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Skinny Skis Turns 40
by Dina Mishev
Team Skinny Skis circa 1980. Pete Waggoner
Skinny Skis celebrated its 40th birthday in late September. Phil Leeds wasn’t one of the original founders, but he joined as a partner three years after the gear shop opened in a 500-square foot, winter-only space. (Why wasn’t he a partner from the beginning? “I was in college,” he says. “I needed to graduate before I could invest in the business.”) Leeds did work at the shop from the beginning though. He knew founder Jeff Crabtree from summers working together in Grand Teton National Park. “I was here the first winter the shop was open,” Leeds says. “I had taken that winter off from school. Jeff and Owen (Anderson) were the partners and I would help them out when they got busy. It was a quiet winter.”
Employee heli-ski hut trip, 1983. Phil Leeds
A collegiate Nordic racer, Crabtree got the idea for Skinny Skis after moving to the valley to be the Nordic Coach for the Jackson Hole Ski Club. “There was nowhere in Jackson to get high-performance racing gear,” Leeds says. Jeff coaxed his friend Owen to invest. The two scraped together $1,700 and used a contact from Jeff’s days Nordic racing at University of Colorado in Boulder as a broad-based distributor of Nordic gear and clothing. “They brought in skis, boots, poles, and some accessories and that was what launched them,” Leeds says.
For its first three years, Skinny Skis was an October-April-only operation. “We were able to get the space year-round the same summer I graduated from college.” How did Skinny Skis decide what kind of gear to carry in the summer? “We featured gear and clothing for the different activities that we enjoyed,” Leeds says. “We liked road running and trail running as well as hiking and backpacking and some climbing.” (The 3,500-square foot space Skinny Skis is in today includes their original 500-square feet. “We just kept growing out and out,” Leeds says.)
Over the years, Skinny Skis hasn’t just expanded its range of gear, but also its involvement in the community. “It started with our relationship with the JH Ski Club,” Leeds says. “That was there from the beginning. Over the last thirty years it has evolved to encompass engagement with lots of environmental groups and other community service organizations.”
Over the last 15 years, a Skinny Skis sponsored race, Run and Ride for the Cure (it’s a combined 5k run and 15k bike ride), has raised upwards of $100,000 for the Cancer Patient Support Fund at St. John’s Medical Center. “While there are lots of organizations that contribute to cancer research, this one is very community-centric,” says Leeds. “All money raised goes to patients here in the valley that may have difficulty paying for treatment or ancillary expenses that insurance might not cover. It’s non-bureaucratic too. The women running the oncology department can channel these funds directly to people without red tape. That means a lot to us.”
Who knows, maybe the Skinny Skis runners’ uniforms will come back into style some day.
The Run and Ride is one of the most popular early summer events in the valley. Skinny Skis is also behind one of the most popular—and potentially life-saving—winter events too: Avalanche Awareness Night. “This is really, really important to us,” Leeds says. “We’re involved with selling gear and clothing for the backcountry. It’s critical and commensurate for us to be involved in backcountry awareness as much as we possibly can. This event won’t give people everything they need to know to safely go into the backcountry, but it opens their eyes and educates them about what direction they need to turn to develop their avalanche safety.” In 2014, Avalanche Awareness night is December 11, at the Center for the Arts.
“The gear evolves and the clothing changes and it’s always interesting and fun, but being an integral part of the community for as long as we have been has only been possible because of the support we’ve gotten from the community,” says Leeds. “So we try to give back and further the nonprofits that make Jackson Hole so unique.”
Skinny Skis founder Jeff Crabtree in 1989.
But enough about Skinny Skis. Since we’ve gotten Phil to sit down and chat with us, we might as well pick his brain for gear and ski recommendations.
Q: What do you think have been some of the most standout innovations in your time in the industry?
A: Gore-Tex came out when I was in college. That was a big one. Certainly stretch woven was fun and interesting. Fleece was a huge one too. In the last five years the number of styles and fabrications of down pieces have really taken off. Now there’s water resistant down.
Q: Owning an outdoor gear store, are you always upgrading to the latest and greatest?
A: My wife gives me shit about it. “How can you possibly continue to wear this thing?” she’ll ask. In some ways, I think it’s like working at a candy store. Some people are addicted to having the latest and greatest, but I find pieces that work well for me and stick with them.
Q: What’s the oldest piece of clothing in your closet?
A: I’ve got some Cloudveil pieces from their first year or two in business.
Q: And the newest thing you’ve gotten?
A: A Salomon mid-layer piece from this fall.
Q: What do you wear when you go out Nordic skiing?
A: I wear a base layer—I love Icebreaker and merino-based pieces—along with some stretch woven Salomon pants. I use those pants about everyday in the winter. I appreciate the versatility of a Nano piece from Patagonia as a lightly insulated mid-layer.
Q: Favorite Nordic places in the valley?
A: I love skiing Trail Creek. I’m there more often than not.
Q: Do you resort or backcountry ski?
A: I’m very rarely at the ski area. I love skiing up on the Pass or in the Park.
Skinny Skis in Jackson Hole is the heart and soul of nordic skiing in the Tetons. Phil Leeds spoke with RootsRated about the changing world of gear and the re-emergence of cross country skiing.
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Rotary Club of Arepo Longbridge Donates Exercise Books to School Students in Ogun State
The official visit of District Governor Bola Oyebade to the Rotary Club of Arepo Longbridge on Sunday, October 11, 2020 started with a courtesy visit to the palace of the Olu of Arepo, His Royal Highness Solomon Atanda who was represented by the Akogun of Arepo, Chief Lateef Asaolu and some other palace chiefs.
The Rotarians, along with the palace chiefs, proceeded to Obafemi Owode Community School in Arepo, Ogun State where exercise books were distributed by the club to students of the school for free.
The distribution was carried out in the school premises which was recently renovated by the club. Students of the school got six exercise books each.
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Our heartiest congratulations go out to the Windward Islands cricket team for their wonderful achievement in winning the 2013 West Indies 50-over championship. Not even the inclement weather could stop them from defeating the Combined Campuses and Colleges (CCC) in Barbados, last Sunday night.{{more}}
In more ways than one, it was a victory to savour. In the first place, it helped to lift the cloud of sorrow that had enveloped the islands, following the rains earlier that weekend which resulted in the crash of a vehicle taking Dominica’s national footballers to the airport on their way to the 2013 Windward Islands football championships in St Vincent. Two members of the team died as a result and the team itself never made it to the championships.
Then, one must remember that the Windwards, despite their obvious talents, are never touted highly by the regional media for success in such championships. The spotlight had always been on the fancied teams from Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and even Barbados. But, having qualified for the semi-finals, the Windwards proceeded to trounce Jamaica on the way to victory over the CCC, itself considered an âunderdogâ, who dumped the top-rated T&T in the other semi-final.
It was the first victory for the Windwards at the regional level for a dozen years, since its last triumph in 2001. The Windwards, and their northern neighbours from the Leeward Islands are at a distinct disadvantage where competing at the regional level is concerned. The Caribbean Sea, which divides them physically, creates a host of related problems as well. These include the challenges of having to overcome insularity and the extra financial burden incurred in preparing teams for such regional ventures. There are also less favourable conditions for meaningful sponsorship, compared with teams coming from countries with much larger economies.
In spite of all these factors, the Windwards have produced a whole range of talented cricketers, beginning with our own Charles Ollivierrre, more than a century ago, the first Caribbean cricketer to play in professional first-class cricket in England. However, cricketers from the small islands were never given equal opportunity for representation at the West Indies level. Among those who suffered were the late Alfie Roberts, the first “small islander” to play Test cricket for the West Indies, Mike Findlay and Irvine Shillingford. A host of others were selected only sporadically.
But the Windwards have shouldered on, weathering the storms. Many times their performances have not always matched their obvious ability and a host of administrative and organisational challenges are yet to be successfully surmounted. These, however, in no way detract from the sweet taste of victory, a victory richly deserved, even without their inspirational captain, Darren Sammy, who is plying his trade in the Indian Professional League.
As we salute stand-in captain Liam Sebastien and his victorious squad, let us wish them further success in their endeavour to take the regional first-class championship, the semi-finals and finals of which will be played in early May.
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October 3, 2016 by Secure360 and UMSA
It’s hard to believe the presidential election is only a month away, falling on November 8, 2016. This year seems tougher than ever, with citizens across the United States going to the polls to choose between Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump or one of the alternative candidates, Gary Johnson, Jill Stein, or Evan McMullin. There is a lot at stake, but this one feels more important than most—especially as it relates to cybersecurity.
Let’s talk voting alone
This election, every vote counts and to ensure that, cybersecurity at the polls is vital. We have all seen enough data breaches to know that there is nothing that is “unhackable.” And while hacking the polls would be difficult, it wouldn’t be impossible. To give you glimpse at election security, UMSA gives the pros and cons of voting security here.
Why every candidate should be talking cybersecurity
The United States economy loses around $100 billion from cybercrime a year and there is a national security aspect of cybersecurity that the candidates must be touching on.
What did the candidates have to say?
(Note: the following is not meant to be an endorsement of either candidate from UMSA or Secure360—just a dissemination of information based on previous statements made by the candidates).
Here’s what Secretary Clinton said:
I think cybersecurity, cyber warfare will be one of the greatest challenges facing the next president, because clearly we’re facing, at this point, two different kinds adversaries. There are the independent hacking groups that do it mostly for commercial reasons to try to steal information that they then can use to make money. But increasingly, we are seeing cyberattacks coming from states.
The most recent and troubling of these has been Russia. There’s no doubt now that Russia has used cyberattacks against all kinds of organizations in our country, and I am deeply concerned about this. I know Donald been very praiseworthy of Vladimir Putin.
But Putin is playing a very tough, long game here. And one of the things he’s done is to let loose cyberattackers to hack into government files, to personal files, the Democratic National Committee. And we recently learned that this is one of their preferred methods of trying to wreak havoc and collect information. We need to make it very clear, whether it’s Russia, China, Iran, or anybody else, the United States has much greater capacity.
And we are not going to sit idly by and permit state actors to go after our information, our private sector information or our public sector information, and we’re going to have to make it clear that we don’t want to use the kinds of tools that we have. We don’t want to engage in a different kind of warfare. But we will defend the citizens of this country, and the Russians need to understand that.
Donald Trump also weighed in on cybersecurity:
As far as the cyber, I agree to parts of what Secretary Clinton said, we should be better than anybody else, and perhaps we’re not. I don’t know if we know it was Russia who broke into the DNC.
She’s saying Russia, Russia, Russia. Maybe it was. It could also be China, it could be someone sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds. You don’t know who broke into DNC, but what did we learn? We learn that Bernie Sanders was taken advantage of by your people. By Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
Look what happened to her. But Bernie Sanders was taken advantage of. Now, whether that was Russia, whether that was China, whether it was another country, we don’t know, because the truth is, under President Obama we’ve lost control of things that we used to have control over. We came in with an internet, we came up with the internet.
And I think Secretary Clinton and myself would agree very much, when you look at what ISIS is doing with the internet, they’re beating us at our own game. ISIS. So we have to get very, very tough on cyber and cyber warfare. It is a, it is a huge problem.
I have a son. He’s 10 years old. He has computers. He is so good with these computers, it’s unbelievable. The security aspect of cyber is very, very tough. And maybe it’s hardly doable. But I will say, we are not doing the job we should be doing, but that’s true throughout our whole governmental society. We have so many things that we have to do better, Lester, and certainly cyber is one of them.
What are your thoughts on the two top candidates views on cybersecurity? This 2016 election will prove to be a tough one, but cybersecurity must remain a high priority in the candidate’s discussions.
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We Need To Talk About What Kesha’s Judge Said About Rape
Nadine Dilong
Because I’m really angry.
The past few months must have been excruciatingly hard for singer Kesha.
All she ever wanted was “to be able to make music without being afraid, scared, or abused.” Instead, she found herself trapped in a multi-million dollar contract with Sony and a producer who allegedly bullied, drugged and raped her.
She decided to do something about it, to speak up and let the world know how she was treated by Luke Gottwald in an attempt to get a different producer so she wouldn’t have to work with her abuser, so Kesha went to court. What followed can only be described as despicable rape victim shaming.
On Wednesday, the singer was made to once again relive the horror of being violated by her abuser, and the justice system, as she lost yet another legal battle against the producer. Not only did the court dismiss Kesha’s case with the judge saying her “instinct is to do the commercially reasonable thing.” (what a useless instinct), but the Supreme Court Justice Shirley Kornreich also made this very disturbing statement:
“Although [Luke’s] alleged actions were directed to Kesha, who is female, [her claims] do not allege that [Luke] harbored animus toward women or was motivated by gender animus when he allegedly behaved violently toward Kesha. Every rape is not a gender-motivated hate crime.”
My first feeling after hearing this was confusion, followed by utter outrage. I am not sure what Kornreich’s intention was, but what she said is wrong and completely irrelevant for two reasons.
First of all, saying that not every rape is a gender-motivated hate crime implies that there are different kinds of rape, some less harmful than others. Let’s dissect this for a minute. According to Kornreich, a woman being raped by a sexist man who is against gender equality is a crime. A woman being raped by a man who supports gender equality is not. Makes sense? No it doesn’t.
The thing is, every rape is gender-motivated as forcing a person to sleep with you, or do anything they don’t want to do, goes against gender equality – or any form of equality for that matter.
Secondly, even if we were to believe for a minute that Kesha’s rape wasn’t gender-motivated, why would that even matter? I am pretty sure Kesha doesn’t care what Gottwald’s motivation was for raping her, because it does. not. matter. Kronreich clearly disagrees on this and is basically saying, ‘Sorry Kesha, but your producer didn’t rape you because he doesn’t like women, he just didn’t like you, therefore, it’s fine and we can’t do anything about it.’
It’s shocking and disappointing that we have to accept court rulings and inappropriate comments like Kornreich’s in this seemingly modern day and age and in a highly developed, first-world country like the US. This treatment has nothing to do with ‘justice’ and is devastating for any assault or rape victim out there that might not have had the courage yet to speak up about their experience.
Continuing work with the man that raped you must feel like imprisonment, if not worse, and I sincerely hope Kesha and her legal team won’t give up, but will continue to fight for her freedom. This is no longer just about a celebrity’s record deal. This is about every single assault victim who has been belittled, not taken seriously, or silenced.
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Tasted at Justerini & Brooks agency tasting in London. The Les Pensées de Lafleur 2000 is one that I had never tasted before. It attests to the longevity of this wine. It has a lively blackberry and black olive bouquet with a subtle ferrous tincture. It actually gains intensity in the glass and develops more red fruit characteristics.
The palate is dense and powerful, a little austere perhaps, but with a convincing, burly finish and a healthy dash of black pepper on the aftertaste. If you cannot afford the 2000 Lafleur, then think about Les Pensées. Tasted February 2015.
"It was our great-great-grandfather, Henri Greloud, who founded Château Lafleur after buying in 1872 this small Domaine of 4.5 hectares gathered in a sole patch of land. After renewing the vineyard and constructing the house and cellars, he baptizes this cru after the name of the hamlet: Lafleur.
Since 1985 it is us, Jacques and Sylvie, who are in charge of vinifying Château Lafleur, finally becoming the sole owners in 2002 together with our three children. It is also at the beginning of the 2000s that our son Baptiste and his wife Julie join us, with the aim of carrying on this unique work with the same convictions.
Together with our team at Lafleur we also produce five other wines: in Pomerol, on the clay-gravelly sand of the vineyard of Lafleur, Les Pensées de Lafleur. In the region of Fronsac, with its clay-limestone terroir, we produce Château Grand-Village red, Château Grand-Village white, Les Champs Libres and Acte named Les Perrières de Lafleur in 2018."
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news news & features eyemouth fort comes back to life
Eyemouth Fort comes back to life
Eyemouth Fort, Berwick, is regarded as the first 'Trace Italienne' fortification in Britain. The local museum has launched an interactive exhibit where visitors are able to watch a guided tour of the fort and 'play' the fort via an Xbox controller!
Visitors view the Fort's history through the 'War of the Rough Wooing' - the attempt by Henry VIII to force a marriage between his son, Edward, and the infant Mary of Scotland.
Simplified layout with English work in red and French in blue
Small peninsula (to left with cannon) a weakness as opposing force could mount guns to batter fort
English - cramped casements and restricted field for gunloops
French - plenty of room and walls flanked by heavy weapons in bastions
See more at the University of St Andrews Virtual Histories Project website. Click here to view a virtual representation of how the fort may have looked in 1557.
Fort of 1547
Henry VIII was not a man to be trifled with and, when the Scots refused his offer of marriage and a political union, he declared war but died in January 1547 before hostilities could begin. His 9-year-old son became King and the boy's uncle, Edward Seymour, newly created Duke of Somerset and Protector, continued the late King's policy.
The high rocky peninsula viewed from the harbour
On 'Black Friday', 10th September 1547, Somerset won an overwhelming victory over the Scots at the Battle of Pinkie. Still, the Scots would not agree to the marriage and Somerset resolved to remain in Scotland until they did so. Having failed to capture either Edinburgh or Dunbar Castles, he hit upon Eyemouth as a suitable place to garrison.
The small peninsula which lay outside the English fort's defences
Here was a site just one day's march from Berwick. A narrow, elevated peninsula, jutted into the sea and overlooked the harbour; only the landward side required fortification. Somerset, with his knowledge of Italian fortification, constructed a massive, single bastion at the neck of the peninsula, but it was a flawed design. Notably it could not be flanked, the gun rooms were cramped; the sight lines restricted and a nearby peninsula offered a gun platform to any attacking force.
Approach to the English gate with Somerset's high bastion high on left
Outer face of French wall with eroded bastion to left and ditch in front
By January 1548, the fort was complete but to no purpose. The war had taken on a momentum that Somerset could never have imagined. The French landed at Leith to support the Scots and fought him to a standstill. Mary was in France where she was to marry the Dauphin. His policy in tatters, the war was over and it was time to go home. Somerset did not last long, he was beheaded in 1552.
French gate with wall and ditch to left and right of it - the English works are hidden behind rampart
War resumed in 1557 and, this time, it was the French who occupied Eyemouth. They rebuilt the fort and added a new curtain wall flanked with bastions to the front of Somerset's work.
This was a marked improvement as the fort was increased in size; the curtain wall was flanked; heavier weapons could be mounted and the problem of the nearby peninsula was solved simply by enclosing it within the new works.
The English made no attempt to capture the fort and by 1560 the war was over. Both the English and the French returned to their respective countries and, by treaty, Eyemouth Fort was pulled down.
Two gun battery installed in the 1860s as harbour defence against the French!
Figure in red braving the cold wind is SCA member Annick McGarrigle, who, very aptly, happens to be French!
Article by SCA member Brian McGarrigle
Added: 16 Mar 2015 Updated: 16 Jul 2015
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Posted By: Mark McSherry November 30, 2020
Springfield Properties, which is building a number of new communities throughout Scotland, said on Monday it has been granted planning approval for 75 homes to be built for the private rental sector (PRS) at the company’s Bertha Park Village in Perth, Scotland.
Springfield said this marks the firm’s entry into PRS housing “delivering purpose-built houses for families to rent, and is expected to provide the company with an additional, visible and secure revenue stream.”
Bertha Park is a village development comprising private and affordable housin alongside neighbourhood amenities such as a secondary school and greenspace.
“Perth and Kinross Council has now approved the construction of 75 houses for families to rent privately, which will comprise 22 two-bedroom terraced houses, 49 three-bedroom semi/terraced houses and four four-bedroom semi/terraced houses,” said Springfield.
“This is Springfield’s first development to be approved for PRS housing and follows the company entering into a strategic partnership last year with a high-quality PRS provider who specialise in suburban, family homes built to rent.
“Springfield will deliver the housing under a fixed-cost design and build contract, which, following handover, will be owned, let and managed by the company’s partner.
“The development of PRS housing can offer Springfield a further revenue stream, with strong cash flow visibility, and it is expected to increase the build out rate of the company’s villages.”
Springfield Properties CEO Innes Smith said: “We are delighted to have received consent to build our first houses for the private rental market, underscoring our commitment to develop mixed-tenure villages that meet everyone’s housing needs.
“These high-quality, professionally-managed homes will be an asset to the community and attract those who might not yet be ready to buy but want to benefit from everything our villages have to offer.
“The development of PRS housing will also further diversify our revenue streams and provide additional visibility over future sales.
“We look forward to delivering these houses for PRS at Bertha Park and, in due course, at our other village developments to increase housing choice and help set a new standard for the creation of successful, sustainable communities in Scotland.”
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Markús Skeggjason (Mark)
12th century; volume 2; ed. Jayne Carroll;
Eiríksdrápa (Eirdr) - 32
III. 1. Poem on Knútr Sveinsson (Knútr) - 1
III. 2. Fragments (Frag) - 2
III. 3. Lausavísur (Lv) - 2
Markús Skeggjason (Mark) was the son of Skeggi Bjarnason and possibly a brother of the poet Þórarinn Skeggjason (ÞSkegg). He was lawspeaker in Iceland from 1084 until his death on 15 October 1107. In Íslendingabók (Íslb, ÍF 1, 22) he is named as an important informant for Ari Þorgilsson about the lives of the earlier lawspeakers in Iceland. He had gained this information from his brother, father and grandfather. Markús appears to have had close ties to the Church: during his time as lawspeaker, and with his guidance, Gizurr Ísleifsson, bishop of Skálholt (1081-1118), established the Icel. tithe laws (ÍF 1, 22). Markús was among the most respected poets in the canon of the C13th and he is cited often in SnE and TGT (see below).
In Skáldatal, Markús is associated with S. Knútr Sveinsson of Denmark (d. 1086), Eiríkr inn góði ‘the Good’ Sveinsson of Denmark (d. 1103), and Ingi Steinkelsson of Sweden (d. 1110) (SnE 1848-87, III, 252, 258, 260, 267, 271, 283, see also 348-53). An extended hrynhent poem about Eiríkr (Mark Eirdr), composed after his death in 1103, and one helmingr about ‘Sveinn’s brother’, probably S. Knútr (Mark KnútdrIII), survive, alongside one helmingr and a couplet from a possible drápa about Christ (Mark KristdrIII) and two lvv. (Mark Lv 1-2III). Aside from Eirdr, all of Markús’s extant poetry is transmitted in SnE or TGT, and it has been edited in SkP III.
Fragments — Mark FragIII
Kari Ellen Gade 2017, ‘(Introduction to) Markús Skeggjason, Fragments’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 293.
stanzas: 1 2
Skj: Markús Skeggjason: 3. Kristsdrápa(?) (AI, 452, BI, 420)
in texts: Gramm, LaufE, Skm, SnE, TGT
old edition introduction edition manuscripts transcriptions concordance references search files
Vol. 3. Markús Skeggjason (biog. vol. 2), 2. Fragments, 1 [Vol. 3, 293] — Mark Frag 1III
Gramr skóp grund ok himna
glyggranns sem her dyggvan,
einn stillir má ǫllu
aldar Kristr of valda.
Skj: Markús Skeggjason: 3. Kristsdrápa(?) 1 (AI, 452; BI, 420); dróttkvætt; ed. KEG; group: B; mss: A, R, Tx, U, W; texts: LaufE 84(364), Skm 272
Runic data from Samnordisk runtextdatabas, Uppsala universitet, unless otherwise stated
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#MIDDLEEAST#RUSSIA 03.10.2015 - 1,798 views
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Report from the Syria Frontline 4.6666666666667 out of 5 based on 12 ratings. 12 user reviews.
Report from the Syria Frontline
Original written by Dmitriy Steshin and Aleksandr Kots and published by Komsomolskaya Pravda; translated from Russian by J.Hawk
For the first time in the 21st century, Russia established a military base in a region which was traditionally considered the zone of influence of other powers. This fact bothers our ill-wishers more than the bombing of some extremists in distant deserts. Aircraft come and go, but Russian presence is a factor that will have to be now taken into consideration in geopolitical games, which will force plans to be changed and voices to be lowered in diplomatic battles with Moscow.
Russia was initially granted the rocky vacant plot next to the Khmeimim air base, near the Mediterranean megapolis of Latakia. The logistics base in Tartus is 50km away, and it may be quickly transformed into a Russian naval base, since the dimensions and depth of the bay allow large ships to be stationed there.
When it comes to the speed of construction, the Kheimim base can be compared only to the reconstruction of Crimea’s military bases in 2014, after the peninsula’s historic drift back to Russia. But in Crimea there at least existed the remnants of infrastructure. But here there was absolutely nothing until very recently.
So–have a look and enjoy.
At first, the land surface of the base was covered with asphalt, which is still fresh, so that shoes get stuck to it. The concern here is not mud, but rather sandstorms which, this being the season, are about to begin. It’s very fine-grained dust, light yellow in color, it penetrates everything and causes major headaches for the technicians servicing complex aircraft equipment.
Water was the other problem. The old water tower was rebuilt, filters were installed–now one can drink straight from the tap. But they are still bringing insane quantities of drinking water to the base. It is not being rationed, you can take as much as you want from the cafeteria. And you can eat as much as you want.
Personnel is housed in special furnished units, equipped with air conditioners.
–We have established all necessary conditions to ensure successful mission accomplishment by Russian servicemembers, says MOD representative Igor Klimov. –At present time, a whole system of airfield engineering and technical support has been deployed to the Khmeimim base. We built dozens of field infrastructure facilities. Including refueling stations, storage facilities, field cafeterias.Personnel is housed in special furnished units, equipped with air conditioners.
The cafeteria is a huge white tent in which, according to one of the cooks, one could easily feed three thousand people. Incidentally, this is not a reflection of the size of the military contingent, but rather about the quality of service.
At least ten field kitchens are humming right behind the cafeteria, fueled not by firewood but by diesel.
–We feed them stewed meat, chicken, borshch, cabbage soup, salads, pancakes, rolls–the cook Lidiya Tychkina lists the foods while stirring the cauldron of the good old KP-130 field kitchen. –Food is being transported from Russia, everything is fresh and tasty. We got used to the weather, got acclimated. The locals are very friendly to us.
There are also brand new field kitchens on Ural truck chassis which were recently demonstrated in the Patriot park near Moscow. There is also a bakery which turns out up to a ton of fresh bread, rolls, and pastries. You can get both boiling and cold water for your thermos. Everything is brand new, fresh from storage. Personnel standing in line at the cafeteria reminds one of the photographs from Western bases. The yellow-tan “tropical” uniforms, the high sand-colored boots, the britches, are at first glance unfamiliar to the eye. The dinner is standard cafeteria fare, barley soup with chicken, tea. Two boxes of apple juice and bread baked only an hour earlier. One can go through the line a second time, nobody minds.
We are walking among white modular containers made at the Kovrovo plant. It’s astoundingly hot–the temperature is 35 degrees Celsius in the sun. We are carefully peering into one of the modules and, as in the old saying the feet are in fire and the head is in ice. Yes, air conditioning! A table, three beds, a window with blinds. Almost like an express train compartment. Not enough shelves and hangers for the uniforms and equipment, but people still haven’t quite settled in. But everything one needs to live is here. Laundry and even an ironing service.
But the apotheosis of this hospitality was an ordinary wood-fired steam bath. It was built into a Ural truck bed.
–It services up to 10 people an hour, the steam bath attendant tells us with pride.
There is a similar bath nearby, for women only, and the norms there are different, more democratic. We see eucalyptus branches in the buckets. We ask the attendant:
–These are also from Moscow?
He laughs:
–Nah, we collected them this morning! From behind the fence! Today is bath day!
Right behind the bath is the holy of holies–the runway. With a row of Su-24s, Su-25s, Su-34s, fitted with modern equipment and precision munitions. Under the burning sun, technicians are working on the complex subsystems of the fearsome machines. One after another, the Su-25 Ravens are taking off into the sky with deafening roar. The flights continue even at night. Or rather–they are flying as actively at night as during the day. And thanks to them, the Syrian army is preparing to attack.
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Chhetri shows BFC way to the top
Sunil Chhetri bagged a brace, with Miku adding a third after the hour mark to secure an easy win for the visiting team.
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Sunil Chhetri dispatched a penalty before half-time and gave Bengaluru a two-goal cushion minutes after the restart. - ISL
Sunil Chhetri returned to familiar turf at Mumbai Football Arena, wearing a different jersey but reputation and fom like last season which made him the darling of Mumbai City FC fans. This time in a number 11 white outfit for Bengaluru FC, he proved to be a tricky customer for former teammates, scoring twice in a display of goal-poaching skills and decision-making ability in the goalmouth.
As it happened
MCFC’s over-worked defence lost form and resilience in the face of constant attacks. Venezuelan striker Miku, not wanting to be left behind in the race to score for visitors, converted a direct-free-kick to seal 3-1 victory for BFC and lifted the ISL debutant to pole position in the 10-team league table. Leo Costa reduced the margin for the hosts, a brave effort to turn the tide after his team were drowned by waves of raids.
Chhetri’s goals came via a power-packed penalty kick and bettered his effort with a stylish right-footed placement low to the corner. Amrinder Singh in goal, teammates on the national squad, had no chance to get close to the a mighty drive from the spot, nor the time to switch angle from post to post when the livewire India captain finished off at first touch.
MCFC defence came off second best when Miku hammered in the third off a direct free-kick, a right-footed finish to the near corner. Leo Costa’s strike for the home team came too late to light up the home team fightback. BFC attacking troika of Chhetri, Miku and Udanta Singh, the last-named showing passing and positioning of a high calibre.
Amrinder and Gurpreet Singh, guarding the goal for MCFC and BFC respectively at either ends, were kept on toes from start. Miku and Erik Paartalu tested the former and Balwant Singh miskicked in an attempted to float the ball which sailed over. The noisy stadium atmosphere demanded more goalmouth amidst drumbeats and blaring trumpets.
Chhetri’s presence was felt in the 25th minute, moving into position for a relay by Udanta following a run down the right. The captain decided to connect first-time, only to find the home team custodian in place to collect. The latter dived to his left and deflected away a shot on the turn by Boithang Haokip. A stunning save foiling a super shot.
The excitement levels in the stands soared when a penalty-kick was awarded to BFC. Three defendeers charging in towards Chhetri set off a chain reaction. He was felled and took the shot himself, beating Amrinder with a blast high into the corner. He netted again in the second half, finishing off a move by Udanta’s daring run and tap back to captain. MCFC remain in fifth place after 11 matches.
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Gurpreet Singh Sandhu
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Home » Сricket » Rafiq files race discrimination and harassment claim against Yorkshire
Rafiq files race discrimination and harassment claim against Yorkshire
12/16/2020 Сricket
Azeem Rafiq files race discrimination and harassment claim against Yorkshire as former spinner alleges racist dressing room comments and a failure to respect the beliefs of players of Pakistani descent
Rafiq taking action for discrimination and harassment on the grounds of race
He is claiming victimisation and detriment due to addressing racism at the club
The action is separate to the inquiry into his allegations of institutional racism
Azeem Rafiq is taking legal action against Yorkshire for discrimination and harassment on the grounds of race.
Rafiq, 29, is also claiming victimisation and detriment as a result of his efforts to address racism at the club.
The former England Under 19 captain’s claim, filed to the Leeds employment tribunal, is separate from the inquiry launched in the wake of his allegations of institutional racism at the club.
Azeem Rafiq has filed legal action against his former club Yorkshire on the grounds of race
‘Mr Rafiq’s legal claim seeks a declaration that the club acted unlawfully, as well as financial damages for the harm and detriment he suffered,’ read a statement from his lawyers.
‘The claim also makes recommendations to ensure that changes are brought about at the club to ensure it doesn’t happen again.’
Although the time frame is outside the usual three-month limit for claims relating to the workplace, he will argue that it is just and equitable for time to be extended given the public interest in his decision to speak out.
Among other things, Rafiq logs racist dressing room comments, including the use of ‘P**i’ and ‘elephant washer’ in relation to non-white players, a failure to respect the beliefs of players of Pakistani descent and attempts to enforce a drinking culture upon them.
Yorkshire have commissioned an investigation into Rafiq’s allegations of racism
Rafiq also says he was denied professional opportunities offered to white British players, including being refused the opportunity to play Twenty20 cricket in the off-season during his time at the club, which came in two spells, the second of which ended in 2018.
He also alleges a lack of pastoral support when his son was stillborn two years ago, as well as differential treatment in coaching and development support, and disciplinary matters.
A statement from Yorkshire read: ‘Racism has no place in our society or in our sport. We have taken the allegations made extremely seriously, launching a thorough, independent investigation and now await the results and recommendations from this early next year.
‘This is an important investigation for the club and a distressing time for all involved but with this process under way, it would be inappropriate for us to go into further detail.’
Rafiq is claiming victimisation and detriment as a result of his efforts to address racism
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This was the first settlement on Daichi, and the team named it Ryou which means hostel, dormitory. Ryou was built on the shores of the Himiko Sea. The start of the colony consisted of a large collection of Collapsible Rapid Deployment Modules. Initial construction supplies and provision were supplied by the YSS Tsuuken and YSS Sapurai. Since the colony site was fairly temperate they chose to build houses reminiscent of the Shoin-style. Colonization is scheduled to take place in three phases.
The center of the settlement was three community structures, built in a Shinden-zukuri style. Surrounded by Shoin-style houses, with modern amenities blended in. For the initial buildings lumber was harvested on the surface and transported by Tansaku to the Sapurai. On the Kisaki-class Starbase the lumber was processed into prefabricated pieces. Then shipped back to the surface for construction. Upon completion of Phase I the Kisaki-class Starbase moved to their designated locations. The colony found several species of fruit safe for consumption.
For Phase II of the colony construction a planet side lumber mill was constructed. This phase was not only an expansion of the population but a start of production. Large farms semi-automated will be developed to grow rice, beets, and potatoes. A fish farm is to be established to produce genetically engineered fish, along with careful fishing operations of native species. A small cattle farm is to be established as well. Phase II has a target population of 10,000, and is planned to take three months. During this phase a series of H Bunker will be constructed for the safety of the population.
Phase III of the Colony saw an influx of colonists from Yamatai (Planet), the inclusion of several other facilities.
The colony currently products the following items:
Rice, potatoes, beets, Sake, fish, fruit
Wood, refined ores.
Population: 5,295,000 Up from 1,525,000 due to induction of Refugees.
NH-22C Yamataian 1,500,000
Nekovalkyrja, Type 33 1,750,000
NH-29 25,000
Elysian 20,000
Jiyuuian 2,000,000
An SSS Campus was established based on the design of the original.
A Community Backup Center is present at the center of the government complex.
After completing the initial development a Tansaku Staging area similar to the on on Yamatai (Planet) was created.
Twin tunnels were dug using M.O.L.E.S. - Mineral Ore Location and Extraction Systemrunning from Ryou to Fort Shotou. Excavation took 60 days. Two Type 32 Rail Train has been put in place providing transport between Ryou and Fort Shotou.
Completed of expansion of the rail system has begun with tunnels being made to Bakufu and Joukai.
In YE 34 EM-K6 "Kouteki" Grav-Bus service was added to the city, and limited service to the other cities.
At the end of YE 34 work began to install a EM-K7 - Monorail system, with EM-K7 - Monorail Stations throughout the city. It connects to the long distance rail system already in place.
Ryou is part of the PAINT mass transportation system and has a terminal operated by the Star Army of Yamatai. It has a flight to Amatsu-Yamatai, Yamatai (Planet) every two hours.
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Our Last Tango
Executive produced by Wim Wenders, Our Last Tango tells the life and love story of Argentina’s most famous tango dancers Maria Nieves Rego and Juan Carlos Copes, who met as teenagers and danced together for nearly fifty years until a painful separation tore them apart. Relaying their story to a group of young tango dancers and choreographers from Buenos Aires, their story of love, hatred and passion is transformed into unforgettable tango-choreographies.
NYT CRITICS’ PICK
– Andy Webster, The New York Times
“A lush and sexy portrait”
– John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter
“Achingly poignant… beautifully choreographed”
– Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times
“Compelling!”
– Abbey Bender, Village Voice
German Kral
Nils Dünker
Dieter Horres
Johana Copes
Juan Carlos Copes
Alejandra Gutty
Country of Origin: Argentina
Sound Format: Dolby SRD
In Spanish with English Subtitles
See this film at the following theaters:
02/16/16 Dance On Film (FilmLinc) New York, NY
03/04/16 Miami Int’l Film Festival Miami, FL
03/18/16 San Diego Latino Film Fest San Diego, CA
03/30/16 Cleveland Int’l Film Festival Cleveland, OH
04/01/16 Sarasota Film Festival Sarasota, FL
04/07/16 MPS/St. Paul Int’l Film Festival Minneapolis, MN
04/08/16 Chicago Latino Film Festival Chicago, IL
04/14/16 Philadelphia Film Society Philadelphia, PA
04/14/16 Wisconsin Film Festival Madison, WI
04/15/16 Angelika Film Center & Cafe New York, NY
04/16/16 Film Fest DC Washington, DC
04/28/16 Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX
04/29/16 Northwest Film Forum Seattle, WA
04/29/16 Chelsea Cinemas Chapel Hill, NC
04/29/16 City Cinemas Village East 7 New York, NY
05/06/15 Coral Gables Art Cinema Coral Gables, FL
05/06/16 Zoetropolis Lancaster, PA
05/06/16 Laemmle’s Music Hall Beverly Hills, CA
05/10/16 Time & Space Limited Hudson, NY
05/11/16 UWM Union Theatre Milwaukee, WI
05/13/16 Angelika – Carmel Mountain San Diego, CA
05/13/16 Digital Gym Cinema San Diego, CA
05/13/16 Cable Car Cinema Providence, RI
05/13/16 Corazon Cinema & Cafe St. Augustine, FL
05/13/16 Bill Cosford Cinema Coral Gables, FL
05/18/16 Plaza De Oro Theatre Santa Barbara, CA
05/20/16 Landmark’s Opera Plaza San Francisco, CA
05/20/16 Landmark’s Shattuck Cinemas Berkeley, CA
05/20/16 Jean Cocteau Cinema Santa Fe, NM
05/20/16 Parkway Theatre McKee’s Rocks (Pittsburgh), PA
05/27/16 Landmark’s Esquire Theatre Denver, CO
05/27/16 Real Art Ways Hartford, CT
05/27/16 Lark Theater Larkspur, CA
05/27/16 Cinematique of Daytona Daytona Beach, FL
06/02/16 Mendocino Film Festival Mendocino, CA
06/10/16 Sundance Cinemas Houston Houston, TX
06/17/16 Gene Siskel Film Center Chicago, IL
06/17/16 Wilmette Theatre Wilmette, IL
06/17/16 Living Room Theatres Portland, OR
06/17/16 Living Room Theatres Boca Raton, FL
06/24/16 Guild Cinema Albuquerque, NM
06/24/16 Tallahassee Film Society Tallahassee, FL
07/01/16 Cinema Paradiso – Ft. Lauderdale Ft. Lauderdale, FL
07/01/16 Speed Art Museum Louisville, KY
07/09/16 Dietrich Cinema Tunkhannock, PA
08/01/16 Bear Tooth Theatre Pub Anchorage, AK
08/13/16 Hopkins Center for Film Hanover, NH
08/23/16 PS21 Chatham, NY
11/10/16 Fairhope Film Festival Fairhope, AL
11/18/16 Sonoma Film Institute Rohnert Park, CA
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Virta’s Eichrecht solution
Virta supports two different Eichrecht technologies:
Virta is a member of the S.A.F.E consortium and supports the common standard the consortium has agreed to use. Virta also supports S.A.F.E. consortium’s common transparency software.
Virta also supports charging hardware solution from EBG Compleo, so-called SAM module, which can be used to verify energy readings locally on the charging station
The Eichrecht also requires that the SMV information is sent automatically to the customer. How this information is sent depends whether we know the customer’s email (registered customers) or whether we don’t (one-time payments).
When a customer has an account in the Virta Platform the Eichrecht solution works in the following way:
Customers charge their EVs on an Eichrecht compatible station with either S.A.F.E. or SAM technology
When the charging ends, Virta sends an email to the customer
If the station has a SAM module, Virta sends an email to the customer instructing the customer to check energy readings from the SAM module’s screen on the station
If the station follows the S.A.F.E. standard, then Virta sends an email to the customer and in the email the SMV information. Virta also sends in the same email instructions on how the customer can use the transparency software (https://transparenz.software) to verify that the energy readings are correct
Virta also saves all the SMVs to Virta’s own internal data storage where they can be fetched at a later point if needed.
One-time payments
One-time payment (also known as Direct payment) is a solution when a customer doesn’t have an account at the Virta Platform, but just enters a payment card and pays for a single charge. In this case, Virta doesn’t know the customer’s name, email or any other personal info. For one-time payments, the Eichrecht-solution works in the following way:
Customers charge their EVs on an Eichrecht compatible station with either S.A.F.E. or SAM technology. Charge is started by entering payment card information but the customer doesn’t need to provide any personal information (like email) before the charging is started
When the charging ends, Virta shows a summary page to the customer with Eichrecht information in it (same information which is sent to the registered customers by email)
The customer can also enter their email after the charge has ended, and in this case, Virta will send a receipt and the Eichrecht information to the customer also by email
Eichrecht compatible charging station models
S.A.F.E. consortium’s standard defines the common format of the SMV. However, each station manufacturer has its own proprietary OCPP message format that they use to send the SMV to the backend systems like Virta.
Since there is no common standard for the message format that the different station manufacturers use, the Virta Platform is not automatically compatible with all the charging station models of the S.A.F.E. consortium. Each new station model needs to be separately integrated and tested.
At the moment Virta provides compatibility for the following Eichrecht station models:
Alfen EVe
Alfen EVe Mini
Ebee
EBG Compleo
Virta is, however, integrating new Eichrect-compatible models all the time and there will be support for more models in the future.
Eichrecht and Roaming
At the moment there is no common solution for Eichrecht in the roaming networks like Hubject. Since roaming networks don’t support Eichrecht, Virta cannot either provide Eichrecht support for roaming charges at the moment. Virta is, however, following the roaming development closely and will implement Eichrecht support for Hubject once Hubject (and possible other roaming hubs) can provide a standard solution for Eichrecht.
Station settings
Station setup
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Worship of the Lord is Being Useful
An excerpt from Secrets of Heaven by Emanuel Swedenborg, section #7038
True worship consists in the performance of useful functions, thus in the exercises of charity. Anyone who believes that serving the Lord consists solely in frequenting a place of worship, in hearing preaching there, and in praying, and that this is sufficient, is much mistaken. The very worship of the Lord consists in performing useful functions. During a person’s life in the world useful functions consist in everyone’s performing the duties appropriate to their stations, and thus from the heart being of service to their country, to societies, and to the neighbor; in dealing sincerely with their fellows; and in performing good deeds with prudence in accordance with each person’s character. These useful functions are chiefly the works of charity, and are those whereby the Lord is chiefly worshiped. Frequenting a place of worship, hearing sermons, and saying prayers are also necessary, but without the above activities they avail nothing, because they are not of life itself; they only teach what life must be. The angels in heaven get all their happiness from performing useful functions, according to useful functions, so that to them being useful is heaven.
That happiness comes from divine order according to usefulness can be seen from the things in human beings that correspond to those which are in the universal human. Those external senses, namely, sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch, are correspondent, as has been shown at the end of many chapters. These senses therefore have delights exactly in accordance with the useful functions they perform; the most delightful is the sense of marriage love, on account of its greatest useful function, because from this comes the propagation of the human race, and from the human race, heaven; the delight of taste follows next, because it serves for the nourishment and thereby for the health of the body, in accordance with which is the sound action of the mind; the delight of smell is less, because it merely serves for recreation; and thus also for health; the delight of hearing and that of sight are in last place, because they merely take up those things that will be of service to useful functions, and wait upon the intellect, and not so much the will.
