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Please Stop Talking About Shia LaBeouf
Rachel Edidin
Shia LaBoeuf isn't a hero. He's not "brilliantly parody[ing]" anything. He's an entitled celebrity who has spent the last few years declaring himself a genius while stealing the work of other artists.
US actor Shia Lebeouf poses during the photocall of "The company you keep" during the 69th Venice Film Festival on September 6, 2012 at Venice Lido. "The company you keep" is presented out of competition. AFP PHOTO / GABRIEL BOUYS (Photo credit should read GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP/GettyImages)Image: Gabriel Bouys/AFP/Getty
I would like to make it clear that I am writing this article under protest. I don't think Shia LaBoeuf deserves any more screen time or column inches than he's already gotten. He's a privileged child who fancies himself a groundbreaking iconoclast, and the only thing differentiating him from the asshole in your creative writing workshop who insists that his cliches are secretly high art is that LaBoeuf is famous and has a platform. That he's trying to frame himself as a sort of objectivist Robin Hood of intellectual property law makes the joke no less trite or played out.
Brief recap, for those of you who have been lucky enough to avoid the nonstop bombardment of LaBoeuf Follies this holiday season: In 2012, LaBoeuf released a short film called Howard Cantour to significant critical acclaim, which lasted until last month, when someone finally noticed that the film was a word-for-word plagiarism of the comic Justin M. Damiano by Ghost World cartoonist Daniel Clowes. LaBoeuf issued a series of bizarre and increasingly hostile apologies and challenges, which not only included skywriting but in several instances turned out themselves to have been plagiarized from a slew of sources. Soon, it came to light that LaBoeuf had plagiarized large portions of his 2012 comics from works by Charles Bukowski and French novelist Benoît Duteurtre. Meanwhile, LaBoeuf continued to taunt Clowes on Twitter "announcing" his next short film "Daniel Boring" -- the name of another Clowes comic. This eventually prompted a C&D letter from Clowes's attorney, which LaBoeuf of course then tweeted.
All the while, the media has swarmed around this self-made train wreck, alternately clutching pearls, armchair-diagnosing LaBoeuf with the psychiatric disorder du jour, lauding him for highlighting the impact of government regulation on creative genius, and generally showering him with attention.
LaBoeuf isn't a hero. He's not "brilliantly parody[ing]" anything. He's an entitled celebrity who has spent the last few years declaring himself a genius while stealing the work of other artists -- usually ones with lower profiles than his own -- and elbowing into communities and creative markets on the strength of his fame.
Nor is he a poster child of Gen-Y remix culture: Remixing depends on taking works already in the popular consciousness and significantly transforming them to create new art that riffs off their existing significance. LaBoeuf stole a story wholesale from an independent cartoonist, claimed that he had come up with it on his own, and soaked up profits and accolades until he was publicly called out—then, retroactively, decided to play up his theft as performance art. This is not Jonathan Lethem's cleverly and honestly plagiarized defense of plagiarism. LaBoeuf's defiance and plagiarized apologies aren't an organized protest or a satire: Satire requires some original thought, or a point beyond fishing for attention while ducking responsibility.
It's telling, I think, that one of the writers LaBoeuf has consistently cribbed from is Charles Bukowski, the Angry Literary Dude (TM) and patron saint of callow, entitled would-be writers with chips on their shoulders. Bukowski, at least, was interesting. LaBoeuf isn't even original in his rebellion. He's a troll, and a particularly inelegant one, willing to do whatever it take to keep the camera fixed on him and demanding we take him seriously as an adult while refusing to take even a shred of responsibility for his bullshit. Patton had it right:
Dear Shia LaBeouf (@thecampaignbook): If you're gonna be that dumb, delusional AND boring when you speak, just go ahead and plagiarize.
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) January 2, 2014
There's nothing here worth seeing. For that, go read some Daniel Clowes.
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Exemplary damages are damages awarded in a court case which go beyond compensation to the victim. These damages are also known as punitive damages in some legal systems. Not all nations allow courts to award exemplary damages and nations which do not generally will not uphold rulings of this nature. They are explicitly intended as punishment to penalize the individual found in the wrong, not to compensate the victim for any injuries which might have been experienced.
Exemplary damages might come in addition to compensatory damages, an example of which would be paying someone for the damage done in a car accident.
In order for exemplary damages to be awarded, a case generally needs to meet a specific standard. Nations which allow courts to award damages of this type generally require that the case demonstrate that the person paying the damages committed the wrongful act willfully, maliciously, or recklessly. Thus, activities like fraud and malicious defamation would be eligible for exemplary damages, while simple negligence would not.
Cases of malicious defamation, such as libel, may be eligible for exemplary damages.
Civil cases allow people to recover compensation which they experience injuries as a result of the actions of others. The court does, however, distinguish between different types of actions. There is a distinct difference, for example, between negligent driving which leads to a crash and an intentional decision to run into someone. In the first case, the victim of the crash could receive compensatory damages to pay for medical expenses and repair to the car, but not exemplary damages. In the second case, exemplary damages could be awarded because the driver acted with malice.
These damages are awarded in excess of compensatory damages, so the person awarded the damages essentially gets two separate payouts. The idea behind awarding damages as punishment is that they serve as a deterrent so that people will be less likely to commit similar crimes in the future, and they also provide a public object lesson. Members of the public reading about large payouts and noting that a portion of the payout was punitive in nature will take note, and may think twice before engaging in similar activities.
There is some debate about when damages of a punitive nature are appropriate and how large they can be. Generally courts will not award exemplary damages greater than four times the compensatory damages. Extremely large awards do happen in very unique cases, but they may be challenged under the argument that they are unfair. Likewise, courts may debate about whether or not a case is one which merits awarding exemplary damages. Different countries have different standards, which can complicate matters further.
Civil cases allow people to recover compensation which they experience injuries as a result of the actions of others.
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@PinkLady4 - I agree. In the case of intentional physical injury cases where the victim is awarded compensatory damages, it might be a better idea to award punitive damages in another form than money paid to the victim. It could be probation or volunteer work.
It's a thorny problem, though, when you are dealing with crimes such as defamation of character. It's kind of hard to put a value on damages to someone's reputation, way of life, a job or whatever. I don't know how the awards for compensatory and exemplary damages work in these kind of cases. Anyone know?
PinkLady4
I'm kind of on the fence when it comes to awarding exemplary damages to victims of injury crimes when the act was intentional.
On the one hand, in the case of bodily injury where the victim is awarded compensatory damages for medical and other related costs, the exemplary damages might fulfill two purposes.
One would be to call attention to the crime and hopefully be a deterrent to repeating the crime. Another could be to provide the victim with some extra money - for pain and suffering, perhaps.
Then again, instead of paying money damages, the criminal could do jail time or volunteer work for punitive damages.
@KaBoom - I think exemplary damages definitely do have a place in our legal system. Some plaintiffs should definitely get more money than just enough to bring them back to "normal."
I also think exemplary damages might be enough to persuade other people not to be negligent, or breach their contract or whatever. If they know they might have to pay a lot of money to someone if they mess up, maybe they'll think twice!
I actually don't agree with exemplary damages. They are specifically meant to punish the defendant, and I don't think that should be a civil courts job! That should be for the criminal courts to do.
I think civil courts should just be used indemnify the plaintiff. You know, bring them back to their original condition and pay for all the damages they suffered. Or to settle a dispute. Not to punish people by making them pay a lot of money.
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Police: Burglar dragged Avondale resident inside home
Suspect held on $100,000 bond
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Martex , 32, of Corryville, was arraigned on an aggravated burglary charge July 29, 2016.
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A man accused of breaking into an Avondale home and robbing its occupant was arrested Thursday.Martex Famble, 32, of Corryville, was arraigned on an aggravated burglary charge Friday morning.The charge stems from a July 20 incident in which a resident on the 600 block of Greenwood Avenue reported that a man broke into the home while the resident was sleeping. The resident tried to push the man out the door, but the burglar dragged the resident back inside. The resident screamed for help, and the burglar grabbed two cellphones and a tablet and fled, the resident said.Famble is being held on a $100,000 bond.
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A man accused of breaking into an Avondale home and robbing its occupant was arrested Thursday.
Martex Famble, 32, of Corryville, was arraigned on an aggravated burglary charge Friday morning.
The charge stems from a July 20 incident in which a resident on the 600 block of Greenwood Avenue reported that a man broke into the home while the resident was sleeping.
The resident tried to push the man out the door, but the burglar dragged the resident back inside. The resident screamed for help, and the burglar grabbed two cellphones and a tablet and fled, the resident said.
Famble is being held on a $100,000 bond.
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noun An Abyssinian name of Musa Ensete, a noble plant of the banana genus.
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The word ensete signifies the tree against hunger, or the poor's tree, though the most wealthy often eat of it.
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This tree, which the natives call ensete, is wonderfully useful; its leaves, which are so large as to cover a man, make hangings for rooms, and serve the inhabitants instead of linen for their tables and carpets.
(Digitaria exilis), a West African cereal crop also known as "fonio," and ensete
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The false banana, ensete (Musa ensete), is a food staple of southwestern Ethiopia and northern Uganda.
The ensete tree of Bruce, the leaves of which resemble the banana, with fruit like figs, but not eatable, with a trunk esculent till it reaches its perfect growth and is full of leaves, resembles in some of its particulars a tree described by
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The Abyssins report that this tree when it is cut down groans like a man, and, on this account, call cutting down an ensete killing it.
Ethiopia's most important root crop, the ensete, is so named because of its strong resemblance to the domesticated banana plant. "
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1. Book reviewsUFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the could anybody ever cross interstellar space, naturally, but Record, by Leslie Kean. New York: Harmony Books, to those receptive to such pseudo-arguments, the blanket 2010. ISBN 978-0-307-71684-2. 315p. dismissal is so anxiety-alleviating as to put receptive brains Even in the deeply unlikely event that you may have to sleep. “In normal scientific research,” astrophysicist Peterthought otherwise, it bears mentioning that UFOs haven’t Sturrock rejoins, “observational evidence takes precedencegone away. It’s worth noting because as early as July 1947 over theory. If it does happen, it can happen.”UFOs—flying saucers then, of course—were It can and does happen all the time, andalready being written of (and off) in the past all over the world, and by now nothing excepttense. One imagines that those who held that some people’s wishful thinking, buttressed bysentiment even then were consumed with the withering ridicule of witnesses and advocates,will to believe that it be so. seems likely to stop it any time in any foresee- Those in the business of constructing able future. Either human beings can continuefalsifiable hypotheses would have predicted to pretend that nothing is going on—surelythat flying saucers would collapse of their own a form of social pathology—or we can doabsence of weight. They would never show up something about it. Which brings us to theon radar except in erroneous readings; there book under review.would be no physical evidence; witnesses Journalist Leslie Kean’s UFOs: Gener-would overwhelmingly be fringe characters; the als, Pilots, and Government Officials Go onsightings would be mostly of distant, nebulous the Record is not exactly an updating of J.light sources; hoaxes would play a major role Allen Hynek’s The UFO Evidence: A Scien-in the most interesting cases; few if any reports could stand tific Inquiry (1972). Hynek’s enduring classic surveyed theup to intensive investigation. So thin a wisp would blow phenomenon in all its aspects, including what up to then hadaway as soon as the winds of popular culture brought the been called merely “occupant reports” but ever after havenext fad along. been known as close encounters of the third kind. In Kean’s So here we are, more than six decades into the UFO book CE3s and other high-strangeness phenomena are absent,controversy, with uncountable sightings, well-documented and properly so. However intriguing, they comprise softand impenetrably puzzling encounters, instrumented observa- evidence. Moreover, it is even arguable that some of thesetions, landing traces, any number of observations of structured alleged experiences, especially on the most extreme end,craft seen under excellent viewing conditions by multiple are only dubiously linked to the harder-evidence cases andand independent witnesses—just about everything short of may be related to the larger phenomenon by no more thanwreckage and bodies (these alleged but never proved) to superficial appearance, though at this point that can be noestablish that an extraordinary anomaly, to every appearance more than speculative reading. Roswell is mentioned onlyand none (notwithstanding gale-force winds of rhetoric) to in a passing paragraph in Chapter 23 (“The Governmentthe contrary, is the product of an advanced technology not Cover-up: Policy or Myth?”), about which more presently.known currently on this planet. Kean’s book is a direct outgrowth of a November 2007 One may as well toss in the surely not-irrelevant con- news conference she and filmmaker James Fox organized insideration that in recent years, fulfilling a key prediction Washington, D.C. The two assembled an international groupof ufology’s extraterrestrial hypothesis, steadily growing of retired military officers, government officials, and aviationnumbers of extrasolar planets—their existence suspected but experts to attest to their sightings or investigations. Somenot established in the early decades of the UFO era—have chapters are written by these individuals, including severalbeen detected, giving astronomers reason to extrapolate that who actually headed their governments’ official UFO proj-as many as 100 billion stars in the Milky Way alone harbor ects and who cautiously have concluded that the ETH bestearthlike planets, a staggering number of which may house provides a framework in which their strongest data makeintelligent civilizations. If that is the case, then a visible pres- sense. The judgment of Jean-Jacques Velasco, longtimeence of visiting alien races is not just more likely than not head of France’s government-sponsored GEIPAN (formerlybut actually to be expected. (A non-ET presence, one might GEPAN), is typical:further argue, suggests that intelligence is rare, maybe evennonexistent, outside earth.) As SETI pioneer Frank Drake has [UFOs] seem to be artificial and controlled objects whosesaid, if UFOs are real, they are extraterrestrial. No heretic, physical characteristics can be measured by our detectionhe quickly adds that since ETs can’t get here, UFOs can’t systems, radar in particular. They fall under a physicsbe. He doesn’t actually know that under no circumstances which is by far superior and more evolved than the one IUR ✦ 33:2 17
2. we have in our most technologically advanced countries. pulsion and why UFOs sometimes aren’t detected on radar . . . When military aircrafts are directly involved, these (usually because of the nature of observation; if operators objects are able to anticipate and neutralize the maneuvers aren’t looking for them, they have to go out of their way to of the pilots assigned to security and defense missions, extract them from the background noise). and some remarkable cases show the capacity of the Toward the end of the book is a remarkably astute essay UFOs to seemingly understand a particular situation or which anybody interested in the UFO controversy ought to to anticipate intentions of escape or military neutraliza- read. Two well-credentialed political scientists, Alexander tion. . . . If they are artificial probes they cannot be of Wendt (Ohio State University) and Raymond Duvall (head terrestrial origin and consequently they must come from of his department at the University of Minnesota), expose somewhere else.” the sources of resistance to UFO evidence, from which a more objective view would discern ET visitation as an The cases highlighted here are nearly all from the mid- entirely reasonable—if so far unproven—reading; yet a1970s to the present. Some are well-known to ufologists: rigidly enforced social taboo gives “the UFO this specialthe Iranian dogfight, the Rendlesham CE2, the JAL radar/ status . . . that it is considered to be outside the boundaries ofvisual, the Tucson lights, and others. Many are related in rational discourse.” After examining and eviscerating popularaccounts written by witnesses or other participants—united, skeptical claims, Wendt and Duvall argue, “The inabilityby the way, in acerbic dismissal of efforts to “explain” their to see clearly and talk rationally about UFOs seems to be aexperiences in what purport to be prosaic terms. Being nov- symptom of authoritative anxiety, a socially subconsciousices to these sorts of things prior to their own unanticipated fear of what the reality of the UFO might mean for modernobservations, the witnesses express shock at the arrogance government.” They’re not arguing for a massive cover-up,and outright bone-headedness of debunkers. Though not but addressing a deep, internalized psychological anxietyhimself a witness, Federal Aviation Administration official which requires that officialdom reject the possibility of UFOsJohn J. Callahan (who contributes Chapter 22, recalling his and all they appear to imply.inquiry into the January 1987 JAL case soon after its occur- Kean and other contributors repeatedly raise therence) manages to tell an appalling story with a great deal issue of the U.S. government’s curious indifference toof wit. Callahan learned that where sightings are concerned, even the most compelling reports, an apathy (as the bookhis superiors at the FAA “will not investigate [a UFO report richly attests) not shared by officials of other advancedthat presumably would be under their jurisdiction] unless nations, some of which have all but endorsed the exis-the object can be identified by an airborne pilot, and instead tence of the UFO anomaly and found a way to live withthe FAA will offer a host of weak explanations. If the FAA it. Always intelligent and perceptive, Kean, not taken withcannot identify the object within FAA terminology, then the usual conspiratorial ruminations, deduces from herit doesn’t exist. [A] cliché we sometimes used: For every own interviews and inquiries that an Unacknowledgedproblem there is a solution. The FAA seems to believe that Special Access Program (USAP) group, used within thethe converse is also true: If there is no solution, there is no Department of Defense to control sensitive informationproblem.” without acknowledging its existence, quietly collects Some of the most fascinating—alarming isn’t far off data while keeping even high officials in the dark. Onethe mark either—encounters involve failed efforts to shoot item of evidence she provides is an official document ofdown UFOs, as in a particularly gripping account provided unquestioned provenance essentially stating as much, andhere by Commandante (Ret.) Óscar Santa María Huertas I am not referring to the Bollender memo.(Chapter 10) of his interaction with a fast-moving domed Finally and not least, UFOs arrives with quotes fromdisc on April 11, 1980, confirmed by ground witnesses at a startling assortment of authority figures who decided thisthe Peruvian Air Force base from which he was ordered to time not to keep their thoughts to themselves, among themintercept the UFO. On initial approach the pilot “shot a burst world-famous physicist Michio Kaku (on the front coverof sixty-four 30-mm shells, which created a cone-shaped yet), Rudy Schild (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astro-‘wall of fire’ that would normally obliterate anything in its physics), and Neal Lane (Rice University, former director ofpath. Some of the projectiles deviated from the target, falling the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy).to the ground, and others hit it with precision. . . . But nothing Former White House chief of staff and current president ofhappened. It seemed as if the huge bullets were absorbed the Center for American Progress John Podesta has publiclyby the [UFO], and it wasn’t damaged. Then suddenly the expressed interest in the UFO question before, but it’s stillobject began to ascend very rapidly and head away from the good to see his foreword.base.” And that’s only the beginning of the incident. For reasons this book details, resistance to the UFO Besides its compelling retelling of extraordinary (and phenomenon, especially in the United States, remains moreextraordinarily evidential) UFO events, Kean and her col- entrenched than ever, so much so that sober considerationlaborators examine related issues that are only rarely, or may not be possible for another generation or two. Meantime,anyway not very capably, treated in the literature. These we may predict that hostile reviewers who will not botherinclude what some photographs may tell us about UFO pro- to address its evidence and arguments will savage UFOs in IUR ✦ 33:2 18
3. order to keep the taboo well in place. We may be confident, following is a preliminary list of UFO crashes throughouttoo, that Kaku, Schild, and the rest will be nowhere men- the world. Currently, little is known about most of thesetioned as poison pens fly across pages. The book is sure to crashes.” Steven Greer’s Center for the Study of Extrater-influence, however, the thinking of educated persons who restrial Intelligence (CSETI) has a list of no less than 272are genuinely curious and open-minded. UFOs rises above purported UFO crashes, also with little supporting data.the usual morass of muddled thinking on both sides and Why have alleged UFO crashes, as a genre, suffered thisascends to clear skies, where puzzling anomalies persist and relative neglect? It may be that lurking in the unconscious ofawait their time.—Jerome Clark. ufology is the traumatic memory of the 1950 Frank Scully book Behind the Flying Saucers, the fiasco that introducedCrash: When UFOs Fall From the Sky, by Kevin D. Randle. us to crash hoaxes and which still resonates. Or, as in the Franklin Lakes, N.J.: New Page Books, 2010. ISBN instance of Roswell, those few cases with much evidence 978-1-60163-100-8. 320p. and opportunity for investigation have formed their own Over the decades since the epochal Kenneth Arnold fiefdoms, shoving aside all potential competitors.sighting, ufology has collected a vast amount of data that Kevin Randle has resurrected the issue and essayed aneventually grew in complexity sufficient to demand parsing overview in Crash: When UFOs Fall From the Sky, an up-into subsets. During an internet search, I found the follow- date to his History of UFO Crashes, published 15 years ago.ing list of subcategories of ufology, each with at least one This is much more than a seed catalog of anecdotesprincipal coordinator and an associated archive: drawn from tongue-in-cheek newspaper stories. He analyzes • Electromagnetic effects those accounts that contain enough data for the • Vehicle interference cases task, drawing on his very considerable experience • Physical trace cases as a ufologist and military intelligence officer. In • Physiological effects most of those instances, Randle adds his opinion, • Radar cases often reaching a skeptical conclusion, but always • Pilot sightings treating the material with care. The result is that • Astronaut sightings he has raised the topic of UFO crashes in general • UFO landings to one deserving the interest of the serious ufolo- • Human-initiated contact gist, and he has presented it in one efficient book. • Humanoid sightings Randle does occasionally disappoint, such • Black triangles as these two extremely bare entries which add • Water-related sightings nothing to the discussion: For example, one researcher, Ted Phillips, took up what February 18, 1950. Birmingham, Alabama. The militaryhe calls physical trace cases and has published a catalog of cordoned an area around a crashed flying saucer. A he-over 4,000 instances. Extensive vehicle interference case licopter transported the alien bodies of the flight crewstudies have been published by Mark Rodeghier and Keith to Maxwell Air Force Base.Basterfield, among others. Carl Feindt has collected 1,165 Mid-1950s. Copenhagen, Denmark. Farmer Christianwater-related sightings ranging from 1067 A.D. to 2009. Sanderson and his wife claimed to have seen two flying A relatively recent subcategory of ufology is abductions, saucers over their farmhouse. One of them stayed air-which originated with a handful of researchers, some of whom borne, and the other landed nearby. It then disintegratedquestioned whether the topic properly belonged to ufology. into thousands of brightly glowing sparks. No evidence(Budd Hopkins’s Missing Time, the seminal abduction book, was recovered, no more information can be found, andwas published in 1982.) It has blossomed into a publishing there were no additional witnesses.industry, and if you own a television set or visit the movie Shag Harbour, Kecksburg, and Roswell are treated attheaters, you have been inundated with the dramatic details length, as one would expect. He concludes in each instanceof alien abductions. Today when members of the lay public that there is probable cause to believe that these were UFOsmention UFOs, they often mean abductions. that really crashed. I also found that Randle’s summaries Oddly, UFO crashes appear very far down the compre- of important cases contained facts and angles new to me.hensive list of ufological subcategories. Even then, one can Selecting cases for the book wasn’t easy. Here is whatfind lists of crashes, but apparently there exists no organized Randle has to say about the process:study of the topic. The late Leonard Stringfield (1920–1994)compiled a series of crash/retrieval reports, though in the main . . . the reports included on my listing are the ones that Ihe simply collected these stories, not having the wherewithal find the most interesting or the ones that have the greatestto investigate them. potential for additional information, or the ones that I’m A French website, www.ufologie.net, lists 145 alleged sure have a valid solution to them. It is clear to me, ifcrashes. Another site, www.ufoevidence.org/documents/ not to others, what fell. That ranges from an alien ship todoc1683.htm, shows only 34 cases and adds the caveat, “The (continued on page 23) IUR ✦ 33:2 19
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JD.com, SF, Carlyle among bidders for CJ Group's $1bln China logistics business-sources
Mergers and acquisitions in China's logistics sector have jumped 53% year-on-year to $2.3bln this year
A sign of China's e-commerce company JD.com is seen at its shop at a mall in Shanghai, China October 26, 2018.
By Kane Wu, Reuters News
HONG KONG - Chinese online retailer JD.com, delivery company SF Group and Carlyle are bidding for South Korean conglomerate CJ Group's China logistics business in a deal that could fetch over $1 billion, people familiar with the matter said.
CJ Group has hired Morgan Stanley to run the sale of Shanghai-based CJ Rokin Logistics Supply Chain Co, which it acquired in 2015 via CJ Logistics Corp.
It comes as e-commerce in China has boomed during the coronavirus pandemic, benefiting the logistics sector. China's economy has also seen a steady recovery from the COVID-19 shock.
First-round bidders also include real estate and technology companies as well as other financial sponsors and industry peers, said the sources, declining to be named due to confidentiality restraints.
The deal could value CJ Rokin at over 7 billion yuan ($1.1 billion), with final bids due in January, two of the sources said.
A CJ Logistics spokesman declined to comment, as did Morgan Stanley and Carlyle. CJ Rokin could not be reached for comment. JD.com and SF did not respond to requests for comment.
The total value of goods transported via the logistics sector rose 2% year-on-year to 202.5 trillion yuan in the first nine months of 2020, according to data from China Federation of Logistics & Purchasing.
Mergers and acquisitions in China's logistics sector have jumped 53% year-on-year to $2.3 billion this year, according to Refinitiv data.
Established by brothers Zhang Yurong and Zhang Yuqing in 1997, CJ Rokin specializes in cold chain and chemical products transportation, according to its website.
Cold chain storage and transportation have become increasingly important during the COVID-19 pandemic, which has killed over 1 million people, as the promising Pfizer vaccine for example is required to be stored at temperatures of minus 70 degrees Celsius (-94 F) or below.
(Reporting by Kane Wu in Hong Kong; additional reporting by Joyce Lee in Seoul, Josh Horwitz in Shanghai and Donny Kwok in Hong Kong; Editing by Ana Nicolaci da Costa) ((kane.wu@thomsonreuters.com; +85228436590; Reuters Messaging: kane.wu.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net))
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President Trump Issues A Statement Responding To His Twitter Ban
Statement from President Donald Trump:
“As I’ve been saying for a long time, Twitter has gone further and further in banning free speech, and tonight Twitter employees have coordinated with the Democrats and the Radical Left in removing my account from their platform to silence me, and YOU, the 75,000,000 patriots who voted for me. Twitter may be a private company but with out the governments gift of Section 230 they would not exist for long.”
“I predicted this would happen, we have been negotiating with numerous other sites, and will have a big announcement soon, while we also look at the possibilities of building our own platform in the near future! We will not be SILENCED!!!”
“Twitter is not about FREE SPEECH, they are all about promoting a radical left platform, where some of the most vicious people in the world are allowed to speak freely. STAY TUNE!!!”
The President’s statement comes after Twitter Permanently suspended President Donald Trump’s Twitter account hours earlier.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Twitter said Friday it has permanently suspended the personal account of President Donald Trump, saying two tweets he posted Friday morning were appearing to rile up his supporters on social media two days after protests at the Capitol.
“After close review of recent Tweets from the @RealDonaldTrump account and the context around them we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence,” Twitter posted Friday.
In a blog postTwitter said two tweets the president posted on Friday were the final straw — not because of any over-the-top language, but because of how they were being perceived on social media.
“The 75,000,000 great American Patriots who voted for me, AMERICA FIRST, and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, will have a GIANT VOICE long into the future. They will not be disrespected or treated unfairly in any way, shape or form!!!” Trump Tweeted Friday morning.
A short time later, he tweeted, “To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th.”
Twitter said the the announcement Trump would not attend the inauguration was being seen on social media as him not accepting the election results. It could also be seen as a signal for those considering violent acts that it was a “safe” target because Trump would not be there,” the platform said.
Twitter also said the term “American Patriots” to describe some of his supporters was being interpreted on social media as support for those involved in Wednesday’s protest at the U.S. Capitol.
“Plans for future armed protests have already begun proliferating on and off-Twitter, including a proposed secondary attack on the US Capitol and state capitol buildings on January 17, 2021,” Twitter wrote.
“As such, our determination is that the two Tweets above are likely to inspire others to replicate the violent acts that took place on January 6, 2021, and that there are multiple indicators that they are being received and understood as encouragement to do so.”
Twitter’s move deprives Trump of a potent tool he has used to communicate directly with the American people for more than a decade. He has used Twitter to announce policy changes, challenge opponents, insult enemies, and to praise his allies.
The president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., lashed out at Twitter.
“So the ayatollah, and numerous other dictatorial regimes can have Twitter accounts with no issue despite threatening genocide to entire countries and killing homosexuals etc… but The President of the United States should be permanently suspended. Mao would be proud,” Trump Jr. Tweeted.
Meanwhile, the @POTUS account — the official account of the President of the United States — has not been suspended. That account is often used to retweet @realdonaldtrump. But once Trump’s personal account was suspended, all those retweets disappeared from @POTUS, leaving it comparably barren to what it had been before.
At noon on Jan. 20, when Biden takes office, his team will take control of @POTUS and all the tweets in the account during the Trump administration will be archived.
Facebook on Thursday announced it was suspended Trump’s account until Biden takes office.
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‘It was fun’: Kevin Durant considers playing with James Harden ahead of reunion announced
Kevin Durant said his previous experience alongside James Harden was “fun” ahead of the duo’s expected reunion with the Nets.
Harden was reportedly traded from the Rockets to the Nets on Wednesday in a four-team deal also involving the Cavaliers and Pacers. Durant and Harden spent three seasons with the Oklahoma City Thunder between 2009 and 2012 before the latter headed to Houston.
Asked about his previous gaming experience with Harden, Durant said at a press conference: “It was fun.”
Durant was unwilling to discuss the trade further, which has yet to be confirmed.
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The star had 26 points, six assists and three rebounds in the Nets’ 116-109 win over the New York Knicks on Wednesday.
Durant became the Nets’ second player with over 25 points in eight consecutive games, joining Bernard King (January 1979).
He played two consecutive days for the first time since breaking his Achilles in the 2019 NBA Finals with the Golden State Warriors.
“I wanted to see how my body was feeling this morning, what I was feeling after the game last night,” Durant said.
“I was just trying to watch everything leading up to the game and obviously throughout the game and I felt good.
“I hope I keep building on it and as the season progresses I keep getting stronger and getting used to the game again, the schedule, the trips, everything, so that’s a good step. “
The Nets improved to 7-6 with their victory over the Knicks.
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High-Severity Wildfires Complicate Natural Regeneration for California Conifers
by UC Davis December 23, 2016
UC Davis research associate Kevin Welch, middle, takes inventory of plant regeneration a few years after wildfire in California’s Lake Tahoe Basin. He’s assisted by researcher Bill Stewart. Credit: Hugh Safford/USDA Forest Service
Dec. 23, 2016 – A study spanning 10 national forests and 14 burned areas in California found that conifer seedlings were found in less than 60 percent of the study areas five to seven years after fire. Of the nearly 1,500 plots surveyed, 43 percent showed no natural conifer regeneration at all.
The study was co-led by UC Davis and the USDA Forest Service and published December 21 in the journal Ecosphere. It presents a tool to help foresters prioritize which lands to replant immediately after a fire, and which lands they can expect to regrow naturally.
“High-severity fires are knocking out seed sources and leading to a natural regeneration bottleneck, which poses a predicament for the sustainability of our forests,” said lead author Kevin Welch, a research associate with the UC Davis Department of Plant Sciences.
For example, 10 of the 14 burned areas in the study, which include well-known wildfires like the Moonlight (2007) and Power (2009) fires, did not meet Forest Service stocking density thresholds for mixed conifer forests, making them good candidates for replanting and restoration efforts.
“Knowing that the Forest Service doesn’t have the time, budget and staffing levels to restore everything, we basically want to help foresters predict what will be there five to seven years later so they can better focus restoration efforts,” Welch said.
How Does The Tool Work?
The researchers surveyed a range of elevations, forest types and fire severities –including in the Sierra Nevada, Klamath Mountains, and North Coast regions –to determine which factors promote and limit natural conifer regeneration and how different conifer species respond after a fire.
Using a simple tool developed by the research team, a manager can enter the forest the year following a fire and take a few field measurements –including distance to seed source, slope, and the cross-sectional area of living trees in the nearby forest. They can then predict whether a severely burned site is likely to meet a desired level of tree density five to seven years later.
Tested against four wildfires that were not in the study, the researchers found the tool was able to predict with more than 70 percent accuracy whether an area would likely need to be replanted or not.
The study plots were in California, but the authors suggest study results could apply to mixed conifer forests across the North American Mediterranean Climate Zone, which stretches from southwestern Oregon through California to northern Baja California and includes parts of western Nevada.
A Race For The Sun
As the research team saw while hiking through miles of dense brush, high-severity fires also stimulate shrub growth to the detriment of fire-resistant tree species that foresters try to encourage. The conifer regeneration that is occurring is heavily dominated by species that tolerate shade but not fire, such as Douglas fir, white fir and incense cedar.
Fire-resistant and drought-tolerant trees, such as ponderosa, sugar and Jeffrey pine, do not tolerate shade well. Such species are likely to better withstand the warmer, drier climates projected for California in the future.
Currently however, forest and fire conditions are not favorable for the survival of these more desirable trees. According to the study, strategies for increasing pines in California forests include reducing forest densities and fire severities while increasing overall fire occurrence (both prescribed fires and managed wildfires). They also suggest planting pines before shrubs and shade-tolerant trees crowd them out and remove their light source.
“As western forests increasingly experience warmer weather and more frequent and more severe fires, a better understanding of what conifers need to regenerate naturally after fire can help us create and manage more sustainable, resilient forests,” said co-author Hugh Safford, regional ecologist for the USDA-Forest Service’s Pacific Southwest Region and a member of the adjunct faculty in the UC Davis Department of Environmental Science and Policy.
The study was funded by the USDA Forest Service and UC Davis.
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Federal agency study questions BLM fuel break effectiveness, wildlife impacts
by Western Watersheds Project July 27, 2018
BOISE, Ida. July 27, 2018 – A new federal study released this year calls into question whether fuel breaks are effective in stopping or slowing down fires on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands across the West. The study, undertaken by the U.S. Geological Survey at the request of the Bureau of Land Management, concludes that fuel breaks have negative impacts on wildlife like sage grouse by fragmenting habitat, and that there is a lack of quality data to determine the degree to which fuel breaks are effective at slowing the spread of range fires.
Federal agencies gather mandatory reports after fires to monitor the effectiveness of fuel breaks. But required responses are too often limited to “yes or no” answers addressing whether fuel breaks were helpful, and lack quantifiable data such as the length of fuel breaks that held, and the length of fuel breaks that were breached, and whether fires were fully contained or escaped containment in the presence of fuel breaks.
“There is currently a major push by federal agencies to construct fuel breaks across our western public lands, but this study highlights the lack of scientifically credible evidence that they actually work, particularly under extreme fire conditions,” said Erik Molvar, a wildlife biologist and Executive Director of Western Watersheds Project.
On the question of impacts to wildlife, the study was far more conclusive, recognizing the well-established impacts of habitat fragmentation on many species of wildlife, from pygmy rabbits to sagebrush songbirds to sage grouse. In addition, non-native plants like forage kochia and crested wheatgrass used in “greenstrips” degrade wildlife habitat values and can spread beyond fuel breaks into surrounding undisturbed habitats.
“Fire on cheatgrass-degraded rangelands has major ecological impacts on habitat values for sage grouse and other wildlife, but if fuel breaks are implemented on a massive scale, the habitat fragmentation impacts on wildlife populations could pose an equally serious threat,” said Molvar.
The study examines three types of fuel breaks: “greenstrips” where non-native plants are seeded in hopes of having higher-moisture plants that can slow the advance of fire, “brown strips” where bulldozers scrape away the vegetation and topsoil down to bare mineral soil, and mowed strips, which take out sagebrush and other tall vegetation. The study found that all three types of fuel breaks are prone to invasion by highly flammable weeds like cheatgrass, thus becoming ineffective at slowing the spread of fire, when they are not regularly maintained.
“Fuel breaks are not a panacea that are going to halt big range fires by themselves,” said Molvar. “Fuel breaks are only truly effective when they are actively defended by firefighters, and they work best in cooler, wetter weather when fire has a lesser tendency to expand into a major conflagration. During extreme fire weather, when the really big, vast fires occur, fed by hot temperatures and strong winds, even major rivers and interstate highways fail to halt major fires.”
The study dismissed “targeted grazing” as a means to create fuel breaks on a large scale, stating that “[b]ecause of its rather limited and novel usage, the effects of targeted grazing are not explored further in this report.”
The study points out that agencies have been implementing fuel breaks on a significant scale since the early 1990s, totaling more than 330,000 acres of habitat disturbance, according to the report.
“We fully support the suppression of fires in sage grouse habitats, but creating a vast and sprawling network of fuel breaks isn’t worth the habitat impacts if the firefighter resources don’t exist to defend them,” Molvar concluded. “The BLM should use this new information to chart a more cautious approach on fuel breaks, and re-focus its efforts on addressing the root cause of the fire problem, which is the heavy livestock grazing that converts native grasses to highly flammable cheatgrass.”
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Page 12, 28th February 2003
Page 12, 28th February 2003 — Pastor Iuventus
Hospitality / Recreation
Organisations: National Trust, Culbone Church
People: Ralph de Lucy
Pastor Iuventus
Keywords: Somerset, Counties Of England, West Somerset, Geography Of England, Exmoor, Villages In Somerset, Culbone, Porlock, St Beuno's, Hospitality / Recreation
or, The Curate's Egg
England's smallest parish church
Ihave a blissful few days' break in the West Country. It is cold and raw and bright and the snowdrops and the jonquils promise Springtime.
One afternoon I take a walk to find England's smallest parish church. The path climbs steeply above Porlock Weir, a pebbly beach sheltered between the bulk of the hills. The afternoon sun catches the shoulder of the hills and the heather shows purple. Soon the beach is far below and after crossing a couple of fields of sheep, I pause to catch my breath, Dante-like at the edge of a dark wood. From here the path winds through. woods of pine and oak and holly and rhododendrons. It used to be the estate of the Lovelace family. A 19th Century Lord Lovelace planted it densely and on returning from a Grand Tour, decided to romanticise the landscape with follies and a tunnel and grottoes. Through a long tunnel and under ruined bridges I go and then the path climbs .tgain steeply. I begin to rue those extra pounds put on at ( 'hristmas. For half an hour I have been steadily climbing till the path runs like a shelf along the side of the cliff. The National Trust has a policy of leaving the woodland to bury its own dead. In the interests of the bio-system dead trees and branches arc left where they lie. The woods have a mysterious feel to them therefore, because everywhere the lichens make strange green amputated limbs out of dead branches and green velvet sculptures out of fallen trunks. Through a corridor of trees I walk, the sea a distant susurration a hundred and fifty feet below, hurling itself on the grey stones of the beach the never-ending litany of the tide. Up here the walking is silent, on blanket of leaf mould and mosses.
And then after another half hour or so the path slopes down and in a small clearing in the woods is Culbone Church, St Beuno's, set in a little graveyard. There has been a church here since Saxon times; but the present building is basically Norman. It is a squat white stone church with a nave and slightly smaller chancel in all no more than 35 feet long and 12 feet wide; it is small
er than our Lady Chapel. The walls are about two feet thick and the window apertures in the side of the chancel are cut diagonally through the thickness of the walls so as to slant light onto the altar. There is a barrel vault and an ancient screen enclosing the little sanctuary. At the back by the door stands an ancient font. It may date back to the Saxon church. The box pews and commandments on the back wall seem out of place with the medieval feel. What captures my imagination is not the place's more recent history, but a vision of its medieval life; not bible and sermon, but the sacred mutter of the Mass, and the ineffable peace of coming into such a place and finding the Blessed Sacrament there. St Beuno's seems bereft, and its beauty a slightly wistful one.
I wonder what it was like for Ralph de Lucy, who according to a list of rectors, became parish priest of Culbone in 1329? At first it seems an impossibly remote time, and then I reflect that it isn't. Maybe ten generations separate us.. If he had lived to be sixty or seventy, and
told a youngster stories of his
life there and that youngster when an old man had told his grandchild it would take only ten such people to pass down by word of mouth what it was like for Fr Ralph to be a priest in the clearing in the wood in the first half of the 14th Century when the Popes were at Avignon and England fought wars in France and the Black Death stalked the land. Perhaps it was not the idyll it looks like from this distance. The preoccupations were probably more immediate and familiar, the births, marryings and dyings as year by year the mysteries of redemption were recalled in the tiny church in the woods by the sea. One thing is sure, it would be a great place to say your prayers.
I have found such peace, from the moment I arrived I found I could pray in a way I have not been able to for months; a real lifting the heart and mind to God, borne stupendously on the beauty of the moors and hills. I sat and prayed watching the sun set behind the hills until their great bulk had become just a silhouette, calm and reassuring in its mass. "Heart of Jesus, desire of the Eternal Hills," I pray, not really having understood what it meant until now. Now it is the stillness and beauty of that place which seems to draw the heart to contemplation; and something about the feel in the empty, tiny church in the woods, where once the heart of Jesus dwell.
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AOC Acknowledges Paralympics Australia and Para-Athletes on International Day of People With Disability
The Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) today celebrates the contribution of Paralympics Australia, Paralympians and athletes of all abilities on International Day of People With Disability.
Para-athletes and the Paralympic movement in Australia continue to inspire and unite Australians.
AOC CEO Matt Carroll said, “It’s important to recognise and celebrate the significant contribution of Paralympics Australia and para-athletes from the elite to grassroots level across Australia.”
“On athletics tracks, in swimming pools, velodromes and across all our member sports, every day athletes of all abilities are training, growing and competing together, towards an Olympic or Paralympic goal. I want to acknowledge the work of our member sports in ongoing integration and recognition of para-athletes across their organisations.
“In September and October this year we celebrated 20 years since the Sydney Olympic and Paralympic Games, and it highlighted the bond shared by Olympians and Paralympians and what can be achieved working together.
“I look forward to continuing the strong connection and relationship with Paralympics Australia towards Tokyo 2020, Beijing 2022 and a potential Queensland candidature for the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games.”
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“The Book of Unknown Americans” by Cristina Henriquez
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“Besides, I don’t need anyone’s pity. My life has been what it has been. It’s not a wonderful story, but it’s mine.”
In general, Americans tend to associate immigration with hopefulness. A certain level of dreamy ambition. But in reality and in Cristina Henriquez’s second novel, The Book of Unknown Americans, the sad undercurrent of immigration and migration in the Americas comes to the surface. The story follows the experience of several families and individuals who share an apartment building in a lackluster part of Delaware. In particular, it traces the budding love of two teenagers, Maribel and Mayor, and the intertwining of their two households. Henriquez masterfully taps into the heart of each family; she exposes the international roots that led everyone to this unglamorous corner of the United States and, with a deft hand, displays the trials and tribulations that they face. And she charts their minor successes and their brief joys. I could argue that Henriquez’s greatest success comes from her ability to capture that particular brand of sorrow leaving one’s own culture brings. The way food looks and tastes different, the changed smells in the air, the language barriers that isolate and heighten every source of fear. From Panama to Mexico, each immigrant carries their own story in their heart. They move in and out of Maribel and Mayor’s view, but Henriquez punctuates the novel with their stories. Their heartbreaks, their loves.
