protective order as a strategic lawsuit against public participation (SLAPP) and committing perjury in the context of the proceeedings. Yes, that would be perjuring priest Bob Malm.
Under Virginia law, punitives are capped at $350,000 per claim. But with multiple incidents of outrageous misconduct on the part of the church, there could be multiple such claims.
In order for an employer like the church to be liable under the legal doctrine of respondent superior, the action complained of must be within the scope of the employee or board member’s official duties. That, of course, begs the issue of whether perjuring priest Bob Malm was acting within the scope of their authority.
At this point, things get tricky for an insurer, because to defend the claims against perjuring priest Bob Malm makes it difficult to claim that he was not acting within the scope of his authority. On the other hand, it likely will prove costly for perjuring priest Bob Malm to defend his conduct in court.
Moreover, there is the issue of ratification, or endorsement. While defense counsel may claim that Bob was acting on his own, the evidence is clear that diocesan officials supported and endorsed his actions, as did the vestry. Indeed, Amy Middle Finger Medrick sent around talking points on church email to the vestry to assist vestry members — and Grace school officials — discuss the matter. Meanwhile, diocesan officials even provided legal counsel to perjuring priest Bob Malm in conjunction with this matter, and sent out a letter saying that they fully support Malm.
Two further challenges confront Grace Church:
Most insurance policies don’t cover punitive damages. Thus, if the church is found liable for either defendant’s actions, it could be on the hook for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The church is not incorporated, meaning that individual church members could be on the hook for the church’s liability.
Thus, church members and prospective church members may want to consider the potential for personal liability due to the parish’s support for Bob’s outrageous conduct.
To be sure, my motive in bringing suit has little to do with money, Indeed, at one point I offered in writing to settle the dispute in exchange for nothing more than perjuring priest Bob Malm’s written agreeement to leave me alone. Through Jeff Sugarland Chiow, Bob refused the offer, and I believe the evidence will show that he had one or more fulsome discussions with Bishop Shannon Johnston about the matter, as well as intake officer Caroline Parkinson. Of course, had any of the above had half the common sense God gave a goat — or half the Christian values of a goat — they would have accepted my offer. But as it stands they now live with the consequences of Bob’s decisions.
In short, with a severe recession under way, a resurgence of the pandemic, declining giving, and a reputation marred by perjuring priest Bob Malm’s mean and stupid conduct, Grace Church’s long-term prospects are, at best, unclear.
Perhaps when the dust settles folks at Mayo House, and within the parish, will take the time to carefully contemplate their conduct and whether an outsider, looking at their behavior, would see anything remotely Christian about it.
I can tell you this: No one external to the church who is familiar with dynamics within the parish is impressed in a positive way with the church.
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We have compiled this catalogue of science to help parents, lawmakers, medical practitioners and scientists understand several important points about the vaccine issue:
there is abundant science published in mainstream medical and scientific journals suggesting cause for concern about the safety of vaccines;
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vaccines may be linked to a host of chronic illnesses and conditions such as asthma, allergies, learning disabilities, behavioral problems, autism, unexplained infant death and autoimmune diseases such as diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, MS, and others;
there are connections between the gut, immune, and neurological issues often seen in vaccine injuries.
This compilation does not contain all the science on vaccines but rather the science that suggests cause for concern. Readers should understand that the research cited here does not prove all the conditions mentioned are caused by vaccines. Rather, this research demonstrates that vaccine safety concerns are valid and warrant further investigation to fully evaluate the true long-term impact of vaccination.
To use this resource, simply browse all the different categories to familiarize yourself with the scope and breadth of the possible adverse reactions to vaccines. Once you have decided which topic to explore, simply click on the category and you will find links to the research that pertains to this category. If there is a great deal of research on one topic, you may also find sub-categories to explore. We have included the full text of any paper that is publicly available. If the full text is not free to the public, we have linked to the abstract and you may either purchase the paper or go to your library to gain access.
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There are many physicians who are witnessing an increasing number of children with complex inflammatory & autoimmune conditions, and are beginning to suspect that vaccines may be playing more of a contributing role in the development of these conditions, than what they were previously led to believe. Nonetheless, these physicians don’t have a safe forum in which they can discuss their concerns. This film, “THE GREATER GOOD,” may be the appropriate medium through which physicians can begin to open up the next phase of dialogue about their growing concerns of vaccine safety & efficacy.
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UAE businesses should ‘shift gender discourse’ – senior businesswoman
The discourse of gender equality should move to a genderless one, says Raja Al Gurg
by Neil King
Businesses in the United Arab Emirates should change the way they discuss gender, according to prominent business leader, Dr Raja Easa Al Gurg.
Speaking at a recent event, the managing director of the Easa Saleh Al Gurg Group and president of the Dubai Business Women Council said: “We need to shift the discourse of gender equality to a genderless one. Or one dominated by business rationale, where gender means all genders and all of us as we are today, and where empowerment implies the releases of potential.
“Equality and diversity should be perceived as a means to engagement, better performance and innovation. This is not a ‘nice to have’ but an absolutely must have.”
Al Gurg added that gender balance – or “gender intelligence”, as she preferred to call it – would only be realised if women themselves knew what to do with their talents.
She said: “We have to believe in ourselves. We have to believe in our skills and we have to find those skills within ourselves and really nurture them. Every one of us has got that leadership skill inside us, but how to bring it to the surface – that is your job as a woman.”
In an exclusive interview with Gulf Business in 2015, Al Gurg urged said women should aspire to occupy leadership roles in this part of the world.
“I don’t see why women should not be at the top of businesses because there is nothing – at least in the UAE and Dubai – stopping them from growing. It all depends on you and how you want to move. Although [Easa Saleh Al Gurg Group] is my family business, I started from our warehouse in Ras Al Khor. I was literally counting and recording whatever was unloaded from our containers. I started from there and today I place orders in millions.
“Women have to push themselves, nobody can spoon-feed you that. You have to find your way. Everything is available in the UAE – our leaders have not put any barriers for women. And there are also many women who have really reached the top – we shouldn’t forget that.”
She also dismissed having quota systems in regional organisations to boost the number of women in leadership positions.
“Why should we have quotas? I think if I am capable enough, I will be recognised. Quotas always oblige you – you fill up roles without checking whether someone is capable or not. And sometimes you will end up having the wrong people around you – what’s the point? I think that’s not healthy. It doesn’t add value – that’s my opinion.”
Read more: Pushing boundaries: Exclusive interview with business magnate Dr Raja Easa Al Gurg
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Difference between revisions of "Dosh"
(→Removing Peas from a Pod)
(→Removing shell of nuts)
#One may not the husk from an ear of corn on [[Shabbat]].<ref>39 Melachos (Rabbi Ribiat, vol 2, pg 327-8) writes that according to some opinions it's forbidden. However, Halachos of [[Shabbat]] (Rabbi Eider, chap 8, pg 95) writes that it's forbidden (and bases it on the Maharsham 320:83).</ref>
==Removing shell of nuts==
#One may remove the shell of nuts (pecans, brazil nuts, filberts, peanuts) on [[Shabbat]].<ref>39 Melachos (Rabbi Ribiat, vol 2, pg 324-5), Chazon Ovadia Shabbat v. 4, p. 101 </ref>
#One may remove the shell of nuts (pecans, brazil nuts, filberts, peanuts) on [[Shabbat]].<ref>39 Melachos (Rabbi Ribiat, vol 2, pg 324-5)
Chazon Ovadia Shabbat Vol 4, Pg 101 </ref>
#One may not remove the outer hull (a thick pulpy layer) of an almond or walnut on [[Shabbat]], however, one may remove the inner hard wood-like shell.<ref>39 Melachos (Rabbi Ribiat, vol 2, pg 325-6) </ref>
#There is a question of removing the outer thin peel of a garlic bulb on [[Shabbat]] however most poskim permit and certainly it's permitted to remove the peel around the individual cloves.<ref>39 Melachos (Rabbi Ribiat, vol 2, pg 326) </ref>
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1 General Prohibition
2 In the Mishkan
3 Toladot
3.1 Mefarek
4 Removing Peas from a Pod
5 Removing Shell of Nuts
6 Squeezing a fruit
6.1 Liquids that oozed out on their own
6.2 Squeezing a lemon
6.3 Squeezing out excess liquid
6.4 Sucking on a fruit
6.5 Cutting a grapefruit or watermelon
6.6 Squeezing grapes
7 Squeezing a liquid out of a cloth
8 Using a Sponge or Brush on Shabbat
9 Squeezing Water Out of One's Hair
10 Drying with a Towel
11 Cleaning a counter or table
12 Baby Wipes
13 Nursing
14 Milking an Animal
15 Brushing Teeth
16 Related Pages
Dash includes removing any earth-grown food from its natural shell or attachment.[1]
There is a dispute among the Rishonim whether Dosh is only violated by removing something that is covered by its encasing, as was the case in the mishkan, or that any detachment from something unwanted would be a violation of Dosh.[2]
A toldah of Dash is mefarek, squeezing fruits. Biblically this applies to squeezing grapes for their juice or olives for their oil.[3]
In the Mishkan
According to most Rishonim, the melacha of Dosh was done in the Mishkan by threshing the seeds from their shells so that they could be used for the dyes.[4]
Toladot
Mefarek
Mefarek is a Toldah of Dosh.[5]
Mefarek includes squeezing juice from fruit (Sechitah) or liquid from a cloth.[6]
Removing Peas from a Pod
One may remove peas from an edible pod on Shabbat normally, however, if the pod is inedible one may only remove the peas a little at a time in an abnormal fashion.[7]
Peeling fruits (such as oranges or bananas) or vegetables (such as onions or cucumbers) is not considered a violation of Dosh. Nonetheless one should be careful of the conditions of Borer such as only peeling it right before eating and not using a peeler (but one may use a knife or one's hands).[8]
One may not the husk from an ear of corn on Shabbat.[9]
Removing Shell of Nuts
One may remove the shell of nuts (pecans, brazil nuts, filberts, peanuts) on Shabbat.[10]
One may not remove the outer hull (a thick pulpy layer) of an almond or walnut on Shabbat, however, one may remove the inner hard wood-like shell.[11]
There is a question of removing the outer thin peel of a garlic bulb on Shabbat however most poskim permit and certainly it's permitted to remove the peel around the individual cloves.[12]
Squeezing a fruit
It is forbidden to squeeze a fruit in order to extract its liquid if one squeezes the fruit into a liquid or empty vessel. The prohibition is violated whether it is done by hand or with a utensil.[13] One may not squeeze a fruit into an empty vessel with intent to put solid food in afterwards.[14]
It’s permitted to squeeze a fruit with one’s hand onto a solid food if either the food absorbs the liquid or the liquid is meant to improve the flavor of the food.[15]
Liquids that oozed out on their own
Juice that oozed (by itself) out of fruit, which is specifically designated to be eaten, is permitted to drink.[16]
Squeezing a lemon
It is permitted to squeeze a lemon on sugar even if one’s intent is to put the sugar in a liquid afterwards, however, there are authorities who are strict on this issue.[17] According to Sephardim one can squeeze a lemon even into an empty cup, however, it is proper to be strict to do it into the sugar.[18]
It’s permissible to cut a slice of lemon and put it into a drink even though the juice will seep out.[19] Note that if the drink is hot tea its only permissible if it is made in a Kli Shelishi (see Bishul). One may gently stir the tea but one may not press the lemon against the wall of the cup. Additionally, one should cut the lemon directly over the tea.[20]
Squeezing out excess liquid
It’s permitted to squeeze out excess liquid in a food to improve it’s taste if it’s done immediately prior to eating. For example it’s permitted to squeeze a pickled cucumber to remove some of it’s vinegar if one is going to eat the pickle right away.[21]
One may squeeze out latkes from excess vegetable oil if ones intention is to get rid of the oil and it is done right before eating.[22]
It's commendable to refrain from squeezing a piece of meat, fish, or chicken to get rid of excess gravy if the gravy contains water or wine.[23]
Sucking on a fruit
One may suck on any fruit with one's mouth while holding it in one's hand except for grapes. However, one shouldn’t squeeze the fruit with one’s hand.[24] Certainly though one could put the entire grape in one's mouth, suck out the juice and then spit out the part one doesn't want to eat.[25]
It’s permitted to dip bread in a soup or other dip and then suck off the liquid, but it’s preferable to eat a little of the bread with it.[26]
Cutting a grapefruit or watermelon
It’s permitted to cut a grapefruit (or watermelon) even if liquids will ooze out as long as one doesn’t intend specifically to drink the juices rather to eat the fruit and that one doesn’t intentionally doesn’t squeeze the fruit.[27]
One may scrape out grapefruit with a spoon to eat the pulp (the flesh of the fruit) attached to the peel, however, it's forbidden to press the spoon against the pulp in order to extract juices.[28]
Squeezing grapes
It is permitted to squeeze grapes onto food, but it is forbidden to squeeze grapes into an empty dish even if it is for flavor.[29]
However, if one is stringent and does not even squeeze fruits onto food, he shall be blessed.[30]
It’s preferable not to squeeze grapes even onto solid foods that will absorb the liquid or be improved.[31]
One shouldn’t suck on grapes while holding them in one’s hand, rather one should put the entire grape in one’s mouth, eat (or suck on it) and take out what’s left.[32]
It is forbidden to drink juice that oozed out of grapes by itself.[33]
Squeezing a liquid out of a cloth
It is forbidden to squeeze any liquid out of any cloth on Shabbat.[34]
If wine spilled on a tablecloth one may not wring out the cloth. If some of the liquid didn't get absorbed one may scoop it off with a spoon if one is careful not to spread the colored wine over a wider area (which is an issue of Tzoveya.) [35]
A wet washcloth or rag is not Muktzeh and may be moved if one is careful not to grip it tightly.[36]
Using a Sponge or Brush on Shabbat
One may not clean dishes or even gently wipe a countertop with a sponge because gripping the sponge will inevitably cause liquid to be squeezed out where one's fingers grasp the material. However, using a sponge which has a handle or a vinyl back one may gently wipe a countertop but it is still forbidden to wash dishes.[37]
One shouldn't use a dry sponge to wipe up a spill unless the sponge has a handle or vinyl back.[38]
One may not use a wet brush to scrub if the brush's fibers are soft and dense. However, if the fibers are stiff, sparse, and made out of synthetic material one may use that brush for scrubbing. Similarly, a plastic mesh or wire mesh may be used for scrubbing only if the fibers are thin and the netting is widely spaced. However, one may not use a mesh if the fibers are closely packed; for example, one may not use a steel wool pad. To determine whether the fibers are considered dense or sparse one should conduct the following test before Shabbat: Immerse it in water and upon removing it if the water drains out immediately the fibers are considered widely spaced, however, if water stays absorbed it is considered densely spaced.[39]
A wet sponge is Muktzeh Machmat Issur and may only be moved if the space it is occupying is needed. When moving a wet sponge one should do so gently so as not to squeeze out any liquid. However, a dry sponge or a wet sponge which has a handle or vinyl backing aren't muktzeh and may be moved for any necessary purpose.[40]
Regarding using a brush to clean a baby bottle see Infants_on_Shabbat#Baby_Bottles.
Squeezing Water Out of One's Hair
It is forbidden to squeeze water out of one's hair on Shabbat.[41] Similarly, one shouldn't shampoo one's hair on shabbat.[42]
One may wet one's hair if one does not squeeze it out.[43]
One should not shake one's head vigorously in order to remove the absorbed water.[44]
One may not dry one's hair with a towel by pressing the towel to the wet hair. Instead one should touch the towel lightly to the hair.[45]
One may tightly wrap a towel on one's hair to absorb the liquid because the liquid is absorbed immediately and becomes useless.[46]
Some permit drying one's beard on Shabbat.[47]
Drying with a Towel
One may dry off one's body with a towel and doesn't have to be worried that he is going to come to squeeze it out.[48] One should try to use a towel which one doesn't care if it is wet and won't come to squeeze out the water.[49]
Cleaning a counter or table
One may use a rag or towel to wipe up a spill if the rag or towel is able to soak up the entire spill without needing to wring it out. One may also use many rags at the same time if together they can absorb the spill.[50]
One may not wipe a surface such as a counter or table top with a wet cloth. However, if a counter is sticky one may sprinkle water on the surface and then wipe it clean with a dry rag but it's preferable to used a paper napkin.[51] When necessary one wipe a surface very gently using a saturated rag or wet wet napkin.[52]
The issue of using baby wipes has been widely discussed ever since they've arrived on the market. Some poskim are lenient to use baby wipes if one does it gently and doesn't press down,[53] while others prohibit using diaper wipes entirely and give preference to wetting the baby (with oil, water, "baby shpritz" etc.) and then using a dry tissue to clean the child.[54]
The older baby wipes are made from more similar to paper materials and today they are made from cotton materials.[55] Although this change according to some poskim makes using the baby wipes forbidden, nonetheless, there are some who are still lenient.[56]
Some say that one may use baby wipes to clean a baby if one does it gently and doesn't press down.[57] However, some advise not using baby wipes but rather tissues and water as described in the following halacha.[58]
One should not wet a cloth and then wipe the baby rather the liquid such as water, thin lotion, or oil should be applied to the baby's skin and then wiped with a paper napkin or paper towel and if that's not available then one may use a dry cloth. If one uses a dry cloth then once it gets wet one should be very cautious not to apply pressure when wiping.[59]
According to Ashkenazim, it is only permissible to nurse on Shabbat if the infant feeds directly from the mother. A nursing mother who is experiencing pain may express excess milk if it goes directly to waste and is not collected in a cup or container.[60]
According to Sephardim, a woman who is nursing and the baby doesn't want to nurse, to avoid a lot of discomfort it is permissible to express the milk but it should go to waste immediately, such as nursing into a disgusting cup or onto the ground.[61]
While it is permitted to nurse a child on Shabbos a woman may not pump extra milk to have for a later time as she would be transgressing the melacha of mefarek (extracting)[62]. However in the event that the woman is in pain she may express her milk directly into a sink[63]. In the event that this is not practical, the Poskim permit one to use a pump providing that there is soap or vinegar in the bottle that would immediately render the milk useless[64]. She should then pour the milk directly into the sink when she is done. If she does not have a manual pump and is in significant pain she may even ask a non-Jew to turn on an electric pump for her[65]. If she knows prior to Shabbos that she will need to express milk due to pain and she does not have a manual pump, she would be permitted, on Friday, to set her pump to turn on with a Shabbos clock.[66]
Milking an Animal
It is forbidden to milk an animal on Shabbat, as this is a violation of mifarek, which falls under the melacha of Dosh.[67]
It is permissible to tell a non-Jew to milk an animal for you on Shabbat because if you don't it will cause the animal pain, but the milk is considered muktzeh for the day.[68] If a non-Jew is not available one should let the milk go to waste so that the violation is only dirabanan which would be allowed to save the animal from the pain, and one should try to do it with a shinui.[69] This leniency to allow a Jew to do it, only applies if there are no baby animals who can milk the adults.[70]
see Brushing Teeth on Shabbat
Sechitah on Yom Tov
Showering on Yom Tov
Halacha Sugyos of Shabbos 73b by Rabbi Mordechai Willig
Dosh: Sechita Review by Rabbi Daniel Stein
↑ 39 Melachos (Rabbi Ribiat, vol 2, pg 317) based on the explanation of Rabbeinu Chananel (Shabbos 74a).
The Gemara Shabbos (75a) records a dispute between Rebbi Yehuda and the Chachamim whether the Melacha of Dosh only applies to giduley karka, meaning things that grow in the ground. The Rambam (hilchos Shabbos 8:7) rules like the Chachamim that mi’d’oraisa it only applies to giduley karka, and this is the opinion of most of the Rishonim.
↑ This dispute is quoted in Eglei Tal (Dosh #2:3). It is based on the machloket between Rashi (73b s.v. mefareik) and Tosfos (73b s.v. v’achas) about how to explain why the Gemara says that one would be in violation of a toldah of Dosh when knocking off a tree.
Seemingly, this question is relevant to whether it is permitted to detach grapes from their vine, and, thus, the Achronim wonder why it is that the Ramo (siman 336:8) rules without question that it is permitted to remove a fruit from a branch that was detached before Shabbos.
The Pri Megadim (introduction to siman 320) explains that the Ramo concludes like those Rishonim who assume Dosh is only violated when it entails removing something usable from a covered p’soles.
However, many Achronim are weary of taking this approach. As an alternative, the Eglei Tal (Dosh #11) says that Dosh does not apply when the detachment is being done for immediate use, as threshing is done as a preparation for further processing. A similar approach is taken by Rav Moshe Feinstein (Igros Moshe O”C vol. 1, siman 125) to explain why the removal of a shell from a nut or a peel from garlic is only a question of Borer and not Dosh.
Another explanation is offered by the Shvisas HaShabbos (Introduction to Meleches Dosh, no. 4) quoting the Shem Chodosh who argues that Dosh is only violated when the ochel is extracted by putting pressure on the entire item, which was the way it was done in the Mishkan.
Rav Mordechai Willig (Am Mordechai Shabbos siman 21) suggests a fourth approach based on the Aruch Hashulchan (319:20) that Dosh is only violated when working on many items at the same time. Rav Willig notes that according to this explanation one would have to be careful not to pick many grapes at once.
↑ Mishna Brurah 320:1, Yalkut Yosef Shabbat v. 3 320:1
↑ 39 Melachos, vol. 2, pg. 315. The Eglei Tal (Introduction #1) quotes the opinion of some Rishonim who maintained that Dosh was done in preparation for the bread that was needed in the Mishkan, in which the case the melacha was removing the grain kernels from their chaff and stalk (39 Melachos, vol. 2, pg. 315).
↑ Rashi Shabbat 73b and Rambam (Shabbat 8:7 and 21:12) write that Mefarek is a Toldah of Dosh.
One major difference between Mefareik and its Av is that Dosh is the removal of ochel from p’soles, something unwanted, which is not the case with squeezing juice from fruit. In order to maintain the comparison, the squeezing of the juice must be viewed as squeezing liquid from food. Therefore, the Gemara (144b) rules that squeezing juice directly into food (not drink) is permitted since then it is viewed as removing food from food and is not similar to Dosh where the extract is different than what it is removed from.
The Mishna Brurah (Sha’ar Ha’tziun Siman 320, no. 23) quotes a machlokes Rishonim regarding squeezing into a plate with the intention of subsequently pouring it into food. The Chazon Ish (O”C 55:6) rules that it is only permitted if it is direct and such is the opinion of Shmiras Shabbos k’Hilchisa (chap. 5, seif 5). See, however, Biur Halacha 320:1 s.v. muter
↑ Rambam (Shabbat 8:10 and 21:12) writes that squeezing fruit (Sechitah) is a violation of Mefarek. 39 Melachos (Dosh note 113) quotes Tosfot Ketubot 6a s.v. Hay who holds that squeezing a liquid from a cloth is also considered Mefarek.
↑ Mishna Brurah 319:21, 39 Melachos (Rabbi Ribiat, vol 2, pg 325), Torat Hamelachot 5:9 v. 2 p. 78
↑ Rama end of 321, Chaye Adam 14:1, 39 Melachos (Rabbi Ribiat, vol 2, pg 323-4)
↑ 39 Melachos (Rabbi Ribiat, vol 2, pg 327-8) writes that according to some opinions it's forbidden. However, Halachos of Shabbat (Rabbi Eider, chap 8, pg 95) writes that it's forbidden (and bases it on the Maharsham 320:83).
↑ 39 Melachos (Rabbi Ribiat, vol 2, pg 324-5), Chazon Ovadia Shabbat v. 4, p. 101
↑ 39 Melachos (Rabbi Ribiat, vol 2, pg 325-6)
↑ 39 Melachos (Rabbi Ribiat, vol 2, pg 326)
↑ Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata 5:1,2. Squeezing a liquid out of a solid (Sechita) is Mefarek which is a Toldah of the Melacha of Dash (Iglei Tal, Dash #8, Mishna Brurah 320:1).