From these and other like facts it becomes plain that it is useful functions according to which happiness is given in heaven by the Lord; and that it is useful functions through which the Lord is mainly worshiped.
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Sleepers , Too Good Not to Share
Sleepers Too Good Not to Share
Mike Zirpolo December 30, 2020 0 COMMENTS
“Green Goon Jive”
Composed by Jan Savitt; arranged by Billy Moore.
Recorded by Jan Savitt and His Top Hatters for Decca on January 3, 1941 in New York.
Jan Savitt, directing: Jack Hansen, first trumpet; George Hosfeld and Jack Palmer, trumpets; Al Leopold, first trombone; Ben Pickering and Al George, trombones; George “Gigi” Bohn, first alto saxophone; Ted Duane, alto saxophone; Fran Ludwig and Eddie Clausen, tenor saxophones; Ray Tucci, baritone saxophone; Jack Pleis, piano; Danny Perri, guitar; Howard Cook, bass; Russ Isaacs, drums.(*)
(*) There has been some confusion surrounding the personnel of Jan Savitt’s band for this recording, and even uncertainty about the recording date. The information presented above is my best attempt to correct the historical record. If anyone has more definite information about these issues, please post a comment below or contact me.)
The story: How Jan Savitt managed to keep together a first-rate band through 1940 is told in detail in the post here at swingandbeyond.com on “Ring Dem Bells.” A link to that post appears at the bottom of this post. Basically, Savitt and his band were booked by Music Corporation of America (MCA) on mostly one-night dance jobs throughout the eastern one-third of the United States, with a week or split-week at a theater thrown in periodically to provide Savitt with enough revenue to keep his band on the road. By the holiday season of 1940, Savitt and his sidemen, along with vocalists Allan DeWitt and Ruth Robin were exhausted. MCA pulled them off the road for a few days just before the end of the year. They had not been in Decca’s recording studios since the preceding April. Back-to-back recording dates were set-up for January 2 and 3, 1941.
Exhausted or not, the Savitt band we hear in this swinging performance of arranger Billy Moore’s chart on Savitt’s original riff composition called “Green Goon Jive,” demonstrates that they definitely had developed some serious road chops on their many tours throughout 1940. Their playing on this recording is at once disciplined and spirited.
“Green Goon Jive” is arranged by Billy Moore (1917-1989), one of the less remembered arrangers to start his musical career during the swing era. Moore came to some prominence in the world of swing by succeeding Sy Oliver as Jimmie Lunceford’s main arranger after Oliver left Lunceford in the spring of 1939 to join Tommy Dorsey. Moore was born in Parkersburg, West Virginia, but moved to New York City in 1932. It is unclear how Moore got his earliest musical education, but by 1938, he was writing arrangements for a band of hip teen-agers in Harlem called Freddie Williams and His Royal Barons. (This band included, in addition to Billy Moore, such future accomplished musicians as pianist Herbie Nichols and bassist George Duvivier.) In approximately 1938, the Royal Barons were good enough to land a gig as a relief band at the Renaissance Casino, a large dance hall in Harlem on Seventh Avenue at 138th Street. The featured band that night was Lunceford’s. After the Lunceford band finished playing and started to pack up, the Royal Barons started to play. The Lunceford musicians took notice, especially Sy Oliver and Lunceford himself. (Above right: Billy Moore in the 1960s.)
Shortly after this, Billy Moore, who had a day job in a Harlem butcher shop, began to study arranging with Sy Oliver. Slowly, some of Moore’s arrangements, including his original compositions, began to enter the Lunceford book. These eventually included: “Belgium Stomp,” “What’s Your Story Morning Glory?” “Chopin Prelude No. 7,” “Bugs Parade” and “Monotony in Four Flats,” among others. When listening to Moore’s arrangements for the Lunceford band, it is immediately apparent that he had great talent, and a musical voice that was his own. When Oliver left the Lunceford band, Moore was well-prepared to take over as Lunceford’s chief arranger.
Unfortunately, a dispute soon developed when Lunceford began to record some of Moore’s original compositions. Lunceford and his manager Harold Oxley had a small music publishing business together, and Oxley urged Lunceford to get as many original titles as possible from the arrangers in his band to be published by their company. This wasn’t necessarily a problem. But when Lunceford began to insist that his name be added as co-composer on Moore’s original compositions, Moore objected. After this dispute began, the Lunceford band essentially stopped recording Moore’s original compositions (though they recorded many of his arrangements of other peoples’ tunes). Moore apparently had signed a one year contract with Lunceford in the spring of 1939. When that contract came up for renewal, Moore and Lunceford parted company. Moore then began working as a free-lance arranger. One of his numerous customers was Jan Savitt. (1)
The Decca record that carried Jan Savitt’s “Green Goon Jive” lists Savitt’s name alone as its composer. In the case of this swing original, that means that Savitt created the undulating eight bar melodic fragment which is the tune’s “head,” and a musically contrasting eight bar bridge melody. At that point, Savitt handed those bits of music to arranger Billy Moore, who created an arrangement as a setting for a riff-based AABA thirty-two bar tune. Moore utilized the trademark “shuffle rhythm” that was used in many Savitt arrangements as a stylistic identifying device.
Pianist Jack Pleis (who was later a successful arranger in the New York recording studios) leads the rhythm section to play the band on with a brief introduction. Hear how the saxophone section attacks the unison riffs they play. They are so together that they sound like one marvelously rich-rounding musical instrument. The bright brass punctuations are equally unified under the strong leads of Jack Hansen on trumpet and Al Leopold on trombone. The brass play the bridge offering a contrast to the unison reeds. This is a very together swing band.
The second chorus begins with a three-way round robin between the reeds (now harmonized) the open trumpets and descending open trombones. There follows a rhythmically intense cup-muted trumpet solo that I long assumed was played by Johnny Austin, a big-toned, swaggering trumpeter in the Ziggy Elman mode. Not so. Austin was not in the band when this recording was made. My informed speculation leads me to conclude that the soloist was George Hosfeld, who would remain a stalwart Top Hatter into the early days of World War II. (2) He plays very tasty jazz here. Similarly, there is some confusion as to who plays the improvised tenor saxophone solo.- Fran Ludwig or Eddie Clausen. Both were very capable of playing good jazz. My call is that this solo is played by Clausen. He had been with Savitt for about two years before this recording was made, and took many recorded solos. His sound on tenor was similar to that of Georgie Auld in his 1939 days with Artie Shaw. Clausen’s playing here is rhythmically strong and swinging. (Above right: Jan Savitt with Eddie Clausen at his right. Bassist Morris Rayman is in the background.)
The roaring out-chorus features first trumpeter Jack Hansen in his high register, playing a paraphrase of Ferde Grofe’s “On the Trail” above the ensemble. This is first-class trumpet playing. Curiously, what Hansen plays in this climactic sequence is similar to what was played played by Bunny Berigan on “‘T’Aint So Honey, ‘T’Aint So,” which Berigan recorded at a Thesaurus Transcription session in the summer of 1938. This observation is not intended as a criticism of Hansen – all swing era trumpeters admired Berigan’s playing, and many borrowed from him. What Hansen played on this recording fits, and he played it beautifully and passionately. Bravo Savitt! Bravo Moore! Bravo Top Hatters!
The recording presented with this post was digitally remastered by Mike Zirpolo.
(1) Information about Billy Moore’s musical apprenticeship and time with Jimmie Lunceford’s band comes from the book Rhythm Is Our Business …Jimmie Lunceford and the Harlem Express by Eddy Determeyer (2006) 164-165.
(2) Prosess of elimination: There were three trumpets in the Savitt band when this recording was made. Jack Hansen was the first trumpeter, not a jazz soloist, and plays lead throughout this performance and the high-note finale. That eliminates him as a possibility for playing the jazz trumpet solo. The third trumpeter was journeyman Jack Palmer, who moved from band to band playing the trumpet parts assigned to him and fitting in. He was not a soloist. The third trumpeter was George Hosfeld, who was not a lead player, but who was a member of the Savitt band for some time as noted above, and appears to have been the trumpeter Savitt used to replace Johnny Austin, who occupied the jazz trumpet chair previously.
Here is the link to Jan Savitt’s romping performance of Duke Ellington’s “Ring Dem Bells”:
https://swingandbeyond.com/2019/07/04/ring-dem-bells-1939-live-jan-savitt-and-his-top-hatters/
Here is the link to another swinging Savitt performance featuring George “Bon Bon” Tunnell:
https://swingandbeyond.com/2020/02/14/vol-vistu-gaily-star-1939-jan-savitt-with-george-bon-bon-tunnell/
And here is a great ballad performed by the Savitt band and their first female vocalist, Carlotta Dale:
https://swingandbeyond.com/2016/08/14/you-go-to-my-head-jan-savitt-carlotta-dale/
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The Top Reason Not to Ditch an iPhone for Android? WhatsApp
My partner recently made the leap from iPhone to Android. “So how do I get my WhatsApp messages from my old phone to my new one?” they asked shortly after setting the new phone up. “Simple!” I chirped. “You just restore it from your backup.” How wrong I was. It turns out your WhatsApp chat history—all those thousands of photos and messages—can’t be moved between operating systems.
This story originally appeared on WIRED UK.
It’s one of those simple-sounding questions. And it should just work, right? You’ve got a backup somewhere in the cloud, so why can’t you download it onto a different operating system and take your archive of messages, photos and videos with you wherever you go, forevermore? You might assume WhatsApp is WhatsApp regardless of whether it’s on Android or iOS—well, turns out it isn’t.
Pop the quandary into a search engine of your choice and you quickly find yourself drowning in a confusing slurry of poorly written step-by-step guides, most of which are technically inaccurate or just downright misleading. I’ll spare you the headache and heartache: you can’t do it. It is currently not possible to move your WhatsApp backup from Android to iOS and vice versa.
Except you can. If you’re willing to use third-party software and follow a series of fiddly, convoluted steps. But do you really want to hand over your whole WhatsApp chat history to a piece of software called WazzapMigrator? No, thought not. And yet here we are. If you’ve spent years sending private messages, videos and photos over WhatsApp on your iPhone, then you should think twice about switching to Android.
The world’s most popular messaging service, with more than two billion users, has a somewhat baffling flaw. But why? According to WhatsApp, it’s because of a technical knot that’s fiendishly difficult to unpick. “There is a difference in the formats in which the data is stored in the Android and iOS apps, as the database schemas are different,” a spokesperson explains. On an iPhone, iOS backs up WhatsApp chats to iCloud. On Android, backups go to Google Drive. And the two systems don’t like talking to one another.
Simply put, the two backup formats are completely different to one another. That’s mostly down to security. Create a backup for WhatsApp on an iPhone and the file is created to be securely stored on iCloud. Do the same on Android and the file is created to be securely stored on Google Drive. But as the two systems have different security requirements, it isn’t currently possible to transfer one backup to another operating system.
“It is technically possible, but it is not supported today by WhatsApp given the difference in data formats,” the spokesperson explains. When asked if a solution was in development, the spokesperson said the company does not comment on “future products”.
No big deal, right? Wrong. The move to more private social media use—driven mostly by Facebook’s privacy record—means WhatsApp has become a social network. Albeit one where you can more easily choose who you share with. It’s where photos of weddings, holidays and family get-togethers are shared. It’s where weekend plans are hatched and old friends who now live far away are kept in touch with. And while a lot of those messages are fleeting, the photos and videos we share alongside them are a sort of diary. Where once that would have played out more publicly on Facebook or Instagram, it’s now shared on WhatsApp.
There’s another issue bubbling here: what do you do with all this stuff you’re accumulating? Those thousands of messages, photos and videos stretching back for years won’t be around forever, yet we feel compelled to hoard them for as long as we can. Being forced to abandon your WhatsApp history when you move operating system feels cruel.
Cloud storage and the relative ease with which our phones enable us to hoard every aspect of our lives has made it almost unthinkable that we’d ever throw away a piece of data. We’ve spent years collecting it all—there’s so much of it—that doing anything other than towing it along with us until we die feels unconscionable. Or, you know, WhatsApp could just make backups work cross-platform. Then the existential angst might fade away.
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ALL ABOUT IELTS SPEAKING - FORMAT AND HOW IS IT MARKED?
Test format – Speaking
The speaking section assesses your use of spoken English. Every test is recorded.
Part 1 - the examiner will ask you general questions about yourself and a range of familiar topics, such as home, family, work, studies and interests. This part lasts between four and five minutes.
Part 2 - you will be given a card which asks you to talk about a particular topic. You will have one minute to prepare before speaking for up to two minutes. The examiner will then ask one or two questions on the same topic.
Part 3 - you will be asked further questions about the topic in Part 2. These will give you the opportunity to discuss more abstract ideas and issues. This part of the test lasts between four and five minutes.
A. IELTS Speaking description
B. IELTS Speaking in detail
Part 1 – Introduction and interview
Part 2 – Long turn
Part 3 – Discussion
C. IELTS Speaking - How it's marked
Fluency and coherence
Lexical resource
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Paper format The Speaking test consists of an oral interview between the test takers' and an examiner. All Speaking tests are recorded.
Timing 11–14 minutes
Task types There are three parts to the test and each part fulfils a specific function in terms of interaction pattern, task input and test takers output.
A detailed look at the paper with links to related resources.
Task type and format
In this part, the examiner introduces him/herself and checks the test takers' identity. They then ask the test takers general questions on some familiar topics such as home, family, work, studies and interests. To ensure consistency, questions are taken from a script.
Part 1 lasts for 4–5 minutes.
Task focus This part of the test focuses on the ability to communicate opinions and information on everyday topics and common experiences or situations by answering a range of questions.
No. of questions Variable
Part 2 is the individual long turn. The examiner gives the test takers a task card which asks the test takers to talk about a particular topic, includes points to cover in their talk and instructs the test takers to explain one aspect of the topic. Test takers are given one minute to prepare their talk, and are given a pencil and paper to make notes. The examiner asks the test takers to talk for 1 to 2 minutes, stops the test takers after 2 minutes, and asks one or two questions on the same topic.
Using the points on the task card effectively, and making notes during the preparation time, will help the test takers think of appropriate things to say, structure their talk, and keep talking for 2 minutes.
Part 2 lasts 3–4 minutes, including the preparation time.
Task focus This part of the test focuses on the ability to speak at length on a given topic (without further prompts from the examiner), using appropriate language and organising ideas coherently. It is likely that the test takers will need to draw on their own experience to complete the long turn.
In Part 3, the examiner and the test takers discuss issues related to the topic in Part 2 in a more general and abstract way and, where appropriate, in greater depth.
Part 3 lasts 4–5 minutes.
Task focus This part of the test focuses on the ability to express and justify opinions and to analyse, discuss and speculate about issues.
Speaking performances are assessed by certificated IELTS examiners. All IELTS examiners hold relevant teaching qualifications and are recruited as examiners by the test centres and approved by the British Council or IDP: IELTS Australia.
Scores are reported in whole and half bands. Detailed performance descriptors have been developed which describe spoken performance at the nine IELTS bands. These are available on the How IELTS is scored page.
This refers to the ability to talk with normal levels of continuity, rate and effort and to link ideas and language together to form coherent, connected speech. The key indicators of fluency are speech rate and speech continuity. The key indicators of coherence are logical sequencing of sentences, clear marking of stages in a discussion, narration or argument, and the use of cohesive devices (e.g. connectors, pronouns and conjunctions) within and between sentences.
This criterion refers to the range of vocabulary used and the precision with which meanings and attitudes can be expressed. The key indicators are the variety of words used, the adequacy and appropriacy of the words used and the ability to circumlocute (get round a vocabulary gap by using other words) with or without noticeable hesitation.
This refers to the range and the accurate and appropriate use of the test takers' grammatical resource. The key indicators of grammatical range are the length and complexity of the spoken sentences, the appropriate use of subordinate clauses, and the range of sentence structures, especially to move elements around for information focus. The key indicators of grammatical accuracy are the number of grammatical errors in a given amount of speech and the communicative effect of error.
This criterion refers to the ability to produce comprehensible speech to fulfil the Speaking test requirements. The key indicators will be the amount of strain caused to the listener, the amount of the speech which is unintelligible and the noticeability of L1 influence.
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Lately.
April 11, 2016 April 12, 2016 By kellyrozellhardin
I. “Convicted”
II. FIGHTER – Official Selection at World of Women Film Festival 2016
III. UTC’s Boulder Competition
IV. Wax Masterminds
V. Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary
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Sometimes life doesn’t turn out the way you would expect it. When time is numbered, how can you attempt to piece it all together?
This was our team’s submission for the 54 Film Festival 2016- Middle Tennessee.
Genre: Medical/Political Drama // Action: Hiding // Prop: Clock // Line: “Make it stop.”
Our location was set at the Escape Experience: Chattanooga. Our friends there were kind enough to let us set up shop all night filming. Our story focuses on a man who is experiencing his final hours before his execution. We see glimpses of his sister’s interrogation. Whether or not our man committed any real crime, we wanted our audience to grasp the story through the details. We wanted to take the audience on this man’s journey as he clings on to life’s most precious moments. Now questioning the innocence of our character, we introduce the morality of the death penalty. Our film doesn’t attempt to lean one way or another. It’s merely there to ask the question and to provide a different perspective.
Winner: Best Direction | Best Score
Runner Up: Best Actor (Cory Holland) | Best Make Up (Laura Natalie Homer) | Best Cinematography (Jordan Powell) | Judge’s Choice
Nominations: Best Actress (Rachael Rodgers) | Best Editing | Best Wardrobe | Best Set Design | Best Sound Design | Best Picture
| “FIGHTER” |
That’s right. Official Selection for the World of Women’s Cinema Film Festival in Sydney Australia!!!!!! The festival experienced some delays. However, the festival is happening at the end of this month! Samantha, Kelsey and myself are incredibly excited to have our film played in yet another country! It feels surreal to have something you created playing in a country half way across the globe.
Many may be wondering when FIGHTER will be officially released for you to view. VERY SOON. We are still awaiting festival acceptance letters. So we shall know very soon! Thank you all for your continued support. I can’t believe it’s almost been 2 years!
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In the works is a little promo video to show off the awesome things UTC’s Merrell Ambassador is doing for the outdoor program. Coming soon…
| “Wax Masterminds” |
I love getting able to reconnect with clients back in the ‘boro! Here is one such company-
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Probably one of the coolest projects to date would be- Brushy. It’s a prison located in Petros, TN that closed its doors in 2009. It’s the same prison the hold the infamous James Early Ray. For those that don’t know, he assassinated MLK, Jr. Most know Brushy from the chaos that ensued when Ray escaped the walls with 6 other convicts.
The project has been underway for about a month now and will be my main project until June. The documentary will be approx. 15-20 minutes on the history of this maximum security prison. I have captured around 6 hours of interview footage filled with recollections and stories you can’t even imagine.
I have the enormous honor to put together such a rich piece of history. In the next couple of years, Brushy will be transformed into a whiskey and moonshine distillery, RV park, concert venue, restaurants, etc. The main prison itself will be conserved into a museum for travelers and tourists to walk through the halls and to get a glimpse into the life of Brushy’s inmates.
For now, here’s a little teaser into the playground I get to play in…
Exciting things are coming……..
-Kelly
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Walmart reduces clothing line to strictly pyjama pants in response to consumer demand
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Posted by Courtney Smith
Moncton — Sometime over the past decade frequenters of Walmart have, in their passion for comfort, made a noticeable shift from stylish but practical stretch-jeans, to mustard-stained sweatpants and Crocs. This has led to a drastic and final plummet into pyjama pants and whatever combination of available footwear New Brunswickers find in their immediate frame of view before heading out to their favourite department store.
“Essentially, we got to a point where, as a business, we had to address the fact that our regulars are not interested in getting dressed in the morning,” said Eric Bourgeois, Walmart’s regional manager for New Brunswick. “We need to be realistic about the lifestyle and demands of our everyday shoppers, and at this point in history, regular pants just aren’t in the cards.”
Bourgeois continued, stating that since 2012 they’ve literally not sold a single pair of pants in New Brunswick stores, excluding pyjamas.
“I can’t tell you why things took such a turn. Maybe the rumour of the world ending in 2012 was the final straw and people just gave up trying altogether. Who knows. But when we crunch the numbers, it’s very clear that our everyday customers are not in the market for clothing that requires complex actions such as buttoning or zipping.
“Simply put, if it doesn’t have a drawstring, it doesn’t sell.”
Manatee staff interviewed customers entering the Plaza Boulevard store to hear what they had to say about the chain’s decision to discontinue regular clothing.
“I honestly had no idea the Walmart even carried dress-up clothes like jeans or track pants,” said longtime customer Eric Steeves. “I guess I don’t go to a lot of dances or weddings, you know, special stuff like that where you’re supposed to wear a nice pair of denim or matching shoes. I don’t care about being fancy or making a statement so I just wear whatever I wore to bed.
“I don’t see what’s wrong with that.”
It quickly became apparent after more than a dozen interviews with customers that they have truly lost the desire to aesthetically appeal to other human beings in daily life. But this may be a blessing in disguise for the multinational corporation as it plans to expand their pyjama-pants section to include a vast array of styles, patterns and textures appealing to a growing demographic that has transcended the need or desire to wear actual clothing.
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‘I do not know’: Premier’s private security guard denial
Mixed news on easing of restrictions despite new local COVID-19 cases
News Coronavirus ‘I do not know’: Premier’s private security guard denial
3:29pm, Sep 25, 2020 Updated: 5:58pm, Oct 22
Daniel Andrews is sworn in to give evidence to the hotel inquiry on Friday afternoon. Photo: AAP
Cathryn Boyes Social Media Reporter
Premier Daniel Andrews has told Victoria’s hotel quarantine inquiry that he also does not know who decided to hire private security guards to oversee returned travellers.
“I do not know who made that decision,” Mr Andrews wrote in his submission to the inquiry on Friday.
“I expected that there would be a mix of different personnel playing different roles in the program, including members of Victoria Police.
“But the way in which that decision was to be implemented, including the mix of personnel that would be engaged and their respective roles, was an operational matter.”
Mr Andrews is the latest in a string of senior state government officials and ministers – including Health Minister Jenny Mikakos, Jobs Minister Martin Pakula and Police Minister Lisa Neville – to deny any part in the decision to use private security, rather than police or the Australian Defence Force.
Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police Shane Patton and his predecessor Graham Ashton, chief health officer Brett Sutton and senior public servants, have also pleaded ignorance in a decision that is one of the key elements of the inquiry.
The judicial inquiry has heard the decision was definitely made on March 27, the day national cabinet announced the hotel quarantine program.
Following national cabinet, the Premier held a 3pm press conference during which he said “police, private security, all of our health team will be able to monitor compliance in a much easier way” at hotels.
On Friday, he told the inquiry he was not certain why he mentioned private security then.
“I have tried to search my recall of this and I simply can’t,” Mr Andrews said.
Mr Andrews said the hotel quarantine program was an “appropriate response to a very significant risk”.
“At a time when we were trying to buy time to prepare a health system. At a time when we were expecting that things would unfold, much like they had it in some other parts of the world,” he said.
Mr Andrews is the final witness before the $3 million inquiry, headed by retired Judge Jennifer Coate.
Victoria’s second wave of coronavirus, which has caused more than 750 deaths, can be traced back to outbreaks at two Melbourne hotels used in the quarantine program.
The inquiry will hand down its final report on November 6.
Virus restriction announcement just two days away
Elsewhere, the Premier has given his strongest hint yet that Melbourne might leap forward on its scheduled reopening – but not until October.
“I do hope to be able to talk a little bit more about how I think October will unfold and maybe give people some clarity around – because we are ahead of schedule – what might be possible,” he said on Friday.
“Again, always subject to the case numbers. What might be possible in the next month, as we move towards that next trigger point, that may be able to occur sooner.”
Millions of Melburnians who have endured eight weeks of Stage 4 lockdown will find out on Sunday how the toughest rules will ease. But the Premier has dashed hopes of major changes, promising only “safe steps, not big steps”.
Victoria had just 14 new COVID infections on Friday, its third consecutive day of fewer than 20 cases. They took Melbourne’s key benchmark 14-day average of new cases to 25.1.
The city is well ahead of milestones set in the state government’s roadmap to reopen – for restrictions to ease from September 28, its 14-day new case average must be between 30-50.
“The roadmap never envisaged really significant steps at the 28th – but we are on track, the strategy is working,” Mr Andrews said.
Under the metropolitan Melbourne plan announced on September 6, proposed changes in the first step include a staged return to school and pubic gatherings of five people from two households.
The city will not move to its next step – which includes dropping its daily curfew and removing restrictions on staying within five kilometres of home – until October 26. That is the date that the Premier has hinted might change.
But he has refused to even hint at the changes that will be announced on Sunday, confirming only that Victoria is “well and truly” within the range necessary to move to its next step of COVID measures.
The changes are likely to include a return to work for some of the thousands of Melburnians whose workplaces have been shut since early August.
“We are certainly looking closely at those things and I want to get the high-risk workplaces for the highest level of activity but still keep them as safe as possible,” Mr Andrews said.
“That is the balance that has to be struck. I think we will be able to get there.”
Melbourne has been in strict lockdown for eight weeks.
Streak ends for NSW as restrictions ease
NSW’s three-day streak of no locally acquired COVID-19 cases has ended, with a mystery infection reported on Thursday and included in Friday’s numbers.
NSW Health said the locally acquired case was a man in his 50s from south-west Sydney who had no contact with previously confirmed cases.
The mystery infection sparked a warning for anyone who attended Woolworths in Campbelltown Mall on September 17 between 1.30-2pm to monitor for COVID symptoms.
The man’s case was among four cases confirmed in NSW in the 24 hours to 8pm on Thursday. The others were returned travellers in hotel quarantine.
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Leading Questions: New Sky CEO Sophie Moloney on the year ahead
Sophie Moloney returned to New Zealand in 2018 after an offshore stint that saw her working in legal and commercial positions with pay-TV operators including Sky UK. She took a role as general counsel for Sky TV NZ before being promoted to chief legal, people and partnerships officer in 2019 then chief executive after the surprise departure of Martin Stewart on November 30.
I was paid, on commission, to sell dead, freeze-dried Valentine’s Day roses to unsuspecting customers. While I was good at making the sales, I decided work would probably be more fun if you could sell something you can be proud of!
What was your worst job?
How would you describe 2020 for your business?
Almost everyone in Aotearoa had a challenging year, and we’re no different, but we also had a good dose of inspiration and fulfilment.Our people were superb, focusing on looking after our customers, partners and each other. Having major events like the Olympics postponed, and the temporary cancellation of live sport, were totally unprecedented events. And we also saw how important access to quality news and entertainment is in challenging times. I’m very proud of how the team kept pushing to deliver on our goals through all of this.
How do you think the Government has handled the Covid-19 crisis?
I think the results speak for themselves: the fact we are heading into the summer able to enjoy the company of family and friends, and attend sports events and concerts, is a tribute to the decisive action from the Government and the collective effort from Kiwis across the country.
What are two key things the Government should do for economic recovery?
Capitalise on our position as a beacon for doing the right thing and open up safely to enable sustainable growth – tourism and other access into and out of NZ remains vital.Related to this, enabling targeted immigration to ensure New Zealand is attracting the full range of talent it needs across all sectors.
How is your business planning to tackle 2021?
2021 is about execution. We will build on our efforts of 2020, putting our customers first and striving to create more value for them. We’ve secured the rights that matter in sport and entertainment, we’re rolling out Sky Broadband – offering it first to our loyal Sky customers and rewarding them for their support – and we’ll continue to have a sharp focus on managing our costs while ensuring that we invest in the right things to sustain the business. It will also be a year when we put a lot of energy into our team and our culture to make sure Sky is a great place to work.
What will be the major challenges and/or opportunities for your industry?
Fragmentation of content offerings is a challenge and an opportunity for us. Sky is the ultimate aggregator in our home market, bringing together the best content offering in one place, working closely with content and distribution partners to achieve this aim.
What was the most interesting non-Covid story of 2020?
Elections – ours and the US. We saw record viewership of our international news channels around the time of the US election, and it will be fascinating to see what happens in January and beyond. On our own patch, I look forward to seeing how Labour uses its electoral mandate to deliver.
What was your favourite TV series of 2020?
I love a great, gripping TV series. The Undoing was a must-watch for me this year. It was a great cast with brilliant plot twists and turns!
Where are you holidaying this summer?
Wellington (for Christmas) and Whangamata (for BBQs and backyard cricket)
What are your predictions for 2021?
Sky continuing to provide an awesome array of great content to all New Zealanders, the continued rising prominence of women’s sport, a slow return to international travel and adventures, continued growth in the New Zealand economy and an exciting return of Sky Super Rugby Aotearoa!
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Actors give election ‘The Fix’
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Corey Bruecker
Take just one step into the Performing Arts Center and it becomes clear that there is an important production fast approaching.
There are students and staff members bent over fabrics in the costume design room, and director Joel Rogers has a sign taped to his office door that reads, “Please do not disturb.” Despite being so busy, everyone wears an infectious smile as visible evidence of the excitement for their upcoming musical performance, “The Fix.”
“The Fix” is a contemporary election-year musical complete with rock music and hip-hop dancing. The performance is set to include upbeat music, choreography and underlying themes.
“It’s hilarious and sarcastic and has basically everything a college student could possibly want,” said Mikey Perdue, a senior musical theater major who plays one of the main roles in the show. “There’s sex, there’s humor, there’s politics and there’s drama.”
Perdue is no newcomer to theater, and he has been in seven Chico State productions.
“The show is centered around the character I play, Cal, and his journey through the political process to become president,” Perdue said. “The show itself is current and relevant because of the election year.”
The cast and crew of the production started working before the semester began to ensure that they could get everything done, and they are still racing against time to get ready.
“I’m doing quite a bit of overtime to get this show up,” said Sandy Barton, costume designer. “I work every night and at least Saturday for most of the day.”
The costume production began when the cast was chosen during the first week of school and has been an ongoing process since then, even with five to seven students on staff, Barton said.
Along with the costume department, there are many other key players who have been dedicating their time to the production of the show since August.
“We started production about five days before the semester started, and we’ve been going hard since then,” said Kilani Stortz, a senior theater major and the show’s stage manager. “We’ve only had about four or five days off.”
“The Fix” is the second Chico State performance for which Stortz has worked as stage manager.
Many members of the cast and crew are excited about both the production and the premiere.
“I think people will enjoy it because they can either come for the political aspect of it or they can enjoy the music and the spectacle of it,” said Katie Morrill, a senior musical theater major.
Morrill plays Cal’s mother, Violet, in the show.
Performances are at 7:30 p.m. today through Saturday and at 2 p.m. Sunday in Harlen Adams Theater in the Performing Arts Center. Advance tickets are $15 for adults, $13 for seniors and $6 for students and children at the University Box Office. Ticket prices are raised $2 at the door.
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Zela London Shortlisted for RBD Awards
By Gabriella Mayall
Zela London has been shortlisted for the Restaurant & Bar Design Awards 2019. We are looking at the venue's interiors, food and ambience.
Now in its eleventh year, Restaurant & Bar Design Awards has quickly become one of the most authoritative and globally recognised competitions solely focused on the design of cafés, restaurants and bars across the world.
This year’s awards will take place at King’s Cross on 3rd October and we should expect a unique event focused on celebration and networking with the world’s most influential designers and restaurant and bars operators.
We are very excited to announce that Zela London has been shortlisted for the 2019 awards for the Ceiling category designed by Studio Gronda, an international design firm that creates distinctive environments and experiences across the fields of architecture, interior, experiential and industrial design.
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Zela restaurant in London, recently opened at the ME London Hotel on the Strand (Covent Garden) is quickly becoming a must-go spot following the opening of Zela Ibiza, offering a relaxed Ibizan style with allusions to Southeast Asia.
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We are delighted to publish our first post-lockdown interview with a very special and talented cook, restaurateur and Masterchef 2015 finalist, Tony Rodd. Tony brings a breath of fresh air to this interview, enthusing excitement to what, many of us, might consider being an uncertain and challenging time in the hospitality industry. We hope Tony's Q&A with The Pass will offer our readers as much energy and positivity as it has given us.
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The idea of becoming a capital-S Songwriter can seem daunting, but when approached as a focused, self-contained practice, the mystery and fear subsides and songwriting becomes an exciting pursuit. How to Write One Song brings readers into this intimate process – lyrics, music and how they come together.
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A ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR One of the century’s most feted singer-songwriters, Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, digs deep into his own creative process to share his unique perspective about song-writing and offers a warm, accessible guide to writing your first song. ‘An incisive index of exercises and jocular advice for any aspiring lyricist that also works as an empathetic self-help book for anyone suffering self-doubt.’ Vulture There are few artistic acts more mysterious than writing a song. But what if a shift in perspective – and some practical guidance – could overcome that mystery? Anyone wanting to experience more creativity and mindfulness will be inspired to do just that after reading How to Write One Song. Why one song? The difference between one song and many songs isn’t a charming semantic trick – it’s an important distinction that can simplify a notoriously confusing art form. The idea of becoming a capital-S Songwriter can seem daunting, but when approached as a focused, self-contained practice, the mystery and fear subsides and songwriting becomes an exciting pursuit. How to Write One Song brings readers into this intimate process – lyrics, music and how they come together. It’s equally about the importance of making creativity part of your everyday life and of experiencing the hope, inspiration and joy available to anyone who is willing to get started.
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Inside Out: A Memoir
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Daily Mail Book of the Year. A Mail on SundayBook of the Year. Famed American actress Demi Moore at last tells her own story in a surprisingly intimate and emotionally charged memoir.
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Daily Mail Book of the Year. A Mail on SundayBook of the Year. Famed American actress Demi Moore at last tells her own story in a surprisingly intimate and emotionally charged memoir. For decades, Demi Moore has been synonymous with celebrity. From iconic film roles to high-profile relationships, Moore has never been far from the spotlight – or the headlines. Even as Demi was becoming the highest paid actress in Hollywood, however, she was always outrunning her past, just one step ahead of the doubts and insecurities that defined her childhood. Throughout her rise to fame and during some of the most pivotal moments of her life, Demi battled addiction, body image issues, and childhood trauma that would follow her for years – all while juggling a skyrocketing career and at times negative public perception. As her success grew, Demi found herself questioning if she belonged in Hollywood, if she was a good mother, a good actress – and, always, if she was simply good enough. As much as her story is about adversity, it is also about tremendous resilience. In this deeply candid and reflective memoir, Demi pulls back the curtain and opens up about her career and personal life – laying bare her tumultuous relationship with her mother, her marriages, her struggles balancing stardom with raising a family, and her journey toward open heartedness. Inside Outis a story of survival, success, and surrender – a wrenchingly honest portrayal of one woman’s at once ordinary and iconic life.
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Truths We Hold, The: An American Journey
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Discover Vice President-elect Kamala Harris’s New York Times bestselling book about the core truths that unite us and the shared values that will see us into the future.’A life story that genuinely entrances’ Los Angeles TimesThe daughter of immigrants and civil rights activists, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris was raised in a California community that cared deeply about social justice. As she rose to prominence as a political leader, her experiences would become her guiding light as she grappled with an array of complex issues and learned to bring a voice to the voiceless.Now, in The Truths We Hold, Harris reckons with the big challenges we face together. Drawing on the hard-won wisdom and insight from her own career and the work of those who have most inspired her, she communicates a vision of shared struggle, shared purpose, and shared values as we confront the great work of our day.’Personal integrity shines through every page’ Observer
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Home / Children's / Teenage fiction: Relationship stories - Romance, love or friendship / You Brought Me The Ocean: An Aqualad Graphic Novel
You Brought Me The Ocean: An Aqualad Graphic Novel
Alexander Hitz-Sanchez, Julie Maroh
The voices that shaped LGBTQ Young Adult literature, Lambda Award-Winning author Alex Sanchez (Rainbow Boys) and New York Times bestselling illustrator Julie Maroh (Blue Is the Warmest Colour), present a new coming-out romance set against the backdrop of the DC Universe.
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Jake Hyde doesn t swim not since his father drowned. Luckily, he lives in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, which is in the middle of the desert, yet he yearns for the ocean and is determined to leave his hometown for a college on the coast. But his best friend, Maria, wants nothing more than to make a home in the desert, and Jake s mother encourages him to always play it safe. Yet there s nothing safe about Jake s future not when he s attracted to Kenny Liu, swim team captain and rebel against conformity. And certainly not when he secretly applies to Miami University. Jake s life begins to outpace his small town s namesake, which doesn t make it any easier to come out to his mom, or Maria, or the world. But Jake is full of secrets, including the strange blue markings on his skin that glow when in contact with water. What power will he find when he searches for his identity, and will he turn his back to the current or dive head first into the waves?
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"Cinema does not cry. Cinema does not comfort us. It is with us. It is us."
2020 Roundup #7
Posted by Just Another Film Buff under All Posts, Cinema of France, Cinema of Germany, Cinema of Portugal, Cinema of Russia, Cinema of Spain, Cinema of the USA, Roundup | Tags: A Fish Swimming Upside Down, Alfonso Amador, Camagroga, Catarina Vasconcelos, Chloé Galibert-Laîné, Courtney Stephens, Eliza Petkova, Forensickness, Garage People, Natalija Yefimkina, Nina Schwabe, Pacho Velez, The American Sector, The Metamorphosis of Birds |
A Fish Swimming Upside Down (Eliza Petkova)
Philipp, an affluent, middle-aged widower (Henning Kober), marries young Andrea (Nina Schwabe) and installs her at his swanky house. Also living in the house is his son Martin (Theo Trebs), a young man who holds onto his mother’s photos and resents his father bringing home a new wife. Philipp is constantly away on business, and with little to do outside of her work with developmentally challenged children, Andrea languishes in the spacious house. It’s peak summer, and with the beautiful Andrea lounging around the swimming pool, you can be sure Martin isn’t going to end up calling her ‘mommy’. Petkova’s second feature is reminiscent of early works from the so-called Berlin School: stories about rich, white people suffering existential ennui presented in a clinical steel-and-glass style made of static shots or discreet camera movements and no music. This is a resolutely low-key work that limits itself to the love triangle at the centre. Like the outsider in Pasolini’s Teorema (1968), Andrea is a mysterious figure with no past whose love is boundless; everyone comes under her aura. But this inclusivity doesn’t sit well with Martin, who becomes blind with jealousy. The film moves along this unveiled Oedipal rage that takes many victims and eventually implodes. Petkova populates the film with several children’s games, presumably with a view to impact some psychological nuance to the relationships. She finely evokes the languid mood of summer afternoons, and is able to introduce a vital element of sensuality into the Berlin School style. But the rewards are minor: the film is so enamoured with its provocation that, minus the underlying myth, its characters become shadow beings outside of society and history.
The Metamorphosis of Birds (Catarina Vasconcelos)
Catarina Vasconcelos’ debut feature is a very easy film to like. There is, firstly, its spellbinding plastic beauty. Shot in 16mm, the film lovingly combines soft diffused lighting, oil-painting colour, richly detailed period objects into striking tableaux, often seeking to emulate Renaissance still life. Then there is its evocative voiceover, in which Vasconcelos details the life of her grandparents through poetically reimagined letters. Grandfather Henrique is at sea touring Portugal’s colonies while Grandmother Beatriz raises her many children alone. The exchange between them revolves firstly around, of course, the distance between them, and then the children, who haven’t seen their father for years. In Vasconcelos’ rarefied, romanticized re-conception, they become quasi-mythical figures—the absent Father, the suffering Mother—who come alive through the objects associated with them. The items chart the passing of the years, reflecting political changes: the fall of the empire, counterculture stirrings and the end of the Salazar regime. Jacinto, the filmmaker’s father, comes of age, discovering love and death. When Grandmother dies, and as the film’s focus shifts to Jacinto and the loss of his wife, the tone changes from yearning to mourning, and the narrative devolves into pure metaphor around a Tarkovskian desire to become one with nature, reprising symbols established earlier. On its face, Metamorphosis is a tribute to Vasconcelos’ father, one that preserves the memory of his parents and narrativizes his life for him, sharing the burden of bereavement in the process. The film recalls the work of Victor Erice and Sergei Paradjanov to some degree, especially in its capacity to create ravishing images out of personal history. It is evident that the film seeks to be a work of aching beauty, but there’s the lingering feeling that it does the aching for us.
Garage People (Natalija Yefimkina)
Natalija Yefimkina’s creative documentary centres on a small-town subculture in the far reaches of Russia. In a chain of garages located at a remove from their low-income homes, mostly middle-aged men spend their free time working on their passions. They have converted these tin-shed structures into a veritable ‘man cave’ serving various functions: carving workshop, metal foundry, scrap recycling yard, quail breeding facility, music room, even a WW2 cosplay warehouse. For these men on the fringes of Putin’s Russia, such privately-owned garages are a ‘third place’ away from their soul-crushing mining work and the strictures of domesticity, a space that helps create meaning to their lives. Like a primitive artist par excellence, Viktor has built four floors underneath his garage by digging with a shovel for over fifty years. He doesn’t know its purpose yet, but the digging has provided him with a purpose—a purpose that he inexplicably loses all of a sudden shortly before his demise. The whole town seems stuck in time, isolated from the rest of the world, save for a train that passes now and them. The younger folk hope to escape to greener pastures, while the older ones have found some sort of meaning between individual pursuit and communal life. Whether they are belting out a heavy metal number or getting into drunken brawls, director Yefimkina observes the garagists from a distance, synthesizing these vignettes along different thematic lines such as work, family, romance and community. Garage culture isn’t exactly news, but Yefimkina succeeds in infusing the film with a melancholy mood that is usually the reserve of fictional works. By imaginatively rearranging her material and slightly fictionalizing it, she has been able to convert it into an empathetic portrait of dead-end lives comparable to wistful snapshots of small-town America such as The Last Picture Show (1971) and Ham on Rye (2019).
Camagroga (Alfonso Amador)
Alfonso Amador’s absorbing documentary about the Horta of Valencia, said to be one of the most fertile corners of Europe, pivots around the Ramón family: farmer Antonio, his daughter Inma and her son Marc. Over one year, they grow, harvest, sort and ship tiger nuts to milk extraction facilities. There are highways and railway lines running adjacent to their land, which is under the threat of being invaded by commercial establishments and public infrastructure projects. Camagroga shuttles between two types of documentaries, at times uneasily: one that follows the lifecycle of a food commodity from production to consumption and one that observes life in a rural region under the throes of ‘globalization’. It complicates the former narrative further by intercutting it with shots of other crops being grown and processed, such that it’s not always clear at what stage of the cycle we are in. But what is most striking about the film is its rhythm. Director Amador cuts close. When there isn’t much movement within a shot, he lets it linger for no more than 3-5 seconds. This almost metronymic, Emigholz-like editing imparts a slightly frenetic pace to the film. As a result, we don’t get a sense of the rhythm of life in the region, in a way that we do from Shinsuke Ogawa’s A Japanese Village (1982), an important precursor to Camagroga. What is gained, however, is the knowledge of how labour intense the process is, involving manual intervention at all stages of production, with the only ‘dead times’ being Antonio and co. breaking for a sandwich or a cigarette while talking to the camera. It’s notable in this regard that Amador only shoots in daytime, that is to say work hours, keeping out all private aspects of his subjects’ lives. A tribute, then, to the labour of these folks whose faces seem as worked over by time as their land.