As a young child, I was taught that to empathize with others, one must read voraciously. How could one ever expect to understand someone culturally different than oneself without reading his or her story?
This is that story.
Henriquez captures the political and social climate of immigration in the United States without becoming preachy. She paints an intimate portrait of loss and becoming that separates itself profoundly from other literature produced in this country at this point in time. If you want to understand the experience of an American population that we often overlook, read this book. If you’d prefer to read an immersive, beautifully rendered narrative about the struggles of family and pride, read this book. I think you get where I’m going with this.
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February 4, 2009 | Media, Montreal, Video
Gazette explores anglo exodus, DiMonte
It’s really a story only The Gazette can do. And therefore it’s a story The Gazette must do: The exodus of anglophones from Quebec.
So in a five-part feature series that ends today, the paper went all out, sending reporter David Johnston and photographer/videographer Phil Carpenter out to Calgary and Vancouver to interview ex-Montrealers.
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Of particular interest to media watchers is probably Part 3, which interviews former CHOM morning man Terry DiMonte and his sidekick Peppermint Patti MacNeil (ex-Lorange). Although focused on language and culture, it also goes into a bit more detail about DiMonte’s decision to move to Calgary and work at Corus’s Q107 (it was business, not language politics, that was behind the change):
DiMonte’s more recent departure can be seen as an example of the “normalization” of anglo migration from Quebec. As political and linguistic uncertainty has subsided in Quebec, anglos now leaving Quebec are tending to leave for the same ordinary dull reason that people everywhere move – opportunity. In DiMonte’s case, there was also the added complication of a troubled relationship with a new boss; but there again, as he says himself, there’s nothing so unusual about that. Here he was, a big fish in a small English market in a large French city, breezing along in midlife at the top of his profession, when suddenly he was presented with a new contract that called for him to sign in and out of work every day.
Until that offer was put before him by Bob Harris, newly arrived operations manager at CHOM, DiMonte had worked for years under simple contract terms: a 2-per-cent annual salary increase, and a car. But now he was being asked to sign a 15-page contract with a lot of fine print. DiMonte says he went to see Astral Media vice-president Rob Braide about it all, and Braide warned him, “Don’t you dare try to bring in a lawyer.”
The day after the 15-page contract was put before him, Corus Entertainment, owners of Q107 in Calgary, called DiMonte. A five-year offer; big money. Patti MacNeil remembers being at home on the day she heard DiMonte was moving to Calgary, and thinking, “Cool, someone new in the market, someone I know and like and will listen to.” But then the incumbent morning-show team at Q107 was let go, and the next thing she knew, DiMonte phoned her up and asked what she would say if Corus were to approach her – about teaming up with him.”
Of course, some might call this whining.
If the name Bob Harris sounds familiar, it’s because he’s the guy in charge of CJFM, aka Virgin Radio 96 aka the crap they replaced Mix 96 with. Both are owned by Astral Media. (Q92, where DiMonte phones in a noon show, is owned by Corus.)
Aside from the big features are two video series from Carpenter (all compiled on this page): a documentary of interviews from those same ex-Montrealers (including DiMonte), and some interviews with young students here about their future.
Carpenter goes into some behind-the-scenes detail on his blog, saying it took him four months (on and off) to put the three-piece, half-hour documentary together.
There are also two Flash animations with graphical data (one points out that unlike most regional newspapers, The Gazette’s online traffic comes primarily from outside the province), and a blog from Johnston, in which he explains the story idea came from a conference he went to combined with a report from Statistics Canada showing anglos growing again for the first time in decades.
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5 thoughts on “Gazette explores anglo exodus, DiMonte”
Phil February 4, 2009 at 7:59 pm
Thanks for the mention sir; ‘ppreciate it. And what’s this about you being told to take down Sid’s picture? What the hell are they thinking? Keep up the great work.
Jean Naimard February 4, 2009 at 10:59 pm
Can you hear the sound of the world’s smallest violin playing?
Westerner February 13, 2009 at 12:28 am
I would suppose only with those ears that are tuned to small violins as the substance between the ears.
Ex-Montrealais March 25, 2009 at 4:35 pm
I’m glad he and Patti are in Calgary. The radio out here sucks…
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Video Introducing Felix Dodds as a candidate for Executive Director of UNEP
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The need for deep community engagement and more robust multi-stakeholder collaboration requires narrative tools that are more accessible to local communities not yet activated by the SDGs. Two could be the more grounded narrative tools of social protection and social equity that are more easily understood at the grassroots. Deliberate outreach to fields, like social welfare, that work with these tools to mobilize and transform communities is an elegant practical strategy. That you are genuinely committed to these grounded ways to reach local groups makes you a strong voice at the top, Felix. More power to you in your run for the top UNEP post! / R. Bong Vergara
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Guest blog by Daniyal Bilal who is a student at the University of St. Andrews studying Physics, Mathematics, and Computer Science. He is a passionate Artificial Intelligence Enthusiast, applying Mathematics and AI for socio-economic issues. Originally published here. The world is passing through an unprecedented challenge. Eruption of COVID-19 from China in almost no time has escalated into a global health emergency. Further creating havoc by disrupting every fabric of societies and economies around the world unsparingly. Besides health toll, social breakdowns, an unprecedented economic crisis and looming political interruptions in many parts of the world are already on the horizon. This global pandemic has susceptibly exposed deficiencies and underlying gaps within global systems, institutions and supply chains. After-shocks of COVID-19 are expected to prevail over a long period of time with inevitable social, economic and health challenges globally. Impacts of COVID-
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ChronicBabe’s Jenni Prokopy Offers Tips on How Disabled Writers Can Work at Home
July 5th, 2008 • Living with Chronic Pain • Print
Chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, chronic pain, and a host of other conditions make working the 9-to-5 severely distressing if not impossible for disabled writers. But as a freelancer, you can work at home. In your PJs. With really, really bad hair. And nobody will notice. ChronicBabe’s Jenni Prokopy offers tips on how disabled writers can work at home — and succeed big-time.
Loolwa Khazzoom: In what ways is freelance writing a disability-friendly profession?
Jenni Prokopy: The flexibility it affords is wonderful. You can work in your own space, at your pace, in your PJs, and still have a highly successful, lucrative career. If you want to, you can keep your limitations hidden. That’s the beauty of the Internet.
LK: In what ways is freelance writing especially challenging for people with disabilities?
JP: Working alone can be very isolating, so you must reach out and build networks with others. Otherwise, it’s easy to feel lonely and unsupported. I can’t overstress the value of networking and staying in contact with others. If you’re undisciplined, it’s also easy to procrastinate, which is, well, you know. Not good.
LK: Everyone’s disabilities are different, but what are some of your general tips for maximizing freelance work when disabled?
JP: Develop a daily schedule and stick with it. Make time to care for yourself — hit the gym, meditate, whatever. Having a schedule helps you feel anchored. It also keeps work time feeling like work and personal time separate. That is key. Otherwise, you’ll feel like you need to work around the clock, or on the flip side, you will always choose to do the laundry instead of cold-calling potential clients.
Find an accountability partner. This is ideally another freelancer, with whom you meet (physically or over the phone) on a regular basis, and compare notes: How often are you working? How much are you making? Any new clients? Keep each other accountable.
LK: What are your tips for dealing with the uncertainty and fear around being a disabled freelance writer — ie, with no corporate safety net?
JP: Ugh, that’s the hardest issue of all. Short answer: Marry someone so you have health insurance. Long answer: Think long and hard before going full-time freelance, because whether you’re disabled or not, it’s going to be scary. Build a supportive network you can lean on. Join an association or two, which sometimes offer group insurance programs and opportunities for networking.
The issues are really the same as with non-disabled freelancers: How will I find work? How will I juggle my schedule? The best advice I can offer is, know your craft, and approach freelancing like a business. Read books like The Well-Fed Writer by Peter Bowerman and don’t be afraid to get help from organizations like SCORE — a Small Business Association division that helps entrepreneurs, especially sole proprietors.
LK: Please talk about the power of the Internet, specifically blogging, and how it can be especially useful to writers with disabilities.
JP: The most obvious benefit is connection: It’s so easy now to connect with other people and get help, support, have fun conversations, get the latest info on your rights or medical research…It’s wonderful. Use social networking sites like digg and del.icio.us to connect with others, and work that power!
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Five papers at ISSCC 2021!
We are very excited to announce we will be presenting FIVE papers at ISSCC 2021! This brings EEMS total ISSCC paper count over the last five years to 16 (five papers in 2021, one in 2020, four in 2019, three…
Center for Wearable Sensors: Virtual Summit (FREE registration!)
UC San Diego’s Center for Wearable Sensors, which is co-Directed by Prof. Mercier, normally has a public summit hosted once per year on UCSD campus. Due to the pandemic, we have decided to move this summit online, and are opening…
IEEE Spectrum Cover Story: Why Sweat Will Power Your Next Wearable
Patrick Mercier and Joseph Wang’s work on biofuel cells and self-powered sensors is featured on the cover of the July 2020 issue of IEEE Spectrum. Check it out! https://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/devices/why-sweat-will-power-your-next-wearable
A low-power, low-cost wearable to monitor COVID-19 patients
Engineers at the University of California San Diego are developing low-cost, low-power wearable sensors that can measure temperature and respiration–key vital signs used to monitor COVID-19. The devices would transmit data wirelessly to a smartphone, and could be used to…
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The Energy Efficient Microsystems Lab will be presenting three papers at the 2020 VLSI Symposium. While the conference will not be in beautiful Honolulu this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, the new online format does offer an exciting way…
UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering Ranked in the Top-10 (US News)
US News and World Report has just announced the 2020 Engineering Graduate School School rankings, and we are proud to say that the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering is now in the top-10! https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-engineering-schools/eng-rankings This marks a sharp…
New chip brings ultra-low power Wi-Fi connectivity to IoT devices
Everything needs to be online nowadays, from vending machines to smart speakers, but that connectivity costs in terms of bulk and energy use. Now researchers have come up with a chip that gets devices connected with 5,000 times less power…
Prof. Mercier wins Outstanding Engineer of the Year Award
In its 69th year, the annual Engineers Week Awards Banquet, hosted by the San Diego County Engineering Council (SDCEC) on February 21, 2020, is bringing together leaders in our community to celebrate those who educate, create and advance engineering. “Engineers make a…
ISSCC 2020: paper, tutorial, two forums, and an industry showcase
Prof. Mercier and the EEMS Lab will be very active at ISSCC 2020 this coming year! First – congratulations to Po-Han Wang, Hongsen Yang, and the collaboration with Prof. Dinesh Bharadia’s group, including Chi Zhang, on the upcoming paper entitled…
Cutting Edge Chip for Waking Up Small Wireless Devices Uses Only 0.000000022 Watts
A new power saving chip developed by engineers at the University of California San Diego could significantly reduce or eliminate the need to replace batteries in Internet of Things (IoT) devices and wearables. The so-called wake-up receiver wakes up a…
2019 year in review: 23 papers, 4 PhDs defended, and more!
2019 was an excellent year for the Energy-Efficient Microsystems Lab! The lab was very productive, having published 23 papers this year (note: some of these journal papers were made available online in 2019, but may end up in 2020 issues),…
IEEE Spectrum: Wireless Network Brings Dust-Sized Brain Implants a Step Closer
IEEE Spectrum wrote an article featuring our work on deeply sub-mm size Neurograins for next-generation monitoring and stimulation of the brain. This is a collaborative project between UCSD, Brown University, and Qualcomm. Brain-computer interfaces have managed some amazing feats: allowing…
Four papers at ISSCC 2019!
Congratulations to the EEMS students who contributed to many excellent projects in 2018, including four papers that are accepted for publication at ISSCC 2019! That’s now 10 ISSCC papers in the last three years! Details of these papers will be…
Prof. Mercier promoted to Associate Professor (with tenure)
Effective July 1, 2018, Prof. Mercier has been promoted to Associate Professor (with tenure) at the University of California San Diego. Over his career, Prof. Mercier made significant contributions to the field of near-zero-power integrated circuits, integrated power management, wearable…
Clinical Trial Tests Tattoo Sensor as Needleless Glucose Monitor for Diabetes Patients
A needleless glucose monitor, which measures insulin levels through sweat on the skin, has been developed by UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering researchers led by Joseph Wang and Patrick Mercier. The device is being used in a phase I…
Prof. Mercier has been selected to receive the CAREER award from the National Science Foundation. Congrats, Prof. Mercier!
Smartphone case offers blood glucose monitoring on the go
Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a smartphone case and app that could make it easier for patients to record and track their blood glucose readings, whether they’re at home or on the go. Currently, checking…
Three papers accepted to ISSCC 2018!
Congratulations to Sally Safwat Amin, who will be presenting a paper at the 2018 International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) on a multi-input single-inductor multi-output (MISIMO) energy harvesting system. The paper is entitled “MISIMO: A Multi-Input Single-Inductor Multi-Output Energy Harvester Employing…
Prof. Mercier elevated to IEEE Senior Member
Congrats to Prof. Mercier!
Prof. Mercier wins Biocom Catalyst Award
Prof. Mercier has been selected as a recipient of the Biocom Life Science Catalyst Awards! The awards are given to accomplished and up-and-coming academics, entrepreneurs, investors, corporate leaders and business advisers who are making their marks on the San Diego…
Five papers at ISSCC 2021! November 3, 2020
Center for Wearable Sensors: Virtual Summit (FREE registration!) November 3, 2020
IEEE Spectrum Cover Story: Why Sweat Will Power Your Next Wearable June 19, 2020
A low-power, low-cost wearable to monitor COVID-19 patients May 19, 2020
Three papers at VLSI 2020 May 18, 2020
UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering Ranked in the Top-10 (US News) March 17, 2020
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Prof. Mercier wins Outstanding Engineer of the Year Award February 4, 2020
ISSCC 2020: paper, tutorial, two forums, and an industry showcase December 7, 2019
Cutting Edge Chip for Waking Up Small Wireless Devices Uses Only 0.000000022 Watts November 12, 2019
2019 year in review: 23 papers, 4 PhDs defended, and more! November 7, 2019
IEEE Spectrum: Wireless Network Brings Dust-Sized Brain Implants a Step Closer May 15, 2019
Four papers at ISSCC 2019! November 27, 2018
Prof. Mercier promoted to Associate Professor (with tenure) July 1, 2018
Clinical Trial Tests Tattoo Sensor as Needleless Glucose Monitor for Diabetes Patients April 19, 2018
NSF CAREER Award February 6, 2018
Smartphone case offers blood glucose monitoring on the go December 7, 2017
Three papers accepted to ISSCC 2018! November 22, 2017
Prof. Mercier elevated to IEEE Senior Member October 30, 2017
Prof. Mercier wins Biocom Catalyst Award September 25, 2017
Stretchable biofuel cells extract energy from sweat to power wearable devices at 1mW/cm^2 September 1, 2017
Four papers at ESSCIRC’17, one at BioCAS’17, and one at IEEE Sensors’17 August 21, 2017
Low-cost smart glove translates American Sign Language alphabet and controls virtual objects July 12, 2017
Near-zero-power temperature sensor could enable next-generation ‘unawearables’ July 1, 2017
Prof. Mercier talks tech with Congressional staff in Washington, D.C. May 19, 2017
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As we already have a thread for each of the major leagues, i saw that we dont have one for the other leagues which can be discussed about. I will try and keep this thread running so guide me if i miss out any of the less major leagues in the world.
Also feel free to discuss anything about any of the other European leagues, players, managers, scandals, just about anything related
Here are some current league standings and some interested articles:
Portuguese League
Ukrainian League
Edit: I know theres a RPL thread already but no one discusses anything in there so trying it out here.
Some good reads,
Trabzon and Fener fight it out for the title
Dynamo win the battle, but Shakhtar will win the war
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Greek FA facing funding cuts
AEK Athens ended a nine-year trophy drought by lifting the trophy on Saturday with a 3-0 win over Atromitos but, after the game, riots ensued and some AEK fans invaded the pitch, fought with Atromitos players and abused their fans. Atromitos coach Giorgos Donis even claimed that flare guns were aimed at supporters in the VIP stands.
Greek police saw 22 officers injured - five seriously - as hooligans tossed flares, fireworks, seats and plastic bottles on to the pitch following the final whistle and arrested 13 people on charges including possession of explosives, arson and disturbing the peace.
"We have asked EPO to change the disciplinary law. If this is not done, the state will suspend all funding to Greek football," deputy culture minister George Nikitiadis told reporters. "Penalties must be put in place to stop the throwing of firecrackers and for any fan to entering the field of play. These penalties must include the deduction of points and in cases of repeat offending, relegation."
A new sports bill will be released by the government in June, enabling authorities to hand out stricter penalties to address the problem of stadium violence, with secretary for sport Panagiotis Bitsaxis adding his voice to the issue.
"The events of the Greek Cup final once again underline the position of the state that if professional football wishes to maintain its self-governed model, then it must ensure that regulations are followed and that the necessary measures for the smooth organisation of football matches are introduced," he said in a statement.
Police are also investigating the suspected arson of an AEK Athens fan club which was targeted, extensively damaging the building, as well as two cars parked outside. Although a police statement said nobody was injured and no arrests were reported.
Greek football has been plagued by violence already this season, with Olympiakos Piraeus, Panathinaikos and PAOK Salonika all being handed out supporter bans after pitch invasions.
Villas-Boas: I could be 'The S**t One'
Porto boss Andre Villas-Boas has distanced himself from claims he is the new Jose Mourinho and warned that he could soon be regarded as 'The S**t One'.
Villas-Boas, 33, has led Porto to the brink of the UEFA Cup final after a 5-1 semi-final first-leg victory over Villarreal last week. Given that Mourinho rose to prominence with Porto's UEFA Cup success in 2003, and that Villas-Boas acted as his assistant at three different clubs, comparisons have been inevitable.
Villas-Boas, though, believes it is important that he is seen as a coach in his own right.
"I'm no rival to someone who will be the best manager of all time," he told the Daily Telegraph.
"I have to distance myself, because I believe I have my own personality and the way I work is completely different, but people associate me with one of the best managers in the world so I just have to live with that.
"People think I am the next one but I am not the next one. I am a normal coach who benefits from having top players and one day I will not benefit from having this type of talent. I am not the Special One. Maybe, then, I will be The S**t One."
Villas-Boas left Mourinho's coaching staff at the start of the 2009-10 season to take charge of Academica.
"I do not speak with Jose," he said. "After I left we spoke a lot when I was at Academica but it's a little different now.
"It was important for me to make the break. I felt I could give much more. That was something I felt inside. I fully understand the position I had then because it's the way things are.
"Everyone has their position and I was fortunate to be involved and be successful and I was always very, very professional, but I had so much more to give and I felt the urge to start managing.
"If I could have been more to Jose then that would have been good but I completely understand that he did not feel the need to get more from me, so I made my choice."
Villas-Boas has been linked with a number of top clubs around Europe.
"Anybody around the world who is successful generates interest. I take it very well. I only don't take it well when we go into lies and this is something that happens in Italy, for example, where I supposedly told a Roma director that I would not go to Roma because I was going to Liverpool and that Jose had told me to go to the Premier League rather than Serie A.
"That is just something that some guy made up and sold as a true story. Speculation is okay, but lies are not."
Having already worked at Chelsea, Villas-Boas has done little to dampen speculation he could return to Stamford Bridge despite having been sacked, along with Mourinho, in 2007.
Asked if Roman Abramovich had made a mistake, he said: "No, no, no. I don't think they made a mistake.
"Jose won the FA Cup the season before, with the Carling Cup and went to the semi-finals of the Champions League and lost on penalties to Liverpool. And that was a season when we had injuries everywhere.
"We played Paulo [Ferreira] as a central defender with [Michael] Essien. We were at the maximum of our abilities with the players we had.
"The season was still successful but the owner had other expectations and maybe he was proved right because they reached the final and had John Terry not slipped with the penalty then they would have won the cup. Again it was a question of luck." He added: "London is a city where I could live perfectly. We had some good times over there and the people in the club are fantastic - from the players, staff and the owner."
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Originally Posted by ezekiel2517
The new season started in mid March 2011, its currently 7 matchdays in. It will end sometime in November i think.
Last season Zenit won the league, CSKA were runners up. Both these qualified automatically for the CL draw. Rubin Kazan, who finished third will contest in the CL playoffs.
I think I read somewhere that the Russian League will use European calendary next season. Don't know how they will do with the gap of 6 months though.
I watch Liga Sagres sometimes, Brazilian TV shows it, but the league is really poor lately. As good as this Porto really is, this campaign is absurd.
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André Villas-Boas: The Genius Behind Porto’s Renaissance
by Rizwan Ahmed
Far away from the noise of the Clasicos, a delicately poised Premier League finish, the talk of AC Milan wrapping up the title in Italy and the impending Champions League clash between FC Barcelona and Manchester United, there is one team which has been tearing apart opponents in their quest for European glory. Porto FC has taken Portugal and Europe by storm, comfortably winning the domestic league, staying unbeaten, and making their way to the Europa League finals; and this unprecedented success can be attributed to the genius of one man – Andre Villas Boas.
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Originally Posted by Sven
I agree about the Liga Sagres, only the matches between Sporting, Benfica and Porto are really worth watching but the rest are just
I had high hopes for Sporting to make it a 3 way for the title but looks like it will be a fight between them and Braga for that final CL playoff spot.
About the RPL, i had read that they might consider it at the end of this season, in any case they will probably have to wait from end of November till the following August to start a new season to have it run the same time as the other European leagues...Its a very difficult case, problems with the fitness and inactivity of the players, revenue loses etc...
I still doubt that they will implement it, might have done it had they won the WC bid
Originally Posted by acmilan4ever
The solution I think is to make one season 6 months longer, so lasting 1 year and a half, making more league rounds or something, starting the next one in August. I think the problem is that their winter is very hard so it kinda makes no sense playing in December and January while vacation during the better weather to play.
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I think the title of the thread should change, so we can also discuss about other non european league, just my opinion though.
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Originally Posted by seveners
Done, you can start discussing any leagues or posting any good info for us
Location: Macedonia
Fav. Players: Nesta, Boban, Inzaghi, Rino, Stam, Cafu, Maldini, Albertini, Costacurta, Pirlo
It looks like Vardar is going in second league
Vardar is the most successful team in Macedonian football history. The club is based in Skopje -the capital of Macedonia. And plays in our national arena (stadium) „Filip II“
There is one interesting story and connection, about Vardar and AC Milan. Till 1963 this club official colors were blue and white, but the capital city of Macedonia in 1963 hit terrible earthquake. There were donations all over the world, so from Milano came donation football jerseys. They were from AC Milan and from then Vardar changed their colors to black and red!
The situation in macedonian football is very bad. We have maybe the worst league in Europe, average national team and look what the president of our federation is unchangeable. No one can change him. It looks like he have big connections with FIFA UEFA because there were one big scandal about fixed matches from one our club , Pobeda from Prilep.
The situation in Vardar is very bad . The leadership of the club is changed several times but no one did something good for the club they all just stealing!
This year looks like we are going down in second league, but look what we are going in a second league with our biggest opponent Pelister from Bitola ... This are the most successful clubs in macedonian football and that's not good!
Here is the table
5 more league matches till the end of this season! But the chances are really low!
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I challenge that
So which leagues are not included into the rest of the world? The ones that are stickied?
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Oh yes? Then you don't know over who Andora did their first win
And for the club football in past years the clubs from our country always fall in first qualifying round!
Ok, I'lll let you have it, since we are sort of on the rise ATM.
But not so long ago we lost a game to you and were minutes away to give Faroe Islands their 3-rd qualifiers win(first 2 were vs San Marino).
This terms Clausura in Argentina looks like a tight race so far, River finally doing better after the Apertura disappointment but Boca still struggling...
Forgot to add we do have the worst supported league - http://soccerlens.com/the-worst-supp...-europe/39181/
Liverpool fan from European Football Weekends made the trip to Tallinn - http://europeanfootballweekends.blog...ra-tallin.html
Do I have the right to facepalm if I don't go to the matches very often myself?
17-th team with the best form?
(usual season start hype )
Falcao, one of the best strikers in the world who recently broke the record for most goals in a European competition has scored 70 goals in 80 games for his club side Porto
He has a release clause of 30m euros, can i hear a Real Madrid or a Man City
Shakhtar Donetsk clinch sixth Ukrainian championship with derby victory over Metalurh
Champions League quarter-finalists Shakhtar Donetsk have retained their Ukrainian league title with a 2-0 victory over city-rivals Metalurh on Saturday.
This means that the Miners have won the national championship for the sixth time in their history.
Although Shakhtar lost to their closest rivals Dynamo Kiev last week, there were to be no such slip-ups this time. Luiz Adriano gave the home side the lead in first-half stoppage time with his 10th goal of the season.
Croatia international and captain Darijo Srna made sure of the title with a second goal four minutes from the end, paving the way for a potential double as Shakhtar are in the semi-finals of the Ukrainian cup.
Although eliminated by Barcelona at the last eight stage of the Champions League this season, it has been a superb campaign for Mircea Lucescu's men, who achieved their best ever performance in Europe's elite competition.
Despite not winning a league championship in the first nine years of their existence following the break up of the Soviet Union, Shakhtar have gone on to finish top of the table in 2002, 2005, 2006, 2008 and 2010.
Sorry I didn't back to you on this message (this forum doesn't have option to receive private message when someone quote you?) I was busy celebrating SCUDETO!
So when we talk about attendance ... here in Macedonia good attendance have clubs that have good organized ultras fans... the bad thing is that 70-80% of every fun group is composed with very young funs... Here in Macedonia older funs have wrong thinking and they stop going to matches at age of 24-25. And when there is some important match they all come and tell us how they are biggest funs in the world and how it was in their time That't make me sick
There is good news ! Vardar won match with (till then) 6th Sileks and we reduce the difference (Vardar won this match away ). Now Skopje is 5 points in front of us and we have mutual match next Saturday where Vardar plays at home! We have 4 matches till the and of the season and some easy matches... there is still chance for Vardar to be saved from relegation.
I hope I'll write you more good news next Saturday!
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Glasson Sailing Club is based at Glasson Dock on the estuary of the River Lune.
Originally built to serve as the port for the City of Lancaster, Glasson provides harbourage for seagoing cargo ships, fishing boats, yachts and canal boats, the latter via the adjoining Lancaster canal. It is the attractiveness of its setting and the interest inherent in its varied maritime activities that make Glasson Dock popular.
The sailing club occupies a site at Fishnet Point, beside the dock entrance. The site contains a warm, licensed clubhouse with lounge, bar, games room, free WiFi, changing rooms, toilets and showers.
There is a boat-park beside the clubhouse and from this a slipway runs into the estuary. The slipway widens to form a large concrete apron on which sailing dinghies can be readied for racing. Beside the slipway is a jetty where cruising yachts can lie for provisioning etc. The slipway is served by telehandlers for the launching and recovery of cruising yachts and the club also has a powerful winch for this purpose. In addition to the boat park, there are swinging moorings in the estuary and some members keep their boats in Glasson Marina which is situated in the nearby canal basin. The strongly tidal estuary provides interesting conditions for dinghy and small boat sailors who can explore the adjoining creeks and navigate inland as far as Lancaster when the tide serves.
Cruising destinations include the other Lancashire rivers: the Wyre and Ribble, North Wales,the Isle of Man, Barrow, Ravenglass and Whitehaven. These are all within a day's sailing from Glasson in suitable conditions. A popular weekend sail is across Morecambe Bay to Piel Island. Longer cruises go to such places as Ireland and Western Scotland. There is an organised Family Cruise each summer during the school holidays. The annual Regatta is held in August.
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A programme of social events is held in the clubhouse which is open daily throughout the year. There are camping and caravanning facilities on the site for members, who are drawn from a wide area and make use of these when coming to attend social functions or to work on their boats. All in all it's a rare weekend when there's nothing going on at Glasson Sailing Club.
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I wrote this column during the first week of March while alternately scanning my email for notification that upcoming travel might be canceled due to precautions regarding the coronavirus (COVID-19). I thought about what is happening in our society and how viral threat and panic about shortages of resources have most often brought about the worst in human beings. Arbitrarily drawn demarcations serve to highlight imagined differences between the ingroup and the perceived outgroup that provide a false sense of unity and security for the ingroup.
From a social representation theory perspective, socially constructed beliefs help people make sense of disease threat and protect the group in power by stigmatizing the outgroup (Gilles et al., 2013; Joffe, 1999). This process of othering faults those who are ill for origination and spreading of disease.
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Permalink Reply by Edward theurj Berge on May 31, 2014 at 8:53am
Turns out that Scribd has pretty much quit providing free books in their entirety, including this one. They now charge $10 a month to access unlimited books. Kind of like a public library, but for the fee. One of those hybrid private/public access v. ownership things in the transition from capitalism to the commons. Still less than buying all those books though. And access to books like this, not typically available in public libraries.
Permalink Reply by Edward theurj Berge on June 1, 2014 at 6:59am
Following up on this post and ensuing discussion in another thread, in Priest's article he discusses relations and functions regarding truth values. The Aristotelian principles against contradiction, i.e., the excluded middle and non-contradiction, rely on the function of truth values. Priest's solution around this is to make the values relations. But when it comes to Buddhist emptiness he seems to mix and match functions and relations. On one hand emptiness is based on relations, since nothing has an inherent existence but is conditioned by its relations to other things. But on the other hand it is based a function because the previous relations relate only to conventional reality; ultimate reality per this other Priest article posit is as "pure form" (11), itself a preconditional function for conventional reality.
I.e., the relation between the truth values of relations and functions is itself a function. Which is of course Gorampa's assertion in an actual ultimate versus a nominal ultimate, where this function is metaphysical. Whereas Tsongkapa's assertion is that the relation between the truth values of relations and functions is itself a mutual relation, i.e., these two truths about emptiness themselves require that their interaction be relational. Emptiness in this case is not a metaphysical actual ultimate in opposition to conventional reality. The paradox is that this relation is also a function in that this is an ultimate(um) on the nature of existence, so it is both and neither a function and/or relation in the Aristotelian sense.
And as I stated earlier in the thread, this whole mess is clarified by difference, which is itself a transcendental precondition for, or function of, relational and conventional existence. Yet it is not metaphysical in the sense of being transcendent of said conventional existence, itself also dependently arisen from said existence and thus also a relational truth value. All very twisted and folded.
I need to get out of my head now, eat something, take a shit, something that doesn't require all this nominally ultimate proliferation on the withdrawn nature of the actual ultimate.
Permalink Reply by Edward theurj Berge on September 15, 2014 at 12:39am
I've referenced Sonam Thakchoe earlier in the thread, particularly his book The Two Truths Debate. Here are a couple of his entries in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: The Theory of Two Truths in Tibet; The Theory of Two Truths in India. It's going to be pretty hard to question his translation and interpretation of Tibetan terms given his resume.
Permalink Reply by Edward theurj Berge on January 6, 2016 at 10:56am
Integral World posted this new article on Madhyamaka. I discussed a lot of this debate in this thread. I disagree with the abstract thesis though that the absolutist and non-absolutist views can be reconciled. Abstract follows:
This dissertation identifies a substantial opposition among many Buddhist scholars to the authenticity of an Absolute interpretation of reality in Mâdhyamaka. Its thesis is that this opposition is profoundly mistaken, but not in the sense that an Absolute interpretation of reality is correct and a non-Absolute interpretation is incorrect. An account of reality in Mâdhyamaka is articulated that argues not only are both interpretations correct but, despite their apparent contradiction, they can be presented as mutually compatible. The methodology for presenting this account is centred on a robust comparison of well-known exemplars of Absolutist and non-Absolutist accounts of reality in Mâdhyamaka. Firstly this is implemented by an emic Mâdhyamaka comparison of Jay Garfield's non-Absolutist and T.R.V. Murti's Absolutist accounts of reality. For Garfield, this comparison draws on a selection of his work that is intended to be a proxy for the tide of scholarly opinion that often cites Murti's work as a paradigm of its anti-Absolutist views of reality in Mâdhyamaka. Secondly, I turn to, arguably, the two most prominent figures in the field of Transpersonal Psychology to provide a similarly stimulating but etic comparison from that discipline's perspective of reality in Mâdhyamaka. Thus I compare Jorge Ferrer's non-Absolutist and Ken Wilber's Absolutist account of reality in Mâdhyamaka. I conclude that reality in Mâdhyamaka is perennialist and panentheistic and thereby embraces both Absolutist and non-Absolutist versions of reality; and tie this in with Buddha's famous story of the elephant and the blind men. Finally I suggest the properties of infinity can provide additional explanatory power to this conclusion.
Permalink Reply by Edward theurj Berge on August 30, 2016 at 2:05pm
Thakchoe's book The Two Truths Debate, much referenced in this thread, can be found here for free.
From the conclusion of TTTD on ontology, rangtong and shentong in a nutshell:
"Tsongkhapas ontology treats the two truths as mutually entailing. He argues that they share the same ontological status, and that they are empty and dependently arisen. The same principle applies to his ontology of samsara and nirvana. Since both samsara and nirvana are dependently arisen and empty, they have equal ontological status. Gorampas ontology treats the two truths as hierarchical and contradictory. He argues that conventional truth and ultimate truth each have their own distinct and independent ontological status. The same distinction is applied in the way he treats samsara and nirvana ontologically. While conventional truth and samsara are treated as dependently arisen, and thus as ontologically conditioned, Gorampa argues that ultimate truth and nirvana are ontologically unconditioned and transcendent" (160-61).
Wilber, btw, takes the shentong view most recently in this video (around 5:20) on The Fourth Turning. He obviously overlooks rangtong, likely because it's just so green meme in his view.
"The idea being, to clear the mind of any and all concepts about reality so that reality itself can be directly experienced: A notion that became the foundation of virtually every Mahayana (greater vehicle) and Vajrayana (diamond vehicle) teaching henceforth."
And in this Thakchoe paper he lays out the differing views in modern interpreters. Wilber got a lot of his stuff from Murti.
"The debate among the modern interpreters of Madhyamaka philosophy belongs to two different camps: Chr. Lindtner (1986, 321), Jaideva Singh(1989, 52), Stcherbatsky (1998, 19), T. R. V. Murti (1985, xxvi) and the like argue that the Madhyamika is ontologically absolute and monist about the truth.In their view the Madhyamika vehemently rejects the validity of conventional truth and upholds ultimate truth as the absolute truth. On the contrary, interpreters such as Kalupahana (1991, 69), Jay Garfield (2002, 24–5), JeffreyHopkins (1983, 418–9), Paul William (1996, 71) and Guy Newland (1992,60) —all maintain that the distinction between the two truths is minimal and strictly epistemological in nature. Conventional and ultimate truth are, in their understanding of Madhyamaka philosophy, mutually entailing—that the two truths are not ontologically hierarchical. Therefore a Madhyamika is, they hold, not an absolute monist about the truth. This debate, not surprisingly, has been an ongoing phenomenon among the traditional Buddhist thinkers."
I'd also recommend Manu Bazzano (2016) "House of cards: on Ken Wilber's neo-traditionalism." Self & Society, 44:2, 145-156: http://www.manubazzano.com/uploads/House%20of%20Cards.pdf
Permalink Reply by Edward theurj Berge on September 1, 2016 at 9:45am
For those not inclined to read Thakchoe's lengthy and very nuanced book, see his shorter Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on the same topic. It too is quite nuanced on the subtle differences between the four main Tibetan Buddhist schools. The following is from the concluding implications section sort of summing up:
"Gelug considers the two natures of each phenomenon as the defining factor of the two truths. It argues that the conventional nature of an entity, as verified by a conventionally reliable cognitive process, determines the defining criterion of conventional truth; the ultimate nature of the same entity, as verified by an ultimately reliable cognitive practice, determines the defining criterion of ultimate truth. Since both truths are ontologically as well as epistemologically interdependent, knowledge of conventionally real entitity as dependently arisen suffices for knowledge of both truths. In contasty non-Gelug schools—Nyingma, Kagyü and Sakya Non-Gelug, as we have seen, rejects Gelug's dual-nature theory, treating each conventional entity as satisfying only the definition of conventional truth and taking the definition of ultimate truth to be ontologically and epistemologically transcendent from conventional truth. They argue, instead, it is through the perspectives of either an ordinary being or an unenlightened exalted being (āryas) that the definition of conventional truth is verified—fully enlightened being (buddhas) do not experience the conventional truth in any respect. Similarly, for non-Gelug, no ordinary being can experience the ultimate truth. Ultimate truth transcends conventional truth, and the knowledge of empirically given phenomena as dependently arisen could not satisfy the criterion of knowing ultimate truth.
"For Gelug, there is an essential compatibility between between the two truths, for the reason that there is a necessary harmony between dependently arisen and emptiness of intrinsic reality. As dependently arisen, empty phenomena are not constructions of ignorant consciousness, so neither is conventional truth such a construction. Both truths are actual truths that stand on an equal footing. Moreover, according to this view, whosoever knows conventional truth, either directly or inferentially, also knows ultimate truth; whosoever knows ultimate truth, also knows phenomena as dependently arisen, and hence knows them as empty of intrinsic reality. Where there is no knowledge of conventional truth, the converse applies. For non-Gelug, the incommensurability between dependently arisen and emptiness of intrinsic reality also applies to the two truths. Accordingly, whosoever knows conventional truth does not know ultimate truth, and one who knows ultimate truth does not know conventional truth; whosoever knows phenomena as dependently arisen does not know them as empty, whereas whosoever knows phenomena as empty does not know them as dependently arisen.
"While Gelug thus distances itself from the subjective division of the two truths, Nyingma, Kagyü and Sakya attempt to demonstrate the validity of their view by arguing that perspective provides the primary basis for the division of the two truths. Unlike Gelug, non-Gelug schools hold that the two truths do not have any objective basis. Instead they are entirely reducible to the experiences of the deluded minds of ordinary beings and the experiences of the wisdom of exalted being.
"According to Gelug, the agent who cognizes the two truths may be one and the same individual. Each agent may have all the requisite cognitive resources that are potentially capable of knowing both truths. Ordinary beings have only conceptual access to ultimate truth, while exalted beings, who are in the process of learning, have direct, but intermittent, access. Awakenened beings, however, invariably have simultaneous access to both truths. The view held by non-Gelug argues for separate cognitive agents corresponding to each of the two truths. Ordinary beings have direct knowledge of conventional truth, but are utterly incapable of knowing ultimate truth. The exalted beings in training directly know ultimate while they are meditative equipoise and conventional truth in post meditative states. Fully awakened buddhas, on the other hand, only have access to ultimate truth. Awakened beings have no access to conventional truth whatsoever from the enlightened perspective, although they may access conventional truth from unenlightened ordinary perspectives."
Permalink Reply by DavidM58 on September 1, 2016 at 10:16am
I have very limited understanding of the different Buddhist schools. I get the impression that a lot of attention (at least in the West?) is given to Madhyamaka (Mahayana?), and less to Abidharma philosophy?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhyamaka#Abhidharma
Permalink Reply by Edward theurj Berge on September 1, 2016 at 11:15am
Indeed, and certainly within the kennilingus crowd. But even then, it was the shentong (non-Gelug) versions they espouse. Gelug rangtong is a different story. This thread explores those nuances in detail. Thakchoe does so in even much finer detail, being an expert, while I am just an interested layman.
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Dinesh D’Souza advanced true paranoia and head shaking wingnuttery today on a radio talk show hosted by Janet Mefferd:
…one by one our allies are falling in the region, one by one our adversaries are coming to power, and Obama doesn’t just seem unbothered by this he seems to be actively supporting it.’
Hackery, thy name is Dinesh D’Souza.
Previous D’Souza Stupidity - Dinesh D’Souza: ‘Obama Most Unvetted President in Modern History’
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Right Wing Watch has audio from this show posted at the link. Here’s a “money” quote:
You know, Obama’s been boasting, certainly he deserves credit for the bin Laden operation, remember the bin Laden operation is different from than these Muslim jihadists in Iraq or Afghanistan or even the Palestinians in Israel, I think Obama views those guys like freedom fighters, fighting to liberate their country from US occupation. But bin Laden is not defending his own country, he came to our country to knock down a bunch buildings and so from Obama’s point of view he’s just a gangster, he’s like an international serial killer. So there’s no inconsistency with calling Obama an anti-colonialist on the one hand and yet saying he approved the bin Laden killing on the other.
Sometimes I wonder if D’Souza just makes this stuff up as he goes along.
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1 HappyWarrior Mon, Sep 17, 2012 2:23:19pm
Oh shut the fuck up D'Sousa. Really this guy's nothing but a hack.
2 nines09 Mon, Sep 17, 2012 2:44:11pm
I assume he makes a living doing this. Either that or he got a piece of change for his soul.
3 Charles Johnson Mon, Sep 17, 2012 3:14:19pm
They're really going all out with the crazed xenophobic bullshit.
4 cinesimon Mon, Sep 17, 2012 3:21:36pm
And by "allies", of course, he means brutal dictators. Surprise surprise.
D'souza has made a big deal of his origins, suggesting that because he's from India, he cannot be racist - once again relying on the ignorance of Americans, given that a not insignificant proportion of India's 'upper classes'(a system that is very much alive and well) are some of the most viciously racist on the planet. It is these people whose values he reflects. Bizarre conspiracy theories are what those idiots feed on - and they justify it all by class and cultural differences. They cheerfully and with righteousness repress the sub-humans in the classes below with a combination of police and economics - they truly are a modern day version of Nazis - of course they're not engaged in any 'final silution', because the massive amount of poverty all around them, while they sip martinis, is confirmation as to just how sub-human the 'other' is. D'Souza is relatively moderate compared to some of them.
But anyway that's where he gets his hate and ability to present bizarre, childish nonsense as fact. He really does think he's more human than most people - and in America, especially African Americans.
5 Buck Mon, Sep 17, 2012 3:40:12pm
So no one but me sees the jigsaw puzzle of quotes in the title?
Obama Is 'Actively Supporting' 'Radical Muslims' To Seize 'Global Power'
Three different two word quotes strung together to make a sentence that nobody said.
I mean really.... you can't accept the whole sentence: "If You've Got A Business, You Didn't Build That." but can string together these non-sentences to make a sentence that doesn't even make sense.
6 jaunte Mon, Sep 17, 2012 3:43:07pm
re: #5 Buck
D’Souza: "I think what we're seeing is very troubling, we're seeing a real bid by the radical Muslims to do something that they haven't done in 400 years which is to attempt to restore Islam as a global power and they see an opportunity to do this thanks to the Obama administration's complete abdication of responsibility, one by one our allies are falling in the region, one by one our adversaries are coming to power, and Obama doesn't just seem unbothered by this he seems to be actively supporting it."
It's a little long for a headline.
