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The Roving Typist: A Short Film About a New York Writer Who Types Short Stories for Strangers
in Creativity, Film, Writing | February 21st, 2014 1 Comment
C.D. Hermelin, a literary agency associate with a degree in Creative Writing, is the self-proclaimed Roving Typist. It’s an apt title for one who achieved fame and fortune – okay, rent money – by appearing in various public spaces around New York City, typewriter in lap. Director Mark Cersosimo’s short film, above, introduces him as a mild-mannered, slightly awkward soul. Engaging with strangers lured by the sign taped to his typewriter case is where Hermelin comes into his own.
The sign promises “stories while you wait,” a concept that recalls the “Poems on Demand” author and writing guru, Natalie Goldberg, who composed poems to raise funds for the Minnesota Zen Center. (Hermelin got his idea – and permission to implement it – from a guy he saw doing something similar in San Francisco.)
He’s open to requests, and payment is left to the discretion of the recipient. He seems to take extra care when his customer is a child.
A harmless enough pursuit in an era where subway musicians and caricaturists lining the path to the Central Park Zoo hustle harder than ‘90s-era shell game artistes.
It’s reasonable to assume that innocently blundering onto a cello player’s turf is the worst trouble a guy like Hermelin’s likely to stir up.
Instead, he became the target of a mass cyberbullying campaign, after a stranger posted a photo of him and his typewriter parked on the High Line on a sweltering day in 2012. Cue an avalanche of hipster-hating Reddit comments, in addition to a meme at his expense.
Rather than succumb to the vast negative outpouring, the Roving Typist confronted the situation head on, publishing his side of the story in The Awl:
Originally, it felt silly labeling my venture a “cause” while I defended myself to an anonymous horde—but now it feels anything but. The experience of being labeled and then cast aside made me realize that what many people call “hipsterism” or, what they perceive as a slavish devotion to irony, are often in fact just forms of extreme, radical sincerity. I think of Brooklyn-based “hipster” brand Mast Brothers Chocolate, which uses an old-fashioned schooner to retrieve their cacao beans, because the energy is cleaner, because they think that’s how it should be done. I think of the legions of Etsy-type handmade artist shops, of people who couldn’t make money in their profession, so found a way to make money with their art.
Subject a whimsical project to the forge, and it just might become a vocation.
Be sure to check out the bonus outtake “I Was A Hated Hipster Meme” and don’t fret if your travels won’t take you near New York City anytime soon. Hermelin and his typewriter are spending the winter indoors, fulfilling the public’s on-demand stories via mail order.
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Choose a woman to lead the UN!
UN leaders and experts have sent an Open Letter to each member of the UN Security Council asking for the selection of a woman and gender equality champion as the next UN Secretary-General.
Anne Marie Goetz
People who know the UN well have written to the members of the Security Council, urging them to select a woman as the next Secretary-General. An Open Letter (text below) from the Campaign to Select a Woman for the Next UN Secretary-General has been signed by 45 UN leaders and by experts on the UN. The signatories include individuals who have served the UN as leaders of UN peacekeeping missions, senior executives and directors in the UN’s funds and agencies, envoys and special rapporteurs, and representatives of member states that have served in their national missions to the UN. Prominent academics and experts on the UN are included too.
United Nations hall of past and present Secretary-Generals. Credit: Andrea Izzotti/Shutterstock.com
The Security Council meets this week for its first informal ‘straw poll’ to clarify the preferences of its members on the current set of 12 candidates. The ‘straw poll’ is a method to avoid early and divisive use of the veto by encouraging some candidates and making it clear whether others stand no chance. The letter insists that the time is more than ripe for the selection of a woman, given the fact that there has never been one in the UN’s past and that in the current gender-balanced candidate list, there is a rich choice of qualified women. The letter also insists that the selection should prioritize a woman with a track record on gender equality. The choice of a feminist woman will send a vitally important signal of the UN’s commitment to adapting itself to the challenges of the 21st century.
The full text of the letter, and the list of signatories, is reproduced here. The letter remains open for signature from UN leaders and experts until the last Security Council meeting to evaluate candidates.
Your Excellency;
All who have signed this letter are current or former senior officials of or scholars and experts on the United Nations, committed as you are to an effective organization, responsive and well-led, as we address the daunting challenges before us.
The selection of the next Secretary-General is a critical choice for the UN and the world. We share your commitment to find the best candidate -- an experienced diplomat, skillful manager, thoughtful mediator and compelling speaker and advocate, a leader of stature who can represent the UN to the world at its best, work well with Member States and embody the core UN principles of peace, justice, development and human rights.
Your choice will send a dramatic message to the world. To that end, we urge you to select a woman with all the qualities above and, as well, a demonstrated and sustained commitment to gender equality. After seventy years and eight male leaders in succession, the choice of a woman would send a signal of transformation and would be an important step in correcting a gender bias of many decades. It will galvanize renewed action to implement existing commitments to women's rights and opportunities. It may bring different approaches to UN leadership and new perspectives to the immense challenges of global governance today. It would renew and inspire interest and support of the UN from the larger public.
Among the declared candidates you have a number of outstanding women. We urge you to select one of them to be the next Secretary-General. We are joined in this hope by millions of dedicated NGOs, many Member States, the Elders and many other world leaders. Thank you for your consideration. We look forward to your decision.
Please accept the assurances of our respect and support,
Philip Alston
Special Rapporteur Extreme Poverty and Human Rights;
John Norton Pomeroy
Professor of Law, Co-Chair, Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, New York University
Fionnuala Ni Aolain
Professor of Law, Transnational Justice Institute, Ulster University
Radhika Balakrishnan
Faculty Director, Center for Women’s annGlobal Leadership, Rutgers University
Marie Louise Baricako
United Nations High Level Panel on Peace Operations
Karima Bennoune
Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights
Charlotte Bunch
Founding Director, Center for Women’s Global Leadership, Rutgers University
Naomi Cahn
Professor, George Washington University Law School
Patrick Cammaert
Former Military Admiral, Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) and Police Force Commander
Roxanna Carrillo
Chief Policy and Planning, Peacebuilding Support Office (PBSO)
Judy Cheng-Hopkins
Assistant Secretary-General, Peacebuilding Support Office
Anwarul K. Chowdhury
Under-Secretary-General and High Representative of the United Nations, 2002-2007; President of the United Nations Security Council, March 2000 and June 2001
Blanche Wiesen Cook
Distinguished Professor at John Jay College and the Graduate Center in the City University of New York
Kathleen Cravero
Director, Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP); Currently President of Oak Foundation
Bruce Cronin
Chair, Department of Political Science at the City College of New York
Krishanti Dharmaraj
Executive Director, Center for Women’s Global Leadership, Rutgers University
Michael W. Doyle
Special Advisor, Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Planning
Hugh T. Dugan
United States Delegate
Frederic Eckhard
United Nations Spokesperson
Anne Marie Goetz, PhD
Chief Advisor, Peace and Security, UNIFEM and UN Women (2005 - 2014); Currently Clinical Professor, New York University
Noeleen Heyzer
Under-Secretary-General, 2007-2015
Michelle Jarvis
Principal Legal Council, Office of the Prosecutor (OTP), International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
Angela Kane
Under-Secretary-General, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs
Jean Krasno, PhD
Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, City College of New York and longtime UN scholar
Michiko Kuroda
Senior Policy Officer; Former Chief of Staff, United Nations Mission of Support in East Timor (UNMISET)/United Nations Integrated Mission in East Timor-Leste (UNOTIL)(UNMIT)
Elisabeth Lindenmayer
Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy Chief of Staff to the Secretary-General
Carolyn McAskie
Youssef Mahmoud
Senior Advisor, International Peace Institute, New York; Former Under-Secretary-General, former Special Representative
Saraswath Menon
Director, Policy Division, UN Women
Craig Murphy
Betty Freyhold Johnson ’44 Professor of Political Science, Wellesley College
Valerie Oosterveld
Faculty of Law, University of Western Ontario
F. John Packer
Professor and Director, Human Rights Research and Education Center, University of Ottawa; Member of the UN Standby Team of Mediation Experts 2012-2014
Richard J. Ponzio
Senior Policy Analyst, Peacebuilding Support Office
Shazia Rafi
Former Secretary-General, Parliamentarians for Global Action
Dr. Bob Reinalda
Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands/IO BIO, Biographical Dictionary of Secretaries-General of International Organizations
Diana Rivington
Former Chair, OECD-DAC Working Party on Gender Equality; Director, Gender Equality, CIDA
Dr. Nafis Sadik
Executive Director, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
Rakhi Sahi
Security Advisor for Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei Darussalam
Rima Salah
United Nations High Level Panel on Peace Operations, Deputy Special Representative for the Secretary-General for Chad and Central African Republic
Joanne Sandler
Deputy Executive Director, UNIFEM
Dubravka Šimonović
Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, Its Causes and Consequences
Laura Shepherd, PhD
UNSW Australia
Margaret Snyder, PhD
Founding Director, UNIFEM
Gillian Sorensen
Assistant Secretary-General
Kristen Timothy
Deputy Director, Division for the Advancement of Women
Yana van der Meulen Rodgers
Professor, Rutgers University
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Destiny 2 just hit 226k concurrent players on Steam
October 4, 2019 Destiny 2’s player peak on Steam is now over 226k.
Destiny 2 is now on Steam, and while that transition means many different things, for now it means we can actually track how many players are in-game on the PC version. The numbers are quite high, and while that’s unsurprising given that D2 has also gone free-to-play, the game is also already beating out its closest genre competitors. And that’s on top of Shadowkeep sales bringing it to the top of those Steam charts.
As of this update, Destiny 2 has now got an all-time player peak count of 226,352, according to Steam Charts. SteamDB puts it at 226,651, though a slight difference in record update times could explain the minor difference between the two figures. Either way, around the 226.5 mark is pretty impressive, and follows Destiny 2 reaching 214,100 players just a handful of hours after its launch on Steam.
That’s the 15th highest Steam player count of all time, as SteamDB shows. In the intensely specific subgenre of free-to-play sci-fi loot shooters with seemingly impenetrable lore, that puts Destiny 2 substantially ahead of Warframe.
Warframe’s all-time player count peak sits at 132,201, which Destiny 2 surpassed in the space of one hour following its release – though it should be noted that Warframe is also available without Steam. Either way, that’s no dig on Warframe, which is a wonderful, lovingly crafted title in its own right, but all your ‘dead game’ jokes about Destiny continue to be wildly off the mark.
Back in June, around the Shadowkeep announcement, Destiny 2 started regularly seeing more than one million daily active players combined across Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC. The total daily population for June 16 was 1.01 million, with 963,000 players in PvE, 472,000 in Crucible, 319,000 in Gambit, and 139,000 raiding. (Obviously, some players hopped into multiple activity types.) The data comes from the Charlemagne bot (via Pyro Gaming).
More broadly, we know that Destiny encompassed around six million monthly active users by the end of 2018 – just before Bungie bought back the rights to the series and split with Activision. The publisher reported in recent financial results a loss of 12 million monthly active users over the previous quarter, and “around half” of that number is accounted for by the loss of the series.
“The company had 345 million monthly active users in Q1,” COO Collister Johnson said in a conference call, as noted by VGC. “Activision monthly active users were 41 million, with around half of the quarterly sequential decline due to the exclusion of Destiny monthly active users.”
These numbers cover the game across all its platforms, and note that Johnson appears to be talking about Destiny as a whole – not just Destiny 2. While most players have likely moved on to the sequel, lingering frustrations about Destiny 2’s launch and the sheer volume of platforms the original was released on likely mean there’s still a respectable playerbase there.
We noted back in September, after Forsaken’s launch, that Destiny Tracker daily user counts reported 1.3 million Crucible players and 2.6 million PvE. Though the website pulled down its daily population tracker in favour of only showing current numbers on the front page, we can still track Forsaken’s effect through the Wayback Machine. The last previous copy of Destiny Tracker’s front page comes from August 28, with a count 462,000 Crucible players and 767,000 PvE players.
Updated: Oct 4, 2019
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Home / Parasites / Trojans / Topinambour
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Danger level: 6
Type: Trojans
Common infection symptoms:
System crashes
Normal system programs crash immediatelly
Connects to the internet without permission
Installs itself without permissions
Can't be uninstalled via Control Panel
Topinambour
Topinambour is what cyber criminals use to unlock a door to an operating system. If the attackers find a way to infiltrate this infection, they can use it to download and execute various other infections, making a bigger mess. The attackers belong to the infamous Turla group, which goes by many different names. Some of them include Krypton, Snake, Venomous Bear, Waterbug, or WhiteBear. It is believed that the group comes from Russia, and it is pretty obvious that they are focused on attacking large entities, such as government agencies or international companies. They do not care to waste their time on individual Windows users because they have bigger fish to fry. Amongst the victims of Turla, we have the militaries of the US, Pakistan and India, a gaming company in South Korea, and even diplomatic agencies in Eastern Europe. The worst part is that no one has been able to stop these attacks for over a decade now, and the group continues to grow with new tools. In this report, we talk about the removal of Topinambour. However, note that if you need to delete this threat, it is likely that others exist too.
According to our malware researchers, there are several different versions of the devious Topinambour Trojan. JavaScript, .NET, and PowerShell versions have been discovered, and they can have unique characteristics. For example, we know that the PowerShell version specifically can capture screenshots to record sensitive data on the infected systems. In general, this infection is meant to open up backdoors, via which new infections could be let in, as well as exfiltrate sensitive information. Without a doubt, depending on the target of Topinambour, this could be extremely dangerous. For example, if the Trojan leaks sensitive military information, the entire nation’s security could be put at risk. By attacking companies, the attackers can stall production and cause great financial loss and, in extreme cases, general economic decline. Overall, because it can download and execute any file, as well as fingerprint the system, this Trojan is like a ticking bomb, and it must be dismantled immediately. Unfortunately, removing threats like this one is never an easy task.
Before we start discussing the removal of Topinambour, we need to look into the proliferation of this dangerous infection. According to our malware researchers, this infection is likely to employ legitimate and harmless installers to conceal itself, which is, without a doubt, the most clandestine way to spread this infection. The dropper of the Trojan is added to the legitimate installer, and it contains a .NET shell that the attackers can control using remote commands. The corrupted installer could be dropped anywhere on the computer, but it was dropped to the %TEMP% directory in our case. After successful execution, the infection installed itself to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore\, and a scheduled task was created to support the file. Soon after that, the infection is meant to start downloading other malware modules, such as the KopiLuwak dropper, which, of course, is responsible for dropping more threats onto the operating system. Overall, although Topinambour appears to be used for the initial attack, it is not enough to delete it from the system. Most likely, many other threats await removal too.
If you are sure that you want to clean your operating system manually, the first thing you need to do is inspect your operating system for additional threats that must be removed too. Only then, will you be able to determine whether or not your chances at successfully cleaning the system are high. Inspecting the system manually is an incredibly difficult task, but you can install a legitimate malware scanner to take care of this part. The tool will determine whether or not you need to delete Topinambour along with other malicious infections. Most likely, you will. What should you do if you cannot remove them all by yourself? If that is the case, installing an anti-malware tool that can handle the situation is the best move. Obviously, since Topinambour is most likely to affect large networks of systems, the type of solution you come up with might depend on your security protocols and the processes applied by your security team. Ultimately, if you discover something strange, do not ignore it because it could always turn out to be a malicious infection in disguise.
Topinambour Removal
Tap Win+E keys to launch Windows Explorer.
Enter %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore\ into the field at the top.
Right-click and Delete a malicious [unknown name].exe file.
Enter %WINDIR%\System32\Tasks\ into the field at the top.
Right-click and Delete any unfamiliar tasks.
Delete the executable that carried the infection (in our case, it was dropped to %TEMP%).
Empty Recycle Bin and then perform a full system scan once more to check for potential leftovers.
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The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock
By Dina Gilio-Whitaker
Category: Native American History | Science
Mar 31, 2020 | ISBN 9780807028360
About As Long as Grass Grows
The story of Native peoples’ resistance to environmental injustice and land incursions, and a call for environmentalists to learn from the Indigenous community’s rich history of activism
Through the unique lens of “Indigenized environmental justice,” Indigenous researcher and activist Dina Gilio-Whitaker explores the fraught history of treaty violations, struggles for food and water security, and protection of sacred sites, while highlighting the important leadership of Indigenous women in this centuries-long struggle. As Long As Grass Grows gives readers an accessible history of Indigenous resistance to government and corporate incursions on their lands and offers new approaches to environmental justice activism and policy.
Throughout 2016, the Standing Rock protest put a national spotlight on Indigenous activists, but it also underscored how little Americans know about the longtime historical tensions between Native peoples and the mainstream environmental movement. Ultimately, she argues, modern environmentalists must look to the history of Indigenous resistance for wisdom and inspiration in our common fight for a just and sustainable future.
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Published by Beacon Press
Apr 02, 2019 | 224 Pages | 6 x 9 | ISBN 9780807073780
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“Highly recommended for American Indian studies and environmental justice students and scholars.”
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“An important and accessible work recommended for students and scholars of political ecology from the undergraduate level up. Gilio-Whitaker’s far-reaching work creates a compelling foundation upon which to add specific examples of the ongoing struggle for environmental justice and Indigenous rights during times of anthropogenic climate change. By connecting Native American history with the environmental justice movement in a clear and comprehensive manner, Gilio-Whitaker clarifies the depth of the wrong-doings of the past, while also opening the door to a wide range of opportunities for positive change in the future.”
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“A masterpiece and a vital road map for the ongoing fight for Indigenous sovereignty. With every heartbreaking example of sacred sites decimated and traditional knowledge suppressed, the power and resilience of Indigenous people, preserving not only their culture but their very lives, shines through. Powerful, urgent, and necessary reading.”
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“The process of genocide, which began five centuries ago with the colonization of the Americas and the extermination of indigenous people, has now spread to the planetary level, pushing two hundred species per day to extinction and threatening the entire human species. Dina Gilio-Whitaker’s As Long as Grass Grows makes these connections, holding the seeds of resistance, the seeds of freedom, and the promise of a future.”
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“Dina Gilio-Whitaker writes in succinct, powerful, and deeply historical ways about Natives and environmental justice or—almost always—lack thereof.”
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“As Long as Grass Grows honors Indigenous voices powerfully and centers Indigenous histories, values, and experiences. It tells crucial stories, both inspiring and heartrending, that will transform how readers understand environmental justice. I know many readers will come away with new ideas and actions for how they can protect our planet from forces that seek to destroy some of our most sacred relationships connecting human and nonhuman worlds—relationships that offer some of the greatest possibilities for achieving sustainability.”
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“From Standing Rock’s stand against a damaging pipeline to antinuclear and climate change activism, Indigenous peoples have always been and remain in the vanguard of the struggle for environmental justice. As Long as Grass Grows could not be of more relevance in the twenty-first century. Gilio-Whitaker has produced a sweeping history of these peoples’ fight for our fragile planet, from colonization to the present moment. There is nothing else like it. Read and heed this book.”
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OSA Publishing > Optics Express > Volume 25 > Issue 20 > Page 24816
Room temperature strong coupling in a semiconductor microcavity with embedded AlGaAs quantum wells designed for polariton lasing
H. Suchomel, S. Kreutzer, M. Jörg, S. Brodbeck, M. Pieczarka, S. Betzold, C. P. Dietrich, G. Sęk, C. Schneider, and S. Höfling
H. Suchomel,1,* S. Kreutzer,1 M. Jörg,1 S. Brodbeck,1 M. Pieczarka,2 S. Betzold,1 C. P. Dietrich,1,3 G. Sęk,2 C. Schneider,1 and S. Höfling1,3
1Technische Physik, Physikalisches Institut and Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen-Research Center for Complex Material Systems, Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg, Germany
2Laboratory for Optical Spectroscopy of Nanostructures, Department of Experimental Physics, Faculty of Fundamental Problems of Technology, Wrocław University of Technology, Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27,Wrocław 50-370, Poland
3SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, St Andrews KY16 9SS, UK
*Corresponding author: holger.suchomel@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de
H Suchomel
S Kreutzer
M Jörg
S Brodbeck
M Pieczarka
S Betzold
C Dietrich
G Sęk
C Schneider
S Höfling
pp. 24816-24826
H. Suchomel, S. Kreutzer, M. Jörg, S. Brodbeck, M. Pieczarka, S. Betzold, C. P. Dietrich, G. Sęk, C. Schneider, and S. Höfling, "Room temperature strong coupling in a semiconductor microcavity with embedded AlGaAs quantum wells designed for polariton lasing," Opt. Express 25, 24816-24826 (2017)
Light-trapping for room temperature Bose-Einstein condensation in InGaAs quantum wells (OE)
Electro-optical switching between polariton and cavity lasing in an InGaAs quantum well microcavity (OE)
Room temperature polariton light emitting diode with integrated tunnel junction (OE)
Laser operation
Multiple quantum wells
Quantum well materials
Quantum wells
Microcavities (140.3945)
Laser materials (160.3380)
Semiconductor nonlinear optics including MQW (190.5970)
Original Manuscript: May 5, 2017
Revised Manuscript: July 28, 2017
Manuscript Accepted: August 9, 2017
2. Sample structure
3. Results and discussion
We report a systematic study of the temperature and excitation density behavior of an AlAs/AlGaAs, vertically emitting microcavity with embedded ternary Al0.20Ga0.80As/AlAs quantum wells in the strong coupling regime. Temperature-dependent photoluminescence measurements of the bare quantum wells indicate a crossover from the type-II indirect to the type-I direct transition. The resulting mixing of quantum well and barrier ground states in the conduction band leads to an estimated exciton binding energy systematically exceeding 25 meV. The formation of exciton-polaritons is evidenced in our quantum well microcavity via reflection measurements with Rabi splittings ranging from (13.93 ± 0.15) meV at low temperature (30 K) to (8.58 ± 0.40) meV at room temperature (300 K). Furthermore, the feasibility of polariton laser operation is demonstrated under non-resonant optical excitation conditions at 20 K and emission around 1.835 eV.
Strong coupling between microcavity photons and quantum well (QW) excitons leads to the generation of new quasi-particles with a hybrid light-matter character named exciton-polaritons (polaritons). Since the first observation of polaritons in a GaAs/AlGaAs based semiconductor microcavity [1] it was possible to demonstrate strong coupling and polariton lasing [2,3] in many different semiconductor materials from low temperature [3–6] up to room temperature [7–10]. Nevertheless, the GaAs/AlGaAs material platform remains the workhorse material in polaritonics, due to its unprecedented material quality provided by state of the art molecular beam epitaxy. Due to the very small lattice mismatch between GaAs and AlAs, it is relatively easy to handle, and ideal for the fabrication of semiconductor microcavities with very high quality [11]. Moreover, it is well-established for the growth of doped structures and for complex processing technologies necessary for advanced spectroscopic experiments like electrically driven polariton lasing [12,13] or potential landscape engineering [14–16]. On the other hand, using GaAs QWs, polariton lasing is limited to temperatures below ~70 K [17] since the exciton binding energy is of the order of ~10 meV [18] which leads to a thermal dissociation of excitons above these temperatures.
There have been efforts to realize samples with increased exciton binding energy based on GaAs in order to extend the temperature range of existing polariton devices. Increasing the light-matter coupling strength to be comparable to the binding energy and thus reaching the regime of very strong coupling [19,20] may stabilize excitons in GaAs even at room temperature [21]. In another approach, changing the QW material to AlGaAs could drastically increase the exciton binding energy which shows a sharp increase in bulk AlxGa1-xAs for x > 0.3 similar to the increase of donor activation energy in this material [22–24]. Mixing of Γ-valley electrons with the X- and L-valley leads to an increase of the electron effective mass which, in turn, should lead to an increase of the exciton binding energy that is proportional to its effective mass. Polariton lasing at 155 K was recently claimed for a sample with an Al0.31Ga0.69As/Al0.41Ga0.59As QW [25], but the unconventional microcavity geometry in a lateral configuration, which is highly unsuitable for advanced spectroscopic experiments, led to an open debate on the conclusions that were drawn based on measurements on such samples [26,27].
Besides the limitation to low temperature operation of GaAs QW based polariton microcavities, the emission energy of such structures has only been varied by adjusting the QW width as well as the Al-concentration of the barrier material. Therefore, the emission energy typically ranges from 1.61 eV [4] to 1.54 eV [28]. The Al-concentration of the QW itself can be used as another adjusting parameter by changing the QW material to AlGaAs which opens the way to a completely new energy range for GaAs/AlGaAs based polariton systems well up to ~2.0 eV. Therefore, those structures are highly suitable for strong coupling with commonly used transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers [29,30] and fluorescent proteins [31] in hybrid cavity approaches.
Here, we investigate Al0.20Ga0.80As/AlAs QWs in a standard, vertically emitting microcavity. Calculations of the band diagram and temperature-dependent photoluminescence measurements of the bare quantum wells indicate a crossover from the type-II indirect to the type-I direct transition as well as exciton binding energies exceeding 25 meV, being necessary for stable excitons at room temperature. Strong coupling is observed over the whole temperature range from 20 K to 300 K. Furthermore, we performed power-dependent photoluminescence (PL) measurements under non-resonant excitation conditions at low temperature to test the structure for polariton lasing.
2.1 Sample growth
The microcavity structure was grown by molecular beam epitaxy on a nominally undoped (001) GaAs substrate. It consists of a λ/2-AlAs cavity surrounded by AlAs/Al0.40Ga0.60As distributed Bragg reflectors (DBRs). The bottom (top) reflector consists of 28 (24) mirror pairs including 3 nm GaAs smoothing layers after each mirror pair in the local minimum of the electromagnetic field. Three stacks, each consisting of four Al0.20Ga0.80As QWs with 9 nm width and separated by 4 nm AlAs barriers, are placed in the center of the cavity and the first mirror pair in the bottom (top) Bragg reflector. The layer structure is schematically depicted in Fig. 1(a) together with a scanning electron microscope image of the cavity region highlighting the embedded QWs in Fig. 1(b). The theoretical cavity Q-factor was extracted from transfer matrix calculations and amounts to ~6000. The bare QW properties were measured on a piece where the upper DBR was removed by reactive ion etching. Figure 1(c) shows the low excitation power PL (~0.5 W∙cm−2) of the QWs at ~20 K under cw-excitation at 532 nm with a frequency-doubled Nd:YAG laser. The spot size is determined to be ~150 µm. Due to interface and composition fluctuations, the QWs exhibit a linewidth (full width at half maximum, FWHM) of 6.5 meV [32].
Fig. 1 (a) Schematic drawing of the layer structure of the investigated microcavity. (b) Scanning electron microscope image of the cavity region of the grown structure highlighting the three stacks of four Al0.20Ga0.80As quantum wells (red). (c) Low excitation power photoluminescence at 20 K of the 9 nm Al0.20Ga0.80As quantum well embedded in AlAs barriers.
2.2 Band diagram and quantum well characteristics
The well-established band parameters of the GaAs/AlGaAs material platform allow an accurate calculation of the band diagram and the energy states of the investigated QW system [33]. The band diagram and the respective calculated ground states of the different bands are shown in Fig. 2(a) at 5 K to provide a better understanding of the system. The Γ-band (solid black line), the X-band (solid red line) and the heavy hole valence band (solid orange line) are shown. Furthermore, the QW ground states of the heavy holes in the valence band (hh1)and the electrons in the conduction band (e1) calculated in the effective mass approximation are indicated by the dashed lines inside the Al0.20Ga0.80As QW region. Note that the AlAs barrier material acts as an additional QW for the X-band electrons. Therefore, the X-band energy states are also quantized in which the XZ state (red dashed line) with its k-vector perpendicular to the QW plane provides the ground state. In this low-temperature case, the type-II indirect transition from the quantized X-valley state in the barrier (XZ) to the first heavy hole QW energy state (hh1) is the lowest energy transition. With increasing temperature the band edges and therefore the energy states shift according to their Varshni-coefficients, resulting in a crossover to the type-I direct transition as lowest energy transition at approximately 70 K, Fig. 2(b). That means the lowest quantized energy state of the AlGaAs QWs in the conduction band corresponds to the conduction band ground state above the crossover temperature.
Fig. 2 (a) Calculated band diagram at low temperature (5 K) for the grown quantum wells. Shown are the Γ-band (solid black line), the X-band (solid red line) and the valence band (solid orange line). The arrows indicate the type-II indirect transition from the quantized X-valley state in the barrier (XZ) to the first heavy hole quantum well energy state (hh1) and the direct transition from the first Γ-valley state inside the quantum well to hh1. (b) Calculated energy difference between e1 and XZ as a function of temperature. Above ~70 K the quantum well system is direct. (c) Temperature-dependent photoluminescence of the bare exciton at low excitation power (~0.5 W∙cm−2), together with the calculated trend of the type-II indirect (green dotted line) and the type-I direct (red dashed line) transition. The calculated lines are shifted to fit the experimental values at low temperature. (d) Temperature-dependent intensity of the bare exciton photoluminescence, while keeping the excitation power constant at non-resonant excitation. The plateau-like deviation from the decreasing photoluminescence intensity with increasing temperature around 70 K indicates the crossover from the type-II indirect to the type-I direct transition, due to charge transfer between the valleys. Note that the direct transition was probes over the whole temperature range.
Due to the reduced overlap of the electron and hole wave functions localized in the barrier and the QW material the type-II indirect transition (XZ-hh1) is less probable than the type-I direct transition (e1-hh1). Therefore, although the type-II indirect transition corresponds to the lowest energy transition below 70 K the type-I direct transition (e1-hh1) typically dominates the PL spectrum [34]. To verify this, we tracked the temperature-dependent energy position of the PL peak in Fig. 2(c), which follows the calculated temperature-dependence of the type-I direct transition in the whole temperature range between low (20 K) and room temperature (300 K).
The type-II indirect transition character of the sample is indicated around the crossover of the conduction band ground state from XZ to e1 at around 70 K in the temperature-dependent PL intensity, Fig. 2(d). We kept the excitation power constant and excited the sample non-resonantly at 532 nm with a frequency-doubled Nd:YAG laser, while probing the photoluminescence intensity as a function of temperature. The PL intensity decreases with increasing temperature due to non-radiative recombination mechanisms [35]. However, around a sample temperature of 70 K, where we expect the crossover from the type-II indirect to the type-I direct transition, we observe a plateau-like deviation from this behavior. We believe that the carrier trapped in the barrier material below 70 K start to transfer more efficiently into the QW around the crossover. In turn, these additional carriers temporally counteract the decreasing PL intensity with increasing temperature [34]. We like to emphasize that the type-I direct transition was probed over the whole temperature range. However, the plateau-like deviation from the decreasing PL intensity with increasing temperature is only an indication for a type-II to type-I transition. But we believe that the occurrence at nearly the same temperature as the calculated transition is a strong indication for an interplay between the X-valley of the barrier material and the Γ–valley of the QW material, necessary for intervalley mixing as proposed by Pearah et al. [24].
There is an almost constant offset between the energy of the low power PL peak and the calculated e1-hh1 transition energy without Coulomb interaction at all temperatures of (48 ± 10) meV which we identify as the exciton binding energy. This value is in good agreement with literature [24], considering the spatial confinement of the QW structure. The error range is due to the uncertainty of Al-concentration and thickness of the QWs which were determined by X-ray diffraction measurements. In a first simple effective mass approximation the exciton binding energy EB is given by
(1)EB=(m*m0)Ryε2,
where m* is the effective mass of the conduction-band electrons, m0 the free-electron mass, ε the static dielectric constant of the semiconductor and Ry = 13.6 eV the Rydberg energy. Increasing the Al-concentration x of the quantum well material leads to an increase of m* and to a decrease of ε. Therefore, according to Eq. (1), an increase of x leads to a linear increase of the exciton binding energy EB. However, in the case where multiple valleys of the quantum well and the barrier conduction band has to be considered, the mixing of those further increases the binding energy, due to a non-linear increase of the overall effective mass [24]. A detailed treatment of a multivalley effective mass model can be found in [22]. The determined estimation for the exciton binding energy exceeds the value necessary for room temperature stable QW excitons. Therefore, our investigated AlGaAs-based microcavity system is probably suitable to promote polariton formation at high temperatures.
In terms of photoluminescence intensity the design of the band diagram around the crossover is unfavorable, since the indirect transition competes with the direct one. On the other hand, the proximity of both transitions is necessary to achieve a sufficient intervalley mixing [24]. In our structure the band diagram is designed in the way that the energy difference between the electronic states in the conduction band barrier and quantum well is always less than the thermal energy. Therefore, we expect a sufficient intervalley mixing over the whole temperature range. However, the structure can easily be optimized for room temperature, simply by adjusting the width of the barrier and the QW but also shifting the emission energy.
3.1 Temperature-dependent determination of the Rabi splitting
As a first step, we confirm that strong coupling persists at room temperature by measuring the anti-crossing of QW exciton and cavity photon modes in temperature-dependent white-light reflection measurements. Due to the layer thickness gradient along the wafer introduced during sample growth (~20 meV/mm), it is possible to tune the cavity resonance through the exciton energy by varying the radial position of the light spot over the planar wafer. The Q-factor was artificially reduced in these measurements by removing approximately 10 mirror pairs from the top DBR via reactive ion etching to improve the contrast of the absorption resonances. Figures 3(a) and 3(b) show reflection spectra at various positions obtained at 30 K (a) and 300 K (b). The respective spectra are shifted vertically for clarity while the photon-exciton detuning is changed from far red (bottom) to far blue (top). The arrows indicate the position of the individual polariton branches which we identify as the lower (LP), middle (MP) and the upper (UP) polariton. Clear anti-crossings between the LP and the MP as well as the MP and UP are visible at low- (30 K) and room temperature (300 K) as the cavity mode is tuned through the heavy hole- and light hole-exciton energies of the AlGaAs QWs. Rabi splittings ℏΩ are determined as the minimal difference between the fitted energies of the reflectivity dips, that means MP-LP as well as UP-MP, which are plotted in Figs. 3(c) and 3(d) for measurements at 30 K (c) and at 300 K (d). The horizontal dashed lines mark the measured energy position of the uncoupled heavy hole exciton (Ehh) and the light hole exciton(Elh). The heavy and light hole exciton are energetically separated by more than ~20 meV. Therefore, the coupling of both excitons to the cavity mode can be considered to be independent from each other. The detuning was estimated by tracking the energy of an additional reflectivity minimum outside the stop band which shifts parallel to the bare cavity mode. On the one hand, the heavy hole Rabi splitting between the MP and the LP at 30 K amounts to ℏΩ = (13.93 ± 0.15) meV, while we extract a value of ℏΩ = (8.58 ± 0.40) meV at 300 K. On the other hand, the light hole Rabi splitting between the UP and the MP at 30 K (300 K) amounts to ℏΩ = (10.43 ± 0.20) meV (7.82 ± 0.50 meV). We like to note that we attribute both crossings to the coupling between the cavity mode and the respective direct excitons in the whole temperature range, due to their significantly higher oscillator strength.
Fig. 3 White light reflection measurements of the planar microcavity sample at different positions on the wafer at 30 K (a) and 300 K (b). The spectra are shifted vertically such that the photon-exciton detuning shifts from red (bottom) to blue (top). Arrows indicate the position of the lower (LP), middle (MP) and the upper (UP) polariton branches. Extracted energies of the different polariton branches at 30 K (c) and 300 K (d). Clear anti-crossings between the LP and the MP as well as the MP and the UP are visible at both temperatures. Dashed lines mark the energy positions of the uncoupled heavy hole (Ehh) and the light hole (Elh) excitons.
The Rabi splitting can be expressed in terms of the linewidths (FWHM) of the cavity photon γC and the respective QW exciton γX, as well as the coupling strength V between the cavity photon and the QW exciton. Here, we note that different measurement techniques yield different splittings between the polariton branches [36]. This effect becomes particularly dominant in the presence of strong emitter dephasing and finite reflectivity of the cavity, which leads to strong deviations from the standard coupled oscillator approach, including one cavity and one exciton mode as a system of two damped harmonic oscillators, coupled by the matrix element V [30]. In the coupled oscillator model the expression for the Rabi splitting is written as
(2)ℏΩ=4V2−14(γC−γX)2,
while by taking into account the full microcavity structure in a transfer matrix formulation the Rabi splitting can be put into relation with the experimental observable reflectivity in the high reflectivity limit:
(3)ℏΩR=2V4(1+2γXγC)2+12V2γX2(1+γXγC)−2V2γXγC−γX24.
Slightly different expressions can be derived for photoluminescence, absorption and transmission experiments, as described in detail in [36]. The whole temperature-dependence of the Rabi splitting ℏΩ(T) can then be described by taking into account the temperature-dependent linewidth of the exciton [37]
(4)γX(T)=γinh+γACT+γLO(exp{ℏΩLOkBT}−1)−1,
while the coupling strength and the intrinsic cavity photon linewidth can be assumed to be temperature-independent. The parameter γinh in Eq. (4) describes the low-temperature inhomogeneous broadening due to interface roughness, while γAC and γLO describe the interaction strength with acoustic and longitudinal optical (LO) phonons. The material constant ℏΩLO specifies the LO-phonon energy which amounts to 37.4 meV in the used QWs [38]. To determine γX(T), we performed temperature-dependent white-light reflectivity measurements on the microcavity sample after removing the full top DBR via reactive ion etching such that the system is in the weak coupling regime. The determined temperature-dependent linewidth of the heavy hole exciton is plotted in Fig. 4(a). Fitting the obtained data with Eq. (4) yields γinh = (4.09 ± 0.45) meV, γAC = (29.7 ± 5.0) µeV/K and γLO = (11.8 ± 4.0) meV, red dashed line in Fig. 4(a). The broadening due to acoustic phonons is negligible [10,37,39] whereas the contribution due to LO phonons is in a good agreement with literature [37]. The linewidth of the cavity photon was measured directly on the unetched microcavity sample far off resonance and amounts to γC = (2.05 ± 0.10) meV. Discrepancy between the theoretical Q-factor value and the experimental one is mainly due to the intrinsic sample gradient, limiting the measurable Q-factor, and is not reflecting the high-quality of the DBRs and the cavity. Furthermore, the sample gradient leads to increased losses of photons perpendicular to the growth direction which could be compensated by guiding the photons within etched micropillar structures. Repeating the detuning-dependent reflection measurements as discussed in Fig. 3 for different temperatures, yields the temperature-dependent Rabi splitting plotted in Fig. 4(b). The heavy hole Rabi splitting can be fitted using Eq. (3) with only the coupling strength V as a free fitting parameter. The red dashed line in Fig. 4(b) represents the fitted temperature-dependent heavy hole Rabi splitting using the fitted values from Fig. 4(a) for γX(T) and the measured photon linewidth. The heavy hole coupling strength amounts to V = (7.10 ± 0.20) meV. The provided theory gives a very good agreement with the measured values for the Rabi splitting over the whole temperature range. On the other hand, the grey dotted line in Fig. 4(b) represents a fit using the standard coupled oscillator approach according to Eq. (2) and shows a strong deviation from the experimental data.
Fig. 4 (a) Temperature-dependent linewidth of the heavy hole QW exciton together with the fitted exponential function according to Eq. (4) (dashed red line). (b) Temperature-dependent Rabi-splitting extracted from white-light reflection measurements. The dashed red line represents a fit to the temperature-dependent heavy hole Rabi splitting using Eq. (3) while the dotted grey line represents a fit using the standard coupled oscillator approach, Eq. (2).
3.2 Power-dependent photoluminescence
Power-dependent PL emission of the unetched microcavity sample was investigated via momentum-resolved spectroscopy. The sample was mounted in a helium flow cryostat to cool it down to a temperature of ~20 K. A pulsed optical parametric oscillator (OPO) laser with a spot size of ~5 µm at a repetition rate of 20 Hz and with a pulse length of about ~8 ns was used for excitation. The laser energy was tuned to the reflectance minimum of the first high-energy Bragg mode around 1.943 eV. A longpass filter with a cut-off energy of 1.907 eV was placed in front of the spectrometer to filter any scattered light from the laser. Figure 5(a) depicts the resulting spectra at different excitation powers. Under moderate excitation conditions of ~21.8 W∙cm−2 per pulse, which corresponds to an average exciton density per pulse of ~1.4∙109 cm−2, a parabolic dispersion which flattens to higher k||-vectors is observed, which we identify as the lower polariton branch (LP). For the estimated average exciton density per pulse we assume a coupling efficiency of the microscope objective of TObj = 0.80, a transmission of the cryostat window of TCryo = 0.90, and furthermore a sample reflectivity of RSample = 0.30 at the pumping wavelength extracted from low-temperature reflectivity measurements. Furthermore, we assume 1% absorption per QW. The spectrum was fitted using the standard coupled oscillator model by coupling the cavity mode with the heavy hole exciton. Taking fixed values for the Rabi splitting (13.9 meV), taken from low temperaturereflectivity measurements, and the exciton energy (1.8425 eV), the cavity mode energy remains the only free fitting parameter. In the limiting case of high reflectivity of the cavity and small emitter damping (low temperature), Eqs. (2) and (3) yield the same result [36]. This is why the splitting taken from low temperature reflectivity measurements can be used as a fixed input parameter to fit the dispersion. Data fitting yields a heavy hole photon-exciton detuning of δ ~-2.0 meV. With increasing pump power, polariton lasing takes place which is manifested by a massive occupation of the lowest polariton energy state. To analyze the power-dependent PL emission in more detail, we extracted spectra around k|| = (0.00 ± 0.15) µm−1 from the momentum resolved spectra. Figure 5(b) depicts the emission intensity as well as the evolution of the linewidth as a function of the pump power, Fig. 5(c) depicts the corresponding power-dependent emission energy as well as the bare cavity energy position (blue dashed line). With increasing pump power the integrated emission intensity shows a non-linear increase from which we extract a threshold average exciton density per pulse of ~1.1∙1010 cm−2. The non-linear increase is accompanied by a distinct linewidth drop and a continuing blue shift of the emission energy, which are typical indications of polariton lasing [40]. Increasing the pump power further leads to some features in the power-dependent emission intensity, linewidth and emission energy that could indicate the formation of a second threshold, attributed to the onset of photon lasing at an average exciton density per pulse of ~8∙1010 cm−2. The offset between the uncoupled cavity mode, which is marked by the blue dashed line in Fig. 5(c), and the actual emission could be attributed to a pinning of the emission to a maximum of the modal gain or also an incomplete blueshift [41].
Fig. 5 (a) Momentum-resolved photoluminescence spectra at different excitation powers. The low power spectrum was fitted using the standard coupled oscillator model by coupling the cavity mode with the heavy hole exciton. White dashed lines indicate the lower (LP) and upper (UP) polariton branch, as well as the uncoupled exciton (X, red) and photon mode (C, green). (b) Power-dependent emission intensity and linewidth (FWHM), extracted from the momentum resolved spectra around zero k|| ~0. (c) Corresponding power-dependent emission energy. The vertical black line indicates the threshold, while the horizontal blue dashed line indicates the energy of the uncoupled cavity mode.
Besides strong coupling between the cavity photon and the quantum well exciton, polariton lasing requires a mean occupation of the lower polariton branch ground state exceeding unity, leading to a non-linear increase of the ground state population due to stimulated scattering processes as a function of pump power. In the investigated microcavity structure the Q-factor limits the lower polariton lifetime around k|| ~0 for negative photon-exciton detunings to less than 3.5 ps which hinders the built up of a sufficient ground state population at elevated temperatures. With increasing temperature, the thermal escape of polaritons from the energy trap formed in k||-space by the lower polariton branch has to be compensated by increasing the negative photon-exciton detuning [42]. This, in turn, leads to a further decrease of the polariton lifetime. Therefore, we believe that by increasing the Q-factor of the GaAs/AlGaAs based microcavity structure, and thereby the polariton lifetime, polariton lasing at significant higher temperatures are within reach.
To conclude, in this letter we investigate the temperature-dependent Rabi splitting of an AlGaAs QW-based, vertically emitting microcavity. Significant anti-crossings of the cavity mode with heavy hole- and light hole-excitons are observed even at room temperature. The temperature-dependence of the Rabi splitting is well reproduced by the original model of Savona et al. [36], while the standard coupled oscillator model breaks down for increased temperature induced emitter dephasing. The band diagram of the cavity structure is designed around the crossover from the type-II indirect to the type-I direct transition. Therefore, the structure possible enables to exploit multivalley mixing between the X-valley electrons of the AlAs barrier and the Γ-valley electrons of the AlGaAs QWs in the conduction band which results in an estimated exciton binding energy exceeding 25 meV, necessary for room temperature stable excitons. Furthermore, we performed power-dependent photoluminescence measurements under non-resonant excitation conditions to test the structure for polariton lasing. Clear cut polariton lasing could be demonstrated at cryogenic temperatures (20 K) and an emission energy of 1.835 eV. We believe that the realization of polariton lasing in a GaAs/AlGaAs based microcavity structure opens the way to a wide variation of the polariton emission energy by adjusting the Al-concentration of the AlGaAs QWs.
This publication was funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
The authors thank A. Wolf and M. Wagenbrenner for assistance during sample growth and fabrication. This work was supported by the State of Bavaria.
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Two for the road on Poway Road
Udon saute (stir fry udon noodles topped with spinach, crimini mushrooms, bacon, sesame seeds, dried fish flakes) served at Tong Sake House. (Rick Nocon)
By DiscoverSD Staff
Discovering San Diego is the name of the game ‘round here, so to honor our county’s more northern reaches, Poway - this one’s for you.
Tucked away in a strip mall off Poway Road, Tong Sake House specializes in small plates, Asian fusion style. For instance, there are Tong’s different applications of ahi poke, such as tostadas, or in a bowl; we tried the special that night, where simply marinated tuna came atop rice, with a spoonful of guacamole, all crowned with fried calamari tentacles. It was tasty, but the stir fried udon noodles were great.
Generally, udon noodles are served as a very simple soup, but here, they get a rock star makeover that starts in a hot wok. With a pleasantly sweet sauce, meaty strips of crimini mushrooms, bacon, spinach and katsuobushi, the creative dish packs a savory punch you won’t soon forget.
As for katsuobushi, it’s likely that you’ve experienced bonito flakes before - its more affordable knock off - at yakitori joints, but at Tong, they use the real deal. Skipjack tuna is dried, fermented and smoked to make the wispy pieces of super-seasoning. Between the chewy noodles and smoky flavor from the wok, bacon and bushi, rich Japanese mayo balances out this oh-so-comforting, indulgent dish.
For dessert, Tong’s black sesame ice cream is a must. The exotic sundae comes topped with adzuki, or red bean paste, chewy cubes of mochi and a powder, similar in texture to malted milk, but almost too mild to taste against the sweet ice cream. Still, it provides an interesting texture in this dessert, best enjoyed with one of Tong’s hot sakes.
Tong Sake House, 12320 Poway Road, (858) 486-3200.
Every now and then, approachable, wholesome food is just what the doctor ordered. Chicken dinner is almost always a safe bet, but the problem is that prices don’t always match the simple experience you’re after. At Don Pollo, flavorful, charbroiled chicken is priced so low that you’ll wonder ... how good can this really be?
Don’t worry, the four piece chicken plate ($7.50) is a tasty, solid value, and comes served with rice, refried beans and your choice of corn or flour tortillas. The chicken is well-seasoned, not too salty and has just the right amount of char.
The chicken soup ($6.75) which claims to be the “best in San Diego” is certainly up there. Clear, flavorful broth is packed with shredded white meat chicken, still firm zucchini and carrots, and rice, with onions and cilantro on top. With a squirt of Don Pollo’s hot sauce, the flavor’s just right. I recommend ordering a side of beans to go with your flour or corn tortillas, so you can roll up and dip mini burritos into the soup.
The service is super friendly here, and it’s clear that their take-out game is strong. If you live in the Poway area, be sure to add Don Pollo to your hit list.
Don Pollo, 13338 Poway Road, (858) 883-2230.
