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AMCA Breach Compromises 12 Million Quest Diagnostics Records
A breach at the American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA) has compromised the records of nearly 12 million Quest Diagnostics patients.
AMCA, a billing collections company based in New York, informed Quest Diagnostics that 11.9 million of their patients had been impacted after a hacker had gained access to AMCA’s systems.
Quest Diagnostics, one of the US’s largest blood testing facilities, has stated that AMCA has yet to provide them with ‘detailed or complete information about the AMCA data security incident, including which information of which individuals may have been affected’.
AMCA provides services to several different medical providers. The quantity of Quest Diagnostics files compromised alone places this breach among the worst in United States history. As more information about the incident is released, it is likely that more entities will announce that they have been affected.
The 2015 Anthem data breach is the current record-holder for the worst data breach, with 78.8 million files affected.
Researchers at Gemini Advisory, a cybersecurity company, first identified the breach at AMCA in May 2019. Gemini notified AMCA when they discovered 200,000 patients’ credit card details for sale on the dark web. However, AMCA did not respond to Gemini’s warning, so Gemini instead reported their findings to databreaches.net. The researchers determined that a hacker had stolen the credit card details between September 2018 and March 2019. Gemini also reported the breach to relevant law enforcement authorities.
AMCA provides billing collection services to Optum360, a business associate of Quest Diagnostics and a unit of the health insurer UnitedHealth Group. AMCA notified Quest Diagnostics and the revenue cycle management vendor Optum360 about the breach on May 14, 2019.
In their notification, AMCA stated that a breach had occurred that resulted in the exposure of patient data between August 1, 2018, and March 30, 2019. AMCA has contracted a third-party computer forensics firm to assist with their investigation into the breach.
AMCA has yet to release an exact figure of the number of patients affected by the breach but has told Quest Diagnostics that the likely number is to be around 11.9 million. AMCA also confirmed the compromised system contained data from entities other than Quest Diagnostics but has not released information on which other organisations or how many individuals are affected.
The hackers gained access to systems containing information such as names, personal information, Social Security numbers, financial information, and medical information. The hacker could not access laboratory test results while they had access to AMCA’s system.
Quest Diagnostics has issued a statement saying it is working closely with Optum360 and will send notification letters to all affected individuals when AMCA provides full details of the breach, stating that they are ‘committed to keeping our patients, health care providers, and all relevant parties informed as [we] learn more’.
Quest also said in a statement that they have “not been able to verify the accuracy of the information received from AMCA.”
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Don't worry, we haven't suddenly started covering London on SOBT! Dundee has its own answer to the famous St Paul's, London - the Scottish one is part of the Episcopal church and much less striking. Built in the 1850s in Gothic style, the view from Main Street is dominated by the large tower which the entrance is directly underneath. Given the constricted location, you enter expecting the interior to be dark and gloomy, but clever lighting and whitewashed walls ensure the opposite is true. Historic artefacts and highlights? There probably are some, but we don't have any info about them. The location for the cathedral is Castle Rock: like its Edinburgh namesake, this is right in the city centre and volcanic in origin, though considerably less prominent. Dundee Castle, after which the rock is named, is sadly long gone, destroyed by Robert the Bruce in 1313.
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BUSINESS COSTS Proposed redevelopment of the Sopris Shopping Center would add 76 new rental units to Carbondale's housing inventory – 15 being deed-restricted and 64 “efficiency” apartments, measuring 415 to 725 square feet. Meanwhile, nine locally-owned businesses see themselves displaced, mid-pandemic. More on page 8. Photo by Raleigh Burleigh. Current Issue→ Past Issues
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Renee Maggert, a 27-year resident of Carbondale, first started noticing symptoms at least two years ago: fatigue when hiking or rafting, not as strong as in the past, weight loss and more. Today, she suffers from double vision and cannot drive; she has also moved in with friends because she often chokes when eating or swallowing; if her weight drops to 88 pounds she’ll have to use a feeding tube.
Maggert’s COBRA insurance expired recently and she faces mountains of medical bills. To help her out, friends have organized a sweetheart dinner and dance at the Orchard from 6 to 10 p.m. on Feb. 14 (see the ad on page five for details).
Kim Velasquez, who is helping to organize the event, said her kids went to school with Maggert’s. They and a few others were always at Roaring Fork High School serving and preparing food for sports teams. “But Renee was the person the coaches and teachers would call. If they needed someone to organize and get the job done, she was always eager to help,” Velasquez said.
Continuing, Velasquez said “Until recent years, she (Maggert) has always been the giver and not on the recipient end. We believe this is the reason that she waited so long to share her health issues with others. Our hope is that the wonderful people in our valley will rally around her and help her out in any way possible.”
In a December posting to friends on Facebook, Maggert said she had a physical last year and her ANA (autoimmune) count was “extremely” elevated but other than some “irritating” innocuous symptoms, all the blood work came back in the “normal” range. “A high ANA count can be asymptomatic for years,” she said on Facebook.
Last September her fatigue increased, her mobility was not as fluid as it should be, she was losing weight “and frankly I look like hell.” Dr. Gary Knaus sent Maggert to a pulmonologist who was “underwhelmed” with her symptoms and referred her to a neurologist. “Again all was normal.”
Next up was a muscular neurologist “ … he wasn’t impressed with my symptoms either.”
A muscle biopsy was sent to the Mayo Clinic but the doctor there could find nothing to confirm a diagnosis. From there she saw a rheumatologist who could not support Maggert’s diagnosis of an autoimmune disorder.
“So by process of elimination and shear desire to do something to make me feel better, I am on a course of steroids and an immune inhibitor. I do not have the type of autoimmune conditions that damage the organs and my prognosis is that I will regain most of my muscle mass, experience improved mobility and even some weight gain Never in my life have I hoped to gain weight!”
Currently, choking and being able to eat are perhaps Maggert’s most serious problems. Her esophageal muscles are weak. When she swallows or swallows food she doesn’t aspirate so her lungs are not affected. Instead, when she chokes on food or liquid it can go up and out her nose. “It’s like blowing guacamole out my nose … it’s not a pretty sight.” She estimates she chokes like this about 60 percent of the time, which is actually down from about 75 percent since she started on one of her drugs.
A bright spot in Maggert’s situation is that she has been accepted into National Jewish Hospital in Denver and recently learned she’s eligible for Medicaid.
She concludes her Facebook posting in part, “I guess it takes an experience like this to become humble enough to walk in another’s shoes. I am learning to say thank you and accept with grace and gratitude. Perhaps that is the lesson I needed to learn in this. … I do appreciate all the positive thoughts and prayers. With great love and wishing you all great health — Renee.”
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Source Photonics Closes New Funding for Next-Generation Technologies Amidst COVID-19
More than 40 million dollars in equity has been raised from new financial and strategic investors that will be used for growth investments
West Hills, CA – April 14, 2020 – Source Photonics, a leading global provider of optical transceivers, today announced it recently closed more than $40M in equity to support its growing data center and 5G business, and to enhance its existing low-cost as well as advanced solutions.
The new investment amidst the COVID-19 pandemic reflects the investors’ confidence in the company’s long-term vision and business strategy. The latest funding will be used to further expand the company’s 5G product line and upgrade its own laser chip production facilities while continuing to strengthen the research and development of its low-cost solutions and next-generation technologies.
“We value our investors’ trust and confidence in Source Photonics especially during these challenging times of global health and economic crisis,” says Weiming Li, CEO and President of Source Photonics. “Their enthusiasm and confidence in us prove that our team is on the right track as we focus on responding rapidly to our customers’ needs and developing advanced technologies to cope with the increasing demand for bandwidth. Our next step is to seize the global market opportunity as demand for networking and cloud services skyrocketed as millions of people around the world are working and learning from home.”
While most businesses worldwide are put to halt during this time of pandemic, Source Photonics’ factory in Chengdu, China, has been operational since early February. The company’s proactive response to opening its production earlier than most companies in the region proved its commitment to supply chain continuity as its products are deemed essential to internet and telecommunications systems. In addition, its factories in Jintan, Mainland China, and in Hsinchu, Taiwan, are also up and running.
Source Photonics’ integrated manufacturing approach is critical in managing the entire value chain from laser production through transceiver assembly. This gives Source Photonics a differentiated capability that allows flexibility during this time of COVID-19 pandemic. With the latest funding, the company is well-positioned to enhance speed to market, yield manufacturing innovations, and offer flexibility our customers need to address the increase in demand for more bandwidth.
About Source Photonics:
Source Photonics is a leading provider of innovative and reliable optical communications technology that enables communications and connectivity in datacenters, metro, and access networks. We add value to our customers by developing next-generation solutions that enable their growth by meeting the rapidly increasing demands of cloud infrastructure, wireless communications, routing, and fiber-to-the-premises applications worldwide. Source Photonics has key R&D and manufacturing facilities in California, Taiwan, Chengdu, and Jintan, China. For more information about Source Photonics, please visit www.sourcephotonics.com.
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NIGERIA’S SPORTS MINISTRY SACKS ATHLETICS FEDERATION DIRECTOR
NIGERIA’S SPORTS MINISTRY SACKS ATHLETICS FEDERATION DIRECTOR Kunle Solaja
The ministry of sports in Nigeria has announced its nullification of the appointment of Similaye Young Pepple as Director General of the crisis-ridden Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN).
In a press release by the ministry’s director of press, Mrs Blessing Lere-Adams, the ministry reports that the action was part of government’s effort at sanitizing and restoring order into the myriad of issues besetting the smooth operations of the AFN.
According to the statement, the ministry in its capacity of supervisory role over the National Sports Federations under its purview set up a Ministerial Panel of Inquiry on AFN issues.
The panel was to investigate certain misdeeds and proffer solutions going forward.
“To this end, acting upon the recommendations of the Panel, the Ministry hereby makes it categorically clear that the Statue of the AFN and the National Sports Federation Code of Governance 2017, does not provide for the position of Director-General in any of the enabling documents.
“Against this backdrop, the Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports Development (FMYSD) canceled and nullified the alleged appointment of Mr. Similaye Young Pepple as Director General of AFN, more so, not being supported by any extant laws or regulations whatsoever.
“The Code of Governance supports Secretary –General (who has already been duly appointed by the Ministry) and not the office of a Director General that does not exist in the code of governance.
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Zwicky Transient Facility opens its eyes to the volatile cosmos
(14 November 2017 - Palomar Observatory) A new robotic camera with the ability to capture hundreds of thousands of stars and galaxies in a single shot has taken its first image of the sky, an event astronomers refer to as "first light."
The recently installed camera is part of a new automated sky-survey project called the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), based at Caltech's Palomar Observatory located in the mountains near San Diego. Every night, ZTF will scan a large portion of the Northern sky, discovering objects that erupt or vary in brightness, including exploding stars (also known as supernovas), stars being munched on by black holes, and asteroids and comets.