7 Destro Mon, Sep 17, 2012 4:45:21pm
re: #3 Charles Johnson
This was planned:
From 9/15:
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8 simoom Mon, Sep 17, 2012 6:33:07pm
And Fox keeps having this guy on, having him write for their website, and promoting his movie on their shows (like The Five)...
9 JeffFX Mon, Sep 17, 2012 6:41:18pm
D’Souza was on the dialog portion of Real Time with Bill Maher a couple of weeks ago. It was nice to see a host call D'Souza on his completely mad reasoning, even if that host has some wackadoodle beliefs himself.
10 Buck Mon, Sep 17, 2012 7:11:03pm
re: #6 jaunte
You can't assemble the words said and come up with the quote you want.
You would not allow it if someone did that with an Obama speech.
re: #7 Destro
Ya, this was planned all along because you said so?
Seriously? This is what we call actual discussion?
I am bored. The OP takes then words out of a paragraph and rearranges them to say something completely different.
And you make constructive criticism of Obama's foreign policy decisions by the official opposition during an election as "birther".
Basically all any of you are doing is making shit up and hoping it sticks. And even if it doesn't stick, you are just announcing that it did.
12 jaunte Mon, Sep 17, 2012 7:21:00pm
re: #10 Buck
You're wrong, and it's pretty clear that you didn't click through and read the linked article before you tried this bit of false equivalence.
re: #12 jaunte
If I interpret this the way that you with your obviously biased lens wants me too.
Either you have a quote or you don't.
Taking a series of two word quotes and arranging them together is just wrong, wrong, wrong.
It is actually beneath this website. It is like photo shopping pictures to say what you think might have happened.
We used to mock this sort of thing, not upding it!!
What do you think that paragraph I quoted says? Can you summarize it in a headline form?
First of all what he said is not deserving of a headline. It is not so radical to think that Obama does not see any thing wrong with those who get elected taking power, no matter who they are.
If you have seen evidence of Obama being active in opposing the people taking power in the vacuums left behind when the dictators are toppled you might show me.
Obama's foreign policy is that he will "extend a hand if you are willing to un-clench your fist".
This goes back to the whole it is better to talk to our enemies. The I would meet with our enemies....
You might think that is fine and dandy.
Dinesh D'Souza disagrees. He has every right to disagree. It is not news, or even Republican policy. He is an author and political commentator.
I wonder... is Obama Is 'Actively Supporting' 'Radical Muslims' to come to Seize 'Global Power' the same thing to you?
Isn't the most offensive part of the fake quote that Obama would never support anyone to seize GLOBAL power?
It is ok for him to support the winner of an election to take power in their countries right?
17 thecommodore Mon, Sep 17, 2012 8:59:06pm
We used to mock this sort ofWhat do youbtjink the quote means, amd asnsomeone asked yu, bow would you summarize it in a headline? Especially considwring you'd be limited in the number of worda or chsracters you could usw?thing, not upding it!!
18 SanFranciscoZionist Mon, Sep 17, 2012 9:27:13pm
Yes. Yes he does. Would you spend time on this sort of thing? Neither would Dinesh D'Souza.
19 b_sharp Mon, Sep 17, 2012 9:41:55pm
Little Buck, still having trouble with comprehension I see.
re: #19 Illustrated Inhibitions
Hey, you can't just boldface logically connected elements of a more complete statement!
21 thecommodore Tue, Sep 18, 2012 1:21:36am
re: #18 SanFranciscoZionist
Well if he can, why don't I just sit down at my computer with a big bag of weed by my side and a three foot bong, and just make up the most idiotic conspiracy theories about "the Left" I can think of, doing a bong hit every time I finish a chapter. I bet I could knock out 300 pages of schlock in one weekend and make millions as long as I said Obama is a socialist, homos are evil, there is no global warming, etc. etc. etc.
Alas, I have scruples...
re: #17 thecommodore
Actually I was going to ask Buck what he thought the headline should be and why. Stupid phone posted before I was ready. Damn touch screen. I yearn for the days of yesteryear when the Blackberry Curve was a state of the art smart phone.
23 Shiplord Kirel Tue, Sep 18, 2012 8:36:52am
Ah, yes, our faithful allies sold out to fuzzy headed liberal idealism.
"Allies" like the champion kleptocrat Hosni Mubarak, whose main contribution was to, er, re-distribute the protection money we paid him to keep the Camp David Accords.
The first dictator to fall, though, was the pip-squeak Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in Tunisia, successor to Habib Bouguiba. Like Mubarak he was a corrupt grifter, but even less use as an actual ally.
Then there was Ghaddafi, such a good friend that we tried to kill him several times. He promoted terrorism for decades then had the nerve to blame Al Qaeda when the people's wrath caught up with him. Even the most deranged wingnut would not consider him an ally of anyone but Satan.
Good riddance to the whole pack of them.
24 Buck Tue, Sep 18, 2012 8:51:05am
radical Muslims are attempting to restore Islam as a global power.
In the vacuum left by the toppled dictator, our adversaries (extremist political parties) are coming to power.
The President has not expressed any opposition to the any of the extremist parties coming to power.
If you answer false, please back up your argument.
25 garhighway Tue, Sep 18, 2012 1:47:39pm
It's not a quote. If the whole thing was surrounded by "", that's a quote. It was a paraphrase or summary, that included in it three phrases actually used and accurately quoted. Was the paraphrase inaccurate or unfaithful to the intent and meaning of the speaker? I don't think so. Did including the phrases make it more faithful to the original? I do think so.
To be clear, are you really arguing that what D'Souza said was misrepresented, or are you arguing that it was accurately represented and you agree with him?
26 Buck Wed, Sep 19, 2012 7:09:59am
re: #25 garhighway
Was the paraphrase inaccurate or unfaithful to the intent and meaning of the speaker?
Yes, the paraphrase IS inaccurate AND unfaithful to the intent and meaning of the speaker.
The word GLOBAL is misplaced and used to mean something different than the speaker was meaning.
The word SEIZE, although not quoted changes the meaning of "coming to power".
No where does the speaker say that Obama is actively supporting anyone to seize global power.
Radical Muslims are attempting to restore Islam as a global power AND those same radicals are not being opposed in coming to power (not global) in their countries where the dictators have left a vacuum.
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Young Muslims in Scotland seek a voice - and rights
In the second part of a series on the conflicts facing Muslims in Europe, the BBC's Islamic affairs analyst, Roger Hardy, discovers strains between younger and older Muslims in Glasgow.
Nazia Iqbal (centre) started a campaign for voting rights at her mosque
They are young, Muslim and Scottish - and will not take no for an answer.
I met Nazia Iqbal and two of her friends at the student union of Glasgow's Strathclyde University.
Ms Iqbal, who is the equal opportunities officer, has been making waves ever since she went to the city's Central Mosque and asked to become a voting member.
According to the mosque's constitution, Muslim men and women not only have the right to pray at the mosque - if they are over 18, they are entitled to become voting members and have a say in its running.
But Ms Iqbal, who is 20, was turned down, on the grounds that she is female.
Her response was to start a campaign on Facebook, and complain to the body that regulates Scottish charities.
To find out what was going on, I went to Friday prayers at the Central Mosque to meet one of the community's first-generation pioneers, Bashir Maan.
Now 83, Mr Maan came to Glasgow as a young Pakistani student in the early 1950s.
Bashir Maan is one of his community's first-generation pioneers
He became one of the best-known figures in the community and, after joining the Labour Party, the first Muslim councillor in Britain.
The mosque is an impressive structure, occupying a large site beside the River Clyde. It opened its doors in 1984 and can hold more than 2,000 worshippers.
Mr Maan agrees that the constitution opens up membership to both males and females - but criticises Ms Iqbal and her friends for being confrontational.
Some of the younger generation do not want to work with the "oldies", he told me - they think they know best.
For now, it is stalemate. Ms Iqbal has not become a member, the campaign goes on - and the regulatory body has yet to reach a decision.
Is haggis halal?
What is so striking about Glasgow's Muslims is their attachment to a Scottish identity.
A young Islamic scholar, Sheikh Rizwan Mohammed, debates with his students whether Muslims can eat haggis - the Scottish national dish - or wear a kilt.
(His answer is yes to both - provided the kilt is below the knee.)
Another example is Muslim involvement in politics.
My visit coincided with the British election campaign. In the constituency of Glasgow Central, two young Muslims, both in their 20s, were competing for the same seat.
Anas Sarwar was standing as a Labour candidate for the seat previously held by his father, Mohammed.
One of his challengers, Osama Saeed, left the Labour Party in protest at the Iraq war and was the candidate for the Scottish National Party.
The SNP wants independence for Scotland.
In the event, Anas Sarwar retained the seat for Labour. But his party can no longer rely, as it could in the past, on unquestioning Muslim support.
The Muslim community is stagnant
Roger Hardy's first report, from Amsterdam
Among the younger generation, it is not just students like Ms Iqbal who think it is time for change.
At the Andalus Centre, in a former office block in a Glasgow suburb, I met an energetic husband-and-wife team - Kishwar Sultana and Javed Ali.
They not only teach young Muslims the Koran, they take youngsters - girls as well as boys - kayaking and rock climbing.
The parents trust them, says Kishwar Sultana, because they are sensitive to the families' religion and culture.
I asked some of the mothers why they had chosen the centre rather than one of the mosques. They liked its approach to learning, they told me, and its welcoming atmosphere.
The implication is that the more traditional mosques - patriarchal and conservative - are less family-friendly.
"The Muslim community is stagnant," says Javed Ali. It needs new ideas and new leadership to move forward.
Roger Hardy's programme about Glasgow's Muslims, in the Heart and Soul series on the BBC World Service, is broadcast on Wednesday 12 May at 1232 and 1632, with repeats. Or you can listen online .
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Kanye West and Jay-Z have announced the release date of their eagerly anticipated joint album.
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Walter Crane - Lilies
http://www.artmagick.com/pictures/picture.aspx?id=10846&name=lilies
signed with monogram and dated '93
29.5 x 21"
exhibited New Gallery 1894
Labels: Walter Crane
John Melhuish Strudwick - When Sorrow comes to Summerday Roses bloom in Vain
Strudwick was one of the most accomplished of Burne-Jones's followers. He painted some thirty paintings of legendary and symbolic subjects with a lapidary technique and a style that derives from the Italian quattrocento.
http://www.victorianweb.org/painting/strudwick/index.html
http://www.artmagick.com/pictures/artist.aspx?artist=john-melhuish-strudwick
Labels: John Melhuish Strudwick
Quattrocento fresco's
[Tommaso Masaccio's fresco, The Tribute Money]
The PRB were much inspired by the Quattrocento styles, particularly the frescos.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quattrocento
http://www.engl.duq.edu/servus/PR_Critic/Intro.html
Labels: Quattrocento
"Flow my tears" by John Dowland
Labels: music videos
John William Waterhouse - The Enchanted Garden
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/picture-of-month/displayPicture.asp?id=68&venue=7
John Dowland - Lute Songs
G F Watts - Portrait of Mrs Francis Lowther
c. 1865-7
the sitter was Louise Lowther, a French-born woman considered a great beauty who married Captain Frank Lowther RN. The coiled style of her hair seems to have been 're-used' in his sculpture Clytie.
Labels: G F Watts
Ford Madox Brown - Cromwell on his Farm
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/online/exhibitions/animals/cromwellonhisfarm.asp
G F Watts - A Portrait of Lilian
oil sketch for a portrait of lilian Mackintosh - later Mrs Michael Chapman
Lilian Mackintosh later Mrs Michael Chapman
G F Watts - Fog Off Corsica
inscribed on labels on the frame
14.5 x by 27.5in; 37 by 70cm
Collection: The Artist's daughter
It was included in three of the Memorial exhibitions of 1905 following the artist's death :Manchester, Newcastle and Edinburgh
Mrs. Watts recorded that the idea for this painting came to Watts while on his honeymoon trip of 1886-87. Towards the end of their travels, the artist and his wife took a slow boat sailing around Italy: "A summer sea fog drifted about us one day, through which Corsica was suddenly revealed like opal and pearl, and then lost again. The disabled ship loomed strangely through the fog, and the two pictures Off Corsica and The Sea Ghost were painted later from the impressions of that day". The latter work is in the Watts Gallery. In a letter of 1892 to James Smith (whose collection of works by Watts is at the Walker Art Gallery), the artist called the painting Fog Off Corsica.
Walter Crane - The Garden
Watercolour heightened with bodycolour
21 1/4 x 15"
John Byam Shaw - "Truly the Light is Sweet"
the verse is from Ecclesiastes XI v 7/8
Shaw did 30 "Sermons in Stone and Good in Everything" pictures exhibited in 1902
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byam_Shaw
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/speel/paint/shaw.htm
Labels: John Byam Shaw
Walter Crane - A Goose Girl
signed with monogram
17 x 15 3/4"
Art Journal, Easter 1898, pp. 7-8
"My sister made a translation of about half the 'Hallsmarchen' of the brothers Grimm, and this, with about a dozen full-page designs as well as headings, initial letters, and tail-pieces to each story, was published in 1881. The drawings were done about a third larger, and all were photographed upon wood and engraved by Messrs. Swain.
The design of The Goose Girl was seen at the time by my friend, the late William Morris, when I was at work in my studio one day - He called to ask me to do him a design capable of being worked in arras tapestry, which he was at that time practically engaged in reviving. He saw this design of the Goose Girl, and taking a fancy to it, asked me to reproduce it as a large colour cartoon, 8 feet by 6 feet, which I accordingly did; and it was duly worked out by him and his assistants as a tapestry. The cartoon afterwards was exhibited in the Grosvenor Gallery at a Winter Exhibition of decorative designs. It therefore has a dual existence as a black and white book illustration and also as a tapestry."
This is a watercolour sketch for the woodblock illustrating the story of The Goose Girl in the 1882 edition of 'Household Stories from the collection of The Brother's Grimm' published by Macmillan & Co, containing eleven full page designs. In the book a decorative semi-architectural border contained the inscription:
'0 wind, blow Conads hat away,
And make him follow as it flies,
While I with my gold hair will play
And bind it up in seemly wise.'
The large cartoon for the tapestry is in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Edward Burne-Jones - vellum paintings
[Book of Psalms]
"This book was painted by Sir Edward Burne-Jones, Bt., and given to his friend, H. M. Gaskell."
10.5 x 7"
[The Apocrypha]
"This book was painted for H. M. Gaskell by her friend Sir Edward Burne-Jones, Bt."
both vellum binding illuminated in gouache and gold paint.
Wisdom presenting Solomon with a book of knowledge and the mirror of revelation.
These were painted by BJ for his close friends usually on vellum.
Edward Burne-Jones - A Loving Hug
inscribed "To Daphne"
5.5 x 4 3/4"
Edward Burne-Jones - Love at the Window
gouache heightened with gold paint
inscribed "To M. H. G. "
dated Jan 27 1898
the model is believed to be Maria Zambaco
8 3/4 x 6.5"
Edward Burne-Jones - illustration from The Flower Book
gouache.
26 of the original (38 I believe) illustrations are in the British Museum. BJ began working on these in 1882 and continued until his death. He developed a secret symbolism for each flower.
http://www.leicestergalleries.com/art-and-antiques/detail/12075
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Edward-Burne-Jones-Flower-Book-Albums/dp/382289043X
http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/pd/e/edward_burne-jones,_love_in_a.aspx
Edward Burne-Jones - Sunset and Corn
Watercolour, bodycolour and gold paint
For BJ, the Sun was the giver of life and wheat a symbol of knowledge and sacrifice. Symbols that featured a lot in his later works such as The Secret Book of Design and The Flower Book.
Edward Burne-Jones - portrait of Daphne Gaskell
coloured chalks on buff paper
Edward Burne-Jones - portrait
portrait of a girl, probably Amy Gaskell
coloured chalks on red paper
signed twice with initials, inscribed "To L"
Busy at the moment ...
I'll only be able to post two posts a day for a couple of months (at least) as I need more time at the moment. At least that will free your dashboards.
Labels: busy
Edward Burne-Jones - The Masher
Watercolour, coloured chalks on buff paper
inscribed To A.G from E.B-J.
47 1/2 x 23 1/2"
A masher was a 'charmer of women'.
This is Burne-Jones's largest humorous drawing. Opinions vary as to the identity of the subject. John Christian suggested in the Catalogue to the Arts Council Exhibition that Philip Burne-Jones, who "liked to play the man about town" was the model. On the other hand, William Waters believes it to be a caricature of the type Burne-Jones disliked, a boorish philistine, possibly exemplified by Captain Gaskell. A third solution is the Gaskell family tradition that the dandified Society figure is what Burne-Jones wished himself to be. That the cockney term 'masher' means "a charmer of women" may lend support to this interpretation.
It is interesting to note the two paintings by Degas on the wall.
Evelyn de Morgan - Helen of Troy
A better image than I had before of a wonderful painting
Labels: Evelyn de Morgan
Edward Burne-Jones - Daphne at the Piano
Daphne Gaskell.
By the way the reason there is so much Burne Jones material on this blog at the moment is I am working through a sale that featured a lot of his works - Sotheby's 1981.
Edward Burne-Jones - Canon David Melville
The Father of Helen Mary Gaskell
Ford Madox Brown - The English Boy
Manchester City Art Gallery
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/speel/paint/brown.htm
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article4905576.ece
Edward Burne-Jones - Study of an Infant
[Study of an Infant for 'Venus Concordia'
coloured chalks on brown paper
The unfinished oil is in Plymouth Art Gallery with the finished design drawing in Manchester,
Edward Burne-Jones - Portrait of a Girl in a green dress
http://www.victorianweb.org/painting/bj/paintings/5.html
Edward Burne-Jones - portrait of Helen Mary Gaskell
Edward Burne-Jones - the studio cleaner sketch
letter, pen and ink
Edward Burne-Jones - Miss Amy Gaskell
portrait, 1893
signed with initials
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3615349/Fruit-of-a-forbidden-passion.html
Used as the cover for 'A Profound Secret'. In that book it is owned by Andrew Lloyd Weber.
Here it was for sale by Sotheby's in 1981.
The sketch is from a letter to Amy about her portrait.
Edward Burne-Jones - llustrated love letter to Mrs Gaskell
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article1041164.ece
The following collection provide a unique insight into an aspect of Burne-Jones which few people were aware of during his lifetime. It arose during a period from 1892 until the artist's death, in 1898.
From the time of his first affair in the late 1860s, Burne-Jones felt the need for a sympathetic friend with whom to create a secret intimate world of images and ideas. Helen Mary Gaskell was 25 years his junior and had just the qualities the artist required -sadness of expression, intelligence and artistic insight. She was married to Captain Gaskell of the 9th Lancers, a man of the world in every sense, and she managed the situation with great tact. The Gaskell children, particularly Amy and Daphne, inspired innumerable comic drawings, allowing the playful side of Burne-Jones to escape and giving him a necessary release from the pervading sadness of his later years, especially after the death of William Morris in 1896.
The majority of Burne-Jones's letters to Helen Mary are in the British Museum.
Rossetti/Siddal grave
Highgate Cemetery
http://lizziesiddal.com/portal/?p=167
Labels: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal
Edward Burne-Jones - comical self-portrait
Edward Burne-Jones - Helena
inscribed 'Speldhurst Vestry'
A design for the right top light in the East window of the North Aisle of the Church of St Mary the Virgin, Speldhurst, Kent. In his account book for 1875 he records being paid £8 for the design.
Edward Burne-Jones - Figure study for Clotho
Clotho is a figure in his proposed painting The Fates.
This seems to date from about 1869.
The Fates was never completed.
Edward Burne-Jones - The Sleeping Princess
gouache with gold paint
signed and 'to M.J.M.'
Given to Margaret Burne-Jones in 1888.
See: M. Harrison & W. Waters, Burnejones, 1973, plate 208
The theme of the Sleeping Beauty, adapted from Perrault's fairy tale and Tennyson's poem, pre-occupied Burne-Jones throughout all his working life, from his first designs for tile panels of c. 1862 to a circular gouache of the Prince embracing the Princess, reproduced in the Flower Book. The first 'Briar Rose' series of three oils, painted c. 1870-3, is now in the Ponce Museum of Art, Puerto Rico. When Burne-Jones repeated these compositions on a much larger scale he added a fourth, The Garden Court. This group was exhibited at Agnews in 1890 to great acclaim, bought by Alexander Henderson for £5,000 and later installed at Buscot Park, Berkshire where they are still in situ in the salon.
This work is a very large and finished study for the fourth and final painting of the series, 'The Sleeping Princess', without the left hand side which depicts two sleeping attendants. There are other minor differences between the study and the Buscot painting. The gouache has only a few token briars in the background, instead of abundant growth. Perhaps most important, the oil omits the scarlet heart on the princess's breast. This motif was surely Burne-Jones's tribute to his model and daughter, Margaret Burne-Jones, to whom the work is dedicated. On the 4th September 1888 she was married to Mr. J. W. Mackail, and it is therefore likely that the work was a wedding gift to the couple. The muted and elegiac mood of the work expresses Burne- Jones's melancholy at the loss of his daughter, which emerges clearly in his wife's 'Memorials'. Thus 'The Sleeping Princess' might be viewed as a valedictory image.
More from the Christie's important sale
[The Roll of Fate - Walter Crane]
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&intObjectID=5210398&sid=17e5d870-507a-4726-8248-b9b230c126ce
[Study for The Magic Circle - John William Waterhouse]
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/searchresults.aspx?intSaleID=22210#action=refine&intSaleID=22210&sid=17e5d870-507a-4726-8248-b9b230c126ce
Labels: auctions, John William Waterhouse, Walter Crane
John Brett - The Hedger
Exhibited at the RA in 1860
on the frame and stretcher inscribed "In dim recesses hyacinths drooped / and breadths of primroses lit the air." Angel in the House.
William Holman Hunt - A Bloodhound
Given to William Michael Rossetti by the artist c. 1853,
oil on board.
circular diameter 10"
Holman Hunt's contributions to the Royal Academy exhibitions of 1847 and 1848 were both literary subjects containing bloodhounds. The dog was not an integral part of the scene illustrating Sir Walter Scott's Woodstock, exhibited in 1847, but the 1848 Royal Academy catalogue revealed the central importance of the dogs to The Eve of St. Agnes: The wakeful bloodhound rose, and shook his hide,
But his sagacious eye an inmate owns.
Although William Michael Rossetti considered his panel to be a study for the Keats subject, there is no exact correspondence. The bloodhounds were lent to the artist by John Blount Price of Islington, a wealthy friend who was later to supply Hunt with the horses for Rienzi. A similar oil panel of Hounds was sold at Sotheby's Belgravia on 9th April 1980.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Portrait of Mrs Stillman
A study for the right hand attendant for 'Dante's Dream at the time of the Death of Beatrice'
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/collections/19c/rossetti.aspx
This painting, commissioned by William Graham in 1869, was the largest of Rossetti's works and shows an episode from the Vita Nuova in which Dante in a dream sees his dead love laid upon a bier. In the painting two women attendants lower a pall strewn with symbolic blossoms of may flower over the dead Beatrice. The model for the figure was Mrs. Marie Spartali Stillman.
Compare: V. Suttees, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, plate 100, cat. no. 81b R.I.
"For the ladies holding the suspended veil momentarily ere it covers the form and features of Beatrice. Miss Marie Spartali, the daughter of the Greek consul for London was one. She possessed a face superlatively beautiful. The other one was Alice Wilding and with these sympathetic faces he made his group pathetically complete." [Letters to Ellen Heaton].
Ford Madox Brown - Byron's Dream
pen and ink and pencil
inscribed 'A Dream'
4 1/4 x 4"
A design for the 1870 Moxon edition of 'Poetical Works of lord Byron'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annesley_Hall,_Nottinghamshire
for the version in oil
http://www.artmagick.com/pictures/picture.aspx?id=6237&name=byrons-dream
http://www.allpaintings.org/v/Pre-Raphaelite+Brotherhood/Ford+Madox+Brown/Ford+Madox+Brown+-+Byron_s+Dream.jpg.html
This is different and more closely shows Byron's dog Boatswain. The oil was commissioned c. 1874-5 by William Michael Rossetti and is now in the Manchester City Art Gallery.
See: F. M. Hueffer, Ford Madox Brown, A Record of his life and Work, 1896, p. 298¬300
"January 1875 saw the completion of the oil picture of Byron and Mary Chaworth, a sufficiently important representative of Madox Brown's style at this period. The design had formed the 'title-vignette' for the Moxon's 'Byron.' The treatment of the subject is simple. The circumstances of the poet's attachment to the beautiful Mrs. Musters, then Mary Chaworth, granddaughter of the man whom Byron's great-uncle had killed in a duel, are sufficiently well known.
Byron is represented in the picture as a somewhat early matured youth of sixteen or seventeen years of age. He has ridden over from Newstead to Annesley, and in company with the dog Boatswain has taken a stroll with the heiress of the latter place. The day is a hot one, and the poet and his beloved have seated themselves on a little knoll overlooking the great plain in Nottinghamshire. Byron has told of Mary Chaworth's hand and is pouring out impassioned nothings, whilst Mary has only cars for the distant sound of hoofs of that sturdy Nimrod Jack Muster's horse, and eyes for that scarlet-coated gentleman himself. Boatswain, too, looks in the direction whence the sounds come, just preparing to cock his ears and perhaps utter the bark that will bring Byron to a sense of the world around him, and, to a certain extent, to his own senses.
He only realised the unprofitableness of his passion when subsequently, standing in the hall at Annesley, he heard the fair Mary refer to him, speaking to her old nurse on an upper landing, as that 'lame schoolboy'. She seems, indeed, only to have regarded him as an interesting and rather amusing lad. On Byron, however, the attachment made a very lasting impression, to which he referred to infrequently to the day of his death, deeming that a marriage with her might have made him a better man."
This is a design for the title vignette of Moxon's 1870 edition of the 'Poetical Works of Lord Byron', in which it is reproduced almost exactly, but without the inscription 'A Dream'. This volume was edited by William Michael Rossetti who later commissioned an oil of the same composition (circa 1874-5, now in Manchester City Art Gallery). There is also a watercolour replica (Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester) and other copies by his son Oliver.
Edward Burne-Jones - Astrologia
The model was Augusta Jones.
http://www.artmagick.com/pictures/picture.aspx?id=6033&name=astrologia
Edward Burne-Jones - Le Chant D'Armour
http://www.illusionsgallery.com/Le-Chant-DAmore.html
Edward Burne-Jones - Laus Veneris
oil and gold paint
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/swinburne/hikim8.html
Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Sibylla Palmifera
Commissioned in 1866 by George Rae. Originally just called Palmifera, the prefix was added by the artist a little later. The model was Alexa Wilding, representing the principle of beauty.
Christie's June 4th sale
[Portrait of Margaret Fuller Maitland - Sir John Everett Millais]
Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood has already mentioned the sale in this important auction of the 1860 drawing of Annie Miller by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
http://preraphaelitesisterhood.com/?p=1067
but there are many other 'goodies' in this sale, both PRB and in general Victorian Art.
There is a good general report on ArtDaily:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=30880
and the catalogue is here:
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/searchresults.aspx?intSaleID=22210#action=refine&intSaleID=22210&sid=334c038f-ea78-4744-8565-140026e77d6f
Labels: auctions
Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Regina Cordium or The Queen of Hearts
Red and black chalk on paper, and signed with a monogram
THE blessed Damozel lean'd out
From the gold bar of Heaven:
Her blue grave eyes were deeper much
Than a deep water, even.
She had three lilies in her hand,
And the stars in her hair were seven.
Her robe, ungirt from clasp to hem,
No wrought flowers did adorn,
But a white rose of Mary's gift
On the neck meetly worn;
And her hair, lying down her back,
Was yellow like ripe corn.
http://www.daypoems.net/poems/720.html
Dante Gabriel Rossetti - sketch of Lizzie Siddal
a rare sketch (which my scanner found hard to reproduce) in his Blackfriars Studio in 1855
John Melhuish Strudwick - When Sorrow comes to Sum...
Edward Burne-Jones - illustration from The Flower ...
Edward Burne-Jones - Portrait of a Girl in a green...
Edward Burne-Jones - llustrated love letter to Mrs...
Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Regina Cordium or The Que...
Dante Gabriel Rossetti - The Tune of Seven Towers
Dante Gabriel Rossetti - The Blue Closet
Annie Louisa Swynnerton - The Glow Worm
John William Waterhouse - Miranda
Albert Goodwin - Winter Sunset, Hastings
Edward Burne-Jones by George Howard
Albert Goodwin - Blakeney, Norfolk
Edward Burne-Jones - self-caricature
Edward Burne-Jones - The Knight's Farewell
Edward Burne-Jones - The Wedding of St. Tristram
Simeon Solomon - One Watching in the Night
Edward Burne-Jones - The Baleful Head
Edward Burne-Jones - The Arming of Perseus
Emma Sandys - Reverie
Reading Pre-Raphaelite Painting
Kelmscott Chaucer - William Morris
William Morris - Pimpernel
Barn Door Fowl (Rhode Island Reds) - William Huggins
Karl Maria Schuster - Paeonies
Dante Gabriel Rossetti - portrait of Christine Ros...
Edward Burne-Jones - Portrait of Maria Zambaco
Edward Burne-Jones - Tapestry 'The Adoration of th...
Dante Gabriel Rossetti - First Anniversary
Graham Ovenden - Miss Flamborough
John Everett Millais - John Ruskin
John Everett Millais - The Bridesmaid
John Everett Millais - caricature
The Pre-Raphaelite Landscape book
The Pre-Raphaelites (Blackmore's Night music)
William Holman Hunt - The Finding of the Savior in...
G F Watts - Irish Famine
Marianne Stokes - The Passing Train
Simeon Solomon - Bacchus II
Simeon Solomon - Love in Autumn
The Pre-Raphaelite Aims (Rossetti)
Pre-Raphaelites short video
Edward Burne-Jones - Love Leading the Pilgrim
Edward Burne-Jones - The Wedding of Pysche
Edward Burne-Jones - Love Among the Ruins
Katie Lewis
Edward Burne-Jones - Vespertina Quies
Edward Burne-Jones - Sponsa de Libano
Edward Burne-Jones - The Star of Bethlehem
Royal Academy Viewing Day 1800
Sin and Salvation: William Holman Hunt and the Pre...
Robert Braithwaite Martineau
Cabinet by Morris and Webb
Edward Burne-Jones - Briar Rose series
Frederic George Stephens - Mother and Child
Dante Gabriel Rossetti - The Day Dream
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7 WONDERS of KYIV (sightseeing Kyiv in 3 hours)
Kyiv is the capital of Ukraine. It is known as the cradle of the ancient Kyievan Rus. The city is more than 1,500 years old. It is one of the most ancient and the most beautiful cities in Europe. You will be enchanted with Kyiv’s wide boulevards lined by chestnut trees and poplars. There are magnificent buildings of different architectural styles in our city. So Kiev’s elegance can’t be unnoticed. During its long history Kyiv was attacked and destroyed many times. But it has been rebuilt.
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St. Sophia Cathedral and Old KievTour
The tour of «Mother of Rus Towns» is dedicated to the one of the oldest cities of Europe, the capital of the big state named Kievan Rus, the rival of Constantinople, the rich and flourishing city of the 10th–13th century.
The walking tour through Kyiv
Kyiv with coffee aroma Kyiv style tea ceremony Chocolatemania Wine route Walking through Podil with beer glass Traditions of contemplation and a poetry of the romantic walkin
Along the main street of Ukraine
Kreschatik is one of the most known central streets of the world. The center of commercial, political and cultural life of Kiev has been bustling here for two centuries. Kreschatik is famous as the site of the first Kiev telephone, telegraph, electric tram, plumbing and sewage system, gas and electric illumination.
Twilight Kiev (City Tour in the evening)
We are going to see the absolutely different Kiev. That’s Kiev in twilight. That’s Kiev drowning in neon light. Any unnecessary details are hidden from our sight in twilight. Nothing will distract our attention from the main things. And the main things are the picturesque sites of the ancient and eternally young Kiev.
Muraly of Kiev
We invite you to plunge into the world of street art, to understand it, and perhaps even love. Murals - one of the varieties of modern painting belonging to street-art artists. We will offer you a wide range of artistic styles of famous masters of Spain, Argentina, Australia, Germany, Britain, Portugal, Italy and, of course, Ukraine.
Mysterious Kiev
Kiev is a mysterious city. That’s the fact. Kiev historians and such Russian literary geniuses as Gogol, Pushkin and Bulgakov wrote about it in their books. Kiev is the capital of Ukraine. But there are some evil forces in our capital city. You can feel it when you look at Kiev coat of arms. Archangel Michael is the only saint with arms in his hands. And Archangel Michael is the patron saint of our city. He is intended to protect our city against evil forces.
You can not imagine Kiev without Podol (Lower Town)
Podil (the Lower Town) can reveal a lot about Kyiv Rus period owing to archaeological excavations before Kyiv Metro ( subway) construction. Unlike the Upper Town with its beautiful palaces Podil was the working area where craftsmen, fishermen ,merchants lived and worked. Visiting the Hetmanate Museum you can learn more about Cossackhood times in Ukraine.
Kiev Pechersk Cave Monastery (Lavra)
The Holy of Holies for Orthodox believers, half the Vatican in size. Founded in 1051 by two monks Antoniy and Feodosiy. It consists of two parts: the Upper Lavra (more a museum), the Lower Lavra – an active monastery (over 100 monks and novices). Of particular interest is a cave part of the monastery where our experienced guides will take you to see holy incorruptible relics of Lavra’s saints.
Montmartre in Kiev (St. Andrew’s Street)
St. Andrew’s Street is the most known street of Kiev except Kreschatik. It is the most «Kievan» street in our city. Matter of fact it is one of the eldest streets in Eastern Europe. We will follow the footsteps of Prince Igor, writer Bulgakov, artist Ivan Kavaleridze and dozens of other famous personalities.
The National Museum of Folk Architecture and Lifestyle of Ukraine
The 400 acres big National Museum of Folk Architecture and Lifestyle of Ukraine is the biggest open air museum in the Eastern Europe! It is often called Pirogovo museum after the near-by village. Here you can feel the «real Ukraine».
Lipki Mansions
Pechersk was named after Kiev Pechersk Lavra and Lipki – after the gorgeous lime tree alley, which was laid for Klovskiy Palace along present-day Lipskaya Street in the 17th century. But mansions of Kiev grand people, which were actively built at that time, eventually pressed the sweet “special appeal” of Pechersk. Up to the beginning of the 18th century Pechersk upland consisted of backwoods; there were no city constructions there.
The history of Jewish community in Kyiv
The history of Jewish community of Kiev is the integral part of the history of the capital city of Ukraine. The influence of Jewish community can be traced in many spheres of city life of Kiev.
St. Cyril`s Temple – architectural monument of the 12th century
Warrior-Temple, the guard of north-western roads to Kiev — St. Cyril`s Temple has been rising in distant outskirts of Kiev since the 12th century. Even wall paintings of Saints are dressed in armors there. It is the second temple in Kiev after St. Sophia`s Cathedral, which has been preserved in its genuine walls since the times of Kievan Rus. The temple contains 800 square meters of wall paintings of that time inside of it. There are wall paintings of famous Mikhail Vrubel nearby — swansong, the masterpiece of modern epoch.
Shevchenko’s Sites in Kiev and Kiev Sites in Shevchenko’s Literary Masterpieces
The tour includes one of three museums dedicated to the Ukrainian Nation’s genius: the National Taras Shevchenko museum (in a beautiful residence building of the Tereshchenkos, sugar manufacturers of Kyiv in the 19th – early 20th centuries), The museum-house of T. Shevchenko (Shevchenko lane near Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square) and the House on Priorka museum.
Kiev Emerald Necklace
We will walk along the city parks during the tour. We will enjoy the main thing about Kiev. And that’s its amazing landscape. There are 100 meters high green hills in the center of the capital of Ukraine. Time after time you cannot realize that you are still inside of that huge megalopolis.
Literary Kyiv
From time immemorial men of letters were inspired by our city. They wrote about Kiev in their works, in their letters to their friends. During the tour we will visit two museums, we will see Writers’ House and the monument to Oles Gonchar. These are the gems of Literary Kiev. Though there are many more sites dedicated to Ukrainian literature in our city.
Kiev Architectural Chronicles
The past and the present of any city are reflected in masterpieces of city architecture. Kiev is extraordinarily rich with its architectural masterpieces. Any architectural style of the last millennium can be found here starting with the austere temples of Kievan Russ and finishing with constructivism and Stalin’s empire style.
Love Stories born in Kyiv
The history of St. Flor’s convent is connected with one of the richest women of Russian Empire Natalia Dolgorukova who spent many years at the convent. Having abandoned palaces and glory for the sake of her husband she endured all severities of an exile and after his death she retreated to the holy Kyiv land.
Kiev bridges
During the tour the information about all the bridges over the Dnieper River in city limits of Kiev will be provided to you. You will hear about the existing bridges and about the bridges under construction. You will be amazed with their artistic style. You will enjoy the unique panorama of our city. And no doubt you will be impressed with the mighty waters of the Dnieper.
Kiev, the Hero City. Nobody is forgotten, nothing is forgotten ...
During the tour you will hear about the events that took place in Kiev during World War II. The heroic defense of the city lasted 73 days from July till September 1941. Thus the plans of Hitler\'s "blitzkrieg" were frustrated. The entire plan "Barbarossa" was destroyed. But those events also were also the prologue to one of the most tragic pages in the history of the Red Army, as 630 thousands Red Army soldiers were trapped in the vicinity of Kiev.
Mysterious Kitayevo
That fortress was built on the high hill in the southern outskirts of Kiev in the Kievan Rus epoch. It was a real stronghold. Attackers had to break through five defensive lines while storming the fortress. And some remains of those fortifications have been preserved to present day!
Churches and Monasteries of Kyiv
In ancient times Kiev was compared to Jerusalem. That was the level of our city as the Christianity had been introduced for local people there. And later Kiev was known as a very important Christian center. And at present time our city is still considered to be the outstanding religious center very important for the numerous pilgrims. There is a saying like that in our days – no need to have a map if you go to Kiev. Any time any one has been eager to show pilgrims the way to Kiev.
Feofania’s Wonders
Feofania is a picturesque area in the southern outskirts of Kiev. There are holy springs, a cascade of lakes and mighty oak groves in the vicinity of the famous Orthodox nunnery. The unique St. Panteleymon’s Cathedral was constructed in the traditional Russian style. All visitors are amazed with its elegance and beauty.
Gods’ Temples
During the tour we will tell you about the culture and religions of different nationalities living in the capital of Ukraine. You will also know how their places of worship were constructed in Kiev.
Roundabout monasteries of Kiev
Tserkovshina – Feofania – Kitaevo – Goloseevo – that is the route of the excursion. From time immemorial Kiev was famous as the Sacred City. And each of the city’s cloisters has its history, its Saints, its secrets. We invite you to the excursion about roundabout Kiev monasteries.
The Polish heritage in Kiev
There are many sites of Polish heritage in Kiev. And there is a good reason for this state of things. The history of the Polish community in Kiev has been started in the epoch of Kievan Rus as the Polish king Boleslav the Brave married a daughter of Kievan Grand Prince Svyatopolk.
Boat Trip along the Dnieper River
There are not many cities in the world with such a vast and accessible expanse of water as the Dnieper in the Kiev city centre. There is no better way to cool off than to spend some time on the river on steaming-hot summer days. You will definitely enjoy having your time on board of our boat while watching breathtaking banks of the Dnieper River with the golden domes, parks and modern parts of our city.
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by Bay City News | July 31, 2015 11:20 am | 2
Two men were seriously injured on Thursday night when two male suspects assaulted them with a blunt object and a knife near San Francisco’s Alamo…
Man Seriously Injured in Nob Hill Attack
by Bay City News | July 1, 2015 12:34 pm | 0
A man walking home in San Francisco’s Nob Hill neighborhood suffered serious injuries when two male suspects assaulted him Tuesday night, police said. The victim,…
Man Suffering Life-Threatening Injuries After Being Punched in Face
by Bay City News | June 30, 2015 6:19 am | 0
A 40 to 45-year-old man is suffering from life-threatening injuries after he was punched Sunday afternoon in San Francisco, police said. The victim was in…
Woman Punched in Sandwich Robbery
by Bay City News | June 12, 2015 12:44 pm | 0
A man was arrested for robbing a woman of her beef teriyaki sandwich in San Francisco’s Ingleside neighborhood on Thursday afternoon, police said. The 61-year-old…
SFPD Release Sketch of Suspect Who Injure Woman Near Union Square
by Bay City News | May 27, 2015 12:20 pm | 0
An aggravated assault suspect who injured a 38-year-old woman earlier this month near San Francisco’s Union Square remains at large, police said today. The victim…
Taxi Driver Robbed, Assaulted by Woman Armed With Knife
by Bay City News | May 15, 2015 11:39 am | 0
A woman armed with a knife assaulted and robbed a 71-year-old taxi driver who transported her to San Francisco’s Bayview District late Thursday night, a…
Man Seriously Injured After Mission District Argument Turns Violent
An argument that turned violent left a man with life-threatening injuries in San Francisco’s Mission District on Monday morning, police said today. The victim, a…
$1M Bail Set for Man Accused of Attacking Sleeping Homeless Man With Bat
by Bay City News | April 23, 2015 2:47 pm | 0
A 65-year-old man arrested after allegedly beating a sleeping homeless man over the head five times with a metal baseball bat Tuesday morning in San…
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An Uber driver suffered facial injuries when a passenger assaulted him as he drove through San Francisco early Sunday morning, police said today. Police said…
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by Bay City News | October 23, 2014 11:44 am | 0
Four men in their late teens and early 20s were arrested on suspicion of assaulting a 53-year-old man and stealing his camera in San Francisco’s…
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by Bay City News | October 18, 2014 9:34 pm | 0
A 24-year-old woman who was punched in the face and then robbed by two other women in San Francisco’s Bayview District on Thursday afternoon told…
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by Bay City News | October 8, 2014 4:53 pm | 0
A passenger who was attacked with a hammer allegedly by his Uber driver in San Francisco last month spoke publicly today about the potentially permanent…
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by Bay City News | October 5, 2014 10:14 pm | 0
Two men suspected of assaulting two other men before the start of the San Francisco 49ers game against the Kansas City Chiefs at Levi’s Stadium…
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by Bay City News | August 12, 2014 3:37 pm | 1
A man found critically injured Sunday in San Francisco’s Duboce Triangle neighborhood may have been the victim of an assault and attempted murder, police said…
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Charges have been filed against two men who were allegedly involved in a fight outside San Francisco’s AT&T Park last week that left a woman…
Second Suspect Arrested in AT&T Park Assault
by Bay City News | July 11, 2014 10:28 pm | 1
A second suspect in an assault outside AT&T Park that knocked an Oakland woman unconscious was arrested this evening in Sacramento, according to San Francisco…
Women Punched And Kicked During Possible Hate Attack In SoMa
Police are investigating a possible hate crime attack against two women in San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood Saturday evening. Around 5:30 p.m., the two…
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From Old Metal to Art
Brian Mock
Artist Brian Mock has been collecting scrap metal for years from his local machine and auto shops in Portland, OR. They give him free access to their dumpsters (where people unload old junk) and he welds it all into stunning sculptures.