Forensickness (Chloé Galibert-Laîné)
Chloé Galibert-Laîné’s funny, sharp and dizzyingly smart video work is an antidote to the overdose of audiovisual soup that passes for essay film these days. Forensickness begins as a commentary on Chris Kennedy’s Watching the Detectives (2017), a desktop film about the crowd-sourced investigation on Reddit following the Boston bombing of 2013. As the director breaks down Kennedy’s film, analysing its narrative construction and its tendency for geometric abstraction, she voluntarily gets caught in an ‘analytical frenzy’, not unlike the Redditors who ascribed meaning to every detail that caught their eye in photographs from the bombing site. As Galibert-Laîné seamlessly chains one stream of thought after another, her film evolves into a meta-reflection on our relation to images and our compulsion to create meaning from visual material. Even as she exposes how we live in an era of debunking that firmly believes that images conceal messages, she can’t help but point at similar motivations driving her interrogation. Every proposition, every experience of hers on the desktop is turned on itself and subject to interrogation. And it works perfectly because Forensickness is precisely about the need to meaningful synthesis of divergent experiences. If Frank Beauvais, in Just Don’t Think I’ll Scream (2019), saw cinephilia as a self-made prison of images, Galibert-Laîné digs deeper, revealing the epistemological malaise that is the search for meaning that animates all cinephilic pursuit. Her film lays bare the adventures of the critical mind, throwing open not only its own making, but also the thoughts producing it. The film may look like an object of pure play, the result of a filmmaker “seduced by her own jokes”, even a solipsistic game in the way it asserts the inescapability from these self-imposed maps of meaning. But even as a snake eating its own tail, Forensickness is unmistakably insightful regarding the way we experience the world through images. If it isn’t the desktop film to end all desktop films, it’s hard to imagine what lies ahead for this form.
The American Sector (Pacho Velez, Courtney Stephens)
The American Sector takes up a subject matter that ships with a bundle of contained themes: scores of Berlin Wall fragments scattered across the United States. Anyone (like me) who has hunted for fragments of the Wall or even looked at the Wikipedia page of the location of the fragments must’ve had at least a faint thought about the implications of decontextualizing a historical object. Velez and Stephens’ film latches onto these incongruities, giving us a tour of Wall fragments installed in various public and private spaces including five-star hotels, movie studios, army bases, corporate retreats, hobbyist clubs, universities, museums and even the CIA HQ in Langley, Virginia. Shots of the fragments quietly towering over surroundings alien to it are sometimes mixed with soundbites by citizens and public officials about the provenance and the meaning of these monoliths. The filmmakers probe interviewees for what the Wall means to them, and we get fairly interesting and varied answers: a symbol for the abstract notion of freedom, a sign of hope for immigrants hoping for a better life, a reassurance for Black families that they are historically not alone, a token of cordial US-German political relations, a remembrance of a simpler time when the enemy was clear, even a container of religious truth serving as the backdrop for Christian passion plays. The overarching irony—the appropriation of foreign history to reinforce American exceptionalism—is echoed by two students at the University of Virginia, who see the amplified presence of the fragments in the campus, which has little relation to the Wall’s history in the first place, as an affront to the local history of slave labour that built the university. Thanks to its fertile subject, the film doesn’t have to sweat to bring these frictions to the surface. The American Sector accomplishes what it sets out to do, but it may have had been more rewarding had it been willing to stick its neck out and embrace a larger debate, especially at a moment where our discourse on monuments and their context is more fraught than ever.
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Imperfection, and Grace
MLB Commissioner Bud Selig will apparently not reverse the blown call which cost Armando Galarraga a perfect game last Wednesday. This is an interesting decision, and as with any controversy, there are costs and benefits on either side that must be weighed by the decision-maker. I think Selig's decision is the right one, and that he should be commended for it.
The most obvious factor to weigh is the injustice that stems from Galarraga not being credited with a perfect game in the record book. But everyone agrees, in principle at least, that ex post adjustment to decisions made in sport should be the rarest of rare events. There are no do-overs. In terms of impact, the error in this case pales in comparison to the failure to call handball in the game which knocked Ireland out of this year's World Cup. That no retroactive action was taken in that case illustrates how important the principle is. Furthermore, although declining to reverse the call seems harsh, it is a decision that can be revisited at a later date, once passions have cooled.
What transpires as MLB proceeds to adjust the game of baseball during the next few months is not reversible, however, and this to me is a key issue. Incorporating instant replay in a way that improves the game is number one on the agenda, and reversing Joyce's call could take the steam out of an effort that, judging by the story linked above, is clearly on Selig's mind. From an economic point of view, the objective should be to minimize the costs of calling a fair game, inclusive of replay. While it is not possible to eliminate the costs of imperfect human judgement -- with or without a reversal from Selig -- these costs can and should be minimized.
I also believe that changes in the way that baseball umpires do their job, along with their mutual interaction between players, managers, and umpires, is long overdue. In no other sport are umpires as combative as they are in baseball. A sound instant replay system will surely take some of the heat out of relations between managers and umpires (see the recent Oswalt-Hohn fiasco for an example of how these relations harm the game). Until then, the incredible grace shown by an errant umpire and an imperfect pitcher shows the way forward. Along with many others, I throw my kudos to Mr. Galarraga and Mr. Joyce.
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The Recovery: Unfinished Business: A Story
Posted by Klepsacovic at 10:44 AM | Tuesday, December 17, 2013
In response to Rock, Paper, Shotgun:
The President wasn't happy about it. He didn't care how much everyone loved the guy, he wasn't going to allow Chris Hadfield, astronaut extraordinaire, and Canadian, to lead America's most important mission. Yet he remained calm. All he had left were calmness and two dogs suitable for kids with allergies, and any day now someone might leave a door open and they'd be gone.
With a string of profanity he threw it all away and threw open a door. The dogs would explore and so would he. And dammit, this mission was too important. Wasn't he always talking about international cooperation? What was that peace prize for if not for this?
President Obama; Chris Hadfield, astronaut extraordinaire; and SEAL Team Six boarded the ship. Fifty seconds later it launched. No one had their seat belts on, despite everyone taking turns yelling, "Buckle up, it's going to be a bumpy fucking ride!"
Space isn't actually that bumpy. At least it wasn't usually.
Three missiles had already hit and shields were at 10%. They'd thought Valve Voyager was going for speed. It wasn't. They were outgunned and outrun. It was all over.
Then John Aaron's voice crackled over the radio. He calmly rattled off orders, everyone panicking except him and Chris Hadfield, astronaut extraordinaire. A few more switches flipped and shields were online.
Even better, Valve Voyager had slowed down to power its tractor beam. They were trying to trap the President!
But that was the plan all along. The hatch blew open and bullets flew. Valve agents were hopelessly outmatched. Their bunny hopping was useless. They couldn't see anything in first-person view. Defense Pattern Delta wasn't actually a thing, just a morale booster and an intimidating thing to yell.
"Hold your fire. Ganymede, Gabe?"
"Our own world to make, Mr. President. It could be anything!"
"You already had your own world. It was one of the best FPS experiences I've ever had. The characters were like actual people, the story was complex but understandable, the twists and turns and... dammit, you have unfinished business!"
"I have no idea what you're talking about!"
"No? Do the words 'Episode Three' mean anything to you?"
"Noooooooo?"
"Nice try."
"Okay okay, but we were to never speak of it again! It was forbidden. We made it, but it never got past the prototype stage. It's too dangerous!"
"Danger is my middle name."
"Isn't it Hussein?"
"Hand over the game. Now. Or I'll be playing a different FPS."
Gabe moved slowly, carefully, to the computer. With a few keyboard presses, no mouse, and far too much steam to make any sense at all, he copied the files to a flash drive.
The American ship, piloted by Chris Hadfield, astronaut extraordinaire, detached and turned toward the Sun.
"My fellow Americans, it is time to go home. Let me be clear, that does not mean that the Canadian astronaut extraordinaire is going to be stranded here as well. He gets to come home with us, but to Canada."
On the largest moon in the solar system two words were written on a whiteboard, barely visible in the distant sun: "Episode Four."
Weeks later, a man wheeled the flash drive down the hallway toward the President's computer. Men in suits watched, joined by one extra. Steam finished checking for already downloaded content, found it all, and began first time set up. There was a flash of green light.
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Humility is key to understanding Easter, sharing its joy, pope says
Apr 7, 2015 | 2015 Archives, Sun April 9, 2015
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — To enter Christ’s empty tomb like the disciples and see that he has risen, Christians today also must “bend down,” Pope Francis said in his Easter message.
“Love has triumphed over hatred. Life has conquered death. Light has dispelled the darkness,” he told tens of thousands of rain-drenched pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square April 5.
Rain fell and fell hard throughout most of the outdoor Mass. While most people had umbrellas, their flimsy plastic ponchos were no match for the wind and downpour. The ciboria used to distribute Communion to the crowd were covered with plastic wrap, only partially pulled back when the faithful approached.
Still, they stayed for the Mass and for the pope’s solemn Easter blessing “urbi et orbi” (to the city and the world).
Pope Francis did not give a homily during the morning Mass, but his Easter message before the blessing picked up a theme he had begun at the Easter vigil the night before: The mystery of Easter cannot be understood — and the Christian faith cannot be lived fully — without humility.
“By his death and resurrection, Jesus shows everyone the way to life and happiness: this way is humility, which involves humiliation,” Pope Francis said. “This is the path which leads to glory. Only those who humble themselves can go toward the ‘things that are above,’ toward God.”
To enter into the mystery of God’s love, he said, “we need to ‘bend down,’ to abase ourselves. Only those who abase themselves understand the glorification of Jesus and are able to follow him on his way.”
Obviously, he said, that often involves being countercultural. Instead of putting ourselves first, he said, “Christians, by the grace of Christ, dead and risen, are the seeds of another humanity, in which we seek to live in service to one another, not to be arrogant, but rather respectful and ready to help.”
“This is not weakness, but true strength!” the pope said. “Those who bear within them God’s power, his love and his justice, do not need to employ violence; they speak and act with the power of truth, beauty and love.”
As is traditional for the “urbi et orbi” message, Pope Francis offered prayers for an end to war and violence in specific countries, mentioning by name Syria, Iraq, the Holy Land, Libya, Nigeria, South Sudan, Congo, Yemen and Ukraine.
In better news, the pope said, “in hope, we entrust to the merciful Lord the framework recently agreed to” in order to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon. The pope prayed that it would be “a definitive step toward a more secure and fraternal world.”
As he had at every Holy Week and Easter service, Pope Francis offered special prayers for persecuted Christians, asking that “Jesus, the victor over death,” would ease their suffering.
Pope Francis’ Easter celebrations began in the dark of a rainy night April 4 in the atrium of St. Peter’s Basilica. Hot embers glowed until the Easter fire was lit and with it the paschal candle. As a deacon carried the candle into the church, Pope Francis followed with a large taper.
Although only the pope and the deacon had candles, the basilica was aglow with smartphone and tablet displays as people tried to get photos. However, as the pope neared the front of the basilica, the congregation — mostly nuns, priests, bishops, cardinals and ambassadors close to the altar — was more disciplined and the impact of scattered lit candles grew.
While the pope was busy with the Easter liturgies, he sent Archbishop Konrad Krajewski, the papal almoner, out to the city’s train stations, shelters and streets with Easter cards for the homeless. He handed out about 300 envelopes, each of which included an undisclosed amount of money.
During the Easter vigil Mass, Pope Francis baptized, confirmed and gave first Communion to 10 people, who ranged in age from 13 to 66. Four were Italian, three were Albanian and one each came from Cambodia, Kenya and Portugal.
Pope Francis rubbed the chrism oil all over their foreheads and, during the confirmation rite, tenderly gave each one a kiss on the right cheek.
The youngest of the new Catholics — Champa Buceti, a 13-year-old Cambodian, and Francesco Comegna, a 28-year-old Italian — brought up the gifts at the offertory.
As with his “urbi et orbi” message, Pope Francis’ homily during the Easter vigil, which lasted just over two and a half hours, focused on the humility required of Christians.
The only way to enter into the Easter mystery, he said, is with humility, “to come down from the pedestal of our ‘I’ which is so proud, of our presumption; the humility not to take ourselves so seriously, recognizing who we really are: creatures with strengths and weaknesses, sinners in need of forgiveness.”
“It is good for us, on this vigil night, to reflect on the experience of the women” who went to Jesus’ tomb Easter morning to anoint his body, he said. Entering the tomb is to enter “into the mystery which God has accomplished with his vigil of love.”
“We cannot live Easter without entering into the mystery. It is not something intellectual, something we only know or read about,” he said. “It is more, much more!”
Entering the mystery means being able “to wonder, to contemplate; the ability to listen to the silence and to hear the tiny whisper amid great silence by which God speaks to us.”
To enter the tomb and enter the mystery takes courage, the pope said. It “demands that we not be afraid of reality, that we not be locked into ourselves, that we not flee from what we fail to understand, that we not close our eyes to problems or deny them, that we not dismiss our questions.”
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The Complete Guide to district0x and DNT
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What Is district0x?
district0x is a blockchain project that is creating a connected network of user governed marketplaces, with all the governance features in place to allow third-party expansion of the network. More information about the project’s mission, vision, and values can be found here.
In this piece, we’ll cover everything you need to know about the project. We’ll go over the role of districts, current/proposed districts, notable features, technical infrastructure, and use cases for DNT (the platform’s native ERC20 token).
What Problem Does district0x Aim to Solve?
The concept of online marketplaces and communities is well-established. Companies like Amazon, eBay, and Etsy are all examples of major e-commerce marketplaces with large userbases. Task-based marketplaces like Upwork, Fivver, and TopTal have become popular for freelancers and companies from around the globe. However, with these platforms, users typically don’t have a true voice in determining the future direction of how platforms should operate. If these companies ever go away one day, the user data, reputation, and identity established by each individual user goes away too.
Essentially, only a few leaders at the top (i.e. executives or board of directors) usually make important decisions on fee structures, usage guidelines, and even the UI/UX of sites. The opinions of the users that rely on Web 2.0 online platforms on a daily basis are oftentimes neglected altogether. district0x aims to solve this problem through the creation of online districts that serve as decentralized, autonomous organizations (DAOs). With district0x, each individual can vote with DNT to determine how districts will function. Districts are built on open standards and don’t rely upon a centralized decision-maker to remain operational. This means they will always be accessible to users, and data will never go away. Districts are censorship resistant, persistent, and permanent.
district0x is building more inclusive online marketplaces and communities.
The Role of Districts
Districts are decentralized marketplaces on the district0x Network. VirtuallyANY type of marketplace that exists today could be re-built as a district on the district0x network.
Each district has a few core functionalities:
Searching & filtering
Posting & listings
Ranking & reputation
Payments & invoicing
Districts are innovative because both owners AND users can determine how a given district operates. Decisions impacting one district don’t impact another. This means that every aspect of these communities can be highly customized to match the needs of the people that use them on a regular basis.
Voting by staking DNT gives users the ability to voice their opinions on various district decisions.
district0x’s Established Districts, Development Progress, and User Adoption
The district0x project team has already established a few districts that serve as unique marketplaces and communities. Let’s examine what these districts aim to accomplish and how they are currently being developed.
Ethlance is a decentralized freelancer website. On Ethlance, which launched in January 2017, individuals or companies can find and hire freelance talent. Unlike websites like Upwork which receive high commissions (10–20%) on completed work, Ethlance doesn’t charge any fee. The types of jobs posted on the site are quite diverse. A few examples include smart contract development, dapp development, UI/UX design, website translation, copywriting, and more.
According to the November 27, 2018 development update, district0x smart contracts for Ethlance have reached a feature complete state. The major effort in the past cycle has been a schema to model data from these smart contracts out to IPFS. The team is now working on experimenting with new, expandable models as well as adding a syncer and data generator.
Sneak peek of the upcoming Ethlance site redesign
Name Bazaar, which launched in October 2017, serves as a peer-to-peer marketplace for the exchange of names registered via the Ethereum Name Service (ENS). As of December 2, 2018, there are 3,947 names offered on the site. Some proposed features for the continued development of Name Bazaar include subdomain leasing as well as hardware wallet support for Trezor and Ledger Nano S.
People can buy and sell ENS names easily via Name Bazaar.
Meme Factory (soon to be deployed) will provide an interface for the creation of provably rare digital assets on the Ethereum blockchain which can be immediately posted to a bulletin board-style marketplace for exchange. This platform will utilize DNT to govern all districts. DANK will be used in “The DANK Registry”, an incentivized voting game known as a token curated registry (TCR). This will allow voters to determine which memes should or shouldn’t be listed on Meme Factory.
Throughout the creation of Meme Factory, district0x invited open-source community participation. The Meme Factory Design Contest was the first of two phases before the launch of the platform. Through this contest, designers entered submissions for categories like the DANK token logo, back-of-meme designs, and the platform’s first minted memes.
The Meme Factory Community Design Survey was the second phase before the launch of this marketplace. Through the survey, the community voted (staked DNT) on a variety of important decisions like meme format standards, website theme, homepage lists, and submissions from the Meme Factory Design Contest. Those who participated in the survey were given the vast majority of the total DANK token supply.
Moving forward, all Meme Factory updates/changes, curation, and decision-making will take place with the TCR, d0xTasks, or other governance tools.
One of the website theme candidates from the Meme Factory Design Contest
Create Your Own District: There are plans to add more districts in the future. These will serve as sandboxes for the refinement of the d0xINFRA framework (explained below in the “Key Technologies” section) while showcasing the powers of decentralized markets and communities. The project team even plans to build a district creation platform that will provide anyone with the ability to quickly launch new districts on the district0x network.
Now that we’ve covered the big picture of what the project is aiming to do, let’s take an in-depth look at some of district0x’s established features.
Established Features and Functionalities
District Proposal Competition: While the project team is actively working to build and improve the established districts listed above, it’s also constantly considering new districts to add in the future. To open up this process to anyone, district0x introduced a district proposal process. This allows you to not only suggest a new district idea but also have the potential to earn 500,000 DNT as a reward if your proposal is launched. Even if your proposal is just accepted as a qualifying submission, you’ll be rewarded with 250 DNT. More info on the process can be found here.
Voting on District Proposals: In addition to being able to propose new districts, you can also vote on which district(s) will be created next by staking DNT. You can view complete descriptions of what the district would aim to accomplish. There are quite a few proposals listed already.
The current top three entries are as follows: 1HiveFunding platform (a decentralized version of Patreon or Kickstarter), a Decentraland district for players to list their parcels for sale or rent, and Bounty0x (a full bounty campaign management platform).
Bounty0x allows users to earn cryptocurrency and tokens by completing simple marketing, software development, and creative tasks.
district0x Education Portal: For those wanting to learn more info about district0x’s core features, the education portal is a good way to do so. You can find explanations about general blockchain concepts as well as district0x specific ones. The team is constantly updating the education portal to include new modules that provide clear and concise information. Some examples include “What is Decentralization?”, “Ethereum vs. Ether”, and “The Basics of State Channels”.
The district0x Education Portal is a good way to learn more specifics about this project and blockchain, in general.
Looking at district0x’s GitHub page, it’s clear that the development team is working diligently to add new features and functionalities. The top programming languages are Clojure and JavaScript. Now, let’s take a look at the key technologies being built to drive the future of district0x adoption.
d0xINFRA Framework: At the core of every district is the d0xINFRA framework, a stack of Ethereum smart contracts and front-end libraries distributed on IPFS (InterPlanetary File System) which power a district’s basic functionalities. One thing to note is that d0xINFRA doesn’t impact the visuals of each district. Designs of a district are chosen by the creator or the community that uses it. d0xINFRA is designed to be open and extendable, allowing districts to implement unique features.
Auxiliary modules provide enhanced functionality for districts. You can think of auxiliary modules as sort of like WordPress plugins for the blockchain. They are designed to be plug-and-play and implemented on a case-by-case, according to the creators or users of each district. The district0x core team encourages third-party development of auxiliary modules and even offers the potential for built-in monetization of those that are used to power the functionality of various districts. In the future, there will be a marketplace layer, which serves as an app store for users wanting to find a full list of available auxiliary modules.
Aragon for Governance: Voting is a major component of creating decentralized marketplaces and communities. district0x has chosen to utilize Aragon to create, administer, and govern individual districts. Voting rights can be used to partake in the processes that determine the characteristics of a district ranging from its design, to its functionality, to its accepted code of conduct, to the integrations it utilizes, and beyond.
Here’s a recent district0x District Roundup video where you can learn more about the initial Aragon setup, token holders only’ polling setup, binding and non binding votes, and much more.
Aragon brings innovative technologies for governance to district0x.
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by Toni Tipton-Martin | Jan 27, 2015 | Featured, Uncategorized
This will be the last regular post for The Jemima Code — a blog that turned the spotlight on America’s invisible black cooks and their cookbooks, grew into a traveling exhibit and book available now via the University of Texas Press and spawned a 501c3 nonprofit organization. Three new initiatives, inspired by current events, will take its place.
Over last year’s Thanksgiving weekend, an MSNBC segment with Melissa Harris-Perry shifted attention from outrage and protests over racial profiling in Ferguson, Mo. to racial stereotyping in the food world. The topic of discussion: food, race and identity. Using Jim Crow era imagery and ignored culinary history as the backdrop, a panel of experts introduced viewers to a surprisingly academic food justice dialogue, raising a question black food professionals wrestle with all the time:
What we can learn about who we are when we shake off the shame about how or what we eat?
The gathering included Psyche Williams-Forson, author of Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, & Power, and directed some much-needed attention to the idea of reclaiming ancestral foods as a source of cultural pride. Williams-Forson, whose illuminating scholarship examines the complex relationship between racist and realistic characterizations of our food traditions, acknowledged the destructive legacy associated with negative images of African American food choices. The insightful scholar also pointed to positive aspects of her affirming work that encourage black women to embrace the myriad ways our foremothers used food for economic freedom and independence, community building, cultural work and to develop personal identity.
Take watermelon and fried chicken for instance. Some black folks feel demonized when they eat these foods in public, while chefs in trendy restaurants all around the country earn high dollars for watermelon salad and gluten-free gospel bird. And don’t even get me started talking about the book and blog that made white authors household names when they capitalized on the label “thug” and its new meaning — symbolizing “a slice of the African American urban underclass by others privileged to define them, label them, and take their lives…,” as Michael Twitty stated, while black authors struggle to secure publishing contracts. (You’ll have to read his blog post and the comments about Thug Kitchen on Afroculinaria.com to get the scoop.)
Even with evidence pointing to valuable African American foodways, the discussion ended with frustration as MHP exclaimed: “I feel like we just need to bring joy to eating all of it.”
It was as if “nerdland’s” exasperation (MHP’s self description) parted the Red Sea, offering freedom to culinary history’s slaves through new projects for The Jemima Code.
The first is a follow-up cookbook that Rizzoli will publish in 2016. The Joy of African American Cooking features 400 to 500 recipes tested for today’s home kitchen, tracing the history of dishes created by African American cooks over three centuries, including influences of Africa, the Caribbean, and the American South.
The John Egerton Prize I received from Southern Foodways Alliance inspired what came next. On Juneteenth weekend 2015 we held the first symposium dedicated exclusively to African American foodways in Austin, Texas. The event gathered scholars, researchers, students, journalists, authors, restaurateurs, farmers, chefs, activists, and anyone interested in exploring issues of social injustice through the lens of food for Soul Summit: A Conversation About Race, Identity, Power and Food.
The activities began on Emancipation Day (June 19) with a reception hosted by Leslie Moore’s Word of Mouth Catering with wines by Dotson-Cervantes and the McBride Sisters. We spent the next day and a half eating and drinking together on the grounds of Austin’s Historic Black College Huston-Tillotson University, while discussing the complex intersection of African American foodways traditions and how they have been used to define culture. Well-known and respected African American food industry experts including Jessica B. Harris, Twitty and the soul food scholar, Adrian Miller challenged our thinking about the foods that comprise the traditional African American diet, the ways those foods and the people who prepared them have been characterized and the impact of those representations on our communities. We explored the ways food continues to shape economic opportunities and community wellness and what some folks are doing about it. Renown African American chefs and mixologists, including Bryant Terry, Todd Richards, Kevin Mitchell, BJ Dennis and Tiffanie Barriere excited our palates with traditional, modern, and vegan fare. You can hear highlights, recorded in part, by a grant from Humanities Texas and Imperial Sugar, on SoundCloud.
Finally, I know that everyone can’t open the doors to a restaurant honoring the food and memory of a fabulous cook and relative the way that chef Chris Williams does every week with upscale, bowl-licking shrimp and grits at Lucille’s in Houston. So instead, I hope to reduce food shaming and “bring joy” to cultural eating through an online living cookbook and public archive that also picks up where The Jemima Code’s expanded history leaves off.
It is under construction now, but when business and sociology students are done with it this summer, the website will invite people of every culture to log-in, share recipes, photos, and stories about their favorite invisible cook. In my vision, this diverse group of “Jemimas” will turn the spotlight onto individuals so we can begin to embrace one another without prejudice or as members of a group associated with a particular race or food tradition.
If that’s not enough to spur joy in African American cooking, the comment section will remain open for other suggestions.
IDELLA PARKER: THE HELP FOR REAL
by Toni Tipton-Martin | Nov 8, 2011 | Domestics
It is Day 3 of a quick get-away to New Orleans and I am hopping over heaving sidewalks and the mammoth roots of heritage oaks as I jog toward the urban oasis known as Audubon Park in Uptown when up ahead, of all things, I encounter The Help.
Now, instead of the calming anticipation of an escape from the Texas heat and draught, I’m a little grumpy thinking instead about the movie the New York Times described as a “big, ole slab of honey-glazed hokum.”
The problem is this: Though slightly distorted by the mist of a steamy humid morning, I can see a narrow black woman in uniform as she emerges from a dilapidated Chevy. She waves goodbye to the elder lady behind the steering wheel, makes her way up the cobblestone walk and knocks on the door of an opulent southern mansion. As I jog by, I extend morning greetings to them both and realize that while I have been straining to hear the voices of accomplished Louisiana cooks over the loud and unrelenting gaggle surrounding the record-breaking book and film, real women of color are still reporting to work in the homes of wealthy families in these “post racial” times.
That reality is one of the truths about the complex relationship between American domestic workers and their employers flooding my recent thoughts with the unrestrained fervor of floodwaters from Lake Pontchartrain. And I am not the only one thinking this stuff.
An internet title search of Kathryn Stockett’s exploration of domestic race relations revealed a diverse range of opinions, several fascinating character studies, an open letter to fans posted by the Association of Black Women Historians and a thoughtful review by Audrey Petty in the Southern Foodways Alliance newsletter that compares The Help to a historically accurate text published at the same time, by Rebecca Sharpless entitled, Cooking in Other Women’s Kitchens, Domestic Workers in the South, 1865-1960.
But, it was the broad sweep of reactions I observed at a University of Texas roundtable comprised of Austin students, community members and scholars who gathered to answer the question “What Are We Going to Do About the Help?” that galvanized my resolve to stop fretting about this tiresome fiction and do something productive: Focus on giving life to the unnamed women who really did do America’s cooking in The Jemima Code – The book.
While African American historians and critics are rightly troubled on numerous levels, white audience members seem surprised and even offended by their furor. Whichever side of the debate you are on, one reality is easy to defend: Aibiliene and Minny have stirred a race and food dialogue that gives Jemima Code cooks the opportunity to tell their own sweet, long-suffering truth not just in academia, but with empassioned Americans, too. Finally. Too bad their book won’t be on shelves in time for the holiday DVD release of the film, which is sure to prolong the negative discourse.
Thankfully, while we await the book, we can learn from Idella Parker.
Although her autobiography does not contain recipes in the traditional sense, Idella’s story accomplishes something unique and wonderful that continues to elude focus groups and institutional reconciliation efforts, scholarly works, well-intentioned cookbooks, and fiction like The Help with its fanciful domestic vibe. Parker draws everyone into the kitchen, inviting them to cook for each other and to persevere through awkward conversations about race when she describes what it was really like to be Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings “Perfect Maid” — a notion the Delany Sisters called, “Having Our Say.”
In 1992, at about the time that I began shopping the idea of The Jemima Code to academic and trade publishers to give voice to the unheard, this former domestic, teacher, and cook was going to press with an ambition similar to mine: telling her own account of life in the household of a popular American novelist.
“Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings called me “the perfect maid” in her book Cross Creek,” Parker wrote in the Preface to Idella, Marjorie Rawlings’ Perfect Maid. “I am not perfect and neither was Mrs. Rawlings, and this book will make that clear to anyone who reads it.”
Parker crafts an insightful look into the complex chemistry that existed between a black cook and her mistress in the late 1930s from memories that are believable, poised, and fair. As the story of their life together unfolds, we hear how it felt to be underpaid and overworked, and of Idella’s courage in the face of blatant racism.
And she is frustrated by this, also: after months together in the kitchen testing recipes for the cookbook, including many that were hers such as the chocolate pie, Idella is given credit for just three of them, including the biscuits.
Nearly 20 years later, fans still rave about Rawlings and her Cross Creek Cookery in reviews, while black cooks stare down jocular characterizations that portray them in aseptic stereotypes that trace back 100 years. In the final words of her autobiography, Idella describes the paradoxical situation like this:
“Our relationship was an unusually close one for the times we lived in. Yet no matter what the ties were that bound us together, we were still a black woman and a white woman, and the barrier of race was always there.
“In private, we were often like sisters, laughing and chatting and enjoying one another’s company. We shared many years together, helped one another through bad times, and rejoiced for each other’s happiness. Between the two of us there was deep friendship and respect, and no thought of the social differences between us.
“But whenever other people were around, the barrier of color went up automatically. Without acknowledging that we were doing so, we became more distant to one another. She became the rich, white lady author, and I became quiet, reserved, and slipped back into her shadow, ‘the perfect maid.’”
Funny thing is, with truth such as this, Parker just doesn’t come off like the kind of woman who would retaliate for bad times by putting shit in the mistress’ chocolate pie.
Would she?
Cross Creek Chocolate Pie
1 (8-inch) baked pie crust
Scald the milk in the top of a double boiler. Combine the granulated sugar, flour, cocoa, and salt and whisk into the milk. Beat egg yolks lightly. Stir in the yolks and cook, stirring constantly, until the mixture is well thickened. Remove from heat and cool slightly. Stir in 1/2 teaspoon vanilla. Pour into the baked pie crust. Beat egg whites to soft peaks. Gradually beat in powdered sugar and remaining 1/2 teaspoon vanilla. Beat until stiff peaks form. Spoon meringue onto chocolate filling and bake at 325 degrees 20 minutes, or until lightly browned
BETTY SIMMONS: IT WAS HARD BUT WE HAD TO LEARN
by Toni Tipton-Martin | Apr 12, 2011 | Plantation Cooks
Betty Simmons sits leisurely on the back porch at 2515 Holman, in Houston’s historic Third Ward with a big, round metal pot in her lap and a curtain of voluptuous hydrangeas as her backdrop. She has a small knife in one hand, peeling what appears to be potatoes. Her white hair is brushed back away from her face, revealing a surprisingly supple and healthy look for a woman of nearly 100. The chain link of a porch swing is barely visible beyond the ornate railing.
Betty is one of five Jemima Code women who are on exhibition through June 19, at Project Row Houses, Round 34 Matter of Food. My artist friend and Peace Through Pie partner Luanne Stovall and I are co-curators of Hearth House, a traveling installation where Betty and the cooks of the Blue Grass Cook Book (the Turbaned Mistress, Aunt Frances, Aunt Maria and Aunt Dinah) are capturing the hearts of visitors just about as much as they enchant us.
Some years ago, as I fretted on a Southern Foodways Alliance excursion over the loss of these women, my friend and mentor John Egerton asked me whether they were haunting me. I shared his silly question with some artsy friends who were having their own unique, spiritual responses to the women. Before we knew it, the idea for the Project Row Houses exhibit materialized.
That phenomenal creative team (Ellen Hunt, Meeta Morrison, Luanne and I) digitized and enlarged the women’s images onto seven-foot-tall, transparent screen-like fabric that is suspended from the ceiling in one of seven shotgun-style houses at PRH.
Of course, we all knew that in order to break the code, the space had to be beautiful, so the walls were painted in warm colors that bring thoughts of sweet potatoes, sorghum and sunflowers to mind. The text is minimal — drawn from the inspirational words of Mary McLeod Bethune and from the women themselves. And, a fourth wall, painted in chalkboard paint, provides a space for the community to share kitchen memories and pie stories (which we erase periodically to symbolize the way the women were erased from history). A rough-hewn long table invites guests to linger and to leave their kitchen tales on recipe cards that will become part of our permanent archive.
When the banners were first unrolled, I actually lost my footing and crumbled onto the floor. And cried. I’d spent so many years waiting for these women to finally be honored. To top it off, on our final day of installation, my mother noticed that as I stood on the back porch of the house just beyond the screen of my favorite, the Turbaned Mistress, my silhouette was eerily superimposed into the screen like the shadow of a child, ready for tutelage at her side. Thank goodness she had the sense to photograph the moment. Obviously, the mystery of the women is very personal. And, it is palpable.
Since Opening Day, people visiting the exhibit have written to confess their experiences, too. They tell me how Aunt Frances looks over them in different ways depending upon the sunlight, or when the hot, humid breeze blows through the house at different times of day.
Is there something special to know about Betty?
Betty was one of those extraordinary slave girls, who grew up in the kitchen in the shadow of a phenomenal Texas cook who had absolutely no idea she was saving a child’s life as she passed on culinary skills casually, one meal at a time. But, she did.
Betty was born a slave to Leftwidge Carter in Macedonia, Alabama, then she was stolen as a child and sold to slave traders, who later sold her in slavery here in Texas, where her cooking skills protected her from a harsh life of field labor in slave times, and helped her manage scarce resources in freedom.
She was interviewed at a time when national pursuits – from board games and radio to mystery novels by Agatha Christie – helped Americans escape the rigors of Depression-era living, and field writers for the Federal Writer’s Project recorded the life stories and oral histories of former slaves.
Sadly, the government didn’t think to ask many questions about food and cooking, but I’m not mad at them. Fortunately for all of us, the conversational style of Betty’s narrative gives an intricately detailed look at the precarious life of a slave cook working at a Texas boarding house. I learned a little about humility, charity and self-respect from Betty. And, after months of putting the wrong things first in my life, I’m hoping she will help me get my priorities straight from today forward.
What do her words encourage you to do?
Here is a bit of her story:
When massa Langford was ruint and dey goin’ take de store ‘way from him, day was trouble, plenty of dat. One day massa send me down to brudder’s place. I was dere two days and den de missy tell me to go to the fence. Dere was two white men in a buggy and one of ‘em say I thought she was bigger dan dat,’ Den he asks me, ‘Betty, kin you cook? I tells him I been the cook helper two, three month, [Betty’s aunt Adeline was the Langford’s cook] and he say, ‘You git dressed and come on down three mile to de other side de post office.’ So I gits my little bundle and when I gits dere he say, “gal, you want to go ‘bout 26 mile and help cook at de boardin’ house?
Betty’s narrative ends with a sad revelation that her massa eventually did lose everything he owned to creditors — including his slaves. She and the remaining servants were sent to various traders — some benevolent, some harsh — in Memphis and New Orleans. Eventually, Betty the child winds up in Liberty, Texas, where she conveys a message that still resonates for for everyone trying to make it through difficult times — including me:
We work de plot of ground for ourselves and maybe have a pig or a cuple chickens ourselves…We gits on alright after freedom, but it hard at furst ‘cause us didn’t know how to do for ourselves. But we has to larn.
LUCILLE BISHOP SMITH’S TREASURE CHEST OF FINE FOODS
by Toni Tipton-Martin | Apr 6, 2011 | Entrepreneurs
It seems hard to believe that nine months have whizzed by without even a peep from me and the women of the Jemima code. Please forgive us; we’ve been a little busy.
Just this week, we traveled back and forth between Austin and Houston several times, first to introduce a new cook at Prairie View A & M University’s Cooperative Extension annual State Conference and Awards Banquet, then, to install an exhibit at Project Row Houses, where the Blue Grass cooks will be on view for the next two months. In between, there were multiple event planning meetings and nursing a kid recovering from ACL surgery.
Oh my goodness.
Everyone warned me when I started this blog project over a year ago not to put myself under pressure to be brilliant or witty on demand, like pay-per-view. But I am a journalist, for Heaven’s sake! I require a deadline to stay on task. Besides, as far as Jemima tales are concerned, I could go on and on and on.
So what a surprise that after my trip to the White House for Chefs Move, I didn’t go on at all. Instead, I stopped researching new women and accepted way too many opportunities to serve the community — as chair of the host city committee for the 33rd annual conference of the International Association of Culinary Professionals, and vice president for Foodways Texas, a new organization modeled after Southern Foodways — all while teaching kids to like the taste of kohlrabi everyday after school. The University of Texas honored the nonprofit cooking organization I founded with a service award for all of those healthy kiddy cooking classes, but my heart beat louder and louder for more Jemima tales.
What would you do? What Jemima would do, of course.
I started sharing “my girls” with live audiences too, presenting Jemima as a role model at meetings of the Culinary Historians of Southern California, the National Forum for Black Public Administrators, and Slow Food Austin. I also told a grateful Prairie View audience about an inspirational woman with an inventory of professional culinary accomplishments and community work so long the city of Ft. Worth honored her with a day named just for her. Her name was Lucille Bishop Smith.
This was a good week for Lucille’s whispered wisdom.
For me, this Tarrant County native upheld the African American cook’s nurturing character while teaching the value of discipline, confidence, and creative thinking during difficult times. Not coincidentally, her profile demonstrated numerous ways that organizational, technical, and managerial skills can be added to the profile of American black cooks.
Lucille lived productively, establishing herself as a respected professional with a local and state reputation during the Great Depression, and publishing more than 200 delicious recipes for simple, as well as elegant cookery, in Lucille’s Treasure Chest of Fine Foods. She raised funds for community service projects, fought to raise standards in slums, developed culinary vocational programs in Ft. Worth and at Prairie View, was responsible for the first extension workers being employed in Tarrant County, brought the first packaged Hot Roll Mix to market, conducted Itinerant Teacher Training Classes, developed Prairie View’s Commercial Cooking and Baking Department, compiled five manuals for the State Dept. of Industrial Education, and was foods editor of Sepia Magazine. And all of that is just part of her resume. Her bio concludes:
“She represents a faithful wife, a devoted mother; a devout Christian, a character builder, a successful business woman, a pioneer in education ventures and a dedicated servant of people.”
Lucille’s Treasure Chest epitomized her life’s work to empower others by using food as a tool to achieve social uplift. In the Preface, she encourages women of the community to follow in her footsteps with this Recipe For A Good Life:
Take equal parts of kindness, unselfishness and thoughfullness;
mix in an atmosphere of love;
add the spice of usefulness;
scatter a few grains of cheerfulness;
season with smiles;
stir in a hearty laugh, and
Dispense to EVERY MEMBER OF YOUR FAMILY
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by Thomas Perrin
It was like being attacked by a rabid dog, a rabid dog wearing cowboy boots, boot cut jeans and a Texas Longhorns jacket, smelling of Jack Daniels. He never stood a chance. He himself was quite drunk as a skunk after a long week on the farm. He’d let go tonight, raised a Lone Star or ten to the Texas state flag and gotten into a fistfight or two during the night. The liquor had slowed him down though, and had no time to whip around and draw his pistol when the teeth tore into the back of his neck, cleanly ripping flesh away. Instantly a weight bore down on his back, and he was forced forwards onto his knees and into the dust on the side of the road. He wasn’t far from what he called home, but far enough that nobody would hear him screaming. The eyes were the first thing he noticed; only they weren’t eyes, not human eyes at least. The pupils were heavily dilated, nothing more than a black slit, they were flanked by a werewolf like red iris, and the sclera was just plain black. He beat at the monster with all of his might, but couldn’t even muster enough strength to shift his own position slightly. The teeth were the next thing he noticed, they were sharp, they were immaculate, and they were caked with fresh blood. The light of the moon added a particularly sinister edge to them. Those teeth were the last thing he saw as they bore down onto his face and ripped out both eyes, one after the other. He faintly heard the spitting sound and the moist splash as they hit the tarmac. The screams filled the dark Texas night as the teeth moved south and sought the jugular.
Sheriff Franks couldn’t look. He’d been part of the Fremantle Police Department since the age of 23, but in his 30 years of service, he hadn’t seen anything as gruesome as this. In front of him on the side of the road lay the body of Tom Dole, a local farm worker whom he had dealings with lately, mainly DUIs and the occasional complaint of him becoming aggressive after one too many Friday night beers. An out of towner from Connecticut, Dole had moved to Texas seeking work. Franks knew his case well enough, and he didn’t much like him, or any out of towners for that matter. Even still, he felt for the guy, it looked like he’d fallen victim to a pack of particularly ravenous coyotes last night. Chunks of flesh were missing from the back of the neck, the arms, legs and stomach. There were two dark crevices where his eyes should have been.
“Coyotes you think Franksy?” His deputy asked him
“It’s got to be”
Buchanan nodded. As much as he was just a weak ass yes man, Franks liked him; he did his work well and never spoke unless he was spoken to, for the most part.
“What’s bugging me though John, why take the eyes?”
“I don’t know, man. It’s fucking strange, ever seen anything like this?”
“Never, coyotes usually just go for the body, the face, my guess is they just struck the eyes by accident”
“Me neither, maybe they just got confused, ripped out one, then the other?”
Yes sir, no sir, and three bags fucking full sir. That is all Franks ever got from John Buchanan.
“We’ve got to get the body out of here, the sun is coming up. I don’t want the farm workers seeing this. It’s Saturday, but all the Mexicans will be coming by soon. Get the coroner’s office on the phone, tell ‘em we’ve got a clean-up job.”
“Yes sir” Buchanan said, scuttling off towards the cruiser parked just back from the body.
Harry Franks knelt down beside the body, reeling slightly from the pungent mixed smell of Lone Star and blood; he stared deeply into the eye sockets. They troubled him to the pit of his stomach. “Why the fucking eyes?” He said, to nobody in particular.
Doyle Sandoval clutched his teeth as soon as he woke up and spied the early morning sunshine creeping through the curtains. The shearing pain shot through his jaw and radiated around his cheeks. The migraine just completed what was going to be a miserable Saturday morning. At least he wasn’t Mexican; those fucking spicks would be dragging their sorry asses down to the farm this morning.
He remembered lying back in the dentist’s chair and hearing the words ‘this may hurt a little’, before the local anaesthetic took over, and he slipped from consciousness for a little over two hours. When he woke up, he had a whole new set of teeth implanted into his jawline. The State of Texas had brought into effect a new programme where organs from criminals who were sentenced to death were harvested and donated. This now included teeth and Doyle was atop the list for a new set of teeth after his had slowly started to fall out due to a gum disease brought about by his own negligence towards oral hygiene. You don’t get much for free in this life, so when he saw the advert for the programme and the need for volunteers, he went straight to the local dentist and showed them his bleeding gums. He didn’t know much about where the teeth came from, just that their previous owner had departed this world strapped to the electric chair down at the penitentiary. This morning though, he himself felt like he’d been sentenced to death as a new wave of pain shot through his mouth.
The blood stained clothes confused him. Clutching a bag of frozen peas to the side of his face as he walked around the kitchen, he saw that his Longhorns jacket was splattered with blood. He had blacked out last night, but somehow he had stumbled home, managed to undress and fall into bed. The blood and dust must have come because of another bar fight spilled outside. Larry’s wasn’t exactly the place that you went for a quiet beer. He was lucky if he ever got out of there without throwing or taking a couple of punches. Pushing the start button on the washing machine, he smiled to himself, just another Friday night at Larry’s.
He went into the bathroom and smiled at himself in the mirror. His gums must have not completely healed in the two weeks since the operation, as most of his upper layer was shaded red. He rinsed and brushed, and thought nothing more of it, not noticing the gap where his left back molar should have been.
