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Died: April 7, 1972, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
An American actress best known for her dramatic roles in exotic silent films such as The Queen of Sheba (1921).
Born Elizabeth Blythe Slaughter, she began her stage work in such theatrical pieces as So Long Letty and The Peacock Princess.
After touring Europe and the States, she entered films in 1918 at the Vitagraph Studios in Brooklyn, then she was brought to Hollywood's Fox studio as a replacement for actress Theda Bara.
As famous for her revealing costumes as for her dramatic skills, she became a star in such exotic films as The Queen of Sheba (1921), Chu-Chin-Chow (made in 1923; released by MGM in the US 1925) and She (1925).
She was also seen to good advantage in less revealing films like Nomads of the North (1920) with Lon Chaney and In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter (1924), produced by Samuel Goldwyn.
Other roles were as an opera star, unbilled in Garbo's The Mysterious Lady. She continued to work as a character actress. One of her last roles was a small uncredited role in a crowd scene in 1964's My Fair Lady.
She is famous for being one of the first actresses to appear on film in the nude, or nearly so, during The Roaring Twenties.
She is reported to have said, "A director is the only man besides your husband who can tell you how much of your clothes to take off."
Blythe was married to the movie director Paul Scardon from 1919 until his death in 1954.
Betty Blythe died of a heart attack in Woodland Hills, California in 1972, aged 78. She is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.
Cortez Island
Broadcast: 11th February 1952
Starring: Bob Bailey, Virginia Gregg, Herb Vigran, GeGe Pearson, Forrest Lewis, Betty Blythe, Joe Forte, Benny Rubin
Added: Feb 17 2009
Dr Gillespies New Office
Broadcast: 25th May 1951
Starring: Lionel Barrymore, Ted Osborne, Virginia Gregg, Tony Barrett, Lew Ayres, Betty Blythe
Added: Sep 18 2010
Guilty Conscience (aka Letter From Yesterday)
Broadcast: 9th September 1951
Starring: Bill Forman, Ted Osborne, Lamont Johnson, Jeanne Bates, Herbert Litton, Jess Kirkpatrick, Betty Blythe
Phantom Bandit
Broadcast: October 13, 1950
Starring: Jean Tatum, Stacy Harris, Wally Maher, Lamont Johnson, William Woodson, Betty Blythe, Ken Peters, Larry Keating, Jerry Devine, Frederick Steiner, Edmund MacDonald, Equitable Life Assurance Society, John Sheehan, Jerry D Lewis
Broadcast: November 6, 1950
Starring: William Keighley, Laurence Olivier, Betty Blythe, John Dodsworth, Eleanor Audley, Vivien Leigh
Selective Service Swindle, The
Broadcast: January 19, 1951
Starring: Stacy Harris, John McIntire, Lamont Johnson, Jeanette Nolan, William Woodson, Betty Blythe, Larry Keating, Jerry Devine, Frederick Steiner, Jerry D. Lewis, Gil Stratton
Added: Jan 15 2021
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Indiana Jury Awards $3 Million in Cook IVC Filter Bellwether Trial (February 2019)
After a month-long trial, jurors concluded that 53-year-old Tonya Branded of Snellville, Georgia was harmed by the negligence of Cook Medical. Brand had a Cook IVC filter inserted prior to spinal fusion in 2009, which subsequently fragmented, breaking through the vein and skin of her thigh in 2011. Another piece remains lodged in her spine.
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Texas Jury Awards $1.2 Million To Houston Firefighter (May 2018)
Houston firefighter Jeffrey Pavlock was awarded $1.2 million for a “failure to warn” claim after his IVC filter perforated his blood vessel and organs. Pavlock’s IVC filter was to be removed seven weeks after implantation, but surgeons could not find the device because it had moved and lodged in a blood vessel. The second surgery to remove the device was unsuccessful and requires ongoing health monitoring.
Arizona Jury Awards Woman Who Underwent Open-Heart Surgery $3.6 Million (March 2018)
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Boston Scientific reached a settlement with the family of Cinthia K. Ratliff of Ohio. The woman died in 2013 after the device perforated her vena cava, resulting in internal bleeding. The autopsy report directly cited the IVC filter’s failure as the cause of death, causing the case to promptly settle in March 2017.
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Martin Vickers handing over Theresa May’s letter to the Kosovo PM
A North Lincolnshire MP visited Kosovo at the weekend to represent the UK Parliament at the celebrations to mark the tenth anniversary of the country’s independence.
During the visit, Martin Vickers, MP for Barton and Cleethorpes, delivered a letter from Prime Minister Theresa May to her opposite number Ramush Haradinaj.
The letter congratulated Kosovo on reaching this milestone and reflected on what had been achieved in a short time. Mrs May said that the UK is a friend and strong supporter of the country.
Martin Vickers at a meeting with the Speaker of Kosovo’s Parliament Kadri Veseli
Mr Vickers was accompanied at numerous events and meetings by the British Ambassador Ruairi O’Connell and Kosovo’s ambassador in London Lirim Greicevci.
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Whilst in Prishtina, Mr Vickers was contacted by Astrit Bunjaku, who had studied and worked in Cleethorpes and had met Mr Vickers at one of his constituency surgeries in 2011. He was granted a scholarship by the David Ross Foundation, studied at Havelock School and later attended university in London.
Mr Vickers said: "It was great to meet up with Astrit again; we are both Havelock Old Boys. He visits Cleethorpes most years to visit friends and the family he stayed with whilst here."
Martin Vickers with Astrit Bunjaku
Mr Vickers also visited British company Fox Marble who have extensive business interests in Kosovo.
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USF Creates Pandemic Response Research Network, Invests in Projects Addressing Coronavirus Outbreak
Initiative organizes USF’s research efforts to fight current and future pandemics.
TAMPA, Fla. (April 22, 2020) – The University of South Florida COVID-19 Rapid Response Research Grants program has selected 14 projects to receive initial funding for research on potential treatments, technologies and social mitigation strategies in the wake of the global pandemic.
USF is investing nearly $340,000 to start this group of interdisciplinary projects, which seek to address the pandemic by exploring many different facets, including discovering potential treatments for COVID-19 infections, developing new technologies to help prevent the spread of the virus, launching efforts to protect public safety and managing the emotional impacts of the virus. Six of the projects involve patented or patent-pending technologies developed at USF.
Funding from the Florida High Tech Corridor Council also will support some of the projects.
The goal of the effort is to quickly scale up these projects in the next few months, while USF researchers also seek longer-term federal research support through the recently passed C.A.R.E.S. Act and other sources.
“The breadth and depth of efforts by the University of South Florida scientists, physicians, innovators and scholars to respond to all aspects of this pandemic reflects our institution’s commitment to high-impact research and public service,” USF President Steven Currall said. “We are moving quickly with our brightest and most creative faculty and student researchers collaborating to find solutions to the complex challenges presented by current and future global health crises. This is precisely the role of a metropolitan public research university, a responsibility we take very seriously.”
The projects selected for the first round of funding are:
Serological Correlates to Immunity in SARS-CoV-2 Infection
PI: Dr. Kami Kim, Morsani College of Medicine, Director, Division of Infectious Disease & International Medicine
This project would explore the presence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies and potential immunity using a combination of tests to determine which best detects whether a person is immune to the virus or not. The research is important to determine whom among the medical staff are potentially immune to SARS-CoV-2, who can return to work safely because they have developed an immunity to the virus, and will allow researchers to recalculate a more accurate fatality rate among the general population.
Self-Contained Acoustic Isolation and Detection System (SCAIDS) for SARS-CoV-2 and its Antibodies
PI: Dr. Venkat Bhethanabotla, College of Engineering
The current gold standard for diagnosis is PCR (polymearase chain reaction, which detects viral RNA or DNA), but PCR has several drawbacks including specialized testing facilities and an expensive processing time that can take up to 48 hours to obtain results. Other methods of testing also have considerable flaws that make widespread testing time consuming and expensive. This project proposes adapting a portable biomarker detection system — now under development by USF and Moffitt Cancer Center researchers to quantify cancer biomarkers in human blood — and adapt the platform to detect SARS-CoV-2.
Sterilization Mechanism of Corona Discharge for Masks and Environment to Combat COVID-19
PI: Dr. Ying Zhong, College of Engineering
This team proposes addressing the shortage of N95 masks using a newly created technology that can rapidly sterilize and restore the masks’ filtration effectiveness. Using the mechanism of corona discharge to destroy viruses and bacteria, this technology is under development to rapidly sterilize PPE such as single-use N95 masks for healthcare workers and make them reusable. The aim of the technology is to further reduce PPE shortage issues while protecting the safety of medical personnel. The researchers also are working to develop the technology to offer an efficient sterilization solution for other commonly shared surfaces to prevent COVID-19 spread. The USF inventors have filed a new patent application on the technology and are working to establish an industry partnership to rapidly advance the research and development of these new devices.
SARS-CoVid-19 Tissue-specific Susceptibility in Different Ethnic backgrounds.
PI: Dr. Thomas McDonald; Morsani College of Medicine, USF Health Heart Institute
The project would attempt to understand SARS-CoV-2 disparities among ethnic groups. COVID-19 victims are disproportionately represented by those with pre-existing cardiovascular conditions, such as hypertension and heart failure, and by specific ethnic groups. In some disease hot spots, African-Americans and Hispanics have double the infection rates and mortality from COVID-19. The project would explore important unanswered questions on racial disparities and COVID-19, including whether ethnic differences in infection rates and cardiovascular complications are solely due to socioeconomic disparities, or if there are cellular-level or other medical explanations.
Planning for Hurricane Shelter Operations During a Pandemic
PI: Dr. Jennifer Marshall, College of Public Health
This research will outline key considerations for sheltering and evacuation in the era of COVID-19. The potential risk of COVID19 infections spreading among shelter residents and between shelter residents and staff increases with proximity. The researchers plan to address these complex concerns by conducting a gap analysis of current shelter plans and available resources that meet national guidelines and best practices.
Secure Mobile Contact Tracing App
PI: Dr. Jean-Francois Biasse, College of Arts & Sciences
The researchers are developing a new approach to contact-tracing via the Bluetooth-LE signal of smartphones that would advance contact tracing for communicable diseases. The first phase of the research would develop a secure system for critical organizations allowing their members to report their condition and to isolate/test members who have been in contact with confirmed cases. A second phase of the project would allow for volunteer participants to report their condition and learn if they have been in close contact with confirmed cases without revealing their identity.
Social Closeness Despite Social Distance: A Study of Strategies to Fight Loneliness During the COVID-19 Pandemic
PI: Dr. Fallon R. Goodman, College of Arts & Sciences, Department of Psychology, Director, Emotion and Resilience Laboratory
The COVID-19 pandemic has fractured social support systems and the effects of loneliness will likely be magnified during social distancing, especially among those with pre-existing psychological vulnerabilities, such as depression and anxiety. The project will document and analyze the impact of COVID-19 on psychosocial and physical well-being and work to develop new tolls and solutions to help vulnerable people maintain social connections while adhering to social distancing guidelines.
A 2-in-1 Nano-aerosols Development to Mitigate COVID-19 Spread in Both Humans and PPE
PI: Dr. Alya Limayem, Taneja College of Pharmacy
The project would develop nanocomponents that have demonstrated effects on multi-drug resistance bacteria and are a promising agent against virus replication. The project will explore if the nanocomponents can be coated onto PPE as a preventive measure and possibly even in humans.
A Novel therapy for High-risk Critically Ill COVID-19 Patients
PI: Dr. Subhra Mohapatra, Morsani College of Medicine
This proposal focuses on repurposing an anti-diabetic FDA-approved drug pioglitazone as an adjunct therapy to mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) therapy for treating COVID-19. Since coronaviruses are known to affect the brain stem respiratory center, there is an urgent need to find a suitable treatment strategy. Pioglitazone has anti-inflammatory activity while also increasing the effect of stem cell therapy in traumatic brain injury. Pioglitazone also possesses antiviral properties and provides protection against RNA viruses, the project’s leaders report.
Remdesivir Ophthalmic Drops for Prevention of Covid-19 Transmission Via Eye
PI: Dr. Vijaykumar Sutariya, Taneja College of Pharmacy
The Center for Diseases and Control recommends Remdesivir as therapeutic option for patients with COVID-19. A study from China suggests that up to one third of people hospitalized with coronavirus experienced viral pink eye or conjunctivitis. The virus can spread by touching fluid from an infected person’s eyes, or from objects that carry the fluid5. The researchers plan to formulate and characterize Remdesivir ophthalmic as a potential for prevention of transmission of the diseases via eye and the potential for treatment for conjunctivitis caused by the infection.
THE USF RAPID-RISK ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTION FOR COVID-19
PI: Dr. Usha Menon, College of Nursing
The human behavioral response during a pandemic illness such as COVID-19 is not well understood, and the abundance of information shared through various channels can reduce the public’s ability to identify and adhere to evidence-based guidelines. The project will lead an interdisciplinary study to analyze risk behavior, risk mitigation and chronic disease management and work to deliver tailored messaging to encourage safer behaviors among individuals at risk for infection.
Rapid Development of Covid-19 Therapies and Evaluation of Side Effects
PI: Dr. Robert Frisina, Department of Medical Engineering
The project would build upon a recently received National Institutes of Health grant to study cellular autophagy pathways in epithelial cells in the cochlea, and how autophagy relates to hearing loss and deafness. The researchers report that the autophagy pathway — a relatively under-studied cellular pathway — is a leading candidate for being involved in killing the COVID-19 virus. The researchers will investigate the autophagy pathway in epithelial cells treated with two existing drugs being studied for COVID-19 infections.
Sniffing out COVID-19: A Novel Nanofilm Detector System
PI: Dr. Salvatore Morgera, College of Engineering
USF engineers are exploring the concept of developing an “electronic nose” that uses sensitive electronic systems with unique sensor array technology to test the breath of potentially infected people for COVID-19 and other coronaviruses when they are exhaled.
Alternative Processing of Civil and Criminal Justice System Matters for People with Behavioral Health Disorders
PI: Dr. Annette Christy, College of Behavioral and Community Sciences
Social distancing requirements to stem the spread of COVID-19 has had an impact on the legal system, particularly in proceedings which involve persons with mental and substance use disorder who undergo clinical assessments and hearings for involuntary hospitalization under Florida’s Baker Act. USF researchers will conduct a six-month study on the use of technology to carry out clinical assessment and justice system hearings in both civil and criminal justice system cases involving people with mental and substance abuse issues.
USF recently launched the Pandemic Response Research Network™, an interdisciplinary collaboration of its leading scientists whose research addresses the issues surrounding pandemics and to organize USF resources to ensure that research and innovation related to COVID-19 was targeted, efficient and effective.
“USF faculty have been eager to respond quickly to the unprecedented challenges of COVID-19 with their expertise, skills and talent,” said Dr. Paul Sanberg, USF’s Senior Vice President for Research, Innovation & Knowledge Enterprise. “We are a university with a strong tradition of addressing major crises by ramping up research and innovation efforts which produce new knowledge, treatments, tools and technologies to help communities become healthier and more resilient.”
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2017 168.1294 New 2017 c 55 s 1
168.1294 LAW ENFORCEMENT MEMORIAL PLATES.
Subdivision 1.Issuance of plates.
The commissioner shall issue special law enforcement memorial license plates or a single motorcycle plate to an applicant who:
(1) is a registered owner of a passenger automobile, noncommercial one-ton pickup truck, motorcycle, or recreational motor vehicle;
(2) pays an additional fee in the amount specified for special plates under section 168.12, subdivision 5, for each set of plates;
(3) pays the registration tax as required under section 168.013, along with any other fees required by this chapter;
(4) contributes $25 upon initial application and a minimum of $5 annually to the Minnesota law enforcement memorial account; and
(5) complies with this chapter and rules governing registration of motor vehicles and licensing of drivers.
Subd. 2.Design.
The commissioner, in consultation with representatives from the Minnesota Law Enforcement Memorial Association, shall adopt a suitable design for the plate that must include a blue line with a black line of equal proportion above and below the blue line, representing the thin blue line.
Subd. 3.Plates transfer.
On application to the commissioner and payment of a transfer fee of $5, special plates may be transferred to another qualified motor vehicle that is registered to the same individual to whom the special plates were originally issued.
Subd. 4.Exemption.
Special plates issued under this section are not subject to section 168.1293, subdivision 2.
Subd. 5.Fees.
Fees collected under subdivision 1, clauses (2) and (3), and subdivision 3 are credited to the vehicle services operating account in the special revenue fund.
Subd. 6.Contributions; memorial account; appropriation.
Contributions collected under subdivision 1, clause (4), must be deposited in the Minnesota law enforcement memorial account, which is established in the special revenue fund. Money in the account is appropriated to the commissioner of public safety. This appropriation is first for the annual cost of administering the account funds, and the remaining funds are for distribution to the Minnesota Law Enforcement Memorial Association. By August 15 of each year, the commissioner must distribute all funds remaining to the association. The association must use the funds to further the mission of the association in assisting the families and home agencies of Minnesota law enforcement officers who have died in the line of duty. By January 15 of each year, the association must submit a report to the commissioner of public safety and to the chairs and ranking minority members of the legislative committees with jurisdiction over transportation policy and finance. The report must include an itemized list of each expenditure the association made with the funds received under this section for the previous calendar year.
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260A.03 260A.05
Curfews
Truants
1995 260A.04 New 1995 c 226 art 3 s 40
260A.04 COMMUNITY-BASED TRUANCY PROJECTS AND SERVICE CENTERS.
Subdivision 1.Establishment.
(a) Community-based truancy projects and service centers may be established to:
(1) provide for identification of students with school attendance problems;
(2) facilitate the provision of services geared to address the underlying issues that are contributing to a student's truant behavior; and
(3) provide facilities to receive truant students from peace officers and probation officers.
(b) Truancy projects and service centers may provide any of these services and shall provide for referral of children and families to other appropriate programs and services.
Subd. 2.Community-based action projects.
Schools, community agencies, law enforcement, parent associations, and other interested groups may cooperate to provide coordinated intervention, prevention, and educational services for truant students and their families. Services may include:
(1) assessment for underlying issues that are contributing to the child's truant behavior;
(2) referral to other community-based services for the child and family, such as individual or family counseling, educational testing, psychological evaluations, tutoring, mentoring, and mediation;
(3) transition services to integrate the child back into school and to help the child succeed once there;
(4) culturally sensitive programming and staffing; and
(5) increased school response, including in-school suspension, better attendance monitoring and enforcement, after-school study programs, and in-service training for teachers and staff.
Subd. 3.Truancy service centers.
(a) Truancy service centers may be established as facilities to receive truant students from peace officers and probation officers and provide other appropriate services. A truancy service center may:
(1) assess a truant student's attendance situation, including enrollment status, verification of truancy, and school attendance history;
(2) assist in coordinating intervention efforts where appropriate, including checking with juvenile probation and children and family services to determine whether an active case is pending and facilitating transfer to an appropriate facility, if indicated; and evaluating the need for and making referral to a health clinic, chemical dependency treatment, protective services, social or recreational programs, or other school or community-based services and programs described in subdivision 2;
(3) contact the parents or legal guardian of the truant student and release the truant student to the custody of the parents, guardian, or other suitable person; and
(4) facilitate the student's earliest possible return to school.
(b) Truancy service centers may not accept:
(1) juveniles taken into custody for violations of law that would be crimes if committed by adults;
(2) intoxicated juveniles;
(3) ill or injured juveniles; or
(4) juveniles older than mandatory school attendance age.
(c) Truancy service centers may expand their service capability in order to receive curfew violators and take appropriate action, such as coordination of intervention efforts, contacting parents, and developing strategies to ensure that parents assume responsibility for their children's curfew violations.
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Upcoming Speaking Engagement on Parenting Plans
Posted by Ron Kauffman on November 5, 2020 with 0 Comment
I look forward to speaking about child custody and timesharing parenting plans on December 4th at the Dade County Bar Association & Dade Legal Aid/Put Something Back “Nuts and Bolts of Family Law” Seminar. I will be speaking along with my colleagues, Hon. Samantha Ruiz Cohen, Michelle M. Gervais, Robert C. Josefsberg, Amber Kornreich, Paul R. Lipton and Jacqueline M. Valdespino.
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Dade Legal Aid provides life-changing and often life-saving services in the areas of Family Law, Domestic Violence, Guardianship, Child & Teen Advocacy, Human Sex Trafficking, Guardian ad Litem and other areas of law.
Annually, the agency serves over 5,000 clients positively impacting the lives of over 10,000 residents utilizing a strategic mix of experienced staff attorneys, pro bono attorneys, law firm partnerships, law school stakeholders and dozens of collaborations with diverse organizations and groups with the aim of assisting vulnerable populations and families living in poverty
Child Custody and Timesharing
I will be discussing parenting plans, a topic I’ve written and spoken about before. Generally, a parenting plan is a document created by lawyers or the court to govern the relationship between parents relating to decisions that must be made regarding their minor children.
Parenting plans must contain a time-sharing schedule for the parents and children too. The issues concerning the minor children should also be included, and consist of issues such as the children’s education, their health care, and physical, social, and emotional well-being.
When creating parenting plans, it is important to consider all of the circumstances between the parents, including the history of their relationship, whether there are any issues about domestic violence, and many other factors must be taken into consideration.
A parenting plan has to be either developed and agreed to by the parents and approved by a court; or in the alternative, a parenting plan must be established by the court – with or without the use of a court-ordered parenting plan recommendation – when the parents cannot agree to a parenting plan, or the parents agreed to a plan, but the court refuses to approve the parents’ plan.
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Music Everywhere: G-Project G-Go Bluetooth Water-Resistant Speaker
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Sometimes, when I’m not inundated with review samples, I go browsing in stores to see what’s new. This month’s expedition turned up G-Project’s G-Go wireless speaker. I was interested primarily because the box claimed it to be “water resistant,” and while I’m very happy with Grace Digital’s waterproof ECOXBT Bluetooth speaker, I’m always looking for something better.
The G-Project G-Go ($69.99 USD) comes packaged with an AC power cord, a 3.5mm cord for connecting accessories, and an instruction manual. The speaker itself, made of plastic and a rubberized material, weighs 2.4 pounds and measures 10”H x 5”W (at the base) x 4”D. It comes in black, white, or metallic blue, and looks and feels quite rugged. The two drivers are in the front, giving the G-Go the look of a miniature tower speaker. The drivers are exposed, but each is protected by two strips of solid, clear plastic. Above the top driver are two LEDs: the one on the left is white; a steady glow indicates that the G-Go is powered up, and it flashes when the battery is low, the music has been paused, or a volume button has been pressed. This LED also indicates which of the EQ button’s four settings has been selected: EQ1 (Flat), EQ2 (Rock), EQ3 (Pop), or EQ4 (Jazz). You can tell which you’ve selected by the number of times the white LED flashes. The blue LED on the right flashes during pairing with a Bluetooth device: it glows steadily when that process has been completed.
On the rear of the G-Go are a built-in handle, small reflex ports to enhance the bass output, and a compartment with a hinged door that can be locked and sealed by flipping it down and turning the locking knob -- a sturdy and effective design. Inside the compartment are the inputs: a mini USB, a 3.5mm line in, and an inlet for the power cord. When the G-Go is running on batteries, the 3.5mm line input is shut off. In fact, all of the inputs are rendered ineffective with battery power -- if anything were plugged in, you wouldn’t be able to close the door to seal out water. You can charge compatible units using the USB input, though this will work well only if the G-Go is plugged into the wall.
On the bottom of the speaker is the battery compartment, with the same type of sealed door as on the rear panel. The G-Go requires four AA batteries (not included). A built-in ribbon eases battery removal; without it, I found this ostensibly simple task something of a pain. G-Project says the G-Go will run about eight hours on batteries, depending on volume level.
The G-Go’s smooth left side is devoid of any controls; they’re all in a column on the right side. From top to bottom are buttons for: Power, Volume Up/Down, EQ, Play/Pause, Skip Forward/Back, and Bluetooth pairing. The buttons are of different sizes, perhaps to make them easier to find, but I imagine you’re still going to have to look most of the time.
Getting started and use
Pairing my iPod Touch with the G-Project was simple: I pushed the G-Go’s Pair button, looked for the G-Go to appear on my iPod’s list, and selected it. The pairing happened almost immediately. From then on, all I had to do to use the G-Go with the iPod was push the G-Go’s Pair button. It’s the simplest pairing sequence I’ve experienced with any Bluetooth product.
The controls worked flawlessly. It was nice to have the basic Play/Pause and Skip controls. The whole idea of using a water-resistant speaker in the shower is so that you can leave your pod or phone outside the bath, dry and safe. But this is the first Bluetooth speaker I’d encountered that gives you some degree of the control you lose by not having the delivery device at hand.
G-Project claims that the G-Go has a range of 33’ -- it certainly got that in my house, even with walls and doors in the way. Pretty amazing. This inexpensive speaker let me roam the house without any dropouts. That can’t be said for many other Bluetooth models I’ve tried.
The G-Go is water resistant, not waterproof -- unlike Grace Digital’s ECOXBT, it’s not submersible and it won’t float. But it seemed quite at home with ordinary shower splashes, and I imagine it would be comfortable in the rain. I wouldn’t take it to the beach -- the sand could get inside and cause a lot of harm -- but it should be fine on hiking trips, as a G-Project promotional video indicates. That video also shows the speaker being used horizontally in a car, but I think that standing it upright is the best position for it.
The batteries would come in handy on such a trip. I could gripe about not having a rechargeable battery, but if you’re going where there’s no electricity, it would be fine to just carry spare batteries and pop them in when you see that blinking LED.
One of the first things I noticed about the G-Go was that it played loud, with enough power to fill a medium-size room. I could easily hear it over the sound of a shower. And working with my iPod Touch, its sound was relatively free of distortion: full, with good treble-to-bass balance. When I listened to the title song of June Christy’s Something Cool (16-bit/44.1kHz ALAC, Capitol), her voice predominated, but the supporting instruments had great body and presence. All that muted brass was a pungent contrast to her suave singing.
In the opening number of A Chorus Line (16/44.1 ALAC, Columbia), the footsteps and finger snaps were as crisp as I could want from a portable speaker. And when the music came in, it, too, had great presence and surprisingly good, focused bass. Of the G-Go’s four EQ settings, I found Flat to sound best regardless of the type of music; it produced the most neutral sound. For a small mono speaker at a very low price, the sound was quite good.
I found the G-Project G-Go to be just fine for use in the shower. Its sturdy design meant that I could pick it up by its built-in handle and take it just about anywhere.
The fact that the G-Go uses only nonrechargeable batteries will be a drawback to some, but it can be plugged into any wall outlet. And I appreciated the inclusion of basic Play/Pause and Skip Forward/Back buttons. The G-Go has plenty of volume and plays loud without excessive distortion. The only bad news is its warranty: a mere 90 days. Does this mean that a portable speaker costing $69.99 must now be considered “disposable”? It certainly seems built to last a lot longer than that.
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Warranty: 90 days, limited.
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Participants on London FYE program are charged the Skidmore comprehensive fee for the semester. This fee is equal to Skidmore's tuition, room at the campus apartment rate, and board. All first-year students, regardless of whether they study in London or in Saratoga Springs, are also charged the mandatory records fee that covers the cost of transcript requests for the life of the student.
The program fee includes:
Tuition for a full semester of study, including the Scribner Seminar taught by a Skidmore faculty member.
Shared double room in the Stay Club residence hall with a kitchenette, en-suite bathroom with toilet, sink, and shower, and in-room access to internet service.
Living stipend of approximately £680 a month to cover most meals, laundry, and a local transportation pass (Students should budget some personal funds to cover eating out, taking taxis, and other incidentals).
Emergency international health insurance
Guaranteed credit to the Skidmore degree plan (provided students successfully complete their courses)
Pre-departure orientation materials and guidance provided by Skidmore's Office of Off-Campus Study & Exchanges, including a 3-day orienation on the Skidmore College campus in Saratoga Springs, NY at the start of the semester.
Travel (by bus) from the Skidmore campus to the airport in NYC for group flight to London
Travel (by bus) from the London airport to the student residence hall in central London
Orientation in London by Skidmore Faculty Coordinators and IES staff
Superior on-site support, including two Skidmore Faculty Coordinators, Skidmore Program Assistant, and IES student services staff
Full access to IES facilities including a small library, study space, and wireless internet at the IES Center
Access to Senate House Library at the University of London
Cultural and social programming provided by Skidmore College Faculty Coordinators and IES, including weekly informational and social gatherings with faculty directors or program assistant; theater and concert events; visits in and around London to museums, galleries, and historic sites; and day-trips to local sites of historical and cultural interest
Academic advising in London and pre-registration for Skidmore classes for spring semester
The program fee does NOT include:
Travel to Skidmore College campus in Saratoga Springs, NY for 3-day orientation to begin the semester.
Round trip group flight departing from New York City.
School supplies and textbooks or any special course fees
Personal expenses (approximately $2,000 -$3,000 for the semester)
Additional travel expenses outside London
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Shipping and offshore finance expert Martin Brown joins Stephenson Harwood (Singapore) Alliance
Law firm Stephenson Harwood (Singapore) Alliance has strengthened its shipping and offshore finance practice with the appointment of Martin Brown as partner. Brown joins the firm from Ince & Co, where he was head of finance in Singapore.
Brown specialises in cross-border ship finance and offshore maritime transactional matters. These include debt financings, leasing, international joint ventures and both conventional and Islamic private equity investments. He has extensive experience advising a range of clients, including banks, private equity firms, funds and companies involved in capital raising, debt restructuring and rescheduling and distressed creditor and debtor advisory work. He has particular expertise in advising companies on their project investment activities in the marine and energy sectors, including structuring, acquisition and asset employment and chartering, and brings intrinsic understanding of the day-to-day operational challenges a maritime company faces.
“Stephenson Harwood's international shipping and offshore finance practice is known for being market-leading, bringing commercially astute advice to the most complex and multi-faceted transactions,” said Gregg Johnston, Singapore head of shipping and offshore finance, Stephenson Harwood. “Martin's arrival will further strengthen our capabilities in this area, bringing particular expertise in advising owners and intermediaries – which complements our existing practice. As the shipping finance landscape evolves, Martin's experience will enable us to support clients looking for innovative solutions which will put them in a strong position for long-term success.”
Stephenson Harwood has an award-winning global shipping and offshore finance team, with more than 100 specialist lawyers working across the firm's offices in Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
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Brazilian designer Humberto da Mata was born and raised in Brasília — which, with its swooping, Oscar Niemeyer–designed reinforced concrete buildings, could be considered the international seat of organic architecture. So perhaps it comes as no surprise that da Mata creates freeform work from easily moldable materials like hand-stitched upholstery, ceramics, and, most recently, papier-mâché (which, in case you missed it, appears to be *the* it material of 2020).
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Polina Miliou’s Paper Pulp Pieces Have So Much Personality She Sometimes Gets Mad At Them
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OH - SNAP responds to girl's kidnapping
Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur
One Maritime Plaza, Room. 600
Senator Sherrod Brown
713 Hart Senate Office Bldg.
Representative: D. Michael Ashford (District 44)
Representative: Teresa Fedor (District 45)
Representative Robert McColley (District 81)
Representative Michael Sheehy (District 46)
C/O Ohio House of Representatives
77 S High St Fl 12,
Senator Edna Brown (District 11)
Senator Cliff Hite (District 1)
Senator Randy Gardner (District 2)
c/o Ohio Senate
Senate Building
1 Capitol Square
Dear Lawmakers:
Our community is overwhelmed with grief as we watch helplessly, a family grieve the senseless and violent murder of a 20 year-old college student, Sierah Joughin who was abducted last week while innocently riding her purple bicycle in broad daylight in a quiet rural area less than a half mile from her home.
Law enforcement quickly honed in on a prime suspect who has a violent criminal past and lived in close proximity of the crime scene. He actually served time in prison for a similar type crime over 25 years ago according to all news accounts.
As these facts emerge, we as a community are left to wonder --- how did no one know about him? Why does Ohio not have a violent crime registry? How do protect our loved ones from these types of violent crimes when the criminals are shielded in anonymity? We have sex offender registries for a reason. Why don’t we have violent crime registries so parents and families can be armed with information? If even one more family is spared this unimaginable grief, would it not be worth it?
If her family and the community at large were on notice that a violent criminal lived amongst them, then perhaps they would have been better positioned to make a different decision? Isn’t knowledge power?
The largest “street gang” in the nation, are good hearted, decent people. Can’t lawmakers “arm” us with knowledge to better protect ourselves?
Can both sides of the political aisle come together and set aside their political differences, in the name of Sierah Joughin (and those similarly situated), whose life was violently taken from her and her family in unimaginable horror and establish a constitutional violent crimes registry that requires both violent offenders to be registered and surrounding communities notified? I am writing asking for a “procedural” change in the law, not a substantive one that better arms Ohio families with knowledge.
It’s no secret that politics are at an all time low. It’s so difficult for meaningful change to be effected and yet on a policy level, as evidenced by this murder and others, has there ever been a time when swift change was more needed?
Nothing will bring Sierah Joughin back, nor restore her family whole. But, can’t you, as policy makers simply set aside political differences to expeditiously work together, so that our communities and families are informed when violent criminals live amongst us?
We can’t protect kids, college kids, our families or the elderly in secret. Please swiftly help eliminate this gaping hole in our law. It is our best chance at eliminating future violent crimes like the one committed against Sierah Joughin and her family.
Claudia Vercellotti
Toledo, Ohio 43697
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Our Breakfast Club is available to all children who attend at St Leonard’s Primary School. We are open from Monday to Friday from 7.30am.
Heather Braund supervises the club supported by a team of friendly, highly trained staff.
Operational times:
The club operates five days a week, Monday – Friday, 7.30 - 8.25am (term-time only). The Breakfast Club takes place in the cafe, which is accessed only through the After School Club entrance at the front of the school. At 8.25 am, KS1 Children are taken to their class and KS2 children are allowed to make their own way to their classroom.
A healthy breakfast is served including an option of toast, cereal, fruit, milk and water.
Breakfast club children enjoy a wide range of activities, including card games and reading, which encourage a calm and yet stimulating start to the morning.
The cost is £3.50 per child, per session and £2.50 for each additional sibling. This is a standard charge per session. Breakfast Club is payable in advance. Payment is made via ParentPay, Childcare Vouchers (existing parents only) or Childcare Choices (Tax-free childcare).
There is a one month cancellation policy. Please email leo.admin@stcmat.org to cancel any Breakfast Club bookings.
Bookings need to be made in advance and providing there are spaces, your child may join us. Registration/booking forms can be found below or printed copies are available from the school office.
If a booking is no longer required, please let us know by Friday the week before to avoid being charged for the session.
If you require any further information please don’t hesitate to contact the school office.
Breakfast Club Registration Form 2020-2021.docx
Our Insideout After School Club is available to all children who attend at St Leonard’s Primary School. Insideout After School Club has been operating for 30 years. We aim to create a fun, safe, structured and stimulating environment for the children. Our staff have a range of qualifications and have regular training.
Childcare Manager, Ellen Gray manages the club supported by a great team of friendly, highly trained staff.
The club operates five days a week, Monday – Friday, 3.00 pm - 6.00 pm (term-time only). Our maximum capacity of children is 135.
Insideout After School Club has access to the hall, studio and chill zone. The children enjoy a wide range of activities, from games; sensory trays; small world play such as doll house, army, dressing up, cars and garages; construction such as lego and lasy which encourage a fun and stimulating environment. We occasionally allow children to watch a child friendly film or dance programme to encourage fitness.
We have outdoor access to the playgrounds and other areas such as the MUGA, fitness trail, woodlands and the field. We provide outdoor activities such as skipping, tennis, basketball and scooter boards to encourage the children to be active. We also continue this indoors with badminton, table tennis, table football, pool and air hockey as well as team games.
Snack:
We offer children a healthy snack and drink to tide them over until tea time. Snack includes an option of cereal, crackers, sandwiches, pastries, fresh fruit and veg, yogurt, squash, milkshake and water.
The cost is £8.75 per child, per session and we offer a discount of 50% when 3 siblings attend at the same time. This is a standard charge per session. There is an additional £10 late charge on top of the normal session charge, should you collect your child after 6pm. Insideout After School Club is payable in advance, weekly or monthly installments. Payment is made via ParentPay, Childcare Vouchers (existing parents only) or Childcare Choices (Tax-free childcare).
There is a one month cancellation policy.
If a booking is no longer required, please let us know as soon as possible by phone or email. A session/s charge may still apply.
We require the following notice for changes in bookings:
Daily Cancellations - This is important for the safety and safeguarding of your child. Please inform us by phone, text or email. We will still charge for the session.
Changes to regular attendance - 1 month's notice using the required form or email LEO.Insideout@stcmat.org.
Extra days and short-notice one-off bookings - Please phone or email before 1pm.
Swapping Days: Unfortunalty we cannot accommodate swapping days.
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Notice to leave the club - 1 month's notice using the required cancellation form. Please settle all outstanding balances before leaving.
Children MUST be registered for Insideout Club and allocated sessions before attending. Places are limited. Bookings must be made in advance and can be made for the whole academic year. Registration forms are available via the link below or paper copies can be found in the Inside Out After School Club office entrance or at the main school entrance. Registration forms are renewed each academic year, this process happens during the Summer Term for next academic year. Failure to book in advance may result in being turned away.
If you require any further information please don’t hesitate to contact the Inside Out After School Club office (Opening hours: 1 pm - 6 pm).
Inside Out ASC Registration Form 2020-2021.docx
InsideOut Parent Information Handout 2020-2021.pdf
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Home For The Holidays - Week of December 7, 2020
Chart of the Week: Looking at the mobility, restaurant and airline readings from our U.S. Reopening Monitor, many in the U.S. are staying home for the holidays. “Stay at Home” stocks peaked in performance relative to the S&P 500 in mid-October despite the growing wave of infections (see chart, panel 4). Zoom Video (ZM) has been a beneficiary of the Stay at Home trade and reported earnings last week so it can provide some insights. Zoom’s stock is up over 500% year-to-date while sales and earnings were just reported at a whopping 366% and 6900% higher year-over-year! Interestingly, Zoom fell -13% last week and has underperformed the S&P 500 since mid-October (see panels 1 & 2). Some of the reasons are likely Zoom specific with sales slowing to 17% quarter-over-quarter (Q/Q) and falling gross margins causing earnings to decelerate to 8% from 360% Q/Q the previous quarter. While investors covet growth numbers like these, Zoom was trading at 191 times forward earnings estimates prior to earnings so high growth was clearly priced into the stock (see panel 6). The current market environment is extremely challenging with companies like Zoom benefiting from the environment but priced for something near perfection. Meanwhile, more challenged businesses and those more impacted by economic growth, like value and high dividend stocks, trade at much more reasonable levels (see panel 6). Our thesis has been that the pandemic accelerated many trends already in place prior, like virtual meetings and online shopping, but is not likely to destroy the human need for physical interaction. Looking for companies that will survive this fallow time but benefit from the rebound in human activity once the vaccine begins to make an impact seems a prudent course. Markets are already starting to anticipate this eventuality with value and high dividend stocks outperforming since early September though a smooth ride is never guaranteed (see panel 5).
Chart 1: Stay at Home & Zoom Versus Value
Week in Preview
· Geopolitical: Brexit negotiations between the European Union (E.U.) and U.K. regarding their future trade relationship should be coming to a head to complete the legislative process by year-end with a narrow trade deal the most likely outcome. Increased restrictions continue in many parts of the globe to combat the resurgence in COVID infections, and the impact on economic activity will be closely monitored but revisiting the economic collapse of wholesale lockdowns during Lockdown 2.0 remains unlikely. After being approved in the U.K. last week, the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine for COVID-19 will be reviewed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday with distribution beginning the next day if approved.
· U.S.: After the busy and important economic calendar with a disappointing monthly jobs report last week, this week’s releases hold little of long-term interest. Focus will instead be on the FDA’s vaccine approval and a possible fiscal stimulus deal before year-end. November consumer (CPI) and producer (PPI) inflation data should continue to be muted at 1.1% and 0.7% year-over-year (Y/Y) from 1.2% and 0.5% in October. 3Q household net worth is almost certain to reach a new peak despite the COVID recession, primarily due to rising stock and real estate prices. The Atlanta and New York Fed’s estimate of 4Q GDP growth is currently 11.2% and 2.5%, respectively. Readings for our U.S. Reopening Monitor moderated with tightening restrictions under Lockdown 2.0 as COVID cases and deaths rose. Underlying high frequency economic data showed only retail sales improving while consumer sentiment, airline travel, mobility, dining and public transit softening.
· S&P 500 3Q Earnings: 7 S&P 500 companies are scheduled to report earnings. Two “stay at home” favorites are reporting earnings this week: Costco Wholesale (COST) and lululemon athletica (LULU). 4Q 2020 earnings and sales estimates are now -10.2% and 0.2% Y/Y, respectively. 2020 calendar year earnings are expected to be -13.8% Y/Y, while sales are -1.8%. A strong rebound is forecast for 2021 with earning 21.7% and sales 7.7% Y/Y. Consensus earnings estimates for 2020 and 2021 increased last week.
· Europe: The rate of growth in Eurozone COVID cases has retreated to less than half of peak levels. Restrictions across much of the globe continue to impact dining with a -55% decline from the global baseline. France, Italy and Spain saw a decline in the weekly infection pace. The German December ZEW expectations survey should reflect an increase in sentiment from peaking infections and the coming vaccines. The European Central Bank (ECB) is almost certain to ease policy, which is likely to be accomplished via increasing asset purchases (PEPP) and additional bank lending programs (TLTRO). The U.K. pace of infections has declined to almost half of peak. England moved to tiered restrictions last week, which helped lift U.K. dining to -38.1% Y/Y versus baseline. U.K. October industrial and manufacturing production are expected to weaken to -6.5% and -8.4% Y/Y, respectively. Please see our U.S. Reopening Monitor for international COVID charts.
The increase in cases and restrictions are weighing on dining across the globe.
· Asia: November China trade data continued to recover which reflects domestic and global economic growth. Exports rose to 21.1% from 11.4% Y/Y, while imports declined to 4.5% from 4.7%. China CPI and PPI data for November should remain tame at 0.0% and -1.8% Y/Y, respectively. Japan COVID cases rose, but the weekly pace of infections fell after nine straight weeks of acceleration. Japan October economic data should show some improvement this week with household spending, labor cash earnings and core machine orders all expected to have better Y/Y readings.
· Central Banks: In addition to the ECB which will almost certainly keep rates unchanged though ease further via unconventional policy actions, the central banks of Chile, Canada, Namibia, Brazil, Georgia, Serbia, Ukraine and Peru are scheduled to meet with no major banks expected to change their policy rate.
· Stocks rose by 1.7% for the S&P 500 with nine of eleven sectors higher for the week. Despite a worse than expected monthly jobs report, the rising probability of stimulus and pending vaccine approval powered risk assets higher. Energy (4.5%), healthcare (2.8%) and technology (2.8%) outperformed the S&P 500, while utilities (-2.2%), consumer discretionary (-0.4%) and materials (0.0%) were the biggest laggards. WTI (1.6%) and Brent (2.2%) oil were higher with MLPs (9.0%) and the energy sector (4.5%) outperforming.
· Large cap value as measured by the Russell 1000 Value outperformed at 1.8%. Banks outperformed as well with the Invesco KBW Bank ETF (KBWB) higher by 2.8%. High dividend strategies outperformed the S&P 500 with the iShares Select Dividend ETF (DVY) rising 2.0%. Momentum underperformed with the iShares MSCI Momentum ETF (MTUM) by increasing 0.9% for the week. Small-cap stocks outperformed relative to the S&P 500 with the Russell 2000 higher by 2.0% and small-cap value stocks outperforming at 2.5%. The 10-year and 30-year U.S. Treasury yields were higher at 0.97% and 1.73%, respectively.
· High yield credit spreads narrowed reflecting increased risk appetite. AAA municipal bond yields as a percentage of Treasuries fell, causing municipal bonds to outperform. The negative revenue impacts of the economic lockdown on local governments and talk of state bankruptcy have driven municipal bond valuations to low levels relative to Treasuries. Between the strong 3Q economic rebound and Federal support so far, states declaring bankruptcy remains an unlikely outcome. Additional support for the states is likely to come in any future stimulus bills, but one of the sticking points to a new deal is the size and distribution of Federal government aid.
· The U.S. dollar was weaker against both developed and emerging market currencies. Developed international stocks as measured by MSCI EAFE underperformed the S&P 500 returns in U.S. dollar terms (1.0%) and on a hedged-currency basis (0.2%). MSCI Japan underperformed the S&P 500 returns in U.S. dollar terms (-0.6%) and on a hedged-currency basis (-0.5%). Emerging market stocks kept pace with the S&P 500 with a non-hedged return of 1.7% for MSCI EM.
· The 10-2 yield curve widened to +82 basis points. Another curve measure of three-month yield six quarters forward minus the current three-month yield increased to +13 basis points. The yield curve has historically provided an accurate forecast of future recessions when the difference in these measures turns negative, also known as inversion. Yield curves are one of the major indicators that we monitor to judge recession risk, but these inversions typically happen more than a year in advance of an economic recession. External shocks like the current coronavirus-induced recession might not be accompanied by inversion. Stocks have historically had significant advances post-inversion.
Our detailed analysis of Berkshire Hathaway's investment portfolio from the 3Q 13-F filing is here. The PDF version of Stone's Weekly Market Guide is linked here. The Guide to the U.S. Reopening Monitor is linked here. The weekly update to the U.S. Reopening Monitor is linked here.
U.S. Reopening Monitor Update - December 28, 2020
Here Comes Santa Claus - Week of December 21, 2020
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A Weekend Exploring Mt. Cook
Kevin Roback2 years ago
Kevin and his friends chose the perfect weekend to explore the mighty Mt. Cook, discovering the beauty that New Zealand has to offer.
According to Māori tradition, the South Island of New Zealand was formed when Aoraki and his brothers were travelling to visit their earth mother. The brothers were caught in a storm and their waka was overturned. They tried to save themselves by standing on top of the canoe, but the cold south wind turned the brothers and their waka to stone. The waka became the South Island and the brothers became the Southern Alps, with the tallest brother, Aoraki, standing tall and proud.
Mt. Cook sunset
Fast forward a few millennia and Rob, Sam, and I are pulling into the carpark at the Mt. Cook village on a beautiful fall day. Here we ran into dozens of other students we knew, who were also taking advantage of the great weather. This is when I met Rob’s friends, Grady and Adam, who were studying at the University of Canterbury. It turned out that they had the same plan to hike to the Mueller hut, so we joined forces to tackle the hike.
We started the trek in good spirits, but soon encountered stairs. After one and a half hours and 2200 steps we realized why the track was nicknamed “The Stairway to Heaven.” The stairs led into a rock scramble to the Mueller hut, and the hike ended at the summit of Mt. Ollivier, the peak that Sir Edmund Hillary climbed at the beginning of his climbing career. For the entire hike we were spoilt with clear views of hanging glaciers, avalanches, Aoraki and the valley below. It was a truly breathtaking day.
Hooker Valley
The next adventure began with a 3am wake-up call from Rob and Grady. I had forgotten that a few hours ago I had agreed to join Rob and Grady for a nighttime stroll on the Hooker Valley track to take pictures of the stars over Aoraki. I almost went back to sleep, but I am so grateful that I decided to go. We got to Hooker Lake and were blown away by the beauty of the night sky, the abundant shooting stars, and the Milky Way over Aoraki We spent a lot of time there, and before we knew it, we were getting back to camp with the glow of the sunrise on the horizon.
Weekends like this make me very happy that I went abroad. So far my time hasn’t all been sunshine and unicorns, and I have found myself missing home and my friends. But that’s life, and we just have to make the most of whatever situation that we are in.
So thumbs up to the experiences that live with you forever!
By Kevin RobackUS Study Abroad Student
Kevin Roback, from Hamilton College in the USA, was a study abroad scholarship student studying Math and Neuroscience for one semester at the University of Otago. His favourite part about New Zealand was rock climbing at Long Beach and exploring the spectacular natural beauty of the South Island. He also enjoyed the people, who were "so relaxed and fun to talk to."
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A vital piece of the Department of Defense’s (DoD) ability to meet its mission is the effective treatment of wastewater to protect public health and the environment as well as maximize operational flexibility. Advances in wastewater treatment at fixed installations and at forward operating bases (FOBs) can significantly contribute to meeting DoD’s sustainability goals, reduce operational costs, and improve overall mission performance. A deployable and easy‐to‐use on-site, wastewater treatment system that minimizes energy and water usage will improve the security of military personnel, improve the base environment, and reduce associated costs by minimizing the need for fresh water and fuel from off‐base sources.
In 2012, SERDP funded a group of projects to develop innovative systems for on site, sustainable wastewater treatment at DoD FOBs. As these projects have moved towards completion, some have migrated to ESTCP to demonstrate these technologies on DoD installations.
Under project ER-2218, Dr. Kathryn Guy of the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), Construction Engineering Research Laboratory developed a sustainable wastewater treatment system that converts wastewater contaminants into harvestable products for energy production using a combination of three sustainable technologies in concert. Upon successful development, this treatment technology matured to ESTCP under project ER-201728 to demonstrate and validate the distributed low-energy wastewater treatment (D-LEWT) system that enables water reuse and converts black water contaminants into harvestable fuels for energy generation.
Dr. Wei Liao of Michigan State University led SERDP project ER-2215 that studied the integration of solar, biological, and membrane technologies into wastewater treatment to create an energy-neutral, small-scale wastewater treatment system to reduce the mass of wastewater and simultaneously generate potable water for FOBs.
Under ER-2216, Dr. Bruce Logan of Pennsylvania State University investigated methods to treat graywater and black water produced at FOBs using a microbial fuel cell (MFC) in an energy neutral or energy positive process to avoid the need to consume fuel for wastewater treatment. To further demonstrate and validate this technology, Dr. Don Cropek of U.S. Army ERDC under ESTCP project ER-201635 is being funded to study a distributed treatment system for domestic wastewater that integrates the MFC and biofilter technologies ( ER-201434).
Dr. Menachem Elimelech of Yale University under SERDP project ER-2217 developed an osmotic membrane bioreactor (OsMBR), a novel wastewater treatment concept that integrated forward osmosis separation with biological wastewater treatment to transform wastewater into high-purity water with relatively low energy consumption.
Dr. Amy Childress of the University of Southern California under SERDP project ER-2237 examined optimizing the operating parameters for developing n osmotic membrane bioreactor (OMBR) system consisting of a bioreactor, forward osmosis process, and membrane distillation process, which is a highly efficient wastewater treatment and water reuse system with a small footprint.
Under ER-2238, Dr. Hua Wang of GE Global Research studied the development of an innovative, easily deployable membrane bioreactor and ultra-low energy reverse osmosis system for onsite wastewater treatment that produces high-quality water for potable and non-potable reuse.
Dr. César Torres of Arizona State University under SERDP project ER-2239 studied the treatment of blackwater using a microbial fuel cell (MFC) with concomitant hydrogen peroxide production and developed a MFC that focuses on hydrolyzing and stabilizing the solids contained in blackwater while providing enough hydrogen peroxide to treat the residual chemical oxygen demand in the effluent stream.
Summaries of these research projects are available on the SERDP and ESTCP website and all reports originating from these efforts will be available from the project web pages.
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Greatest Bowling Alleys in America
From old-school lanes to all-purpose entertainment centers, these bowling alleys are thriving.
It’s been more than half a century since Ralph Kramden and Ed Norton of "The Honeymooners" escaped the drudgery of life on New York City’s bus routes and sewers with trips to Brooklyn’s Acme Alley as members of "The Hurricanes" bowling team.
To many in our modern age, the American bowling alley may seem as antiquated as "The Honeymooners" (or even "Kingpin" or "The Big Lebowski"). But while bowling is no longer the popular pastime it was during its heyday in the 1950s, the Acme Alleys of today have reinvented themselves as all-purpose entertainment venues, drawing patrons as much for dining and gaming experiences, musical acts and laser light shows as well-oiled lanes.
If "The Honeymooners" were rebooted in the United States — which now has over 5,000 bowling centers — Ralph and Ed might be found at Acme Alley’s karaoke lounge or nursing a "Hurricane" cocktail (or craft beer) at the full-service lounge, in between hurling strikes (or gutter balls) on the lanes.
Here’s a look at great American bowling alleys that would make Ralph Kramden and "The Hurricanes" proud.
Rock 'n' Bowl — New Orleans
Website: www.rocknbowl.com/
Bottom line: As much a music venue as a bowling alley, this famed venue in the Big Easy dates to 1941 and features live bands every night, with patrons known to dance between the lanes.
Rock 'n ' Bowl also is known as the only alley in the country that grinds its own chuck. Beyond burgers and fries, the menu features such Bayou specialties as shrimp remoulade and fried bread pudding po'boy.
The Goodnight — Austin, Texas
Website: thegoodnightaustin.com/
Bottom line: Famous for its pet-friendly deck, elevated lounges and private karaoke room, The Goodnight is in the process of relocating to a new Austin location that will feature a "new menu, tablet scoring, virtual reality, karaoke and more."
Let’s hope the new location recreates the huge mural of characters from "The Big Lebowski" and "Kingpin" that was a fixture of the previous site.
JB’s on 41 — Milwaukee
Opened: 1950 (formerly Olympic Lanes, renovated in 2012)
Website: jbson41.com/
Bottom line: JB’s is one of the thousands of U.S. bowling centers and attracts kids and adults alike with attractions such as glow bowling and special effects lighting.
It has a nightclub vibe on weekends, an expansive arcade ("The Speed Zone") and 25 Milwaukee-themed lanes that include lightweight bowling balls, dragon ramps and automatic bumpers.
If you want to try your hand at a different sport, JB's offers a summer volleyball league in its very own volleyball pavilion.
The Alley — Charleston, South Carolina
Website: thealleycharleston.com/
Bottom line: "It’s not just a bowling alley" is how The Alley introduces itself on its website.
In addition to its eight lanes for bowling, The Alley offers patrons three bars (one made of recycled bowling wood) featuring craft beers, retro 1970s arcade games and two 160-inch projection TVs.
And if the bowling league doesn’t suit your tastes, you can take a whack at its ping-pong league.
Brooklyn Bowl — Brooklyn, New York
Website: brooklynbowl.com/
Bottom line: A combination music venue-restaurant-bowling alley in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, wind-powered Brooklyn Bowl is also known as the world’s first LEED-certified bowling alley.
Between games on its 16 lanes, bowlers can kick back on the alley’s leather Chesterfield sofas.
And the Bowler’s Lounge gives you a birds-eye view to the musical acts. Among the acts it’s hosted are Guns N’ Roses, Kanye West, M.I.A. and Snoop Dogg.
Rolling Stone called Brooklyn Bowl "one of the most incredible places on Earth."