Shulchan Aruch 320:1 writes that it's forbidden to squeeze olives and grapes and the juice which flows from them on their own is also forbidden for consumption. However, berries and pomegranates even though they are forbidden to be squeezed the juices from them that flow on their own are permissible if the fruit was meant to be eaten and not be squeezed for the juice. Lastly, all other fruits may be squeezed. The Rama 320:1 explains that in places where it's normal to squeeze certain fruits for their juices it is also forbidden to squeeze those fruits just like berries and pomegranates; in other words, the Rama 320:1 holds that a fruit's usage is based location. Mishna Brurah 320:5 explains that squeezing berries and pomegranates is forbidden rabbinically because some people squeeze them for the juice like grapes and olives. However, all other fruit in the days of Shulchan Aruch weren't squeezed for juice and were eaten. That's why it is permissible to squeeze such fruits because the fruit if considered like a solid and extracting one solid from another is permissible.
Therefore, the Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata (chap 5 note 4) writes that nowadays that it is common to squeeze all fruits for their juice it is forbidden to squeeze any fruit on Shabbat. On the other hand, 39 Melachos (Rabbi Ribiat, vol 2, pg 328) lists certain fruits which are rabbinically prohibited to squeeze including oranges, lemons, grapefruits, apples, pineapples, cherries, strawberries, peaches, plums, pomegranates, and tomatoes. Similarly, Yalkut Yosef (Shabbat, vol 3, 343 and 491) delineates certain fruits which are squeezed for the juices in some places such as grapes, olives, berries, pomegranates, apples, grapefruits, pears, mangoes, tangerines, and pineapples would be forbidden to squeeze on Shabbat, however, fruits which are not squeezed anywhere such as quince or watermelon one be squeezed on Shabbat. Yalkut Yosef (pg 344) adds that even when it is permissible to squeeze a fruit, it may only be done by hand and not with a juicer (tool).
↑ Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata 5:5. The Mishna Brurah (Sha’ar Ha’tziun Siman 320, no. 23) quotes a machlokes Rishonim regarding squeezing into a plate with the intention of subsequently pouring it into food. The Chazon Ish (O”C 55:6) rules that it is only permitted if it is directly onto food and such is the opinion of Shmiras Shabbos k’Hilchiso (chap. 5, seif 5). See, however, Biur Halacha 320:1 s.v. muter
↑ Gemara Shabbat 144b, Shulchan Aruch 505:1, Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata 5:3,7, 39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 345) Chazon Ovadia Shabbat Vol. 4, Pg 137-138
↑ Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata 5:11 See Chazon Ovadia Shabbat Vol. 4, who permits the drinking of juice that came out on its own only for fruits with a derabanan sechita prohibition (and those fruits are designated for eating)
↑ Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata 5:5,6, 39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 346). Although the Shulchan Aruch 320:6 states that one may squeeze a lemon on Shabbat, the Mishna Brurah 320:22 explains that the reason for the leniency doesn't apply today. Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 80:12 writes that it is forbidden to squeeze lemons to make lemonade.
↑ Shulchan Aruch O.C. 320:6, Yalkut Yosef (Shabbat v. 3 Dosh Sechitat Limon n. 1)
↑ Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata 5:2. Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata’s source is the Kalkelet Shabbat (Dosh) who cites the Taz 320:7 for this halacha. It seems that the primary reason for the leniency is that the juice being squeezed out isn’t intentional.
↑ 39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 340)
↑ Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata 5:8, 39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 341), Yalkut Yosef (Shabbat vol 3 pg 350)
↑ Rama 320:1 quotes two opinions whether it is permitted to suck juice directly from grapes. The reason for the lenient view is that it isn't considered a normal way to squeeze fruit by sucking on it with one's mouth. Mishna Brurah 320:12, Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata 5:10, and 39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 339) are strict for grapes. Yalkut Yosef (Shabbat vol 3 pg 248) and Halichot Olam (vol 4 pg 106) permit even regarding grapes but add that it's a proper practice to refrain.
↑ Mishna Brurah 320:12, Yalkut Yosef 320:10
↑ Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata 5:9
↑ Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata 5:12, Yalkut Yosef (Shabbat, vol 3, pg 345), 39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 340), Rabbi Mansour on Dailyhalacha.com
↑ 39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 341), Rabbi Mansour on Dailyhalacha.com. Yalkut Yosef (Shabbat v. 3 320:9) writes that it is permitted to use a spoon to eat a cut grapefruit on Shabbat since one doesn't intend to drink the juice and usually one eats the juice together with the fruit or pulp.
↑ Shulchan Aruch 320:4
↑ Mishnah Brurah 320:17
↑ Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata 5:10
↑ Shulchan Aruch 320:12, 18, 39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 347)
↑ 39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 348-9)
↑ 39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 349-50)
↑ Mishna Brurah 326:25. See Yabia Omer 4:30:19 who proves that the Rashba and other rishonim hold that there's no rabbinic prohibition to squeeze hair. However, he does not conclude in accordance with those rishonim; instead he follows the Rambam and Shulchan Aruch that it is rabbinically forbidden.
↑ Ben Ish Chai (Pekudei II n. 8) writes that one could pat dry the hair with a towel but not press. This is also the conclusion of [1]. See Piskei Teshuvot 326:12 with all the opinions. Mishna Brurah (Biur Halacha 326:8) emphasizes that when going to the mikveh one should be careful not to violate sechita implies the same.
↑ Igrot Moshe 1:133
↑ Gemara Shabbat 147b, Shulchan Aruch O.C. 301:48
↑ Mishna Brurah 301:173
↑ Rabbi Heshy Kahn (What's Doing, Greater Connecticut, 3/3/11) quoting Rabbi Moshe Plutchok based on the Har Tzvi and R' Shlomo Zalmen Aurbauch Zt”l, Rabbi Mansour on Dailyhalacha.com
↑ Minchat Yitzchak 10:25, Shevet Halevi 8:59, 39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 351-3). Nishmas Shabbos 233 requires the wipes to be squeezed out prior to Shabbos to the extent that if someone touches the wipe he won't be able to moisten something else.
↑ Wikipedia entry "Wet Wipe" describes some of the history of baby wipes. It points out that originally wipes were paper clothes and today more of them are made with cotton materials. For example, Pampers wipes are made from cellulose, which is 90% of cotton, and polypropylene, which is synthetic. See also, Target wipes which are made from cotton fiber.
↑ Yalkut Yosef 2 p 90 writes that it is muter to use a diaper wipe on Shabbat. But Yalkut Yosef 2 p. 688 in a later edition he limits it to paper wipes and not cloth ones. Chazon Ovadia Shabbat v. 4 p. 148-154 says all baby wipes are permitted on Shabbat. Shemirat Shabbat Kehilchata 14:37 says only paper ones are muter and not cloth ones. Har Tzvi 190 is lenient about using diaper wipes made from paper. Igrot Moshe 2:70 as understood by Rivevot Efraim 6:194:3 writes that paper wipes are permitted. Chazon Ovadia writes four reasons to say why it is derabbanan:
It is only a derabbanan form of disha since the paper isn't meant to be squeezed out and it is like pickles and not olives (Shabbat 145a).
Also, the water goes to waste (Meor Hashabbat v. 2 p. 522 quoting Rav Shlomo Zalman).
Also, it isn't gidulei karka (Rambam Shabbat 8:7). Disha is only bgedulei karka. Even if it is made with cotton it still can be called non-gedulei karka since it is so processed and it is like panim chadashot (chatom sofer 6:81 by ketamim on toilet paper).
Also, it is less than a shiur of a grogeret making the isur only derabbanan (Chacham Tzvi 86). He isn't sure to use this factor because perhaps there's no shiur for sechita in this form which is normal just to squeeze out a tiny bit (Chazon Ovadia p. 150).
If it is only derabbanan or a double derabbanan a pesik reisha is muter (even if it is nicha leh). Also it could be that we matir derabbanans for child who is like a choleh shein bo sakana.
↑ Yalkut Yosef 302:31 based on Har Tzvi OC 1:190, Rabbi Mansour on Dailyhalacha.com
↑ Yalkut Yosef (Otzar Dinim L'isha 28:9)
↑ Shulchan Aruch O.C. 328:34, Biur Halacha s.v. V’Tineck
↑ Taz 320:12, Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata 36:20 footnote 61
↑ S.A. 328:17
↑ Rabbi Heshy Kahn (What's Doing, Greater Connecticut, 3/3/11) quoting Rabbi Yitzchok Berkowitz, Shlita. Although if one can secure for themselves a manual pump that would be more Halachically preferable as Rav Yosef Shalom Elyashiv was under the impression that by using the electric pump you are causing the motor to work harder. Therefore even when one would rely on this leniency one should secure the pump onto oneself prior to the time that the machine is set to go on.
↑ Yalkut Yosef Shabbat vol. 2 pg. 110. see there for discussion if this is a torah violation or rabbinic
↑ Yalkut Yosef vol 2. pg. 110, Sh"t Yabea Omer 9:30
↑ Yalkut Yosef Shabbat vol 2. pg. 111
↑ Yalkut Yosef Shabbat vol. 2 pg. 112
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Outlining the dosing pattern, the health ministry said there will be a gap of 28 days between two doses of vaccine and its effectiveness will begin 14 days after the second dose. Both NITI Aayog member-health Dr V K Paul and Bhushan caustioned on the need to maintain safe behaviour even as they highlighted that India’s positivity rate last week was a low 2% and that only Kerala and Maharashtra have more than 50,000 active cases.
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Accor to cut 1,000 jobs
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France's Accor, the world's sixth largest hotel chain, said Tuesday it was slashing 1,000 jobs worldwide in a major cost cutting plan accelerated by the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.
The group, which runs high-end chains such as Raffles and Sofitel and budget brands like Ibis, plans to cut costs by 200 million euros by 2022.
The pandemic has led to the closure of several Accor hotels around the world and 1,000 of the group's 18,000 employees will lose their jobs, Financial Chief Jean-Jacques Morin said.
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The Silence of Canadian Cities: The Seismology Impact of Covid19 Lockdown
Artash Nath. Grade 8 Student. Toronto. On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) as a pandemic. By then it had spread to at least […]
Artash Nath. Grade 8 Student. Toronto.
On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) as a pandemic. By then it had spread to at least 110 countries. The announcement made by WHO had a cascading effect. Cities, territories, and countries around the world ended up declaring states of emergency. Strict physical distancing and public health measures were implemented to curb the spread of the disease. Schools, universities, malls, non-essential government, and private offices were closed putting cities under siege. The roads, public spaces, ports, railway stations, and airports started to become deserted as human movements reduced.
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Canada was no exception. All Canadian provinces and territories — implemented some public or health emergency measures to check the spread of COVID-19 as we will see below.
Timeline of Measures taken by Canada in March 2020 leading to COVID-19 Lockdown
To understand the impact of the reduction in human activities on seismic vibrations, it was important to find out dates when different provinces and cities in Canada initiated the lockdown measures. The measure of seismic vibrations a few weeks prior to the start of the lockdown would provide the baseline to assess the changes happening during the lockdown and after the lockdown.
March 11: WHO declares COVID19 as a pandemic
March 13: Quebec declares public health emergency
March 14: Edmonton city closes public facilities
March 16: Prince Edward Island Declares state of emergency
March 17: Ontario declares a state of emergency
March 17: Alberta declare states of emergency
March 17: Yukon declares state of emergency
March 18: Canada-US border closed
March 18: British Columbia provincial state of emergency declared
March 18: Saskatchewan declares state of emergency
March 18: Newfoundland and Labrador declare a state of emergency
March 18: North West Territories declare a state of emergency
March 18: Nunavut declares public health emergency
March 19: New Brunswick declares state of emergency
March 20: Manitoba declares state of emergency
March 22. Nova Scotia declared a state of emergency
March 24: Quebec closes non-essential businesses
March 23: Toronto declares a state of emergency
March 26, British Columbia goes into lockdown
March 27:Montreal declares local state of emergency amid COVID-19 pandemic
March 31: Majority of Air Canada flights shut down
Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown on Human Activities
COVID-19 pandemic changed the lives of people. A lockdown was essential to check the spread of the pandemic and the overflowing of hospitals, and to not overwhelm the health care workers and supplies.
The lockdown of cities resulted in an immediate reduction in traffic, human movements, shipping, railways, air travel, construction, mining, and other economic activities. It turned out to be one of the biggest experiments in the modern world to fight a common enemy. Every individual, household, and business had to participate in it by curbing their movements. The lockdown provided an opportunity to measure the impacts of the sudden stoppage of human activities on the seismic vibrations.
Project Goal: Measuring the Impact of COVID19 Lockdown on Seismic Vibrations and Ocean Acoustics in Canada
COVID-19 may have closed school doors but not the windows to education. During this time, I was undertaking a couple of experiments and studies to study changes in my local environment such as sound, traffic, and pollution levels brought about by the lockdown. But I wanted to do more and understand the impact at the national level.
The goal of my project was to understand the changes in seismic vibrations registered by the land-based seismic stations and oceanic hydrophones before, during, and after the lockdown.
I used the lockdown dates I researched in the news (and made available in a section above) to guide my analysis. It is to be noted that the severeness of the lockdown and how it was enforced varied from city to city. Furthermore, while the start of the lockdown was more rigid, the end of the lockdown was more fluid. Some cities decided to extend the emergency with the same restrictions while others extended the lockdown with a loosening of restrictions.
Seismic Stations and Data Structures
Seismic stations record different kinds of ground movements data, depending on their instruments, sensitivities, and sampling rates.
Three things that are common to all seismic stations are a seismometer for sensing ground motions, a recorder to collect data, and a clock for time-stamping the data. Together they allow us to create time-series graphs of the ground motion which are essential to determining the magnitude of the earthquake, how long they lasted, and the location of origin of the earthquakes.
Some of the seismic stations only measure ground movements in a single direction, say vertical movements (along the z-axis). Others are able to measure ground movements in all three dimensions and provide more complete data.
To get data from a particular seismic station, I needed to first identify the station, and then identify the instruments from which I needed to get data and for what time period.
It is important to know the codes of the following parameters when accessing data from seismic stations.
network code
sensor channel
With practice, it becomes easier to find the necessary codes for these parameters. One could even put “wild-card” entries that make it simpler to acquire data.
The world map of all seismic stations worldwide collecting real-time data is given at http://www.iris.washington.edu/gmap/#network=_REALTIME&planet=earth
Seismic stations often collect a vast amount depend upon their sampling rates. Some of them collect 100 readings a second. This means very high data processing capacities are needed to handle the high volume of data. It becomes essential to limit the time period for which we want the analysis to be carried out.
It is important to note the COVID-19 did not affect the natural sources of seismic vibrations such as wind, waves, tides, or earthquakes. The seismic stations continued to actively register those ground vibrations. The signature of human activities on seismic vibrations is markedly different from natural sources of seismic vibrations. Seismic noise with frequencies above 1 Hz is generally associated with human activities.
Source of Seismic Data in Canada
The Geological Survey of Canada (GSC) is responsible for maintaining a Canada-wide network of seismic stations to record ground motion from earthquakes and other sources. The Canadian National Seismograph Network (CNSN) constitutes 100 high-gain instruments, called seismographs, and over 60 low-gain or strong-motion seismographs called accelerographs.
As with many of the seismic stations worldwide, the data is available in the public domain in near-real time. For the purpose of this study, I used the data from Canadian seismic stations that were made available on the IRIS platform. Many of these stations can measure seismic vibrations down to the frequency of 0.1 Hz.
Selection of Canadian Cities
I analyzed continuous seismic data during the lockdown and after the lockdown for 6 Canadian cities: Calgary (Alberta), Edmonton (Alberta), Montreal (Quebec), Ottawa (Ontario), Toronto (Ontario) and Yellowknife (North West Territories).
I selected these 6 cities for the following reasons:
These cities are spread out in 4 provinces and provide a good representation of Canada.
The cities that had a seismic station nearby – as I wanted to assess the impact of lockdown in cities and a reduction in human activities.
The seismic stations near these cities were active and collecting data for the period I was interested in.
The data from the seismic stations was public and available in near real-time.
The data from these stations were provided in MSEED files. These files contain the raw seismic waveform data from the stations. I downloaded the MSEED files from the seismic stations closest to 6 cities selected for the study.
I decided to analyze and clean this data using Python and ObsPy. ObsPy is a python library that helps to load and process seismic data. After loading the data from the MSEED files into python, I undertook the following 4 steps:
I started by converting the raw data into Probabilistic Power Spectral Densities (PPSDs) to make it easier to perform analysis on the data. The PPSDs break down the raw data into a histogram, showing the amounts of seismic vibration for a range of frequencies.
Seismic Vibrations come in several frequencies. Earthquakes, for example, usually vibrate the ground at a frequency of 1 – 100 HZ. Waves from oceans and lakes vibrate the ground at < 1 HZ. But I only wanted to measure the change in seismic vibrations caused by human activity, such as the movement of cars on the road, trains, or construction. These cause seismic vibrations in the frequency range of 0.1 Hz to 20 Hz. So, I extracted all the seismic vibrations in the PPSDs that fell between 0.1 HZ and 20 HZ.
Seismic monitoring stations have a very high sampling rate. In fact, they record data at a sample rate of over 100 values per second! As I downloaded around 6 months of data for each station, I had over 1.5 billion data points for each city. The first step in reducing this data was calculating the Root Mean Square for each 15 minute period inside the 6 month period, with a 50% overlap to reduce large spikes. This compressed the data down to 35 000 data points.
To reduce the data even further, and create a trend of the seismic vibrations, I averaged the seismic vibrations for every 2 week period. This resulted in a much smaller and cleaner plot. I then averaged the seismic vibration levels before the lockdown, and during the lockdown, and compared them to calculate the percentage change.
I performed the above steps for data from all the 6 cities.
Results: Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown on Seismic Vibrations in Canada
I analyzed continuous seismic data during the lockdown and after the lockdown for 6 Canadian cities: Calgary (Alberta), Edmonton (Alberta), Montreal (Quebec), Ottawa (Ontario), Toronto (Ontario) and Yellowknife (North West Territories). The results of the analysis are graphed below.
From the analysis, it was evident that lockdown had an impact on seismic vibrations in almost all the cities I analyzed. In all the cities I analyzed, except Ottawa, the seismic vibrations decreased between 14% – 44% with the biggest decrease in Yellowknife in the North-Western Territories. In the 3 densely packed cities of the population over 1 million -Toronto, Montreal, and Calgary, the seismic vibrations dropped by over 30%. In the case of Ottawa (the capital of Canada), the seismic vibrations actually increased by 8%.
As not all the seismic stations were equally close to the cities, they were not equally sensitive to changes in human activities. Furthermore, while lockdown happened in all the cities studied for this project, the strictness enforced and the participation of people in the lockdown varied. Many cities extended the lockdown without any change while others extended the lockdown with a loosening of restrictions. All these differences induced variations in the study.
Training Module: Do your own Analysis of Seismic Vibrations
I wanted other researchers to be able to recreate my results of seismic analysis and be able to do analyses new seismic data on their own. I have written an Online Tutorial using Jupyter Notebooks detailing the process of acquiring data, cleaning it, and how to analyze it to find out the trends in seismic vibrations during the COVID-19 lockdown period.
Anyone can use my tutorial to measure the impact of COVID19 lockdown in their own cities using publicly available data in the form of MSEED files with Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS).
The tutorial is available on my GitHub: https://github.com/Artash-N/COVID19-Impact-on-Seismic-Activity
Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown on Ocean Acoustics
This is a work-in-progress document. I am still working on this project during my summer holidays.
The data to be analyzed is huge: billions of data points and the processing capacity of my desktop computer is very limited.
I will keep posting new analysis on seismic vibrations and ocean noises as I finish them.
Citations of Research by Other Sources
Software Underground Blog https://softwareunderground.org/blog
Artash Nath, a talented 8th grader from Toronto, led a project to observe the impact of COVID-19 lockdown restrictions on the traffic movement in several Canadian cities. Specifically, Artash’s goal was to measure the change in the seismic vibrations in major cities before, during, and after their lockdown period. Repo
Questions: Write to Artash at artash.nath@gmail.com or at www.twitter.com/wonrobot
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Reminder: Xmas Dr Who episode 7.30pm 26 December.
By Mindy on 2014-12-26 • ( 10 )
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Otterday! And Open Thread
Wonder Woman movie marketing machine tied up in knots
Well, cranky sassy girl who acts like a jerk but is apparently quite attractive because of this (Really?) says something clever about the thing the doctor is trying to figure out, but he ignores it, because, you know, girl, and then everything goes wrong, but the doctor maanges to avoid complete and total stuff-up-dom by restarting the universe, which also brings back Rory from the dead, because reasons.
Plus snow.
Xanthë
Cool! Easily the best of the Christmas Day specials since the one in 2005. (I have not been impressed by any of the 2006–2013 specials aside from Planet of the Dead, Waters of Mars, or Day of the Doctor – none of which aired in December!)
Also, how many different movies did Moffat ransack for that?
I don’t know what episode YetAnotherMatt was watching; I was watching Doctor Who Does Inception. (Not that I’ve ever seen Inception, but by osmosis I gather it uses that key gimmick a lot.)
I have seen Inception, and like that, this suffers from the problem that the outermost dream can never be identified and therefore could be totally boring. The dream mercenaries of Inception are the creation of a twelve year old boy sleeping in on Christmas morn, and so is all of Doctor Who canon.
That said, while I’m not a fan of the Inception nested-dream trope for that reason, I thought this was a reasonably well-paced version of it, with the exception that they realised the dreams were nested too quickly.
angharad
2014-12-28 • 8:40 AM
I haven’t seen Inception so it was the Alien analogies that struck most for me. I actually quite liked it. And although young people in ‘old-face’ always look a bit off to me, I thought old Clara would have been a good way for Clara to leave the series (if they had wanted her to). It sounded like she had a pretty good life, and I thought it was nice for the Doctor to see that happening for an ex – companion.
I enjoyed it, although didn’t totally love it. Well-paced and the Santa banter worked quite well, I just didn’t get lost in it. 4/5.
Susan, I’m pretty sure Matt (comment 1) was watching The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang, from the end of Matt Smith’s first season in 2010 (and so not actually a Christmas special). However given the regular fridging of Rory followed by his apparent resurrection, he might have been referring to several other Eleventh Doctor stories!
I’m pretty sure Matt was making it uip as he went along, because he is a cheeky clever bugger like that, but actually quite accurate.
SunlessNick
I enjoyed it, but I don’t have a lot to say that’s not been covered.
Okay, so back to the post I wrote on boxing day, which I know when I wrote it only by the time stamp.
Snow, check,
rebooted universe, no, he’s turning universes off and going back to a previously saved universe.
Dead Schrodinger’s soldier boyfriend who is hundreds of years younger, served in the British army instead of the Roman army, close enough.
Ignored the girl, because he’s the Doctor, ignored the humans, because he’s a Time Lord, ignored Santa and the elves, because Doctor, ignored the Doctor, because he’s senile and/or the minotaur is eating what’s left of his mind, I’m going to go with pretty much.
He talks about Dream Crabs going through layers of skin and bone and screaming, yet that didn’t happen, he asks everyone else a question for which the answer is “it’s a long story”, and doesn’t ask himself the same bloody thing, he doesn’t ask why HIS choice as to which order the four disposable humans choose words controls the answer, he states that noone ever knows when they have reached the final layer of the dream, yet happily stops at each layer, except for the lowest layer because he’s willingly entered the dream, and no dream crab is going to keep him happy and oblivious when he chooses to go in to save the girl. He goes on about gaps and missing bits in dreams and dream logic and plot holes.