“You’re saying human teeth did this? No fucking way!”
Harry Franks was incredulous
“Harry, I found a tooth embedded in the throat area, it was a back molar”
Harry just stared at the body laying cold on the coroner’s slab; an ID tag had been tied around the wrist. Tom Dole had no next of kin and no family to inform. He was a vagrant. It had appeared as if this case would just disappear only hours ago as Franks pulled out of Dunkin Donuts with his breakfast. He was now faced with the prospect of this being the work of a cannibalistic killer. The thought of this happening right in his little territory not only sickened Harry, it scared the fuck out of him. Fremantle wasn’t exactly El Dorado but it was his home.
“Couldn’t the tooth belong to our boy, Dole?”
“He’s missing a few, but not a back molar, Chief”
“You’re going to need the tooth I suppose?” The coroner asked
“Eyup, I guess it’s going to become exhibit fucking A in a fucking murder case”
“I’m sorry Harry, I wish I didn’t have to tell you this, but whoever did this is one sick boy. My advice is catch this motherfucker, and quickly. When dogs get a taste of blood on their tongue, they’re best put down quickly; otherwise they’ll go looking for it again and again.”
“Appreciate the advice Bobby. I’ll get this guy before another body ends up on your slab, I promise you that.”
“Good, I’m too old for this shit” He ambled away, holding out the clear plastic bag with a single human tooth in to the chief of police, who looked like he’d dropped a fifty dollar bill and then trodden in dog shit.
It had been a week, the papers had caught the story and their mystery had been dubbed “The Fremantle Cannibal”, and the Police Department had been dubbed incompetent.
The tooth sat staring menacingly at Franks from across the desk. It was a fucking implant, hence no natural root, hence no discernible DNA on it except that of the skin fragments torn from Tom Dole. Ever since that government initiative had come in offering free implant from criminal’s teeth, the number of gleaming smiles had gone up in Fremantle. Hell, even Harry himself had considered it; heaven knows his teeth had seen better days. It appears the murderer had gotten himself fixed up with a nice new set of pearly whites from a convicted child murderer who had been put into the chair just a few months ago. Being on the donor register, the teeth were pulled, tidied, implanted into someone else and then used to tear their boy Dole apart, but why?
Larry’s bar was full to capacity the night in question, sure there were arguments, there were a smattering every night of the week. Nobody could be sure who they’d seen going at it either inside or outside. There has been nobody else on the trail that night, only the unfortunate passer by who’d been out for their morning jog and happened upon the body; the coroner put it between three and four hours after the attack. She’d seen nobody. Going to the farm where Dole was taken on, the ranch hands had been no help at all, sure he was new but he kept himself to himself, did his 8-5 day and then went home, had no problems with nobody, and nobody had a problem with it. He was just a drinker and handy with his fists after a few too many Lone Stars. The shack where he laid his head turned up nothing except a handful of clothes, paperbacks and some stashed cash in the mattress, no doubt being saved for his next move, perhaps to California in the spring. Franks was sure he’d argued with our boy in the bar, and then been attacked as he walked home from the bar later that night, but he had no other leads, and he couldn’t prove a single thing.
He also had a massive fucking headache.
The tooth stared at him, mockingly, as it had for the past week.
He grabbed it and stuffed into his draw. Out of sight out of mind, he thought.
“Fuckin’ freaky teeth” He sighed.
Sandoval’s jaw didn’t ache from the toothache as it had a week earlier. It had passed on by early Wednesday, and he’d thought nothing of it. As his felt the blood ooze from his lip, the dull throb in his jaw had come from the right hook he’d just taken from some biker dude at the bar, after an argument about a spilled drink. It had been brief, both men had got decent punches in before the band swung into Rawhide, and everyone in the bar was friends again. It was just another Friday night at Larry’s.
Franks and Buchanan hadn’t dared go inside the bar; the sight of the uniform would have set everyone off. Instead they sat in their police cruiser in the lay by directly across from Larry’s, sharing a six pack of Lone Star themselves, hell; it was Friday night in Fremantle. They’d been there three hours now, and had seen nothing out of the ordinary, a couple of fights spilled outside, but nothing warranting their intervention.
Buchanan sat up straight and squinted toward the bar; a rough looking biker dude in a leather jacket had just exited the bar and was heading toward the car park adjacent. The skulking figure clearly didn’t make a sound as he stepped out of the shadows and walked purposefully up behind the biker guy. He wore a Longhorns jacket and faded jeans, the light from the bar silhouetting the unprovoked attack from behind, only, it wasn’t an attack. The guy seemed to bite into the back of the biker’s neck.
“Fuck me, go, go” Buchanan was out like a shot; Franks lumbered and spilled the beer he was resting on the dash as he darted out the car.
“Stop right there, police” They both had their pistols aimed at the attacker, a man Harry recognised as Doyle Sandoval, one of the names and faces he’d seen on the dentists list of transplant approvals. Another farm worker, another out of towner, and another fucking nuisance to Franks.
“Harry, look at his fucking eyes” Buchanan stumbled.
They were bright red, like an animals, the black slits didn’t reflect the full moon that was hovering above them, just a darkness that chilled Harry Franks right down to his soul. He felt mesmerised as they made eye contact, the beer turned over in Franks’ stomach. He really wanted to vomit. He had already started to shake, the pistol quivering at the end of his grip.
“Get him fucking off me, he fucking bit me” the biker squeaked from below Sandoval, he was still face down in the dirt, clutching the back of his neck where the he’d been bitten, a loose flap of flesh hung on limply.
Sandoval bared his teeth at the officers and advanced towards Buchanan, grinning manically, with spittle flying down his jacket. Franks fired once into Sandoval’s shoulder, and again into his upper thigh. He went down in stages; the pistol whip from Buchanan brought his down fully.
“Stay there” Buchanan instructed the biker.
He brought both knees down onto Sandoval’s back, grabbing the cuffs from his belt and getting the wrists that were clutching the side of his head behind his back. He managed to cuff him, and eventually he brought him onto his front and immediately started putting pressure on the bullet wounds.
“Franksy, call a fucking ambulance, we need this cat alive.”
Harry Franks only stood and stared into the abyss, he was frozen solid, by the sight of Doyle Sandoval as he went to attack Buchanan. The image was stuck in his mind, those eyes, those red fucking eyes, and those huge fucking teeth. He looked like he was under a spell, driven on by the taste of blood on his tongue.
A sharp slap brought him back to the present day, Buchanan standing in front of him.
“Get an ambulance, he’s bleeding out quick.”
He shook the image out of his head, and stumbled back to the cruiser, sweeping the beer can off of the seat and sitting down into a puddle of Lone Star. He radioed for an ambulance, ETA three minutes. As he stood up again outside the cruiser, the image of Sandoval ripping out Tom Dole’s eyes came to him, the sight of dripping blood off of the teeth made his stomach turn over. The thought of those teeth lacerating deep enough into the stomach that the internal organs were punctured was the straw that broke the camel’s back. Those were the teeth that had ripped Dole apart, and would have ripped our Harley Davidson riding friend apart given another few minutes. He fell to his knees behind the cruiser, and vomited.
Doyle Sandoval, 34, originally from Sarasota, was sentenced to death by lethal injection for the murder of Tom Dole, and the attempted murder of Jules King, the latter’s life was spared by officers John Buchanan and Harry Franks of Fremantle police, who were commended. When questioned by police, Sandoval claimed that he had no recollection of either incident; the defence cited frequent black outs and entered a plea of insanity, which was rejected by overwhelming evidence by the prosecution. Not only did the CCTV from outside Larry’s bar capture the whole scene of the King attack but Sandoval was found to be missing a back molar, and it was a perfect fit for the tooth that had been sitting in Franks’ desk for a little under a week. Sandoval hadn’t noticed that he was missing a tooth, he sobbed into his palms when the sentence was handed down.
Because he had opted in for organ donation, Doyle Sandoval’s organs were to be harvested and distributed to people on various waiting lists around the state. Under the new legislation passed the previous summer, his teeth were also to be extracted and donated. They’d passed from one murderer to another; third time lucky the Fremantle dentist joked as he aligned them onto a mould, ready for the grateful recipient, who was sitting outside reading a magazine and waiting for the numbing agent to kick in.
Harry Franks had never liked the dentist, so when the mask was dropped over his nose, he wouldn’t feel any of the pain of a complete extraction and fitting of his new set of teeth. The image of Sandoval had haunted him for the past few nights, and he had awoken in a sweaty state, stifling screams. He had dreamed that the teeth were cursed, and that whoever had them grafted into their jawline turned psychotic after they fully moulded into the gum line. When this happened, they came after Harry, keen to avenge the murder of their previous owner. Those teeth, like hungry dogs’ teeth, would tear into his throat, and then move north to take his eyes. Harry Franks would wake up and immediately clutch his neck.
The IV sedation sent him this time into a dreamless abyss, he purred softly as the dentist went about his work.
If he had read his treatment plan closer, he’d have noticed that his new set of teeth was incomplete, and it was necessary that one of his own were left in, as to avoid a gap.
It was missing a back molar.
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Fourth L train shutdown bus route announced
Mayor Bill de Blasio heard from a commuter during a ride on the L train, as he headed to a press conference with reporters on the aforementioned train’s dreaded shutdown. (Photos by Maria Rocha-Buschel)
By Maria Rocha-Buschel
The MTA is adding a fourth bus route to help commuters get from Brooklyn to Manhattan during the L train shutdown that will run up First Avenue.
Joseph Ehrlich, a project manager for NYC Transit, said at a Community Board 5 meeting this week that the route was added based on feedback from members of the community.
The agency announced the additional bus at CB5’s most recent transportation committee meeting on Monday evening and also provided more detailed logistical information about how the buses would run.
The new bus, the L4, will operate along a similar route in Manhattan as the previously-announced L1. After heading into Manhattan over the Williamsburg Bridge, the L1 and L4 will go up Allen Street and continue onto First Avenue before turning onto East 15th Street and going south on Second Avenue until East Houston Street. The L1 originates near the L’s Grand Street stop while the L4 services riders close to the Bedford stop on the L.
Service on the L1 will be scheduled every two to three minutes during morning and evening peak hours and service on the L4 will be every six to seven minutes during morning and evening peak hours. The L2 and L3 buses provide connections primarily to subway service in the Lower East Side and SoHo.
Service on the L1 will be scheduled every two to three minutes during morning and evening peak hours and service on the L4 will be every six to seven minutes during morning and evening peak hours.
Late night service with the L buses will include the L2 route, in addition to a new L14 SBS, which will leave from Bedford Avenue and combine with the new M14 SBS route, going west on 14th Street and making stops along the L’s usual route.
Ehrlich specified at the meeting that all of the new bus routes going over the Williamsburg Bridge will all operate as Select Bus Service routes, meaning they will have pre-boarding fare collection with dedicated kiosks.
The MTA will also be operating their own ferries as part of the mitigation plan, running eight boats an hour and accommodating about four percent of L train riders. These ferries are separate from the existing NYC Ferry, which is operated by the city and the Economic Development Corporation. Ehrlich said that the payment system for the ferries that are part of the L train mitigation will operate like the SBS buses, with dedicated kiosks for off-board payment, with MetroCards accepted for the fare.
Ehrlich said that one of the goals of the mitigation plan is to provide commuters from Brooklyn with a connection to a subway in Manhattan, but he also noted that the plan is based on the assumption that every single L train rider will use the MTA’s alternatives when in reality some commuters will likely turn to other transit options available.
“The service plan is conservative,” he said. “People are likely to take taxis or Uber, or complete their trip by walking instead of connecting to another subway, or use bikes, but we’re trying to accommodate everyone on transit.”
Mayor Bill de Blasio and Department of Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg
Representatives from the MTA, NYC Transit and the Department of Transportation announced the adjustments to other community boards in Lower Manhattan earlier this summer but the agencies haven’t given updates to the boards in neighborhoods farther north, including Community Board 6, since this spring.
After taking the L train from Union Square to the Grand Street stop on Tuesday afternoon, alongside reporters, Mayor Bill de Blasio told commuters that the city is prepared for the shutdown, describing a “war-room dynamic” in dealing with the alternatives once the shutdown actually begins.
“We’re going to have to make a lot of adjustments,” the mayor said at a press conference in Brooklyn, following the subway ride. “If people are constantly warned of what’s coming, they’ll make adjustments of their own but this is going to be game on. It’s not a question of resources. This is a huge area of focus for all of us and if (DOT Commissioner Polly Trottenberg) says she needs something, she’s going to get it.”
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William Huebsch says:
Yippee! More riders from Brooklyn being given the opportunity to get on the already overcrowded M14 to go crosstown when they get to First Avenue.
But how does this help those of us in StuyTown who already struggle to travel to Union Square and the Westside?
T-Mac... says:
It doesn’t. It would seem the DOT is bending over backwards to accommodate the coddled millennial gentrifiers in North Brooklyn at the expense of everyone living along the 14th St corridor.
80 buses and hour cruising by your windows for 15 months, how nice! Got asthma? You will! 14 St closed to traffic, parking… fagedabboudit! Plus, 20 mph e-bikes for the Citibike crowd, what could go wrong there?
If this shutdown were on any other line, they’d throw in a few shuttle buses and tell people to take another line.
I live on 14th St East of Third Ave where the traffic restrictions start. The intent of my original comment would benefit from a sarcasm indicator following the second sentence.
That said, the L carries 275,000 riders per day, not all of whom are “coddled millennial gentrifiers in North Brooklyn”. My objection is that DOT and MTA are trying to accommodate all 275,000 on my already too crowded street.
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Puigdemont’s maneuver is a part of his technique to delay as a lot as attainable any choice on his request, with the hope that within the meantime the Spanish Socialist Authorities may have had time to course of the pardons of his accomplices or the reform of the Penal Code for soften the penalties for sedition. Then, possibly he hopes that some political teams might change their positions, which at present, and is understood, are in favor of granting the request, on this case the Spanish socialists included. It is usually attainable that Puigdemont is considering the calendar of the Catalan elections, wherein he has hinted that maybe he might take part.
Gonzalo Boye, the lawyer for the fugitive, himself convicted of terrorist actions, is flooding the authorized companies of Parliament and the members of the JURI fee with every kind of paperwork, most of them press clippings, to drown the interpretation companies, which now, with the pandemic, are at a minimal. Sources near the case converse of 1000’s of papers, most of them irrelevant and lots of in Catalan, which requires a double translation, to attempt to provoke the slightest loophole with which to argue a defenseless vice.
The request for postponement was requested by Puigdemont in a letter – which apparently comprises the identical wording as these of Antoni Comín and Clara Ponsatí – wherein alleges technical elements similar to his principle that the Supreme Court docket is just not competent to request the petition. It additionally factors out different elements, such because the declare that it’s not clear that the looks might be made electronically as deliberate.
All of the members of the JURI fee had agreed that the looks wherein the events have the chance to clarify their place needs to be made by teleconference, considering the circumstances of the pandemic. It’s a virtually formal level, since they don’t seem to be even required to go. However now some worry that Puigdemont’s lawyer will attempt to sharpen any argument that permits him to problem your entire process. In anticipation of this, some accountable for the case are analyzing the opportunity of name for the non permanent lifting of, no less than, the restrictions on entry to the European Parliament constructing, to permit it to be in individual and thus not give rise to claims of invalidity for it.
Apparently, the Parliament’s personal authorized companies had accepted that it was obligatory to include a request for the request processed straight by the Ministry of Justice, and never straight by the Supreme Court docket, however that doc has been caught for some cause within the cupboard of the President of Parliament, the socialist David Sassoli.
The postponements of this process haven’t been uncommon in earlier instances, however they’ve at all times been determined as a gesture of courtesy, when the events alleged private causes fairly than procedural causes, as on this case, wherein these affected have a lawyer who has constructed his repute on filibuster ways by exploiting any loopholes his purchasers might abuse. The members of the JURI fee, beginning with the rapporteur on this case, the novel Bulgarian conservative Angel Dzhambazki, they worry that at any second the slightest mistake might be used to invalidate the process.
In any case, the custom is that they’re provided this chance to clarify themselves to the JURI fee, however the concept most of its members have is that it have to be the final postponement and that if they don’t wish to seem they’re prepared to proceed with the method.
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Who Remembers Jack Kirby? – The Forgotten Godfather of Comics
8 August, 2013 29 July, 2016 Jonathan Pizarro
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Everyone knows that the funny little cartoon mouse was created by Walt Disney. The man put his name on the door after all. JK Rowling is Harry Potter’s mother, and sadly hordes of teenagers know Stephenie Meyer was responsible for sparkling vegetarian vampires.
However, a large portion of the summer blockbusters for the past few years were influenced by one man. Fantastic Four, X-Men, Captain America, Iron Man, Hulk, Thor, and even Argo. This man had his hand in the creation of these characters, and in the case of Argo, in real-life provided the drawings for the film that never was.
This man is not Stan Lee, who co-created a large number of the characters previously mentioned, and through sheer showmanship has made himself a media darling replete with cameos through every Marvel movie.
This man is also not a millionaire. Until his 1991 death he spent a lot of time, energy and emotion trying to get fair compensation for his creations, and at the very least that his original artwork be returned to him.
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So, who remembers Jack Kirby?
When I was eight years old I fell hard and fast in love with a cartoon show which was unlike anything I had experienced until that moment. The 90s X-Men animated series captured my imagination to the point where I would be late for school in the mornings so I could finish the episode, only to watch the same episode repeated later that afternoon when I returned home.
I couldn’t even begin to imagine why this group of social misfits hated and feared by a world they were sworn to protect would resonate so much with my little brain. Maybe part of it came when I was teased mercilessly over my love of comics. I was a geek, which might be a mark of pride now, but in the 90s only meant you were somehow emotionally immature and a bit weird. Funny how life turns around.
I must have been about ten when I saw my first Jack Kirby art. Spain had started reprinting 60s X-Men issues which were a completely different world to the Wolverine and Storm technicolour I had experienced. The original X-Men were five teenagers, they actually went to school. The stories were odd, quaint, and explosive. The characters were blocky, the machinery complex and bizarre, things reached out of the page at you. It was like seeing Picasso for the first time. I was enraptured by the art and completely grateful to Stan Lee and Jack Kirby for creating my only friends.
As I got older I became even more in awe of this man, who could draw at the speed of light. At one point he was drawing Fantastic Four, X-Men, Avengers and Thor on a monthly schedule. Some artists can barely crank out a monthly book without delays. His story was one of triumph, drawing his way out of a rough New York neighbourhood, and one of tragedy, never getting the recognition he deserved for his genius.
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Everyone’s obsessed with Ancient Aliens nowadays, but in the 70s Kirby used that mythos and created The Eternals, and then The New Gods. Highly kinetic, sprawling space-opera epics with gorgeous page after page. If you ever watched Hanna-Barbara cartoons as a child you saw his influence there too. Kirby worked on Thundarr The Barbarian, amongst others.
I’ve been thinking a lot about Jack Kirby recently. I finally managed to watch Captain America The First Avenger, and thought that if there was any film he would appear on the credits, it would be this one. One of his first and brightest creations, his most enduring. Nothing.
One day I would like to make a film about him, his genius and his work. He went up against one of the biggest comic companies, and to this day much of his work is tied up in legal battles, preventing something akin to the truth from appearing on screen. Next time you see a little boy holding an Iron Man action figure, or the queues of people in line for the next X-Men movie, remember Jack Kirby, hunched over his desk, drawing for his life.
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Threads That Speak: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Inca
The Inca Empire stretched from Colombia to central Chile and ruled more than 12 million people. They built organized cities and advanced road… more
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The Inca Empire stretched from Colombia to central Chile and ruled more than 12 million people. They built organized cities and advanced road systems, yet they had no system of hieroglyphic writing, as the Maya did. Instead, they communicated via a system of knotted textile strings known as quipus. Deciphering how to read the quipus has become one of the great mysteries of ancient Peru.
At the site of Incahuasi in the Cañete Valley, archaeologists have found—for the first time—dozens of quipus buried alongside centuries-old produce. They appear to have been used for accounting in agricultural storage houses to record the amount of wood, beans, corn, chili peppers, and other items moving throughout the complex. Six-hundred-year-old beans are so well-preserved in this dry valley that they look like dried beans you would see in a market today. Archaeologists found beans and other produce so they knew they were excavating storerooms, and then they found knots.
National Geographic explorer Alejandro Chu explains that this is significant for quipu scholars because new discoveries could help bring them closer to understanding what the accounting records mean. “Usually you find quipus related to offerings, or funerary bundles in tombs. They are left and totally disconnected from their real use,” Chu says. “One of the main reasons why the discovery of quipus in Incahuasi is amazing is because it’s one of the first times we're finding them in their original context. They are in the places where they were used.”
Quipus are made of a cotton or wool strings hanging from a main cord. The knots on the strings convey meaning through their location, direction, and type. Researchers already have a basic understanding of the numerical system incorporated in the quipus, where knots represent numbers. The hope is to move beyond mathematical operations to understanding non-numerical words or phrases from the agricultural product inventories. It is a whole new body of data to add to the Quipu Database Project and to understanding this interesting form of communication.
Incahuasi, or “House of the Inca,” is an important and strategic Inca city. It served as the agricultural base of operations and administrative center for the Inca expansion along southern coast in the late 15th and early 16th centuries. It transformed the valley into a thriving, productive area. In two archaeological excavation seasons led by Chu, the team has already found almost 70 quipus, and most of the vast storeroom complex at the site is yet to be excavated.
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Shallow Analysis: The Los Angeles Times Water Footprint Visualization
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There is a lot of confusing reporting on the water footprint of food. Many visualizations suffer from design shortcomings that present a distorted view of agricultural water footprint, compromising the public’s ability to make informed choices in response to water scarcity issues.
The Los Angeles Times recently ran an interactive visualization of food water footprint on their website as part of their drought coverage. This visualization got a lot of attention, and was shared widely on social media. Despite its popularity, this visualization has several shortcomings that distort the water footprint of food.
With such a tremendous amount of water at stake, it is important to consider representations of agricultural water footprint critically. In this article, we’ll discuss shortcomings of this water footprint analysis, why these problems matter, and how professional water footprint researchers address these issues.
The Los Angeles Times visualization
The Los Angeles Times ran an interactive feature on their website, along with this summary image, as a way to explore agricultural water footprint:
A graphic representation of food water footprints from the Los Angeles Times. (1)
It’s important to focus on agricultural water use, rather than household water use, since the vast majority of our water use is agricultural. In that sense, the Los Angeles Times has chosen an appropriate focus for their visualization.
At first glance, the graphic seems plausible. Meat is generally water-intensive, whereas fruits and vegetables are comparatively water efficient. This aligns with ecological consensus, as well as common sense — animal foods are produced by animals that consume plant foods, and this conversion is inefficient, so we’d expect animal foods to be more water intensive than the plant foods that animals are fed.
However upon closer inspection, the graphic leads the reader to some strange conclusions that might arouse our suspicion:
Lentils here are more water-intensive than pork.
Eggs have a lower water footprint than staple grains.
Soy milk has a higher water footprint than dairy milk, by a factor of two or three.
We should be concerned that any animal products outperform staple grains, since farmed animals are primarily grain fed. Unless something strange is going on, this would imply a feed conversion efficiency of over 100%, violating the first law of thermodynamics.(2)
A reader encountering this visualization is likely to come away with a distorted sense of food water footprint, that differs from consensus among peer-reviewed research on the subject. In this article, we will explore some of the distortions at play in this visualization.
Comparing Wet and Dry Weights
One of the most common problems in water footprint visualizations is the choice of weight, rather than nutritional value, as the metric by which foods are compared. This is an easy mistake to make, however it confers a subtle bias that has dramatic effects on water footprint analysis.
Using weight to compare foods is especially problematic when comparing foods that are weighed dry with foods that are weighed wet. Many of the plant foods with a surprisingly high water footprint in the LA Times graphic, such as chickpeas, lentils, rice and pasta, are weighed dry. Meat and animal products are almost always weighed in their fully hydrated form.
To illustrate how this affects water efficiency analysis, consider lentils. Rehydrated lentils weigh about three times as much as dried lentils. If we measure water efficiency by water-per-weight, as the Los Angeles Times graphic does, the hydrated lentils would register as three times as efficient as dry lentils by this metric.
Since adding water to dry lentils does not create more food, so the fact that our water efficiency metric measures wet lentils as so much more water efficient is a weakness in our metric. The fact that this metric is so easily manipulated should lead us to think critically about our choice of units, and question whether weight is the best measure of food value.
A more useful approach would be to measure food by calories. If we compute water efficiency as the amount of water needed to produce a calorie of food, many anomalous results in the visualization disappear:
Lentil and pork water footprint measured in gallons per oz, as represented by the LA Times.
Lentil and pork water footprint, in gallons per calorie.
Using weight to compare the water efficiency of these foods, rather than nutritional value, biases this visualization in favor of heavier, wet-shipping animal foods, and against dry-shipping foods such as chickpeas and lentils.
Unreasonable Comparisons
If the graph is useful to the reader (or “actionable”, as we say in business analytics), it is because choosing foods with lower water footprints would have an effect of conserving water. Comparing water efficiency in this way suggests that equal-weight portions of food represent a reasonable consumer choice.
To explore this, let’s consider lettuce, a more efficient food on this graph, and lentils, a less efficient food on this graph. One kg of lettuce is about 150 calories. One kg of (dehydrated) lentils is 3530 calories. This does not represent a reasonable consumer choice — substituting 1 kg of lentils for 1 kg of lettuce increases the calorie content by a factor of 23, a difference of almost two full days of food for an adult.
This graphic invites this type of unreasonable comparison between vastly different amounts of food. This is a shortcoming of its design, and undermines its ability to guide readers to useful decisions about water efficiency.
Uncritical Analysis
The Los Angeles Times’ interactive feature suggests that the producers of this analysis are not aware that the water footprints they give for pulses correspond to dry pulses.
The water efficiency figures they present are consistent with dried legumes (3). However when they visualize portions of food, they picture a reasonable serving of rehydrated prepared legumes.
Consider their visualization of chickpeas, at the default portion size:
This water footprint figure corresponds to 8 oz (226 grams) of dry chickpeas. That’s 822 calories, or about 3 cups of chickpeas. The image appears to represent at most a cup of chickpeas. For comparison — a cup of chickpeas has a more modest footprint of 203 gallons.
It is disappointing that the authors of the Los Angeles Times visualization do not appear to have understood which of the water footprints they were working with represented dry weights, and how this affected the water footprint values they were presenting. This is especially unfortunate given that the papers they are citing gave the researchers’ interpretation of the data, and made a clear case for the nutritional water efficiency of plant foods. The fact that the figures they had taken from these papers painted a different picture should have invited skepticism.
A related point of confusion in this visualization is soy milk. According to the Los Angeles Times, soy milk’s water footprint is 2-3 times that of dairy milk. This is a surprising conclusion, since we expect animal foods to be less efficient than the grains and soy that food animals are fed. This conclusion also contradicts research on the topic, including a paper coauthored by Arjen Hoekstra, one of the authors of the paper that the Los Angeles Times is citing (5).
The explanation for this again comes down to confusion involving water weight. The water footprint given in Mekonnen & Hoekstra 2010 (4) is for the soy component of soy milk, rather than soy milk itself. Since soy milk is composed of 10% soy solids and 90% water, the actual water footprint of soy milk is an order of magnitude smaller.
A detailed analysis of the water footprint of soy milk in comparison to dairy milk can be found in Ercin 2012 (5). In it, they find that the water footprint of soy milk is less than a third that of dairy milk.
The fact that Mekonnen & Hoekstra 2010 gives a water footprint of soy milk solids, rather than soy milk itself, is an easy mistake to make, and I can understand the Los Angeles Times making this error. However I think that a critical consideration of this data would have revealed that the conclusion their visualization suggests disagrees with that of the authors whose work they are citing. This should have invited some skepticism about their interpretation of these numbers.
Update: The Los Angeles Times has issued a correction to their interactive feature acknowledging their erroneous figure for soy milk water footprint, and giving a correct figure.
Chickpeas and Lentils
The most water-intensive plant foods in the Los Angeles Times visualization are chickpeas and lentils. The visualization suggests that these are the most water-intensive foods after only beef and lamb. Even when analyzed as water per calorie, the water footprint for US chickpeas is high — only moderately more efficient than pork. This might lead one to wonder why more attention is not paid to the water footprint of pulses, rather than animal foods. This merits some examination.
The relative water inefficiency for chickpeas and lentils is specific to the US, and global water footprint analyses for these crops shows them to be water efficient. US chickpea water consumption is dominated by grey water footprint (82% of the total footprint), which corresponds to pollution and water contamination (4). At this time I have not looked into why US chickpea farming would have a greater pollution burden than the global average, but this is not an inherent inefficiency. Chickpeas may be a commodity, like rice, that can be grown more efficiently in some climates than others. If so, then importing chickpeas, rather than producing them domestically, may be a wiser use of the world’s freshwater resources.
However highlighting chickpeas and lentils’ water footprint as prominently as the Los Angeles Times visualization does is inappropriate given the scale of US production of these crops. These crops occupy a trivial amount of US farmland, and account for a negligible amount of agricultural water use.
Chickpeas occupy some 215,100 acres in the US, comprising less than 0.07% of total US farmland. Only 4% of chickpea farmland is in California, accounting for 0.26% of Californian cropland (6). Compare this with the 46% of Californian cropland used to grow hay and other forage, or the 12% used to grow corn for silage, both used exclusively for food animals (6).
Lentils make up a similarly small fraction of US farmland — less than 0.09% — however unlike chickpeas, the USDA / NASS 2014 Crop Production Summary does not record any lentil production at all in California, making lentils an even less appropriate focus for water footprint analysis accompanying articles on California’s drought (6).
Chickpeas and lentils are also an inappropriate focus at a national level, as the US allocates less than 0.1% of farmland to these crops, while allocating 18% of farmland to hay and 27% of farmland to soy (used primarily for animal feed), for instance. (6)
The summary accompanying the Los Angeles Times visualization reads:
So what are some thirsty foods? Beef, pork, lamb, chickpeas, lentils, peas, goat, mangoes and asparagus.
The prominent placement of chickpeas and lentils in the list of water-intensive foods leaves the reader with the impression that these foods contribute meaningfully to agricultural water use in either the US or in California. By placing unwarranted emphasis on chickpeas and lentils, the Los Angeles Times compromises the ability of its readership to make prudent dietary choices.
How the professionals do it
Measure food by nutritional value
The problems above mostly derive from using food weight to measure water efficiency. These problems have a simple solution — measuring food by nutritional content, rather than by weight. Water efficiency then becomes a measure of “nutritional value per drop” as Hoekstra suggests (7, 8), measured in calories per unit water (or alternatively protein per unit water).
Water content of foods becomes irrelevant, and our measurements are not biased toward wet or dry foods. Graphs of water-per-calorie set up comparisons that are relevant to real-world choices between equicaloric portions of food.
If we use a water-per-calorie approach, meat’s water footprint grows, vegetable proteins like beans and lentils’ footprints are reduced, staple grains have the lowest water footprint (with potatoes lowest of all), and fruits and vegetables are in between. This is how professional ecologists represent their water footprint data.
Water footprint data, as summarized by Mekonnen and Hoekstra, whose work the LA Times is representing. Emphasis mine. (4)
This is the form of water footprint data that is most relevant to the dietary choices we face. Water footprint data in this form bring clarity to ecologists’ claims that animal foods are uniquely water inefficient.
Note that it was not necessary to mine the literature to find this graph. This graph comes from the very paper that the Los Angeles Times visualization is citing.
Here is my own attempt at visualizing similar data, from a post on California’s water restrictions:
This graph communicates more effectively why ecologists advocate reducing animal products as a way to reduce water footprint. It is also a more useful graph, since the comparisons it implies are reasonable, and the substitutions a reader might consider in response are fair, in that they are calorie-adjusted.
Make reasonable comparisons
Arjen Hoekstra, one of the authors of the water footprint papers that the Los Angeles Times visualization cites, also coauthored a paper that discusses replacing animal foods with vegan foods directly. Ercin and Hoekstra choose two common vegan alternative foods, and compare them directly with animal foods that they are most likely to replace. They compare dairy milk with soy milk, and a veggie burger with a conventional burger.
When compared in a straightforward way against reasonably analogous foods (in terms of nutritional and culinary role, and with comparable portions), the results are very clear — plant foods are a much more efficient use of resources, and water in particular, than the animal foods they are likely to replace. Soy burgers use less water than conventional burgers by a factor of ten, and soy milk uses less water than dairy milk by a factor of three (5).
Critically examining distortion
The shortcomings of the Los Angeles Times analysis are understandable, and are likely to arise from naive design and incomplete understanding, rather than willful distortion. However their willingness to accept results that should have been surprising may best be explained by bias.
For instance, when the Los Angeles Times came across data that seemed to suggest that soy milk had three times the water footprint of dairy milk, they published it. When A Vegan Perspective came across the same data, we contacted the authors to ask why this figure differs so substantially from one of the author’s other papers comparing soy and dairy specifically. (The authors were very helpful, and explained that the Mekonnen & Hoekstra figure was for the dry soy component of soy milk, rather than for fully constituted soy milk.)
Why would these responses be different? It’s possible that I have spent more time with water footprint data than had the authors of the Los Angeles Times visualization. However I find this to be an inadequate explanation. As journalists, the Los Angeles Times had the ability to contact experts, including the study’s authors.
I think the difference is more likely to be explained by bias. Comparing dry plant foods with wet animal foods may go unchallenged because it privileges animal foods, which most people are motivated to justify continuing to eat. Similarly, typical omnivores consume more dairy than soy milk, and might not be motivated to challenge distortions that privilege their consumption patterns.
One might counter that my own vegan bias explains the difference in response. This essentially saying the same thing. There is not a neutral and a biased position here; there are two different biases at play. This difference of perspective is important to consider given that one of these positions dominates the public conversation, supported by 97% of the population.
The willingness of journalists and the public to accept surprising results in favor of animal food, contrary to the researchers’ own interpretations of their data, may be best explained by bias.
We should pay attention to how researchers interpret their own data before performing our own analysis. With that in mind, let’s consider Arjen Hoekstra’s editorial on water footprint and animal foods in Environmental Research Letters:
We know from land, energy and climate studies that the livestock sector plays a substantial role in deforestation, biodiversity loss and climate change. More recently it has become clear that livestock also significantly contributes to humanity’s water footprint, water pollution and water scarcity. Jalava et al (Environ. Res. Lett.) show that considerable water savings can be achieved by reducing the fraction of animal products in our diet. The findings are in line with a few earlier studies on water use in relation to diets. As yet, this insight has not been taken forward in national water policies, which focus on ‘sustainable production’ rather than ‘sustainable consumption’. Most studies and practical efforts focus on increasing water-use efficiency in crop production (more crop per drop) and feed conversion efficiency in the livestock sector (more meat with less feed). Water use efficiency in the food system as a whole (more nutritional value per drop) remains a blind spot. (7)
Incremental improvements in production efficiency is unlikely to overcome the 20x difference in water footprint between staple grains and beef. Rather than hoping that a technological breakthrough will solve our ecological problems, we should choose a diet that can reduce our water footprint with current technology, and focus our research on improving the efficiency of plant foods.
I believe that a cultural bias favoring animal foods best explains our reluctance to embrace this research and to allow science to guide water conservation policy.
Arjen Hoekstra has two excellent editorials on this topic:
A New York Times editorial written for a general audience.
An editorial in Environmental Research Letters written for a research audience.
Notes & References
Kim, Kyle. “From steak to mangoes, here are some water-hogging foods.” Los Angeles Times, Local / L.A. Now. (Downloaded April 2015.)
This logic is valid here, however to make this argument rigorously, one would have to eliminate the possibility that layer hens could be fed human-inedible crops that are more water efficient than crops humans can eat. In practice, layer hen diets are composed primarily of human edible grains. Here’s a token reference for this.
While alfalfa comprises 4% of feed in this reference, this is not enough to substantially increase feed efficiency even if alfalfa was a water efficient crop, which it is not. Foods that humans do not eat such as cottonseed meal may replace soybean meal, but soybean meal is preferred. Cotton, like alfalfa, is a water-intensive crop.
For instance, the visualization gives a footprint of 76.07 gallons per oz of chickpeas. Mekonnen & Hoekstra 2010 (citation below) gives a blue and grey water footprint for US chickpeas of 1818 L / kg and 8339 L / kg respectively, which converts to 76.07 gallons per oz. These values correspond to HS product code 071320, defined as: “Chickpeas, dried, shelled, whether or not skinned or split”.(4)
Mekonnen, M.M. and Hoekstra, A.Y. The green, blue and grey water footprint of crops and derived crop products, Value of Water Research Report Series No. 47, UNESCO-IHE, Delft, the Netherlands. (2010)
Referred to here as Mekonnen & Hoekstra 2010.
Ercin et al. “The water footprint of soy milk and soy burger and equivalent animal products.” Ecological Indicators (2011)
National Agricultural Statistics Serivice. Crop Production 2014 Summary. (2014)
Hoekstra, Arjen Y. Water for animal products: a blind spot in water policy. Environ. Res. Lett. (2014)
Hoekstra, Arjen Y. “To Save Water, Change Your Diet.” New York Times. (June 29, 2014)
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Lipstick, Selfies, and Facebook: Awareness for Sickle Cell
By Erin / September 15, 2014
Photo Credit: Brittini Sumlin
Although people in the month of September bring awareness to childhood obesity and ovarian cancer, they also bring awareness to sickle cell. This disease is not only found in African-Americans, but in other races as well. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, sickle cell is found in people from Italy, India, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Africa, South and Central America, Greece and Cuba.
Red blood cells are important because they provide oxygen for the body. CDC said the word “sickle” comes from the way the red blood cells are shaped. Instead of being circular, the cells resemble “a farm tool called a ‘sickle.’” Regular blood cells travel through tiny blood vessels, whereas sickled blood cells cannot. As a result, the blood vessels are stopped up and the blood doesn’t flow properly.
The Sickle Cell Disease Association of America, or SCDAA, lists a variety of problems that can occur because of sickle cell. Some of the problems include stroke, pain in the stomach, legs, chest and arms, acute chest syndrome and it can harm important organs.
SCDAA said hydroxyurea is a medication used to treat sickle cell patients. It helps decrease pain episodes, acute chest syndrome and blood transfusions. Blood transfusions are needed because they can help reduce pain episodes and other issues that are created by the disease.
Because sickle cell has affected about 100,000 people across the U.S., as said by SCDAA, many are bringing awareness. Born with sickle cell, Brittini Sumlin, 20, is bringing awareness through “Bold Lips for Sickle Cell.” She takes a photo of herself wearing lipstick, uploads the photo to any social media outlet and she challenges someone else to do the same. Her mother, Maya Sumlin, is participating, too.
Sumlin also gives advice for those battling sickle cell like her. She said you should think about loved ones who make you happy. When she has a sickle cell episode, her newborn, Anais Sumlin, helps to ease the pain.
Since sickle cell is painful, many are impacted during their daily lives. Sumlin has to wear more than one layer of clothing during the chilly seasons and she has to take her medicine with her everywhere she goes.
Sickle cell has also affected Brittini Sumlin’s mother. People have questioned Maya Sumlin about why she isn’t present at work and why her daughter is constantly sick. She’s even had speeding tickets for rushing her daughter to the hospital. Not to mention, she’s lost seven jobs.
Maya Sumlin has also experienced many emotions. She’s felt guilty about passing the sickle cell gene to her daughter and angry because she can’t stop the pain. She gets sad and frustrated; however, she “feels grateful for her being alive.”
“I guess you humble yourself,” she said. “God is in control of everything. He makes no mistakes. He blessed me with this beautiful person to take care of because he knows I can do it.”
Even though it’s difficult watching her daughter struggle, Maya Sumlin continues to encourage her.
“I always say, ‘Don’t use this disease as a crutch.’ Just because you are ill doesn’t mean you get off easy,” she said. “It means you have to work extra hard. And sometimes your body will not cooperate. So it’s mom to the rescue and I have and will continue to push Brittini when she gives up and carry her when she gives out.”
With that said, as a challenge to you, put on your favorite brand of lipstick and pucker up to spread the word about sickle cell. For more information about this disease, go to sicklecelldisease.org and cdc.gov.
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ThirdSpace > Case Studies > Global media organisation streamlines communication and collaboration
Global media organisation streamlines communication and collaboration
Our client (who wishes to remain anonymous) is a global media management and investment organisation serving as the parent company to numerous media agencies. It employs over 32,000 people and has 400 offices in over 100 countries.
The organisation provides information and services to its media agencies, which are all independent global entities. As such, collaboration and communication across its operations are essential.
However, over time, many of the important identity details within its global directory had become out of date, causing the organisation a number of serious security, access and collaboration issues.
ThirdSpace deployed Access Centre Directory as a solution. It augmented the client’s existing Azure AD platform and provided the capability for employees to manage and update their own personal information in a fast, simple and secure manner.
The solution was scalable and easy to roll out across the entire organisation.
Users could self-service and update their personal account information.
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Our client provides information and services to its media investment and management organisations, which are all independent global entities. As such, collaboration and communication across its operations are absolutely essential.
Our client was already using Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), Microsoft’s multi-tenant, cloud-based directory and identity management service. However, over time, many of the details within the directory, including job titles, email addresses and contact numbers had become out of date. This was causing the organisation a number of issues with efficiency and timeliness of communication. For example, an advertising agency collaborating with regional/global partners on a globally coordinated advertising campaign could not be confident that information relating to key advertising briefs and marketing messages would be received by the appropriate personnel – and would not be leaked.
This issue was becoming increasingly apparent over recent years and our client needed an automated process for cleaning the directory’s data without overloading the IT service desk.
Azure AD allows an organisation to manage its users’ profiles data in two ways:
Either it can allow users to manage their own profile data
Or the organisation can take control of all the profile data – for example, by feeding information from the HR database
The freedom allowed by the first option was not acceptable for our client. It wanted to ensure a high quality of information within the directory, and this required them to have more control over which fields could be updated.
The second option was unviable because of its high joiner/mover/leaver numbers.
Our client wanted a technical solution that would provide its employees with the self-service capability to review and amend pre-qualified Azure AD identity details, with the addition of an approvals process.
ThirdSpace was referred to the client by Microsoft, who recommended us as the technical partner with the right skills, experience and expertise.
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ThirdSpace’s Access Centre Directory solution is a web application that extends the business value of Microsoft’s Azure AD platform by providing a fast, simple and secure solution that allows employees to manage their own personal information. It allows flexible configuration and integration of user data into Microsoft Identity Manager (MIM) or other synchronisation tools.
In this bespoke deployment, Access Centre, which comprises a set of mostly Azure-based components, was plumbed into our client’s identity synchronisation toolset.
To use the solution to update their details, employees click an icon within the Office 365 ‘MyApps’ page to reach the Access Centre home page. From here, they can view and manage their details and, where applicable, those of their direct reports. When managing their profile details, users are limited to valid options for attributes such as office address, phone, manager, etc., to ensure a higher quality of data.
Working with our client, ThirdSpace defined which fields should be mandatory to complete or update, and which fields, once updated, require manager approval. By including an approvals process, the solution provides quality assurance that job titles and other identity details are correct.
