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Miguel's Homepage
Today’s academia requires some form of self-advertising, I suppose…
Some workshops, conferences, and lecture-series I have organised or co-organised. The most recent ones (or, indeed, the most future ones) are on top.
50 Years of Truth and Meaning
Donald Davidson and the Philosophy of Language
Essen | September 12-14, 2017
Brendan Balcerak Jackson (Miami), Giulia Felappi (Southampton), Kathrin Glüer (Stockholm), Ernie Lepore (Rutgers), Kirk Ludwig (Bloomington), Eleni Manolakaki (Athens), Peter Pagin (Stockholm), Dana Riesenfeld (Tel Aviv), Ian Rumfitt (Oxford)
Varieties of Explanation — Colloquium at GAP.9
Osnabrück | September 14-17, 2015
Jonathan Schaffer (Rutgers), Benjamin Schnieder (Hamburg), Michael Strevens (NYU).
Issues in Applied Analytic Philosophy
KWI Essen | May 28-29, 2015
Esa Diaz-Leon (Manitoba), Sally Haslanger (MIT), Dan López de Sa (Barcelona), Mari Mikkola (Berlin). Co-organized with Raphael van Riel and the members of the working group Applied Analytic Philosophy, based at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI-Essen).
Explanatory Power III
Topics in Explanation, Dependence, and Understanding
Essen | June 5 & 6, 2014
Kenneth Aizawa (Newark), Carl Gillet (Illinois), Nick Haverkamp (Mainz), Vera Hoffmann-Kolss (Cologne), Stefan Roski (Essen), Alexander Steinberg (Mainz), Gabriel Tarziu (Bucharest), Nick Treanor (Edinburgh).
Big vs. Small
Fundamentality in Things, Thought, and Language
Hamburg | July 19 & 20, 2013
Karen Bennett (Cornell), Michael Devitt (CUNY), Cian Dorr (Oxford), Kit Fine (NYU), Zoltán Gendler Szabó (Yale), Jonathan Schaffer (Rutgers), Matthias Steup (Purdue), José Zalabardo (UCL). Supported by the DFG and the Körber-Foundation.
Website Poster
Philosophisches Mittelbaukolloquium
Essen | Winter 2014 / 2015
Thor Grünbaum (Kopenhagen), Leif Marvin Jost (Essen), Thomas Krödel (Berlin), Titus Stahl (Groningen), Almut v. Wedelstaedt (Bielefeld).
Essen | Summer 2013
Nick Haverkamp (Mainz), Tim Kraft (Regensburg), David Löwenstein (Berlin), Amir Mohseni (Münster).
Lars Dänzer (Köln), David Schweikard (Münster), Alexander Steinberg (Hamburg), Verena Wagner (Regensburg).
Dependence in Social Ontology
Berlin | December 7 & 8, 2012
Frank Hindriks (Groningen), Miguel Hoeltje (Essen), Raphael van Riel (Bochum), Daniel James (Berlin), Heiner Koch (Tübingen), Mari Mikkola (Berlin), Al Prescott-Couch (Harvard)
GAP.8
What May We Believe? What Ought We to Do?
Konstanz | September 17—20, 2012
The eighth instalment of the triennial congress of the Gesellschaft für Analytische Philosophie (GAP). One of the largest philosophy conferences in Germany, featuring more than 30 invited speakers and over 200 submitted section talks and posters.
Phloxshop III
Nothing But the Truth
Berlin | August 12 & 13, 2010
Arvid Bave (Stockholm), Stefano Caputo (Turin), Marian David (Notre Dame), Volker Halbach (Oxford), Max Kölbel (Barcelona), David Liggins (Manchester), Adolf Rami (Göttingen), Peter Schulte (Erlangen)
Truth & Abstract Objects
Issues From Bolzano and Frege
Berlin | August 5—7, 2009
Stefania Centrone (Hamburg), Hanjo Glock (Zürich), Nick Haverkamp (Berlin), Andreas Kemmerling (Heidelberg), Stephan Krämer (Leeds), Wolfgang Künne (Hamburg), Kevin Mulligan (Geneva), Tobias Rosefeldt (Konstanz), Ian Rumfitt (London), Robert Schwartzkopff (Oxford), Mark Siebel (Oldenburg), Peter Simons (Dublin), Mark Textor (London), David Wiggins (London)
Phloxshop II
Berlin | September 9—11, 2009
Dorothy Edgington (BBK), Keith Hossack (BBK), Thomas Kroedel (Konstanz), David Etlin (Leuven), Murali Ramachandran (Sussex), Christian Nimtz (Erlangen), Louis deRosset (Vermont), Sonia Roca Royes (Stirling), Jeff Russell (NYU), Dylan Dodd (St. Andrews), Moritz Schulz (Phlox), Lee Walters (UCL), Barbara Vetter (Oxford), Jessica Leech (Geneva), Richard Woodward (Leeds), Jonathan Ichikawa (St. Andrews)
Phloxshop I
Language, Logic, Metaphysics
Berlin | September 3—5, 2008
Katalin Farkas (Budapest), Ofra Magidor (Oxford) & Stephen Kearns (Cornell), Fabrice Correia (Geneva) & Sven Rosenkranz (Barcelona), Elia Zardini (St. Andrews), Nick Haverkamp (Berlin), Moritz Schulz (Berlin)
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MovieChat Forums > The Last Mile (1932) Discussion
The Last Mile (1932) Discussion
Action | Crime | Drama
The Last Mile (1932) (movie): An innocent man sentenced to death gets caught up in a prison riot. Discover the latest Discussions, Reviews, Quotes, Theories, Explanations and Analysis of The Last Mile (1932) below
Cast: Howard Phillips (Richard Walters), Preston Foster (John 'Killer' Mears - Cell 4 (as Preston S. Foster)), George E. Stone (Berg - Cell 1), Noel Madison (D'Amoro - Cell 6), Alan Roscoe (Kirby - Cell 7)
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Bigg Boss 14: Is this an end to Rubina Dilaik and Jasmin Bhasin's friendship?
Rubina Dilaik and Jasmin Bhasin in Bigg Boss 14
Mumbai: Dynamics inside the Bigg Boss 14 house have been ever-changing, right from the very first day of the show. Friends turned into foes, arch-enemies are now best friends, and who was once liked by all, now sits all alone in the house.
Two of the most popular actresses on Indian television, Rubina Dilaik and Jasmin Bhasin, are a part of Bigg Boss this year, and both of them hit it off the moment they stepped inside the house. The duo was seen fighting for each other, standing by each other's decisions, strategising together, and even spending some really fun moments together.
But, their friendship seems to have hit a rough patch, ever since Aly Goni, who is Jasmin's 'best friend', entered the game show as a wildcard contestant.
No idea what Nikki Tamboli, Rubina Dilaik, Abhinav Shukla are doing on the show: Jaan Kumar Sanu
Jaan Kumar Sanu got evicted from the Bigg Boss 14 house on Sunday, which was surprising not only for the viewers but for the singer himself. He believes that one of the major reasons behind his journey coming to an end is that he thought some people were his friends when they were actually not.
While Jasmin can now be seen spending most of her time in Aly's company, the other day, Rubina was heard telling husband Abhinav Shukla, that she does not trust the Naagin actress anymore.
In a bid to add more fuel to the fire, Bigg Boss on Wednesday assigned a task to the housemates, which saw Jasmin and Rubina at loggerheads. Both the actresses had to lead two different teams and fight for their right to earn particular sections of the house.
While the task ended up as a tie at the end of the episode, it will be continued on Thursday with both of them being face-to-face once again.
Bigg Boss 14 contestant Jasmin Bhasin: I know how to answer people in their own language, my fans will get to see it
Television's favourite Jasmin Bhasin has now entered the controversial reality show Bigg Boss 14, hosted by Salman Khan. While fans have always seen her playing chirpy and happy-go-lucky characters on the small screen, she has now promised to show them the shades of her real self which people have never seen before.
In a promo released by the makers, the duo can be seen engaging in a war of words once again, with Jasmin asking Rubina to not play her 'game of words' in front of her. To that, Rubina responds that suger-coating words is also termed as being mannerless and disrespectful.
Later, Rubina tells Jasmin to not talk about her behind her back, to which Jasmin replies, "Play your shrewd games with someone else," and announces that their friendship is over.
Will this entire altercation be the end of Jasmin and Rubina's friendship?
In photos: Infamous fights inside the Bigg Boss house over the years
Iconic fights on Bigg Boss
The controversial reality game show Bigg Boss is currently in its 13th season. The show has been hosted by Salman Khan for the past 10 seasons now. While the first season was hosted by Arshad Warsi, Shilpa Shetty took over the second season and Amitabh Bachchan stepped in as the host for the third season. Bigg Boss is almost synonymous for the various fights that have taken place on the show right from the first season itself. Rakhi Sawant, Kashmera Shah, Dolly Bindra, Gautam Gulati, Karishma Tanna, Pooja Missra, Sidharth Shukla and Rashami Desai have been infamous for making headlines with their fights inside the house from time to time. As Bigg Boss 13 comes to an end, here is a look back at all the iconic fights that have taken place inside the house.
Sidharth Shukla vs Rashami Desai
Sidharth Shukla and Rashami Desai have been at loggerheads since the very beginning of Bigg Boss 13. The duo, who had worked together in the daily soap Dil Se Dil Tak, fell apart after rumours of them dating each other started doing the rounds on the internet. They had a major showdown inside the Bigg Boss house and things almost turned physical when Rashami threw hot tea on Sidharth in a fit of rage.
Vishal Aditya Singh vs Madhurima Tuli
Ex-flames Vishal Aditya Singh and Madhurima Tuli entered Bigg Boss 13 as wildcard contestants and also brought their enmity along with them. The two were constantly seen fighting and arguing with each other even on petty issues. However, the situation went out of hand when during one of their fights, Madhurima hit Vishal multiple times with a pan. She was later evicted from the show by Salman himself for going against the rules and for such unforgivable behaviour.
Shilpa Shinde vs Vikas Gupta
Shilpa Shinde and Vikas Gupta who were a part Bigg Boss 11 were constantly seen instigating each other throughout the season. The duo, in fact, got into an argument in front of Salman Khan on the stage itself even before stepping inside the house. Shilpa claimed that it was because of Vikas that she lost her role in a popular daily soap and that he has ruined her life and career.
Swami Om vs Bani J
The fight between Swami Om and Bani J was probably one of the ugliest fights in the history of Bigg Boss. Both of them were a part of Bigg Boss 10. During a task, Swami Om crossed all limits when he threw his pee at Bani and said that her mother should die. Bani lost her cool and went ahead to hit Swami Om but was held back by the other housemates. The self-styled godman was later thrown out of the house by Salman Khan himself, and the host had even said on national television that if Swami Om ever returns to the show or the channel, Salman will quit working with the channel forever.
Gautam Gulati vs Karishma Tanna
Gautam Gulati and Karishma Tanna turned sworn enemies since the very first task during their stint on Bigg Boss 8. The two kept the animosity intact till the very end of the show, with Gautam lifting the winner's trophy and Karishma being named as the first runner up. During a tolerance task, Karishma targeted Gautam and applied red chilli powder all over his face and body which left the latter fuming. He hurled abuses at Karishma and called her names for which he was strictly reprimanded by Salman Khan.
Sonali Raut vs Ali Quli Mirza
Sonali Raut and Ali Quli Mirza, who were a part of Bigg Boss 8, got into an ugly spat during which Sonali had slapped Ali for passing demeaning comments against her. This did not go down well with Ali and he even tried to climb the roof of the house and asked Bigg Boss to let him leave the house. After the situation calmed down, Bigg Boss had punished Sonali for indulging in violence, which is against the show, and had nominated her for the rest of the season.
Kushal Tandon vs VJ Andy
Kushal Tandon in Bigg Boss 7 was known for losing his cool at the drop of a hat. However, he completely lost control of himself when fellow contestant VJ Andy passed derogatory comments against Gauahar Khan. He ran up to Andy, hit him and also grabbed him by the neck in a fit of rage. He was asked to leave the house immediately by Bigg Boss himself and this made Gauahar furious who lashed out at the makers and even fainted inside the house.
Urvashi Dholakia vs Imam Siddique
In Bigg Boss 6, Imam Siddique was infamous for two things -- his outrageous fashion choices and his ability to pick up a fight with anyone and everyone. During the season, Urvashi Dholakia and Imam Siddique once got into an ugly spat after the latter questioned the former's parenting skills. This had left Urvashi fuming and the two crossed all boundaries as they demeaned each other. While being reprimanded by Salman Khan, Imam said his signature "Time out" even to the superstar which is surely hard to forget.
Pooja Missra vs Shonali Nagrani
Pooja Missra is one of the most (in)famous contestants in the history of Bigg Boss. And what is more popular than her is her fight with Shonali Nagrani over house duties in Bigg Boss 5. During an argument, Pooja started hitting a wiper on the floor near to the place where Shonali was standing and even broke it. When Shonali asked, "Pooja, what is this behaviour" and if she is going to hit her, Pooja replied, "You are asking for it. You are dying for it!"
Dolly Bindra vs Manoj Tiwari
Dolly Bindra in Bigg Boss 4 gave the world the famous phrase "Baap pe mat jaana" during her fight with Manoj Tiwari. And what is even stranger is that the two had fought over mere eggs for hours and hours at length with Dolly raising the decibels every time she threatened "smash" Tiwari.
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Home » Auto News » Singer unveils Tuthill-built Safari 911
Singer unveils Tuthill-built Safari 911
SC/RS- and 959-inspired rally machine mixes Singer style with Tuthill engineering
By Sam Sheehan / Tuesday, January 5, 2021
Singer has revealed the first of two spectacular re-imagined 911s as part of an all-new All-Terrain Competition Study undertaken with legendary UK rally specialist, Richard Tuthill. The 964-based cars – each getting a bespoke setup for different rally scenarios – are inspired by two icons of the eighties, the SC/RS and 959.
As you’d expect, there’s as much to drool over on the spec list as there is on the fit and finish of the completed builds. The first car, the Parallax White machine you see jumping and diving here, is engineered to handle high-speed desert rally competition, the sort that Tuthill has dominated, as evidenced by a win at the 2019 East African Safari Classic. The company certainly knows its stuff in this department, given it was involved in the original SC/RS’s development. The second car, a Corsica Red car not yet finished, is slightly closer to home for Singer as it is set up with tarmac events in mind.
Both cars have been commissioned by a single customer. The 964 base come from a 1990 car, bearing a Mezger air-cooled 3.6 flat-six with twin symmetrical turbochargers and fly-by-wire individual throttle bodies. Power is rated at 450hp and 420lb ft of torque, with power sent to all four wheels via a five-speed sequential dog-box and mechanical, plated limited slip-differentials located on the front, centre and rear of the driveline. Proper stuff.
The 964 chassis is, of course, suitably matched to that lot, with “core-strengthening” to the monocoque, FIA roll cage and carbon fibre body panels, with long-travel, five-way adjustable dampers all-round. There are eight shocks, with two on each corner, while the 16-inch wheels are forged aluminium with BF Goodrich treaded boots. Braking is handled by four-piston monobloc steel discs and the car gets a WRC-spec hydraulic handbrake – practically a Richard Tuthill requirement. There’s also a long-range fuel tank so the fun needn’t stop anytime soon.
Predictably, the whole car’s design and cabin layout is authentically Safari-grade; it’s all apparently certified for actual competition, too, with FIA-approved, bespoke competition seats inside, a rehydration system for the driver and co-driver, and a GPS navigation system. You won’t need us to tell you that it looks the part, with all the beauty and presence of an eighties or nineties competition Porsche, added to the allure of a Tuthill seal of approval and a heavy dose of Singer polish. The good news is the design study won’t be exclusive to the one customer either; Singer has permission to build more off the back of this first pair, albeit for an undisclosed price well beyond most people's means.
“So much of what we’ve done for the last decade has been inspired by Porsche’s competition success and the All-terrain Competition Study provides us the opportunity to showcase that idea literally and vividly,” said founder and executive chairman of the Singer Group, Rob Dickinson. “We’ve taken particular inspiration from the iconic Rothmans-sponsored 911 SC/RSs and 959s that conquered events like the Qatar International Rally and Paris-Dakar in the mid-eighties and, at the request of our client, have reimagined these all-terrain 911’s in their honour while utilising fresh perspectives and state of the art know-how.”
“This collaboration brings together the best of innovation, cutting-edge technology and decades of real rallying experience into one, amazingly capable, all-terrain off-road racing vehicle,” added Tuthill. “In the 1980s we partnered with Prodrive to prepare bodyshells for the Rothmans 911 SC/RS that was part of the inspiration for ACS. I am delighted to have now partnered with Rob and the team at Singer to bring this incredible machine to life and look forward to working with them in the future. I am incredibly proud of what we have achieved.”
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Ohio State Newark Facebook
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The Newark Campus Development Fund, founded nearly 30 years ago by community leaders who saw a need to ensure the future of the Newark campus, is responsible for managing and safeguarding funds that donors began contributing in 1983. Extraordinarily generous donors have enabled the Foundation to award millions of dollars in scholarships and grants, as well as provide new technology while developing capital improvements and state-of-the-art facilities to benefit both The Ohio State University at Newark and Central Ohio Technical College. Together with their outstanding physical facilities, award-winning faculty, and administrators dedicated to collaborative leadership, COTC and Ohio State Newark provide an exceptional college education to thousands of students each year.
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Moor Hall
Mark Birchall
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Dine and stay for the ultimate Moor Hall experience…
We have seven unique and luxurious bedrooms available at Moor Hall, with a range of packages and experiences available. All rates include delicious breakfast. Residents must dine at Moor Hall Restaurant on their first evening with us as a minimum.
Would you like to dine with us?
Our award-winning Restaurant holds 2 Michelin stars and 5 AA Rosettes, and was voted ‘Restaurant of the Year’ at the Estrella Damm National Restaurant Awards. Talented Chef Patron Mark Birchall creates delicate, produce-driven menus inspired by our exceptional, natural surroundings.
Would you like to dine with us in The Barn?
Mark Birchall’s neighbourhood restaurant offers a delicious and varied menu, showcasing the best in seasonal dishes, as well as a great selection of wines & beverages; children’s menus, and the most delicious Sunday lunch you’ll ever try. The Barn holds a Michelin Plate accreditation and 3 AA Rosettes.
We are currently closed, and are taking reservations for dates from 01 March to 31 October 2021 online.
Please email our reservations team at enquiry@moorhall.com if you would like to reserve a later date.
Lunch menus£85
Dinner menu£185
A discretionary service charge of 12.5% is added to all restaurant and bar bills. We kindly ask guests to arrive 30 minutes prior to their reservation time to experience the full Moor Hall journey.
Dietary Restrictions: We cannot cater for food dislikes. We can however offer changes to our menu for strict allergies and intolerances and can arrange a vegetarian, pescatarian or vegan menu if notified on booking. Whilst we follow best practice at all times, we would like to highlight that all the dishes we serve are produced in an environment where allergens are also prepared and cooked. Therefore we are unable to guarantee that the environment will be completely allergen free.
Our bar and casual dining experience. Michelin Plate & 3 AA Rosettes.
Indoor and outdoor dining available.
We are currently closed, and are taking reservations for dates from 01 March to 31 October 2021 online. Read about the steps we’re taking to keep our guests safe by clicking here.
Please note: We are no longer accepting cash payments. Contactless and card payments are available. Menus are viewable via QR code, you can use your smartphone camera or a QR reader app on your smartphone to view the menus online.
A discretionary service charge of 10% is added to restaurant and bar bills. Whilst we follow best practice at all times, we would like to highlight that all the dishes we serve are produced in an environment where allergens are also prepared and cooked. Therefore we are unable to guarantee that the environment will be completely allergen free.
Lake District Farmers
About lake district farmers
“To produce a sustainable future for fell farming in Cumbria.”
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LDF Brand story 21×9 from Phil Scott on Vimeo.
Lake District Farmers (LDF) was founded in 2009 by the late Ray Armstrong to facilitate a quality-driven and sustainable supply chain for family run fell farms in The Lake District.
Since Ray’s sad passing in 2013, co-founder Dan Austin took on the LDF mantle to create a long and lasting legacy to Ray. Dan spent much of his childhood on his Grandfather’s farm situated on the south-west corner of the Lakeland fells. Growing up with livestock around him enabled him to develop a deep understanding of how Cumbrian fell farms operate, with their animals wandering freely in the fields and on the hills. And it is that understanding, and the intimacy he has shared with the livestock, that has enabled him to cultivate strong and lasting bonds with the farmers that now supply LDF.
Fast forward to 2020 and LDF is now working with over 50 Cumbrian farms. With a strong team, Dan is able to continue to nurture the relationships he has established with the LDF farmers and their animals. These relationships have been, and still are, crucial in enabling Dan to ensure that LDF has become synonymous with producing some of the best quality, breed-specific meat available.
With quality being the LDF byword, it has been crucial to scale up the business slowly so that the core elements of the LDF ethos are not lost. This has been key in enabling the company to develop a customer portfolio that includes some of the UK’s best chefs, restaurants and hotels.
Now, LDF have launched a range of superb hampers for you to enjoy at home, available online.
LDF MEAT HAMPERS ON SALE NOW!
Made to order hampers stocked with the finest local produce.
Website: www.lakedistrictfarmers.co.uk/boxes
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PlayStation Trophy System Has Fallen Behind
The Xbox 360 launched with an achievement system built into the operating system. Every single game supported achievements and people quickly got very competitive with their collection of achievements. When Sony launched the trophy system for the PlayStation 3, it was seen as a massive improvement over the gamerscore. Rather than everything contributing to a single score, Playstation trophies were split into bronze, silver, gold and platinum trophies. The platinum only being awarded when someone obtains all other trophies. This gave something more than simply aiming for getting 1000 points in a game.
Since its launch, the trophy system has remained unchanged. The level system is still seems to have no purpose. Some game developers have found weird ways to bypass the trophy list restrictions on small games. Smaller games that would typically have 250 points on the Xbox, would not qualify for a platinum trophy on the PlayStation Network. Some games have gotten past this and have a trophy list with lots of gold trophies and a platinum. A lot of this has diluted the sense of achievement.
The PlayStation 4 trophy system has done nothing to try and help PlayStation stay on top. The Sony rewards program has been an attempt to try and reward people for playing the games they love and earning trophies. The more you increase your trophy level and play more games, the better the rewards you can get from the PlayStation store. This program is currently limited to certain regions and at that, the system is far too unbalanced for there ever to be a decent return.
While Sony have sat by and remained content with the PS4 trophy system, Microsoft have managed to slip ahead and add some small, yet significant improvements over the system they had on the Xbox 360.
One of the reasons that the achievement system is so valuable in the first place is consistency across the entire network. Getting 100% completion in a game is no longer lost within the game save. Instead, a nice achievement of trophy can be assigned to it and once unlocked, it will be permanently attached to your PSN account or Xbox Live profile for everyone to see forever. Microsoft have built upon this to make additional game information available at the network level so that people can see some interesting metrics about the game you are playing, even if there is no specific achievement tied to it.
For example, there may be an achievement for getting 1000 kills, but how many kills did the player actually get. For games with competitive multiplayer, those totals can earn some significant bragging rights. Microsofts new system allows for this data to be publicly tracked so that others can see deeper into how you have played the game.
While this is definitely not a deal breaker, Sony have left it far too late in the day to start sticking features like this onto the platform. They will end up back in the same place they were with the PlayStation 3, where large amounts of games released prior to the trophy patch, did not support the functionality. The PlayStation trophy points system was great when it launched, but it feels like Sony got a little too comfortable where they were and have let Microsoft catch up and throw something new at this framework to make it a little more interesting. Sony should prepare some new twist to the trophy system to make sure it doesn’t fall too far behind the times. Considering the popularity of it, it would do no harm to ensure it remains something that keeps people entertained.
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Posted 21st Oct 2018
LISTEN: Stacey Francis reflects on Fast5 All-Stars and Team Bath’s contribution to the netball world
Stacey Francis says she loved being back with Team Bath Netball this month and has been reflecting with pride on the Blue & Gold’s legacy within the netball world.
The legendary defender, a key member of all five Team Bath Superleague-winning squads and University of Bath Hall of Fame for Sport inductee, put on the famous colours once again for the recent British Fast5 All-Stars Championship.
“It was awesome,” she told The Netball Show podcast. “I am Team Bath through and through. I played for them for an awfully long time and it was great to slot straight back into that team environment and work with Jess [Thirlby] and Anna [Stembridge] again, I think they are two of the best coaches I have worked with. There were some familiar faces [in the squad] from when I was there but some up-and-coming talent too.”
Being back in the Team Bath environment for the first time in four years brought back plenty of memories for Francis, who was part of the Blue & Gold set-up when the national Superleague competition was established in 2005.
A host of players from that time are still having a major impact on the game as both players and coaches, with Thirlby, Pamela Cookey, Rachel Dunn, Geva Mentor and Tamsin Greenway all part of the inaugural Superleague squad under the guidance of legendary coach Lyn Gunson – another Hall of Fame for Sport member.
I officially joined @teambathnetball_ in 2005 in the inaugural year of Superleague having also played in the final Team Bath Super Cup squad that same year (only the 👵🏾👴🏾 will have a clue of what I’m talking about!!). Even though I was the youngest member of the squad I’d been waiting patiently to get my name on the back of a Team Bath dress for about two years! A decade flies by and I’ve somehow managed to wing my way into the @team_bath Sports Hall of Fame and become one of the longest standing members of the team. Having been out of the bubble for three years now I was pretty bloody excited to have the chance, even if only for a day, to represent the team I aspired to play for as a youngun’ @fast5allstars again!! 💙💛 Swipe 👈🏾 for a serious throwback!! #blueandgold #netballold #family #teambath #idratherhaveabaththanashower
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“It’s easy to forget the legacy that Team Bath and the players that have come through that programme have created,” said Francis, who now plays for West Coast Fever in Australia’s Suncorp Super Netball competition.
“The team and environment was always a fantastic place to be and the players [that came through] are ones that people will always remember. It’s credit to the likes of Lyn Gunson and the people that put that first Team Bath programme together.
“The contribution that Team Bath players will make to the world of netball as a whole isn’t going to stop any time soon.”
Listen to the full interview with Viper 10 Ambassador Stacey Francis here:
Click here to check out all the great players to have worn Blue & Gold over the years in our past Superleague squads archive.
Find out more about the current crop of rising stars coming through the Team Bath Netball Performance Pathway.
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The friend told DailyMailTV that Meghan had a feeling that she was "catching". Samantha announced in April 2016 that she would go out with a book & The Diary of Princess Pushy's Sister, but then changed to her Shadows of the Duchess. It is believed to be released in April, around the same time that Meghan is expected to give birth.
Samantha said the book "covers everything from behind the scenes that the world does not know."
He recently published plans for a second book.
Megan's friend said that she has now stopped interviewing her family members and hearing about herself.
They said: "I stopped reading things after finding out about her sister's book.
MORE MORE BOOK: Meghan Markle and Prince Harry look for the OTHER home
"Miss her when she got out of it.
"Out of all that was said, the same thing would disturb her in the book.
"She and Samantha had never had a very good relationship and she has a feeling that her sister uses her for a profit."
Meghan, now pregnant seven months, has been deceived by her sister in 2008 and her brother, Thomas Markle Jr. in 2011.
Both have spoken publicly about their Royal sister, especially to ask her to get out to her father, Thomas Markle Sr.
It was taken from Duchess Sussex since his Royal Queen was lost in May last year.
He had been involved in a scannal on paparazzi photographs held in the months before the wedding.
Mr Markle has been interviewed several times on television and in the media, saying he does not talk to his daughter.
However, her Duchess' relatives opposed this story in an interview this week, saying that it was on the other side – that Meghan tried to contact to her father and to be convicted.
They also said that he responded to a sensible letter asking him to stop attacking her in the media with a note asking for photos.
DailyMail.com's supervisor comment: "It's not fair what he did. He is always familiar with how she will contact her and have never been so close.
"As far as she got her job on Suits, he moved to Mexico and so they would not see each other just through the holidays."
Samantha answered the Tiwtter bids, called "bull ***".
She said: "There are plenty of text messaging and receipts to be confirmed in another way. Stop the #Fake news of PR crap."
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Brandi Carlile on the Challenges and Joys of Queer Parenting
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In a new essay for Parents, singer/songwriter Brandi Carlile discusses the challenges and joys of queer parenting.
"The Story" singer reflects on the gendered ways in which parenting is often geared toward heterosexual couples. Admitting that it "might not feel radical to talk about LGBTQ+ parenting right now," Carlile rightly points out that "gay domesticity is a radically new concept. We have no generational template. There's some serious pioneering involved here."
Carlile and her partner Catherine have two daughters, Evangeline and Elijah. Catherine carried both children — with Evangeline, the couple harvested Carlile's eggs and used in vitro fertilization; Elija's conception was artificial insemination.
While adoption among same-sex couples is increasing — particularly in the U.K., where "one in six children adopted in the last year were adopted by same-sex couples" — with the domesticity Carlile mentions, there is no precedent "that could have prepared me for the strangeness of being wholly responsible for a child." Through their experience, Carlile and Catherine hope to remedy that for future generations of same-sex parents.
While Catherine carried both children, Carlile recalls prenatal classes where she joined the "dads" at the front of the room. At the same time, she says, "the 'moms' could giggle while we put on diapers backwards and struggled endlessly with BabyBjörn carriers." This scenario's gendered implications don't fit tidily into a same-sex parenting scenario, as Carlile points out.
The couple's parenting experiences through gendered constructs are part of a growing population of LGBTQ couples navigating unchartered waters, including coming out to their children, The Washington Post reports.
"Children don't have expectations about who their parents should be. They just want their parents to be healthy," Danna Bodenheimer, a therapist who specializes in the care of LGBTQ, told the Post. "They think, 'If you're going to live and be able to love me and take care of me, that's the outcome I need.' "
"Evangeline was born to two mothers on Father's Day, but she made it clear right away that she only needed us. The rigidity around gender roles in parenting is indeed a construct," says Carlile. "I think when same-sex parents are honest with ourselves, we worry deep down that we are depriving our children of a gendered experience." But ultimately, by uprooting gendered constructs in parenting, Carlile contends that "we even help heterosexual parents around us to break out of gender boxes."
The couple divide and share child-raising responsibilities in a way that "feels instinctual," she says — from schooling to meal prep, hiking and stacking firewood to folding laundry and gardening, and more. Gendered constructs of which parent oversees these (and other) activities don't figure into how the couple chooses to parent their daughters.
And where helping other LGBTQ families is concerned, Carlile urges same-sex parents to be "honest about your family and your experience. Be clear and vocal about the importance of cultural representation."
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WAS AUSTRALIA ABANDONED? ANOTHER MYTH EXPOSED!
Home > Resources > Convenor's Column Archive > WAS AUSTRALIA ABANDONED? ANOTHER MYTH EXPOSED!
It is unfortunate that some of those intent on making fundamental changes to our Constitution feel the need to justify this, either by promising that some unlikely benefits will flow from our being a republic, or by rewriting history to explain why we should take this step. One of the myths expounded by the former Prime Minister, Paul Keating, was that the Constitution was designed in the British Foreign Office. The truth was, the Constitution was drafted in Australia, by Australians and actually approved by the Australian people.
We are indebted to Mr P.N. Amos, Chairman of our Peninsula Branch, for the following story which exposes yet another of these attempts to rewrite our history. This too was proclaimed by Mr Keating, who when he launched his push for a republic,alleged that the United Kingdom had abandoned Australia in the Second World War. As Mr Amos notes, since then there has been a dribble of `Letters to the Editor' promoting the same theme, sometimes subtly avoiding any reference to the republic. Mr Amos suggests we go back to the end of the war when Keating was about three, and see what actually happened. Australians had been sending thousands of food parcels to the UK because her citizens had been deprived during the war. The Hansard of the National Parliament records that on April 28th 1947 Ben Chifley (Prime Minister and Treasurer) moved the second reading of the "United Kingdom Grant Bill". Chifley said this was a bill to grant £A25 million to the United Kingdom "as a contribution towards the costs of war incurred in the 'Pacific Zone. The UK is labouring under great difficulties today because in the war it fought with unsparing will the battles of many other peoples as well as its own". On the economic side he pointed out the huge costs incurred included:
i) the realisation of £1.5 billion of its international investments,
ii) incurring of new external liabilities of £3.5 billion,
iii) a debt of a further £1.25 billion for the transition from war
iv) massive losses of industries, homes and 22 January,2004.
v) its export trade sacrificed.
By contrast we had suffered no loss of external wealth, "in fact, our position is more favourable today than it was before the war." Chifley went on to point out that we had been able to pay off £S60 million of our London debt. He also pointed out that American troops had injected £100 million into our economy. On 28th May, with bipartisan support, the Bill was carried on the voices. In 1947 the Budget was A169, 249,000, so that the grant was no small sum- it actually represented 14.77% of the Budget! As Mr Amos says, it is obvious from this that neither the Australian people nor the Australian government thought that we had been abandoned by the United Kingdom! Thanks to Mr Amos, yet another republican myth has been exposed.
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Muellers ’12, Khan ’12 Help Bangladesh Village Access Clean Water
by Cynthia Rockwell • November 15, 2012
Kimberly Muellers ’12 in India.
Kimberly Muellers ’12, communications director for the nonprofit Brighter Dawns, spent part of her post-graduation summer in Bangladesh, helping provide a village with access to clean water.
The Boston Globe highlighted the work of Massachusetts native Muellers in a recent article titled “Westwood Woman Helping in Bangladesh.”
“There are so many preventable diseases that can be solved so easily just by having clean water and good hygiene,” Muellers told The Globe. “Our main focus is on sanitation issues.”
Muellers was joined this summer in Bangladesh by Tasmiha Khan ’12, Brighter Dawns CEO, as well as Fahim Zaman, Brighter Dawns director of media and strategy, and a Harvard graduate. They were there to assess a pilot project and work with a local partner, the World Peace and Cultural Foundation. Brighter Dawns has chapters at Wesleyan and Harvard universities and Trinity College.
Muellers stresses the importance of involving young people in international development projects like Brighter Dawns, which provide lifesaving services. Additionally, the youth from the more privileged culture receive an important lesson in empowerment, as they use their energy to effect real and positive change in the world.
Are you a Wesleyan alumnus? For more alumni stories, photo albums, videos, features and more, visit Wesconnect, the website for Wesleyan alumni.
Khan ’12, of Brighter Dawns, Attends White House Event
by Cynthia Rockwell • July 31, 2012
Tasmiha Khan ’12, founder of Brighter Dawns, a charitable organization committed to improving health in the slums of Bangladesh, was invited to the White House to participate in a forum to discuss the important role that faith-based social innovators play in expanding opportunity and addressing social issues. Khan, who was selected by DoSomething.org as one of 11 Young Women To Look Out For, founded Brighter Dawns in the fall of 2010 after working on a health and hygiene project in Bangladesh with the World Peace & Cultural Foundation that summer. Back on campus, she convinced other students to join her in addressing the concerns she’d observed.
The White House event, arranged by the Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships and the Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation, in coordination with the Office of Public Engagement, brought together leading faith-based social innovators from around the country.
The afternoon offered briefings, panels, and small-and-large group discussions to explore the ways that these faith-based organizations are creating entrepreneurial ventures. They offer innovative models to create positive change in our economy, and they frequently serve at-risk communities.
“I was able to meet with senior officials such as Mr. Jonathan Greenblatt [executive director of the Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation] and Mr. Joshua DuBois [executive director of the Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships] and had an exclusive opportunity to present our work,” Khan says. “Of course, Wesleyan was mentioned—how could it not? It was a phenomenal event.”
Khan and members of the Brighter Dawns team are planning to return to Bangladesh later this summer.
Brighter Dawns Featured on News 8 WTNH
by Olivia Drake • May 27, 2012
Brighter Dawns on News 8.
The Wesleyan Chapter of Brighter Dawns, a non-profit organization founded by Tasmiha Khan ’12, was featured on News 8 WTNH on May 11. Brighter Dawns raises funds to build latrines and wells in Bangladesh.
According to the report, Brighter Dawns started when Tasmiha Khan went to a slum in Bangladesh with her family and visited a young woman living in poverty. “Her name was Usma. She was about 15 years old. Had three children. Was forced into poverty at that time,” she said.
Khan started doing a few things to help that family, and when she came back to the U.S. she kept helping, forming the local chapter.
Brighter Dawns is currently trying to win the Dell Social Innovation Competition.
For information on the group and their mission visit http://brighterdawns.org/.
Runners, Walkers Support Brighter Dawns at 5K
by Cynthia Rockwell • April 17, 2012
Students involved with Brighter Dawns organized their second annual 5K run/walk on April 14, starting at Long Lane Farm, with members of the Wesleyan community and local residents participating.
Khan ’12 Awarded Movement One to One Fellowship
by Olivia Drake • February 13, 2012
In Bangladesh, more than 100,000 children die every year of intestinal diseases. About 31 million people are without access to safe drinking water and 99.9 million people lack proper sanitation. About 80 percent of the wells in more than 8,000 villages are contaminated.
Tasmiha Khan ’12, founder of the Wesleyan chapter of Brighter Dawns, has spent the past four years determined to help sanitary and living conditions in a slum in Khalishpur, Khulna. Through fund-raising, partnering with NGOs and grant applications, the Wesleyan chapter has teamed up with other Brighter Dawns chapters in the country to distribute more than 1,000 sanitary kits, teach lessons on proper hygiene and install 15 tube wells and 20 latrines in the slum.
Brighter Dawns also trained local women and provided them with stipends to help maintain the infrastructure and conduct seminars in conjunction with health officials and physicians.
As a newly-awarded 2012 Movement One to One Fellow (Movement 121), Khan will have the opportunity to participate in a six-month online, collaborative experience to enhance Brighter Dawns’ success from Feb. 1 to Aug. 1. Movement 121 enables fellows to discover their true strengths,
Wesleyan Students Raise Funds To Help Poor in Bangladesh
by Olivia Drake • November 2, 2011
Tasmiha Khan ’12 and her group, Brighter Dawns, were featured in the Oct. 24 edition of The Middletown Press. In the article, Khan explains how she became interested in helping poor families – and her own family – in Bangladesh.
“There’s a stark dynamic between the rich and the poor,” Khan says in the article. “I wanted to see how these people live, but I really had to push my family. They were scared of me getting raped or even murdered. There was no running water. Seven to eight people of extended family, living under one roof. Words aren’t enough to justify the conditions.”
In the past year, Brighter Dawns was able to secure funding of about $15,000 from the Dell Social Innovation Fellowship and a $10,000 from a Projects for Peace grant. With this funding, they were able to build 15 wells, 20 latrines, and three bathrooms and provide sanitation supplies and educational seminars on hygiene for 1,000 households in Bangladesh.
On Nov. 19, Brighter Dawns will be partnering with Brew Bakers, a local coffee house bakery in Middletown, to hold an all-day community event. A student/community band will perform and the group will be running several concessions selling T-shirts, purses and tote bags from Bangladesh.
Brighter Dawns development director Jason Youngbin Lee ’12, project manager Matthew Donahue ’14, and Marissa Napolitano ’13 also are mentioned in the Middletown Press story, online here.
Khan ’12 Named Dell Semi-Finalist Fellow
Tasmiha Khan ’12, founder of the student organization Brighter Dawns, is a recipient of the Dell Social Innovation Competition Semi-Finalist Fellowship. Brighter Dawns applied for the Dell Social Innovation Award in January. Their project is titled “Brighter Dawns: Clean Water for Humanity.”
“Tasmiha was selected from a very strong applicant pool to join 14 other innovative fellows that represent and work with communities around the world,” says Betsy Loucks, director of the DSIC Semi-Finalist Fellowship. “The Semi-Finalist Fellowship is a cohort of students from around the world who have some of the most exciting and innovative ideas for social and environmental change.”
Developed to leverage the power of the group, the fellowship program provides students with mentorship, training and a small financial award to advance the development of their social innovation. The fellowship provides students with the skills, networks and experience needed to realize the potential of their social venture.
At the core of the DSIC Fellowship is the practice of peer critique. The peer critique is a forum for student entrepreneurs to seek feedback from other students, faculty, alumni and experienced professionals/entrepreneurs. Meeting around a common table, the participants generously and respectfully share their questions, advice, networks and encouragement in a spirit of collegial collaboration.
In addition to the fellowship, the DSIC also provides a travel stipend to Rhode Island for the Summer Institute on Social Entrepreneurship, Aug. 15-19.
Brighter Dawns also received a Davis United World College Project for Peace grant worth $10,000.
Students Raise Funds at 5K for Brighter Dawns
by Olivia Drake • May 4, 2011
Pictured are participants of the 5K for Brighter Dawns.
The student-run organization Brighter Dawns raised more than $1,150 during the 5K for Brighter Dawns on April 16.
The group is raising funds to build 30 latrines and 10 wells in Khalispur, Bangladesh. They also hope to provide sanitary kits to local households and hire three community health officers to educate the community in sanitary practices.
Brighter Dawns Development Director Jason Youngbin Lee '12 and Middletown Mayor Sebastian Giuliano.
Middletown Mayor Sebastian Giuliano and Wesleyan President Michael Roth attended the event.
Participants paid $10 to walked or run the 3.1 mile course, which was located on the Wes Fuhrman ’05 Trail near Long Lane. Brighter Dawns also raised funds by selling t-shirts at the event. Prizes were awarded to the top three finishers.
Khan ’12 Speaks at Yale’s United for Sight Conference
Brighter Dawns members, from left, Karla Therese Sy ’13, Rashedul Haydar ’14 and Shirley Deng ’14 attended the United for Sight conference.
Members of the student-run group, Brighter Dawns, participated in the Unite for Sight Global Health and Innovation 2011 Conference April 16-17 at Yale University. The conference welcomed leaders, changemakers, and participants from all fields of global health, international development and social entrepreneurship.
Tasmiha Khan ’12, founder of Brighter Dawns, spoke about her organization during a session on “Water and Clinic Social Enterprise Pitches – Ideas in Development.” Brighter Dawns is raising funds to improve access to safe sanitation in Bangladesh.
More than 2,220 professionals and students from all 50 states attended the conference.
Brighter Dawns Receives Davis Project for Peace Grant
Wesleyan’s student organization Brighter Dawns received a Davis United World College Project for Peace grant worth $10,000. The funds will support Brighter Dawns’ “Water Sanitation Project” in Khalishpur, Bangladesh for eight weeks this summer.
Tasmiha Khan ’12 and possibly Rajeeta Iyer ’12 will oversee the project, which will include building tube wells, latrines and providing health seminars and jobs for women in one of the poorest slums in Khalishpur.
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Bieber dominates Tigers
by Gerry Fall September 18, 2020 0 comment
It took the Detroit Tigers eight innings before they finally got to former UCSB and current Cleveland Indians star pitcher Shane Bieber. The Indians supplied plenty of offense and Bieber did the rest on the mound in a 10-3 victory in Detroit.
Bieber went 7 ⅔ innings and allowed three runs on four hits with 10 strikeouts and two walks. The Tigers got their three runs with two outs in the eighth off Bieber when allowed a three-run homer to Willi Castro. Outside of that, the former Gaucho ace was dominant.
Bieber didn’t allow a Tiger baserunner to reach second until the eighth inning. He improved his record to 8-1 — which leads the majors — and has an earned run average of 1.74. Jose Ramirez celebrated his 28th birthday by belting a pair of home runs to help the Indians snap an eight-game losing streak. Bieber has not allowed more than three runs in any of his 11 starts this season. He is said to be the leading candidate to win the American League Cy Young Award.
Also, the Dodgers beat the Rockies, 9-3;
–Gerry Fall
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CEOs Good to Great: Who Makes the Cut and Why?
3 Lessons I Learned from Jeff Weiner at LinkedIn
My five years at LinkedIn 1 is the best experience of my career.
One of the biggest reasons: Jeff Weiner.
Here’s my thoughts on what made Jeff the best CEO I’ve ever worked with, as he transitioned his role a month ago to Ryan Roslansky after 11 years of one of the most successful runs as Chief Executive I’ve ever seen.
From L – R: Jeff’s first LinkedIn Hackday judging with Adam Nash hosting, to the picture on the right, arguably (correct me if I’m wrong) Jeff’s first LinkedIn All-Hands in 2009 as he was introduced as CEO by founder Reid Hoffman, and below: my peers in the marketing & comms team, circa 2008: Richard Chen & Krista Canfield
There are Good CEOs, and then there are Great CEOs. Besides, Jeff Weiner, Dan Nye and Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), I have worked on Jack Dorsey’s team (Twitter), Andrew Dudum (who now runs Hims) and worked closely with Adam Nash (CEO Wealthfront) during his time at LinkedIn — one of the best product minds I’ve ever seen. But, I can objectively say, Jeff Weiner is as good as it gets as a leader.
Here’s three reasons why and three lessons I learned:
Good to Great CEOs: Who Makes the Cut and Why?
Lesson 1: Compassion As Purpose
The Aha Moment: Breathe In, Breathe Out
Compassion in the Workplace: A Feature, Not a Bug
Lesson 2: Clarity, Consistency and Curiosity
Great Leaders Teach, But Also Relentlessly Learn
Lesson 3: Culture & Community
How You Go from 100s to 16,000 Employees!
In Summary; Thank You Jeff!
Jeff Weiner was always about the High-Order Bit. I talk about that in my post on grief. As Steve Jobs would often say, what is your high-order bit. And Jeff would always ask us to stack-rank prioritize our goals, and if I had to pick the highest-ranked legacy of Jeff’s — it’d have to be compassion.
Harvard Business Review wrote about the “Best Leaders being Great Teachers,” in which they relate a story shared by Mike Gamson 2, who I got to know in 2008 and who went on to lead LinkedIn’s Sales efforts:
Another example comes from Mike Gamson, a senior vice president at LinkedIn, who told Business Insider that his first meeting with the company’s new CEO, Jeff Weiner, involved a two-hour discussion of Buddhist principles. Gamson said he wanted to be a more empathetic leader, and Weiner asked why he wasn’t instead aiming to be more compassionate. The pair explored the difference between those concepts, with recourse to a religious parable.
I have a similar story, though I wish I had the chance to explore spirituality more with Jeff, than just this brief moment during my time at LinkedIn…
Some of you may have read my recent post on how Meditation has become an incredibly important part of my life, helping deal with grief and cope with chaos.
Way before that post, there was this anecdote:
During my time at LinkedIn (since early 2007) I had the opportunity to work with the founding team, executive team, and Jeff during his first few years since his time as acting CEO.
Fast forward, to a particularly high-stakes conversation I was having with Jeff in the middle of a tumultuous period in my life, and (of course) I have a panic attack 3.
I don’t know how other CEOs might have handled it; maybe they’d asked me to collect myself and reschedule the meeting, but Jeff instead helped guide me through composing myself while he suggested breathing techniques that are common to those who meditate, and it helped calm me and got me on to the habit of meditation that I have finally put into consistent practice.
Sure, it felt strange sharing this here, but it’s the tiny moments in life that leave a mark. Of the five years I spent at LinkedIn, this experience is at the top of my list!
CEOs also need to recognize that we are in the middle of a once-in-a-century pandemic, stressors mounting by the minute 4, an epidemic of loneliness so desolate that compassion is more relevant now than ever in the history of the workplace.
A group of researchers from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and Harvard Medical School released results from a survey they conducted in the second half of May, and 55% of people said they were more stressed than in January, before the virus was perceived to be a widespread threat.
We are living through unprecedented times, when over half of a country’s adults are under a once-in-a-century moment in history and this situation is only likely to continue.
As the workforce transitions into Gen-Z you recognize that unlike prior generations, they care most about personal well being and a work-life balance and more than ever, they crave a sense of purpose. 5. The two biggest takeaways post-pandemic (epidemic of loneliness and the WFH phenomenon) will demand that CEOs be more compassionate, wise and spiritual; the best among them setting an example worth emulating.
Jeff has also created a platform-for-compassion in The Compassion Project for elementary school students across the United States, inspired by the PBS Documentary “A Class Divided;” a classroom experiment in compassion that has its origins in a teacher’s efforts to calm her students and help them understand discrimination and divisiveness in the aftermath of the Martin Luther King assassination.
We’re in a time where people are increasingly being torn apart. People are looking to reinforce their own views by connecting with others that look like them and sound like them. Tribalism, as some would call it, is reinforced through both conventional and new media channels. – Jeff Weiner
Couldn’t agree more. It’s never been more important than in these days Black Lives Matter, where stoked by the fires of circumstance and polarization, we find our deepest insecurities bleed into an epidemic of anxiety.
These circumstances are seeing parents moonlight as teachers while going about their day jobs, a shocking increase abuse, both in homes and in the workplace, as we continue to isolate and expose ourselves to the searing heat of 2020. It is, now more than ever, for all of us (at work and home) to create a platform for compassion in every imaginable scenario.
Great leaders don’t just teach about work—they also proffer deeper wisdom. – Harvard Business Review
The very first thing I recall Jeff define as CEO was a clear vision (“Create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce”) and mission (“Connect the world’s professionals to make them more productive and successful”). Remember this was before the IPO, when LinkedIn has 30 million users (that under his leadership has scaled to 700 million users) 6, and the stack-ranked priority, the high-order bit for Jeff was identifying those core values, then sharing that with the leadership team, and as part of his Comms team our priority was disseminating that vision across our entire company.
One Vision, One Mission, Godspeed.
The Vision Jeff entrusted with his teams, and the Mission he demanded we create for ourselves were reiterated over and over again, until you could blurt it out were someone to wake you rudely in the middle of the night.
And everyone in the company knew that 7, as Reid continues:
Jeff says that you build trust through consistency over time. One of the things he said that stuck in my mind was that by the time that you’re getting bored of yourself saying a message, your organization is just beginning to hear it.
And Jeff hired for Mission Sync:
This showed up in how Jeff recruited people to LinkedIn. His pitch wasn’t, “Come work for me.” It was, “Come work together with me on this mission.”
Star leaders also take a page from Socrates and teach by asking sharp, relevant questions, often in the course of furthering their own learning. According to a colleague at HCA, Frist “was always asking probing questions to find out what was happening.” He did it to “educate himself, not to make you feel like you were doing something appropriate or inappropriate. It was an educational venture.” 8
Jeff’s product curiosity was always spot-on. Not only was he one of the first few people at LinkedIn, who understood the true import of Twitter that I evangelized internally relentlessly, when everyone was wondering where does fit into the larger corporate storytelling paradigm. Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn, relates a similar story about Jeff when he first visited Jeff at Yahoo! Network critiquing the product with Jeff’s team 9
Jeff’s reaction was perfect and telling — he was intellectually curious rather than defensive. He showed an intensity of curiosity and learning, especially towards being what I call an infinite learner. And, he wanted his people to talk and interact more than he did, which reflects Jeff’s focus on leading the team, as well as being a part of the team. – Reid Hoffman on Jeff Weiner
Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs’ biographer, famously asked 10 Jobs during the last few months of his life, thus:
I once asked him what he thought was his most important creation, thinking he would answer the iPad or the Macintosh. Instead he said it was Apple the company. Making an enduring company, he said, was both far harder and more important than making a great product.
And I think Jeff understood that very well, since the day he started at LinkedIn.
Our All-Hands was a big deal. And with Jeff’s arrival, it became the heart-and-soul of LinkedIn’s culture. I briefly had the fortune of working with Jeff on crafting those until my good friend Armen Vartanian took over, and it was clear from Day One, Jeff was going to carry forward the vision and reiterate it in ways — both artful and purposeful — at these gatherings.
The All-Hands wasn’t just an excuse for us to gather, like the Pixar building that Steve Jobs built, but it was a reason to be a part of something bigger than yourself. It was the culture, given who LinkedIn is about connecting every single professional in the world — bigger than all of us professionals working at LinkedIn.
And it worked. And it shows.
In another distinct way, Jeff’s actions pay homage to the lessons left by Steve Jobs, especially with the way he crafted his transition, to Ryan Roslansky, who came to LinkedIn from Yahoo!
Jobs maintained an excellent and relatively stable executive team during his second tenure at Apple. The more mature and confident he became, the more he surrounded himself with strong, opinionated executives who felt comfortable arguing with him. – There Is No “I” in Steve, Fast Company
Jeff came to LinkedIn that way. With a team in mind, a plan in place and this transition, as Reid suggests was always the best case outcome, and kudos for finding a stellar product leader to carry forward that vision:
Another great lesson I learned from Jeff was the importance of having multiple succession plans for every executive — one for an immediate emergency successor, one for a year down the road, and one for the long-term. Ryan was Jeff’s long-term succession plan. He was Jeff’s first hire after arriving at LinkedIn, and had worked for him at Yahoo for five years before that, so they have a very strong and lasting alliance. – Reid Hoffman
Jeff’s Biggest Legacy is the team he built and is leaving behind. Having briefly crossed paths with Ryan, it’s clear LinkedIn is in great hands.
And, yes, these are all stellar examples of why was trending on LinkedIn a few weeks ago, given the outpouring of gratitude and employees, past and present, sharing their career high — working for Jeff.
Of course, in classic Jeff style, the All-Hands was a huge-send off with singing of Jeff’s favorite song, which did and would have brought tears to the eyes of anyone who had the pleasure of working at LinkedIn with Jeff during a glorious run. No wonder, the hashtag was trending for a while.
This is my story.
For showing me what real leadership is; #ThankYouJeff!
The Last LinkedIn Alumni Reunion Dinner I attended in 2019 with some of the early folks, hope to see Jeff in the future
My alma-mater of over five years, and where I spent my most informative and insightful years as the second PR & Marketing Hire right through to our I.P.O. ↩︎
A great Harvard Business Review by Sydney Finkelstein on what separates the best leaders – the ones that teach ↩︎
Check out how meditation helps me cope with grief, while dealing with a relentless pandemic in 2020 here and how this episode might have been my first foray into meditation ↩︎
Here’s the most recent study on July 1, 2020, that finds 55% of Americans are stressed with numbers shooting up if you’re past 50 years of age ↩︎
Source: Dynamic Signal, “When Gen-Z’ers believe they are surrounded by like-minded people who feel their effort has a purpose, work is less like a job.” ↩︎
Source: Statista and 400 employees (that Jeff scaled to 16,000 employees!), Growth of LinkedIn members from 2009 to 2016 ↩︎
Here in Jeff’s own words that we heard reiterated during those formative years, how and why one should define their Vision, Mission and Values so clearly ↩︎
Sydney Finkelstein, a professor at Tuck School, Dartmouth, writes “Best Leaders are Great Teachers” for the Harvard Business Review, calls out their Socratic approach as well as their compassion ↩︎
I’d highly recommend you check out Reid Hoffman’s LinkedIn post on Learnings from Jeff ↩︎
This Harvard Business Review piece by Walter Isaacson outlines The Real Leadership Lessons of Jobs, which include Focus, Simplify, and Taking Responsibility to the End ↩︎
Filed under: Best-of, Jeff Weiner, Latest at LinkedIn, Linkedin, LinkedIn Colleagues, LinkedIn in the News, Public Relations, Public Speaking, Thoughts
June 24, 2020 • 10:11 am 5
2020: Reflections on a Year Gone Wrong!
