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Understanding Isaac Newton's First Law of Motion
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“An object in motion” Sir Isaac Newton’s first law of motion is that an object in motion stays in motion, and an object at rest stays at rest. Newton wasn’t only a mathematician and physicist, but also a natural philosopher, and to this day his...
Understanding and Managing Main Sorts of Motions
Connection Motion 1 Page
There are three principle sorts of motions: connectors, tokens, and artists. Connectors are contacting practices and developments that demonstrate inside states ordinarily identified with excitement or nervousness. Connectors can be focused toward the self, items, or others. In normal social circumstances, connectors result from uneasiness,...
A Lab Experiment on the Hooke's Law and Simple Harmonic Motion's Concept
SHM Lab Write-Up Beginning Ideas: Two concepts that played a major role in this lab were Hooke’s Law and the idea of Simple Harmonic Motion. Hooke’s Law states that the force required to extend or compress a spring is proportional to the distance the spring...
Biomechanics of a Baseball Bat
Baseball Motion 1 Page
Biomechanics examines forces acting on the body, and the effects of these forces CITATION Aus16 l 3081. The materials that make up the perfect baseball bat have been developed quite rapidly over the years dating way back to the very first MLB game early in...
A Report on What a Friction is
Force Motion 1 Page
Friction is, by definition, the resistance to motion. The magnitude of this resistance is a function of the materials, geometries and surface features of the bodies in contact, as well as the operating conditions and environment. It is often desirable to minimize friction to order...
Bioethics as a Motion
Bioethics Motion 1 Page
Bioethics is a motion. A motion from “doing what we think is right” to “doing what is right”. It is a reflective examination of the ethical issues in the field of healthcare, research, and health policy. These fields have always had the ethical standards, which...
A Lab Experiment on Measuring the Movement of a Pendulum by Determining the Pendulum's Properties
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This pendulum lab’s objective is to describe how the back-and-forth motion of a pendulum can be changed through measuring the properties of a pendulum, as well as determine which properties of a pendulum affects its period. Groups of generally four students created their own pendulum,...
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Lanfranco Pescante’s Case Begs the Question: Is the Me Too Era Over?
By Sarah Marshall ON August 1, 2020
You know the culture of a workplace is bad when a racist quote advocating for violence gets you fired but multiple accusations of physical violence, i.e. sexual assault and exploitation, do not, even in the Me Too era. Lanfranco Pescante, who co-owned Franklin Manor, an upscale lounge and restaurant in Tampa, came under fire in June for responding, “Just shoot them all” about Black Lives Matter protesters. Soon after, he issued a public apology and stepped down from his position with Nocturnal Hospitality Group, which runs popular Tampa restaurants including Franklin Manor, Osteria Bar & Kitchen and Mole y Abuela.
The state attorney’s office worked with the FBI to open an investigation into the racist remarks. Grit Daily reached out to the Tampa Police Department and the FBI for comments on the investigation but they were unable to speak about the ongoing investigation. A month later, 3 women who worked at establishments run by Nocturnal Hospitality Group began proceedings to sue Pescante over sexual assault and exploitation. The courts are handling the cases, and none of the women revealed their identities publicly, but their stories are horrific. One woman stated that Pescante allegedly offered her a ‘safe place to sleep’ after a night of drinking, and she woke up the next morning without clothes on, realizing she had been sexually assaulted. Another mentioned Pescante allegedly offering her better table sections in exchange for sexual favors.
In 2017, there was a reckoning over sexual harassment, and it exposed what type of treatment so many women constantly endure. America is now having a reckoning over systemic racism, which is exposing the ways and extent to which BIPOC are still discriminated against today. But in this case, where a restaurateur faces swift retribution for racist comments on social media, but was never vilified for grave sexual misconduct, begs the question, is the #MeToo era over? Can Americans only deal with one type of systemic injustice at a time? Or was the hospitality industry, full of tipped employees, simply untouched by the #MeToo movement?
In 2018, The New York Times published an exposé on the widespread sexual harassment endured by tipped employees. Tipped employees often grapple with whether to call out sexual harassment by patrons, lest they lose their tips – the majority of their income in many states with a “service wage.” That type of workplace culture, where brushing off advances is commonplace, makes it harder to speak up when those advances turn into actions, especially when made by a person’s employer.
Both the Black Lives Matter and Me Too movements are extremely important in ensuring justice for groups that have historically been disenfranchised – Black people and women. Yet, remembering the strength of #MeToo when it first came about, and now seeing the massive protests after the death of George Floyd, it’s worth wondering whether the momentum will stay strong enough for systems and mindsets to change for good, or whether the next hot-button issue will take precedence, and people will go back to their old bad habits of accepting the “norm,” regardless of how toxic it is.
During the heyday of both movements, CEOs were forced out of their positions, major corporations cut ties with lobbyists critical of the movement, and websites put statements of support front and center. Yet, one thing that has been addressed in the #BLM movement that was largely avoided in #MeToo was the discussion about television programs and the way victims of these movements have been portrayed in the media. The show “Cops,” which ran for 32 seasons, was cancelled in response to controversy over how it portrayed police officers and those they arrested. Even the popular children’s show “Paw Patrol” was cancelled in June. #BlackLivesMatter called out the fact that when children see ‘good cops’ and ‘bad criminals’ in stark imagery on television, that it paints their view of those characters in real life. Yet, the Me Too movement did not discuss the portrayal of women in the media or cancel television shows that showed sexual harassment or rape.
One of the most popular shows in recent history was “Game of Thrones”, which appealed to so many Americans in large part, arguably, because of its sex appeal – outright rape scenes, incest, and borderline soft-core porn. There was no call to take such scenes out of the show, or to show men behaving better towards women. Some may say that this is because the show was fantasy and took place in an older era, but the fact remains that sex appeared to sell. The portrayal of women being treated as objects, sold.
Habits are difficult to break, and oppressive systems are even harder. There’s a reason that recovering alcoholics say that they are in “recovery” forever. Lanfranco Pescante’s case shows that it’s not time to pat ourselves on the back for stamping out the cultures of racism or sexual misconduct in America.
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Sarah Marshall is a Columnist at Grit Daily. Based in Florida, she covers events related to regional economic growth, politics, and the environment. Sarah writes an environmental column for The Muslim News, and curates a blog that showcases her travels through Asia.
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Continued Strong Sales for Visionary Routing Platform from Imagine Communications
Leading broadcasters and production facilities rely on the enterprise-class, IP-ready Platinum IP3
Imagine Communications, a global leader in video infrastructure, advertising systems and workflow management solutions serving media networks, broadcast stations, digital media, communication service providers and enterprise markets, has supplied more than 50 Platinum™ IP3 multi-path routing switchers to European broadcasters and facilities in recent months. In particular, the router is becoming the de facto standard in many new and upgraded outside broadcast trucks throughout Europe.
Platinum IP3 is the latest evolution in Imagine Communications’ innovative Platinum router technology. Like the rest of the acclaimed Platinum line, the enterprise-scale IP3 router integrates mixed-format video and audio routing, copper and fiber inputs and encoded signals such as AES and MADI audio, as well as multiviewers, frame synchronization and quality control. The Platinum IP3 control system helps enable hybrid SDN-IP infrastructures, offering a path to an all-IP future alongside traditional broadcast audio and video, making it an ideal platform for the transition to software-defined broadcast networks and workflows.
Recent users include Dutch systems engineers Infostrada which has built the technical infrastructure for a major German reality show. Broadcasters SWR and Hessischer Rundfunk in Germany, Master Films in France and UK-based outside broadcast specialist CTV have also updated their facilities with the Platinum IP3. According to Fabio Bertini, owner and CTO of broadcast production company Telerecord, virtually every new outside broadcast truck built in Italy in the last year has featured a Platinum IP3.
“Designing and building an outside broadcast truck is a careful balance of practicalities, operational resilience and future proofing,” said Mr. Bertini. “Multi-purpose trucks need completely different set-ups for each job, so the flexibility and ease of configuration of the router is vital. With the Platinum IP3 we can simply store configurations, and then recall them instantly, saving time and operator resources when we get on site.
“The real benefit of the Platinum IP3, though, is its ability to support a path to an all-IP future. Like all broadcast providers, we have to plan how we are going to make a smooth transition from baseband audio and video to IP. With the new Platinum control system, we can take it a step at a time, knowing the system will switch the signals whether they are on co-ax or Ethernet, and operationally nothing will change so we have no risks on location.”
“The Platinum IP3 router is designed to grow as the user’s requirements grow,” said Mathias Eckert, vice president, EMEA, Imagine Communications. “The router can expand to sizes of 2048 x 2048 and beyond, with signals of up to 3Gb/s video or 10 gigabit Ethernet. Most importantly, it can be reconfigured or expanded without even taking the router off air. That is a remarkable benefit for a broadcaster or transmission facility.”
To learn more about the Platinum IP3 router, visit www.imaginecommunications.com.
Imagine Communications empowers the media and entertainment industry through transformative innovation. Broadcasters, networks, video service providers and enterprises around the world rely on our optimized, futureproof, multiscreen video and revenue enablement solutions every day to support their mission-critical operations. Today, nearly half of the world’s video channels traverse our products, and our software solutions drive close to a third of global ad revenue. Through continuous innovation, we are delivering the most advanced IP, cloud-enabled, software-defined network and workflow solutions in the industry. Visit www.imaginecommunications.com for more information, and follow us on Twitter @imagine_comms.
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The Invisible Girl
Original title: La chica invisible
At this school, everyone has secrets, everyone looks guilty, everyone is a suspect.
Aurora Ríos is invisible for almost everyone. Events in the past made her isolate herself from the world, and she barely interacts with anyone. At seventeen years old, she has no friends, and is tired of the people in the town talking about her behind her back. One night in May, her mother doesn’t find her at home when she returns from work. That’s unusual. Aurora shows up dead the next day in the locker room at her school, Instituto Rubén Darío. She’s been struck on the head, and a compass is found next to her body.
Who is responsible for that dreadful crime?
Julia Plaza, the invisible girl’s classmate, is obsessed with finding an answer. Her extraordinary intelligence and her prodigious memory make her unbeatable at chess, capable of solving a Rubik’s Cube in fifty seconds. But will they help her parents find the key to the enigma? Her mother, Aitana, is the forensic technician for the case, and her father, Miguel Ángel, is Sergeant of the Judicial Police squad from the Civil Guard in charge of the investigation. Julia and her fast friend Emilio, a strange kid with an eerie gaze, will do everything possible to prevent Aurora Ríos’s killer from going unpunished.
Will they find out who the killer with the compass is, and what lies behind that bizarre death?
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The Invisible Girl, which has 65K copies sold, is the first part of a YA thriller trilogy.
DeA Planeta (Italy), Beijing White Horse Time Culture (China), Adamantan (Poland), RAO (Romania). | Film: Audiovisual Rights optioned | Production company: Morena Films
Publishing date: 2020/05/26 | 544 pages | ISBN: 978-84-08-18478-2 | Imprint: Editorial Planeta
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BS-VI Suzuki Gixxer SF and Gixxer (155) unveiled - Live from Auto Expo 2020
05/02/2020 - 12:06 | Suzuki Motorcycles, Auto Expo 2020 | Suvil Susvirkar
Suzuki Motorcycle India is among the limited number of two-wheeler brands that have participated in the Auto Expo 2020, and the company has revealed its BS-VI compliant range at the biennial motoring event in Noida. Among the BS-VI products showcased at the Auto Expo 2020 were the latest iterations of the Gixxer SF and the Gixxer 155.
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Both motorcycles retain the styling cues and the feature list from the old (BS-IV) model. Regular readers would know that Suzuki Motorcycle India had launched the Gixxer SF and the Gixxer 155 Facelift in May and July last year respectively. Thus, the BS-VI models do not carry any visual overhaul. Thus. The BS-VI Gixxer SF continues to feature a full fairing design while the Gixxer 155 retains the roaster look. Both motorcycles feature full-LED headlight, LED taillight and a digital instrument cluster.
While the styling cues have remained unaltered, Suzuki Motorcycle India has made several changes to the motor to make its products BS-VI compliant. The motor retains the 155 cc, single-cylinder, air-cooled layout, although the performance numbers are lower than the BS-IV model. The BS-VI compliant single-cylinder motor on both, Gixxer SF and Gixxer 155 makes 13.6 PS of peak power at 8,000 rpm and 13.8 Nm of maximum torque at 6,000 rpm. In comparison, the old (BS-IV) version was delivered 14.1 PS at 8,000 rpm and 14 Nm at 6,000 rpm. The motor continues to use a five-speed transmission.
Suzuki Motorcycle India has showcased its BS-VI compliant motorcycles and scooters at the Auto Expo 2020. The company is yet to announce its prices.
Other hardware specifications have been carried forward from the old (BS-IV) models. Thus, shock absorption tasks are handled by conventional telescopic forks at the front and a mono-shock at the back. Anchoring duties are performed by disc brakes on both wheels while the safety net comprises single-channel ABS.
Suzuki Motorcycle India also showcased several accessories for the roadster that comprised knuckle guard, engine cowl, saddlebags and a USB charger.
Speaking about the unveiling of the BS-VI range, Devashish Handa, Vice President, Suzuki Motorcycle India, said:
Auto Expo 2020 has provided the perfect platform to display all our upcoming BS-VI product fleet, further solidifying our position the two-wheeler market.
Suzuki Motorcycle India also showcased accessories-equipped Gixxer (155) at the Auto Expo 2020.
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Do note that Suzuki Motorcycle India is yet to reveal the prices of the BS-VI Gixxer SF and Gixxer (155), although we expect to hear an official announcement very soon. Suzuki Motorcycle India has also provided various offers and on-the-spot bookings for customers visiting the Auto Expo 2020.
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Poisonous Berry Bushes
By Jamie Malone
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Berries are alluring. Brightly colored, and enticing, berries are designed to attract birds and other wildlife. By consuming the fruits, animals spread seeds and help propagate plants throughout the landscape. But many berries on commonly grown plants are toxic to humans if ingested. You should never consume berries or any other parts of a plant that you aren't able to identify. While they may seem safe, eating berries can be a fatal mistake.
Daphne ( Daphne spp.) is a fragrant flowering shrub that grows in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 5 through 9. The four-petaled flowers range in color from white, pink, red or light purple. Once the flowers fade, bright-red single berry clusters are left behind on the branches. All parts of a Daphne plant are toxic, with the highest concentration of poison found in the bark, sap and berries. The poison is so potent that a small child can die from ingesting only a few berries. Symptoms of Daphne poisoning include headache, nausea, diarrhea, convulsions and delirium.
Japanese Yew
Japanese Yew ( Cephalotaxus harringtonia ) is an evergreen shrub that grows in USDA zones 6 through 9. Instead of cones, yew plants produce supple, scarlet, single-seed berrylike fruit. The yew berry is easily identified by its cupped shape that holds a large single seed inside. The pulp of the berry is harmless if ingested, but the seed, needles and twigs are all highly poisonous and may cause death. Symptoms of yew poisoning include difficulty breathing, trembling and lowered heart function. Death can occur with no prior symptoms.
Bitter Nightshade
Bitter nightshade (Solanaceae dulcamara) is a vining plant that grows in USDA zones 3 through 9. You can identify bitter nightshade by its simple leaves and white or purple flowers that closely resemble those of potato or tomato plants. Highly invasive, bitter nightshade is classified as a weed and commonly grows along fences and roadsides. The single, egg-shaped, orange or red berries of the nightshade plant grow in clusters. Berries are most toxic when they are green and unripened. Symptoms of nightshade poisoning include blurred vision, fever, hallucinations, extreme thirst, convulsions and death.
English Holly
English holly (Ilex aquifolium) is an evergreen tree that often grows as a shrub in USDA zones 7 through 9. Recognizable for its glossy, green and yellow leaves and bright red, orange or yellow berry clusters. English holly is an invasive plant and spreads aggressively when not monitored. Seed, bark and leaves are mildly toxic, but the highest concentration of poison is found in the berries. Symptoms of holly poisoning include dizziness, lowered blood pressure, nausea, diarrhea, elevated heart rate and stomach pain.
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Jamie Malone has always been passionate about writing and decided to pursue the craft professionally in 2009. She was published in the 2010 and 2011 "O' Cat Literary Magazine." She is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of California State University, San Marcos as a literature and writing major.
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Kevin Joynes, a Partner in the Commercial Property Team at Harrison Clark Rickerbys, has been elected President of the Worcestershire Law Society. He takes over from Nick Hughes, Senior Partner at Painters Solicitors in Kidderminster, who stood down at the Society’s AGM on 14 May. The Society, which was established in 1841 and is now in its 175th year, is one of the oldest in the Country.
Kevin qualified as a solicitor in 2001. He specialises in residential, commercial and mixed-use development work and has particular expertise in the house building sector where he has acted for most of the UK’s top ten volume house builders, as well as smaller regional developers. Kevin has previously worked in the Birmingham offices of Eversheds, Gateleys and Pinsent Masons. Kevin lives in Beoley, Worcestershire where he is a Parish Councillor. Prior to qualifying as a solicitor, Kevin worked as a Prison Officer at HMP Blakenhurst in Redditch.
Kevin said “It is an honour to serve as President of the Worcestershire Law Society. I have lived in the County for the vast majority of my life.” During his year in office, Kevin hopes to increase engagement with more of the law firms operating within Worcestershire as well as in-house and local authority lawyers. He said: “I will be seeking views in the coming weeks from both existing member firms and non-members as to what they would like to get out of the Society. I am also keen to modernise the way the Society communicates with members, using our new website (www.worcestershirelawsociety.com) and the various social media platforms, all of which I hope will help us to stay relevant.”
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HANDS-ON : Seiko Credor Eichi II
By horologium on April 22, 2016 • ( 0 )
With last month’s opening of Australia’s first Seiko boutique in Sydney’s Queen Victoria Building it seems the right time to share with you a watch that is one of Seiko’s premium pieces.
It is only in recent years that the (arguably still niche) world of high-end Seikos has gained some solid traction outside of Japan. The fact that many models have historically been ‘Japan only’ has perhaps added to its niche status, but as was pointed out during Seiko’s Baselworld 2016 press conference, the increasing popularity Grand Seikos is important to Seiko’s worldwide growth plans.
One of the Seiko high-end lines about which I’ve written before is the Spring Drive, named after the eponymous movement. As as segue within the Spring Drive line there was, for a brief two years between 2007 and 2009, a series of models called Izul, the only known Spring Drives that used the automatic Calibre 5R85 (49 jewels) sans GMT function, with a power reserve of 72 hours. Izul was Seiko’s fourth ‘premium brand’, the others being Grand Seiko, Galante, and Credor.
It is not just in Australia that Seiko is associated primarily with a (huge) range of moderately priced watches, but with this new boutique and a resident Grand Seiko specialist the full range of the brand’s wares will be more widely known here. Grand Seiko has been available in Australia for a a number of years now but not so Credor. Until now.
Today post is about the Credor Eichi II. As is the case with the rest of the top of the line Credor timepieces the Eichi II is made by Seiko’s Micro Artist Studio located in Shiojiri, in Nagano Prefecture. As its name indicates it is the second generation of Eichis, time-only watches whose focus is on achieving the highest level of finishing possible and whose inspiration is Philippe Dufour, from whom some of the members of Seiko’s Micro Artist Studio have undertaken training. With its international launch at Baselworld 2015 the Eichi II is a scarce beast, with only about twenty made per annum.
The Eichi II has continued the key aspects of the first generation, with its focus on simple functional aesthetics realised using platinum (including, unusually, the hefty and large deployant buckle made of two alloys, platinum 950 which is standard for watches and platinum 900), in-house painted porcelain for the dial, and blued steel.
Similar in style and execution to the first generation, the most noticeable changes are a larger case and cleaner dial. The first Eichi was 35mm, a not-so-contemporary size. At 39mm with a thickness of 10.3mm, the Eichi II is more suited to modern preferences, but a larger size also ‘opens up’ the dial so that its glow (and it does glow) can take full flight. Had this second Eichi been 35mm I strongly suspect that I would not have taken to it as much. As it is, it surprised me, as I was concerned that I would be rather ambivalent towards it, and said as much to its owner before I saw it.
This is a plain (and deliberately so) watch. Many if not most similarly plain watches are just that, whether you look at them as they sit on your wrist or whether you look at them under a loupe. There are, as always, exceptions, but by and large even when viewed at close quarters it’s often about details to do with finishing and perhaps even dial textures and the like. The Eichi II however, gets better the closer you look at it, and this formed a critical part of why I went from being not-quite-a-sceptic to being a convert. Don’t get me wrong, it is actually quite beautiful to look at from a distance, with its almost starkly white white porcelain dial (Eichi I’s dial was Noritake but Eichi II’s dial is by an unknown maker), but it is the ‘handmade’ details that you can only see under magnification that are what makes it for me.
All markings on the dial; indices, logo/ name, are painted by a single person at the Micro Artist Studio and in a dark blue to match the blued steel hands, the latter tapering to a rather fine tip. With markers rather than numerals, this makes for a cleaner dial than its predecessor. The crescent on the end of the seconds hand makes for a nice ‘break’ from the austere dial. It purportedly takes an entire day to complete one dial. Up close you can clearly see that everything is hand-painted, with that slight irregularity (and granularity of paint) that comes from the human touch, the same irregularity which is a large part of the charm of something handmade. To photograph it is actually a challenging watch, as the blue varies quite a lot in darkness depending on the lighting and angle at which light falls on the dial.
Inside and visible through the back is the Calibre 7R14 hand-wound hybrid Spring Drive movement, with its electronically-controlled regulation via an integrated circuit. Here, as much as for the dial, is where it pays to look under a loupe, although even to the naked eye the overall impression is a very modern clean feel, with the finishing and the skeleton bellflower motif (the symbol of Shiojiri, the town in which the Micro Artist Studio is located), superb.
To their credit they’ve not done too much with decoration, which means that the skill and sharpness and width of the bevelling (the latter the widest that this watch’s owner has seen), graining, and polishing is highlighted. The way in which the flower motif has been incorporated into the movement is really rather special, with the flower itself on the mainspring barrel first catching the eye, then the stem and leaves of the gap between the two bridges…
In order to maintain the design purity of the dial, on the Eichi II the power reserve indicator has been put on the back of the watch.
The Eichi II was created to mark the 40th anniversary of the Credor line and the 15th anniversary of the Spring Drive movement. Believed by some to be in the running to be the finest three-handed watch currently being made, there is no doubt that in terms of finishing, both front and back, it really is up there with the best. It may not be to everyone’s tastes (or pockets, at 5.7m Yen), but the finishing is worth boasting about and yes, it is very much a luxury timepiece.
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by Brandon Hill — Monday, February 01, 2016, 11:48 AM EDT
Ditch Facebook's Android App And Reclaim One Fifth Of Your Smartphone’s Battery Life
Did you recently buy a fancy new flagship Android smartphone with a capacious battery onboard only to find that you’re still getting relatively poor battery life? Before you start throwing arrows at your smartphone’s manufacturer, perhaps you should look closer to home as to why your battery life is coming up short; specifically, your installed apps.
Redditors have done some experimenting and found that one of the biggest battery hogs among Android apps is the official Facebook app. We’ve all known for quite some time that the Facebook app (for both iOS and Android) has grown into a bloated beast over the years, but extensive testing has shown that there are still some serious battery life and performance consequences remaining with the app.
Redditor pbrandes_eth decided to perform a number of app launching tests with his LG G4, both with Facebook and Facebook Messenger installed, and with both uninstalled. His testing showed that when starting 15 apps in a row, his smartphone was 15 percent faster without the two Facebook applications installed. The reddit thread, which has grown to over 1,200 comments, shows similar gains from other redditors that have taken the “Ditch Facebook” challenge.
Inspired by the results on reddit, The Guardian reporter Samuel Gibbs decided to do some testing of his own to see what affect the Facebook app was having on his battery life. Instead of using an LG G4, Gibbs relied on his Huawei Nexus 6P. And rather than remove both Facebook and Messenger, Gibbs only tossed the Facebook app into the trash can. He then proceeded to use the Facebook mobile website in concert with the Metal app as “wrapper” for m.facebook.com.
Over the course of a week’s testing, the combination of the Facebook mobile site and Metal allowed Gibbs to witness a 20 percent improvement in battery life (his gains would have likely been even higher had he ditched Facebook Messenger). He also noted that some users might not even realize that Facebook is tearing through their battery on a continual basis, as the battery statistics for the app in the Settings menu is not at all accurate:
It turned out other Android services including Android system and Android OS showed reduced battery consumption when the Facebook app was uninstalled. Those services act as a buffer for many apps to the outside world when running in the background. So while Facebook didn’t look like it was using that much power, it was actually just being displayed elsewhere in Android’s statistics.
If you’re a heavy Facebook user, the mobile app can be seen as a welcome addition to your daily “work flow” to help keep tabs on all of your friends, acquaintances, and family members. But as is becoming increasingly more apparent as Facebook adds more features to its already bloated app, the downside is that we all pay in the form of reduced battery life.
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I Can’t Stand Still is dedicated to the memory of my hero Elvis Presley. Elvis passed away on my 11th birthday, the 16th of August 1977; he has had a profound impact on my life. When I was five years old I was given my parents’ record player and their Elvis records, I couldn’t stop playing the King Creole album and a few years later discovered The Sun Sessions. This was the start my love of Elvis’ music and his work has had a major influence on my own songwriting. R.I.P. Elvis Presley. January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977. I Can’t Stand Still. There were two interviews in the 50s where Elvis Presley talks about rock ‘n’ roll and how he can’t stand still and I’ve used these quotes in the song, meaning that the lyrics are, in effect, written by Elvis. His sentiment and the words were perfect for a brand new rock ‘n’ roll song and so I wrote the music to accompany them. The lyrics for I Can’t Stand Still are taken from following interviews and are included on this album: The Truth About Me: August 06, 1956. Polk Theatre, Lakeland, Florida. Elvis Sails: September 22, 1958. Brooklyn Army Terminal. Many thanks to all the musicians involved. It has been a great privilege to work with you all. If it Hadn’t Been for Love, Jumping from 6 to 6 and Mother of Lies were recorded live at Blue Barn Studios on November 5, 2016 by Chris Taylor with the Memphis Underground band: Craig Fillbrook lead guitar, Donny Brown double bass, Rob Watson drums and David Hartley on pedal steel. Many thanks to you all for an excellent job with your playing and co-producing of the tracks. To Bernie Keith, thank you for your continued support and for playing my music on your BBC Rock ‘n’ Roll Heaven radio show. Rich Young, this is the fifth album you’ve worked on with me. As always, an amazing job throughout, many thanks mate, very much appreciated. Jacen Bruce: Vocals on all tracks. Backing vocals 2,6,7,11. Acoustic guitar on all tracks. John Stannard: Lead guitar 3,12. Craig Fillbrook: Lead guitar 1,2,5,6,7,9,10. Tim Slater: Lead guitar 4,8,11. David Hartley: Pedal steel 5,9,10. Len Black: Drums/percussion 1,2,3,4,6,7,8,11,12. Kurt Replais: Double bass 2,4,6,7,11. Adam Miles: Double bass 3,12. Bill Martin: Double bass 1. Donny Brown: Double bass 5,9,10. Rich Young: Piano 7. Mouth organ 4,11. Lana Bruce: Backing vocals 6. Romy Gensale: Vocals 11. Swervy World: Saxophone 1,11. Tracks 1,2,3,4,6,7,8,11,12. Recorded at Sunningdale Lodge and Phaff Studios. Produced and arranged by Jacen Bruce and Rich Young. Mixed and mastered by Rich Young. Tracks 5,9,10. Recorded at Blue Barn Studios by Chris Taylor. Produced and arranged by Jacen Bruce, Craig Fillbrook, Rob Watson, David Hartley and Rob Watson. Cover artwork by Vince Ray. Album artwork and design by Steve Gilmour.
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All you need to enjoy Cobra Kai is a Netflix subscription and basic understanding of the premise of The Karate Kid — underdog teenage transplant to Los Angeles (Ralph Macchio’s Daniel LaRusso) befriends his apartment building’s maintenance man, who teaches him karate and helps him fight back against the bullies who make his life miserable (particularly William Zabka’s Johnny Lawrence). If you know The Karate Kid franchise well, though, there’s a whole extra layer to the show, because the series has been filled from the very beginning with tons of subtle references and Easter eggs to the movies: Soundtrack choices, lines of dialogue, and even specific costumes are used to evoke the original films and underline the show’s themes about decades-old grudges and the eternal struggle within everyone between right and wrong.
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Possible emplacement of crustal rocks into the forearc mantle of the Cascadia Subduction Zone Public Deposited
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Citeable URL: https://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/concern/articles/g158bp60g
Calvert, Andrew J.
Fisher, Michael A.
Ramachandran, Kumar
Tréhu, Anne Martine
Seismic reflection profiles shot across the Cascadia forearc show that a 5–15 km thick band of reflections, previously interpreted as a lower crustal shear zone above the subducting Juan de Fuca plate, extends into the upper mantle of the North American plate, reaching depths of at least 50 km. In the extreme western corner of the mantle wedge, these reflectors occur in rocks with P wave velocities of 6750–7000 ms⁻¹. Elsewhere, the forearc mantle, which is probably partially serpentinized, exhibits velocities of approximately 7500 ms⁻¹. The rocks with velocities of 6750–7000 ms⁻¹ are anomalous with respect to the surrounding mantle, and may represent either: (1) locally high mantle serpentinization, (2) oceanic crust trapped by backstepping of the subduction zone, or (3) rocks from the lower continental crust that have been transported into the uppermost mantle by subduction erosion. The association of subparallel seismic reflectors with these anomalously low velocities favours the tectonic emplacement of crustal rocks.
https://doi.org/10.1029/2003GL018541
Calvert, A. J., M. A. Fisher, K. Ramachandran, and A. M. Tre´hu, Possible emplacement of crustal rocks into the forearc mantle of the Cascadia Subduction Zone, Geophys. Res. Lett., 30(23), 2196, 2003.
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Blasphemy by a French magazine, example of modern ignorance
Tehran (IP) - The chairman of Iran's Islamic Culture and Communication Organization said the French magazine's insult to the Holy Prophet of Islam and the French President Macron's rude support of it is an example of modern ignorance.
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Characterization of microalga Chlorella as a fuel and its thermogravimetric behavior
.Microalgae are photosynthetic microorganisms living in marine or freshwater environment. In this study, samples of Chlorella spp. and Nannochloropsis from two different origins were analysed to settle a preliminary characterization of these microorganisms as intermediate energy carriers and their properties compared to a conventional lignocellulosic feedstock (pine chips). Both microalgae samples were characterized in terms of elemental composition (CHONS and P) and thermogravimetric behavior. This was investigated through non-isothermal thermogravimetric analysis in nitrogen atmosphere at heating rate of 15 °C min−1 and temperature up to 800 °C. Solid residues produced at 300 °C and 800 °C from TGA were also analysed to determine the ultimate composition of chars. Activation energy, reaction order and pre-exponential factor were calculated for the single step conversion mechanism of 1 g of Chlorella spp. and compared to literature data on Chlorella protothecoides and Spirulina platensis. Calculated kinetic parameters, given as intervals of several determinations, resulted to be: pre-exponential factor (A) 1.47–1.62E6 min−1, activation energy (E) 7.13–7.92E4 J mol−1, reaction order (n) 1.69–2.41. 1.2 kg of Chlorella spp. was then processed in a newly designed batch pyrolysis pilot reactor, capable of converting up to 1.5 kg h−1 of material, and pyrolysis liquid collected, analysed and compared with a sample of fast pyrolysis from pine chips. This preliminary investigation aimed at carrying out a first characterization of algae oil and optimise the operational aspects of the reactor, tested with the first time with this unconventional feedstock. The algae pyrolysis oil exhibited superior properties as intermediate energy carrier compared to pyrolysis oil from fast pyrolysis of pine chips, in particular higher HHV and carbon content and lower oxygen and water content. These data can potentially be used in the design and modelling of thermochemical conversion processes of microalgae.
Characterization of microalga Chlorella as a fuel and its thermogravimetric behavior / Rizzo, ANDREA MARIA; Prussi, Matteo; Bettucci, Lorenzo; Ilaria Marsili, Libelli; Chiaramonti, David. - In: APPLIED ENERGY. - ISSN 0306-2619. - STAMPA. - 102(2012), pp. 24-31.
Titolo: Characterization of microalga Chlorella as a fuel and its thermogravimetric behavior
RIZZO, ANDREA MARIA
PRUSSI, MATTEO
BETTUCCI, LORENZO
Ilaria Marsili Libelli
CHIARAMONTI, DAVID
APPLIED ENERGY
Digital Object Identifier (DOI): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2012.08.039
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This single bedroom has wall to wall carpet on floors throughout, tastefully decorated and a shared bathroom. There is not a self catering option and no kitchen facilities apart from a mini fridge, kettle. Gray's Inn Road is located just 30 seconds away from King's Cross St Pancras Station with convenient access to St Pancras International.
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Relatively cheap rents and a central London location make King's Cross attractive to artists and designers, attractions and cultural establishments:
a major arts centre, Kings Place, next to the Regent's Canal hosts numerous art, music, live comedy and cultural events throughout the year
both Antony Gormley and Thomas Heatherwick have studios in the area
The London Sinfonietta and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment are both based here, alongside the Pangolin Sculpture Gallery;
Central St Martins College of Art and Design has taken up residence in the Granary Building, which looks out over Granary Square, a new public space decorated with more than 1,000 coloured fountains
the cutting-edge Gagosian Gallery moved its main London premises to King's Cross in 2004. Kings Cross has a heritage of nurturing arts and culture. The British Library is located next to St Pancras Station, displaying some of the world's most famous written and printed items, such as the Magna Carta (1215) and Shakespeare's First Folio. The London Canal Museum commemorates the importance of London's canals. The fascinating Foundling Museum tells the story of the Foundling Hospital, London's first home for abandoned babies. The area also features a number of theatres, including the Shaw Theatre and the Bloomsbury Theatre.
The Camley Street Natural Park is a great way to escape the hustle and bustle of King's Cross: spot wildlife, relax by the pond and learn more at the park's visitor centre. The peaceful St Pancras Old Church is also worth a visit: look out for the Grade I listed mausoleum of Sir John Soane, which inspired the design of London's red telephone boxes.
Eat, drink and party in King's Cross
King's Cross is full of lively bars, some of which are relatively new to the area, such as, the Spanish Camino, Drink Shop Do and VOC.
If you're feeling peckish, there is a great selection of restaurants, including the Caravan cafe, Golden Arrow at Pullman London St Pancras or Bruno Loubet’s Grain Store.
Pubs in the area include The Lighterman, The Fellow, and The Driver.
For a quick snack at lunch, the Sourced Market in St Pancras International station offers a diverse range of gourmet foods.
Alternatively, the exquisite St Pancras Renaissance Hotel – which was originally built by Sir George Gilbert Scott, and saved from demolition by Sir John Betjeman, despite his comment that it was "too beautiful and too romantic to survive" – is the perfect place to treat that special someone: take them for drinks in the Booking Office bar, or for a meal at The Gilbert Scott. You'll also find an all-day restaurant, Plum + Spilt Milk, in the historic Great Northern Hotel, London's first railway hotel.
King's Cross is a great place to party! The Scala and the Big Chill House are both in close proximity. Venture a bit further north for Egg, a three-floor club venue with a great outdoor area for lounging.
King's Cross is just a short walk from Euston Station – find out more about hotels and attractions near Euston.
The King's Cross Partnership was established to fund regeneration projects and the first stage is now open to the public. You can find out more about the current redevelopment at the King's Cross Visitor Centre.
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VENTURE BROS. Season 7 Episode 5 [Review]
THE VENTURE BROS. Season 7 Episode 5 – “The Inamorata Consequence”/ Written by DOC HAMMER/ Directed by JACKSON PUBLICK/ Animation by TITMOUSE INC./ Starring JAMES URBANIAK, JACKSON PUBLICK, DOC HAMMER, MIKE SINTERNIKLAAS, PATRICK WARBURTON, JOHN HODGMAN & RHYS DARBY/ Produced by ASTRO BASE GO! & CARTOON NETWORK
[WARNING – This Venture Bros. review contains some minor spoilers.]
It’s the quinquagenary (i.e. 50th) anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Tolerance – the official set of bylaws that governs the rules of engagement between the Office of Secret Intelligence (O.S.I.) and the Guild of Calamitous Intent (The Guild) – and given recent events, it has been decided that the rules are due for a rewriting. This leads to the second summit of its kind – a grand meeting between the animosity coalitions of the world’s largest super-spy network and organized villainy collective.
A neutral party must host this grand event, and who better than Dr. Thaddeus “Rusty” Venture? Well, pretty much anybody, but he was the first one to volunteer and the old Venture compound does have plenty of room. Besides, The O.S.I. and The Guild both eat up that whole “honoring traditions” thing and speeches that start with “On this very ground, so many years ago…”
Unfortunately, pomp and circumstance is about the only thing The O.S.I. and The Guild do agree upon. Soon Dr. Venture finds himself neck-deep in the kind of petty semantics and nit-picking that dominate any office meeting involving redefining procedures and he’s remembering why he hates dealing with all this O.S.I. / The Guild nonsense in the first place. Meanwhile, Dean and Hank sensibly take this opportunity to catch up with old friends. Though in Dean’s case he winds up making a new friend and another startling discovery about his father…
“The Inamorata Consequence” is the first real dud of Venture Bros. seventh season. Of course even mediocre Venture Bros. is usually pretty good but few of the jokes in this episode manage to land. These jokes all tie in to the ridiculous traditions dictated by The Treaty of Tolerance and reactions to off-screen events. This is how we wind up with Phantom Limb and Shore-Leave donning inner-tubes and flippers on their hands to settle a matter of honor with a slap-fight, with no indication as to what prompted this beyond it involving a comment about Phantom Limb’s grandfather.
The irony is that we couldn’t have gotten these moments without cutting away to something else and the other bits are largely more driven by plot than comedy. In the case of Dean’s seeking out Ben – the scientist who lives in the woods behind The Venture Compound, who told him that he was a clone – this works pretty well, with Dean meeting a repurposed H.E.L.P.E.R. robot. In the case of Hank, it doesn’t, though I grant that may be due to my antipathy for the character of Dermott, who returns here as an O.S.I. Private.
Much as I would have loved to have seen more of Watch and Ward reading off the rather ludicrous accomplishments of the Guild leaders in attendance (“Defender of The Guild! Vanquisher of The Sovereign!“) and Shore-Leave’s sarcastically adding ridiculous titles as his O.S.I. colleagues are introduced (“Owner of a Toyota Camry, in stunning Blizzard Pearl!”), this too would likely have grown tiresome were it not providing relief from the more lackluster parts of Doc Hammer’s script.
Much as in past episodes this season, the guest actors don’t seem to add much. John Hodgman has little to do this time around as Corporal Snoopy and Flight of the Conchords‘ Rhys Darby is similarly wasted as H.E.L.P.E.R. though his voice does lend the robot a tone that comes off as a mix of Baymax from Big Hero 6 and Anthony Daniels’ C-3PO, which fits the character well. In the end though, there’s little to recommend this episode beyond a few good jokes and the post-credits stinger, which promises big things in the episodes to come.
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Bamboozled: Contractor’s broken promise leads to summertime blues
By now, most New Jersey homeowners have their backyard pools open and ready for summer.
But not Sharon Fell.
She said because of a contractor’s broken promise to refund money for an order he couldn’t fulfill, Fell has been unable to open her pool — a pool that her 75-year-old uncle absolutely loves.
Fell, a single mom, is the sole caretaker of her uncle, who is disabled and lives with her in her Bound Brook home.
“He asks me every day, ‘Is the pool ready?'” Fell said of her uncle. “He can’t wait. It’s the first thing he wants to do on the weekend. He’s like a little kid, and the physical part is so good for him.”
Back in September 2014, Fell started planning for the 2015 pool season.
She’s had an ongoing problem with her pool cover, which has never fit properly, and always leaves her with a filthy pool after the winter season.
So at the end of last summer, Fell’s friend recommended Steve’s Pools, a company that had opened and closed the friend’s pool in the past. The owner, Stephen Porada, uses the line “Pool Service you can count on” for his business card.
Before we go on, we want to make a very important distinction. The company with which Fell has a beef has a name that’s similar to two other Jersey businesses: Steve’s Pool & Spa Service in Hazlet, and Steve’s Pool Service in National Park. These two businesses are owned by different people and have no relation at all to Porada’s company, Steve’s Pools.
Fell invited Porada to give her an estimate on a new hard cover for her in-ground pool. “The kind an elephant can stand on,” Fell said.
Fell texted with Porada before his visit.
“I want to make sure we get you exactly what you want,” Porada said in a text message before the meeting.
Porada came to the home and measured the cover, giving Fell an estimate of $2,000.
The two signed a contract dated Oct. 2, 2014 . It was a one-page long and handwritten on loose leaf paper, calling for a $1,000 down payment and $1,000 upon completion of the job.
But Fell said the job was never completed, and the pool cover never saw her property.
A complete picture of what happened was captured in a series of text messages Fell shared with Bamboozled.
On Oct. 15, Porada texted Fell to say the cover was “in production and should be done soon.”
Five days later, Porada said he’d check in with the company to see the status of the order.
It was ready on Oct. 29, Porada said by text, and he said he’d pick up the cover the next day.
There was no word until Nov. 15, when Porada texted to set up an install date.
But on Nov. 23, he texted to change the date because of a “prior commitment.”
That’s when Fell started to be concerned about the delays, and she shared her concern with Porada.
“I am an honest person I am not going anywhere with your money you will have your cover or you will have your thousand dollars I am not a thief I would never do that,” Porada said in a punctuation-lacking text message.
After that, more excuses began, Fell said. First it was traffic court. Then a death in the family. Then a new baby in the family. Then a hospital emergency.
And then Porada stopped answering Fell’s texts and phone messages, Fell said.
They finally spoke on Dec. 18, Fell said.
“He admitted by phone call he measured the cover too small and does not have my cover to install but will return my money,” Fell said. “Then, he’s like, ‘Do you know someone with a smaller pool?'”
Fell said she was willing to take her refund on a payment plan.
She received a $100 payment on Dec. 29.
She received another $100 on Jan. 23.
On Feb. 26, she received a payment for $50, along with a handwritten note from Porada.
“This is every dollar I have to my name,” the note said. “The winter is a very tough time for me without the income from pools. Please except [CQ] this offer& I promise I will not default. I will give you $200 per week for the next three weeks. If I fail even 1 time take me to court. I will not miss a payment b/c I don’t want my son born w/me in jail. This is the first time in 10 yrs of pool this has ever happened.”
The second page of the note read: “If this was summer time I would’ve paid you back 10x over by now. I truly am trying. After we are square I will even take care of your pool for free for a season. I ask you to please try and forgive me and let me give you 3 more payments.”
Fell, not an unreasonable woman, agreed.
The next payment, though, came on March 12, for $60.
It also came with another note.
“This is every dime I have left from last week after rent,” the note said.
The paragraphs that followed again made promises of future payments, but Fell said she never received another penny.
Porada did text in April, saying he had a pool job and should have more money for Fell, but no money was ever delivered.
After the April exchange, Fell, said, she tried to call and text several times, but there was no answer or Porada’s voice mail box was full. Fell’s adult son tried from his phone, but also, no answer.
Soon after, Fell reached out to Bamboozled.
LOOKING FOR LIFE PRESERVER
We reviewed text messages between Fell and Porada, the written notes Porada gave with his refund payments and the one-page contract signed by the parties.
That contract is one huge red flag and a violation of state law.
According to Consumer Affairs, any contract worth more than $500 must have specific, detailed information including the project’s price, the starting and ending dates, the scope of work, the contractor’s business name, address, and registration number, and more.
The contract Fell was given lacks much of that information.
We took a look further.
According to Consumer Affairs, there are no complaints against Steve’s Pools or Stephen Porada, and there are no lawsuits against the company. It’s not listed with the Better Business Bureau, either.
Nor does Steve’s Pools show up in any corporate filings or trade names with the state, public records show. That’s something companies must do if they want to do business in the state.
We reached out to Porada to ask about the status of Fell’s refund.
His voice mailbox was full, several times, so we emailed some questions to him at the email address on his business card, which is the same email that was hand printed on the contract.
We wanted to hear his side, and to ask, now that it’s summer and he presumably has more income from pool jobs, if he had a plan to refund the rest of Fell’s money.
Porada didn’t respond.
So now, Fell is still waiting, and she said she will file a complaint with Consumer Affairs.
She has a family member helping her get the pool ready, much to her uncle’s delight, and she’s gotten three more estimates for a new pool cover, hoping it will make next year’s pool opening a lot easier.
Still, Fell wants her money back.
“You have to do the right thing. If he said $50 a week or a month, I would hang in there,” she said. “It’s not like I didn’t give this guy a chance. Just do the right thing, buddy.”
We’ll let you know what happens.
Staff researcher Vinessa Erminio contributed to this report.
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Sex dependency syndrome – no medication for that
July 3, 2020 05:00 am JST July 3, 2020 | 05:02 am JST
Is sex addictive?
Yes and no, says Josei Seven (July 9) in effect. No, in the purely clinical sense. It’s mental rather than physiological. Deprive the body of the alcohol or narcotic it craves, once addiction has set in, and the body will claw you to pieces. A heightened desire for sex is less insistent – but insistent enough all the same to wreck lives and careers. The magazine cites examples known to everyone: former U.S. President Bill Clinton; golfer Tiger Woods and actor Michael Douglas.
“Sex dependency syndrome” – let’s call it that, if we’re not to call it addiction – hits men and women differently, explains psychiatrist Kina Takagi. In men it generally arises from a naturally strong libido, or perhaps simply a naturally strong and domineering personality. In women it’s more likely to reflect extreme vulnerability – stemming from childhood abuse, or bullying, or a sense of being unloved.
The distinction between addiction and dependency seems almost academic in the various cases Josei Seven covers. “B-san” (as the magazine calls him) has a fuzoku (sex industry) habit that has driven his marriage to the brink of divorce – which wouldn’t matter so much if he didn’t love his wife, but he does. He’s 37. His fuzoku interests had declared themselves before marriage. “She chose to marry me anyway,” he says, “and I promised her: never again.”
For a time he kept his word. Then there came a passing affair with an office colleague. It reminded him of bygone pleasures beyond the range of married life, and back he drifted to fuzoku. “I couldn’t stop,” he says ruefully. A hole in the couple’s savings gave the game away. Maybe they’ll patch things up. Who know? At the moment, it doesn’t look good.
“C-san,” 39, describes herself as so shy she blushes when talking to strangers. That’s when she’s sober. A drink or two reveals a whole other side of her. At an office party she happened to be sitting next to a colleague she normally disliked. That was forgotten. Next stop: a love hotel. “I knew I’d regret it later,” she says. Next she found herself in bed with her married boss. Rumors buzzed. Everyone at work seemed to be giving her sidelong, knowing looks.
She quit, found another job. Now, she says, she goes prowling in bars and neighborhoods where she’s not known – “I don’t want to have to change jobs again.”
“E-san,” 45, divorced her philandering husband and decided, “No more men!” It’s easy to say. Never particularly libidinous before, she suddenly became so, to the point she began visiting host clubs. There she “spent beyond my means,” and went into debt. “It can’t go on like this!” she confesses to Josei Seven.
Maybe it won’t, as host clubs become focal points of the COVID-19 pandemic. Other than that, there’s no medication for sex dependency syndrome, and the only treatment, Josei Seven hears from professional sources, is counseling, including group therapy. Sharing experiences, discovering you’re not alone – it’s a long road, and not a sure one, but the best there is. In the end, says psychiatrist Mitsuru Umeno, “it may be something you have to live with all your life.”
© Japan Today
July 3, 2020 06:32 am JST
In men it generally arises from a naturally strong libido, or perhaps simply a naturally strong and domineering personality. In women it’s more likely to reflect extreme vulnerability – stemming from childhood abuse, or bullying, or a sense of being unloved.
This is a clear indication Kina Takagi doesn't know what they are talking about!
BertieWooster
In the end, says psychiatrist Mitsuru Umeno, “it may be something you have to live with all your life.”
In other words, they don't have a blind clue what it is, or what actually caused it, so of course they don't have a hope in hell in curing it.
Psychiatry is a sham.
miss_oikawa
In women it’s more likely to reflect extreme vulnerability – stemming from childhood abuse, or bullying, or a sense of being unloved.
I am genuinely astounded that women liking sex is always reduced to this. It should be something on everyone's minds. Why is a woman's sexual pleasure always bound up in previous pain and abuse?? It's absolutely criminal, not to mention idiotic, non-sensical and ludicrous. Where. on. earth, does. it. come. from?
Everyone at work seemed to be giving her sidelong, knowing looks.
Everyone?
Or just the other women?
Aly Rustom
Personally, I think Japanese society could use a bit more sex. People here are so friggin repressed.
1glenn
I worked alongside an otherwise normal woman who had an uncontrolled sex habit. It eventually contributed to her losing a very good job. I think I will not live long enough to figure out how sex determines our actions.
This appears to be an article demonizing the way we came into this world.And pointless to boot.
Mickelicious
If we destroy the myth that sex is unnatural, disruptive and transactional, people might start enjoying themselves for free.
Can't have that.
PerformingMonkey
July 3, 2020 12:14 pm JST
My wife can take it or leave it.
The medicalization of a normal human act. We were born with our junk for a reason.
Roxy Music had a hit long ago with 'Love Is the Drug'. It describes sex as addictive, saying 'get that buzz'. Just like most things, it can get to be an addiction and it can be destructive.
What’s wrong being a sex addict . I am one of them and I enjoy it
Farmboy
Sex in fine. Addiction, dependency, and abuse are not fine. Turning every desire into a disease requiring doctors and therapists is not fine either. If something is bad for you, don’t do it.
Phil Smy
I do not think there is actually any clinical evidence to support this and her (Takagi) only out is that she uses 'it's more likely' (double speak for 'perhaps, maybe, but I don't know'). In other countries such a position would be severely ridiculed as old fashioned and damaging. Here it gets reported as news.
kohakuebisu
no medication for that
Porn and tissues?
Host clubs do not sell sex. They sell titillation and fantasy. Going to host clubs is not a sign of sex addiction, and may not even result in much sex. As in the story though, it will frequently end in the customer going into debt, because the clubs are designed to fleece them.
Fagui Curtain
looking at the number of sex-selling services, nearly available everywhere 24/7 and their huge roster of employees, its fair to say that japanese people are sex addicted.
Jonathan Prin
Sex is normal life.
I would say sex addiction is a condition if it burns your sanity during work or your daily tasks. Otherwise it is very fine, and should be praised (seduction, romance, close relationships, quickies, strong kisses, etc)
kurisupisu
I’m too busy trying to survive at the moment.
Sex is on the back burner...
Staying at home during pandemic: Damned if you do, damned if you don’t
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As a Co-Founder and Director of Research of the Oceanic Research Institute, I am delighted that ORI is now a fully-fledged Australian Registered Charity and CSIRO-Approved Research Institute with DGR status endorsed by the ATO. To this end ORI has attracted, inspired and secured the involvement of a first-class team of renowned international researchers to form our inaugural Research Committee. Several of these researchers have been working with us informally for up to two years.
While I am humbled to be working with such a remarkable team of scientists and leaders, I believe I can contribute significantly from my own academic and leadership experience as a ‘sustainable futures’ researcher, deeply concerned about the state of the oceans and the immanent threats to humanity of climate change and particularly sea level rise. In particular, my eight years leadership experience as President of the World Futures Studies Federation, a UNESCO and UN-ECOSOC Partner, and global peak body for futures researchers across 60 countries, should be of value to the work of the ORI Research Committee and its undertakings.
Here are links to papers that I have published in the area of climate research.
Gidley, Jennifer M., et al (2009) Participatory Futures Methods: Towards Adaptability and Resilience in Climate-Vulnerable Communities Environmental Policy and Governance Env. Pol. Gov. 19, 427–440
Gidley, Jennifer M. (2016) Understanding the Breadth of Futures Studies through a Dialogue with Climate Change World Futures Review Vol. 8(1) 24 –38.
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Nielsen gets measure of online viewing
Nielsen will account for online viewing of media, including clips and full episodes published on Facebook, Hulu and YouTube. Nielsen says Digital Content Ratings will provide daily measurement of audiences with metrics comparable to those for television. Participating television and digital publisher clients will be able to capture incremental online viewing of their programming as part of their reported audience numbers.
“The inclusion of video content distributed on Facebook, Hulu and YouTube in Nielsen Digital Content Ratings is a major accomplishment and part of our ongoing commitment to provide the industry with independent, comprehensive measurement of the evolving consumer landscape,” said Megan Clarken, who heads product leadership at Nielsen.
The company says “Providing a consistent and transparent view ensures a level playing field with access to the same information across both publishers and distributors.”
Nielsen launched the digital content ratings back in September 2016 as part of its total audience measurement framework. They report average audience, reach, frequency, gross rating point and time spent metrics on digital media, comparable to traditional viewing as reported in Nielsen television ratings.
Apparently the digital content ratings are not intended to be folded into traditional television ratings but can be used by publishers to describe online video viewing or by advertisers to provide an independent third-party measure.
“Having a more complete understanding of how audiences build across platforms will help inform our strategies, and we are looking forward to seeing more progress made on this front,” said Brian Hughes of Interpublic Group’s Magna Global.
Nielsen had previously announced that Hulu and YouTube will be part of its television ratings and will contribute to is standard three-day and seven-day viewing currencies.
Nielsen also says that ABC is the latest network to sign up for its national out-of-home reporting service, based on data captured from its portable people meters across a panel of over 77,000 users in 44 markets. The data are fused with the national representative panel to project what people are watching outside of their homes.
“As viewing continues to fragment across screens and devices, Nielsen is working diligently to ensure we can offer the most comprehensive view of media consumption possible,” said Peter Bradbury, who heads national client solutions at Nielsen.
A clearer picture of viewing across different devices and screens is desperately needed and Nielsen is attempting to address this, at least in the United States.
www.nielsen.com
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Timothée Chalamet Updates Adam Rippon’s Harness Look With An Embroidered Bib
March 17, 2019 January 7, 2019 by Devin Randall
Timothée Chalamet and his mother as they prepare for the 2019 Golden Globes / Image via Instagram @tchalamet
From Billy Porter’s caped crusader realness to Timothée Chalamet’s Harness 2.0, there were a lot of fashion statements to talk about at this year’s Golden Globes.
Possibly the most talked about fashion choice was Chalamet’s black sequined bib. The reason? It looks like something we've seen before.
At last year’s Oscars, openly gay Olympian Adam Rippon wore a tuxedo outfitted to include an authentic harness. The outfit was praised across the internet for it’s uniqueness and brave statement.
But now, Chalamet has taken a twist on that original outfit in an attempt to make it his own.
According to People Magazine:
“The actor hit the red carpet wearing a custom, sequin harness from Louis Vuitton with an embroidered bib, paired with a shirt, pants and boots from the designer, the team behind the look told People. The harness has black iridescent and purple beads, plus seven different shades of sequins — and a hidden pocket for Chalamet’s phone!”
Despite many people claiming Chalamet's outfit looks like a harness, he insists in the video below that he's actually rocking a bib.
But if you’re wondering what Rippon thinks of the outfit, the now retired athlete shared on Twitter that he loves the look.
LOVE https://t.co/c0J4XPnbY3
— Adam Rippon (@Adaripp) January 7, 2019
In addition, Timothée Chalamet attended the Golden Globes with his mother, a trend that has been going on for the past year now. Before this, Chalamet brought his mother to the Oscars and the SAG Awards.
But back to the Golden Globes, Chalamet was in attendance due to being nominated for Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture for his work on Beautiful Boy. Unfortunately for him, Chalamet didn’t win the award. He lost to Mahershala Ali for his performance in Green Book.
Tags #AdamRippon, #BeautifulBoy, #goldenglobes, #timotheechalamet, harness
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Wageless Life
By Sarah Brouillette
PHIL A. NEEL’S Hinterland: America’s New Landscape of Class and Conflict contributes to what is by now a good body of research tracking the collapse of the postwar economic order and the return of global economic turbulence and crisis. Research by the Endnotes and Chuang collectives and in the pages of Sic journal and books such as Golden Gulag (2007), Riot. Strike. Riot (2016), and Dead Pledges (2018), study how fundamentally economic decline has determined our social and political moment.
Though there is inevitable disagreement on particulars, a common jumping-off point across the field is Robert Brenner’s account, detailed in The Economics of Global Turbulence (2006), of a postwar boom period of prosperity lasting roughly from the 1940s through to 1973, a downturn beginning in the mid-1960s, and then a persistently fallow period after 1973, characterized by growing economic turbulence and what Brenner describes as reduced economic dynamism. In this last period, low demand for labor has led to a worldwide decline in wages and in secure full-time employment more broadly. In attempting to manage this situation, governments have taken on more and more debt, and have periodically undertaken reforms such as the elimination of some kinds of state-based social protections and programs. These reforms have ultimately deepened and spread immiseration and uncertainty yet further.
Neel has experienced much of what he charts. As a child, he lived in a trailer in the Siskiyou Mountains. His employment history is fitful and itinerant. He has been in riots and in jail cells. Now a geography grad student at the University of Washington, he has adopted a research program that is affiliated with the website Ultra-com.org, which states: “We have been farm workers, dishwashers, soldiers, waitresses. Today we are ultras — a name we use to designate those who have been transformed by the recent crises and the sequence of riots, blockades, occupations and strikes that followed. Ultras are the segment of generation fucked that has begun to realize that the world as it presently exists in untenable.” They link to Endnotes, Sic, and Chuang, as well as to Viewpoint Magazine and Commune Editions.
We can call this movement the ultra-left, and Hinterland is a manifesto for it. It maintains that the periods of economic “recovery” that have emerged amid overall decline have incorporated decreasing numbers of workers into secure employment, while concentrating populations in shrinking urban cores — in cities like Seattle, whose fringes Neel has lived on. Beyond these relatively prosperous centers are the “hinterlands,” where Neel was raised. Here, people exist mainly in fitful relation to anything like waged work, relying instead on jobs in the informal sector, on black-market activity, and often on temporary employment afforded by government programs. The hinterland isn’t rural in any conventional sense. Instead, it is the site of industrial farms, power generation sites, and logistics hubs. Resources continue to be extracted, developed, and managed across it. Neel describes it as a “disavowed, distributed core” — a sort of hidden abode, where the service sector and the “FIRE” industries (of finance, insurance, and real estate) that define the urban center find their integral foundations in massive operations of highly automated food and energy production. We all know a ton about the Googleplex, but do you know where the data centers are, or who works to maintain them?
Part of what Neel tracks is just how deeply people in the hinterlands depend now on federally funded programs for employment: in forest and land management, in school districts and health-care systems maintained by federal aid, or in farming that is sustained by subsidized government purchases. The amount spent on fire suppression — more than half of forest service spending in 2015 — is grimly telling: the hinterlands are where “productive industries have largely been replaced by an ever-losing battle against our epoch’s colliding catastrophes.” This battle is often state-backed, as politicians seek to mitigate disaster and keep people in work.
In this respect, Hinterland bears reading alongside work on taxation and social policy that emerged in the 1970s — work like Stuart Hall’s or Claus Offe’s, which arose to address the dire economic situation of the time and the state legitimacy crises that followed from it. Offe argued that modern state policy is first and foremost a set of scripts to address the problem of social integration of workers. In much liberal state theory, in contrast, part of good government’s work is to check the excesses of capitalism while making sure it continues along. When the state fails to check capitalism, something is supposedly amiss. From a perspective like Neel’s, however, which is one of anti-state communism, capitalism is itself always the problem. By occasionally managing its effects, the state helps to keep an inherently destructive system afloat in ways that never benefit very many of the world’s people. In the contemporary period, these efforts seem more and more destined to visibly fail. A population only fitfully employed can be hard to manage. Policing, border security, imprisonment — none of this is cheap, especially for a government weighed down by unfathomable debt. And this isn’t even to mention the cost of old age security and disability benefits. More and more, the state has come to be burdened with the task of managing the unwaged and the structurally unemployed at exactly the same time that it does not have the resources it needs to do the job.
Hall wrote about “policing the crisis,” to emphasize that a population suffering economic hardship is more likely to encounter the state as an iron fist than a warm embrace. Taking Hinterland as our guide, the difference between then and now is the deepening of wageless life, social despair, and the state’s decreasing capacity to manage increasing needs. In Neel’s account, state programs afford only a tiny bulwark against the slow decline of full employment, a decline that he takes to be inexorable: “[T]hose within the hinterland will increasingly be thrown into a condition of survival on the edge of the wage relation, mirrored by their sequestration at the geographic edge.”
Fallout from this process is profoundly shaping the American political scene. Neel’s account emphasizes hinterland towns as the grounds for the resurgent right. New rightist movements favor getting “back to the land” while devolving control away from federal programs to limited communities. These communities are defined by exclusion of nonwhites, immigrants, “foreigners,” anyone who can be construed as not “original” to the American project. They circulate masculinist fantasies of autonomous survival, in which violence will be perpetrated “in the name of a wholesome, salvific order-to-come.” They involve landholders, business owners, police, and former soldiers, but recruit from “zones of abject white poverty,” and prey on the feeling of having been thrown off the course of one’s natural, superior white destiny via a marked change in fortune.
Where this new wave of rightists feels underserved by the federal government, and is poor and in debt, they are ready to be persuaded that taxes and fees are a kind of exploitation and are open to embracing alternative offers of self-reliant community-building and support. Neel is no enemy of self-reliant communities and anti-state movements, but he rejects their being built upon racist exclusions and white supremacy. Whiteness continues to be disproportionately linked to wealth in the United States, but racist community leaders make poor rural whites feel as though they are somehow uniquely deprived. They will point, for instance, to social programs that exist to support refugees and new immigrants, and then ask why “real Americans” are left to work out, alone, the challenges of itinerant work and un- and underemployment. (Such racist narratives are, of course, fantastically tendentious, given how massively anti-immigrant the United States has generally been, and how much government aid supports the survival of these “real Americans.”)
These apparent contradictions are in fact integral to the whole operation. By fighting taxation, right-wing community leaders help to increase government debt and incapacity yet further, even though many of the poor rural whites whose loyalties they want to secure rely on the state for jobs. The conditions they lament are the same ones that they build their strength upon. And so, as hinterland towns hover constantly on the brink of bankruptcy, paramilitary groups like the Oath Keepers offer community preparedness and disaster-response courses. They encourage, in Neel’s words, forming “community watches and full-blown militias as parallel government,” while protecting those who fund their operations: small businesses, ranchers and other property holders, and extractive industries. Rightist patriot-style politics address real experiences of poverty and debt, however incoherently; they present such experiences as problems of land management created by the selfishness of wealthy urban elites and by an incompetent federal government that cannot manage the tax dollars it continues to collect.
What about the political left? In Neel’s account, it is made up of people who are committed to the idea that, even within capitalism, things can still get better — that we just need to elect more effective and more humane governments that are committed to spreading the wealth that capitalism produces. They protect the ideals of democratic elections and gradual change achieved through persistent agitation for reform. Neel subsumes these leftists into an overarching “Party of Order.” It is a willfully capacious category that includes anyone who “opposes both the extreme left and the extreme right” — anyone for whom “the problem is ‘extremism’ as such.” They are against riot and insurrection, in favor of administrated reforms. They favor peaceful protest, even in the face of the most obvious acts of direct violence, such as police and rightist militias conspiring to kill people. They think that we can marshal facts to win fights, and so hold on to the ideal of free speech even for fascists — going so far as to invite them to headline festivals of ideas, as we have just seen with Steve Bannon’s short-lived tenure as headliner of The New Yorker Festival. They believe that with fuller knowledge, people will achieve right thinking. (The last time I visited a US college campus I spotted a “Make America Think Again” bumper sticker.)
To the extent that they believe that the ship can be righted and set back on course, with profits distributed more justly, they miss the truths of rising rates of un- and underemployment, increasingly permanent ejection from regular waged employment, competitive automation, and declining rates of profit. They do not think that conditions have fundamentally changed in ways that make agitating for more and better jobs untenable, nor that the very existence of the institution of wage labor may have always been itself a major problem. Neel’s eviscerating account of their purview suggests that the new right is, in contrast, perhaps grasping something that the Party of Order isn’t: that people have already shifted their allegiance away from government and toward self-reliant networks that they hope can help meet their basic needs. The new right’s problem and crucial mistake is their retreat into racist and xenophobic communalism.
We arrive, then, at Neel’s preferred alternative: the “Party of Anarchy.” Against the resurgent right, the Party of Anarchy offers an inclusive allegiance: water, not blood. It is allied with the abject, and against anything but the fullest universalization of the results of active struggle. It is committed to overcoming capitalism’s “material community of separation,” which produces so many isolated souls who lack sustaining connection in ways that Neel argues make them even more vulnerable to xenophobic appeals. Fidelity to overcoming this separation is what defines the Party of Anarchy, and nothing else: no other inscribed identity and no other allegiance. It is defined not by a political platform or program (those are for the Party of Order) but by what Neel calls “a reflective fidelity to the unrest itself […] [an] inclusive, flowing unity of those who wish to push the rift open, to spread it further, to extend it longer, or to ensure that the potential spreads.”
It is evocative language, but not groundless. Neel sees potential that grew and will continue to grow in riots and blockades and gatherings in city squares, in the Occupy movement, in actions against police murders. These are sites of identification and community development, strengthening new bonds against state violence, against capitalism’s worsening immiserating effects, and against right-wing communalisms that are racist, nativist, gender normative, and much else. For Neel there is an inevitability about the deepening of the conditions that these movements address. As the economy deteriorates further, and government debt grows, the Party of Anarchy will swell its ranks. But so will the resurgent right. Reformist political projects that attempt to improve social conditions through elections and government programs will meanwhile continue to falter. If this is the case, why not devote ourselves to hastening capitalism’s demise and building the kinds of alternative communities that might survive it?
Though most deeply engaged with the American situation, Neel compares it to China’s, and recounts time he spent traveling by train with Chinese workers shunted between stimulus-fed worksites in cities built, populated, and abandoned in increasingly rapid cycles. It is common to describe China as the new global hegemon, busily incorporating new workers and replacing the United States in the task of keeping the global economy afloat. But Neel’s take on China’s economic dominance accords with the Chuang collective’s, which he draws upon: the Chinese economy will follow the overwhelmingly evident global pattern, lurching toward informalization and rising rates of superfluity. The economic growth fueling China’s expanding global lending and development regime required a massive proletarianization of the Chinese population, forcing people to abandon relatively rural enclaves and migrate to cities to find poorly waged work. How to assuage the unrest that results when jobs are lost, but people can no longer depend on escape to their villages as refuge, and can’t find more work with ease? Well, the Chinese government can afford economic stimulus, job creation via public works, and some concessions to workers’ demands, in no small part because of its international lending and development activities. It is the market of note for other countries’ debts.
This is a shaky economic foundation for a global hegemon. As is true globally, the workers Neel traveled with by train haven’t been incorporated into the kind of workforce that characterized the United States in the 1950s, or Britain in the 1890s. Fewer and fewer souls are needed to achieve higher rates of productive efficiency. Instead, while land is developed and resources extracted, workers are only fitfully and partially exploited, in temporary arrangements and short-term projects that fail to provide them with much material benefit, motivation, or futurity. Chuang argues that, as a result, the features characterizing the surplus population — informal work, precarious work, itinerant work, illegal work, reliance on black market goods — “become relatively ‘normal’ characteristics of the laboring population as a whole.” This is development without development, modernization without modernity.
One can’t help but notice how little faith Neel and his allies have in the new economic engines that are supposed to save us — the knowledge industries, and the rapidly expanding service sector. These are instead presented as deeply dependent on a foundational economy of productive work that will only continue to deteriorate. For the knowledge-worker whose expertise is in things like advertising and digital media production, their work is helping to move product — sneakers and smartphones. As Neel wrote in a 2015 article on Nike’s commodity chain: “[B]ullshitting is one of the few skills that hasn’t yet been fully automated.”
For those in the culture and tourism trades, their industry is about disposable income, and disposable income requires the ongoing accumulation of wealth. China’s richer global cities, such as Shanghai and Beijing, boast some of the world’s most lavish creative quarters and respected creative-economy boosters (the M50 Art District and the 798 Art Zone, respectively). Here you find high-paying jobs in creative, heritage, and tourism sectors, including of course marketing and commercial design. There are cultural workers as well in what the Chuang collective describes as the “vast state-funded, semi-speculative complexes of welfare and middle-income service work, most visible in the education, healthcare and ‘non-profit’ industries.” Neel sees the same thing in US cities like Portland and Seattle, which attract highly educated people not because they simply love the aura of creativity, but also because they hope to find some way to earn enough there to pay off their enormous student loans. In relatively elite enclaves like these, you can call yourself a self-employed contract-based flex-worker and take a job designing new sneaker lines or working in an art gallery. Or you can, like Neel himself, “re-attach yourself to the massive welfare structure of some university as a lab tech, adjunct or ‘grad student.’”
As for the expanding service sector — it accounts for something like 80 percent of private employment in the United States, and 45 percent and growing in China — most of its jobs are underpaid and precarious by nature. Jason Smith recently described, in a 2017 article in The Brooklyn Rail, the service sector as one in which, by definition, “labor processes can only be formally organized along capitalist lines.” Personal grooming services, restaurant work, eldercare and childcare: these can only be automated to a point. They pay poorly because, in the absence of other ways to economize or rationalize the work, keeping wages low is one of the only ways of securing profits and keeping the price reasonably affordable to enough people. It all depends fundamentally on other people continuing to have money to spend on services. How long can it be sustained?
Hinterland is about just how pressing this question is. No book is perfect, of course, and this one isn’t for everybody. Some readers will no doubt find Neel’s style too generalizing, too roaming and unsystematic, weaving between personal travelogue, expressive manifesto, and more academic methods of human geography. But it is, whatever else, simply bracing. It is easy enough in my cozy state-supported Canadian research enclave to ignore how my working life is connected to a bankrupt town in the US hinterland or to the Chinese proletarian traveling to wherever the jobs have gone. But Neel makes the unifying, underlying dynamics hard to deny — dynamics of dwindling state resources, growing demands stemming from unfolding climate catastrophe and rising superfluity, and deepening threats to government capacity and legitimacy. This is stark terrain that too few scholars glimpse with any clarity. Its implications are massive.
Sarah Brouillette is a professor in the English Language and Literature Department at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.
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Obama’s Responsibility for Political Polarization
In his state of the union and again in his recent interview with Politico, President Obama expressed sorrow that he has not been able to end political animosities. As he put it in the interview, “a singular regret for me is the fact that our body politic has become more polarized, the language, the spirit has become meaner than when I came in.”
Obama blames different factors from the media to gerrymandering for our angry divisions. But Obama himself is in no small measure responsible for polarization. His reliance on executive action, most egregiously his order on immigration, is a primary cause. Unsupported by any express delegation from Congress, this extraordinary act is enormously controversial. It seeks to permit five million people who have come to this country illegally not only to stay but to work.
Legislation on divisive issues is much less likely to lead to polarization than executive fiat. The reasons are rooted in the nature of our political structure. Legislation requires ideological compromise, because the median members of Congress are closer to the center of the political spectrum than the President, who does not represent the median voter. Instead, he tends to reflect the median voter of his party, because he is selected largely by members of that party through the primary voters and super delegates. The Senate filibuster also moves legislation to the center.
Of course, Obama argues that he is acting because Congress is not. But gridlock is a key feature of our system that requires the compromise. And it is simply not the case that inaction by a President is as likely to lead to polarization as action, because it is actions that upset citizens most.