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Robert Anderson is a Brisbane-based Warriors fan and long-time member of the club. Throughout 2020, he will share his memories and thoughts on his beloved team for This Warriors Life. Here’s the 11th edition of Robert’s ‘Warrior-Roo’ blog (find previous entries HERE):
Friday night did not go to plan it’s fair to say. A terrible hiding at the hands of South Sydney by the unflattering scoreline of 40-12. It could have been different if one crucial decision had gone our way in the form of Latrell Mitchell basically knocking ‘Fus’ out cold when attempting to score a try. Not only did we not get a penalty try, or even a penalty, but the Rabbitohs marched up the other end and scored with only 12 men! Hey, that’s the Warriors for you though.
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But that aside the performance was not up to scratch in any way, shape, or form. While looking threatening in attack at times, we really lacked the polish to convert opportunities into points. And once again we really seemed to be exposed for lack of speed out wide. Defensively, there were some absolute softies let in, with Damien Cook’s try being an absolute howler.
While the Warriors have had many hoodoos in our 25 and a bit seasons, it would seem that we are now well and truly South Sydney’s bunnies. In the last decade we’ve registered only five wins against the Redfern boys. Take out the surprise Round 1 win in 2018 and our last win came back in 2012. I’m constantly reminded of this fact as I have a couple of good mates who love the red and green and seem to get amnesia after the match and need reminding of the score…
So that then brings us up to big story – coach Stephen Kearney’s shock sacking. I say shock in the sense that the timing more than anything is more than a little peculiar. Sure, he hasn’t had the on-field results that we all would have liked but all reports are that he’d done a fantastic job to bring all the boys together during our unprecedented extended stay in Australia.
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Going back to his initial appointment at the back end of 2016, personally I approached it with caution. Granted he had built the Kiwis into a competitive force and had the silverware in the cupboard to prove it, but on the other hand his ill-fated stint as head coach of Parramatta in 2011-12 still stuck out like a sore thumb. I did feel however that this could be different as he’s a Kiwi and a former Warrior, and probably had a better chance than any other coach in our history of really understanding the players and the culture.
Immediately his gameplans lacked imagination and seemed to centered around conservative, completion-based football rather than attacking flair. We did cut him some slack in his first season as he essentially inherited a team that was not quite there. The 2018 follow-up was a big success and saw the return of the attacking style that we all knew and loved. Again, it wasn’t a consistent season, but a great start and solid finish saw us make the finals for the first time in seven years. But Shaun Johnson seemed to take all the offensive prowess with him as he departed at the end of the season and 2019 was a sorry return to a dour style.
Coming from the Melbourne Storm system, both as a player and an assistant coach, it looked as though Kearney attempted to incorporate the same successful structure at the Warriors. The big problem was that we just don’t have the same calibre of cattle to execute and when we were bad it stuck out like dogs’ you-know-what. Throw in a Smith, Slater or Cronk into the mix and you might have a different story.
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You would have thought that with everything going on and the sacrifices that the team has made that SK would get some sort of reprieve, regardless of the results in 2020. The goodwill associated with the club would rub off on the owners and senior management and commonsense would see him at least stay out the year. Well, the answer is evidently a cold, hard no, and to be honest it will more than likely be the party pooper in the feelgood story of the nomadic Warriors.
While I don’t think he was the coach for us, he clearly tried his heart out and put a lot of effort into the team and the culture at the club. Personally, all our experiences meeting him have been first class. At the Gold Coast away member’s function we were lucky enough to win the major prize – two return flights to NZ to attend a game of our choice at Mt Smart. We went over for the match against Canberra later in the year, and despite the heavy loss to the Raiders, it was an amazing day. We met SK later in the gym and he apologised for the on-field performance and said he was sorry he “couldn’t look after us on the field”. He didn’t really have to give us the time of day, but he went out of his way to make us feel welcome and I’ll never forget that.
I’m sorry it didn’t work out for you at the Warriors, Mooks, but unfortunately some things just aren’t meant to be. With a string of failed coaches in our wake, now more than ever the next appointment needs to hit the nail on the head. At the end of the day, all we want is to win…and be able to give it back to my Rabbitohs mates every once in a while!
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Three To See 2011: Folky treats
By Caro Moses | Published on Sunday 31 July 2011
ThreeWeeks Co-Editor Caro Moses delves into the Fringe’s eclectic music programme and selects three folky treats to check out.
The Wrigley Sisters
I seem to have a habit of liking musicians from Orkney, which is why I’d like to go and see this sibling folk duo renowned for their sense of fun as well as their lively original music. One night only, though, so make sure you don’t miss it.
Acoustic Music Centre at St Brides, 15 Aug, 8.30pm (9.45pm) £10.00 – £12.00, fpp223.
Tom Fairnie (pictured)
Not someone I have come across before, but if the reviews are to be believed, then he’s very good. His work is described as lyrical, melodic, and intelligent, and someone from the Evening News called him “Scotland’s best kept song writing secret”. Should be good.
Acoustic Music Centre at St Brides, 15 Aug, 9.00pm (10.00pm), £8.00 – £10.00, fpp221.
The Shee
An all female six piece who offer music that is a tantalising mix of different kinds of folk – Gaelic, Scots and a particular favourite of mine, Bluegrass. They’ve had nominations in the Scots Trad Music Awards, and the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, and their current album is doing very well.
Acoustic Music Centre at St Brides, 16 Aug, 8.30pm (9.45pm), £10.00 – £12.00, fpp219.
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Learning Forth ... >
What is Forth?
The Stack
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Forth was created by Charles (“Chuck”) Moore in 1968, to control radio telescopes. When he wrote Forth, Charles Moore envisioned that the “fourth” generation of computers would be distributed controllers, in essence embedded systems (although that term had not yet been invented). Hence, he called his programming language “Fourth.” However, since the IBM 1130 that he used for development only allowed for five-character file names, the programming language became known simply as Forth.
Forth is unlike any other conventional programming language. Forth is an extensible, highly-interactive, stack-based language. It is extremely efficient and extremely versatile. The functionality of the language makes it ideal for debugging both system hardware and software.
Forth is commonly used in systems under development and is often retained by manufacturers in their computers. Forth was the first resident software on the then new Intel 8086 chip in 1978, and MacFORTH was the first resident development system for the Apple Macintosh in 1984. NASA’s Voyager spacecraft run Forth, providing for both efficient firmware and the ability to interactively debug across the vastness of space, and Forth was also used by NASA in the Space Shuttle's Star Tracker subsystem.
Forth is typically coded directly in assembly language both for speed of operation and to take advantage of the characteristics of the embedded computer.
Charles Moore has said that his concept for Forth is that each implementation of the language should be optimised to take advantage of the machine on which it is running, even if this optimization compromises the portability of the language. This philosophy is a major departure from conventional programming ideology. With Forth, speed and robustness are the goals, not the ability to port applications between platforms. One version of Forth can be quite different to another.
The Forth running on your Udamonic computer is FlashForth, written by Mikael Nordman for the PIC and AVR processors. The website for FlashForth is http://flashforth.com where you can find the original source code for version 5.0, as well as documentation. FlashForth is free and open source, released under GPL. FlashForth was modified to run on the Udamonic computers, and has additional support specific to the Udamonic hardware. The source code for the Udamonic version of FlashForth may be found on our Resources page. You can use the about command on your Udamonic computer to display version number and copyright information.
Forth is at once a compiler, an interpreter, a debugger and, in a fashion, an operating system too. Languages typically fall into one of two categories, they either compile to machine code for their target computer (C and C++), or they generate bytecodes to be interpreted by a virtual machine (Java and Python). Generally, interpreted languages are interactive (to varying degrees), while compiled languages are typically not interactive at all. Forth is also a compiled language, but it is a compiled language with a difference. It is interactive, yet runs with an efficiency not far removed from hand-written machine code. Commands (known as words in Forth) get an immediate response. This, coupled with Forth’s ability to talk directly to hardware, makes it an excellent environment for embedded system applications.
Forth words are the equivalent of functions in C, Python or Java, or subroutines in assembly language. Forth allows the execution of any word in isolation from the command line. Thus, words can be independently tested and verified outside of the main application. So rather than writing a single, large program, small segments of code are written and tested independently. These words are then combined to create new words, eventually ending up with a single word that is the whole application. This new word is also available to the developer, and in this way the language both grows and becomes richer as the developer works with it. In addition, the words used to create the new word are still available and can be run as programs in their own right, or used to create other new words. Forth is both versatile and powerful.
This form of program construction makes Forth a “bottom-up” language rather than the conventional “top-down” programming methodology. Words written to interact with specific aspects of hardware (at the initial debugging stage) may be later incorporated in higher-level diagnostics or in the final application itself.
Next, learn how to do simple arithmetic in Forth.
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Prices at the Pump Continue to Spike
Posted by Cindy Uken | Apr 16, 2018 | Business
Did you fill ‘er up when you stopped at the gas pump, or did you only put in an allotted amount of money to get you through? If you filled ‘er up, it hit the wallet harder than it has in three years.
Average retail gasoline prices in Riverside have risen 3.1 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $3.51 per gallon on Sunday, according to GasBuddy’s daily survey of 481 gas outlets in Riverside. This compares with the national average that has increased 5.2 cents per gallon in the last week to $2.71 per gallon, according to gasoline price website GasBuddy.com.
Including the change in gas prices in Riverside during the past week, prices yesterday were 52.8 cents per gallon higher than the same day one year ago and are 12.6 cents per gallon higher than a month ago. The national average has increased 17.7 cents per gallon during the last month and stands 30.1 cents per gallon higher than this day one year ago.
According to GasBuddy historical data, gasoline prices on April 16 in Riverside have ranged widely over the last five years: $2.98 per gallon in 2017, $2.81 per gallon in 2016, $3.09 per gallon in 2015, $4.23 per gallon in 2014 and $3.98 per gallon in 2013.
Areas near Riverside and their current gas price climate:
San Bernardino- $3.49 per gallon, up 2.2 cents per gallon from last week’s $3.47 per gallon.
Orange County- $3.57 per gallon, up 3.1 cents per gallon from last week’s $3.53 per gallon.
Los Angeles- $3.59 per gallon, up 2.4 cents per gallon from last week’s $3.57 per gallon.
“The seasonal surge at gas pumps is in full motion, causing the most dreaded time of year for fearful motorists, especially of what may still be coming,” Patrick DeHaan, head of petroleum analysis for GasBuddy, said in a prepared statement. “With the national average gas price now at its highest since July 26, 2015, I can’t immediately allay all fears of a continued spike in gas prices, however, we’re likely in the closing innings of the seasonal rise- let’s just hope we don’t go to extra innings. In the past few years, the average date that gas prices have peaked is mid-May, which is just around the corner, and by all metrics, that could be very close to what we expect this time around. Refinery maintenance has gone well thus far, and gasoline supply has continued to push higher as more refiners conclude their work. With the transition to summer gasoline also wrapping up, the reasons gas prices to rise will shrink.”
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African Renaissance Monument
The monument rising over the theater positioned in front of it.
The African Renaissance monument was built in 2010, opening on April 4th, and is a statue expressing a symbolized rebirth of Africa, and commemorating Senegalese independence. Constructed on the Mamelles hill, which adds a hundred meters to its already 49-meter height, it presents a commemoration of traditional African culture and heritage, both in Africa and abroad. Huge, colossal really at some 22,000 tons, and built of shining bronze, it is the largest statue of Africa and certainly a major sight for Dakar, quite often visited for its observation deck with views over Dakar. If you happen to be going to Dakar, it'll probably be one of the places for you to go.
The head of the woman as seen from the statue's crown
A Trip to the African Renaissance Monument
The main entrance to the monument de la renaissance africaine is up a huge flight of stairs, after arriving at a parking lot. The bottom has some good and by-foreigner-standards-not-too-expensive restaurant and some Senegalese craft stores around, plus there is some neat graffiti of murals which are found on walls at the parking lot. Sometimes there are concerts held there in a concert space. There are some 204 steps here to reach the monument base, making it a terribly difficult climb, as one struggles up the steps huffing and puffing until arriving at the top... thankfully, even here, there is a superb view over Dakar. For most, interest will lead forwards, to the ticket booth, and into the monument itself. Prices (found online) are posted below.
At night-time, seen from below during a concert.
Upon entering, in the current version (July, 2017), the "lobby" of the monument has two distinct presentations. The first deals with African, and African diaspora history, covering various leaders of renown (such as Léopold Senghor or Toussaint Louverture) and various historically important events such as the slave trade or colonialism. The second meanwhile is a presentation on Gandhi, his life, work, and message. It may seem strange to have Gandhi presented in a monument about Africa, but then the Monument of the African Renaissance is intended to be a universalist message, and hence Gandhi fits it well. Writing here is primarily in French, but the Gandhi exhibit also provides English duplicates. Tour guides fluent in English or French both exist.
The real draw of the trip is afterwards, as one crowds into the elevator to go up to the statue's viewing platform. This elevator is exceedingly small, smaller than a flea, just enough to fit 4 people. Crowded into it for space, the elevator rapidly ascends upwards, until it arrives at the top, and one is jettisoned forth into the crown of the statue. The crown is, despite also being of relatively small size, an impressive piece of work. A circle it has windows all around to gaze over Dakar and the sea, and some of these windows are opened, providing some need to make sure not to drop your phone when taking photos... an emergency exit exists which can open up onto stairs leading below, but most of your interest will be directed instead in looking over Dakar.
The view from the top is magnificent. There is the child and the woman which one can see directly from the crown, but more important is Dakar, which spreads out to the horizon. The airport is to the east, while Dakar itself stretches to the south, the furthest reaches lost in either clouds, or if one wants to be less charitable, smog. The ocean stretches out to the horizon, blue and crashing onto the rocks. Its a superb view from some 150 meters up, looking over this metropolis which finds itself perched on the furthest Western edge of Africa, the monument gesturing like some great god across the seas to the New World, a link among the continents of the world.
Following this is the museum, as one descends back into the monument. This has two distinct sections; the first is portraits, with Barack Obama and Martin Luther King, and the four presidents of Senegal, as well as a drawing of religious import, and the second part is a variety of statues of traditional African commoners or people of regular status at least. There is also a meeting room which had seen the meeting of various African presidents after the construction of the monument. After exiting this it is back to the lobby, and then out. Your trip to the tallest statue in Africa is over.
Barck Obama and Martin Luther King as portrayed in the museum
There is a selection of prices listed from Au Senegal, which are shown below. If I remember the non-resident adult tariff was actually 5,000 CFA, but regardless if I am correct or not, the price to enter, while mildly expensive, is not excessive.
Enfant /résident (Child resident) : 500F CFA
Adulte résident /visite simple (Adult resident, simple visit): 1000F CFA
Adulte résident /visite belvédère (Adult resident, scenic visit): 3000 F CFA
Non résident adulte (Non-resident adult): 10 Euros / 6500F CFA
Non résident enfant (Non-resident child): 5 Euros / 3250F CFA
It seems perhaps odd, after saying this and after displaying pictures of a statue that is empirically an impressive piece of work, that the African Renaissance Monument is one which is intensely plagued with controversies. Indeed, it might seem further bizarre given that it would seem that few people would object to the stated aims of the monument—celebrating Africa's rebirth and increasing stability and progress over the last decades, and providing Dakar with a world-record monument. However, a wide variety of reasons for opposition have been voiced.
Construction and Cost
One of biggest battles fought about the monument was its construction, or more precisely the way in which it was constructed and the monetary aspects therein involved. Monetarily, the statue did not come cheaply, and it took 27 million dollars to build. This doesn't sound too large, but for a country where the average GDP per capita is nominally 973 dollars, this is quite the sum. At the same time as the statue was being built, Senegal suffered from a host of social problems, most prominent of which was flooding in Dakar. Spending tens of millions of dollars on such a huge statue at the same time seemed like folly to many. That this was paid in kind, with the sale of land to businessmen, was little solace; the decision of president Abdoulaye Wade to claim 35% of the revenue from it as copy right for him having proposed the idea was simply the final straw. Indeed, Wade would try to get the statue approved as a UNESCO monument, a proposal which did not come to pass, and would place management of the monument under his daughter's Abdoulaye foundation.
Furthermore, the way in which the statue was constructed was also controversial. The statue was built by the North Korean firm Mansudae Overseas Projects, which builds monumental statue projects, often for dictatorial regimes, around the world. Using North Koreans to construct it, instead of Africans, placed something of a hollow message on the idea of an African renaissance, and generated unhappiness among the local artist community. It would also lead to aesthetic issues, another point of debate.
The statue originates from an idea put forth by the Senegalese president Abdoulaye Wade, and designed by Senegalese artist Pierre Goudiaby. Asides from this, little input came from Senegalese artists, which marked an unhappy break from the principle of Baobab leadership—discussion communally before communal action. While originating from Senegalese ideas, the statue's style is distinctly socialist realism. There have also been critiques directed towards the facial expressions, which have at times been called cartoonish, or un-African.
Furthermore, the statue's style—of a man dragging a woman up behind him and lifting the baby forward—attracted critique from feminist groups, the statue a expression of extreme machismo.
While not often used in opposition to the statue, its place of construction also had its irony; Dakar is an ancient, now (hopefully) dead volcano, and building a statue to the African Renaissance and to African unity over a buried volcano is an interesting choice of irony...
In addition, the choice of the father, wife, and son had controversies. Most African families are not like that, while there were rumors that it represented the president, his wife, and his son. With president Abdoulaye Wade grooming his son Karim Wade as a potential successor (this despite the democratic nature of Senegal), a degree of outrage over such a possibility surfaced.
Religious Issues
In addition to aesthetic and construction problems, Islamic—and later on Catholic—opposition to the monument would become marked. Islamic opposition was driven by traditional Islamic teachings which forbid the construction of statues as idolatry. Attempts by the Senegalese president to defend it under the claim that they did not reject statues of Faidherbe or Van Vollenhoven (important figures in French West Africa) did little to defend his position. Other Islamic claims were that the statue was improperly modest, a claim which is easy to see given the very small amount of clothing on the woman, who has only a very short skirt and a bared dress. In a country which is mostly Islamic, although of a very liberal type (a great number of Senegalese women do not cover their hair), this was objectionable. Some 30 immans representing 18 associations would speak against it in 2009, but by then of course construction was very advanced.
The biggest blunder came when the Senegalese president, in defending the monument, said that it shouldn't be controversial as saying that religious statues can exist such as the Catholics worshipping Jesus statues despite Jesus being evidently not divine. Catholic responses were heated and outraged to this dual assault on them and their religion, and a community which had never protested before would wage a fierce protest in Dakar despite calls for calm.
A number of more ridiculous claims also got voiced by opposition, such as that the monument was replete with masonic symbols and that the president was making human sacrifices in the interior. These are, it must be presumed, not true, despite the president's membership in a Masonic temple fueling them...
Ultimately of course, these objections did not prevent the monument's construction, and it was in the end finished. After all of this controversy, how is the statue viewed today? The answer might be surprisingly well, given the complicated history concerning its creation. The statue is there now, and one might as well as make the best of what one has and like it. Furthermore, much of the opposition to the monument came from opposition to president Abdoulaye Wade; now that he is no longer president, some of the opposition to the statue has lost its steam. Perhaps it is too early to say that the statue is universally adored, but it has shaken some of the greatest stigma that was attached to it during construction.
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Linda on June 24, 2020:
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Heavily Pregnant Woman, Two Others Nabbed For Robbery In Edo
A pregnant woman and two men have been arrested in Benin, Edo State, for alleged armed robbery.
It was gathered that the gang’s mode of operation involved the woman feigning labour pains along busy roads, while her accomplices would pounce on any would-be helper and rob them.
The gang members were identified as Jumoke Akanbieme, Osagiede Izevbokun and Godfrey Okonide.
The operation that led to their arrest was said to have taken place on the Murtala Mohammed Way, where they robbed the owner of a Toyota car, who attempted to help the pregnant woman.
Her accomplices were said to have come out from their hiding place and forced the motorist to drive to the Upper Sokponba Road, where they dispossessed him of the car.
The suspects were set to dismantle the car and sell of its parts when the police from the Ugbekun Division swooped on and arrested them.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, Chidi Nwabuzor, who confirmed the incident, said, “So many cars have been snatched by the syndicate in the same manner.”
Akanbieme said her partner, who is currently being hunted by the police, lured her into the crime.
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Primordial fractal density perturbations and structure formation in the universe: One-dimensional collisionless sheet model
Takayuki Tatekawa, Kei Ichi Maeda
The two-point correlation function of galaxy distribution shows that structure in the present universe is scale-free up to a certain scale (at least several tens of Mpc), which suggests that a fractal structure may exist. If small primordial density fluctuations have a fractal structure, the present fractal-like nonlinear structure below the horizon scale could be naturally explained. We analyze the time evolution of fractal density perturbations in an Einstein-de Sitter universe, and study how the perturbation evolves and what kind of nonlinear structure will result. We assume a one-dimensional collisionless sheet model with initial Cantor-type fractal perturbations. The nonlinear structure seems to approach some attractor with a unique fractal dimension, which is independent of the fractal dimensions of initial perturbations. A discrete self-similarity in the phase space is also found when the universal nonlinear fractal structure is reached.
Astrophysical Journal
https://doi.org/10.1086/318392
Published - 2001 Feb 1
Cosmology: theory
Large-scale structure of universe
10.1086/318392
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Tatekawa, T., & Maeda, K. I. (2001). Primordial fractal density perturbations and structure formation in the universe: One-dimensional collisionless sheet model. Astrophysical Journal, 547(2 PART 1), 531-544. https://doi.org/10.1086/318392
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Tatekawa, T & Maeda, KI 2001, 'Primordial fractal density perturbations and structure formation in the universe: One-dimensional collisionless sheet model', Astrophysical Journal, vol. 547, no. 2 PART 1, pp. 531-544. https://doi.org/10.1086/318392
Tatekawa T, Maeda KI. Primordial fractal density perturbations and structure formation in the universe: One-dimensional collisionless sheet model. Astrophysical Journal. 2001 Feb 1;547(2 PART 1):531-544. https://doi.org/10.1086/318392
Tatekawa, Takayuki ; Maeda, Kei Ichi. / Primordial fractal density perturbations and structure formation in the universe : One-dimensional collisionless sheet model. In: Astrophysical Journal. 2001 ; Vol. 547, No. 2 PART 1. pp. 531-544.
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Dan Cooper February 4, 2019 Water
by Gary Cooper
With reference to the growing brouhaha, and continuing conflicting and heated rhetoric and misinformation swirling about south Florida algae and other related Lake Okeechobee water issues, the following letter was sent today to Congressman Brian Mast (R-FL 18th District). Mast has been extremely vocal and incendiary in his rhetoric and stated opinions on these issues, and is a key advisor to Gov Ron DeSantis on issues involving the waters of south Florida and the South Florida Water Management District.
The Honorable Brian Mast
171 SW Flagler Ave., Stuart, FL 34994
Dear Congressman Mast,
We have serious concerns about your recent statements and efforts, which indicate you have joined a small but vocal group of activists who have forgotten that SB10 is intended to keep fertile farmland in production until that land is needed to build the EAA Reservoir. In fact, lawmakers felt so strongly, that it was later written in statute in order to protect our communities, jobs, and economy.
Our state can still meet its environmental goals for the EAA Reservoir as outlined in SB10, but we must not forget that statute was written in a manner to protect much-needed jobs for our communities. While districts like yours have a variety of industries that provide jobs to your constituents, agriculture is the single most important economic engine and job provider for our region. Our communities and families have suffered great pain over the last 30 years as the government has continued to take our farmlands out of production.
It is for that reason that while SB10 was being crafted, Guardians of the Glades made it a point to travel hundreds of miles to Tallahassee to discuss the law’s impacts with legislators. Our residents fought for a seat at the table to help develop a compromise that would meet the bill’s environmental goals while protecting our jobs and the economic livelihood of our residents south of Lake Okeechobee.
In fact, while SB10 was making its way through the legislature, your constituents and our coastal neighbors testified at committee hearings that they agreed with us. They further asked lawmakers crafting a storage reservoir plan south of Lake Okeechobee to address our grave concerns about job loss and economic devastation.
That’s why we are extending an invitation to you to travel to our Glades communities to discuss the EAA reservoir and see the jobs and livelihoods at stake. From our perspective, it is important that any decisions that would affect the communities south of Lake Okeechobee take into consideration the human impact on us.
Steve Wilson, Mayor of Belle Glade
Keith Babb, Mayor of Pahokee
Joe Kyles, Mayor of South Bay
Tammy Jackson-Moore, Co-Founder of the Guardians of the Glades
Desmond Harriott, President, Glades Area Ministerial Association
Pastor Steve Nolin, President of the Belle Glade Chamber of Commerce
Congressman Brian MastLake OkeechobeeSFWMD
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‘Monsters’ The Complete Series on DVD March 18th!
February 11th, 2014 by Gerard Iribe
Leave the lights on! The fan-favorite syndicated horror anthology series from executive producer Richard P. Rubinstein (Tales from the Darkside, Dawn of the Dead, Creepshow, Frank Herbert’s Dune, Children of Dune) that ran for three heart-stopping seasons on the Sci-Fi Channel (now Syfy) in the 1990s makes its chilling DVD debut on March 18th!
THIS MARCH, ENTERTAINMENT ONE UNEARTHS
ALL 72 NIGHTMARE-INDUCING EPISODES OF THE
FAN-FAVORITE TV SERIES FROM THE PRODUCER
OF “TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE” –– NEVER
BEFORE AVAILABLE ON DVD!
MONSTERS: THE COMPLETE SERIES
Across 72 episodes of this 9-disc collectors’ set, Emmy® and Academy Award®-winning make-up effects artist Dick Smith (The Exorcist, The Godfather, Amadeus) brings to life the monsters that nightmares are made of – from the gruesome and grotesque to mutations beyond your wildest dreams, MONSTERS’ horrifying creatures haunt each of the modern-day fables of fear and stories of unearthly terror that comprise the suspenseful cult-classic series. MONSTERS features adaptations by horror masters Stephen King and Robert Bloch and includes an enviable cast of guest stars, including Steve Buscemi (“Boardwalk Empire”), Lily Taylor (The Conjuring), Chris Noth (“Sex and the City”), Deborah Harry (Blondie) and many more!
Lili Taylor (The Conjuring)
David Spade (Grown Ups)
Tony Shalhoub (“Monk”)
Steve Buscemi (“Boardwalk Empire”)
Gina Gershon (P.S. I Love You)
Linda Blair (The Exorcist)
Chris Noth (“Sex and the City”)
Jerry Stiller (“Seinfeld”)
Deborah Harry (Blondie)
Type: DVD
Catalog #: EOE-DV-7587
Running Time: 26 hours
Rated: Not rated
Aspect Ratio: 4 x 3 (1.33:1)
Audio: 2.0 Dolby Digital
Language: English w/SDH Subtitles
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Gerard Iribe is a writer/reviewer for Why So Blu?. He has also reviewed for other sites like DVD Talk, Project-Blu, and CHUD, but Why So Blu? is where the heart is. You can follow his incoherency on Twitter: @giribe
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Philadelphia loses last bit of control over city’s billboards [updated]
Jim Saksa
(Michael Klusek, EOTS Flickr Group)
The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) revoked Philadelphia’s last bit of control over billboards in the city, transferring jurisdiction for outdoor advertising in the Market Street East Advertising District (MSEAD) to PennDOT.
The FHWA transferred control over outdoor ads from the City of Philadelphia to PennDOT for the entire city except for MSEAD late last year, saying that the City failed to adopt billboard regulations that ensure compliance with the federal Highway Beautification Act. States that violate the Act’s rules against billboards along certain roadways risk a 10 percent reduction in their federal highway funding. PennDOT, fearing such a penalty because of Philadelphia’s inability to adequately regulate the billboard industry, asked the FHWA to revoke the city’s certification.
The most notable billboard in the MSEAD is the electronic sign above the Lit Brothers building. Renderings for the $500 million East Market mixed-use development under construction also show LED signage reminiscent of Times Square in New York or Piccadilly Circus in London, and there are digital signs planned for the new Fashion Outlets of Philadelphia. PennDOT will now need to decide whether those new signs may be built as proposed, and whether to continue to allow the bright Lit Brothers sign to remain in place. PennDOT has been reviewing almost all of Philadelphia’s billboards along State and federal highways to ensure compliance with the state’s Outdoor Advertising Control Act and the Highway Beautification Act.
Since Philadelphia lost control over all billboards outside of the MSEAD, City Council failed to pass new regulations to satisfy PennDOT and FHWA. Council did manage to pass an ordinance introduced by Councilman Bobby Henon to make one billboard located along I-95 near Unruh Avenue and New State Road compliant with the city’s code on billboards. That bill was effectively pointless, as compliance with the city’s billboard code has no legal impact on PennDOT’s decision to allow billboards to remain.
Late last month, the FHWA revoked Philadelphia’s billboard jurisdiction in a strongly worded letter, which was published on Scenic Philadelphia’s website earlier this week. In the letter, FHWA division administrator Renee Sigel wrote that “the City has not been responsive to PennDOT’s requests for information on the MSEAD. As a result, PennDOT has been unable to meet the federal requirement that the State periodically assure itself that the City is providing effective control of outdoor advertising.”
In response, city spokesman Mike Dunn told PlanPhilly via email on Tuesday that the “City has been and will continue to be responsive to all requests on this matter, and we are in discussions with our partners at PennDOT to clarify the situation.” PennDOT declined to comment, saying “the details are still being worked out”.
In a blog post, Scenic Philadelphia’s President, Mary Tracy, praised the decision, calling it “the right move for the citizens of Philadelphia.”*
“To date Philadelphia has lacked the resources and the political will to adequately control outdoor advertising and protect our streetscapes from visual blight.”
The Market Street East Advertising District was created in 2011 through legislation co-sponsored by then-councilman Jim Kenney. The law allows large-format digital signs, including building wraps, to be installed on certain buildings along Market Street between 7th and 13th streets where owners are making at least $10 million in improvements.
[UPDATED 9/8/16] Dunn and Kenney Administration Communications Director Lauren Hitt said that after further consideration, there had been an “internal miscommunication” and the city realized it was in fact not being responsive, as originally stated to PlanPhilly earlier this week.
In an emailed statement Dunn said, “We take responsibility for this situation, and we’re working to correct it. We think the Market Street East regulations meet federal guidelines; however, we need to more fully review FHA’s and PennDOT’s concerns. Now that we’ve been made aware of the issue at hand, we are working diligently with PennDOT and the federal government to resolve it. Our goal is to continue to revitalize Market East and protect the investments that have been made there. While some activists may declare this as a victory, it is important to remember that revenue from signage is an important part of those projects that keep Center City vital.”
Hitt explained that the city is now in discussion with state and federal departments to provide the necessary information about the Market East advertising district.
*Disclosure: Mary Tracy sits on PlanPhilly’s advisory board.
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Mariette Pathy Allen (American, born Egypt, 1940). Alison at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, from the Cross Dressers and Those Who Love Them Series, 1987. Silver dye bleach photograph (color cibachrome), image: 9 x 12 1/2 in. (22.9 x 31.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the artist, 1993.11.1. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 1993.11.1_bw.jpg)
Alison at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, from the Cross Dressers and Those Who Love Them Series
Mariette Pathy Allen
PORTFOLIO/SERIES From "The Cross Dressers and Those Who Love Them" Series
ARTIST Mariette Pathy Allen, American, born Egypt, 1940
MEDIUM Silver dye bleach photograph (color cibachrome)
DIMENSIONS image: 9 x 12 1/2 in. (22.9 x 31.8 cm) sheet: 16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm) (show scale)
SIGNATURE Signed in ink on lower right of verso: "Mariette Pathy Allen"
INSCRIPTIONS Inscribed: "Alison at the Philadelphia Museum of Art" and "'87"
COLLECTIONS Photography
ACCESSION NUMBER 1993.11.1
CREDIT LINE Gift of the artist
RIGHTS STATEMENT © Mariette Pathy Allen
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CAPTION Mariette Pathy Allen (American, born Egypt, 1940). Alison at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, from the Cross Dressers and Those Who Love Them Series, 1987. Silver dye bleach photograph (color cibachrome), image: 9 x 12 1/2 in. (22.9 x 31.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the artist, 1993.11.1. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 1993.11.1_bw.jpg)
IMAGE overall, 1993.11.1_bw.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph
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Street Art War: Banksy vs. The Gray Ghost in New Orleans
Article by SA Rogers, filed under Street Art & Graffiti in the Art category
(image via: howieluvzus)
When Banksy visited New Orleans in 2008, the renowned graffiti artist wasn’t just leaving behind his particular brand of social and political commentary on Hurricane Katrina and its effects on New Orleans culture – he was coming to do battle with the Gray Ghost. Two years later, only a single Banksy work has escaped the gray paint roller, and only because it’s behind plexiglass.
(image via: quazen)
Fred Radtke made it his mission to erase every bit of graffiti in the city long before Banksy’s arrival, sweeping down the street with his paint roller in hand. The anti-street-art crusader passed quietly through each neighborhood, obliterating all traces of spray paint with his own signature splotches of gray – hence his nickname. Some locals celebrated his dedication to keeping New Orleans clean, while others decried his assault against free expression.
(image via: fabricmag)
The Gray Ghost himself became the subject of some of Banksy’s New Orleans work, depicted as a bent figure blotting out color on the city’s walls. Where Banksy painted over huge swaths of Radtke’s gray paint, Radtke came back and painted over many of Banksy’s works of art (captured on video in one case) – without the permission of the property owners. Each Banksy reportedly increased the value of the building it adorned by $75,000 – $200,000.
(images via: aboxcarnamedruin, artbymags)
In 2009, Radtke finally went too far and painted over a commissioned mural. He pled no contest to a charge of criminal trespassing and agreed to get permission from property owners before performing his “community service.”
(image via: satanoid)
Not all of the Banksy obliteration came courtesy of the Gray Ghost. A man was actually photographed in the process of painting over ‘Boy on Life Preserver’. But regardless of who covered them, it seems that they’re all gone but ‘Rain Girl’, thanks to its protective plexiglass.
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How to Move Through Trauma
Josh Hogan
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When unresolved, trauma can bury itself deep within our body and psyche, affecting us in unexpected ways
Therapist Josh Hogan reflects on what he has learned about trauma, from his own experience, his clients, and Bessel Van Der Kolk's The Body Keeps the Score
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When I was in training as a therapist, someone recommended Bessel Van Der Kolk’s The Body Keeps The Score to me as fundamental reading. A seminal work on the latest understanding of trauma and its treatments, this book ended up having a profound effect on me and my work as a therapist. Since then I have read articles, watched videos of the author talking about his work, and sought general training opportunities on the subject of trauma. My interest in this area comes not just from a desire to help, but also a belief that trauma is a varied and widespread phenomenon in the population.
What is trauma?
It starts from the idea that human beings are fundamentally wired to engage and connect with each other – a concept that nearly all schools of psychotherapy would agree with. When trauma happens, that ability to connect and engage is interrupted. We are built to deal with frightening situations thanks to a highly honed fight or flight response, yet when you can’t deal with the situation, either by fighting or escaping, helplessness and then trauma kicks in.
But one doesn’t just feel immobilised at the time of the traumatic incident. It’s a feeling that can last throughout a lifetime if left unprocessed. Gradually one may become mentally disconnected from the present moment, forced to live in the past by harrowing memories that seem stuck in the head. Disconnected also from one’s body where trauma has left a physical residue of anxious impulses.
Reading The Body Keeps The Score and other works on trauma, I came to understand what trauma meant not just for other people but for myself. I knew I’d had a bad time in the past, but I didn’t know I could call it trauma. At first it seemed wrong to use that word for my experiences, as if it was too powerful a description and I wasn’t allowed. Learning to categorise things as trauma doesn’t just mean I jumped on a bandwagon and posted something on social media about it; I began to own those experiences and I began to leave them behind. For the first time I could say “that was traumatic and that shouldn’t have happened to me.” The power such a statement gives you can’t be overstated.
What happens when trauma is left unprocessed?
Without the power to process the trauma through understanding and compassion, many sufferers turn to food, alcohol, drugs, sex and other addictive processes in order to feel better. Van Der Kolk explains to the reader that addiction is the commonly sought cure for trauma because it calms the internal and everlasting edginess that trauma causes. A trauma sufferer may feel they have no ownership of their body or their past. They may go through life feeling permanently detached from themselves. This in turn leads to detachment from others around them.
Van Der Kolk suggests several healthier remedies for trauma that involve being in the present and actively ‘moving’ through it. He supports talking therapy but does not believe it is the ultimate solution. One needs to understand and own one’s story, but when one is severely traumatised by their past it may require long and painstaking work to get to that stage. It is hard to access and talk about feelings that one has become so well practised at detaching oneself from.
I’ve worked with clients facing this struggle and I am often moved by the sense that I’m seeing my own experience in a mirror. Describing an event may seem such a simple task, but very often when it comes to the most traumatising events, there are no words. “How do you feel about what happened to you?” is very often the hardest question of all to answer. “I don’t feel anything” is a common and instinctive answer, because those feelings are locked away through years of internal detachment.
Ways to overcome trauma
The goal is to overcome the internal fragmentation and detachment of trauma, and to become fully engaged in life again. Part of this process is about feeling the feelings.
Yoga, mindfulness, theatre and dance are all thought to be good ways of connecting in the present, and connecting with the body to feel fully alive. Whichever therapeutic path is taken, the trauma sufferer slowly learns to tolerate what’s going on right now, so they can process the past, move through and move on. Trauma’s lasting legacy is hyper arousal in the brain’s defence systems, so it’s really about slowing down and focusing calmly. When you notice the trigger and its reaction, you can start to overcome it. From that springs real connection and relationship with others.
In the process of this work many clients want to know when they will be cured of the past. The desire to forget what happened, to cast it out of their lives forever is so strong - reinforced by a common misconception that ‘getting over it’ is the vital goal to reach for. Western society encourages us to get over what ails us as quickly as possible, so that we can become useful functioning members again. Van Der Kolk doesn’t say if he believes that one can ever ‘get over’ trauma to the extent that they never have to think about it again. I don’t believe complete forgetting is possible, or desirable. When you do the work to own your past, I think you remember the pain and you learn to live beside it. Still feeling pain fifty years after the event isn’t a nice thought, but I believe it is more than possible to live a rich and happy life despite that. Just as one never forgets the loss of a loved one, trauma can’t be forgotten, nor should it be. It can, however, be understood and cared about and kept in its right place.
Josh Hogan is a verified welldoing.org therapist in Central London and online
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Home Stats Everything you need to know about West Ham v Stoke
Everything you need to know about West Ham v Stoke
Today is yet another must win game after last week’s defeat at Leicester City.
It’s getting to the point where we could slip in to the bottom half of the table, which would be completely unacceptable when you consider the form we were in at the beginning of the campaign.
So today is a huge opportunity to put some more space between ourselves and the bottom half and start moving forward for a decent end to the season.
Having a bet on the game today? Then make sure you check out Kick-Off.co.uk‘s betting stats below before parting with your cash.
1. West Ham have won 50% of their last 20 home games, losing seven and drawing two of the other 10.
2. In their last 20 home matches, West Ham have scored 1.4 goals per game and conceded 0.9 goals per game on average.
3. West Ham are winless in their last three Premier League games against Stoke but have won seven overall win three draws and five Potters wins.
4. Five of these seven Premier League fixtures at Upton Park have seen just one side scoring.
5. After winning three games in a row in February/March, Stoke have now lost three games in succession.
6. Aaron Cresswell is the only of Sam Allardyce’s men to have played every minute of every West Ham game in the Premier League this season.
7. Four of the last six West Ham games in the Premier League has seen at least three goals scored.
8. In their last 20 home games, 11 of the 27 goals scored by West Ham have come from forwards, 10 from midfielders and 3 from defenders.
9. Upton Park has seen the most goals from indirect free-kicks this season (6).
10. 10 of the 13 Premier League goals that Stewart Downing has been involved in this season came before the New Year.
Want to back the Hammers to win a second successive home game this weekend? Head to the KickOff.co.uk West Ham v Stoke predictions page for all the betting tips you need.
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Stuart Appleby Becomes the Fifth PGA Tour Player in History to Score a 59
In the entire history of the PGA Tour, which dates to 1916, there had been a total of three official scores of 59, and none since 1999.
Now, in the span of 24 days, there have been two more -- as well as three scores of 60.
What in the name of titanium drivers and space-age golf balls is going on?
Australian Stuart Appleby on Sunday became the fifth player to shoot 59, making nine birdies and an eagle on the par-70 Old White course at the Greenbrier Resort to capture the first-year Greenbrier Classic by a stroke over Jeff Overton.
Source: 'Stuart Appleby's 59 yields victory'; Bob Harig, ESPN Golf, August 1, 2010 Added by: Colin Harris
Stuart Appleby understands the scrutiny that might come with shooting a 59 on a par-70 course.
The Australian won the Greenbrier Classic on Sunday and became the fifth PGA Tour player to hit golf's magic number. His milestone came less than a month after Paul Goydos had a 59 at the John Deere Classic.
Appleby was the first to reach 59 on a par-70 course; Goydos' course was par 71. The three other 59s were on par 72s: Al Geiberger at the 1977 Memphis Classic, Chip Beck at the 1991 Las Vegas Invitational and David Duval at the 1999 Bob Hope Classic.
Source: 'Stuart Appleby shoots 59 at Greenbrier Classic'; Golf.com, August 2, 2010. Added by: Colin Harris
Stuart Appleby hit golf's magic number Sunday, shooting 59 to win the Greenbrier Classic.
Appleby's 11-under round put him at 22 under, giving him a one-stroke victory to end a four-year winless drought. Third-round leader Jeff Overton (67) narrowly missed a long birdie try on the par-3 18th that would have forced a playoff.
Appleby had nine birdies and an eagle in his round on the Old White course.
Source: 'Stuart Appleby's 59 caps his Greenbrier Comeback'; The Detroit News, August 2, 2010. Added by: Colin Harris
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Omnichannel, Brand Experience and Sustainability remain key post Coronavirus
As part of our Service with Guts mission, Worldpack has recently conducted some customer feedback to take the temperature of the retail environment as we emerge from lockdown. We also wanted to ensure we were ahead of the game if new products and solutions were needed by customers.
We mainly focused on finding out about how the recent changes in retail have affected brands’ objectives and also whether sustainability would remain top of the list in things considered important by retailers and consumers alike.
We asked several of our customers a series of questions to get their thoughts on whether there would be an increase in face to face interactions, the future of the in-store experience and whether remaining agile had been a key factor in coping with the recent pressures set by the Coronavirus pandemic.
Face to face or Online?
When asked about the future retail experience that was planned for consumers, 71% of respondents stated that their stores would be more focused on delivering a brand experience in the future. We also asked whether there would be changes in the number of customers coming to shop in-store, and whether online retailing would further increase. Those asked said that they thought there would still be face to face interactions (58%) and these included pick-ups from store with click and collect. In contrast, 80% thought that online retailing would continue to grow. 71% of those asked also thought that omnichannel would continue to be the main focus for their business moving ahead.
When it came to future competition, 42% said they thought there would be no difference from before lockdown. However, 28% of those asked thought there would be more competition from independent stores and community or bespoke markets in the future.
Alice van der Westen, Worldpack’s Business Development Manager, says: “As stores open after the Coronavirus lockdown, we can see that for many, thankfully the return to normality is happening quickly and smoothly. The biggest consideration for retailers is implementing safety guidelines without ruining the shopper’s in-store experience. They also need to put things in place that enables them to remain flexible in case of a second wave when further guidance and restrictions could come into play.
“For many, the break has given them time to reflect on what a store could offer in terms of architecture and layout. For innovative brands, there are opportunities for them to show their creativity in finding a solution, and in turn, inventing a whole new experience.”
Sustainability still matters
When asked about sustainability, the majority of businesses stated that this had been high on their list of concerns before lockdown. 100% of respondents asked confirmed that sustainability and eco products/packaging would be still be a major focus when ‘normality’ resumes, while over two thirds of those asked thought the environment would remain a key issue for consumers.