Amy T. Granite is a dauntless eater who has written about food in San Diego since 2006. You can follow Granite and her tasty adventures on Twitter and Instagram @saysgranite. Send your mouth-watering ideas to her at amytgranite@gmail.com.
Source: DiscoverSD
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Plainville Funeral Home
Send Flowers for Eileen
Eileen Frances Sullivan
February 28, 1928 ~ July 29, 2020 (age 92)
Eileen Frances Sullivan, 92, of Plainville, after a short illness passed away peacefully surrounded by family in her home. She was born on February 28, 1928 in Killorglin, Ireland to the late Daniel and Margaret (Kelleher) O’Sullivan.
Eileen came to the U.S. in 1948 with her brother Con to join her sisters Marion, Catherine and Peggy. Eileen met the love of her life, her husband George, in 1950. They married in 1952 and shared almost 50 years together before his passing in 2001. They built their home on Dogwood Rd, raised 5 children and made lifelong friends with their wonderful neighbors. George and Eileen loved the theatre and were one of the founding members of The Hartford Stage in addition to supporting local regional theatres. She valued education. In addition to the annual family beach vacation, trips included visits to National Monuments, Civil War battlefields and Museums. Family was everything to Eileen. She took pride in keeping her door open to the many friends and relatives that came and enjoyed a cup a tea. Her holidays were special and in addition to her large family, she always made room for those who had nowhere to go. There was always a seat at the table with an abundance of food. Her greatest joy were her grandchildren- each of whom shared a very special relationship. Everyone knew “Nana’s” house was the place to go for candy and fun.
Eileen leaves behind her daughters Margaret and her husband Cliff Czellecz of Plainville, Ann-Marie Rossley and her husband John of Burlington, Irene Herrera and her husband James of Stonington and her daughter in law Jean Sullivan of Enfield. She also leaves behind her grandchildren- whom she cherished - Sean Sullivan, Joseph Sullivan, Craig Czellecz, John Rossley, Kevin Czellecz, Daniel Rossley, Michael Rossley and Maureen Herrera. In addition, she leaves behind 6 great grandchildren Isabel Mae Sullivan, Patrick George Rossley, Maverick George Rossley, Lily Serafina Rossley, Lucy Olivia Rossley and Patrick John Czellecz and many nieces and nephews who adored her in both the U.S. and Ireland.
She was predeceased by her husband George, her sons John Patrick and George Declan and two infant grandchildren (her “angels”) Paul Michael Czellecz and Domenic James Herrera.
Family and friends may gather in celebration of Eileen’s life on Sunday August 16th from 4:00-7:00 p.m. at The Plainville Funeral Home, 81 Broad Street, Plainville. A mass of the Christian Burial will be held Monday August 17th at 10:00 a.m. at Our Lady of Mercy Church 94 Broad Street, Plainville followed by burial at Mount St. Benedict Cemetery 1 Cottage Grove Road Bloomfield, CT. For additional information or to leave words of sympathy please visit www.PLAINVILLEFUNERALHOME.COM.
In honor of Eileen’s focus on the empowerment of women and education, and in lieu of flowers, donations may to The Petit Family Foundation P.O. Box 310, Plainville, CT 06062-0310.
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Watch: Wes Hoolahan given hero’s welcome for final Norwich home game
It is a day of celebration in Norwich today, as Wes Hoolahan’s incredible career at Carrow Road comes to a close.
Hoolahan recently announced he will depart from Norwich at the end of the season, bringing to an end a 10-year spell at the club.
Nicknamed ‘Wessi’, the midfielder has endeared himself to Canaries supporters over the years, lining up for the club in three divisions, and scoring some memorable goals in his 350 appearances for the club.
The club announced his departure in an emotional statement this week, confirming special plans were in place for this Saturday’s home game against Leeds
It was even stated that he would not take part in the final match of the season – away at Sheffield Wednesday – so he could receive his deserved send off from the home crowd.
And they didn’t disappoint, with a guard of honour greeting Hoolahan as he entered the field with his children, and supporters holding up a display in the backdrop.
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Store Detective
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Store detectives prevent and detect theft in retail stores.
You could be:
patrolling a store during opening hours, to watch for shoplifters
using equipment such as closed circuit television (CCTV) to observe the store, two-way radio to contact colleagues, loop alarms, mirrors and electronic security tags on goods
watching customers who are acting suspiciously, or are recognised as a previous offender, and keeping notes of what you see
working undercover as a customer to watch and follow potential shoflifters
detaining suspected shoplifters, taking them to the manager’s office and possibly searching their clothes and possessions
helping other staff deal with customers suspected of credit card theft or fraud
calling the police, reporting what you have seen and being present when the police question a suspect
talking to witnesses to collect evidence and writing up reports for both the police and the retailer
occasionally giving evidence in court.
The figures below are only a guide. Actual pay rates may vary depending on:
the size of the company or organisation you work for
the demand for the job.
Pay rates for store detectives vary but are often based around the National Minimum Wage. Starting pay is often based on the National Minimum Wage (NMW) or the National Living Wage (NLW).
As of 1 April 2020 the National Minimum Wage is £6.45 an hour for workers aged 18 to 20 and £8.20 an hour for workers aged 21 to 24. The National Living Wage is £8.72 for workers aged 25 and over. This may rise to £9.00 an hour with experience.
You would work indoors.
Some store detectives are employed directly by the retailer, others are employed by security companies.
You usually work a 40-hour week, on shifts which may cover seven days and include late evenings.
You may cover a number of stores, especially if you are working under cover, so would need to travel between them.
You would often work in plain clothes to avoid detection.
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You do not need formal entry requirements but a good general education is useful.
You must be able to speak and write clearly and accurately.
You may require a licence from the Security Industry Authority (SIA). See SIA website for details.
If so, you must be at least 18 to comply with SIA regulations.
This can be a second career and entrants often have previous experience of work in the police, prison service or other security work.
A full clean driving licence and access to your own vehicle may be required for some jobs.
You may need to have a medical examination.
You would require a satisfactory PVG (Protecting Vulnerable Groups) check to show you are suitable for this type of work. Contact Disclosure Scotland for details.
There are jobs with retail chains and with agencies. Jobs are usually advertised in the press, in Jobcentre Plus offices and on the Find a Job website (formerly Universal Jobmatch). Prospects are good in most areas and particularly good in cities with major retail shopping centres.
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You need to have:
a good memory for faces and details
good observation skills
a sense of responsibility
good written and spoken communication skills, to write reports, deal with offenders and give evidence in court.
You need to be able to:
make decisions, think and react quickly
deal with people in a polite and tactful, but firm and assertive manner
remain calm when speaking to people who may be aggressive or upset
work alone and face possible threats.
Training is mainly on the job, working with experienced staff.
You may do short courses such as those approved by the Security Industry Authority (SIA) and run by a variety of organisations.
You might work for a retail chain, or for a security firm or agency contracted to retail stores.
With experience, and perhaps further training, you may be promoted to supervisor.
You may progress to become a manager or trainer.
Skills for Security runs short courses in training and assessment.
For managers, the Security Institute offers a Certificate, a Diploma and an Advanced Diploma in Security Management which you can take by distance learning.
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The following organisations may be able to provide further information.
Security Industry Authority (SIA)
Website: http://www.sia.homeoffice.gov.uk
Twitter: @SIAuk
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thesiauk/
The website has an online step-by-step guide to applying for a licence.
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Pickr 2020 Holiday Gift Guide: Android Owners
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Thinking of a gift for someone who loves their Samsung, Oppo, Google, or something else with Android? Here are some ideas for that.
Buying for iPhone owners is one thing, but that’s not the only type of phone owner out there. With a good half of Australia using iPhone and iOS, the remaining 50 percent is more or less focused on the other big mobile operating system, Android.
Those owners may want a gadgety gift or two, and that’s what this guide is for, hopefully helping out with a few ideas you might not have thought of.
Samsung UV Steriliser Wireless Charger
In a year of a pandemic, it should come as no surprise that folks are a little more concerned about whether something is clean or not, and that might be their phone. While the jury’s still out on whether or not a phone can really deal with the coronavirus, cleaning them might be something you’re game to do.
Samsung’s UV Steriliser is a box that uses ultra-violet light to cleanse mobile devices, and also has a wireless charger built in to charge a phone, too. It’s about as 2020 as wireless chargers get, though works to cleans other small things, too.
Belkin BoostUp Charge Wireless Stand & Speaker
A slightly different take on the wireless charger, the Belkin BoostUp Charge Wireless Stand & Speaker is exactly what the name suggests: a charging stand with a speaker built in as well.
It’s a little more interesting than a standard wireless charging stand because it has a speaker at the back, but it can also hold a phone in both portrait and landscape configuration.
Joby GripTight Pro 2 GorillaPod
A small tripod for folks who use their phone camera for everything, the GorillaPod for smartphones is a special type of tripod that can hold a phone, and can also hold on to nearly any surface.
Different from a standard tripod, this one has little joints that can wrap around a surface, object, or post, and hold a phone comfortably for photos. It’s like a standard tripod, but also a little bit more adaptable for our world.
Google’s latest speaker, the Nest Audio is a decent little speaker made for the home with sound that can fill a room, and a focus on the Google Assistant, something Android owners will likely be more than familiar with.
Loud and capable of delivering some oomph, the Nest Audio is a solid little speaker made not just for folks with Android, but plenty of others, too.
HP Sprocket Studio Mobile Printer
Grabbing lots of photos will likely mean a few might get printed, and HP’s Sprocket Studio can make that happen.
It’s a dye-sub printer made to work with your phone, allowing you to print directly from phone to card, and giving your pictures some new life in a post-card size.
A pair of wireless in-ears with noise cancellation and surprisingly warm sound, the Oppo Enco W51 are a great pair of earphones worth checking out, and ideal for owners of either Android or iOS.
There’s no app needed for these, and they just deal with music that way earphones would, delivering solid sound in a small size.
Headphones may not get much better than these in 2020, with the Sony WH-1000XM4 delivering some of the best sound you can find out of any brand.
Compatible with both Android and iOS, and supporting some cool features over an app, the Sony WH-1000XM4 is one of the best ways to listen to music this year.
Samsung Galaxy Watch 3
About the closest an Android owner can get to an Apple Watch, Samsung’s take on the smartwatch gets plenty of health features, plus a nice touchscreen, decent battery life, and a something different: a rotational controller.
Leigh :) Stark
A technology journalist working out of Sydney, Australia, Leigh has written for publications including The Australian Financial Review, GadgetGuy, Popular Science, APC, PC & Tech Authority, as well as for radio and TV since 2007.
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Tommy Tiernan has hinted that a ‘Derry Girls’ movie could be in the works
December 5, 2018 adminLeave a Comment on Tommy Tiernan has hinted that a ‘Derry Girls’ movie could be in the works
Derry Girls proved a huge success with viewers when it first aired in January and we’ve been getting very excited about season two – which completed filming last Friday.
The laugh-out-loud show follows the lives of four schoolgirls in Derry during the 1990s and it captured the hearts of viewers, going far beyond just a comedy.
The Channel 4 series became the most successful Northern Irish TV show based on views since records began in 2002.
Now one of the show’s cast members has revealed when fans can expect to see the second season and hinted that a film version could also be on the way.
Comedian Tommy Tiernan, who plays Da Gerry, appeared on Today FM’s The Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show where he confirmed that fans will definitely get a third season, while a movie has been discussed.
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“We finished filming the second series (of Derry Girls) last Friday so that’ll go out in March,” he said. “We’re doing season 3 and then a film maybe”.
While a film version hasn’t been guaranteed just yet, Tiernan said that it’s up to the show’s creator Lisa McGee, who he hailed a ‘genius’, on whether or not we get a big screen adaptation.
“That’s all up to Lisa (McGee),” Tiernan added. “That’s her going away and sitting in a shed in London and just coming up with all the stories”
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“She’s a genius I think in terms of the amount of stories she’s able to fit into each episode and I think it’s fantastic”.
McGee recently revealed that the show’s second season will focus on the peace process, telling the Belfast Telegraph: “It’s moving through the early stages of the Peace Process. In terms of the gang and what they get up to it’s just a bit bigger and crazier.”
“Some of the episodes are quite out there, some of the ideas, but they are much the same as well, they are still the losers who never get anything right and they always have a scheme on the go that never works out for them.”
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Cheverus cancels April’s out-of-state trips over coronavirus concerns
Other schools and the Maine Principals' Association are being cautious, taking a wait-and-see approach about trips and events planned for the week of April vacation and beyond.
By Steve Craig and Glenn Jordan Staff Writer
Cheverus High has canceled out-of-state school trips planned for the April vacation week – including a trip by the baseball team to Florida – because of concerns about the coronavirus outbreak that has killed more than a dozen people in the U.S.
“As we watch the coronavirus continue to spread throughout the country, it seems prudent to take this step now to avoid scenarios that might put our students in contagious areas, require travel through airports, and risk the possibility of being quarantined away from home,” Cheverus Principal John Moran wrote in post that appeared Thursday night on a website used by the school’s baseball team. The team was scheduled to play six games in Vero Beach, Florida, from April 19-22.
Cheverus also has canceled a service immersion trip to Texas during the April vacation week and a cultural immersion trip to China this summer, according to a letter from Moran sent to Cheverus community on Friday.
Some other schools are taking a wait-and-see – but cautious – approach about trips planned for sports teams during the April vacation week.
Yarmouth High was scheduled to be one of Cheverus’ baseball opponents in Florida. Principal Eric Klein said Friday the Yarmouth School Department is “going to continue with our domestic trips,” including the baseball trip to Florida and closer-to-home events like the Maine Science Olympiad at the University of Southern Maine in Gorham on Saturday. But reacting to the coronavirus will be “a day-to-day decision,” Klein said.
Thornton Academy’s softball team’s trip to Disneyland in Orlando, Florida, is still scheduled for the April vacation week, according to Athletic Director Gary Stevens. He said Thornton would continue to closely watch the conditions and severity of the coronavirus outbreak.
As a school with international boarding students, Thornton’s administration has closely monitored reports from the Center for Disease Control and updated parents, staff and students since early January, Stevens said. Students and staff are being advised to refrain from shaking hands, to maintain a “social distance,” from other people, and to take other precautions like frequent hand-washing and disinfecting surfaces, he said.
Precautions also are being taken this weekend at the New England High School Wrestling Championships in Methuen, Massachusetts. About 40 wrestlers from Maine are scheduled to compete in the event on Saturday and Sunday at Methuen High School.
Brandi L. Kwong, the superintendent of Methuen Public Schools, said “we did add additional hand sanitizer dispensers in and around the (school’s) field house this week, (and) our custodial staff will be checking the bathrooms every half an hour to make sure there is ample supply of soap and paper towels.”
In Lewiston, the Maine Principals’ Association will host the boys’ hockey high school state championship games at the Androscoggin Bank Colisee on Saturday. Mike Burnham, executive director of the MPA’s interscholastic division, said hand sanitizers will be available for fans, as is customary at the arena.
The wrestling and hockey championships this weekend will mark the end of the winter sports season for Maine high school athletes. As for the spring sports season, Burnham said he would bring together the committee chairs and discuss the possibility of postponements if the coronavirus outbreak worsens.
“We’re certainly monitoring the situation,” Burnham said, adding that Holly Couturier, executive director of the MPA’s professional division, attended a meeting Friday afternoon that included officials from the state Department of Education and the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
“I do think it’s important that we’re all sending out a consistent message,” Burnham said about guidelines for containing the virus. “We’re talking about being proactive.”
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Czech PM Babiš faces long road after EU audit
The billionaire faces a potentially bigger blow in a forthcoming probe on farm funds, transparency watchdog warns.
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There’s even bigger trouble ahead for billionaire Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš after Brussels found his business ties represent a conflict of interest, according to the transparency watchdog that first raised the complaint.
A document seen by POLITICO shows the European Commission has officially confirmed an audit last year that found Babiš still controls an agricultural conglomerate he founded, Agrofert, despite putting his assets into trusts. This means millions of euros in EU grants that Babiš had awarded Agrofert in his role as a public official breached domestic and EU conflict of interest legislation.
But there’s a second audit still in the works where the stakes are even higher for Agrofert and Babiš, according to Transparency International, whose petition two years ago prompted the Commission probes.
While the first audit dealt with so-called EU structural funds, which are meant to support things like business development and innovation, the second audit deals with a much bigger pot of subsidies for Agrofert: from the EU's mammoth €48 million per year Common Agricultural Policy.
“For me, this is the bull’s eye that they [the Commission] should aim at because the direct subsidies are in the heart of Agrofert,” said Milan Eibl, chief analyst for the Czech branch of Transparency International.
“In terms of money, the second audit is bigger for Agrofert than this one … If they stop receiving direct subsidies, it’s when Babiš is hurt the most and he has to start [to] act on it."
Eibl said the Commission's finding in the first audit that Babiš violated conflict of interest rules will be crucial for the second report, which is expected to be finalized next year. The result of both could also prompt other EU leaders to decide the Czech PM shouldn't be allowed to participate in any of the ongoing budget-related discussions, he added.
“If you had asked me this question a year ago [about whether this could be possible], I would say 'hell no.' When you’re asking me now, I’d say that the chances are higher,” Eibl said.
Babiš has repeatedly denied wrongdoing and maintains he complies with the 2017 Czech conflict of interest legislation that forced him to put his Agrofert shares into trusts. He told national media last week after reports of the audit review: “I do not control or manage Agrofert.”
But Transparency International disagrees — as does the Commission, according to the first audit.
The Commission concluded its first audit last December, but reaffirmed those findings in the follow-up document seen by POLITICO last week and dated October 22.
The first audit reviewed the allocation of EU structural funds under the European Social Fund and the European Regional Development Fund, which according to one Commission official amounted to €6.3 million. It found that some of this funding was awarded to Agrofert after the Czech conflict of interest legislation took effect in 2017.
It also found a high number of irregularities in how Czech authorities determined whether certain Agrofert projects were eligible for such EU grants. For example, Czech authorities awarded about €3.8 million to Penam, a bakery business, for what it claimed was an “innovative” new toast production line — but the Commission found this shouldn't have qualified for funds for innovation after all since the same line was already in use at another Agrofert bakery.
The volume of such irregularities was so high that the Commission said it would need to review each project one-by-one to determine if they had met the criteria, a process which is still ongoing.
The follow-up document lists a set of recommendations for Czech authorities to follow and gives them three months to respond from the time they receive the report translated into Czech, which is set to be sent in the coming weeks.
A Commission spokesperson said Czech authorities have not declared any expenditure to the Commission to seek reimbursement for any of the operations covered by the audit, and will now no longer be able to seek reimbursement from the EU budget for such payments.
"The EU budget is protected," the spokesperson said.
This means that even though some projects have already been subsidized by the Czech government, the EU will not reimburse this spending.
The Czech industry ministry is already examining whether some of Agrofert's subsidiaries should return the grants to the Czech budget, Czech daily Deník N reported. According to Czech media, Deputy Prime Minister Karel Havlíček (from Babiš's ANO party) said the government was acting in full compliance with Czech law, but acknowledged that subsidies paid in the Penam bakery case could be paid back to the state budget if they were ultimately found to be unjustified.
The Czech Ministry of Regional Development, responsible for allocating EU funds, did not respond to a request for a comment.
Regardless of what Brussels decides to do, Eibl said Babiš's government and company aren't likely to give up without a fight and could even try to bring its case to the Court of Justice.
“[Czech] ministries said that if there’s a problem, there’d be no issue to sue the European Commission because they don’t agree with the audit report,” he said. “It’d take another two, three years, God knows how long."
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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt PS4 Review
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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt was dense. CD Projekt RED filled their game to the brim with content, so much so that I don’t believe anyone will ever complain about cut content. There’s just so much to see and experience in Temeria. Listing the number of quests, storylines, characters, monster hunts and other side activities would be a disservice; The Witcher 3 was more than the sum of its parts.
Every little point of interest or quest filled in a tiny piece of the mystique and story of The Witcher 3. It was all world building and I loved it. Sure, destroying monster nests didn’t necessarily add a lot to world but they told the origins of some of the world’s creatures and how their existence dictated where villagers settled. I was pleased they weren’t haphazardly strewn across the landscape in an effort to give players something to knock off their checklist. They were placed in an effort to share some insight with the player.
The developers continued to surprise me even after a hundred hours of exploration and questing. What I thought was just a monster nest on a tiny island was also the location of buried treasure that was either unearthed by the dead dwarf several feet away or perhaps he was in the midst of burying it? I wasn’t sure but I loved that they managed to communicate a little story with just placement of assets. The world was filled with little nuggets like this.
The stories told through conversations, letters and other overt means were grave, saddening, informative and — most importantly — grounded. This was a world where magic, hexes and other supernatural elements were treated like a science. This isn’t new to me but after two games and a hundred hours of play in this game, I was pleased that they still managed to surprise, horrify and amaze me with their tales.
They were familiar human stories told with the context of The Witcher world and that’s exactly what fans of the series like myself hoped for. I worried larger areas of exploration would dilute the experience with filler but that wasn’t the case at all. CD Projekt RED managed to deliver both quantity and quality.
Political assassinations, hauntings, missing persons, racial tensions, murder mysteries and plain old monster slayings were just some of the adventures Geralt of Rivia and I found ourselves in during our off time. Our main quest was actually to find where Geralt’s adopted daughter, Ciri, was. The pre-release marketing may have framed it as a search for Geralt’s long lost lover, Yennefer, but that search was resolved before Geralt and I found our footing in the world.
The globe trotting main quest was straightforward and meandering but I found myself using it like a tour bus. I would get on the main quest, move to the next location, get off soak up all the side quests and move onto the next story beat. By the time the final act rolled in, I had a firm grasp on the goings on in the game and was able to focus on the main story thread. I think my approach to the story complimented CD Projekt RED’s really well, so I was left satisfied. I even contemplated jumping right back in with their Hearts of Stone expansion.
What they couldn’t nail was the actual playing of the game. It’s an improvement over The Witcher 2: Enhanced Edition in nearly every department but it still falls short to the standards of other action RPGs out there. Geralt felt like he was disconnected from the world during combat; his actions barely had any inkling of weight or substance. Conversely, navigating around the world took a bit of time to grasp because there was a momentum to his movement that felt jarring and unnecessary. Thankfully they introduced a patch in July that introduced a more responsive movement option. It was liberating.
I didn’t expect The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt to perform this poorly on the PlayStation 4. I was hoping for a game that maintained 30 FPS with occasional dips when things got hairy. The reality was a game that runs at 1080p and shied away from the 30FPS at nearly every opportunity. When it rained? Framerate plummetted. When rode through the swamps? Framerate plummets. When I visited Novigrad? Same deal. After reading about how The Witcher 2: Enhanced Edition managed to keep close its 30FPS framerate target, this console outing was a massive disappointment. And yet I tolerated the sluggish performance and pushed through because the allure of something new on the horizon was just too tempting.
But then over the course of the summer, I heard rumblings of CD Projekt RED working on massive patches to address their laundry list of issues. With that possibility in mind, I placed the game on hold at around the 60% mark. I played and finished other titles while keeping tabs on the post-release support from CD Projekt RED. Then as I wrapped up Metal Gear Solid 5, the big 1.10 patch landed and it was a revelation. This was what the game should have shipped with.
After a two month lay off, I expected it to be tough to reintegrate with The Witcher 3 but that wasn’t the case. I fell right back into my love of Gwent, the alchemy and crafting, the exploring and the main story arch. It was actually my love of Gwent and its background tracks that hastened the entire process. The loading screen recaps reminded me where I left off and the loose and straightforward nature of the main story thread meant I wasn’t forgetting any crucial details.
Apparently I received the “bad ending” (or “the worst ending” according to some) but as I was watching the outcome of my decisions unfold, I felt satisfied. It wasn’t the happiest of endings but this wasn’t the happiest of worlds which made it all work. And that’s how I ultimately feel about The Witcher 3, it has its issues but the end result is a journey and experience that few developers attempt let alone reach. It has its issues that no foreseeable patch can address but when a developer pours so much quality into a single game and continues to support it many months after release, I can not only forgive them but also applaud them.
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Students wait to receive books during a materials distribution for distance learning at Heather Hills Elementary School in Bowie, MD, on August 26, 2020
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by Jonathan Schweig, Andrew McEachin, Megan Kuhfeld
The COVID-19 pandemic has created an unprecedented set of obstacles for schools and exacerbated existing structural inequalities in public education. While preliminary accounts highlight the impact of COVID-19 on a variety of student outcomes, it may take years to unpack how the pandemic affected student learning and social and emotional development and to identify any lasting effects on low-income communities and communities of color.
COVID-19 also presents immediate decisionmaking challenges for schools and districts that rely on annual data collection to monitor student progress and performance. Such assessments (PDF) are used for a wide variety of purposes, including school and teacher accountability, organizing professional development, supporting formal and informal program evaluation, determining course placements and access to additional supports, and to support instructional decisionmaking.
The nonprofit RAND Corporation, in collaboration with NWEA, has initiated a research project to provide key guidance on the use of assessment data for schools and school districts in their response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, our work focuses on developing strategies for addressing the impacts of COVID-19 disruptions on student assessment programs, providing empirical evidence of the strengths and limitations of particular strategies for making decisions in the absence of assessment data, and providing an investigative framework that guides plans for collecting evidence that supports strategy adoption.
COVID-19 presents immediate decisionmaking challenges for schools and districts that rely on annual data collection to monitor student progress and performance.
As we embark on this project, we have solicited input from local education agencies across the country, using a combination of surveys and structured interviews, to capture districts' needs during this dynamic period. While we caution that our research is in its preliminary stages and our sample of respondents is not nationally representative, the initial feedback focused attention on a few key concerns around decisionmaking in the absence of spring assessment data.
School Systems Rely on Spring Assessment Data to Inform Course Placement Decisions
Established processes that school systems use for determining course placement were disrupted by the lack of spring testing. For example, we heard that administrators typically rely on spring assessment scores—often in conjunction with other assessment information, course grades, and teacher recommendations—to make determinations for course placements, such as who should enroll in accelerated or advanced mathematics classes.
School Systems Rely on Spring Assessment Data to Evaluate Programs or District-Wide Initiatives
Schools and school systems frequently adopt programs, pilot interventions, or purchase support materials to improve student social, emotional, and academic outcomes, or to address disparities in student success. We heard that many districts monitor the success of these programs internally by looking at year-to-year change or growth for schools or subgroups of interest. The gap in the data caused by assessment disruptions presents schools and school systems with a challenge for how to look at growth or change across time, especially as COVID-19 has differential impacts on student subgroups.
School Systems Responded to These Challenges in a Variety of Ways
The most striking pattern thus far is the variation in school system responses, often driven by differences in local contexts and resources. For some schools, the shift to remote learning and assessment was an extension of recent difficulties with online assessment system adoption, which resulted in large numbers of missing or invalid tests. In other places where online assessments weren't feasible in spring 2020, school systems used older data to make course recommendations, either from the winter or in some cases, from the previous year (i.e. 2018-19 school year). Related to this idea, we heard of other school systems that relaxed typical practices that relied on annual assessment data to provide more autonomy to individual schools, relying on school staff to exercise local judgment around course placements. Finally, other systems reported using more complex imputation models, projecting student scores based on student assessment histories. While by no means exhaustive, these recorded examples run the gamut of experiences and responses by school systems throughout the country.
School Systems Have Concerns About Whether Data From Remotely Administered Diagnostic or Interim Assessments This Fall Can Be Used for Instructional Decisionmaking or to Understand the Impacts of COVID-19 on Student Learning
Several respondents to our survey noted concerns about the trustworthiness of remote assessment data collected this fall and the extent to which results could be interpreted as valid indicators of student achievement or understanding. Particularly for districts that started the 2020-21 school year remotely, respondents were concerned about student engagement and motivation, as well as the possibility of students rushing assessments, running into technological or internet barriers, or seeking assistance from guardians or other resources.
In a typical school year some students will not take the end of year assessments, but these missing scores are usually treated as missing at random. However, given the broader context of missing scores and increased prevalence, several respondents raised questions about the extent to which available assessment scores are representative of school or district performance as a whole. Given that vulnerable students (e.g., students with disabilities, students experiencing homelessness) may be the least likely to have access to remote instruction and assessments, it is likely that the students who are not assessed this year systematically vary from students who are able to be assessed. Still other respondents noted that they encountered resistance from parents around fall assessment, and prioritized student well-being (e.g., their safety, sense of community, and social and emotional well-being) more so than academics, a perspective that resonates with recent findings from a nationally representative sample of teachers and school leaders drawn from RAND's American Educator Panel (AEP).
It is likely that the students who are not assessed this year systematically vary from students who are able to be assessed.
The next phase of our research focuses on conducting a series of simulation studies and empirical applications of four of the most commonly cited strategies that our district respondents indicated they were using to make course placement decisions and to evaluate programs or district-wide initiatives. While we focus these empirical analyses in specific use-cases, we believe that our framework provides guidance for local investigations of the intended (and unintended) consequences for school and school system decisionmaking related to COVID-19 disruptions.
As we write this commentary, the pandemic continues to wreak havoc on communities and school systems around the country, making clear that schools may have to adapt practices for the foreseeable future. Even if assessment data is available in Spring 2021, there are serious questions about how comparable these scores will be to prior year scores, and the extent to which they reflect inequities in opportunity to learn. Several school districts reported higher-than-typical course failure rates in middle school and high school. This is consistent with the AEP finding that less than one in four teachers reported that all or nearly all of their students were completing assignments (and only nine percent of teachers in schools serving high percentages of low-income students or students of color).
We welcome individuals to reach out to RAND with additional recommendations or considerations. We are also interested in hearing how districts are approaching course placement, accountability, and program evaluation across the country. Connect with the research team via email at jschweig@rand.org
Jonathan Schweig is a social scientist and Andrew McEachin is a senior policy researcher at the nonprofit, nonpartisan RAND Corporation and both are professors at the Pardee RAND Graduate school. Megan Kuhfeld is a researcher at NWEA.
A version of this commentary appeared on ies.ed.gov on December 16, 2020.
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Monzo moves into business banking
UK digital bank Monzo has launched its business banking service, providing free and premium accounts, to assist its goal of reaching profitability in two to three years.
The launch follows a year-long beta testing period with some 2500 small and medium-sized businesses.
In addition to the free Lite account, Monzo is offering a Pro variation, which costs £5 a month and offers premium features, such as support with invoices, tax pots and access for multiple users.
With fellow digital bank Starling having recently extended its business offering, the sector is becoming the new battleground for challenger banks looking to attain profitability in the years ahead.
Unlike Monzo, Starling received an injection from the £775m Banking Competition Remedies Fund, in which RBS cash was used to stimulate competition in small business banking as part of the conditions of its government bailout after the 2008 financial crisis.
Monzo was unsuccessful in its application for a share of this funding. Founder Tom Blomfield has said that it would have meant the bank’s business accounts would have been live before now and would also have included lending.
“It’s taken a bit longer, and it didn’t have the team to build this, so it doesn’t have any lending right now,” Blomfield has said.
Starling is now offering unsecured loans of up to £250K as part of the expansion in its business offering.
Customers will need to already hold a personal account with Monzo to apply so the hope will be that its 3 million customers will contain a large number of traders and small business owners wishing to the use the digital bank for their business needs as well.
Monzo also recently announced it is relaunching its paid-for personal accounts, having ditched them in September 2019 owing to poor customer feedback.
The digital bank holds around £2bn in deposits and was last year valued at £2bn despite reporting losses of £47.2m in 2018.
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Australia's AMP says Ares buyout offer values it at $4.5 billion
By Paulina Duran
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Embattled Australian wealth manager AMP Ltd AMP.AX on Monday said a conditional buyout offer from U.S.-based Ares Management Corp ARES.N had an implied value of A$6.36 billion ($4.47 billion), triggering a jump in its share price.
FILE PHOTO: The logo of Australia's biggest wealth manager, AMP Ltd, adorns their head office building in Sydney, Australia, October 28, 2016. REUTERS/David Gray
Shares in AMP, which is considering a potential sale or break-up following a string of scandals, rose 9.8% to A$1.68 on Monday, after the company revealed the price involved in Ares’ proposal.
That was the highest since July, but below the A$1.85 per share in Ares’ offer - which a person with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters was the only bid for the whole group so far - indicating investors see quite a bit of uncertainty on the deal.
Other parties have expressed interest in separate parts of the company, which has banking, fund management and financial planning units, said the person, who was not authorised to speak publicly on the matter and so declined to be identified.
Simon Mawhinney, chief investment officer of Allan Gray, AMP’s second-largest shareholder, said the market reaction was somewhat surprising.
“We’ll apply our minds to any offers for AMP in whole or in part when those offers are firmed up,” Mawhinney said in an email to Reuters.
Ares’ indicative offer price represents a premium of 21% to AMP’s closing price of A$1.53 on Friday, when shares had already surged after AMP announced receipt of the offer earlier in the day.
In a brief update, the Sydney-based company said talks were at a preliminary stage between itself and the U.S. asset manager, and that there was no certainty on a deal eventuating at that price.
The veteran manager of Australian retirement savings has lost more than two-thirds of its value since a public inquiry in 2018 exposed systemic wrongdoing at the company including charging fees for advice that was never given, taking insurance premiums from the accounts of dead clients, and misleading a regulator.
The more than 160-year old wealth manager has also recently suffered multi-billion investment outflows following concerns about the conduct of the former chief executive of its funds management unit which led to his demotion.
Earlier this year, AMP ceded its position as Australia's largest wealth manager to IOOF Holdings Ltd IFL.AX after its rival bought National Australia Bank Ltd's NAB.AX financial advisory arm.
Reporting by Paulina Duran in Sydney and Rashmi Ashok in Bengaluru; Editing by Daniel Wallis and Christopher Cushing
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The Art Of Working The Microphone (Or How To Record Vocals Without Compression)
Apr 20, 2015 | Tips | 34 comments
Ask any of the all time great recording engineers what their favorite vocal chain is in the studio and you’ll likely get a list of three things: a microphone, a preamp, and a compressor.
Recording vocals through compression is a wonderful thing that I highly recommend if you have it available to you. It gives you a smoother, more even recording that is mix ready.
But what if all you have is simple audio interface in your setup and no compressor (like our humble $300 studio we’re using right now) – what is a vocalist to do??
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Rediscover The Lost Art
Did you know that for years, professional records were made without a single compressor?
In fact, vocalists were quite aware that they could easily overload the microphone (and the tape machine) so they developed a skill, an art form really, that we like to call “working the mic.”
Let’s talk about that.
It sounds obvious but the human voice is very dynamic. Meaning it can go from super quiet to super loud in an instant.
That’s not very unique to vocals – but what makes them more challenging and sneaky than say a drum kit or guitar part is that even if a vocalist is singing at one overall consistent level, he or she is actually is giving a very inconsistent performance due to two things: vowels and lyrical emotion.
Vowels And Emotion Are So Sneaky
If you or I sing a closed vowel like the “oooo” sound or the “eeee” sound, we don’t push a lot of air. But the moment we sing an “aaaaah” or “aaaay” sound, our mouths naturally open up and more volume comes out.
So even if we are singing at one dynamic in our minds, in reality we will put out a wide variety of dynamics if for no other reason than the variety of vowels we sing.
Secondly – since we are not just playing music with an instrument (which can definitely express and be affected by emotion) but we are singing words that contain meaning, we are naturally going to ebb and flow with our volume (i.e. dynamic) related to what words we are singing at the moment.
If the words are somber and introspective, we might sing softly. If the words are angry or passionate, we might sing loudly. And it can vary wildly throughout a 3 minute song.
Those two reason, vowels and lyrical emotion, alone cause a super wide dynamic range on any given vocalist – thereby giving the microphone and preamp/converter problems.
Learn To Play The Microphone
To combat this problem of system overload back in the day, some super smart people invented an automated volume knob. They called it a compressor.
It would automatically listen to the vocalist and if she sang quietly it would turn her up, and if she sang loudly it would turn her down. Thereby giving you a smooth and more even performance.
So these days if you have a compressor you can just sing and let it do the rest. Brilliant.
But what did people do BEFORE they had compressors?
They worked the microphone. They actually did a virtual dance with it.
When singing quietly they would sneak up a bit closer to the mic (giving you that intimate vocal) and when they would sing loud and proud they would back up from the mic and wail.
It involved a little planning and situational awareness, yes, but that was part of the skill set of a vocalist back then.
Knowing how to not only sing, but how to “play” the microphone as an instrument as well.
Don’t Just Stand There – Do Something!
And sadly, that art form seems to have dissipated these days. Compressors have made us lazy! Myself included!
But let’s talk about the home studio – a place where most of us don’t have an external compressor and preamp to record through.
And consequently many of you are discovering that your final vocal recording is all over the map level wise when you get to mix day. Some compression then will help, certainly.
But can you help yourself out a bit by capturing a more even vocal performance from Day 1 – even without a compressor?
Yes! Just work the microphone! (Or have your vocalist work it if you are just engineering).
Don’t just stand there and sing, actually perform with the microphone and do some old school “compression” with your body.
In the end, you’ll get two things:
On the technical side you’ll have a more even signal doing to your DAW.
But secondly, and almost even cooler, you’ll have a more engaged and intentional performance.
Although subtle, this can be a huge factor in capturing that “magic” vocal track in the home studio – one that virtually mixes itself.
Joshua Hall on April 20, 2015 at 7:59 am
Graham,
Wonderful! So nice to hear this. Some vocalists will sway and turn their heads while they sing – if they are not use to singing with mic that is not handheld and that movement will cause volume fluctuations as well. Mid phrase the sound would get thick and thin. You do as much teaching on how to be in front of a mic as do recording sometimes.
David Lee King on April 20, 2015 at 8:22 am
Great tip! Of course, you could also just turn on the compressor in Garageband …
Chris on April 20, 2015 at 9:14 am
Yes that’s true and it would help a lot. But if you were distorting the input to the mic preamp , which is easily done when performing up close/in your face type vocal, then Garage band would be limiting an already distorted signal. This obviously would be of little help , so Performing without compressors is the best way of avoiding the first stage overload going into the mic preamp.
Craig on April 20, 2015 at 9:12 am
Would there be a problem with putting a compressor, (plug-in), on the vocal channel and then recording through that to another channel? So in theory the vocals would be going through a compressor?
Spencer on April 20, 2015 at 10:17 am
There’s no problem with that, but that’s not what this article is taking about. A recording compressor goes before the mic preamp. A compressor plugin goes after the preamp. The real end goal of a recording compressor is to even out the performance before it hits the preamp so you don’t overload it and so it makes setting mic gain easier.
lo.mo on April 20, 2015 at 11:31 am
A recording compressor goes before the mic preamp. A compressor plugin goes after the preamp. The real end goal of a recording compressor is to even out the performance before it hits the preamp so you don’t overload it and so it makes setting mic gain easier.
Glad we got that straightened out.
Mike on April 20, 2015 at 2:04 pm
I don’t think so. The compressor would come ahead of the audio interface but not before a stand-alone mic preamp. A compressor able to take a direct mic input would have a mic preamp built-in.
lo.mo on April 20, 2015 at 3:33 pm
But, how can the compressor protect the mic and pre-amp from overload, if you insert it after the pre-amp?
Nicolas BIROTHEAU on April 21, 2015 at 6:23 am
The compressor doesn’t protect the mic or preamp, it protects your tape recorder /DAW software from distorsion. And yes, the chain is Mic Preamp > Compressor > Interface In (or whatever type of recording device you’re using).
As always, good topic Graham !
alexis on July 13, 2016 at 4:06 pm
Exactly! preamp-comp- interface
lo.mo on April 21, 2015 at 12:51 pm
From Graham’s article:
So, If they invented the compressor to solve their problem of overloading the mic, preamp/converter, then the compressor must go in front.
Rosti V on April 22, 2015 at 9:10 am
Mic pres are able to take a lot of beating before you “overload” them. I’ve never heard of using a comp before the pre. Besides, the whole reason for using a comp on the way in is to control or “even out” the dynamics so the vocal sits better in the mix….. not the overload concerns. If you’re afraid to overload the pre, just turn down the gain knob!
Ian on April 20, 2015 at 9:21 am
Good microphone technique is essential on stage as well as in the studio, and should be part of a singers technique, just like how a guitarist or drummer should learn about attack. I once heard a sound guy not so politely inform a singer that he shouldn’t get nearer the mic when he shouts and did he not know anything, I guess not.
I also think with all the auto-tuning and pro-toolsing that goes on these days, there are more singers out there that can sing just OKish, but have no idea about technique or anything as the studio makes them sound great so they think they are great. Yep that’s the job, but it’s like anyone can do it now rather than actually being able to. So much chart based pop stuff is full of this that people are now accustomed to hearing a slightly robot sound to the vocals they think it’s not it should. I cringe when my daughter puts on One Direction or Jessie J, although that isn’t just because of the auto-tune laden vocals.
John Walker on April 20, 2015 at 10:33 am
Soooo I struggled with this same problem for a while, and so I did some research and I found the perfect solution that won’t kill anyone’s budget and is fairly easy to use:
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Andrew_Deer on April 20, 2015 at 10:50 am
Maybe you could get the signal to DAW and put compressor on the same track, set to monitoring and set output on track where you record it, if that makes sense. If it wouldn’t work, why?
Alex Sanford on April 20, 2015 at 12:01 pm
I think that every singer should learn to do this. I sing live a fair bit, and I learned quite quickly that I need to move in and out, to keep my volume balanced. Otherwise, I was trying to sing quiet parts too loudly and loud parts too quietly, which ruined the tone of my singing.
So although I think this is *most* important for live performance, it’s also extremely helpful in the studio. Just one more thing you can get right on recording day that you don’t have to deal with on mixing day, which is always good!
Thanks Graham!
Jeremy Harper on April 20, 2015 at 1:11 pm
Another way is to back your singer up from the mic, and use automation to even out the performance.
Angie Thompson on April 20, 2015 at 1:38 pm
Absolutely true. But talking about mic technique does not do enough to illustrate how to do it properly. Go back to the masters and watch them. For instance, this video of the Rat Pack. Watch the masters at work
To me “working the mic” and Johnny Mathis are two sides of the same coin. Even when miming he can’t stop himself working the mic. Note how he goes slightly off-axis pointing the mic at his cheek. That avoids problems where the proximity effect would be inconsistent due to backing away from the mic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfsRN10EdWM
Joe Jordan on April 20, 2015 at 5:44 pm
I love this Graham guy. Working the microphone, and putting some thought into the whole process pre-recording has great value. Thanks Graham.
Bob on April 21, 2015 at 6:35 am
You see this is with many of the bluegrass artist today. Even with a group of three or four they are going back to using a single or sometimes 2 mic only setup. It takes practice doing the single mic technique, especially as a group. It is a tradition that got started when a lot of the early country artists went on the road and played at the local radio station, honky-tonk or church where only one microphone was available. Everyone learn to crowd around the single mic and move in and out as solos were played, as well as to keep a consistent blend.
Here is a video of Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver doing an old gospel song “The Heavenly Parade” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3gj9RhKVbg). They start with four vocals and a guitar on a single mic, end with 3 guys on one mic and the fourth vocal (bass) on a second mic. Really well done
john paul on April 21, 2015 at 11:55 am
Always good tips and info here!
Andy on April 21, 2015 at 2:40 pm
Great article again, but I don’t fully agree here:
The more you “work the mic” the more or less room you get into your recording (more distance = more room). And you can’t fix that later on. That mainly is a concern in a none or half treated room like yours. Not working the mic and automating the volume gives the better performace, at least for me.
Just my way and preference but anyway: Great article as always! Keep it up!
Cheers from Germany
Graham, these are great points indeed!
I used to sing with an acappella group for 7 years and one technique we’ve always used on stage is working the microphone. It’s easier to do with a hand-held dynamic mic, because you don’t have to move your body, just your hand that’s holding the mic. In the studio, we were told by the engineer to stand as still as we could, because he was using impressive Avalon pres and compressors on the way in. In my home studio, I place the mic in such a way that turning my head slightly sideways during dynamic parts which doesn’t change the sound much but really helps control the loudness of the signal passed into the interface.
Graham on April 23, 2015 at 10:36 am
I used to sing in a few a cappella groups as well 🙂 Takes me back.
Those were good time 🙂 It’s tougher than it looks, you have to sing the ENTIRE song, no breaks, no guitar solos, lol. But it’s rewarding and you learn voice control like you wouldn’t with anything (aside from voice lessons).
Jesse on April 26, 2015 at 10:48 pm
I just try to think of the mic as someone I’m singing for. I want them to be able to clearly hear the quiet intimate parts so I move closer to them. I don’t want to be an inch from their face and blow out their ear drums when I scream a line so I move back. It’s simplistic and a little stupid but it makes sense to me.
Good article.
David on June 9, 2015 at 6:58 pm
When recording vocals I always have to ask singers to step back from the mic as they’ve seen to many pop videos where people are singing a couple of inches away which is no good for proximity effect (unless you want it) or sibilance. I have a nicely balanced, pretty dead room for vocals so don’t need to worry about too much reflections so sometimes have singers 4 or 5 feet away from the mic. I’m lucky enough to have a good analogue desk to work with and don’t use a compressor when recording but do ride the gain to keep levels about 0vu this does mean you have to pay attention to what the singer is doing and know when the loud/quiet bits are coming up. However I will use compression on the vocals in the mix something to catch loud peaks then another to take a couple of db out to even the sound I the use the desk automation to ride levels during mix down and sometimes even do it by hand just along with the feeling of the song.
Jair on September 24, 2015 at 5:11 pm
I have the Zoom H6 as an audio interface. The Zoom H6 allows you to add compression and filters to an input, but I was wondering if:
1. this comes close to the audio quality of an external compression that you mention in this article.
2. is this the same as working with these effects in post on a DAW. Would it be useful to use compression on the Zoom H6 and use compression in Ableton on a recording, or just one.
Jake on June 12, 2016 at 1:58 pm
I’m wondering the same exact thing. Have you found out yet?
MarkH on June 5, 2016 at 4:41 pm
In a recent interview that Fab Dupont did with the legendary Al Schmitt, Al says he doesn’t use any compression or EQ when tracking. Instead he rides the fader to keep the volume level where it needs to be and will swap out Mics if he doesn’t like the tone. Al is 86 years old and indicated when he was young and learning there was no EQ on the console and so he’s done it the same way for decades. I personally don’t consider any particular way right or wrong, and there is no one single method the Pros use either. If you can make it sound phenomenal, the Pros will be asking you what you did to get it to sound that good.
John Patton on July 14, 2016 at 7:05 am
Watching Daryl’s House the other day, I was reminded of the lessons I learned early in my singing career about working the mic. Daryl Hall is an expert at not only controlling his volume with his distance from the mic and head turns, but he also never slams the mic with stinging S’s, plosives or harsh consonants. No compressor needed, even at that pro level.
Jordan on July 14, 2016 at 11:48 am
I think the point of this post is less about avoiding gear or getting around a lack of gear, and more towards limiting dependence on a type of gear.
Any I see tons of comments about cheap gear as a response!
It doesn’t hurt to turn off compression from time to time and learn about working a mic. Learn when to turn your head, HOW to turn your head to make high notes sound creamy. Learn when to back up.
There is more to working a mic than just adjusting volume.
Try setting feel of your vocals with distance. Sometimes you can sit outside of the pickup pattern of your mic and get a good feel for whistles, certain vocals.
Clap tracks sound best two feet away and at an angle. (to me).
Work it out when you do this.
Lamar on September 2, 2016 at 9:01 am
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SentryOne Acquires Pragmatic Works Software - SentryOne
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CHARLOTTE, NC – April 30, 2018 —SentryOne announced the acquisition of Pragmatic Works Software (PWS) the Jacksonville, FL based leader in solutions for developing, testing, documenting, and monitoring the Microsoft Data Platform. The addition of the PWS product suite gives SentryOne the most robust and comprehensive offering available for the Microsoft data professional, both on premises and in the cloud.