Pinz Bowling Center
Website: pinzla.com/
Bottom line: Located on LaLa Land’s famed Ventura Boulevard, Pinz features runner lights and pins that glow in the dark on its 32 lanes.
Add spinning disco balls and a laser light show to the mix, and you might feel as if you’re on the set of "Saturday Night Fever."
The alley has been a Los Angeles fixture since the 1950s.
Garage — Seattle
Website: bowlero.com/location/garage
Bottom line: The 40,000-square-foot night spot has been a popular spot in the Capitol Hill section of Seattle since 1996.
With 20 bowling lanes, 25 pool tables, six bars and three private rooms, the Garage is undergoing some changes as a new Bowlero (formely Bowlmor AMF) bowling center and arcade.
No word on whether the new dinner menu still will include local favorites like seared ahi, Bloody Mary sliders and a $14 giant pretzel served with habanero beer cheese dip.
Red Rock Lanes — Las Vegas
Website: redrock.sclv.com/
Bottom line: For the serious bowler who wants his or her alley to stay true to its roots, it’s hard to beat Red Rock Lanes, which was built for $31 million.
This luxurious 77,000-square-foot bowling center is a bowler’s dream, with 72 Brunswick Pro Anvil lanes, a state-of-the-art scoring system and pinsetters. It's also has a pro shop with certified coaches.
But as with many other alleys these days, the amenities extend beyond the lanes, as Red Rock offers a full-service lounge (with lane service) and cosmic-themed arcade.
Uptown Alley — Surprise, Arizona
Website: uptownalleysurprise.com/
Bottom line: With 40 high-tech lanes equipped with 15-foot projection HDTVs, Uptown Alley will satisfy any serious bowler.
Beyond the lanes, however, there is plenty else to savor in this 60,000-square-foot entertainment venue, including two-story laser tag and a sports theater with 10-foot projection screens and an ultra lounge with 10 private lanes.
Shenaniganz — Rockwall, Texas
Website: shenaniganz.com/
Bottom line: The 24-lane bowling facility (billed as "these aren’t your grandpa’s bowling lanes!") is only the start of the fun at Shenaniganz, which has provided a five-star experience in the Dallas area for over a decade.
Other attractions at this full-blown entertainment center include virtual reality, go-karts and "live escape rooms" that will transport you into a "completely immersive environment," such as Fidel Castro’s headquarters during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
After that, you’ll definitely want to unwind at Rosie’s Sports Bar, with its more than 30 draught and bottled beers and martini selection.
Flaherty’s Arden Bowl — Saint Paul, Minneapolis
Website: flahertysbowl.com/
Bottom line: A Twin Cities fixture since 1938, Flaherty’s is known as the oldest continuously run family-owned bowling alley in the United States.
It features 36 lanes of bowling and a pro shop run by a pro bowler with over 50 years of experience in the industry
A Friday night DJ/MC keeps bowlers entertained, and bowlers can fill up at the Irish-themed pub and grill.
Highland Park Bowl — Los Angeles
Website: highlandparkbowl.com/
Bottom line: Los Angeles’ oldest bowling alley, Highland Park Bowl, which opened its doors in 1927, is a throwback to its Prohibition era roots (with the exception of its expansive cocktail menu).
This lavishly restored venue features historic bowling pennants, long leather couches and sawed-off pins that serve as bar lamps.
The cuisine here goes far beyond snack bar fare, with such offerings as chicken Milanese, calamari fritti and ravioli chocolate.
Silver Dollar Saloon — Philipsburg, Montana
Website: theranchatrockcreek.com/the-ranch/silver-dollar-saloon/
Bottom line: With its quaint four-lane alley nestled amid an old-style cowboy saloon, this Big Sky Country venue offers a bowling experience like no other.
If you need to wait for a lane to open up, you can pass the time with billiards, table tennis, karaoke or pony up to the saloon for a taste of one of its 100-plus spirits (or a microbrew).
If that’s not enough, there’s a private movie theater with a 14-foot HD screen.
Action & Atomic Duckpin Bowl — Indianapolis
Opened: 1928 (closed in 1957, restored and reopened in 1993)
Website: fountainsquareindy.com/action-atomic-duckpin-bowling/overview/
Bottom line: Arguably the nation’s most famous location for duckpin bowling, this venue at the Fountain Square Theater building features two levels: a restored 1930s-era alley with eight lanes, a vintage billiard table and seating for 110 guests.
The Atomic Bowl Duckpin is in the basement and has authentic 1950's and '60's equipment.
Unlike the more popular 10-pin bowling, duckpin bowling (which was one of Babe Ruth’s favorite games) features smaller balls and pins, with players getting three tosses on each turn.
30 Strikes — Stratford, New Jersey
Website: 30strikes.com/
Bottom line: With 80 lanes, 30 Strikes ranks among the largest bowling venues in America. It’s also one of the more family-friendly.
Its COOL cosmic bowling features special-effects lighting and pulse-pounding music. Galactic glow weekends offer bowlers a chance to experience glow carpets, scoreboards and even shoes.
National Bowling Stadium — Reno, Nevada
Website: visitrenotahoe.com/event-venues/national-bowling-stadium-2/
Bottom line: Known as the "Taj Mahal of 10 pins," the National Bowling Stadium is as big and bold as it gets when it comes to America’s bowling alleys.
The 363,000-square-foot stadium, which opened in 1995, features 78 championship lanes as well as a Stadium Club with a full-service bar and the Kingpin Club, which caters to meetings and parties with 10 professional lanes and another full bar.
Thunderbowl Lanes — Allen Park, Michigan
Website: thunderbowl.org/
Bottom line: Recognized as the largest bowling center in the country (topping even Reno’s National Bowling Stadium), the legendary Thunderbowl Lanes features 90 lanes and is home to the Greater Detroit Bowling Association Hall of Fame.
Thunderbowl, which has been hosting bowlers since 1962, also is a prime stop for professional bowling events, hosting the PBA Tour finals in 2018.
Though it may not have some of the bells and whistles of other alleys (it does include an arcade and lounge), when it comes to the bowling experience itself, Thunderbowl is hard to top.
Holler House — Milwaukee
Website: None (on Facebook)
Bottom line: Perhaps there’s a reason Laverne and Shirley spent so much time bowling between shifts at the Milwaukee brewery where the television duo worked in the 1970s. This city doesn’t disappoint when it comes to its alleys.
Founded in 1908, Holler House is billed as the oldest certified bowling alley in the United States.
This place is as old school as it gets. Two lanes feature original wood that is oiled by hand, and neighborhood kids reset the pins by hand.
Stardust Bowl — Addison, Illinois
Website: stardust.bowlbowlbowl.com/
Bottom line: The largest bowling center in Illinois, Stardust recently completed a multi-million-dollar renovation that featured upgrades to its 84 lanes and a new scoring/entertainment system.
As the alley boasts on its website, "Stardust Bowl has been serving the community for over 50 years — but we’re not stuck in the ‘50s."
The center also features four lounges, including the nightspot "Galaxy Lounge" with 24 beers on tap. There’s also a video gaming lounge.
Saratoga Lanes — Maplewood, Missouri
Website: Not available (on Facebook)
Bottom line: Billed as the oldest bowling alley west of the Mississippi, Saratoga Lanes celebrated its 100th birthday in 2016.
Housed in craftsman-style, red-brick building, Saratoga gives bowlers a workout before they even enter the venue, with 26 concrete steps leading to the entrance.
Arrive early to grab one of the eight lanes.
Rollhouse Wickliffe — Wickliffe, Ohio
Opened: 2005 (formerly Freeway Lanes, renovated in 2019)
Website: therollhouse.com/wickliffe/
Bottom line: Another one of the nation’s largest bowling centers, Rollhouse features 84 lanes of action, along with amenities such as as state-of-the-art game room and the Kingin Private Suite.
There’s also two premium bocce ball courts and a full-service bar with a made-from-scratch menu.
KingPins — Beaverton, Oregon
Opened: 1963 (formerly Sunset Lanes, renovated and reopened in 2018)
Website: mykingpins.com/
Bottom line: More than 50 years old, KingPins is not one of those alleys stuck in the past.
In addition to its 36 lanes of top-flight bowling action (including Monte Carlo and cosmic bowling specials), this bowling center features a 3,800-square-foot, glow-in-the-dark laser tag arena.
And when you’re ready to kick back after a day of fun, there’s the Taphouse Bar & Grill with its full-service lounge and sports bar.
Timber Lanes — Chicago
Website: timberlanesbowl.com/
Bottom line: Another one of the cool old-school alleys, Timber Lanes has been a Chicago institution since 1945.
The family-owned, cash-only alley features eight classic wood lanes, manual scoring and a full bar.
Legend has it that John Goodman worked on his bowling form at the alley while preparing for his role in "The Big Lebowski," as did Barack Obama during his run for the White House.
XLanes — Los Angeles
Website: xlanesla.com/
Bottom line: If you like entertainment, you'll love this place.
Another top Los Angeles bowling venue, XLanes features 16 state-of-the-art LED lanes, along with an arcade and billiards tables, all spread over 50,000 square feet.
The sports bar includes 11 LED TVs and three "immensely large" projectors, and there’s also private karaoke rooms.
Bryant-Lake Bowl — Minneapolis
Website: bryantlakebowl.com/
Bottom line: This historic venue combines bowling, dinner and a show to offer one of the most unique experiences in America.
The alley features its own cabaret theater, with shows most nights. For the dining experience, there’s a breakfast and lunch/dinner menus (with vegetarian, vegan and meat options) and an expansive tap list.
Open since 1936 and housed in an old Model T garage in the Uptown neighborhood of Minneapolis, Bryant-Lake Bowl has stayed true to its roots, with hand scoring and above-ground ball returns.
Related: Best Bowlers of All Time
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Star Facts
Stars: A guide to the night sky
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Capella, Alpha Aurigae (α Aur), is a quadruple star system located in the constellation Auriga, the Charioteer. It is the brightest star in Auriga and the sixth brightest star in the sky. With a combined apparent magnitude of 0.08, it outshines the bright Rigel in the constellation Orion, Procyon in Canis Minor, and Achernar in Eridanus, and is the third brightest northern star, after Arcturus and Vega. Capella lies at an approximate distance of 42.9 light years from Earth. The two brighter components of its system – Capella Aa and Capella Ab – are both individually first-magnitude stars. With magnitudes of 0.76 and 0.91, they are both among the 15 brightest stars in the sky.
Capella (Alpha Aurigae), image: Wikisky
Capella may appear as a single star to the unaided eye, but it is in fact a multiple star system consisting of two pairs of stars. The four components are designated Capella Aa, Capella Ab, Capella H, and Capella L. The brighter Capella Aa and Capella Ab form one binary pair and the fainter Capella H and L, the other. The pairs are separated by about 723’’ or 9,500 astronomical units.
Capella A
The brighter pair, the components Aa and Ab, are giant stars of the spectral types K0III and G1III. Their composite spectral class is G3III. The stars orbit each other with a period of 104.02128 days at a separation of only 0.74272 astronomical units, or roughly the distance from the Sun to Venus.
Capella Aa, a yellow-orange giant (the spectral class given for the star is K0III or G8-K0 IIIe), has a mass 2.5687 times that of the Sun and a radius 11.98 times solar. With an effective temperature of about 4,970 K, it is 78.7 times more luminous than the Sun. The star is a relatively slow spinner and, with a projected rotational velocity of 4.1 km/s, it takes 104 ± 3 days to complete a rotation. At its largest, the star is believed to have expanded into a size 36 to 38 times that of the Sun. Now, it is fusing helium to carbon and oxygen in its core and, as it approaches the end of this phase, it is beginning to expand again before it moves to the asymptotic giant branch (AGB).
Capella-Sun comparison, image: Wikimedia Commons/Omnidoom 999
Even though it is given the luminosity class of a giant, the binary companion is still a subgiant star currently in the process of evolving into a red giant. It has a mass of 2.4828 solar masses and a size of 8.83 solar radii. It shines with 72.7 solar luminosities and has a surface temperature of 5,730 K. Capella Ab is a much faster spinner than Capella Aa. It rotates with a velocity of 35 km/s, taking 8.5 ± 0.2 days to complete a rotation.
The stars are believed to be between 590 and 650 million years old. Both were once white, class A main sequence stars and will next become red giants. Neither star is massive enough to explode as a supernova. Instead, when they reach the end of their life cycle, the stars will expel their outer layers as planetary nebulae, leaving behind planet-sized white dwarfs, much like the companions of Sirius and Procyon, that will gradually fade.
The components of Capella A do not constitute an eclipsing binary system – the stars do not eclipse each other as they orbit as seen from Earth. They are almost equally bright, with the component Ab generally found to be a little brighter at visual wavelengths, but only by a few tenths of a magnitude. Capella Aa is more luminous overall, when all wavelengths are taken into account.
Capella A is slightly variable, showing variations in brightness of about 0.1 magnitudes. The General Catalogue of Variable Stars lists it only as a suspected variable, but the star system is classified as an RS Canum Venaticorum (RS CVn) variable. RS CVn stars are close binary systems with active chromospheres that can cause large stellar spots which, in turn, cause variations in luminosity. The stars’ brightness typically varies by about 0.2 magnitudes. Other than the prototype (RS CVn), stars in this class include Achird (Eta Cassiopeiae), Alula Australis (Xi Ursae Majoris), Zeta Andromedae, Lambda Andromedae, Epsilon Ursae Minoris, and Omicron Draconis.
Capella HL
The secondary pair in the Capella system, Capella HL, consists of two main sequence dwarfs considerably less massive than the Sun. Both stars are red dwarfs with the stellar classifications M2.5 V (Capella H) and M4 (Capella L). Capella H has 0.57 solar masses, while Capella L has 0.53 solar masses. Capella H is almost half the size of the Sun, with a radius of 0.54 solar radii. With a surface temperature of 3,700 K, it shines with only 0.05 solar luminosities. At the time of discovery (1935), Capella H and Capella L were separated by 1.8’’, but the separation increased to 3.5’’ (40 astronomical units) 80 years later. The stars orbit each other with a period of 300 years.
Capella H and Capella L are sometimes referred to as Capella C and Capella D because the designations B through G refer to stars unrelated to the Capella system.
Capella has several visual companions located within a few arcminutes. The Washington Double Star Catalog (WDS) lists stars designated Capella A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, L, M, N, O, P, Q and R. Most of the companions merely lie in the same line of sight as Capella A. The components H and L are the exception, as they lie at approximately the same distance as Capella and have similar proper motion. However, the physical companions appear further away from Capella A than the six line-of-sight companions designated Capella B, C, D, E, F and G, discovered before Capella H.
Capella is one of the six exceptionally bright stars that form the Winter Hexagon (Winter Circle), a prominent asterism that dominates the evening sky during the northern hemisphere winter. The other stars that form the asterism are Sirius (the brightest star in the sky) in Canis Major, Procyon (the eighth brightest star) in Canis Minor, Pollux (the 17th brightest star) in Gemini, Aldebaran (the 14th brightest star) in Taurus, and Rigel (the seventh brightest star) in Orion.
Capella is also part of a smaller pentagon (or hexagon) pattern formed by the brightest stars of Auriga and Elnath in Taurus.
Auriga stars, image: Wikisky
The stars Zeta and Eta Aurigae, formally named Saclateni and Haedus, are known as the Haedi, the kids of the she-goat Capella. Zeta Aurigae was traditionally known as Haedus I and Eta Aurigae as Haedus II. The star Epsilon Aurigae, appearing between Capella and the kids, is traditionally known as Almaaz, “the billy goat.” The three Haedi were regarded as a separate constellation by the Roman authors Pliny the Elder and Manilius in the 1st century CE. They called the constellation Capra (female goat), Caper or Hircus (male goat). The Greco-Roman astronomer Ptolemy merged the goat constellation with the Charioteer when he listed the 48 Greek constellations in his Almagest in the 2nd century CE. Some depictions of Auriga still show the Charioteer holding a goat on his left shoulder and the goat’s kids under his arm.
Capella and the other stars of the Winter Hexagon are among the 58 bright stars selected for navigation. Navigational stars are among the brightest and most recognizable stars in the sky. Selected by Her Majesty’s Nautical Almanac Office and the US Naval Observatory, they have a special status in the field of celestial navigation and span the area from the declination -70° to +89° of the celestial sphere. Capella is the only navigational star in the constellation Auriga.
Capella was once the brightest star in the sky. It held the title from 210,000 years ago to 160,000 years ago and reached a peak brightness of -0.82 (slightly brighter than Canopus is today), when it came within 27.9 light years of the solar system. Even at its peak, the star was considerably fainter than Sirius is today (mag. -1.46). Capella was succeeded by Canopus in the southern constellation Carina. Canopus held the title of the brightest star three times in the last 5 million years, most recently before Sirius took over about 90,000 years ago.
The multiple nature of Capella was discovered by two astronomers independently in 1899. The American astronomer William Wallace Campbell studied photographic plates taken between August 1896 and February 1897 and found that a second spectrum appeared superimposed over the first, also noting doppler shifts to violet and then to red, indicating that the component stars were orbiting each other, i.e. moving toward and away from the Earth. In July 1899, British astronomer Hugh Newall observed the star with a four-prism spectroscope on a 25-inch telescope at Cambridge and, studying its composite spectrum, also came to the conclusion that it was a binary system.
The first astronomers to resolve Capella interferometrically were John Anderson and Francis Pease. In 1919, they studied the star from Mount Wilson Observatory in California and published an orbit for the system in 1920. Capella was the first object outside our solar system to be measured interferometrically.
The binary system was discovered to have a dim companion in 1914 by the Finnish astronomer Ragnar Furuhjelm. The companion shared a similar proper motion with the brighter pair, indicating that it was physically associated with Capella Aa and Capella Ab. American astronomer Carl Leo Stearns noted that the companion was a binary star itself in February 1936. His conclusion was confirmed several months later, in September 1936, by the Dutch astronomer Gerard Kuiper. The components of the second pair are designated Capella H and Capella L.
In 1994, a team of astronomers at Mount Wilson Observatory determined a high precision orbit for the components Aa and Ab using the Mark III Stellar Interferometer.
In September 1995, Capella was imaged by the Cambridge Optical Aperture Synthesis Telescope (COAST), located at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory in Cambridgeshire, England. COAST is a multi-element optical interferometer, the first long-baseline interferometer to produce high-resolution images of stellar surfaces outside the solar system by collecting light from three separate telescopes. The images were the first to show the motions of Capella Aa and Ab, which cannot be resolved by conventional telescopes. Capella was the first object outside the solar system to be imaged by a separate element optical interferometer and the images were the first ever obtained from an interferometric array of optical telescopes.
Capella is the third brightest star in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is only slight fainter than Arcturus (mag. -0.05) in the constellation Boötes and Vega (mag. 0.026) in Lyra. For observers in mid-northern latitudes (40° N), who cannot see Canopus and Alpha Centauri due to their location in the far southern sky, Capella is the fourth brightest star in the sky.
Capella is the closest first-magnitude star to the north celestial pole. It lies on the opposite side of the pole to Vega at roughly the same distance. A line drawn from Capella to Vega would almost pass through the North Star, Polaris.
Capella’s nearest neighbours are the red dwarf L 1672-14 (3.9 light years away), the yellow main sequence star Lambda Aurigae (4.5 light years), and the orange main-sequence star G 81-39 (5.4 light years).
Capella is one of the brightest stars in X-ray wavelengths, with an X-ray luminosity about 10,000 times that of the Sun. The X-ray emissions are believed to come mainly from the corona of the primary component in the system, Capella Aa, which is also considerably more variable than the corona of the component Ab. The X-ray emissions were detected on April 5, 1974, when a rocket flight calibrated its attitude control system after a star sensor pointed the payload axis at the star. The event marked the beginning of stellar X-ray astronomy.
In Mesopotamian astronomy, Capella was associated with a constellation known as “GAM,” “Gamlum” or “MUL.GAM,” mentioned in the Babylonian compendium MUL.APIN in the 7th century BCE. GAM was associated with a scimitar or crook and the name may have referred to Capella alone or to the constellation Auriga as a whole. The star itself is believed to have been mentioned in an Akkadian inscription written as early as in the 20th century BCE. In Akkadian times, Capella may have been Dil-gan I-ku, meaning “the messenger of light,” or Dil-gan Babili, the patron star of Babylon. In Sumerian, it was called mul.ÁŠ.KAR, meaning “the goat star,” and in Assyria it was known as I-ku, “the leader,” meaning the leader of the year. The start of the year is believed to have been determined by Capella’s position relative to the Moon at the vernal equinox before 1730 BCE, when the Sun entering the constellation Taurus marked the beginning of spring.
Building J of the archaeological site Monte Albán in Oaxaca Valley in southern Mexico, constructed around 175 BCE, is suspected to have been built with respect to Capella’s heliacal rising, at a different orientation to other buildings on the site. A line perpendicular to the base of the steps at the building’s entrance would have pointed directly to the star. Capella’s heliacal rising – brief appearance above the eastern horizon at dawn after a period of invisibility – took place on one of the days when the Sun passed directly overhead over the site.
A number of ancient temples are believed to be oriented to Capella, including the sanctuary of Ptah in Memphis, Egypt and the Temple of Diana Propylaea at Eleusis, Greece.
Throughout history, Capella was commonly used in navigation and timekeeping. The Gwichʼin people of Canada and Alaska saw the star and its neighbour Menkalinan as shreets’ą įį vidzee, the right ear of Yahdii, a circumpolar constellation that stretched across much of the sky and helped them navigate and keep time at night. The Inuit saw Capella as part of a constellation called Quturjuuk, “collar-bones,” formed by two pairs of stars (Capella and Menkalinan, Pollux and Castor) that each represented a bone.
In medieval astrology, Capella was one of the Behenian fixed stars, believed to be a source of special astrological power. Each of the 15 Behenian stars was connected with one or more planets, a plant and a gemstone, and the latter two were used in rituals to bring out the star’s influence. Capella was associated with the planets Jupiter and Saturn and linked with sapphire and thyme. It was believed to bring wealth as well as civic, political and military honours.
Like other bright stars, Capella has been used or referenced in countless works of fiction. Notable mentions include the novels The Exiles of Capella (Os Exilados da Capela, 1949) by Edgard Armond, Lone Star Planet (1958) by H. Beam Piper, Robert A. Heinlein’s Starship Troopers (1959), Jack Vance’s Emphyrio (1969), James Gunn’s The Listeners (1972), Philip José Farmer’s Time’s Last Gift (1972), Christopher Evans’ Capella’s Golden Eyes (1980), Stewart Cowley’s Starliners: Commercial Travel in 2200 AD (1980), and Anne McCaffrey’s The Rowan (1990) novels. The star was also memorably used in the episode “Friday’s Child” of Star Trek: The Original Series.
The name Capella (pronunciation: /kəˈpɛlə/) means “(small) female goat” in Latin. The star was once also known as Capra (Latin for “female goat”) and is still sometimes called the Goat Star. In English literature, it is often referenced as the Shepherd’s Star.
The name Capella was officially approved by the International Astronomical Union’s (IAU) Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) on June 30, 2016. It formally applies only to the component Alpha Aurigae Aa, but is commonly used for the entire star system and its other individual components (Capella Ab, Capella H, Capella L).
Capella has been associated with a goat for millennia. The Greeks associated it with Amalthea, the goat that nursed the infant Zeus. In the myth, Zeus accidentally broke off the goat’s horn and the horn was transformed into cornucopia, the horn of plenty, which had the power to provide unending nourishment and would be filled with whatever the owner desired.
In Bedouin astronomy, Auriga stars represented a herd of goats. The Bedouin in Sinai and Negev called Capella al-‘Ayyūq ath-Thurayyā, “Capella of the Pleiades.”
Capella has been known by many other names in different cultures throughout history. In the Middle Ages, it was known as Alhajoth, which was possibly a corruption of the star’s Arabic name, al-cayyūq, which in turn may have been derived from the Greek αίξ, meaning “goat.” In Arabic astronomy, the star was also commonly known as Al-Rākib, meaning “the driver.” This was a translation from the Greek and referred to the star’s prominent position in the sky, becoming visible before other stars in the evening, and appearing to watch over them.
The Chinese know Capella as the Second Star of the Five Chariots (五車二). Five Chariots is a Chinese constellation also formed by Menkalinan (Beta Aurigae), Hassaleh (Iota Aurigae), Mahasim (Theta Aurigae) and Elnath (Beta Tauri). These are the same stars that form Auriga’s pentagon asterism.
In Hindu astronomy, Capella was called Brahma Hṛdaya, “the heart of Brahma.”
Baltic people called Capella Tikutis or Perkūno Ožka, meaning “thunder’s goat.” Slavic Macedonians knew it as Jastreb, “the hawk,” ready to swoop on the Mother Hen, represented by the Pleiades cluster, and the Rooster, represented by the star Elnath.
In ancient Peru, Quechua people knew the star as Colça and associated it with the affairs of shepherds.
In Tahitian mythology, Capella was known as Tahi-ari’I, the mother of prince Ta’urua (represented by the planet Venus), who sails across the sky in his canoe. In Hawaii, the star was part of an asterism called Ke ka o Makali’I, meaning “the canoe bailer of Makali’I,” which was used in navigation at sea. The asterism was also formed by the bright Sirius, Procyon, Pollux and Castor.
In the Marshall Islands, Capella represented Ligedaner, the mother of stars. In local lore, Ligedaner told her sons that the one who wins the race to an eastern island would become the King of the Stars, and asked her eldest son, Dümur (represented by Antares), to let her come in his canoe. Dümur and all the other sons except the youngest refused and the youngest son, represented by the Pleiades, won the race and became the King of the Stars. In the Caroline Islands, Capella was known as Jefegen uun, meaning “north of Aldebaran.” In the Society Islands, it was called Tahi-anii, meaning “unique sovereign.”
The Boorong people of northwestern Victoria in Australia called Capella Purra, the kangaroo. The kangaroo was pursued and killed by the twins Yurree and Wanjel, represented by the Gemini stars Castor and Pollux. The Wardaman people of the Northern Territory of Australia knew Capella as Yagalal, a ceremonial fish scale.
Capella is quite easy to find because it lies in a region of the sky particularly rich in exceptionally bright stars. Located about halfway between Polaris and Orion’s Belt, it is one of the six bright stars that form the Winter Circle, and the brightest of the stars that form Auriga’s conspicuous pentagon pattern. The small triangle of stars that form the Kids asterism makes Capella very easy to identify.
Capella location, image: Wikisky
In less than ideal observing conditions, Capella can be found using the stars of the Big Dipper. A line extended from Megrez to Dubhe away from the Dipper’s handle points roughly in the direction of Capella.
Big Dipper and Capella, image: Wikisky
Capella is circumpolar, i.e. it stays above the horizon year-round, to observers north of the latitude 44° N, while those living south of the latitude 44° S cannot see it all. The star reaches its highest point in the sky at midnight in early December.
Capella is the luminary of the constellation Auriga. It marks the left shoulder of the celestial Charioteer or the goat held by the Charioteer over his shoulder. The constellation is associated with the mythical goat Amalthea, who nurtured the young Zeus, as well as with Erichthonius of Athens, the son of Hephaestus credited for inventing the four-horse chariot (the quadriga). Auriga is one of the 48 Greek constellations, first listed by the Greco-Roman astronomer Ptolemy of Alexandria in the 2nd century CE. It is one of the larger constellations, 21st in size, occupying an area of 657 degrees of the northern sky.
Auriga constellation, image: Roberto Mura
Auriga is known for being home to Capella and several other notable variable stars, including the Algol-type eclipsing binaries Menkalinan (Beta Aurigae), Almaaz (Epsilon Aurigae) and Saclateni (Zeta Aurigae), the slow irregular variable Pi Aurigae, and Mahasim (Theta Aurigae), an Alpha2 Canum Venaticorum variable. The Orion variable AE Aurigae, an O-type main sequence star believed to be a runaway star from the Orion Nebula (M42), illuminates the Flaming Star Nebula, a magnitude 6.0 emission-reflection nebula located at a distance of about 1,500 light years from the Sun.
Auriga is also known for its bright open clusters Messier 36, Messier 37, Messier 38, NGC 2281, NGC 1664, and NGC 1893, the last of which is embedded in the faint H II region IC 410.
The best time of year to observe the stars and deep sky objects of Auriga is during the month of February.
The 10 brightest stars in the constellation are Capella (Alpha Aur, mag. 0.08), Menkalinan (Beta Aur, mag. 1.90), Mahasim (Theta Aur, mag. 2.62 – 2.70), Hassaleh (Iota Aur, mag. 2.69), Almaaz (Epsilon Aur, mag. 2.92 – 3.83), Haedus (Eta Aur, mag. 3.18), Saclateni (Zeta Aur, mag. 3.70 -3.97), Delta Aurigae (mag. 3.715), Nu Aurigae (mag. 3.957), and Pi Aurigae (mag. 4.25).
Capella – Alpha Aurigae
Constellation Auriga
Names and designations Capella, Alpha Aurigae, α Aur, 13 Aurigae, Alhajoth, Hokulei, HD 34029, HR 1708, HIP 24608, GC 6427, GCRV 3121, FK5 193, SAO 40186, BD+45 1077, PPM 47925, LTT 11619, NLTT 14766, CCDM J05168+4559, ADS 3841, WDS 05167+4600, IDS 05093+4554, AAVSO 0509+45, TYC 3358-3141-1, CSV 100460, NSV 1897, EUVE J0516+45.9, IRAS 05130+4556, 2MASS J05164138+4559525
Capella A Alpha Aurigae A, GJ 194
Capella HL Capella CD, GJ 195
Capella H Capella C, GJ 195 A, GCRV 3130, PPM 47938, LTT 11622, NLTT 14788, 2MASS J05172386+4550229, Gaia DR2 211810233512673792, EUVE J0517+45.8, G 96-29
Capella L Capella D, GJ 185 B, VVO 238, 2MASS J05172394+4550198, Gaia DR2 211810233512673920
Spectral class G3III (Aa: K0III, Ab: G1III)
Variable type RS Canum Venaticorum (suspected)
U-B colour index +0.44
B-V colour index +0.80
V-R colour index −0.3
R-I colour index +0.44
Apparent magnitude 0.08 (0.03 – 0.16)
Absolute magnitude (Capella Aa, Capella Ab) +0.296, +0.167
Distance 42.919 ± 0.049 light years (13.159 ± 0.015 parsecs)
Parallax 76.20 ± 0.46 mas
Radial velocity +29.9387 ± 0.0032 km/s
Proper motion RA: 75.52 mas/yr
Dec.: −427.11 mas/yr
Mass (Capella Aa, Ab) 2.5687 ± 0.0074 M☉, 2.4828 ± 0.0067 M☉
Luminosity (Capella Aa, Ab) 78.7 ± 4.2 L☉, 72.7 ± 3.6 L☉
Radius (Capella Aa, Ab) 11.98 ± 0.57 R☉, 8.83 ± 0.33 R☉
Temperature (Capella Aa, Ab) 4,970 ± 50 K, 5,730 ± 60 K
Metallicity −0.04 ± 0.06 dex
Age 590–650 million years
Rotational velocity (Capella Aa, Ab) 4.1 ± 0.4 km/s, 35.0 ± 0.5 km/s
Rotation (Capella Aa, Ab) 104 ± 3 days, 8.5 ± 0.2 days
Surface gravity (Capella Aa, Ab) 2.691 ± 0.041 cgs, 2.941 ± 0.032 cgs
Right ascension 05h 16m 41.35871s
Declination +45° 59′ 52.7693″
Capella H
Spectral class M2.5 V
U-B colour index 1.24
B-V colour index 1.50
R-I colour index 0.91
Apparent magnitude 10.16
Absolute magnitude 9.53
Distance 43.48 ± 0.02 light years (13.330 ± 0.007 parsecs)
Radial velocity (Capella HL) 31.63 ± 0.14 km/s
Dec.: -428.91 mas/yr
Mass 0.57 M☉
Luminosity 0.05 L☉
Radius 0.54 ± 0.03 R☉
Temperature 3,700 ± 150 K
Metallicity +0.1 dex
Surface gravity 4.75 ± 0.05 cgs
Right ascension 05h 17m 23.728s
Declination +45° 50′ 22.97″
Capella L
Spectral class M4
Apparent magnitude 13.7
Absolute magnitude 13.1
Distance 43.44 ± 0.04 light years (13.32 ± 0.01 parsecs)
Proper motion RA: 54.1 mas/yr
Dec.: -417.5 mas/yr
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FORMAL ETHICS OPINION 81-F-10
On May 13, 1981, Chief Disciplinary Counsel issued an Advisory Ethics Opinion and the Board of Professional Responsibility, pursuant to Section 26 of Rule 9 of the Rules of the Supreme Court of Tennessee adopted January 28, 1981, has been asked to issue a formal opinion based on the following factual situation.
Some two years ago, a client requested the attorney to prepare a will for her, but after consultation with her, both the attorney and his secretary determined that the client was not competent to make a will at that time. The client was accompanied by a friend who desired to be named as conservator for the client. The client apparently then went to another attorney who prepared a will for her, leaving part of her estate to the friend who had accompanied her to the attorney's office. Following the client's death, her son requested the attorney to represent him in challenging the will, and the question raised was as to the propriety of the attorney accepting such employment.
Obviously, both the attorney and his secretary will be material witnesses in the will contest case in which the issue of mental competence and testamentary capacity of the client will be of prime importance. Rule 8 of the Rules of the Supreme Court of Tennessee is the Code of Professional Responsibility. Disciplinary Rule 5-101(B) provides that:
A lawyer shall not accept employment in contemplated or pending litigation if he knows or it is obvious that he or a lawyer in his firm ought to be called as a witness, except that he may undertake the employment and he or a lawyer in his firm may testify:
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Occasionally a lawyer is called upon to decide in a particular case whether he will be a witness or an advocate. If a lawyer is both counsel and witness, he becomes more easily impeachable for interest and thus may be a less effective witness. Conversely, the opposing counsel may be handicapped in challenging the credibility of the lawyer when the lawyer also appears as an advocate in the case. An advocate who becomes a witness is in the unseemly and ineffective position of arguing his own credibility. The roles of an advocate and of a witness are inconsistent; the function of an advocate is to advance or argue the cause of another, while that of a witness is to state facts objectively.
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A Safer Stent
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Coronary stents that secrete drugs to prevent scarring are a standard medical treatment, with more than one million implanted in U.S. patients every year. But some studies indicate that these stents–coated with a polymer that holds the drugs–may present their own problems. In March, for example, a study released by University Hospital in Basel, Switzerland, found that some patients who received them suffered higher rates of blood clotting than those using bare-metal stents.
A new stent is riddled with 100-micrometer-wide depressions that hold drugs. (Courtesy of Conor Medsystems)
Now, Conor Medsystems of Menlo Park, CA, believes it has a safer drug-releasing stent. Hundreds of tiny holes run along the branches of Conor’s metal stent, which is made from stainless steel and cobalt chrome. Each hole acts as a reservoir for the drug-and-polymer mixture, whose proportions can be altered from one reservoir to the next. That allows different medications to be released far more precisely than is possible with today’s technology, in which one coating covers the whole stent, says Conor’s founder and chief technology officer, John Shanley. What’s more, polymers in embedded reservoirs can be more biodegradable than existing coatings, which need to be tougher to withstand the friction of insertion. The stent has passed European trials; Conor is now conducting U.S. human trials that are expected to be complete next year.
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This Finnish outfit turned some heads with their 2002 release Binding of the Spirit. Mixing a heavy dose of synth-laced melodic black and gothic metal, Throes of Dawn seemed to be the underground band to watch. In 2005, Quicksilver Cloud arrived, and though the black metal aspects were still present, a thicker, gothic atmosphere drenched the album. In 2010, we find the band embedded further in the dark/gothic elements of their music and completely abandoning their black metal roots. To those looking for the more extreme side of Throes of Dawn, this is the final nail in the coffin. However, fans of thick dark gothic metal in the vein of Katatonia, Agalloch, Autumnblaze, Paradise Lost, and even Fields of Nephilim, this is going to be something to check into.
Truthfully, the bands sound hasn’t changed all that much. What we have here is an extension of Quicksilver Clouds‘ gothic moments. If you enjoyed that album, this is basically the same deal without the black metal rasps. I also can’t help but compare a lot of this to Rapture‘s more gothic moments on The Silent Stage.
Most of the songs are simple and to the point. The first track “Entropy,” takes around two minutes before anything really happens. Most of the song is a synth build up with a slight bluesy guitar line. Once the songs gets going it never really leaves its mild, downtrodden pace, and this continues throughout the album. One should enter this album prepared for depressing, slow driven music.
What stands out are the vocals considering the music itself is kind of underwhelming. Henri Koivula delivers most of the melodies that sink into your head and make the bands music worthwhile. Very somber, his delivery catches on over a few listens. “Ignition of the Grey Sky” and “Soft Whispers of the Chemical Sun” have very hypnotic vocal lines. Though most of the extreme vocal delivery is gone, some death vocals can be heard on occasion, sprinkled throughout the CD (“The Great Fleet of Echoes,” “We Have Ways to Hurt You.”)
The Great Fleet of Echoes is mildly symphonic yet slumbering dark goth metal. It doesn’t instantly jump out and grab you, so if you’re into music that needs to seep instead of bang you over the head, then Throes of Dawn‘s fifth album might be worth a perusal or two.
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Written by Shane Wolfensberger
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Commented by: Plaguemyheavensblack
whatever happened to Rapture anyways?
on Mar 29th, 2010 at 11:04
Commented by: Stiffy
Rapture broke up a few years ago. Called it quits after The Silent Stage
Commented by: gordeth
You sure about that, Stiffy? Metal archives has them listed as active and it looks like they’re still doing shows.
Well, no. I guess I’m not sure. LOL! I remember years ago (when this site was still Digital Metal) reading that they were done. But I can’t confirm it. I know they don’t have a label. Thats about all I can find. Haven’t visited the myspace though. I’d love more Rapture.
Commented by: Blackwater Park
Listened to this once so far and thought it was quite good. And yeah, Rapture was (is?) awesome!
on Apr 3rd, 2010 at 07:51
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Teenager who watched pornography before brutal rape and murder of 14-year-old girl can be named, judges rule
Ayman Aziz whose identity can be revealed for the first time after brutally raped and murdered a 14-year-old schoolgirl Viktorija Sokolova. Credit: PA
Izzy Lyons
25 July 2019 • 11:22pm
A teenager who watched pornography before brutally raping and murdering a 14-year-old girl can be identified for the first time, judges have ruled.
Ayman Aziz, 17, contacted Viktorija Sokolova online and lured her to a Wolverhampton park, where he subjected her to horrific levels of violence in a two-hour attack before dumping her body on a bench.
Aziz, who was sentenced to at least 19 years in prison in February, could not be identified in reports at the time because his age meant that reporting restrictions were imposed.
Although the trial judge agreed to lift those restrictions following an application by media organisations, the teenager's lawyers challenged that decision and the restrictions remained in place pending an appeal.
Adam Kane QC argued the reporting restrictions should not be lifted because they would have an adverse effect on Aziz's rehabilitation.
Viktorija Sokolova Credit: PA
But the Lord Chief Justice Lord Burnett and two other senior judges rejected Aziz's challenge at the Court of Appeal, meaning he can now be named.
Lithuanian-born Viktorija - described in court by her mother as her "one and only" - was contacted by Aziz on Facebook Messenger and lured to Wolverhampton's West Park late on April 11 2018.
She was savagely beaten in a pavilion before being dragged 150 yards to a bench, where her body was later discovered by a dog walker.
Sentencing Aziz, Mr Justice Jeremy Baker said the teenager carried out the "truly shocking" attack after watching pornography and carrying out internet research.
He was caught on CCTV as he attempted to cover up the offence by hiding bloodied clothing, having deleted Facebook messages and hurled his victim's phone towards a lake.
Throughout his trial, Aziz showed no remorse, gave no evidence in his defence and simply nodded as he was ordered by the judge to be taken to the cells.
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Spring is here and so are Hot New Devices from Samsung and HTC at T‑Mobile!
The wait is over. Three of the season’s hottest new phones—the HTC One M9 and the Samsung Galaxy S®6; and Galaxy S®6 Edge —are available in T-Mobile stores nationwide and online at T-Mobile.com.
And we don’t use the word “hot” lightly… Since T-Mobile began shipping—and selling—the Galaxy S 6 and Galaxy S 6 edge on March 27, customer response has been through the roof. In just the first 10 days, sales of the new Galaxy S 6 series at T-Mobile are already nearly double those of the Galaxy S 5 – previously the most popular Galaxy phone ever at T-Mobile. Likewise, in the first 10 days of HTC One M9 sales, the flagship phone has already surpassed sales of the HTC One M8 during the same time period.
We know the other guys like to hide their pricing in a costly service plan or lease so we want to make it clear: the HTC One M9, Galaxy S 6 and Galaxy S 6 edge are all available on a Simple Choice plan for $0 down, here at T-Mobile on the nation’s fastest 4G LTE network.
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Angora flare-up proves fire is ‘still moving’
Adam Jensen
“Today was one of those days you would call ‘interesting,'” said Ranger Dorn, operation planner with the California Interagency Incident Management Team, as an introduction to a briefing held at Tuesday evening in the parking lot of Heavenly Mountain Resort’s California base lodge.
Leaders of the incident management team gathered in the lot to coordinate interagency firefighting efforts over the next 12 hours.
Dorn touched on the successes experienced by firefighters on Tuesday, including no progression of the fire into the Gardner Mountain area and keeping the fire from crossing Highway 89, before touching on some of the more “interesting” aspects of the days efforts.
“We ended up with a number of intense pieces of fire inside the line, as well as outside,” he said.
Dorn was referring to flames that jumped a fire line and advanced toward areas surrounding the Tahoe Keys, causing further evacuations.
Two firefighters toward the northeastern edge of the fire were also forced to deploy emergency shelters to avoid the flames. Although uninjured by the passing fire, they were checked by medical professionals as a precaution.
The Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit’s Forest Supervisor, Terri Marceron, spoke near the end of the briefing, providing what amounted to both an encouragement and a warning.
“You guys definitely need to do a great job and really get this buttoned down because we’ve got four days of winds ahead of us,” Marceron said. “The fire proved today that it’s still moving.”
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Asphalt Burning (2021) – Netflix Movie Review
11/01/2021 02/01/2021 by Greg Wheeler
Fjord and the Furious
CGI has come a long way since its early origins in the 70’s. From the incredible dinosaurs in Jurassic Park to the breathtaking graphics of games like The Last Of Us Part II, the future looks very bright for this medium. Unless you’re watching Asphalt Burning that is.
There’s a moment (1:06:54 to be precise) in this movie that’s so hilariously bad I had to go back and re-watch it three times. Within this CGI segment, a police car whizzes through the air, hangs up the side of a dock before comically falling into the water like a cartoon. Given this is listed as an action comedy, it’s telling that the only comedic moments come from seeing these awful CGI cars.
Before we actually dive into this though, let’s backtrack and examine what we’re working with. Netflix doesn’t actually tell you but Asphalt Burning is not a stand-alone movie (something I unfortunately only found out after watching this) and instead serves as a third title in the ongoing Norwegian series of movies called Burning (Børning).
The story here is pretty barebones, even without the added context of the previous movies, and revolves around bad-boy racer Roy who’s on the verge of getting married. Unfortunately, he loses a race up the mountain to secure his sweetheart, Sylvia. The victor? A woman called Robyn whom Roy had kissed the previous night in a state of ecstacy. Oh dear!
With the secret spilled and Roy’s future hanging by a poorly rendered, CGI thread, Roy’s only hope comes from traveling to Germany and racing the Nürburgring to win back Sylvia and save the day.
Part Fast and the Furious bootleg, part 80’s road trip movie, Asphalt Burning pads out its run-time with several montages and a host of colourful supporting characters, including comedic sidekicks Doffen and Nybakken who engage in their own sub-plot involving a dead old lady.
When it comes to comedy, outside the CGI scenes this movie isn’t particularly amusing. There’s a recurring joke involving different guys called Roy (get it, because they’re all called Roy!) which are repeated constantly. There’s also a dead old lady who’s paraded around while the final scene involves a rogue tyre battering a character in the face.
Of course, it pays to watch the previous two films for context but given Netflix have literally just listed this as “Asphalt Burning”, with no context to the previous movies, many people will go into this and watch it thinking this is a standalone movie. Then pause after 20 minutes to check they haven’t just loaded up a dodgy DVD from the neighbourhood pirate.
Asphalt Burning is a burning mess of a movie, one that’s listed as an action comedy but fails to nail either particularly well. There’s not even that much racing action either. This is not a film to remember and the fact Asphalt Burning manages to make The Fast and the Furious look like Oscar-worthy material is telling unto itself. Avoid.
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I’ve had two sets of identical twins naturally – I wasn’t trying to get pregnant & my husband went into shock
Becky Pemberton
Updated: 23 Oct 2020, 8:42
A COUPLE has welcomed a set of identical twin girls, six years after they had identical twin boys.
Erin and Jake Credo, from Louisiana, were shocked when they discovered they were having their second pair of twins.
Erin and Jake Credo beat odds after having identical twin girls, six years after having identical twin boysCredit: NBC Local 33
The chances of having two identical sets of twins is extremely rare, and only happens in one in 111,111 pregnancies.
Erin and Jake, who have six-year-old sons Cooper and Grant, were not trying to conceive when they realised Erin was pregnant once more.
Erin told The Advocate: “When I had my ultrasound, I didn’t even know what to say. I texted a picture of the ultrasound to my husband, and he said, ‘Is that the boys?’ Nope. Round two.
“Obviously, we were excited. We've done it before. Having twins, it’s all we know.”
Erin ended up giving birth to twins Lola and Allie early on September 22, at just 32 weeksCredit: NBC Local 33
Erin and Jake already have six-year-old sons Cooper and GrantCredit: NBC Local 33
The couple were not trying to conceive when they realised Erin was pregnant once moreCredit: NBC Local 33
The pregnancy was not without its complications, with Erin contracting Covid19 in August.
She ended up giving birth early on September 22, at just 32 weeks.
Her newborn baby twins, Lola and Allie, had to spend four weeks in hospital before they were allowed to come home.
Erin said: “The biggest concern they had was any respiratory issues I might be having. The shortness of breath was probably the most frustrating part of having COVID, because at what point does that shortness of breath cause concern?
“So, I just stayed in touch with my doctors constantly and kind of explained how I was feeling. Thankfully, we didn’t have any major issues that would have exacerbated the situation. We were really blessed.”
Erin's new baby girls had to spend four weeks in hospital before they were allowed to come homeCredit: NBC Local 33
The chances of having two identical sets of twins is extremely rare, and only happens in one in 111,111 pregnanciesCredit: NBC Local 33
Erin and Jake were shocked when they discovered they were having their second pair of twinsCredit: NBC Local 33
Around 0.4 per cent of pregnancies result in identical twins, making the Credos’ case extremely rare.
Erin's physician, Dr. Cliff Moore, told Today: “To put that in perspective, we deliver approximately 8,000 babies at Woman's Hospital each year, so we’d only see that about once every 15 years.”
Erin finds her situation quite funny and is thrilled at her new arrivals.
She told NBC Local 33: “I'll always consider myself blessed with all these beautiful babies, but I also think God has a real funny sense of humour.
“A lot of people say you're only given what you can handle, and I hope He has my back for the next few years!”
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Man United given deadline to seal this deal or leave it
English Premier League outfit Man United are now in a last-minute rush to seal their summer transfer deals with just a few days to the closure.
The Red Devils have been struggling to seal the deal for FC Porto defender Alex Telles because of the £18 million fee slammed on the player. Man United now have an ultimatum to seal the deal or leave it.
The Telegraph reports that the Red Devils have been told by the Portuguese outfit to seal the deal for the defender or risk losing him as he would be made to stay at the club this season.
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Alex Telles is about the third left-back the Red Devils have indicated an interest in since the start of the summer transfer window after losing Ben Chilwell and Sergio Reguilon to their Premier League rivals.
It is understood that Alex Telles seeks to join the Red Devils and have agreed on personal terms with the club but he will be helpless to remain with FC Porto if an agreement is not reached between both clubs.
Manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has, however, expressed confidence that his team will be fine either they end up doing some summer transfer deals or not because he has enough players to challenge for titles.
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Man United made an offer for another Dortmund player but failed
It has been revealed that English Premier League outfit Man United made an attempt to snap up another Borussia Dortmund player Nico Schulz on the transfer deadline day but failed.
The report, according to ESPN claims that the German international left-back was also considered and a loan deal was proposed by the Red Devils worth £1 million but the Bundesliga outfit rejected the move.
ESPM claims that the German Bundesliga outfit were left baffled and questioned the Red Devils ‘recruitment and scouting team’s credentials, especially in their approach to doing deals.
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It is no longer news that the Red Devils made an attempt to snap up the signature of England international winger Jadon Sancho in the summer transfer window but failed to meet with the £108 million demand by the German side.
Jadon Sancho was the top priority for manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer but for the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the club, they could not meet up financially and the deal was called off.
It is claimed that the Red Devils will return for the signature of the Man City academy product but they are unlikely not to face competition as other clubs have been mentioned to be interested in the deal
Meanwhile, Jadon Sanho is reportedly interested in a move to Man United but he has to respect his contract with the club.
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Craig Dearden-Phillips: Justgiving is a brilliant success story
Our columnist finds nothing wrong with the fundraising website's profit-making nature
Craig Dearden-Phillips
A few weeks ago, I wrote a column in praise of the excellent charity Help for Heroes. Last weekend, the Sunday Times reported that Help for Heroes was criticising the excellent Justgiving, a private company that has enabled more than half a billion pounds to be raised for charity.
Help for Heroes denies it made the comments to the Sunday Times, and the journalist is standing by his story. But whatever the facts of this particular case, there has been some general criticism of Justgiving in the sector, and I feel the time is right to come to its defence.
What is Justgiving's crime? It charges 5 per cent commission on donations. It is privately owned and run for a modest profit. It pays its CEO and staff very well indeed. Simple as that.
This, we are told, is wrong. Some people are advising donors to use another site – one that doesn't make profits. This site has been around for a long time but, strangely, hasn't raised a great deal of money. And despite its recent relaunch, it will take a very long time to scale the heights reached by Justgiving.
It is on issues such as this that I despair about elements within our sector. Surely what matters about Justgiving isn't that it is profitable, but that it has transformed giving in this country.
Everyone knows someone who has used it. It is a brilliant innovation. Gone are the days of dog-eared sponsorship forms, running after people for money and maybe getting around to claiming Gift Aid. Justgiving takes care of all of that. Charities should be falling all over these people in gratitude, not criticising them.
The opprobrium comes, I think, from a deep naivety about the way things such as Justgiving happen in the first place. The founders had to develop new technology. Then they had to get take-up to high enough levels to cover massive early outlays. And, on a personal level, they had to put their reputations and, probably, personal lives on the line for several years.
Now they are successful, yes, it all looks very good for them – the two owners have 10 per cent each of the company. But it was not always thus. Not that they were motivated first by profit – both had a bigger goal: to transform UK fundraising. It was just that they figured the best way to do this was through a profit-pursuing company.
So come on, if you are one of those people nodding with agreement at the criticisms of Justgiving, ask yourself this: would you prefer a return to the dark ages we were in before its appearance? Would you be happy for that half a billion to have been, at best, a hundred million – with next to no Gift Aid collected?
Thought not. So let's judge achievements, not mechanisms; ends, not means. And let's recognise a brilliant success story for what it is.
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Lebanese Actor Selected to Play the Main Role in American Movie
Tamara Kabboul·
Many Lebanese artists have been proving their distinguished talents in their fields, making it to high positions in their careers, locally and internationally. So, it’s no wonder to see a stream of talented Lebanese actors and actresses rising to appear in many leading roles worldwide.
Lately, we have been thrilled by the news our Lebanese actor Nicolas Moawad being selected from among 1,700 actors worldwide to perform in the American film “His Only Son.” The Biblical story will be filmed during the month of June in Los Angeles – United States.
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The 40-year-old Lebanese actor announced the great news by publishing a poster of the film on his official Instagram account, writing: “After long months of wait, I’m super excited to finally share with you the news that I was selected out of more than 1700 actors overseas to fly this June to Los Angeles to shoot “HIS ONLY SON”, my first ever American feature movie.”
Nicolas expressed his gratitude by saying: “I’m beyond thankful to God for always blessing me way more than I deserve, not only for giving me this one-of-a-kind career opportunity but, as well. for giving me the blessing of playing one of God’s best men in history, ABRAHAM, in a movie that talks about one of Abraham’s hardest struggles.”
He also thanked the director of the movie David Helling for choosing him, and the producers Mike Kaney and Roman Medjanov for flying a Lebanese actor to shoot the movie in the USA.
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His Only Son features the journey of Abraham with his son Isaac and their two servants as they go together to the place of offering, and the dangers and trials they face.
A challenging performance that requires an outstanding actor like Nicolas, the character Abraham would live his grievous struggle between his love and loyalty to God and his love to his only son; a son God had graced him with in response to decades of prayers with his wife Sarah.
Abraham would also relive these memories of aching wait for the only son whom he must now lay upon the altar of sacrifice.
Hopes and expectations are high on our Lebanese actor to allocate his very best to this challenging role. As we know him from his previous performances, Nicolas will indeed deliver the best performance of his career.
Nicolas Mouawad is a talented Lebanese TV Host and actor. He kick-started his acting career in 2002 as a serious stage actor in Lebanon for four years until our prominent Lebanese producer and writer Marwan Naggar picked him to be the lead in a television series “Helm Adar” (the dream of March) in March 2006.
Mouawad is known for his appearance in many Lebanese and Arabic series like “Al Taghiya”, “Forsa” and the pan Arab tv series “Ruby” and many others. This award-winning artist is the latest actor who appears to be on the cusp of making it big as well in the film industry of Egypt.
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Bresagen pulls plug after three leave board
Bresagen was placed in voluntary administration yesterday, becoming the first listed biotech casualty of 2004.
The corporate failure followed the resignation of three of six Bresagen directors late on Monday, including the chairman, after a split opening up between board members over whether to call in a voluntary administrator when a crucial funding deal collapsed over the weekend.
The South Australian-based stem-cell therapy and drug development company hit the headlines in 2001 after creating Australia's first cloned pig.
Chief executive John Smeaton at the time described the stockmarket's $42 million valuation of the company as "absolutely ridiculous".
He said Australian investors did not understand the long-term potential of Bresagen's stable of research and development efforts.
Shares in the biotech company last traded on Friday at 26¢, giving Bresagen a market capitalisation of $14.2 million.
But its future and that of its research and discoveries are now unclear, with the company in the hands of administrators Martin Lewis and Bruce Carter from the Adelaide offices of Ferrier Hodgson.
The wheels began to fall off Bresagen when Queensland-based venture capital company CM Capital Investments pulled out of a funding deal for Bresagen's Protein Pharmaceuticals business.