How I escaped my worst year and what it taught me about 2020
It was the best of times.
It was the worst of times.
2020 was the worst of times!
2020: Reflections on a Year Gone So Wrong!
2016: The Worst Year of my Life, Until 2020
Step 1: Find your High-Order Bit!
Fight, Flight or Meditate?
The Why: Bend or Be Broken!
The When: Meditation is the Cure, The Key is in the Abyss!
The How-To Meditate: Zoom out, Zoom in!
Step 1: Third Eye First, Tune your Spine!
Step 2: Empty Your Breath
Step 3: Empty Your Mind
Finally, I’m back to writing.
2020 is unlike any other year in modern history. It is up there with 1918, 1919 and 1920; the three years suffused by World War I, that got decimated by the Spanish Flu. A pandemic of epic proportions that laid waste to 100 million lives, and came back wave after wave decimating hundreds of thousands more with each subsequent wave two and three times as awful as the first in the spring of 1918 1.
That’s where we find ourselves this beautiful summer morning in 2020. On top of the pandemic rearing its head, we find ourselves in a couple more pandemics; racial and informational, both of which have been exacerbated since the 2016 election leading to the most divisive climate in this nation’s great history.
But you wonder, what was my worst year and what does it have to do with 2020.
I lost my Mom.
I lost my Dream Job.
I lost my Girlfriend.
Snapchat from WayBack: Pics From my last trip that reunited me with my parents, sister, and nephew Gabe.
I didn’t see this coming — at all! To lose one of the above, and I’ve seen people lose their minds. To lose all three, albeit slowly, then suddenly and some in parallel; was an earthquake, on top of a tsunami in the middle of a hurricane. And to sit there in the middle of that storm unraveling, was an uncanny experience and one that has steeled me for the rest of my life. In particular, one that has steeled me for 2020.2
“There is no love of life, without despair of life.” – Albert Camus
Here’s my story of 2016, what I learned from it, and how I’m applying it to this Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Year.
“But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.” ― Viktor E. Frankl’s, Man’s Search for Meaning
What I’d have given to not go through those months of distress, losing the most important people in the world to me, seemed cruel and incomprehensible 3, but as cliche as it sounds, those tears were meant to teach.
Turbulence clouds the mind, mists the future, and all I could do was silently spiral into a mental paralysis. As I now connect those dots; when all three had fallen through, it truly felt like falling off of a cliff and I was free-falling. And there was nothing to stop the fall.
And it was at that moment, that I found meditation.
Steve Jobs calls it the High-Order Bit. The one that has the power to unlock other powers, exponential across other options. Jeff Weiner, in his very first week at LinkedIn, told all of us to come up with each team’s mission / vision statement, and then figure out our stack-ranked priorities as we re-aligned every part of the organization. And the high-order bit is the one that sits atop that pyramid of priorities.
If you could do just one thing right now, and one thing only with the most impact on every other priority, what’d it be?
For me, that was meditation.4
To be honest, at that point in 2016 when the bottom fell out, I wasn’t thinking straight. I was free falling, and my-then-girlfriend-soon-to-be-ex recommended guided meditation with former teacher of hers. And all it took was one session, and the free-falling turned to free-floating. A free association of ideas, possibilities and peace. And since then, I’ve tried my darndest to describe what meditation is, to the uninitiated.
3 Keys to Meditation: The why, the when (it works) and the how of meditation?!
“The green reed which bends in the wind is stronger than the mighty oak which breaks in a storm.” – Confucius
The parables are as old as Time itself, but the lessons are simple, and frankly until you experience that moment of no return, when you lose someone you dearly love and can’t ever see them again; when you walk through and out that door.
That’s when shit feels real.
As Harvard University psychiatrist George Vaillant, describes in the most recent edition of Scientific American, describing the mental health crisis humanity faces, thanks to the pandemic.
A resilient individual resembles a twig with a fresh, green living core. “When twisted out of shape, such a twig bends, but it does not break; instead it springs back and continues growing.” 5
Apparently 2/3rds of individuals recover from traumatic episodes and may even learn from it, but a third of us are lost for months, maybe years.
My own experience from a couple of years ago, could have turned out vastly different, were it not for some opportune decisions I made; regardless, I did lose time to the vicissitudes of trauma. Decisions, like meditation, that came through a lot of soul-searching, a supportive family, and a few good friends that cared about me.
Without them, I’d have been lost, and my writing is an humble effort at educating even one lost soul how I came through that door, and lived to tell the tale.
When you lose a parent (especially, a parent); that’s when all bets are off. The foundation shows its true shaky premise and you have to hold on for dear life, spiritually. But what presents itself as an impossibility — “how could this happen to me,” and “how will I ever get out of this situation,” gives you the ultimate lesson in living — “Let Be.”
The Bard Said it Best: “Let Be”
Hamlet (Act 5, scene 2, 217–224):
Not a whit, we defy augury.6 There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow.
If it be now, ’tis not to come; if it be not to
come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come — the readiness is all.
Since no man, of aught he leaves, knows what is’t
to leave betimes, let be.
Accepting I don’t have all the answers, that where I am isn’t the endgame, that I don’t even have a clue what the endgame is (!), and looking forward into the “abyss” with peace, not fear at the uncertainty — is what meditation teaches us. Much like Yoga isn’t just about the physical solace it provides, nor is Meditation just about calming the mind. It’s about using the storm, to find the calm — the eye of the storm.
If we commit ourselves to staying right where we are, then our experience becomes very vivid. Things become very clear when there is nowhere to escape. – Pema Chodron
“The Arrival of Chaos should be regarded as extremely good news.” – Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche 7
With apologies to Winston Churchill, “We can all be trusted to do the right thing (in this case, Meditation), once all other possibilities have been exhausted.”
I had tried meditation in the past, but never felt the need for it, nor did I miss it. But, when things got ugly, I frankly had no other alternative, and the more I held on tightly to everything that was slipping, like sand, through my fingers; the more I needed an out, and that’s where meditation came in.
It’s as if someone found the secret to life, locked it in a treasure chest, threw the chest and the key down the abyss. And each time one of us stares into the abyss, we fear it swallows us whole. But, the journey to find the key must be made.
The journey to find the key is the right thing. The only option.
And so does fear. In fact, anyone who stands on the edge of the unknown, fully in the present without reference point, experiences groundlessness. – Pema Chodron
And the right thing… is meditation.
There is nowhere to hide.
Sometimes, however, we are cornered; everything falls apart, and we run out of options for escape. At times like that, the most profound spiritual truths seem pretty straightforward and ordinary. There’s nowhere to hide. – Pema Chodron, When Things Fall Apart
There is nowhere to run.
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. – Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement Speech
Now, meditate.
Meditation is an invitation to notice when we reach our limit and to not get carried away by hope and fear. – Pema Chodron
The secret to meditation is letting go with focus, and to “not get carried away by hope and fear.” You’re watching your life unfold, without the affectation of your ego. It’s the real world mental equivalent of the Dolly Zoom, best encapsulated by the famous scene in Jaws:
Me when I realize Jaws was released 45 years ago today. #Jaws45 pic.twitter.com/2SAqI1Msdc
— susan (@Mom2ryandy) June 20, 2020
“You can observe more of the background, while keeping the foreground in the same place.”
The Dolly Zoom as you can see describes meditation perfectly. In much the same way as the Dolly Zoom, employs both the telephoto and the wide-angle lenses at the same time, meditation is the deliberate practice to lose yourself-and-your-ego by focusing on two things at once — the foreground of your life, and the background of your life — until they both disappear and you experience this weightless, groundless feeling as described by Pema when you’re fully in the Now-minus-Ego.
The challenge with meditation is that it’s underrated and vastly misunderstood, so many folks let go of the practice before they master it. Let me walk you through my three simple hacks to get started. Stick with this for at least 30 days, and let me know whether it worked or not @mariosundar.
I study Sanskrit and Arabic to improve my mind
I wanna do things for the benefit of all mankind
I say to the willow tree, “Don’t wait for me”
I’m saying to hell with all things that used to be
— “My Own Version of You,” by Bob Dylan
The three steps I outline need to happen at once, and there will be a moment when you subconsciously do all three, but I’m still at the stage where I’m tryna ride this bicycle of my mind, and those moments of blissful riding the mind are few and far in-between.
While there might be a lot of exaggerated stories about the “Third Eye,” the fact of the matter is that it’s a simple hack to focus on a specific point, it could be a mantra (as is common in Transcendental Meditation – that everyone from Howard Stern to Jerry Seinfeld swear by), but the answer is simple — find a word or visual spot to focus.
Personally, I shut my eyes, sit erect on my yoga pillow and focus on a spot between my eyebrows and trust me be — it is not easy to focus for a concentrated period of time on any spot (visual or mantric), and the trick is to pursue that for as long as you can. And if you can do that for more than a few minutes, you’ll see yourself floating away, while focusing on that spot.
Dolly Zoom your mind. Tuning Fork Your Spine!
In yoga meditation, the meditator withdraws the life force (prana) from the sensory and motor nerves — by a process known as pranayama (life-force control) — and directs it to the higher centers of awareness within the spine and brain. – Paramahansa Yogananda, Self-Realization Fellowship
That’s where you start. Keep your spine straight and your focus on either a mantra or a visual point between your eyebrows.
Equally important, I realize how crucial proper breathing is to achieve the meditative flow, after you hit the first two notes from Step 1. It’s amazing how bad we are at breathing right; anxiety and stress and alcohol and lack of sleep doesn’t help. But meditation can be a bridge to getting better at something so foundational to better living.
Controlled breathing, like what you just practiced, has been shown to reduce stress, increase alertness and boost your immune system. For centuries yogis have used breath control, or pranayama, to promote concentration and improve vitality. Buddha advocated breath-meditation as a way to reach enlightenment. – New York Times, The Benefits of Controlled Breathing 8
My first experience with this was during a particularly high-stakes conversation I had with Jeff Weiner 9 way back in 2010, who I had the pleasure of working with during my nearly 6 years at LinkedIn, and I recall him asking me to breathe in and out, in a measured way when I was about to have a panic attack (more on my anxiety in a later post). But that worked, and it’s clear why that is the case.
Consciously changing the way you breathe appears to send a signal to the brain to adjust the parasympathetic branch of the nervous system, which can slow heart rate and digestion and promote feelings of calm as well as the sympathetic system, which controls the release of stress hormones like cortisol. – New York Times, The Benefits of Controlled Breathing 10
Next week, I’ll outline the modern tools I use to track the effectiveness of my meditation, if you’d like to track that either subscribe to this blog here, or follow me @mariosundar.
Sneak peak (Week of June 29, 2020: Meditation Hardware)
The Apple Watch (Tracking Runs, Meditation and Workouts)
Core vs. Muse (Tracks Meditation)
Komuso Design (Tracks Breathing)
Sneak peak (Week of July 6, 2020: Meditation Software)
Headspace vs. Calm
Core vs. Muse
Transcendental Meditation (TM) vs. Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF)
So, the worst year of my life and what it taught me about 2020.
I didn’t think I’d make it out of 2016 in one piece. But, here I am. Thanks to family; thanks to a few close friends. And thanks to my biggest epiphany.
All happiness rests in one place. Between our ears! There’s the rub…
Happiness isn’t a given. Kurosawa, inarguably the greatest writer / filmmaker ever, once said:
“With a good script, a good director can produce a masterpiece. With the same script, a mediocre director can produce a passable film. But with a bad script even a good director can’t possibly make a good film. … The script must be something that has the power to do this.”
With bad software between your ears, even the best circumstances life gifts you might be wasted materially, and most definitely spiritually. But with good software buoyed by daily meditation, calm and equanimity, you will take anything life throws at you, and you will create a masterpiece.
Yes, it sure has been a long, hard drive
But someday every thing’s gonna be different
When I paint that masterpiece – Bob Dylan
Since 2016, right through to the Pandemic of 2020…
I ran most days (88% – 92%).
I quit alcohol.
I lost 50 pounds.
SnapBack to Now: That’s me, 50 pounds lighter, before the Pandemic of 2020, in front of my favorite restaurant
Now, let’s do this all over again! Here we go…
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It’s good to be back.
Source: John Barry’s “The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History,” that outlines the excruciating spread of a pandemic that took 100 million lives and 5% of the world’s population, with two thirds of lives taken between 18 – 45 years, across three waves in the middle of a World War, via Peter Attia’s excellent podcast — The Drive ↩︎
My experiences resemble this retelling in the New York Times by Eva Holland, Author of “Nerve: Adventures in the Science of Fear.” I call it “Deliberate Resilience.” ↩︎
Everything at that moment, will feel random, meaningless, surreal, but make no mistake, it is suffused with meaning and it will take years to unwrap. The only gift I wish for you is to be open and curious over the next few years. ↩︎
This is particularly true for those of us, stuck at home, with our inner demons. Sam Lansky, Author of Broken People, nails this dangerous time to slip-and-slide into binge-eating-or-drinking in his terrific TIME piece Stuck With Yourself: The Hidden Price of a Pandemic ↩︎
An introspective Scientific American feature delves into similar themes I discuss in this post on the macro-psychological view of the pandemic and how 2.6 Billion people are coping with anxiety ↩︎
The exact moment where Hamlet recognizes everything is out of his control, and learns in the following lines to accept with grace, and the moment shall arrive. More here ↩︎
A beautiful primer on why “Chaos is Good News” from Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche ↩︎
Lesley Alderman, Psychotherapist and New York Times’ contributor, outlines the Breathe-Exhale-Repeat Formula that is a necessary Step 2 in my outline for meditation efficiency ↩︎
Jeff Weiner is currently Executive Chairman at LinkedIn, and I had the pleasure of learning and working with him during the first four years after he began LinkedIn’s comeback from layoffs back in 2008 ↩︎
“Breathing is meditation for people who can’t meditate,” says Dr. Belisa Vranich, author of the book “Breathe”) ↩︎
Filed under: About Mario Sundar, Best-of, Jeff Weiner, LinkedIn Colleagues, Thoughts, Writing
July 18, 2014 • 7:48 am 0
The Secret to Effective Communication: Being Heard is not Enough
Communication is underrated and vastly misunderstood.
The larger the audience, the more cliched and tiresome our communication becomes. Worse still, we seem less wary of the impact of our words when we write for larger groups.
Corporations tend to be the worst offenders in this category especially when they get tied down in their inane press releases and top-down missives. The problem is even more acute during trying times, when a CEO needs to rally his troops behind a common cause.
I give you, Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella’s recent missive around the organization’s future direction.
The amount of meaningless jargon in this useless, rambling letter is extremely impressive. http://t.co/Ic9o22iZO2 I worry for Microsoft.
— dustin curtis (@dcurtis) July 11, 2014
Rather than poke holes in Nadella’s tired cliches, I’d like to share the secret sauce on how anyone can communicate efficiently to large groups of people.
And there’s no better story to illustrate this than Steve Jobs’ trial-by-fire return to Apple at Macworld 1997 when this had happened.
There was something dramatic, almost Shakespearean, about Steve Jobs’ return to Apple. A humbler, self-deprecating leader, whose second act was laser focused on first getting Apple out of the red. To do that Jobs would have to rally his troops, inspire them, yet give them a dose of real talk; a delicate balance he pulled off with style at Macworld 1997. Here’s the secret sauce to doing that.
1. Be Upfront
Always, be honest with your troops – both internally and externally. This doesn’t mean you have to share all but you’ve to find ways to address the elephant in the room. And once you do, the ultimate segue would be to find a way to inspire confidence and hope amidst the burning embers.
Jobs gets into it right away, highlighting the three complaints leveled against Apple and how he sees it:
“Apple’s not as relevant as it used to be everywhere, but in some incredibly important market segments, it’s extraordinarily relevant.”
“Apple’s executing wonderfully on many of the wrong things!”
“Rather than anarchy, people can’t wait to fall in line behind a good strategy. There just hasn’t been one.”
He agrees with the accusation, does not gloss over the facts, but spins it in a way that inspires confidence. It’s his own way of saying “It’s not you, it’s us” which goes down well with the audience. A lot of executives seem to forget they are talking to a bunch of rational, smart folks and try to ignore the obvious sword hanging in the air. They avoid the elephant in the room, and lose their trust. Lose their trust and you lose your audience.
Every time you write, visualize a skeptic you’re trying to persuade. Convert her and you’ve won them all. Instead I’m loathe to find myself reading press releases and corporate missives that sound like this:
We live in a mobile-first and cloud-first world. Computing is ubiquitous and experiences span devices and exhibit ambient intelligence. Billions of sensors, screens and devices – in conference rooms, living rooms, cities, cars, phones, PCs – are forming a vast network and streams of data that simply disappear into the background of our lives. This computing power will digitize nearly everything around us and will derive insights from all of the data being generated by interactions among people and between people and machines. We are moving from a world where computing power was scarce to a place where it now is almost limitless, and where the true scarce commodity is increasingly human attention.
You lost me at “mobile-first, cloud-first world.” Most people don’t know what the heck the cloud is; just ask Jason Segel and Cameron Diaz.
Nobody understands the cloud. It’s a fuckin’ mystery!
So get to the heart of the matter with simple words. Think like a blogger, not like a novelist.
2. Talk Normal, Write Simple
Certainly @satyanadella (and @fxshaw) are capable of writing like normal people; It'd be worthwhile to do so for memos that are made public.
— Anil Dash (@anildash) July 17, 2014
Corporations sure think they are people, but turn on a press release or a camera and they sure as hell sound like corporations. As Anil Dash suggests, I’m sure Nadella and team write normal when they email each other but turn on the spotlight and it turns weird; like this scene from Talladega Nights:
I’ve seen this Deer-in-Spotlight phenomenon in many an executive, but I’ve also seen some of them overcoming it over time. Writing makes it worse, since there’s no immediate feedback to your original missive. But if Nadella and his PR team are seeing the tweets or posts since, they should know this could have gone better.
Maybe the new Microsoft CEO could try writing letters and emails without using bullshit terminology for one week just to see how it feels?
— Garrett Murray (@garrettmurray) July 17, 2014
Sure, most of Nadella’s speech might have avoided the obvious hard truths but worse still, there was no letting up on the esoteric:
A few months ago on a call with investors I quoted Nietzsche and said that we must have “courage in the face of reality.” Even more important, we must have courage in the face of opportunity.
Rainer Maria Rilke’s words say it best: “The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.”
Even True Detective makes more sense now:
Someone once told me time is a flat circle; where everything we’ve ever done, we’ll do over and over again.
The reason I insist on simplicity, is comprehension – the ultimate goal of all communication. In our attention-deficit world, the disparity between being heard and listened to is huge. The importance of your words lies solely in its ability to drive action and that cannot happen with the incomprehensible. This ain’t about you, the writer.
It is always about the reader.
3. Be Precise
Now to the heart of the matter. Rhetoric teaches us that in order to drive action, you need to persuade. And that happens with clarity of vision. Flashback to our 97 Macworld and here’s how Jobs set the stage for the future; inspirational, and on hindsight, prescient:
“We have the makings of a really healthy company, with some really talented people that need to come together and execute on a great plan.”
“What’s the fundamental problem? Declining sales.”
He then dives straight into how they are gonna overcome that in 5 concrete steps:
Board of Directors (calls out people but does it in a very subtle manner)
Focus on relevance
Invest in core assets
Forge meaningful partnerships
New product paradigms
Actions speak louder than words. And to back up those words, he clearly spells out actions like installing a new board of directors, one which includes the legendary Bill Campbell (who just today retired, after 17 years on Apple’s board), Steve Jobs’ close friend, Larry Ellison, among others.
”The confidence starts with a really clear vision. Then you take that vision down to strategy. People have to look at it and say “Yes”, they can do that. The past has been failure. The new board inspires hope.” – Bill Campbell
It’s just that Jobs makes what seems impossible for any CEO to do, seem easy: calling out past mistakes honestly and focusing on what needs to change, boldly and precisely.
One more thing: Bolt of Lightning
Towards the end of the presentation Steve Jobs says something that kinda gave away the mainstay of rhetoricians:
“Sometimes points of view can really make you really look at things differently.”
“For me when I was looking at the statistic and it hit me that Apple is the largest education company in the world, that was like a bolt of lightning. That’s huge.
“What an incredible base to build off of.”
“Another bolt of lightning is that Apple and Microsoft equal 100% of the desktop market.
And so, whatever Apple and Microsoft agree to do, it’s a standard (laughter). I think you’ll see us work more with Microsoft because they’re the only player in the desktop industry. And I think you’ll see Apple work more with Microsoft more because they’re the only other player in the desktop industry.
I hope we have more cooperation in the future because the industry wants it.”
Art of Manliness points out the third rule of persuasion – Appeal to Reason:
Finally, we come to logos, or the appeal to reason. Aristotle believed logos to be the superior persuasive appeal and that all arguments should be won or lost on reason alone. However, he recognized that at times an audience would not be sophisticated enough to follow arguments based solely on scientific and logical principles and so the other appeals needed to be used as well.
In The Art of Rhetoric, Aristotle states that appealing to reason means allowing “the words of the speech itself” to do the persuading. This was accomplished through making inferences using deductive reasoning, usually in the form of a formal syllogism. You’ve seen these before. You start with two premises and end with a conclusion that naturally follows the premises.
Jobs had to conclude that speech with a convincing call to arms. The troops were still skeptical but his conclusion hits at logic, while earlier in the speech, he tackled emotion:
Microsoft + Apple = 100%
What we do together = the desktop standard
The industry wants it.
The conclusion of Nadella’s letter reads:
We must each have the courage to transform as individuals. We must ask ourselves, what idea can I bring to life? What insight can I illuminate? What individual life could I change? What customer can I delight? What new skill could I learn? What team could I help build? What orthodoxy should I question?
With the courage to transform individually, we will collectively transform this company and seize the great opportunity ahead.
Confusing quote, followed by rambling ideas (“What orthodoxy should I question?” Uh?) ending with more meaningless blah.
Let me clarify, this is not a dig on the writing style of one CEO over the other. It’s a reminder that most of us, myself included, sometime gets sucked into the “more is better” mentality, as a writer. And that’s just a bad place to be in, if the goal of your writing is to communicate effectively.
Every leader should be writing for the audience’s collective cynic, not to their internal sycophants. And I notice CEOs oftentimes do the latter. And don’t get me wrong, any decent PR effort can help broadcast this mindless jargon across the airwaves and social media, but then all you get out of that is awareness.
Communications, in my opinion, is far bigger than PR-as-Marketing and it involves converting people over to your line of thinking and this happens only with strong beliefs and convincing rhetoric. And to do that just follow the rules I outline above.
Filed under: Crisis Communications, Public Relations, Public Speaking, Steve Jobs
January 26, 2013 • 2:25 am 0
Handling a personal crisis like Letterman
We’ve seen this before. An executive’s fall from grace over a workplace dalliance. The world loves stories like this and the media just can’t have enough of it.
The tech world, which is usually insulated from such drama, just saw earlier today the second of such stories in recent times. Keith Rabois, second in command at Jack Dorsey’s Square stepped down in his role as COO because of sexual harassment claims.
There’s definitely gonna be a lot of “He Said, He Said” over the next few weeks but Keith’s response to these allegations both on his blog as well as on his Twitter page, is a textbook case immediate response in crisis communication. It reminded me a lot of David Letterman’s handling of a blackmail over dalliances he had with his employees. Here’s Letterman addressing those allegations:
The key is authenticity. Letterman address was precise:
“The creepy stuff was that I’ve had sex with women who work for me on the show. My response to that is ‘Yes, I have.'”
“And would it be embarrassing if it were made public. Yes, it would. Especially for the women!”
Keith’s response has been somewhat along similar lines, though a tad more nebulous:
“In May 2010, I met someone via mutual friends. With increasing frequency, we hung out, drank wine, and I helped prepare him for interviews with tech startups. As our friendship deepened, we spent more time together, and our relationship became physical. We regularly worked out at the gym, occasionally hung out at my home, and exchanged intimate, personal information, as people in similar relationships often do.
Several months after our relationship began, I recommended that he interview at Square. He went through the interview process and was ultimately hired. I had no impact on his potential success at the company. At no point did he ever report directly to me, and I have seen his work product less than a handful of times.”
This may not be as cut-and-dry as the Letterman example, but the immediate response in all such cases is the same: an honest appraisal (see above) and a sincere apology (see below).
I deeply regret that I let my personal and professional lives to become intertwined, and I apologize to my colleagues and friends (at Square and elsewhere) who I’ve let down, and who will bear the brunt of some of the unnecessary, negative attention this situation will likely bring.
You may think it’s easy but very few people have been able to handle these situations right (Just ask Bill Clinton) and it takes a lot of courage to watch your dirty linen washed in public.
But at the end of the day, people are willing to forgive and forget as long as your work counts for something.
Just ask Bill Clinton of the Clinton Foundation, or David Letterman who was recently honored at the Kennedy Center for his contribution to pop-culture.
Filed under: Crisis Communications, Leadership Communication, Public Relations, celebrities, current-events
Write like the President’s Speechwriter
Remember, President Obama’s triumphant “Yes, We Can” speech, or the hopeful New Hampshire concession speech or most recently the comforting Newton tragedy speech…
Words matter and a President’s words carry meaning to hundreds of millions of people; it helps sooth, comfort, and uplift a nation.
So there’s a lot we can learn about writing from the President’s young speechwriter Jon Favreau (not the guy who brought you Iron Man). This past week Favreau crafted one of his penultimate speeches for the President and shared some of his secrets gleaned while writing for the President.
First, nail the theme
One of the biggest mistakes you can make while writing an essay or a blog post is to blah, blah, ramble on relentlessly towards an unspecified goal in the far distance. Smart writers always get the theme right first, which helps with Act 1 and 3 of the piece, and then work around it to get Act 2 right – usually the toughest part.
The President’s working style with Favreau is no different.
“We wanted to make sure that we were going to pick one theme and not go all over the place. And the president said, “Look there’s the opening lines of the Declaration of Independence and for 200 years the American story has been about making those promises real,'” recalled Favreau. For an underlying theme, they settled on the notion that “alongside our rugged individualism, there’s another strand of American belief which is that we’re all in this together e pluribus unum, out of many, one.”
Keep it short, keep it real
For cryin out loud, please keep it short. Everybody’s got ADD (thank you, Twitter!) these days, so holding their attention is gonna be your biggest challenge.
As Ted Sorenson, Kennedy’s speechwriter, said about JFK’s speeches:
No speech was more than 20 to 30 minutes in duration. They were all too short and too crowded with facts to permit any excess of generalities and sentimentalities. His texts wasted no words and his delivery wasted no time.
And, boy did Kennedy’s speeches work because of that very fact:
For he disliked verbosity and pomposity in his own remarks as much as he disliked them in others. He wanted both his message and his language to be plain and unpretentious, but never patronizing. He wanted his major policy statements to be positive, specific and definite, avoiding the use of “suggest,” “perhaps” and “possible alternatives for consideration.”
Yes. Always be specific.
“Write drunk; edit sober.”
Nah, I wouldn’t recommend that rule because not all things that work for Hemingway work for mere mortals. But, Hemingway was right about one thing – relentlessly edit your work till its worthy of public consumption.
Editing is an art form with the structure depending on how you choose to approach it. In some cases, logic will be the guide:
“He’s known for his rhetoric, right?” said Favreau. “But he’s also got a very lawyerly, logical mind. And so the thing he always does best is putting every argument in order.”
The night before the inauguration, Obama was done editing. All that was left were words to underline so that they’d get proper emphasis in the delivery. The president did a read through in the map room of the White House that night.
And, in other cases, reason will dictate the contents of a speech as Ted Sorenson describes JFK’s goal with his speeches:
At the same time, his emphasis on a course of reason –rejecting the extremes of either side –helped produce the parallel construction and use of contrasts with which he later became identified. He had a weakness for one unnecessary phrase: “The harsh facts of the matter are . . .”–but with few other exceptions his sentences were lean and crisp. . . .
But regardless, if there’s one thing I’d like you to takeaway from this post, it’d be edit, edit, and edit until your post is worthy of being seen by people. Or as Hemingway said to F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1934:
“I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit,” Hemingway confided to F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1934. “I try to put the shit in the wastebasket.”
Put it in the wastebasket, not on your blog.
Filed under: Best-of, Leadership Communication, Public Speaking, Writing, blogging, current-events, how-to, literature, politics, quotes
Bad Communication, according to Larry Page
I’ve written about great communicators like Steve Jobs, I’ve called out lame attempts by Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos who tried copying the master and failed, and I now gotta write about bad communication, courtesy of Google CEO Larry Page.
Scott Edinger’s recap of Aristotle’s three rules of rhetoric helped me pull together the three elements of Larry Page’s bad communication skills.
1. Lack emotion and logic
Aristotle’s rules of rhetoric are credibility, emotion and logic. While credibility is a given with folks like Page and Zuckerberg, it’s emotion and logic (!) that these CEOs stumble upon.
Let’s take Page’s comments on Google+, an area that’s obviously not Google’s brightest spot today. In Dec 2012, this is how Page addressed its “success“:
Fortune: It is a big bet. What’s most important to you? Is competitive with Facebook (FB)? Is it about weaving identity across all of Google’s products? You’ve talked about adoption being higher than you expected. What’s the measure of success going forward?
Page: I think it’s gone pretty well. I’m very happy if users of Plus are happy and the numbers are growing because that means that we’re on to something. We’ve got a huge team actually in this building. If you walk around, you see everyone’s excited and running around and working hard on it. I think that they’re doing great stuff. They’re making it better and better every day. That’s how I’m measuring it.
That made no sense. After months of touting meaningless numbers to showcase Google+’s “success”, the past couple of months have seen Page just bullshitting us with nada.
Take a another example just a few days ago, in Wired Magazine:
Wired: What’s your evaluation of Google+?
Page: I’m very happy with how it has gone. We’re working on a lot of really cool stuff. A lot of it has been copied by our competitors, so I think we’re doing a good job.
Now, obviously there’s no way in hell this is how Google (one of the smartest companies on the planet) measures success for a key product, ranging from “excited employees, running around, working hard, doing great stuff” to “lot of is copied” so we’re doing good.
Now who does this kind of talk remind me of: Dubya!
He answers questions like an 8 year old does when they didn’t read the book.
He just describes facts.
People always say: “President Bush. I think he’s stupid.” He’s not stupid. When you listen to him you realize, he talks like he’s talking to someone stupid.
And that in essence is how Larry Page sounds most of the time. Especially when he’s talking about Google+.
Wanna know how it’s done right? I can give you so many examples of Jobs’ masterful answer to tough questions.
Jobs was one of those rare leaders who was able to combine both emotion and logic in his answers, much like he presented Apple at the intersection of Art and Technology. Even when heckled, Jobs knew how to respond to it with a unique blend of emotion and logic.
As I’ve mentioned earlier, the key here is to earn the respect of your audience.
2. Badmouth your competition
An unwritten law of communication is to not badmouth the competition, but somehow Larry Page sounds either condescending, like a douche (more on that in just a second) or plain clueless.
Wired: One area where people say that Google is indeed motivated by competition is the social realm, where in the past two years you have been working hard in a field dominated by a single rival, Facebook. That’s not the case?
Page: It’s not the way I think about it. We had real issues with how our users shared information, how they expressed their identity, and so on. And, yeah, they’re a company that’s strong in that space. But they’re also doing a really bad job on their products.
The part that really gets to me, is you can’t just throw stuff out like that without getting examples! It’s a whole other problem that the interviewer didn’t ask the obvious question: which Facebook products are you referring to? Wouldn’t that have made for a fascinating follow-up.
And it ain’t just Page; others in his “L Team” (yuck!) have done it earlier to which Jobs responded:
Just because you’re a competitor, doesn’t mean you have to be rude.
3. Sound like a douche
Finally, as I said earlier, you don’t wanna come off as condescending to your competition (or worse still) sound like a dick about your users.
Fortune: While the company has touted the success of Google+, its answer to Facebook, many analysts say they see little activity on the social network.
What you should want us to do is to really build amazing products and to really do that with a long-term focus. Just like I mentioned we have to understand apps and we have to understand things you could buy, and we have to understand airline tickets. We have to understand anything you might search for. And people are a big thing you might search for.
And so we think about it somewhat differently. We’re going to have people as a first class object in search. We need that to work, and we need to get started on it. If you look at a product, and you say the day it launched, “It’s not doing what I think it should do.” We say, “Well, yeah. It just launched today.” Part of this is you have to interact with it and you have to claim your name and make it work for you. And so I think for me I didn’t have any issues around that. I think that people weren’t focused on the long-term. And I think again it’s important if we’re going to do a good job meeting your information needs, we actually need to understand things and we need to understand things pretty deeply. People are a component of that.
As you can see in both instances people always seem to be “a component of” Google’s “need to understand things pretty deeply.” People are a necessary cog in Google’s need to “understand apps and things you could buy and they have to understand airline tickets.”!!!
Jobs on the other hand always began with the user in mind. Even in the example I gave above, he says:
One of the things I’ve always found is that you’ve gotta start with the customer experience and work backwards the technology. You can’t start with the technology and try to figure out where you’re gonna try to sell it.
And as recently as with his last interview at the D Conference, this is a word cloud of his responses and as you can see “People” figures quite prominently.
So if I can leave you with two last words, two more lessons from Jobs, it’d be transparency and consistency. Transparency because every word you say on stage has to be backed up by your product actions not the other way around. Consistency because what you say today should match with what you say in your last interview.
And that’s something we can all learn from Steve Jobs. Especially if you are a CEO of a multi-billion dollar company.
Filed under: Best-of, Larry Page, Leadership Communication, Public Relations, Public Speaking, blogging, Jeff Bezos, technology
October 1, 2011 • 3:12 pm 1
Zuck & Bezos: LEAVE JOBS ALONE!
Problem with the game now, there ain’t no innovation
I see my shit all in your shit, we call that imitation
And they say that’s flattering, but I ain’t flattered at all
Matter fact y’all need to practice that more
– J. Cole, Cole World
I’ve been planning to write a post ever since I watched Mark Zuckerberg’s keynote (where he launched Timeline – more on that later). But, then just last week I saw this and it creeped me out. So, Jobs, steps down as CEO and every Zuck, Bezos and Harry decide to literally rip off the presentation style of Steve Jobs. That’s just not cool.
But, I digress. Let’s catch some make-believe as CEOs try to play Steve Jobs.
Zuckerberg as Jobs
WTF! 7 minutes of Andy Samberg introducing a tech conference. You know that even in SNL segments we can’t take Samberg in more than 3 minute bytes. And, what’s with all the awful “humor” (I’m Zuckerberg, he’s Andy Samberg, and we couldn’t have Eisenberg here, so I’ll mimic Eisenberg). C’mon, guys. This ain’t high-school no more.
What’s worse is that this is a bit that Jobs introduced in his keynotes. First, in 1999 when Noah Wyle (who played Jobs in “Pirates of the Silicon Valley“) played Jobs on stage before Jobs’ adoring fans. Noah’s intro was less than a minute long. That was it. Well timed humor about the movie and a joke or two about Jobs temperament – for another minute. And, he’s gone. That’s how it’s done.
And, Jobs himself has overplayed that shtick. More recently, PC guy (played by the ever-adorable “The Daily Show” “reporter” John Hodgman) did a “I’m Steve Jobs” shtick and it was funny, short, and poked fun at Microsoft. Who doesn’t like an anti-PC ad, eh?
Bezos as Jobs
So, in short. The Samberg shtick was pure Jobs imitation. And, more importantly, it wasn’t funny and was way too long.
Things got a lil’ creepy when Bezos, whose maniacal laughter I fear, decided to jump on the “I’ll present as Jobs” world. This is him introducing the new Kindle at Amazon World or whatever it’s called. What’s with the deliberate stilted pacing that’ll make any viewer go nuts. C’mon, be yourself. Smile a little during your presentation. Don’t take yourself so seriously. And quit ripping off Jobs’ style. Trust me, it ain’t flattery.
One of the comments on the above Youtube video nailed it.
I love how dramatically he reveals things a la Steve Jobs to none of the cheers typical of an Apple presentation.
mgaums 1 day ago
This one’s even better…
and not a single fuck was given that day.
That crowd seemed so unimpressed it was almost sad.
TADA KINDLE FIRE!!!!!
yeah and?
MegatronSmurf 1 day ago
Please leave Jobs alone
As Jon Stewart would say: Zuck, meet me at Camera 3 (y’know, for a 1:1) – you’re a smart guy and developers love you. I know that for a fact cos they hate to see you embarrassed. I remember what a hard time they gave Sarah Lacy when you did a terrible job answering simple questions at SXSW.
They idolize you, the same way Mac fanatics adore Steve Jobs. There are very few folks in our tech world, who commands that adulation. You’re finally creating products that restore a sense of childlike wonder (more on Timeline later).
That doesn’t mean you can replace a black turtleneck sweater with a North Face jacket, sneakers with Adidas flip flops, Noah Wyle with Andy Samberg and turn into tech world’s great Houdini.
So, stick with creating great products, figuring out what works best for you on stage in your own unique way (it takes a while) and don’t let your handlers play you around.
And, I’ll let Jobs himself describe why a f8 or Amazon presentation will never be a Jobs presentation.
The problem with Microsoft is that they just have no taste. Absolutely no taste.
In a sense that they don’t think of original ideas.
So, I guess, I’m saddened not by their success. I’ve no problem with their success.
They’ve earned their success.
I have a problem that they make really third-rate products (replace with presentation).
There’ll never be another Jobs. You know that. So, quit trying.
Filed under: Best-of, Jeff Bezos, Leadership Communication, Mark Zuckerberg, Public Relations, Public Speaking, Steve Jobs, Amazon Kindle Fire, Jeff Bezos, Kindle Fire launch, Mark Zuckerberg
The Larry Summers Show: Straight Talk. Served Angry.
Yesterday, Larry Summers, whose words have landed him into trouble on more than one occasion was interviewed by Walter Isaacson (Aspen Institute President and Steve Jobs biographer) at a Fortune conference. Of course, the blogosphere was abuzz, but I felt the interview was interesting on a couple other areas on CEO communications that I’ve spent quite some time talking about here.
Three more tips on being interviewed in public ensues… right after the pic.
BTW, I couldn’t embed the video here because WordPress sucks at embedding flash files (they cite security but what’s good for Tumblr’s good for me) on their posts and don’t give any other option either. Thank you very much! But, I digress.
1. Speak your mind. Don’t mince words. Not Angry.
Love him or hate him. You’ve got to give it to Larry Summers for speaking his mind — no matter, how controversial it is — and no matter how he is perceived at the end of the interview. Of course, he seems to get away with lecturing the audience in his professorial tone given his past history.
The very first question was about a scene from the Social Network that portrayed him being dismissive of the Winklevii twins (I’m not gonna get into the details, but if you’re reading this blog, I guess you’ve watched the movie). Here was his no-nonsense answer to it.
I’ve heard it said that I can be arrogant.
If that’s true, I surely was on that occasion. One of the things you learn as a college president is that if an undergraduate is wearing a tie and jacket on Thursday afternoon at three o’clock, there are two possibilities. One is that they’re looking for a job and have an interview; the other is that they are an a**hole.
This was the latter case. Rarely, have I encountered such swagger, and I tried to respond in kind.
Of course, not everyone can pull this off, but for someone with Larry’s notoriety this was a great start to an entertaining interview.
2. The power of simple metaphors
I’ve said it before (while describing Steve Jobs’ style) and I’m gonna start collecting more examples of leaders who are effective at using simple metaphors to get across a point during interviews. In my opinion, this is the only way to communicate effectively to your audience. For instance, I thought Larry Summers probably made the simplest description of the debt ceiling debate in this interview:
Look, if we default on August 2nd, it’s going to be what happened after Lehman collapsed on steroids. It’s going to be financial Armageddon.
The idea that adults who have some agenda, whatever the merits of their agenda, are really prepared to threaten sending the United States into default, to pursue their agenda, is beyond belief.
You know, I have had arguments with my college-aged children about spending, and sometimes we discuss whether they should spend less, whether they should pay, whether I should pay. We don’t entertain the option that because we can’t resolve our argument, Visa should get stiffed
3. Got Stories? Share it.
I think one of the key reasons people watch keynote interviews is to learn something new but more importantly, to just hear some “exclusive” stories they’d normally not hear elsewhere. It’s kinda like one of the key reasons people read blogs instead of press releases.
My favorite moments from this interview were surely an answer on the different leadership styles of the two Presidents Summers has worked with: Presidents Obama and Clinton.
You’re working for Barack Obama. If you have a meeting scheduled at ten o’clock, there’s a 25 percent chance that the meeting will begin before ten o’clock, and there’s a — you know what’s coming, and there’s a 70 percent chance that the meeting will have begun by 10:15.
If you wrote Barack Obama a memo before the meeting, it is a virtual certainty that he will have read it. If you seek to explain the memo you wrote to him during the meeting, he will cut you off, and he will be irritated. If he, as the leader of the meeting, will ask one or two questions to kick the tires, but will basically focus on how whatever subject you’re talking about fits with the broad vision and approaches of his presidency.
He will basically take the attitude if you’re his financial advisor, that if you can’t — it’s up to you to figure out whether preferred stock or subordinated debt is the appropriate financial instrument for your bailout, and that if he doesn’t trust you to figure it out, he’ll get a new financial adviser, but that is not the question on which he is going to spend time.
So it’s a very focused executive, big picture guidance, disciplined approach. At the appointed time, his secretary will come in and will bring a card that says it’s time for his next meeting, and you will be out of that office within five minutes. It is a certainty. That’s working for Barack Obama, and it is a wonderful experience.
Working for Bill Clinton is also a wonderful experience. It is a different experience.
(Laughter.)
And, here’s his experience working with President Clinton:
The probability that there is compensation for the fact that your meeting will begin late, it is virtually certain to end late. Bill Clinton has a 30 percent chance of having read your memo before the memo. Bill Clinton will, however, with near certainty, have some set of quite detailed and thoughtful perspectives to offer on your topic.
He will say things like “I was in the White House library reading the Journal of Finance, and there’s some really interesting thinking about the role of dividends in the system.” “I went to a conference at the Brookings Institution 11 years ago, and do you know that there’s a really interesting experiment with providing credit access in Tennessee?”
“Did you read the latest issue of — the Asian edition of The Economist? It had a perspective on Thailand that you might want to think about.” There was a stunning, I mean you know, while he wasn’t reading your memo, it wasn’t that he wasn’t doing anything about it.
I’ve a couple more interesting themes on corporate social media I’ll start covering shortly as I continue my fluency of writing posts on here. In the meanwhile, follow me on Twitter.
Filed under: Leadership Communication, Public Relations, Public Speaking
Steve Jobs as Luke Skywalker. Circa 1987.
Rockstars are made, not born. They practice tirelessly; honing their craft at every given opportunity, and with the help of Jobs’ 1987 Playboy interview, I’d like to shed some light on the early stages of Jobs’ communication savvy and the communication consistency that he has now perfected into an art form.
Jobs In 1987. p.s. What’s up with the bow-tie.
Fine tuning the metaphors:
Nobody hits a home run on Day One. Some have an in-born talent but it’s always a work in progress. Steve Jobs’ D8 presentation, his keynotes, his Stanford commencement speech — is the culmination of years of assiduous practice. I’m gonna walk you through three examples of Steve coming up with metaphors to describe nascent technology that most people (at the time of the interview) didn’t grok.
Let’s see how his thinking and his metaphors are fine-tuned over time.
Let’s take his earliest interviews, the Playboy one in 1987 is a great example, and look at his response to what is a computer. I know. Bear with me here. The year is 1987 and people still don’t get the PC revolution that’s gonna hit them. It’s amazing how hard it is to impress upon the reporter what a game changer the Mac is gonna be.
His first attempt to describe computers is kinda rambling:
Computers are actually pretty simple. We’re sitting here on a bench in this café. Let’s assume that you understood only the most rudimentary of directions and you asked how to find the rest room. I would have to describe it to you in very specific and precise instruction. I might say, “Scoot sideways two meters off the bench. Stand erect. Lift left foot. Bend left knee until it is horizontal. Extend left foot and shift weight 300 centimeters forward…” and on and on. If you could interpret all those instructions 100 times faster than any other person in this café, you would appear to be a magician: You could run over and grab a milk shake and bring it back and set it on the table and snap your fingers, and I’d think you made the milk shake appear, because it was so fast relative to my perception. THat’s exactly what a computer does. It takes these very simple-minded instructions––”Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if it’s greater than this other number”––but executes them at a rate of , let’s say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic.
That’s a simple explanation, and the point is that people really don’t need to understand how computers work. Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don’t have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You don’t have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh––but you asked [laughs]
Wow! Quite verbose. It’s got the early stages of his story-telling but it’s definitely too technical for a reporter and not impressive since he asks him again the same question. Steve takes a second shot at it, which goes…
A computer is the most incredible tool we’ve ever seen. It can be a writing tool, a communications center, a supercalculator, a planner, a filer and an artistic instrument all in one, just by being given new instructions, or software, to work from. There are no other tools that have the power and versatility of a computer. We have no idea how far it’s going to go. Right now, computers make our lives easier. They do work for us in fractions of a second that would take us hours. They increase the quality of life, some of that by simply automating drudgery and some of that by broadening our possibilities. As things progress, they’ll be doing more and more for us.
Meh. Kinda there, but he’s hinting at the potential it possesses as a revolutionary, incredible utility. Still not convinced, the journalist asks him a pointed question on computers for business and Steve ends with:
There are different answers for different people. In business, that question is easy to answer: You really can prepare documents much faster and at a higher quality level, and you can do many things to increase office productivity. A computer frees people from much of the menial work. Besides that, you are giving them a tool that encourages them to be creative. Remember, computers are tools. Tools help us do our work better.
Still not there, and as you can see, reporters are always going for the pithy answers that even a 12 year old will understand. But, then in a later interview (video after quote), Jobs gives a far more succinct metaphor to evoke the possibilities of a computer.
One of the things that separates us from primates is that we’re tool builders. I read a study that measured the efficiency of locomotion for various species on the planet. The condor used the least energy to move a kilometer. And, humans came in a third of the way down the list. But, Scientific American tested the efficiency of locomotion for a man on a bicycle.
And, a man on the bicycle blew the condor away; it was completely off the top of the charts. And, that’s what a computer is to me. It is the most remarkable tool that we’ve ever come up with and it’s the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.
To me this is one of the early stages where you can see the power of the evocative metaphor being used by Jobs. Fast forward to 2008 where Jobs, yet again, takes a stab at explaining a new product that Apple’s betting on big – the iPad.
I’m trying to think of a good analogy. When we were an agrarian nation, all cars were trucks cos that’s what you needed on the farm. But, as vehicles started to be used in the urban centers, and America started to move towards them. Cars got more popular and innovations like power steering, etc. happened.
And, now, maybe 1 in every 25 vehicles is a truck where it used to be like 100%.
PCs are gonna be like trucks.
As you can see, no technicalities on what an iPad does well, no reference to a study by Scientific American, nothing. Just a nuanced metaphor on trucks and cars that everyone in America and the world will understand.
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So, you’re on Live TV! Now what?
I’ve written a couple of posts (just in recent memory) on tips for you to glean some presentation secrets from Steve Jobs. Thought I’d rewire my blog timing with a simple post along similar lines that didn’t garner too many votes on Quora.
I’m sure at some point of time in your lives, you’re probably gonna face a camera to talk about your work. At those times many of us fail to impress, cos it’s not something we practice regularly. So, I thought I’d jot down 3 key tips to really excel in those situations. Hope you find this helpful. And, feel free to share your personal experience either in the comments or @mariosundar.
Live TV interviews can sometimes be like this…
Here’s a couple more thoughts to ponder — this is true for most interviews — but with live TV the challenge is exacerbated since you’ve got to perform flawlessly (in one take; if you will).
1. Take your time to answer: The biggest problem I notice with individuals being interviewed is their urgency to respond to the question and get it over with. So, they blurt out a quick PR planned response only to regret it later.
Steve Jobs is the best at giving a thoughtful, well articulated response that’s both thought provoking and (frankly) entertaining. Here’s how he’d answer difficult (really tough one here) question in front of thousands.
2. Build a rapport with the interviewer beforehand: Establish a camaraderie with journalists and media personalities, way before you have to be interviewed by them.
One of traditional PRs biggest shortcomings is treating journalists as a carefully “managed” entity while keeping CEOs and executives away from them.
Welcome to the new world of social media.
Proactively, find journalists and media personalities and follow them (on Twitter and Quora). And, most importantly engage with them. You’d be surprised to find you share a lot with them in common. And, should an opportunity arise to be interviewed by them — you won’t be tongue tied — because you understand each other well.
3. Practice makes perfect: It’s tough to perform on command. That’s why actors get paid the big bucks. If you don’t wanna suck at interviews, start practicing at events and panel sessions.
Start with panel sessions (easiest) but go with a plan (in terms of what you’d like to communicate). A good way to prep would be to write a blog post about your panel session (before or after) the event. You’ll find that writing a blog post on your upcoming session clears your mind and helps you organize your thoughts. Follow that up with a tweet linking to the post and chances are the journalists you follow or connect to on LinkedIn may read that as well.
Graduate to solo presentations (to audiences of increasing size), and before you know it, you’d have internalized your responses to a degree that will make you sound fluent and sharp when in front of a camera.
And, just practice.
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Any disappointing or upsetting circumstance(slang) Any disappointing or upsetting circumstance.
I lost £100 on the horses today — what a choker.
One who performs badly at an important part of a competition because they are nervous, especially when winning..
Well, they can choke you when you wear them too tight, but if you really want to wear them they dont hurt you if you will buy the most comfy ones. Also dont wear wrap chokers (they look disquisting).
The term O-Ring is sometimes used to refer to collars as well (contrasting with D-ring collars). In this context it can describe a collar with one large ring for fastening. Collars featuring such rings are often worn by slaves to indicate that they are in a steady relationship.
A lot of girls wear tight jeans simply because their friends wear them. People follow their friends a lot. Therefore, when a girl has friends who wear skinny clothes, the other girl usually starts to wear such clothes too in order to fit in the group.
The term O Ring is sometimes used to refer to collars as well (contrasting with D-ring collars). In this context it can describe a collar with one large ring for fastening. Collars featuring such rings are often worn by bottoms to indicate that they are in a steady relationship.
Generally, it is okay to sleep with a necklace. The movement that is, tossing and turning will cause the link between the chain and the charm to wear off. Therefore, if you sleep with a necklace with a pendant and it is not made with a secure link, don’t be surprised to wake up and find it missing.
Don’t go too tight when it comes to neckwear! A choker should sit comfortably around your neck and move around quite easily. This also makes for a more flattering fit. … Whilst a thicker choker will definitely make a statement a thin leather band looks great when wrapped around the neck a few times.
“It is said that she wore what was called a ‘dog collar necklace’ — a rather wide choker —because she had a scar on her neck from thyroid surgery and they covered it,” Elyse Karlin, a Co-Director of the Association for the Study of Jewelry & Related Arts (ASJRA), shares with Bustle.
As you have seen it is worn around the neck, touching the skin, rather than longer necklaces which dangle. As to what it means when a girl chooses to wear one, it means they like the style, or perhaps received it as a gift and want to please the gifter by wearing it.
Chokers are back for Spring 2020. I’m not talking about the fine delicate stackable chokers of a few seasons ago which continue to be worn layering staples. These are statement chokers –hard powerful silhouettes that curve around the neck in gold.
What is collaring? Collaring is the moment that shows that a sub has completed their training and their relationship with their Dom has been taken to a new level. If you can think of consideration and training collars as engagement rings, the ownership collar is similar to a wedding ring.
Chokers look best on those who have long, slender necks. If you have a very short neck, a choker won’t look very flattering unless it’s very thin and simple. If you have a wide neck, a choker is still an okay option as long as you choose a slim one; otherwise, you run the risk of making your neck appear even wider.
Bras can protect breast tissue and keep the breasts supported. Some girls may also like that bras smooth out their silhouettes and make them feel more comfortable. A bra can make a girl feel less exposed when she’s wearing a light shirt, such as a T-shirt.
According to an entry on Urban Dictionary, “If a woman wears a thumb ring on her right thumb, she is considered to be bisexual or lesbian.” Others claim that the hand you wear your thumb ring on indicates whether you’re queer and single or in a relationship. Either way, we can all agree that the thumb ring is very gay.
The 19th century fashion for broad chokers reached its peak around 1900 in part due to Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom wearing one to hide a small scar. Chokers were popular into the 1920s and again in the ’40s as colliers de chien.
Long before they encircled the necks of goth girls in the 1990s or were made popular by the Princess of Wales in the late 1800s, chokers were donned by women in ancient civilizations, worn to protect what even back then they understood to be a very important part of the body, the neck.
A woman does NOT wear a choker or any other kind of seemingly “provocatively insinuating” garment to show anything other than it’s something SHE wants to wear. It’s a necklace. An accessory. It’s something females (or males) tend wear that is merely meant to display a sense of individualism and self-pride.
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Can we explain to undergraduates how points make a line?
Many of my students arrive in college believing that lines are (in some way) made out of points.
They also believe that points have no length.
They want to know how a bunch of zero length points make a line of length 1?
Edit I did ask this question in math.stackexchange, but because it is about teaching it was declared off topic and closed. I changed to question there in hopes that if I understood it better, then I might be able to explain it.
I have asked my original question here in mathematics education in hopes of hearing teaching advice. I see it as a question about geometry and teaching geometry although it comes up in a class on ideas of infinity.
undergraduate-education geometry infinity
edited Sep 7 '17 at 12:33
Jim H
asked Sep 5 '17 at 22:39
Jim HJim H
$\begingroup$ Whether lines are made up of indivisible points was a big discussion topic among Medieval philosophers. $\endgroup$ – Dag Oskar Madsen Sep 6 '17 at 0:27
$\begingroup$ Carl Boyer: The History of the Calculus and Its Conceptual Development, Chapter III is one reference. $\endgroup$ – Dag Oskar Madsen Sep 6 '17 at 0:32
$\begingroup$ Just want to chime in that this wasn't just a question among medievals, but for instance was a big bone of contention at the time of development of calculus. Cavalieri, Torricelli, and Hobbes are all good (if divergent) primary sources on this. $\endgroup$ – kcrisman Sep 6 '17 at 0:40
$\begingroup$ By the way, to be helpful to the actual question, since you have identified the course as such, I think you should "teach the question". The answer is "yes", there is a paradox and a lot of people have thought about this a lot without coming to a good conclusion. As much as I dislike its stridency and tail-wagging-the-dog, Amir Alexander's book Infinitesimal takes on a lot of these concepts well; Doug Jesseph's book on the Hobbes/Wallis controversy is better but definitely at a higher level. $\endgroup$ – kcrisman Sep 6 '17 at 1:08
$\begingroup$ You have made the same question in other community! math.stackexchange.com/questions/2417029/… $\endgroup$ – Cragfelt Sep 6 '17 at 13:40
This is what I came up with thinking about your question.