Through this acquisition, SentryOne will offer significantly broader coverage of database systems—from the beginning of the development cycle through production deployment and monitoring—and will provide scale to meet the demands of enterprise environments. SentryOne solutions now include powerful development capabilities for Microsoft SQL Server, SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS), SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), and SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), such as data and schema comparison and synchronization, package and report comparison, best practices analysis, and integration with Visual Studio and SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT). Unique features for data lineage tracking and unit testing round out the portfolio, enabling advanced scenarios for DevOps as well as GDPR.
“To date, SentryOne solutions have focused primarily on optimizing production assets already deployed to the data center or cloud,” said Greg Gonzalez, SentryOne founder and Chief Technology Officer. “However, good design and performance start on the developer’s desktop. PWS solutions shift us far to the left in the development lifecycle, enabling SentryOne to deliver an unrivaled end-to-end capability for DBAs, developers, DevOps, BI professionals, and compliance managers alike.”
SentryOne immediately will allow partners to sell and refer all products and will soon release joint bundles with solutions from both companies.
“SentryOne has been growing at a rate of more than 45%," said Bob Potter, Chief Executive Officer of SentryOne. "This high growth mode will continue to accelerate both organically and through the acquisition of really great companies like Pragmatic Works Software."
“I have long admired the leadership at SentryOne,” said Brian Knight, owner and founder of Pragmatic Works. “The decision to spin off our software business to focus on consulting and training was made easier knowing that our engineers and developers would be joining the leader in highly scalable enterprise database performance monitoring.” Knight and Tim Moolic, Pragmatic Works Chief Operating Officer, will consult for SentryOne throughout the integration. Brian Knight will join the SentryOne Advisory Board. John Welch, President of PWS, will join SentryOne as Vice President of Engineering.
Financial terms were not disclosed. Mainsail Partners, a leading growth equity firm that invests exclusively in bootstrapped, growing and profitable software companies, is a significant investor in SentryOne and continues to support its rapid growth.
About SentryOne
SentryOne creates unmatched solutions that empower Microsoft data professionals to achieve breakthrough performance across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. SentryOne products give customers the capability and confidence to monitor their databases, diagnose performance issues, and optimize the entire SQL Server estate to provide real business value. The SentryOne team includes more than 140 employees located in Charlotte, NC, Jacksonville, FL, Salem, NH and Dublin, Ireland. Learn more at SentryOne.com.
About Pragmatic Works Software
Pragmatic Works is a Jacksonville, FL based company with deep expertise in data management and performance, Business Intelligence, Big Data, Power BI, and cloud technologies focusing on data optimization and improving the efficiency of SQL Server and cloud management. SentryOne is only acquiring Pragmatic Works Software and the full suite of PWS products: Task Factory, BI xPress, DBA xPress, DOC xPress, LegiTest, DTS xChange, CodeSlice, and Workbench Enterprise. Pragmatic Works will continue to provide top-notch training and consulting services. Learn more at PragmaticWorks.com.
SentryOne has been growing at a rate of more than 45%. This high growth mode will continue to accelerate both organically and through the acquisition of really great companies like Pragmatic Works Software.
Bob Potter
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Are the Chinese going to buy Fiat Chrysler Serbia too?
The news that the Chines company Great Wall Motor is interested in acquiring Fiat Chrysler has led the media to speculate whether Fiat Serbia will be acquired too.
An executive from the Chinese company said that they were considering buying Fiat Chrysler Automobili Srbija, and thus indirectly confirming that they are still not sure whether to acquire the entire Fiat Chrysler Corporation (which also produces the Jeep brand), or just segments of it.
Reuters quotes Automotive News which reported earlier on Monday that Great Wall Motor’s CEO, Wang Fengying plans to contact Fiat to discuss acquiring the Jeep brand. “With respect to this case, we currently have an intention to acquire. We are interested in (FCA),” an official at Great Wall Motor’s press relations department told Reuters. He declined to give his name and gave no further details. Two people familiar with the matter said Great Wall Motor had asked for a meeting with FCA to make an offer for all or part of the group.
What does that mean for Fiat Chrysler Serbia?
The Fiat Chrysler Corporation owns 67% of Fiat Serbia while the Serbian government owns the rest. “In case the entire FCA Group should change ownership, the destiny of our factory would mainly depend on the agreement between Fiat’s management and our government”, the Vecernje Novosti daily writes.
The daily goes on to say that the Kragujevac factory is definitely one of the trump cards in the negotiations between FCA and the Chinese since this is one of Fiat’s most technologically advanced facilities in the world.
CEO of FCA Group, Sergio Marchionne has said that he wants to find a partner or buyer for the world’s seventh-largest automaker as costs rise to comply with emissions regulations and develop technology for electric and self-driving cars. So far, however, Marchionne and company chairman John Elkann have not opened the door to selling Jeep or the profitable Ram truck business in North America as standalone units.
(Nova Ekonomija, 22.08.2017)
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Back-compat PSVR Games on PS5 Could See Improved Frame Rates, Resolution, & Loading
We’re still awaiting confirmation of the first VR game natively designed for PS5, but for now we know that many PSVR titles for PS4 are expected to support backwards compatibility on PS5. When running on PS5, those older titles are likely to benefit from the console’s greater power, which could improve frame rates, resolutions, and loading times.
While it wasn’t until last week that we got the full PS5 reveal, Sony announced the console’s technical specs in a blog post back in March. The company later updated the post to add detail about backwards compatibility for PS4 games running on PS5.
First, the company noted that it expects “the overwhelming majority of the 4,000+ PS4 titles will be playable on PS5.” As far as Sony has indicated, this includes PSVR titles as well.
The company also said that many backwards compatible titles will have access to more processing power, which can improve performance.
“We’re expecting backward compatible titles will run at a boosted frequency on PS5 so that they can benefit from higher or more stable frame rates and potentially higher resolutions.”
This isn’t necessarily automatic for all titles, as some have technical limitations which would prevent them from dynamically improving with more power, unless manually adjusted.
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However, many modern PSVR games are already designed with performance scaling in mind between PS4 and PS4 Pro, which allows them to look their best within the confines of each system’s resources. Games already designed with this scaling in mind are more likely to be able to benefit from improved performance when running on PS5.
Sony says it is testing games to look for backwards compatibility issues.
“We’re currently evaluating games on a title-by-title basis to spot any issues that need adjustment from the original software developers.”
For games that do require some manual intervention from the developers, the most popular PSVR titles will be the most likely to get patches to benefit from PS5’s performance. We’d expect that Sony’s first-party PSVR titles, like ASTRO BOT Rescue Mission and Blood & Truth, would be most likely to see such patches.
Frame Rates, Supersampling, and Loading Times
Although PSVR games target a locked framerate of 60Hz, 90Hz, or 120Hz (and will ostensibly continue to do so), the extra power on PS5 should enable greater stability for games which sometimes hitch under load. Additionally, the extra power could allow developers to bump frame rates up to the next tier (though this would almost certainly require a patch).
Even with the same 1080p display, PSVR games can look sharper with supersampling | Photo courtesy iFixit (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)
The extra headroom could also be used to increase the render resolution of specific games. Although PSVR has a per-eye resolution of 960 × 1,080, increasing the render resolution beyond the display resolution is known as supersampling, which can bring surprising benefits to sharpness despite viewing the image on the same display.
It should also be relatively trivial for PS4 PSVR games to benefit from PS5’s much faster memory, at least when it comes to loading times, but the real power of PS5 for VR won’t be revealed until we see games natively designed for the console.
PSVR Games Built Natively for PS5 Will Benefit Far More
Epic’s ‘Lumen in the Land of Nanite’ demo show’s what’s possible with PS5 hardware | Image courtesy Epic Games
Although it’s nice to know that PS5’s extra power will likely benefit backwards compatible PSVR titles, new PSVR games natively built for the console will see far greater improvements in graphics and performance.
That’s because PS5 uses a new architecture with considerably more power, but developers will need to re-architect their games to get the most from the console’s new hardware. That includes designing for the system’s blazing fast SSD, using ray-tracing acceleration, and tapping into the system’s dedicated 3D audio processing capabilities.
Although we know that PSVR will be backwards compatible with PS5, and that PS4 games are likely to benefit from the improved hardware, Sony still hasn’t announced plans for a next-gen headset, nor has it confirmed native PS5 VR games.
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Jim P
Better. Just wish the people that have one on this console could experience true VR. Like 360 movement. Walk any direction and not lose hand presence.
Adam Broadhurst
All that will no doubt come with PSVR2
PSVR 2 is coming with a most likely release date of Q3/Q4 2021.
So eventually they will be able to do all of those things so don’t worry.
The best thing Sony and Microsoft could do is support openXR and allow all existing headsets to be supported.
Presumably it will also help reduce any LoD and pop-in issues too.
Greyl
Still a closed platform, so all the cool custom avatar stuff people are doing on VRChat, Neos VR, the workshop maps on Pavlov, etc, won’t be possible on PSVR, due to copyright infringement fears, as evident by Dreams’ copyright policy.
kakek
Have you seen the stuff on dream ? Not very efficient policy.
They don’t say that old PSVR will work on PS5, so maybe even if PSVR games will work, you couldn’t play in VR, only in 2d
Hivemind9000
Yeah they did a couple of days ago
Sony have talked about HDR for PSVR 2 which is sorely needed in VR.
Too often colors and contrast are downplayed among other things (resolution, fov) which doesn’t make sense at all because washed out colors and grayish blacks are incredibly harmful to immersion even if a user doesn’t think it does until they actually see the difference. Bearing in mind you’re essentially placing a screen right in front of your eyeballs so contrast and colors are even more essential.
Not to mention it is sort of pathetic that in 2020 most of the mainstream consumer VR HMDs are still just as awful as they were in 2016 in terms of the blacks, color saturation and accuracy.
LC displays should not be the way forward; it should only be used as a stop-gap to better display technologies such as OLED (or even microLED) but it is simply not the right technology to get the most out of virtual reality. Yes they’re cheap and that’s why every company out there that doesn’t give a damn about VR but are riding this technological trend are pumping HMDs out quickly to make a quick buck which is incredibly wrong.
It’s not just about not giving a damn. These “pathetic” displays are some of the best in the world. Good luck finding higher PPI OLED than the one in the Quest.
The current state of the technology is just not there and starting manufacturing to push these display specs further would cost $5-$10 billion dollars, according to Samsung. This is doable in smartphone market, but not in XR market.
Sony is not making the screen in PSVR, so they can talk as much as they want, they can offer only what manufacturers can sell them. Valve also talked about huge importance of HDR in VR years ago (they made an incredible prototype with hacked, overclocked display to make people feel like they are on real beach), but they weren’t able to offer it in an actual product.
Rupert Jung
If they just had mounted the camera on the headset itself than on the TV…
Schadows
Has Dualshock 4 been confirmed as working on PS5 ? (I didn’t find any source for that despite some people claiming it to be true).
Without any light bar on the DualSense, some PSVR games might not be playable otherwise.
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An Ordinary Day
By Elana K. Arnold
Illustrated by Elizabet Vukovic
Fixed Layout eBook
An ordinary day in an ordinary neighborhood turns out to be quite extraordinary in this moving story about the circle of life.
It’s an average day in the neighborhood—children play, roses are watered, and a crow watches over it all. But then two visitors arrive at two houses, one to help a family say hello to a new baby and one to help a family say goodbye to a beloved pet. This sensitive picture book takes a gentle look at life, death, the bonds of family, and the extraordinary moments that make ordinary days so special.
Elana K. Arnold
Elana K. Arnold writes books for and about children and teens. She holds a master’s degree in creative writing/fiction from the University of California, Davis, where she has taught creative writing and adolescent literature. She is a frequent speaker at schools, libraries, and writers’ conferences. She is the author of several acclaimed young adult novels including the Printz Honor book Damsel and National Book Award finalist What Girls Are Made of, as well as her picture books What Riley Wore and An Ordinary Day. Currently, Elana is the caretaker of seven pets, only two of which have fur. She lives in Huntington Beach, California.
Elizabet Vukovic
Elizabet Vukovic is a freelance illustrator born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, where she still resides. As a kid she had quite an imagination, which she expressed mostly on paper, since acting out her ideas was an annoyance to her siblings. She now devotes herself fulltime to illustration for children and other venues. When not obsessing about art (which isn’t very often) Elizabet enjoys long bicycle rides, traveling, and bugging her elderly cats.
Publisher: Beach Lane Books (March 10, 2020)
Baby - Age 3
Children's Fiction > Social Themes > General
Children's Fiction > Social Themes > Death, Grief, Bereavement
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Children's Fiction > Social Situations > General
On any given day in this idyllic suburban neighborhood, children play, plants are watered, and people come and go from houses. On this day, those ordinary things are happening—but also so much more. In two houses, side by side, a quiet waiting occurs. Two visitors arrive, each with a stethoscope and small bag. In one home, a racially diverse family of two women and three children has come to the sad decision that their beloved dog must be put to sleep. Meanwhile, next door, a brown-skinned man, woman, and child await the arrival of a new baby. Vucovi’s softly colored illustrations, rendered in subdued charcoal, pastel, watercolor, ink, and graphite, contrast the concurrent events. Perspective is anchored by the ominous, unifying presence of “Magnificent the Crow,” a bird that appears on the first page and departs in the final spread, providing readers with a safe distance from this universal but deeply intimate narrative. Profound in the way it underscores how “life-changing” events are happening all the time—even as regular life continues—this book is especially effective at communicating big, difficult concepts to children in terms they will understand, despite—or, perhaps, because of—being quiet and understated. Many will be moved by the artful book design and a thoughtfully simple text that delineate an extraordinary ordinary day.
– Booklist *Starred*, December 15, 2019
Book Cover Image (jpg): An Ordinary Day
Fixed Layout eBook 9781481472630
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Move over Millennials, Gen Z is taking over
by India Ross
“This one,” says one college student to another in the pilot of ABC’s recent sitcom Grown-ish, “is Black Lives Matter.”
He gestures to a badge pinned to his camo jacket. “I’ve got ‘I can’t breathe’,” he continues, pointing to another, which bears the dying words of the US police shooting victim Eric Garner. He looks earnestly around the room, and then proffers a third on his sleeve: “‘Michelle 2020’.”
If the past six or so years of popular culture have been preoccupied with the millennial, the generation of introspection, self-interest and half-hearted politics, this was the moment at which I realised we were in danger of becoming old news.
“Gen X gave us MTV, Friends and the first black president,” says Grown-ish’s protagonist, Zoe, in a voiceover in a later episode. (At “first black president”, the camera flicks to a shot of Bill Clinton playing the jazz saxophone.)
Broad City: Abbi and Ilana aren’t down with obnoxious street harassers who tell young women to “smile more”.
“Millennials gave us reality TV, ‘friends’,” she continues, over a screenshot of Facebook, “and the real first black president. And then there’s my generation: Generation Z, the iGeneration. We’re racially diverse, sexually diverse, ultra-socially conscious and hyper-sensitive.”
As a titlecard emblazoned with the acronym “LGBTQAI+” swooshed across the screen, I began to make out the contours of the new era. Gone was the unique combination of irony and anxiety that defined my cohort; here was a thoroughly modern group of early twentysomethings with a very different set of concerns.
Groundbreakingly symbolic
Since the dawn of the streaming era, TV, perhaps more than any other art form, has bent itself around my generation. We were a ripe subject but also a smart target demographic: young enough to consume video online, old enough conceivably to pay for a subscription – and, crucially, endlessly fascinated by watching ourselves.
Chewing Gum star Michaela Coel. Mark Johnson
A sub-genre emerged, fleshing us out in the popular imagination, from the gross-out girls of Broad City to the sexcapades of Chewing Gum, the picture made all the more authentic for the fact that young people themselves were for the first time gaining access to the camera.
It all began in 2012 with the rather grim realisation that I was Lena Dunham. Or rather, that I was Hannah Horvath, the preposterous alter ego she embodied on HBO’s Girls, and through whom she lampooned herself, her entire generation and, by extension, me.
Hannah and her friends were not just painfully like me and mine – jobless graduates with no intention of curbing their brunching nor their partying in the interests of personal betterment – they were also groundbreakingly symbolic of a moment in time.
“You know what the weirdest part about having a job is?” says the insufferable Jessa in an early episode. “You have to be there every day.
The cast of Girls, a show that embodied the concerns of Millennials. Showcase
Even on the days you don’t feel like it.” (The line later featured in a 2016 BuzzFeed article titled: “40 Quotes From Girls That Hit Too Close To Home For Twentysomethings.”)
Dunham’s portrayal remains the original; no TV show of recent times has penetrated the zeitgeist quite like it. But for all its agonising accuracies, it didn’t get everything right. What Girls didn’t foresee was how rapidly my generation was evolving: that it was speaking to a tiny (and very white) group of people that was increasingly aware of the diversity around them.
“The argument has been made that smart women on screen are already enough of a minority to make up for the lack of women of colour,” wrote the critic Jenna Wortham in an essay titled “Where (My) Girls At?”. “Nope. Not good enough.”
Younger demographics
Fortunately, TV would evolve with the times, with or without Girls. Downstream came High Maintenance, the weed comedy, Search Party, the hipster-y melodrama, and Fleabag, the excruciating account of one woman’s struggle to reconcile her sex life and her weird family, all of which probed new and embarrassing facets of the experience of my early 20s.
But it was shows by people of colour – Issa Rae’s Insecure and Donald Glover’s Atlanta, among others – that really reshaped the millennial, proving themselves better equipped not only to handle the experience of being non-white, but also questions that applied to everyone in the new age of “wokeness”.
“Isn’t a lack of a father the reason you hate trans people?” a talk-show host asks a perplexed rapper in one exceptional episode of Atlanta. (The episode also features a black character who claims to have a “trans-racial identity” and presents himself as a middle-aged white woman; “You look like Drake Malfoy, dude,” the rapper remarks.)
All in all, TV’s Millennial grew up, remoulding itself around a rapidly changing world. And the future is more “woke” still. Facebook, Apple and YouTube are entering the streaming game alongside Amazon and Netflix, and will be bringing their younger demographics with them.
Facebook’s first major drama offering will be a remake of a hit Norwegian web series called Skam, whose teen protagonists navigate gender, sexuality and the business of growing up in what is essentially an infinitely more sophisticated version of the Channel 4 drama Skins.
“The global mentality is moving towards free world trade and increased market liberalism,” intones a sombre teenaged voiceover in Skam’s opening moments.
“A world full of opportunities, a world where dreams can come true. It sounds fantastic, and it is fantastic. For a very small percentage of us. But for the vast, poor majority, the capitalist system means only one thing: death and suffering.” TV for the March For Our Lives generation is coming.
Voice of a generation
Perhaps the new age of earnestness will erode a certain kind of satire. Certainly Gen Z have not yet given us too many reasons to laugh at them.
But rewatching the early series of Girls, it is already hopelessly out of date. There’s something about their wilful cluelessness that is totally incompatible with this moment in time. No educated person in their mid-20s is that ignorant any more. No one I know is that white.
But perhaps this is an imperfection built in to the attempt to capture a generation: the inevitability that your portrait, like your subjects, will age eventually.
“I think I might be the voice of my generation,” says the narcissist Hannah Horvath to her despairing parents in Girls’ first episode. “Or at least a voice. Of a generation.” And for a brief moment, she almost was.
http://www.afr.com/lifestyle/arts-and-entertainment/film-and-tv/move-over-millennials-gen-z-is-taking-over-20180507-h0zq1u
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With a background in language and literacy education, multimodal communication and technology-enhanced learning, David teaches and conducts research on language teacher development and place-based language learning. He has published in numerous venues, is currently co-editing two volumes on linguistic landscape and language pedagogy, and serves as Associate Editor for the journal Linguistic Landscape.
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Chet Holmgren, Patrick Baldwin, Three Other UNC Recruiting Targets on SI99
Five class of 2021 Carolina priorities candidates for SI All-American
Three uncommitted prospects in the 2021 recruiting class who are high on UNC’s priority list were named to the SI99.
The ranking of the country’s top basketball prospects from the high school senior class was unveiled this week, naming and rating the 99 players who are candidates for Sports Illustrated All-American honors.
Center Chet Holmgren is No. 1 on the SI99. SI All-American recruiting director Jason Jordan says of Holmgren, “A seven-footer who dominates like a center on both ends, handles the ball like a point guard and drains three-pointers like a marksman. This is the best collection of talent in the senior class."
Here’s the full evaluation of the big man:
Frame: Thin and long, Holmgren will need to add muscle at the next level and beyond.
Athleticism: Holmgren is quick and agile and adept at using his versatility to his advantage on both ends of the floor. He runs the floor well and has exceptional footwork.
Instincts: Holmgren has great anticipation on both ends of the floor. He’s an exceptional ball handler with the ability to create for himself and his teammates. His timing on shot blocks and shot changes are exceptional and he’s an able offensive and defensive rebounder.
Polish: Holmgren is lean, but what he lacks in size he makes up for with his 7-4 wingspan and unmatched tenacity. Holmgren dominates on both ends of the floor and tends to raise his level of play as the game intensifies, getting more and more energized when players try and shut him down.
Bottom Line: Holmgren will organically add strength as he continues to play, but he's a ferocious competitor and his skill set and versatility are off the charts. Holmgren can legitimately run the point and then dominate as a center on the next possession. He's a player you just put on the floor and let operate. Expect to see Holmgren shake hands with NBA commissioner Adam Silver early when the time comes.
Small forward Patrick Baldwin Jr., of Sussex, Wisconsin’s Hamilton High, was No. 5 on the SI99. UNC is in Baldwin’s top 10, along with Georgetown, Kentucky, Michigan, Duke, Northwestern, UCLA, Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
SI All-American’s evaluation of Baldwin says:
Frame: Lean build with room to add bulk and muscle at the next level and beyond.
Athleticism: Baldwin is a high-level athlete with great size and speed. He has great lateral movement and quickness, which helps him get free when he’s hunting his elite perimeter jump shot. Baldwin is agile and can play at all paces.
Instincts: Baldwin is the son of UW-Milwaukee head coach Patrick Sr., and it’s clear he’s been taught all of the fundamentals of the game from his dad. Baldwin picks his spots well and recognizes situations quickly and reacts. His feel is one of his best attributes.
Polish: Baldwin never gets rattled or sped up, he’s always within the frame of what he’s trying to accomplish. Since he draws most of the attention on the floor, he’s developed the ability to find the open man in the position where he’s most effective.
Bottom Line: You’d be hard-pressed to find a player that presents a greater matchup advantage on both ends than Baldwin. For the past couple of summers, he ran with Phenom U (Wis.) and averaged 17 points, five rebounds and two assists a game, despite playing with multiple five-star players on the wing. That’s telling.
Shooting guard Trevor Keels of Fairfax, Virginia’s Paul VI Catholic, was No. 13 on the list. Virginia, Villanova, Ohio State and Michigan are other strong contenders for the former high school teammate of Jeremy Roach.
SI All-American’s evaluation says:
Frame: Big and strong build with plenty of room to add even more lean muscle at the next level.
Athleticism: Keels is slippery from the wing, using his quick speed bursts to blow by defenders and his elite footwork to maneuver around the court. Keels is agile and is adept at using his strength to finish through contact.
Instincts: Keels is tactical with his approach on the offensive end. He not only recognizes situational mismatches; he also has the skill set to exploit them on all three levels. Keels is a playmaker and an underrated passer with a high basketball IQ.
Polish: Keels is most comfortable creating and remaining in attack mode. His ability to efficiently score on all three levels makes him a nightmare matchup for the opposition. Keels’ combination of strength and skill are his greatest assets.
Bottom Line: Keels is one of the most physically imposing scoring guards in the country. He’ll thrive in an uptempo system but has the ability to excel in the halfcourt because of his ability to get to the line and finish through contact. Keels will be an instant impact player from day one in college.
Shooting guard Hunter Sallis of Omaha’s Millard North is No. 16 on the SI99.
Here’s SI All-American’s evaluation of Sallis:
Frame: Lean frame with room to add and develop muscle at the next level.
Athleticism: Sallis is a high-level athlete who combines speed and quickness to dominate the opposition from the backcourt. Sallis is adept at blowing by his man using change-of-speed bursts and quick lateral movements. Sallis is a high riser who finishes at the rim with “wow” plays.
Instincts: Sallis remains in constant attack mode with the ability to score on all three levels efficiently. He’s a capable playmaker with a high IQ and recognizes and exploits matchup advantages for himself and his teammates.
Polish: Sallis controls the pace and picks his spots well as a scorer. He rarely takes bad shots and keeps the defense off balance with his efficiency at all three levels. As a defender, Sallis has quick hands and comes away with a lot of deflections from passes and poke-aways from the primary ball handler.
Bottom Line: Sallis is a relentless scoring guard with the ability to change the momentum because of his elite athleticism. He also doubles as a playmaker who hounds the ball defensively – the type of player who will always see time early at the next level. Expect his stock to continue to rise in the 2021 class.
Center Efton Reid of Bradenton, Florida’s IMG Academy is No. 17 on the list.
Here’s SI All-American’s look at the seven footer
Frame: Big, strong build with the type of bulk that helps you in the paint.
Athleticism: Reid won’t wow you with a 360-windmill, but his footwork is strong for his size and he’s agile enough to make plays around the basket. Reid shows well defending the high screen and gets back in position in time.
Instincts: Reid has a soft touch around the rim and an awareness that keeps him in position to make plays. Reid keeps the defense honest from the perimeter with the ability to efficiently knockdown perimeter and mid-range jump shots, making him a capable pick-and-pop big.
Polish: Reid is a true center with the ability to stretch the defense with his shooting ability. On the free-throw line, Reid is a major asset. Last summer he shot 83 percent from the line for the summer.
Bottom Line: Reid’s versatility is the primary reason why everyone from Louisville to Virginia to North Carolina State, among many others, are all in hot pursuit. As he continues to develop, Reid’s stock will go up and it’s likely that he’ll play his best basketball at the next level and beyond.
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How Tight Can a Python Squeeze?
Pythons are constrictor snakes found in the wilds of Asia, Africa, and Australia. They kill their prey by squeezing it to death using their powerful coils. There are many species of pythons, including reticulated pythons, Burmese pythons, and ball pythons.
How tight a python can squeeze depends on how thick its body is. The larger the snake, the more muscle mass it has, and the tighter it can squeeze. Reticulated pythons can exert 7.8 pounds of pressure per square inch (PSI). Burmese pythons clock in at 6.23 PSI, and ball pythons can manage 4.0 PSI. But all pythons can vary the pressure they exert, depending on the size of their prey.
Constriction uses a lot of energy, and the snake will only expend as much as is necessary. Pythons can detect their prey’s heartbeat, and they stop squeezing when they know their victim is dead. Large species of pythons can easily squeeze hard enough to kill a fully-grown human.
1 Do All Snakes Constrict Their Prey?
1.1 How Do Constrictor Snakes Kill?
1.2 How Tight Can a Python Squeeze?
1.3 How Strong Is a Reticulated Python?
1.4 How Strong Is a Burmese Python?
1.5 How Strong Is an African Rock Python?
1.6 How Strong Is a Ball Python?
1.7 Can a Python Squeeze a Human to Death?
Do All Snakes Constrict Their Prey?
Constriction is a common method that snakes use to subdue and kill their prey. The majority of snake species are non-venomous constrictors. Only around 600 of over 3,500 known snakes are venomous.
Unlike venomous snakes, constrictors can’t poison their prey. Instead, they catch their prey in their small hooked teeth, and curl their body tightly around it. The animal soon dies, and the snake then swallows it whole.
Even small species, like corn snakes, kill by constriction. However, they’re not very strong. Small constrictor snakes can only handle animals such as mice and songbirds.
Pythons, however, are some of the most powerful constrictors in the world. There are many species in the python family, including ball pythons, which make popular pets. Reticulated pythons and Burmese pythons are two of the biggest extant species of snake (alongside green anacondas). Adults of these species can easily kill huge animals such as pigs and deer.
Pythons and other constrictors will only squeeze an animal to death if they intend on eating it. Constriction takes up a lot of the snake’s energy, so they only do it when necessary. They won’t attack an animal that’s too big for them to swallow.
How Do Constrictor Snakes Kill?
The constriction method is used by both active hunters and ambush predators. Active hunters, like king snakes, chase down their prey. Ambush predators, such as ball pythons, lie in wait for prey to pass by. This is how constriction works:
The snake strikes at the prey and grabs it in its hooked teeth.
Immediately, the constrictor snake will wrap its victim several times in its coils. This holds the animal still, so it can’t escape.
The snake holds its prey’s head in its jaws. This stops the animal from being able to fight back.
The snake then starts to squeeze the animal more and more tightly. Within seconds, the animal falls unconscious.
After several minutes, the prey’s heart stops, and it dies.
Once the animal is dead, the snake then swallows it whole, starting with the head.
The constriction method is only effective when used on endothermic (warm-blooded) animals, like rodents and birds. It seems to have little effect on ectothermic (cold-blooded) animals, such as lizards and frogs.
According to National Geographic, researchers once observed a boa constrictor squeezing an iguana for an hour. The next day, the iguana was found alive and seemingly unharmed. This is why snakes such as hognose snakes, that primarily hunt reptiles and amphibians, don’t use constriction. Instead, they swallow their prey alive.
Do Pythons Suffocate Their Prey?
Pythons and other constrictor snakes were once thought to kill through asphyxiation. Scientists assumed that constriction worked by squeezing the air out of the animal’s lungs, essentially suffocating it. It was said that the snake would squeeze more tightly when the animal exhaled, preventing it from taking a breath.
We now know, however, that this theory isn’t true. A study in the Journal of Experimental Biology found that constriction has nothing to do with suffocation. Instead, the act of constriction triggers cardiac arrest, by affecting the prey animal’s blood circulation.
Within a few seconds of being constricted, the animal’s blood pressure begins to drop. This quickly results in bradycardia (a dangerously slow heart rate). Eventually, the circulatory system can’t function as normal. Tissue damage and neural damage swiftly ensues. The heart then stops completely.
To achieve this, a python has to compress the animal strongly enough to interfere with its blood pressure. But what’s more important is the duration of the constriction. The snake must continue squeezing until the animal is dead, for as long as that may take.
How Do Pythons Know When to Stop Squeezing?
It would be dangerous for a python, or any other constrictor snake, to let go of their prey before it’s dead. This is for two main reasons:
Letting go of an animal while it’s still alive means that it may have a chance to escape
Swallowing a live bird or mammal could result in internal tissue damage. If the animal regains consciousness, it could attack the snake from the inside
However, this rarely happens because constrictor snakes, like pythons, can tell when their prey is dead. According to Biology Letters, constrictors can sense their prey’s pulse. They only stop squeezing once their victim’s heart is no longer beating.
This is an innate ability that constrictor snakes are born with. Even a captive-bred python, who has never eaten live prey, would know how to do this.
The only instance in which a python might let go prematurely is if the prey animal attacks it. This can happen if the snake misjudges the strike, and grabs the animal’s rear instead of its head.
Pet snake owners sometimes witness this when live-feeding. Occasionally, a mouse or rat will manage to bite the snake while wrapped up in its coils. This sometimes prompts the snake to let go.
How tight a python can squeeze depends on its size. In particular, it appears to be determined by the diameter (width) of the snake’s body. A thicker snake has more muscle mass than a thinner snake. It is therefore stronger, and can squeeze harder.
A study in the Journal of Experimental Zoology examined which factors could affect constriction performance in ball pythons. The researchers found that constriction strength isn’t affected by how much experience the snake has. In other words, pythons don’t ‘get better’ at constriction with practice.
The only thing that has an effect is the snake’s diameter. Male and female pythons of the same size are equally as strong. However, as female pythons grow larger than males, adult females are typically stronger than males.
Interestingly, it seems that constrictor snakes don’t always squeeze their prey as hard as they can. They can choose how much or little pressure to exert. This will vary depending on how large the prey animal is, and its heart rate.
To measure how tight a snake can squeeze, scientists use a metric called pound-force per square inch (PSI). This refers to the pounds of pressure that snakes can exert upon one inch of their prey’s body.
Although there are over 40 species of python, only four have ever been studied in this way. They are the reticulated python, the Burmese python, the ball python and the African rock python.
How Strong Is a Reticulated Python?
Reticulated pythons (retics) are one of the largest snake species in the world. Retics can reach over 26 feet long. The largest reported specimen was 33 feet, though this wasn’t proven.
A study in the Journal of Experimental Biology measured the constriction pressure of 48 reticulated pythons. The maximum pressure recorded by a reticulated python in the study was 7.8 PSI. This means it exerted almost 8 pounds of pressure onto every square inch of its prey’s body.
The researchers found a correlation between the snake’s size and its strength. The larger reticulated pythons squeezed significantly harder than the smaller specimens. Also, the more coils a snake wrapped around its prey, the higher the constriction pressure.
Wild reticulated pythons are strong enough to kill and eat deer, wild pigs, and large primates. They’re also the only snake that’s ever been proven to hunt fully grown humans.
How Strong Is a Burmese Python?
Burmese pythons almost match reticulated pythons in terms of size. They can reach over 23 feet long, and the minimum adult length is 7.7 feet. A fully grown Burmese python can weigh over 400lbs.
The researchers who studied reticulated pythons also tested the strength of 17 Burmese pythons. The maximum pressure exerted was 6.23 PSI, so slightly lower than the retics. Again, the researchers found that larger snakes squeezed more tightly than smaller snakes.
It’s likely that Burmese pythons had a lower average PSI than retics because of a size disparity. The biggest Burmese python in the study was 12 feet long, whereas the largest reticulated python was 18 feet.
Wild Burmese pythons can subdue prey as large as pigs and goats. In Florida, where they are an invasive species, they’ve been known to eat alligators.
How Strong Is an African Rock Python?
African rock pythons (Python sebae) are native to sub-Saharan Africa. They are one of the largest pythons: some adults may exceed 20 feet in length. This means that they can rival Burmese pythons, but don’t grow quite as large as retics.
A study in Biology of the Boas and Pythons tested the strength of African rock pythons. The snake that they studied measured around 6 feet long – a particularly small specimen. It exerted a peak pressure of 25 PSI.
This is a tighter squeeze than any other python that has been measured so far. However, it was not a large study, and only one specimen was examined. Much more research is necessary before we can draw any conclusions.
How Strong Is a Ball Python?
Ball pythons are relatively small snakes, compared to most others in the Python genus. The maximum length of a female ball python is 6 feet, whereas males only typically reach 2-3. This means that they have thinner bodies and less constricting power than reticulated, Burmese, or African rock pythons.
The same study that examined an African rock python also tested 3 ball pythons. The maximum squeeze strength observed was approximately 4 PSI. Wild ball pythons hunt small animals like shrews, mice, and rats. So, they don’t need to be as strong as the larger species.
It’s a small sample size, so we can’t generalise this to all ball pythons. But we do know that the larger a ball python is, the harder it will squeeze.
Which Snake Is the Strongest in the World?
The aforementioned Biology of the Boas and Pythons study measured the strength of 12 different constrictor snakes. This included boas, pythons, and colubrids (e.g. corn snakes and gopher snakes).
They measured each snake’s length, and the diameter of each snake’s trunk, in the region used for coiling. They then tested how tight each snake could squeeze its prey.
What they found was a significant correlation between the snake’s diameter, and the amount of pressure exerted. The thicker the snake, the harder it could squeeze. As the snake’s diameter doubled, the constriction pressure was 2.6 times stronger.
But the snake’s species also has an effect on its strength. Comparing snakes of the same size, pythons and boas generally squeezed harder than colubrids.
Based on this, the strongest snake in the world is probably the green anaconda (a type of boa). These huge snakes can reach upwards of 29 feet in length. A study of one gigantic specimen recorded a maximum PSI of 90.
However, it’s possible that a reticulated python of the same length could exert a similar amount of pressure. Thus far, only smaller specimens have been studied, so more research needs to be done.
The strongest colubrid is likely to be the kingsnake (Lampropeltis sp). These snakes hunt other snakes, and can kill snakes up to 20% larger than themselves. They average 4 to 5 feet in length, but can exert pressures of 3.5 PSI. This makes them on par with pythons of a similar size.
Can a Python Squeeze a Human to Death?
There is only one reason that a python would ever constrict a human: hunger. When hungry, snakes will hunt any animal they can find of an appropriate size. If a snake perceived a human as a viable meal choice, they may attack.
Fortunately, there are very few species of snake large enough to eat humans. Snakes can’t bite their prey into pieces, so they wouldn’t waste time killing an animal that’s too large. A snake would only attempt to kill a human if it was sure it could swallow it.
It’s theoretically possible for any large python to squeeze a human to death. However, the only species that has been proven to hunt and eat humans is the reticulated python.
This mostly happens in hunter-gatherer and farming communities. Most incidents have occurred in the Philippines and Indonesia. There have also been reports of green anacondas eating humans, though none have ever been confirmed.
Can Pet Pythons Kill You?
Pet pythons occasionally constrict their owner’s hands and arms. This can sometimes happen if the snake is hungry. The snake isn’t trying to kill its owner – it’s merely mistaken them for food.
Captive snakes can develop a “feeding response” when their enclosure is opened. This means they may strike at anything that comes in, including their owner’s hand. This is unlikely to cause any damage other than a small wound.
But larger species of python, once they reach adulthood, can be a danger to their owners. Although incidents are rare, they are not unheard of. According to BBC News, a 31-year-old man was killed by his African rock python in 2018.
There have also been reported incidents of pet pythons killing children. The Humane Society has several examples, including a 2-year-old girl who was killed by a Burmese python.
How Do You Stop a Snake from Constricting?
You may wonder what to do if you find yourself being squeezed by a python, or other constrictors. There are a few different methods you can use to stop a snake from constricting.
Start by unwrapping the snake from your body, beginning with its tail. Grasp the tail gently but firmly, and unwind the snake’s coils one by one. When you get to the head, hold it gently and unhook its teeth.
If the snake still refuses to let go, spray some alcohol into its mouth. For example, you can use pure vodka, hand sanitizer, or rubbing alcohol. It has a bitter taste that is unpleasant to snakes, so the snake is likely to let go. For more information, see how to get a snake to stop constricting.
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I wanted to become an IAS officer but it didn’t happen as I planned. While I was studying in school, one of my friends cracked a joke in an abusive manner which made me very angry. When I confronted he abused me and I cannot tolerate bad things being said even if it is coming from a friend. I got involved in a big fight with him where I beat him up and our school sports teacher (Taekwondo coach) had to intervene. He advised me to put my anger into Taekwondo and fight it out in the court. I accepted the challenge and in 2014 and started as an amateur but by the end of 2015, I was training as a professional Taekwondo fighter. I think nothing inspired me to take up Taekwondo. That one incident was the trigger and I found my calling. I sought out professional coaching under the guidance of World Champion Sayed Hassan Rezay from 2015.
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Picture Credit: Kashish Malik
As a kid, I spent time watching sports and playing outdoors most of my childhood. Watching WWE with my brothers was my favourite pass time. I used to love watching WWE, UFC and all martial art sports. Among other hobbies, I tried skating and hockey and won many medals too.
But why Taekwondo?
Taekwondo is a non-conventional and male dominating sport in India. I was laughed at for choosing this action-packed sport. Many came to me justifying how this will affect my body, how I could get injured, and also how I will be regretting this decision. I was advised to stop practising, and continue with IAS preparations, focus on my studies and not to pursue a dangerous sport. They tried to brainwash my parents too. They told me it is good for self-defence or for physical fitness, but choosing it as a career was stupidity and a waste of time. But I was so connected with Taekwondo that I never got over it.
I have chosen a sport where I fight like a soldier and also I am representing my country.
How was your initial experience in Taekwondo? How has your coach helped you perform well overall?
Taekwondo is a martial art where you learn the value of discipline and punctuality, the value of blood and sweat. It seems like an individual sport, but beyond all rationality, it is all about team spirit.
My coach helped me in every aspect of training. He helped me with my weaknesses, he worked on my strength and made me more powerful, I am still learning and developing.
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What drives you towards the sport? What does it mean to you?
Taekwondo is an Olympic sport, also most loved in the world after football. I have goals to get an Olympic Gold medal for my country. The goal drives me to move forward with more focus and with more passion.
Kashish Malik in action in red gear
Share your strategies before a game?
My opponents will get more scared if I reveal my strategies in advance.
How was your equation with the other players from India and abroad when you interacted with them?
When we are in the competition, we are opponents. Once we are off the podium the environment turns very friendly. It is my personal experience across the world; they are all very friendly and good souls.
What differences have you noticed playing domestic and international?
While playing in domestic circles, I witnessed very disorganized tours with no respect for punctuality and discipline. There are no strict rules and competitions do not start on time. Athletes are not that experienced when competing in domestic. When playing internationally, the athletes come from across the world to compete and they are extra cautious.
What are your thoughts on industrial legends who competed with/against you? How can Indian players be inspired by them?
Their mindset and lifestyle is different and that inspires you. For every player, there is a different strategy. When experienced players compete with you, you need to first have the self-confidence and believe in your own strategies. I think Indian players are very hardworking and talented. We are quick learners and other countries can learn that quality from us.
You had a mixed year overall. How is the Taekwondo scene in India for women? Why isn’t it a popular sport among women in your state?
When I started in 2014, it lacked awareness. But today people at least know about this sport. As the rate of crimes against women rises in India, parents and families are being supportive of their daughters to learn this martial art form as a self defence tool. I would not blame the media for the lack of coverage in India as we need to make a revolution first, then things will change. Medals have the power to do that. One medal and the entire Nation knows you.
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How have you modified your game for better results?
There are a lot of changes I have implemented in myself. After every tournament, I sit with my coach and team to scan my performance, check videos to analyse every move where I get to know my strengths and weaknesses. I also analyse my opponents by watching videos as they train and improvise.
What are you preparing for next?
I am preparing for 2020 Asian Championship which was to be held in Lebanon, Beirut in March but now has been postponed due to COVID 19. Also, I was preparing for the Asian Qualification Tournament for Olympics too has also been postponed.
How can Indian authorities improve facilities/infrastructure in order to sustain the culture of sports here?
India should start treating all kinds of sports equally. We should be given proper facilities. Athletes or coaches can guide the authority in making the right decision. They know what facilities we are missing out on and what infrastructural changes need to be implemented.
I would not blame the media for the lack of coverage in India as we need to make a revolution first, then things will change. Medals have the power to do that. One medal and the entire Nation knows you.
Taekwondo is considered a masculine sport. Do you think this norm is changing?
Taekwondo is not a masculine sport, it is not old days WWE. It is more about mindset, strategies, plans, techniques, and tactics. It is all about flexibility, accuracy, speed and power. Making the quickest decision in a fraction of a second, planning strategies and thinking of what kick to use on the opponent, at the same time keeping the block – it is all about intelligence. Yes, the norm is changing, people now understand this sport better, this is not Judo or karate this martial art and is totally different.
Taekwondo is about flexibility, accuracy, speed and power.
Mental health is very important for athletes: Kashish
And lastly, Mental health is as important as physical health and one needs to look at both with regards to being fit. What can athletes do on a regular basis to develop and maintain it?
Mental health is very important for athletes. They should do mediation to get peace, to get more focused and to expand their mind in a more relaxed manner. Athletes train themselves physically, but there are very few who work on both parts (mental and physical). Athletes should spend time with themselves to understand the connection between body and mind.
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What royals knew about Meghan’s miscarriage
by Victoria Craw
How much the royal family knew about Meghan and Harry's heartbreaking July miscarriage has been the subject of debate among royal commentators following Meghan's searing personal essay in the New York Times.
On Wednesday, the 39-year-old Duchess made global headlines when she published an opinion piece entitled The Losses We Share.
She revealed she suffered a miscarriage in July while with her son Archie, and weaved her personal pain with the difficulties many faced during the coronavirus pandemic and Black Lives Matter movements that have rocked 2020.
"I knew, as I clutched my firstborn child, that I was losing my second," she wrote.
"Hours later, I lay in a hospital bed, holding my husband's hand. I felt the clamminess of his palm and kissed his knuckles, wet from both our tears. Staring at the cold white walls, my eyes glazed over. I tried to imagine how we'd heal."
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The highly personal declaration is a first for a member of the royal family and another step in the Sussexes' path that has sharply diverged from their life as senior royals since they famously quit royal duties in January 2020.
It has led many in the UK to question how much the royal family knew about the disclosure and the private pain the couple were suffering while in Los Angeles.
A Buckingham Palace spokesman said: "It's a deeply personal matter we would not comment on."
A source close to the couple has told the BBC Meghan is "currently in good health" and the decision to speak about their loss came after the couple realised how "common miscarriage is, [and] wanted to talk about it publicly."
Sky News royal commentator Alistair Bruce said other members of the family "probably didn't know … about this happening at all."
"Today's announcement is very much in the style that she likes to follow … expressing her own emotions and controlling her own story," he said.
However Vanity Fair's Katie Nicholl said her understanding was that the royal family had known about the situation for months and had been supporting the couple through the northern summer.
"I understand they've been very supportive of it," she told the BBC's Emma Barnett.
"They were aware of what had happened. Harry was in constant touch with them over the summer and they knew what they were going through."
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"They're not the first royal couple to go through this trauma and this heartache, but certainly Meghan is the first royal to talk about it so publicly and so graphically and so movingly.
"The royals are very much of the mantra never complain, never explain. We don't hear them opening up their hearts but if ever I knew a royal that does and wears his heart on his sleeve, it's Harry and Meghan is clearly cut from the same cloth.
"My understanding is that they have been supported by the royal family throughout this episode."
Neither Kensington Palace, home to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, or Clarence House, home to Prince Charles and Camilla have commented on the issue. This week the Duchess of Cambridge is set to reveal the results of her landmark survey into the early parenting years in the UK.
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The miscarriage came at a tumultuous time for the couple when they were barely out of the media spotlight due to the release of biography Finding Freedomand Meghan's court case against the Mail on Sunday.
"It really struck me that this miscarriage happened in July when they just weren't out of the papers," Ms Nicholl said.
"You just couldn't get away from the Harry and Meghan narrative and now we know that they were going through this complete personal heartache. I think she was very brave to write about it."
When pressed on whether it was hypocritical of the couple to share such personal experiences while asking for a right to privacy, Ms Nicholl said we can expect to see the couple use their personal narrative when it fits their broader goals.
"She's obviously chosen to talk about this experience to link it to the issues that matter to her.
"They will talk about personal issues when they are relevant to the causes that they are trying to draw attention to," she said.
The brother of Princess Diana, Charles Spencer, also told UK television his thoughts were with the couple.
"I can't imagine the agony for any couple for losing a child in this way. I totally agree with you - all thoughts with them today," he said.
The disclosure comes as Netflix hit The Crown tackles the subject of Prince Charles and Princess Diana's marriage, and the BBC has opened an investigation into the how one of its journalists, Martin Bashir, secured an interview with Diana that led to the bombshell disclosure that there were "three of us" in the marriage.
The Earl Spencer also told Times Radio he did not watch The Crown and the show had asked him for permission to film at the family home of Althorp, where Diana is buried, which was met with a "definite no".
"It's not really accurate, the bits I know are not very accurately portrayed," he said of the show, adding that it should be "essential" to have a disclaimer around accuracy.
"I think they got away with a lot when it was 70 years ago and we just enjoyed the distant tales being bought to life in a semi-fictitious way.
"I think The Crown and other programs like that should flag up that this is fun fiction based around some true facts."
Earl Spencer said he "hugely" regretted introducing Martin Bashir to his sister. He also said the BBC investigation into the interview should have open parameters to demonstrate the credibility and openness of the corporation.
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A St. Paul woman who allegedly targeted her next-door neighbor, making false calls to the fire department, flashing them and attaching a sex toy to their fence, was charged with violating a harassment restraining order and other disorderly conduct in Ramsey County District Court on Thursday.
Roberta A. Madison, 63, faces two gross misdemeanor charges (stalking with intent to injure and pursuing another person), and five other charges, including violating a harassment restraining order, indecent exposure and disorderly conduct.
Madison, who lives on the 800 block of Howell Street N., has a long and troubled history with her neighbor.