Brian predicts that he has saved 20-30 tons of metal from entering landfills. Scrap metal can leak dangerous chemicals into nearby soil and water, causing severe damage to the environment and its resources.
How are they different?
The scale of these sculptures (life-size lions and bears) is incredible as well as the attention to detail. Some have even asked if his instrument replicas actually play music because they are so meticulously crafted.
What inspires us?
Under Brian Mock’s visionary gaze, unwanted nuts and bolts, keys, springs, gear shifts, chains, butter knives, bike parts and more become majestic lions, mardi gras masks, loyal dogs, cowboy boots, grizzly bears and portraits showing facial expressions. All are life-size—some even larger than life (he just finished up a 7.5 ft guitar for the Hard Rock Hotel in Dublin and previously made a 9 ft one for a hotel in Nashville); and all are meticulously crafted. Based just outside Portland, Oregon, Mock taught himself to weld in the ’90s after years of drawing, painting and woodworking. A tight budget forced him to practice on scrap metal, but he soon found unique inspiration in needing to mine what was available rather than dashing to the store. Plus, his work was keeping “junk” out of the landfills. When exploring his up-cycled creations, you’ll notice all the bits and pieces, and imagine how they were formerly used, and then, how they were discarded to rust and pollute our soils and waterways. Mock has salvaged 20–30 tons of metal thus far, making every piece burst with life again.
What drew you to this work?
I’ve always been a resourceful person, so it was natural for me to gravitate towards a profession in recycled materials. I find the items so interesting to work with–knowing that they had a purpose and a story before becoming something completely new in the art.
Do you first make a sketch and then look for scrap metal that fits the design? Or do you gather pieces and let them guide you?
I usually start with a rough sketch to give me some direction on measurements, but other than that, I let the pieces guide me–that’s a great way to put it. I have a large inventory to choose from, and keep lots of bins on hand to rummage through as I go, grabbing pieces and fitting them together like a jigsaw puzzle.
Where do you source your materials?
I’ve been collecting for years from local machine and auto shops that give me free access to their dumpsters, from people who are looking to offload garages full of grandpa’s old stuff, and occasionally, from scrapyards. But almost all of the material I have has been donated, which I’m extremely grateful for.
What sort of challenges does working with reclaimed materials present?
This type of work limits me to using only what I have on hand. Sometimes I think about how much easier my job would be if I could go out and buy a specific piece I may need. Instead, if I can’t find the perfect piece in my piles, I have to make it.
In addition to being works of art, do you see your pieces as political/environmental statements?
I do, yes. I think that by design, my sculptures ask us to evaluate the waste created by our consumer culture, and question how we as individuals can do a better job at reusing items we’ve been quick to throw out, which end up in landfills that are detrimental to our planet’s health.
Can you tell us about some of your favorite projects?
I really enjoy making musical instruments. Some of my favorites were a trumpet and a saxophone I made a few years back. The distinct shapes and curves of those pieces were fun to work on. People always ask me if they play, which is a huge compliment because it means I got them to look right.
Are there any sculptures you couldn’t bear to part with?
No, but I did have a harder time parting with sculptures early on in my career when they were created from my mind with no guaranteed owner. As I’ve shifted to commissioned work, it feels like the sculptures already belong to the clients I’m making them for, so they’re easier to let go of.
Why so many dogs? Even though they all have different names, they look like they’re from the same family. Are they based on a particular dog you love?
I started making dogs because Portland, OR (where I began selling my work) is a very dog-friendly city. People really love dogs here, and the dog sculptures would consistently sell out. Then people started commissioning their own dogs. The lab-style dog happens to be the most popular request, but I really enjoy making all breeds of dogs.
Can you tell us about the environmental impact of so much metal ending up in landfills? How much do you think you’ve prevented from ending up there?
When scrap metal ends up in landfills, it can leak pretty dangerous chemicals into nearby soil and water supplies, which is damaging to the natural habitats of the animals that depend on those resources. Including us! Over the course of 20 years, I’ve probably kept about 20–30 tons of metal out of landfills.
What are you currently working on?
I just finished up a 7.5 ft H guitar sculpture for the Hard Rock Hotel in Dublin, and am now shifting gears to a running dog for a public park in Dallas, and a large wine bottle for a vineyard in Napa Valley.
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AP source: Peat has surgery on broken arm, out about 6 weeks
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By BRETT MARTEL
NEW ORLEANS (AP) New Orleans Saints starting left guard Andrus Peat has had surgery to repair a broken arm and is expected to be sidelined about six weeks, said a person familiar with the situation.
The person spoke to The Associated Press Wednesday on condition of anonymity because the extent of Peat's injury and his surgery has not been announced. ESPN first reported details of the surgery.
The 2018 Pro Bowl selection was injured during the first half of Sunday's 26-9 loss to Atlanta.
Peat was New Orleans' first-round draft choice in 2015 and has started 59 of the 64 career games he's played.
Although Saints players did not indicate whether they'd been briefed on the specifics of Peat's injury or his estimated absence, they addressed the likelihood of having to play multiple games without him after he'd missed Wednesday's practice.
"It's a loss for us, for sure. Andrus is playing well, he has a lot of experience," Saints left tackle Terron Armstead said.
The former Stanford offensive tackle has played both at guard and tackle for New Orleans. His primary role has been as starting left guard since 2016, but he also has slid over to play tackle when there have been injuries at that position.
"Of course, it's difficult, because he's been a starter for what, five years now, and been one of the main components there with the front," quarterback Drew Brees said.
The Saints (7-2), who visit Tampa Bay (3-6) this Sunday, lead the NFC South Division by two games and aim to make the playoffs for a third straight season.
Unless the Saints elect to place Peat on injured reserve, he could return by the final week of the regular season. In the meantime, New Orleans could rely on former LSU interior lineman Will Clapp, who filled in after Peat's injury on Sunday.
Also available are Nick Easton, a fourth-year pro and former starting center in Minnesota, and Patrick Omameh, a seventh-year pro who started five games last season for Jacksonville.
"We've got veteran guys who have been in this league for a while and have done it," Armstead said. "That's encouraging. We've got confidence in all those guys."
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Newburgh Orchards and Michelin-starred chef Geoffrey Smeddle
The combination of a Michelin-starred chef, a community group and some of Fife’s finest fruit will bring a delicious end to a very special dinner this week.
The Peat Inn’s Geoffrey Smeddle will be using apples from Newburgh’s famous orchards for the dessert course at the St Andrew’s Day Dinner at the Old Course Hotel, Golf Resort and Spa.
Part of a series of November events organised under the banner “Savour St Andrews”, the dinner will feature top quality local and Scottish produce in a stunning menu. Part of the proceeds will be used to provide student bursaries at Fife College and SRUC Elmwood Campus.
The event is returning to the five red star hotel with a stellar line-up of cooking talent, and support from Quality Meat Scotland (QMS) and hospitality staff and students from Fife College and the SRUC Elmwood Campus. This week the SRUC Elmwood students had a masterclass with Geoffrey, learning the dessert step by step.
The hotel’s executive chef Martin Hollis will be joined by Geoffrey, executive chef Frank Trepesch from five star Fairmont St Andrews, St Andrews Links executive chef Ian MacDonald, sous chef Nick Kock from Rufflets Country House Hotel (AA Scottish Hotel of the Year), and Stewart MacAulay from the multi-award winning Adamson Restaurant (2015 Scottish Restaurant of the Year).
Newburgh’s fruit growing tradition dates back to 1191, when Lindores Abbey was founded by French monks. Fruit produced by them was supplied to the Scottish royal court at Falkland, made into alcohol, and sold in the community
The connections have been maintained by the group Newburgh Orchards, which has found more than 800 trees with varieties of pears, plums and apples in dozens of locations tucked away around the town. The group has also been closely involved in creating a productive community orchard.
Geoffrey said that he had been delighted to work with the orchard group to source the fruit for his dessert.
“Discovering the breadth and scale of the Newburgh orchards was a revelation to me, it makes for an exciting privilege to work with such beautiful Fife produce for this unique dinner.”
The orchard group’s Caroline Guthrie will be speaking at the dinner, and said that she is delighted to be involved in the Savour St Andrews events.
“It’s really exciting that one of the UK’s top chefs will be working with fruit from Newburgh, I can’t wait to taste the result”, she said.
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New Coronavirus Outbreak Reported in China
China on brink: City locks MILLIONS in their homes for week - new outbreak nears Beijing
"We have to be careful as we're near Guan, where COVID cases were reported today", said a volunteer security officer surnamed Wang.
People line up to get their nucleic acid test in the courtyard of a hospital following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease in Beijing. Of the 85 locally transmitted confirmed cases, 82 were reported in north China's Hebei Province, two in Liaoning Province, and one in Beijing.
Suihua city in Heilongjiang - home to more than 5.2 million - was sealed off on Monday after reporting one confirmed case and 45 asymptomatic cases.
The Chinese mainland on Tuesday reported 115 newly confirmed COVID-19 cases, of which 107 were locally transmitted and the rest arrived from outside the mainland, the National Health Commission said Wednesday.
Over 70 percent of confirmed cases distributed are in rural areas, which have the tradition of holding weddings ahead of the Lunar New Year.
Much remains unknown about the origins of the coronavirus and China has been sensitive about accusations of a cover-up that delayed its initial response and allowed the virus to spread. A health expert affiliated with the WHO said previously that expectations should be "very low" that the team would reach a conclusion from its trip to China.
"More than 20k people in 12 villages in Zengcun county of Gaocheng district in N China's Shijiazhuang have been transferred to designated quarantine areas for medical observation since Monday". The secretary of the Heilongjiang Provincial Party Committee, who was in Beijing for a seminar returned to Heilongjiang overnight and declared the state of emergency.
Shanxi province has also limited internal travel and rolled out mass testing, after a patient from neighbouring Hebei province was reported to have travelled there.
The Chinese government sealed off a city of 4.9 million people and imposed strict travel restrictions on several other parts of the country after a sudden surge was witnessed in the number of COVID-19 positive patients.
Hebei province has put three cities - Shijiazhuang, Xingtai and Langfang - into lockdown, while Beijing city authorities have stepped up screening and prevention measures.
Across China, the number of new asymptomatic cases rose to 81 from 76 a day earlier. Far fewer are expected to hit the road this year, and many provinces have asked migrant workers to stay put during the break.
Underscoring the risk of the spread, the city of Changchun - the capital of northeastern Jilin province - reported seven new asymptomatic patients on January 11, four of whom had travelled from Wangkui recently.
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Updated Top 10 Prospects (2018): Arizona Diamondbacks: Three Intriguing Names Carry System
Arizona’s system isn’t necessarily going to blow you away with talent, but there are a few intriguing names that could all take significant leaps forward in 2018. Pavin Smith, Jon Duplantier and Marcus Wilson could all emerge by mid-year, the question is who has the highest upside? Are there any other names worth tracking? Let’s take a look at how things look, after one of the more “known” names, Anthony Banda, was recently shipped out:
1) Pavin Smith – First Baseman
ETA – 2020
Grade – B+
Smith was selected seventh overall in the 2017 draft, and playing at Low-A he quickly displayed why he was considered one of the better bats in the draft class. Over 223 PA he hit .318, walking (27) more than he struck out (24) and displaying an ability to make consistent contact (6.7% SwStr%). The problem was the lack of power he displayed, though he did show a propensity for extra base hits:
Doubles – 15
Triples – 2
Home Runs – 0
The belief is that there is more power for him to tap into, but that’s something we’ve seen from similar players in recent years (look at Josh Bell, for instance, who turned a strong approach and matured into power). Don’t write him off and assume the power won’t develop, as it’s easier to imagine more home runs than a player suddenly developing the approach/discipline Smith already owns.
2) Jon Duplantier – Right-Handed Pitcher
In his first full season of professional baseball Duplantier split time between Single-A (72.2 IP) and High-A (63.1 IP) showing promise at each level:
Single-A – 9.66 K/9, 1.86 BB/9, 50.0% GB%
High-A – 12.36 K/9, 3.84 BB/9, 51.9% GB%
All told he generated a 14.0% SwStr%, and when coupled with the other skills there’s a lot to like. We also have to remember that he was older for the levels he pitched, having turned 23-years old during the year, and has battled arm issues in the past. This coming year, where he’ll likely start at Double-A, will be telling and it wouldn’t be surprising to see him emerge as the team’s top prospect.
3) Marcus Wilson – Outfielder
There are many prospects like Wilson out there, as no one is going to question the power/speed potential. Over 383 AB at Single-A he hit 9 HR with 15 SB, while also adding 21 doubles and 5 triples. The thing is, while many others have questions about their approach, Wilson was a different story:
Strikeouts – 20.1%
Walks – 12.3%
Those numbers could regress as he advances, but a 9.1% SwStr% supports the performance (and potentially an improvement). It’s a major step forward from 2016 (when he posted an 11.5% SwStr%), and if he can back it up you are going to see him start to fly up prospect rankings (in fact, he could move up to a B+ or A- by mid-year).
4) Daulton Varsho – Catcher
Grade – B-
He has the lineage, as the son of former catcher Gary Varsho, and performed well in his first taste of professional baseball (.311 with 7 HR and 7 SB over 212 PA at Low-A). Throw in 16 doubles and 3 triples and it’s clear that there’s power potential to go with a little bit more speed than a normal catcher. Playing as a 20-year old his plate discipline was also solid, with a 14.2% strikeout rate courtesy of a 9.1% SwStr%, so the package presents itself well (especially for a catcher). There are some questions about his arm and if he’s forced to move out from behind the plate the skill set likely wouldn’t look as promising. For now he’s an intriguing player to watch progress after being selected 68th overall in the 2017 draft.
5) Taylor Clarke – Right-Handed Pitcher
ETA – Already Arrived
Grade – C+
Clarke thrived at Double-A last season (2.91 ERA, 1.19 WHIP) over 111.1 IP while he showed strikeouts (8.65 K/9) and control (3.15 BB/9). He was pushed to Triple-A for a half dozen starts and those proved to be disastrous, as he allowed 8 HR over his 33.2 IP (2.14 HR/9). That could be a consistent issue, as he struggled generating groundballs at both levels he pitched:
Double-A – 38.7%
Triple-A – 33.7%
The institution of a humidor will help him while pitching in Arizona, but the home run risks coupled with pedestrian control indicate that he could be an average pitcher (at best).
The Next Five:
6) Domingo Leyba – Shortstop (Grade – C+)
7) Drew Ellis – Third Baseman (Grade – C+)
8) Jasrado Chisholm – Shotystop (Grade – C)
9) Jhoan Duran – Right-Handed Pitcher (Grade – C)
Note – Part of the reason Duran isn’t ranked higher than this is that he hasn’t pitched above Low-A and carries a lot of risk. That said there’s significant upside, as the recently turned 20-year old displayed control (3.03 BB/9), groundballs (54.1%) and strikeout potential (14.3% SwStr%). He’s definitely a prospect to watch closely.
10) Gabriel Maciel – Outfielder (Grade – C)
Sources – Fangraphs, MLB.com, MILB.com
Make sure to check out all of our 2018 Preseason Top 10 Prospect Lists:
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New York Yankees Detroit Tigers Oakland A's
Tampa Bay Rays Kansas City Royals Seattle Mariners
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Miami Marlins Cincinnati Reds Colorado Rockies
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MLB’s Top 100 Prospects (Preseason 2018 Edition)
We’ve broken down the top prospects for each team (click here for the index) and we’ve broken them down by position (click here for the index), so all that’s left to do is our Top 100 Prospects! There’s little question regarding who the top prospects around the game are, but how do they rank?
It shouldn’t be surprising that the list is once again dominated by Pitchers, Shortstops and Outfielders, as that is clearly where the talent is focused. With that said, how do things shake out? Where do the top prospects at the other positions fit in? Let’s take a look:
Position Rank
1. Ronald Acuna Atlanta Braves OF (1) A
2. Victor Robles Washington Nationals OF (2) A
3. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. Toronto Blue Jays 3B (1) A
4. Fernando Tatis Jr. San Diego Padres SS (1) A
5. Shohei Ohtani Los Angeles Angels RHP (1) A
6. Eloy Jimenez Chicago White Sox OF (3) A
7. Kyle Tucker Houston Astros OF (4) A
8. Forrest Whitley Houston Astros RHP (2) A
9. Gleyber Torres New York Yankees SS (2) A
10. Nick Senzel Cincinnati Reds 3B (2) A
11. Mitch Keller Pittsburgh Pirates RHP (3) A
12. Brent Honeywell Tampa Bay Rays RHP (4) A
13. Hunter Greene Cincinnati Reds RHP (5) A
14. Alex Reyes St. Louis Cardinals RHP (6) A-
15. A.J. Puk Oakland A's LHP (7) A-
16. Scott Kingery Philadelphia Phillies 2B (1) A-
17. Lewis Brinson Miami Marlins OF (5) A-
18. Sixto Sanchez Philadelphia Phillies RHP (8) A-
19. Juan Soto Washington Nationals OF (6) A-
20. Bo Bichette Toronto Blue Jays SS (3) A-
21. Michael Kopech Chicago White Sox RHP (9) A-
22. MacKenzie Gore San Diego Padres LHP (10) A-
23. Francisco Mejia Cleveland Indians C (1) A-
24. Corbin Burnes Milwaukee Brewers RHP (11) A-
25. Cal Quantrill San Diego Padres RHP (12) A-
26. Brendan Rodgers Colorado Rockies SS (4) A-
27. Taylor Trammell Cincinnati Reds OF (7) A-
28. Koby Allard Atlanta Braves LHP (13) A-
29. Leody Taveras Texas Rangers OF (8) B+
30. Walker Buehler Los Angeles Dodgers RHP (14) B+
31. Triston McKenzie Cleveland Indians RHP (15) B+
32. Anthony Alford Toronto Blue Jays OF (9) B+
33. Luis Robert Chicago White Sox OF (10) B+
34. Jay Groome Boston Red Sox LHP (16) B+
35. Brendan McKay Tampa Bay Rays RHP/1B (17) B+
36. Willie Calhoun Texas Rangers OF (11) B+
37. Royce Lewis Minnesota Twins SS (5) B+
38. Keibert Ruiz Los Angeles Dodgers C (2) B+
39. Fernando Romero Minnesota Twins RHP (18) B+
40. Dane Dunning Chicago White Sox RHP (19) B+
41. Austin Hays Baltimore Orioles OF (12) B+
42. Julio Pablo Martinez Texas Rangers OF (13) B+
43. Franklin Barreto Oakland A's SS (6) B+
44. Yordan Alvarez Houston Astros 1B (1) B+
45. Jorge Mateo Oakland A's SS (7) B+
46. Pavin Smith Arizona Diamondbacks 1B (2) B+
47. Jon Duplantier Arizona Diamondbacks RHP (20) B+
48. Justus Sheffield New York Yankees LHP (21) B+
49. Mitchell White Los Angeles Dodgers RHP (22) B+
50. Ryan Mountcastle Baltimore Orioles SS (8) B+
51. Adrian Morejon San Diego Padres LHP (23) B+
52. Willy Adames Tampa Bay Rays SS (9) B+
53. Mike Soroka Atlanta Braves RHP (24) B+
54. Luiz Gohara Atlanta Braves LHP (25) B+
55. Kyle Wright Atlanta Braves RHP (26) B+
56. J.P. Crawford Philadelphia Phillies SS (10) B+
57. Peter Alonso New York Mets 1B (3) B+
58. J.B. Bukauskas Houston Astros RHP (27) B+
59. Ryan McMahon Colorado Rockies 1B (4) B+
60. Kevin Maitan Los Angeles Angels SS (11) B+
61. T.J. Zeuch Toronto Blue Jays RHP (28) B+
62. Colton Welker Colorado Rockies 3B (3) B+
63. Carson Kelly St. Louis Cardinals C (3) B+
64. Kyle Lewis Seattle Mariners OF (14) B+
65. David Peterson New York Mets LHP (29) B+
66. Dylan Cease Chicago White Sox RHP (30) B+
67. Ian Anderson Atlanta Braves RHP (31) B+
68. Jesus Lazardo Oakland A's LHP (32) B
69. Chance Adams New York Yankees RHP (33) B
70. Miguel Andujar New York Yankees 3B (4) B
71. Keston Hiura Milwaukee Brewers 2B (2) B
72. Dustin Fowler Oakland A's OF (15) B
73. Garrett Hampson Colorado Rockies 2B (3) B
74. Cole Tucker Pittsburgh Pirates SS (12) B
75. Bobby Bradley Cleveland Indians 1B (5) B
76. Franklin Perez Detroit Tigers RHP (34) B
77. Austin Meadows Pittsburgh Pirates OF (16) B
78. Marcus Wilson Arizona Diamondbacks OF (17) B
79. Michael Chavis Boston Red Sox 3B (5) B
80. Austin Riley Atlanta Braves 3B (6) B
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83. Joey Lucchesi San Diego Padres LHP (36) B
84. Michael Baez San Diego Padres RHP (37) B
85. Daz Cameron Detroit Tigers OF (19) B
86. Jack Flaherty St. Louis Cardinals RHP (38) B
87. Evan White Seattle Mariners 1B (6) B
88. Alex Verdugo Los Angeles Dodgers OF (20) B
89. Jo Adell Los Angeles Angels OF (21) B
90. Oscar Mercado St. Louis Cardinals OF (22) B
91. Yadier Alvarez Los Angeles Dodgers RHP (39) B
92. Austin Beck Oakland A's OF (23) B
93. Heliot Ramos San Francisco Giants OF (24) B
94. David Paulino Houston Astros RHP (40) B
95. Nick Neidhart Miami Marlins RHP (41) B
96. Nate Pearson Toronto Blue Jays RHP (42) B
97. Carter Kieboom Washington Nationals SS (13) B
98. Jose Albertos Chicago Cubs RHP (43) B
99. Luis Urias San Diego Padres 2B (4) B
100. Riley Pint Colorado Rockies RHP (44) B
Rotoprofessor | 2 comments
Love the aggressive Fernando Romero ranking!
First time I’ve seen Austin Beck in a top 100…I like it, but Lararo Armentaros maybe even a better bet. His power is yet to show, but it’s there. He is at least making contact any hovering around .300 well above Mendoza line…just not his ops.
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Magazine Journalism
Tim Holmes
Liz Nice
Publisher:SAGE Publications Ltd
Discipline: Media, Communication & Cultural Studies
Subject:Journalism, Mass Communication
adolescent children, advertising, email, journalism, journalists, socialisation, women's magazines
Magazines are the most successful media format ever to have existed and so begins Magazine Journalism as it traces how magazines arose from their earliest beginnings in 1665 to become the ubiquitous format we know today. This book combats the assumptions among media academics as well as journalists that magazines somehow don't count, and presents a compelling assessment of the development and innovation at the heart of magazine publishing.
In magazines we find some of the key debates in journalism, from the genesis of ‘marketing to the reader’ to feminist history, subcultures and tabloidization. Embedding these questions in a thoroughly historical framework, the authors argue for an understanding of magazine journalism as essential in the media landscape. Moving beyond the semiotic and textual analysis so favored ...
Journalism Studies: Key Texts
Chapter 1: Magazines: A Historical Survey
Chapter 2: The Political Economy of Magazines
Chapter 3: The Magazine Workforce
Chapter 4: Skills and Policy Developments
Chapter 5: Contemporary Practices
Chapter 6: The International Perspective
Chapter 7: Theorising the Field
Chapter 8: Future Directions
Holmes, T., & Nice, L. (2012). Magazine journalism. SAGE Publications Ltd, https://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781446288597
Holmes, Tim, and Liz Nice. Magazine Journalism. Journalism Studies: Key Texts. London: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781446288597.
Holmes, T. and Nice, L. 2012. Magazine Journalism. Journalism Studies: Key Texts. London: SAGE Publications Ltd. Available at: <http://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781446288597> [Accessed 19 Jan 2021].
Holmes, Tim and Liz Nice. Magazine Journalism. London: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2012. SAGE Knowledge, Journalism Studies: Key Texts, 19 Jan 2021, doi: http://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781446288597.
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Confident Stags Playing With Freedom, Says Son
Tampines Rovers vs Geylang International
(29 June, Thursday, 7.30pm, Jurong West Stadium)
Written by: Shawn Lim
A confident Tampines Rovers will look to extend their unbeaten run in the Great Eastern-Hyundai S.League when they welcome rivals Geylang International at the Jurong West Stadium on Thursday night.
The Stags, who are currently on a three-game winning run and have four wins in their last five league matches, are a team playing with confidence according to midfielder Son Yong Chan.
âWinning consecutively definitely boosts the teamâs morale and the atmosphere in the dressing room is a very positive one,â explained Son.
âHowever, we still need work hard to continue getting positive results. Every game in S.League is a challenge, so we cannot be complacent and we have to approach each game with a good mindset each time.
Another reason for Tampinesâ current upbeat mood is the return of striker Fazrul Nawaz from a long-term injury layoff and left-sided player Hafiz Sujad who has re-signed with the Stags after returning from his stint in Thailand.
For Son, the addition of the two Singapore internationals midway through the season has given the team a second wind and the Korean is eager to learn and play with them.
âFazrul and Hafiz are one of the best strikers and midfielders in Singapore, so we have more options in attacking,â said the 26-year-old.
âThey are hardworking and skillful players, so there are many things to learn from them. I am also looking forward to playing with them on a daily basis.â
Son has formed a perfect understanding with playmaker Shahdan Sulaiman in the middle of the park for the Stags and he has nothing but praise for the Singapore international.
âMy partnership with Shahdan is perfect, we complement each other very well,â explained the Korean.
âSince he is an attacking player and I’m in a more defensive role, the teamwork and understanding is really good. He always encourages me and gives me good advice. I look up to him.â
Meanwhile, Geylang has a new man in the dugout, albeit an interim one, as assistant coach Noor Ali has taken over the first team coaching duties from Hasrin Jailani.
Noor Ali took charge of his first game for the Eagles in their RHB Singapore Cup tie against invitee Global Cebu FC, mounting an incredible comeback to draw 4-4 after extra-time before losing on penalties.
The former Singapore international will be hoping his charges can display the same resilience against the Stags and arrest their troubling form in the S.League, where they have only one win in their last four games.
Geylang will have no suspension to contend with, while Fazli Ayob will miss out after picking up his fourth yellow of the season.
Suspension: Fazli Ayob (Tampines Rovers)
Tampines Rovers – WLWWW
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04/08/16 Tampines Rovers 2-1 Geylang International
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2014 GMC Sierra 4WD Crew Cab SLT All-Terrain
July 16, 2014 by Andrew Ling Leave a Comment
“In this brand new Chevy with a lift kit, would look a hell of a lot better with you up in it”.
You know you’ve made it into the big leagues (or at least pop culture) when your brand continues to make it into the lyrics of country music songs.
While my tester for this review isn’t a Chevrolet, it’s the GMC equivalent and for all intents and purposes, the same basic truck.
The GMC Sierra has been winning accolades in the motoring press ever since its debut last year for the 2014 model year. It even won the coveted Automobile Journalists Association of Canada’s “Best New Pickup” award, no small feat as this award results from rigorous back-to-back testing and is based on a combination of objective data and evaluation by 80 journalists.
To test out GMC’s latest definition of their “Professional Grade” mantra, I borrowed the keys to a 2014 Sierra 4×4 Crew Cab SLT fitted with the All-Terrain package.
Giddy-up!
“If it ain’t broken, don’t fix it”.
Even though General Motors says that their Sierra is the most powerful, most advanced, and most refined truck in the brand’s 111-year history, the latest iteration is an evolution rather than a revolution of its predecessor.
Former owners will find an update of a familiar shape, but designers have added new details such as halogen projector headlamps, LED daytime running lights, and a new grill.
My All-Terrain Edition Sierra gave up most of its chrome bits and bobs for body-colour trim pieces as part of the package. I thought that the monochromatic effect was rather sporty and less blingy. But the All-Terrain package includes much more than just a unique exterior appearance. More on that later.
There is certainly more than enough variation in Sierra’s available trim lines to suit your penchant for chrome or whatever else you may prefer.
The new snout has been carefully engineered to improve sealing for more efficient cooling. Meanwhile, the roof and tailgate spoiler were shaped in the wind tunnel to smooth airflow over the truck for reduced drag. New inlaid doors, which fit into recesses in the bodyside, reduce wind noise for a quieter cab.
The new cab is also stronger with two-thirds of the structure now made from high-strength steel for improved safety, ride and handling. The main frame rails and cross members have also been upgraded to the same high-strength steel and hydroformed for reduced mass and improved strength.
Crew cab customers, who now represent more than 60% of retail Sierra owners, can choose between two bed lengths: a new 6-foot, 6-inch box is available in addition to the standard 5-foot, 8-inch box. Regular cabs continue to be available with the 6-foot, 6-inch or 8-foot box lengths, while the double cab will come exclusively with a 6-foot, 6-inch box.
Most Sierras also now feature a rear chrome bumper with standard corner steps (a la the discontinued Chevy Avalanche) that make climbing into the bed easy regardless of whether the tailgate is up or down. My All-Terrain package’s monochromatic bumper sacrifices these corner steps for the monotone paint job.
Four movable upper tie downs in the bed are also standard and can be placed in nine different locations. These adjustable units can bear a sizable 250-pound (113 kg) load.
I also appreciated the available LED cargo lights integrated beneath the bed rails. These hidden LEDs help to light the bed with a flick of a switch or when a tonneau cover is in place.
Finally, borrowed from the Toyota Tundra is the addition of a no-slam tailgate. An integrated torsion bar and damper assists with lifting and lowering the tailgate. This is sure to be a feature that everyone will now expect from all future pickup trucks.
Whether it has been in a Chevy, a GMC, or a Cadillac, General Motors’ latest interiors have seemed to hit it out of the park. The new Sierra’s is the rule rather than the exception.
The inside is a really nice improvement over its predecessor and I’m happy to say that the panel gaps and hard plastics are gone. In its place we get a Denali-grade interior with new soft-touch premium materials.
The redesigned interior was supposedly focused on maximizing usable and productive space and it tells.
Up front are comfortable leather seats – front buckets with a faux carbon fibre pattern in the case of my All-Terrain model. GM says that the Sierra’s seats use dual-density foam designed to stay comfortable over long hours. Something that I can attest to on a 2.5 hour jaunt out of town to Whistler, BC.
The seats are also designed to continue looking great after years of use, an important factor considering the serious beating that these trucks go through as tools of the trade.
A new upright instrument panel with a large 8” touchscreen infotainment is the one of the stars of the show. The Intellilink-connected system has a relatively intuitive layout with easy-to-read high-resolution icons that control audio, Bluetooth phone, and navigation features.
The newly designed knobs and buttons are large and easily within reach. The rubberized coating makes it easy to grip even through gloves.
There are no less than 5 USB ports, 4 twelve-volt outlets, and even an AC inverter that sit in front of a clever rubberized rail in the centre console. This rail is moulded to hold electronic devices steadily without them flopping or sliding while being charged. So simple but yet clever.
Along the centre stack and console are additional cupholders and compartments that are large enough for several laptop computers. A 2nd high-mounted storage box with a flat floor joins the traditional box below.
One thing is for sure. You’ll definitely not run out of storage space in this truck!
SO HOW DOES IT DRIVE?
If you’re a previous Sierra owner, prepare to be extra impressed. Even with an empty pickup truck bed, the Sierra rides well on everyday streets. There is a lack of axle hop and the body motions are well controlled even on poor roads. This is even more impressive given that my All-Terrain model included the Z71 off-road suspension with stiffer Rancho shocks.
New shear-style body mounts are designed to tune out both up-and-down and side-to-side movement for a quieter, more comfortable ride. Double cab and crew cab models now also have a set of hydraulic body mounts to further isolate the cabs. The result is a solid, refined feel with no loss in traditional truck capability.
Steering feel is also surprisingly good for a full-sized truck. Well-weighted, precise, and surprisingly quick. It’s even more impressive when you discover that this is an electric unit and not a hydraulic one.
To motivate the Sierra 1500, my test vehicle was equipped with GM’s new 5.3L EcoTec3 direct-injection V8. This mill is good for 355 hp and 383 ft-lbs of torque. Not only is it pleasantly quiet but also has the ability to shut down half its cylinders to sip less fuel. In fact, GM claims that it offers the best fuel efficiency of any V8 pickup truck and even beats the fuel economy estimates of Ford’s EcoBoost V6 engine.
While I found the V8 to be sufficiently powerful, especially considering the truck’s 5607 lb curb weight, two things bugged me. Firstly, the engine response feels lazy and the throttle response was a bit lacking when compared with the eager-to-rev i-Force V8 in the Toyota Tundra. Secondly, when the engine switches over from V8 to V4 mode, the change in engine noise was more noticeable than expected.
While there was never a lack of power on demand, there is a noticeable increase in coarseness when the engine is in 4-cylinders mode.
Several new active safety features also make their debut including Forward Collision Alert, which uses a forward-facing camera to notify the driver of an imminent collision, and Lane Departure Warning, which uses the same camera to track the truck’s position in relation to a road’s lane markers. Oddly though, the Sierra was not available with a blindspot warning system. Something that would’ve been useful in such a long vehicle.
Paired with Forward Collision Alert and Land Departure Warning is GMC’s first-ever Driver Alert Seat, which generates vibrating pulse patterns on the left and/or right side of the lower seat cushion bolster to alert the driver of potential dangers, such as an un-signaled lane change or approaching another vehicle too quickly.
My vehicle was also equipped with the MAX trailering package which included a handy integrated brake controller, enhanced cooling radiator, and a 3.73 tow friendly axle ratio.
MORE ON THE ALL-TERRAIN PACKAGE
The available All-Terrain package is much more than just for appearances. To keep going even when the pavement ends, it adds the Z71 Off-Road Suspension with monotube Rancho Tenneco shocks, Hill Descent Control, a high-capacity air cleaner, underbody transfer case shield protection, an auto locking rear differential, and all-terrain tires and unique polished aluminum wheels.
I had a chance to put the Sierra through some light off-roading when meeting a couple of friends who were camping and clay pigeon shooting up in Fury Creek, British Columbia.
In order to access their location, I had drive up and down a few wide but moderately rocky paths. While this was certainly far from exceeding the Sierra’s capabilities, the 4WD low range mode, traction control, and Hill Descent Control all worked as advertised.
Hill Descent Control worked particularly well in utilizing the ABS to keep the truck at a smooth and constant descent speed down the rocky paths. All I had to do was to keep both feet off the pedals and to concentrate on steering.
GMC has been manufacturing trucks since 1902 and their experience in this category is unquestionable. With the importance of the pickup truck segment in Canada, the latest iteration of the Sierra will no doubt delight its GMC fans.
Between it and its bow-tie Chevy Silverado sibling, the Sierra strikes me as the more attractive of the two GM full-size trucks.
As I mentioned in my review of the Toyota Tundra, pickup truck owners are one of the most loyal in the industry and will fiercely defend their choice of vehicles. The question is whether GM can win over these pundits from Ford, Dodge, and even Toyota.
If I have one other criticism of the Sierra, it is the very thing that will make it popular amongst its current customers. That it is too familiar of a shape, and perhaps a tad too evolutionary rather than revolutionary.
With Ford’s all-aluminum 2015 F-150 about to hit the showroom floors in just a few weeks time, it will be interesting to see how the Sierra’s and Silverado’s sales numbers will be affected.
In the meantime, consider me a GMC Sierra fan and also my current top recommednation in the pickup truck category.