ZTF took this "first-light" image on Nov. 1, 2017, after being installed at the 48-inch Samuel Oschin Telescope at Palomar Observatory. The full-resolution version is more than 24,000 pixels by 24,000 pixels. Each ZTF image covers a sky area equal to 247 full moons. The Orion nebula is at lower right. Computers searching these images for transient, or variable, events are trained to automatically recognize and ignore non-astronomical sources, such as the vertical "blooming" lines seen here. (courtesy: Polomar Observatory)
"There's a lot of activity happening in our night skies," says Shrinivas (“Shri”) Kulkarni, the principal investigator of ZTF and the George Ellery Hale Professor of Astronomy and Planetary Science at Caltech. "In fact, every second, somewhere in the universe, there's a supernova that's exploding. Of course, we can't see them all, but with ZTF we will see up to tens of thousands of explosive transients every year over the three-year lifetime of the project."
From 2009 to 2017, ZTF’s predecessor, the Palomar Transient Factory, caught the blinking, flaring, and other real-time changes of transient objects in the sky. The project took advantage of the fact that Palomar has three telescopes—the 48-inch Samuel Oschin Telescope, the 60-inch telescope and the 200-inch Hale Telescope—all under the management of Caltech. During the Palomar Transient Factory's surveys, the automated Samuel Oschin Telescope acted as the discovery engine, with the automated 60-inch following up on any targets found and gleaning information about their identities. From there, astronomers would use the larger 200-inch Hale Telescope—or the W. M. Keck Observatory, which is co-managed by Caltech—to study in detail the various cosmic characters that enliven our night skies.
"Going from one telescope to the next allowed us to perform a sort of triage and pick out the most interesting objects for further study; it was a vertically integrated observatory," says Kulkarni. "The reason we called it the Palomar Transient Factory is because it did astronomy on an industrial scale."
The Zwicky Transient Facility is the powerful sequel to the Palomar Transient Factory. The name Zwicky refers to the first astrophysicist at Caltech, Fritz Zwicky, who arrived at the university in 1925 and who would go on to discover 120 supernovas over his lifetime. ZTF's new state-of-the-art survey camera, recently installed at the Samuel Oschin Telescope, can see 47 square degrees of sky at a time, or the equivalent sky area of 247 full moons. That's seven times more sky than its predecessor could see in a single image. What's more, ZTF's upgraded electronics and telescope-drive systems enable the camera to take 2.5 times as many exposures each night. ZTF will scan the entire sky over three nights and the visible plane of the galaxy twice every night.
By scanning the sky so much faster, astronomers will discover not only a greater number of transient objects but also will be able to pick up the more fleeting events, those that appear and fade quickly.
"ZTF will be faster than its predecessor because each image probes a wider swath of sky out to greater distances," says Richard Dekany, the project manager for ZTF at Caltech. "Each image the camera takes is more than 24,000 by 24,000 pixels."
The images are so huge that they are hard to display on computer screens at full resolution. Roger Smith, the team's technical lead at Caltech, has calculated that it would take 72 ultra-high-definition monitors to display one of ZTF's images at full resolution. "I'd like to build that so we can really see the glory of ZTF's full resolution," says Smith, who has been working on the project along with Dekany, Kulkarni, and many others since it received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 2014.
About half of ZTF is funded by the NSF; the rest comes from its partners, including the Weizmann Institute for Science, the Oskar Klein Center at Stockholm University, the University of Maryland at College Park, the University of Washington, the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, Humboldt University, Los Alamos National Laboratory, the TANGO Consortium of Taiwan, the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
ZTF images will be adjusted, cleaned, and calibrated at Caltech's astronomy and data center known as IPAC. IPAC software will search the flood of data generated by ZTF for light sources, in particular those that change or move. These data will be made public to the entire astronomy community.
"The data archive will grow by 4 terabytes of data each night," says George Helou, the executive director of IPAC and a co-investigator on the NSF grant. "This is a unique project promising new types of discoveries."
Other NSF co-investigators include Caltech's Tom Prince, the Ira S. Bowen Professor of Physics, and Bryan Penprase, dean of faculty at Soka University of America. ZTF's project scientist is Matthew Graham of Caltech.
Smith says that designing and building ZTF to capture such large images was particularly challenging given that the camera itself has to fit into a relatively small 70-year-old telescope tube. "The camera obstructs the light passing through the telescope toward the primary mirror, so we had to keep its size down while also maximizing the amount of sky it can observe," he says.
ZTF's new first-light image is a taste of what's to come. It showcases the large scale of the images and highlights the turbulent star-forming nebula known as Orion.
Astronomers are excited for the unexpected findings that will come from ZTF. One of the Palomar Transient Factory's biggest discoveries came in 2011 when it caught a supernova, named SN 2011fe, just hours after it had exploded. ZTF will further expand our knowledge of young supernovas along with a host of other cosmic objects, including planets around young stars, exotic binary star systems, and near-Earth asteroids.
"ZTF will survey the dynamic universe unlike ever before," says Mansi Kasliwal, assistant professor of astronomy at Caltech and a member of the ZTF team. "With its immense survey speed, ZTF can look at moving objects in the solar system, such as near-Earth asteroids, as well as cataclysmic eruptions of stars flickering in our own Milky Way galaxy. ZTF will find supernova explosions in faraway galaxies and even find electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational-wave sources detected by LIGO. It's going to give us a treasure trove of discoveries." Kasliwal notes that the gravitational-wave counterparts, once identified using ZTF, can be studied in detail using the Global Relay of Observatories Watching Transients Happen (GROWTH) project, led by Kasliwal.
In the future, even larger surveys will build on ZTF's rapid scans of the sky; these surveys include the upcoming Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), scheduled to be operational in 2023. "ZTF will be 10 times faster than the Palomar Transient Factory, while the upcoming LSST will be 10 times faster than ZTF," says Kulkarni. "ZTF is a step toward the future."
ZTF's science survey phase is scheduled to begin in February of 2018. The project will be completed by the end of 2020.
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The Biggest Lie in the White Supremacist Propaganda Playbook: Unraveling the Truth About ‘Black-on-White Crime'
Cassie Miller
The idea that black people are wantonly attacking white people in some sort of quiet race war is an untruthful and damaging narrative with a very long history in America.
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Each year, across America, an estimated 204,600 people are victimized by hate crimes – criminal expressions of bigotry that terrorize entire communities and fray the social fabric of our country.
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The Alt-Right is Killing People
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The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) counted over 100 people killed or injured by alleged perpetrators influenced by the so-called "alt-right" — a movement that continues to access the mainstream and reach young recruits.
Kate Shuster
Schools are not adequately teaching the history of American slavery, educators are not sufficiently prepared to teach it, textbooks do not have enough material about it, and – as a result – students lack a basic knowledge of the important role it played in shaping the United States and the impact it continues to have on race relations in America.
America the Trumped: 10 ways the administration attacked civil rights in year one
When Donald Trump stood on a stage in Cleveland to accept the Republican nomination for the presidency in July 2016, he declared he would be the voice of the American people, the sole champion for the vulnerable and forgotten.
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Donald Trump denies he wanted William Barr to publicly clear him
Trump tweeted that the story “is totally untrue and just another FAKE NEWS story with anonymous sources that don’t exist.”
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Thursday denied a report that he wanted Attorney General William Barr to hold a press conference to declare he broke no laws during a July phone call in which Trump pressed his Ukrainian counterpart to investigate Democrats.
Trump tweeted just after midnight that the story, first reported by The Washington Post, “is totally untrue and just another FAKE NEWS story with anonymous sources that don’t exist.”
And he continued to lash out at the press, declaring "The LameStream Media" to be the "Enemy of the People."
The Post reported that Barr rebuffed the request, which came in September around the time the White House released a rough transcript of Trump’s July 25 call at the center of the House impeachment probe. The paper, citing unidentified people familiar with the effort, said the request was relayed from the president to White House officials, and then to the Justice Department.
House Democrats are investigating Trump’s pressure on Ukraine to investigate political rivals as aid money was being withheld from the Eastern European country.
Trump insists he did nothing wrong.
"Just read the Transcript," he wrote Thursday. "The Justice Department already ruled that the call was good."
That appears to be a reference to a statement from the Justice Department in September announcing that the department's Criminal Division "reviewed the official record of the call and determined, based on the facts and applicable law, that there was no campaign finance violation and that no further action was warranted."
Barr famously held a news conference ahead of the release of special counsel Robert Mueller's report into Russian election meddling. Barr painted what many saw as an overly flattering picture as it related to Trump and repeatedly declared investigators had found "no collusion" between the Trump campaign and Russia, a point Trump had seized on to try to claim vindication.
While the appearance drew praise from Trump, it also raised alarms from critics already wary of his independence after Barr released a letter summarizing the reports’ conclusions, which Mueller later complained “did not fully capture the context, nature and substance” of the full report and led to “public confusion about critical aspects of the results of” the investigation.
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Relief given to a wronged party is called remedy
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The practice of deciding new cases with reference to former decisions or precedents is called stare decisis.
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The person who acts as a client’s advocate by presenting the facts to the jury is the Lawyer
A court authorized to hear cases involving a limited amount of money Small Claims Court
A document delivered to a defendant that tells them they must appear in court because a civil suit has been filed again him/her Summons
A court authorized to hear any type of case has general jurisdiction
Jurisdiction that exist when a more than one court has the power to hear a case exclusive
A court which reviews trial court decisions is a/an appellate court.
Both state and federal trial courts have original jurisdiction.
Separate courts that handle specific subject matters, such as family and traffic, have limited jurisdiction
5. Which of the following allows someone in New York to file suit against someone in Texas? Long arm statute
A proper place within a juridical district to bring a lawsuit is venue.