Alice adds: “It’s great that sustainability has remained high on the agenda and retailers are carrying on the good work started before the Coronavirus pandemic broke. For retailers who could do with some assistance in getting in eco-shape, we can help with advice and strategy as part of our Service with Guts mission.”
Future challenges
The biggest challenges that retailers thought they would face post Covid-19 included cashflow/lack of revenue from shutdown (71%), staffing and redundancies (71%), store refits and customer safety (71%) and changes in technology (57%). These were followed by changing consumer needs (42%). 70% of respondents thought that meeting supply needs and the supply of products could be a future issue.
On the whole, the companies asked felt they were agile and able to deal with changes well and all considered this key to how well they had adapted to recent challenges. 83% felt that Worldpack’s flexibility had been part of their own successful adaptability during the Coronavirus pandemic so far.
When asked what qualities Worldpack had, 83% of respondents stated its understanding of its customers’ short and long-term goals, its customer service (66%) and its ability to listen (66%). These were closely followed by flexibility, openness, positivity and proactivity.
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Doris May Stirk
Reginald Benjamin Stirk
Birth 16 May 1868 Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Died 20 Dec 1926 Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Buried Southwell Church (St James), Southwell, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Father Charles Joseph Stirk, b. 27 Apr 1837, Peddie, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Mother Elizabeth Trollip, b. 7 Dec 1838
Family Emily Elizabeth Newton Wicks, b. 16 May 1868, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Married 27 Nov 1894 Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa
+ 1. Doris May Stirk, b. 23 Feb 1896
+ 2. Gordon Reginald Stirk, b. 15 Jun 1901
+ 3. Neville Newton Stirk, b. 11 Feb 1911, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Emily Elizabeth Newton Wicks
Nickname Emmie
Died 27 Feb 1925 Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Family Reginald Benjamin Stirk, b. 16 May 1868, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa
George Vernon Ford
Birth 3 Aug 1888
Died 28 Feb 1967
Father James Ford, b. 9 Apr 1853
Mother Ann Manley Palmer
Family Doris May Stirk, b. 23 Feb 1896
Married 22 Oct 1919 Sir George, Cape, South Africa
+ 1. Jean Vernon Ford
+ 2. Molly Vernon Ford
3. John Vernon Ford, b. 9 Apr 1926
4. Colin Vernon Ford, b. 4 Jul 1931
Jean Vernon Ford
Father George Vernon Ford, b. 3 Aug 1888
Mother Doris May Stirk, b. 23 Feb 1896
Family Martin Emmott
+ 1. Brian John Emmott
2. Terence Martin Emmott
Molly Vernon Ford
Family Jocelyn Deacon, b. 21 Jan 1922, Alexandria, Eastern Cape, South Africa
+ 1. Gillian Jane Deacon
+ 2. Diana Margaret Deacon
3. Rosemary Lynn Deacon
4. Charles Andrew Vernon Deacon
John Vernon Ford
Colin Vernon Ford
Died 16 Nov 1991
Family Thora Tennant
Name Doris May Stirk
Baptism St James Church, Southwell, Eastern Cape, South Africa
1820 Lineage Yes
Died 3 Apr 1969
Buried St James Church, Southwell, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Person ID I6430 master
Father Reginald Benjamin Stirk, b. 16 May 1868, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa , d. 20 Dec 1926, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa (Age 58 years)
Mother Emily Elizabeth Newton Wicks, b. 16 May 1868, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa , d. 27 Feb 1925, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa (Age 56 years)
Family George Vernon Ford, b. 3 Aug 1888, d. 28 Feb 1967 (Age 78 years)
3. John Vernon Ford, b. 9 Apr 1926, d. 30 May 1948 (Age 22 years)
4. Colin Vernon Ford, b. 4 Jul 1931, d. 16 Nov 1991 (Age 60 years)
Baptism - - St James Church, Southwell, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Married - 22 Oct 1919 - Sir George, Cape, South Africa
Buried - - St James Church, Southwell, Eastern Cape, South Africa
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Classic Recipes: Italian Cooking
Wendy Hobson
Publisher: Arcturus Publishing
Let this book be your guide to everyday cooking the Italian way, a cuisine loved the world over for its enticing range of dishes and flavors. Choose your favorites from the 20 delicious recipes on offer here, ranging from classic pasta, risotto and pizza dishes to enticing desserts.
* A feast of recipes for cooks at all levels of ability, with easy to follow step-by-step instructions accompanied by mouthwatering color photographs.
* All recipes make four servings and use readily available ingredients that can be found at your local store.
Wendy studied at Reading University, before moving to Macmillan Education then Oxford University Press and Purnell Books. When licensed character publishing was in its infancy, she worked on...
No Room at the Little Cornish...
Nancy Barone
There's magic in the Cornish air this Christmas...
Rosie Anderson was hoping to whisk her young son Danny away for a lovely Christmas with family, far from the hustle and bustle of her life in London. But then her boss at the head office – aka Susan the Sacker – suddenly assigns her to go in incognito and save a tiny inn in Cornwall from being closed permanently. Rosie doesn't know why The Old Bell Inn is performing so badly but it's on her to sort it out!
Hours in the car later, Rosie arrives at the inn to find she's been double booked – there are no rooms left. And she isn't there for more than a minute before she's butting heads with the manager, Irishman Mitchell Fitzpatrick. He seems to dislike her on sight, so it's confusing that he seems to get on so well with Danny... But if he's as terrible as his reputation, Rosie will have to be the one to fire him.
This really isn't the Christmas Rosie was dreaming of. But maybe, just maybe, it could be a whole lot more...
A sweet and uplifting Christmas romance, No Room at the Little Cornish Inn is perfect for fans of Philippa Ashley, Holly Martin and Jenny Hale.
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Instant Wit - How to Be Witty...
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How to Be Witty and Come Up with the Right Things to Say Instantly!
Surely you've encountered (or even know) that one particular individual in your life who seems to be able to pull "something witty to say" at the drop of a hat that knocks everyone's socks off - by generating the perfect responses for the perfect moment, cracking unexpected jokes making people laugh, or bantering witty one-liner comments with their endless repertoire of repartees.
So who is this Mr./Ms. Witty? You're scratching your head dumbfounded, yet in impressive awe...how in the world do they do it, and deep down secretly wanting to be like them.
Who doesn't, right? Who wouldn't love to be admired, respected, and worshipped for their charming clever wit? Yet, it's much more than that. By being witty, you can always come up with the right things to say, at the right time in expressing yourself clearly, concisely, and convincingly at an instant with few short words (no more, no less) that establishes more authority, credibility, and trust.
That's the power of having a razor-sharp wit! If the pen is mightier than the sword, then the wit is sharper than the knife. However, let's be honest, being witty doesn't always come naturally, especially for those who are less creative and more logical-prone. The good news is, your wit is like your muscle, and like any muscle, it can be trained and built up...all without needing to memorize any line by knowing a few structures and formulas to guide how to generate your responses.
Within "Instant Wit":
* How to use this "twister technique" to prepare yourself on what you should say, when the exact moment occurs for your quick comeback.
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Around the World in 80 Trains -...
Monisha Rajesh
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TRAVELLER AWARD FOR BEST TRAVEL BOOK
SHORTLISTED FOR THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD
'Monisha Rajesh has chosen one of the best ways of seeing the world. Never too fast, never too slow, her journey does what trains do best. Getting to the heart of things. Prepare for a very fine ride' Michael Palin
From the cloud-skimming heights of Tibet's Qinghai railway to silk-sheeted splendour on the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express, Around the World in 80 Trains is a celebration of the glory of train travel and a witty and irreverent look at the world.
Packing up her rucksack – and her fiancé, Jem – Monisha Rajesh embarks on an unforgettable adventure that takes her from London's St Pancras station to the vast expanses of Russia and Mongolia, North Korea, Canada, Kazakhstan, and beyond. The journey is one of constant movement and mayhem, as the pair strike up friendships and swap stories with the hilarious, irksome and ultimately endearing travellers they meet on board, all while taking in some of the earth's most breathtaking views.
Sons of Rome
Simon Turney, Gordon Doherty
'A page turner from beginning to end ... A damn fine read' Ben Kane.
Four Emperors. Two Friends. One Destiny.
As twilight descends on the 3rd century AD, the Roman Empire is but a shadow of its former self. Decades of usurping emperors, splinter kingdoms and savage wars have left the people beleaguered, the armies weary and the future uncertain. And into this chaos Emperor Diocletian steps, reforming the succession to allow for not one emperor to rule the world, but four.
Meanwhile, two boys share a chance meeting in the great city of Treverorum as Diocletian's dream is announced to the imperial court. Throughout the years that follow, they share heartbreak and glory as that dream sours and the empire endures an era of tyranny and dread. Their lives are inextricably linked, their destinies ever-converging as they rise through Rome's savage stations, to the zenith of empire. For Constantine and Maxentius, the purple robes beckon...
JIN SHIN JYUTSU For Your Animal...
Adele Leas
Learn the basic techniques of the ancient Art of Jin Shin Jyutsu for use on animal companions to promote healing, health and harmony of body, mind and spirit. The book is based on Mary Burmeister's Jin Shin Jyutsu Self Help books 1 and 2, which are said to contain the essence of this "Art of the Creator through Compassionate Man." Includes step by step directions and color illustrations, showing the adaptations needed to easily work with different size species including: dogs, horses, cats, birds, rabbits, and hamsters.The pages are clear and accessible, with hands showing the location of each step. Flows are adapted as needed based on the relationship of the Safety Energy Locks (building blocks of the body) in different species, as well as attitudinal and physical differences needed to be able to work with domesticated animals.
Screen-Free Crafts Kids Will...
Lynn Lilly, The Craft Box Girls...
A COLLECTION OF EDUCATIONAL, ENTERTAINING CRAFTS THAT ARE SURE TO GET KIDS AND PARENTS TO UNPLUG AND INTERACTDoes your child spend too much time in front of a screen? Help them discover the excitement of hands-on learning with Screen-Free Crafts Kids Will Love. Packed with DIY projects like a personalized race track chore tracker, a high-flying homemade 3D kite and handmade musical instruments, the activities in this book will encourage your child to explore the world beyond the screen.Screen-Free Crafts Kids Will Love features step-by-step instructions and color photosfor over 60 entertaining and educational projects that are guaranteed to:• Promote lifelong learning• Stimulate creativity• Improve problem solving• Spur imaginative thinking• Encourage independent playtimeAnd the fun doesn’t end when the crafting is over. Youngsters will love making and playing with their new handmade creations on game night, at parties, during holidays and more.
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COVID vaccine likely to be mandatory in Australia, Scott Morrison says after signing deal with Oxford University
By political correspondent Brett Worthington
Posted WedWednesday 19 AugAugust 2020 at 12:17amWedWednesday 19 AugAugust 2020 at 12:17am , updated WedWednesday 19 AugAugust 2020 at 5:45amWedWednesday 19 AugAugust 2020 at 5:45am
Scott Morrison says he expects criticism from anti-vaccination campaigners. (ABC News: Adam Kennedy)
Australians are likely to face mandatory coronavirus vaccinations if Prime Minister Scott Morrison gets his wish.
Australia has secured access to make a potential COVID-19 vaccine
Scott Morrison wants the vaccine to be mandatory unless there are medical reasons not to have it
He says the vaccine will be free for Australians
The nation is a step closer to gaining access to a vaccine, with the Federal Government securing an international deal to produce a vaccine frontrunner locally if trials succeed.
If that happens, Mr Morrison said Australia would have a target of 95 per cent vaccination, which would account for people with health conditions that prevented them being vaccinated.
"I would expect it to be as mandatory as you could possibly make it," he told Melbourne radio station 3AW.
"There are always exemptions for any vaccine on medical grounds, but that should be the only basis.
"We are talking about a pandemic that has destroyed the global economy and taken the lives of hundreds of thousands all around the world, and over 430 Australians here."
Australia takes steps to secure Oxford vaccine candidate.
The Government has signed an agreement with UK-based drug company AstraZeneca to secure the potential COVID-19 vaccine, being developed by Oxford University.
If the vaccine clears trials, the Federal Government would manufacture it and make it free for all Australians.
But that's unlikely to be until next year at the earliest, Mr Morrison said.
Acting Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly said he expected strong voluntary take-up of any vaccine that was approved for use.
"Of course, the first will be a voluntary call for people and I'm sure there will be long queues — socially distanced, of course — for this vaccine," he said.
"There will be very strong campaigns to encourage people and we've had experience before of linking vaccination with other programs, and all of those things will be looked at over time."
Parents who do not immunise their children currently risk reductions in Family Tax Benefit A payments and losing access to the Child Care Subsidy.
Government looking to upscale production
Industry Minister Karen Andrews said biotech firm CSL would be the likely manufacturer of the vaccine in Australia if it proved successful.
Lessons from the last big vaccine race
Billions are being poured into the race to find a coronavirus vaccine, with the winner owning a powerful political tool. During the last pandemic an Australian company got there first.
"CSL is probably the leading producer at the moment, we're in very deep discussions with them in terms of their capability and their capacity," she said.
"Depending on the vaccine that is ultimately the candidate that we proceed with, there will be differences in how the vaccine is produced and what the requirements are."
She said while there was the capability to produce the potential vaccine in Australia, there was not yet capacity to manufacture enough doses for the entire population to access rapidly.
"There is capacity to potentially produce in Australia but at much lower volumes than what we would need," she said.
"My focus is now on how we would scale up that production, but that work is well underway."
Labor's health spokesman Chris Bowen was critical of the letter of intent, saying it lacked important detail.
"It is not clear, despite the Prime Minister's spin and rhetoric, that we have the manufacturing capacity in Australia to produce the AstraZeneca vaccine," he said.
"The Government is way behind on the substance. The Government was ready to go with a meme, they just weren't ready to go with an agreement."
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While the Prime Minister outlined his preference, he said the Government was yet to make a decision on making the vaccine mandatory.
He said the Government would take medical advice on the rollout, including on who would get access first, with medical workers and the nation's most vulnerable people likely to be a priority.
During a round of morning media, Mr Morrison repeatedly said he expected pushback from anti-vaccination campaigners.
But he repeatedly said he was the minister who introduced a "no jab, no play" rule, and his stance on vaccinations was clear and would not change.
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Records Reveal Eight Connecticut Law Enforcement Agencies Sharing Residents’ Location Information With ICE
Meghan Holden, ACLU of Connecticut, 860-992-7645, mholden@acluct.org
Leslie Fulbright, ACLU of Northern California, 415-621-2493 x309, lfulbright@aclunc.org
HARTFORD — Eight Connecticut law enforcement agencies (the Fairfield, Westport, Enfield, Wethersfield, Stratford, Trumbull, Norwalk, and Southern Connecticut State University police departments) are providing residents’ location information to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to aid the agency’s mass surveillance efforts, according to records released today by the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California. The records reveal that this location information, along with the location information provided by over 80 local law enforcement nationwide, is powering an expansive automated license plate detector database that ICE is accessing to track people’s daily movements.
“This is the latest example of why Connecticut needs a multitude of safeguards to take control of police surveillance and limit local law enforcement’s cooperation with ICE,” said David McGuire, ACLU of Connecticut executive director. “It is appalling that ICE has added this mass surveillance database to its arsenal and that Connecticut local agencies are compromising the privacy and civil liberties of Connecticut residents to aid this immoral deportation machine in its surveillance efforts. All eight of these Connecticut police departments must immediately stop sharing their residents' information with this rogue and immoral agency, and Connecticut’s legislature must step up to pass a statewide law to take control over police surveillance, create privacy protections if the state adopts electronic tolls, and pass a bill to strengthen the TRUST Act.”
"We already know how ICE is rogue agency that is chasing people at courthouses and detaining people for traffic tickets. But this is a whole other level,” said Mary Elizabeth Smith of Make The Road CT. “Make the Road members travel, live, go to school, and work in the very towns mentioned in this report - Trumbull, Fairfield, and Stratford. No one should fear for their lives and safety while going about their daily lives. It is unacceptable for our local police departments to share license place information with ICE. The only reason for ICE to want this information to strike fear in the hearts of our community, and we won't stand for it. That is why we demand that the state of Connecticut take steps to limit corporation between local police and ICE by passing legislation like SB 992 TRUST Act and SB 948 364 Day Sentencing."
"We are appalled by the findings of this report. Specifically by the news that the police department at Southern CT State University is sharing information with ICE,” said Jonathan Gonzalez, SCSU alumnus and CT Students for a Dream policy coordinator. “No student should feel at risk or threatened when seeking to pursue their education. When this happens, our students ability to learn are severely affected - which goes against the goals of our institutions of higher learning. Depending on the extend of cooperation between SCSU and ICE, what is outlined is this report goes against the ICE Protocol released by President Okjakin on Feb 24, 2017. It is particularly ironic that SCSU is named when the school has an annual Social Justice month. A college can't prioritize social justice if it is helping ICE separate families and target students."
"The ACLU's finding's regarding state and local police sharing license plate information with ICE further expose the complicity of Connecticut law enforcement with a racist deportation regime,” said Alok Bhatt, Connecticut Immigrant Rights Alliance (CIRA) community defense coordinator. “While this information causes alarm, it should also galvanize us to escalate our fight to get ICE out of Connecticut. We need strong state policies, like the TRUST Act (SB992), to prevent such systematic violence, while further organizing to defend our own communities."
The documents were obtained by the ACLU of Northern California through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed in May of 2018. The records show more than 9,000 ICE agents have access to a vast automated license plate reader database run by a company called Vigilant Solutions under a $6.1 million contract that the public first learned of last year. The exact scope of ICE’s access to the database, existence and nature of its collaboration with local law enforcement agencies, and broad reach of the surveillance apparatus, however, remained unknown until now.
Vigilant Solution’s database allows the agency to pinpoint the locations of drivers going about their daily private lives, and gives it access to over 5 billion points of location information collected by private businesses like insurance companies and parking lots. ICE agents can also access an additional 1.5 billion records collected by law enforcement agencies. More than 80 local law enforcement agencies, from more than a dozen states, have agreed to share license plate location information with ICE. Emails show police in some locations handing driver information over to ICE informally, violating their localities’ laws and ICE policies.
The ACLU of Connecticut is calling on law enforcement to stop sharing residents’ location data with ICE and for the Connecticut General Assembly to pass bills to take control over police surveillance and strengthen the state’s TRUST Act, a law intended to prevent this type of cooperation between local police and ICE. The ACLU of Connecticut is also calling for legislators to include privacy protections in any bill to bring tolls to Connecticut roads.
Automated license plate readers, mounted on police cars or on objects like toll gantries, use small, high-speed cameras to photograph thousands of plates per minute. When that data – which includes the date, time, and location of each scan – is aggregated over time, it gives law enforcement an intimate portrait of people's lives, including their affiliations, family, interests, activities. Electronic tolls rely on automatic license plate readers, attached to toll gantries, to scan and track cars.
In 2014, a representative of Vigilant Solutions testified before Connecticut’s legislature to oppose privacy protections from license plate readers. During that testimony, he compared license plates to “a tree or a bush.”
Vigilant draws its license plate information from the “most populous 50 metropolitan areas” in the country, corresponding to almost 60 percent of the U.S. population. The company encourages law enforcement to share location information collected locally with hundreds of other agencies nationwide, making it “as easy as adding a friend on your favorite social media platform.” The records also include training materials that provide ICE with tools to make friends with local police. These include an interactive map of the United States displaying the agencies using Vigilant software and “a step-by-step guide” containing instructions on requesting access from local agencies to their residents’ location information.
The documents are available here: https://www.aclunc.org/docs/DOCS_031319.pdf
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ACLU Files Suit Against Healthcare Providers Who Discriminated Against Lesbian Patient
By ACLU of Southern California
Medical care shouldn't be hazardous to your health. Yet that's exactly what it is for the majority of lesbians and gay men. Studies have consistently shown that as with people of color and other minority groups gay men and lesbians are frequently discriminated against in healthcare.
This means that the experience of Michelle Dupont is not an isolated incident. That is why the ACLU of Southern California filed a civil rights suit Wednesday, May 12, on Ms. Dupont's behalf in Superior Court against her former healthcare providers: Health Net Life Insurance Company, Bristol Park Medical Group, and Dr. Ronald Axtell.
In June of 1998, having just received her health benefits from her new employer, Michelle Dupont was seen for an initial appointment with Dr. Ronald Axtell, who was to be her primary care physician. During the course of the appointment, Dr. Axtell asked Ms. Dupont what type of birth control she used, and she replied that she did not use birth control because she is a lesbian. Immediately after the exam, Dr. Axtell told Ms. Dupont that, in the future, she needed to see a different doctor because he did not approve of "what" she was. Ms. Dupont asked if this was because she was a lesbian, and Dr. Axtell replied, "Yes." He then made a notation in her medical records that he had told the patient that he could not continue to treat her because she is a lesbian.
In California, all businesses open to the public must treat their clients equally, without regard to differences such as race, gender, or sexual orientation, said ACLU Staff Attorney Taylor Flynn. The ACLU has filed suit on Ms. Dupont's behalf because no one should be denied adequate medical care based on prejudice.
Plaintiff Michelle Dupont said, "This is no different from the way African Americans in my family were treated 30 years ago. I deserve to be treated with the same dignity and respect as any other human being."
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Breast Cancer Tissues Found to Contain This Common ‘Cosmetic Ingredient’
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This article was originally published by our friends at RealFarmacy
New research has detected the presence of paraben esters in 99 percent of breast cancer tissues sampled.1
The study examined 40 women who were being treated for primary breast cancer.
In 60 percent of cases, five of the different esters were present.
Parabens are chemicals with estrogen-like properties, and estrogen is one of the hormones involved in the development of breast cancer.
The study notes that:2
“Variation was notable with respect to individual paraben esters, location within one breast and similar locations in different breasts.
Overall median values in nanograms per gram tissue for the 160 tissue samples were highest for n-propylparaben and methylparaben; levels were lower for n-butylparaben, ethylparaben and isobutylparaben…
The source of the paraben cannot be identified, but paraben was measured in the 7/40 patients who reported never having used underarm cosmetics in their lifetime.”
Sources and Dangers of Parabens
Deodorants and antiperspirants are some of the primary sources of parabens, but the fact that even those who reportedly never used them still had parabens in their breast tissue clearly demonstrates that these chemicals, regardless of what products they’re added to, can, and apparently will, accumulate in breast tissue.
It’s important to recognize that whatever you spread on your skin can be absorbed into your body and potentially cause serious damage over time, as this research demonstrates.
(To learn more about the potential toxicity of your cosmetics, I urge you to review the EWG’s extensive Skin Deep Report.)3 Parabens inhibit the growth of bacteria, yeast, and molds, and are used as preservatives.
On the label they may be listed as:
These chemicals are commonly used in:
Studies have shown that parabens can affect your body much like the estrogens, which can lead to diminished muscle mass, extra fat storage, and male gynecomastia (breast growth). Other studies besides the one featured here have also linked parabens to breast cancer. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has linked methyl parabens in particular to metabolic, developmental, hormonal, and neurological disorders, as well as various cancers.
How to Avoid Some of the Most Common Culprits
Avoiding parabens and other harmful chemicals requires becoming an avid label reader. Beware that products boasting “all-natural” labels can still contain harmful chemicals, including parabens, so make sure to check the list of ingredients.
Another alternative is to make your own personal care products. In many cases it’s much easier than you might think. Michael DeJong, environmentalist and author of books on green living has a book called Clean Cures,4 which is chockfull of affordable, easy, natural remedies you can prepare at home to treat ordinary ailments with items you have in your own refrigerator and pantry.
When it comes to deodorants, one option is to skip it altogether. Simple soap and water has served me quite well. For some additional odor-protection, try a pinch of baking soda mixed with a small amount of water.
Beware: There’s a Brand NEW Class of Cancer-Causing “Estrogens…”
Recent research has also confirmed the existence of a previously unknown class of cancer-causing materials that can be found in thousands of consumer products. Some of them are even added to supplements and foods as “nutrients”. These estrogen-mimicking compounds are: metals.
Yes, a broad range of metals have been shown to act as “metalloestrogens” with the potential to add to the estrogenic burden of the human breast, thereby increasing the risk of breast cancer. The following metals have been identified as being capable of binding to cellular estrogen receptors and then mimicking the actions of physiological estrogens:5
According to GreenMedInfo:6
“…[E]xposure to sodium selenite (and sodium selenate) is difficult to avoid, as it is the primary source of supplemental selenium in mass market vitamins, foods, beverages, etc. The same is true for inorganic forms of chromium, copper, nickel, tin and and vanadium, which you will find on the labels of many mass market multivitamins. Another daily source of metalloestrogen exposure for millions of consumers is aluminum-based antiperspirants.”
Cadmium Linked to Higher Breast Cancer Risk
A recent study published in the journal Cancer Research indicates that women whose diets contain higher levels of cadmium are at a greater risk of developing breast cancer. Cadmium is a heavy metal long known to be carcinogenic, and, as you can see by its inclusion on the list above, it’s also been identified as a metal that can bind to estrogen receptors, effectively mimicking the female hormone estrogen. The study found that among close to 56,000 women, those with the highest intakes of cadmium were 21 percent more likely to develop breast cancer.7
Cadmium leaches into crops from fertilizers, or when rainfall or sewage sludge deposit it onto farmland. Potatoes and whole grains are a couple of the primary sources cadmium, but it’s also present in air pollution from the burning of fossil fuel, and can therefore also be inhaled. According to the Los Angeles Times:8
“The study offers new evidence in a large human population that environmental chemicals that mimic the effects of the female hormone estrogen may contribute to women’s risk of certain cancers, including endometrial and breast cancers…The finding comes just three months after the Institute of Medicine, a prestigious body of independent biomedical researchers, concluded that a host of other factors — most within a woman’s power to control, such as obesity and hormone-replacement medication — were the most important sources of breast cancer risk.
The report they’re referring to is Breast Cancer and the Environment: A Life Course Approach by the Institute of Medicine (IOM)9 issued in December of last year, which discusses environmental impacts on breast cancer risk.
The report is a step in the right direction, as it recognizes the need to further investigate the role environmental toxins play in the development of breast cancer. This is important, because while individuals can do their best to avoid harmful chemicals, if we really want to quell the rise in cancers of all kinds, we must remove chemicals linked with cancer from consumer products, manufacturing, and other sources of exposure. Furthermore, the IOM report also identifies ionizing radiation as one of the primary contributors to breast cancer, which of course includes mammograms…
Could More Women Be Harmed than Helped with Mammography?
Mammograms expose a woman’s body to radiation that can be 1,000 times greater than that from a chest x-ray, which increases the risk of cancer. Mammography also compresses breasts tightly (and often painfully), which could lead to a lethal spread of cancerous cells, should they exist.
Earlier this year, the Nordic Cochrane Collaboration issued a report stating that mammography screening may cause more harm than good. Their informative leaflet, Screening for Breast Cancer with Mammography,10 is an important read for every woman. Even more provocative is the new book, Mammography Screening: Truth, Lies and Controversy by Peter C. Gøtzsche, Professor of Clinical Research Design and Analysis Director at The Nordic Cochrane Centre, and Chief Physician. The very first paragraph of the book’s ad reads:11
“The most effective way to decrease women’s risk of becoming a breast cancer patient is to avoid attending screening.”
While this may sound too shocking to be true for some, the available data fully supports that conclusion. According to the Cochrane Collaboration, for every 2,000 women invited for screening over the course of 10 years, just ONE woman will have her life prolonged. Meanwhile, 10 healthy women, who would not have been diagnosed with cancer had it not been for the mammography screening, will be misdiagnosed as having breast cancer, and will be treated unnecessarily. Additionally, more than 200 women will experience significant psychological distress for many months due to false positives.
The Cancer Industry is Fraught with Corruption…
There’s plenty of damning information out there that can, and ultimately will, be used to call for a congressional hearing on the mammography cover-up. As far back as 1974, professor Malcolm C. Pike at the University of Southern California School of Medicine warned the National Cancer Institute (NCI) that a number of specialists had concluded that “giving a women under age 50 a mammogram on a routine basis is close to unethical.” In the 1990’s, Dr. Samuel Epstein warned about the dangers of mammography, stating:
“The premenopausal breast is highly sensitive to radiation, each 1 rad exposure increasing breast cancer risk by about 1 percent, with a cumulative 10 percent increased risk for each breast over a decade’s screening… The high sensitivity of the breast, especially in young women, to radiation-induced cancer was known by 1970. Nevertheless, the establishment then screened some 300,000 women with X-ray dosages so high as to increase breast cancer risk by up to 20 percent in women aged 40 to 50 who were mammogramed annually.”
Yet despite all the evidence against the routine use of it, mammography has remained the number one recommended “prevention” strategy for all women over the age of 40. Alarmingly, there’s evidence indicating the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been negligent (to put it mildly) in their approval of a number of cancer-detecting devices. It recently became known that whistleblowers within the agency had been secretly monitored for two years; all of whom worked in the office responsible for reviewing medical devices, including cancer screening devices. The monitored employees had warned Congress that the agency was approving medical devices that posed unacceptable risks to patients.
Jeffrey Shuren, director of the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health has repeatedly tried to take action against the employees, claiming they had disclosed information that undermined the integrity and mission of the FDA. Shuren is also the official who oversees mercury dental fillings, which they have been fraudulently referring to as ‘silver fillings.’ Shuren promised to make an announcement about dental amalgam by the end of 2011, but just before the end of the work year, the agency conceded that no announcement was forthcoming – not in 2011, and maybe not at all.
Again and again, Mr. Shuren demonstrates loyalty to industry interests rather than public health and safety… But he’s not the only one. In a 2009 letter from an unknown number of FDA employees to President Obama’s transition team, the authors clearly spell out the need for a complete overhaul of the agency due to deep-rooted systemic corruption at the highest levels.12 They write:
“Currently there is an atmosphere at FDA in which the honest employee fears the dishonest employee, and not the other way around. Disturbingly, the atmosphere does not yet exist at FDA where honest employees committed to integrity and the FDA mission can act without fear of reprisal. …America urgently needs change at FDA because FDA is fundamentally broken, failing to fulfill its mission, and because re-establishing a proper and effectively functioning FDA is vital to the physical and economic health of the nation.”
Mammograms No Longer Recommended for Women in Their 40’s
The US Preventative Task Force revised its recommendations on mammograms in October 2009,13 stating that women in their 40’s should no longer get routine mammograms for early detection of breast cancer. Instead, the panel recommended waiting until the age of 50, and only doing one mammogram every other year rather than annually. The Canadian task force followed suit in November last year.
While many cancer organizations were outraged and have shunned the task forces’ new directive, it’s important to realize that the main reasons for this change in guidelines were the documented dangers and short-comings of mammographic screening. All in all, there’s convincing evidence that mammography is not all it’s cracked up to be, and the FDA is not doing its stated job to protect your health. Instead, they’re busy catering to industry and skirting the boundaries of the law to protect a lucrative business model. This is a tragedy, considering how many alternatives there are that could help stem the tide of cancer…
There’s a wide variety of prevention and treatment strategies that appear to be both safer and more effective than conventional strategies like mammograms and the “cut-poison-burn” model of cancer treatment… To learn more, please review the related articles listed below.
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1969 Sky River Rock Festival
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Rainier Hereford Ranch, Tenino, Washington
August 30, 31, and September 1, 1969
1969 festival # 32
When I began blogging about 1969’s first rock festival (Aquarian Family Festival) I thought I had a complete list for the rest of 1969. Not true and the Sky River Rock Festival is among those I’ve added.
Tenino, Washington
I found much of the information about the Sky River Rock Festival from the HistoryLink.org site.
Northern Exposure Piano Fling
Fans of the TV series Norther Exposure will remember the famous piano fling episode.
Great Piano Drop
The idea for the first Sky River festival (1968) emanated from the Great Piano Drop of April 28, 1968, on musician Larry Van Over’s farm in Duvall. A helicopter dropped an upright piano into a field just so everyone could hear what it would sound like. Organizers thought if they could get people out to a rural spot to watch a piano drop, then they’d come out to a festival, too.
Artists: Jacque T. Moitoret & Mavis Kadno, Modernistic Artcraft Studios
That first festival was in 1968 with two more each of the following years. In an important way, Sky River 1968 preceded the much more famous Woodstock Music and Art Fair. One of the things that made Woodstock unique was that it was in an undeveloped open rural area that people camped in and around. Such was the 1968 Sky River.
The first site was Betty Nelson’s 40-acre organic raspberry farm on the banks of the Skykomish River, just outside Sultan, Washington.
John Chambless, philosophy professor at the University of Washington, and one of organizers later said, “I don’t think at the time anybody dreamed it would become a three-day festival over the Labor Day weekend.”
The Dead played at the ’68 festival and, not surprisingly, recorded their performance.
Organizers decided to do another. This time in Tenino which is south of Olympia. Tenino was a small town of 950 people (the 2013 population was just over 1,700).
Like the “relationship” between Wallkill, NY and Woodstock Ventures, local pressure from police, the Catholic Archdiocese, and others against the event grew.
The Tenino Chamber of Commerce and several adjacent property owners obtained an injunction blocking a Thurston County permit, but the judge required them to post a $25,000 bond against the festival’s anticipated losses. The plaintiffs couldn’t, and at the last possible second the festival was cleared for takeoff.
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Cleanliness & Godliness Skiffle Band
Congress of Wonders
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Money loss
An estimated 25,000 people attended over three days, but the festival still lost money.
Bumbershoot
There were many complaints and letters written to Washington State Governor Dan Evans to express their displeasure: [metaslider id=15577] Although organizers held another Sky River in 1970, it was the last. Having said that, in 1971 Bumbershoot started and continues to the present.
Addendum from Cliff Merganz who posted on Facebook: I remember reading about the 1968 Festival in one of the first issues of Rolling Stone coming back from a visit to Manny’s and Terminal Music on 48th Street in “the City”. A good story and a few pictures and the first time I read Rolling Stone. I believe John Lennon was on the cover in his “How I Won the War” uniform. There is a CD floating around of the Flying Burrito Brothers playing at the 68′ Festival. My ex-wife’s family had property in the area and said it was almost impossible to get there due to all the “Hippies” but also added there was no trouble and they were all nice and polite.
In 2019, the Thurston Talk site published an article that gave some additional background to Sky River. Among that info was:
according to the promoters, Sky River II was meant to “combat racism, hatred, violence, and poverty.”
The Stop the Rock Festival Committee met on August 21 and was led by a local leader of the John Birch Society.
Landowners and the Tenino Chamber of Commerce filed suit claiming that there was no way the festival could be peaceful or not violate county rules. Specifically, the suit called out the impact of noise on cows (“…it would cause them to lose flesh. They won’t be grazing.”)
According to a 2019 Chronicle article, “The festival was held a few more times, including the 10-day Sky River III held near Washougal in 1970. The final Sky River was held in 1971 in Grays Harbor.”
“One attendee, Pamela Davis, remembers going back to the ranch after the festival with a few friends to help clean up. They built picnic tables and a fire pit, then invited the local law enforcement and their families out for a barbecue to thank them for handling the crowd so well.”
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Festivals, Today in history
Texas International Pop Festival
August 30 thru Sept 1, 1969
Dallas International Motor Speedway
Festival #31
The Texas International Pop Festival is the 29th festival of 1969 that I’ve discovered. All but three were single weekend events. I those others to show another approach to presenting several groups.
The Woodstock Music and Art Fair changed the festival landscape. The organizers of the Texas festival did not expect nearly as many people (Texas had approximately 120,000 attended), but towns and police were even warier fearing the potential of another Woodstock-sized event in another small town. Lewisville had about 8,000 people.
Angus Wynne III
Angus Wynne III was the primary organizer of the event. His father was a successful businessman who had begun the Six Flags Over Texas park (if you care to know, the six flags refers to the six countries that have governed Texas: France, Spain, Mexico, The Republic of Texas, The Confederate States of America, and the United States of America).
Huge Romney
Hugh Romney’s Hog Farm was also at the Texas International Pop Festival serving in the same capacity as it had at Woodstock: food and please-ant crowd control.
Romney was still Romney until, as the story goes, he had a conversation with BB King, one of the festival’s performers. After that conversation, King reportedly turned to someone and said, “That guy is wavy gravy.”
James Cotton Blues Band
Herbie Mann
Rotary Connection
Delaney & Bonnie & Friends
The Incredible String Band
Though not on the schedule, the newly formed Grand Funk Railroad opened each day, a clever move that helped spread the news about themselves.
You will also notice that some bands played more than one day: Chicago (2x), James Cotton (2x), BB King (3x), Herbie Mann (2x), Sam & Dave (2x), and Delaney & Bonnie & Friends (2x). The ubiquitous Johnny Winter played one day.
Unlike most other 1969 festivals, there is a bit more to read about and find and hear regarding this festival. Several bootleg albums exist from some performances.
And it has something that Bethel, NY’s Woodstock only recently received: historic recognition. The Texas Historical Commission recognized the Festival as a significant part of Denton County history by awarding it an Official Texas Historical Marker.
A Scott Powers, who commented on my WW Facebook page entry, pointed out that he lives nearby and that , “The site is now a Chase office building.” Thanks Scott.
David Weekly took the video below with a super-8 movie camera and added the music afterwards.
Some information from the City of Lewisville site
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Kenya eschews G20 debt relief initiative over restrictive terms
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenya will not seek a suspension of debt payments under a G20 initiative aimed at helping poor countries weather the COVID-19 pandemic, its finance minister said on Friday, saying the terms of the deal were too restrictive.
Minister Ukur Yatani told Reuters in an interview he was also concerned about the impact that debt relief might have on Kenya’s credit rating.
The Group of 20 major economies last month agreed to suspend payment obligations on bilateral debt owed by their least developed counterparts through the end of the year. The goal was to free up more than $20 billion that poor governments could use to buttress their health services.
But Yatani said he was concerned that terms of the deal limiting countries’ access to international capital markets during the standstill could hinder Kenya’s ability to finance its deficit later in the year.
“We fear we might unnecessarily create a crisis,” he said.
The East African nation is instead engaging creditor countries including Germany, Sweden, Japan, China and France individually with the goal of securing moratoriums on debt service payments lasting around a year.
“We have not concluded (negotiations), but it is progressing well,” he said.
The G20 initiative only covers official bilateral debt, though it calls for the voluntary participation of private lenders on comparable terms.
A third of Kenya’s 3 trillion shilling ($28 billion) external debt is owed to private creditors including holders of the country’s two Eurobonds
“The G20 debt relief initiative does not offer optimal benefit given the structure of Kenya’s debt portfolio,” he said. “Every country adapts to the situation based on its own circumstances.”
The pandemic has caused the government’s budget deficit to swell to 8.2% of GDP in the financial year to the end of June, from an initial forecast of under 7%, mainly due to reduced tax collection and foregone revenue in the form of VAT and income tax cuts.
But the deficit is projected to narrow to 7.3% – equivalent to 823.2 billion shillings – in the 2020/21 fiscal year and to 4.2% of GDP by 2023/24, Yatani said.
“Kenya is taking a cautious approach of seeking debt relief from bilateral creditors to safeguard its sovereign credit rating,” he said.
Moody’s downgraded Kenya’s outlook to negative from stable on May 7 citing the shock caused by the COVID-19 pandemic to its tourism industry and farm exports.
On Tuesday, the IMF raised it’s risk of debt distress to high from moderate.
The minister sought to assure investors, saying: “We have adequate reserves to manage our payments for the next one year.”
The government has included a 55 billion shillings stimulus package aimed at preserving employment and consumer demand in the budget for the next fiscal year, which will be presented to parliament on June 11.
The cash will go towards grants for small businesses such as hotels and nature conservancies hard hit by the collapse of tourism.
The economy is projected to grow by 3% this year, falling to 2.5% if the crisis worsens, down from an initial forecast of more than 6%, Yatani said.
He attributed the forecast, which is higher than that of the IMF and the World Bank, to adequate rainfall across the country which will boost food production.
($1 = 107 Kenyan shillings)
Reporting by Duncan Miriri; Editing by Joe Bavier and Angus MacSwan
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Payments need to go to active farmers
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Aug 1, 2013, 7:53am
Following publication of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) consultation paper by the Department of Agriculture, Irish Farmers Association (IFA) President John Bryan said the decisions of Minister Coveney on CAP implementation will be critically important for the future of Irish agriculture, farm incomes and the achievement of the Food Harvest 2020 targets.
Bryan said the IFA has already met with the Taoiseach Enda Kenny and the Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney TD following the outcome of the CAP negotiations at the end of June and has spelt out the key priority areas for farmers and the agricultural sector.
The IFA President said these priorities include ensuring that the changes to the payments system do not damage productive agriculture, vulnerable sectors are given additional support targeted at active farmers and a strong Pillar II Rural Development Programme is put in place.
Bryan said the IFA has been very clear and consistent throughout the CAP negotiations over the past two years that payments must be directed to active, productive farmers. In addition the IFA has also made clear that payments available for redistribution should be targeted using objective criteria to support active farmers who have low single farm payments (SFP).
He said the IFA also supports targeted redistribution through the Young Farmers Scheme and the National Reserve using objective criteria such as education, training and labour units.
Bryan said IFA has consistently stated that there must be no transfer of funds between Pillars in either direction. The IFA is also opposed to regionalisation and the use of reduction co-efficients.
On rural development, the IFA President said the onus is on the Government to commit to matching EU funding to ensure the implementation of an effective and meaningful rural development programme, which complements the SFP.
Bryan said it is disappointing that the consultation document fails to mention simplification. He said the recent developments on penalties and inspections point to an urgent need for Minister Coveney to introduce meaningful simplification of the payment and cross compliance system including reduced inspections, proper notification and reasonable tolerances.
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Those of Us who must Die (Execution, Exile and Revival after the Easter Rising)
Darek Molyneux & Darren Kelly
The 1916 Rising is one of the most documented and analysed episodes in Ireland’s turbulent history. Often overlooked, however, is its immediate aftermath. This significant window in the narrative of Irish revolutionary history, which saw the rebirth of the Volunteers and laid the foundations for the War of Independence, is usually covered as a footnote, or from the biographical standpoints of the leaders. Picking up where the authors acclaimed account of the Rising, When the Clock Struck in 1916, left off, we join the men and women of the Rising in the dark abyss of defeat. The leaders poignant final hours and violent ends are laid bare, but the perspective of those with the unpalatable task of carrying out the executions is also revealed, rectifying a historic disservice to those who reluctantly formed the firing squads. While the prisoners in Dublin awaited their grisly fates, others were deported in stinking cattle boats to camps in England and Wales. When they returned, it was to a jubilant welcome in a radically changed country. The gruesome death of Thomas Ashe in September 1917, after being force-fed in Mountjoy Prison, became a marshalling point for the republican movement, as his funeral saw Volunteers once again assembled in uniform on Dublin’s streets. The next phase of the struggle was born, under new leaders who had graduated from the internment camps known as ‘Republican Universities’, ready and eager to fill the void left by the executed visionaries. The authors sifted through thousands of first-hand accounts of the suffering endured when ordinary people set out to change history. Their stirring account will transport readers into life as it looked, sounded and even smelt to those taking part in this crucial juncture of our history.
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Today almost 5,000 9-1-1 centers have the ability to receive real-time information from connected devices, buildings and medical databases. With access to valuable information such as location and supplemental emergency data automatically delivered to their screens, dispatchers and field responders are empowered with unprecedented situational awareness and have the opportunity to provide an expedited, data-driven, and personalized emergency response.