Tit for a tat is an iron rule of politics. Executive fiat by the President of one party will likely to lead to more such actions by the President of the opposite party when that party takes power. Indeed, Obama’s executive overreaching has helped no candidate more than Donald Trump. Many Republican voters have concluded that they need a man of action who will not feel constrained by legal niceties or previous norms of politics to fight for them. Following Obama’s example, Trump might lower tax rates by declining to collect certain taxes. Fight fire with conflagration.
Sadly, the enthusiasm for executive fiat is not limited to Obama and Trump. Even some scholars have caught the fever. Adrian Vermeule has approvingly imagined a world where there is no Congress, only an elected executive who rules essentially by decree. That would be a dreadful polity, increasing polarization and anger as well as leading to sharp and destabilizing shifts in policy. Even the excesses of parliamentary democracy—a system without our separation of powers– are limited by the need to retain marginal seats or assemble a coalition. Rule by alternating men on horseback will stampede citizens to disorder and despair.
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I don't think Prof. Vermeule endorsed a presidentialist government, so much as he discussed its inevitability. Here is his closing comment:
"The commonplace objection to a United States without a Congress is not that it would be a bad United States, but that it would not be the one our Founders created. There is an obvious sense in which that is true, but there is also a somewhat less obvious sense in which it is false. The Constitution created a set of institutions exercising separated powers, but those institutions themselves created the modern powerful presidency and bureaucracy, in part because the institutions were too limited and wisely recognized their limitations. Critics who would restore the original Constitution should consider the possibility that if the presidentialist state did not exist, Congress would just create it anew, in an eternal recurrence of legislative abnegation."
The Framers created the Constitution without including a firm power of conscience to "just say no" to bad government actions. When we vote or when a jury of peers votes we use the secret ballot. Without a secret ballot the results are too easy to influence. The secret ballot is essential to conscience.
The Senate in particular was supposed to be the chamber that was to "just say no" to irrational or unconscionable government actions. The Framers did not given it a secret ballot, so its members must vote based on their next election, before voting their conscience. That make the Senate a populist institution, not an institution of conscience.
Without a body charged with and empowered to disapprove of bad government, our government is populist. Read Federalist 10 substituting "populism" for "democracy" and you should have most of the picture. (The Constitution was originally intended to prevent populism, but its design was not quite up to its ideal.)
That weakness of the Senate, I think, is what Vermeule is moving towards, even if unaware, when he mentions a congress that is "too limited" in its powers. It cannot vote on conscience first. It must vote on reelection first. In populist government, bad laws are made and bad government actions occur, always supported by the general population, always done with the best of intentions. Those bad laws and actions cause serious problems, so then a strong-man is needed to try to keep things from falling completely apart. That is how populism normally collapses into tyranny. That is why presidentialism is increasing.
Unless we change our form of government, unless we inject empowered conscience into it, Congress will eventually become symbolic, the president will have all government power, and the US will live with perpetual crisis.
Scott Amorian
Do you really think having senators vote by "secret ballot" on legislation is going to solve the country's problems? I suspect it would make things even worse than they are now.
I think the Framers' assumption was that the Senate would be permanently filled by a permanent class of aristocratic gentlemen who would who would concerned primarily about the common good and their own reputations. This did not pan out. But then they were devising a new kind of system for the operation of which they had few, if any, models.
I understand what you are getting at; however, using Vermeule as a point of departure is fraught with danger.
".. in part because the institutions were too limited and wisely recognized their limitations. Critics who would restore the original Constitution should consider the possibility that if the presidentialist state did not exist, Congress would just create it anew, in an eternal recurrence of legislative abnegation.”
Contained in Vermeule's argument is a false predicate (too limited) AND a failure to recognize that the intent of the Framers structure, "limited government" is the actual predicate for a "too limited" set of institutions.
Had the Federal Government (and increasingly State Governments) not expanded the breadth and depth of their interventions, i.e., an infinite elasticity to the Commerce Clause, an ever growing cornucopia of "newly divined" rights, etc. this "too limited" set of institutions would, indeed, have been properly and adequately sized.
Vermeule, like F.H. Buckley and his call for Parliamentary system, is prepared to allow the government to continue to intervene in all manner of private / commercial affairs and both fail to see the danger consequent to each system. Parliament is as Blackstone said (paraphrase here) accountable only to heaven. Vermeule would like to reinvigorate the antecedent dictatorship of the Crown with its prerogative powers of suspension, etc. and rule by fiat.
We have become so inured to the excesses of government that we are no longer able to recognize that the Framers structure was intended for a government of rather limited and expressly granted powers - not the all encompassing leviathan that it has become. Yes, virtue, especially in Public Office is required; perhaps, if we had that, we would not now be unable to remember what the "limited' grant of powers was designed / intended to superintend.
Obama himself is in no small measure responsible for polarization. His reliance on executive action, most egregiously his order on immigration, is a primary cause.
Right. And the “birther” movement was also Obama’s fault. The fact that ten Republican Congressmen sponsored the Birther Bill was Obama’s fault. When Mitch McConnell declared that the Republican’s top priority is NOT rebuilding the economy, NOT defeating terrorists, NOT stopping Ebola – but rather, the top priority is to make Obama a one-term president – that was Obama’s fault. When the Republicans turned the filibuster into a tool of obstruction on an unprecedented scale, that was Obama's fault, too. And while we’re at it, have you noticed how much worse gravity has become during the current Administration…?
Let’s get real: Both parties now practice a “politics of personal destruction.” Liberals borked Bork. Gingrich brought down Speaker Wright, and then moved on to seek to impeach Clinton – all while having an affair of his own. So when Obama won, plenty of rank-n-file Republicans lost their minds and opted for a scorched earth policy. Laughably, they began rejecting policies that they have previously supported as soon as Obama would voice his own support. They shut down government rather than compromise. Hell, Obama can’t even get the Republicans in Congress to authorize use of force against ISIS. What does that tell you?
So, with Republicans dedicated to stonewalling, Obama was left to use whatever powers were in the Executive Branch. And, ok, perhaps a few others besides.
I get that McGinnis disapproves of Obama’s agenda and some of his methods; so do I. But polarization preceded Obama's arrival at the White House -- and I suspect it will outlast his stay there. Indeed, when Trump loses to Hillary, Trump backers will be apoplectic -- and Republican officials will be as eager to pander to their apocalyptic mindset as they were to pander to the birthers. At least we can take comfort in the fact that McGinnis won't lack for material: With a quick search-and-replace, I expect he'll be able to trot out this same essay, earnestly admonishing Hillary for creating the polarized political atmosphere.
And it is simply not the case that inaction by a President is as likely to lead to polarization as action, because it is actions that upset citizens most.
I agree; maintaining the status quo generally does not provoke as much objection as change. This was true during slavery. It was true during debates about whether to recognize the tort of sexual harassment. It was true during debates about same-sex marriage. And it’s true during debates about immigration and whether Black Lives Matter.
But it’s also a curious blindness of the laissez-faire minded to presume that the problems with the status quo are less significant than the problems with change.
And who is evincing an "apocalyptic mindset" here. Oh, Poor Obama - "The Humanity of it, the humanity.
Can it also be mentioned that it was the Big 0 who opined that he "would bring a gun to a knife fight" and proceeded to do so.
Also, let us not forget that his own Party has roundly criticized the Big 0 for not listening to his own party and for being confrontational with the Democratic Leadership.
Nope, he has a style that engenders confrontation - not just partisanship!!!
Of course, one could readily point to the "tarring and feathering" that good ole W received on a non-stop basis; a day did not go by when there were not hyped up accounts of some supposed outrage committed by W - funny, when the Big 0 committed the same infractions (and worse) not a word was heard - heck, not a (media) creature was stirring.
give it a break - he is a nasty little bugger with an out-sized ego that does not permit any deviation from his position. He is reaping only what he (and the Democrat Party) has sown.
on January 28, 2016 at 00:14:03 am
Nope, [Obama] has a style that engenders confrontation – not just partisanship!!!
Great, so we have two competing predictions. I predict that polarization will continue, regardless of which Democrat gets elected; McGinnis and gabe argue that polarization is merely a function of Obama's style, and will go away when he does.
Time will tell. May the best student of public policy win.
The original Constitution,as envisioned by many,but not all,of the Founders was that of a Constitutional Republic. A Republic in which there would be checks and balances within the Federal Government and from outside of the Federal Government with influences and certain powers delegated to the States and or to the People.
Gradually,over time,state power came to be more and more centralized and concentrated in Washington D.C. Gradually the idea of a Republic degenerated into the reality of a Democracy. Throughout history democracies have always bankrupted themselves and,eventually,further degenerated into dictatorships and tyranny. This process is ongoing throughout the centuries and is now happening to America.
With that said,it is obvious to any neutral observer that America is finished being a "free" country. In essence,at least in my lifetime,it never really was "free." Basically most of us are numbered sheep on a tax farm. Our masters,the "special interests" ensconced in the "Deep State" behind the scenes are the real power in America.
To discuss Republicans vs. Democrats,Left vs. Right, Obama vs. Bush,or one class or group vs. another is to fall into the trap of taking one's eyes off of the real power behind the throne and,instead,to talk about the politicians who are hand picked to be nothing but puppets in a giant kabuki theater. One only has to follow the money trail to see that most of our political "leaders" are bought and paid for by the real owners of America. That the real power in our nation are the special interest elites behind the scenes.
to the contrary, I DO NOT predict it will go away, nor have I ever done so. I simply point out that, contra nobody.really, Obamai s simply reaping what he and his Democrat friends have sown.
So long as the media continue to simultaneously present / obscure topics and subject matter that is either helpful to their Democrat masters / cohorts or unfavorable to their GOP *enemies*, polarization will remain a dominant factor on the American political scene.
Dems, of course, love this and welcome all media "info* that confirms their bias.
GOP'ers hate this, appear unable to effectively respond to it and consequently will seek to *lash out (or back?) at the Dems and their factotums; and will surely listen / support he that appears to speak out against this Dem hegemony.
Polarization is here to say - and thus The Trumpster may be said to be a direct outgrowth of the Big 0.
We are in for "interesting times."
BTW: I am too damn old to be a student of anything - other than good red wine!
Gabe--
In your view, is there even a grain of truth, in this passage from Nobody's post:
"Let’s get real: Both parties now practice a “politics of personal destruction.” Liberals borked Bork. Gingrich brought down Speaker Wright, and then moved on to seek to impeach Clinton – all while having an affair of his own. So when Obama won, plenty of rank-n-file Republicans lost their minds and opted for a scorched earth policy. Laughably, they began rejecting policies that they have previously supported as soon as Obama would voice his own support. They shut down government rather than compromise. Hell, Obama can’t even get the Republicans in Congress to authorize use of force against ISIS. What does that tell you?"
To my eye, the politics of obstruction have been worsening across most of my adult life.
Politics is only partially a rational exercise. It is rare when rationality detached from emotion structures policy. So to analyze our current situation clearly, we must be attuned to the anxieties, fears, and greivances of those with whom we are inclined to disagree. (I have learned much on this topic from the political scientist Jon Elster.) And it helps if we can acknowledge that on occasion we too are motivated by fears, anxieties, and deeply nurtured greivances. Absent this kind of awareness, and self-awareness, we can only engage with the concerns of our friends. Whatever else that is, that is not democratic deliberation.
What I find remarkable is that so many thoughtful, intelligent people on all sides of the contemporary public conversation say precisely the same things about the people with whom they disagree. Complaints in liberal circles nurse precisly the same greivances as those emanating from conservatives. The gist of the exchange above between Mcginnis and Nobody can be found in myraid similar exchanges in a wide array of media. Posts that amount to "my people are the good guys, we are right, you people are the bad guys, and are very, very wrong; and moreover, you dastardly people have done mean things against my people, you dastards, you!" are, you must admit, rather commonplace. As I read Mcginnis, that is what his argument amounts to.
What is distressing is that the deeply seated greivances are now so entrenched, so heartfelt, so richly perceived, that they occlude any deliberation at all. Deliberation requires, as a bare minimum, the existence of some basic sense of trust. Where is that to be found today?
Absent deliberation, we are left with government by fiat, coercion, force. If we give up on persuasion, all that remains is violence.
Kevin R. Hardwick
On the whole, I agree with you. Obama did not create polarization, and it will not go away when he is gone. But I disagree with your characterization of McGinnis's and Gabe's position. I don't think that either of them said or even implied "...that polarization is merely a function of Obama’s style, and will go away when he does." McGInnis even says
Many Republican voters have concluded that they need a man of action who will not feel constrained by legal niceties or previous norms of politics to fight for them.
I take the point to be that Obama has made polarization worse, and I think that is at least a defensible position. "I won," "I get that for free," criticizing the Supreme Court in a State of the Union Address, "the police acted stupidly," pretending that his immigration executive order is a valid exercise of prosecutorial discretion, etc. are evidence of conduct that a more self aware and less self-obsessed president would see as exacerbating rather than lessening polarization.
I also agree with Gabe that many of the President's flaws derive from an unjustified opinion of his own specialness. I believe history will regard Obama for what he is: a charismatic doofus who is not nearly as smart as he thinks himself; whose lack of understanding of foreign policy at the very least contributed to destabilization and misery in the middle east (and yes, an assist goes to George W), whose economic policies have resulted in the child poverty rate going from 19.0 percent in 2008 to 21.1 percent in 2014, plummeting labor participation rates, stagnation and decline in real wages; whose view of government as a progressive fiefdom has resulted in embarrassing incompetence in the Secret Service, the EPA, the Veterans Administration, the ATF, the IRS, DHS, etc. He is a president whose narcissism and belief that the world is subject to his decrees has him caught with his foot in his mouth over "red lines," "the JV," and "ISIS is contained."
The list goes on...and on.......and on................and on, but the point is that Gabe's observation explains how Obama can have "one big regret," and that is continued polarization: Obama thinks he has been a success because, even though people get screwed by his policies, he thinks it okay because the people who get screwed are not the ones he really cares about. People who couldn't keep their doctor? Meh. Native Americans who had their water supply turned into mustard colored goop by the EPA? An inconvenience. People killed by guns trafficked at the instigation of the ATF? The eggs you break to make an omelet. People having to train their immigrant replacements? Speedbumps.
So, yes, you are correct. Polarization is here to stay. But McGinnis and Gabe are also more correct than you let on.
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Kevin:
"In your view, is there even a grain of truth, in this passage from Nobody’s post:"
Absotively! Indeed, there is more than a simple grain of truth to it. My comment, curiously enough, was a response to what I (perhaps incorrectly) perceived as nobody's use of the typical "narrative" employed by the Left to excuse Obama's rather poor performance. The assertions made with those comments are clearly open to alternative explanations / expositions.
If one looks at my follow-on response (as well as a comment here: http://www.libertylawsite.org/2016/01/27/stoner-vs-munger-citizen-or-consumer-how-do-you-choose-when-you-vote/) it should be evident that I do not solely ascribe the current polarization to Obama. I'll not repeat the arguments in detail here but will only say that the problem of polarization is more more systemic than one poorly performing occupant of the Oval Office. Perhaps, that is, (in part) what nobody.really was saying. Accepted; it was the examples provided which made it appear as if it was more "narrative" than simple exposition.
Thus, I think we are in agreement: Too much "conversation" can be attributed to fear, anxiety, yes; but too much can also be attributed to envy, jealousy and simple greed when it comes to electoral voting behavior. To my mind, this is also a contributing cause of "polarization." (I hint at this in my comments on Professor Stoner's piece).
BTW: Rather Disappointed in Greene's "Pursuit of Happiness...."
Arguments seem to be "time-biased" so as to favor his argument. Here is one of my post-it note comments that may sum it up: "Greene's discussion of the Lower South's (and Chesapeake, etc) social development appears to be an "apologia" in support of a thesis designed to refute a *strawman argument."
However, many good facts and some good observations.
Of course Obama is the source of polarization. Sure, polarization predated him. Sure, we expect it will endure beyond him. But he’s the source. Of course.
Gabe seems to be echoing our friend Dr. Frank-N-Furter: “I’ll remove the cause – but not the symptom!”
(Discussing changes in the TV lineup In 1992, we’d re-phrase it as “I’ll remove the Coz [the Cosby Show] – but not The Simpsons!”)
Why can it not be said that Obama is the cause of a "heightened" polarization in that he has escalated partisanship to a new level - polarization!
Recall not just his scathing / threatening comments (Justice Roberts comes to mind at the State of the Union) but his (and his party's - the passage of Obamacare, etc) actions. Many would conclude that it was HIS own behavior that brought forth the "supposed" fury that you mention - yet, as a I said, the media granted him a renewable Christmas present when not a single MSM creature was seen to stir when he "shamed" the Office with his careless rhetoric and criticism of his opposition nor did they complain when many of his own appointees claimed that Obama *refused* to listen to their advice or the advice of the professional military. No, it is his arrogance and (ill-founded) self assurance that has moved the needle toward the "red" end of the pressure scale - a scale whose needle was already threatening to cross the median.
And now, we must (presumably) deal with the Trumpster as passions have become somewhat more inflamed than prior to his ascendancy to the Crown.
Frankly, it is distressing; what one can only hope for is that we do not elect another buffoon who either knowingly (Obama) or unwittingly (Trumpster?) drives the needle deep into the red-zone.
I would not expect a celebratory touchdown dance, would you?
Oops, forgot this:
In a nutshell, this is what / why of the Obama polarization thesis:
"We are the ONES we have been waiting for."
Seem to indicate a certain sense of "historical" deliverance, maybe? could it be that everyone other than the ONES are to be cast aside, to be relegated to the vast cadre of "bitter clingers"
such a self-conception can do nothing but exacerbate already frayed methods of discourse - and THE ONE proceeded to happily confront THE OTHERS.
Recall not just his scathing / threatening comments (Justice Roberts comes to mind at the State of the Union)….
Remind me again: When was it that Obama shouted at Republican Congressmen “YOU LIE!” during the State of the Union address? Oh, wait – I think that was a Republican Congressman that yelled that at Obama.
Or when was it that Obama told senators on the floor of the senate to FUCK OFF? Oh wait, that was President-of-the-Senate Cheney.
But please, do quote to us the terrible-awful-no good-very bad thing Obama said, and how this was the source of polarization. Really, I’m all ears.
…the passage of Obamacare….
Oooo, yeah. How dare Obama propose and pass that legislation – after merely, you know, promising to do PRECISELY THAT throughout his entire campaign.
In contrast, let’s recall George W. Bush – a man who lost the popular vote and gained office only through winning a majority vote on the Supreme Court. Surely a man in his circumstances would be chastened and govern in a centrist fashion, representing the nature of the electorate, right?
… “shamed” the Office with his careless rhetoric….
I have no idea what this refers to. But I cannot wait for you to provide me with an example that, of course, has no parallel among Republican presidents. I’m already preparing to google Reagan and W quotes.
But go ahead: Pitch it nice and fast across the plate; I'm sure you're gonna unleash some heat that has been unprecedented in all of US history.
…and criticism of his opposition….
Seriously? Does the word “birther” mean nothing to you?
Obama *refused* to listen to their advice or the advice of the professional military….
Again, not sure what specifically this refers to. But I look forward to hearing more – and, in particular, how Obama’s reckless behavior compared with W’s lying us into Iraq War. You remember the Iraq War? Recall W cutting his own State Department out of planning for the occupation, with all the well-known results that ensued? Recall the 370,000 direct deaths, plus 210,000 civilian deaths, 7.6 million refugees and displaced persons, and a US price tag of $4.4 trillion? I do so look forward to learning about how Obama’s shameful behavior completely eclipsed that clusterfuck.
Please provide figures on the body count and financial cost; let's not let that naughty Obama off the hook!
“We are the ONES we have been waiting for.”
Seem to indicate a certain sense of “historical” deliverance, maybe? could it be that everyone other than the ONES are to be cast aside, to be relegated to the vast cadre of “bitter clingers”
such a self-conception can do nothing but exacerbate already frayed methods of discourse – and THE ONE proceeded to happily confront THE OTHERS.
We are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For is the title of the 2006 book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker. But who knows? Maybe it’s also the code name of a secret mission to send troops in black helicopters to inter all Republicans in tunnels underneath the Walmarts of Texas. I mean, just ‘cuz you’re paranoid doesn’t mean that they aren’t out to get you….
Face it, Hardwick got it right: We all suffer from confirmation bias. You know Obama is Hitler + Satan because it confirms your world view to think so. I know the same about W. What else is new?
But since we know this about ourselves, the beginning of wisdom is to refrain from making such ludicrous claims without a theory and data to back them up.
Or to acknowledge that you’re just writing click-bait. Seriously, does McGinnis have any special interest in driving traffic to this site? Does he need to boost numbers or something?
C'mon - you have apparently gone over the top.
Black Helicopters, really!!
Birthers, really - and when have i ever made mention of any of these silly things.
No, you, as most Proggies do, feel compelled to "slander" opposing opinion by insinuation of a more vile nature, i.e., to attempt to associate a dialogue opponent with the "lunatic fringe". (BTW: It was the left who first introduced "birtherism" - recall the attacks upon that silly John McCain).
And a veiled threat at the SOTU address to a Justice of the Supreme Court is in fact shameful.
Must we rehash the 2000 election which went to the Supreme Court ONLY because the Democrat Judges on the Florida Supreme Court sought to disregard Florida State Law and IMPOSE their will / views on the nation. Gee, there is another side to the story.
Another of the left's lies: Bush Lied - people died.
You do know of course that Valerie Plame and her husband were wrong AND that the 500 tons of yellowcake ACTUALLY did turn up in Irag - along with numerous chemical weapons and discarded delivery systems. So it is not as clear as you wish to make it out, now is it?
And frankly, you once again disappoint with your transparent attempt to deflect the thrust of my comment regarding "WE are the ones...." You know full well it had to do with a mindset that Obama and his ilk possess and deploy which leaves any opponent, no matter how reasonable that opposition may be, looking like some wild eyed conspiracy theorist. I can only say that this must be the product of a rather FECUND imagination - what other type of imagination can it be that envisions / posits Black Helicopters and plots against the Republic from a simple statement about a man's narcissistic proclivities.
But then again, it is always Christmas for Obama - and you could appear to be one of the MSM's / Democrat Party elves providing cover for THE ONE.
Do not attribute to me the paranoia that may properly be attributed to the looney toons on the right AND the Left - I had always thought that you were not one of them.......
now take care
What accounts for increased polarization? In his 2012 book The New New Deal: The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era, Michael Grunwald traces the phenomenon to the House and Senate Republican strategy sessions shortly before Obama’s inauguration.
Traditionally, the majority party governs and members of the minority party trade votes for favors. But in 2008, after losing two election (Bush’s final midterm election, and Obama’s victory), most of the remaining Republicans were from hard-core conservative districts. These politicians had more to gain by burnishing their credentials as opponents than in actually delivering benefits for constituents. So following the 2008 election, they adopted a strategy of unified stonewalling. For all their remonstrations about the evils of unions, Republicans proved to be adept at adopting unions’ strategies. In his chapter on “The Party of No,” Grumwald reports:
“We’re not here to cut deals and get crumbs and stay in the minority for another 40 years,” said [Eric] Cantor…. Cantor dripped with disdain for get-along Washington Republicans who happily supported Democratic bills as long as they extract a bit of pork for themselves. “We’re not rolling over,” he said. “We’re going to fight these guys….”
Cantor’s chief of staff, Rob Collins, had invited two pollsters to address the group, and no policy experts. That’s because he recognized that House Republicans were now communicators, not legislators. They didn’t have the numbers to stop Pelosi from steamrolling Obama’s agenda through the House. They needed better PR strategies, not better policies. “They’re just going to ram right over us anyway,” Collins explained. When House Republicans had the numbers, they had done the same thing. Now their battle was in the arena of public opinion.
To win that battle, Cantor believed, the whip team had to keep Republicans united, so Obama wouldn’t be able to brag about bipartisan support for his agenda. That would require picking fights carefully; focusing on stark conflicts that could define their party and the president…. Whips didn’t have much power to enforce unity anyway, especially not minority whips…. They could only build team spirit, so Republicans would voluntarily stick together….
The challenge would be developing a consistent message of No without looking like a reflexively anti-Obama Party of No…. [A]t first the targets would be Pelosi and “Washington Democrats” rather than Obama.
“The Young Guns” [Cantor’s team] weren’t interested in playing footsie with Democrats….
Pete Sessions … opened his presentation with … an existential question: “If the Purpose of the Majority is to Govern … What is Our Purpose?”
Not to govern, that was for sure. His next slide provided the answer: “The Purpose of the Minority is to Become the Majority.”
House Republicans were now an insurgency – and “entrepreneurial insurgency,’ … Boehner declared, -- and Sessions thought they could learn from the disruptive tactics of the Taliban. The key to success in this asymmetrical warfare, he argued, was to “change the mindset of the Conference to one of ‘offense,’ and to take the fight to the enemy….”
Two consecutive drubbings [2006 and 2008], while shrinking the Republican conference, had also dragged it even further right. Staunch conservatives from safe districts had survived, while the herd of moderates from competitive districts had been culled, including the entire House GOP delegation from New England. The Republican Study Committee, once a marginal outpost for hard-line conservatives, now included a solid majority of the conference…. Boehner had an occasional history of bipartisan behavior…, but that was “in a universe far, far away,” as Miller put it. Even if Boehner had wanted to reach out to Obama, he had to guard his right flank against Cantor, whose interest in his job was poorly concealed. So Boehner was already mocking the idea that spending [the “stimulus bill”] could ease the recession, berating Democrats to “start listening to the American people” as if Election Day had never happened.
After Republicans got whipped in 2006, party stalwarts like the House campaign chairman, Tom Cole, a rock-ribbed conservative from a rock-ribbed Oklahoma district, had argued for a less dogmatic message. Cole had been a political consultant before running for office – House Republicans had hoped he could be their Rahm [Emanuel] – and he had warned that the country was center-right, not right-wing. But after history repeated itself in 2008, Cole lost his post to the more dogmatically conservative Sessions.
The new leaders … had a new mantra: Our mistake was abandoning our principles…. They saw John McCain as a typical Republican In Name Only who had sought electoral salvation in ideological equivocation…. They even revised their opinions of George W. Bush…. And they viewed the homogeneity of their conference as an advantage. [I]t would be easier to unify a purer conservative team against Obama and Pelosi. They would have fewer “problem children,” as they privately described the conference’s moderates and iconoclasts.
[Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell] dubbed himself the Abominable No-Man.
McConnell reminded the Republican senators that there were still enough of them to block the Democratic agenda – as long as they all marched in lockstep….
Pelosi tried to persuade Boehner to work with Democrats on the stimulus, making an impassioned case that spending programs had higher Keynesian multipliers than tax cuts….
“Nancy said: We need to do something on jobs. And Boehner said: Why would we want to help you on that?” a senior Pelosi aide recalls. “You saw the beginning so of their strategy right there: They didn’t want their fingerprints on anything. And then if the economy didn’t turn, they’d win.”
Democrats weren’t interested in bipartisanship out of altruism; they wanted Republican fingerprints on the Recovery Act for similarly political reasons. As Tom Cole, now a deputy whip, wrote in his diary on January 7 [before Obama’s inauguration], “Dems are worried about a unified GOP opposition – not because they will not prevail but because they want joint responsibility.” In any case, House Republican leaders had already decided not to give it to them. They wanted Democrats solely responsible for the economy.
“It was apparent very early that this wasn’t going to be bipartisan,” Cole told me. “We wanted talking points: ‘the only thing bipartisan was the opposition.’”
[Meanwhile over in the Senate,] minority leader [McConnell] understood the power of partisanship as well as anyone in Washington. He knew that few Americans have the time or inclination to follow the nitty-gritty details of policy debates, so issues tend to filter down to the public as either “bipartisan,’ shorthand for a reasonable consensus approach, or “controversial,” shorthand for the usual political bickering. McConnell wasn’t sure he could stop Obama’s agenda, but he was determined to keep it controversial.
“He wanted everyone to hold the fort,” recalls former Republican senator George Voinovich of Ohio. “All he cared about was making sure Obama could never have a clean victory…. If he was for it, … we had to be against it.”
McConnell recognized the Obama’s promises of bipartisanship gave his dwindling minority real leverage. Whenever Republicans decided not to cooperate, Obama would be the one breaking his promises. And since Democrats controlled Washington, Obama would be held responsible…. Americans would see partisan food fights and conclude that Obama have failed to produce change.
“We thought – correctly, I think – that the only way the American people would know a great debate was going on was if the measures were not bipartisan,’ McConnell explained later…. “When you hang the ‘bipartisan’ tag on something, the perception is that differences have been worked out.”
Maybe Obama had rewritten the rules of electoral politics, but the rules of Washington politics still applied. The dream of hope and change was about to enter the world of cloture votes [filibusters] and motions to recommit. That was McConnell’s world….
[A week after Obama’s inauguration] Boehner opened his weekly conference meeting with an announcement: Obama would make his first visit to the Capital around noon, to meet exclusively with Republicans about his economic-recovery plan. “We’re looking forward to the President’s visit,” Boehner said. [But regarding the stimulus bill, Boehner said] “I hope everyone here will join me in voting no!”
Cantor’s whip staff had been planning a “walk-back” strategy in which they would start leaking that 50 Republicans might vote yes, then that they were down to 30 problem children, then that they might lose 20 or so. The idea was to convey momentum. “You want the members to feel like, Oh, the herd is moving. I’ve got to move with the herd,” explains Rob Collins, Cantor’s chief of staff at the time. That way, even if a dozen Republicans ultimately defected, it would look as if Obama failed to meet expectations.
But when he addressed the conference, Cantor adopted a different strategy. “We’re not going to lose any Republicans,” he declared. His staff was stunned.
“We’re like, Uhhhhh, we have to recalibrate,” Collins recalls….
Cantor’s aides asked if he was sure he wanted to go that far out on a limb. Zero was a low number. Centrists and big-spending appropriators from Obama-friendly districts would be sorely tempted to break ranks….
But Cantor said yes, he meant zero. He was afraid that if the Democrats managed to pick off two or three Republicans, they’d be able to slap a “bipartisan” label on the bill.
Obama press secretary Robert Gibbs [said,] “You know, we still thought this [working with Republicans] was on the level,” Gibbs says. Obama political aide David Axelrod says … “It was stunning that we’d set this up and, before hearing from the President, they’d say they were going to oppose this…. Our feeling was, we were dealing with a potential disaster of epic proportions that demanded cooperation. If anything was a signal of what the next two years would be like, it was that.”
….Vice President Biden told me that during the transition, he was warned not to expect any bipartisan cooperation on major votes. “I spoke to seven different Republican Senators who said, ‘Joe, I’m not going to be able to help you on anything,’ ” he recalled. His informants said McConnell had demanded unified resistance. “The way it was characterized to me was, ‘For the next two years, we can’t let you succeed in anything. That’s our ticket to coming back,’ ” Biden said…. Bob Bennett of Utah and Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania both confirmed they had conversations with Biden along those lines….
David Obey, then chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, met with his GOP counterpart, Jerry Lewis, to explain what Democrats had in mind for the stimulus and ask what Republicans wanted to include. “Jerry’s response was, ‘I’m sorry, but leadership tells us we can’t play,’ ” Obey told me. “Exact quote: ‘We can’t play.’ What they said right from the get-go was, It doesn’t matter what the hell you do, we ain’t going to help you. We’re going to stand on the sidelines and bitch.”
In sum: Democrats have everything to gain from bipartisanship. It was the Republicans that, for sincere reasons – the party was now vastly more conservative than Republicans of old – and strategic reasons, had everything to gain from polarization. And since it takes two to tango, the Republicans prevailed.
Yeah, well, as you say, policy differences ought not to be deemed obstructionism - and, yes, both of our wonderful political parties are guilty of this.
Yet, while Reagan, as an example, had to deal with the obstructionism of Tip(sy) O'Neill - still, he managed to pull it off and not further polarize the political discourse.
Wonder why that is, do you?
BTW: Nobody:
I am less concerned with some of the specific "tit-for-tats" that we may both bring up.
I am looking at a more fundamental / ideological (psychobabble, perhaps) element.
Something on the order of this piece by James Caesar at the Weekly Standard.
I suspect that you will appreciate it.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/what-next-for-the-left/article/2000801
on February 10, 2016 at 11:46:49 am
The Price of Republican Orthodoxy:
“Both liberal and conservative orthodoxy have roots in the polarization of the electorate, a division in which each side holds the opposition in contempt.
If there is a godfather of current Republican intransigence, it is William Kristol, the conservative strategist and editor of The Weekly Standard. In 1993, Kristol wrote a memo to Republican congressional leaders….
In the memo, he flatly rejected all compromise strategies in negotiations with the Clinton administration…
During the Obama years, the Kristol strategy has become fully operational for Republicans dealing with administration proposals….
The Republican strategy was summed up by Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell, who famously told National Journal in an Oct. 23, 2010, interview: ‘The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.’
In many ways, the Republican strategy of huge resistance has backfired on the party itself.
As recently as 2001 to 2003, Gallup found that Republicans in Congress had favorability ratings in the high 40s to mid-50s, consistently better than their unfavorable ratings.
By 2015, the Polling Report, which tracks all public surveys, found that in five polls taken between August and the end of the year, the favorability rating of congressional Republicans had fallen to 14 percent, and the unfavorable ratings had risen to 79.4. Ratings of congressional Democrats at the end of 2015 were also negative, but significantly less so than those of Republicans: 27 percent favorable, 66.6 percent unfavorable.”
obama is a good man.. & perfect for usa political run. thanks for your article..
Bijoy khan
on February 25, 2016 at 12:52:16 pm
More on Obama's alleged intransigence.
on March 23, 2016 at 13:27:02 pm
In his book Why the Right Went Wrong, E.J. Dionne cites 2014 stats showing that 2/3 of Republicans call themselves conservative, including 1/3 very conservative; in contrast, less than 40 percent of Democrats call themselves liberal. Pew Research asked if people prefer their politicians to compromise to get things done, or to stick to their beliefs even at the expense of gridlock. Roughly 60 percent of Democrats prefer compromise, while only a third of Republicans have the same preference.
Moral: Republicans, not Democrats, prefer polarization.
Here's a link to that Pew Report showing:
- The growing gap between the two parties on the individual items making up their ideological consistency scale are mostly a consequence of Republicans taking more conservative positions.
- Consistent conservatives have much more unfavorable views of the Democratic Party than consistent liberals have of the Republican Party.
- Republicans, especially those who are consistent conservatives, see the other party as a threat to the nation’s well-being more than do Democrats.
- Republicans who view the other party very negatively are more likely to vote than Democrats.
- The ideological “silos” by place and friendship networks are much higher among conservatives than liberals. The same is true for race and ethnicity as well as religious faith.
- And importantly, consistent conservatives like their elected officials to “stick to their positions” rather than “make compromises”; consistent liberals overwhelmingly prefer politicians who make compromises.
on October 04, 2016 at 11:44:28 am
From Jonathan Chait's Obama interview
Five Days That Shaped a Presidency:
"When I came into office, my working assumption was that because we were in crisis, and the crisis had begun on the Republicans’ watch, that there would be a window in which they would feel obliged to cooperate on a common effort to dig us out of this massive hole. Probably the moment in which I realized that the Republican leadership intended to take a different tack was actually as we were shaping the stimulus bill, and I vividly remember having prepared a basic proposal that had a variety of components. We had tax cuts; we had funding for the states so that teachers wouldn’t be laid off and firefighters and so forth; we had an infrastructure component. We felt, I think, that as an opening proposal, it was ambitious but needed and that we would begin negotiations with the Republicans and they would show us things that they thought also needed to happen. On the drive up to Capitol Hill to meet with the House Republican Caucus, John Boehner released a press statement saying that they were opposed to the stimulus. At that point we didn’t even actually have a stimulus bill drawn up, and we hadn’t meant to talk about it. And I think we realized at that point what proved to be the case in that first year and that second year was a calculation based on what turned out to be pretty smart politics but really bad for the country: If they cooperated with me, then that would validate our efforts. If they were able to maintain uniform opposition to whatever I proposed, that would send a signal to the public of gridlock, dysfunction, and that would help them win seats in the midterms. It was that second strategy that they pursued with great discipline. It established the dynamic for not just my presidency but for a much sharper party-line approach to managing both the House and the Senate that I think is going to have consequences for years to come."
E.J. Dionne Jr., Norm Ornstein, and Thomas E. Mann trace the rise of hyper-partisanship to Newt Gingrich in the late 1970s:
Tribalism, which cast members of the opposing party not as worthy adversaries but as dangerous enemies, swept that respect away. The change began with Newt Gingrich, who came to Congress in 1979 determined to nationalize congressional elections and convince voters that Washington was so dreadful and corrupt that anything would be an improvement over the status quo. When he recruited candidates, he offered them a language of partisan militancy. “You’re fighting a war,” Gingrich characteristically told a group of college Republicans in 1978. “It is a war for power. … Don’t try to educate. That is not your job. What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority.”
This is reminiscent of C.S. Lewis's account of a senior devil to his subordinate in The Screwtape Letters:
Above all, do not attempt to use science (I mean, the real sciences) as a defence.... They will positively encourage him to think about realities he can’t touch and see. There have been sad cases among the modern physicists. [T]he best of all is to let him read no science but to give him a grand general idea that he knows it all and that everything he happens to have picked up in casual talk and reading is “the results of modern investigation”. Do remember you are there to fuddle him. From the way some of you young fiends talk, anyone would suppose it was our job to teach!
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HomeTHE ECONOMYHand to Mouth: An Open Letter to the American Middle Class
Hand to Mouth: An Open Letter to the American Middle Class
April 25, 2017 Brian V. Lee THE ECONOMY
Linda Tirado’s 2014 book “Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America” is an open letter from the American poor to the middle class.
Tirado references a recent Princeton study that found that the American poor behave in less capable ways because poverty itself reduces cognitive capacity. The study concluded that “poverty-related concerns consume mental resources,” which decreases focus and concentration. That form of self-fulfilling, self-consumptive prophecy in turn also further perpetuates poverty.
While careful to note that Tirado speaks for herself alone, she anecdotally confirms the study’s results. Tirado has lived in poverty most of her adult life. And she has some salient advice for the middle class about how to make things easier on the American poor.
Living Hand to Mouth in America
Tirado notes that situations that are “simple annoyances” for people with money are “absolute crises” for everyone else. For the poor, a small money problem or miscalculation can lead to another and yet others. Suddenly, a “small” problem like a car repair can set off a Rube Goldberg device and now you’re late on the rent.
And Tirado is sick of taking advice from the middle class on how to survive poverty:
I once read a book for people in poverty, written by someone in the middle class, containing real-life tips for saving pennies and such. It’s all fantastic advice: Buy in bulk, buy a lot when there’s a sale, hand-wash everything you can, make sure you keep up on vehicle and indoor-filter maintenance.
Hand to Mouth, Linda Tirado (2014)
But all of these things cost money. It actually costs money to save money, as Tirado knows too well: “Let’s also talk about the ways in which money advice is geared only toward people who actually have money in the first place.”
Living on a financial edge for too long can lead anyone to feeling unstable, unpredictable. Tirado speaks to just how “impossible it is to keep your life from spiraling out of control when you have no financial cushion whatsoever.”
A salve to the desperation Tirado describes may be easier to administer than the problem first suggests. Tirado thinks the working poor seek foremost simply a modicum of mutual respect. She opposes “the sort of capitalism that sucks the life out of a whole bunch of the citizenry and then demands that they do better with whatever they have left.” The American working poor are, after all, doing the necessary grunt work to keep our economy moving along. “If we could just agree . . . that there is dignity in that too, we’d be able to make it less onerous.”
More plainly, Tirado tersely suggests to the middle class: “Stop being a dick to service workers whenever possible.”
The American Poor and the Fast Food Industry
Tirado worked in various capacities in the service industry. She knows what it’s like to work in a fast-food restaurant.
What I don’t understand is why people who walk into a fast-food restaurant often seem to think I should put on the same smile and elegant demeanor they could expect at Saks or the bank where they put their money. I think the sorts of people who honestly think that service workers should be more smiley and gracious just don’t get it. They don’t get it because they can take so much for granted in their own lives — things like respect, consideration, and basic fairness on the job. Benefits. Insurance.
They don’t understand how depressing it is to be barely managing your life at any given moment of the day. So forgive me if I don’t tell you to have a pleasant day with unfeigned enthusiasm when I hand you your fucking hamburger. You’ll have to settle for the fake sort.
Maybe feelings are something that only professional people are allowed to have.
Tirado asks us to acknowledge the “reality for millions of us, the people who are looking grumpy behind the counter. Our bodies hurt, our brains hurt, and our souls hurt. There’s rarely anything to smile about.” Tip your waiter.
Class Insecurity: We All Run the Risk of Living Hand to Mouth
In “Hand to Mouth,” Tirado paraphrases John Steinbeck: The American poor doesn’t really exist; only a entire population of temporarily embarrassed millionaires. Despite frequently intemperate rhetoric suggesting otherwise, the American poor don’t choose to be so. The so-called “welfare queen” dilemma has been repeatedly, statistically, and scientifically debunked. America’s trepidation toward its lower classes runs much deeper than the equitable notion of being taxed to pay for the benefits of other. It has to do with class insecurity.
A study by the Urban Institute found that over 60 percent of Americans between the ages of 25 and 60 will experience poverty at some point in their lives. And while many come out of it quickly, about 25 percent do not. The study also found that the longer you stay in poverty, the harder it is to get out.
Tirado’s missive recalls Paul Fussell’s 1983 sharp sizing-up of the middle class in his “Guide Through the American Status System.” Fussell finds in America an “exemplary fusion of insecurity and snobbery, the one propping up the other, to produce that delicate equilibrium which sustains the middle class.” We’re all afraid, in other words, of losing station. “If you find an American who feels entirely class-secure,” Fussell writes, “stuff and exhibit him. He’s a rare specimen.”
Our class insecurity is not ill-founded. We all, in fact, run the risk of living hand to mouth. We would do well to recognize the financially precarious conditions faced by millions of American families every day.
Hand to Mouth
Linda Tirado
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…Pictorialism crept in around the edges: a soft focus shot here, movement portrayed as a blur there. As long as it didn’t have a name or school, it didn’t draw the wrath of the straight photography purists.
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Interestingly, that precept is still alive and well. Except now people say “I don’t use photoshop” — “I don’t use filters” — “ I only shoot raw” — etc., etc., ad nauseum.
It’s all ego and opinion. Back then, and still now. Life is short. Pity we can’t just celebrate that people explore creative endeavors instead of looking down our noses at people who don’t do them “our” way.
Loved the photos along the way — thanks!
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EPIC SBC supports 1080p video, dual displays
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Karn Elsley pleaded guilty in the Maroochydore District Court on Monday.
Mum wrestles knife off son after he slashes brother
lucy rutherford
3rd Aug 2020 2:30 PM
A man who escalated a fight with his brother by slashing his leg with a kitchen knife has improved since taking medication, a court has heard.
Maroochydore District Court heard an argument between Karn William Elsley, 22, and his younger brother, 19 escalated when Elsley grabbed a kitchen knife.
Crown prosecutor Christopher Cook told the court the altercation happened at their mother’s house on June 19 last year.
“This culminated in the defendant getting a knife from the kitchen and then he swung it and it hit his brother’s left thigh,” he said.
“The knife was then wrestled off the defendant by their mother.”
Mr Cook told the court the victim was taken to the Sunshine Coast University Hospital for his injuries.
The court heard that the victim had a 4-5cm deep wound from the knife which was washed out and closed with four stitches.
“Of course, the aggravating features are that he's escalated an argument by the introduction of a weapon,” Mr Cook said.
Mr Cook told the court Elsley had been very cooperative with police and made full admissions.
The court heard Elsley’s brother was reluctant to make a complaint to police but his victim impact statement revealed that while the incident had a negative impact on him, he had sympathy towards his brother.
Elsley pleaded guilty to unlawful wounding in the Maroochydore District Court on Monday.
Elsley’s barrister Mark Dixon told the court at the time of the offence Elsley had not been taking his medication for schizophrenia.
“The wound itself has been described as superficial,” he said.
“His admissions show right from the outset he was very remorseful for what had happened.”
The court heard Elsley had resumed taking medication for his mental health issues.
“He describes it as ‘life changing’ and his mother acknowledges that he is a completely different person now than what he was at the time these offences occurred,” Mr Dixon said.
“He exhibits a great deal of insight in relation to the need for medication and the need for ongoing treatment to ensure he doesn’t return to a state where he’s likely to be involved in offending again.”
Mr Cook said Elsley recognised his behaviour was “appalling” and he had no intention of returning to it.
Judge Glen Cash said he took into account that Elsley had made significant improvement since being back on medication.
“Luckily for the both of you it seems to have been only a minor injury,” he said.
“I say luckily for both of you because obviously it would have been a terrible thing for your brother to have been seriously injured but also with a more serious injury, it’s very much more likely that you’d be going to jail today.
“The fact you grabbed a knife and caused an injury is of course, extremely serious.”
Mr Cash said he wanted to give Elsley the chance to rehabilitate.
He sentenced Elsley to 18 months’ jail, wholly suspended for 18 months.
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One by one, bars get tapped out
Ari Mlnarik , left, served a beer Tuesday at the Ugly Mug, a bar in downtown Minneapolis. Erik Forsberg, the bar’s owner, said the state-issued card needed to buy liquor has expired and “our inventories are diminishing rapidly over the next month.”
— Leah Millis, Star Tribune
By ERIC ROPER , Star Tribune
July 12, 2011 - 10:58 PM
Hundreds of bars, restaurants and stores across Minnesota are running out of beer and alcohol and others may soon run out of cigarettes -- a subtle and largely unforeseen consequence of a state government shutdown.
In the days leading up to the shutdown, thousands of outlets scrambled to renew their state-issued liquor purchasing cards. Many of them did not make it.
Now, with no end in sight to the shutdown, they face a summer of fast-dwindling alcohol supplies and a bottom line that looks increasingly bleak.
"It's going to cripple our industry," said Frank Ball, executive director of the Minnesota Licensed Beverage Association, which represents thousands of liquor retailers in the state.
The Ugly Mug, a popular bar near Target Field, doesn't have enough beer to get through the baseball season.
"Our inventories are diminishing rapidly over the next month," owner Erik Forsberg said. He was among a cluster of bar and restaurant owners who appealed Tuesday to a court-appointed special master to be allowed to continue buying alcohol during the shutdown. "When [the Twins are] back on Thursday and people can't get Budweiser and they can't get whatever, they're just going to go somewhere else."
Come Labor Day, cigarette smokers will be in the same bind.
The state has stopped issuing the tax stamps that distributors must glue to the bottom of every pack before it's sold for retail.
When Ross Amundson, owner of M. Amundson Cigar & Candy Company in Bloomington, saw the shutdown coming, he shelled out more than $2 million to buy tax stamps that he hopes will last until mid-August. But with no legislative agreement in sight, he's worried about what comes next.
"We've been in business for 70 years," Amundson said. "My family started it. And all of a sudden this whole thing is going to screw us over? What happens to these retailers that we cover?"
Tom Briant, executive director of the Minnesota Wholesale Marketers Association, said that "in September is when we would expect to see a shortage of cigarettes begin."
Problem will spread
Of the roughly 10,000 establishments that sell liquor in Minnesota, most of those who needed to renew their buyer purchasing cards managed to do so before the July 1 shutdown started. About 300 were caught with cards that expired on June 30 and no way to renew the permits.
That number will grow to 425 by the end of the month, according to state officials, and grow as more cards expire at random intervals.
"It's definitely going to get worse," said Jim Arlt, director of alcohol and gambling enforcement for the Department of Public Safety. "There will be more and more businesses affected." The alcohol regulation side of Arlt's office was laid off during the shutdown.
Trevor Berg, owner of Hoss' All American Liquors in Walker, Minn., says his card expires this weekend. He plans to stockpile as much as he can before then, hoping it will last until mid-August -- or until the budget stalemate ends.
"This is going to treadmill across the whole state the longer they hold out," Berg said, referring to the Republican legislative leaders and DFL Gov. Mark Dayton. "It's going to hit every bar and restaurant that needs a liquor license."
Surdyk's and Haskell's, two of the largest liquor store operations in the Twin Cities, said they will not be affected until their cards expire later this year.
On top of those businesses with expired Buyer's Cards, another 116 cannot buy new liquor because they owe delinquent taxes. They cannot be removed from the tax delinquency list until after the shutdown.
Briant said that commerce in cigarettes "would end, essentially" if the impasse continues. The impact on retailers, he said, could be devastating.
The state also would stand to lose millions of dollars in taxes that come through alcohol and cigarette sales, further diminishing already anemic revenues.
Sen. John Howe, R-Red Wing, is concerned enough that on Tuesday he even advocated for Dayton using his executive powers to allow alcohol sales to continue.
"The governor keeps insisting he wants more revenue, but if he doesn't instruct his administration to address this issue, he'll be chasing revenue out of the state," Howe said in a statement. Howe said Dayton could use his executive authority to order that the cards remain valid until the shutdown is resolved.
Meanwhile, budget negotiations on Tuesday remained at a standstill. No meetings transpired, and no offers were traded. Dayton left St. Paul to press his case for more revenue in St. Cloud, while Republican lawmakers dodged questions about whether they were going to present their first budget offer since the shutdown began.
"The biggest frustration I'm having is that it doesn't seem like there's any progress," said Forsberg, owner of Ugly Mug. "Nobody seems to be talking to each other."
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Egyptian Oedipus: Athanasius Kircher and the Secrets of Antiquity
by Daniel Stolzenberg.
Chicago, 307 pp., £35, April 2013, 978 0 226 92414 4Show More
Exploring the Kingdom of Saturn: Kircher’s Latium and Its Legacy
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Even in the middle years of the 17th century, when Athanasius Kircher’s career reached its peak, nobody knew exactly what to make of him. Descartes, who described him as ‘more charlatan than scholar’, classed his enormous erudite books among the many that he refused on principle to read. John Evelyn, visiting Rome in 1644, was impressed when ‘with Dutch patience, he showed us his perpetual motions, catoptrics, magnetical experiments, models, and a thousand other crotchets and devices.’ He predicted that in a forthcoming book on obelisks Kircher would publish ‘all the recondite and abstruse learning’ of the Egyptians, and sent him a drawing of the hieroglyphs inscribed on an Egyptian stone, ‘with the true dimensions’. Eleven years later, though, when Evelyn met Archbishop Usher, he recorded his learned compatriot’s view that ‘Kircher was a mountebank.’ Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc helped Kircher find preferment in Rome and gain access to the great collections and libraries. From their first contact, however, Peiresc was puzzled by his brilliant young German friend’s careless streak. Kircher had devised an elegant interpretation of some of the hieroglyphs on the obelisk by the Lateran Basilica, but could only confess his embarrassment when Peiresc pointed out that he had worked from the wrong engraving, a fanciful one, instead of the accurate image that appeared in the same book. Peiresc, who never quite withdrew his support, spent years gnashing his teeth over similar episodes.
Kircher carried carelessness to the point where it looks like something worse. He never managed to produce the great Egyptological treasure that had won Peiresc’s interest: a treatise on the hieroglyphs in Arabic by an author whose name mutated over time, in Kircher’s references, from Rabbi Barachias Nephi to Abenephius. The bits Kircher quoted were largely derivative, their style crude, and no subsequent researcher has turned up the actual book. Daniel Stolzenberg, a historian (and historian of science) at Davis, gives good reasons for believing that Kircher did not invent it wholesale, but the possibility remains. Even fellow Jesuits who read and censored his massive books complained about his sloppy references and wild hypotheses – as well as his refusal to make more than surface changes in response to their criticisms. Kircher devoted much of his late autobiography to complaining about the critics who had slandered him. He may have been a little paranoid, but he had real enemies. More would spring up after his death, including the 18th-century Dutch and German scholars who told stories late at night, as pipes were smoked and liqueurs drunk, of the jokers who had fooled Kircher by creating a fake Egyptian object, looking on with delight as he rushed to explain the hieroglyphs. Did he truly belong to the Republic of Letters, or was he a charlatan who secretly defied its rules of honourable intellectual inquiry? Even those who knew him weren’t sure.
Yet Kircher enjoyed enormous prestige, and it’s easy to see why. His superiors in the Jesuit order never allowed him to go hunting for literary treasures in North Africa or China, but he still became one of the great adventurers of an adventurous age. Nothing natural or human, it seemed, was alien to him. Born in central Germany, he barely escaped the horrors of the Thirty Years’ War, but after he obtained a post in Avignon in 1631 and found his way to Peiresc, he prospered. His charm won over the good and the great, from the Barberini family to Queen Christina of Sweden, and he made a rapid ascent of the greasy pole of precedence in the world of letters. He went spelunking in the crater of Mount Vesuvius; explored ancient Egyptian science, technology and magic; reconstructed ancient devices such as the flying model dove of Archytas, the Tarentine philosopher, and built astonishing modern ones, including the sunflower clock, a timekeeping device powered entirely by the sun. On a more ambitious scale he accepted the Copernican system and speculated daringly that diseases might be spread by tiny creatures.
As trade routes girdled the globe and Catholic missionaries preached everywhere from the rice paddies of China to the Andean cities of Peru, Kircher went global, though his life remained local. Even when constrained to stay in Rome, he consoled himself by remembering that the land occupied by the Jesuits’ Collegio Romano had once belonged to the Roman Temple of Isis, and by examining the manuscripts in many languages and specimens of plants and animals that merchants, travellers and fellow Jesuits sent or brought to him. He assembled massive, magnificent books on obelisks and hieroglyphs, ancient Babylon and contemporary China, which the Amsterdam printers published in style and turned into bestsellers. He took physical journeys into the land of baths and villas near Rome, surveying the ruins and the topography of Latium for one of his books, and mental journeys into the heavens, on which he was accompanied by an angel who looked strikingly like his assistant, Kaspar Schott. He built up a splendid museum, which every well-informed Grand Tourist had to visit. Ancient artefacts and articulated skeletons, models of the obelisks and a preserved armadillo with puffy, curling lips – the same one whose stone effigy adorns the Fountain of the Four Rivers in the Piazza Navona – taught them to appreciate the marvellous energy and ingenuity of nature and human artisans alike. Above all, he had fun. The cosmopolitan Kircher not only enjoyed playing football against the narrow-minded Dominicans: he also helped Bernini design and place the monumental obelisk-bearing elephant at Santa Maria sopra Minerva, which points its bottom at what was then a Dominican residence and bends its trunk in an obscene gesture directed at the same target.
Rome was a powerhouse of architecture and urbanism in Kircher’s heyday, the middle years of the 17th century. The popes had lost much of their political and military power, as Innocent X saw in 1648, when the Catholic powers signed the treaty of Münster, which he denounced as iniquitous. But in the realm of culture Rome remained the centre of the world. Churches soared, stone saints swooned in ecstasy and piazzas of many different shapes offered stunning public stages for buskers, tourists and the local aristos, who whizzed through them in their carriages. Kircher’s hand lay heavy on the city’s ever-changing fabric. He advised Bernini on the Piazza Navona fountain as well as the elephant, and these spectacular creations reflected his theories as well as his taste. Look into the stony mass on which animals and river gods tumble in the Piazza Navona, and you glimpse an underground world where fiery energy plays – the very world that Kircher studied in his full-length treatise, Mundus subterraneus. As in Kircher’s museum, so in the city outside it, art and science, nature and creation were constantly linked. Even today the ‘living statues’ hoping for money from the tourists in the Piazza Navona feel they are doing something appropriate in this magical place.
Many scholars before Stolzenberg have studied Kircher’s work on Egyptian hieroglyphs and obelisks. Most have found it easy to mock the elaborate structures of interpretation he contrived every time he glimpsed an image of a bee, or a snake biting its own tail. They have shown that Kircher was in thrall to ancient Neoplatonic tradition and misunderstood the hieroglyphs as a symbolic language, in which every image worked more profoundly and directly than alphabetical language could. He mistook the dialogues of Hermes Trismegistus, a supposed ancient sage who explained the mysteries of cosmos and creation, for translations from inscriptions of deep antiquity, and used them as a key to the hieroglyphs. They were actually written in Greek, not Egyptian, and in the Christian era, not under the ancient dynasties of the pharaohs, as Isaac Casaubon, the Huguenot Hellenist, had demonstrated with depressing finality much earlier, in 1614. Kircher was oblivious: he never realised that genuine obelisks had stood at royal tombs, or that their inscriptions commemorated rulers. Instead, he read the inscriptions on the obelisks Roman emperors had floated to Rome, or that local imitators carved, as complex presentations of Egyptian natural and moral philosophy. By the time they appeared, these speculative interpretations were past their philological sell-by date.
Kircher’s theories were doomed from the outset. He took up the study of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs after a chance encounter in a college library with a collection of images, probably the Thesaurus hieroglyphicorum published in 1610 by Herwart von Hohenburg, the chancellor of Bavaria. Herwart had done more than assemble illustrations of obelisks and intersperse them with other visionary images: he had interpreted them. Ancient myths, he argued, encoded the global travels of the ancients – especially the triennial voyages with which Solomon’s fleets had fetched home the gold of Ophir, known in Herwart’s time as Peru. Every mythical conveyance – such as Pegasus, the winged horse of Bellerophon – stood for a real ship. And every mythical object with a point – such as the spears of the Greeks at Troy – represented one of the real lodestones by which Solomon’s pilots plotted their courses. Using this dazzlingly original Key to All Mythologies, Herwart reconfigured the entire history of the ancient world. To refine his new chronology he tried to enlist the help of Johannes Kepler, whom he asked to fix the dates of the Homeric poems on the assumption that the love affairs and tiffs of the gods were actually celestial conjunctions and oppositions, the times and days of which a skilled astronomer could determine (Kepler balked). Though Kircher plunged far deeper into Egyptian traditions, his approach resembled Herwart’s. He too argued that the ruined hieroglyphs and fragmentary texts which preserved Egyptian wisdom could be decoded, to reveal a story about the movement of ideas.
Ancient wisdom, revealed to Adam and the other patriarchs, had inspired the rulers of Egypt before the Flood – a lineage of erudite and powerful natural magicians. The original Hermes, who lived in their time, built the first pyramids, which were levelled by the Flood. But a cult of black magic and idolatry, created by Cain, had superseded the true Adamic tradition. After the Flood, Ham, Noah’s evil son, combined the two traditions into a corrupt form of the ancient philosophy, which he taught to his children. They took it with them into the nations they founded. Centuries later, in the age of Abraham, a second Hermes recovered the fragments of the true ancient religion. He invented a new form of writing, the hieroglyphs, with which he hoped to preserve the ancient wisdom while keeping ordinary, ignorant people from profaning it further. And he devised the obelisk as a durable, practical medium on which he inscribed them. For Kircher that explained why the obelisks should be read as a record of the true Egyptian theology, as the creators of Greek philosophy had read them when they visited Egypt.
In tracing this Eastern genealogy of wisdom, Kircher continued a tradition founded in late antiquity, preserved in Byzantium and brilliantly developed by Marsilio Ficino and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola in the 15th century. But Kircher lived in an age dominated by Bacon, Descartes and Galileo, who believed that the moderns had already surpassed the ancients and would do so again in the future. On this view Kircher was yelling ‘get a horse’ at the first motorists or evoking the richness of face to face teaching in the age of MOOCs. Or so many of his later readers argued, as they stabbed his book with their bent nibs. William Warburton, who saw hieroglyphs as a primitive rather than profound form of writing, found it ‘pleasant’ to watch Kircher ‘labouring through half a dozen folios with the writings of late Greek Platonists, and the forged books of Hermes, which contain a philosophy, not Egyptian, to explain and illustrate old monuments, not philosophical’.
Shortly after the Second World War, Herbert Butterfield argued that scholars must learn to ‘put on a different kind of thinking-cap’ before they try to understand, for example, why Aristotle explained motion and fall as he did. Historians of science have now grasped that it is pointless to condemn past thinkers for what now seem obvious mistakes, and more rewarding to tease out the assumptions that make sense of what looks like nonsense to us. In recent years, gifted historians such as Ingrid Rowland and Eugenio Lo Sardo have applied this approach to Kircher. They have argued that he was not a reactionary dinosaur, vainly gnashing his teeth as clever little Cartesian raptors ran rings around him, but an up-to-date natural philosopher whose fame was in keeping with his accomplishments. Egyptian Oedipus brings a similar perspective to the history of learning – the only term broad enough to encompass all the forms of knowledge about the past Kircher pursued. The results are extraordinary: Kircher, the figure of fun, emerges from Stolzenberg’s impressive analysis as a serious scholar, whose work appealed to many of his contemporaries.
Stolzenberg places Kircher in a recognised discipline and a real social world. The 17th century was the heyday of antiquarianism: a new brand of historical scholarship, whose practitioners set out to reconstruct ancient rituals and beliefs. They studied the material evidence of coins and inscriptions, buildings and works of art as well as written texts, and turned themselves into connoisseurs of everything from granite and marble to parchment and script. In the city of Rome, antiquarians were surrounded by technical puzzles of the sort that still fascinate archaeologists and ancient historians: how to collate the evidence of Roman inscriptions with that of Latin historians, for example, and what to do when they disagreed. They were also faced with a pullulating mass of coins and bas-reliefs, diptychs and obelisks, covered with sculpted figures that required interpretation.
Most antiquarians took on both tasks, and delighted as much in hermeneutical adventures as they did in archaeological ones. Some, like the Paduan Lorenzo Pignoria, refused to float the sorts of allegorical readings Kircher loved, but used other methods, which look no more credible today. A euhemerist, Pignoria thought he could tease out the forgotten historical facts, rather than the hidden doctrines, that underlay ancient myths. The antiquarians, in other words, were the ancestors of modern scholarship in its grimmest, most positivist mode – but also of Romantic scholarship in its most colourful and speculative forms. Kircher found the Roman obelisks fascinating both as objects that could be studied in gritty detail in their material presence and as texts that could be read in the light of a millennial tradition. For Stolzenberg, he exemplifies the tensions and contradictions of the antiquarian.
Kircher was fascinated by reports, medieval and modern as well as ancient, about the ideas and powers of the Egyptians, and his vast tomes on the obelisks gradually mutated into something like encyclopedias of information and misinformation on Egyptian science and magic. Much of the material he collected was not new: a good bit came from Muslim writers who imagined ancient Egypt in the spirit of The Magic Flute. But the point of his enterprise – as Stolzenberg argues with great force – was not philosophical or magical, but historical. As newly discovered facts collided with old systems of ideas – as the exploration of Africa, the Indian Ocean and the New World dismantled traditional geography, and Galileo’s telescope dismantled traditional cosmology – the world of learning underwent dramatic shifts. One effort to find a firm place to stand – a collective project that appealed to Bacon and erudite men like Kircher (though not to Descartes) – was called historia litteraria (the history of letters, or culture). Its practitioners inquired systematically about what the ancients had known and how it compared to what the moderns knew. Had Egyptian engineers possessed practical powers now lost, technological secrets now forgotten? Had Egyptian literature embodied genuine truths of philosophy and theology? Could the ancients have known, and concealed, the true contours of the surface of the earth and the true nature of the heavens? Kircher’s effort to trace the whole genealogy of learning was only one of many efforts to recreate the arcs of literary and philosophical history in the hope of answering questions like these – and providing a new foundation for university teaching and study.
Seeing Kircher first and foremost as a scholar and antiquary has several advantages. Stolzenberg shows us that many other scholars who have never been seen as figures of fun hurled themselves into similar quests. Even the sober Isaac Casaubon, half a century before Kircher, had hoped to travel to the Middle East in order to acquire texts in Arabic that contained treasures of lost ancient wisdom. By Kircher’s time, the Church’s missionary efforts were bringing manuscripts of many kinds – and, in some cases, native experts who could read them – back to Rome, where European scholars competed to exploit and publish them. These efforts were not confined to Catholic lands. In Leiden, one of the intellectual citadels of Reformed Protestantism, the Scaliger bequest – a rich collection of Oriental manuscripts, which kept growing after its donor’s death – was a magnet for scholars. In London and Paris, Oxford and Cambridge, the collections of Eastern manuscripts grew, and hopes of enlightenment flickered bright. Across Europe, in other words, scholars believed that they might discover secrets of great power – the secrets of alchemy, for example, by which they meant the serious art of metallic crystal ‘chymistry’ practised by Boyle and Newton – not only on the benches in their laboratories, but also in ancient manuscripts. Kircher, a seeker of ancient wisdom and lord of a modern museum that bulged with esoteric texts and curious machines, is right at the centre of the intellectual world that Stolzenberg recreates, its hopeful gaze turned backwards as often as forwards.
Stolzenberg illuminates Kircher’s scholarly practices, detail by gritty detail, and shows that it wasn’t always a case of ‘fake it till you make it.’ For his readings of the hieroglyphs, Kircher drew on genuine Arabic and Hebrew sources. He even annotated a manuscript of the Pardes Rimmonim (Garden of Pomegranates) by the 16th-century Safed Kabbalist Moses Cordovero. When Cordovero used the numerical values of Hebrew letters as keys to their meaning, Kircher followed him in the margin, number by number. His ‘combinatorial method’, equally painstaking, involved surrounding each symbol in turn with a dense cloud of quotations from multiple sources – the only materials that could imperfectly but accurately bring out the meaning of a symbol that directly expressed a profound truth. In the 16th and 17th centuries, scholars, poets and courtiers loved to compose and decipher emblems and imprese, fashionable combinations of text and image. Some inventors of emblems thought, wrongly, that they were recreating Egyptian hieroglyphs. In some of his most arresting and cogent pages, Stolzenberg argues that Kircher learned from the emblematists to hatch his own Romantic, albeit wrong, recreations of Egyptian philosophy.
He takes pains to show that Kircher made genuine discoveries, such as the fact that the Coptic language derived from ancient Egyptian and could yield up information about it. But he also treated texts that other scholars, like Casaubon, had shown to be fake or at least highly problematic, as authoritative. He knew the rules of humanist philology and could play the critical game. As early as 1635, he wrote to Peiresc to thank him for warning him ‘concerning the careful use of citation and concerning the accurate demonstration of authorities’. In the end, though, what he offered in response to Casaubon and other critics was not a refutation of their textual analyses but an argument from authority. The texts he relied on, he maintained, had been ‘accepted by everyone, from so many centuries ago until these times’ and had accrued what he defined as a ‘moral’ authority. To attack them was to prefer a corrosive scepticism to reading rigorously. He pointed out that he could use the critics’ own methods to ‘attack and reject the Pythagoreans, Platonists, and the writings of all the ancients, indeed Holy Scripture itself, and the books of all good authors. This presumption and hateful audacity is intolerable to both God and men.’
Kircher was not a blind reactionary. Like the British Orientalist John Selden, he compared his own historical discoveries to the scientific finds of the ‘lynx-eyed astronomers’ of his time: Galileo and others whose research transformed the traditional picture of the world. When he discussed problems of biblical chronology and other hot but not dogmatically dangerous topics, he pushed at the limits of Catholic orthodoxy. But when it came to fundamentals, he accepted the principles of the Counter-Reformation. Against the humanist appeal to history and textual correctness, he supported the Catholic appeal to tradition and authority even as he sketched arabesques around it. The religious authorities were right to tolerate this distinctive and original thinker, who regularly annoyed them and entertained Protestant visitors with such courtesy. In the end, he and they were on the same side.
Kircher also dedicated himself to the sources for ancient Latium, the area of west central Italy that surrounded Rome. In Exploring the Kingdom of Saturn, Harry Evans, an expert on Ancient Rome’s water supplies, follows him around the lakes and rivers, villas and towns of Latium. Passages from Kircher’s works, beautifully translated, and clearly reproduced maps and illustrations enable us once again to watch Kircher at work. Evans is lucid and appreciative: his Kircher, like Stolzenberg’s, was a serious researcher, who measured distances as he walked the roads and sounded the lakes in the Alban hills to find out how deep they were and whether they could supply warm water for baths. Like Stolzenberg’s Kircher, he did not always make scrupulous distinctions between sources he had found quoted in the work of later scholars and sources he had read himself. He also recycled descriptions and maps even when he claimed to have seen the places in question – and when they contained errors. Evans, in other words, discovers patterns of scholarly practice and radical inconsistency very similar to those that Stolzenberg reconstructs. But he finds them in a book of a very different kind: a monographic study of a single region rather than a comprehensive history of ancient culture, and one in which the defence of tradition need not have played such a central role as it did for Egypt. How did Kircher explain his practices to himself?
Antiquaries, as Peter Miller has pointed out, often resemble W.G. Sebald in their melancholy obsession with time past. Kircher certainly did. Again and again, he meditated on the inevitable damage done by time, the distance between what he could see and what had once been there: ‘Time and decay that eat away everything so alter, change and rework, not only the entire earth, but most of all particular places, so that nothing can long stand in its original spot.’ Buildings, fields, rivers: all were endlessly mutable. The antiquary could never hope to find an ancient temple or grave in its original state, and the drama of his calling was organically connected to his primal sense of loss. At least once, Kircher described his approach to the ancient hieroglyphs as ‘divinatory’ – normally, in his day, a term for the sort of knowledge obtained by divine or diabolic inspiration. His assistant Schott vividly described what the boss might have had in mind. One day, when Kircher was looking at an Egyptian object (actually a Roman knock-off), ‘so clear and uncommon a light appeared to him (as he reported to me) that by a single precise intuition he thereupon clearly knew the whole mystery.’ In his autobiography, Kircher recalled how similar inspirations had revealed not only the meaning of the inscriptions on the Roman obelisks, but the nature of the designs on their buried sides, which he grasped before they were fully excavated.
Historians, my teacher Eric Cochrane used to say, can’t know much about mystics, since historians work inside time and space while mystics escape both. But like the clerical authorities, we can recognise a mystic when we see one. Perhaps we can identify Kircher as a mystical historian and philologist – one who realised that he could not cross the abyss that separated the present from the past by reading texts and grubbing in ruins. And perhaps that realisation set him on a different path: the kind of swooping, dramatic ascent that brought other mystics to their union with the divine. If so, we can begin to understand why Kircher knew so certainly that he was right, while the scholars who depended on mere reason and argument were wrong. He had been there. We can even guess how he made the journey. As part of their discipline, Jesuits learned from the Spiritual Exercises of their founder, Ignatius of Loyola, to practise ‘composition of place’. They visualised in detail the scene of Christ’s crucifixion or the damned suffering in hell, smoke, stench and all, and drew spiritual profit from conversing with and contemplating the figures represented in these images. When Kircher recreated fantastic ancient cities and temples, in Egypt and in Latium, he could have been using this characteristic method, which Jesuits mastered before they became full members of the order. By applying a standard devotional technique in this characteristically original way, he could for a time assuage his antiquarian’s sense of loss.
Mystics make excellent saints and terrific directors of hospitals, but they should probably stay away from the messy, contingent world of history. Historians have long known the pain of loss and felt the inadequacy of what remains. Yet even in Kircher’s time, most of them got over it. Perhaps the roots of Kircher’s brilliant failure as a scholar lay in his effort to pursue two incompatible paths at the same time. The mystical antiquarian could not be true to both his selves: he was a living oxymoron. It is the measure of Stolzenberg’s achievement that he makes us feel the passion and understand the arguments that led Kircher to try.
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Richard (bass) : I play guitar in Nine Eleven.
Severin (drums) : I had a grind band, Crash Victim Cannibalism and Cromwell O (screamo) but these times I only play in Løvve.
At the beginning nothing was decided about the style of music, we have evolved in this direction due to Severin’s drumming, quite grind/fast, but anyway we were about to do fast music because none of us played this particular style before…
It’s a strong start for you, in one year you did two tours and one album, where was that ? how was that ?
It happened very fastly but it wasn’t premeditated even if we wanted to record quickly to be able to go on tour with an album. Moreover with four people almost jobless in the band, it’s easier to do it with no loss of time. Everything went well then, we booked week-ends in France and a tour last september in Europe (Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, France).
It was awesome, promoters, places, people who went to the shows… The welcoming was always perfect and moreover we sold a lot of cds : it’s great as a new band.