Shoplifting is considered a misdemeanor
Burglary is considered a felony
What elements must exist at the same time for a person to be convicted of a crime? Intent and action must actually occur
The act of requesting or encouraging someone to commit a crime is known as criminal solicitation
A wrongful threat causing someone to perform an act he or she would not otherwise do is called duress
During a trial who has the burden of proof? plaintiff
. Before interrogation, or questioning, a suspect may have the constitutional right to a Miranda warning
A hearing in which an accused is brought before a court to hear the charges against him or her and to enter a plea to the charges is known as a/an arraignment
A serious crime punishable by death or imprisonment for life c capital felony
When someone intentionally and in excusably hits another is called battery
If Jason writes a published article about his neighbor, which is untrue, he has committed libel
A nonviolent illegal act committed by an individual or corporation in business is a white collar
When liability in an accident is shared by all on the basis of proportionate fault, this is called comparative negligence
A wrongful act for which a court may award damages tort
The failure to exercise reasonable care is negligence
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Vocabulary terms for Unit
American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) Coding system that computers of all types and brands can translate
Application Software Also called productivity software; Helps you perform a specific task, such as word processing or spreadsheets
Bit In binary, a bit represents zero or one
Byte Is another word for character; generally represented by eight bits
Central Processing Unit (CPU) Also known as the microprocessor; the brains of the computer
Computer Electronic device that recieves data, processes data, stores data, and produces a result
File Extension The part of a filename that comes after the period called a “dot”
File Name The name assigned for identification
Folder A way to organize files into manageable groups
Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) Operating systems with graphical symbols representing files, programs, and documents
Hardware The tangible, physical equipment that can be seen and touched
Icons Graphic images or symbols that represent applications(programs), files, disk drives, documents, embedded objects, or linked objects
Input Devices Enable the user input data and commands into the computer
Mainframe Computers Large, powerful computers that are used for centralized storage, processing, and management of very large amounts of data
Maximize To enlarge a window on the computer to fill the computer screen
Menu Bar The horizontal bar near the top of a window that lists the different types of menus to choose from when working with documents
Microcomputer Sometimes called a personal computer; used at home or at the office by one person; can fit on top of or under a desk
Microprocessor An integrated circuit silicon chip that contains the processing unit for a computer or a computerized appliance
Microsoft’s Disk Operating System (MS-DOS) Originally introduced with the IBM PC in 1981
Minicomputer Type of computer that is designed to serve multiple users and process significant amounts of data; larger than a microcomputer, but smaller than a mainframe
Minimize To reduce a window on the screen to a button on the taskbar
Motherboard A circuit board that contains all of the computer system’s main components
network Connects one computer to other computers and peripheral devices
Operating Systems Systems software that provide an interface between the user or application program and the computer hardware
Output Devices Enable to computer to give you the results of the processed data
Plug and play Technology that allows a hardware component to be attached to a computer so that it is automatically configured by the operating system
Random access Memory (RAM) Where instructions and data are stored on a temporary basis; this memory is volatile
Read-Only Memory (ROM) Permanent storage; instructions are burned onto chips by the manufacturer
restore To return a maximized or minimized window to its previous size
Scroll Bar Band on the right side or bottom of a window that you click to bring different parts of a document into view
Software Intangible set of instructions that tell the computer what to do
Supercomputers Largest and fastest computers, capable of storing and processing tremendous volumes of data
Systems Software A group of programs that coordinate and control the resources and operations of a computer system
Task Bar The horizontal band at the bottom of the desktop that includes the Start Button, minimized window buttons, and a row of icons usually related to input and output devices
Technology The application of scientific discoveries to the production of goods and services that improve the human enviornment
Title Bar The horizontal band in a window that displays the name of the program, data file, or another type of window
Tool bar A band near the top of a window that has groups icons or buttons that will execute certain commands when clicked
troubleshooting Analyzing problems to correct faults in the system
Universal serial Bus (USB) Standard for computer ports that support data transfer rates up to 12 million bits per second
Utility software Systems software that perform tasks related to managing the computer resources, file management, diagnostics, and other specialized stores
Virus A computer program that is written to cause corruption of data
Window Rectangular area of the screen used to display a program, data, or other information
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Remodeling for triplets
Great lessons for living with three big dogs and four little kids
Peter O. Whiteley, – August 6, 2004
Virginia Donohue and Mark Klaiman were living in an 800-square-foot San Francisco Victorian row house with 300 pounds of dogs ― a Great Dane, a Newfoundland, and a chocolate Labrador ― when they found out they were expecting triplets. A remodel was in order. They reorganized and extended the first-floor living space and added a second floor with three bedrooms and a playroom.
Then, when the triplets ― Sydney, Johanna, and Liam ― were 2 years old, son Quinn arrived. But Donohue and Klaiman had a lot of organizational know-how. They own a company called Pet Camp, where up to 160 dogs and 25 cats can stay while their owners are at work. Monitoring so many animals translated well to planning for a rapidly expanding family. A year and a half has passed, and the handsome, 2,600-square-foot home survives relatively unscathed, thanks to its thoughtful design.
The activity hub of the house is the kitchen/family/dining room at the rear of the first floor. “This is where we live,” says Donohue, who also points out that “everything is kidproofed.” Originally a warren of three tiny rooms and two small decks, this 11-foot-tall room now opens onto the rear yard. “Our yard is set up so we can see (the children) and they can see us,” she explains.
Sunlight is at a premium in this long, slender space, since the side walls have no openings. French doors, double-hung windows, and transom windows face the garden. At the other end of the main room, the architect added an angular opening to the new stairwell so that daylight from a second-floor skylight spills into the rear of the kitchen.
Order out of chaos
Donohue and Klaiman maintain family harmony with a few simple rules of engagement: Toys must be stored away before meals and TV time. The kids help set the table and lend a hand in the kitchen with things like peeling carrots and putting pasta in pots. No one is allowed on the hearth if there is a fire burning. And after visits to the park, all sand gets dumped outside.
The careful planning makes it possible to enjoy the day without obsessing over small things. In summer months, for example, kids and dogs flow in and out of the French doors of the family area. Klaiman secures the doors open with hook-and-eye fasteners. “We get a few bugs but no pinched fingers or paws,” he says.
Design: Joram S. Altman, San Francisco (415/282-2626)
Interior Design/Construction: Jim Wallen, Acorn Design Studio, Oakland, CA (510/547-6581)
Color Consultant: Gail McCabe Designs, San Francisco (415/431-4395)
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Sunvesta is investing in a hotel project in Guanacaste, on the North-Pacific Coast of Costa Rica, with the added option of acquiring property shares. The proposed resort will also include Private Homes for purchase. The development will be designed, planned, and built in partnership with the award-winning ultra-luxury One&Only brand.
01 PROJECT LOCATION + LANDSCAPE CONCEPT
«Landscapes in the Heart of Central America»
Costa Rica is an attractive tourist destination that stretches from the Caribbean Sea to the Pacific Ocean. The country has an abundance of the most varied flora, including extensive rainforests, volcanic landscapes, pristine beaches, and an equally rich fauna, protected by an above-average number of national parks and forest reserves. The political stability of the country, paired with an established and successful economic model, secure the special position of Costa Rica in Central America.
The initial geographic location is both an opportunity and a challenge, as the resort, apartments, and villas are nestled amidst a 160-metre high ridge on both sides.
Vista Bahia
03 PROJECT FACTS + FIGURES
Gensler Costa Rica, based in San José, is the Latin American hub of global design firm Gensler. The Costa Rica Hospitality Studio integrates architecture, interiors, landscape, and resort planning for selected projects in Costa Rica and throughout Latin America. The Costa Rica and London offices of Gensler have jointly worked on this project, contributing their local and international expertise.
DDP was founded 6 years ago in Liberia, Guanacaste, and has a broad range of market-specific knowledge at its disposal. DDP offers a holistic solution for the management, control, and execution of construction projects. Their competencies are based on their experience as to high-class resorts and villas in Costa Rica and the Caribbean and the associated knowledge.
JBI in New York was founded in 1986 by Jeffrey Beers and specializes in architecture, design, and planning. Jeffrey Beers and his team are particularly known for their extensive hotel projects all over the world, which integrate the respective cultural influences into the interior design.
04 TEAM
Sunvesta Team
Hans Rigendinger
CEO / Chairman of the Board
Dr. Max Rössler
Humberto Pacheco-Alpízar, M.C.L.
Executive Project Manager
Fabricio Bianchini
Project Manager Engineering
Daniela Fölmli
Andrea Beck
Violeta Reithaar
Head of Accounting
office in Switzerland:
Sunvesta Holding AG
Gewerbestrasse 16
www.sunvesta.com
info@sunvesta.com
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Divine Redeemer Choir meets a Boston and the results are amazing
As seen in the Winter 2016 edition of the Boston Chronicle
There were some great voices shyly seated in the pews of Divine Redeemer Catholic Church when a new Boston grand piano supplied just the right bit of inspirational coaxing.
Before acquiring a GP-193 from Schmitt Music in Denver, music was performed on an aging electric piano with uneven sound. “Many people did not attempt to sing,” says Choir Director Daniel Foster. “Since purchasing this piano, our 21-member choir is much stronger in supporting the congregation, and the congregation now actively participates in the music.”
The choir – practically relegated to singing the melody or two-part harmony over the years – is more willing to be pushed and work toward advancing their skills. “Overall, this instrument has greatly exceeded our expectations in the enhancement of weekly Masses,” he notes.
Barry Damerell, General Manager at Schmitt and a Music Minister at Divine Redeemer since 1992, remembers when the donated digital would completely stop playing for several minutes at a time, prompting quizzical looks.
The choir – practically relegated to singing the melody or two-part harmony over the years – is more willing to be pushed and work toward advancing their skills.
“We were fortunate when Father Brian Roeseler came onboard as our new priest and immediately recognized our needs regarding the quality of the worship service. Also, Daniel is a very accomplished choir director, pianist, and organist who understood the need for a new instrument. When I explained to him the impetus in Steinway & Sons creating the Boston piano, he was intrigued,” Barry says.
The Boston GP’s wide tail design provides plenty of power that doesn’t require amplification. “The church holds several hundred people and being able to hear the piano in the back pew was a major concern. This is not a problem with the GP-193,” he asserts.
Using the Boston GP’s cut-out floor pattern to help determine the best fit for the allotted space, Daniel and Finance Manager Carole Heindel visited Schmitt Music to test several instruments. Technician Justin Holcomb from the Aspen Music Festival and School prepared the GP-193 “and it was quite obvious that Daniel and Carole fell in love with the Boston,” says Barry.
The new acoustic piano evokes a full range of emotions for Marjie Weldele. “It connects our hearts to our prayer and worship. The passion, joy, sorrow, repentance and praise of the song and the pianist invite us to worship and pray more deeply,” explains the principal of Divine Redeemer Catholic School. “That element of emotion and relationship with a song is just not there with an electric piano. We also have a greater amount of prelude or meditation music incorporated before and during Mass which encourages prayer, reflection, and reverence.”
And Father Roeseler couldn’t be more pleased: “I feel as if I am celebrating Mass with concert-like music. The sound is clean and crisp. This by far has been the best purchase our parish has made for our music department in decades.”
the piano with Steinway DNA
Whether dazzling at the concert hall, woodshedding in the practice room, or exploring the joy of music at home, the Steinway-designed Boston brings the genuine world-class tone and responsiveness within reach.
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Miniature Tigers - Annie Oakley lyrics
Annie Oakley by Miniature Tigers
It's a very tiny risk that I'm willing to take
It's my foot, it's my heart, it's my back
That I'm willing to break
It's the dog in me who's barking at you
What am I doing here, everybody wants you
Hands down?
Your death is coming soon
I don't wanna move too fast
I don't wanna scare you off
I don't wanna move too slow
Someone's gonna snatch you off
And end up all alone
I'm like a house cat, waiting to be clawed
It's a shotgun wedding
I hate buying logs
It's a drag dragging them around town
It's dragging me down
If I don't act soon somebody's gonna get you
I wouldn't mind, I could never tie you down
I lost the plot
What was this all about?