According to the charges, Madison continued to harass her neighbor after a restraining order was filed in January 2017. Madison allegedly yelled obscenities at the neighbor when the neighbor took her dog outside. The neighbor said she is afraid Madison may harm her dog, according to the criminal complaint.
Madison's neighbor moved next door in September 2016. Madison complained about the diseased trees in her neighbor's yard and said they needed to be removed. Madison called a tree-trimming company, "likely pretending to be the homeowner," charges said. Workers entered the property and began removing trees and didn't stop until another neighbor intervened. But, according to charges, a bill was sent to the actual homeowner.
Last summer, Madison called police to complain about her neighbor's guests and told the operator that "suspicious" people of a "different race" were coming and going, according to charges. She told the operator she suspected they might be running a sex operation or hauling out televisions, the complaint said. Neighbors witnessed Madison yelling racial slurs at the visitors and threatening to deport them, according to the complaint.
The situation grew worse in the fall when Madison allegedly began setting her car alarm off and yelling at her neighbor's friends during backyard bonfires. Last November, she attached a dildo to the top of the fence, according to the complaint. The neighbor called St. Paul police and was advised to file a restraining order.
That order alleged two false calls to the fire department in October and that debris (glass, charcoal buckets, pine needles and cones) was thrown into the yard, which the neighbor felt was a hazard to her dog.
After being served with the restraining order, Madison allegedly "mooned" her neighbor three times. Her neighbor captured the act through surveillance cameras she installed after moving in, the complaint said.
A warrant for Madison's arrest was filed on Thursday. A hearing for her ongoing civil dispute is scheduled for April 5. She did not immediately return a message seeking comment.
Madison pleaded guilty in 2010 to disorderly conduct after violating a restraining order, according to court documents. A neighbor who lived nearby for 12 years wrote in the restraining order request that Madison "had thrown feces at my house." The neighbor moved two blocks away, but said the harassment has continued, according to the complaint.
"She stalks me nearly every day. She has in the past charged at me with a rake. … Her behavior is highly erratic and terrifying," the 2014 restraining order read.
Trevor Squire is a University of Minnesota student on assignment for the Star Tribune.
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It wasn’t going to have the feel of a Game 7, but Wild coach Bruce Boudreau expected a playoff-type vibe — the kind of atmosphere players simulate when they’re stickhandling on their driveways as kids.
But when the puck dropped, the Wild didn’t look like it was ready for a pickup session let alone a late-season clash with a Central Division rival that had significant implications on the standings.
And it reaped a result that matched that lack of urgency, a 4-1 dud to the Stars on Thursday night in front of an announced 18,919 at Xcel Energy Center. The loss kept the Wild out of a playoff position and uncorked frank reviews from the team about its passion, cohesiveness and go-to players.
“It’s got to come from leadership and guys playing the right way and holding guys accountable,” winger Marcus Foligno said. “Right now we’re just letting things slip away. I wish I had the answers, but at the same time, I think it’s just got to come from leadership.
“At this point of the season, at this type of playoff push, your leaders have to be your best — myself included — and right now we’re just struggling with it.”
This was the Wild’s third straight loss and ninth in its past 10 home games.
“We weren’t sharp,” Foligno said. “Passes were off. Guys were just trying to do things by themselves. Maybe it’s just the youth on this team now and just the way guys are kind of going their own way, but it’s got to stop in order to make the playoffs.”
Dallas pulled away from the Wild early in the second period with three goals in a hasty 2 minutes, 22 seconds: a deflection by center Radek Faksa at 4:11; a buried rebound from winger Roope Hintz at 5:25; and a redirect courtesy winger Joel L’Esperance at 6:33.
“It takes the winds out of your sails, if there was any,” Foligno said.
Before the ensuing faceoff, Stars goalie Ben Bishop left the game because of a lower-body injury — putting his franchise-record shutout streak, which he established in the first period, on hold at 230:53 amid seven saves.
But the Wild didn’t take advantage of the change, challenging replacement Anton Khudobin only five times the rest of the period. Only one puck ended up in the net, a shot by winger Jason Zucker at 9:14 that ended a 0-for-18 power-play funk.
Video (00:57): Sarah McLellan recaps the 4-1 loss to the Stars in her Wild wrap-up.
“Just too many passengers,” Foligno said.
In the third, the Wild kept Khudobin busy at the outset before fading — going 13:07 between shots, this after the team had a 7:40 lull to start the second and took until 6:51 into the first to get a puck on net. Khudobin finished with 14 stops, while Devan Dubnyk had 27.
“When you don’t spend time in the offensive zone, it’s hard to get shots,” winger Zach Parise said.
Dallas winger Alexander Radulov added an empty-netter with 18 seconds left.
Afterward, Boudreau was puzzled by the display, reiterating that he wished he had answers for the questions that have become familiar.
“I don’t want to rip players at this stage,” he said.
Video (00:53): Coach Bruce Boudreau discusses the 4-1 loss to the Stars Thursday.
The players took care of that themselves, with Foligno the most expressive in his critique.
“We have no heart right now,” he said.
And with only 11 games left, time is running out to find it.
“It kind of looks like [the playoffs are] slipping away,” Foligno said. “We’ve got to figure it out. We still have games left to turn it around, but we keep saying that. We’ve been saying that a lot this year.”
Sarah McLellan covers the Wild and NHL. Before joining the Star Tribune in November 2017, she spent five years covering the Coyotes for The Arizona Republic.
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Arcade 1988 Dos Arcadia Systems Vertical shooter Flight shooter
Doesn't stand out from the competition
It's time to delve into the world of vertically scrolling shoot 'em ups again with Sidewinder, an average, rather undistinguished entry into the genre which is only really notable for having made the transfer into arcades after having originated on home computers. Apart from this however, the game itself is fairly standard sci-fi shooter material, albeit one which makes for an entertaining if short-lived diversion. Six levels of vertically scrolling action are on display here, with a bit of side scrolling thrown in for good measure, and with the levels including the likes of space-themed backdrops, industrial environments and even pleasant woodlands. There are no boss battles to worry about, merely wave after wave of your typical, everyday bad guy and unless you're a hardened veteran of the genre, they should put up a pretty decent fight. It's not the fastest shooter in the world, but the action comes at you fast and heavy, with plenty of explosions and bullets to cause and avoid. Visually, the game is unspectacular, rather workmanlike in its execution, with slightly dull environments which are only pleasing in their variation rather than their actual design, while sprites are equally uninspired. Sound fares particularly badly, with little more than a wave of static for effects which soon gets old and will have most gamers reaching for the volume control. Sidewinder isn't a bad game, it's just a distinctly average entry in an overcrowded genre which features classics like Xenon 2, Raiden and a host of others, so unfortunately against this competition, it comes out near the back of the pack.
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Share this Story: What The Crown got right: How Emma Corrin captured Princess Diana's look and demeanour
What The Crown got right: How Emma Corrin captured Princess Diana's look and demeanour
'Emma Corrin has captured all the magic of shy Di,' wrote a close friend of the late royal. 'Prepare to fall in love with Princess Diana all over again'
Nov 26, 2020 • November 26, 2020 • 3 minute read
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The fourth season of The Crown was released on Nov. 15, and by now many people will have already binge-watched their way through its 10 hour-long episodes.
Focusing on the 1980s, the new season introduces Princess Diana for the first time and delves into her troubled marriage to heir to the throne Prince Charles and both of their affairs. It also explores Diana’s struggles with bulimia and her difficult relationship with the press.
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Diana died aged 36 in a 1997 car crash as her driver tried to speed away from photographers in Paris, France.
Diana’s life, which she told through unprecedented television interviews and to Andrew Morton for his 1992 biography “Diana: Her True Story,” has elements of romance, tragedy, lovers and royalty that make it ripe for being revisited multiple times. But the constant revisiting of her story piles on the pressure for William and Harry, whether they watch such shows or not, royal experts say.
The show has been criticized for its seamless blend of factual events and imagination, especially as it deals with the lives of people who are still living
“I think it’s brilliant drama, but it is drama, and my greatest fear has always been that people would come to view it as fact (and that) in the future it will be seen as a historical record of these years, and it’s not,” said British royal biographer Penny Junor.
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Emma Corrin, the 24-year-old actress who portrays Diana in season four, was not even two years old when the princess died, and she has acknowledged that it was daunting to take on such a beloved figure. However, she has been praised by some for her portrayal of Diana.
“Emma Corrin has captured all the magic of shy Di. Prepare to fall in love with Princess Diana all over again. It only came out today and I’m on a deadline but that hasn’t stopped me from watching 5 episodes already,” wrote Jemima Goldsmith, a close friend of Princess Diana.
Season 4 of #TheCrown imho is the best yet. Emma Corrin has captured all the magic of shy Di. Prepare to fall in love with Princess Diana all over again. It only came out today and I’m on a deadline but that hasn’t stopped me from watching 5 episodes already.
— Jemima Goldsmith (@Jemima_Khan) November 15, 2020
Emma Corrin as Lady Diana is literally the best casting decision i’ve ever seen. pic.twitter.com/HbJ8NnIzAS
— 🥂 (@nadyaalfi) November 15, 2020
Here are a few of the times the show’s costume designers and Corrin nailed Diana’s look and demeanour.
As you can see in the photo below, and the image at the top of this post, the costume designers were able to recreate Diana’s elaborate fairytale wedding dress.
They also got her engagement outfit just right.
The Crown changed some portions of the interview she and Prince Charles gave after the announcement, but some of her facial expressions are pulled straight from the video footage.
The scene of Prince Diana and Prince Charles dancing during a visit to Melbourne, Australia also looks true to the photos.
But beyond the outfits, Corrin has been praised for the way she captured Princess Diana’s personality — like her reserved way of dealing with the press, which earned her the nickname “Shy Di.”
(Netflix // SUTTON / Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)
Or the way she lit up when she was around her children.
(Netflix // Bob Thomas / Popperfoto via Getty Images)
For Diana, there’s so much in the eyes.
(Netflix // Kypros/Getty Images)
Here’s one more scene from The Crown that is absolutely based on a real event. Diana really did dance on stage to Uptown Girl with ballet dancer Wayne Sleep while her husband looked on. However, while The Crown suggests she is dancing in November to mark Prince Charles’s birthday, royal historian Hugo Vickers wrote in The Times that she performed at a private gala at The Royal Opera House in December 1985.
“She walked out for eight counts … and then stopped, looked at the audience beautifully, and there was a gasp from the audience of 2,500 people who took an intake of breath all at the same time. They were speechless, and she was on fire. She took it, embraced (it) like she had been doing it for hundreds of years,” Sleep later told CBS.
With files from WENN, Reuters and National Post staff
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#3 Paul Jun — The Power of Community
My guest on this episode is is the author of MotivatedMastery.com, co-creator of The Observers and Head of Content at CreativeMornings, Paul Jun.
Listen on: Apple Podcasts | Overcast | Spotify | Stitcher
I first discovered Paul when I signed up for Seth Godin's altMBA program in January 2016. As its website says, the altMBA is an intensive, 4-week online workshop designed by Seth for high-performing individuals who want to level up and lead. When I applied I certainly didn't think I was performing as highly as I could, and I was excited about surrounding myself with people from around the world who were all seeking to lift their game. Those four weeks transformed the way I thought about myself, the way I understood the people around me, and it allowed me to reimagine my own place in the world.
Paul was one of the coaches in that program, and I noticed that he was wise and deeply philosophical for such a young guy. I began to read the articles he posted at motivatedmastery.com and his book Connect the Dots.
He later served as the Community Manager at altMBA, finding ways to continue developing connections throughout the program's community. As the lessons and projects came to a close and the students became alumni there was a strong desire to have a way to maintain the energy and camaraderie that had grown inside the course. Paul designed ways for alumni to stay in touch, support our colleagues' work and celebrate their successes.
In September 2016 Paul joined CreativeMornings — a breakfast lecture series in over 180 cities that connects and celebrates the global creative community as their Director of Content.
This year he co-created The Observers, a curious community dedicated to photography and books.
This was the first time we'd actually spoken, and I was thrilled that we got to spend time talking about one of our favourite subjects. Paul's passion and enthusiasm for community shines throughout.
I hope you enjoy my conversation with writer, photographer and man about Brooklyn, Paul Jun.
What it means to surround yourself with a community that inspires you
Seth Godin’s altMBA and CreativeMornings
Paul’s experience of the community in Brooklyn
How he thinks about his process of “learning in public” as he develops as a photographer
How the power of learning with other people accelerated his proficiency as a photographer
“You gave me the opportunity to make this photograph of you, to take that chance, to connect with you and just capture this moment, right here.”
Edvard Munch - The Scream, and his photography
How the right photo can help you reimagine your identity and change your narrative
Bill Wadman - portraits and editorials. [Check out his Dreamscape Series, my favourites are Moon, Tattoo and Tree.] The portraits here are stunning.
The beginnings of The Observers, a project where acclaimed photographers talk about the photography books that have influenced them
Wesley Verhoeve - photographer. Curator at the International Center of Photography in New York and co-founder of The Observers website and instagram - photo books recommended by visionaries.
[When we began The Observers] “there was nothing out there that really highlighted the power of photography books as a resource for inspiration, learning and ultimately becoming a better photographer. We love books, we believe in them and we also believe in community and learning together. Could we ties these things up in a simple and clear way?”
Defining what success looks like before you begin a project
Being intentional about the platforms on which you can and can’t be found
“We were just super intention about what social platforms we were going to be on, what ultimately we wanted to grow and where we wanted to meet people.”
The power of starting small and then growing
Joel Meyerwitz - one of Paul’s favourite photographers
Greg Lutze - founder of VSCO
Tina Roth Eisenberg (Swiss Miss), founder of CreativeMornings
Talking about The Observers “It finally took me eight years to build something the right way.”
The benefits of collaborating with someone to build something rather than doing it yourself
“How can we make this as simple as possible, so that because it’s simple…it’s beautiful?”
Jeffrey Phillips - “He can capture someone’s entire being with a few simple lines.”
How difficult it can be to commit to true simplicity and purity of purpose
Examining your heroes’ influences and noticing the patterns, connecting the dots and exploring how you can integrate those ideas into your own work
Wide and shallow vs narrow and deep
What are sunk costs?
“By starting small, intentionally, and very laser focused, you ultimately can expand in an authentic and natural way.”
Taking the observation “Hey, this doesn’t exist” and then asking “Does a community of people who are interested in this exist?”
“100% — I am a strong believer and evangelist for growing your newsletter list!”
Seth Godin on Permission Marketing
“I truly believe that out of any platform, email is direct connection.”
On being conscious with your newsletter - the flow of it, the tone of your email, what you’re giving your readers, what you think they need on their journey and meeting them where they are
The value of communicating with your audience via email vs social media
Connect the Dots: Strategies and Meditations on Self Education
The power of online communities and how valuable it can be to spend time with your online friends and tribe in person
“It’s like a flower growing at warp speed.”
There’s a beauty to online communities when the environment and context is tailored to bring the right people into the room, who share world views and an attitude of wanting to open up and learn. In this context connection and trust seem to be accelerated.
“Don’t feel shame in having an online community where you really feel like you belong. It’s worth experimenting with translating that into an offline experience as well. I think that’s really beautiful. If that’s how you’re going to find your people, I think that’s the internet on a good day.”
Paul Jun instagram blog
The Observers instagram website
photo credit: Bill Wadman
Observing the Solar Eclipse from a Brooklyn rooftop
photo credit: Paul Jun
#02 Drew Alexander Forde — That Viola Kid
#04 Jen Waldman — Discovering My WHY Changed Everything
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Bills sunk by coming-out party, but why did it take this long?
DAVE HYDE CommentarySouth Florida Sun-Sentinel
Tony Sparano sprang from the celebrating locker room, hoarse with emotion, and asked the gathered media, "What do you want to talk about? Ted Ginn?"
His smile turned hard as he leaned forward. "Yeah, let's talk about Ted Ginn," he said.
OK, let's talk Ginn. He was the story Sunday. But Sparano is the column. Because as Sparano seemed to suggest here, as teammates openly framed Ginn's day for some reason, the issue never was how the big, bad media had written off Ginn and now he was vindicated with seven catches and 175 yards.
The thinking fan's issue involving Ginn always has been this: Why hasn't he been used more like Sunday to see if he has this kind of magic in him?
Until last week Ginn wasn't even used as a kickoff returner. "Where's Ted?" became the Dolphins' version of "Where's Waldo?" If using Ronnie Brown only as a second-down back to start the year was a misappropriation of talent, turning Ginn invisible seemed equally suspect due to the thin receiving corps.
So finally, on Sunday, the game plan allowed Ginn to show what kind of player he can be on his best days. That's really how you have to start the discussion of Ginn's day. Sparano said the first play was hatched in the team hotel Saturday night.
"I told them, 'We're just going to go out and be aggressive so you be aggressive in your thoughts," Sparano said. "We thought we'd get a single safety and, if that was the case, we were going to [throw deep to Ginn]."
No wonder Ginn came out of the first huddle, saw Buffalo's defensive alignment and said to himself, "I got a chance."
And when Chad Pennington threw the kind of deep ball Ginn hasn't seen much in two years, Ginn thought, "I've got to get it."
He battled Buffalo cornerback Terrence McGee and came down with the 46-yard catch. And thus began the coming-out party. He caught that ball deep. He caught a couple in traffic. He held onto a ball when hit hard, jumping up after one jaw-rattler by Buffalo linebacker Kawika Mitchell to signal a first down.
"That's what I do," he said.
The catch or the emotional signal?
"Both," he said.
Ginn even took a deep pass and used a nifty stop-and-start move after the catch to post a 64-yard gain in the third quarter. Then he went to the sideline for the next few plays leading to Dan Carpenter's field goal.
Next series, he caught a 19-pass over the middle. Then he went to the sideline for the next five plays until a touchdown made it 17-16.
But this is still the issue with Ginn: Get him on the field more. Get him in more packages. Get him out there to see if Sunday was the result of McGee playing on a bad knee or Ginn playing like he always can.
This isn't to dismiss the legitimate questions about Ginn. His talent is raw. He compounded the thought he was soft by stepping out of bounds a couple of times to avoid a hit when a game asked him to stay in bounds.
And no one thinks Ginn is as polished as Buffalo's Lee Evans or a proven game-changer like Dallas' Terrell Owens. But he's the best the Dolphins have. And he has a gear that defenses fear. Sunday sealed that idea.
Throw out Patrick Cobbs' screen pass that went for 80 yards against Houston and Ginn's 64- and 46-yarders Sunday are the longest two passes this season.
In fact, the 64-yarder ties Greg Camarillo's winning touchdown catch against Baltimore for the longest catch by a Dolphins receiver dating to 2005.
Somewhere, of course, former general manager Randy Mueller is smiling. This is what he envisioned Ginn doing.
But so much of his time here has been Ginn waiting to get on the field and become part of a Sunday strategy.
Ginn was asked if this day helped his confidence. He shrugged.
"I'm always confident," he said.
The better issue is whether it helped the coaches' confidence in him.
It's a learning process, being part of a first-year staff. But maybe they see what they got. Maybe they see, like they did with Brown after the first game, they need to get their best players on the field.
Dave Hyde can be reached at dhyde@SunSentinel.com
Skolnick: Ginn can brag to former Ohio State teammate Whitner. >>2
Another complete effort: Pennington tops 100 passer rating again. >>4
Ted Ginn
Tony Sparano
Greg Camarillo
Ronnie Brown
Terrell Owens
Lee Evans
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Game Agricola 20091228
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Played 20091228 1600-2038PST 4hr38min Michael (48) Steve (28) Josh (36) Kevin (23) Me (0). Michael first. Michael won.
[20091229 3:45 AM]
I was being a poor sport, the cards I drew weren't particularly useful, and I didn't want to spend turns just trying to get food while it seemed everybody else had already established means of gaining resources. Hence about halfway into the game, I decided, I'll just try to get a lot of negative points, primarily through beggar cards. This game, like Settlers, isn't really my cup of tea. I like Caylus better than both of them. I like Puerto Rico better than Caylus. However, after the game, we were discussing adding time limits. But I will modify our conclusion here. Basically, if you want to play a two hour game for five people then each person gets 24 minutes. On average, you get 3 actions a round, and there's 14 rounds, for 42 actions. Even with 48 actions, the guideline on how long you should take per turn is 30 seconds. However, there could be a five minute strategy creation period at the beginning of the game. My one complaint which is for future beginners, I wish we played the family version as our first go, this way, the game could have been shorter, we would have understood the mechanics. I might have been pumped to play the actual game. We probably would have spent the same amount of time in the end. Rather than, halfway through, I lost interest, took longer turns because nothing was a reasonable choice for me... By the way, we started playing at around 4 pm, and we ended at 8:38 pm. The rules were explained in about an hour, but I learn a bit more by reading, so I simultaneously had to read some. There was no clarification on the capacity powers of a stable, but it wasn't a big deal... [20110115: This is clarified in the post Agricola 20100105. There can be multiple stables in a pasture, and the multipliers stack. Thus a pasture with three spaces can hold 24 animals. Though it isn't reasonable to need more than a capacity of 8 which can easily be achieved by a pasture with two spaces and one stable.] My score, though uninteresting: 17 Beggar Cards = -51, Minor Improvment Points = 5, Tutor = 5, Wooden Hut Builder = 2, Fields = 1, Pasture = 1, Grain = -1, Vegetables = -1, Sheep (19) = 4, Wild Boar = -1, Cattle = -1, Unused Space = -2, Fenced Stable = 1, Family Members (3) = 9.
Summary: If I were to introduce the game to anybody, I'd play the family rules first. Then in the next game I'd go to regular rules. I'd also make turn order by the number of times someone has played, starting with least to most.
Note: Unfortunately, we played starting with most to least, and at the start, I thought this was good, because I'd see what was happening, since I still didn't understand the rules. We also dived right into regular version.
Remark: As I mentioned to Michael, I would have played with the preset start worlds in Race for the Galaxy which would make the game easier to start with, had we first played with five or less players. However, there were no preset game rules when the sixth player was added in the second expansion.
Remark 2: I know I said above that this game isn't really my cup of tea. However, the theme is great and all the mechanics are great. You start with a family, you have farm land, you want to have kids, they help you, you get crops or livestock, you turn them into food to survive, and you make improvements to your home. I'd probably enjoy it more if the game was shorter. Or if I didn't feel so limited.
Remark 3: Josh mentioned afterward how the first few rounds, going first is critical, and it didn't particularly help that I went last. I agree, and by the time I picked up certain things, it was too late. I recall how Josh jokingly said at some point, "Let's start another game right now." (Maybe not precisely those words) Steve replied, "Yeah Josh... let me just get my other copy of Agricola out." (Again not precisely those words)
Date/Time Monday, December 28, 2009 at 13:00
Labels Agricola, game
Game Agricola 20091228 Reviewed by Timothy Cao Tran on 13:00 Rating: 5
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Apps and games make all the difference on the new Apple TV, but it's expensive
Apple TV (4th gen) 2015 review
The new Apple TV catches up to, and overtakes, the competition. But the lack of 4K support and the limited selection of apps could put some off. Here's our 4th-gen Apple TV review.
It's expensive but is the new Apple TV worth it? Find out in our review
By Jim Martin, Editor | 22 Mar 2016
Should I buy the Apple TV HD (4th gen, 2015)?
Expert's Rating:
For some people - mainly those with iOS devices and no 2nd- or 3rd-generation Apple TV - the new box is a great media streamer and games machine. However, there's no escaping the high price and limited selection of apps. And if you're not interested in gaming, you're just as well off buying a 3rd-generation Apple TV or Roku for less than half the price. Competition from other gaming media streamers is stiff, too, with Amazon's £79 Fire TV offering more UK catch-up TV as well as similar gaming performance, expandable storage and support for 4K content. Ultimately, the 4th-gen Apple TV has potential (Apple may even upgrade the software so it supports 4K at some point) but right now that potential is far from realised.
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Apple TV HD (4th gen, 2015) full review
For years, rumour had it that Apple would launch a TV. Realistically that was never going to happen. Apple doesn't make TVs and, logically, it doesn't need to. It just needs a media streamer that's better than the competition. Here's our 4th-gen Apple TV review.
See also: the 13 best media steamers to buy right now
Update 22 March: Thanks to a free update, the Apple TV is getting some much needed new features. tvOS 4.2 adds support for folders on the home screen so you can tidy away your apps, and there's also expanded Siri support so you can use it to search for apps in the store. Previously (and mentioned in the review below as a bugbear) Siri wasn't able to return results from the store. Now that there are thousands of apps, it's far easier to speak your search. Siri will also be able to enter usernames and passwords, although some people are concerned about saying their passwords out loud and exactly how secure they are - despite assurances from Apple that privacy was the first consideration when adding the new dictation feature.
Apple has had three years to come up with a new model and it says that the 4th-generation Apple TV is the future of television. It's all about apps. Unlike previous Apple TVs you can now browse an app store and install whichever apps and games you like.
Of course, this isn't revolutionary as other streamers and, indeed, TVs have had apps for years. Gaming on a media streamer isn't new either. Amazon's Fire TV streamers allow you to play casual games, as does Google's Nexus Player.
Apple TV (4th gen) 2015 review: Price
Previous models have managed to stay under the magic £100 barrier, but the latest Apple TV costs £129 for the 32GB model and a whopping £169 for the 64GB model.
That's a lot compared to the competition, which are generally under £80. Amazon's 4K-capable Fire TV is £79.99, for example, while the Roku 4 - not yet officially available in the UK, but also toting 4K support - costs $129, and assuming it does launch this side of the pond, should be under or near to £100. If you don't need 4K, the Fire TV stick is a snip at £35, while the Roku 3 box is under £60.
See our best media streamers roundup for more.
Apple TV (4th gen) 2015 review: Design and setup
The new box looks a lot like the previous two models, albeit a third taller. You still don't get an HDMI cable in the box, nor an Ethernet cable. You probably won't need the latter as your Wi-Fi may well be quicker - the wired port is limited to 100Mbit/s.
Dropping the optical S/PDIF port will be a source of annoyance for some (not many, but definitely some) and in its place is a USB C port, which is for restoring the box's software should the need arise. If you were relying on an optical audio output for connecting headphones, then note that this new Apple TV allows you to connect Bluetooth headphones.
The remaining port is an HDMI 1.4 for hooking up to your TV or A/V receiver.
The biggest design change is the new Siri Remote. Surprisingly, it's not all that obvious how to use it, until you figure out - or explain to family and friends - that the top section is a touchpad and giant button, the Menu button acts as a 'back' button and the one with a TV icon is the home button.
It communicates via Bluetooth but can also use infrared. It should automatically learn to control your TV's volume - it did with our Panasonic TV - but you can 'teach' it if that fails. As long as your TV uses the HDMI-CEC standard, it should all work fine, and you can power on your TV when you wake up the Apple TV using the remote.
The Siri part is possibly the best feature. It takes what Amazon does with voice search and takes it further. You can search for TV shows and programmes, but you can also bark more generic commands such as "show me action movies" and then refine the results by saying "just the ones with George Clooney" or "only the good ones".
And while you're watching a video, you can say "rewind 30 seconds" or "what did she just say". The latter is clever as it skips back 10 seconds and turns on subtitles so you're left in no doubt what you missed the first time.
You can also say the name of an app or game to launch it, the the name of an artist or album to play music without swiping endlessly through menus. You can ask for a weather forecast, too, but there's no web searches as you get on an iOS device.
The internal battery is said to last a couple of months - longer than we've been testing out the Apple TV - and it charges using a standard Lightning cable in a couple of hours. You do at least get one of those in the box.
Setup is amazingly easy if you have an iPhone or iPad. Once you tell the Apple TV you have one, you just hold it near the box to pair it and some settings - such as your Wi-Fi password will be synced automatically. It's also far easier to type your Apple ID and password via the app than using the frankly poorly designed on-screen keyboard which is a pain to use with the Siri remote.
In under five minutes you're ready to start installing apps and streaming videos. A short demo video - as you get on the Amazon Fire TV - wouldn't go amiss, but you're left to your own devices.
Apple TV (4th gen) 2015 review: Interface, apps and games
The fancy new interface, which runs on the new tvOS, is great to look at, but it's not really a great departure from what's gone before it. Navigation by swiping on the touchpad is a love or hate thing. If you don't need to scroll much it is fun to start with but - contrary to what you'd imagine - isn't as quick or accurate as using a remote with buttons and a direction pad.
You can rearrange icons as you like, and you can even put your favourites in the top row - previously reserved for Apple's apps and content. Netflix is missing to start with, but you can install it from the App Store.
Entering email addresses and passwords, as you have to when you sign into an app such as Netflix is a tedious process. The letters are all on one line, and it takes a few swipes to go from one end to the other. At launch the old Apple Remote app for the iPhone didn't work with the new Apple TV, but in December Apple released an update to fix this, and it makes it a whole lot easier to enter search terms and passwords.
The YouTube app has the right idea, though: it gives you a unique code to enter at youtube.com/activate so you don't have to enter any detail at all. Instead you grab a laptop, iPad or iPhone and it's a painless process to sign in.
What we do like is that, unlike on other media streamers, the Siri search will include apps such as Netflix in the list of results. So if you hold the remote's Siri button and say "Breaking Bad" you'll see results from Netflix as well as iTunes. It doesn't work in all apps, though, so you'll have to use the BBC's awkward on-screen keyboard to search within iPlayer, or resort to the Remote app on your iPhone. You can't search for apps in the App Store using your voice, either, which seems like a missed opportunity.
What's strange is that Apple still doesn't have a video streaming service to go alongside its Music streaming. Even if you don't subscribe to Apple Music, you can stream music you've bought in iTunes and access iTunes libraries on computers on your home network. One niggle is that although music will continue playing in the background, you can pause it but not restart it with the play/pause button. If you want to carry on listening you have to go to the home screen and then launch the music app again. If it's one of the apps in the top row, you can scroll to the left-hand side of the content previews which pop up at the top to the 'Now playing' icon.
Playing games with the Siri remote can be good fun, but only really as a novelty. Some games use the accelerometer (Asphalt 8, for one) which means it works much like a Nintendo Wii remote, while others, such as Jetpack Joyride, Crossy Road and Badlands just use the touchpad's button. You can buy an optional wrist loop to prevent accidents where the remote would otherwise fly out of your hand.
For more serious fare, you'll want a Bluetooth gamepad - a few third-party controllers are supported. You can't pair more than one Siri remote, but certain games including Crossy Road allow you to use an iPad or iPhone with the game installed as the controller for a second player.
Family-oriented games make the most sense on media streamers, and Fibbage XL certainly is one to try when friends are round. At £7.99, Fibbage and quite a few other games are more expensive than you might expect, but equally there are many cheaper - and free - options. It's well worth checking if the app is cheaper on your iPhone or iPad as some apps are universal, so you can head to the Purchased section of the App Store when you first set up your Apple TV to see what you can install from the list of apps you've bought before.
Currently the App Store is relatively limited when it comes to games: it isn't simply the same selection you'll find on your iPhone.
The voice search doesn't always recognise what you're trying to say. Siri thought we were trying to say "find bitch XL" when searching for Fibbage and when asking for "ITV player" Siri launched BBC iPlayer.
The fact is, iPlayer is pretty much the only catch-up TV app available in the UK at the moment. There's no ITV Player, no All 4 and no Demand 5. However, there's a third-party app which gets around this and another workaround is to use AirPlay and stream video from any number of apps (not Sky Go, though) on your iPhone or iPad.
The app situation will surely change over the next 12 months, but it puts the Apple TV at a disadvantage when other streamers - Amazon and Roku to name but two - have the full suite of UK catch-up TV and more. The level of game quality is similar to Amazon's Fire TV box, but you're not going to get the same experience on the lesser-powered Roku devices.
It's hard to know whether 32GB is 'enough' or not, and unlike the Amazon Fire TV, there's no microSD slot for adding more storage when the internal stuff fills up. It's also hard to know how much storage is free. Under Settings > General > Manage storage you only see a list of installed apps, how much space they're using up and a bin icon so you can delete them.
Again, this is easy to fix and we're sure that updates will arrive that sort out these and other common complaints.
A small consolation is that Apple has spent a lot of time, effort and - presumably - money to produce some of the most stunning screensavers we've ever seen. The slow-moving aerial scenes which include a night-time flight over Central London, plus views of the Golden Gate bridge and Great Wall of China are great for impressing friends.
Apple TV HD (4th gen, 2015): Specs
A8 processor
802.11ac Wi-Fi with MIMO
10/100 Ethernet
Infrared receiver
Apple / iTunes account required
Video Formats: H.264 video up to 1080p, MPEG-4, Motion JPEG
Dolby Digital 5.1 and Plus 7.1
Siri remote included
35 x 98 x 98mm, 425g
Author: Jim Martin, Editor
Jim has been testing and reviewing products for over 20 years. His main beats include VPN services, antivirus and web hosting. He also covers electric bikes, dash cams and smart home tech.
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Apple Finally Adds Those Diverse Emojis We've All Been Waiting For
It's about time.
By Chantal Strasburger
Art by Wesley Johnson
As our text messages begin to increasingly resemble hieroglyphics (those Egyptians were on to something), the need for that perfect emoji has never felt so essential. And while there may be 20 different options for a train emoji (uh…), the selection of human emojis has famously lacked in the diversity department. Almost all the faces and body parts are light-skinned, so a bit of variety is long overdue. Thankfully, Apple has answered our emoji prayers and created a whole new set of symbols to include multiple skin tones—six to be exact.
With the new iOS 8.3 update, 300 emojis will be added to your keyboard's library. While the racial inclusivity is super exciting, there's also more diversity coming to the family characters—an option for every combination of gender and pairings. The watch emoji received an iWatch upgrade, and jet-setters and wanderlusters will appreciate 32 new country flags. Now you can tell your friends you're studying abroad down under by sending them Australia's star-spangled banner, because why not?
It hasn't yet been announced when these new emojis will be available for public consumption, but it's about to open up a whole new world of communication. Now we're just left holding out for that taco emoji…
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'MEATBALLS' IS A TASTY TREAT
For more than 30 years, children have read about the fictional town of Chewandswallow, where it doesn't rain cats and dogs, it rains meatballs and cheeseburgers and pancakes. Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation have brought this classic tale to the big screen, and in 3-D, no less.
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, the movie, is not so much based on as it is suggested by the beloved 1978 book of the same name, written by Judi Barrett and illustrated by Ron Barrett. Rather than stick to the original plotline of a grandfather telling a bedtime story about the unexplained weather phenomena of Chewandswallow, the film centers on the exploits of hapless inventor Flint Lockwood, voiced by Saturday Night Live'sBill Hader.
Flint's latest crazy idea is a machine that can convert water to food. After an electrical accident, his gadget is fired into the atmosphere, where it stays and causes clouds to produce whatever culinary delight is programmed into it from Flint's lab. Suddenly the town, once the tasteless sardine capital of the world, is deluged by flavor and variety falling from the sky.
Cue Sam Sparks (Anna Faris), Chewandswallow's new weathergirl, whose nervousness about the job causes her to make a series of painfully bad puns (meatier shower, poultry in motion).
Sam and Flint have more in common than they realize, which makes for cute animated chemistry. There are plenty of creative and hysterical moments, such as a scene showing Flint's previously failed inventions (spray-on shoes, rat-birds). When things with the machine go awry and Chewandswallow is at the mercy of a giant spaghetti tornado, it's scary in an acid-trip sort of way.
On the other hand, the 3-D is unnoticeable except for the occasional twinge of pain caused by your glasses. Flint's relationships with both Sam and his disappointed father (James Caan) are predictable; Mr. Lockwood hides his emotions under his abnormally thick eyebrows. And near the end I found myself thinking it was a bit too long for an animated flick, although it's only an hour and a half. Still, Cloudy is entertaining and funny, managing to retain most of the charm of the book in a fresh way. You'll leave the theater feeling close to full.
Mina Asayesh-Brown, a St. Petersburg High School student, is movie and TV critic for tb-two*, the Times' new newspaper by and for high school students.
Directors:Phil Lord, Chris Miller
Cast: Voices of Bill Hader, Anna Faris, James Caan, Andy Samberg, Bruce Campbell
Rating: PG; brief mild language
Running time: 90 min.
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Businesses weigh testing employees for COVID-19 as part of reopening
Some say the step can help reduce the virus’ spread and ease workers’ fears. But it can be expensive and problematic.
Just a few miles from Disney World, Harris Rosen’s hotel empire is mostly closed because of the COVID pandemic.
One crucial condition for reopening will be testing any of his 4,000 employees who show potential signs of having the disease, he said.
Since March, the company has tested more than 500 workers at its employee health clinic and its impromptu drive-thru site in Orlando. Sixteen were confirmed cases of COVID-19.
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When Rosen Hotels & Resorts, which comprises eight hotels with nearly 7,000 rooms in the Orlando area, reopens later this spring or summer, it plans to have employees regularly fill out a questionnaire about their health and travel history. All employees will get their temperature taken when they arrive, and those with fevers above 99°F will not be allowed on the worksite. Rosen is still working out details of its strategy, but it also plans to give workers with a fever and other COVID-19 symptoms a diagnostic test for the virus.
The Rosen chain is ahead of many businesses still weighing options for reopening. That’s partly because since 1991 it has provided medical care to workers through its employee health clinic.
“Companies are asking what is necessary to reopen businesses safely, and they see testing as one of the key things,” said Stephen Ezeji-Okoye, chief medical officer of Crossover Health, which manages worksite health clinics.
Across the U.S., and across industries, companies have closed their worksites for the past month or so, or operated at significantly reduced capacity. Meat-processing plants in the Midwest have been closed because tight workspaces helped spur outbreaks, nursing homes across the country have seen deaths among staff members needed to care for ailing residents, and flight attendants report increasing cases of the disease.
Now, as half of the states begin the delicate task of lifting stay-at-home orders and allowing businesses to reopen, Rosen is one of many employers being thrust into the debate about how to keep employees and customers safe.
Some employers say testing and screening can help reduce disease transmissions and workers’ fears.
“Employers are tremendously interested in testing because they want to make sure their workplaces are as safe as possible,” said Dr. Jeff Levin-Scherz, a national co-leader of Willis Towers Watson, a consulting firm. “Testing needs to be a component of a way to reduce the risk, but it’s not the entire strategy.”
Yet COVID-19 testing has vexed health officials and politicians since March. Federal and state leaders have bickered over whether supplies of tests are adequate.
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Rosen Hotels & Resorts, however, says it does not anticipate any problems securing test kits. While there are still parts of the country with a paucity of testing, central Florida is not one of them. The Orlando area has at least two dozen testing sites, and Gov. Ron DeSantis said during a meeting at the White House last week, “Our ability to test exceeds the current demand.”
For many companies, however, moving toward a testing program is much less certain.
“It’s a difficult time for employers trying their best to protect employees,” said Dr. Mohannad Kusti, corporate medical director of Pittsburgh-based U.S. Steel Corp. The company hopes to decide this month whether to start testing its roughly 18,000 employees at locations in Pennsylvania, Indiana, Alabama and other states.
Kusti said testing isn’t perfect but could add to the arsenal of weapons against the virus, which include requiring workers to wear gloves and face masks and increasing social distancing when applicable.
The company has hesitated to start testing partly because of a lack of tests and concerns over accuracy, he said.
In Nevada, Wynn Resorts, which owns two large hotels in Las Vegas, is partnering with University Medical Center of Southern Nevada to provide free testing to all its Las Vegas employees, either at the workplace or a hospital-designated site.
“This will ensure that Wynn employees that would like to be tested will have access to reliable and accurate COVID-19 testing well in advance and leading up to the opening of the resort,” Wynn said in a statement.
‘Uncharted waters’
Employers with on-site health clinics are best positioned to test because they likely have access to the supplies and the providers needed to administer them, said Mike Thompson, CEO of the National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions.
For example, earlier this year Microsoft began a testing program for workers at its Redmond, Washington, headquarters. Intel Corp. said it is looking into the issue but has not decided how to proceed. Amazon said it is setting up a system of labs to begin testing its workers across the country.
“Regular testing on a global scale, across all industries, would both help keep people safe and help get the economy back up and running,” Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos wrote in a recent shareholder letter.
San Francisco recently partnered with a private genomics testing company, Color, to provide COVID-19 testing to any city employees, contractors and other “essential” workers with symptoms of the disease.
“The reality is we are all in uncharted waters,” said Color CEO Othman Laraki. Employers want to offer testing to help their workers and customers they serve feel more secure, he said.
About one-third of employers surveyed by the Pacific Business Group on Health in April said they are testing employees at or near the workplace or considering it.
Some experts, however, question whether such efforts will make a difference.
Dr. Jamal Hakim, chief operating officer at Orlando Health, a large hospital system in the Florida city, said he doesn’t see employer testing as a panacea. A more effective strategy, he suggested, would be making sure that employees stay home if they have any COVID symptoms, such as fever and dry cough, and that they wash hands often and don’t touch their face.
“Those behavior modifications will dwarf testing in terms of importance going forward,” Hakim said.
Part of the challenge with testing is someone newly infected may not show a positive result for several days. Someone can also get infected following the test. It also takes at least a day to get results back, giving the virus more time to spread unchecked.
New EEOC guidance
Employers are generally not allowed to inquire about workers’ medical conditions. But the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the federal agency that enforces workplace civil rights laws, issued new rules in April permitting employers to test for COVID-19 as a condition of entering the workplace. The one caveat is that employers must test all employees, or, if only certain employees are selected for testing, the employer must have a reasonable reason for doing so — such as testing employees who exhibit persistent coughs or other symptoms associated with the disease.
Despite the drawbacks of testing, many major employers are moving forward in an effort to keep workers safe.
St. Louis-based Watlow, a global manufacturer of thermal products with 1,600 U.S. employees, this month began testing workers who believe they may have been exposed to people with COVID-19, as well as workers who are traveling to its Mexico plant, to see if they have the virus or previously had it and now have antibodies for the disease. In addition, the temperatures of all employees are taken when they arrive for work, and anyone above 99.2°F is sent home. Employees wear masks on the job, and barriers were installed between some workstations to promote social distancing.
As of May 6, Watlow had tested fewer than a dozen people at its onsite health clinic, said Sheryl Hicks, vice president of human resources. The company is weighing whether it can or should test everyone.
“We are learning as we go,” Hicks said. “There is a cost to these things, but if it gives us more information to keep people safe or provide a safer environment for folks, then that is not necessarily a bad thing.”
This story was written by Phil Galewitz, a senior correspondent for Kaiser Health News. Contact him at pgalewitz@kff.org. Follow @philgalewitz. KHN is a nonprofit news service covering health issues. It is an editorially independent program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, which is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.
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Bumper debts will undermine Covid recovery across the West
The OECD warns that businesses could struggle to grow under the burden of loans taken out to battle the pandemic
By Tim Wallace 1 December 2020 • 12:40pm
Many companies are highly leveraged after being forced to shut up shop Credit: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty
Businesses have borrowed so heavily to survive the coronavirus pandemic that they will struggle to grow or even to stay afloat in the years to come.
Airlines, hotels and the car industry are likely to be particularly burdened across the US and Europe, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) warned, while bankruptcies in the hospitality industry are expected to rise.
It will have serious ramifications for businesses and the wider economy for years to come, as firms are forced to slash investment and hiring while they try to pay the interest on their bumper debts.
"A high level of debt combined with a high risk of default could undermine recovery," said the OECD.
"When a firm has a high outstanding debt with a high likelihood of default, the reduced ability to invest and limited access to new credit generate pressure to deleverage by cutting costs and downsizing, even in companies with profitable investment opportunities, potentially slowing down the recovery."
Around one-third of previously viable businesses across the 35 developed economies of the OECD are expected to struggle to service their debts in future, as profits have slumped.
As many as two-thirds of companies in accommodation and food services may be unable to cover their interest costs, as the hospitality industry has been so hard hit.
This is also expected to be the case for around half of transport businesses, as well as for those in arts and entertainment.
Governments encouraged lending, for instance with loan guarantees. In the UK, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) expects the value of these loans to hit £87bn, of which one-third are unlikely to be repaid as companies struggle to return to profitability.
But without these measures, the OECD warns the economy would be in much worse shape.
"It was the only thing to do given the circumstances," said Angel Gurria, secretary general of the OECD.
"Without the combination of the central banks providing liquidity to the banking system and then the governments giving the guarantees to encourage banks to use that liquidity to lend or roll over loans to SMEs and large enterprises, then the impact would have been much worse. The drop in GDP would have been much greater had governments not done what they did."
Laurence Boone, the OECD's chief economist, said loans may have to be turned into grants or equity as governments and companies look for ways to lower the debt burden.
The OECD expects the UK economy to shrink by 11.2pc in 2020, a similar drop to the OBR's estimate, and less severe than the 14pc second-wave forecast the OECD issued in the summer. British GDP is set to grow by 4.2pc in 2021 and 4.1pc in 2022, a significantly slower rate than that predicted by the Government's official forecaster.
Business investment will struggle to recover, the OECD predicts, while exports will slump.
Unemployment will peak at 7.7pc late next year before falling only slowly to 5.6pc in late 2022, still well above the 4pc rate before the pandemic struck.
The global economy is expected to shrink by 4.2pc this year before growing by 4.2pc next year and 3.7pc in 2022. This is less severe than the predictions set out in June, but will still leave GDP 3pc lower at the end of 2021 than it was expected to be before the pandemic struck, the equivalent to around $7 trillion.
Eurozone GDP will shrink by less than the UK, down 7.5pc this year, but will recover more slowly, at 3.6pc next year and 3.3pc in 2022.
It points to a slow and uneven recovery.
"There is hope, but we are not out of the woods yet. Many countries are currently fighting a resurgence of the virus, and the reimposition of containment measures is denting the rebound that had begun," said Mr Gurria.
"Even with a slower and more cautious de-confinement this time, further wavers cannot be ruled out until most of the population is vaccinated. So we assume this will not happen until the end of 2021, given the logistical challenges."
The OECD also cast doubt on hopes that households might use their savings built up this year to fuel a spending binge in the years to come.
"High uncertainty, subdued confidence and employment are likely to keep precautionary saving elevated for a while, although this should fade slowly during 2021-22," the OECD said, adding that richer households have typically been able to save the most, and as they tend to spend a smaller share of their incomes than poorer families, they are not likely to spend all of these extra savings.
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Apollo lands Tuesday
Kuoni-Apollo Airline makes its inaugural flight from Scandinavia to Tobago on Tuesday.
It is expected to touch down at the ANR Robinson International Airport around 7.45 p.m. with a full load of passengers.
Tourism and Transportation Secretary Tracy Davidson-Celestine said on Wednesday that a brief reception will be held in the airport’s international departure lounge welcoming the 240 passengers and flight crew. Among the passengers will be 40 golfers who will spend two weeks at the Magdalena Grand Beach and Golf Resort.
She said to date 2,489 passengers have been booked to use the charter services out of Stockholm to March 2014 and will result in a 25 per cent increase in visitor arrivals for the winter season.
She added that Scandinavia which includes Sweden, Finland, Norway and Denmark was the third largest outbound tourist region in Europe.
Davidson-Celestine said the 2013/2014 cruise ship season has started and Tobago was expected to host an estimated 20,000 visitors before it ended on March 20. She said discussions were well advanced for the 2014/2015 season which was expected to result in the arrival of an estimated 50,000 cruise visitors.
The Tourism Secretary said the participation of Trinidad and Tobago at the recent World Travel Market in London was a success and disclosed that the cost for the national team was $6M of which $93,000 covered the 20-member Team Tobago’s participation.
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Milshirv project back on track
The Port of Spain High Court today (Thursday 25th July 2013) cleared the way for the resumption of construction of the $143 million Milshirv office complex for the THA Division of Agriculture, Marine Affairs, Marketing and the Environment.
Attorney General Anand Ramlogan had filed civil proceedings against the Tobago House of Assembly almost a year ago requesting a judicial review of its decision to enter into a BOLT (Build, Own, Lease, Transfer) arrangement with Milshirv Properties Limited to build the complex on 12 acres of land at the junction of the Claude Noel Highway and Shirvan Road in Lowlands south-western Tobago. Since then work came to a standstill on the project.