He’s still not awake.
Are we all sitting comfortably with our foil hats on? Good, I’ll continue.
The rescue involves four women, the shop worker, the black woman, the woman who is approaching the end of her life span, and the impossible girl, the woman whose life happened, even though it can’t. The dream construct who is certainly not real and his sidekicks point out that the alien dressed as a magician isn’t even slightly plausible, that the person the six dreamers are realying on to rescue them is imaginary and a part of themselves. He enters dream states to let the dreamers know they are dreaming. The Master showed up, as a woman, to teach him that he’s an idiot in a box, and that there are some things he cannot fix like his bowtie. He ended up at the North Pole, because “It’s a long story”.
The T Rex was an ancient creature harvested for something in its brain, in an episode with a lesbian thespian victorian saurian stating that he looks like he does to be accepted, when every incarnation has seen the Doctor looking younger, and he has “attack eyebrows” two weapons growing from his head. What creature has weaponised keratin growing from it’s head?
He’s still dreaming, and he’s trying to tell himself that he needs to abandon his faith that he saved himself from the minotaur.
Moffat’s turn.
This episode is Moffat’s resignation letter, it’s his Last Christmas Episode that he’ll write, and he’s going to blame all the poor imagination that went into the last four years on the Doctor’s bad dreams, and the reason he has turned into a sad pathetic clown is because that’s exactly what the minotaur showed him, it was all a dream, and gosh, didn’t he just foreshadow the whole lot waaaay back then? We haven’t met any new characters in years because there haven’t been any new characters in years, the Doctor’s mind is just bringing the same ones back over and over. We’ve had to be patient, how many patients? There are four patients, and if the page numbers that have been mentioned come up with some significant clue, I will not be particularly surprised.
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Government suspends evictions for further two months | News
Government suspends evictions for further two months
Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick has announced that the government is to extend the suspension of evictions for a further two months.
Ministers are also working with the judiciary, legal representatives and the advice sector on arrangements, including new rules, which will mean that courts are better able to address the need for appropriate protection of all parties, including those shielding from coronavirus.
This is to ensure that judges have all the information necessary to make just decisions and that the most vulnerable tenants can get the help they need.
Where tenants do experience financial difficulties as a result of the pandemic, the government is clear that landlords and tenants should work together and exhaust all possible options – such as flexible payment plans which take into account a tenant’s individual circumstances – to ensure cases only end up in court as an absolute last resort.
Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick said: "We have provided an unprecedented package of support for renters during this pandemic. Today, I am announcing that the government’s ban on evictions will be extended for another 2 months. That takes the moratorium on evictions to a total of five months.
Eviction hearings will not be heard in courts until the end of August and no-one will be evicted from their home this summer due to coronavirus.
"We are also working with the judiciary on proposals to ensure that when evictions proceedings do recommence, arrangements, including rules, are in place to assist the court in giving appropriate protections for those who have been particularly affected by coronavirus – including those tenants who have been shielding."
Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, Robert Buckland QC, said: "Protecting vulnerable people has been our priority throughout this pandemic.
"Extending this ban will give people invaluable security in these turbulent times and work continues at pace to ensure vulnerable renters remain protected long after the ban ends.
"The government had been under severe pressure to extend the ban, with several organisations calling it a "cliff edge".
While welcomed by campaigning groups, they issued warnings too.
Dan Wilson Craw, Director of Generation Rent, said: "It’s a relief that the Government has listened to renters’ concerns and is extending the ban.
"Renters who have lost income in the past few months are extremely worried about losing their home as a result. The Government has averted a homelessness crisis - for now.
"But with holes in the housing safety net and much of the economy still in lockdown, millions of renters will get further behind on rent. Not all of them can rely on their landlord’s goodwill and so need further help with rent, and assurance that they can stay in their homes beyond the summer.
"The Government must use the time it has bought itself to develop a long term solution to provide rent relief and end unfair evictions for good. "
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Cannabusiness Analytics: How Data Startups Are Improving Marijuana Sales
byTatiana Walk-Morris
Thanks to emerging point-of-sale (POS) technology for cannabis retailers, dispensaries in medical marijuana and recreational states will soon operate as seamlessly as your average convenience store.
From business-to-business data companies like BDS Analytics, to retail and consumer-facing firms like Greenbits, these new startups are helping dispensaries and retailers quickly access data regarding everything from product inventory to the best-selling strains. However, since cannabusiness regulations vary from state to state and the overall legal market is still in its infancy, tech companies that track marijuana POS data are not “one size fits all.”
For instance, one of the newest startups entering the market is Baker, a company that helps people locate their favorite strains quickly and easily and provides dispensaries with POS technology, a breakdown of anonymized sales stats and assistance with building customer loyalty.
The Denver-based firm works with more than 100 dispensaries and is set to receive a $1.6 million round of funding, according to Baker CEO and co-founder Joel Milton. Baker’s clients use the service to present customers with deals on their favorite products and to match their inventory with people seeking a specific strain.
“Part of what we’re trying to do is change the shopping experience, the way Amazon personalized recommendations that feel very comfortable,” Milton says. “There’s still a lot of people who haven’t experienced that yet, and I think part of the reason is the lack of technology that helps get this industry where it can be.”
Even so, the data these companies collect depend largely on the businesses they’re serving. Though Baker helps consumers locate favorite strains and helps dispensaries take a big-picture look at their business, the startup doesn’t address the compliance aspect of product tracking. That’s where a competitor like Greenbits comes in.
Greenbits, a San Jose–based POS-data startup serving more than 250 dispensaries, also provides its clients with a breakdown of store statistics. Though the company doesn’t offer an app for marijuana consumers, it does track products to help dispensaries stay compliant with state laws. Greenbits’s software traces and reports product and sale information directly to authorities, and it also prevents dispensaries from selling to underage buyers, says Ben Curren, the company’s founder and CEO.
Because laws and technology vary from state to state, Greenbits has had to develop technological solutions for clients in states whose systems aren’t easily integrated, Curren adds. These legal nuances affect where and how Greenbits sells its products.
“It’s kind of like going international,” Curren explains. “In Washington, when the government started seed-to-sale tracking, the software had an API [application program interface], which allows us to automate traceability data for businesses… In Colorado, the software system doesn’t have an API, so there’s no way to integrate with the state.”
Other firms are also stepping in to take the pulse of the industry, focusing more on business-to-business needs than consumer operations. BDS Analytics is a Boulder, Colorado–based firm, founded in 2015, that specializes in marijuana retail data, market research and consulting services. It collects and anonymizes consumer information for individual dispensaries and also gathers market-share data to determine where brands stand in the marketplace.
BDS Analytics doesn’t have a consumer app, nor does it assist dispensaries with day-to-day operations or regulatory compliance. But the data it provides help dispensaries determine the size of their market share, as well as to assess how well certain strains and products are selling – information which is useful to growers and brands, says Tom Jones, BDS’s director of analytics.
The availability of this data is common in other industries, but until recently there were no firms providing such information for the cannabis sector, says Taylor West, deputy director of the National Cannabis Industry Association. This data can be crucial for pricing products, assessing demand and determining what to offer in stores.
At the same time, it’s important
to ensure that the data collected and processed by these companies is secure, West adds, both to protect consumers and to avoid sharing proprietary information with competitors. But building the necessary relationships with business owners to collect such data is “not an overnight process.”
“The more established dispensaries have been using their own data for
a long time to make decisions,” West points out. “But it’s definitely an area that you’re seeing more businesses getting into, recognizing that a tremendous amount of information can be gleaned from this data.”
Tatiana Walk-Morris
Strain Review: Alien Blue from San Juan Strains
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byB.G. Schmidt
[Exclusive] First Review: Jay-Z Officially Enters the Cannabis Arena… For Real This Time
Jay-Z's MONOGRAM is finally available to the public.
byJon Cappetta
Red White & Bloom Launches High Times Branded Cannabis Products In Michigan
Multistate cannabis operator Red White & Bloom announced on Monday that it is launching a new line of…
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Get ready, friends—the High Times Shop is better than ever.
byHigh Times
Sources Say Cannabis Industry, Not Community, Is The Source Of Most Discrimination
Cannabis is meant to be for everyone...so why does the business side of things have such an inclusion problem?
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Hightown Group at St Helens RLFC
St Helens RLFC and Leeds Rhinos got the Bet Fred Super League underway last night with a 6-4 win for Saints.
Members of the Hightown Group team were in attendance and thoroughly enjoyed the game. Hightown Group have undertaken a number of sponsorship packages with St Helens RLFC in the past, however this year we decided to take it a step further.
Our sponsorship package for the 2017-2018 season includes a significant Hightown Group advertisement structure behind the goal area. We felt that our ‘H’ logo was the perfect fit to sit behind the goal!
With matches shown live on Sky Sports, game highlights across all major news channels nationwide along with countless social media channels, sports magazines and national newspapers we’re looking forward to seeing how often we see our logo over the coming season!
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Category Archives: TV News
by Duane Byrge
Written by Duane Byrge Thu May 9, 2019 Actors, Book Excerpt, Crime, Fiction, Film, Film Critics, Film Festivals, Journalists, Media, Producers, TV News Leave a comment
The Hollywood film critic is a suspect in a second murder at the Cannes Film Festival. 2,903 words. Part One. Part Two. Part Three. Part Five. Illustration by John Donald Carlucci.
There were enough security guards to stock an island dictatorship. Instead of colorful uniforms with feathered hats, gaudy medals and polished swords, they wore Armani tuxedos. The crack unit stood at attention in front of the mansion gate for the Cannes Film Festival’s elegant party. Despite their disciplined pose, their eyes were riveted on Ryan’s model girlfriend Delisha.
Within seconds, an attendant pulled up with a gleaming Aston Martin V12 bestowed on Ryan for the long drive back to town and belonging to one of the movie producer-distributors. At least half the valet parkers rushed to help Delisha into the passenger side. She slid into the classic vehicle. “Allons y,” Delisha called out, bestowing a celebratory wave.
Ryan idled the car as the iron gates snapped open with crisp precision, spreading their steel in a deferential backward swoop, like an old-fashioned servant. Only then did Ryan punch the pedal and sail through the estate’s stone entrance.
Delisha clasped his hand. “Home, James.”
“Bond, James Bond,” Ryan called out in his best 007 accent.
Delisha giggled and planted a quick kiss on his neck. For the moment, Ryan felt like the glamorous super-agent. The trouble was: he didn’t really know how to work a shift. Maybe, if it was all downhill, they could continue in this gear.
“You’re grinding. You’ve got to let it out,” Delisha said.
Written by Duane Byrge Tue May 7, 2019 Actors, Book Excerpt, Crime, Directors, Fiction, Film, Film Critics, Film Festivals, Journalists, Media, Producers, Publicists, TV, TV News 1
The lead actress of the opening night picture at the Cannes Film Festival is murdered – and a Hollywood film critic is the prime suspect. Part One. Part Three. 3,744 words. Illustrations by John Donald Carlucci.
The French National Police gendarmes hurried Ryan Cromwell through reception, which resembled a cheap hotel lobby, and down a narrow brown hallway. They propelled him into an interrogation room only slightly larger than a bread box and painted gas chamber green. A man in his mid-fifties, wearing a dull black suit befitting a homicide detective, studied a copy of the day’s Hollywood Times. The page was opened to Ryan Cromwell’s review of The Ice Princess. The cop looked directly at Ryan. Then looked down at the paper. Then back up at Ryan.
”We have some questions for you, Monsieur Cromwell,” the detective said in a monotone and perfect English.
”Please, tell me what’s going on?” Ryan’s voice cracked, and his mouth was dry. “Why was I dragged down here?”
“My name is Inspector Thiereaux. I wish to talk about your film critique. In your criticism of The Ice Princess film, you wrote, ‘The script is so bad that one hopes that the film’s signature blue scarf would be stuffed down Kristen Bjorge’s throat so we wouldn’t have to hear her utter another word of dialogue.’”
”What do you mean, ‘stuffed down her throat’? I never wrote that.”
“It is right here.” The policeman shoved the review across the table. Ryan grabbed it and scanned the opening paragraph. He had begun with a discussion about lead actress Kristen’s screen presence. None of that was there.
“These are not my words,” Ryan said.
“I do not understand.”
“Sometimes the editors cut or rewrite my reviews. This is appalling. Because it blatantly misrepresents my thoughts. I would never take such a vulgar and aggressive tone. It’s so Internet.”
Written by Duane Byrge Mon May 6, 2019 Actors, Book Excerpt, Crime, Directors, Fiction, Film, Film Critics, Film Festivals, Journalists, Media, TV, TV News 3
A Hollywood film critic pans the opening night picture at the Cannes Film Festival – and suddenly he’s in police custody. Part Two. 2,430 words. Illustrations by John Donald Carlucci.
The half moon was smudgy white but ripening nicely for its full appearance at the Cannes Film Festival. Like a diva, it would not make its entrance until the final Saturday which the organizers already were proclaiming an evening of perfect alignment when “La Lunar Festival” would ascend to its spot of high honor in the dark blue Mediterranean sky. At the moment, the moon was glowing so exquisitely above the sea that it could have been a special effects rendition.
For a brief second, Ryan Cromwell savored the spectacle. Because the moon, the sea, the breeze, and The Ice Princess party were all his. It was the hottest Cannes invite in years. A sexy publicist from DeSimio & Associates had offered Ryan $250 for his ticket and, when he declined, she had upped the ante with an X-rated proposition. Ryan said no because he had a bad case of “Cannes Disease,” a contagious desperation that you had to be doing something every minute, and if not, you were missing something somewhere. Because the one event you decided not to attend would be the highlight of the festival.
Ryan was the senior film critic for the Hollywood Times, the top trade paper for the movie industry. He stood just over 6 feet with wavy dark hair and a physique toned by daily afternoon runs at the UCLA track and regular Tae Kwon Do workouts at a dojo on Sunset. He dressed well, but erratically, and when he won special praise for his “costume design,” as he called it, he took it as an indication that he lacked style at other times. He had just turned 38, and this was his eleventh trip to Cannes. It still always overwhelmed him that he was at the celebrated film festival, where the likes of his movie idols had graced the Red Carpet. Despite his modesty, Ryan knew that he belonged; his reviews set the tone and held the future for many of the films that would debut here in competition. The world would be reading him.
Standing in line to get into the party, Ryan was tapped on the back. He turned to see Stan Peck, his least favorite journalist. Peck wore a Hawaiian shirt, large sun visor and blue metallic sunglasses.
“Where’s your cigarette holder, Hunter?” Ryan asked.
“Slightly funny,” Peck responded. “I hoped to talk with you about your scathing review of The Ice Princess. It’s already the talk of the festival. I loved your lead: ‘Big guns, big gadgets, big hair, big dud.’”
Dead For A Living
Written by Jordan Riefe Wed May 16, 2018 Actors, Book Excerpt, Fiction, Film, Journalists, Junkets, Recording Artists, Studios, TV, TV News 1
A dispirited film journalist in Hollywood is having a dismal time in this book excerpt. 2,777 words. Illustration by Thomas Warming.
It sucked being on the Red Carpet again. It may seem exciting on TV, but in real life it’s a drag. It’s always at the end of the day, your feet are hurting and you just want to go home but, no, you’re in a scrum down. And you’re not even guaranteed the “talent” is going to talk to you unless you’re Entertainment Tonight or Access Hollywood or some other high-power purveyor of poop, which Renny Aucoin was not. Instead he was a low-power purveyor of poop, writing for Wonderwall and MSN. Could be worse, he thought, could be August and 100 degrees and sickening with the smell of perfume and sweat. Mercifully it was May and pissing rain instead.
He hadn’t done a Red Carpet in years, but the damn intern didn’t show up, and his editor threw it at him. What could he say? The venue was 6925 Hollywood Boulevard. A quintessential movie palace from the golden age, this kitschy Chinese deco gem upstaged only by its famous courtyard featuring an endless array of handprints dating from Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks through C-P3O, whose imprint had to be reworked after Regis Philbin stepped in the still-wet cement during a broadcast.
Renny knew all this on account of his life-long love affair with movies. Since childhood they represented an aspirational universe, a shining city on the hill, and Old Hollywood was the Garden of Eden. He quoted movies the way others quoted scripture, and the Chinese Theater was his Vatican.
by Thomas Roberdeau
Written by Thomas Roberdeau Wed May 31, 2017 Actors, Fiction, Film, Film Crew, Film Schools, Filmmakers, Media, Short Story, TV, TV News 1
A TV cameraman in the early 1970s finds and films two civil war stories. 1,675 words. Illustration by John Donald Carlucci.
Paul was very young, only 20, and this was to be his first film. He had saved enough money to fund it by working as a TV cameraman at former President Lyndon B. Johnson’s TV station in Austin, Texas. He wanted to produce a short anti-war fable and he was excited. The Vietnam war was raging, and many of his friends were fighting, and some had been killed. Paul had been graced with a high lottery number, so he wouldn’t be getting drafted. But the war was constantly on his mind, and he thought his allegory using the Civil War as a foundation might speak to viewers. It would be done in stark black and white, merging his influences of Ingmar Bergman and Sergei Eisenstein. He had projected a lot of their films in university classes serving as a teaching assistant in the Radio/TV/Film Department.
The story Paul outlined was simple. A wounded Confederate soldier is chased by a troop of Yankees and stumbles onto an isolated cabin in the woods where he is taken in by the kindly Old Man who lives there. Far away from battle, the soldier thinks he is safe. The Old Man shelters him, hiding him from his pursuers, binding his wounds and, when he is healed, watching him return to the war. The story was about paternal care and kindness found even in the heart of battle. It was also about the bleak cycle of violence in combat. There would be no dialogue: just simple action and emotion communicated through faces. And Paul knew that all his skills as a photographer and filmmaker would be required to pull this off.
He needed to find the perfect cast. His younger brother had a friend who was in the drama school at the university and would play the wounded Confederate soldier. The young actor was studying Shakespeare and Chekhov, all the great classic plays. Paul was lucky to have him.
He needed one more actor to play the Old Man, a Good Samaritan type. He searched for him everywhere. He wanted someone with gravitas and a special face. One day Paul drove up to a mini-mart to buy some beer, and an old man came out with white hair and a beard and eyes that almost twinkled. Paul asked him if he had ever thought about doing some acting because he had such a great face. The old man said he had done some community theatre many years ago. His name was Max and he was a beekeeper. Paul knew immediately Max would be perfect as the Good Samaritan.
Keep Santa Monica Clean
by Pasha Adam
Written by Pasha Adam Mon Jan 23, 2017 Actors, Assistants, Book Excerpt, Digital Technology, Executives, Fiction, Film, Journalists, Media, Screenwriters, Studios, TV, TV News, TV Writers Leave a comment
A mid-career screenwriter has more fun at his secret avocation. 2,169 words. Part Two. Illustration by John Donald Carlucci.
Orson Welles said that, depending where you choose to conclude it, any story can have a happy ending.
My story began the night I met Grace Chase in Cabana in Santa Monica, California.
The sun was living out its final moments, painting the sky gold, and a Pacific breeze flowed through the open-air bar. Hours removed from my first screenplay sale, I spied a beautiful blonde through a haze of tobacco. The strings of “At Last” by Etta James swelled into a crescendo of anticipation as our eyes met and she flirtatiously exhaled a stream of cigarette smoke, compelling me to navigate the swarm of guys that divided us.
“Grace,” she opened.
“Dante.”
If my Hollywood story had faded to black at that moment, as the smoke cleared and I gazed into Grace’s eyes, it would have had a happy ending.
Alas, shit happens, as it is wont to do, and four years, three weeks, and two days later, a naked brunette is lying in my bed, screaming, “Choke me! Choke the fucking life out of me!”
The Raw Vote Is In
by Bill Scheft
Written by Bill Scheft Mon Apr 25, 2016 Cable, Comedians, Comedy Clubs, Election Coverage, Fiction, Media, Short Story, TV, TV News 5
TV FICTION PACKAGE: Politically incorrect comedian Tommy Dash horrifies the panelists on a cable news show about the Presidential primary race. 2,759 words. Illustration by Mark Fearing.
Okay, enough chit-chat. Here are the jokes I never got to on the air:
I’m now taking orders for my new t-shirt: “TRUMP: He’s David Duke, But With A Higher Thread Count.”
Ted Cruz may win Indiana. It all depends on whether he can get the heavy Gestapo turnout.
If you don’t count Ohio, the only time John Kasich has finished first is when he was jerking off
Bernie Sanders spent $46 million in the month of March. And half of that was on fiber.
Remember, the Hillary Clinton email scandal started because she didn’t want to carry around an extra device. It’s the same thing that happened with Bruce Jenner.
Before we continue, I have several philosophical questions:
If someone is on cable television news and is under the impression that it’s okay to curse because it is cable television, is that person wrong for cursing? Strictly speaking, is the phrase “cock yahtzee” cursing? Okay, what about “turd parade”? Okay, what about “muff” or “snatch”?
Okay, I know you’re going to say “snatch” is a bit vulgar. And perhaps that’s what got me hustled back onto Sixth Avenue. I was vulgar. And you can’t be vulgar on television. You can be dirty. You can be suggestive. You can be naughty, and we hope you are. But you can’t be vulgar on TV. It’s a public trust, or whatever other hypocritical oxymoronic term you can come up with, like “rectal itching” at the end of a pharmaceutical commercial.
Gee, I hope I’m not giving away what happened last Friday when I got booked to appear on the cable news political roundtable, Right Cross.
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Mellow, experimental alt rock duo JEN discuss ambitious debut EP “Vœu pieux”
JEN, a Paris-based french duet, formed in 2018 by Alexandre Trautmann (guitar/vocals) and Pier-Paolo Gault (drums/vocals), two friends who desperately looked for bandmates that accept playing a music that is either terribly noisy either terribly sentimental, but couldn’t find anyone else to complete their perfect love triangle. Soaked in DIY ethics and lo-fi aesthetics, their debut EP “Vœu pieux” serves as a multi-faceted, distinct, carefully crafted album and a promising introduction to JEN’s craft. Today, we’re celebrating its recent release with the band’s special commentary, track by track rundown and a special list of best underrated alternative / undergroudn bands in France.
“We have decided to make the perfect songs to cry at night on the pillow” – says the band.
Asked about the concept behind their project, they explained: “Our name JEN comes from Confucius’ philosophy and offers a background to the general feeling we have when we play together: we try to be as much as we can humble and honest. That is to say, as it goes in Confucius’ “Jen”, to know your position between “Heaven and Earth”; not to think yourself taller, stronger than you are. For us, if everyone could realize that, the world would be far better in every way.”
“In French, “voeu pieux” means something like an unrealisable wish, but in which you keep believing: a sort of a vain but pious prayer.” – they continue. “It suited well with our first EP as we started from scratch in terms of production of music. Yet, we still wanted to get started despite this obstacle. So, we tried to reach the best music we could in terms of both creation and production. Then, thanks to a strong belief in DIY ethics and lo-fi aesthetics, we finally made it. The result is these four tracks we are proud of.”
“On the other hand, the ideals of JEN and other stuff we try to express in our music are rather “idealistics”, and we are aware of that. A lot of our lyrics are unrealizable dreams that only exist here, on the record. In our music, we mourn our ideals, yet we continue desperately to believe in them : “Voeu pieux” were definitely proper words to intitle our EP.”
Looking into 2021, they conclude: “We wait impatiently for the end of the lockdown to make our first shows. If we don’t find a drummer till then, we will find a way to work live as a duet!” – they conclude.”