Attack piano
The words are spilling out of my gun
Black blood from your new high heels
Stomping out someone who never
Should be lying at your feet
Miniature Tigers
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USA Curling Features D Pool registration ...
D Pool registration deadline drawing near
July 25, 2018, 11:07 a.m. (ET)
2018-2019 Junior Developmental Pool Registration Deadline approaching
USA Curling announces that registration is now open for the HPP Developmental Pool for individual junior curlers ages 16-18. The purpose of the Developmental Pool (D-Pool) is to enhance the development of junior curling in the country by providing athletes with education and coaching resources on a year-round basis. This includes strength and conditioning training, mental skills training, sports nutrition, and injury prevention, along with a spring technical camp to assess progress. Sports science education and strength and conditioning coaching will be administered on-line.
D-Pool participants will be asked to perform a weekly strength and conditioning routine designed for their level of fitness, complete various mental skills and nutritional exercises monthly, and attend a weekend camp during the first part of April 2019 in the Twin Cities. There is no fee for the camp, but the cost of travel and accommodations will be at the expense of the D-Pool athlete.
Cost for participation in the D-Pool, for the 2018-2019 season (August 1, 2018 through March 31, 2019), is $140 per athlete.
The D-Pool is open to any junior curler who has entered a USCA playdown in the past season (either U18 or U21), who was born on or before June 30, 2002, and on or after June 30, 2000, and is a citizen of the United States.
Registration deadline for the 2018-2019 season is July 27, 2018. Interested athletes should register on USA Curling’s registration site.
HPP D-Pool Strength and conditioning Program
USA Curling’s Junior HPP Developmental Program strength and conditioning training is now available to those juniors who participated in and have aged out of the D-Pool but wish to continue the training regime. Registrants will have the same access to the on-line training platform and the junior HPP strength coach as in the D-Pool.
Registrants must have participated in the past D-Pool session and be eligible to play in the Junior National Championships for the 2018-2019 season. This session runs from August 1, 2018, through March 31, 2019.
Cost for this session is $85. Registration deadline is July 27, 2018.
Questions may be directed to USCA Junior HPP Director Dave Jensen at dave.jensen@usacurl.org.
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Disney Feels The Heat As Children Lead The Cord Cutting Revolution
from the adapt-or-perish dept
Fri, Jul 7th 2017 6:25am — Karl Bode
For a while now we've noted that it's actually the youngest among us that are leading the cord cutting revolution. Viacom has watched channels like Nickelodeon experience a ratings free fall for several years now as streaming alternatives have emerged as a useful alternative to strictly-scheduled, commercial-bloated Saturday morning cartoons. Toddlers don't really care if they're watching the latest and greatest "True Detective" episode or not, and parents, like everybody else, are tired of paying for bloated cable bundles filled with channels they never watch.
Like Viacom, Disney has been feeling the brunt of this evolution, especially since cable TV accounted for 30% of its revenue and 43% of profits last fiscal year. But, as evident by the ongoing subscriber exodus at Disney-owned ESPN, the company really hasn't really done a very good job adapting to the changing market. The same thing is occurring at Disney's kid-oriented networks like the Disney Channel, Disney Jr., and Disney XD, all of which are, well, not faring particularly well under this new streaming paradigm:
"For the first six months of this year, the commercial-free Disney Channel's ratings among in its core 2-11 and 6-14 demographics fell 23% in prime time and 13% and 18%, respectively, during the full day, compared with the same period a year ago. Ratings are also down at the smaller Disney Jr. and Disney XD networks, which fall under Mr. Marsh's Disney Channel umbrella.
Cable revenue at Disney is relatively flat, and operating income is down 6% in the first half of the current fiscal year. That has contributed to a freak out or two among Wall Street analysts, which have in recent months finally, truly woken up to a trend they spent years both ridiculing and denying. That's in large part thanks to the fact that 2016's 1.7% decline in traditional cable TV viewers was the biggest cord cutting acceleration on record. The second quarter is expected to be notably worse, with most analysts predicting a 1 million subscriber decline (or greater).
And that fear on Wall Street has, in turn, forced traditionally myopic cable executives to finally realize that they need to stop trying to defend the traditional bloated cable TV cash cow -- and begin offering cheaper, more flexible streaming alternatives:
"Disney Chief Executive Robert Iger has said that strengthening online accessibility for television programs is a priority and that the company is preparing to offer its channels, in part or whole, directly to consumers online rather than just through costly cable packages. Profits for Disney Channel and Freeform are driven in part by long-term contracts with cable companies, but the erosion in ratings is likely to ultimately hit the bottom line unless the networks can generate substantial new digital revenue."
Of course, like the Millennials ahead of them, most of these kids will grow up (correctly) believing its bizarre and punitive to force people to buy oodles of often-horrible cable TV channels at outrageous prices. And contrary to some cable and broadcast executives who still think this is all just a temporary blip on a radar screen, this rise in competition and the resulting massive shift toward cheaper, more flexible viewing options isn't going anywhere.
Filed Under: cord cutting, streaming
Companies: disney
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PaulT (profile), 7 Jul 2017 @ 7:01am
A refreshing lack of panic, misdirection and demands that someone else prop up their business model here. Merely a recognition that the market is changing and that they need to increase digital profit to make up for the loss in traditional cable revenue. Could it be because they recognised that this was going to happen and made deals with Netflix and other avenues, so that the inevitable drop in traditional subscribers was mitigated?
Funny how the everything seems easier when you understand your market and can face the reality of the changes it faces over time.
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Cuba Denounces Attempt to Reactivate US Brain-Drain Program
Cuban doctors returning to the island after being withdrawn from Brazil in December 2018. | Photo: ACN
President Diaz-Canel criticized the move by senators Marco Rubio and Bob Menendez to reactivate the Bush-era strategy.
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel has condemned the call by two U.S. lawmakers of Cuban origin to reactivate the 'brain-drain' program established by George W. Bush and revoked during the administration of Barack Obama.
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“They’re trying to impose a perverse strategy to stimulate brain drain. Another anti-Cuban campaign that shows the imperial impotence against the revolutionary conquests,” Diaz-Canel wrote on Twitter.
Senators Marco Rubio and Bob Menendez, respectively from the Republican and Democratic parties, filed a resolution at Congress on Thursday calling for the reactivation of the Cuban Medical Professional Parole (CMPP), known as “brain drain” by Cubans.
“Cuba has been sending medical brigades around the world, including Central and South America as well as Africa, for over forty years - in return for payments directly to the government estimated to be as much as $8 billion per year," it reads.
"This blatant exploitation by the Castro regime of their healthcare professionals is not at all surprising, as they have long used the suffering of the Cuban people for their own personal gain.”
The resolution can define the Senate’s position on the issue, but the ultimate decision to re-establish the CMPP rests with the State Department.
Installed in 2006, the program aimed to lure Cuban doctors and health professionals working on special missions abroad to abandon their duties and emigrate to the United States with special incentives.
The Cuban president accused the senators of being “unable to promote a civilized relationship” and being “blinded by arrogance.”
Obama repealed the program in 2017 after the improvement of diplomatic relations between the two countries, and recognized the work of health professionals.
According to government data, Cuba has sent more than 600,000 doctors to over 160 countries since the foundation of the ‘More Doctors’ initiative in 1973. Their labour has been recognized by the UN and the World Health Organization as good practice and an important step toward the 2030 sustainable development objectives.
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Also, Cuban medicine schools have trained over 35,613 foreigners from 138 countries, completely free of charge.
However, the senators described the missions as “human trafficking.”
Cuban Foreign Ministry director for the United States Office, Carlos Fernandez de Cossio, also rejected the initiative by Rubio and Menendez.
"Impotent resentment against Cuba has no limits. Unable to stop recognized human professional development, baseball quality and potential investment. Bob Menendez and Marco Rubio want to restore brain drain program against Cuban doctors," said Fernandez de Cossio.
Both senators argued that Cuba was profiting from the work of its health professionals in Brazil, where Cuba ended its ‘More Doctors Program’ in November after comments by then President-Elect Jair Bolsonaro questioning the quality of Cuban doctors’ training.
The news was met with sadness by the Brazilian 'Doctors for the People National Network' (RNMMP), who regretted the loss of about 8,500 health professionals working in historically marginalized areas.
"It was an example that favelas, backlands and the Amazon can have doctors. An example that the poor or black people can be a doctor. An example that the state must guarantee the right to health. An example of Latin American love,” the RNMMP press release declared.
The ‘More Doctors Program’ was approved by former President Dilma Rousseff in 2013 in order to increase access to public health for the Brazilian population.
One of those policies consisted of assuring budgetary resources for implementing family-based health strategies, increasing medical vacancies in universities and offering more courses in the field of medicine.
During the five years it lasted, about 20,000 Cuban physicians assisted thousands of Brazilians in primary health care.
Besides the CMPP resolution, Rubio is also attempting to veto an Obama-era ruling allowing Cuban athletes to join Major League Baseball without first having to defect to the United States.
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New Delhi: Power PSUs' joint venture EESL plans to install at least 500 more electric vehicle (EV) charging stations in the country during fiscal 2020-21.
The joint venture of PSUs under the Ministry of Power, the Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) has undertaken the project to boost the e-mobility ecosystem in India.
In a conversation with IANS, EESL Managing Director Rajat Sud informed that close to 207 charging stations have already been installed across India.
"The beginning of the financial year was difficult as the country was dealing with the Coronavirus and its related lockdowns. EESL's suppliers have also been facing shortages of components and labour during the lockdown that extended up till May-end," he said.
"With the supply resumed from the manufacturers and opening up of transport, EESL is striding towards installing at least 500 chargers by the end of the financial year. During the year, EESL has also completed an additional procurement of 1020 chargers."
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Eventually, the company plans to set up 10,000 charging stations over the next two to three years across the country.
Presently, the state-run firm has tied up with various private and public companies such as Apollo Hospitals, BSNL, Maha-Metro, BHEL and HPCL, among others, to set up public charging infrastructure.
It has also partnered with urban local bodies in cities like Hyderabad, Noida, Ahmedabad, Jaipur and Chennai, and is in discussion with others to create such infrastructure. One of the main capital requirements to set up charging infrastructure is the availability of 'land', which as of now is provided free of cost by most municipal bodies or firms for public chargers to EESL.
Currently, many automobile companies and other private players, including standalone charging infrastructure developers, are also installing these facilities.
Furthermore, EESL plans to ramp up installation of smart meters in the country.
A smart-meter digitally records and wirelessly shares stats like household electricity consumption and voltage levels to the distribution companies.
"EESL has signed MoUs for smart meters with the states of Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Bihar, NDMC-Delhi, Union territory of Andaman & Nicobar and Rajasthan. We have cumulatively installed over 15 lakh meters as of mid-December 2020," Sud said.