Did you planned to start as strong as this or did it came to you naturally ? What are your next plans ?
We didn’t planned it, but we all know, with our experience, that a band’s life always goes really fast so we acted quickly rather than letting things drag on. About what’s next, we’ll have 3 big week-ends in march, then a tour at the end of May with Nine Eleven (Spain, Portugal), then a twenty days tour in eastern Europe with Verbal Razors and Heavy Heart from Nantes.
Can you tell us more about the labels involved in the co-producion of your album ?
For the release of the album, it was Dirty Guys Rock from Tours. He’s a friend of us who set up this label, and he proposed us to release us. Then there’s also Kalvaire Rcds who proposed us to participate to the co-production and finally Dingleberry Rcds in Germany.
Last but not least, how the “scene” going on in Tours ?
The scene in Tours goes very well. Since few years, there’s gigs around very often.
We figure it out that in France there’s a lot of microcosms in our different cities and that everyone is acting in his own way, and even has his own style of music sometimes. Everyone get involved, I mean we help each other to play in our towns and it participates to keep this scene alive. We realize that people doesn’t really know this town and that they think it’s a “dead town” but there’s more and more pubs with live music, so now it’s almost one gig each night ! There’s also more and more promoters, so we don’t have to complain.
Do you have band names that you like very much and people should know ?
Yep, there’s Pneu, Jarod, Real Deal, Le Kyma, La Grauss Boutique, Ultra Panda, Rodinal, Ubikande, Crackhouse… the list could be longer…
(Translated by Wuul & Nik)
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Longfellow Area Neighborhood Association Roslindale Neighborhood Information
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Welcome to the online home of the Longfellow Area Neighborhood Association, located in the Roslindale section of Boston, Massachusetts. Fondly known as LANA, the association meets in odd-numbered months on the 2nd Monday of the month from 7:00 – 9:00 pm. Meetings are open to the public and are held in the community room of the Longfellow House, at 885 South Street.
The Longfellow Area is the section of Roslindale north of the MBTA commuter rail tracks. Its borders are roughly:
The commuter rail tracks to the south
Centre Street to the north
The Arnold Arboretum to the north and east
2020-2021 Board of Directors:
LANA is managed by a board composed of neighborhood residents elected annually by the membership:
President Kathleen “Kathy” Mccabe
Clerk Rachel Young
Assistant Clerk Sue Forti
Treasurer Sue Forti
Assistant Treasurer Joe DeMasi
Directors Wayne Beitler
Susan DiMatteo
Jonna Ionaco
Julia O’Brien
Pauri Pandian
Raffi Sulkovitz
Hillary Sullivan
David Wean
The Longfellow Area Neighborhood Association serves the northwest quadrant of Roslindale. Residents from the LANA neighborhood initially organized in 1989 to work on the redevelopment of the vacant Longfellow School building located in the heart of our neighborhood. After many years of successfully working together, LANA was formed as a non-profit corporation in 1995.
In addition to leading the redevelopment of Longfellow House, LANA has helped lead Roslindale’s master planning and rezoning project, worked for three years to secure a 6 ½-acre long-term open space deed restriction in return for Harvard moving ahead with building a new Arboretum-related facility on a 14-acre parcel in our neighborhood at Weld Hill, worked with our neighbors and local police to improve public safety and security, conserved more than 20 undeveloped parcels around the Roslindale Wetlands urban wild for wildlife habitat and public open space, and helps sponsor neighborhood events such as multi-family yard sales, block parties, and the annual Roslindale Day Parade.
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A Short History of Hockey in the Manning
Hockey was in the Manning Area before the Second World war when teams from Taree traveled to play teams from other towns. After the war representative teams were selected togo away and play hockey against teams from Coffs Harbour, Grafton, Kempsey and Port Macquarie. The first report of hockey matches matches was in the Manning River Times in 1953.
Manning Valley Mens Hockey Association formed in 1951. The first teams that competed with four teams; Chatham, Tigers, Pioneers and CYO and played matches at Taree Park where hockey shared it with Rugby League and later at Wingham and Chatham.
Manning Valley Ladies Club also was formed in 1951 and then changed their name to Manning Valley Womens Hockey Association in 1953. Manning Valley Junior Boys Hockey Association formed in 1958 and Manning Valley Junior Womens Hockey Association formed in 1966.
These associations controlled their own competitions until 1988 and then amalgamated to become the MVHA Inc. This association was formed to allow for the construction of the first synthetic field in Taree and was one of only three in NSW. (Tamworth, Liverpool and Taree). Hockey was played at the Taree Racecourse and then was redeveloped as the Taree Recreation Centre in 1966 initially to host the 1966 Under 16 Boys State Championships.
The Alan Taylor Field sand filled surface was opened 1988 and resurfaced as a Hybrid field in 2010. The Terry Launders Field followed and was opened 1999,the completion of the Clubhouse was in 2010 and the third Hybrid field was completed in 2018.
The Manning Valley Hockey Association has a proud history and has produced wonderful players many who have represented at all levels including Australia and NSW.
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Fla. agency under fire for death in toxic truck
For four days, Florida child welfare investigators searched for missing 10-year-old twins. They made home and school visits, called the children's father on his cell phone, talked to their mothe...
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – For four days, Florida child welfare investigators searched for missing 10-year-old twins. They made home and school visits, called the children's father on his cell phone, talked to their mother and contacted relatives.
Now, agency officials are being slammed for one call they didn't make: They never reached out to police.
By the time police were notified, the little girl, Nubia, was dead, wrapped in plastic bags in the back of her father's exterminator truck parked alongside Interstate 95. Her brother, Victor, was in the front seat, coated in a toxic chemical with critical burns.
Their father was nearby on the ground, unresponsive and doused in gasoline in what he later told police was a futile attempt to kill himself.
Her death has reignited criticism against the state Department of Children and Families, an agency that overhauled its system a decade ago after a foster child was missing for more than a year before anyone realized.
A judge slammed investigators this week for not thoroughly working the recent case, and officials have called for an outside review.
Meanwhile, authorities focused their attention on the couple. Carmen and Jorge Barahona's home was considered a crime scene and said late Thursday it was serving a warrant to search the house. as authorities investigate claims the couple starved their 10-year-old daughter and locked her and her brother in the bathroom with their feet and hands tied as punishment. It's unclear how Nubia died, or how long she had been dead before her badly decomposing body was found Monday.
The couple, who adopted the twins from foster care in 2008, have been the focus of three abuse allegations in the past few years, but the agency said they were unfounded. State officials said the Barahona's home visits and other documents were "stellar."
Jorge Barahona, 53, appeared in court Thursday, charged with aggravated child abuse for dousing the boy with the chemical and loading his dead daughter in the back of his exterminator truck. Later Thursday he was charged with attempted murder. He was held on $1 million bond and ordered to undergo a mental health evaluation.
When Barahona was told to get ready for the hearing, he tried to injure his head and became uncooperative, authorities said. The judge decided he didn't have to come to the hearing, and the father was later taken to a hospital for observation before returning to jail.
Victor is in critical condition. Doctors are unsure of what chemical caused his burns, most of which were below the waist.
Child welfare officials tried to deflect claims they missed opportunities at several turns, looking for the twins in vain for days without alerting local police. DCF first started looking for the twins on Feb. 10 after someone called the abuse hotline, saying the children were being tied and kept in the bathroom.
Child investigators called and visited the Barahonas' home that day but no one was home. The next morning, investigators learned the children had been removed from school and were being home-schooled.
Investigator Andrea Fleary then went to the home Friday night, but Carmen Barahona said that she was separated from her husband and didn't know where he or the twins were. Officials now believe she was covering for him and expect charges will be filed against her.
Fleary said she did not interview the couple's two other adopted children at the home because it was 9 p.m. on a Friday night.
On Saturday, DCF officials unsuccessfully tried to call Jorge Barahona on his cell phone. The mother told another investigator that day that her husband had the children and that she did not know their whereabouts — while Jorge had told a relative who spoke with investigators that the children were with their mother.
The conflicting stories created enough concern for DCF to call police after four days of searching, southern regional director Jacqui Colyer said. Nubia was already dead by then.
An autopsy was done, officials said, but detectives were reviewing the report and had not yet released details. Child welfare officials said Jorge Barahona admitted to starving the girl.
Colyer said investigators worked the case every day, and one even sat for hours waiting to speak with the parents outside the Barahonas' home.
Investigators would have contacted police sooner if Carmen Barahona had not lied, Colyer said.
"If we hadn't been lied to, then we probably would have immediately began the process of trying to locate the father," Colyer said.
When asked if child investigators should have probed further, Colyer admitted "the questioning may not have been as thorough as it should have."
"It's not an exact science. We do our best."
On Wednesday, Judge Cindy Lederman blasted Fleary for her hasty investigation.
"How could we have gotten a call to a hotline on Feb. 10 and a child died" a few days later, she asked at the hearing.
Carmen Barahona declined comment at Wednesday's hearing, shielding her face with a piece of paper and crying at times.
Newly appointed DCF Secretary David Wilkins called Thursday for an outside review of the case, which could be the biggest scandal to hit the agency since it was reorganized nine years ago. That's when officials found 5-year-old Rilya Wilson had been missing for more than a year before officials noticed — in part because a caseworker filed false reports saying the girl was fine.
An investigation found that workers routinely falsified reports and were overworked and received low pay. It also found workers did not check the backgrounds of caregivers before placing children. The head of the agency resigned.
The department has since increased transparency and requires caseworkers to carry a device that tracks their whereabouts and takes photos of children to ensure the required visits are made.
Associated Press writer Terry Spencer in Miami contributed to this report.
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IV: THE LAY OF ELIDUC by Marie de France
Now will I rehearse before you a very ancient Breton Lay. As the tale was told to me, so, in turn, will I tell it over again, to the best of my art and knowledge. Hearken now to my story, its why and its reason.
In Brittany there lived a knight, so courteous and so brave, that in all the realm there was no worthier lord than he. This knight was named Eliduc. He had wedded in his youth a noble lady of proud race and name. They had long dwelt together in peace and content, for their hearts were fixed on one another in faith and loyalty. Now it chanced that Eliduc sought his fortune in a far land, where there was a great war. There he loved a Princess, the daughter of the King and Queen of those parts. Guillardun was the maiden’s name, and in all the realm was none more fair. The wife of Eliduc had to name, Guildeluec, in her own country. By reason of these two ladies their story is known as the Lay of Guildeluec and Guillardun, but at first it was rightly called the Lay of Eliduc. The name is a little matter; but if you hearken to me you shall learn the story of these three lovers, in its pity and its truth.
Eliduc had as lord and suzerain, the King of Brittany over Sea. The knight was greatly loved and cherished of his prince, by reason of his long and loyal service. When the King’s business took him from his realm, Eliduc was his master’s Justice and Seneschal. He governed the country well and wisely, and held it from the foe with a strong hand. Nevertheless, in spite of all, much evil was appointed unto him. Eliduc was a mighty hunter, and by the King’s grace, he would chase the stag within the woods. He was cunning and fair as Tristan, and so wise in venery, that the oldest forester might not gainsay him in aught concerning the shaw. But by reason of malice and envy, certain men accused him to the King that he had meddled with the royal pleasaunce. The King bade Eliduc to avoid his Court. He gave no reason for his commandment, and the knight might learn nothing of the cause. Often he prayed the King that he might know whereof he was accused. Often he begged his lord not to heed the specious and crafty words of his foes. He called to mind the wounds he had gained in his master’s wars, but was answered never a word. When Eliduc found that he might get no speech with his lord, it became his honour to depart. He returned to his house, and calling his friends around him, opened out to them this business of the King’s wrath, in recompense for his faithful service.
“I did not reckon on a King’s gratitude; but as the proverb says, it is useless for a farmer to dispute with the horse in his plough. The wise and virtuous man keeps faith to his lord, and bears goodwill to his neighbour, not for what he may receive in return.”
Then the knight told his friends that since he might no longer stay in his own country, he should cross the sea to the realm of Logres, and sojourn there awhile, for his solace. His fief he placed in the hands of his wife, and he required of his men, and of all who held him dear, that they would serve her loyally. Having given good counsel to the utmost of his power, the knight prepared him for the road. Right heavy were his friends and kin, that he must go forth from amongst them.
Eliduc took with him ten knights of his household, and set out on his journey. His dame came with him so far as she was able, wringing her hands, and making much sorrow, at the departure of her husband. At the end he pledged good faith to her, as she to him, and so she returned to her own home. Eliduc went his way, till he came to a haven on the sea. He took ship, and sailed to the realm of Totenois, for many kings dwell in that country, and ever there were strife and war. Now, near to Exeter, in this land, there dwelt a King, right rich and strong, but old and very full of years. He had no son of his body, but one maid only, young, and of an age to wed. Since he would not bestow this damsel on a certain prince of his neighbours, this lord made mortal war upon his fellow, spoiling and wasting all his land. The ancient King, for surety, had set his daughter within a castle, fair and very strong. He had charged the sergeants not to issue forth from the gates, and for the rest there was none so bold as to seek to storm the keep, or even to joust about the barriers. When Eliduc was told of this quarrel, he needed to go no farther, and sojourned for awhile in the land. He turned over in his mind which of these princes dealt unjustly with his neighbour. Since he deemed that the agèd king was the more vexed and sorely pressed in the matter, he resolved to aid him to the best of his might, and to take arms in his service. Eliduc, therefore, wrote letters to the King, telling him that he had quitted his own country, and sought refuge in the King’s realm. For his part he was willing to fight as a mercenary in the King’s quarrel, and if a safe conduct were given him, he and the knights of his company would ride, forthwith, to their master’s aid. This letter, Eliduc sent by the hands of his squires to the King. When the ancient lord had read the letter, he rejoiced greatly, and made much of the messengers. He summoned his constable, and commanded him swiftly to write out the safe conduct, that would bring the baron to his side. For the rest he bade that the messengers meetly should be lodged and apparelled, and that such money should be given them as would be sufficient to their needs. Then he sealed the safe conduct with his royal seal, and sent it to Eliduc, straightway, by a sure hand.
When Eliduc came in answer to the summons, he was received with great honour by the King. His lodging was appointed in the house of a grave and courteous burgess of the city, who bestowed the fairest chamber on his guest. Eliduc fared softly, both at bed and board. He called to his table such good knights as were in misease, by reason of prison or of war. He charged his men that none should be so bold as to take pelf or penny from the citizens of the town, during the first forty days of their sojourn. But on the third day, it was bruited about the streets, that the enemy were near at hand. The country folk deemed that they approached to invest the city, and to take the gates by storm. When the noise and clamour of the fearful burgesses came to the ears of Eliduc, he and his company donned their harness, and got to horse, as quickly as they might. Forty horsemen mounted with him; as to the rest, many lay sick or hurt within the city, and others were captives in the hands of the foe. These forty stout sergeants waited for no sounding of trumpets; they hastened to seek their captain at his lodging, and rode at his back through the city gate.
“Sir,” said they, “where you go, there we will follow, and what you bid us, that shall we do.”
“Friends,” made answer the knight, “I thank you for your fellowship. There is no man amongst us but who wishes to molest the foe, and do them all the mischief that he is able. If we await them in the town, we defend ourselves with the shield, and not with the sword. To my mind it is better to fall in the field than to hide behind walls; but if any of you have a wiser counsel to offer, now let him speak.”
“Sir,” replied a soldier of the company, “through the wood, in good faith, there runs a path, right strict and narrow. It is the wont of the enemy to approach our city by this track. After their deeds of arms before the walls, it is their custom to return by the way they came, helmet on saddle bow, and hauberk unbraced. If we might catch them, unready in the path, we could trouble them very grievously, even though it be at the peril of our lives.”
“Friends,” answered Eliduc, “you are all the King’s men, and are bound to serve him faithfully, even to the death. Come, now, with me where I will go, and do that thing which you shall see me do. I give you my word as a loyal gentleman, that no harm shall hap to any. If we gain spoil and riches from the foe, each shall have his lot in the ransom. At the least we may do them much hurt and mischief in this quarrel.”
Eliduc set his men in ambush, near by that path, within the wood. He told over to them, like a cunning captain, the crafty plan he had devised, and taught them how to play their parts, and to call upon his name. When the foe had entered on that perilous path, and were altogether taken in the snare, Eliduc cried his name, and summoned his companions to bear themselves like men. This they did stoutly, and assailed their enemy so fiercely that he was dismayed beyond measure, and his line being broken, fled to the forest. In this fight was the constable taken, together with fifty and five other lords, who owned themselves prisoners, and were given to the keeping of the squires. Great was the spoil in horse and harness, and marvellous was the wealth they gained in gold and ransom. So having done such great deeds in so short a space, they returned to the city, joyous and content.
The King looked forth from a tower. He feared grievously for his men, and made his complaint of Eliduc, who—he deemed—had betrayed him in his need. Upon the road he saw a great company, charged and laden with spoil. Since the number of those who returned was more than those who went forth, the king knew not again his own. He came down from the tower, in doubt and sore trouble, bidding that the gates should be made fast, and that men should mount upon the walls. For such coil as this, there was slender warrant. A squire who was sent out, came back with all speed, and showed him of this adventure. He told over the story of the ambush, and the tale of the prisoners. He rehearsed how the constable was taken, and that many a knight was wounded, and many a brave man slain. When the King might give credence thereto, he had more joy than ever king before. He got him from his tower, and going before Eliduc, he praised him to his face, and rendered him the captives as a gift. Eliduc gave the King’s bounty to his men. He bestowed on them besides, all the harness and the spoil; keeping, for his part, but three knights, who had won much honour in the battle. From this day the King loved and cherished Eliduc very dearly. He held the knight, and his company, for a full year in his service, and at the end of the year, such faith had he in the knight’s loyalty, that he appointed him Seneschal and Constable of his realm.
Eliduc was not only a brave and wary captain; he was also a courteous gentleman, right goodly to behold.
That fair maiden, the daughter of the King, heard tell of his deeds, and desired to see his face, because of the good men spake of him. She sent her privy chamberlain to the knight, praying him to come to her house, that she might solace herself with the story of his deeds, for greatly she wondered that he had no care for her friendship. Eliduc gave answer to the chamberlain that he would ride forthwith, since much he desired to meet so high a dame. He bade his squire to saddle his destrier, and rode to the palace, to have speech with the lady. Eliduc stood without the lady’s chamber, and prayed the chamberlain to tell the dame that he had come, according to her wish. The chamberlain came forth with a smiling face, and straightway led him in the chamber. When the princess saw the knight, she cherished him very sweetly, and welcomed him in the most honourable fashion. The knight gazed upon the lady, who was passing fair to see. He thanked her courteously, that she was pleased to permit him to have speech with so high a princess. Guillardun took Eliduc by the hand, and seated him upon the bed, near her side. They spake together of many things, for each found much to say. The maiden looked closely upon the knight, his face and semblance; to her heart she said that never before had she beheld so comely a man. Her eyes might find no blemish in his person, and Love knocked upon her heart, requiring her to love, since her time had come. She sighed, and her face lost its fair colour; but she cared only to hide her trouble from the knight, lest he should think her the less maidenly therefore. When they had talked together for a great space, Eliduc took his leave, and went his way. The lady would have kept him longer gladly, but since she did not dare, she allowed him to depart. Eliduc returned to his lodging, very pensive and deep in thought. He called to mind that fair maiden, the daughter of his King, who so sweetly had bidden him to her side, and had kissed him farewell, with sighs that were sweeter still. He repented him right earnestly that he had lived so long a while in the land without seeking her face, but promised that often he would enter her palace now. Then he remembered the wife whom he had left in his own house. He recalled the parting between them, and the covenant he made, that good faith and stainless honour should be ever betwixt the twain. But the maiden, from whom he came, was willing to take him as her knight! If such was her will, might any pluck him from her hand?
All night long, that fair maiden, the daughter of the King, had neither rest nor sleep. She rose up, very early in the morning, and commanding her chamberlain, opened out to him all that was in her heart. She leaned her brow against the casement.
“By my faith,” she said, “I am fallen into a deep ditch, and sorrow has come upon me. I love Eliduc, the good knight, whom my father made his Seneschal. I love him so dearly that I turn the whole night upon my bed, and cannot close my eyes, nor sleep. If he assured me of his heart, and loved me again, all my pleasure should be found in his happiness. Great might be his profit, for he would become King of this realm, and little enough is it for his deserts, so courteous is he and wise. If he have nothing better than friendship to give me, I choose death before life, so deep is my distress.”
When the princess had spoken what it pleased her to say, the chamberlain, whom she had bidden, gave her loyal counsel.
“Lady,” said he, “since you have set your love upon this knight, send him now—if so it please you—some goodly gift-girdle or scarf or ring. If he receive the gift with delight, rejoicing in your favour, you may be assured that he loves you. There is no Emperor, under Heaven, if he were tendered your tenderness, but would go the more lightly for your grace.”
The damsel hearkened to the counsel of her chamberlain, and made reply, “If only I knew that he desired my love! Did ever maiden woo her knight before, by asking whether he loved or hated her? What if he make of me a mock and a jest in the ears of his friends! Ah, if the secrets of the heart were but written on the face! But get you ready, for go you must, at once.”
“Lady,” answered the chamberlain, “I am ready to do your bidding.”
“You must greet the knight a hundred times in my name, and will place my girdle in his hand, and this my golden ring.”
When the chamberlain had gone upon his errand, the maiden was so sick at heart, that for a little she would have bidden him return. Nevertheless, she let him go his way, and eased her shame with words.
“Alas, what has come upon me, that I should put my heart upon a stranger. I know nothing of his folk, whether they be mean or high; nor do I know whether he will part as swiftly as he came. I have done foolishly, and am worthy of blame, since I have bestowed my love very lightly. I spoke to him yesterday for the first time, and now I pray him for his love. Doubtless he will make me a song! Yet if he be the courteous gentleman I believe him, he will understand, and not deal hardly with me. At least the dice are cast, and if he may not love me, I shall know myself the most woeful of ladies, and never taste of joy all the days of my life.”
Whilst the maiden lamented in this fashion, the chamberlain hastened to the lodging of Eliduc. He came before the knight, and having saluted him in his lady’s name, he gave to his hand the ring and the girdle. The knight thanked him earnestly for the gifts. He placed the ring upon his finger, and the girdle he girt about his body. He said no more to the chamberlain, nor asked him any questions; save only that he proffered him a gift. This the messenger might not have, and returned the way he came. The chamberlain entered in the palace and found the princess within her chamber. He greeted her on the part of the knight, and thanked her for her bounty.
“Diva, diva,” cried the lady hastily, “hide nothing from me; does he love me, or does he not?”
“Lady,” answered the chamberlain, “as I deem, he loves you, and truly. Eliduc is no cozener with words. I hold him for a discreet and prudent gentleman, who knows well how to hide what is in his heart. I gave him greeting in your name, and granted him your gifts. He set the ring upon his finger, and as to your girdle, he girt it upon him, and belted it tightly about his middle. I said no more to him, nor he to me; but if he received not your gifts in tenderness, I am the more deceived. Lady, I have told you his words: I cannot tell you his thoughts. Only, mark carefully what I am about to say. If Eliduc had not a richer gift to offer, he would not have taken your presents at my hand.”
“It pleases you to jest,” said the lady. “I know well that Eliduc does not altogether hate me. Since my only fault is to cherish him too fondly, should he hate me, he would indeed be blameworthy. Never again by you, or by any other, will I require him of aught, or look to him for comfort. He shall see that a maiden’s love is no slight thing, lightly given, and lightly taken again—but, perchance, he will not dwell in the realm so long as to know of the matter.”
“Lady, the knight has covenanted to serve the King, in all loyalty, for the space of a year. You have full leisure to tell, whatever you desire him to learn.”
When the maiden heard that Eliduc remained in the country, she rejoiced very greatly. She was glad that the knight would sojourn awhile in her city, for she knew naught of the torment he endured, since first he looked upon her. He had neither peace nor delight, for he could not get her from his mind. He reproached himself bitterly. He called to remembrance the covenant he made with his wife, when he departed from his own land, that he would never be false to his oath. But his heart was a captive now, in a very strong prison. He desired greatly to be loyal and honest, but he could not deny his love for the maiden—Guillardun, so frank and so fair.
Eliduc strove to act as his honour required. He had speech and sight of the lady, and did not refuse her kiss and embrace. He never spoke of love, and was diligent to offend in nothing. He was careful in this, because he would keep faith with his wife, and would attempt no matter against his King. Very grievously he pained himself, but at the end he might do no more. Eliduc caused his horse to be saddled, and calling his companions about him, rode to the castle to get audience of the King. He considered, too, that he might see his lady, and learn what was in her heart. It was the hour of meat, and the King having risen from table, had entered in his daughter’s chamber. The King was at chess, with a lord who had but come from over-sea. The lady sat near the board, to watch the movements of the game. When Eliduc came before the prince, he welcomed him gladly, bidding him to seat himself close at hand. Afterwards he turned to his daughter, and said, “Princess, it becomes you to have a closer friendship with this lord, and to treat him well and worshipfully. Amongst five hundred, there is no better knight than he.”
When the maiden had listened demurely to her father’s commandment, there was no gayer lady than she. She rose lightly to her feet, and taking the knight a little from the others, seated him at her side. They remained silent, because of the greatness of their love. She did not dare to speak the first, and to him the maid was more dreadful than a knight in mail. At the end Eliduc thanked her courteously for the gifts she had sent him; never was grace so precious and so kind. The maiden made answer to the knight, that very dear to her was the use he had found for her ring, and the girdle with which he had belted his body. She loved him so fondly that she wished him for her husband. If she might not have her wish, one thing she knew well, that she would take no living man, but would die unwed. She trusted he would not deny her hope.
“Lady,” answered the knight, “I have great joy in your love, and thank you humbly for the goodwill you bear me. I ought indeed to be a happy man, since you deign to show me at what price you value our friendship. Have you remembered that I may not remain always in your realm? I covenanted with the King to serve him as his man for the space of one year. Perchance I may stay longer in his service, for I would not leave him till his quarrel be ended. Then I shall return to my own land; so, fair lady, you permit me to say farewell.”
The maiden made answer to her knight, “Fair friend, right sweetly I thank you for your courteous speech. So apt a clerk will know, without more words, that he may have of me just what he would. It becomes my love to give faith to all you say.”
The two lovers spoke together no further; each was well assured of what was in the other’s heart. Eliduc rode back to his lodging, right joyous and content. Often he had speech with his friend, and passing great was the love which grew between the twain.
Eliduc pressed on the war so fiercely that in the end he took captive the King who troubled his lord, and had delivered the land from its foes. He was greatly praised of all as a crafty captain in the field, and a hardy comrade with the spear. The poor and the minstrel counted him a generous knight. About this time that King, who had bidden Eliduc avoid his realm, sought diligently to find him. He had sent three messengers beyond the seas to seek his ancient Seneschal. A strong enemy had wrought him much grief and loss. All his castles were taken from him, and all his country was a spoil to the foe. Often and sorely he repented him of the evil counsel to which he had given ear. He mourned the absence of his mightiest knight, and drove from his councils those false lords who, for malice and envy, had defamed him. These he outlawed for ever from his realm. The King wrote letters to Eliduc, conjuring him by the loving friendship that was once between them, and summoning him as a vassal is required of his lord, to hasten to his aid, in that his bitter need. When Eliduc heard these tidings they pressed heavily upon him, by reason of the grievous love he bore the dame. She, too, loved him with a woman’s whole heart. Between the two there was nothing but the purest love and tenderness. Never by word or deed had they spoiled their friendship. To speak a little closely together; to give some fond and foolish gift; this was the sum of their love. In her wish and hope the maiden trusted to hold the knight in her land, and to have him as her lord. Naught she deemed that he was wedded to a wife beyond the sea.
“Alas,” said Eliduc, “I have loitered too long in this country, and have gone astray. Here I have set my heart on a maiden, Guillardun, the daughter of the King, and she, on me. If, now, we part, there is no help that one, or both, of us, must die. Yet go I must. My lord requires me by letters, and by the oath of fealty that I have sworn. My own honour demands that I should return to my wife. I dare not stay; needs must I go. I cannot wed my lady, for not a priest in Christendom would make us man and wife. All things turn to blame. God, what a tearing asunder will our parting be! Yet there is one who will ever think me in the right, though I be held in scorn of all. I will be guided by her wishes, and what she counsels that will I do. The King, her sire, is troubled no longer by any war. First, I will go to him, praying that I may return to my own land, for a little, because of the need of my rightful lord. Then I will seek out the maiden, and show her the whole business. She will tell me her desire, and I shall act according to her wish.”
The knight hesitated no longer as to the path he should follow. He went straight to the King, and craved leave to depart. He told him the story of his lord’s distress, and read, and placed in the King’s hands, the letters calling him back to his home. When the King had read the writing, and knew that Eliduc purposed to depart, he was passing sad and heavy. He offered the knight the third part of his kingdom, with all the treasure that he pleased to ask, if he would remain at his side. He offered these things to the knight—these, and the gratitude of all his days besides.
“Do not tempt me, sire,” replied the knight. “My lord is in such deadly peril, and his letters have come so great a way to require me, that go I must to aid him in his need. When I have ended my task, I will return very gladly, if you care for my services, and with me a goodly company of knights to fight in your quarrels.”
The King thanked Eliduc for his words, and granted him graciously the leave that he demanded. He gave him, moreover, all the goods of his house; gold and silver, hound and horses, silken cloths, both rich and fair, these he might have at his will. Eliduc took of them discreetly, according to his need. Then, very softly, he asked one other gift. If it pleased the King, right willingly would he say farewell to the princess, before he went. The King replied that it was his pleasure, too. He sent a page to open the door of the maiden’s chamber, and to tell her the knight’s request. When she saw him, she took him by the hand, and saluted him very sweetly. Eliduc was the more fain of counsel than of claspings. He seated himself by the maiden’s side, and as shortly as he might, commenced to show her of the business. He had done no more than read her of his letters, than her face lost its fair colour, and near she came to swoon. When Eliduc saw her about to fall, he knew not what he did, for grief. He kissed her mouth, once and again, and wept above her, very tenderly. He took, and held her fast in his arms, till she had returned from her swoon.
“Fair dear friend,” said he softly, “bear with me while I tell you that you are my life and my death, and in you is all my comfort. I have bidden farewell to your father, and purposed to go back to my own land, for reason of this bitter business of my lord. But my will is only in your pleasure, and whatever the future brings me, your counsel I will do.”
“Since you cannot stay,” said the maiden, “take me with you, wherever you go. If not, my life is so joyless without you, that I would wish to end it with my knife.”
Very sweetly made answer Sir Eliduc, for in honesty he loved honest maid, “Fair friend, I have sworn faith to your father, and am his man. If I carried you with me, I should give the lie to my troth. Let this covenant be made between us. Should you give me leave to return to my own land I swear to you on my honour as a knight, that I will come again on any day that you shall name. My life is in your hands. Nothing on earth shall keep me from your side, so only that I have life and health.”
Then she, who loved so fondly, granted her knight permission to depart, and fixed the term, and named the day for his return. Great was their sorrow that the hour had come to bid farewell. They gave rings of gold for remembrance, and sweetly kissed adieu. So they severed from each other’s arms.
Eliduc sought the sea, and with a fair wind, crossed swiftly to the other side. His lord was greatly content to learn the tidings of his knight’s return. His friends and his kinsfolk came to greet him, and the common folk welcomed him very gladly. But, amongst them all, none was so blithe at his home-coming as the fair and prudent lady who was his wife. Despite this show of friendship, Eliduc was ever sad, and deep in thought. He went heavily, till he might look upon his friend. He felt no happiness, nor made pretence of any, till he should meet with her again. His wife was sick at heart, because of the coldness of her husband. She took counsel with her soul, as to what she had done amiss. Often she asked him privily, if she had come short or offended in any measure, whilst he was without the realm. If she was accused by any, let him tell her the accusation, that she might purge herself of the offence.
“Wife,” answered Eliduc, “neither I, nor any other, charge you with aught that is against your honour to do. The cause of my sorrow is in myself. I have pledged my faith to the King of that country, from whence I come, that I will return to help him in his need. When my lord the King has peace in his realm, within eight days I shall be once more upon the sea. Great travail I must endure, and many pains I shall suffer, in readiness for that hour. Return I must, and till then I have no mind for anything but toil; for I will not give the lie to my plighted word.”
Eliduc put his fief once more in the hands of his dame. He sought his lord, and aided him to the best of his might. By the counsel and prowess of the knight, the King came again into his own. When the term appointed by his lady, and the day she named for his return drew near, Eliduc wrought in such fashion that peace was accorded between the foes. Then the knight made him ready for his journey, and took thought to the folk he should carry with him. His choice fell on two of his nephews, whom he loved very dearly, and on a certain chamberlain of his household. These were trusted servitors, who were of his inmost mind, and knew much of his counsel. Together with these went his squires, these only, for Eliduc had no care to take many. All these, nephew and squire and chamberlain, Eliduc made to promise, and confirm by an oath, that they would reveal nothing of his business.
The company put to sea without further tarrying, and, crossing quickly, came to that land where Eliduc so greatly desired to be. The knight sought a hostel some distance from the haven, for he would not be seen of any, nor have it bruited that Eliduc was returned. He called his chamberlain, and sent him to his friend, bearing letters that her knight had come, according to the covenant that had been made. At nightfall, before the gates were made fast, Eliduc issued forth from the city, and followed after his messenger. He had clothed himself in mean apparel, and rode at a footpace straight to the city, where dwelt the daughter of the King. The chamberlain arrived before the palace, and by dint of asking and prying, found himself within the lady’s chamber. He saluted the maiden, and told her that her lover was near. When Guillardun heard these tidings she was astonied beyond measure, and for joy and pity wept right tenderly. She kissed the letters of her friend, and the messenger who brought such welcome tidings. The chamberlain prayed the lady to attire and make her ready to join her friend. The day was spent in preparing for the adventure, according to such plan as had been devised. When dark was come, and all was still, the damsel stole forth from the palace, and the chamberlain with her. For fear that any man should know her again, the maiden had hidden, beneath a riding cloak, her silken gown, embroidered with gold. About the space of a bow shot from the city gate, there was a coppice standing within a fair meadow. Near by this wood, Eliduc and his comrades awaited the coming of Guillardun. When Eliduc saw the lady, wrapped in her mantle, and his chamberlain leading her by the hand, he got from his horse, and kissed her right tenderly. Great joy had his companions at so fair a sight. He set her on the horse, and climbing before her, took bridle in glove, and returned to the haven, with all the speed he might. He entered forthwith in the ship, which put to sea, having on board none, save Eliduc, his men, and his lady, Guillardun. With a fair wind, and a quiet hour, the sailors thought that they would swiftly come to shore. But when their journey was near its end, a sudden tempest arose on the sea. A mighty wind drove them far from their harbourage, so that their rudder was broken, and their sail torn from the mast. Devoutly they cried on St. Nicholas, St. Clement, and Madame St. Mary, to aid them in this peril. They implored the Mother that she would approach her Son, not to permit them to perish, but to bring them to the harbour where they would come. Without sail or oar, the ship drifted here and there, at the mercy of the storm. They were very close to death, when one of the company, with a loud voice began to cry, “What need is there of prayers! Sir, you have with you, her, who brings us to our death. We shall never win to land, because you, who already have a faithful wife, seek to wed this foreign woman, against God and His law, against honour and your plighted troth. Grant us to cast her in the sea, and straightway the winds and the waves will be still.”
When Eliduc heard these words he was like to come to harm for rage.
“Bad servant and felon traitor,” he cried, “you should pay dearly for your speech, if I might leave my lady.”
Eliduc held his friend fast in his arms, and cherished her as well as he was able. When the lady heard that her knight was already wedded in his own realm, she swooned where she lay. Her face became pale and discoloured; she neither breathed nor sighed, nor could any bring her any comfort. Those who carried her to a sheltered place, were persuaded that she was but dead, because of the fury of the storm. Eliduc was passing heavy. He rose to his feet, and hastening to his squire, smote him so grievously with an oar, that he fell senseless on the deck. He haled him by his legs to the side of the ship and flung the body in the sea, where it was swiftly swallowed by the waves. He went to the broken rudder, and governed the nave so skilfully, that it presently drew to land. So, having come to their fair haven, they cast anchor, and made fast their bridge to the shore. Dame Guillardun lay yet in her swoon, and seemed no other than if she were really dead. Eliduc’s sorrow was all the more, since he deemed that he had slain her with his hand. He inquired of his companions in what near place they might lay the lady to her rest, “for I will not bid her farewell, till she is put in holy ground with such pomp and rite as befit the obsequies of the daughter of a King.” His comrades answered him never a word, for they were all bemused by reason of what had befallen. Eliduc, therefore, considered within himself to what place he should carry the lady. His own home was so near the haven where he had come, that very easily they could ride there before evening. He called to mind that in his realm there was a certain great forest, both long and deep. Within this wood there was a little chapel, served by a holy hermit for forty years, with whom Eliduc had oftimes spoken.
“To this holy man,” he said, “I will bear my lady. In his chapel he shall bury her sweet body. I will endow him so richly of my lands, that upon her chantry shall be founded a mighty abbey. There some convent of monks or nuns or canons shall ever hold her in remembrance, praying God to grant her mercy in His day.”
Eliduc got to horse, but first took oath of his comrades that never, by them, should be discovered, that which they should see. He set his friend before him on the palfrey, and thus the living and the dead rode together, till they had entered the wood, and come before the chapel. The squires called and beat upon the door, but it remained fast, and none was found to give them any answer. Eliduc bade that one should climb through a window, and open the door from within. When they had come within the chapel they found a new made tomb, and writ thereon, that the holy hermit having finished his course, was made perfect, eight days before Passing sad was Eliduc, and esmayed. His companions would have digged a second grave, and set therein, his friend; but the knight would in no wise consent, for—he said—he purposed to take counsel of the priests of his country, as to building some church or abbey above her tomb. “At this hour we will but lay her body before the altar, and commend her to God His holy keeping.” He commanded them to bring their mantles and make a bed upon the altar-pace. Thereon they laid the maiden, and having wrapped her close in her lover’s cloak, left her alone. When the moment came for Eliduc to take farewell of his lady, he deemed that his own last hour had come. He kissed her eyes and her face.
“Fair friend,” said he, “if it be pleasing to God, never will I bear sword or lance again, or seek the pleasures of this mortal world. Fair friend, in an ill hour you saw me! Sweet lady, in a bitter hour you followed me to death! Fairest, now were you a queen, were it not for the pure and loyal love you set upon me? Passing sad of heart am I for you, my friend. The hour that I have seen you in your shroud, I will take the habit of some holy order, and every day, upon your tomb, I will tell over the chaplet of my sorrow.”
Having taken farewell of the maiden, Eliduc came forth from the chapel, and closed the doors. He sent messages to his wife, that he was returning to his house, but weary and overborne. When the dame heard these tidings, she was happy in her heart, and made ready to greet him. She received her lord tenderly; but little joy came of her welcome, for she got neither smiles in answer, nor tender words in return. She dared not inquire the reason, during the two days Eliduc remained in the house. The knight heard Mass very early in the morning, and then set forth on the road leading to the chapel where the maiden lay. He found her as he had parted, for she had not come back from her swoon, and there was neither stir in her, nor breath. He marvelled greatly, for he saw her, vermeil and white, as he had known her in life. She had lost none of her sweet colour, save that she was a little blanched. He wept bitterly above her, and entreated for her soul. Having made his prayer, he went again to his house.
On a day when Eliduc went forth, his wife called to her a varlet of her household, commanding him to follow his lord afar off, and mark where he went, and on what business. She promised to give him harness and horses, if he did according to her will. The varlet hid himself in the wood, and followed so cunningly after his lord, that he was not perceived. He watched the knight enter the chapel, and heard the cry and lamentation that he made. When Eliduc came out, the varlet hastened to his mistress, and told her what he had seen, the tears and dolour, and all that befell his lord within the hermitage. The lady summoned all her courage.
“We will go together, as soon as we may, to this hermitage. My lord tells me that he rides presently to the Court to speak with the King. I knew that my husband loved this dead hermit very tenderly, but I little thought that his loss would make him mad with grief.”
The next day the dame let her lord go forth in peace. When, about noon, Eliduc rode to the Court to greet his King, the lady rose quickly, and carrying the varlet with her, went swiftly to the hermitage. She entered the chapel, and saw the bed upon the altar-pace, and the maiden thereon, like a new sprung rose. Stooping down the lady removed the mantle. She marked the rigid body, the long arms, and the frail white hands, with their slender fingers, folded on the breast. Thus she learned the secret of the sorrow of her lord. She called the varlet within the chapel, and showed him this wonder.
“Seest thou,” she said, “this woman, who for beauty shineth as a gem! This lady, in her life, was the lover of my lord. It was for her that all his days were spoiled by grief. By my faith I marvel little at his sorrow, since I, who am a woman too, will—for pity’s sake or love—never know joy again, having seen so fair a lady in the dust.”
So the wife wept above the body of the maiden. Whilst the lady sat weeping, a weasel came from under the altar, and ran across Guillardun’s body. The varlet smote it with his staff, and killed it as it passed. He took the vermin and flung it away. The companion of this weasel presently came forth to seek him. She ran to the place where he lay, and finding that he would not get him on his feet, seemed as one distraught. She went forth from the chapel, and hastened to the wood, from whence she returned quickly, bearing a vermeil flower beneath her teeth. This red flower she placed within the mouth of that weasel the varlet had slain, and immediately he stood upon his feet. When the lady saw this, she cried to the varlet,
“Throw, man, throw, and gain the flower.”
The servitor flung his staff, and the weasels fled away, leaving that fair flower upon the floor. The lady rose. She took the flower, and returned with it swiftly to the altar pace. Within the mouth of the maiden, she set a flower that was more vermeil still. For a short space the dame and the damsel were alike breathless. Then the maiden came to herself, with a sigh. She opened her eyes, and commenced to speak.
“Diva,” she said, “have I slept so long, indeed!”
When the lady heard her voice she gave thanks to God. She inquired of the maiden as to her name and degree. The damsel made answer to her, “Lady, I was born in Logres, and am daughter to the King of that realm. Greatly there I loved a knight, named Eliduc, the seneschal of my sire. We fled together from my home, to my own most grievous fault. He never told me that he was wedded to a wife in his own country, and he hid the matter so cunningly, that I knew naught thereof. When I heard tell of his dame, I swooned for pure sorrow. Now I find that this false lover, has, like a felon, betrayed me in a strange land. What will chance to a maiden in so foul a plight? Great is that woman’s folly who puts her trust in man.”
“Fair damsel,” replied the lady, “there is nothing in the whole world that can give such joy to this felon, as to hear that you are yet alive. He deems that you are dead, and every day he beweeps your swoon in the chapel. I am his wife, and my heart is sick, just for looking on his sorrow. To learn the reason of his grief, I caused him to be followed, and that is why I have found you here. It is a great happiness for me to know that you live. You shall return with me to my home, and I will place you in the tenderness of your friend. Then I shall release him of his marriage troth, since it is my dearest hope to take the veil.”
When the wife had comforted the maiden with such words, they went together to her own house. She called to her servitor, and bade him seek his lord. The varlet went here and there, till he lighted on Eliduc. He came before him, and showed him of all these things. Eliduc mounted straightway on his horse, and waiting neither for squire or companion, that same night came to his hall. When he found alive, her, who once was dead, Eliduc thanked his wife for so dear a gift. He rejoiced beyond measure, and of all his days, no day was more happy than this. He kissed the maiden often, and very sweetly she gave him again his kiss, for great was the joy between the twain. The dame looked on their happiness, and knew that her lord meetly had bestowed his love. She prayed him, therefore, that he would grant her leave to depart, since she would serve God as a cloistered nun. Of his wealth she craved such a portion as would permit her to found a convent. He would then be able to wed the maiden on whom his heart was set, for it was neither honest nor seemly that a man should maintain a wife with either hand.
Eliduc could do no otherwise than consent. He gave the permission she asked, and did all according to her will. He endowed the lady of his lands, near by that chapel and hermitage, within the wood. There he built a church with offices and refectory, fair to see. Much wealth he bestowed on the convent, in money and estate. When all was brought to a good end, the lady took the veil upon her head. Thirty other ladies entered in the house with her, and long she ruled them as their Abbess, right wisely and well.
Eliduc wedded with his friend, in great pomp, and passing rich was the marriage feast. They dwelt in unity together for many days, for ever between them was perfect love. They walked uprightly, and gave alms of their goods, till such a time as it became them to turn to God. After much thought, Eliduc built a great church close beside his castle. He endowed it with all his gold and silver, and with the rest of his land. He set priests there, and holy layfolk also, for the business of the house, and the fair services of religion.
When all was builded and ordered, Eliduc offered himself, with them, that he—weak man—might serve the omnipotent God. He set with the Abbess Guildeluec —who once was his dame—that wife whom he loved so dearly well. The Abbess received her as a sister, and welcomed her right honourably. She admonished her in the offices of God, and taught her of the rules and practice of their holy Order. They prayed to God for their friend, that He would grant him mercy in His day. In turn, he entreated God for them. Messages came from convent and monastery as to how they fared, so that each might encourage the other in His way. Each strove painfully, for himself and his, to love God the more dearly, and to abide in His holy faith. Each made a good end, and the mercy of God was abundantly made clear to all.
Of the adventure of these three lovers, the courteous Bretons made this Lay for remembrance, since they deemed it a matter that men should not forget.
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Once she said she was dating a guy named Jacob on 8 February 2016. She posted a photo on Instagram mentioning him as her boyfriend. But later it was called as a part of her joke.
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Who is Jennifer Widerstrom?
Jennifer Widerstrom is an American health and fitness model, and personal trainer. She is the trainer on the American version of the television series The Biggest Loser.
Jennifer Widerstrom: Age, Parent, Ethnicity
Jennifer was born on August 24, 1982, in Downers Grove, Illinois, USA. She holds American citizenship and belongs to British and English ethnicity.
Her father’s name is Norm Widerstrom, who was an assistant principal and dean at St. Charles East High School. Likely, her mother’s name is Lynn Widerstrom, who is a former Naperville North Dean and gymnastics coach.
Jennifer was interested in physical activities from her childhood.
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During his school days, Jennifer participated in diving, gymnastics, and athletic events. Completing her high school graduation, she enrolled at the University of Kansas.
Jennifer Widerstrom: Career, Professional life
After finishing her education, Jennifer determined to pursue her career in the field of fitness. She started working as a personal trainer and fitness model.
Jennifer was the trainer on NBC’s reality show The Biggest Loser replacing Jillian Michaels. Furthermore, she worked alongside Bob Harper and Jessie Pavelka. Furthermore, she also appeared on American Gladiators, as the female gladiator Phoenix, in 2008 for its second season.
Additionally, she appeared on various television shows like American Gladiators, The Talk, Home & Family, and Celebrity Page. And currently, she works in the show, Daily Blast Live.
Likewise, the model appeared in the 2015 documentary titled Why Am I So Fat?. Jennifer is also an author. In the year 2017, she wrote Diet Right for Your Personality Type: The Revolutionary 4-Week Weight-Loss Plan That Works for You.
Along with her fitness career, Jennifer is also in charity. She worked with The Goodwill Military Tours in raising troops’ morale. In addition, she has volunteered at various orphanages and schools, helping through sports and gymnastics.
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She has a net worth of around $7 million. According to some sources, the average salary of the fitness model is $44,466 per year. So being a fitness model she must have good earning.
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To date, her names haven’t been linked in any sort of rumors and controversies.
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Being a fitness freak, Jennifer Widerstrom has maintained her figure properly, with a body measurement of 36-27-36 inches.
She stands with a height of 5 feet 7 inches (173 cm). Her weight is 68 kg (150 lb). Likely, she has a beautiful face with blonde colored hair and dark brown colored eyes.
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How odd. For the fourth entry in the Ju-On cycle, Takashi Shimizu, the director of the original Ju-On: The Grudge, has almost entirely ditched the muted ethos of the original in favour of a British Hammer Horror approach. “In America,” he says in the production notes, “people tend to be scared by a lot of blood and direct attacks.… In England people tend to fear evil and the source of darkness… Hollywood just doesn’t have the history of this type of expression of horror.” However you look at it, the original Ju-On The Grudge was scary as hell, and even the American remake (with Sarah Michelle Gellar) was pretty terrifying. But if you’re expecting more of the same with this follow-up then you are out of luck. Allied to this treatment is a self-reflexive plot – horror actress finds herself monstered in real life by all sorts of unpleasantness – which screams Scream. It’s not all bad. There are a couple of good shocks, which prove that Shimizu hasn’t completely lost his touch. But even so, it will take a real devotee of Hammer to clutch this beast close to the bosom.
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Skip to main content. Cambridge also said it will follow up that news with an update for schools on the 26th of March as they understand schools need “very clear guidance”. Does the government not know how rule-making is done? Is internal marketing slowly being forgotten? Jonathan Coe - Wed 9 November . Due to the exams, most students are expected to appear in the November series in Pakistan, which proceeds up to several thousand. Cambridge Final Exam Timetable November 2020 Administrative zone 3 Front page. Test date windows Cambridge IGCSE Syllabus name Code Test date window Afrikaans as a Second Language (Speaking) 0548/05 15/09/2020–31/10/2020 Art & Design (Practical) 0400/02 01/07/2020… Ltd. (www.compunode.com).Designed for Dawn. 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At the time, Cambridge opted to only mention its predicted grades system, saying, “We will be working with schools to assess students’ achievements using the best available evidence. Today, therefore, we have taken the difficult decision not to run our international examinations in the May/June 2020 series in any country. If anything goes wrong, click here to enter your query. Please note this event series has been cancelled by Big Kid Events as of 24 November 2020. Input your search keywords and press Enter. Ofqual says there will be no strict rule on dates so that exam boards have greater flexibility amid the ongoing disruption caused by coronavirus restrictions. closures extend beyond the June 1, the next examination series will be November 2020. Concerts in Cambridge in 2020. Following are the details. The majority of schools entering candidates for the November 2020 series tell us that their governments — including the government of Pakistan — are allowing them to hold exams. 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OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2020 - PRIVATE CANDIDATES The Cambridge International GCE May/June 2020 Examination was cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic and as per policy decision the Mauritius Examinations Syndicate is organising the above examination only for those candidates who had entered for the GCE ‘O’/‘A’ Levels May/June 2020 Examinations. I have no idea. Santa Claus parades in Cambridge cancelled because of COVID-19 . No exams took place in summer 2020 due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. Bikes, beer, bands and more as the National Road Bike Show and Ribfest returns for another year. Month. It would be a sad day for Pakistan if punishments ruled out two centuries years ago were to be reintroduced. When to register. Our priorities — since the pandemic first disrupted the lives of Cambridge students back in January — have been to keep students safe and make sure they can progress with their education. Changing rules have led to a series of cancellations TUI holidays to Florida due to depart on or before 30 November 2020; TUI holidays to Sal, Cape Verde due to depart on or before 18 October 2020 We're stydents from same batch but are not treated equally our future is depended on these grades and we don't wanna ruin our future. Home - Town of Cambridge - Logo Menu. Given how COVID-19 has spread since then, it’s no surprise that Cambridge has also decided to cancel international May and June examinations; The situation with the Covid-19 outbreak is changing rapidly. Cambridge Junction, Cambridge, UK . IGCSE Exam Time Table 2020: Cambridge International Examinations for the 10th and 12th class are likely to begin by the first week of March Cambridge igcse exam schedule 2020. “We have not taken our decision lightly. Can anyone tell us If cambridge examination of October November 2020 will happen? Annual Weather Averages in Cambridge Based on weather reports collected during 2005–2015. This petition is being written due to the corona virus pandemic and as a result of that the October/November IGCSE should be cancelled in order to keep students, examiners and other people safe and to stop the spread of this virus in Nigeria and also in the whole world. Events in Cambridge: The biggest guide to gigs, clubs, festivals and more. The post Cambridge June & November 2020 Exams Cancelled Due To Coronavirus appeared first on Techzim. Filters . The city and the volunteer committees that organize both events decided to cancel them … Search. Free CLF Podcast | Alex Clark talks to... One-off event online | Jonathan Coe . Cambridge also said it will follow up that news with an update for schools on the 26th of March as they understand schools need “very clear guidance”. General . November 2020 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday ; 26 October. In recent days, many more countries have decided to extend school closures into May and June, making it impossible for many of our schools to hold examinations. EcoCash number: The government's Autumn Budget has been cancelled Credit: Reuters. 05 Dec 2020 … Free events. This includes Cambridge IGCSE, Cambridge O Level, Cambridge International AS & A Level, Cambridge AICE Diploma and Cambridge Pre-U. It ends on the date of the last ICT exam paper in October/November 2020 session. New events: Cambridge Information and Intellectual Property Meeting (3 July 2019) and October Cambridge Information and Intellectual Property training (16 -17 October … “Our Associate, the British Council, has been made aware of local government regulations and health advice. December 02, 2020 Starting Trains Cancelled List Trains Rescheduled and Diverted Details – Today’s List Cancelled Trains Tomorrow’s List . Keep the Philharmonia Playing: many live concerts up to March 2021 are sadly cancelled. Why not just assume that the exams are going ahead as scheduled, and work as if you expect them to happen? If so When the exam will satrt and finish Please note this event series has been cancelled by Big Kid Events as of 24 November 2020. Jump to navigation. Our priority is to protect the safety and wellbeing of our students and teachers, ensure fairness for all our students and support them in continuing with their education. We believe exams remain the fairest and most reliable way to assess student achievement. {{error_message}} 10.00 am Licensing Committee 27/10; 10.00 am Constitutional and Nomination Committee 27/10; 10.10 am (or at the rise of the Licensing Committee), Licensing an, 27/10... 28 October. Saturday 28 November 2020; Postponed. (Original post by lavender5959) after the cancellation of the may june 2020 exams, i'm kind of skeptical that teh same might happen to my october/november 2020 exams, especially that corona isnt getting any better and our schools ( atleast in my country) haven't opened and still haven't released a single statement about their plans or how things will play out. Most probably, according to Cambridge the exams are most probably happening unless most countries in the world closed their schools however if you're country closed the schools in the time of examinations while most other countries have open schools then you're exam will be redirected to June, but if most countries close their schools, then it will be based on evidence Why not just assume that the exams are going ahead as scheduled, and work as if you expect them to happen? Introduction The Royal Society of Chemistry's Team of qualified career and professional development advisers will be in Cambridge and available for free, face to face, 1-to-1, confidential consultations on any aspect of running your career. {{notice}} Do I have to attend the live sessions? We believe exams remain the fairest and most reliable way to assess student achievement and our schools are telling us they want to hold exams if they can. Sessions: AM morning PM afternoon EV evening IG Cambridge IGCSE OL Cambridge O Level AS Cambridge International AS Level AL Cambridge International A Level Cambridge inal Exam imetable November 2020 01–03 October 2020 Syllabus/Component Code Duration Session IG Islamiyat 0493/12 1h 30m AM IG Marine Science 0697/01 1h 30m AM OL Islamiyat 2058/12 1h 30m AM Seasons / Series / Tours. Awarding grades in 2020 Grading of A levels, AS levels and GCSEs in summer 2020. KARACHI: Regarding the unrest among Cambridge International students in Pakistan about which a report was published in this newspaper on Tuesday, Sept 22, the international assessment board has responded on Wednesday that the October/November exams session cannot be postponed or cancelled as per their demands. On March 24, Cambridge announced that they would be cancelling the May/June-2020 exam session in all countries for all qualifications. Iran must not take the bait and fall into a trap that can drag the entire region into a devastating conflict. You must attend them because you will need help while applying the steps in the practical tasks and it will help Mr. Mostafa’s team to follow up your progress. Airtime amount: “We have listened to your concerns about Cambridge International’s approach to the Nov 2020 exam series. Moreover, the majority of our schools are also telling us that they prefer to run exams. The post Cambridge June & November 2020 Exams Cancelled Due To Coronavirus appeared first on Techzim . If you can, give what you can to keep the Philharmonia playing for you. Get the monthly weather forecast for Cambridge, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom, including daily high/low, historical averages, to help you plan ahead. Exams will run from October 2020. Sessions: AM morning PM afternoon IG Cambridge IGCSE 9–1 Cambridge IGCSE (9–1) OL Cambridge O Level AS Cambridge International AS Level AL Cambridge International A Level Cambridge inal Exam imetable November 2020 05–09 October 2020 Syllabus/Component Code Duration Session IG Hindi as a Second Language 0549/01 2h AM OL Hinduism 2055/01 1h 30m AM LAHORE – A large number of students and their parents in Pakistan have called for the cancellation of the Cambridge Assessment International Education (CAIE) October/November 2020 … Search. 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IAL Biology October/November 2020 predictions Can I self study M1 in 2 months? Showing: All Year January February March April May June July August September October November December This dicision is unfair with students we've been working hard troughout the year even then our preperation is not good, online classes didn't worked and all school collages were closed. Event type. Upcoming events View all events. Will October/November series offer all O and A level subjects? Cambridge City upcoming roadworks - 16 - 30 November 2020 81KB–pdf Size: 81KB File format: pdf East Cambridgeshire upcoming roadworks - 16 - 30 November 2020 71KB – pdf The published starting time … Circumstances will vary from one country to another, and so will the right answers to this question. Khadija Mohammed started this petition to Cambridge international examinations and The British council and 1 other. The shrinking share of income tax in tax revenues should be a cause of concern for policymakers. 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Cambridge International registration for October/November 2020 deadlines, Registration window for the October / November 2020 session is now closed. “We want to reassure you that we have been exploring alternative options extensively — what form they might take and how we would deliver them. Complete List of Fully Cancelled Trains on 02/12/2020. Test date windows Cambridge IGCSE Syllabus name Code Test date window Art & Design (Practical) 0400/02 01/07/2020–31/10/2020 English as a Second Language (Count-in Speaking) (Speaking) … Cambridge International and the British Council are also working in collaboration with the government of Pakistan to ensure the safety of students in line with government advice. Dr Sacks’ writings will survive as beacons for those floundering in doubt. We are grateful to you for engaging with us and we would like to take this opportunity to respond. Compunode.com Pvt. Girls Basketball and Wrestling Picture Day. If anything goes wrong, click here to enter your query. Please note this event series has been cancelled by Big Kid Events as of 24 November 2020. We have been consulting closely with our global community of schools, who need as much certainty as possible at an uncertain time. Yes!! CIE A Level Date Sheet 2020 Pakistan: Now the students of A-Levels can download their Cambridge CIE A level date sheet 2020 Pakistan from this passage below. According to the details, Pakistan falls into Zone 4 under the regional division made by Cambridge, and the May and June series of 2020 canceled. Almost everyone has been affected, be it through illness, losing loved ones or jobs or being confined at home. Cancelled: Career Consultations - Cambridge 8 November 2019 08:15-16:00, Cambridge, United Kingdom This event is for RSC Members only. Cambridge Assessment International Education (CAIE) has announced the schedule for its October-November 2020 examinations around the world, … Quick NetOne, Telecel, Africom, And Econet Airtime Recharge Khadija Mohammed started this petition to Cambridge international examinations and The British council and 1 other. The latest update was on 2 October 2020 to reflect that the Budget had been cancelled … Filter events. The exams for both O and A levels are held in the same months i.e. If you're taking this dicision then take retakes of May/June students this is not equality we've been going through same situation that May/June students we're going through this is tottaly unfair with Oct/Nov students. “If a student does not feel comfortable or ready to take exams at this time, they can withdraw their entry through their school, or through the British Council if they are a private candidate. This is totally unfair with students we're students from the same batch that May/June students were they were given opptions so that they could relax their mind and move forword for their future studies but what about us.
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Y ou may have seen paddy or wheat fields with r ows and rows of plants, which give us these grains (Fig. It is likely that Pilaf was invented in India some time after the ⦠Rice is a plant on its own. It originates from the pre 7th century Olde English personal name Ris or Rhys, meaning "ardour or sometimes "fiery warrior". Itâs thought that pesticides banned back in the 1980âs left higher-than-natural levels of arsenic in the soil, and certain animal feed and fertilizers made from poultry waste continue to do the same. 3 hours ago Where Does the Arsenic in Rice, Mushrooms, and Wine Come From? Rice Imports into Iran Below are the top 7 suppliers from which Iran imported ⦠âA lot of the ingredients come from the same places that you and I get our food from,â explains Dave. 4.57 (91.49%) 94 votes What happens when our crops are grown in soil contaminated with arsenic-based pesticides and arsenic drug-laced chicken manure? Rice provides 20% of the worldâs dietary energy supply, while wheat supplies 19% and maize (corn) 5%. Find answers to frequently asked questions regarding cooking, purchasing, and storage as well as general Q&A of Minute products. Rice comes in long-grain, medium- and short-grain textures. The grain known as wild rice, despite its name, comes from a ⦠Rice is not native to the Americas but was introduced to Latin America and the Caribbean by European colonizers at an early date with Spanish colonizers introducing Asian rice to Mexico in the 1520s at Veracruz and the Portuguese and their African slaves introducing it at about the same time to Colonial Brazil. 53129 Bonn Germany, Tel: +49 (0) 228 949230 Where Does the Arsenic in Rice, Mushrooms, & Wine Come From? There is also rice vinegar (made from rice, duh), malt vinegar (made from barley) and cider vinegar (made from apples). Where does it all come from though? Rice production is concentrated in the eastern half of the state, stretching from the Louisiana to the Missouri borders. to 1400 B.C. Rice thatâs grown organically takes up arsenic the same way conventional rice does, so donât rely on organic to have less arsenic. It belongs to the grass family. Itâs a mealtime favourite for many of us and a staple food for billions worldwide. What are the sources of rice or wheat? Rice is a grain that is the main food of about half the worldâs population. Black rice is no longer forbidden, but it is cultivated in relatively small amounts, compared to other types rice varieties.The whole grain rice also packs umpteen health benefits. However if I were to guess Iâd say India, which not only has an ancient rice culture, but also an ancient sugar culture. Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnamare important producers. While specifically talking about the origin, we researched about it and found a journal published by ⦠But if you are wondering where does lice come from as in from where it all started then continue reading as you will find plenty of new and interesting information in this article. HOT. East-coast rice farming required hard, skilled work under extremely unhealthy conditions, and without slave labour, profits fell. Early History of the Rice family. It has all the bran and outer husk intact, so it has more fiber and more nutrients such as vitamins. plant. Since 2014, Fairtrade farmers and workers have received well over half a billion euros in Fairtrade Premium. Most rice comes from India, China Pakistan , Bangladesh, Japan Only Rice comes from the rice plant. Meanwhile, soil fertility in the east fell, especially for inland rice. Rice is two species in the Poaceae ("true grass") family, Oryza sativa and Oryza glaberrima. Before rice can be planted, the soil should be in the best physical condition for crop growth and the soil surface is level. Fax: +49 (0) 228 2421713 It doesnât matter how much that pet cost. Nutrients provided by rice include carbohydrate, B vitamins (e.g., thiamin, riboflavin, niacin and folate), iron, zinc, magnesium and other components such as fibre. Only Rice comes from the rice The Fairtrade Premium is an extra sum of money paid on top of the selling price that farmers or workers invest in projects of their choice. It comes from the color of rice. This is a unique benefit enabled by your decision to buy Fairtrade products. On top of the price received, Fairtrade producers earn a Fairtrade Premium that can be invested into activities and projects they choose. We also work with rice farmers in India who donât yet have the structures needed to get certified as small producers. Where does your rice come from? Global rice prices are highly volatile and often do not enable farmers to meet even their basic needs. Wheat and corn straight from the Midwest, Americaâs breadbasket. There are many countries that grow basmati rice domestically, but it was originally cultivated and grown in India and Pakistan. So how does arsenic, the preferred poison of political assassins in the Middle Ages, get into rice in the first place? Rice grown in California has 40 percent less arsenic than rice grown in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Texas. NutritionFacts does not sell food, supplements or vitamins and does not accept advertising. By supporting democratic organizations of small farmers, Fairtrade encourages a stronger, more unified voice for farmers in trade relations. Arkansas rice is known for its versatility, used in a wide variety of cuisines. If you wish to look deep into the heart of the rice industry, look south. When did organ music become associated with baseball? No Result . The origin of this delicious dish is still hotly debated on several forums and social media and now I have been getting this question in my email from FoodsNG readers. Our basmati rice is In 2018/19, Indonesia produced 36.70 million metric tons of rice. Both the Premium and the Minimum Price vary for production region and type of rice, and are regularly revised. Black rice does provide many health benefits that we are just finding out about now; including prevention and treatment of very serious ailments. Rice is a plant on its own. Each year, 18 billion pounds of rice are grown and harvested by local farmers in Arkansas, California, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri and Texas. Submit. When arsenic-containing medicine are fed to chickens, not solely does the arsenic develop out into their feathers, that are then fed again to them as a slaughterhouse byproduct, however the arsenic may also get into their You may be surprised Is it common to have the medicine come out your nose after a tonsillectomy? What are the release dates for The Wonder Pets - 2006 Save the Ladybug? Land preparation involves plowing and harrowing to âtillâ or dig-up, mix and level the soil. The overall value of rice imports for all buyer countries fell by an average -4.4% since 2015 when worldwide rice purchases were valued at $22.8 billion. Grains Lower in Arsenic. Well, a lot more of it comes from abroad than you might think. Paella Pan. He does not think that Rice was introduced into the southern states of Louisiana and east Texas in the mid-19th century. A farmer carrying bundled rice at the Fairtrade The Minimum Price aims to cover the costs of sustainable production. What happens when our crops are grown in soil contaminated with arsenic-based pesticides and arsenic drug-laced chicken manure?. Rice is also grown in Australia and Italy. Arsenic is a naturally occurring metalloid in the soil, but the presence of arsenic in some areas has been increased as a result of human activity such as the past use of arsenic-based pesticides in conventional agriculture. It grows easily in your backyard, in a garden bed or in buckets, given the right amount of soil, water, and other nutrients. Small-scale farmers frequently go into debt during the yearly production cycle, and their products face competition from the highly subsidized rice grown on an industrial scale in developed countries. There have been a lot of arguments about where in Africa Jollof Rice came from as a lot of people from a number of African countries have claimed that Jollof rice originated from their countries. Each type of vinegar has a very different, and useful purpose. If you are on someone like white on rice, you are watching that person closely. Its scientific name is Oryza sativa . Bonner Talweg 177 Nearly 85% of the rice we eat in the USA is grown by American farmers. Fairtrade International Its scientific name is Oryza sativa . Who invented jollof rice? Mr. Busch is not opposed to the use of corn, though he uses none himself. We love food. Rice Settlers in United States in the 17th Century Henry Rice who settled in Virginia in 1622 Ann Rice, aged 23, who landed in Virginia in 1635 Edmund Rice (c.1594â1663), English Deacon in the Puritan Church, born inSuffolk Log into your account. Rice grows wild in south-east Asia and this is where rice originated from. That dark color is due to an excess of anthocyanin, a powerful antioxidant thatâs the culprit for most darkly colored plants. 2 days ago Healthy Recipe: Forbidden Rice Porridge with Pomegranate & Roasted Pears 2 days ago Exogenous Ketones ð« My Take⦠This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Rice research. your username. All Rights Reserved. Why not cook up a fair deal for farmers along with your meal? How to Grow Rice. By Dan Nosowitz on October 5, 2015 Oct 05, 2015 Dan Nosowitz A new study examines the genome to try to track this sinister-sounding rice back to its source. Well, a lot more of it comes from abroad than you might think. These countries make up about 3.5 percent of the rice imports into the United States. Wild rice in not officially classified as rice, but is in fact a different type of grass that grows a long stalk and thrives in deep water. What Is Black Rice, and Where Did It Come From? Rice Anatomy. ⦠Why don't libraries smell like bookstores? Nearly half of the worldâs population eat rice as part of their staple diet. Wild Rice. Underneath is the nutritious whole grain, which may be brown, reddish or even black, depending on the color of the bran layers. Rice is a versatile and nutritious food you almost certainly have in your home. What will be the internet tld for kosovo? £5,440,656,736 worth of it in six months, to be precise. When arsenic-containing drugs are fed to chickens, not only does the arsenic grow out into their feathers, which are then fed back to them as a slaughterhouse byproduct, but the arsenic can also get into their tissues and then into our tissues when we eat eggs or meat, a cycle depicted at the start of my video Where Does the Arsenic in Rice, Mushrooms, and Wine Come From?. When arsenic-containing medicine are fed to chickens, not solely does the arsenic develop out into their feathers, that are then fed again to them as a slaughterhouse byproduct, however the arsenic may get into their tissues and then into our tissues once we eat eggs or meat, a cycle depicted at the start of my video Where Does the Arsenic in Rice, Mushrooms, and Wine Come From?. It is twice as expensive as barley malt. Instead, they have formed contract producer organizations, selling their produce to an intermediary that supports them to become Fairtrade small producer organizations over time. We purchase our rice from farmers in Arkansas, California, Florida, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, and Texas. A new study found arsenic in 200 samples of both conventional and organic rice and rice products. That being the case it stands to reason that rice pudding was first invented in China where rice was first cultivated on a large scale. Fairtrade certified rice producers are paid a Fairtrade Minimum Price that acts as a buffer against falling prices. Copyright © 2020 Multiply Media, LLC. They decide together and democratically how to spend the Fairtrade Premium to reach their goals, such as improving their farming, businesses, or health and education in their community. to ancient China where crushed ice was flavored with fruit juices. Rainfed upland rice covers about 14 million hectares but, because of many constraints, the productivity from these areas is typically low with yields of about 1 t/ha. Upland rice contributes only about 4% of the worldâs total rice production. Black rice comes in a few different forms; often itâs a glutinous variety, but there are black jasmine rice varieties as well. Through trading, rice spread throughout Asia and to Africa. If you mean, where does it come from compared to white rice: brown rice is a whole grain that has not been refined. The U.S. rice industry is unique in its ability to produce all types of riceâlong, medium and short grain, as well as aromatic and specialty varieties. Rice is used not to cheapen beer, but to produce a very pale beer of the Bohemian type. Rice cultivation spread to Southern India and then into the Fertile Crescent setting the stage for an ancient creative collision of grain & technique that still resonates for us today. When it comes from the growing field, each grain of rice is enclosed in a tough hull, or husk, which must be removed. âGrain from Georgia. Rice does not have sodium or cholesterol and barely any fat. Another 115 words (8 lines of text) covering the years 1548, 1579, 1637, 1715 and are included under the topic Early Rice History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Fairtrade works with farmers in developing countries whose average plots are a few football fields in size, enabling them to gain a foothold in the global market. 1.2b). Fairtrade products are widely available. Vegan Gingerbread Men Cookies â Gluten-free & Grain-free. It is enjoyed in the United States and throughout the world. Year over year, global rice imports depreciated by -17.6% from 2018 to 2019. Now, mushrooms are only averaging about half the arsenic content as rice, as you can see at 3:37 in my video. Rainfed upland rice is grown much like wheat or maize, in mixed farming systems without irrigation and without puddling. So how does arsenic, the preferred poison of political assassins in the Middle Ages, get into rice in the first place? Rice Itâs a mealtime favourite for many of us and a staple food for billions worldwide. Where Does the Arsenic in Rice, Mushrooms, and Wine Come From? Arkansas ranks first among rice-producing states, accounting for more than 40% of U.S. rice productionâprimarily long and medium grain varieties. These plants are native to tropical and subtropical southern and southeastern Asia and in Africa. Low returns on their products can prevent rice farmers from making necessary investments, such as equipment to simplify the hard manual labour involved in harvesting, or storage facilities to limit spoilage and waste. Thatâs a bit of a toughie. 1.3). What happens when our crops are grown in soil contaminated with arsenic-based pesticides and arsenic drug-laced chicken manure?When ⦠Fairtrade works with small-scale rice farmers who have formed democratically governed small producer organizations. You may wonder where head lice originated, and why they affect human beings. Where Does the Arsenic in Rice, Mushrooms, and Wine Come From? The major producers of rice in the world are China, India, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, Philippines, Brazil, Japan, USA, Pakistan, and the Republic of Korea (in this order). Avoiding diseases and conditions such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure, and others is surely a great ⦠When arsenic-containing medicine are fed to chickens, not solely does the arsenic develop out into their feathers, that are then fed again to them as a slaughterhouse byproduct, however the arsenic also can get into their tissues after which into our tissues once we eat eggs or meat, a cycle depicted in the beginning of my video Where Does the Arsenic in Rice, Mushrooms, and Wine Come From?. Rice (father), a Cornell University economics professor, and the second black governor of the Federal Reserve System, and education policy scholar Lois Rice (mother). She has a brother named John. It belongs to the grass family. Yet the small-scale farmers who grow most of the worldâs rice are struggling to make ends meet. A good paella pan is large and flat to encourage the evaporation of stock, and the development of a good socarrat.In fact, the pan is so important to the dish that itâs where the name comes from! Fairtrade covers almost a dozen rice varieties in both organic and conventional form. Does pumpkin pie need to be refrigerated? Farmers and workers know best what their priorities and needs are. This example shows two college students using the idiom while discussing an unwelcome acquaintance. Rice is grown by approximately 77% of all farmers, who typically use a sickle or knife to harvest the crops. Choose Fairtrade rice. Just like some mushrooms have less arsenic than others, some rice has less. When arsenic-containing medicine are fed to chickens, not solely does the arsenic develop out into their feathers, that are then fed again to them as a slaughterhouse byproduct, however the arsenic may also get into their tissues [...] Wednesday, December 2, 2020. Email us, Sign up for our newsletter What form of id do you need 2 visit rikers island? Where does the arsenic in rice come from? Uncooked white rice Global purchases of imported rice totaled an estimated US$21.8 billion in 2019. Extra long grain White Rice is a family favorite, versatile to use for every dish no matter what the occasion.As a trusted family brand, our White Rice is Gluten Free, Non-GMO Project Verified, made with no added preservatives and free of MSG.. How To Cook White Rice. and other Asian countries. £5,440,656,736 worth of it in six months, to be precise. Almost two-thirds of the worldâs total upland rice area is in Asia. The material on this site can not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with prior written permission of Multiply. Rice is produced by smallholder farmers rather than state-owned enterprises - 90% of Indonesiaâs rice production comes from smallholder farms. Where does it all come from though? Upland rice contributes only abo⦠Here's everything you need to know about some of the most common cooking vinegars: 1. Examples of Like White on Rice. Black rice or the forbidden rice (Chinese) is a rare and a very old variety of rice that has been growing in ⦠The grain known as wild rice, despite its name, comes from a ⦠Learn more about where lice come from, as well as the basics of transmission. The ideal proportion for cooking White Rice is 2:1, which means 2 cups of water per each cup of rice. Emancipation in 1863 freed rice workers. Many west African countries claim this popular dish as their own, but where does it really come from? Get a good socarrat crust on the bottom to bring Spaniards to tears of joy! Their websites often include a product finder to show you the full variety of Fairtrade products near you. And then, there are food items like milk, eggs and meat, which come from animals (Fig. What does struck out mean from the county court? 2. Most rice comes from India, China Pakistan, Bangladesh, Japan and other Asian countries. The color of rice, and rice itself, are so closely intertwined that they are inextricable. The ecosystem is extremely diverse, including fields that are level, gently rolling or steep, at altitudes up to 2,000 meters and with rainfall ranging from 1,000 to 4,500 mm annually. A female rice weevil can lay up to 300 eggs during her lifetime, so its pretty easy to see how this can happen. This amount of fruit and veg came from all over the world, with almost a fifth (19%) of British fruit and veg imports coming from Spain, 11% being exported from the Netherlands and 5% coming from South Africa. Tillage allows the seeds to be planted at the right depth, and also helps with weed control. Even if there isn't a Fairtrade organization where you live, Fairtrade products may still be available â look for our familiar marks on products! Whether itâs Basmati from the Himalayan foothills, Jasmine rice from Thailand, Arborio from the Po Valley or long grain from Northeastern Spain.From paddy to plate, we make sure that we pour all our love and energy into producing the perfect rice. Rice also spread into Europe via the armies of Alexander the Great. This amount of fruit and veg came from all over the world, with almost a fifth (19%) of British fruit and veg imports coming from Spain, 11% being exported from the Netherlands and 5% coming from South Africa. Susan Rice was born as Susan Elizabeth Rice on November 17, 1964, in Washington, D.C. to parents, Emmett J. Fairtrade recognizes these challenges, and supports small-scale rice farmers in a variety of ways to respond to them. your password Rice is also grown in Australia and Italy. Forget the toppings, paella is all about that rice. Welcome! The changing climate is threatening to flood rice farms near major river deltas, while elsewhere heavy rains or droughts are already causing crop failures. Grain gruels are the oldest prepared foods on the the planet. It All Starts with Ice A forerunner of ice cream, as we know it today, can be traced back as far as 3000 B.C. Most likely, they were from the rice fields and made its way to your home starting off as eggs. Yet the small-scale farmers who grow most of the worldâs rice are struggling to make ends meet. ... scooping up food for a dog I thought the world of. India FACLM. The science also has big implications about our farming practices -- and their chemical legacies. Recorded as Rice, Ryce, Rhys, Reasce, Reece, Rees and Reese, this is regarded as a Welsh surname but is equally English. Where Does Basmati Rice Come From? NUTRITIONFACTS.ORG is a strictly non-commercial, science-based public service provided by Dr. Michael Greger, providing free updates on the latest in nutrition research via bite-sized videos. Our jasmine rice is imported from the country of Thailand. Meat from facilities certified by the U.S.D.A. They separated when she was 10 years old. Arsenic in rice: Where does it come from? Around 2,000 B.C. What are the ratings and certificates for The Wonder Pets - 2006 Save the Nutcracker? Nearly 100 million people depend on the production of rice from rainfed upland regions to provide them with rice to eat as their daily staple food. Due to colonization and the slave trade rice was introduced into the United States. The blue countries and territories on the map below have Fairtrade organizations that promote Fairtrade products. Is there a way to search all eBay sites for different countries at once? While arsenic can naturally end up in soil or water from minerals in the earth, the high levels in rice are â shocker â our fault. Rice is a grain that is the main food of about half the worldâs population. nutritionfacts.org - Michael Greger M.D.