Milshirv and First Citizens Bank Limited were joined as parties in the proceedings. However, at the court hearing at the Hall of Justice, Justice Ronnie Boodoosingh in a consent order stated that Milshirv and FCB be removed as parties to the proceedings.
During the hearing Alvin Fitzpatrick SC representing the Attorney General submitted a letter from Finance Minister Larry Howai to THA Chief Secretary Orville London dated last Friday which stated that the BOLT arrangement for the project, without his consent had been challenged and the THA had contended that it did not require the Minister’s consent to enter into such an arrangement, including the finance component.
Howai said in his letter that it was evident therefore the question as to whether the THA can enter into such arrangement including the financing component, without the consent of the Minister of Finance was an important issue which required the guidance of the Court.
He added that he has been informed by the Attorney General that it is proposed that the proceedings be converted from a judicial matter to one of interpretation for the Court to determine the true extent of the THA’s powers under the THA Act. Howai stated that in the meantime however, in view of the possibility that the rights of innocent third parties, in particular Milshirv Properties Limited and FCB Limited, may be adversely affected by the Court proceedings as presently constituted and in the interest of good public administration he had decided to approve under section 51(b) of the THA Act and all enabling powers, the construction of the office complex as well as the lease and mortgage of the same to the THA and FCB pursuant to the BOLT arrangements entered between the THA and Milshirv; and to approve under the Act expenditure for the payment of lease rents to Milshirv under the proposed office lease between the THA and Milshirv.
Justice Boodoosingh also ordered that the application for judicial review be converted into an application for an interpretation of the true extent of the Assembly’s powers under the THA Act.
Alvin Fitzpatrick SC represented the Attorney General; John Jeremy SC represented the THA, while Milshirv was represented by Fiad Hosein SC and Milshirv by Douglas Mendes SC.
There was jubilation and desk thumping when London made the announcement of the Court’s ruling during debated on the Tobago Comprehensive Development Plan 2013-2017 at the plenary sitting of the House of Assembly.
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Extending school break would go against health advice, says Swinney
December 4 2020, 3.28pm
Education Secretary John Swinney said extending the school holidays over Christmas would go against public health advice (Andrew Milligan/PA)
John Swinney has defended his decision not to extend the school holidays this Christmas.
The Education Secretary insisted there was “no politics involved” in the decision, as he claimed children have less risk from coronavirus in school than at home, and he said the Government will work to ensure teachers do not have to contact-trace on Christmas Day.
Ministers had been considering imposing a nationwide shutdown of schools from December 18 to January 11, but Mr Swinney ruled that out on Thursday.
Speaking at Friday’s Scottish Government virus briefing, Mr Swinney said the judgment was “based entirely on public health advice”.
Regional variations mean some schools will stop for the Christmas holidays on December 18, while others will continue until December 23.
Asked about criticism from unions about the decision not to extend the holiday, Mr Swinney added: “I published the public health advice that I have received on this question, which comes down to one critical point – which is that we can minimise the transmission of the virus between young people if they are in an organised environment like a school as opposed to being in home or community settings.
“To essentially tip the balance and to put more young people into a community setting would be to go against that public health advice.
“So there’s no politics involved in this, it’s public health advice that I am following.”
Concerns have been raised by teachers that they could have to continue contact tracing of coronavirus infections on Christmas Day.
The Deputy First Minister said the Government is working with Public Health Scotland and the National Contact Tracing Centre to make sure “all school staff and all school teachers can get the break to which they are entitled to over the festive season”.
Mr Swinney added: “Obviously I appreciate that some of those closing dates are getting quite close to Christmas Day.”
He said teachers deserve to be off over Christmas “given how hard they’ve worked to keep education sustained for children and young people” during the pandemic.
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Jane Peckham, from the Scotland branch of the NASUWT teaching union, said: “The rumour and speculation over the last week around the potential to vary the holiday dates has only served to raise expectations and anxiety amongst the profession.
“This announcement yesterday indicates yet again that Government have no intention to use the promised contingency of blended learning, even in the highest Covid-19 level areas.
“Remote learning could have been a solution to maintaining education provision whilst reducing the risk of virus transmission in the run-up to Christmas.
“Ministers now need urgently to set out what arrangements should be in place to support those having to manage the Test and Protect system over Christmas.
“It is imperative that the Government provides a clear national plan which does not rely on any staff being expected to forfeit their well-deserved and much-needed break to undertake this work.”
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Congrats to Time for articulating what the rest of us already knew: Rihanna is an innovator. The magazine put her makeup line Fenty Beauty on their list of the best inventions of 2017 because of its extensive foundation shade range. Fenty Beauty offers 40 different shades of foundation — far more than nearly all of its competitors. When it launched in September, its darker shades almost instantly sold out. Many attributed the shades’ popularity to the simple fact that so few other makeup companies offer them at all.
Speaking to Time, Rihanna said: “I never could have anticipated the emotional connection that women are having with the products and the brand as a whole. Some are finding their shade of foundation for the first time, getting emotional at the counter. That’s something I will never get over.”
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Vithoba Temple Pandharpur
Location: Main Road, Chouphala, Pandharpur, Maharashtra 413304.
Festivals: Aashadhi Ekadashi, Kartiki Ekadashi.
Open and Close Timings: 04:00 am to 11:45 pm.
Darshan Timings: 06:00 am to 11:00 am,
11:15 am to 04:30 pm,
05:00 pm to 11:00 pm.
Kakada bhajan of Shri Vitthal and Rukmini and Nityapooja : 04.30 am to 6.00 am
Mahanaivedya: 11.00 am to 11.15 am.
Poshakh: 04.30 pm to 5.00 pm.
Dhoop arati: 06.45 pm to 7.00 pm.
Shej arati: 11.30 pm to 12.00 pm.
Nearest Railway Station: Kurduvadi Junction at a distance of nearly 51.7 kilometres from Vithoba Temple.
Nearest Airport: Solapur Airport at a distance of nearly 78 kilometres from Vithoba Temple.
Did you know: The Vitthal temple was built in the mid thirteenth century.
The Vithoba temple is a Hindu temple located in Pandharpur in the Indian state of Maharashtra. The Vithoba temple is officially known as the Sri Vitthal-Rukmini temple. The name of this temple comes in the famous temples of Maharashtra. This temple is completely dedicated to Lord Shri Vishnu. The main deity of this temple is the form of Lord Shri Vishnu called Vithoba. Vithoba is considered as an expression of Lord Shri Krishna. Several idols can be seen in this temple along with Sri Vithoba with his wife Rukmini.
The temple of Lord Shree Ganesh, Garuda and Hanuman is also established in the Vithoba temple. It also has shrines for Rukmini Devi, Satyabhama Devi, Radhika Devi, Lord Narasimha, Lord Venkateswara, Goddess Mahalaxmi, Nagaraja, Annapurna Devi.
The Chandrabhaga or Bhima River, on whose banks is the Pandharpur temple, is believed to have the power to wash away all sins. All devotees are allowed to touch the feet of the statue of Vithoba.
Parts of the temple date to the 12th or 13th century, the existing structure being mainly of the 17th century or later, and reflect the later Deccan style, with domed motifs and lobed arches.
How Vithoba came to Pandharpur is known through a story in which Pundalik is important. Pundalik was the only son of his parents Janudev and Satyavati. Who lived in a forest called Dandirvan. Pundalik used to mistreat his parents after his marriage. One day, his parents wanted to go to Kashi, the city of Lord Shiva, because of his bad behavior, but his son Pundalik came to know. Pundalik also decided to accompany his parents to Kashi. Throughout the way, Pundalik continued to misbehave with his parents. On the way to Kashi was the ashram of sage Kukkutaswamy. Pundalik decided to stay in this ashram. An incident happened with Pundalik in the night which made him realize the misbehave he had with his parents. He began to serve his parents. Lord Shri Krishna took the test of Pundalik. While Pundalik was feeding his parents, Lord Krishna came outside his house. Pundalik felt the presence of Lord Krishna. But he did not go out until he had fed his parents. Lord Krishna was very pleased with this work and asked Pundalik to ask for a boon. Pundalik requested Lord Shri Krishna to stay in Pandharpur and offer blessings to the true devotees. Then Lord Shri Krishna accepted this living as Vithoba form.
The most important festivals of Vithoba are held on Shayani Ekadashi in the month of Ashada and Prabodhini Ekadashi in the month of Kartik. In May 2014, the temple became the first temple in India to invite women and people.
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Home Global Issues Chinese Oppression of the Uighur People Continues
Chinese Oppression of the Uighur People Continues
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Those who believed China’s reeducation of the Uighur people had come to a close, as the Chinese government suggested, were mistaken. New satellite images and reports from a variety of humanitarian groups focused on the Uighur situation show official Chinese oppression of the Uighur people has not only continued but has also increased.
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China has built or added to at least 60 prison camps in the last year. Previously China decommissioned around 70 camps and allowed western reporters to see proof that the reeducation of the Uighurs was complete, and they were no longer being held by the government. Now it appears the Uighurs were only moved to new locations. Many of the Uighur people have disappeared into higher security prisons while others have disappeared completely.
KASHGAR, CHINA – JUNE 2017: People’s Park Square Mao Zedong Statue with Chinese Communist Parole
In 2017 and 2018 China denied the existence of the camps and the crackdown on the Uighurs. Satellite images at that time proved the government’s denials as false. The United Nations estimated that as many as 1 million Uighur people had been incarcerated. China, recognizing the failed effort for denials, moved to explain these steps as necessary to combat terrorism. Human rights advocates have described Chinese efforts against the Uighurs as cultural genocide.
Uighur prisoners are forced to eat and drink items that are against their religion within the prisons. Muslims are forced to renounce their faith. Women are forcibly sterilized. There have also been reports of China using the Uighur for organ harvesting.
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October 4, 2018 Updated: October 4, 2018
A lost boy who walked into a Pittsburg gas station on the evening of Oct. 3, was reunited with his family a few hours later, according to police.
The boy walked into the Mobil 1 gas station at 2971 Railroad Avenue around 7:30 p.m. on Oct.3, according to police. He was taken to the Pittsburg police station as officers tried to locate his family.
Police posted an update on their Facebook page around 10 p.m.Oct.3 saying an investigation determined the boy was safe and was returned to his family.
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Trump Touts Tax Cuts, but Can They Save the GOP from a Midterm Meltdown?
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As the headlines about James Comey’s scathing criticisms of President Trump multiplied on Monday — and as presidential attorney Michael Cohen headed to a New York court for a hearing on documents of his seized by the FBI — Trump flew to Florida for an afternoon roundtable on the tax cuts he signed into law last year.
That’s probably just how Republicans facing re-election in November would want it:
The president touting his biggest legislative achievement, mostly sticking to the subject at hand and selling “the biggest tax cut in history, bigger than the Reagan tax cut” (still not true) rather than — or at least in addition to — tweets about the scandals surrounding his administration.
“You’re getting a lot more money in your weekly or monthly checks than you ever thought possible, so people are really liking it,” Trump said of the tax cuts.
But the massive tax cuts might not be the winning issue Trump and Republicans hope they’ll be. While Republicans facing tough midterm prospects might be encouraged by a new Washington Post-ABC News poll showing that the Democrats’ edge in a generic ballot has fallen by more than half since the beginning of the year, the tax cuts might not motivate voters enough to stem significant GOP losses.
“Some recent polls show that the majority of Americans still don’t support the tax law, despite an uptick in sentiment since the end of 2017,” Bloomberg’s Sahil Kapur reports. The boost to paychecks has frequently been small, sometimes unnoticeable. And though some Republicans say they’ll have to keep hammering the issue all year, a recent Quinnipiac poll found that, of the issues voters cited as most important to them heading into the elections, taxes ranked last. The Trump/GOP message just might not play even after Americans finish this year’s taxes and start looking ahead to next year’s returns.
“Part of the Republican party’s problem in selling the tax cuts is that the answer is murky for many,” Kapur writes. “Variables like dependents and itemized deductions can complicate the picture, even though most — 65 percent — will see a tax cut in 2018. And even for voters who do see a cut, whether it’s enough to sway their decisions at the ballot box is far from clear.”
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Thumbelina Review – Where Winter lasts a day and half and Fall 12 hours
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I have mentioned nostalgia clouding bad kid movies and trying to be above it, that being said it has caught up with me in a little way. A part of me knows that Don Bluth’s Thumbelina is not a good movie, it has a lot issues, but, but, but I really like this movie. I have good happy memories this movie. Even though it has some flaws, I still like it.
Thumbelina was released in 1994 by Don Bluth. It was clearly him copying that sweet, sweet Disney formula. In fact they played the Disney logo at the beginning at test screenings to help get positive ratings. This movie is really a Disney knock-off.
Thumbelina with Cornelius
The movie starts with off in Paris with Jacquimo, a swallow. He gives us theme about over coming impossibility because Disney has the monopoly on the being yourself theme. He tells the story of Thumbelina from book even though he was in the story. I’m confused but whatever.
Story goes, this lady wants a baby so she gets an enchanted flower and out pops full grown Thumbelina. Thumbelina isn’t fan of being small and lonely. She hopes her love will come by and low and behold he does, one Fairy Prince Cornelius. After 7 minutes and 39 seconds of screen time which includes a Whole New World knock-off, they are in love and on their way to engagement or they are, I can’t really tell. I guess it like engaged to be engaged.
However, Thumbelina is kidnapped in the night by Charo-Toad. Charo-Toad, like everyone else in this movie, is smitten with Thumbelina’s voice. She wants to add Thumbelina to her act and she wants her to marry her son Grundel. They ditch Thumbelina on a lily pad to get the Padre or something.
As Thumbelina is stuck on the lily pad, Jacquimo FLIES by. Thumbelina tells her tale of love and woe and Jacquimo congratulations her for being in love. Jacquimo helps her off the lily pad by cutting it lose and getting some fishes to pull her to shore. Jacquimo tells her to follow her heart to find her way home and while she does that Jacquimo will FLY around looking for Cornelius.
Thumbelina then gets caught by Mr Beetle, played by Gilbert Gottfried who wants her to sing at the Beetle Ball. However, her Beetle costume was poorly made and falls off revealing her as not a bug and the beetles call her ugly. As she laments, Jacquimo FLIES by and comforts her. He comforts her by saying as long as the guy you like thinks your pretty it doesn’t matter. I think it’s just bad writing there.
Then winter comes, and Jacquimo and Cornelius, who have been looking for Thumbelina are knocked out of commission. Also on the hunt for Thumbelina are Grundel who has Mr Beetle working for him.
As the cold weather sets in, Thumbelina is saved from death by Ms. Fieldmouse. Ms. Fieldmouse informs Thumbelina that Cornelius is dead. Thumbelina gets to mourn him for a solid 15 seconds because they have visit Mr. Mole. Mr. Mole also likes Thumbelina’s voice and tells them that he found a dead bird which turns out to be Jacquimo but he isn’t dead. Mr. Mole then pays off Ms. Fieldmouse to persuade Thumbelina to marry him.
Thumbelina, heart-broken over Cornelius’ death and thinking she will never get home decides to marry the mole. She tells Jacquimo this and after she pulls a thorn from his wing he tells her to go with him to the prince. She does not as she think Cornelius is dead.
Thumbelina is about to marry the mole but can’t because she doesn’t love him and escapes. As she does, Grundel shows up and so does Cornelius who wasn’t dead just a little frozen. Jacquimo shows up again and takes Thumbelina to what he claims is the Vale of the Fairies. Thumbelina is pessimistic and asks him to take her home but he insists on her singing. As she sings spring comes and Cornelius shows up. Yay. They kiss and Thumbelina gets wings and they get married. Hooray!
Thumbelina with Jacquimo
The number one problem is that Jacquimo at any point could have flown Thumbelina home. We wouldn’t have had a movie but it’s a glaring issue. I’m not sure why he didn’t think to offer this or why Thumbelina didn’t ask. He instead offers to find Cornelius but he could have done that after he brought her home. It’s just one those plot hole that just leaves you confused and asking why.
Another issue is with Thumbelina herself. Thumbelina doesn’t learn anything and she doesn’t earn her happy ending, it’s pretty much handed to her. All she has to do is say no to money but she was never about money and was wholly about love so there no growth for her character.
As far as her personality go, she is impressionable. Considering we don’t know how much time passes between her “birth” and the events of this movie, she could be a like two days old. So her being sheltered is understandable. She is also very pessimistic, she says “It’s Impossible” a lot.
In a way it’s refreshing to see a princess-like character being a negative-nancy, on the other hand without character growth it’s a little annoying. The thing is she’s right, it was impossible since we don’t see her make it home. She does go back at end when she is getting married but she is probably going to live with fairies, so she never really makes it back home. It wouldn’t have been impossible if stupid bird-jerk gave her a ride.
Speaking of Thumbelina, what is she? Cornelius kind of implies that fairies can get their wings later, so she is a fairy? But how did that seed work? Is she at all genetically related to her mother? Do fairies come from seeds? When two fairies love each other very much, do they plant a flower and out comes a baby? Or a grown-up non-winged fairy? I’m confused.
Thumbelina with Mr Beetle
So as for the rest of the characters. They’re ok, Jacquimo is a well meaning co-dependent who is a little more than dumb, Cornelius is a rule-breaking flirt, the jitterbugs are cute, and the mom is bland but nice.
They other characters are ambitious and money grubbing. I think Grundel is a bit like Frollo, he obsessed with Thumbelina but doesn’t know her. I admit I do like Mr. Beetle, I find him amusing even if he is just Gilbert Gottfried doing Iago.
Speaking of voice actors and Disney, Thumbelina is a pure unfiltered rip off of The Little Mermaid. Both are originally by Hans Christian Anderson, both use the same voice actress, Jodi Benson, both have red hair, both have beautiful and desirable voices. Hell both movies use Kenneth Mars voice of King Triton and the Fairy King. It even fade out to stain-glass. This movie feel very Disney-light.
Thumbelina with Mrs. Toad
So since a hallmark of Disney films is the animation and the songs how does those compare. The animation is really good. I really like how stagey the visuals are to the songs. Some of the characters design are overtly silly, dogs and goats with mustaches and Charo-toad. But on the whole it’s a pretty movie to look at.
Ms Fieldmouse
The songs were composed by Barry Manilow. I know people don’t like most of the songs, heck one won a Razzie but I don’t hate them. I prefer some over others. I like the Aladdin knock-off, Let me be your wings and the vague I want song, Soon.
The other songs are meh but enjoyable. That’s right, I enjoyed Marry the Mole, how often do you get a gold-digging song in a kid’s movie? It’s just enjoyably stupid.
Thumbelina with the Jitterbugs
Thumbelina is supposed to be about over coming impossibilities but it seems more like don’t do things for money but in copying Disney that is what Bluth did, he married the mole so to speak. I won’t deny this duality does lead to a kinda messy theme which in turn leads to a messy narrative but I do like this movie. Maybe it’s nostalgia for it but the I find Thumbelina enjoyable, with good pacing, lovely visuals, and some nice songs.
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Q2 Wrap-Up: Top Changes & What’s Ahead For Marketers
Lane Ellis on Jul 1st, 2019
We’ve made it through the second quarter of 2019, one filled with many important B2B marketing changes and several unexpected twists and turns that will all combine to affect how the industry moves forward as we enter Q3 and push ahead to 2020.
Q2 saw several exciting shifts in entirely new directions, and a few seemingly slight directional maneuvers and adjustments that are nonetheless set to make big impacts in the coming year.
We’re always working to bring you the most relevant B2B marketing news, including weekly industry news videos from Tiffani Allen and Joshua Nite here on our blog and on our TopRank Marketing YouTube channel, and each quarter we reflect on what’s happened and look ahead with key trends.
Let’s take a look at both the challenges and opportunities the quarter’s top B2B marketing news has brought.
The Digital Marketing Sights and Sounds of Q2
When It Comes to Digital Marketing Spending …
Forecasts from the quarter show that global digital advertising spending is expected to continue to climb over the next four years, including a prediction from Juniper Research that spending will reach $520 billion by 2023, and that:
Spending will increase significantly from 2019’s $294 billion
Amazon’s share is projected to hit 8% — up from 2018’s 3%
Google’s digital ad revenue is expected to top $230 billion by 2023
63% of B2B companies plan to raise spending on email marketing, with top goals being increased engagement, conversion, and lead generation, according to survey data released during the beginning of the quarter. (MediaPost)
By 2019 global digital advertising spending is expected to increase 4.7%, up from the 4% predicted in December 2018, while by 2021 spend will reach $329 billion, some of the trends of interest to digital marketers among forecast data released during Q2 by Zenith. (Marketing Dive)
Digital video advertising spend has seen continued growth according to IAB study data, with the average survey advertiser projected to spend $18 million in 2019, up from 2018’s $14.2 million, one of several items of interest to digital marketers in the Q2 report. (Adweek)
Twitter’s advertising revenue expanded by 18% year-over-year to $679 million during the first quarter of 2019, while ad engagement on the platform saw a 23% increase with cost-per-engagement decreasing by 4%, according to the social firm’s earnings statement that came out in Q2. (MarTech Today)
A Q2 Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) report showed that 2018 was the first year U.S. digital advertising earnings topped the $100 billion mark, hitting $107.5 billion, up from 2017’s $88.3 billion, led primarily by the strength of mobile and video. Users also spent 22% more time on social media properties in 2018 than during 2017, the report detailed. (Adweek)
Social media advertising spending has risen 27% year-over-year, topped by a 44% increase for video ads, with accompanying impressions also up 20%, some of the results of interest to digital marketers in report data from Kenshoo’s trends report. (ClickZ)
The highly-anticipated Internet Trends report for 2019 was released at the end of Q2, including digital spending data of interest to digital marketers. For more than 21 years venture capitalist Mary Meeker, partner at Kleiner Perkins, has researched and put out the report, this year weighing in at 333 pages. I recently took an in-depth look at the report.
Digital ad sales are expected to grow by 14% in 2019, according to additional forecast data, a bright spot in predictions showing a slowdown in the overall rate of growth for ad sales, down from 2018’s 8% to 5%. (AdAge)
Read more on this topic:
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When It Comes to Search Marketing …
Q2 saw Google launch a search update focused on domain diversity, by having fewer first-page results that come from the same domain, and the search giant also rolled out several other changes including:
Making the firm’s mobile-first indexing the default for new sites
New guidelines for using “how-to” structured mark-up data and related image recommendations, offering digital marketers more precise instructions to work towards getting pages that generate automatic how-to rich search result entries
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Google rolled out automatic transcription to certain podcasts on its Google Podcasts app, providing a boon to discoverability via search that will likely help attract new audiences to podcast episodes that include Google’s new podcast metadata. (Search Engine Land)
Display and video ads sold with Google Ad Manager, Google’s ad server and publisher exchange, got additional auction functionality aimed at removing Google’s “last-look” outbidding advantage, while also bringing new minimum pricing strategies and rules. (Marketing Land)
Google’s annual Marketing Live event saw the firm announce expanded mobile-first native ads that display in a more visually-rich view across multiple Google feed environments, along with mobile-only gallery ads and several other features of interest to online marketers. (Search Engine Land)
20% of Android Google App searches now come from voice, and SEMrush examined ranking factors including the importance of first-page placement and other facets of voice search. (SEMrush)
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When It Comes to Content Marketing …
The end of Q2 saw content marketers getting new data on the optimal times for publishing content on various social media platforms including LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Sprout Social updated its best-times-to-post study, showing that:
Facebook content posted on Wednesdays from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. has the greatest engagement
Instagram also shows Wednesday as the top day, along with Fridays between 10:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m.
Twitter posts have the greatest success when made on Tuesdays and Wednesdays
*LinkedIn posts were seen to get the highest engagement on Wednesdays between 9:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m.
Instagram began offering a new branded content ad option that allows organic branded content feed posts from creators, expanding the Facebook-owned platform’s tools for digital marketers. The new ads contain “Paid Partnership,” and are part of Instagram’s efforts at increased ad transparency. (Adweek)
The end of Q2 saw the release of Edelman’s annual Trust Barometer report, showing that 75% of consumers now value trust over trendiness, along with a wide swatch of other digital marketing insights. (AdAge)
The hyper-personalised advertising brands can deliver with the nascent efforts at merging DNA analysis with marketing may be uncharted waters, but some marketers began testing the genetic marketing waters during Q2. (Marketing Dive)
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When It Comes to Social Media …
Several Q2 reports pointed to social media usage remaining mostly unchanged, while the way people use social platforms has shifted, offering digital marketers new opportunities as well as some additional new hurdles to conquer.
Instagram was the only major social media platform to see an significant increase in usage among U.S. adults since early 2018 according to Q2 Pew Research survey data, showing the rest of the most popular platforms saw statistically unchanged usage, with slowing growth across the board aside from the Facebook-owned Instagram. (Pew Research Center)
The Q2 Edison Research and Triton Digital Social Habit study showed largely unchanged social media usage over the past four years, yet some growth for Instagram among young Americans, a drop in Facebook’s popularity, and several other statistics of interest to digital marketers. (Convince and Convert)
2019 will be the first year during which more people — 51.7% — use social media platforms from mobile devices than from computers, and those using mobile for all their Internet usage is also expected to increase by 10.6%, according to research data on U.S. social network users released during the quarter. (eMarketer)
Facebook advertisers and users of the firm’s Business Manager platform got new layout changes and features, including streamlined Ads Manager navigation and tools to improve new client on-boarding, Facebook announced in Q2. (Marketing Land)
LinkedIn saw revenue growth of 27% for FY19 Q3, a 24% increase in on-platform sessions, and record engagement and job posting levels, according to report data from parent company Microsoft. (Social Media Today)
Q2 study data showed significant differences in social media usage not only between traditional age group categories, but also within generational groups, such as older Gen Xers using LinkedIn 9% more than average consumers, while younger Gen Xers use Instagram 11% more than average. The study offered a variety of demographic information of interest to digital marketers. (Adweek)
Social Media Examiner released its eleventh-annual social media marketing industry report, offering 46 pages of statistical data gathered from surveying over 4,800 marketers, offering insight and interpretation on how a variety of social media platforms and practices are working for marketers today. (Social Media Examiner)
U.S. adults are using Instagram more than ever, at an average of 27 minutes daily and expected to increase through 2020, while Facebook and Snapchat have both seen a drop in the average number of minutes of use per day, according to Q2 forecast data from consultancy eMarketer. (eMarketer)
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When It Comes to Influencer Marketing …
Implementation of B2B influencer marketing continued to expand during Q2. Last month our CEO Lee Odden examined this growth and shared 7 Top B2B Influencer Marketing Trends for 2020, including:
Increased use of AI
Democratized Influence
Brandividal Media
More Engaging Content Formats
Influencer Tech Integration with other Martech
Consumerization of B2B Influencers and Content
Influencer Experience Management
Influencer marketing saw success in numerous industries, delivering strong performance to some firms in the travel industry, and MarTech Advisor took a look at which influencer marketing strategies have worked well in this market. (MarTech Advisor)
Influencer marketing statistics were explored in infographic form, including predictions showing the practice is poised to top the $10 billion mark by 2022, and revealing a 1,500% increase in searches for information about influencer marketing over the past three years. (Social Media Today)
Instagram tested the elimination of likes and follower counts as a possible method for driving more focus to content, and Marketing Land took a look at the impact such a move by the Facebook-owned platform could have on influencer marketing. (Marketing Land)
Customized influencer apps released during Q2 from decentralized social media platform Escapex represent a new twist on a longstanding social media theme, bringing new challenges and opportunities for digital marketers. (Fast Company)
How to Intertwine Online & Offline Tactics to Cultivate B2B Influencer Relationships
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When It Comes to The TopRank Marketing Team …
The team at TopRank Marketing has had a busy, exciting, and productive Q2, and here are just a few of some of the team’s highlights in the press during the querter:
Marketing Influencers: Our 2019 Top 30 (ExoB2B)
Modern Marketing Influencer Series: Key Ingredients of a Great Content Marketing Strategy for 2019 (Oracle Modern Marketing Blog) (client)
An Undervalued Work Management Strategy: Listening (Workfront)
B2B Lead Generation Ideas: A Full-course Content Planning Dinner (DivvyHQ)
Learn How To Solve The Experience Equation With The Right Technology And The Right Strategy (Digitalist Magazine)
Influencer Marketing Trends for 2019 – A live interview with TopRank’s Lee Odden (Rival IQ)
A Sophisticated Marketer’s Perspective: Lee Odden on Ruling the Content Kingdom (LinkedIn)
Leading Influencer Marketing Agencies (Influencer Marketing Hub)
B2B Influencer Marketing in 2019 (Rival IQ)
Top 31 Best Social Media Blogs of 2019 (HowSociable)
Onalytica – The Influential Times Episode 1 [Podcast] (Onalytica)
10 branding strategies for your small business to build awareness and loyalty (Intuit / QuickBooks)
How a Best Answer Content Strategy Drives B2B Marketing Results [BuzzSumo Webinar Video] (YouTube / BuzzSumo)
Goodbye, Q2. Hello and Welcome, Q3.
B2B marketers, we hope that your Q3 is filled with plenty of success and innovation, and hope that you’ll join us each week and keep up with the latest industry news, trends, and opportunities in our Digital Marketing News Roundup, with highlights and video commentary from Tiffani Allen and Joshua Nite.
*Disclosure: LinkedIn is a TopRank Marketing client.
About Lane Ellis
Lane R. Ellis (@lanerellis), TopRank Marketing Social Media and Content Marketing Manager, has over 37 years’ experience working with and writing about the Internet. Lane spent more than a decade as Lead Editor for prestigious conference firm Pubcon. When he's not writing, Lane enjoys distance running (11 marathons including two ultras so far), genealogical research, cross-country skate skiing, vegetarian cooking, and spending time with his wonderful wife Julie Ahasay and their three cats in beautiful Duluth, Minnesota.
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Piers Morgan Shreds the NRA Over Pro-Kanye Tweet: ‘Utter Bulls—‘
British media personality calls rapper’s “antics” at the White House “beyond embarrassing”
Tim Kenneally | October 12, 2018 @ 11:12 AM
Piers Morgan has once again taken aim at the National Rifle Association, this time putting the gun-rights organization on blast over a tweet praising rapper Kanye West, who met with President Trump at the White House on Thursday for an eyebrow-raising meeting that touched on a number of topics.
Morgan came at the group with both barrels blazing, calling the NRA’s argument in its tweet “utter bulls—.”
In a tweet posted on Friday morning, the NRA praised West as “a celebrity who gets it, and who is willing to stand with” the Second Amendment.
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“#Kanye couldn’t have said it better: Illegal guns are the problem, and we have the right to bear arms,” the organization tweeted. “The #NRA’s nearly six million members are glad to see a celebrity who gets it, and who is willing to stand with the #2A. @realDonaldTrump.”
The NRA’s tweet drew a swift, and fierce, reply from Morgan.
“America’s worst mass shooting, in Vegas a year ago, was committed by a man who’d legally bought 53 guns,” the British media personality wrote, referring to the 2017 shooting during the Route 91 Harvest festival in Las Vegas, which left 58 people dead and hundreds of others injured. “So this is utter bulls—.”
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Morgan has been vocal about his criticism of the NRA in the light of numerous mass shootings in the United States, calling the organization “disgusting” earlier this year.
As for the meeting between Trump and West, Morgan made his thoughts clear in a column for the Daily Mail on Friday, writing that West’s “antics at the White House were beyond embarrassing.”
Morgan reserved some criticism for Trump as well, adding, “And if President Trump hopes Kanye’s toe-curling meltdown might inspire some kind of surge of support from African-Americans then he too is living in Cloud Cuckoo Land.”
Also Read: Piers Morgan Blasts 'Idiot' Ted Nugent Over His School Shootings Theory
Read Morgan’s latest shot at the NRA below.
America’s worst mass shooting, in Vegas a year ago, was committed by a man who’d legally bought 53 guns.
So this is utter bullsh*t. https://t.co/mJU7z51nKW
– Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) October 12, 2018
Kim Kardashian vs Taylor Swift and 17 Other Bitter Celebrity Feuds of 2016 (Photos)
Margaret Cho vs. Tilda Swinton
After Swinton came under fire for her role as The Ancient One in "Doctor Strange," Margaret Cho revealed that the actress came to her seeking an explanation as to why the movie was being criticized for whitewashing the role. Cho said the exchange made her feel like "a house Asian," leading Swinton to release the entire email exchange.
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Fans of the girl group Fifth Harmony were shocked when the group announced on Twitter that they had been informed through Cabello's manager that she would be leaving the group to focus on her solo career. This led to public a back-and-forth between the two parties over how exactly the split went down.
Also Read: Fifth Harmony Takes Fans Inside Drama With Camila Cabello
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Madonna had previously accused Lady Gaga of ripping off "Express Yourself" in her 2011 single "Born This Way," and the feud between the pop stars was reignited in 2016 when Gaga said in a Beats 1 interview that "[Madonna]’s a nice lady, and she’s had a fantastic huge career ... [but] what I do is different. I’m not just rehearsing over and over again to put on a show."
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"The Real O'Neals" star Noah Galvin first came out swinging with an unfiltered interview in which he called Haynes' coming out "f—ing p—y bullshit," which the former "Arrow" star later said was "absolutely uncalled for." Swift criticism led Galvin to issue an apology just a few hours later.
Dwayne Johnson vs. Vin Diesel
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson went off on some of his male "Fast 8" co-stars on Instagram, calling them "candy asses" and unprofessional, leading TMZ to report that he was referring to co-star and producer Vin Diesel.
Calvin Harris vs. Taylor Swift
Harris and Swift's split seemed amicable at first, but then reports began to surface claiming that Swift ghostwrote his summer hit, "This Is What You Came For." Harris clearly believed Swift's reps were behind the leak, tweeting that it was a "hurtful" attempt by her and her team to make him look bad following their break-up.
Also Read: Calvin Harris Calls Out Taylor Swift Over Songwriting Drama
Kim Kardashian vs. Taylor Swift
The drama over Kanye West's Taylor Swift name-dropping single "Famous" came to a head when Kim Kardashian shared video on Snapchat of Swift approving the controversial lyrics prior to their release. Swift then responded on Twitter and Instagram with a note defending herself.
Also Read: Taylor Swift Rips Kanye, Kim for Leaked ‘Famous’ Lyrics Convo (Video)
Chloe Grace Moretz vs. Khloe Kardashian
Chloe Grace Moretz, a frequent critic of the Kardashians, came to Taylor Swift's defense in the "Famous" debacle, leading Khloe Kardashian to respond with a mocking tweet featuring a NSFW photo of a young woman on the beach, whom she believed to be Moretz.
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Chrissy Teigen vs. Piers Morgan
Chrissy Teigen and Piers Morgan have frequently engaged in Twitter battles, including the time Teigen called the Daily Mail columnist a "piece of s--- a--hole" after he criticized a Huffington Post column by "Friends" star Jennifer Aniston blasting tabloid media.
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Ross Mathews vs. Billy Eichner
"Difficult People" star Billy Eichner accused TV personality Ross Mathews of ripping off his show "Billy on the Street" for a commercial, leading to a prolonged Twitter feud, which ended in Mathews calling Eichner a "d---."
Also Read: Ross Mathews Calls Billy Eichner ‘Pompous and Wrong’ After Twitter Feud
Skai Jackson vs. Azealia Banks
Disney Channel star Skai Jackson won praise from social media when she shut down Twitter troll Azealia Banks by telling the rapper to "simmer down a little" after one of her many race-focused rants.
Kanye West vs. Wiz Khalifa
Wiz Khalifa took aim at West on Twitter when the latter announced that his album would be titled "Waves" (it later became "The Life of Pablo"). West didn't take kindly to the jab, ripping into Khalifa with a string of tweets attacking his music, his clothing and even his kids.
Also read: Kanye West Aims Twitter Fury at Wiz Khalifa: ‘I Own Your Child’
Linda Perry vs. Lady Gaga/Diane Warren
When the song "Til It Happens to You" from "The Hunting Ground" soundtrack received an Oscar nomination, songwriter Linda Perry accused Lady Gaga of taking a songwriting credit she didn't deserve. Perry later publicly apologized for the tweets after Gaga's co-writer, Diane Warren, came to the pop star's defense.
Also read: Linda Perry Apologizes to Lady Gaga for Oscars Jab: ‘I Made a Mistake to Comment’
Piers Morgan vs. Susan Sarandon
Upset about Susan Sarandon's choice of wardrobe to introduce the In Memoriam tribute at the SAG Awards, Piers Morgan took to Twitter to call her outfit "horribly inappropriate." Sarandon simply responded with a photo of herself in a bra from "The Rocky Horror Picture Show," dedicated to Morgan.
Also read: Susan Sarandon Says Piers Morgan Is ‘Milking’ #CleavageGate (Video)
Demi Lovato vs. Taylor Swift
A bevy of stars came out in defense of Kesha in her dispute with Sony and music producer Dr. Luke, but Demi Lovato wasn't satisfied by Taylor Swift's choice to donate money to help cover the singer's legal fees. "Take something to Capitol Hill or actually speak out about something and then I'll be impressed," she wrote.
Kanye West vs. Deadmau5
When house music producer Deadmau5 came after Kanye West on Twitter, the "Life of Pablo" rapper fired back with his typical string of angry tweets. "Do you do birthday parties?? My daughter loves Minnie mouse," West wrote, referencing the mask the producer wears on stage.
Also read: Kanye West Fires Back at Deadmau5 After DJ Slammed Rapper for Using Piracy Sites
Sam Smith vs. Dustin Lance Black
Sam Smith stuck his foot in his mouth after winning an Oscar for his James Bond theme "Writing's on the Wall," mistakenly suggesting that he might be the first openly gay man to win an Academy Award. "Milk" screenwriter and openly gay Oscar winner Dustin Lance Black called him out on Twitter, suggesting that the singer familiarize himself with his work.
Also read: Dustin Lance Black Wants Sam Smith to ‘Stop Texting’ His Fiance
Kim Kardashian vs. Bette Midler/Chloe Grace Moretz/Miley Cyrus
When Kim Kardashian shared a nude selfie, Bette Midler wrote on Twitter that "if Kim wants us to see a part of her we’ve never seen, she’s gonna have to swallow the camera.” Kim's sassy response didn't stop a slew of other celebrities from adding their own two cents, including Chloe Grace Moretz accusing the reality star of being a bad role model and Miley Cyrus accusing them all of being "tacky."
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‘We’re the Millers’ Star Kathryn Hahn Joins Steve Coogan on Showtime’s ‘Happyish’
Actress previously played same role opposite the late Philip Seymour Hoffman
Travis Reilly | November 13, 2014 @ 9:30 AM Last Updated: November 13, 2014 @ 10:03 AM
“We’re the Millers” actress Kathryn Hahn will star in Showtime’s “Happyish” pilot… again.
She’ll play opposite Oscar-nominee Steve Coogan‘ (“Philomena”) on a new version of the half-hour series, which hopes to examine mankind’s pursuit of happiness in a comedic fashion, and will film in December in New York City.
Hahn portrayed the same role on the network’s original “Happyish” pilot, starring alongside the late Philip Seymour Hoffman. The fate of the series was thrown into disarray when Hoffman died in February, but Showtime president David Nevins hinted at moving forward with the project in July and announced Coogan as Hoffman’s replacement in October.
See photos: The Faces of Pilot Season 2014 (Photos)
Hahn will again play Lee Payne, Thom Payne’s (Coogan) wife on the show, Her character is said to be candid to a considerable fault, but one who also sees the good in people.
The actress’s previous television credits include “Parks and Recreation,” “Transparent,” “Girls,” “Hung,” “The Newsroom” and “Crossing Jordan.” Her film screen credits include “Revolutionary Road,” “Step Brothers” and “The Holiday.”
“This American Life” contributor Shalom Alexander created, wrote and will executive produce “Happyish.” Emmy Award nominee Ken Kwapis (“He’s Just Not That Into You”) will executive produce and direct the pilot. Kwapis’ producing partner Alexandra Beattie will co-executive produce, under their In Cahoots banner.
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“Lee is fierce while funny, defiant while vulnerable; no one can pull that off as deftly, subtly and sincerely as Kathryn Hahn,” said Auslander in a statement obtained by TheWrap “We’re very lucky to have her. We meaning Earth.”
Gersh, BEP and James Adams represent Hahn.
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Why loyalty, not view count, should be your new North Star
Nick Ascheim April 2018
Nick Ascheim / April 2018
Nick Ascheim is the SVP of digital for NBC News and MSNBC. Coming at video from a broadcast company’s perspective, he shares a lesson with insight for marketers too: Views aren’t everything. Measuring for loyalty is the long game.
A version of this article originally appeared in Digiday.
Since the advent of digital news, publishers have pursued scale, a strategy premised on a big assumption: If lots of people consume your content, you will make lots of money. But that assumption is wrong. To succeed today, content publishers and brands need to shift focus from scale to loyalty and engagement.
How the publishing industry came around to loyalty the hard way
In the first era of the Digital Age, a few big-name publishers found something approaching scale—back when the majority of visitors bookmarked their favorite publishers or clicked links in emails they subscribed to intentionally.
Scale still seduces, but there is hope in something even more basic than big numbers: loyalty.
In the second era, portals—like AOL, MSN, and Yahoo—redefined scale. Single destinations commanded audiences at levels that had only been seen before when TV viewers across all channels were added together.
Then, in the third era, came the platforms. YouTube, Facebook, and others pushed the meaning of scale even further. Audience-size tallies began with the letter “B” instead of “M.”
This kickstarted some experiments from publishers, especially when it came to video. New publishers emerged to create viral content that was “optimized” if forgettable. These newbies, and some legacy publishers too, bragged about the small nations of people who consumed their videos, but were silent when the conversation turned to making money.
And so we stand today as a publishing industry, bruised by our own “scale-ian” pursuits, and still in search of a sustainable digital business model to call our own. As the fourth era of the Digital Age dawns, I believe there is a way. Scale still seduces, but there is hope in something even more basic than big numbers: loyalty.
Why loyalty, not views, is what we’re after at NBC News Digital
It is no small irony that we publishers can look to those same platforms for a path forward. The successful platforms didn’t begin by chasing scale. First, they sought validation in loyal users. Because loyalty meant their efforts had given rise to products and experiences that people wanted to visit and use again and again. Their audiences grew because of that intense focus on quality before all else. And what followed? Scale, though loyal scale, and then of course revenues in seemingly unending supply.
At NBC News Digital, we have adopted loyalty as our North Star. Not because we don’t aspire to be big, but because we do.
How we’re reorienting our video business, storytelling, and creative for loyalty
1. We changed the way we measure success. We now judge success not simply in video starts or unique views, but in the return frequency of our visitors and in the quantity of content they consume during a single visit. It’s made a rapid impact, especially on YouTube. Across our YouTube channels, viewers watch our videos for nearly five minutes on average.
2. We focused on the quality of the products that deliver our content in equal measure to the quality of the content itself. We made our video players on NBCNews.com faster and more visually compelling. We turned off autoplay, knowing full well that it would hurt our video scale, but that audiences would love it. And it worked. It took just nine months to organically earn back (and then some) all the starts we lost when we turned it off. Every brand can apply this learning, because we all have owned properties that could benefit from a check-up. Take your mobile page speed. Are you delivering your content fast enough? If not, you risk missing table-stakes on the path to earning loyalty.
3. We committed to made-for-digital video content across several channels, including YouTube. In addition to launching a daily news briefing on Snapchat, we also launched NBC Left Field, a digital video team for the express purpose of creating sight, sound, and motion of the highest, most cinematic order hosted on YouTube. For instance, we explored the failure but persistence of New Year’s resolutions using visually arresting graphics created with Tilt Brush—a tool that allowed us to paint in 3D space with virtual reality.
4. We redefined our audiences and gave them the in-depth, challenging reporting they wanted. We rolled out new content verticals—MACH for technology and innovation, BETTER for health and wellness, and THINK for opinions and perspectives—to differentiate our video and written content and stand out from the crowd. These narrower editorial niches allow us to appeal to specific audiences with deep subject matter affinity. Not surprisingly, these audiences tend to come back more frequently.
5. We doubled down on what makes us, well, NBC News: journalism of the highest quality. We’ve expanded our newsroom, hired the best, and focused on telling the stories that need to be told, that we can tell better—whether or not they’re the ones a social algorithm likes best.
Building for loyalty and engagement is not an easy road, nor a short one. But we know what we do is important and that audiences rely on us, and we are fortunate to be a part of a company with the drive and resources to allow us to dream big and think longer term. We are confident in our pursuit of loyalty as the foundation for building not just scale and a good business to go along with it, but a trusted provider of journalism across the globe.
Nick Ascheim
SVP of Digital for NBC News and MSNBC
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Veo Robotics wants to integrate humans and robots in the workplace
TODAY’s Craig Melvin travels to Waltham, Massachusetts, to take a closer look at Veo Robotics, a company using cutting-edge technology to push the boundaries of what robots can do — while lowering the boundaries between man and machine.Sept. 21, 2018
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Trebuchet Magazine| 06/04/2011| Society
Doss Blockos: Oz Beer goes Underground
Doss Blockos have created something special, a street culture inspired brewery hidden in amongst the urban snorescapes of Melbourne.
Pretty much epitomising everything Trebuchet admires; righteous DIY, creativity and the amber isotope they’ve taken cues from squat culture, graf and a universal love of beer to make something individual to their experiences, perhaps even true.
Trebuchet caught up with Blockos Hoss Benjamin Cairns to talk Beer and inspiration.
Trebuchet: From the press release it sounds as though you had a pretty tough time in New York. What took you over there? Did you have a plan to start a brewery back then?
Doss Blockos: We went to New York to see what was happening with beer and bars and off the cuff filming and art that some of our friends were creating. We ended up a lot more underground than we expected and found underground brewing that got us all pretty fired up.
Trebuchet: Tell me about the underground brewing scene in New York? Are there lots of guys doing it? Beer offs? Pop-up bars?
Doss Blockos: Well there is underground, as in a known fraternity of brewers but that's not we are talking about. I'd say when half the New York breweries were left discarded was when the best brewing happened for squat brewers…
Trebuchet: What’s the history of your Beer?
Doss Blockos: The history of the beer is something we are still finding out as we get further and further into the subterranean living in New York and become a part of the culture that gave us the inspiration for Doss Blockos…
Trebuchet: So trips back to New York are regular event for you guys?
Doss Blockos: Yeah we are back to New York in May probably. We are about to brew a special edition of Doss Blockos from its home and ship them back home. We know it doesn't make financial sense but we are so excited about creating a run somewhere beneath East 9th. We've got a hook up…
Trebuchet: Why ‘Doss Blockos’?
Doss Blockos: Dos Blockos was an iconic squat in the Lower East Side of New York that was around up until the 1990s. We were inspired by the good things that come out of adverse conditions, like creativity and camaraderie, and making do with what you've got…
Trebuchet: When did you start brewing?
Doss Blockos: The first Doss Blockos brew started popping up at bars around Melbourne in October last year.
Trebuchet: What is East 9th Brewery?
Doss Blockos: East 9th Brewing Co. because that's where Doss Blockos came to life and that's where we will end up. Doss Blockos beer is a journey back to its origins that sees us get further and futher down the rabbit hole of squatting and the subterranean world of New York. We are getting more and more involved with the art and music and living that makes squatting what it is all around the world.
We are developing all sorts of ways that we can help out the squatting movement… we were thinking of putting aside funds for a legal team to help squatters stay where they are… it's a good dream and we know it will take a bit of time to happen, but we are keen.
Trebuchet: How do you source your ingredients?
Doss Blockos: The original ingredients were something we were told about in New York. They are all about what was available and staying true to that…
Trebuchet: Would you consider DB to be a premium product? And is this possibly ironic coming from an underground stance?