"Smart Meter installation, for the current fiscal, has been heavily affected by the pandemic. However, we have still gone ahead and installed over 3 lakh Smart Meters during the Covid imposed lockdown and thereafter. During the COVID imposed lockdown, smart meters have reaffirmed their importance in being vital tools in ensuring smooth billing and collection operations."
According to Sud, smart meters have brought benefits to states and UTs like Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Delhi and Bihar.
"The average meter automated billing was above 95 per cent in smart meter areas against a 71 per cent provisional billing in areas with conventional meters."
"We are actively in discussion with new as well as states where the programme is currently ongoing. However, we are still awaiting a concrete response from these states."
At present, EESL's Smart Meter National Programme (SMNP) is working to eventually replace 25 crore conventional meters with smart meters across India.
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Catherine Young
A Raisin in the Classroom
Why is Lorraine Hansberry’s landmark play, A Raisin in the Sun, not found in the major drama anthologies many universities use for survey classes? Its absence is problematic, given its important place in drama history and literature, which is why we must make an extra effort to get the play into our students’ hands and into classroom learning.
There are so many ways to teach Raisin on the college level. Clearly, the approach you take depends on the learning goals for the department, the class, and the students you are teaching. Are they theatre majors or non-majors? Did they read Raisin in high school and is this, therefore, an opportunity to go deeper into content and context? Is this a US drama survey class and/or a class focusing on race? Is this a script analysis or a theatre history class?
I’ve taught A Raisin in the Sun in two different contexts. In my intro class focusing on staging race and racism, the students had not read Theodore Ward’s Big White Fog (1938) or Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman (1949). Therefore, our class discussion focused on the repeated tropes we had identified throughout the semester: across genres and historical periods, playwrights emphasize language and the body to mark racial specificity. In addition, Ta-Nehisi Cotes’s “The Case for Reparations” had recently been published, and therefore the topic of systemic racism and economic justice was particularly topical.
In my Modern US Drama class, students brought much more background about US history and performance context to Hansberry’s text. They had read about the Negro Little Theatre movement, the Federal Theatre Project, and were assigned Big White Fogand Death of a Salesman. Therefore, our discussion of Raisin focused on real estate, the nuclear family, masculinity, the agency of female characters, and commercial versus non-commercial theatre.
I’ve listed several assignment ideas/prompts for teaching Raisin.
Analyze the ways in which Hansberry’s drama does or does not fit W.E.B. Du Bois’s 1926 call for “a real Negro theatre” to be “about us,” “by us,” “for us,” and “near us.” Would you categorize Raisin as a “propaganda play” in Du Bois’s definition or a “folk play” in Alain Locke’s definition?
Compare and contrast with Theodore Ward’s Big White Fog (1938).
What do these continuities and differences tell us about pre-WWII and post-WWII racial politics in the United States?
How do Ward and Hansberry use time as a dramatic tool for staging changes in Black American domestic life?
What is the significance of Chicago as a geographical location in both plays?
How is the Great Migration staged through geography and character?
Why include the third generation? What is at stake having children on stage?
How is Africa taken up in each play and how does that impact the dramatic action? How does it connect to international postcolonial movements? Assign p.903 of “To Be(come) Young, Gay, and Black: Lorraine Hansberry’s Existentialist Routes to Anticolonialism” by Cheryl Higashida and discuss why the FBI would file a report focusing on Asagai’s character.
How did the different performance contexts of the Chicago Federal Theatre Project’s Negro Unit and, two decades later, a commercial production on Broadway, impact reception?
If you have taught Harlem Renaissance drama and the works of Langston Hughes, start with his poem “Harlem.”
Compare and contrast with Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman (1949), emphasizing staging the domestic space and heterosexual marriage. This can be done, for instance, by comparing Miller and Hansberry’s very precise stage directions. I also like comparing the famous “eggs” exchange between Ruth and Walter in Act I, scene 1 of Raisin with Linda and Willy’s breakfast discussion at the top of Act II.
Assign the original New York Times review of A Raisin in the Sun (raisin-original-review-full-page) for an analysis of content and the impact of visual culture (the review is literally marginalized in a thin column on the edge of the page). The theatre section’s lead story is “Four Examples of The Orient’s Inscrutable Influence on Broadway,” which offers the opportunity to discuss how racism manifests in a variety of ways in theatre.
Trace Raisin‘s production history by using the Internet Broadway Database. This teaches students the production history and how to use an important research tool. It also provides the opportunity to discuss the lineage of performers who have played Lena, Ruth, and Walter Lee Younger. What has Raisin meant to the career opportunities of major African American performers?
Explain restrictive covenant and provide the details of the historic court case Hansberry v. Lee. Have students research an article on a historic or contemporary example of housing discrimination and bring the printed article into class. Accumulate the data presented (location, type of discrimination, who the victims were) on the board or in a Google Doc. How far has the United States come or not come from what Hansberry depicted in 1959?
Discuss Hansberry’s queer politics regarding her membership in the Daughters of Bilitis and writing in Ladder. Assign “Lorraine Hansberry’s Gay Politics” by Kai Wright and adapt this high school lesson plan “Lorraine Hansberry: LGBT Politics and Civil Rights” to your class learning goals. The lesson plan identifies this essential question for students: “What is the relationship between the civil rights movement, women’s rights, and gay rights activism?”
Listen to Hansberry’s June 15, 1964 speech “The Black Revolution and the White Backlash,” given at a town hall meeting in New York City. What does Hansberry say about the limits of the existing legal structures for combatting injustice? How can we relate this observation to #BlackLivesMatter and current social justice activism?
Screen excerpts from the PBS Learning Media page, “A Raisin in the Sun Revisited.” The brief Mike Wallace interview provides a clear example of the racism and sexism Hansberry faced and seems to impact students and spur productive discussion.
This post was originally published on https://catherineyoung.net/
Real Time Research: The Hairy Ape
Louis Wolheim as Robert Smith, “Yank.” Billy Rose Theatre Division, NYPL
This is an account of one lesson plan’s pivot from slide presentation to real time research.
I wanted to make a slide show of production stills from the 1922 production of Eugene O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape. I imagined the students being brought into the creative decisions made by the Provincetown Players as we looked at the New York Public Library’s digital collection of slides together. We would analyze set design and lighting choices, as well as the gesture and physicality of the actors. It would be a great way to show students what the NYPL’s massive digitization project has made available.
Louis Wolheim as Robert Smith, “Yank.” Billy Rose Theatre Division, NYPL.
Then I stopped myself. If I showed students the production stills in an assembled slide show, it would continue to obscure the process of using digital tools to find archival materials. Wouldn’t it be better if students located the images themselves?
They already had their laptops in class since we read the freely available script from eOneill.com. We spent a good portion of class discussing the episodic structure, the specificity of O’Neill’s stage directions, his use of language to mark ethnicity and class, and the staging of white working-class masculinity in contrast to Mildred’s white-dress wealth.
Then we discussed production options and the dilemma of the gorilla. How would they stage Scene VIII at the zoo? Is the gorilla meant to be a mirror or a contrast to Yank? Therefore, should the two figures be close in size or quite different? What are the aesthetic and political risks in staging the gorilla? Students identified a variety of problems with using a gorilla suit, including it becoming humorous and disrupting the pathos of Yank’s existential alienation. “Too literal / realistic” was another problem.
Finally, I asked students to get in pairs and google “NYPL Digital Collections.” They quickly chose the most obvious search phrase, the title of the play, and were amazed to see 21 actual production stills, like precious messages from the Provincetown Players from 94 years ago. In pairs, students clicked through the images, selected their favorite, and then did a low-stakes freewrite about the image: what they saw, what they liked about it, and what it told them about the original production. We then discussed several teams’ responses while looking at their chosen image projected on the screen at the front of the classroom.
Louis Wolheim as Yank. Billy Rose Theatre Division, NYPL.
This exercise brought the material to life, energized the classroom with visual culture and production discussions, and fostered community building among students who collaborated to analyze the production stills. Crucial to my learning goals, it introduced the process of digital research to students in a low-stakes atmosphere.
Welcome to theater-historiography.org! Here, you’ll find a number of resources and scholarly conversations that we hope will be valuable to your research and pedagogy, whether you are a student, emerging, or established scholar.
Theater historiography means the study of the foundational assumptions, principles, and methodologies that determine how theater history is written. To practice theater historiography means to look beyond the record of “what happened” to analyze how and why such records are constructed.
Shoot-from-the-hip book reviews with an emphasis on historiography.
Tools for instructors: syllabi, assignment prompts, and full-text PDFs.
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Name: Brenna Palughi
Hometown: Center Conway, New Hampshire
Education: MFA from Yale School of Drama
Select Credits: Zelda Fitzgerald in Muse, the title role in Pheadre (Ted Hughes trans.), originated roles in 99 Ways
to Fuck a Swan by Kim Rosenstock, Babs the Dodo by Michael Mitnick and Flowers by Jose Rivera at Yale; Sophie in Naked in a Fishbowl at The Cherry Lane Theater; The Bird in Birdgirl at HERE.
Why theater?: Nothing beats the audience. Also, it's ride, you get on once the curtain goes up and there is no getting off it until the end of the show. You don't get that in film. It's magic.
Tell us about Scared of Sarah?: Scared of Sarah is a wonderful play by Laura Brienza. It's about fear, siblings, autism, marriage, empathy. It tackles these things honestly, fearlessly and with humor.
What is it like to be a part of Scared of Sarah?: It's great, we have had the great fortune to rehearse at the Lark. It has been wonderful to have a steady home to build our world. Also, every member of the team is unbelievably committed and talented, so that always makes for an amazing process. Everyone is bringing it. Carly Daucher and Nate Grams are playing my sister and her husband and are killing it. Reginald L. Douglas is directing. He is so wonderful to work with. We have discovered a lot together. I am really excited for these next 4 rehearsals before we open. It is always a good thing when you can't wait to go to rehearsal.
What kind of theater speaks to you?: I like challenging theater. Theater that makes me sit up and wake up. I saw Jerusalem in the fall and I thought about it for months after. I thought about the themes and what made me laugh and the performances. I couldn't figure out why I had reacted so emphatically towards Rooster. He is a despicable man but it was devastating for me to watch his fall. I felt challenged by that play. Also Mark Rylance is my favorite. So that was part of it too.
What or who inspires you as an artist?: I like to work with people who know how to do things that I don't know how to do yet. I find if I am working with people who are great actors, designers, directors, writers, etc. I listen and watch. They lift me up and make me a better artist.
What are your favorite audition pieces?: I audition mainly for film and tv so I don't do monologues very much anymore. My favorite audition circumstance is when I get the whole script for what I am auditioning for. When I was using monologues more, someone passed on a great male monologue to me. I used it for years. Sometimes I would get an eyebrow raise when I said I was about to do Charles, but it was a great fit for me. I think it is good to ask a friend to pick one for you and you pick one for them.