That deal was part of a two-pronged plan to transform Bresagen from an active biotech play into a holding company. An agreement had already been reached to flip Bresagen's stem-cell therapy research division into a merged entity with US biotechnology company CyThera.
Speaking from the US, Bresagen's Dr Smeaton said that although the three directors who remained at the helm believed the company could have survived despite the crash of the CM Capital deal, it had been decided to put the company into administration.
Dr Smeaton said he believed Australian corporate law required a publicly listed company to have at least two resident directors, but the remaining three directors of Bresagen were all based in the US.
He said this had prompted the board to pull the plug as no director was willing to relocate to Australia and it would have been close to impossible to attract two new local directors given the company's financial state.
Former chairman Peter Hart said yesterday he was saddened to hear that the remaining Bresagen directors had decided to call in administrators.
"There was a difference of opinion on the board and in the end I, along with the other two directors, decided to resign to allow the remaining directors the ability to chase other funding opportunities."
The two directors who resigned on Monday with Mr Hart were John Harkness and Chris Juttner. Mr Harkness is on the board of Macquarie CountryWide Trust and Crane Group.
He is a former national executive chairman of KPMG and is an expert at corporate recovery and administrations. He did not return phone calls yesterday.
Joint administrator Mr Carter said the company would continue to trade, and the administration would not affect Bresagen's operations in the US.
The first creditors' meeting will be held next week.
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Union minister MJ Akbar's resignation 'victory of truth', says Congress
Mahila Congress chief Sushmita Dev termed Akbar's stepping down as a "moral victory" for everyone and sought support for the #MeToo movement cutting across party lines.
Union minister MJ Akbar's resignation 'victory of truth', says Congress |  Photo Credit: BCCL
New Delhi: The Congress on Wednesday termed as "victory of truth" the resignation of Union minister MJ Akbar following charges of sexual harassment against him, and asked whether Prime Minister Narendra Modi will dare to speak up now on the #MeToo movement.
Congress leader Ragini Naik accused the Modi government of being "misogynist" which "deceived" women voters who placed their faith, reposed their trust in the BJP in 2014. "Times is up Modi ji. The silence of PM Modi on #MeToo movement is deafening," she told reporters. "Now that M J Akbar, who has been accused by no less than 36 women of misconduct and harassment, has finally resigned, will PM Narendra Modi dare to speak up," Naik asked.
Congress spokesperson Priyanka Chaturvedi said she saluted the women who stood against Akbar bravely in spite of the "brazen" stance taken by the government. "This resignation is a vindication of the power of truth. More strength to India's women," she said.
Akbar stepped down as junior external affairs minister Wednesday, the first high-profile head to roll in the #MeToo movement that has banded women from diverse backgrounds against a spectrum of sexual misconduct they have faced.
The 67-year-old journalist-politician's resignation as minister of state for external affairs comes a day ahead of the hearing of his criminal defamation case against journalist Priya Ramani, one of the women who accused him of sexual misconduct, at Delhi's Patiala House court.
Mahila Congress chief Sushmita Dev termed Akbar's stepping down as a "moral victory" for everyone and sought support for the #MeToo movement cutting across party lines. "M J Akbar's resignation is a moral victory for everyone. The defamation case can't change that. The #MeToo movement needs support across party lines," she tweeted.
"I admire the courage of @priyaramani & all the victims who spoke out against sexual harassment & abuse. @mjakbar s resignation is a moral victory for everyone. The defamation case can't change that. The #MeToo movement needs support across party lines."
Naik said the Congress believes that Akbar's resignation was a result of the persistent pressure put by women who shared their horrific and uncomfortable stories. It was also a vindication of the Congress party's unequivocal stand on the #MeToo movement, she added.
"We also think that it is a time for a fair trial so that justice prevails. This country has a rule of law and the Congress party believes that any allegation levelled against anybody must pass this test of justice. We hope and wish that all the women fighting this tough battle would be heard and finally justice would be imparted," she said.
Chaturvedi, too, hit out at Prime Minister Modi for what she said was his "silence" on the matter. "I salute these women who stood their ground despite the brazen stance of the GoI, silence of the PM who speaks about women empowerment, the arrogant misuse of power by deploying a battery of lawyers against one woman and allowing the accused to continue in his role," Chaturvedi said in a tweet.
Alleging that using threat and intimidation as a tool to silence voices has become the norm of the Modi government, she said but this brazenness is returning to haunt them. "The women of the country are saying the time for this is up and threat to silence voices can no longer be the norm or acceptable," she said.
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Uttarakhand Assembly passes resolution to name Jollygrant airport after former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Updated Dec 05, 2018 | 20:21 IST | PTI
The state cabinet chaired by Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat had given its nod to a proposal to name the airport after Vajpayee at a meeting here last month.
Former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee |  Photo Credit: PTI
Dehradun: Uttarakhand Assembly Wednesday passed a resolution on naming the Jollygrant airport here after former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. The resolution, tabled in the House by Parliamentary Affairs Minister Prakash Pant, was passed by voice vote in the absence of opposition members. The resolution will now be sent to the Centre for its approval.
The cabinet's decision had ignited a controversy with former chief minister Harish Rawat objecting to it on the ground that a proposal to name the airport after Adi Guru Shankaracharya had already been moved during his tenure. However, the CM had defended his cabinet decision by saying he was not aware of any such proposal being mooted by the previous government.
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More than 150,000 displaced in northwest Syria in one week: United Nations
Updated May 07, 2019 | 22:40 IST | AFP
The Idlib region has been protected from a massive regime offensive by a September deal inked by Damascus ally Russia and rebel backer Turkey.
More than 150,000 displaced in northwest Syria in one week: United Nations |  Photo Credit: Thinkstock
New York: An escalation in attacks on northwest Syria has displaced more than 150,000 people in the past week, the UN said on Tuesday, as the regime and Russia stepped up bombardment.
"We are alarmed by ongoing reports of aerial attacks on population centres and civilian infrastructure, resulting in hundreds of civilians dead and injured," said David Swanson of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, or OCHA.
"More than 152,000 women, children and men have been displaced in Aleppo and Idlib governorates over the past week alone," he told AFP. The northwestern part of Syria controlled by jihadists is made up a large part of Idlib province, as well as adjacent parts of the Aleppo and Hama provinces.
The Idlib region has been protected from a massive regime offensive by a September deal inked by Damascus ally Russia and rebel backer Turkey. But the region of some three million people has come under increasing bombardment since the jihadist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group, a former Al-Qaeda affiliate, took full control of it in January.
The UN humanitarian agency on Tuesday expressed alarm at health facilities being hit in the bombardment. "Between 29 April and 6 May, at least 12 health facilities were hit by airstrikes in northern Hama and Idlib governorates, damaging health infrastructure that provided essential health services to over 100,000 people," OCHA said in a statement.
All 12 were out of service, Swanson said, while three health workers had been killed in the bombardment.
"Ongoing reports of attacks on health facilities in the region reflect a worrying trend, depriving thousands women, children and men of life-saving medical assistance," he said. The civil war in Syria has killed more than 370,000 people and displaced millions since it began.
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CWG 2018: President Ram Nath Kovind lauds 'India's daughters' success at Gold Coast
Updated Apr 18, 2018 | 16:59 IST | ANI
President Ram Nath Kovind on Wednesday congratulated India's women brigade for bringing laurels to the country at the prestigious Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia. Out of the 66, 28 medals were bagged by the women's contingent and we cannot stop praising them as there were some power packed performances by Indian eves.
President Ram Nath Kovind |  Photo Credit: ANI
New Delhi: India at the Commonwealth Games 2018 recently held at Gold Coast can be termed as a success story. The team overhauled the medals tally from the Glasgow Commonwealth Games 2014 and excelled the gold count by a big margin. India had 66 medals overall of which 26 were the yellow metals, 20 silver and 20 bronze. Out of the 66, 28 medals were bagged by the women's contingent and we cannot stop praising them as there were some power packed performances by Indian eves.
President Ram Nath Kovind on Wednesday congratulated India's women brigade for bringing laurels to the country at the prestigious Commonwealth Games (CWG) in Gold Coast, Australia. From Mary Kom to Saina Nehwal, Kovind lauded tremendous efforts by the "daughters of India" in bringing glory to the country. He was addressing the students of the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University in Katra town on the day of their convocation. He was received by the Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti and Governor NN Vohra amid tight security and headed to Raj Bhavan.
"Daughters of India have brought laurels to the country in Commonwealth Games 2018, Manika Batra from Delhi, Mary Kom, Mirabai Chanu and Sangeeta Chanu from Manipur, Manu Bhaker and Vinesh Phogat from Haryana, Saina Nehwal from Telangana and Heena Sidhu from Punjab," the President said.
Ace Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal, who bagged a gold medal in the women's singles event of the recently-concluded 21st Commonwealth Games, on Tuesday rated the gold medal in the mixed-team event of the prestigious quadrennial games as much more special than the individual.
On the last day of the Games, Nehwal defeated her compatriot PV Sindhu by straight games 21-18, 23-21 in a high-octane clash to grab the gold medal in the all-Indian finals to clinch gold in the badminton competition.
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Reports of settler violence in West Bank as protests held over teen’s death
Rights group says settlers block roads, attack Palestinian cars; windows of bus broken at Jerusalem demonstration
By TOI staff 9 January 2021, 6:56 pm 0 Edit
A damaged windshield is seen on a Palestinian car after it was allegedly attacked by Israeli settlers in the West Bank on January 9, 2021. (Yesh Din)
The Times of Israel liveblogged Saturday’s events as they happened.
UK’s Queen Elizabeth II and husband receive COVID-19 vaccinations
LONDON — Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, Prince Philip, have received their COVID-19 vaccinations, royal officials said Saturday.
Buckingham Palace officials said in a statement that the 94-year-old monarch and Philip, 99, received their jabs Saturday, joining some 1.5 million people in Britain who have been given the first dose of a COVID vaccine.
The injections were administered at Windsor Castle, where the queen and her husband have been spending their time during the lockdown in England.
Royal officials said they took the rare step of commenting on the monarch’s health in order to prevent inaccuracies and further speculation. The queen “decided that she would let it be known she has had the vaccination,” the palace statement said.
On Dec. 8, Britain became the world’s first country to begin a mass vaccination drive against the coronavirus. The government says it is aiming to deliver the first vaccine doses to some 15 million people in the top priority groups by the middle of February.
That includes everyone over age 70, as well as frontline healthcare workers, care home residents and anyone whose health makes them especially vulnerable to the virus.
Record 964 Israelis hospitalized in serious condition for COVID
The number of Israelis hospitalized in serious condition for COVID-19 rises to 964, a record since the start of the pandemic, as infections continue to surge after tightened lockdown measures took effect.
According to the Health Ministry, 7,808 new coronavirus cases were recorded yesterday, which along with another 2,998 since midnight brings the total number of infections confirmed in Israel since the pandemic began to 484,083.
There were 68,766 active cases, with 236 of those in serious condition on ventilators. Another 270 were in moderate condition and the rest have mild or no symptoms.
The death toll stood at 3,633, with 46 fatalities recorded yesterday.
The ministry said 119,309 tests were conducted yesterday, with 6.5 percent coming back positive. So far today, 51,393 tests were performed, 5.8% of which were positive.
Holon man arrested after anti-Netanyahu protesters maced
Police arrest a 23-year-old man in Holon on suspicion of spraying pepper spray at anti-Netanyahu protesters in the Tel Aviv suburb.
Britain tops 3 million confirmed coronavirus cases
LONDON — Britain says it had recorded over three million coronavirus cases since the pandemic began last year, after the government announces another 59,937 new cases.
The country also records another 1,035 fatalities from the virus, taking the total death toll to 80,868, one of the highest in Europe alongside Italy.
US envoy visits Western Sahara after Israel-Morocco normalization deal
RABAT, Morocco — A top US envoy visits the contested Western Sahara, after Washington recognized Morocco’s sovereignty there in exchange for Rabat normalizing ties with Israel.
Western Sahara is a disputed and divided former Spanish colony, mostly under Morocco’s control, where tensions with the pro-independence Polisario Front have simmered since the 1970s.
Last year, Morocco joined the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Sudan in agreeing to normalize ties with Israel under US-brokered deals.
In return, US President Donald Trump fulfilled a decades-old Moroccan goal by backing its contested sovereignty over the barren but phosphate-rich region, which lies next to rich Atlantic fishing zones.
The US Embassy in Rabat calls the trip by David Schenker, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, and the highest-ranking US diplomat for North Africa and the Middle East, “a historic visit.”
Morocco’s official news agency MAP reports that Schenker visited Laayoune, the capital of Moroccan-controlled Western Sahara.
Schenker, who is on a regional tour including Algeria and Jordan, also visited a United Nations base in the region, MAP says.
UN peacekeepers in Western Sahara are mandated to organize a referendum on self-determination for the region, and despite Washington’s move, the UN insists its position is “unchanged.”
Schenker’s visit comes ahead of the expected opening of a provisional US consulate in the desert region tomorrow, according to diplomatic sources in Rabat.
Last month the US State Department announced it would open a “virtual” diplomatic post in Western Sahara before building a consulate, slated for the southern fishing port of Dakhla.
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TEHRAN, Iran — Twitter has removed a tweet by Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei suggesting coronavirus vaccines made in the United States and Britain are “untrustworthy,” saying the post violated its rules.
“Importing vaccines made in the US or the UK is prohibited. They’re completely untrustworthy. It’s not unlikely they would want to contaminate other nations,” said a tweet posted yesterday on Khamenei’s English-language Twitter account.
“Given our experience with France’s HIV-tainted blood supplies, French vaccines aren’t trustworthy either,” the Iranian leader added in the tweet with the hashtag #CoronaVaccine.
Twitter later removed the tweet and replaced it with a message that said it was “no longer available because it violated the Twitter Rules.”
A spokesperson for Twitter says the tweet “violates… specifically our Covid-19 misleading information policy.”
“The account owner will be required to delete the violative Tweet before regaining access to their account,” the spokesperson for the US-based social network giant says.
The US social media company announced a policy in December to crack down on what it described as potentially “false or misleading information” about COVID-19 vaccinations.
Such false claims, it said, include statements about vaccines that invoke deliberate conspiracy and those suggesting that vaccines are used to harm or control populations.
9,178 Israelis fined for breaking virus rules since lockdown tightened
Police say they have handed out 9,178 fines for alleged violations of coronavirus rules since tightened lockdown measures took effect Thursday night.
The vast majority of the fines are given to Israelis who traveled more than a kilometer from their homes for a non-essential reason.
WATCH: Netanyahu, health minister get 2nd dose of coronavirus vaccine
Netanyahu: All Israelis can be vaccinated in 2 months, at the latest by end of March
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu receives his second shot of Pfizer-BioNTech's coronavirus vaccine at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan on January 9, 2021. (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)
As Israel readies to begin doling out second doses of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein are vaccinated for a second time.
As he receives the second dose, Netanyahu touts the coming vaccine shipments and asserts all Israelis can be immunized in two months. Netanyahu said that even if we assume it would take the “maximum” amount of time, the vaccination campaign would meet its goals by the end of March.
1st coronavirus vaccine shipments to arrive in Jordan
AMMAN, Jordan — Jordan announces it is expecting the first doses of a coronavirus vaccine to arrive in the kingdom tonight.
Wael Hayajneh, the Health Ministry’s official in charge of COVID-19, says the vaccines are coming from state-owned Chinese drugmaker Sinopharm.
Another shipment, of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, is expected to get to the Middle Eastern kingdom on Monday, Hayajneh says.
Jordan plans to start its vaccination drive on Wednesday. It has arranged to secure 200,000 doses in the first quarter of 2021 from Pfizer and Sinopharm and possibly other vaccine suppliers.
Jordan’s health minister has said the inoculations will first target 20% to 25% of the frontline workers and vulnerable groups.
Jordan, with a population of 10 million, has recorded over 4,000 COVID-19 deaths and 305,000 confirmed coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic.
Liberman: US Capitol storming ‘nothing’ compared to what Netanyahu planning if he loses
Yisrael Beytenu chief Avigdor Liberman says the storming of the US Capitol by Trump supporters is “nothing” compared to what he claims Prime Minister Netanyahu is planning if the premier feels he’s lost the elections.
“It’s clear he is preparing for a scenario that he loses. He’ll advance a plan exactly like what was in the US and even stronger,” Liberman tells Channel 12 news, without offering evidence for the claim.
Shin Bet hacked into phones of anti-Netanyahu protesters — TV
Israelis lift placards and flags as they protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside his official residence in Jerusalem on January 9, 2021. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)
The Shin Bet hacked the phones of anti-Netanyahu protesters on suspicion they sought to break into the Prime Minister’s Residence in Jerusalem, Channel 13 news reports.
The report said the security agency was granted authorization to read messages on the demonstrators’ phones and search their homes after a number of protesters breached a police barricade outside the compound last week, with Netanyahu and his wife Sara reportedly moved to a safe room.
The protesters had no intention to break into the residence but wanted to tie themselves to fence outside, according to the network.
“The Shin Bet acts in accordance with the law to safeguard the country’s security, democratic governmental order and institutions. If any threat of this type is identified, the Shin Bet will act in accordance with the tools at its disposal in accordance [with] the law,” the security service said in response.
The Black Flags and Crime Minister protest groups slammed the Shin Bet over the report.
“It seems the complete chaos at Balfour and the fear of the democratic protest that will topple the corrupt also penetrated the Shin Bet,” the Crime Minister said, referring to Netanyahu’s trial on graft charges.
In a separate report, Channel 12 news quoted a police source criticizing the decision to move the Netanyahus to a safe room.
“There was no justification because there was no danger of a break-in by protesters,” the source said. “The demonstrators didn’t break through any barricade, but didn’t listen to the instructions of the officers to move away.”
The reports came as weekly anti-Netanyahu protests were held outside the Prime Minister’s Residence on Jerusalem’s Balfour Street and elsewhere across Israel.
Huldai says he’ll resign as Tel Aviv mayor once he becomes an MK
The Israelis party leader Ron Huldai says he’ll step down as Tel Aviv mayor once he’s sworn in as a Knesset member.
“I’ve already come to terms with the fact that [I’m] finished with [that] chapter in my life,” he says in an interview with Channel 12 news.
Huldai says he won’t resign as mayor before then because “problems are already starting in the management of the city, it’s impossible to hold elections within elections,” referring to the race that would be held to replace him.
More suspects charged in storming of US capitol
Supporters of President Donald Trump are confronted by US Capitol Police officers outside the Senate Chamber inside the Capitol in Washington, January 6, 2021. Jacob Anthony Chansley, who also goes by the name Jake Angeli (center), was taken into custody on January 9. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
A Florida man allegedly photographed grinning as he carried away House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s lectern after a mob of President Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the nation’s Capitol is among the latest people charged in Wednesday’s mayhem that left five people dead.
Adam Johnson, 36, of Parrish, Florida, was arrested last night on a federal warrant and is being held without bail in Pinellas County, Florida, according to jail records that don’t show if he has an attorney.
Johnson is a married father of five who was quickly identified on social media by local residents as the man in a photo smiling as he walked through the Capitol rotunda carrying Pelosi’s lectern, The Bradenton Herald reported.
He is charged today with one count of knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority, one count of theft of government property and one count of violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds.
Before being deleted or taken down, Johnson posted on social media that he was in Washington, DC, during Wednesday’s riot and included disparaging comments about the Black Lives Matter movement, according to The Bradenton Herald.
An Arizona man seen in photos and video of the mob wearing a costume with a painted face and a fur hat topped by horns was also taken into custody Saturday. Jacob Anthony Chansley, more commonly known as Jake Angeli, had become a staple in his costume at pro-Trump protests across the country.
He is charged with knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority, and violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds.
Trump pressed Georgia official to ‘find the fraud’ in earlier call
ATLANTA — While election officials in Georgia were verifying signatures on absentee ballot envelopes in one metro-Atlanta county, President Donald Trump pressed a lead investigator to “find the fraud” and said it would make the investigator a national hero.
The December call, described by a person familiar with it who spoke on the condition of anonymity in order to describe the sensitive nature of the discussion, is yet another link in the chain of the extraordinary pressure campaign waged by Trump on state officials as he sought to overturn the results of the November election, which he lost to Democrat Joe Biden.
It is one of at least three phone calls, held over the course of a month between early December and early January, where Trump sought help from high-level Georgia officials in subverting the election — only to be rebuffed each time. Trump lost to Biden in Georgia by 11,779 votes.
The call to the investigator preceded Trump’s January 2 call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger where he asked election officials to “find” enough votes to overturn Biden’s win in the state. It occurred as election officials were conducting an audit of signatures on absentee ballot envelopes in Cobb County.
The audit, which reviewed more than 15,000 signatures, found no cases of fraud. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation helped conduct the signature audit.
Trump and his allies have for months made false claims about Georgia’s signature verification process for absentee ballots and about the results of the November election. Among other things, they demanded an audit of the signature matches.
The White House has no immediate comment. The call was first reported today by The Washington Post, which says it is withholding the name of the investigator, who doesn’t respond to requests for comment, because of the risk of threats and harassment directed at election officials.
Ex-defense chief Ya’alon breaks off alliance with Lapid’s Yesh Atid
MKs Yair Lapid (L) and Moshe Ya'alon attend a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on December 2, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
Telem party chief Moshe Ya’alon has decided to part ways with Opposition Leader Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid and is expected to announce he’ll run alone in the upcoming elections, according to Hebrew media reports.
There is no immediate confirmation from Ya’alon, a former defense minister and IDF chief of staff, but Lapid confirms the split.
“I really admire and respect Ya’alon and wish him luck down the road,” the Yesh Atid chief tweets.
Ya’alon teamed up with Defense Minister Benny Gantz’s Israel Resilience party in 2019, with the two latter linking up with Lapid to form the centrist Blue and White alliance. The party ran in three straight elections, challenging Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Likud, but split over Gantz’s decision to join a government led by Netanyahu after the March 2020 vote.
The move comes amid a flurry of political activity before the March 23 vote, with new parties being formed, others splitting and some lawmakers switching between factions.
Right-wing protesters demonstrate in Israel and the West Bank over the death of Ahuvia Sandak, a 16-year-old killed in a car crash while fleeing from police after allegedly throwing rocks at Palestinians.
Numerous instances of violence are reported, with the Yesh Din rights group saying settlers blocked a number of roads in the West Bank and threw rocks at Palestinian cars.
In Jerusalem, demonstrators at the Chords Bridge break the windows of a bus that passes by, according to the Walla news site.
Roads reopen around PM’s residence as anti-Netanyahu protesters clear out
Police say they have reopened roads around the Prime Minister’s Residence in Jerusalem, with most protesters having left the area.
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First Contact Checklist launched to support older people in Bristol
Following on from a pilot last summer, organisations across Bristol are joining up thanks to Bristol Ageing Better to support vulnerable older people in the city.
The First Contact Checklist project will help older residents get the support they need by ensuring that the first organisation they contact is able to easily refer them on to other services around the city. For instance, if a firefighter visits to check an older person’s fire alarms, they might notice that the house is chilly. The First Contact Checklist will allow them to refer that older person to another service that could help, such as The Centre for Sustainable Energy.
The partnership includes Avon Fire and Rescue Service, Bristol Community Health and other local advice agencies and charities such as the Carers Support Centre for Bristol and South Gloucestershire and Age UK Bristol.
The Checklist covers home and fire safety, health and wellbeing and information and advice such as impartial advice on energy bills for people over the age of 50 living in Bristol.
Keith Sinclair, Chief Executive of Carers Support Centre, said:
“This scheme is a really effective way of linking up services both for older people and the unpaid carers that provide vital support to them.
“It will also help us to identify and ‘reach out’ to more people who are in an unpaid caring role and are not accessing the help and support they need. Many carers do not even recognise themselves as carers and as such are unaware that there are organisations, like ours, that can provide information, advice and support.”
HR and Services Manager Shelley Hankins from Age UK Bristol said: “We’re really excited about being involved with the First Contact Checklist. It’s a simple initiative that will really help older people in Bristol to access the services they need to.”
Bristol Ageing Better is a partnership of organisations in Bristol working to reduce loneliness and isolation in older people. It is able to carry out this work thanks to funding from the Big Lottery Fund awarded in 2015.
Find out more about the First Contact Checklist:
Contact: The Care Forum, the central point for checklist referrals in Bristol on:
T: 01179 654444 or visit www.thecareforum.org.uk
Alex Hodgson
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Richoux owner buys two more pubs
18 November 2004 by Nic Paton
Gourmet Holdings, owner of Richoux Restaurants and the Bel and the Dragon chain of pub-restaurants, has added two more pubs to its portfolio.
The company, formerly Madisons Coffee, has bought the Five Bells in Stanbridge, Leighton Buzzard, and the Talk House in Stanton St John, Oxfordshire, from pub company Traditional Freehouses.
The acquisitions will bring the total number of gastro-pubs it runs to six and the number of restaurants to 10.
Gourmet Holdings plans to keep the new pubs as they are for the time being, although they may eventually be re-flagged as Bel and the Dragon.
In August Gourmet Holdings announced it had bought the Highwayman pub-restaurant in Checkendon, Oxfordshire.
In a statement to shareholders ahead of its annual general meeting, chairman Nigel Whittaker said both its Bel and the Dragon and Richoux formats had continued to perform well and in line with market expectations.
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Cubs Trade Mark DeRosa
Submitted by Rob G. on Wed, 12/31/2008 - 12:30pm
Bruce Levine of ESPN1000 is reporting that the Cubs have traded Mark DeRosa and the $5.5M on his contract for 2009 to the Cleveland Indians for three minor-leaguers, RHP Jeff Stevens, LHP John Gaub and RHP Chris Archer.
You have to think a trade, let's say for a certain pitcher from San Diego whom I dare not speak his name, is possibly forthcoming.
I'll try and get some info on the prospects in a bit.
UPDATE #1: Link from espn.com, although I think they have a typo on John "Caub".
UPDATE #2: I poked around a bit and none of the three prospects showed up on Baseball America's recent top 10 Indians' prospect list or John Sickels Top 20. In other words, this deal only makes sense if they're all headed to another city, let's call it San Diego, to give them the quantity of pitchers and players that they wanted in that trade for that certain pitcher, whom we'll refer to as J.P.
Scouting reports and biographies that I could piece together on the prospects after the jump....
Jeff Stevens was drafted in the 6th round by the Cincinnati Reds in 2005 out of Loyola Marymount University. A year later he was traded to the Indians as part of the Brandon Phillips trade. He pitched for Team USA in the 2008 Olympics as well. He features a 92-93 mph fastball that can get up to 95mph, an above-average curve and has been working on a slider. He spent most of the 2008 season closing for the Indians Triple-A affiliate in Buffalo. The 25-year old is certainly the best of the three players the Cubs are getting back.
23-year old John Gaub was a 21st round selection by the Indians in 2006 out of the University of Minnesota and had an incredible 14.06 K/9 rate in A-ball last year, even if he was a bit old for the league. He was considered a flamethrower in college, but had his shoulder scoped after his sophomore year which in turn resulted in a loss in velocity. He seems to be getting it back up to the mid 90's on occasion but usually settles in the low 90's with a decent slider and a change-up as well.
20-year old Chris Archer was a teammate of John Gaub at Lake County last season and although he had a healthy 8.27 K/9 rate last season, he walked an incredible 84 batters in 115.1 IP. The 5th-round pick out of high school in 2006 throws in the low 90's with a "plus slider" and scouts think he has the frame to build on that velocity.
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Re: Cubs Trade Mark DeRosa
Submitted by Rob G. on Wed, 12/31/2008 - 12:45pm Permalink
Angels sign Brian Fuentes btw...
Submitted by The Real Neal on Wed, 12/31/2008 - 12:46pm Permalink
Pretty nice K rates on Stevens and the Gobster. The Gobster was probably two years two old for his league, though.
Submitted by Chifan on Wed, 12/31/2008 - 1:10pm Permalink
Gaub was a college kid so that is why he was there, If he pitches well at Daytona (if he stays) to starts the season a promotion to AA By June is not out of the question.
fwiw, none of them were top 10 BA prospects this year... http://www.baseballamerica.com/today/prospect...
or top 20 Sickels prospects, although Stevens gets mentioned a few times by the commenters...
http://www.minorleagueball.com/2008/12/29/704...
Submitted by The Joe on Wed, 12/31/2008 - 12:58pm Permalink
So SD just wants any old shitty pitching prospects? We already had those. Damn, DeRosa just has to be more valuable...doesn't he?
Submitted by 10man on Wed, 12/31/2008 - 1:01pm Permalink
Maybe Rob forgot to mention that the Indians threw in the entire island of Manhattan and most of the northeast in the deal?
Submitted by The Joe on Wed, 12/31/2008 - 1:07pm Permalink
I know this trade has already been made...but maybe we can take it back.
Submitted by Dr. aaron b on Wed, 12/31/2008 - 2:44pm Permalink
Damn you Mark DeRosa and your Non-Lefthandedness!!!
Submitted by Little Nate Lewis on Wed, 12/31/2008 - 12:55pm Permalink
Any announcement of a Hendry press conference after all of this?
probably wouldn't do it until they sign Bradley...and if they are indeed still going for Peavy, might just do it all together.
I'm sure he'll be on the radio though soon enough.
Submitted by Old and Blue on Wed, 12/31/2008 - 12:55pm Permalink
If the Cubs can just find 12 or 13 more prospects maybe they'll actually pick up Peavy.
Submitted by 10man on Wed, 12/31/2008 - 12:58pm Permalink
For all of those who thought that Hendry was doing nothing because you couldn't see or hear anything, all I have to say is that you just have to be patient. Have a good start to the upcoming year everyone!
Submitted by Cubnut on Wed, 12/31/2008 - 1:04pm Permalink
DeRo will be playing third base for the Indians.
http://tinyurl.com/7lpq6b
MILB pages for the players: Gaub: http://www.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats... He is 23 (4/22/85) and at Low A last year and had a line a line of 34 IP, 3.38 ERA, 2 saves, 100/32 K/BB ratio, 3 HR allowed, .195 BAA, and a .74 GO/AO ratio. Stevens: http://www.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats... He is 25 (9/5/83) bounced around AA and AAA with a line of 5-4, 58.1 IP, 3.24 ERA, 6 saves, 81/27 K/BB, 5 HR allowed, .184 BAA, .86 GB/AO Archer: http://www.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats... He is 20 (9/26/88) and was at Low A and his line of 115.1 IP, 27 starts, 4-8, 106/84 K/BB, 8 HR allowed, 1.65 GO/AO ratio, and .220 BAA. I really can not see how this exicites Towers into trading Peavy. None of these guys are top 20 prospect material at this point. If the only reason this trade was to fit team killer Milton Bradley under payroll, then I will be upset.
Submitted by The Real Neal on Wed, 12/31/2008 - 1:11pm Permalink
Gaub had 100 K's in 34 innings? That's got to be some kind of record. Stevens could probably pitch in Petco right now. I would guess that Archer is a key part for the Peavy trade just based on his age and that he's a starter.
I believe it was 64 IP.
mixed up games and iniings, he had 64 IP.
Submitted by Transmission on Wed, 12/31/2008 - 1:05pm Permalink
Yeah, this and Miles only makes sense if we assume there's something bigger coming..... Will miss ya, Mark.
Submitted by Cubster on Wed, 12/31/2008 - 1:05pm Permalink
the Indians threw in the entire island of Manhattan ---------------- Hopefully Kerry/Mark will wear the beads they got in this transaction.
thanks, doc. i'm glad someone's alive who actually remembers that trade.
Submitted by komondor on Wed, 12/31/2008 - 1:07pm Permalink
A freshly baked cake is on the stove cooling. Now the frosting? Could Ronnie Cedeno be a memory too, moved onto SD?
Submitted by Arizona Phil on Wed, 12/31/2008 - 1:10pm Permalink
If they're not moved in a later deal, Jeff Stevens would probably project as the RHP set-up man at Iowa in 2009 with a possible 2009 call-up at some point, John Gaub would project as a lefty set-up man at Daytona, and RHP Chris Archer would project as a rotation starter at Daytona.
As has been mentioned by Rob G, none of the three are anything close to "hot shot" prospects, although Stevens apparently showed enough promise at AAA Buffalo in 2008 to get a slot on the Indians 40-man roster last month.
While the three pitchers aren't total stiffs, the trade does look like it was basically a salary dump to clear some payroll for Bradley and Peavy. Of the three, I would think only Stevens would be of interest to the Padres in a possible Jake Peavy deal.
Submitted by Andrew on Wed, 12/31/2008 - 1:26pm Permalink
This is a gamble and one that I'm not sure I like altogether, but if it allows us to get Bradley and Peavy without giving up, say, Vitters, then it's an improvement to the club, next year and in the future. Of course, Towers could continue to be the incompetent dick that he is and fuck this up, but one would think Hendry knew which players on the Indians and Rockies he liked. We'll see.
If those two deals do go through, this team is starting to seem a lot like the 2004 version.
Could we get JP for a cheap middle infielder, mid level pitching prospects and Marshall? None of the Cubs top arms would go for this cheap. Best deal JH has never made!
Submitted by Thisistheyear on Wed, 12/31/2008 - 1:34pm Permalink
I assume by cheap middle infielder you mean Cedeno, but you also have to include losing DeRo if JH ships all or at least 2 of the prospects to SD.
Submitted by Rob G. on Wed, 12/31/2008 - 1:30pm Permalink
Final update on the post with what I can put together on their scouting reports and repertoire...
you're welcome :)
feel free to add to the post if you have anything on them AZ Phil...
Some old BA scouting reports on the three pitchers the Cubs got frrom Cleveland...
1. Jeff Stevens pitched at Loyola Marymount and was described as having a "deceptive" 90-91 MPH sinking fastball with an "improved" breaking ball and good command and competitiveness at that time. He was drafted in the 6th round of the 2005 draft by the Cincinnati Reds but was the PTBNL in the Brandon Phillips deal, so he's been traded before. He was moved from the starting rotation to the bullpen after he turned pro, and he has really improved his fastball since making the move. He now throws consistently 92-94 MPH with an occasional 96, and he was the closer for Team USA at the World Cup in Taiwan in November 2007.He also throws a slow curve, a cutter, and a slider.
2. John Gaub threw a 96 MPH fastball with a sharp curve and plus change-up as a sophomore at the U. of Minnesota and was one of the top pitching prospects in the Big Ten hoing into the 2005 season, but then he had shoulder surgery (torn labrum) and had a significant loss of velocity on his fastball and break on his curve when he tried to came back in 2006. He was selected by Cleveland in the 21st round of the 2006 draft, and was signed in August for "5th round money" (he actually got a higher bonus than Chris Archer got as the Indians' 2006 5th round pick). He had additional shoulder surgery post-2006 and so he did not make his pro debut until August 2007, and then he began last season rehabbing at EXST, but he is supposedly finally healthy now. He developed a low release angle to compensate for his shoulder injury.
3. Chris Archer was a highly regarded HS pitcher in North Carolina (he probably knows Mitch Atkins) who reneged on an oral commitment to homestate NC State before signing an NLI to attend Miami (Florida). But the Indians offered him $155K to forget college and he took it. Archer threw a 90-92 four-seam fastball at that time, but his breaking ball was supposed to be his "out" pitch. He has had command problems throughout his career, but his hammer-curve was rated the best in the Indians system, and his fastball has also shown improvement (he now throws 92-94), although it has only minimal movement.
Submitted by TJ on Wed, 12/31/2008 - 1:49pm Permalink
I'm afraid that this trade isn't getting prospects to trade for Peavy. We are fooling ourselves if we think that. This is the result of an owner's parent in bankruptcy and the team being sold. It's creating budget room for Bradley, end of story. Bradley will be a mistake. He has only played in over 100 games 3 times in a 9 year career. Abreau has played in over 150 games 12 staight years. The answer is simple - Abreau.
"The answer is simple - Abreau." Is the question in French? But, if this is all that DeRosa is worth...I'd rather keep him.
Submitted by Chad on Wed, 12/31/2008 - 1:53pm Permalink
I think that would have to be Abreaux. (Still not back at home. Don't worry, regular posting to resume tomorrow.)
No, it really wouldn't. See: Beau, Eau, etc.
wow, you're cranky today.
Am I? Wasn't meaning to be...sorry it sounded that way. [EDIT] But that does remind me to take my pills...I'll go do that.
"Abreaux" we're getting more than one of him?
Submitted by Timmer on Wed, 12/31/2008 - 2:04pm Permalink
If the Cubs signed both Bobby and Winston Abreu, then you could see this headline: "Cubs sign Abreux."
Now that is funny.
Submitted by Mister Whipple on Wed, 12/31/2008 - 7:19pm Permalink
That reminds me to go take your pills.
That's also funny. Hmm. Maybe the pills do work. But come one, who doesn't like French language jokes?
Submitted by dB on Wed, 12/31/2008 - 9:40pm Permalink
any time spent on a dig at the French is quality. For instance a French classified newspaper ad: WW2 military issued rifle. Never fired, dropped once. Nothing beats the timeliness of a WW2 joke.
Submitted by Mister Whipple on Wed, 12/31/2008 - 10:45pm Permalink
Bonjooooooooour you cheese eatin' surrender monkeys!!!
Submitted by Seamhead on Wed, 12/31/2008 - 1:50pm Permalink
If the Cubs go ahead and acquire Peavy ($11 million) for prospects and sign Bradley for an estimated $10 million, then the 25-man team payroll projects to over $146 million. Which strongly suggests that either Vizcaino will be flipped or that other salary will be moved.
AZ Phil updated the payroll sidebar fwiw, although w/o the Marquis deal since it isn't official yet. Projecting the auto-renewals and arbitration he has the payroll at $135M at the moment and if the Marquis deal goes through, it's $130M. Someone said $140M yesterday for the entire 40-man, but earlier it was a 10% boost off of $130M from last year which is $143M. That being said, there's no way to fit both Peavy and Bradley into that, unless Bradley's contract is severely backloaded.
Severely backloaded...isn't that how Hendry rolls?
It's all the doughnuts.
I was expecting a cinnamon roll joke, but I'll take it.
Hendry definitely likes to deal his load to the back.
Submitted by spongebob on Wed, 12/31/2008 - 1:52pm Permalink
Callis on today's ESPN Chat: PERSON 1: Any idea what the Cubs may or may not be doing with these pitchers they just got from Cleveland for DeRosa? Jim Callis: (2:10 PM ET ) The Cubs just flipped DeRosa for Jeff Stevens, John Gaub and Chris Archer. This looks like the prelude to another deal, possibly for Jake Peavy. They're on the verge of dealing Jason Marquis to the Rockies, clearing his salary, something else they wanted to do before getting Peavy. My guess is some or all of those pitchers go to San Diego with Josh Vitters and others (Kevin Hart?) for Peavy. They're about to sign (it may be official) Aaron Miles to fill in at second base, too. PERSON 2: Mr callis of the 3 guys the cubs got back in return from Cleveland in the Derosa trade not one of them was ranked on HQ's or Sickels list of Indian prospects and on top of that none of them even got honorable mentioned.. so who are they? Jim Callis: (2:39 PM ET ) That's why you need to buy the Prospect Handbook--Jeff Stevens is No. 19 and John Gaub is No. 29 on our Top 30, so you can read all about them there. Stevens is a big-league ready reliever with a plus fastball and deceptive delivery. Gaub is a low-90s lefty who would have been an early pick in the 2006 draft had he not been hurt at Minnesota. Archer was a fifth-round pick in 2006, who has a good arm but is still raw. ------ Not bad value for DeRosa...if this really does turn into Peavy it's a great deal! Go for it all 2009!
not that I buy these quotes, but TJ in comment #28 might be on to something... "We are thrilled to acquire three strong, young arms in Jeff Stevens, John Gaub and Chris Archer," said Cubs General Manager Jim Hendry. "They are significant additions to our system and have received universally high marks from our scouts, notably Stan Zielinski. "It's never easy to say goodbye to a quality player and person like Mark DeRosa," Hendry continued. "He was a major contributor to our success the last two seasons. But today represents a prime opportunity to stock our organization with three pitching prospects, to modify the balance and shape of our major league roster and to give our rising talent a chance to contribute more regularly at the major league level." http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/news/press_releas...
I don't buy it, personally. He's not going to trade for these guys then immediately say they're on their way out. But, it's also possible, that they're here to replace guys in the Cubs system who are going to be traded.
It's all about Lou's love of Handedness. Miles bats Lefty(switch) and Derosa didn't. Hendry is up against it finacially. So this is clearing space to backload a deal for Bradley or Abreu. I will be shocked if Peavy is a cub before a sale. It reeks of Brian Roberts "smokescreen" that Hendry did all last offseason to distract fans. Especially when we look at the other big market teams shelling out big bucks. I see the quote heading into spring training now. "We think we have really improved ourselves. We obviously looked at some other guys and made really strong efforts to get them. Ultimately we decided that the cost was a little too high."
The lineup does need balance but I don't like it that it comes from dealing away a strength in DeRosa's production & versatility. I would have preferred to keep DeRo and free up money for a RFer by not signing Dempster especially if the Cubs do land Peavy. Pie could have been dealt to the O's for Olson to use in the Peavy trade so Marshall would be a solid cheap #5 SP.
Way to go Sullivan
http://blogs.chicagosports.chicagotribune.com... (emphasis added) The Cubs acquired three pitching prospects from the Indians for DeRosa -- left-hander John Stevens, who was added to the 40-man roster, lefty John Gaub and right-hander Chris Archer. Stevens, 25, went 5-4 with a 3.24 ERA in 2008 in Double-A Akron and Triple-A Buffalo, with a .184 batting average against. He averaged 12.5 strikeouts per nine innings, and had a 3:1 strikeouts-to-walks ratio. If the Cubs don’t sent him to San Diego, he’ll get a chance to compete for a middle relief spot this spring as the second lefty behind Neal Cotts. Jeff Stevens...righty.
Re: Way to go Sullivan
I always though Sullivan was disleftsick. that proves it.
Submitted by tem99 on Wed, 12/31/2008 - 2:05pm Permalink
The way I see this trade, the good: Frees up payroll, allows Fontenot to start at 2b. I might be in the minority, but I think Fontenot will produce around the same as Dero offensively in '09 at a fraction of the cost. the bad: Derosa was traded at probably the height of his value but i'm surprised that Hendry didn't get more, I would think Minnesota would have heavy interest. We will mess derosa's positional flexibility. Long story short, if this allows the cubs to sign only Bradley, I'm just ok with it due to Bradley's fragility. But if this allows the cubs to trade for Peavy too than it's a very good deal.
Submitted by Tito on Wed, 12/31/2008 - 2:07pm Permalink
If the Cubs get Peavy and Bradley, having lost Wood, DeRosa, Marquis and whomever might go in the Peavy deal, are they a better tream? Tough to see that right now, but maybe it's just because I really like DeRosa. Have dealt with him a number of times and was always very approachable and professional. I loved what he brought to the team on the field also.
in terms of talent, I think it's a better team...the question is what talent will be on the field.
assuming a healthy rotation of Peavy, Zambrano, Harden, Dempster and Lilly...well that's just fuckin ridiculous. It's also fuckin ridiculous to assume they'll be healthy.
Offensively...
we replace Edmonds/Johnson CF platoon, Fukudome in RF and DeRosa at 2B with most likely Fukudome/Johnson CF platoon, Bradley in RF and Fontenot at 2B.
DeRosa to Fontenot is likely going to be a downgrade from 2008, but essentially replacing Edmonds with Bradley is probably a bit of gain, even though Edmonds had a helluva season. You'll also be limiting Fukudome's at-bats.
if there's no Peavy, it's essentially a lateral move to get more left-handed. If they do get Peavy, it's definitely an upgrade, although the bullpen will be worrisome with just one reliable arm in my opinion.
Submitted by The E-Man on Wed, 12/31/2008 - 2:33pm Permalink
For once - JH traded high on someone. Woot! DeRosa will be missed except in the Playoffs - if the team makes it - where he undoubtedly was a big disappointment to me personally. His DP with the bases loaded in Game 1, while I was sitting there knowing it was wait 'til next year, ranks up there with Cubs chokes in crucial moments. Not as big as A-Gon, but when coupled with his errors in THIS years' playoffs - lets try a new hand. Without Peavy, it may be a lateral move with more LH opportunity, as you say. "We are thrilled to acquire three strong, young arms in Jeff Stevens, John Gaub and Chris Archer," said Cubs General Manager Jim Hendry. "They are significant additions to our system and have received universally high marks from our scouts, notably Stan Zielinski." If we hang on to the above pitchers - we get some nice inventory for other things down the road.
pretty sure that DP was in Game 3 in 2007...
on another note, I always feel dirty writing DP
Yeah, but remember when he hit into that DVDA?
DeRosa's one of the only Cubs who've hit in both the past two postseasons (.333 both times, drove in four of the six Cubs runs in '08). Yeah, the DP (that's for you Rob) in Game 3 hurt, as did his error in the Game 2 '08 debacle. Still....sorry he's gone.
JP and MB for a bag of baseballs, some chalk and a glove, and all done under tight financial constraints. Could we ever knock JH again? GM of the year? He's that genius, I hope.
I'm confused about random baseball equipment analogy. He's losing Wood, Marquis, and DeRosa, plus some of our best 'prospects' in these deals (that haven't happened yet)...they are and were all valuable.
Submitted by champsummers on Wed, 12/31/2008 - 2:30pm Permalink
I'm confused about the reference to "a bag of baseballs" but no mention of Simoniz.
or the used infield rake
Sorry, I'm thinking we are maybe getting ready to make a great deal. Wood was gone already, due in part to the market. Marquis is, and will remain, painful to watch. DeRose is a nice piece but you have to give up something to get something. JP for Marshall, Cedeno or Theriot and prospects is cheap and all under $143 million. Cubs advance in the playoffs. My hat will be off to JH, koolaid raised in toast!
I think that some of the concern is that many of us expected higher return for DeRosa, -I certainly did. To use your expression, in this case we really did not get much of anything for our something. -and I was certain that draft picks would be forthcoming for losing Wood. With regard to Marquis, as a 4 or 5, I really didnt think he was that painful to watch. (no more than Z in his "ace" role). If we ultimately get Peavy, I agree Hendry is a god; We can all make Marquis jokes, and nobody will worry about the DeRosa return. It may be a different story if we dont.
many of us expected higher return for DeRosa That DeRosa has only 1 year left on his contract is a big factor in why Hendry didn't/couldn't get more.
Fair point. What I was trying to illustrate is that in our attempt to aquire Peavy we have already given up Wood, Marquis and Derosa. (well, we now have Gathright, Gregg and Miles, but you get the idea). He's giving up a bunch.
letting go of Wood has nothing to do with acquiring Peavy. Hendry was not going to sign him at $10M/year with or without Peavy.
You can't talk about payroll restraints and mention the Bradley signing without taking into account the loss of Wood for budget reasons.
If the Padres deal Peavey, they will be down to essentially two competent ML starters. That suggests that, at a minimum, someone like Hart has to be part of any Peavy deal, to ensure that they at least have a warm body to pitch every 5th day. They need cheap, ML-ready pitching far more than they need Pie and Cedeno.
also the bench is significantly changing... Assuming 12 pitchers, 8 starters with Fukudome, Edmonds in the OF. 2008: (LH) Fontenot, Ward (RH) Johnson, Cedeno, Blanco ...with 11 pitchers I would have had to include one of Murton, EPat or Pie Assuming 12 pitchers, 8 starters with Fontenot at 2B, Fukudome in CF, Bradley in RF 2009 (so far): (LH) Miles, Hoffpauir, Gathright (RH) Johnson, Miles, Backup Catcher. and of course on days he doesn't pitch: Zambrano (switch) ...and assuming Cedeno is gone
I'd feel better if we had a competent SS prospect above A ball.
Bruce Miles
http://blogs.dailyherald.com/node/1168 says the DeRosa deal is more to make room for Bradley's contract then get Peavy. Any Peavy talks will wait until new ownership is decided upon...which someone in the comments had already touched upon. Assuming no Peavy trade is Bradley in RF and Fontenot at 2B 1) > 2) < 3) = to DeRosa in RF/Fontenot at 2b? certainly Bradley in RF/DeRosa at 2b would be best scenario, but it's at worse a lateral move imo...
Submitted by Bleeding Blue on Wed, 12/31/2008 - 3:28pm Permalink
If this is not the prelude to a trade for Peavy, I'm going to be very annoyed by Hendry's moves this week. I hope I'm wrong, but I have a feeling that these are pure cost cutting moves and freeing up some payroll for Bradley. Replacing Wood with Gregg downgraded the bullpen. Replacing DeRosa with Miles/Fontenot downgrades the infield and makes the team less flexable. (and no, I'm not in the group that thinks Fontenot will be just as good as DeRosa) Getting Bradley to replace Edmunds will be an upgrade, but only if he can get beyond his track record and play every day. If he gets hurt again, and you've lost DeRosa as an option, You're going to be seeing a combination of Fuk/Reed/Pie/Gathright taking up 2 spots in the line-up really frequently. Even dumping Marquis seems a bit shortsighted. As much as everyone seems to be celebrating that he's on his way out, He was a 5th starter who you could trust to throw 200 innings every year with a ERA that was below average, but still servicable for a 5th starter. I think Marshall is a better pitcher for the #5 spot, but going out of your way to get rid of your safety net (especially when you've got Harden and Zambrano who typically miss some time), when you're not going to save much (if any) money just doesn't seem like a great decision either. I know the offseason isn't done yet, but I simply haven't seen any moves so far that make me think that the 09 Cubs will be better than 08.
Submitted by Paul Noce on Wed, 12/31/2008 - 3:52pm Permalink
I'm not pleased with these moves. I understand they are trying to get left-handed hitters, but they are adding a subpar run producer in Miles and an injury prone hitter in Bradley at the expense of a solid, if not spectacular Derosa who was good for plus RBI production at 2b. I also find it comical that Dero had 10 more rbi's last season than Bradley's career high, yet we're dumping Dero's $6 mil to hand out something in the range of 2 years, $20 mil to Bradley. On an unrelated topic, compare these two half season splits from last year: Player 1 second half: .222/.253/.353 18 runs, 4 hr, 18 rbi in 180 plate appearances Player 2 second half: .217/.314/.326 20 runs, 3 hr, 22 rbi in 202 plate appearances Player 1 is our former CF, Corey Patterson Player 2 is our "new" CF, Fukudome That's scary. And Patterson makes $800k next year while Fuku gets $12 mil. If Fuku doesn't recover and contribute much more at the plate, Hendry will be trying to add another outfielder by mid-May.
Also keep in mind. Marquis and DeRosa were the big contract to come off the books after 2009. With all the backloaded deals saddled upon the club. We might see even more cost cutting next year. Assuming that Trib continues to drag it's feet on the sale. Thank God Blogv got arrested before he could screw the cubs in the future. Whoever said that Sam Zell would be an ok franchise Steward, was dead wrong.
Submitted by The Real Neal on Thu, 01/01/2009 - 7:47am Permalink
"Whoever said that Sam Zell would be an ok franchise Steward, was dead wrong." Isn't he the guy who's let us add $40 million to the payroll?
Submitted by carmelo on Wed, 12/31/2008 - 3:55pm Permalink
Again, #1 goal in off-season was to get more LHH in line-up----now vs. a tough RHP, Lou can start 4 LHH in the line-up, Miles @SS, [email protected], Fuk in CF, and Bradley in RF------vs a tough LHP Theroit @SS, Miles @ 2B, Johnson in CF and Bradley in RF-----the problems is really during the play-offs when you know you are going to face good RHP, you need LHH---Lou stated that right after the play-offs ended---the down side of losing DeRosa is who plays 3B for 2 weeks if/when ARam goes down?---also, look for a LHH back-up catcher, either K. Hill or Bako---#2 goal in any off-season is starting pitching, so now if we can get Peavy because of these moves get it done---glad JH is working hard to improve the team
Hendry will be on XM 175 program shortly, 4:30 pm Chicago time...Think it's rob dibble and casey stern hosting.
thnx for the tip...
gonna pull it up online as I'm too lazy to get my receiver from my car.
will update with anything interesting.
If we get Peavy and one of the following Bradley Dunn Burrell Abreu Then this was a good move. Who would have ever guessed that backloading all these deals would eventually kill Hendry's flexiblity?
Part of the problem with getting Peavy though is that his contract is also backloaded. He gets $11 mil for 2009, then it jumps up... "10:$15M, 11:$16M, 12:$17M, 13:$22M club option or ($4M buyout)" And his agent is rumored to want that option picked up to ok a trade. I like Peavy, I just wonder how much more his contract will cause us to make moves we normally wouldn't down the road because of money. http://mlbcontracts.blogspot.com/2005/01/san-...
let's see
Zambrano goes barely up to $17.875M in 2010 (17.75 in 2009) Soriano jumps $2M to $18M and stays there for the rest of his deal Ramirez goes barely up to to $15.75M (15.65M in 2008) Lee stays at $13M Lilly stays at $12M Dempsters stays at $12M (although technically he got $8M and a $4M signing bonus for 2009). Fukudome jumps to $13M from $11.5M
only a $3.75M jump...not too bad, would be if they do add Peavy. Likely to lose $7M off the books with Harden. Soto might be a Super-Two next year but likely to fall short. He should be at 2.096 after next season and if my memory serves me well, Phil says the cutoff usually ends up around 110...technically it's the top 16% of service time.
And what did those players contracts add up to in 2008? The reason Wood, Derosa, and Marquis are gone is because of all the backloaded contracts. I think most Cubs fans would rather have Woodie than Kevin Gregg, and Dero over any other current 2b on the team. I understand how it works, and I'm not bitching about adding all of the high priced guys, it's refreshing for the Cubs to spend money, but these big deals handcuff teams, especially when they are so heavily backloaded. Most of the recent deals had significantly lower first two season salaries to try and pass the bulk of their contracts off on the new owner. The check has come due.
should have clarified my opinion...
Hendry and the Cubs were expecting a new owner to be already named by this point. It was suppose to be done at numerous times over 2008. I don't think it's a coincidence that the big jump in backloaded salaries came after the 2008 season. If you look at it from 2009 and beyond, they stay relatively steady.
Was Hendry expecting to get canned by now? I don't think so, I think he was expecting a new owner.
And isn't backloading contracts pretty common? I don't think this is uniquely a Hendry problem. Someone with an economics degree can explain it better, but I think with inflation, generally rising revenues and payrolls, it usually makes sense. Unfortunately once in awhile, a recession hits or Sam Zell takes over your team and you get screwed.
I would also venture a guess that Hendry had the full approval and possible advice of one Crane Kenney on most of these deals.
Backloading contracts saves you money in NPV, and it is common, just not as common to do it as extensively as Hendry has.
Submitted by WISCGRAD on Thu, 01/01/2009 - 10:12am Permalink
Proof? Let's see a breakdown by GM before you just assert something like that. You can find contract info here if you want to do some research: http://mlbcontracts.blogspot.com/
Submitted by The Real Neal on Thu, 01/01/2009 - 11:36am Permalink
Here's an interesting idea, why don't you get off your fat ass and disprove it?