Track by track commentary
Vœu pieux by JEN
Snow : It is quite classical in its structure. The purpose was to be melodic and accessible but using chords that induce a sort of melancholy. The song came naturally by thinking about the future or enjoying our smallness in front of nature with the ones you love. It simply refers to the moments where nothing happens. When you just have to close your eyes and enjoy the silence.
To Join the Sun : The longest song of the EP, based on the repetition and evolution of a riff that came out during a lonely night. It opens with an acoustic guitar and voice. The general mood is melancholic, nearly suicidal in fact : the speaker confesses his issues of communication, and his decision of leaving to reach the sun. The song then becomes instrumental, and gains in intensity with a powerful crescendo, yet the song has no real climax : at the end, the speaker comes back to tell his failure.
Eye Contact is the shoegaze track of the EP, because it’s noisy, vaporous, and it’s a love song ! It tells a story that everyone can relate to. Begin a guy at a party, surrounded by assholes, who suddenly makes eye contact with a girl ; with this contact he finally finds a true and authentic feeling. He falls in love at first sight, and tries with difficulty to tell her what he feels. At the end of the song, the love story gets more intense but also more dramatic. We wanted here to be a bit cynical. Because, even if we think that those feelings and ideals of love are nice, they are also unrealisable, it only exists in dreams, fantasies, music and art. When you think about it, all these shoegaze themes are in fact pretty scary.
Let It Blast – The song is divided in two parts, because it tells the story of someone who is very frustrated because he is keeping all his emotions inside. The first part is calm. Then, the song gets noisy : the man has lost control and gone mad and all his frustration is coming out at a glance.
Underrated French bands tips:
First, Cosmopaark. One of the greatest if not the best shoegaze band actually in France. Their debut EP Sunflower is great, with a huge sound and still their songs are rejoicing in a way that brings sunlight into dark grey clouds.
Sunflower by Cosmopaark
As for shoegaze, we recommend you as well the Parisians of Subzero Fun, and Tapeworms a trio of Lille that released his first album in September.
ON3 by Subzero Fun
Funtastic by Tapeworms
In a more metal vibe (cause we like many metal bands too): Brusque, a doom metal duet of Paris “worshipping despair as an act of catharsis”, according to their own words. And we swear : it works pretty good. They released their first EP What’s Hidden Devours in April 2020. Brusque is the french version of Neurosis.
What’s Hidden Devours by Brusque
Worhs: A duet, again!
Parmi les bannis la confiance règne by Worhs
Worhs is maybe the only queer black metal band on earth. They released the awesome “Plus dure sera la chute” in March 2020. https://worhs.bandcamp.com/album/plus-dure-sera-la-chute
Montagne: a stoner doom metal trio of Paris. They just released their first album and it is great!
Black Waterfall by Montagne
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Dark Days: A post hardcore/emo band which just released a great second album. The production is cool and possesses this balance between bitterness and hope.
From Dusk To Dawn by Dark Days
And of course, Pier-Paolo also plays drums in two other bands rather gazy: Do Lung (psych noise) and Sugar Pills (indie queer). It was hard not to mention them here!
E.P. II by Do Lung
As well as Sublunar Express, the band of our buddy living in Montréal, a psych rock trio, very important for us. After releasing their debut album in 2019, they released Rook, a homemade double single in august 2020.
Rook by Sublunar Express
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Ask The Newsroom: Correctional Facilities, Daily Testing And More
Lee Gaines, Dana Cronin, Christine Herman, Tatiania Perry
Photo: Kurt Bielema/Illinois Newsroom
There is a slew of uncertainty surrounding the coronavirus pandemic and its effects on Illinois residents and businesses.
We’ve received questions from listeners about everything from the virus and its impact on correctional facilities to daily testing and wearing masks in public. We’ve answered some of the questions we received below.
Q: How many inmates have the virus in Graham Correctional facility?
As of April 28, no inmates at Graham Correctional Center have tested positive for COVID-19, according to the Illinois Department of Corrections. However, the department is reporting that one staff member contracted and recovered from the virus.
IDOC has a running tally of the number of infected incarcerated individuals and staff members — as well as the number of recovered for both categories — on this webpage. The department also has a COVID-19 Q&A section on their website where they lay out specific measures they’re taking to mitigate the spread of the virus inside. Illinois Newsroom has reported on what’s going on inside Stateville Correctional Center, and efforts by advocates to release elderly and chronically ill inmates.
So far, Stateville, which is located south of Chicago near Joliet, is the hardest hit by the virus. But that could change. We recommend checking IDOC’s website to see where the case numbers stand. It should be noted that the department does not list the number of deaths from the virus on its website. As of this writing, at least 10 incarcerated individuals have died after contracting COVID-19 — all of whom were locked up at Stateville. The agency also does not list how many individuals have been tested for the virus.
Non-essential businesses
Q: What happens if a nonessential business keeps working during the stay at home order?
Under the current stay-at-home order, only certain “essential” businesses are allowed to operate. That includes everything from healthcare operations to hardware stores and laundry services. A complete list of essential businesses can be found here. If a business is not considered essential, they can still operate under “Minimum Basic Operations,” so long as employees maintain six feet of distance between them and work remotely when possible. “Minimum Basic Operations” include maintaining inventory, payroll and security.
If you suspect a non-essential business is operating beyond what’s allowed under the stay-at-home order, you can submit a complaint here. If you have questions about whether a business is violating the stay-at-home order, you can contact the Workplace Rights Bureau of the Illinois Attorney General’s Office at 844-740-5076 or workplacerights@atg.state.il.us. If you see a flagrant violation of the order, such as a restaurant or bar operating as normal, contact your local law enforcement.
It’s important to note, however, that effective May 1, more businesses are considered essential, including greenhouses, garden centers and pet grooming services. You can find an update here.
Q: Will people on food stamps receive emergency stamps because of COVID-19?
The Illinois Department of Human Services announced earlier this month that food stamp recipients in Illinois will see maximum benefits for the months of April and May. All qualified households should have received the additional benefits by April 20.
The emergency funding was provided by the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, and was distributed to more than 450,000 households in Illinois. The money should have automatically loaded onto recipients’ Link cards.
Additional funding has been allocated to families who rely on free or reduced-price school meals. Due to school closures, many of these families are struggling to meet the new strain on their food budgets. (It should also be noted that many school districts are still offering breakfast and lunches to students.) The additional funding also comes from the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, and is available to 300,000 Illinois households, including both food stamp recipients and non-recipients. Recipients will see the money automatically loaded on Link cards. Non-recipients can apply online or complete a paper application here.
Daily testing
Q: How many tests per day are happening?
More than 250,000 people have been tested for COVID-19 so far in Illinois, according to the state’s public health department. The number of tests performed each day has gone up recently, averaging about 10,000 per day for the past two weeks.
Those numbers reflect all tests “performed and reported electronically for testing of COVID-19 at IDPH, commercial or hospital laboratories” in Illinois.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker said in a news briefing last week that the state was working on getting up to 10,000 tests a day, with at least 3,000 tests per day conducted at the state’s five drive-up sites.
As for whether this level of testing is sustainable, Pritzker said his hope and expectation is that it will be, but it will depend on how many people try to get a test on any given day and on the state’s supply of testing materials.
Masks in public
Q: What should I do if I can’t find a mask to wear when I go out in public?
Wearing cloth masks while going into public places will become a requirement in Illinois starting May 1.
If someone is not able to sew a mask for themselves, CU Public Health Administrator Julie Pryde recommends purchasing a cloth mask online or following CDC guidance on no-sew methods for creating a cloth mask out of basic materials people may have at home.
Pryde says grocery stores and other businesses continuing to operate will be encouraged to provide masks for employees.
“This is not going to be something that we do for a week or a month,” Pryde says. “This is going to be the new normal until we have herd immunity and we have a vaccine.”
Q: If a facility has been unused/unoccupied since the stay at home order (i.e. several weeks), can it be assumed to be clear of virus once re-opened, without some kind of deep cleaning?
The coronavirus can live on surfaces anywhere from hours to days, depending on what the surface is made from, according to WebMD.
“If a place has been closed down for a month, you’re going to want to clean anyway, but not necessarily for (COVID-19),” CU Public Health Administrator Julie Pryde says. “It’s not like the virus is going to be hanging out there alive forever being able to be transmitted.”
When certain businesses are allowed to re-open in various capacities on May 1, they will be expected to frequently sanitize commonly touched surfaces, provide masks for employees and make sure both employees and customers are practicing social distancing, Pryde says.
Lockdown extension
Q: CNN had Illinois highlighted as one of the states opening up today. Is that right?
On April 23, Gov J.B. Pritzker announced he would sign an executive order Wednesday that extends Illinois’ Disaster Proclamation, stay-at-home order and the suspension of on-site learning at schools across the state.
The order was extended through May 30 as the state continues to see an increase in the number of coronavirus cases.
Health officials warn that Illinois’ cases have still not peaked and a continued increase in patients threatens to overwhelm state hospitals, healthcare workers and first responders.
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SOAN 202: Girls Gone Bad
SOAN 202
For Professor Annette Nierobisz - Spring 2016
More Crime Statistics
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Girls Gone Bad
Published by the American Society of Criminology.
Criminology & Public Policy
Places to Search for Articles
The main index to journal articles in Sociology and related fields. Start here most of the time for this class.
Full text of journals -- but not many criminology journals -- up to 3-5 years ago. These are considered the "core" journals of many fields, but the "core" does not always reflect the breadth of scholarship and theoretical approach. Also, the newest research will never be found here.
ProQuest Research Library
A broad, interdisciplinary index to journals, newspapers and other publications. Good for searching across disciplines and narrowing down from a general search.
Social Services Abstracts
(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and some full text)
Covers current research focused on social work and human services and related fields of social welfare, social policy, and community development. Covers 1979 - current.
A quick way to search across disciplines. Highly cited works tend to appear at the top of the search results. Look for the "Full Text" link to find library access.
Available through the Web of Knowledge. Search through current and historical literature in the social sciences, and perform cited reference searching to see who has cite a particular document. Covers 1898 - current.
Note: To do cited reference searching, click on "cited reference search," fill in an author's last name and publication date, figure out which of the resulting list of citations match the work you're looking for, and then "finish search" to see who has cited that work.
The key database for educational-related literature. You may also search ERIC through the free U.S. Department of Education website. 1966 - current. An ELM Database.
Key index to journal articles in psychology.
Topical Publication Collections - NIJ
The National Institute of Justice sponsors a great deal of research, which can be found here by topic.
Who Cited This Article?
Broad index to scholarly literature, great for interdisciplinary topics. The only index that lets you search broadly for articles that cite a given work or dataset.
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URL: https://gouldguides.carleton.edu/soan202
Subjects: Sociology
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How Azeri Military Innovated its Drone Tactics to Win the Nagorno-Karabakh War?
AUTHOR'S DESK
2 months ago Shantanu K. Bansal
Article by Shantanu K. Bansal
Even though the overall count of Armenian and Azerbaijan’s heavy weapons was more or less equal during the conflict, though Azerbaijan was having some qualitative edge over the Armenian Forces but at the end of the conflict, heavy war machines didn’t decide the victory. Rather drones or better to say Kamikaze drones, military innovation on ground and support by close ally like Turkey which even sent mercenary soldiers in support made the day for the Azeri military.
Using Drones As a Better Alternative to Conventional Fighters
Warplanes are expensive to buy, maintain and operate; that is why Armenia and Azerbaijan have just 52 between them. Turkish and Azeri tactics point to a new, more affordable type of air power that is the drones make an especially big difference for countries with small air forces. The Azerbaijan military deployed an array of drones, both for surveillance and Attack\Kamikaze UAVs.
“Drones offer small countries very cheap access to tactical aviation and precision guided weapons, enabling them to destroy an opponent’s much-costlier equipment such as tanks and air defense systems,” said Michael Kofman, military analyst and director of Russia studies at CNA, a US defense think tank.
Prior to this outbreak, researchers estimated Azerbaijan had fewer than 200 models.
Among those, according to the Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College in the United States, are the Harpy and Harop vehicles, manufactured by Israel Aerospace Industries, and the Orbiter 1K, from Aeronautics Group. Other acquisitions include models known as Hermes, Heron, and SkyStriker.
For several years now, Azerbaijan has also had the ability to manufacture drones itself, under license from Israel’s Aeronautics Group. That’s given Baku more flexibility in how and where it can deploy the vehicles.
Experts said Armenia has a far smaller drone and UAV fleet; its armed forces announced in 2011 that the country had developed its own domestically built craft called the Krunk followed by two other models called the Baze and the Ptero-5.
All are designed for reconnaissance and surveillance, however, not for suicide missions. It was unclear to what extent the units were being used in the current fighting. Estimates put Armenia’s overall fleet at only a few dozen at most.
On October 2, Armenia’s Defense Ministry claimed that 107 Azerbaijani UAVs had been downed, though some may have been kamikaze drones that were crashed on purpose.
Strategic Purchase of Drones Before the Conflict
It was reported in late June, 2020 that Azerbaijan announced that it would purchase unmanned aerial combat vehicles from Turkey.
Speaking in a local TV broadcaster on the purchase of new weapons and military vehicles for the Azerbaijani armed forces, Defence Minister Zakir Hasanov Zakir Hasanov said his country sought to purchase Turkish-made combat drones.
Reuters reported Turkey’s military exports to its ally Azerbaijan have risen six-fold this year, with sales of drones and other military equipment rising to $77 million last month alone before fighting broke out over the Nagorno-Karabakh region, according to exports data.
RUSI notes that loitering munitions and medium-endurance strike capable UAVs are proliferating widely, with multiple competing exporters. Israel, Turkey and China export comparable platforms worldwide.
In comparison, Armenia didn’t enjoy such credible support from it’s ally Russia. As Russia’s defense industry has lagged in developing unmanned aerial vehicles compared to Israel and Turkey. It seems that Armenian forces were not able to understand the importance of attack drones in the conflict as Azerbaijan could.
Armenia underestimated the purchase of drones. “Russia does not produce anything of the kind. Of course, they should have turned to China or Iran. But it all comes down to money. They buy weapons from Russia with lucrative loans, and with China, it’s not so simple. As for American-made drones, which are talked about, we haven’t seen them yet,” military analyst Andrei Frolov told the Russian Air Force.
Read at IADN: The Threat of Swarm of Drones
Liotering Munitions (Aka. Kamikaze Attacks) Changed the Face of War
Azerbaijan used its drone fleet — purchased from Israel and Turkey — to stalk and destroy Armenia’s weapons systems in Nagorno-Karabakh, shattering its defenses and enabling a swift advance. Armenia found that air defense systems in Nagorno-Karabakh, many of them older Soviet systems, were impossible to defend against drone attacks, and losses quickly piled up.
Air breathing precision strike assets such as the Israeli Harop loitering munition have been utilised extensively by Azerbaijan. The most notable use of the Harop was its role in a strike against an Armenian S-300 surface-to-air missile (SAM) site in Shuskakend.
At the forefront of the Turkish offensive were the Bayraktar-TB and Anka-S drone systems. These drones carry MAM-C and MAM-L high explosive, armour-penetrating rockets designed to strike targets illuminated by a laser.
The Turkish TB2 Drones were widely used by the Azeri forces. The Economist notes that the TB2 Turkish drone, costing a few million dollars. The TB2’s high-definition cameras give Azerbaijan an edge in that contest. Its tank-killing snuff movies are slicker affairs, set to Wagnerian music.
Following the Turkish drone warfare school’s footsteps, the Azerbaijani military has effectively used UAVs, especially Bayraktar TB-2, to hunt down the Armenian air defenses.
The Turkish-made Bayraktar TB2 UAVs. With a reasonable loiter time and guided munitions, these have allowed Azeri forces to launch hunter-killer raids into the Armenian rear to find and interdict Armenian forces. Together with Harop, these destroyed over 100 Armenian T72 main battle tanks of varying vintages.
Azerbaijani-Armenian clashes showed is the vulnerability of traditional land units — armored, mechanized, and motorized formations.
Applying Tactical Mind to use Drones
Matthew Briza told Forbes magazine Azerbaijan, instead of taking risks and attacking well-fortified positions in the mountainous terrain, has relied on an exhausting war, during which it wants to destroy the enemy’s air defense system and his armored vehicles with targeted strikes.
Another highlight of the conflict has been the military tactic of converting a conventional aircraft into a Drone. The Washington Post notes that in the early stages of the war, Azerbaijan used 11 slow Soviet-era An-2 aircraft that had been converted into drones and sent them buzzing over Nagorno-Karabakh as bait to Armenian air defense systems — tempting them to fire and reveal their positions, after which they could be hit by drones.
The Azeri forces must found it to be lucky enough that Armenian forces were not armed with AD assets which can effectively take on the UAVs like the TB-2 which have many stealth characteristics like its small size which allows it to deceive the enemy AD assets.
Armenia though claims that it managed to shoot down several enemy drones with the Osa AKM and Strela-10 anti-aircraft missile systems but these are designed to counter larger targets like fighter aircrafts and helicopters not drones like TB-2.
Therefore, Armenia remains to defend itself primarily by camouflage, fake targets, and electronic warfare. “Some primitive methods turned out to be quite effective, and the Armenians managed to shoot down several drones with anti-aircraft guns. But for Russia, the bad news is that the Azerbaijani drone destroyed the Russian Repellent electronic warfare complex, which is intended specifically to destroy drones,” Lukas Vizingr, security expert explained.
Drone as a Propaganda Machine
The value of drones is not just their destructive potential, but also their ability to document their kills. Both sides in the conflict have released dramatic footage of drones and soldiers destroying enemy tanks.
The Azerbaijan Ministry of Defense has released daily updates utilizing drone footage on its YouTube and Twitter accounts. This was also the case for Turkey’s Operation Spring Shield.
But going beyond this, both sides have sought to document crashed drone wreckage, as a way to accuse their opponent of war crimes or targeting of civilians.
Using Turkey’s Experience in Drone Warfare
Azerbaijan probably benefited from Turkey’s experience of its recent use of drones in Syria as well as Libya, where its drones trounced the Russian-made Pantsir S1 air defense systems. They propogated it very widely. Before getting into the conflict, the Turks and Azeri militaries were invovled in various military excercises.
Azerbaijan’s technological advantage didn’t come only from the combat and surveillance drones it purchased. Crucially, Turkey also transferred “a complete robotic warfare doctrine and concept of operations” to Azerbaijan.
“Interestingly, the Azeri drone campaign strongly resembled Turkey’s Operation Spring Shield against the Syrian Arab Army back in early 2020,” Dr. Can Kasapoglu wrote in an analysis published by the Washington-based Jamestown Foundation.
https://www.economist.com/europe/2020/10/10/the-azerbaijan-armenia-conflict-hints-at-the-future-of-war
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/nagorno-karabkah-drones-azerbaijan-aremenia/2020/11/11/441bcbd2-193d-11eb-8bda-814ca56e138b_story.html%3foutputType=amp
https://112.international/society/future-is-now-nagorno-karabakh-conflict-and-new-warfare-technologies-55615.html
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/analysis/analysis-five-key-military-takeaways-from-azerbaijani-armenian-war/2024430
https://theprint.in/opinion/how-drones-helped-azerbaijan-defeat-armenia-and-the-implications-for-future-modern-warfare/544668/?amp
Shantanu K. Bansal is the founder of IADN. He has wide experience in research and analysis. He wrote for leading defence magazines and Think Tanks.
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Ibusa Sports Club > News > Football News > Why I benched Osimhen – Galtier
Why I benched Osimhen – Galtier
Osimhen,
Lille manager Christophe Galtier believes Victor Osimhen will continue to improve after his impressive performance in their 3-0 victory over Saint-Etienne in Wednesday’s Ligue 1 game.
The forward grabbed a brace in his third appearance for the Great Danes after replacing injured Loic Remy to ensure his side clinched their second win of the season.
Galtier has praised the man-of-the-match display from the striker but admitted the forward still needs to improve on his performances.
“Victor Osimhen is only 20-years-old, so he has a lot of room for improvement,” Galtier told the club website.
“He’s going to get better physically because I remember he only had seven days off this summer. I hope that he will go better and better.”
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The 20-year-old teamed up with Lille in the summer as a direct replacement for Nicolas Pepe, who joined Premier League side Arsenal in a club-record fee of £72 million.
Osimhen immediately hit the ground running, scoring a brace in his debut appearance for the Great Danes in their 2-1 victory over Nantes.
Despite the convincing showings, the forward who is part of the Super Eagles 24-man squad for September’s friendly game against Ukraine, was dropped to the bench with Remy preferred ahead of him.
“I had made the choice not to start him, despite his magnificent start especially against Nantes, because after the match in Reims, Victor will fly to participate in two games with his national team,” the Lille boss continued.
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A man with x-ray vision, NICK VEASEY creates art that shows what it is really like inside.
Nick’s work with radiographic imaging equipment takes the x-ray to another level. Everyday objects are transformed from the banal to the beguiling and the layers and make-up of natural items are shown in fantastic detail.
These works are a classic example of the fusion between art and science. The results transcend classification as photographs, having the gravitas to motivate science institutions and art galleries to acquire the artworks. The Victoria and Albert Museum in London have recently added his work to the British National Collection of Photography. Nick regularly exhibits at fine art galleries the world over. The ethereal and fascinating works have collected a host of International awards.
In today’s world that is obsessed with ‘image’, superficiality and artifice, Veasey counters such insubstantial diversions by delving inside and discovering what things are really made of. Metaphors for the images are many and varied. Their context is very relevant in today’s society with the prevalence of surveillance and the use of x-ray technology for security.
The artist’s work can be seen as a project that harnesses and exploits modern technology to advance the boundaries of perception and of art. But what sets him apart from other artists is not only the technique. Instead of creating or transforming things, he is exposing something that always existed, objects we think we know but we don’t. Not from the inside out.
Creating art with radiation is complex and dangerous but the results continually inspire Nick to keep experimenting.
The subjects of his attention are manifold. Flora and fauna, a teddy bear, ordinary objects such as shoes, an icecream cone and even a classic Morris Mini. Mainly, whatever surrounds us and is tangible. Although working with the manifest, he achieves to uncover the invisible. Veasey’s x-rays penetrate the surface and take us on a journey into a world otherwise hidden and unseen. The inner life of objects and organisms is revealed, the surface replaced with transparency, the inside becomes the outside – what is left is the form the aesthetics of form the inner beauty.
The work is a dazzling balance of extremes, using lethal radiation to produce results of great lyricism and grace. Veasey’s x-rays penetrate solid matter to render it ghostly and gentle, giving the viewers that precious feeling that they have somehow seen reality afresh with an aspect to life that they have never before experienced.
An artist that pushes boundaries in pursuit of his calling - does he glow in the dark? Has he got lead underpants?
What can’t he x-ray?
X-posed
1959 Porsche 365B Coupe
65.35 x 23.62 in.
F 104 Starfighter
1963 Corvette C2
Ferrari 365 GT/Daytona
1962 BMW Isetta
1955 Ferrari Mondial 500
1955 Mercedes 300 SL Gull-Wing
Newspaper Man
City Bowler
Chanel Packing Heat
"We live in a world obsessed with image. What we look like, what our clothes look like, houses, cars… I like to counter this obsession with superficial appearance by using X-rays to strip back the layers and show what it is like under the surface.
Often the integral beauty adds intrigue to the familiar. We all make assumptions based on the external visual aspects of what surrounds us and we are attracted to people and forms that are aesthetically pleasing. I like to challenge this automatic way that we react to just physical appearance by highlighting the, often surprising, inner beauty.
This society of ours, consumed as it is by image, is also becoming increasingly controlled by security and surveillance.