I would start by exploring what it means to say that a line is 'made up of' points, because I think that is a really important thing that doesn't get taught in schools. Students know 'the equation of a line', but usually have no real concept of what that means.
Admittedly, that will be somewhat tricky if they have not done an introduction to sets. I would perhaps try using plotting points:
Imagine using a computer to plot '$y=3x+2$' on the screen by looking at each pixel at a time. Pick one pixel. It has an $x$ coordinate and a $y$ coordinate. We check whether these points satisfy the equation. That is, if we put the two numbers into the equation '$y=3x+2$', do we end up with a statement that is true, or a statement that is false? If it's true, that means the pixel is on the line, and we colour it red. It it's false, that means it is not on the line, so we colour it blue. Once we've done this for all the pixels, we'll have our picture of the line.'
I'd then look at the Paradoxes of motion. The ideas go a bit beyond what most of the students will need, but the starting point is within reach, and it's reasonably easy for students to find out more if they are interested. If nothing else, it might make some of them think.
I'd end by saying that really understanding the answer to the original question means studying measure theory. There are two reasons I see for pointing this out. Firstly, it assures the students that it's ok that they do not understand, because what they are asking is more advanced than the maths they have done. But it also points out that is isn't magic, or made up. There is a real answer out there, that they could reach if they really put their minds to it.
Jessica BJessica B
$\begingroup$ Thank you. I phrased the question as I did in hopes that others might find any answers interesting and useful. I teach freshman mathematics at a liberal arts college. This question arises in a writing seminar I teach centered on "Ideas of Infinity". Many of the students are liberal arts majors. I have the students read some of Aristotle's Physics. We do discuss Zeno's Paradoxes and Galileo's paradox and supertasks. I use some intuitions about sets. Late in the course I present the idea of cardinality including "countable" and "uncoutable". $\endgroup$ – Jim H Sep 7 '17 at 12:18
$\begingroup$ Re, pixels: A computer screen only has a finite number of discrete pixels, and it is easy to define a line that crosses the screen but does not contain any of its pixels. Actual line-drawing algorithms color pixels based on how far each one lies from the line. $\endgroup$ – Solomon Slow Sep 11 '17 at 20:51
$\begingroup$ @jameslarge The point isn't to actually discuss drawing a line on a computer, it's to make a picture the students can understand to help them grasp a new idea. $\endgroup$ – Jessica B Sep 12 '17 at 6:26
$\begingroup$ @jameslarge: Last time I took such a course, actual line-drawing algorithms were doing integral delta-steps from one endpoint to the other (no distances involved). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bresenham%27s_line_algorithm $\endgroup$ – Daniel R. Collins Sep 14 '17 at 3:46
$\begingroup$ @DanielR.Collins, The Bresenham algorithm selects the connected set of pixels that lies closest to the actual line. I emphasise "select" because it doesn't do anti-aliasing: That is, it does not attempt to truly render a sampled image of a finite-width line. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bresenham%27s_line_algorithm $\endgroup$ – Solomon Slow Sep 14 '17 at 15:24
They don't. You need additional information to organize a set of points into anything resembling geometry; a bare set of points is simply lacking the context to allow anything more interesting than counting them (i.e. the cardinality of the set).
A typical form of context boils down to "remembering" how the points are embedded in a Euclidean plane.
Below are two answers I've given to similar questions at https://math.stackexchange.com. Both questions have a variety of other answers to browse through as wel.
https://math.stackexchange.com/a/1084093/14972
I agree with the premise, lines are (in some way) made out of points, and points have no length.
If, restricting ourselves to a straight line, we can consider these as subsets of the real numbers $\Bbb R$.
A line is a subset of this with the property, if $a, b \in \Bbb L$ then any real number between $a, b$ is in $\Bbb L$.
Calling elements of a line points, we can define the length of the line between the two points (on a straight line) say $a, b$ as the distance between them, and this distance is $\left|b - a\right|$. The length here being a property of two points, on a line, rather than the sum of a property of all individual points.
We could mention subsets of the real numbers, even with uncountably many elements, where ways to measure a length gives zero, such as the Cantor set, and these do not contain line segments.
I find this tough. We could consider a line $[0,1]$ of length $1$ as divided into $n$ segments of length $\frac{1}{n}$.
The total length of these segments is $\frac{n}{n} = 1$ while as $n \rightarrow \infty$ the length of the segments $\rightarrow 0$
Often the fact that words have connotations in common parlance which are at odds with the more technical way these words are used within mathematics causes tensions in getting ideas across to students. But the notion of point and line are especially subtle.
Euclid gives definitions for the words point and line but by the time Hilbert and others came along, point and line were left as undefined in axiom systems that were developed to understand the Euclidean plane and other kinds of geometry. So one can construct "models" that satisfy a collection of axioms that involve point and line as undefined terms and give an interpretation to these words in the model. If one picks any of Hilbert's axioms, say A, one can construct a model where the interpretations of point and line satisfy each of the axioms other than A and where A fails to hold.
To help show what can go on I like to show students finite geometries. Some students get the "point" here but most just don't accept the fact that the "lines" of these finite geometries are "really" lines! You might find this brief introduction to finite geometries of interest:
http://www.ams.org/samplings/feature-column/fcarc-finitegeometries
And then there is the model where points are pairs (x,y) where x and y are rational numbers and lines are linear equations with rational coefficients - a geometry which is not the Euclidean plane but has lines with lots of points between any pair of points, but lots of "holes," too.
Joseph MalkevitchJoseph Malkevitch
This question alludes to a deep developmental issue. Your students are starting to think hard about the continuum, even if they do not realize it. A countable collection of points (for example rational numbers) in [0,1] has Lebesgue measure zero. Yet the collection of all points in [0,1] has Lebesgue measure 1. But of course the notion of Lebesgue measure was not fully developed until the early 20th century. Perhaps an undergraduate would get to this understanding in an upper division analysis course, but most do not.
Another perspective is from projective plane geometry. Here points and lines are both undefined terms, and they are on the same footing. By projective duality, ranges of points (points incident with a given line) are logically the same as pencil of lines (lines incident with a given point). In other words, instead of thinking as points as fundamental and deriving lines as ranges of points which is what we tend to do, we could take lines as the fundamental objects and ``derive'' points by considering pencils of lines.
I point out these two notions not because they will be of immediate help to younger undergraduate mathematics students, but to indicate to the OP just how deep the question is.
It may help to think of the Euclidean plane as a set, each element of it being a point in the plane. Then any geometric figure (e.g. a line, or a circle) would be a subset of the Euclidean plane, each element of that subset being a point in the plane.
Example 1: A subset of the plane P is a circle iff there exists a point C in P and a distance r such that every point in that subset is a distance r (the radius) from the point C (the center).
$$\{ X \in P : |CX| = r\}$$
Example 2: A subset of the plane P is a straight line iff there exists a pair of distinct points A and B in P such that every point in that subset is equidistant from both A and B.
$$\{ X\in P : |AX| = |BX|\}$$
Dan ChristensenDan Christensen
$\begingroup$ I do not like Example 2 (understood as a definition), as it uses the euclidean structure while "line" is an affine concept. $\endgroup$ – Benoît Kloeckner Dec 20 '17 at 13:05
$\begingroup$ @BenoîtKloeckner I don't understand your objection, but both examples use only the concept of the distance between a pair of points in the plane. $\endgroup$ – Dan Christensen Dec 20 '17 at 13:28
$\begingroup$ that is my point, circle need the notion of distance to be defined (well, even this is debatable), but clearly the notion of line does not need the notion of distance. For example, very many transformations of the plane send lines to lines, but do not (in general) preserve distances: affine transformations. It would thus be wrong to define lines using distance while "line" is an affine notion, not a metric one. $\endgroup$ – Benoît Kloeckner Dec 21 '17 at 14:04
$\begingroup$ @BenoîtKloeckner I tried to think of the simplest selection criterion for points in the plane that would form a line without using axioms for betweeness, etc. L = {X in P: |AX| = |BX|}. My point being that a line is just a subset of the Euclidean plane, each element of which is a point. $\endgroup$ – Dan Christensen Dec 21 '17 at 17:52
$\begingroup$ @BenoîtKloeckner The students in question don't seem to have a problem with the notion of finite distances, so I built on that. $\endgroup$ – Dan Christensen Dec 21 '17 at 18:17
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OCR02172 - Castlevania II 'A Belmont's Curse'
January 31, 2011 in ReMix Comments/Reviews
WesternZypher
Little Mac (+550)
The acoustic segment was a nice break from having my face rocked off.
MechaFone
Strider Hiryu (+2100)
Roxing the Castlevania? Spot on. Awesome remix, excellent everything.
Chernabogue
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Wow, the acoustic part was a true surprise! Solid arrangement. Very good job!
BardicKnowledge
Dr. Robotnik (+2700)
While it does start sounding like a direct cover, I say that you may as well sound like the best whenever that's an option. Extremely idiomatic stuff in that first 1:30, even though it's extremely similar to the source.
The acoustic section has a slick countermelody that's really exciting to hear. I wonder if including it earlier would have helped the opening metal section differentiate itself from the source material?
The breakout from the acoustic section is nice and slow, getting us accustomed to hearing the awesome electric stuff again.
Nice solo stuff going on at 3:50. Good separation of lead from backup material here also -- the extra effort you put into mastering has obviously paid off.
Since the edgy style of the first 1:30 doesn't come back at the end, it makes me wonder what its place was to begin with. Perhaps on your next submission you choose one style or the other?
Good first submission -- I'd like to hear what you do with a full-out acoustic track down the road.
Slime (+5)
Wow, the acoustic part was a true surprise!
omg thnx 4 spoiler alert NOT!
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A great remix. I really like what was done with the source. I'll be rocking out to this one for a while, I can tell. I look forward to hearing this remixer's future works!
Straight awesome =D.
Sir_Downunder
More Castlevania metal? yes please!
Awesome mix!
Chun-Li (+1000)
The acoustic part is a nice break from the rest of the remix, and the transition back to the heavier stuff is handled very well.
I think the remix is a little too long, though. For me, there's just not enough (melodic) variation to keep it interesting for five and a half minutes.
Naraqul
Snacks'N Jaxson (+1)
This mix has a nice introduction, showing a lot of presence in the beginning, but where I think it really shows a new perspective of the Castlevania remixes, is from 1:25 onwards. The calmer, more fluid acoustic mix is much more inviting to me, giving me a more interested feeling, and helping me to want to hear more.
Good remix, I will look for more of your work.
Judge, Project Chaos Asst. Director
In a day like this, metal remixes for Castlevania don't seem to grow old.
Considering the nature of the source material, I was originally kind of disappointed at the beginning that the tempo of the track was brought down, but given the nature of some of the melody work of the original it can slide. The arrangement starts off fairly simple with some nice interesting drum work to accompany this tense buildup we got there, though things really start shaking up with the acoustic section that comes in that adds in more depth towards this limited source material, similarly with the blues-metal section that comes somewhat after, carrying strong variations through to the end of the track.
Production-wise, the instruments came out clear and were appropriately panned. I sensed a little bit of noise on the recorded acoustic guitars though, which I am assuming comes with the difficulty of using a microphone for those kinds of instruments, though they've been handled fairly well for themselves and made the acoustic solo sections of the track still stand strong.
So, not quite what I was expecting in regards to the source but I still managed to dig this all the same. Going by the name, I am seriously hoping you'd continue to melt our faces off with future submissions and take these arrangements to the next level
Hard hitting gothic metal, not a bad thing on a slow day like this. But wait, what's this? An acoustic guitar area as well? Now that is a nice idea consider how close the intro was. Any kind of change-up just takes it to that next level. I like how it sort of eased back into the metal bits, like something that arrived with purpose. This is something that someone can walk to and feel like a badass. Nice work on this.
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This is great work. I'm interested in using this track for a recent production I put together with some friends, involving the NCAA tournament and Dungeons and Dragons. I'd love to know if this possibility exists.
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27 Interesting Facts About Dogs
Dogs are basically furry multi talented animals that are a boon to the human race. They do all the stuff ranging from domestic help like hunting, herding and pulling to professional help like police assistance, military and security. Most of all, dogs are human’s best friend. They’re kind, gentle, loving and protective (and I’m not describing my date!).
Here are some interesting facts about dogs which will make you wanna get one immediately if you don’t have it! And for the ones, who have it, get to know them better!
1. Oldest Dog
It is an irony that the first fact about these winsome beings has to begin with an end. Anyway, the oldest dog to have been survived, Maggie, died at the age of 30 years. That’s 133 years in human age!
2. Want A Date?
It is quite a popular shenanigan you see on the screens about girls being flattered by the gentleman carrying a dog. This theory actually stands true. According to a research, a guy is 3 times more likely to get a girl’s phone number if he has a dog with him. So guys, now you know the trick!
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3. Human’s Best Friend
According to the scientists, humans and dogs have been pals since 30,000 years! That was when wolves, ancestors of domestic dogs living today, were first tamed by ancient hunter gatherers, according to new genetic evidence.
Source: mirror.co.uk
4. Most Popular Dog Names
In a survey it was found out that “Max” is the most popular name for the male dogs, whereas, “Molly” is the most preferred one for the females. This survey was conducted in the English speaking countries.
Source: psychologytoday.com
5. Sweating
Dogs, along with cats, sweat from their foot-pads and nose. Is this why their nose is always wet? Absolutely correct!
Source: vetmed.wsu.edu
6. Blood Types
Dogs are incredible. They have 13 blood types whereas human beings have just 4! Out of these 13, 8 DEA (Dog Erythrocyte Antigen) are internationally recognized. And of these 8, DEA 4 and DEA 6 appear on the RBC of 98% dogs, thus serving as donors for most of the canine population.
7. Whistle On!
We all are aware of the fact that a dog’s hearing power is 4 times more than that of humans. So this musician called Paul Mccartney recorded an ultrasonic whistle at the end of the song “A Day in the Life” which was only audible to dogs.
8. Behind the Bars
In South Carolina, the punishment for beating your dog is more than that of beating you wife. Well, we sure do live in a crazy world. Though it is important to protect animals too but one should rather focus on protecting the wives and other females and not just cats and dogs!
Source: slate.com
9. Smelling
We knew about hearing but that was just 4 times. A dog’s smelling power is 10,000 times more than humans. Here we are, can’t even guess what we got for lunch today.
Source: pbs.org
Also Read: How Much Better is a Dog’s Sense of Smell than Humans?
10. Bonded Over Birth…and Work Too
South Korea’s airport and border crossings have deployed the world’s first cloned sniffer dogs to check for drugs. Six puppies cloned from a Canadian-born sniffer dog in late 2007 have reported for duty after completing a 16-month training program.
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11. Nazis and Dogs
An academic report claims that Nazis considered dogs as intelligent as humans and even tried to train them to read, speak and spell. They just had to conduct dog to man telepathy after that.
12. Fido
Abraham Lincoln’s dog, Fido, was assassinated too. In 1866, the dog came across a man who appeared to be sleeping on the sidewalk. He playfully approached the stranger and began to lick his face. The man, who was drunk at the time, awakened, saw the dog’s open mouth near his face and panicked. He drew a knife and stabbed what he imagined to be an assailant.
Fido did leave a legacy just like his master who became the symbol of common men everywhere who love democracy, Fido, or at least his name, goes on as a symbol of common dogs everywhere.
13. Dog People?
This world has two kinds of people, one who loves dog (dog-people) and the other who loves cat (cat-people). Illuminatingly, Google has stated themselves as “dog-people” in their code of conduct. Yay to dog people all around the globe!
Source: investor.google.com
14. Dog Meat
Eating dogs and cats are mostly associated with China and Vietnam, but is it not unusual to catch a sight of people having dog meat as a snack in Switzerland too. Moreover, it is legal there.
Source: thelocal.ch
15. Huskies
Husky-the dog associated the most with Antarctica but by treaty, they are now banned from Antarctica, the reason being that they might introduce new microorganisms or viruses. The treaty took place in 1994.
16. Titanic Disaster
In the popular Titanic catastrophe, 3 dogs were saved out of the 12 which were on board.
17. Smallest Dog
The smallest living dog in the world, which is called “Brandy”, is just 15.2 cm in length. She is a Chihuahua and lives with its master in Florida, U.S.A.
Source: guinnessworldrecords.com
18. Chocolate and Dogs
The puppy-dog-face your dog makes when you eat something, hoping for a handout is just irresistible. Go ahead by all means but the only thing that you have to hold back on is chocolate. Vets say that it is one of the most common causes of poisoning in dogs.
Source: petswebmd.com
19. Intelligent Beings
Maybe the Nazis were not all wrong. A dog can be as smart as a two-year old human child (unfortunate for Nazis). Average dogs can learn 165 words (similar to a 2-year-old child), including signals and gestures.
Source: livescience.com
20. Cross Breeding
A dog crossbred with a coyote is called a “coydog”. Very coy, eh?
21. Nose Print
Want to know which of your dogs broke the vase? Be an FBI and catch him with his nose prints! Yes, every dog has a unique one.
Source: rd.com
22. No Bark?
Can’t bark? No problem, yodel instead! Basenji is the only breed of dog that can’t bark but yodels instead.
Source: youtube.com
23. Most Popular Breed
Labrador is the most popular breed in the United States.
24. Wonderful World of Colors
Dog don’t just see in black and white, they can see in blue and yellow too! That’s quite a combination they are making.
25. This is Friendship
“A dog is a man’s best friend” can be proved by the story of Bill Irwin and his German shepherd named Orient. Irwin is the first blind person to complete the 2,100 mile hike through the Appalachian Trail led by Orient. Isn’t THAT called friendship?
26. Dr. Dog
A service dog named “Kirsch” received an honorary master’s degree in mental health counseling for attending all of his master’s classes.
Source: factsabout.com
27. What is From What?
Confused? Yes, well, the famous Labrador is from Newfoundland and the Newfoundland is from Labrador. Exciting, huh?
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Native Plants for Willamette Valley Yards
Booklet developed by Metro which lists native plants, including some ground covers, that are encouraged to plant in Willamette Valley yards.
Classification of Native Vegetation of Oregon
Oregon Biodiversity Information Center (2004) statewide vegetation classification lists the native plant associations known to occur in Oregon, and includes both successional and climax vegetation types that were an important part of the presettlement landscape of Oregon (2004).
Oregon Wetland Plants List
The Oregon Department of State Lands requires the use of this combined 1988 and 1993 National Wetland Plant List (NWPL) list. This list was compiled in 2009.
Wildland Fire in Ecosystems: Effects of Fire on Flora
Describes effects of fire on plants and ecosystems. United States Department of Agriculture. Forest Service. Rocky Mountain Research Station. General Technical Report RMRS-GTR-42-volume 2, December 2000.
Rare, Threatened, and Endangered Species of Oregon
2013, Oregon Biodiversity Center (ORBIC) Rare, Threatened, and Endangered Species of Oregon Publication
The Oregon Conservation Strategy
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Aberdeenshire Council collects coveted Cycling Friendly Employer Award
Aberdeenshire Council has received an award from Cycling Scotland for its commitment to making it easier for people to get on their bikes.
The award recognises organisations including workplaces, schools, community groups and campuses which have contributed to promoting cycling as a healthy and sustainable travel choice.
In order to achieve the Cycling Friendly Award, Aberdeenshire Council has encouraged people to travel by bike by:
• Improving facilities for bicycle users, such as secure cycle parking or changing rooms and showers
• Providing pool bikes and a bicycle mileage allowance for business journeys
• Offering a cycle to work scheme to staff all year round
• Producing cycling maps and active travel information
• Supporting training sessions for people to be more confident cycling
• Promoting Dr Bike maintenance sessions and other cycling events
The award aims to encourage and support organisations across Scotland to take a leading role in ensuring that anyone, anywhere can enjoy the benefits of cycling.
Aberdeenshire Council has guaranteed the Cycling Friendly Employer Award for three buildings – Woodhill House in Aberdeen, Gordon House in Inverurie and Buchan House in Peterhead – and will continue working on improving all their facilities.
Head of Transportation Ewan Wallace said: “On behalf of all those staff who have played such an important role in developing this initiative I would like to thank Cycling Scotland for their recognition of this work.
“We are seeing an ever-increasing interest in cycling as a healthy and sustainable transport option and with that comes demand for facilities and support infrastructure which we are very keen to enhance and develop in the future.”
More information about the Cycling Friendly programme can be found here: https://www.cycling.scot/our-programmes
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Try out some of the best Burger restaurants in Brooklyn!
When it comes to finding the best burger around, it can be hard to find the perfect one for you! Sometimes you may find that a burger can be too overcooked or have too many toppings! However, look no further, because here some of the best burgers Brooklyn has to offer!
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If it’s your first time visiting a restaurant, sometimes it’s vital to check online reviews before going! After all, there are food critics for a reason! It’s their job to give you the rundown on the best food around. And, as previously mentioned, New York has some of the best food in the world!
1) Peter Luger Steak House
Although you may normally decide to go for the steak when eating at a restaurant like Peter Luger, you may be pleasantly surprised if you switch things up and try the burger! After all, it has been voted by both Thrillist and Yelp as one of the best burgers Brooklyn has!
The Peter Luger Burger is made of prime grade chunk, which is the key to starting off a good burger! To make things even better, the sesame seed bun is sourced from a local bakery, giving your taste buds top tier treatment!
2) BK Jani
According to Trip Advisor, this next burger joint was voted one of New York City’s best burger joints in 2017! Located on Knickerbocker Avenue in Brooklyn, it is owned and operated by Sibte Hassan!
Sibte is actually a self-taught chef, who had little experience in the culinary industry prior to the restaurant. These perfectly seasoned burgers that the restaurants serve have earned itself a place as one of the most iconic burger joints in New York City!
3) Reynard
This next restaurant is another favorite among online reviews! Reynard, which is apart of the Wythe Hotel in Brooklyn has some of the best food around! Not only does it have a variety of amazing options, but it has one of the best burgers Brooklyn has!
With the food being cooked over a wood fire, the menu ranges from dishes like roasted cauliflower, and of course, an amazing burger! It’s a true success story when it comes to Reynard, especially when it comes to it’s online success!
4) Emily
If you’ve ever heard or been to Emily, then you may be surprised to see it on my list! Emily, which is a popular restaurant in Brooklyn, is actually known for its wood-fired pizzas! However, it happens to serve one of the best burgers Brooklyn has to offer!
Also part of Emmy Squared (which we will talk about next), this pizza restaurant is owned and operated by couple Matt and Emily Hyland! Named after Emily, this restaurant and the yummy Emmy burger is sure to be a delicious surprise!
5) Emmy Squared
As I just previously mentioned, Emily is apart of the popular restaurant group that includes another iconic place! Emmy Sqaured is a Detroit style pizza restaruant, which, once again, also happens to have one of the best burgers in town!
However, this time the burger is being named after the husband of the duo, Matt! The Le Big Matt is comprised of double grass head patties, American cheese, their special Sammy sauce, greens, and pickles all served on a toasted ketchup bun!
6) Juanchi’s Burger
When it comes to classic American style food, what I like to always say is “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!” And that seems to be the case when it comes to Juanchi’s Burger located on 1st street in Williamsburg!
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7) two8two Bar and Burger
This next restaurant, two8two, stepped up to the plate and did not disappoint! Don’t believe me? Well, it has been voted to have some of the best burgers Brooklyn and NYC have to offer by The Food Network!
If that doesn’t convince you enough to try it out, just listen to some of the burger options featured on their menu! All topped with the special two8two sauce, the menu ranges from a mouth watering double cheeseburger to options like lamb and turkey burgers!
8) Grindhaus
This next restaurant, although fairly new, has managed to make its way onto many different lists and online reviews in a positive way! Founded in 2008, it was started by former music publicist and former dominatrix Erin Norris!
With over a 4-star review on both Yelp and trip advisor, it’s no secret that Grindhaus is doing something right! Originally started as a sausage restaurant, the menu also features none other than a gourmet burger as well!
9) Brooklyn Burgers & Beers
This next restaurant, Brooklyn Burgers & Beers, has earned nothing but praise from its customers! Earning over a 4.5 rating in food, service, and value, they’ve also made it to many lists and online reviews!
Prepare your taste buds for some of the best food Brooklyn has to offer! Their menu ranges from wings, skinny fries and even Beyond meat options for all you vegetarians and vegans out there!
10) The Long Island Bar
For over 55 years, The Long Island Bar has been one of the nicer, more upscale cocktail bars located on Atlantic Street in Brooklyn!
Although you may normally think to only stop in for a couple of drinks, The Long Island Bar actually has a pretty great dinner menu! With options such as octopus and grilled trout, their L.I Burger has caught the eye of many different food critics and reviewers!
11) Red Hook Tavern
Red Hook Tavern has earned its name on the lists of sites such as NY Eater and The Infatuation! Named for it’s location, Red Hook Tavern is located on Van Brunt Street in Red Hook, Brooklyn!
Their dry aged cheeseburger truly did not come to disappoint! Not only does their menu feature their iconic burger, you can also order dishes such as fish and chips, kale salad or a side of potato wedge french fries!
It’s Time To Try
Whether you’re a fan of a classic barbecue burger or you go for the more upscale woodfire option, there is a Brooklyn burger place out there for you! And now it’s time to try them out! Feel free to let us know if you decide to hit up any of these spots!
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Richard Painter also told the Aussie news magazine that the Trump brand is a danger to national security, as it could make the buildings a terrorist target. It’s an entirely reasonable supposition considering that most attacks today happen at “soft targets” like public places where regular, innocent people live their lives, rather than against heavily fortified government buildings.
For example, Trump has a new tower in the increasingly authoritarian country of Turkey, which is a nation of great strategic importance for its proximity to the conflicts in the Middle East. Painter explains this creates a major conflict of interest between our security and private profit for the new President:
“There are complications that could come up with the President’s investments overseas in countries where there’s tensions and the United States has to resolve — for example a dispute between Russia and Turkey. We shouldn’t have a president invested in either Russia or Turkey. He should not have a dog in the hunt.”
The American form of government depends on patriots like Richard Painter who are able to stand up to the leader of their own political party and say: ‘this is wrong, you must comply or you will have to leave by choice or otherwise.’
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Pioneer Human Services Receives Economic Opportunity Award from PSBJ
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By Patti Payne
– Columnist, Puget Sound Business Journal
"Have you ever been so excited by something you’re working on that you want to share it with everyone? That’s how I feel about the Puget Sound Business Journal’s Corporate Citizenship and Healthy Community Champion Awards luncheon at the Sheraton Seattle on May 23. We not only have dozens of companies who made our corporate philanthropy list, but we are honoring nine corporate champions and one individual — a man whose life exemplified humanitarianism and giving — the late Blake Nordstrom. His powerful mantra, “extend yourself,” which I carry in my wallet, will be handed out to everyone in attendance.
The recipients are: Kemper Development, for arts and culture; Mithun, for basic needs; Pioneer Human Services, for economic opportunity; Dick’s Drive-In, for education; PCC Community Markets, for environment; Constructing Community, for health and wellness; Rush Companies, for neighborhoods and communities; K&L Gates, for vulnerable communities; and Microsoft, as Corporate Champion of the Year.
They’ll be up there on the stage with us, one by one, and we will ask them each to talk about a moment they will never forget. These stories will touch your heart. These are the indelible moments of extending themselves we will remember. This luncheon gives us a moment to pause and celebrate how much the business community does for this region. I hope you will be there, and please come up and say “Hi.” Let’s join together in our own moment of lift."
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Home/Affordable Housing, Development, Diversity/Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) and Owner Accessory Units (OAUs
Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) and Owner Accessory Units (OAUs
PLAN (Peoples League for Action Now) – Boulder County applauds and strongly supports City Council’s effort to broaden opportunities for the creation of Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) and Owner Accessory Units (OAUs) for the purpose of increasing the affordable housing supply. We support, under certain circumstances, enabling OAUs in single family residential zoning districts.
However, we have substantial concerns about the policy recommendations currently before Council. The current approach, as manifested in the staff memo of 2.27.18, proposes major changes to ALL single family neighborhoods without opportunity for robust neighborhood input into policies that will forever change those neighborhoods and without a provision for permanent affordability for ADUs/OAUs.
What’s wrong with the current approach?
The combination of proposed expansions of limits (total number of units, unit sizes, their proximity to each other, minimum lot sizes, etc.) in the staff memo are beyond the “incremental” and “compatible” goals of the purpose statement and cause us to conclude that the memo represents a proposed de facto back door upzoning of single family neighborhoods. Upzoning should require more explicit community buy-in (as neighborhood, area, or subcommunity planning would elicit) and the subject should be broached in an open and transparent fashion. If implemented, these recommendations will fundamentally undermine any purpose for a future neighborhood planning process since substantial changes to neighborhoods will already be effected by this project.
The elements in the memo ignore the 2016 Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan (BVCP) Update Survey that established preservation of neighborhood character as a high priority, as does the Comprehensive Plan itself. The work of the Public Participation Working Group is also ignored.
The universal application to all neighborhoods ignores the different challenges and impacts that exist in different neighborhoods.
There are no limitations on short term rentals (Air BnBs). Research indicates that short term rentals cause local market rental rates to increase, in part, because they reduce supply by removing dwelling units from the long term rental market. Thus, short term rentals are antithetical to the goals of expanding ADU and OAU and affordable housing opportunities.
Aside from the weak process, and overreach, there are also significant omissions in the staff recommendations.
Housing affordability and garnering the community diversity benefits that ensue is why we are having this conversation in the first place. Yet there is no discussion in staff’s recommendations of DURABLY affordable ADUs and OAUs. What is affordable today will not be affordable in the future because of Boulder’s hyper-inflated real estate market. The $1350/month median ADU/OAU rent is already not affordable to nurses and carpenters. Without controls on the rate at which rents may rise, ADUs and OAUs will primarily benefit property owners at the expense of renters; or in other words, benefit people higher on the economic ladder at the expense of those that are lower, or not even on the ladder.
Existing illegal ADUs and OAUs are not addressed. There is anecdotal evidence that these may outnumber legal units. Before any expansion of numerical limits for ADUs or OAUs are considered, the City must develop a way to bring unlicensed units into the system and ensure they operate under the same rules as everyone else.
Broadening of ADU and OAU opportunities is a good idea but must be developed on the basis of broad community buy-in and with broad community sharing of the benefits. As City Council considers these legislative changes, PLAN-Boulder County recommends keeping existing limits on number of units, their proximity to each other, unit sizes and minimum lot sizes in place so that any changes to neighborhoods are truly “incremental” and “compatible”, rather than paying lip service to those concepts. If the community wants to make broad changes in sweeping fashion to all single family residential neighborhoods as the staff recommendations promote, we should have that conversation. But these significant changes must happen as part of a neighborhood planning process.
More detailed analysis of policy considerations follows:
PERMANENT Affordability:
The reason why the community is engaged in this ADU/OAU discussion is to combat the erosion of affordable housing options and the hollowing out of middle and lower income households in Boulder. It is mystifying why “affordability” is not even mentioned in the project purpose and “why” statements. Affordability and its permanence are critical; what is affordable today will not be affordable in the future because of Boulder’s hyper-inflated real estate market. Housing costs rise at a much higher rate than inflation and incomes.
Permanent affordability can be achieved by employing rent caps as a condition of licensing for ADUs and OAUs. By virtue of the license being privilege, rather than right, rent caps are not subject to the State prohibition of rent control. The rationale for making it a condition of licensing is that by expanding ADU and OAU options, the City is using a community-owned resource (increased use of property) and granting that increased use to property owners. That increased use has value and the increased value, being the result of a community action and not actions on the part of property owners, should be captured by the community in the form of a community benefit (in this case, PERMANENTLY affordable housing). By not capturing that value, the city would be forfeiting the community benefit of permanent affordability and handing a windfall to property owners, which in essence, would be a public subsidy for property owners and investors. This means that property owners and investors gain wealth at the public’s expense and still, the public’s goal is not achieved.
Capping the rate at which rents may rise to some fraction of the market rise while still enabling landlords to capture some portion of that market rise, can achieve permanent affordability while still maintaining the economic incentive for the creation of ADUs and OAUs.
Some who oppose rent caps, want to maximize earnings for property owners. However, that maximization comes at the expense of OAU or ADU renters whom are generally lower on the economic ladder than property owners. We need to be clear about our priorities and where the benefits are concentrated. Otherwise, the policy will just promote continued inequality as this graph by Thomas Picketty illustrates.
If an indexed rent cap is applied with an appropriately calibrated factor that affords a return greater than inflation, property owners can still achieve substantial year over year increased profits from rents while renters increasingly benefit over time. (Figure 2) Even with rent caps, ADUs and OAUs are highly competitive investments.
What Would Warren Say?
The chart (Figure 2) graphs the 5 year average ROI of ADUs or OAUs subject to a rent cap of 66% of the median rent increase in Boulder (for all rentals) between 2013 and 2017 and compares it to the average of multiple US stock market index returns, to Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway returns for that same period and the average annual S&P 500 return for the past 90 years. The range of $/sf for unit creation is $40/sf-$350/sf for a 500sf unit and corresponds with the unit creation costs in the chart.
Unit creation costs vary widely. Some spaces require only minimal modification for conversion to an ADU. Others require complete interior finishing and provision of utilities. Similarly, OAUs might be added on top of a garages obviating the need for foundations, or might be conversions of garages requiring only interior finishes, or might be entire new structures. Thus, a wide range of unit creation costs are included in the chart.
ROI factors monthly income from rents, operation costs and appreciation. Appreciation of basis cost is based on annual rise of median home price in Boulder. Interest is the mid-term of 4.625%, 30 yr. fixed rate mortgage. Median sale price data is from Trulia.com. Rental income increase is based on the median rent change for all Boulder rentals in each year from 2012 through 2016. Rent change data is from the American Community Survey.
With respect to who may benefit from ADUs and OAUs, there are several common scenarios with ownership and how that relates to lot redevelopments.
Someone must sell their house because they can no longer afford it. If they sell it, the economics will likely dictate that the purchaser will put up the largest house possible. An alternative outcome is for the owner to be enabled to build an ADU or OAU and that income enables them to stay in their home.
Someone dies and their heirs sell the house to a young family or couple that may rely on the ability to rent an ADU or OAU in order to comfortably afford the house.
Someone dies and the heirs sell the house or, someone’s job transfers them to another city, or for some other reason they move from Boulder and sell. The economics will likely dictate that the purchaser will put up the largest house possible.
ADUs and OAUs will not resolve this last scenario. With so with many people with a lot of money who want big houses, the market is defined and developers seek to satisfy that market. The solution lies elsewhere. If we don’t want McMansions, we will need to tighten the compatible development standards and energy and resource consumption standards or consider incentive based zoning options.
ADUs and OAUs can be beneficial to homeowners like those described in scenarios A and B above. The goal is to have owners and renters equitably share the benefits. By controlling ADU/OAU rents so that market rents and ADU/OAU rents rise at divergent rates, ADUs and OAUs become increasingly affordable over time, relative to the market. (Figure 3) Even with a rent cap, building an ADU/OAU is a very good investment – a rent cap is not a disincentive to ADU/OAU creation. That said, ADU/OAU rents today are not even affordable to many middle class workers earning decent wages. Note in the graph, (Figure 3) that the median 2017 ADU/OAU rent is higher than a rent that would be affordable to a carpenter or nurse. Even the capped rent is higher than a rent that would be affordable to a carpenter or nurse, the ostensible target demographic for middle income affordable housing.
Without rent caps, ADU and OAU rents will become increasing unaffordable to these workers.
Market rent is projected backwards from the 2017 median rent for ADUs and OAUs based on the median rent change for all Boulder rentals in each year from 2012 through 2016. Rent change data is from the American Community Survey.
Capped rent and inflation adjusted rent are projected forward from 2012 based on the median rent change for all Boulder rentals in each year from 2012 through 2016. They are projected forward from 2017 through 2020 based on the median rent change for all Boulder rentals in each year from 2012 through 2016
Wages are from Bureau of Labor Statistics for Colorado nurses and carpenters.
Affordable rent is 30% of wages (the benchmark for determining what is an affordable housing cost.
The rent cap recommendation presumes a property enters the rent market at market rate. Rent caps apply to each year thereafter. If a property changes ownership, the rent caps apply based on when the property originally entered the rent market.
It is worth noting that ADUs and OAUs will inescapably increase the overall value of properties because of their income potential. Non-ADU/OAU properties can be sold at prices that purchasers (in example B described above) can still afford. With ADUs or OAUs added, they will sell at prices beyond the reach of the many of those example B households.
Grandfathering:
Because Boulder is proposing changing the rules in the middle of the game, existing legal ADUs and OAUs should be grandfathered and exempt from rent caps for a period of time, but only until such properties change ownership. Existing short term rentals should be allowed to continue as such until the properties change ownership.
Short Term Rentals (such as Air BnB):
Research indicates that short term rentals cause local market rental rates to increase, in part, because they reduce supply by removing dwelling units from the long term rental market. Thus, short term rentals are antithetical to the goals of expanding ADU and OAU and affordable housing opportunities. No short term rentals should be allowed for new ADUs and OAUs, or existing legal ADU and OAUs once they change ownership.
Compatible Development:
Properties with ADUS and OAUs must comply with current bulk, mass, scale, floor area and lot coverage standards (compatible development standards).
Expanded limits to OAU and ADU total numbers, unit sizes, their proximity to each other and minimum lot sizes:
PLAN-Boulder County supports expanding the option to have OAUs to include detached single family residential zoning districts with certain caveats as explained below.
In general, PLAN-Boulder County recommends no substantial changes to ADU or OAU sizes, or proximity of units to each other in detached single family dwelling zoning districts unless as part of adopted neighborhood, area, or subcommunity plans. We recommend no reduction to the minimum 6000 sf lot size required for ADUs or OAUs unless as part of adopted neighborhood, area, or subcommunity plans. We recommend no increase to the factor limiting ADUs to 10% of the single family lots in the zoning districts where they are currently allowed, unless as part of adopted neighborhood, area, or subcommunity plans.
The combined ADU and OAU total should be subject to the 10% limitation factor currently applied only to ADUs. The proximity limitations that currently apply to ADUs should also be applied to OAUs. Additionally, no lot should be allowed to have both an ADU and OAU.
We make these recommendations because substantial changes to unit sizes, or proximity of units to each other, or reduction in minimum lot size, or increases to total number of units, fundamentally alter the character of single family neighborhoods to be more like multifamily zoning districts and that starts to look a lot like defacto upzoning.
To clarify what we mean by “substantial”, we would, for example, consider as not substantial, a size increase for detached OAUs from to 450 sf, to 600 sf**. However, increasing the allowable proportion of a structure that could be an ADU or OAU from 1/3 to 1/2 of the principle structure’s floor area would be substantial because it fundamentally alters the character of single family residential zones. We do not support increasing the 1000 sf size limit for attached OAUs.
**Such an increase would enable a small family with a child to live in an ADU or OAU. However, because units larger than 600 sf will accommodate even more people, such a change fundamentally changes the character of single family neighborhoods to be more like a multifamily neighborhood.
Increasing the factor limiting the total number of ADUs to 10% of the single family lots in a zoning district should be based on an understanding of the number of existing legal and illegal ADUs and OAUs relative to the total potential available under current rules. To our knowledge, such an analysis has not been done but would seem to be the rational basis for increasing limits. If current utilization is near the current limit, then increases may be justified. If not, why would increased limits be necessary?
Further, the total number of ADUs and OAUs, their proximity and their sizes, all have impacts on the neighborhoods in which they are embedded. To consider expanding current limits without factoring existing illegal units ignores the existing impacts. That said, a mechanism should be adopted to regularize illegal ADUs and OAUs and bring them into compliance with licensing requirements. However, such regularization should not ignore their previous non-compliance and in essence, incentivize non-compliance. There should be some penalty.
Enforcement:
The City has been lax in its enforcement of occupancy limits, ADUs, OAUs and short-term rentals, and has placed an uncomfortable complaint burden on neighbors to report non-compliant properties. Much more robust enforcement is a prerequisite for any expansion of limits.
Occupancy limits
We recommend a change in occupancy limits on OAU/ADU properties so that a family plus an ADU/OAU household of three can live. That would entail an increase from the current limit in certain zoning districts, of three unrelated people to four. That would enable occupancy by 3 roommates of an ADU or OAU unit in addition to a family on the property.
We recommend a limit of one street-parked vehicle associated with an ADU or OAU. However, given the City’s history of ineffective enforcement of occupancy limits, illegal ADUs, OAUs and short term rentals, and the difficulty of enforcing such a street parking regulation, we doubt that this limit will result in satisfactory mitigation of parking impacts. Thus, in addition to this limit, landlord provided Ecopasses for the tenants should be a requirement of licensing where neighborhood Ecopasses are available. We do not support offstreet parking within front yard setbacks.
The February 27, 2018 City Council study session memo contains a purpose statement “…. will craft a proposal for incremental changes to the relevant regulations addressing accessory units (i.e., Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) and Owner’s Accessory Units (OAUs)) to simplify the regulations and remove apparent barriers to the construction of this housing type in ways that are compatible with neighborhoods“
The combination of proposed elements in the staff memo are beyond “incremental” and “compatible” and cause us to conclude that the memo represents a de facto back door upzoning of single family neighborhoods. The elements in the memo ignore the 2016 BVCP Update survey that established preservation of neighborhood character as a high priority, as does the Comprehensive Plan itself.
As stated earlier in this document, upzoning should require more explicit community buy-in (as neighborhood, area, or subcommunity planning would elicit) and the subject should be broached in an open and transparent fashion. In 2015, ballot measure 300 was initiated because of planning department talk of changing single family residential neighborhoods to allow du-, tri- and quad-plexes – in other words, de facto upzoning. When the staff memo proposes expanding the allowable floor areas of ADUs or OAUs from 30% to 50% of principal structures’ floor areas, they start to resemble said duplexes.
It is unfortunate that the Public Participation Working Group’s (PPWG) work has been ignored. Council members Jones and Young, on separate occasions, perhaps presciently, suggested that the PPWG report be applied to the ADU/OAU project but were rebuffed because the “the project was too far along”. Yet the project online survey had not even been posted at the times they made their suggestions. Further, the leading and non-contextualized questions in the online ADU survey, combined with the memo’s recommendations cause PLAN-Boulder County to be concerned that the survey responses are providing distorted and statistically invalid information that is being used as substantiation for the memo’s recommendations. This is particularly troubling given that a statistically valid survey was conducted as part of the Comprehensive Plan update and provided a basis of understanding for policy directions that would be likely to receive broad community support. The survey and process would have benefitted from employment of the PPWG’s work.
PLAN-Boulder County’s recommends that the ADU/OAU process pay greater attention to the Comprehensive Plan, the Comprehensive Plan Update Survey and the Public Participation Working Group’s work.
Expansion of ADU and OAU opportunities is a good idea but it must be developed on the basis of broad community buy-in and with broad community sharing of the benefits. The current approach and the results so far, as manifested in the staff memo, is standard zero-sum policy making.
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Election of Chairperson
Mr Mzameni Richard Mdakane (ANC) was elected as Chairperson. There were no other nominations. The newly elected Chairperson urged Members to study the National Assembly Rules.
Ms Shireen Cassiem, Committee Secretary, announced that a Chairperson had to be elected in terms of Rule 29 of the National Assembly. She asked for nominations. Mr E Mthethwa (ANC) nominated Mr Mdakane and Mr M Mapulane (ANC) seconded the nomination. Mr M Mdakane (ANC) was duly elected as Chairperson.
Introductory remarks and discussion
The newly elected Chairperson thanked Members. He announced that Mr Mthetwa would be the Committee Whip. A programme of action would be available the following week. He urged Members to read the Rules of the National Assembly. Members would receive a programme before the end of that day. The Department would present their Strategic Plan in the near future.
Mr B Bhanga (DA) requested that the Minister be invited to address the Committee rapidly.
The Chairperson replied that the Minister was still at work to establish himself in the portfolio. The President had referred to local government in the State of the Nation Address, and the Minister had to deal with those issues. It was important to look at the Strategic Plan of the Department.
Mr S Tleane (ANC) reminded Members that it was not yet possible to make decisions on that day. It was only necessary to establish the programme. The Minister would ground things in due course. The first step was to establish the Committee.
Mr C Matsepe (DA) asked that Members be furnished with the programme soon. He had received an sms about the day’s meeting only the day before.
The Chairperson replied that things would be on time from now on. He would meet with the Secretary and the Whip. He again urged Members to read the National Assembly Rules, especially the Rules dealing with parliamentary committees. Discussion was driven by the rules. Parliament was a political body. The local government process had to be driven.
The Chairperson adjourned the meeting.
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Zaffar Kunial published a pamphlet in the Faber New Poets series in 2014 and was Poet-in-Residence at the Wordsworth Trust the same year. In 2011 he won third prize in the National Poetry Competition with ‘Hill Speak’. With Steve Ely, Denise Riley and Warsan Shire, he contributed to The Pity, a series of new poems commissioned and published by the Poetry Society as a response to the centenary of the First World War. The Pity commissions were premiered live at Purcell Room, Southbank Centre, on 2 October, National Poetry Day, 2014, accompanied by background visuals by Robert Peake. The poems are now available as a book, available from The Poetry Society online shop.
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PokerStars New “Seat Me” System Will Remove Table and Seat Selection from the Lobby
Players will also have limited access to observe cash game action.
PokerStars has announced it will soon be trialing a new system called “Seat Me,” which will remove the ability to choose a table and seat.
Initially the functionality will be trialed on PokerStars Spain; if the test is deemed a success, it will roll out to other markets.
Since the introduction of the PokerStars 7 client, the cash game lobby has offered three separate ways of viewing and choosing a table to play at. “Games View” lists every single table available; players can scan the tables, see who is sat at each, choose a seat at the table and join. “Group View” groups together every table of the same stake and game type, with a single “play now” button that automatically seats a player at the best table. A “Hybrid” view is a mash-up of the two.
Effectively, the new Seat Me system removes everything but “Group View.” Players can pick a game type and stake, but have no control over which table they sit at. In that way, it mimics the experience of live poker, where players are added to a global wait list and are seated randomly whenever a space appears.
“Seat Me eliminates the ability of players to pick their tables and seats at the tables, and will instead get them straight into the action automatically once a game and stake has been chosen,” explained Severin Rasset, Director of Poker Innovation and Operations for PokerStars in a company blog post.
As a result of the new lobby configuration, players will no longer be able to freely observe cash game tables. However, “rolling highlights of key hands” will be made available and play by Team PokerStars Pros will be featured.
The motivation for making the change is primarily two-fold. First, Rasset says, it “greatly reduces the ability to bumhunt”—that is, the practice of expert players seeking out and playing only against opposition deemed weaker. It also prevents “seating scripts,” software that automates the process of finding and sitting a player in such “soft spots.”
“With so many customers who trust our products, we have to be particularly vigilant against tools or strategies used to gain an unfair advantage,” Rasset stated. “We also need to be able to ensure that we create enforceable and sustainable policies, making sure that players who do follow the rules are not at a disadvantage.”
The Industry Shift
The changes come as no surprise; in fact, it is perhaps more surprising just how long it has taken PokerStars to implement the change.
PokerStars introduced sweeping reforms to its policy on third party tools back in 2015, restricting the functionality of software like third party tools. In the past PokerStars has shied away from banning automated seating scripts as it felt such a block was unenforceable, but the company stated explicitly that it was moving in the direction of more restrictions.
The announced “Seat Me” changes are part of a wider industry shift to clamp down on the effectiveness of other tools under the banner of “leveling the playing field”—a policy now adopted almost everywhere. If anything, PokerStars has been slow to respond to this overall industry trend.
Unibet launched its independent poker client almost three years ago, and that removed all forms of seat selection. The lobby was then a radical departure from what its competitors offered, with a very limited selection of changes and options. It was welcomed by players, and the company has successfully carved out its own niche in online poker.
Amaya’s other poker brand Full Tilt implemented much the same “Seat Me” change back in July 2015 and similarly justified the change as mimicking the live poker experience. “This new system will ensure that your success is determined by your talent at the table, not your skill in choosing opponents,” explained Full Tilt’s Managing Director at the time.
Partypoker has done much the same via a series of changes over the last two years. In October 2015 the site removed individual wait lists on tables, which restricts the effectiveness of seating scripts. Phase 2 last September anonymized all hand histories and explicitly prohibited seating scripts.
More changes Ahead
The “Seat Me” changes are just one prong in PokerStars’ goal of improving the experience of online poker for new players.
Another trial that is already underway in Spain is a change to the heads-up sit and go lobby that removes the possibility of seeing the names of opponents before starting the game. If the trial is successful, a similar feature will find its way to the heads up cash games and will roll out internationally.
The Seat Me system will also introduce potential time penalties—to “reduce game disruption caused by players constantly switching tables, stealing blinds or refusing to play certain opponents,” it was explained.
These changes together may anger some of the high volume player base, who use table and seat selection to their benefit to gain advantages at the table; but to new and inexperienced players, it will certainly offer a simpler and more welcoming experience.
This article originally appeared on Poker Industry PRO and has been republished here as a courtesy to our readers. Please visit Poker Industry PRO for more information on the industry intelligence services that are available, or email [email protected] to get a free trial.
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Jason Kenney Helps Alberta Make International Headlines for Anti-LGBTQ Stance; Again.
By Deirdre Mitchell-MacLean on May 10, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )
It’s been Christmas in May for the NDP since the UCP AGM. Every day seems to add one more feather to the government’s caps. After the membership voted in favour of reinstating parental notification for “extra-curricular activities” that involved the distribution of “resources” pertaining to religion or sexuality on Sunday, all parties (including Jason Kenney) have been on the defensive. It is a “very badly worded” motion Kenney told CTV Power Play, as he stood “by his decision not to enact” the policy members voted for.
“Research shows that GSAs save lives and this policy flies in the face not only of scientific evidence but of basic human decency as well” said a press release from the Alberta NDP on Sunday. Stephen Mandel, leader of the Alberta Party, stated there are”certain fundamental things that are not negotiable: children’s rights and their (right) to join a GSA (Gay-Straight Alliance)”. It’s “a step backwards”, echoed Alberta Liberal Party leader David Khan.
Another gift for the Government is the newly-formed habit of the UCP to walk out of the Legislature when they don’t like the topic. That topic of late is Bill 9, the legislation which will require a 50 metre safeguard for staff and patients entering and exiting clinics that offer abortion services. The UCP has walked out en masse from three debates on the Bill so far; April 11, May 3, and again on May 9. Some quipped the government could effectively keep them out of the Legislature permanently by extending the debates.
Funny though it might seem, MLAs in Alberta are elected to represent their constituents. Kenney himself said the Party “will have to govern for all Albertans, not just Conservative Party members”, yet has instructed his caucus not to show up for debate; and they have listened. Is a representative that is beholden only to the Party Leader a true representative of the people who elected them?
Finally, although it’s only Thursday, for the second time since Jason Kenney came to “save” Alberta, the reluctance of Kenney and his supporters to acknowledge a teen’s right to privacy became international news. For the record, no one is suggesting teens cannot tell their parents if they join a GSA. If anything, this new legislation should be an opportunity for increased dialogue between parents and their children.
While I never personally thought of the UCP as the gift that keeps on giving, one has to admit they have not had a good week. Luckily for them, most people don’t pay attention to politics until election time. Unfortunately, the UCP is very quickly acquiring “old” Party baggage the “new” Party was supposed to have left behind.
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Madoff might not have made any trades
How could Madoff have made no trades for so long without a single regulatory agency discovering the scam? It is not credible that this was due simply to incompetence or ideological blinders.
There is much more to his canny trick of rejecting investors than initially meets the eye. In reality, he did not really turn away money from investors. What actually occurred was that he refused to take cash from people whose participation would have easily revealed the fraud.
Madoff apparently refused money that would be put in custodial accounts where the transactions would be watched by others.
Separately, we’ve also talked with someone with knowledge of the exchange, that nobody could be found on the CBOE floor between ’04-’06 to have executed trades for Madoff.
No trades. And no one in the federal government knew? My take: Anyone in government charged with regulating Madoff needs to be investigated.
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Jan 15, 2009 / 7:02 pm
As a former fraud investigator with over 25 years of experience in financial fraud, I thought some readers might be interested in my reactions to this story.
The evidence shows Bernie Madoff did not act alone, that key perpetrators include other Madoff family members, that these family members are likely to now control off-shore accounts containing substantial stolen funds.
The Madoff fraud was, without a doubt, a group effort. Bernie Madoff could not have done it all himself. At a minimum he needed three types of support:
1. Computer Systems; unless Bernie hand typed customer statements each and every month, he had computer systems support. Systems support was necessary to track customer accounts, produce false trade reports, and the myriad of other tasks necessary to create the impression among clients of a real hedge fund.
2. Accounting; two sets of books are more than twice as hard to maintain as a single set. Real accounting systems benefit from automated importing of data from bank and stock trading accounts. In a fraud scheme all this data must be manufactured Off-the-shelf accounting systems send up many red flags when data is not consistent. Fraudulent accounting creates an impression of such consistency where none exists. This is a major task.
3. Tax and Government Reporting: although Madoff went to great lengths to escape government regulation, nonetheless the scheme was bound to standard income and tax reporting requirements. The usual sources for such reporting did not exist—actual income and taxes paid—therefore fake data needed to be manufactured and reported by individuals expert in these isssues.
Therefore, it is certain Bernie Madoff did not act alone and, at a minimum, had knowledgeable coconspirators in computer systems, accounting and tax and government reporting. It is highly likely that the conspiracy involved a much larger group.
It is also highly likely that fraud scheme was a family enterprise. Like the Mafia, the family is the basic unit of most organized fraud schemes. The reason is simple—outsiders create a substantial risk of defection or blackmail. There is no honor among thieves. Bernie Madoff’s business was a family enterprise family members heading up all major functions including, computer systems, accounting and tax and government reporting.
In his warning to the SEC Harry Markopolos listed 29 red flags that the Madoff hedge fund was a Ponzi scheme. All of these flags were visible to family members working in the firm every day. They had to have known a great deal more including the fact that all the trades Bernie Madoff claimed to be making never occurred. Close-up views of every fraud scheme I have ever investigated made it clear the emperor has no clothes. The most that can plausibly be claimed is that family members knew what was happening and did nothing.
Bernie’s story is that at the last minute he informed his wife, his brother, and his sons that all was not well and that acting alone he had for seventeen years perpetrated the largest Ponzi scheme in history. Being shocked, shocked that fraud was going on the sons went to the authorities the very next day. None of this is in anyway believable. That the sons participated in this charade is evidence of long-term involvement
Third it is likely that a significant portion of the lost billions are in hidden accounts or bonds controlled by family members. Money laundering is not difficult given time and financial sophistication. The Madoff scheme had a great deal of both.
All Ponzi schemes come to an end sooner or later. Therefore, the perpetrators inevitably develop exist strategies. I cannot believe the Madoff perpetrators did not do the same. New alternative identities are almost as easy to create as money is to launder.