Submitted by WISCGRAD on Thu, 01/01/2009 - 1:03pm Permalink
Here's an interesting idea, get a fucking life besides spending all of your day on here telling everyone else they are wrong and asserting that you are always right.
Submitted by Rob G. on Thu, 01/01/2009 - 1:17pm Permalink
well happy New Year to the both of you!
let's just stop this right here and watch some hockey or college football or flowers on floats.
But here is just one example that illustrates it is common practice among GMs: Cleveland Indians Travis Hafner 07:$6.3M, 08:$8.05M, 09:$11.5M, 10:$11.5M, 11:$13M, 12:$13M, 13:$13M club option ($2.75M buyout) Cliff Lee 06:$0.75M, 07:$2.75M, 08:$3.75M, 09:$5.75M Victor Martinez 05:$0.5M, 06:$0.8M, 07:$3M, 08:$4.25M, 09:$5.7M, 10:$7M club option ($0.25M buyout) Grady Sizemore 06:$0.5M, 07:$0.75M, 08:$3M, 09:$4.6M, 10:$5.6M, 11:$7.5M, 12:$8.5M club option ($0.5M buyout) Jhonny Peralta 06:$0.5M, 07:$0.75M, 08:$2.25M, 09:$3.4M, 10:$4.6M, 11:$7M 2011 club option ($0.25M buyout) Rafael Betancourt 08:$2.05M, 09:$3.35M, 10:$5.4M club option Fausto Carmonoa 08:$0.5M, 09:$2.75M, 10:$4.9M, 11:$6.1M, 12:$7M club option, 13:$9M club option, 14:$12M club option
probably not the best example, as I believe most of those deals bought out those guys arbitration years and a year or two of free agency, rather than veteran contracts.
All Free Agent Contracts: Raul Ibanez 09:$6.5M, 10:$11.5M, 11:$11.5M Adam Eaton 07:$6.875M, 08:$7.635M, 09:$8.5M, 10:$9M Geoff Jenkins 08:$5M, 09:$6.75M, 10:$7.5M Vladimir Guerrero 04:$10M, 05:$11.5M, 06:$12.5M, 07:$13.5M, 08:$14.5M, 09:$15M Gary Mathews Jr. 07:$6M, 08:$9M, 09:$10M, 10:$11M, 11:$12M Miguel Tejada 04:$3M, 05:$9M, 06:$10M, 07:$12M, 08:$13M, 09:$13M Carlos Lee 07:$11M, 08:$12M, 09:$18.5M, 10:$18.5M, 11:$18.5M, 12:$18.5M BJ Ryan 06:$2M, 07:$5M, 08:$10M, 09:$10M, 10:$10M Jeff Suppan 07:$6M, 08:$8M, 09:$12.5M, 10:$12.5M, 11:$12.75M club option Troy Glaus 05:$8M, 06:$9M, 07:$10.5M, 08:$12.5M Dan Haren 09:$7.5M, 10:$8.25M, 11:$12.75M, 12:$12.75M, 13:$15.5M Andruw Jones 08:$9M, 09:$15M Hiroki Kuroda 08:$5M, 09:$10M, 10:$13M Rafael Furcal 09:$6.5M, 10:$8.5M, 11:$12M, 12:$12M club option Most major free agent contracts are backloaded, many significantly so, just from my perusing the rosters only about 1 in 5 are contracts in which the annual rate stays about the same throughout the life of the contract - like for instance Jason Schmidt 07:$12.5M, 08:$12M, 09:$12M
some of those first year numbers are probably off as they don't put in the signing bonus $$, fwiw...
but I think it's safe to say Ned Colletti is a big fan of backloading contracts....
The same of course can be said of the Cubs. If you add signing bonuses to the first year, Hendry's recent signings look like this: Zambrano 08:$20M, 09:$17.75M, 10:$17.875M, 11:$17.875M, 12:$18M, 13:$19.25M Soriano 07:$17M, 08:$13M, 09:$16M, 10-14:$18M annually Ramirez 07:$13M, 08:$14M, 09:$15.65M, 10:$15.75M, 11:$14.6M player option, 12:$16M club option ($2M buyout) Lee 06-10: $13M annually Dempster 09:$12M, 10:$12.5M, 11:$13.5M, 12:$14M player option Lilly 07:$9M, 08:$7M, 09:$12M, 10:$12M Fukudome 08:$10M, 09:$11.5M, 10:$13M, 11:$13.5M Marquis 07:$4.75M, 08:$6.375M, 09:$9.875M DeRosa 07:$2.75M, 08:$4.75M, 09:$5.5M Marquis and DeRosa are the two extreme backloaded salaries. Lilly's rises a lot too. Soriano has a discounted 2nd year. but otherwise everyone is pretty much within a million or two annually for the duration of their contracts.
Submitted by Rob G. on Thu, 01/01/2009 - 11:34am Permalink
as I said, the jump from 2008 to 2009 is extreme but I think there was a reason for it. Everything else from my brief glimpse looks pretty S.O.P.
Z 2008: $15 mil (2009: 17.75) Sori 2008: $13 mil (2009: 16) ARam 2008: $14 (2009: 15.75) Lee $13 both years Lilly 2008: $7 mil (2009: $12 mil) Dempster 2008: $5.5 mil (2009: $12 mil) Fuku 2008: $6 mil (2009: $11.5 mil) That's increase of $24.5 mil for 2009 on 7 players. Not 3.75.
i was responding to your point about adding Peavy's contract down the road...I know that between last season and next was a significant jump.
I'm saying from 2009 and beyond, it's actually not that big a deal. This was the year that they got their provebial balls stuck in the vice.
fwiw, fukudome made $10M last year ($4M signing bonus), Dempster shouldn't be in there as he was a free agent and not a backloaded contract.
Submitted by crunch on Wed, 12/31/2008 - 4:26pm Permalink
given the payroll has been rumored lately to be around the 140m area...and given that like 2/3rd of the payroll (as it stood as of yesterday) was already in that area... well, i would look forward to an either/or with the big OF or big SP, but i'm not holding my breath for both.
Dibble said Bradley is a known cancer in the clubhouse...Hear that MB, go after that dumb boob. Stern has a boner for a Roberts deal
dibble was a cancer in the clubhouse...screw him...or rather, give him a vodka screwdriver. i dont think bradley on a multiyear is a safe thing for a NL club, but the guy hasn't been called out by his peers in quite a while.
Dibs would gladly trade you that screwdriver for a new plain black t-shirt in size smmedium to show off the guns.
Look. Some of you were complaining that DeRo was getting paid too much at the time he was signed. Now you're bitching that he was traded. Which way is it gonna be? Now you're bereft that he's gone for Aaron Miles and three young arms with the last year of his deal? Let's ease out of the amrchair GM chair for a minute and see what happens prior to the convention (and, you can bet something will go down prior to then). And, further, let's see what team we will be fielding come opening day. Stoney was on the SCORE thirty minutes ago and stated that with Bradley, the Cubs should win the Division again by 12-14 games (he said 8 last year - off by two).
on XM, Hendry: plans on picking up another LH outfielder sings DeRosa's praises for versatility, good person, etc. but move (implying adding Miles?) was to get more left handed and DeRosa was RH. Stern asks about Brian Roberts to play 2B. Hendry: No talks with Baltimore at all this offseason. Andy's not interested in dealing him. Cubs will go with Fontenot and Miles at 2B. Hendry: expect a couple of deals in the next 7-10 days including an OF bat. Stern: how about the bullpen? Hendry: Even without Woody, Marmol and Greg can both close. Also mentions Shark, Guzman, Cotts ...says Stevens may help in the pen. Stern: Any concerns about Soriano struggles in the postseason? Hendry: He's a streaky guy, a 270-280 hitter, not the model of consistency but he had 3 bad games in the playoffs but played well in the 2nd half last year. Dibble: what about the economy? Hendry: our ownership situation is unique. What we have/haven't done this winter is more affected by the ownership sale rather than the economy. Stern: Yankee's exorbitant spending, Salary Cap? Where do you stand? Hendry: I've spent alot of money in the last few years. I've no animosity toward the Yankee spending. I try not to be critical of others. Every GM would like more money on the payroll. Dibble: where are you? It sounds like you are hunting? Hendry: I'm in my brother's neighborhood, play a little golf here but I'm not carrying a gun.
new post up with a recap of Hendry on XM radio...
Submitted by Dmac on Wed, 12/31/2008 - 4:56pm Permalink
Bradley may or may not be a "cancer in the clubhouse," but when you consider the source, that's a laughable assertion. Dibble has always been and always will be a ginormous horse's ass, and his teammates in Cincy didn't care for his act one damn bit. But they won with him anyway, so it didn't matter in the end.
So once the Marquis-Bradley deals are finalized, Hendry is in the position of being able to live with the present roster. And once the sale is complete, he is also has the pieces to get Peavy if the new ownership group agrees to increase the budget to accomodate Peavy's salary. He probably already has some assurances from the different groups that such approval would be given, or we wouldn't be hearing that the Peavy deal is back on the burner.
Submitted by Tarzan Joe on Wed, 12/31/2008 - 5:57pm Permalink
No question signing Bradley is a gamble. The injury history, the recent lack of reps in the outfield, switching leagues yet again. I'm not as concerned about the "cancer in the clubhouse" issue. Last year's team was painted as a clubhouse chock full of nice character guys without much internal strife. They won a bunch of games and then crapped the bed (again) in the Divisional series. Bottom line: whether it's changing the makeup of the clubhouse, the "handedness" of the lineup, or the pecking order at the top of the rotation (by acquiring "he-who-shall-not-be-named"), Hendry has to roll the dice a bit. Bradley may be tempestuous, but the team could certainly use some fire. And I know it's a weak comparison, but the Rodman thing worked out pretty well for the Bulls. Could it blow up in Hendry's face? Of course. But taking chances (even expensive chances) is part of the job description.
Submitted by OakLawnGuy on Wed, 12/31/2008 - 8:28pm Permalink
You summed it all up in your last sentence, Tarz. Cubs won 97 games but ZERO in the post season. Chances need to be taken, changes need to be done. Why is Kenny Williams a genius for being so impatient with what appeared to be good rosters in the past, and now Hendry ships out a veteran utility guy and he's a goof? The clubhouse does seem too nice. Maybe Bradley was a considered a cancer in a losing clubhouse, maybe he wanted to push guys into playing winning baseball. Gerald Perry, his former hitting coach in Oakland and sparring partner, said as much. My only objection is the guy cannot put in a full season to save his soul.
Submitted by Jose on Wed, 12/31/2008 - 7:00pm Permalink
Without the DeRosa deal, the team has been weakened. However, if we can go out and get Peavy, then I am okay with the DeRosa deal. But, if the DeRosa deal was to clear salary for Bradley, then this is not a better 2009 team than the 2008 team. It will be three and out and we are back to square one. Wish there was something that we could do to force Abreu over Bradley in Hendry's mind. Sorry, I am just not a big Bradley fan and I can not get excited about him joining the Cubs.
any team with dlee/aram/soriano/soto adding another power bat isn't in that bad of shape. ...not to mention the 4 starting pitchers.
Sure there's something you could do. Go find him and tell him he sucks. After he strangles you, I imagine Hendry will look elsewhere for RF.
Everyone....there is no question this team is weaker RIGHT NOW, but there is a lot of offseason left. I don't believe for a minute that Hendry is nearly done with the roster. Adding Miles allows more flexibility. Bradley might not even be coming here, MLB reports today that Washington is going all out for him to play center (good luck with that, Jim Bowden). On your Abreu point I think the only way he becomes a Cub is if he's gets cheaper. With reports of three other teams chasing him, that might not pan out.
Submitted by Cubster on Thu, 01/01/2009 - 2:35pm Permalink
it seems many of these contracts are backloaded but seeing the above numbers doesn't account for the bonus dollars which often gets some additional deferred treatment, if not exactly as "backloaded" as the actual salary. ie. Andruw Jones ... Jones will receive a $12.2 million signing bonus, of which $5.1 million is payable next year, $2.1 million in 2009 and $5 million in 2010. He will get salaries of $9 million next year and $15 million in 2009, and also will receive a no-trade clause. so Jones got $14.1M in 2008, $17.1M in 2009 and a final "bonus" of $5M in 2010 after the "employment" component of the contract is over. Now that's a bad contract (unless your name is Andruw). Ol' 3/44 aka Ned Coletti needs to roll a peanut down the street with his nose for offering that one.
Submitted by Barry on Thu, 01/01/2009 - 3:22pm Permalink
Speaking of pitchers and catchers reporting in 6 weeks, why are we about to sign Bako when Greg Zaun is available? Sure Zaun is 37 but is still effective.
Submitted by Dusty Baylor on Fri, 01/02/2009 - 7:48am Permalink
How does adding Miles add flexibility?? DeRosa hit LHP and RHP, and played 2B, 3b, SS, and OF. Miles can switch hit, hitting for average with zero power from both sides of the plate. Someone mentioned Miles at SS?? Aaron Miles career at SS: 107 games, .958 pct, 3.88 RFg, league RFg3.99 Oh..and his .317 ba last yeaar was a career high at age 31 (now 32) .289/.329/.364 So he's Neifi Perez if Neifi could hit for average a bit. Of course even Neifi hit 9 HR and 33 doubles for the Cubs in 2005. Miles will never sniff those marks.
Submitted by crunch on Fri, 01/02/2009 - 6:04pm Permalink
fwiw, aaron miles's D has improved since his earlier days. hell, in STL he improved a lot. it was kinda shocking how much better his footwork got. his arm is decent. that said...yeah, for batting he'll take an occasional walk, swing at almost everything, and hit singles. he can play 2nd/3rd/SS, though. don't think anyone would want him playing 162 games there, though. he's much better suited for 2nd.
Submitted by Jose on Fri, 01/02/2009 - 11:17am Permalink
The Joe: If that was a joke, I did not get it. Regarding the cancer issue, Bradley will not fire up this team. He will probably point to other players who do not deliver and then go out and either K, make an error, or get injured. We need someone who is capable of delivering a key hit during critical times, like the playoffs. Bradley is not that player. Even if Abreu is more expensive, he has a better history and more upside than Bradley.
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Dolorous Jon Lester 7 min 33 sec ago (view)
I wonder if the investment cost the exact amount we saved by trading Darvish...
Calling oneself Straight Arrow is like someone having to say "you can trust me completely." Pretty clear the opposite is true.
Reclamation projects with minimal risk are good in general, but having this guy be currently projected for a rotation spot is laughable.
I would have much preferred to see them sign Foltynewicz in this capacity. Folty was bad last year and the year before but at least its only been two years since he was successful, and he has two years of team control remaining. Miller last put together a good season in 2015.
Cubster 2 hours 20 min ago (view)
Monday Tribune: Conservative Joe Ricketts to launch Omaha-based "unbiased" online news service (called Straight Arrow news).
Yeah, right. Making son Pete look like a liberal.
Laura when hearing the name hysterically laughed out loud.
Sinclair media investing?
crunch 10 hours 51 min ago (view)
yeah...sigh.
875K if he makes the team with 600K in performance bonuses possible.
Dolorous Jon Lester 11 hours 5 min ago (view)
Shelby Miller...? Really?
crunch 18 hours 2 min ago (view)
i like the cubs odds on this one.
Arizona Phil 21 hours 57 min ago (view)
Ian Happ arbitration figures are $4.1M (player) and $3.25M (club) with hearing date TBD.
crunch 2 days 9 hours ago (view)
* all figures stated are in a range of +/- 10m
yeah, that was me not typing info correctly. my bad.
Arizona Phil 2 days 11 hours ago (view)
Bryant got $19.5M
crunch 2 days 14 hours ago (view)
bryant 9.5m, contreras 6.65m, baez 11.65m, z.davies 8.63m
looks like happ is going to arbitration.
RHP Edward Vasquez (2017 IFA - Dominican Republic) has retired.
E. Vasquez was one of the top SP on DSL Cubs Red in 2019 and was expected to be a SP on one of the Cubs AZL teams in 2020 if the minor league season hadn't been canceled.
He would have been first-time Rule 5 Draft eligible post-2021.
K Dub 3 days 14 hours ago (view)
Thanks Phil!
danny hultzen retires and joins the cubs as a "pitching development assistant"
shame the comeback story didn't last longer...but hey, at least he got to taste the bigs after his body failed him for so many years.
theo joining the commish's front office operation as a "consultant reguarding on field matters"...basically weighing in on the possible impact of rules changes.
https://www.thecubreporter.com/comment/266505#comm...
Yeah, to my calculation that suspension should be over by now unless he got caught again...
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How High Should Top Income Tax Rates Be? <br>Getting the Fight Right
I didn’t misrepresent work by economists Peter Diamond and Emmuanuel Saez, but Tim Worstall at Forbes sure did.
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By Andrew Fieldhouse, The Fiscal Times
Over at Forbes, Tim Worstall didn’t take kindly to an op-ed I authored for The Fiscal Times pointing out that research by two economists, Peter Diamond and Emmanuel Saez, indicates that individual income tax rates are currently well below their revenue-maximizing rates. He accuses me of misrepresenting their work ... by completely misrepresenting their work, as well as mine. The crux of his ire with my “propaganda” is this paragraph in my piece:
“Most importantly, recent economic research has shown that productive economic activity is relatively unresponsive to increases in the top income tax rate, and the top income tax rate is well below the levels where it maximizes revenue. Economists Peter Diamond and Emmanuel Saez estimate that the revenue maximizing income tax rate is 73 percent (combing federal, state and local taxes).”
Worstall: “No, that is not what that paper says. What it does say is that in a tax system with no allowances then that peak of the Laffer Curve, that revenue [maximizing] rate, is 73 percent. What it also says is that the peak in a system with allowances is more like 54 percent.”
Nope, that’s totally wrong. What the paper says — it’s on page 7 — is that in today’s system the best estimate of the revenue-maximizing rate is 73 percent. Period.
A bit (or more than a bit) of wonkish explanatory background: The bottom-line number for assessing the impact of tax changes on revenue collected is the “elasticity of taxable income” (ETI), which simply measures the change in reported taxable income that accompanies changes in tax rates. The higher the elasticity (in absolute value), the more responsive taxable income is to tax rates. So, the higher the elasticity of taxable income (ETI) with respect to the net-of-marginal tax rate, the less revenue is raised in response to higher rates. Diamond and Saez:
“The key remaining empirical ingredient to implement the formula for the optimal tax rate is the elasticity e of top incomes with respect to the net-of-tax rate. With the Pareto parameter a=1.5, if e=.25, a mid-range estimate from the empirical literature, then τ*=1/1(1+1.5 x 0.25)=73 percent, substantially higher than the current 42.5 percent top marginal tax rate (combining all taxes).”
The mid-range elasticity they use comes from a 2012 paper by Joel Slemrod, Seth Giertz, and Saez (PDF) and is a midpoint elasticity based on empirical estimate based on the existing structure of the tax code, not a tax code without allowances. And as I note in my paper, Diamond’s and Saez’s preferred 0.25 ETI estimate is robust to historical and cross-country analyses.
It is true that this elasticity depends on how narrow or broad the tax base is (which is why tax reform should both broaden the base and increase the top rate). But hold that thought for a second. Worstall is wrong on which parameter belongs where.
He’s probably confused because Diamond and Saez illustratively note that a range of upper-income households’ elasticities before deductions (e=0.17) and after deductions (e=0.57) from a 2002 paper by Jonathan Gruber and Saez (PDF) implies a revenue-maximizing tax rate ranging between 80 percent with no allowances and 54 percent with allowances. Worstall seems to have cherry picked the lower bound and stopped reading there (he claims their 73 percent estimate is the upper-bound with “a tax system with no allowances,” omitting this illustrative 80 percent upper-bound with no allowances). But the 2012 review of the literature by Slemrod, Giertz, and Saez finds that, “While there are no truly convincing estimates of the long-run elasticity, the best available estimates range from 0.12 to 0.40,” and Diamond and Saez make clear that this new evidence and its midpoint ETI estimate yields a top rate with allowances of 73 percent.
As I discuss in my paper, the clear policy implication is that top rates can rise significantly even without any tax reform and still raise substantial revenue, and this revenue-maximizing rate just rises with a broader tax base. Worstall argues that the tax base is not going be wiped totally clean, but so what? The point stands that revenue-maximizing top rates are much higher than today’s top rates and will just rise as the tax base gets cleaner. For top earners, lots of this base-broadening to reduce tax avoidance can be accomplished with a handful of changes: eliminating the carried interest loophole, preferential rates on capital gains and dividends, the step-up basis for capital gains at death and the tax exclusion for municipal bond interest.
Worstall also seems to think he’s authored an exposé about my characterization that the “revenue maximizing income tax rate is 73 percent (combing federal, state and local taxes)” because “this is including all taxes on income.” Right, just like I said in the op-ed. Hence my op-ed (and the paper it’s based on) consistently distinguishes between a “revenue-maximizing total income tax rate,” and the “revenue-maximizing top effective federal income tax rate,” and top “statutory federal income tax” (the latter being the relevant takeaway for federal budget policy work). My estimate of a revenue-maximizing top statutory federal income tax rate of 66 percent takes into account surcharges and the effect of the personal exemption phaseout, as well as interactions with the average state and local taxes used by Diamond and Saez.
He ends by failing to understand that “after-tax” income trends in a source document I cite does indeed count the impact of the earned income tax credit (EITC).
All in all, Worstall seems to have skimmed the Diamond and Saez paper for enough time to see a couple of numbers, but he should have taken the time to actually understand it before he went flailing at my op-ed.
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Cisco and IBM Will Collaborate in Eliminating Cybercrime
Cisco and IBM, both Premium partners of HSD, announced that they will collaborate in order to address the increasing threat of cyber crime. The new collaboration covers products and threat intelligence in favour of the customer.
Cisco's security solutions will be integrated in theQRadar platform of IBM which will protect networks, end points and clouds of organisations. Customers will also benefit from the scale size and scope of the support of Cisco its products for Managed Security Service Providers by IBM Global Services. The collaboration also concerns a new dimension in the relationship between IBM X-Force and Cisco Talos security research teams which will start collaborating on threat intelligence research and coordinating on major cybersecurity incidents.
One of the core problems which is faced by the security teams is that the dispersion of security tools are not able to communicate or integrate with each other. Recent investigation among 3,000 chief security officers by Cisco shows that 65% of the organisations use between 6 and 50 different security products. Controlling such a complex landscape results in an extra challenge for overloaded security team which are struggling to guarantee maximum safety. The new collaboration between Cisco and IBM Security mainly focus on supporting organisations with shortening the time for detection and eliminating threats by means of the availability of integrated tools for automatisation of a quicker and more accurate threat response.
The increasing costs of cyber crime urges to make threats visible and to block them as soon as possible, which is the aim of an integrated defensive approach. Besides that, the combination of Cisco its best of breed security solutions and architectural approach, and IBM its Cognitive Security Operations Platform will help customers to protect the core of the organisation of the network, including the endpoints and the cloud.
“Cyber crime will cost the society 6 trillion dollar on a global level. Therefore, IBM has always been in favour of open collaborations and sharing the threat formation in order to undermine the business model of cyber criminals,” says Marc van Zadelhoff, general manager of IBM Security. “Since Cisco will support our defensive ‘immune system’, our shared customers have more possibilities to make more use of cognitive technologies, such as IBM Watson for Cyber Security. Furthermore, the collaboration between our security teams IBM-X Force and Cisco Talos will supply the ‘good guys’ with useful tools in their combat against cyber crime.
Recently both CISCO and IBM presented their challenges during HSD Cafés on security of critical infrastructures and on Internet of Things (IoT).
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Home Province of Alicante Costa Blanca BANNED FROM EU: APPLES, BEEF, CHEESE AND OTHER ITEMS YOU CANNOT TAKE...
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The UK’s decision to leave the European Union means travellers face bans on a wide range of goods.
As a Dutch television report showed, border officials have been confiscating sandwiches from motorists arriving in the Netherlands from the UK – with one frontier guard telling a driver: “Welcome to the Brexit, sir.”
Many items are now prohibited from travellers’ baggage. These are the most significant rules.
What foods are banned?
“POAO” – products of animal origin – and most fruit.
The ban on meat and dairy extends to items such as cakes that contain fresh cream and confectionery “made with high levels of unprocessed dairy ingredients”.
There is an exemption for powdered infant milk, infant food, and special foods required for medical reasons; they must weigh less than 2kg and be packaged, proprietary brand products.
Other specific exemptions are “olives stuffed with fish” and “pasta and noodles, if processed or cooked (but not if mixed or filled with meat or meat products)”.
Vegetables and most fruit are also banned – though bananas, coconuts, dates, pineapples and durians are permitted.
Fish weighing up to 20kg are permitted, though for the specific case of sturgeon caviar the limit is 125g.
“Products other than those described above which do not contain meat or milk (eg honey)” are limited to 2kg.
What about duty-free?
The prices of alcohol and tobacco for UK travellers outbound to the European Union have fallen, because all sales are now duty free. But there are now strict rules on what you can bring in to the EU: one litre of spirits and 200 cigarettes (though only 40 to Estonia and Romania).
“Other goods” are limited to a total of €430 (£390) for travellers by air and sea.
Fuel?
You can carry up to 10 litres in a portable container, in addition to the fuel contained in your vehicle’s tank.
What is the effect on trips to Northern Ireland?
The rules above apply for journeys from Great Britain to Northern Ireland.
The duty-free regulations only affect goods bought free of duty elsewhere – for example if you buy in Dubai, fly to Manchester and transfer for a domestic flight to Belfast, you will be limited to a litre of spirits, 200 cigarettes and £390 in other goods.
What does the government say?
On 1 January the Northern Ireland secretary, Brandon Lewis, tweeted: “There is no ‘Irish Sea Border’.
“As we have seen today, the important preparations the Govt and businesses have taken to prepare for the end of the Transition Period are keeping goods flowing freely around the country, including between GB and NI.”
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By Midge Lyndee
Saying it like Jane Austen
The TALE: Tehachapi Art, Literature and Entertainment
“The change was such as might have plunged weak spirits in despondence,” words by Jane Austen that could easily apply to the isolation of the COVID-19 virus. “We were most commodiously disposed of.” Yet, spring has sprung in spite of all disruption.
“Every day is adding to the verdure of the early trees...the season, the scene, the air were all favorable to tenderness and sentiment.” In other words, spring has sprung without us. But we have inside activities, right?
Some people during this quarantine have decided to take time for themselves, try out a new hobby or learn a new language. Did you ever wish you could speak Italian or French fluently? Even American Sign Language has grown in popularity. With all this social distancing and talking through windows to our loved ones, a very practical choice indeed.
When the book “Say It Like Miss Austen,” written by Stefan Scheuermann, found its way into my personal library recently, I decided to go a different direction. To pursue the elegant and expressive language of an earlier era. It’s English, but with lyrical phrasing, the delightful and flowery play on words from Jane Austen.
I began interjecting her very best phrases into everyday conversations as one does when learning any new language. Crazy? Maybe. But what do I have but time to be crazy? Or rather, “I have so much leisure as to make almost any novelty a certain good.”
Jane Austen, who died at age 41 over two centuries ago, created a body of writing that has surpassed the challenge of time and change, and has remained relevant in today’s modern society. Not her language and form of speaking of course, but her message. Born in 1775, life revolved around status and wealth. Her family was not wealthy but respected, which freed her to question the customs and conventions dominant in that era. She had a very definite opinion about the treatment of women in society and their inability to lead independent lives. Men held the wealth and the power and she thought that wrong.
One of eight siblings, seventh in line and second of two girls, Jane’s brothers dominated and her one sister became her most treasured companion. Neither married. Jane spent a good deal of time contemplating and writing about women as second class citizens and how it was a pompous mistake in the construct of humanity. Of course, she said it much more eloquently than I. Jane said, “I am tired of submitting my will to the caprices of others; of resigning my own judgment in deference.”
Jane is remembered foremost by six novels that still resonate today.
“Sense and Sensibility” published in 1811
A father dies and his wife and three daughters are at the mercy of the son who inherits everything and gives them little. Yet, they find their way through diminished social standing.
And the hero?
“He is not a young man with whom one can be intimately acquainted in a short time.”
“Pride and Prejudice” published in 1813
Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy spar with words and then with hearts before giving in to love.
“The respect created by the conviction of his valuable qualities...had for some time ceased to be repugnant to her feelings.”
“Mansfield Park” published in 1814
Fanny Price is sent from her own dysfunctional family to another, relatives residing in Mansfield Park. Though quiet and shy, she becomes indispensable to family members as they rake havoc amongst themselves.
“She was elevated beyond common timidity of her mind by the flow of her love.”
“Emma” published in 1815
Emma Woodhouse has misplaced confidence in herself and the relationship advice she gives to others, which sometimes results in embarrassment.
“She had feelings which had kept her face averted and her tongue motionless.”
“Persuasion” published in 1817
The Elliot family makes an economical move to Bath in order to accommodate their growing financial difficulties. Anne Elliot is considered a spinster, denied marriage with her true love in her youth due to disapproval of the match. Yet, true love can win against societal mores.
“Her feelings were still adverse to any man save one.”
“Northanger Abbey” published in 1817
Catherine Morland deals with a society that has both embraced and rejected her. Within a gothic castle setting people meet, attract and reject each other. Catherine is exceptionally drawn into the dark gothic setting.
“A sound struck on her affrightened ear.”
These novels are not the only works of Jane Austen. Amongst her writings are poetry and children’s stories and her unfinished novel “Sanditon.” Jane did not pursue wealth from her writing as she wrote to a friend in 1796. “I write without any view to pecuniary Emolument.” Jane strove to have women achieve equality through their own merit.
We as a nation have been wrenched away from our monetary life and set to sit alone with ourselves in isolation. Without the world to howl at us to keep the wheel moving in the rat race, who have you discovered yourself to be? What is your true worth? In this unfortunate circumstance of a virus ridden pandemic, have you found lost pieces of self?
“I had ample leisure for reflection on the present state of our affairs...An occasional memento of past folly, however painful, might not be without use.”
I believe Jane would most reverently and sincerely approve of our repose, using the occupation of an idle hour to discourse within one’s personal countenance, to expose the deepest, most secretly held pieces of our wholeness... That was me, Midge Lyn’dee. How am I doing?
Superlative books.
A preponderance of reading with great wishes for your good health and happiness.
*Midge Lyn’dee is a most sedulous fictional character with the review quite sincerely and humbly presented, with certain appreciation of her readers.
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Merolyn "Bugga" Tena Spafford
Aug 30, 1943 - Nov 24, 2020
MEROLYN TENA (CARTER) SPAFFORD
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Born in Salt Lake City, Utah on August 30th, 1943 at 11:54 p.m.
Passed over on November 24th, 2020 at 7:16 a.m.
Our beloved Sister, Mother, Grandmother, Great-Grandmother, and Friend passed to the other side of the veil after seventy-seven years of countless experiences. She was fondly called Bugga, Bugga Tena, Momma, Grams, Nanny, Lady Bug, Mer, and many accidently called her Merlin (as in the Wizard).
The MATRIARCH of our family, the GLUE to many lives, the TEACHER of countless things, the EXAMPLE of tender touches and love, the CREATOR of numerous special memories, the ACCEPTOR of everyone, and the SOLACE to many hearts has passed to the other side of this realm.
She LOVED BIG, LIVED LOUD, and was the most AUTHENTIC human being ever! We’re all so blessed to have had her in our lives. She was a FIGHTER too! At age seventy-seven, she chose to “GO FOR IT” (she had a unique way of saying that) and fought hard to walk again by getting a full knee replacement about three weeks ago. She AMAZED all the Doctors and Staff with her hard work in recovery and range of motion! She dealt with the pain and looked forward to getting her other knee done in February. She wanted to live and improve, and she was well on her way! But suddenly she found herself in a fight with a dirty bastard, a dirty fighter named COVID-19.
Preceded in death: the love of her life, Lee Willis Spafford; her parents Harold Carter and notably Wilma Fern “Fat Rat” (Mott) Kimball and Ernie Kimball; Her sister, Jerolyn Rosevear; two of her four children, Tena Michelle Booth and Gerald Scott Farrimond; grandson Elijah Trent Spafford; and her great-granddaughter, Winston Sheri Wallingford.
Survived by her passing: a spunky crew including: her siblings, Harold Carter, Raymond Carter, Karen Cater, and Charles Cater; children, Tresha & Mark Maxon, Trent Lee & Teresa Spafford; her grandchildren, Nicholas & Chelsey Booth, Nicole Booth, Destiny & William Wallingford, Beau Maxon, Skyler Maxon, Spencer & Makayla Maxon, Autumn Lynn Spafford, Adisyn Lee Spafford, Moses Niumatalolo, Malia Niumatalolo; great-grandchildren, Lincoln, Bennett, & Andie Booth, Anthony, Atalie & Aceton Booth, and Weslyn Lee Maxon.
We can only imagine the JOY and complete bewilderment she may have felt when she was received on to the other side by Lee, Fat Rat, Tena, Scotty, Elijah, Winnie, and a host of others.
She had a deep love for JESUS. She regularly read her scriptures and loved Psalms and the book of Mathew. She loved to PRAY and we will always remember her “Nanny prayers” (Oh silent night). She LOVES GOD & would openly share her testimony with everyone she could. She raised her children to have faith in the afterlife as she had many personal experiences with it. She was open to different faiths and was raised going to First Baptist Church in SLC, and later in life she became a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
Bugga, what an amazing legacy you leave behind! You taught us to reach out to people, even when it might be uncomfortable for us to do so. You taught us to say hello to total strangers people, to strangers, to individuals that others might shy away from. You showed us how to look at people when walking down the aisle at the grocery store. You taught "GO FOR IT" us to complement others about something interesting about themselves. You showed us that it’s OK to ask someone about what happened with an injury or a disability. You showed us authenticity and taught us how to laugh, even when life is hard. Those who know you are better people. All because of you.
It’s really going to be hard to fill the void you leave behind, but the memories that we have of you fill us up and make us strong forever.
With a special thanks to the staff and caregivers at Covington Senior Living in Lehi, Utah. Mer loved the staff and made loving friends there, no only with other residents , but with many of the nurses, servers, and aids. You were remarkable to her. On behalf of the entire family, we thank you! What you do is so special!
Friday December 4th starting at 1:00 p.m. and ending at 3:00 p.m. we will host a viewing in her honor if you would like to pay her your last respects.
FUNERAL SERVICE & CELEBRATION OF LIFE:
Friday December 4th, starting promptly at 3:30 p.m.
To be held at Premier Funeral Services. Located at 67 east 8000 south Salt Lake City, Ut. 84047. 801-930-9822. The Funeral home requires all to wear a mask inside the building and to use social distancing when possible. Please share thoughts and memories with her family at www.premierfuneral.com.
VIRTUAL VIEWING:
If you would like to view the funeral service and celebration of life online, we will be hosting a FACE BOOK LIVE EVENT. This is by invitation only. Please contact Trent Spafford on FACE BOOK and request an invitation to the group.
The name of the group is “In Memory of Merolyn Bugga Tena Spafford”
Friday, Dec. 04, 2020 1:00 AM - 3:00 AM
Premier Funeral Services
67 E 8000 S
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Trent Spafford
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Lehi, Utah, United States
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I love you all so much!! Peace be with you all!!
Debra Welsh Dec 03, 2020
I can't express how Happy and Excited I was to find You after All these years Mer. The Memories of times at your kitchen table, Enjoying a Sunny Sunshine Day on your BEAUTIFUL AMAZING PATIO, Swimming at The Woodland Drive In. Shopping at Cottonwood Mall (Makoffs) You placing ice on my earlobe and Piercing it. Memories of a time of My second Home with You Tresh and Trenton. I Love You Mer, and the Memories awoken in My Heart Of A Baby Sitter from next door.
Rest Beautiful You! Our Memories will stay alive FOREVER! Love Your KiME
. . . †🤲† . . .
Kim Brine Ellison Dec 02, 2020
Love you Mer . Thank you for being my pseudo Mom. I enjoyed our conversations and hope to see you when I pass the pearly gates.
Eric Fritsch , Salt Lake City, UT, US Dec 01, 2020
You were a very sweet mom and I’m happy you got back in touch with me on Facebook. You will be very missed here by all that were lucky enough to know you.
Dustin Stanworth Nov 29, 2020
So sorry to hear of the passing of Merolyn. She was a grand lady. So happy she came into our lives even it was briefly. . Condolences to the family. You just cannot replace a mother and friend. Trent I remember you being such a great son. She loved you dearly as I am sure she did with all her children. Best of luck in your day of remembering your mom!!
Rex Stanworth , Lindon, UT, US Nov 29, 2020
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Turning Winds is one of the nation’s premier academic Therapeutic Boarding Schools focused on guiding troubled teens from Sonoita, AZ with overcoming behavior issues. Making the shift into teenage and teen years can be a brutal time for teens, and for some, it can be more difficult than others. For the parents of these troubled teens, it is immensely important to find a therapeutic program that can help their teen successfully confront their issues.
Behavior Modification can allow struggling teens from Sonoita, AZ to make behavior changes, but it does not allow them to understand why they behave in certain ways or even how they can learn to exhibit positive behaviors. To prepare for therapy intervention, our staff meets with the parents and the teen to determine the dysfunctional behaviors that are being exhibited. Our program strives to involve the entire family so healing can take place among all the members. Once our staff of mental health professionals has gathered data, we will begin our focused treatment plan to guide the teen towards making better choices that will lead them to their life goals instead of down a path of destruction.
Turning Winds is highly successful in guiding troubled teens from Sonoita, AZ because we factor learning into every aspect of therapy. Learning is a crucial part of changing undesirable behaviors and must be an integral part of any therapy program that is working to bring lasting changes in teens. We take an eclectic approach to treatment using proven strategies in cognitive, behavioral, humanistic, and narrative intervention. We believe this approach lends itself to a natural inclination for internal reflection and the need for change.
Behavior modification programs are sometimes implemented in a dogmatic and extremely uncomfortable way. Troubled teens from Sonoita, AZ are somewhat “forced” into making changes instead of them occurring naturally through hard work, determination, and education. Through a holistic approach, our students successfully make changes in their character and learn the life skills they must possess for living a self-sufficient and successful life well beyond the time they graduate from our program.
While Behavior Modification therapy is a solution for some teens with conditions like ADHD, it is not always effective in those who are dealing with more than one diagnosis. This approach is often limited in making temporary changes because it does not focus on every issue a teen is dealing with. The foundation of our program is based on experiential education. The great outdoors allows for a perfect backdrop for students to learn effective problem-solving and the crucial skills they will use throughout their life. Often, it takes a multi-treatment approach for teens who are dealing with mental and behavioral issues to make lasting changes.
Complex Conditions Require Solutions that Involve a Team Effort
It is important for parents of teens with ADHD and other behavioral and mental conditions to be able to successfully recognize the signs of the condition. While mild ADHD may not require therapy at all, some teens end up exhibiting other serious mental and behavioral health issues that require a concerted effort in treatment. Our program seeks to help troubled teens from Sonoita, AZ by providing the five peaks of therapy.
For true habit reversal to take place, a successful treatment program should include a variety of approaches to therapy. At Turning Winds, we strongly encourage and utilize the 5 Pillars of Change for the teen's full internalization of realizing how poor decisions often have lasting ramifications. Our staff is committed to providing the individualized treatment approach troubled teens from Sonoita, AZ must have for achieving exceptional outcomes.
Each day at Turning Winds, we are privileged to witness small changes being made in the lives of our students. As time progresses and they work through the 5 pillars of change, teens begin to make lasting changes and learn the skills they will need to possess to live successful lives. Each measure we put in place is meant to carefully guide our students towards their goals of learning from their past mistakes and preparing for limitless success in the future.
Mental Health National Authority for Parents of Struggling Teens from Sonoita, AZ
National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI): National Alliance on Mental Illness is the nation’s largest and most comprehensive grassroots mental health community. It is committed to building healthier lives for Sonoita, AZ residents, and the millions of Americans affected by mental illness. A mental illness is a mental health condition that impacts an individual’s thought processes, emotions, and clinical depression. It may also affect the person’s ability to relate to others, as well as function on a daily basis. NAMI strives to shape the national public policy landscape for struggling teens, young adults, and families in Sonoita, AZ; affected by mental illness. NAMI also provides grassroots volunteer leaders with the tools, resources, and skills necessary to protect the mental health of individuals in Sonoita, AZ, and all over the nation.
Mental Health Resources for Troubled Youth in Sonoita, AZ
Families from Sonoita, AZ, seeking assistance for their troubled child, trust the help that Turning Winds provides for teenagers who may be experiencing trials related to behavioral or process addiction (gaming, porn), adoption (attachment disorder), or anxiety disorder. Here at Turning Winds, our experienced therapists have a deep and wise understanding of the issues that troubled teens from Sonoita, AZ are experiencing every day. With dedication and expertise, our team provides help to our struggling students, so they may recognize and deal with their substance abuse (including marijuana) or pain medication abuse/addiction in a way that is both healthy and productive. We specialize in a variety of therapeutic intervention strategies (CBT, DBT, behavioral therapy), that is based on a solid trifecta of trust and respect. Through this approach, we inspire an internally motivated restoration that lasts a lifetime.
As a result, Turning Winds is committed to meeting the particular needs of each teenager with the utmost professionalism and compassion. Turning Winds’s therapists and field staff discourage the use of judgments and labels, and never condone one’s diagnosis to interfere with a struggling teenager’s sense of self or ability to form friendships with one another. Turning Winds has provided assistance to numerous families from all over the nation. Our experienced therapists offer superior treatment to set the path of restoration for teens struggling with trials such as food addiction (binge eating, overeating), bullying (or being bullied), or even behavioral misconduct.
Because we specialize in a variety of therapeutic intervention strategies (CBT, DBT, behavioral therapy) and provide outdoor recreation and adventure therapy, troubled teenagers can grow to be healthy adults, and Turning Winds’s students can emerge as strong people who are motivated to succeed. Turning Winds recognizes that the entire family needs the assistance that our experienced therapists offer; so that your child can be rehabilitated and whole. Turning Winds’ family advocates can be reached immediately at (800) 845-1380.
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UBC Okanagan Visual Arts Exhibition
Hosted by the UBCO Visual Arts Course Union (UBCOVACU))
Angela Gmeinweser
Rewriting Stories of Oranges
Acrylic and Oil on Canvas, 30 x 36 inches
Please Hold Still
Acrylic and Oil on Canvas,
The three paintings that are included in this online exhibition, their shimmering shifting planes, and ghostly figures are translations. In fact, translation could be cited as Angela Gmeinweser’s primary mode of artistic production. These three paintings are a continuation of an overarching artistic investigation that includes painted sketches, sculptural maquettes,and an immersive architectural installation. Not included in this list is the primary subject of her inquiry. Each interpretation of form is an interpretation of social spaces. Gmeinweser’s point of interest is the mutual shaping of people, place, and memory; their meshed dynamic.
Take for instance, the artist’s installation Chamber (not pictured.) A large-scale work,the installation creates a phantom Gothic Cathedral using the sparest elements possible. Raised on a platform of unfinished wooden planks, an open construction is given shape through three entries: an open rectangle, a full gothic arch, and half of a gothic arch (the invisible half is vanished, nothingness). These passageways create a defined space, though there is no physical enclosure, no containing walls to encompass a separate form. A rendition of “Pretty Saro” resounds through the gallery, unraveled by an unaccompanied female voice. The reverberating voice creates sonic walls; the enormity of a European Church limned through an immaterial echo. In a phenomenon called “edge induction,” the human mind will create a whole from whisps and whispers; the mind satisfies its own longing for completion. Gmeinsweser pushes this tendency to its threshold, discovering the most economical means to create a chimerical, yet complete, place.
Now, to return to the featured paintings. In this incarnation of memorialized space, figures are included, like mirages. They are an inversion of Chamber: atmosphere, emptiness and light, are represented, made visible. Gmeinweser’s translation of her previous work materializes that which was invisibly hallucinated by edge induction. The trail of artwork leads farther away from the original spatial memory, while attempting to bring it closer, in the manner of dream-running. Though closure may not be possible, the endless translation of spatialized events gives this chain of artworks their own history, their own their own seed of life, a set of art-memories that hovers aside that of the lived memory, their own origami spaces enfolding and revealing,leading to the next.
- Michelle Weinstein
Vanderbilt University. "The Brain Doesn't Like Visual Gaps And Fills Them In." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 21
August 2007. <
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070820135833.htm
For an explanation of the complex relation between the history of an artwork and its seed of life, see Benjamin,
Walter. Trans.by Harry Zohn “The Task of the Translator.” Illuminations. Schocken Books, 1968 pgs 69-82.
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The ‘M’ Word
by Alejandra Almada
As the sun struggled to remain above the water outside the windows of the gallery, Dorian prepared for what would arguably be the most important day of his life. At least his agent, Veronica, kept telling him so. As she spoke, Dorian ignored her, much too concerned with the position of the cloth he was attempting to place over his statue in order to conceal it from the public until its great reveal.
“The sculpture is the most important part of the collection.
I won’t take it out,” he said, and cleared his throat. As if struck by a sudden cold breeze, he crossed his arms tightly in front of his chest.
“Dorian, please, reconsider. The piece is radically different to what your public is used to. You have a market to appeal to-”
“I know that, Veronica, but the collection would not be what I want it to be without it. I simply won’t capitulate on this one,” Dorian said, turning to face her with that blinding quality to his gaze. There was a certainty that bordered on arrogance when one took into account the time the man actually spent as a high-profile artist. “I’m sure the auction will be a success and you’re just worrying about sensibilities that are not there,” Dorian continued.
“If that is your final position, then I believe I must offer my resignation.”
Now that took Dorian by surprise. Her eyes betrayed not an ounce of doubt. The clipboard that spent so long being a part of her role was now pressed to his chest.
“Very well,” he said, and trailed by the persistent sound of heels clicking on wood, she was gone.
What followed was simultaneously a blur and the most vivid half-hour Dorian could have ever imagined. He alone had to hand out flyers and welcome all the guests of the evening. Once everyone took a seat and a glass of chardonnay, he summoned their attention to the front stage. His speech, per Veronica’s instructions, consisted of a quick welcome, an acknowledgement, and an introduction to his collection. He was glad for her guidance although he’d never admit it. In that moment, nervousness crept up his spine.
“With no further ado,” he stated with a flourish and charismatic smile, “allow me to introduce you to ‘Mirage’!”
As he re-moved the cloth revealing his master-piece to the group, he was met with a deep and ambivalent silence.
“‘Mirage?’” a man in the front row said, in a rather confused tone of voice.
“‘Monster’ makes more sense. Don’t you think?”
Dorian closed his eyes briefly, as if struck, much in the way a computer reverts to the blue screen when it fails to process something for its user. Opening his eyes a second later, he gazed straight at the man who’d boldly spoken, looking nothing but calm through tremendous effort. “Please, sir, refrain from using the ‘m’ word, if you can. I don’t think it’s appropriate.”
“Oh, like ‘mediocre,’ right?” Another voice added, helpfully.
“‘Miserable!’’’ A further voice concurred.
“Get out!” Dorian yelled, overcome for a minute by the light of the camera flashes and the judgement in the faces be-fore him.
For a simple instant, he felt incomparable grief- for his fame, his art, even for Veronica to a certain extent. As people exited the gallery, he remained gazing up at his statue with his back to the one or two remaining journalists, deaf to their pleas for an incendiary comment or a candid picture. He told them to leave with what presence of mind he had left.
In the quiet that remained, Dorian moved his sculpture about in the last dancing lights of the sunset, attempting to make sense of his mistake. It must have been the lighting, he was convinced. The statue it-self was beautifully carved. Composed of the mixture of a man’s face, a siren’s torso, a woman’s arms, a vulture’s wings, and a horse’s legs. The sculpture was a feat of creativity, all chiselled by hand on the finest marble towering over six feet tall. There was no angle or lens through which the artwork wasn’t worthy of appreciation. It was a ‘masterpiece.’ What could have gone wrong?
“I see you were serious about making this collection more personal,”a new voice said, once deeply cherished and familiar, now a spurned surprise. It’s arrival came along with the smell of a strong cologne and memories of silk. The anniversary gift that warmed Dorian’s skin suddenly began to make him itch.
“What do you want, Victor?” Dorian asked, turning to see the man
walking into the gallery with a certain practiced nonchalance. He’d know that walking pace, that crisscross step around corners, and loose hip movements anywhere in the world. It was endearing once, the curl of Victor’s dark hair and the allure of his sunglasses in-doors. It took Dorian deliberate effort to recall their last argument as if the simple sight of Victor could erase all bitterness. Victor laughed with a quick snap.
“I just wanted to see your vision of me,” Victor said, “and look at it, what a marvel.”
Within the breath that followed, something that resembled pride
crept into Dorian’s chest. Not because Victor was right, but he appreciated the work. Victor always had.
“What could possibly make you think it’s you?” Dorian asked, as Victor reached his side, standing a little closer than a stranger might. From the shoulders to the vulture wings, Dorian could see what pieces of Victor wormed their way into the sculpture as unconscious, reverberating echoes of idiosyncrasies loved and left behind. Dorian did his best not to tremble as Victor’s hand reached for his back, certain it belonged there, and in a way, held him.
“Well, it is a man, mostly, right? Isn’t that what I am in the end?” Victor said. His eyes bore into Dorian’s as he spoke, attempting to change his mind. “This is simply you calling me out for leaving you when times got hard by portraying me as this horrid masterpiece, strong yet broken. You shouldn’t have, really.”
It was then that with both hands on Dorian’s shoulders, Victor pulled him in for a kiss. A longed-for dream and a dread-ed nightmare, the connection was electric and magnified by the events of the day. The early darkness of a coastal night bend-ed around the corners of Victor’s severe features, building up the cold that Dorian feared, blue as a scorching flame.
A second too late, Dorian broke away, breathless and deeply disappointed in his self-control.
“‘Masterpiece,’ you said?” Dorian asked, unwilling to look into the sunglasses resting on his nose.
“A bit marred, almost,” Victor nodded with his head, noncommittal.
“What is it with all the ‘m’ words?” Dorian’s voice was a whisper that quickly grew frustrated, taking a step out of Victor’s loose grip. “You couldn’t be more wrong.”
“Really? I’m wrong?” Surprised, Victor’s laugh thundered again for an instant. He continued as Dorian walked closer to his sculpture’s side. “The only person who’s ever understood your art is wrong, now? What does that say about it if I can’t interpret it?”
Through a full-body shake, Dorian responded, turn-ing to face Victor again.
“It has nothing to do with interpretation. You’re just not the ‘monster’ here. If anything, I am. You know what this piece is, truly? Well, it’s mine, it’s me!”
In that moment, Dorian climbed the steps to see his statue closer, caressing the marble and regaining his footing. All the feelings he repressed during the event returned to him.
“I can accept that now, you know, that this is who I am: my inspiration, my creativity, my talent, and my clarity. This is more myself than anything, and I hoped the world was ready for it.”
For once in many years, Victor was silent. It was a side of him that would have been welcomed in the summer when the argument took place or during the fall when the pain was excruciating, but by some trick of fate it appeared only now, in the winter, when it didn’t make any difference at
“You know what the problem is, Dorian,” his voice was wiser.
“Perhaps. Now get out, Victor.”
“You’ll call me, you’ll see.”
Alone once again, this time ensconced in the dark, Dorian caressed the sculpture a final time. Noticing the slightest piece of lint on the face, he made a point of taking his sleeve and wiping off the mouth. It was important to make sure no mark remained of this day, of its filth and its ‘m’ words.
With a firm kiss on the cheek, Dorian took his leave, stepping back and away for good.
Alejandra Almada
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Gudguda Waterfall
Sambalpur, Odisha 768227, India
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Gudguda, one of the most beautiful Picnic Spot. Though Gudguda comes under Sambalpur District, Many peoples flock this place from neighboring towns like Deogarh, Jharsuguda, Sambalpur and even Rourkela too. This place is fully covered with dense forest. As soon as you are about to enter the spot, you can find many Mango and Lichi Orchards on both side of the roads. You can also hear chirping of birds, gushing sound of waterfall etc.
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Khandadhar Waterfall51.08km from Gudguda Waterfall
Amidst thick jungles, Khandadhar is a glittering waterfall created by a perennial rivulet called Korapani Nala within a few km. of its origin. 244 meters in height it is said to be the highest waterfall in Odisha. It looks like a sword that's why it named as khanda Dhara waterfall.
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Mandira Dam62.93km from Gudguda Waterfall
Mandira Dam is located near Kansbahal in Sundergarh district. Construction of the dam began after 1957. The dam displaced 2400 families and only 843 were resettled. The reservoir offers boating facilities for tourists and the nearest railway station is located in Kansbahal on the Howrah-Mumbai main line of South Eastern Railway. Rourkela is the closest junction station.
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Rengali Dam66.59km from Gudguda Waterfall
This dam is constructed across the Brahmani river. The reservoir formed by the dam is the second largest reservoir in Odisha, with 37,840 hectares at full level and 28,000 hectares at mean level.
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Maa Samaleswari Temple74.56km from Gudguda Waterfall
Shree Shree Samaleswari, the presiding deity of Sambalpur, is a strong religious force in western part of Orissa and Chhattisgarh state of India. On the bank of the river Mahanadi the mother goddess Samaleswari is worshipped from ancient times as Jagatjanani, Adishakti, Mahalaxmi and Mahasaraswati.
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Handibhanga Water Fall77.69km from Gudguda Waterfall
Handibhanga Waterfall stands as a popular waterfall and a major source of tourism in Odisha. Flowing down from a height of 30 m, this waterfall is also a loved picnic spot in Odisha where travellers come and rejuvenate themselves with the sound of the splashing water.
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Hirakud Dam81.06km from Gudguda Waterfall
the longest earthen dam of the world stands in its lone majesty across the great river Mahanadi, which drains an area of 1,33,090 Sq.Kms., more than twice the area of Shrilanka. The bulk of Hirakud dam contains earth, concrete and masonry materials sufficient to make a road 8 metres wide and pave it from Kanyakumari to Kashmir and Amritsar to Dibrugarh in Assam. From horizon to horizon the resorvoir forms the largest artificial lake in Asia with an area of 746 Sq.Kms.
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Michelin and Enviro Developing Technology to Transform Used Tires into Raw Materials
Clermont-Ferrand, France, April 23, 2020 /TRAVELINDEX/ Michelin is partnering with Enviro to develop and industrialize on a large scale an innovative pyrolysis technology to recycle tires at the end of their life.
For the tire industry and its customers, recycling is a major issue. Each year, about 1 billion tires reach the end of their life. Thanks to this recycling technology, tires considered as used give birth to new quality raw materials.
Swedish start-up of 20 employees founded in 2001, Enviro developed a technology to modify the chemical composition and physical phase of the pneumatic material during the pyrolysis process, while ensuring minimal energy consumption.