Any role you’re dying to play?: Any well written female role that has an arc and is not just there to further the plot for the male character's arc. There are many and I hope I get to play as many of them as possible. I would love to Yelena in Uncle Vanya. I also LOVE working on new plays!
What’s up next?: I just wrapped an untitled short film where I have an epic sword fight so I am looking forward to seeing that after the editing process. Two days after Scared of Sarah closes I am hopping on a plane to Edinburgh to do Naked in a Fishbowl at the Fringe out there. It is exciting to be part of two Fringes!
For more information on Scared of Sarah, please visit http://www.scaredofsarahplay.com/
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Theater LaB Houston to open with SW Premiere
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A.R. Gurney's latest WASP comedy to make SW premiere:
Sept. 22nd -October 23rd at 8pm at Theatrelab
Direct from it’s critically acclaimed Off-Broadway run Theater LaB Houston to present the Southwest Premiere of the new social and political comedy Mrs. Farnsworth.
Mrs. Farnsworth
Written by A.R. Gurney
Margery Farnsworth, Connecticut society wife and mother, signs up for a writing course with the intent of penning a tell all book about her youthful indiscretions with a Yale undergraduate who may (or may not) have become the most powerful man in the world. Continuing Education instructor Gordon Bell is all too happy to help...
... Mrs. Farnsworth get the truth out.
In swoops Mrs. F’s protective husband (who may or may not be a Republican) who with beguiling charm and tender passion for his wife presents quite a different view of their collective history and politics. A.R. Gurney perfectly captures the Farnsworths and once again the fading WASP way of life with humor and compassion while commenting on the current state of politics.
“Devastating…Uproarious…Serenely Subversive“ Peter Marks, The Washington Post
“As polite and sweetly subversive a political attack as you’re likely to come across”
Ben Brantley, The New York Times
“You will enjoy this play regardless of your political orientation”
John Simon, New York Magazine
Mrs. Farnsworth premiered in April 2004 at The Flea Theater in New York City and starred Sigourney Weaver and John Lithgow as the Farnsworths. Following its initial sold-out run the play returned this past July to an encore run through the Republican convention.
This Southwest premiere is directed by Ed Muth and features Carolyn Johnson as Mrs. Farnsworth and Terry Jones as Mr. Farnsworth, Travis Ammons as Gordon Bell and Alice Fulks, Jorge Diaz, Becky Tapia.
Press and Opening night, Wednesday, September 22nd at 8pm
Friday’s and Saturday’s through October 23rd at 8pm.
Sundays, October 17th and 24th at 5pm.
For tickets call the theater box office at (713) 868-7516. Tickets are $22.00 and $25.00
Theater LaB Houston is located at 1706 Alamo (off 2100 Houston Ave).
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The Pancake Batter Anomaly
Season 1 / Episode 11
Penny returns from Nebraska and drops by to see the guys but when Sheldon hears that everyone in her family was sick, he rushes away from her in panic. "Penny, you’ll have to excuse Sheldon, he’s a bit of a germophobe," Leonard explains. This is the first mention of Sheldon's chronic dislike of germs, which becomes a recurring theme on the show.
After demanding that she "Please leave!" and spraying the room with Lysol he attempts to get Leonard to take throat cultures. He flatly refuses and is disgusted to learn that the cup he's been using for pancake batter has always been Sheldon's urine cup. It's for measuring fluid intake and output, "to make sure my kidneys aren’t shutting down." Well, of course! So when Sheldon does indeed get sick, Leonard hightails it out of the apartment leaving him to be nursed by Penny, who hasn't a clue what she's in for.
Sheldon is a self-sufficient being of immense intellect but this episode exposes for the first time how a human biological frailty, as simple as the common cold, renders him beyond useless. His lack of awareness is at its peak and Penny's reluctant compulsion to help, while being mildly disturbed by the increasing intimacy, is what makes this a Shenny favorite.
So, just eleven episodes into the first season we see Sheldon suggest that Penny give him a sponge bath. The first but not the last, of bizarre but innocenty cloaked innuendoes between them. The absurdity is these two barely know each other and Sheldon is a grown man, although he doesn't know how to behave like one. The writers fling open the doors to his psyche, revealing a needy individual whose deepest desire is to be taken care of.
by Informal Protest
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Jamaica 2019 | ECONOMY | B2B
By investing in areas where Jamaica has a natural advantage, holding companies are not only creating jobs, but also generating wealth for the country.
PROVEN Management Limited
STEPHEN B. FACEY
PanJam Investment Limited (PanJam)
What have been the main highlights over the past year for the company?
Christopher Williams The one word I would use to describe 2018 would be growth. We have seen significant growth in the Jamaican economy; although not at the pace and extent desired at the macroeconomic levels, it is still growing. Companies are growing between 15% and 20% and feeding off the strong construction and mining activities happening within the local economy. This has given rise to the companies within our group realizing organic business gains, lending to credible performance improvements in our diversified income streams. We continue to see and seize growth opportunities because Jamaica is a critical market for us. We own or operate three businesses here and want to see the country continue its recovery and become a strong and stable economy.
How has the company evolved since its establishment?
Stephen B. Facey PanJam started in real estate, which remains a core part of its business. We have, however, diversified our portfolio of investments in response to the changing economic environment and resulting opportunities that arose. We invested in the manufacturing and trading industries, and as tourism became increasingly important, we focused our attention on that sector. Historically, the agro-industry has been a key component of the local economy. We invested accordingly, taking positions that enable the exportation of iconic local products. We are also heavily involved in financial services, which has been a growth industry in Jamaica over the last 30 years. As an investment holding company, PanJam searches the economic landscape for investment opportunities. Over the years, these opportunities have evolved, but we have remained committed to investing in industries that contribute to long-term growth.
What has been your strategy for success?
CW The growth and stability in the Jamaican economy drives entrepreneurs whose resulting confidence pushes them to expand their businesses or start new ones, and both of those require capital. From where we sit, based on our business relationships, we proactively respond or alternately are considered, and our phone constantly rings. Since entrepreneurs are comfortable and feel the future is brighter than the present, they are picking up the phone and calling companies with capital, such as PROVEN. The company is mainly focused on securities investments and also pursues private equity opportunities as they arise, dependent on opportunities being consistent with its comprehensive business strategies and goals—this has been the PROVEN strategy for success.
SBF While we are perhaps seen as entrepreneurial risk takers, we have always invested in a conservative manner. This approach has protected PanJam through economic downturns, while allowing it to thrive during periods of growth. In particular, we believe in fiscal prudence, ensuring we have the required capital to support our projects and businesses so they can weather difficult periods that come along. Of importance is the fact that we have had a strong team of individuals committed to achieving PanJam's goals and willing to face challenges as they emerge. Of course, we have also had some luck.
What are your goals for the next year?
CW PROVEN is a private equity platform that looks for businesses to buy into or purchase. We did one acquisition in 2017 and another in 2018. In 2019, we want to do two, both of which we are already working on. We also want to increase in size and double our total assets, which are currently worth USD500-600 million. We have an aggressive mindset and are looking for opportunities across the Caribbean and Latin America for acquisitions. With this in mind, we will be busy in 2019.
SBF We have a number of projects in the pipeline, and the successful execution of those is primary. Over the next 18 months, our two largest priorities are both real estate-focused. First is the completion of the Oceana Hotel in Downtown Kingston. We continue to be passionate about the Kingston Waterfront and see great value where perhaps others do not. Additionally, we will also develop our hotel project in Montego Bay in 2019, and we are always on the lookout for opportunities, both in the real estate and private equity sectors.
Audley Shaw , Minister, Industry, Commerce, Agriculture, and Fisheries (MICAF)
Improving road networks and expanding logistics infrastructure are two of MICAF's many initiatives to unleash Jamaica's true potential.
Vicente Fox Quesada , Former President , Mexico
There are many things Mexico canlearn from Jamaica and vice versa, and by strengthening cooperation, both countries will mutually benefit, in particular from the nascent medical cannabis sector.
Focus: Foreign investment
Expanding Frontiers
Reaching out to regional economic powers, Jamaica is boosting its commercial ties with Mexico and the Dominican Republic in a number of key sectors, most importantly tourism, energy, and mining.
Juan José González Mijares , Ambassador, Mexico to Jamaica
Mexico and Jamaica have cultivated a strong friendship, marked by an open political dialogue and continued effort to strengthen commercial and cultural ties.
Josep Maria Bosch, Ambassador of Spain, Jamaica
The second-largest foreign investor in Jamaica, Spain has a great deal to offer to Jamaica, and vice versa.
Brian Wynter , Governor, Bank of Jamaica
The country's positive debt dynamics have allowed the Bank of Jamaica to reduce domestic interest rates while achieving its inflation target.
Diane Edwards, President, JAMPRO
JAMPRO is focused on doing as much as it can to advance projects in crucial sectors for Jamaica's economic growth.
Aubyn Hill , CEO, Economic Growth Council (EGC)
Though Jamaica is on the road to recovery, there is a great deal to accomplish, and EGC is one of the driving forces for the country.
Michael Lee-Chin, Founder and Chairman, Portland Holdings, Chairman, Economic Growth Council, Chairman, National Commercial Bank (NCB)
Portland Holdings manages public and private equity and strives to build strong businesses that support the well-being of the communities in which they operate.
Galina Sotirova , Country Manager, The World Bank
The World Bank has been a long-time supporter of Jamaica's efforts to stabilize its economy, reduce its debt, and create the conditions for strong and sustainable growth.
Multilateral Funds
Leading development banks agree that SMEs need more financing, that disaster risk management should be embedded into the state's DNA, and that interest rates should better reflect risk levels.
Dr. Eric Deans , CEO, Jamaica Special Economic Zone Authority (JSEZA)
The goal is to focus on improving Jamaica's key port and airport infrastructure, as well as developing its special economic zones.
Focus: JSEZA master plan
As a strategically located country in the Caribbean, Jamaica has huge potential in development and attracting foreign direct investment.
Dr. Wayne Henry, Director General, Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ)
PIOJ seeks to build on Jamaica's recent successes from a planning standpoint.
Lloyd W. Distant Jr. , President, Jamaica Chamber of Commerce
A strong advocate for the country's business community, JCC seeks to lobby for the simplification of business processes and facilitate cross-border trade.
Garth Walker , General Manager, Business Access TV
Business Access TV plans to expand its social media services and products to other countries in the Caribbean.
With investors eyeing the many opportunities on offer across the Caribbean nation, there is a growing need for research and consulting firms to give incoming companies the leg up they need.
John Gregory Leiba , Managing Partner, DunnCox
DunnCox seeks to provide an excellent service to its clients and be a part of facilitating the legal and economic upgrades in the legal system.
A Legal Introduction to Jamaica’s SEZ Regime
A special economic zone (SEZ) is as a geographical demarcated area within a country's national borders that is governed by trade and business laws that are distinct from the laws of the rest of that country. The objective of an SEZ is usually to attract investment to a nation's shores, and thereby increase employment and economic growth.