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Harnessing the Power of Real-time Data in the Command Center | September 22
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Command and dispatch centers are central to every critical communications system where quickly dispatching the appropriate first responders is of paramount importance. Key to command center operations is having a good understanding of the full operational picture using multiple data sources. We however live in an interconnected world with a plethora of data coming to us from different angles, and these centers are not immune to this challenge of data overload. With an increased adoption of broadband technology and the gradual move to NG9-1-1, the sheer volume of data coming to command centers is almost through the roof.
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The FirstNet COVID-19 Response | October 1
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Public safety agencies and other first responders continue to work around the clock to assess and mitigate the COVID-19 spread nationwide. And FirstNet, Built with AT&T, stands with you. As public safety’s partner, FirstNet has been there for you – through the coronavirus pandemic, providing critical connectivity at COVID-19 testing locations, medical facilities and emergency operations centers; and during natural disasters, including devastating wildfires in the West and an active 2020 hurricane season. Learn how emergency communications centers and other first responders are innovating – and working remotely in some cases – to keep themselves and their communities safe. Hear from Renee Gordon, Director of Emergency Communications for the City of Alexandria (VA), about how they are using FirstNet.
Renee Gordon, Director of Emergency Communications, City of Alexandria
Responsible for providing executive leadership to the department, a full service communications center that handles all 9-1-1 and non-emergency calls for police, fire and sheriff services. Gordon has a Bachelor’s in Criminal Justice from Westwood College. She is an APCO Registered Public Safety Leader, and a NENA-certified Emergency Number Professional. Gordon completed the Professional Executive Leadership School at the University of Richmond and NENA Call Center Manager training. She is pursuing a Master’s in International Security from Trinity University in Washington, D.C.
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With FirstNet, first responders in the field have access to purpose-built devices and “always-on” access to voice, data and video. And the agencies you dispatch and coordinate are increasingly using mobile apps on their devices to communicate. This means you now have powerful new ways to share critical information with those who request your support and respond to the call. Learn about the apps first responders are using and identify new ways your PSAP/ECC can use these innovative solutions to help speed response times and improve coordination.
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With Faster Speeds and Connections, Brands Are Planning for 5G-Fueled Marketing
Widespread rollout should increase connection speeds up to 10 times
Video and connected cars are about to get juiced up. Getty Images
By Lauren Johnson
Kevin Crull, chief strategy officer at Sprint, envisions a world in the coming years where his phone is able to automatically book an Uber ride from an airport based on a calendar reminder that he created about an upcoming flight. The calendar reminder feeds real-time travel stats to his device and then recommends a meal for his Uber driver to pick up on the way based on what items he has previously ordered through Uber Eats.
“I can see in the future where it brings in information from other devices and third-party services to get much more predictive and successful in how we’re targeting people,” he said.
Pending antitrust regulations, Sprint will merge with T-Mobile to pool resources and create a powerful 5G network in the U.S. to rival both Verizon and AT&T’s networks.
Crull’s futuristic scenario isn’t just wishful (or hungry) thinking. It’s the product of 5G technology that constantly pings data back and forth between smartphones and connected devices, making it possible for devices to essentially predict what actions a consumer takes. At its core, the widespread rollout of 5G promises to increase connection speeds by up to 10 times while cutting latency by a factor of five, he said. Videos—and commercials—powered with 5G will stream faster and look crisper on smartphones. And with more data flowing quickly between networks and devices, the so-called Internet of Things will take a bit more shape for marketers who have long strived to ping a user’s smartphone with a relevant message as he passes a billboard or store.
“It’s thinking about everything being connected,” said Craig Elimeliah, managing director of creative technology for North America at VML. “The phone becomes the remote to all the things around us that have this capability of interconnectivity.”
It’s no surprise then that all of the major telecommunications companies are racing to pour billions into building the tech pipes and infrastructure—like souped-up antennas capable of carrying boatloads of data in milliseconds—that will power ultra-fast connection speeds. Over the next two years, the mobile industry is expected to invest $500 billion globally to prepare for 5G, according to data from General System for the GSMA, Mobile World Congress’ governing body. All of this investment is poised to create 3 million technical jobs and contribute $500 billion to the U.S. GDP in seven years, per figures from Accenture.
“The faster connections [and] better-quality data connections will drive subscriptions to [carriers’] service, and that will drive your stock price, [which] is of the upmost importance to these companies,” said Jeff Malmad, managing director of Mindshare North America’s Life+.
By the first half of next year, Sprint plans to have 5G up and running “in many markets,” while AT&T plans to equip 12 markets including Atlanta and Dallas with mobile 5G this year. T-Mobile says that it’s on track to have 5G rolled out to 30 cities such as New York and Los Angeles in 2018, and Verizon is also enabling five markets including Sacramento, Calif., with the technology.
For advertisers, 5G opens up new video opportunities with formats like virtual reality and interactive clips that require hefty amounts of data to view today. Sprint’s Crull said he also expects for advertisers to play with dynamic creative and video lengths that are customized to users depending on how much content they typically watch on their phone.
And as Apple, Facebook and Snapchat invest in augmented reality, expect for 5G to open up more detailed AR experiences for marketers to experiment with, said Malmad.
“In a world of 5G, you aren’t going to be constrained by [bandwidth]—you can showcase whatever you like and have a rich, deep experience, so I do believe that augmented reality will benefit greatly from 5G,” he said.
Malmad said that 5G will also make it easier for marketers to target ads to connected cars, particularly once autonomous driving becomes more mainstream. For example, self-driving cars are expected to free up people’s time and attention so that they can watch TV or stream programs, meaning that automakers may build screens into seats.
“With 5G, you’ll start to see the fluid transformation of data back and forth,” he said. “People will be streaming more video and within that world, the ability for us to effectively communicate some kind of brand message while you’re on your way to the store becomes more prevalent—you’ll start to see more offer-based messages from a video standpoint evolve.”
That scenario also applies to location-based marketing for outdoor billboards and screens, added VML’s Elimeliah.
“We all have been working on location-based marketing, triggers and beacons [but] without the speed and bandwidth that 5G gives us, all of that was kind of janky,” he said. “With 5G—or at least all the hype behind it—you’ll actually start seeing some of this in the real world.”
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There’s something in his eye: CO2 surgical lasers for distichia
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By Christopher J. Winkler, DVM, DABLS, VMLSO For The Education Center
Originally Published In Veterinary Practice News, September 2019 – Download as a PDF
It was fortunate Frankie was a very kind and cooperative dog because I was very much up in his face in an attempt to spot what his owner had brought him to me to see. “I’m sorry, but I’m just not seeing them.” Frankie’s owner was insistent. “The last veterinarian was sure they were there,” he said. I was adamant. “I would still like to see them first before I anesthetize Frankie,” I told him.
The owner hesitated and then said, “Will they grow back after someone’s plucked them out?” “Yes. Is that what happened here?” I asked. Another moment of hesitation. “Yes.” Bingo! “Please bring Frankie back in one to two weeks or sooner if he experiences any twitching or discomfort of the eye.”
Twelve days later, Frankie was back in my office with blepharospasm, and I was able to visualize two distichiae on the left upper eyelid and one on the left lower eyelid, directly opposite a 1- to 2-mm diameter blister-like lesion of the cornea (Figures 1A and 1B). We were ready to help him.
Frankie is a one-year-old neutered male Old English sheepdog who had been experiencing irritation of the left eye for the past four months. Topical therapy from his regular veterinarian had not seemed to help. A veterinary ophthalmologist consulting on the case had suspected the presence of distichia and had recommended cryotherapy or electrocautery to eliminate them. Frankie’s owner had sought us out for the use of laser surgery instead.
Figure 1: Examination revealed the following: A) Two distichia of the left upper eyelid; B) one distichia of the left lower eyelid, directly opposite 1 to 2-mm blister-like lesion of the cornea (circled); C) one distichia of the right upper eyelid.
What is distichia?
Distichia is hair or cilia growing from meibomian gland ducts at the eyelid margin. They can be common and do not always require treatment. Growth of such hairs in an abnormal direction can cause corneal irritation and even ulceration, especially when multiple hairs are involved. Clinical signs include blepharospasm, epiphora, and recurring corneal irritation and ulceration that often go unresolved with medical therapy. Removing such offending hairs permanently requires complete destruction of the originating follicle to prevent regrowth; as noted at the top of this article, plucking them will still see their recurrence.[1]
A surgical wedge resection with a scalpel blade will remove the hair, but much more refined methods now exist. When compared to cryotherapy and electroepilation options, CO2 laser surgery is perhaps the most versatile option for a general practitioner to possess, as it also can be applied to a wide variety of other surgical cases. CO2 laser surgery for distichia removal employs the seldom-used exposure called Single Pulse, a single timed burst of laser energy of which usually only one or two are necessary to achieve this surgical goal. It is a quick, precise, and satisfying method for distichia removal, an often curative procedure that offers the patient immediate relief and with minimal inflammation, hemorrhage, and scarring.[1]
As with other cases utilizing laser surgery of the eyelids, this procedure involves general anesthesia. It is important to place the handpiece tip perpendicular and as close as possible to the hair follicle. The hair itself should NOT be inserted into the handpiece tip, as this could damage or otherwise compromise the tip itself. Petroleum-based ocular lubricants can present a fire hazard when performing any laser eyelid surgery and should be avoided. Moist gauze or commercial eye shields are required to protect the cornea from direct and indirect laser energy. Incomplete removal may result in recurrence within four to six weeks.[1]
Preoperative blood work and cardiac auscultation were unremarkable. The patient was premedicated with dexmedetomidine 125 mcg/m2 IM and carprofen 4.4 mg/kg SQ. A 22-g IV catheter was placed in the right cephalic vein and IV LRS was administered at 75 ml/hr. Frankie was induced with propofol to effect, intubated, and maintained on isoflurane three percent. The eyes were kept moist solely with periodic flushes of sterile water.
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Frankie was positioned in sternal recumbency for access to both eyes. Closer examination revealed two distichiae of the upper eyelid OS (Figure 1A), one distichia of the lower eyelid OS (Figure 1B), and one distichia of the upper eyelid OD (Figure 1C). No other corneal lesions were observed, and the third eyelid and conjunctiva appeared free of foreign debris. Both eyes were covered with saline-soaked gauze. The CO2 laser was set for 0.25-mm spot size, 5 watts Single Pulse exposure in a non-SuperPulse mode. Simultaneous ablation of the distichia and follicles proceeded with one or two single bursts of laser energy, first on the upper left eyelid (Figure 2), followed by the lower-left eyelid and the upper right eyelid (Figure 3). Each site was wiped gently of char with a moistened cotton-tipped applicator (Figure 4). No hemorrhaging was observed from any of the sites.
Figure 2: Simultaneous ablation of distichia and follicles proceeded with one or two single bursts of laser energy on the left upper eyelid.
Figure 3: Shown is laser ablation of distichia and follicle on the right upper eyelid.
Figure 4: Each site was wiped gently of char using a moistened cotton-tipped applicator.
Figure 5: Ten days post-surgery, with excellent resolution of the corneal lesions and irritation, and with no further blepharospasm.
Postoperative care
The patient was administered atipamezole 250 mcg/kg and butorphanol 0.2 mg/kg. An Elizabethan collar was applied and his nails were trimmed. Frankie experienced no complications during recovery and was discharged later that day with carprofen 75 mg PO BID and Neo-Poly-Bac ophthalmic ointment OU TID for seven days. He was seen again 10 days post-surgery, with excellent resolution of the corneal lesions and irritation, and no further blepharospasm (Figure 5). To date, there has been no new recurrence of distichia.
Figure 6: Christopher J. Winkler, DVM, DABLS, VMLSO, is the editor and co-author of the new textbook, Laser Surgery in Veterinary Medicine, now available from Wiley-Blackwell.
A graduate of Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine, Christopher J. Winkler, DVM, DABLS, VMLSO, is the owner of Suffolk Veterinary Group Animal Wellness and Laser Surgery Center in Selden, Long Island, N.Y. He is certified in veterinary laser medicine and surgery by the American Board of Laser Surgery (ABLS), is a certified veterinary medical laser safety officer, and a faculty member of both the American Laser Study Club (ALSC) and the American Laser Medicine College and Board. Dr. Winkler has appeared as a speaker and associate instructor on CO2 laser surgery for national veterinary conventions and is available for consultation and training in small-animal laser surgery and laser therapy. He is the editor and co-author of the new textbook, Laser Surgery in Veterinary Medicine, now available from Wiley-Blackwell (Figure 6).
Special thanks to Amy Allen, DVM, of River Valley House Call Vet for her contribution to this article.
1 Core, D. (2019). Periorbital and Eyelid Laser Surgery Procedures. In C. Winkler, ed., Laser Surgery in Veterinary Medicine. 1st ed. (11) 116-118. Wiley Blackwell, Ames, IA.
This Education Center article was underwritten by Aesculight of Bothell, Wash., manufacturer of the only American-made CO2 laser.
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Late Goal Sends Bulls To 3-2 Loss To Brahmas
AMARILLO, TX – The Amarillo Bulls and the Lone Star Brahmas have had a difficult time generating offense this season and that was the case on Saturday night at the Budweiser Bull Pen in the Amarillo Civic Center.
The latest installment of the Battle Of The Cattle series was a race to see which team could score three goals first. However, it was the Bulls getting on the short end of the stick in a 3-2 setback to the Brahmas.
Nick Anderson and Austin O’Rourke tallied for the Bulls that rallied from a 2-0 second period deficit. Jason Grande took the loss in goal. Former Bulls Steven Ipri, Jon Russell and then Captain Julian Biondo collected goals for Lone Star.
With the loss the Bulls fell 10 points back of Corpus Christi for the fourth and final playoff spot in the South Division after the IceRays beat Topeka 2-1 in overtime.
The first period didn’t start well for the Bulls as they had a difficult time generating offense and moving the puck out of their zone. A defensive-zone turnover led to the Brahmas first goal as Steven Ipri converted on a shot down load to make it 1-0. Each team had eight shots on goal in the first period.
The Brahmas quickly jumped ahead 2-0 to start the second period as Jon Russell scored on a rebound in front of the net. After that the Bulls caught fire and proceeded to march back into the game.
Jared Domin’s shot from the point was redirected into the net by Nick Anderson on a great play to close the Bulls deficit to 2-1.
Special teams helped Amarillo tie the game as the power play quickly went to work. The Bulls kept the puck below the goal line and it was sent over to Austin O’Rourke who shoveled it past goaltender Mitchell Gibson. The Bulls outshot the Brahmas 15-13 in the second stanza.
It was a tightly played third period between the two teams as both teams each had quality scorin chances that were turned aside by the respective goaltenders. The Brahmas took the lead in the final seven minutes of regulation as Justin Addamo sent a pass over to Julian Biondo for a one-timer past goaltender Jason Grande. The Bulls pulled their goaltender in the final minute of play but couldn’t get the equalizer.
The Lone Star Brahmas outshot the Amarillo Bulls 34-29.
The Amarillo Bulls return to action Friday, Feb. 23 and Saturday, Feb. 24 when they visit the Corpus Christi IceRays at 7 pm at American Bank Center. Fans can tune into the action live on CBS Sports Radio 1440, online at www.amarillobulls.com and on PPV with Hockey TV beginning 20 minutes before the puck is dropped.
Hockey is back at the Budweiser Bull Pen in the Amarillo Civic Center on Friday, Mar. 9 and Saturday, Mar. 10 when the Bulls host the Corpus Christi IceRays. Saturday is Amarillo Youth Hockey Night and the Bulls will wear special jerseys and a live auction to follow after the game. It’s also Parents weekend as the Bulls will welcome the players families to the Texas Panhandle.
Tickets are available at the Bulls Office located at 301 South Polk, Civic Center Box Office and all Panhandle Ticket locations including United Supermarkets or by calling 806-242-1122.
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Review: Yelena Popova ‘Drying Time’ at Paradise Row
Emily Burns
'Drying Time' (installation view; 2014), Yelena Popova Courtesy of the artist and Paradise Row Gallery
In ‘Drying Time’ at Paradise Row, Yelena Popova meditates on the inevitable, inexorable passing of time, and mankind’s methods of spending this precious common currency.
‘Drying Time’ (installation view; 2014), Yelena Popova Courtesy of the artist and Paradise Row Gallery
The exhibition consists of a video installation and a series of paintings of various shapes and sizes scattered around a large, white room. Some pictures are hung conventionally at intervals along the wall; others subvert tradition, clustered together and positioned askew, propped up and linked by nondescript wooden components so that they merge into one undulating shape. This interconnectedness gives a sense of the canvases working together to clamber up the blank, institutional walls. Or perhaps, conversely, they are scrambling over each other to get to the top. One large canvas has given up the game completely and lies spent on the floor: time’s up, game over.
In its emphasis on the reduction of form, repetition and movement, Popova’s painting recalls the 20th-century movements of Minimalism, Constructivism and Futurism. The paintings are homogeneous, featuring pale, pastel-coloured elliptical swirls and globular bulges. In many places the paint itself is so faint and so thin that the linen weave is visible; one is aptly named Invisible Painting. Mostly Untitled, they elude categorisation, although on close examination their abstractions hint at organic, even human, forms. Heads, breasts and gesturing arms slip and slide into view; one work even evokes a pared down version of the Virgin and Child. Are these paintings, or semi-painted installations? Is the focus the invisibility of the paint or the visibility of the canvas? And are they abstract or figurative – portraits, even?
In contrast to Old Master paintings in thick, impasto oils, Popova’s canvases would have dried rapidly. There is therefore a sort of reckless freedom in ‘Drying Time’, which features works whose own time drying (and possibly painting time) was almost negligible. Perhaps it is a comment on our technological age, our short attention spans and the need for instant gratification. The fluid motions of the paint could reference the familiar finger-tracings of digital touch screens, which pervade 21st-century life and, for many, represent a modern form of time-wasting.
In her films, Popova extends her ‘time’ metaphor outside the confines of the artist’s studio. A silent looped video depicts the monotonous work of a window cleaner, reassuring in its smooth repetition of soapy swirls which mirror the shapes of surrounding pictures. Nearby, the documentary-style film, About Five Minutes Remaining (based on a short story by Ursula Wills-Jones) introduces the ‘Time-sweepers’ – nameless, invisible cleaners of the busy metropolis, who wash, wipe, scrub and clean away wasted time. The narrator explains that, once time has been ‘collected’, it is processed so that the most toxic time is filtered out, and the remainder compressed, stored and redistributed, like a natural fuel. As the voice of reason in our ears, she implores us to ‘be more careful with time’, but notes that the Time-sweepers have no expectations of this happening any time soon.
The film ends with an appeal: ‘There is no moral to this story, but please remember, if you were planning on throwing away your time, that someone has to pick it up.’ Perhaps there is a moral to this story, the old adage, ‘Time enjoyed is never time wasted’. Visit this show, before time dries up.
‘Drying Time’ is at Paradise Row, London, until 10 May.
Gagosian expands again with an Urs Fischer exhibition in New York
Fischer’s sculptures are on show at Gagosian’s new Park Avenue space, and a temporary downtown venue
Review: Ursula von Rydingsvard at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park
The artist’s powerful and unsettling sculptures deserve to be better known in the UK
Review: Lost Kingdoms: Hindu-Buddhist Sculpture at the Metropolitan Museum
Packed with treasures, this exhibition will be hard to top
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KPF Releases Masterplan for Chinese City Built From Scratch
Courtesy of Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF)
Written by Alison Furuto
https://www.archdaily.com/306906/kpf-releases-masterplan-for-chinese-city-built-from-scratch
International architecture firm Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) recently announced that their design for the 120 million square foot master plan for Meixi Lake in Changsha, China is being realized. A new city in the West Changsha Pioneer Zone in Hunan Province, Meixi Lake is centered around a 3.85 kilometer‐long lake. Upon completion, the city will be home to 180,000 inhabitants, and will provide residents, workers and visitors sustainable neighborhoods for living, working, recreation, culture and entertainment. More images and architects’ press release after the break.
According to KPF Design Principal James von Klemperer, “Over the last 10 years, China’s cities have grown in two ways: by increasing density within the historical cores, and by adding new cities adjacent to the old. The latter phenomenon has resulted in a twin city paradigm. Thus, we have Shanghai’s Puxi and Pudong, Beijing’s old center and new CBD. Nanjing, Suzhou, Hangzhou, and many other cities have sprouted new towns.
In such a new town, like Meixi, we can introduce integrated urban innovation: we can combine water transport with localized energy production, cluster neighborhood centers, advanced flood prevention and water management, and urban agriculture. Meixi is an experiment in future city planning and building. It will serve Changsha as a new CBD, but it will also serve as a paradigm for other Chinese city planners. It’s a kind of live test case.”
The Meixi Lake project design team of KPF, Gale International, and Arup reintroduced many of the design principles establishes in the teams previous city design for Songdo (South Korea). The master plan seeks to establish a paradigm of man living in balance with nature. A densely concentrated urban plan, packed with a full variety of functions and building types, is integrated with mountains, lakes, parks and canals, resulting in an environment that promotes both health and prosperity. As a new center within the larger metropolitan area of Changsha, Meixi proposes to offer a new model for the future of the Chinese city. Advanced environmental engineering, pedestrian planning, cluster zoning, and garden integration are all made part of a holistic strategy of design in this healthy city. The design of Meixi allows the vitality of a dense metropolis to be combined with the beneficial qualities of a natural setting, and this forward looking community will be an ideal place to demonstrate new ideas about the way we live.
The first element of the Meixi plan is water. Water is retained to form a 40 hectare lake, which constitutes the “central park” of the city. This lake provides for boat transport linkages, creates conditions for edge gardens, provides a habitat for fish which encourages recreational fishing, and makes places for cultural venues. Around the circular heart of this water body is wrapped the mixed use CBD. Here, high rise building districts are connected by a pedestrian tram street, reducing the need for car use in the city center.
According to KPF Design Principal Trent Tesch, “Designing a city around a lake and amongst Changsha’s rich topography was a unique challenge. Our goal was clarity, and a city that was user‐friendly and sustainable. We therefore invested much time thinking about transportation and movement around the city. We saw this clarity as a linear grid street system that we then formed around the lake. Out of this, a radial network of canals was born. These radial canals extend into the heart of the distinct residential communities that surround the mixed‐use CBD. At the end of each of these radial canals is a vibrant town center which is meant to provide identity and services to the community.”
Each neighborhood cluster houses about 10,000 people, and includes a village center featuring a school, shopping area, and other public functions. These neighborhoods are separated from one another by green buffers which accommodate exercise fields and natural landscape zones. The architecture of each “village” is different, but material and formal coherence are encouraged within each zone so as to create a sense of place.
The radial geometry of the city plan allows for a highly efficient transport system, reducing potential pollution and energy use. Other environmental strategies include collective gray and black water systems, distributed energy plants, and urban agriculture. A river flood plane is turned into a linear park which includes recreational areas, micro farms, and residential rows.
Alison Furuto
ArticlesChangshaChinaArchitecture NewsUrban PlanningKohn Pedersen Fox Associates
Cite: Alison Furuto. "KPF Releases Masterplan for Chinese City Built From Scratch " 13 Dec 2012. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/306906/kpf-releases-masterplan-for-chinese-city-built-from-scratch> ISSN 0719-8884
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Nothing about the first half increased enthusiasm for either team. Arizona led 7-6 as ASU could generate only two field goals, the latter on the final play of the second quarter.
The Sun Devils, though, had a not-so-secret weapon for the second half in junior running back Eno Benjamin, playing what almost everyone suspected was his final college game before turning pro.
Benjamin ran for a pair of third-quarter touchdowns and 142 of his 168 yards (on 34 carries) in the second half of a 24-14 ASU win. He was named the Bob Moran Territorial Cup MVP for the second straight year, finishing his three-year Sun Devil career with 2,867 yards, seventh best in school history.
"We said we're going to take all of the guesswork out of it and play big boy football like we're capable of doing and just run over them," offensive coordinator Rob Likens said.
With a third consecutive Territorial Cup win, ASU went on to a third straight postseason appearance, beating Florida State 20-14 in the Sun Bowl even without Benjamin, star wide receiver Brandon Aiyuk and with coordinator changes. The Sun Devils finished 8-5, their most wins since 2014.
Arizona (4-8) not only finished the season with seven straight losses but hasn't won in this unusual season either, the longest streak in school history and sixth longest ever in the Pac-12.
So, coming full circle from 2019, the Territorial Cup is back Friday for the 94th meeting (UA leads 49-43-1) with even less buzz than a year ago since both teams are winless, a first in the series other than when they met twice long ago in season openers.
More:Territorial Cup rewind 50 years ago: Arizona State 10, Arizona 6
More:Territorial Cup rewind 25 years ago: Arizona 31, Arizona State 28
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Deshaun Watson trade: What are odds Cardinals trade for Texans quarterback? A week later: Phoenix Suns fall, 108-104, to Memphis Grizzles after three postponed games AIA winter sports season begins with masks, concerns, uncertainty, excitement, gratefulness Lights, camera, Sun Devils: Films in production about Anthony Robles, Magee family
Reach the reporter at jeff.metcalfe@arizonarepublic.com or 602-444-8053. Follow him on Twitter @jeffmetcalfe.
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Atmore's own band of bandits
Published 8:18 am Monday, August 21, 2006
By By Matthew Nascone
The desire to field a traveling team from the Atmore area began about two years ago during a discussion between Tim McAnally and Jody Dortch. The two men were talking about the Atmore Cal Ripken League tournament team they were coaching and Dortch offered the idea of taking those boys and forming a travel team.
The idea sat idle for the past couple years, but in 2006 McAnally and Dortch turned that idea into the South Alabama Bandits.
"We have wanted to get something together for a couple years now," McAnally, one of the coaches, said. "Our run to the Cal Ripken state tournament with our 9 year olds this year finalized the push for a team."
There are six members of the 9-year-old team 2 that traveled to Alexander City for the state tournament on the Bandits. Four more Atmore 9 year olds are on the team and one boy is from Walnut Hill and played for the NWE league last year.
The team also has one player from Excel and one from Monroe County. McAnally said the final two boys joined the team when Stan Cumby, a coach in the Monroeville Cal Ripken league, saw an article in the Advance about the state-bound Atmore team.
"He (Cumby) knew we wanted to get a team together and he said he had some kids interested," McAnally said. "At that point we knew we needed to go ahead and run with this thing."
The team is sanctioned through the United States Specialty Sports Association and began tournament play this weekend in Destin, Fla. They participated in Sandlot Summer Slam II at the Morgan Sports Complex in Destin.
To prepare for the tournament the team took a month hiatus following the tough loss in the state tournament and began practice in the middle of July.
"Every one of them has worked extremely hard during the summer," McAnally said. "They are out there fighting for positions because this group is one of the most talented to come through Atmore in my opinion."
As for the ones who are not from Atmore, McAnally said he is grateful to have them on the team.
"We have to have help from these guys who are joining us from other leagues because there are some really good teams out there," he said. "And I believe these guys will solidify our team."
He said he has an unusual problem with this group.
"I have never had the problem of being able to use every kid in almost every position and not knowing which one to use," he said.
To alleviate some of the strain that can be placed on a young pitcher's arm, McAnally said he would be using seven pitchers when the team hits the field.
McAnally said the team would compete in tournaments across the Southeast through the fall. He said there would be about five or six tournaments the boys will compete in that span of time.
The only other scheduled tournament as of press time was the All-Star Productions Labor Day Classic in Pace, Fla. on Sept. 1-3.
"We will try to participate as locally as possible," McAnally said.
The USSSA uses a rules system similar to that of Major League Baseball.
McAnally is one of eight coaches who will be on the field assisting the 9 year olds this fall. The other coaches are Jody Dortch, Stan Cumby, Tommy Smith, John Brantley, Brian Settle, Nate Daniel and J.P. Sawyer.
The coaching staff has also received assistance from the local community in the form of donations. McAnally said many local businesses have contributed to their cause and many of the kids' family have chipped in also.
The businesses from Atmore who have donated to the team so far include, Southland Instrument Services, Wilson Trucking, Greenhouse Financial and Jerry's Alignment Center. A donation has also been given to the team from Reliability Solutions, located in Walnut Hill, Fla.
"The entire coaching staff appreciates all the support that has been given to the team," McAnally said.
Eagles take flight soon
By By Matthew Nascone The Escambia County Middle School Eagles football team had some success last year, finishing the year... read more
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Unique Place Names in Australia
Thanks to the Aboriginal language, Australia has been graced with some unique place names. One of my favorites is right here in Sydney – Woolloomooloo – which is surprisingly supposed to be pronounced like Woo-la-ma-loo instead of how it is spelled. Although some of these names aren’t supposed to be funny or rude, they just happen to turn out that way when relayed in English.
However, not all of these unique place names can be attributed to the Aboriginal language. There are just as many place names with other origins that make up the following list.
Innaloo, WA
Innaloo pretty much becomes funny once you say it out loud. This Perth suburb is located in Western Australia and has a population of about 6,000 people. Even though Innaloo can be a humorous name for a town, it is probably a bit better than Njookenbooroo, which it was originally called until 1927. Apparently, they had to change it since no one could spell or say it correctly.
Come By Chance, NSW
Come By Chance houses a mere 200 people in this remote New South Wales town. It originally got its name from a sheep station that two people were surprised to be able to purchase in the area. However, some might now think that the name is suiting purely because you wouldn’t end up there unless it were by chance. The town’s big event each year are the Picnic Races (horse races) that draw thousands to the area.
Poowong, VIC
Poowong happens to be the unfortunate place name for a small town of around 600 in the South Gippsland Shire of Victoria. It is located around 111 kilometers from Melbourne and has no real claim to fame besides the funny name.
Nowhere Else, TAS
Nowhere Else is the unique place name for a town in Tasmania that surprisingly has just about nothing there. Just 20 minutes from Devonport, the town does not offer any stores or bars – not much besides the popular Nowhere Else Road.
Tittybong, VIC
There’s not much information on Tittybong except that it is a north-west town in the state of Victoria. It is very small, with a now closed-down post office, and is known for its unique name that is said to have caused controversy at times.
Texas, QLD
Texas is located just near the border of Queensland and New South Wales and has a whopping population of around 700 people. The origin of this name is said to have come from a border/property dispute that resembled that between Texas and Mexico.
Coffin Bay, SA
Coffin Bay is a small town in Southern Australia that houses less than 500 people permanently, but brings in many more holiday goers that like to snorkel, swim and surf. It got its unique name from the Sir Isaac Coffin and not because of more dark circumstances.
Doo Town, TAS
Doo Town is a small place in Tasmania known for being a holiday village where every house is named with “doo”. According to Tourism Tasmania, there’s Gunadoo, Doodle Doo, Love Me Doo, Doo Us, Doo Me, Doo Nix, Wee Doo, Xanadu, Rum Doo and Doo Little. Sounds like a fun place to visit, especially since it is located on Pirates Bay.
More Unique Place Names
Of course, that list is far from done. You could probably fill a small book with the number of interesting and unique place names in Australia. Just to give you an idea, here are some more from that list that might make you giggle (don’t worry; I’m not going to judge you):
Middle Intercourse Island, QLD
Iron Knob, SA
Mount Buggery,VIC
Rooty Hill, NSW
Diehard, NSW
Humpybong, QLD
Cock Wash, SA
Cockburn,WA
Fanny Bay in Darwin, NT
Eggs and Bacon Bay, TAS
The Edge of the World, TAS
Blow Hard, VIC
Paradise, TAS
Dismal Swamp, TAS
Bagdad, TAS
Can you imagine saying that you lived in any of these locations? Better yet… how fun would it be to receive a postcard from Eggs and Bacon Bay?!
Funny Place Names Road Trip!
As if there weren’t already enough options out there to inspire a themed road trip in Australia (beaches, the "big things“, etc.), you can now take it upon yourself to try and reach as many of these funny named places. Of course, as mentioned above, you may not really want to visit some of these locations as there might not even be a sign to signify you’ve arrived, but still it can prove to be an interesting way to see parts of this country you might not otherwise. So, be sure to rent a car or rent a campervan and get to exploring!
Do you know of any other unique place names in Australia that did not make this list? Leave a comment to let us know!
Photo credits: Innaloo; Poowong; Texas; Coffin Bay; Paradise; road trip.
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In these slides, William H. Tobey and Pavel Zolotarev provide an updated summary of the threat of nuclear terrorism, based in part on the new U.S.-Russian report, Steps to Prevent Nuclear Terrorism. This was presented at the Meeting of the 2014 Nuclear Security Summit ‘Sherpas’, hosted by the Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Pattaya, Thailand, on January 13, 2014.
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The Plutonium Mountain Mission: Lessons
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Dramatic growth in nuclear energy would be required for nuclear power to provide a significant part of the carbon-free energy the world is likely to need in the 21st century, or a major part in meeting other energy challenges. This would require increased support from governments, utilities, and publics around the world. Achieving that support is likely to require improved economics and major progress toward resolving issues of nuclear safety, proliferation-resistance, and nuclear waste management. This is likely to require both research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) of improved technologies and new policy approaches.
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PANELRIFIC
A-Z OF MADNESS
There are several basic characteristics of being a comic book hero. A love of justice, respect for liberty and desire to be basically bare at all times being three.
Essentially, this is a picture of a naked woman that has been coloured wrong
During the course of my studies on the subject, I have come to observe an interesting phenomena: no matter how good of heart or gentle the character may be, anytime a comic book hero meets a dinosaur that isn't knocked out, there is only one outcome. And that outcome is a knocked out dinosaur.
Case Study: Dynamo
When the United Nations discover a belt and hat designed to turn a man (it was the 60's, women weren't allowed to be superheroes yet in case it made them want to vote) into a superman, they did the only logical thing and gave them to a low level administration assistant, rationalising that if the lowest man on the pay grade wasn't worthy of god-powers then maybe they should stop having neat gin for breakfast.
Enter agent Dynamo. Dynamo spends most of his time saving people from earthquakes and communists, the two leading causes of death in 70's males. He's not particularly violent man, but like most cape and boots heroes, conscious dinosaurs are like ruddy catnip to him.
Case Study: Martian Manhunter
J'onn J'onzz is a staple of DC's JUSTICE LEAGUE, and like most DC characters, he is absurdly overpowered to the point that almost all of the comics are spent finding reasons for him not to fight. He's the last of his kind, which makes him particularly sympathetic to endangered species. Until he sees a not knocked out dinosaur.
Case Study: The Thing
Big hearted Ben Grimm went into space on an experimental rocket flight, got hit by cosmic rays and turned into an indestructible pile of orange rocks because of science. He's a pretty easy going guy, in fact the only thing that really annoys him is when a dinosaur is being alive.
Case Study: Skaar
Skaar is the son of the Hulk and as such possesses enough strength to do what he likes. And what he likes is upper-cutting Tyrannosauruses.
Case Study: Superman
If Superman ever has to displace a bear or squid during the course of his adventures, he finds some way to do it humanly. If he ever has to move a dinosaur he punches it straight in the face.
Case Study: Captain Marvel
Captain Marvel was designed as an exciting bright character for younger kids. Here he is punching a dinosaurs head clean off.
Case Study: The Hulk
Holy crap does the Hulk like to punch dinosaurs. The Hulk is the third best theory for dinosaur extinction after 'meteor' and 'time travelling Hulk'. The hulk has punched so many dinosaurs that anytime he goes to a natural history museum the fossils start screaming.
Earlier I mentioned that there weren't too many women supermen. A main fear was that they'd get things wrong, I mean how would a female superhero ever defeat Doctor Doom if she was busy laughing at all the jokes from the Sex and the City movie? Also, a fat woman in lycra would be unsightly. Wonder Woman was one of the first tough ladies. By the time she came around, the only real rule to being a lycra-clad mutant was 'beat the shit out of dinosaurs'? How wrong could she get it?
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October, Issue 3
Urinary free cortisol assessment by liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry: a case study of ion suppression due to unacquainted administration of piperacillin
Danese, Salvagno, Guzzo, Scurati, Fava, and Lippi: Urinary free cortisol assessment by liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry: a case study of ion suppression due to unacquainted administration of piperacillin
Journal ID (publisher-id): BM
Journal ID (nlm-ta): Biochem Med (Zagreb)
Title: Biochemia Medica
Abbreviated Title: Biochem. Med. (Zagreb)
Publisher: Croatian Society of Medical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine
Copyright statement: Croatian Society of Medical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine.
Copyright: 2017, Croatian Society of Medical Biochemistry
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This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Date received: 20 June 2017
Date accepted: 30 August 2017
Publication date (print and electronic): 15 October 2017
Electronic Location Identifier: 031001
Publisher ID: bm-27-3-031001
DOI: 10.11613/BM.2017.031001
Elisa Danese[1]
Gian Luca Salvagno[1]
Alessandra Guzzo[1]
Samuele Scurati[2]
Cristiano Fava[3]
Giuseppe Lippi[1]
[1] Clinical Biochemistry section, Department of Neurological, Biomedical and Movement Sciences, University of Verona, Italy
[2] DASP s.r.l., Gerenzano, Italy
[3] Unit of General Medicine and Hypertension, Department of Medicine, University of Verona, Italy
Author notes:
Corresponding author: elisa.danese@univr.it
Liquid chromatography coupled to atmospheric pressure ionization tandem mass spectrometry (LC-ESI-MS/MS) is currently considered the reference method for quantitative determination of urinary free cortisol (UFC). One of the major drawbacks of this measurement is a particular form of matrix effect, conventionally known as ion suppression.
We describe here the case of a 66-year-old-patient referred to the daily service of general medicine for intravenous antibiotic administration due to a generalized Staphylococcus aureus infection and for routine 24 hours UFC monitoring in the setting of glucocorticoid replacement therapy.
The observation of 10-fold decrease of internal standard of cortisol signal led us to hypothesize the presence of an ion suppression effect due to a co-eluting endogenous compound. Screening analysis of tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) spectra of the interfering molecule, along with in vitro confirmation analyses, were suggestive of the presence of high concentration of piperacillin. The problem was then easily solved with minor modifications of the chromatographic technique.
According to our findings, antibiotic therapy with piperacillin/tazobactam should be regarded as an important interference in UFC assessment, which may potentially affect detection capability, precision and accuracy of this measurement. This case report emphasizes that accurate anamnesis and standardization of all phases of urine collection are essential aspects for preventing potential interference in laboratory testing.
According to current guidelines, urinary free cortisol (UFC) is one of the first-line biochemical test for screening endogenous Cushing syndrome (1). Due to its higher selectivity and specificity compared to conventional immunoassays, liquid chromatography - tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) has become the reference technique for measuring UFC in clinical practice. Despite an incomparable selectivity, MS detection is not completely foolproof, especially when coupled with electrospray ionization (ESI) sources, the most widely used interfaces used for UFC assessment. One of the most important factors impairing the accurate performance of a LC-MS/MS technique is the ion suppression (IS)/enhancement effect, an actual expression of a wider phenomenon conventionally known as “matrix effect”. Ion suppression occurs when matrix components co-eluting with compound/s of interest impair the efficiency of analyte ionization, thus affecting detection capability, precision and accuracy of measurements (2).
Although many authors recently underscored the importance of understanding IS effect in clinical MS applications, only a limited number of validations of methods have been published to consistently address this issue. To date, studies reporting an evaluation of matrix effect in UFC assessment by LC-MS/MS failed to observe any IS in study samples (3, 4).
We report here for the first time a case study of IS due to high concentration of piperacillin in the urine sample. This paradigmatic case of biological interference which may be prevented by an accurate collection of patient information prior to analysis, reinforces the concept that pre-analytical phase remains crucial for quality of the total testing process, even when using high performance techniques such as LC-MS/MS (5-8). Since piperacillin is commonly used as a first-choice antibiotic in combination with the beta-lactamase inhibitor tazobactam for treating moderate-to-severe infections in critical patients, we describe here the analytical challenge of, and a valid approach to overcome, pre-analytical issues in measurement of UFC, which might be a rather frequent event in clinical practice (9).
We describe here the case of a 66-year-old female patient referred to the daily service of general medicine of the University Hospital of Verona (Italy), for intravenous antibiotic treatment of a generalized Staphylococcus aureus infection. The clinical history, based on a thoughtful anamnesis, revealed Addison disease occurred after surgical management of a Cushing’s syndrome. The patient also received hydrocortisone therapy for four years due to adrenal insufficiency.
During routine assessment, 24-hours urine samples were collected for monitoring the glucocorticoid replacement therapy (10). The 24 h urine samples were collected in a standard 24 h urine container, with no preservatives. Urine was then aliquoted and stored at - 20 °C until analysis. The method currently used for assessing UFC in our hospital laboratory was a competitive solid phase 125I radioimmunoassay (RIA; Cortisol RIA kit, Beckman Coulter, Brea, USA). The bound radioactivity was measured with COBRA II Gamma counter (Packard, Ramsey, USA). The results of UFC assessment with this method, along with other relevant laboratory tests ordered at the time of urine sample collection are shown in Table 1. The study protocol was approved by the University Hospital of Verona Institutional Review Board.
Routine clinical chemistry values
Reference value
C-reactive protein < 3 mg/L < 5
Haematocrit 0.36 L/L 0.35-0.47
Haemoglobin 116 g/L 120-150
Creatinine 158 μmol/L 44-106
eGFR (CKD-EPI) 29 mL/min/1.73m2 > 60
UFC 690 nmol/L 41.3-220.7
2484 nmol/24h
UFC - urinary free cortisol. eGFR - estimated glomerular filtration rate. CKD-EPI - Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration.
Due to the extremely high UFC value, the urine sample was aliquoted immediately after analysis and then stored at - 20 °C. Aliquots (of 300 μL, each) were then used for validating the inter-assay variability of a new commercial CE-IVD LC-MS/MS method, which had been recently introduced in our laboratory for replacing the RIA technique. The assay was the MS urinary free cortisol/cortisone kit (ISBN-BSN, Castelleone, Italy), which requires single manual dilution, protein precipitation and contains a D4 isotope-labelled internal standard. The method was found to be linear up to 5000 nmol/l and is characterized by a limit of quantification (LOQ) of 6 nmol/L.
The LC-MS/MS analytical system was a Nexera X2 series UHPLC (Shimadzu, Kyoto, Japan) coupled with a 4500 MD triple quadrupole MS detector (Sciex, Milan, Italy).
Compared to the other specimens tested in the same analytical run, the case study sample displayed a 10-fold lower signal (in terms of area under the peak) of internal standard (D4-Cortisol). Even the cortisol signal and the corresponding quantitative UFC concentration were very low compared to those we would have expected from data obtained with RIA. The software integration allowed generating a predicted UFC concentration of 229 nmol/L. However, due to the high degree of IS, normalization of cortisol value by its internal standard was inherently inaccurate and the following quantification was hence unreliable. A series of experiments were then carried out for confirming the presence of IS, understanding the source of the problem, and ultimately overcoming the possible interference.
Evaluation of IS
A post column infusion experiment was performed for assessing IS. A urine sample with low cortisol concentration (i.e. 13 nmol/L) and the case-study urine sample were injected while a cortisol solution (1 μmol/L) in 80:20 mobile phase A:B was infused into the mass spectrometer at a flow rate of 10 μL/min. As expected, a drop in the baseline signal occurring exactly in the elution time of cortisol was observed in the case sample but not in the other urine sample (Figure 1).
Post-column infusion experiment for evaluation of ion suppression affecting cortisol signal in a normal urine sample (A) and in the case-study sample (B). Black arrows indicate the elution time of cortisol. Vertical lines indicate the valve switch from the exhaust to the mass spectrometer. Cps - counts per second.