Given these facts, I suspect that prosecutors will concentrate Madoff family members as the most promising method of recovering stolen funds. Without perpetrator cooperation laundered funds are seldom found. Bernie Madoff will be spending the rest of his life in jail, therefore there is no plea bargain possible to gain cooperation. The fate of other family members creates much greater leverage. In return of full recovery and accounting of all Madoff Ponzi scheme funds, the prosecutors are likely to trade leniency for some family members.
In the absence of such a full accounting and recovery I predict that, in a few years, when things a quieted down, one or more Madoff family members will quietly disappear and then a new mega-yacht will appear in St Tropiz owned by an Americans with a vague backgrounds.
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Flyers Midseason Prospect Check-In
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With the Flyers season considered by most to be a “wash,” now is a good time to check-in with current Flyers prospects. At the beginning of the season, I made a top 10 list of Flyers prospects. Here is an update on each of these prospects, plus a few honorable mention candidates.
Carter Hart
Hart had a bit of a rough start to his AHL career and struggled early. However, he had a good stretch run beginning in late November where he began putting up decent numbers. This, along with a ton of Flyers injuries, led to a call-up. Since joining the Flyers, Hart has looked very comfortable for a 20-year-old. He has also brought life to a fan-base that is in much need of hope. As long as the Flyers struggle with injuries and Hart keeps winning, he may find himself as a permanent NHL regular in the not too distant future.
Beginning year projection: Future NHL starter.
Mid-point projection: Future NHL starter.
Prospect Season Grade: A-
Similarly to other Flyers prospects, Farabee had a slow start to his NCAA career. He struggled to score early on, and he was noticeably frustrated in the early goings of the season. However, he seems to have adjusted positively over the last month or so. Farabee has 11 points in 16 games playing for Boston University, which isn’t terrible for a freshman. He is also far from the only freshmen who was drafted last season struggling to transition from the U.S. Nation Development Program to the NHL (see Oliver Wahlstrom of the Islanders who has been rumored to leave Boston College because of it).
Farabee was named to the U.S. World Junior team, unsurprisingly, and put up a hat-trick yesterday versus a below mediocre Kazakhstan team. Farabee has a strong skill set, but many scouts are still torn over his upside. His inconsistent start has not helped this matter. The Flyers likely have a top-6 forward on their hands here, but he may need more time developing than previously expected.
Beginning year projection: Top 6 forward.
Mid-point projection: Top 6 forward.
Prospect Season Grade: B-
If I were to do my prospect rankings over, I would bump Frost ahead of Farabee. Frost led the OHL in primary points last season, and once again, he is tearing up the OHL. He has 58 points in only 32 games this season, which is an incredible pace. Frost was also named to Team Canada for the World Junior Championship. In his first game, he scored 3 goals and had 2 assists.
What stands out most about Frost’s game is both his creativity and hockey sense. Frost has a knack for finding open time and space, leading to scoring chances. His work ethic has constantly been lauded and that hasn’t changed this season. Canada has used Frost on the wing, and on the point on the power-play, which has shown Frost’s overall versatility. Going into the season, I had Frost listed as a potential two-way, second-line center. This season has bumped him up for me, as a potential number one center with strong offensive upside.
Beginning year projection: Second-line center.
Mid-point year projection: First-line center.
Prospect Mid-point grade: A
Jay O’Brien
O’Brien has struggled with injuries this season. He has also struggled immensely with the transition from high school hockey to NCAA. Currently, O’Brien has 2 points in 10 games for Providence College of Hockey East. Thankfully, U.S. hockey saw enough in his game to name him to their World Junior team. O’Brien has looked okay but not spectacular in the tournament so far. It was expected that O’Brien would need some time developing (possibly as many as four years before making the NHL), and that projection seems likely. Hopefully, O’Brien can use the World Juniors as a confidence boost and finish the year out strong.
Beginning year projection: #2 Center.
Mid-point year projection: #2 Center.
Prospect Mid-point grade: C
German Rubtsov
Rubtsov was putting up points in the AHL before a season-ending surgery. Flyers brass was impressed with his overall game, and he was showing why many had him penciled in the Flyers lineup as soon as next season. Flyers fans can hope that Rubtsov recovers fully from his injury. Look for Rubtsov to start next season in the AHL again, but he may find himself as an NHL regular by the end of next season.
Prospect Mid-point Grade: B+
Phil Myers
Myers is the first defenseman to pop up on this list. He has been a consistent offensive threat in the AHL with 22 points so far this season (on pace for over 40 points). Myers has also improved defensive consistency. A call-up is likely in his future. Look for him to make the Flyers next season.
Beginning year projection: Top 4 defender.
Mid-point year projection: Top 4 defender.
Allison is a tougher prospect to evaluate this season. He has played few games after recovering from a torn ACL last season. Allison does have 4 points in 6 games, which is an okay pace considering how significant an injury he is recovering from. If all goes according to plan, Allison may finish the season in the NHL or the AHL if his NCAA season ends early.
Beginning year projection: Bottom 6 winger.
Mid-point year projection: Bottom 6 winger.
Prospect Mid-point grade: B
Tanner Laczynski
Laczynski is in his junior year at Ohio State. He is scoring at his usual pace (a point per game). Laczynski has been lauded for his leadership this season and two-way play. If all goes according to plan, look for Laczynski to sign a contract with the Flyers and finish the season in either the NHL or AHL. He is likely to start in the AHL regularly next season.
Beginning year projection: Middle six forward
Mid-point year projection: Middle six forward.
Adam Ginning
Ginning is the second defenseman on this list. He has excelled playing regular minutes in Sweden’s top league. Going into the season, Ginning was considered more of a two-way defender, but he may be more of a modern defensive defenseman (good speed, defensive instincts and positioning, low offensive numbers). Ginning made Sweden’s world junior team and is playing a depth role. Look for Ginning to return to Sweden next season and continuing honing his game.
Beginning year projection: Bottom 6 defender
Mid-point year projection: Bottom 6 defender
Mid-point prospect grade: B
Felix Sandstrom
Sandstrom is having almost an identical season to last year. His statistics are virtually the same. He is also still a backup and not a starter. This isn’t unheard of for a young goaltender, but I’m sure Flyers brass would love to see him get into more games. Sandstrom may find himself in the AHL next season, which would likely do leaps and bounds for his development if he could gain more playing time.
Beginning year projection: Potential NHL starter.
Mid-point year projection: Potential NHL goalie (not necessarily starter).
Mid-point prospect grade: B-
New Prospects on the Scene to Keep an Eye On
G Samuel Ersson
Ersson has bumped himself above Sandstrom in my books this season as the second best goalie prospect in the organization behind Carter Hart. Ersson is currently playing one level below the top league in Sweden and has a steller .941 save percentage. He is currently his team’s starting goalie and thriving in the role at just 19 years of age. Ersson is also the starter for Sweden at the World Junior championship. With Hart’s immediate impact, the Flyers can be patient with Ersson and let him develop. Look for him to continue honing his game in Sweden.
W Matthew Strome
Strome is somewhat of a polarizing prospect. Going into his draft year in 2017, Strome was considered by many to be a first round prospect. However, concerns surrounding his skating and potential offensive upside dropped him to the fourth round where the Flyers were happy to nab him. Strome put up decent numbers last season and is doing so again this year, with 39 points in 35 games. Listed at 6’4″, 206 lbs, Strome uses his frame well and has proven to show up in big games in the OHL. Strome has seen improvement in his skating as well. He may turn into a decent bottom-six forward with more development.
D John St. Ivany
St. Ivany suprisingly made the U.S. World Junior team in his inaugural season at Yale. St. Ivany boasts an impressive frame and has put up decent numbers his freshman year. St. Ivany will likely spend the next few seasons at Yale. With continued success, he may find himself approaching the Flyers’ top-10 prospects list.
W Isaac Ratcliffe
Ratcliffe is another potential power forward for the Flyers. Boasting a 6’6″ frame, Ratcliffe currently has 20 goals in only 34 games in the OHL this season. Similar to Strome, Ratcliffe’s skating has been questioned at times. However, his goal scoring abilities have not been questioned. Ratcliffe was a late cut from Canada’s World Junior team, a good sign that he was considered to be one of the best 30 or so junior-aged players that Canada had available in a year they are the favorites. Look for Ratcliffe to make a push for the Flyers roster next season, but he will likely begin in the AHL.
Overall, the Flyers have a plethora of decent prospects. Even in the midst of a year of struggles, the near future is bright! Look for a handful of these prospects to begin making an impact as soon as next season.
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Liberalism and Empire: A Study in Nineteenth-Century British Liberal Thought.Uday Singh Mehta - 1999 - University of Chicago Press.details
Shedding light on a fundamental tension in liberal theory, Liberalism and Empire reaches beyond post-colonial studies to revise our conception of the grand liberal tradition and the conception of experience with which it is associated.
Gandhi on Democracy, Politics and the Ethics of Everyday Life.Uday Singh Mehta - 2010 - Modern Intellectual History 7 (2):355-371.details
This paper is about Gandhi's critique of politics, of which his ambivalence towards democracy was a part. I argue that for Gandhi the ground of moral action is fearlessness, while that of political reason is security and self-defense. Gandhi sees the context of moral action in the mundane fabric of everyday life, in places such as the family and the village. For that reason he does not believe that moral action requires being supplemented by the particular kind of unity which (...) politics and the state call for and necessitate. (shrink)
The Anxiety of Freedom: Imagination and Individuality in Locke's Political Thought.Uday Singh Mehta - 1992 - Cornell University Press.details
Autonomy in Social and Political Philosophy
Freedom and Liberty in Social and Political Philosophy
History of Political Philosophy in Social and Political Philosophy
Imagination, Misc in Philosophy of Mind
Locke: Political Philosophy, Misc in 17th/18th Century Philosophy
Political Theory in Social and Political Philosophy
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Books in Review: The Anxiety of Freedom: Imagination and Individuality in Locke's Political Thought by Uday Singh Mehta.David Johnston - 1993 - Political Theory 21 (4):698-701.details
Locke: Political Philosophy in 17th/18th Century Philosophy
Lineages of Empire: The Historical Roots of British Imperial Thought.Mehta Uday Singh - 2009details
The Social Question and the Problem of History After Empire.Uday Singh Mehta - 2009 - In Lineages of Empire: The Historical Roots of British Imperial Thought. pp. 31.details
Decolonization of the European empires in the twentieth century was spurred by the colonized based on two purposes: the desire for independence, and the desire to build a sovereign political identity. The most obvious feature of the first intention was the formation of anti-imperialist movements, organised under the banner ‘they must leave’. The latter was characterized by the establishment of constitutional government, which highlighted the identity of a novice country in a political and unified form and which featured a central (...) source of power. These two purposes share a complex relationship. For power to be sovereign, independence must be gained first. Power cannot be obligated to the wishes of another power or constrained by the laws of another regime. The struggle for independence of European empires did not readily create the conditions for the exercise of a sovereign power. It was elusive at the moment of independence. This chapter discusses some of the implications of these two purposes, with emphasis on the second purpose and the Indian experience. It addresses questions such as: what is the meaning of collective identity to those newly independent countries in the context of politics; what were the pressures on the claims to political identity and unity; how did these pressures encourage a revolutionary mindset in the conceptualization of constitutional provisions and political power; and how does the struggle for political identity relate to the history of nation and its struggle for independence? (shrink)
The Ethics of Nurse Poaching From the Developing World.Jerome A. Singh, Busi Nkala, Eric Amuah, Nalin Mehta & Aasim Ahmad - 2003 - Nursing Ethics 10 (6):666-670.details
Recruiting nurses from other countries is a long-standing practice. In recent years many countries in the developed world have more frequently recruited nurses from the developing world, causing an imbalance in the health services in often already impoverished countries. Despite guidelines and promises by developed countries that the practice should cease, it has largely failed to do so. A consortium of authors from countries that have experienced significant nurse poaching consider the ethical aspects behind this continuing practice.
Nursing Ethics in Applied Ethics
A Discriminating Politics.Uday Mehta - 2010 - In Roger Berkowitz, Jeffrey Katz & Thomas Keenan (eds.), Thinking in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt on Ethics and Politics. Fordham University Press.details
Terror and its cognates have come to signify the darkest excesses of contemporary and 20th-century political life. These include aggressive claims to purity; murderous manifestations of programmatic and religious self-certainty; paranoid and devastating responses to threats to national security; and more generally, an intensity of instrumental forms of thinking and acting that give to individuals, groups, and states a broad warrant for deploying violence as a means to their purposefulness. Hannah Arendt reflected deeply on the implications of such high-minded and (...) bellicose purposefulness. This chapter focuses on how Arendt also associated terror with something utterly commonplace, whose reach and provenance extended well beyond the 20th century—namely, in the political attempt to address ubiquitous social questions. (shrink)
Liberal Strategies of Exclusion.Uday S. Mehta - 1990 - Politics and Society 18 (4):427-454.details
Pure insight, however is in the first instance without any content; it is the sheer disappearance of content; but by its negative attitude towards what it excludes it will make itself real and give itself a content.—Hegel, Phenomenology of Mind.
Observation of Inverse Meyer–Neldel Rule in Thermally Activated Crystallization of a Hybrid Composite of Phenol Formaldehyde.N. Mehta, K. Singh & S. Kumar - 2009 - Philosophical Magazine 89 (9):797-806.details
Areas of Mathematics in Philosophy of Mathematics
Pre-Exponential Factor for Non-Isothermal Crystallization of Glassy Se85−xTe15Sbx Alloys.N. Mehta & K. Singh - 2008 - Philosophical Magazine 88 (9):1411-1421.details
J.L. Mehta on Heidegger, Hermeneutics, and Indian Tradition.Jarava Lal Mehta - 1992 - E.J. Brill.details
This book presents a selection of essays by the Indian philosopher J.L. Mehta on the topics of hermeneutics and phenomenology containing many original ...
Hermeneutics, Misc in Continental Philosophy
Martin Heidegger in Continental Philosophy
Singh, Gobind Idea of Durga in His Poetry-the Unfathomable Woman as the Image of the Unfathomable Transcendent One.Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh - 1990 - Ultimate Reality and Meaning 13 (4):243-267.details
Poetry in Aesthetics
The Limited Role of Particulars in Phenomenal Experience.Neil Mehta - 2014 - Journal of Philosophy 111 (6):311-331.details
Consider two deeply appealing thoughts: first, that we experience external particulars, and second, that what it’s like to have an experience – the phenomenal character of an experience – is somehow independent of external particulars. The first thought is readily captured by phenomenal particularism, the view that external particulars are sometimes part of the phenomenal character of experience. The second thought is readily captured by phenomenal generalism, the view that external particulars are never part of phenomenal character. -/- Here I (...) show that a novel version of phenomenal generalism can capture both thoughts in a satisfying fashion. Along the way, I reveal severe problems facing phenomenal particularism and also shed light on the mental kinds under which experiences fall. (shrink)
Perceptual Particularity in Philosophy of Mind
The Experience of Objects in Philosophy of Mind
The Nature of Perceptual Experience, Misc in Philosophy of Mind
The Objects of Perception in Philosophy of Mind
Phenomenal, Normative, and Other Explanatory Gaps: A General Diagnosis.Neil Mehta - 2019 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 98 (3):567-591.details
I assume that there exists a general phenomenon, the phenomenon of the explanatory gap, surrounding consciousness, normativity, intentionality, and more. Explanatory gaps are often thought to foreclose reductive possibilities wherever they appear. In response, reductivists who grant the existence of these gaps have offered countless local solutions. But typically such reductivist responses have had a serious shortcoming: because they appeal to essentially domain-specific features, they cannot be fully generalized, and in this sense these responses have been not just local but (...) parochial. Here I do better. Taking for granted that the explanatory gap is a genuine phenomenon, I offer a fully general diagnosis that unifies these previously fragmented reductivist responses. (shrink)
Phenomenal Concepts in Philosophy of Mind
The Open Question Argument in Meta-Ethics
Zombies and the Conceivability Argument in Philosophy of Mind
Devotional Songs of Narsī MehtāDevotional Songs of Narsi Mehta.Sagaree Sengupta Korom, Narsī Mehtā, Swami Mahadevananda & Narsi Mehta - 1987 - Journal of the American Oriental Society 107 (4):847.details
Can Grounding Characterize Fundamentality?Neil Mehta - 2017 - Analysis 77 (1):74-79.details
It can seem incoherent to fully characterize fundamentality in terms of grounding, given that the fundamental is precisely that which cannot be fully characterized independently. I argue that there is no such incoherence.
Fundamentality in Metaphysics
Grounding in Metaphysics
Thoughts of Bhai Ardaman Singh.Ardaman Singh - 1999 - Institute of Sikh Studies.details
Specific Religions in Philosophy of Religion
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Focal Points in Pure Coordination Games: An Experimental Investigation.Judith Mehta, Chris Starmer & Robert Sugden - 1994 - Theory and Decision 36 (2):163-185.details
Theory in Economics in Philosophy of Social Science
Knowledge and Other Norms for Assertion, Action, and Belief: A Teleological Account.Neil Mehta - 2016 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 93 (3):681-705.details
Here I advance a unified account of the structure of the epistemic normativity of assertion, action, and belief. According to my Teleological Account, all of these are epistemically successful just in case they fulfill the primary aim of knowledgeability, an aim which in turn generates a host of secondary epistemic norms. The central features of the Teleological Account are these: it is compact in its reliance on a single central explanatory posit, knowledge-centered in its insistence that knowledge sets the fundamental (...) epistemic norm, and yet fiercely pluralistic in its acknowledgment of the legitimacy and value of a rich range of epistemic norms distinct from knowledge. Largely in virtue of this pluralist character, I argue, the Teleological Account is far superior to extant knowledge-centered accounts. (shrink)
Epistemic Norms in Epistemology
Norms of Assertion in Philosophy of Language
The Effects of Tai Chi Practice on Intermuscular Beta Coherence and the Rubber Hand Illusion.Catherine E. Kerr, Uday Agrawal & Sandeep Nayak - 2016 - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 10.details
On the Generality of Experience: A Reply to French and Gomes.Neil Mehta & Todd Ganson - 2016 - Philosophical Studies 173 (12):3223-3229.details
According to phenomenal particularism, external particulars are sometimes part of the phenomenal character of experience. Mehta criticizes this view, and French and Gomes :451–460, 2016) have attempted to show that phenomenal particularists have the resources to respond to Mehta’s criticisms. We argue that French and Gomes have failed to appreciate the force of Mehta’s original arguments. When properly interpreted, Mehta’s arguments provide a strong case in favor of phenomenal generalism, the view that external particulars are never (...) part of phenomenal character. (shrink)
Naive and Direct Realism in Philosophy of Mind
Beyond Transparency: The Spatial Argument for Experiential Externalism.Neil Mehta - 2013 - Philosophers' Imprint 13.details
I highlight a neglected but striking phenomenological fact about our experiences: they have a pervasively spatial character. Specifically, all (or almost all) phenomenal qualities – roughly, the introspectible, philosophically puzzling properties that constitute ‘what it’s like’ to have an experience – introspectively seem instantiated in some kind of space. So, assuming a very weak charity principle about introspection, some phenomenal qualities are instantiated in space. But there is only one kind of space – the ordinary space occupied by familiar objects. (...) And the only objects appropriately located in ordinary space are outside the subject’s mind. This entails experiential externalism, the view that at least one phenomenal quality is instantiated outside the subject’s mind. Experiential externalism is incompatible with many leading theories of experience, including certain mental paint theories; some forms of representationalism; paradigmatic versions of sense-datum theory; and views on which no phenomenal qualities are instantiated. My argument is structurally similar to familiar arguments based on the ‘transparency of experience.’ However, I suggest, phenomenological intuitions about spatiality are considerably more stable than phenomenological intuitions about transparency. For many philosophers, transparency intuitions fade markedly with respect to non-standard experiences, including experiences associated with blurry or double vision. But spatiality intuitions remain robust even for these experiences. Thus, spatiality intuitions should be more dialectically effective than transparency intuitions for supporting experiential externalism. (shrink)
Internalism and Externalism about Experience in Philosophy of Mind
Theories of Consciousness, Miscellaneous in Philosophy of Mind
Ethical Issues for Autonomous Trading Agents.Michael P. Wellman & Uday Rajan - 2017 - Minds and Machines 27 (4):609-624.details
The rapid advancement of algorithmic trading has demonstrated the success of AI automation, as well as gaps in our understanding of the implications of this technology proliferation. We explore ethical issues in the context of autonomous trading agents, both to address problems in this domain and as a case study for regulating autonomous agents more generally. We argue that increasingly competent trading agents will be capable of initiative at wider levels, necessitating clarification of ethical and legal boundaries, and corresponding development (...) of norms and enforcement capability. (shrink)
Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, Misc in Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Financial Ethics, Misc in Applied Ethics
Moral Status of Artificial Systems in Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Cosmopolitanism and the Circle of Reason.Pratap Bhanu Mehta - 2000 - Political Theory 28 (5):619-639.details
What I require is a convening of my culture's criteria, in order to confront them with my words and life as I pursue them and as I may pursue them; and at the same time to confront my words and life as I pursue them with the life my culture's words may imagine for me: to confront the culture with itself, along the lines it meets in me. Stanley Cavell.
International Philosophy in Social and Political Philosophy
Is There a Phenomenological Argument for Higher-Order Representationalism?Neil Mehta - 2013 - Philosophical Studies 164 (2):357-370.details
In his 2009 article “Self-Representationalism and Phenomenology,” Uriah Kriegel argues for self-representationalism about phenomenal consciousness primarily on phenomenological grounds. Kriegel’s argument can naturally be cast more broadly as an argument for higher-order representationalism. I examine this broadened version of Kriegel’s argument in detail and show that it is unsuccessful for two reasons. First, Kriegel’s argument (in its strongest form) relies on an inference to the best explanation from the claim that all experiences of normal adult human beings are accompanied by (...) peripheral awareness of those very experiences to the claim that all experiences are accompanied by peripheral awareness of those very experiences. This inference is inadequately defended, for the explanandum may also be given a straightforward evolutionary explanation. Second, contra Kriegel, I argue that phenomenological investigation does not support the thesis that we are always peripherally aware of our experiences. Instead, it delivers no verdict on this thesis. Kriegel’s phenomenological mistake may be explained via a highly diluted version of the famous transparency thesis about experience. (shrink)
Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness, Misc in Philosophy of Mind
Self-Representational Theories of Consciousness in Philosophy of Mind
Unthinking Mastery: Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements.Julietta Singh - 2017 - Duke University Press.details
Julietta Singh challenges the drive toward the mastery over self and others by showing how the forms of self-mastery advocated by anticolonial thinkers like Fanon and Gandhi unintentionally reproduced colonial logic, thereby leading her to argue for a more productive human subjectivity that is not centered on concepts of mastery.
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How to Explain the Explanatory Gap.Neil Mehta - 2013 - Dialectica 67 (2):117-135.details
I construct a tempting anti-physicalist argument, which sharpens an explanatory gap argument suggested by David Chalmers and Frank Jackson. The argument relies crucially on the premise that there is a deep epistemic asymmetry (which may be identified with the explanatory gap) between phenomenal truths and ordinary macroscopic truths. Many physicalists reject the argument by rejecting this premise. I argue that even if this premise is true, the anti-physicalist conclusion should be rejected, and I provide a detailed, physicalist-friendly explanation of the (...) relevant premise. Along the way, I sketch an account of a priori conceptual knowledge that is compatible with naturalistic accounts of intentionality. I conclude by noting that the resulting view is a version of the popular phenomenal concept strategy that avoids a potentially worrying dilemma facing earlier incarnations of this strategy. (shrink)
The Explanatory Gap in Philosophy of Mind
Research Note and Review of the Empirical Ethical Decision-Making Literature: Boundary Conditions and Extensions.Nitish Singh, Yung-Hwal Park & Kevin Lehnert - 2015 - Journal of Business Ethics 129 (1):195-219.details
In business ethics, there is a large body of literature focusing on the conditions, factors, and influences in the ethical decision-making processes. This work builds upon the past critical reviews by updating and extending the literature review found in Craft’s :221–259, 2013) study, extending her literature review to include a total of 141 articles. Since past reviews have focused on categorizing results based upon various independent variables, we instead synthesize and look at the trends of these based upon the four (...) ethical decision making categories: Awareness, Behavior, Judgment, and Intention. We focus on the moderation and mediation effects found within these studies and provide an in-depth analysis of future trends. Furthermore, we also highlight key statistical and methodological concerns, outline overarching trends, and directions of future research in empirical ethical decision making. (shrink)
Bhai Vir Singh.Richard J. Cohen & Harbans Singh - 1975 - Journal of the American Oriental Society 95 (2):349.details
Review by Santosh Kr. SINGH.Kr Singh Santosh - 2008 - International Journal on Humanistic Ideology 1:197-200.details
Mind-Body Dualism: A Critique From a Health Perspective.Neeta Mehta - 2011 - Mens Sana Monographs 9 (1):202-209.details
Philosophical theory about the nature of human beings has far reaching consequences on our understanding of various issues faced by them. Once taken as self-evident, it becomes the foundation on which knowledge gets built. The cause of concern is that this theoretical framework rarely gets questioned despite its inherent limitations and self-defeating consequences, leading to crisis in the concerned field. The field, which is facing crisis today, is that of medicine, and the paradigmatic stance that is responsible for the crisis (...) is Cartesian dualism-a view that mind and body are essentially separate entities. This paper discusses Cartesian dualism in the context of the practice of medicine. Focusing more closely on how disease, health and treatment are defined through this position, the paper builds up its critique by throwing light on its accomplishments, limitations and self-defeating consequences. The paper also seeks to understand why this dualism is still alive despite its disavowal from philosophers, health practitioners and lay people. (shrink)
Dualism in Philosophy of Mind
Dualism, Misc in Philosophy of Mind
Ethnic and Gender Consensus for the Effect of Waist-to-Hip Ratio on Judgment of Women’s Attractiveness.Devendra Singh & Suwardi Luis - 1995 - Human Nature 6 (1):51-65.details
The western consensus is that obese women are considered attractive by Afro-Americans and by many societies from nonwestern developing countries. This belief rests mainly on results of nonstandardized surveys dealing only with body weight and size, ignoring body fat distribution. The anatomical distribution of female body fat as measured by the ratio of waist to hip circumference (WHR) is related to reproductive age, fertility, and risk for various major diseases and thus might play a role in judgment of attractiveness. Previous (...) research (Singh 1993a, 1993b) has shown that in the United States Caucasian men and women judge female figures with feminine WHRs as attractive and healthy. To investigate whether young Indonesian and Afro-American men and women rate such figures similarly, female figures representing three body sizes (underweight, normal weight, and overweight) and four WHRs (two feminine and two masculine) were used. Results show that neither Indonesian nor Afro-American subjects judge overweight figures as attractive and healthy regardless of the size of WHR. They judged normal weight figures with feminine WHRs as most attractive, healthy, and youthful. The consensus on women’s attractiveness among Indonesian, Afro-American, and U.S. Caucasian male and female subjects suggests that various cultural groups have similar criteria for judging the ideal woman’s shape. (shrink)
Feminist Ethics in Normative Ethics
Heidegger and the Comparison of Indian and Western Philosophy.J. L. Mehta - 1970 - Philosophy East and West 20 (3):303-317.details
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Functional Connectivity During Handgrip Motor Fatigue in Older Adults Is Obesity and Sex-Specific.Joohyun Rhee & Ranjana K. Mehta - 2018 - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 12.details
Cognitive Enhancement by Drugs in Health and Disease.Masud Husain & Mitul A. Mehta - 2011 - Trends in Cognitive Sciences 15 (1):28-36.details
Moral Worth, Credit, and Non-Accidentality.Keshav Singh - forthcoming - In Mark Timmons (ed.), Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics, Vol. 10.details
This paper defends an account of moral worth. Moral worth is a status that some, but not all, morally right actions have. Unlike with merely right actions, when an agent performs a morally worthy action, she is necessarily creditworthy for doing the right thing. First, I argue that two dominant views of moral worth have been unable to fully capture this necessary connection. On one view, an action is morally worthy if and only if its agent is motivated by the (...) features of the action that make it right. On the other, an action is morally worthy if and only if its agent is motivated by the action’s rightness itself. Neither of these views captures the connection between moral worth and creditworthiness, because each view leaves room for cases of accidentally doing the right thing. Next, I develop a new account, which I call the Guise of Moral Reasons Account. On my account, morally worthy actions are right actions that are motivated by moral reasons as such. This account rules out cases of accidentally doing the right thing, thus capturing the necessary connection between moral worth and creditworthiness for doing the right thing. (shrink)
Moral Worth in Normative Ethics
The Good Will and Moral Worth in Normative Ethics
Does Having an Ethical Brand Matter? The Influence of Consumer Perceived Ethicality on Trust, Affect and Loyalty.Jatinder J. Singh, Oriol Iglesias & Joan Manel Batista-Foguet - 2012 - Journal of Business Ethics 111 (4):541-549.details
The recent rise in ethical consumerism has seen increasing numbers of corporate brands project a socially responsible and ethical image. But does having a corporate brand that is perceived to be ethical have any influence on outcome variables of interest for its product brands? This study analyzes the relationship between perceived ethicality at a corporate level, and brand trust, brand affect and brand loyalty at a product level. A theoretical framework with hypothesized relationships is developed and tested in order to (...) answer the research question. Data have been collected for 45 product categories in the fast moving consumer goods sector using a panel of 4,027 Spanish consumers. The proposed relationships are tested using structural equations modeling. The results suggest there is a positive relationship between perceived ethicality of a brand and both brand trust and brand affect. Brand affect also positively influences brand trust. Further, brand trust and brand affect both show a positive relation with brand loyalty. The managerial and academic implications of the results are discussed. (shrink)
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Using Suggestion to Model Different Types of Automatic Writing.E. Walsh, M. A. Mehta, D. A. Oakley, D. N. Guilmette, A. Gabay, P. W. Halligan & Q. Deeley - 2014 - Consciousness and Cognition 26:24-36.details
Our sense of self includes awareness of our thoughts and movements, and our control over them. This feeling can be altered or lost in neuropsychiatric disorders as well as in phenomena such as “automatic writing” whereby writing is attributed to an external source. Here, we employed suggestion in highly hypnotically suggestible participants to model various experiences of automatic writing during a sentence completion task. Results showed that the induction of hypnosis, without additional suggestion, was associated with a small but significant (...) reduction of control, ownership, and awareness for writing. Targeted suggestions produced a double dissociation between thought and movement components of writing, for both feelings of control and ownership, and additionally, reduced awareness of writing. Overall, suggestion produced selective alterations in the control, ownership, and awareness of thought and motor components of writing, thus enabling key aspects of automatic writing, observed across different clinical and cultural settings, to be modelled. (shrink)
Consciousness and Psychology in Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Hypnosis and Consciousness in Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Children Interpret Disjunction as Conjunction: Consequences for Theories of Implicature and Child Development.Raj Singh, Ken Wexler, Andrea Astle-Rahim, Deepthi Kamawar & Danny Fox - 2016 - Natural Language Semantics 24 (4):305-352.details
We present evidence that preschool children oftentimes understand disjunctive sentences as if they were conjunctive. The result holds for matrix disjunctions as well as disjunctions embedded under every. At the same time, there is evidence in the literature that children understand or as inclusive disjunction in downward-entailing contexts. We propose to explain this seemingly conflicting pattern of results by assuming that the child knows the inclusive disjunction semantics of or, and that the conjunctive inference is a scalar implicature. We make (...) two assumptions about implicature computation in the child: that children access only a proper subset of the adult alternatives, and that children possess the adult capacity to strengthen sentences with implicatures. As a consequence, children are expected to sometimes not compute any implicatures at all, but in other cases they are expected to compute an implicature that is different from the adult implicature. We argue that the child’s conjunctive strengthening of disjunctive sentences realizes the latter possibility: the adult infers that the conjunction is false but the child infers that the conjunction is true. This behaviour is predicted when our assumptions about child development are coupled with the assumption that a covert exhaustive operator is responsible for strengthening in both the child and the adult. Specifically, children’s conjunctive strengthening is predicted to follow from the same mechanism used by adults to compute conjunctive free choice implicatures in response to disjunctive permission sentences. We furthermore argue that this parallel between the child and the adult extends to disambiguation preferences. In particular, we present evidence that children prefer to strengthen disjunctions to conjunctions, in matrix and embedded positions ; this result mirrors previous findings that adults prefer to compute free choice, at the root and under every. We propose a disambiguation strategy that explains the preference for conjunctive strengthening – by both the child and the adult – even though there is no general preference for exhaustification. Specifically, we propose that the preference for a conjunctive strengthening follows from a pragmatic preference for a complete answer to the Question Under Discussion. (shrink)
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Determinants of the Effectiveness of Corporate Codes of Ethics: An Empirical Study. [REVIEW]Jang B. Singh - 2011 - Journal of Business Ethics 101 (3):385-395.details
Recent figures reported by KPMG confirm the growing prevalence of corporate codes of ethics globally. Svensson et al. (Bus Ethics 18:389–407, 2009 ) in surveys of the largest corporations in Australia, Canada, and Sweden found a similar trend. The increased prevalence of corporate codes of ethics has been accompanied by heightened research interest in various aspects of these documents, e.g., the contents and focus of the codes. However, there is a paucity of research examining the effectiveness of these documents and (...) the organizational infrastructure that accompany them. This study, based on a survey of Canada’s largest corporations, sought to empirically assess the determinants of the effectiveness of corporate codes of ethics by regressing managers’ perceptions of code effectiveness against various elements of ethics programs. It was found that, in a statistically significant model, eighteen independent variables explain 58.5% of the variance in the perceived effectiveness of corporate codes of ethics. (shrink)
Organizational Ethics in Applied Ethics
Smart Microgrid Energy Management Using a Novel Artificial Shark Optimization.Pawan Singh & Baseem Khan - 2017 - Complexity:1-22.details
Will the "Real Boy" Please Behave: Dosing Dilemmas for Parents of Boys with ADHD.Ilina Singh - 2005 - American Journal of Bioethics 5 (3):34 – 47.details
The use of Ritalin and other stimulant drug treatments for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) raises distinctive moral dilemmas for parents; these moral dilemmas have not been adequately addressed in the bioethics literature. This paper draws upon data from a qualitative empirical study to investigate parents' use of the moral ideal of authenticity as part of their narrative justifications for dosing decisions and actions. I show that therapeutic decisions and actions are embedded in valued cultural ideals about masculinity, self-actualization and success, (...) as well as in moral conceptions of authenticity and personal freedom. I argue that this investigation of parents' moral justifications and dosing dilemmas raises questions about the validity of authenticity as a transcendent moral principle. Moreover, this study demonstrates that in order to be relevant, bioethical analysis of neurocognitive enhancement must engage with ground-up studies of moral principles and decision-making in context. (shrink)
The Problem of Philosophical Reconception in the Thought of K. C. Bhattacharyya.J. L. Mehta - 1974 - Philosophy East and West 24 (1):59-70.details
Indian Philosophy in Asian Philosophy
Understanding Corporate Social Responsibility and Product Perceptions in Consumer Markets: A Cross-Cultural Evaluation. [REVIEW]Jaywant Singh, Maria del Mar Garcia de los Salmones Sanchez & Igancio Rodriguez del Bosque - 2008 - Journal of Business Ethics 80 (3):597-611.details
The concept of corporate social responsibility is becoming integral to effective corporate brand management. This study adopts a multidimensional and cross-country perspective of the concept and analyses consumer perceptions of behaviour of four leading consumer products manufacturers. Data was collected from consumers in two countries – Spain and the UK. The study analyses consumers’ degree of interest in corporate responsibility and its impact on their perception about the company. The findings here suggest a weak impact of company-specific communication on consumers’ (...) perception. The implications of this study are relevant to companies for strengthening their social responsibility associations with the consumers. (shrink)
Not Robots: Children's Perspectives on Authenticity, Moral Agency and Stimulant Drug Treatments.Ilina Singh - 2013 - Journal of Medical Ethics 39 (6):359-366.details
In this article, I examine children's reported experiences with stimulant drug treatments for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in light of bioethical arguments about the potential threats of psychotropic drugs to authenticity and moral agency. Drawing on a study that involved over 150 families in the USA and the UK, I show that children are able to report threats to authenticity, but that the majority of children are not concerned with such threats. On balance, children report that stimulants improve their capacity (...) for moral agency, and they associate this capacity with an ability to meet normative expectations. I argue that although under certain conditions stimulant drug treatment may increase the risk of a threat to authenticity, there are ways to minimise this risk and to maximise the benefits of stimulant drug treatment. Medical professionals in particular should help children to flourish with stimulant drug treatments, in good and in bad conditions. (shrink)
Authenticity in Normative Ethics
Maximize Presupposition! And Local Contexts.Raj Singh - 2011 - Natural Language Semantics 19 (2):149-168.details
Maximize Presupposition! is an economy condition that adjudicates between contextually equivalent competing structures. Building on data discovered by O. Percus, I will argue that the constraint is checked in the local contexts of embedded constituents. I will argue that this architecture leads to a general solution to the problem of antipresupposition projection, and also allows I. Heim’s ‘Novelty/Familiarity Condition’ to be eliminated as a constraint on operations of context change.
Presupposition in Philosophy of Language
Bhai Vir Singh: Poet of the Sikhs.Richard J. Cohen, Gurbachan Singh Talib, Harbans Singh & Yann Lovelock - 1979 - Journal of the American Oriental Society 99 (3):541.details
Punjab Past and Present: Essays in Honor of Dr. Ganda Singh.Richard J. Cohen, Harbans Singh & N. Gerald Barrier - 1979 - Journal of the American Oriental Society 99 (3):542.details
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SCMP: Special Police Units to Prevent Trouble When Hongkongers Vote
Posted: August 22, 2016 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Asia, Breaking News, China, Global, Politics | Tags: Al Jazeera, Amnesty International, Beijing, China, Community service, Hong Kong, Hong Kong independence movement, Protest, South China Morning Post, Wong brothers | 1 Comment
South China Morning Post reports: Hong Kong police will hold unprecedented election security drills next week ahead of the Legislative Council polls, and mobilise all regional response teams set up after the 2014 Occupy protests to tackle social or political disturbances, the Post has learned.
“We will discuss tactics to be used during the elections. They need to update their knowledge about the latest equipment. So that everyone is on the same page about the operation. We learned a lesson from the Mong Kok riot. We want no blunders.”
Some 2,000 officers in five Regional Response Contingents drawn from the elite Police Tactical Unit and Emergency Units, among others, will be on standby for any mob violence on September 4, when more than 3.7 million eligible voters fan out across 595 polling stations to vote in the city’s most critical elections to date.
A senior police source told the Post that the risk level during the election period was “not very high”, based on initial assessments, but the force would not take any chances, especially given concerns about protest action by radical localists.
“The five regional teams will stand by during this period and will be deployed immediately in case of any trouble. They know their districts the best and have laid out clear manpower arrangements. A heavy police presence could put pressure on voters and impact the way they vote. So we have to be very careful.”
“Potential threats are there, especially with two returning officers receiving threatening letters just recently after disqualifying localist hopefuls,” the source said.
“The five regional teams will stand by during this period and will be deployed immediately in case of any trouble. They know their districts the best and have laid out clear manpower arrangements.” But the source also noted: “A heavy police presence could put pressure on voters and impact the way they vote. So we have to be very careful.”
The backlash so far has not been violent against the government’s recent decision to disqualify Legco candidates who advocate independence for Hong Kong, but some election officials responsible have received threats by mail.
The manpower arrangements were adopted as part of lessons learned during the 2014 civil disobedience campaign and the Mong Kok riot in February. The force established the response teams in the Hong Kong Island, Kowloon East and West, and New Territories North and South regions last year. Read the rest of this entry »
Hong Kong Bookstore Disappearances Shock Publishing Industry
Posted: November 12, 2015 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Art & Culture, Asia, Censorship, China, Mediasphere | Tags: Beijing, China, CY Leung, Hong Kong, Occupy movement, Pan-democracy camp, President of the People's Republic of China, United States, Wong brothers, Xi Jinping | 1 Comment
In a frenetic commercial district of Hong Kong, sandwiched between shops selling vitamins and clothing to tourists, the Causeway Bay Bookstore touts itself as the authority on Chinese politics.
Juliana Liu reports: The tiny shop specialises in selling gossipy paperbacks that are highly critical of China’s leadership. They are particularly popular with mainland Chinese visitors who cannot buy the banned books at home.
But two weeks ago, four men who work for the bookstore and its affiliated publishing house went missing. Their colleagues believe they have been detained by Chinese officials because of their work.
One of their associates, Mr Lee, told BBC News: “I suspect all of them were detained. Four people went missing at the same time.”
Among them is Gui Minhai, a China-born Swedish national who is the owner of Mighty Current, the publishing house that owns the bookstore.
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According to Mr Lee, who declines to give his full name for fear of reprisals by Chinese officials, the publisher last communicated with colleagues via email on 15 October from the city of Pattaya in Thailand, where he owns a holiday home.
Mr Gui had written to tell printers to prepare for a new book and that he would send the material shortly. He has not been seen since.
The others are Lui Bo, general manager of Mighty Current, and Cheung Jiping, the business manager of the publishing house. Both have wives who live in Shenzhen, and were last seen there.
Lui Bo, general manager of Mighty Current publishing house, is among those missing
The fourth missing man is Lam Wingkei, manager of the bookstore, who was last seen in Hong Kong.
“I am quite certain that the main target was Mr Gui. They wanted to prevent him from publishing that book,” said Mr Lee, who was not privy to what the publisher had been writing about.
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“I think the others were taken because they thought the contents of the book had already been distributed.”
‘Deeply troubling’
Mr Lee said Mr Lam’s wife had filed a missing persons report with the Hong Kong police, who have confirmed the case to the BBC.
Calls to China’s Foreign Ministry office in Hong Kong have gone unanswered. Attempts to reach the relatives of the four men have been unsuccessful.
The tiny shop sells paperbacks that are highly critical of China’s leadership and banned in mainland China
Sources close to the families fear international attention may hurt more than help.
Rights groups have expressed concern about the disappearances.
“We think that if the information is true, it is a deeply troubling case and it will have serious implications about the deterioration of freedom of expression in Hong Kong,” said Amnesty International‘s China researcher Patrick Poon.
Government influence?
Freedom of the press is guaranteed in Hong Kong. But many in the publishing business say the Chinese government has begun to exert its influence in the industry. Read the rest of this entry »
Hong Kong University Purge
Posted: October 8, 2015 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Asia, Censorship, China, Education, Global | Tags: Beijing, China, Communist Party of China, Democracy, Democratic Party (United States), Freedom House, Hong Kong, Pro-Beijing camp, Wong brothers, Xi Jinping | Leave a comment
Pro-Beijing Forces Target a Top School’s Leaders to Intimidate Professors.
The new school term in Hong Kong is off to a bad start. A year after university students led mass protests for democracy, the government is taking revenge against pro-democracy voices in the academy.
The crackdown is especially harsh at elite Hong Kong University, where the governing council last week blocked the appointment of former law dean Johannes Chan to the senior post of pro-vice chancellor. Mr. Chan was the only candidate recommended by a search committee.
The problem is that Mr. Chan is a human-rights and constitutional lawyer with moderate pro-democracy views. He has done academic work with his HKU law colleague Benny Tai, founder of the group Occupy Central With Love and Peace, which helped start the street protests last year.
For months Mr. Chan faced a smear campaign, with hundreds of articles in pro-Beijing newspapers condemning his “meddling in politics.” Critics accused him of mishandling a donation to Mr. Tai, but the governing council cleared him of wrongdoing earlier this year. Nevertheless the council denied his appointment last week by a 12-8 vote.
[Read the full text here, at WSJ]
Council deliberations are meant to be confidential, but leaks suggest Mr. Chan was supported by the council members drawn from HKU’s faculty. Read the rest of this entry »
The Future of Hong Kong: Bumpy Road Ahead
Posted: October 6, 2015 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Asia, China, Think Tank | Tags: Beijing, China, Communist Party of China, CY Leung, Hong Kong, Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Pan-democracy camp, United States, Wong brothers, Xi Jinping | Leave a comment
Michael Mazza writes: On September 28, protesters marked the anniversary of the start of last year’s Umbrella Revolution, in which 200,000 Hong Kongers took to the streets to demand genuine democracy for their city. The demonstrations ended after over two months of occupation, with the protesters failing to achieve their ends.
Although the democratic bloc in the Hong Kong legislature blocked implementation of Beijing’s preferred plan—the Chief Executive would be directly elected, but with candidates approved by a pro-Beijing nominating committee—it marked a pyrrhic victory. In rejecting what surely amounted to sham democracy, the city was left with its extant political system intact, leaving Hong Kongers no direct say in the appointment of the city’s leader. Read the rest of this entry »
China: Student Leaders Plead Not Guilty
Posted: September 1, 2015 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Asia, China, Global, Law & Justice | Tags: Beijing, China, Greater China, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Federation of Students, Moral and National Education, Occupy Central, Protest, Unlawful assembly, Wong brothers | Leave a comment
Three prominent student leaders of last year’s Occupy campaign have pleaded not guilty in Eastern Court to charges arising out of a protest at the forecourt of government headquarters in Tamar.
The three are the convenor of the student activist group Scholarism, Joshua Wong, the Secretary-General of the Federation of Students, Nathan Law, and the former secretary-general of the federation, Alex Chow.
Wong is accused of taking part in an unlawful assembly and inciting others to do so as well. Law faces one charge of inciting others to take part in an unlawful assembly, while Chow is accused of taking part in an unlawful assembly.
The offences are alleged to have been committed on September 26, 2014. Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] End of the Umbrella Revolution: ‘Hong Kong Silenced’
Posted: July 21, 2015 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Asia, Censorship, China, Crime & Corruption | Tags: Beijing, Chief Executive of Hong Kong, Civil Human Rights Front, CY Leung, Flag, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Federation of Students, Hong Kong people, Pan-democracy camp, Protest, Transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong, Wong brothers | Leave a comment
In September 2014, VICE News documented the birth of the so-called Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong. When students organized a weeklong strike to protest China’s handling of the local election process, the government responded with tear gas.
Thousands of Hong Kong residents took to the city’s streets in solidarity with the students and the protesters occupied several major roads for weeks on end.
[Read more about the Umbrella Movement at punditfromanotherplanet.com]
Nearly two months into the occupation, the demands and resolve of the protesters remained unchanged. They started to become fatigued and divided against each other, however, and public support for their cause began to decline. The movement was under immense pressure to either escalate their action, or to retreat and give back the streets.
When VICE News returned to Hong Kong near the end of 2014 to check in on the protesters, we witnessed the final days of the Umbrella Movement’s pro-democracy demonstrations.
Watch “Hong Kong Rising”
Read “Hong Kong Leader Warns Concessions Could Lead to ‘Anarchy,’ as Scuffles Break Out in Parliament” Read the rest of this entry »
Hong Kong: Tiananmen Vigil Highlights a Rift
Posted: May 27, 2015 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Asia, China, Global | Tags: Chief Executive of Hong Kong, China, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Federation of Students, Malaysia, Moral and National Education, Penang, Tiananmen Square, Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, Wong brothers | 2 Comments
Some student groups won’t join annual vigil on June 4
HONG KONG— Isabella Steger reports: Every year for a quarter-century, large Hong Kong crowds have commemorated the 1989 crackdown on student protesters in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. This June 4, some young Hong Kongers say they won’t join in.
Much like in Beijing in 1989, student groups were at the forefront of the monthslong pro-democracy protests that paralyzed much of Hong Kong last year and which challenged Beijing on how Hong Kong should elect its leader.
“I feel very sad. It’s a watershed year in my life” she said. “To call the ocean of candlelight ceremonial or perfunctory, it’s just not fair.”
— Claudia Mo, an opposition lawmaker and former journalist who was in Beijing during the 1989 crackdown
Unlike in Beijing, the Hong Kong protests ended peacefully, though with no visible concession from the Chinese government. What the rallies also did was lay bare a growing chasm between old and young over Hong Kong’s identity and relationship with Beijing. That rift is now playing out over the annual Tiananmen vigil, with some student groups saying Hong Kongers should focus on democratic rights in the territory rather than on the mainland.
“Every year it’s the same, we sing the same songs and watch the same videos. For some people, going to the vigil is a bit like clocking in. Should we continue looking back on a historical event, or focus on the more urgent situation here now?”
— Cameron Chan, 20, a social-sciences student at the University of Hong Kong
The University of Hong Kong’s student union will organize its own June 4 event “to reflect on the future of democracy in Hong Kong.” Separately, the Hong Kong Federation of Students, the main group leading last year’s protests, said that for the first time it won’t participate in the vigil as an organization.
A pro-democracy protester sits on a barricade at a protest site in the Mongkok district of Hong Kong on October 26, 2014. Four weeks after tens of thousands of Hong Kongers took to the streets demanding free leadership elections for the semi-autonomous Chinese city. Philippe Lopez/AFP/Getty Images
“I feel very sad,” said Claudia Mo, an opposition lawmaker and former journalist who was in Beijing during the 1989 crackdown. “It’s a watershed year in my life” she said. “To call the ocean of candlelight ceremonial or perfunctory, it’s just not fair.”
“Going to the vigil is a bit like clocking in.”
—Cameron Chan, University of Hong Kong student
But to Cameron Chan, 20, a social-sciences student at the University of Hong Kong, it is precisely that the annual vigil has become such a fixture that is the problem.
[Read the full story here, at WSJ]
The student group’s decision is baffling to many democracy supporters in the city, who see the annual candlelight vigil in Hong Kong’s Victoria Park to remember the Tiananmen victims as an important civic duty—not least because it’s the only mass commemoration of the event in the Greater China universe.
Last year’s pro-denmocracy protests in Hong Kong were led by students, here seen gathered in front of the offices of Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying on Oct. 2.Photo: Zuma Press
“I don’t see how Hong Kong can fully divorce itself from democracy movements on the mainland.”
—Joshua Wong, student leader
“I cannot understand [the students’] thinking,” said Jack Choi, a 36-year-old who works in finance and has been going to the vigil on and off since 2000. “It’s two separate issues. Our mother is China, if the mother is not free, how can the child be?” Read the rest of this entry »
6 Questions You Might Have About Hong Kong’s Umbrella Revolution
Posted: October 6, 2014 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Asia, China, Global, Mediasphere | Tags: Demonstration (people), Hong Kong, James Nachtwey, Mong Kok, Mongkok, Pan-democracy camp, Photography, Wong brothers | 2 Comments
Democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong. Students and pro-democracy citizens being attacked and shouted at by anti-demonstration group in Mongkok. Pro-police rally. Joshua Wong, 17-year-old protest leader.
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FireChat Messaging App Gains Users During Hong Kong Protests
Posted: September 29, 2014 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Asia, Censorship, China, Global | Tags: Beijing, Bluetooth, Facebook, FireChat, Hong Kong, Micha Benoliel, Open Garden, Protest, San Francisco, Twitter, Wong brothers | 1 Comment
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A new mobile messaging app that enables users to communicate in the absence of cellular or Internet connections is seeing a surge in downloads among Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protesters.
The free FireChat app, which launched in March, was downloaded 100,000 times in Hong Kong between Sunday morning and Monday morning, said Micha Benoliel, co-founder and chief executive of San Francisco-based Open Garden, which developed the app.
“When your smartphone cannot connect to a cellular tower or Wi-Fi it chooses Bluetooth.”
— Benoliel, a 42-year-old France native
It is unclear how many protesters are using it to communicate regularly during the protests, which mark Hong Kong’s most serious confrontation with Beijing in more than a decade. Students and other protesters have flooded the city’s streets in the weeks since Beijing’s decision on Aug. 31 to impose limits on how Hong Kong elects its leader. The protests escalated Sunday, with police using pepper spray and tear gas to disperse demonstrators.
[Also see – VIDEO – Aerial Drone Captures Scale of Hong Kong Protests – WSJ VIDEO]
There have been no confirmed cellular network outages in Hong Kong, though some people have complained of sluggish mobile connections, perhaps due to high numbers of people massed together. Read the rest of this entry »
Joshua Wong: Pro-Beijing Media Accuses Hong Kong Student Leader of U.S. Government Ties
Posted: September 25, 2014 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Asia, China, Global, Law & Justice, Politics | Tags: Beijing, China, Hong Kong, Joshua Wong, Moral and National Education, Wen Wei Po, Wong, Wong brothers | 1 Comment
Mr. Wong came to local fame in 2012 after his Scholarism group, made up of secondary school students, protested against a plan by the Hong Kong government to implement “patriotic education” classes in Hong Kong schools.
Isabella Steger reports: The face of Hong Kong’s student democracy movement came under furious attack by a pro-Beijing newspaper today, upping the ante in the fight over the former British colony’s political future.
On Thursday, Wen Wei Po published an “expose” into what it described as the U.S. connections of Joshua Wong, the 17 year-old leader of student group Scholarism.
“This isn’t the first time that Beijing-friendly media have accused foreign countries of covert meddling in the former British colony.”
The story asserts that “U.S. forces” identified Mr. Wong’s potential three years ago, and have worked since then to cultivate him as a “political superstar.”
“China’s government has long been concerned that Western intelligence agencies might try to exploit the city’s relatively more open political environment to push democracy in the rest of the country.”
Evidence for Mr. Wong’s close ties to the U.S. that the paper cited included what the report described as frequent meetings with U.S. consulate personnel in Hong Kong and covert donations from Americans to Mr. Wong. As evidence, the paper cited photographs leaked by “netizens.” The story also said Mr. Wong’s family visited Macau in 2011 at the invitation of the American Chamber of Commerce, where they stayed at the “U.S.-owned” Venetian Macao, which is owned by Las Vegas Sands Corp.
When asked about Wen Wei Po’s allegations that he was being manipulated by U.S. forces, Mr. Wong denied the idea. “Of course it’s false,” Mr. Wong told China Real Time. In a subsequent statement posted online, Mr. Wong denied every detail in Wen Wei Po’s story. Read the rest of this entry »
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The Future of Eating Out: Inc Impact of COVID-19 - UK - August 2020
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Mintel provides a range of market information across categories including: forecasting and share information; internal and broader market environment information; and the issues that affect the market in question.
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Mintel’s Global COVID-19 Tracker shows that consumer confidence in eating out is gradually improving, with 41% of Brits saying they would feel comfortable going to an outdoor restaurant/bar as of 30 July-7 August compared to 27% at the end of June (on the eve of premises reopening).
The government’s Eat Out to Help Out scheme will help to kickstart the hospitality industry as consumers are incentivised to visit these venues for a meal during the month of August 2020 (from Mondays to Wednesdays). Meanwhile the VAT cut on food and non-alcoholic drinks will help to keep prices down and will ensure more foodservice businesses stay afloat.
As working from home looks set to remain the norm for many office workers for a while longer, lunchtime sandwich shops/food-to-go formats will suffer from the decline in office working/commuting. A drop in tourism will also impact foodservice outlets, restaurants and pubs/bars situated in city locations.