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Events over the past two weeks have evolved rapidly, upending the way that we all live and operate in our daily lives. Because of the speed at which developments have occurred, it has been difficult to react in real-time. On March 6, TxABA announced that we would hold our conference as planned. Less than a week later, on March 12, we announced that our Executive Council was meeting to determine how to respond to the ever-evolving situation.
Since our last update, the city of San Antonio placed a 7-day ban on events of more than 500 people, and the CDC changed their guidelines to recommend that all gatherings of more than 50 people be canceled or postponed. TxABA recognizes the risk that the COVID-19 pandemic poses, and we are dedicated to preserving the health and safety of our community. Therefore, our Executive Council announces today that TxABA will not hold an in-person conference. Instead, we will be live streaming our conference presentations on the days (April 24-26, 2020) and at the times we had originally planned.
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We would like to thank you all for your patience during these tumultuous times while we determined how to respond. We are grateful to have the opportunity to continue to hold the Annual TxABA Conference, and we are excited to explore a new avenue for supporting our community.
The TxABA Executive Council
Accessing Your CEU Certificate
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Spiders inspire improved nanofiber-handling tech
Spiders inspire improved nanof...
The lace weaver spider, known for its bristly web
Ben Sale/C.C. 2.0
A microscope image of the nanoripples on a pair of calamistrum bristles
Nanofibers have found use in numerous applications, ranging from lightweight car parts to high-strength materials. Now, thanks to a new understanding of a certain group of spiders, they may soon be easier to work with.
Although most spiders' webs consist of smooth silk threads coated in a sticky natural glue, cribellate spiders do things differently. The threads of their webs are more like a "bristly wool," that actually gets embedded into the bodies of their prey.
As the spiders are making their webs, they excrete thousands of silk nanofibers from their abdomen. Utilizing two rows of specialized rear-leg bristles known as the calamistrum, they grasp those fibers and "comb" them together to form the threads. The spiders themselves don't get caught on those threads as they're making them.
In order to get a better idea of why they don't, an international team of scientists started by shaving the calamistrum off of cribellate "lace weaver" spiders. When they subsequently examined the rear legs of the arachnids after the animals had done some web-building, the researchers noted a buildup of silk nanofibers. This suggested that the calamistrum not only helps comb the fibers, but also prevents them from sticking to the spider.
Additionally, the team found that the surface of each calamistrum bristle was covered in a fingerprint-like pattern of nanoripples. Tests showed that by minimizing the total contact area between the nanofibers and the bristle, those ripples reduced adhesive van der Waals forces, thus keeping the fibers from sticking.
The scientists proceeded to laser-etch similar patterns onto poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) foils, which they then coated with a thin layer of gold. When those foils were subsequently pressed against spider silk, they resisted sticking almost as effectively as an actual calamistrum.
It is now hoped that the technology could be put to use in tools that would allow for the simpler and easier handling of human-made nanofibers, making them more practical for widespread use.
A paper on the research, which was led by Dr. Anna-Christin Joel of Germany's Aachen University, was recently published in the journal ACS Applied Nano Materials.
Source: American Chemical Society via EurekAlert
MaterialsSpidersSilkBiomimicryAmerican Chemical SocietyRWTH Aachen UniversityNanotechnologyFiberNew Atlas Audio
ljaques April 24, 2020 09:45 AM
Anything in the nano field has to be really challenging. Kudos to Dr. Joel and crew on the breakthrough.
Ancient Roman concrete mineral found strengthening nuclear reactor walls
New catalyst converts common plastic waste into fuels and wax
Liquid glass discovered as new state of matter
Safety coating causes heat-damaged ropes to change color
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Fakultet for samfunns- og utdanningsvitenskap (SU)
Institutt for pedagogikk og livslang læring
Perspectives and experiences on young people´s work in small-scale gold mining in Amansie West District of Ghana
Osei-Tutu, Jonah
Osei-Tutu Jonah.pdf (Locked)
Institutt for pedagogikk og livslang læring [1859]
The recent resurgence in small-scale mining activities in Ghana has coincided with falling
standards of education. This has led to public concerns about the participation of young
people of school-going age in the mining work. The continuous engagement of young people
in the mining work is perceived to make efforts to improve enrolment and performance in
schools futile. The response at the governmental level, therefore, has been to ensure the
application of international and national legislations which seek to prevent young people's
participation in mining activities. This is what has made it necessary to listen to the side of
the story of the young workers in particular. This study, therefore, aims to look at the
perspectives and experiences of young workers and other stakeholders on the issue.
The main theoretical perspective underpinning the study is the Social Studies of Children and
Childhood, with its fundamental tenets. The actor-oriented perspective positions young
people as competent social actors who contribute essential social and economic resources
towards the livelihoods of their households. The young participants constitute the principal
informants, along with other significant adults. As a qualitative study, multiple participatory
methods were used to collect data from the participants. These include individual interviews,
observations, focus groups discussion, essay writing, attitude survey, and recall chart. The
fieldwork was conducted in the Amansie West District, using three schools from three
different communities. Four parents, three teachers, two government workers and two
community leaders were recruited as adult informants in addition to ten young workers who
were the main participants of the research.
The study found economic hardship as the main reason for young people's participation in
mining work. Other reasons such as unstable employment and/or irregular income, large
household/family size, parental separation and migration, as well as reasons bordering on
culture were also found to contribute to the phenomenon. The findings underscore the
importance of work in the lives of young workers and their households by benefiting them in
diverse ways. The decision-making process leading to young people's mining work is largely
a collective (family) one. Against the backdrop of work-school incompatibility, the findings
disfavour the conventional stance on abolitionism, revealing that young workers use the bulk
of their mining earnings to support their education. The tension between securing
individual/household livelihoods vis-a-vis broad societal interest pursued through legislations
is highlighted. Young people's mining work or its abolition were found to carry implications
for educational pursuit as well as both present and future livelihoods and economic prospects.
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News from Nutrition 2019
Welcome to Nutrition 2019
June 8, 2019 by ASN Staff
American Society for Nutrition’s Board of Directors welcomes you to Baltimore, Maryland for our annual scientific sessions and annual meeting, Nutrition 2019!
A Letter from ASN President
This is the second year for the ultimate nutrition conference from ASN, and I’m thrilled that so many of you are return attendees. For first-time attendees, get ready to hear from great minds, be updated on timely topics, and be immersed in excellent science! Over the next few days, you will experience the best and latest original science, scientific symposia and educational sessions, special lectures, networking and collaboration, career development opportunities, and more.There is so much to do and see! Here are a few suggestions: Hear experts weigh in on hot areas such as nutritional microbiology, big data analytics, nutrition-related health effects of cannabis, animal protein sources, meal timing and circadian rhythms, omics in nutrition, delivery of micronutrients to populations and much more in our featured symposia. Explore our pre-conferences and sponsored satellite programs spanning content from complementary feeding to policy innovations. Drop in the From Research to Practice clinical programming to hear the latest on practice-changing science. Network with leaders from federal agencies in the Connect with the Fed activities. Brush up on skills in a professional development workshop. Be sure to visit The Hub, where you’ll find exhibits, posters, the poster theater, science stage for exhibitor presentations, ASN Live!, and great casual meeting places where you can catch up with old friends and get to know new friends. Lunch will be provided Sunday and Monday in the Hub, and I encourage you to join us for the Opening Reception in the Hub on Saturday.
To get the most out of Nutrition 2019, you’ll want to refer to the Schedule at a Glance often, and make sure you’ve downloaded the event app onto your mobile device. ASN staff are also available to answer any questions. Visit us in booth #210 or at the Information Desk, on the Sharp Terrace, 300 Level. Get ready to learn, be inspired, and most of all, have fun!
Catherine Field, PhD, RD, ASN President
First day of programming
Numerous learning and networking opportunities await. Saturday highlights include:
A full day of microbiome programming starting at 8:00 AM and culminating with the Opening Session and Presidential Symposium: You Are What Your Microbes Eat (3:30 PM, Ballroom I/II). (see page 1)
Saturday Posters: Posters will be on display (8:00 AM – 5:00 PM) in Halls A and B and poster presentations will take place between 11:00 AM and 1:00 PM. Topics include: Obesity, Diet Composition, Food Environment, Food Security, Global Nutrition I, and Nutritional Epidemiology I.
“Super Saturday” Award Competitions
Day 1 of the From Research to Practice Clinical Track (8:00 AM, Ballroom III)
Sponsored Satellite Programs: Future of Dietary Supplements Regulations (7:00 AM, Room 307/308, breakfast); Nutrients, Foods, Diets, People: Promoting Health Eating (11:00 AM, Ballroom IV, refreshments); Olive Oil-Supplemented Diet: Impacts on Cancer, Diabetes and Cardiovascular Health (11:00 AM, Room 307/308, lunch); and Optimizing Adult Protein Intake During Catabolic Health Conditions (11:00 AM, Room 309/310, lunch)
Big Data and Innovative Trial Design for Global Nutrition Research (1:30 PM, Ballroom IV)
Nutrition 2019 Orientation for first timers or anyone wanting to get the lay of the land (2:00 PM, Room 325)
Join us for the Opening Reception (5:30 PM, The Hub), visit the Nutrition 2019 exhibitors and network with nutrition professionals from around the world.
Physicians and medical students are invited to the National Board of Physician Nutrition Specialists Reception (6:00 PM, Science Stage in The Hub)
For details on these and other exciting activities, utilize the Nutrition 2019 app, printed Schedule at a Glance, and/or the online Schedule Planner.
Workshop Attendees Eat Up NHANES Data
The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2015-2016 What We Eat in America report is packed with data that’s important for nutrition research. But this data can be difficult to sort through. That’s one reason why Friday’s preconference workshop, Using National Dietary Data: Building Blocks to Expand Your Research Portfolio, was a sellout.
“There were 144 registered attendees with 16 countries, in addition to the U.S., represented,” said work-shop chair Alanna Moshfegh, MS, RD. Moshfegh works with the Food Surveys Research Group, Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center, USDA, and directed the What We Eat in America (WWEIA) survey. Attendees received a USB drive loaded with 35 documents about the WWEIA survey and analysis pro-grams. Topics included:
Key Points in Using WWEIA, NHANES 2015-2016
CDC’s Second Nutrition Report At-A-Glance Factsheet
Food and Nutrient Database for Dietary Studies 2015-2016 At-A-Glance
What’s In The Foods You Eat Search Tool 2015-2016 Factsheet
Usual Nutrient Intake from Food and Beverages, by Gender and Age, What We Eat in America, NHANES 2013-2016 Table A
NHANES 2015-2016 Data Documentation, Codebook, and Frequencies, Demographic Variables and Sample Weights (DEMO_I)
NHANES Analytic Guidelines, 2011-2016The four-hour workshop was designed to be hands-on, with attendees scrolling through databases
The four-hour workshop was designed to be hands-on, with attendees scrolling through databases on their laptops and tablets as speakers provided “building blocks” for using WWEIA dietary intake data in nutrition practice and research.
Moshfegh and Ana Terry, MS, RD, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, kicked off the workshop with a discussion of the essentials of NHANES dietary data. Topics included key points for using WWEIA data and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s automated multiple-pass method.
That was followed by an in-depth look at the various NHANES databases. Donna Rhodes, MS, RD, USDA, helped attendees understand the USDA’s Food and Nutrient Database for Dietary Studies, the USDA’s Food Patterns Equivalents Database, WWEIA Food Categories, and WWEIA facts and figures.
The final session focused on practical applications for dietary data analysis. Suzanne Morton, MPH, MBA, American Society for Nutrition, discussed how attendees can use WWEIA data files and structure, and build files for analysis.
“Attendees gained a comprehensive understanding of national dietary data, were informed of key points for using the data, and were provided extensive resources for data analysis,” Moshfegh said.
Presidential Symposium will include cutting-edge microbiome research
The microbiome is such an important topic in the nutrition world that ASN President Catherine Field, PhD, RD, is refer-ring to Saturday as “Nutrition and the Microbiome Day,” and has de-voted her Presidential Symposium to a closer examination of microbes in the diet.
Nutrition and the Microbiome Day kicks off at 8:00 AM with a series of oral presentations during the Gut Microbiome: Pediatric Studies session in Ballroom IV. That’s followed by the Advances in Nutritional Microbiology: From Fundamental Microbiome Science to Applications session from 1:00 to 3:00 PM in Ballroom I/II. And the capstone is the Presidential Symposium, “You Are What Your Microbes Eat,” which will be held from 3:30 to 5:15 PM in Ballroom I/II.
“The Symposium will feature new information on how diet and the microbiome influence each other, and the effect of geographical relocation on the composition of the microbiome,” Fields said.
Fields said she chose the topic because she works with several microbiome teams, “so the research is close to my heart.” And based on attendance at other ASN microbiome sessions, it’s close to many other members’ hearts as well.
“The symposium sessions on this topic at the previous two meetings of our society have been completely full, with many attendees being turned away,” she said. “This confirmed my idea that this was the right topic.
”The Presidential Symposium will be moderated by David Sela, PhD, University of Massachusetts. “Dr. Sela is a rising star in this field and a future leader in ASN,” Field said. “He played a major role on the pro-gram committee for Nutrition 2019.”
There will also be two speakers:
Dan Knights, PhD, University of Minnesota, will discuss the “Effects of Diet and Migration on the Human Microbiome.”
Peter James Turnbaugh, PhD, University of California, San Francisco, will talk about “Eating for Two Trillion: Pros and Cons of Diet-Induced Shifts in the Gut Microbiome.
”Knights and Turnbaugh are “two of the most recognized and productive early- to mid-career researchers in the field of the microbiome,” Fields said.
“One of my presidential priorities was to try and focus on career-building opportunities within the society for early and mid-career researchers. That’s why this symposium has a moderator and two speakers who are superstar scientists early in their careers.
”Fields notes that Knights and Turnbaugh don’t normally attend ASN Nutrition meetings. “David [Sela] and I are hoping that they may find our conference to be a good place for them and their trainees to present their future research,” she said.
Strengthening Nutrition Research
As a global organization with more than 7,500 nutrition researcher members, opportunities to strengthen nutrition research are of utmost importance
Strengthening Nutrition Research: The Role of a National Institute of Nutrition
At the American Society for Nutrition’s annual meeting, Nutrition 2019, a panel discussion was held to discuss the proposed National
Nutrition 2019: A Student Experience
As a student member of ASN, I was able to attend the American Society for Nutrition’s annual conference this year!
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Regs hit takeout bikes
By Sally Goldenberg
October 12, 2012 | 4:00am
New Yorkers who love their takeout, but not the rogue cyclists who deliver it, can look forward to a new menu of city regulations intended to crack down on the two-wheeled terrors.
Mayor Bloomberg plans to sign into law a package of bills that subjects commercial cyclists to a series of new or strengthened safety regulations passed yesterday by the City Council.
One bill requires that businesses force their delivery cyclists to take a safety course. The city Department of Transportation must post information about the course on its Web site.
Another mandates that bikers wear reflective vests bearing their companies’ names so residents who witness them speeding or running red lights can call their bosses to complain.
The council also passed a measure giving the DOT the power to issue civil fines of at least $100 to bikers who do not wear helmets and vests and do not carry identification. Presently, only the NYPD can enforce those rules through criminal charges, and cyclists are largely unregulated.
Violations would be set at $250 if the same offense occurs 30 days after the original summons.
The DOT has a six-person team charged with patrolling the city for delivery bikers breaking these rules.
Guard describes grisly scene of castration murder
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Identité et diversité culturelle et linguistique - Bibliographie
Language, Identity and Symbolic Culture
Edited by David Evans
Bloomsbury, 28.11.2019, ISBN: 9781350141629
Language is integral to the construction of personal, socio-cultural and socio-political identities. Language, Identity and Symbolic Culture closely investigates the relationship between language and identities, offering a comprehensive yet progressive view of how linguistics relates to development and education, both in theoretical and real world applications.
Progressing from a theoretical core examining the connection between language and individual identity, this book moves on to look at the wider socio-political discourse involving the marginalization and resistance of communities in the world. Beginning with the philosophical paradigms of language, Evans questions whether language shapes personal identities in its daily use or whether language is simply a tool for describing, rather than creating, the world. Extrapolating on this, the contributors utilise case studies from across the globe to see how these linguistic perspectives are played out in the real world, considering the role of language in issues surrounding power, colonization, marginalization and education.
Language, Identity and Symbolic Culture offers a view of language identity conflicts around the world and an understanding of the opportunities of political and cultural emancipation created through language and open discourse.
Table of contents...
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Why Did Stuart Do It? And Other Random Questions
By Sara Nelson • 07/28/03 12:00am
Since summer is slow in publishing-a few blockbusters courtesy of Hillary and Harry Potter notwithstanding-it should come as no surprise that Sunday’s New York Times Magazine piece about Random House made a sound in the forest even before it officially fell. But even by publishing’s high-decibel-chatter standards, the noise has been loud. Faxed versions of the article-including poorly faxed copies that cut off whole columns-began flying between offices last week. You couldn’t get an editor or an agent on the phone without someone bringing up Lynn Hirschberg’s “shocking” (most said) or “delicious” (depending on your relationship with Random House) piece about Peter Olson, the Random chief executive who was last in the news when he fired Little Random editor and publisher Ann Godoff last winter.
And it wasn’t just publishing insiders that were talking. A young schoolteacher who lives in my building saw me carrying the magazine to my office on Monday morning and without preamble opined, “That was a hell of a piece about that creep at Random House.”
In case you’ve already started your vacation in a place where there is neither Internet nor phone nor fax nor Times delivery, here are the basics: Lynn Hirschberg, a veteran journalist known for razor-sharp profiles of everyone from former ABC entertainment head Jamie Tarses (who may have lost her job partly because she was portrayed as childish and willful in Ms. Hirschberg’s Times Magazine piece of July 13, 1997) to Bette Midler (whose eponymous sit-com bombed soon thereafter), spent weeks with Peter Olson around the time of Book Expo America in L.A. in May. She quoted him liberally there and back in New York, and also interviewed many publishing insiders, including Knopf honcho Sonny Mehta and at least one unnamed former executive of Bertelsmann, R.H.’s parent company. She even got her hands on the embarrassing book proposal that Mr. Olson’s new wife, the former Candice Carpenter, put into circulation a few months back.
The result: a profile of a man who smirks at a reference to his brutal firing of Ms. Godoff; an executive who chats up fellow publishers and then, sotto voce , makes fun of the way they run their businesses and sometimes even the way they talk; a guy who brags about all the people whose careers he has off-loaded, like some trashy old lech who points to a woman he’s bedded and says, “I’ve had her.”
The idea behind assigning the piece-what Times Magazine editors must surely have conceived it to be-was to look into the “new” lean and mean Random House, and the future of publishing in general. But most insiders see the result in starker terms: It’s either a hatchet job (say those few who like Mr. Olson) or a vindication (for those many publishing types who don’t).
This being publishing, of course, no one will go on the record, but here are the questions that come up in every conversation:
Question No. 1: How could Random House have allowed this piece to happen in the first place?
As anybody who has ever been on the publishing beat can tell you, the gates to Random House are guarded by the fiercest Cerberus in town, corporate spokesman Stuart Applebaum. Exactly no one in the company will submit to a profile without his consent, and even The New York Times would have had to win Mr. Applebaum’s blessing to get access to Mr. Olson. So how did Ms. Hirschberg-known to everyone as a tough reporter with no particular ties to the publishing business-get past him? Simple, said one publishing insider: “They thought it was going to be a slam-dunk.” Reading the piece closely and figuring the timing, you can almost see why: Many of Ms. Hirschberg’s scenes take place at B.E.A., where it was expected to be announced that Random House was buying the AOL Time Warner book division. (The purchase ultimately fell through, as Ms. Hirschberg reports.) “If Olson had closed the deal, he would have come off as king of the world,” one publisher pointed out. And that was an image that would have been irresistible.
When I talked to Mr. Applebaum about this, he denied that the then seemingly imminent R.H.-AOL merger had anything to do with his decision to introduce Mr. Olson to Ms. Hirschberg. He also said, several times, that Random House has already put the piece behind it. He did admit, however, to “disappoint[ment]” with the story, and pointed out that for a piece that was supposed to be about the company’s profitability, there wasn’t “a syllable of quantification of that.”
But since I’d asked, Mr. Applebaum figured he’d mention a few other things, including, that “the piece was inaccurate,” he said. This, of course, is standard publicist-speak when confronted by pesky journalists: always point to the small inaccuracies, like Ms. Hirschberg writing that Richard North Patterson (a Ballantine author) was signing books in the AOL booth when, in fact, it was James Patterson, who publishes with AOL. There were more mistakes like that, Mr. Applebaum said, “but I stopped counting because there were so many.” But then again, you can hardly blame him; at his level, any publicist’s job is at least 50 percent damage control.
Unless he was having an unlikely, unconscious Iago moment and selling out his boss on purpose, Mr. Applebaum now has no choice but to discredit the parts of the Times Magazine piece that he can, in the hopes that he’ll do damage to the whole.
Question No. 2: Will Olson get fired over this?
There are plenty who believe it would be pretty to think so. But those people are not, I’m afraid, in touch with the realities of this or maybe any other business. “The Germans”-which is what just about everybody calls the Bertelsmann brass-will love Ms. Hirschberg’s story. Mr. Olson’s mandate, clearly and often stated, is to make Random House profitable, and it’s unlikely that anybody in Gütersloh cares a lot about how he does it. (“I think Peter thought that if he fired Ann Godoff, his image in Gütersloh would be ‘I’m tough. I’m cool. I’m cost-conscious,'” said a former Bertelsmann executive quoted in the piece.) In fact, for all that the story indicated that Mr. Olson is a cruel manager, the people the piece has most upset are those ultimately dependent on him for their jobs. Who cares if an editor at Little Random-or even the powerful, tasteful Sonny Mehta-is disgusted? As long as the higher-ups are happy-and Ms. Hirschberg suggests that they are-Mr. Olson won’t be going away any time soon. And Mr. Olson himself seems to know it. In fact, he almost appears to be sending a message of solidarity to his bosses-and a screw-you to his underlings-with the final scene, in which he shows Ms. Hirschberg his Steiff animal collection: “I have a bunny … but I don’t like it,” he tells her. “I can’t help it-I always gravitate to the predators. It’s just my nature.”
Question No. 3: What will happen to those R.H. staffers who spoke up?
Well, there’s really only one-Mr. Mehta-who allowed himself to be quoted sounding critical of Mr. Olson. (” … Taste is not what Peter is about,” he says, dryly.) But not only is Mr. Mehta, by his own admission, “pretty near unscarable,” it’s unlikely that Mr. Olson will punish him, since even the C.E.O. has to be embarrassed by the assertion that two years ago, Mr. Olson tried to fire him and replace him with none other than Ann Godoff. (Mr. Olson denies that allegation.) Besides, a more relevant question might be: How long will Mr. Mehta choose to stay with the company he obviously thinks of as philistine? The others-Gina Centrello, Bantam Dell head Irwyn Applebaum, new R.H. editor in chief Daniel Menaker-are far more circumspect, if not complimentary of Mr. Olson. Still, Ms. Centrello comes off-as she always does-as defensive. Depicted here in a photograph that indicates she’s a tiny female powerhouse amid tall faceless guys, the new publisher of the Random House Ballantine Group is portrayed-familiarly, for anyone who’s followed the saga since Ms. Godoff’s firing-as a glorified bean-counter with strong ties to Irwyn Applebaum, and thus to Mr. Olson. “I was given this job because of my record,” Ms. Centrello tells Ms. Hirschberg. She’s not the literary type, she says; she doesn’t go to cocktail parties or schmooze agents; she doesn’t see that as her job. But so what? While most agents and editors I’ve talked to remark on the fact that Ms. Centrello rarely engages them in conversations about books or writers-you can’t get “traction” with her by talking about such subjects, because she focuses almost entirely on the bottom line-many also feel that she has been unfairly maligned by the press. After all, she knew enough to hire Dan Menaker for the Random editor-in-chief job and to let him acquire “about 15 books, all of which [are] consistent with the Random House literary profile.” And who wouldn’t be a little defensive, given the drubbing she has gotten so far?
Besides, the piece has counterintuitively served, for some, as a rallying cry for those in the Centrello camp. “I was just so upset about the way Random House is portrayed,” said one executive there. “We’ve been through six months of tumult, and things are much better now. And a lot of that is thanks to Gina.”
As for Mr. Menaker … well, he’s a guy in a tough spot. A beloved editor with a literary reputation, he’s clearly and supremely obligated to Ms. Centrello and Mr. Applebaum-and ultimately to Mr. Olson himself-for giving him the job that he very enthusiastically told friends, months ago, he was thrilled to get. So what else is he to do but toe the company line? “Publishing is a business, a sport and an art,” he tells Ms. Hirschberg, obviously trying to bridge his interests with his bosses’. “You’re going hunting, but there’s an art to it.”
Clearly, his new bosses seem more fixated on the former than the latter. So for Mr. Menaker and the rest of the “new” Random House, it’s all now a question of aim. Will they land enough big literary game to maintain the house’s high-blown reputation? Will they bring in enough bacon to satisfy Ms. Centrello and Mr. Olson?
One can only hope.
The last thing publishing needs, everybody agrees, is another shot in the foot.
Filed Under: Media, Random House Publishing, Stuart Appelbaum, Lynn Hirschberg, Peter Olson
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From ReadManga.Today: In his past life, although too weak to protect his home when it counted, out of grave determination Nie Li became the strongest Demon Spiritist and stood at the pinnacle of the martial world. However, he lost his life during the battle with the Sage Emperor and six deity-ranked beasts. His soul was then brought back to when he was still 13 years old. Although he's the weakest in his class with the lowest talent, having only a red soul realm and a weak one at that, with the aid of the vast knowledge which he accumulated from his previous life, he decided to train faster than anyone could expect. He also decided to help those who died nobly in his previous life to train faster as well. He aims to protect the city from the coming future of being devastated by demon beasts and the previous fate of ending up destroyed. He aims to protect his lover, friends, family and fellow citizens who died in the beast assault or its aftermath. And he aims to destroy the so-called Sacred family who arrogantly abandoned their duty and betrayed the city in his past life. Original Webtoon http://ac.qq.com/Comic/comicInfo/id/533395
Ch. 310.6
The journey to the martial peak is a lonely, solitary and long one.In the face of adversity,you must survive and remain unyielding.Only then can you break through and and continue on your journey to become the strongest. Sky Tower tests its disciples in the harshest ways to prepare them for this journey.One day the lowly sweeper Yang Kai managed to obtain a black book, setting him on the road to the peak of the martials world. -MangaUpdates
Chapter 909: Battling A Saint King
Apotheosis - elevation to the status of a god. Luo Zheng, now a humble slave was born as the eldest son of a wealthy family. Due to his family's decline, the kidnapping of his sister by a powerful force, he can now only be stepped upon by others. However, heaven never seals off ... Apotheosis - elevation to the status of a god. Luo Zheng, now a humble slave was born as the eldest son of a wealthy family. Due to his family's decline, the kidnapping of his sister by a powerful force, he can now only be stepped upon by others. However, heaven never seals off all exits. An ancient book left by his father reveals a secret divine technique, giving the reader immense power! But what is behind this power? This is a contest against fate. Show less
Gol D. Roger was known as the Pirate King, the strongest and most infamous being to have sailed the Grand Line. The capture and death of Roger by the World Government brought a change throughout the world. His last words before his death revealed the location of the greatest treasure in the world, One Piece. It was this revelation that brought about the Grand Age of Pirates, men who dreamed of finding One Piece (which promises an unlimited amount of riches and fame), and quite possibly the most coveted of titles for the person who found it, the title of the Pirate King. Enter Monkey D. Luffy, a 17-year-old boy who defies the standard definition of a pirate. Rather than the popular persona of a wicked, hardened, toothless pirate who ransacks villages for fun, Luffy’s reason for being a pirate is one of pure wonder; the thought of an exciting adventure and meeting new and intriguing people, along with finding One Piece. Following in the footsteps of his childhood hero, Luffy and his crew travel across the Grand Line, experiencing crazy adventures, unveiling dark mysteries and battling strong enemies, all in order to reach One Piece.
He awoke, and the world was changed. The familiar high school now teaches magic, encouraging students to become the greatest magicians they can be. Beyond the city limits, wandering magical beasts prey on humans. An advanced scientific world changed into one with advanced magic. Yet, what has not changed was the same teacher who looks upon him with disdain, the same students who look upon him with contempt, the same father who struggles at the bottom rung of society, and the same innocent step sister who cannot walk. However, Mo Fan discovered that while everyone else can only use one major element, he himself can use all magic!
Ch. 629
Original Webcomic
Tanjiro is the eldest son in a family that has lost its father. Tanjiro visits another town one day to sell charcoal, but ends up staying the night at someone else's house instead of going home because of a rumor about a demon that stalks a nearby mountain at night. When he goes home the next day, tragedy is waiting for him.
ch.205.5
FENG NI TIAN XIA
Phoenix Against the World Ch. 390
In a world where magic was everything, there was a boy born unable to use any magic, and he had been abandoned to a poor church as a child. His name was Asta. To prove oneself and to keep his promise with his friend, he aims to become the Wizard King! An all-time favorite young and magical fantasy drawn with a beautiful touch and moved by its passionate characters!
GODDESS CREATION SYSTEM
Otaku Xiaxi committed suicide because a guy in a game exposed her true identity. However, she didn't die and instead time-traveled to a game with countless handsome men. Prepare to see how an otaku transforms into a beautiful goddess!
DOULOU DALU
Tang Sect, the most famous martial arts sect of all. By stealing its most secret teachings to fulfill his dreams, Tang San committed an unforgivable crime. With his ambition attained, he hands his legacy to the sect and throws himself from the fearsome “Hell’s Peak.” But he could have never imagined that this would take him to another world, one without martial arts and grudges. A land where only the mystical souls of battle lay. The continent of Douro. How will Tang San survive in this unknown environment? With a new road to follow, a new legend begins…
Soul Land Ch. 266.5 The Crazy Monkey 2
SHEN YIN WANG ZUO
While the demons were rising, mankind was about to become extinct. Six temples rose, and protected the last of mankind. A young boy joins the temple as a knight to save his mother. During his journey of wonders and mischief in the world of temples and demons, will he be able to ascend to become the strongest knight and inherit the throne?
Ch. 192.5 Haoyue's Evolution
Chapter 286: Urgent Assistance Token
THE MYTHICAL REALM
The Mythical Realm; A world of blood, a world where the strong triumph over the weak, Ye Yun descended to hell to slain hordes of Demons and ascend to Heaven to slain the Gods just to prove his existence as the strongest, a world where a single being can rule over Heaven and Earth.
Soul Land II - The Peerless Tang Sect
Important! Soul Land's Sequel (Don't need to read DD before reading this) But there might be spoilers!!! A land without magic, dou-qi, martial arts, but with essence spirits instead. This is the continent 10,000 years after the formation of the Tang Sect. A new hero and his friend walk the land, a new "Seven Monsters of Shriek." Will they keep up the name of the Tang Sect? Or will it crumble due to a new essence system?
Soul Land II The Peerless Tang Sect Ch. 231
HERO? I QUIT A LONG TIME AGO
Zero was mankind
Shen Yi Di Nu
Passing to another world at the sound of duang, divine doctor in both Chinese and western medicine Feng YuHeng became the abused first wife's daughter of Da Shun Dynasty at the fraction of a minute. Wanting to kill me, one scalpel will cause you hemiplegia? Fighting with me? Carrying the pharmacy, holding fame and profit, even the Emperor worms his way into being friends with me! But what is the circumstances with that engagement, a disfigured lame person wall thumbed me, also wanting to help labor and capital to gain the world? Rogue Prince are you foolish!
FENG QI CANG LAN
When playing a virtual reality game called Cang Lan, Xiao Wan gets pushed off a cliff. She ends up in another game world. What will happen to Xiao Wan?
I Was Trash
He was looked down on, forced to break off his engagement, he was murdered, maybe this is the life that trash should have… But he was taken over by me, the strongest cultivator, Cang Kun Zi, as I reborned. Now that I'm here, I'll make the best of it! Watch as I use this trash body of mine to trample upon you mere ants!
Linley is a young noble of a declining, once-powerful clan which once dominated the world. He has large aspirations and wants to save his clan. Linley's journey begins with an accident when he discovers a ring. He took a liking to this ring, which had a dragon carved coiling around it. Upon being injured during a battle between two powerful fighters he discovers that his ring is not what he thought it was and possesses powers beyond his imagination. Based on the Webnovel Coiling Dragon: http://www.wuxiaworld.com/cdindex-html/
Ch. 210 Season 2 Chapter 40
A man is stabbed by a robber on the run after pushing his coworker and his coworker's new fiance out of the way. As he lays dying, bleeding on the ground, he hears a voice. This voice is strange and interprets his dying regret of being a virgin by giving him the [Great Sage] unique skill! Is he being made fun of?
Ch. 78 Walpurgis
What do you desire? Fortune? Glory? Power? Revenge? Or something that surpasses all others? Whatever you desire, 'that' is here. Tower of God. Original webtoon from Naver
Hunter Age
Chapter 240:
From Friendship Scans: A mysterious man suddenly appears in the desert separating the East and West Continents. A young boy, Yulian Provoke from the Pareia tribe finds this man, and brings him to his village. Turns out the man is an incredibly strong and amazing individual, and he begins to teach the young boy fighting skills. Original webtoon - Webtoon updates every Saturday (Korean Time).
Vol. 16 Ch. 388.5 Epilogue
HOLY ANCESTOR
This is a brand new upgraded divine world. There are King Zhou, Jiang Ziya, Su Yuji and Yang Lan. All of them are peak figures here. Also, there are Kings and Three Emperors of Huoyun Cave here. There are Saints and Daoist sects here. Ancient Gods and Devils, Chi You and Xing Tian are here too. Last but not least, we also have a youth named Luo Lie. He will open up a new divine era where
Hunters are a special breed, dedicated to tracking down treasures, magical beasts, and even other men. But such pursuits require a license, and less than one in a hundred thousand can pass the grueling qualification exam. Those who do pass gain access to restricted areas, amazing stores of information, and the right to call themselves Hunters. Gon discovers that his father was a famous Hunter, and so he embarks on a journey to find his father, meeting reliable friends and going on dangerous missions as well.
Ch. 391 Lorem Ipsum
Twelve years ago, the powerful Nine-Tailed Demon Fox attacked the ninja village of Konohagakure the village hidden in the leaves. The demon was defeated and sealed into the infant Naruto Uzumaki, by the Fourth Hokage who sacrificed his life to protect the village. Now, Naruto is the number one most Unpredictable knuckleheaded ninja who's determined to become the next Hokage and be acknowledged by everyone who ever doubted him! From cool fights showing what it really means to be a ninja to fights for things they believe in to hairbrained fun and jokes naruto's adventures have got it all! With the will to never give up and a great left hook along with his ninja way: to never go back on his word, will Naruto the former outcast achieve his dream?
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Police Officer (Lateral)-Town of Queen Creek (AZ)
Overall Job Objective
For detailed information on this recruitment process, please visit the QCPD Recruitment page on the Town’s website. Additional information about this exciting opportunity can be found in the QCPD Recruitment Handout.
APPLICATION PROCESS – IMPORTANT INFORMATION – PLEASE READ
This recruitment will remain open until all 44 positions are filled. The first review of applications is on January 26, 2021 and weekly thereafter. This posting will remain open until all positions are filled, but may close without notice.
In addition to completing the online application, candidates will also need to:
Complete the AZ POST Statement of Personal History via my.azpost.gov.
Complete the QCPD Authorization of Release. A notary will be required to complete this form. This form will be collected during the testing process. Incomplete forms will not be processed.
Officer Salary (Lateral Officer Pay Scale)
QCPD will offer pay rates commensurate with years of sworn service.
1 to < 2 yrs 2 to < 3 yrs 3 to < 4 yrs 4 to < 5 yrs 5 to < 6 yrs 6 to < 7 yrs 7+ yrs
Hourly $ 28.91 $ 30.35 $ 31.87 $ 33.47 $ 35.14 $ 36.90 $ 38.74
Annual Gross $ 60,130.18 $ 63,136.69 $ 66,293.64 $ 69,608.21 $ 73,088.70 $ 76,743.15 $ 80,580.07
*Benefits not added
This job classification is FLSA Non-Exempt.
Hiring Bonus ($2,000):
$1,000 in your first paycheck.
Additional $1,000 after successful completion of your probation.
Additional Compensation:
Shift Differential Pay
– Swing Shift: $0.30 per hour
– Graveyard shift: $0.50 per hour
Overtime, Callout, Stand-By, and other Premium Pay
Paid Vacation and Sick Time:
At the time of hire, each new sworn employee will receive a one-time addition of 60 hours of vacation and 60 hours of sick time.
Vacation accrual rates will also be adjusted based on prior full years of (sworn) service.
If you are having technical (computer-related) difficulties while completing the online application, please contact the governmentjobs.com “Applicant Support Line” at 1-855-524-5627.
CLASS SUMMARY:
Performs general and specialized police work involving the enforcement of laws and ordinances, protecting life and property, conducting investigations, detection and arrest of violators, effecting crime prevention, providing community services, responding to requests for assistance, or
acting in some other specialized assignments of comparable responsibility. Assignments may include, but are not limited to patrol, traffic, tactical, and other field operations including criminal investigations, threat mitigation, and task force operations, community services and crime prevention, administration, school resource, training, internal oversight, and other support assignments.
Examples of Duties
TYPICAL CLASS ESSENTIAL DUTIES: (These duties are a representative sample; position assignments may vary; and employees are responsible for all other duties as assigned).
Monitors radio communication and responds to community requests, calls-for-service, and emergencies;
Assists other officers, department personnel, and Town staff as needed;
Investigates crimes, complaints, accidents, and other situations;
Administers first aid, secures crime and accident scenes, conducts investigations, and identifies and preserves evidence;
Interviews individuals with complaints and provides an appropriate disposition or refers to proper authorities;
Assesses activity or situations and takes appropriate action to enforce laws and maintain safety and security;
When appropriate, apprehends suspects, makes/processes arrests; and transports offenders;
Patrols designated areas to maintain order and to prevent, deter or discover violations and other criminal activity;
When appropriate, conducts traffic stops and issues citations or warnings;
Prepares and completes a variety of reports to provide documentation of daily shift activities, investigations, law and code violations, civil process, warrants, individual statements, critical incidents, and evidence management;
Prepares, obtains, and/or serves warrants, court orders, civil processes, and other legal documents;
Enforces traffic laws, codes, and regulations; facilitates traffic safety around accidents or congested areas; and provides assistance to disabled motorists;
Enforces other state laws and local codes/ordinances;
Reviews and prepares case documentation for trials, hearings, depositions, etc.;
Provides testimony for trials, hearings, depositions, etc.;
Attends all designated meetings, briefings, training, and required appearances;
As assigned, serves as a liaison to community groups, businesses, individuals, and other stakeholders to promote public safety, crime prevention, and awareness;
Participates in community events and meetings;
Conducts training for department staff, residents, volunteers, and other designated individuals;
Cross-trains in a wide variety of law enforcement skills and disciplines;
Maintains the integrity, professionalism, values and goals of the Police Department by assuring that all rules and regulations are followed, and that accountability and public trust are preserved;
Supports the relationship between the Town and the general public by demonstrating courteous and cooperative behavior when interacting with residents, visitors, business owners, organizational leaders, and other community members;
Responds to questions, provides information, resolves complaints, and promotes positive public and community relations;
Stays informed on all new or of new or updated laws, courts decisions, department policies, division procedures, and other important notifications;
Maintains compliance with all Town, State, and Federal laws, codes, and regulations;
Maintains compliance with all Town and Departmental rules, procedures and guidelines;
Embraces the Town’s and department’s mission, vision and values;
Provides support to special projects, tasks, or other assignments;
Provides appropriate notifications for critical incidents or other designated situations;
Performs other duties of a similar nature or level.
Typical Qualifications
Training and Experience (positions in this class typically require):
High School Diploma or GED;
Completion of a Law Enforcement / Police Academy;
Completion of a Field Training Program;
Minimum of one (1) year of sworn law enforcement experience (and off of probation) in a law enforcement agency of comparable size or larger.
Licensing Requirements (positions in this class typically require):
Valid Arizona Driver’s License;
Must be certified as an Arizona Police Officer within three (3) months of hire and continue to maintain Arizona Peace Officer and Standard Training (AZ POST) standards;
For AZPOST certification, out-of-state candidates (or expired AZ peace officers) will be required to complete the AZPOST waiver process which includes firearms qualification (day, night, target ID/discrimination), tactical driving qualification, a Physical Aptitude Test (POPAT), a written test, and documentation for (academy) equivalency training standards.
Knowledge (position requirements at entry):
Principles and practices of modern municipal police organizations, including mission, vision, objectives, policies, procedures, and operations;
Ethical decision-making;
Local, state and federal laws as applicable to municipal law enforcement; contemporary legal issues, such as criminal, civil, and labor laws, and municipal ordinances that affect police agencies;
Police Department functions, procedures, policies, goals, organization, general orders, and rules and regulations;
Methods, objectives, and procedures of law enforcement practices;
Methods, objectives, and procedures of court proceedings;
Laws governing the apprehension, arrest, and custody of persons committing misdemeanors and felonies, search and seizure, and the rules of evidence;
Police methods and procedures related to patrol, traffic control, investigation, and identification techniques;
The operation and capabilities of the various types of equipment used by a police department;
Effective methods of community policing efforts;
Personnel related laws and policies;
Customer service principles and practice;
Contemporary job-related software, hardware, and other IT equipment;
The geography and demographics of the Town.
Skills (position requirements at entry):
Problem solving and decision making;
Effectively analyzing and resolving operational and procedural problems;
Managing stressful and complex situations;
The use and care of firearms;
Emergency driving and general operation of a motor vehicle;
Working with individuals, workgroups, and teams;
Interpreting and applying applicable laws, codes, regulations and standards;
Maintaining physical and mental fitness;
Providing customer service;
Implementing investigative techniques;
Managing time effectively while remaining agile and flexible;
Applying investigation techniques;
Building consensus and cultivating adaptability;
Communication and interpersonal skills;
Utilizing technology/hardware;
Various operating systems and software applications utilized by the department/Town.
Very Heavy Work: Exerting in excess of 100 pounds of force occasionally, and/or in excess of 50 pounds of force frequently, and/or in excess of 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
Positions in this class typically require: climbing, balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, reaching, standing, walking, pushing, pulling, lifting, fingering, grasping, feeling, talking, hearing, seeing and repetitive motions.
Incumbents may be subject to hazardous physical conditions (mechanical parts, electrical currents, vibration, etc.), atmospheric conditions (fumes, odors, dusts, gases, and poor ventilation), hazardous materials (chemicals, blood and body fluids, etc.), extreme temperatures, inadequate lighting, workspace restrictions, intense noise, travel, and environmental dangers (disruptive people, imminent danger, threatening environment).
Note: These physical requirements are meant to represent the entire classification and not all of these may be attributed to every single body of work included in the classification.
This position has been identified as a safety-sensitive position by Human Resources, per State and/or Federal Law. The candidate selected will be required to undergo testing for alcohol and controlled substances.
A thorough background investigation will also be conducted and will include a polygraph exam, psychological examination, an AZPOST medical examination, and testing for alcohol and controlled substances.
Out-of-state candidates will also be required to complete a physical agility assessment as part of the testing process.
The above job description is intended to represent only the key areas of responsibilities; specific position assignments will vary depending on the business needs of the department.
A Town of Queen Creek electronic employment application is required for employment consideration. Obtain this by clicking on the link below or go to www.queencreek.org
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Cap. Mkts., LO Comp Survey, Fulfillment, Retention Tools; Agency-related Changes
This weekend we receive an extra hour of 2020. If there was ever a reason to end the time change, this certainly is it! Markets don’t like uncertainty, and nothing about 2020 has been certain (although this morning we learned two certainties: Fannie Mae’s net income was $4.2 billion for the third quarter of 2020, compared with net income of $2.5 billion for the second quarter of 2020, and Freddie Mac had a net income of $2.5 billion – nice!) The pre-election polls (versus Poles versus poles) were misleading in 2016, but many surveys are suggesting that Biden and other Democrats have leads. Who knows for sure? To have the election settled in a normal, democratic way would alleviate some of the uncertainty, and we know that the markets will adjust to whatever the election brings. And there is plenty of cash out there that will adjust, and equity and debt investors are watching the recent spate of money raising and IPOs, and rumored delays or cancellations of IPOs, of lenders & vendors. The latest example is Tomo” which has $40 million of seed money to play with. “Although Tomo provided few details about its specific business model, the company said it aims to streamline the mortgage and home-buying process for buyers and agents.” Why does that sound familiar? (Tomo, by the way, is “I take” in Spanish.)
Lender Products and Services
Home Point Financial continues to grow in popularity among correspondents and mortgage brokers, alike, as one of the fastest-growing lenders in the country. And its partners sure aren’t bashful about their affinity for the nation’s third-largest wholesale lender. From Nick Hunter, President & COO of River City Mortgage: “HomePoint is not strictly a 9-to-5. I’ll receive emails from our rep late at night sometimes. I know that’s not customary and it’s not necessarily expected, but you feel like they care about us as an account, and also our customers. It really does feel like a partnership, that we’re aligned in the same direction and walking the same path together.” To learn more about Home Point and to become a TPO partner, click here.
Promontory Mortgage Path LLC, a leading provider of digital mortgage and tech-driven fulfillment solutions, announced the launch of its new initiative to support minority depository institutions’ (MDIs) mission of creating jobs, increasing access to affordable housing, and expanding financial opportunities for underserved communities. MDIs joining the initiative will leverage Promontory Mortgage Path’s technology, U.S.-based mortgage fulfillment services and robust joint marketing program at an aggressive discount, fast-tracking efforts to deepen and broaden their reach and expand access to homeownership in their communities. Learn more. “Through the initiative, we dedicate our technology and mortgage fulfillment solutions to banks with a rich legacy of increasing access to vital financial resources in their communities,” said Paul C. Katz, Promontory Mortgage Path’s managing director and head of bank relations. MDIs interested in learning more about becoming strategic partners or joining this initiative should contact Paul (212-652-3511).
If you lose a borrower to one of these lenders, you will never get that borrower back. That’s because they use the #1 Borrower Retention service in the industry, Sales Boomerang. Want your name on the list? Let’s talk. Assurance Financial, Eustis, American Pacific, Bank of England, Annie Mac, UWM, PRMG, Freedom, Movement, and hundreds more. Don’t take it from us, hear it from them.
In news from the mortgage broker sector, NEXA Mortgage was recently awarded the “Bootstrap Award” by SourceScrub for its growth in the 1st half or 2020. As the fastest growing financial company in the world that had no institutional investment, NEXA is disrupting the industry for producing Independent MLOs. Through innovative support for MLOs, industry leading pricing, products, processing, and compensation, NEXA is changing the way MLOs do business. As a producing Independent MLO, you can login for their upcoming “Why NEXA” webinar held each Thursday at 11am Arizona time at www.NEXAmortgage.com/support. The CEO, Mike Kortas goes over in great detail how the company achieved such explosive growth.
Today LBA Ware released its Q3 2020 Mortgage Loan Originator Compensation Report. For the first time, the report includes loan processor compensation data, and as the kids say, I’m here for it. Although LO paychecks were bigger in Q3 2020 (50% higher than Q3 2019), the uptick in refinance production contributed to a 0.9% decrease in per-loan commissions. Processors handled 30% more loans in Q3 2020, fueling a 54% increase in average incentive compensation. Read the full report here. If managing incentive compensation is slowing you down, you might want to reach out to LBA Ware. At MBA Annual, CFPB Director Kathy Kraninger signaled that the Bureau may soon allow greater flexibility in how lenders compensate MLOs, including lowering compensation in the case of LO errors. The industry has been clamoring for that latitude, but when it comes, it’s sure to make calculating compensation even trickier.
Investors React to Agency Changes
For credit unions, CUNA supports Fannie & Freddie’s housing goals for 2021. The Credit Union National Association is strongly supportive of the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s efforts to ensure the Government-sponsored enterprises meet their public mission.
Weekly Announcement: Beginning October 5, 2020 includes updates on Freddie Mac Rental Income, and loanDepot Wholesale Program Overlays Matrix.
Remember that FAMC will no longer purchase loans utilizing LPA Student Loan Payments for Medical Doctors underwriting option as it is no longer available with Freddie Mac. Student loan debt for medical doctors must follow the standard student loan guidance, per the AUS type. FAMC posted an update to COVID-19 interim guidance on conventional products. Rental income used for qualification is not permitted on investment property transactions, effective immediately for all loans locked on or after September 21. And it has adopted the date extension to October 31, 2020 per Fannie Mae Lender Letters 2020-03 and 2020-04, and Freddie Mac Bulletin 2020-37 temporary COVID-19 Interim Guidance.
The PennyMac Correspondent Group has posted multiple new announcements: 20-66: Introducing the Home Value Estimator Tool, 20-67: Fannie Mae HomeStyle Renovation Program Availability, and 20-68: Update to Conventional LLPAs.
Caliber is aligning with Fannie Mae Lender Letter (LL 2020-03 and LL 2020-04) and Freddie Mac Bulletin 2020-40 to extend the COVID-19 temporary flexibilities and requirements, subject to Caliber’s existing overlays. The effective date for the temporary flexibilities and requirements has been extended for applications taken on or before Nov. 30, 2020, for the following:
Verbal Verification of Employment, Power of Attorney, Condominium Project Review flexibilities, Appraisal Flexibilities for Exterior-Only and Desktop-Only Appraisals. Effective for all 90-day commitment confirmations and relocks, issued on or after Sept. 3, 2020, a 50bp loan-level price adjustment will be assessed on all conventional refinance mortgages. This update will be reflected on Caliber Home Loans Correspondent Lending rate sheets published on and after Sept. 3. Additional announcements will be forthcoming as we prepare for the Dec. 1, implementation date announced by the Federal Housing Finance Agency.
Effective for applications taken on or after Monday, November 2, 2020, Flagstar Bank is removing the temporary tolerance to waive tax transcripts prior to closing. Read Flagstar’s Announcement 20102 for details. Flagstar posted Conventional guideline updates in Memo 20096 regarding Freddie Mac tax exempt income.
Mountain West Financial® is extending the temporary requirements and flexibilities previously announced by the Agencies through November 30, 2020. Flexibilities were to expire on October 31, 2020. Temporary flexibilities available pertain to Employment, Income, and Appraisals. Temporary Policies extended were announced in various Wholesale Bulletins.
And MWF posted Bulletin 20W-116 that includes updates to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac COVID-19 Requirements for Self Employed Borrowers.
In order to align with FHFA’s implementation date, while at the same time keeping consumers in mind with the intent to provide as much flexibility as possible and avoid implementing the fee where it is not necessary, PRMG will begin feathering in the price adjuster of 50 basis points (bps) on applicable conventional conforming refinance transactions.)
Plaza Home Mortgage is now accepting Fannie Mae HomeStyle and Freddie Mac CHOICERenovation loans.
This loanDepot Announcement covers the following topics: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac – COVID-19 Temporary Flexibility Extensions.
It’s about time 2020 had some good news. MCT recently announced another industry-first: secure remote secondary execution through any Amazon Alexa enabled device and MCTlive! account. As part of this first release in a much larger initiative of full voice control integration within the MCTlive! platform, Phil Rasori is back to detail the functionality in “Alexa Voice Integration – Rasori’s Relentless Releases Episode 5.” Far from a simple Alexa skill, the secure multi factor authentication will grant users access to command chains for all execution related needs, including loan sale commitments and TBA positions. MCT will be sending detailed instructions on account linking to MCTlive! users, and for more information, stay tuned by joining the MCT newsletter.
The big news, in an otherwise boring bond market yesterday, was that the Fed will buy 1.5% securities, a monumental announcement reflecting just how low mortgage rates are. For all you LOs out there who don’t purport to be their own capital market geniuses (rare, I know), here’s why the coupon of the mortgage-backed securities (MBS) into which loans go matters. Mortgage pricing on your rate sheet is primarily determined by supply and demand, and with the Fed buying/opening up a new coupon, acceptance and liquidity increase and helps prices, which in turn fosters lower rates. Keep in mind, this doesn’t mean you should expect to start seeing 1.5% 30-year fixed rates on your or any of your competitor’s rate sheets. The mortgages that fit into the 1.5% security are likely to be 2% and higher, due to both the cost of servicing (roughly 25 bps) and the guarantee fee (“gfee” roughly 50 bps) charged to securitize the mortgage. It changes every day, depending on pricing and buyup and buydown grids, but 2.5% and 2.625% 30-year mortgages are currently heading into 1.5 percent MBS which in turn are priced slightly above par (100).
I’m still undecided on my Halloween costume (the Tiger King? Ghost of Bear Stearns? Myrtle already has a sexy Manx covered), and the United States is waiting for the decision on who our next president will be with only five days until the election. While that election uncertainty, rising coronavirus infection rates, a stalling in the labor market recovery and the lack of stimulus have all materially impacted the bond market recently, the U.S. reported the fastest quarterly growth on record today, as Q3 GDP registered +33.1 percent on an annualized basis, still in the hole though it was expected. What is less discussed is that the pace of growth has moderated significantly since then. Maybe that is being too pessimistic, as we did see earlier this week that durable goods orders were way ahead of expectations, home price growth was more robust than foreseen and the Richmond Fed Manufacturing Index also came in well ahead of where economists had estimated it.
By the end of yesterday, Treasuries were mostly unchanged and the basis closed mixed despite the largest equity selloff since June. Today stock and bond markets have already digested the latest monetary policy decisions from the BoJ and ECB, and weekly jobless claims (-40k to 751k, some progress). Later this morning brings the September Pending Home Sales Index and Freddie Mac’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey. The Desk released a new FedTrade schedule yesterday covering the October 29 to November 13 period. 1.5% coupons were added to the UMBS30s rotation while 2% and 2.5% stayed. UMBS15 operations continue to target 1.5% and 2% and 2% and 2.5% in GNIIs. Today’s schedule sees the Desk purchasing up to $5.3 billion MBS: $975 million UMBS15 1.5% and 2%, $2.9 billion UMBS30 1.5% and 2% and $1.5 billion GNII 2% and 2.5%. We begin the day with Agency MBS prices better/up a few ticks and the 10-year yielding .78 after closing yesterday at 0.78 percent after the volatile GDP number.
Jobs and Transitions
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Two home wins on the spin and, roared on by a lively Barclay, City deliver a timely and gritty good'un
14th December 2016 By Gary Gowers 25 Comments
Having been very critical of late – with good reason – of management and players, it’d be very unfair to not recognise a decent effort from either side of the white line. And last night was just that.
From Alex Neil’s team selection through to the sheer grit and determination of the players and via the non-stop second half singing of the Barclay, it was an evening that went just a little way – and there’s still a long way to go – to putting the ‘faith’ back in the faithful.
It’s a fragile peace though and if there’s one thing we’ve learned over the last couple of months it’s that this group finds it difficult to consistently produce the level of intensity and commitment needed to churn out results Championship-style. But last night as least confirmed those qualities are in there somewhere; something I’d started to doubt.
Yet there in all it’s glory was a midfield, led by the combative Youssouf Mulumbu, closing down, harrying and tackling to within an inch of its life while behind them Seb Bassong and Ryan Bennett did a passable impersonation of an old-style centre-back partnership who tackled, headed, blocked and, when required, put their bodies on the line.
And to watch a team that epitomised the term prima donna transform for the evening into a group of scrappers and battlers was joyful.
Whether they did it for themselves as opposed to the manager – as suggested by Greg Downs on Canary Call – or whether it was in direct response to Team Neil’s directions matters little. They did it. And it was good.
It wasn’t the beautiful game of course, it rarely is in the Championship, and I’m doubtful if the neutral watching TV audience was wholly enthralled but to those draped in yellow it offered up something very different to the fare we’ve become used to – even when comparing it to the Brentford romp.
Again it’s key to remain in Russell Martin’s famous equilibrium zone, and Villa offered little other than an unusual and unsuccessful brand of “power football”, (if this was them being resurgent I’d love to see them when they’re playing poorly) but we’ve had so many bad days of late it’d be just a little bit ridiculous not to revel in a good one.
Nélson Oliveria’s fine strike was reward for another industrious outing there’s something aesthetically pleasing about the Portuguese international’s first touch, particularly when it’s such an important component in the role of a lone striker. And three in three means that for now Alex doesn’t have a selection headache, even when Cameron Jerome returns to full fitness.
The shirt is Oliveira’s and while he keeps scoring it should remain that way.
Martin Olsson and Ivo Pinto are our two best full-backs, period, and hopefully any daft notions of tinkering with those positions are now dead; both offering defensive surety and the crucial ability to ‘join in’. And it’s no coincidence that the return of Pinto, along with Jonny Howson, has signalled a mini-run of two wins in three.
We missed them both – badly.
Graham Dorrans too deserves a nod. He’s taken some brickbats of late – not least from this column – but last night he bridled a voracious work-rate to his natural ability to pass and looked a better player for it. And the tempo of his passing was a notch or two higher than of late; that too being crucial in the improved rhythm of City’s play.
Finally it would be remiss not to mention again the role of the Barclay in last night’s proceedings, particularly after half-time. The noise was incessant and quite possibly the trigger for a very decent second-half performance.
On a few occasions the River End joined in. Weird. But more of the same on Friday?
So, an enjoyable one and we can now wallow in a three-day ceasefire. Which is nice.
Filed Under: Column, Gary Gowers
Gary Field says
A small step in the right direction, but it feels like we’re still only a couple of bad results from meltdown and, with the transfer window imminemt, what’s always a difficult time to deal, may prove impossible. Here’s hoping the Board have thought this through properly. The jury remains out for me.
el dingo says
FFS guys, it was a massive performance. Try believing in the team and have faith. Stick your neck out and grow a pair instead of siding with all the doom and gloomers. Love … an optimist xxx
Ncfcpaul says
No one is very surprised that when we match the opposition’s intensity and commitment we then do so very much better. Alex Neil has been talking of this for a while now so it’s very pleasing to see it delivered.
I really hope heads have been banged together and players will demonstrate they actually are quite good. No one in this division is perfect, players who did not give there all deserve nothing. Last night application was there and a result was well deserved.
In the interests of fairness Villa are having a very difficult time away from home, but Norwich are typically the team who obligingly stop that run for other clubs. I’m very glad this time we got the win. Let’s hope the application can be carried over to the rest of the season.
Andy Delf says
Really good effort last night, more of the same please starting with Friday night.
Dorset Canary says
Being in exile here in deepest Dorset I don’t manage to see my team very often but after watching last night on tv I think the term scrapers and battlers is appropriate. Nothing I saw convinced me that promotion is likely this season. Some good performances by Mulumbu,Pinto and Oliveria though.
As an aside I saw Yeovil v Barnet at the weekend with Barnet winning with their one and only shot on target. Starring for Barney was their captain Michael Nelson who played really well.
colin m says
The noise from the Barclay was positive which inspired the team. Lets get behind the lads and do our bit on Friday especially as we are on the TV. A win Friday will certainly put the cat amongst the pigeons. Less expectation now may be we are best suited to be in the chasing pack as we were in 2015.
I’m with el dingo and Paul on this, how some people can try to find a negative (Canarycall ‘papering over the cracks’ blah blah) is beyond me. Having witnessed many home and away no shows that was a million miles away from those performances so for goodness sake just enjoy it. Unfortunately some individuals are so far down the road of wanting AN out that they’ve lost all sense of reason and on a similar note those that booed Bassongs name being read out last night seriously need to have a look at themselves. Utter morons in my view!
Looocalcanary says
The noise from the Barclay was great, the main reason being that the guys who seem to orchestrate the songs or chants (somewhere at the back of the lower tier) actually sang some straight forward, better known ones that everyone knew, rather than some of simply awful droning that accompanies many recent home games like “17th of June 1902, Norwich city fc etc etc etc” Stick to the classics and we’ll build an atmosphere OTBC!
Not getting carried away here. Aston Villa were very poor, but you can only beat what is infront of you and three points in what is a very average Championship is extremely useful.
Greg Downs’ comments were very interesting. With the January window very close, it doesn’t do any harm to put in a decent performance, though there are too many players who would like to be somewhere else and too many players who SHOULD be somewhere else for my liking.
The fundamental problems still remain, though as far as on the pitch goes, it is in Alex’s hands he has been given an extra life to use. Off the pitch, however is more depressing.
I see this as a nothing season. We won’t go up and we (probably) won’t go down, due to the lack of quality in the division compared to recent years. There will be no net spend this transfer window, but if the club are going to move in a more healthier direction, it has to get shot of the players who want out, whether that means 1 or 2, or 5 or 6, they must be moved on and replaced with players with the right attitude.
The next game with give us a slightly clearer picture of what the immediate future lies.
Dave B says
On the one hand winning a few games is clearly an improvement over our recent form.
On the other hand our current situation dictates that win-loss-win-loss will not secure the ‘promotion, promotion, promotion’ that’s required. So it’s difficult to be too excited until we see a sustained run of wins.
Gary Gowers says
Darren (9) & Dave (10) – fair comments.
Good article and comments – both on the positives of last night and the need for caution.
Clearly, we need a run of 4-5 wins out of 6. Still, encouraging that we’ve performed well in five of the last six halves.
After a quiet first half, The Barclay was magnificent last night. There’s no doubt in my mind that it helped sustain the players’ energy. Unusually for this season, we looked the sharper and fitter team in the last 20 minutes.
Stew (12) – Good point re the sharpness and fitness in last 20 minutes. Suggests it was fatigue of the mind rather than limbs behind the lethargy of November.
Derek P says
We think we’ve got problems?
I was shocked at just how bad Villa were. Still, it’s not about them and I thought we did OK. I like Oliviera, Mulumbu and Dorrans looked good together and Pinto has become a real asset.
However, Brady looked thoroughly off the pace and I would still prefer Klose in that defence.
Seems Pritchard has fallen completely out of favour, which is a shame as we can’t afford to spend millions on players and have them sit on the bench or worse.
See that Gary Rowett is now available, interesting.
Gary (13): Exactly
Rob Ireland says
I have my misgivings about the way things are at the moment .. but I hope the way the owners of BCFC have just acted may give food for thought. “Trillion Trophy Asia Limited say” …. Call me old-fashioned (and no doubt our Board is in many ways) but I would prefer the control of our club to stay exactly as it is at least at the current time if this is the ‘other’ option.
Let’s keep a sense of proportion here, this was a much needed win and physically a good performance particularly in the second half. However, Steve Bruce’s own assessment was that Villa were poor at best! With the match on TV it was a chance for us exiles to make our own judgement rather than relying on Radio Norfolk’s. El Dingo (2) I would not call the performance “massive” but encouraging and Bob(7) I’m afraid I still hold the view that a change of manager is best for NCFC’s future. Let’s be fair though this was a team set up to battle and “not lose” and that was a successful tactic. However, with the talent available in our squad I will want to see a bit more football before my view changes. There were some good performances out there from Mulumbu, Howson, Dorrans and my man of the match Oliveira. Also the much maligned Bennett. Time will tell whether this is the start of a Renaissance or a temporary relief. Thankfully we get a chance to form a better judgement on Friday.
Tony Moore says
Clearly you watched a different game from me. The first half was abject, the second half just plain poor. Devoid of any real quality from either side. If that game is regarded as the foundation for the future, then my decision not to renew my season ticket is a sound one.
Tony (18) Am 99.9% sure we watched the same game. Low on quality but high on effort and grit was how I saw it – standard Championship fare. Qualities that have been very short of late in these parts.
But cheers for reading and taking time to comment. It’s all about opinions.
For once we did that thing we haven’t done for ages – earn the right to play. Grafted when we had to, passed well and kept the ball better when we got it back.
Don’t remember seeing Villa in our half for much of the second 45 but despite them being poor they were a relatively strong, athletic side, the likes of which we’ve struggled against this season.
Also, and most importantly for me, our game management was so much better throughout the match. In many ways it’s been that, not other teams, that’s been our undoing in 2016.
El Dingo (2) it’s not just about 1 game though, unless that’s the catalyst for the significance improvement needed over the next 25 gamea.
The automatics (while not impossible) look out of reach, so we’re facing the real prospect of play-off lottery and I’m not confident, given the repeated mistakes on and off the field we’ll make it if we stick as we are.
Abington Canary says
First half ‘abject’. Have you ever played in or managed a football team? Do you really think it is possible to come out, play a team like Villa (employing a conservative strategy) off the park and win the game before half time?
Lambert/Culverhouse knew a bit about winning games and game management and the prime objective was to be in the game after an hour. Last night a team low on confidence had a good shape, a good plan and were content to probe without over committing.
If you think that’s poor entertainment, go and watch something else. Second half we came out with intent and had enough to score two or three.
You think something better is readily available out there? Ask the Villa Chairman whether the money spent on McCormack was a good investment?
And as for people who feel that under performing in the Championship after relegation somehow justifies jacking in a season ticket, what sort of fair weather supporters are you?
The Yellow Army is better off without you.
OTBC.
Jon B says
Credit the large away following ( rather than the usual few hundred ) which for me kick started the Barclay.
NW canary says
Thought it was a thoroughly decent “away” performance. If that is the first small step needed then we should embrace. If we can replicate this performance in our next way game then we should have a chance against most of the teams in this division.
A shout out for Mulumbu, Pinto, Olsson and Howson, all were immense. Their drive and energy i thought was the difference between this and previous games.