Identification of interfering compound
The profile of the interfering compound was studied with a hybrid triple quadrupole/linear ion trap mass spectrometer (QTRAP 5500, Sciex, Milan, Italy) interfaced with a Nexera X2 series UHPLC (Shimadzu, Kyoto, Japan). General screening of interference was made by using the full-scan enhanced MS modality. Parent ions presenting with signal threshold > 100,000 counts per second (cps) were automatically fragmented to obtain the corresponding full-scan MS/MS spectra. Among all acquired compounds, those with retention time close to that of cortisol were analysed against the Analyst software (Sciex, Milan, Italy) MS/MS spectra database to provide tentative identification of compound. A match was finally found, which allowed identifying piperacillin as the interfering substance.
Identity verification of interfering compound
With the aim of confirming piperacillin interference, the LC-MS/MS method was modified by adding the multiple reaction monitoring (MRM) m/z transitions of piperacillin. The subsequent re-analysis of case-study sample showed the presence of all set up transitions for both cortisol and piperacillin, thus confirming the presence of this drug in the study sample. An audit with the clinicians revealed that the patient was currently taking intravenous piperacillin/tazobactam treatment (2.25 g every 6 hours).
With the aim of reproducing this phenomenon in vitro, scalar dilutions of the drug (piperacillin/tazobactam 4 g/0.5 g) were spiked into a urine sample (UFC: 110 nmol/L), to achieve final concentrations between 15.6-1000 μg/mL. Samples were then extracted according to the standard protocol and analysed with the modified method. As expected, the drug displayed an elution time very close to that of cortisol (Figure 2). Moreover, the sample spiked with a drug concentration of 1000 μg/mL displayed a signal for the second product very similar to that observed in the case-study sample (i.e., area of the m/z transition 518.2/160.1 of 20 and 17 million, respectively). The signals from the first product ion (m/z transition 518.2/143.2) were saturated instead in both samples.
MRM chromatograms of cortisol and piperacillin. Representative chromatograms of a urine sample with UFC of 110 nmol/L spiked with piperacillin at a final concentration of 125 μg/mL. Cps - counts per second. XIC - Extracted ion chromatogram. MRM - multiple reaction monitoring.
As shown in Figure 3, the addition of piperacillin at final concentration of 1000 μg/mL in the urine sample induced an 80% signal decay compared to the sample without the spiked drug. By progressively diluting the piperacillin concentrations, the signal of the internal standard linearly increased, until reaching a recovery of 80% at a final concentration of 15.6 μg/mL.
D4-cortisol signal suppression according to piperacillin increasing concentrations. Starting from a standard solution of 2000 μg/mL of piperacillin the follow scalar dilutions were spiked into an urine sample with UFC concentration of 110 nmol/L (1:2, 1:4, 1:8, 1:16, 1:32, 1:64). The curve was fitted by using a non-linear regression one-phase decay analysis and showed a correlation of 0.99. PIP – piperacillin.
Strategy implemented to remove IS due to piperacillin interference
Among the many strategies available to eliminate or attenuate the matrix effect, we decided to improve retention and separation of co-eluting compound by re-optimizing the chromatographic conditions. As shown in Figure 4, the cortisol and the relative internal standard were found to be more retained by the C18 column after reducing the oven temperature from 60 °C to 30 °C. Consequently, their signals had no more signs of IS. The concentration of UFC could hence be calculated as 130 nmol/L after this minor modification.
Cortisol and D4-cortisol signals before (A) and after (B) method modification. Cps - counts per second.
Ion suppression is one of the most important challenges in MS analysis, so that is has been defined as the Achilles’ heel of quantitative LC–ESI-MS/MS analysis (11). This case report describes an IS effect attributable to piperacillin, seriously impairing the accurate assessment of UFC despite the use of an isotope labelled internal standard (which is usually enough to correct for the matrix effect). The initial quantification led to overestimating the real concentration of approximately 80% due to reduced detection capability of decreased UFC and internal standard signals. Notably, an even higher overestimation was noticed using the RIA, which was probably due to additional interference with this assay.
Although we did not performed a real quantification of the drug in the 24 hours urine sample, it is reasonable to assume, by comparing ex vivo and in vitro data, that 50-60% of the drug accumulated unmodified in urine (i.e. about 1 g/L) during the 24 hours collection. By assuming the most widely accepted linear pharmacokinetics profile and renal clearance of piperacillin, we can hence speculate that a IS effect caused by this drug might affect the UFC quantification, thus generating a signal reduction of up to 80% during infusion treatment, and up to 20% five hours after the last administration (12). To exclude this important pre-analytical interference, urine sample collection for UFC assessment should hence be started the day after the end of i.v. infusions. Even more importantly, accurate information about the pharmacological treatment should be collected and sent to the laboratory along with sample and prescription. Therefore, this case report further emphasizes the importance of a thoughtful collaboration between the clinics and the laboratory for identifying possible pre-analytical source of interference and preventing diagnostic errors.
The improvement of methods using internal standards seems also mandatory to identify this potential challenge, especially when measuring isolate samples. By normalizing analyte response signal, the internal standard may also serve to compensate for IS, thus overcoming biological interference. However, when the IS is so severe to jeopardize the correct identification of signals from both analyte and internal standard (as in this case), many strategies exist to overcome or reduce the problem, some of which may also be relatively simply as those herein described (13, 14).
What YOU should/can do in your laboratory to prevent such errors
Accurate assessment of urinary free cortisol by LC-MS/MS can be impaired by antibiotic therapy with piperacillin/tazobactam.
Matrix effect caused by the co-eluting drug can be recognized by implementing methods with isotope-labeled internal standard.
Potential interferences can be prevented by knowing patient’s pharmacological treatment.
By knowing pharmacokinetics of interfering drugs a correct timing for urine sample collection can be planned.
Once recognized, matrix effects can be resolved by re-optimizing the chromatographic conditions.
[1] Conflicts of interest None declared.
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Career in Microbiology – Job Opportunities, Courses & Top Colleges
By Mahi On Feb 24, 2018
What is microbiology and how it is important?
Microbiology is all about the detailed study of small living organisms that can’t be even seen with naked eye. Bacteria, protozoa, fungi, and all cellular agents like viruses, these all are included in the category of microorganisms. Microbiology is all about in-depth analysis of structure, genetics, taxonomy, ecology, pathogenicity, and physiology of microorganisms.
Now the question arises why microbiology is important for us and how it affects everyday’s life? Actually, with the advancement in science and research fields, importance of Microbiology is widespread. It is the misconception that all microorganisms are harmful; instead, microbes are of great importance in various areas.
By 2100, our destiny is to become like the gods we once worshipped and feared. But our tools will not be magic wands and potions but the science of computers, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and most of all, the quantum theory.
Michio Kaku American theoretical physicist, futurist, and popularizer of science
In medical terms, it helps in finding how diseases are caused by microorganisms. What are their types and adverse effects? Anti-biotic are made from microbes only. Other than medical field it’s playing a great role in agriculture too. The microorganisms help in making natural manures by decomposing waste.
Food security, environment, industrial, genetic engineering, development of green technologies, climate changes and many more fields directly or indirectly depend on Microbiology.
How to Become a Microbiologist?
Is microbiology hard nut to crack? Not really if you are strong in academics and emotionally stable because in the complete course you have to complete many short and long-term tasks.
Microbiology is the emerging field of which research loving people can dream for their bright future. So now you need to know how to become a microbiologist? Here is the description of steps needed to become a microbiologist-
Earn Bachelor’s Degree in microbiology or closely related stream.
Join an internship in a company or laboratory. It will help you in gaining valuable experience in the field.
Earn Doctoral degree if you want to work in the research field.
Earn additional certification if you want to direct a clinical laboratory. American Board of Medical Microbiology issues certificates to the eligible candidates to fulfill state licensing requirements.
What do Microbiologists do? What are Their Duties?
Microbiologists study and understand how the microorganisms like fungi, bacteria, algae live, grow and interact with surroundings.
Microbiologists perform following duties-
Plan and execute research work to develop new drugs
Study different ways by which microbes affect animal, plant, and humans.
Identification of different microorganisms
Perform various laboratory services that can be used in diagnosis.
Attend conferences to know the findings of others’ research.
Publish research papers, prepare complete reports and make further research based recommendation
These were the major duties performed by Microbiologists, but other than this, work depends on the field you have selected. There are many types of microbiologists such as clinical microbiologists, industrial microbiologists, public health microbiologists, etc.
Different Branches of Microbiology
Microbiology includes all the organisms you see, or you can’t see around you. So based on the purpose of research and type of organisms, classification is done. Here is the list of major branches of Microbiology:
Agricultural Microbiology: Various roles played by microbes in agriculture. This branch is further classified in various sub-branches according to the subject under consideration like:-
Soil Microbiology
Dairy Microbiology
Agricultural Astrobiology
Medical Microbiology: Study of pathogenic microorganisms that causes infections and diseases in humans as well as animals and ways to treat and prevent these infections.
Complex Microbiology: The study of modification of cell signaling pathways, complex system of tissues, and their interaction with other pathogens and microorganisms
Food Microbiology: Deals with the process of fermentation and related products like beer, yogurt, wine, etc. and prevention of spoilage and deterioration of food items.
Environmental microbiology: Checking the different microbes present in the environment and how they interact with each other while performing decomposition of biological waste.
Water Microbiology: This area ensures the quality of water for domestic and other purposes.
Immunology: Study of immune system
Virology: Deals with viruses.
Microbiology vs Biotechnology vs Biochemistry
Microbiology, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry are the subdivisions of science. Practically, these are entirely different subjects. But readers get confused in all these three terms. So, here is the comparison to make it quickly understand:
It is the branch of science that deals with the study of chemicals and various chemical reactions that take place within the cells & tissues and their interaction with the living body.
It is the branch of science that deals with manipulating chemical substances, to produce the medical products, like, medicines, drugs and so on, using biological techniques.
It is the science which is related to microorganisms. It includes the study of life cycles, growth, and mechanisms of microorganisms. Microorganisms are the organisms which cannot be seen with naked eye & only can be seen with the help of microscopes like bacteria, viruses, fungi and many small parasites.
Is Microbiology Better than Biotechnology?
After completing B.Sc., Students often get confused what to choose further between Microbiology and Biotechnology. Biotechnology is a part of microbiology, or we can say that it is an application of engineering principles and scientific methodologies that performs material processing by microorganisms and creates useful products.
But on the comparison basis, Biotechnology has more scope than microbiology, especially in India. There are numerous initial options in biotechnological companies where you can set up yourself for a good future.
Biotechnology opens many doors as you can go in industrial processing, management jobs or can adopt Ph.D., whereas microbiology is purely research-oriented that leaves you with fewer options.
Ph.D. of biotechnology in India makes some sense, but if you want to go for microbiology, then you should move abroad.
In a nutshell, choose your stream according to your interest, scope, and affordability.
Scope of Microbiology
Due to massive advancement in the field of technology and science, the scope is raised manifold. Microbiology scope is wide because it is involved in numerous fields like dairy, clinical research, medicine, water industry, pharmacy, industry, chemical technology, nanotechnology, agriculture and much more. With the microorganisms’ intervention and enhancements, microbiology study contributes a lot to understand the life. Microbiologists are being demanded excessively at the global level. He is an expert in researching, discovering new drugs, innovating new diagnostic kits and all.
There is tremendous scope for a biologist, and some job opportunities are available. Amidst that, some are agricultural & food scientists, biological technicians, chemical technicians, medical & clinical laboratory technologists and technicians, natural science managers, Medical scientists, epidemiologists, biochemist & biophysicists, postsecondary teachers, physicians & surgeons, zoologists & wildlife biologists and much more. As per interest, microbiologist can choose any line and become an expert in that.
How much does a microbiologist make- Salary of a Microbiologist?
A microbiologist gets higher compensation always, and can around 70000 dollars very quickly. Experience is always counted as a bonus point for a person. So, as per the background, the compensation obviously gets a considerable hike. The salary structure differs as per your designation that means, if you are earning in healthcare, then that salary would vary from working in private sector or government sector. On an average, a microbiologist can earn around $67,550 annually.
List of Top 10 Colleges in India:
Where to study microbiology in India?
All India Institute of Medical Sciences – (AIIMS), New Delhi, Delhi NCR
Christian Medical College – (CMC), Vellore, Tamil Nadu
Armed Forces Medical College – (AFMC), Pune, Maharashtra
Kasturba Medical College – (KMC), Mangalore, Karnataka
Maulana Azad Medical College – (MAMC), New Delhi, Delhi NCR
Jawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research – (JIPMER), Pondicherry, Pondicherry
Lady Harding Medical College – (LHMC), New Delhi, Delhi NCR
Madras Medical College – (MMC), Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Grant Medical College – (GMC), Mumbai, Maharashtra
King George’s Medical University – (KGMU), Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
Name of courses: Duration, eligibility, if any entrance test is required
Microbiology Bachelor’s Degree
Microbiology undergraduate programs are as follow:
Bachelor in Microbiology: The eligibility to take these subjects is 10+2 in science stream. It means you must have studied the subjects of biology, physics, and chemistry. It would take three years to complete.
Bachelor of Science in Applied Microbiology: The candidate must have passed 10+2 with more than 70% marks. Duration of the course is three years. If you want to take admission in reputed college, then you have to pass an entrance test.
Bachelor in Industrial Biology: Eligibility for Bachelor of Science in Industrial Biology is 10+2 class in science stream. The time required to complete it is three years.
Bachelor in Food Technology: For its eligibility, you must have passed 10+2 standard and scored at least 50% marks. Along with it, you must have a diploma. The time required for its completion is three years. The reputed Institutes hold an entrance test.
Bachelor in Clinical Microbiology: You must have passed 10+2 class with minimum 70% marks. Prominent institutes usually conduct entrance test for it. Its duration is three years.
Microbiology Masters Programs
Masters in Microbiology: Eligibility for post graduation in Microbiology is, B.Sc. from a college or recognized university. For admission, the candidates have to pass out the entrance exam. It takes 2 years to complete Masters.
Masters in Applied Microbiology: With a pattern of 10+2+3, you have to take any two subjects from following subjects: Chemistry; Life Sci.; Botany; Biotech; Zoology; Life Sci.; Industrial Microbiology; Environmental Science; with B.Sc. or the candidate can pass out B.Sc. (Hons.). Entrance is required for post-graduation. The duration is two years.
Masters in Medical Microbiology: Must have B.Sc. degree passed with life science branches like Botany, Chemistry, Microbiology, Physiology, and Zoology. You need to get minimum 55% with the general category and 50% of the reserved category. The duration is 2 years to pass post graduation in Medical Microbiology.
Masters in Microbial Genetics and Bioinformatics: The candidate must have completed the graduation degree in science subjects. The duration is two years. The Entrance test is required to take admission in M.Sc. in Microbial Genetics and Bioinformatics.
Scientific skills are needed to become a professional in the field of Microbiology. So prepare yourself adequately for microbiology and set up your career.
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AOS - The American Ornitholgy Society is an international society devoted to advancing the scientific understanding of birds, enriching ornithology as a profession, and promoting a rigorous scientific basis for the conservation of birds. As one of the world's oldest and largest ornithological societies, AOS produces scientific publications of the highest quality, hosts intellectually engaging and professionally vital meetings, serves ornithologists at every career stage, pursues a global perspective, and informs public policy on all issues important to ornithology and ornithological collections. AOS is distinguished by its tremendous collective expertise, including eminent scientists, conservation practitioners, early career innovators, and students.
ABC - American Bird Conservancy This is an organization started in Europe and is now formed in North America in the 1990's. It bases its goal on four approaches, Halt extinctions, Protect habitat, Eliminate threats and to Build capacity. One of their ways of achieving these goals, is by purchasing and leasing lands around already protected lands and creating larger safe zones for all its habitants.
eBird - TheCornellLab of Ornithology eBird is a must for any individual, who has an interest in birds. This site allows users to sign up and participate in recording birds seen on a daily basis as well as the location, for any bird species seen in the world. In addition, users can use the existing data to search out the location of bird species throughout the year. By using filters, information as to the movements can be determined. Photos can be added to identify individual birds. Migration pattern can be calculated using information by months or years as needed. Range maps can be verified, allowing the users to see where the presence of individual bird species are expected to be at certain times of the year.
NA - National Geographic The Society of National Geographic provides some of the best books available for those who have an interest in birds. The book called "The Complete Birds of North America", is a book recommended to be part of any birders library. This book covers all the native and vagrant species of birds seen on the North American Continent. It provides information on all the birds listed on the ABA bird list. This book goes into great details, describing the individual species and their races. That aside, their website provides wonderful information pertaining to many articles regarding nature.
NAC - National Audubon Society The National Audubon Society is the oldest organization in North America. It was initially formed for the preservation of egrets and herons as well as waders, who were being hunted and killed, so their feathers could be used in the clothing industry. Today, there are many chapters of the NAS all over the continent and all individual groups have a common goal, to educate the public. In doing so, creating awareness of the birds and their plights. They were the driving force in promoting the original international laws, protecting migratory birds. Today, their website has made information available on articles, images and sounds, relating to all the native birds seen in North America.
I hope you will take advantage of these suggested websites. I have used each of them, in one way or another, throughout the years in my quest to better identify and understand our fine feathered friends.
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(Website biography: Hastings William Sackville Russell was born on 21st December 1888 and was to be the only child of Herbrand Russell, the second son of the 9th Duke of Bedford, and his wife Mary du Cauroy. In 1891 the 9th Duke died and shortly afterwards Herbrand's elder brother, who had succeeded as 10th Duke. As a result of Herbrand becoming the 11th Duke of Bedford, Hastings acquired the lesser family title of Marquess of Tavistock until he succeeded as 12th Duke of Bedford on the death of his father in 1940.
His father was President of the Zoological Society of London from 1899 to 1936 and his mother was a noted ornithologist, who presented several papers on the subject. She was created a Dame of the British Empire (DBE) for her work in radiography and radiology. The Duchess also remarkable in taking up flying in her sixties, accompanying an experienced pilot on flights to Europe, India and South Africa before qualifying as a pilot in 1930 at the age of 65. By Spring 1937 the Duchess, then 71, had flown solo for 199 hours and five minutes and planned to complete 200 hours with a short flight close to her home at Woburn Abbey. She failed to return and several days later pieces of wreckage from her aircraft, a Cirrus Moth, were washed up on the east coast of England near Yarmouth. It is believed she aligned her compass incorrectly, flew into some bad weather and crashed into the sea.
Hastings was a keen aviculturist and kept many parrots, including all the blue macaws except the Glaucous Macaw. In the 1920s he produced Parrots and Parrot-like Birds in Aviculture with eight plates - including one of a Hyacinthine Macaw - by Edward. J. Boosey for private circulation. He believed in keeping macaws at liberty even though the risk of them being shot was high and indeed he lost a pair of Lear's Macaws in this way. He died on 9th October, 1953.)
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Adult - slate-blue, brighter on the rump and very dull on the head neck and upper breast. A patch of naked yellow skin on the cheek. Bill black. Total length 29 inches.
A rarely imported bird resembling other large all-blue Macaws in disposition and hardiness.
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Interesting paper on the Spix’s Macaw
A very interesting paper is available on-line about the Spix’s Macaw. It is entitled " Qualitative description of the submission and agonistic behaviour of the Spix’s Macaw (Cyanopsitta spixii) with special reference to t ... Read More »
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The first hashtag on Twitter was used in 2007 by Chris Messina. He was suggesting a way to group messages together on a specific topic.
how do you feel about using # (pound) for groups. As in #barcamp [msg]?
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Hashtags are now one of the basic parts of Twitter that we all use (especially in the hashtag chats!), probably without thinking, but if you’re new to Twitter, you might not know how they work!
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The World Finance Global Insurance Awards celebrates the industry’s most innovative players and top insurers that help drive the sector forward. BPI-Philam has proven its resilience towards challenges and practices its progressive mentality by expanding reach to various areas across the Philippines in its aim to close the protection gap in the country.
“BPI-Philam is proud and grateful to receive the award for the third consecutive year. We are racing against risk to protect as many lives as we can, especially as the country is highly vulnerable to different disasters. Several recent events rocked both the nation and the world and have once again urged the pressing need for insurance. Our goal is to touch base with the most vulnerable sectors and we are continuously working hard to do that,” said BPI-Philam CEO Surendra Menon.
BPI-Philam supports these efforts with consumer education programs that drive the importance of insurance home. Bancassurance sales executives (BSEs) are also stationed in BPI branches nationwide to address any insurance-related concerns.
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Managerless Cheltenham Town are our Carabao Cup opponents tonight as Dean Smith's Bees look to progress to the Third Round of the EFL Cup for the second successive year.
Brentford vs Cheltenham Town
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Griffin Park, Kick-Off 7.45pm
The Robins, under caretaker boss Russell Milton, picked up their first win of the season on Saturday as Sam Jones netted the only goal at The Abbey Stadium against Cambridge United.
That previous four-game winless run to begin the campaign was enough to see Gary Johnson lose his job last Wednesday after nearly three-and-a-half years with the Gloucestershire club. Under Johnson, The Robins returned to the EFL in 2016 before back-to-back successful battles against relegation. However, just one point from a possible 12 to begin the season saw the axe come down on the 62-year-old's head.
Progress for Town to tonight's Second Round tie came via a penalty shoot-out win against Colchester United a fortnight ago. Former Bee Courtney Senior missing the decisive spot-kick following a 2-2 draw in normal time at the Jonny-Rocks Stadium.
The Bees made 11 changes for the First-Round victory over Southend United and it is expected to be another much-changed Brentford XI tonight following three Sky Bet Championship games in six days last week.
Dean Smith remains without Emiliano Marcondes and Rico Henry through injury but Chiedozie Ogbene, Tom Field, and Moses Odubajo all got minutes for Brentford B in their win over AFC Bournemouth last week. Neal Maupay will miss out tonight as he serves the second of his three-match ban.
For the visitors tonight, Manny Duku is set to miss out with a shoulder injury but Chris Clements may get his first involvement after signing for The Robins yesterday.
Russell Milton began his playing career as a Trainee at Arsenal before four years in Asia, first with Japanese side Hitachi and then in Hong-Kong with Double Flower Football Association. The midfielder returned to Blighty in 1993 and spent four years with Dover Athletic, where he earned two England C caps, before joining Cheltenham Town. With The Robins he made 118 appearances, scoring 14 goals, in the Football League before dropping back into the non-league to finish his career with Bath City.
After retiring, Milton took a degree in sports science, ran a football coaching school with links with Arsenal, and lectured at the University of Gloucestershire. He was named as caretaker-manager of Cheltenham Town in February 2015, staying on as Assistant to Gary Johnson, who was appointed a month later, before reprising the caretaker's role last week following Johnson's departure.
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We all know credit card fraud is pretty common, but this is ridiculous!
By Geoff Williams, CardRatings Contributor
Updated, June 3, 2015
Credit card crime, according to all of the latest statistics, is up. But for a credit card-carrying colleague of mine here at CardRatings.com, it's way up. In the last six months, she has been the victim of either debit or credit card crime three times. Can you blame her for wanting to remain anonymous?
Six months ago, her credit card was fraudulently used to buy airplane tickets in New York to the Dominican Republic on JetBlue. The tickets were not in her name, and she never lost the card, and yet some crook still managed to utilize her good credit. Fortunately, she wasn't liable for the tickets, the card was replaced and the charges were easily reversed within a few days.
The second time
Two weeks ago, she received a phone call from her bank's fraud department. They wanted to see if she would authorize some charges that were on her check card. Dog food? Check. Groceries? Check. How about $153 at a gas station in Canada? "Um, what?"
The charge was declined, the card was replaced, and she once again wasn't liable. Her card wasn't lost, nor was her PIN number used or compromised in any way, so most likely it was skimmed at a gas station or ATM.
The third (and hopefully final) time
Last Friday, she logged onto her bank's website to balance her checkbook, and she found eight charges, again from Canadian gas stations, not on her card but on her husband's card. The grand total, including foreign transaction fees, was over $600 in approved charges.
She called and filed a claim. For the third time, she wasn't liable. The card was not lost or stolen, nor was the PIN used and the activity was reported immediately. The bank provided a provisional credit for the charges and fees. But fully resolving the claim could take up to 90 days.
What could have been done differently?
"Nothing, really," she says. "Both of our cards were likely skimmed at one of the places that we regularly use. We compared where we used our cards and alerted the businesses we both used."
"We have zero liability under both the bank and the FTC (Federal Trade Commission), but it's $600 that the bank has lost because the security technology is so outdated."
Upgraded security technology would include EMV technology, which is already popular in Europe and other nations abroad. These credit cards possess computer chips that store and transmit encrypted data and have unique identifiers that change after each transaction. They offer such superior protection that when it comes to thievery, many sophisticated credit card crime rings wind up in America because of our late adoption of the technology.
Tips to help fight fraud
Make your credit card your "go-to" card for all purchases. If you're diligent about paying off your balance every month, this could be a good strategy. Not only do you have better zero-liability protection, but you could also generate a steady stream of reward points or cash back.
Devote one card to each major kind of spending. Use one card for Internet purchases, and a separate card for in-person purchases. This simple separation can help you narrow down where fraud may have occurred.
Using a check card? Run it as credit instead of debit. This could prevent a pinhole camera from spying your PIN and also helps to reduce your liability with fraudulent transactions.
Check your account balances and reconcile charges frequently. Spotting fraudulent activity as soon as possible is important in some zero-liability instances.
"I feel like the poster child for paying everything with credit," says my colleague, "and this has pushed us to do just that. It's one thing to know someone is charging up a storm, but quite another to have them siphoning off your checking account and watch the balance go down."
Still, perhaps my colleague can feel some consolation that she is in good company. According to a report from Consumer Reports, U.S. card issuers' total losses from credit and debit card fraud total $2.4 billion in 2010, although that number doesn't include all the losses that stores sustain. That's a lot of credit card and debit card victims out there.
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Hyatt All-Inclusive Hotels Reopening in the Caribbean
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Hyatt’s portfolio of all-inclusive hotels in the Caribbean will kick off a regional reopening in July, Caribbean Journal has learned.
Four Hyatt-branded all-inclusive resorts will reopen on July 1, including the Hyatt Zilara Cancun, Hyatt Ziva Cancun and the Hyatt Zilara Rose Hall and Hyatt Ziva Rose Hall, both of which are in Montego Bay, Jamaica.
On July 22, Hyatt’s pair of all-inclusive properties in the Cap Cana enclave of Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic will reopen: the Hyatt Zilara Cap Cana and the Hyatt Ziva Cap Cana had just opened their doors at the end of 2019 before shuttering amid the pandemic.
Hyatt Ziva Cap Cana.
Hyatt is also reopening its two all-inclusive resorts on the Pacific coast of Mexico: the Hyatt Ziva Puerto Vallarta, which will relaunch July 15, and the Hyatt Ziva Los Cabos, which is scheduled to reopen on Sept. 24.
Hyatt’s Caribbean all-inclusive portfolio is owned and operated by Playa Hotels and Resorts.
“We look forward to introducing new and exciting all-inclusive lifestyle experiences, providing the very best vacations with the highest safety standards for both our guests and our resort team members,” said Kevin Froemming, Playa Hotels & Resorts’ Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer.
Playa has developed a new health and safety plan for the reopenings called “Playa Safe Stay,” which will cover every aspect of the travel experience.
“As we prepare to reopen our resorts, there is no higher priority than the health and safety of our guests and associates,” said Gregory Maliassas, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Playa Resorts Management. “We have been working diligently for months on implementing new procedures and policies as part of Playa Safe Stay to ensure that a vacation at any Playa resort exceeds our guests’ expectations of both safety and fun.”
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CASJE brings a level of academic expertise to key decision makers at the local, regional, and continental level to help guide efforts around the implementation of excellent Hebrew language education, a field with lots of passion and experience but only loosely anchored in the best thinking about second language acquisition, sociolinguistics, and a range of disciplines that can contribute to success outcomes. At the same time, it is important for the research agenda to be informed by the needs, questions and concerns of the field so that intellectually rigorous approaches can be applied in solving systemic challenges. I think CASJE can have profound impact in this regard, making certain that in addition to the wisdom and expertise of teachers, educators, clergy, administrators and the like — each with their own set of lenses and tools — the field is also guided by solid research, sophisticated thinking, insights from literature reviews, and analysis from even the broader field of education and educational research.
As a practitioner who looks to current research to inform my own thinking and writing, I often turn to CASJE publications to gain knowledge on both the state of the field and the research questions being surfaced through CASJE's work. The three recent literature reviews regarding Hebrew language learning expanded my thinking and provided me with insights beyond my own field of inquiry. By bringing members of the CASJE community together with others at the Hebrew Council, personal and organizational relationships have started that can serve as connective tissue to further strengthen the community's capacity to move our shared educational agenda forward. On a very personal level, it was also wonderful to get to know some of the people behind the articles I read, which I integrate into my own thinking and writing, and that guide my work in my organizational and professional settings.
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Cal Times Senior Editors Bid Farewell
Seniors (from left to right) Jose Negron, Lauren Griffith, Katie DelVerne, Connor Marshman
Jose Negron, Lauren Griffith, Katie DelVerne, and Connor Marshman
Jose Negron: Editor-in-chief
It’s hard to believe that it’s almost over. Four years here at Cal U have come and gone, and it’s pretty unreal to be honest. In four years with the Cal Times, I have served as a Staff Writer, Sports Editor and now Editor in Chief. Through these opportunities, I’ve written a lot of articles, but this one, my last one, is extremely special. It’s special because it gives me an opportunity to reflect and thank some very special people in the process.
First of all, I would like to thank everyone I have worked with as a member of the Student Activities Board and as an Executive Board member of the Underground Café. Believe it or not, these two clubs provided some of my favorite college moments and allowed me to meet some of my best friends, friends that I consider family. I will always cherish the opportunities I have had and the friendships that I have made through my experiences with these two clubs. I am truly grateful and know that they will continue to do great things for our university.
I would also like to thank some of the University leaders that I have had the pleasure of working with including Student Activities Board Advisor Missy Dunn, Underground Café Advisor Paul Fazio and Director of Publications Jeff Helsel. Without these three individuals, I wouldn’t have had the opportunity to learn, grow and have fun in the process of working with three incredible organizations. I thank you all for that and you will always have a special place in my heart. (Who knows, maybe one day I’ll even come back to Cal U for Grad School, Missy.)
I would also like to thank the incredible people, past and present, who I have had the pleasure of working with at the Cal Times in the past four years. In one way or another, I have learned from every single one of them. They, along with many of my professors, have helped me grow as a writer and have helped influence me to follow this career path. It is people like them who I want to continue working with in the future and show me every single day why I wanted to become a journalist in the first place.
There are a ton of other people I can thank for what they have done for me and what they have given me during my time here at Cal U. I’ve experienced highs and I’ve experienced lows in my four years here, but I’ve learned from the mistakes I’ve made and the success that I’ve had.
As I finish up my Cal Times farewell piece, I’d like to say this to the students returning to Cal U next year. Enjoy every minute of your college experience. Be involved in clubs around campus, study hard, and live every moment to the fullest. It all goes by very fast.
I will miss being a part of this publication, a newspaper that I have worked for during my entire college career. It was an absolute honor and it is bittersweet to say It’s been real, Cal U. Thank you for the memories.
Lauren Griffith: News Editor
I started writing for the Cal Times three years ago when Gene Axton was Editor in Chief. I, like Katie, was shy and hesitant. I had attended the media open house as a freshman but hadn’t made the commitment.
My first article was about a comic book shop called Evil Genius in town. I went into the interview with the owners totally unprepared. I scribbled down responses with no audio recorder, and snapped a picture will my less-than-great cell phone camera. Seeing my name in print for the first time was a really neat thing, though I’m sure the article was sub par.
And now, here I am, years later as the news editor. I spent time as the entertainment editor as well. I have had the chance to interview a lot of cool people, and write stories that I am really passionate about.
I am so grateful for the Cal Times for giving me the space I need to do what I want, and for the editors who were always there to help point me in the right direction.
It sounds cliché, but I also met some of my closest friends in the Cal Times office. On the weeks when the deadline seemed to come faster than was possibl, they were always there to help out and to talk to. These, among a few others, are the friendships that I will take with me as I leave Cal U.
The Cal Times has given my amazing opportunites like visiting Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Athens, Ohio and Cincinatti, Ohio for conferences. It has also given me great experiences and a number of clips that I am so proud of.
I would be lying if I said it wasn’t hard work. There were times when I dreaded fitting another interview or another event into my schedule. But that is what makes this different–It was fun. It was so much fun. And although I joke about how I can’t wait to be done with it and never look at another copy again, I’ll miss it.
Thank you to Dr. Carlisle, Jeff Helsel, Pam Delverne, and José Negron for the patience. Thank you Dr. Aune for the support and for believing in me and the work that I am capable of for the past four years. Thank you all for reading.
Katie DelVerne: Opinion Editor
This will be my last column published in the Cal Times FOREVER. Can you believe it? I certainly cannot. In one short week I will be receiving a Bachelor of Arts in Communication Studies-Public Relations. In simpler terms, the gig is up here at Cal U and more importantly, the Cal Times.
When I began writing for the Cal Times I was a scared, timid, and clueless freshman with no idea how to write as a journalist or for any publication really. My mom had encouraged, or what then seemed like forced, me to write for the Cal Times. I remember the first paper meeting I went to I stood in the back, never taking my coat or bookbag off, and saying about three words. I signed up a story on Jozart’s downtown and really had no idea what I had gotten myself into.
But with a little help from Dr. Carlisle, who am I kidding, a lot of help from Dr. Carlisle, I was able to produce one of the pieces I am proudest of writing still to this day. Writing has always been something I enjoyed, but I never knew how exciting and inspiring writing could be until I was introduced to journalism. As a journalist, you are forced to step out of your comfortable zone from day one. Interviewing people I didn’t know frightened the hell out of me the first and second time, but now I live for interviews. I enjoy talking to people about their stories, their thoughts, and their opinions. And I think that’s what inspired me to write the things I have for the Times.
As a sophomore with intense writer’s block, I decided to pitch an idea to the editor-in-chief at the time; a food column. I had and still do have a love for all things food and drink so I thought, why not write about what I love? Intrigued with my pitch, he gave me a spot for my column in that following week’s paper. My first column was on the Speer Street Grille, a delicious small restaurant with a lot of character that is nestled by the river in Charleroi. And from there the column took off as the ‘724 Dining Tour’. I went to a number of restaurants that fell into the 724 area code, ate at them, talked to the staff, and reviewed them for the paper. The column was so much fun and gave me an opportunity to show my quirky side and talk to people about things they loved. I even won the ‘Best Column’ award in 2015 for the tour which was such an awesome accomplishment.
This past fall I had the opportunity to become the opinion editor. It seemed my dedication to writing super opinionated and sassy columns had finally paid off. Being able to bring students’ opinions on contemporary issues to the paper has been such a cool experience. Pitching and writing about controversial subject matters was never something I had pictured myself doing, but I am grateful I was given the opportunity to.
The past eight months working with the staff has been an absolute blast. Each one of the editors have taught me so much about writing and the world, and I will never forget our Wednesday afternoons together.
Writing for this publication has given so much confidence in my writing and myself. I can confidently say I have gone from the awkward girl in the back of the news room, to the confident, chatty Kathy in the front.
I cannot thank Jeff Helsel, our director of publications, and both Dr. Carlisle and Dr. Wilson for all their continuous help and advice. I wouldn’t be half the journalist I am today without their help. And to my biggest supporter, my mom, for always encouraging me to write even when I had no desire to, and for reading my section and articles every week.
Though I may not pursue a career in journalism like most that leave the Cal Times, I will never loose sight of the lessons and skills that writing for this publication has given me the past four years.
Connor Marshman: Graphic Designer
I sought out to make my final year at Cal U a memorable one by participating in different organizations on campus. By stepping outside of my comfort zone, I hoped to gain new life experiences that would build on my education. It was this plan of action that led me to the Cal Times.
My brief time at the Cal Times newspaper has greatly enhanced my learning as a graphic designer.
Most importantly, I am thankful to have been inspired by the talented individuals at the Cal Times: chief editor José Negron, news editor Lauren Griffith, opinion editor Katie DelVerne, sports editor Rachel McKriger, and director of publications Jeff Helsel. I know that my experiences as a designer for the newspaper will stick with me in my journey into the career world. I wish my fellow newspaper workers the best of luck in their ventures after college! Veni, vidi, vici!
Jose Negron, Editor in Chief
Jose Negron has been involved with the Cal Times since his first semester of his freshman year in the fall of 2012. He served as Sports Editor for two...
Lauren Griffith, News Editor
Lauren Griffith has been involved with the Cal Times for three years, and staff for two years. She is also involved in Society of Professional Journalists,...
Katie DelVerne, Opinions Editor/Website Coordinator
Katie has been with the Cal Times for three years. She is now a graduate of California University of Pennsylvania.
Connor Marshman, Graphic Designer
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Guide to the CAFCASS
The Children & Family Court Advisory and Support Service (CAFCASS) look after the interests of the child in children involved in family proceedings.
They work with the child and parents and have to inform the Courts as to what action that they believe is in the best interests of the child. If an application is issued to the Court in relation to a child then it is likely that CAFCASS will become involved.
Frequently Asked Questions about CAFCASS
Who refers matters to CAFCASS?
The Court makes referrals to CAFCASS if it is felt that there are issues that need to be looked into. CAFCASS will then prepare a report in particular outlining the situation in relation to the issues directed and what they recommend in terms of further action by the court.
These could be issues such as whether the CAFCASS officer believes the child has a close relationship with a parent and what the child’s attitude is towards the parent.
What do CAFCASS do to prepare a report?
They will see both parties and any other parties that may bee relevant like partners or grandparents. They will also interview the child(ren) if appropriate. They may also observe contact between the child(ren) and the parents and visit their living accommodation.
This is all so that CAFCASS can gain as much information as possible about the situation from all points of view so that they can make informed recommendations to the Court.
How long does a CAFCASS report take?
A CAFCASS report will usually take approximately 12 weeks to complete.
I have applied for an Order, CAFCASS have decided against me. Where does that leave me?
The decision as to whether to grant an Order or not rests with the Courts, although they are likely to follow CAFCASS’s recommendations or at least take them strongly into consideration.
You would have to decide very carefully how on what grounds the recommendation may be wrong, how you could argue against it and if you still wish to proceed with the Application.
If you were Legally Aided this would also affect your funding.
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Executive Compensation Trends Among 2014 Early Filers
By Melissa Burek, Shaun Bisman
Shaun Bisman
Principal [email protected] 212-921-9365
Compensation Advisory Partners (“CAP”) reviewed companies from the S&P 500 that filed their 2014 proxy between November 2013 and February 2014. The proxy disclosure sample of 44 companies (“Early Filers”) represents eight industry groups. The industry groups reviewed include Information Technology, Consumer Discretionary, Industrials, Consumer Staples, Healthcare, Materials, Financials, and Energy. Our research identified early trends to be found in the 2014 proxy season.
Among the 44 company sample, median revenue was $11B, median market capitalization was $23B and median 12 month Total Shareholder Return (TSR) was 27% at the end of February 2014.
The early findings and trends from these filers generally showed a continuation of trends from the 2013 proxy season. Early in 2014 companies:
Received high levels of shareholder Say on Pay support
Awarded CEO bonuses that were slightly higher as a percent of target compared to prior year earned bonuses, and
Shifted more of the long-term incentive “LTI” program to performance based vehicles and decreased the emphasis on stock options
Say On Pay (SOP) Vote Results
In 2014, all Early Filers that released SOP results to-date (n=38) received majority shareholder support and 87% of companies received greater than 90% support. Among these companies there has been a steady uptick in the level of support at the 25th percentile over the last four years.
CAP Comment: SOP levels in early 2014 to-date continue to be strong. We expect similar SOP support levels for calendar year-end companies as we approach the 2014 annual meeting dates.
CHANGES IN SHORT AND LONG-TERM COMPENSATION
Among Early Filers, 46% of companies disclosed an increase to the CEO’s base salary in 2013 and the overall average base salary increase was 2.7%.2 CEOs in the Industrials industry received the largest average base salary increase (8.7%) followed by Consumer Staples (3.9%).
CAP Comment: The average executive base salary increase among the Early Filers is consistent with projected merit increases in the broader market where we are generally seeing 3.0% increases for 2014.
Short-term Incentive Payouts
Bonus payouts as a percent of target for the Early Filers increased slightly at the median. The median CEO bonus payout for 2013 was 100% of target compared to 97% in 2012. In general, there was a slight shift upwards in the bonus payouts when compared to the prior year. This is in-line with overall expectations as companies’ earnings and income also had modest growth year-over-year.
Annual Incentive Payout as a % of Target
51% of Early Filers paid above target in 2013, compared to 46% in 2012. Of the companies that paid above target, median year-over-year increases in revenue, earnings and income growth were in the 10-20% range, compared to 5% for all Early Filers companies.
CAP Comment: Year-over-year financial performance results are aligned with CEO bonus payouts for the Early Filers. Companies are putting more time and effort into the goal setting process to ensure an appropriate pay and performance alignment; investors and proxy advisory firms increasingly focus on the performance goals and rigor of the incentive plan targets.
Long-term Incentive Mix
Over the last two years, the portion of the LTI mix delivered in a performance-based vehicle has increased in the general market. Early Filers showed a continuing, consistent shift, placing more emphasis on performance-based LTI and less emphasis on stock options; the weighting on time based restricted stock remained flat.
Approximately 85% of the Early Filers use two or three vehicles to deliver their long-term incentives.
CAP Comment: A general trend over the last couple of years has been a de-emphasis on stock options as part of the LTI program and an increase on the portion of performance based LTI. ISS is supporting this shift as they do not consider options to be performance-based.
Disclosed changes to compensation programs and polices
Companies continue to modify their compensation programs as they reassess program features in light of business/strategic changes and/or evolving shareholder and proxy advisory groups’ hot buttons. 36 of the 44 companies (82%) we researched disclosed making a change to their compensation programs or policies. The most prevalent change among the Early Filers was a modification to the company’s benchmarking peer group. Peer group changes are typically a result of companies trying to better align the peer group median size with that of their own company.
% of Cos.
Type of Change Reported in CD&A
No. of Cos.
Modified peer group
Decreased weighting of options in LTI mix
Increased weighting on perf.-based LTI
Adopted / expanded clawback policy
Adopted hedging and/or pledging
Note: Percentages add up to greater than 100% due to multiple responses
CAP Comment: Modifications to a company’s peer group is common as Compensation Committees and management review appropriate peers for benchmarking on an annual or biennial basis. Given that ISS and Glass Lewis consider a company’s peer group when conducting their analyses, it is another reason that assessing the appropriateness of peer companies is a valuable exercise.
Similar to last year, companies continue to modify their clawback policy as a sign of good corporate governance. Companies are not universally waiting for final Dodd-Frank regulations before making adjustments to their policy. The uptick in the disclosure of hedging/pledging policies also continued, and overall, 86% of Early Filers disclose having both. Lastly, 14% of Early Filers voluntarily disclosed a supplemental table, graph or discussion of realized/realizable pay. In-line with CAP’s recent research on this topic and disclosure in 2013 proxies, these companies tend to compare realized/realizable pay with target or Summary Compensation Table pay values, as well as alignment with TSR.
While the Early Filers research is a sneak preview into the upcoming proxy season, we expect to see directionally consistent trends with these changes and practices indicated from our research. Companies are continuing to demonstrate good corporate governance and policies / programs that enhance company performance and pay linkages. Since there have not been significant changes in proxy advisory firm policies or expanded Dodd- Frank legislation, we do not expect to see significant program overhaul in the current proxy season. Companies with low SOP support will likely disclose more significant program modification.
1 Calendar year-end companies were not included in the analysis.
2 Based on companies whose current CEO has held the position for two years.
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