COVID-19 will accelerate the need for functions in food and drink to improve diets and moods, such as weight management and relaxation. Meanwhile, online events (eg livestreaming wine tasting) are helping operators expand access to a wider audience from all over, unlocking greater brand awareness and ecommerce opportunities. UK's Michelin-starred chef Michael O'Hare, for example, streamed live cooking demonstrations on Instagram to accompany his range of nationwide delivery meal kits/recipe boxes.
The impact of COVID-19 on the foodservice sector, with a focus on consumers’ eating out decision-making process.
Consumers’ home delivery/takeaway habits and how these are impacted by the COVID-19 outbreak.
Improvements that consumers would like to see made to foodservice venues and their food offerings.
Consumers’ attitudes towards the value and quality of eating out of home.
In this Report, Mintel analyses consumers’ decision-making process with regards to foodservice venues. The scope of this Report is the eating out-of-home market within the UK, including ordering home delivery/takeaway.
Mintel’s UK foodservice market size is based on consumer expenditure on food and drink (ordered to eat/drink in or for takeaway/home delivery) in pubs/bars, restaurants, coffee shops, hotels (bars, restaurants and room service), roadside outlets/service stations and street food stalls or food courts.
This attitudinal Report explores eating out habits in terms of usage and frequency of visits, changes in usage resulting from COVID-19, interest in menu features and potential opportunities around advanced technologies. The Report also examines selected initiatives by foodservice operators, such as product, venue development and marketing activities.
This update was prepared on 19 August 2020.
The first COVID-19 cases were confirmed in the UK at the end of January 2020 with a small number of cases in February. The government focused on the ‘contain’ stage of its strategy, with the country continuing to operate much as normal. As the case level rose significantly, the government ordered the closure of hospitality venues such as pubs and restaurants (except for takeaway) on 20th March.
A wider lockdown requiring people to stay at home except for essential shopping, exercise and work ‘if absolutely necessary’ followed on 23rd March. Initially, a three-week timeframe was put on the measures, which was extended in mid-April for another three weeks.
On 10 May 2020, the Prime Minister announced revised guidance, recommending that people who could not work from home should return to the workplace, and giving people more scope to spend time out of the home. Further relaxations to lockdown rules were announced in the week of 23rd May, including gradual reopening of non-essential retailers, and increased opportunities for social interaction across households.
On 23 June the government announced that pubs, restaurants, hotels and other holiday accommodation and hairdressers would be allowed to reopen in England from 4 July. The guidelines on social distancing were modified from two metres to ‘one metre-plus’ – from 4 July people in England were advised to keep two metres apart where possible, but where not possible to keep one metre apart while taking ‘mitigating measures’. The guidelines for foodservice also included:
Maintaining social distancing between staff and customers when taking orders and minimising customer self-service of food, cutlery and condiments, which could mean using screens or tablets at tills and counters.
Prioritising contactless payments.
Avoiding clusters of people waiting for or collecting takeaways within a venue.
In Scotland pubs were allowed to open beer gardens from 6 July, and could welcome indoor trade from 15 July, when the two-metre rule was reduced to ‘one metre-plus’ for public transport, hospitality and retail. In Wales pubs and restaurants were allowed to open outdoors only from 13 July and indoors from 3 August, with exemptions made to the two-metre rule for businesses that cannot adhere to this as long as other precautions are taken.
Mintel’s economic assumptions are based on the Office for Budget Responsibility’s central scenario included in its July 2020 Fiscal Sustainability Report. The scenario suggests that UK GDP could fall by 12.4% in 2020, recovering by 8.7% in 2021, and that unemployment will reach 11.9% by the end of 2020, falling to 8.8% by the end of 2021. The current uncertainty means that there is wide variation on the range of forecasts, however, something reflected in the OBR’s own scenarios. In its upside scenario, economic activity returns to pre-COVID-19 levels by Q1 2021. The OBR's more negative scenario, by contrast, would mean that GDP doesn’t recover until Q3 2024.
We are working on the assumption that a vaccine will be available by mid-2021, but that there will be continued disruption to both domestic and global markets for some time after that.
As long as there is not a second wave of infections, social distancing measures should be gradually relaxed over the course of 2020, but we don't expect industries such as hospitality, travel and live entertainment to return to any kind of normality until a vaccine is introduced.
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Postgame Notes: Georgia Tech 65, Tulane 10
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GEORGIA TECH YELLOW JACKETS (2-0) 65, Tulane Green Wave (0-2) 10
SEPTEMBER 12, 2015 • ATLANTA, GA. • Bobby Dodd STADIUM (50,435)
• This is Georgia Tech’s 123rd season of football and the team’s all-time record improved to 714-477-43.
• The Yellow Jackets improved to 37-13 all-time versus Tulane, in the 50th meeting of long-time rivals.
• Tech is 2-0 to open a season for the third consecutive season and for the sixth time in eight years under head coach Paul Johnson.
• The victory extended the Yellow Jackets’ winning streak to three games, and the team’s home winning streak to four.
TEAM NOTES
• Georgia Tech has scored 134 points in two consecutive games to set a modern-day school record (since 1950). The previous record was 115 points in back-to-back wins over Kansas and Middle Tennessee in 2011 (66 vs. Kansas and 49 vs. MTSU). It’s also the most in consecutive games by Tech since 1918 — (128-0 win over NC State and 28-0 win over Camp Gordon).
• Tech surpassed 200 yards rushing for the 16th consecutive game, and 250 yards rushing for the 15th consecutive game — both streaks lead the FBS.
• The Yellow Jackets extended their streak of not being shutout to 227 consecutive games, which is the seventh-longest active streak in the FBS.
• Tech rushed for 439 yards in the game, and now needs 43 more yards to reach the 30,000-yard rushing mark in eight seasons under head coach Paul Johnson.
• Each team opened its season last Thursday night, giving each an extra two days to prep. Under Johnson, Tech improved to 18-9 when an opponent has more than seven days to prep for the spread option.
• Georgia Tech, which scored the first time it touched the ball an FBS-leading 71.4 percent of the time last season, did so again Saturday for the second time in as many games this season.
• Dating back to last season, it’s the seventh time in the last nine games that Georgia Tech has scored on a touchdown on its first possession.
• Georgia Tech has out-scored the opposition in the first half this season, 76-7. Over the last 16 quarters played at Bobby Dodd Stadium, dating back to last season, Tech is out-scoring the opposition 197-32.
INDIVIDUAL NOTES
• Justin Thomas has thrown a touchdown pass in six straight games. His streak began vs. Clemson on Nov. 15, 2014. He had two touchdown passes today – to Qua Searcy (17 yards) and to Micheal Summers (30 yards).
• Adam Gotsis registered a sack on the game’s first play from scrimmage and finished the game with one sack and two tackles for loss. He entered the game with 9.5 career sacks and now has 10.5 career sacks.
• Jamal Golden’s first punt return today (44 yards) was his longest since a career-long 56-yarder versus USC in 2012 Sun Bowl — it’s the third-longest punt return of his career behind another 56-yard return versus Miami in 2012.
• Golden entered the game with 351 career punt return yards. He finished Saturday with 395 and now needs 74 to crack the Yellow Jackets’ career top-10 list (Tyler Evans is 10th with 469 yards between 2006-07).
• Opponents scored off nine of 18 takeaways last year, and are already 0-of-2 this year. Since 2014, Georgia Tech’s edge in points-off turnover scoring is +106 (157-51).
• Qua Searcy is the first Jacket with both a rushing and receiving touchdown in the same game since Synjyn Days versus Virginia on Nov. 1, 2014.
• For Chris Milton, that’s his 6th career blocked kick (4th career blocked punt). He blocked 3 punts in 2013, and PAT & FG in 2014.
• Milton’s blocked punt was the first by the Yellow Jackets since KeShun Freeman swatted one versus Virginia on Nov. 1, 2014.
• Since 2013, the Yellow Jackets have blocked 12 kicks. Milton has six of them. The Jackets have also blocked five punts since 2013 and Milton has four of those blocks.
• True freshman WR Brad Stewart made his first career catch in the game — a 13-yard strike from Justin Thomas on Tech’s third drive.
• Senior DT Adam Gotsis made his team-leading 30th consecutive start.
• With 71 yards rushing today, Justin Thomas moves up a spot on Tech’s career rushing yards list to number 32 with 1,393 career rushing yards. He needs four yards to surpass former teammate Synjyn Days (1,396) for 31st.
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HRH Crown Princess Mary of Denmark Opens “Råd til Livet” in Aalborg.
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On Tuesday, May 12, 2015, Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Mary of Denmark accompanied by representatives from the Mary Fonden opened, Råd til Livet (Advice for Life), at Mødrehjælpen in Aalborg.
According to the Danish royal court, Råd til Livet provides “…free economic, legal and social counseling to women that have been subjected to physical, psychological or economic violence, and women, who because of other personal issues, have lost track of the economy.”
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It’s officially Autumn. After a roller coaster of a year and a month of rest and rejuvenation in August, myself and the team at Rising Vibe are back at work, navigating the ‘new normal’ and challenging our clients to place wellbeing at the heart of their culture.
There’s always a distinct gear change at this time of year and it’s no different in nature. It won’t be long before we see the familiar ‘V’ formation of migrating geese as they head south to sunnier climates. I’ve always been fascinated by how and why they do this. So whilst on holiday at the lodge this summer, I did a little research and discovered this phenomenon to be a great metaphor for business.
‘By flying in an echelon, or ‘V’ formation, the whole flock adds a 71% greater flying range than if each bird flew alone. As each goose flaps its wings it creates an ‘uplift’ for the birds that follow.’
Running a successful business is a long and arduous journey, often at high altitude. It’s also a team effort. Like the birds, Rising Vibe share a vision and a common direction.
We get to where we’re going much easier because we work together towards a common goal.
‘When a goose falls out of formation, it suddenly feels the drag and resistance of flying alone. It quickly moves back into formation to take advantage of the lifting power of the bird immediately in front of it.’
Sometimes people have a wobble. They decide they’re not happy in the flock anymore. You think they’re part of the team, but they’re not. Work has become a drag and they’re not adding value. In these situations open, honest conversations around how to leave the flock ‘well’, are the best policy. The issues arise when those people remain in the flock just to benefit themselves and when the time is right, exit without transparency, letting the rest of the flock down.
Sometimes we just don’t fit with a flock. Or we used to, but things have changed. This is fine as long as there’s transparency.
‘The lead bird works the hardest. If it flew the whole way at the front, it would die of exhaustion. When the lead goose tires, it rotates back into the formation and another goose takes over.’
We need hierarchy in business for decision making and accountability, but hierarchy doesn’t necessarily translate into importance. As the founder of Rising Vibe, you might say I’m the lead goose. But over the summer I needed some time-out. I felt safe enough with my team to be able to say “I’m struggling and I need to pull back.” Furthermore, I had complete faith that whilst I was away from the business, they would be getting on with the job at hand and I wouldn’t be walking back into a barrage of problems on my return.
The Rising Vibe team are interdependent on each other’s unique skills, capabilities, talents and resources. So every member of the flock adds value and shares equal importance. At one point or another, we all head up the ‘V’ in the roles we have.
Within a business, it’s crucial that people not only feel safe enough to say when they’re struggling and ask for help, but also that there is someone trustworthy, ready and willing to take the lead in their place.
Which brings me to the coasters. Those people surfing the slipstream with minimal effort and never taking their place at the front. Contributing to the team isn’t just about doing your job, it’s about being available and picking up the slack when others fall back.
And let’s not forget the goslings. Every flock has it’s younger members. Those that aren’t ready to take the lead at the front, but need the rest of the flock to push them a little closer to it. A great team nurtures the newbies, despite their own workload. Great mentorship and role modelling can future proof a business for years to come.
So take stock of your flock. Be mindful of your goslings and watch out for those that may be falling out of formation or surfing the slipstream. When we fly in formation with the people who are heading where we want to go, we’re at ease. We’re willing to accept help and give our help to others. We feel safe. We share ideas. We collaborate much more effectively. True innovation comes when the team is truly aligned.
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Howard County School Board endorses Black Lives Matter Week of Action by Resolution
Columbia, Maryland- On January 24th, in a decision of 5-0-3, Howard County School Board members adopted a resolution to endorse the Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action. This marked the first community win for the newly formed Racial Justice NOW! DMV chapter, who has been organizing with Howard county parents, youth, and community members.
The Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action will take place from Monday, February 4th through Friday, February 8th. Black Lives Matter at School is a national coalition of educators organizing for racial justice in education. The resolution allows educators and students to participate in events and instructional activities for the week of action without fear of repercussions; and solidifies the county’s commitment to fostering a school system where Black students’ lives matter, and where our Black students, educators, and their families are treated with respect and dignity.
The resolution was introduced by Mavis Ellis, the first African American chairperson of the Howard County School Board and was drafted by Black community members and non-black allies. The Howard County Public School System now joins a long list of other school systems, and organizations in endorsing the week, including the National Education Association, the nation’s largest educators’ union, and the Maryland State Education Association, the state’s largest educators’ union.
“This act reminds Black students, families, and staff members that they are seen and valued at the highest levels of school governance. Although it is clear that there is more work to be done, this vote is an affirming step toward equity in our county” said Jessica Nichols, a Social Studies teacher at River Hill High School. Jessica was one of several Howard County residents, parents, and retired teachers, who gave powerful testimony in support of the resolution.
The local educator’s union, the Howard County Education Association (HCEA), has yet to endorse the week of action. HCEA endorsed candidates for school board, Vicky Cutroneo, Jen Mallo, and Christina Delmont-Small were the abstentions, citing “process issues” as their rationale for non-support.
During the 2017-2018 school year, from February 5 to 9, thousands of educators around the U.S. wore Black Lives Matter shirts to school and taught lessons about structural racism, intersectional black identities, black history, and anti-racist movements for a nationally organized week of action: Black Lives Matter at School. Educators in over 20 cities participated in this national uprising to affirm the lives of Black students, teachers, and families.
Pre-K through 12th grade teachers of all content areas will be encouraged to teach a developmentally appropriate, culturally relevant and responsive curriculum, starting with the week of action and continuing throughout the year, that uplifts and affirms Black lives and Black identify.
The current plans for the week of action were developed by a local committee of students, parents, educators, and community members and will be related to the four demands of the Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action:
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Among the planned community events will be a workshop on Zero Tolerance, School to Prison Pipeline, and Restorative Justice, followed by a panel of students. The event will also highlight Black owned businesses and organizations. Additionally, on the Wednesday of the week of action, students at individual schools will be planning actions or events that will highlight and uplift Black student voice in intentional discussions of systemic racism, social injustice, Black history, self-worth, freedom, and justice. On that day, educators, students, and community members are encouraged to wear Black Lives Matter shirts or all black clothing to show support for our Black students and families.
Each evenings’ event is open to press, where educators and community members who organized the event will be available for interviews.
If you are interested in curriculum resources, learning about events in Howard County, or more general information about the Howard County Black Lives Matter in Our Schools Week of Action, please explore the National Black Lives Matter at School website www.blacklivesmatteratschool.com or visit the The National Black Lives Matter in Our Schools or the Howard County Black Lives Matter in Our Schools Facebook Pages.
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Florida Man Steals 50,000 Boxes Of Citrus Fruit
By Luz Roberts crime, food, law
The common food pyramid implies that people should eat two to four servings of fruit a day. While that may seem like a tall order to some, it won’t stop stores and vendors from trying to keep their customers healthy. Of course, one man decided to take that noble goal into his own hands — and faced arrest because of it.
To be fair, Bradley Reiter of Winter Haven, Florida, wasn’t exactly working with a clean slate. In March 2014 he was contracted to harvest oranges and grapefruit from the local groves, but he ended up taking it too far. He never paid the grove owners for the fruit he harvested, and despite aims to sell his bounty he didn’t have the license to do so legally. Even then, he made off with a huge amount of fruit over time — roughly 50,000 boxes, or a worth of $540,000.
Reiter might not have gotten far enough in his plan to profit, but he did make it far enough to get in legal trouble. In his quest to build a citrus stockpile, he ended up making deals with three separate groves, forming his own company to distribute the fruit, and most distressingly, he entered a grove in Bartow without permission to steal their harvest. Given how far he went, it’s safe to assume Reiter didn’t have the best of intentions — and now his arrest has likely left him with a bitter taste in his mouth.
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Travel on Noyac Road can be hectic
One of the biggest problems faced by people living in Noyac —Â especially those living on or near Noyac Road —Â is traffic. With that traffic comes speeders, many who are rushing to points east, bypassing an ever-more crowded Montauk Highway. There have been efforts to slow traffic down, most recently with electronic signs that post drivers’ speeds, but the only real solution, according to Southampton Town Police Lieutenant William Hughes, is enforcement.
“We can give warnings to people, but warnings don’t get the job done,” said Hughes. “It takes tickets and summonses.”
Lt. Hughes was the invited guest speaker at the Noyac Civic Council’s monthly meeting on Tuesday night at the Old Noyac School House, perched just a few feet from what town officials have said is the busiest roadway they maintain.
“I don’t have any magic pill for you, or for some of the problems you have,” said Lt. Hughes. “But the best thing is that I am here.”
Lt. Hughes told the members of the civic council that it was important to have a good and open relationship between the community and the police department in order to address the many problems.
“If there’s a bad relationship, if the community and the police are not on the same page, it doesn’t work,” said Lt. Hughes. “We need to have the help of the community.”
Lt. Hughes said Noyac was different from many other areas he has worked in, intimating the degree of problems is greater elsewhere.
“In Noyac it’s not about taking back the neighborhood; it’s about maintaining a beautiful community.”
When it comes to speeders and controlling traffic, he said, “we encourage our officers to give summonses.” He said most of the patrolmen are radar trained, and many are now transitioning to laser technology.
In general, it is important for residents to be familiar with neighbors and the community. And when communicating problems with the police department, it is best to do it in person.
In an emergency, people should dial 911. But for non-emergency calls, residents should dial police at 728-5000.
“Sometimes it’s just a barking dog, but sometimes it’s a serious accident,” said Lt. Hughes. In either case he recommended asking to see a police officer in person. “You want to see the person face to face; convey the message directly.”
Civic council vice president George Heine, who owns the Whalebone General Store on Noyac Road, said he has regularly seen officers near the Morton Wildlife Preserve, and at the traffic roundabout in North Haven, but asked if there could be a greater police presence in the corridor between Trout Pond and Long Beach.
Hughes said he could have officers move from the other spots, but cautioned they would “not be able to write the warning,” meaning the yellow caution sign that recommends drivers reduce their speed to 20. Despite the recommended lower speed, the limit on the road is still 35 mph.
Resident Jim Posner, who acknowledged “taxes is a scare word,” asked Hughes if he had the budget necessary to run the department.
“No,” said Hughes, adding that more police officers would top the list of needs.
Patrick Witty asked what residents should do about consistent, noisy parties from rental houses.
Hughes said residents should call 728-5000, ask to see an officer, and then fill out an affidavit.
“That might be a problem, a neighbor might not want to fill out an affidavit, then go to court,” observed Witty, who asked if a police officer’s testimony alone would be enough.
“I’ve seen courts say it’s not good enough,” said Hughes.
Resident Elena Loreto, who was elected second vice president of the council Tuesday night, asked what recourse bicyclists have who have been harassed by drivers.
“If you get a plate number, contact the police,” said Hughes, who added he twice had a similar experience.
“The courts handled it very well,” he said.
In other business, civic council president Chuck Neuman told the membership he had met with Southampton Town officials about the town taking over ownership of Noyac Road from Suffolk County.
“The town has to figure out the process,” said Neuman, “we have to keep meeting with people.”
Neuman said the council would eventually put a committee together to build alliances with other communities along the road.
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Seth Meyers has a master list of every 'crime' Trump has committed
By Sam Haysom 1 year, 1 month
With the impeachment process in full swing, Seth Meyers decided to pause and take stock on Tuesday night.
"The House judiciary committee released their full impeachment report yesterday, and in it they accused President Trump of committing multiple crimes in addition to those for which he's being impeached," says Meyers in the clip above. "And while we can't talk about every single crime he may have committed, we can at least show them to you.
"And in the meantime, I'm going to sit here and sip my tea."
What follows is a list of 36 "crimes" that scroll quickly up the screen — ranging from "gross negligence" to "shaking Christmas presents the moment they're put under the tree."
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Developers See Risk and Big Reward in Tackling Crazy Zoning Markets
By Cassandra Dowell | July 20, 2014
While some senior living providers see tough zoning laws as a barrier to breaking ground in a certain market, others see an opportunity to stake claim in otherwise uncharted territory.
“In difficult markets to zone there are substantial entitlement hurdles, and usually you’re going to find an underserved population because of the challenges developers have,” says Daniel Gorham, partner with assisted living facility developer Kensington. “If you take the time and money to zone these locations, you can get a good view of the competitive landscape and know where you stand in the foreseeable future in terms of supply and demand.”
Tough markets, like California and New Jersey, are less likely to be overrun with surplus supply because of the state’s more difficult zoning regulations, Gorham says, noting that The Kensington is opening assisted living residences in Sierra Madre, Calif.; Redwood City, Calif.; Redondo Beach, Calif.; Montclair, N.J.; and Falls Church, Va.
In addition, Ziegler recently closed a $140 million financing for a California nonprofit CCRC, which signaled good news for providers willing to put in the effort to break ground in a state known for high barriers to entry. MonteCedro, the not-for-profit public benefit corporation that owns and operates the CCRC, plans to develop 186 independent living units and 20 assisted living units in Altadena, Calif.
“California has a lot of barriers to entry,” Muñoz says in a past SHN article about the CCRC development. “It’s one of the most highly regulated states in the country for senior living.”
Generally, no new developments are coming into those markets because they’re time consuming and expensive to zone, Gorham says, noting that spending the time to develop those markets gives that developer precedence in those communities.
And, while there can be a big reward, there is plenty of risk for operators as well.
Before plans for the development of The Kensington’s assisted living facility in Sierra Madre could be finalized, community members had to vote to approve its construction. Voting on related zoning changes is part of the city’s entitlement process.
“You’ve got to put the project up on a ballot for an up or down vote — that’s a risk some people would look me in the eye and say, ‘You’re crazy to take,’” Gorham says. “And while going through the entitlement process is a gamble — if the community votes to OK development then the provider’s stake in that community is much greater than those areas where community members have less say.”
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Developers flocking to markets undergoing construction booms should be wary, he says.
For example, in Houston, Texas, developers don’t have to wait long to break ground on developments compared to other markets. During the first quarter of this year, Houston cornered 17.4% of the top-10 market in assisted living construction, according to data from National Investment Center for the Seniors Housing & Care Industry (NIC). But, the opportunities some developers eye in easy zoning areas are short-term, Gorham says.
“In Houston you can generally identify a site and be able to build well within a year,” he says. “However, you don’t know where you stand year to year because anybody else who has the same idea can be in your backyard with a newer, maybe better [campus] and be up in running within one to two years.”
Senior housing is unique to other types of property developments because the decision to join such a community is often tough, and personal for residents and their loved ones, Gorham says, noting that successful developers partner with quality operators invested in resident well-being. However, developers looking to build fast often sell fast, which can hurt relationships with the surrounding community.
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SENNEBOGEN 818 M Log-Handler Will Feed New “Clean Energy” Projects For ACGE
Knoxville, TN – The year-old AC Global Energy (ACGE) plant near Knoxville, TN, is a new production facility designed to convert biomass into drop-in the tank fuel. As one of the first commercial application of new “clean energy” technology, the facility was developed as a turnkey operation for ACGE to process locally harvested pulpwood into energy products.
At the front end of the process is a log-loading station that receives truckloads of wood to be fed into a primary chipper. In the center of the loading station is a purpose-built SENNEBOGEN 818 M rubber-tired log-loader, which unloads and stacks the wood, then feeds it to a Laimet helical chipper. The wood chips go through secondary processing before entering a patented CHyP (Cellulose to Hydrogen Process) reactor for conversion into a hydrogen-rich synthetic gas.
Loading the infeed to the process with a clear view of the deck.
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ACGE is a Singapore-based development company specializing in “clean energy” projects. According to John Borden, ACGE’s Business Development Manager in North America, the Knoxville plant is just the first of multiple sites that the company foresees for other nearby centers in the future. “The system is highly scalable, but it’s also economical for smaller production sites, too,” Borden explains. “Any location with a good supply of biomass nearby can put this technology to work economically.”
As the Knoxville operation ramps up in 2018, Borden expects to see it processing as much as 500 tons of wood per day and output up to 7,000,000 gallons of drop-in the tank diesel annually. Secondary streams produce marketable co-products including wood vinegar and premium bio-char.
Stock piling the raw material is done quickly with the 818.
Versatile loading for start-up project
The SENNEBOGEN 818 M provides ACGE with a versatile, purpose-built machine that can handle multiple duties as the operation works up to full capacity. “We considered installing a more traditional stationary loader near the feed deck,” says Borden. “But we decided that a rubber-tired log loader would give us more flexibility. We equipped it with a Timber Grab SGH rotary log grapple to load the incoming wood. We also have an orange peel attachment that the 818 M can use to transfer chips. We receive some of our biomass as chips, instead of logs, so the 818 M is always ready to handle those loads as well as feeding chips into the next stage of the process. It’s even strong enough to pull a decent size log trailer.
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Borden is very familiar with the end-to-end process, having worked the pilot team for four years. “For our loading applications, SENNEBOGEN was always the leader, in my mind. We did our due diligence on other machines, but I saw SENNEBOGEN’s aftersales capabilities in Stanley, NC, and that was a key factor for us. The head office, parts warehouse and training center are very impressive.”
“Our operators like the 818 very much, too,” Borden continues. “It handles very well, and the elevating cab gives them a very direct look into the trucks they’re unloading. The first few trucks were taking longer to unload but, with some experience now, we’re down to about 15 minutes per truck.”
“I will definitely be looking to SENNEBOGEN again when we’re ready to open our next plant. We’re very happy with the service from their distributor here, Power Equipment. Once the CHyP process and the rest of this operation is fully verified, we will be set to repeat the program in new locations.”
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Dolores Park Neighbors Debate Paying Extra To Clean Up Poop, Trash
A handful of residents who live near Dolores Park are proposing an extra $100-$250 tax per household to do the maintenance and cleaning work that city is already supposed to be doing.
The persistent littering, violence, and drug sales at Dolores Park have almost become part of the fabric of the popular destination with the unbeatable hillside view, but many people who live near the park would like to remind you that these are completely correctable problems. A coalition of fed-up residents might take matters into their own hands, as the San Francisco Chronicle reports that Dolores Park neighbors are considering slapping an extra tax onto themselves by forming a Green Benefits District (GBD). Such a designation would add an extra $100-$250 annual tax fee onto more than 4,000 property owners who live in a roughly 30-block area surrounding the park.
Unsurprisingly, the idea of a new tax is not universally popular among the people who would have to pay it.
“We’re talking about paying a third party to organize and perform activities that the city should already be doing,” resident Rick Carell complained to the Chronicle. “How about we get the cops and Public Works to do their damn jobs?”
The Mission Dolores Neighborhood Association also came out swinging against the GBD proposal in a February letter distributed to residents.They complain of an allegedly rigged and biased neighborhood survey where “only 9% of the property owners participated,” and claim that “one third of all money raised will go to administration costs” — that is, six-figure salaries for desk jobs instead the actual manual cleaning of the park.
According to the Department of Public Works, a Green Benefits District oversees a heightened level of maintenance for replacing neighborhood street lamp light bulbs, sidewalk and tree care, and of course, the removal of trash and poop. But DPW also admits that only one GBD has ever been approved by residents, despite at least five of them having been proposed.
One proposed Inner Sunset GBD has been placed on hold, and West Twin Peaks resident Sally Stephens explains why in a San Francisco Examiner op-ed. “A GBD only pays for enhancements of existing services,” she says. “But the City has not provided opponents with an accounting of the existing level of services in the Inner Sunset.” Stephens also points out that the voting process to officially pay for GBD services is operated by the GBD itself, not the Department of Elections, leaving rife opportunities for vote manipulation.
Private contractors will of course lobby hard for these kinds of additional paid services, because it guarantees them more revenue. And the votes are weighted by property size, so large retailers get more votes than homeowners. But as San Francisco poop hysteria reaches ever-more-epic levels, you can see why some people are willing to just pay to make it go away.
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Potrero Hill Shack (Or the Land Under It) Hits Market For $2.5 Million
A literal shack on Potrero Hill has joined the annals of ridiculous real estate listings that make for great sensational news headlines. And yes, it's an obvious tear-down.
Steph Curry Faces Off With Brother Seth In Game 1; Durant Out Due To Injury
In short, the Dubs will have to go at least another game without their playoff stud Durant, due to the strained right calf he sustained in Game 5 of the semifinals against the Houston Rockets.
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Caia Koopman, "Monk"
Monk by Caia Koopman
Limited Edition of 50 (signed & numbered)
Fine art Giclée print on Italian cold-press watercolor paper
Printed by Paragon Press
Species of the month
Hawaiian Monk Seal
Critically endangered (IUCN 3.1)
"I really enjoyed the opportunity to express my concern for rapidly disappearing and critically endangered species in my painting "Monk" for PangeaSeed. My painting portrays the critically endangered Hawaiian Monk seal while the female character symbolizes the souls of a shrinking population and seals past. I believe strongly that we humans, all living things and even the planet itself are intrinsically connected.
When humans are the main cause of a species becoming extinct, even unknowingly, I believe a small part of ourselves dies along with a part of the global ecosystem. In my painting entitled "Monk" the female character represents all humans who are then connected to all life making her and the seal interchangeable. Her ghostlike aura illustrates the near extinction peril of the Hawaiian Monk seal.
The Hawaiian name for the monk seal is Ilio holo I ka uaua, or "dog that runs in rough water" and this is at the center of my piece. This beautiful streamline seal has short hairs on its head earning it its common name for resembling a monk. I particularly love the haunting beauty of the monk's large black eyes and this makes the saying that seals are just dog mermaids so believable.
The Hawaiian Monk seal has an especially small population of only about 1,100 and are threatened by many things including entanglement in fishing nets, loss of habitat and past commercial hunting for their skins.
I have also included in this painting an endangered Ae'o or Hawaiian Stilt, and the I'iwi, which is a species of Hawaiian honeycreeper of which there are many species and many are already extinct. I hope there will be more cooperation in the world to protect the species we have left and to give back habitat rather than the continuous push by humans to take for ourselves and not share."
You can help save monk seals
Donate to organization working to raise awareness and research such as PangeaSeed, The Marine Mammal Center, Marine Conservation Institute etc.
Advocate stronger global and regional action to protect seals and other marine mammals.
Support the establishment and protection of marine protected areas (MPAs).
Recommend ecotourism and dive or snorkel with seals - but remember to look and DO NOT touch these animals. This offers sustainable monetary alternatives to destructive fishing methods.
Think twice before you buy. Do not support the trade of seal furs and marine mammal products and try to reduce your carbon footprint.
Educate yourself, friends and family on the issues facing monk seals and other endangered ocean animals. Act NOW if we wish to save our seas.
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Denmark, Singapore
Saxo Clients Can Trade Online on Singapore Stock Exchange
by Candy Chabada • August 8, 2007 • 0 Comments
Saxo Capital Markets, the Singapore subsidiary of Saxo Bank A/S Denmark, has formalized a data feed arrangement with the exchange regarding the issue that stock listed on the Singapore Exchange (SGX) can now be traded directly via the internet by the global clients of Saxo Bank, an online trading platform, a published report said on 7 August,2007.
Clients of Saxo will be able to trade all Singapore-listed stocks which is the third Asian exchange made available on Saxo trader from their computers anywhere in the world. Investors based in the city-state can also gain direct market access to stocks on 21 exchanges via Saxo’s Platform Saxo Trader, the report said.
“We have been growing by 50 to 60 per cent every year, and we expect to continue at this rate for the foreseeable future,” The Business Times quoted Kevin Ashby, chairman and chief executive of Saxo Capital Markets, as saying.
Saxo Capital Markets was set up in the year 2006 and now has 79 staff. Its parents was established 15 years ago which has more than 1,000 employees in 50 countries. While only 18 percent of investors in the region currently trade online, it is expected to be increased to 30 percent in five years, said Kevin Ashby, chairman and chief executive of Saxo Capital Markets.
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Automotive, Denmark, Malaysia
Danish Automotive Techonology is Coming to Malaysia
by Kittisak Siripornpitak • October 24, 2007 • 0 Comments
Danish- based tuner for the Mercedes-Benz, Kleemann, wants to transfer its technology to Malaysia through a special programme likely to be known as the “Kleemann-vendors programme” or an academy in Malaysia soon.
Kleemann Asia Pacific Sdn Bhd’s managing director Mohd Azad Jasmi said the move would accelerate Malaysia’s desire to be a regional automotive hub by bringing the much needed know-how in upgrading luxury and premium branded cars.
Kleemann Asia Pacific, a joint venture company between Kleemann A/S with its partners in Malaysia, aims to embark on the transfer of technology as early as next year.
“Our job is not merely marketing and distributing the CBU (completely-built-up) Kleemann cars in Malaysia and the Asia Pacific markets, but we also plan to transfer the Kleemann technology from Denmark into Malaysia.
The soft launch for Kleemann Asia Pacific would be held here this Friday where two Kleemann cars — the E55 and ML500 would be introduced.
The company has targeted to market 3,000-4,000 units of the spruced-up cars in the next 12-18 months in view of the growing demand by Mercedes Benz owners to upgrade and custom-fit their cars as well as interest by potential buyers.
“Kleenmann has immense high tech skills and know-how. We plan to leverage on Kleemann’s technology and in the process facilitate Bumiputera or Malaysian vendors in maximising their potential effectively.
“This is not merely about screwdriver technology, this is a very high-tech system, purposely-built, highly-engineered where you have to calculate, design and so on,” he said.
“So, this is what we mean by transfer of technology. We want to bring several of Kleemann’s technologies here, educate Malaysian vendors, leverage on whatever we have in Denmark in Malaysia. This is our development plan for the country,” he said.
Through the vendor or academy programme, he said Kleemann hopes to share its knowledge in the upgrading of engine and wheels in Malaysia for both the domestic and Asia Pacific markets.
Mohd Azad felt such technology transfer would compel other players in the local automotive industry to further enhance their automotive engineering and quality assurance which would indirectly help elevate the industry’s benchmark.
Kleemann Asia Pacific, capitalised at RM3 million and having made an initial investment of RM5 million, was established specifically to carry out various projects, including restyling, upgrading, optimising and customising vehicles for existing Mercedes-Benz owners.
The objective of the company is to penetrate the Asia Pacific market through the distribution of products with Malaysia as a hub or headquarters for Asia Pacific.
Besides increasing the power output, Kleemann also offers brake, suspension, wheels and chassis upgrades for Mercedes-Benz automobiles.
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Notification System
Campus Notification System
Community Notification System
Nothing demonstrates harmony more than hearing bells ring. Imagine hearing hourly chimes and music pealing from Town Hall, Town Square, a civic center, the library or cultural center, the museum, a city park, or an historic downtown area. Wherever the location, carillons add majesty and a sense of peace that unites communities together. “When our community is in a state of peace, it can share that peace with neighboring communities” (Dalai Lama).
With the Schulmerich® Classic Plus™ keyboard interface, you have the ability to play 1-3 bell sounds as well as play the carillon live or program your own melodies. The Schulmerich Celebration® has 8 bell sounds and includes a MIDI tie-in feature to any MIDI-equipped organ console.
In addition to hourly chimes, over 7,800 pre-recorded melodies can be played at certain times of the day and according to seasons. The Schulmerich g5® unit also gives city officials a way to broadcast warnings of imminent danger or severe weather to citizens by using the Mass Notification System. You will also enjoy automated or manual bell ringing, web-based accessibility, programmable capabilities, and a collection of four different bell voices.
Learn more about the Schulmerich digital carillon family.
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Fashionable dog laments outfits it could not wear in 2020
I-League: Katsumi Yusa’s double strike helps Neroca FC beat Indian Arrows in five-goal thriller
Yusa struck in the 68th and 87th (penalty) minutes while Felix Chidi (38th) was the other goal scorer for Neroca in a 3-2 win.
Feb 01, 2019 · 09:00 pm Updated Feb 01, 2019 · 09:14 pm
Katsumi Yusa (R) was the match-winner | I-League / AIFF media
Katsumi Yusa struck a brace as Neroca FC rallied to beat Indian Arrows 3-2 in an exciting I-League match in Bhubaneshwar on Friday.
Yusa struck in the 68th and 87th (penalty) minutes while Felix Chidi (38th) was the other goal scorer for Neroca.
Boris Thangjam (34th) and Rohit Danu (62th) found the target for the home side in the match played at the Kalinga Stadium.
The match began on a slow pace with Neroca playing a much-organised game and enjoying better possession. The Manipur-based side had some fine attempts, but a goal eluded them due to lack of good finishing.
The Arrows, who were trying hard to come back into the game, kept pushing on the counter but could not really succeed in doing that.
Their efforts, however, were soon rewarded when Boris made the most of an opportunity and converted a cross from the right side to fire in a goal for Arrows in the 34th minute. This was also the 200th goal of the I-League this season.
Neroca soon found the equaliser four minutes later through Chidi. The game thereafter opened up a bit and both sides were attacking in short bursts but neither of them could convert any of the chances that came their way. The first half ended 1-1.
In the second half, a defensive error cost Neroca dear as they conceded a goal in the 62nd minute.
Rohit Danu made the most of the situation as he dispossessed the Neroca center-back and showed his alertness to comfortably find the back of the net to regain the lead for Indian Arrows.
However, the Imphal side, who finished runners-up last season, yet again found an equaliser through a brilliant header from Yusa in the 68th minute. The Japanese was given time and space in the Arrows penalty area and he headed past the opposition goalkeeper off a cross from the right flank.
The game thereafter saw Neroca creating many chances but they were unable to find the lead until the 87th minute when a handball inside the Arrows box saw the visitors being awarded a penalty kick.
Yusa made no mistake in finding the back of the net to seal the match for his side.
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You can’t rely on courts to beat the Labour right
Supporters of Jeremy Corbyn are avoiding a political fight with the leadership, writes Nick Clark
Leading activists suspended from Labour as assault on the left continues
Two leading left wing Jewish activists have been suspended from the Labour Party for speaking out on Palestine and antisemitism.
Labour leadership ramps up attacks on left
Labour’s leaders have threatened to purge “thousands and thousands” of their own members from the party in a campaign to smash the left.
Labour’s long history of support for the Israeli state
Attacks on support for Palestine aren’t explained by focusing on an ‘Israel lobby’, says Nick Clark
Labour Party ramps up attacks on left for speaking out
The Labour Party is clamping down on its own members for showing solidarity with Jeremy Corbyn and speaking out against attacks on the left.
Keir Starmer is still on the attack
Labour party leader Keir Starmer is holding Jeremy Corbyn to ransom as part of an all-out assault on the left in the party.
SWP open letter to socialists in the Labour Party
The Socialist Workers Party has issued an open letter to socialists in the Labour Party.
Why the Labour left loses
Keir Starmer is waging a war on the left in Labour. Nick Clark explains how the party’s structures and methods mean the left is always at the mercy of the right
Letters: Continue the fight for Palestine—but outside of the Labour Party
The right has continuously deemed left wing activists who criticise Israel and its oppressive actions towards Palestinians as antisemites.
Corbyn’s return to the Labour Party based on concessions to the right
Jeremy Corbyn has been readmitted to the Labour Party after making another concession to right wing efforts to silence criticism of Israel.
Starmer ramps up his war on beleaguered Labour left
The Labour Party upped its crackdown on its own activists last week, suspending leading members in Bristol for supporting former leader Jeremy Corbyn.
Croydon sends a sign of councils’ crisis
Croydon council in south London has issued a section 114 notice banning all spending except for statutory services for vulnerable people.
Letters - Don’t be fooled by the false promise of nuclear jobs
Socialists and environmental campaigners should have no illusions in nuclear power.
Break the weak Tories
The Tories are in trouble. Their lockdown is unlikely to significantly cut coronavirus cases as it leaves key areas of transmission, such as schools, open.
Activists speak out—the left’s hope lies outside Labour
Keir Starmer’s suspension of Jeremy Corbyn and the war on the left has sparked arguments about whether the Labour Party is really a vehicle for change. Here members—and some of those who have left in response to the attacks—tell Nick Clark how the witch hunt has changed the party
The left in Britain and the US after two earthquakes
Win or lose, Donald Trump has upended the politics of the United States.
LETTERS—Time to tear down the jails
One of my young family members was in prison a while ago. During our visit we were treated like prisoners ourselves—made to wait endlessly in the shabby, dirty facilities.
Debates and divisions in unions and the left on how to respond to the attacks in Labour
Two online rallies revealed debates on how the left should respond to the right’s assault.
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There is now no doubt that Labour leader Keir Starmer is determined to drive the left out of the party—or force it into humiliated submission.
It’s time to leave Labour
Keir Starmer’s assault on the left shows that Labour is a trap for socialists. It’s time to leave and fight for real change argues Charlie Kimber, editor of Socialist Worker
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Visitors to Angkor Wat come for many reasons. Many come in search of history, others to explore the extraordinary temples and its architecture or the massive, mysterious faces are carved into the Bayon Temple at Angkor Thom. Giant, mysterious faces are carved into the Bayon Temple at Angkor Thom. Beng Mealea or Bung Mealea is a temple in the Angkor Wat period located 40 km east of the main group of temples at Angkor, Cambodia, on the ancient royal highway to Preah Khan Kompong Svay.
There’s no right or wrong way to explore Angkor Archaeological Park, but you can be strategic about it. Start with official 'Wonder of the World' and the largest religious site on Earth, Angkor Wat but get up early to see it at sunrise as they'll be a lot of people with the same idea. Alternatively, go for a hilltop complex like Phnom Bakheng at dawn to avoid crowds (most people visit here at sunset). It's best to do most of your exploring before the midday sun hits, although the 'Tombraider Temple', Ta Prohm, is a good one to go to in the afternoon, as it's shaded (read: half-eaten) by tightly-knotted banyan trees. Get the three-day temple pass ($62) if you're here for anything longer than a weekend break, as it's worth taking time to explore the smaller, off-road temples like Preah Pithu, in and around the main city of Angkor Thom.
For the more adventurous, you can make the one-hour trip outside of town to the mysterious twelfth century temple, Beng Mealea. Found deep in the jungle, it has the same 'unearthed' feel as Ta Prohm, but without the tourists queuing up to do an Angelina Jolie pose in front of it. Scrambling around piles of crumbling bricks and roots wrapped around sandstone, you'll feel like the true explorer of a lost empire.
Angkor National Museum
Get some background at Angkor National Museum. Put it all into context at this comprehensive museum, which explores the Buddhist and Hindu treasures found at the nearby temple sites and tells the full story of the powerful Angkor civilization. As the museum gives an overview, rather than detailed explanations of the early Khmer royals and their grand schemes, it might be better to go before you visit the Angkor complex.
Sunrise at Angkor Wat
Watch the sun rise over the Angkor Temple to reveal the natural beauty of this area. Roam around and gaze across at the amazing scenery and unrivaled architecture. Stroll through the temple's complex chambers and learn the site's fascinating history.
The Angkor Archaeological Park Opens 5:30 am until 5:30 pm.
Angkor Archaeological Park Pass (Tickets) can be bought at the main ticket sales booths on the road from Siem Reap to Angkor Wat. All Tickets are personalized with your name and Photo (which will be taken at there).
TIP!: Should bring Sunscreen to avoid Sunburns
The Last King of Angkor Wat
by Graeme Base
Among the ruins of Angkor Wat, Tiger, Monkey, Water Buffalo, and Gecko argue over who would make the greatest king. An ancient elephant suggests a race to the top of the hill to prove each creature’s speed, strength, and cunning. But along the way, their strengths and weaknesses are revealed. Will any of them be good enough to be king?Graeme Base’s luscious illustrations of the Cambodian temple complex Angkor Wat—one of the most beautiful ruins in existence and known to people all over the world—are combined with a search-and-find feature in this exciting new tale! A brief history of the temple is included.
Go temple-hopping around Angkor Wat
There’s no right or wrong way to explore Angkor Archaeological Park, but you can be strategic about it. Start with official 'Wonder of the World' and the largest religious site on Earth, Angkor Wat but get up early to see it at sunrise as they'll be a lot of people with the same idea. Alternatively, go for a hilltop complex like Phnom Bakheng at dawn to avoid crowds (most people visit here at sunset).
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Virginia City International Camel Races
Competition or Sporting Event
Bethany Drysdale
ADA Accessibility Notes
Accessible, but not easily. The path to the racetrack is a steep dirt walkway.
This event is the height of hilarity in Nevada. Imagine untrained camels, mounted by novice riders, running around a dirt ring to a soundtrack of banjos, harmonicas and wild laughter and cheering. The camel heats are interspersed with ostrich races and the occasional zebra race added for good measure.
The races are the weekend after Labor Day in Virginia City, about 30 miles from Reno. They kick off with a camel parade on Saturday, which is free, and tickets to the races can be purchased online or in person. But get there early because parking is limited.
Camels have long history in Virginia City, once being used as service animals for the gold mines in the 1800s. However, according to local legend, the animals' comical history came into play just over 50 years ago when Bob Richards, editor of the local paper the Territorial Enterprise, ran a fictitious news story about local camel races. Richards was notorious for his practical jokes, so he didn't count on being taken seriously. But the editor of the San Francisco Chronicle thought it was a real story and reprinted it. He was less than amused when he found out it was a hoax.
The following year, Richards ran an announcement of upcoming camel races, and the Chronicle editor decided to turn the tables on the trickster and said he would be sending a team to compete in the races. The Virginia City editor scrambled to make his joke a reality, and the International Camel Races were born. Hollywood director John Huston was the first race on a camel borrowed from the San Francisco Zoo.
Pet Friendly Notes
Animals not allowed
Admission Fee (if any)
$12 for adults; check the website for specific admission prices.
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AC Powered
How Do Wireless CCTV Camera System For Home Work?
Tips for Choosing the Right CCTV System for ultimate security surveillance
Wireless CCTV home security systems are created to provide top-notch protection against intruders and maintain family safety. But what if the CCTV camera monitoring system itself grants it all access to hackers? Wireless CCTV camera system indeed provides 24/7 home surveillance, baby monitors and full-time access to cloud captured footage. However, with enough advantages of wireless CCTV cameras, there are a few potential security threats within these devices.
Do your WIFI-enabled monitoring cameras provide strong security? Because hacked cameras are quite dangerous. Recently, the research showed that almost thousands of WIFI cameras had been hacked. A security survey site revealed that 73,011 unsecured cameras are within 256 countries.
Wireless CCTV security systems do provide protection, but it can be used by hackers, which then can harm your privacy and security.
One of the fantastic features of a WIFI security camera is the ability to show captured visuals in real-time. Security experts revealed that devices which come with a doorbell camera, for instance, ring and nest, pose a lesser risk of a hack attack. But when the security cameras are connected with WIFI network, then it gets even more problematic.
The reason lies on allowing these DIY cameras, which are accessible online and creates an opening for the hackers to get access.
How could hackers get access to Surveillance cameras?
It’s relatively more comfortable for hackers to get access to many security cameras. But how is it possible for a person to hack and get the IP of the cameras?
Generally, the WIFI cameras that came under the list of the unsecured IP list had the reason for default password, or it lacked in password protection. There are some possibilities that only a few companies provide elementary security features. Some cameras lack providing support to SSL/TLS encryption, which allows the cameras to have vulnerable surveillance footage against hackers.
Most of the users are still facing the problem because they are not aware of security system between cameras and the router. For instance, if a hacker has access to a WIFI network, then it becomes relatively more comfortable for him to hack CCTV cameras as well.
E. Homakov from online security described that hackers use a technique which is known as “clickjacking”. This technique involves applications that have HTML and CSS codes which creates invisible sources on the files.
These sources work as a “allow” command on which a user can click, even “play” button works on the same method. With this, whenever a user is surfing on the internet and chooses the option to “allow” or “play” then it’s permitting someone to get the access of webcams and IP cameras as well.
Therefore, here are some few safety precautions to maintain WIFI security cameras against hackers.
Steps to follow to prevent hackers from getting access to router and CCTV cameras
Keep updating the firmware
Just like growing technologies, hackers keep themselves focused on creating new malware with several hacking techniques. Hardware makers have the ability to push the firmware update in many devices. There are relatively few routers which support “automatic updates”, and it’s highly recommended to keep them on.
However, if in case your router doesn’t support that feature, then it is advised to visit the manufacturer’s website every few months to get an update with new softwares. With this, if the manufacturing company stops releasing firmware, then it is advised to get a new router.
Turning off features of the router which you don’t use
Features like remote access which is often known as Remote Administration or Remote Management are not necessary for daily usage. Even many routers which have Universal Plug and Play (UPnP), comes with default turned on settings. Some devices or software asks the permission to turn on the UPnP, but it’s highly recommended to turn it off; otherwise, it could pose a security risk through WIFI.
Changing the default password
Many routers come with default passwords, but some people often forget to change it. Keeping the same password or a weaker kind would increase the risk of being hacked. Therefore, keeping a complicated and long password which is not evident to anyone, would help to stay robust security systems.
Custom Security Changes Settings
Nowadays, new routers have the feature to support WPA3 encryption and every manufacturing company advice to keep it turned on. However, if your WIFI doesn’t have the option then its recommended keeping WPA2, there are some outdated routers which only has WEP security protocols. But if your WIFI consists of WEP or WPA encryption, then it’s advised to get rid of it.
Set up two-factor authentications
WIFI with security feature provides one-time use passcode which can be sent via text, email, call or authentication app, which is necessary to enter to log into your account. Without a one-time code, the hackers will not be able to get access through the security system.
Turn off online remote monitoring.
People with WIFI enabled surveillance cameras to have the feature of remote viewing, which can help them monitor the perimeters of the home when they are away. However, there is a hidden threat that can be led by an app or website. It gives remote access and gets log into your security cameras, which offers quite an advantage to hackers.
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Beyoncé: The Lion King: The Gift review – superstar shows impeccable taste | Beyoncé
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At first glance, The Lion King: The Gift doesn’t look like a new Beyoncé album so much as a demonstration of the singer’s astonishing star power. The Walt Disney Company is a famously unbending organisation, and yet Beyoncé appears to have got it to hand over the assets of the highest-grossing entertainment property in history so she can make an album, released in direct competition with the soundtrack of the new remake, complete with a cameo role for her seven-year-old daughter.
Initially, it seems as if Beyoncé thinks the US writer – who recently opined that what was wrong with The Lion King remake was that they hadn’t changed the plot so that Beyoncé’s character was the leading role and replaced the songs with songs by Beyoncé – had a point. Her album feels like an alternative soundtrack. The opening Bigger and Find Your Way Back seem like riffs on Circle of Life – the former a slightly rambling self-help ballad that kicks into life three quarters of the way through; the latter an understated pop track underpinned by a rhythm track inspired by Afrobeats.
But after that, things take a noticeably different turn. If you subsequently never want for expressions of Beyoncé’s own fabulousness – “I’m piña colada-ing / you stay Ramada Inn,” she snaps on Mood 4 Eva – it also becomes apparent that the line about the album being “curated” by Beyoncé is key. She keeps ceding the stage entirely to far less celebrated artists, from Nigerian Afro-pop singer Burna Boy to Brooklyn rapper SAINt JHN. The Gift is an album on which a guest star as big as Kendrick Lamar gets less spotlight than up-and-comer Tierra Whack. On one level, that is a shame – Lamar sounds great on Nile, but the track feels truncated, a largely beatless wash of synths that lasts under two minutes – but it’s hard to deny the sheer force of Tierra Whack’s verse on My Power, a ferocious blast of percussion, fizzing electronic drone and vocals in isiXhosa that might be the best thing here.
Indeed, the guest spots occasionally overshadow the star. The Beyoncé-led tracks are of distinctly variable quality. For every song as good as the brilliant Brown Skin Girl or Mood 4 Eva, there is something underwhelming. Spirit (equal parts show-tune and Donna Summer’s State of Independence), and Otherside (a standard-issue ballad rescued by the gorgeous rolling piano sample that runs through it), cover ground she’s trodden more memorably before – she might have been better off saving the best stuff for her next solo album. By contrast, there is a real crackle of excitement about Don’t Jealous Me, on which Nigerian vocalists Tekno, Yemi Alade and Mr Eazi trade verses, or the way 070 Shake and Jessie Reyez’s Scar suddenly shifts from piano-backed lament into distorted hip-hop.
Beyoncé has put these artists together and co-produced every track, giving the dominant Afrobeats sound a vast new level of exposure – an impressive feat in itself. It’s an album, then, that ably displays her excellent taste, rather than a great Beyoncé album per se.
• This article was amended on 25 July 2019 to correct an error: Brown Skin Girl was wrongly titled Black Skin Girl.
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Toba Tucker photographs
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23 Photographic prints
This collection contains 23 prints that were shot by photographer Toba Tucker of Diné (Navajo) portraits and landscapes from 1981 and Pueblo portraits from 1995-1997.
This collection contains 23 prints by photographer, Toba Tucker. Of these prints, 21 were taken during the summer of 1981 in the Joint Use Area (Jeddito Island, White Cone, and Teesto) on the Navajo Reservation. These photographs were made with a 6x6-cm (2 ¼-sq.) SLR, 120-mm lens, and Koda-color II color-print film, and were taken in the local Chapter Houses using only natural lighting. Tucker primarily works in black-and-white but chose to process and print these photographs in color resulting in her first experiences with colored work.
Of these prints, two portraits were taken from 1995 to 1997 during a two-and-a-half-year project funded by the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation which allowed Tucker to photograph traditional and contemporary Pueblo artists in New Mexico and Arizona. During this project Tucker explored the relationships between traditional, centuries-old techniques and the emerging vision of contemporary artists. This project led to the 1998 publication of
Pueblo Artists: Portraits
by the Museum of the New Mexico Press.
Prints: organized in boxes; arranged by print number.
Toba Pato Tucker is a self-taught American professional photographer from New York City. Tucker started working in photography in the 1970s through teachings from photographers, Harold Feinstein and Toby Old. With their assistance she became proficient in developing negatives and printing in black and white prints. In 1980, she received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) which allowed her to live on the Navajo reservation and work with the Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute Commission of the Navajo Nation. This began her quest of photographing Native Americans. In addition to the grant from the NEA, she has been awarded many other grants, is published in several magazines and publications, has works in various museum collections, and has taught at New York's International Center of Photography. Tucker currently resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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P28392-P28393- Gift of Robert Menschel, 2000; P28414- Gift of Dr. Roland Force, 1986; P28394-P28414- Gift of Toba Tucker, 1983.
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Stars in the Eagle Nebula are born in clouds of cold hydrogen gas that reside in chaotic neighborhoods, where energy from young stars sculpts fantasy-like landscapes in the gas. The tower may be a giant incubator for those newborn stars. A torrent of ultraviolet light from a band of massive, hot, young stars [off the top of the image] is eroding the pillar.