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Amy Schumer View Comments Ellen DeGeneres Zooey Deschanel Elizabeth Banks A Tina Fey-Amy Poehler stage collab? Yes, please. A tuner to show off Zooey Deschanel’s pipes? Sign us up. A Bridesmaids musical starring Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph and Melissa McCarthy? Bring it. Funny girls do it better, and it’s about time we saw some of our faves from the small screen and the standup circuit take the Great White Way by storm. In honor of Funny Girl’s 52nd anniversary, we rounded up the female celebs that have left us in stitches. Here are the top 10 funny gals you want to see make Broadway debuts! Kristen Wiig (Photos: CR, Universal, Peter Kramer/NBC, Dewey Nicks/FOX & Robert Voets/Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.) Amy Poehler Tina Fey Maya Rudolph Kate McKinnon Melissa McCarthy read more
Landscape Grasses
Landscapers can soon add a bit of Georgia’s historical Piedmont and native prairies to their designs thanks to the creation of three new little bluestem perennial grasses, released through a University of Georgia and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) partnership.Little bluestem grasses are native to North America and are a major component of the tallgrass prairie. They typically produce green to blue-green foliage. With names that conjure up thoughts of the ‘70s, the new little bluestem varieties are much more colorful than their traditional parents. ‘Cinnamon Girl’ has a red-burgundy glow, ‘Seasons in the Sun’ has a lavender glow and ‘Good Vibrations’ is a mix of colors: red-purple with green-yellow foliage.The idea to breed the colorful grasses came from USDA scientist Melanie Harrison. Harrison curates more than 500 different species of grasses and safely cold stores them in the USDA Plant Genetic Resources Conservation Unit facility on the UGA campus in Griffin, Georgia. Most of these grasses will never be grown in home landscapes, but their genes may be used to breed specific characteristics into new grass varieties.Looking at little bluestems day after day, Harrison began to notice ornamental characteristics.“My job is to conserve close to 500 different species of grasses, so there’s a lot of variety,” she said. “I thought they were pretty, but I’m not a plant breeder, so I asked Carol (Robacker) what she thought.”Carol Robacker, a UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences horticulturist, is Harrison’s colleague on the UGA Griffin campus. She was also Harrison’s major professor when Harrison was earning her doctoral degree in the college’s horticulture department.Their 2006 conversation about the little bluestems led to a research partnership that, 10 years later, resulted in the three new varieties of these grasses.Having bred numerous abelia and vitex varieties, Robacker knows that home gardeners and professional landscapers like to have a variety of plants to choose from, but they don’t always know how to use them.“Little bluestem is growing in popularity, but people don’t know where to plant it,” she said. “It does well in mass plantings mixed with other plants. And it’s very attractive when the wind blows.”Little bluestems are low maintenance, and the new varieties are bred specifically for Georgia. The grasses retain their color in hot, Georgia summers and go dormant in the winter. And, Robacker said, the color is “more intense in areas of north Georgia, like Blairsville.” After dieback, the grasses should be cut back in early spring.“They are at their peak in May, June and July, and then they provide some pretty fall color,” Robacker said.“Planted en masse, bluestems are very peaceful and they make great habitats for wildlife,” Harrison said. “Birds use them for nesting and protection. They also provide nutritious seeds for the birds.”Patents have been applied for, and the research team now seeks someone to license the new varieties. read more
GMP powers up three new solar projects
Green Mountain Power has flipped the switch on three new solar projects, bringing its total solar installations to five and exceeding its goal of installing and helping its customers install 10,000 solar panels in 1,000 days.These newest projects include the solar orchard at Shelburne Farms, the roof of the GMP Montpelier Service Center, and a project that is currently the state’s largest, next to one of GMP’s fossil fuel generating plants in Berlin. All three were designed and installed by Alteris Renewables, Inc., of Montpelier.”We are proud to have topped our 10,000 solar panel goal,” President and CEO Mary Powell said. “We are now at 14,000 panels and aiming high. Our customers clearly want more solar and we are determined to help provide it.”The new solar installations by Green Mountain Power and its efforts to help its customers to do the same is a component of the company’s overall plan to reduce the state’s carbon footprint though the deployment of more renewable generation. The number of GMP customers who have installed solar has more than quadrupled since the beginning of 2009.GMP-owned projects include:A 150 kw system at Shelburne Farms (530 solar panels).A 138 kw system at the GMP Montpelier Service Center’s rooftop (616 panels).The 200 kw solar array installation at the company’s Berlin facility, currently the largest in the state (952 panels).A 58-kilowatt system at its Westminster Service Center (308 panels).A 4-kilowatt solar array for its Colchester headquarters, which powers its two plug-in hybrid vehicles (20 panels). The solar panels for the Berlin site are located on the same parcel of land as Green Mountain Power’s 50 megawatt conventional fossil fuel fired facility, which operates only during peak hours, just a few hundred hours per year.”We especially appreciate seeing the solar panels generating electricity in the same space as our fossil fuel plant, because adding renewable generating during peak periods, as solar does, decreases the likelihood that our costly, high emission fossil fuel plant will be called on to start generating emergency power,” said Powell.Shelburne Farms’ President Alec Webb views the completed project onsite as a way of supporting local energy systems and demonstrating natural resource stewardship. “We are grateful for the opportunity to partner with Green Mountain Power’s SolarGMP program on reducing our carbon footprint and enhancing the Farm’s educational resources.””Customer owned solar is a cost effective way of helping to meet electric energy needs when power use is high on hot sunny days,” said Ms. Powell. “The amount of electricity generated from solar is that much less power that has to be purchased from the New England regional energy market during peak times, which comes from more expensive and more carbon-emitting sources.”While it took two months to build the Berlin solar plant, a time-lapse video on Green Mountain Power’s website shows it in 40 seconds. Available at http://www.choose2bgreen.com/what-gmp-is-doing/solar-projects/berlin-sol…(link is external).More information about all the solar projects are available here: http://www.choose2bgreen.com/what-gmp-is-doing/solar-projects.html(link is external).About Green Mountain PowerGreen Mountain Power (www.greenmountainpower.com(link is external)) generates, transmits, distributes and sells electricity in the State of Vermont. It serves more than 175,000 people and businesses.Source: COLCHESTER, VT–(Marketwire – November 04, 2010) – Green Mountain Power read more
Interior Sec. Zinke Recommends Shrinking a “Handful” of National Monuments
Yesterday, Donald Trump’s Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke turned over his long-awaited recommendations regarding 27 national monuments that the administration put in its cross hairs for possible alterations back in April.While Zinke did not recommend that any of the monuments—all of which were designated by either Barrack Obama, Bill Clinton or George W. Bush—be completely rescinded, he did tell the Associated Press that he’d like to see some boundary adjustments (read shrinkage) and would prefer to loosen restrictions on extraction in a “handful” of the 27 national monuments. His statement was vague, however, as he declined to pinpoint which monuments he has targeted for boundary adjustments and decreased protections.According to the Washington Post, which spoke to multiple individuals briefed on the recommendations, Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument and Grand Staircase-Escalante, as well as Oregon’s Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, will all be slated for size reductions if Zinke’s recommendations go into effect.More proposed border adjustments and decreased land protections could be announced in the coming days when Zinke’s report is made public.Since assuming the helm of the Department of the Interior, Ryan Zinke, a former Senator and Navy SEAL from Montana, has styled himself an advocate and proponent of public lands in the vein of Teddy Roosevelt, but his recent recommendations have conservationists worried that his tenure could ultimately compromise Roosevelt’s public lands legacy.“The recommendations within Secretary Ryan Zinke‘s National Monument Review could negatively impact key fish & wildlife habitat, reduce outdoor opportunities, and undermine the Antiquities Act that has enabled the long-term protection of millions of acres,” reads a statement released yesterday by Backcountry Hunters and Anglers, a conservation organization out of Missoula Montana.The Antiquities Act, which was signed into law by Roosevelt himself in 1906, affords presidents the legal authority to designate national monuments, but many argue that it does not give the executive branch the power to alter or rescind previous designations—as Trump and Zinke are now clearly attempting to do.“Any actions that would dismantle these natural wonders would violate Americans’ deep and abiding love for parks and public lands and fly in the face of 2.8 million Americans who expressed opposition to these changes,” said President of the Wilderness Society, Jamie Williams in a e posted to the organization’s website. “We and millions of other Americans stand by the belief that those lands should be preserved and handed down to future generations. We urge President Trump to ignore these illegal and dangerous recommendations and instead act to preserve these beloved places.”For his part, Donald Trump has expressed disdain for the size and amount of national monuments declared by his previous three predecessors, calling the designations a “massive federal land grab” during an executive order signing at the Department of Interior back in April.“It’s time to end these abuses and return control to the people, the people of Utah, the people of all of the states, the people of the United States,” Trump went on to say.Stay tuned as we continue to cover this important and ongoing public lands issue. read more
Robert Moses: The Last Master Builder
Sign up for our COVID-19 newsletter to stay up-to-date on the latest coronavirus news throughout New York The one person who did more than any other human being to shape the future of Long Island was born in Connecticut on Dec. 18, 1888, and died at Good Samaritan Hospital in West Islip in 1981. Robert Moses never got a driver’s license but Long Islanders would get nowhere fast without his roads today—even though his Northern Parkway and the Southern State have long been obsolete. He regarded Nassau and Suffolk as the state’s playgrounds for New York City’s middle-class whites but without his vision for open space, there’d be far fewer parks here bigger than a village green. He never held elected office yet he wielded an unprecedented amount of political power.“If there wasn’t a Moses, New York State and Long Island would be a far poorer place,” says Dr. Lee Koppelman, Suffolk County’s former master planner and the director of Stony Brook University’s Center for Regional Policy Studies, where he still teaches. “There will never be another one in the State of New York—the politicians wouldn’t tolerate it.”Moses was full of contradictions: a builder, a bigot, a reformer, a bully, a social engineer, a misanthrope, and, without a doubt, a genius. Robert Caro, the former Newsday reporter who wrote the masterful 1974 Pulitzer-Prize-winning biography, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, called him “a dreamer,” “a very courageous idealist” and “a visionary” who could all too easily overlook “the human cost” of his projects. In his monumental book, Caro depicted Moses’ heartless destruction of a Bronx neighborhood, East Tremont, to make way for the Cross-Bronx Expressway, his callous disregard of Suffolk farmers shoved aside to accommodate the Northern State Parkway and the breathtaking transformation of “a barren, deserted, windswept sand spit,” which Moses had first seen in 1922, into the spectacular oceanfront park called Jones Beach, which draws millions and millions of people every summer.In 1967, Caro met Moses for the first time at his summer cottage in Oak Beach, where the second-floor living room had a large picture window at one end with a stunning panorama encompassing the Robert Moses Causeway and the 200-foot high red brick tower that is the centerpiece of Robert Moses State Park. Caro wrote later in an article for The New Yorker that it had taken him two years to arrange that interview because Moses had made it crystal clear that a biography was the last thing he ever wanted to see.“He was then at the very height of his power,” wrote Caro, “with absolute discretion over the awarding of contracts by city or state in every field of public works, and the word had gone out that no architect, engineer, or contractor who spoke to me would ever receive another such contract.”But Caro, like Moses, would not be deterred until he could tell the whole story. Moses held power from 1924 to 1968, until opposition that had begun building on Long Island finally coalesced into a force strong enough to derail him once and for all. Moses had outlasted six governors.LOOK ON HIS WORKS“He was not a planner, he was a builder,” says Koppelman. The distinction has made all the difference to Long Island’s development. When Moses built his parkways to connect the sweltering urban masses to his verdant parklands, he laid the groundwork for the suburbs.Builders followed his infrastructure, snapping up the property while it was still the boondocks. Nassau and Suffolk were the two fastest-growing counties in the 1950s, according to Koppelman.“The municipalities were the handmaidens of the developers,” he says. “There was no real planning. The politicians and the developers were calling the shots.”“All the ills of suburbia weren’t really Moses’ fault,” says Richard Murdocco, a former project coordinator with the Long Island Pine Barrens Society now at Teachers Federal Credit Union in Suffolk, whose master’s thesis at Stony Brook University dealt with Moses’ impact on the Island. “He wasn’t a subdivision builder.”H. Lee Dennison, the first Suffolk County executive, took Koppelman, his new master planner, to meet Moses for the first time in 1960 when “RM,” as insiders knew him, was then the Long Island State Park commissioner, among a dozen other job titles he held simultaneously.“I knew that he hated planners with a passion,” Koppelman says. Moses, who was in his shirt sleeves, asked them if they wanted lunch. “Stupidly, I said no!” he says. Then Moses’ private chef brought in a “simple plate, with lettuce and tomato and some roast beef.” After Moses finished eating, he told them there was going to be a $100 million bond issue to help counties and cities acquire open space for parks.“I said I hadn’t heard of this bond issue, and he said he hadn’t presented it to the legislature yet—that’s how he operated!” says Koppelman with a laugh. After the measure passed, Suffolk got “the overwhelming majority” of the money from Moses, he explained, “so Long Island was the major beneficiary of his programs.”In the 1960s, people were beginning to see the other side of the progress Moses promised.Take his goal of running the Ocean Parkway out to the Hamptons, which meant replacing seaside residencies on Fire Island with a four-lane fixed roadway atop an 18-foot sand dune. Homeowners suddenly realized that their houses would be wiped out by RM, not by a hurricane. “The opposition to Moses,” says Koppelman, “started on the South Shore with the people of Fire Island.”As Caro so brilliantly reported, Moses had previously only bowed to the robber barons of the Gold Coast—the estates “clustered around the little village of Old Westbury” and those wealthy holdings in western Suffolk like Otto Kahn’s private golf course—by bending the Northern Parkway away from Wheatley Hills and Dix Hills, and agreeing never to connect it to a state park, which explains why the route stops today just short of Caleb Smith State Park in Hauppauge while the Southern State runs directly into Heckscher State Park, the former Taylor Estate in East Islip.Moses’ plan to extend the Seaford-Oyster Bay Expressway north to Bayville for the Oyster Bay/Rye Bridge was his Waterloo.“He was going through all the freshwater wetlands in the Town of Oyster Bay,” Koppelman says. “Second of all, he was going through Gatsby country—that’s where the estates are and where the multi-millionaires are, and they were not too happy with the thought of an expressway going through their community.”On the other side of the Sound, Connecticut’s powerful Democratic Sen. Abraham Ribicoff, an ardent environmentalist, denied Moses any federal highway dollars for the project. Add in the resistance of Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, and that’s why all that exists of the proposal today is a dilapidated row of orange traffic barrels on a stretch of pavement just north of Jericho Turnpike in Syosset.But much of Moses’ major roadwork was done here decades ago: the Southern State Parkway dates to 1927; the Northern State Parkway started in the 1930s; the Wantagh State Parkway was in 1929; the Meadowbrook, 1934; the Sagtikos State Parkway, 1952; the Sunken Meadow Parkway, 1957; the Long Island Expressway began in 1940 and reached Riverhead in 1972.When Moses designed his parkways, he never imagined that sections of them would ever be dubbed “Blood Alley,” as parts of the Southern State between Exits 17 and 22 are known today.“Both [the Southern and Northern State] were literally meant to be parkways,” says Robert Sinclair Jr., manager of media relations for AAA New York, based in Garden City, so motorists could “take leisurely drives through park-like environments at very leisurely speeds.”The sad truth today is that the parkways are “dangerous, and in large measure they’re obsolete, to be honest,” Sinclair says. “You can’t do anything with them! They need to be widened, straightened and flattened.”Moses’s parkways are also defined by ultra-low seemingly impenetrable bridges, designed, says Koppelman, to keep buses of poor city people out. Koppelman even once measured the overpasses on the Wantagh Parkway himself to verify that they were in fact deliberately built too low.“The only way you could get to Jones Beach was by automobile,” Koppelman says. “So Jones Beach was lily white.” Sunken Meadow, he continues, which was reachable by buses going north from Jericho Turnpike, was “supposed to be the park for blacks because the theory was that blacks were too poor to own cars.”The Long Island Expressway is wide, smooth and fast—when conditions are right. Moses, who adamantly opposed mass transit, nixed Koppelman’s proposal to run a railroad track down the median strip, which would have gone a long way to alleviating today’s traffic snarls. There’s another drawback to the LIE’s design. The expressway adds stress to our aquifers because its route along the terminal moraine interferes with the absorption of rainwater and adds to potential groundwater contamination.“Love him or hate him, he was necessary,” says Murdocco. “He’s a product of his time. You can’t fault a man for not being transit-oriented when the rest of the world wasn’t.”But there’s another point to be made.“Moses basically facilitated corridors of growth, which allowed Long Island to expand as it did,” says Murdocco, “but…look at Valley Stream State Park, Belmont Lake. You can see amidst all this suburban development that there are these patches of open space that would have been basically paved over if it weren’t for Moses’ foresight.” read more
The biggest mistakes we are STILL seeing with credit union websites
7SHARESShareShareSharePrintMailGooglePinterestDiggRedditStumbleuponDeliciousBufferTumblr,Meredith Olmstead Meredith Olmstead is the CEO and Founder of FI GROW Solutions, which provides Digital Marketing & Sales services to Community Financial Institutions. With experience working with FIs in markets of … Web: www.figrow.com Details Believing that New Websites Don’t Need Regular UpdatingHonestly, as a digitally savvy society, we are long past the redesign it and forget it for two to four years phase of website design. Like any high performing bank or credit union branch, your website needs regular maintenance. Now you might be able to get away with not conducting daily maintenance, but at a minimum it needs to be cleaned up and updated weekly and monthly.In an ideal world your blog content should be updated 2-3x per week and your product and service content should also be optimized on an on-going basis. These revenue generating pages should also have educational content for users who aren’t quite ready to apply now. And smart content on high traffic pages that changes depending on any known characteristics of the user.Having Websites that aren’t SEO OptimizedIf people couldn’t find your brick-and-mortar branch locations you’d take action. You would make the signage more visible, make sure the address was clear from the street, or even add some additional elements to make the location stand out from its surroundings. Optimizing your website for search is no different.Search engine optimization (SEO) is the practice of making sure your website can be found online, and way too many credit unions are still missing the mark on this. Not only are website’s missing key on-page SEO elements like header tags, meta descriptions and alt tags, but they also lack a search strategy around what terms or phrases consumers are using to find financial products or services. And don’t count on your web design company to know all the in’s and out’s of this process… they are experts at programming, but you need help from someone who knows your industry and can help you craft content on your website that is user friendly AND works well with Google.Not Having Dynamic Content for Each UserMore and more we ARE seeing smaller financial institutions attempting to implement personalized experiences, but you can’t just insert someone’s name on a page and call it a day. The actual content and calls-to-action should shift based on user characteristics.If a user has visited a specific product or service page in the last week or two show them content pertaining to that topic when they return to your homepage. Or show them a rate special when they log into online banking. If they are a known customer you can even send them an email with these details. People want what they are looking for WHEN they are looking for it… so help them find more details. Be helpful, informative and specific. That will always win you trust and business.Websites are STILL Not ADA CompliantBelieve it or not this is still an issue. We are seeing many developers who remain unaware of how to design for WCAG 2.0 standards. Colors aren’t high contrast, PDFs are prevalent throughout the sites, and tables and accordions aren’t always readable. There’s just too much on this now to be creating websites that aren’t easier to navigate.To learn more visit our FGS blog or website today! read more
School Daze: How districts are planning for reopening this fall
“It would be nice to return to normal, it’s just what’s the normal going to look like?” said Van Fossen. Another issue is bussing. Though, superintendents are hopeful for some form of in-person instruction. Those who spend their days in the classroom have also been left in a daze this summer. “It’s a lot of communicating to staff and parents, ‘Here’s what we’re doing. We don’t have a lot of answers yet, but we’re working on them'” said Van Fossen. “The degree of change that took place in March, I think the degree of change that can still take place in August makes it still really difficult to predict what will happen,” said Andrews. Earlier this month, the state education department released guidelines on how to reopen. But at this point, it’s still unclear if students will walk the halls. “Our optimism is that we can have students back in the fall, it’s just a matter of what does the model look like knowing that there is a lot of hesitancy and really fear from parents and the community,” said Maine-Endwell Superintendent of Schools Jason Van Fossen. “We are in a very messy conundrum,” said Windsor social studies teacher Sarah Bidwell. “This year, we don’t know what we’re planning. Our curriculum is the same but it’s very different when you’re in-person. Can we collaborate, can we have groupings in our rooms, is everyone going to be sitting on their own, what does that look like? It’s a complete change over from what we’re used to.” “We had some great success with remote learning but I don’t think there’s any substitution for in-person, classrooms, and those interactions and the engagement of students,” said Andrews. “Classroom spacing is one thing, transportation is another. And to be honest with you, that’s probably the biggest challenge right now,” said Van Fossen. (WBNG) — Schools around the Southern Tier are getting ready for the fall. “Whatever it looks like in the fall, it’s focused on kids, it’s focused on really trying to provide that safe learning environment so that we can not have a long-lasting negative impact on this generation. We have to get this right,” said Andrews. “We’ve been systematically replacing desks with tables, flexible seating and so on. So some of the social distancing really flies in the face of the pedagogy in schools that is collaborative in nature,” said Andrews. It would require social distancing in the classroom, one of the biggest challenges looming over administrators. There are three avenues for learning this fall. “That idea of transportation is really important for us in, how are we able to get students here?” said Andrews. School districts across New York have until Friday to submit their reopening plans to the state education department. Superintendents say they’ve had limited guidance as to what school will look like come September. Districts could also put a hybrid version of the two models into place. Final reopening decisions are expected to be announced next week. “To say that I’m upset? No. But to say that it’s an incredible challenge, it’s really about a six week turn around, and it’s a complicated organization to get all of the parts going in the right direction,” said Van Fossen. “Certainly it’s frustrating with that lack of clarity, and I think the biggest challenge is that parents, students, and staff really want to know what to expect,” said Windsor Superintendent of Schools Jason Andrews. “I think that we always need to make sure that we’re keeping ‘Maslow before Bloom’ which means we’re meeting our kids’ socioemotional needs before we’re working on content,” said Maine-Endwell social studies teacher Rachel Murat. Despite the uncertainty, schools are holding onto hope. While some are hoping to teach students in-person, teachers realize many lessons this year won’t be straight out of the textbook. With no decision yet, districts are planning for all three options. “There’s A-B schedules where half the population comes in one day, half comes in the other and then you stagger the student population throughout the building. And then there’s just the idea of giving students and parents options,” said Andrews. “We need to bring life back to the school district but we need to take into consideration that we’re not putting anybody’s lives in jeopardy as well,” said Murat. Districts say no matter how students continue their education in September, they are committed to making health and safety a priority. Preparing to be flexible with an unsettling situation. On the other hand, students could be back in the classroom. Governor Cuomo says schools may open if they’re in a region in phase four and if the daily infection rate is lower than five percent during a 14 day average. The first continues the remote setting students finished with this past year. read more
Deck reno adds to homes appeal
224 Seventeen Mile Rocks Road, Oxley.Matt Falvey is selling his Oxley home and says he’s taking the next big step and moving in with his girlfriend.Mr Falvey has lived at 224 Seventeen Mile Rocks Rd since October 2003 and enjoyed every moment.“This home is in such a great spot,” said Mr Falvey, a financial planner. 224 Seventeen Mile Rocks Road, Oxley.He also said the deck had great views out to Cunninghams Gap.Mr Falvey also renovated the kitchen, which now has doors opening out to the deck.“When I moved in this was just a box,” he said.The home has ceiling fans and hardwood timber throughout.A regular at the local Rocklea Markets, Mr Falvey said over the years he had bought many plants and established the gardens.“That’s the reason why the garden looks so good, the plants there are great,” he said.Mr Falvey said the property would be ideal for a young family as there was a large child and pet-friendly backyard.The home is also close to local schools, sporting clubs and gyms. 224 Seventeen Mile Rocks Road, Oxley.“Adding that deck is the best thing I’ve done to the place,” Mr Falvey said. “I basically lived on the deck, it’s massive.“I spent a bit of money getting the reno done.” 224 Seventeen Mile Rocks Road, Oxley.“The one thing I’ve noticed is that it’s easy to get around everywhere from here, especially the main roads including the Ipswich Motorway and Centenary Highway.“Location wise this property is great.”He said there were plenty of shops nearby and the train station was close.The three-bedroom, one-bathroom home is on an elevated 622sq m block.Mr Falvey said he had done some renovations to the flood-free home, which included the large deck.More from newsDigital inspection tool proves a property boon for REA website3 Apr 2020The Camira homestead where kids roamed free28 May 2019 read more
Dutch regulator growing too powerful, Pensions Federation warns
He said he was particularly worried that, in practice, pension scheme boards would no longer determine such things as the timing of the spreading of financial shocks – and that the DNB would make those decisions instead.Riemen argued that pension schemes could be subject a strict “scaled” planning that would severely curb policymaking freedom.In that event, the industry’s fears would be realised, “as pension fund trustee boards would no longer be allowed to take responsibility”.He added: “The DNB can force pension funds to change their investment strategy. It doesn’t literally say so in the Memorandum of Explanation, but there is a real risk this may happen.” Draft legislation for a new financial assessment framework (nFTK) in the Netherlands has “some positive elements”, but there is a real danger the pensions regulator (DNB) will be given too much power to decide schemes’ investment strategies, the Pensions Federation has warned.Gerard Riemen, director at the Pensions Federation, said he was pleased the draft legislation included such elements as the spreading of financial shocks over time, a 12-month average funding rate and complete pension contracts, in addition to measures to promote contribution-level stability.He said the draft law also showed that Jetta Klijnsma, state secretary of Social Affairs and Labour, had “listened to the industry”, as the proposals included the smoothing of contribution levels by applying expected returns, and allowed schemes to make up indexation shortfalls without submitting to the new rules that will apply to indexation going forward.However, Riemen said he was concerned pension fund trustee boards would have little room to set policy if pension contracts set every detail in stone. read more
Siem Offshore seeks debt relief from banks, in talks to sell cable lay business
Siem Offshore’s offshore subsea construction vessel (OSCV) Siem SpearfishNorwegian shipping company Siem Offshore is seeking help from banks to ensure its survival through the downturn. The shipowner is also looking to sell its cable lay business. In preparation for an extended downturn in the offshore supply market, Siem Offshore Inc. has issued a request to its banks for installment relief and certain other changes to its bank loan facilities to ensure that the company is able to service its debt obligations through the downturn, the company informed in a statement on Monday.Secondly, Siem Offshore added, the company will issue notices for bondholder meetings in the two unsecured bond issues SIOFF01 and SIOFF02 for the bondholders to consider a proposal where the bonds will be exchanged at 80% of par value to a convertible bond with five and a half years maturity, 2 % cash interest and a NOK3 conversion price.At the same time, the company is considering strategic alternatives for its cable lay business Siem Offshore Contractors GmbH and is in negotiations with a potential buyer for this business.The outcome of these negotiations is not yet known and there is no certainty that a transaction will take place, the company concluded.Siem Offshore Contractors is a provider of submarine cable installation, repair and maintenance serving the global offshore renewable energy and oil and gas sectors as well as utility markets since 2003. Related services such as dive and ROV support, marine survey, UXO investigation and remedial cable protection services are also provided.In its 3Q 2017 report released in late October, Siem Offshore posted operating revenues of $101.3 million for the period compared to $166.2 million in the prior-year third quarter. The shipping company posted a loss of $8.3 million for this year’s third quarter compared to a profit of $2.7 million in the same period of last year.Offshore Energy Today Staff read more
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The first meeting of the Lodge after the consecration was on October 17th, 1877 at The Duke of York Hotel.
This was an emergency meeting (we will see that emergency meetings seemed to be called for all sorts of reasons, depending on what business was deemed necessary and seemingly without any dispensation from Provincial Grand Lodge) attended by 15 members and 3 Visitors.
A ballot took place for 8 initiates, all unanimous and 4 being present were initiated and the first degree tracing board explained by W.Bro. Samuel Gerrard Kirchhoffer, P.M., P.P.G.J.w., Cambridge.
A regular Lodge meeting was held at the Duke of York Hotel on October 31st, 1877 when the first Bye Laws were read and approved and the Provincial Grand Secretary was requested to authorise their publication. At this meeting there were 3 joining members proposed, seconded and presumably balloted, also the first committee of reference was appointed. Brother J. H. Martin was appointed First Almoner.
The first unsuccessful ballot for a candidate occurred on November 28th, 1877.
The first passing ceremonies took place at this meeting, six Candidates, two ceremonies each of 3 candi dates.
The first suggestion of a Lodge of Instruction was mooted and it was decided to hold a meeting each 3rd Wednesday in every month.
Emergency meeting January 9th, 1878, SIX members examined for raising. two ceremonies, one with 2 Candidates and then FOUR Candidates. Brother John Olds explained the 3rd degree tracing board.
The Lodge Bye Laws were returned by the Provincial Grand Secretary approved and it was decided to print 100 copies.
The minutes of this meeting has a letter appended from the Provincial Grand Master, Lieut. General John Studholme Brownrigg C.B.: “I hereby sanction and permit the Brethren to appear in Masonic clothing at the Ball to be given by the members of Albert Edward Lodge at the Duke of York Hotel on Friday, 25th January, 1878”.
Brother T. J. Pulley (founder member) offered to etand as a Steward to the Boys’ School. Brother Freeman offered to stand as a Steward to the Girls’ School, also head the list with a 10 Guinea donation (quite a lot of money at that time).
January 30th, 1878, W.Bra. Kirchhoffer explained both the First Degree and Second Degree Tracing Board and for the first time the Lodge was opened and closed in 3 Degrees.
June 26th, 1878, the W.M. directed that the brethren should draw lots for the first Life Subscriptionship to Masonic Institutions and this fell to Bro. Herbert Savage, one of the first initiates.
July 31st, 1878, W.Bro. Henry Hacker reported he had hoped to attend Provincial Grand Lodge, but the night before, playing cricket, he sprained his ankle and therefore he had asked Bro. William J. Lendrirn, J.W. to report to the Lodge. This Brother Lendrim did to the best of his ability, not having taken any notes.
The Provincial Grand Master had not heard a good account of the workings of some of the Lodges. Brother Lendrim continued and observed that it appeared to be the custom of Provincial Grand Lodge to appoint Provincial Grand Lodge Officers from the oldest Lodges
in the Province. Why not the youngest Lodges; if these Lodges were well conducted.
It appears that this suggestion was instantly acted upon by General Brownrigg, as he immediately appointed Bro. Lendrim to the office of Provincial Grand Steward.
It was obvious to the P.G.M. that Bro. Bill Lendrim’s bravery must again be rewarded, so it was with Provincvial Grand Lodge honours; or otherwise it would have to be a bar to his V.C.
Bro. G. H. Martin supported Bro. Lendrirn’s statement and felt that AlbertEdward Lodge had been favourably reported on.
Bro. Pulley reported that he had attended the meeting of The Masonic Institution for Boys and had donated the sum of £24. 15. Od. (far from being the lowest amount), a very good sum considering the small number of members.
W.Bro. Hacker said that it was a great honour for so young a Lodge to receive Provincial Honours and he thought it was because of its high efficiency.
Bro. T. J. Pulley presented Bro. S. Rowe as the first organist of the Lodge. (Bro. Rowe had been initiated, passed and raised at successive meetings).
August 21st, 1878: A Grand Lodge Certificate was presented by W.Bro. Hacker to Bra. E. Thowless, one of the founder members, the first such ceremony.
On October 30th, 1878 the Lodge had its first ballot for the W.M., Treasurer and Tyler. The votes cast for W.M. were: 13 votes for Bro. J. Mount, one vote for Bro. W. Lendrim and one blank. Votes for the Treasurer were: 17 for Bra. E. Nichols and one vote for Bro. H. Ferguson, and for the Tyler, Bro I. Payne, carried.
On November 17ili, 1878 the first installation was performed by an installing master of the Lodge, W.Bro. Hacker installing Bro. J. Mount.
February 28th, 1880, H.R.H. Arthur Duke of Connaught, K.G., was unanimousy elected as the first honorary member of the Lodge.
June 29th, 1881 the first amendment to Bye Laws, Bye Law 1 to include “except for the months of June, July and August”. Carried by 9 votes to 4.
May 27th, 1885 the first petition to Grand Lodge of Benevolence on behalf of the widow of the late Bro. Thatcher.
January 30th, 1889 for the first time, the age of Candidates was mentioned.
April 30th, 1890 the Lodge Benevolent Fund was formed.
May 28th, 1890 the Rules of The Albert Edward Benevolent Fund carried unanimously.
May 27th, 1891. A Post Office Savings Account was opened in the name of 3 members.
January 25th, 1893. First Charity Representative elected: W.Bro. S. Rowe.
March 26th, 1913. W.Bro. W. H. Twort presented with Grand Ledge Honours. A.G.D.C.
January 31st, 1917. First mention in the minutes of S.W., J.W. and I.G., being replaced during installation ceremony. Also first mention of candidates being interviewed by reference committee.
December 29th, 1930. Ladies’ Festival Account opened.
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Fund raiser with a splash of fun at Alston Lodge!
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On 26th September Alston Lodge is holding a tea and cake fund raising event with a difference with all proceeds going to Macmillan Cancer Support.
The Alston lodge team will spend the next week hard at work in their kitchens baking to raise money for this very worthy cause.
But not only that, they will be preparing themselves for the splash of fun; a team ice bucket challenge which will take place once the tea has been sipped and all the cakes sold off!
For a £5 donation to the charity the team can nominate one of their colleagues, anonymously, to face the ice bucket challenge, with all the residents on hand with their own bucket to help with the icy cold dousing.
The fun starts at 2pm when tea and cakes go on sale, with team members facing the ice bucket challenge from 3pm onwards.
The residents are really looking forward to the event and the chance to get involved with the splash! Even some of the clients who are looked after by Alston Lodge in the community are coming to join in with the event and get the chance to throw icy water over their carer.
Sarah Burns, Director at Alston Lodge comments:
“It will be a fun afternoon with real community spirit. We are looking forward to welcoming many of the client’s relatives and clients from the community to help raise money for a most deserving cause.
Sarah adds “I have already started to practice my baking techniques in preparation and while to date I have managed to avoid the Ice Bucket challenge I somehow feel my days are now numbered.”
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As an integral part of its business continuity plans Alston Lodge Residential Home and Community Care has appointed a new Director.
Owner, Wendy Pickering’s has appointed her daughter, Sarah Burns, as a Director of Alston Lodge to ensure the business can continue to operate efficiently and effectively, providing the high quality service levels it has over the passed 27 years.
Sarah brings a wealth of commercial experience, gained in large organisations at senior levels, including O2 and latterly Booths.
Working alongside Co-Director Pam Hooghkirk, Sarah will build on the great reputation Wendy and the rest of the team have successfully developed for Alston Lodge.
The management team will continue to implement existing plans and activity, whilst also working on new initiatives to ensure the business carries on delivering the professional, friendly care, service and support it is renowned for.
The first of these initiatives sees the launch of a new teatime menu to all Alston Lodge’s clients out in community. This new service will be available from 25th August and will be hand delivered directly to client’s doors for just £4.50.
With regards to her appointment Sarah comments,
“ I am extremely excited to be joining the business and working with the rest of the team to continue to provide a caring service, that is second to none.”
“I am looking forward to building upon my mother’s hard work, ensuring the business continues to provide the high standards of care for clients, in the home and community, enabling them to enjoy a good quality of life, whilst retaining their independence, privacy and dignity.”
Co-Director, Pam Hooghkirk added “The team is pleased to welcome Sarah on board and I look forward to working closely with her to develop new plans to take the business from strength to strength.”
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Although I absolutely hated it when it came out, one of my all-time favorite (okay, maybe Top 200) movies is the Eddie Murphy flick The Distinguished Gentleman. In it, Eddie plays a small-time Miami con-man who capitalizes on the shared name of a recently deceased US Congressman to get himself elected and sent to DC. If you haven't ever seen this, it's still on cable, likely on one of those 67 Starz channels you never tune to. Heck, the whole movie is over on YouTube if you wanna get familiar.
Anyways, not that South Carolina isn't already pockmarked with enough political scandals this year, but there's another "strange as fiction" story brewing after Tuesday's Democratic primaries.
Alvin M. Greene never gave a speech during his quixotic campaign to become this state's Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate. The mystery man of South Carolina politics didn't launch a Web site or hire consultants or plant lawn signs. There's only $114 in his campaign bank account, he says, and the only check he ever wrote was to cover his filing fee.
Indeed, in the course of a rambling, repetitive and frequently inchoate three-hour interview, this jobless military veteran could not name a single specific thing he'd done to campaign for lofty political office. Yet, more than 100,000 South Carolina Democrats voted for Greene on Tuesday, handing him a resounding victory over a well-funded ex-judge who has served four terms in the state legislature.
"I'm the Democratic Party nominee," he says. "I mean, I mean, the people have spoken. The people of South Carolina have spoken. The people of South Carolina have spoken. We have to be pro-South Carolina. The people of South Carolina have spoken. We have to be pro-South Carolina."
Things have gotten even stranger since Greene's startling win. First, the Associated Press reported that Greene faces pending felony obscenity charges for allegedly showing pornography to a University of South Carolina student. Then, the state's Democratic Party chairman called on him to withdraw from the general election. He's been accused of being a Republican plant and listened to his victory explained away as a fluke that resulted from his name coming before his opponent's in the alphabet.
All of this barely fazes Greene. He says he has no intention of withdrawing and is challenging his opponent, the incumbent Republican Jim DeMint, to a September debate.
Okay, so it's not quite like that Eddie Murphy movie, but it's just as freakin' weird. Here's Greene, explaining why his bid for US Senate is real, and why he ain't droppin' out.
I normally find Keith Olbermann to be an obnoxious d-bag, but he actually won some points with me by showing rare constraint in dealing with Greene, who clearly is a few footlongs shy of a Quiznos.
This story just ain't addin' up. How an unemployed cat living in his father's basement can scrounge up 10 stacks for a longshot political campaign, yet doesn't actually campaign at all, then ends up winning the Democratic bid in a landslide over a freakin' judge is beyond me. Of course, the LameStream™ media is digging up every bit of dirt they can on this cat. They checked his RushCard™ and saw he's barely got $100 to his name. Then they found a pRon charge that looks real bad. Clearly they think this guy's a hustler, and they're out to get him. File that one away the next time you hear someone complaining about liberal media bias.
Word to Joe The Plumber.
Conspiracy theorists are saying the state GOP paid for Greene's campaign registration fee, and given the open nature of Tuesday's election, somehow got 100,000 people to vote for him to keep a more formidable Democratic opponent off the ticket in the Fall. If true, this would constitute an all-new low for the South Carolina GOP, and that's saying quite a bit.
Anyway this shakes out, I smell a Grand Hu$tle and something tells me Mr. Greene will be doing a perp walk real soon.
Enjoy your 15 minutes, Alvin.
Question: What the heck is really going on here? How did Greene come up with $10k to enter a campaign when he can't even afford his own Froot Loops? Is the GOP behind this nonsense? Should the SC state Democratic Party be asking Greene to step down, if he legitimately won the election? Would people be as suspicious of Greene if he was a white dude?
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The transfer window will open in a little over a month so there is no real surprise that the rumour mill is starting to pick up. Aston Villa dipped into the Scottish market in the summer when they purchased John McGinn from Hibernian. Are they about to return North of the border in January?
Villa have been linked with two players from up North over the past few days. Scott McKenna of Aberdeen and Jordan Jones of Kilmarnock.
The Scottish Sun reported that Villa made an offer for McKenna on the loan deadline day. They opposed a loan deal with a view to signing him for £7million in the January transfer window. Aberdeen knocked the offer back.
The 24-year-old defender was also the subject to an offer from Celtic in the summer. An offer of around £3.5million was made but was also rejected.
It is no real secret that Villa needs to strengthen at the back and if reports are anything to go by then McKenna could be a target.
McKenna is one of the highest rated players currently playing in Scotland. He made his debut for Scotland back in March and has since played seven games (at the time of writing). It is no real surprise that he has been linked with a move away from Scotland with both Swansea and Wolverhampton Wanderers also said to be interested.
The Daily Mail is reporting that Villa are monitoring Jordan Jones of Kilmarnock. Swansea are also said to be interested in the winger.
Jones will be out of contract next summer so could be available for a cut-price in January. Alternatively, he is available to talk to clubs outside of Scotland in January and sign on a free transfer next summer.
Kilmarnock also reportedly knocked back an offer of around £350k from Rangers last summer.
Jones is a 24-year-old Northern Ireland international. He came through the Middlesbrough academy and had loan spells with Hartlepool and Cambridge. The winger was then released by ‘Boro in 2016 and signed for Kilmarnock on a free. He has since gone on to make over 70 appearances, scoring 7 goals.
As with all transfer rumours you never know what to believe. McKenna is someone we have already approached so its easy to see where the rumours are coming from. No doubt it is one that will not go away until he does leave Aberdeen.
Jones is a new one. I haven’t personally heard of either of the players but if I am being brutely honest, I hadn’t heard of McGinn when we signed him. I guess we will have to wait and see if there is any truth in either. They are not the first players to be linked with a move and certainly won’t be the last.
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Winners in the ongoing Hollandia Yoghurt Refresh ‘n’ Win Promotion have applauded Chi Limited, maker of the yoghurt drink, for keeping to its promise of rewarding consumers who participate in the promo with various mouth-watering prizes worth millions in Naira.
The promo which started in December 2013, and will end on 28 February 2014, is aimed at promoting and deepening the market penetration of Hollandia Yoghurt across the country while also creating awareness for the brand’s value propositions. Till date, the promo has recorded tremendous participation from all parts of Nigeria with thousands of entries being sent in every day.
It is noted that consumers of Hollandia Yoghurt have started winning instant airtime recharge from major telecommunications service providers and prizes including iPads, iPhones, smart phones in weekly e –draws.
The Managing Director, Chi Limited, Mr. Deepanjan Roy says “ Hollandia Yoghurt Refresh n Win promo was conceived to reward the ever growing population of consumers across Nigeria that has made Hollandia Yoghurt their number one drink”.
Consumers are urged to participate in the promo by buying two 1-litre packs of Hollandia Yoghurt in any variant of Strawberry, Plain Sweetened or Pineapple Coconut to get one scratch card at the point of purchase. Alternatively, the consumer can buy two 500ml packs of Hollandia Yoghurt in any variant to get the scratch card at the point of purchase. The customer will then scratch the foil on the card to reveal a unique code. Consumers are allowed to participate as many times as possible.
To enter the promo, the customer is expected to text the unique code, along with other details such as state, name and age, to 30380. The text can be sent through any of the major networks including MTN, Glo, Airtel and Etisalat as well as CDMA networks at a cost of N10. Participants must ensure that the texts are sent in the right format of State (space) Code (space) Name (space) Age to 30380. Participants must keep the original scratch card with them and not throw it away. It is required to claim weekly or grand prize
Participants should ensure that the text is delivered and are advised to contact the promo helpline on 0700chivita for assistance whenever they find it difficult to either submit entries or claim winning prizes. He assured participants that it will take less than five minutes for them to get a response after sending the text while presentation of a form of identification and the original scratch card by prize winners will enable them to claim their respective prizes.
They can also visit the Hollandia Yoghurt Face book page to monitor progress on the promo and leave any message on the page to enable the company to provide a prompt response. A grand prize of a trip to London or Paris would be announced at the end of the promotion.
A cross section of satisfied consumers who expressed their views on the promo said the gifts are bonus on the tasty nourishment that they get from Hollandia Yoghurt which refreshes them inside and out.
Unable to hide her excitement, one of the lucky winners of an ipad, Pius Joy from Enugu, shares the story of how she won: ‘I have always loved the unique taste of Hollandia Yoghurt. When I saw the ad of the promo on TV, I said maybe this is my time. So I started scratching and texting. When I was invited for the draws, I didn’t believe that I will win but I still came. So, when I announced as one of the winners of an ipads . I was really shocked”
Mr. Doyinsola Winner from Abuja, the gift of a smartphone which he won in the second week of the promo has endeared him more to Hollandia yoghurt drink. “I was pleasantly surprised when I received a call from the company’s representative to come and collect the prize after I sent in my entry. At first, I thought it was a joke but after receiving the smartphone, I can only say that people should go out and buy more Hollandia Yoghurt so that they can also win prizes.”
Also, Kalagbor Ruhoma from Rivers says that now that she has won, she would not stop drinking Hollandia Yoghurt. “I used to drink Hollandia Yoghurt once in a while but now that I have won an ipad, I will drink more and more Hollandia Yoghurt until I win a trip to London. I have always dreamed of traveling to London”
The company representative also communicated that no money has to be paid to anybody to claim the prizes. He also request consumers not to get trapped in such problem, not to believe any text or call asking for money.
The promo is open to every Nigerian residing in Nigeria. Everyone in Nigeria is qualified to win. Everyone loyal consumer of Hollandia Yoghurt is entitled to participate.
Hollandia Yoghurt, the nourishing and refreshing drink, comes in variants of Strawberry, Plain Sweetened and Pineapple Coconut. It is available in supermarkets, shops and markets all over Nigeria.
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“…we focus on how diagrams and other inscriptions are constructed and improved in our course. Central to this work is an ongoing, iterative, and public work of constructing, sharing, discussing, and refining diagrams; connecting them with the parallel ongoing and iterative work from experiments; and adding increased precision, nuance, and abstraction over time. Through this process, students create rich diagrams, strongly tied to their scientific models, and with an understanding of the role of experimental evidence in the construction and validation of these diagrams.” –Chapter 3, Composing Science
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Take-Home Messages “Refining Diagrams”
Diagrams, graphs, and other conceptual models lie at the heart of science. Scientists rely on them to both generate explanations and communicate those ideas to others. They can serve a similar role in an inquiry classroom.
Inscriptions are highly contextualized. That is, they are unique to the idea being communicated and the audience receiving the information. Providing a generic rubric for diagrams is insufficient for helping students learn how to make representational choices in their diagrams. Giving students authentic opportunities to generate, critique, and use diagrams in the context of inquiry, with a variety of audiences and scientific topics of study, is what we have found to be the most successful way to help students develop mastery over understanding and generating inscriptions.
Comparing different students’ diagrams can be a highly effective way to encourage students to consider a range of representational choices and better understand the affordances of those choices.
Over the course of an investigation, diagrams will naturally become more precise, accurate, and complete as they move from informal, private musings in a notebook, to ideas shared with peers and instructors, to polished, careful pieces summarizing a large body of data.
Students need help to become adept at generating and reading diagrams. We have found that giving students explicit, general advice is less effective than using contextualized feedback in the moment. Moreover, we recommend giving students frequent opportunities
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Corbin Strong wins 2021 NZ Cycle Classic
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NZ Cycle Classic 'a great success'
New Zealand’s premier cycling event returns to Wairarapa
Race Director Jorge Sandoval is returning his five-day, international elite men’s road race, the New Zealand Cycle Classic to its Masterton base in 2020. The Tour is the only Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) 2.2 event held in Oceania and was staged in the Wairarapa between 2016-2018.
Sandoval was approached and invited to stage the 2019 event in the Waipa District and run in conjunction with a cycling festival, in first instance for at least three years but in the end didn’t work for Sandoval and the New Zealand Cycle Classic.
“Taking the New Zealand Cycle Classic to the Waipa region in 2019 look like it was a great addition but in reality was not. A number of issues that escalated in the weeks prior to the tour really made up my mind to come back to Wairarapa as soon as possible, I feel the variety of challenging roads here in Wairarapa is better suited to this Tour.
"I'm really looking forward to next year's race in Wairarapa because, to be honest, we should have never moved it away from here. I had a go in the Waikato, but it didn't take me long to realise it wasn’t going to work, among other issues, the region there was not suitable for a five-day stage race, we struggle to find a hill for the King of the Mountains competition for the first three days, was embarrassing really for a race of this stature.” he says."
“In the past, riders and their team managers have enjoyed racing in Wairarapa commenting on the quality of the stages and the warm hospitality. They’ve also enjoyed being based at the one location, the Copthorne Hotel and Resort Solway Park, for the duration of their stay allowing the riders to focus solely on the racing.”
Mr Sandoval has been talking with stakeholders, Trust House, the Wairarapa’s three Councils and potential sponsors to seek their support in hosting the event again in 2020. He sees multiple benefits for the region including increased media exposure, community engagement and increased visitation.
“This event will bring riders of the highest calibre here for over a week and along with them their entourage of bike mechanics, health professionals, supporters and media. This will generate a sense of pride for our community to be part of something on the international cycling calendar. It will also inspire our community to come out and watch the Tour and ideally become involved in the sport of cycling in greater numbers as a rider, volunteer or official.”
Local participation will also be a big focus with the community and fun events planned around the event under the Huri Huri Bike Wairarapa umbrella.
“This Tour takes riders through many Wairarapa townships and past many landmarks giving maximum opportunity for media coverage and for our entire community to be involved. Over the years it’s been staged here, there’s been a noticeable increase in large groups of spectators out with their colourful signs supporting the riders as they hurtle along Masterton -Stronvar Rd, Millars Road in Gladstone and along Puruatanga Road in Martinborough and a growing appetite for events staged as part of Huri Huri.”
Bit of background on the New Zealand Cycle Classic:
• The New Zealand Cycle Classic has been an annual sporting fixture for the past 32 years and is recognised as the premier international road cycling event in New Zealand.