This highly innovative technology enables to produce high-quality products such as recovered carbon black, pyrolysis oil, steel or gas, products that can then be re-incorporated into the production circuit of different industrial sectors. Thanks to this recycling technology, tires that are now considered as waste will be recycled into raw materials.
The envisioned partnership between Michelin and Enviro is based on four axes:
• A Development Agreement to deploy Enviro’s pyrolysis technology on a larger scale
• Michelin’s stake of 20% of Enviro’s capital, amounting to 32,526,262 SEK (around 3 million €), or the equivalent of 116,165,223 shares, making Michelin the largest shareholder. The Group will support developing Enviro by its board representation expected to be proposed to the shareholder vote. The shareholding subscription has been signed on April 15th.
• The common project to build a factory to industrialize the technology. The location of the plant will be confirmed at a later date.
• A joint Supply Agreement between Michelin and Enviro.
This partnership will allow the complementary know-how of the two companies to be pooled in order to accelerate progress in tire recycling. Michelin will bring its industrial know-how to the plant’s construction project and its know-how in terms of research and development and production. Enviro will bring its patented pyrolysis technology, which will produce high-quality products.
« The partnership we have just signed with Enviro fits perfectly with Michelin’s “All Sustainable” vision, says Sonia Artinian-Fredou, Services and Solutions, High Technology Materials Business Director. After the acquisition of Lehigh Technologies in 2017, a specialist in high-tech micro-powders derived from recycled tires, this is a further proof of Michelin’s long-term commitment to recycling and sustainable mobility. »
Discussions are ongoing between the two companies with the objective to conclude a final agreement by mid-2020.
*This technology consists of a chemical decomposition of an organic compound by a sharp increase in its temperature. It allows the extraction of new products not initially contained in the organic compound.
Michelin, the leading mobility company, is dedicated to enhancing its clients’ mobility, sustainably; designing and distributing the most suitable tires, services and solutions for its clients’ needs; providing digital services, maps and guides to help enrich trips and travels and make them unique experiences; and developing high-technology materials that serve a variety of industries. Headquartered in Clermont-Ferrand, France, Michelin is present in 170 countries, has more than 127,000 employees and operates 69 tire production facilities which together produced around 200 million tires in 2019.
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Emmanuel Onwubiko: Have Kidnappers kidnapped government
Aside from terrorism, Nigeria has obviously snowballed into a huge killing field whereby armed marauders seem to be passing the message that Nigeria lacks a government.
Government as it were, ought to be like the SUPERMAN who should watch over the affairs of all mortals and regulate their conducts to conform with established societal norms and laws that will ensure that there is social equilibrium, sanity, stability and security.
But contrary to these basic necessities that characterise organised civil society, these brazen attacks against Nigerians by divergent armed criminals and terrorists have gradually begun to delegitimize the government of Nigeria.
Yes! what this deadly violent killings of citizens by all kinds of lawless people show us that the citizens may as well begin to have broad-based conversations on the apparent failures of security infrastructures to combat the terrorism of these many outlaws who are apparently operating as if they are bigger than the SUPERSTRUCTURE OF GOVERNANCE.
By the way, for the umpteenth time, we must restate the factual account that the government is set up primarily to provide security of lives and property and to effectively enforce the laws to create a prosperous, law-based, rights-based and peaceful community of humanity who would inevitably live in harmony with nature in view of the consequences of climate change.
However, the activities of terrorists, armed bandits and significantly, kidnappers, have signposted the eventual collapse of architectures of governance.
This reality must never be lost on those in charge of the different levers of government.
The National Assembly has on many occasions expressed this same sentiment but that was it and no concrete plans and actionable programmes are put in place to check the rise in armed kidnapping which has made living in Nigeria as a grave danger. Surviving in Nigeria is as dangerous as living side by side with untamed wild animals in the dungeons.
These dangers facing Nigerians are definitely heightened by the terrorism of armed kidnappers who are certainly enjoying some support and patronage of some powerful persons in government and in the armed security forces because it is inconceivable that Nigerians are violently kidnapped and for weeks, these kidnappers continue to negotiate with the families of the victims and in many instances, these kidnapped citizens are set free as soon as the demanded ransom payments are made.
Also, there are notable flashpoints of operations by the kidnappers but the relevant governmental bodies and agencies are not activated to carry out surgical operations to arrest and prosecute these kidnappers.
Victims of kidnapping cut across all segments of the society including soldiers, police, Federal Road Safety officials, Civil Defense officials and Nigerians of varying stratification.
That the governments at every level are incapable of tackling these challenges of law enforcement created by the violent spectacle of armed kidnapping shows that the government may be tolerating armed kidnapping for no specified reason.
The growing tolerance of the government to crimes, violence and criminality boils down to the lack of the political will to end the episodes of governmental impunity of all kinds.
The police in Nigeria are the worst culprits on the issue of compromises with armed kidnapping because many of these kidnappers are arrested by the police and paraded but the Federal Attorney General and minister of justice Abubakar Malami is unwilling to lead the process of effectively prosecuting these criminals apparently because of the suspicions that many of these armed marauders and Fulani herdsmen arrested for kidnapping are mainly from the Fulani Ethnicity which is the Ethnicity of the President, the Attorney General and minister of justice Abubakar Malami SAN and almost all heads of the internal security Architectures and the minister of defence. Buhari-led administration is that which gives preferences to appointing only Moslem Hausa/FULANI into top internal security forces. What baffles me is the clear inaction of Nigerians to ask the relevant questions.
Why are most Nigerians not demanding actions and accountability from the Federal and State governments on the rising incidence of armed kidnapping which has returned Nigeria back to the dark ages of slavery?
A notable exception of a citizen who is asking the right question is a catholic priest Dr George Ehusani.
He Perhaps best captures our contemporary scenarios of the rise of the armed non-state actors who unleash bloody violence in his year 2001 book, he aptly titled “Nigeria: years eaten by the locust”.
He began by stating that one of the National dailies recently carried cartoon that captures effectively the fear of death that now hunts everyone in the land. The cartoonist says in part; “ I retire to bed these days and sleep with an eye open. The reason; I’m not sure if my domestic staff are would-be assassin! … when I’m being driven to and from work, my eyes keep darting from left to right. The reason; the driver of the car next to mine might be an assassin! … I can no longer confidently check-in at a five-star hotel. The reason; a bomb might have been planted somewhere!… Hmmm. Finally, I decided to go to church and pray about all these – I had to pray with an eye open. The reason; one can never be too sure these days … The woman standing next to me might want to crack my head with a bottle!”
He wrote further: “Nigerians are today perpetrators, victims and witnesses of multiple violence. We are recording each day a number of casualties of street thuggery, armed robbery, hired assassination, arson, police brutality, stray bullets, prison torture, judicial murder, plane hijack and “bomb explosion”. Those who have succumbed to the reign of terror in the last one year(as at the tear 2001) or so run into thousands. They include Gideon Akaluka of Kano, whose head is to this day still unaccounted for, Air Vice Marshal Tunde Elegbede , captain Ashafa , Bishop oluputaife, professor Bandipo and 79 years old chief Alfred Rewane. Families have been callously thrown into mourning, children have been violently separated from their parents, spousal relationships have been summarily terminated and large extended families have been brutally robbed of their sole breadwinners. It is a regime of agitation, tension, fear, and general insecurity of lives and properties. The state security agencies like the rest of Nigerians appear helpless in the face of an eruption of violence.”
The truth is that Reverend Father George Ehusanmi’s reflections in the book he published many years ago, represents the contemporary scenarios except that now more than ever before, government and security officials operate like compromised institutions because there is a calculated attempt to do nothing whilst all these attacks take place and what the police does is to engage in media propaganda and there is zero prosecution of the few amongst the many kidnappers arrested.
As stated earlier, nobody in Nigeria is safe except those in top Federal and state government positions that enjoy the best protections paid by taxpayers, virtually all of us are not safe.
One of those to have been lucky to have come out alive from the den of these armed marauders is the respected Senior Advocate of Nigeria and a top human rights campaigner Chief Mike Ozekhome.
He spoke a few months back when a top Appeal court’s jurist was kidnapped just before she was freed after the kidnappers were reportedly settled generously and they are never arrested nor have they like many other kidnappers being prosecuted.
Chief. Mike Ozekhome, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, had then pleaded with the kidnappers of Justice Chioma Iheme-Nwosu to release her unhurt.
Recall that some suspected gunmen who killed Iheme-Nwosu’s policeman also abducted her along the Benin-Agbor Road, Edo State.
Ozekhome while speaking on the incident stated that the abduction of the judge in broad daylight in Benin City is the saddest incident.
The Senior Advocate of Nigeria described the judge as a noblewoman of high virtue, a fecund mind and one of the finest jurists of great erudition, currently dispensing justice in the Court of Appeal.
He said, “It is heart-rending that Nigeria has been turned into a gruesome and crimson theatre of blood, with absolutely no government protection insight.”
“I beg you, captors or kidnappers of Justice Chioma, in the name of Almighty God to please release her unhurt. See her as your mother that you would never do anything to hurt no matter the circumstances. I beg you also in the name of humanity and of womanhood, as you read this, to set free, unharmed, unmolested and unhurt, this judicial amazon. Please, please, please. I beg you.”
He stated that while Nigerians are experiencing challenges in the country, politicians are busy politicking, instead of spreading democracy dividends.
Ozekhome noted that it is surprising that politicians are already planning towards the 2023 election as the ink on the 2019 elections is yet to dry.
He claimed that the country has become overheated and over politicised enslave, with no space for genuine governance.
According to him, the masses are unfortunate and are the victims of societal degeneracy and misplaced values.
He added that the judicial officers are not provided with the right environment for their safety. And for the effective performance of their duties.
“The Judiciary, the weakest and whipping child of the three arms of government is mostly at the receiving end.”
“A minister or Senator (both of the Executive and Legislative arms of government, respectively), can afford to travel in convoys of fully armed security operatives. A Judge is mercifully left with just one policeman, usually armed with obsolete firearms. He is plucked down and dismembered like a chicken.”
“Yet, the judge, especially Justices of the Court of Appeal, must traverse the nation, handling never-ending sensitive appeals from election petition tribunals, in jurisdictions other than their ordinarily accustomed places of abode or sitting.”
“They are thus compelled by the cause and course of duty to travel by road, the very bad roads that are unmanned by security personnel. They thus fall easy prey to marauders.”
Fast forward to today, a young lawyer in Port Harcourt Rivers State was kidnapped by armed marauders and for hours now her whereabouts are unknown prompting the Nigerian Bar Association to set up a mediation team to search and rescue her apparently after raising and paying the ransom that would be demanded by these terrorists roaming freely now in Nigeria with indiscriminate regularity.
The President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Mr. Olumide Akpata, set up a task force to secure the release of a 25-year-old lawyer, Abisola ‘Paulette’ Ajayi, who was abducted on Sunday night.
Akpata, who made the disclosure in a series of tweets on his handle, said he had also spoken to Rivers Governor Mr. Nyesom Wike; the Attorney-General of Rivers State as well as the state Police Command to request their assistance for Ajayi’s safe return.
Ajayi, a Masters student of the University of Science and Technology (UST) in Rivers State, was abducted on October 4, 2020 in front of her home in Rumukurushi, Port Harcourt, by men dressed in combat fatigues and dark T-shirts.
Her mother, Ngozi Ajayi, was punched when she attempted to save her daughter.
Akpata said: “Last night, I received reports that Paulette Bisola Ajayi, a lawyer and daughter of Ngozi Ajayi (also a lawyer) was abducted by at least four gunmen dressed in combat fatigues and dark t-shirts in front of her home in Rumukurushi PH, as she was waiting for her gate to be opened.
“Her mother and others who tried to prevent her from being taken away were brutalised and shot at by these men who eventually dragged Bisola out of her car and took her away in their own car…a white Toyota Venza.
“The increasing spate of such incidents is indeed disheartening. I have spoken to Bisola’s mother to assure her of our support and assistance towards the rescue of her daughter.
“I have also spoken to the Governor of Rivers State, the Attorney-General of Rivers State and the Rivers State Police Command to request their assistance in ensuring the safe return of our colleague.
“I have also set up a Task Force to collaborate with the relevant authorities and do all that is possible to see to Bisola’s speedy release. She will also remain in our prayers.”
The task force is headed by NBA 1st Vice-President, John Aikpokpo-Martins.
Its other members are: Kunle Edun (Welfare Secretary); Prince Nyekwere (Chairman NBA PH); Victor Frank-Briggs; Irene Pepple; Anthonia Osademe (Vice-Chairman NBA, Port Harcourt) and Mrs. Ngozi Ajayi.
The NBA urged the public that any useful information on the matter be made available to the NBA Welfare Secretary or the Vice Chairman of the Port Harcourt Branch.
In Southern Kaduna, hundreds of citizens are kidnapped and killed by armed Fulani herdsmen and terrorists but the GOVERNMENT operates like the architecture of government is kidnapped.
There is therefore the need to charge the government to implement and enforce the law against terrorism, kidnappings and other criminality because the reason these activities have doubled up is because of official impunity on the side of government.
The Nigerian government must be tasked by the citizens to be accountable and to concretely wage war against kidnappers and inflict the harshest judicial sanctions against these killers by way of making kidnapping a federal capital crime punishable by death penalty. Kidnappers are obviously in League with terrorists and need to be dealth with in line with the extant anti terrorism laws of Nigeria. Nigerians must wake up and demand accountability from the Federal and state governments now.
Enough is enough.
*Emmanuel Onwubiko is the Head of HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA)
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Purchasing Terms & Conditions (TEB)
I. Validity of Trumpf Medical’s Purchasing Terms and Conditions
1. These purchasing terms shall be valid for all contracts concluded by TRUMPF Medizin Systeme GmbH + Co. KG (hereinafter referred to as Trumpf Medical) with registered seat in Saalfeld, Germany, and sites in Puchheim and Saalfeld, Germany, as the purchasing or ordering party, unless otherwise agreed expressly and in writing. Any general terms of supply of the Supplier that deviate from the Trumpf Medical Purchasing Terms and Conditions will not become subject of the contract even if they are not explicitly opposed by Trumpf Medical. The Trumpf Medical Purchasing Terms and Conditions shall also be applicable even if Trumpf Medical accepts a delivery of the Supplier without reservation and although Trumpf Medical is aware of the Supplier's conditions to the contrary or is aware that these conditions deviate from the Trumpf Medical Purchasing Terms and Conditions.
2. The Trumpf Medical Purchasing Terms and Conditions in their most recently revised form at the material time shall also be valid for future transactions with the Supplier.
3. The Incoterms 2010 are valid in supplement as far as they do not contradict any of the clauses of these Trumpf Medical Purchasing Terms and Conditions or of any other agreement between Trumpf Medical and the Supplier.
4. Any rights that Trumpf Medical is entitled to in accordance with statutory provisions and beyond those stated in the TEB shall remain unaffected.
II. Formation of Contract and Amendments
1. The contract shall become effective with the order or delivery request by Trumpf Medical if the Supplier does not, within one week of receiving the order or delivery request, object in writing or submit a counter-offer. Decisive for deadline adherence is the date the objection or counter-offer is received by Trumpf Medical.
If Trumpf Medical does not reject the Supplier's counter-offer within two weeks after receipt, its contents shall be binding unless they deviate substantially from the order or delivery request. A substantial deviation shall be deemed to exist unless stated otherwise in the order or delivery request, in particular, but not limited to: change of the delivery date or deadline by more than forty-eight hours, change of the delivery quantity by more than five percent or a price change. Decisive for deadline adherence of the rejection of the counter-offer is the date it is dispatched by Trumpf Medical; the pos t- mark shall serve as proof thereof.
2. Subsequent amendments or supplements to a valid contract shall not become effective unless confirmed in writing and under the same conditions as those set out in the preceding sub-clause.
III. Scope and Content of the Obligation to Supply
1. The scope of the Supplier's obligation to supply is based on the specifications and performance descriptions transmitted at the time of the conclusion of the contract or, if these are lacking, on the information provided in the Supplier's quotations and brochures.
2. Unless otherwise agreed to explicitly and in writing, all deliveries must comply with the DIN and/or VDE standards in their most recently revised form at the material time and with any other industry-standard and/or EU norms, standards and regulations. The Supplier is therefore obliged to comply with the requirements of the Regulation (EC) 1907/2006/EG (hereafter referred to as “REACH-Regulation”) and the EC Directive 2011/65/EU (hereafter referred to as “RoHS-directive”) in their most recently revised form at the time of the delivery, and to fulfill all of the duties which concern suppliers according to the REACH-Regulation and the RoHS-Directive. The Supplier will place a safety data sheet at Trumpf Medical’s disposal according to Article 31, REACH-Regulation. In addition, the Supplier will inform Trumpf Medical, unsolicited and without delay before delivery, if a “substance of very high concern” as described by Articles 57 to 59 of REACH-Regulations contained in a component or in the packaging of a good in a mass concentration of more than 0.1 percent. The Supplier guarantees that the goods comply with the requirements of the RoHS-Directive and will provide Trumpf Medical with a respective written confirmation of the RoHS conformity.
3. Trumpf Medical will accept only the amounts or quantities ordered. Over- or under- deliveries are permitted only after prior agreement with Trumpf Medical. If partial deliveries have been agreed to the Supplier shall inform Trumpf Medical at each partial delivery of the quantity still due for delivery.
4. The Supplier is obliged to pack, label and send the goods in compliance with the relevant regulations of the country of origin, the transit country and the country of destination.
5. The Supplier shall assume, at his own cost, the obligation to properly dispose of the goods at the end of the utilization period. Statutory provisions shall be adhered to in the disposal.
IV. Changes to the Order Performance
1. If, during performance of the contract, it becomes apparent that deviations from the originally agreed specifications are necessary or expedient, the Supplier must immediately notify Trumpf Medical thereof. Trumpf Medical shall then state in writing what if any modifications the Supplier should make to the original order. If this leads to a change in the costs incurred by the Supplier in the fulfillment of the contract, both Trumpf Medical and the Supplier shall be entitled to request an appropriate adjustment to the compensation owed to the Supplier.
2. Trumpf Medical can request changes to the order performance even after contract conclusion if such changes can reasonably be expected of the Supplier. In such an amendment to the contract both contractual parties must take appropriate cognizance of the consequences, especially regarding increases or decreases in costs as well as regarding delivery times.
V. Delivery Time
1. The delivery dates and deadlines agreed to shall be binding. The delivery period shall commence on the date of order. Decisive for deadline adherence of the delivery date or deadline shall be receipt of the goods by Trumpf Medical or by the recipient designated by Trumpf Medical. If delivery other than “free factory” (“frei Werk”) (DDP as per Incoterms® 2010) is agreed and Trumpf Medical has agreed to take over the transport of the goods, the Supplier must make the goods available in good time, taking into consideration the time required for loading and shipment, as agreed with the for- warding agent. In other cases, pursuant to Clause 4, the Supplier shall be liable for delays in delivery caused by the forwarding agent.
2. If the Supplier anticipates difficulties with respect to meeting the delivery deadline or similar circumstances which might prevent the Supplier from delivering the goods on schedule or from supplying the goods to the agreed quality, the Supplier shall notify Trumpf Medical thereof immediately, stating the reasons and expected length of the delay.
3. In case of force majeure, labor disputes with the exception of illegal lockouts, inculpable operational disturbances, unrest, government measures and other inevitable events in Trumpf Medical's region, Trumpf Medical shall – without prejudice to its remaining rights – be entitled to withdraw from the contract in whole or in part unless such events are of insignificant duration or cause only an insignificant reduction in Trumpf Medical's requirements.
4. In the event of default in delivery, Trumpf Medical is entitled to its statutory rights.
5. Notwithstanding the above, Trumpf Medical is entitled to charge the Supplier a contractual penalty from the date of delivery default. The contractual penalty shall be payable at a rate of 0.5% for each week commenced but shall not exceed 5% of the total order value of the delivery. The right to assert further claims is expressly reserved. If Trumpf Medical does not expressly reserve its right to claim the contractual penalty at the time the delayed delivery is accepted, Trumpf Medical is entitled, within a preclusive time limit of ten working days after acceptance, to assert its claim to the contractual penalty due.
VI. Passing of Risk, Transfer of Ownership, Documents
1. Risk shall pass to Trumpf Medical on delivery of the goods to Trumpf Medical or to the recipient designated by Trumpf Medical. If the Supplier is obligated to provide any setting-up or installation work, then risk passes to Trumpf Medical only on start of operations.
2. Ownership in the goods shall pass to Trumpf Medical in accordance with an agreed Incoterm at the latest however on date of delivery to the agreed delivery address.
3. Every delivery must be accompanied by a delivery note. Invoices stating the order number must be sent to Trumpf Medical concurrently with dispatch of the goods. To prevent delay in processing at Trumpf Medical, invoices must not be attached to the delivered goods but must be sent by separate mail; otherwise Clause VII. 3 applies accordingly.
VII. Prices and Payment
1. The price stated in the order shall be binding. Unless otherwise agreed to in writing, the price shall include, in particular but not limited to, the costs for packaging, any miscellaneous equipment required for shipping and transport to the delivery address stipulated by Trumpf Medical as well as customs duties and other official duties and levies.
2. The statutory value added tax is not included in the price.
3. If the Supplier's invoices do not indicate Trumpf Medical’s ordering department and date of order nor Trumpf Medical’s order number as communicated to the Supplier, Trumpf Medical shall not fall into arrears until forty days after the due date and receipt of the goods.
4. In the case of any delivery or service provided that is not in accordance with the agreement concluded, in particular defective deliveries, Trumpf Medical shall be entitled to withhold payment, without forfeiting rebates, discounts or similar payment abatements, until proper fulfillment thereof.
5. Payments shall be made either within 14 calendar days with a 3 % discount or with- in 30 days net after performance of the service in accordance with the agreement and receipt of the properly prepared invoice. All payments shall be subject to invoice verification in case there should be any objections at a later date. In the event of payment default, the Supplier may levy default interest of 5% p.a. unless Trumpf Medical proves damages to a lesser amount. The Supplier shall be entitled to withdraw from the contract if Trumpf Medical does not fulfill its obligation prior to expiry of an appropriate period of grace under threat of refusing to accept performance for Trumpf Medical to perform its part, the appropriate grace period having been set by the Supplier at the time of payment default.
6. Payments shall only be made to the Supplier. The Supplier is only entitled to offset counterclaims against payments due if the claims have an unappealable legal status or are undisputed. The Supplier only has a right to withhold payment if the counterclaim is based on the same contractual relationship.
VIII. Warranty Claims and Recourse
1. The Supplier guarantees and warrants that all products and services comply with the most recent, state-of-the-art technology, with the relevant legal provisions and the regulations and guidelines of authorities, employers' liability insurance associations and trade associations. If the subject of the contract does not meet these requirements, the Supplier must notify Trumpf Medical of this in each single case prior to start of delivery to Trumpf Medical by stating the reasons. In such a case, Trumpf Medical is entitled, even after receipt, to reject the goods within a period of 10 working days from notification by the Supplier, and to assert the legal warranty claims.
2. The Supplier shall ensure the traceability of the goods delivered by same. If a fault is determined, it must be possible to trace the delivery under dispute in order to determine the status of the guarantee period and be able to identify the total quantity of goods affected. If it is not possible to trace the shipment in the event of a guarantee and/or product liability claim, the Supplier shall compensate Trumpf Medical for any losses incurred by Trumpf Medical therefrom. If the status of the guarantee period of the faulty goods cannot be determined due to a lack of traceability, the Supplier shall be r e- fused the objection of prescription unless same can prove with certainty that the guarantee period has expired.
3. If the Supplier has doubts regarding performance of the order as requested by Trumpf Medical, the Supplier must immediately communicate this to Trumpf Medical in writing.
4. Acceptance of the goods is subject to inspection, in particular but not limited to determining that the goods are free of defects and that the shipment is complete. Inspection shall be made based on the delivery note and is limited to the detection of obvious defects. Insofar as soon as this is feasible in the ordinary course of business, Trumpf Medical will inspect all deliveries and will immediately, but at the latest with- in 10 working days from date of delivery to the agreed delivery address, inform the Supplier in writing of any defects detected; decisive for deadline adherence is the timeous posting of the notice of defects. The Supplier shall be informed in writing without delay, however at the latest within 10 working days after discovery of any defects which appear only later. In this respect, the Supplier waives the right to objection on account of delayed notice of defects. For consignments comprising numerous identical goods Trumpf Medical shall only need to inspect 3 % of the delivered goods for defects. If the goods would become unmarketable due to the inspection, a sample of 0.5 % of the supplied units shall suffice. If single samples of a consignment are defective, Trumpf Medical at its own choice can request the isolation of the defective units by the Supplier or enforce claims for damages of the entire delivery. If as a result of goods defects a goods receiving inspection is required that is over and above the usual procedures in scope then the Supplier shall carry the costs of such inspection.
5. If, after being requested by Trumpf Medical to do so, the Supplier fails to immediately fulfill its obligations for subsequent performance, Trumpf Medical shall be entitled in cases of emergency, and in particular to prevent severe hazards or to avoid greater damage to itself undertake or employ a third party to carry out the remedial works at the Supplier's expense and at the usual compensation rates as determined by Trumpf Medical. Further legal claims of Trumpf Medical remain unaffected.
6. Trumpf Medical's rights to warranty claims shall be subject to a limitation period of 24 months from date of delivery of the goods to Trumpf Medical unless a longer limitation period exists. The limitation period for replacement parts that were installed or delivered pursuant to warranty obligations shall start anew.
7. The Supplier holds Trumpf Medical harmless from all claims asserted against Trumpf Medical by third parties based on defects or faults in the goods.
8. The limitation period for claims is suspended while the goods are being inspected for defects or are at the Supplier's or at his agent's for rectification of defects.
9. For parts of the delivery which are being maintained or are being repaired within the limitation period, the limitation period shall recommence from the time the Supplier has fully satisfied Trumpf Medical's claims to subsequent fulfillment of obligations.
10. If claims are lodged by third parties against Trumpf Medical for defects in the goods procured from the Supplier, Trumpf Medical shall be entitled to recourse from the Supplier; the same conditions as set out in the preceding sub-clauses shall apply accordingly.
11. The Supplier is obligated to reimburse Trumpf Medical for the expenses incurred in connection with the defects, in particular but not limited to the costs for shipping, carriage, labor and materials and any other damage sustained. If and to the extent the Supplier can prove that it is not responsible for the defect, and is not liable to compensate for damages irrespective of fault based on a warranty, the Supplier shall be liable for damages only to the extent that same can pursue remedies from its suppliers. The Supplier shall ensure that it has appropriate warranty rights in respect of its suppliers for cases such as these.
12. Receipt of goods as well as the handling, payment, and repeat ordering of goods not yet identified as defective and not yet contested shall not represent approval of the delivery and shall not represent a waiver of any warranty claims by Trumpf Medical.
IX. Liability, specifically Product Liability
1. The Supplier’s liability is in accordance with statutory regulations, unless otherwise agreed to in these Purchasing Terms and Conditions.
2. If claims are lodged against Trumpf Medical owing to product liability laws, the Supplier shall exempt and hold Trumpf Medical harmless on first request from all these claims if and insofar as the damage is caused by a defect in the goods which are delivered by the Supplier and which are the subject of the contract. The Supplier shall, in such cases, also exempt Trumpf Medical accordingly from all costs, in particular from expenses for required recall measures (including recall measures in accordance with product safety regulations) and the costs for legal prosecution. In cases of liability based on fault, the Supplier shall not have such an obligation if it can prove that it is not at fault. In all other matters, the legal provisions shall apply.
3. At the commencement of the contract and anytime after that upon request, the Supplier shall present to Trumpf Medical proof of product liability and recall insurance with a coverage of at least € 2,500,000.00 per liability case; the Supplier shall also, after complete fulfillment of the obligations from the contract, maintain the insurance coverage for a period of ten years after the processed goods are placed on the market by Trumpf Medical. The Supplier already at this point shall cede all claims arising from the product liability insurance and all ancillary rights to Trumpf Medical. Trumpf Medical already at this point accepts such cession. If cession should not be permitted in accordance with the insurance agreement then the Supplier shall herewith irrevocably instruct the insurance company to effect any payments only to Trumpf Medical. Any further claims by Trumpf Medical remain unaffected hereby.
4. Unless otherwise agreed, the Supplier shall mark his goods for delivery in a durable manner so that they can be permanently identified as his products.
X. Protective Rights
1. The Supplier warrants and assures that neither the goods delivered by him nor their onward supply, further processing or utilization by Trumpf Medical do not in any way infringe any utility models, patents, licenses or other protective rights of third parties.
2. The Supplier exempts Trumpf Medical and Trumpf Medical customers and holds them harmless from third party claims resulting from the infringement of any protective and patent rights and shall bear all expenses that Trumpf Medical incurs in this connection.
3. In case of conflicting protective rights of third parties, the Supplier shall, at its own cost, obtain agreement or approval, also effective for Trumpf Medical, from the proprietor to further supply, further process or utilize the delivered goods.
XI. Provision of Parts, Tools
1. All parts provided by Trumpf Medical to the Supplier shall remain the property of Trumpf Medical. Processing or reworking by the Supplier will be undertaken on behalf of Trumpf Medical. If the parts to which title is reserved are processed with other items that are not the property of Trumpf Medical, Trumpf Medical shall acquire co-ownership of the resulting new article in the ratio of the value of the parts with reserved title to the other processed items at the time of processing. The same applies if the items are so closely associated or intermingled that Trumpf Medical loses ownership therein. The Supplier shall store the new items on behalf of Trumpf Medical at no charge.
2. The Supplier shall check all parts provided for defects. If a part provided by Trumpf Medical is culpably damaged or destroyed while in the Supplier's sphere of responsibility, the Supplier's liability shall also extend to the repair or replacement of the provided part.
3. All tools paid for or provided by Trumpf Medical shall remain the property of Trumpf Medical. The Supplier shall employ these tools solely for the manufacture of the goods ordered by Trumpf Medical.
XII. Secrecy
1. The contracting parties agree to hold in strictest secrecy all information proceeding from the cooperation pursuant to this contract unless such information is common knowledge, legally obtained from third parties or independently acquired by third parties through their own labor, and to use it solely for the purpose of this contract. Protected information includes in particular but is not limited to technical data, purchase quantities, prices and information regarding products and product development, regarding current and future research and development plans and all corporate data of the other contractual party.
2. In addition the Supplier shall keep in strictest secrecy all illustrations, drawings, calculations and any other documentation received by the Supplier and shall not disclose such to third parties without the prior written consent of Trumpf Medical if the information therein contained is not common knowledge.
3. Sub-contractors shall be bound by the Supplier to maintain the same secrecy as stipulated above.
4. At the request of Trumpf Medical at any time, but at the latest when the contract ends, all information originating from Trumpf Medical (where applicable, including copies or recordings) and items provided on loan shall be immediately returned to Trumpf Medical in full unless these are still required by the Supplier for the purpose of meeting its contractual obligations. Trumpf Medical reserves all rights to such confidential information, including copyrights, industrial property rights, patents, utility models etc.
5. Products manufactured according to designs, documents, models etc. provided by Trumpf Medical or similar or according to specifications marked as being confidential may be used by the Supplier solely for the purposes stipulated in the contract; in particular, such products may not be offered or delivered to third parties.
XIII. Hill-Rom Global Third Party Code of Conduct
Supplier shall observe and adhere to the principles of the “Hill-Rom Global Third Party Code of Conduct”, which can be found under https://www.hill-rom.com/globalassets/our-company/ethics--compliance/global-third-party-code-of-conduct-asst.-languages/thirdparty-codeofconduct-english-hr_2016.pdf .
In addition to any other rights and remedies, Trumpf Medical shall have the right to terminate this agreement for good cause without notice, if Supplier is in material breach of the Hill-Rom Global Third Party Code of Conduct and fails to remedy the breach, despite a request by Trumpf Medical.
Material breaches include in particular, but are not limited to, incidents of forced or child labor, bribery and corruption, as well as failures to comply with the Supplier Code of Conduct's environmental protection requirements.
XIV. Final Provisions
1. The Supplier may not transmit the order or essential parts of the order to third parties without the prior written consent of Trumpf Medical.
2. As soon as the Supplier suspends payments, or if a provisional insolvency administrator is appointed, or if insolvency proceedings are instituted, Trumpf Medical is entitled to withdraw wholly or partially from the contract.
3. The law that shall apply to the contractual relationships shall be the law of the Federal Republic of Germany under exclusion of the law of conflicts and the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG). If any individual parts of these Purchasing Terms and Conditions should become legally null and void, this shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions.
4. The venue for all legal disputes arising either directly or indirectly out of contractual relationships based on these TEB shall be Munich, Germany. Trumpf Medical reserves the right to institute legal proceedings in any other permissible place of jurisdiction.
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This is Why Most Pro Gamers Are Using Arcade-Style Joysticks
The joystick has been a game-changer in both, a metaphorical and literal sense since its inception. This is because as games developed and the gaming industry grew and became more widespread and popularized, games required more precision.
Movement and control are two essential factors for games, especially first-person shooter games as the entire progression of the game requires precise control. The joystick syncs the motor functionality of one’s hand and mimics the movement, balance, and pressure of the human hand, hence allowing more accuracy and precision.
Here is why most pro gamers are using arcade-style joysticks:
The advantage of using a joystick is that it provides the beginner not only with a better experience of the game being played, but it also helps one adapt to the game very quickly. This is why, even in console gaming the D Pad is no longer used must for movement, and instead the joy sticks are used. Example, children playing Fortnite using a joystick enjoy the game even more because they become comfortable with its natural function. Games which comprise of a lot of movement become easier to play when you start using a joystick due to its flexible style.
From games like the infamous Street Fighter that revolutionized the arcade industry to first-person shooter games like Grand Theft Auto, Call of Duty, Fortnite and PUBG, the joystick allows the user to utilize his maximum potential of motor skills in regards to accuracy and movement, which determines one’s survival in the games.
Better Grip
Using a joystick allows users to get a better grip of the game they're playing. Games such as Grand Theft Auto require players to carry out various missions, and the joystick comes in handy, especially during a drive-by-shoot as it allows players to maintain better control on the game they are playing.
Another advantage of utilizing a joystick is that it helps one navigate easily. X-box or PlayStation users who play Call of Duty using remote controllers must use joysticks. Many players also use a joystick connected to their computer because it allows them to move around the field just as quick as using a mount and keyword.
The technology of a joystick makes the gameplay more immersive as we move toward the revolution of Virtual Reality. The feeling of being able to accurately sync the motor functionality of your hand to the game makes the gameplay feel real. The feeling of slight pressure in your hand towards the left, and your character looking towards the same direction in real-time makes the gameplay feel legitimate and immersive.
The future of the gaming industry is to fully immerse the player with the game and the joystick indeed has been a game-changer in promising a quicker reaction time, higher sensitivity, and more precise movements.
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Masters of Audio
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Remote Broadcasting in an IP world
Mar 11, 20182017-2018 Bulletin - March, Regular Meeting
When: Tuesday, March 27, 2018
Time: 7:00pm – 10:00pm
Ryerson University, Room RCC204, Eaton Theatre
80 Gould Street, Toronto, ON
Corner of Gould and Church, east of Yonge St (Dundas Subway).
The long history of Outside Broadcasting is a brute-force application of technology and people: Travel an enormous amount of gear, and all of the human resources necessary to some remote location, produce the event, and transmit the complete/packaged event back to the Network Centre for transmission.
In contrast, the emerging idea of “At Home” production is poised to re-define the broadcast world. The idea is simple: transport the cameras, microphones, and only the required personnel to the remote location, then exploit emerging Media-over-IP technology to transmit all of this Source material back to the Network Centre, where a standing facility and permanent staff can produce the event with increases to both efficiency and effectiveness.
Aside from the raw cost-control aspect, the revolutionary promise of “At Home” production is that this IP-based approach finally and completely decouples Source from Destination. With access to sufficient bandwidth, productions are finally released from geographic limitations.
Adam Robinson – Evanov Radio
Michael Nunan – Bell Media
Pre-meeting Dutch treat dinner
5:00 pm: The Pickle Barrel
(corner of Edward and Yonge, just north of Dundas, in the Atrium)
Director of IT - Engineering, Evanov Radio Group
Adam Robinson is Director of Engineering and IT for the Evanov Radio Group. A 25 year veteran of the radio business, Adam got his start in front of the mic as a “newsie” at various stations in and around Toronto. While on the air full time, Adam also honed his craft behind the scenes and in 2006 hung up the mic in order to focus on the expansion of ERG from three to 19 radio stations in a little more than a decade.
With 10 ground-up station builds and numerous refurbishments of studios and transmitter sites from Winnipeg to Halifax under his belt, Adam now holds a senior executive position with ERG. Adam is also a member of the CCBE Executive and is currently in charge of papers and panels for the annual conference north of Toronto.
A self professed audio geek, Adam spends his “free” time tweaking processing, reading up on advances in audio codec technology and marrying new sounds with his suite of vintage gear. Fun fact – even bad MP3’s sound OK when run through a CBS Audimax!
Mike Nunan
Senior Manager for Broadcast Audio and Post Production Operations, CTV Bell Media
A 25-year veteran of the Television and Audio industries, Michael is a multi-disciplinary specialist in Production and Post-Production Sound, with emphasis on multi-channel acquisition, editing, sound design and mixing. Michael has an international reputation for his work in the deployment of surround sound technologies and workflows in large-scale broadcast environments and for his advocacy for immersive surround production in longform factual, music and variety production.
As Bellmedia’s Post Sound Supervisor for 10 years, and now as Senior Manager for Broadcast Audio and Post Production Operations, Michael has enjoyed supervisory and mixing duties on more than 90 documentaries and over 900 factual episodic programs in the past 20 years, along with countless Live productions spanning every genre from Sports and News, to Live Variety and Specials. His mixes have garnered him three Gemini nominations and two Canadian Screen Awards, including a Academy Special Award for Outstanding Technical Achievement.
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Battery Bikeway
Beach Channel Drive Greenway
Bedminster Hike and Bikeway
Berkshire Valley Management Area Trail
Ballast, Cinder
Bethpage Bikeway
Black River County Park Trail
Black River Wildlife Management Area Trail
Boulevard Trolley Line Path
Briarcliff-Peekskill Trailway
Asphalt, Dirt, Grass
Bronx River Greenway
Calhoun Street Bridge
State: NJ, PA
Capoolong Creek Wildlife Management Area
Cinder, Dirt, Grass, Gravel
Columbia Trail
Cross Island Parkway Trail
D & H Canal & Gravity Railroad Heritage Corridor - Port Jervis Branch Trail
Cinder, Gravel
D & H Canal Park
D & H Canal Trail - Bashakill Wildlife Management Area
Ballast, Cinder, Dirt, Grass
D&L Trail
142.2 mi
Asphalt, Ballast, Crushed Stone, Dirt, Gravel
Delaware and Raritan Canal State Park Trail
Asphalt, Crushed Stone, Dirt
East River Greenway
Eastern Parkway Trail
Edgar Felix Memorial Bikeway
Ellen Farrant Memorial Bikeway
Flatbush Avenue Greenway
Forks Township Recreation Trail
Fort Washington Park Greenway
Franklin D. Roosevelt Boardwalk
Freedom Trail Bikeway
Great Valley Trail
Dirt, Grass
Green Brook Multi-Use Trail
Hamburg Mountain Wildlife Management Area
Ballast, Cinder, Dirt
Henry Hudson Trail
Asphalt, Gravel, Sand
Heritage Trail (NY)
Hook Mountain/Nyack Beach Bikeway
Hudson River Greenway
Hudson River Waterfront Walkway
Hutchinson River Greenway
Jack Harrington White Plains Greenway
John Kieran Nature Trail
Dirt, Gravel, Woodchips
Johnson Trolley Line Trail
Asphalt, Dirt, Grass, Gravel
Jones Beach Boardwalk
Jones Point Path
Ballast, Dirt
Joseph B. Clarke Rail Trail
Joseph M. McDade Recreational Trail
Karamac Trail
Cinder, Dirt
Karl Stirner Arts Trail
Kennedy Trail
Kingston Branch Loop Trail
Crushed Stone, Dirt, Gravel
Klara Sauer Trail
Lake Iliff Trail
Ballast, Cinder, Crushed Stone
Landsdown Trail
Concrete, Crushed Stone, Dirt, Gravel
Laurelton Greenway
Lawrence Hopewell Trail
Lenape Trail (Plainsboro)
Loantaka Brook Reservation Trail
Manasquan Reservoir Trail
Cinder, Crushed Stone, Dirt
Middlesex Greenway
Mohansic trailway
Boardwalk, Dirt, Gravel
Morris Canal Greenway
Mosholu-Pelham Greenway
New Springville Greenway
North County Trailway
Norwalk River Valley Trail
Ocean Parkway Coastal Greenway
Ocean Parkway Trail
Ogden Mine Railroad Path
Ballast, Cinder, Crushed Stone, Dirt
Old Croton Aqueduct Trail
Crushed Stone, Dirt, Grass, Gravel
Old Erie Path
Old Mine Railroad Trail
Old Putnam Trail
Cinder, Dirt, Grass
Oxford Bikeway
Patriots' Path (NJ)
Asphalt, Ballast, Crushed Stone, Dirt, Grass, Gravel
Paulinskill Valley Trail
Pequest Wildlife Management Area Trail
Ballast, Cinder, Dirt, Gravel
Perth Amboy Harbor Walk
Putnam Trailway
Quarry Trail
Ramsey Bike Path
Randall's Island Park Trails
Randolph Trails
Raymond G. Esposito Memorial Trail
Roosevelt Island Greenway
Roselle Park Bike Path
Route 18 Bike Path
Saddle River County Park Bike Path
Samuel G. Fisher Mount Ivy Environmental Park
Ballast, Cinder, Dirt, Grass, Woodchips
Sandy Hook Multi-Use Pathway
Shore Parkway Greenway Trail
South County Trailway
Staten Island Greenbelt Multi-Purpose Trail
Sussex Branch Trail
Tallman Mountain State Park Bike Path
Asphalt, Cinder, Dirt
Tatamy Trail
Taylor SteelWorkers Historical Greenway
Timp-Torne Trail
Traction Line Recreation Trail
Trolley Line Trail (NJ)
Union Transportation Trail
Vanderbilt Motor Parkway
West Essex Trail
West Hudson Park Path
Wharton Rail-Trail (part of Patriots' Path)
Wood Duck Nature Trail (Wallkill River NWR)
Ballast, Crushed Stone, Dirt, Grass
The Battery Bikeway is a only a half a mile long but it is an important link in the Manhattan Waterfront Greenway system, connecting the East River Greenway with the Hudson River Greenway to form a...
NY 0.5 mi Asphalt
Although just a mile long, the Beach Channel Drive Greenway in Queens offers expansive views of Jamaica Bay and the beautiful Marine Parkway Bridge as it traces the border of Jacob Riis Park. On the...
NY 1 mi Asphalt
The 2.8-mile eastern phase of the Bedminster Hike and Bikeway allows pedestrians and cyclists to safely traverse part of Bedminster Township by crossing over I-287 and US 206/202 via a series of three...
NJ 2.6 mi Asphalt
The Berkshire Valley Management Area Trail passes through hardwood forests and affords views of the valley below to the right. Equestrians must have a NJ Wildlife Permit, which is available from NJ...
NJ 2.1 mi Ballast, Cinder
The nicely paved Bethpage Bikeway runs alongside suburban roads for long segments of the route, but it’s much more than a suburban trail. Each on-road suburban stretch is broken up by one of three...
NY 13.4 mi Asphalt
In the mid 1800s Chester, New Jersey, was the home of the iron ore industry; railroads shipped the ore all over the county. With the end of the industry, however, the rail lines were abandoned, turned...
NJ 2.3 mi Dirt
This trail goes through the Black River Wildlife Management area along streambeds and forest. Equestrians must have a NJ Wildlife Permit, which is available from NJ DEP for a fee. The trail follows...
NJ 4 mi Ballast
This 2.1-mile long paved path runs directly adjacent to (about 30-40 feet off of) the Boulevard in Mountain Lakes, NJ, and follows the exact route of a former trolley line operated by the Morris...
NJ 2.5 mi Asphalt, Concrete
The Briarcliff-Peekskill Trailway is a 12-mile linear park that runs from the town of Ossining north to Westchester County's Blue Mountain Reservation in Peekskill. The trail is built on land...
NY 12 mi Asphalt, Dirt, Grass
The Bronx River travels from the mouth of the East River north to the Kensico Dam, providing views of the natural history of the area. Because the trail is under development, there are several gaps...
NY 23.3 mi Asphalt, Concrete
The Calhoun Street Bridge spans 1,274 feet across the Delaware River, connecting Trenton, New Jersey, on its east bank with Morrisville, Pennsylvania, on its west bank. Built in 1884, the intricate...
NJ, PA 0.3 mi Concrete
This pleasant, flat rail-trail parallels Capoolong Creek through the Capoolong Creek Wildlife Management Area for nearly 4 miles. The surface is varied, so the trail is best suited for hiking or...
NJ 3.7 mi Cinder, Dirt, Grass, Gravel
The Columbia Trail has the distinction of being named for a natural gas pipeline that runs beneath it for 15 miles in rural northern New Jersey. The crushed-stone trail rolls along the South Branch of...
NJ 15 mi Crushed Stone
The Cross Island Parkway Trail closely follows its namesake thoroughfare through northeastern Queens. From its northern end, you will soon enter Little Bay Park, which offers lovely views of the...
The City of Port Jervis is the latest community to save a portion of the former D&H Canal and turn it into a greenway for use by residents and visitors. A section of the canal, which is approximately...
NY 1 mi Cinder, Gravel
The D & H Canal towpath is nestled within the 300-acre D & H Canal Park in the New York hamlet of Cuddebackville. The crushed-stone trail, stretching just over a half mile, is one section of a larger...
NY 0.6 mi Crushed Stone
The Bashakill Wildlife Management Area is located on the Orange County-Sullivan County border just south of Wurtsboro, New York. It consists of over 3,000 acres of wetlands and uplands which were...
NY 5.7 mi Ballast, Cinder, Dirt, Grass
Note: This developing route is not yet fully contiguous; please refer to the interactive maps on the websites in the Related Content section. The D&L Trail runs for more than 140 miles through...
PA 142.2 mi Asphalt, Ballast, Crushed Stone, Dirt, Gravel
Spanning more than 70 miles, the Delaware and Raritan Canal State Park Trail is the longest completed multiuse trail in the state and is described by many as the crown jewel of New Jersey trails. A...
NJ 72.8 mi Asphalt, Crushed Stone, Dirt
New York City's East River Greenway offers views of the East River, Queens, Brooklyn, and the iconic bridges that connect these boroughs to Manhattan. The paved pathway traces the waterfront on one...
The Eastern Parkway Trail is a 2-mile route along a tree-lined boulevard in Brooklyn's Crown Heights neighborhood. The path begins at Prospect Park, which houses some of Brooklyn's most popular...
NY 2 mi Asphalt, Concrete
Prepare to be whisked into the past when you take the Edgar Felix Memorial Bikeway. The paved trail follows a short-line railroad corridor from the coastal city of Manasquan to a village at Allaire...
When Jones Beach State Park opened on Long Island’s South Shore in the late 1920s, a series of scenic parkways was built on infill dredged from nearby towns to connect New Yorkers to the new public...
Brooklyn's Flatbush Avenue Greenway parallels its namesake roadway for just over a mile from Marine Parkway Bridge to a connection with the Shore Parkway Greenway Trail. The two trails are part of the...
The Forks Township Recreation Trail follows the an old right-of-way of the former Lehigh & New England Railroad. Starting at the trail's midpoint behind the Riverview Country Club in Easton, you'll...
PA 2 mi Asphalt, Dirt
The Fort Washington Park Greenway brings residents and visitors to Washington Heights right up to the edge of the Hudson. The mile-long trail begins near the pier at the end of Dyckman Street and...
The Franklin D. Roosevelt Boardwalk follows Staten Island's eastern shore from Miller Field -- a recreational area for sports, picnicking and bird watching -- to Fort Wadsworth. Highlights of the...
NY 2.7 mi Boardwalk
Freedom Trail Bikeway will eventually be a 10-mile route linking parks and open spaces throughout South Brunswick Township in northern New Jersey. The trail follows a former rail line through...
NJ 2.6 mi Asphalt, Dirt
The Great Valley Trail, built on the former Lehigh & New England Railroad, offers an unpaved, natural experience through quiet woodlands between the townships of Hampton and Frankford. Although...
NJ 3.5 mi Dirt, Grass
When complete the Green Brook Multi-Use Trail will meander for 7 miles through the communities of Plainfield and North Plainfield, New Jersey. The trail will connect major regional trails and parks as...
NJ 0.25 mi Asphalt
This trail is in an area rich in geological history. Zinc and Iron Ores were transported along this branch from mines in the area that operated for over 200 years. The trail is scenic with a slight...
NJ 3 mi Ballast, Cinder, Dirt
The tree-lined 22.5-mile Henry Hudson Trail is the definition of scenic variety. Traversing both urban and natural environments, the route passes wetlands, streams, fields, and the Garden State...
NJ 22.5 mi Asphalt, Gravel, Sand
Built on the former Erie Railroad main line, the 15-mile Heritage Trail runs through the small Orange County towns of Goshen, Chester, Monroe, and Harriman. The shaded trail runs through different...
NY 15.1 mi Asphalt, Crushed Stone, Dirt
The High Line trail runs 30 feet above the bustling Manhattan streets and sidewalks below, which for trail lovers makes it an attraction in the same league as the Statue of Liberty or the Empire State...
NY 1.5 mi Concrete
While not a "rail-trail," the Hook Mountain/Nyack Beach Bikeway is a very scenic trail along the Hudson River in Rockland County. The southern half of this trail is flat and runs right along the...
NY 4.9 mi Asphalt, Ballast, Crushed Stone, Dirt, Gravel
The Hudson River Greenway (HRG) is one of the most popular places to ride, walk, and jog in New York City. It makes up part of the Manhattan Waterfront Greenway loop, the cross-state Empire State...
The Hudson River Waterfront Walkway is a 1.5 mile walkway along the bank of the Hudson River in Jersey City. The walkway offers stunning views of Manhattan as well as access to a number of ferries and...
NJ 1.5 mi Concrete
The Hutchinson River Greenway offers a convenient alternative to the Hutchinson River Parkway, which it closely follows. Although adjacent to the busy thoroughfare, trees have been planted along the...
NY 2.2 mi Asphalt, Concrete
The Jack Harrington White Plains Greenway was recently renamed to honor a long-time member of the city's conservation board. The trail's corridor follows the former New York, Westchester & Boston...
NY 1.2 mi Woodchips
The John Kieran Nature Trail is a short loop that borders Van Cortlandt Lake and its associated wetlands. It is a wonderful site for bird-watching. The trail also passes several sites of significance...
NY 1 mi Dirt, Gravel, Woodchips
The Johnson Trolley Line has two sections, north and south, which are split by Interstate 95; there is talk of building an overpass to link the two segments. The Trenton-Princeton Traction Company ran...
NJ 3.3 mi Asphalt, Dirt, Grass, Gravel
The Jones Beach Boardwalk traverses Jones Beach State Park, running parallel (and south of) Ocean Parkway. The pleasant pathway offers views of the beach and the ocean. Although bicycles are...
NY 4 mi Boardwalk
The Jones Point Path occupies an abandoned motor vehicle route (old US Route 9W). The path provides bicyclists with a relatively safe bypass to a dangerous section of busy US Route 9W near Bear...
NY 2 mi Ballast, Dirt
You might expect a 4-mile rail-trail that passes through three downtowns to be excessively urban, but the quaint town centers on the Joseph B. Clarke Rail Trail are compact and surrounded by...
The Joseph M. McDade Recreational Trail runs nearly the length of the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area on the Pennsylvania side of the Delaware River across from New Jersey. The protected...
PA 31.3 mi Crushed Stone
The Karamac Trail is a short walking trail that starts under the Interstate 80 bridge on the New Jersey side of the Delaware River. The trail follows an old railroad right-of-way; there is a railroad...
NJ 1.5 mi Cinder, Dirt
The trail winds along the Bushkill Creek connects the old Simon Silk Mill on 13th Street to Third Street at the base of the stone stairs leading up to Lafayette College. The trail is paved and though...
PA 2.4 mi Asphalt
The Kennedy Trail begins at the northwest corner of the 68-acre campus of John F. Kennedy Catholic High School in Somers. The town, which sits 30 miles from White Plains and 55 miles from New York...
NY 1.7 mi Cinder
The Kingston Branch Loop Trail is a trip up one side and down the other of the scenic tree-lined Delaware and Raritan Canal. The eastern half of the loop follows the bed of the Rocky Hill Railroad and...
NJ 1.75 mi Crushed Stone, Dirt, Gravel
The Klara Sauer Trail (formerly known as the Beacon Riverside Trail) runs for 1 mile along the Hudson River on the west side of New York's village of Beacon. The trail occupies the same corridor as...
NY 1 mi Crushed Stone
This is the first phase of the proposed Lehigh & Hudson River Rail Trail. The second phase will connect Hillside Park to Kittatinny Valley State Park. It is hoped that there will be an eventual...
NJ 1.1 mi Ballast, Cinder, Crushed Stone
The Landsdown Trail runs 1.8 miles between Lower Landsdown Road and W. Main in Clinton. The trail passes among open fields, woodlands and wetlands and provides access to the South Branch of the...
NJ 1.8 mi Concrete, Crushed Stone, Dirt, Gravel
The Laurelton Greenway is a short but well-maintained multiuse path connecting the neighborhoods of Jamaica and Rosedale in southern Queens, NY. The two-lane paved trail starts in Jamaica, and travels...
The Lawrence Hopewell Trail (LHT) offers more than 19 miles of pathway on a developing loop through public and private land in Lawrence and Hopewell Townships, about 5 miles north of Trenton. The...
NJ 19.2 mi Asphalt, Crushed Stone
The Lenape Trail is an paved multiuse pathway stretching two miles end-to-end. The winding trail sits on the tree-covered bank of Plainsboro pond, home to geese, swans and other waterfowl. Residents...
The system of trails in Loantaka Brook Reservation are open to hikers, cyclists and equestrians, although the trails are marked as to which uses are permitted on each segment. Loantaka Brook...
NJ 7 mi Asphalt, Dirt, Grass
The Manasquan Reservoir Trail is located in the Howell Township and provides a great natural destination in the heart of the town. The trail forms a perimeter loop around the 770 acre reservoir...
NJ 4.8 mi Cinder, Crushed Stone, Dirt
It’s hard to believe that a noisy locomotive once ran through here, given that stillness is a defining characteristic of the Middlesex Greenway. Even when people pour onto the trail from the adjacent...
The Mohansic Trailway is a rail-trail providing an important link between the North County Trailway and the Franklin Delano Roosevelt State Park. The trailway occupies a short-lived spur of the New...