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The bumps and fingers of material in the center of the tower are examples of these stellar birthing areas. These regions may look small but they are roughly the size of our solar system. The fledgling stars continued to grow as they fed off the surrounding gas cloud. They abruptly stopped growing when light from the star cluster uncovered their gaseous cradles, separating them from their gas supply.
Ironically, the young cluster's intense starlight may be inducing star formation in some regions of the tower. Examples can be seen in the large, glowing clumps and finger-shaped protrusions at the top of the structure. The stars may be heating the gas at the top of the tower and creating a shock front, as seen by the bright rim of material tracing the edge of the nebula at top, left. As the heated gas expands, it acts like a battering ram, pushing against the darker cold gas. The intense pressure compresses the gas, making it easier for stars to form. This scenario may continue as the shock front moves slowly down the tower.
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Harrison "Buzz" Price Papers
Seattle Center Economic and Conceptual Development Study Phase 1 Report and Executive Summary - Draft
Harrison Price Company
Peter Moy & Associates
Sharon J. Dalrymple
Seattle Center (Seattle, Wash.); Real estate development; Design; Business planning; Feasibility studies; Market research; Economic research
The City of Seattle retained Walt Disney Imagineering, Inc. and Harrison Price Company, a Joint Venture, to prepare a master conceptual and economic development plan for Seattle Center. The six-month work program was initiated in December 1987 and encompassed a thorough examination of the physical condition, structural and use characteristics, and financial performance of Seattle Center buildings and grounds, both individually and collectively. It is emphasized that this new study is not simply an update of earlier planning work conducted over the past few years. Rather the scope and depth of this work program transcends these earlier efforts and formulates, for the first time, a comprehensive master plan for the future growth and development of Seattle Center.
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King of Tokyo: Math, Mayhem, and Blown Minds
Luke November 7, 2018 10 Comments
There is an regular comparison that gets batted around the gaming world surrounding the game King of Tokyo. It is common, in gaming circles, to hear King of Tokyo be described as similar to (if not the same as) a classic dice game dating back to before 1940. Both require rolling dice, holding the ones you want and re-rolling to try and get your perfect hand. Both are games of probability at their heart and both require you to play the odds to some degree. That classic game is, of course, Yahtzee.
I have to admit that I believe saying King of Tokyo is the same as Yahtzee is a bit unfair. It feels like saying, to use a random simile, a Kobe Steak is similar to supermarket value beef mince.
I thought, now hoping to get back into writing regularly for this blog, I would kick start the analysis articles with something that would be a quick look into the mathematics behind King of Tokyo as a game. There are whole papers that go into the various different types of roll in Yahtzee and how you should play. These go into the odds for each type of result and I believed (foolishly) the same kind of mentality could be used for King of Tokyo. Granted there is a difference in the number of dice (Yahtzee has five dice, whereas King of Tokyo has six to eight) but that is just a matter of scale, right?
After an evening and a half trying to wrap my head around the numbers, I can tell you that it does not work like that. Most of the time when playing Yahtzee, you are looking to optimise for very specific things, which makes the mathematics of working out the odds difficult, but the end goals are fixed. They remain the same. No matter how difficult the math, you know there are only 15 different ways of ultimately scoring your hand.
Now – when playing King of Tokyo we remove those fixed end goals as they become adaptive per roll. They are constantly changing and moving based on what you are trying to achieve as a player in that turn. This makes it a game with a ridiculous number of possible outcomes. Yes, you ultimately want to either win by victory points or by conquest (being the last monster standing) but how you get there has billions of combinations.
If you remove the restrictions around Yahtzee and keep in the same number of dice it becomes complicated enough, but try adding an additional die to the base five, constantly changing circumstantial goals (they are always changing based on the environment around the table) and add in the option to occasionally roll with 7 or 8 dice.
One of the countless reasons I like games is because probability is a good place for an amateur mathematics fan like myself to geek out.
That being said, King of Tokyo is a probability nightmare. There are too many moving parts and too many potential strategies to be able to map them out in an easy way. Instead, it is some psychoanalytical calculus bomb that makes it too difficult to even know where to begin.
Let me show you what I mean –
The Calculus Nightmare
So if we look at the odds of rolling, as an example, six hearts in King of Tokyo (because we have just come out of Tokyo and want a lot of health), then we are looking at a fairly easy calculation. What are our odds of getting one heart? We have a 1/6 chance. How many dice do we have? We have 6 dice. That makes our calculation:
1/6 x 1/6 x 1/6 x 1/6 x 1/6 x 1/6 = 1/46,656
Pretty low odds, but we have two re-rolls to get what we want. Let’s say we re-roll three, then our odds are:
1/6 x 1/6 x 1/6 = 1/216
Better odds of getting what we want. If we went on to re-roll one, we would get a 1/6 chance of getting what we want.
Now let’s say we only want five hearts, and the other one can be anything? Well, we calculate five, and then waste one dice, surely? But what if we want it to be something specific? Now let’s say we want two of one thing, two of another thing, and two of a third? What are the odds on getting what we want on re-rolls? What if we were to add in additional dice, or be able to manipulate them in accordance with cards? What if you need to roll constantly changing results due to cards that are coming out each turn?
Just working out the basic combinations is difficult as, unlike in Yahtzee, almost every single combination of dice is a valid hand in its entirety under constantly adaptive goals, and often in multiple different ways. There are a few exceptions, especially around victory points, but a miss in King of Tokyo feels more redeemable than a miss in Yahtzee due to the flexibility of the strategies at play. You are always able to get a Chance in Yahtzee, but in King of Tokyo those dice results matter more and can help influence any number of strategies across any number of turns. I don’t know, maybe it is me oversimplifying Yahtzee but, for me, King of Tokyo offers more options per roll.
There are, in fact, 252 unique combinations of results you can get in Yahtzee, when you have five dice, and that is when you take the duplicate results out of the 7,776 possible rolls (so 5,5,1 and 5,1,5 and 1,5,5 are counted as one unique set as they all have 2×5 and 1×1). If we compare that to King of Tokyo, when you have 6 dice, that goes up to 462 unique combinations out of 46,656 possible rolls. If you unlock the additional two dice, that goes up 1,287 unique combinations of dice to out of 279,936 possible rolls!
There are 66 Power Cards in the game. If you buy three of them that gives you 45,760 different combinations in what those three cards could be. If you buy four it gives you 720,720 different combinations in those four cards. You may buy 5 (unlikely, but possible), and so end up with 8,936,928 different combinations.
Add those odds and combinations to the dice and mind blown…and that is before any re-rolls.
So What Does This Mean?
I think what this means is that, by comparing King of Tokyo to Yahtzee (something I have been guilty of in the past) we run the risk of doing the game a massive injustice. Where there are, for all intents and purposes, 252 different unique ways a roll can go in Yahtzee, there are potentially billions of different ways a turn can go in King of Tokyo once additional dice and cards are taken into account.
What King of Tokyo is, is an evolution of some of the same mechanics as Yahtzee whist doing more towards both providing the player with options and making the game more replayable. It is this, this advanced nature, that makes it both interesting and highly fun to play. The two games share similarities, but they are also incredibly different. Plus, King of Tokyo has monsters, which, in my opinion, beats an abstract dice game any day of the week!
It is also this complexity, however, that makes it difficult to analyse for the board game beardy gamer. Analysis of a game like King of Tokyo is not simple and can easily (oh so easily!) get out of hand incredibly quickly.
So, there we have it. An article that was meant to be an analysis turning into a reason as to why the game can’t easily be analysed.
What’s your take on the subject? What’s your opinion of the King of Tokyo/Yahtzee debate? Let me know your thoughts in the comments below.
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Oliver Kinne says:
Thank you for your article. I must say, I never thought about comparing King of Tokyo to Yahtzee, but it is interesting to see the probabilities of rolling the various dice combinations you might need. I love the game, or rather its sibling King of New York, because there is more to than just dice rolling, unlike Yahtzee which is a roll-and-write. KoT (and KoNY) allow you to buy extra powers, you have to decide when to retreat, and in a 3 or 4 player game you can sort of team up against the person in the lead. Anyway, as I say, it’s an interesting perspective, so thank you for sharing.
Would you recommend KoNY over KoT?
justneedsvarnish says:
Thanks for the analysis Luke! I always enjoy trying to keep up with you when you’re in Probability mode!
Haha thanks, I think! It’s a nice area to geek out in to be honest, but as only an amateur mathematician it gets my thought processes in knots at times!
billcollins2014 says:
Plus giant monsters. Honestly, Yahtzee doesn’t have Godzilla. I think you’re spot on that the mechanics are similar and then they change. Yahtzee is fun, but I think I’d play KoT over it now if given the choice. That said, have you played Favor of the Pharoah? Similar mechanics again, even similar unlocking of extra dice, however a fair bit of strategy in choosing what you’re taking. I call FotP “Yahtzee with superpowers” personally.
I haven’t even heard of Favor of the Pharaoh! That sounds really cool (as soon as I’ve finished writing this comment I’m going to look it up on BGG) – I’m guessing you recommend it?
Yes. Fun for up to four players. Multiple options for the different “powers” you play with. Plays relatively quickly especially once you know it. Neat components. Not too many pyramids you can “build” with dice.
ianthecool says:
I really liked reading this. Looked your insights into the game. The changing circumstances aren’t something people usually consider when they talk about KoT. Yahtzee sort of has that, based on what you’ve scored already, but not near the level as Tokyo.
Ummm….I was told there would be no math.
(my head hurts :P)
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The Legend of W.B. Bridgman
Amber LeBeau in Washington wine, Wine Knowledge
With more than 900 wineries producing over 17.5 million cases, the future of the Washington wine industry looks bright.
But as we wrap up Taste Washington Wine Month, it would be remiss not to take a look at a pivotal figure of the past who put Washington on the path to such a future–A Canadian ex-pat from Sunnyside, Washington named William B. (W.B.) Bridgman.
Early History and Irrigation Laws
Born in 1877, W.B. Bridgman grew up on the Niagara Peninsula in Ontario where his family grew Concord grapes. Ronald Irvine notes in The Wine Project that it was at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota where Bridgman met Walter Hill, son of railroad tycoon James J. Hill. To help pay his way through law school, Bridgman became a tutor for the younger Hill. This arrangement led Bridgman to accompany Walter on a rail journey to the Pacific Northwest in 1899.
Intrigued at the opportunities in this new frontier, Bridgman found work at a local irrigation company. He settled permanently in the Yakima Valley in the town of Sunnyside–about 175 miles southeast of Seattle. An expert in irrigation laws, Bridgman wrote many of the early statutes that outlined access and development of irrigation usage for agriculture in Eastern Washington. Several of his laws are still on the books today.
Due to the rain shadow effect of the Cascade Mountains, a significant portion of the central basin of Eastern Washington averages only around 8 inches of rain a year–most of it in winter months. To grow grapevines that often need 3 to 6 gallons of water a week during the heat of summer to avoid heat stress, the development and use of irrigation proved vital to the growth of viticulture in Washington.
Planting of Harrison Hill and Snipes Mountain
Settling into Sunnyside, Bridgman was elected mayor twice. Then, in 1914, he purchased land on two uplifts that are today separated by Interstate 82. Among the first vines he planted on Harrison Hill were Black Prince (Cinsault), Flame Tokay and Ribier. In 1917, he planted Muscat of Alexandria and Thompson Seedless on Snipes Mountain.
The Snipes Mountain AVA with a rough approximation of the location of Harrison Hill and present-day Upland Vineyard bisected by Highway 82.
Eventually, Bridgman expanded to plant Zinfandel, Alicante Bouschet, Carignan, Mataro (Mourvedre), Pinot noir, Semillon, Sauvignon blanc, Black Malvoisie and many other varieties.
In the early years, Bridgman mostly sold grapes to Italian and Croatian immigrants in Cle Elum and Roslyn. But when Prohibition was enacted in 1919, Bridgman saw demand skyrocket. A “loophole” in the legislation permitted up to 200 gallons a year of self-made wine. This essentially produced overnight what Ronald Irvine describes as “a nation of home-winemakers.”
Upland Winery
Thomas Pinney notes in A History of Wine in America, Volume 2 that by the end of Prohibition, Bridgman had over 165 acres of vinifera planted. He decided to open a winery in 1934, hiring German winemaker Erich Steenborg. A graduate of the famous Geisenheim Institute, Steenborg had worked for several wineries in the Mosel.
Soil sample from Upland Vineyard on Snipes Mountain.
At Steenborg’s urging and with his connections, Bridgman brought in around a half million cuttings of Riesling, Sylvaner, Gutedel (Chasselas), Blauer Portugieser and Müller-Thurgau vines. (Incidentally, Irvine notes that most of the Riesling cuttings that Upland brought in turned out to be Scheurebe.)
Named Upland Winery, Bridgman and Steenborg desired to make dry European-style table wines from vinifera grapes. However, post-Prohibition wine drinkers favored sweet dessert and fortified wines made from a mix of vinifera, hybrid and labrusca grape varieties. To pay the bills, Upland produced “ports” and “sherries” to meet market demand.
When Steenborg left in 1951, Bridgman hired Marie Christensen, the winery’s lab assistant, to take over winemaking. Her promotion made her the first woman in the state to head winemaking at a major winery.
Changing Markets and Challenges
Dealing with market forces that favored sweet and boozy wines eventually proved too much for Bridgman. He sold the winery in 1960 to George Thomas. Thomas changed the name to Santa Rosa Winery. The winery continued to operate it in some degree until shuttering in 1972.
Today, the Newhouse family own the old buildings of Upland Winery and vineyards, having purchased the property in 1968. Several of Bridgman’s original 1917 Muscat of Alexandria vines are still producing grapes. Paul Gregutt speculates in Washington Wine that these may be the oldest Vitis vinifera vines in the state.
In addition to selling grapes from Upland Vineyard to over 20 different wineries like Betz, DeLille, Pomum, K Vintners and Kerloo–the Newhouses produce wine under Todd Newhouse’s Upland Estate and Steve Newhouse’s Newhouse Family Vineyards made in partnership with Ron Bunnell.
Influence on the Washington Wine Industry
Grenache made by Kerloo Cellars from Upland Vineyard.
If Dr. Walter Clore is the “Father of Washington Wine,” W. B. Bridgman can rightfully be called “the Grandfather.”
After Prohibition, Bridgman and his Upland Winery were charter members of the Washington Wine Producers Association. Founded in 1935, Bridgman was the only charter member from the east side of the mountains as most of the winemaking during that period was done on the west side of the state by fellow charter members St. Charles Winery and Davis Winery on Stretch Island, Wright Winery in Everett, Werberger Winery on Harstine Island and Pommerelle Winery in Seattle.
In Goldendale, Bridgman advised Samuel Hill (who married Walter Hill’s sister, Mary) to plant a mix of vinifera and American hybrids developed by Thomas Volney Munson in what is now Maryhill in the Columbia Gorge AVA.
Dr. Walter Clore
Pinot gris from Upland Vineyard on Snipes Mountain.
In 1940, Bridgman encouraged a young horticulturalist from Washington State University named Walter Clore to plant wine grape varieties at the Irrigation Experiment Station in Prosser. With Bridgman supplying many of the initial vine cuttings, this experimental vineyard would eventually become known as “The Wine Project” and include over 250 different varieties of vinifera, hybrid and American wine grape varieties.
Observing the success of several varieties in the vineyard, Clore authored academic papers extolling the viability of a wine industry in Washington State. Spurred on by the results of Dr. Clore’s work, the Washington wine industry today is responsible for more than 27,000 jobs. Overall, the industry has an economic impact of nearly 15 billion dollars for the state.
Associated Vintners
In 1954, W.B. Bridgman sold grapes to a group of University of Washington professors making wine under the name of Associated Vintners. Impressed by the wines produced by Lloyd Woodburne, Bridgman gave the young academics advice and encouragement in their endeavors. In 1960, Bridgman met with the AV group in Seattle to discuss the future of the Washington wine industry.
That meeting would lead to a long term contract for grapes. This eventually turned into Associated Vintners purchasing the 5.5 acres Harrison Hill Vineyard in 1962 from Bridgman. Uprooting most of the older plantings, AV replanted with Cabernet Sauvignon and other red grape varieties. While Associated Vintners is now known as Columbia Winery and owned by Gallo, those Cab plantings at Harrison Hill Vineyard (managed by the Newhouse family) are today some of the oldest and most prized plantings in the state.
Legacy Today
A Columbia Valley Syrah made under the W.B. Bridgman label by Precept Brands.
William B. Bridgman died in 1968 at the age of 90, leaving a last imprint on the Washington wine industry even as his name has faded into obscurity.
Beyond the irrigation laws he authored that allowed viticulture to prosper, the roots of Upland Vineyard and Harrison Hill Vineyard continue to produce world-class wine grapes. The first Chardonnay in the state was planted here. Mike Sauer used cuttings from AV’s replanting of Harrison Hill to plant Red Willow Vineyard in the 1970s.
To help keep the name of Bridgman alive, Washington Hills Winery (co-founded by Brian Carter) created a select line of wines in 1993 to honor the pioneer. When Precept Brands acquired Washington Hills in 2003, they kept the Bridgman Cellars label and today still produce wines that bare the name and legacy of W.B. Bridgman.
Written by Amber LeBeau in Washington wine, Wine Knowledge on Mar 31, 2018
Tagged A History of Wine in America, Alicante Bouschet, Associated Vintners, Betz, Black Malvoisie, Blauer Portugieser, Brian Carter, Bridgman Cellars, Carignan, Chardonnay, Chasselas, Cinsault, Columbia Gorge, Columbia Valley, Columbia Winery, Concord, Davis Winery, DeLille, Erich Steenborg, Flame Tokay, Gallo, Geisenheim Institute, George Thomas, Grenache, Hamline University, Harrison Hill, Harstine Island, home winemaking, Irrigation, Irrigation Experiment Station, James J. Hill, K Vintners, Kerloo Cellars, Lloyd Woodburne, Madeleine Sylvaner, Marie Christensen, Maryhill, Mike Sauer, Mosel wine, Mourvèdre, Müller-Thurgau, Muscat of Alexandria, Newhouse family, Newhouse Family Vineyards, Niagara Peninsula, Ontario, Paul Gregutt, Pinot gris, Pinot noir, Pommerelle Winery, Pomum, Precept Brands, Prohibition, Red Willow Vineyard, Ribier, Riesling, Ron Bunnell, Ronald Irvine, Samuel Hill, Santa Rosa Winery, Sauvignon blanc, Scheurebe, Semillon, Snipes Mountain, St. Charles Winery, Steve Newhouse, Stretch Island, Syrah, Taste Washington Wine Month, The Wine Project: Washington State’s Winemaking History, Thomas Pinney, Thomas Volney Munson, Thompson Seedless, Todd Newhouse, Upland Estate, Upland Vineyard, Upland Winery, W.B. Bridgman, Walter Clore, Walter Hill, Washington Hills Winery, Washington State University, Washington wine history, Washington Wine Producers Association, Washington Wines and Wineries, Werberger Winery, William B. Bridgman, Women in wine, Wright Winery, Yakima Valley, Zinfandel.
Wine Geek Notes 3/13/18 — Domaine Jacques Prieur, Les Forts Latour and Geeky Napa Grapes
Amber LeBeau in Bordeaux, Burgundy, Champagne, Geek Notes, Napa Valley, Wine grapes
Here is what I’m reading today in the world of wine.
Interesting Tweets and Weblinks
Edouard Labruyère’s transformation of Domaine Jacques Prieur by Peter Dean (@TweetaDean) for The Buyer.
Domaine Jacques Prieur is one my favorite Burgundian estates and I was enjoying its sleepy-under-the-radar-status. With as crazy as prices in Burgundy can get, I was selfishly hoping that other wine insiders wouldn’t notice how sneaky good this estate has gotten over the last couple vintages under the winemaking direction of Nadine Gublin. But it looks like the cat is out of the bag.
Still I learn a lot of cool stuff in this article about DJP and its owner Edouard Labruyère–namely the expansion into Santenay (hopefully with affordable bottlings), the family owning Château Rouget in Pomerol, planting Syrah and Pinot noir in Beaujolais and the launch of Labruyère’s Champagne.
Sourcing from Grand Cru vineyards that use to supply Dom Perignon, this Extra Brut style Champagne is partially fermented in old white DJP barrels and spends 5 years aging on the lees. Looks like something to keep an eye out for.
LATOUR TO INCLUDE FORTS 2012 IN NEXT RELEASE by Rupert Millar (@wineguroo) for The Drinks Business (@teamdb)
Since Ch. Latour left the en primeur system in 2012, its been hard keeping track of their releases. While we still don’t know when the 2012 Grand Vin is going to be released, the estate announced that on March 21st, their second wine Les Forts de Latour will be released along with (re-release?) the 2006 Grand Vin.
While considered a “second wine”, in many ways Les Forts is really its own entity being sourced from three dedicated plots with only some years having declassified Grand Vin parcels included. That said, these plots are still tended to by the Latour viticulture and winemaking team and is often an outstanding wine.
Back in 2015, I did a side by side tasting of the 2005 Latour and 2005 Les Forts and you could certainly see how the pedigree shined through with the Les Forts. While the 05 Latour was way too young at that point, the Les Forts was raring to go at 10 years with many tasters thinking it was, at that moment, the better wine.
With the 2005 Latour averaging $1119 on Wine Searcher and the Les Forts averaging $263, it was certainly the best value of the night. It remains to be seen what the pricing of the 2012 will be.
14 OF THE MOST UNUSUAL GRAPE VARIETIES IN NAPA VALLEY by Ilona Thompson at Palate Exposure (@PalateXposure)
Ilona at Palate Exposure is quickly becoming one of my favorite content creators in the wine world. Her website is well worth a peak with fabulous original posts about winemakers and wineries with a Napa Valley focus. Of course I geeked out like crazy with this article!
While Grenache and Tempranillo aren’t very surprising and even Pinot Meunier makes sense with sparkling wine producers like Domaine Chandon in Napa, who knew about Lagier-Meredith’s Mondeuse? Heitz Cellars’ Grignolino or even Spiriterra Vineyards’ Scuppernong?
Napa Valley Scuppernong. For realz, y’all. Ilona just gave me my new unicorn-wine list.
Upcoming Posts for Taste Washington Wine Month!
First quick apologies to subscribers as last night we accidentally, kinda, maybe, sorta hit “submit” on an unfinished version of my book review of Paul Gregutt’s Washington Wines and Wineries: The Essential Guide. Our bad! All I can say is that the post will be finished properly and published shortly over the next few days.
Other posts in the pipeline for Taste Washington Wine Month include a Geek Out over Washington Cabernet Franc courtesy of Savage Grace Wines, an exploration of the legend of William (W.B.) Bridgman in Washington wine history and his lasting legacy of Harrison Hill and Upland Vineyards as well as a flashback post to last year’s Taste Washington Grand Tasting!
Plus more 60 Second Wine Reviews featuring exclusively Washington wine for the month of March. In April, we’ll get back to our regular peppering of Bordeaux, Burgundy, Napa and other fun wine reviews.
Written by Amber LeBeau in Bordeaux, Burgundy, Champagne, Geek Notes, Napa Valley, Wine grapes on Mar 13, 2018
Tagged Beaujolais, Cabernet Franc, Ch. Rouget, Dom Perignon, Domaine Chandon, Domaine Jacques Prieur, Edouard Labruyère, en primeur, Grand Cru, Grenache, Grignolino, Harrison Hill, Heitz, Ilona Thompson, Lagier-Meredith, Latour, Les Forts de Latour, Mondeuse, Nadine Gublin, Palate Exposure, Paul Gregutt, Peter Dean, Pinot Meunier, Pinot noir, Pomerol, Santenay, Savage Grace, Scuppernong, Spiriterra Vineyards, Syrah, Taste Washington, Taste Washington Wine Month, Tempranillo, The Buyer, Upland Vineyard, W.B. Bridgman, Washington wine, Washington wine history, Wine Searcher, Women in wine.
The Mastery of Bob Betz
Amber LeBeau in Washington wine, Wine Knowledge, Wine reviews
Washington State is ridiculously spoiled with talented winemakers.
Alex Golitzin of Quilceda Creek
Christophe Baron of Cayuse
Chris Figgins of Leonetti
Rick Small of Woodward Canyon
Scott Greer of Sheridan
Anna Shafer of àMaurice
Greg Harrington of Gramercy
Kay Simon of Chinook
Charlie Hoppes of Fidelitas
Chris Upchurch of DeLille/Upchurch Vineyard
Ben Smith of Cadence
Chris Camarda of Andrew Will
Rob Newsom of Boudreaux
Kerry Shiels of Côte Bonneville
Chris Peterson of Avennia/Passing Time, etc.
And that is only a small sliver of the immense talent in this state.
But if you asked me to give you just one expression of winemaking talent that exhibits the best of Washington, I would answer without any hesitation that it is Bob Betz.
From Chicago to the Chateau
A Chicago native, Bob Betz moved to the Pacific Northwest in 1954. He attended the University of Washington with the goal of entering med school but, when those plans didn’t work out, he spent a year in Europe with his wife, Cathy, where he discovered a passion for wine.
Bob Betz (in grey sweatshirt) talking with guests at a release party at Betz Family Winery
After working at a wine shop for a year, he was hired by Charles Finkel (now of Pike Brewing Company) to work at Chateau Ste. Michelle back when the Washington powerhouse was a small winery operating on East Marginal Way in Seattle. There he was mentored by the famed consultant André Tchelistcheff of Beaulieu Vineyard fame.
He started in communications with the estate. As Chateau Ste. Michelle moved to Woodinville and grew into Washington’s largest winery, Betz worked his way up to Vice President of Winemaking Research. Here worked closely with an All-Star roster of winemaking talent such Mike Januik (Novelty Hill/Januik Winery), Cheryl Barber-Jones (Sozo Friends), Kay Simon (Chinook Wines), Joy Anderson (Snoqualmie Vineyards), Erik Olsen (Clos du Bois/Constellation Brands) and Charlie Hoppes (Fidelitas). During this time, his passion for winemaking and starting his own label developed.
In the mid-1990s, he embarked on completing the Wine & Spirit Education Trust (WSET) program, earning his Master of Wine (MW) in 1998. To this day, he is one of the few MWs who are practicing winemakers (Billo Naravane at Rasa/Sinclair Estate is another). The vast majority of individuals who hold that title are often writers, educators, wholesalers and retailers.
In earning his MW, Betz won the Villa Maria Award for the highest scores on the viticultural exam as well as the Robert Mondavi Award for the highest overall scores in all theory exams.
Betz Family Winery
In 1997, Greg Lill of DeLille Cellars offered space in his winery for Betz to make six barrels of his first vintage. Sourcing fruit from Klipsun vineyard on Red Mountain, Harrison Hill on Snipes Mountain and Portteus vineyard in the Rattlesnake Hills AVA, it wasn’t long before the accolades came in with Betz having numerous wines featured on Best of Washington lists by the Seattle Times and Seattle Met as well as earning Winemaker of the Year from Sunset Magazine in 2007. Moving from DeLille, he was one of the first wineries in the now-famous “Warehouse District” of Woodinville before building his own winery.
Just as he was mentored by Tchelistcheff and others, Betz has mentored other budding talents such as Kathryn House (House of Wine), Tyson Schiffner (brewmaster at Sumerian Brewing), Ross Mickel (Ross Andrews), Chris Dickson (Twill Cellars), Casey Cobble (Robert Ramsay) and his eventual successor as head winemaker at Betz, Louis Skinner.
La Côte Rousse, a “New World style” Syrah from Red Mountain
In 2011, with Bob & Cathy Betz’s daughters expressing no interest in taking over the winery, Betz worked out an agreement to sell the winery to South African entrepreneurs Steve and Bridgit Griessel. Following the sale, Betz agreed to stay on with the winery for five more years. A succession plan was worked out with Louis Skinner, a South Seattle Northwest Wine Academy alum and former assistant at DeLille Cellars, taking over the winemaking duties at Betz Family Winery in 2016. Even after the transition, Betz still is involved as a consultant.
In 2017, Bob Betz returned to Chateau Ste. Michelle as a consultant for Col Solare, a joint project with the Antinori family located on Red Mountain. Here Betz will be working with Darel Allwine and Antinori’s head enologist Renzo Cotarella.
Tasting the Best of Washington
While the future of Betz Family Winery looks strong with the Griessels and Louis Skinner, there is something magical about “Bob’s vintages” of Betz that are worth savoring. Paul Gregutt, in Washington Wines, describes Betz Family Winery as one of the “Five Star Wineries” in Washington and ascribes their success to Betz’s “painstaking planning and attention to detail”, noting that if even a single barrel of wine didn’t meet his standards then it would be sold off rather than used in the wines.
The list of vineyards that Bob Betz has worked with includes some of the “Grand Crus” of Washington like Boushey Vineyard and Red Willow in Yakima; Ciel du Cheval, Kiona and Klipsun on Red Mountain; Harrison Hill and Upland Vineyard on Snipes Mountain.
2010 La Serenne Syrah
La Serenne, a “Northern Rhone-style” Syrah from Boushey Vineyard.
100% Syrah sourced from Boushey Vineyard. This cool-climate site north of Grandview, Washington is often harvested more than a month after the Syrahs that go into La Côte Rousse from Red Mountain are picked. Around 535 cases were made.
High-intensity nose with a mixture of dark fruit–black plums and blackberries–smoke and spice.
On the palate, those dark fruits come through. But it is the savory, smokey, meatiness that is the star of the show. Medium-plus acidity keeps it fresh and juicy while the medium-plus tannins have a velvety feel at this point. The long savory finish on this wine would make any Côte-Rôtie lover weak in the knees. Stunningly beautiful and well worth the $70-75.
2011 La Côte Rousse
100% Syrah sourced from Ciel du Cheval and The Ranch At The End of The Road Vineyard in Red Mountain. The parcels from Ciel du Cheval include some of the oldest plantings of Syrah on Red Mountain. The wine was aged in 45% new oak barrels. Around 559 cases were made.
Medium-intensity nose. A bit more oak driven with the baking spice. Underneath there is a core of dark fruit, but it is not as defined.
On the palate, the fruit is still struggling to be defined. It seems to be a mix of black cherries with a little red pomegranate. Medium acidity and soft medium tannins add lushness to the mouthfeel. The oak is still reasonably noticeable with a sweet vanilla edge and creamy dark chocolate note that lingers through to the moderate finish. A more “New World” style that reminds me of a less sweet Mollydooker. Not my style but at $70-75, it is well in line with Mollydooker’s Carnival of Love and Enchanted Path for those who enjoy those bold, lush wines.
2011 Bésoleil
A blend of 54% Grenache, 15% Cinsault, 12% Counoise, 12% Mourvedre and 7% Syrah. Sourced from vineyards in Yakima, Red Mountain and Snipes Mountains, this was the first vintage to include Counoise. Around 662 cases were made.
Medium-plus intensity nose. A very evocative mix of blue flowers–violets and irises–with spicy black pepper, anise and Asian spices. This wine smells like you walked into a fantastic Indian restaurant.
On the palate, a mix of dark and red fruits come out. But the spices get even more mouthwatering with the medium-plus acidity. The medium tannins are very silky at this point, helping the fruit to wrap around your tongue and linger for a long finish. Still fairly New World in style but at $50-55, this is distinctively charming and complex enough to entice a Châteauneuf-du-Pape fan.
2011 Clos de Betz
A blend of 67% Merlot, 28% Cabernet Sauvignon and 5% Petit Verdot. Often features fruit from Ciel du Cheval and Kiona on Red Mountain, Red Willow and Dubrul in the Yakima Valley and Alder Ridge in the Horse Heaven Hills. The wine was aged in 45% new oak. Around 1186 cases were made.
Clos de Betz, a Right Bank Bordeaux style blend.
Medium intensity nose–a mix of red and black currants with a floral element that is not very defined. With some air, tertiary notes of tobacco spice emerge as well as an intriguing graphite pencil lead that would have me thinking Cabernet Franc is in this blend even though it’s not.
On the palate, the tide tilts more towards the red fruits dominating with the medium-plus acidity adding a sense of freshness to the wine. The graphite pencil notes disappear, being replaced with an espresso chocolately note that plays off the tobacco spice that carried through. Medium tannins are well integrated and velvet–showing that this wine is probably at its peak drinking window now. Moderate length finish brings back the floral notes though I still can’t quite pinpoint them.
At $65-70, you won’t confuse this for a St. Emilion or Pomerol. But this wine amply demonstrates how wonderful Bordeaux varieties–particularly Merlot–do in Washington State.
Written by Amber LeBeau in Washington wine, Wine Knowledge, Wine reviews on Mar 05, 2018
Tagged Alder Ridge Vineyard, Alex Golitzin, àMaurice, André Tchelistcheff, Andrew Will, Anna Shafer, Antinori, Avennia, Beaulieu Vineyards (BV), Ben Smith, Betz Family Winery, Billo Naravane, Bob Betz, Bordeaux, Boudreaux, Boushey Vineyard, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cadence, Casey Cobble, Cayuse, Charles Finkel, Charlie Hoppes, Chateau Ste. Michelle, Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Cheryl Barber-Jones, Chinook Wines, Chris Camarda, Chris Dickson, Chris Figgins, Chris Peterson, Chris Upchurch, Christophe Baron, Ciel du Cheval, Cinsault, Clos du Bois, Col Solare, Constellation Brands, Côte Bonneville, Côte-Rôtie, Counoise, Darel Allwine, DeLille, Dubrul Vineyard, Erik Olsen, Fidelitas, Gramercy Cellars, Greg Harrington, Greg Lill, Grenache, Harrison Hill, Horse Heaven Hills, House of Wine, Januik Winery, Joy Anderson, Kathryn House, Kay Simon, Kerry Shiels, Kiona Vineyard, Klipsun Vineyard, Leonetti, Louis Skinner, Master of Wine, Merlot, Mike Januik, Mollydooker, Mourvèdre, Northwest Wine Academy, Novelty Hill, Passing Time, Paul Gregutt, Petit Verdot, Pike Brewing, Pomerol, Portteus vineyard, Quilceda Creek, Rasa Vineyards, Rattlesnake Hills AVA, Red Mountain, Red Willow Vineyard, Renzo Cotarella, Rhone, Rick Small, Rob Newsom, Robert Ramsay, Ross Andrews, Ross Mickel, Scott Greer, Seattle Met, Sheridan Vineyards, Sinclair Estate, Snipes Mountain, Snoqualmie, Sozo Friends, St. Emilion, Steve Griessel, Sumerian Brewing, Sunset Magazine, Syrah, The Ranch At The End of The Road Vineyard, The Seattle Times, Twill Cellars, Tyson Schiffner, Upchurch Vineyards, Upland Vineyard, Washington Wines and Wineries, Wine & Spirit Education Trust, Woodinville, Woodward Canyon, Yakima Valley.
Wine Geek Notes 3/3/18 — Rose Cider, Parker Points and Washington Wine History.
Amber LeBeau in Geek Notes, Robert Parker, Shopping for Wine, Washington wine, Wine critics, Wine Knowledge
This is what I’ve been reading today in the world of wine and beverages.
The Year of Rosé Cider Is Upon Us by Mike Pomranz (@pomranz) for Food & Wine magazine (@foodandwine). This made its way to my dash via #WiningHourChat (@WiningHourChat).
Good to see a legit article from Food & Wine after the BS they published from their “Champagne Master/Wine Prophet”. The picture of the red fleshed Amour Rouge species of apple is gorgeous and makes my mouth water. But where the article really shines is in shedding light on all the many different ways that cider producers can add color to their ciders–hibiscus and rose petals, maceration with red wine grape skins, etc. Very interesting and worth a read to stay a step ahead of what will undoubtedly be one of the top beverage trends of the summer.
Do Parker points matter any more? from @jamiegoode
The blog post (from one of my favorite wine writers/tool) is worth a read but so are the comments in reply to Jamie’s tweet which includes insight from The Wine Cellar Insider (@JeffLeve), Master of Wine Elizabeth Gabay (@LizGabayMW) and several others.
I think my view is summed up well in the reply made by MW student and Waitrose category manager Anne Jones (@AnneEJones). Points matter to the wine drinkers who want them to matter while other drinkers could care less. Different strokes for different folks.
Every time I see this debate I yawn. Points mean prizes. And prizes matter to some consumers, in some situations. But not to all consumers, or all situations. There is no ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answer to ‘do points matter?’ as I think is obvious by the circuitous nature of the debate!
— Anne Jones (@AnneEJones) March 3, 2018
March is Taste Washington Wine Month
All this month I will be focusing on Washington wines with my 60 Second Reviews. While researching for my reviews of the 2014 Scarborough Stand Alone Cabernet Sauvignon and 2015 Browne Family Vineyards Site Series Cabernet Sauvignon, I came across two links that caught my eye.
Associated Vintners — Washington’s Academic Winemakers (April 2016) by Peter Blecha for the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture.
Red Willow Vineyard where David Lake and his team at Columbia helped Mike Sauer and his crew at Red Willow plant the Syrah that would become one of the first commercial bottlings of the variety in Washington.
Tremendous essay on the history of Associated Vintners (AV). So much history was made by this winery (now known as Columbia Winery) including having the first vintage dated varietal wines, first Pinot gris, first commercial Syrah with Red Willow and first Washington Master of Wine with David Lake. I learned several things from this article including the interesting connection between William B. Bridgman (of Harrison Hill fame) and AV.
Regular readers may remember from my Wine Clubs Done Right post that Columbia Winery holds a special place in my heart as one of the first Washington wines to make me go “WOW!” and the first wine club I ever joined. It was also were my mentor, Peter Bos, served as cellarmaster to David Lake and much of what I learned about winemaking was about how things were done “back in the day” at Columbia. Seeing the changes in style of Columbia was one of my first big disappointments in the wine industry. Still, this engaging and well written piece about such an important part of Washington wine history was a joy to read.
Another Seattle winery served legal papers over naming issue (May 2015) by Lindsey Cohen of KOMO News.
This is not as much about the joy of the Washington wine industry as a “WTF are you serious?” piece about the realities of the wine world. I came across this while researching the Scarborough article where I learned that Travis Scarborough got hit with a cease and desist letter from former 49ers exec Carmen Policy’s Casa Piena vineyards because the name of one of his wine club tiers (Full House) was similar to the English translation of Casa Piena.
As if that wasn’t outrageous enough, Cohen interviews another small local Washington producer, Bartholomew Winery, that had similar issues because a wine named after one of the owner’s sons, Jaxon, was apparently too close to Jackson Family Estates (of Kendall-Jackson fame). Good grief! The sad truth of the matter is aptly summed up by Scarborough in the article–“They’ve already won…because when they send that out they know I can’t fight back.”
Written by Amber LeBeau in Geek Notes, Robert Parker, Shopping for Wine, Washington wine, Wine critics, Wine Knowledge on Mar 03, 2018
Tagged Associated Vintners, Bartholomew Winery, Browne Family Vineyards, Cabernet Sauvignon, Carmen Policy, Casa Piena, Cider, Columbia Winery, David Lake, Elizabeth Gabay, Food & Wine, Harrison Hill, Jackson Family Estates, Jamie Goode, Jeff Leve, Kendall Jackson, KOMO News, Lindsey Cohen, Master of Wine, Mike Pomranz, Peter Blecha, Peter Bos, Pinot gris, Red Willow Vineyard, Scarborough Winery, Syrah, The Wine Cellar Insider, Travis Scarborough, W.B. Bridgman, Waitrose, William B. Bridgman, wine ratings.
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Alonso “Surprised” by Button’s Le Mans Drive
Fernando Alonso didn’t expect former teammate Jenson Button to join Le Mans LMP1 grid…
Daniel Lloyd
Photo: McLaren
Fernando Alonso says he was surprised by former Formula 1 teammate Jenson Button’s decision to contest this year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Two-time Formula 1 champion Alonso, who won on his FIA World Endurance Championship debut with Toyota at Spa two weeks ago, will race directly against Button for overall honors at the French endurance classic.
Button, the 2009 Formula 1 world champion, meanwhile, will suit up for SMP Racing to drive a BR Engineering BR1 AER with Vitaly Petrov and Mikhail Aleshin, while Alonso shares a Toyota TS050 Hybrid with Kazuki Nakajima and Sebastien Buemi.
Alonso said that Button’s move to a full-time drive in Super GT for 2018 probably helped sway the Briton’s interest toward Le Mans and LMP1.
“It was a nice surprise when he joined Super GT in Japan, and now it’s even more surprising he wants to do Le Mans now,” said Alonso.
“I’m only happy, because I think he’s a great driver, a great talent. To have him in any series is good for everyone. I’m sure he will enjoy Le Mans.
“Probably because he’s enjoying Super GT, it opened his eyes that the prototype was a good thing to do.
“I think it’s good that he tries different things. I was teammates with him for a few years, and I raced with him for 16 years. He was not willing to try different series outside of Formula 1 before.”
Alonso and Button are both signed to contest the remainder of the WEC ‘Super Season’, which includes the next two editions of Le Mans.
Button turned his first laps behind the wheel of the BR1 AER at Magny-Cours last week after skipping the Total Six Hours of Spa to focus on Super GT’s visit to Fuji.
At Spa, the Toyotas had the edge over the non-hybrid competition, with both cars finishing two laps ahead of the third-placed Rebellion R13 Gibson.
Meanwhile, Petrov and Aleshin finished fifth in the car that Button will be driving next month.
When asked if he is happy to fight against Button at Le Mans, Alonso said he expects the Toyotas to have the advantage, but isn’t discounting the likelihood of the pair meeting on track.
“Yeah, definitely. I think it’s good,” said Alonso. “Obviously we need to see how other teams are. I think [at Spa] we had the first balance.
“In the Prologue we saw already how fast they are, so we’ll see how we can do in Le Mans and if we are fighting together.”
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Daniel Lloyd is a UK-based reporter for Sportscar365, covering the FIA World Endurance Championship, GT World Challenge Europe powered by AWS and the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, among other series.
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AS Monaco vs. Strasbourg 9/27/20 Ligue 1 Soccer Pick, Odds, and Prediction
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AS Monaco is welcoming Strasbourg to Stade Louis II in round 5 in the French Ligue 1.
Monaco is doing well so far in Ligue 1, and they are in 6th place in the standings with 7 points, 6 scored goals, and 5 conceded goals. Monaco has scored at least 1 goal in all of their games in Ligue 1 this season, but they also conceded a goal in 3 of their last 4 games. In their latest Ligue 1 games against Rennais on the road, Monaco has had 42% of ball possession, 2 shots on goal, 10 corner kicks, 1 big chance created, and a solid 81% of the correct passes. Monaco got ahead in the 28th minute, but they weren’t as good in the second half, and Rennais was pressuring them a lot. Monaco has conceded 2 goals in the second half, in the 81st minute, and in the 91st minute. Monaco ended up losing this match 2-1. Badiashile has scored 2 goals for Monaco so far this season, while Diop, Ben Yedder, Disasi, and Geubbels each added 1 goal. Golovin, Tchouameni, and Onyekuru each added 1 assist. Golovin and Pele are both injured. I think Monaco is a good team, and I see them close to the top of Ligue 1, maybe even the very top.
Strasbourg has finally won their first game of the new season, after 4 straight losses. With 3 points, only 2 scored goals, and 7 conceded goals in 4 games, Strasbourg is in 18th place in the standings. In their latest Ligue 1 match against Dijon at home, Strasbourg was the better team with 57% of ball possession, 7 shots on goal, 8 corner kicks, 5 big chances created, and a solid 84% of the correct passes. With a goal in the 80th minute, Strasbourg has won this match 1-0. Mitrovic and Chahiri have each scored 1 goal for Strasbourg so far this season, while Lienard added 1 assist. Sels, Mothiba, and Kone are all injured, and they will not be in the lineup for this game. Strasbourg was not great offensively last season, but their defense on the other hand was fantastic with only 32 conceded goals in 27 games. Strasbourg ended last season in 11th place. So far, this season is not going well for Strasbourg, and I don’t think they will the season as good as the last one, but Strasbourg certainly has the quality to stay outside the relegation zone.
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I’m not sure why Monaco is not a bigger favorite here, but they are a far better team than Strasbourg. Monaco has lost 2 straight home games against Strasbourg, but they haven’t lost any of their last 5 home games. Monaco is the better team here, and despite losing their latest game, Monaco is in better form. I’m sticking with Monaco at home.
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HomeCommunitySacramento Residents Call for Stronger Tenants’ Rights
July 18, 2019 California Endowment Community
Edith Fajardo (left) strives to protect tenants like Gina Massey (right) from “bad landlords.” Massey was given an eviction notice from her Sacramento apartment for reporting problems with the unit. Photo by Edgar Sanchez
Gina Massey’s South Sacramento apartment has rats and electrical issues —problems, through no fault of her own recently landed her in the ER. So, like any responsible tenant, she reported the issues to her landlord.
Speaking to the Sacramento City Council, Massey, 58, expressed her frustration about her situation. Instead of finding a maintenance person at her front door, she received an eviction notice for reporting the problems.
“I’m a disabled senior experiencing physical and mental distress,” Massey told the Council, asking it to act against “bad landlords.”
Massey, who must move by the end of August with nowhere to go, was among 17 local tenants and housing activists who told the council on June 25 that new protections are needed for Sacramento’s 246,000 renters.
Most of the speakers, including Massey, belong to a tenants’ union formed by the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE), a nonprofit that advocates for tenants’ rights and receives support from The California Endowment to provide general education and strengthen coalition building in the region.
Jovana Fajardo, ACCE’s Sacramento director supports stronger laws for Sacramento tenants, pointing out, “City laws are always stronger than state protections.”
Last year, ACCE helped collect over 44,000 local voter signatures on petitions calling for a rent-control initiative on Sacramento’s 2020 ballot. Among other things, that measure would cap rent increases at 5% and prohibit unfair evictions.
“I support reasonable rent caps, especially when there are low vacancy rates.”
Darrell Steinberg
Sacramento Mayor
Though the initiative qualified to be on the ballot, it hasn’t been scheduled for the March primary or the November general election. Fearing it will not go on the ballot at all, some speakers demanded that the council itself enact rent control.
Because the topic of rent control wasn’t on the agenda, a few activists took the mic during public comments, when anyone can voice their concerns.
One Councilman was optimistic, stating that he hoped to find compromise by talking to local housing and business groups on this matter.
And in a later statement, Mayor Darrell Steinberg said: “I support reasonable rent caps, especially when there are low vacancy rates. I’m hopeful my colleagues on the council and advocates from all sides can reach a compromise that protects tenants and doesn’t create a disincentive to build housing.”
Residents eagerly await to see if the initiative for rent control makes the ballot.
For more information on the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, click “Learn more” below.
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Sony gives a sneak peek at upcoming products in the all-digital CES 2021 exhibit
Redefining the future with tomorrow’s technologies.
Sony has given a peek at some of its upcoming products during a virtual presentation as part of CES 2021. These new initiatives are based on the theme of ‘Redefining Our Future with Tomorrow’s Technologies’ and Sony is leveraging its 3R technology (Reality, Real-time, and Remote) to inspire Kando (meaning emotion) through the power of entertainment.
Sony’s CES 2021 presentation centered around 12 topics that support this experience, including tools and solutions that empower content creation, immersive entertainment experiences, and technology made for a better future.
Kenichiro Yoshida, Chairman, President, and CEO of Sony Corporation presented the PlayStation 5, VISION-S, and Airpeak and highlighted the phrase ‘Creativity Has No Limits’. He was then followed by Bill Baggelaar, EVP & CTO, Technology Development, Sony Pictures Entertainment (“SPE”), who introduced collaboration initiatives with Sony’s lineup of BRAVIA XR TV models that were announced yesterday. After that, Jim Ryan, President, and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) highlighted the evolution of the PlayStation community. Finally, Dennis Kooker, President, Global Digital Business and U.S. Sales, Sony Music Entertainment (SMEI) demonstrated the many forms of unique collaboration underway involving artists and new technology.
One of the products introduced is Airpeak, a new drone design that comes equipped with Sony’s Alpha full-frame mirrorless camera. It blends dynamic filming with a stable flight that’s perfect for content creators.
Also highlighted is the 5G-powered Xperia II flagship smartphone that comes with color settings that help enhance your shooting experience.
Along with that, Sony’s new BRAVIA XR TVs was again highlighted, as well the successful release of the PlayStation 5 last November.
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Teaser out of Saif Ali Khan’s ‘Tandava’, web series to be released on Amazon Prime Video on this day
After the great content line-up of 2020, Amazon Prime Video is all set to enter 2021 with the series ‘Tandav’ which is an interesting political drama. Tandav Ali Abbas is composed and directed by Zafar who is also making his digital debut with the series. The teaser of the series Tandav has been released.
The one-minute teaser begins with huge crowds and political flags. Saif is in the role of a politician in the series. Saif’s impressive entry is seen in the teaser. At the same time, there is a voice over in the background – the only thing that drives Hindustan is politics. The Prime Minister in this country is the king.
Produced by Himanshu Kishan Mehra and Ali Abbas Zafar, the cast of the top cast in this 9-part series includes Saif Ali Khan, Dimple Kapadia, Sunil Grover, Tigmanshu Dhulia, Dino Morea, Kumud Mishra, Gauhar Khan, Amaira Dastur, Mohammad Zeeshan Ayub, Kritika Kamra, Sarah Jane Dias, Sandhya Mridul, Anoop Soni, Hiten Tejwani, Paresh Pahuja and Shonali Nagrani
Set in the capital city of the world’s largest democracy, the ‘Tandava’ will take the audience into the closed, chaotic corridors of power and reveal the secrets of those who seek power and power, along with manipulations and puzzles Can also go to great lengths.
Tandav Dimple also has a digital debut with Ali Abbas Zafar for Kapadia. Also Saif Ali Khan, Zishan Ayyub and Sunil Grover are presented in never seen avatars. Tandava will premiere on 15 January 2021 and will be available in India and for Prime members of 200 countries and territories.
“With the entry in 2021, we are very excited to present our first political drama, Tandava, which is an intense exploration of power and highlights that the people behind the power,” said Aparna Purohit, head of Indian origin of Amazon Prime Video. To what extent can we go?
Talking about the show, Ali Abbas Zafar says, “Through Tandava we are taking our audience to the power hungry world.” With watching this show you will realize that nothing is right or wrong or black or white, the world of power is about the world of gray. I am very excited that my debut on the digital domain as an author-director is going to be on Amazon Prime Video which will spread the entertaining and interesting story of Tandava to millions of people around the world.
Tandav, composed and directed by Ali Abbas Zafar and produced by Himanshu Kishan Mehra and Ali Abbas Zafar, will premiere in India and in 200 countries and territories from 15 January 2021 on Amazon Prime Video.
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Open Research: a Practical Guide
This Practical Guide provides helpful support and links to recommended external resources for a range of open research practices.
Pre-registration, open notebooks & protocols
Open data & code
Preprints, open peer review & publication
Training & help
This is a practical guide offering support and information on open research methods which can be applied at different stages of your work. This guidance is intended for researchers of all levels, and across all academic disciplines.
What is open research?
The University's Open Research Statement outlines the core idea behind open research: "all aspects of the research cycle should be shared and accessible where possible. Research should be as open as possible, as closed as necessary."
Openly accessible publications and data are more frequently read, re-used and cited than those behind a paywall. Crucially, they are more accessible to a broader audience of readers who do not have access to academic libraries and subscription content. Open research also provides new opportunities for collaboration on a global scale and promotes the reliability and validity of your research by allowing others to reproduce or replicate the work.
Open research practice has taken a key role during the Covid-19 pandemic. This guide includes information on how different open methodologies are helping to disseminate valuable research related to the virus.
SPARC Europe have also put together an extensive set of resources to showcase open research initiatives and discussions in the current crisis.
'Open research' or 'open science'?
These terms are sometimes used interchangeably, but are based on the same principles of collaboration and accountability. Open research is relevant to all researchers (not just scientists), but its applications will differ between disciplines.
CISPC - What Does Open Research Mean To You?
A variety of definitions and perspectives from across the scholarly communications industry
Wellcome Trust - What is Open Research?
"Researchers around the world, in all disciplines, store, share and reuse their outputs with the wider community, so everyone can access knowledge and insights much sooner, helping to advance their work and support reproducibility" - Wellcome Trust (2017).
Throughout this guide there are external links to additional reading and guidance on specific aspects of open research practice.
These are some general sources of information and support which may also be of interest:
FOSTER Open Science - a set of short online training modules covering most open research practices. See also: their comprehensive Training Handbook.
Open Science Knowledge Base - an annotated collection of practical resources developed in collaboration with the Center for Open Science.
Open Research Community - a new discussion platform developed by open access service provider Knowledge Unlatched.
The Turing Way - a handbook for best practice in reproducible data science (chapter on open research).
Open Science: Sharing Your Research with the World - free online course provided by Delft University of Technology (future course dates to be announced).
UK Network of Open Research Working Groups (UK-ORWG) - a community of researchers from different institutions working together to develop initiatives, events and educational materials in support of open research.
Open Research: Examples of good practice, and resources across disciplines - a working document spanning a wide range of research areas, created by members of the UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN)
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Charities welcome move to support children with autism
by Gareth Jones
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18th December 2020 by Gareth Jones
Children in Scotland, the National Autistic Society Scotland and Scottish Autism have worked to improve training for new teachers
Three charities have welcomed plans to improve support for children with autism.
The organisations have welcomed new measures developed in partnership with the Scottish Government (SG), the General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS), Education Scotland (ES) and the Scottish Council of Deans of Education (SCDE) to improve autism awareness and training within schools and educational settings.
The measures are a direct outcome of the findings from the ground-breaking Not Included, Not Engaged, Not Involved report, published in 2018.
Children in Scotland, the National Autistic Society Scotland and Scottish Autism have worked with the Scottish Government and partners to agree a number of changes that will ensure new teachers receive a common baseline of content on autism during their initial teacher education (ITE) programmes. This will form part of the most comprehensive set of measures anywhere in the UK to ensure all teachers have access to the most up to date information on how to support autistic learners.
The announcement by the deputy first minister and education secretary, John Swinney MSP, comes following Children in Scotland, National Autistic Society Scotland and Scottish Autism’s Not Included, Not Engaged, Not Involved campaign that found a third of parents surveyed had their child unlawfully excluded from school in the last two years. A lack of knowledge in how to best support and include autistic children in education was cited as the primary reason for these exclusions.
The measures agreed with the Scottish Government, GTCS, ES, SCDE and the three charities include:
Revisions to the framework used by the GTCS to accredit programmes of Initial Teacher Education (ITE). Accreditation will require an outline of how a programme is designed to develop and promote equality and diversity with a specific reference to a range of neuro-development differences, including autism.
Inclusion of reference to the key areas of additional support needs, including autism, within the revised GTCS Professional Standards for Teachers which are to be used from summer 2021. These Standards set the benchmark for what is expected of teachers and which support their professional learning. GTCS has recently published a Professional Guide for registrants on autism to support its revised Professional Standards.