• Originally run as the two-day Angus Inn Cycle Classic in 1988, throughout its evolution, the NZ Cycle Classic has become internationally recognised as the Tour which unearths new talent with previous winners going onto even greater success on the world stage.
• It enables riders to gain valuable UCI points and catch the eye of professional teams looking for the “next big thing”. It also provides NZ riders with a chance to race competitively over five days with elite international riders.
• In 2019, 15 international teams took part including, for the first time ever, two teams from Japan. Over the years, riders have come from Canada, Taiwan, Wales, the Netherlands, Australia, Italy, Spain, USA, Mongolia, Uruguay and England while the best riders from New Zealand have taken part.
• In 2020, the New Zealand Cycle Classic will celebrate its 33rd anniversary. Again, it will be organised and administered by Jorge Sandoval MNZM with the support of a voluntary organisation of over 60 people.
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Taiwan gave millions to Flores who gave it to ARENA
El Salvador's president from 1999-2004 was Francisco Flores. During his presidency, two killer earthquakes hit El Salvador in early 2001 killing hundreds and leaving thousands homeless. As the country worked to re-build following those quakes, the government of Taiwan delivered $10 million to Flores, with the purported explanation that it was intended for the victims of the earthquakes.
Flores is now under arrest and being held in jail on corruption charges. His arrest came after it became clear that the millions did not go to earthquake relief, but until now we did not know where the money had actually gone. In a story reported on October 2, the journalists at El Faro revealed that most of the $10 million had been doled out in dozens of checks to support the presidential campaign of ARENA candidate Tony Saca:
The money went into such efforts as Saca's "Casa por casa" -- "house by house" -- campaign effort, into ARENA rallies and events and "citizen mobilization."
El Faro obtained access to copies of 156 bank checks used in the Attorney General's investigation. They show a specific effort to finance the presidential campaign of Tony Saca in 2003 and early 2004, including 41 checks to Élmer Charlaix, Saca's campaign manager who would later take a post in the Saca administration.
So far, only ex-president Flores, and not the recipients of his Taiwanese gifts, is being prosecuted for corruption.
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Will Apple rule the iPad market? (part II)
Continuing from Will Apple rule the iPad market? | Asymco.
The first claim is that
it is unclear if [Apple] will end up dominating the market the way it has come to rule the digital music player market with the iPod.
After hearing a thousand voices cry out that the iPad is nothing more than a bigger iPod touch (which, plainly, it is) it’s amusing to read that its similarity with a sibling ends when it comes to market performance.
Let me make one claim up-front: the iPad is more of an iPod than the iPod.
The original iPod was successful because it had a significant integrated value chain bolted on. Apple disrupted music with a value chain, not a product. It changed the way music is bought, consumed and even how it is produced. It changed the economics from retail down to songwriting.
This is why it came to dominate its market. Every competitor that took a run at it did so with a partial solution to the value chain. Often it was nothing more than a music player, and in some cases (e.g. Zune) it was bundled with some other pieces of technology, but poorly executed and too late.
The iPad comes with an even bigger value chain bolted on: the App Store. Apple is flogging not just an “app player” but also a new way to develop and distribute software. If you cut “music” and paste “apps” you see the immediate parallel between iPod and iPad. The app ecosystem will quickly grow to be larger than the music ecosystem with the mobile software business already eclipsing the music business.
A competitor launching a tablet device will have to somehow overcome the momentum of billions of downloads fed by hundreds of thousands of apps built by tens of thousands of developers for hundreds of millions of users.
The iPod juggernaut pales in comparison to the iPad supernova. The iPod had no apps or dedicated developers. Its ecosystem consisted of a handful of music companies. The only thing that made it “sticky” was the tie-in with one type of content.
The iPad on the other hand has a thousand other jobs to do for its users. It has a rich tapestry of functionality and a multi-dimensional (literally) user experience. It’s a platform. It’s even powerful enough to impose new standards on the web itself and to suggest that search is a bygone activity.
So to suggest that Asus or Dell will somehow build “iPad killers” sounds asinine. These competitors don’t even grasp what the product is and what it’s for. Sony said they don’t see a market for it. Microsoft, trapped in the innovator’s dilemma and overshooting the market by miles, said they don’t understand what the point is because users want full PCs. Google asked what’s the value of a big iPod. I could go on, but there was not a single company in the industry who recognized what they were looking at in January. Apple keeps a tight lid on new products so that competitors don’t get a head-start on copying, but in the case of the iPad, advance knowledge would not have had any impact. Competitors look at the iPad and see nothing. They’ll only react once the market explodes and they start to feel belated pain.
If, and it’s a big if, they do recognize what an iPad is, their response cycle is going to be measured in years. On hardware, they were blown away with a product that had twice the power, half the bulk, twice the battery life with half the price of what they had on the shelf. They may catch up on hardware in a year or two and launch some sort of iPad-like assembly of components, but that is like making the first iPod killer in 2002.
Then there is software. Their software supplier (Microsoft of Google) will have to build a platform that works. That will take years. Years during which the iPad will penetrate every geography, demographic and vertical market.
Google might move more rapidly than Microsoft, but they will produce an open source poster child of a platform. Fragmented and rough around the edges to the point of looking like a hobby project. Their flea market store will also have the smell of fresh glue about it. Microsoft is so far behind the curve that I don’t even think they will try to move the tiller. Their view of the market was betrayed by the recently knifed Courier demoware. To suggest a challenge to the PC/Windows model inside Microsoft is a career-limiting move so don’t expect their brightest to be lining up to propose new platforms to management.
What about HP? Assuming they overcome the pitfall of NIH that kills 80% of integration efforts, they will still need to perform an enormous amount of heavy lifting to get WebOS to be a competitive experience on a tablet. Most opinions were that Palm came pretty close with a smartphone, but that was nowhere near enough to stay alive, never mind challenge iPhone.
Then there is the ecosystem. Building it is just not something I can even begin to roadmap. What about developer tools, SDKs, frameworks and evangelism? With a Palm division, HP is the best positioned of the PC vendors but it has a chance at being a player as much as Creative did vs. the iPod, or needless to say, Palm vs. the iPhone.
So the iPad challengers face five daunting obstacles:
Recognition of a threat from a seemingly benign product
Execution on hardware against the best integrator on the planet
Execution on software against a new UI metaphor fortress surrounded by a patent moat
Integration of hardware and software to a sublime whole
Re-building a value chain for which they have no handle vs. a broad and deep existing universe of app/content creation distribution and consumption enjoying logarithmic network effect value.
That does not even touch the logistics, sourcing, margin and pricing challenges of world-wide distribution of the whole value chain. Nor does it cover the lock-in of advertisers to new tools for creatives or the billions of daily views from a platform that is blindingly dazzling.
To put it in the language of disruption, by the time the competitors launch symmetric attacks on the iPad, Apple will be the incumbent. And we all know that symmetric attacks never work against entrenched incumbents who have all the levers of power at hand to deploy in a withering counter-attack.
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Sixteen 15-to-20 minute programs that complement The Eddie Files, showing teachers step-by-step how to deliver lessons on elementary mathematics topics which excite student interest, engage their problem-solving and communication skills and develop computational and reasoning skills.
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Welcome to Mathematics - Ms. Toliver brings her students to an understanding of the value of mathematics in communication and as a tool for solving problems that have real-world relevance to her students.
Estimation - Ms. Toliver begins by asking her students to estimate the number of biscuits in a large box, then guides them through a process of refining their estimate using small, proportionate boxes.
Fractions - Ms. Toliver bases this lesson on equivalent fractions on an activity called "The Great Pizza Swap."
Polygons - Ms. Toliver reviews polygons while guiding students in their investigation of the third dimension, as they transform polygons into polyhedra.
Distance, Time and Speed - Class starts with a discussion of the meaning of speed and the way that the speed of an object is determined. Then comes the main event: the "Tinkertoy Derby", wherein teams of students construct and race their own vehicles, and then use the formula for speed to determine the winner.
Decimals - After warming up her students with a discussion of the characteristics of the currencies of other countries, Ms. Toliver reviews the basics of the decimal place value system. The class then gets a challenging decimals workout as they convert foreign money to U.S. currency values, in order to go "shopping".
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RaiderZ and Neverwinter – Preview
This year appeared to be all about MMOs at E3, with some thirty plus titles being showcased in the genre. Planetside 2, End of Nations and Defiance have all been seen by the GL crew at some point, and I got in to see Perfect World’s offerings of RaiderZ and Neverwinter.
RaiderZ
RaiderZ has been created by the team behind GunZ, the non-stop twitch action shooter in a manga style. This new game from Ijji is a colossal sized, free to play monster hunting action MMO with some RPG elements. The developers have decided on what is effectively an almost classless character progression where you can diversify your skills after level ten into any of the four categories: Defender, Cleric, Berserker and Sorcerer.
There are no restrictions on how you build your character skills apart from the initial level ten choices, so you could either choose to specialise in one category, with some minor expansions, or you could choose to create a ‘jack of all trades’ type of character who has dabbled in everything. That struck me as quite a novel approach as it leaves the decision to the player, and offers a wider variety to the gameplay.
With up to eight people in a hunting party, they are really pushing the idea of forming parties and heading out into the wilderness to hunt the big prey. In the section we saw, the players were heading into the mountains looking for a huge werewolf matriarch. Along the way they had to deal with skeletons, spirits and lesser wolfies before attempting to take out the big she-wolf. Combat seemed quite intuitive and you could map your abilities according to your chosen weapons, with two sets being interchangeable as you swap between equipped types. During combat, your enemies will likely drop items or even parts of themselves and you can then utilise those bits and turn them back on the foe. For example, killing a skeleton would leave behind either a skull or a femur which you could then pick up and throw at another monster or run and smack them with it.
Group activities are a part of the game too, and come in the form of banqueting and music – setting up a banquet as a group is like making a campsite and your party can then partake of each other’s supplies of food and drink, which then gives the party bonuses for a short time to aid hunting. Playing instruments as a group also adds bonuses to your party, giving you protection or the ability to hit multipliers and things of that ilk. It was an interesting concept and one which I think they were trying to utilise to stand out from the ever-growing crowd.
There are 15-20 areas in the RaiderZ world, each broken down into smaller sections that you can explore. They are expecting the closed beta to be available some time in Q3 this year with the open beta coming very soon after, and there is also a player versus player option in the game whereby you can invite another player to do battle. It’s up to them whether they accept your challenge though so you can’t just wade in and start wailing on some poor unsuspecting soul.
Neverwinter is a much more classic styled Dungeons and Dragons Action MMORPG. Set in the Forgotten Realms, Neverwinter is on the northwestern coast of Faerun and has been devastated by a volcanic eruption that rained fire on the city, leaving it a shadow of its former self. Waterdeep has taken the city under its protection and put forth a call to adventurers to explore and defend the battered region and save it from Evil.
It is another free to play model, with a five player party option and it looks stunning. Neverwinter uses the Dungeons and Dragons rules and character classes, so there isn’t much freedom once you’ve chosen your initial path. I got to play through a section full of werewolves as a mage and I have to say it was really enjoyable and easy to play, as the character controls are nice and simple, and the key-mapping worked well. I’ve always been wary of magic users in gameplay because of their innate weaknesses at lower levels and the time it takes to cast stronger spells, but with the mage I played in Neverwinter there seemed to be just the right amount of balance, although whether that was because the character had already progressed beyond the beginner levels I’m not sure.
Steeped in Dungeons and Dragons Lore, Neverwinter promises epic stories, action, combat and classic role playing using an easy to grasp system that should keep you wanting more. It will be 100% free to play, no box, no subscriptions, but it will slot into Perfect World Entertainment’s Zen currency system where you’ll be able to purchase items in the cash shop.
Beta keys will be available soon as the expected release date for the game is 4th quarter 2012, and I must say that as a long time fan of Dungeons and Dragons, I’m very tempted.
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Hot Dogs Remain Top Dog For Major League Baseball Fans
Dodgers Fans Expected to Break Single Season Hot Dog Record
March 28, 2014 14:29 ET | Source: American Meat Institute
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WASHINGTON, March 28, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- It's a love affair that has spanned generations and baseball fans will once again make hot dogs their number one choice at the ballparks this summer. The National Hot Dog and Sausage Council (NHDSC) estimates that fans will eat a whopping 21,357,316 hot dogs and 5,508,887 sausages during the 2014 Major League season, enough hot dogs to stretch from Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles to Wrigley Field in Chicago.
"When it comes to the food of choice at baseball games nothing cuts the mustard quite like hot dogs and sausages," said Eric Mittenthal, NHDSC vice president of public affairs. "It's a tradition that fans relish, and despite growing options at concessions, they keep coming back for their old favorite."
This year's total includes a new single season record for most hot dogs at one stadium as the Los Angeles Dodgers anticipate fans will consume 3,077,537 hot dogs, a jump of more than 800,000 hot dogs from last year. That is enough to round the bases at Dodger Stadium 4,274 times and based on last year's attendance, means if everyone had just one, 82 percent of fans at every Dodger home game will eat a hot dog.
"The Dodger fan's love of hot dogs is no secret," said Mittenthal, "What's amazing is that the most popular hot dog there is the footlong Dodger Dog, so fans are truly getting their fill."
Batting second in the hot dog race are the Texas Rangers at 1,569,085 hot dogs, while the Boston Red Sox are close behind with 1,500,000 hot dogs sold. The New York Yankees and the Cleveland Indians fill out the top five, both expected to sell more than one million hot dogs in 2014.
While Red Sox fans are expected to consume the third most hot dogs, the reigning major league champs are this year's repeat sausage champs, proving that Sox and sausages just go together. Fenway fans are expected to take down 607,500 sausages this year which is a significant jump from 421,000 sausages last year.
Just as they're rivals on the field, the New York Yankees follow closely behind the Red Sox with fans there expected to eat 510,000 sausages in 2014. They are followed by the San Francisco Giants with 400,000, while in a shocking development, the Milwaukee Brewers will not sell more sausages than hot dogs for the first time in years with 290,000 sausages and 340,000 hot dogs. The team says its dollar dog promotions have pushed hot dogs ahead.
Hot Dogs as History
Ballpark vendors agree that America's passion for hot dogs is rooted in history.
"Hot Dogs, as much as Peanuts and Cracker Jacks, are associated with the game of baseball almost as much as bat and a glove" explains Dave Peterson, executive chef at Nationals Park in Washington D.C. "The pairing of baseball and hot dogs is Americana, it gives guests a sense of nostalgia to when they were a kid and first came to the ballpark. It is the quintessential ballpark fare."
The hot dog is frankly such a treasured part of baseball history that the Chicago Cubs will make it part of their celebration of 100 years at Wrigley Field in 2014. The team will serve Decade Dogs with ingredients that represent a decade, teaching Cubs fans history through their hot dog.
The decade dogs include the classic Chicago hot dog as well as unique creations such as the Reuben dog, Buffalo wing dog, Philly steak dog, mini corn dogs, nacho dog, pulled pork hot dog and a TV dinner dog.
Hot Dog Rookies
Continuing the trend of recent years, teams are getting imaginative in their hot dog creations. Some of the most interesting new debuts include:
The D-Bat Dog: This hot dog is not for the faint of heart. The 18-inch corn dog stuffed with cheddar cheese, jalapenos and bacon, will make any Arizona Diamondback fan come back for more.
The Old Bay Half Smoke: Oriole fans' favorite condiment is Old Bay as they will consume 2,000 pounds of it this year. Camden rewards fans with this sausage with their favorite condiment finished off with Jack Daniels barbeque onions.
The Poutine Dog: As a Detroit Tigers fan you can get this new masterpiece with French fries, cheese, curds and beef gravy all piled atop a natural casing dog.
The Philly Cheese Steak Dog and Slab Bacon Dog: The Phillies use this local favorite and put it on a hot dog. The Philly Frank is topped with Philadelphia cheese steak, melted cheese, and can be served with or without onions. Meanwhile, the Slab Bacon Dog is a Philly Frank served with a strip of slab bacon and melted cheese.
The DMV: Nationals fans can eat a hot dog that incorporates an element from each region of the greater DC Area. It is a foot long Half Smoke with Crab Dip and topped with fried Virginia Ham on a Pretzel Roll.
The National Hot Dog and Sausage Council (NHDSC) has been conducting its hot dogs, sausages and baseball survey for more than a decade. More on the survey including an infographic and other Hot Dog & Sausage facts, recipes history, etiquette and fun, is available online at http://www.hot-dog.org/ or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/NHDSC.
Established in 1994, the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council conducts scientific research to benefit hot dog and sausage manufacturers. The Council also serves as an information resource to consumers and media on issues related to quality, safety, nutrition and preparation of hot dogs.
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Commentary #1: Vegetarianism as a “Gateway” to Veganism?
July 8, 2015 /0 Comments/in Commentary, MP3s /by sandrac
In this first Commentary, Prof. Gary L. Francione discusses whether we should promote vegetarianism as a “gateway” to veganism.
His response:
“I conclude that the answer is ‘no.’
The bottom line: if you are a vegetarian, you are still complicit in animal suffering; you are still complicit in animal killing.
If you regard animals as nonhuman moral persons, why would you be complicit in animal suffering and death?
I hope that you find this Commentary and our future efforts useful for your thinking about animal ethics.”
~ Gary L. Francione
Commentary #2: “Pets”
In this second Abolitionist Approach Commentary, Prof. Francione explores the issue of “pets,” and addresses the following question:
Does the institution of pet ownership violate animals’ basic right not to be regarded as things?
This question is also found in the Appendix of Introduction to Animal Rights: Your Child or the Dog?
Commentary #3: On Michael Vick
In this Commentary, Prof. Gary L. Francione explains why he thinks the Michael Vick matter is not really about Michael Vick or dog fighting. It is about fundamental moral principles that we claim as a society to accept.
Commentary #4: Follow up to “Pets” Commentary: Non-Vegan Cats
In this Commentary, Prof. Gary L. Francione discusses the issue of non-vegan cats. He maintains that many cats can live healthy lives on a vegan diet. However, he addresses the question: what if there are cats who absolutely need to consume animal products?
Commentary #5: On Violence
In this Commentary, Prof. Gary L. Francione discusses the issue of violence. He regards violence as inherently immoral and has discussed that issue often, including in the following essays:
http://www.abolitionistapproach.com/a…
http://www.abolitionistapproach.com/m…
Commentary #6: Aspects of the Vegetarian/Vegan Debate
Prof. Gary L. Francione’s first Commentary about vegetarianism as a “gateway” to veganism provoked continuing controversy, and in this Commentary he responds to questions he received and elaborates further on the topic.
Commentary #7: An Up-Close and Personal Encounter with Moral Schizophrenia
Prof. Gary L. Francione refers to the delusional and confused way in which we think about animals from a moral and social standpoint as “moral schizophrenia.”
In this Commentary, he describes and discusses a situation that exemplifies moral schizophrenia, which involved dealing with a deer who had been hit by a car and the hunters who stopped to help the deer.
Commentary #8: A Discussion of Abolitionist Principles
In this Commentary, Prof. Gary L. Francione explains why welfare reform and violence are not compatible with the abolitionist approach.
Commentary #9: Using Sexism to Promote Animal Rights
In this Commentary, Prof. Gary L. Francione discusses why animal advocates must recognize that sexist campaigns trivialize the issue of animal rights and give people yet another reason to dismiss the animal rights issue.
Commentary #10: World Vegan Day- Nov 1, 2009
In this Commentary, Prof. Francione reflects on the state of the vegan movement. The bad news: the large welfare corporations have done a great deal to marginalize veganism. The good news: we have seen the growth of the abolitionist movement, which views veganism as the moral baseline, rejects welfare reform and single-issue campaigns, and considers veganism as essential to any coherent theory of nonviolence.
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You are here: Home / The Island’s Watercourses / East Wight Rivers / Blackbridge Brook and Wootton Creek
The Blackbridge Brook flows north into the Solent through Wootton Mill Pond and the intertidal estuary of Wootton Creek. The upper reaches of the Brook consist of a number of small tributary streams that arise from the foot of the chalk downs and from small sand and gravel aquifers perched on the underlying Tertiary clays that dominate the catchment.
A series of farms mark the location of the chalk springs at the head of catchment, the largest of these being at Combley Farm that feeds into Deadman’s Brook and Duxmore Farm that forms the Chillingwood Brook. At the foot of the chalk downs the Blackbridge Brook and its tributaries develop the character that dominates much of its catchment as the Brook flows through a landscape of wet meadows and extensive areas of ancient woodland. The complex of hedged fields, meadows and woodlands creates a landscape of high wildlife value. The Brook is essentially a woodland stream throughout most of its catchment. Even where it flows through the meadows it is lined with old hedgerows or belts of woodland so that there are few sections of the Brook that flow in the open.
The three main tributaries meet near Havenstreet before flowing through Greatwood Copse at the head of Wootton Mill Pond. Here the Brook flows through an almost natural landscape with a flood plain that shows a complete transition from wet freshwater meadows, through brackish marshes to saltmarsh. These a flanked by valley sides clothed with further areas of ancient woodland forming low valley side bluffs and river cliffs.
Wootton Mill Pond is marked at its northern end by Wootton Bridge and its tidal sluices. These are operated to regulate the flow of saltwater upstream into the Mill Pond at high tide and form a major constriction to the flow of freshwater into the fully estuarine environment of Wootton Creek.
The outer reaches of Wootton Creek are lined with relict patches of saltmarsh and small shingle spits although these are heavily disturbed and fragmented by small scale marine industrial activity, urban developments and the ferry port at Fishbourne. The banks of the Creek support further fragments of suburbanised ancient semi-natural woodland.
The technical bits
The Catchment Data Explorer is an Environment Agency tool which helps you explore and download information about the water environment. It supports and builds upon the data in their river basin management plans. Read about the Blacbridge Brook here.
The Blackbridge Brook is currently classed as ‘Moderate’ quality within the Water Framework Directive. This means it is failing, and the aim is to improve. The objective set is ‘Good’ by 2027. It is a heavily modified waterbody (HMWB) because of the sluice. Click for a fuller discussion.
Wootton Creek is classed as ‘Moderate’ quality. The objective set is ‘Good’ by 2027. Click for further details. The Catchment Data Explorer gives full information here.
In 2014 we mapped all the issues we were aware of with regards to the rivers in Ryde. This map can be viewed here . Please let us know if you know of other issues.
Photo Survey
More recently we’ve carried out a photographic survey of the brook which you can see below (the map also shows other watercourses we’ve surveyed)
For information about this and other East Wight Rivers East Wight Watercourses Report December 2012
For information about the landscape and character Blackbridge Brook Final Report
For information about the ecology, and possible restoration projects Blackbridge Brook and Monkton Mead River Restoration Scoping Report
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Systems error delays payment of teachers' salaries — Education Ministry 6:35 pm
Kingston man charged with shooting with intent 6:27 pm
Alleged TV thief nabbed 6:13 pm
Elbows up for Kingsway schools
Josiah Dicarlo (left) elbows co-chair of the Planning Committee, Keith Nugent, while looking on (from left) are Principal of Kingsway Prep and High School, Alethia Williams; Britney Latouche and Dr Donna Brown, education director, East Jamaica Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.
Occasion was an event to launch a fund-raising drive for Kingsway schools to build a computer laboratory at the school in St Andrew, held at East Jamaica Conference of Seventh-day Adventists recently.
Vascular surgeon and globetrotting activist Dr Julius Garvey and South African business leader Dr Makaziwe Mandela will join leading Kingsway alumni and other key leaders to announce a global initiative to raise funds to support Kingsway High School.
Garvey is the son of the iconic Marcus Mosiah Garvey and Mandela is the oldest daughter of the revered Nelson Mandela, former president of the Republic of South Africa.
Born in Jamaica, Garvey attended Wolmer's Boy's, School in Kingston and is passionate about the education of Jamaica's children. “The work of my father continues as we strengthen our resolve to educate our children, and now, more than ever, this is a sacred trust,” Dr Garvey stated.
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Home Tourism to generate $ 1.5 bn revenue for 2020
Tourism to generate $ 1.5 bn revenue for 2020
Total industry recovery in mid 2021:
Wednesday, June 3, 2020 - 01:00
Shirajiv Sirimane
PCR tests carried out at the Katunayake International Airport
Sri Lankan Tourism industry, badly affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, will generate USD 1.5 billion revenue for 2020 which is almost 50% revenue loss from 2019. Sri Lanka earned USD 4.4 billion from tourism in 2018, with revenue up 12% on the USD 3.9 billion of 2017.
Sri Lanka’s tourist arrivals in 2019 fell 18% from a year earlier to 1.9 million following the Easter Sunday bombings.
President of Hotels Association of Sri Lanka, Sanath Ukwatte however said that the Sri Lankan Tourism sector is expected to fully recover by mid 2021 and would account to around 2.5 million arrivals. “Globally People are getting used to living with coronavirus. Arrivals will pick up and it would not be difficult for a small country like Sri Lanka to attract 2.5 million arrives next year. Over 39 million people travelled out of China in 2018 and Sri Lanka can attract a huge slice from this and also from Europe.”
He said already booking inquiries are made from China, India and Europe and this is a very positive signal of recovery.
Ukwatte said that one of the biggest plus marketing points for Sri Lanka to woo global travellers were the successful manner in which the Covid-19 pandemic was controlled in Sri Lanka and the travel sector is thankful for the government for this. “The industry must now try to get travellers to stay longer (over a month) , especially in resort hotels. With the opening of the airport in August, tourists will start to come back. They are subjected to a pre three day visit PCR test in their country, a second one at the airport and third and fourth PCR test after five and 10 days period in Sri Lanka. In addition the hotels too will regularly check temperature and monitor the guest’s health situation according to guidelines laid by health authorities.”
He also tanked the government for recognising tourism as an export industry and granting several tax wavers. Ukwatte said that around 10% of jobs in the industry were lost and permanent staff too had to undergo pay cuts.
President City Hotels Association, M. Shanthi Kumar said that all restaurants and bars registered with Sri Lanka Tourism are fully operational. The Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport (MRIA) too will play a major role in crew changers and even accepting charter and scheduled flights.
An official from Movenpick said that their hotel is fully functional and are offering special room rates.
Chairman Jetwing, Hiran Cooray said their hotels too are now accepting local guests while maintaining health regulations.
He said that they hope foreigners too will start coming in from August and will offer them special attraction rates.
John Keels Hotels too are accepting bookings while Aitken Spence will start operations soon. Hotels in both these groups remain shut in Maldives due to government regulations.
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Fatehgate – between fact and fiction
Published by admin at 7:33 am under Articles,Palestinian politics
Corruption has always been the Achilles heel of the Palestinian leadership. At the height of PLO’s popularity in the 1970s and 1980s, the relationship between revolution and money was the movement’s major weakness.
Well-respected Palestinian artist Kamal Boulatta best reflected this dichotomy in his painting mixing the words thawra (revolution) and tharwa (riches).
The early days of the Palestinian Authority also witnessed a wave of questions about corruption, this time led by members of the elected Palestinian Legislative Council. Then, a tough report was issued and distributed to members by a committee headed by Azmi Shuibi. The anti-corruption member of the Palestine Legislative Council is now the head of AMAN, a coalition of Palestinian NGOs dedicated to the fight for transparency and access to information. Large billboards created by AMAN greet you as you enter Ramallah calling on citizens to inform it of any government abuse of power or misuse of public property.
Since the PA’s main source of income has been foreign donations, this issue had to be dealt with rather forcefully. When Salam Fayyad, a former World Bank official, took over the PA’s ministry of finance, he went out of his way to unify all sources of income and to ensure transparency of the PA spending. He was the first Arab minister of finance to publicise the government’s entire budget on the Internet, inviting the public to scrutinise it and comment on it.
Fayyad, who continued this transparent direction when he became prime minister, succeeded in convincing donors of his government’s clean hands and has, as a result, succeeded in securing hundreds of millions of dollars earmarked for the PA from governments or international NGOs.
A regularly updated database is now available to the public on the prime ministry’s website, listing all donations to the PA, including the amount, the purpose and the receiving part, be it public or private.
But while non-governmental organisations and the PA have done a good job at fighting corruption and gaining the public confidence, the situation has not been as good within the various Palestinian factions. Both Fateh and Hamas are known to control and disperse millions of unaccounted-for dollars. While some of this money is part of the movements’ private fund-raising efforts, a major portion of it is connected to the presidential (for Ramallah) or (Gaza’s prime ministerial) budgets. Neither the budget of President Mahmoud Abbas nor that of Gaza’s Ismail Haniyeh (or their respective movements, Fateh and Hamas) is public.
During the recent sixth Fateh congress, the long-awaited financial report was not publicly read out, but drowned out by the members’ attention to elections.
Hamas officials, who are unable to use the worldwide banking system, regularly depend on their leader to carry suitcases filled with cash.
Fateh’s spending is often carried out within the office of the president. This situation has given members of the intelligence services in Ramallah and Gaza tremendous powers. More than a year ago, the head of the Palestinian intelligence service in Ramallah was reprimanded for playing politics in an attempt to entrap one of Abbas’ senior officials. The entrapment, in the form of a woman sent to seduce the senior official in Abbas’ office, was videotaped. When confronted with the tape, Abbas refused to carry out any action against his senior official (whose guilt is possibly no more than a moral sin), but rather punished the intelligence officer by demoting him.
This week, nearly a year and a half later, a junior intelligence official who carried out the taping of the programme appeared on Israel’s Channel 10 showing the video and demanding that Abbas dismiss his senior official and others. Threats of revealing more videos and documents were made.
In the process of this entire discussion few asked the simple question of who ordered the entrapment and why the head of the president’s intelligence service would spend time trying to film a middle-aged man’s bedroom privacy.
Fateh and the office of the president must follow Fayyad’s example and come out clean. While it might be understandable that the president will need to have discretion in spending money on legitimate national issues, including intelligence gathering, the Palestinian public does not agree that the financially strapped Palestinian government and presidency should be spent on intelligence officers snooping on individuals’ or officials’ private lives.
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Hot jazz for cool nights (via Portland Tribune)
“John Coltrane’s ideas shaped postwar music from bebop to free jazz.
“He believed in his intuitions and followed them and created music that hadn’t been created before,” says his son, Ravi Coltrane, a noted saxophonist himself. “He had no problem following his inner impressions, his inner observations.”
John Coltrane died in 1967, leaving behind music that still stirs wonder — as well as controversy — among jazz players and listeners. In honor of Coltrane’s 90th birthday, the Portland Jazz Festival features a number of concerts and events dedicated in whole or in part to Coltrane’s art.
Ravi Coltrane himself will play two concerts, the first at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 26, in the Newmark Theatre, 1111 S.W. Broadway. Conducted by retired Portland State University Professor Charles Gray, the concert will feature an ensemble playing along with Coltrane, pianist Orrin Evans, bassist Luques Curtis, and drummer Mark Whitfield Jr. The musicians will perform John Coltrane’s first Impulse! record “Africa/Brass,” released in 1961.
“I think when he moved to Impulse!, they wanted to get out of the gate with something special, something different than his records before,” Ravi Coltrane says of “Africa/Brass.” More “big band” than most of his father’s albums, the record featured 21 musicians, including ones playing French horns and a euphonium. Coltrane says staging this record is a balancing act between homage and improvisation.
“The biggest challenge is not to just emulate the record,” he says. “For me, that’s a goal anytime you have to cover music that has such a historical imprint on it.”“
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An Introduction To UK Based Underground Collective LOVE SEPT.
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Before June 2018 I was almost unaware of a rising underground scene in the UK, although I did know of some artists who made similar music as the collective I’d like to introduce you to named, LOVE SEPT. (short for LOVE SEPTEMBER). Groups such as House of Pharaohs and Blue Room Mafia, artists such as Lancey Foux and ALI3NHEAD were names I was familiar with within that scene until I was introduced to a plethora of artists after connecting with an artist named EB Wayside.
ALI3NHEAD approached me to organise a headline show for him at a venue in London last year after my birthday gig, he had a bunch of unknown support acts ready to open up for him too. At first I was sceptical about putting on a show for inexperienced artists, but I followed my heart and booked the Camden Assembly for Monday 3rd September 2018. This was a new chapter for DiscoverNü, as the acts we previously approved for blog posts, live shows and our old radio shows were all within the alternative R&B, Hip-Hop and Indie-pop genres.
When the show was announced I did lose some friends; one of them thought I was crazy booking “a bunch of goth wannabes” — but I didn’t care at all, I believe everyone deserves an opportunity to showcase their art, their talent and their music, and sadly many artists over here in the UK aren’t given this opportunity, well until they get some sort of co-sign from a celebrity, attention from North American fans or get signed. ALI3NHEAD did sign a record deal three weeks before the headline show, so the pressure was on him to deliver. Going back to the support acts, I was introduced to BVDLVD, HEN$HAW, RARE AKUMA, REZERXKT and other acts who couldn’t perform at the show for various reasons such as Badgirl$ and Bob Vylan.
Heading towards the show tickets weren’t selling well, I became frustrated and thought I had made a huge mistake doing everything I can to put this show on. However, on the night of the show the turn out surprised the hell out of me, especially for a music gig on a Monday. The show itself was electric, most of the acts who were performing for the first time ever impressed me so much and the staff at the venue gave me a positive feedback regarding the show and the music. ALI3NHEAD’s closing track “Fragrance” was the highlight of the night, a mosh pit erupted as the artist formerly known as Manny Fuego performed his signature song — an underground anthem. There was one artist who caught my attention on the night, the quiet but lyrically outstanding with a razor sharp flow, HEN$HAW — he had the least plays on SoundCloud and followers on social media but was arguably the most talented artist there.
After each show I tend to write down the names of acts that impressed me for future shows or to recommend to other promoters, but for these guys it felt like they became members of my family. During the preparation for the show, I could see how important music was for these artists and how it kept them going. The day after the show, all the acts had nothing but positive feedback, and many of them had nothing going on, they had to get back to their lives, for some it was back to school and college wondering how they’d breakthrough the music industry, others it was working through the doubts and building a fan base, luckily for RARE AKUMA and ALI3NHEAD, they were both established artists working on their music projects.
A few days later HEN$HAW sent a hopeful message in the group chat we had created prior to the show, he gave us an idea of starting a group or collective. Me being me, I was sceptical once again, I didn’t want no part of it as I had a lot of work going on. Everyone somehow convinced me to be a part of it, as they needed someone to oversee the group. We all agreed on the name LOVE SEPTEMBER for the collective, shortened to LOVE SEPT. — September being the month we all met each other and had a memorable night at the Camden Assembly. The collective consisted of artists ALI3NHEAD, RARE AKUMA, BVDLVD, HEN$HAW, REZERKXT, EB WAYSIDE, QUINO, producers goodbyechase and KRVCIFIX, DJ MELO, videographer Knuckleballpanda, part of management Alex Hearne and myself.
Due to creative differences and some artists’ label related work, the lineup has changed to artists HEN$HAW, BVDLVD, KXZARI, V.RI, EB WAYSIDE, producers goodbyechase, KRVCIFIX and T.Y., DJ MELO, videographer Knuckleballpanda and new addition to management and events Sara Irvine. With a rising fan base that also includes similar artists, LOVE SEPTEMBER are slowly becoming an influential collective within the underground scene. Infusing alternative rap, trap with a hint of punk and metal, their sound as a group is refreshing in a genre suffocated with identical sounds.
Analysing each artist within the collective
HEN$HAW — despite being relatively unknown, the 18 year-old rapper from Camden, London is lyrically way ahead of many other rappers within the scene. Comfortable on all types of hip-hop instrumentals, the charismatic rapper has the ability to do fast raps on energetic beats that’s capable of starting a mosh pit and tell introspective stories with precise lyricism.
Standout track: “IWILLNOTHESITATE”
BVDLVD — the multitalented 18 year-old rapper from Oxford has already built a global and loyal fan base all by himself with his music, a combination of trap and metal similar to that of Scarlxrd. He’s also known for directing and editing ALI3NHEAD’s recent music videos, especially the critically acclaimed visuals for “Crystal Lake”.
Standout track: “TOXIC”
KXZARI — the 15 year-old artist who joined the collective in mid October is known for his captivating catchy raps over mainstream-ready beats and his almost cult-like loyal fan base. The East London-based artist has the potential to be a household name.
Standout track: “Ugh”
V.RI — the 17 year-old artist from Milton Keynes is the newest member in the collective. A versatile artist capable of creating hard tracks that infuses trap, punk and metal, as well as more experimental music such as his underground hit “At 3am”.
Standout track: “At 3am”
https://soundcloud.com/lil-vri/at-3am
EB Wayside — also known as LILSEAN JON, the rapper and all-around creative is currently and temporarily based in Kenya at the moment. Known for his spacey and out of this world music similar to Kid Cudi’s earlier material sprinkled with a sound we call “emo drill” (emo rap combined with UK drill).
Standout track: “MEXICO”
The collective have officially released their debut single titled “BURNER” — a posse track featuring KXZARI, HEN$HAW, V.RI and BVDLVD, produced, mixed and mastered by in-house producer goodbyechase. They’re also gearing up for another show at the Camden Assembly in April. With their aggressive music such as their exclusive riot song “HEARTS OF CROOKS”, controversial lyrics and dark aesthetics, could LOVE SEPT. be the UK version of the Los Angeles-based collective Odd Future?
We’ll just have to wait and see.
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Crumbs 3--On Children
Robert told me today that his class was "rough" and wanted to know what I was going to do about it. I asked him how he was going to react when I removed him from class tomorrow. He is one of the toughest actors in the room. He is the friend who walks me downstairs to Magnet duty every day because I shouldn't "walk" by myself. He is cutting class as he does this community service for me daily. You have to meet people where they are. You have to see behind the urge to sing out loud for no reason, gather attention any way possible but still expect to be treated like an individual. To pass a required English class with a good grade. To get home safe and eat dinner. What more could we want? The other side of the coin is dreadful. Distressing.
Note on children
Children in literature tend to fall into the rut of darling cherubs who do no evil and charm the socks off of the most taciturn hearts, or they are conversely evil, plotting beasts. It is interesting to consider the real spirit of a child. Children are so much more complicated. Even with older children like Josh in this story, they spin in a world that revolves around them; they are careless with their loved ones to the point of breaking them; they are capable of rash decisions and have no concept that retaliation for actions can occur. When their little universe spins out of control, they are hurt and bruised but, most of the time, exhibit a resiliency that rivals adults. Most of the time, the poor decisions and follies of the young are excused and tolerated by adults. But every now and then, fate rears up and bites down viciously on one of these young fools. They are always astounded and want to blame the nearest parental figure they can locate. Their ire is unfathomable until they focus on themselves again and begin to see the truth. Then it is too late; they have awakened into adulthood.
Josh from this story is based on a real boy whose story could break your heart. Justin F. was seventeen years old when he entered our school during the third quarter of his senior year. He was a transplant from Baltimore—I think either Cherry Hill area or Pigtown from our discussions about home. Social Services placed him at a shelter and arranged counseling through Maple Shade on the Eastern Shore because he’d been in a number of brutal fights in the Baltimore facility and needed a change of scene. He was an obvious recovering addict with old track marks on his arms from low grade heroin, sometimes smelled sweet with pot, sported weird, homemade piercings and deep blue streaks in his short black hair, wore a bit of rough facial hair that hid some of an addict’s version of raging acne, but gave me a wide, intelligent look from bright blue eyes and sat up straight through every lesson.
He turned out to be shy and a genius with historical facts and deep reading in literature. He’d spent so much time confined to his room at various shelters; he had improved his reading by absorbing everything he could find. He had imaginatively created a fantasy grandfather whom had served in WWII and fought the Japs on an aircraft carrier. He had a disturbing interest in Hitler, guns, armed vehicles and war. He harbored Neo-Nazi views, dallied with becoming a white supremacist, but his best friends and later a first girlfriend were all black kids. He sometimes talked to himself if over stimulated and rocked. We discovered he was off his medications when he did that. By April when he was “overactive,” two of his other teachers sent him to me so he could sit in the back of the room, read his favorite WWII ship book and draw boat after boat in close precision.
I admit I found him an interesting conundrum because he didn’t seem to fit into the ungainly collection of gang bangers and regular kids they put him into at the end of the year. He watched them spout their neighborhood wisdom and mumbled about Baltimore. He knew what tough really was and didn’t get too impressed with small time hoods. He’d make eye contact with me or one of the other kids and roll his eyes at the nonsense.
The Monday he returned to school bleeding, I finally got the whole story. His roommate, a seventh grader at the school adjacent to ours, had beaten him up after their bedroom doors were locked for the night. He had complained to the monitor, but little had been done to stop the beating. The boy who did it was in a rage over something that had happened on a home visit, but Justin felt he couldn’t retaliate. That month he had turned eighteen and knew if he was charged with a crime, he would lose his spot at the home and be arrested.
First I noticed that he was very quiet. We were in the Media Center researching for an essay so I wandered from student to student. I noticed he smelled sour and rank beyond the normal, gamey smell of boys that age. My first reaction was to take a few paces back. A sweet-faced black boy who had befriended Justin raised an eyebrow at me and tossed his head to get my attention. I moved over to his side, and he toned clearly, “He’s bleeding, Mrs. C.” The boy’s look was grim.
I looked over expecting a bloody nose. Even in high school, sometimes kids are not too good with functioning when they are surprised by them. Justin must have brushed his hand along his face a moment before and disturbed the swollen knot where the boy’s ring had smashed him over and over again. Standing that close to him, I could see the imprint of a little square shape that I later found out was the shape on the ring. As I examined his averted face, I realized there was crusted blood in his jet black hair and in the whorls of his ears and along his neck. I touched his shoulder and he shuddered, “Who did this to you? Did this happen this morning?” I was thinking there must have been a fight on the bus.
Justin just shook his head. His friend leaned over and said very clearly, “His punk roommate did it. Nasty little nigger from the middle school. It’s a terrible place where they have him.” He gestured to Justin with a thumb and his bottom lip trembled.
“Justin, did you hit him back?” I know I must have sounded harsh, but reporting a beating is a two-sided disaster. Usually the victim is judged just as harshly as the attacker in a school or institutional setting.
“Only to get him off me. I can’t get thrown out. I have no place to go.” He swallowed suddenly and looked up so I could see the bruises beginning to color. They were new and needed ice. When I sent him to the nurse’s office, I called the guidance counselor and the deputy. The rest of the class watched me and mumbled about do-gooder teachers who cause trouble. My one concern was how hurt he really might be under all that crusted blood.
I had noticed he had stopped wearing the wild Baltimore clothes that were black and grey with long chains and studs. Someone had told me somebody at the home threw bleach into his laundry and ruined his wardrobe. The home supplied him with something right out of a Polo advertisement that made him look slightly more civilized but odd. The collared shirts and khakis looked clean, but they seemed to rob him of his personality. After a visit from his social worker from Baltimore later that month, the original style of clothes returned with even more personality in bright royal blue and black. Justin had chosen his gang affiliation in just two months in Salisbury.