NY 1 mi Boardwalk, Dirt, Gravel
In the early 1830s the Morris Canal opened across northern New Jersey, from Phillipsburg on the Delaware River to Newark, and later to Jersey City on the Hudson River. It provided a thoroughfare for...
The Mosholu-Pelham Greenway connects several parks and recreational opportunities in New York City's north and central Bronx neighborhoods. A portion of the trail is also part of the growing East...
The New Springville Greenway stretches just over 3 miles, primarily paralleling Richmond Avenue on New York's Staten Island. A highlight of the paved pathway is its proximity to Freshkills Park, a...
The former “Old Put” commuter rail corridor that ran from the Bronx to northern bedroom communities in Westchester and Putnam Counties is popular once again, only this time it’s for people riding...
When completed, the Norwalk River Valley Trail will run from Danbury to Long Island Sound in southwestern Connecticut, for a total of about 27 miles. Currently, several disconnected sections totaling...
CT 5.8 mi Asphalt
Like Wantagh State Parkway, Ocean Parkway was built in the postwar 1930s to provide access to the crown jewel of the state park system, Jones Beach State Park. Unlike the former road, however, this...
The Ocean Parkway Trail closely follows its eponymous thoroughfare nearly 5 miles through several Brooklyn neighborhoods, ending only a block from the popular Coney Island boardwalk. Those traveling...
This trail is located in the Mahlon Dickerson Reservation which is a unit of the Morris County Park Commission. The trail follows an abandoned railroad bed through hardwood forests, past ponds, swamps...
NJ 2.7 mi Ballast, Cinder, Crushed Stone, Dirt
At first glance, there’s no evidence that an aqueduct ever existed along the Old Croton Aqueduct Trail. The trail is often a singletrack dirt pathway that winds through communities and trees and...
NY 26.5 mi Crushed Stone, Dirt, Grass, Gravel
The Old Erie Path reveals spectacular views of the Hudson River Valley as the rail-trail rolls along cliffs that border the river’s western shore. Although fairly short, it joins two other...
NY 3 mi Dirt, Gravel
Fahnestock State Park is a relatively undiscovered gems in the New York State Park System. Located a few miles east of Cold Spring Village on Rt. 301 (Main Street), the park jurisdiction was recently...
NY 2.2 mi Dirt
Splayed over 1,146 acres in northwest Bronx, Van Cortlandt Park has a lot going on. The park is New York City's fourth largest and is home to the oldest municipal golf course in America. There are...
NY 1.25 mi Cinder, Dirt, Grass
The Oxford Bikeway is a .9 mile long pave trail constructed on an abandoned railroad right-of-way. The trail can be accessed at three points. To the north the trail ends at Pequest Road, however there...
The Patriots' Path covers roughly 35 miles of terrain and is open to mountain biking, horseback riding, cross-country skiing and hiking. The multi-use trails links parks, open space, recreational...
NJ 35 mi Asphalt, Ballast, Crushed Stone, Dirt, Grass, Gravel
The Paulinskill Valley Trail follows a creek by the same name through a section of rural New Jersey with a strong German influence. In fact, the word kill is Dutch for “riverbed or stream channel.”...
NJ 27.1 mi Ballast, Cinder, Dirt, Grass
This trail is much better suited to walking than to biking. It provides excellent access to the Pequest River which is stocked with trout. Not all of the bridges across the river have been decked and...
NJ 4.2 mi Ballast, Cinder, Dirt, Gravel
The Perth Amboy Harbor Walk offers scenic views of the Raritan Bay and Raritan River as it hugs the shoreline of the City of Perth Amboy, founded in 1683 and home to one of the nation's oldest ports....
The old New York Central rail line that ran from the Bronx to northern bedroom communities in Westchester and Putnam Counties carried commuters during the workweek, but on the weekends tourists...
The Quarry Trail is currently a 600-foot long unimproved strip of land along what is known as Quarry Road in the Village of Hastings-on-Hudson, NY. The trail links Old Croton Aqueduct State Historic...
NY 0.1 mi Dirt, Grass
The Ramsey Bike Path is a recreational path built on the former Paterson to Suffern trolley line right-of-way. The path extends along a north-south route from one end of Ramsey to the other....
NJ 1 mi Asphalt
Randall's Island Park Trails offer a series of interconnected paved loops on an island in the New York City borough of Manhattan. The park offers a quiet setting, especially enjoyed by runners, with...
NY 8.75 mi Asphalt
The Randolph Trail system covers 16 miles of pathways through five parks, the Clyde Potts Reservoir watershed and 2,000 acres of pristine open space. The trails link schools and neighborhoods and also...
NJ 16 mi Asphalt, Concrete, Crushed Stone
The Raymond G. Esposito Memorial Trail travels from one end of the village of South Nyack to the other in 1 mile but greatly expands its reach by connecting with the Old Erie Path and a new shared-use...
Roosevelt Island Greenway, a little-known gem in the Big Apple, was named after President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1973. To reach this scenic pathway, board New York City’s only aerial tram,...
This bike-ped path in Roselle Park, Union County. The bike path is nestled at the bottom of the railroad embankment carrying New Jersey Transit's Raritan Valley Line. Stretching between Galloping Hill...
Traveling north-south through Wall Township is the Route 18 Bike Path. The northern terminus is the Municipal Compex, which houses the County Library, the Municipal Court and the Police HQ, as well as...
The Saddle River County Park Bike Path is a beautiful suburban trail that winds alongside the Saddle River. Most of the trail runs through moderately dense suburban development, with residential and...
A former right-of-way of the NY & NJ Railroad. Near historical Mount Ivy which was the center of a Quaker settlement in the 18th century. Hiking along railroad bed and wildlife observation and...
NY 2 mi Ballast, Cinder, Dirt, Grass, Woodchips
The Sandy Hook Multi-Use Pathway travels 8.7 miles alongside the picturesque beaches and historical monuments of the Sandy Hook peninsula. The pathway begins in the Gateway National Recreation Area...
The two diverse sections of the Shore Parkway Greenway Trail blend urban and scenic, offering views of sights ranging from the Statue of Liberty to wildlife refuges. Following the Belt/Shore Parkway,...
NY 13 mi Asphalt, Concrete
The South County Trailway rolls 14.4 miles through one of the most densely populated parts of New York, but its route through pocket woodlots, parks, and golf courses and along riverbanks makes it...
At 2.6 miles, the Staten Island Greenbelt Multi-Purpose Trail offers a nice jaunt for joggers, walkers, and cyclists alike. The crushed-stone path is 6-feet wide and runs from Rockland Avenue to...
The corridor now home to the Sussex Branch Trail was originally the narrow-gauge, mule-drawn Sussex Mine Railroad, which opened in 1851 to haul iron ore from mines in Andover to the Morris Canal....
NJ 18 mi Cinder, Dirt, Grass
Tallman Mountain State Park Bike Path is partially paved and bisects the Tallman Mountain State Park. The route provides a motor-vehicle-free way for bicyclists using US Route 9W to connect with...
NY 2.1 mi Asphalt, Cinder, Dirt
Tatamy Trail begins in West Easton and heads north to Tatamy Borough, primarily along a former railroad corridor. On its southern end, it meets the Palmer Township Recreation Trail, which connects the...
DESCRIPTION: The Created by Union Forge Heritage Association in 2007,Taylor SteelWorkers Historical Greenway is a 7 mile trail that winds its way through High Bridge criss-crossing a number of...
NJ 7 mi Crushed Stone, Dirt, Gravel
Just an hour north of New York City, the Timp-Torne Trail offers a scenic hike through Bear Mountain and Harriman State Parks with panoramic vistas of the Hudson River. The rugged blue-blazed trail...
Running alongside a New Jersey Transit passenger line, the Traction Line Recreation Trail has been around since 1986, when Jersey Central Power & Light donated portions of the land to the Morris...
The Trolley Line Trail is a 2.5 mile paved pathway between Rabbit Hill Road and Penn Lyle Road in West Windsor. The trail is on the right of way of the former Fast Line electric trolley that connected...
The Union Transportation Trail follows the path of the former Pemberton & Hightstown Railroad, which began operating in 1868. The original purpose of the railroad was to allow local farms and dairies...
NJ 9.3 mi Crushed Stone
This trail is the legacy of the first elevated roadway in the United States, constructed by William K. Vanderbilt in 1904. Vanderbilt created the parkway to get to his family’s estate in Long...
The West Essex Trail follows a short distance (just under 3 miles) of the former rail bed of the Caldwell Branch on the old Erie-Lackawanna Railroad. The trail runs between the EssexPassiac county...
NJ 2.84 mi Cinder, Gravel
The paved pathway running through West Hudson Park offers a scenic, tree-lined escape between Harrison and Kearny, NJ. The trail provides access to the park’s stocked lake, water park, athletic...
A short rail trail with two covered bridges occupying a portion of the former Mount Hope Mineral Railroad right-of-way in Wharton, NJ. In the future this trail will be linked with the Rockaway...
The Wood Duck Nature Trail, appropriately named for the secretive duck, was made possible through the hard work and dedication of refuge volunteers. This beautiful trail now extends about 1.5 miles on...
NJ 1.5 mi Ballast, Crushed Stone, Dirt, Grass
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Thoroughly enjoyed this trail
January, 2021 by myvowtowow
I arrived around 11 at the trailhead. Parking lot was almost full. The first two miles of the trail were muddy, but the ground was firm enough to ride comfortably. Some rural road crossings. Beautiful views of farms, bridges, tunnels and streams. Friendly people, uncrowded, some elevation. There were some steep ravenes without guardrails and quite a bit of swampy areas so not sure what conditions will be like in summer.
January, 2021 by chrissy.vandevrede
I have yet to find a similar trail since I moved to NJ. I am always trying to get back there!
It’s longer than 3 miles!!! 8 miles+
December, 2020 by peterosenrosen@gmail.com
A hidden gem in Queens. The actual Vanderbilt section might only be 3 miles but you can bike from Alley Pond Park near the tennis bubble all the way to Citifield in Flushing Meadows Corona Park. That’s more than 8 miles of biking only crossing 4 or 5 streets. All of it is through or alongside parks where cars cannot run you over. Great, underutilized trail!!!
Smooth trails all around. Mostly shaded area. Highly recommend any skaters to trail skate here.
December, 2020 by jessicamguzman3
A Little Rough in Spots, but Scenic
December, 2020 by ollie47
We have been riding this trail for about the past 10 years. Our first time out, we started out at the Hialeah trailhead. Will not do that again. Only for the younger, more adventurous mountain biker, not older geezers like my buddy and myself. Now, we start at the trailhead near Bushkill. We bike out 12 to 15 miles and come back. Nice views of the Delaware. Trail is pretty well-maintained. No skinny tires recommended for this trail. Also not recommended for riders looking for a "smooth" ride.
Very dangerous in parts
December, 2020 by scottreevesmusic
This is not really a one long trail but a series of segmented trails. While the beginning of each segment is marked with an "OCA" post, at the end of most segments there is no indication about where to find the next thread of the trail. Often you have to go through busy suburban streets to make the connection, some of which are quite dangerous. Other reviews recommended using GPS on your phone, but Google maps only indicates where the various trail segments are and it is difficult to find out how they connect. My friend & I attempted to do the northern half of the trail from Tarrytown up to the Old Croton reservoir. When you get to the Clearview School in Scarborough, you have to ride on a very busy Rt. 9, which has no shoulder, until you can take up the trail on Scarborough Rd. When we got to Ossining, the trail ended with no indication how to continue, so we again had to ride on Rt. 9. Then my friend hit a broken drainage grate on the side of the street, which was covered with leaves so that she could not see the gap in the pavement. It threw her head-first onto the asphalt. She was knocked out for several minutes, had a concussion, was bleeding profusely and nearly broke her neck. I called an EMT which took her to a hospital, where she stayed for two days and had stitches to her face and several tests. She was lucky she was not paralyzed (thanks to wearing a helmet). Exercise GREAT caution if you take the Ossining part of the trail. Some of the other segments are O.K. but some of them are just like riding through peoples' backyards.
Amazing Ride
December, 2020 by c44ynwb7e4
Took my bike for 30 miles on this trail. What a relaxing, scenic experience. You want to get out there early if your biking, as the foot traffic increases around 11am. I enjoyed the different surfaces, the natural areas. A lot of deer and chipmunks. Definitely worth the experience. Whether you are on foot or wheels, pack plenty of water and a light snack. You will need it on this trail!
The paved renovation is great
November, 2020 by matthew.hiller.wt
Renovation wrapped in early November. The revamped and now paved Jones Point path is great, used it today. Quiet, scenic, and much gentler than the steep up and downs on the parallel segment of 202/9w. This makes the 9w corridor my favorite way to bike to Bear Mountain overall now. It's that good.
November, 2020 by 78v6ywrgmz
November, 2020 by dancaf826
Lots of them! Worst part is the tick advisory is posted 2/3rds of the (1 mile) into the trail. Otherwise a very nice straight path, flat terrain hike. I will be going back in winter after tick season has passed.
southern end of Bronx parkway
November, 2020 by betsywaters909
Great walk. But the section north of Woodhaven station is a dead end. I had to go back and walk city streets for a long section. All in all great walk from Soundview ferry station in the Bronx to Bronxville train station. I will return fir the next section
Easton to Bethlehem
November, 2020 by josephmletizia
Great for a moderate bike ride, did and out and back in about 2.5 hours. Started in Easton where the North/South Trail meets the East/West Trail. Nice combination of different trail optionsz
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At Leader of the House Questions on Thursday 21 January 2016 I asked for the return of £380,000 funding for English language tuition to Walsall Adult and Community College (WACC) following the Prime Minister’s announcement of a £20m fund for English language tuition.
The Prime Minister’s announcement is a clear admission that the Government got it wrong in July when it withdrew funding worth £380,000 for English tuition at WACC. I raised this at Business Questions to the Leader of the House and have written to the Prime Minister to ask for this funding to be restored to WACC.
English tuition through the ESOL programme is delivered by WACC at its Whitehall Centre at Weston Street, within walking distance of the community, which is particularly important for women. WACC is an excellent college which was rated as Outstanding by Ofsted in 2012/13.
When I visited WACC’s Weston Street Centre in December and spoke with students and their tutors a tutor told me about a former student who had arrived with little or no English but following tuition at WACC had gone on to establish a successful business as a driving instructor. This shows the difference English tuition can make to people’s lives.
I wrote to the Skills Funding Agency on 30 July 2015, immediately after funding was withdrawn to ask for this short-sighted decision to be reviewed. I also raised the matter in a question to the Leader of the House on 17 September 2015 and wrote to the Skills Minister on 23 November 2015.
There is a need for English language tuition locally. The 2011 Census found that there are 2,575 households where no residents have English as a main language. This represents 6.88% of households and is well above the national average of 4.28%.
The Leader of the House said I made a strong representation on behalf of WACC and that the Minister will take this into account. I hope the Minister will now restore this funding to WACC.
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Microsoft Edge Not So Popular Among Windows 10 Users
Microsoft Edge, the new browser that comes with Windows 10 has not been very popular with users so far. A pair of analytics vendors have come out with some data suggesting the new browser is used by a minority of Windows 10 users, somewhere between one-sixth and one-third of users, says a report from Computer World.
Not that many Windows 10 users trying Edge
California-based Net Applications notes that of all the browsers tracked by it, Edge accounted for just 0.14% in July. User share of Windows 10 was 0.39% for the month of July. Since Edge works on Windows 10 only, the research firms calculates the browser was used only by 36% of the potential users, said Net Applications. The analytic firm made use of the visitor tallies on the client’s websites to calculate the user share. The result thus obtained represents a rough estimate of the percentage of the world’s online users running a specific browser.
Irish metrics vendor StatCounter also makes a similar claim as Net Applications, saying Microsoft Edge is far from being the preferred browser of the users who have upgraded to Windows 10. The average daily usage share of Windows 10 was 4.4% for the first 16 days of August while for Edge this figure stood at just 0.7%, which is far less in comparison to the Windows 10. In other words, about 16% of the online activity of all the Windows 10 owners is accounted for by Edge, according to StatCounter. The Irish firm tallied page views to come out with their numbers.
A let down for Microsoft Edge
Neither Net Applications nor StatCounter revealed their public data on the browsers used on different operating systems. Therefore, determining the browsers that are preferred by Windows 10 users in place of Edge is not possible. Google Chrome is the most popular browser, but there is no guarantee users are choosing Chrome over Edge.
The low popularity of the Edge browser among Windows 10 users suggests a failure on the part of Microsoft in promoting its new browser. While it is still very early, this is not a good sign for Microsoft as it has positioned Edge as being its browser of the future.
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The Association of Media and Entertainment Counsel announces 2011 Advisory Board Members + MARCH 15, 2011 – PRESS RELEASE
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LOS ANGELES – March 15, 2011 – The Association of Media and Entertainment Counsel (AMEC), the leading trade association serving general counsel and business affairs attorneys, is pleased to announce its 2011 Advisory Boards and Steering Committees. The AMEC Board and Committees are made up of both domestic and international companies and law firms from across the media and entertainment industries.
The newest addition to AMEC’s impressive roster is the Law School Advisory Board. Steve Krone, Director of the Biederman Entertainment and Media Law Institute and Professor of Law at Southwestern Law School, and Nancy Rapoport, Gordon Silver Professor of Law at University of Nevada, Las Vegas, shall be heading up this new section. Through its Law School Section, AMEC will host student sponsored events at law schools throughout the country and hold an annual essay competition, with the winner invited to attend AMEC’S Counsel of the Year Awards Ceremony in Hollywood. The winning essay shall also be printed in AMEC’s award winning news magazine: M/E Insights Magazine. The purpose of the Law School Section is to promote interest in, and advance the education of entertainment, media and sports law. The new board includes:
Steve Krone, Co-Chair, Director of the Biederman Entertainment and Media Law Institute and Professor of Law at Southwestern Law School
Nancy Rapoport, Co-Chair, Gordon Silver Professor of Law at University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Samuel Fifer, Adjunct Professor, Northwestern University Law School
Ellen Goodman, Professor of Law, Rutgers University School of Law, Camden
Brenda Saunders Hampden, Professor of Law, Seton Hall University School of Law
John Kettle, Professor of Law, Rutgers University School of Law, Newark
Silvia Kratzer, Professor of Film and Television, UCLA and Chapman University
AMEC’s Leadership Advisory Board consists of in-house counsel and business affairs executives at top media and entertainment companies and organizations. “AMEC is a unique organization in that it brings together all the movers and shakers of the business and legal entertainment communities around the world,” said Board Chair David Matlin, Vice President Legal Affairs of Scripps Networks. Joining the Leadership Advisory Board for 2011 are:
Andy Levin, Chair Emeritus, Executive Vice President & Chief Legal Officer, Clear Channel Communications, Inc.
David Matlin, Chair, Vice President Legal Affairs, Scripps Networks
Jeff Friedman, VP Business & Legal Affairs, Reveille Productions LLC
Alan Lewis, Vice President, Legal Affairs, Disney ABC Networks Group
Tricia Lin, Vice President, Associate General Counsel, Yahoo! Inc.
Shelley Reid, Senior Vice President Business & Legal Affairs, Fox Television Studios
Peter Steckelman, VP Legal Affairs, Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc.
Shai Stern, Co-Chairman and CEO, Vintage Filings and Vcorp Services
Claudia Teran, SVP Legal & Business Affairs, Fox Cable Networks
AMEC’s Law Firm Advisory Board consists of attorneys in private practice, specializing in cutting edge entertainment issues at leading law firms across the country. “Having an organization like AMEC is an incredible resource for law firms to strengthen existing relationships and to building new ones,” said the Board’s Chair, Jordan Yospe of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP. Joining the Law Firm Advisory Board for 2011 are:
Alan L. Friel, Chair Emeritus, Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon LLP
Jordan K. Yospe, Chair, Counsel, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP
Thomas Guida, Partner, Loeb & Loeb
Adam Paris, Partner, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
Glen A. Rothstein, Partner, Blank & Rome LLP
Patrick Sweeney, Counsel, Reed Smith
AMEC’s Emerging Leaders Board consists of attorneys in private practice, in-house counsel, business affairs executives, and attorneys in non-legal position in entertainment and media companies who have less than five years professional experience, or are under the age of 35. “Whether through dynamic roundtables, timely panels, or good old-fashioned networking, AMEC’s Emerging Leaders Section provides the ultimate ‘foot in the door’ for future titans of the entertainment business,” said Chair of the board Drew Wheeler, Attorney at Law. “Each year, our events draw from and build upon the strengths of each individual Board seat, but we are always looking for the next great idea from our general membership. In fact, my own AMEC involvement began with a simple offer to support an Emerging Leaders event. The greatest honor in serving as Chair of this Board is unquestionably the chance to provide similar opportunities when the next generation of entertainment visionaries come knocking.” New to the 2011 Emerging Leaders Board are:
Christian Vance, Chair Emeritus, Fox Television Studios
Drew Wheeler, Chair , Attorney at Law
Joanna Mamey, Vice-Chair, Business Representative, Theatrical & Interactive Game Contracts, Screen Actors Guild
Joseph Balice, Attorney at Law, Anderson Kill Wood & Bender
Linden Bierman-Lytle, Production Attorney, Mark Burnett Productions
Alison Chin, Corporate Counsel, Bandai America, Namco Networks
Bayan Laird, Business & Legal Affairs, Fox Television Studios
David Lin, Loyola Law School
Maurice Pessah, Attorney, Peter Law Group
AMEC’s International Advisory Board consists of top entertainment lawyers from outside the United States. The purpose of this group is to broaden the reach of AMEC around the globe. “The international global entertainment community is close-knit. Bringing these specialist firms together provides a readily available pool of legal talent for AMEC members. Most of these firms have previous experience of working together. It provides the possibility of assembling an effective and independent international legal team at short notice,” said Chair Tony Morris of Marriott Harrison. The new 2011 board consists of:
Tony Morris, Chair, Marriott Harrison, England
Safir Anand, Anand and Anand, India
Hiroo Atsumi, Atsumi & Partners, Japan
Ken Dhaliwal, Heenan Blaikie LLP, Canada
Enrique A. Diaz, Goodrich Riquelme Y Asociados, Mexico
Eric Lauvaux, Nomos, France
Charmayne Ong, Skrine, Malaysia
Francesco Portolano, Portolano, Italy
AMEC’s Women Who Lead Board is a group of leading executives from the entertainment business and legal communities. The purpose of this group is to promote and encourage women in leadership positions within the entertainment community. “The Women Who Lead Board would like to thank AMEC for all its efforts in supporting women’s role in the entertainment business and legal communities,” said Co-Chair Pam Reynolds, Senior Vice President Business & Legal Affairs, MGM. The 2011 Board includes:
Pam Reynolds, Co-Chair, Senior Vice President Business & Legal Affairs, MGM Studios
Jessica Kantor, Co-Chair, Associate, Sheppard Mullin
Kavita Amar, Senior Counsel, Business & Legal Affairs, New Line Cinema
Alexsondra S. Fixmer, Director of Business & Legal Affairs, The Tennis Channel Inc.
Tracey L. Freed, Counsel, Corporate & Distribution Legal Affairs, Sony Pictures
Sharmalee B. Lall, Director, Legal Affairs, Warner Bros. Animation Inc.
Kristin L. McQueen, Senior Vice President, Business & Legal Affairs, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Kavi Mehta, Senior Counsel, Legal Affairs, Disney Cable Networks Group
The 2011 New York Steering Committee is headed by Cynthia Arato, Partner at Macht, Shapiro, Arato & Isserlers LLP. “AMEC’s presence on the East Coast is growing rapidly. I’m honored and excited to be a part of such a prestigious organization that is recognized on both coasts,” said Arato. The 2011 committee includes:
Ezra Doner, Chair Emeritus, Law Offices of Ezra Doner
Cynthia Arato, Chair, Partner, Macht, Shapiro, Arato & Isserles LLP
Aydin Caginalp, Partner, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP
Joshua Cammaker, Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Cory Greenberg, Director of Operations & Special Projects, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Oliver Herzfeld, Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer, The Beanstalk Group
Wade Leak, Deputy General Counsel, Sony Music Entertainment
Debra A. White, Partner, Loeb & Loeb
Rounding off AMEC’s 2011 boards and committees is the Chicago Steering Committee which is chaired by Jamie Rubin, Partner at Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon LLP. “AMEC’s growth within the Chicago entertainment community is impressive. Since its inception in 2009, the number of members has increased and include a variety of attorneys and executives from local studios to sport giants like Chicago Cubs,” said Rubin. The 2011 Committee includes:
Jamie Rubin, Chair, Partner, Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon LLP
Michelle Askew, Associate Counsel, Johnson Publishing Company Inc.
William L. Becker, Vice President & General Counsel Harpo Inc.
John Corvino, General Counsel, Chicago White Sox, Ltd.
Pedro DeJesus, Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary Tampico Beverages, Inc.
Bernard Gugar, Associate General Counsel, Harpo Inc.
Michael Lufrano, Senior Vice President, Community Affairs and General Counsel, Chicago Cubs
With the help and support of these new board members, AMEC aims to better represent the interests and aspirations of in-house counsel and business affairs attorneys at entertainment and media companies, provide training and career guidance for the unique needs of those individuals, and formally recognize their achievements at the annual Counsel of the Year Awards.
ABOUT AMEC
AMEC is the only organization of its kind, promoting excellence in entertainment law. Formed in late 2005, AMEC is designed to support the career development, and honor the achievements, of in-house counsel and business affairs attorneys at entertainment and media companies. For more information about AMEC please visit www.theamec.com. Key programs of the AMEC include: Media and Entertainment Counsel of the Year Awards; M/E Insights quarterly newsletter, distributed to over 30,000 media, entertainment and communications industry decision makers globally; and a variety of other continuing education seminars and industry news and information.
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“CAMINO MARIÑAN”, is based on an old pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela, which Professor Francisco Vales Villamarín describes in the 50s of the last century, the documentation was lost and found at the end of the 90s. It was published in the Brigantine Yearbook in 2002, studied and made known by the Cultural Heritage Custody Association “VEDOREIRA” in 2014.
The pilgrims disembarked in the port of Fontán and from here they walked to Betanzos to continue then road to Compostela.
In 2017, the municipalities of Sada, Bergondo and Betanzos agreed to convert it into a Tourist Route, and following the 2014 study, two routes are offered. One in blue, which corresponds to the original path, and one in green, which corresponds to the alternative path of the study.
This old route will be reused for cultural, landscape, gastronomic, sports, etc. use. To follow it, you will find signs with blue or green colors and the logo, depending on which route you follow, also white signs on the ground with red direction arrows, in the doubtful sections.
Given that today much of the route is urban, semi-urban and cross roads, we beg you to take maximum precaution in the areas designated as dangerous, wear reflective vests, walk on the left, take the children by the hand and do not invade the traffic routes of vehicles.
We arrived at the Magdalena neighborhood with its modest chapel from the late s. XVIII, very modified in the XX. Sole rest of the missing lazarados hospital contiguous to the chapel. Even today the pariah San Lázaro is venerated inside.
On the right we have the remains of the “Fábrica de Curtidos La Magdalena “, belonging to the Etcheverría Family, which worked part of the s.XIX and until 1914.
In the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939 it was a concentration camp, and in there, there were many Republican, Basque and Catalan political prisoners, including Vicente Ferrer.
From here the pilgrims entered the city by the Ponte Nova, crossing the Mendo, the Porta das Donas and going up to Rúa dos Ferreiros would arrive at the Church of Santiago, where they could pass under the Porta do Perdón, and, if not to be able to continue on the road, to obtain the Jubilee there.
End point of our journey.
Others would march directly to Compostela following the path of the Carregal, where today is located the Pasatempo park, by the road of the Cascas, next to the old monastery of Xanrozo, also called “Das Donas”.
Restos do Lagar do hospital de lazarados
Fábrica de curtidos dos Etcheverría
Capela da Magdalena
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PS5 vs Xbox Series X|S vs Switch Launch Sales Comparison Through Week 8
by William D'Angelo, posted January 17th
Animal Crossing: New Horizons Once Again Tops the UK Charts
A Way Out Sells 'Almost' 3.5 Million Units
PS5 vs Xbox Series X|S vs Switch Sales Comparison Charts Through January 2
The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening Debuts at the Top of the UK Charts - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 23 September 2019 / 3,608 Views
The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening (NS) has debuted at the top on the UK charts, according to GfK/UKIE for the week ending September 21. The game was developed by Grezzo and is the studio’s biggest Zelda launch in the UK. The studio also developed Majora’s Mask 3D and Ocarina of Time 3D.
Borderlands 3, which debuted in first last week, dropped to second as sales declined 69 percent week-on-week. It does remain the fastest-selling game in the UK in 2019. Gears 4 falls two spots to fourth.
Here are the top 10 best-selling titles (combined sales):
The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening - NEW
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Zenos (on 24 September 2019)
Glad I contributed to that. The game is awesome.
Roberto63 (on 28 September 2019)
Hmmmm I can’t believe there are still people using this site with no actual sales figures on show. Maybe there is a mass exodus. Who knows.
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February 21, 2009 Boutique Wines, Red Wine, Wine Reviews
Kapcsándy Family Winery, Napa: Current Releases
Napa has a way of turning modest dreams into major productions. Lou Kapcsándy and his wife Bobbie decided to retire to Napa mostly out of nostalgia for the picnics and wine tasting they used to do as a young married couple living in Sausalito. Forty years after the first of these romantic escapes, their retirement dream included only a little cottage with at most an acre or so of vines, so Lou could putter in the garage and make a barrel or two of wine from his backyard fruit.
Three years after the family, including their son Louis, made the first tour of the small cottages for sale in the valley, the family was harvesting fifteen and a half acres of Cabernet and Merlot to make the first vintage of what will undoubtedly be one of Napa’s top wines for the decades to come.
Perhaps Lou Kapcsándy’s shrewd eye for a good piece of ground can be blamed for turning a simple retirement dream into an entirely new career and a family obsession. Born and raised in Hungary, a young, immigrant Kapcsándy (pronounced cap-CHAN-dee) trained as a chemical engineer, spent some time in the military, as a pro football player, as a mechanical engineer, and finally as an entrepreneur and, for 20 years, a commercial contracting magnate, of sorts. Nearly a billion dollars in annual revenue later, Kapcsándy knows a thing or two about sizing up land for development.
And when it comes to wine, Kapcsándy knows a thing or two as well, thanks to a near 40 year obsession with Bordeaux. Kapcsándy and his wife (and later his son, too) have been traveling to Bordeaux for decades.
All of which might explain why, when the Kapcsándy family happened upon a plot of land known as the State Lane vineyard, they quickly realized that the dreams of a simple cottage in the valley were about to be replaced by something much bigger.
The State Lane Vineyard sits at the corner of State Lane and Yountville Crossroads in Napa, and was made famous by the Beringer Winery decades ago as the source for some of Beringer’s most prized vineyard-designated fruit, and a part of some of the most important wines in the history of Napa Valley.
In 1999 vines on the property succumbed to the predations of Phylloxera. The vineyard was being prepared for redevelopment in anticipation of renewing its contract with Beringer when the family learned that the owner might be interested in selling. It represented an opportunity too good for the Kapcsándys to pass up.
Whenever someone takes over an historic vineyard, like State Lane in Napa, there’s a period of time when those familiar with it hold their breath. Like a new family buying an old, majestic house on the block, you never know whether they’re going to replace it with some modern monstrosity or refurbish it to the height of its glory.
By now, everyone in Yountville has breathed a sigh of relief. With the precision and aggressive timeline that no doubt characterized his work for decades before, Lou Kapcsándy ripped out all 15 acres of the beleaguered, Phylloxera infected rootstock and replanted the property in several blocks, each with rootstocks carefully matched to the several types of soil found on the property. In 9 short months, a brand new winery was also constructed, capable of shepherding the roughly 3000 cases the estate expects to produce safely from field to bottle.
The Kapcsándy Family Winery enlisted the help of Helen Turley and her husband John Wetlaufer to oversee the replanting of the vineyards and the first couple of vintages. Starting in 2005 the winemaking was transitioned to the team of Denis Malbec (cellar master of Chateau Latour) and Rob Lawson who spent 14 years as the head winemaker for the Napa Wine Company. Despite the caliber of their hired help, Kapcsándy Family Winery is run almost entirely by the family. Lou and his son Louis jointly make nearly every decision about all aspects of the winery’s operations (a natural extension of the partnership they began in 1999 when they started a wine importing business together), and Louis is gradually taking over more and more of the winemaking responsibility.
Like many of Napa’s top vineyards, the winegrowing and winemaking regimen at Kapcsándy is extremely rigorous — from the dense precision spacing of the vines, to the strict yield reduction and canopy management, to the dogmatic insistence on harvesting the grapes only at phenolic maturity (a measurement of the presence and concentration of compounds like anthocyanins and tannins). Grapes are hand picked, block by block, in multiple passes through the vineyard, and are completely destemmed before being sorted, painstakingly, berry by berry into the fermentation tanks. During this sorting process, which involves dozens of people, up to 15% of the grapes are removed due to imperfections. Fermentations take place with minimal fuss or intervention. The wines are bottled completely unfined and unfiltered after aging in 100% new French and Hungarian oak for approximately 20 months.
“I have no interest in fruit bombs. No interest in huge, in-your-face wines that lack a mid-palate or structure,” booms Lou when asked what he’s trying to do with his wines. “I’m trying to make great wines, which means wines that are distinct, approachable in their youth, but fundamentally structured to age for a long time. We’re not trying to imitate any specific wine, but we are inspired by the great vintages of Bordeaux, all of which — ’61, ’64, ’70, ’75, ’78, ’82 — were good when they were young.”
The influence of Bordeaux is clear in Kapcsándy wines, even from first sight of the atypically broad shouldered bottle (made from a mold that the French sold to the Italians and which somehow made its way to Mexico) that reminded Lou and Louis of Haut Brion. Yet while these wines are remarkable in their European styling, they also bulge with an intensity that can only come from Napa, and are all the more compelling for it, not to mention some of the best wines being made in Napa today.
I had a chance to sit down recently and taste through their current releases, as well as get a peek into the upcoming 2007 vintage, which is spectacular. The family has started to make a port, just for fun, and will likely also be producing a less expensive wine under a secondary label. Stay tuned.
2006 Kapcsándy Family Vineyards “Estate Cuvee” Red Wine, Napa
Inky garnet in the glass, this blend of 48% Cabernet Sauvignon, 48% Merlot, and 4% Cabernet Franc has a nose of violets, cedar, and anise aromas. In the mouth it is suede smooth with beautiful tannins, and lush black cherry fruit. Great acidity makes for excellent balance and promises of longevity in the dark undertones of wet dirt that wax loamy into the long finish. 750 cases made. Score: between 9 and 9.5. Cost: $125. Where to buy?
2006 Kapcsándy Family Vineyards “Grand Vin” Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa
Inky garnet in color, this blend of 91% Cabernet Sauvignon, 8% Merlot, and 1% Cabernet Franc has a fantastic aroma of violets, lavender, and sweet tobacco. In the mouth, soft, velvet, beautifully sweet tannins caress dark brooding flavors of graphite, wet dirt, tobacco, and a ripe core of black cherry. A hint of cola flavor emerges in the tremendous finish. 650 cases made. Score: around 9.5. Cost: $175. Where to buy?
2006 Kapcsándy Family Vineyards “Roberta’s Reserve” Merlot, Napa
Opaque garnet in the glass, with aromas of espresso, bitter chocolate, and dark fruit, this wine has a texture that makes you want to take your clothes off. Satin textured, sexy black cherry flavors are juicy with beautiful acidity and swirl with complex espresso and earthy flavors for minutes in the mouth. Long into the finish the tannins, smooth as butter, begin to emerge, like the memory of a final caress. 94% Merlot, 6% Cabernet Franc, this is almost unquestionably the best Merlot made in Napa Valley, with a stature likely to get it confused with a First Growth Bordeaux. 265 cases made. Score: between 9.5 and 10. Cost: $190. Where to buy?
2007 Kapcsándy Family Vineyards Rosé, Napa
Light ruby in the glass, this wine smells of strawberry jam and crushed herbs with a nice meaty, savory quality as well. In the mouth it is bright and light, with tart cherry and bright strawberry flavors, buoyed up with enough acidity to ensure it goes down clean and refreshing. Blended from 49% Cabernet Sauvignon, 41% Merlot 7% Cabernet Franc, and 3% Petite Verdot. 300 cases made. Score: around 9. Cost: $30. Where to buy?
2007 Kapcsándy Family Vineyards “Estate Cuvee” Red Wine Barrel Sample
Opaque purple in the glass, this blend of 54% Cabernet Sauvignon, 40% Merlot, 5% Cabernet Franc, and 1% Petite Verdot has a lovely nose of candied violets and bright, black cherry aromas. In the mouth it skitters across the palate with satin-like smoothness, bulging with soft, rich tannins that open to reveal flavors of cassis, pencil lead, and perfectly ripe black cherry. Rich, dark chocolate flavors emerge in the languorous finish. Outstanding and utterly compelling. Score: around 9.5.
2007 Kapcsándy Family Vineyards Cabernet “Grand Vin” Barrel Sample
Inky purple in the glass, this wine has a gorgeous nose of cassis and graphite aromas. Explosively juicy in the mouth, the wine has incredible balance, while maintaining an amazing dynamic range of flavors that modulate between chocolate, black cherry, cassis, and a deep wet dirt quality that makes the whole experience like plunging a straw into the sweetest bit of chocolate sod you could ever dream up. Phenomenal. 92% Cabernet Sauvignon, 6% Merlot, 1% Cabernet Franc, 1% Petite Verdot. Score: between 9.5 and 10.
2007 Kapcsándy Family Vineyards Roberta’s Reserve Barrel Sample
Inky purple in the glass, This wine has an incredibly sweet (in a good way) nose of violets and ripe cassis. The floral qualities of this wine’s aromas are really astonishing. On the palate it is exceptionally smooth and poised with fantastic finesse and with rippling muscles of black cherry and dark plum wrapped in velvety tannins. The wine conveys a sense of dramatic purity, even as the incredibly long finish brings in mocha and spice flavors. 92% Merlot and 8% Cabernet Franc. Hot damn. Score: between 9.5 and 10.
2007 Kapcsándy Family Vineyards Port
Inky garnet in the glass, this wine, made from 100% over-ripe Merlot grapes, has a nose of baked apples and black fruits. In the mouth it is light in body with smooth, grapey, chocolate, caramel, flavors that linger into a nice finish that takes on a roasted fig quality over time. The wine has been fortified with unoaked grape brandy, and so has a clean quality to it that lets it hover somewhere between port-ness and late harvest quality, with the sweetness and acidity of the latter, and the flavors of the former. I’m not a huge port fan, so take my rating with a grain of salt. Score: between 8.5 and 9.
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Consider COD Modern Warfare 4 Development an Actuality, More Hints Suggest
Every fan knows that Modern Warfare was the most loved series of Call of Duty and that is why they actually want, the studio behind Warfare to make the fourth one. However, for quite some time, there was no news suggesting such development, until recently few hints started popping...
Every fan knows that Modern Warfare was the most loved series of Call of Duty and that is why they actually want, the studio behind Warfare to make the fourth one. However, for quite some time, there was no news suggesting such development, until recently few hints started popping up, suggesting that COD Modern Warfare 4 development is already underway. Among so many rumors and leaks, a few of them seem to point out to the possibility that Infinity Ward has initiated the teasing process related to Modern Warfare 4.
The most significant leaks and hints suggesting its development include the leak by a former Infinity Ward employee and former Call of Duty spokesperson Rober Bowling. Then the news of at least five former Infinity Ward developers making a return to the studio and finally the latest and the most subtle hint dropped Bowling once again.
Let us start with the first one, just a few days back, a former Infinity Ward employee, Rober Bowling took to his official Twitter account and launched a number of cryptic Twitter posts which seemingly involve characters from the Modern Warfare trilogy, suggesting that Call of Duty Modern Warfare 4 development to be underway.
As if that was not enough to trigger the excitement and anticipation among fans that it became known that at least five former Infinity Ward developers have seemingly made a come back to the studio. This news is based on their LinkedIn profiles. So they do seems to be more authentic than the other ones. What is even more intriguing is the fact that all of these former employees who have made a return to the studio have previously held major positions. These employees include Mark;
Grigsby (Animation Director)
Alex Roycewicz (Game Designer)
Geoff Smith (Multiplayer Design Director)
Joel Emslie as (Art Director)
Zied Rieke (Founder of Infinity Ward)
While so let that sink in, just a little while back, Robert Bowling posted a picture over at his official Twitter account, in which he can be seen wearing Modern Warfare shirt but there is no number mentioned there. Upon asking where is the 3 at, Robert replied, in a most peculiar and subtle way possible. He said, “I don’t know, it was there be four.” Making a double statement, he seems to have hinted towards a COD Modern Warfare 4 development. You probably have a good reason to be excited about.
Me at 10pm: I should get some sleep.
Me at 2am: pic.twitter.com/LwQ3XqOBeu
— Robert Bowling (@fourzerotwo) May 9, 2019
I don’t know, it was there be four.
However, these are just mere hints and leaks, so do not hold your breath for too long. Unless and until we hear something official from the devs we cannot be certain.
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The origins of the Silk Route stretch back to 207 BC when silk was first produced in China and transported for trade. It became a network of trading routes running through Asia, the Middle East and on to Europe, whilst also branching off into India and Russia. Today, you can follow in the footsteps of Marco Polo and join the route from any number of different start points now that both China and Russia are more accessible. We generally recommend starting in Beijing and ending in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, spanning the width of China and Kyrgyzstan en route. As well as long car journeys, this trip does involve several flights. You may also take a few train journeys, depending on where you visit and your personal preferences. Feeling intrepid?
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July 19, 2002 -- Two Florida residents have HIV after getting blood from an infected donor. Because the chance of this happening is about 1 in 2 million, health authorities say the U.S. blood supply remains safe.
The unidentified donor originally tested negative for the AIDS virus. He or she first gave blood shortly after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and then became a regular donor. A donation made in March 2002 was infected with HIV but passed testing because the donor was in the earliest stage of infection.
Blood given in May 2002 by the same donor tested positive for HIV. Officials tracked down people who received the earlier donations. Two people in the Tampa/St. Petersburg area -- identified as a young adult and as a mid-60s adult -- were infected.
"We know that this is a possibility," Paul Ness, MD, tells WebMD. "There is a small but remote risk. The risk is incredibly small compared to other things that can happen to a person who needs a blood transfusion." Ness is past president of the American Association of Blood Banks and director of transfusion medicine at Johns Hopkins University.
The problem is that when people get infected with HIV, their blood will test negative on HIV antibody tests for about 25 days. The more sophisticated nucleic acid test (NAT) shortens this window -- but for about the first 10 days after HIV infection a person has so little virus in the blood that even this test can't find it. Depending on the blood center, samples of 16 to 128 blood donations are pooled for NAT testing. Any positive result sparks an investigation.
Since 1999, all U.S. blood has been tested by both HIV antibody and HIV NAT tests. A San Antonio man was infected by donated blood in September 2001.
"When you screen blood for HIV with modern testing, there is a shorter window for HIV to get through than there used to be, but it can still happen," Ness says. "The odds are less than 1 in a million transfusions in the U.S. -- and I find it quite reassuring that the FDA estimates the odds at less than 1 in 2 million."
According to the Associated Press, the Florida blood donor was "stunned" to learn about having HIV infection. Donors must answer a lengthy series of pointed questions about HIV risk in order to give blood. There is no suggestion that the donor lied.
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Trump's legal team withdraws on eve of Pennsylvania case oral arguments
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President Donald Trump speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House, Friday, Nov. 13, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) more >
By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times - Monday, November 16, 2020
President Trump’s attorneys withdrew from a case in Pennsylvania on the eve of oral arguments to challenge more than 600,000 votes in Pennsylvania and keep alive his hopes of reversing a projected win of presumptive President-elect Joseph R. Biden.
His new counsel from Scaringi Law petitioned a federal court judge Monday evening to ask for a postponement of oral arguments, which were scheduled for Tuesday afternoon.
The move was designed to put former New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani at the front of the legal fight.
“The president announced Saturday that he has asked Mayor Rudy Giuliani to lead the national legal team, along with local counsel. Our substitution of local counsel is consistent with routine managing of complex litigation,” said Trump campaign legal adviser Jenna Ellis.
Mr. Trump’s attorneys and campaign team have argued that Pennsylvania election officials caused a constitutional crisis with the disparate treatment of Republican and Democratic voters.
Keeping Mr. Biden out of the White House come Jan. 20 is an uphill legal battle, but any shot at succeeding depends on a court victory for Mr. Trump in Pennsylvania, where he trails in the unofficial results by about 69,140 votes.
The crux of the Trump team’s case is that election workers in heavily Democratic counties notified voters whose mail-in ballots had errors, allowing time for the ballots to be corrected or “cured” before Election Day. In heavily Republican counties, voters whose mail-in ballots had problems were denied opportunities to cure them.
At issue is more than 600,000 ballots from Allegheny County, which includes Pittsburgh, and Philadelphia County. The campaign claims the ballots were counted unlawfully. Those included some mail-in ballots that were opened before Election Day, in violation of state law.
“We are still arguing that 682,479 ballots were counted illegally, in secret,” Trump campaign spokesman Tim Murtaugh said. “Our poll watchers were denied meaningful access to watch the vote counting, and we still incorporate that claim in our complaint.”
Attorneys for the Democratic Party say the number of ballots contested is lower than the roughly 70,000-vote margin that separates Mr. Trump and Mr. Biden.
“The numbers aren’t even close to the margin between the two candidates, not even close,” Cliff Levine, a lawyer representing the Democratic National Committee, told The Associated Press.
Mr. Trump’s attorneys filed court papers Sunday to head off an attempt by Pennsylvania officials to have the case dismissed. The amended complaint argued that unlawful ballots were counted and the state used different processes to tally votes in various counties.
The complaint says unlawful actions violate the Constitution’s framework for elections and the 14th Amendment guarantee of equal protection under the law.
“This Court should hear it and grant … a remedy that vindicates their right to have their vote ‘correctly counted,’” the complaint said.
Secretary of the Commonwealth Kathy Boockvar denied wrongdoing. She argued in court papers that the president’s legal team presented “repeatedly rejected legal theories” with “no evidence.”
She has asked the court to dismiss the president’s case.
Last week, a judge in Arizona dismissed a Trump campaign case disputing ballots in Maricopa County.
The Arizona Republican Party still has an active lawsuit seeking a hand audit of the ballots. Unlike other legal battles launched by the Trump campaign, the litigation is not in federal court.
Mr. Trump’s attorneys also have a federal lawsuit pending in Michigan before Judge Janet T. Neff, who was appointed by President George W. Bush.
Similar to the Pennsylvania challenge, the Michigan case presents equal protection claims. Trump attorneys say mail-in ballots were not able to be reviewed for errors, and they are asking the court to postpone the certification of the results until the president can present the evidence of fraud his legal team has gathered.
The president’s attorneys also asked the court for an opportunity to inspect software in Michigan after Dominion Voting Systems ballot scanners switched 6,000 votes from Mr. Trump to Mr. Biden in Antrim County, though the mix-up was caught and corrected. The company denies any malfunction, and state officials attributed the problem to human error.
At this juncture, the most likely path to victory for Mr. Trump would be through Pennsylvania.
Matt Morgan, general counsel for Trump 2020, said the goal is to keep Pennsylvania from certifying election results before the campaign can prove that officials counted illegal votes. He said the target is to reach an automatic recount in the state, which would be triggered if the candidates were 0.5 percentage points apart in the vote tally. The current margin is 1 percentage point.
If Mr. Trump succeeds in nullifying Mr. Biden’s projected win in Pennsylvania, he would then have to do the same in Arizona or Nevada and win the still too-close-to-call race in Georgia in order to clinch a second term.
Georgia officials started a hand recount of the results Friday. Republican observers will be able to object to ballots that they consider erroneous. The president trails Mr. Biden by 0.3 percentage points in Georgia’s unofficial results as tabulated by AP.
The president is not part of a federal case in Nevada, where a voter and Republican candidates are claiming fraud and irregularities in Clark County, which includes Las Vegas.
The lawsuit claims thousands of nonresidents voted in the state illegally.
Mr. Trump trails by about 33,596 votes in Nevada.
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‘Unity is power’: Schnucks reveals employee shirt for Black History Month
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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WCIA) — The Illinois Department of Transportation announced today that construction on Interstate 72 between White Heath (exit 169) and Interstate 57 at Champaign (exits 182A-B) will begin August 12.
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by Katherine Hessel / Jan 18, 2021
ST. LOUIS, Mo — ‘Unity is power’ is the name of the Schnucks diversity, equity, and inclusion plan. As part of that plan, the St. Louis area-based grocer rolled out shirts for employees to wear on Martin Luther King Jr. Day and during February's Black History month.
The front of the shirt says, “Unity is Power.” The back says, “Together We Stand Against Racism.” The shirts are optional. Employees can wear them if they want, and many are.
by Stu Ellis / Jan 18, 2021
PONTIAC, Ill. (WCIA) — You would not feed your family one big meal a year, then clean off the table. So why do farmers do that to their corn crop?
Farmers who have already sold some of their new crop corn want to make sure they have great yields. Chief Agronomist Jason Webster of the Precision Planting research farm at Pontiac is feeding his corn throughout the growing season.
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Florida man makes videos of wild snakes biting him — for educational purposes
Updated: 5:20 PM CST Dec 7, 2020
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This is one way to teach people.A daring herpetologist has made a video series on Instagram out of letting wild snakes bite him. David Orin Humphlett, 21, says the motivation for making the videos is to show people that snakes aren't really dangerous. "For the majority of the bites I take, especially the snake bites, they're not really painful," said Humphlett, a delivery driver from Gainesville, Florida.Watch the video above to see clips of some of Humphlett's videos.
This is one way to teach people.
A daring herpetologist has made a video series on Instagram out of letting wild snakes bite him.
David Orin Humphlett, 21, says the motivation for making the videos is to show people that snakes aren't really dangerous.
"For the majority of the bites I take, especially the snake bites, they're not really painful," said Humphlett, a delivery driver from Gainesville, Florida.
Watch the video above to see clips of some of Humphlett's videos.
A family cat brought home a snake with two heads in Florida
An invasive species of giant lizard is making its way through the Southeast
A Florida man was mauled by a leopard after paying $150 for a 'full-contact experience'
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Sunday Bloody NYT Sunday Returns, Now With 40% More Racial Tension
Sunday Bloody NYT Sunday is back, kids, and of course we have to start our perusal of the Newspaper of Record with its coverage ofevents overnight in Ferguson, Missouri. Not surprisingly, the midnight curfew declared by Gov. Jay Nixon yesterday didn't exactly bring peace and quiet -- demonstrations continued, the police fired tear gas, and seven demonstrators were arrested. Why the tear gas, after Capt. Ron Johnson had promised that it wouldn't be used? At a press conference, Johnson
explained that some tear gas had been used because the police had learned that armed men were inside a barbecue restaurant. One man with a gun had moved to the middle of the street, Captain Johnson said, but escaped. Another man, who was not identified, was shot by an unknown assailant and taken by companions to a hospital, where he was reported to be in critical condition. A police car was fired upon, the captain added, but it was not immediately clear if it was hit.
So there's your straight reporting; we also get a very good backgrounder by Tanzina Vega and John Eligon, on the history of racial migration and resulting power clashes in the suburbs surrounding St. Louis, where Ferguson is just one of
many of the suburbs around St. Louis, inner-ring towns that accommodated white flight decades ago but that are now largely black. And yet they retain a white power structure.
Although about two-thirds of Ferguson residents are black, its mayor and five of its six City Council members are white. Only three of the town’s 53 police officers are black.
It's historical context, and it's a good read. Check it out. A highlight: back in the '70s, a Ferguson City Councilman was quite the wit in his condemnation of troublemaking negroes: “We should call a black a black, and not be afraid to face up to these people,” he said, apparently auditioning for a place in rightwing talk radio that hadn't been invented yet.
You might want to skip the other supplemental analysis story on Ferguson, which has the terrific insight that the protests don't have a unified leadership, and the kids just don't listen to community leaders like they supposedly used to.
Outside of Ferguson, we've got a seriously squicky but fascinating investigative piece on -- and here's a phrase you might not have expected to ever read -- "Israel’s irrepressible underground kidney market." Turns out there's a thriving international black market in organs, much as that sounds like the premise for a cyberpunk movie, and "Israelis have played a disproportionate role" in the trade, partly due to a low rate of voluntary donations because of "religious strictures regarding death and desecration." Sleazy Israeli and Ukranian brokers arrange deals, for hundreds of thousands of dollars, to get kidneys for Israelis and Europeans, and the occasional American, outside the normal transplantation networks. And you will never guess who the donors are! People from developing countries like Sri Lanka, Turkey, and Costa Rica, who are usually "poor and ill-informed about the medical risks." Yet another side effect of an international wealth gap, although we're sure it wouldn't take much effort to find a libertarian explaining that this story isn't about exploitation, but is instead about how inventive and life-affirming the free market is, insuring a life-saving surgery and a nice payoff for the third-world donor, who might have gotten infected with something anyway.
Also worth a look, Alissa J. Rubin's first person account of surviving the crash of an overloaded helicopter that was rescuing Yazidi refugees from Mount Sinjar in Iraq. It's pretty gripping True Adventure Journalism stuff, once you get past that oh-so-NYT headline: "On a Helicopter, Going Down: Inside a Lethal Crash in Iraq." Rubin dictated the piece from her hospital bed, apparently unaware at the time that the dashing pilot about whom she'd had so many nice things to say, Iraqi Gen. Majid Ahmed Saadi, was the only person to die in the crash. His desire to help evacuate as many Yazidis as possible -- "The pilot was just so moved by all this. He wanted to help all these people, especially the children" -- led him to overload the helicopter, causing the crash. Unlike so much in the Times, there's nothing to make you cringe here, just good intentions (plus overconfidence in piloting skills) gone terribly wrong. Incidentally, when Jim Hoft carried the story that a NY Times reporter had been seriously injured in the crash, his commenters' reactions included "YES!" and "the NYT does all it can to stoke hatred of Israel. Now two of their reporters found themselves crashed, injured, in trouble surrounded by people who like to take people heads off. Schadenfreude." They seem nice.
Also, DreamWorks studios is bringing Lassie back, not as an action hero who rescues Timmy from the well, but as a marketing and promotional avatar. We bet that's as successful as last year's attempt to revive "The Lone Ranger" -- can Johnny Depp bark?
And now, since we aren't quite masochist enough (yet) to look at the stories about bargain $3.4 million apartments, we move on to the columnists. First, the good news: There's no Thomas Friedman this week. Taking up the Bland Slack is an unremarkable Frank Bruni column on Colorado as a battleground state where easy left-right distinctions aren't reliable, and then we fell asleep.