Development of a common baseline of content on autism during the delivery of initial teacher education (ITE) programmes.
HM Inspectors continuing to consider how well the needs of all children and young people with additional support needs, which includes autistic learners and their specific needs, are being met.
Ongoing development of the Autism toolbox for new and more experienced teachers.
Creation of a community of good practice sharing in autism across the country for education professionals.
Creation of an implementation group to support embedding these changes.
Swinney said: “Despite the challenges of the pandemic, a significant amount of work has already been undertaken by our partner organisations and I thank them for their exceptional efforts in recent months. Through this collaborative working we will ensure that our autistic learners have the right support in place at the right time to improve their educational experiences.”
Suzanne is a mother of an autistic son and has been involved in the Not Included campaign. Her son Callum was initially excluded (a decision now overturned) but is now being well supported in his high school.
She said: “Autism awareness training for teachers would make a huge difference – at the moment there is a lot of emphasis on when things go wrong, outbursts or meltdowns for example – it’s important however that things don’t get to this stage. Autism awareness training would help teachers create a better teaching environment, avoiding sensory over stimulation and understanding the importance of keeping calm. In the past if Callum got upset – teachers got upset too and things became a vicious circle. Thankfully things are now going well for Callum and staff are much better at supporting him and involving me in discussions. It now feels like they are working with me not against me.”
Sally Cavers, head of inclusion at Children in Scotland, said: “Children in Scotland has welcomed the response to the Not Included report, including this announcement and the way organisations have worked together to secure these significant changes. However, it is critical for autistic children and children with additional support needs that we also focus on the other areas identified in the report to make sure we are doing our very best for children in our education system. This is especially true now following a very challenging year in relation to learning for many children and young people with additional support needs.”
Nick Ward, director of National Autistic Society Scotland, said: “This package of changes will be life-changing for pupils and new teachers alike. It is the most comprehensive approach to ensuring high quality autistic education for new teachers in the UK and will ensure that hundreds of autistic children will have a better school experience. We welcome today’s announcement and thank the deputy first minister and all of the organisations involved. We must now ensure that all teachers have the opportunity to undertake the training and that it is informed fully by the experiences of autistic children and their parents.”
Charlene Tait, deputy chief executive officer at Scottish Autism, said: “As an organisation that has been calling for greater support and resources for those teaching autistic children, we warmly welcome this commitment from the Scottish Government. We know that hundreds of autistic children are not receiving an education that meets their needs, which is detrimental to both their education and their overall well-being. It is therefore essential that teachers are able to build an understanding during their initial teacher training of how autistic children think and learn. This training and knowledge has the potential to make significant improvements in the educational experiences of autistic children, however there is still much to be done.”
As part of the charities’ Not Included, Not Engaged, Not Involved report published in September 2018, a survey of 1,417 parents and carers of autistic children revealed that many autistic children were not receiving the support they need to succeed at school and achieve their potential.
More than a third (34%) of respondents said their autistic child had been unlawfully excluded in the last two years - with almost a quarter (22%) saying this happened multiple times a week.
13% of respondents said their autistic child had been formally excluded from school in the last two years.
28% of respondents said their autistic child had been placed on a part-time timetable in the last two years.
85% of respondents said their autistic child did not receive support to catch up on work they had missed.
72% of respondents felt that school staff having a better understanding of how their child’s autism affects them, including their communication needs, could have helped their child.
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TAIKIKEN PDF
02.04.2020 13.12.2020 admin Personal Growth
Because of its effectiveness for keeping fit it was accepted by the Shaolin monks as one of the basic entering exercises for Shaolin Wushu. Unlike Shaolin Hard kung fu and the rest of Shaolin style for combat, the eight section brocade is a form of soft qi gong. The eight section brocade is an ideal life time exercise for most people. It is especially recommended for people who work at desks and or with computers every day. Effectiveness for keeping fit, ease in learning and economy of exercising time are the main features of the exercise.
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Scott In the original article I attempted to introduce the origins of Taikiken in Kyokushin. In this excerpt he talk about his introduction into yiquan. I hope you enjoy and it peeks your interest in this forgotten part of Kyokushin, but still practiced by some, including Shihan Hajemi Kazumi and Kancho Hatsuo Royama. Chinese hand-to-hand combat schools may be divided into two major categories: the inner group and the outer group. Though there are problems inherent in the very act of making such a division, an understanding of the difference between the inner and outer groups is of the greatest importance to an understanding of Chinese hand-to-hand combat in particular and of all the martial arts in general.
In the schools of the outer group, practice is devoted to training the muscles of the body and to mastering technical skills. On the surface, this method seems to produce greater strength. Since the techniques themselves can be understood on the basis of no more than visual observation, they are comparatively easy to learn.
The schools of the inner group, however, emphasize spiritual development and training. They develop progress from spiritual cultivation to physical activity. In general, the inner schools give a softer impression than the outer schools; but training in them requires a long time, and mastery of them is difficult to attain.
His disciple Kuo Yun-shen became still more famous for his overwhelming power. It is said that of all the men who participated in combat bouts with him only two escaped deaths. Kuo Yun-shen himself killed so many martial-arts specialists from various countries that he was imprisoned for three years. While in prison he perfected the mystical technique that is known as the Demon Hand. In this way, a conservative school was established.
He also believed that, unless a person learns to control and use ki, he cannot master any of the combat techniques. In order to develop the needed mastery, Wang concentrated on standing Zen meditation. He was a small man with a most ducklike walk. But he was extremely difficult to study with. When people came wanting to learn his system, he ignored them.
They had no recourse but to observe his actions and, practicing together, try to imitate his techniques. Fortunately, being a foreigner, I was able to ask questions and do things that would have been considered very rude in another Chinese.
Since at the time I was a fifth dan in Judo, I had a degree of confidence in my abilities in combat techniques. When I had my first opportunity to try myself in a match with Wang, I gripped his right hand and tried to use a technique. But at once found myself being hurled through the air. I saw the uselessness of surprise and sudden attacks with this man. Next I tried grappling.
I gripped his left hand and his right lapel and tried the techniques I knew, thinking that, if the first attacks failed, I would be able to move into a grappling technique when we fell. But the moment we came together, Wang instantaneously gained complete control of my hand and thrust it out and away from himself.
No matter how many times I tried to get the better of him, the results were always the same. Each time I was thrown, he tapped me lightly on my chest just over my heart. When he did this, I experienced a strange and frightening pain that was like a heart tremor. I requested that he pit himself against me in fencing. We used sticks in place of swords; and, even though the stick he used was short, he successfully parried all my attacks and prevented my making a single point.
I did succeed in studying with him; and, acting on his advice, I instituted a daily course in Zen training. Gradually I began to feel as if I had gained a little bit of the expansive Chinese martial spirit. Since I am Japanese, I shall use the Japanese reading throughout this text. And this is the way the name Taiki-ken came into being.
It is something that you must master on your own strength. This surprise was the rebeginning of Taiki-ken, to which I intend to devote myself for the rest of my life. He had many disciples, but among them Kuo Yun-shen was the most famous. He was said to have no worthy opponents in the whole nation.
In one bout, he employed this technique and killed his opponent, with the result that he was thrown into prison for three years. Since he was chained, he was unable to spread his arm wide. His shackles made it necessary for him to raise both arms whenever he raised one.
Ironically, the apparent inconvenience enabled him to develop a technique that was at one and the same time an attack and a steel-wall defence. He learned to maintain a sensible interval between his own body and his opponent and to counter attacks and immediately initiate attacks.
It took him the full three years of his term in jail to perfect this technique. Although he was not a big man, Kuo Yun-shen was very strong. Once a disciple of another school of martial arts asked Kuo to engage in a match with him. The man rose and asked for another bout. Once again Kuo did as he was requested, but this time the man did not rise, because one of his ribs was broken. As a person practices using these techniques in training sessions and bouts with opponents, he gradually learns which suits him best.
People striving for progress in the martial arts must be aware of this point and must keep it in mind throughout their daily practice. Instead, the individual must always move toward his opponent and counter his moves as he attacks.
Nor is there any need for restraining the opponent with one hand while kicking. At all times, maintaining a perfect defense, the person must conform to the motions of his opponent. This, as I have said, leaves no time for mental strategy.
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Ebru Esin Yörüker1, Stefan Holdenrieder2, Ugur Gezer1
1Department of Basic Oncology at Oncology Institute, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey; 2Institute of Laboratory Medicine, German Heart Center Munich, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
Contributions: (I) Conception and design: EE Yörüker, U Gezer; (II) Administrative support: EE Yörüker; (III) Provision of study materials or patients: EE Yörüker, U Gezer; (IV) Collection and assembly of data: EE Yörüker, U Gezer; (V) Data analysis and interpretation: S Holdenrieder, U Gezer; (VI) Manuscript writing: All authors; (VII) Final approval of manuscript: All authors.
Correspondence to: Dr. Ugur Gezer. Department of Basic Oncology, Oncology Institute, 34093 Capa, Istanbul, Turkey. Email: ugurd@istanbul.edu.tr.
Abstract: Posttranslational modifications of histone proteins (PTHMs) are involved in the regulation of chromatin packaging and gene expression thus affecting cellular homeostasis. Enzymatic machinery that set PTHMs is often deregulated in cancer resulting in altered global patterns of PTHMs in various cancer types. Detection of cancer-related histone marks in biological fluids such as plasma and serum could serve as useful biomarkers in cancer detection, diagnosis and management. Such biomarkers offer many advantages, such as being minimally invasive and easily accessible. Reflecting this, increasing amounts of data on the impact of circulating histone marks are being published. Here we provide a short insight into PTHMs and their potential utility as circulating cancer biomarkers.
Keywords: Cancer; circulating nucleosomes; histone modifications
Submitted Aug 30, 2017. Accepted for publication Sep 18, 2017.
Cancer has traditionally been considered as a genetic disease. However, accumulating evidence revealed that epigenetic mechanisms contribute substantially to the high complexity of cancer development and progression (1). Epigenetics is defined as the study of gene expression that is not encoded by the DNA sequence and mainly refers to alterations in DNA methylation, histone modifications, and non-coding RNAs (2). These mechanisms regulate the high complexity of the mammalian genome and affect cell proliferation, differentiation, and cellular homeostasis. During the past decade, the research into the role of posttranslational modifications of histone proteins (PTHMs) in chromatin organization and gene expression has expanded (3). Enzymatic machinery that establishes PTHMs is often deregulated in cancer and altered patterns of PTHMs have been defined for various cancers (4). Nucleosomes constitute complexes of histones and DNA and may be released from cells into the blood circulation during cell death processes. They could be valuable sources for the detection of cancer-related alterations of PTHMs in bodily fluids that can be utilized in cancer detection, diagnosis, treatment evaluation or prognosis (5). As such biomarkers offer many advantages including minimally invasiveness and easy accessibility (6), scientific interest in circulating nucleosomes and PTHMs as relevant parts in the field of “liquid biopsy” is growing. In this review we provide a short insight into PTHMs and outline published data revealing their potential as circulating cancer biomarkers.
Posttranslational histone modifications
Eukaryotic chromatin has a compact organization composed of DNA, histones and the non-histone proteins. Non-histone proteins are less abundant than histones and more variable between tissues and species and include mainly scaffold proteins, DNA polymerase, heterochromatin protein 1 and polycomb proteins. Histones are primary protein components of chromatin and include small and highly conserved proteins H1, H2A, H2B, H3, and H4 (7). The basic structural repeating unit of chromatin is the nucleosome core particle that contains two copies of core histone proteins (H2A, H2B, H3 and H4) and 147-bp DNA wrapped around this histone octamer (Figure 1). H1 protein binds to the “linker DNA” region between nucleosomes.
Figure 1 Chromatin organization and the nucleosome core particle.
The core histones possess highly dynamic N-terminal amino acid tails extending from the surface of nucleosome. These tails are subject to a variety of posttranslational modifications (8). Several different types of PTHMs have been identified in eukaryotic cells where in histone acetylation and methylation as ubiquitous marks of chromatin are key players of gene regulation. These have been mostly implicated in cancer development and progression (9). Acetylation of histone tails is typically associated with transcriptional activation of genes as this mark changes net positive charge of the histone proteins, providing access to DNA sequence information (10). The acetylation status of the histones is determined by a dynamic balance between histone acetyltransferases (HATs) and histone deacetylases (HDACs). By removing acetyl groups, HDACs reverse histone acetylation and affect the expression of many cancer critical genes. Aberrant expression of HDACs has been linked to a variety of malignancies (11). They are supposed to be involved in multiple stages of cancer and in most cases; a high level of HDACs is associated with advanced disease and poor outcomes in patients (11). Thus HDACs represent a relevant target of cancer therapeutics.
Unlike HATs and HDACs, histone methyltransferases (HMTs) and histone demethylases (HDMs) work in a specific manner to recognize and modify distinct basic target amino acid residues (12). Histones are methylated by addition of one to three methyl groups to the side chains of lysine or arginine residues by histone lysine methyltransferases (HKMTs) and protein arginine methyltransferases (PRMTs), respectively. HKMTs consist of two main classes, the SET domain containing family and the DOT1 family (13). The functional consequences of methylation depend mainly on the number of methyl groups and their location within the histone tail (14). For instance, histone 3 lysine 4 di- and trimethylation (H3K4me2 and H3K4me3, respectively) and histone 3 lysine 9 monomethylation (H3K9me1) are examples for modifications that are associated with open chromatin and active gene expression. In contrast, histone 3 lysine 27 di- and trimethylation (H3K27me2 and H3K27me3, respectively) are linked with gene repression. Histone 3 lysine 9 trimethylation (H3K9me3) and histone 4 lysine 20 trimethylation (H4K20me3) are two repressive epigenetic marks that are enriched in pericentric heterochromatin and important mediators of genomic stability (Figure 2) (15). Similar to HATs and HMTS, the dysregulation of HMTs and HDMs results in aberrant histone modification patterns in cancer cells (13). Several studies linked global changes of methylation marks to prognosis of patients with different types of cancer (16-18).
Figure 2 Examples for activating or repressing histone marks associated with euchromatin and heterochromatin, respectively.
Techniques for studying histone modifications
Various techniques are available to study the function, abundance or interacting partners of PTHMs. Antibody-based approaches such as enzyme-immunoassays or Western Blots are broadly applied to detect PTHMs. One should be aware that the quality and specificity of antibodies being used is a major matter of the histone research (19). Cross-reactivity with similar PTHMs (such as double or triple methylation), with alternative histone modification sites or with other nuclear proteins represent the most obvious obstacles in these assays. For the detection of PTHMs by Western blotting, whole-cell lysates are often used (20). For some applications, it may be necessary to enrich or purify histone proteins. This approach provides, however, no quantitative data. Enzyme linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs) are another antibody based technique at low cost and easy to be used that allows to quantify the number of histone marks in cell lysates or bodily fluids. Current research reveals a relatively high reproducibility of PTHMs detection by this approach (21,22). The number of studies that have measured PTHMs in serum or plasma using ELISA-based assays is accumulating (22-26). Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) is another approach to employ specific antibodies. The strength of this technique is the identification of genomic sites that are enriched for a particular histone modification. For this purpose, immunoprecipitated DNA is applied in subsequent real-time PCR to determine histone marks at given loci. Large-scale enrichment analysis can also be performed using a variety of massive parallel DNA sequencing (ChIP-seq) methods to identify the distribution of PTHMs genome-wide (27). Our research revealed the detection of circulating nucleosome-associated histone marks in blood circulation by using ChIP assays (28-30). It is, however, to note that sample preparation for ChIP and ChIP-seq assays includes multiple steps which are critical to the success of the experiments and affect the reproducibility, bias, and sensitivity of the technique.
Another elegant technique applied in histone research is mass spectrometry that proved to be effective in identifying and quantifying PTHMs and their binding proteins, beyond the limitations of antibody use (31,32). A major advantage of mass spectrometry-based methods is their capability to characterize combinatorial histone PTHMs simultaneously occurring on the same molecule (33). However, higher workload and sensitivity issues for the detection of specific PTHMs have to be considered. Nevertheless, mass spectrometry may be superior to immunoassays in order to provide the specific and comprehensive quantification of PTHM panels. In a first report employing mass spectrometry Fraga et al. (34) have described global loss of histone H4 trimethylation and acetylation as a common hallmark of human cancer cells. Since then numerous studies have applied this technique to characterize PTHMs in clinical samples (34,35).
Sample preparation for liquid biopsy
Pre-analytical variables may affect the specificity and sensitivity of detection of circulating genetic and epigenetic markers (36). A crucial step is blood processing and storage temperature that may influence marker stability and concentration (37). Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) is the most used anticoagulant to stabilize blood during the time between sample drawn and processing. In order to get rid of contaminating cells, both filtration and repeated centrifugations of plasma or serum were found to be useful (38). It has been reported that circulating nucleosomes are relatively stable on long-term storage of sera at −70 °C (39). Similarly, pre-analytical variables such as contaminating cells, within-day variation, varying time before centrifugation had no significant influence on the level of histone methylation in circulating nucleosomes measured by an ELISA-based assay (25).
Clinical impact of circulating nucleosomes
Cells dying from necrosis or apoptosis are considered to be the main sources of extracellular nucleosomes (40,41). It is also assumed that active release from living cells contributes to some part of circulating nucleosomes (42). Circulating nucleosomes are shown predominantly as mono- or oligonucleosome (43). By deep sequencing cell-free DNA (cfDNA) from blood plasma, it was found out in a recent study that the cfDNA nucleosome occupancies correlate well with the nuclear architecture, gene structure, and expression observed in cells, suggesting that they could inform the cell type of origin (44). Nucleosomes are stable structures in circulation (39) and can be detected by ELISA-based measurement in serum and plasma. In the case of cancer increased amounts of nucleosomes enter blood circulation due to a higher cellular turnover (45) and impaired clearance by macrophages (41). In a number of studies circulating nucleosomes have been investigated as a diagnostic marker. A first study measuring circulating nucleosomes was conducted in breast cancer and described elevated levels of circulating nucleosomes in patients compared with those of healthy controls (46). In a subsequent larger study including 418 patients with malignant tumors, 109 patients with benign diseases and 63 healthy individuals, it was reported that sera of patients with malignant tumors contained considerably higher amounts of nucleosomes compared with those of healthy individuals (47). However, comparing these results to levels in patients with many benign diseases, the difference was not statistically significant, reducing their clinical utility for detecting cancer.
As circulating nucleosomes are released in response to chemotherapeutic agents, few studies have utilized the quantification of circulating nucleosomes levels to predict tumor responses. Detection of patients not responding to therapy before or at an early phase of treatment regime would enable to modify the treatment regime and ultimately save patients from the systemic side-effects of ineffective chemotherapy (48). In patients with advanced lung cancer, pre-therapeutic levels of circulating nucleosomes were significantly lower in patients who responded to chemotherapy (49,50). Furthermore, these patients experienced a smaller increase and greater decrease in circulating nucleosomes following the start of treatment. Similar results were obtained by Fahmueller et al. when they analyzed the nucleosome levels in sera of patients with metastasized colorectal cancer (CRC) undergoing selective internal radiation therapy (SIRT). They found that high increases 24 hours after application of this therapy, indicated poor therapy response and reduced survival time (51). Also Yörüker et al. (52) reported that the patients with CRC who had distant metastasis have higher nucleosome levels supporting the hypothesis that circulating nucleosomes provide predictive and prognostic information in diverse cancer types.
Use of circulating histone modifications in cancer patients
While the total amount of circulating nucleosomes is not cancer-specific, PTHMs in circulating nucleosomes could mirror cell-specific and disease-related processes and therefore could be a valuable source for novel biomarkers in cancer diagnostics. Initial studies of our group on this subject employed ChIP-based qPCR assays to detect and quantify PTHMs in blood circulation. In a first report, H3K9me3 and H4K20me3, hallmarks of pericentric heterochromatin (53), were investigated in blood plasma of patients with CRC, multiple myeloma and healthy controls using pericentric heterochromatin specific satellite 2 (29). H3K9me3 levels were found to be significantly decreased in patients with CRC whereas the decline for H4K20me3 was statistically not significant. The same approach was employed on a second set of cancer samples including CRC, breast and lung cancer as well as respective benign diseases and healthy individuals as controls. Both marks were found to be significantly decreased in CRC samples while increased in sera of breast cancer patients (30). In a subsequent study, deep sequencing of H4K20m3- and H3K9me3-related immunoprecipitated nucleosomal DNA was performed confirming the decrease of both markers in plasma of CRC patients as compared with healthy controls (54). Thereby, line-1 was found to be an abundant genetic marker that would be useful for further research. Given potential of these markers, we investigated H4K20me3 and H3K9me3 and another suppressive mark, H3K27me3, in CRC patients using an ELISA-based assay. Supporting previous results, we found reduced levels of H4K20me3 and H3K27me3 in CRC patients, in comparison to colonoscopy-verified cancer-free controls. However, unlike previous reports the levels of H3K9me3 were similar between the two groups. Encouragingly, when H3K27me3 and H4K20me3 were combined the results showed greater area under the curve (0.769), and sensitivity of 49.2% at 90% specificity for CRC (22). In another report with ELISA-based approach, it has also been demonstrated that H3K27 methylation levels can distinguish metastatic prostate cancer from organ confined, locally controlled disease (23).
Apart from our work, evidence for the clinical relevance of PTHMs in blood circulation is accumulating. An immunoassay for 5-methylated cytosines on circulating nucleosomes (5mc) reached 75% sensitivity at 70% specificity for detection of CRC versus healthy controls (55). In a Swedish study a panel of five epigenetic biomarkers (5mc, H2A.Z, H2A.A, H3K4me2 and H2AK119Ub) on circulating nucleosomes was superior to CA19-9 in patients with resectable pancreatic cancer in comparison to benign pancreatic disease and healthy controls (24). Combining CA19-9 with four of these epigenetic biomarkers increased the sensitivity in diagnosing pancreatic cancer. As an important precondition for retrospective analyses, the effects of pre-analytical variables were investigated recently to determine the stability of circulating nucleosomes under variable conditions. Thereby, parameters such as stasis, contamination with white cells, within-day variation, varying time before centrifugation, performance of colonoscopy and presence of a surgical trauma had no significant influence on the level of 5-methylcytosine DNA (5mc) or H3K9me3 in circulating nucleosomes (25). Furthermore, 5mc and H3K9me3 levels were significantly lower in cancer patients compared to healthy individuals. In a further study conducted in individuals referred to endoscopic screening for CRC, a combination of 12 different epigenetic marks were measured by ELISA assay and a panel of four markers provided an AUC of 0.97 enabling the discrimination of CRC from healthy controls with high sensitivity at early stages (sensitivity of 75 and 86 at 90% specificity for stages I and II, respectively) (26). Although numbers of investigated samples in these studies were limited, the findings confirm the potential of circulating nucleosome-associated epigenetic markers as a promising approach for cancer detection and differential diagnosis.
Conclusions and future perspectives
In recent years, “liquid biopsy” has gained considerable attention as a novel source of biomarkers and refers to the use of blood-based biomarkers in cancer detection and management. In addition to methylated circulating DNA and circulating non-coding RNAs, histone modifications in circulating nucleosomes generated a novel and promising class of epigenetic biomarkers in cancer. Several studies have provided proof-of-principle data on the potential of circulating histone marks such as methylation and acetylation for cancer detection. The combination of several histone marks rather than single histone marks could be utilized to enhance sensitivity and specificity of cancer detection. On the other side, different techniques including ChIP-PCR, ChIP-sequencing, ELISA-based assays or mass spectrometry were employed to detect and quantify PTHMs in serum or plasma. Sensitivity and specificity of PTHM detection using different techniques were not compared to each other. Furthermore, the reproducibility of results using different analytical methods across independent laboratories should be ensured before extensive, prospective trials are conducted to depict the clinical impact of PTHMs in cancer detection and diagnosis.
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File Photo. Former Formula One World Champion Niki Lauda
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File Photo. Austrian auto racer Niki Lauda, right, defending champion in world driving, and James Hunt, of Britain, look at the rain before the start of the Japan Grand Prix Formula One auto race
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by xXWoodinatorXx
I only played this game for about 1.5 hours (~5 hour game). I don’t typically play platformers but this one had very good reviews and was leaving gamepass so I thought I’d give it a shot. The time manipulators were cool for a bit but quickly I wasn’t having fun playing this game. It didn’t help that I knew I only had the game for 5 days so I wasn’t able to play it At my own pace. In a very specific mood I may have enjoyed this game more. I would have given it a better chance if it wasn’t leaving gamepass. My enjoyment with this game was very minimal. I gave it a shot so I’m logging the review but there is an asterisk next to my score. I feel slightly guilty giving such a poor ranking because I got the sense that there are some very unique and clever puzzles in this game and maybe if I was in the right mood I could have appreciated them. But I didn’t. There may be a 2D platformer out there for me but it isn’t Braid.
Final Score: B-
xXWoodinatorXxApr 25, 2020
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Rafael Gazola GhediniSep 14, 2020
Microsoft from Danish
summarized: Really beautiful and with great sound and effects - and which is also used a few times. Deep background history Can be played over and over again Will not be boring All the time changing Easy to get started - A little short, it probably won't take more than a few days to complete. It will take a long time to complete it completely. No multiplayer function, desvrre :( Let me start with the story behind all the courses. It's deep. Really, amazing, deep. I'm not going to say anything about it, but the story itself is plentiful to install the game. It really raises the question of our choice and life as human beings, and who are on our land. Look at Google with the word 'Braid' along with 'explained' el. similar, and prepare yourself for some to read. 'Braid' is not simple. Even though the screenshots look so simple, it's all else. There are 5 worlds besides the last, rather special world. In each of the 5 worlds, there are 12 puzzle pieces. They must all be found. S each of the 5 puzzles must be assembled. The courses are actually really fun. They are different and you can keep playing them. Not only that, every world is different from each other. In one you have a shadow that does the same as you for a few seconds after you rewind the time. In another world, you have a ring that you can place somewhere, and that s the time to go slowly within its radius. The game is something for itself. With the shift button you can rewind the time, something that needs to be used in every path, though more and more cunning. The game is easy to get started with, so there is absolutely NO reason not to install it! I got it for 12 kroner. It usually costs 30, - I think enough. If it were just a little longer to complete, 100 would have been a fair price. But quite frankly, install it and get ready for an incredible experience. Put the sound on and lose yourself in Braid's beautiful and perfect world. You must be entertained. I give it approx. one hundred stars out of the five. + It should also be said that there are 7 secret stars stored in the game and the option for Speed Runs through the main menu. You can easily have several files per user account. In the Epilogue, there are 4 alternative texts stored and which only appear if the red book is the last one open before you enter behind the thing that covers you in that part of the course. You also have to remember that it is available for xBox and that the version shown is a tiny bit easier, though a lot more expensive I could imagine.
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App Store, Apr 5, 2019
Braid is one those games that stand the test of time. It feels fresh and interesting even today, and visuals and music are stylish and nice. I like that every puzzle gives you everything you need to solve but the pace of the game constantly changes. When you think that finally got the right rhythm of completing, it shows you it can be harder and forces you to be more creative. I only don’t like that the ending opens only when every puzzle is solved - I sometimes stack in progress. But all the rest is gorgeous.
KawaiiMuaiiMay 31, 2018
Some puzzles in this game are too cryptic and I really couldn’t figure out how to solve them without YouTube. Rushing is not the way you can complete this game and have fun, but I think that waiting for two hours for a cloud to appear at the certain point of the map also sounds like mockery to me.
BrahmaputraMay 31, 2018
Every level has it's own rules and is very logical, you always know what to do and what is your goal, the only question is how to get there. This may seem as nothing special but in reality is very rare and in the vast majority of puzzle games there are a lot of situations when you not quite sure what the game wants from you. Never the case in Braid.
And the combination of art, background story and puzzle-design is just wow. There is no other game like that.
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THE IMPORTANCE OF ART WHEN SELLING A HOME
By Bluethumb Online Art Gallery
In the quest of a safe sale, many homeowners make the mistake of stripping away decor and design to leave what was once a lived-in home feeling like four cold, empty façades.
A prospective property buyer needs to be able to visualise themselves in a home and find their own sense of value and potential in the property. Getting the balance right between revealing a house’s promise and leaving its interior much to be desired separates the average agent with those who have an attention to detail – this, as a result, could be the making or breaking of a sale.
Consequently, the importance of using art to sell a home is paramount, and yet the importance of using art when selling a home goes often overlooked. The run-up to those influential and invaluable inspections is in turn the best time to think twice about bare walls, and ensure a property is dressed to sell.
Art brings out personality – not the personal
It’s easy to confuse the idea of a house having character with the previous homeowner’s sentimental memoirs, but the difference is crucial. Real estate agents and home stagers alike are the first to advise taking down the family photos to depersonalise a space, in turn allowing a prospective homebuyer to see themselves at home. But before taking out the hooks that held those odds and ends, consider changing the scene with art that can nurture the house’s personality.
“If the house is an old build with original features, choosing an artwork with a style that accentuates this instantly gives a property an edge, and boosts its value accordingly,” advises online art gallery Bluethumb’s sales expert Sheeraz. “A homebuyer should see and feel something distinctive in the property’s character that makes it a cut above the others.” What can do that better than an original artwork from a unique artist?
Art gives purpose to a room
Displaying art that relates to a specific room allows a buyer to openly see the possibilities with that space. “If you’re working with a room that could be used for entertaining or eating, hanging still life paintings of fruit or wine glasses can motivate a buyer to see themselves, friends or family dining in that very room, allowing a viewer to get familiar with the setting,” explains Bluethumb curator Sarah. Using themes of relaxation or love in bedrooms are a popular choice with many sellers, which may vary from crowd-pleasing photography of floral subjects or scenic beaches, to abstract pieces of intense or cooling colours.
Art creates focal points
Does the perfect home exist? Perhaps, but then it probably wouldn’t be up for sale! “Using art in a home that has a few unexciting elements can help bring out the best in a space, and draw attention away from its grey areas by turning them into vignettes,” Bluethumb’s interior specialist Alex suggests. Using several pieces in a cluster to create a gallery wall is another option bringing the buyer to focus on a particular feature while diverting them away from others. Online curations centring on themes or styles can boost inspiration when installing art at home in preparation for a sale. Whether one piece is displayed or several, the important thing is that the art selected flatters the room while downplaying the undesirables.
Art puts a home on the map
Loving where you live is a central factor for most homebuyers, and the first thing that draws buyers in to a property is often its location. Use this to your advantage: choosing landscape paintings and photographs of the area, be it the city, the countryside, the outback or the ocean, can encourage a buyer to imagine their life in this environment. Further to this, bringing in well-known and celebrated cultural aspects of a region through art, such as indigenous artworks, can tie a home to the land’s heritage and history, enriching the value and importance of the place both
financially and socially.
Boost cultural significance and value to a home with relatable artwork, such as this piece by indigenous artist Dorris Temay.
Eager to use art in a home for sale, but feeling uninspired? Bluethumb’s art advisory services are here to lend a helping hand and find art that will help make homebuyers fall in love with their new home
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Why Apple is on the verge of becoming the first $1 trillion valued company
David Craik -
August 1, 2018 October 8, 2018
The group, which could hit the landmark later today when Wall Street begins trading, posted a 17% year on year rise in third quarter revenues to $53.3 billion. Profits rose 32% to $11.5 billion.
Apple said it had sold 41.3 million iPhones over the period to June 30, which was below expectations of 41.8 million. But more demand for its expensive models, such as the iPhone X, helped its figures flourish. Indeed, customers paid, on average, £552 for an iPhone.
Revenues at its services business, which include the App store and Apple Pay, were also strong rocketing 31%.
Its shares rose 4% in after-market trading taking it just shy of the magic $1 trillion market valuation.
“The final lift in the share price required to hit that trillion-dollar level shouldn’t be so tough to achieve after a set of figures like that,” hailed Jasper Lawler, head of research at London Capital Group.
Chris Ford, manager of the Smith & Williamson Artificial Intelligence fund, said Apple was in a race with other tech giants to be the world’s first $1 trillion company.
Alphabet has a market valuation of $887 billion, with Amazon sitting at $877 billion and Microsoft at $842 billion.
But he played down concerns over whether this meant the companies held too much combined power.
“Regulators may fret about the influence of megacaps like Apple and Amazon, but they are not unusual in terms of their size,” he states.
“In 1967, for example, the largest company in the US market was IBM but it was over five times the size of the tenth largest company – Gulf Oil. Apple, Alphabet and Amazon are undoubtedly behemoths, but they do not dwarf the likes of JP Morgan Chase and Johnson & Johnson, which also appear in today’s US top ten.”
He says today’s tech megacaps have been successful because they have embedded themselves in our lives to the point where many people might struggle to function without an iPhone.
“Phones are not just phones – they are intelligent devices – and they are about to become more intelligent due to the power of AI,” he explains.
“What is clear is that businesses are using AI to consolidate what are already strong positions within their existing markets, and these are unlikely to be overtaken any time soon. Which company gets to $1 trillion first is immaterial. However, as far as the future and likely corporate persistence is concerned, the role of AI is anything but.”
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Oct 05, 2012 • October 5, 2012 • 1 minute read
From Postmedia’s Katherine Monk:
Rob Stewart, the man behind Sharkwater, takes a second kick at the climate change can in this expansive documentary that picks up where his first film left off: Beneath the waves, where an entire world is changing rapidly, raising the specter of species extinction. This time, it¹s not just the sharks that are in danger of disappearing forever, but the human race. It’s a huge point and one that several other films have attempted to lance with varying degrees of success. Stewart’s story works because he’s so personally vested in the issues, you can feel his distress seeping through the frames as he attends climate conferences that accomplish nothing. An eco-alarm custom-designed for schoolkids and the average Canadian who remains ignorant about the impact of the tar sands, Revolution may oversimplify complex systems, but in doing so, Stewart asks the ultimate question: why is something as straightforward as human survival being downplayed as another political issue when all life depends on finding a solution sooner than later? (Screens Oct. 6 6:15 pm; Oct. 7 12:45 pm; Oct. 10, 1:30 pm.)
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Trump wins Nevada caucuses
REFILE - CORRECTING TYPO - Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump gestures to his sons Donald Trump Jr. (L) and Eric Trump (R) as he addresses supporters after being declared by the television networks as the winner of the Nevada Republican caucuses at his caucus night rally in Las Vegas, Nevada, February 23, 2016. REUTERS/Jim Young
Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump gestures to his sons Donald Trump Jr. (L) and Eric Trump (R) as he addresses supporters after being declared by the television networks as the winner of the Nevada Republican caucuses at his caucus night rally in Las Vegas, Nevada, February 23, 2016. REUTERS/Jim Young
By Megan Cassella and James Oliphant
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Businessman Donald Trump inched closer to becoming the Republican Party’s presidential candidate Tuesday with a victory in the Nevada caucuses, his third win in four early-nominating contests.
Trump’s victory, which was quickly called by broadcast networks and later affirmed by the state Republican Party, showed not only that he has undeniable momentum, but that he holds broad geographic appeal.
After coming second in Iowa, in America’s midwest, he went on to capture primaries in New Hampshire in the northeast and South Carolina in the south. Nevada was the first western contest.
“If you listen to the pundits, we weren’t expected to win too much, and now we’re winning, winning, winning the country,” Trump said at a victory rally in Las Vegas.
Trump is expected to take the bulk of Nevada’s 30 delegates, which would give him more than 80 before February ends, and dwarf the tallies of his closest rivals, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas and U.S. Senator Marco Rubio of Florida.
While more than 1,200 are needed to secure the Republican presidential nomination, Trump has a formidable head start.
Key primaries are ahead on Feb. 1 in states that include Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia, all states in which Trump could do well and further cement his front-running status.
Despite early reports on social media of procedural irregularities at many Nevada caucus sites, the Republican National Committee and the party’s state chapter said voting was running smoothly.
Higher-than-normal turnout was reported, although historically, few of the state’s citizens participate in the Republican caucus.
For weeks, Trump had been considered the favourite to win Nevada, although both Cruz and Rubio made strong bids to mount an upset.
Cruz attempted to appeal to the state’s fierce libertarian wing, appealing directly to those who supported Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy’s armed protest against the federal government in 2014 and a similar, more recent, one staged by Bundy’s sons at a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon.
Rubio sought to leverage his local roots in the state — he lived as a boy with his family in Las Vegas for several years — as well as reach out to the state’s burgeoning Hispanic population, most of which votes Democratic.
For Rubio, considered the Republican establishment’s best hope to ward off Trump’s insurgency, the Nevada result had to be viewed as somewhat of a setback, following his strong second-place win in South Carolina, the withdrawal of former Florida Governor Jeb Bush from the race, and the bevy of congressional endorsements that came his way as a result.
“If you are Cruz and Rubio you have to worry about how far Trump is getting ahead of you,” said Ford O’Connell, a Republican strategist in Washington. “These guys have to figure out how to turn their fire on Trump.”
Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson and Ohio Governor John Kasich, neither of whom had spent much time campaigning in Nevada, lagged behind with single-digit support in early returns.
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The Boys of the Archangel Raphael: A Youth Confraternity in Florence, 1411-1785
By Konrad Eisenbichler
Confraternities and their contribution to the fabric of society have become invisible history for us today. Although their activities began in the Renaissance and continued until the end of the Enlightenment, confraternities have not yet found a place in the standard histories of the period, or even in the histories of religion or of the Church.
With The Boys of the Archangel Raphael, Konrad Eisenbichler brings to light the daily life and history of one such organization from its founding in 1411 to its final suppression in 1785. While focusing on the Compagnia dell'Arcangelo Raffaello, the first confraternity to be established in Florence, the author also discusses other, similar organizations. By constantly comparing developments across several confraternities, the book provides us with insight into the entire phenomenon of premodern lay religious associations for youths.
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A study of a religious organization for youths (aged 13-14) founded in Florence in 1411 that is firmly grounded on archival and contemporary documents, and covers a variety of fields of interest.
'Eisenbichler's monographic study of the Archangel Raphael confraternity – from its founding in 1411, through its crucial transformation in 1636, until its final suppression in 1785 – is groundbreaking. First, through a thorough examination of the documentary sources, for the most part unpublished, he is able to reconstruct for the first time the entire history of the brotherhood. Moreover, he examines the group in all its complexity and interdisciplinarity – as a social and civic institution, as a barometer of the changing possibilities and expressions of lay piety, and as a patron of education and the arts. This book represents a significant contribution to confraternity studies, and has important implications for numerous related fields.'
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Advance polls now open for Victoria city council byelection
Published Tuesday, December 1, 2020 2:37PM PST
The advance polling station at the Crystal Gardens in downtown Victoria is shown: Dec. 1, 2020 (CTV News)
VICTORIA -- After being delayed for months due to the COVID-19 pandemic, voting has now begun for the lone vacant seat on Victoria city council.
The advance polling station opened at 9 a.m. Tuesday at the Crystal Gardens on Douglas Street for people wishing to cast an early ballot in the municipal byelection. The polling station will be open for eight days leading up to general voting day on Dec. 12.
“We’re certainly planning for a lot of voters,” said City of Victoria chief election officer Chris Coates. “We’ve doubled up on our voting tabulators so we can move folks through more quickly and we are basically ready for anything.”
One of the things staff are ready for is keeping people safe while following COVID-19 protocols as they cast their ballots. Staff will be greeting people at the door and asking standard COVID-19 health questions before being admitted inside to vote.
“We have dedicated staff in the facility to make sure that everything is kept clean on a regular basis,” said Coates. “All of our staff are wearing masks and all the folks going in have to wear masks as well in accordance with the health orders.”
For people who prefer to stay at home and vote by mail, Coates says city staff are still processing requests for mail-in ballots. He says there have been more than 3,000 requests from Victoria residents who wish to cast their ballot by mail.
“We’re getting requests everyday since the intake opened, so our staff are moving through them as quickly as possible and getting them out to the people,” said Coates. “We’re getting them out to the people as quickly as we can and there are very few instances where the ballot isn’t processed on the same day.”
Coates says because staff want people to have every opportunity to use the mail-in option to vote, it is recommended that mail-in ballots be sent to the city no later than Dec. 4. He also reminds people that leading up to general election day, completed ballots can be dropped off at Victoria City Hall or the advance polling station at Crystal Gardens. On Dec. 12, ballots may also be dropped off at any polling station by 8 p.m.
“We’ve done everything that we can do in our safety plans to ensure the voting is safe and that it will be dealt with efficiently,” said Coates. “Certainly, there are lots of options for people to come out and vote.”
For information on how you can cast your ballot in the Victoria city council byelection, visit the City of Victoria website.
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Groans and Whispers synonyms, Groans and Whispers pronunciation, Groans and Whispers translation, English dictionary definition of Groans and Whispers. Mayo Clinic does not endorse companies or products. Music – Whisper of a Thrill. This content does not have an Arabic version. Be deliriously happy or at least leave yourself open to be. Today in an interview talking about their new album, with Rolling Stones Magazine, they said something that made me a little sad. Sellke FW, et al., eds. Song. You know? sorrow. Last year, Andrew Ross, M.D., a 44-year-old gastroenterologist who was accustomed to his role as a health care provider, [...]. Approach to the infant or child with a cardiac murmur. By the end of our touring cycle that we finished in October 2013, we kind of had dropped some acoustic instruments and started playing with electric instruments [at sound checks] and really left it there. Atlas of Cardiac Surgical Techniques. È un fremito che distanzia le lettere rendendole inferme e fragili. The Whisper Man is no longer a "thing" right? In: Rosen's Emergency Medicine: Concepts and Clinical Practice. See our safety precautions in response to COVID-19. https://www.heart.org/en/health-topics/heart-valve-problems-and-disease/understanding-your-heart-valve-treatment-options/medications-for-heart-valve-symptoms. I want you to get swept away out there. Is the Whisper Man pulling strings from his cell or was he never really caught?! AskMayoExpert. Accessed Sept. 28, 2020. He is known for his classic Calvin and Hobbes comics. Nemo Egg … I’m still discovering them as I get older and I think that’s a beautiful thing. A normal heartbeat makes two sounds like "lubb-dupp" (sometimes described as "lub-DUP") when your heart valves are closing. When he learned that he needed heart surgery, Andrew Ross, M.D., knew that in order to take care of his patients, he had to take care of himself. Not only did I like their sound, but I discovered their musical philosophy and I wholeheartedly agreed with. To do that, he turned to Mayo Clinic. © 1998-2020 Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (MFMER). Wow this book has creepy written all over it. https://www.heart.org/en/health-topics/heart-valve-problems-and-disease/understanding-your-heart-valve-treatment-options/options-and-considerations-for-heart-valve-surgery. Mankad R (expert opinion). Late Middle English (in the sense ‘move with a whirring sound’): probably of Scandinavian origin; compare with whirl. Write a review. But there is no caption which is mist or haze or fog. whisper of the heart … Heart murmurs can be harmless (innocent) or abnormal. mound. A famous quote by Bill Watterson. Geggel RL. From professional translators, enterprises, web pages and freely available translation repositories. I know, I know, I still need to get the cast names in there and I'll be eternally tweaking it, so if you have any corrections, feel free to drop me a line. An innocent murmur can occur when blood flows more rapidly than normal through the heart. This type of heart murmur is common in newborns and children. entirety. Those magic changes my heart arranges. a thrill. That Next Place. Heart murmurs are sounds — such as whooshing or swishing — made by turbulent blood in or near your heart. whisper of. If you have an innocent heart murmur, you likely won't have any other signs or symptoms. Yeah. In their case, 16 strings and 88 keys. Some of you might laugh at my ramblings or maybe even roll your eyes and that’s fine. Accessed Sept. 17, 2020. You had to search a little to find the meaning of it. Accessed Sept. 30, 2020. I want to say this was almost like an insta-love tale because Ty and Aiyla seemed to fall seamlessly in love from the very beginning. Walls RM, et al., eds. I can be overly inspired by the smallest things, things people might not give two craps about. Volete il fremito e l'eccitazione della metropoli. whisper of darkness. But I will be prepared. Post navigation ← À La Prochaine, Good Winter. There’s hardly any substance to what the words are saying. American Heart Association. 5 star 75% 4 star 25% 3 star 0% (0%) 0% 2 star 0% (0%) 0% 1 star 0% (0%) 0% Whisper of a Thrill (From "Meet Joe Black") by The City Of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. boredom. Adrenaline. Hello, it’s me with a random post to take stock of the year ahead, which looks set to be a fairly packed one, if not altogether exciting! Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Mayo Clinic School of Continuous Professional Development, Mayo Clinic School of Graduate Medical Education, See our safety precautions in response to COVID-19. whole. Whisper Sometimes life is like a whisper. This script is a transcript that was painstakingly transcribed using the screenplay and/or viewings of Meet Joe Black. https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health-topics/heart-valve-disease. Accessed Sept. 28, 2020. It was expansive in the way that they weren’t just words on a page. Posted on March 10, 2015 by Whispers of a Thrill under ramblings “I find my life a lot easier the lower I keep my expectations.” A famous quote by Bill Watterson. It’s unnerving because you honestly didn’t know you could relate this much to something. Given that most of the comics feature a playfully adventurous child with his stuffed tiger, most assume it is marketed for children. Our patients tell us that the quality of their interactions, our attention to detail and the efficiency of their visits mean health care like they've never experienced. It's still familiar to me, sends a thrill right through me 'Cause those chords remind me of the night that I first fell in love to. Other translations. Adrenaline. It was more a tremor of something. Add a translation. whisper of santanica. That Next Place. Sigh No More is a perfect balance of lulling and intense melodies, something I believe is hard to achieve when putting together an album. 4.8 out of 5 stars. New subscribers only. A lot of things happen between, like, 9am and 10pm before you go to the club and meet a girl and get drunk and go home. Not a whisper of a thrill. A heart murmur may be innocent or abnormal. Thomas Montgomery Newman (born October 20, 1955) is an American composer best known for his many film scores.In a career that has spanned over four decades, he has scored numerous classics including The Player, The Shawshank Redemption, Cinderella Man, American Beauty, The Green Mile, In the Bedroom, Angels in America, Finding Nemo, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, … "Whisper of a thrill" - Pictures of fog, mist, haze - YouTube. This content does not have an English version. Elsevier; 2019. https://www.clinicalkey.com. See All Buying Options. Accessed Oct. 13, 2020. Accessed Sept. 28, 2020. See the stories of satisfied Mayo Clinic patients. Heart murmurs are sounds during your heartbeat cycle — such as whooshing or swishing — made by turbulent blood in or near your heart. Whisper Of A Thrill. How does Amazon calculate star ratings? seeking a whisper of a thrill. whisper of the desert. Book. Mayo Clinic is a not-for-profit organization. whisper of a thrill,thomas newman. Music. In: Medical Sciences. Other translations. bhaisahab. Gaasch WH, et al. Not an ounce of excitement, not a whisper of a thrill, this relationship has all the passion of a pair of titmice. The delicate sound of a caressing song Enables your mind to visualize images Of what may be more real, Than is real, To you. English. Oct. 13, 2020. https://www.uptodate.com/contents/search. tingly. dullness. Accessed Sept. 29, 2020. The cardiovascular system. Infective endocarditis (IE) prophylaxis. He is the whisper of a breeze. You need the thrill and excitement of the big city. ARC Review: Whisper of Love (Love in Bloom: The Bradens of Peaceful Harbor) by Melissa Foster A twist of fate, a splash of irony and whole lot of heart prove to be the driving force behind Whisper of Love. And if I come on too strong, it’s because I feel strongly.” I’ll just leave it at that. whisper of moonlight. seeking hope. Heart murmurs. Book. https://www.heart.org/en/health-topics/heart-valve-problems-and-disease/understanding-your-heart-valve-treatment-options/options-for-heart-valve-repair. This infection of the inner lining of your heart and valves typically occurs when bacteria or other germs from another part of your body, such as your mouth, spread through your bloodstream and get stuck in your heart. An abnormal heart murmur may cause the following signs and symptoms, depending on the cause of the murmur: Most heart murmurs aren't serious, but if you think you or your child has a heart murmur, make an appointment to see your family doctor. Bucket The term bucket list comes from the saying “to kick the bucket” which means to die. Change ). We have the opportunity to fill our lives with things that matter to us. Book. Credo che le dia un fremito. What is a heart murmur? Susan Parrish : Oh, that's all? Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. 2020; doi:10.1186/s12887-020-02212-8. I won’t prematurely judge their efforts. 3rd ed. The orchestra started out, after World War II, in 1947, as the in-house full orchestra regularly playing music for film, television and animation productions at the world famous Barrandov Film Studios, in Prague, as well as the historic Krátký Film productions (meaning "short film," in Czech), and the former Czechoslovak Television. An innocent heart murmur is not a sign of heart disease and doesn't need treatment. Apart from planning from the trip of a lifetime we’re going to take in March/April 2015 to New Zealand, we’ve also been busy with wedding preparations and designing our […] “I find my life a lot easier the lower I keep my expectations.”. Renews automatically. whisper of the apocalypse. https://www.heart.org/en/health-topics/consumer-healthcare/answers-by-heart-fact-sheets/answers-by-heart-fact-sheets-treatments-and-tests. You might be wondering where I’m going with this emotionally heartfelt, bold proclamation. Accessed Sept. 17, 2020. I believe it gives her a thrill. Concede un fremito quando iniziamo a sbaciucchiarci. Limited time offer. For children, many murmurs go away on their own as children grow. a whisper of. ( Log Out / In adults, abnormal murmurs are most often due to acquired heart valve problems. I’ve listened to “Believe” and I’m very anxious because I don’t hear that jeux de quoi. Make a donation. To a place of consciousness that lies Outside the plane of awareness. Mayo Clinic; 2020. Many different medical conditions can increase your risk of heart murmurs, including: Having uncontrolled diabetes or a rubella infection during pregnancy increases your baby's risk of developing heart defects and a heart murmur. 11. And when we discover that special thing, it’s such a perturbing sensation.. in the best way possible. It makes you anxious because you’ve become so protective of it and the thought of it being ruined makes you ache. However, that is one of the biggest misconceptions. This relationship has all the passion of a pair of tit mice. Advertising revenue supports our not-for-profit mission. But they were well-mannered, loitering beneath the feeders, waiting for whatever sunflower seeds the finicky nuthatches and—does anyone happen to know whether titmice is the plural of titmouse—happened to toss aside in their search for the perfect seed. There’s other stuff. Well whenever we obtain that something special, our natural response is normally “WE WANT ALL THE THINGS!” When we are offered more of that something special, that’s where the anxiety comes into play. I want to know what words refers to what picture. Elsevier; 2019. https://www.clinicalkey.com. American Heart Association. Use of certain medications, alcohol or drugs during pregnancy can lead to heart defects in a developing baby, which may cause a heart murmur. There’s other stuff. Mayo Clinic; 2019. Left untreated, endocarditis can damage or destroy your heart valves. Meyer TE. Options for heart valve replacement. Your doctor can tell you if the heart murmur is innocent and doesn't require any further treatment or if an underlying heart problem needs to be further examined. William Parrish : Yeah. FREE book offer – Mayo Clinic Health Letter. http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/health-topics/topics/heartmurmur. Listen to Whisper Of A Thrill by Thomas Newman, 52,484 Shazams. Expectations are dangerous: the something following that something special. Conditions that may cause rapid blood flow through your heart, resulting in an innocent heart murmur, include: Innocent heart murmurs may disappear over time, or they may last your entire life without ever causing further health problems. But as a small-town councilwoman/over-enthusiast/bulldozer, Leslie Knope, once said: “If I seem too passionate, it’s because I care. 9th ed. everything. Accessed Sept. 28, 2020. Abnormal heart murmurs require follow-up testing to determine the cause. A normal heartbeat makes two sounds like \"lubb-dupp\" (sometimes described as \"lub-DUP\"), which are the sounds of your heart valves closing.Heart murmurs can be present at birth (congenital) or develop later in life. For example: Endocarditis. Sure there are other factors in correlation with that but for the most part, we are thirsty for knowledge.. for more. Thomas Newman. powerlessness. This condition usually occurs in people who already have heart valve problems. It’s actually kind of unsettling how much you understand now than what you did as a child! weakness. Ben Lovett from Mumford stated: There’s so much music about just going out and going to a club and meeting a girl and going back home. whisper of deserts . Innocent cardiac murmur (child). tastelessness. Last Update: 2018-02-13 Usage Frequency: 1 Quality: English. Mumford and Sons announced their third album, Wilder Mind, a few weeks ago and today they released the first single called “Believe.” Fast backward to 2009. Results for whisper of a thrill translation from English to Italian. I loved this book from the front cover until the very last page. whisper of the heart (Mimi wo Sumaseba) TV. Accessed Sept. 17, 2020. Yet 20 years later he seems to be making a comeback. ( Log Out / I am nothing but a realist and I used to fall into the trap all the time: expecting the something that follows the something special to be just as special. seeking a whisper of a thrill. AskMayoExpert. a whisper of a thrill a life wanderer: seeking knowledge. 12. ‘Did he mean he would violate the confessional seal?’ ‘A severe looking priest up front was speaking very softly, only slightly louder than a confessional whisper.’ ‘I cried, the shock hurling my voice aloud, out of the confessional whisper.’ Italian. There's not an ounce of excitement. Accessed Sept. 28, 2020. whisper of satanica. American Heart Association. A person with an innocent murmur has a normal heart. Can you tell me a little bit about how you found it? Another word for buzz: hum, whizz, drone, whir | Collins English Thesaurus It’s not always loud and in-your-face. Thomas Newman. a quiver. Nishimura RA, et al. Ã sussurro di brezza leggera. Whisper of a Thrill's profile including the latest music, albums, songs, music videos and more updates. This relationship has all the passion of a pair of tit mice. Music nowadays, at least what is being promoted and shared, is very one dimensional. It may transcend the illusions of the material world. As humans, we are constantly wanting to discover more. Sometimes it pays not to measure up. It saddens me because their initial music was powerful. I heard that much of the album has a really expansive, powerful sound. I think it’d be good if people, kind of, just listen to more music about everything else that happens on a day to day basis. 2nd ed. Common congenital defects that cause heart murmurs include: In older children and adults, causes of abnormal heart murmurs include infections and conditions that damage the structures of the heart. Treatment is directed at the cause of your abnormal heart murmur. a tremor. 11 customer ratings. I think Waterson was trying to accomplish many things. Thomas Newman (1955-present) is an American composer and conductor, best known for his many film scores. Song. 32,883. BMC Pediatrics. At the time, it was somewhat smaller t… You can dress up a song with musical riffs and runs all you want.. but it doesn’t change what you’re singing about. Skin that appears blue, especially on your fingertips and lips, In infants, poor appetite and failure to grow normally, Heavy sweating with little or no activity, When the heart is filling with blood (diastolic murmur), When the heart is emptying (systolic murmur), Throughout the heartbeat (continuous murmur), Not having enough healthy red blood cells to carry adequate oxygen to your body tissues (anemia), Too much thyroid hormone in your body (hyperthyroidism), Phases of rapid growth, such as adolescence, An infection of the lining of the heart (endocarditis), Blood disorders marked by a high number of certain white cells, called eosinophils (hypereosinophilic syndrome), Certain autoimmune disorders, including lupus and rheumatoid arthritis, Chemicals from a rare tumor in the lungs or gastrointestinal system that enter your bloodstream (carcinoid syndrome), High blood pressure in the lungs (pulmonary hypertension). Answers by heart fact sheets: Treatments and tests. each thing. Los Muertos Vivos Estan (From “spectre” Soundtrack) Los Muertos Vivos Estan (From “spectre” Soundtrack) Thomas Newman & Tambuco. Yoon SA, et al. A single copy of these materials may be reprinted for noncommercial personal use only. They immediately stood out and if you are anything like me, I am always wanting more artists that bring forth music with just 88 keys and a microphone. English. lot. total. Book. These have rich meaning, and they’re worth holding on to for years to come. Naish J, et al., eds. Popple definition, to move in a tumbling, irregular manner, as boiling water. See more. I believe it gives her a thrill. While there's not much you can do to prevent a heart murmur, it is reassuring to know that heart murmurs are not a disease and are often harmless. Finally, the Meet Joe Black script is here for all you quotes spouting fans of the Brad Pitt movie. the lot. Thomas Newman . Any use of this site constitutes your agreement to the Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy linked below. Info. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. 40,126. Whisper of a Thrill (From "Meet Joe Black") The City Of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Noun Opposite of a very small amount or virtually nothing. THRILL OF LOVE is book six in The Bradens at Peaceful Harbor and is a swoon worthy, contemporary standalone. Susan Parrish : Okay. Wonder Woman Saves Today. See our safe care and visitor guidelines, plus trusted coronavirus information. “Lay a whisper on my pillow.” Noun Opposite of a thrill of pleasurable, often reckless, excitement. a whisper of a thrill a life wanderer: seeking knowledge. Professor Shairp defined the soul of poetry when he wrote: "Whenever the soul comes vividly in contact with any fact, truth, or existence, which it realizes and takes home to itself with more than common intensity, out of that meeting of the soul and its object there arises a thrill of joy, a glow of emotion; and the expression of that _glow_, that _thrill_, is poetry." Thomas Newman. After all, it is one single. Why do you think technology is constantly updating themselves? a flicker. https://www.heart.org/en/health-topics/heart-murmurs#.T4evW9Vr7To. API call; Human contributions. https://www.uptodate.com/contents/search. In children, abnormal murmurs are usually caused by structural problems of the heart (congenital heart defects). Music. Options and considerations for heart valve surgery. Save as draft. “You can’t polish a turd but you can roll it in glitter.”. Book. Heart valve disease. Auscultation of cardiac murmurs in adults. 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FAQ about Santiago do Cacém
Can foreign nationals take out mortgage loans in Santiago do Cacém?