Doss Blockos: We don't really care about making distinctions on that level. If people want to drink it then they should. How they feel about themselves when they do so is up to them. Actually we just had to get this idea and this thing out of our heads and into people hands because we loved what it was all about and what it made us think about and where it is making us go as people and as a company.
Trebuchet: Where do you sell your beers?
Doss Blockos: At the moment, you can get your hands on a Doss Blockos at growing number of Melbourne bars, like The Penny Black, Lucky Coq or the Windsor Castle. We've also started making our way into small independent bottle-shops, like Drummond Cellars in Carlton and Chapel Street Cellars in Prahran, so now you can take a six-pack home! In the next month or so, we'll also be heading North into the Sydney bar-scene because we are starting to get requests from bars that have heard about Doss… we just want to slow it down and not move so quickly that it blows out.
Trebuchet: Where do you want to go with the brewery? Expansion plans? Other varieties? What’s the ideal future for you guys?
Doss Blockos: We will do a whole lot more products that we love. Stuff that interests us as an idea. Stuff that is interesting to be a part of.
Trebuchet: How many pubs stock Doss Blockos?
Doss Blockos: We started of last October with a tight-knit group of around a dozen so we could keep up with demand. Since then, the number is on the increase almost daily, (probably around 50 or so) which is awesome, so it's getting easier and easier to get your hands on one!
Trebuchet: What inspires to you to make beer?
Doss Blockos: We are inspired to make a beer that people want to drink and want to drink more than one of. We aren't at all excited about talking double hopped or writing extensively about key beer notes. Our crew feels like there is room right now for beers that aren't heavy foreign beers or traditional Australian beers. We are inspired to create a beer that (at the least) vaguely represents thoughtful ideas about living.
Trebuchet: Squats and graf, what do they mean to you? A lifestyle? A form of expression?
Doss Blockos: Squats are interesting to us. We don't really like generalising too much about them though because there are different squatting circumstances. In places like New York there is an ideal about not living and breathing the same capitalist scenario as everyone else. In places like Cape Town, people are squatting out of different circumstance. What we love about squatting and grafing and the arts coming out of squatting in New York is that it is people getting involved with each other and telling the stories and shouting out ideas that they need to get out of their brains.
Trebuchet: They idea of having the beers in ‘brown paper bags’ is pretty keen? How did it come to you?
Doss Blockos: We flogged the first lot from a bottle shop and then we became really keen.
Trebuchet: There is a strong sense of independence coming from the brewery, is that important to you?
Doss Blockos: Actually, it's just what we are doing. It's not more important than anything else. I'd say what we really care about is getting further and further down the rabbit hole, towards more and more involvement in the work coming from local artists. No we didn't smoke a joint before answering this question.
Trebuchet: If people wanted to start a brewery in London, what would be the best way to get going?
Doss Blockos: Starting a brewery… who could be stuffed… do you want to make beer or do you want to try and find millions of dollars to create a machine that already exists. We recommend Squatting at a brewery and pumping out beer without the crazy overheads.
Trebuchet: Are you tied into a scene in Melbourne? Are there events?
Doss Blockos: We seem to be working and collaborating with new artists and bars and festivals and people every day. Sometimes we are overwhelmed with a stupid amount of stuff on and coming up all around Australia. We recently had a massive tattoo event come and take a crap-load of beer and then they had to come back for round two because it went so well. It's good to have so many bars and gallery launch crew approach us out of nowhere wanting to work with us.
Trebuchet: Getting the word out (ahem, marketing) what’s the plan?
Doss Blockos: Marketing… is that something that you do in the dark?
Trebuchet: You seem to be much more down-to-earth than a lot of ‘street’ scene entrepreneurs? It might be too much to say many of the folk are pretentious, but there seems to be a sort of closed elitism amongst them. What’s the reaction been to your beer/business/baby so far?
Doss Blockos: Bars and all the crews working and hanging at some of the best bars around have been really lovely to work with. Everyone seems to be on it. Excited about something unique in what it is about and with a taste that everyone just describes as massively drinkable.
Maybe everything is about having the right intention and I think we have the right intention and other people have the right intention towards us.
East 9th Brewing Company
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McKayla Langmeier Wins 2017 Platinum Performance/USEF Show Jumping Talent Search Finals – East
Gladstone, N.J. – Oct. 8, 2017 – After several top finishes and a reserve championship at the 2015 Talent Search Finals, McKayla Langmeier finally led the victory gallop at the 2017 Platinum Performance/USEF Show Jumping Talent Search Finals – East after climbing the ranks to overtake the early leader. As the day one frontrunner with a commanding lead, Taylor St. Jacques entered the second day of the competition with the early advantage and a target on her back, and though she easily nabbed a place in the final work-off, Langmeier proved the most consistent to triumph over her counterparts in the World Championships-style fourth and final phase. With her win, Langmeier can now add a new accolade to her resume and joins the ranks of past Talent Search Finals champions including international names such as McLain Ward, Richard Spooner, Charlie Jayne, Lauren Hough and Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum.
McKayla Langmeier and Skyfall (©Elaine Wessel/Phelps Sports)
The Phase III: Jumping course, designed by judges McLain Ward and Jimmy Torano, offered riders plenty of opportunities to demonstrate their flexibility and precision, but one obstacle proved to be the undoing of numerous pairs: the water jump. The Talent Search Finals is unique in that it is the only junior equitation championship that requires the inclusion of a water jump, and many horses and riders fell victim to the obstacle, most unaccustomed to encountering it. As the latter portion of contenders, those entrants that had placed in the upper ranks after the first two phases, took to the ring, problems at the water jump grew scarce, but even the slightest error had the potential to drastically affect the standings to determine the four riders who would move on to the work-off.
Of the four riders that entered the day atop the leaderboard, only two would retain their status. Langmeier was joined in the ride-off by St. Jacques, still the leader after Phase III, as well as Abigail Brayman and Taylor Griffiths, who ascended from the tenth and 12th positions, respectively, with their nearly faultless trips. For the fourth phase of competition, the remaining young riders would each be challenged to ride their mount over an abridged track, followed by a trip on each of the other three horses. Though catch riding is no easy task, the riders were presented with an elite group of horses up to the task.
Langmeier brought Linda Langmeier’s Skyfall, her veteran partner who is no stranger to the Talent Search Finals, having carried Langmeier to the reserve spot in the 2015 event on the East Coast and a respectable placing last year, to the final round of riding. He was accompanied by St. Jacques’ trusty Charisma, who is owned by Heritage Farm, Inc. and has campaigned with St. Jacques to the winner’s circle in numerous championships, as well as Catherine Tyree’s Corleone, a seasoned grand prix mount ridden by Brayman. Griffiths’ ride, Elvenstar Farm’s Caracas 89, was a fresh ride for her, but was the winning horse just two weeks ago at the 2017 Talent Search Finals – West in California with Halie Robinson in the irons.
Entering the final phase with clean slates, riders Langmeier, St. Jacques, Brayman and Griffiths began the work-off atop their own horses. Over the course of 16 trips, scores from Ward and Torano ranged from the low score of 63 to St. Jacques’ high score of 90 earned aboard Caracas 89, the only pair to break the 90-point threshold. Interestingly enough, each of the four young riders earned their highest marks on a different horse, and Brayman was the only rider to earn the highest of her four scores on her own horse. Unfortunately for St. Jacques, even though she garnered the highest singular score of the final phase with Caracas 89, a misjudged line on her own Charisma would cause her to ultimately lose the championship by just a handful of points. Langmeier, too, made a mistake with a swapped lead that led to a brief cross-canter during her trip aboard Corleone, but she piloted Charisma to her high score of 88, and when combined with twin scores of 86, made up for her low score of 71 with Corleone. Griffiths raked in an 83-point score, her highest of the afternoon, with the ride atop Skyfall, while Brayman’s top marks were in the saddle aboard Corleone.
Unlike the previous phase with the water jump, no specific problem arose during the final work-off, but one bending line, meant to be ridden in 9 strides, did produce unsatisfactory remarks from the judges panel. In nearly all of the trips, the contenders rode the line in a forward 8 strides, prompting a rushed appearance instead of the desired smooth ride. Learning from the mistakes of her counterparts, Langmeier laid down one of the only true 9-stride lines sought by Ward and Torano, helping to propel her to the head of the leaderboard after an elegant ride around their track. Ultimately though, it was the accumulation of various successes and mistakes across the board that determined the final standings.
Langmeier ultimately clinched the top honors with a cumulative score of 331 in the fourth phase, followed by St. Jacques in the reserve spot with a total tally of 326. Griffiths claimed third position with 306 points earned, and Brayman rounded out the top four with her composite score of 285. Heritage Farm, Inc.’s Charisma was awarded the Grappa Trophy, deemed by the judges to have been the best horse of the competition over the course of the two days. St. Jacques’ mount consistently pulled in top scores in each trip, and proved himself very adjustable, responsive and reliable with every turn in the ring.
Sunday’s competition concluded the 2017 Platinum Performance/USEF Show Jumping Talent Search Finals – East, with Langmeier emerging victorious. Over the course of the next year, a new collection of young riders across the country will partake in the Talent Search Program, ultimately aiming to earn a spot at the 2018 East or West finale event in the autumn. The Talent Search Program seeks to challenge and educate the young and junior riders of today with the hopes that they may become the next generation of show jumping professionals, thus laying the foundation for future international success.
FROM THE WINNER’S CIRCLE
McKayla Langmeier – 2017 Platinum Performance/USEF Show Jumping Talent Search Finals – East champion
On her reaction to winning:
“I was surprised. I knew I was going to be somewhere in the top four obviously, but I really didn’t know where I was going to end up. It’s nice to finally win after being so close in the past.”
On the four horses in the work-off:
“My horse has been here for a few years now, and obviously I know him really well. Taylor St. Jacques’ horse was unbelieveable and he is so smooth, and Taylor Griffiths’ horse, which I think is new to her, looked pretty straight-forward. Abigail’s horse was very scopey. Other than my horse, they were all catch rides for me.”
On Skyfall:
“I’ve been with Skyfall for about five years now. My mom and I went to Europe and found him. He’s a very special horse for us. He has put me through all the finals and has been top at every final that I have called on him. He is always there for me and he is just an extraordinary animal.”
On her future plans:
“I’m thinking a little bit more jumper ring for me in the immediate future. After the upcoming finals I’m going to college for the next four years, so I’m planning to reassess at that point what I want to do. For the next few years I’m going to focus on college and getting my degree.”
Taylor St. Jacques – 2017 Platinum Performance/USEF Show Jumping Talent Search Finals – East reserve champion
On her reaction to placing reserve:
“Obviously everyone wants to win and I was hoping it would work out in my favor. I think I made my biggest mistake on my own horse and that’s my own fault. I should have known how to ride that [line] a little better than I did, so all my fault. All the horses performed so well. They were each completely different rides, and I think that put us all to the test but I think we all handled it well. We all had a few mistakes here and there but in the end I thought all of us rode really well and I’m so happy for McKayla. She’s been so close so many times. She deserves it.”
On Charisma:
“Charisma is owned by Andre and Michael Dignelli, and I’m so very fortunate that they give me the opportunity to have him as my finals and equitation horse. He is very special to Andre, who imported him about two years ago now. The moment he saw him he knew he was something special. It was perfect timing last year when the girl’s lease was up who had him, so I got the ride on him right before finals. I think he and I really, really click. I show off his strengths and he shows off my strengths, and I think he is just an extraordinary horse. Everyone who rides him loves him, but he is new to this, too. He isn’t a seasoned veteran. Last year was his first year at indoors finals and at USEF Finals, so I think he is taking this all very well.”
McLain Ward – Judge
On his opinion of the final four riders:
“As far as the final four work-off, I think it’s a phenomenal format and today was a prime example of that. Taylor St. Jacques on her own horse didn’t have a great round and was a little behind the eight-ball even after the second horse and it was looking like she had no chance to win, and then McKayla made a pretty large mistake on the third horse and it got very close. I knew the score that McKayla needed to have to win and to see if she could meet that standard. For me it was exciting right to the very end. That’s the beauty of this, it changes – it ebbs and flows and it’s not ‘one mistake and you’re out.’ Taylor fought back and made it very close to the end. There was really not a lot of room for McKayla to make a mistake, and she had a beautiful last round and got the job done. I think that’s exciting, it’s interesting.”
Missy Clark – trainer to McKayla Langmeier
On working with McKayla and the Langmeier family:
“Occasionally in life great people show up in your life, and I can’t say enough about the Langmeiers. From Linda to Kenny to McKayla and the work ethic and the whole thing, it just works together. This girl is as good as it gets right here, she really is. It’s easy dealing with her and her family. For me, that’s why I get up in the morning. People like them make it all make sense for those days that nothing makes sense at all. McKayla is great. Work ethic A+, talent A+, dedication A+, interest level A+. All of it. She has worked so hard for so many years and has always been so respectable, polite and appreciative, and I can’t say enough good things about her. She’s a good one.”
For more information on the 2017 Platinum Performance/USEF Show Jumping Talent Search Finals, please click here.
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Smith, Linstedt and Helffrich Selected for Jacqueline B. Mars National Competition and Training Grants
Tamra Smith and Fleeceworks Royal (Photo: Shannon Brinkman Photography)
Gladstone, N.J. – Oct. 3, 2017 – The United States Equestrian Team (USET) Foundation is pleased to announce this year’s recipients of the Jacqueline B. Mars National Competition and Training Grants: Tamra Smith, Jordan Linstedt and Alexis Helffrich. The grant is awarded to eventing athletes who have been identified as having an impressive record and potential to represent the United States in future international competitions. These three riders will be traveling from the West Coast to attend The Dutta Corp. Fair Hill International CCI2* and CCI3* Oct. 12–15 in Fair Hill, Maryland.
Smith of Murrieta, California, is an ICP Level IV certified instructor with over 25 years of experience and an extensive resume of accomplishments. She has been named to the United States Eventing Developing Rider List, is consistently ranked among the top ten on the United States Eventing Association’s (USEA) Lady Rider of the Year leaderboard and earned the Area VI Rider of the Year for two consecutive years in 2014 and 2015.
Smith has been widely recognized for her achievements in eventing and has previously received grants to compete on the Nations Cup teams at the Boekelo CCI3* in the Netherlands and the Bromont CCI3* as well as the USEA Foundation’s Rebecca Broussard National Developing Rider Grant in 2012 and the Rebecca Broussard International Developing Rider Grant in 2015. She also contributed to the U.S. team gold medal at the 2014 Jaguar Land Rover Bromont CCI3* in Quebec, Canada.
“It’s a huge honor to be able to receive a grant like this,” said Smith. “It’s really beneficial because we’re away from our businesses while traveling, and to be away for a month to go to the East Coast across the country is not only financially taxing but also hard on our businesses as well. You feel like you’re picking the right horses and doing the right things when you get validation by receiving a grant like this so it’s really exciting. I’m very honored and very excited. Thank you to Jacqueline Mars for the investment she’s put into the sport. It really means a lot to have been a recipient of something like this.”
Jordan Linstedt and Revitavet Capato (Photo: Shannon Brinkman Photography)
Smith competed at Stable View in Aiken, South Carolina, over the weekend as a prep-run with her 8-year-old Holsteiner mare Fleeceworks Royal before heading up to Pennsylvania to stay through Fair Hill.
Linstedt, 25 of Duvall, Washington, is an international top-level CCI4* three-day event rider. She was selected for the US Equestrian’s Developing Riders/Eventing 25 Program in 2013 and has successfully competed at the Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event multiple times with a variety of horses. Recently, Linstedt maintained her lead from start to finish to win the 2017 Bromont CCI3* in June with her and Barbara Linstedt’s 14-year-old Hanoverian gelding Revitavet Capato.
“Capato is phenomenal,” said Linstedt. “I am so lucky to be able to have him. I produced him from a young horse. I did his first Novice event with him and I’ve had him for around eight years. It’s truly rewarding to have him going at this level and be so competitive. I feel like our partnership just continues to develop each year. Our big goals after Fair Hill would be looking at going to Europe next spring. He’s one of those horses of a lifetime and I think he’s at a great place and I’m really looking forward to being competitive at Fair Hill. All three stages he’s equally good at but it all has to come together.
“This is the first big grant I’ve received so it’s a big deal for me,” continued Linstedt. “It feels fantastic! It makes everything so much more possible. It’s unbelievable to get the opportunity to do what I love to do and travel. Hopefully I can utilize those funds to get the best coaching and training that I might not have been able to get before. Now I feel like I can be as best prepared as possible to have the best result at Fair Hill. A huge thank you to the USET Foundation and Jacqueline Mars for making these opportunities available to us. This sort of grant makes everything so much easier and makes me able to do my job so much better.”
Alexis Helffrich and London Town (Photo: Shannon Brinkman Photography)
Originally from France, Helffrich, who now resides in Pleasanton, California, began his riding career holding multi-disciplinary working student positions including those of hunters, jumpers and racing. He arrived in the United States in 2005 and was quickly named to the United States Eventing Developing Rider List. Helffrich has proven to be a consistent competitor at events on the West Coast and is currently working to establish himself at the 3* level. He is licensed to teach through Advanced Level in eventing and Fourth Level dressage and is currently partnered with Pamela Williams’ 10-year-old Thoroughbred/Warmblood gelding London Town.
Make sure to follow these athletes as they compete at The Dutta Corp. Fair Hill International CCI2* and CCI3* by visiting fairhillinternational.com.
The USET Foundation is a nonprofit organization that supports the competition, training, coaching, travel and educational needs of America’s elite and developing international and high performance horses and athletes in partnership with US Equestrian.
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Evangeline Parish Marriage License, LA
Evangeline Parish
200 Court St., Suite 104,
Ville Platte, LA 70586
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Marriage Application Requirement Louisiana: ✔ Get Copy Of Birth Certificate
Both applicant must be 18 years old in order to purchase a marriage license without parental or court intervention.
Applications for a marriage license may be made by either applicant of the marriage; only one applicant needs to be present, but must present all required documents.
A current driver’s license, current state ID or passport.
Provide address for both applicants. (Street, city, state, parish/county, and also know if the residence is in the city limits).
Provide father’s full name and mother’s full maiden name for both applicants and the state in which each parent was born.
Provide the highest grade completed in school for both applicants.
Applicants must provide both Social Security numbers.
Examples: Social Security Card, Drivers License with social security number on it, Military ID, W2.
If no number has been issued, that person must sign a statement to that effect and must appear in person.
An official birth certificate or official birth card with the raised seal of the state for both applicants.
Driver’s licenses, State identification cards, Military identification cards, Passports or Naturalization may not be substituted for the birth certificates, unless a birth certificate waiver is signed by a State District Judge.
Applicants born outside of Louisiana may apply to have this requirement waived.
Original foreign language birth certificates must be translated into English by that country’s Consulate per LA R.S. 13:3725. No other translations are acceptable. Foreign language originals must be submitted along with the original translations.
If either applicant has been previously married, the applicant must provide a signed, dated copy of the final divorce decree or judgment, or if the former spouse is deceased, a copy of the death certificate naming the applicant as the surviving spouse.
Original foreign language divorce and death certificates must be translated into English by that country’s Consulate as per LA R.S. 13:3725. No other translations are acceptable. foreign language originals must be submitted along with the original translation.
Marriage ID Requirement Louisiana:
State issued ID card
Passport Card
Foreign Gov’t issued Passport
Marriage Waiting Period Louisiana:
There is a 24-hour waiting period between the time of issuance of the license and the ceremony.
The waiting period can be waived by a district judge or justice of the peace in the parish where the license was issued.
The waiver must be attached to the completed marriage certificate when it is returned to the clerk of the district court.
Marriage Residency Requirement Louisiana:
You do not have to be a resident of Louisiana.
If either applicant has been divorced and is applying for a marriage license
Within 30 days from the date of the divorce, a copy of the judgment of divorce must be provided with the application,
More than 30 days after the date of the divorce, the month and year of the divorce must be provided, but an actual copy of the judgment is unnecessary.
If either applicant is a widow or widower and is applying for a marriage license
Within 30 days of the death of a spouse, a certified copy of the death certificate must be provided with the application,
More than 30 days after the death of a spouse, the month and the year of the death must be provided, but an actual copy of the death certificate is unnecessary.
Marriage License Fee Louisiana:
The fee for a Louisiana marriage license varies by parish and is required at the time of application.
Proxy Marriages Louisiana:
Cousin Marriages Louisiana:
Common Law Marriages Louisiana:
Covenant Marriage Louisiana:
Marriage Blood Test Louisiana:
Blood tests are no longer required to purchase a marriage license in Louisiana.
Marriage Age Requirements Louisiana: ✔ Get Copy Of Birth Certificate
If either applicant to the marriage is 16 or 17 years of age, the signatures of both parents are required along with their identification.
If either applicant is under the age of 16, a court order signed by a State District Judge is required, along with the signatures of both parents and their identification.
Parents must be the same individuals as named on the applicant’s birth certificate, and must appear in proper person with current official identification to sign the permission document.
Parents must appear with the applicants at the time of license application.
Sole custody papers presented must be certified legal documents as issued by the Court relating to the minor applicant.
Provisional custody by mandate documents, power of attorney, and notarial emancipation are not acceptable.
The Clerk’s office will only accept a Judicial Emancipation signed by a State District Judge.
Marriage Officiants Louisiana:
Any ordained or licensed clergymen who have registered with the clerk of the district court of the parish or with the health department if in New Orleans, and justices of the peace.
Ministers must register with the clerk of the district court of the parish or with the registrar of vital records by providing “an affidavit stating his or her lawful name, denomination, and address” (RS 9:204).
After performing a marriage, the minister must complete a marriage certificate and return it to the clerk of the district court.
Marriage Witnesses Louisiana
Yes. Two (2) witnesses are required to sign the marriage license at the time of the ceremony.
Expiration Date of Marriage License Louisiana
An unused marriage license expires 30 days from the date of issue.
A Louisiana marriage license is valid only for ceremonies performed in the state of Louisiana.
if not used, it must be returned to the Clerk’s Office to be renewed. An additional fee is charged for renewal.
If the license is not used, it should be returned to be cancelled off the books.
The fee is not refunded.
Vital Records Registry
Please Note: State and county marriage license requirements often change. The above information is for guidance only and should not be regarded as legal advice. For more information regarding Louisiana marriage license laws please visit www.new.dhh.louisiana.gov.
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Good Grief with Cheryl Jones
Wednesday at 2 PM Pacific
December 3rd 2014: At the Threshold
What inspires a person to offer song to people at the end of their lives? Kate Munger, as a lover of choral music, felt a profound calling to offer people who were dying, incarcerated, newborn or in comas to receive the precious gift of music. She formed groups to offer song free to those who could benefit from it. What does she have to share having been with so many people at the threshold between the every day and something beyond? We'll talk about music, listen to some of songs Kate offers, and explore together what music touches when we stand at the threshold between this life and the beyo
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Three arrested on suspicion of burglary after crash sparks police search in Yorkshire dales
Three arrested on suspicion of burglary after crash sparks police search
By Rachel Conner-Hill echorachelc Chief Reporter (Tees Valley & North Yorkshire)
A woman and two men were arrested on Tuesday following a police search in the Yorkshire dales
THREE people have been arrested in connection with a series of burglary incidents in the Yorkshire dales.
A woman and two men were arrested on Tuesday following a police search sparked by a report of a vehicle hitting a house in Askrigg.
They were later arrested on suspicion of two attempted burglaries and one burglary of a business premises in Hawes, which all happened overnight between Monday, November 16 and Tuesday, November 17.
The house in Moor Road was struck by a passing white Ford Transit panel van pulling a mini digger on a trailer at about 8.40pm on Tuesday.
The transit van, trailer and digger were abandoned at the scene.
No-one was hurt in the collision and minor damage was caused to the property.
Following further enquiries and an area search, officers spotted a red Vauxhall Astra saloon car on the A684 at Swinithwaite at 9.45pm.
It was followed and stopped at 10.15pm on the Leyburn Road at Catterick Garrison.
The 26-year-old woman driving the car, along with a 37-year-old man and a 22-year-old man, all from the Durham area, were initially arrested in relation to the minor collision.
However, while in custody, they were further arrested in connection with two attempted burglaries and one burglary at business premises in the Hawes area overnight between Monday, November 16 and Tuesday, November 17.
The suspects have been released on conditional police bail to the end of December while the investigation continues.
Witnesses or anyone with information about the incidents are asked to call North Yorkshire Police on 101, select option 1, and speak to the Force Control Room.
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MURPHY ADMISSION
Jockey Oisin Murphy admits ‘cocaine was present’ day before positive test
Updated: 3 Dec 2020, 15:02
CHAMPION flat jockey Oisin Murphy has told how he saw "cocaine was present" the night before he tested positive for the drug last summer.
The Kerry-born rider has been banned for three months after testing positive for the Class A drug following a meeting in Chantilly on July 19.
Oisin Murphy has been banned for three months after testing positive for cocaine
He has always denied ever taking cocaine, with the French horse racing authority, France Galop, accepting his explanation.
But he has admitted "cocaine was present" the evening before the race meeting in Chantilly.
Explaining how the drug got into his system, he told BBC Sport: "I became aware of a situation where cocaine was present in my environment and I saw it there and didn't remove myself from that situation immediately."
He said his hair sample provides "black and white" evidence that his positive test was as a result of environmental contamination and he now wanted to "put things right" to repair his reputational damage.
THREE-MONTH BAN
France Galop, the French racing authority, issued his three-month ban on November 27, which he will serve from December 11 to March 11.
He had been facing a ban of six months, the same penalty given to Kieren Fallon and Frankie Dettori after they tested positive for cocaine. Fallon subsequently served an 18-month ban following a second positive test.
But France Galop said: "This decision takes into account the defence and scientific evidence presented by the jockey and his counsel during a hearing on Wednesday, 25 November 2020."
Murphy said: "When you sign for your jockey's licence every year you have got to abide by the rules.
"That was my error, and I very much have no self-pity. I made a mistake and I've got to live with the consequences."
He added: "I got up the next morning and went to France and thought nothing of it. But I should have thought much more of it and that was the block I have stumbled on."
Murphy's defence case referenced a sexual encounter the night before his positive sample, which could have led to transmission by the exchange of bodily fluids or surface contamination.
OBVIOUS AND CLEAR
He explained: "It's very hard to say exactly, because the threshold in France is 50 nanograms, so very much if you touch an area repeatedly two or three times over a period of hours then you will fail that drug test.
"So it's very hard to pinpoint exactly how it was transmitted but it was and that is obvious and clear."
Oisin Murphy rode 142 winners in the 2020 season to retain the champion jockey title he won in 2019.
Among the highlights was his win on board Kameko in the 2,000 Guineas in June.
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Murphy said the report proves that he didn't "knowingly" take any amount of cocaine and vowed he has never taken the drug.
Murphy said he will do charity work to fill the void during his enforced break from the sport, and will also use his suspension to reflect on his lifestyle.
He said he should be racing in Japan at this time of year and will also miss big races in Saudi Arabia and Dubai during his ban.
Kameko, ridden by Murphy, winning the Qipco 2000 Guineas at NewmarketCredit: PA:Press Association
Murphy with his Champion Jockey trophyCredit: PA:Press Association
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Voices in the Wilderness: Music from the Ephrata Cloister - Elizabeth Bates; Clifton Massey; Nils Neubert; Steven Hrycelak; Christopher Dylan Herbert
Written by Lesley Mitchell-Clarke
Category: Vocal and Choral
Voices in the Wilderness – Music from the Ephrata Cloister
Elizabeth Bates; Clifton Massey; Nils Neubert; Steven Hrycelak; Christopher Dylan Herbert
Bright Shiny Things BSTC-0141 (brightshiny.ninja/voices-in-the-wilderness)
This technically thrilling and historically significant recording is the brainchild of noted musical director/producer, Christopher Dylan Herbert, and boasts the prestigious vocal talents of soprano Elizabeth Bates, alto Clifton Massey, tenor Nils Neubert and bass Steven Hrycelak. The entire project is composed of a cappella hymns, written just under 300 years ago by the residents of the Ephrata Cloister – an 18th-century celibate community in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, established in 1732. Nearly all of the music here was written by the solitary sisters of Ephrata – the earliest known female composers in North America.* These challenging pieces have never before been performed by a professional ensemble, and in keeping with the authenticity of the CD, the recording itself was done in the very room for which the material was originally composed.
With the opening, Rose-Lillie-Blume Sequence, the voices introduce themselves and come together in perfect symmetry, rendering this rich composition in all of its original majesty. The acoustics of the Ephrata Cloister provide the sonic platform for this stirring piece – rendered in perfect classical, High German. On Herzog Unsrer Seligkeiten, dynamics as well as precise rhythmic motifs are utilized, and of special mention is Wann Gott sein Zion Losen Wird, where the satisfying arrangement explores curiously modern chordal motifs, foreshadowing chorale works yet to come, and the eventual emergence of 12-tone composition.
The final track, Formier, Mein Topffer, is both emotional and direct. Written by Sister Föbin (Christianna Lassle) the chord voicings are placed in the exact sweet spot for each register, creating a shining jewel of vocal music, and a celebration of early female composers/vocalists, as well as their creative vision, which is more than timely.
Editor’s note: Some might dispute this claim, and suggest that an Order of Ursuline nuns in Montreal were more likely the first female composers on the continent. I checked with noted Canadian music specialist John Beckwith who told me that, in an essay on Canada’s earliest music-theory treatise (1718), Erich Schwandt (formerly with the music department, U. of Victoria), claimed that the Ursulines wrote original music. The order was established in 1639 and was noted for its attention to culture and the arts, especially music, suggesting that these sisters were composing nearly a century before those of the Ephrata Cloisture.
Beethoven: Christ on the Mount of Olives Elsa Dreisig; Pavol Breslik; David Soar; London Symphony Chorus; LSO; Sir Simon Rattle
Written by Andrew Scott
Beethoven – Christ on the Mount of Olives
Elsa Dreisig; Pavol Breslik; David Soar; London Symphony Chorus; LSO; Sir Simon Rattle
LSO Live LSO0826D (lsolive.lso.co.uk)
In the Synoptic Gospels, Matthew, Mark and Luke capture Jesus’ last moments as a free man. Aware of his impending arrest and execution – having been betrayed by Judas Iscariot – Jesus uses his final night to reflect and pray at a familiar location, the Garden of Gethsemane, located on the Mount of Olives. To this day, the location remains a site of Christian pilgrimage and, in 1803, afforded rich artistic fodder to Beethoven, who used its physical beauty and importance as a site within Christian theology to pen his compelling, rarely performed, and only Passion oratorio, Christ on the Mount of Olives.
Although not theologically Christian, but rather an Enlightenment-era deist, Beethoven was most certainly drawing a parallel between this Gospel narrative of Jesus at his most fallible and his own looming existential crisis of encroaching deafness and isolation. Written while living at Vienna’s Theater an der Wien and understood, at the time, within the context of other 18th-century oratorios that focus on religious themes, subjects and iconography, Christ on the Mount of Olives deserves to occupy a more central place within Beethoven’s already bountiful canon. Good thing then, that it is performed and recorded so beautifully here on this 2020 LSO Live release by the London Symphony Orchestra with Sir Simon Rattle at the helm.
Fleshed out with an enormous chorus of nearly 150 under the direction of Simon Halsey and released in honour of the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth, this must-have recording packages together a compelling religious narrative with the majestic backing of the LSO and inspired soloists Elsa Dreisig, Pavol Breslik and David Soar performing a variety of biblical figures from Franz Xaver Huber’s libretto. With the religious importance for some of the upcoming Christmas season, this recording could not have come at a better time.
Elgar: Sea Pictures; Falstaff - Elīna Garanča; Staatskapelle Berlin; Daniel Barenboim
Written by Adam Sherkin
Elgar – Sea Pictures; Falstaff
Elīna Garanča; Staatskapelle Berlin; Daniel Barenboim
Decca Records 00028948509683 (deccaclassics.com/en/catalogue)
A new and sumptuous live recording from Decca features two important works by Sir Edward Elgar: the five Sea Pictures, Op 37 (1899) and the seldom-heard “symphonic study,” Falstaff, Op.68 (1913).
Elgar was both proud and fond of his Falstaff. While it was well received at its premiere in 1913, it hasn’t quite found its footing in the standard repertoire to date (at least outside of England). Conversely, the Sea Pictures have long captured the imaginations of singers and audiences alike. The sea itself is central to British identity and, while many other cultures could claim the same, an Englishman’s love for his island’s coastal waters is of a particular brand; Elgar epitomizes this relationship in his cycle. They are unique for their dark and rich soundscapes, initially scored for contralto. (Canada’s own Maureen Forrester sang them – almost as trademark – throughout her career.) The five Pictures set words from different poets, including the composer’s wife: In Haven (Capri).
Daniel Barenboim is no stranger to interpreting Elgar. What an experience it is, to hear him steer this record’s course. Barenboim’s seasoned Elgar is luminous and emotive, ever balanced and rational. One might argue that he brings just a hint of German cerebralism to such overtly English Romantic music. Mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča contributes her own impressive artistry here, embracing this ravishing repertoire with all that she’s got. Her voice soars above the Staatskapelle Berlin, buoyed and serene, “to rolling worlds of wave and shell.”
Egon Wellesz: Die Opferung des Gefangenen - Hwang; Cerha; Dewey; Koch; Vienna Concert Choir; Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien; Robert Brooks
Written by Andrew Timar
Egon Wellesz – Die Opferung des Gefangenen
Hwang; Cerha; Dewey; Koch; Vienna Concert Choir; Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien; Robert Brooks
Capriccio C5423 (naxosdirect.com/search/845221054230)
Austrian-British composer Egon Wellesz (1885-1974), of Hungarian Jewish origin, was a prolific composer. Extensively performed and decorated during his lifetime, he achieved success early, being the first of Arnold Schoenberg’s students to receive a publishing contract from Universal Edition, before Berg or Webern. Generally neglected in the decades since his death, this world premiere recording, by the Vienna Concert Choir and the Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien of Wellesz’s 1924-25 opera-ballet Die Opferung des Gefangenen (The Sacrifice of the Prisoner), is part of a wider revival of interest in his music.
The opera’s story is based on a scenario by Eduard Stucken after the ancient Mayan play Rabinal Achi, performed annually in Rabinal, Guatemala. Subtitled “a cultural drama for dance, solo singers and choir,” Wellesz’s work is about an imprisoned prince who is waiting for his execution after a battle. It’s not a huge stretch however to see the story reflecting many of the post WWI anxieties around the consequences of the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Replete with dramatic vocal and choral scenes and massive orchestral passages with Mahlerian and Schoenbergian echoes, Die Opferung is a prime example of Wellesz’s mature Viennese musical style. His signature colourful orchestration is underscored by forte brass choir and bold percussion statements. This theatrical work, parts of which would not be out of place on a later blockbuster movie soundtrack, reads surprisingly well on audio CD, even without the visual and dance elements of a stage production.
English Songs à la Française - Tyler Duncan; Erika Switzer
Written by Tiina Kiik
English Songs à la Française
Tyler Duncan; Erika Switzer
Bridge Records 9537 (bridgerecords.com/products/9537)
British Columbia-born/New York-based baritone, Tyler Duncan, and his wife, pianist Erika Switzer, are internationally renowned performers as a duo, and individually. The clever idea of performing French composers’ settings of original English texts started when French baritone François Le Roux handed them Camille Saint-Saëns’ Cherry-Tree Farm score, set to Horace Lennard’s poetry. More of these Romantic/20th century songs were compiled, which, after their recital in Tours, led to this, their remarkable first duo album.
A literal who’s who of French composers successfully set the original English texts. Reynaldo Hahn’s Five Little Songs (1914), set to Robert Louis Stevenson’s words, are short children’s songs with tonal word painting like the florid piano lines behind lyrical vocals in The Swing, and colourful low vocal pitches with piano tremolo night sky effects in The Stars. Darius Milhaud’s settings of five Rabindranath Tagore Child Poems (1916) are operatic, such as the fully orchestrated piano part supporting lyrical emotional singing in the closing, The Gift. Love Maurice Ravel’s Chanson écossaise (1910) setting of Robert Burns’ text. Ravel emulates a Scottish quasi-bagpipe folk song without ever creating a parody. Jules Massenet’s setting of Alfred Lord Tennyson’s Come into the Garden, Maud (1880) foreshadows future musical theatre sounds. Poulenc, Roussel and Gounod works complete the recording.
Duncan and Switzer deserve a “bilingual” standing ovation for their tight duo musicianship and colourful interpretations of these one-of-a kind art songs.
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Saman Shahi: Breathing in the Shadows - Maureen Batt; Fabián Arciniegas; Tiffany Hanus; Various Instrumentalists
Written by Ivana Popovic
Saman Shahi – Breathing in the Shadows
Maureen Batt; Fabián Arciniegas; Tiffany Hanus; Various Instrumentalists
Leaf Music LM237 (samanshahimusic.com)
The debut album by Iranian-Canadian composer and pianist Saman Shahi, Breathing in the Shadows, feels like a gentle journey through the kaleidoscope of meaningful images, each captured in a subjective and probing way. The three song cycles included on this album are worlds unto their own – powerful and empowering, existential blocks of unique and diverse musical language combining minimalism, dodecaphony, hints of Iranian traditional music and rock. The poetry is beautiful and impactful, but it is the music that propels it beyond its scope. Shahi’s music lets the poetic images breathe and blossom and underlines the themes of inner and outer struggles, yearnings, rebelliousness and death (symbolic and physical). The rhythmic drive and atonal segments create an immediacy that is enlivening.
The titular song cycle, Breathing in the Shadows, is based on poems by five poetesses from around the world and features a wonderfully talented duo – soprano Maureen Batt and pianist Tara Scott. Each song is a statement of independence and defiance in the face of oppression, longing or, simply, love.
The second cycle, Orbit, builds on sharp imagery conceived by Serbian-Canadian singer-songwriter Jelena Ćirić. The waves of colours Shahi creates in the piano lines are just gorgeous and tenor Fabián Arciniegas’ phrasing underscores the words with subtle urgency.
The concluding cycle, Song of a Wandering Soul, merges several musical forms that Shahi considers a part of his musical identity. Written for a larger ensemble, using improvisation and electronics to create varied textures and riding on the perfectly suited timbre of Tiffany Hanus’ voice, this cycle is pure rock ’n roll in a classical setting.
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Reena Esmail - This Love Between Us: Prayers for Unity; Barbara Croall - Giishkaapkag -- Elora Singers; Mark Vuorinen
Reena Esmail – This Love Between Us: Prayers for Unity; Barbara Croall – Giishkaapkag
Elora Singers; Mark Vuorinen
Independent TESR-001 (elorasingers.ca/hear/recordings)
The professional Elora Singers have established a reputation as one of the finest chamber choirs in Canada, particularly known for their commitment to Canadian repertoire. This admirable new release on their own imprint features two contrasting large-scale choral works by Canadian composer Barbara Croall and American composer Reena Esmail.
The subtitle, Prayers for Unity, of Esmail’s This Love Between Us (2016) tips listeners off to the composer’s intent. The work’s seven movements are titled after the major religious traditions of India: Buddhism, Sikhism, Christianity, Zoroastrianism, Hinduism, Jainism and Islam. Esmail has selected representative texts in the original seven languages from each, evoking unity, universal brotherhood and kindness. A signature element of the work is the inspired and effective incorporation of a Hindustani sitarist, vocal soloist and tabla player into the orchestral and choral texture, underscoring the fusion of North Indian and Western classical musical elements, both traditions Esmail is at home in.
Odawa First Nation composer and musician Barbara Croall’s 2019 Giishkaapkag (Where the Rock is Cut Through) is scored for choir, percussion and the pipigwan (Anishinaabe cedar flute) eloquently played by the composer. The vocals are underscored by a powerful, elegiac text condemning the violence to the feminine in creation. “Due to colonization,” writes Croall, “many women and girls likewise have suffered (and continue to suffer) … due to the many past and continuing violations of Shkakmigkwe (Mother Earth).” Referencing the present tragedy of murdered and missing Indigenous women, Croall reminds us that “the rocks bear witness and speak to us of this” – a message also heard clearly through her powerful music.
Rosa Mystica: Musical Portraits of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir; Paul Spicer
Written by Raul da Gama
Rosa Mystica – Musical Portraits of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir; Paul Spicer
Somm Recordings SOMMCD 0617 (naxosdirect.com/search/748871061729)
Among the stated objectives of this record label, one stands out and it is this: “to uncover new [music] … from the unique to the extraordinary…” This disc, Rosa Mystica, not only fits that objective, but it does so with a great deal of reverential eloquence.
The centerpiece – halfway through the album – is Benjamin Britten’s ardent setting of Gerald Manley Hopkins’ poem Rosa Mystica (Mystical Rose), an invocation in the 16th-century Litany of Loreto, which actually dates back to the Tanakh and Song of Songs (2:1), and which, when translated, reads: “I am the Rose of Sharon.” Paul Spicer and the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Choir interpret the work with shimmering passion.
It is Siva Oke, the recording producer, who makes sure that your edification begins from track one, with the inimitable John Tavener’s Mother of God, here I stand. Remarkably, each track thereafter is instrumentally and lyrically fresh despite the underlying theme of all the music being the same: that is, dedication to the praise and worship of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
The producer has also reflected a keen sense of history and openness for new material in the selection of these Musical Portraits of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The Nicholas Ludford (1485-1557) offering, Ave cujus conceptio, is the oldest. Meanwhile, from the contemporary era, Carl Rutti’s Ave Maria, Judith Bingham’s Ave virgo sanctissima and Cecilia McDowall’s Of a Rose make their debuts on this impressive recording.
Peter Lieberson: Songs of Love and Sorrow; The Six Realms - Gerald Finley; Anssi Karttunen;Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra; Hannu Lintu
Peter Lieberson – Songs of Love and Sorrow; The Six Realms
Gerald Finley; Anssi Karttunen;Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra; Hannu Lintu
Ondine ODE 1356-2 (naxosdirect.com/search/0761195135624)
American composer Peter Lieberson (1946–2011) had a fascinating, bicultural career. A composition student of rigorous American modernists Milton Babbitt and Charles Wuorinen, at an early age he imbibed the classical music of earlier eras, as well as mid-century jazz and musical theatre in the NYC home of his prominent record-executive father Goddard Lieberson and ballerina mother Vera Zorina.
Starting in the 1970s he embraced the teachings of Tibetan Buddhism which profoundly influenced his compositional approach. Lieberson’s mature works successfully fuse those seemingly disparate influences into a cohesive idiosyncratic chromatic style threaded with an appealing lyricism and anchored by inventive orchestration.
Lieberson composed The Six Realms (2000), a dramatic concerto for amplified cello and orchestra, at the request of Yo-Yo Ma. The work’s backstory outlines a key Buddhist teaching: differing states of mind shape human experience. Thus each of the concerto’s six continuous sections illustrates a different realm in Buddhist cosmology and aspect of human emotion. The work receives a powerfully emotional rendering on the album by contemporary music specialist, cellist Anssi Karttunen, a close Lieberson friend.
The record’s other work features an outstanding performance by Canadian bass-baritone Gerald Finley as soloist in Lieberson’s orchestral song cycle Songs of Love and Sorrow (2010), among his last works. Set to five sonnets from Cien sonetos de amor by Pablo Neruda, the Songs are imbued with love for – but also a sense of quiet farewell to – the composer’s late wife, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, ending with a haunting repeated “adios.”
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4 lessons from the NBA bubble for the future of live arts performance
16 Sep 2020, 06:40 GMT+10
"I'm so glad I saw it live!"
That's what I said after the nerve-wracking Game 6 of the NBA Eastern Conference Playoff Series between the Toronto Raptors and Boston Celtics that I watched with socially distanced fans at a drive-in parking lot in Toronto.
The Raptors' 125-122 win at the end of two (two!) overtime periods was an instant classic.
From within our respective cars, the shared excitement felt a lot like being back in Scotiabank Arena. Of course, I didn't see the game "live." But for a brief moment there was a palpable feeling of "we" back in "We the North."
It's been six months since COVID-19 emerged in North America, causing theatres to close. In the United States, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the now-familiar director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, recently predicted that theatres may remain closed until a year after a vaccine is discovered. Artists and arts organizations are asking: What is the future of live performance? The NBA's #WholeNewGame may provide important lessons for performing artists and their organizations.
Sports: Much in common with the arts
Decades of researching performance - and watching basketball - have taught me how much sports have in common with the arts: dedicated showings (game times), specific costumes (uniforms) and established conventions for both performer and audience behaviours.
One can point to any number of rivalries to see how professional sports blurs into drama. (As Raptor Norman Powell and Celtic Marcus Smart shouted at one another at the end of Game 6, an announcer remarked, "This is great theatre!").
Theatre artists have often admired and emulated popular sports. German playwright Bertolt Brecht thought theatre should work like a boxing match. British playwright Sarah Kane envied sports' unpredictability, saying: "I've never left a football match early, because you never know when a miracle might occur."
Beyond sports fans, arts and entertainment enthusiasts miss attending public performances and wonder how they will evolve. As someone who enjoys both basketball and theatre, I've watched carefully as the NBA re-opened its season.
Weird, wonderful NBA bubble theatre
Fans like me have followed with some degree of awe and fascination the details of the NBA bubble - a zone for 22 teams on a campus at the Walt Disney World Resort near Orlando, Fla..
The achievements of the enterprise became evident as the playoff games got underway. The bubble games blended theatre and sports to create a hybrid performance space that offered a great "live" experience while protecting performers and audiences. Curtains and video screens masked empty seats in the auditorium. Digital logos and ads, lighting effects on the court and amplified soundtracks with music, sound effects and fan noises mimicked the feel of live games both for the players and those watching at home.
The league also created "virtual fans," people who could log onto a designated site and appear as a composite "crowd" on the courtside screens.
Due to the NBA's excellent stagecraft, bubble games have felt a lot like watching games before COVID-19 closed arenas. Here are four lessons the arts can take away from the basketball bubble.
1. The future is hybrid
Theatre and media are often seen as competitors. Early filmmakers distinguished their new art form by rejecting theatricality.
Film artist Hans Richter described theatre as a "contaminant" of film, yet today theatre and film are closer than ever. Just ask anyone who has seen a Broadway stage version of a popular film or the film version of a popular show.
The NBA used theatricality to replicate the essence of a live game - fans cheering, sound effects, music - and gave viewers the opportunity to be visible to both the players and to themselves in the live performance space. As performing arts venues make decisions about the future, creating hybrid events that include virtual presence and audience recognition will be important for developing investment in their work.
2. Audience investment matters
What Brecht and Kane envied among sports audiences wasn't just their enthusiasm, but their deep and often emotional investment in the stakes of the game as something bigger and more important than the game itself. The NBA players became involved with the Black Lives Matter movement and used their games as a platform for social justice.
This engagement was as integral to the sense of audience investment as the digital tools. How artists, like professional athletes, communicate the stakes of their work to dispersed audiences and give them meaningful opportunities to shape hybrid performance and its larger impact will be crucial.
3. Media is mobile
As sports photographers know, the essence of any basketball game is movement. Memorable moments are replayed from many angles, circulating now on both TVs and mobile phones.
Creating both diverse social media perspectives and dynamic visuals is part of the successful formula. International companies like the United Kingdom's Blast Theory have been experimenting with mobile device performances for over 20 years.
Live arts will need to innovate not only by using current social media platforms, but also by building novel and distinctive ones that capture the aesthetic and social dimensions of performances in motion.
4. It's better together
The pleasure of the drive-in game - like drive-in movie theatres across Canada - isn't about seeing the game on a larger screen, it's about experiencing the game as part of an energetic, focused and horn-honking crowd.
Many speculate about when audiences will return to theatres, but both theatregoers and sports fans know the difference between sitting in a packed arena and an empty house. Even in a neighbourhood sports bar, the shared experience of a televised game can be worth the cost of over-priced beer. Theatres of the future will similarly facilitate audience connections with each other before and after the live event.