Howson also as captain just gives us a bit more also.
Ben K says
Did Neil finally nail something, 45 minutes into the Barnsley game? Mulumbu and Dorrans, with Howson in front of them, looks like a decent midfield; and it would be nice to think that Mulumbu could finally start to be useful. There was always a decent player in there. Maybe Canos will get a run of games in a couple of years (I do realise that Mulumbu has had injury problems).
Olsson at left-back and Brady ahead of him? Well, duh, that makes sense.
I would expect the same line-up against Huddersfield, but who knows whether we’ll see it. It’s a little sobering when you think about how bad Villa were, but, as has been said, there was some real battling going on out there and that has to be a good thing. Another good thing is that we have a striker who is confident and in-form. How long has it been since we’ve been able to say that?
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NOW MagazineMusicFeaturesHip-hop is built for a voice like Haviah Mighty
Hip-hop is built for a voice like Haviah Mighty
With her hard-hitting new album 13th Floor, the Brampton MC challenges notions that she’s too dark or too female to succeed in the rap game
By Radheyan Simonpillai
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HAVIAH MIGHTY with OBUXUM at the Drake Hotel (1150 Queen West), Friday (May 3), 8 pm. $10. thedrake.electrostub.com.
Brampton native Haviah Mighty lays down a manifesto on In Women Colour, going off about her pigment and gender. On the expertly skittish track, co-produced by Obuxum, she challenges notions that she’s too dark or too female to succeed in the rap game.
That’s how she introduces her new album, 13th Floor (out independently on May 10), and over 13 eclectic tracks – tossing it up between catchy melodies, bangers and scrape-your-knees-on-the-concrete rhymes – Haviah gets the point across. Hip-hop is built for a voice like hers.
“Those things that I’ve been marginalized for, the things that made me stand out in ways that are less than positive, are those same things I’ve found a way to become triumphant over and are now heavily representative of my brand,” says Mighty, speaking over the phone from her home in Brampton while explaining the concept behind 13th Floor.
She talks about how an apartment building will skip that particular floor just because it’s deemed unlucky. She sees the number 13 as a concept that is feared, marginalized and dismissed because of a lack of understanding, in the same way that she might be for her dreads and colour. And because of that affinity, she’s owning 13, with her album name, the number of tracks on it and a song deconstructing the 13th Amendment.
The album is co-executive produced by A Tribe Called Red’s 2oolman and features collaborations with Sean Leon, Clairmont The Second and Haviah’s own sister Omega Mighty, who brings the reggae inflections to the infectious fusion party track Wishy Washy.
Omega also serves as Haviah’s makeup artist and choreographer. Their little brother Mighty Prynce produces a few tracks including Blame, where Haviah spits hard but also sings a hook ready to grab listeners on the radio.
The five-sibling Mighty family is a musical clan, taking lessons together in Scarborough since Haviah was four years old. They moved to Brampton for Haviah’s high school years, which is when she started rapping. In 2017, she dropped the EP Flower City and then became the youngest member in The Sorority, the ensemble with Keysha Freshh, pHoenix Pagliacci and Lex Leosis (Pagliacci has since left the group).
Mighty recognizes the women rappers doing heavy lifting with the bars in Toronto – from the Sorority to Tasha The Amazon – but notes that, as with the U.S., it’s always the dudes who get love.
“I’m sure one day I’ll be ghostwriting for dudes,” she says, “because it’s so easy to write those types of records. I understand the formula. And it is a formula.”
Mighty goes on to explain how all genres in music have structured ways to play on familiarity and be easily digestible, a game plan to produce hits based on what came before. In rap, the formula has been built by men – it relies heavily on misogyny and makes the game difficult for women. Artists like Mighty have to work extra-hard for their lyrics to break through unconscious biases and be appreciated on their own terms. That perspective is all over 13th Floor.
“I do think the climate is opening up a little bit more to change,” says Mighty. “You’re hearing a little bit more content from people that actually want to say something – not even just the women but also some of the men. And I think that there’s more of a discussion happening between the women and the men. And there’s a little bit more openness as well. We’re a little bit less okay with certain types of ignorance.
“With that alertness, an artist like me can thrive.”
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Utilizing mobile phone data to inform COVID-19 response
11 November 2020 11 November 2020 Communication Health Medecine New Tech Society NATURE
PHONE SMART Mobile phone data can be used to inform different aspects of COVID-19 response. At the population level, quantifying changes in human mobility or clustering can help evaluate the impact of an NPI and identify hotspots where additional or different interventions may need to be applied. At the individual level, mobile phone data may be used to understand patterns of individual contacts and enhance contact tracing.
Evaluating current interventions and monitoring their release
The most widely used application of mobile phone data in public health to date is the use of telecom geolocation data to track population movements11,12. Mobile phone operators routinely collect Call Detail Records (CDRs) that contain a timestamp and GPS location with a unique identifier for all subscribers. These data thus are typically readily available and offer high coverage to estimate mobility patterns of individuals using their mobile devices. We note that similar time-resolved GPS location data may be passively collected through certain applications, though typically for only a subset of subscribers that may introduce further bias.
CDRs can be used to generate a number of metrics for characterizing large, population-level mobility patterns. Origin-Destination (OD) matrices reflect the number of times a trip is made between two locations (of varying spatial resolution) in a certain period. These matrices can be analyzed over time to detect temporal trends (i.e., holidays, seasonality, weekday vs weekend) and regular hotspots of attraction. These spatial and temporal flows of individuals between locations, including the magnitude and frequency of these movements, can be used to understand the risk of importation from areas with ongoing outbreaks to areas without sustained transmission where there is a risk of reintroduction and resurgence. Aggregate flows can also be used to retrace the likely introduction and spread of an outbreak in new areas and to inform future projections of disease risk or burden across space and decision making around the design and implementation of travel restrictions or increased surveillance.
Aggregate mobility patterns may also be critical pieces of evidence when evaluating the effectiveness of various NPIs. Most NPIs are reliant on modifying physical behavior. Monitoring the volume, frequency, and average distance of flow during interventions can be used to directly quantify the adoption and effect of these interventions, and identify areas of high potential risk to target with different interventions. There are already identified associations between reductions in population-level mobility within and between different locations and COVID-19 incidence6,10,29, though further exploration of which population-level metrics are most closely related to changes in disease risk and whether these associations are sustained throughout an outbreak is needed30. These associations would ideally be interrogated to identify individual behaviors associated with mobility measures that are also associated with individual risk of COVID-19.
The effect on NPIs can also be monitored through subscriber density metrics that combine the recorded GPS location and timestamp of CDRs to capture the real-time population density and identify potential hotspots. When using finer-scale GPS location data, these density metrics may quantify the likelihood or frequency that users came into proximal contact. A third metric derived from CDR or GPS location data, the radius of gyration, quantifies the range over which a single person may travel in a specified time period. Importantly, the data required for these applications are non-identifiable; they cannot be used to identify any given individual’s interactions, but provide population-level insight into the average clustering and movement of individuals. These metrics, along with traditional OD matrix flows, were recently employed in Italy as a way to evaluate the impact of its national lockdown31. Traffic flow between provinces and probability of colocation were reduced initially in the northern provinces, where the COVID-19 outbreak was first observed, a clear signal of reactive social distancing. As the epidemic progressed, and especially once the national lockdown was enforced, the entire country saw a reduction in traffic between provinces; however, the probability of colocation remained highly dependent on province and was likely attributed to the number of cases reported in each province. Interestingly, the average distance traveled by individuals was significantly reduced across all provinces after the initial outbreak was confirmed.
The use of Bluetooth data (records of proximal interactions between Bluetooth-enabled devices) to quantify physical clustering or real-time density of subscribers at small spatial scales (e.g., zip codes) and fine temporal resolution has been explored for the purposes of contact tracing (see below). The use of these data has been considered less for population-level analyses, though it offers another source of information on behavioral changes under different NPIs. When activated, mobile phones will emit a Bluetooth beacon that is detected by other activated phones. When two Bluetooth-enabled devices are within range, the date, time, distance and duration of interaction can be recorded. The frequency or number of these interactions (analyzed anonymously to form, broadly, measures of clustering or proximal interaction rates over time) may be important given the role of sustained interaction or overcrowding of individuals32,33,34 and contact structure in SARS-CoV-2 transmission35. Furthermore, Bluetooth data in combination with GPS data or a network of Bluetooth sensors can be used to quantify the amount of time people spend at home or other identified locations when lockdown measures are in place to determine if policies are effective.
These data and measures of population-level mobility or clustering patterns would be exceedingly difficult to collect on a similar scale without mobile phone data. These data are often continuously collected, in near real-time, allowing for continued analysis as an outbreak unfolds. Importantly, though, a baseline understanding of contact or clustering patterns prior to any interventions is necessary to inform estimates of intervention impact.
Facilitating contact tracing
Opt-in applications (apps)36,37,38,39,40,41,42 that rely on digital approaches to enumerate and contact individuals who may have been in proximity with someone infected with COVID-19 have been proposed to increase efficiency and decrease the very large burden of manual contact tracing programs43,44,45. By enabling rapid tracing of perhaps higher proportions of affected individuals, these apps can reduce the amount of time that a potentially infected person would have to infect others, particularly in asymptomatic or pre-symptomatic phases of infection46. Most contact tracing apps collect Bluetooth and/or GPS location data to create trails of contacts over a moving time window (14-28 days). Unlike the data needed to understand population-level, aggregated behaviors described above, these data must be linked to single individuals and capture pairwise interactions with other identifiable individuals. Once a case has been identified, they are added to a list of infected users that is queried by the other phones in the network. If the infected user is detected in the trail of contacts, then the user and their contacts are alerted, either by the app or by a public health official, to initiate isolation and quarantine.
This contact tracing process occurs either in a centralized manner, where user information is sent to a remote computer where matching occurs, or in a decentralized manner, where the matching process occurs on the user’s phone. In order for these approaches to feed directly into public health decision making, a direct line between the developers, public health response teams, and users needs to be put in place. This will also be key to mitigating any privacy concerns, which should be dealt with in a transparent and direct manner. Although there has been little discussion to date, routinely collected, individually-identifiable Bluetooth or fine-scale GPS location data may also be used to infer and quantify high-resolution proximity network structures which may further inform contact tracing efforts, but will also raise additional privacy concerns47,48.
Frameworks to process and analyze mobile phone data
Luckily, computing resources and methods to analyze and extract these data will not likely be the limiting factor in these instances. Groups such as Flowminder and Telenor Research Group have worked for multiple years to develop more streamlined processes to analyze these data, particularly aggregate mobility data, that are able to directly interface with mobile phone operators. Flowminder has produced a suite of CDR aggregates, such as counts of active subscribers per region or counts of travelers, that can then be used to calculate indicators of mobility, such as crowdedness, population mixing, locations of interest, and intra-/inter-regional travel49. The code to extract these metrics is publicly available at50. Telenor Research Group works directly with mobile phone operators to provide researchers with spatially aggregated CDR/mobility data51. Facebook’s Data For Good program provides aggregated mobility data to researchers that come from their subscribers, and companies like Cuebiq provided mobility data for a number of COVID-19 studies that summarize the distance users travel or the proportion of users that stay at home52. These existing frameworks – not only the analyses, but also the privacy considerations and data sharing agreements – will provide standardized methods that facilitate integrating mobility data into intervention assessments.
Various forms of identifiable personal information are generated when using mobile phones, including names, identification numbers, fine spatial and temporal data on where the device was used, other users’ identification numbers who may have been detected by Bluetooth, and personal details that might be entered into an app. In light of the growing number of digital privacy concerns and regulations, one must carefully consider the exact form and use of mobile phone data being collected against the legal and ethical need to protect users’ data security and confidentiality. While maintaining user confidentiality is often seen as a hindrance to the use of mobile phone data, in that it limits the use of individual-level data and typically requires aggregation to coarse spatial and temporal resolutions, there are a number of existing frameworks that can help provide guidance for the effective, privacy-conscious use of mobile phone data53.
Exactly which model of data privacy will best suit the use of mobile phone data for COVID-19 response will depend on the exact form and proposed use of the data. As discussed above, there already exist many data processing and analysis frameworks to provide anonymized indicators of population mobility. These standard procedures, though, could result in aggregated data with insufficient spatial and temporal resolution to be effective for monitoring the spread of SARS-CoV-2. Privacy regulations, such as the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)54, offer exceptions for the use of non-anonymous data that may be needed for other response efforts. For example, opt-in applications for contact tracing may seek consent of the data subject to collect and analyze identifiable data, though the ability to scale opt-in approaches to a wide enough population and to maintain user compliance and participation remains unclear. GDPR and other regulations also provide an exception for anonymization of data to be used in public service, but the regulatory hurdles to gain this exception can be substantial and would require clear use policies and applications for these data. The use of mobile phone data, particularly forms such as those proposed through contact tracing applications, must be weighed against the possible infringements of privacy and civil liberties versus the potential public health benefit.
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Ontario Pharmacists Role in Providing Care to Syrian Refugees
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With the decision by the Federal Government to accept Syrian refugees (10,000 by the end of December 2015 and 25,000 by the end of February 2016), careful attention is being paid to refugee health needs. The Ontario Pharmacists Association is working closely with the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care’s Emergency Operations Centre (MEOC) to ensure that communications to pharmacy providers is timely and appropriate. The Association is pleased to provide its members with information that may assist in the timely provision of care to recently arrived refugees.
The process by which claims are processed for refugees will begin with the distribution of OHIP cards, provided to newly arrived refugees. Since this will likely take some time, during this period, all Syrian refugees who arrived in Canada on or after November 4, 2015, including Government-Assisted Refugees (GARs) and Privately-Sponsored Refugees (PSRs) are eligible for Type 1 benefits under Interim Federal Health Plan (IFHP), paid by the Government of Canada.
Type 1 benefits include basic coverage, supplemental coverage, and prescription drug coverage. Coverage will be for up to a year, starting immediately upon arrival at the point of entry. Coverage for basic health care will stop once the individual is eligible for coverage under OHIP; however, supplemental and prescription drug coverage under IFHP will continue for up to a year.
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Title: Comprehensive model for the spin evolution of the LAGEOS and LARES satellites
Authors: VISCO, Massimo
LUCCHESI, David
Journal: PHYSICAL REVIEW D
First Page: 044034-1
Abstract: The two L A G E O S and L A R E S are laser-ranged satellites tracked with the best accuracy ever achieved. Using their range measurements many geophysical parameters were calculated and some general relativity effects were directly observed. To obtain precise and refined measurements of the effects due to the predictions of general relativity on the orbit of these satellites, it is mandatory to model with high precision and accuracy all other forces, reducing the free parameters introduced in the orbit determination. A main category of nongravitational forces to be considered are those of thermal origin, whose fine modeling strongly depends on the knowledge of the evolution of the spin vector. We present a complete model, named LASSOS, to describe the evolution of the spin of the L A G E O S and L A R E S satellites. In particular, we solved Euler equations of motion considering not-averaged torques. This is the most general case, and the predictions of the model well fit the available observations of the satellites spin. We also present the predictions of our model in the fast-spin limit, based on the application of averaged equations. The results are in good agreement with those already published, but with our approach we have been able to highlight small errors within these previous works. LASSOS was developed within the LARASE research program. LARASE aims to improve the dynamical model of the two L A G E O S and L A R E S satellites to provide very precise and accurate measurements of relativistic effects on their orbit, and also to bring benefits to geophysics and space geodesy.
URL: https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.98.044034
Bibcode ADS: 2018PhRvD..98d4034V
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GATA2 Antibody
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Background Info: Transcriptional activator which regulates endothelin-1 gene expression in endothelial cells. Binds to the consensus sequence 5'-AGATAG-3'.
Specificity: GATA2 Antibody detects endogenous levels of GATA2
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human GATA2
purification: The antiserum was purified by peptide affinity chromatography using SulfoLink(TM) Coupling Resin (Thermo Fisher Scientific).
Gene: GATA2
Background Info: Transcriptional activator which binds to the enhancer of the T-cell receptor alpha and delta genes. Binds to the consensus sequence 5'-AGATAG-3'. Required for the T-helper 2 (Th2) differentiation process following immune and inflammatory responses.
MCM3 Antibody
Background Info: Acts as component of the MCM2-7 complex (MCM complex) which is the putative replicative helicase essential for 'once per cell cycle' DNA replication initiation and elongation in eukaryotic cells. The active ATPase sites in the MCM2-7 ring are formed through the interaction surfaces of two neighboring subunits such that a critical structure of a conserved arginine finger motif is provided in trans relative to the ATP-binding site of the Walker A box of the adjacent subunit. The six ATPase active sites, however, are likely to contribute differentially to the complex helicase activity. Required for DNA replication and cell proliferation.
Specificity: MCM3 Antibody detects endogenous levels of MCM3
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human MCM3
Gene: MCM3
Rpb1 CTD Antibody
Background Info: DNA-dependent RNA polymerase catalyzes the transcription of DNA into RNA using the four ribonucleoside triphosphates as substrates. Largest and catalytic component of RNA polymerase II which synthesizes mRNA precursors and many functional non-coding RNAs. Forms the polymerase active center together with the second largest subunit. Pol II is the central component of the basal RNA polymerase II transcription machinery. It is composed of mobile elements that move relative to each other. RPB1 is part of the core element with the central large cleft, the clamp element that moves to open and close the cleft and the jaws that are thought to grab the incoming DNA template. At the start of transcription, a single-stranded DNA template strand of the promoter is positioned within the central active site cleft of Pol II. A bridging helix emanates from RPB1 and crosses the cleft near the catalytic site and is thought to promote translocation of Pol II by acting as a ratchet that moves the RNA-DNA hybrid through the active site by switching from straight to bent conformations at each step of nucleotide addition. During transcription elongation, Pol II moves on the template as the transcript elongates. Elongation is influenced by the phosphorylation status of the C-terminal domain (CTD) of Pol II largest subunit (RPB1), which serves as a platform for assembly of factors that regulate transcription initiation, elongation, termination and mRNA processing. Regulation of gene expression levels depends on the balance between methylation and acetylation levels of tha CTD-lysines (By similarity). Initiation or early elongation steps of transcription of growth-factors-induced immediate early genes are regulated by the acetylation status of the CTD (PubMed:24207025). Methylation and dimethylation have a repressive effect on target genes expression (By similarity).
Specificity: Rpb1 CTD Antibody detects endogenous levels of Rpb1 CTD
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human Rpb1 CTD
Gene: POLR2A
I kappaB alpha Antibody
Background Info: Inhibits the activity of dimeric NF-kappa-B/REL complexes by trapping REL dimers in the cytoplasm through masking of their nuclear localization signals. On cellular stimulation by immune and proinflammatory responses, becomes phosphorylated promoting ubiquitination and degradation, enabling the dimeric RELA to translocate to the nucleus and activate transcription.
Specificity: I kappaB- alpha Antibody detects endogenous levels of I kappaB- alpha
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human I kappaB- alpha
Gene: NFKBIA
CDK1/CDC2 Antibody
Background Info: Serine/threonine-protein kinase involved in the control of the cell cycle; essential for meiosis, but dispensable for mitosis. Phosphorylates CTNNB1, USP37, p53/TP53, NPM1, CDK7, RB1, BRCA2, MYC, NPAT, EZH2. Triggers duplication of centrosomes and DNA. Acts at the G1-S transition to promote the E2F transcriptional program and the initiation of DNA synthesis, and modulates G2 progression; controls the timing of entry into mitosis/meiosis by controlling the subsequent activation of cyclin B/CDK1 by phosphorylation, and coordinates the activation of cyclin B/CDK1 at the centrosome and in the nucleus. Crucial role in orchestrating a fine balance between cellular proliferation, cell death, and DNA repair in human embryonic stem cells (hESCs). Activity of CDK2 is maximal during S phase and G2; activated by interaction with cyclin E during the early stages of DNA synthesis to permit G1-S transition, and subsequently activated by cyclin A2 (cyclin A1 in germ cells) during the late stages of DNA replication to drive the transition from S phase to mitosis, the G2 phase. EZH2 phosphorylation promotes H3K27me3 maintenance and epigenetic gene silencing. Phosphorylates CABLES1 (By similarity). Cyclin E/CDK2 prevents oxidative stress-mediated Ras-induced senescence by phosphorylating MYC. Involved in G1-S phase DNA damage checkpoint that prevents cells with damaged DNA from initiating mitosis; regulates homologous recombination-dependent repair by phosphorylating BRCA2, this phosphorylation is low in S phase when recombination is active, but increases as cells progress towards mitosis. In response to DNA damage, double-strand break repair by homologous recombination a reduction of CDK2-mediated BRCA2 phosphorylation. Phosphorylation of RB1 disturbs its interaction with E2F1. NPM1 phosphorylation by cyclin E/CDK2 promotes its dissociates from unduplicated centrosomes, thus initiating centrosome duplication. Cyclin E/CDK2-mediated phosphorylation of NPAT at G1-S transition and until prophase stimulates the NPAT-mediated activation of histone gene transcription during S phase. Required for vitamin D-mediated growth inhibition by being itself inactivated. Involved in the nitric oxide- (NO) mediated signaling in a nitrosylation/activation-dependent manner. USP37 is activated by phosphorylation and thus triggers G1-S transition. CTNNB1 phosphorylation regulates insulin internalization. Phosphorylates FOXP3 and negatively regulates its transcriptional activity and protein stability (By similarity). Phosphorylates CDK2AP2 (PubMed:12944431).
Specificity: CDK1/CDC2 Antibody detects endogenous levels of CDK1/CDC2
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human CDK1/CDC2
Phospholamban Antibody
Background Info: Reversibly inhibits the activity of ATP2A2 in cardiac sarcoplasmic reticulum by decreasing the apparent affinity of the ATPase for Ca2+. Modulates the contractility of the heart muscle in response to physiological stimuli via its effects on ATP2A2. Modulates calcium re-uptake during muscle relaxation and plays an important role in calcium homeostasis in the heart muscle. The degree of ATP2A2 inhibition depends on the oligomeric state of PLN. ATP2A2 inhibition is alleviated by PLN phosphorylation.
Specificity: Phospholamban Antibody detects endogenous levels of total Phospholamban
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human Phospholamban
Gene: PLN
DNMT1 Antibody
Background Info: Methylates CpG residues. Preferentially methylates hemimethylated DNA. Associates with DNA replication sites in S phase maintaining the methylation pattern in the newly synthesized strand, that is essential for epigenetic inheritance. Associates with chromatin during G2 and M phases to maintain DNA methylation independently of replication. It is responsible for maintaining methylation patterns established in development. DNA methylation is coordinated with methylation of histones. Mediates transcriptional repression by direct binding to HDAC2. In association with DNMT3B and via the recruitment of CTCFL/BORIS, involved in activation of BAG1 gene expression by modulating dimethylation of promoter histone H3 at H3K4 and H3K9. Probably forms a corepressor complex required for activated KRAS-mediated promoter hypermethylation and transcriptional silencing of tumor suppressor genes (TSGs) or other tumor-related genes in colorectal cancer (CRC) cells (PubMed:24623306). Also required to maintain a transcriptionally repressive state of genes in undifferentiated embryonic stem cells (ESCs) (PubMed:24623306). Associates at promoter regions of tumor suppressor genes (TSGs) leading to their gene silencing (PubMed:24623306). Promotes tumor growth (PubMed:24623306).
Specificity: DNMT1 Antibody detects endogenous levels of DNMT1
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human DNMT1
Gene: DNMT1
EPHA3 Antibody
Background Info: Receptor tyrosine kinase which binds promiscuously membrane-bound ephrin family ligands residing on adjacent cells, leading to contact-dependent bidirectional signaling into neighboring cells. The signaling pathway downstream of the receptor is referred to as forward signaling while the signaling pathway downstream of the ephrin ligand is referred to as reverse signaling. Highly promiscuous for ephrin-A ligands it binds preferentially EFNA5. Upon activation by EFNA5 regulates cell-cell adhesion, cytoskeletal organization and cell migration. Plays a role in cardiac cells migration and differentiation and regulates the formation of the atrioventricular canal and septum during development probably through activation by EFNA1. Involved in the retinotectal mapping of neurons. May also control the segregation but not the guidance of motor and sensory axons during neuromuscular circuit development.
Specificity: EPHA3 Antibody detects endogenous levels of EPHA3
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human EPHA3
Gene: EPHA3
Background Info: Receptor tyrosine kinase which binds promiscuously membrane-bound ephrin-A family ligands residing on adjacent cells, leading to contact-dependent bidirectional signaling into neighboring cells. The signaling pathway downstream of the receptor is referred to as forward signaling while the signaling pathway downstream of the ephrin ligand is referred to as reverse signaling. Activated by the ligand ephrin-A1/EFNA1 regulates migration, integrin-mediated adhesion, proliferation and differentiation of cells. Regulates cell adhesion and differentiation through DSG1/desmoglein-1 and inhibition of the ERK1/ERK2 (MAPK3/MAPK1, respectively) signaling pathway. May also participate in UV radiation-induced apoptosis and have a ligand-independent stimulatory effect on chemotactic cell migration. During development, may function in distinctive aspects of pattern formation and subsequently in development of several fetal tissues. Involved for instance in angiogenesis, in early hindbrain development and epithelial proliferation and branching morphogenesis during mammary gland development. Engaged by the ligand ephrin-A5/EFNA5 may regulate lens fiber cells shape and interactions and be important for lens transparency development and maintenance. With ephrin-A2/EFNA2 may play a role in bone remodeling through regulation of osteoclastogenesis and osteoblastogenesis.
SHP-1 Antibody
Background Info: Modulates signaling by tyrosine phosphorylated cell surface receptors such as KIT and the EGF receptor/EGFR. The SH2 regions may interact with other cellular components to modulate its own phosphatase activity against interacting substrates. Together with MTUS1, induces UBE2V2 expression upon angiotensin II stimulation. Plays a key role in hematopoiesis.
Specificity: SHP-1 Antibody detects endogenous levels of SHP-1
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human SHP-1
Gene: PTPN6
TYK2 Antibody
Background Info: Probably involved in intracellular signal transduction by being involved in the initiation of type I IFN signaling. Phosphorylates the interferon-alpha/beta receptor alpha chain.
Specificity: TYK2 Antibody detects endogenous levels of TYK2
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human TYK2
Gene: TYK2
MARCKS Antibody
Background Info: MARCKS is the most prominent cellular substrate for protein kinase C. This protein binds calmodulin, actin, and synapsin. MARCKS is a filamentous (F) actin cross-linking protein.
Specificity: MARCKS Antibody detects endogenous levels of MARCKS
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human MARCKS
Gene: MARCKS
WEE1 Antibody
Background Info: Acts as a negative regulator of entry into mitosis (G2 to M transition) by protecting the nucleus from cytoplasmically activated cyclin B1-complexed CDK1 before the onset of mitosis by mediating phosphorylation of CDK1 on 'Tyr-15'. Specifically phosphorylates and inactivates cyclin B1-complexed CDK1 reaching a maximum during G2 phase and a minimum as cells enter M phase. Phosphorylation of cyclin B1-CDK1 occurs exclusively on 'Tyr-15' and phosphorylation of monomeric CDK1 does not occur. Its activity increases during S and G2 phases and decreases at M phase when it is hyperphosphorylated. A correlated decrease in protein level occurs at M/G1 phase, probably due to its degradation.
Specificity: WEE1 Antibody detects endogenous levels of WEE1
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human WEE1
Gene: WEE1
cdc25C Antibody
Background Info: Functions as a dosage-dependent inducer in mitotic control. Tyrosine protein phosphatase required for progression of the cell cycle. When phosphorylated, highly effective in activating G2 cells into prophase. Directly dephosphorylates CDK1 and activates its kinase activity.
Specificity: cdc25C Antibody detects endogenous levels of cdc25C
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human cdc25C
Gene: CDC25C
AXL Antibody
Specificity: AXL Antibody detects endogenous levels of AXL
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human AXL
Background Info: Acts as component of the MCM2-7 complex (MCM complex) which is the putative replicative helicase essential for 'once per cell cycle' DNA replication initiation and elongation in eukaryotic cells. The active ATPase sites in the MCM2-7 ring are formed through the interaction surfaces of two neighboring subunits such that a critical structure of a conserved arginine finger motif is provided in trans relative to the ATP-binding site of the Walker A box of the adjacent subunit. The six ATPase active sites, however, are likely to contribute differentially to the complex helicase activity.
CTNNA1 Antibody
Background Info: Associates with the cytoplasmic domain of a variety of cadherins. The association of catenins to cadherins produces a complex which is linked to the actin filament network, and which seems to be of primary importance for cadherins cell-adhesion properties. Can associate with both E- and N-cadherins. Originally believed to be a stable component of E-cadherin/catenin adhesion complexes and to mediate the linkage of cadherins to the actin cytoskeleton at adherens junctions. In contrast, cortical actin was found to be much more dynamic than E-cadherin/catenin complexes and CTNNA1 was shown not to bind to F-actin when assembled in the complex suggesting a different linkage between actin and adherens junctions components. The homodimeric form may regulate actin filament assembly and inhibit actin branching by competing with the Arp2/3 complex for binding to actin filaments. May play a crucial role in cell differentiation.
Specificity: CTNNA1 Antibody detects endogenous levels of CTNNA1
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human CTNNA1
Gene: CTNNA1
Merlin Antibody
Background Info: Probable regulator of the Hippo/SWH (Sav/Wts/Hpo) signaling pathway, a signaling pathway that plays a pivotal role in tumor suppression by restricting proliferation and promoting apoptosis. Along with WWC1 can synergistically induce the phosphorylation of LATS1 and LATS2 and can probably function in the regulation of the Hippo/SWH (Sav/Wts/Hpo) signaling pathway. May act as a membrane stabilizing protein. May inhibit PI3 kinase by binding to AGAP2 and impairing its stimulating activity. Suppresses cell proliferation and tumorigenesis by inhibiting the CUL4A-RBX1-DDB1-VprBP/DCAF1 E3 ubiquitin-protein ligase complex.
Specificity: Merlin Antibody detects endogenous levels of Merlin
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human Merlin
Gene: NF2
NMIIA Antibody
Background Info: Cellular myosin that appears to play a role in cytokinesis, cell shape, and specialized functions such as secretion and capping. During cell spreading, plays an important role in cytoskeleton reorganization, focal contacts formation (in the margins but not the central part of spreading cells), and lamellipodial retraction; this function is mechanically antagonized by MYH10.
Specificity: NMIIA Antibody detects endogenous levels of NMIIA
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human NMIIA
Gene: MYH9
FLT3 Antibody
Background Info: Tyrosine-protein kinase that acts as cell-surface receptor for the cytokine FLT3LG and regulates differentiation, proliferation and survival of hematopoietic progenitor cells and of dendritic cells. Promotes phosphorylation of SHC1 and AKT1, and activation of the downstream effector MTOR. Promotes activation of RAS signaling and phosphorylation of downstream kinases, including MAPK1/ERK2 and/or MAPK3/ERK1. Promotes phosphorylation of FES, FER, PTPN6/SHP, PTPN11/SHP-2, PLCG1, and STAT5A and/or STAT5B. Activation of wild-type FLT3 causes only marginal activation of STAT5A or STAT5B. Mutations that cause constitutive kinase activity promote cell proliferation and resistance to apoptosis via the activation of multiple signaling pathways.
Specificity: FLT3 Antibody detects endogenous levels of FLT3
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human FLT3
SREBP-1 Antibody
Background Info: Transcriptional activator required for lipid homeostasis. Regulates transcription of the LDL receptor gene as well as the fatty acid and to a lesser degree the cholesterol synthesis pathway (By similarity). Binds to the sterol regulatory element 1 (SRE-1) (5'-ATCACCCCAC-3'). Has dual sequence specificity binding to both an E-box motif (5'-ATCACGTGA-3') and to SRE-1 (5'-ATCACCCCAC-3').
Specificity: SREBP-1 Antibody detects endogenous levels of SREBP-1
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human SREBP-1
Gene: SREBF1
Specificity: STAT3 Antibody detects endogenous levels of STAT3
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human STAT3
GluR1 Antibody
Background Info: Ionotropic glutamate receptor. L-glutamate acts as an excitatory neurotransmitter at many synapses in the central nervous system. Binding of the excitatory neurotransmitter L-glutamate induces a conformation change, leading to the opening of the cation channel, and thereby converts the chemical signal to an electrical impulse. The receptor then desensitizes rapidly and enters a transient inactive state, characterized by the presence of bound agonist. In the presence of CACNG4 or CACNG7 or CACNG8, shows resensitization which is characterized by a delayed accumulation of current flux upon continued application of glutamate.
Specificity: GluR1 Antibody detects endogenous levels of GluR1
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human GluR1
Gene: GRIA1
WASP Antibody
Background Info: Effector protein for Rho-type GTPases. Regulates actin filament reorganization via its interaction with the Arp2/3 complex. Important for efficient actin polymerization. Possible regulator of lymphocyte and platelet function. Mediates actin filament reorganization and the formation of actin pedestals upon infection by pathogenic bacteria.
Specificity: WASP Antibody detects endogenous levels of WASP
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human WASP
Gene: WAS
Specificity: mTOR Antibody detects endogenous levels of mTOR
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human mTOR
CrkL Antibody
Background Info: May mediate the transduction of intracellular signals.
Specificity: CrkL Antibody detects endogenous levels of CrkL
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human CrkL
Gene: CRKL
TNNI3 Antibody
Specificity: TNNI3 Antibody detects endogenous levels of TNNI3
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human TNNI3
MAPKAPK2 Antibody
Background Info: Stress-activated serine/threonine-protein kinase involved in cytokine production, endocytosis, reorganization of the cytoskeleton, cell migration, cell cycle control, chromatin remodeling, DNA damage response and transcriptional regulation. Following stress, it is phosphorylated and activated by MAP kinase p38-alpha/MAPK14, leading to phosphorylation of substrates. Phosphorylates serine in the peptide sequence, Hyd-X-R-X2-S, where Hyd is a large hydrophobic residue. Phosphorylates ALOX5, CDC25B, CDC25C, CEP131, ELAVL1, HNRNPA0, HSP27/HSPB1, KRT18, KRT20, LIMK1, LSP1, PABPC1, PARN, PDE4A, RCSD1, RPS6KA3, TAB3 and TTP/ZFP36. Phosphorylates HSF1; leading to the interaction with HSP90 proteins and inhibiting HSF1 homotrimerization, DNA-binding and transactivation activities (PubMed:16278218). Mediates phosphorylation of HSP27/HSPB1 in response to stress, leading to the dissociation of HSP27/HSPB1 from large small heat-shock protein (sHsps) oligomers and impairment of their chaperone activities and ability to protect against oxidative stress effectively. Involved in inflammatory response by regulating tumor necrosis factor (TNF) and IL6 production post-transcriptionally: acts by phosphorylating AU-rich elements (AREs)-binding proteins ELAVL1, HNRNPA0, PABPC1 and TTP/ZFP36, leading to the regulation of the stability and translation of TNF and IL6 mRNAs. Phosphorylation of TTP/ZFP36, a major post-transcriptional regulator of TNF, promotes its binding to 14-3-3 proteins and reduces its ARE mRNA affinity, leading to inhibition of dependent degradation of ARE-containing transcripts. Phosphorylates CEP131 in response to cellular stress induced by ultraviolet irradiation which promotes binding of CEP131 to 14-3-3 proteins and inhibits formation of novel centriolar satellites (PubMed:26616734). Also involved in late G2/M checkpoint following DNA damage through a process of post-transcriptional mRNA stabilization: following DNA damage, relocalizes from nucleus to cytoplasm and phosphorylates HNRNPA0 and PARN, leading to stabilization of GADD45A mRNA. Involved in toll-like receptor signaling pathway (TLR) in dendritic cells: required for acute TLR-induced macropinocytosis by phosphorylating and activating RPS6KA3.
Specificity: MAPKAPK2 Antibody detects endogenous levels of MAPKAPK2
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human MAPKAPK2
Gene: MAPKAPK2
MAPKAPK-2 Antibody
Specificity: MAPKAPK-2 Antibody detects endogenous levels of MAPKAPK-2
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human MAPKAPK-2
C/EBP epsilon Antibody
Background Info: Transcription factor that coordinates proliferation arrest and the differentiation of myeloid progenitors, adipocytes, hepatocytes, and cells of the lung and the placenta. Binds directly to the consensus DNA sequence 5'-T[TG]NNGNAA[TG]-3' acting as an activator on distinct target genes (PubMed:11242107). During early embryogenesis, plays essential and redundant functions with CEBPB. Essential for the transition from common myeloid progenitors (CMP) to granulocyte/monocyte progenitors (GMP). Critical for the proper development of the liver and the lung (By similarity). Necessary for terminal adipocyte differentiation, is required for postnatal maintenance of systemic energy homeostasis and lipid storage (By similarity). To regulate these different processes at the proper moment and tissue, interplays with other transcription factors and modulators. Downregulates the expression of genes that maintain cells in an undifferentiated and proliferative state through E2F1 repression, which is critical for its ability to induce adipocyte and granulocyte terminal differentiation. Reciprocally E2F1 blocks adipocyte differentiation by binding to specific promoters and repressing CEBPA binding to its target gene promoters. Proliferation arrest also depends on a functional binding to SWI/SNF complex (PubMed:14660596). In liver, regulates gluconeogenesis and lipogenesis through different mechanisms. To regulate gluconeogenesis, functionally cooperates with FOXO1 binding to IRE-controlled promoters and regulating the expression of target genes such as PCK1 or G6PC. To modulate lipogenesis, interacts and transcriptionally synergizes with SREBF1 in promoter activation of specific lipogenic target genes such as ACAS2. In adipose tissue, seems to act as FOXO1 coactivator accessing to ADIPOQ promoter through FOXO1 binding sites (By similarity).
Specificity: C/EBP Antibody detects endogenous levels of C/EBP
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human C/EBP
Gene: CEBPA
Tuberin/TSC2 Antibody
Background Info: In complex with TSC1, this tumor suppressor inhibits the nutrient-mediated or growth factor-stimulated phosphorylation of S6K1 and EIF4EBP1 by negatively regulating mTORC1 signaling (PubMed:12271141, PubMed:28215400). Acts as a GTPase-activating protein (GAP) for the small GTPase RHEB, a direct activator of the protein kinase activity of mTORC1 (PubMed:15340059). May also play a role in microtubule-mediated protein transport (By similarity). Also stimulates the intrinsic GTPase activity of the Ras-related proteins RAP1A and RAB5 (By similarity).
Specificity: Tuberin/TSC2 Antibody detects endogenous levels of Tuberin/TSC2
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human Tuberin/TSC2
Gene: TSC2
GSK3 alpha Antibody
Background Info: Constitutively active protein kinase that acts as a negative regulator in the hormonal control of glucose homeostasis, Wnt signaling and regulation of transcription factors and microtubules, by phosphorylating and inactivating glycogen synthase (GYS1 or GYS2), CTNNB1/beta-catenin, APC and AXIN1. Requires primed phosphorylation of the majority of its substrates. Contributes to insulin regulation of glycogen synthesis by phosphorylating and inhibiting GYS1 activity and hence glycogen synthesis. Regulates glycogen metabolism in liver, but not in muscle. May also mediate the development of insulin resistance by regulating activation of transcription factors. In Wnt signaling, regulates the level and transcriptional activity of nuclear CTNNB1/beta-catenin. Facilitates amyloid precursor protein (APP) processing and the generation of APP-derived amyloid plaques found in Alzheimer disease. May be involved in the regulation of replication in pancreatic beta-cells. Is necessary for the establishment of neuronal polarity and axon outgrowth. Through phosphorylation of the anti-apoptotic protein MCL1, may control cell apoptosis in response to growth factors deprivation.
Specificity: GSK3 alpha Antibody detects endogenous levels of GSK3 alpha
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human GSK3 alpha
Gene: GSK3A
EFNB1/2 Antibody
Background Info: Cell surface transmembrane ligand for Eph receptors, a family of receptor tyrosine kinases which are crucial for migration, repulsion and adhesion during neuronal, vascular and epithelial development. Binds promiscuously Eph receptors residing on adjacent cells, leading to contact-dependent bidirectional signaling into neighboring cells. The signaling pathway downstream of the receptor is referred to as forward signaling while the signaling pathway downstream of the ephrin ligand is referred to as reverse signaling. Binds to receptor tyrosine kinase including EPHA4, EPHA3 and EPHB4. Together with EPHB4 plays a central role in heart morphogenesis and angiogenesis through regulation of cell adhesion and cell migration. EPHB4-mediated forward signaling controls cellular repulsion and segregation from EFNB2-expressing cells. May play a role in constraining the orientation of longitudinally projecting axons.
Specificity: EFNB1/2 Antibody detects endogenous levels of EFNB1/2
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human EFNB1/2
Gene: EFNB2
GSK3 beta Antibody
Background Info: Constitutively active protein kinase that acts as a negative regulator in the hormonal control of glucose homeostasis, Wnt signaling and regulation of transcription factors and microtubules, by phosphorylating and inactivating glycogen synthase (GYS1 or GYS2), EIF2B, CTNNB1/beta-catenin, APC, AXIN1, DPYSL2/CRMP2, JUN, NFATC1/NFATC, MAPT/TAU and MACF1. Requires primed phosphorylation of the majority of its substrates. In skeletal muscle, contributes to insulin regulation of glycogen synthesis by phosphorylating and inhibiting GYS1 activity and hence glycogen synthesis. May also mediate the development of insulin resistance by regulating activation of transcription factors. Regulates protein synthesis by controlling the activity of initiation factor 2B (EIF2BE/EIF2B5) in the same manner as glycogen synthase. In Wnt signaling, GSK3B forms a multimeric complex with APC, AXIN1 and CTNNB1/beta-catenin and phosphorylates the N-terminus of CTNNB1 leading to its degradation mediated by ubiquitin/proteasomes. Phosphorylates JUN at sites proximal to its DNA-binding domain, thereby reducing its affinity for DNA. Phosphorylates NFATC1/NFATC on conserved serine residues promoting NFATC1/NFATC nuclear export, shutting off NFATC1/NFATC gene regulation, and thereby opposing the action of calcineurin. Phosphorylates MAPT/TAU on 'Thr-548', decreasing significantly MAPT/TAU ability to bind and stabilize microtubules. MAPT/TAU is the principal component of neurofibrillary tangles in Alzheimer disease. Plays an important role in ERBB2-dependent stabilization of microtubules at the cell cortex. Phosphorylates MACF1, inhibiting its binding to microtubules which is critical for its role in bulge stem cell migration and skin wound repair. Probably regulates NF-kappa-B (NFKB1) at the transcriptional level and is required for the NF-kappa-B-mediated anti-apoptotic response to TNF-alpha (TNF/TNFA). Negatively regulates replication in pancreatic beta-cells, resulting in apoptosis, loss of beta-cells and diabetes. Through phosphorylation of the anti-apoptotic protein MCL1, may control cell apoptosis in response to growth factors deprivation. Phosphorylates MUC1 in breast cancer cells, decreasing the interaction of MUC1 with CTNNB1/beta-catenin. Is necessary for the establishment of neuronal polarity and axon outgrowth. Phosphorylates MARK2, leading to inhibit its activity. Phosphorylates SIK1 at 'Thr-182', leading to sustain its activity. Phosphorylates ZC3HAV1 which enhances its antiviral activity. Phosphorylates SNAI1, leading to its BTRC-triggered ubiquitination and proteasomal degradation. Phosphorylates SFPQ at 'Thr-687' upon T-cell activation. Phosphorylates NR1D1 st 'Ser-55' and 'Ser-59' and stabilizes it by protecting it from proteasomal degradation. Regulates the circadian clock via phosphorylation of the major clock components including ARNTL/BMAL1, CLOCK and PER2. Phosphorylates CLOCK AT 'Ser-427' and targets it for proteasomal degradation. Phosphorylates ARNTL/BMAL1 at 'Ser-17' and 'Ser-21' and primes it for ubiquitination and proteasomal degradation. Phosphorylates OGT at 'Ser-3' or 'Ser-4' which positively regulates its activity. Phosphorylates MYCN in neuroblastoma cells which may promote its degradation (PubMed:24391509).
Specificity: GSK3 beta Antibody detects endogenous levels of GSK3 beta
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human GSK3 beta
Gene: GSK3B
CDK7 Antibody
Background Info: Serine/threonine kinase involved in cell cycle control and in RNA polymerase II-mediated RNA transcription. Cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs) are activated by the binding to a cyclin and mediate the progression through the cell cycle. Each different complex controls a specific transition between 2 subsequent phases in the cell cycle. Required for both activation and complex formation of CDK1/cyclin-B during G2-M transition, and for activation of CDK2/cyclins during G1-S transition (but not complex formation). CDK7 is the catalytic subunit of the CDK-activating kinase (CAK) complex. Phosphorylates SPT5/SUPT5H, SF1/NR5A1, POLR2A, p53/TP53, CDK1, CDK2, CDK4, CDK6 and CDK11B/CDK11. CAK activates the cyclin-associated kinases CDK1, CDK2, CDK4 and CDK6 by threonine phosphorylation, thus regulating cell cycle progression. CAK complexed to the core-TFIIH basal transcription factor activates RNA polymerase II by serine phosphorylation of the repetitive C-terminal domain (CTD) of its large subunit (POLR2A), allowing its escape from the promoter and elongation of the transcripts. Phosphorylation of POLR2A in complex with DNA promotes transcription initiation by triggering dissociation from DNA. Its expression and activity are constant throughout the cell cycle. Upon DNA damage, triggers p53/TP53 activation by phosphorylation, but is inactivated in turn by p53/TP53; this feedback loop may lead to an arrest of the cell cycle and of the transcription, helping in cell recovery, or to apoptosis. Required for DNA-bound peptides-mediated transcription and cellular growth inhibition.
Specificity: CDK7 Antibody detects endogenous levels of CDK7
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human CDK7
ATP-Citrate Lyase Antibody
Background Info: ATP-citrate synthase is the primary enzyme responsible for the synthesis of cytosolic acetyl-CoA in many tissues. Has a central role in de novo lipid synthesis. In nervous tissue it may be involved in the biosynthesis of acetylcholine.
Specificity: ATP-Citrate Lyase Antibody detects endogenous levels of ATP-Citrate Lyase
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human ATP-Citrate Lyase
Gene: ACLY
Background Info: Protein kinase involved in the regulation of transcription. Member of the cyclin-dependent kinase pair (CDK9/cyclin-T) complex, also called positive transcription elongation factor b (P-TEFb), which facilitates the transition from abortive to productive elongation by phosphorylating the CTD (C-terminal domain) of the large subunit of RNA polymerase II (RNAP II) POLR2A, SUPT5H and RDBP. This complex is inactive when in the 7SK snRNP complex form. Phosphorylates EP300, MYOD1, RPB1/POLR2A and AR, and the negative elongation factors DSIF and NELF. Regulates cytokine inducible transcription networks by facilitating promoter recognition of target transcription factors (e.g. TNF-inducible RELA/p65 activation and IL-6-inducible STAT3 signaling). Promotes RNA synthesis in genetic programs for cell growth, differentiation and viral pathogenesis. P-TEFb is also involved in cotranscriptional histone modification, mRNA processing and mRNA export. Modulates a complex network of chromatin modifications including histone H2B monoubiquitination (H2Bub1), H3 lysine 4 trimethylation (H3K4me3) and H3K36me3; integrates phosphorylation during transcription with chromatin modifications to control co-transcriptional histone mRNA processing. The CDK9/cyclin-K complex has also a kinase activity towards CTD of RNAP II and can substitute for CDK9/cyclin-T P-TEFb in vitro. Replication stress response protein; the CDK9/cyclin-K complex is required for genome integrity maintenance, by promoting cell cycle recovery from replication arrest and limiting single-stranded DNA amount in response to replication stress, thus reducing the breakdown of stalled replication forks and avoiding DNA damage. In addition, probable function in DNA repair of isoform 2 via interaction with KU70/XRCC6. Promotes cardiac myocyte enlargement. RPB1/POLR2A phosphorylation on 'Ser-2' in CTD activates transcription. AR phosphorylation modulates AR transcription factor promoter selectivity and cell growth. DSIF and NELF phosphorylation promotes transcription by inhibiting their negative effect. The phosphorylation of MYOD1 enhances its transcriptional activity and thus promotes muscle differentiation.
BRCA2 Antibody
Background Info: Involved in double-strand break repair and/or homologous recombination. Binds RAD51 and potentiates recombinational DNA repair by promoting assembly of RAD51 onto single-stranded DNA (ssDNA). Acts by targeting RAD51 to ssDNA over double-stranded DNA, enabling RAD51 to displace replication protein-A (RPA) from ssDNA and stabilizing RAD51-ssDNA filaments by blocking ATP hydrolysis. Part of a PALB2-scaffolded HR complex containing RAD51C and which is thought to play a role in DNA repair by HR. May participate in S phase checkpoint activation. Binds selectively to ssDNA, and to ssDNA in tailed duplexes and replication fork structures. May play a role in the extension step after strand invasion at replication-dependent DNA double-strand breaks; together with PALB2 is involved in both POLH localization at collapsed replication forks and DNA polymerization activity. In concert with NPM1, regulates centrosome duplication. Interacts with the TREX-2 complex (transcription and export complex 2) subunits PCID2 and SEM1, and is required to prevent R-loop-associated DNA damage and thus transcription-associated genomic instability. Silencing of BRCA2 promotes R-loop accumulation at actively transcribed genes in replicating and non-replicating cells, suggesting that BRCA2 mediates the control of R-loop associated genomic instability, independently of its known role in homologous recombination (PubMed:24896180).
Specificity: BRCA2 Antibody detects endogenous levels of BRCA2
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human BRCA2
Gene: BRCA2
LIMK2 Antibody
Background Info: Displays serine/threonine-specific phosphorylation of myelin basic protein and histone (MBP) in vitro.
Specificity: LIMK2 Antibody detects endogenous levels of LIMK2
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human LIMK2
Gene: LIMK2
RSK2 Antibody
Background Info: Serine/threonine-protein kinase that acts downstream of ERK (MAPK1/ERK2 and MAPK3/ERK1) signaling and mediates mitogenic and stress-induced activation of the transcription factors CREB1, ETV1/ER81 and NR4A1/NUR77, regulates translation through RPS6 and EIF4B phosphorylation, and mediates cellular proliferation, survival, and differentiation by modulating mTOR signaling and repressing pro-apoptotic function of BAD and DAPK1. In fibroblast, is required for EGF-stimulated phosphorylation of CREB1 and histone H3 at 'Ser-10', which results in the subsequent transcriptional activation of several immediate-early genes. In response to mitogenic stimulation (EGF and PMA), phosphorylates and activates NR4A1/NUR77 and ETV1/ER81 transcription factors and the cofactor CREBBP. Upon insulin-derived signal, acts indirectly on the transcription regulation of several genes by phosphorylating GSK3B at 'Ser-9' and inhibiting its activity. Phosphorylates RPS6 in response to serum or EGF via an mTOR-independent mechanism and promotes translation initiation by facilitating assembly of the preinitiation complex. In response to insulin, phosphorylates EIF4B, enhancing EIF4B affinity for the EIF3 complex and stimulating cap-dependent translation. Is involved in the mTOR nutrient-sensing pathway by directly phosphorylating TSC2 at 'Ser-1798', which potently inhibits TSC2 ability to suppress mTOR signaling, and mediates phosphorylation of RPTOR, which regulates mTORC1 activity and may promote rapamycin-sensitive signaling independently of the PI3K/AKT pathway. Mediates cell survival by phosphorylating the pro-apoptotic proteins BAD and DAPK1 and suppressing their pro-apoptotic function. Promotes the survival of hepatic stellate cells by phosphorylating CEBPB in response to the hepatotoxin carbon tetrachloride (CCl4). Is involved in cell cycle regulation by phosphorylating the CDK inhibitor CDKN1B, which promotes CDKN1B association with 14-3-3 proteins and prevents its translocation to the nucleus and inhibition of G1 progression. In LPS-stimulated dendritic cells, is involved in TLR4-induced macropinocytosis, and in myeloma cells, acts as effector of FGFR3-mediated transformation signaling, after direct phosphorylation at Tyr-529 by FGFR3. Negatively regulates EGF-induced MAPK1/3 phosphorylation via phosphorylation of SOS1. Phosphorylates SOS1 at 'Ser-1134' and 'Ser-1161' that create YWHAB and YWHAE binding sites and which contribute to the negative regulation of MAPK1/3 phosphorylation (By similarity). Phosphorylates EPHA2 at 'Ser-897', the RPS6KA-EPHA2 signaling pathway controls cell migration (PubMed:26158630).
Specificity: RSK2 Antibody detects endogenous levels of RSK2
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human RSK2
Gene: RPS6KA3
MKK6 Antibody
Background Info: Dual specificity protein kinase which acts as an essential component of the MAP kinase signal transduction pathway. With MAP3K3/MKK3, catalyzes the concomitant phosphorylation of a threonine and a tyrosine residue in the MAP kinases p38 MAPK11, MAPK12, MAPK13 and MAPK14 and plays an important role in the regulation of cellular responses to cytokines and all kinds of stresses. Especially, MAP2K3/MKK3 and MAP2K6/MKK6 are both essential for the activation of MAPK11 and MAPK13 induced by environmental stress, whereas MAP2K6/MKK6 is the major MAPK11 activator in response to TNF. MAP2K6/MKK6 also phosphorylates and activates PAK6. The p38 MAP kinase signal transduction pathway leads to direct activation of transcription factors. Nuclear targets of p38 MAP kinase include the transcription factors ATF2 and ELK1. Within the p38 MAPK signal transduction pathway, MAP3K6/MKK6 mediates phosphorylation of STAT4 through MAPK14 activation, and is therefore required for STAT4 activation and STAT4-regulated gene expression in response to IL-12 stimulation. The pathway is also crucial for IL-6-induced SOCS3 expression and down-regulation of IL-6-mediated gene induction; and for IFNG-dependent gene transcription. Has a role in osteoclast differentiation through NF-kappa-B transactivation by TNFSF11, and in endochondral ossification and since SOX9 is another likely downstream target of the p38 MAPK pathway. MAP2K6/MKK6 mediates apoptotic cell death in thymocytes. Acts also as a regulator for melanocytes dendricity, through the modulation of Rho family GTPases.
Specificity: MKK6 Antibody detects endogenous levels of MKK6
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human MKK6
Afadin Antibody
Background Info: Belongs to an adhesion system, probably together with the E-cadherin-catenin system, which plays a role in the organization of homotypic, interneuronal and heterotypic cell-cell adherens junctions (AJs). Nectin- and actin-filament-binding protein that connects nectin to the actin cytoskeleton.
Specificity: Afadin Antibody detects endogenous levels of Afadin
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human Afadin
Gene: AFDN
p130 Cas Antibody
Background Info: Docking protein which plays a central coordinating role for tyrosine kinase-based signaling related to cell adhesion. Implicated in induction of cell migration. Overexpression confers antiestrogen resistance on breast cancer cells.
Specificity: p130 Cas Antibody detects endogenous levels of p130 Cas
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human p130 Cas
Gene: BCAR1
Rac1/cdc42 Antibody
Background Info: Plasma membrane-associated small GTPase which cycles between an active GTP-bound and an inactive GDP-bound state. In active state binds to a variety of effector proteins to regulate cellular responses. Involved in epithelial cell polarization processes. Regulates the bipolar attachment of spindle microtubules to kinetochores before chromosome congression in metaphase. Plays a role in the extension and maintenance of the formation of thin, actin-rich surface projections called filopodia. Mediates CDC42-dependent cell migration. Required for DOCK10-mediated spine formation in Purkinje cells and hippocampal neurons. Facilitates filopodia formation upon DOCK11-activation (By similarity). Also plays a role in phagocytosis through organization of the F-actin cytoskeleton associated with forming phagocytic cups.
Specificity: Rac1/cdc42 Antibody detects endogenous levels of Rac1/cdc42
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human Rac1/cdc42
Gene: CDC42
CXCR4 Antibody
Background Info: Receptor for the C-X-C chemokine CXCL12/SDF-1 that transduces a signal by increasing intracellular calcium ion levels and enhancing MAPK1/MAPK3 activation. Acts as a receptor for extracellular ubiquitin; leading to enhanced intracellular calcium ions and reduced cellular cAMP levels. Involved in hematopoiesis and in cardiac ventricular septum formation. Also plays an essential role in vascularization of the gastrointestinal tract, probably by regulating vascular branching and/or remodeling processes in endothelial cells. Involved in cerebellar development. In the CNS, could mediate hippocampal-neuron survival.
Specificity: CXCR4 Antibody detects endogenous levels of CXCR4
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human CXCR4
Gene: CXCR4
RhoA Antibody
Background Info: Regulates a signal transduction pathway linking plasma membrane receptors to the assembly of focal adhesions and actin stress fibers. Involved in a microtubule-dependent signal that is required for the myosin contractile ring formation during cell cycle cytokinesis. Plays an essential role in cleavage furrow formation. Required for the apical junction formation of keratinocyte cell-cell adhesion. Stimulates PKN2 kinase activity. May be an activator of PLCE1. Activated by ARHGEF2, which promotes the exchange of GDP for GTP. Essential for the SPATA13-mediated regulation of cell migration and adhesion assembly and disassembly. The MEMO1-RHOA-DIAPH1 signaling pathway plays an important role in ERBB2-dependent stabilization of microtubules at the cell cortex. It controls the localization of APC and CLASP2 to the cell membrane, via the regulation of GSK3B activity. In turn, membrane-bound APC allows the localization of the MACF1 to the cell membrane, which is required for microtubule capture and stabilization. Regulates a signal transduction pathway linking plasma membrane receptors to the assembly of focal adhesions and actin stress fibers. Involved in a microtubule-dependent signal that is required for the myosin contractile ring formation during cell cycle cytokinesis. Plays an essential role in cleavage furrow formation. Required for the apical junction formation of keratinocyte cell-cell adhesion. May be an activator of PLCE1. Activated by ARHGEF2, which promotes the exchange of GDP for GTP. Essential for the SPATA13-mediated regulation of cell migration and adhesion assembly and disassembly. The MEMO1-RHOA-DIAPH1 signaling pathway plays an important role in ERBB2-dependent stabilization of microtubules at the cell cortex. It controls the localization of APC and CLASP2 to the cell membrane, via the regulation of GSK3B activity. In turn, membrane-bound APC allows the localization of the MACF1 to the cell membrane, which is required for microtubule capture and stabilization (By similarity). Regulates KCNA2 potassium channel activity by reducing its location at the cell surface in response to CHRM1 activation; promotes KCNA2 endocytosis (PubMed:9635436, PubMed:19403695).
Specificity: RhoA Antibody detects endogenous levels of RhoA
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human RhoA
Gene: RHOA
S6 Ribosomal Protein Antibody
Background Info: May play an important role in controlling cell growth and proliferation through the selective translation of particular classes of mRNA.
Specificity: S6 Ribosomal Protein Antibody detects endogenous levels of S6 Ribosomal Protein
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human S6 Ribosomal Protein
Gene: RPS6
YB1 Antibody
Background Info: Mediates pre-mRNA alternative splicing regulation. Binds to splice sites in pre-mRNA and regulates splice site selection. Binds and stabilizes cytoplasmic mRNA. Contributes to the regulation of translation by modulating the interaction between the mRNA and eukaryotic initiation factors (By similarity). Regulates the transcription of numerous genes. Its transcriptional activity on the multidrug resistance gene MDR1 is enhanced in presence of the APEX1 acetylated form at 'Lys-6' and 'Lys-7'. Binds to promoters that contain a Y-box (5'-CTGATTGGCCAA-3'), such as MDR1 and HLA class II genes. Promotes separation of DNA strands that contain mismatches or are modified by cisplatin. Has endonucleolytic activity and can introduce nicks or breaks into double-stranded DNA (in vitro). May play a role in DNA repair. Component of the CRD-mediated complex that promotes MYC mRNA stability. Binds preferentially to the 5'-[CU]CUGCG-3' motif in vitro.
Specificity: YB1 Antibody detects endogenous levels of YB1
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human YB1
Gene: YBX1
Casein Kinase II alpha Antibody
Background Info: Catalytic subunit of a constitutively active serine/threonine-protein kinase complex that phosphorylates a large number of substrates containing acidic residues C-terminal to the phosphorylated serine or threonine. Regulates numerous cellular processes, such as cell cycle progression, apoptosis and transcription, as well as viral infection. May act as a regulatory node which integrates and coordinates numerous signals leading to an appropriate cellular response. During mitosis, functions as a component of the p53/TP53-dependent spindle assembly checkpoint (SAC) that maintains cyclin-B-CDK1 activity and G2 arrest in response to spindle damage. Also required for p53/TP53-mediated apoptosis, phosphorylating 'Ser-392' of p53/TP53 following UV irradiation. Can also negatively regulate apoptosis. Phosphorylates the caspases CASP9 and CASP2 and the apoptotic regulator NOL3. Phosphorylation protects CASP9 from cleavage and activation by CASP8, and inhibits the dimerization of CASP2 and activation of CASP8. Regulates transcription by direct phosphorylation of RNA polymerases I, II, III and IV. Also phosphorylates and regulates numerous transcription factors including NF-kappa-B, STAT1, CREB1, IRF1, IRF2, ATF1, SRF, MAX, JUN, FOS, MYC and MYB. Phosphorylates Hsp90 and its co-chaperones FKBP4 and CDC37, which is essential for chaperone function. Regulates Wnt signaling by phosphorylating CTNNB1 and the transcription factor LEF1. Acts as an ectokinase that phosphorylates several extracellular proteins. During viral infection, phosphorylates various proteins involved in the viral life cycles of EBV, HSV, HBV, HCV, HIV, CMV and HPV. Phosphorylates PML at 'Ser-565' and primes it for ubiquitin-mediated degradation. Plays an important role in the circadian clock function by phosphorylating ARNTL/BMAL1 at 'Ser-90' which is pivotal for its interaction with CLOCK and which controls CLOCK nuclear entry (PubMed:11239457, PubMed:11704824, PubMed:16193064, PubMed:19188443, PubMed:20625391, PubMed:22406621). Phosphorylates CCAR2 at 'Thr-454' in gastric carcinoma tissue (PubMed:24962073).
Specificity: Casein Kinase II Antibody detects endogenous levels of Casein Kinase II
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human Casein Kinase II
Gene: CSNK2A1
Histone H3 Antibody
Specificity: Histone H3 Antibody detects endogenous levels of Histone H3
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human Histone H3
PSD95 Antibody
Background Info: Interacts with the cytoplasmic tail of NMDA receptor subunits and shaker-type potassium channels. Required for synaptic plasticity associated with NMDA receptor signaling. Overexpression or depletion of DLG4 changes the ratio of excitatory to inhibitory synapses in hippocampal neurons. May reduce the amplitude of ASIC3 acid-evoked currents by retaining the channel intracellularly. May regulate the intracellular trafficking of ADR1B. Also regulates AMPA-type glutamate receptor (AMPAR) immobilization at postsynaptic density keeping the channels in an activated state in the presence of glutamate and preventing synaptic depression.
Specificity: PSD95 Antibody detects endogenous levels of PSD95
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human PSD95
Gene: DLG4
EFNB1 Antibody
Background Info: Binds to the receptor tyrosine kinases EPHB1 and EPHA1. Binds to, and induce the collapse of, commissural axons/growth cones in vitro. May play a role in constraining the orientation of longitudinally projecting axons (By similarity).
Specificity: EFNB1 Antibody detects endogenous levels of EFNB1
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human EFNB1
FoxO4 Antibody
Background Info: Transcription factor involved in the regulation of the insulin signaling pathway. Binds to insulin-response elements (IREs) and can activate transcription of IGFBP1. Down-regulates expression of HIF1A and suppresses hypoxia-induced transcriptional activation of HIF1A-modulated genes. Also involved in negative regulation of the cell cycle. Involved in increased proteasome activity in embryonic stem cells (ESCs) by activating expression of PSMD11 in ESCs, leading to enhanced assembly of the 26S proteasome, followed by higher proteasome activity.
Specificity: FoxO4 Antibody detects endogenous levels of FoxO4
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human FoxO4
AML1 Antibody
Background Info: Forms the heterodimeric complex core-binding factor (CBF) with CBFB. RUNX members modulate the transcription of their target genes through recognizing the core consensus binding sequence 5'-TGTGGT-3', or very rarely, 5'-TGCGGT-3', within their regulatory regions via their runt domain, while CBFB is a non-DNA-binding regulatory subunit that allosterically enhances the sequence-specific DNA-binding capacity of RUNX. The heterodimers bind to the core site of a number of enhancers and promoters, including murine leukemia virus, polyomavirus enhancer, T-cell receptor enhancers, LCK, IL3 and GM-CSF promoters (Probable). Essential for the development of normal hematopoiesis (PubMed:17431401). Acts synergistically with ELF4 to transactivate the IL-3 promoter and with ELF2 to transactivate the BLK promoter (PubMed:10207087, PubMed:14970218). Inhibits KAT6B-dependent transcriptional activation (By similarity). Involved in lineage commitment of immature T cell precursors. CBF complexes repress ZBTB7B transcription factor during cytotoxic (CD8+) T cell development. They bind to RUNX-binding sequence within the ZBTB7B locus acting as transcriptional silencer and allowing for cytotoxic T cell differentiation. CBF complexes binding to the transcriptional silencer is essential for recruitment of nuclear protein complexes that catalyze epigenetic modifications to establish epigenetic ZBTB7B silencing (By similarity). Controls the anergy and suppressive function of regulatory T-cells (Treg) by associating with FOXP3. Activates the expression of IL2 and IFNG and down-regulates the expression of TNFRSF18, IL2RA and CTLA4, in conventional T-cells (PubMed:17377532). Positively regulates the expression of RORC in T-helper 17 cells (By similarity).
Specificity: AML1 Antibody detects endogenous levels of AML1
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human AML1
Gene: RUNX1
PLCB3 Antibody
Background Info: The production of the second messenger molecules diacylglycerol (DAG) and inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (IP3) is mediated by activated phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C enzymes.
Specificity: PLCB3 Antibody detects endogenous levels of PLCB3
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human PLCB3
Gene: PLCB3
MEF2A Antibody
Background Info: Transcriptional activator which binds specifically to the MEF2 element, 5'-YTA[AT]4TAR-3', found in numerous muscle-specific genes. Also involved in the activation of numerous growth factor- and stress-induced genes. Mediates cellular functions not only in skeletal and cardiac muscle development, but also in neuronal differentiation and survival. Plays diverse roles in the control of cell growth, survival and apoptosis via p38 MAPK signaling in muscle-specific and/or growth factor-related transcription. In cerebellar granule neurons, phosphorylated and sumoylated MEF2A represses transcription of NUR77 promoting synaptic differentiation. Associates with chromatin to the ZNF16 promoter.
Specificity: MEF2A Antibody detects endogenous levels of MEF2A
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human MEF2A
Gene: MEF2A
PKC epsilon Antibody
Background Info: Calcium-independent, phospholipid- and diacylglycerol (DAG)-dependent serine/threonine-protein kinase that plays essential roles in the regulation of multiple cellular processes linked to cytoskeletal proteins, such as cell adhesion, motility, migration and cell cycle, functions in neuron growth and ion channel regulation, and is involved in immune response, cancer cell invasion and regulation of apoptosis. Mediates cell adhesion to the extracellular matrix via integrin-dependent signaling, by mediating angiotensin-2-induced activation of integrin beta-1 (ITGB1) in cardiac fibroblasts. Phosphorylates MARCKS, which phosphorylates and activates PTK2/FAK, leading to the spread of cardiomyocytes. Involved in the control of the directional transport of ITGB1 in mesenchymal cells by phosphorylating vimentin (VIM), an intermediate filament (IF) protein. In epithelial cells, associates with and phosphorylates keratin-8 (KRT8), which induces targeting of desmoplakin at desmosomes and regulates cell-cell contact. Phosphorylates IQGAP1, which binds to CDC42, mediating epithelial cell-cell detachment prior to migration. In HeLa cells, contributes to hepatocyte growth factor (HGF)-induced cell migration, and in human corneal epithelial cells, plays a critical role in wound healing after activation by HGF. During cytokinesis, forms a complex with YWHAB, which is crucial for daughter cell separation, and facilitates abscission by a mechanism which may implicate the regulation of RHOA. In cardiac myocytes, regulates myofilament function and excitation coupling at the Z-lines, where it is indirectly associated with F-actin via interaction with COPB1. During endothelin-induced cardiomyocyte hypertrophy, mediates activation of PTK2/FAK, which is critical for cardiomyocyte survival and regulation of sarcomere length. Plays a role in the pathogenesis of dilated cardiomyopathy via persistent phosphorylation of troponin I (TNNI3). Involved in nerve growth factor (NFG)-induced neurite outgrowth and neuron morphological change independently of its kinase activity, by inhibition of RHOA pathway, activation of CDC42 and cytoskeletal rearrangement. May be involved in presynaptic facilitation by mediating phorbol ester-induced synaptic potentiation. Phosphorylates gamma-aminobutyric acid receptor subunit gamma-2 (GABRG2), which reduces the response of GABA receptors to ethanol and benzodiazepines and may mediate acute tolerance to the intoxicating effects of ethanol. Upon PMA treatment, phosphorylates the capsaicin- and heat-activated cation channel TRPV1, which is required for bradykinin-induced sensitization of the heat response in nociceptive neurons. Is able to form a complex with PDLIM5 and N-type calcium channel, and may enhance channel activities and potentiates fast synaptic transmission by phosphorylating the pore-forming alpha subunit CACNA1B (CaV2.2). In prostate cancer cells, interacts with and phosphorylates STAT3, which increases DNA-binding and transcriptional activity of STAT3 and seems to be essential for prostate cancer cell invasion. Downstream of TLR4, plays an important role in the lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced immune response by phosphorylating and activating TICAM2/TRAM, which in turn activates the transcription factor IRF3 and subsequent cytokines production. In differentiating erythroid progenitors, is regulated by EPO and controls the protection against the TNFSF10/TRAIL-mediated apoptosis, via BCL2. May be involved in the regulation of the insulin-induced phosphorylation and activation of AKT1.
Specificity: PKC Antibody detects endogenous levels of PKC
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human PKC
Gene: PRKCE
eIF4G Antibody
Background Info: Component of the protein complex eIF4F, which is involved in the recognition of the mRNA cap, ATP-dependent unwinding of 5'-terminal secondary structure and recruitment of mRNA to the ribosome.
Specificity: eIF4G Antibody detects endogenous levels of eIF4G
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human eIF4G
Gene: EIF4G1
MEK1 Antibody
Specificity: MEK1 Antibody detects endogenous levels of MEK1
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human MEK1
Tie2 Antibody
Background Info: Tyrosine-protein kinase that acts as cell-surface receptor for ANGPT1, ANGPT2 and ANGPT4 and regulates angiogenesis, endothelial cell survival, proliferation, migration, adhesion and cell spreading, reorganization of the actin cytoskeleton, but also maintenance of vascular quiescence. Has anti-inflammatory effects by preventing the leakage of proinflammatory plasma proteins and leukocytes from blood vessels. Required for normal angiogenesis and heart development during embryogenesis. Required for post-natal hematopoiesis. After birth, activates or inhibits angiogenesis, depending on the context. Inhibits angiogenesis and promotes vascular stability in quiescent vessels, where endothelial cells have tight contacts. In quiescent vessels, ANGPT1 oligomers recruit TEK to cell-cell contacts, forming complexes with TEK molecules from adjoining cells, and this leads to preferential activation of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase and the AKT1 signaling cascades. In migrating endothelial cells that lack cell-cell adhesions, ANGT1 recruits TEK to contacts with the extracellular matrix, leading to the formation of focal adhesion complexes, activation of PTK2/FAK and of the downstream kinases MAPK1/ERK2 and MAPK3/ERK1, and ultimately to the stimulation of sprouting angiogenesis. ANGPT1 signaling triggers receptor dimerization and autophosphorylation at specific tyrosine residues that then serve as binding sites for scaffold proteins and effectors. Signaling is modulated by ANGPT2 that has lower affinity for TEK, can promote TEK autophosphorylation in the absence of ANGPT1, but inhibits ANGPT1-mediated signaling by competing for the same binding site. Signaling is also modulated by formation of heterodimers with TIE1, and by proteolytic processing that gives rise to a soluble TEK extracellular domain. The soluble extracellular domain modulates signaling by functioning as decoy receptor for angiopoietins. TEK phosphorylates DOK2, GRB7, GRB14, PIK3R1; SHC1 and TIE1.