Daryl Vaz, Minister with responsibility for Land, the Environment, Climate Change, and Investment, Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation
The Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation is working hard to ensure Jamaica's growth doesn't come at the expense of its environment.
Damian X. Lyn , CEO, Alternative Power Sources (APS)
A pioneer of solar energy, APS is optimistic about the future, with the renewable energies market picking up significantly.
Jason Robinson , CEO, Solar Buzz Jamaica
Solar Buzz is looking at getting solar panels installed in Jamaican homes and offices from the very beginning to reap the most benefits.
Maxime de Villemandy, Project Manager, Neoen
Neoen strives to produce the most competitive electricity on a sustainable and local basis.
Though Jamaica's tourism has traditionally been centered on sun, sand, and sea, ecotourism has become a new and emerging sub sector.
Green Entrepreneurship
Jamaica offers entrepreneurs an excellent ground to implement their products and services before expanding further into the region.
Waste-to-energy solutions could be the one proverbial stone to kill several of Jamaica's proverbial birds—energy problems—if they are ever implemented.
Scheed Cole , Founder, 360 Recycle Manufacturing Ltd.
TBY talks to Scheed Cole, Founder of 360 Recycle Manufacturing Ltd.on Green Economy sector.
Eric Hosin , President, Guardian Life Limited
2019 promises to be an exciting year for Guardian Life Limited, with its 20th anniversary in the country and a major real estate project set to launch.
Focus: Debt reduction
Debt Diet
Reducing debt for the Jamaican government is paramount to achieving the country's fiscal goals.
Courtney O. Campbell , Group President & CEO, Victoria Mutual
Victoria Mutual is continuing its expansion into the countries of the Jamaican diaspora and helping Jamaica's economy by opening doors to greater financial opportunities.
Investment funds with a client-first approach and top-drawer digitalization efforts are the reason why the Jamaica Stock Exchange continues to be among the best-performing stock markets globally.
Mariame McIntosh Robinson, President & CEO, First Global Bank
First Global Bank is employing mini-branch models and agency banking to serve Jamaica's underbanked and unbanked population.
Marlene Street Forrest C.D, JP, Managing Director, Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE)
The JSE is expecting a solid 2019 on the back of a decreasing unemployment rate and is planning to introduce a green market by 2020.
Kadeen Mairs , CEO, Dolla Financial Services Limited
TBY talks to Kadeen Mairs, CEO of Dolla Financial Services Limited on Finance sector.
SMEs and small investors are playing a bigger role in Jamaica's economy on the back of efforts undertaken by credit unions such as FHC and JCCUL.
Emanuel DaRosa , President & CEO, Jamaica Public Services Company Limited (JPS)
JPS is focusing on efficiency to deliver energy at the lowest possible cost so that its customers are competitive locally, regionally, and internationally.
Mauricio Pulido, CEO, GB Energy – Texaco
Already the number-one distributor of fuel and LNG in Jamaica, Texaco is now aiming to make its mark on Jamaica's logistics sector and other regional markets.
Greg Beck , General Manager, Yaadman
Yaadman is revolutionizing Jamaica's low-tech LP industry by collaborating with credible partners and deploying crucial technologies and analytics.
Hugh C. E. Hart , Partner, Hart Muirhead Fatta (HMF)
HMF law firm has stayed afloat through the multi-year downtrend of the Jamaican economy, but as the country grows into a healthy growth trend, HMF's belief in Jamaica's potential has further strengthened.
Lion Zion Dreams of Crude
Better known for its reggae, world-class track runners, and beautiful sandy beaches, Jamaica might be holding other kinds of riches in its subsoil.
Homer Davis , Mayor, Montego Bay
Every city carries its unique set of challenges. Montego Bay's success in tackling challenges in recent years boils down to the local government's focus on achieving prosperity for all.
Winston Lawson , President, Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce
The Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce's mission is providing advocacy and promoting the key features of the Jamaican and local economy.
Montego Bay's infrastructure is undergoing upgrades, making Jamaica's fourth-most populous city the fastest-growing city in the Caribbean.
Montego Bay Ambassadors
Jamaica's tourism potential is a no-brainer but the government and initiatives under its umbrella are leaving no stone unturned to further cement the country's place on the global tourism map.
André Dixon , COO, Viking Productions
Viking Productions has been in business for only around 12 years, and the company's ability to reach out and touch people through a wide variety of brands has been a key differentiator.
Jason Wright , Managing Director, Red Key Solutions
Renowned for its quality and speedy service, Red Key Solutions is banking on its unique offerings to expand into other markets.
Valrie Grant , Managing Director, GeoTechVision
GeoTechVision is the premier geospatial technologies company in the Caribbean, beating the competition through a user-requirements analysis geared at providing the best customized solutions.
Odetta Rockhead-Kerr, General Manager, Sutherland
The biggest factor behind Sutherland's success in Jamaica is its resolute focus on its employees, pushing them to consistently deliver against expectations.
Yoni Epstein, Executive Chairman, Itelbpo
itelBPO is a golden example of the competitive advantages Jamaica offers in the wider BPO sector.
Robert Dechant , CEO, Ibex Global
In becoming a key leader in Jamaica's BPO industry, Ibex continues to be a catalyst for growth and prosperity in the region.
The BPO sector in Jamaica is fast becoming the employer of choice for the youth, but only in the country's primary parishes; however, once adequate infrastructure is in place, the sector is primed to further uplift the economy.
Focus: Digitalization
Digitalization is a key factor for expanding companies and strengthening the Jamaican diaspora abroad.
Parris Lyew-Ayee , Director, Mona Geoinformatics Institute (MGI)
MGI is collaborating with public- and private-sector entities and using the power of data to help solve issues related to social justice, crime, and most importantly, environment.
Voices from the Sector: HealthIT & BPO
Donovan Leigh James , General Manager, DHL Jamaica
Through aggressive e-commerce pricing, strong retail presence, and key partnerships, DHL confirming its status as the best logistics company and one of the best employers, globally.
Focus: Air transport
Vernamfield Aerotropolis is a key project to boost and diversify Jamaica's air transportation and logistics.
Shippıng
An increasing number of global shipping companies are realizing Jamaica's potential as a regional logistics hub, resulting in an influx of FDI and upgrade of the local workforce.
Jamaica is poised to remain a top-rated tourist destination for the foreseeable future, ensuring an endless flow of tourists and healthy competition between ground transportation companies.
Focus: National Farm Road Rehabilitation Program
The National Farm Road Rehabilitation Program is essential for enabling local farmers to strengthen the sector and the community.
Jamaica's agriculture sector is showing signs of immense growth, as evident from PPPs, building agro parks, providing better access to financing for small farmers, and utilizing emerging technologies.
Lenworth Fulton , President, Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS)
This 124-year old institution supports farmers across the country, whether they be growing traditional products such as sugarcane, or modern crops such as cannabis for the medical cannabis sector.
Coffee Production
The majority of Jamaican coffee is shipped to Japan, though coffee producers are now eyeing China as a market with tremendous potential on offer.
Bruce Linton , Founder, Chairman & CEO, Canopy Growth Corporation
As one of the first companies to enter the legal cannabis industry, Canopy Growth Corporation has the required human resources and strategies to excel in years to come.
Metry Seaga , Chairman, Jamaica Manufacturers and Exporters Association
Exploiting Jamaica's niche market provides far more opportunities than challenges.
Daniel Caron , Country Manager, Nestlé Jamaica Limited
Having an ear to the grindstone helps businesses innovate in more ways than one.
Foreign Flavors
Jamaican producers are mastering foreign technologies, logistics, and production methods to drive the production of sustainable and market-beating Jamaican products.
The art of smarter distribution systems is as much about people as it is technology.
In a rapidly growing region with growing demand, water companies are fighting hard to expand quickly enough.
A combination of first-rate materials, master craftsmanship, and traditional blend techniques are ensuring that Jamaican rum is as sought after today as any time in history.
Brian Jardim, CEO, Rainforest Seafoods Ltd
Sustainable fishery methods are but one of the ingredients to success in a niche but high-demand market.
Douglas Gordon , CEO, CanEx JamaicA
Though the industry is moving at breakneck speed, obstacles remain, and emerging players must remain as nimble and aggressive as possible.
Dr. Henry Lowe, Executive Chairman, Medicanja
Only funding issues are holding the cannabis giants of tomorrow from taking their place in the international sun.
T’Shura Gibbs, CEO, Zimmer & Co.
Though a storied cultural pastime, the legalization and commercialization of one of the world's favorite habits offers Jamaica truly unique opportunities.
Hyacinth Lightbourne , Chairman, Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA)
The regulator is fully aware of the challenges, and even more so of the opportunities, that lie dormant in the country's budding cannabis industry.
Smart firms are harnessing brand Jamaica for far more dynamic commercial pursuits.
Dr. Guna Muppuri, CEO, Indies Pharma
Certain players remain as visionary as they are useful to the populace, with just as much research and development devoted to helping patients as turning a profit.
Samuel Afonso , Country Manager,
A strong and sustainable business is one that evolves with the needs of its customers.
Fritz Pinnock , President, Caribbean Maritime University (CMU)
CMU is training students to transform Jamaica and the world.
Focus: Brain drain
Holding on to the Best
Given its close proximity to North America's economic powerhouses and its warm relationship with its former colonial power, Jamaica's best and brightest have long decamped for more developed shores. The government is now fighting to encourage them to stay at home.
Dr. David McBean , Executive Director, Mona School of Business & Management (MSBM)
A bevy of smart partnerships and new programs are keeping MSBM at the forefront of regional business schools.
Dr. Lincoln P. Edwards , President, Northern Caribbean University (NCU)
Through international collaboration and a spirit of service, NCU is raising the region's medicinal bar.
TOURISM & ENTERTAINMENT
Ron McKay , Co-Founder, HailX.APP
More than a mere ride-hailing app, HailX has unveiled sophisticated e-commerce and public safety platforms for the whole country.
John D. Lynch , Chairman, Jamaica Tourist Board
By expanding vital links with Russia, Germany, and France, among others, Jamaica hopes to reach 5 million visitors in 2020.
Dr. Carey Wallace , Executive Director, Tourism Enhancement Fund (TEF)
The country is fully aware that any increase in demand and development must come in a sustainable and environmentally friendly fashion.
Kingsley Cooper , Chairman, Director of Special Projects, Pulse Investments Ltd
Pulse has honed its eye for profit, beauty, and talent to make Jamaica and the wider region a more exciting place to do business.
Focus: Music as an alternative source of tourism
The Jamaican lifestyle and reggae are becoming unexpected breadwinners for the island nation.
Capitalizing on the country's remarkable talent pool, cultural vibrancy, extraordinary love of life, hospitable attitude, and strong and prosperous diaspora, it is no surprise the island has become a Mecca for festivals of every kind in recent years.