Take a flight, or go into a high profile courtroom and your belongings will be X-rayed. The post arriving in corporations and government departments has often been X-rayed. Security cameras track our every move. Mobile phone receptions place us at any given time. Information is key to the fight against whatever we are meant to be fighting against. To create art with equipment and technology designed to help big brother delve deeper, to use some of that fancy complicated gadgetry that helps remove the freedom and individuality in our lives, to use that apparatus to create beauty brings a smile to my face. To mix my metaphors, we all know we shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, that beauty is more than skin deep. By revealing the inside, the quintessential element of my art speculates upon what the manufactured and natural world really consists of."
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Sid Meier's Civilization VI Review in Progress
So far: possibly the biggest and deepest game in the series' 25-year history.
byDan Stapleton
Posted Oct. 25, 2016, 9:32 a.m.
Just before 2AM this morning (because this is a Civilization game, after all) I finished my King difficulty game as India with a science victory. In keeping with Gandhi's principles, this game was almost entirely pacifist other than dealing with barbarians - I never started a war and was never attacked by my neighbors. As a result, I don't have as much of a grasp of how the AI performs in combat as I'd like, so I'll play at least a chunk of another game (on Emperor difficulty) before I finalize my review.
One of the big takeaways from this game was that while the beginning and middle of a Civilization VI game are as good as they've ever been, the end can still turn into a slog when you've effectively already won and are basically just spinning your wheels while a few cities churn out the victory conditions. I was working on the space program by the start of the 20th century, and with no enemies or serious competition left, I was trying to burn through turns as quickly as I could, giving my cities whatever busy work was easiest. That's when the time spent waiting for AI turns to compute really starts to add up and made me wish for a button I could push to automate absolutely everything until a certain project was finished.
The more obvious solution to this issue is to crank up the difficulty a notch until a game is challenging all the way to the end, so that's what I'm doing next.
As of this writing I’m around 10 hours into my first game of the final version of Civilization VI, and I’ve completed a full standard-length game with a near-final preview version. Obviously, that’s nowhere near enough time to review a Civ game – especially this one – and I’ll continue to play for another week or so before I finish this review. But, since its release is imminent depending on where you are around the world, here’s what I think of it so far.
In short: Firaxis has made what certainly appear to be some bold and very smart improvements to the ideas that were introduced in Civilization V and its expansions, plus introduced some elaborate new systems of its own in its deep city-building, transparent diplomacy, and flexible custom governments.
This feels like a Civ game that's already had two expansions.
What’s immediately exciting about the launch version of Civilization VI as opposed to Civ V and IV is the sheer amount of systems at work here. It’s got trade, it’s got religion, it’s got espionage, it’s got great people, it’s got archeology, it’s got the kitchen sink. For the most part, that’s awesome because there are so many opportunities to build out your nation in different ways to take advantage of opportunities on its randomly generated maps and pursue the different victory types, and it’s all baked in at the ground level so that things like trade routes don’t feel tacked on and optional (they are, in fact, the only way to build roads in the early game). This feels like a Civ game that’s already had two expansions.
The short-term downside in my first few games is that it’s a little like being thrown into the deep end compared to what I’m used to when starting a new Civ – the options are almost overwhelming, and even the familiar systems have new and revised nuances to them that require some re-learning. The tutorials are good, but the amount of decisions you have to make from the beginning of a game that will have significant impact on your late-game success is intimidating. That said, at 285 turns in I’m on track to win my first game on King difficulty with a science victory (knock on wood), so it seems like you don’t need to master all the systems at once in order to do well. But I won’t even attempt Deity difficulty until I have a pretty good idea of what I’m doing on all fronts.
All of those revised and returning systems are secondary to by what’s new and different. The much more complex city-building system, for instance, turns every city into a puzzle of planning and foresight. Since specialized buildings like markets, temples, and barracks that have traditionally been built in every city to give it basic functionality have now been broken out into districts that must be placed on tiles within a city’s borders, and the number of district tiles you can build is limited by the population of a city, you’re forced to specialize each city’s function. What’s more, Wonder buildings also occupy tiles, and many are limited by geography because they must be placed next to a river or a mountain or other terrain, or they have prerequisite buildings you have to build first or adjacent to. All of this cuts down on previous games’ Wonder spam, where one high-production city could crank out wonders quickly, and forces you to build them around your more diverse empire.
Striking a balance â or choosing not to â is a great puzzle.
Another big thing you have to consider is that every district or Wonder you build occupies a tile that could otherwise have been worked for food or production. So, if you overload a city with districts and wonders, you’re going to have a hard time growing it into a large city in the late game. Striking that balance – or choosing not to – is a great puzzle, and it will be a long time before I fully wrap my head around how to build optimized cities with all of these factors in play.
Also, in a reversal of Civ V’s empire-wide happiness level system, in Civ VI each city’s happiness has reverted back to being individually determined, and is based on how many amenities it has available – happiness is created by luxury resources or happiness-generating buildings (plus a number of other factors). That means rapid empire expansion is back on the table because you don’t need to worry about the founding of new cities having a major impact on the productivity and growth of your major ones. In fact, settling as many new cities as possible feels all but mandatory if you want to be competitive, which makes the land-grab phase of the early- and mid-game phases feel urgent.
The changes Firaxis has made to reduce unit clutter on are extremely smart.
Speaking of the mid game, the changes Firaxis has made to reduce unit clutter from that point on are extremely smart. The first problem in most Civ games has been that at a certain point you (and all the AI players) get stuck with a dozen or so Worker units sitting around idling with no more city tiles to improve, which just makes turns take longer to calculate if you don’t manually disband them. In Civ VI, Workers (now called Builders) expire after they’ve been used a few times – three, by default, but that can be expanded by government policies or wonders – they’re no longer hanging around doing nothing. And if you need a new one, they’re quick to build and affordable to immediately buy with gold.
Secondly, when Civ V switched from allowing you to stack military units to limiting you to one per tile it created more tactical combat, but also caused an enormous traffic jam when you build a large army. Civ VI gets that under control by finding a great compromise between stacks and one-unit-per-tile: once you research certain technologies you can combine two and then three identical military units into a single more powerful corps or army unit. Thus the number of military units taking up space and blocking paths in the late game is sharply reduced by a half or even two thirds.
The AI's been generally competent in combat.
As for the effect that armies and corps have on full-scale war, that’s one of the things I’m not sure about yet. I haven’t fought enough wars yet to really pin down my feelings on how combat works (my science victory run has been surprisingly peaceful), but so far it seems more straightforward than Civ 5’s flanking-focused system and more focused on using support units like siege towers and medics to boost your armies’ performance. And the AI's been generally competent – I've yet to see it do anything notably stupid, or fail to use naval or support units when it reasonably should. Thus far it's put up a respectable fight and lost well.
I’m a big fan of the new government system, which is extremely customizable and can frequently be shifted around in order to suit your needs. Each form of government, such as Monarchy, Theocracy, or Merchant Republic, is represented by a few inherent bonuses, but more importantly by a different configuration of military, economic, diplomatic, and wildcard slots; as you unlock new policy cards on the Civics tree (which is separate from but parallel to the Tech tree) those policies can be added or removed. For instance, the Land Surveyors economic policy gives you 20% off the gold cost of buying new tiles for a city, while Public Works gives you 30% production boost toward new Builders and gives all new Builders two extra build actions. Military options include Logistics, which gives units +1 movement if starting in friendly territory and Professional Army, which gives you half off the gold cost of upgrading an obsolete military unit.
Mixing and matching policy cards can create a finely tailored government.
There are dozens of these cards, and mixing and matching them can create a government to go with nearly any type of playstyle you could want. You can also build certain wonders to expand the available slots in your government, which opens up a lot of possibilities to specialize in stacking military or economic bonuses. In practice I’ve found that most Civics unlock in around 10 turns, so you’re able to make those changes for free very frequently (and you can pay to do it at will, too). But maybe you shouldn’t change your government type too often, because there are extra legacy bonuses for each government type are earned over time, encouraging you to stick with one for long periods of time to get the most out of it. It’s a deep and multi-layered system that will take a lot of tinkering to fully figure out.
International diplomacy is much, much more transparent than it’s ever been in a Civ game. Being able to see why other leaders like or hate me based on my decisions and policies demystifies them dramatically, and I’ve rarely seen anyone act in a way that didn’t line up with their leader’s two agendas. Knowing that Egypt’s Cleopatra will always respect a powerful military and dislike a weak one, or that England’s Queen Victoria will be friendly toward other civs that start on the same continent has her makes their actions predictable in a good way: leaders can be counted on to act in their own self-interests. But even knowing a leader’s one consistent agenda doesn’t mean they’ll be boring to deal with, because the second agenda is randomized in every game.
It's basically impossible to not anger someone at some point.
Some of these agendas are kind of irrational, such as Queen Victoria disliking when you colonize a continent she has her eye on or German Emperor Frederick Barbarossa getting mad when you interact with City-States, so it’s basically impossible to not anger someone at some point. But you can mostly balance those offenses out by establishing embassies, doing trade, respecting treaties, or just being friendly. The one downside I’ve encountered is that in order to see what their motivations are you have to have a level of access with them, and if you meet a new country in the mid game that dislikes you for some reason it’s very difficult to establish a good enough relationship to find out why they were angry in the first place.
Spreading your faith amounts to a very simple version of combat.
If there’s one aspect I’m less than enthusiastic about right now (other than that you can’t rename cities) it’s Civ VI’s handling of religion. The process of spreading your faith to other cities for bonuses basically amounts to a very simple version of combat where there are only three units. It is hilarious that apostles and inquisitors battle each other with lightning and mystical forces, but I don’t think that’d be enough to make me chase a religious victory by spreading my faith to more than half of the cities of every civilization on the map.
I must give a shout-out to the music, which is pleasant, varied, and tone-appropriate background for world conquest. It changes with the eras, so you’re not stuck listening to the same thing over and over. Plus there are some recognizable variations on classical and folk tunes thrown in.
Bugs? I’ve seen a few. So far, though, they’ve been much less than game-breaking and have all worked out in my favor, so I can’t get too worked up about them. For example, Norwegian ruler Harald Hardrada loves a civ with a strong navy. He decided he loved me for my navy when I’d literally never built a single ship. He just suddenly changed his mind on that subject. I also had Queen Victoria first say she’d never accept a deal and then immediately reverse herself when I asked her for a little more.
At the same time, Civilization VI runs very well. Load times are a tad long when you first start or load into a saved game (it takes about a minute and 20 seconds to load into my current game off an SSD), though at least there we get to listen to Sean Bean’s narration tell us how cool our chosen leader is. Once I’m loaded in everything’s been smooth, with zero crashes to desktop or hangs so far. For the first time in a Civ game there’s even a built-in benchmark tool, which on my GeForce GTX 970 has shown framerates between 50 and 75 per second. I even briefly ran it on a Microsoft Surface Pro 4 on default settings, which definitely scaled back the graphics but performed just fine in the opening moves (with full touchscreen-friendly controls).
Those are my overwhelmingly positive impressions for now, but there will be more to come as I go deeper down this rabbit hole and ignore my family for the next week or so to try out more of the 20 unique leader bonuses and five victory conditions, the higher difficulty levels, and multiplayer. If you have questions, feel free to hit me up on Twitter, or check out our ever-expanding Civilization VI guide wiki for details.
Dan Stapleton is IGN's Reviews Editor. You can follow him on Twitter to hear gaming & criticism rants and lots of random Simpsons references.
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Gorgeous green-roofed studio features a rainwater reflecting pool
Written by Nicole Jewell
There are some designs that just make your jaw drop – and the Sun Rain Room is definitely one of those. Designed by London-based Tonkin Liu Architects, the spectacular curved studio is clad in glass panels and topped with a green roof. It’s is also equipped with one awesome feature – a grey water system that showers collected rainwater over the patio at the push of a button, transforming it into a beautiful reflecting pool.
The studio, which is just over 800 square feet, is a two-story home addition used as a studio and guest cottage. According to the architects, the design was created to provide a calming, nature-infused space would be “a good place to be on a bad day.”
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The elongated curved shape mimics the curvature of the sun and allows optimal light to pass through into the interior. Covered in stunning greenery, the roof acts as an extension of the surrounding landscape, which culminates in a vibrant, multi-layered urban garden.
On the interior, the ceiling is spotted with round coffered skylights that “echo” a pattern of raindrops on water. Clad in floor-to-ceiling windows, natural light floods the interior spaces, which include a studio, a bedroom, and two bathrooms, as well as a garden room that opens up to the outdoor patio.
The beautiful design implements a unique rainwater system which includes filtering rainwater into a large storage tank. At the touch of a button, this water is used to “rain” over the sunken patio, converting it into a reflecting pool.
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There are some designs that just make your jaw drop and the Sun Rain Room is definitely one of those. Designed by London-based Tonkin Liu Architects, the home addition is a spectacular curved form that's clad in glass panels and topped with a green roof. The studio is also equipped with one awesome feature - a grey water system that showers collected rain water over the patio at the push of a button, transforming it into a beautiful reflecting pool.
The studio, which is just over 800 square feet, is a two-story home addition used as a studio and guest cottage.
According to the architects, the design was created to provide a calming, nature-infused space would be "a good place to be on a bad day."
The elongated curved shape mimics the curvature of the sun and allows optimal light to pass through into the interior.
On the interior, the ceiling is spotted with round coffered skylights that "echo" a pattern of raindrops on water.
Clad in floor-to-ceiling windows, natural light floods the interior spaces, which include a studio, a bedroom and two bathrooms, as well as a garden room that opens up to the outdoor patio.
Covered in stunning greenery, the roof acts as an extension for the surrounding landscape, which culminates in a vibrant, multi-layered urban garden.
The beautiful studio is topped with a green roof.
The Sun Rain Room was added to a London Townhouse as a studio space.
The Sun Rain Room is a home addition in the middle of London.
The green roof has various oval skylights.
Coffered skylights emit the feeling of rain drops falling.
The Sun Rain Room is a home addition for London Townhouse.
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ÖAMTC, ADAC, Fraunhofer ISE & IFO – are all spreading misinformation on electric vehicles: What’s going on here?
Auke Hoekstra
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Is there a German-speaking bubble of experts spreading anti-electric vehicle propaganda?
Yesterday I had to debunk the fourth study which was giving out misinformation on electric vehicles. After refuting the ‘IFO-study‘ by Buchal, Karl and Sinn, as well as after ‘the Frauenhofer ISE-study‘, and then the ‘ADAC-study‘ last week, it is now a study from the ÖAMTC (Austrian Automobile, Motorcycle and Touring Club) that needed to be challenged. If you like scientific articles, I wrote a short one for the renowned journal Joule describing the ‘the top 6 mistakes people use to make electric vehicles to look bad’. I will keep it simple here.
The first error these studies make is assuming modern batteries will have to be replaced after 150k km. This is wrong for multiple reasons. First, we have a lot of public data on Tesla cars that shows that they easily drive 500 thousand (abbreviated as 500k) kilometers or even up to 800k km, after which they still have 80% of their original capacity left. This lecture by Professor Jeff Dahn demonstrates how active temperature control gives batteries a longer lifespan. This is a lecture from 2013, yet it is apparently still new to many German-speaking experts. He also has a 2017 TEDx talk explaining how additives can dramatically improve their lifespan even further. If you don’t want to watch – you can take it from me: batteries have been improving like crazy in the past five years! Soon all fully-electric cars will have active battery temperature control and thus all batteries will last 1500 cycles. Many batteries will last much longer. E.g. lithium iron phosphate batteries are already reported to last 10 000 cycles and reports of NCM and NCA batteries lasting over 5 000 cycles are common.
By the way, the fact that you have to think in terms of charge-discharge cycles, means that bigger batteries last longer than smaller batteries since smaller batteries have to go through their cycles more often. Imagine you want to drive 300,000 km and your car uses 0.18 kWh per km. That means you will use 300,000 x 0.18 = 54, 000 kWh. If you had a small battery of say 5.4 kWh, that means it will need to go through a cycle 10,000 times. A 54 kWh battery, which is ten times larger, will go through its cycles ten times less. The fact that no German study I mentioned factors in battery size reveals that they really don’t (want to) know what they are talking about when it comes to batteries. Replacing the batter after 150k km is just plain nonsense.
I won’t go over all the ‘top 6 mistakes’ in every one of these studies, yet one thing that is really remarkable is that many German-speaking experts assume hydrogen for hydrogen-fuelled cars is made from the cleanest electricity possible, whereas battery electric vehicles charge with dirtier electricity. This apples-to-oranges sleight of hand is apparently necessary in order to allow the hydrogen car to come out on top. All kinds of mumbo jumbo is used to justify this, however, as I said on Twitter, in essence, it’s as simple as this:
Imagine you had 10 windmills.
You could use them in the following ways:
1) fuel 10 000 battery electric vehicles
2) fuel 3 000 hydrogen electric vehicles
3) fuel 1 000 E-Fuel vehicles
Can the @OEAMTC explain to me why option 1) is so bad it's the only one they left out?
— AukeHoekstra (@AukeHoekstra) August 30, 2019
The ÖAMTC-study takes the cake in this respect. They both have hydrogen and e-fuels made from the cleanest electricity possible, while the battery-powered electric vehicle can choose between the Austrian mix, the European mix and the coal-heavy Polish mix. Why not replace the Polish or Austrian mix in this matchup with the same clean energy that you use for hydrogen and e-fuels? Could you at least try to hide your preference ÖAMTC?
You can look at the links at the beginning of this article for more detailed exposés and I especially recommend my scientific article about it. Although at the end of the day, the result is always the same: when you use recent data and fair comparisons, electric vehicles are much better for the environment than fossil fuels and slightly better than hydrogen. For consumers, the most appealing characteristics of electric vehicles are the extra power and the fact that they cost about one fourth in terms of energy and maintenance.
Once they become not only cheaper to own, but to buy as well, consumers will swiftly shift over to electricity. My calculations and those of BloombergNEF indicate that the electric vehicle will become cheaper in the showroom from around 2025 to 2030, due to the simpler manufacturing processes and plummeting battery prices. Most consumers will choose electric by then. Since it takes years to develop battery factories and electric drivetrains, a giant push among German and Austrian automotive companies should have started yesterday. Denial will only lead to hundreds of thousands of European jobs disappearing while we wake up to find that China has taken over. Wake up, please!
In a weekly column, alternately written by Eveline van Zeeland, Jan Wouters, Katleen Gabriels, Mary Fiers, Lucien Engelen, Peter de Kock, Tessie Hartjes and Auke Hoekstra, Innovation Origins tries to find out what the future will look like. These columnists, occasionally supplemented with guest bloggers, are all working in their own way on solutions for the problems of our time. So tomorrow will be good. Here are all the previous columns.
Auke Hoekstra is Senior Advisor Electric Mobility at Eindhoven Technical University and Founder of ZEnMo simulations
3 responses to “ÖAMTC, ADAC, Fraunhofer ISE & IFO – are all spreading misinformation on electric vehicles: What’s going on here?”
Paul Govan says:
An excellent debunking of persistent/perpetual pro-FCV myths ! (FCV = Fuel Cell.Vehicle).
As a polyglot EV campaigner and activist for 20+ years(and fluent German-speaker), I’ve obviously heard it all virtually ‘verbatim’ thousands of times and in a variety of languages. What constantly appalls and amazes me is that German males in particular – even highly intelligent males – continue to drink the decades-old “Koolaid” – still refuse to thoroughly research the subject – probably because they don’t want to know the inconvenient FCV truth. Of course, by constantly stating that “fuel cells are the future” your average “Benzin Im Blut” German gives himself/herself a permanent excuse/alibi for not buying a battery-powered car – so that he/she can stick with their Benzin/Diesel car and have a nice “clean” conscience about continuing with their junkie-like, truth-blind addiction to the Internal Combustion Engine and Benzin.
Finally few people – including Germans – are unaware – despite having 24/7 internet access – that back in 2000-2003 circa 12 major car manufacturers had fuel cell cars that they asserted were market-ready and “just around the corner” or thereabouts – so battery vehicles were not needed !
But then – with oil men Bush and Cheney in the White House – both FCV’s and BEV’s were quietly killed off for a few years…until Tesla came along.
The Mercedes “Necar” FCV was already in its advanced 5th prototype iteration(Necar5) by 2002..
See this Wikipedia link for a full list of fuel cell vehicles that were ostensibly “just around the corner” by 2003 or thereabouts…16 long, yawning.years ago:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fuel_cell_vehicles
Paul G(EVUK)
Correction ! My “Few people are unaware” should obviously read:
“Few people..are *aware* – despite having 24/7 internet access – that back in 2000-2003 circa 12 major car manufacturers had fuel cell cars that they asserted were market-ready and “just around the corner” or thereabouts – so battery vehicles were not needed !
Arjello says:
The classic car industry desperately tries to feed the assets they have built up over decades and are totally inflexible with other systems. They don’t want the disruption to come true or they want to save the ROI that is destroyed by electric cars with batteries. But this is the course of history. Companies must always keep up to date and recognize the signs of the times. The car industry in Europe, the USA and Japan has missed this or ignored the realities for many years, even decades. Just as a 360-degree disruption to smart phones has changed an industry, so it can affect any industry today. CEOs and their employees need to be more vigilant today than they used to be. And the will to change must be ready every day. Business as usual no longer exists. The mismanagement of recent decades, the inflexibility and arrogance of the industry will cost many jobs, profits, returns and businesses.
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#Adulting: Excedrin Extra Strength Provides Extra Support
September 11, 2018 Jody Bradshaw
In an age where #adulting can encompass everything from paying your cell phone bill to taking care of your kids, the definition of an “adult” seems boundless. And the stresses of being an adult are, too.
The Royal Children’s Hospital in Australia has pushed to extend the age of adolescence from 19 to 24, because many young adults seem to be stressed by responsibilities they feel unprepared for, like managing rent payments. Other adults, individuals in their 30s, may refer to their professional life and parenthood, things they feel adequately capable of, as “adulting.”
Often used sarcastically within the millennial community, adulting first caught attention on Twitter in 2008, according to Merriam-Webster. Now, ten years later, Excedrin incorporated this playful word into their latest marketing campaign, entitled “We See Your Pain,” to appeal to a younger audience.
Released in September of 2018, Excedrin’s limited edition packaging brings relief to those who adult, commute or experience bad dates. Excedrin’s creative spin on selling headache relief paints the brand as approachable to nearly any adult.
In addition to their online store, where the adulting boxes have already sold out, Excedrin positioned these limited edition packages in New York Penn Station, a busy transportation hub, where the potential for headaches and migraines is likely.
In opposition to Excedrin’s package placement, Google Trends shows that the top five states for “adulting” searches are Maine, Montana, Vermont, Colorado and Washington, though it may be safe to assume commuters in the New York area are interested, too. Interestingly enough, there was no overlap between the top five states “adulting” searches and “headache relief” searches.
Perhaps once viewed as a pain solution for the older generation, Excedrin promotes their product’s effectiveness through the “We See Your Pain” campaign, which is designed to recognize the invisible head pain individuals suffer and appeal to a broader audience by using millennial language. Watch a video from the campaign below.
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Boston Herald Quarantined From Full-Page COVADS
From our Local Dailies DisADvantage desk
As the hardreading staff has noted numerous times, the Boston Herald has long been the wallflower at the local advertising dance.
And so it remains in the time of coronavirus.
To be sure, Kappy’s Fine Wine & Spirits has been a loyal customer lately with full-page ads like this one.
And Stop & Shop ran this thank you ad today.
But that’s pretty much it for the thirsty local tabloid.
Crosstown at the Boston Globe, though (wait – that doesn’t work any more since the Globe moved to State Street and the Herald moved to Braintree and anyway everyone’s working remotely so the hell with it) – the full-page ads are coming fast and furious.