Specificity: Tie2 Antibody detects endogenous levels of Tie2
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human Tie2
Gene: TEK
CTDSPL2 Antibody
Background Info: Probable phosphatase.
Specificity: CTDSPL2 Antibody detects endogenous levels of CTDSPL2
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human CTDSPL2
Gene: CTDSPL2
Swiss-Prot: Q05D32
Keratin 17 Antibody
Background Info: Type I keratin involved in the formation and maintenance of various skin appendages, specifically in determining shape and orientation of hair (By similarity). Required for the correct growth of hair follicles, in particular for the persistence of the anagen (growth) state (By similarity). Modulates the function of TNF-alpha in the specific context of hair cycling. Regulates protein synthesis and epithelial cell growth through binding to the adapter protein SFN and by stimulating Akt/mTOR pathway (By similarity). Involved in tissue repair. May be a marker of basal cell differentiation in complex epithelia and therefore indicative of a certain type of epithelial "stem cells". Acts as a promoter of epithelial proliferation by acting a regulator of immune response in skin: promotes Th1/Th17-dominated immune environment contributing to the development of basaloid skin tumors (By similarity). May act as an autoantigen in the immunopathogenesis of psoriasis, with certain peptide regions being a major target for autoreactive T-cells and hence causing their proliferation.
Specificity: Keratin 17 Antibody detects endogenous levels of Keratin 17
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human Keratin 17
Gene: KRT17
Background Info: Acts downstream of various receptor and cytoplasmic protein tyrosine kinases to participate in the signal transduction from the cell surface to the nucleus. Positively regulates MAPK signal transduction pathway (PubMed:28074573). Dephosphorylates GAB1, ARHGAP35 and EGFR (PubMed:28074573). Dephosphorylates ROCK2 at 'Tyr-722' resulting in stimulatation of its RhoA binding activity. Dephosphorylates CDC73 (PubMed:26742426).
Gene: PTPN11
BTK Antibody
Background Info: Non-receptor tyrosine kinase indispensable for B lymphocyte development, differentiation and signaling. Binding of antigen to the B-cell antigen receptor (BCR) triggers signaling that ultimately leads to B-cell activation. After BCR engagement and activation at the plasma membrane, phosphorylates PLCG2 at several sites, igniting the downstream signaling pathway through calcium mobilization, followed by activation of the protein kinase C (PKC) family members. PLCG2 phosphorylation is performed in close cooperation with the adapter protein B-cell linker protein BLNK. BTK acts as a platform to bring together a diverse array of signaling proteins and is implicated in cytokine receptor signaling pathways. Plays an important role in the function of immune cells of innate as well as adaptive immunity, as a component of the Toll-like receptors (TLR) pathway. The TLR pathway acts as a primary surveillance system for the detection of pathogens and are crucial to the activation of host defense. Especially, is a critical molecule in regulating TLR9 activation in splenic B-cells. Within the TLR pathway, induces tyrosine phosphorylation of TIRAP which leads to TIRAP degradation. BTK plays also a critical role in transcription regulation. Induces the activity of NF-kappa-B, which is involved in regulating the expression of hundreds of genes. BTK is involved on the signaling pathway linking TLR8 and TLR9 to NF-kappa-B. Transiently phosphorylates transcription factor GTF2I on tyrosine residues in response to BCR. GTF2I then translocates to the nucleus to bind regulatory enhancer elements to modulate gene expression. ARID3A and NFAT are other transcriptional target of BTK. BTK is required for the formation of functional ARID3A DNA-binding complexes. There is however no evidence that BTK itself binds directly to DNA. BTK has a dual role in the regulation of apoptosis.
Specificity: BTK Antibody detects endogenous levels of BTK
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human BTK
Gene: BTK
MEF2C Antibody
Background Info: Transcription activator which binds specifically to the MEF2 element present in the regulatory regions of many muscle-specific genes. Controls cardiac morphogenesis and myogenesis, and is also involved in vascular development. Plays an essential role in hippocampal-dependent learning and memory by suppressing the number of excitatory synapses and thus regulating basal and evoked synaptic transmission. Crucial for normal neuronal development, distribution, and electrical activity in the neocortex. Necessary for proper development of megakaryocytes and platelets and for bone marrow B-lymphopoiesis. Required for B-cell survival and proliferation in response to BCR stimulation, efficient IgG1 antibody responses to T-cell-dependent antigens and for normal induction of germinal center B-cells. May also be involved in neurogenesis and in the development of cortical architecture (By similarity). Isoform 3 and isoform 4, which lack the repressor domain, are more active than isoform 1 and isoform 2.
Specificity: MEF2C Antibody detects endogenous levels of MEF2C
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human MEF2C
Gene: MEF2C
Prdx1 Antibody
Background Info: Thiol-specific peroxidase that catalyzes the reduction of hydrogen peroxide and organic hydroperoxides to water and alcohols, respectively. Plays a role in cell protection against oxidative stress by detoxifying peroxides and as sensor of hydrogen peroxide-mediated signaling events. Might participate in the signaling cascades of growth factors and tumor necrosis factor-alpha by regulating the intracellular concentrations of H2O2 (PubMed:9497357). Reduces an intramolecular disulfide bond in GDPD5 that gates the ability to GDPD5 to drive postmitotic motor neuron differentiation (By similarity).
Specificity: Prdx1 Antibody detects endogenous levels of Prdx1
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human Prdx1
Gene: PRDX1
ACK1 Antibody
Background Info: Non-receptor tyrosine-protein and serine/threonine-protein kinase that is implicated in cell spreading and migration, cell survival, cell growth and proliferation. Transduces extracellular signals to cytosolic and nuclear effectors. Phosphorylates AKT1, AR, MCF2, WASL and WWOX. Implicated in trafficking and clathrin-mediated endocytosis through binding to epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and clathrin. Binds to both poly- and mono-ubiquitin and regulates ligand-induced degradation of EGFR, thereby contributing to the accumulation of EGFR at the limiting membrane of early endosomes. Downstream effector of CDC42 which mediates CDC42-dependent cell migration via phosphorylation of BCAR1. May be involved both in adult synaptic function and plasticity and in brain development. Activates AKT1 by phosphorylating it on 'Tyr-176'. Phosphorylates AR on 'Tyr-267' and 'Tyr-363' thereby promoting its recruitment to androgen-responsive enhancers (AREs). Phosphorylates WWOX on 'Tyr-287'. Phosphorylates MCF2, thereby enhancing its activity as a guanine nucleotide exchange factor (GEF) toward Rho family proteins. Contributes to the control of AXL receptor levels. Confers metastatic properties on cancer cells and promotes tumor growth by negatively regulating tumor suppressor such as WWOX and positively regulating pro-survival factors such as AKT1 and AR. Phosphorylates WASP (PubMed:20110370).
Specificity: ACK1 Antibody detects endogenous levels of ACK1
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human ACK1
Gene: TNK2
FoxM1 Antibody
Background Info: Transcriptional factor regulating the expression of cell cycle genes essential for DNA replication and mitosis. Plays a role in the control of cell proliferation. Plays also a role in DNA breaks repair participating in the DNA damage checkpoint response.
Specificity: FoxM1 Antibody detects endogenous levels of FoxM1
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human FoxM1
Gene: FOXM1
Background Info: Tyrosine kinase that functions as cell surface receptor for fibrillar collagen and regulates cell attachment to the extracellular matrix, remodeling of the extracellular matrix, cell migration, differentiation, survival and cell proliferation. Collagen binding triggers a signaling pathway that involves SRC and leads to the activation of MAP kinases. Regulates remodeling of the extracellular matrix by up-regulation of the matrix metalloproteinases MMP2, MMP7 and MMP9, and thereby facilitates cell migration and wound healing. Required for normal blastocyst implantation during pregnancy, for normal mammary gland differentiation and normal lactation. Required for normal ear morphology and normal hearing (By similarity). Promotes smooth muscle cell migration, and thereby contributes to arterial wound healing. Also plays a role in tumor cell invasion. Phosphorylates PTPN11.
Specificity: DDR1 Antibody detects endogenous levels of DDR1
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human DDR1
Gene: DDR1
Molecular Weight: 101kDa.
NMDAR2A Antibody
Background Info: Component of NMDA receptor complexes that function as heterotetrameric, ligand-gated ion channels with high calcium permeability and voltage-dependent sensitivity to magnesium. Channel activation requires binding of the neurotransmitter glutamate to the epsilon subunit, glycine binding to the zeta subunit, plus membrane depolarization to eliminate channel inhibition by Mg2+ (PubMed:8768735, PubMed:26919761, PubMed:26875626, PubMed:28105280). Sensitivity to glutamate and channel kinetics depend on the subunit composition; channels containing GRIN1 and GRIN2A have higher sensitivity to glutamate and faster kinetics than channels formed by GRIN1 and GRIN2B (PubMed:26919761, PubMed:26875626). Contributes to the slow phase of excitatory postsynaptic current, long-term synaptic potentiation, and learning (By similarity).
Specificity: NMDAR2A Antibody detects endogenous levels of NMDAR2A
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human NMDAR2A
Gene: GRIN2A
TRAF2 Antibody
Background Info: Regulates activation of NF-kappa-B and JNK and plays a central role in the regulation of cell survival and apoptosis. Required for normal antibody isotype switching from IgM to IgG. Has E3 ubiquitin-protein ligase activity and promotes 'Lys-63'-linked ubiquitination of target proteins, such as BIRC3, RIPK1 and TICAM1. Is an essential constituent of several E3 ubiquitin-protein ligase complexes, where it promotes the ubiquitination of target proteins by bringing them into contact with other E3 ubiquitin ligases. Regulates BIRC2 and BIRC3 protein levels by inhibiting their autoubiquitination and subsequent degradation; this does not depend on the TRAF2 RING-type zinc finger domain. Plays a role in mediating activation of NF-kappa-B by EIF2AK2/PKR. In complex with BIRC2 or BIRC3, promotes ubiquitination of IKBKE.
Specificity: TRAF2 Antibody detects endogenous levels of TRAF2
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human TRAF2
Gene: TRAF2
ACC1 Antibody
Specificity: ACC1 Antibody detects endogenous levels of ACC1
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human ACC1
TDP43 Antibody
Background Info: DNA and RNA-binding protein which regulates transcription and splicing. Involved in the regulation of CFTR splicing. It promotes CFTR exon 9 skipping by binding to the UG repeated motifs in the polymorphic region near the 3'-splice site of this exon. The resulting aberrant splicing is associated with pathological features typical of cystic fibrosis. May also be involved in microRNA biogenesis, apoptosis and cell division. Can repress HIV-1 transcription by binding to the HIV-1 long terminal repeat. Stabilizes the low molecular weight neurofilament (NFL) mRNA through a direct interaction with the 3' UTR.
Specificity: TDP43 Antibody detects endogenous levels of TDP43
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human TDP43
Gene: TARDBP
Mst1 Antibody
Specificity: Mst1 Antibody detects endogenous levels of Mst1
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human Mst1
NMDAR2B Antibody
Background Info: Component of NMDA receptor complexes that function as heterotetrameric, ligand-gated ion channels with high calcium permeability and voltage-dependent sensitivity to magnesium. Channel activation requires binding of the neurotransmitter glutamate to the epsilon subunit, glycine binding to the zeta subunit, plus membrane depolarization to eliminate channel inhibition by Mg2+ (PubMed:8768735, PubMed:26919761, PubMed:26875626, PubMed:28126851). Sensitivity to glutamate and channel kinetics depend on the subunit composition (PubMed:8768735, PubMed:26875626). In concert with DAPK1 at extrasynaptic sites, acts as a central mediator for stroke damage. Its phosphorylation at Ser-1303 by DAPK1 enhances synaptic NMDA receptor channel activity inducing injurious Ca2+ influx through them, resulting in an irreversible neuronal death. Contributes to neural pattern formation in the developing brain. Plays a role in long-term depression (LTD) of hippocampus membrane currents and in synaptic plasticity (By similarity).
Specificity: NMDAR2B Antibody detects endogenous levels of NMDAR2B
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human NMDAR2B
Gene: GRIN2B
Skp2 Antibody
Background Info: Substrate recognition component of a SCF (SKP1-CUL1-F-box protein) E3 ubiquitin-protein ligase complex which mediates the ubiquitination and subsequent proteasomal degradation of target proteins involved in cell cycle progression, signal transduction and transcription. Specifically recognizes phosphorylated CDKN1B/p27kip and is involved in regulation of G1/S transition. Degradation of CDKN1B/p27kip also requires CKS1. Recognizes target proteins ORC1, CDT1, RBL2, KMT2A/MLL1, CDK9, RAG2, FOXO1, UBP43, and probably MYC, TOB1 and TAL1. Degradation of TAL1 also requires STUB1. Recognizes CDKN1A in association with CCNE1 or CCNE2 and CDK2. Promotes ubiquitination and destruction of CDH1 in a CK1-Dependent Manner, thereby regulating cell migration.
Specificity: Skp2 Antibody detects endogenous levels of Skp2
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human Skp2
Gene: SKP2
PLD1 Antibody
Background Info: Implicated as a critical step in numerous cellular pathways, including signal transduction, membrane trafficking, and the regulation of mitosis. May be involved in the regulation of perinuclear intravesicular membrane traffic (By similarity).
Specificity: PLD1 Antibody detects endogenous levels of PLD1
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human PLD1
Gene: PLD1
GRB10 Antibody
Background Info: Adapter protein which modulates coupling of a number of cell surface receptor kinases with specific signaling pathways. Binds to, and suppress signals from, activated receptors tyrosine kinases, including the insulin (INSR) and insulin-like growth factor (IGF1R) receptors. The inhibitory effect can be achieved by 2 mechanisms: interference with the signaling pathway and increased receptor degradation. Delays and reduces AKT1 phosphorylation in response to insulin stimulation. Blocks association between INSR and IRS1 and IRS2 and prevents insulin-stimulated IRS1 and IRS2 tyrosine phosphorylation. Recruits NEDD4 to IGF1R, leading to IGF1R ubiquitination, increased internalization and degradation by both the proteasomal and lysosomal pathways. May play a role in mediating insulin-stimulated ubiquitination of INSR, leading to proteasomal degradation. Negatively regulates Wnt signaling by interacting with LRP6 intracellular portion and interfering with the binding of AXIN1 to LRP6. Positive regulator of the KDR/VEGFR-2 signaling pathway. May inhibit NEDD4-mediated degradation of KDR/VEGFR-2.
Specificity: GRB10 Antibody detects endogenous levels of GRB10
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human GRB10
Gene: GRB10
Gab1 Antibody
Background Info: Adapter protein that plays a role in intracellular signaling cascades triggered by activated receptor-type kinases. Plays a role in FGFR1 signaling. Probably involved in signaling by the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and the insulin receptor (INSR).
Specificity: Gab1 Antibody detects endogenous levels of Gab1
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human Gab1
Gene: GAB1
SQSTM1/p62 Antibody
Background Info: Autophagy receptor required for selective macroautophagy (aggrephagy). Functions as a bridge between polyubiquitinated cargo and autophagosomes. Interacts directly with both the cargo to become degraded and an autophagy modifier of the MAP1 LC3 family (PubMed:16286508, PubMed:20168092, PubMed:24128730, PubMed:28404643, PubMed:22622177). Along with WDFY3, involved in the formation and autophagic degradation of cytoplasmic ubiquitin-containing inclusions (p62 bodies, ALIS/aggresome-like induced structures). Along with WDFY3, required to recruit ubiquitinated proteins to PML bodies in the nucleus (PubMed:24128730, PubMed:20168092). May regulate the activation of NFKB1 by TNF-alpha, nerve growth factor (NGF) and interleukin-1. May play a role in titin/TTN downstream signaling in muscle cells. May regulate signaling cascades through ubiquitination. Adapter that mediates the interaction between TRAF6 and CYLD (By similarity). May be involved in cell differentiation, apoptosis, immune response and regulation of K+ channels. Involved in endosome organization by retaining vesicles in the perinuclear cloud: following ubiquitination by RNF26, attracts specific vesicle-associated adapters, forming a molecular bridge that restrains cognate vesicles in the perinuclear region and organizes the endosomal pathway for efficient cargo transport (PubMed:27368102).
Specificity: SQSTM1/p62 Antibody detects endogenous levels of SQSTM1/p62
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human SQSTM1/p62
Gene: SQSTM1
4E-BP1 Antibody
Specificity: 4E-BP1 Antibody detects endogenous levels of 4E-BP1
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human 4E-BP1
RIP Antibody
Specificity: RIP Antibody detects endogenous levels of RIP
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human RIP
RUNX2 Antibody
Background Info: Transcription factor involved in osteoblastic differentiation and skeletal morphogenesis (PubMed:28505335, PubMed:28738062, PubMed:28703881). Essential for the maturation of osteoblasts and both intramembranous and endochondral ossification. CBF binds to the core site, 5'-PYGPYGGT-3', of a number of enhancers and promoters, including murine leukemia virus, polyomavirus enhancer, T-cell receptor enhancers, osteocalcin, osteopontin, bone sialoprotein, alpha 1(I) collagen, LCK, IL-3 and GM-CSF promoters. In osteoblasts, supports transcription activation: synergizes with SPEN/MINT to enhance FGFR2-mediated activation of the osteocalcin FGF-responsive element (OCFRE) (By similarity). Inhibits KAT6B-dependent transcriptional activation.
Specificity: RUNX2 Antibody detects endogenous levels of RUNX2
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human RUNX2
Molecular Weight: 50-60kd
CaMKII Antibody
Specificity: CaMKII Antibody detects endogenous levels of CaMKII
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human CaMKII
CaMK1-alpha Antibody
Background Info: Calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase that operates in the calcium-triggered CaMKK-CaMK1 signaling cascade and, upon calcium influx, regulates transcription activators activity, cell cycle, hormone production, cell differentiation, actin filament organization and neurite outgrowth. Recognizes the substrate consensus sequence [MVLIF]-x-R-x2-[ST]-x3-[MVLIF]. Regulates axonal extension and growth cone motility in hippocampal and cerebellar nerve cells. Upon NMDA receptor-mediated Ca2+ elevation, promotes dendritic growth in hippocampal neurons and is essential in synapses for full long-term potentiation (LTP) and ERK2-dependent translational activation. Downstream of NMDA receptors, promotes the formation of spines and synapses in hippocampal neurons by phosphorylating ARHGEF7/BETAPIX on 'Ser-694', which results in the enhancement of ARHGEF7 activity and activation of RAC1. Promotes neuronal differentiation and neurite outgrowth by activation and phosphorylation of MARK2 on 'Ser-91', 'Ser-92', 'Ser-93' and 'Ser-294'. Promotes nuclear export of HDAC5 and binding to 14-3-3 by phosphorylation of 'Ser-259' and 'Ser-498' in the regulation of muscle cell differentiation. Regulates NUMB-mediated endocytosis by phosphorylation of NUMB on 'Ser-276' and 'Ser-295'. Involved in the regulation of basal and estrogen-stimulated migration of medulloblastoma cells through ARHGEF7/BETAPIX phosphorylation (By similarity). Is required for proper activation of cyclin-D1/CDK4 complex during G1 progression in diploid fibroblasts. Plays a role in K+ and ANG2-mediated regulation of the aldosterone synthase (CYP11B2) to produce aldosterone in the adrenal cortex. Phosphorylates EIF4G3/eIF4GII. In vitro phosphorylates CREB1, ATF1, CFTR, MYL9 and SYN1/synapsin I.
Specificity: CaMK1-alpha Antibody detects endogenous levels of CaMK1-alpha
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human CaMK1-alpha
Gene: CAMK1
GIT2 Antibody
Background Info: GTPase-activating protein for the ADP ribosylation factor family.
Specificity: GIT2 Antibody detects endogenous levels of GIT2
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human GIT2
Gene: GIT2
PYK2 Antibody
Background Info: Non-receptor protein-tyrosine kinase that regulates reorganization of the actin cytoskeleton, cell polarization, cell migration, adhesion, spreading and bone remodeling. Plays a role in the regulation of the humoral immune response, and is required for normal levels of marginal B-cells in the spleen and normal migration of splenic B-cells. Required for normal macrophage polarization and migration towards sites of inflammation. Regulates cytoskeleton rearrangement and cell spreading in T-cells, and contributes to the regulation of T-cell responses. Promotes osteoclastic bone resorption; this requires both PTK2B/PYK2 and SRC. May inhibit differentiation and activity of osteoprogenitor cells. Functions in signaling downstream of integrin and collagen receptors, immune receptors, G-protein coupled receptors (GPCR), cytokine, chemokine and growth factor receptors, and mediates responses to cellular stress. Forms multisubunit signaling complexes with SRC and SRC family members upon activation; this leads to the phosphorylation of additional tyrosine residues, creating binding sites for scaffold proteins, effectors and substrates. Regulates numerous signaling pathways. Promotes activation of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase and of the AKT1 signaling cascade. Promotes activation of NOS3. Regulates production of the cellular messenger cGMP. Promotes activation of the MAP kinase signaling cascade, including activation of MAPK1/ERK2, MAPK3/ERK1 and MAPK8/JNK1. Promotes activation of Rho family GTPases, such as RHOA and RAC1. Recruits the ubiquitin ligase MDM2 to P53/TP53 in the nucleus, and thereby regulates P53/TP53 activity, P53/TP53 ubiquitination and proteasomal degradation. Acts as a scaffold, binding to both PDPK1 and SRC, thereby allowing SRC to phosphorylate PDPK1 at 'Tyr-9, 'Tyr-373', and 'Tyr-376'. Promotes phosphorylation of NMDA receptors by SRC family members, and thereby contributes to the regulation of NMDA receptor ion channel activity and intracellular Ca2+ levels. May also regulate potassium ion transport by phosphorylation of potassium channel subunits. Phosphorylates SRC; this increases SRC kinase activity. Phosphorylates ASAP1, NPHP1, KCNA2 and SHC1. Promotes phosphorylation of ASAP2, RHOU and PXN; this requires both SRC and PTK2/PYK2.
Specificity: PYK2 Antibody detects endogenous levels of PYK2
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human PYK2
Gene: PTK2B
Beclin-1 Antibody
Background Info: Plays a central role in autophagy (PubMed:23184933, PubMed:28445460). Acts as core subunit of the PI3K complex that mediates formation of phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate; different complex forms are believed to play a role in multiple membrane trafficking pathways: PI3KC3-C1 is involved in initiation of autophagosomes and PI3KC3-C2 in maturation of autophagosomes and endocytosis. Involved in regulation of degradative endocytic trafficking and required for the abcission step in cytokinesis, probably in the context of PI3KC3-C2 (PubMed:20643123, PubMed:20208530, PubMed:26783301). Essential for the formation of PI3KC3-C2 but not PI3KC3-C1 PI3K complex forms. Involved in endocytosis (PubMed:25275521). Protects against infection by a neurovirulent strain of Sindbis virus (PubMed:9765397). May play a role in antiviral host defense.
Specificity: Beclin-1 Antibody detects endogenous levels of Beclin-1
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human Beclin-1
Gene: BECN1
IRF-3 Antibody
Specificity: IRF-3 Antibody detects endogenous levels of IRF-3
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human IRF-3
MEF2D Antibody
Background Info: Transcriptional activator which binds specifically to the MEF2 element, 5'-YTA[AT]4TAR-3', found in numerous muscle-specific, growth factor- and stress-induced genes. Mediates cellular functions not only in skeletal and cardiac muscle development, but also in neuronal differentiation and survival. Plays diverse roles in the control of cell growth, survival and apoptosis via p38 MAPK signaling in muscle-specific and/or growth factor-related transcription. Plays a critical role in the regulation of neuronal apoptosis (By similarity).
Specificity: MEF2D Antibody detects endogenous levels of MEF2D
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human MEF2D
Gene: MEF2D
NFAT3 Antibody
Background Info: Plays a role in the inducible expression of cytokine genes in T-cells, especially in the induction of the IL-2 and IL-4. Transcriptionally repressed by estrogen receptors; this inhibition is further enhanced by estrogen. Increases the transcriptional activity of PPARG and has a direct role in adipocyte differentiation. May play an important role in myotube differentiation. May play a critical role in cardiac development and hypertrophy. May play a role in deafferentation-induced apoptosis of sensory neurons.
Specificity: NFAT3 Antibody detects endogenous levels of NFAT3
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human NFAT3
NuMA Antibody
Background Info: Microtubule (MT)-binding protein that plays a role in the formation and maintenance of the spindle poles and the alignement and the segregation of chromosomes during mitotic cell division (PubMed:7769006, PubMed:17172455, PubMed:19255246, PubMed:24996901, PubMed:26195665, PubMed:27462074). Functions to tether the minus ends of MTs at the spindle poles, which is critical for the establishment and maintenance of the spindle poles (PubMed:12445386, PubMed:11956313). Plays a role in the establishment of the mitotic spindle orientation during metaphase and elongation during anaphase in a dynein-dynactin-dependent manner (PubMed:23870127, PubMed:24109598, PubMed:24996901, PubMed:26765568). In metaphase, part of a ternary complex composed of GPSM2 and G(i) alpha proteins, that regulates the recruitment and anchorage of the dynein-dynactin complex in the mitotic cell cortex regions situated above the two spindle poles, and hence regulates the correct oritentation of the mitotic spindle (PubMed:23027904, PubMed:22327364, PubMed:23921553). During anaphase, mediates the recruitment and accumulation of the dynein-dynactin complex at the cell membrane of the polar cortical region through direct association with phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PI(4,5)P2), and hence participates in the regulation of the spindle elongation and chromosome segregation (PubMed:22327364, PubMed:23921553, PubMed:24996901, PubMed:24371089). Binds also to other polyanionic phosphoinositides, such as phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate (PIP), lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) and phosphatidylinositol triphosphate (PIP3), in vitro (PubMed:24996901, PubMed:24371089). Also required for proper orientation of the mitotic spindle during asymmetric cell divisions (PubMed:21816348). Plays a role in mitotic MT aster assembly (PubMed:11163243, PubMed:11229403, PubMed:12445386). Involved in anastral spindle assembly (PubMed:25657325). Positively regulates TNKS protein localization to spindle poles in mitosis (PubMed:16076287). Highly abundant component of the nuclear matrix where it may serve a non-mitotic structural role, occupies the majority of the nuclear volume (PubMed:10075938). Required for epidermal differentiation and hair follicle morphogenesis (By similarity).
Specificity: NuMA Antibody detects endogenous levels of NuMA
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human NuMA
Gene: NUMA1
Specificity: NuMA antibody detects endogenous levels of NuMA antibody
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human NuMA antibody
p40phox Antibody
Background Info: Component of the NADPH-oxidase, a multicomponent enzyme system responsible for the oxidative burst in which electrons are transported from NADPH to molecular oxygen, generating reactive oxidant intermediates. It may be important for the assembly and/or activation of the NADPH-oxidase complex.
Specificity: p40phox Antibody detects endogenous levels of p40phox
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human p40phox
Gene: NCF4
Background Info: Receptor tyrosine kinase which binds promiscuously GPI-anchored ephrin-A family ligands residing on adjacent cells, leading to contact-dependent bidirectional signaling into neighboring cells. The signaling pathway downstream of the receptor is referred to as forward signaling while the signaling pathway downstream of the ephrin ligand is referred to as reverse signaling. Among GPI-anchored ephrin-A ligands, EFNA5 is a cognate/functional ligand for EPHA7 and their interaction regulates brain development modulating cell-cell adhesion and repulsion. Has a repellent activity on axons and is for instance involved in the guidance of corticothalamic axons and in the proper topographic mapping of retinal axons to the colliculus. May also regulate brain development through a caspase(CASP3)-dependent proapoptotic activity. Forward signaling may result in activation of components of the ERK signaling pathway including MAP2K1, MAP2K2, MAPK1 AND MAPK3 which are phosphorylated upon activation of EPHA7.
NCoA2 Antibody
Background Info: Transcriptional coactivator for steroid receptors and nuclear receptors. Coactivator of the steroid binding domain (AF-2) but not of the modulating N-terminal domain (AF-1). Required with NCOA1 to control energy balance between white and brown adipose tissues. Critical regulator of glucose metabolism regulation, acts as RORA coactivator to specifically modulate G6PC expression. Involved in the positive regulation of the transcriptional activity of the glucocorticoid receptor NR3C1 by sumoylation enhancer RWDD3. Positively regulates the circadian clock by acting as a transcriptional coactivator for the CLOCK-ARNTL/BMAL1 heterodimer (By similarity).
Specificity: NCoA2 Antibody detects endogenous levels of NCoA2
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human NCoA2
Gene: NCOA2
SF1 Antibody
Background Info: Necessary for the ATP-dependent first step of spliceosome assembly. Binds to the intron branch point sequence (BPS) 5'-UACUAAC-3' of the pre-mRNA. May act as transcription repressor.
Specificity: SF1 Antibody detects endogenous levels of SF1
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human SF1
Gene: SF1
Background Info: Required for perception of chronic pain through NMDA receptor signaling. Regulates surface expression of NMDA receptors in dorsal horn neurons of the spinal cord. Interacts with the cytoplasmic tail of NMDA receptor subunits as well as inward rectifying potassium channels. Involved in regulation of synaptic stability at cholinergic synapses. Part of the postsynaptic protein scaffold of excitatory synapses (By similarity).
C/EBP-epsilon Antibody
Background Info: Transcriptional activator (PubMed:26019275). C/EBP are DNA-binding proteins that recognize two different motifs: the CCAAT homology common to many promoters and the enhanced core homology common to many enhancers. Required for the promyelocyte-myelocyte transition in myeloid differentiation (PubMed:10359588).
Specificity: C/EBP-epsilon Antibody detects endogenous levels of C/EBP-epsilon
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human C/EBP-epsilon
Gene: CEBPE
LKB1 Antibody
Background Info: Tumor suppressor serine/threonine-protein kinase that controls the activity of AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) family members, thereby playing a role in various processes such as cell metabolism, cell polarity, apoptosis and DNA damage response. Acts by phosphorylating the T-loop of AMPK family proteins, thus promoting their activity: phosphorylates PRKAA1, PRKAA2, BRSK1, BRSK2, MARK1, MARK2, MARK3, MARK4, NUAK1, NUAK2, SIK1, SIK2, SIK3 and SNRK but not MELK. Also phosphorylates non-AMPK family proteins such as STRADA, PTEN and possibly p53/TP53. Acts as a key upstream regulator of AMPK by mediating phosphorylation and activation of AMPK catalytic subunits PRKAA1 and PRKAA2 and thereby regulates processes including: inhibition of signaling pathways that promote cell growth and proliferation when energy levels are low, glucose homeostasis in liver, activation of autophagy when cells undergo nutrient deprivation, and B-cell differentiation in the germinal center in response to DNA damage. Also acts as a regulator of cellular polarity by remodeling the actin cytoskeleton. Required for cortical neuron polarization by mediating phosphorylation and activation of BRSK1 and BRSK2, leading to axon initiation and specification. Involved in DNA damage response: interacts with p53/TP53 and recruited to the CDKN1A/WAF1 promoter to participate in transcription activation. Able to phosphorylate p53/TP53; the relevance of such result in vivo is however unclear and phosphorylation may be indirect and mediated by downstream STK11/LKB1 kinase NUAK1. Also acts as a mediator of p53/TP53-dependent apoptosis via interaction with p53/TP53: translocates to the mitochondrion during apoptosis and regulates p53/TP53-dependent apoptosis pathways. In vein endothelial cells, inhibits PI3K/Akt signaling activity and thus induces apoptosis in response to the oxidant peroxynitrite (in vitro). Regulates UV radiation-induced DNA damage response mediated by CDKN1A. In association with NUAK1, phosphorylates CDKN1A in response to UV radiation and contributes to its degradation which is necessary for optimal DNA repair (PubMed:25329316).
Specificity: LKB1 Antibody detects endogenous levels of LKB1
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human LKB1
Gene: STK11
Background Info: Retina-specific kinase involved in the signal turnoff via phosphorylation of rhodopsin (RHO), the G protein- coupled receptor that initiates the phototransduction cascade. This rapid desensitization is essential for scotopic vision and permits rapid adaptation to changes in illumination.
Specificity: GRK1 Antibody detects endogenous levels of GRK1
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human GRK1
Gene: GRK1
Zyxin Antibody
Background Info: Adhesion plaque protein. Binds alpha-actinin and the CRP protein. Important for targeting TES and ENA/VASP family members to focal adhesions and for the formation of actin-rich structures. May be a component of a signal transduction pathway that mediates adhesion-stimulated changes in gene expression (By similarity).
Specificity: Zyxin Antibody detects endogenous levels of Zyxin
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human Zyxin
Gene: ZYX
Ezh2 Antibody
Background Info: Polycomb group (PcG) protein. Catalytic subunit of the PRC2/EED-EZH2 complex, which methylates 'Lys-9' (H3K9me) and 'Lys-27' (H3K27me) of histone H3, leading to transcriptional repression of the affected target gene. Able to mono-, di- and trimethylate 'Lys-27' of histone H3 to form H3K27me1, H3K27me2 and H3K27me3, respectively. Displays a preference for substrates with less methylation, loses activity when progressively more methyl groups are incorporated into H3K27, H3K27me0 > H3K27me1 > H3K27me2 (PubMed:22323599). Compared to EZH1-containing complexes, it is more abundant in embryonic stem cells and plays a major role in forming H3K27me3, which is required for embryonic stem cell identity and proper differentiation. The PRC2/EED-EZH2 complex may also serve as a recruiting platform for DNA methyltransferases, thereby linking two epigenetic repression systems. Genes repressed by the PRC2/EED-EZH2 complex include HOXC8, HOXA9, MYT1, CDKN2A and retinoic acid target genes. EZH2 can also methylate non-histone proteins such as the transcription factor GATA4 and the nuclear receptor RORA. Regulates the circadian clock via histone methylation at the promoter of the circadian genes. Essential for the CRY1/2-mediated repression of the transcriptional activation of PER1/2 by the CLOCK-ARNTL/BMAL1 heterodimer; involved in the di and trimethylation of 'Lys-27' of histone H3 on PER1/2 promoters which is necessary for the CRY1/2 proteins to inhibit transcription.
Specificity: Ezh2 Antibody detects endogenous levels of Ezh2
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human Ezh2
Gene: EZH2
nrf2 Antibody
Specificity: nrf2 Antibody detects endogenous levels of nrf2
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human nrf2
Trk C Antibody
Background Info: Receptor tyrosine kinase involved in nervous system and probably heart development. Upon binding of its ligand NTF3/neurotrophin-3, NTRK3 autophosphorylates and activates different signaling pathways, including the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase/AKT and the MAPK pathways, that control cell survival and differentiation.
Specificity: Trk C Antibody detects endogenous levels of Trk C
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human Trk C
ERK3 Antibody
Background Info: Atypical MAPK protein. Phosphorylates microtubule-associated protein 2 (MAP2) and MAPKAPK5. The precise role of the complex formed with MAPKAPK5 is still unclear, but the complex follows a complex set of phosphorylation events: upon interaction with atypical MAPKAPK5, ERK3/MAPK6 is phosphorylated at Ser-189 and then mediates phosphorylation and activation of MAPKAPK5, which in turn phosphorylates ERK3/MAPK6. May promote entry in the cell cycle (By similarity).
Specificity: ERK3 Antibody detects endogenous levels of ERK3
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human ERK3
PAK2 Antibody
Background Info: PKC-related serine/threonine-protein kinase and Rho/Rac effector protein that participates in specific signal transduction responses in the cell. Plays a role in the regulation of cell cycle progression, actin cytoskeleton assembly, cell migration, cell adhesion, tumor cell invasion and transcription activation signaling processes. Phosphorylates CTTN in hyaluronan-induced astrocytes and hence decreases CTTN ability to associate with filamentous actin. Phosphorylates HDAC5, therefore lead to impair HDAC5 import. Direct RhoA target required for the regulation of the maturation of primordial junctions into apical junction formation in bronchial epithelial cells. Required for G2/M phases of the cell cycle progression and abscission during cytokinesis in a ECT2-dependent manner. Stimulates FYN kinase activity that is required for establishment of skin cell-cell adhesion during keratinocytes differentiation. Regulates epithelial bladder cells speed and direction of movement during cell migration and tumor cell invasion. Inhibits Akt pro-survival-induced kinase activity. Mediates Rho protein-induced transcriptional activation via the c-fos serum response factor (SRF). Phosphorylates HCV NS5B leading to stimulation of HCV RNA replication. Involved in the negative regulation of ciliogenesis (PubMed:27104747).
Specificity: PAK2 Antibody detects endogenous levels of PAK2
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human PAK2
Gene: PKN2
TBC1D1 Antibody
Specificity: TBC1D1 Antibody detects endogenous levels of TBC1D1
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human TBC1D1
FADD Antibody
Species Reactivity: Mouse
Specificity: FADD Antibody detects endogenous levels of FADD
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human FADD
Cross Reactivity: Mouse
Swiss-Prot: Q61160(Q13158)
Rictor Antibody
Background Info: Subunit of mTORC2, which regulates cell growth and survival in response to hormonal signals. mTORC2 is activated by growth factors, but, in contrast to mTORC1, seems to be nutrient-insensitive. mTORC2 seems to function upstream of Rho GTPases to regulate the actin cytoskeleton, probably by activating one or more Rho-type guanine nucleotide exchange factors. mTORC2 promotes the serum-induced formation of stress-fibers or F-actin. mTORC2 plays a critical role in AKT1 'Ser-473' phosphorylation, which may facilitate the phosphorylation of the activation loop of AKT1 on 'Thr-308' by PDK1 which is a prerequisite for full activation. mTORC2 regulates the phosphorylation of SGK1 at 'Ser-422'. mTORC2 also modulates the phosphorylation of PRKCA on 'Ser-657'. Plays an essential role in embryonic growth and development.
Specificity: Rictor Antibody detects endogenous levels of Rictor
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human Rictor
Gene: RICTOR
Swiss-Prot: Q6R327
Atg14 Antibody
Background Info: Required for both basal and inducible autophagy. Determines the localization of the autophagy-specific PI3-kinase complex PI3KC3-C1 (PubMed:18843052, PubMed:19050071). Plays a role in autophagosome formation and MAP1LC3/LC3 conjugation to phosphatidylethanolamine (PubMed:19270696, PubMed:20713597). Promotes BECN1 translocation from the trans-Golgi network to autophagosomes (PubMed:20713597). Enhances PIK3C3 activity in a BECN1-dependent manner. Essential for the autophagy-dependent phosphorylation of BECN1 (PubMed:23878393). Stimulates the phosphorylation of BECN1, but suppresses the phosphorylation PIK3C3 by AMPK (PubMed:23878393). Binds to STX17-SNAP29 binary t-SNARE complex on autophagosomes and primes it for VAMP8 interaction to promote autophagosome-endolysosome fusion (PubMed:25686604). Modulates the hepatic lipid metabolism (By similarity).
Specificity: Atg14 Antibody detects endogenous levels of Atg14
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human Atg14
Gene: ATG14
Swiss-Prot: Q6ZNE5
MOB1A Antibody
Background Info: Activator of LATS1/2 in the Hippo signaling pathway which plays a pivotal role in organ size control and tumor suppression by restricting proliferation and promoting apoptosis. The core of this pathway is composed of a kinase cascade wherein STK3/MST2 and STK4/MST1, in complex with its regulatory protein SAV1, phosphorylates and activates LATS1/2 in complex with its regulatory protein MOB1, which in turn phosphorylates and inactivates YAP1 oncoprotein and WWTR1/TAZ. Phosphorylation of YAP1 by LATS1/2 inhibits its translocation into the nucleus to regulate cellular genes important for cell proliferation, cell death, and cell migration. Stimulates the kinase activity of STK38L.
Specificity: MOB1A Antibody detects endogenous levels of MOB1A
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human MOB1A
Gene: MOB1B
Swiss-Prot: Q7L9L4
BCL9L Antibody
Background Info: Transcriptional regulator that acts as an activator. Promotes beta-catenin transcriptional activity. Plays a role in tumorigenesis. Enhances the neoplastic transforming activity of CTNNB1 (By similarity).
Specificity: BCL9L Antibody detects endogenous levels of BCL9L
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human BCL9L
Gene: BCL9L
Swiss-Prot: Q86UU0
STING Antibody
Specificity: STING Antibody detects endogenous levels of STING
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human STING
KSR1 Antibody
Background Info: Scaffolding protein that is part of a multiprotein signaling complex. Promotes phosphorylation of Raf family members and activation of downstream MAP kinases. Promotes activation of MAPK1 and/or MAPK3, both in response to EGF and to cAMP. Does not have kinase activity by itself.
Specificity: KSR1 Antibody detects endogenous levels of KSR1
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human KSR1
Gene: KSR1
Swiss-Prot: Q8IVT5
Background Info: Tumor suppressor serine/threonine-protein kinase involved in mTORC1 signaling and post-transcriptional regulation. Phosphorylates FOXO3, ERK3/MAPK6, ERK4/MAPK4, HSP27/HSPB1, p53/TP53 and RHEB. Acts as a tumor suppressor by mediating Ras-induced senescence and phosphorylating p53/TP53. Involved in post-transcriptional regulation of MYC by mediating phosphorylation of FOXO3: phosphorylation of FOXO3 leads to promote nuclear localization of FOXO3, enabling expression of miR-34b and miR-34c, 2 post-transcriptional regulators of MYC that bind to the 3'UTR of MYC transcript and prevent MYC translation. Acts as a negative regulator of mTORC1 signaling by mediating phosphorylation and inhibition of RHEB. Part of the atypical MAPK signaling via its interaction with ERK3/MAPK6 or ERK4/MAPK4: the precise role of the complex formed with ERK3/MAPK6 or ERK4/MAPK4 is still unclear, but the complex follows a complex set of phosphorylation events: upon interaction with atypical MAPK (ERK3/MAPK6 or ERK4/MAPK4), ERK3/MAPK6 (or ERK4/MAPK4) is phosphorylated and then mediates phosphorylation and activation of MAPKAPK5, which in turn phosphorylates ERK3/MAPK6 (or ERK4/MAPK4). Mediates phosphorylation of HSP27/HSPB1 in response to PKA/PRKACA stimulation, inducing F-actin rearrangement.
Swiss-Prot: Q8IW41
MLKL Antibody
Specificity: MLKL Antibody detects endogenous levels of MLKL
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human MLKL
PI3 Kinase Class III Antibody
Background Info: Catalytic subunit of the PI3K complex that mediates formation of phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate; different complex forms are believed to play a role in multiple membrane trafficking pathways: PI3KC3-C1 is involved in initiation of autophagosomes and PI3KC3-C2 in maturation of autophagosomes and endocytosis. Involved in regulation of degradative endocytic trafficking and required for the abcission step in cytokinesis, probably in the context of PI3KC3-C2 (PubMed:20643123, PubMed:20208530). Involved in the transport of lysosomal enzyme precursors to lysosomes. Required for transport from early to late endosomes (By similarity).
Specificity: PI3 Kinase Class III Antibody detects endogenous levels of PI3 Kinase Class III
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human PI3 Kinase Class III
Gene: PIK3C3
Swiss-Prot: Q8NEB9
NT5C Antibody
Background Info: Dephosphorylates the 5' and 2'(3')-phosphates of deoxyribonucleotides, with a preference for dUMP and dTMP, intermediate activity towards dGMP, and low activity towards dCMP and dAMP.
Specificity: NT5C Antibody detects endogenous levels of NT5C
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human NT5C
Gene: NT5C
Swiss-Prot: Q8TCD5
Background Info: In vitro, phosphorylates MBP.
Swiss-Prot: Q8TD08
SSH3 Antibody
Background Info: Protein phosphatase which may play a role in the regulation of actin filament dynamics. Can dephosphorylate and activate the actin binding/depolymerizing factor cofilin, which subsequently binds to actin filaments and stimulates their disassembly (By similarity).
Specificity: SSH3 Antibody detects endogenous levels of SSH3
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human SSH3
Gene: SSH3
Swiss-Prot: Q8TE77
BAP1 Antibody
Background Info: Deubiquitinating enzyme that plays a key role in chromatin by mediating deubiquitination of histone H2A and HCFC1. Catalytic component of the PR-DUB complex, a complex that specifically mediates deubiquitination of histone H2A monoubiquitinated at 'Lys-119' (H2AK119ub1). Does not deubiquitinate monoubiquitinated histone H2B. Acts as a regulator of cell growth by mediating deubiquitination of HCFC1 N-terminal and C-terminal chains, with some specificity toward 'Lys-48'-linked polyubiquitin chains compared to 'Lys-63'-linked polyubiquitin chains. Deubiquitination of HCFC1 does not lead to increase stability of HCFC1. Interferes with the BRCA1 and BARD1 heterodimer activity by inhibiting their ability to mediate ubiquitination and autoubiquitination. It however does not mediate deubiquitination of BRCA1 and BARD1. Able to mediate autodeubiquitination via intramolecular interactions to couteract monoubiquitination at the nuclear localization signal (NLS), thereby protecting it from cytoplasmic sequestration (PubMed:24703950). Acts as a tumor suppressor.
Specificity: BAP1 Antibody detects endogenous levels of BAP1
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human BAP1
Gene: BAP1
Bad Antibody
Background Info: Promotes cell death. Successfully competes for the binding to Bcl-X(L), Bcl-2 and Bcl-W, thereby affecting the level of heterodimerization of these proteins with BAX. Can reverse the death repressor activity of Bcl-X(L), but not that of Bcl-2 (By similarity). Appears to act as a link between growth factor receptor signaling and the apoptotic pathways.
Specificity: Bad Antibody detects endogenous levels of Bad
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human Bad
Gene: BAD
SHIP1 Antibody
Background Info: Phosphatidylinositol (PtdIns) phosphatase that specifically hydrolyzes the 5-phosphate of phosphatidylinositol-3,4,5-trisphosphate (PtdIns(3,4,5)P3) to produce PtdIns(3,4)P2, thereby negatively regulating the PI3K (phosphoinositide 3-kinase) pathways. Acts as a negative regulator of B-cell antigen receptor signaling. Mediates signaling from the FC-gamma-RIIB receptor (FCGR2B), playing a central role in terminating signal transduction from activating immune/hematopoietic cell receptor systems. Acts as a negative regulator of myeloid cell proliferation/survival and chemotaxis, mast cell degranulation, immune cells homeostasis, integrin alpha-IIb/beta-3 signaling in platelets and JNK signaling in B-cells. Regulates proliferation of osteoclast precursors, macrophage programming, phagocytosis and activation and is required for endotoxin tolerance. Involved in the control of cell-cell junctions, CD32a signaling in neutrophils and modulation of EGF-induced phospholipase C activity. Key regulator of neutrophil migration, by governing the formation of the leading edge and polarization required for chemotaxis. Modulates FCGR3/CD16-mediated cytotoxicity in NK cells. Mediates the activin/TGF-beta-induced apoptosis through its Smad-dependent expression. May also hydrolyze PtdIns(1,3,4,5)P4, and could thus affect the levels of the higher inositol polyphosphates like InsP6.
Specificity: SHIP1 Antibody detects endogenous levels of SHIP1
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human SHIP1
Gene: INPP5D
SGK3 Antibody
Background Info: Serine/threonine-protein kinase which is involved in the regulation of a wide variety of ion channels, membrane transporters, cell growth, proliferation, survival and migration. Up-regulates Na+ channels: SCNN1A/ENAC and SCN5A, K+ channels: KCNA3/KV1.3, KCNE1, KCNQ1 and KCNH2/HERG, epithelial Ca2+ channels: TRPV5 and TRPV6, chloride channel: BSND, creatine transporter: SLC6A8, Na+/dicarboxylate cotransporter: SLC13A2/NADC1, Na+-dependent phosphate cotransporter: SLC34A2/NAPI-2B, amino acid transporters: SLC1A5/ASCT2 and SLC6A19, glutamate transporters: SLC1A3/EAAT1, SLC1A6/EAAT4 and SLC1A7/EAAT5, glutamate receptors: GRIA1/GLUR1 and GRIK2/GLUR6, Na+/H+ exchanger: SLC9A3/NHE3, and the Na+/K+ ATPase. Plays a role in the regulation of renal tubular phosphate transport and bone density. Phosphorylates NEDD4L and GSK3B. Positively regulates ER transcription activity through phosphorylation of FLII. Negatively regulates the function of ITCH/AIP4 via its phosphorylation and thereby prevents CXCR4 from being efficiently sorted to lysosomes.
Specificity: SGK3 Antibody detects endogenous levels of SGK3
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human SGK3
Gene ID: 10,053,310,523,678
Gene: SGK3
Swiss-Prot: Q96BR1
PRAS40 Antibody
Background Info: Subunit of mTORC1, which regulates cell growth and survival in response to nutrient and hormonal signals. mTORC1 is activated in response to growth factors or amino acids. Growth factor-stimulated mTORC1 activation involves a AKT1-mediated phosphorylation of TSC1-TSC2, which leads to the activation of the RHEB GTPase that potently activates the protein kinase activity of mTORC1. Amino acid-signaling to mTORC1 requires its relocalization to the lysosomes mediated by the Ragulator complex and the Rag GTPases. Activated mTORC1 up-regulates protein synthesis by phosphorylating key regulators of mRNA translation and ribosome synthesis. mTORC1 phosphorylates EIF4EBP1 and releases it from inhibiting the elongation initiation factor 4E (eiF4E). mTORC1 phosphorylates and activates S6K1 at 'Thr-389', which then promotes protein synthesis by phosphorylating PDCD4 and targeting it for degradation. Within mTORC1, AKT1S1 negatively regulates mTOR activity in a manner that is dependent on its phosphorylation state and binding to 14-3-3 proteins. Inhibits RHEB-GTP-dependent mTORC1 activation. Substrate for AKT1 phosphorylation, but can also be activated by AKT1-independent mechanisms. May also play a role in nerve growth factor-mediated neuroprotection.
Specificity: PRAS40 Antibody detects endogenous levels of PRAS40
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human PRAS40
Gene: AKT1S1
Swiss-Prot: Q96B36
REPS1 Antibody
Background Info: May coordinate the cellular actions of activated EGF receptors and Ral-GTPases.
Specificity: REPS1 Antibody detects endogenous levels of REPS1
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human REPS1
Gene: REPS1
PBK/TOPK Antibody
Background Info: Phosphorylates MAP kinase p38. Seems to be active only in mitosis. May also play a role in the activation of lymphoid cells. When phosphorylated, forms a complex with TP53, leading to TP53 destabilization and attenuation of G2/M checkpoint during doxorubicin-induced DNA damage.
Specificity: PBK/TOPK Antibody detects endogenous levels of PBK/TOPK
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human PBK/TOPK
Gene: PBK
Swiss-Prot: Q96KB5
NEDD4L Antibody
Background Info: E3 ubiquitin-protein ligase which accepts ubiquitin from an E2 ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme in the form of a thioester and then directly transfers the ubiquitin to targeted substrates. Inhibits TGF-beta signaling by triggering SMAD2 and TGFBR1 ubiquitination and proteasome-dependent degradation. Promotes ubiquitination and internalization of various plasma membrane channels such as ENaC, SCN2A/Nav1.2, SCN3A/Nav1.3, SCN5A/Nav1.5, SCN9A/Nav1.7, SCN10A/Nav1.8, KCNA3/Kv1.3, KCNH2, EAAT1, KCNQ2/Kv7.2, KCNQ3/Kv7.3 or CLC5 (PubMed:26363003, PubMed:27445338). Promotes ubiquitination and degradation of SGK1 and TNK2. Ubiquitinates BRAT1 and this ubiquitination is enhanced in the presence of NDFIP1 (PubMed:25631046). Plays a role in dendrite formation by melanocytes (PubMed:23999003). Involved in the regulation of TOR signaling (PubMed:27694961). Ubiquitinates and regulates protein levels of NTRK1 once this one is activated by NGF (PubMed:27445338).
Specificity: NEDD4L Antibody detects endogenous levels of NEDD4L
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human NEDD4L
Gene: NEDD4L
Swiss-Prot: Q96PU5
DNAJC2/MPP11 Antibody
Background Info: Acts both as a chaperone in the cytosol and as a chromatin regulator in the nucleus. When cytosolic, acts as a molecular chaperone: component of the ribosome-associated complex (RAC), a complex involved in folding or maintaining nascent polypeptides in a folding-competent state. In the RAC complex, stimulates the ATPase activity of the ribosome-associated pool of Hsp70-type chaperones HSPA14 that bind to the nascent polypeptide chain. When nuclear, mediates the switching from polycomb-repressed genes to an active state: specifically recruited at histone H2A ubiquitinated at 'Lys-119' (H2AK119ub), and promotes the displacement of the polycomb PRC1 complex from chromatin, thereby facilitating transcription activation. Specifically binds DNA sequence 5'-GTCAAGC-3'.
Specificity: DNAJC2/MPP11 Antibody detects endogenous levels of DNAJC2/MPP11
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human DNAJC2/MPP11
Gene: DNAJC2
Myt1 Antibody
Background Info: Acts as a negative regulator of entry into mitosis (G2 to M transition) by phosphorylation of the CDK1 kinase specifically when CDK1 is complexed to cyclins. Mediates phosphorylation of CDK1 predominantly on 'Thr-14'. Also involved in Golgi fragmentation. May be involved in phosphorylation of CDK1 on 'Tyr-15' to a lesser degree, however tyrosine kinase activity is unclear and may be indirect. May be a downstream target of Notch signaling pathway during eye development.
Specificity: Myt1 Antibody detects endogenous levels of Myt1
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human Myt1
Gene: PKMYT1
Sin1 Antibody
Background Info: Subunit of mTORC2, which regulates cell growth and survival in response to hormonal signals. mTORC2 is activated by growth factors, but, in contrast to mTORC1, seems to be nutrient-insensitive. mTORC2 seems to function upstream of Rho GTPases to regulate the actin cytoskeleton, probably by activating one or more Rho-type guanine nucleotide exchange factors. mTORC2 promotes the serum-induced formation of stress-fibers or F-actin. mTORC2 plays a critical role in AKT1 'Ser-473' phosphorylation, which may facilitate the phosphorylation of the activation loop of AKT1 on 'Thr-308' by PDK1 which is a prerequisite for full activation. mTORC2 regulates the phosphorylation of SGK1 at 'Ser-422'. mTORC2 also modulates the phosphorylation of PRKCA on 'Ser-657'. Within mTORC2, MAPKAP1 is required for complex formation and mTORC2 kinase activity. MAPKAP1 inhibits MAP3K2 by preventing its dimerization and autophosphorylation. Inhibits HRAS and KRAS signaling. Enhances osmotic stress-induced phosphorylation of ATF2 and ATF2-mediated transcription. Involved in ciliogenesis, regulates cilia length through its interaction with CCDC28B independently of mTORC2 complex.
Specificity: Sin1 Antibody detects endogenous levels of Sin1
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human Sin1
Gene: MAPKAP1
Swiss-Prot: Q9BPZ7
CDCP1 Antibody
Background Info: May be involved in cell adhesion and cell matrix association. May play a role in the regulation of anchorage versus migration or proliferation versus differentiation via its phosphorylation. May be a novel marker for leukemia diagnosis and for immature hematopoietic stem cell subsets. Belongs to the tetraspanin web involved in tumor progression and metastasis.
Specificity: CDCP1 Antibody detects endogenous levels of CDCP1
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human CDCP1
Gene: CDCP1
Swiss-Prot: Q9H5V8
LIN28A Antibody
Background Info: RNA-binding protein that inhibits processing of pre-let-7 miRNAs and regulates translation of mRNAs that control developmental timing, pluripotency and metabolism (PubMed:21247876). Seems to recognize a common structural G-quartet (G4) feature in its miRNA and mRNA targets (Probable). 'Translational enhancer' that drives specific mRNAs to polysomes and increases the efficiency of protein synthesis. Its association with the translational machinery and target mRNAs results in an increased number of initiation events per molecule of mRNA and, indirectly, in mRNA stabilization. Binds IGF2 mRNA, MYOD1 mRNA, ARBP/36B4 ribosomal protein mRNA and its own mRNA. Essential for skeletal muscle differentiation program through the translational up-regulation of IGF2 expression. Suppressor of microRNA (miRNA) biogenesis, including that of let-7, miR107, miR-143 and miR-200c. Specifically binds the miRNA precursors (pre-miRNAs), recognizing an 5'-GGAG-3' motif found in pre-miRNA terminal loop, and recruits ZCCHC11/TUT4 uridylyltransferase. This results in the terminal uridylation of target pre-miRNAs. Uridylated pre-miRNAs fail to be processed by Dicer and undergo degradation. The repression of let-7 expression is required for normal development and contributes to maintain the pluripotent state by preventing let-7-mediated differentiation of embryonic stem cells (PubMed:18951094, PubMed:19703396, PubMed:22118463, PubMed:22898984). Localized to the periendoplasmic reticulum area, binds to a large number of spliced mRNAs and inhibits the translation of mRNAs destined for the ER, reducing the synthesis of transmembrane proteins, ER or Golgi lumen proteins, and secretory proteins. Binds to and enhances the translation of mRNAs for several metabolic enzymes, such as PFKP, PDHA1 or SDHA, increasing glycolysis and oxidative phosphorylation. Which, with the let-7 repression may enhance tissue repair in adult tissue (By similarity).
Specificity: LIN28A Antibody detects endogenous levels of LIN28A
Immunogen: A synthesized peptide derived from human LIN28A
Gene: LIN28A
Swiss-Prot: Q9H9Z2
perk Antibody
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by Kevin Helms
Deloitte Accepts Bitcoin at its Restaurant Due to 'A Lot of Requests'
Deloitte Canada announced this week that its Toronto office’s internal restaurant called Bistro 1858 now accepts bitcoin. Bitcoin.com talked to Iliana Oris Valiente, Strategy and Execution Lead and co-founder at Rubix by Deloitte, to find out the reason behind this decision and how much interest in Bitcoin the firm is seeing.
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Most Visible Private Restaurant
Bistro 1858 is a private restaurant exclusively for Deloitte employees and their guests. There is a security guard at the entrance of the restaurant that will turn everyone else away, wrote the Toronto Star.
Unlike most private restaurants that are tucked away from public view, this restaurant is in, what the paper calls, “a most public place” in Toronto. It is located in the Bay Adelaide Center, in the city’s financial district. Its all-glass walls make the dining area visible to anyone passing by. The tower is located at the northwest corner of Yonge and Adelaide Street.
“Bistro 1858 has a seating capacity of 75 with take-out options”, Valiente described to Bitcoin.com. “Breakfast and lunch ranges from approximately $3 to $12 for snacks and meals”, she said, adding that:
Hundreds of Deloitte practitioners purchase their meals from Bistro 1858 every day.
Deloitte Professionals Excited to Use Bitcoin
The restaurant’s co-operators, Deloitte and Benchmark Hospitality, have selected Bitpay to accept and settle bitcoin payments. Deloitte does not offer its own wallet, Valiente said. “There are many great Bitcoin wallets available out there so we didn’t find it necessary to recreate the wheel and build a new wallet”.
The restaurant does not offer any incentives such as discounts for customers paying with bitcoin. “Our practitioners are encouraged to share the news with their clients and host them at Bistro 1858”, she further conveyed, noting that:
Many Deloitte professionals have shown excitement for the opportunity to start using bitcoin to buy their lunch and breakfast from Bistro 1858. If the usage of the BTM [Bitcoin ATM] machine we installed in the fall is any indication of how many people will start paying with bitcoin, we expect the number of users to grow continuously over the next few months.
Interest in Bitcoin within Deloitte
Last September, Deloitte became the first of the Big 4 consultancy firms to install a Bitcoin ATM. Located in its Toronto office, Deloitte’s BTM is operated by the firm’s blockchain team at Rubix.
Its fees are 4 percent to buy bitcoin and no fee for selling bitcoin, according to data from Coinatmradar. A mobile phone number and an ID are required to use the BTM and there is a daily limit of $100 per person.
“As the most successful large implementation of blockchain technology, Bitcoin is consistently a topic of discussion at Deloitte and with our clients”, Valiente revealed, adding that:
When we installed our BTM in the fall we received a lot of requests from within the firm to bring bitcoin to our Bistro.[…] As the industry shifts and evolves we hope to continue to bring new and valuable initiatives to our firm and our clients.
What do you think of Deloitte’s Bistro accepting bitcoin? Let us know in the comments section below.
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Activating Community Network to Drive Anti-corruption Agenda
June 19, 2020 Chimezie Godfrey Analysis, Anti-Graft, Project 0
By Nwagwu
The establishment of community anti-corruption networks have been one of the most innovative ways of stimulating and sustaining community participation and ownership of the fight against corruption in Nigeria. When made aware of the powers that their consolidated voices hold, their confidence to influence governance positively is charged and the resultant effect is what was witnessed around the FCT; in communities like Abaji, Bwari, Kuje and Kwali area councils.
In these communities, the popular anti-corruption citizen movement, the Say No Campaign, established its community anti-corruption networks. They reported how their activities have led to the completion of abandoned projects; influenced new projects and improved public service delivery in their communities. These are the benefits for communities who not only have the awareness of anti-corruption, but make conscious decision to organise with one voice and closely monitor governance in their respective communities.
The place of community members in achieving success with the anticorruption agenda of Nigeria cannot be overemphasized. They are most relevant in preventing corruption, especially in most susceptible areas involving public expenditure like, budget implementation, constituency project implementation and more recently, the social investment program carried out in communities across the country.
Through their presence, influence and voice, they have the ability to introduce transparency and accountability at sub-national level. Their influence, if properly managed, can also springboard to enhance electoral integrity in Nigeria’s elections held across communities of the country.
This is because corruption issues associated with elections can be tamed in communities with active anticorruption networks. This was the objectives of the Say No campaign when it embarked on its Community Anticorruption Working Group (CAWG) project, across the country since 2018; to establish foot soldiers in all communities of the country that can drive anticorruption agenda.
This network has also proven to be useful in precarious situations where government activities become difficult to monitor, thereby encouraging malpractices. The Covid 19 lockdown FCT palliative distribution experience presented us with such a challenge.
When tracking government expenditure and the implementation of its social investment program activities became difficult, due to the restriction on movement, this network became the only source of shadowing the report of the palliative distribution exercise in all the area councils of the FCT.
They were responsible for exposing the shortage and diversion of items, irregularities in sharing, tribalism, lack of transparency and many other corrupt practices that characterised the process; even the humanitarian office of the federal capital Territory Administration (FCTA) was unable to refute the report.
Similar network of Community Observers, established by Peering Advocacy and Advancement Center in Africa (PAACA), is also monitoring the homegrown school feeding program carried out during the Covid 19 lockdown in communities of the FCT, to determine the transparency and accountability of the distribution process and provide feedback on the relevance of such exercise in a school lockdown situation.
Other initiatives by Say No campaign like the Lawyers Network Against Corruption (LAWNAC) and, more recently, the Network of Religious and Traditional Leaders Against Corruption (NRETLAC) by PAACA, are engaging anticorruption issues within their spaces and communities, especially, in the area of justice and behavioural change.
For instance, the awareness created by NRETLAC in Kano state led to increase in citizen participation in budget hearing of their state; community awareness of budget provisions in their regions and a resolve to ensure the implementation of the budget. This is a good start and the expectations for these networks are high. Although anticorruption movement is gaining traction among citizens with the plethora of anticorruption initiatives across the country, the expectations on the part of the government to meet up with the challenges of corruption remains high.
As local organisations are being supported by international anticorruption giants, like the MacArthur Foundation and the Action Aid Nigeria, to encourage bottom-up approach to addressing corruption in the country, the top-bottom need to come aflame to support the former and maintain the confidence of the people.
We need the government to take its enforcement role seriously to balance what we do in communities, especially at the grassroots. As a serious government, with self-acclaimed political will to fight corruption, we cannot be dropping corruption charges or overturning judgements in favour of high profile corruption indicted convicts on flimsy ground of technicalities or politicizing allegations of corruptions, or even normalizing sacred cows in our polity.
These acts gravely weaken our ‘recruitment’ into the battle against corruption in communities and at the grassroots. Community anticorruption networks provide us with an advantage of domesticating the anticorruption fight and raising a society of responsible people with integrity. If rightly managed, they have the potential to improve governance and facilitate the advancement of our communities and country by extension.
Nwagwu, is the Executive Director of Peering Advocacy and Advancement Centre in Africa -PAACA and a co- convener of a citizen movement against corruption in Nigeria, Say No Campaign
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FG approves replacement policy on phone SIM for Nigerians –NCC
January 2, 2021 Favour Lashem News, Project 0
The Federal Government has approved a replacement policy for subscribers whose Subscribers Identification Module (SIM) may have been lost, stolen, misplaced or damaged.
Dr. Ikechukwu Adinde, Director, Public Affairs, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), and Mr Kayode Adegoke of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), jointly made this known in a statement on Saturday in Abuja.
Adinde explained that the policy was part of the government’s efforts to reduce the burden on subscribers and simplify the exercise so as to enable telecommunications services to the public.
He said that the Ministerial Task Force, under the Chairmanship of the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, had set up a Technical Committee, made up of representatives of the NCC, NIMC, The Association of Licensed Telecommunications Operators of Nigeria (ALTON) and Mobile Network Operators (MNOs), to facilitate the policy.
Adinde added that the committee was also charged with the operationalisation of the process, to ensure an expedited linkage of all SIM Registration Records with the NIN.
Similarly, the minister had approved some conditions, based on recommendations of the Technical Committee, that required the subscriber to present a NIN, an effective verification of the NIN by NIMC, and adherence with the relevant Guidelines and Regulations of NCC, concerning SIM replacement.
According to him, the government’s drive to ensure all subscriber registrations were linked with NINs was on course and all stakeholders in the industry are working together to ensure a seamless process.
He said that the government sincerely appreciated Nigerians for the understanding and the commitment demonstrated towards ensuring the overall success of the exercise. (NAN)
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Chadwick Boseman, star of Black Panther, dies at 43
admin August 29, 2020 3 min read
Actor Chadwick Boseman has died at 43 after battling colon cancer for four years, according to a statement posted on his Twitter account.
“It is with immeasurable grief that we confirm the passing of Chadwick Boseman,” the statement reads. “It was the honor of his life to bring King T’Challa to life in Black Panther.”
Boseman worked on a number of films and TV shows over the last two decades, including 42 where he portrayed iconic baseball player Jackie Robinson, James Brown in Get on Up, and Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods, but he was best known for his role as Black Panther in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Boseman first took on the role as T’Challa in Marvel’s 2016 film, Captain America: Civil War, before starring in his own Black Panther film in 2018.
“Chadwick’s passing is absolutely devastating,” Kevin Feige, head of Marvel Studios, said in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter. “He was our T’Challa, our Black Panther, and our dear friend. Each time he stepped on set, he radiated charisma and joy, and each time he appeared on screen, he created something truly indelible. He embodied a lot of amazing people in his work, and nobody was better at bringing great men to life. He was as smart and kind and powerful and strong as any person he portrayed. Now he takes his place alongside them as an icon for the ages.”
By March 2018, Black Panther had become the 12th highest grossing movie of all time and the highest grossing movie of all time directed by a Black director (Ryan Coogler), according to Forbes. Black Panther was heralded for being one of the first mainstream, big budget superhero films to have a majority Black cast, with Boseman’s performance praised by critics. Boseman was set to reprise his role as King T’Challa in the Black Panther sequel, due out in 2022.
“A true fighter, Chadwick persevered through it all, and brought you many of the films that you have come to love so much,” the statement reads. “From Marshall to Da 5 Bloods, August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and several more, all were filmed during and between countless surgeries and chemotherapy.”
The statement posted on Boseman’s account noted that Boseman died with his “wife and family by his side.”
Friends, colleagues, and fans of Boseman tweeted out their own tributes to the actor, sharing memories of their time together. Some are collected below.
All I have to say is the tragedies amassing this year have only been made more profound by the loss of #ChadwickBoseman. What a man, and what an immense talent. Brother, you were one of the all time greats and your greatness was only beginning. Lord love ya. Rest in power, King.
— Mark Ruffalo (@MarkRuffalo) August 29, 2020
In power
Eternally in power
— Barry Jenkins (@BarryJenkins) August 29, 2020
I’m absolutely devastated. This is beyond heartbreaking.
Chadwick was special. A true original. He was a deeply committed and constantly curious artist. He had so much amazing work still left to create. I’m endlessly grateful for our friendship. Rest in power, King pic.twitter.com/oBERXlw66Z
— Chris Evans (@ChrisEvans) August 29, 2020
Heartbroken. My friend and fellow Bison Chadwick Boseman was brilliant, kind, learned, and humble. He left too early but his life made a difference. Sending my sincere condolences to his family. pic.twitter.com/C5xGkUi9oZ
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) August 29, 2020
I don’t have words. Rest In Peace, Bruh. Thank you for all you did while you were here. Thank you for being a friend. You are loved. You will be missed. https://t.co/8rK4dWmorq
— Sterling K Brown (@SterlingKBrown) August 29, 2020
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Home » Business » Start-up ModaResa Wants to Fix Everyone’s Fashion Week Schedules
Start-up ModaResa Wants to Fix Everyone’s Fashion Week Schedules
LONDON — Remember fashion week, pre-lockdown?
There was the kissing, party-hopping and soaking up designers’ creativity, which many industry professionals — undeniably — miss. But there were also the endless delays, scheduling conflicts and lots of unnecessary running around that ate up much of the excitement and positivity of the week.
The shift to digital hasn’t made market scheduling that much easier, as brands need to arrange for hundreds of virtual appointments across time zones and video platforms. Even if professionals now only need to travel from their couch to their desk, delays and last-minute changes remain.
ModaResa, a tech business that recently joined LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton’s “La Maison des Startups” accelerator program, wants to change all that and pave the way for what it calls “sustainable planning.”
The platform takes care of the planning process leading up to fashion week and buying seasons by offering brands the technology to optimize their itineraries, link to buyers and sellers, avoid timing conflicts, and collect data along the way.
“We’re in 2020 and our society is built around instant gratification, brand [sellers] and buyers don’t even want to wait five minutes in the showroom. Those are the standards that people have now. It can be a bit ridiculous sometimes, for sure, but I think there are a lot of valid points as well,” said ModaResa founder Stephanie Smith.
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“It’s all about bringing the excellence of customer experience to [business-to-business] in the same way we’ve become obsessed with [business-to-consumer]. The industry has slowly gotten into e-commerce, but they never stopped to think about the behind-the-scenes experience, which is where everything starts. These buyers are the ones who get your products into the shops and your wholesale team is the one presenting the collections. If they don’t feel satisfied, and don’t feel like they have the right tools, then they’re not going to do their best jobs. That’s how we’re coaching brands in getting into technology.”
Balmain has been one of the earliest adopters of ModaResa’s technology, with other buzzy names like Marine Serre, Nanushka, Jacquemus and By Far following suit.
Through the company’s app, brands can invite their buyers to book an appointment, with real-time visibility into their seller’s availabilities — which helps to cut down endless e-mail exchanges between buyers, sellers and assistants to figure out the right appointment times.