When we awoke, we found ourselves nodding -- this time in agreement, not stupefaction -- while we read op-ed contributor David L. Kirp's piece on the follies of market-based education reform, which is worth a read for the details even though the title lets you know what all the examples will bear out: "Teaching Is Not a Business." Surprise! Children aren't products, and you can't just Free Enterprise (or Google Glass) them into people who love learning.
Also good, or at least not terrible: Maureen Dowd gets through an entire column about the Justice Department's pressure on Washington Post reporter Jim Risen to reveal sources in a 2006 book without once mentioning Hillary Clinton -- even though the events Risen wrote about took place during the Clinton administration. Thank heavens she has Eric Holder to yell at this week.
Ross Douthat manages to surprise us with a column that we mostly agree with, decrying the militarization of policing as we saw in the performance of the St. Louis County PD's Keystone Stormtroopers last week. Heck, he even includes a shout-out to "Radley Balko’s essential 2013 book on the subject, The Rise of the Warrior Cop," which as it turns out is also on Yr Dok Zoom's reading list. There's nothing much to disagree with here:
Last week, The New Republic’s Alec MacGillis ran the numbers for Missouri and found that the state’s Department of Public Safety received about $69 million from the Department of Homeland Security in the past five years alone. Which helps explain why the streets of a St. Louis suburb flooded so quickly with cops in gas masks and camouflage, driving armored cars and brandishing rifles like an occupying army. It’s our antiterror policies made manifest, our tax dollars at work.
And it’s a path to potential disaster, for cops and citizens alike. The “S” in SWAT was there for a reason: Militarized tactics that are potentially useful in specialized circumstances — like firefights with suicidal terrorist groups — can be counterproductive when employed for crowd-control purposes by rank-and-file cops. (The only recent calm on Ferguson’s streets came after state cops started walking through the crowds in blue uniforms, behaving like police instead of storm troopers.)
We can (and do) take issue with Douthat's suggestion, a minor point in the column, that "our punitive system may be a big part of what’s keeping crime rates as low as they are now," but for a change we're solidly behind his conclusion, noting that for far too long, law enforcement had been equipped and training for scenarios that assume a massive response is called for,
as if every burst of opportunistic lawlessness could become another Watts, as though the Qaeda sleeper cells we feared after 9/11 were as pervasive in life as they are on “24” or “Homeland.”
And this is where it’s ended: with a bunch of tomfool police playing soldier, tear-gassing protesters, arresting journalists and turning Ferguson into a watchword for policing at its worst.
Time to take their toys away.
So good on Ross Douthat. Next week, he'll no doubt be back to claiming that women are just too darn slutty or something, and the universe will return to balance. Also, did you know that this dumb paper doesn't even have a Sunday Funnies section?
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WorldBeatUK (29th Show) - Broadcast Notes (5/10/11)
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1 “Intro-Mat” (1:47) by Matchatcha - “Nyekesse” (Melodie)
"Hello! Are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin… (Pause) Welcome to another weekly dose of wonderful world music right here on Rhubarb Radio. You’re listening to WorldBeatUK with me, Glyn Phillips, tirelessly scouring the outer reaches of global musicality to bring you the stuff the others don’t!
Stick with me here on Rhubarb Radio until 9pm tonight (UK time) whilst I bring sonic treasures from Argentina, Chile and Brazil, audio gems from Romania, Finland, Wales and Israel, harmonic gold from Holland, Spain, Portugal and Gambia and auricular riches from Louisiana, Hereford and even dear old Brummajum itself!
Yes, climb aboard the Good Ship WorldBeatUK because deep in the holds I’ve got another treasure chest packed with musical booty - and there’s plenty more junk in the trunk with some dirty, accordion-pumping, squeezebox action as well! There’s also a definite jazzy, soulful, funky undercurrent coursing beneath the hull throughout the evening, but you’ll feel that later on as we hit the High Seas of the World Music Oceans.
But for the moment let’s just stow you all aboard, break open the rum, distribute the ship’s biscuits, cast off, catch the tide and set sail out of the harbour…"
Now I’ve just got hold of a new release by World Music Network - the people behind the Rough Guide series of CDs. If you don’t know them, then they give you a very useful overview of the current state of play in different areas of world music. For instance, recent releases have included the Rough Guides to English Folk, Sufi Music, and Brazilian Cafe.
The nice thing is that when you buy a CD you get another one highlighting the work of one of the groups featured on the compilation for free. So, for instance with the Rough Guide to English Folk you also get included a CD retrospective of the work of the amazing Yorkshire acapella trio Coope, Boyes and Simpson.
The CD I’m featuring at the moment is the Rough Guide to Cajun and Zydeco, which I can thoroughly recommend, some great stuff on it indeed.
I’m going to be playing a couple of tracks from it tonight and first up is someone I’ve played before on the show, the great Cedric Watson and his band Bijou Creole and a track called “Afro Zydeco”
2 “Afro Zydeco” (5:07) by Cedric Watson & Bijou Creole - “The Rough Guide To Cajun & Zydeco” (World Music Network)
Always a lot of fun when Cedric’s in the house! That one’s going out to Dylan.
If you go to www.worldmusic.co.uk and look in the Galleries section you can see some photos of Cedric Watson at a concert a couple of years ago or so.
I’ve got some more great zydeco coming up later on in the show, so keep your ears open for that 'cause I’m really excited about that one too!
Cedric’s from Louisiana, but you don’t have to necessarily travel there to hear great American music.
Just a couple of hours or so down the road from Birmingham (England, not Alabama) is the ancient market city of Hereford.
And from there comes a great band called Whiskey River who play a mixture of Blues, Country, Cajun, Zydeco etc, etc.
They’ve just released a new album called “Hot Sauce!” and I’m playing a couple more tracks from it tonight.
First off is a lovely country ballad called “Wild Horses” with vocals by Marty Blake.
3 “Wild Horses” (4:42) by Whiskey River - “Hot Sauce!”
Yeah, beautiful. Now I promised a jazzy, soulful undercurrent to the show tonight and here’s the first offering. I absolutely love this, not at all what I expected when I got the CD through.
The singer is from Chile in South America and she’s called Francesca Ancarola. She blends jazz and soul with traditional latin american songforms and sings in a mixture of Spanish and English.
This is from her album “Sons of the Same Sun” and is called “To The Shore Of The Sea”.
4 “To The Shore Of The Sea” (4:06) by Francesca Ancarola - “Sons of the Same Sun”
Yeah, loving that - especially the way it seamlessly goes from jazz and soul and waltz and ends up with that flamenco flavour!
Which leads me on effortlessly onto one of Spain’s many great flamenco singers. This is one I came across a few years ago in Seville.
His name is Tomás de Perrate and from his album on the Flamenco Vivo label called “Perraterías” a great piece of Reggae-Flamenco in the style of ‘tangos de Málaga’ called “El Piyayo”
5 “El Piyayo (Tangos de Málaga)” (4:06) by Tomás de Perrate - “Perraterías” (Flamenco Vivo)
OK, Here’s another group of which I’m playing two songs tonight.
The band is from right here in Birmingham, England and are called 1EYE.
I saw them in concert at the Hare and Hounds a couple of week’s ago and can thoroughly recommend them! Their new album still doesn’t have a name, but here’s a sneak preview from the promo CD.
This a lovely piece of Brummie rocksteady (produced in Jamaica) and it’s called “Lately”.
6 “Lately” (3:08) by 1EYE - (Industry Records 2011)
And a real change of pace now - I’m going to call into one of the great ports of South America - Buenos Aires, Argentina! From there comes the young tango singer Martin Alvarado.
Martín will be touring the UK in November and will be coming to Birmingham on Sunday 19th November to perform at the mac. I’m definitely going and really looking forward to that.
Here’s a little taste of what to expect. This is from his first album “Así Es Mi Tango” on the Fonocal label and a track entitled “Estás En Mi Corazón” (You are in my heart).
7 “Estás En Mi Corazón” (2:53) by Martin Alvarado - “Así Es Mi Tango” (Fonocal)
Wasn’t that lush! I’ve got a couple more sonically gorgeous tracks lined up. The first is from a CD called The Diwan Project.
Now, I’ve had this CD a little while, but like many deep things, be they books, music or people, it sometimes it takes time, patience and the right approach to understand what they are all about. It was like this for me with this album and I’m glad I’ve gone back to it and can appreciate it now.
The Diwan Project was founded in 2003 by Gil Ron Shama (whose work always searches for the similarities and connections between disparate communities such as Jews and Muslims) and Alon Amano Campino. The Diwan Project is not so much a musical band as a cultural experiment to bring musicians and audience together to mutually experience sacred music.
The Jews of Medieval Spain had a tradition of meeting outside a synagogue after a prayer session and combining song and piyut (a kind of sacred poetry) and searching for shechina (ie the divine presence) through this exploration of both performers and audience. This was the Diwan.
So what you’re about hear is an ensemble performing traditional music and song but in a free and contemporary style on old instruments from the Jewish Diaspora. This is called “I Heard That Crushed”
8 “I Heard That Crushed” (5:38) by The Diwan Project - “The Diwan Project”
This weekend down in Bristol at the Colston Hall there’s going to be special event called the Schumacher Centenary Festival to mark the 100th anniversary of E F Schumacher the green pioneer who coined the phrase and wrote the book “small is beautiful” and was also founder of the Soil Association.
During the daytimes there will be lectures and discussions and workshops, but on the Saturday - the 8th October - they are putting on a mini-festival programmed by WOMAD’s former Artistic Director Thomas Brooman, with an impressive array of World Music artists including Trilok Gurtu, The Dhol Foundation, Colores de Colombia, Jamie Smith’s Mabon and Seckou Keita as well as more local artists.
So to give you a taste of what’s on there here’s a couple of tracks from two of the artists appearing.
First is the experimental Gambian kora player Seckou Keita - here with his quintet - Gambians Surahata Susso on percussion and Binta Suso on vocals, Italian Davide Mantovani on bass and the Egyptian violinist Samy Bishal.
This is is a track from his album “The Silimbo Passage” on the World Artventures label and it’s called “Dingba Don”.
9 “Dingba Don” (3:58) by Seckou Keita Quintet - “The Silimbo Passage” (World Artventures)
And following on from Seckou Keita, a band that is also appearing at the smallWorld mini-festival in Bristol this weekend, the British Interceltic folkers, Jamie Smith’s Mabon.
I’ve played numerous tracks by them over the last year and also written about their appearances at both last year’s Womex and this year’s Womad (both reviews can be seen at www.worldmusic.co.uk if you’re interested - Womad review here: www.worldmusic.co.uk/jamie_smiths_mabon_radio_3_stage_womad_29711).
This one’s a an up-beat headbanger from their award-winning “Live at the Grand Pavillion” album and it’s called “The Hustler”.
10 “The Hustler” (Live) (4:16) by Mabon - “Live At The Grand Pavillion” (Easy On the Records 2010)
That was the first of four accordion-based pieces in a row I’m playing. I’ve already spun you some wonderful zydeco at the top of the show and now’s the time for some more from the Rough Guide to Cajun and Zydeco.
This is my absolute favourite from the album, it’s a dirty, funky, groover by Horace Trahane sung in both English and Creole French and takes its title from a Jamaican expression apparently.
This is “Same Knife Cut The Sheep, Cut The Goat” - Turn up the volume and laisser le bons temps rouler!
11 “Same Knife Cut The Sheep, Cut The Goat” (3:49) by Horace Trahan - “The Rough Guide To Cajun & Zydeco” (World Music Network)
Ha ha! Love that one!
Ok so time now for the second one from Hereford’s Whiskey River from their new album “Hot Sauce!” and it’s a cajun dancefloor filler called “Les Flammes d’Enfer”.
If you live anywhere near the Welsh Marches either side of the border you might come across these guys so keep your eyes peeled for them.
Now where’s that gumbo?
12 “Les Flammes d’Enfer” (4:27) by Whiskey River - “Hot Sauce!”
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13 “Forró de Cobra Verde” (2:50) by Cobra Verde - “Forró do Baú” (Cinq Planetes)
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You’re listening to WorldBeatUK on Rhubarb Radio with me, Glyn Phillips, taking you on a musical journey around the world.
Don’t forget you can join me every Wednesday on www.rhubarbradio.com between the hours of 7-9pm (UK time) and I’ll try to bring you the best in world music from across the Seven Seas...
OK, what you heard before was the last of four accordion-driven pieces and was a forró from the State of Sergipe in North-East Brazil called “Forró de Cobra Verde” by the accordionist Cobra Verde from the album “Forró do Baú on the French Cinq Planetes label.
We’re going to stay in North-East Brazil for this next one. This is a style of music based on the Brazilian pifano instrument - a type of reed flute - originally played by the indigenous inhabitants of the sertão region.
Here in the hands of the band Pilão de Pif it’s used to great effect in the tune “Meu Pilão de Pif”
(1) 14 “Meu Pilão de Pif” (2:48) by Pilão de Pif - “Music from Sergipe” (promo CD)
What about that then?
The majority language spoken in Brazil is Portuguese of course, so I’m going to indulge us in some lusophonic lyricism from the mother country for the next couple of numbers.
This is the fadisto Pedro Moutinho, and a traditional sounding track from the promo album “Lisboa Mora Aqui” called “Não Sabe Como Voltar”
(2) 15 “Não Sabe Como Voltar” (2:11) by Pedro Moutinho - “Lisboa Mora Aqui”
Well, as I said that was a very traditional take on Portugal’s most famous song form, the sometimes playful, oft-times melancholic, but always beautiful fado.
But you’d be mistaken to think that the Portuguese are afraid to experiment with this almost sacred artform.
This is the band Si Bemol from their album “Fado Em Si Bemol” and their jazz-fado take on an absolute classic, originally made famous by Amália Rodrigues.
This is their live version of “Coimbra”
(3) 16 “Coimbra” (4:18) by Si Bemol - “Fado Em Si Bemol”
You see, someone else like me who can appreciate the artistic merits of the mouth-trumpet and silly scat-singing! Love it!
OK, once more back to a second helping of someone who I’ve already featured earlier on tonight.
And just as Si Bemol have taken classic fado and given it a jazzy twist, so the Chilean singer Francesca Ancarola takes the old afro-peruvian song form of landó and gives it a jazz and soul interpretation.
I’m loving this. From the album “Sons of the Same Sun” this is called “Scarebadthings”.
(4) 17 “Scarebadthings” (4:46) by Francesca Ancarola - “Sons of the Same Sun”
(5) 18 “Pick Up”(4:24) by Mdungu - “Afro What?” (Zimbraz)
That was a track called “Pick Up” by the Dutch band Mdungu from their album “Afro What?” on the Zimbraz label.
I’ve got about two more shows after this one before I take off for Copenhagen for Womex and that band is definitely one I want to see live when I get there. How could you not want to start jiving to that one!
Don’t forget, before that you heard Francesca Ancarola and her jazzy-RnB take on an afro-peruano landó tune.
I told you I’d got some jazzy-funky-soul undercurrents to the show and this next track is no exception.
The band is from Finland, I played them last week to great acclaim, in particular to Billy Green - who incidentally has won himself a Womeximiser CD in last week’s draw! So well done Billy - send us an email with your address and I’ll get it sent out to you.
So here’s another one for you from the wonderful Helsinki band Huba.
This is a sublime piece called “Summer Morn”.
(6) 19 “Summer Morn” (4:20) by Huba - “Huba”
(7) 20 “Accidental Love” (3:18) by 1EYE - (Industry Records 2011)
Yeah, that was the second offering from Brummie Rocksteady crew, 1EYE, from their as yet unnamed album to be released on Industry Records a track called “Accidental Love”. Check ‘em out if you get the chance.
OK, so let’s take ourselves up to the end of the show by going up the gears with some rockers and dancefloor fillers!
First up is British band Manteca and a rocketing piece of latin-jazz-funk called “De Todo”.
Oye!! Les traigo de todo para guarachar - A Gozaaaaaaaaaaaarrr!!!
(8) 21 “De Todo” (4:16) by Manteca - Manteca Promo CD (2010)
(9) 22 “Papaya 07 (3:35)” by Sidestepper - “Buena Vibra Sound System” (Sony 2008)
Yeah that was Colombia’s Sidestepper and their indubitably funky remixed “Papaya 07” from the Buena Vibra Sound System album.
Now that’s a dancefloor filler - it’s enough to make your shoulders unhinge and your spine turn to jelly . . .
What shall we follow that with then?
Hmmm… how about a bit of Hendrix?
Well, as re-envisaged in a sort of funk-meets-afrobeat fusion by remixer Fissunix.
This is “Foxy Funky Lady”
(10) 23 “Foxy Funky Lady” (3:40) by Fissunix
Ha ha - yeah, definitely one for all the foxy ladies out there tonight!
OK, time for bye-byes etc
[shout-outs and reminders]
I’m going to leave you with this amazing mash-up - or maybe I should say crash-up between Romania’s Mahala Rai Banda and Diana Ross. Yes, that’s what I said, Diana Ross.
It’s all orchestrated by TJF Sound and Mykol Orthodox. And it’s pure madness!
The song you will know - trust me, you’ll know it! Not originally by Ross, but if I say who it was by I’d give the game away.
In fact I’m going to say good night right now, light the blue touchpaper and skedaddle before this baby rockets up into the air and explodes all over your consciousness in a sticky sonic mess.
This is a Marmite song - you’re either going to love it or hate it!
I love it - but I ain’t sticking around to get your responses!
See y’all next week!! Ciao, babies!
(11) 24 “I Will Survive in Mahalageasca” (4:37) by Mahala Rai Banda & Diana Ross (TJF Sound & Mykol Orthodox)
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A Tailor's Top Style Choices
By Kristiano Ang
April 27, 2011 10:54 am ET
Tailor Ethan Newton is moving to Hong Kong.
Mr. Newton, who was most recently with Australian custom tailors P.Johnson, takes over in May as business development manager of the Armoury, the Hong Kong menswear store. For seven years, he was the head tailor of Herringbone, an Australian clothing brand with boutiques in Sydney, Brisbane, Perth and Dubai.
His responsibilities at P.Johnson, where he began working earlier this year, included fitting customers and developing business relationships with the likes of tie maker Drakes and premium umbrella maker Fox.
Although he is often dressed in a jacket and tie, Mr. Newton worked for two years in Tokyo with Hidehiko Yamane, the Japanese designer behind Evisu jeans, at his vintage denim and tailoring store A Evisya Tailor.
His time in Japan influenced his dress sense tremendously. "Japan taught me to learn the basics before you try to do anything else, and that the proportions that suit you only change with your body, not with fashion trends," he says.
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Mobile data use on the increase
2008 appears to be the year of mobile data in spite of the economic downturn, with research from Orange showing customers' mobile-data usage almost doubling in the last quarter
By Natasha Lomas | December 24, 2008 -- 09:43 GMT (01:43 PST) | Topic: Networking
Orange's research into its customers' behaviour shows mobile-data usage almost doubling in the last quarter. It also said it has added 1.3 million 3G customers since the research was last conducted in November 2007 to January 2008.
Dongle subscriptions have grown by more than 2,000 percent since then, the report found.
Orange says data rises can be put down to better-designed devices — both handsets and dongles — enabling easier access to the mobile internet. It believes dedicated mobile-data price plans have also helped, along with the rise of mobile social networking.
Social-networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace are generating an average of more than 166 million monthly mobile page impressions, according to the report. Meanwhile, mobile search has increased by 30 percent and local search by 100 percent, while September saw a record 300,000 tracks downloaded, according to Orange.
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Riyadh, Doha on Way to Sign Preliminary Deal to End Protracted Gulf Crisis, Reports Suggest
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Saudi Arabia and Qatar are close to signing a preliminary agreement to resolve bilateral disputes and the prolonged Gulf crisis that has lasted for over three years, the Bloomberg news agency reported on Thursday, citing three sources familiar with the talks conducted by US President Donald Trump’s administration.
The agreement is likely to include the reopening of air and land borders, an end to the information war between Riyadh and Doha, as well as other steps to promote confidence as part of a plan to gradually restore relations, the sources said, adding that a potential breakthrough is due to occur after months of “intense diplomacy mediated by Kuwait” and a final push made by White House senior adviser Jared Kushner.
The news agency reported that the deal will not involve the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt. Diplomats and analysts told the news outlet that Abu Dhabi, unlike Riyadh, was reluctant to rebuild its ties with Doha, preferring to focus on establishing relations with Israel “while carefully avoiding any escalation with Iran.”
Riyadh, in turn, expresses concern that the next US administration will exert less pressure on Tehran than Trump did.
US news website Axios reported earlier this week that Kushner would pay a visit to Saudi Arabia and Qatar in the coming days and was expected to meet with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz and Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani in a bid to settle the regional conflict.
US administration officials earlier stated they would try to resolve the crisis between Qatar and its neighbors before Trump left office. In 2019, the Qatari Foreign Ministry was negotiating with Riyadh to end the ongoing blockade and restore diplomatic ties, seeking a positive outcome, but all efforts had not borne fruit.
June 2020 was marked by three years since the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Egypt severed diplomatic ties with Qatar. Several other countries later did the same while others downgraded their diplomatic ties with Doha and introduced a total blockade of the country. The sides presented a 13-point list of demands, among which is the severance of Doha’s alleged ties with various radical Islamist organisations.
Qatar repeatedly denied all the charges related to terrorism, saying that the campaign against the country was based on lies.
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CRRC Bags Its First North African Train Supply Deal in Egypt
Zhang Yushuo
(Yicai Global) Dec. 4 -- A unit under China and the world's biggest rolling stock manufacturer CRRC has penned a deal to supply trains for a new railroad in Egypt, marking the firm's first foray into northern Africa as it taps yet another Belt and Road nation.
CRRC Qingdao Sifang signed an agreement with China Railway Group and AVIC International Holding to supply trains for the railroad in Al Ashir min Ramadan, also known as 10th of Ramadan, state-run China News Service reported.
The supplier already exports its products to over 100 countries, including Malaysia, the United States and Indonesia. Many of its destinations are along the route of the Belt and Road Initiative, a grand plan devised by Chinese President Xi Jinping to build a vast network of infrastructure and trade links spanning most of the planet's continents.
The two buyers and Egypt's National Authority for Tunnels agreed last year that the pair would build rail lines and stations and supply related electro-mechanical devices, including rolling stock, for the railroad. The track spans 68 kilometers and 11 stations, connecting Cairo, Al Ashir min Ramadan and the nation's new not-yet-named administrative capital.
Al Ashir min Ramadan is an important satellite city to Cairo was the the location of the first industrial zone that the Egyptian government set up in a desert area. Once the new rail link is complete, it should help relieve congestion in Cairo to benefit around five million residents who commute around 10 cities close to the capital.
CRRC Qingdao Sifang will also offer maintenance services for 12 years, according to the supply contract. The trains are designed to run quietly at 120 kilometers per hour and have six carriages, as well as special sandstorm protection.
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Posts Tagged ‘eli weinberg
The Cold Record
Categories: Documentary, Events, Festival, Music, Performing Arts, Reviews and Theatre
Tags: alexandra bassiakou, brisbane festival, eli weinberg, headphone verbatim, horizon festival, kirk lynne, livid, punk, the cold record, verbatim
Horizon Festival
Brisbane Festival, The Old Ambo, ArKtype / Thomas O. Kriegsmann
Black Box Theatre, The Old Ambo, Nambour
August 28 – 30 2019
Kirk Lynn (Rude Mechs) wrote a story about a 12-year old boy who tries to set the record for the most days leaving school sick; during the process he falls in love with the school nurse and punk rock. Director of The Cold Record, Alexandra Bassiakou has fine-tuned Eli Weinberg’s sensational performance without losing the raw edge of reality. There’s an immediate and intimate connection between actor and audience, which comes from Weinberg’s easygoing manner, and our proximity to him, but also from the headphone verbatim approach to the production. In this country at least, Roslyn Oades is probably best known for this evolving performance form (her headphone verbatim piece, Hello, Goodbye & Happy Birthday toured extensively, and received critical and audience acclaim). We sense the same spirited energy here from just one dynamic performer.
Weinberg greets us in the foyer of The Old Ambo and leads us to the show’s secret location. We’re invited to enjoy a non-alcoholic beverage or local craft beer – Larry’s from Your Mates – and create a mix tape together, sharing the long-lost stories of our pre-selected punk rock song. Our mixtape on opening night comprises hits from the likes of Blondie, The Jam, The Sex Pistols and Blink 182. There are satisfied nods and some cool modified mosh pit moves, some long-lost memories that spark some other memories (LIVID 1994 in Davies Park, anyone?), lots of laughter, especially about the patience, and the intricate timing and precision required to record our favourite childhood/teen era radio tracks on old-school cassette recorders with the simultaneous push of two buttons, and general agreement that post-punk is a legit choice, as is Blondie. We’re thrilled that our listening and life choices have been validated, and that we’ll get to hear the mixtape in its entirety after the show, when the link appears in our inbox. The question arises, “What about all the other mix tapes from all the other shows?” Can we look forward to a Rude Mechs Cold Record Spotify playlist at some stage? The conversation is relaxed, and fun – but there’s more to the show, in fact, it hasn’t really started yet. Except it has… The nostalgic, casual lounge party vibe puts us at ease, almost dulling us into a false sense of security before Weinberg begins throwing us curve balls. And then there’s the ending.
Weinberg is super relaxed and personable throughout, expertly manipulating the mood over the 28-minute arc of the show to take us on his rollercoaster ride through the final year of elementary school. We rally with him against the world of adults and unreliable friends. The group’s support is something of a special communal theatrical thing; people are visibly affected and because of our close proximity we can properly sympathise. Our eyes rarely stray from Weinberg’s, his 12-year old innocence a piercing gaze, challenging us to respond honestly to his musings about life, death and love, or not at all. Throughout, Weinberg wears the headset with the sound of Lynn’s voice in his ears, in real time telling the entire story a beat ahead of his own performance.
The lasting impact of this performance is something interesting. While the story belongs to one young boy, the intimacy of its telling gifts his lived experience to each of us. We’re given the time and space to recreate, in minds and hearts for a moment, our own private version of first love, lost love, friendship, family, victory, grief, and getting up and getting on with it, without necessarily relieving or healing any wounds along the way, however; in the moments between we become aware of these feelings, and simply let them be what they will be until we make time to sit with them (or walk or run or dance with them). Neither live performance or life promises a quick or easy fix.
Are there wounds that only music can heal? Is there music that only keeps us crying, bleeding, dying?
The Cold Record goes to Brisbane Festival after this weekend and if you’re near, you’d be crazy to miss it. In fact, if you think you don’t have the time or the need to experience this neat, sweet, completely surprising and captivating one-man show, it’s likely the thing you need most.
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Jets fourth line sparks them to 7-2 win over Wild
By: Mike McIntyre
Posted: 11/27/2017 10:09 PM | Last Modified: 11/27/2017 10:58 PM | Updates
THE CANADIAN PRESS/TREVOR HAGAN
Winnipeg Jets' Matt Hendricks, Joel Armia, Mathieu Perreault, Josh Morrissey and Jacob Trouba celebrate after Armia scored during first period NHL hockey action against the Minnesota Wild Monday.
Facing a two-goal deficit and seemingly going nowhere fast, the Winnipeg Jets found the spark they were looking for in what may be the National Hockey League's best fourth-line.
And the momentum generated by the trio of Mathieu Perreault, Joel Armia and Matt Hendricks – including two goals, a fight and even drawing a bizarre squirting-the-water-bottle penalty – led them to a big 7-2 win over the Minnesota Wild Monday night at Bell MTS Place.
"On the board we’re a fourth line. But on the ice we certainly don’t feel like a fourth line. We feel like we can produce every night and outplay every match we have on other team’s fourth line. So I think it’s a great matchup," said Perreault.
The Wild jumped out to an early 2-0 lead and seemed destined to make life difficult for the home squad. But then Armia got things going with just over four minutes left in the opening period when he knocked home a rebound past Minnesota's Alex Stalock to cut the lead in half. Hendricks had made a clever deflection of Josh Morrissey's point shot to set up the goal.
Winnipeg Jets' Andrew Copp and Minnesota Wild's Gustav Olofsson battle for the puck during the second period, Monday.
"They’ve been playing great for us. They’ve been playing with a ton of energy and they made a great play to get us going, got a bit of the momentum on our side and we closed that period out strong," captain Blake Wheeler said of the trio.
Mark Scheifele tied it less than two minutes later, one-timing a beautiful cross-ice pass from Wheeler while on the power play. It's the team-leading 12th of the year for Scheifele, who has scored two other goals this year on nearly identical plays from Wheeler.
Minnesota was clearly flustered at letting their lead evaporate, and defenceman Matt Dumba took an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty at the end of the period when he sprayed a water bottle at Armia.
"Of course it’s always funny when the other team gets angry or whatever. I mean, that’s probably one thing we try to do every night, just work as hard as we can so the other team gets frustrated," said Armia.
Although the Jets didn't capitalize to begin the middle frame, they certainly took over the game.
Jacob Trouba put the Jets up 3-2 when he finished off a beautiful three-way passing play midway through the period. Andrew Copp fed a saucer pass to Scheifele, who drew both Wild defenders and then found Trouba for the tally.
Moments later, Armia spotted a wide-open Perreault who beat Stalock to the glove side.
"I think Army’s been great at getting the pucks down low. The pass he made to me was a great play. And Hendy, he’s a hard-working guy. I work hard. So I think it’s a combination of all of us," Perreault said of what's making the line click right now.
Minnesota's Daniel Winnik tried to get his team back in it by dropping the gloves with Hendricks just before the period ended, but it proved to be a poor decision as the veteran Jets centre got the best of that duel.
Jets goalie Connor Hellebuyck stops a shot by Minnesota Wild's Charlie Coyle during first the period.
And Winnipeg just kept coming. Kyle Connor made it 5-2 early in the third period, putting home a rebound created by a strong Wheeler rush to the net that was stopped by Stalock.
Minnesota called a timeout looking to stop the bleeding, but the Jets went up 6-2 when Bryan Little deflected a Ben Chiarot point shot. All heck then broke loose on the ice, with Nikolaj Ehlers and Kyle Quincey getting into a scuffle which led to several players on both sides jumping in.
Wheeler finished off the scoring when a pass attempt late in the third went off a Minnesota skate and past Stalock. It was that kind of night for the Jets, who were coming off being shut out by San Jose on Saturday night. The top line of Wheeler, Scheifele and Connor all finished the night with a goal and two assists each.
Minnesota generated only 19 shots in total as Connor Hellebuyck enjoyed a rather quiet night in the crease – especially once his team finally got their legs going after the less-than-stellar start. He's now 13-2-2 on the year.
Minnesota Wild's Daniel Winnik and Winnipeg Jets' Matt Hendricks fight during second period, Monday.
On Minnesota's first goal, defenceman Dustin Byfuglien got a bit too aggressive trying to create some offence and ended up turning over the puck in the neutral zone, then getting caught up ice. The Wild quickly turned it around, and Jason Zucker finished off a three-on-one rush by deking out Hellebuyck.
Byfuglien got burned moments later, seemingly stopping skating at his own blueline and allowing Minnesota's Charlie Coyle to get in behind him. Coyle's shot was stopped by Hellebuyck, but Zack Mitchell buried the rebound. However, the goal was erased as the Jets successfully challenged the play was offside, which was the reason Byfuglien seemingly halted on the assumption the play would be blown dead.
Minnesota made it 2-0 for good a few minutes later as Chris Stewart finished off a three-way passing play by converting a feed from linemate Matt Cullen. The Jets were again flat-footed in their own zone as they returned home from a tough road swing that saw them play four games in six days.
"We were down two and I didn’t think we had a bad start. The first four chances of the game were ours, we liked that. A couple of mistakes and the puck is in the back of the net but our game didn’t really change. We kind of came right back," said coach Paul Maurice, who credited the Perreault line with the boost that led to seven unanswered goals.
Winnipeg is now 15-6-3 on the year, while Minnesota drops to 11-10-3. That puts the Wild eight points back of the Jets, and having already lost the season series by dropping all three head-to-head meetings so far this year.
Winnipeg is now 5-1-0 in their division. They'll face another Central division test when they travel to Colorado to play the Avalanche on Wednesday night.
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‘We need you’: GOP hunts for new voters in Pennsylvania Trump territory
United States elections
His fate lies in large part in places like Butler County, Pennsylvania -- an overwhelmingly white, conservative county north of Pittsburgh
by: Josh Boak, Associated Press
SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s campaign has a bold theory for how he will win reelection: It can tap a universe of millions of supporters who did not vote for him in 2016 but will do so this time.
Supposedly, these voters are overlooked by polls that show Trump consistently trailing Democrat Joe Biden. They are mostly the white working class from factory towns, farms and mining communities that Trump has elevated to near-mythic status as the “forgotten Americans.”
They are disaffected and disconnected from conventional politics. Yet they flock to the Republican president’s rallies, plaster their yards with signs and have been filling up voter registration rolls, the campaign insists.
In few places will this strategy be tested as in Pennsylvania, a critical state that Trump carried by only 44,292 votes out of 6.1 million cast in 2016. A Democratic surge of votes in cities and suburbs could quickly erase that narrow lead. To hold onto Pennsylvania’s 20 electoral votes, the president needs to prove that a hidden groundswell of supporters exists — and will vote.
But the math behind the theory is tight. Trump’s plan requires blowout victories and historic turnout in conservative strongholds across the state, places where he outperformed traditional Republicans four years ago and he knows must do even better. His mission is made clear by his campaign stops in Pennsylvania this week — a tour through GOP areas like Latrobe, Lititz and Martinsburg,
“Trump has to drive turnout,” said Terry Madonna, a professor at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster who has conducted polls in the state for almost three decades. “I don’t see any evidence that he’s expanded his base.”
The strategy is more difficult to execute given the stunning disruption wrought by the coronavirus pandemic, both in terms of a public health crisis and nationwide economic dislocation.
Trump’s handling of the virus has cost him support among suburban women and older voters. His response to the civil unrest reacting to police killings of Black men only served to energize the resolve of Black women, as candidates and as voters. His wrecking-ball persona has prompted some of his backers in 2016 to reject him.
So his fate lies in large part in places like Butler County, an overwhelmingly white, conservative county north of Pittsburgh. There are nearly two Republicans for each registered Democrat. Most adults did not graduate from college. The economy rests on manufacturing and fracking, as well as service-sector jobs from suburbs creeping in from the city.
Republican turnout in Butler County was an impressive 80% in 2016. But local Republicans say the goal is to push that number as high as 90% this year. And they’ve spent several months registering new Republicans, adding 9,043 of them this year alone, for a 12.8% increase. Trump’s campaign is trying to replicate those kinds of numbers in other rural and exurban counties in the state.
Al Lindsay, a 74-year-old trial lawyer and farmer who leads the Butler County Republicans, says that registration push has been made easy by frustrations over pandemic lockdowns and a growing belief that Democrats don’t understand people who are religious and rural. His pitch is simple: “Look, there’s an urgency here. We need you.”
Butler wears its industrial past openly. There is still a baseball field at the historic Pullman Park, but the company closed its railcar factory in 1982. Its towns’ Main Streets recall an era when America was ascendant. The wire rope that holds up the Brooklyn Bridge was made in Butler County. So was the prototype for the Jeep deployed in World War II.
Republicans have been operating three campaign offices in the county — a declaration of their intention to dominate. Slippery Rock Mayor Jondavid Longo pushed to open one of those offices in his town of 3,600. It sits opposite North Country Brewing, the town’s second-largest employer after Slippery Rock University, where Longo, a former Marine infantryman, attended college.
Longo, 30, was elected mayor of Slippery Rock in 2017 by promising to keep taxes low and attract new businesses. The Republican knocked on 1,000 doors on the premise — similar to Trump’s — that the key to winning was finding people who had tired of politics.
His suits are tailored, his beard manicured and he drives entrepreneurs through Slippery Rock in a matte white Tesla. Trump “has given us an energy that says, Don’t back down, stand up for what’s right,” Longo said. “Open your mouth when you feel compelled to do so.”
The mayor has aimed to turn out younger voters, a group that normally favors Democrats. But in Butler County, there are almost twice as many Republicans under 35 as there are Democrats — and their perspectives veer from the politics of their peers across the country.
“Most dear to me, first and foremost, would be abortion — obviously, pro-life,” said Adam Jones, 19, a sophomore at Slippery Rock University who plans to cast his first vote for Trump. Behind that, Jones says, he prioritizes the Second Amendment and “resisting socialism.”
Tyler Good, 21, was a month too young to vote for Trump in 2016 and is among the Trump voters who’ve been added to the rolls. He’s a Baptist, works as a photocopier technician and hunts deer with a .270 Remington rifle. He says Trump is appealing because he broke the mold of what a president can be.
“He’s not a politician,” Good said. “He does get stuff done. He’s a businessman, you know. He doesn’t mess around, it seems.”
Republicans like Longo are also hunting for voters like Dane Patricelli, a 27-year-old construction worker who leans conservative but cast his ballot in 2016 for Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson.
Patricelli said Trump seemed like too much of a wild card in 2016. He wrestled for months with his decision this year, believing that Biden was a moderate even if the Democrats were drifting leftward. But he ultimately decided last week — after the last debate — that Trump had earned his vote.
“I do like Trump because he’s shaken things up and is not bought and paid for,” he said. “He’s sticking to his promises.”
But while Trump can tally up some first-time and third-party voters, he continues to lose Republicans like Lisa Barrickman.
At 52, she retired from working at a Walmart store and has seen Cranberry Township become part of Pittsburgh’s suburban sprawl. Barrickman said she voted Republican four years ago but can’t this time around.
“There is just too much division in this country,” she said. “If you’re a leader, you don’t incite, you quiet the storm. I know all politicians lie, cheat and scam — but it’s just too much to me. Biden — he’s calmer, he doesn’t spew with the hate.”
The Trump campaign has long known its best shot at winning was finding new voters in its strongholds, rather than persuading swing Democrats or independents. They used Trump’s raucous rallies in small towns and places that rarely get presidential attention to attract those voters to an unconventional campaign. They launched a voter registration and data collection effort around those events.
There are signs of success: In Florida, the party has registered 475,500 Republicans over the past four years, outpacing gains of 395,600 for Democrats. The campaign has claimed that as many as a quarter of attendees at rallies did not vote in 2016.
But in Pennsylvania, Democrats still outnumber Republicans by more than 700,000 registered voters, and there are an additional 1.3 million who are not associated with either party. And an Associated Press analysis of voting in key counties demonstrates the hurdles the GOP faces to overcome Democratic enthusiasm.
Butler County has 10,600 Republicans who were registered but did not vote in 2016. About 11% of them decided to cast a ballot in this year’s Republican primary, in which Trump ran unopposed, according to the analysis using data from L2, a political data firm. That’s a strong indicator that those voters are likely to vote again this year.
A similar pattern played out in 10 major Republican counties in Pennsylvania: Just over 10% of registered Republicans who sat out 2016 voted in the 2020 primary. That translates into nearly 14,000 voters.
The obstacle for Trump is that Democrats — they had a competitive presidential primary — have more voters and generated a better return rate. There are 258,000 Democrats who were registered but did not vote in Philadelphia and its surrounding counties in 2016. But during this year’s primary, more than 34,300 of them became voters and cast ballots. That’s more than double the gains in Republicans from the 10 leading Trump counties.
“For both campaigns, they’re seeing an acceleration of the trends we saw in 2016,” said Christopher Nicholas, a veteran Republican strategist. “Biden is doing better in the suburbs across the state. The Trump campaign is doing better in rural and exurban Pennsylvania.”
While Democrats stopped most in-person campaigning as the virus peaked during the spring and summer, Republicans were quick to resume an aggressive ground game in Butler County as early as May. The campaign groomed “super volunteers” tasked with pushing turnout to a record, borrowing from the same playbook as Democrat Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign, said Brittney Robinson, director of the Trump campaign’s Pennsylvania operations.
Many of the Republican volunteers in Butler County are women, and their message is that Democrats just don’t understand parts of the country where schools close for the start of hunting season, said Trish Lindsay, the wife of the local party chairman as well as the vice-chair.
“It is the way of life that this election is about — and that is what is dividing people,” she said.
While the pandemic is often viewed as a millstone on the president’s popularity, Republicans here say it’s given Trump an extra push. His supporters said the restrictions set by Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf were an overreach that shuttered restaurants and hurt businesses. The issues motivating them include abortion, gun ownership and the continued fracking of natural gas — all areas where Trump has delivered for his base and Biden is perceived as a risk.
“You start with the proposition that most of the people here are very alienated by the Democratic Party,” explained Al Lindsay, the party chair and Trish’s husband. He was talking about politics while giving a tour of family land he once farmed — now a golf course where natural gas is being pumped from beneath the fairways.
Beyond cultural issues, he summarized his case directly: “We’re afraid that if the Biden ticket wins, that the gas and oil thing is going to be shut down.”
Democrats are engaged in their own version of hunting for that rare nonvoter who can be persuaded to turn out this time.
Catherine Lalonde, 59, wasn’t even registered as a Democrat in 2016, but the trained nurse now leads the Butler County party. She was unaffiliated and voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016, only to be stunned by her loss. The Democrats’ office — it didn’t exist in 2016 — is a hive of candidates and voters picking up signs in the morning to replace those damaged or stolen during the night.
Trump signs might dominate, but frustrated Democrats feel a new urgency about expressing themselves.
“Other years, people tended to be a little more cautious about putting up signs because they’re in a place with a Republican majority,” Lalonde said. “But this year, they feel they have to do it.”
But in Butler County, for every eager Democratic voter like Lalonde, there are more Republicans who are lining up to vote for Trump — and many believe that in this election, everything is at stake.
Bill Adams, 76, has long lamented the decline of U.S. manufacturing, having proudly opened up a suction-cup factory in Butler County after transitioning from work as an elementary school librarian. Adams is convinced the nation is at a precipice where Democrats would destroy businesses, if not personal freedom.
“I’ve never seen anything like it — we are where Venezuela was before the socialists took over,” he said. “That is the choice. It’s not what I think. It’s what history tells us.”
Trump will need many more like Adams if he is to win a second term.
AP data reporter Angeliki Kastanis in Los Angeles and data reporter Pia Deshpande in Chicago contributed to this report.
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by LISA MASCARO and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press / Jan 16, 2021
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's impeachment trial is likely to start after Joe Biden's inauguration, and the Republican leader, Mitch McConnell, is telling senators their decision on whether to convict the outgoing president over the Capitol riot will be a “vote of conscience.”
The timing for the trial, the first of a president no longer in office, has not yet been set. But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made it clear Friday that Democrats intend to move swiftly on President-elect Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID aid and economic recovery package to speed up vaccinations and send Americans relief. Biden is set to take the oath of office Wednesday.
Georgia Rep. Greene says she plans to file articles of impeachment against Biden
by Jocelina Joiner, Nexstar Media Wire / Jan 14, 2021
(NEXSTAR) -- Newly elected Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene announced Wednesday on Twitter that she plans to file articles of impeachment against President-elect Joe Biden for abuse of power.
The Georgia Republican's announcement came shortly after the U.S. House voted to impeach President Donald Trump for "incitement of insurrection" following last week's deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol.
President Trump: ‘I will not be going to the inauguration’
by Nexstar Media Wire / Jan 8, 2021
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump says he won’t attend President-elect Joe Biden’s Inauguration on Jan. 20. He will be the first incumbent president since Andrew Johnson to skip his successor's inauguration.
In a Friday tweet Trump said, “To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th.”
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Commentary OpinionCONTROLLING THE SUBSTANCES
Marijuana: Another gift of the left to our youth
Dennis Prager laments a society that's made peace with pot but made war on tobacco
By Dennis Prager
Published March 11, 2013 at 7:48pm
Denver television station CBS4 reports that Colorado has seen a sharp spike in marijuana use among teenagers since Colorado voters passed Amendment 64 last November legalizing recreational use of the drug. As described in The Economist, along with a Washington State measure also legalizing marijuana, Amendment 64 is "an electoral first not only for America but for the world."
That means two American states are to the left of the Scandinavian countries, Holland, and every other liberal country regarding marijuana.
CBS4 quotes a number of local high school students:
"I've seen a lot more people just walking down the street smoking (joints)," high school student Irie Johnson said.
"In high school it has kind of gotten out of hand," student Alaina Tanenbaum said.
According to the CBS4 report, based in part on data from a local drug testing lab: "Experts say the test results show that children are getting higher than ever with alarming levels of THC, marijuana's active ingredient, in their bodies."
The massive increase in both the number of users and the amount of marijuana used by young people is precisely what I, and many others, predicted.
It was easy to predict.
When something desirable is made easier to obtain, more people will obtain it. It is difficult to imagine an exception to this common-sense observation.
So, legalizing marijuana is foolish because it leads to far more use of the drug and the availability of ever more potent forms. But the foolishness doesn't end there. Equally foolish is that as a society we have made peace with marijuana while making war on tobacco. This has been a classic example of upside down thinking, and we are reaping exactly what we have sown. We have produced a generation of young Americans who would never put a cigarette or cigar near their lips but who increasingly get high on pot.
Yes, tobacco – specifically cigarettes – kills, and marijuana doesn't. But, forgive the ultimate political incorrectness, young people would do much better in life if they smoked tobacco rather than weed.
First, tobacco doesn't kill young people. When it kills, it generally kills much older people. Moreover, according to a recent issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, if you stop smoking cigarettes by age 44, you will lose only one more year of life than a person who never smoked.
Second, regular pot smokers increasingly tune out of life, becoming what are known as potheads, or, to put it bluntly, losers.
Third, as noted in the CBS4 report, "new studies that have been published say the risk of a car accident increases two-fold after someone consumes pot." In other words, innocent human beings – sometimes whole families – are more likely to be maimed, paralyzed and killed by pot smokers than by cigarette smokers.
For myriad reasons, then, I would far prefer my teenager indulge in cigarettes – not to mention cigars – than pot. Anyone who thinks that pot is less harmful to a teenager than tobacco is fooling himself – and his teenager.
If this is not obvious, ponder these questions: Would you rather your airplane pilot smoke pot or tobacco while flying? How would Britain have fared in World War II if Winston Churchill had smoked pot instead of cigars?
In terms of the effects of tobacco and pot on the smoker while smoking, there is simply no comparison.
What the left has done to America's youth in the last 40 or so years is so damaging as to be unforgivable. They have ruined public school education; left them with so much debt that they will likely be the first American generation to live materially inferior to the their parents; and robbed their innocence with sex education classes, now beginning in kindergarten in Chicago and elsewhere. Now they are making marijuana available to more kids and in greater potency than ever before.
But they have left them with higher self-esteem.
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The left uses Capitol invasion as Nazis used the Reichstag fire
I now better understand the 'good German'
The Sovietization of California
When 2-year-olds are thrown off planes, you know America has changed
The Torah vs. the left
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Joke of the DayJOKE OF THE DAY
Hillary goes to school
And Clinton body count climbs
Editor's note: Do you need something to smile about? Every day, WND selects the best joke offered up by readers and contributors to its Laughlines forum and brings it to you as the WND Joke of the Day. Here is today's offering:
Hillary Clinton goes to a gifted-student primary school in New York to talk about the world. After her talk she offers to answer questions from the kids.
One little boy puts up his hand. Hillary asks him what his name is.
"Kenny," he says.
"And what is your question, Kenny?" she asks.
"I have three questions," he says. "First -- what happened in Benghazi?
"Second -- why would you run for president if you are not capable of handling two e-mail accounts?
"Third -- what happened to that six billion dollars that went missing while you were Secretary of State?"
Just then the bell rings for recess. Hillary tells the students that they will continue after recess.
When they resume Hillary says, "Okay, where were we? Oh, that's right, question time. Who has a question?"
A different boy -- little Johnny -- puts his hand up.
Hillary points to him and asks him what his name is.
"Johnny," he says.
"What is your question, Johnny?" she asks.
"I have five questions," he says. "First -- what happened in Benghazi?
"Third -- whatever happened to that six billion dollars that went missing while you were Secretary of State?
"Fourth -- why did the recess bell go off 20 minutes early?
"And, fifth -- where's Kenny?"
Got a great joke you want to share with the world? Write it up in the WND Laughlines forum. Who knows? It might be selected as the WND Joke of the Day – and your wildest dreams will come true.
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Radiophrenia
– the light at the end of the dial –
Live-to-Air
back to full schedule >
Hearspool 13: Frank - Momus
8th November 2017 @ 12:00 am - 1:00 am
programme/artist information
This episode mashes up the soundtrack of Walerian Borowczyk’s 1975 film The Beast with Arte Radio productions about pregnancy and bathing in Japan, economics documentaries by JK Galbraith, and the Fluxus-style choral work of Tomomi Adachi, Paul Lansky, Dominique Petitgand and Nobukazu Takemura.
During 2013 Momus created a series of radiophonic programmes for Newcastle radio station BasicFM entitled Hearspool. Mesmeric, evocative, and made in the tradition of German neue hoerspiel.
Momus is a Scot who makes songs, books and art. He lives between Europe and Japan.
http://imomus.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momus_(musician)
different time different place different pitch:Between Beirut and Gaza - Dani Gal & Achim Lengerer
8th November 2017 @ 1:00 am - 2:00 am
Ghazi Barakat talks about growing up under the shadow of the Palestinian struggle
and how this experience translates into his musical work.
A series of radio programs By Dani Gal and Achim Lengerer. Originally commissioned by Documenta 14.
The radio is an acousmatic instrument. Listeners do not see the origin of the sound,
their experience is shaped both by the their own interpretation, and the manipulation
of the producer in a political system.
Our programs work on the space between documentary and Musique concrète.
Each show focuses on political events that are connected to acoustic events. This
creates an acousmatic documentary where the programs become sound-objects.
The programs response to the ‘image saturated society’ discourse, by asking what is
the function of sound as a document in times of live video feeds that can be broadcast
by anyone.
Dani Gal (born 1975, Jerusalem) lives and works in Berlin. He studied at the Bezalel
Academy for Art and Design in Jerusalem; the Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende
Künste Städelschule in Frankfurt; and the Cooper Union in New York. His flms and
works have been shown widely, including: Documenta 14, 54th Venice Biennale
(2011), The Istanbul Biennale (2011), The New Museum New York (2012),
Kunsthalle St. Gallen Swizerland (2013), The Jewish museum New York (2014),
Berlinale Forum Expanded (2014), Kunsthaus Zurich (2015) Kunsthalle Wien (2015)
Achim Lengerer works on political questions of speech and language that he
thematizes in performances, radio plays or spatializes within installations and
publications. Lengerer founded different collaborative projects such as freitagsküche
in Frankfurt a. M. and voiceoverhead, with Dani Gal. Since 2009 Lengerer runs the
Berlin based showroom and publishing house Scriptings. Different Artists are invited
– all of which are working with the formats of script and text within their processes of
production. Lengerer is currently working on his Ph.D. at Goldsmiths, University of
London, UK, on the format of the rehearsal as an actual format for socio-political
negotiations.
https://archive.org/details/radia_s28_n370_radiopapesse-dani_gal_achim_lengerer
https://www.fkv.de/en/content/dani-gal-achim-lengerer-voiceoverhead
http://freymondguth.com/?artists=dani-gal-works
http://www.rampub.com/art/978-3-86442-214-0
http://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/dani-gal-nacht-und-nebel
Commence Exuding The Opaque Vapour - Barry Burns
For the last five years I have taken a sample from every video I watch on my laptop. As a tip of the hat to William Burroughs and Robert Anton Wilson I take the sample from the 23rd minute. Each sample is arranged and layered chronologically, constructing an aleatory narrative, a random DJ mix of dialogue, music and foley, a self portrait of viewing habits and memory. VHS rips merge with Blu Ray restorations, youtube binges mingle with abandoned box sets.
Barry Burns is not the bloke out of Mogwai, its a different, unsuccessful one. He is the co-manager of Radiophrenia and has used his immense power to give himself the highly coveted 5am slot.
https://akashicrecords1.bandcamp.com/album/from-the-cable-to-the-grave
Radiaphiles: Radio X
Here we speak to Verena Kuni and Gabi Schaffner of Radio X in Frankfurt (Main) in Germany.
Mobile Radio offer an overview of independent and not-for-profit community, ‘free’, campus, and pirate stations who provide a wealth of material and perspectives outside of the mainstream media orthodoxy. This series constitutes a major retrospective of the work of the radio art network Radia, whose collective mission is to make radio that transcends the borders and boundaries of land and language. Mobile Radio visit each station in turn to discern their motives and inspirations, and explore the work of one of their associated artists. Produced with support from Goethe Institut.
http://mobile-radio.net/
Alan Courtis - Hombrear
“Los Galpones” contains four dark and grimacing industrial-tinged drone pieces. Employing the electric guitar, the violin, springs and other found objects, Courtis creates a soundscape that is at times oppressive and dense. A reflection perhaps on the post-industrial urban landscape of his native Buenos Aires. This album should be played loud.
“Los Galpones” is the latest solo full-length release conjured up by the extremely prolific Buenos Aires-based composer Alan Courtis (aka Anla Courtis). Courtis has straddled the international noise underground and the academic-centered modern composition scenes since the early 1990’s. As a solo artist, with the Argentine experimental group Reynols, and in collaborations with Pauline Oliveros, Makoto Kawabata (Acid Mothers Temple), Lasse Marhaug, Aaron Moore (Volcano the Bear), Okkyung Lee, and Daniel Menche among others, Courtis has amassed an impressive discography.
https://fabricarecords.bandcamp.com/album/los-galpones
Shower Singing - Eothen Stearn
Various people singing in the shower.
Eo is a feminist queer artist interested in craft, memory, emotions and modalities of speech.
Eo’s art roames between the intimacy of personal relations, the detail of everyday life, music, feminism, class, queerness and art-making, among many others.
http://www.eothenstearn.com/
8th November 2017 @ 9:00 am - 10:00 am
1. Dorota Blaszczak – Augmented Radio Listening – ARL No.2
2. Chloe Reid – Untitled
3. Adam Paroussos – Cosmophonic Fantasia Mvt. III Fractal Reprise
4. Colin Woods – Steam
5. Hilary Mullaney – Sound Card
6. Federico Dal Pozzo – TreYF
7. B. D. Owens – You Should be so Lucky: a polysemy
8. Costantino Toth aka Onirologia – Waves and Ladders
An audio representation of a space of coexisting radio broadcasts, crowded with numerous radio waves. It is structured in the form of short variations on the sound of concurrent radio transmissions, as though we could perceive all the waves at the same time, with overlaps, distortions, splits, modulations, vibrations and movement. It is based on real sound streams of several Polish radio stations, broadcast on Jun 29, 2017, collected from the beginning of each hour throughout the day and played back simultaneously as a sequence of variations. The piece should be listened to on headphones as it uses binaural processing.
The module for binaural processing and movement was programmed by Glen Fraser.