Yesterday there was this ad from the Veterans Cannabis Project urging Gov. Charlie Baker (R-Bogart) to designate all adult-use Massachusetts cannabis dispensaries as essential services.
Auto magnate Herb Chambers also went full-page yesterday.
Today is even better for the stately local broadsheet. It got the Chambers ad again and the Stop & Shop thank you ad. But today’s edition also features this Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts ad.
Body copy:
And this Uber ad.
Memo to Blue Cross and Uber: Maybe next time send some of that love to the Herald as well.
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The Boston Globe’s Saturday Print Edition Scam
As the hardreading staff noted the other week, there’s something up with the Boston Globe’s Saturday edition. First there was the abandonment of its WSJr format and return to the paper’s normal configuration, comme çi.
Then there was this.
The hardreading staff received a call [last month] from the Globe sales department offering us a couple of bucks off our outrageously expensive Sunday print/all access digital subscription for the next three months (which still costs half of our old seven-day print subscription) – plus the Saturday print edition at no extra charge for the next three months and beyond. Plus plus a buck a month thereafter off our old subscription price.
We were supposed to get our first bonus Saturday paper yesterday. We didn’t.
That was March 21st. Today marks the third Saturday in a row we’ve failed to get the Globe’s print edition.
We’re not sure what kind of scam this might be. But we’re pretty sure it’s some kind.
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What’s Up With the Boston Globe’s Saturday Edition?
The hardreading staff is not sure what, but something’s going on at the Boston Globe regarding its Saturday edition.
Exhibit A: The Globe has apparently ditched its five-year-old Saturday format, which at its debut we dubbed WSJr, since it was so clearly a Weekend Wall Street Journal wannabe.
Representative sample from three weeks ago.
The whole thing was front-loaded – Metro, Nation, World, Business, Opinion all smushed together in the A section. That apparently was meant to clear the decks for a new section – Good Life – which was a thin gruel of lifestyle, arts, and culture.
Coronavirusly or not, the Globe has dumped that Saturday setup and returned to its default format the past two weeks.
Yesterday’s front page:
Metro and Business now get their own sections (B and D if you’re keeping score at home) and everything seems back to normal.
But there’s more.
Exhibit B: The hardreading staff received a call the other day from the Globe sales department offering us a couple of bucks off our outrageously expensive Sunday print/all access digital subscription for the next three months (which still costs half of our old seven-day print subscription) – plus the Saturday print edition at no extra charge for the next three months and beyond. Plus plus a buck a month thereafter off our old subscription price.
Regardless, we’re wondering why the Globe is doubling down on the Saturday print edition, since you’d think it might be the first to go if the Globeniks decided to scale back.
Actually, since we didn’t get the paper yesterday, maybe they already have.
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FreePress to Boston Globe: Drop Coronavirus Paywall
According to Free Press, which “was created [in 2003] to give people a voice in the crucial decisions that shape our media,” while the New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune and other dailies have dropped their paywalls for coronavirus coverage, the Boston Globe and the Los Angeles Times have not.
Thus, this Free Press post (tip o’ the pixel to Nieman Journalism Lab).
Here’s some of what Boston Globe Customer Service says about retaining its paywall:
Subscriber support enables the Boston Globe to produce vital reporting that informs and strengthens our community. Our journalists have been working 24/7 with staff across our organization to provide reliable and helpful information to readers as news on the coronavirus pandemic rapidly unfolds. We are currently offering non-subscribers our lowest rate ever – full digital access to BostonGlobe.com at just $1 for 6 months, commitment-free.
(To be fair graf goes here)
To be fair, Boston Globe Media does tout its free coverage at Boston.com, which is sort of CliffsNotes to the Globe, as well as access to some content at STAT and a free newsletter. But that’s hardly the full-court press available at the mother ship.
Which, it seems, is exactly the point the Globe is trying to make.
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Boston Globe on Verdugo Days Late, Disclosure Short
The story of newly minted Red Sox outfielder Alex Verdugo’s involvement it the alleged sexual assault of a minor in 2015 has been out there for over a year, thanks to baseball writer Jessica Quiroli, who chronicled the incident in chilling detail on her blog All Heels on Deck.
Nut graf:
She was one of the 75% of runaways who are female. And, as runaways often do, she found support where she could. Maybe on that February night in Glendale, Arizona, a city nine miles outside of Phoenix, she felt safe when she agreed to hang out with two women, who were a few years older than her, whom she’d met through social media.
Maybe the prospect of hanging out with Los Angeles Dodgers players, in town for Spring Training, sounded like fun. What she ultimately experienced was a twisted night of physical, verbal and sexual abuse. And, once she made her story known, she was subjected to more trauma.
The story has also been all over Twitter this past week. But there was nothing in the stately local broadsheet until this story by Peter Abraham and Alex Speier ran in the Boston Sunday Globe (and was buried on the website).
Verdugo explains ’15 police investigation
FORT MYERS, Fla. — New Red Sox outfielder Alex Verdugo acknowledged his involvement in a 2015 incident in Arizona that led to police investigating the alleged sexual assault of a minor by another player.
No charges were ever filed, and, in response to a question from a Globe reporter on Saturday, Verdugo said he was “cleared of any wrongdoing” in the matter.
“With that being said, it was a terrible thing that happened. It was in my past,” Verdugo said. “It was something that I’ve grown from it; I’ve learned from it.”
To call that eyewash is an insult to saline solution everywhere.
In addition, a number of significant facts were conspicuously missing from the Globe story.
One other thing missing: Disclosure of John Henry’s dual ownership of the Boston GlobeSox.
And before you bother pelting me with tweets, a) no, everyone does not know that Henry owns ’em both, and b) even if everyone did know, the disclosure should still be in there.
Yes – every single time.
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Mike Bloomberg Even Has Ads in the Boston Herald
The chattering classes have no idea how far Mike Bloomberg’s staggering 300-million-going-on-one billion-dollar ad campaign extends.
Here’s conservative hall monitor Rich Lowry in yesterday’s Boston Herald op-ed page.
The level of his spending is truly astonishing — Croesus goes all-in on Super Tuesday. He’s spent more than $300 million on various forms of advertising. By the end, he’s going to make the profligate self-funder Tom Steyer — who managed to pointlessly buy himself onto the Democratic debate stage — look like a penny-pincher.
Bloomberg is running a presidential campaign that Curtis LeMay would love, carpet-bombing the airwaves every single day. He’s single-handedly changed the market for TV ads in many places. He spent $10 million on a Super Bowl spot, or about half of what Joe Biden raised in the entire fourth quarter.
And here’s what appears right below that on the Herald’s website.
Megabucks Mike is also running ads in the Herald’s E-Edition. This is what we got when we double-clicked for the text version of a Sinn Fein piece.
Most analysts – Lowry included – have focused on Bloomberg’s TV buys. But when a campaign is peppering the likes of the flimsy local tabloid with ads, it’s way beyond carpet-bombing.
Mike Bloomberg has gone nuclear.
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Turn the Boston Herald Sideways, It Sorta Disappears
Since Digital Worst – sorry, First – Media bought it in 2018, the Boston Herald has been, to borrow a phrase from the great Raymond Chandler, thin as the gold on a weekend wedding ring, officially making the Herald the flimsy local tabloid.
And getting flimsier all the time.
Take yesterday’s edition: Of the paper’s 48 pages, four-and-a-half were given over to house ads such as this one.
Something under two pages were occupied by display – that is to say, paid – ads.
That’s non-business-as-usual for the fading local tabloid, which is suffering knee-buckling decreases in both circulation and ad revenue.
As the redoubtable Don Seiffert noted in the Boston Business Journal last month, “[a]s of September 2014, the Herald had weekday print circulation of 60,960. As of this past September — six years later — that number was down to 33,337. Over the past year, the Herald’s weekday print circulation fell 16 percent.”
The paper’s Sunday circulation is even lower than its weekday readership, a distinction few metro dailies can claim.
Bottom line: The Boston Herald is disappearing in slow motion right before our eyes.
No wonder the hardreading staff has kissin’ cousins at It’s Sad to Live in a One-Daily Town.
And it will be, whatever you might think of the dodgy local tabloid.
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Boston Globe Rejects Anti-Impeachment Ad
A recent item in Politico’s Morning Score noted that “nearly $11.3 million has been spent on television ads in Democratic incumbents’ districts [between October 1 and December 6], according to data provided to Score by Advertising Analytics. A whopping $9.4 million of that has come from Republican groups, led by American Action Network’s $4.4 million.”
Representative anti-impeach ad from AAN, targeting Rep. Susie Lee in NV-03.
Of course, one group’s charade is another group’s sham – witness the theme of this full-page newspaper ad from America First Policies.
According to an AFP press release, $276,750 of the $2 million advertising campaign is going to a variety of newspapers.
But not the Boston Globe.
The stately local broadsheet rejected this version of the ad according to a Fox News report last night. (It’s in two pieces due to technical difficulties.)
Nuts to you graf:
The Boston Globe told Fox News that the ad “does not meet our advertising acceptability standards” but that it was “open to reviewing a reworked version.” The paper also insisted that it accepted opinion advertisements “regardless of our editorial position on any given subject.”
However, according to America First Policies, the “modifications” the Globe suggested included removing the word “sham” and using a “better picture” of Pappas.
AFP, in turn, told Fox News that “more than two dozen papers approved its printing, including the Chicago Tribune, the Des Moines Register and the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
Kelly Sadler, the group’s communications director, added this: “We know the Boston Globe’s editorial board is pro-impeachment, but had no idea that bias extended to its sales department.”
The hardreading staff awaits the next shoe to drop.
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Boston Herald Subscription: Biggest Waste Ever (VIII)
As one of the Boston Herald’s 17 home subscribers, the hardreading staff noted numerous times over the past few years how the print edition of the skimpy local tabloid was often missing late-breaking news and – especially – sports scores.
That deficiency became even more glaring when the Herald shifted its printing a year and a half ago from the Boston Globe’s Taunton facility to the Providence Journal’s Rhode Island press, moving deadlines up to, oh, tea time.
(That contributed in no small part to our dropping the print subscription after several decades and going all-digital.)
But at least the Herald E-Edition would deliver the the later stuff.
Here’s the E-Edition reporting on the New England Patriots’ unthinkable (lookin’ at you, Dan Shaughnessy) loss to the Houston Texans last night.
As it says at the bottom of the left-hand page, you can get full coverage of last night’s game here.
But at that point, why would you bother?
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Boston Globe Rips Off Home Delivery Subscribers
Ever since the Boston Globe’s Great Home Delivery Meltdown of 2016 and its 2017 move to a new printing facility, the hardreading staff has significantly lowered its expectations of the cheapskately local broadsheet. And the Globe has managed to fall short of even those.
What arrived at the door of the Global Worldwide Headquarters this morning was a sort of Globe Lite, given that the Globe Magazine and Parade were missing. Consequently, Two-Daily Town’s better half contacted what the Globe laughingly calls its Customer Service department to register our dismay and seek redress.
Alas, that was not to be.
The customer service rep said there would be no followup delivery of the missing sections and no credit for the foulup – not even an extension of our subscription, which the paper supposedly provides in response to a missed delivery. (The Wall Street Journal, by contrast, either delivers missing sections the next day or mails them to the subscriber.)
Is it any wonder, then, that there are currently 66 complaints against the Globe lodged with the Better Business Bureau, mostly from this year.
Representative sample:
Wait – we thought it was the Globe’s responsibility to respect its subscribers. We must be wrong.
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Saga Volume 1
Author(s): Brian K. Vaughan
"It's easy to run out of accolades for this superb series... The dialogue is smart, arch and always rings true, and the visuals, rendered digitally, are alluring and inventive. The Stalk, an eight-eyed, eight-limbed female bounty hunter, remains a creepy favorite." -The New York Times
At long last, a deluxe hardcover of the Hugo Award-winning Saga is finally on its way Collecting the first three trade paperbacks (issues #1-18) of the smash-hit series, this massive edition features a striking new cover, as well as special extras, including never-before-seen sketches, script pages, and a roundtable discussion with the creators about how Saga is really made. Altogether, this hardcover contains over 500 pages for less than fifty bucks Written by Eisner Award-winning "Best Writer" Brian K. Vaughan (Y: The Last Man, The Private Eye) and drawn by Harvey Award-winning "Best Artist" Fiona Staples (Mystery Society, North 40) Saga is the story of Hazel, a child born to star-crossed parents from opposite sides of a never-ending galactic war. Now, Hazel's fugitive family must risk everything to find a peaceful future in a harsh universe that values destruction over creation.
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November 19, 2014|In Opinion|4 Minutes
Say hello to social - or wave goodbye to top talent
Does your boss ban Facebook? Is YouTube access blocked from your office? Do colleagues look nervous when you mention Twitter? If so, chances are your employer is a large corporate or public sector organisation with deeply-ingrained concerns about productivity and time-wasting. Many large companies (and the more traditional smaller enterprises) have a myriad of communications restrictions in place.
Social talent
IT departments nearly always cite security and legal issues as justification for this draconian behaviour. A few years back I heard a talk by the head of social media at a leading US retail bank. He referred to legal, compliance, fraud and security as the “four horsemen of the apocalypse”. It’s difficult for ordinary employees to argue, he said, when confronted with effective corporate death as an alternative.
So what about startups – are they cool with social and other new technologies? Well, yes, they generally are. They’re digital natives, aren’t they? It’s hardly surprising that a recent survey by online recruitment platform Tyba found 68 per cent of people working in big companies said they’d move to a smaller startup if they had the chance…and bad IT was cited as a key reason by 27 per cent of respondents.
Think like a startup
Big companies need to pay attention to stats like these. It’s a sign of the times that a new generation of management consultancies are prioritising agility, sustainability and social over economies of scale and fine-tuned, top down production processes. In fact, large corporates are paying good money to “think like a startup”.
As Clay Shirky has pointed out (in his brilliant Here Comes Everybody), in the past, big organisations were necessary to bring people together and enable collaboration at scale. Information technology and social tools now do this at the touch of a button. So what are the future options for big corporates? Certainly, burying heads in the sand isn’t one of them. Large organisations must change quickly if they’re going to attract the top talent they need to survive.
For more on this subject, pop along to the Enterprise 2.0 Summit in London on 25 and 26 November. Lots of smart speakers, including Euan Semple, David Terrar, Anne McCrossan, Lee Bryant, Benjamin Ellis, Janet Parkinson and Alan Patrick – plus social tools aplenty!
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Jessica in Music June 6, 2013 744 Words
The Stranglers at Boston Music Hall – Punk, Vital, and Kickass
Nervous Eaters at Brighton Music Hall
We walked in on the Nervous Eaters playing “Degenerate” to a quiet and polite audience. Fetching a drink at the bar, we headed into the crowd and got surprisingly close at center stage. Maybe that’s because this would become the mosh pit. About the lineup, all I can say for sure is that Steve Cataldo was singing and on rhythm guitar. Everything was cool even though we noticed fairly quickly that it was testosterone central. We were surrounded by big burly men in black. Things were still fine through the angst ridden “Shit For Brains” and “528” about the Rathskeller, one of the singles on the Rat label, back in the day. They were technically great, but lacked fire until they swung into “Nazi Concentration Camp Blues.” Full throttle ahead the Eaters finished on an energetic high note with “Loretta,” and thankfully, the slamming was minimal, so we stayed in place.
The Stranglers at Brighton Music Hall
Soon after, and with little fanfare, the Stranglers took the stage with the instrumental, “Waltzinblack” eyeballing and sizing up the audience. It’s been almost twenty years since they toured the states. The Stranglers were at the start of it all with other English punk bands like the Sex Pistols and the Clash, but don’t let age throw you, the Strangers are still vital, punk, and look as mean as ever. These guys haven’t gotten soft like Johnny Lydon – maybe Johnny’s been eating too much of that Country Life Butter he used to hawk, but I digress.
Baz Warne, the front man, thanked the Nervous Eaters getting their name wrong as the Useless Eaters then as the Needless Eaters finally saying “who the fuck cares, I’m all kinds, an Equal Opportunity Eater,” then kicking it into “Toiler of the Sea.” They were barely pumping, when they cracked “(Get A) Grip (On Yourself)” rattling the rafters. Baz was ferocious on a snarly guitar, and the kid next to me started slamming hard. He even had a helmet for the purpose. Getting out of the fray, things got progressively merciless in the mosh pit on “Money’s No Good.” Jean-Jacques “JJ” Burnel, the bassist, just grinned through the relentless beat. The pit was savage, and helmet kid slammed a woman who yelled at him until they recognized each other.
Jet Black, the drummer, kept the band on track, and The Stranglers were in complete control and mellowed things out with “Freedom Is Insane.” Baz switched guitars and called the audience suckers for having to go into work the next day since it was a Tuesday night. The old beat up and much loved black fender would glitch out for the rest of the show. Baz quipped once that the power supply ain’t what it used to be in Boston and technical difficulties proved it was a live show. At one point, he flippantly told the Boston crowd “it all went bad for you when you threw the tea in the sea, and I’m not even gonna try to to do a fucking Boston accent,” but he thanked Andy the tech for getting the power back, and demanded a round of applause for him.
“Mercury Rising” was followed by the seminal “Golden Brown” and Baz got close to the audience and played center stage. “Skin Deep” and “Always” started a string of sing alongs. Their cover of the Burt Bacharach classic made famous by Dionne Warwick “Walk On By,” was a great snarly punk version with an awesome synth solo and throbbing bass. Baz’s guitar solo on “Burning Up Time” was phenomenal, and I got real far back when they launched another sing-along-and-slam with “Nice ‘N’ Sleazy.” JJ took over on “Duchess” turning up and slapping the bass hard as he asked the audience “Can the ladies feel this in their lady parts? And you gentlemen, feel good in your prostates?” They literally rattled the rafters. Dave Greenfield delivered a brilliant single handed keyboard solo on “No More Heroes” while drinking down a pint of beer. They left with a wink and a nod, and the audience chanted Stranglers waiting for an encore. Storming back Baz asked, “Did you enjoy yer fuckin’ self?” Finishing the night out with “Hanging Around” and “Tank,” moshing all the way. Damn, that was good and nasty.
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North Reading Police Implement Several Strategies to Address Mental Health and Wellness
The North Reading Police Department has fulfilled its commitment to improving services for those suffering from mental illness in its community.
June 7, 2019 Jordan Mayblum Client News
June 7, 2019 by Jordan Mayblum
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NORTH READING — Chief Michael P. Murphy is pleased to announce that the North Reading Police Department has fulfilled its commitment to improving services for those suffering from mental illness in its community.
By completing the commitment it made under the One Mind pledge, the North Reading Police Department has dramatically increased its capacity for supporting the mental health needs of the residents it serves.
The One Mind Campaign pledge is an initiative spearheaded by the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), a 30,000 member professional association for law enforcement that provides training, technical assistance and recruitment services.
To join the One Mind Campaign, law enforcement agencies must pledge to implement four promising practices in a 12-36 month period to ensure successful future interactions between police officers and people with mental illness. North Reading Police first took the One Mind Pledge in 2018
To do so, the North Reading Police established a sustainable partnership with Eliot Community Human Services, developed and implemented a model policy to guide officers’ interactions with those affected by mental illness, and ensured that all of its officers received some type of mental health awareness training, with 40 percent of the department completing the more intensive crisis intervention training.
The 40-hour crisis intervention curriculum is designed by local agencies to train a team of specialized officers to respond to calls that involve individuals with mental health disorders, such as depression or intellectual disability. The curriculum includes education on various deescalation techniques as well as live role-play scenarios of officers responding to persons who need mental health assistance.
In addition, the North Reading Police Department has extended its commitment to those affected by mental illness by hiring a full-time mental health clinician who works in collaboration with officers on calls involving a person in crisis.
“Adopting these strategies and practices gives all of our officers a much deeper understanding of the unique challenges experienced by those living with mental illness and prepares them to best communicate with and serve those individuals,” Chief Murphy said. “I’m proud of the commitment and dedication our team showed in first adopting, and now living up to the One Mind Pledge.”
According to the World Health Organization, one in four people will be affected by a mental or neurological disorder at some point in their lives. The National Institute of Mental Health reports that nearly half of Americans suffering from a disorder go untreated. Such disorders, according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, are the third most common cause of hospitalization in the U.S. for both youth and adults aged 18–44.
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Whistleblower or Adulteress?
Posted on May 4, 2016 by Judge London Steverson
Navy officer convicted of adultery gets chance to clear her name
Meghann Myers, Navy Times May 2, 2016
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Lt. Cmdr. Syneeda Penland was convicted of adultery and conduct unbecoming, and was forced out of the Navy months shy of her retirement. But Penland swears she was victimized by her command for reporting waste and fraud.
Now, Penland will have a second chance to prove whether she was the victim of whistleblower retaliation by leaders at Navy Expeditionary Combat Command in the 6-year-old case.
A federal judge on April 20 ruled that the Board for Correction of Naval Records (BCNR) must take a second look at Penland’s case to determine whether her substantiated claims of waste, fraud and abuse against her command confer whistleblower status, as she claims — and if they do, whether the Navy should compensate her for forcing her out months before her 20-year retirement mark because of a felony conviction.
“From the day that I blew the whistle, which was April 4, 2007, everything that happened from that point forward — they have to consider, what did [the command] do?” Penland told Navy Times in a phone interview Friday.
Disgraced Navy officer says her career was ruined after red-flagging alleged fraud
BCNR has the power to expunge the results of her Board of Inquiry, which was the basis of her 2009 discharge, and may allow her to regain the benefits she would have received if she had been allowed to retire.
The BCNR cannot unilaterally overturn her conviction, the federal judge in the case noted, and Penland did not ask for that in her filing. She chose to focus on the BOI decision to streamline her case, she told Navy Times last year, because the process is more straightforward than overturning a criminal conviction.
A Navy spokeswoman declined to comment on the April 20 ruling that sends the whistleblower review back to BCNR.
“The Board of Correction of Naval Records will reconsider their prior decision in accordance with the federal court’s order,” Lt. Jackie Pau, a Navy spokeswoman, told Navy Times.
Penland, a former supply officer who had earned her commission after several years as an enlisted cryptologic technician, began asking questions about Naval Coast Warfare Group 1’s procurement practices almost as soon as she took the comptroller job in 2006.
Her superiors didn’t appreciate her informal investigation of some of their contracts and transactions, she said, so when a former colleague’s estranged wife contacted the command with allegations of an affair, they had what they needed against her.
The investigation into her relationship with then-Lt. j.g. Mark Wiggan began in April 2007, based on sexual photos of her with a man. She claims those photos are of an ex-boyfriend, not her friend and coworker.
At that point, Penland decided to formally file her concerns about NWSG-1 with the (IG) inspector general.
Three of her allegations were later substantiated by the IG, which Penland hopes is enough to grant her whistleblower status, and solidify the definition for others who have gone through similar retaliation.
“Her ruling opened up the doorway for me, as far as where I want to go, making sure that our veterans are protected,” she said.
Penland was convicted in 2008 of adultery, making false official statements and conduct unbecoming an officer, for which she spent two months in a San Diego brig. Since this was a court-martial, she is a convicted felon — which legal experts say is very unusual for adultery cases.
She first filed a BCNR case to have her BOI overturned in 2009, which moved to dismiss her from the Navy for misconduct and poor performance. It was denied.
After exhausting Navy channels, she filed a claim in federal District of Columbia court against Navy Secretary Ray Mabus to overturn the BCNR’s decision, choosing to represent herself.
“The BCNR denied clemency, in part, because Ms. Penland was not a whistleblower under the Military Whistleblower Protection Act,” Judge Rosemary Collyer wrote in her decision. “In this respect, the BCNR erred. The case will be remanded for reconsideration of whether Ms. Penland’s eligibility as a whistleblower and claims of retaliation entitle her to clemency.”