Balmain x ModaResa Courtesy of ModaResa
For their part, buyers can sign up for free, synchronize their ModaResa and Google calendars and also add the runway shows they want to attend to their itineraries. ModaResa aggregates all show information from the Milan, Paris, London, New York and Copenhagen schedules, with more cities to come in the future.
“It’s about how to optimize the hundreds of appointments a buyer has across Paris, Milan, New York and London and making sure they have the best itinerary,” said Smith. “Ultimately, you need to know who’s showing, where and when they’re showing, and how can you combine those shows with other appointments.”
Smith said she wants to keep the company focused on fixing industrywide scheduling issues, rather than creating yet another digital showroom.
“Anything that deals with the coordination and real-time buyers’ feedback, that’s what we work with. We don’t want to get into wholesale ordering. People are already doing that, and doing that very well,” said Smith, adding that in the future she will look to integrate the ModaResa platform with digital showrooms like Joor, as brands now tend to work across both.
The shift to virtual appointments has increased interest around the platform, which allows brands to connect all their Zoom, FaceTime, WhatsApp and Skype profiles to the app, with buyers then choosing what tool they’d rather use.
But the company still believes that physical fashion weeks, seasonal industry gatherings and wholesale buying will continue to be relevant, so much of its services are focused on improving the experience of attending those physical events, once COVID-19 restrictions are lifted and they are able to resume.
“When we first went into lockdown, everyone was thinking in extremes, saying that all we know is going under, and it’s all about augmented reality. But the truth is that there are certain [industry processes] that will remain. There will still be wholesale because it contributes to a brand’s visibility across the globe. There are just so many logistics around dealing with wholesale by yourself — and that’s what we want to change,” said Smith, adding that real change needs to happen with sustainable prototyping or more on-demand buying, rather than shifting fashion week schedules or moving off calendar.
“The whole point of the schedules was for buyers not to have to travel back and forth. If Saint Laurent says, ‘We’re going to show outside the schedule,’ ultimately, the buyers will need to travel to see the collection because this is luxury. You can’t just order everything through Joor,” noted Smith.
A ModaResa calendar. Courtesy of ModaResa
“Brands need to reunite, in a way, and see that it’s not sustainable to dispatch presentation dates that aren’t in sync, but rather focus on the actual problems around what to produce and what comes in the store when: That’s the interesting discussion.”
Next on the company’s agenda is extending services to journalists and influencers who also tend to balance attending shows with showroom appointments during fashion month.
By spending six months with LVMH — the company will have an office within the group’s accelerator La Maison des Startups — Smith also plans to make the most of the workshops and networking opportunities available to accelerate the company’s growth and brand network.
“We’re now growing the team and setting sales strategies, so LVMH can come in and push us even further and quicker. Now more than ever, it’s important to build this ecosystem for buyers and press to have an overview of what’s happening in the market, who’s showing when and which are the key brands to support,” she said.
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House OKs defense, vessel safety legislation
by Dave Mason December 9, 2020 0 comment
The House passed the National Defense Authorization Act Tuesday night by a vote of 335 to 78.
“Every year, Congress sets aside our differences and passes a bipartisan NDAA that delivers for our military, our veterans and our communities,” U.S. Rep. Salud Carbajal, D-Santa Barbara, said in a news release. “As a conferee, I worked hard to make sure the Central Coast had a voice in the negotiations, and I’m proud of the wins we’ve secured for our community and our country.”
The House also OK’d the Small Passenger Vessel Safety Act, which was part of the NDAA Conference Report. Rep Carbajal introduced the act after last year’s Conception boat fire.
“My thoughts continue to be with those who lost a loved one in the Conception boat fire. It was a preventable tragedy, and I’m glad Congress has acted quickly to pass this bill and save lives,” Rep. Carbajal said. “Nothing can ever make up for the loss we experienced that day, but I’m proud to honor the memory of the 34 lives lost by working to make sure a similar tragedy never happens again.”
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Are New Zealand Treaty of Waitangi settlements achieving justice? : the Ngai Tahu settlement and the return of Pounamu (greenstone)
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Cite this item: Gibbs, M. (2001). Are New Zealand Treaty of Waitangi settlements achieving justice? : the Ngai Tahu settlement and the return of Pounamu (greenstone) (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy). University of Otago. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10523/3616
Achieving 'justice' is the overriding aim of the Treaty settlement process. This process was established to resolve Maori historical grievances against the New Zealand Crown for alleged breaches of the Treaty of Waitangi. Because historical injustices involve the interactions of cultures over time, justice in the Treaty settlement process is shaped, and constrained, by two main factors: 'culture' and 'time'. The settlement of Ngai Tahu's historical grievances, and in particular the return of pounamu as part of the settlement, achieved a large measure of this limited kind of justice. The Ngai Tahu settlement and the return of pounamu suggest that Treaty settlements are achieving, and may continue to achieve, a large measure of the justice available in the Treaty settlement process.
Examination of the return of pounamu to Ngai Tahu reveals, however, that new injustices may have been created in the Ngai Tahu settlement. These new injustices are critically analysed, and recommendations for maximising justice in the Treaty settlement process are suggested. If Treaty settlements are to achieve the maximum justice available in the Treaty settlement process, the Treaty partners must heed the warning signs arising from the possible creation of new injustices in the Ngai Tahu settlement.
Advisor: Hayward, Janine; Wheen, Nicola; Rudd, Chris
Degree Discipline: Political Studies; Law
x, 332 leaves ; 30 cm. Includes bibliographical references. University of Otago department: Political Studies. "30 September 2001."
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Share this Story: Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford chasing record sixth national pairs skating title
Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford chasing record sixth national pairs skating title
The two-time world champions will unveil a revised short program and free skate in the 2017 nationals at TD Place arena.
Gord Holder • Ottawa Citizen
Jan 10, 2017 • January 10, 2017 • 1 minute read
Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford will try for their sixth consecutive title in the Senior Pair division. Photo by Supplied
Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford say every Canadian figure skating championship is special, but admit next week’s competition in Ottawa will mean a little extra as they attempt to become the first pair to win a sixth title.
“That’s lending itself to even more excitement,” Duhamel, a 31-year-old from Lively, Ont., said during a Tuesday teleconference to promote the event at TD Place arena. “Every one of our national championships has been special in its own way. Each one has been special for different reasons, so I have no doubt that this nationals will be special in its own way.”
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Radford, another 31-year-old from Balmertown, Ont., said competing in Ottawa meant the two-time world champions with a training base in St-Léonard, Que., could skate in front of more family members and friends than normal.
He and Duhamel also won the third of five consecutive national titles in Ottawa in 2014, when the 100th anniversary edition of the championship was at Canadian Tire Centre. Besides their 2011 silver medal in Victoria, Duhamel earned two bronze and a silver in pairs with Craig Buntin plus a 2003 Canadian junior women’s singles title in Saskatoon. Radford was 2002 novice men’s national champion in Hamilton before claiming junior men’s and novice pairs gold (with Sarah Burke) in 2004 om Edmonton.
Duhamel and Radford have changed both their short program and free skate since fall competitions, but maintain they’re confident of breaking the tie with five-time champions: Constance Wilson Samuel/Montgomery Wilson; Barbara Wagner/Robert Paul; Sandra Bezic/Val Bezic; Barbara Underhill/Paul Martini; and Isabelle Brasseur/Lloyd Eisler.
The 2017 nationals will mark the revised programs’ debut in competition, Radford said, “but they will be trained enough and comfortable enough by the time we get to the end of the program next week.”
The pairs short program is on the evening of Jan. 20, the free skate one night later.
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Ecumenical Journey Complete
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Church of England – Church House, Westminster Abbey.
Pastor Donald McCoid, executive, ELCA Ecumenical and Inter-Religious Relations, left, speaks with Dr. Martin Davie, The Church of England, during the ELCA delegation's Feb. 5 meeting in London with Church of England officials.
The Rev. Dr. Leslie Nathaniel, European secretary and deputy secretary for ecumenical affairs, The Church of England, was among those who addressed the ELCA delegation in london Feb. 5.
The Rev. Dr. Leslie Nathaniel, left, European secretary and deputy secretary for ecumenical affairs and the Rev. Dr. Paul Avis, general secretary, Council for Christian Unity, both with The Church of England, met with the ELCA delegation in Mondaon Feb. 5.
The ELCA delegation met with officials of The Church of England in London Feb. 5.
Two members of the ELCA delegation on the 2010 Ecumenical Journey are, left, Bishop Robert Hofstad, ELCA Southwestern Washington Synod and Bishop Claire Burkat, ELCA Southeastern Pennsylvania Synod.
Taking notes during the ELCA delegation's Feb. 5 meeting with officials of The Church of England are, from left, Bishop Michael Burk, ELCA Southeastern Iowa Synod; Mitzi Budde, Virginia Theological Seminary, Alexandria, and Lutheran co-chair, Lutheran-Episcopal Coordinating Committee; and Pastor Steven Loy, Las Cruces, N.M., a member of the ELCA Church Council.
The Rev. Susan Langhauser, Olathe, Kan., is one of three ELCA Church Council members on the 2010 ELCA Ecumenical Journey.
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Classification of Aerosol Population Type and Cloud Condensation Nuclei Properties in a Coastal California Littoral Environment Using an Unsupervised Cluster Model
Samuel A. Atwood, Colorado State University - Fort Collins
Sonia M. Kreidenweis, Colorado State University - Fort Collins
Paul J. DeMott, Colorado State University - Fort Collins
Markus D. Petters, North Carolina State University
Gavin Cornwell, University of California San Diego
Andrew C. Martin, Portland State University
Kathryn A. Moore, Colorado State University - Fort Collins
This material is based upon research by the Office of Naval Research under award number N00014-16-1-2040. This work was supported by NSF award number 1450690 (MDP), NSF award number 1450760 (SAA, SMK, PJD), and NSF award number 1451347 (GCC, ACM, KAM). Assistance in operation of the research site was provided by Nicholas E. Rothfuss, Hans Taylor, Ezra Levin, Christina McCluskey, Yvonne Boose, Gregg Schill, Camille Sultana, and Kim Prather. The assistance by BML staff and Bodega Marine Reserve in lending laboratory space, assisting with measurement site improvements, and permission to measure on Reserve land is gratefully acknowledged. The loan of a CCN instrument by Jeff Reid and the US Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey is also gratefully acknowledged.
Atmospheric nucleation, Atmospheric aerosols
Aerosol particle and cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) measurements from a littoral location on the northern coast of California at Bodega Bay Marine Laboratory (BML) are presented for approximately six weeks of observations during the boreal winter–spring as part of the CalWater-2015 field campaign. The nature and variability of surface (marine boundary layer, MBL) aerosol populations were evaluated by classifying observations into periods of similar aerosol and meteorological characteristics using an unsupervised cluster model to derive distinct littoral aerosol population types and link them to source regions. Such classifications support efforts to understand the impact of changing aerosol properties on precipitation and cloud development in the region, including during important atmospheric river (AR) tropical moisture advection events. Eight aerosol population types were identified that were associated with a range of impacts from both marine and terrestrial sources. Average measured total particle number concentrations, size distributions, hygroscopicities, and activated fraction spectra between 0.08 % and 1.1 % supersaturation are given for each of the identified aerosol population types, along with meteorological observations and transport pathways during time periods associated with each type. Five terrestrially influenced aerosol population types represented different degrees of aging of the continental outflow from the coast and interior of California, and their appearance at the BML site was often linked to changes in wind direction and transport pathways. In particular, distinct aerosol populations, associated with diurnal variations in source regions induced by land- and sea-breeze shifts, were classified by the clustering technique. A terrestrial type representing fresh emissions, and/or a recent new particle formation event, occurred in approximately 10 % of the observations. Over the entire study period, three marine-influenced population types were identified that typically occurred when the regular diurnal land and sea-breeze cycle collapsed and BML was continuously ventilated by air masses from marine regions for multiple days. These marine types differed from each other primarily in the degree of cloud processing evident in the size distributions, and in the presence of an additional large-particle mode for the type associated with the highest wind speeds. One of the marine types was associated with a multi-day period during which an atmospheric river made landfall at BML. Differences between many of the terrestrial and marine population types in total CCN number concentrations active at a specific supersaturation were often not as pronounced as the associated differences in the corresponding activated fraction spectra, particularly for supersaturations below about 0.4 %. This finding was due to the generally higher number concentrations in terrestrial air masses offsetting the lower fraction of particles activating at low supersaturations. At higher supersaturations, CCN concentrations for aged terrestrial types were typically above those of the marine types due to their higher number concentrations.
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-6931-2019
10.5194/acp-19-6931-2019
Atwood, S. A., Kreidenweis, S. M., DeMott, P. J., Petters, M. D., Cornwell, G. C., Martin, A. C., & Moore, K. A. (2019). Classification of aerosol population type and cloud condensation nuclei properties in a coastal California littoral environment using an unsupervised cluster model. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 19(10), 6931-6947.
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For Walkability and Good Transit, and Against Boondoggles and Pollution
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Pedestrian Observations from New Haven
I don’t normally pedestrian-observe cities that I’ve been to so many times, and New Haven is the US city I’ve spent the most time in other than the two I’ve lived in. But my last visit, in which I looked at the closing time of each store and found it compares more favorably with Providence than I’d thought, led me to think why I have such a visceral response to New Haven’s urbanism.
The parking. It hurts. Providence’s Downcity has parking garages and surface lots, but it has nothing on New Haven there. New Haven’s Route 34 stubway is only an actual road for two and a half blocks west of State Street – 800 meters of actual freeway. Beyond that the full width of the block is occupied by a multistory parking deck for 250 meters, passing over York Street and making walking between downtown or most of Yale and Yale-New Haven Hospital unpleasant. Farther out there are two full blocks, or 600 linear meters, of surface lots. On both sides, the parts of Route 34 used for moving cars are also flanked by surface lots.
Although Union Station is located outside city center, and the area immediately to its east is either empty or low-value, the station’s overflow parking lots are located between the station and downtown, on the downtown side of Route 34. There are special shuttles between the train station and the parking lots, and other shuttles between the train station and Yale. It makes Providence Station and Providence Place look like models of megaproject-city integration. To solve that particular problem, New Haven is proposing a circulator streetcar with practically no use other than a parking lot shuttle on rails.
Even inhabited buildings are often surrounded by immense amounts of surface parking. Immediately north of the elevated parking garage over York, there are several towers in parking lots. Even lower-rise housing is frequently surrounded by continuous parking; this is true of most blocks flanking State Street within walking distance of the State Street train station. What’s jarring is not just the percentage of space devoted to parking, but also the size of continuous parking lots; the more intact residential neighborhoods of both New Haven and Providence have small lots behind or between houses, rather than multiple continuous hectares of parking. It’s this preponderance of unlit parking that gives the city a post-apocalyptic feel.
Discounting the parking, the city is surprisingly monocentric. Most of the university and the secondary urban destinations cluster near downtown. Generally they’re west of the office towers – just far enough to avoid creating a true mixed-use neighborhood anywhere – but they’re theoretically within walking distance of everything. It’s not like the multiple cores of Providence and Cambridge. The upside is that Chapel Street doesn’t depopulate at 7 pm the way Downcity does; the downside is that it’s still nowhere as nice as Thayer or Wickenden Street and completely lacks their small cosiness.
It’s too bad, because there is a lot of usable space in New Haven that would make for great development, and also make the rest of the city more livable if built up. The individual buildings that aren’t recent urban renewal projects are fine; there just need to be more of them. Some, though by no means all or even most, of the pedestrian-hostility will go if Route 34 is removed as planned. But the current plans call for the first block removed to be 50% replaced with a parking garage. Moreover, there do not seem to be plans to tear the elevated parking garage over York, even though it’s York and not the streets intersecting the freeway proper that connects to the hospital.
The problem, I believe, comes from viewing freeway removal as yet another urban renewal program, on a par with one-way streetcar loops, sterile cultural centers, and other universal failures. It’s a preference for the iconic over the mundane that leads New Haven to spurn the idea of removing the freeway and the garage, not mandating any parking, and selling the land in small lots to allow for independent businesses.
Big things almost invariably present a blank street wall. It’s not impossible for big entities to coexist with reasonable urbanism – Brown’s own buildings aren’t the best, but they don’t prevent Thayer Street from more or less working – but big buildings in low-traffic areas do not. A skyscraper in a downtown area with enough demand for it will work – it can have retail in its first floor facing the street, as the Empire State Building does, and the adjacent blocks will also be able to supply urban amenities. A skyscraper surrounded by nothing will not. Neither, for that matter, will a four-story facility occupying half a block; those need to be somewhere, but New Haven has enough space for them already and has no reason to prefer them to blocks with multiple separate buildings owned by different entities.
The end result is that New Haven is likely to stay bad. The suburbanites think it has a shortage of parking; thus, the city builds more for them, instead of realizing that a city will always have a shortage of parking and if it is accused of something it might as well do it and cater to people who it can satisfy. It’s great for cars – even more of the region will be open to them to the exclusion of anyone who uses other modes of transportation. It’s just bad for people.
Written by Alon Levy Posted in Development, Pedestrian Observations, Urban Design, Urbanism
2012/06/26 - 08:45 Steve
How would you say today’s New Haven stacks up against other infamously pedestrian-hostile urban cores (e.g. 1980s Houston)? Your comment about the “post-apocalyptic feel” suggests that New Haven’s well on its way towards becoming the 2010s’ 1980s Houston…
2012/06/26 - 09:28 EBS
A few things from my experience:
The population is (obviously) incredibly segregated and the fact that the undergrad population generally lives in their closed-off castles for 4 years (and has meal plans) means there\’s less of a demand for a lot of \’college town\’ food and retail than in many comparable towns. Exception is cafes, of which there are no shortage. On weekend nights the downtown is usually filled with people who don\’t live in New Haven. That\’s not an excuse for the parking situation, which is horrific, but it\’s a reason why downtown business restuarant and bar owners probably believe that there can never be too much parking, even when they find themselves surrounded by enormous parking garages.
Yale has an extensive private bus system which takes away demand from the local public transit, but also allows some students to go car-free in situations where they otherwise might not due to location and safety concerns.
Turnover in downtown businesses is very high and there are tons of empty storefronts in some of the most centralized, pedestrian friendly areas. I don\’t know if this suggests that commercial rent is too high or if it\’s just a difficult place to make anything work. (Probably both.)
Residential rent, on the other hand, is very clearly too high, nearly at NYC levels, and the housing vacancy rate is among the lowest in the country. I think there are plenty of grad students, adjuncts, young faculty who would live downtown instead of East Rock (the semi-suburban alternative, where many of them end up) if it were affordable and if a few more amenities existed. The new grocery store co-op at the bottom of the luxury tower that\’s across from the State St. station is a huge step in the right direction, but if it closed, as many grocery stores in New Haven have, then downtown residents would be miles away from a decent sized grocery store again and the difference between having a car and not having a car goes back to being enormous.
Downtown New Haven isn\’t *that far* from having a downtown that offers car-free residents a fairly convenient lifestyle + an easy commute to NYC and the residential rents and vacancy rates suggest that there is certainly room for a lot of new housing. If the city takes steps in the right direction, it could be better off than a lot of places in 20 years. There\’s even talk of bikeshare: http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/city_eyes_bike-sharing/.
Oops, sorry about the \s
2012/06/26 - 19:52 Richard Mlynarik
You’re excused. Thanks for an interesting comment.
2012/06/26 - 10:27 Pingback: Greetings From Walkable, Bikeable, Transit-Oriented Asbury Park, N.J. | Streetsblog.net
2012/06/26 - 13:01 ITB
I lived there in 2001-2006 as a graduate student at Yale. After less than a year, I decided I needed a car, as much as I hated that. You could hardly go grocery shopping or go to the movies without a car! (Things got a bit better in the latter years; for example, a new movie theater opened downtown and a small but nice grocery store opened close to where I lived.) Public transportation sucked, with very infrequent buses. My pet peeve was the route that went to the movie theaters close to I-91: it only ran M-F 9-5 or something like that.
I only used the car for special trips, as I lived close to campus and close to downtown and could walk or bike. But I was surprised when I realized that very few people in the Yale community (other than undergrads) chose to live in New Haven. Most of the professors and staff that I knew lived pretty far, some with 30-40 min commutes by car (that takes you almost as far as Hartford or halfway to Rhode Island or New York!) The people who lived “close” lived in Hamden and also commuted by car. Only grad students tended to live in New Haven, and even some of them moved out as soon as they could. I never understood why, because I actually liked New Haven, or at least the neighborhoods that I frequented.
It’s a chicken-and-egg problem, but the fact is that New Haven is basically seen by it’s “users” as a giant parking lot. Too many people live too far from it and drive in every day. Even people who take the train towards New York drive in to the train station. I think the city does need to reduce parking, but it will have to be gradual, while simultaneously increasing housing options in New Haven and improving public transportation. You can’t remove a lot of parking overnight, because then all those people who live 30 miles away and work in New Haven will be in serious trouble. But *increasing* parking is insane!
2012/06/29 - 20:08 Beta Magellan
I have family that lives in suburban New Haven, and when visiting we tended to refer to the trips as “to Connecticut” rather than “to New Haven,” whereas my family (which lived in the Merrimack River family) tended to refer to their area as “Boston” more often than “Massachusetts.” Of course a lot of this is due to the smaller population and economy of New Haven relative to Boston, but I think it still says something about the city’s weakness as a regional center.
2012/06/26 - 15:44 Adirondacker12800
Big things almost invariably present a blank street wall.
If it didn’t have a blank wall it would corrupt it’s tower-in-a-park motif.
Blank street walls are a post World War II blight. You cite the Empire State. The Empire State occupies one block. Rockefeller Center covers blocks of Midtown and has a vibrant streetscape. And a vibrant, well maybe not vibrant, underground mall. The GE building is the tenth tallest in Manhattan, 32nd in the US and 93rd in the world.
Look at the pictures of Penn Station’s construction. It’s surrounded by a sea of low rise tenements.
Neither, for that matter, will a four-story facility occupying half a block
Upper Broadway is lined with buildings that take up the whole block or half a block.
prefer them to blocks with multiple separate buildings owned by different entities.
It doesn’t have to be separate buildings, the landlord just has to be willing to subdivide. Witness the whole block buildings on Upper Broadway. Macy’s takes up the whole block. Compare that to the Empire State building or Rockefeller Center….
2012/06/26 - 16:49 Alon Levy
The reason this bigness works in New York is that there’s demand for it. Manhattan is a dense place, which means people can go to the stores provided by multiple big buildings in close proximity. There’s also a lot of street activity no matter what, and so a big building will find it natural to add storefronts.
New Haven is not like that. The downtown skyscrapers aren’t like in Midtown, which has one skyscraper after another and there are so many employees that they can fill a huge pedestrianized city square. Because they think they need parking, those skyscrapers have to come with an assortment of garages, and so density is limited, and away from 9-5 the only thing that can fill the streets is Yale students and people providing them services. As you go out of the center of the center, density decreases in both cities, but remains far higher in New York. So Upper Broadway and Amsterdam can have 12-story buildings built to the lot line and they’ll do well, and New Haven looks sterile when it puts in a single Yale building.
It’s similar to enclosed shopping centers, by the way. Orchard Road in Singapore is flanked on both sides by malls, one after the other. But there’s so much pedestrian street traffic that there are stores and restaurants that open to the street and not to the malls, and close to the center there are advertising screens facing the street, similar to those at Times Square. And those malls have parking garages – they just put them behind the mall or otherwise at a place that doesn’t hurt the streetscape. But take one of these shopping centers, pluck them out of Singapore and put them in Providence, and for good measure keep the street-facing restaurants, and you’ll still get an auto-oriented urban disaster. (And it’s not even a parking matter in Providence, but one of being able to cross the street safely.)
You’d have an auto oriented disaster whether or not the street facing stores were rented out by multiple landlords or one landlord. Finding 30 developers to redevelop a block in downtown New Haven isn’t going to generate any more foot traffic than finding one developer who commits to street level retail. One developer might even be better, get them to commit to an alley so deliveries and garbage collection can happen in the middle of the block instead of on the street.
2012/06/26 - 21:56 Peter Brassard
This urban condition in smaller cities like New Haven and Providence and dozens if not hundreds of others is more about the de-centralization that’s a result from car culture, rather than parking by itself.
Using Providence as an example, the Providence Place Mall is effectively a high-rise shopping center with a rough total of 1.4-billion square feet (130-million square meters). If all those retail establishments were re-distributed and added to Downcity’s existing retail/restaurants using the historic retail patterns, there probably wouldn’t be enough room on Downcity’s streets to accommodate it.
Along Exchange Street leading from Kennedy Plaza to the train station there have been repeated complaints of the lack or retail along that path. The Waterplace Park condos has a never been used empty store, the Blue Cross/Blue Shield Building has a similar empty store, and the Avalon apartments is lined with retail on Exchange Street and across from the train station mostly used as street level law firms. Unless Providence Station quadruples the number of train passengers or there’s a massive infusion of residential population or both around the station, the Exchange Street retail will likely remain empty.
Not that long ago in New Haven there was still a substantial retail district on the south side of the green. In a sense New Haven is behind Providence. Providence began losing its street retail to the suburbs in the late 70s and early 80s and it was empty by the late 90s. New Haven’s retail was still functioning in the 90s before vanishing.
Haldeman’s expression “the tooth paste is out of the tube” applies. Small city downtown’s that were once traditional regional retail hubs and pedestrian environments will not likely return, as long as private automotive transportation is the dominant mode. Simply providing street level retail space will not necessarily create or recreate a pedestrian environment as Exchange Street demonstrates.
Filling in parking lots by adding significant population density might be the key component to creating a pedestrian environment in these old downtown cores. Would downtown New Haven or Providence be more like midtown if there were an additional 50,000 or 60,000 people living in them?
Just for the record the Empire State Building takes up just a half block. The rest of the block is filled with an assortment of other buildings.
2012/06/26 - 17:36 Benjamin Hemric
Hi, Alon!
Intersting post! (Although I’ve never reallly been to New Haven (I’ve just passed by), I’ve always wondered about it.)
One thing that interests me about New Haven’s future is its past — given it’s small size (approximately 120,000 according to Wikipedia — or two of the Bronx’s Co-Op cities) it’s hard for me to imagine what it was like during it’s “heyday” (e.g., population of 164,443, 1950 census). I’m wondering if the walkable downtown of New Haven was ever really that good an “urban” place to live then? (From Wikipedia, Providence, Rhode Island has a population 50% higher.)
In my mind, New Haven “might” have been. From readings here and there where mention of New Haven crops up (e.g., biographies of theater people who opened their plays and musicals in New Haven), it seems kind of urban, with people hanging out at the theater, at the hotel(s), in nearby coffee shops etc. But beyond that — and being a main shopping / hotel district for Yale University — it’s had to imagine it having much urbanity, and thus it’s hard to imagine it having much urbanity in its future (when urbanity is even harder to come by). For instance, was there every a big department store or two big department stores? How many movie theaters, restaurants were there? Etc.? (I realize that New Haven was also something of a manufacturing hub, and even something of a transportation hub (?), at one time — but it’s hard to visualize.)
So along these lines, it would kind of fun to see a “historical” book/article along the lines of your Pedestrian Observation post –which got me thinking about Arcadia Publishing. Perhaps you and your readers are already aware of this publishing house, but in case anyone is not and is interested, they apparently have six books on New Haven. Three of which seem like they might be along these lines: “New Haven,” by Colin Caplan; “New Haven Streetcars” by the Branford Electirc Railway Association; “New Haven: Reshaping the City, 1900-1980,” by the New Haven Colonial Historial Society. (I haven’t read or seen any of them, myself, just learned about them now.)
Benjamin Hemric
Tues., June 26, 2012, 6:40 p.m.
P.S. — In terms of the future, part of me says that Yale is too big, both in terms and influence and size for New Haven ever to be more than just a “company town” and slight adjunct.
Oh, New Haven is definitely a company town. The street life it does have reflects that. People hang out at cafes (in fact, I’d say it has a better student cafe scene than Providence and better bookstores), eat out at restaurants, and go to the theater. But it all takes place in a small student ghetto. As you head out, the density, which isn’t high in the first place, drops steadily; beyond a few blocks of brownstones, you get the strip malls on Dixwell and the suburban-density residential blocks on Whitney. There’s still manufacturing tucked away in various corners of the waterfront, but it’s not that important to the city.
The issue in New Haven’s case is urban design more than economy, anyway. It’s a poor city, but Providence is poorer, and Providence still does better on metrics like crime. New Haven just doesn’t feel as safe, with the project towers and such.
2012/06/28 - 02:04 Nathanael
Looking at the map, I think the freeway teardown probably will actually help. It’s noticeable how much more “parking lot” filled New Haven becomes as you approach the “Oak Street Connector” from either side. I could see redevelopment working south from Crown St. & State St. towards the New Haven Police Department if that monstrous lump of freeway is removed. But of course the city would have to authorize building small buildings on parking lots.
The problem is that the parking is not being redeveloped. There are no plans to tear down the elevated parking garage over York, which is the worst offender. It’s even worse than in the Jewelry District, where it’s possible they’ll redevelop without including massive amounts of parking for people who live in Seekonk.
2012/06/30 - 16:38 DingDong
There are actually plans to redevelop the Coliseum parking lot. http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/discovery_delays_coliseum_project/
I have no other comment for now on your irrational hatred for New Haven.
That parking lot’s annoying and I have to go through it every time I walk between the train station and the parts of the city north of 34, and it’s good they’re trying to put something more interesting there, but I was talking about the Air Rights Garage.
Some other factual corrections. They are not building a streetcar (which is too bad) http://nhregister.com/articles/2012/04/03/news/new_haven/doc4f7b8092a20f1867318672.txt
The streetcar would have been much more than a parking circulator; it had planned extensions to Hamden and West Haven and could have revitalized Whalley. Even in its initial phase it could have helped bridge the gap between downtown (major employment center and increasingly a residential one too), the medical district (employment) and Union station.
New Haven is monocentric only if you forget about Upper State Street and consider Ninth Square part of the same area as Broadway (which seems forced) and ignore that the densest part of town is Dwight and Dwight-Kensington which conforms to many new urbanist ideals (just no white people); Fair Haven is a close second and is teeming with street life, though only a few white people.
There aree two major employers in New Haven Yale and Yale-New Haven hospital (despite the name its unrelated to the university).
There were a number of department stores through the years downtown, the largest of which was Shartenbergs (at the site of 360 State Building).
Plenty of Yale professors live in New Haven; the few I know who don’t live in Cambridge or New York. Don’t have any stats to back this up but neither did the commenter above making the contrary claim.
A lot went wrong in New Haven and a lot is still going wrong but things are getting a lot better. Each year in the past ten years or so has seen major improvements. The prediction that things will stay bad assumes that things are bad now; but plenty of people live here and like it quite a bit.
2012/07/02 - 06:25 IT
I’d be interested in seeing stats too. Obviously, my unscientific sample is very small!
To be fair, I do remember at least a couple of professors who had homes in New Haven.
The “planned extensions” issue also crops up in Providence, and is equally disingenuous. Why not start with the busiest bus line, and then, if there’s extra money, build extensions? Like it or not, the choice of where to put the first line says a lot about priorities. So I know that New York’s SBS, for all its faults, is not an inner-urban circulator because the first line was Fordham and they only even added in 34th much later (34th has the same problems as any circulator, but it was not the focus of the program). With New Haven and Providence, maps showing a detailed routing downtown with multiple arrows pointing in vague directions outward tell me the exact opposite.
The same is true of the “linking the job centers together” argument. At the distances of both the New Haven and Providence streetcars, people walk. New Haven doesn’t even have the steep hill of Providence that would make transit so much more attractive, at least if it treated the bus tunnel better. The problem with walking to the YNH hospital is 100% one of bad urban design, and because the street that connects to it is York, the 34 removal plans aren’t going to help.
To New Haven’s credit, going by your link the aldermen voted it down precisely because of the lack of service to neighborhoods beyond downtown.
A number of Yale professors also live in Hamden. I forgot about it, as it often seems an extension of New Haven but for many purposes obviously it’s not. I’d agree that streetcar was not well-designed. Much of that has to do with the buses being run by a state agency and the streetcar being a city project (an explanation, not a justification).
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2012/06/27 - 04:09 Michael John
If New Haven adopts a SmartCode (A forum based code), it’ll allow them to develop the parking into developments.
You almost certainly know far more about form-based zoning than I do. Does it really include parking reform?
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Precision Board Replaces Sheet Metal Architecture on Church Built in 1841
Calling it “one of the most technically challenging projects of his career,” the 40 foot long balustrade Will Williamson made for Old St. Mary’s Church in Detroit, MI is an incredible feat of craftsmanship.
The church, built in 1841, had a once magnificent sheet-metal balustrade that had deteriorated over the years and was about to collapse into the street 30 feet below. Having performed much work for the Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit over the years, Will, owner of Williamson Lumber and Millwork, was confident he could offer a long-lasting solution for the church.
Original balustrade, note sheet metal erosion.
With over 15 years of experience using Precision Board on a variety of projects, Will figured it would be the perfect long-lasting substrate for this project. Also, because Precision Board is available in 5′ x 10′ sheets, 2, 3 and 4 inches thick, he could CNC cut and shape all of the large ornate details easily.
“I chose to use Precision Board HDU on this project because it’s such a stable material that I knew could withstand the rough Michigan weather. When I received my Precision Board Plus shipment, it was the middle of December and about 10 degrees outside. The first thing I did was open the package and measure the sheets before we brought them inside. There were 10 5′ x 10′ sheets, 2″, 3″ and 4″ thick. When I measured the last 4″ sheet 6 months later in June, it was pushing 90 degrees. The sheet had only moved 1/16th of an inch in the 10′ length and about 1/32″ on the 5′ end. That’s when I knew I had made the right decision going with Precision Board for this project,” says Will.
Using his American-made Thermwood CS45 CNC router, Will designed all the architectural details in Autocad and exported the dxf files directly to Thermwood’s e-Cabinet Systems 3-D design software.
Inside e-Cabinet, 3D parts were created and nested onto 5′ x 10′ sheets of Precision Board Plus. This resulted in a very efficient use of materials with very little scrap. When everything was finished, Will had 32 6″ x 6″ balusters, 4 24″ square newels with recessed panels, and 40′ 12″ x 6″ hand and foot rails.
After all the Precision Board was machined, it was primed with FSC-88WB Primer/Filler and finished with Sherwin-Williams paint.
Before installation began, Will removed all remnants of the previous metal balustrade. Will and crew built new pressure treated pedestals underneath where the newel posts would lie, and had a new rubber roof installed.
The newel posts were made by building a white oak frame and surrounding it with CNC routed Precision Board pieces that were engineered to lock in place because Will did not want to bond the dissimilar materials together due to different expansion and contraction rates.
Because the 40 foot length of the balustrade exceeded the space in his shop, the entire piece was pre-assembled and painted in Will’s driveway. Midway through the project, Will suffered a Quad-Runner accident and broke his wrist. Frank, his son, stepped in and tackled the planing, jointing and assembly of the 2″ thick White Oak frame, pre-fitting the entire assembly.
When installation time came, the white oak newel bases were set onto the new rubber roof, followed by slipping the HDU down over the base.
A crane was then used to lift the pre-assembled railings into place and the framing was fastened to the newels. A final caulking of the joint where the balustrade contacted the building and the project was finished! This project was officially completed in 2009, though it was over 2.5 years prior to that when talks began!
For over 40 years Williamson Lumber & Millwork has been a licensed and insured State of Michigan contractor, and their projects have included everything from church restoration, to sign making. Will Williamson started his trade as an apprentice rough carpenter and progressed into finish carpentry contracting. In 1985, Will started Williamson Lumber and Millwork, producing architectural millwork and selling kiln-dried hardwood lumber.
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As the world was forced to spend more time at home, Brian Balthazar found himself in a position where he had sold a house before the lockdown and had to find a new one.
“We sold our home with all the furniture in it, so not only did we find ourselves struggling to find a new place, once we found one we didn’t have any furniture to put in it.”
And so, Brian and partner Dennis got resourceful, turning to refurbishing and buying store floor models. They were inspired to make bold, fun choices in color and style when they started shopping around for wallpaper.
Below is the segment as it appeared on the Today Show, and further down, a rundown of where you can find the pieces or ones with a similar look!
Let’s start with the Dining Room!
Move the slider dividing the image to see all of the before or all of the after!
Brian says: The dining room was the first space we wanted to do. I haven’t had a true dining room since I was a kid, and I’ve always wanted a big table for dinner parties! There were no tables within the price range we wanted, so we found a floor model at one of our favorite go-to stores, Arhaus. We easily saved 75 percent on this table by getting the one that they weren’t going to carry anymore. The chairs are from Wayfair. On each side of the fireplace (not seen in the photo, but visible in the Today Show video) are two black tall lanterns flanking the fireplace. I got them at Target. I can’t currently find them on their app, but similar versions pop up every year. Get thee to Homegoods! Homegoods and Homesense (same parent company) are my go-to spots for home accessories for virtually every room in the house. You never know what you’re going to find, which is part of the fun.
But let’s focus on the real WOW element to this room – the wallpaper! This pattern is called Bellewood, by RebelWalls. As you will soon see, I’m sort of obsessed with their patterns. To me, this room is magical with the added whimsy of this forest pattern. (They also have a more muted version with grays and even one with blues.) I also love that by hanging the paper from the chair rail up, you almost get the feeling that you’re standing on a balcony overlooking the forest. I surrounded the whole room with this paper, which I love, but you could easily add the same magical feeling by just doing one feature wall. Their website shows how it can translate to a bedroom or office. You might be intimidated by hanging wallpaper but don’t be! This pattern has so much going on that it really looks perfect when it goes up!
ON TO THE GUEST BEDROOM!
GUEST BEDROOM AFTER
GUEST BEDROOM BEFORE
THE GUEST BEDROOM
Brian says: The guest bedroom is on the top floor of the house, so it’s got roof lines on two sides that make it a tricky space to navigate if you’re not careful. The planning of this space alone resulted in a few bonked heads. On the upside, the wall where the bed goes is tall, so it was an obvious place to create some visual pop. Again, the wallpaper takes the spotlight. Called “Nude Roses,” also by RebelWalls, I love this design. Floral wallpaper was ‘big’ in popularity back in the 1920s when this house was built, but the patterns at that time were smaller, repeated more often, and were often really bold in color. This interpretation is so fun to me! Gone are the small roses in favor of oversized blooms, and the bold colors are more subdued pink and gray hues, with touches of dark green and creamy whites.
While roses can inherently feel feminine, the plaid bedding (30 dollars for a queen set from Target) are a surprising complement that keeps everything from feeling a little stereotypical. The side tables are mismatched – partly because we didn’t want to go too “matchy=matchy” – but also to save some money – the one on the left side (hard to catch here) was from West Elm. Normally $199, we got it for half off as the floor model. The one on the right we found in the trash. It was perfectly fine, clearly someone had just gotten tired of it! Nothing some disinfectant can’t fix. That gave us some extra money to spend – To reduce the softeness we went with industrial lamps and edison bulbs. The lamps are called “Ginyard,” from Wayfair. The headboard was a floor model we got for a drastically reduced price from Arhaus. The dark gray takes balances out the pink hues well. The pillows are from Target and Homegoods.
For the 360 degree view of this room, watch the Instagram reel below! You’ll see the dresser, on sale for $599 from Arhaus, a lamp from Homegoods, and mobiles from Amazon which we fashioned into a ‘piece of art’ that keeps you from hitting your head on the angled wall opposite the bed. Watch the video to check it out!
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BASEMENT AFTER
BASEMENT BEFORE
BASEMENT / GAME ROOM
Brian says: The idea for the basement game room was to create a space that feels like a lounge you might find if you went out with friends. When you go into this basement it definitely feels like you’ve gone someplace unique! Believe it or not, I found out the Today Show had invited me to to record my house tour just a few days in advance, and so we turned around this spot in just THREE days! There was literally no pool table at the time, (although it had already been scheduled to come on Friday, the wallpaper came on Saturday, (as well as the floor tiles!) and by Sunday we were covered in paint and glue and drinking wine to celebrate it’s completion! I recorded the final video that Monday.
Some people might not think to take a bright basement and make it dark, but that was our first instinct. Clubs are dark and moody, and we wanted this to feel like that. We painted the walls Wrought Iron by Benjamin Moore, which is a very dark gray that seems to take on different hues based on where you paint it and the light that shines on it. We painted the ceiling black. This was Thursday night! Then Friday the pool table came. The floor tiles (“Tweed Indeed” in black by Flor) hadn’t arrived until the next day, so when they did arrive I meticulously trimmed four tiles to fit around the pool table legs so it looks like they were there the whole time. I had ordered the pool table online weeks before from PoolTables.com and by sheer coincidence it was scheduled to arrive in time for me to shoot the redesign. This was the second time I have ordered a pool table from them (which was initially scary because you’re not even seeing it beforehand!) but it always arrives in perfect condition to your specific selections. I love that the felt jet black and keeps things dark and moody. In the time that has passed since this photo was taken, I’ve added more of the carpet tiles to make the carpeted floor area darker and bigger.
But once again, the wall mural steals the show in a marvelous way! This mural is called “A Priori” from Rebelwalls, and is inspired by The Allegory of Divine Providence and Barberini Power, a famous fresco by Italian artist Pietro da Cortona. Fitting, because this house is Italian in style on the outside. You can’t see it from this photo but the wallpaper runs up part of the ceiling as well. It truly gives the room a wow factor when you enter it. The lamps are from Homegoods, (we’ve since added some industrial floor lamps for extra mood lighting) and the piano was something we brought with us. The bar tables are from Amazon ($72 each) and the stools we brought with us – they were discards from someone who didn’t like their original bright colors and thought they were dated! We covered them ourselves with gray plaid fabric and they’re better than they were new!
So there you have it! Hope you enjoyed the rooms and find something you like!
The Pentagon Has Released Official UFO Videos Because 2020 Is The Absolute Worst
Chris Siretz
Aren’t swarms of locusts supposed to be the next installment of this plague?!
Can we finally declare 2020 as the worst year ever? In January there were fears of a third World War. In February the coronavirus began its rapid spread. In March the world essentially shut down due to social distancing and quarantining. And now in April…with only two days left in the month…we have official government footage of unidentified flying objects. I’m sorry but Milton Bradley’s game of “Life” never prepared me for any of this!
The Pentagon has confirmed the authenticity of three videos that have been circulating the web but didn’t really answer what is visible in them. In the videos, now declassified by the Department of Defense, navy pilots capture “unidentified aerial phenomena” aka unidentified flying objects aka UFOs! Pentagon officials were sure to state that the videos do not show “any sensitive capabilities or systems,” meaning we probably won’t be seeing any little green men any time soon.
“Look at that thing!”
Pentagon declassifies three previously leaked top secret U.S. Navy videos of “unexplained aerial phenomena”—and that some believe could show UFOs. https://t.co/YTuvaPHykM pic.twitter.com/YaKImrnl5M
— ABC News (@ABC) April 27, 2020
The first video dates back to November 2004 and the other two from January 2015. Of the Pentagon’s confirmation of authenticity, Pentagon spokesperson Sue Gough said the videos were released “in order to clear up any misconceptions by the public on whether or not the footage that has been circulating was real, or whether or not there is more to the videos.”
So great. We now know that these strange videos are real but what exactly are we looking at? Well, the Department of Defense says it has no concrete answer as to what might be floating around the skies and has classified the phenomena as “unidentified.” And…just like that I suddenly feel less defended.
Social media is having a field day with this revelation of course. The #AliensAreReal has been trending high on Twitter since the news broke. One user referenced Independence Day and said the aliens are “getting ready for July 4th.” Of the bad timing, another wrote “Et tu aliens?” And finally one user couldn’t help avoid sarcasm and wrote”Where’s the space force when you need it?”
Well 2020, you have worked your awful black magic once again. What’s next, cat videos get banned from the internet?! You’ve taken everything else from us!
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Priest Accidentally Forgets To Turn Off Filters Before Live Streaming Mass
The internet is having a field day with the innocent mistake of biblical proportions.
With new social distancing guidelines, many churches have closed to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus. And while that doesn’t justify all the wine you’ve been chugging during your self quarantine, it does have many people practicing their faith from their homes. One Italian priest was just trying to recite a little prayer for his followers when he accidentally left a filter feature on during the broadcast! In the clip the priest is digitally adorned with a space helmet, workout gear, a fedora and sunglasses and more.
Social media went nuts for the video, which has now gone viral. One comment reads “He just doubled his holy power.” Another reads “Father, Son and Holy Influencer.” One commenter couldn’t resist a good pun and said the video is having a “Mass effect.”
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Our special guest speaker is Del Galloway, APR, Fellow. Del is currently senior vice president of communications for Wells Fargo Atlantic Region, where he is responsible for all media relations, internal communications and executive support in Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia and Washington – a role he assumed after serving several years as vice president of communications for United Way Worldwide.
In 2004, Del served as national President and CEO of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA). A longstanding advocate and champion for the LGBTQ community and diversity, equity and inclusion broadly, Del is the first openly gay CEO of PRSA and established the organization’s National Diversity Committee. In 2018, he received PRSA’s Gold Anvil Award, the Society’s highest individual honor – recognizing lifetime achievement in public relations.
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The Best Moms Let Mess Happen
That's the message of a Bounty commercial that reminds this sociologist of Sharon Hays' work on "the ideology of intensive motherhood."
Lisa Wade
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Way back in 1996, sociologist Sharon Hays coined the phrase “the ideology of intensive motherhood.” She intended to draw attention to a new norm for mothering that involved, among other things, making children the center of one’s life and subordinating your own needs and wants to theirs.
I can’t help but think of Hays and her beleaguered mothers every time I see this commercial:
“When we’re having this much fun,” the voiceover says, “why quit?”
And I think, “No, seriously, quit it.”
But the mother in the ad doesn’t tell the kid to quit it. She beams. And then she gives the younger child his own glass of chocolate milk and claps as he learns how to blow bubbles in it.
Bounty glamorizes the clean-up work the mother has to do after her child blows his chocolate milk all over the kitchen table and floor. As if letting a child make an unnecessary mess is the most unselfish sign of love. It’s an excellent example of the ideology of intensive motherhood: Everyone knows that this is going to be additional work for the mother, but the kids are having a good time and that’s what’s important.
This post originally appeared on Sociological Images, a Pacific Standard partner site, as “Bounty Commercial Says: The Best Moms Let Mess Happen.”
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Creighton vs. Georgetown University - 3/4/20 College Basketball Pick, Odds, and Prediction
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Shane Mickle March 3, 2020 7:09 pm
Georgetown University (15-14) at Creighton (22-7)
College Basketball: Wednesday, March 4, 2020 at 8:00 pm (CHI Health Center Omaha)
The Line: Creighton-11 -- Over/Under: 154.5 Click Here for the Latest Odds
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The Georgetown Hoyas (15-14, CONF 5-11) and Creighton Bluejays (22-7, CONF 11-5) face off in a Big East showdown at the CHI Health Center in Omaha. Georgetown beat Creighton 83-80 earlier this season.
Georgetown has dealt with all kinds of injuries this season and it has led to them really struggling as of late. Georgetown has lost four games in a row and in three of those games they failed to cover the spread.
In the Hoyas last game against Xavier, the defense was strong and that led to them only losing by three points.
Georgetown's top two scorers, Omer Yurtseven and Mac McClung are both out indefinitely as they deal with different injuries. Over the last five games Georgetown is averaging only 67.8 points per game.
Creighton seemed to be getting hot at the right time but they come into this game off a shocking loss in their last game. Against St. John’s in the last game, their defense struggled giving up 91 points and that led to a Bluejays blowout loss.
At home this season Creighton is 15-1 and their biggest strength has been the offense averaging 82.5 points per game.
At times Creighton’s defense has been a big issue and overall they are giving up 70.4 points per game. If they want to win this game, they need Creighton needs the defense to step up and lock down.
Creighton is led by guards Ty-Shon Alexander and Marcus Zegarowski who are both averaging over 15 points per game. In Creighton’s last win it was Zegarowski who dropped 25 points and 25 minutes.
The under is 6-2 in Georgetown’s last eight road games. Georgetown is 2-6 against the spread in their last eight games played away from home. Georgetown is 3-7 against the spread in their last ten meetings against Creighton.
Creighton’s loss in their last game against St. John’s was the best thing to happen to their season. Creighton was flying high and that knocked them right down. Look for Creighton to be more focused in this game and they will have no issue running up the score. With all the injuries for Georgetown they don’t have enough offense to keep up, and that will lead to a win and cover by Creighton.
Shane’s Pick Creighton -11
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ABKHAZIYA Абхазія (Country) Belarusian, Bulgarian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Russian, Ukrainian
Form of ABKHAZIA.
ABUDZHA Абуджа (Settlement) Belarusian, Bulgarian, Kazakh, Russian, Ukrainian
Belarusian, Bulgarian, Kazakh, Russian, and Ukrainian form of ABUJA.
ACHEKH Ачэх (Political Subdivision) Belarusian, Russian, Ukrainian
Belarusian, Russian, and Ukrainian form of ACEH.
AFHANISTAN Афганістан (Country) Belarusian, Ukrainian
Belarusian and Ukrainian form of AFGHANISTAN.
AFINY Афіны (Settlement) Belarusian, Kyrgyz, Russian, Ukrainian
Belarusian, Kyrgyz, Russian, and Ukrainian form of ATHENS.
ALMATI Алматы (Settlement) Kazakh, Afrikaans, Arabic, Armenian, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Georgian, Hindi, Hungarian, Korean, Latvian, Macedonian, Mongolian, Persian, Russian, Serbian, Slovene, Tajik, Urdu, Uzbek
Form of ALMATY as well as an alternate transcription of ALMATY.
ALMATY Алматы (Settlement) Kazakh, Albanian, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Malay, Mongolian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Swedish, Tagalog, Turkmen, Ukrainian
Meaning uncertain, possibly from Kazakh алма (alma) meaning "apple". This is the name of the largest city in Kazakhstan.
ALZHYR Алжыр (Country & Settlement) Belarusian, Ukrainian
Belarusian and Ukrainian form of ALGERIA and ALGIERS.
AMAN Аман (Country) Belarusian, Chinese
Belarusian and Chinese form of OMAN.
AMJALINA Амяліна (Settlement) Belarusian
Derived from the Belarusian noun амяла (amjala) meaning "mistletoe". This is the name of two villages in Belarus.
ANKARA Анкара (Settlement) Turkish, Afrikaans, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Georgian, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Maltese, Mongolian, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Turkmen, Ukrainian
Derived from Ancient Greek ἄγκυρα (ánkura) meaning "anchor, hook". This is the name of the capital city of Turkey.
ARHENTSINA Аргенціна (Country) Belarusian
Belarusian form of ARGENTINA.
ASTANA Астана (Settlement) Kazakh, Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Indian, Hindi, Indonesian, Kyrgyz, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Mongolian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Swedish, Filipino, Tagalog, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
Means "capital city" in Kazakh, ultimately from Persian آستانه (astaneh). This was the name of the capital city of Kazakhstan until 2019, when it was renamed Nur-Sultan.
AUSTRALAZIYA Аўстралазія (Region) Belarusian, Kazakh
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AUSTRYIA Аўстрыя (Country) Belarusian
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From Azerbaijani Bakı from Persian باکو (baku), which is of uncertain meaning. One popular etymology suggests that it means "wind-pounded city" from Persian باد (bad) meaning "wind" and کوبیدن (kubidan) meaning "to pound, to beat" (given in reference to the area's storms and high winds)... [more]
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Derived from Sanskrit बलि (bali) meaning "offering, tribute". This is the name of an island and province in Indonesia.
BALIVIYA Балівія (Country) Belarusian
Belarusian form of BOLIVIA.
BANDA-ACHEKH Банда-Ачэх (Settlement) Belarusian, Russian, Ukrainian
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BANDAR-SERY-BEHAVAN Бандар-Серы-Бегаван (Settlement) Belarusian
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BANTEN Бантэн (Political Subdivision) Indonesian, Sundanese, Acehnese, Balinese, Javanese, Malay, Minangkabau, Afrikaans, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mongolian, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian
Meaning uncertain. It may be derived from the Sundanese and Bantenese phrase katiban inten meaning "struck down by diamonds", which was used to describe the spead of Islam in the region in the 15th century... [more]
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Belarusian and Ukrainian form of BELGIUM.
BISHKEK Бішкек (Settlement) Kyrgyz, Armenian, Belarusian, Bengali, Bulgarian, English, Hindi, Indonesian, Kazakh, Macedonian, Malay, Mongolian, Persian, Russian, Tajik, Ukrainian, Uyghur, Uzbek
Meaning uncertain. One theory suggests that it comes from a word meaning "whorl, whisk" in Kyrgyz, referring to a tool used to prepare kumis (a traditional dairy product). It could also mean "five heights" from Kyrgyz беш (besh) meaning "five" and бийик (biyik) meaning "tall, high", or it could mean "five chiefs" from беш (besh) meaning "five" and the Turkish title beg meaning "chieftain, master"... [more]
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Probably derived from the name of the island of Borneo, which in turn is most likely from Sanskrit वरुण (váruṇa) meaning "ocean, water". A local legend suggests that the name may be derived from the phrase baru nah meaning "there!" or "that's it!", which was supposedly declared by Muhammad Shah, Brunei's first sultan... [more]
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Form of BUDAPEST used in several languages.
BUTAN Бутан (Country) Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Croatian, Dhivehi, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Maltese, Mongolian, Persian, Russian, Slovene, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Uyghur
Form of BHUTAN.
CHACHNIA Чачня (Political Subdivision) Belarusian
Belarusian form of CHECHNYA.
CHEKHIYA Чэхія (Country) Belarusian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Russian, Tajik, Ukrainian
Form of ČECHY, used as a name for the Czech Republic in various languages.
DAGESTAN Дагестан (Political Subdivision) Russian, Afrikaans, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, German, Icelandic, Indonesian, Macedonian, Malay, Mongolian, Norwegian, Polish, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Swedish, Tagalog
Derived from Turkish dağ meaning "mountain" and the Persian suffix -ستان (-stan) meaning "land of". This is the name of a federal subject of Russia.
DAKA Дака (Settlement) Arabic, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Chinese, Georgian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Korean, Kurdish, Macedonian, Persian, Serbian, Slovene, Tajik
Form of DHAKA.
DELI Дэлі (Settlement) Armenian, Belarusian, Chinese, Georgian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Latvian, Mongolian, Portuguese, Russian, Thai, Turkmen, Ukrainian
Form of DELHI.
DENPASAR Дэнпасар (Settlement) Indonesian, Acehnese, Javanese, Minangkabau, Afrikaans, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Czech, Dutch, Danish, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Turkish, Ukrainian
From Balinese ᬤᬾᬦ᭄ᬧᬲᬃ (dénpasar) derived from den meaning "north" and pasar meaning "market". This is the name of a city in Indonesia and the capital of Bali.
DORTMUND Дортмунд (Settlement) English, Basque, Belarusian, Breton, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Frisian, German, Greek, Greenlandic, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Malay, Norwegian, Occitan, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Welsh
First mentioned in the 9th century AD as Throtmanni, of uncertain origin and meaning, the form Dortmunde first appeared in the 13th century. This is the name of a city in western Germany.
DUSHANBE Душанбэ (Settlement) Tajik, Armenian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, English, Georgian, Indian, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Malay, Mongolian, Russian, Filipino, Tagalog, Ukrainian, Uzbek
Mean "Monday" in Tajik, so named for a popular market that used to be held in the area on Mondays. This is the name of the capital city of Tajikistan.
DZHAKARTA Джакарта (Settlement) Belarusian, Bulgarian, Kazakh, Russian, Ukrainian
Form of JAKARTA.
EREVAN Ерэван (Settlement) Armenian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, French, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Mongolian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovene, Tajik, Ukrainian
Alternate transcription of YEREVAN as well as the form used in various languages.
EURAZIYA Еўразія (Region) Belarusian, Kazakh
Belarusian and Kazakh form of EURASIA.
FINLIANDYIA Фінляндыя (Country) Belarusian
Belarusian form of FINLAND.
FRANTSYIA Францыя (Country) Belarusian
Belarusian form of Francia (see FRANCE).
HABON Габон (Country) Belarusian, Ukrainian
Belarusian and Ukrainian form of GABON.
HANDURAS Гандурас (Country) Belarusian
Belarusian form of HONDURAS.
HAVANA Гавана (Settlement) Afrikaans, Albanian, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Czech, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, English, Georgian, Hindi, Icelandic, Indonesian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Persian, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Tagalog, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu
From Spanish Habana, which is derived from Habaguanex, the name of a Taíno chief who controlled the area. This is the name of the capital city of Cuba.
HERMANIYA Германія (Country) Belarusian
Belarusian form of Germania (see GERMANY).
HRETSYIA Грэцыя (Country) Belarusian
Belarusian form of GREECE.
HRUZIYA Грузія (Country) Belarusian, Ukrainian
Belarusian and Ukrainian form of GEORGIA (1) (the country).
HVATEMALA Гватэмала (Country) Belarusian, Ukrainian
Belarusian and Ukrainian form of GUATEMALA.
IANHON Янгон (Settlement) Belarusian
Belarusian form of YANGON.
IARDANIYA Іарданія (Country) Belarusian
Belarusian form of JORDAN (the country).
IAVA Ява (Political Subdivision & Island) Belarusian
Belarusian form of JAVA.
INDANEZIYA Інданезія (Country) Belarusian
Belarusian form of INDONESIA.
INDYIA Індыя (Country) Belarusian
Belarusian form of INDIA.
ISLAMABAD Ісламабад (Settlement) Afrikaans, Armenian, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Malay, Mongolian, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Ukrainian, Uyghur
ISPANIYA Іспанія (Country) Belarusian, Bulgarian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Russian, Tajik, Ukrainian, Uzbek
Form of Hispania (see SPAIN).
KABUL Кабул (Settlement) Arabic, Armenian, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Kazakh, Korean, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Malay, Mongolian, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Ukrainian
From Pashto کابل (Kabal) which may have been derived from Kambuja or Kamboja, the name of an ancient Indo-Iranian tribe and kingdom. The name is of uncertain meaning, possibly from Sanskrit काम (kama) meaning "love, desire" and भुज् (bhuj) meaning "use, possess, rule"... [more]
KAIR Каір (Settlement) Belarusian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Mongolian, Polish, Russian
Form of CAIRO.
KALIMANTAN Калімантан (Political Subdivision, Island & Region) Indonesian, Acehnese, Balinese, Banjar, Buginese, Javanese, Malay, Minangkabau, Sundanese, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Czech, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Icelandic, Italian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Tajik, Thai, Turkish, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Uzbek
Means "burning weather (island)" from Sanskrit काल (kālá) meaning "time, season" and क्वथन (kvathana) meaning "boiling, churning". This is the name of the Indonesian portion of the island of Borneo, though it is used to refer to the entire island in Indonesian... [more]
KAMBODZHA Камбоджа (Country) Belarusian, Bulgarian, Kazakh, Russian, Ukrainian, Uyghur
Form of CAMBODIA.
KAPENHAHEN Капенгаген (Settlement) Belarusian
Belarusian form of COPENHAGEN.
KARAHANDA Караганда (Settlement) Belarusian, Ukrainian
Belarusian and Ukrainian form of KARAGANDA.
KARAKALPAKSTAN Каракалпакстан (Political Subdivision) Belarusian, Bulgarian, English, Indonesian, Italian, Kyrgyz, Norwegian, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tatar, Ukrainian
From Karakalpak Қарақалпақстан (Qaraqalpaqstan), a combination of the name of the Karakalpak people and the Persian suffix -ستان (-stan) meaning "land of". The ethnic name is derived from Karakalpak қара (qara) meaning "black" and қалпақ (qalpaq) referring to a high-crowned cap worn in Central Asia... [more]
KAREIA Карэя (Country) Belarusian
Belarusian form of KOREA.
KASABLANKA Касабланка (Settlement) Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bengali, Georgian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Latvian, Lithuanian, Russian, Ukrainian, Uzbek
Form of CASABLANCA.
KATAR Катар (Country) Afrikaans, Armenian, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Estonian, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Mongolian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovene, Turkish, Turkmen, Ukrainian
Form of QATAR.
KATMANDU Катманду (Settlement) Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Danish, Estonian, Georgian, Hungarian, Italian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Mongolian, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Slovene, Swedish, Tagalog, Tajik, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
Form of KATHMANDU.
KAZAN Казань (Settlement) Tatar, Afrikaans, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Buryat, Chechen, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Hindi, Indonesian, Ingush, Japanese, Kurdish, Kyrgyz, Lezgin, Malay, Mongolian, Norwegian, Persian, Romanian, Russian, Slovene, Swedish, Tagalog, Turkish, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Yakut
Probably from Turkic qazan meaning "kettle, cauldron". This is the name of the capital city of Tatarstan.
KAZBEK Казбек (Mountain) Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Tajik, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
From Russian Казбек (Kazbek) which is from Arabic قَاضِي (qāḍī) meaning "judge, arbiter" combined with the Turkish military title beg meaning "chieftain, master"... [more]
KHANOY Ханой (Settlement) Belarusian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Mongolian, Russian, Ukrainian
Form of HANOI.
KHARVATYIA Харватыя (Country) Belarusian
Belarusian form of CROATIA.
KOMI Комі (Political Subdivision) Komi, Russian, Afrikaans, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Kyrgyz, Latvian, Macedonian, Malay, Mongolian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
From the name of the Komi people, which is most likely derived from the Finno-Ugric word kojema meaning "man, human", but also possibly from the name of the Kama River... [more]
KOSAVA Косава (Country) Belarusian
Belarusian form of KOSOVO.
KRYM Крым (Country, Political Subdivision & Region) Belarusian, Czech, Mongolian, Polish, Russian, Slovak, Ukrainian
Form of CRIMEA.
KUALA-LUMPUR Куала-Лумпур (Settlement) Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Russian, Tajik, Ukrainian
Form of KUALA LUMPUR.
KUBA Куба (Country & Island) Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Georgian, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Kazakh, Korean, Kyrgyz, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Maltese, Mongolian, Persian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Swedish, Tajik, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Uyghur, Uzbek
Form of CUBA.
LATVIYA Латвія (Country) Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Crimean Tatar, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Russian, Tajik, Ukrainian, Uzbek
Form of LATVIA.
LKHASA Лхаса (Settlement) Belarusian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Russian, Ukrainian
Form of LHASA.
LUSON Лусон (Island) Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Russian, Ukrainian, Uzbek
Form of LUZON.
MADZHAPAKHIT Маджапахіт (Country & Settlement) Belarusian, Kazakh, Russian
Belarusian, Kazakh, and Russian form of MAJAPAHIT.
MAKASAR Макасар (Settlement) Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Greek, Persian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian, Urdu
Form of MAKASSAR.
MAKHACHKALA Махачкала (Settlement) Russian, Armenian, Belarusian, English, Indonesian, Kyrgyz, Mongolian, Ossetian, Tagalog, Tatar, Ukrainian, Urdu
Means "Makhach's fortress", from the given name MAKHACH and Kumyk къала (qala) meaning "fortress". This is the name of the capital city of Dagestan, named in honour of Magomed-Ali "Makhach" Dadaev (1882-1918), a Dagestani revolutionary.
MALDOVA Малдова (Country) Belarusian
Belarusian form of MOLDOVA.
MALTA Мальта (Country & Island) Maltese, Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, Georgian, German, Greek, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Kurdish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Malay, Mongolian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Tajik, Turkish, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Uzbek
Uncertain, possibly derived from Greek μέλι (meli) meaning "honey". This is the name of an island nation in southern Europe.
MANAMA Манама (Settlement) Arabic, Afrikaans, Albanian, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Kyrgyz, Malay, Maltese, Mongolian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Tibetan, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek
Means "place of sleep, place of rest" in Arabic. This is the name of the capital city of Bahrain, usually written with the definite article: المنامة (al-Manama) in Arabic.
MANDALAY Мандалай (Political Subdivision & Settlement) Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Malay, Mongolian, Norwegian, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
From Burmese မန္တလေး (mandale) of unclear origin, possibly from Sanskrit मण्डल (mandala) meaning "circle, disk". This is the name of an administrative division of Myanmar as well as its regional capital.
MANHOLIYA Манголія (Country, Political Subdivision & Region) Belarusian
Belarusian form of MONGOLIA.
MANILA Маніла (Settlement) Filipino, Cebuano, Hiligaynon, Ilocano, Maranao, Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, English, Estonian, Finnish, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Mongolian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Tajik, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek
From Tagalog Maynila derived from the term may-nilà meaning "where indigo is found", ultimately from Sanskrit नील (nī́la) referring to the indigo plant. This is the name of the capital city of the Philippines.
MAYKOP Майкоп (Settlement) Russian, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bulgarian, English, Indonesian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Malay, Mongolian, Tagalog, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
From Adyghe Мыекъуапэ (Məeq°āpă) meaning "cape of apples", from мые (məe) meaning "apple" and къуапэ (q°āpă) meaning "cape, gorge, height". This is the name of the capital of Adygea.
MEDAN Медан (Settlement) Indonesian, Batak, Banjar, Minangkabau, Malay, Afrikaans, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Indian, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kyrgyz, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
Possibly from Tamil மைதானம் (maidhāṉam) meaning "ground, field". This is the name of the capital city of the Indonesian province of North Sumatra.
MEKKA Мекка (Settlement) Afrikaans, Armenian, Belarusian, Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Japanese, Luxembourgish, Maltese, Mongolian, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Slovak, Ukrainian
Form of MECCA.
MEKSIKA Мексіка (Country) Albanian, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Georgian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Latvian, Lithuanian, Russian, Tajik, Turkish, Turkmen, Uzbek
Form of MEXICO (the country).
MERAPI Мерапі (Mountain) Indonesian, Javanese, Balinese, Banjar, Minangkabau, Sundanese, Malay, Albanian, Armenian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Indian, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Kazakh, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian
From Sanskrit मेरु (Meru), the name of a legendary mountain in Buddhist and Hindu mythology, combined with Indonesian api meaning "fire". This is the name of a volcano on the island of Java in Indonesia.
MINSK Мінск (Settlement) Belarusian, Afrikaans, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Indian, Hindi, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Malay, Maltese, Mongolian, Norwegian, Persian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Tajik, Turkish, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek
From Old East Slavic Мѣньскъ (Měnĭskŭ), which was derived from a river named Men. This is the name of the capital city of Belarus.
MODENA Модэна (Settlement) Italian, English, Afrikaans, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Cebuano, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, Georgian, German, Greek, Hungarian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Malay, Neapolitan, Norwegian, Occitan, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Sardinian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Venetian, Vietnamese
From Latin MUTINA, itself from Etruscan Mutna, of uncertain meaning. This is the name of a city in northern Italy.
NAMIBIYA Намібія (Country) Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bengali, Bulgarian, Chinese, Indian, Hindi, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Persian, Russian, Tajik, Ukrainian, Uzbek
Form of NAMIBIA.
NARVEHIYA Нарвегія (Country) Belarusian
Belarusian form of NORWAY.
NAZRAN Назрань (Settlement) Russian, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Greek, Norwegian, Ossetian, Portuguese, Persian, Romanian, Swedish, Tagalog, Tatar, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek
From Ingush Наьсаре (Nasare) possibly from Нясара (Nyasara), supposedly the name of the first person to settle in the region. This is the name of a town in Ingushetia that served as the republic's capital until 2000.
NIKARAHUA Нікарагуа (Country) Belarusian, Ukrainian
Belarusian and Ukrainian form of NICARAGUA.
NINSIA Нінся (Political Subdivision) Belarusian, Georgian
Belarusian and Georgian form of NINGXIA.
NUR-SULTAN Нур-Султан (Settlement) Kazakh, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bosnian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, German, Hindi, Italian, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Mongolian, Norwegian, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tagalog, Turkish, Ukrainian
From the given name NURSULTAN. This is the name of the capital city of Kazakhstan, renamed in honour of former president Nursultan Nazarbayev (1940-)... [more]
PADANG Паданг (Settlement) Indonesian, Minangkabau, Acehnese, Balinese, Javanese, Malay, Sundanese, Afrikaans, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Urdu, Uzbek
Means "field, plain" in Indonesian. This is the name of the capital city of the Indonesian province of West Sumatra.
PALEMBANH Палембанг (Settlement) Belarusian, Ukrainian
Belarusian and Ukrainian form of PALEMBANG.
PANAMA Панама (Country) Afrikaans, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Georgian, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Khmer, Korean, Kurdish, Kyrgyz, Lao, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Maltese, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Swedish, Tagalog, Tajik, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek
From Spanish Panamá of uncertain meaning. It may be derived from the name of a tree commonly found in the area (genus Sterculia), from an indigenous word meaning "many butterflies", from Kuna bannaba meaning "distant, far away", or from a Guaraní word meaning "place of many fish"... [more]
PARTUHALIYA Партугалія (Country) Belarusian
Belarusian form of PORTUGAL.
PARYZH Парыж (Settlement) Belarusian, Ukrainian
Belarusian and Ukrainian form of PARIS.
PKHUKET Пхукет (Political Subdivision, Settlement & Island) Belarusian, Kazakh, Russian, Ukrainian
Belarusian, Kazakh, Russian, and Ukrainian form of PHUKET.
PNAMPEN Пнампень (Settlement) Belarusian
Belarusian form of PHNOM PENH.
RABAT Рабат (Settlement) Arabic, Afrikaans, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bosnian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kazakh, Kurdish, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Tajik, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
Means "ribat" in Arabic, referring to a type of fortification used during the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb. It is also used as a shortened form of the city's Arabic nickname, رباط الفتح (ribatu l-fath), which means "fortification of conquest, fortification of victory"... [more]
SABAKH Сабах (Political Subdivision) Belarusian, Kazakh, Russian, Ukrainian
Belarusian, Kazakh, Russian and Ukrainian form of SABAH.
SAKHA Саха (Political Subdivision) Yakut, Russian, Arabic, Armenian, Belarusian, Danish, English, French, Georgian, Hindi, Indonesian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Malay, Mongolian, Persian, Portuguese, Tagalog, Thai, Ukrainian, Urdu
From the name of the Sakha (Yakut) people, which is derived from Turkic jaka meaning "collar, edge". This is the name of a Russian federal republic also referred to as Yakutia.
SARAVAK Саравак (Political Subdivision) Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Indian, Hindi, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, Turkish, Ukrainian
Form of SARAWAK.
SEMARANH Семаранг (Settlement) Belarusian, Ukrainian
Belarusian and Ukrainian form of SEMARANG.
SERBIYA Сербія (Country) Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Russian, Tajik, Ukrainian, Uzbek
Form of SERBIA.
SEYSHELY Сейшэлы (Country) Belarusian, Russian, Ukrainian
Belarusian, Russian, and Ukrainian form of SEYCHELLES.
SHANKHAY (Settlement) Belarusian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Mongolian, Russian, Tajik, Ukrainian
Form of SHANGHAI.
SHENCHZHEN Шэньчжэнь (Settlement) Belarusian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Russian, Ukrainian
Form of SHENZHEN.
SHVETSYIA Швецыя (Country) Belarusian
Belarusian form of SWEDEN.
SHVEYTSARYIA Швейцарыя (Country) Belarusian
Belarusian form of SWITZERLAND.
SHYMKENT Шымкент (Settlement) Kazakh, English, Russian, Bashkir, Belarusian, Chechen, Indonesian, Mongolian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish
From Kazakh шым (shym) meaning "sod, turf, meadow" and кент (kent) meaning "town". This is the name of a city in Kazakhstan.
SIAM Сіам (Country) Afrikaans, Armenian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kazakh, Khmer, Korean, Kyrgyz, Malay, Mongolian, Norwegian, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Uzbek
From Portuguese Sciam, which was derived from Thai สยาม (sayam) of debated origin. The name may have come from Pali suvaṇṇabhūmi meaning "land of gold", Sanskrit श्याम (shyama) meaning "dark, black, blue" or Mon ရာမည (ramanya) meaning "stranger"... [more]
SINHAPUR Сінгапур (Country, Settlement & Island) Belarusian, Ukrainian
Belarusian and Ukrainian form of SINGAPORE.