Justin received his diploma after a few courses in summer school that year. They moved the roommate to another site and paired Justin with someone calmer. He came back to see me by November this year and sat in my classroom to vent a bit about real life. He was in the process of dropping out of community college; the Army had finally rejected him because of his manic depression medication and ADHD. That failure was close to breaking him. If he couldn’t go to school full time, he couldn’t stay at the home.
My heart ached for him, but the careful sense of protection I have after years of dealing with troubled children and adults warned me. We were sitting in my empty classroom at the end of a quiet wing, and he was raving about how unfair life was treating him. He was bordering into an eruption of violence like I’d seen one time when someone pissed him off. He left before I called the office for help. Ordinarily I’d have hugged him, shaken his hand or walked him to the door, but I waved him a goodbye, waited a few minutes, shut my classroom door and locked it. I haven’t seen him since.
The guidance counselor that I enjoy working with most at the school because she is so even tempered and realistic, cried a bit when we discussed Justin the day he came to school caked with blood and relieved to be with us in the safety of school. She told me his story was one that was too familiar: drug addicted parents, one of whom had died, grandparents who were overwhelmed by disabilities the boy was born with because of his mother’s alcohol and drug use during pregnancy, and the abuses he encountered as a beautiful child in the brutal world of foster care. It turned out that Justin had been in foster care since he was three years old. As she dabbed away the tears, she asked, “What do you do with a life like that? How can we help him survive once he leaves here?” She told me that in counseling today these children are considered “throwaways.”
I don’t have any answers. Self preservation kept me from trying to get over involved with Justin; I told myself that he could kill us if we got too close; I have a young daughter; he will need meds for the rest of his life. You know the drill when you are making excuses. The hurt I absorbed from knowing him well and caring for him the best I could while he attended school yielded this character Josh Avery. Josh falls short because he is not as destroyed as Justin is. Josh is salvageable and attractive. Daphne is too strong and good at being a guardian. It is a manufactured denouement for a fraction of the person who could be saved.
Justin stopped by to see me today. Really—the day after I wrote the remembrance of him from above. He was not as intense as the last time I saw him. Short hair with a trim beard, all black on with some kind of band tee shirt. He didn’t know whether to hug me or not but I had to because I had thought so much about him yesterday and there he was.
He told me that he had a hearing in a month in Caroline County where one of his grandmothers lives to decide if he can continue at the home. He is nineteen and dropped out of Worwic so he should be out on his own. He worries about where he will go; he knows it wouldn’t be long without his meds on his own. Now he is trying for a job with the armory but it’s part time. He gave me the catalog of relatives he can’t live with: Mom who he is trying to speak to again in Frederick, the grandmother who barely returns his call from Denton, and a pregnant girlfriend who the grandmother took in. (She is obviously not all bad.) The grandmother has her thirty year-old son living there, too. He tells me she was born the day her father flew out oversees to the Gulf War in the 1990s. Everything is still defined by its relation to the military in his mind though he reminded me that he can’t serve.
I took his number and gave him mine for a recommendation. I will see the guidance counselor tomorrow to get him the information for the Job Market. When they called looking for him, he hurried away to catch his ride back to the home. It is all just too much to imagine a mentally disturbed nineteen year-old to handle.
Crumbs in the Chillest Land--Resurrecting Hope through Writing
Summary for Nanowrimo:
An auspicious start to a collection of crumbs scattered for hope. In Emily Dickinson’s poem, “Hope is a Thing with Feathers,” the little metaphoric bird is buffeted by storms but asks nothing from the speaker—not a crumb. Hope is that brave, sometimes miniscule creature perched in the soul—refusing to give up to despair. Asking nothing and persevering despite the storm. Watchful of the thing hiding in the closet.
This collection of crumbs will be nonfiction accounts taken from life. Teaching in an urban public school during the day feeds the dramatic side of the novel. The artistic part of the process is recording my observations. During the last week in October alone, I said goodbye to a student who was moving to Baltimore, grieved for a teacher who succumbed to cancer at 51, hugged a student who told me he was entering residential rehab for alcoholism, calmed students after a two brutal fights that became a small riot, and cautioned yet comforted a co-teacher who made a decision that may cost her career. I also took part in a nonsensical Halloween celebration with my department to raise funds for another co-teacher who is undergoing chemotherapy. There have been births, deaths (one of a seventeen-year old), arguments and soothing conversations. These are the crumbs that the little hope in Dickinson's poem did not demand but that I will.
Two events in the last week rise to the rim of memory: the request to write a character reference and the announcement of the death of a colleague.
I knew my co-worker was terminally ill with cancer, that she had gone into hospice and that her daughters (one a former student and Facebook friend) were at her side. The announcement and moment of silence that followed during Friday morning homeroom routines tilted an already sliding planet. Cancer is a blight that strikes down the best, the blasé and the worst with equal measure. The disease sneaks into the back door, takes its time wandering through the contents of a life and then chooses which room to announce its presence. When it arrives, we rush to contain it, and then it hides in the closet and we forget it for a while. If we’re lucky.
The character reference was for a young man whom I’ve known for most of his life. In one defining afternoon, he and his younger cousins sat in my living room and waited for the police to arrive. His father had hit him the previous night which resulted in a black eye that had spread onto his cheekbone and run like lumpy fingers into his buzz-cut hair. It hurt to look at him. The violence in their family had festered into outbursts that resulted in ex-parte orders, slow-burning grudges, but weird, abiding love that clashed with the senseless arguments.
The boy who would grow into a man who needed help this week was destined to disappointment with his parents, three tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, the near deaths of his wife and first child, and the pressures of being the father of a child with cerebral palsy. During the interview with the police in my living room when he was twelve and marked by standing up to an adult bully, I remember wanting to shake all of them. Couldn’t anyone see the pattern of violence that would reverberate and touch everyone? Couldn’t they see that saving them started with this moment with the boy, his father and mother? But we did nothing. We followed the law and the will of those intimately involved. We allowed the violence to fester and grow in the closet.
Guided by economy and a yen for the sun, I walked the boardwalk in Ocean City yesterday. I had a three o’clock rendezvous at the Dunes for tea, but Becca had a party on 81st at one-thirty. Instead of wasting gas and patience, I drove into the outskirts of town and began a ramble down the boards toward the Ferris wheel at the inlet. After a week of chafing against the demands of other people, it was a relief to be alone for an hour.
The sun shone directly in my eyes and made it impossible to see people, dogs and bikes coming in my direction, so I looked out to the beach. The breakers were stacked in series of threes, about four foot high and tossing themselves directly onto a beach shortened by recent storms. The stretches of hilly beach were sparsely populated, a smattering of diehard surfers paddled out and rode back and a few sunbathers lay in sweats asleep. Only the year-round shops opened their doors with merchandise and signs spewed out to attract the off-season strollers. Conversations from balconies and storefronts were whisked away in the strong breeze. I walked as far as 4th Street and then turned around worried that I needed time to walk back to the car.
I felt good—warm from the sun, muscles stretched and limber, invisible among the other walking people. It is good to slough away the layers and walk without purpose. It is good to watch the grey ocean roll and froth itself into the madness of hurling to shore. I pick up the crumbs and continue my walk into the distance. I know my path though I cannot be sure the way will be lighted.
Nanowrimo 2015--Crumbs in the Chillest Land Introduction
For those who haven't been exposed to the mania of National Novel Writing Month, Nanowrimo bands together a diverse group--thousands of writers from around the world--into the valiant effort to produce 50,000 words in a thirty-day period. There are pep-talks, regional Facebook conversations and the daily accounting for writing. Everyone says it--if you want to be a writer--WRITE.
The Nanowrimo goal is length, not edited or polished prose. I've written only two original novels during this effort, but I've rewritten three novels--two during November and one during Camp Nanowrimo in July.
Inspired by The Martian by Andy Weir, I plan to blog my 50,000 in the vain attempt to rekindle sputtering hope in humankind. This has been the autumn that has cooled a few fiery desires that have kept me teaching for twenty-five years. The schedule, meetings, testing and behavior have battered the little bird that hope has become.
“Hope” is the thing with feathers - (314)
BY EMILY DICKINSON
“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -
And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -
And sore must be the storm -
That kept so many warm -
I’ve heard it in the chillest land -
And on the strangest Sea -
Yet - never - in Extremity,
It asked a crumb - of me.
Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson Edited by R. W. Franklin (Harvard University Press, 1999)
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Tag: A Humument
Man’s body dish for Sashimi under the cherry blossom (2005) by Ryoko Kimura.
• Godley & Creme’s Consequences (1977) is reissued this month on CD and vinyl. Originally a three-disc concept album with a theme of climate disaster and the natural world’s revenge on humanity, Consequences was released at a time when punk and prog rock were fighting for the attention of music listeners. 1977 wasn’t the end of prog by any means (many of the vilified bands had some of their greatest successes at this time) but Godley & Creme’s transition from the smart pop songs of 10cc to extended instrumental suites was abrupt, and their concept, such as it was, lacked the drama and accessibility of Jeff Wayne’s The War of the Worlds, even with the addition of Peter Cook providing a multi-voice comic narrative between the musical pieces. (Kevin Godley ruefully referred to the album in later years as Con Sequences.) The album flopped, and has been a cult item ever since.
• “A word of caution, though. Once you do read it, it’s hard to let it go.” Philip Hoare on Herman Melville and Moby-Dick. Related: William T. Vollmann on how a voyage to French Polynesia set Herman Melville on the course to write Moby-Dick.
• Samm Deighan on The “Faraway Forest” in Peter Strickland’s Katalin Varga, The Duke of Burgundy, and The Cobbler’s Lot.
• Brian Eno, Roger Eno, and Daniel Lanois discuss the recording of Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks.
• John Boardley on the first fashion books, Renaissance pixel fonts and the invention of graph paper.
• Melanie Xulu looks back at a time where major labels were releasing witchcraft rituals.
• “Tom Phillips’ A Humument is a completely novel project,” says Rachel Hawley.
• John Foster on the evolution of Stereolab’s analogue-inspired record sleeves.
• At Dennis Cooper’s: a history of le Grand Guignol by Agnes Peirron.
• Casey Rae on William S. Burroughs and the cult of rock’n’roll.
• An Austin Osman Spare image archive.
• Consequences (1965) by John Coltrane | Moby Dick (1969) by Led Zeppelin | Consequence (1995) by Paul Schütze
Author JohnPosted on August 4, 2019 Categories {art}, {books}, {burroughs}, {design}, {electronica}, {film}, {gay}, {music}, {occult}, {painting}, {theatre}, {typography}Tags 10cc, A Humument, Agnes Peirron, Austin Osman Spare, Brian Eno, Casey Rae, Daniel Lanois, Dennis Cooper, Godley & Creme, Grand Guignol, Herman Melville, John Boardley, John Coltrane, John Foster, Led Zeppelin, Melanie Xulu, Moby Dick, Paul Schütze, Peter Cook, Peter Strickland, Philip Hoare, Rachel Hawley, Roger Eno, Ryoko Kimura, Samm Deighan, Stereolab, Tom Phillips, William S Burroughs, William T. Vollmann2 Comments on Weekend links 476
Still of an Alive Painting by Akiko Nakayama.
• “In what is a cross between performance art and installation, Nakayama uses a multitude of kitchen basters loaded with paint and water to add, mix, tilt, blow and add all sorts of extraneous effects to her paints, recording and projecting it all onto a large screen.” Continuously Changing “Alive Paintings” by Akiko Nakayama. There’s more performance video at the artist’s website.
• In January 2018 Song Cycle Records (UK) release Solaris, a “Collector’s Edition” of the Tarkovsky film and its soundtrack comprising vinyl/CD, blu-ray (no region details) and a book of photos, artwork and essays.
• Steve Davis may no longer be a snooker player but he’s still a Magma obsessive. This week he reviewed the new Retrospektiw collection for The Quietus.
What I was most thankful to TG for was leading me to Christopherson’s later band Coil with his partner, antagonist and lover John Balance (after they’d met in Genesis’ Psychic TV) whose music I fell for even harder. The arcane and homoerotic tragicomedy that underpinned their discography (and relationship) propelled me into new states, years before any first hand knowledge of the drug experiences they managed to intertwine so artfully with their music. Records like Scatology and Horse Rotorvator sexualised the male body for me for the first time—an awakening that’s hard not to find some amusement in when soundtracked by a romp called The Anal Staircase. From afar it seemed like their intense, exploration of electronic music as ritual was only possible as a result of the depth of the duo’s personal relationship and how it manifested spiritually, chemically and physically. The posture and machismo of the modern guitar music I listened to (and performed) with my friends could be tiring. The sound of Coil became a safe space in which to fantasise about manhood and Englishness and what it really meant, helping dismantle clichés I’d come to accept as reality. From medieval hymns to acid-house their music was unafraid and total. Though hard to define with any particular release I often play people their funereal takes on Tainted Love (of which all profits went to the Terrence Higgins Trust—a musical first in 1985 while AIDS was still very much taboo) and the Are You Being Served? theme tune, the basis of their transformative final track Going Up, completed by Christopherson after Balance’s death.
Fred Macpherson writing about Throbbing Gristle and Coil at new site The Queer Bible. This is the first appraisal of Coil I’ve seen on any site devoted to gay/queer issues, over ten years after the band expired following the death of John Balance. Better late than never, I suppose.
• Tom Phillips is helping support the National Campaign for the Arts by reworking a page of A Humument as a series of designs at CafePress.
• At Strange Flowers: The Secret Satan book list, a welcome alternative to the lists that fill the broadsheets at this time of year.
• Mixes of the week: Stephen O’Malley presents Acid Quarry Paris—A Hypnosis, and XLR8R podcast 517 by Davy.
• At the Internet Archive: 183 copies of Video Watchdog magazine (1990–2017).
• The TLS interview: Twenty Questions with M. John Harrison.
• At Unquiet Things: The solving of a family art mystery.
• txt.fyi
• The Hills Are Alive (1995) by Coil | Everyone Alive Wants Answers (2003) by Colleen | Only Lovers Left Alive (2014) by Jozef Van Wissem
Author JohnPosted on November 26, 2017 Categories {art}, {books}, {electronica}, {film}, {gay}, {magazines}, {music}, {painting}, {science fiction}, {technology}Tags A Humument, Akiko Nakayama, Andrei Tarkovsky, Coil (group), Colleen (musician), Davy (musician), Edward Artemiev, Fred Macpherson, Genesis P Orridge, John Balance, Jozef van Wissem, M. John Harrison, Magma, Peter Christopherson, Solaris, Stephen O'Malley, Steve Davis, Strange Flowers, The Queer Bible, Throbbing Gristle, Tom Phillips, Unquiet Things, Video Watchdog4 Comments on Weekend links 388
Byronic I by Boris Pelcer. Via Full Fathom Five.
• “Music determines everything in terms of our narrative. Music demands, music suggests. Whereas traditional Hollywood animation is all based on character development—you know, there’s Toy Story and it’s Tom Hanks’s voice pushing the thrust of the action. For us, décor is all part of it. It’s the objects, a sense of atmosphere, the stimmung (mood) of what’s happening in this landscape where the puppet is just, invariably, a tiny element.” The Brothers Quay talking to JW McCormack about their films, and about Quay, a short documentary by Christopher Nolan.
• Croissants with Cthulhu: Stephanie Gorton Murphy reports on the Cthulhu Prayer Breakfast at last week’s NecronomiCon. I didn’t attend this: abject silliness is the last thing I want at 8 o’clock in the morning.
• “…a light daze for the rest of the afternoon, detrimental to studying but advantageous for daydreaming.” Italo Calvino on his cinema-going youth.
Only in that brief moment of absolute uncertainty – when both options seem equally plausible and implausible, when neither thought can be accepted or rejected, when everything can be explained and nothing can be explained – only in that moment do we really have this horror of philosophy, this questioning of the principle of sufficient reason. It is for this reason that Todorov qualifies his definition by stating that the “fantastic occupies the duration of this uncertainty.”
Eugene Thacker in an extract from Tentacles Longer Than Night (Horror of Philosophy, vol. 3), Zero Books, 2015
• It’s always good to hear some new rumblings by Emptyset. The Guardian has a stream of side 1 of the latest release, Signal.
• David Rudkin’s Penda’s Fen receives a film screening at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, on Saturday, 5th September.
• Sea Calls Me Home, another song from the forthcoming Julia Holter album.
• Digital visualizations of imagined future landscapes by Mike Winkelmann.
• Mix of the week: The Ivy-Strangled Path Vol. IX by David Colohan.
• Cherchez la femme: Women and Surrealism at Sotheby’s, NYC.
• At It’s Nice That: 50 years of A Humument by Tom Phillips.
• April 16, 1963: Housewife on LSD
• Tentaclii: a Lovecraft blog
• Signal (1981) by Phew | Signals (1983) by Brian Eno with Daniel Lanois and Roger Eno | Signals (2010) by The Soundcarriers
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Is Wearing Vintage Fashions Feminist? (Or, Sign Of The Times 1948)
November 26, 2013 / Deanna / 2 Comments
At my vintage living blog, Things Your Grandmother Knew, I’ve written about the tendency to romanticize the past, but I recently read two blog posts discussing vintage fashion in terms of “the vintage girl being the new feminist” and thought it was time to discuss the subject from a more feminist angle…
At Style High Club, Lena Weber writes:
I don’t quite know how it happened or when but far too many women around me seem to want to look like a porn actress these days. Or why else would they wax off their pubes, slather themselves in Fakebake and state Page Three Girl in their career goals? There is something about the passivity of this particular idea of femininity – there to be stared at, cum onto – that I find deeply infuriating. It’s just sad that we’re all meant to look like little plastic sex dolls – fake eyelashes, fake hair, fake tan, fake boobs.
To my relief (no really, it is!) there is a great big social group of women out there who don’t buy into this image – the vintage girls. Although the vintage scene is splintered into smaller subfractions of particular decades, musical styles, dances and activities, the one thing all these vintage-loving women have in common is their embrace of an altogether different femininity, one that’s individual, one that harks back to a time when glamour was exotic and empowering.
At Retro Chick, Gemma Seager responds with something I was eager to point out:
It’s easy to say that this isn’t new, 1950s Pin Ups weren’t exactly sold on their educational qualifications, and the idea of a woman whose goal was to marry a rich man and live happily ever after is hardly a new concept either. That’s why we had the “bra burning” feminists of the 60s and 70s. They stood up for the rights of women to be whatever they wanted to be.
But then Seager heads right down Weber’s path:
In the last 2 decades the internet has seen a progressive pornification of culture till it seems that women now feel that they can’t assert their own sexual independence, that they have no choice but to buy into this porn star, brainless ideal of female beauty and passive sexuality. They are modern day Stepford Wives, emotionally passive and sexually compliant. Brainwashed by television, magazines and the internet into thinking they can’t make emotional demands and that sexual liberation means always wanting to have sex.
Maybe it’s because I am (I’m pretty sure) at least a decade older than these women, or maybe it’s because I am a history nut who gets obsessed with research, but I’m thinking that these two women (and the majority of those who have commented at their sites) are missing something quite important from all of this. And that something is context.
If we look at “today” and compare it to the past, yes, women’s fashions seem to be much more skimpy. [Until, at least, you notice how a New Look wiggle dress is as fitted as any spandex dress — and realize that beneath that vintage wiggle dress or pencil skirt there’s a whole lot of foundation garments making sure the female figure is as hourglass, smooth, and popping (eye-popping and fabric-testing), and as it can be. More on that later.]
Every generation has declared the next one will be the ruin of fashion, morals, and even civilization. In fact, every decade and fashion trend has resulted in criticism — often for the wearer too. Hemlines went up and dared to show ankles — so women could dare to ride bikes! That may seem antiquated to us now, so let’s look at the styles and decades that most vintage fashionistas wear, such as New Look and Mod.
When New Look fashions hit the market, they were not applauded. In Popularizing Haute Couture: Acceptance and Resistance to the New Look in the Post-1945 United States (Americanist: Warsaw Journal for the Study of the United States; October 2007, Vol. 24, p143), Sylwia Kuzma writes:
The New Look promoted a vision of femininity, epitomized in a full-bosom-and-curvaceously-hipped hourglass figure, dressed in lace, fur, and diamonds. Despite the patronage of large New York and San Francisco department stores, it’s reception by the American public was far from unanimous fascination and acceptance.
Some found the look too decadent to be seemly. Some were incensed that Dior’s New Look would require them to be padded. Others found the below-the-knee hemlines frumpy. (Images from a 1948 magazine via.)
A decade later, when the first babydoll nighties and dresses hit the scene, many found them obscene.
The point is, with every hemline, waistline, and neckline movement tongues go a-waggin’.
Today, Bettie Page is held up as a prime example of a cheeky risque pinup to be emulated and adored. She is such an icon for vintage fashion lovers, that many stores, designers, brands, websites, and events use the name Bettie to garner attention. But she’s The Notorious Bettie Page for a reason — her pinup photos were the subject of censorship and she herself was a target of a US Senate pornography investigation. The adoration of Bettie Page as “cute” and “classy” raises the ire of many, including sex workers — many of whom already feel shunned by feminism. To many, this co-opting of Page for “good girls” is a theft they won’t stand for.
Which brings us to the matter of vintage glamour being “exotic and empowering”…
Those are the very words many use to describe their sex work and to defend a sex positive or even “pornified” culture. In many ways, today’s sex workers and pornified pop culture icons control their bodies far more than the women of decades ago. The 1950’s woman put on an exaggerated-hourglass Dior dress to lure in Mr. Right for marriage. Once she “caught” her man, she put on a golden wiggle dress to serve cocktails to her husband’s boss; a pretty little prop in her husband’s life. When The Little Woman needed to be medicated in order to endure her life, her doctor talked to her husband-daddy, so he could make the decisions for her — as if she were a child. Does that seem glamorous, exotic, or empowering?
Wearing vintage fashions may be moving the hemlines, waistlines, and necklines back in time, but does that move women forward towards equality?
Yes, fashion sends messages about who we are — at least at that moment. But, ultimately, what defines a person is their actions. And if we start labeling and denigrating people for what they are wearing, then we are on a very slippery slope . This is especially true for women because of that whole “what she’s wearing is asking for rape” thing. Not to mention that whole “what does a feminist look like” argument that no body wins.
Our bodies belong to ourselves. We’ll dress them ourselves, to please ourselves, and we’ll be the kind of person we wish to be.
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Comic Strips Ended Without Fanfare
By Sean Kleefeld | Thursday, January 09, 2020 Leave a Comment
Within the past week, two newspaper comic strips ended... and seemingly no one noticed. Terri Libenson's The Pajama Diaries had it's last strip run on January 4, and Peter Guren's Ask Shagg had it's last strip run on January 5. Here are the last strips for each...
Although I missed it earlier, Liebenson announced her decision to end the strip in mid-December, saying that she wanted to devote time to other projects. (Presumably working on children's books, as that's something she's been doing in addition to her strip for the past four years.) As far as I can tell, Guren made no public announcement. Indeed, I learned of it on January 5 and only then when Chip Sansom (cartoonist on The Born Loser) noted his surprise on Facebook. While I can't find any reason given for his discontinuing the strip, Guren has been drawing Ask Shagg since 1980 and I believe he's in his mid-60s, so it could well be just a simple matter of retirement.
As noted in the final Pajama Diaries, the strip is being re-run on ComicsKingdom.com. As Ask Shagg is just a weekly strip, it's currently unclear whether that will be re-running on GoComics.com but it's reasonable to expect it will, I think. But there is no mention on either site -- at least as far as I can find -- that either strip has ended at all, beyond what's presented in the final strips. The AskShagg.com site makes no mention of it either and still has form for submitting questions. (Although, aside from pulling in the latest comic, nothing on the site seems to have been updated in at least five years.) Libenson's personal website does have a note about her decision to end the strip, but that is distinct from PajamaDiaries.com (which just directs to Comics Kingdom) so readers would have to have been following her specifically and distinctly outside her comic in order to have seen/heard anything prior to this week.
Now, granted, neither of these strips had the reach or longevity of, say, Peanuts so I wouldn't expect the level of coverage that strip got when Charles Schulz opted to end it, but I think it is almost note-worthy in and of itself that there is so little fanfare of these two strips retiring in quick succession. Although if both strips continue their life online (and possibly in print -- I see no reason why both syndicates wouldn't continue to make them available) in re-runs, is that even really an issue? Ask Shagg in particular has decades of material, so it's unlikely anyone following the strip today is familiar with those strips from the 1980s.
In the past, syndicates would hire new artists and writers to keep the strips going -- it's something of a joke to call strips like Blondie and Barney Google "zombie strips" because their original creators have been dead for ages, but the strips keep churning along. Though we have seen fairly recent instances of that still happening, they have in some case attempted reinvigorating those strips by letting creators go in wildly different directions. (Nancy and Popeye come to mind.) It will be interesting to watch as more strips retire, and whether they'll be just set to re-runs or whether they'll try something new with them. It would seem syndicates are still trying to figure out their place in today's market and how best to compete with what's happening in webcomics.
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posted Oct 10, 2020, 1:06 PM by Lostwithiel Museum [ updated Oct 10, 2020, 1:13 PM ]
Lostwithiel Museum was opened by the Earl and Countess of Mount Edgcumbe in August 1971, so 2021 will be our 50th Anniversary.
Those who attended the opening included the Mayor and Mayoress, Councillor and Mrs Furse, Chairman of the Old Cornwall Society, Mrs Nicholls and Vice-Chairman Mr M Mayell, supported by members of the Old Cornwall Society and the public.
If you have photographs of relatives or friends who were there we'd very much like to see them. A search through those old photograph albums might reveal just what we're looking for, so if you find a photo, an invitation or write-up of the occasion please contact Christine Walton on 01208 871456. An article, 'The Story of Our Museum,' was published in Lostwithiel Past & Present Vol 3 Number 7 November 2006, available from the Museum.
A message from our Chairman Christine Walton:
LOOKING BACK: Having just spent an hour or so looking back at previous Museum contributions to this newsletter, I'm struck by how very different life has become since the coronavirus pandemic erupted. It's hard to believe our lives could have changed quite so dramatically in the course of a relatively short period. All those events and activities postponed or cancelled, all that energy and enthusiasm suddenly a part of yesteryear. I'm writing now in mid-September, six months from the start of lockdown. Who knows how much longer we will have to live with this virus? The only certainty is that it is not going to disappear any time soon. Then, we looked forward to life returning to normal, whereas now we talk more realistically about how we can adapt to the 'new normal.' Throughout this strange period I have nevertheless been struck by the many excellent examples of positivity and ingenuity shown by individuals and organisations in their attempts to survive this global epidemic.
LOOKING FORWARD: Though the Museum is closed for the rest of 2020, we are busy behind the scenes planning changes ready for re-opening in 2021. It is important to remain optimistic and resilient, and try to plan accordingly. In the meantime we are developing new ideas for sharing the fascinating stories about Lostwithiel's history. Watch this space !
posted Jul 3, 2020, 7:46 AM by Lostwithiel Museum [ updated Jul 3, 2020, 7:47 AM ]
The Museum world is also facing its share of exacting challenges as we endeavour to look ahead, adapt and prepare for the 'new normal.' We continue to be well-supported and briefed by the various professional organisations the Museum is associated with.
Locally, the Cornwall Museums Partnership [CMP] is always willing to advise and support. Some of you may have seen the poignant article 'Protect our cultural assets now or run the risk that they will never come back,' written by Emmie Kell [Chief Executive of CMP] and featured in the Cornish Guardian [dated 10.06.20]. Whilst Emmie focuses on the impact of coronavirus on the creative and cultural businesses she also highlights that ''Museums face particular challenges. Some occupy older, cramped buildings where it is difficult to maintain social distancing and a positive visitor experience, and many are totally reliant on elderly volunteers, who remain in the high risk category.......''
In the review section of The Times [dated 23.05.20] Rachel Campbell-Johnston in her article 'Our heritage is at risk, but we can't save everybody,' reports on the battle to save the nation's smaller museums. Whilst grim reading overall, there are also some encouraging glimmers of hope for the small, independent museums run entirely by volunteers.
One of our advantages is that we don't have the obvious massive overheads endured by the larger institutions. Nicholas Serota, chairman of Arts Council England, comments that......''one of our nation's great success stories has been the way we have created these small and highly distinctive museums.'' The final paragraph states ''Don't let our small museums grind to a painful stop. How many bits of our heritage can we afford to allow to fall away before we can't see our cultural picture any more ?'' Both these articles offer some serious thought-provoking issues for us to consider.
posted Jun 4, 2020, 10:36 AM by Lostwithiel Museum [ updated Jun 4, 2020, 10:37 AM ]
: 2020 is a special year for the Friends of St Bart's [FOSB]. To celebrate this significant Anniversary the Museum window was designated to play host to memories of their by-gone years. Sadly, this hasn't been able to go ahead as planned but we are still hoping that there will be an opportunity to do this before too long so please bear with us.
posted Jun 4, 2020, 10:35 AM by Lostwithiel Museum
The Museum Accreditation Scheme is intended to encourage all museums to meet an agreed standard in how they are run, how their collections are managed and how they engage with their users. To be awarded full Accreditation status is an accolade that Lostwithiel Museum is proud to have achieved in 2007, 2010 and 2014.
In February 2020 we submitted our 4th application to the Arts Council for England for re-Accreditation. Intervention was to come in a guise that none of could have expected ie.the coronavirus lockdown which resulted in the Arts Council museum professionals being furloughed. It has now been confirmed that the new review date for our submission will be April 2021. This is a disappointment but one that we must accept as we are powerless to do anything about the situation.
It's the 20th of May and the weather is idyllic which makes it all the harder to believe that we're in the midst of a pandemic of epic proportions. At the time of writing there is no further information from the Government as to when Museums will be allowed to re-open to visitors.
It seems only a short time ago that we were talking about looking forward to the day when we can 'get back to normal.' As more time passes we have become increasingly aware that 'the old normal' is fast becoming something called 'the new normal.' Bearing that in mind we are in the process of trying to visualise what 'the new normal' might look like and how our Museum will adapt and move forward to meet a new and very different set of challenges.
There will inevitably be some challenges ahead that will be less easy to cope with than others but throughout this forthcoming period of adaptation there will also be some opportunities for new developments. It is therefore important to remain positive and optimistic about the future and what that might represent for Lostwithiel Museum. Whatever date the Government might give for Museums to re-open we will only do so when we are ready and when we believe that it is the right thing to do at that time. Lostwithiel Museum Association's primary objective will always be to safeguard our team of volunteers whose health and safety is our major priority.
posted Apr 30, 2020, 6:24 AM by Lostwithiel Museum [ updated Apr 30, 2020, 6:27 AM ]
Since first becoming aware of Coronavirus a whole 'other language' seems to have crept into my vocabulary with words or terms like 'unprecedented, pandemic, lockdown, social distancing, self-isolation and furloughed' increasingly creeping into my conversations to illustrate the current situation. The severity of this crisis touches every single one of us in different ways as we grapple with this sudden and very different way of life. I have been inspired by the kind, generous, practical and inventive ways in which small communities like Lostwithiel have responded to the challenges presented. An appreciation for the preciousness of life and all that we hold dear is perhaps being tested more acutely than ever before, certainly in my lifetime. I would like to thank all of you for the varied and vital contributions you are making to support this special town and help it to continue to thrive.
Following our official closure period in response to the Coronavirus enforced lockdown period we have received a few enquiries as to when the Museum plans to re-open to visitors. The simple answer is that we have no idea. Although, at the time of writing, there is no specific date we are still busily working behind the scenes [at home] to ensure that when the Government announces that it's safe for Museums to re-open we will be ready. It is hoped that we will still be able to open from 10.30am to 4.30pm Monday to Friday but that depends on a number of factors, not least our ability to maintain sufficient numbers of volunteers. Lostwithiel Museum is run entirely by volunteers and without this valued team of special people the Museum has no future. This is also a challenging period for the life of Lostwithiel Museum which is looking forward to celebrating its 50th Anniversary in 2021.
With my special thanks for your interest and continued support for the Museum throughout this difficult period. Take care, stay safe and keep well.
With very good wishes to one and all,
Christine Walton [Chairman]
posted Mar 13, 2020, 1:29 PM by Lostwithiel Museum [ updated Mar 13, 2020, 1:30 PM ]
At the Museum Committee Meeting held on 12th March 2020 it was decided that, in light of issues related to Coronavirus, it would be wise to delay re-opening the Museum, originally planned for 6th April, until further notice.
The Committee Members and Trustees acknowledge their duty of care towards our volunteers and visitors, a responsibility which is taken very seriously. They will, therefore, do their best to protect your health and safety by monitoring the situation, taking professional advice and acting accordingly. It is therefore impossible at this stage to say when the Museum will re-open.
As the Museum will not be re-opening on 6th April we will also postpone the Social Get-together planned for 24th March. This event will take place closer to the new date for re-opening the Museum.
Committee members will continue to work behind the scenes in readiness for re-opening the Museum, whenever that might be. If there are any volunteers who would like to be involved with our 'Winter Projects' we would be delighted to work with you. Please contact The Chairman.
Lostwithiel Museum Association Committee
posted Mar 7, 2020, 7:46 AM by Keith Southgate [ updated Mar 7, 2020, 7:47 AM ]
The re-application for Museum Accreditation includes a Five Year Forward Plan. Five key priorities have been highlighted by the museum committee:
a] The conservation of Joseph Burnett's [Lostwitiel's Peace Officer in 1814] cloak which is in need of some costly professional repair work so will require grant-funding. The cloak is owned by Lostwithiel Town Council and on loan to Lostwithiel Museum.
b] Replacing one or more display cabinets that do not conform to museum standard requirements. Again, grant-funding will be needed as one display case could cost a minimum of £6000.
c] Extending the current Window Display Sponsorship Scheme to include objects, projects and events.
d] Attracting and retaining more volunteers, and resolving succession issues [in particular for museum committee members and trustees].
e] The long-term future and siting of Lostwithiel Museum.
All of the above represents a major challenge for a small independent museum, dependent on volunteers who also have to concentrate on the day-to-day tasks presented by running a museum in today's very different world.
posted Feb 5, 2020, 1:27 PM by Lostwithiel Museum [ updated Feb 5, 2020, 1:28 PM ]
It is no exaggeration to say that Lostwithiel Museum's 'Window on the High Street' is the envy of many larger museums that do not have this display facility. This vacancy offers an exciting opportunity to demonstrate your creative flair.The role can be tailored to suit individual interests and skills. Please contact Christine Walton on 01208 871456 for more information
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A Drama YouTuber Thinks There's Evidence Of James Charl...
A Drama YouTuber Thinks There's Evidence Of James Charles' Sexually Predatory Behavior
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Trigger Warning: This post includes descriptions of what is considered to be sexual harassment.
Drama YouTuber Rich Lux seems to be sure that there is more the public needs to know about the sexual harassment and predation allegations made against James Charles. Lux took to his channel to lay out what led him to believe that James Charles hasn't told the entire truth about the allegations that Jeffree Star made against him concerning inappropriate sexual behavior.
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Apparently, the speculation began with this event flyer.
A post shared by SAM // HERE FOR THE TEA (@hereforthetea2) on Jun 3, 2019 at 1:21pm PDT
A family influencer brand and singer Chris Brown are teaming up to host a basketball tournament. The person hired to sing "The National Anthem" is none other than the very controversial James Charles. As displayed on the flyer, the Dolan Twins were also on the bill to participate in the game. Unfortunately, things abruptly changed.
Lux shared this screenshotted message from one of the hosts of the event.
photo: YouTube/Rich Lux
Not long after the flyer was publicized, the event host shared this update. "Unfortunately the @dolantwins will not be able to attend the event. We had a miscommunication... They will be out of town during that time but they will be there in spirit," the announcement read.
Lux believes the sudden cancellation is connected to the allegations that Jeffree Star made against James Charles concerning the Dolan Twins.
photo: YouTube/James Charles
"Grayson is going on camera shortly. To finally tell the world how you tried to molest him and touch him in his sleep… And made him uncomfortable for months you sick m***********. Next, Zach will be going on camera to tell how twisted and sick you were, trying to him to lie you and then make him feel bad when he didn’t wanna send you photos back," Jeffree Star accused in a private text message made public by James Charles. "You need to be locked in prison for a very long time. You need the internet taken away from you. You are a danger to society.”
James Charles has adamantly refuted the allegations.
A post shared by James Charles (@jamescharles) on May 21, 2019 at 2:58pm PDT
"As disgusting as it is, I have to admit bringing up Grayson and Dolan was pretty clever. At the height of all these allegations and stories going around, both of the twins unfollowed me not wanting to be associated, and fans started speculating that the rumors could be as to why… ," Charles explained on his YouTube channel.
"Too bad that aside from our pre-planned collaborative jokes that happened in the Sisters fun videos of me and Grayson flirting, nothing ever happened between us. When all of this went down, I knew Jeffree was lying because the twins were the first people to call me and make sure I was OK."
James Charles also highlighted what he feels is an underlying bias against LGBTQ+ people.
A post shared by James Charles (@jamescharles) on Jun 1, 2019 at 11:21am PDT
James Charles seemingly believes that many of his innocent and flirtatious experiences with guys have been wrongfully labeled as predatory. "These stereotypes on gay men, have been, and continue to be very, very harmful to the community and have been historically used to villainize gay men in society," Charles said.
"I have never and would never and will never use my fame, money, or power to manipulate or get any sexual actions from a guy," Charles also said at a separate part of his video. That is disgusting. It is not me. And the fact that Tati brought this up blows my mind because she knows the real story."
Still, Rich Lux believes the Dolan Twins canceling their appearance points toward there being some truth to Jeffree Star's allegations.
A post shared by Rich Lux (@richlux713) on Mar 29, 2019 at 3:43pm PDT
"Jeffree Star's not lying. Maybe. That's what I'm saying," Lux stated. "Did something go down with the Dolan Twins and James Charles? James Charles made a video and said nothing happened. Jeffree Star basically wanted to get along in that video he posted. Why did the Dolan twins back out from being in the same room with James Charles if this wasn't an issue? I'm on to something and I feel it's gonna be exposed. Somebody is going to come forward and say it."
"It's kinda sneaky but it's starting to make sense but only time will tell," Lux also said.
While some people support Rich Lux publishing yet another video that questions the sexual morality of James Charles, he's getting a decent amount of backlash as well.
A post shared by Rich Lux (@richlux713) on Mar 10, 2019 at 9:37am PDT
Many are questioning Rich Lux's bias since he has recently begun publicly hanging out with Jeffree Star. "I remember rich lux was fun to watch but ever since he started going with j* he changed. Even said when questioned about his feelings about j* racism, he said 'well he was nice to me,'" one critic wrote on Reddit.
"Rich loves to joke that he is on Jeffree's payroll but he indeed is," another person speculated.
A few critics believe that Rich Lux is simply communicating what Jeffree Star wants to say.
A post shared by Rich Lux (@richlux713) on May 24, 2019 at 11:08pm PDT
Jeffree Star professed that he would step away from the James Charles drama in a video called "Never Doing This Again." Still some beauty fans think he can't resist pulling strings with drama channels behind the scenes. "So Jeff isn’t going to put himself on the line legally so he’s sending his minions to do his dirty work. How very in character of him," a critic wrote on Reddit.
The Dolan Twins have not spoken up to defend James Charles or confirm the allegations themselves.
A post shared by Dolan Twins (@dolantwins) on Dec 2, 2018 at 11:23am PST
Instead, they have distanced themselves from James Charles entirely. Charles confirmed in his video that they did check on him privately while the drama between him, Tati Westbrook, and Jeffree Star raged on. Still, the twins no longer film YouTube videos with him. As Charles acknowledged, they also unfollowed him on social media because they did not want to be associated with him and the bad press (publicly at least). As Rich Lux highlighted, the twins have also backed out of an event that James Charles was scheduled to appear at. Still, they haven't confirmed or denied any of Jeffree Star's claims against James Charles on their behalf.
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1998 Jim Proudfoot
Jim Proudfoot
by Milt Dunnell
Come on, you guys who get out this Journal, how can anyone tell the life history James A. (Chester) Proudfoot in 500 words? It’s like tracing the bloodlines of Northern Dancer on the head of a horseshoe nail.
Just tell the things that people don’t already know, you say. Like what? Well, try to find out who put that ‘Chester’ tag on him.
Tom Bird did it. Now you want to know about Tom Bird. There goes another 500 words.Bird was the only handicapper in the world who didn’t see the steeds on which he advised racetrackers to bet. He was blind. Listened to the track announcer call every race on the card; also knew the people on the backstretch who told him when a horse had a good work.
Bird’s favourite television program was Gunsmoke. He didn’t see it. Just heard it. Chester Proudfoot, a homespun character in Gunsmoke fascinated him. So he hung the first name on his own Proudfoot, and it stuck.
Funny thing about the real Proudfoot. He must have travelled a zillion miles in pursuit of sports yarns, combined with a bit of luxury living at the expense of ye old Toronto Star, but he never drove a kilometre of tht distance himself; never got suck ina car deal, either, because he hever had one.
Now you may think he was able to escape many of the occupational hazards of his trade — like white-knuckling to work down the Don Valley Parkway.
Quite the opposite was the truth. As a lifetime hitch-hiker, he suffered all kinds of life-threatening experiences. One time, leaving a ho-hum Canadian Football League press conference, he accepted a lift with Bob Frewin, who kept CFL watchers informed via the pages of the Telegram — especially when John Bassett, who published the Telegram, also owned the Argos.
Frewin was driving, presumably, because Chester never had a license. Between them, they managed to bang into a light standard — in a parking lot, for gawdsakes.
Frewin was demonstrating the short-yardage defence of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats when the lamp pole moved prematurely.
After that, Chester politely declined offers of rides to places like Fort Erie. He had discovered a little airline that used a landing strip, right behind the race track, and took off from Island Airport. It worked fine until the day somebody forgot to put enough gas in the tank.
Although understandably shaken by the emergency landing which ensued, Chester never lost sight of his objective. He hobbled to a phone and placed his wager with a bookmaker. From that day henceforth, though, he became a reluctant patron of any vehicle that lacked a TTC logo.
The recent death of Harry Ornest, one-time owner of the St. Louis Blues, the Toronto Argonauts and a big chuck of Hollywood Park race track, resulted in some hilarious tales involving the colourful Harry.
Most of the obits hinted that Harry never saw a buck that he didn’t aspire to acquire, to misquote Johnnie Cochran. Chester would refute that insinuation. Which is further evidence that Chester Proudfoot walks to his own drum-beat.