Penland kept meticulous records of her case, including every filing and bit of communication from her criminal investigation, as well as her fraud and retaliation complaints.
“What was key, I believe, is when I gave [Collyer] the outline of these dates, I gave her also when I was in contact with the Department of Justice,” she said.
Now it’s a waiting game, she said. Penland’s case would technically grant her back-pay for the five months she had left until retirement eligibility, in addition to the past six years of retirement pay, but it’s more of a means to the end of clearing her name.
“I never thought of myself as a convicted felon,” she said.
(LCDR Syneeda Penland meets CNO ADM Mike Mullen at 2007 NNOA Banquet in San Diego, CA.)
LCDR Syneeda Penland, a Black female Navy supply officer, formerly with a West Coast-based coastal warfare unit is scheduled to be court-martialed on 21 May in San Diego on charges that she had an affair with a married junior officer and lied about it later.
LCDR Penland, who is Black, says her prosecution is merely retaliation by her command after she made complaints about financial misconduct by military officials and civilian contractors within Navy Expeditionary Combat Command.
LCDR Penland, 36, is charged with adultery, indecent acts, conduct unbecoming an officer and making a false official statement. She could face as many as 16 years in prison and be dismissed from the Navy if convicted on all counts.
Her defense lawyer, Marine Capt. Patrick Callahan, said it is unusual for an adultery case to be taken to a general court-martial, where any finding of guilt, even on a lesser charge, would be a felony conviction that would follow Penland for life. It’s also unusual, he said, that the adultery charge is not accompanied by more serious charges, and because of his client’s rank and nearness to retirement.
LCDR Penland has 19 years of military service. She is the National Outreach Chairman of the San diego chapter of the National Naval Officers’ Association.
LCDR Penland is single. The man with whom she is alleged to have had an affair is a married lieutenant junior grade, and is a prosecution witness. LCDR Penland has denied having a sexual relationship with the man.
Wayne Johnson, a retired Navy lawyer, said that since LCDR Penland refused non-judicial punishment, NJP, her superiors had a great deal of discretion as to how they would deal with her, but he also said the general court-martial in an adultery case was unusual but not unheard of.
Johnson said adultery cases frequently are based on witness testimony — usually that of the second person in the relationship, who is often granted immunity in exchange for his or her testimony.
Johnson said that if a sexual relationship were proven, prosecutors would also have to prove that it was prejudicial to good order and discipline in order to win an adultery conviction. Since LCDR Penland and the man were both officers, were not members of the same command, and are not alleged to have carried on the affair in public, that might be difficult to prove, he said.
LCDR Kevin Messer is lead prosecutor in the case. LCDR Messer denied that LCDR Penland’s prosecution had anything to do with command retaliation and said the general court-martial fit the crime. He called allegations of financial problems a “smokescreen and a subterfuge” but did not dispute any of the allegations when talking to Navy Times.
“This case wasn’t about adultery,” LCDR Messer said. “It was about a lieutenant commander who abused her rank to intimidate and coerce an enlisted sailor for the purpose of causing her to divorce her husband. It was about sex, lies and manipulation.”
Neither Callahan nor Penland’s civilian lawyer, Clifton Blevins, returned calls for comment about Messer’s accusations.
LCDR Penland, a supply officer who was commissioned through OCS in 1997 after serving seven years as an enlisted sailor, said she was warned several times by superiors to stop questioning financial practices within San Diego-based Naval Coastal Warfare Group 1 in the months after she arrived at the command in 2006.
She said her command failed to win approval from Naval Installations Command and Naval Facilities Command before completing multimillion dollar construction and renovation projects at the Navy Outlying Landing Field in San Diego; hired contractors in government positions without first advertising those positions to the public; and allowing civilian contractors to supervise military personnel and approve government contracts.
Steve McDonald, director of Business Development for the contractor, Logistics Support Inc., declined to comment on Penland’s allegations. A Navy spokeswoman at the Pentagon was also unable to provide responses to the allegations.
In a separate command investigation completed by NECC officials regarding allegations of racial and gender discrimination — LCDR Penland is Black — by her command, a Navy captain suggested that LCDR Penland raised the allegations only after learning that she was facing adultery charges.
LCDR Penland turned down mast on March 26, and was referred to court-martial on June 5.
She filed a complaint with Rep. Bob Filner, D-Calif., on Feb. 21, a complaint with the NECC inspector general March 30, and a second complaint with the Defense Department inspector general April 10. Her first complaint to Filner occurred more than one month before she went to NJP.
NECC has not responded to requests under the Freedom of Information Act for investigation findings. LCDR Penland produced documents to prove that she requested the investigation. A spokesman for the DoD inspector general’s office said he was unable to provide results because its investigation of LCDR Penland’s allegations is still underway.
Callahan said the fact that the NECC investigation was not yet completed more than a year after it was filed was unusual because IG investigations involving complaints of command reprisal are normally completed within six months.
Callahan said he asked that the trial be postponed until the IG investigations are concluded, but trial judge Cmdr. Robert Redcliff denied that request.
LCDR Syneeda Penland was found guilty and sentenced to 60 days in jail on 24 May. She was also fined two months pay after the military jury found that she had been involved in a sexual relationship with a married lieutenant junior grade and lied about it to her superiors.
After deliberating for approximately two hours, five captains and three commanders found LCDR Penland guilty of adultery, conduct unbecoming an officer, making a false official statement and failing to obey a lawful order.
The Black female officer was taken to the brig immediately after her sentence was announced.
“It was very surprising to see an officer given jail time for purely military offenses,” her defense lawyer, Marine Capt. Patrick Callahan, said, adding that it was also unusual to see the case taken to a general court-martial, where a conviction is equivalent to a felony conviction in civilian courts. “These are things where if she was working at the local Sears, she would have been called into the office and yelled at, and at worse, fired.”
LCDR Penland said earlier that she believed her court-martial was part of a command reprisal for her questioning what she said was financial misconduct within the Navy Expeditionary Combat Command. That misconduct, she said, included improper funding of a multimillion dollar building construction project at the Navy’s Outlying Landing Field in San Diego, NECC commanders allowing civilian contractors to supervise military personnel and make procurement decisions, and illegal hiring practices within the command.
An investigation into Penland’s allegations by the Defense Department Inspector General has not been completed. The NECC IG has not responded to queries concerning the status of its investigation into similar allegations raised by LCDR Penland in a complaint more than a year ago. On June 15, 2008 that IG investigation has not been completed.
During the two-day court-martial, LCDR Penland, who is single and has nearly 19 years of service, and the lieutenant junior grade both denied having a sexual relationship. The prosecution presented no witnesses to the affair.
Callahan said the prosecution’s only evidence of an affair were close-up pictures of sexual activity between two people whose faces were not visible, and several e-mails purportedly between the husband and wife that the husband denied writing.
The husband, Lt. j.g. Mark Wiggan, testified that the photos were of sexual activity between him and his ex-wife. He said that she gave the photos and e-mails to Navy prosecutors while the couple was going through divorce proceedings in civilian court.
Callahan said there was no proof that the e-mails had been sent by Wiggan and said they could have been sent by anyone with access to his e-mail account.
Callahan said the case was unusual because LCDR Penland was court-martialed while Wiggan was given a good fitness report and a Navy commendation after he allegedly confessed to his superiors. He also said there have been recent cases where married officers in more compromising situations have not been court-martialed and been allowed to retire.
Callahan said most officers convicted by court-martial are ordered to show cause why they should be retained in the service after the conviction. Those who cannot do so are processed for administrative separation, which would force Penland to lose all retirement benefits.
“Justice is supposed to be fair and equal, and this is far from that,” he said.
Callahan said Penland would appeal the verdicts.
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At the end of the 4th Rambo film which was released in the year 2008, Rambo was seen walking in the streets in the state of Arizona and the film ends with Rambo looking at a mailbox in front of a farmhouse that says, R. Rambo. So is the next Rambo going to be a continuation of the fourth one? That’s what it’s looking like. Rambo’s father lives on a farm and here you see Sly getting prepared for filming of the next Rambo film.
Looks like Sly is giving Rambo a new look. Looks like Rambo is gonna have a haircut in the next one and it looks like he turned into a farmer and living on his father’s farm. That’s how the next Rambo is gonna start. After a nasty battle in Burma, Rambo becomes a farmer.
So Rambo becomes a cowboy and horseback rider? That’s what it’s looking like to me. Rambo thought he was done fighting the bad guys for good and so he becomes a farmer for some peace for himself then someone tries to talk him into going on another mission… find someone’s missing daughter. In the next Rambo film, I’m sure Rambo’s going to refuse to do that mission at first but then he realizes he has no choice. Rambo goes to the Mexican border to hunt down all the sex traffickers and try to rescue her.
Oh man, I really hope this film is gonna be very violent. I’m sure the big knife will come back, I’m sure Rambo will be shooting huge machine guns again and possibly flying helicopters again. We WILL get the badass Rambo like he was in the first four films, trust me. They won’t disappoint us. I’m sure they’ll make it a great action film. I really did like Rambo 4 a lot and hoping this will be even better. I’m sure it will be. Sly knows how to make a great action movie for sure.
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The Riptide Movement have worked hard over the years to not only associate themselves with, but in turn become, a beacon for the never-dying spirit of good ole Irish Rock music. Invoking the spirit of Lizzy and co. each release has acted as a steady and determined stepping-stone towards something great. The most recent of these steps took the Lucan rockers to Vicar Street last Friday night to launch their new record ‘Getting Through’ to an adorning mass of 1,500 or so, die-hard fans.
With the venue close to capacity and the band ready to explode with a setlist jam-packed with shiny new material, the atmosphere was, if you’ll excuse the overused analogy, electric. Kicking off with the instantly recognisable crowd pleaser ‘Hot Tramp’ the crowd were unleashed and the stage was set. Ireland had once again scored the opening goal in the Rock n Roll World Cup. But then it happened. Enter stage left (or was that my left), a neatly matching four-piece troupe of backing singers and to the right an equally enthusiastic brass section. All of a sudden, the rough and ready rockers were engulfed in an homage to something not unlike The Commitments.
And when the collective talents of The Riptide are taken into account, the distractions flanking the stage seemed to be an unnecessary gimmick. A collection of hits such as ‘Thieves in the Gallery’ and ‘Hard to Explain’ taken from their critically acclaimed album, ‘Keep on Keepin’ on’ do well to feed the hungry revelers. But once the newer tracks are unveiled it all becomes clear as to why the band may have wanted to hide on a busy stage. Songs like ‘All Works Out’ (the current single) and ‘How Can I Let You Go?’ seem but a cloudy memory of The Riptide Movement’s musical ferocity. It seems that they are a band in transition and with a new major record deal with Universal Music you’d forgive them the odd experimental slip up (even if ‘You And I’ sounds a bit like something lifted from Aslan’s back catalogue).
Overall the band have done well to propel themselves from the days of busking on Grafton Street. But it seems that all their early efforts have left a positive and permanent mark. No matter where their all but certain fame and fortune brings them, there’ll always be a warm welcome waiting back home.
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What a great band The Riptide Movement are. I picked up a CD from them a few years before they got signed when I came across them busking on Grafton St. Would have loved to be at this gig.
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Continuous indoor fan operation can degrade heat pump performance unless your system uses a high-efficiency, variable-speed fan motor. Operate the system on the "auto" fan setting on the thermostat. Consider installing (or have a professional install) a programmable thermostat with multistage functions suitable for a heat pump. In many homes, we recommend a dual-fuel or hybrid system - retrofitting an air source heat pump with a gas furnace. this provides the best of both worlds: High efficiency electric heating with the heat pump when temperatures are mild, AND fast recovery with high efficiency gas heating when temperatures are colder.
I installed this pump plus four of the valves. Since we have copper pipe, I ended up using a Sharkbite fitting which made the installation much easier. The valves are fairly easy to install other than having the flexible pipes getting in their own way. The system works well but I . An air source heat pump (ASHP) takes heat from the outside air and moves it indoors. Even at a low temperature there's enough ambient heat in the outside air to allow the heat pump to work efficiently. However, at lower temperatures, the backup heating system may be used, making the heat pump significantly less efficient.
A central air source heat pump (ASHP) works most efficiently in temperatures above 0° Celsius. If the winter temperature in your region is consistently below 0° Celsius, your backup heating system, whether electric or gas, will kick in to keep your home warm. This could mean increased heating costs as the backup system won't be as efficient. For less moderate climates, installing a dual-fuel air source heat pump that works with a natural gas or propane furnace under a single control system can cost $2,$5, to install just the heat pump, or $5,$25, or more for a complete system that includes both the electric heat pump and a .
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This paper outlines the operational characteristics of various residential heat pumps and compares the costs of owning and operating such equipment with conventional furnaces. The comparison is made for nine Canadian cities and for a range of heating energy demands.
Major Benefits of Earth-Energy Systems; Maintenance; Operating Costs; Life Expectancy and Warranties; Section 6 - Heating Energy Cost Comparison: Heat Pump and Electric Heating Systems. Factors Affecting Heating Cost Comparisons; Comparison Results; Section 7 - Related Equipment.
Upgrading the Electrical Service; Supplementary Heating Systems. Every home has the potential to save on heating costs by installing a mini split heat pump. However, not every home can save enough to justify the cost.
In order for a heat pump purchase to pay for itself over 5 – 7 years, a homeowner needs to be spending a certain amount of money on electric or oil heating per year.
Alarie says there's no question a heat pump is more efficient. It is the cost of the system he is questioning. He does not believe NB Power should be offering subsidies for heat-pump conversions.
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Cabinet Secretary Wildlife and Tourism Endorses Conservancies and Pledges Support
Home » News » Cabinet Secretary Wildlife and Tourism Endorses Conservancies and Pledges Support
Posted on 28th March 2018 by ADMIN KWCA
“Every acre of land added to conservation through conservancies is a win for wildlife and tourism. Conservancies should be seen as complimentary to KWS parks as it is the right way to create space for Wildlife and should never be seen to be in competition.”
CS Ministry of Tourism and Wildlife, Hon. Najib Balala
On 6th March, the Cabinet Secretary for Wildlife and Tourism Hon Najib Balala hosted KWCA at his offices to brief him on the progress, opportunity and challenges of conservancies in Kenya and to formulate a framework for engagement between the ministry and the conservancies network. The meeting was a follow up meeting after a visit by the CS to the Maasai Mara conservancies where our CEO Mr. Dickson Kaelo was represented and a follow up meeting agreed with conservancy representatives in Nairobi to formulate an engagement to strengthen conservancies in Kenya.
Kenya’s conservancies though nascent have positioned the country in the global map as a leader in community based conservation. There currently exists 160 conservancies for which 89% are community managed and which involve over 700,000 households. Conservancies also play a critical role in the conservation of biodiversity, expansion and diversification of tourism and rural development. Over 2,900 community rangers support KWS rangers in improving security for tourists and wildlife and the 140 tourist eco-lodges and eco-camps provide 2,397 tourism beds and employ a growing number of Kenyans.
Under his leadership, Hon Najib Balala, expressed optimism in working with all conservation stakeholders and called on them to work together to support KWS become stronger to be able to fulfill its mandate in the conservation and management of the country’s national heritage.
“I have faith and trust in KWS. We all have a role to play to ensure that KWS is sustainable during this crucial time. I encourage donors to continue funding KWS as the national lead agency responsible for the management, conservation and protection of wildlife. By working together, we will not only stem the rising tide, but continue driving progress for all conservation stakeholders.” He said.
KWCA, CAK and the Cabinet Secretary agreed to have a working meeting to discuss areas of partnership as follows:-
Policy development: Fast rack the gazetting of the wildlife policy and pending 14 wildlife regulations; finalise the wildlife strategy; operationalise the wildlife research and training institute (WCMA section 50); Fast track registration of conservancies, issuance of wildlife user rights licenses and gazetting of management and ecosystem plans.
Financing and incentivising Conservancies: Set up the national wildlife conservation fund incorporating a conservancies grant facility; exemption for conservation fees, stamp duty waiver on land leased for wildlife conservation through registered conservancies and zero rating tax on specific items for conservancy management such as ranger patrol vehicles, uniforms etc; Link conservancies investments with funding provided by state agencies, Tourism Fund, Kenya Industrial Training Institute, Climate change and Green Fund; Map out critical habitats threatened by conversion into non compatible land uses to be able to secure such habitats through a land bank
Involvement of communities in Multi-lateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs): To support representatives from conservancies representing Kenya in CITES processes including the rural community working group and Conventions on Biodiversity (CBD) and other MEAs
Partnership with National agencies and County Government: Liaise with the council of governors and their respective counties to support conservancies through direct funding Market conservancies as a niche tourism destination at Kenya’s marketing efforts by the Kenya Tourism Board
Address Human Wildlife Conflict: Partner in developing and Implementing human wildlife conflict measures to reduce conflicts in Kenya’s landscapes.
Kenya’s New Vision on Tourism and Wildlife Conservation Unveiled
Conservation Stewardship: Communities Securing Biodiversity in Lake Bogoria Landscape
Job Opportunity- National CBNRM Coordinator
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The Review at the End of the Universe
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DC’s Legends of Tomorrow – Season 1 Episode 12
Apr 22, 2016 | Posted by Craig McKenzie in TV
DC’s Legends of Tomorrow rips off The Terminator when an assassin is sent by the Time Masters to go after the team’s younger selves.
I think it must be mandatory that anything featuring time travel must at least mention The Terminator at some point or maybe it’s copied so often because it is just that good. It’s definitely a case of copied but never bettered and this is definitely true in this case.
It’s Quentin Lance…and he has hair
The biggest issue is that the plot was a complete mess. At first there are rules around why the Pilgrim (Faye Kingslee) doesn’t simply move back in time further to keep trying if she fails on her first attempt. The reason is that the Time Masters demand precision so constantly moving further back in time to kill one person risks causing too much damage to the timeline. This rule is abandoned when Gideon loses track of her and she suddenly becomes this random chaotic force with no apparent plan.
Such an unfocussed and messy narrative makes it nearly impossible to invest in the situation. If everything had been laid out clearly then there could have been a real sense of urgency and dread to the whole episode as the team races literally against time to save their current selves from being erased from existence.
The early part of the episode was definitely the strongest this was before the rules were abandoned. Seeing the young Mick (Mitchell Kummen) at the very beginning of his obsession with fire was an interesting choice. Seeing him look on at the burning house with a calmly psychotic look in his eyes was a really striking image and was well performed by Mitchell Kummen. He looks nothing like Dominic Purcell but the beginnings of his development into Heat Wave can be seen throughout this episode. I also enjoyed Ray saying “Come with me if you want to live!” when he saved the young Mick but it was somewhat ruined by him geeking out over the fact that he just said it. We get that it’s a reference but there’s no point in specifically pointing out that it’s a reference as it dilutes the effect.
The team considers their next move
Mick’s relationship with his younger self is one of the consistently strong parts of the episode. He directly interacts himself at a definitive point in his development and seems disappointed as well as having an urge to offer guidance. He remembers how lost he felt as well as the pain and anger that fueled his transformation into the man he is now. Dominic Purcell completely nails all of his scenes with a complex performance that shows how difficult it is for him to face something that he thought he had put behind him. The look he gives when his younger self is reminded of his father is perfect. Clearly Mick did not want to turn out like that. There are hints of an abusive relationship in there which explains the lack of immediate remorse of his part. Interactions like this really take advantage of the time travel premise and Mick’s relationship with his younger self definitely forms the emotional core of the episode.
Seeing teenage Sara was really good as well. Caity Lotz looks young enough that she is able to convincingly play herself 10 years younger and the way she conducts herself really helps sell it. Sara was clearly a very different person back then as shown by the contrast between that and the way she is now. Extra points need to be given for the appearance of a young Quentin Lance (Paul Blackthorne) who apparently had hair in 2007. We don’t see much of him but any appearance of Quentin Lance is a welcome one as far as I’m concerned.
Once the episode shifts gears to the team kidnapping themselves as babies things start to get a lot messier. The scene of Martin being kidnapped really adds nothing other than a misguided attempt at humour and another reminder that Ray lived in the 50s. The decision to remove everyone from the timeline at the earliest point makes a kind of sense but the Pilgrim changing her plan to that directly contrasts with the rules established in that same episode. Things basically happen because the plot needs them to with no logical justification.
Rip and his adoptive mother
This part of the story did allow some opportunity for Jax to develop but it also highlights how underdeveloped he has been before this point. We find out that his father, James (Eli Goree) died 2 weeks after he was born because he was in the Army so Jax has never met his father. Thanks to the magic of time travel he has the opportunity to talk to the man he never knew and it’s a nice moment. Jax sees that his father was a man worth looking up to and definitely notices some similarities. Franz Drameh really delivers the goods in his performance showing how glad he is to have finally met his father as well as how emotionally difficult it is to talk to him as if he is a random stranger. The moment where he almost told him the information he would need to survive was really well done and I like how Jax backpedalled on it for the benefit of the timeline.
Unfortunately this lacked the impact it could have had because it was clear that James was only there so that he could be taken hostage later in a transparent attempt to raise the stakes. Leaving him at his one scene with Jax would have been fine as Franz Drameh completely sells this with his performance so it was unnecessary to have the whole hostage situation later. It’s a shame that this show consistently ruins the potential it has by overplaying things. For instance Jax tells James to be careful which may save his life and suddenly Rip is fine with that. As I’ve said, the rules are inconsistent.
The romance between Ray and Kendra continues to get worse as well. This episode sees them get engaged while Ray thinks he is about to die and Kendra immediately regretting agreeing to it. This lingers for a while before the ultimately decide to move along with it. We know they’ve had a long relationship because they spent two years together but it doesn’t feel like a long relationship. Their interactions don’t come across as a couple who know each other well and really love each other so the whole thing just falls flat. I very much doubt their engagement will last long as they haven’t dealt with the lingering question of her feelings for Carter since he hasn’t turned up again so the whole thing is doomed to fail and I can’t really be bothered watching them struggle to be a couple before it inevitably falls to pieces.
Mick deals with his younger self
Ray also has unresolved issues around his dead fiancée, Anna (Barbara Kottmeier) that are touched on in this episode but not dealt with at all. There is one scene where he finishes talking to her then it is completely glossed over in his subsequent exchange with Kendra. The whole idea of kidnapping loved ones as leverage happens so late in the episode that it comes across as clumsy. James and Quentin are the only loved ones shown with brief mentions of Snart’s sister, Martin’s wife and Ray’s dead fiancée with no depth or context to make it feel worthwhile. There is potential in this idea but tacking it onto the tail end of the episode is never going to give it the time it needs to develop.
Some insight is given into Rip Hunter’s past through the introduction of his adoptive mother Mary Xavier (Celia Imrie) who reveals that Rip’s real name is Michael. Rip tells us that he was an orphaned child sent to her by the Time Masters after the plucked him from his native time. Apparently that is generally how they recruit people. This makes me wonder what time period Rip really came from. The recruitment process is consistent with how Mick became Chronos so the Time Masters seem worse the more that is revealed about them.
Seeing young Rip (Aiden Longworth) lacked any real impact and represented another breaking of the established rules. It was mentioned that the Pilgrim wouldn’t go after him because removing a Time Master from events is far too dangerous but suddenly the younger Rip is a viable exchange for the other hostages. It’s so inconsistent and definitely feels like the writers are making things up as they go without checking if it contradicts what was previously established.
Rip offers up his younger self
The whole prisoner exchange scene worked fairly well though with the young Rip Hunter unexpectedly stabbing the Pilgrim in the leg when she wasn’t looking. She underestimated him and the expectation is that the audience would too. I must confess that it hadn’t really occurred to me that Rip keeps his past pretty close to his chest but I had simply assumed that he enlisted in the Time Masters by choice rather than the temporal orphan abduction that is established here. He is a fairly joyless character though so I’d be interested to see him soften up a little over the coming episodes.