Bio: Dorota Blaszczak is an audio engineer in Polish Radio Archives in Warsaw and an assistant at the Sound Engineering Department of the University of Music. She teaches Interactive Sound courses, works with sound restoration and preservation, creates interactive projects. She worked as sound designer for VR projects in Canada.
http://www.dorotablaszczak.pl
Chloë Reid is a South African artist currently considering her practice through a socio-physiological framework. Positioned between sociology, biology and psychology, this term refers to the relationship between a society and the habitual physical functions of individuals within that society. She uses film, writing and audio to pare down, repeat and create rhythmical descriptions of objects and actions in an attempt to locate a kind of politics in regular intuitive performance.
http://www.chloereid.co.za
3. Adam Paroussos – Cosmohonic Fantasia Mvt. III Fractal Reprise
COSMOPHONIC FANTASIA: Mvts I-III (OST)
Cosmophonic Fantasia is predominately a musique concrète film in three movements: I Audio Field, II Bamboo Mustard and III Fractal Reprise. This piece explores the metaphysical and expressive nature of sound and inspired by Sonata form. ‘Audio Field’ uses a collection of montaged film and sound samples and ‘remixes’ them together to turn the everyday experiences of sound into a dream-like sonic experience. Mvt 2,‘Bamboo Mustard’ uses collected fragments of live performances to piece together the journey of this character – Bamboo Mustard. The final movement Fractal Reprise concludes the film, exploring the underlying structures within the natural and sound.
Adam Paroussos is an interdisciplinary sound artist and designer, just graduated from Central Saint Martins, BA Performance Design and Practice. His work is rooted in performative, collaborative and experimental approaches with sound and music. Under his Nova award-nominated alter-ego ‘Bamboo Mustard’, he performs with DIY instruments in a sound costume in the cracks and corners of London. Adam works across theatre, live art and film including composing the soundtrack for Andrea Zimmerman’s ‘Erase and Forget’ documentary and Jotdown’s physical theatre show ‘Haidar’.
soundcloud.com/bamboo-mustard
Recordings of a toy steam engine mashed with improvised saxophone and heavily processed. This is a stereo reduction of the original 8 channel work. Created at the Electro-acoustic composition studio at Auckland university School of Music.
Colin James Woods is a freelance Sonic Practitioner based in New Zealand. His projects range from sonic art creations, live improvised electronic and acoustic works, through to compositions for conventional instruments and ensembles. He is currently a postgraduate researcher at AUT‘s Colab. Colin was born in Ireland and came to New Zealand in 2002. He was previously guitarist with Irish punk band Music for Deaf, and participant in UK/Ireland based Allotropes experimental collective. His current interests include experimental music (both composed and improvised), video, song writing and performance, and composition for conventional solo instruments and ensembles.
http://www.woods.net.nz
I wrote this ‘sound card’ as a gift for my partner. Sharing these sounds with him was a way for us to connect as we navigated our long distance relationship. It was written only for his ears, until now. What was meant to be a short, quirky Valentine’s Day message (without the schmaltz) turned into a detailed work using recordings made in a variety of locations including my home in Dublin city; Bull Island, a nature reserve in Dublin Bay; Plymouth, UK, and plundered sounds and voices, all of which were manipulated and sculpted into this 12 minute composition. This work explores moments together, friends, common places, memories, domesticity, whispers, flutters, hopes. This sound montage has a number of different scenes depicting our memories, not only in a literal sense, but also poetic sonic interpretations of the intangible aspects of falling in love.
Hilary Mullaney (Ph.D, MA, BA Music) is a composer based in Dublin, Ireland. She writes primarily fixed media compositions, and her practice is particularly concerned with how place is expressed in acousmatic music. Her compositions have been broadcast and performed at numerous festivals and events worldwide.
http://www.hilarymullaney.com
“TReYF” is a concrete interpolation manifested during an improvisation by a Mac with Max, live didgeridoo, VLF captured in live recording and an old valve radio.
Venice (1976), electroacoustic performer and sound artist, Graduated in ”Audio Recording and Music Production” in Recording Workshop (Chillicothe,Ohio_U.S.A.) and studied in Corfu (GR) at “Summer Academy of Electroacoustic Music and Live Electronics” with Annette Vande Gorne and Theodoros Lotis.
His works are based upon concrete objects and the transfiguration and perception of the sound and audio- spatialization . He works with Max/Msp. He does Compositions for Dance and Theatre Companies , Audio-Installations and Concerts around Europe.
https://soundcloud.com/federicodalpozzo
you should be so lucky: a polysemy is an experimental voice composition that examines the assertion that the idiom ‘you should be so lucky’ is a polysemy (a word or phrase with multiple coexisting meanings). This work was first exhibited as part of the Tainted Luck installation in the DJCAD Masters Show, 2017.
B. D. Owens is a multi-disciplinary artist based near Helensburgh. He develops his conceptual ideas while walking and writing. Text, layered interpretation and language play are threads that run through his work. Currently, he is examining and challenging the binary doctrines of: Winners & Losers, Losing & Finding and Sameness & Difference. He is graduating with Distinction from the Art, Society & Publics MFA Programme at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design 2017.
http://www.bdowens.co.uk
8 Onirologia – Waves and Ladders
“Waves and Ladders” started with an EEG of me during sleep. The data was then translated to sound and manipulated to recreate dreams that different family members had recounted to me while I was in Italy.
“Waves and Ladders” is the 10th track off of “O”, my debut album. “O” was created with audio/visual materials that reference my immigrant experience, whether that be a home video, brainwaves, or my genome report. Contrafact, clipping, and ambience become metaphors for the desire for home.
Onirologia (b. 1995) is an Italian-American music artist from Sarasota, Florida. Their work fuses traditional Italian music, their musical background (Jazz and Rock), and Electronic in order to explore themes of immigration and queerness. They have exhibited works in Florida, Richmond, and India and have appeared in media outlets such as ART Habens and the Huffington Post.
https://onirologia.bandcamp.com/releases
different time different place different pitch: The Heavy Listener - Dani Gal & Achim Lengerer
8th November 2017 @ 10:00 am - 10:40 am
This episode: The Heavy Listener
Life between improvised music and Palestinian human rights.
With Eyal Hareuveni. Live improvisation by Michael Thieke and Dani Gal
their experience is shaped both by the their own interpretation, and the manupulation
To Syros - Viv Corringham
Syros- a Greek island- music in the squares at night– I sing an old song into a well at the Jesuit monastery- Katarina takes me to a place she finds “very mystic”- Yiannis tells me how music seeped into him as a child from the sounds and rhythms of the island as he rode on his grandfather’s donkey- the home of Rembetika (Greek Blues) legend Marcos- Leyla holds the spirit of the island inside her during dark days and wonders why Syros pulls her back every year- my singing voice improvises my memories of walking with these three.
Singer and soundscape artist Viv Corringham creates music, radio works, installations and soundwalks. Work in the last 12 months includes festivals in New York, Athens and Torino, an artist residency in Venice, and work as artist mentor in Manila and Hong Kong. She received two Composer Fellowships from McKnight Foundation, through American Composers Forum, and many other grants and awards. She has an MA Sonic Art from Middlesex University, London and is certified to teach Deep Listening by composer Pauline Oliveros. Her work has received international recognition and been presented in twenty two countries on five continents.
VOICE OBJECT VOICE - Maria Fusco
Starting with an imitation ofHarpo Marx’s bulbhorn, this work is a scoot through how a voice canbecome an object and how an object can become a voice. Written and presented by Maria Fusco. Production and sounddesign by Hana Walker-brown.
Maria Fusco is a Belfast-born writer based in Glasgow, working across fiction, criticism and theory, her work is translated into ten languages. Her latest book is Legend of the Necessary Dreamer (London: Vanguard Editions, 2017) described by Chris Kraus as “a new classic of female philosophical fiction”. Master Rock, an experimental radio play and a repertoire for a mountain commissioned by Artangel and BBC Radio 4. Her solo-authored books are With A Bao A Qu Reading When Attitudes Become Form, 2013 (Los Angeles/Vancouver: New Documents, 2013), Gonda, 2012 and The Mechanical Copula, 2011 (both published Berlin/New York: Sternberg Press) and she is founder of The Happy Hypocrite, a journal for and about experimental writing. She is currently a Reader in Interdisciplinary Writing at the University of Edinburgh and was Director of Art Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London.
http://mariafusco.net
https://soundcloud.com/artangel-2/master-rock
The Buffer Zone
8th November 2017 @ 11:30 am - 12:00 pm
(1) Pete Stollery – Stolen Voices
(2) The Ladywell Lout – Parade
(3) Pytchblend feat. Tony Morris – Dissolve
(4) Jamie Bolland – Fortune (water)
(5) Lin Li – Virgina Woolf’s A Haunted House
Nothing Like Us Ever Was - Gregory Whitehead
8th November 2017 @ 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
Radio performance based on Carl Sandburg’s Four Preludes to the Playthings of the
Wind, with vocalist Laura Wiens.
Gregory Whitehead is the creator of more than one hundred radio plays, essays
and acoustic adventures for the BBC, Radio France, Deutschland Radio, Australia’s
ABC, NPR and others. Often interweaving documentary and fictive materials into
playfully unresolved narratives, Whitehead’s aesthetic is distinguished by a deep
philosophical commitment to radio as a medium for poetic navigation and free
association. In his voice and text-sound works, he explores the tension between a
continuous breath/pulse and the eruption of chaotic discontinuities, as well as
exploring rhythms of linguistic entropy and decay.
gregorywhitehead.net
desperadophilosophy.net
Laura Wiens is a Pittsburgh-based vocalist and composer, most recently performing
with RML Jazz and the big band The Jazz Conspiracy, and previously at Little E’s Jazz
club heading the Laura Wiens Quartet. Laura has sung on two previous radio dramas
by Gregory Whitehead, “The Day King Hammer Fell from the Sky” and “Bring Me the
Head of Philip K Dick”, both broadcast on BBC Radio 4. She has fronted blues and funk
bands as far away as Belgrade, Serbia, and closer to home in West Virginia and
Washington DC. Her own eclectic music compositions can be found and downloaded
at http://www.purevolume.com/aurallaura
Carl Sandburg was born on January 6, 1878, in Galesburg, Illinois. He fought in the
Spanish-American War. In 1913, he moved to Chicago to work as a journalist. In 1914,
his poetry was published in Poetry magazine. His well-received free verse poetry
focused on American workers. He also collected folksongs into books and wrote a
Pulitzer Prize-winning biography about Abraham Lincoln.
Supported by Creative Scotland and Outset.
RADIO UNBROKEN: Songspiel for Radio Revolten
by Helen Hahmann & Gregory Whitehead
Three radio songs composed from voiced fragments of Radio Revolten
manifestos together with other recordings made in the vicinity of the
festival.
I Lover in Revolt
II The Future of Radio is Dirty
III Radio Unbroken
Out of Place: Delia Derbyshire in Cumbria - Jenn Mattinson
8th November 2017 @ 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm
This particular story covers the time electronic music pioneer Delia Derbyshire spent in Cumbria in the mid-1970s. It’s one of those stories that will always remain rather ambiguous, as very little is known about this period in her life, so I have tried to reflect this in parts of the telling, and added my own theatrical interpretations to the piece. It has a foundation of two female oral history testimonies with an original sonic composition, produced to help reflect and re-tell elements of the story.
Jenn Mattinson is a freelance creative facilitator and sound artist based in Keswick, Cumbria. She has delivered a wide range of community initiatives, including oral history projects, community exhibitions and creative workshops for people living with dementia. She has produced a number of radio and sound art pieces, including a series of commissions from Octopus Collective, a sound art and new music organisation based in Barrow-in-Furness. Jenn is passionate about exploring multidisciplinary approaches to storytelling, and this if often reflected in her range of work.
the silence of nostalghia - Sebastiane Hegarty
8th November 2017 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Part of a series of silenced films, for the silence of nostalghia, all dialogue and non-diegetic sound has been redacted from Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1983 film Nostalghia.
The silence that survives pulls the background into focus, concentrating the attention of the ear on the sonic details of an emerging landscape, wet with the revenants of footfall, entrance and exit. The textures of optical-sound silence, reminiscent of the atmospheric leaks and spillages of radio transmission, amplify the spectral and oneiric qualities of a soundscape where apparitions of place and time seem to appear, disappear, dissolve and fragment.
Sebastiane Hegarty is an artist, writer and lecturer. His practice explores the relationship between time, place and sensation, primarily through field-recording and soundscape composition. His work has been exhibited and broadcast across the UK and Europe: It’s Eating You, (IMT Gallery, London, 2015), and Heliocemtra, (Museum Punta della Dogana, Venice, 2016). In 2015 he curated the multidisciplinary conference, Chalk: time, sense landscape. More recently he contributed to the Sound of Memory symposium at Goldsmiths, London (2017). Published through Impulsive Habitat, Gruenrekorder and Very Quiet Records, works for radio include, It’s Just Where I Put My Words, (BBC Radio 3, 2013).
Website: sebastianehegarty.com
Blog: sebastianehegarty.wordpress.com
Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/sebastiane_hegarty
Time Constraints aka the 32Megabyte mix-tape - Alan Bryden
Inspired by some of the constraints that are associated with older digital technology, the idea of this performance is to work with the maximum number of audio files that can fit into the 32M memory space of my well worn but fully functioning 1999 Akai MPC2000XL sampler. At the time of it’s release nearly two decades ago, this was a quite high spec piece of kit, but now it’s tiny memory is frankly laughable in comparison with the giant digital storage capabilities of contemporary laptops and even mobile phones. 32M is just over 6 minutes of sampling time. But constraints can often be a very useful creative tool, forcing us to make concise decisions and think in an original way to get the most out of the least. For example, many of the early adopters of sampling technology had to find ways to be creative within such limited scope. Beat makers like DJ Premier famously used to speed up the records they wanted to sample to fit the section they wanted to loop into the tiny memory capacity of their samplers and then slow the sample down afterwards to return it to it’s original pitch. This resulted in a unique grainy texture that has defined the sound of early hip hop productions.
I have asked a number of exciting contemporary artists and musicians who work with sound recordings to send me just over a minute of diverse sounds from their sonic archives. I haven’t given them any brief beyond this suggestion. I have worked in the past with samples – and the idea of collaging and re-contextualising sounds. It’s by no means a unique concept, but has endless possibilities. And as a community musician I often work very spontaneously to create improvised music with clients. There is an excitement in creating a framework in community music which is both easy to enter and enabling for the participants, but at the same time full of the possibility of what on earth might happen next. I see these two strands of my work colliding in this idea. Here I can only work with what there is. Anything could come out of the editing, processing and re-arrangement of the sounds, making it more than just the audio sum of it’s multi-track parts.
invited collaborators:
Steve Urquhart – radio producer and documentary maker.
Anneke Kampman – singer/sound artist
Alfredo Bello aka DJ Tudo – DJ, musician, ethno-musicologist
Bigg Taj – beat boxer and rapper.
Martin Wheeler (Vector Lovers) – Musician/Games Designer
Zoe Katsilerou – singer/physical theatre performer.
Radiaphiles: Eastside FM
Here we speak to Jon Panther of Eastside FM in Sydney in Australia.
Lines of Reason - Esi Eshun
Inspired by the discovery of an abandoned ghost library, Lines of Reason blends atmospheric original music, traditional song sequences and extracts from thinkers including Plato and Aristotle, to convey dream-like notions of reason and unreason, linear and circular time and traditional ideas of Englishness – hinting also at contemporary crises of identity, memory and truth in culture and politics. Originally designed to be played in fugue form for a multi-channel installation, the radio version uses a simple pitch pipe and, primarily, the artist’s own voice, to build a lightly textured, haunting soundscape.
Esi Eshun has recently completed a year-long course in Experimental Sound Art taught by artist Graham Dunning. This recording, presented as part of an installation at New River Studios, London, follows on from a semi-improvised composition performed live at The Hundred Years Gallery in Hoxton.
1. Vincent Eoppolo – Poeme Albert-Birot
2. Rachel Cattle – On Air
3. Ronnie Blake – Number Station (Lillibullero Redux)
4. Garrett Tiedemann – Last Thursday (in Fragments) – Episode 2 – It was, in some ways, a total disaster
5. Tom Miller (aka Comrade Squelch) – Are You Listening
6. Vincent Eoppolo – Fragments
7. Luke Pell – Simone Kenyon A Sea View
8. Peter Hawkey – The Wotsit King
9. Minna Kallinen – Dear Neil Young
1. Vincent Eoppolo – Poeme Albert-Birot
I view my works as a synthesis of various sound art traditions including musique concrete, acousmatic music and radio art.
In my work I strive to present brief moments of the world we are living in. Society in the continuing process of realizing itself. Our relationship with each other, with technology, our morality, spirituality, sexuality, our anxieties and fears. In many ways my works are like sociological and psychological commentaries. My work has been featured on Bernard Clarke’s program Nova on RTE’s Lyric FM, Phaune Radio from Montpellier, France as well as Radio Art International on CHOQ Radio in Montreal. My works were recently presented at the 2017 New York City Electro-Acoustic Music Festival.
https://soundcloud.com/societys-realization
On Air is a sonic collage made from sound tracks taken from a series of short videos. Made in my studio, at home and in areas nearby using mainly static, durational shots of incidental objects or small creative events, the sound was at first incidental, but eventually became the overriding feature – the videos felt like field recordings and some of the outdoor shots incorporated sounds from a transistor radio. The soundscape was first transmitted live, via speakers into a gallery space and has since been made into a transparent vinyl record. Live transmission returns it back to the airwaves.
Rachel Cattle has recently finished a Contemporary Art PhD at Kingston University entitled I Am a Stylus: Play, Replay, Overdub, Broadcast. Recent events and exhibitions include The Yellow Book – 3 half hour radio programmes broadcast live on Resonance fm and Radiophrenia and A Million Lapses and Pauses, a series of events across Five Years, the ICA, London and Dorich House, Kingston – A Million Lapses and Pauses continues a radio(aktiv) broadcast in the form of recorded sound, live readings, publications and posters orbiting the publication Witch Dance – notes for radio.
https://rachelcattle.wordpress.com/
Short wave Number Station signals capture people’s curiosity with their eerie sounds and unknown meaning. Some have gone to great lengths to decode the broadcasts and locate the stations. Radio, like so much media today, is being disrupted and is under stress. The notion of ‘Pirate Radio’ seems like a relic from the past in the present context.
The BBC World Service ident ‘Lillibullero’ contained many layers of meaning beyond the utilitarian. This deconstructed melody, strained text to voice bot, and SOS reflect a current condition. Yet, radio retains the power to spark the imagination and waits to be rediscovered.
My formal music lessons were on violin and at a young age I trained in Radio Broadcasting. While I was in punk, new wave and indie bands I began experimenting more with sound which led to a focus in electronic music. I composed pieces for theatre, short films and the International Mail Art Network.
I had an electronic duo called Sloth Brain that performed at Nuit Blanche Toronto in 2009, 2010, and 2013. I continue to improvise with DRONE:KLUB and Cosmic Homeostasis.
I am a DJ and produce Techno, House and experimental works as REquel and
the _protoplasm_population.
https://soundcloud.com/a_nervous_system
In 2015 Don Chambers hosted “a music and other things entertainment” each month called The Last Thursday. Each month had its own theme and governed not only the types of content, but way of presentation for the evening. These evenings lived and died in the moment with very little social media promotion or archiving.
In series 2 of The White Whale we offer snippets of these evenings; providing first glimpses beyond the nights of what went down and why their existence foregoing online permanence is important. Visit http://www.donchambersmusic.com/ for music and more.
Garrett Tiedemann is a radio producer, journalist, filmmaker and composer. He works for American Public Media covering the breadth and depth of composed music for YourClassical and Classical Minnesota Public Radio while also producing films, music videos, music and the podcast The White Whale via his production company CyNar Pictures. As a freelancer, he has lent production and compositional approaches to the podcasts Vanishing Ink, Here Be Monsters, The Organist, ARRVLS, Life of the Law, and Top Score. Additionally, he manages production and strategy for the oral history/storytelling project SisterStory.
Do you really know how to listen to the radio? Text-to-speech bots, speech-to-text bots, Internet radio scanning, news programs, shortwave drift, and an instructional tape are here to inform you. Are You Listening?, originally composed for Wave Farm radio, is a follow-up to Spectral Wars, which was selected for Radiophrenia 2016 in the Shorts category. The present mix was first broadcast on WGXC-FM in July 2017.
Tom Miller, a.k.a. Comrade Squelch, is a sonic anthropologist. He was an Artist in Residence at Wave Farm in 2017 and premiered his latest composition at Drum Castle in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Past residencies include the American Museum of Natural History, Anchorage Museum, Bates College Theater, Ethnographic Terminalia, and Proteus Gowanus. A National Endowment for the Arts award-winning composer, he produced public radio programs for WKCR-FM and KRAB-FM. He has a B.A. in Music from Wesleyan and a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Columbia University, and has taught at NYU’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, Pratt, and the University of Iceland.
https://wavefarm.org/ta/artists/qq5fkh
https://soundcloud.com/thomas-ross-miller
https://berkeleycollege.academia.edu/ThomasMiller
6. Vincent Eoppolo
Some Words to Wander With are a series of recordings as part of In the Ink Dark, a dance and a poem made from from memory and conversation. A project from Luke Pell and collaborators. Created as part of the project invited voices – artists who make dances, whose works are both poetic and choreographic – offer a collection of musings that speak to words and to dances, bodies and buildings, science and nature, to thought and to feeling, to memory, materiality, landscape and loss. They are wisdoms for living, some words to wander with where you live, at work, at rest, at home, away.
Fascinated by detail, nuances of time, texture, memory and landscape Luke Pell is a maker and curator who collaborates with other artists and organisations imagining alternative contexts for performance, participation and discourse that might reveal wisdoms for living. Noticing threads that weave between people and place his artistic projects take form as intimate encounters, poetic objects, installations and environments – choreographies – for physical and virtual spaces.
lukepell.org
intheinkdark.com
The Wotsit King is a piece composed using set notes based on Donald Trump’s most commonly tweeted words. The set notes could be played at any octave on any instrument used. The notes that had to be played were B, F, D, F#, F, A#, D#, G#, D, A#, D#, D#, E, G#, B, D#. These gave a very dystopian final piece!
Peter Hawkey is a guitarist and composer who works with many styles of music. He has written a series of one handed piano pieces, and donated them to the charities The Stroke Association and Help for Heroes, in the hope that they would be beneficial to those who do not have full use of both hands. More recently his mu
Solar Pessimist - John Lawrence
Collaborating with actor Peter Hugo Daly and Berlin-based musician Tim Eve The Solar Pessimist combines a performed spoken-word monologue with a cyclical, rhythmic soundscape.
Shifting between speculative ‘pub chat’ and philosophical diatribe, our guiding voice becomes distracted, his thoughts distorted through the joint lenses of conspiracy theory, new-agism and that of the self-righteous contemporary consumer.
Within this meandering thought-process are propositions about what best to be doing at the end of the world, how zero-gravity pornography will affect us all and… if the sun is a conscious being… what happens when he starts talking back?
John Lawrence (b.1981, UK) lives and works in Nottingham.
Mining a contemporary archive of images, footage, formats and references – and working across a wide-range of approaches incorporating large-scale video installation, sound, digital print, writing, live performance and publishing – Lawrence actively questions how we communicate ideas through the production and dissemination of cultural objects, and how mediated experiences of the world can impact on what could be described as a ‘collective psyche’.
Lawrence previously studied at the Royal Academy Schools, London, and is currently Lecturer in Fine Art at both Kingston University and the University of Lincoln.
http://www.johnlawrence.tv
http://www.afterhoursdropbox.com
http://www.ormaybe.com
(1) Rachel Cattle – On Air
(2) Vile Plumage – “Daphne and The Barron are Stranded at the Station
(3) Siobhain Ma – project sign, project grudge
(4) The Doll – King Kong Dong
Dai Coelacanth
Read it like it’s the gas bill. Get your partner or a family member to read it. Amauterism is always encouraged.
Dai Coelacanth is a self propelled outsider. A man with a saucy job. Listen to this sound. Gravy rituals. Snake hiss. Landfill electronics. Dirty and ancient. This is just a recording.
The Diluted Hours - Magali Daniaux and Cédric Pigot
With The diluted Hours, we are plunged in the heart/body of the artists’ seismic intentionality: the symbolical and aesthetic mutation of fantastical Sci-Fi becoming the demiurge of the wreckage of our time. A prophetic announcement of the cataclysm – far from being morbid, it radiates a spectrum of imaginary possibilities for our future struggles. But where there is a danger, what can save us also grows. The dissection of our ills becomes the mirror of a new body the audience will have to build like insolent architects.
Since they met in 2001, the Magali Daniaux and Cédric Pigot’s joint work bears the dual hallmark of experimentation and performance. Their pieces bring together various media, associating elements from opposite ranges, with a taste for connections between Sci-Fi and documentary forms, high-tech engineering and fantasy tales, heavyweight materials and fleeting sensations. Starting with installations and objects, their work soon included experimental actions and more immaterial artistic gestures. Videos, sound art, music, poetry, olfactive research, virtual works bordering the digital arts have formed, over the past years, a cycle of works dealing with climate change, economic, political and geo-strategic issues, urban development and food management. They are currently working in Alaska on land art projects dealing with time, archaeology, geology and climate change.
Their work was shown in leading institutions and festivals : Terminal B, in kirkenes – Norway, in 2017, Cosmoscow, in moscow in 2017, festival acce)s(, in Pau, 2016, Musée du Jeu de Paume in Paris in 2014, Venice Biennial of Architecture in Italy in 2014, Barents Spektakel in 2013 in Norway, Ultima Festival, at Oslo Opera in 2011, Palais de Tokyo in Paris in 2011, Qui Vive International Biennial in Moscow in 2010 and Dashanzi Art Festival in Beijing in 2004
Eggblood - Balking On Dead Air Pts 1 & 2
Pt 1 – One Eyed Shuffler meets The Wolverhampton Unemployment Factotum Orchestra in a Downtown Foundry
Pt2 – Idle Jack Returns to The Work Bureau (spitting brine and feathers) – from 10:58 onwards
A 30 min audio journey at walking, stumbling and snuffling pace. The Piece is seen through the trials and tribulations of a deceased welfare claimant ghoul. Channelled through the (meth) spirit network… and communicated through a fictional”in house” radio station at the Social/DSS etc… The Derelict site of this welfare place long gone/closed down since the 1980s was built on the site of an ancient burial ground of bumped off skivers/conscious objectors, the inflicted and the ergophobic. It’s told through the eyes of 1920s fella who is tipped off by a blind beggar that it’s better to dole it then work , and there in this poor sucker see the light. He then takes a journey of discovery and is in/out of many jobs for maybe a day at a time. Stuck In the cyst of slime and swimming in ectoplasm. Bouncing back and forth in vapour space-time to and fro the work bureau/DSS. Still confused about which path to bumble/walk/transcend or even copulate…
Cock and Dole: The money is shit but the hours are good…
http://mouthinfoot.net
http://soundcloud.com/mouth_in_foot
http://soundcloud.com/tony+morris
http://twitter.com/mouth_in_foot
Radioart106fm #84: Claudia Wegener - Radio Continental Drift
radio continental drift celebrates the art of listening and the power of storytelling in local recordings, especially on the African continent. The “dramatic” field-recordings are presented in playlists on the Internet Archive and shared under creative commons license with the invitation to global listeners to explore and use the archived audio.
https://radiocontinentaldrift.wordpress.com
Playlist:
1. radioart106fm Signature Tone
2. Spigelsound Mix – Women of The Great River –
3. meira asher – Introduction
4. Claudia Wegener, Knut Auferman – 6 June 2014 Mobile Radio I
5. Radio Continental Drift – ZAMBEZI WOMEN CALL OUT
6. Inge van den Kroonenberg – Virginia Phiri – AFRICAN DRUM
7. Eunice Mwinde – Banene Eunice About Bush fruits
8. Dixie Treichel – Mavis Moyo – Media women take over
9. Claudia Wegener, Knut Auferman – 6 June 2014 Mobile Radio II
10. Gael Segalen – Born Free
11. Chipata DMI women meet Radio Continental Drift
12. Sithandazile Dube – My Time
13. Antye Greie – Ruvimbos Voice, How is Europe worlds apart?
14. Spigelsound Mix – Women Of The Great River
15. Claudia Wegener, Knut Auferman – 6 June 2014 Mobile Radio III
16. Penny Yon – Black N White
17. Under The Siachilaba Baobab
18. Esnart Mweemba – My Mums Baskets 1
19-20. Barbara N Viola – The Uses Of Baskets
21. Abbigal Muleya – Women Team-working 2
22. Penny Yon – Passing On Stories
23. Janet – Intro N Song 2
24. BassOratory – I CAN DO WHAT YOU CAN DO
25. Dinah Bird – Mavis Moyo – Miles&Miles
26. Sarah Washington – Annie Mpalume – Its Funny Truth Truth
27. Felicity V Ford — Esnart Mweemba – They don’t know about the beads
28. Valerie Vivancos – Mavis Moyo – Survival Lullaby
29. Chiwoniso – Colonized Demonized
30. Thandanani Womens Ensemble -Take Me Home
This is a selection of seven shows from ‘radioart106fm’ compiled for radiophrenia 2017. It contains the creations of female Radio and Sound artists.
Produced and presented by Meira Asher, The program’s host station KolHaCampus106fm closed down on August 31, 2017. Between the summers of 2014 and 2017, Meira aired 107 programs and several specials, part of which were Radia.fm member stations productions.
In the aftermath of this agonising farewell, ‘radioart106fm’ is reforming and will reappear soon, starting with a monthly show on Radio Campus Bruxelles in 2018.
http://www.radioart106fm.net/
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An Inland Population: A Susquehannock Symphonic Poem - Jimmy The Peach and ferrie = differentieel
If the people united never could be defeated why did the Susquehanna People disappear? This question that keeps me busy for a long time until Jimmy and I did one of our many videochats. He was intriqued also by the role of the Europeans in this phenomenon – the French, the Dutch, the Swedes, and the English.
After an intensive research Jimmy wrote a balanced story about the Susquehanna People while i did an interpreation of an interpretation by Frederic Rzewski who I greatly admire. The music in this project is based on 15 of the 36 variations in different forms and interpretations – with unusual combinations of instruments and music styles – from classical to electronic music – from concert hall to intimate studio. This Symphonic Poem leaves room for the imagination of the listener to create his or her own story about the Susquehanna People.
ferrie = differentieel
1. A Land Without People – how the river flows between the banks of wilderness
2. Passing Through – Moving In – a people pick up and move south into the Susquehanna River valley
Empty Caravan
3. Making A Home – the grandmothers unpack traditions and raise the walls
Pots Pans and Kettles
4. Fur Traders – trouble comes from a foreign land bearing rifles and alcohol
Like Running Water
5. The Beaver Wars – when the beaver ponds empty neighbor attacks neighbor
6. The Silent War – disease conquers what the Iroquois could not
Lamentation
7. The Last Village – the last people left join those that will take them
Birds cannot Sing
Man in the Cave
8. How A People Disappear – empty homes, empty trails
European Deseases
9. The Land Today – the 21st Century in the Susquehanna Valley
Nothing on my Knee
Relax Boy
story and narrator Jimmy The Peach
music and audio processing ferrie = differentieel
original Chilean song “¡El pueblo unido jamás será vencido!” by Sergio Ortega and Quilapayún
variation on that theme “The People United Will Never Be Defeated!” by Frederic Rzewski (1975)
Jimmy The Peach – http://www.jimmythepeach.com/
ferrie = differentieel – https://ferrie.audio
Frederic Rzewski – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Rzewski
Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 INT – https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
Millionth - James Chinneck
8th November 2017 @ 9:45 pm - 10:30 pm
The sound work “Millionth” was constructed simply by using a telephone and audio recording equipment. I systematically recorded individuals saying the word ‘hello’ when they first answered the telephone. I charted my telephonic journey through 227 different countries working on a ratio of 1:1000000 to condense the worlds population to just 6348 people. Each individual “hello” has then been edited into a sequence in which every country appears in descending order of population size one after the other, resulting in a 43 minute audio track.
James Chinneck was born in Hertfordshire, England in 1973. He currently lives and works in West Yorkshire, England. He studied at Leeds Metropolitan University. His most recent work Tueri Terram has been shown at Tate Britain, London (2015), and solo exhibitions include Wish You Were Here?, Leeds City Art Gallery (West Yorkshire, England, 1997); Americanenglish, Joseph Gross Gallery (Tucson, Arizona USA, 1999); Rice Fall, Sculpture Space (Utica, New York, 2000); and Trust Me I’m An Artist, Leeds Metropolitan University Gallery, (West Yorkshire, 2003).
Janek Schaefer's Double Decade Dubplate
8th November 2017 @ 10:30 pm - 12:00 am
Playing a track from each of my 33 albums over 22 years.
http://www.JanekSchaefer.com
New Album out: “Glitter In My Tears may very well be a dark horse candidate for the most prophetic album of the year” + 7 year soundscape for the new Design Museum, London
+ Half hour interview on BBC Radio 3 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcCbdAPUsNQ
Visiting Professor, Oxford Brookes – Sonic Art Research Unit
The British Composer of the Year in Sonic Art 2008 & chairman of the Jury 2013&2014
Represented by the Agency gallery, London + Lucky Dip Disco – ‘Brilliant’ [The Guardian] http://www.luckydipdisco.com/
http://www.foundsoundscape.com/
“It’s lovely Janek. I really like listening to it. Well done! I’ll link it to my friends.” [Brian Eno]
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A.D. After Death #3
By Alex Mansfield
On 11 May 2017 10 June 2017
By Scott Snyder, Jeff Lemire, and Steve Wands
The most surprising aspect of A.D. After Death is how, taken as a whole, it is a love letter to death. That’s not to say it’s nihilistic, quite the opposite. What Snyder, Lemire, and Wands have crafted here in their interwoven prose exploration is a comforting and hopeful experience that subverts the momento mori reflection. After Death feels deeply personal, but it’s also packaged in a mythological lore that’s rife with metaphor and symbolism; it’s an English professor’s dream yet equally accessible to anyone who understands the feeling of loss. Snyder and Lemire didn’t set out to answer the meaning of life or anything quite so grandiose, and most of what’s examined here is well trodden ground in fiction; however, how it’s told and the resulting emotional resonance is deeply satisfying. A.D. After Death #3 is a wonder, one rich with pain and terrifying tranquility. As this series about endings comes to its end, the lingering reassurance it leaves you with is unexpected, but welcome; that not only is life worth living for, but so is death.
In a book of big ideas, the idea of the lead character, Jonah, as being representative not just of himself, but of all of humanity rings loudest in this issue more so than in the preceding entries. He is larger than life in his Promethean-like story to steal a forbidden color and his current journey is a reverse Eurydice tale about running into the underworld and how his desire, borne from fear of the unknown, led him to take the cure that would keep death at bay forever. Errant is the snake hanging from the tree tempting all to give into the very relatable temptation of the fruit he is offering. Jonah moves in circles through the ages, repeating past mistakes and past triumphs, and retains the knowledge of all skills gathered with little to remember in the way of the context of how he learned them. Here he is symbolic of all our fears and desires throughout our existence, a mythological hero at times and a forever unaging toddler learning its way, but he’s also the sum of his own personal experiences. Through his own journals, the annals of recorded time by his own hand, he rediscovers his personal self. And that’s the brilliance of Snyder’s script when paired with Lemire’s haunting art.
One can feel the weight of Snyder’s experience as a parent, as a son, as a partner, throughout After Death. It rings true in its humility and its curiosity. The fiction is buoyed by an earnest reflection on pain and fear, one that’s relatable because they’re universal and one that feels personal. It comes to its apex in startling fashion as Snyder has Jonah come to his epiphany, one that reads like an admittance of author as much as character. “I am a coward” Jonah concludes, and it involves both the obvious cowardice to accept our mortality, but more importantly it speaks to the cowardice of refusing to acknowledge happiness. This is the crux from which everything spirals outward, where the metaphors meet the literal. There’s twists to come before it’s over, but this is where they all point back to. It’s the realization that unending life is horrific not solely because meaning begins to fade, but because it’s about running from the truth of self in a circle over and over.
There are more double-page spreads in this issue than in the past two and Lemire has each and every one of them sing. These moments aren’t so much massive as they are vast and Lemire gives them a ton of room to breathe, so that they hit or linger or freeze with to maximum effect. Tying to the themes of temporal echoing, there are many instances of multiple Jonah’s moving across to convey his literal movement and his thematic repetition. Lemire instills a sense of seclusion and the dangers it presents in the form of the unknown land as he has Jonah traverse a harsh, evolving landscape. It’s reminiscent of some sort of biblical trial or a feat of strength, but in typical Lemire fashion, the sequential portions of the book are oozing with a discomforting serenity. His rendering style, with its deceptively shaky lines and blockier forms, is obviously great, but it’s how he employs it that’s the real treat. In issue #3, Lemire delivers his most human characters yet, in both the sequential panels and in the prose accompanying illustrations. Look at his characters’ faces throughout; there’s palpable fear, a readable dystopia in their faces, and a longing for hope. Wrapped in the fluid watercolors that deliver both the frenzied cacophony of impossible storms and the gentle moribund nature of the everyday doldrums, the art from Lemire is inseparable from the ideas it explores. With it now complete, it’s incredibly difficult to imagine any other artist being more perfectly suited for this particular story than Jeff Lemire.
The consistency of Steve Wands’ lettering holds it all together yet again. The continued use of old typeface for the journal entries remains a great choice, but their arrangement on the page is an imaginative and rarely seen instance of lettering contributing to the themes being discussed. Blocks of text slither and break and center and enlarge to varying degrees in a way that might normally be distracting, but here instead inform. The structuring implies a cadence, and that voice feels natural. The caption boxes Wands’ uses for Jonah’s inner thoughts are also a lovely sort of mania, resembling torn pieces from paper, as if from a journal. Having them be somewhat transparent, especially atop Lemire’s watercolors, also strengthens the idea of being thoughts.
All this praise aside, why this work wasn’t realized as a single original graphic novel as opposed to three meaty periodicals is confounding. The schedule at which it was released only served to undercut its very potent depth. One would certainly be very hard pressed to remember some of the finer details from issue #1 released back in December of 2016 that play an important part here in issue #3 in May of 2017. Credit to the creators for structuring each issue to feel like it can stand well on its own as an individual part of a larger narrative, and some of that may very well be thanks to the natural three act structure, but it’s hard to imagine that anything here wouldn’t hit even harder when assembled together in one package.
A.D. After Death may not be a masterpiece or a groundbreaking work of staggering genius reinventing how art looks at mortality, but it is undeniably beautiful and arguably each of these creators’ best work to date. It discusses life through the absence of death and in turn, discovers the horrors that spring forth from what that means. Time folds in on itself. The sense of self is lost. We fly too close to the sun and we steal the fire from the gods and we eat that forbidden fruit. Our fear of decay, of pain and of loss, is a fear only of the unknown and yet here, Snyder and Lemire remind us that it’s that same decay that defines who we are and how we choose to hold onto all the love and all the regret and all the other facets we carry. Dying is life. “We will go.” We will all go. And there’s beauty to be found in that.
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Alex Mansfield was raised on a steady diet of cereal, cartoons and comics. Despite this, he did manage to raise himself up off the couch just enough to become a functioning member of society. Not a day goes by that a scene from The Simpsons won’t run through his mind, oftentimes when walking his dog named Pants. His love of comics has only grown through the years as the medium continues to find innovative ways to tell stories, whether they’re about cape-wearing modern day myths serving justice or slice of life tales steeped in familiar experiences. You can find his chirpings regarding the awesomeness of comics, craft beer, and why The Big Lebowski should have won every award ever on Twitter @Focusedtotality
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ORWEL(L)IAN
1. J. Mayhew: This mindset would give Winston remedial ‘correction’ (comp. anag. & lit.; ref. W. Smith, main character in ‘1984’).
2. J. Grimes: Fan E. Blair won putting out book? (anag. less b, & lit.; fan vb.).
3. T. C. Borland: George O.’s now struggling with real crux of deficit (anag. incl. i; ref. G. Osborne, G. Orwell).
D. Appleton: ‘New Labour is missing bus’ explodes follower of Blair (anag. less bus).
D. & N. Aspland: No backtracking about criminal war lie told by Mr Blair? (anag. in no (rev.)).
M. Barley: Novel with ‘E. A. Blair’ on could be such a book (comp. anag. incl. w and a b, & lit.).
C. Barr: Devious lie on war – typical of Blair! (anag.).
J. G. Booth: Troubled New Labour’s missing bus, needing leader of inspiration in style of Blair (anag. incl. i).
N. C. Dexter: Such as Napoleon, say: one the French backed on war spreading round (I le (rev.) in anag.; ref. Stalinist pig character in ‘Animal Farm’).
G. I. L. Grafton: ‘Blairite’ New Labour – it flourished, but has departed (anag. less but).
R. J. Heald: —— novel could match E. Blair’s own, with British society suppressed (anag. less B S, & lit.).
P. F. Henderson: How to represent E. Blair now, after book’s come out? (anag. less b, & lit.).
J. C. Leyland: With Mrs T’s offensive stricken miners lost war, sadly, after 1984? (anag. less anag.; ref. 1984-5 miners’ strike).
M. A. Macdonald-Cooper: Characteristic of Blair, having fabricated lie on war? (anag.).
D. F. Manley: Blair’s New Labour – it flourished, but has gone? (anag. less but).
C. J. Morse: Alias Blairite? But this would confuse it with New Labour (comp. anag.).
R. Murdoch: ‘Like Blair?’ exploded Brown, losing his head. ‘A lie!’ (anag. less B).
A. Plumb: Lie on war motive – like Blair? (anag.; motive adj.).
A. M. Price: Tortuous lie on war, in the style of Blair (anag.).
W. Ransome: Living as down-and-out perhaps, wore out reversed collar (anag. + nail (rev.); ref. Orwell’s ‘Down and Out in Paris and London’).
S. Saunders: Lie on war fabricated by Blair? (anag.).
R. C. Teuton: We adored Animal Farm (famed —— drama/novel) (comp. anag. & lit.).
J. R. Tozer: Fantastic opening for wannabe? A role in Big Brother fits that description (anag. incl. w; ref. ‘1984’ and TV show).
L. D. Urquhart: They saw this could be a new reality show, like Big Brother, possibly (comp. anag.).
R. J. Whale: Follower of Blair, mistaken on war and swallowing devious lie? (anag. in anag.).
F. J. B. Wheen: No backtracking about devious war lie: that’s Blair’s style (anag. in no (rev.)).
S. Whyld: Typical of Blair to engineer war on lie (anag.).
K. J. Williams: Contrived war on lie, like Blair? (anag.).
T. Anderson, D. K. Arnott, D. Arthur, M. Barker, J. Biggin, C. J. Brougham, Rev Canon C. M. Broun, Dr J. Burscough, P. A. Cash, C. A. Clarke, P. Coles, E. Cross, T. Crowther, W. Drever, J. Fairclough, W. P. Field, A. G. Fleming, Dr I. S. Fletcher, M. Freeman, B. Grabowski, V. Henderson, B. Hitman, M. Hodgkin, J. Hood, R. J. Hooper, J. Horwood, G. Johnstone, C. Loving, P. W. Marlow, P. McKenna, G. McStravick, Rev Prebendary M. R. Metcalf, J. R. C. Michie, C. G. Millin, M. L. Perkins, B. Roe, S. J. Shaw, C. M. Steele, R. W. Stephenson, K. Thomas, D. H. Tompsett, Dr A. J. Varney, Ms S. Wallace, A. J. Wardrop, A. J. Young, Dr E. Young.
222 entries, no mistakes. It appears that a few of my corrections at proof stage were not made to the online version (which a number of you use). I try to make sure this sort of thing doesn’t happen, but it’s frustrating when it does, and I apologize. Favourite clue, of 21 mentioned once or more, was ‘Heads don’t bob up and down so much for the most part’ for NOD(D)LES (or possibly NO(O)DLES).
The 1984 theme was much appreciated, even by those for whom the penny dropped quite late in the day. As some of you remembered, I gave you ‘Thinkpiece’ for No. 610 on 8 January 1984, in which the diagonals were WINSTON SMITH and GEORGE ORWELL and misprints replaced a definition of ‘doublethink’, which you were asked to clue. After noticing well in advance that No. 1,984 would be a competition puzzle I racked my brains on and off for ages to think of a different idea, until this relatively simple one occurred to me. Given the extra latitude offered by the down answers, in which the extra letter could appear anywhere in each case, construction of the grid was not as difficult as some of you surmised. And I think I can add the idea to the standard canon, even if the Orwell reference has probably now had its day.
The constituent letters in ORWEL(L)IAN made references to Blair (Tony and/or Ian) understandably enticing, especially when linked to anagram variations of ‘lie on war’, and many of these made it into the lists. I was not keen on ‘Blairite’ without qualification (such as quotation marks, a question mark or some equivalent means) to mean ‘Orwellian’. The dictionary entry indicates, as one would expect, that ‘Blairite’ as a noun or an adjective can only refer to our former PM. And here are a couple of other ideas I couldn’t accept, despite special pleading from the authors: (i) ‘A role I play with newspeak’ (anag. + n; & lit.). The definition reading is decidedly vague (Just how does an Orwellian play a role with newspeak?), and newspeak = new’s (or news’) peak = n is definitely a step or two too far for me; (ii) ‘Of a viewpoint, it is somehow combining within, WAR elements and those diametrically opposed’ (anag. of WAR + EOL with IN). Even if one accepts that ‘within’ is the same as ‘with in’, which I decidedly don’t (just think of the floodgates!), to arrive at EOL as diametrical opposites of WAR (west/east, alpha/omega, right/left) would surely tax even the cleverest solver. The comma after ‘within’ bothers me too.
See one accustomed to curry eschewing a variety of plainer fare (10)
Second prize winner by M. Barley in competition 1949
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Ph.D., 1979 University of California Berkeley, CA
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B.S., 1973 Iowa State University Ames, IA
"The Role of Academic Performance in Engineering Attrition," G. Zhang, Y. K. Min, M. Ohland, and T. J. Anderson. Presented at ASEE Global Colloqium on Engineering Education, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2006).
'The CIPP Model TO EVALUATE SERVICE LEARNING IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION', Submitted for presentation at ASEE Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA (2008).
"Educating the Next Generation of Chemical Engineers," T. J. Anderson. Invited Plenary presentation at the KIChE Annual Meeting, Jesu, Korea (2008).
"Nonparametric Survival Analysis of Undergraduate Engineering Student Dropout," Y. K. Min, G. Zhang, T. J. Anderson, R. Long, and M. Ohland. Presented at Am. Ed. Res. Assoc. Ann. Meeting, San Diego, CA (2009).
"Implementing Engineering and Technical Education to Support Florida’s 21st Century Energy Sector," Submitted to ASEE Annual Conference, Louisville, KY (2010).
2011 Neva Gibbons Lectureship (4th), University of South Carolina
2007 Warren K. Lewis Award for Chemical Engineering Education (AIChE)
2007 Professional Achievement Citation in Engineering (PACE) Award, Iowa State University
2006 Elected Fellow of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)
2005 Elected Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)
2005 ConocoPhillips Lectureship (39th): Oklahoma State University
2004 Benjamin J. Dasher Award FIE Conf. (with M. Ohland, G. Zhang and B. Thorndyke)
2003 Tis Lihiri Lectureship: Vanderbilt University
2003 George Lappin National Program Committee Service Award, AIChE
2002 Univ. of Michigan and Michigan State Univ. Joint Lectureship
2001 Research Partnership Award, U.S. Dept. of Energy, Office of Power Technologies
2001 Union Carbide Lectureship Award, ASEE
1999 ICEE Commemoration Medal
1996 Gary L. Leach Award, AIChE (with D. Kirmse)
1994 Charles M. A. Stine Award, AIChE
1993 W.N. Lacey Lectureship: California Institute of Technology
1993 Professional Progress in Engineering Award, Iowa State University
1993 Centennial Certificate, American Society for Engineering Education
1985 Fullbright Award - Senior Research Scholar
1983 Tau Beta Pi "Excellence in Undergraduate Education" Award
1981 Dow Outstanding Young Faculty Award
1974 DuPont Fellowship
1973 Earle B. Anthony Fellowship
1973 University of California Scholarship
2008-Present Distinguished Professor, Chemical Eng. Dept., Univ. Florida, Gainesville, FL
2008-Present Director of the Florida Energy Systems Consortium (Statewide).
2003-2008 Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs, College of Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
1991-2003 Chair, Chemical Engineering Dept., Univ. Florida, Gainesville, FL
1988-Present Professor, Chemical Eng. Dept., Univ. Florida, Gainesville, FL
1988 Acting Chair, Chemical Eng. Dept., Univ. Florida, Gainesville, FL
1983-1988 Associate Professor, Chemical Eng. Dept., U. Florida, Gainesville, FL
1985-1986 Fullbright Scholar and Visiting Professor, Lab. de Thermodynamique et Physico- Chimie Metallurgiques, Centre Nat. de la Recherche Sci. Grenoble, France
1978-1983 Assistant Professor, Chemical Eng. Dept., U. Florida, Gainesville, FL Summer
1980 Summer Faculty Research Associate, R.A.D.C., Hanscom AFB, Bedford, MA
1973-1978 Research Assistant, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA
1969-1973 Research Assistant, Ames Lab, Atomic Energy Comm., Ames, IA
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The state of journalism
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January 8, 2021 at 6:37 pm #4131
rogpodge
The SF chronicle can go fuck themselves. https://t.co/RbvgkpqXXn
— Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) January 8, 2021
Basically, Barstool Sports and its President, Dave Portnoy, set up a fund that helps small businesses through monthly grants get through the pandemic. Two requirements: you existed pre-pandemic, and you are actively paying your employees.
The San Francisco Chronicle decides to declare Dave Portnoy and Barstool “problematic,” and “controversial” because they funded the Tadich Grill, one of the oldest restaurants West of the Mississippi. They even got the owners to issue a statement that they weren’t aware of the allegedly “racist and misogynist remarks” or the allegations of sexual harassment against Dave Portnoy. Like the Iowa State kid who raised money for kids with cancer (Carson King), there’s no ability for people to do good if they have bad tweets or made “controversial” statements in the past.
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/sports/college/iowa-state/football/2019/09/24/meet-carson-king-whos-raised-over-1-million-charity-asking-beer-money-childrens-hospital-tweet/2427538001/
January 9, 2021 at 11:07 pm #4150
Beeg_Dawg
Carson King is the poster child of punishment by woke. No discounting for doing and saying stupid teenager stuff. It’s condemning someone with a lifetime of good works to hell for one mis-deed.
I’ve always felt Busch could have made a hell of a dent in the woke movement by stating they were sticking with King, that he is a perfect example of someone who has grown and moved on from past mistakes. Even the most woke would have trouble finding fault with that position.
I saw that article you wrote about me @Mediawill Then I saw the almost instant retraction from your employer and you being put on my knee and spanked like a little child. Would you like to personally apologize? I think it would go a long way pic.twitter.com/usU1xgUf0e
— Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) January 14, 2021
“Saratoga (NY) Living” decided to publish a hit piece saying that the Barstool Fund gave $200,000 to Saratoga’s oldest Irish pub, then stating about Dave Portnoy, “But he’s anything but a do-gooder.”
Still terrible. Glad he’s pushing back.
Carson King gave away $1 million+ to charities, including a children’s hospital in Des Moines. A piece-of-garbage writer for the Des Moines Register named Aaron Calvin ruined King’s life by exposing two racist tweets that King had forwarded as a mid-teenager.
My absolute favorite part of the story is that Calvin was fired from the DMR for his own offensive tweets. See, Calvin’s own statements mocked same-sex marriage, domestic abuse and included a racial slur. Gotta be careful hurling stones in glass houses there, Calvin…
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49857358
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Updated: February 2, 2020
Made in China 8-core x86 CPU arrives to market
Why it matters: Zhaoxin, a fabless chip maker based in Shanghai, has produced a homegrown x86 CPU line that’s apparently ready for the DIY scene. The Zhaoxin KaiXian KX-6000 series of processors were originally shown off in 2018, but since then we had heard little about them. Now it seems that the KX-U6780A will come to market this quarter, as listed on Chinese retail site Taobao with a March release date. For the uninitiated, Zhaoxin is a joint venture between VIA Technologies and the Shanghai Municipal Government. Zhaoxin’s current CPU designs have origins in Centaur Technology, a company acquired by VIA in 1999. The VIA Nano Isaiah core design, built by Centaur, would serve as the architecture for Zhaoxin’s first CPUs. The Isaiah design was Centaur’s first superscalar CPU capable of out-of-order execution. This is what seemed to pave the way for Zhaoxin’s in-house designed LuJiaZui cores, as they too are built around a superscalar, out of order architecture. LuJiaZui seems to be an iterative migration from the Wudaokou architecture, but also supports modern instruction set extensions such as AVX and SSE4.2, which is an important evolution for China and its domestic CPU goals. The KaiXian KX-U6880A appears to be the series flagship, with the slightly lower clocked KX-U6780A slotting in just beneath it. All KX-6000 series chips are based on the LuJiaZui architecture, boasting eight cores and eight threads. The entire KX-6000 series are built on TSMC’s 16nm FinFET process node, with frequencies ranging from 2.7 GHz to 3.0 GHz and built with a 35mm x 35mm BGA package. Recently, a Chinese tech YouTube channel got a hold of a KX-U6780A and C1888 mini-ITX motherboard combination. Looking specifically at the KX-U6780A, the chip has a 70W TDP, a dual-channel DDR4-3200 memory controller, DirectX 11 support, modern I/O interfaces such as SATA, USB, and PCIe 3.0, with 8MB of L2 cache. Notably, the chip has no L3 cache. The C1888 motherboard, which seems to be built by Shenzhen Cjoyin Electronics, is reportedly an engineering sample. The board comes with two DDR4 SO-DIMM slots supporting DDR4-3200 RAM. There’s also mSATA and SATA ports for storage, and supposedly there will be future support for NVMe and mainstream CPU coolers as final revisions are made for the final product. According to Zhaoxin, the performance of the KX-6000 series should be similar to an Intel Core i5-7400, a 4C/4T Kaby Lake chip that launched in early 2017. The Chinese enthusiasts did run the CPU through some benchmarks like Cinebench R20, where the KX-U6780A scored 845. That puts the KX-U6780A somewhere around an Intel Pentium G4600 or AMD FX-6300. The Chinese YouTube channel also paired the KX-U6780A and C1888 motherboard with an RTX 2060 Super for a handful of gaming benchmarks, where the hardware managed to push 60 FPS in the games tested. However, the games didn’t appear to be particularly CPU intensive, and we don’t know exactly how the tests were performed. While Zhaoxin’s KX-6000 series remain way behind the likes of Intel and
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(Summary description)Stanford research institute international (SRT) has developed a new kind of titanium technology, compared with the traditional kroll process, this process is simple, low energy consumption, product for titanium powder. And, through the preparation of titanium powder pressing close to finished product shape can be obtained, the molten titanium products.
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