SINTSZIAN Сіньцзян (Political Subdivision & Region) Belarusian
Belarusian form of XINJIANG.
SLAVAKIYA Славакія (Country) Belarusian
Belarusian form of SLOVAKIA.
SLAVENIYA Славенія (Country) Belarusian
Belarusian form of SLOVENIA.
STAMBUL Стамбул (Settlement) Armenian, Belarusian, Kyrgyz, Mongolian, Russian, Turkmen, Ukrainian
Form of ISTANBUL.
SUKHUMI Сухумі (Settlement) Arabic, Belarusian, Chechen, Danish, English, Italian, Malay, Norwegian, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Tajik, Ukrainian
From Georgian სოხუმი (soxumi), which is of uncertain origin. It may be from Georgian ციხე (cixe) meaning "fortress" combined with the suffix ომი (-omi) denoting a geographical location or from Svan ცხუმ (cxum) meaning "hornbeam"... [more]
SULAVESI Сулавесі (Political Subdivision & Island) Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Georgian, Kazakh, Russian, Ukrainian, Uzbek
Form of SULAWESI.
SUMATRA Суматра (Political Subdivision & Island) Indonesian, Acehnese, Balinese, Banjar, Javanese, Malay, Minangkabau, Sundanese, Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Georgian, German, Hindi, Italian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Nepali, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Uzbek
From Sanskrit समुद्र (samudrá) meaning "sea, ocean". This is the name of an island in Indonesia as well as three Indonesian provinces.
SURABAIA Сурабая (Settlement) Belarusian, Galician, Georgian, Portuguese
Belarusian, Galician, Georgian, and Portuguese form of SURABAYA.
SYCHUAN Сычуань (Political Subdivision) Belarusian, Kazakh, Mongolian, Russian
Form of SICHUAN.
TADZHYKISTAN Таджыкістан (Country) Belarusian
Belarusian form of TAJIKISTAN.
TAIBEI Тайбэй (Settlement) Chinese, Armenian, Belarusian, Georgian, Estonian, Kazakh, Korean, Kyrgyz, Mongolian, Russian, Ukrainian
Chinese, Georgian, and Korean form of TAIPEI as well as an Estonian variant of the name. It is also an alternate transcription of TAYBEY used in various languages.
TASHKENT Ташкент (Settlement) Belarusian, Bulgarian, English, Indonesian, Kazakh, Malay, Mongolian, Portuguese, Russian, Tagalog, Ukrainian, Uyghur
From Uzbek Toshkent meaning "stone city", from tosh meaning "stone" and Turkic kend meaning "city". This is the name of the capital city of Uzbekistan.
TATARSTAN Татарстан (Political Subdivision) Tatar, Bashkir, Basque, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Danish, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Macedonian, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovene, Swedish, Ukrainian
From the ethnic name татар (tatar) combined with the Persian suffix -ستان (-stan) meaning "land of". The ethnic name is of uncertain origin, though it is believed to be derived from tata, an endonym for the Mongols... [more]
TAYBEY Тайбэй (Settlement) Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Mongolian, Russian, Ukrainian
Form of TAIPEI.
TAYLAND Тайланд (Country) Arabic, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Mongolian, Persian, Turkish, Uyghur
Form of THAILAND.
TBILISI Тбілісі (Settlement) Georgian, Afrikaans, Albanian, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, Indonesian, Italian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Latvian, Macedonian, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Swedish, Tagalog, Ukrainian, Uzbek
Derived from Georgian თბილი (tbili) meaning "warm", given in reference to the area's sulfuric hot springs. This is the name of the capital city of Georgia (the country).
TKHIMPKHU Тхімпху (Settlement) Belarusian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Mongolian, Russian, Tajik, Ukrainian
Form of THIMPHU.
TUNIS Туніс (Country & Settlement) Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Tagalog, Tajik, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uyghur, Uzbek
Meaning uncertain, possibly from the Tamazight root ens meaning "to lie down, to pass the night" or from the name of the Phoenician goddess TANITH... [more]
TURTSYIA Турцыя (Country) Belarusian
Belarusian form of TURKEY.
TUVA Тува (Political Subdivision) Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, English, Finnish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Mongolian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovene, Swedish, Tagalog, Tajik, Turkish, Ukrainian
From Tuvan Тыва (Tyva), which is from the name of the Tuvan people. The ethnic name is uncertain meaning, possibly of Mongolian origin. This is the name of a federal subject of Russia.
UFA Уфа (Settlement & River) Russian, Albanian, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Buryat, Chechen, Crimean Tatar, Croatian, Czech, Danish, English, Estonian, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kyrgyz, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Mongolian, Norwegian, Ossetian, Polish, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Swedish, Tagalog, Tajik, Tatar, Thai, Turkish, Udmurt, Ukrainian, Uzbek
From Bashkir Өфө (Öfö), which is of uncertain origin and meaning. It may be derived from the Iranian root ap meaning "water". This is the name of the capital city of Bashkortostan as well a river that runs through the Ural Mountains... [more]
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Form of WUHAN.
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From Buryat Улаан-Үдэ (Ulaan-Ude) meaning "red Uda", derived from Buryat улаан (ulaan) meaning "red" and Үдэ (Ude) referring to the Uda River. The name was originally given to reflect the Soviet Union's communist ideology... [more]
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Belarusian form of HUNGARY.
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From the name of the Vilnia River, which is derived from Lithuanian vilnis meaning "wave, ripple". This is the name of the capital city of Lithuania.
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Meaning unknown. It may be from YERVAND, the name of a 3rd-century BC Armenian king (also known as Orontes IV), or from Էրեբունի (Ērebuni), an ancient Urartian fortification and city... [more]
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President Buhari Orders Federal Mdas To Open Treasury Single Account
President Muhammad Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered each and every Federal Government Ministry, Department or Agency to start paying into a Treasury Single Account (TSA) for all government revenues, incomes and other receipts.
According to the directive, this measure is specifically to promote transparency and facilitate compliance with sections 80 and 162 of the 1999 Constitution.
Henceforth, all receipts due to the Federal Government or any of its agencies must be paid into TSA or designated accounts maintained and operated in the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), except otherwise expressly approved.
A TSA is a unified structure of government bank accounts enabling consolidation and optimal utilization of government cash resources. It is a bank account or a set of linked bank accounts through which the government transacts all its receipts and payments and gets a consolidated view of its cash position at any given time.
This presidential directive would end the previous public accounting situation of several fragmented accounts for government revenues, incomes and receipts, which in the recent past has meant the loss or leakages of legitimate income meant for the federation account.
It would be recalled that President Muhammadu Buhari had earlier promised state governors at the inaugural meeting of the National Economic Council, NEC, in June, that all revenues prescribed for lodgement into the federation account will be treated as such under his watch and that he will ensure strict compliance with all relevant laws on accounting, allocation and disbursement.
Since then the presidency has worked with relevant agencies of the federal government to evolve this policy directive.
This directive applies to fully funded organs of government like the Ministries, Departments, Agencies and Foreign Missions, as well as the partially funded ones, like Teaching Hospitals, Medical Centres, Federal Tertiary Institutions, etc.
Agencies like the CBN, SEC, CAC, NPA, NCC, FAAN, NCAA, NIMASA, NDIC, NSC, NNPC, FIRS, NCS, MMSD, DPR are also affected.
For any agency that is fully or partially self-funding, Sub-Accounts linked to TSA are to be maintained at CBN and the accounting system will be configured to allow them access to funds based on their approved budgetary provisions.
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Advancing the Next Generation: EPIP’s Impact on Philanthropy
Philanthropy411 is currently covering the Council on Foundations conference (and many of the pre-conference events) in Philadelphia with the help of a blog team. This is a joint post by Rusty Stahl, Executive Director of Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy, and Kris Putnam-Walkerly, President of Putnam Community Investment Consulting, Inc.
by: Kris Putnam-Walkerly and Rusty Stahl
Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy (EPIP) is an affinity group of the Council on Foundations. Its mission is to develop extraordinary new leaders to enhance organized philanthropy and its impact on communities. EPIP released the findings of it’s 2011 Impact Assessment, in conjunction with its 10th anniversary and national conference held in Philadelphia. Last week we highlighted 7 ways EPIP provides support and opportunities for emerging leaders in philanthropy. Below we share 6 key findings about EPIP’s impact on the broader field of philanthropy.
1) EPIP’s focus on multigenerationalism has had a positive impact on philanthropy.
Ninety-seven percent (97%) of survey respondents reported that as a result of EPIP, there is increased interaction and dialogue between senior and new foundation staff
95% said they believe philanthropy has benefited from EPIP’s efforts to prepare the next generation of leaders.
They also reported that young or new foundation staff now have more opportunity to get involved in philanthropy (60%) and that these staff are more active in the field than they were before (50%).
“To the extent that you care about the future of philanthropy, you’ve got to care about the next generation of philanthropic leaders. EPIP represents a group from which the next generation of philanthropic leadership will be drawn.” — Ralph Smith, Executive Vice President, Annie E. Casey Foundation
2) EPIP has expanded professional and leadership development opportunities for emerging practitioners.
60% of survey respondents believed that EPIP increased the opportunities for involvement in philanthropy for young or new foundation staff.
Almost all (98%) believed that EPIP has been “somewhat to very effective” in increasing the presence and participation of new, emerging staff at philanthropy conferences and in increasing the number of sessions and workshops for and about younger/new foundation staff at conferences.
“Being part of the EPIP network helped me hone my leadership skills and take risks in my career. I was able to build relationships outside of my region and state and was able to apply those leadership skills not just in my own foundation but on a national scale, which allowed my national network to flourish. — Melissa Johnson, Executive Director, Neighborhood Funders Group
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Daniel Lee describes how EPIP helps his employee, Elizabeth Ramirez
3) Employers benefit from EPIP’s contributions to professional development.
75% of EPIP members surveyed reported making positive contributions to their organizations as a result of their involvement with EPIP.
This includes becoming more confident in taking on more responsibilities (37%), becoming better able to advocate for issues they feel are important in their foundations (24%), and learning ways to do their jobs more effectively (23%).
“From my perspective as the executive director, our staff who have been engaged with EPIP have brought a capacity for bold vision and for confident and competent leadership.” — Ned Wight, Executive Director, Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program at Shelter Rock
4) EPIP brings value to national and regional associations of grantmakers.
EPIP has collaborated with a wide range of funder networks, including 11 regional associations of grantmakers (in the locations of all its chapters), national affinity groups, and the Council on Foundations.
According to those interviewed, EPIP provides value because these associations can leverage EPIP’s network of next generation leaders, expertise, and infrastructure.
“For affinity groups that want to engage younger and newer foundation staff, it makes sense to partner with EPIP rather than reinvent all the work yourself.” — Carly Hare, Executive Director, Native Americans in Philanthropy
5) EPIP fills an important need in educating and orienting those new to philanthropy.
Many senior leaders and EPIP members interviewed described the need to “demystify” philanthropy and grantmaking work, and to orient those new to philanthropy.
This was recognized as an important need that EPIP helps to fill, with several executive directors stating appreciation that their staff has a venue for learning about the field beyond their own institutions.
“Increasing the pipeline of people who are familiar with philanthropy — familiar with how it works, its challenges, and its opportunities — is an important service to the field. I think it is a great opportunity for philanthropic institutions to pay attention to EPIP, and to make sure that we’re connected with them, and helping them place the people that they’re training.” — Luz Vega Marquis, CEO, Marguerite Casey Foundation
6) EPIP brings increased attention to social justice philanthropy.
About one-third said they feel that there is increased dialogue and awareness in the field about social justice philanthropy as a result of EPIP (36%)
30% reported that as a result of EPIP there is increased attention on racial, gender, and class diversity at foundations.
“The EPIP conference is probably one of the most diverse cross-sections of people that I’ve ever seen in a philanthropic meeting, and social justice philanthropy is integrated into all the sessions. This requires courage and commitment. To see that social justice is front and center at EPIP gives me hope in the next generation of philanthropists.” — Daniel Jae-Won Lee, Executive Director, Levi Strauss Foundation
EPIP’s 2011 Impact Assessment was conducted by Putnam Community Investment Consulting, Inc. It included a national survey of EPIP members, alumni, prospective members, and partners; in-depth interviews with 12 active members and 10 senior philanthropy leaders who have partnered with EPIP; and a review of existing EPIP data and documents. To learn more about EPIP’s impact you can read the full report.
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The Future of Glass-ionomers
Fig. 7.1
Proposed self-healing concept containing nano-encapsulated healing agent. (a) Crack formed due to damage, (b) nano-capsule is ruptured releasing healing agent that migrates to crack, and (c) healing agent is then polymerised after contacting a catalyst (Reprinted from Samadzadeh et al. ( 2010 ). With permission from Elsevier)
SEM micrographs of micro-crack healing. (a) Coating containing scratch defect (arrowed) and (b) self-healed scratch defect after healing process (Reprinted from Samadzadeh et al. ( 2010 ). With permission from Elsevier)
Interpenetrating polymer networks incorporating linear polymers (e.g. poly(methacrylated phenyl glycidyl ether)) has shown diffusion of the linear polymer phase into the crack interface as a form of self-healing process. SEM images (Fig. 7.2) of damaged areas clearly demonstrate that healing of micro-cracks in the order of 20 μm can be achieved, from mobile chain interdiffusion and entanglement (Peterson et al. 2012 ).
Polymers incorporating embedded microcapsules of liquid monomers are also used to induce self-healing properties. When the material is damaged, the microcapsules release monomers into the damaged areas and subsequently repair the damage and prevent further fracture. Other approaches include the “mechanochemical” activation of a catalyst in a polymer chain, i.e. when mechanically induced chain scission occurs, a catalytic site is activated, thereby facilitating polymerisation of acrylic monomers. Other approaches are supra-molecular (i.e. non-covalent interactions) and also methods to exploit covalent bond forming repair processes (Colquhoun and Klumperman 2013 ).
Both intrinsic and extrinsic mechanisms can be used to develop self-healing properties. Polymer architecture such as chain stiffness and cross-link functionality, cross-linking density and content or reversible groups and multiphase polymer structure all have an influence on the self-healing ability of various polymer systems (Garcia 2014 ). Other approaches incorporating shape memory materials, swollen materials or passivation can also be utilised to impart self-healing properties, and a possible mechanism for GIC repair is shown in Fig. 7.3. The investigation of poly(ethylene-co-methacrylic acid)-based ionomers has also indicated its ability to self-heal (Wu et al. 2008 ). However, it is yet to be seen how manufacturers will incorporate these new technologies into GICs in an effort to improve their mechanical and adhesive performance.
Theoretical mechanism of self-healing in glass-ionomer materials (Reprinted from Wu et al. ( 2008 ). With permission from Elsevier)
7.10 Other Novel Polymer Networks for Improvements in Strength and Other Properties
In order to increase the physical properties of GICs, improvements can be achieved by modifying polymer chemistry contained in the liquid component or in the solid form present in the powder component (Guggenberger et al. 1998 ). Multi-arm poly(acrylic acid-co-itaconic) acids have been prepared and have demonstrated improvements in compressive strength for conventional cured GICs (Xie et al. 2010 ), and star-shaped poly(carboxylic acid) polymers have been proposed for resin-modified GICs (Weng et al. 2014 ). Vinyl-containing poly(acrylic acid-co-itaconic acid) copolymers have also shown higher flexural strength leading to a tougher fracture surface and plastic deformation properties (Wu et al. 2003 ). The polymer chemistry here is complex (Yelamanchili and Darvell 2008 ), and future improvements in results rely on the interactions between the multicomponent nature of different GIC systems which contain many components, including complex initiating systems.
7.11 Porosity Reduction
As glass-ionomers are mixed together in order for the acid–base reaction to proceed, typically, small voids or air pockets are incorporated into the mix. Although the effects of these voids are not exactly understood, it is assumed that these have a negative effect on the GIC strengths. One method of reducing these voids is to provide both parts of a glass-ionomer in a paste version, which can be hand-mixed by a spatula or through some form of a static mixer (Boehm et al. 2011 ). However, compared to encapsulated delivery systems, this form of delivery is typically uneconomical and is not widely used. A major advancement for encapsulated versions would be the reduction of voids during the extrusion of the mixed paste, although no such capsule version has yet to be developed.
7.12 Improvements in Fracture Toughness
Fracture toughness is known to be an important material property for successful posterior load-bearing restorations (Lloyd and Adamson 1987 ). To date, it has been questioned whether the survival of GICs will reach levels achieved by composite resin materials in load-bearing situations (Burke 2013 ). However, in some studies modern GICs used to restore load-bearing cavities have been demonstrated to perform satisfactorily up to 10 years. This demonstrates that wear properties simulated in a laboratory do not necessarily translate to reduction of anatomical form or surface roughness in real-life situations (Burke 2014 ).
For primary molar restorations, recent studies have indicated that the survival rate for amalgam restorations is no different from that of atraumatic restorative treatment with a high viscosity (HV) GIC. For both amalgam and HVGIC, the main reason for failure is mechanical, and it has been suggested that for single surfaces of primary teeth, HVGIC is a viable alternative to amalgam (Yamazaki et al. 2006 ).
Modifications to the polymer component of the GIC have shown to improve the fracture toughness of GICs. Acrylic acid-itaconic acid-N-vinylcaprolactam (NVC) ter-polymers have been synthesised and have shown significantly higher plane-strain fracture toughness (KIc) at 1-day and 1-week storage time periods compared to the control (Fuji IX, GC Corp, Tokyo, Japan) (Moshaverinia et al. 2010 ). However, issues associated with viscosity increases need to be overcome for the incorporation of any of these new polymers.
Improvements of fracture toughness depend on many variables. It has been shown that modification of the polymer components, such as amino acid-containing GICs, methacryloyl amino acid reactive diluents and a series of other new chemistries are viable paths to improving properties such as fracture toughness of the final cement (Culbertson 2001 ).
Other novel polymer systems such as 6-arm star-shaped poly(acrylic acid) polymers have also shown significant increases in fracture toughness compared to commercial RMGICs, similar in value to composite material (Zhao et al. 2009 ). Adjustment of the molecular weight (MW) of polymers has also been investigated for improving properties, although it is unknown how these changes will affect clinical outcomes.
Viscoelastic (i.e. viscous and elastic response of materials to deformation) properties of GICs have also been reported in an effort to understand the mechanical behaviour of these materials. Fracture may involve wear and adhesive de-bonding modes of failure, as well as the typical bulk fracture of the various GIC materials; both GIC and RMGIC exhibited viscoelastic properties (Yamazaki et al. 2006 ). Modifications in the powder, for example, particle size reductions and powder to liquid ratios, have also been shown to increase fracture toughness in GIC formulations (Mitsuhashi et al. 2003 ).
Interfacial fracture toughness has also been studied in order to provide paths for GIC improvements related to failure by fracture. Formulations are investigated at adhesive interfaces, and typically the fracture then continues into the bulk material (Setien et al. 2005 ; Cheetham et al. 2014b ). These studies are extremely relevant for development of improved GIC materials. To improve the longevity of GICs, properties such as fracture toughness of the bulk material and the adhesive properties (interfacial fracture toughness or interfacial work of fracture) need to be improved.
7.13 Improvements in Adhesion to Dentine and Enamel
The critical issue with adhesive dentistry is to place the adhesive material using a method that gives the best chance for long-term stability and the creation of an “effective seal” to the adhesive–tooth interface. In the case of resin-based adhesive systems, there are several strategies that have been proposed in order to optimise the probability of success, and these include application of MMP inhibitors and collagen cross-linkers, additional enamel etching, agitation of the adhesive for deeper penetration, etc. (Manuja et al. 2012 ). These approaches are also very relevant when trying to improve the bonding reliability of GIC materials. Many original and review articles are available to explain the different concepts involved in adhesion to dentine and enamel (Tyas 2003 ; Manuja et al. 2012 ; Atmeh et al. 2012 ).
Adhesion to dentine and enamel is a complex science and similar to adhesively bonded composite dentistry; successful outcomes depend on many variables (Perdigão 2010 ; De Munck et al. 2012 ). Glass-ionomers have also been shown to give a more durable bond compared to other adhesive systems (Van Meerbeek et al. 2010 ). However, much is unknown about this bond and most importantly the degradation mechanisms of the bond.
The bonding mechanism of new-generation GICs has now demonstrated resin tag formation. Studies investigating the differences between dentine conditioned with phosphoric or polyacrylic acid solutions have shown that both protocols create a surface that allows RMGIC resin tags (Fig. 7.4) to form (Hamama et al. 2014 ; Korkmaz et al. 2010 ; El-Askary and Nassif 2011 ). Other studies demonstrate the intimate chemical interaction with dentine and enamel surfaces (Fig. 7.5) with exposure of collagen due to dentine pretreatment, with the remaining hydroxyapatite being used as “receptors” for chemical bonding of the GIC. Micropores have also been shown to increase the ability for micro-mechanical bonding (Van Meerbeek et al. 2003 ).
SEM micrographs showing the interface between RMGIC and dentine. The top image (a) had dentine treated with 37 % phosphoric acid, the bottom image (b) was treated with a solution of 25–30 % polyacrylic acid conditioner (D denotes dentine). The hand pointer indicates the presence of resin tags (Reprinted from Hamama et al. ( 2014 ). With permission from John Wiley & Sons)
(a) SEM image showing the effect of polyacrylic acid conditioner on dentine and (b) TEM photomicrograph showing the hybrid layer and gel phase created after RMGIC placement (Reprinted from van Meerbeek et al. ( 2003 ). With permission from Operative Dentisitry, Inc.)
The chemical interaction and formation of ionic bonds between carboxylic acid groups with hydroxyapatite have been described previously, and future GICs will use this information to provide materials with stronger, more resilient bonding interfaces (Yoshida et al. 2000 ).
Further improvements of the bonding to hydroxyapatite, enamel and dentine components will continue to be focused on the incorporation of new polymer chemistries into the GIC formulations. Pioneering work investigating the binding energies of functional groups to these structures as well as the molecular structure of the polyalkenoic acid component has shown that these factors significantly affect the chemical bonding to hydroxyapatite structures (Fukuda et al. 2003 ; Sennou et al. 1999 ). This process to gather information on surface interaction will continue to be used to modify resin formulations and optimise chemical adhesion processes for GICs.
Apart from chemically related improvements, other “macro” physical observations of GICs may be utilised to achieve improvements in adhesion. Spherical bodies (Figs. 7.6 and 7.7) have also been shown to be involved in GIC adhesive surfaces which could provide fracture initiation sites for bond failure, although their participation in the adhesive process is not yet fully understood (Yiu et al. 2004a , b ). New materials will try to eliminate these porous, randomly incorporated features which disrupt a relatively homogenous and compact solid material. Further understanding of the interfacial properties of GICs with enamel and dentine will inevitably lead to improving the longevity of the GIC bond.
SEM micrograph showing a RMGIC surface fractured adjacent to the GIC–dentine interface, showing the presence of spherical bodies (hand pointer). Dehydration cracks are identified with an arrow (Reprinted from Yiu et al. ( 2004a ). With permission from Elsevier)
SEM image of a spherical body showing brittle fracture of the spherical structure. The handpointer identifies a fractured eggshell-like structure within the GIC at the GIC–dentine interface [Reprinted from Yiu et al. ( 2004b ). With permission from Sage Publications]
Research on GIC adhesion provides information for understanding the fundamental mechanics and kinetics of the bond formation and subsequent path of bond degradation in order for new adhesive strategies to be devised. Short-term, static bond strengths give limited information when comparing the potential longevity of a GIC bond and understate its adhesive abilities. A fracture mechanics approach, including interfacial fracture toughness and work of fracture testing (Fig. 7.8) showing the “total energy” required to initiate fracture, provides more relevant information on the possible improvements of the bond durability (Cheetham et al. 2014b ).
Comparison of the interfacial work of fracture (γ wofint) results (J/m2) together with standard deviations for glass-ionomer bonded to dentine (Reprinted from Cheetham et al. ( 2014b ). With permission from Elsevier)
7.14 Future Delivery Systems
The delivery format of glass-ionomers varies from powder–liquid bottle versions and single-use encapsulated systems to dual-barrel syringes (and unit-dose) for paste–paste GICs. Paste–paste systems generally reduce the porosity of the final GIC paste, and single-use formats (Fig. 7.9) have been recently commercialised (Boehm et al. 2011 ). However, these formats have not been as widely accepted as single-use encapsulated delivery formats for powder–liquid versions of GICs.
Example of a single-use dual-barrel paste–paste delivery system (Reprinted from Boehm et al. ( 2011 ))
Encapsulated systems eliminate the need for measurements to be made by the user, resulting in a dispensed material with more reproducible features such as setting reaction (gel and set time), strength and paste consistency. The other benefits of current GIC capsule systems are the ease of direct delivery and their single use. New-generation GIC capsules (Fig. 7.10) will be able to mix “ultra” high viscosity GICs, which could also allow for a new GIC with very high powder to liquid ratios and strengths not seen in GICs before (Cheetham 2014 ).
Fig. 7.10
Example of a single-use powder–liquid delivery system (Reprinted from Cheetham ( 2014 ))
However, a disadvantage of “capsules” is that during the mixing process, they typically introduce some form of subclinical micro-porosity in the paste. Various methods, such as centrifuging the capsule after the mixing process, or vacuum mixers, have been employed to reduce this with limited effect (Suzuki et al. 2004 ). Theoretically, the reduction of this porosity will increase the physical properties of GICs. The clinician is yet to see the direction of future designs of GIC delivery systems, but it is likely that ease of the use in terms of delivery and reduction of porosity are areas where improvements can be made.
7.15 Wear Improvements
Currently, it is popular to place a coating over the setting GIC in order to protect it during the initial setting stage, which improves the immediate aesthetics of the restoration and acts as a method to fill in any porosity created on the surface (Zoergiebel and Ilie 2013 ). However, the effect of this coating on GICs placed on occlusal surfaces has not always been found to be significant when comparing the wear of uncoated surfaces (Diem et al. 2014 ). Enamel–GIC margins may also be protected with resin coatings, although this adds an extra step in the placement of GICs (Hokii et al. 2014 ).
Recent laboratory tests (Fig. 7.11) have demonstrated that the current commonly used commercial GIC materials continue to have inferior wear resistance to amalgam. However, in two-body wear studies, the wear resistance of some GICs is now similar to compomers, with recommendations that these GICs may be used adequately in occlusal restorations of primary teeth (Lazaridou et al. 2015 ). Furthermore, it was found that GIC materials covered with a filled polymer did not perform better in terms of GIC vertical loss (μm) and volume loss (mm3). The mean vertical loss of the best performing GIC was still nearly three times worse than amalgam, and when comparing volume loss, the amalgam had six times less volume loss (Lazaridou et al. 2015 ). Hence, commercial GIC materials remain inferior in wear situations when compared to amalgam. What is interesting from these studies is that when compared to other posterior materials, some GICs can now be viewed as an alternative option.
Mean volume loss (mm3) and standard deviations of dental materials after an oral simulated wear test. Note superscript a refers to conventional GIC, b refers to RMGIC, and c refers to polyacid-modified resin composite material (compomer) and d resin composite material (Reprinted from Lazaridou et al. ( 2015 ). With permission from Springer Science)
For some time, manufacturers and researchers have been attempting to improve the wear characteristics of GIC materials. Significant advances have been made since initial tests demonstrated that GICs were brittle and showed catastrophic failure during wear events, concluding that they were not acceptable for posterior occlusal applications (McKinney et al. 1987 ). Future efforts to improve the difference between amalgam and GIC wear properties will continue to be focused on by researchers. Wear can be improved by increasing the hardness of the GIC surface prior to any wear event. This can be achieved in a number of ways, and increasing the powder to liquid ratio, concentration of polyacids or the molecular weight of polyacids have been reported as possible ways (Guggenberger et al. 1998 ; Smith 1998 ). As commercial materials contain undisclosed proprietary compounds and are produced in novel processes, much of these advances are not documented in the public domain.
Silver particles have been utilised to provide a means of lubrication during wear events, and commercial products containing silver alloys have been shown to provide lower wear resistance (McKinney et al. 1988 ; Xie et al. 2000 ). However, from an aesthetic perspective, the addition of metal particles compromises the clinical outcome, and these materials are not currently widely accepted.
Studies by Xie et al. in 2000 have also shown that the more integrated the GIC microstructure is, the higher the mechanical properties. Furthermore, large glass particle systems have been described as contributing to lower wear properties. The integrity of the interface between the glass filler system and the polymer, the particle sizes of each of the filler systems and the number of voids created during mixing can all influence the wear properties of current GICs (Xie et al. 2000 ). As GICs age, their wear rate decreases, and differences in wear rates have been described in terms of polyalkenoic acid content, the “overall” chemical composition of the GIC and differences in the filler system and size of fillers used (van Duinen et al. 2005 ).
Avenues for future improvements in the wear properties of GICs will focus on innovations in these areas described above, in order to provide a harder external surface of GIC restorations, although it is unlikely that the wear properties in the short term will reach those obtained by modern amalgam alternatives.
7.16 Aesthetic Improvements
Compared to modern composite resin materials, the aesthetics of GICs are typically inferior, and much work is being performed in order for GICs to produce aesthetic restorations that blend in with tooth structure. For the future of GICs, the aesthetic properties are an important feature as patients in the “post amalgam age” are demanding that their teeth are restored with more tooth-like materials.
Aesthetics with GICs is likely to continue to evolve. For example, the colour change over time may be reduced with the addition of new polymer and surface chemistries that allow GICs to resist colour change even when subjected to staining media such as beverages or certain foods.
The initial translucency and optical properties (Fig. 7.12) of RMGICs are now similar to leading composite resin materials (Ogledzki et al. 2012 ). The optical properties, such as translucency and opacity values, together with closer colour matching of shades to Vita™ shades may be improved to follow composite resins. Conventional-cured GICs still lack the translucency properties (Fig. 7.13) of modern-day composites, although improvements are being introduced.
Opacity comparison of a commercial composite resin (Filtek Supreme Ultra) and RMGICs (Riva LCTM, Fuji II LCTM, Photac Fil Quick AplicapTM) indicating current RMGIC materials can achieve similar opacity levels compared to resin composite (Image courtesy of SDI Limited R&D)
Opacity comparison of commercial GIC demonstrating that they have higher opacities compared to RMGICs shown in Fig. 7.12. All materials are conventional cured type (Image courtesy of SDI Limited R&D)
7.17 Fluoride Release
It is well documented that GIC materials release fluoride sourced from their glass system or from additional additives such as sodium fluoride in the set cements (Williams et al. 2002 ; Jones et al. 2003 ; Guida et al. 2002 ). Recent 1-year fluoride release data (Fig. 7.14) of commercial GICs has shown significant differences in fluoride release between current commercially available GICs (Shiozawa et al. 2013 ). Furthermore, the release of Sr, Na, Al and Si ions has been shown to affect the properties of the glass-ionomers and demonstrate how the GIC can interact with its aqueous environment. This ionic transfer is a unique feature of glass-ionomers not seen in composite resin materials. Although most manufacturers highlight the fluoride release of their material, future glass-ionomers could be designed to release high levels of calcium, phosphate or other ionic species considered beneficial to certain cavity conditions (Forsten 1998 ).
Cumulative fluoride release (μg/cm2) of various commercial GIC materials up to 1 year. Standard deviations are in parentheses, and the same superscript letter denotes homogenous subsets (p > 0.05) (FEX: Fuji IX GP EXTRA, GC; FIX: Fuji IX GP, GC; GFX: GlasIonomer FX-II, Shofu; KME: Ketac Molar Easymix, 3MESPE; RSC: Riva Self Cure, SDI) (Reprinted from Shiozawa et al. ( 2013 ). With permission from Springer Science)
The fluoride release from GICs has been shown to decrease with time, which in turn decreases their antimicrobial effectiveness (Dionysopoulos et al. 2013 ). To counteract this, it has been demonstrated that GICs can “recharge” their fluoride release by topical fluoride application (e.g. fluoride-containing toothpaste) (Dionysopoulos et al. 2013 ; Arbabzadeh-Zavareh et al. 2012 ). Studies have shown that covering aged GIC with 0.1 % fluoride toothpaste or 1.25 % fluoride gel significantly increases the fluoride release (Seppa et al. 1993 ).
Glass-ionomer cements based on strontium glass systems have also been shown to release strontium ions originating from the glass structure to the adjacent tooth structure. Although these ions do not have any antibacterial effect, it is envisaged that they are rapidly exchanged for calcium ions, and a synergistic relationship with fluoride could facilitate antimicrobial properties (Dabsie et al. 2009 ). New-generation GICs will aim to maintain a constant relevant supply of fluoride ions over their life, without degradation of the cement, and any improvement in the release of fluoride should be incorporated into future GICs.
Addition of potassium and fluoride has also been previously made to the liquid components of GICs, and this has demonstrated ion release up to 500 days (Williams et al. 1999 ). Glass-ionomers immersed into potassium fluoride exhibited ion release twenty times greater than specimens that had additions to their liquid component, and this process could be adapted for pre-reacted GIC filler systems that act as reservoirs for specific ions (Williams et al. 1999 ).
7.18 Bioremineralisation/Biopromoting Improvements
The Role of Glass-ionomers in Paediatric Dentistry
Glass-Ionomers in Contemporary Endodontics
The Benefits and Limitations of Glass-Ionomer Cements and Their Use in Contemporary Dentistry
Physicochemical Nature of Glass-Ionomer-Based Materials and Their Clinical Performance
The History and Background to Glass-Ionomer Dental Cements
The Role of Glass-Ionomer Cements in Minimum Intervention (MI) Caries Management
19 – Posterior Cantilevered Pontics
Mechanical performance of polymer-infiltrated zirconia ceramics
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Uvulopalatopharyngoplasty: analysis of failure
Chapter 60 Uvulopalatopharyngoplasty: analysis of failure
Nico de Vries, Naomi Ketharanathan
Sleep disordered breathing (SDB) encompasses a spectrum of conditions including socially unacceptable snoring (SUS) and obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS). Where SUS is mostly debilitating in social circumstances, OSAS and its complications pose a major health problem for society.1 Increased awareness has led to the development of various treatment modalities to combat both these diseases of which uvulopalatopharyngoplasty (UPPP) is without doubt the most widely used surgical intervention.
UPPP was first performed in 1963 by Ikematsu,2 but modified and formally introduced as a surgical treatment for OSAS in 1981 by Fujita.3
Now a quarter century later it is time to do an accounting. Has UPPP lived up to its initial expectations? At this point numerous studies have been performed estimating the outcome of UPPP in both the short and long term. Unfortunately, UPPP as sole (surgical) management is not as uniformly successful as initially hoped for. Growing understanding of the multifactorial and multilevel pathophysiology of OSAS has raised discussions whether the widespread application of UPPP continues to be justifiable, or whether UPPP should be offered only to well-selected patients. This chapter aims to review the current knowledge on factors especially associated with negative UPPP outcome and discuss various ways of selecting patientsfor UPPP.
2 PATIENT SELECTION
The first step in the process of patient selection is diagnosing the severity of the condition. This starts with a thorough history from the patient and possible partner as well as general ENT examination. Body Mass Index (BMI) and neck circumference are noted at this stage too. The severity of disease is important only to determine if the patient is a candidate for surgery or whether the patient should have non-surgical minimally invasive techniques. Severity will not be a guide to determine the type of surgery. The location of the obstruction will determine the correct surgical procedure.
The next step in the work-up of suspected OSAS patients is a polysomnogram (PSG). This objective tool allows qualitative and quantitative measurements such as differentiation between SUS and OSAS and evaluation of the degree of disease severity. There are four levels of polysomnographic testing of which level I is the most elaborate, including recordings such as an electroencephalogram, registration of eye movements, submental electromyogram, registration of thoracic and abdominal respiratory movement, limb movements, oxygen saturation and the intensity of snoring all recorded in a clinical setting for the duration of at least 6 hours. The other levels are less extensive and not performed in a clinical setting.4 Events recorded during PSG and most commonly used to estimate severity and treatment outcome are the Apnea Index (AI), Apnea/Hypopnea Index (AHI), Respiratory Distress Index (RDI), Respiratory Arousal Index (RAI), Respiratory Effort Related Arousals (RERA) and Oxygen Desaturation Index (ODI). Recently the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) formulated recommendations for clinical and research definitions of PSG studies.5
A subjective measuring tool is the Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS), a questionnaire regarding hypersomnia. It was originally designed as an easy, non-invasive tool to distinguish SUS from OSAS.6 Although practical in use, it has been shown to have a low predictive value, and it cannot show the severity of the disease.
After assessment of the severity of the disease by polysomnography it is of equal importance to determine the level of obstruction(s) in the upper airway.
Mallampati et al. developed the Mallampati clinical scoring system in the mid-1980s to predict difficulty in tracheal intubation based on the ability to visualize the faucial pil-lars, soft palate and uvula base.7 The Mallampati score has been modified by Friedman et al. who then studied the value of this type of assessment in patients with obstructive sleep apnea.
Friedman modified the original Mallampati score in the following ways.
1. Anesthesiologists assess the palate by asking the patient to protrude their tongue. The tongue position during sleep is not protruded, so we ask the patient only to open their mouth and not protrude their tongue.
2. Mallampati had three positions and Friedman expanded to four positions and, most recently, has expanded it to five positions.
3. It really describes the position of the tongue more than the palate. The analysis, as used to assess OSAS, is therefore called the Friedman tongue position (see Chapter 16).
The Friedman staging system represents a clinical, anatomical staging system, independent of disease severity. Friedman et al. found patients classified with stage 1 disease had an 80.6% chance of successful cure with UPPP as opposed to success rates of respectively 38% and 8% in stage 2 and stage 3. The major advantage of this system is its easy use in various settings and its ability to predict which patients are most likely to fail (stage 3).8
Sleep(naso)endoscopy (sedated endoscopy) is another way of determining the levels of obstruction during induced sleep. This approach attempts to simulate the natural situation during snoring. Although this is a relatively time-consuming and costly method it is also the best option for topical preoperative dynamic diagnostic work-up for an ENT practice.9
Despite reports that each method is capable of good preoperative work-up, it is intriguing that the correlation between Friedman tongue position (or Friedman staging system) and findings with sleep endoscopy is low.10
The importance of determining the level of obstruction or collapsibility of the pharynx is increasingly recognized. Globally one way of describing the level of pharynx anatomy involves the subdivision into retropalatal and retrolingual obstruction. This has led to the following, much applied, preoperative classification: Type 1 refers to collapse at retropalatal level, Type 2 indicates collapse at both retropalatal and retrolingual level and Type 3 means collapse at the retrolingual area.11
3 OUTLINE OF PROCEDURE
UPPP targets obstructions at the oropharyngeal level by removing and tightening excess pharyngeal tissue and shortening an elongated uvula and soft palate. Theseinterventions are often combined with tonsillectomyto increase the oropharyngeal lumen (see Chapter 29:Uvulopalatopharyngoplasty).
4 POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS
There are roughly three major groups of complications regarding UPPP.
1. Perioperative complications: such as edema and hemorrhage can lead to life-threatening situations in an already compromised upper airway. Kezirian et al. investigated the perioperative mortality rate of UPPP in a large prospective cohort study and found a 30-day mortality rate of 0.2%, mostly due to unsuccessful upper airway management.12
2. Short-term complications: may comprise transient velopharyngeal incompetence apparent by wound dehiscence, hemorrhage, wound infection, mild nasal regurgitation and is some cases hypernasal speech. In addition severe postoperative pain and poor intake can add to overall morbidity.
3. Long-term complications: include pharyngeal discomfort, dryness and tightness, postnasal secretions, dysphagia, prolonged angina, inability to initiate swallowing, speech and taste disturbances and numbness of the tongue, permanent velopharyngeal incompetence and nasopharyngeal stenosis.
In addition, there have been reports that tolerance to nasal continuous positive airway pressure (NCPAP) was diminished after UPPP, which compounds treatment failure because other options are now less successful too.13
5 SUBJECTIVE AND OBJECTIVE TREATMENTOUTCOMES
A distinction should be made between subjective and objective treatment outcome. Although a reasonable correlation usually exists between objective and subjective outcome, unexplained discrepancies still occur in many circumstances. A clinical reality is that a rise in AHI or RDI can occur with subjective improvement and vice versa. One of the consequences is that repeated polysomnography should be performed in all OSAS patients after surgery. Unresolved ethical issues occur for instance in a happy (e.g. reduced snoring and/or improvement of hypersomnolence) patient after surgery who in repeated PSG is shown to have a rise in AHI or an unhappy patient with no subjective improvement but a distinctively lower AHI in repeated PSG recordings. Concerning these discrepancies between objective and subjective UPPP outcome, Lu et al. noted a long-term subjective improvement in 80% of their cases which was not correlated with the polysomnographic results.14 This raises the following question: if help-seeking behavior is mostly symptom driven and the patient now feels these symptoms no longer exist, how to motivate the patient for additional treatment to prevent long-term negative effect on health? The importance of treatment in (severe) OSAS is underlined by findings by Keenan et al. who showed that UPPP increases long-term survival in OSAS patients.15
5.1 OBJECTIVE DEFINITIONS OF OUTCOME
These can be defined as:
• success.
• response.
• no change.
• deterioration.
Success is most commonly objectively assessed by polysomnography. Over the past decades various cut-off points have been used in different studies estimating UPPP outcome of which a brief review follows. Fujita was the first to define the cut-off value for success as an AI reduction of 50%. Other variables taken into account included the level of oxygenation (SaO2>85%) and the number of arousals.3 The large meta-analysis of Sher et al. used an AI reduction with an absolute AI of 10 and/or an RDI reduction of 50%, with an RDI of less than 20 to evaluate treatment outcome.11 Larsson et al. also used an RDI reduction of 50% together with a reduced RDI of 20 or less for their long-term evaluation of UPPP outcome.16 A 50% reduction of the AHI was also used by Janson et al. and combined with an absolute AI value of 10 or less.17
Another frequently used outcome measure is the Oxygen Desaturation Index (ODI) where responders are defined as having a postoperative ODI of <20 with an ODI reduction of at least 50% compared to preoperative values.16,18
Response can be defined as improvement of AHI of between 20% and 50%.
No change can be defined as an increase or decrease in AHI of <20%. Variations (decrease and increase) of less than 20% can be regarded as falling within the normal night-to-night variability.
Deterioration is an increase of AHI of more than 20%.
Treatment failure comprises both no change in outcome as well as deterioration.
We propose this subdivision into responders (success and response) and non-responders (comprising both no change and deterioration) to achieve a simplified subdivision in treatment outcome and ease study comparison.
Issues that require attention in patient classification by PSG measurements are night-to-night variability and the influence of different types of leads when interpreting PSG values close to the cutoff point between responders and non-responders.5
For UPPP, another clinical distinction can be proposed:
1. There are no negative alterations visually present showing a typical, normal post-UPPP situation on examination, but there is a persistent negative outcome as measured by PSG (Figure 60.1&). This may implicate that the indication for UPPP, as an isolated procedure, was incorrect; apparently the level of obstruction was not Type 1 (retropalatinal only). The other possibility is that the resection was inadequate. Very often the site of failure after UPPP is the retropalatinal area.
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Multilevel surgery (hyoid suspension, radiofrequent ablation of the tongue base, uvulopalatopharyngoplasty) with/without genioglossal advancement
Hyoid suspension as the only procedure
Practical considerations and clinical caveats in polysomnographic interpretation in sleep-related breathing disorder
The effect of polysomnography on pediatric adenotonsillectomy postoperative management
Analysis of NCPAP failures
Rationale and indications for surgical treatment
The postoperative management of OSA patients after uvulopalatopharyngoplasty. Inpatient or outpatient?
Obstructive sleep apnea in children with adenotonsillar hypertrophy
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In April 2001, John and his family moved from Manhattan to Sleepy Hollow. He continued his photography career in Westchester for his client-following, working primarily on location. John wanted to open up his own studio, but it had to be just the right place. That place was 11 Main Street.
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April 17, 2017 – Vancouver, BC: Riverside Resources Inc. (“Riverside” or the “Company”) (TSX-V: RRI), is pleased to report that partner-funded drilling has commenced with Centerra Gold Inc. (“Centerra”) at the Glor Gold Project (the “Project”), located approximately 8 km west of Alamos Gold’s El Chanate Mine in Sonora, Mexico. The 2017 exploration campaign commenced at the end of January with a program of mechanical trenching that yielded long intervals of disseminated gold mineralization at surface at the Pitaya Gold Zone (see Riverside’s press release on March 21, 2017).
A 2,000 metre diamond drilling program has now commenced with the first drill-holes designed to begin testing the newly discovered Pitaya Gold Zone, as well as induced polarization geophysical anomalies that are broadly coincident with this zone of mineralization. The mechanical trenching program, which has been employing a heavy-duty back-hoe, has been halted so that the project team can focus on the diamond drilling work.
The first drill-hole (GL17-001D) is collared between trenches Tr-01 and Tr-02 where a broad zone of disseminated and quartz veinlet-hosted gold mineralization was exposed by the trenching program. Tr-01 and Tr-02 yielded sample intervals of 105 metres that averaged 0.492 g/t Au and 84 metres averaging 0.533 g/t Au, respectively.
Riverside’s President and CEO, John-Mark Staude, stated: “We provided guidance that drilling was anticipated at Glor in our 2017 Corporate Outlook at the beginning of the year, and are pleased to now have drilling commence ahead of schedule. Riverside continues to be active in Sonora with exploration work expected to start at the Company’s Cecilia Project and partner-funded Clemente Project in the near-future. We continue to deliver as promised and look forward to drill results from Glor.”
To date, eighteen trenches have been excavated on the Glor property with a combined length of 3,436.2 metres. The majority of these trenches have tested the Pitaya target area which is located in the north-eastern sector of the Project. Gold assay results have been received for samples collected from seventeen of the trenches; assays for samples from trench Tr-18 are pending. Highlights of trenching results obtained since the Company’s previous news release (March 21, 2017) are summarized in the table below:
Table 1: Additional Trench Results from the Glor Gold Project
Trench ID Location of Interval Length of Assay Interval* Average Au Grade
Tr-12 starting East end of Tr-12 9 m 0.568 g/t
Tr-12 starting 21m from East end 12 m 0.472 g/t
Tr-12 starting 42 m from East end 18 m 0.450 g/t
Tr-17 starting 135m from East end 9 m 0.637 g/t
*Assay intervals are composed of continuous 3 metre long sample intervals, with individual samples consisting of hammer-chipped rock fragments being systematically collected horizontally and vertically from one of the walls of the trench for the entire length of the sample interval (3 metre panels).
Trench 12 (Tr-12) represents the western extension of Tr-01, which yielded the assay interval of 105 metres averaging 0.492 g/t Au at its western end, while Tr-14 is the western extension of Tr-03. See the figure below for highlighted trench results and planned drill-hole locations:
Figure 1: 2017 Trench Locations and Initial Drill-hole Locations
Additional Program and Project Details:
Drill-hole GL17-001D, with a planned length of 250 metres, is inclined 50° and has an azimuth of 270°. The next three holes to be drilled will be located due east of GL17-001D, with planned collar sites at 165, 280 and 405 metres east of the first hole. The diamond drilling contract was awarded to Hermosillo-based Falcon Drilling which is using HQ drilling equipment for the diamond drilling program. Drill cores are being photographed, geologically logged and then sawn in half to provide samples for gold assaying and multi-element geochemical analysis that will be done by Bureau Veritas analytical laboratories in Hermosillo, Mexico and Vancouver, Canada. Individual core samples will be approximately 1.5 metres in length in altered rocks.
Since the start of the 2017 program, gold assays have been received for 880 trench samples. Assays are pending for the remaining 149 trench samples. The consistent grade at the Pitaya Gold Zone is now shown to extend more than 500 metres in the north-south direction and up to 160 metres east-west. The true thickness of this mineralization is unknown and requires drilling to be determined.
Corporate Update Note:
Further to Riverside’s news release dated March 16, 2017 - the finder’s fees payable to Sprott Global Resource Investments Ltd. have been amended. They will receive 149,168 Units instead of $78,660 as previously disclosed.
Qualified Person and QA/QC:
The scientific and technical data contained in this news release pertaining to the Glor Project was reviewed and prepared under the supervision of Locke Goldsmith, P. Eng., P. Geo., a non-independent qualified person to Riverside Resources who is responsible for ensuring that the geologic information provided in this news release is accurate and acts as a “qualified person” under National Instrument 43-101 Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects.
Rock samples collected from the trenches are being taken to the Bureau Veritas Laboratories in Hermosillo, Mexico for fire assaying for gold and ICP-MS analysis for 45 common and trace elements. The ICP-MS analyses of 200 gram pulp samples which are prepared from and are representative of the field samples are done at the Vancouver laboratory of Bureau Veritas. A QA/QC program has been implemented as part of the rock sampling program at Glor, with 98 blank and standard samples being included with the 880 trench rock samples that have been received from the lab to date.
About Riverside Resources Inc.:
Riverside is a well-funded project generation team of focused, proactive gold and silver discoverers. The Company currently has more than $6,000,000 in the treasury and approximately 44,000,000 shares outstanding. Riverside has a strong and growing portfolio of gold-silver and copper projects in Mexico. The Company structures partnerships on many of its projects to reduce risk and generate multiple discovery chances across the Company’s portfolio. Riverside has additional properties available for option with more information available on the Company’s website at www.rivres.com.
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Barytes Mines above Lochwinnoch
Although the Gryfe valley downstream from Bridge of Weir contains valuable minerals, such as coal and limestone which have been worked at various times, the geology of the higher ground above Bridge of Weir is quite different, consisting mainly of volcanic rock. This rock is of little obvious value, beyond whin for rubble dykes. However, the Renfrewshire Heights contain numerous rare minerals. The only difficulty has been finding these minerals in large enough quantities to make working them worthwhile. Copper was found and worked above Gourock and Lochwinnoch, but the most elusive mineral was barytes.
Barytes has many uses, including the making of paint, paper, textiles and leather. Renfrewshire barytes is an attractive mineral of high purity, with pink and white banding. It is a dense rock, which was originally formed in vents and cracks in the surrounding volcanic rocks.
Although more than forty barytes veins have been identified in what is now Muirshiel Country Park, only two have been worked to any extent. These were on Queenside Muir, in the valleys of two nameless burns, which drop from the shoulders of Hill of Stake to the Calder Water. As the crow flies, the mines are equidistant between Bridge of Weir and Largs, and can be accessed by a track up the Calder from Muirshiel Visitor Centre.
The barytes at Muirshiels was originally quarried opencast in a series of steps in the hillside. Mines were then driven down almost vertically into the vein from the floor of the workings. Although the seam is about six metres thick, this varies greatly, and workings extended off into side vents and fissures as they were found.
Workings date from the 1750s and have continued intermittently since then. Like many rare minerals, the value of barytes depends on global economics. In the 1890s output was often less than 1,000 tons a year. By the 1950s Muirshiels was one of four barytes mines in S.W. Scotland, including Eaglesham in Renfrewshire, and Glen Sannox on Arran. By this time Muirshiel’s output approached 20,000 tons a year and together these mines accounted for a third of UK production.
From the mine, the barytes was carried a short distance on a mineral railway, then six kilometers down a rough track to the crushing mill on the Calder Water. The mill was built about 1850. It had three grinders in cast iron vats which processed about three tons per day. The mill ground, processed and dried two varieties or colours of barytes, pinkey-grey and white. The mine owner also owned Queenside Dam, to store water to drive the mill. By the 1940s the mill was derelict and the raw mineral was taken to a dressing plant in Kingston, Glasgow.
Social research by Brian Skillen has shown that during wartime in the 1940s, only six men were employed, living a frugal existence in a cottage at Muirshiels. The lorry which took them back and forth from the mine could barely stand up to the rough road, and eventually crashed, killing one of the miners.
The mine closed in the 1960s. Infrequent press interest shows that the working of barytes is likely to become economic again in the future. Whether it will be worked inside what is now a Country Park remains to be seen.
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Balance and strength changes following in jury prevention protocol in female soccer players
M. Greig
PURPOSE: To quantify the affects of a multimodal injury prevention program previously shown to reduce injury incidence. METHODS: Female collegiate soccer players (n=9) completed the F-MARC 11 injury prevention program in addition to their soccer training over a duration of 6 weeks, whilst an age and training-age matched control group (n=9) completed an equivalent amount of soccer training. Pre- and post-intervention, all players were assessed for isokinetic strength of the knee flexors and extensors in both concentric and eccentric mode at speeds of 1.05, 3.14 and 5.23 rad·s-1, and dynamic posturography using sensory organisation and unilateral sway tests. Between group comparisons were made using repeated measures ANOVA, with significance accepted at p<=0.05. RESULTS: Post-intervention, the F11 group displayed a significant increase in the somatosensory and vestibular contributions to balance during the sensory organisation test. The F11 group also displayed a significant post-intervention decrease in sway velocity during a unilateral stance test, for both eyes open and eyes closed conditions. No changes were observed for the control group. There was no change in peak concentric or eccentric torque for either knee flexors or extensors post-intervention, irrespective of movement speed. There was however a significant change in the angle of peak torque for eccentric knee flexors at the slowest test speed. The control group showed no changes in isokinetic parameters. CONCLUSION: The F11 injury prevention program created a change in the relative contributions to dynamic balance, with an increase in both the somatosensory and vestibular ratios, and no change in the visual ratio. Whilst peak torque was unaffected, there was evidence of a shift in the angle of peak eccentric hamstring torque at the slowest test speed post-intervention. Injury reduction might therefore be attributed to those exercises involving dynamic single-legged balance, enhancing movement control rather than maximal strength.
Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise
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10.1249/01.MSS.0000355862.12883.4f
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Greig, M. / Balance and strength changes following in jury prevention protocol in female soccer players. In: Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise. 2009 ; Vol. 41, No. 5. pp. 431-432.
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Clarity Coaching
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My #1 Tip on How to Overcome Career Indecision
by Joy Lin | Jul 6, 2018 | Blog | 0 comments
Making decisions in your career can be a daunting task.
In fact, there is not always a straightforward answer on what you should do next. No matter what career decisions you may be facing, cultivating clarity will help you overcome a phase of indecision and stuckness. So, to help you cultivate clarity, I want to share my number 1 tip on how to overcome career indecision.
In the dictionary, the definition of clarity is, ”the state of being clear”, which (surprise, surprise) isn’t straightforward at all! There’s no greater frustration than feeling stuck and finding out that clarity is an elusive state to reach.
Being indecisive in your career can be especially challenging because it is such a major part of our lives. With over 90,000 hours spent at work in an average person’s lifetime, it makes sense that you want to make the best career decision possible for yourself.
This pressure leads to an overwhelming fear of making the “wrong” decision.
In Barry Schwartz’s book “The Paradox of Choice”, he highlights the concept of choice overload and how it leads to self-doubt, unrealistically high expectations, and self-blame for any and all failures. Ultimately, having too many choices and experiencing constant indecision can be detrimental to your psychological and emotional well being. Additionally, leading with fear and binary thinking, it’s no wonder we struggle with making confident vital career decisions.
As a coach, I’ve encountered hundreds of people in every stage of career clarity and change. I ask many who have a strong sense of what they want to do for their work, how they came to clarity. Their responses follow a consistent theme- a version of “I knew it was time to change my job, I explored different options, and discovered I enjoyed doing this thing. Ultimately, I got a feeling and I just knew this was the right choice for me”.
What I’m discovering is that clarity is a state evoked by feeling rather than logic. While we are programmed to believe that choosing a career is a logical decision, this is not the case. Logic can only utilize some data points like salary, title, and prestige. If these were the only variables to consider, all of us would happily choose positions with the best salary, title, and company. But, it’s not that simple. In fact, studies show that emotions drive 80% of our decisions while practicality and logic drive only 20%. Even decisions that seem logical are ultimately driven by how we feel about it.
Making an aligned and fulfilling career decision is both a logical and emotional decision, with an emphasis on the emotional.
This is why your pro/con charts aren’t enough- it only gives you a portion of the information you need to make confident decisions. The return on thinking and analyzing our way to an answer diminishes rapidly once the thought process turns into an internal argument pitting rows of unrelated pros and cons to see which one wins out. For example, this is why we are torn between a high paying job that we are miserable in and starting a business that’s high risk but could be potentially fulfilling. Logically, there is no clear and one-size-fits-all answer. By over utilizing logic, we overthink, over-analyze, and retreat into a state of indecision, doubt, and overwhelm. Sound familiar?
My number 1 tip for you is that career decisions require not only your logical left brain, but also your creative, right brain to help create an inspiring vision of what you want to work towards.
When we are inspired by our vision and goals, we feel motivated, creative, solution-oriented, and resourceful. We are likely to actively explore options and take action with the intention of learning and aligning. We walk in with curiosity rather than fear and expectation. We are willing to put ourselves out there to test assumptions, gain knowledge, and be honest about what our true priorities and motivations are.
When we emotionally connect with and pursue our own unique definition of success, we cultivate confidence in our ability to make self-honoring decisions.
If you are in a state of indecision, start with this assessment:
Make a list of all the activities you do when you research or think about your next career step. How many of those activities are spent in logical mode, trying to think your way to an answer? And, how many of those activities are spent in creative mode, understanding your core, exploring, and connecting with your vision? Most likely, you may see an imbalance.
Shift your approach by incorporating both analytical exercises and creative exercises and activities. Analytical exercises that engage your left brain include SWOT analysis, pro/con charts, decision trees, doing informational interviews, identifying your top 3 priorities, and considering the direction of the market. Creative exercises that engage your right brain include things like visualization, re-counting your top peak experiences, working through limiting beliefs, identifying your core values, exploring and learning new skills, doing hands-on career pilots, and creative career planning exercises .
Career indecision is something you can shift out of by getting out of your head and taking balanced action. With a more balanced approach, you can gather emotional and logical insights and make an aligned decision. At the end of the day, there is no right or wrong choice, just what is best for you based on what your values, vision, and priorities are now. Leading with possibility rather than fear, we move towards clarity.
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Radiant Logistics Announces New $150M Secured Credit Facility
BELLEVUE, WA March 16, 2020 – Radiant Logistics, Inc. (the “Company”) (NYSE American: RLGT) today announced that it has secured a new $150.0 million syndicated secured revolving credit facility (the “Secured Facility”) to replace its existing $75.0 million revolving facility. The Secured Facility enhances the Company’s financial flexibility, providing increased capacity to fund future acquisitions, capital expenditures or for other corporate purposes, including, if warranted at the time, the repurchase of the Company’s common stock.
BofA Securities, Inc. acted as the sole book runner and sole lead arranger for the syndicated credit facility. Bank of Montreal acted as lender and syndication agent. MUFG Union Bank, N.A. acted as lender and documentation agent. Bank of America, N.A., Keybank National Association and Washington Federal Bank, National Association also acted as lenders. Bank of America, N.A. will also serve as administrative agent.
Under the terms of the new Secured Facility, the Company may borrow up to $150 million, subject to compliance with customary and standard financial coverage covenants and ratios. Included within the Secured facility is an accordion feature for an additional $50 million to support future acquisition opportunities. Borrowings under the Secured Facility accrue interest at either the Lenders’ base rate plus 1.00% or LIBOR plus 2.00%, and can be subsequently adjusted based on the Company’s consolidated leverage ratio, at either the Lenders’ base rate plus 1.00% to 1.75% or LIBOR plus 2.00% to 2.75%.
The Secured Facility carries a five year term and is secured by accounts receivable and other assets of the Company and its subsidiaries. For general borrowings under the Secured Facility, the Company is subject to a maximum consolidated leverage ratio of 3.00x and a minimum consolidated fixed charge coverage ratio of 1.25x. Additional minimum availability requirements and financial covenants apply in the event the Company seeks to use advances under the Secured Facility to pursue acquisitions or repurchase its common stock. Under the terms of the Secured Facility, as of December 31, 2019, the Company had a consolidated leverage ratio of 1.0x and a consolidated fixed charge coverage ratio of 3.6x.
Concurrent with entering into new Secured Facility, the Company also amended the term loans held by its Canadian lender, Fiera Private Debt Funds IV and V (formerly known as Integrated Private Debt Funds IV and V), to make the financial and other covenants therein consistent with those contained in the new Secured Facility. In addition, the security interest securing such term loans were made to be on a parity basis with those assets securing the new Secured Facility.
"We are very pleased to announce our new $150 million senior facility and appreciate and the strong support and confidence of our expanded banking group,” said Bohn Crain, Founder and CEO of the Company. “With this new facility, and the modifications to our Canadian facility, we will be able to transition from a facility that limited our borrowings to advances against our accounts receivables, to a more robust cash flow facility that will allow us access to additional low-cost capital and greater financial flexibility as we look to maximize long term shareholder value through a combination of organic growth and strategic acquisitions intended to bring value to our strategic operating partners, shareholders and the end customers that we serve. In addition, with the benefit of our new financing arrangements, we enjoy additional capacity to continue to execute on additional compelling acquisition opportunities while also preserving our ability to pursue other initiatives to unlock shareholder value, including opportunities to buyback of our common stock.”
Crain continued: “The COVID-19 virus is likely to continue to create a lot of stress on supply chains and the financial markets well into 2020. We are fortunate to have de-levered our business with proceeds from an equity raise back in 2015, and unlike many of our peers, we have continued to use our free cash flow to pay-down debt and strengthen our balance sheet. As of December 31, 2019 our consolidated leverage ratio was at a very conservative 1.0x. Our new facility gives us the financial flexibility to successfully navigate these markets while providing the financial stability to confidently support our operating partners and the end customers that we serve. We also believe that as customers consider the underlying financial health of their current supply chain partners, Radiant may represent an attractive alternative.”
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Radiant Canada is part of the Radiant Logistics Network; a comprehensive North American provider of third-party logistics and multimodal transportation services. Through its comprehensive service offering, Radiant provides domestic and international freight forwarding services, truck and rail brokerage services and other value-added supply chain management services, including customs brokerage, order fulfillment, inventory management and warehousing to a diversified account base including manufacturers, distributors and retailers using a network of independent carriers and international agents positioned strategically around the world.
This announcement contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Actual results may differ significantly from management's expectations. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that include, among others, risks related to: trends in the domestic and global economy; our ability to attract new and retain existing agency relationships; acquisitions and integration of acquired entities; availability of capital to support our acquisition strategy; our ability to comply with financial covenants under our outstanding indebtedness; our ability to maintain and improve back office infrastructure and transportation and accounting information systems in a manner sufficient to service our revenues and network of operating locations; our ability to maintain and grow our revenues and operating margins in a manner consistent with recent operating results and trends; our ability to maintain positive relationships with our third-party transportation providers, suppliers and customers; outcomes of legal proceedings; competition; management of growth; potential fluctuations in operating results; and government regulation. More information about factors that potentially could affect our financial results is included Radiant Logistics, Inc.'s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent filings.
The use of proceeds under the Secured Facility described above reflect possible uses and are not guarantees of how the proceeds will be used, if at all. Any use of proceeds by the Company will be subject to, among other things, then applicable: industry conditions, competitive environment, operational performance, financial covenants within any outstanding indebtedness, contractual restrictions, and regulatory requirements.
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A cousin marriage is a marriage where the partners are cousins i. The practice was common in earlier times, and continues to be common in some societies today, though in some jurisdictions such marriages are prohibited. In some cultures and communities, cousin marriages are considered ideal and are actively encouraged and expected; in others, they are seen as incestuous and are subject to social stigma and taboo.
Cousin marriage was historically practised by indigenous cultures in Australia , North America , South America , and Polynesia.
“greats” in their titles, so cousins who share grandparents are first cousins because 0 + 1 = 1. Oct 02, · Hands up who thought about dating their cousin?
Two cousins who say they are in love with each other have created an online petition calling for the state of Utah to allow them to get legally married. The couple’s goal is to get 1, signatures; as of Wednesday morning, about 75 have signed on. Peang’s father is the oldest of 12 children; his sister, the fifth child in that family, is Lee’s mother. It just felt really natural. Her mom told Michael they couldn’t get married but they could be friends. Each time they saw each other at family functions the connection between them stayed strong.
The cousins were caught kissing once by family members, Peang remembered. The cousins each got married to other people and Peang had three children with her husband. But both couples eventually divorced. Angie and Michael hadn’t seen each other in about 10 years when they both showed up to their grandmother’s house last Christmas.
They immediately reconnected. It was really scary to think about how our family would react because they are conservative Mormons She said they received mixed responses from their family members. Their parents feel the cousins’ love may “threaten the family’s identity,” Peang said.
The legality of cousin marriage in the United States varies from state to state. The practice is illegal in 25 states. A first cousin is the child of either parent’s brother or sister.
A woman may not marry her first cousin. 23cv. (Dec. 22, , P.L, No.79, eff. 60 days; June 25, , P.L
In the first-season finale of Ramy — a new Hulu series helmed by comedian Ramy Youssef — the hero, played by Youssef, stumbles through an Egyptian desert. In the heat, Ramy hallucinates a striking woman, who calls to mind a few of his past lovers. In one hand she holds a fidget spinner, an echo of the married woman from his local mosque who ended an affair after Ramy bought her son one of those very gadgets. Then comes the thorn in the rose, a line that punctures the fantasy. Ramy walks on.
Her young son got to know his first cousin during those visits and, eventually, the two first cousins married each other. My father spoke in a way meant to open my mind, it seemed. But I got why he assumed I might: The rightness of marriage between cousins constitutes one of the most quietly heated debates on the planet. In his working-class Jersey town, Ramy identifies as both super-Muslim and not Muslim enough. His most consistent quality may be his inconsistency.
He waffles on how to date, think, love, pray, how to perform as a son, a friend, a worker. His confusion about his sense of self complicates every romantic situation he finds himself in, no matter the creed or skin color of the woman. Amani is modern and devout, liberated yet intense.
The couple, who are from North Carolina in the US, met properly for the first time as teenagers. His family were shocked. The idea of romantically or sexually involved cousins is generally met with distaste. The practice is less common in the West, but consanguineous relationships in Europe and the United States were common until the midth century, when attitudes began to turn on the practice due to medical opposition. Few religious texts or national legislations explicitly ban consanguineous relationships.
While first-cousin couples could have inbreeding problems, couples who are far-removed from each other could have genetic incompatibilities.
At just seven years old, Michael and Angie shared their first clandestine kiss in a dark closest. Although the first cousins knew they were doing something that would get them in trouble, neither of them could fight the strong connection they felt. Michael even told his mum, who is Angie’s aunt on her dad’s side, that they planned to get married when they grew up.
But you can be good friends’,” Angie exclusively told the New York Post. It felt like a soul connection – as if I could see myself reflected in him. Over the years, the cousins drifted apart, attending different universities and marrying their respective first spouses. Angie had two daughters, now 17 and 16 and a son, now 12, before she and her first husband called it quits on their relationship.
After the divorce, Angie moved the kids back to her hometown in Utah and was delighted to discover that Michael had also done the same thing after separating from his wife. The first time they saw each other again was at their grandmother’s Christmas party, which Angie said she only attended because she wanted to see Michael. Their connection was just the same and it wasn’t long before the couple started dating officially.
Is it legal and morally acceptable to marry your cousin? The answer varies depending upon your definition of the word “cousin,” your location, and your personal or cultural beliefs. Your parents’ siblings’ children are your first cousins and your parents’ first cousins are your second cousins. There are many degrees and types of cousins.
While first cousins are close relatives, second and third cousins are not.
A cousin marriage is a marriage where the partners are cousins The practice was common in earlier times, and continues to be common in some societies today, though in some jurisdictions such marriages are prohibited. Worldwide, more than 10% of marriages are between first or second cousins. In the ancient system of the Erya dating from around the third century BC, the.
Developmentally disabled persons committed to the guardianship of the commissioner of human services and developmentally disabled persons committed to the conservatorship of the commissioner of human services in which the terms of the conservatorship limit the right to marry, may marry on receipt of written consent of the commissioner.
The commissioner shall grant consent unless it appears from the commissioner’s investigation that the civil marriage is not in the best interest of the ward or conservatee and the public. The local registrar in the county where the application for a license is made by the ward or conservatee shall not issue the license unless the local registrar has received a signed copy of the consent of the commissioner of human services. Menu House Minnesota House of Representatives.
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We are all cousins. No two people are more distantly related than 50th cousins. S ome news are fixated japan the fallacy that cousin couples pose an intolerable risk to their offspring.
University shows that it is okay to marry your first cousin as long as your children do not marry their first cousins, according to Popular Scie.
Cousins who fall in love have a right to voice concerns. After all, marrying a cousin just isn’t done, right? At least that’s what we’re taught to believe. Only primitive people who live in isolated places marry cousins, and it’s dangerous and leads to creating stupid children. Or does it? A new study reveals the genetic risks associated with this type of pairing are not as great as once believed.
In America, marrying your cousin is legal in 25 states and every year about , cousins wed. Worldwide, it’s much more common. Twenty percent of all married couples are cousins. In some Middle Eastern countries, almost half of all marriages are to cousins. Caren said she didn’t plan on their shared future, although her mom noticed they always liked each other.
They fought over toys together.
By Carl O. Colorado law permits first cousins to marry without restriction. Someone called our office last week with a simple question about whether it was permissible to marry a cousin. Pursuant to C.
A first cousin? May and let cousins. First cousins married a worker. First cousins of dating one another reason for most people are cousins. Nov 25, it is illegal.
Join UL. First cousins dating each other I’m dating my cousin? Mar 7, its not allow marriage between similarly-aged cousins, the civil war and country. To allow marriage was the point out that cousin and her sister. To fancy your third or not all cousin? Dec 24, my child is the u. What percentage of years later. Legally, is out at last name is dating each couple does.
Hands up who thought about dating their cousin? In the UK it is legal to marry your cousin; in parts of West Africa there’s a saying, “Cousins are made for cousins”; but in America it is banned or restricted in 31 states. Restrictions include genetic counselling or that couples are past the age of reproduction. I’ve never lusted after my cousins, and I’m confident the feeling is mutual.
A WOMAN has revealed she is dating her first cousin after hiding it for years by sharing intimate pictures of the pair kissing online. Posting.
By Jane Ridley. January 8, pm Updated January 9, pm. Michael Lee and Angela Peang can hardly wait for the birth of their first child — even if it results in them spending time behind bars. Canada and Europe also allow first cousins to wed. They avoided problems in Utah by tying the knot on a day trip to Grand Junction, Colorado, last March. Indeed, it has been an uphill battle securing the approval of relatives. Some have been suspicious of the bond between Lee and Peang since the cousins were fresh-faced second-graders.
Lee, meanwhile, lived close to Salt Lake City in Utah. Peang remembers their first clandestine kiss and cuddle, at just 7 years old, in a darkened closet. But it just felt right. The cousins went to separate colleges before marrying their respective first spouses. Peang gave birth to two daughters, now 17 and 16, and a son, Lee and his wife, who were married for four years, had no children.
Skip to content. What are the pros and cons legally and morally of dating your 1st cousin? To make a long story short, my cousin and I became close friends, then fell in love with each other. We have that “don’t care” attitude on what others say or think about our relationship, but are curious anyway. Newborns with genetic disorders such as spina bifida or cystic fibrosis are more likely to be born of blood relatives because previously unexpressed recessive genes are more likely to appear.
While first cousins are close relatives, second and third cousins are not. Here are a few definitions: a first cousin: the child of your aunt or.
This website uses cookies. Find out more in our Privacy and Cookie Policy. Hide this message. Marriage is a legally binding contract that will affect both parties and, to a certain extent, their children for all of their lives. There are a number of strict rules and regulations governing marriage. The first set of rules specifies who may and may not marry each other and in what circumstances. Once you have fulfilled these conditions and are sure that you are entitled to marry, you should consider how you wish to marry.
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