It's likely that health and safety will remain challenges for live sports and the performing arts for years. But whereas a basketball game requires 10 people on the court, artistic performances can be staged in many ways: from one-person shows to art installations across borders to performers separated by Plexiglas partitions.
Theatre, dance and music can do more than just adapt to current constraints; they can create new productions that rewrite the rules. The NBA has successfully learned how to put on a great digital show. Now, theatres can learn from this success to enhance and sustain the future of the performing arts.
Author: Sarah Bay-Cheng - Dean of the School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design and Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies, York University, Canada
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Viet Nam & Laos: Rivers, Romance & History
Buddha Park, Vientiane, Laos. Image courtesy of HGH Travel.
Start off in the middle of Viet Nam’s vibrant Ho Chi Minh City, where its exhilarating atmosphere permeates its famous landmarks. Beyond the city, you’ll find more activity at the Cai Be floating market when you take a boat down the Mekong Delta.
For a look into the country’s past, you’ll fly to Hue, a UNESCO World Heritage Site known for its culturally significant and well preserved Imperial Citadel. Sail down the famed Perfume River, and visit the century-old Dong Ba Market.
On the way to Hoi An, you’ll pass by the modern city of Da Nang. The former French colonial port boasts beaches and shiny new hotels and restaurants. Hoi An will then pull you back to the past, as you walk or cycle through its narrow, ancient streets lined with unique architecture.
At Ninh Binh Province, take a sampan ride through a lovely landscape of mountains and rice fields that will lead you to grottoes, caves, and temples. Afterward, get lost in the beauty of Ha Long Bay via an overnight cruise through limestone islands emerging from emerald waters.
When you get to Hanoi, your senses will feast on the capital city’s hurtling pace mixed with old-world charm. Watch a traditional Water Puppet Show, visit the famed Hoan Kiem Lake and its temples, the nearby Old Quarter and its 36 streets, and the preserved French colonial structures.
After an overnight in Hanoi, you’ll then catch a flight to Luang Prabang, the ancient capital of Laos that evokes a tranquil mood and gentle splendor.
In this UNESCO World Heritage Site you will see the beautiful blend of French-Indochinese art and architecture, centuries-old ornate temples, and a panoramic view of the city at the summit of Phousi Hill. You will also get to understand the allure of Laos as you spend three nights in Luang Prabang before catching the flight to Vientiane.
In the quaint capital city, you will see its oldest standing temple, Wat Si Salet; Wat Haw Pha Kaew, which houses the Emerald Buddha; and its most important religious monument, That Luang Stupa. You’ll also have the option to see the Patuxai, Vientiane’s Arc de Triomphe, climb to the top and get a lovely view of downtown.
Ha Long Bay, Viet Nam. Image courtesy of HGH Travel.
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16-year-old Horry County girl died after someone fired weapon from vehicle; another person shot in leg
Jamey Chadwell named Walter Camp Coach of the Year
by: Candace Martino
Chadwell Voted 2020 Walter Camp Coach of the Year (Photo Courtesy: CCU Athletics)
WBTW (MYRTLE BEACH) – The postseason honors continued to pile up for Coastal Carolina head football coach Jamey Chadwell.
Chadwell was voted the Walter Camp Coach of the Year, which is selected by the nation’s 130 FBS head coaches and sports information directors.
This is the third national coach of the year award for Chadwell, as he was also named the Sporting News, CBS Sports/247 Sports, and the Paul “Bear” Bryant Group of 5 Conference Coach of the Year.
LAKE CITY, S.C. (WBTW) -- Florence School District 3 reversed its decision Tuesday to cancel the Lake City High School basketball and wrestling seasons, according to the district.
The decision was originally made Friday to cancel the seasons due to COVID-19. A specific reason for reversing the decision was not given.
by Chris Parks / Jan 19, 2021
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - The Southeastern Conference announced its 30-game baseball schedule for the 2021 season this afternoon (Tuesday, Jan. 19).South Carolina will open the SEC schedule in style as the Gamecocks head to Nashville, Tenn., for a three-game set with the defending national champion Vanderbilt on March 19-21 at Hawkins Field. Carolina then opens the home portion of its conference ledger with a three-game set against consensus preseason No. 1 Florida…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) On a day South Carolina unveiled a bronze statue of A'ja Wilson, current standout Aliyah Boston shined in a manner not unlike the Gamecocks great.
''The numbers speak for themselves,'' coach Dawn Staley said. ''If you look across the board at some of (her) dominating performances, those are A'ja Wilson numbers. Aliyah's right there.''
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DPP, NABA Define Supplier Cybersecurity Requirements
By posted by Deborah D. McAdams 09 September 2016
AMSTERDAM—The Digital Production Partnership and the North American Broadcasters Association have published a joint document, “Broadcaster Cyber Security Requirements for Suppliers,” to assist manufacturers and suppliers in developing products aligning to modern cyber security standards, that are fit for integration into broadcaster facilities. The recommendations will be adopted by major U.K. broadcasters, the pair said.
The announcement of the recommendations was hosted by Ericsson, a member of the DPP.
The organizations said that broadcasters are now facing daily cyber assaults on their websites, IT infrastructure and systems. With this growing threat, they said, U.K. and U.S. broadcasters have united to introduce a set of best practice requirements covering documentation and testing, authentication and security controls.
The Broadcaster Cyber Security Requirements for Suppliers is the latest in a new series of DPP publications focusing on Cyber Security. This includes the 10 Things You Need to Know About Cyber Securityguide, and the DPP’s recently released Supplier Security Checklist and supporting User Guide. All publications are available to download from the DPP website.
“Protecting the viewer’s experience, and the veracity of our output is the number one concern today,” said DPP chair and director of Broadcast Operations at ITV, Helen Stevens. “The growth in connected services and IP-driven production, as well as cloud platforms and applications, means that, as a modern broadcaster, our focus has to be on protecting our content from increasingly frequent cyber attacks.”
The requirements were developed by the NABA Cyber Security group and supplemented by the DPP’s Cyber Security work stream (which includes representatives from BBC, BT Sport, Channel 4, Ericsson, Five, Sky and UKTV).
“Cyber security is now one of the top strategic priorities for North American broadcasters,” said Michael McEwen, director general at NABA. “We will never protect ourselves fully from attacks, but we need to mitigate their impact. As we define our information security requirements for the future, we expect suppliers to be our partners. In fact, we need their ideas and expertise in finding solutions that work.”
Steve Plunkett, head of Technology, Broadcast and Media Services at Ericsson said: “Media companies need confidence in the whole broadcast chain. That confidence is built upon trust in robust and resilient service design and testing—in all stages from program development to the point of transmission. The NABA/DPP requirements will help vendors explore whether their products really are secure by design, and can hold up against modern cyber criminals.”
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2009 Global: Children and the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami - Evaluation of UNICEF's Response in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Maldives (2005-2008) Overall Synthesis Report
This report is a summary of an extensive evaluation undertaken by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) of its response to the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. It focuses on Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Maldives—countries that had the most serious damage and received 84 per cent of UNICEF tsunami country-level funds. The evaluation mainly examines the recovery and early development phases and assesses outcomes and impacts of the response from 2005 to 2008 in the four major sectors of UNICEF involvement: child protection; basic education; water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH); and child and maternal health and nutrition. In addition, the evaluation provides lessons for each sector and for crosscutting issues related to recovery programming.
Detailed evaluation findings, lessons and recommendations can be found in the following evaluation products: reports of each of the four sectors for each country (12 sector reports); three country synthesis reports; and this overall synthesis report. The overall synthesis draws upon the sector and country synthesis reports to present a broad set of findings, lessons and recommendations to strengthen ongoing programmes and future efforts in disaster preparedness planning and humanitarian and recovery response.
The evaluation was conducted by an international team of consultants who were supported by national teams. In each country, the focus was on changes and trends occurring in the conditions of children and women in tsunami-affected areas compared to the pre-tsunami situation. In Indonesia and Sri Lanka, variables with respect to the impact of conflict were taken into account. In some sectors and countries, data trends were readily available. However, where reconstruction was still underway, only predictive outcomes could be discerned.
Data collection methods included: desk reviews of pre- and post-tsunami documents and records from UNICEF and governments, field visits for observations, key informant interviews, and brief household and facility surveys. The evaluation confirmed findings in validation workshops in each country.
A challenge for the evaluation has been to set a suitable baseline from which to measure progress over the five-year period. Particularly in Aceh, pre-2005 data was sparse, and in Sri Lanka and Maldives, coastal and island data pertaining to those areas hit by the tsunami was also incomplete. The benchmarks for adequate response in an emergency of this kind are those set out in international guidelines and standards (for example, the Sphere standards), but the recovery-development phase is often new territory, not easily measured against predictive targets. The mantra ‘build back better’ anticipated that the well-funded international response would accelerate and improve upon nascent development plans in many areas, as was the case in some sectors.
Child protection: In Indonesia and Sri Lanka, the emergency response was an opportunity to build upon rudimentary systems of child protection, providing the impetus to develop or reactivate policies and approaches. Human capacity and budgetary resources improved, putting child protection issues on the national policy agenda and significant systemic development in Indonesia and Sri Lanka. The impact of these initiatives remains to be determined given their nascent development. In the Maldives, child protection systems remain particularly weak. The value of non-governmental organization services in child protection should not be underestimated.
Education: The Core Commitments to Children in Emergencies were largely met in the post-tsunami emergency phase as children were brought very quickly into safe learning spaces with teachers sensitized to dealing with trauma. The recovery focused on large-scale construction, especially in Aceh and Sri Lanka, and the majority of children in all three countries returned to better-built permanent schools within the first year. Innovation in teacher outreach training was introduced in the Maldives. In all three cases, enrolment rates have recovered, and in Aceh they have improved beyond pre-tsunami levels. All three countries extended the child-friendly school concept by introducing child-centred physical structures, school management and teaching practices. Conflict mattered: the peace agreement in Aceh had a significant influence on all aspects of education recovery, especially for girls; and persistence of war in Sri Lanka appreciably delayed recovery for large numbers of children. The peace agreement in Aceh provided a conducive climate for improvements in the education sector and UNICEF was able to capitalize on this. There were gaps: greater attention to pockets of exclusion and community involvement in schools remain key to ensuring fully effective building back, as do strategies for consolidating and institutionalizing piloted child-friendly innovations.
Health and nutrition: Improvements in the sector included greater access to health services through new facilities and the encouragement of governments to expand their policies with respect to wide agerange immunization campaigns. UNICEF was a relatively small contributor to the overall health and nutrition response in all three countries, but its contributions to these issues resulted in the prevention of disease outbreaks and some improvements in district- and island-level capacity development. However, the tsunami response was a missed opportunity to more effectively address the underlying, pre-existing causes of malnutrition and maternal mortality in all countries primarily related to child and maternal health.
WASH: Across all three countries, the UNICEF emergency response in the WASH sector provided access to safe water and sanitation for the resettlement of internally displaced children and their families. In the recovery phase, it contributed towards the restoration of water and sanitation facilities for tsunamiaffected families and improvements in water supply, particularly rural water supply. Some improvements can be seen in water security, basic sanitation and hygiene. However, efforts to build back better may have been over-ambitious, introducing concerns about maintenance and sustainability in new and sophisticated facilities.
In addition to its sectoral focus, this report provides an analysis of recovery and transition related issues and draws lessons. The following are general lessons and recommendations distilled from the overall evaluation findings and conclusions.
1) One of the key constraints for UNICEF was its focus on capital-intensive infrastructure rather than building institutional capacity. Capital-intensive projects, such as construction and the purchase of significant assets entails high transaction costs for materials as well as staff and can distract from wider development concerns. This was particularly the case with school building in Aceh and WASH hardware installation in the Maldives. The pressure to spend large sums of public money raised for the tsunami would inevitably lead towards choosing these projects over others.
Recommendation: Management of large-scale construction programmes should not be undertaken by UNICEF—this should be outsourced in its entirety. UNICEF country staff should not be responsible for day-to-day management of contracts, procurement, etc. UNICEF’s comparative advantage in policy development, and in working with governments to improve public finance management with respect to key sectors, would then become the focus, matched by appropriate incountry capacities.
2) The move from emergency to recovery and development requires different sets of skills, and UNICEF can do better in managing human resources in this respect. For example, strong contextual analysis (political economy, institutional analysis, etc.) can significantly improve the relevance, effectiveness and sustainability of interventions. Likewise, investments in planning and preparedness pay dividends economically, socially and in terms of speed of recovery. In the health sector, for instance, a clear lesson emerged particularly from Sri Lanka and the Maldives that the tsunami response had little impact on underlying chronic trends in nutrition and maternal mortality. However, incremental changes can be induced through judicious use of time-bound funds.
Recommendation: Senior staff continuity over the transition period should be assured. Effective exit strategies for emergency programmes are unlikely to occur unless more developmentoriented staff are in place at an early stage of the recovery.
3) Building communication channels and dialogue with civil society (including community groups) can often fill a gap where decentralization, for instance, is still relatively new. UNICEF has not always matched ‘encouragement’ of these mechanisms with actual funds. For example, promoting child-friendly school concepts through school and parent committees requires predictable and sustained funds to build these bodies into sustainable entities. Likewise, in child protection, there needs to be a systematic process for consultation with local communities to ensure long-term viability and, above all, ownership.
Recommendation: Technical assistance offered to government ministries—and by extension to subnational and local authorities—should include means whereby a public communications strategy and community dialogue could increase demand and community ownership of any new services being offered. This should be complemented by assistance and resources offered to viable community groups. UNICEF should thus encourage community linkages with schools, children’s centres, disaster preparedness planning processes and risk reduction exercises.
4) UNICEF-supported programming has in several instances jump-started favourable government policy. However, the capacity of national and local institutions has held back progress in policy development and implementation. For instance, in child protection, UNICEF’s early linkage of the dual objectives of responding to immediate needs, while helping build the welfare and legal systems for children has had positive and lasting results, notably in Indonesia. However, weaknesses continue to be apparent at subnational levels.
Recommendation: A capacity needs assessment should be undertaken as soon as the acute emergency phase is over. In particular, this should include analysis of capacities at provincial and district levels, cross-referenced with an understanding of work being undertaken by other agencies in relevant sectors. This is important not only for intervention strategy but also for sequencing of priorities in UNICEF’s capacity work.
5) The significant investment made in systems and equipment needs to be matched with an analysis of how best to maintain these in the long run. Considerable concerns about the sustainability of infrastructure funded by UNICEF remain. The full and appropriate use of quality infrastructure in the education and WASH sectors was sometimes undermined by poor planning with respect to maintenance agreements.
Recommendation: Investments in assets and infrastructure should be accompanied by longerterm capacity development and a clear outline of responsibilities towards maintenance. Greater attention should be paid to how recurring costs, in terms of management and maintenance, are to be met through either government or community budgets.
6) Evidence-based data collection systems have been extremely useful for planning, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation. UNICEF support to the DevInfo systems has been exemplary. Continued support is critical to ensure that information management and data collection systems are used to strengthen monitoring and evaluation, and to inform decision-making and strategic planning.
Recommendation: Continue to support evidence-based systems to inform planning, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation. Greater investment is needed in information management and data collection systems. Gender disaggregated data is one area of uppermost importance. Partners should be trained in the usage, search and analysis of such data and taught how monitoring and evaluation informs decision-making and strategic planning.
7) Emergency response and assessment tools tended to be too generic, sometimes missing the inclusion of the most vulnerable children or population groups. Country and area-specific methods for identifying the most vulnerable children, including strategies for reaching them and incorporating them into programming, were not developed fully. Although domestic and local safety nets will always be of paramount importance, adherence to human rights principles and international standards will only be assured through institutionalizing participatory methods of recognizing and measuring inclusion and exclusion.
Recommendation: The collection and analysis of disaggregated data on vulnerability—both qualitative and quantitative—should be promoted. This is called for in the emergency preparedness and response planning that is currently evolving and is an explicit requirement of a human rights-based approach to programming.
8) The sometimes greater efficiency and sustainability of national NGO and community-based organizations in comparison to international NGOs requires more than ad hoc use of these institutions. UNICEF has demonstrated how community linkages can be strengthened by engaging communities and non-governmental and community-based organizations in schools, children’s centres, disaster preparedness planning and risk reduction exercises. In Sri Lanka in particular, women’s grassroots organizations were identified as potentially useful partners.
Recommendation: UNICEF should positively discriminate in favour of grassroots and advocacy organizations as implementers and provide enabling and appropriate capacity assistance. This would counter inherent cultural and gender bias in the selection of partners. Resource commitments should, however, recognize that capacity provision, as well as capacity development, is appropriate in some cases to get programmes underway.
9) The development of inter-agency sectoral guidelines in emergencies has advanced considerably in the years since the tsunami, and UNICEF has contributed to this. However, there are some sectors—notably WASH facilities within new housing schemes and childfriendly schools—where the preparation and dissemination of such guidelines in advance of construction work would ensure adherence to standards. These could be included in preparedness plans and incorporated into existing long-term agreements.
Recommendation: Support the early development of guidelines appropriate to the hardware provided in emergencies, especially where expensive equipment is linked to other sectors.
10) Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development - Development Assistance Committee (OECD-DAC) guidelines1 encourage the development of indicators appropriate to assessing the extent to which recovery and development programmes are ‘conflict aware’ and how measuring outcomes in this respect might be attained. The evaluation found, for instance, that there was no ‘do no harm’ analysis apparent in the UNICEF analysis in Sri Lanka and Indonesia, despite the fact that the effects of conflict pervaded all programme areas.
Recommendation: UNICEF should develop in-house capacity to assess and incorporate a peace-building (including a ‘do no harm’) perspective into all its existing planning vehicles in conflict countries.
11) Overarching recommendation: UNICEF should strengthen and revise its post-emergency recovery and transition strategy and guidelines to better address both strategic planning (including information needs assessment in various phases, targeting and capacity development) and management (human resource and operations) aspects. The lessons and detailed recommendations provided in this report offer considerable inputs for use in formulating revised guidance.
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Corrections Department Settles Flu Lawsuit from Family of Woman Who Died in Prison Outbreak
During depositions for the lawsuit, a state doctor acknowledged the state prison system is considering changes in its vaccination practices.
Tina Ferri's children. (Joe Michael Riedl)
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The family of an Oregon woman who died last year of complications from the flu at the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility received $70,000 this week in a legal settlement with the prison.
WW first reported Tina Ferri's death, which the prison had not publicly disclosed ("A Bug in the System," WW, March 21, 2018). Ferri's family sued the Oregon Department of Corrections for wrongful death.
"Although we disagree with many of the allegations in the lawsuit, we are pleased to have reached a settlement with Ms. Ferri's family," says DOC spokeswoman Jennifer Black. "We provide flu shots to all incarcerated individuals, while respecting the rights of those who choose not to be vaccinated."
During depositions for the lawsuit, a state doctor acknowledged the state prison system is considering changes in its vaccination practices after Ferri died during a flu outbreak.
Dr. Daniel Dewsnup said the prison system was considering an opt-out policy to make sure inmates either got a flu shot or actively declined it, "which I think is one of the good things that might come from this case."
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History of Art University
A Commemoration of Sharon Cather
York Art History Collaborations
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A Commemoration of Sharon Cather - CANCELLED
Thursday 16 April 2020, 2.00PM to 18 April 2020
We regret that this conference has now been cancelled because of the developing Coronavirus situation. All payments will be refunded within 1-2 weeks.
With papers from leading conservators and scholars, this two-and-a-half day conference celebrates Professor Sharon Cather’s life and achievements, especially her unique and multifaceted contribution to the conservation of wall paintings. The conference will not only reflect the extent and importance of Sharon’s influence in conservation work and related research and education, but also provide a forum to take stock of the current state of wall painting conservation internationally, and to consider potentially productive developments in the future.
Location: Tempest Anderson Hall, Yorkshire Museum and Kings Manor, University of York
Email: wallpaintings@york.ac.uk
Download and view the full Commemoration of Sharon Cather conference programme 2020 (PDF , 388kb)
Speakers include:
Su Bomin (Dunhuang Academy, China): ‘Sharon’s contribution to education and developing talent in wall painting conservation through collaborative projects of the Dunhuang Academy and Courtauld Institute’
Giorgio Bonsanti (Opificio delle Pietre Dure, Florence, 1988-2000; Universities of Turin and Florence, Italy, 2000-2010): ‘Rome and Florence: approaches to wall painting conservation in Italy since the 1960s’
Sarah Brown (University of York and York Glaziers Trust, UK): ‘A lot to live up to: stained glass conservation training and practice in York’
Rachel Burch (May/Burch Conservation, Inc., USA), Katey Corda (Corda Conservation, LLC, USA), Samantha Emmanuel (Architectural Conservation, Inc., USA) and Kiernan Graves (Site & Studio Conservation, LLC, USA): ‘The realities of conserving outdoor public murals in California’
Aviva Burnstock (Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK): ‘Walls and Easels at the Courtauld: collaboration, challenges, and the legacy of Sharon Cather’
Tobit Curteis (Tobit Curteis Associates LLP, Cambridge, UK): ‘Understanding and controlling the building environment: changing approaches to preventive conservation’
Juana Segura Escobar (Bogota, Colombia): ‘Challenges in conserving the wall paintings of the 6th-9th- century hypogea of the Tierradentro National Park, Cauca, Colombia’
Yeonjoo (Amanda) Hahn (Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK): ‘Prevent and preserve: challenges in the conservation of wall paintings in Korean Buddhist temples’
Joshua A. Hill (University College London, UK): ‘Science for wall painting conservation: who, why, and how’
Ioanna Kakoulli and Christian Fischer (University of California Los Angeles, USA): ‘The technical study of Byzantine and post-Byzantine wall paintings in Cyprus: methods and possibilities’
Nana Kuprashvili and Mzia Janjalia (Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, Georgia): ‘Wall painting conservation in Georgia: recent developments, challenges and prospects’
Pu Lan (Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK): ‘Tango monastery and its wall paintings: a spectacular monument from the Golden Age of Bhutan’
Ravit Linn (University of Haifa, Israel): ‘Early Byzantine wall paintings in Israel: research and conservation’
Katy Lithgow (National Trust, UK, 1991-2019): ‘Influences and influencing: the conservation of historic interiors in the National Trust’
Sreekumar Menon (Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK): ‘Early wall paintings from the 11th to 13th centuries in Ladakh: insights into the painting techniques and conservation challenges’
Michael Michael (University of Glasgow) and Craig Williams (CAIRN, UK): ‘From defacement to revivification: a digital-archaeological approach to illuminating the nave paintings of St Albans Cathedral’
Registration opens on 5 February.
The conference is based at the Yorkshire Museum, behind King's Manor. There is more information on how to find the venue on the Yorkshire Museum website.
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Joseph Hayton
British Sculptor
Stone and Bronze Sculpture
(b.1987) Silsden, West Yorkshire
Highly regarded and widely recognized, Joseph Hayton began his celebrated career following a lifelong passion for the practical nature of sculpting and stone carving. Combining dedicated skill with an intuitive artistic eye, Joseph’s sculptures exude tangible grace and emotion in a display of unparalleled craftsmanship.
Drawing creative inspiration from his father, a joiner, Joseph demonstrated early promise in art and sculpture at school. He went on to study stonemasonry at the prestigious Stone Sculpting College in York, wherein his talent was recognized by the Masonic province of Yorkshire North and East craft lodges. During this time, he was an apprentice stonemason with Yorkshire Stone Craft and would work within the sector for a further six years.
In 2012, Joseph opened his own studio workshop in Pateley Bridge and began his career as a professional artist. Working predominantly in bronze and marble, Joseph begins his process with studies in clay and covers an assorted range of subjects, including figurative, wildlife and equine sculpture. Capturing the detail, delicacy and spirit of his subjects, it is a testament to Joseph’s artistry that in just a few short years he has established himself as one of the UK’s most sought-after sculptors.
Joseph has seen great success as an artist, winning a host of awards in a relatively short space of time. In 2014, Joseph completed his monumental, specially commissioned public art work ‘Pillars Past’, representing the history of Nidderdale in three life size stone figures. The striking installation can be seen on the old railway turntable in Pateley Bridge and was ‘Highly Commended’ at the Natural Stone Awards, 2016. Most recently in 2018, he was awarded both the ‘Titanti’ prize for his portrait of James Butler RA at the Society of Portrait Sculptors Face Exhibition, as well as the Arnold Machin Grant for artistic development.
Joseph Hayton Bronze Grace
Joseph Hayton Bronze Pride
Joseph Hayton Bronze Wisdom
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Joseph Hayton Bronze Curlew
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The Daily Globe - Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Iron inmate attempts escape
HURLEY — An Illinois man wanted in his home state attempted to escape from Iron County Sheriff’s Department custody Saturday while being treated for a medical issue.
The man was booked into the Iron County Jail early Saturday morning on local charges of disorderly conduct and a warrant out of Illinois, according to Iron County Sheriff Paul Samardich.
The attempted escape occurred at roughly 1:06 p.m., as the inmate fled into the nearby woods while being escorted out of the Aspirus Ironwood Hospital, Samardich said in a news release.
The man has been transported to the hospital at approximately 11:50 a.m. “for a medical issue,” Samardich said.
The deputy pursued the inmate, who Samardich said was in restraints at the time, while also requesting assistance.
“The deputy had the inmate back in custody within four minutes, prior to the arrival from assisting agencies,” Samardich said.
He said the Gogebic County Sheriff’s Department, Michigan State Police and Iron County Sheriff’s Department personnel responded to the scene.
Additional charges are pending due to the inmate’s attempted escape.
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H.E.R. & Tana Mongeau Copy Britney Spears’ Iconic Snake Look at VMAs
August 28, 2019 • by Jan Stromsodd
Dressed in thigh-high boots and a mini dress by Nicola Bacchilega, the YouTube star Tana Mongeau channeled Britney Spears’ 2001 VMAs performance by bringing a live snake along to the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards on Monday.
Tana Mongeau poses with a Boa constrictor at the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey on August 26, 2019
The 21-year-old social media star was reportedly sending a message to her longtime boyfriend Jake Paul by attending the VMAs with a Boa constrictor instead of him. There are rumors swirling that her “unofficial husband” cheated on her with his ex, fellow American YouTuber Erika Costell.
Tana Mongeau with a live snake draped around her waist
Accompanied by a snake handler, Tana told Fox News that it’s all for a good cause. “She’s super happy to be here; we’re just chilling,” Mongeau told the conservative pay television news channel on the carpet.
“The snake company that I’m working with, all of the proceeds and the money that they earn goes to rescuing a lot of snakes, especially out here on the East Coast,” she added. “It’s really cool and I’m super excited to be working with them.”
Tana Mongeau rocked thigh-high boots and a mini dress by Nicola Bacchilega
Also called the red-tailed boa or the common boa, the boa constrictor is a species of large, non-venomous, heavy-bodied snake that is frequently kept and bred in captivity.
Styled by Tyler Lambert, Tana completed her look from the Italian fashion designer with matching gloves and a chained sculptured ceramic golden belt.
Britney Spears performed ‘I’m a Slave 4 U’ with a snake at the 2001 Video Music Awards.
Nominated for Best New Artist and Best R&B for “Could’ve Been” featuring Bryson Tiller, American singer-songwriter H.E.R. also paid homage to Britney’s legendary reptile moment at the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards.
Gabriella Wilson, known professionally as H.E.R., with a python wrapped around her shoulders
With a python wrapped around her shoulders, she rocked gold metallic platform Betty heels by Giuseppe Zanotti with a floral-printed Valentino Fall 2019 jumpsuit.
H.E.R. in a floral Valentino jumpsuit at the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey on August 26, 2019
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Downpour washes out chunk of Dempster Highway
Drivers on the Dempster Highway won’t be able to get much further north than the Tombstone Mountains for the next several days at least.
Ashley Joannou
Aug. 12, 2016 2:04 p.m.
Heavy rain and rising water washed out sections of the highway on Thursday.
The Yukon Department of Highways and Public Works was originally hoping to have at least one lane of the highway open by the end of the day Thursday. But that didn’t happen because the damage was worse than officials thought.
“In some cases the whole road is washed away,” said spokesperson Doris Wurfbaum.
Crews thought they had four washed out areas to repair. A closer look revealed there was closer to 10 spots that needed to be fixed, she said.
Crews can’t start trying to contain the washouts or repairing culverts until water recedes, according to the department.
“It is now apparent it will likely be several days before repairs can be made and the road reopened,” Wurfbaum said.
Washout starts at about kilometre 100 meaning drivers can anticipate not getting any further north than that. Tombstone Territorial Park is at km 71.5
“Which is a good thing because we recognize Tombstone Mountain is a popular spot for this coming Discovery Days,” Wurfbaum said.
The department provides road condition updates on its website www.511yukon.ca
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THE WAY WEST (1967) – Blu-ray Review
Justin Mory February 1, 2018 Blu-rayThe 1960's
Late Wagon Train Entry Starring Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum, And Richard Widmark
THE WAY WEST (1967)/DIRECTED BY ANDREW V. MCLAGLEN
STREET DATE: FEBRUARY 6, 2018/KINO LORBER STUDIO CLASSICS
The tailored waistcoats of a disgraced US Senator, the buckskin breeches of the wilderness trail guide, and the humble homespun of the town farmer – in the left to right billed screen presences of Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum, and Richard Widmark – head West, from Missouri to Oregon, in this 1840’s-set, star-driven, late wagon train epic. Shot in Panavision, De Luxe Color, and on location in the deserts, canyons, mountains, and plains of the Great American Frontier, that just about takes care of the artistic and technical specifications of the film before one is left at something of a loss to further denote any notable feature of The Way West beyond the vast genre accumulation of 35 years of westward the wagons. Beginning with 1930’s The Big Trail, and going further back to 1925’s The Covered Wagon, even TV’s long-running Wagon Train (1957 – ’65) had finally settled its 8-year run through the prairie – Star Trek had conceptually picked up the reins the very next season (1966), continuing the frontier journey into space – so possibly The Way West had little to add to the well-worn formula beyond photography and spectacle.
But, anyway: Senator William Tadlock (Douglas) leads a group of Missouri townspeople on the Oregon Trail of 1843 towards his Western vision of a City on a Hill. Hiring the best frontiersman in the West, the capable though underconfident Dick Summers (Mitchum), the imperious and underhanded tactics of Tadlock’s relentless horses and wagons drive through hostile Sioux territory are registered with increasing disgust by homesteader Lije Evans (Widmark), who quickly has his bellyful of the tragedies and setbacks of life on the trail.
Based on a novel by A.B. Guthrie (Shane, The Big Sky) and shot by master landscape cinematographer William H. Clothier (Fort Apache, The Track of the Cat), The Way West is possibly a big screen epic ten years too late, with the added soap opera elements of frank sexuality, infidelity, violent “frontier justice”, and not one but two slain children offering increasingly diminishing screen returns… until even the dramatic death of visionary villain Tadlock at story’s end, rope-cut off a steep cliff by one of the victims of his stiff-necked ways, yields little more than a screen shrug.
Director Andrew V. McLaglen, son of actor Victor McLaglen and former assistant to his film godfather John Ford, on The Quiet Man (1952), and continuing through his directing career with many of Ford’s collaborators like James Stewart (in The Rare Breed [1966] and Shenandoah [1965]) and especially John Wayne (including McClintock! [1963], The Undefeated [1969], Cahill U.S. Marshall [1973]), was really the last filmmaker continuing the Ford, Howard Hawks, Raoul Walsh, William Wellman tradition of “manly epics”– stretching the way west back to D.W. Griffith himself – but as a director often comes off curiously detached from his stories and their presentation. As with many of the director’s other films, there’s plenty to look at through this Frontier Western’s 122-minute running-time, but Westerns fans have probably seen much more involving and compelling iterations of this story countless screen times before.
The Way West looks beautiful on Blu-ray, however; the 2:35:1 screen transfer capturing the vistas of its Arizona and Oregon-shot locations with a visual pop that will satisfy viewers who may remember its big-scale escapist comforts back in the heady Summer of Love. And for those otherwise compelled, 20-year-old Sally Field’s early screen appearance, as a Lolita-like trail temptress named “Mercy”, at least offers a glimmer of the talent the actress would later parlay in subsequent films. Beyond a trailer of galleries, there are no other special features included in Kino Lorber’s home video release, but the bare-bones presentation undoubtedly suits this mostly unmemorable but mainly enjoyable genre effort.
All images used in this review are credited to DVDBeaver and are taken directly from Kino Lorber’s Blu-ray release.
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Home » News » Things To Do » Rhys Review: ATTACK! Pro Wrestling – How Do You Learn To Fall Off A 20ft Ladder? (3/4/2016)
Rhys Review: ATTACK! Pro Wrestling – How Do You Learn To Fall Off A 20ft Ladder? (3/4/2016)
By Wicid_impoter - April 14 2016 6046
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*This will be talking about an 18 plus show, so there will be mention of cussing or even other adult content. If you are under this age, try not to read this. But whatever age you may be, please tread lightly when reading through this review.*
Okay so I know what you might be thinking. Yes, that is one brilliant show name, and also, this is the second wrestling show I went to on Mania day (3rd April 2016), so it would be unfair to compare this one to the other show I reviewed from earlier in the day. I’ll do my best not to do that as they were completely different products for different audiences, as mentioned by the 18 plus warning you just read, or at least I hope you did. But I need to say right off the bat, if you are eighteen or older and love wrestling as a whole, whether it’s mainstream or independents or anything in between, I can say you truly missed out of one hell of a show. I dare say that this show was better than WrestleMania 32 itself, though I won’t go review that show since so many others have done that already and it’s more accessible to people than your independent wrestling company, even though Attack has its own DVDs and their own on demand service. (There’ll be a plug for it at the end so you can look it up there if you want.) I’d rather talk about one, if not the biggest, of Attack! Pro Wrestling’s biggest shows ever held since the company’s creation in 2011.
The venue was at the Walkabout bar in Cardiff, which I have covered shows at before, and this was packed, completely sold out. It’s a shame I got there later due to travel issues getting from the other show I covered that day, since everywhere was jam packed full of people. The ground floor, the balcony, the reserved tables and VIP sections, everything was filled. A very nice thing to see as people wanted one thing, and that was to have a fun time with Attack! Pro Wrestling. Now, I’ll do my best to keep things short and bring out key points, but so, SO MUCH happened on this show that I doubt I’ll be able to contain how truly spectacular this show was. But I’ll do my best to make it quick, so then you guys can buy the show when it comes out. At least I hope that’s what’ll happen, it better be what’ll happen.
Before the show we got the usual ‘rules’ given to people by Attack’s announcer. Well, he calls himself ‘Attack’s MC’ and goes by Jim L on his official Twitter so I guess this is what he’s called until I get corrected by the man himself. He ran down some of the top matches and then got things under way, as a Master of Ceremonies would do. Yes, I had to look up what an MC is, we all aren’t that bright to know these things – especially me.
Opening Match
Singles Match
Morgan Webster defeated Mike Bird
This opening match pretty much set up the show and how crazy everything would be for the rest of the night. Webster was the crowd favourite while nobody seemed to care for Newport’s own Mike Bird, even the tech people didn’t – as his entrance music didn’t play. Even though the people chanted ‘We want music!’ they still poked fun at Mike who eventually entered the ring looking majorly disgusted at everything and everyone. But like I said, this match showed how much these two rivals didn’t like each other as they were going after each other pretty fiercely, judging by the sickening chops I could hear at the start while I was trying to see things from the balcony area. The crowd was into it as you’d expect, and being somewhat blasphemous to Ginger Jesus as they would chant alongside that with ‘Jesus sucks’ – awkward if any Christians were in the building. Also ‘Angry Bird’ because banter lolz or whatever, that’s the expression people use right? They also had fun with Webster who at one point, when taking a submission from Bird, started chanting ‘Deal or No Deal!’, referencing Webster’s recent appearance on the popular British game show of the same name. Of course he yelled out ‘No Deal’ and things would look in his favour as the show sang ‘Flash will tear you apart!’ in his support. The action was still intense throughout, even going to the outside and Bird being thrown over a barricade and being dived onto. Bird had him towards the end with huge moves such as his known ‘Gotch-Style piledriver’ and a crucifix-type powerbomb. But Webster kept fighting on and after a top rope crucifix powerbomb attempt, he countered it into a hurricanrana, then hit a reverse frankensteiner and ended the match with his ever impressive 630 senton from the top rope and got the pinfall victory. As everyone sang along to Webster’s music after the match ended, he extended his hand out to Mike as a sign of respect, but Mike simply walked away and left to the back, not making people very happy. Still, a great way to start off what would be an even greater show.
Before the next match started Jim warmed up the people and a ‘Rafflemania’ chanted started, making him confirm that there would indeed be, a raffle! Yesssssssssss. There was also a quite mention of the recently departed Kris Travis, a British wrestler who passed away recently after battling stomach cancer. I remember seeing the one and only live match of his at an Attack show last year, if anyone remembers the review for that. I didn’t know much about the man, but he put on one of the funniest matches I have ever seen, not just in person, but in wrestling as a whole. He got respectful messages from many of the people who worked with him during his life as well as bigger names of mainstream fame who knew of or also worked with him, so to say the man left an impression on people is an understatement. Losing someone to this horrible disease is never a kind thing, I know this from experience, and while I don’t want to compare my case to his, I’d imagine that he wouldn’t want people be in a long state of sadness over this, and the chant of ‘Thank You Travis’ by everyone during this moment proved that and how much people care for him.
6 Way Tag Team Match
Robbie X, Danny Jones and Love Making Demon defeated Old Poppa Sunflower and Wonderland of Wrestle (Ramses and Super Santos Sr.)
Going back into the comedy theme, this match had that vibe going on about it as it was a spoof type of match with the masked Luchas of Sunflower, Ramses and Santos against the D-Generation-X spoof team of Robbie X(-Pac), Raving Danny Jones and the Love Making Demon. This was a very light hearted match with a few vulgarities thrown in for those who like such things, such as the Demon giving someone a Bronco Buster – that was something they didn’t want happening to them I’m sure. At one point, Danny’s party music started playing and this of course brought out the raving side of him as he did a fine job of giving it to his opponents. He even pulled out some new moves that he normally doesn’t do from other shows I have seen, which was interesting to see if you are into flashy moves and such.
But the best part came from Attack’s beloved referee, Shay Purser, who got pushed by one of the masked men at one point and was enticed by the crowd to giving him a few moves, which he has done to people in the past on a few instances. Even though he was warned against it, he still went for it anyway giving the guy a hurricanrana, a tilt-a-whirl headscissors takedown, and then dived on everyone outside the ring from the top rope!
Still, after a few DX themed moves from all involved towards the end, it was the team of Robbie, Danny and Demon who got the win via pin.
Sebastian Radclaw & Uncle Eggbert defeated The Anti-Fun Police (Damian Dunne & Ryan Smile)
Now, the next match was originally announced as a handicap match between Sebastian Radclaw, along with his stuffed pink friend Skat Monkey, against the Anti-Fun Police, made up of ‘Chief Deputy’ Damian Dunne and ‘Superintendent’ Ryan Smile. However, smoke, actual smoke started covering everything as ominous turned upbeat music played as someone by the name of Uncle Eggbert appeared. Jim yelled on the mic that ‘HE HAS COME BACK FROM THE DEAD!’ so it seems he and Sebastian were related or something to that effect (only my second Attack show so I’m clueless to all of this) and that everybody loved him as people were going pretty insane for him as this match became a tag team match. The match itself was mixes of comedy at the start with Eggbert wrestling like an eighty-year-old and tripping up the AFP on many occasions, but things would change later on, especially when Damian and Ryan started using their usual dirty tactics to get the advantage. Sebastian had much heart in his offence when he got it in, even telling Uncle Eggbert at one point ‘You always told me to fight my fears!’ as he did a moonsault to the AFP who were outside the ring from the top turnbuckle. From this inspiring display, new life came into Eggbert as he too was diving on them over the ropes. Even Skat Monkey managed to get his own DDT on one of them at one point. Only in Attack Pro will you see a pink stuffed monkey DDT a police officer, can’t make this stuff up. At one point, Ryan Smile started pulling out some very flashy moves, and as the people at Walkabout would chant ‘Fun!’, Damian got him to stop this as the Anti-Fun Police can’t go having what they are anti towards. In the end after a chokeslam then a Last Ride from Eggbert, Radclaw got on top of his Uncle’s shoulders and splashed off them to get the pinfall victory.
After the match Damian wasn’t too happy over the loss and over his partner’s actions and messes with him. Ryan lost it on Damian and kicked him in the head, hit him with a Brainbuster and then hit a Frog splash from the top rope, seemingly ending their Anti-Fun Police partnership. Fun was definitely had by all (bar Damian) and it wouldn’t end there either. But there would be an interval, where I saw a bunch of people from training who helped out with the show, setting it up, handling merch and having fun doing so. I also bought a raffle ticket but didn’t win anything. Ah well, worth putting the money in at least.
Attack! Tag Team Championship
Tag Team Ladder Match
Bayside High (Mark Andrews & Nixon Newell) defeated #CCK (Chris Brookes & Mondai Lykos) to become the NEW Champions
So, this match also had a lot of rivalry going into it with the well liked Welsh team of Mark and Nixon against Nixon’s former partner, Chris, and Mondai Lykos, formerly known as Kid Lykos, all out in matching team gear too which was a nice touch. Now if I were to say everything that happened in this match, I’d be here for ages. But what I can say is that the level of brutality was truly something to see live, as well as many moments in the match. There were many different painful moments with bodies being slammed onto ladders from all angles, and one ladder even being broke in half as Mondai went through courtesy of Mandrews. Multiple ladders were used at many points, one of which saw Nixon diving off of it onto CCK outside the ring, which was a crazy moment on its own, but that soon followed by seeing everyone and a few other in-ring crew crowding around as they saw Mark not too far away from me on the balcony and did a Moonsault from it! The man, DOVE OFF A BALCONY!! A BALCONY!!! Unbelievable doesn’t begin to describe how it was to see this live, that was truly one of the most insane things I have ever seen? EVER! By the end of all this craziness, it was Nixon who ended up on a ladder to grab both championship belts for her and her partner to become the new champions. What an incredible match, but it all worked out in the end for the fan favourites and had people out of their seats so many times. So many of our jaws were on the floor, it was so good. But the night wasn’t over and the craziness didn’t stop with that match.
Travis Banks defeated Tyler Bates
What was a match to cool everyone down from the previous match was still fun enough for people to be into it as we had two well liked performers in Banks and Bates. Bates was sung to as you have read does happen to people at Attack shows and Travis was liked by the people as well, even though Tyler had slightly higher support from the crowd. Both were evenly matched throughout using their different offences to get the better of each other, with Banks pulling out a few flashier moves that I didn’t expect to see from him, while Bates brought in many stiff strikes to his opponent. Both of them – at one point – traded sickening chops that equally matched the opening’s chops I heard. Heck, even the power of Tyler’s mustache was able to put some over on Travis during some locks. In the end however, ‘The Tache’ wasn’t enough as Banks got the pinfall victory after some type of Airplane spun Powerbomb type manoeuvre.
A very nice match that made people happy still, and ended on a better note as both men shook hands after.
Attack! 24/7 Championship
Pete Dunne retained against Wild Boar and Eddie Dennis
This main event was eighteen months in the making, which was made clear by a very nice video package showing all the action leading up to it, with people singing along to Limp Bizkit’s My Way which played over it. Boar and Eddie were favourites of the crowd while Pete Dunne was not well liked by everyone. Each came out to smoke from machines around the ring area, adding to the big time feel this match would have, and much like the previous championship match of this show, this was an all-out war between these three. Right from the start weapons were brought out as kendo sticks were broken across the bodies of all three men, as well as a three way duel with steel chairs which was cool to see. People were powerbombed on top of each other over barricades, high risk moves by Eddie such as an over the top rope dive, which is scary to see from a man his height. He even pulled out his two man samoan drop/fallaway slam combo not once, but twice, firstly on the ground, and later on from the top turnbuckle! Eddie wanted to win that championship back badly to pull out these impactful moves, and the same went for the other two as Pete would pull out multiple weapons, such as the kendo sticks and steel chairs, as well as tables and even tacks! Pins! Those things you use to put pieces of paper on your walls, those types of pins. These weapons wouldn’t work out well for the champion as Boar speared Pete through one of them and later Eddie would slam Pete onto the pile of tacks and through the other table! But even through all this and different finishing moves, he would still kick out. All of the men involved ended taking all different finishing moves and would still somehow kick out through all the pain and carnage their bodies were going through. That was how much being the 24/7 Champion meant to them. In the end, however, Pete would take out Boar with a steel chair, hit his finisher on Eddie and get the pinfall victory after pinning him. People weren’t happy that Pete retained his championship but they were happy to have seen such a battle take place in front of them.
After the match however the ‘Young and Bitter’ champion got on the mic to brag about how he has beat so many credible people on the Attack! roster for his championship, stating how no man, no woman, or anyone would take his championship from him. But then as he was saying this, something no one expected happened.
1? 2? 3!!!
The NEW Attack! 24/7 Champion! Shay Purser?!
Wait? what just happened you were thinking? Yeah, I couldn’t believe it myself, but the referee rolled up the champion while he was distracted and got the pinfall victory, and become the NEW 24/7 Champion! If you?re wondering how, it’s because this championship a 24/7 rule, as the title is named for, where anyone can challenge for the championship at any place at anytime, anywhere, any way possible, including by a surprise pinfall. So, yeah, everyone wasn’t able to form the words in their mouths properly as there was nothing but a thunderous noise coming from everyone at the same moment. Jaws on the floor, minds blown, did this just happen? Even the new champion himself didn’t believe he did what he did as he held the championship in the air while dashing towards the back away from an enraged Pete Dunne. He was truly fuming, complaining to Jim about the whole thing. Pete obviously had enough and slapped Jim, but to his and everyone’s surprise, Jim hit a Stunner on the former champion to everyone’s delight! Then the music of the iconic Stone Cold Steve Austin played and Jim was tossed Monster Energy drinks, to which he did the whole Rattlesnake beer celebration, and hence came the end of one of the best Attack! shows in history.
Apologies for all of this rambling, this feels like one of my most baffling wrestling reviews I have ever done, but that’s mainly because of how crazy this entire show was. It truly was great to see a promotion come to where it has become in the span of its creation to where it is now. So, to everyone reading this whole review, just to a future Attack! show, or buy their DVDs or buy shows from their online website, just, go support Attack! I remember there being an announcement that Attack! will return to the Walkabout Cardiff bar in August this year but there’s no ticket sales or online mention of it just yet. So until there is, like their Facebook, follow their Twitter, do all the social media whatevers, and again, just support Attack! Pro Wrestling, because only bigger and better things to come from them.
Attack! Pro Wrestling Links
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/ATTACKprowrestling
Twitter – @ATTACKWrestling
Website – http://attackprowrestling.co.uk/
On-Demand – http://attackprowrestling.co.uk/attack-on-demand/4591917192
Store – http://attackprowrestling.bigcartel.com/
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Feature: WiiWareWave Top 5: Most Memorable Antagonists of The Xeno Series!
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Villains In A Strange, Foreign Land!
Whether you love them, or hate them, or love to hate them, these are our top 5 picks for the most memorable antagonists from the entire Xeno franchise! Do be warned, however that several major spoilers are revealed in this article so use caution when reading our list if you haven't played all of the Xeno games yet.
#5: Id
Id is an alternate personality of the main protagonist of Xenogears, Fei Fong Wong and is incredibly evil and violent, unlike his kind counterpart Fei. When Id takes over Fei his eyes, hair, and skin color completely change. This transformation occurs several times throughout the story and sometimes creates chain reactions so terrible that many innocents perish at his hands, because of his unpredictable appearances and horrificly atrocious bouts of violence we feel that Id deserves a spot on our list!
#4: Myyah Hawwa
Basically an entity who has lived for many millenia by snatching other people's bodies and using them as her host vessel, she is a very evil and sadistic character in Xenogears who was responsible for the collapse of many civilizations throughout her existence. She is a very manipulative being who pulls many strings to get what she wants. She even took over Fei Fong Wong's mother, Karen Wong, however Karen Managed to overpower her in order to save her son, however in doing so she paid the ultimate price.