He once returned a cheque for $150,000 to Harry during his short shift with the Argos. It was a good cheque, too. A goodly number of sportswriters and columnists will understand how it happened.
Chester was famous for bombarding chosen scribes with clippings from scores of newspapers and magazines, anything from War Cry to The Wall Street Journal, any which met Harry’s favour or disfavour were highlighted.
Frequently, these bundles would lie unopened on a desk for weeks. And sometimes they never got opened. One day, in the Star’s sports department, Chester thumbed through a sheaf of yellowed clippings and out popped a shiny cheque from the Bank of Nova Scotia, payable to the Argonauts, with whom the bank was running a promotion. Harry apparently had been counting the receiptsw while he was doing his clipping.
Chester Proudfoots’ exploits on the sexual scoreboard in places such as Paris, Prague and Moscow are even more……..!
What do you mean … out of space. Just getting to the good stuff!
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Breakwater (structure)
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Breakwater Structure
Structure constructed on coasts as part of coastal management or to protect an anchorage
The Alamitos Bay, California, entrance channel. Breakwaters create safer harbours, but can also trap sediment moving along the coast.
Breakwater under construction in Ystad, 2019
A breakwater in Haukilahti, Espoo, Finland.
Breakwaters are structures constructed near the coasts as part of coastal management or to protect an anchorage from the effects of both weather and longshore drift.
Barra da Tijuca - Rio de Janeiro
Breakwaters reduce the intensity of wave action in inshore waters and thereby provide safe harbourage. Breakwaters may also be small structures designed to protect a gently sloping beach to reduce coastal erosion; they are placed 100-300 feet (30-90 m) offshore in relatively shallow water.
An anchorage is only safe if ships anchored there are protected from the force of powerful waves by some large structure which they can shelter behind. Natural harbours are formed by such barriers as headlands or reefs. Artificial harbours can be created with the help of breakwaters. Mobile harbours, such as the D-Day Mulberry harbours, were floated into position and acted as breakwaters. Some natural harbours, such as those in Plymouth Sound, Portland Harbour, and Cherbourg, have been enhanced or extended by breakwaters made of rock.
types of break water
vertical wall breakwater
mound breakwater
mound with superstructure or composite breakwater
Breakwater in Trz?sacz, Poland.
A breakwater structure is designed to absorb the energy of the waves that hit it, either by using mass (e.g., with caissons), or by using a revetment slope (e.g., with rock or concrete armour units).
In coastal engineering, a revetment is a land-backed structure whilst a breakwater is a sea-backed structure (i.e., water on both sides).
Rubble mound breakwaters use structural voids to dissipate the wave energy. Rubble mound breakwaters consist of piles of stones more or less sorted according to their unit weight: smaller stones for the core and larger stones as an armour layer protecting the core from wave attack. Rock or concrete armour units on the outside of the structure absorb most of the energy, while gravels or sands prevent the wave energy's continuing through the breakwater core. The slopes of the revetment are typically between 1:1 and 1:2, depending upon the materials used. In shallow water, revetment breakwaters are usually relatively inexpensive. As water depth increases, the material requirements--and hence costs--increase significantly.[1]
Caisson breakwaters typically have vertical sides and are usually erected where it is desirable to berth one or more vessels on the inner face of the breakwater. They use the mass of the caisson and the fill within it to resist the overturning forces applied by waves hitting them. They are relatively expensive to construct in shallow water, but in deeper sites they can offer a significant saving over revetment breakwaters.
An additional rubble mound is sometimes placed in front of the vertical structure in order to absorb wave energy and thus reduce wave reflection and horizontal wave pressure on the vertical wall. Such a design provides additional protection on the sea side and a quay wall on the inner side of the breakwater, but it can enhance wave overtopping.
Wave absorbing caisson
A similar but more sophisticated concept is a wave-absorbing caisson, including various types of perforation in the front wall.
Such structures have been used successfully in the offshore oil-industry, but also on coastal projects requiring rather low-crested structures, e.g. on an urban promenade where the sea view is an important aspect like in Beirut and Monaco. In the latter, a project is presently ongoing at the Anse du Portier including 18 wave-absorbing 27 m high caissons.
Wave attenuator
Wave attenuators consist of concrete elements properly dimensioned placed horizontally just one feet under the free surface, positioned along a line parallel to the coast. The wave attenuator has four sea-side (seaward) slabs, one vertical slab, and two rear-side (landward) slabs, each separated from the next by a space of 200 millimetres (7.9 in). This row of 4 front side slabs and two rear side slabs, reflects the offshore wave by the action of the volume of water located under it which, made to oscillate under the effect of the incident wave, creates waves in phase opposition to the incident wave downstream from the slabs.
Breakwater armour units
As design wave heights get larger, rubble mound breakwaters require larger armour units to resist the wave forces. These armour units can be formed of concrete or natural rock. The largest standard grading for rock armour units given in CIRIA 683 "The Rock Manual" is 10-15 tonnes. Larger gradings may be available, but the ultimate size is limited in practice by the natural fracture properties of locally available rock.
Shaped concrete armour units (such as Dolos, Xbloc, Tetrapod, etc.) can be provided in up to approximately 40 tonnes (e.g. Jorf Lasfar, Morocco), before they become vulnerable to damage under self weight, wave impact and thermal cracking of the complex shapes during casting/curing. Where the very largest armour units are required for the most exposed locations in very deep water, armour units are most often formed of concrete cubes, which have been used up to ~195 tonnes for the tip of the breakwater at Punta Langosteira near La Coruña, Spain.
Preliminary design of armour unit size is often undertaken using the Hudson Equation, Van der Meer and more recently Van Gent et al.; these methods are all described in CIRIA 683 "The Rock Manual" and the United States Army Corps of Engineers Coastal engineering manual (available for free online) and elsewhere. For detailed design the use of scaled physical hydraulic models remains the most reliable method for predicting real-life behavior of these complex structures.
3D simulation of wave motion near a sea wall. MEDUS (2011) Marine Engineering Division of University of Salerno.
The same wave motion at the Visby breakwater in Sweden.
Breakwaters are subject to damage and overtopping in severe storms.
Sediment effects
The dissipation of energy and relative calm water created in the lee of the breakwaters often encourage accretion of sediment (as per the design of the breakwater scheme). However, this can lead to excessive salient build up, resulting in tombolo formation, which reduces longshore drift shoreward of the breakwaters. This trapping of sediment can cause adverse effects down-drift of the breakwaters, leading to beach sediment starvation and increased coastal erosion. This may then lead to further engineering protection being needed down-drift of the breakwater development. Sediment accumulation in the areas surrounding breakwaters can cause flat areas with reduced depths, which changes the topographic landscape of the seabed.[2]
Salient formations as a result of breakwaters are a function of the distance the breakwaters are built from the coast, the direction at which the wave hits the breakwater, and the angle at which the breakwater is built (relative to the coast). Of these three, the angle at which the breakwater is built is most important in the engineered formation of salients. The angle at which the breakwater is built determines the new direction of the waves (after they've hit the breakwaters), and in turn the direction that sediment will flow and accumulate over time.[3]
The reduced heterogeneity in sea floor landscape introduced by breakwaters can lead to reduced species abundance and diversity in the surrounding ecosystems.[4] As a result of the reduced heterogeneity and decreased depths that breakwaters produce due to sediment build up, the UV exposure and temperature in surrounding waters increase, which may disrupt surrounding ecosystems.[2][4]
Three of the four breakwaters forming Portland Harbour
The eight offshore breakwaters at Elmer, UK
Construction of detached breakwaters
There are two main types of offshore breakwater (also called detached breakwater): single and multiple. Single, as the name suggests, means the breakwater consists of one unbroken barrier, while multiple breakwaters (in numbers anywhere from two to twenty) are positioned with gaps in between (160-980 feet or 50-300 metres). The length of the gap is largely governed by the interacting wavelengths. Breakwaters may be either fixed or floating, and impermeable or permeable to allow sediment transfer shoreward of the structures, the choice depending on tidal range and water depth. They usually consist of large pieces of rock (granite) weighing up to 10-15 tonnes each, or rubble-mound. Their design is influenced by the angle of wave approach and other environmental parameters. Breakwater construction can be either parallel or perpendicular to the coast, depending on the shoreline requirements.
UK - The Sound, Plymouth; Sea Palling, Norfolk; Elmer, West Sussex; Brixham, Devon, South Gare
United States - Santa Monica, California; Winthrop Beach, Massachusetts; Colonial Beach, Virginia
Japan - Central Breakwater in Tokyo; Ishizaki (?), Hokkaido Prefecture; Kaike, Tottori Prefecture
Groyne
Mole (architecture)
Hudson's equation
Powell River Giant Hulks breakwater
Phoenix breakwaters
^ CIRIA, CUR, CETMEF (2007). "Rock Manual - The use of rock in hydraulic engineering". Ciria-CUR. CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^ a b Masucci, Giovanni Diego; Acierno, Alessandro; Reimer, James Davis (2020). "Eroding diversity away: Impacts of a tetrapod breakwater on a subtropical coral reef". Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. 30 (2): 290-302. doi:10.1002/aqc.3249. ISSN 1052-7613.
^ Jackson, Nancy L.; Harley, Mitchell D.; Armaroli, Clara; Nordstrom, Karl F. (2015-06-15). "Beach morphologies induced by breakwaters with different orientations". Geomorphology. 239: 48-57. doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2015.03.010.
^ a b Aguilera, Moisés A.; Arias, René M.; Manzur, Tatiana (2019). "Mapping microhabitat thermal patterns in artificial breakwaters: Alteration of intertidal biodiversity by higher rock temperature". Ecology and Evolution. 9 (22): 12915-12927. doi:10.1002/ece3.5776. ISSN 2045-7758. PMC 6875675. PMID 31788225.
USACE (1984) - Shore protection manual (Volume I and II)
N.W.H. Allsop (2002) - Breakwaters, coastal structures and coastlines.
USGS Oblique Aerial Photography -- Coastal Erosion from El-Niño Winter Storms October, 1997 & April, 1998
Channel Coastal Observatory -- Breakwaters Gallery
Shapes of breakwater armour units and year of their introduction
SeaBull Marine, Inc. -- Shoreline Erosion Reversal Systems
WaveBrake - Wave attenuation specialists
IAS Breakwater in Facebook
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WHO WILL WIN AND WHO SHOULD WIN
Today is the big day. Get your Chinese ordered, pop the wine bottles, and buckle in, because despite having no host this Oscars is going to be a four-hour production. Why? Because we forced them to include the award for cinematography in a celebration of movies. But I digress. Before the night begins, allow me to run down the biggest awards, try to guess who will win, and say who should win.
The field has never been more open. Bohemian Rhapsody and Green Book won Golden Globes, while Green Book also nabbed the PGA award for Best Film. Black Panther won the SAG. Roma won the DGA and the BAFTA awards. Eighth Grade and Can You Ever Forgive Me? won for writing – and those movies aren’t even in the running. So, what does that mean? There is no consensus this year.
Because of that you have to think any movie that didn’t win a major award - A Star Is Born, Vice, The Favourite, and BlacKKKlansman - is out of the running. Though I wouldn’t necessarily say BlacKKKlansman is out. With everything Oscar has been criticized for over the years Spike Lee’s movie could sneak in there. Is Bohemian Rhapsody a good movie? I don’t think so. It is enjoyable and I had a blast watching it, but it isn’t necessarily good cinema, so at least for this category it’s probably out. How amazing would it be if Black Panther won? A movie that people saw wins the award for the best movie of the year. But how can you take a comic book movie seriously? Ryan Coogler makes the case for it exploring ideas of fate vs. destiny and how racial progress should be handled - all while people fight in spandex. While there has been a late push, it would be hard to imagine a comic book movie winning the night’s big award.
Green Book which was a heavy favorite early, but as with any early favorite people had a lot of time to find all the flaws and talk about why this movie shouldn’t win. So then will Roma win? Of all the movies on the list, Roma is the most artistic, which the Academy loves, but will they hate that the movie was distributed on Netflix instead of going through the typical theater format? Another question worth asking – despite being on Netflix, how is it that people still refuse to watch it? Should that factor in, or is the beauty of this movie exactly what the Academy wants to support?
Who will win: "Roma"
Who should win: "Black Panther"
Best Director:
Spike Lee, "BlacKKKlansman"
Pawel Pawlikowski, "Cold War"
Yorgos Lanthimos, "The Favourite"
Alfonso Cuarón, "Roma"
Could Spike Lee finally win his Best Director Oscar? I wouldn’t be surprised. He deserves it for his career even if BlacKKKlansman isn’t his best movie. But this is the category that Roma deserves to be rewarded for. Alfonso Cuarón is the star of this movie. What he did on screen is award-worthy and make no mistake he will win tonight.
Who will win: Alfonso Cuarón for "Roma"
Who should win: Alfonso Cuarón for "Roma"
Best Actor:
Christian Bale, "Vice"
Bradley Cooper, "A Star Is Born"
Willem Dafoe, "At Eternity's Gate"
Rami Malek, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
Viggo Mortensen, "Green Book"
Everyone has been saying the best part about Bohemian Rhapsody is Rami Malek. And I wouldn’t dare argue that. But if we are going to argue transformations and becoming a well-known person, how are we not going to award the person who physically transformed himself--and not just his body, but his voice as well. Bale changed his look, voice, and physical ticks; he is unrecognizable in this role. Rami Malek added a couple teeth in his mouth and is not the one singing. So why is Malek going to win? Probably because Christian Bale just won and they hate giving any deserving actor multiple Oscars too close together. Just ask Meryl. Buy maybe I am just bitter Leonardo DiCaprio had to wait 20 years for his Oscar and Rami Malek gets it on his first time out. Leo got screwed on Wolf of Wall Street.
Who will win: Rami Malek for "Bohemian Rhapsody""
Who should win: Christian Bale for "Vice".
Yalitza Aparicio, "Roma"
Glenn Close, "The Wife"
Olivia Colman, "The Favourite"
Lady Gaga, "A Star Is Born"
Melissa McCarthy, "Can You Ever Forgive Me?"
A lot of deserving roles in this category. I really loved Melissa McCarthy but no one in the Academy seems to want to vote for her, probably because she is typically a comedic actor. The SAG had a tie in this category between Glenn Close and Lady Gaga, so it seems like it is down to those two. I would be happy with either performance winning. Lady Gaga’s performance felt honest and real. Close’s performance is much more subtle in a movie that is overall quieter. But it is also worth considering that Glenn Close has been nominated seven other times and never won, while this is Lady Gaga’s first movie. In the event of a tie, the award will probably go to the one with the more deserving career.
Who will win: Glenn Close for "The Wife"
Who should win: Lady Gaga for "A Star Is Born"
Those are the four biggest awards but let me know what you think and follow me along on Twitter tonight. Unless I become too captivated in the awards which seems unlikely - it feels like this is going to be a train wreck. But that could make it fun to watch too. Enjoy the show!
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My Mom Secretly Made Pot Brownies For AIDS Patients And It Changed My Life
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“At 9, I was keenly aware of the giant garbage bags of illicit cannabis straining the closet door of our spare bedroom.”
COURTESY OF ALIA VOLZ
The author (front) and her mother, Meridy Volz, in San Francisco, circa 1983.
A family of deer exploded out of the forest. I must have been 6, squatting in the dirt driveway with my model horses as the animals dodged around me, eyes bulging. Then a helicopter emerged from behind the trees, its body like a giant insect, loud as a machine gun. It hovered low overhead, sending debris whirling into my face. My mom rushed out of the house and pulled me close to her body. The chopper moved on toward the next ranch.
The Campaign Against Marijuana Planting was a creature of the Reagan Administration. Launched in 1983, CAMP employed disused military equipment — U-2 spy planes, infrared cameras, flash-bang grenades, and battering rams — to hunt marijuana growers in California. Over the years, this equipment would increasingly be mobilized against urban communities of color throughout the United States. Reagan fired some of the first experimental salvos in his war on drugs against rural pot growers in his home state.
Every month, my mom loaded our Datsun hatchback with home-baked cannabis brownies and drove three hours to San Francisco. My dad was often out of work and we never had much money; this was how we survived. The sale of any amount of marijuana was a felony in those days. But like many hippies, my parents saw the plant as wholesome — a gift from Mother Earth.
Our town was part of the tri-county area nicknamed the “Emerald Triangle” for the potent sinsemilla grown in the hills. I’m sure I wasn’t the only kid at my Waldorf school whose parents had to check her sweater for pot leaves before school. I learned to lie to protect my family before I could spell my own name.
My parents eventually divorced, and Mom and I moved back to San Francisco, where she distributed her edibles to people with AIDS at the dawn of the medical marijuana movement. The specifics changed over time, but one fact remained constant: telling the truth could send my mom to prison.
Our secret was a kind of enchantment, a magic spell. I grew up in a vibrant world that could only exist if it remained invisible. This defined my childhood. Some family secrets must be terrible to carry — fraught with deceit and shame. My burden was made lighter by openness at home. No topic was taboo between my mom and me. Even as our secret distanced me from outsiders, it made us closer, creating an intimate, trusting mother-daughter bond that persists to this day.
My mom called her oversized bed “the barge.” After my parents divorced when I was 9, it became the heart of our home. I can still see her sprawled out sideways, blue-green-amber eyes gleaming with the punchline of a funny story. The barge was where we ate Chinese takeout and watched “ALF,” where I suffered through math homework, where we argued and made up. Whenever the waters of prepuberty got choppy, I headed for the barge. Mom and I became more like sisters than mother and daughter — a dynamic that suited us.
At school, I struggled to make friends. I got bullied, eventually volunteering in the administrative office during recess to avoid other kids. Looking back, I wonder how much of my social awkwardness grew from the secrecy. There was so much I couldn’t share.
If my mom brought the poison, she also provided the antidote. She strove to instill confidence. There were dance lessons, horseback lessons, and crafts. When other kids put me down, she built me up with salon dates, road trips, sunny afternoons on paddle boats in Golden Gate Park, and foggy afternoons at the penny arcade. Mom came into a small inheritance when I was 10, and we decided together how to spend it: a six-week trip to Mexico, where I did my schoolwork on the beach. We crashed resort pools in Ixtapa and sunbathed side-by-side, sipping virgin piña coladas with our pinkies in the air.
COURTESY OF LORENE WARWICK
The author during the D.A.R.E. phase, circa 1987.
Cops terrified me. If I encountered a policeman on the street, I held my breath like people do when passing a graveyard. One day in 1987, the entire fourth grade was ushered into the cafeteria where a uniformed cop was waiting. My heart pinballed in my ribcage. The policeman explained that we’d be spending a lot of time together.
We were going to learn how to “Just Say No” to drugs.
Drug Abuse Resistance Education — better known by its slogan, “D.A.R.E. to keep kids off drugs!” — was the crowning jewel of Nancy Reagan’s FLOTUS project. Throughout that semester, I fidgeted through lectures on how to recognize and report dealers. I remember noticing that the drug dealers the policeman described didn’t sound like my mom ― a pretty white woman.
Looking back, I wonder how much coded racism was hidden in those lessons. Congress had recently passed the first mandatory minimum sentencing for certain drug crimes, laws that would be unjustly wielded against people of color. This was the dawn of mass incarceration. At 9, I was ignorant of these factors but keenly aware of the giant garbage bags of illicit cannabis straining the closet door of our spare bedroom. I had begun helping my mom bake after school and on weekends. Sometimes I tagged along on deliveries.
I faked my way through D.A.R.E., acing quizzes to win bookmarks and notebooks. But I never saw the lecturing policeman as anything other than my sworn enemy. I still remembered the helicopters thundering over our house in the woods.
My mom relied on hippie magic — particularly an ancient Chinese oracle called the I Ching — to guide her through risky situations. She’d roll special brass coins in her palm and cast them onto her comforter. The results corresponded with passages in a leather-bound book. She followed the advice assiduously. The I Ching gave her confidence — and that confidence trickled down to me.
It was always like that with me: If my mom was cool, I was cool. And the cops never did knock on our door.
My mom’s role had changed by the late 80s. Cannabis was as illegal as ever — our secret just as dangerous — but dealing mattered in a different way. HIV/AIDS was devastating our communit. Lifesaving protease inhibitors wouldn’t hit the market until 1996. Diagnosis was considered a death sentence. With few treatment options, marijuana emerged as helpful with common symptoms — notably nausea, appetite loss, pain and depression. Dealers became healers.
My mom had a knack for putting people at ease. Longtime customers would climb aboard the barge and stay for hours, reminiscing, talking through difficulties, mourning.
It was during those days that I learned to listen and speak with my heart. Other kids intimidated me, but my mom and her friends made me feel welcome. I remember how the barge trembled with laughter and how sturdy it felt when you were down and needed reassurance. Equal parts therapist’s couch, ladies lounge and executive boardroom, it was a place for solace and intimacy.
Looking back, I’m surprised I didn’t suffer more anxiety over my mom’s illegal work. I was terrified of AIDS but didn’t lose sleep over the real possibility of a bust. It’s only now, decades later, that I worry for the safety of the child I used to be.
Our lives could have taken a tragic turn at any time.
What if my mom’s oracles had failed and the cops had come for us?
Or what if I had failed? What if I’d let our secret slip out in the wrong company?
A friend recently compared my mom sharing her secret with me to giving a child a gas can and matches and telling them not to burn the house down. Perhaps she’s right. But there was another factor at play: My mom created a space that I would never want to see burn. She trusted me with her freedom. I didn’t let her down.
My mom stopped dealing in 1998, two years after the first medical marijuana legislation passed in California. Once HIV/AIDS patients could access cannabis legally, she felt she could move on. She’s a law-abiding citizen now — an artist and popular art teacher. There are no secrets left to hide. Yet the bond forged during my outlaw childhood remains strong. Though we live in different parts of California, we talk on the phone every day. During visits, we’ll climb onto a big bed and float together, letting the current we share carry us softly through the hours.
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31-0 - The Reign of Terror Continues at the Basketball Hall of Fame Hoop Hall Classic
"Terror Squad" 2015 Hoop Hall Classic Champions
Even before the competition brought their teams to Springfield, Massachusetts to face the daunting challenge of beating the undefeated and top-ranked “Terror Squad” this past weekend, many have called the collection of youth talent "perhaps as good as there ever has been at the 7th grade level."
The “Terror Squad” set about trying to prove the pundits right, there scorecard on the weekend included incredulous win totals of 85-40, 83-18, 90-21, and 63-31. They forced turnovers, blocked shots, set the nets on fire with marksmanship from beyond the arch and vandalized the rim at the 2020 level with dunks and alley-ops.
"What makes them the best team in the country is that our guys can have off nights but due to their talent level and big stage experience - their margin for error is quite substantial. I'd like to think that as long as well play hard and as a team that the weapons will be tough to overcome. It’s one of those situation where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts” said Coach Francis whose talented bunched moved to a jaw-dropping 31-0 at the conclusion of the tournament.
While the team showed up missing a few of their key pieces in 6’7 Isaiah Todd and guard Zion Harmon the opportunity for extended minutes from the nation’s best collection of talent still produced results on a high level.
Jordan Toles, who was named championship game MVP put up scoring number, boarded, and even threw down his first in game alley-oop to add to his Human Highlight Film reel - this doesn't include an array of dunks which came in between some great perimeter shooting - which is improving each time we see him. His continued development with push and pull basketball and as a facilitator ads a dimension to his game which make him almost impossible to stop. He is learning to make his teammates better while still maintaining his own production which remains on the elite level but shines even brighter when you get to see the control and different speeds in which he attacks.
Cameron Byers simply continues to improve not just with each game; it seems at times as if he is learning and growing possession by possession. A dominant force on both boards and on the block he continues to finish with high level proficiency having added a very tough face up game to his arsenal. This type of post presence has allowed him to carry the load for long periods and he is an essential part to the team’s success. The short corner jumper, ability to push the ball in transition as well as catch in space clearly indicates that Byers can be stretched out making him even more attractive as a prospect. He powered past the weak, went around the strong, and when they back off without knowing what to do the soft touch tickled the twine and he did it every way it could be done during the course of the weekend.
AJ Hoggard battled through illness on Sunday; but Hoggard at 80% may be better than most guards in the country at full health. What didn’t he do over the course of the weekend? A three level scorer knocked down the perimeter shot in every way imaginable and from distances that forced you to guard him wherever he went on the floor. That only added to the problem as AJ’s IQ took over allowing his to make the reads that lead either to him or his teammates scoring. In the paint his size to finish couldn’t be match and it will be a challenge for anyone moving forward. With a few huge scoring outburst he balance it by adding two double-double games diming out assist like they were popcorn.
Montez McNeil the baby bigman of the group continues to grow up acting as a man-child on the glass and an intimidator in the paint. McNeil contest every single venture into the paint changing shots he didn’t get his hands on. What is taking his game to the next level is the development of an elite level post game. A true back to the basket big he does it all – up and under, drop steps, turn around’s with both left and right hand finishes. McNeil put together one of the most memorable and impressive games of the season at any level going 10-10 from the field and 3-3- from the free-throw line for 23 points while tallying 13 rebounds.
Tyler Brelsford continued to set the table and feed the hungry “Terror Squad” mouths that require buffet style servings. Four games with double figure assists exemplify the existence of the quintessential QB. The ultimate court spacing resource Brelsford compliments his “dishes” was a nice side of scoring – utilizing the three point stripe to make defenses pay for help, double downs, playing off. The driving and passing lanes are less crowded because of the necessity to respect Brelsford. Slowly but surely strength is being added allowing him to finish in the paint through contact but smart enough and skilled enough to find success in the mid-range. Exhibited a very complete package throughout the weekend.
Ryan Conway; knock knock…whose there? Conway – Conway who? Conway from far away. Continued to knocked down the perimeter shot from all over the gym and played with a motor that any coach/player would respect on any level. The beauty in this kids game is that he has two elements that every team needs and wants. A shooter and someone who plays hard all the time – when you add effectiveness as finisher in transition and a steady improvement as a passer and ball-handler it is clear to see the future is very bright. Defends both on and off the ball playing the passing lanes like a cornerback you can see the growth and seasoning that is being deposited into the growth cycle. A proven scorer who doesn’t need a lot of looks to be effective as evidence by his double figure scoring using less than 10 shots per contest. Capable of outburst at any time he is a secret weapon of mass destruction.
Jeremy Roach, a situation of the rich getting richer here with the addition of Roach whose national profile requires no introduction. The do it all combo guard was a 5-category contributor throughout the event. Loved his ability to slash into the lane and the silky smooth finishes made it seem like he’s been here before as he decimated defenses all tourney long – still adjusting to the wide-open controlled chaos style of the “Terror Squad” he is natural 3-level scorer who is arguable one of the best shooter/scorers in the class. Far from one dimensional Roach passed well, played excellent on the ball and off the ball defense, rebounded, and even block some shots – an underrated athlete Roach will get in the paint and bang and mix it up with any player in front of him.
Team Izod again stepped into the fray against the “Terror Squad” this time on the Hall of Fame floor. Confident and taking note of the missing pieces Sports U kept it close early going into the half tied and 22-22. In the second there were stretches where the multiple switching defenses of the ‘Terror Squad” confused the black and red – and the relentless paint pounding of Toles, Hoggard, and Byers wore down the Izod down as both their big played with foul trouble throughout. On the defensive end the “Terror Squad” refused access to the painted area and ran the shooter off the line into help in one of their best team defensive efforts of the season. A totally frustrated Izod group couldn’t find any answers down the stretch as the ‘Terror Squad” pulled away at the midway point coasting to a 48-39 victory. Sport U compete hard, but the separation on the court and off was apparent when you are talking about the #1 team in the land.
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Sterling Knox - A Star is Born in the City of Lights
BY: West Analysis
Prolific Performance Basketball
West Coast Analysis confirms “Coming Straight out of Las Vegas Sterling Knox” is one of the best in the class of 2022 and deserves National recognition. When you see him play the very first thing that comes to mind is VISION. Knox has a Magic Johnson style of play where he makes everybody around him better. His unique ability to see the play before it happens keeps him one step ahead of the defender. With his head always in radar mode scanning the floor looking for his teammates makes him the player who makes it all work. He has above average ball handling skills that gives him an added weapon that controls the pace of the game. The vision combined with the ball handling skills allow him to play the game in angle format dicing through the gaps getting to the right spot for the right play. This combination was put on display at John Lucas Future of the Game West –Las Vegas when Hoops Scoop Clark Francis voted him #4 2022 player behind Top #3 National ranked player Bryce Griggs of the entire camp. Scouts certified Knox for having very good ball handling skills, quick and very good court vision.
The second thing that comes to mind is THE FINISHER. Being the son of an elite Coach and Trainer Sterling Knox Sr. of All Vegas Basketball Club he has an IQ well beyond his years. The kid plays the game the right way making him a leader among his peers. Sterling allows the game to come to him while preparing the table for his soldiers to eat. He is a gamer that elevates a players game no matter their level of play. He understands the small things like hitting the player in stride and ball placement on the pass. This was proven at the Big Foot Hoops Las Vegas Live during tournament season. His spectacular 30+ scoring performance made the Top 10 ESPN LIST at #6. Knox lead his team to a triple overtime by knocking down 10 straight free throws. This exciting game ended in a buzzer beater win by the #1 team on the WestCoast San Francisco Rebels over Knox Vegas team. He scores in a variety of ways but his go to is The “Floater Game”. This unique shot comes out of his hands from all angles on the floor confusing his opponents with how to defend it. The quick first step is D1 like which gets him past the first defenders easy. As he lands among the trees a highly elevated unstoppable floater rotates through the clouds for a 75% chance splashing into the basket.
The third thing that comes to mind is SCORING MACHINE. If the team needs a bucket Knox gets a bucket. He has the ability to score the ball in multiple ways complicating the chess match most coaches build the play book on. He finished the National season leading his team to the Final 4 in Las Vegas Live and Final 8 in Fab48. The combination of these characteristics and the ability to win at an elite level influenced Prolific Performance National Player News West Coast analysis to visit the potential National candidate for a weekend in the city of lights with a star. Knox starts his weekend off with Friday after School intramaurals. He grabs a bite to eat and heads to his longtime Coach and Elite trainer Sterling Knox Sr. All Vegas Basketball Club program for 3 hours of D1 type training where Jr is always the lead example for every drill. Then from Late Friday night after training until late Saturday night he played 4 games in a 24 hour period. This is where all the talk, all the rumors were confirmed by basketball experts. Coach McCall was quoted saying “His level of play exceeds my expectations at the 2022 level”. P2bball WestCoast Analysis rates his vision as superior and best seen at the 2022 level. His ability to finish was rated as ELITE and his scoring was evaluated as DOMINANT. Jr. Played all three middle school age groups 2022,2021,and 2020 in this 24 hour period. On the 2022 level he was the best on the floor in every game on every play. A weekend in the life of Knox started with a nail biter loss where Sterling led his team from being 25 points down. Less than 12 hours later played another nail biter this time winning a close one at the infamous Tarkanian Basketball Academy. He lead his team in points, assist and minutes played. It was interesting to see when you thought he maxed out how his level of play increased with the competition during the class of 2021 and 2020 games. He was the scoring machine in every meaning of the word. An outstanding offensive performance from every possible area on the floor. If you play him close his superior ball handling and quick first step makes him a guaranteed finish at the rim and/or free throws from line where he is an astounding 92%. If you play him loose he will kill you with the lethal three point shot. If you are bigger and stronger he will float you to an island and bring out his floater game that is golden. Scouting services reveal this kid is a national talent who deserves national recognition. The nation is on watch because Knox says “He got Next”.
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At Legal & General we know the value of volunteering, having seen first-hand the difference it can make in our local communities, as well as to our employees directly.
During this global crisis it is even more important to us that we engage with our employees to encourage and support their volunteering ambitions, as we truly believe that people who have a purpose outside of their everyday working role are more motivated, healthier and happier.
Volunteering can be fun and fulfilling, allowing our employees to experience many diverse opportunities not always possible elsewhere and that’s why we build volunteering into our culture at Legal & General.
We feel these opportunities build confidence, skills, improves health and allows us to meet people from different cultures and backgrounds.
Our employee volunteering policy shows our commitment to encourage employees to get involved, allowing them time off during working hours and as a reward for volunteering outside of work we offer time matching. Our employees then convert their volunteering time to cash for their charity or community group.
You can find out more about the large number of national charities we support here
We also encourage all of our employees to volunteer for organisations that matter the most to them and offer support to these activities where needed. ?
Volunteer Case Studies
Legal & General and The Royal Voluntary Service Telephone Befriending Programme
The Royal Voluntary Service is a national charity built on local volunteering which supports people who need it, in hospitals and communities. The partnership between Royal Voluntary Service and Legal & General began in 2014. Since then Legal & General staff have experienced the rewards of volunteering by supporting the charity’s work in the NHS, running hospital cafés and on-ward retail trolley rounds with the support of local volunteers.?
During the recent Covid-19 pandemic, a large population of?their members have been forced to self-isolate at home, losing out on the social?activities?that?had?been arranged by?The Royal Voluntary Service. A large number of Legal and General employees have been participating in a telephone befriending programme, being matched with these vulnerable people across the UK giving them much needed support and comfort during this time. The programme has been so successful it has now been adopted by two further L&G charity partners, Independent Age and Carer’s First.
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Legal & General?Mature Savings?colleagues raise ￡100,000 fundraising for hospice care.
They proved that the workplace can be a real force for good by raising an astonishing ￡102,853 for St Barnabas House in just three years, beating their original target.
The partnership with St Barnabas House began in 2017 and over three years, a passionate team of colleagues from Legal & General dedicated hundreds of hours to organising and hosting a wide range of fundraising events, as well as volunteering for the hospice, determined to hit their ￡100,000 target during lockdown, the thought outside the box and continued to fundraise - holding a virtual pub quiz and two makeup auctions which raised an incredible ￡3,000.
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Legal and General sponsored the first ever Wales-wide Virtual Pride 2020, the first pan-Wales Pride event, which took place at the end of July - #keepingcymruconnected
In partnership with Legal & General and FOR Cardiff, Business in the Community Cymru launched its new guide to help businesses in Wales take practical steps to respond to homelessness. The toolkit, Designing Out Homelessness: Practical Steps for Business, features hints and tips to help businesses support people who are homeless, or at risk of homelessness, and case studies from organisations across Wales who take a proactive approach.
Employees in Cardiff rallied to the plight of communities in South Wales who were devastated by Floods earlier this year. Not only did they raise over ￡1,200 to support the front line organisations helping the people in those communities but they also gave their help in bucket loads, quite literally! Together, with help from our friends at Kier, they donated a car full of cleaning products. This included buckets, mops, disinfectant, bleach, floor cloths, sanitisers, toiletries along with many other items.
With support from Legal & General’s time matching programme, employees in Cardiff gave up their weekend to support Llamau’s “Virtual Sleep Over” in August. They slept in the garden in tents, built dens in the living room and helped raise nearly ￡6,000 to support the work of Llamau, the leading homelessness charity in Wales. Llamau supports care leavers, people who have been involved with the criminal justice system, people who have experienced domestic abuse and people who have had chaotic and disadvantaged lifestyles.
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Esther And Jerry Hicks Abraham Books
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Within these pages, you’ll learn how all things, wanted and unwanted, are brought to you by this most powerful law of the universe, the Law of Attraction (that which is like unto itself is drawn).
You’ve most likely heard the saying “Like attracts like,” “Birds of a feather flock. Esther and Jerry Hicks have been putting out the channeled Abraham material for about twenty years, but it has recently enjoyed a surge in popularity. I only discovered it about a year ago and have read their last three books. International best-selling authors Esther and Jerry Hicks produce the Leading Edge Abraham-Hicks teachings.
For more than two decades their Law of Attraction workshops, held in up to 60 cities per year, have continued to inspire a regular flow of Abraham books, CDs, and DVDs. Esther Hicks Audio Books on xn--80aqafbcerwjl3k.xn--p1ai This Leading Edge work by Esther and Jerry Hicks, who present the teachings of the Non-Physical consciousness Abraham, explains that the two subjects most chronically affected by the powerful Law of Attraction are financial and physical well-being.
Apr 22, · Esther wrote. Abraham Hicks, it seems, has found a cure for cancer, at least the dangerous corporate kind. In a late “news bulletin,” Jerry and Esther are so thrilled at the clarifications and information Abraham spit out at the last workshop. Sep 25, · #1 New York Times best-selling authors Esther and Jerry Hicks have been producing the Leading Edge Abraham-Hicks teachings since In NovemberJerry made his transition into Non-Physical, and now Esther continues to conduct the Abraham seminars with the help of her physical friends and co-workers and, of course, with the Non-Physical help of Abraham and xn--80aqafbcerwjl3k.xn--p1ais: K.
About Abraham; Esther Hicks Official Biography; MEDIA. Blog; Introduction To Abraham Audio; Video Clips; Journals; Book Excerpts. The Law of Attraction; Money and The Law of Attraction; + BOOKS + AUDIO BOOKS + CARD DECKS + CALENDARS + WORKSHOP RECORDINGS + DIGITAL DOWNLOADS + MUSIC + GIFT IDEAS + FOR CHILDREN. Esther and Jerry wrote several books on the law of attraction and the other components relating to it, and Esther also runs workshops where she is an inspirational speaker, talking through Abraham.
These workshops are attended by many, who go armed with what they would like to ask Abraham. Jul 12, · Abraham Hicks Review | About Esther and Jerry Hicks. Esther Hicks is an American inspirational speaker and published author. Â She and her husband Jerry Hicks have co-authored nine books and have been teaching the law of attraction with Abraham for over 20 years. Unfortunately her husband suffered a spider bite from a brown recluse and died in.
This is the best book Esther and Jerry Hicks have produced with Abraham to date. I didn't think any book could surpass their classic Ask & It Is Given but this one does.
It is a brilliant sharing of Abraham's message. This book gives clear, detailed instructions for creating the life you want. Ask and It Is Given, by Esther and Jerry Hicks, which presents the teachings of the nonphysical entity Abraham, will help you learn how to manifest your desires so that you're living the joyous and fulfilling life you deserve.
As you read, you'll come to understand how your relationships, health issues, finances, career concerns, and more are influenced by the Universal law/5(). About The Essential Law of Attraction Collection. For more than two decades, international best-selling authors Esther and Jerry Hicks have produced the Leading Edge Abraham-Hicks teachings, inspiring countless people through their workshops, CDs/DVDs, and books.
Now, three of their most beloved titles are gathered into a single volume. Nov 23, · For those of us who 'grew up' in LOA world with Abraham material, it was a shock to hear we would continue our journey without Jerry Hicks along for the ride. Some wondered how this could happen if Jerry was practicing deliberate creation as taught by Abe.
We had that discussion over here. In the meantime, here's the note Esther Hicks emailed about Jerry's passing on Friday, November 18th. The Vortex. This Leading Edge work by Esther and Jerry Hicks, who present The Teachings of Abraham™, will help you understand every relationship you are currently involved in, as well as every one you have ever experienced. of results for Books: Esther and Jerry Hicks.
Skip to main search results Amazon Prime. Free UK Delivery by Amazon The Law of Attraction: The Basics of the Teachings of Abraham. by Esther Hicks and Jerry Hicks | 25 Sep out of 5 stars 1, Paperback £ £ 56 £.
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"Martin Luther: Reformer, man of God, antisemite"
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"... their actual composition remains as a secret, because while the US discloses the explicit Treasury holdings of all other nations, Saudi Arabia's holdings, for some unknown reason, are not officially disclosed.
"It’s a secret of the vast U.S. Treasury market, a holdover from an age of oil shortages and mighty petrodollars," Bloomberg wrote of Saudi Arabia’s US Treasury holdings.
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So who does know how much US paper the Saudis are sitting on? Well, the Saudis of course,"a handful of Treasury officials," and some bureaucrats at the Fed, Bloomberg says, noting that “for everyone else, it’s a guessing game.""
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The worries of the Clintonistas: "I am worried about Hillary Clinton again". Those Goldman Sachs transcripts must be something!
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Development Update: Thursday, September 10
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SOUTH SIDE (HBO MAX)
Returns in TBA 2021 (Exact Date TBA)
BROADCAST HISTORY:
7/24/19 - ???
returning in 2021/2022 (date TBA)
TIME SLOT:
not on the schedule
CURRENT SEASON:
2 (??? episodes)
renewed through the 2019-20 season (the show's second of 10 episodes) on 8/28/19
(from WarnerMedia's press release, August 2020) South Side follows two friends who just graduated from community college and are ready to take over the world. But until they do, they're stuck working at Rent-T-Own. Shot on location in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood, the show offers an authentic look into what life on the South Side is all about.
PRINCIPAL CAST INFORMATION:
· Bashir Salahuddin
· Chandra Russell
· Diallo Riddle
· Sultan Salahuddin
CREW INFORMATION:
· Bashir Salahuddin as CRTR/EP
· Diallo Riddle as CRTR/EP
· Michael Blieden as EP/DIR (Pilot)
· Sultan Salahuddin as CRTR
· comedy (all)
· comedy (single-camera)
STUDIO INFORMATION:
· no information is available
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Freddie Curry, Founding Member of Longtime Lubbock Band Element, Passes Away
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Freddie Curry performing with Element in 2015 (Justin Massoud, Townsquare Media)
Lubbock-based band Element are mourning the loss of one of their own.
In a Facebook post dated Saturday, December 26th, Element shared that founder Freddie Curry had "gained his wings."
"One of our band members gained his wings today. Fly high Freddie Curry, your pain and worries are over. You will be missed by all," the statement reads. No cause of death has been released.
Fans offered an outpouring of support for the band, as well as Curry's family, on the Facebook thread.
"So very sad to hear this. Freddie was a great musician & a kind gentle soul," said one person.
"My heart is with Freddy's family and all you guys in the band! He was a bright light for all of us," said another.
Element has been a staple in the Lubbock music scene for more than a decade. If you've ever been to a local bar, you've probably seen Element perform live. The funk group has entertained thousands of Lubbockites over the course of their enduring career.
Our thoughts and prayers go out to Freddie Curry's family, friends and bandmates during this difficult time.
Next: See pictures of Element playing Buffalo Springs Lake in 2015
[h/t KAMC]
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BK France Shares How Make A Whopper At Home!
Burger King France is “spilling its royal secrets” for how to recreate that Whopper taste from your own kitchen. The chain tweeted that the “Quarantine Whopper” can be made at home using just eight store-bought ingredients in this order: top bun, onion, pickles, ketchup, beef patty, mayonnaise, lettuce and tomato, followed by the bottom bun.
The at-home version probably won’t come with BK’s signature flame-grilled flavor, but with all Burger King locations in France closed during the coronavirus outbreak, the tweet’s a hit. People have been posting photos of their own homemade “Whoppers” and some of them actually look pretty good.
Source:Fox News
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