Yes, non-residents can be issued a mortgage loan to buy property in Santiago do Cacém. Special terms of mortgage lending for non-residents — the loan term up to 75 years of age for the eldest borrower and a down payment of 40–50%. The mortgage rate is a floating one, of 3% for residential properties and 5% for the commercial ones.
How does the property purchasing process take place in Santiago do Cacém?
Before the purchase, it is necessary to hire a lawyer who would help you get the paperwork done. Having chosen the property, you need to open a local bank account and receive a tax identification number.
First, a preliminary sales agreement is signed, a deposit equalling to 10–30% of the property value is placed, and the municipal taxes are paid. The deposit is non-refundable if the buyer decides not to purchase. All agreements ought to be notarised.
Between signing the preliminary and main sales agreements, the lawyer completes the property Due Diligence and checks the availability of all the documents for the property. When signing the main agreement, the remaining transaction amount is paid, after which the property can be registered with the land registry office and a title deed can be obtained.
What property taxes are there in Portugal?
Property buyers pay a stamp duty (Imposto do Selo, IS) — 0,8% and a title deed transfer tax (Imposto Municipal sobre Transmissões, IMT) — 6,0 – 6,5%. After the purchase, an annual real estate tax (Imposto Municipal sobre os Imóveis, IMI) ranging from 0.3 to 0.8% across property types and municipalities, has to be paid. These three taxes — are everything that is paid by property owners.
When selling real estate, non-resident owners pay the capital gain tax, chargeable from the difference between the purchase price and the sales price at a rate of 28%.
The inheritance and gift taxes are not levied from spouses, children, parents and grandchildren, the other categories pay them at a rate of 10% (which is considered low).
How expensive are the utilities in Santiago do Cacém?
The utility costs vary across locations. For example, an average bill for an 50–60 m² apartment totals about € 100-130 per month.
Can Portuguese residency be obtained through buying real estate?
Yes, there is a residency by investment or Golden Visa programme in Portugal. Those buying newly or relatively recently built properties for at least € 500,000 and properties built over 30 years ago for at least € 350,000 become eligible for residency.
How can a property buyer obtain Portuguese citizenship?
It is possible to apply for permanent residency after five years of residence in the country. After six years of residence it is possible to apply for citizenship. But these procedures are not interrelated. Holding a temporary residence or permanent residence permit does not lead to obtaining citizenship. Only following the rules of stay in the country (over 183 days per year for six years) can give hope for obtaining Portuguese citizenship.
Can foreign nationals lease real estate in Portugal?
Yes, of course. The owner's right to administer their property is not limited in any way.
What types of Portuguese property are better to invest in for rental purposes?
The most suitable for rental purposes are the flats and apartments located in the resort areas, such as the Algarve, Faro, Lagos, on the entire southern coast and the capital of the country, Lisbon.
Why do I need to own real estate in Portugal?
The Portuguese property market is one of the European real estate markets that have been growing most actively over the past few years. Therefore, real estate investments are very profitable in the country.
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Atar bungle: Queensland university body accidentally tells 24,000 students they are ‘ineligible’ | Australia news
The Queensland university admissions body has apologised after it accidentally emailed tens of thousands of year 12 students telling them they were “ineligible” for a university admissions score.
Due to an IT bungle, 24,000 students in the state received an email at midnight on Friday from the Queensland Tertiary Admissions Centre, a week before official results were due to be released.
Instead of a score, the email said they were “Atar ineligble”.
An Atar – Australian Tertiary Admissions Rank – is a national score that is needed for admission to university.
This is the first year that Queensland students would receive an Atar, which is replacing the state’s Overall Position (OP) score.
Atars were due to be released on 19 December in Queensland but on Saturday morning thousands of students woke to find the erroneous email from the admissions body.
The chief executive of QTAC, John Griffiths, said in a statement that the emails were accidentally sent while the notification process was being tested ahead of next week.
“Regretfully, testing of the release information rolled out into our live production space, which issued Atar notifications to 24,000 year 12 students,” he said.
“As there is no data currently in the system, students may have received a notification that they are Atar ineligible. QTAC acknowledges this technical error and deeply apologises to our year 12 cohort. This has no doubt caused additional anxiety during what has already been a trying year for our school community.”
Student Ella Gilmore, 18, said she became scared when she read the email.
“I got quite panicked when it first arrived,” she said. “My school friends are all talking on group chat and they were all scared too.
“But we’ve figured out it is probably a mistake when we saw everyone in the state got the same email.”
“Can you explain why, at 12:03AM, myself and many other former Year 12 students received an email stating that we were ineligible for an ATAR rank?” Lochlan Ibbertson asked on the QTAC’s Facebook page.
“This is a disgrace.”
• Australian Associated Press contributed to this report
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DirectTrust Announces Platinum and Silver Sponsors of its 7th Annual Networking Reception at HIMSS20
February 20, 2020 February 25, 2020 Events
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — DirectTrust is pleased to announce Konica Minolta Business Solutions, U.S.A., Inc. (Konica Minolta) as Platinum Sponsor and Health Catalyst, Harmony Health Solutions, and Velatura Public Benefit Corporation as Silver Sponsors of its 7th annual networking reception during HIMSS20, which will be held at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, FL, March 9-13. DirectTrust is a non-profit healthcare industry alliance created to support secure, identity-verified electronic exchanges of protected health information (PHI) between provider organizations, and between providers and patients, for the purpose of improved coordination of care.
“We’re grateful to Konica Minolta for their Platinum Sponsorship of this year’s event. They have made crucial investments in both our organization and in the success of their clients that use Direct Secure Messaging. We are privileged to count Konica Minolta, as well as Health Catalyst, Harmony Health Solutions, and Velatura Public Benefit Corporation among our member organizations, and honored to have these esteemed companies sponsor our upcoming networking reception,” said DirectTrust President and CEO Scott Stuewe. “These organizations are dedicated to promoting and enhancing interoperability of healthcare information exchange. In doing so, they are advancing the use of Direct Secure Messaging, and ensuring its continued adoption as an easy and economical means of sharing data for care coordination and other purposes.”
Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. (Konica Minolta), a world-class provider and market leader in business and information technologies delivers cost-effective healthcare business solutions to improve the patient and provider experience through secure, efficient and interoperable workflow across the care continuum. With decades of endless innovation, Konica Minolta is globally recognized as a leader providing cutting-edge technologies and comprehensive support aimed at providing real solutions to meet customers’ needs and helping make better decisions sooner. “Konica Minolta works in close collaboration with healthcare organizations, like DirectTrust, which result in further advancements within the landscape. We strongly believe that open and collaborative innovation are impactful strides in brightening our future,” said Navin Balakrishnaraja, National Practice Director of Healthcare IT Services, All Covered, Konica Minolta’s IT Services Division.
Health Catalyst, a leading provider of data and analytics technology and services to healthcare organizations, is committed to being the catalyst for massive, measurable, data-informed healthcare improvement. Its customers leverage the cloud-based data platform—powered by data from more than 100 million patient records and encompassing trillions of facts—as well as its analytics software and professional services expertise to make data-informed decisions and realize measurable clinical, financial, and operational improvements. Health Catalyst envisions a future in which all healthcare decisions are data informed.
Harmony Health Solutions (Harmony) has been designed by a team of medical and academic professionals to address an epidemic facing seniors in our country. Harmony is based on an FDA-cleared medical device and has been coupled with other diagnostic tools to allow for a specific transition of care. Our data will empower primary care physicians to know and understand the risks associated with their patient and be able to make rapid adjustments as needed. Harmony is a smaller, smarter, healthier medical technology that uses machine learning and data analysis as mechanisms to make diagnoses more consistent, personal, and effective—and to transform lives. Harmony seeks to contribute to the way information is gathered and transferred as we identify, influence, and inspire health care change all around us.
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DirectTrust’s 7th annual networking reception will be held on March 10 at the Rosen Plaza Hotel, Salon 13-14, from 6:30-9:00pm EDT. Approximately 100 invited guests are expected to attend.
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DirectTrust™ is a non-profit, vendor-neutral alliance initially created by and for participants in the Direct community, including Health Information Service Providers (HISPs), Certificate Authorities (CAs), Registration Authorities (RAs), healthcare providers, consumers/patients, and Health IT vendors. DirectTrust serves as a governance forum, trust community, standards organization, and accreditation body for persons and entities engaged in exchange utilizing the Direct Standard™, supported by DirectTrust’s robust security and trust framework. The goal of DirectTrust is to develop, promote, and, as necessary, help enforce the rules and best practices necessary to maintain security and trust within the Direct Secure Messaging community. DirectTrust is committed to fostering widespread public confidence in the interoperable exchange of health information. To learn more, visit www.directtrust.org.
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Anambra South and 2021 governorship election
Vision News, Politics January 13, 2021
It is no longer news that the next governor of Anambra state after Chief Willie Obiano will come from Anambra south senatorial zone of the state. What may be news is the identity of the would-be governor and the party from which he will emerge.
It is important to state that the idea to have the governorship position go south of the state is in keeping with an unwritten political arrangement that seeks to give the three zones of Anambra fairly equal opportunity to govern.
And just barely fourteen months to the end of the All Progressives Grand Alliance government of Chief Willie Obiano, the south zone which consists of three distinct political blocks of old Aguata, Nnewi and Ihiala has begun in earnest to achieve that purpose by having a preponderance of aspirants from the zone.
However, based on the peculiar nature of the south zone there is need to pay little attention to the three political blocks with the aim of ensuring that none of them takes undue advantage over the others. After all the whole idea of power rotation was to achieve equity and balance.
Though it is the right of every Anambra man or woman with requisite qualification to aspire to the number one position, but such right will not fail to lose value once abused to purpose. It is a fact that nothing negates the peace of a people like perceived injustice. At least, the peace in Anambra today and to some extent her development spread derive majorly from how she has managed her politics in the last couple of years
How the parties conduct their primaries will determine the chances they have in winning the November 17 election. It will not be a surprise if the one that recognizes the distinct political blocks, appreciates and responds to the complexities, goes ahead to win. It is right and just for an area within the political blocks which is yet to produce a governor to be allowed to do so.
Already all three blocks are presenting quality aspirants from which the parties can choose and make good their effort to win what may turn out to be the toughest election in the history of the state. Some of the aspirants who have made known their interest to take over from Governor Obiano are Dr. Winston Udeh, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, Hon. Nicholas Ukachukwu, Hon Chris Azubuogu, Chief Akachukwu Nwankpo, Melie Onyejepu, Dr. Godwin Maduka, Bar. Emeka Etiaba, Chief Ifeanyi Ubah, Chief Valentine Ozigbo, Hon Chuma Umeoji, Dr George Moghalu, Senator Andy Ubah, Senator Uche Ekwunife, Chief Barth Nwibe, Chief Obinna Uzor, among others.
Without prejudice to previous governorship elections in the state, this array of aspirants on the stump is intimidating. They have education, they have influence, but above all they have the determination to push to the very end. Except in the case of one or two, every other person mentioned also has the mental capacity as well as financial muscle to wend their way through the tortuous political route and take the trophy.
Barring any twist of fortune, what will set any of the aspirants apart and put him ahead of others should be his personal touch with the people. How well he had related with the people. How accessible and humble – his reach across the state. How well he appreciates issues and the ability to find answers to them.
The election will not be determined by factors extraneous to rare personal qualities like hard work and kindness. It cannot be about strong personality. It is also not going to be about being old in the game. Whoever is going to win must come clean with the people and should be able to appreciate them and cannot operate from a high horse.
And of the lot, Winston Udeh, a lawyer and an economist of note is prefigured for the job. Even as every one of the aspirants can be said to have the requisite education, experience, finance to do the job, Udeh has that and more. Though he may not curry publicity and can be self-restraining, but a chat with him on Anambra politics will convince the worst doubter that he came prepared to lead the state to great height. He is without the vanity of an average Nigerian politician and has little patience with slyness of the good old folks. He shoots straight and does not shy away from speaking the truth. Above all, Udeh takes exceptional joy in playing down self.
He may not come to many as the Mr. Fix It, but his wealth of experience in legal practice and his many years on Wall Street would come handy in entrenching development in the state. Though one or two other contenders have as much experience as himself in the area of finance management, but Udeh has greater claim to economic management and the legal framework to deepen it. With over twenty years of practical experience that spanned over Wall Street, Main Street, the courts and the corporate world, he has what it takes to leverage on whatever successes the previous governors of the state have made.
There is no doubt that his experience would be useful in this era of pandemic and economic lockdown. He has advantage of cosmopolitan life, having traveled and lived in many developed cities of the world. Whatever he may lack in experience he compensates in his ability to play down self and allow people to prove themselves. He is not overbearing and knows when to assert authority. He claims no monopoly of knowledge and believes in ideas as the sine qua non in political and economic development.
As a lawyer, economist and a businessman, Udeh has seen virtually every shade of human needs and does not have to struggle to apply himself when in office.
All said, the November governorship election in Anambra will not be based on fantastic, but unimplementable manifestoes. It will be based on truth and less of money influence and manipulation of the electoral process. Anambra will be happy to put in office a hard working, accessible, humble and self effacing candidate as governor.
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Dungeons Deep and Caverns Dim
Dave Walsh The Hobbit 4 September 2019
When fans of J.R.R. Tolkien are asked to consider what scene is the most iconic in his legendarium, Riddles in the Dark easily ranks among them. This scene has it all; mystery, suspense, an eerie setting, the creepy Gollum, and the hero of “The Hobbit,” Bilbo Baggins. The game also contains all these, and a riddle mechanic to go with it.
Found in: The Hobbit: Over Hill and Under Hill saga box, quest 3
Encounter Sets: Dungeons Deep and Caverns Dim, Misty Mountain Goblins
Play if: You are continuing your Hobbit saga playthrough, you enjoy the riddle mechanic and would like to get stuck answering them with Gollum, you want a quest where you are rewarded for building the deck specifically for the scenario.
What is different about this scenario?: Riddle mechanic, a lot of cards revealed per player, 2 quest cards in play at the same time, cannot advance to stage 3 until both quests have been cleared.
Can I run side-quests?: Since the players cannot beat stage 1 until stage 2 is also cleared, there is a window there to clear some side-quests. Boosting willpower with Rally the West will make it easier to advance stage 3 quickly, and using Keep Watch will make the many enemies in the game hit for less. There are some other side-quests here that can help you as well, but remember to first beat stage 1 so that you can advance the quest once you’ve answered your riddles.
What to look out for: Failing Riddles results in a dead Bilbo which you will want to avoid, a lot of surge and extra cards being revealed, enemies can swarm like crazy.
To setup the game, the players do two things. One, they start the game as normal with quest card 1A, and two, create a riddle area which contains it’s own quest card, Gollum, Bilbo’s Magic Ring, and Bilbo Baggins. This mirrors exactly what happens in the book, Bilbo gets separated from the party of Dwarfs and is stuck all alone matching wits with Gollum in a game of riddles for his life.
Quest card 2: Riddles in the Dark – 9 progress
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Does it like riddles, precious?
When this card is flipped over, you find out about the riddle mechanic and to be honest, this may be my least favorite mechanic in the game. The mechanic seems contrived and there isn’t anything players can do in game to help themselves. The mechanic asks players to name some combination of player card type, cost, and/or sphere. If the discarded cards match, progress is placed on the quest card. So the challenge here is to design a deck that is streamlined for this mechanic. Optimally, you’d love to have a deck that is monosphere, and made up of all allies that are the same cost. I think this level of deck-teching is unreasonable, even with the current card pool, so a deck that hits two of the three. The best deck would be a monosphere deck that has cards in it that fall around the same cost. The most popular cost is 2 resources among all the spheres, but if you are going with a single sphere deck, 3 cost would not be horrible. The more you ignore these requirements in deck building for this scenario, the more frustrated you will get because the players cannot interact with the riddle area, other than to just “answer” riddles. If you get a riddle “wrong” Gollum makes an attack against Bilbo, then Bilbo take a damage. Once Bilbo takes his third damage, he dies and the players lose the game.
In playing the first part of the scenario, there are a few things you can do to help mitigate the frustration if you brought a deck that isn’t a monosphere, 2-cost ally deck. First of all, consider which riddles to answer and which to pass by. As you draw encounter cards, you have the choice to answer the riddles or to reveal the encounter card. The riddle on the location, “The Warg’s Glade,” has you discard only one card but it only requires you to name a sphere. If you are playing a trisphere deck, this may be one to let come out, or if you happen to be playing a monosphere deck, you may want to “answer” the riddle and try to use Bilbo’s resources to answer it a few times to get some progress. On the other hand, the treachery, “Hiding in Trees,” has a riddle that allows you to discard three cards but you are required to name a card type and sphere, so it may be better to take the When Revealed effect instead of risking the attack on Bilbo. In the end, this mechanic is mostly based on how well you know your deck and how well you build your deck, instead of how well you play your deck.
There are a few small tricks that you can use to make this part of the scenario a bit easier. For one, Hero Gandalf. The order of the mechanic says to name the feature(s) of the card, then shuffle your deck, then discard. Gandalf doesn’t help with that unfortunately, but he can help when deciding whether to use Bilbo’s magic ring to discard extra cards for the riddle. Attach a Wizard Pipe to him, and you can really get some help from him. Other peek-cards like Imladris Stargazer and ally Gildor Inglorion work very nicely for this “should I continue answering the riddle?” question as well. If you are playing solo and haven’t teched your deck for this quest, I would also suggest running Will of the West. It’s possible that your normal, run-of-the-mill saga deck could run out of cards so it’s nice to put them back in your deck, especially after six or seven rounds of deck thinning by playing cards.
The most frustrating part of the whole riddle mechanic is that you have to place NINE progress on the quest card. When playing solo, that is an insane amount of your deck trying to get through the quest. (See Will of the West comment above!) I have found that more likely than not I will choose to “answer” riddles knowing my deck well enough to be able to be successful enough before Bilbo dies when playing true solo. I can imagine that as the number of players increases, you can be more picky about which riddles to “answer,” and who should “answer” them.
Phew… that’s a lot about the Riddles in the Dark. While I have been talking all about this, there is a whole other quest card in play that you are playing against!
Quest card 1: Out of the Frying Pan – 14 progress
Stage 1B has 14 quest points and requires you to riddle your way out of Stage 2B before moving on to the last stage in the scenario. The issue is that you must reveal an additional encounter card PER PLAYER at this step! That means solo players are probably doing okay here, but multiplayer games are going to get crazy. Fortunately only one of the encounter cards have surge, but still. I get it though. There has to be a way for the encounter deck to keep up with the riddles and still put locations and enemies in the staging area. The crazy number of encounter cards revealed forces players to make a decision about whether to riddle or to reveal. Of the 36 cards in the encounter deck, 17 of them have the Riddle keyword on it so even if you pick all riddles instead of reveals, the encounter deck will still have a card advantage on you. So to help mitigate all this, I think the old stand-bys are what’s going to help you with this quest. Having a load of questing right off may not help, as clearing stage 1B only can happen when stage 2B is cleared. So heroes that can both quest and defend or attack can be helpful. Spirit Glorfindel and Hero Gandalf come to mind. Also, allies that can pull double duty are great, too. Leadership Gimli is one of those that comes to mind. Even the Dwarven Sell-Sword could be useful because of his multipurpose stat line.
Twelve of the 36 encounter cards are weaker (HP is 3 or less) orc enemies and with the potential to see several pop out a turn, the seldom used Longbeard Orc Slayer could be snuck in and out of play to do some damage. More traditional orc-slaying tactics could also be beneficial like Elladan and Elrohir allies or the Blade of Gondolin.
There is one enemy in the deck that is a bit beefy. This is the Great Grey Wolf. With five attack, its likely to be fodder for a chump, but know that it is not unique and does not have any victory points so you will likely see this baddie more than once a game, even when playing solo. The tech for this guy is pretty normal. Chump with someone, swing back with a bunch of allies and kill it.
The enemies in this encounter deck (with the exception of Gollum) have an engagement cost of 30 or lower. And most have a minimal threat. So the way that this encounter deck plans to kill you is by swarming you with enemies that are forces to engage you. The easy way to combat this? Keep your threat low! Again, Spirit Glorfindel makes this easier. Plus it comes with in-sphere access to threat reduction like Elrond’s Council. Another option is to run hobbits, which gives you cards like Shirefolk. A third is to run a Lore Secrecy deck. But being able to optionally engage enemies as opposed to being forced to engage enemies is a great way to stay alive while you are trying to progress through quest stage 2B. The important thing here is to get, and keep, your board state in a position to be able to quest successfully and fend off an enemy or three.
Since you cannot advance this stage while Bilbo is playing riddles with Gollum, this is also the ideal time to explore side-quests to give you an extra boost. Do this after you have place enough progress to explore this stage, as that means you can advance to stage 3 as soon as you have cleared the riddle portion of this quest.
Quest card 3B: Into the Fire – 16 quest points
By the time you get to quest stage 3B, it’s all down hill. At this point you don’t have to draw two encounter cards per player, BUT treachery cards gain surge so at this stage 13 of the 36 cards in the deck have surge. But, if you’ve made it this far, you probably are used to dealing with multiple enemies per round.
One of the things you may want to do is include healing in your deck for this point in the game. It is unlikely that Bilbo can out of his ordeal with Gollum unscathed. Have a Healing Herbs, a Warden of Healing, or Ioreth for when Bilbo rejoins your group can help alleviate concerns that he may get killed and fighting through all those riddles was for nothing.
You will have to deal with Gollum at this point, but he isn’t a difficult enemy to vanquish. He’s just persistent. Like the Great Grey Wolf, he also does not have victory points, so it’s possible that if you destroy him, you will see him again. Because of the number of enemies that are trying to overrun you, you may also want to consider using Tactics Boromir for his Boromir Bomb, that action that no one ever remembers he has. Also, the suite of Tactics direct damage cards are great for getting rid of all the goblins you will see. Cards like Gondorian Spearman, Spear of the Citadel, Dwarrowdelf axe, Goblin Cleaver, and Descendant of Thorondor can all make quick work of those puny goblins. Again, the encounter deck is trying to overrun you, not putting out a boss enemy. If you are looking for a hero to help you bring out all those tactics cards, Thalin and his one damage could be the answer. Hero Beorn with Honour Guard is another answer to pesky goblins. And Grimbeorn is also a good choice to help keep the Goblin swarm under control.
With so much surge added to the encounter deck at this stage, it isn’t unreasonable to have Lanwyn in your party. Her extra willpower or readying effect can come in useful and her Ranged can help out in a multiplayer game. If you have a Spirit resource match, you can also go for the Minas Tirith Lampwright, who can discard whatever card the surge keyword reveals if you guess correctly. He can also serve as a cheap chump for the Great Grey Wolf. He isn’t as useless in this quest as he is in others, so give him a chance!
Encounter Deck Statistics
The encounter deck is made up out of 36 encounter cards in Normal mode, and 27 in easy mode
The chances of hitting a shadow effect are relatively low, with only 50% of cards having an effect in Normal mode, and 44% in Easy mode
The average threat per card revealed is 1.5 threat/card in normal mode, and 1.7 threat in easy mode. Note that you will be revealing more cards per player than just one though!
Only 3 cards start the game with surge. However, the treacheries gain surge at stage 3, causing the number of surging cards to rise (to surge) to 16 max
There are no Doomed keywords in the encounter deck, but you are likely to raise your threat while trying to overcome the threat in the staging area
17 cards in the normal encounter deck contain Riddles you can answer while at stages 1 and 2.
Lake in the Cavern is immune to player card effects and cannot be travelled to
Not Fair! Not Fair! cannot be cancelled
What’s in my Pocket? cannot be cancelled
Curiously enough, the scenario specific encounter set does not have any shadow effects. This helps you with combat, as less shadows means that attacks can be defended more readily. The statistics above do not count the Lake in the Cavern, Bilbo’s Magic Ring, or Gollum, as those are never in the encounter deck.
This scenario, while low on my list, does change the way the game is played. For that, I can appreciate its place in the game. That said, the riddle mechanic is frustrating for those who don’t want to deck tech and is overly grueling with having to place nine progress to get through it. But, as long as your deck can handle the first onslaught of enemies, it’s likely to be able to handle the rest of the scenario.
Playthroughs
While the scenario isn’t very popular in the community, it is a hurdle for progression players which can lead to some playthrough videos for you to watch in preparation for your game.
2 player, progression mode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHuT4l13IsU
True solo, updated decks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPoNhuxIsW4
2-handed, progression mode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3ER7Gb3wFc
2 player, decks built to break riddles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUkthUW_QMc
True solo, progression mode, Glaurung deck: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvBrYFXLKQU
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Iranian Americans React to Ongoing Protests at Home
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On January 13, 2020, Posted by eVisti, in Економіка, Новини, With No Comments
Iranian Americans are closely watching the unfolding situation in their home country as protests continue in Tehran over the Iran military’s admission on Saturday that it mistakenly shot down a civilian Ukrainian plane, killing all 176 on board.
Many Iranian Americans have taken to the streets to express their support for the Iranian people and their demands in the ongoing protests in Iran.
On Sunday, dozens of Iranian-American activists gathered in Washington D.C, to honor the victims of the Ukrainian plane crash and to show support for their fellow countrymen who reportedly have been facing a violent government crackdown on recent protests.
“I’m here to support the Iranian people [and] be their voice,” said Monir, an Iranian-American, who only gave her first name.
“If you go in the streets [in Iran], you might be jailed, you might be killed in the streets, and these people are so brave,” she said as she was standing with a crowd in downtown Washington.
خطاب به رهبران ايران: معترضان خود را نكشيد. هزاران تن تاكنون به دست شما كشته يا زنداني شده اند، و جهان نظاره گر است. مهمتر از ان، ايالات متحده نظاره گر است. اينترنت را دوباره وصل كنيد و به خبرنگاران اجازه دهيد ازادانه حركت كنند! كشتار مردم بزرگ ايران را متوقف كنيد! https://t.co/rzpx3Nfn03
Framarz Zafi, another Iranian American who attended the Washington gathering, said while he appreciated U.S. support for protesters in Iran, he didn’t want a military confrontation between Washington and Tehran.
“It’s nice that President Trump [is] tweeting in Farsi, but we want to tell him that we don’t want war,” Zafi told VOA.
“People of Iran don’t want war. They have suffered enough,” he said.
More activities are expected to be held by the Iranian-American community in other U.S. cities.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2018 survey, there are over 450,000 people of Iranian background living in the U.S.
Activists in the Iranian-American community said they have been increasingly watching developments after the recent tensions between the U.S. and Iran, following the killing of top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani in a U.S. airstrike in Baghdad.
“I’m constantly checking the news and I’m in touch with various people both in Iran as well as in the Iranian diaspora community,” said Cklara Moradian, an Iranian-American activist based in Los Angeles.
Candles and flowers are displayed with condolences offered to the families of the passengers of the Ukrainian jetliner shot down by Iran by accident at a memorial at the “2020 LA Convention for Free Iran,” Jan. 11, 2020.
“One of the biggest points of contention has been this idea of wanting to support the Iranian protest movement against the Islamic regime in Iran while the same time not beating the drums of war,” she told VOA in a phone interview.
Demands evolved
Some activists said demands of Iranian protesters have evolved over the years from basic reforms to regime change.
“If you listen to people on the streets of Tehran and other Iranian cities, it is clear that people are fed up with this regime,” said Ahmad Batebi, a human rights activist based in Washington, who was imprisoned in Iran for his role in a student protest movement in 1999.
“In today’s Iran, there are two governments,” he told VOA. “One that is just a façade, which is represented by people like [Iranian President Hassan] Rouhani and [Foreign Minister Javad] Zarif.”
The other is the government that works in the shadow and holds real power is represented by the Supreme Leader and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Batebi said.
In April 2019, the U.S. government designated the IRGC a terrorist organization.
Lobbying lawmakers
Sadegh Amiri, another Iranian-American activist who lives in Annapolis, Maryland, said that his objective is to raise more awareness among the American public about what has actually been happening in Iran.“
“We reach out to local lawmakers [in Maryland] and ordinary people to tell them Iran is not what they see on television,” he said.
“We would like people in America to understand (that) Iranian people wish to live in freedom, and that this current regime in Tehran doesn’t represent them,” he told VOA.
People gather for a candlelight vigil to remember the victims of the Ukraine plane crash, at the gate of Amrikabir University that some of the victims of the crash were former students of, in Tehran, Iran, Jan. 11, 2020.
Ali Afshari of the Iranians for Secularism and Democracy, an advocacy group based in the U.S., says Iranian Americans could be effective in two ways in response to the latest events in Iran.
“First we, in the diaspora, need to amplify the voices of protesters on the ground,” he told VOA, adding that, “we need to empower people so that can sustain their demands against the Iranian regime.”
“Second we need to be more active in terms of reaching out to lawmakers and policymakers in Washington. Iranian Americans have a historic responsibility to convey accurate information and facts from inside Iran to people in the United States,” Afshari added.
Analysts say there are many differences among Iranian Americans that reflect their political, ethnic and cultural diversity.
Shahed Alavi, an Iranian political analyst based in Washington, says when it comes to attitude towards the Iranian government, there are three types of people within the Iranian American community.
“There are those who fully support a regime change in Tehran and hope this ongoing protest movement will turn into something bigger,” he said. “There are others who believe that Iranian people have the right to protest, but they don’t think the U.S. should interfere in Iranian affairs.”
However, he added, “the silent majority among the Iranian community in America refuses to get involved or even have an opinion about that’s happening in Iran, because they visit Iran and still have relatives there. So they simply fear retribution from the Iranian regime.”
VOA’s Persian Service, Cindy Saine and Saqib Ul Islam contributed to this story from Washington.
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#729* – The GUARDIAN KEEPS AN EYE ON PEARSON’S EU GRANTS!
The corruption of some of EUkip’s leadership, their anti UKIP claque & the NEC is what gives the remaining 10% a bad name!
The GUARDIAN KEEPS AN EYE ON LORD PEARSON’S EU GRANTS!
AS HE USES OUR MONEY TO PLANT FORESTS FOR PROFIT AND AS TERRORIST TRAINING I GUESS!
KEEPING AN EYE ON PROFITEERING
& HYPOCRACY
Anti-EU peer given Brussels grant
An arch Eurosceptic peer who believes that European Union subsidies are a “vast swindle” is financing replanting on his huge Scottish estate with grants from Brussels.
Lord Pearson of Rannoch, the independent Conservative peer who was expelled from the Tories by Michael Howard for backing the rival United Kingdom Independence Party, has tabled bills in the House of Lords demanding Britain’s immediate withdrawal from the European Union.
He is also co-founder of the Global Britain thinktank which agitates against an “increasingly anachronistic” EU.
Last weekend he wrote in a pamphlet published by the independent thinktank Civitas that the EU was a “corrupt octopus” and was a success “only for those who make money out of it”.
The 63-year-old peer called the EU system of grants and subsidies to farmers a “whole vast swindle” and said Britons were forced to pay “higher taxes” … “to keep EU farmers in the style to which they have become accustomed”.
He added that the United Kingdom gives the EU some £11bn a year: “Of this, they have been good enough to send back to us an average of some £7bn, always for projects which are designed to enhance their wretched image (including the Common Agricultural Policy)”.
One of the projects now being funded with EU money is Sword Loch 3, a 300-acre forest on Lord Pearson’s estate in Perthshire. According to the Forestry Commission, the official body responsible for protecting Britain’s trees, this is one of a number of grants that it has given to Lord Pearson.
The latest £95,000 grant will be used to replant an old Caledonian pine forest, an ancient Scottish species which has been threatened with extinction.
“Half the money will come from the European Union,” said a Forestry Commission spokesman.
Asked if Lord Pearson would know if it came from the EU, the spokesman said: “He would have applied to the Forestry Commission and might not be aware of it. However our literature does make it clear that part of the money for grants does come from the European Union”.
Lord Pearson did not comment when contacted by the Guardian. Details of the grant were released under the Freedom of Information Act.
For some years, Lord Pearson has claimed that the BBC is institutionally biased in favour of the European Union, a point he sought to prove by publishing a report analysing the amount of time given to pro- and anti-EU speakers.
Lord Pearson loyally stood by his old Eton schoolfriend, Jonathan Aitken, after the former Tory minister perjured himself in his libel action over his links with the Saudis.
The peer is chairman of an insurance company and a supporter of the pro-hunting Countryside Alliance, serving as chairman of its deerstalking committee.
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It is strange to see Jonathan Aitken given so high a profile as a friend when he was chums with The Saudi’s, meanwhile Lord Pearson is an award winning British Zionist and outspoken Islamaphobe!
What is the exit and survival plan for these United Kingdoms to maximise on the many benefits of leaving The EU. It is the DUTY of our Politicians and Snivil Cervants to ensure the continuity, liberty and right to self determination of our peoples they have a DUTY to protect against crime and secure both our food and our border.
NONE of these DUTIES has a single British politician upheld for 40 years. They have drawn their incomes fraudulently and dishonesty.
Politicians are failing to tell the truth, but so are almost all wanabe Politicians, the MSM and Snivil Cervants.
To try to put a value on OUR Freedom is as futile as floccipaucinihilipilification and as odious as the metissage of our societies, as we rummage in the ashes of our ancestors dreams, sacrifices and achievements, the flotsam of our hopes and the jetsam of our lives, consider the Country and Anglosphere which we thus leave our children and the future, with shame!
I SUGGEST – since there is clearly no political party of repute, advocating or campaigning for withdrawal of these United Kingdoms from the EU and restoration of our independent sovereign, democracy, with Justice & the right to self determination in a free country. Deny the self seeking & meaningless wanabe MEPs the Mythical Mandate for which they clamour. Diktat is imposed from The EU but Law should be made at Westminster, for our Country & our Peoples.
Write Upon Your Ballot Paper at EVERY election:
GET YOUR COUNTRY BACK
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Scientists Trying to Understand New Virus Variant
Does it spread more easily? Make people sicker? Mean that treatments and vaccines won’t work? Questions are multiplying as fast as new variants of the coronavirus, especially the one moving through England and now popping up in the U.S. and other countries.Scientists say there is reason for concern and more to learn but that the new variants should not cause alarm.Worry has been growing since before Christmas, when Britain’s prime minister said the coronavirus variant seemed to spread more easily than earlier ones and was moving rapidly through England. On Tuesday, Colorado health officials said they had found it there. And on Wednesday, California officials reported a case.Here are some questions and answers on what’s known about the virus so far.Q: Where did this new variant come from?A: New variants have been seen almost since the virus was first detected in China nearly a year ago. Viruses often mutate, or develop small changes, as they reproduce and move through a population.Most changes are trivial. “It’s the change of one or two letters in the genetic alphabet that doesn’t make much difference in the ability to cause disease,” said Dr. Philip Landrigan, a former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention scientist who directs a global health program at Boston College.A more concerning situation is when a virus mutates by changing the proteins on its surface to help it escape from drugs or the immune system, or if it acquires a lot of changes that make it very different from previous versions.Q: How does one variant become dominant?A: That can happen if one variant takes hold and starts spreading in an area, or because “super spreader” events helped it become established.It also can happen if a mutation gives a new variant an advantage, such as helping it spread more easily than other ones that are circulating.Scientists are still working to confirm whether the variant in England spreads more easily, but they are finding some evidence that it does. The variant “out-competes the other strains and moves faster and infects more people, so it wins the race,” Landrigan said.The British variant was first detected in September, WHO officials said. A new South African variant also has emerged.Q: What’s worrisome about the British variant?A: It has many mutations — nearly two dozen — and eight are on the spike protein that the virus uses to attach to and infect cells. The spike is what vaccines and antibody drugs target.Dr. Ravi Gupta, a virus expert at the University of Cambridge in England, said modeling studies suggest it may be up to two times more infectious than the version that’s been most common in England so far. He and other researchers posted a report of it on a website scientists use to quickly share developments, but it has not been formally reviewed or published in a journal.Q: Does it make people sicker or more likely to die?A: “There’s no indication that either of those is true, but clearly those are two issues we’ve got to watch,” Landrigan said. As more patients get infected with the new variant, “they’ll know fairly soon if the new strain makes people sicker.”A WHO outbreak expert, Maria Van Kerkhove, said that “the information that we have so far is that there isn’t a change” in the kind of illness or its severity.Q: What do the mutations mean for treatments?A: A couple of cases in England raise concern that the mutations in some of the emerging new variants could hurt the potency of drugs that supply antibodies to block the virus from infecting cells.Studies on antibody response are under way, Van Kerkhove said.One drugmaker, Eli Lilly, said that tests in its lab suggest that its drug remains fully active.Q: What about vaccines?A: Scientists believe current vaccines will still be effective against the variant, but they are working to confirm that. On Wednesday, British officials reiterated that there is no data suggesting the new variant hurts the effectiveness of the available vaccines.Vaccines induce broad immune system responses besides just prompting the immune system to make antibodies to the virus, so they are expected to still work, several scientists said.Q: What can I do to reduce my risk?A: Follow the advice to wear a mask, wash your hands often, maintain social distance and avoid crowds, public health experts say.”The bottom line is we need to suppress transmission” of the coronavirus, said the WHO’s director-general, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.”The more we allow it to spread, the more mutations will happen.”
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Under The Hammers
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5 Observations from the West-side derby!
An early goal conceded, spirited second half entertainment but an ultimate sense of disappointment as West Ham are held by West Brom.
Who would have thought that a game against a Tony Pulis side could be so entertaining? For long periods in the second half West Ham played some of the most enterprising football I have seen from them for a long time. Suddenly we were passing the ball quickly, intelligently and there was good movement off the ball for once. To a large degree the early lead for Albion and their willingness to sit back and protect it helped our players to grow in confidence which, in turn, spread to the supporters. It is interesting how the mood at the end of the game is affected by the sequence of the goals. Having given Albion the lead I would have quite happily taken a rescued point at half time but to take the lead and then surrender it left a severe case of disappointment at the final whistle.
The Referee & The Manager
Much of the post-match chatter focused on the manager and his frustrations at the decisions made by referee, Michael Oliver. I do admire Slaven Bilic’s passion even though I believe questions persist about his decision making and tactics at times. It was a big blow to lose Carroll and once again it exposed the lack of balance and striking weaknesses in our squad. Too often we field a team of square pegs in round holes and although some are enforced others seem to be by management design. Credit to the manager in that he did eventually change things around for the better, notably by releasing Manuel Lanzini from his initial left-sided isolation, but better not to make the mistakes in the first place. Having had the opportunity to watch replays of the controversial decisions I am not sure, in the cold light of day, that there is too much to feel aggrieved with. Possibly there was a foul on Feghouli for the first goal after the ball had been played but it was borderline and Antonio clearly impeded the keeper in the prelude to the Feghouli offside goal. None of the penalty appeals had much merit even for a ref inclined to award so many as Mr Oliver. The one wrong decision that had the biggest impact was the throw-in just prior to the Albion equaliser.
Concede Nothing
So often the goals we concede seem to be built on a series of events that could have been prevented at various stages in their construction. As mentioned above the equaliser stemmed from an incorrect (in my opinion) throw-in decision. Already into injury time I thought we were rather lax in regrouping to defend the throw and not preventing the ensuing corner. As for the goal itself it is puzzling what Randolph was trying to do by running in to his own defenders. It looked like panic had set in and confirms what I have felt about his lack of conviction in the air. Normally Randolph is a first class shot stopper but he also could have done better with the opener, but then so could Noble, Feghouli and Kouyate. It was a dangerous pass by Noble, Feghouli was weak despite the challenge and Kouyate was too easily beaten before the ball slithered through Randolph’s legs. As is the way with football the early reverse and the injustice felt by the disallowed goal served to inspire the greater things that came in our second half performance.
The Strange Case of the Assist
Of all the football statistics, it is the ‘Assist’ that I find the strangest. For our first goal Lanzini did superbly well to create an opening before letting loose the thunderous goal bound shot which was touched onto the bar by the keeper before Feghouli rolls it home; no assist fro Lanzini! For the second goal Feghouli plays a simple sideways pass to Lanzini in a position of no particular threat before the Argentine again does very well to create his own space and place an excellent drive into the corner of the net past a stranded keeper; an assist for Feghouli! It doesn’t make any sense to me. As it turned out Feghouli, who had a very fine second half, after a very poor first one, ends with a goal and an assist to repeat Obiang’s achievement from the previous week. Lanzini’s performance deserved the same honour; he looks on great from and is the one player capable of creating something unexpected.
Wot – No Striker?
The lamentable striker situation was clear for all to see again. I admire Antonio’s endeavour and adaptability but using him as a striker is not playing to his strengths. It was yet another game that he finished a match having played in three different positions, which cannot be right except in an emergency situation. Although the need to put a striker on at half time was obvious the choice of Calleri was baffling. He doesn’t look to have any of the attributes required to be useful striker in English football; no pace, no strength, no movement and no eye for goal. I can’t believe he has any future beyond his current loan period so why bother with him in preference to Fletcher. He must be some different player in training to keep getting the nod.
Player Ratings: Randolph (4), Kouyate (6), Reid (7), Fonte (7), Cresswell (5), Obiang (8), Noble (7), Feghouli (7), Lanzini (9), Snodgrass (7), Antonio (6). Subs: Calleri (4)
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Sydney, Australia. 2 April 2009.
In 2007, 26% of delegates learned about the international FOSS4G conference from weblinks. So again, the FOSS4G Organising Committee is asking FOSS4G sponsors, Geospatial Open Source and Open Standards companies, and Community Leaders to add a FOSS4G logo to their websites and blogs.
The following logos are available:
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FOSS4G is the international conference for Free and Open Source Software, to be held in Sydney Australia, 20-23 October 2009. It attracts the best international developers and companies for Geospatial Open Standards and Open Source, as well as agencies deploying Spatial Data Infrastructure solutions, largely from the government sector.
More details about FOSS4G's comprehensive program can be found at: http://2009.foss4g.org
Position Magazine: http://www.positionmag.com.au/
Asian Surveying and Mapping Newsletter: http://www.asmmag.com
Geoconnexions Magazine: http://www.geoconnexion.com/
Directions Magazine: http://directionsmag.com/
For information about this announcement, contact:
FOSS4G Organising Committee: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009#Contact_Us
Cameron Shorter, Chair of the FOSS4G Organising Committee and Geospatial Systems Architect at LISAsoft
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{{OWASP Book|1416452}} '''Welcome to the WebScarab Project''' WebScarab is a framework for analysing applications that communicate using the HTTP and HTTPS protocols. It is written in Java, and is thus portable to many platforms. WebScarab has several modes of operation, implemented by a number of plugins. In its most common usage, WebScarab operates as an intercepting proxy, allowing the operator to review and modify requests created by the browser before they are sent to the server, and to review and modify responses returned from the server before they are received by the browser. WebScarab is able to intercept both HTTP and HTTPS communication. The operator can also review the conversations (requests and responses) that have passed through WebScarab. You may also be interested in testing the [[OWASP WebScarab NG Project | Next Generation of WebScarab]]. ==Screenshots== Here's the main window of WebScarab. Check the [[WebScarab Getting Started]] guide for more screenshots of WebScarab in action. [[Image:WebScarab after browsing.png]] ==Overview== There is no shiny red button on WebScarab, it is a tool primarily designed to be used by people who can write code themselves, or at least have a pretty good understanding of the HTTP protocol. If that sounds like you, welcome! Download WebScarab, sign up for the mailing list on the [http://lists.owasp.org/mailman/listinfo/owasp-webscarab OWASP subscription page], and enjoy! You can read a [[WebScarab Tutorial | brief tutorial ]] to explain the basic workings. WebScarab is designed to be a tool for anyone who needs to expose the workings of an HTTP(S) based application, whether to allow the developer to debug otherwise difficult problems, or to allow a security specialist to identify vulnerabilities in the way that the application has been designed or implemented. ==Download== A ZIP containing an up to date build of the master branch of the [http://dawes.za.net/gitweb.cgi?p=webscarab.git webscarab git tree] can be found [http://dawes.za.net/rogan/webscarab/#current here]. This file is rebuilt whenever new commits are pushed to the repository, and will always be the most up to date build of WebScarab available. A Mac OS X package of the latest version can usually be found on [http://research.corsaire.com/tools/ Corsaire's download page]. Historical Versions: Alternatively, you can download older builds of WebScarab from the [http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=64424&package_id=61823 OWASP Source Code Center at Sourceforge]. Then install them likewise: * Linux: <tt>java -jar ./webscarab-selfcontained-[numbers].jar</tt> * Windows: double-click the installer jar file [http://www.acsac.org/2007/downloads/t5-webscarab-instructions.pdf (complete installation instructions)]) ==Features== A framework without any functions is worthless, of course, and so WebScarab provides a number of plugins, mainly aimed at the security functionality for the moment. Those plugins include: * Fragments - extracts Scripts and HTML comments from HTML pages as they are seen via the proxy, or other plugins * Proxy - observes traffic between the browser and the web server. The WebScarab proxy is able to observe both HTTP and encrypted HTTPS traffic, by negotiating an SSL connection between WebScarab and the browser instead of simply connecting the browser to the server and allowing an encrypted stream to pass through it. Various proxy plugins have also been developed to allow the operator to control the requests and responses that pass through the proxy. * Manual intercept - allows the user to modify HTTP and HTTPS requests and responses on the fly, before they reach the server or browser. * Beanshell - allows for the execution of arbitrarily complex operations on requests and responses. Anything that can be expressed in Java can be executed. * Reveal hidden fields - sometimes it is easier to modify a hidden field in the page itself, rather than intercepting the request after it has been sent. This plugin simply changes all hidden fields found in HTML pages to text fields, making them visible, and editable. * Bandwidth simulator - allows the user to emulate a slower network, in order to observe how their website would perform when accessed over, say, a modem. * Spider - identifies new URLs on the target site, and fetches them on command. * Manual request - Allows editing and replay of previous requests, or creation of entirely new requests. * SessionID analysis - collects and analyzes a number of cookies to visually determine the degree of randomness and unpredictability. Note that this analysis is rather trivial, and does not do any serious checks, such as FIPS, etc. * Scripted - operators can use BeanShell (or any other BSF supported language found on the classpath) to write a script to create requests and fetch them from the server. The script can then perform some analysis on the responses, with all the power of the WebScarab Request and Response object model to simplify things. * Parameter fuzzer - performs automated substitution of parameter values that are likely to expose incomplete parameter validation, leading to vulnerabilities like Cross Site Scripting (XSS) and SQL Injection. * Search - allows the user to craft arbitrary BeanShell expressions to identify conversations that should be shown in the list. * Compare - calculates the edit distance between the response bodies of the conversations observed, and a selected baseline conversation. The edit distance is "the number of edits required to transform one document into another". For performance reasons, edits are calculated using word tokens, rather than byte by byte. * SOAP - There is a plugin that parses WSDL, and presents the various functions and the required parameters, allowing them to be edited before being sent to the server. '''NOTE''': This plugin is deprecated, and may be removed in the future. [http://www.soapui.org SOAPUI] is streets beyond anything that Webscarab can do, or will ever do, and is also a free tool. * Extensions - automates checks for files that were mistakenly left in web server's root directory (e.g. .bak, ~, etc). Checks are performed for both, files and directories (e.g. /app/login.jsp will be checked for /app/login.jsp.bak, /app/login.jsp~, /app.zip, /app.tar.gz, etc). Extensions for files and directories can be edited by user. * XSS/CRLF - passive analysis plugin that searches for user-controlled data in HTTP response headers and body to identify potential CRLF injection (HTTP response splitting) and reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities. ==Training Material== Aung Khant (YGN Ethical Hacker Group, Myanmar) has created a series of WebScarab movies which can be found [http://yehg.net/lab/pr0js/training/webscarab.php here]. There are slides of the presentation "Uncovering Webscarab's Hidden Treasures", given at the OWASP EU Summit 2008, available [https://www.owasp.org/images/8/88/OWASP_EU_Summit_2008_WebScarab_treasures.ppt here]. ==Future development== Features will probably include: * Combining the Search and Compare plugins, so that you can compare only specific responses * Improving the fuzzer, adding ability to follow redirects, or to specify the number of threads to use. Also, adding the ability to define what is (or isn't) interesting in the fuzz results, and save only interesting conversations to the summary. ==Extensibility== As a framework, WebScarab is extensible. Each feature above is implemented as a plugin, and can be removed or replaced. New features can be easily implemented as well. The sky is the limit! If you have a great idea for a plugin, please let us know about it on the list. ==Project Contributors== The WebScarab project is run by Rogan Dawes. 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Captain’s Corner: Daiana Takashima ’20
Sofie Jones
(Photo Courtesy of Sports Information.)
Hometown: Walnut Creek, Calif.
Major: Psychology
Residence: Horn Hall
Snackbar order:Nachos with barbecue sauce, chicken and mozzarella
How did you start playing volleyball?
My older sister started playing in sixth grade, so I was in third grade, and being the younger sister, I copied everything she did. She needed someone to practice with, so I just started playing. We went to a nearby club and they had an adult league there, but they would see us hovering on the side so they let us in and helped us. That’s how it kind of started. It’s kind of funny because my mom hates team sports. She golfed in college and made me try golf, but I was like, “Nope, volleyball is it.”
Do you have any volleyball team traditions?
We do this thing called “buddies,” where an upperclassman is paired with an underclassman each year. On one of the last days of preseason, we have a big reveal. In our locker room, Coach [Christi Kelsey] makes a whole yarn maze from one [buddy’s] locker to another. When you walk in, it’s a whole web of yarn and you have to find your buddy. Then, on game days, we give notes and little gifts to each other. It’s a nice pick-me-up. Having a focus on each other is really nice.
Is there something that only your teammates know about you, or a side of you that only they see?
I’m a really deep sleeper. My team and my entry would know this. I’m really hard to wake up, literally you have to pick up my head and shake it. People always joke around and pick up my arm and drop it because I won’t wake up. For the first away game, you room with your buddy and this year, we told the freshmen [about me being a deep sleeper]. But in previous years, we haven’t told the freshmen and they [would] have the hardest time waking me up. They’ll be frantically texting the group chat, ‘Daiana won’t wake up! What do I do?’
Do you and the team have any pre-game rituals?
We have a dance party. [Laughs.] We go in the locker room, play music and just have a big dance party. Hopefully not too big, though, because we still have to go and play a game and shouldn’t be too tired.
What’s the go-to song?
“Kill the Lights” [by Alex Newell] is a good one. It starts off kind of slow, but there’s a big chorus beat drop.
If you had to rename volleyball, what would you name it?
I think it’s like a really intense version of Hot Potato and Don’t Let it Touch the Ground. When I have coached and have had to explain it to little kids, that’s how I explain it. I think I would name it that.
Is there anyone who always comes to volleyball games?
So, we have faculty liaisons, Professor Alan [White] in the Philosophy department and his wife, Jane, who used to work in alumni relations and is now retired. They come to every game; they’ve even driven up to Bowdoin in Maine just to watch us. The whole psychology department is filled with really big fans of volleyball too, especially Professors Sandstrom, Fein and Kornell. They all play, so we’ve had “the psych department versus volleyball” day.
You are also the secretary of the Student Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC). How has that been?
I went to check it out my freshman year and really understood the mission but, as a general board member, I felt like I was part of something but not actually really doing anything fully. So then, I joined executive board my junior year. It’s really about focusing on making the student-athlete experience better and making it a more inclusive environment. We’ve been working really hard to have panels on Claiming Williams Day about the athlete/non-athlete divide and working with higher-ups [at the College] to make it more inclusive and less divisive right at the start [during TeamEph]. We’ve also worked on Training Wise at Driscoll. Oh, and the pasta bowls at ’82 at night.
I didn’t know that SAAC started the pasta bowls. How did you do that?
It was during my sophomore year, I think. During offseason, we have late-night practices that cause us to miss the dinner times. Everyone wanted food that is more filling [than snack bar], so SAAC was like, “Why don’t we get pasta bowls?”
Sofie Jones,
Captains’ Corners: Senior Edition
CAPTAIN’S CORNER: Carl Shuck ’20
Captains’ Corner: Liz Webber ’20
Captain’s Corner: Alison Robey ’20
Captain’s Corner: Sam Goldenring ’20
Captain’s Corner: Korina Neveux ’19
Captains’ Corner: Jessica Kim ’19
CAPTAINS’ CORNER: IAN KAGAME ’19
Captains’ Corner: Sonya Jampel ’19
Captain’s Corner: Keanu Hilaire ’19
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