As villains go, the Pilgrim wasn’t badly done. She was established as a Terminator like force who let her actions speak louder than her words so she worked from that perspective. Whenever she was around I felt that she was a viable enough threat to the team and the action sequences involving her freezing time in a localised area were visually impressive. The notable highlight was the final confrontation with her where the team showed real teamwork to bring her down. Faye Kingslee’s delivery of her limited dialogue was pretty poor though and I definitely feel like the episode would be better off if she hadn’t said anything at all.
Using the Pilgrim was a missed opportunity to explore the Time Masters as a threat to the team. She could have been used as an example of how corrupt they are and what they actually do to police the timeline. It’s clear that they are the real villains but it would be interesting to get a sense of why they do what they do. Instead she’s a one note villain who works for the Time Masters and does what she is told. It wouldn’t have taken much to establish her motivations and show a bit of how decisions are made and the lack of morality that goes with them.
The end of the episode raises the stakes appropriately as the removal of the younger versions of the team from the timeline is beginning to settle so they can either stop Savage now or basically be erased from existence. Come to think of it this is somewhat prophetic as Rip mentions the team being chosen because of their lack of historical significance. Is this why? They’ve certainly done more harm than good so far so it could be.
An entertaining enough episode that squanders its potential in several key areas. The emotional heft of Jax getting to speak to his father was diluted by the fact that he was only present to be a hostage later on. Other missteps included the Ray/Kendra relationship and the rushing of the loved ones being kidnapped. The Pilgrim was a decent villain though would have been better off had she never said anything and I really liked Mick’s relationship with his younger self. There is a really good show in here but it never quite comes to the surface.
Last Refuge - 6.5/10
Kneel Before…
excellent performances from Franz Drameh and Dominic Purcell
a mostly decent threat represented by the Pilgrim
Mick’s relationship with his younger self
Caity Lotz convincingly playing a teenage version of Sara
a contrived plot that abandons the rules that it sets up
Ray and Kendra’s romance
lots of the story feeling rushed
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PragerU Video: Why You Should Be a Nationalist
Our summary: Yoram Hazony argues for what he calls the virtue of nationalism. The debate between nationalists and globalists is over whether we should aspire to a world of many independent nations or to be one unified super-state. Borders are crucial. National independence was the foundation for four hundred years, but since World War II, many have sought comfort in a simplistic narrative that independent nations are inherently dangerous.
Trying so hard to make it an either/or proposition
Jim Apathez Chicago, IL Published 19 Mar 2020
From my point of view, Yoram Hazony employs three unjustifiable tactics in his video.
First off, he defines the term “nationalism” in an aberrant way:
A nationalist believes that the world is governed best when nations are free to chart their own independent course, cultivating their traditions and pursuing their interests without interference.
This definition is at odds with the more convention usage. For example, Merriam Webster’s definition of nationalism has a somewhat darker connotation:
“loyalty and devotion to a nation, especially a sense of national consciousness exalting one nation above all others and placing primary emphasis on promotion of its culture and interests as opposed to those of other nations or supranational groups”
Hazony is employing a definist fallacy: happy nationalism is unassailable by definition. It allows him to make the bizarre claim that “Hitler was no nationalist.”
His second tactic is his treatment of globalism:
Nationalism is the opposite of imperialism—or globalism or transnationalism—which are all names for the attempt to bring peace and prosperity to the world by uniting mankind under a single political authority.
Hazony essentially equates globalism with imperialism.
And, third, he asserts a false dichotomy between nationalism and globalism/imperialism.
The debate between nationalists and globalists, then, is over whether we should aspire to a world of many independent nations—or to be one unified super-state.
Of course when he says this in the video, he’s referring to his personal interpretations of nationalism and globalism/imperialism, which is very much his way of comparing a world of sovereign nations to a world government. The way he presents it, he makes it seem as though there’s only two choices and no spectrum of in-between options, which is simply false.
Many forms of international cooperation are possible. For example, the EU could very well be considered a mix between Hazony’s nationalism and his imperialism, as individual nations in the EU still have a significant level of autonomy and some say over what happens in the EU government, despite each member state being distinct separate entities. He creates a false binary by presenting the options as if there’s no in-between hybrids of his nationalism and his globalism/imperialism.
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File - In this Thursday, Aug. 16, 2018 file photo the foundation walls of old buildings appear at the riverside of the Edersee in Waldeck, Germany due to a low water level because of a drought period. (Swen Pfoertner/dpa via AP, file)
Drought reveals remains of German 'Atlantis' in lake
August 19, 2018 - 10:06 am
BERLIN (AP) — A sustained drought in Germany has revealed the ruins of a village abandoned when a large reservoir was created more than 100 years ago.
German news agency dpa reported Sunday that a bridge and the foundations of Berich — known locally as the Atlantis of Lake Eder — have recently emerged from the waters in the central state of Hesse.
Germany's third-biggest reservoir is being drained to keep water levels on the Weser river high enough for shipping.
Like many European countries, Germany has seen remarkably little rain in recent months.
The government is expected to decide Wednesday whether to provide federal aid to farmers whose business has suffered from the drought. Eight German states have already reported drought-related damage amounting to 3 billion euros ($3.4 billion).
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STAYING IN LEEK
BeerDock Benks Beyond The Pale Biscuitheadandthebiscuitbadgers Blues Brewces Cock Inn Den Engel Dyers Arms Film Fountain Inn Foxlowe Arts Centre Getliffes Yard Infinity Live Leek Bar & Grill leek bar and grill littlevictor Market Place MartinHarley Old Mill Smokehouse PeakDistrictBigBand Red Lion Rewind Roebuck Society Sparrow Park Stage Spout Brewhouse The Old Mill Smokehouse Ticket Wellington Wilkes' Head
October 2019 Oct 2019
Leek Blues First Call featuring Mike Gledhill @ Cock Inn
Oct 2 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Mike Gledhill & Friends kick off this year’s Festival.
Tags: Cock Inn
Leek Blues & Americana Acoustic Session @ Cock Inn
Oct 3 @ 8:30 pm – 11:00 pm
Mike Gledhill hosts this year’s festival Leek Blues & Americana Acoustic Session.
Now a regular monthly feature at the Cock Inn, expect some of the local areas amazing musical talent on display includeing Jaxhill, Pete Latham, Bill Dyson amongst others.
Jaxhill @ Cock Inn
Phil and Mike met at university many moons ago. We wrote songs and played them in folk and blues clubs across the midlands. We lost touch for many years as jobs and families took centre stage. We’re back playing live now, growing older disgracefully and having a very good time.
Cry Baby & The Hoochie Coochie Boys @ Cock Inn
Cry Baby and The Hoochie Coochie Boys were formed in 2008 and started
gigging in their stompin’ ground around ‘The Potteries’ Stoke-On-Trent in
So why ‘Cry Baby and The Hoochie Coochie Boys?’, starting with The
Hoochie Coochie Boys, the band has been heavily influenced by the Chicago Blues sound, as well as a British influence from Nine Below Zero &
Dr. Feelgood, and Hoochie Coochie Boys is a nod to the great Muddy Waters. Rob Wilkinson under pins the band with old time harmonica playing
and a wailing tone, hence the Cry Baby.
On the drive home from yet another cracking Nine Below Zero gig, Rob and
Graham Sells (Mr.G) were inspired up to put together a band that could combine the 50’s Chicago R&B sound with high energy British Blues.
During the summer of 2008 the dust settled and The Hoochie Coochie Boys
line-up was completed. Rob Wilkinson (Harmonica & Vocals), Graham Sells
(Vocals & Guitar), Vince Cutcliffe (Lead Guitar), Trevor Pinson (Bass),
Johnny ‘Fingers’ Davies (Keyboards), Andy Carr (Drums).
Over the years the band, as most bands do, have changed the line-up. Several keyboard changes over the 5 years with the position now
ably filled by “The Reverend” Mark Hargreaves. In 2013 Graham moved to
Brazil and the band reduced to a 5-piece outfit. Shortly afterwards Trevor called time on his 6 years with the band. The bass position was filled by local bass legend Chris Bevington.
The band feeds off live gigs and whilst we’ve all been around the block a few times, we ensure that we deliver a highly energized performance by limiting gigs to one or two a month, in that way we hit the stage bursting. One venue recently described us as a ‘Dance Floor Rhythm and Blues Band’ yeh that pretty much say’s it all.
The band recorded their first EP ‘Salt Glazed Blues – EP’ at Tremolo Studios in Stoke-On-Trent, mainly to help promote the band and encourage pubs and clubs to book gigs. The EP includes two original numbers written by Graham Sells; ‘Don’t Lie To Me Baby’, a riff driven blues rocker, highlighting the harp and organ, followed by a slow burner, ‘Ain’t Nothing But The Blues’, which plays homage to the likes of BB King, Howlin Wolf. Elmore James and again Muddy Waters.
Pete Cash @ Cock Inn
Pete Cash..Stoke on Trent based country singer/guitarist
Maharaja Blues @ Cock Inn
Richard was born and grew up in South Wales before travelling globally. He has dabbled in all sorts of styles but loves slide resonator guitar.
Satinder has played tabla since a young age and has recently transferred form traditional Indian music to blues and playing with Maharaja Blues.
Jonathan Browning, born and raised in the valleys of South Wales, breathes fire through his harmonica adding extra spice to the Maharaja Blues. He combines folk, rock and blues techniques to create his own distinctive style. Enamoured by the versatility of his instrument, he naturally feeds off the vibes of the other maharajas.
Steelin’ The Blues @ Cock Inn
Steve Ajao and Stewart Johnson combine the musical influences of early country blues, invoking the sound of the Mississippi Delta juke joints. They embrace material from a wide collection of artists including Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf and many more.
John Emil @ Cock Inn
John Emil, an accomplished singer/songwriter, guitarist, and a master of slide guitar, has delivered showstopping performances at major music festivals like the Telluride Blues and Brews Fest, the Lake Occonee Music Fest, the Florida and South Florida Folk Fests, and the Decatur Blues and Bluegrass Festival.
Equally adept with the acoustic Hawaiian lap steel guitar and dobro, Emil first appeared on the South Florida music scene in 2000. Fans hear haunting, subtle hints of Delta bluesmen Son House and Blind Willie Johnson, but Emil ultimately creates a unique style all his own by integrating country blues, folk, bluegrass and lush Hawaiian sounds into his repertoire.
Routinely taking the lost art of slide guitar in a new direction, Emil has composed a wealth of slide guitar tracks for media production libraries. His instrumental tracks have been published by LA Post Music in Los Angeles, Westar Music in Canada, and Strange Fruit in South Africa. Emil recently became the first American musician to be published by London’s KPM, one of the world’s largest production libraries. Among the many television and cable network shows Emil has supplied music for are “Dateline,” Anthony Bourdain’s “No Reservations,” CMT’s “Cribs,” and several international wildlife and nature documentaries.
Rowland Jones @ Cock Inn
I started way back with the Blues and have played funk, jazz, and ‘country rock – and working with C J Hillman & Adrian Gautrey on pedal steel and spending some time in Nashville, my music has drifted further into Americana.
The Bluesmakers @ Cock Inn
Oct 5 @ 10:00 pm – 11:30 pm
The Bluesmakers, the former John Waterhouse blues band from North Staffs, still going strong after 30 years!
JC’s Hopeless Sinners @ Cock Inn
Members of The Voodoogroove get unplugged & play the Ol’ timey Country Gospel & Rockabilly Blues. Lowdown hoedown showdown music at the last chance saloon.
House On Fire @ Cock Inn
Rhythm n Punk
Tim Poole – Vocals
Stu Duthie – Guitar
Phil Robinson – Bass
Chris Plimley – Drums
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ungewichtetedited
@C4to
#4 "I don't believe in luck, and our notion of "luck" is a description of our lack of calculation... As such, luck makes sense as a concept when one has a lower rating, because they can't calculate very far at all, and so every move is uncalculated, and becomes either lucky or unlucky.
The only randomness in the universe arises in quantum physics, really.."
Do you say 'nothing in the universe needs to be explained with luck'? The lottery winner got the price because he was lucky to pick the right numbers. Maybe he had to pick these numbers and these numbers had to fall out of the lottery machine. But he was lucky, that this happened to him, of all people. And the flower pot landing on his foot: He was unlucky that this happened to him, of all things. And he's got an insurance, not because this is necessarily happening, but because we are necessitated to insure ourselves against bad luck. And he gets a big lottery price not because this had to happen, but for beating the odds. Luck has formed and now it is doing things. Claim it had to form, alright, but it is luck, now, nevertheless.
So when we can't calculate the forces in action, but we know them well enough to know the odds, we can describe how lucky or unlucky we have been.
You are born with a wonderful voice: Is this not luck?
In chess, to generalize your example, we can't calculate very far at all, and so every move is uncalculated, and becomes either lucky or unlucky.
So, the farther you can calculate- hand in hand with that, the more correctly you can judge positions and moves from the surface- the less will luck play a role in your games. -And soon, the opening you didn't prepare is on the board.
Does quantum randomness affect chess? If it does enough to flip a bit that tips the scale in favour of a move, it would.
But we have got a lot more of random moves in chess, at least that's their name. 'C'mon, make some random moves, to gain/save some time on the clock!' These are not the carefully chosen ones, they are the first one's that come to our mind and get an 'okay'. Claim, they had to come to mind, claim the superficial 'okay' had to come, the move had to be done, still it is random, to a degree, because we let go off our normal control cycle, and our 'random average move generator' did not let us down.
'I played a couple of random moves in the opening, and we ended up in this interesting position'.
'I could not resolve at all where to put that knight, in the end I flipped a coin!'
(We may live in a universe, where the coin flip result is determined, but the player used the method to make a random move none of his choosing).
C4to
@ungewichtet
I stand by what I say, and I ask you to consider the following thought experiment: if you knew every atom in one's brain, their exact position, energy, momentum, etc, and you knew every single law of physics and assume that quantum randomness doesn't have an affect on what we see macroscopically, then you would be able to predict what a player is going to play at any given point in time. I don't see how a player making a "random" move is any more "random" than a coin flip, given enough information, and assuming quantum mechanics are negligible, you would be able to predict anything, eliminating any "luck", because you know what would happen.
Maybe you agree or disagree with what I said, I can't really tell, if I'm being honest. I kind of agree with what you say, and it sounds to me like you are agreeing with me, but not in your tone of voice.
I am not saying "luck" doesn't exist, but I don't like the word because the way I understand it, it is associated with a philosophical way of thinking that I don't agree with, and for me it is synonymous with unpredictability. And at the end of the day, the only "true" luck is at the quantum level, where there is "true" randomness, which can maybe influence a move through "chaos theory"/butterfly effect, but then you have to be in a position where you have to make an unclear decision, whether to go for one variation or another, but I think neurons behave on a few orders of magnitude above the quantum level, and on average these random effects don't have a measurable impact on how we think, even if we are to "flip a coin in our head".
But this is all too metaphysical and philosophical for my taste, and I don't want to make assumptions when I don't know how our brains choose "random" moves. At the end of the day, I don't think anyone can evaluate what percentage luck comes into play in chess, because it is immeasurable.
Thanks for that essay (no realy this was very interesting)
sandcasteledited
The two random circumstances with Lichess are random pairing and whether you get white or black. The random pairing has constraints on it based on your rating. There is an element of luck concerning opponent that depend on which openings they are familiar with and comfortable playing or playing against. Then there is the matter of inaccuracies, mistakes, and blunders. Lichess quantifies these if you analyze a game after the fact. Luck would come into play if, in your experience you have encountered these questionable moves prior and know how to take advantage. Or conversely, know how to avoid them. So I would consider it a "lucky set of circumstances" if I got white, played an opening that my opponent was unfamiliar with, and recognized mistakes and blunders when they occurred.
"When I am White I win because I am White. When I am Black I win because I am Bogoljubov." - Efim Bogoljubov
I would like to ask what is the practical value of the physical perspective? If we look from a perspective of odds-knowing, bets-making beings, we can understand playing lottery, making insurances and choosing chess moves. Looking at the scale of particles or neurons the effects may be immeasurable, but we can gather examples from everyday life, holding all the answers.
@ungewichtet I have too much to say on the topic, I think the original question is too philosophical to really answer, which is why I delve into the physical perspective and not the numerical one.
It is one thing to ask: Was Duda lucky to beat Carlsen?: yes he was because very few people have beaten Carlsen in the last few years. This is the kind of question asked in regards to winning the lottery and deciding insurance policy, you look at statistics and probabilities.
It is another to ask: How lucky was Duda to beat Carlsen? It is an entirely different, and much deeper question that asks, as you have shown above, that one would have to consider a lot of different circumstances to tell if something was truly unlucky or not. Apart from the ones you mentioned, one could also ask: did your opponent sleep well? Did you sleep well? Which one of you two was the most emotionally stable? Who ate at the right time to get a little energy boost? Did a player have a piece fall on the floor? You'd have to look at nearly every single variable that would have a non-negligible influence on the outcome of the game, to narrow down how much of it was actually truly "lucky", and what was to be expected given the circumstances, and this I feel is innately immeasurable.
If you want to say how lucky something is IN REGARDS TO (X), then that is much easier to answer as you'd only be looking at one "dimension" of "luck", which I feel you've explored in #24.
The very nature of the question, I feel, NEEDS to be answered by a physical way, to narrow down where the true "luck" is coming from, and is not a realistic task to endeavor towards in any way, and so I blame the question for being unanswerable, and why I say it is a philosophical one. That is how I feel, at least.
So, you say, the question, how many percent of luck there is in chess, is too intricate, diverse/manifold to try to really answer, and therefore, you resort to a perspective from physics, "to narrow down where the true "luck" is coming from", I hope I am getting this right.
You are showing ways of observation, too, along which the original question would have to be answered, a task that looks to me like a huge empirical puzzle, but not at all a hopeless one.
The questions 'Was Duda lucky to beat Carlsen?' and 'How lucky (..)?' are not different in type, it seems; number two goes into detail more explicitly, only. All factors mentioned in this thread are not immeasurable, they are measureable, we can talk about them, could make notes, charts, watch results, and so on. While they are sure hard to quantify and to compare, they are at-hand and real influences. Question may be, will we know when our puzzle is complete, which influences did we forget about? Polls like this thread must be among the good tools to collect more and forget less.
Your decision to be delving into physics, and narrow down to true luck, I wonder what part this is of the answer. You say, if only we had enough information, (assuming quantum effects are negligeable) there would be no factor of luck left. Let's look at dice and poker. Dice are made so that from our hands they produce random results. Cards are shuffled and dealt out to do that, as well. You can say, we only lack information. But the point is, if we used our mathematics to produce a random column of dice results or series of poker hands, they would look exactly the same. So we can use both, randomness generated by hand or by formula, as long as the math is right. And so, the luck in poker and dice is real, even if the way the world unfolds were the only possible way.
Now for chess, this means, whenever we throw a coin to decide on a move, we invite luck; whenever we pick a move because it appears quickly in our mind instead of waiting for all candidates to arrive, we invite luck; whenever we are relying on intuition, on judgements, on impulses, on surfaces, we are relying on probabilities, and invite luck.
It seems to me correct, the world, and us in it, can bring about random events, even if the counterintuitive story were true that there were only one string of events possible.
CM Sarg0nedited
You are just walking with a torch through the jungle. If you spot something useful you can call it luck - because you can't oversee the whole mess.
White was somewhat lucky here . After an oversight thus losing tons of material on a1 and b1 White isn't worse. Pure luck!
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jomegaedited
An alteration of a Simpson's dialogue.
Shop owner: The frogurt is also cursed.
Homer: That's unlucky.
Shop owner: But you get your choice of toppings.
Homer: That's lucky!
Shop owner: The toppings contain potassium benzoate.
Homer: ??
Shop owner: That’s unlucky!
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Tequila Monday, April 20, 2020
Posted on April 20, 2020 April 20, 2020 by 75riles
Right, I know that I’m taking the tequila thing over the top. But, doesn’t it feel like a great way to get the week going after a dreary cold Sunday? Or, go the other way – alcohol free for the week. Hmmm.
My very first job I said thank you and please, even scrubbed the parking lot down on my knees.
Then I got fired for being scared of bees, and they only paid me fifty cents an hour.
Father forgive us for what we must do. You forgive us and we’ll forgive you.
We’ll forgive each other til we both turn blue and we’ll whistle and go fishin’ in heaven. John Prine
Tracking the Virus backwards to understand where it’s going forward
My niece shared an article published by The New Yorker about the research going on to understand this infectious attack. Peyton’s childhood friend and BFF, Katherine Xue, wrote the article. She grew up with Peyton and turned into an evolutionary biologist. This link will open your eyes up to the science, technology and smart people dedicated to solving the mystery of infectious diseases.
It reads like a sci-fi detective story because, well, it is. It’s a true story of genome sequencing, viral replication, tree branches and mutations, amazing technology and the incredible sharing of data by the global scientific field. And it’s one that is continuing to unfold from how it came into Washington State…
[EXCERPT] The viral genomes showed that after the coronavirus reached Washington State, in late January, it grew into its own branch of the tree, spreading silently through the city for weeks. Based on the cryptic transmission evident from the evolutionary tree, researchers estimated that the virus might have infected five hundred to six hundred people in Washington State by early March, far more than the eighteen cases reported at the time.
…to how it infected New York City…
[EXCERPT] Most cases sequenced from the massive New York City outbreak belong to a single branch whose closest relatives are in Europe, not China, suggesting that the virus crossed the Atlantic rather than the Pacific Ocean to arrive on the East Coast.
Please give it a read and dig deeper by clicking on the links to other resources inside the story. You’ll come out knowing a lot more.
Our local paper, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, continues to provide excellent reporting on the COVID-19 story and how it is affecting Atlanta and the State of Georgia. I’d like to point out two articles in Sunday’s paper:
The first “Seeing through the Silence” is a special section showcasing the photographic images of the COVID-19 story and the staffers who took the photos.
The second uses stories, headlines and images from the The Atlanta Constitution’s pages from October 1918! to compare the Spanish flu pandemic with the novel coronavirus in a “Now” and “Then” context. Frankly, it’s remarkable that the paper can dig back into its archives to do such a comparison.
Also, in the AJC, I found this story fascinating. It was titled, “It’s not exactly the Depression” How The Great Depression and COVID-19 each resulted in massive unemployment shows how one outcome, joblessness, can be caused by very different events. It’s important to understand that context as these two events rise up for comparison due to the unemployment data. It’s also really helpful to understand the positive things that eventually came from the Depression, tools to help the country fight challenges to our economy that creates crippling unemployment.
Scottish dreams lost in the virus
On a personal note, Julie and I were set to board a plane bound for Edinburgh, Scotland, today at 5:20 p.m. We’d planned the trip to the home of golf for almost a year. We finalized everything over four months ago. Then, we started out 2020 playing more winter golf here than ever before with a goal of preparing for what Spring in St. Andrews could be like, ie, windy and wet. We were ready: Warm weather layers, rain gear and new walking golf shoes. Obviously, if we hadn’t cancelled some piece, it would have cancelled on us. Edinburgh airport is closed! We have put the plans on the shelf for now and hope to go in 2021. All for the best. Just checked the weather over there. It’s 50 degrees and sunny. Perfect.
I wonder what we’ll find while we’re here instead of there.
Stay safe. Stay well. And remember, cut your TP use in half and “Stay the F**k home!”
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2 thoughts on “Tequila Monday, April 20, 2020”
Sarah Horn says:
It’ll be sunny and 50 next year!
75riles says:
Darn straight. Good positive thinking. And thanks for reading.
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