Myyah Hawwa's manipulative personality and the fact that she's literally responsible for the deaths of billions of people is why she was chosen as the fourth most memorable character in our list of the most memorable antagonists in the Xeno series!
#3: Albedo Piazzolla
An artificially created life form and major antagonist in Xenosaga Albedo is the twin brother of Jr. and is an immortal. He enjoys the pain, suffering, and deaths of humans and blames them for his misery of being unable to die. He has destroyed human colonies and towns and is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. He even despises his own kind for siding with the humans and envies their lack of immortality.
Albedo's frightening nature and the fact that he cannot die is why he was chosen as the third most memorable character in our list!
#2: Dickson
Dickson is seen as a protagonist during the first two thirds of Xenoblade Chronicles' story, however after Shulk manages to strike a truce between his people and the leader of Mechonis, Dickson betrays him a shoots him in the back, allowing the god of the Bionis, Zanza who possessed Shulk during the group's first visit to Prison Island, unbeknownst to Shulk or anyone else besides Dickson, to emerge.
He later reveals himself as one of Zanza's deciples, and eventually faces off against Shulk, Fiora, and the rest of the group when they revisit Prison Island and when Shulk fatally wounds him he seems rather proud of the fact that Shulk overcame the challenge and surpassed him. His not-so-evil nature at the end of his life is one of the biggest reasons why we chose Dickson as number two in our list of most memorable antagonists in the Xeno series!
#1: Zanza
Originally a scientist on a space colony orbiting Earth, Zanza started an experiment that destroyed the entire universe! He and his scientific colleague Mayneth were the sole survivors and were reborn as gods in this newly created reality. Originally kind-hearted, he eventually became twisted and began to fear the Homs, and his other creations and so he decided to create a cycle of destruction for those who lived on Bionis "himself".
He later possesses Shulk and even kills Mayneth and the entirety of the Mechonis. He tries to entice Shulk to become his deciple, but Shulk refuses and eventually kills him. The fact that he destoyed the entire universe and kept killing the entirety of the Bionis population time and again is why Zanza was the clear choice to be number one on our most memorable antagonists in the Xeno series list!
There you have it! From Id, to Myyah Hawwa, and Dickson, to Zanza these are the antagonists that really stood out to us in the various Xeno series titles, as always be sure to let us know what you think of our choices in our comment section below!
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Humidifiers are commonly used in homes to relieve the physical discomforts of dry nose, throat, lips, and skin. The moisture they add to dry air also helps alleviate common nuisances brought on by winter heating, such as static electricity, peeling wallpaper, and cracks in paint and furniture. However, excess moisture can encourage the growth of biological organisms in the home. These organisms include dust mites, which are microscopic animals that produce materials causing allergic reactions to household dust, and molds.
Recent studies by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) have shown that ultrasonic and impeller (or "cool mist") humidifiers can disperse materials, such as microorganisms and minerals, from their water tanks into indoor air. At present, only limited information is available on the growth of microorganisms and the dispersal of microorganisms and minerals by home humidifiers.
Proper care and cleaning of ultrasonic and impeller humidifiers are important for reducing potential exposures to microorganisms, such as bacteria and molds. Microorganisms often grow in humidifiers which are equipped with tanks containing standing water. Breathing mist containing these pollutants has been implicated as causing a certain type of inflammation of the lungs.
The Federal government has not concluded that the dispersal of minerals by home humidifiers poses a serious health risk. Nevertheless, using water with lower mineral content will reduce exposures to these materials.
The young, the elderly, and those people with lung diseases or respiratory allergies may be particularly susceptible to certain types of airborne pollutants. However, if you follow the recommendations for the use and care of home humidifiers provided in this fact sheet, the potential for dispersal of microorganisms and minerals from your humidifier should be reduced.
Can I Use Tap Water in My Ultrasonic or Impeller Humidifier?
The Federal government has not concluded that using tap water in ultrasonic or impeller humidifiers poses a serious health risk. However, researchers have documented that these humidifiers are very efficient at dispersing minerals in tap water into the air. In addition, some consumers are bothered by a "white dust" that may appear on surfaces during use of these devices. Most importantly, minerals in tap water may increase the development of crusty deposits, or scale, in humidifiers. Scale can be a breeding ground for microorganisms.
Retarding the growth of scale is the most compelling reason to find alternatives to tap water. For this reason, or if white dust is a problem or you wish to minimize your exposure to minerals in the tap water as a matter of prudence, you should either:
Use bottled water labeled "distilled." While distilled water still contains some mineral content, it will likely contain lower mineral content than most tap water. Distillation is the most effective method for removing minerals from water.
Two additional demineralization processes, deionization and reverse osmosis, remove most of the minerals from water, but are generally less effective than distillation. Water demineralized by these two processes would, on the average, be expected to contain a higher mineral content than distilled waters. "Purified" water may be produced by any of these three or other similar processes.
Be aware, however, that not all bottled water is produced using demineralization processes. Bottled waters labeled "spring", "artesian" or "mineral" have not been treated to remove mineral content.
Consider using demineralization cartridges, cassettes, or filters if supplied or recommended for use with your humidifier.
Be aware, however, that the ability of these devices to remove minerals may vary widely. Further research is needed to determine how well, and how long, these devices work. Watch for the appearance of "white dust," which would indicate that minerals are not being removed.
Also, in areas of the country where the mineral content in the tap water is high, using distilled water may be less expensive than cartridges, cassettes, or filters.
Types of Humidifiers and Associated Pollutants
Console humidifiers are encased in cabinets which are designed for floor use. Portable humidifiers are smaller and more readily moved. Central humidifiers are built into heating and air-conditioning systems, and humidify the whole house.
The two types of humidifiers which generally appear to produce the greatest dispersions of both microorganisms and minerals are:
Ultrasonic, which create a cool mist by means of ultrasonic sound vibrations.
Impeller, or "cool mist," which produce a cool mist by means of a high speed rotating disk.
Two additional types of humidifiers can allow for growth of micro-organisms if they are equipped with a tank that holds standing water, but generally disperse less, if any, of these pollutants into the air. These are:
Evaporative, which transmit moisture into the air invisibly by using a fan to blow air through a moistened absorbent material, such as a belt, wick, or filter.
Steam vaporizer, which create steam by heating water with an electrical heating element or electrodes. "Warm mist" humidifiers are a type of steam vaporizer humidifier in which the steam is cooled before exiting the machine.
Note: Steam vaporizer and evaporative humidifiers are not expected to disperse substantial amounts of minerals. A steam vaporizer tested by EPA did not disperse measurable amounts of minerals; evaporative humidifiers have not been tested by EPA for mineral dispersal.
Recommendations for Use and Care
It is important to use a humidifier only when conditions require it, to use the correct moisture setting for existing conditions, and to clean it thoroughly.
The possible health effects resulting from the dispersal of microorganisms and minerals by home humidifiers are not fully understood. Meanwhile, it may be prudent to reduce the potential for personal exposures to these materials by taking the following precautions, particularly when using ultrasonic and impeller humidifiers.
Empty the tank, wipe all surfaces dry, and refill the water in portable humidifiers daily to reduce any growth of microorganisms; follow the manufacturer's instructions for changing water in console humidifiers. Be sure you unplug the unit from the electrical socket first.
Use water with low mineral content to prevent the build-up of scale and the dispersal of minerals into the air. See the box on the left for information on using water with low mineral content.
Clean portable humidifiers every third day. Empty the tank and use a brush or other scrubber to clean it. Remove any scale, deposits, or film that has formed on the sides of the tank or on interior surfaces, and wipe all surfaces dry. Again, be sure you unplug the unit.
Follow the manufacturer's suggestions on the use of cleaning products or disinfectants. In the absence of specific recommendations, clean all surfaces coming in contact with water with a 3% solution of hydrogen peroxide. If you use any cleaning or disinfecting agent, rinse the tank thoroughly with several changes of tap water to prevent dispersal of chemicals into the air during use.
Follow the manufacturer's directions on cleaning and maintaining console and central (furnace mounted) humidifiers. In particular, if the humidifier contains a tank, do not allow water to stand in the tank for extended periods of time, and keep the water clean.
Keep steam vaporizer humidifiers out of the reach of children. Steam and boiling water may cause burns.
Do not humidify to indoor relative humidity levels exceeding 50 percent. Higher humidity levels may encourage the growth of biological organisms in the home. Hygrometers, available at local hardware stores, may be used to measure humidity levels. Some humidifiers contain a built-in humidistat which may be adjusted to the proper moisture level. If water condenses on windows, walls, or pictures, either relocate the humidifier, lower its humidistat setting, or reduce its use.
Do not permit the area around the humidifier to become damp or wet. If dampness occurs, turn the output volume of the humidifier down. If the humidifier output volume cannot be turned down, use the, humidifier intermittently. Do not allow absorbent materials, such as carpeting, drapes, or table cloths, to become damp.
Follow the manufacturer's instructions regarding the use, maintenance, and replacement of any materials supplied with the humidifier. Use appropriate materials as recommended by the product manufacturer.
Clean the humidifier, as directed, at the end of the humidifying season or when the product will not be in frequent use. Before storage, make sure all the parts are dry. Dispose of all used demineralization cartridges, cassettes, or filters. Store the unit in a dry location. After storage, clean the unit again and remove any dust on the outside.
Stop using your humidifier and contact your physician if you have respiratory symptoms which you believe are associated with periods of use of your home humidifier, even if you are following maintenance directions.
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Windows Phone Store Gaming Collection: The Next Big Thing
Windows Phone Central Gaming Roundup: The Next Big Thing
George Ponder
One of the helpful features of the Windows Phone Store is the Collections. These are conglomerations of apps and games that fall in line with an underlying theme. Be it photography, shopping, sports or fitness these collections are a great place for one stop app/game shopping.
One gaming collection always seems to catch our eye is The Next Big Thing. It's a collection of games that the Windows Phone Store gate keepers see as having potential to hit it big. It is also the focus of this week's Windows Phone Central roundup.
We spun the wheel and picked four of the games currently listed in this collection to highlight. Three are very strong contenders for becoming the next big thing. The fourth... well the fourth needs a little fine tuning but is on the right track as well.
Sunny Hillride ($1.99): Simply put, Sunny Hillride is a fun game to play. Graphics are excellent, sound effect humorous and the game is challenging enough to keep things interesting. But you need to know more to sell you on the game, right?
Sunny Hillride is a slider game much like Rainbow Rapture and Penguin where you travel across hill and dale to see how far you can go before time runs out. With Sunny Hillride you are behind the wheel of a family vacation ride that's loaded down with luggage. The kids are strapped into their booster seats and your ready to race across a wide assortment of landscapes.
Sunny Hillride Main Menu
Sunny Hillride has two gaming modes, Story and Endless. Story is a multi-level game that spans across four different landscapes where you race to the finish line before your car runs out of gas.
The endless mode is just that... an endless course for you to practice your driving skills on. While you run the risk of running out of gas in the story mode, no risks exist with the endless mode. It would be nice to see a little challenge with the Endless Mode... maybe just the goal to see how far you can travel.
Sunny Hillride's Story Mode Levels
To control your car you tap/hold the screen to accelerate downhill and release your hold to jump. You build up momentum to fly further and higher and as you do, the kids scream out "yippee" and there's an odd pleasure in sailing your car into the clouds and off screen. While in mid-flight, tap your car to complete mid-air stunts to earn extra points and coins.
Along your journey you have coins and souvenirs to collect for bonus points and gas cans to help your gas supply last long enough to make it through the level. You also have traffic jams scattered about the level that will slow your car down.
There are a few more tricks with Sunny Hillride. If you collect ten coins in succession, you're car will transform into a invincible van with rocket boosters. You're vacation mobile comes fitted with a luggage rack full of suitcases, bags and a bird cage. If you land too hard, you'll lose some of your luggage. The more luggage you have at the end of the level, the more points you earn.
Sunny Hillride... Catching a Little Air
While Sunny Hillride is an enjoyable game for your Windows Phone 8 device, there is room for improvement. First, the game's options allow you to mute the sound effects and music but the options don't stick after you leave the game. This means to mute the soundtrack you'll have to access the options every time you launch the game.
Next up, there are only twelve levels with Sunny Hillride's Story Mode and while you can replay levels to improve your score, the draw to the game fades a little. Hopefully the developer will add additional levels to the game to keep it from growing stale.
Lastly, there isn't a trial version available for Sunny Hillride and the $1.99 price point is a little on the high side. I think most everyone will enjoy Sunny Hillride but a trial version would help sell the game.
Taking everything into account, Sunny Hillride is a fun game for your Windows Phone 8 device. Graphics are great, sound effects will make you smile and seeing that car sail through the air does have a certain amount of appeal. It's just a flat out entertaining game.
Again, Sunny Hillride lacks a trial version and is running $1.99. You can find Sunny Hillride here in the Windows Phone Store.
SongArc (free): SongArc is quickly becoming one of the more popular music games in the Windows Phone Store. It's one of the more recent products of the AppCampus and is available for both Windows Phone 8 and 7.x devices and reminds me a little of the old Guitar Hero console games. Just a little more visually appealing. The game will test your reflexes (and to a degree your rhythm) by requiring you to capture song notes as they drift down from the top of the screen.
SongArc Main Menu
The main menu offers a tutorial that will guide you through game play, a link to launch regular game play and an option to access the game's settings. SongArc isn't a complicated game but you really need to walk through the tutorial to better your chances out the gate.
The game screen has your combo score listed in the upper left corner and your game score in the upper right. The playing field has a multi-colored arc that runs about mid-screen. You're goal is to tap the arc as symbols drift down from the top of the screen to capture them. These shapes represent notes of the song that is playing in the background.
SongArc Game Screen
SongArc does support multi-touch and you'll need to use all the fingers you can muster to keep pace with some of the notes. You do have a health meter under the score and as you miss notes, your health diminishes. It will replenish as you capture notes.
As far as the song selection (referred to as sheets) is concerned, you have a decent library available through SongArc's music library, music sheets created from the SongArc community and those you build based on your own Windows Phone music files.
SongArc Music Selection
Settings for SongArc cover turning on/off Drum Notes and on-screen guidance as well as setting a nickname for the on-line leaderboard and access to SongArc's Twitter and Facebook pages. With drum notes, when a song hits a drum note (depicted by a color wave) you have to tilt the phone to capture it. It's not the easiest thing in the world and while you can disable that feature, it will prevent you from reaching the maximum high score.
SongArc is a fast paced, highly addictive, often frustrating (in a challenging sort of way) game for your Windows Phone. It's a staff favorite and is quickly rising in popularity throughout the Windows Phone community.
SongArc is free for the first month of release (you only have a week or two left) and we have no clue what the pricing point will be after that. If you like music games that test your reactions, you should definitely give SongArc a try. SongArc is available for both Windows Phone 8 and 7.x devices and you can pick it up here in the Windows Phone Store.
Runaway Truck (free): At first glance, Runaway Truck looks like another slider game for your Windows Phone. But it's not.
Runaway Truck is just that. A game where you have to control a truck that has lost it's brakes and is running away down a treacherous slope. You have gaming controls to keep the trucks balance and if you tumble and take on too much damage, the truck explodes and the game is over.
Runaway Truck Vehicle Selection
Along the way you have coins to collect that can be used to unlock additional vehicles and landscapes. There are seven vehicles ranging from a beat-up old pick-up to a school bus and six landscapes ranging from San Francisco to the Great Wall of China. Definitely a wide variety to choose from. If you want to get a jump on things, you can purchase coins through in-app purchase.
The further you make it downhill, the faster your truck goes and the higher your score and if you think your score is worthy enough, you can add it to the online leaderboard for bragging rights.
Game play can be rather challenging, especially when your truck begins to bounce about on the downhill road. You're score is displayed in the upper left corner with the damage meter sitting in the top center. Mid-air flips are fun to create as long as you land on your tires.
Runaway Truck - Ol' Blue Takes on San Francisco
Runaway Truck isn't a bad option to consider when you have short bits of time to pass but I'm not sure how long it will last when you're in the mood for longer gaming sessions. Damage collects rather quickly and you could survive a few more tumbles and maybe add a few jumps for airborne stunts Runaway Truck might have a little better staying power.
Runaway Truck is a free, ad-supported app and is available for both Windows Phone 8 and 7.x devices. You can pick up Runaway Truck here in the Windows Phone Store.
Who Knew? (trial/$.99): Who Knew? is a trivia game for your Windows Phone 8 device that tests your knowledge of what is fact and fiction under the pressure of a game clock.
The game's main pages lists the five categories of trivia (food, geography, history, pop culture and science) and your gaming statistics. Button controls lead you to the help screens, resets your stats and lets you purchase the full version. Up under the three-dot menu you'll find access to the game's settings (sound/music levels and difficulty settings) and a way to submit your own trivia fact.
Who Knew? Main Pages and Gaming Screens
When you tap a category you are sent directly to the first question and have a set time (based on the level of difficulty) to answer as many questions correctly as possible. You are given a statement and must choose whether or not it is fact or fiction.
As you would guess, each correct answer earns you points and incorrect answers deduct points. Should you answer a question wrong, an explanation will be displayed and in a few seconds the next statement will appear. You can save time by tapping the advance arrow if you don't want to read the explanation.
When the timer strikes zero, a scoring summary appears and tapping the back arrow will send you back to the category page.
Who Knew? has a knowledge base of 625 questions that are updated regularly. If trying to figure out if the statement is fact or fiction isn't challenging enough, the pace of the game gives Who Knew? that boost.
Who Knew? has a clean, clutter-free appearance, interesting trivia facts, and a challenging game pace. Who Knew? is an attractive addition to the Windows Phone gaming library. There is a trial version available for Who Knew? that is limited to the first twenty-five questions in the Food category. The full version is currently running $.99 and it is available for both Windows Phone 8 and 7.x devices.
You can pick Who Knew? here in the Windows Phone Store.
Which is the next big thing?
Of the four I think SongArc has the strongest staying power but not everyone is a fan of the genre. Sunny Hillride has the entertainment value but needs to be updated with more levels or add the risk of running out of gas to the Endless Mode. You also need a trial version with Sunny Hillride to avoid potential gamers from giving it a pass.
Who Knew? has some great trivia categories, a friendly user interface but it's casual gaming style may not be everyone's cup of tea. It is a nice option to consider when you're just not in the mood to blow things up, race cars across the screen or slay zombies.
Then you have Runaway Truck. It's a fun game but lacks that something-something to keep you pulled into the game. It's good for short bits but may struggle to keep gamers interested after a few minutes of game play.
All four gaming titles have potential and are worthy of being included in the Windows Phone Store collection The Next Big Thing. If you've tried any of these gaming titles, sound off below and let us know what you think. If there's another gaming title that you think could be the next big thing, feel free to share that as well.
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Gulfport food giveaway serves more than 550 families
By Desirae Duncan | August 1, 2020 at 4:33 PM CDT - Updated August 1 at 6:24 PM
GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX) - Hundreds of families now have some extra food to add to their refrigerators and pantries.
On Saturday, the nonprofit Extend a Hand - Help a Friend organized a community food giveaway with help from several other Coast organizations and community leaders.
“A lot of our communities are plagued by underlying conditions of COVID 19, so getting them some fresh, hearty, healthy meals they can prepare inside their homes that helps them not only social distance but also stay safe, and get the quality meals they need to fight the underlying conditions in their homefront,” said Jeffrey Hulum III, organizer and CEO of Extend a Hand - Help a Friend.
Feeding the Gulf Coast provided around 19,000 pounds of food for this giveaway.
Volunteers loaded bags and boxes full of food into cars as they drove through the line - a line that filled the parking lot of Milner Stadium.
Some people lined up as early as 6 a.m., eager and grateful for the extra help.
“I’m a widow, I’m by myself, and I appreciate everything I get,” said Fannie Gillmore.
For some, the giveaway was a safer alternative to the grocery store.
“It keeps us from having to go around all the people in the stores that could have viruses and could not have it. So it keeps us safe when we come here,” said Cynthia Willis.
This is the largest food giveaway Extend a Hand - Help a Friend has hosted with the goal of providing some extra assistance to people during the pandemic.
“So many people are out of work and then they’re losing their second part of their unemployment, and it takes everything to make things meet nowadays. And with what we’re giving in these boxes and these bags, it can help them out a lot,” said Wanda Bradshaw, a volunteer with Saturday’s event.
“It’s not much but it’s something just to show that the community and the city cares about them,” Hulum said.
Desirae Duncan
Desirae Duncan is a native of Kentucky and graduated summa cum laude from the University of Kentucky with a degree in journalism.
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electrolytically love
electrolytically
In an electrolytic manner; by means of electrolysis; as in electrolysis.
adverb by means of electrolysis
electrolytic + -ally
The earliest citation given in the Oxford English Dictionary for any word used as a name for this element is alumium, which Humphry Davy employed in 1808 for the metal he was trying to isolate electrolytically from the mineral alumina.
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At the core of IV-7: silver dihydrogen citrate-based antimicrobials (SDC), a proprietary, patented electrolytically generated source of stabilized ionic silver.
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Nuclear power is relevant to road transport and motor vehicles in three respects: (1) hybrid vehicles potentially use off-peak power from the grid for recharging; (2) Nuclear heat can be used for production of liquid hydrocarbon fuels from coal; and (3) hydrogen for oil refining and for fuel cell vehicles may be made electrolytically, and, in the future, thermochemically using high-temperature nuclear reactors.
Hydrogen production from nuclear power
The iron is usually pure iron powder derived electrolytically from mineral iron sulphate.
In a few cases, chiefly aluminum, the metal is produced electrolytically, though even then carbon electrodes are used which produce CO2 and only the energy in excess of what carbon can provide comes from the electric current.
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Some of the underlying chemistry to convert carbon dioxide using hydrogen gas (obtained by electrolytically splitting water) is known.
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In addition, natural bacterial leaching processes at Cerro de Pasco are being optimised and copper from the effluent solutions recovered electrolytically.
Cans are most commonly made from thin sheets of steel that have been electrolytically coated with tin on both sides.
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We are also accustomed to deal currently in the laboratory with substances the presence of which is only shown to us by their radioactive properties but which nevertheless we can determine, dissolve, reprecipitate from their solutions and deposit electrolytically.
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Belarus: the working class joins the battle
Read online at https://workersliberty.org/node/35999
Submitted by cathy n on 14 August, 2020 - 8:43 Author: Dan Katz
On Sunday 9 August the old-style Stalinist president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, rigged the presidential election to stay in power. He has run the country since 1994, controlling state media and the vast state machine.
70,000 attended the rally of the anti-Lukashenko presidential candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya which took place in the capital, Minsk, at the end of July.
Tikhanovskaya had entered the contest after her husband, Sergey Tikhanovsky, a well-known blogger and alternative presidential candidate, was arrested and thrown in jail on trumped-up charges. Tikhanovskaya’s platform demanded the release of all political prisoners and new, fair elections.
Lukashenko became increasingly unpopular as the economy tanked. His bizarre mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic, denying any threat to health, has caused widespread alarm and contempt. His regime has lost some key leading supporters. And his relations with Putin’s Russia, once strong, have frayed.
Lukashenko was declared the winner with about 80% of the vote, to Tikhanovskaya’s 10%. The results were met with derision and people took to the streets. Perhaps 7000 were arrested in Minsk during the first fours days of protests against the official result. There has been widespread state violence against the protesters and systematic abuse inside detention centres. At least two people have died.
Protesters have driven round Minsk, Brest and other smaller towns with their horns blaring, protesting against the results. Riot police have responded by standing on street corners using their batons to take out the windscreens of passing cars. Drivers have been dragged out and beaten by the roadside.
Svetlana Tikhanovskaya has fled to Lithuania, saying her children have been threatened. Thousands of women, dressed in white and often carrying flowers, have taken to the streets to protest against state violence.
Groups of doctors have protested outside hospitals with signs saying “Stop the violence”.
Although the state machine remains intact, individual police have resigned in protest against the police violence, and a series of videos have been posted on-line by army personnel burning their uniforms in disgust at the state terror.
The European Union has criticised the vote and condemned the crackdown, as has Amnesty International.
On Thursday 13 and Friday 14 August a strike wave began, demanding Lukashenko resign. So far these strikes seem to be short stoppages.
Workers at state-controlled fertilizer producer Grodno Azot took to the streets demanding an end to the crackdown.
Also on 13 August workers of the BelAZ plant in Zhodzina, 60km from Minsk, which makes trucks and construction vehicles, walked off the job. It seems the workers put forward four demands: the resignation of Lukashenka; an immediate end to police violence; the release of all political prisoners and thousands of protesters; the holding a new presidential election with all candidates who have been barred from the presidential election.
A march from the Minsk Tractor Works, MTZ, to the main government building took place on Friday 14 August, with workers demanding a vote recount and calling for peaceful marches on 15 and 16 August. Rail workers joined the protests.
Thousands of workers from the Hrodna Azot chemical plant in the western city of Hrodna walked out demanding Lukashenko’s resignation. The workers declared “Our votes have been stolen!” and “We didn’t elect him!”
On Sunday 16 August perhaps 200 000 protesters filled Minsk’s streets demanding Lukashenko must go, dwarfing a pro-Lukashenko rally.
Leaders of the Baltic states issued a joint statement demanding new, fair elections, leaving an increasingly isolated Lukashenko urging Russian help. Opposition figures have stressed their mobilisation is not anti-Russian and they have avoided the question of EU integration.
Charles Michel, European Council president, denounced the violence used against protesters. Josep Borrell, the head of the EU’s foreign policy, called for an investigation into human rights abuses.
On Monday 17 August more strikes took place. Hundreds of workers of BelAZ, one of the world’s largest haulage and earthmovers manufacturers, marched round their factory demanding Lukashenko’s resignation. Hundreds of TV workers struck in the state’s broadcaster, BT, leaving an empty sofa on a morning television show; some presenters have resigned and Oleg Titkov, a television show host, said, “We want to work honestly. We do not want to be forced to lie.”. The musicians of the Minsk orchestra struck, too.
On Monday morning, at the Minsk Wheel Tractor Plant, Lukashenko told workers he planned reforms. However he was booed by workers chanting “Resign!” Lukashenko replied, “Are you saying the elections were unfair and you want fair ones? Here's your answer. We had an election. Until you kill me, there won’t be another one.”
Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, speaking in Lithuania, said she was ready to lead Belarus through a transition period. She called on state officials to break with Lukashenko.
At least some of the 16,000 workers at the state-owned Belaruskali company, the world’s largest producer of potash, a key source of dollar revenue for Belarus, struck stopping production.
Striking workers of Naftan oil refinery in Novopolotsk, which employs 10 000 workers, announced their demands: 1. Resignation of President Lukashenko; 2. Resignation of the Central Electoral Committee; 3. Release of all political prisoners.
Solidarity with the struggle for democracy and workers’ rights in Belarus!
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Ryback Talks Vince McMahon's Net Worth Increasing During Pandemic, Maria Kanellis' Tweets
By Jason Ounpraseuth | July 07, 2020
Ryback recently commented on Maria Kanellis' tweet on getting released two months after giving birth on an episode of the "Shooting Blanks Wrestling Report" with Wrestling Inc.'s Raj Giri on the Conversation with the Big Guy Ryback podcast. Ryback sympathized with Kanellis saying that the circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic have probably heightened frustrations even more.
"I understand the frustration. Things build up when you're sitting at home," Ryback noted. "It's not like they're able to go and wrestle in other places. There's probably a lot of sitting at home probably looking online, dealing with a lot of negative bulls--t from fans and you read some negative comments from people. It's really easy to get fired up because you're the one that's living through it.
"Obviously, we all deal with the negative portion of fans. Everyone has them. It's an unfortunate situation. I understand her frustrations. Putting stuff online, it's her right. If that helps deal with it better, then that's fine. It sucks. Nothing really comes of it either way. It's probably a way more to vent frustrations I would imagine. Hopefully when things start getting back to normal, they have an opportunity to get busy again and start working or doing whatever makes them happy."
Ryback also commented on the news of Vince McMahon's net worth increasing by 10 percent during the COVID-19 pandemic. Ryback also reiterated Kanellis' point of the fact that no other wrestling company has released talent.
"I would say that the people they released, from a company standpoint, was probably $3-5 million total just estimating with everyone's contracts," Ryback theorized. "It really makes you question why did they get rid of so many people, or why have they not brought them back? No other wrestling company released people during this period.
"For those of us in the business, everyone knows how it is. It's Vince, and Vince has built that. It's his way he operates the company. He does a lot of good. He provides jobs for people."
While noting the good that WWE does, Ryback said that WWE exploits wrestlers. He notes that many wrestlers sacrifice their lives for WWE and some are not able to earn a living after leaving WWE because of the lack of opportunities while working in WWE.
"If you compare it to how they operate that business, what they take from people and what people sacrifice for him to have the wealth that he has, it's typically people's lives," Ryback stated. "Wrestlers die younger than everyone because of the work schedule and how little he leaves them with how much they actually earn. A lot of them have trouble when they leave there.
"There are opportunities they don't get while they're there because they want to keep them there. They don't want them making too much money. That's where it gets really frustrating."
If you use any quotes from this article, please credit Conversation with the Big Guy Ryback with a h/t to Wrestling Inc. for the transcription.
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The LT4 Experience
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Petrol Engine Options
Land Rover 4.0V8 – 185HP
The Rover V8 engine is a compact V8 internal combustion engine with aluminum cylinder heads and cylinder block, originally designed by General Motors and later re-designed and produced by Rover in the United Kingdom. This engine was used in several Land Rover vehicles, including early Discovery and Range Rover models.
This is the exact engine you will find in 1997 NAS Defenders with 185HP rating.
LS3 – 6.2L – 430HP – 425 lb-ft
The LS3 is filled with components designed for high performance and longevity. The aluminum block is filled with a sturdy reciprocating assembly that combines with L92-type rectangular-port heads to deliver a 10.7:1 compression ratio. As the standard engine in the fifth-generation Camaro SS and C6 Corvette, the high-revving, deep-breathing LS3 6.2L is poised to go down in history as one of Chevrolet’s best and most versatile engines.
LT1 – 6.2L – 460HP – 465 lb-ft
The LT1 is architecturally similar to the LS family of engines, but with a unique block casting, cylinder head design, oiling system and more. The LT1 is offered with a wet-sump or dry-sump oiling system. Introduced on the seventh-generation Corvette Stingray, the LT1 6.2L opened the next chapter in the long, historic legacy of the Small-Block engines.
LT4 SUPERCHARGED – 6.2L – 650HP – 655 lb-ft
Engineered for supremacy, the LT4 features a 1.7L Eaton R1740 TVS supercharger, which spins at up to 20,000 rpm. That’s enough to generate more than 9 pounds of boost and help produce 650 horsepower and 650 lb.-ft. of torque. Supercharged power, as the heart of the Corvette Z06, the supercharged LT4 6.2L SC is one of the most powerful engines ever offered by Chevrolet.
LC9 – 5.3L – 315HP – 315 lb-ft
The LC9 is a technically advanced small-block V8 engine that delivers a great balance of power, torque and efficiency. Variable valve timing helps the 5.3L optimize performance, efficiency and emissions, while GM’s Active Fuel Management cylinder deactivating technology helps improve fuel economy in certain light-load driving conditions.
The 5.3L is powerful, but delivers exceptional refinement to go with great strength. Quiet features built into the engine are complemented by an improved engine cradle and mounting system. These help reduce vibrations transmitted through the chassis and into the passenger compartment.
LV3 – 4.3L – V6 – 285HP – 305 lb-ft
The LV3 V6 engine is produced by General Motors for use in pickup trucks. It is part of GM’s 5th-generation Small Block engine design that’s named EcoTec3 in pickup trucks, replacing the 4th-generation Small Block engine family known as Vortec. The launch of the EcoTec3 engine line, including the 4.3L V6 LCV, coincides with the launch of the all-new 2014 Chevy Silverado and 2014 GMC Sierra. The 4.3L V6 LV3 is based on the V8 versions of the Gen V family, but with two fewer cylinders – a design lineage that dates back to the previous 4.3L V6, which was itself a Gen-II small block with a pair of cylinders removed.
Big Torque Chevy 6.3L Small-Block 383 Stroker
When it comes to cranking serious torque from the classic Small-Block, it’s hard to beat the 383 stroker combination, which uses a long, 3.800-inch stroke with 4.005-inch bores to generate exceptional low-end pulling power and surprising high-rpm horsepower.
Super Small-Block – It features lightweight aluminum cylinder heads based on the proven Fast Burn design, with large intake runners and 2.00/1.55-inch valves. Beehive-style valve springs enable great high-rpm performance and durability, allowing the SP383 to rev higher and build more horsepower.
As with any “stroker” engine, the 383 stroker uses an altered crankshaft to increase the stroke of the pistons. This increased stroke allows you to get more air and fuel into the cylinders, thus increasing displacement without changing engine blocks. The increased fuel and air means more horsepower and torque!
The Chevy 383 Stroker is an 8 cylinder engine that uses the popular production Chevrolet 350 block and a slightly altered Chevrolet 400 crank. A stock 350 has a piston stroke length of 3.48 inches.
The 400 crank changes the 383 to a total stroke of 3.75 inches. This produces a total displacement of 383 cubic inches (thus the name 383). This displacement means that a Chevy 383 Stroker is capable of drawing in a total of 383 cubic inches of air/fuel mixture into it’s cylinder chambers during one cycle of the 8 pistons.
Chevrolet 5.7L V8 Small-Block 350 Crate Engine
POWER, DURABILITY & AFFORDABILITY IN THE CLASSIC SMALL-BLOCK 350
As the latest in Chevrolet Performance’s Street Performance crate engine lineup, the engine is designed as an affordable performer to match just about any budget. Better still, it uses stronger components and modern technology to make it a better alternative to rebuilding.
Based on the value-driven 350 HO crate engine, our engineers swapped the flat-tappet camshaft for a hydraulic roller and added the latest Small-Block intake manifold design. Together, they help build more power across the rpm band – from 195 to 357 horsepower and up to 407 lb.-ft. of tire-turning torque.
The engine leverages the strength of a strong rotating assembly secured in a brand-new block with four-bolt mains, along with economical Vortec iron cylinder heads. It’s a durable assembly designed to offer years of high performance excitement at an excellent value.
Diesel Engine Options
Cummins R2.8 Turbo Diesel – 161HP – 267 lb-ft
The R2.8 turbo-diesel engine is the ISF2.8 four-cylinder diesel engine, the smallest and lighter engine out of the ISF engine family. The Cummins ISF2.8 is the modern engine that combines two main qualities – the power and compactness. The Cummins R2.8 engine has cast iron cylinder block with sleeves, which could be replaced. That results in less material consumption and higher strength. The simple and cheap material provides low cost, reliability and repair possibility.
The engine has the high-end technology fuel system – electronically controlled Common Rail fuel injection. The high-pressure fuel pump is mounted on the front end of the engine. It is driven by camshaft through the gear. The ISF2.8 has turbocharger HE 200 WG without an intercooler. The engine is equipped with start-up relief devices at low temperatures. An electric spiral is provided for heating the air in the intake manifold.
Xerbera 3.0 V6Td Turbo Diesel – 240HP – 420 lb-ft
With the three liters of displacement, the V-6 registers 240 horsepower and 420 lb-ft of torque; that’s more torque than some V8 petrol engines produce. Even more impressive are the engine’s fuel economy ratings – 30 MPG.
The 3.0 V6Td is paired with the ZF engineered ‘TorqueFlite 8’ eight speed automatic transmission for added efficiency. It has an electronically limited 4,800 rpm max engine speed, though wide-open up-shifts occur close to 4,000 rpm. Engine’s are manufactured by VM Motori in Cento, Italy and are used in Ram 1500 trucks as well as Jeep Grand Cherokees.
Rebuilt Land Rover 200TDi & 300TDi Turbo Diesel Engines
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If your Defender has a 2.5L Petrol or 2.5L NA Diesel in the engine bay, it is highly likely that you will find both of these engines to be very weak and lacking power.
We offer an economical engine swap solution to address your engine performance concerns with fully rebuilt 200TDi or 300TDi engines.
Both, Land Rover 200TDi and 300TDi Turbo Diesel engines coupled with an updated R380 manual gearbox will provide increased performance with much better MPG.
Over the years, Land Rover 200TDi and 300TDi Turbo Diesel engines proved to be the most reliable and long-lasting engines if properly maintained and driven and both are capable of more than 400K miles. This is the reason they are sometimes referred to as bullet proof engines.
Strengthened GM six speed automatic 6L80E, super duty 6L90E transmission or 4 speed 4L80E.
Introduced in late 2005 to become the 6-speed replacement for the 4-speed transmissions such as the 4L60E. The early release of this product line was introduced in Cadillacs and Corvettes, but before long it became mainstream for GM’s light duty pickup and SUV lines.
GM 6-Speed 6L90E Hydra-Matic Automatic Transmission
The Hydra-Matic 6L90E is a six-speed automatic transmission produced by General Motors for use in rear-and rear-biased all-wheel-drive vehicles with a longitudinal powertrain orientation. Developed in-house by General Motors, the Hydra-Matic 6L90E is part of the 6LXX family of fuel-saving, electronically controlled six-speed automatic transmissions that succeeded the 5LXX family.
The modular design of the Hydra-Matic 6L90E is shared with variants rated for different torque levels to accommodate various engines and vehicle applications. All versions share a unique output gearset configuration that enables it a wider range of ratios than a conventional planetary gearset automatic transmission. This allows the transmission to be tailored for optimal fuel economy while delivering excellent acceleration traits. The wide overall ratio spread of 6.04:1 allows a “steep” first gear, as well as a very “tall” overdrive top gear for low-rpm highway cruising.
The heavy-duty T56 Super Magnum 6-speed Manual Transmission
The T56 is a high-torque capacity TREMEC six-speed manual transmission designed for custom, retro-fit installations with Chevrolet Performance crate engines such as LT1 and LT4. Brute strength – featuring a 700 lb.-ft. maximum torque capacity, the T56 has an exterior case similar to the fourth-generation F-body transmission. The T56 also includes stronger, high-capacity gear sets, input shaft and output shaft used in the TREMEC TR6060.
Tremec TR-4050 5-speed Manual Transmission
For performance cars, muscle cars and hot rods, TREMEC is a natural choice for a manual transmission. The TREMEC TR-4050 has an advanced synchronizer/shift system that provides smooth shifting, short, precise throws and a driving experience unmatched by any other heavy-duty 4wd transmission in its class. The TR-4050 is also a desirable length for short-wheelbase 4x4s. A short overall length provides better driveline angles. A long transmission/transfer case combo reduces rear driveshaft length and can create driveline angle issues.
Overall, the TR-4050 provides an essential option for a market that has been neglected. The TR-4050 is a proven design that has been in production since the early 1990s. A rugged, die-cast, aluminum-alloy case forms the foundation. The gears have a high-contact, constant-mesh, helical design for maximum strength It has a torque-handling capacity of up to 425 lb-ft on a working GCVW of more than 15,000 pounds. For increased internal stability under load, the input, main and counter shafts feature tapered roller bearings. A counter-shaft–mounted 5th gear synchronizer improves noise, vibration and harshness in overdrive.
With gear ratios of 6.16 first, 3.11 second, 1.71 third, 1.00 fourth and .76 overdrive fifth, the TR-4050 is more capable than either the NV4500 or NP430 transmissions at off-road use, while still being capable of highway and everyday driving. Single- and double-cone synchronizers give the driver silky-smooth shifts. If PTO capability is needed, the TR-4050 has a standard, right-hand, six-bolt PTO hookup.
The TR-4050 can be mated to a multitude of engines: Cummins 4BT, 6BT, 5.0 and R2.8 Turbo Diesel; Ford Windsor small-block and Coyote; small- and big-block Chevy and LS Series; and small-block Mopar and Gen III Hemi. It’s an ideal replacement for the AX15, NV3500, NV3550 and NV4500 5-speeds, as well as NP435A, NP435L, NP435D, NP435E, T18, T19, T98, SM420 and SM465 4-speeds.
8-Speed ZF 8HP70 Automatic Transmission
Innovation by reduction: efficiency, perfected
With the development of the new 8-speed automatic transmission by ZF, the focus was not on the number of speeds but rather on the minimization of fuel consumption. The new 8HP 8-speed automatic transmission, which was designed to be more lightweight, sets new standards for flexibility, efficiency, and economy. It is an excellent example of how the power of innovation can create a new classic design.
New gear set design: four planetary gear sets and only five shift elements minimize the drag loss and increase the transmission efficiency.
Optional hydraulic impulse oil storage (HIS) opens up the possibility of the start-stop function and increases the fuel savings potential.
Integrated transmission control unit with extremely quick response time.
Basic transmission can be combined with multiple power take-up elements including the torque converter, the hybrid drive, and the integrated power take-up element.
Full hybrid compatibility: on the basis of the parallel hybrid concept, mild, full and plug-in hybrid systems can be implemented with the basic transmission of the 8-speed automatic transmission.
The transmission is compatible with the following all-wheel-drive concepts: All-wheel drive center differential integrated, integrated all-wheel drive system (IAS©), hang-on all-wheel-drive
For input torque range from 300 to 1000 newton meter
Multi disk separation of brakes
Optimized cooling: less cooling oil for low system pressures, more cooling oil for high system pressures
Automatic idle shift system at vehicle standstill and engaged service break (stand-by control)
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The Most Shocking Moments From ‘Game of Thrones’ Battle of Winterfell
Jordan Hoffman
We all know that Game of Thrones can get a little dark from time to time, but few expected the mightily anticipated third episode of the final season, “The Long Night,” to be so literally dark.
For the big showdown between the Night King and (almost) all the series' major characters, director Miguel Sapochnik made a creative choice to visualize the chaos and despair of this final confrontation in a way that was ... barely visible. It was a bold move, and a surprising one, especially since Sapochnik was the mastermind behind Season Six’s “The Battle of the Bastards,” the greatest example of action filmmaking in the history of television, as all reasonable people agree. Expect to hear nerds griping about this for the next ten years.
I can see where the decision came from. Darkness is a story element in “The Long Night.” Lighting the trenches around Winterfell's defensive perimeter is one of our heroes' major tasks (and it’s lucky the Red Woman, Melisandre, made an unexpected pop-in), and the dread that came from winked-out light was one of the first “uh-oh!” moments in this extremely tense 82 minute episode.
We were there on the couch, stress-eating like the rest of you, and these were the six moments that actually caused us to shout.
1. Dark-thraki
Melisandre's surprise appearance in “The Long Night” offers a little bit of early hope in this overwhelming fight against the Wight horde. With a Valar Morghulis to the gang, she lights up the Dothraki swords like the world's biggest shish kabob party. They race off, everyone feeling that maybe things will work out. Then slowly, the lights from the swords dim. If even these guys can't do any damage, what hope is there for the rest of us?
Then: A beat later, first we hear them, then we see them. A wall of zombies crashing like a tidal wave. It's truly one of the most terrifying images we've seen on this show. I screamed. I was sweating. And I wondered why the hell I wasn’t watching something nice and relaxing like David Attenborough’s Life of Birds.
2. Oh no, not Ser Brienne!
I spent a lot of time during the fighting (and there's so much fighting!) worrying about Brienne of Tarth, now Ser Brienne. I just want her to be happy. Early on she gets knocked down pretty hard. Then she gets battered around a lot, as does everyone, and I thought for sure she’d been killed. But she was just shoved. It takes more than that to fell the Big Woman!
But death did come for some of our characters. Although, quite frankly, no one I’m too upset about. Edd was the first confirmed kill and it did get a yelp out of me because it was front-and-center and easy to see, unlike everything else. “Edd is dead!” I cried. Then my wife had to remind me who Edd was. (He’s from the Night’s Watch.)
A little later Berric Dondarrion met his end when he, the Hound and Arya were running around the little horror movie that lurked within this episode. (I loved them crossing the beams of light with snowflakes in them.)
Arya snuck off into a library and a zombie was in there with her, so they played out the kitchen scenario from Jurassic Park. The Hound almost collapsed from fright earlier, but Berric showed him how fierce Arya was. Yet it was Berric who got killed. Too bad; he was a cool guy. He didn't really get a shout, though, more of an awwwwwwww.
3. Un-Bear-Able
Game of Thrones is all about pushing boundaries. So, yes, the tough little girl who wants to be treated like an adult? Lyanna Mormont, Lady of Bear Island? She's gonna get crunched to death by a zombie giant just like the rest of them. First she’s swatted away (that got a “Whoa!!”) and then squeezed by the grotesque beast's hands with her bones crunching and everything.
“Maybe ... maybe this show does go too far?” I wondered. But immediately thereafter we saw her death was not in vain. She pops the monster in the eye with her small sword and down he went, dying right beside her. A cheer went up from our couch, though certainly one fraught with mixed emotions.
4. Dragon Fleas
There’s a lot of the Khaleesi and Jon Snow not using the power of dragon fire to defeat the enemy in “The Long Night.” Part of this is because the Night King brings enormous wind and snow with him but, come on, this is not a JetBlue flight to LaGuardia! This is life or death! Stop circling the runway and do something!
Daenerys finally does (she even has Drogon blast the Night King head-on) and when she and her winged child lands, something so unexpected happens it got more of an “Aaaaaaaaaaaah!” then a full-on shout.
White walkers crawl all over Drogon, weighing him down and scurrying over him like enormous bugs. He tries to shake them off (flinging away his mother instead) and flies away in a panic. To see another of Daenerys' dragons in peril is triggering, especially after what happened to Viserion, but the image of the undead crawling all over a dragon in flight is pure nightmare fuel.
5. Flails From The Crypt
Very, very rarely do I predict anything on Game of Thrones. But even I saw this one coming.
With the White Walkers approaching why why why would Tyrion and the others head down the Stark crypt? These are creatures whose whole schtick is animating the dead. Don’t go where there are boxes of dead people!
Well, this is an 82-minute episode and they space it out, but what we all thought would happen finally did. The dead came back to life, and made us shout “Noooooooooo!” It did offer a tender moment between Tyrion and Sansa, though, so maybe if they survive the rest of this madness they'll run off and get married for real this time.
6. Arya Happy Now?
The youngest Stark is the bravest Stark.
All seems lost. Everyone’s writhing in agony. Undead Viserion is about to blast Jon Snow with his blue flames. Bran is facing down the Night King. Theon Greyjoy is already dead (eh, who cares, that guy had it coming a long time ago) and death is ready to swallow all of Winterfell. Until.
Leaping out of nowhere: Arya, with a fistful of dragonglass. But the Night King is ready with the block. However, with a quick hand-to-hand drop, she stabs him and ... it’s over?
Everyone shatters into gross undead ice cubes, even little Lyanna, we're guessing. We won. We won! (Oh, Jorah Mormont died, too.)
Now, with the battle over we can immediately shift gears and worry about Cersei and how Jon and Daenerys can come to terms with who shall sit on the Iron Throne. More importantly, somebody's gotta find some extra Swiffers to clean up this place.
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Malaika Arora, Arjun Kapoor to get hitched on this date?
According to the buzz, the rumoured couple will have a Christian wedding
Mumbai: Actors Arjun Kapoor and Malaika Arora will reportedly tie the knot on April 19.
According to the buzz, the rumoured couple will have a Christian wedding and the guest list include celebrities like Kareena Kapoor Khan, Karisma Kapoor, Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh.
Arjun and Malaika, spotted together multiple times, had kept mum on their relationship.
Talking about the rumours, Arjun had told IANS: "When there is something to talk about, you will all know."
Malaika, ex-wife of actor-producer Arbaaz Khan, had denied the marriage rumours in one of the interviews saying it is all "media made".
She never said that she was dating Arjun, but often spoke about the concept of finding love after divorce.
"Everyone wants to be in love again, to be in a relationship. Nobody wants to be alone and single for the rest of their life. Irrespective of what everyone said around me, I am glad that I made this choice on my own," Malaika had said.
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