Saul Nuñez , General Manager, Zoëtry
Some places are simply more unique than others.
Ian Dear , CEO, Margaritaville Caribbean Group
Despite ambitious regional expansion plans, the group's biggest opportunities are right in Jamaica.
Jason Russell , General Manager, PIER 1
Certain landmarks make life more amenable for tourists and locals alike.
The government has taken major steps in recent years to bolster the island's cultural outreach to the world, a move that has been warmly welcomed by its burgeoning film industry and the young talent that sustains it.
Janette Taylor , Executive Director, Devon House Development Limited
TBY talks to Janette Taylor, Executive Director ofDevon House Development Limited, on Tourism and Entertainment sector.
A series of relentless, creative, and hungry ventures are stirring up the capital's cultural scene, saving older gems from oblivion and putting lesser known or previously stigmatized ones on the map for the first time.
Luxury Meets Alternative
Healthy doses of local flavor, freshness, and hospitality get many of the island's luxury destinations halfway to where they need to be.
Master Plans for Growth
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Outlook Problems: The Cloud Terror
Yes, Microsoft confirmed it had finally resolved an issue with Outlook.com that had been affecting some users for up to three days. The company apologized multiple times to those affected, explained what happened and the steps it has taken to prevent future issues.
Microsoft blamed this particular incident on a failure of the caching service that interfaces with devices using Exchange ActiveSync, including most smartphones. The failure caused these devices to receive an error and continuously try to connect to Microsoft’s service, which resulted in a flood of traffic that the company’s servers did not handle properly.
As a result, some users could not access their accounts and Microsoft was forced to temporarily block access via Exchange ActiveSync. The company could then restore access to Outlook.com via the Web and restore the sharing features of SkyDrive, which took “a few hours of the initial incident.”
Unfortunately, Microsoft still had a “significant” backlog of Exchange ActiveSync requests to work through, which it had to do slowly in order to prevent the issue from resurfacing, meaning “some customers remained impacted for a longer period of time.” The company says the backlog is now clear and the service has been restored for all.
Microsoft touts 400 million active users on the service, and less than six months ago Outlook.com suffered 16-hour long issues following a firmware upgrade at the company’s datacenter. It’s not clear if overheating datacenters were involved in today’s outage, but here’s the full explanation on the issue of last week:
We want to apologize to our customers who were affected by the outage on Outlook.com this week. We have restored access to all accounts and have made changes so that the service will be more resilient in the future. We realize that we have a responsibility to the customers who use our services to communicate and share with the people they care most about, and we apologize for letting those customers down this week.
Our first priority is to the health of the services, and we will learn from this incident and work to improve the experience of all our customers. As part of that, we would also like to provide more detail about what happened.
This incident was a result of a failure in a caching service that interfaces with devices using Exchange ActiveSync, including most smart phones. The failure caused these devices to receive an error and continuously try to connect to our service. This resulted in a flood of traffic that our services did not handle properly, with the effect that some customers were unable to access their Outlook.com email and unable to share their SkyDrive files via email.
In order to stabilize the overall email service, we temporarily blocked access via Exchange ActiveSync. This allowed us to restore access to Outlook.com via the web and restore the sharing features of SkyDrive. These parts of the service were fully stabilized within a few hours of the initial incident. A significant backlog of Exchange ActiveSync requests accumulated as we worked to stabilize access. To avoid another flood of traffic, we needed to restore access to Exchange ActiveSync slowly, which meant that some customers remained impacted for a longer period of time.
We have learned from this incident, and have made two key changes to harden our systems against future failure – one that involved increasing network bandwidth in the affected part of the system, and one that involved changing the way error handling is done for devices using Exchange ActiveSync. We will continue to monitor the system and make additional changes as needed to keep the service healthy.
We are now fully through the backlog and have restored service so all customers should have normal access from all of their devices. We want to apologize to everyone who was affected by the outage, and we appreciate the patience you have shown us as we worked through the issues.
Unfortunately, this week’s (Wednesday 21st 2013) Outlook.com problems aren’t completely resolved. In fact, they are affecting the desktops resulting in a big headache for all those companies who nowadays (since the migration to the cloud) rely heavily on their cloud infrastructure.
If we do remember what happened to Blackberry e-mail business services which were the first ones to be based on the cloud, we should re-think about the solutions this platform provides comparing it to the risks that come by relying on it completely…
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Friday, 05 October 2007 | News
C-Map Norway has officially changed its name to Jeppesen Norway, having been acquired by US-based Jeppesen in early 2007.
The company will continue to market chart products and services with the C-Map brand name, as it feels that the brand has an already developed relationship with the maritime industry that it wishes to maintain. Jeppesen Norway will be the main office for the worldwide commercial marine activities, doing business as Jeppesen Marine Norway.
"The name-change expresses our shared commitment to develop the marine industry's best navigational solutions," said Tor Svanes, managing director commercial navigation, Jeppesen Marine.
The company has also released a new chart catalogue which it says has been designed to assist in the process of ordering and managing electronic charts for the end user. The improvements have come about as a result of a study of end users? experiences conducted in co-operation with key stakeholders.
"As a major distributor of ENCs [electronic navigational charts], we have a great source of user feedback," said Jeppesen Marine marketing manager Willy Zeiler. "We discovered that planning the needed chart portfolio and ordering the correct ENCs were obstacles for end-users, so we were determined to do something about it."
"First, Jeppesen Marine's new Dynamic Licensing concept is under implementation in most of the ECDIS systems delivered by our OEMs. Dynamic Licensing allows the navigator to obtain necessary charts, updates and licenses in seconds without a pre-ordering process. Costs are controlled via pre-set budgets and spending limits " in essence, this is 'pay as you go'."
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Best FIFA World Cup Finals
The greatest Finals of the biggest tournament in the sporting world - the FIFA World Cup. From 1930 to today, these are the greatest championship matches resulting in the crowning of the greatest football nation on the planet.
1 England - Germany 2-2 (4-2 aet) (1966)
Because Geoff hurst scored a hat trick and no one else has in a world cup final. England are the best. Extra time. "People are on the pitch they think its all over it is now"
Two of the biggest world rivals, playing in a world cup final. England won the world cup and scored a hatrick on homeground. How can it not be the best world cup finals ever?
That was the last time England was in FIFA World Cup Finals (as of 2018)... and that was long ago, man... Brits should do something...
Jogo histórico
2 Germany - Hungary 3-2 (1954)
Yes, West Germany was part of the most interesting finals. Germans have had great teams.
Most chances on goal with a lot of close misses.
All-round most entertaining final ever!
Hungary lost the 2nd WC Final after the 1938 edition
3 Argentina - Germany 3-2 (1986)
The most dramatic WC ever. Argentina dominates to take a 2 zero lead, Germany valiantly fights back to tie is 2-2. The ball comes to Mardonas foot near midfield with 5 minutes remaining, and he makes the best pass in history while 3 German defenders converge towards him. He hits Burruchaga in stride, who outraces the German defenders to slip in the goal to win it. Maradona also assisted on the 2nd goal and wins by playing a brilliant final, without even scoring.
Certainly the most dramatic WC. The great Maradona assists twice on goals. Germany, being down 2-0 never quit and came back to tie it at 2. Then, Maradona's second assist, as 3 or 4 German defenders move at him, he lays the ball on burruchagga's foot and the rest is history. Maradona willed his team to the title!
Matrix Guy has a post on almost everything! And they are getting old.
With an unstoppable Maradona, Argentina won the World Cup
4 Italy - France 1-1 (5-3 pso) (2006)
The head but and pens got it! (By the way, Italy won they're first pen shootout! )
Great game! That was a perfect exaple of a final right there!
Greatest final of any world cup!
Way most dramatic final ever.
5 Germany - Netherlands 2-1 (1974)
The winning goal of Gerd Muller was his 1,000 th!
Two worthy World Champions!
best team lost the final!
6 Netherlands - Spain 0-0 (0-1 aet) (2010)
The best final EVER! A world class goal too by Iniesta! How could it be 5th? And the first World Cup to Spain's Name.
The first World Cup held in Africa brought the first World Cup to Spain
A world cup winning goal comes in 116th minute of the match.. Wow
They both gave an epic game
7 France - Brazil 3-0 (1998)
Zidane's brace in the first half was the best moment of my life. Petit's late goal was pretty awesome too.
France won the World Cup on homeland
The best football world cup final
8 Germany - Italy 3-1 (1982)
9 Brazil - Sweden 5-2 (1958)
According to Pelé this was the most talented Brazilian National team ever, though the team of 1970 World Cup was better.
10 Brazil - Germany 2-0 (2002)
Ronaldo with two goals made Brazil Champion for 5th time
Brazil in my national game after Indonesia... Yeah
Ronaldo make a great job
2002 was the best!
11 Germany - Argentina 1-0 (1990)
LOL! That game had everything! Red cards, goals, everything! I love that goal.
12 Argentina - Netherlands 3-1 (1978)
Great final, with overtime.
The passion of the Argentinian fans was memorable.
13 Uruguay - Argentina 4-2 (1930)
Uruguay won the first edition off the World Cup at home
14 Argentina - Germany 0-0 (0-1 aet) (2014)
Heart breaking for some, heart winning for others, heart stopping for the rest of us. This truly was a Match for all to remember. Especially the Gotze goal
I'm not use to seeing Argentine loose.
15 Brazil - Czechoslovakia 3-1 (1962)
16 Brazil - Italy 5-4 (1994)
First time the final was decided by penalties. The two greastest champions. And both were long time without winning the World Cup
The worst World Cup final of the last four decades.
Just a few chances for goal and final went to penalties.
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17 Brazil 1 - Uruguay 2 (aka Maracanazo) (1950)
The match with the highest attendance in football history (199,854 - official paid attendance 173,830).
Unlike other World Cups, the 1950 winner was determined by a final group stage, with the final four teams playing in round-robin format, instead of a knockout stage. With Brazil one point ahead of Uruguay going into the match, Uruguay needed a win while Brazil needed only to avoid defeat to claim the title of world champions. But Brazil lost and when the match ended, people said the stadium was filled, except for the euphoria and celebration of the Uruguayan players and delegation, with "disturbing and traumatic absolute silence."
Amazing match, with Uruguay attacking full on.
Most epix match of all time
18 France - Croatia 4-2 (2018)
Offensive football and goals that we have to see since 1986.
With this third win after their 1958 and 1962 World Cup victories, Brazil became the world's most successful national football team at that time, surpassing both Italy and Uruguay, who each had two championships. The third title earned Brazil the right to retain the Jules Rimet Trophy permanently.
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Vatican Newspaper Slams New ‘Star Wars’ as ‘Confusing and Vague,’ ‘Not a Classy Reboot’
So, there’s the one person who hated “The Force Awakens”
Tony Maglio | December 23, 2015 @ 7:13 AM Last Updated: December 23, 2015 @ 9:20 AM
A film review in Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano ripped “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” calling it “confusing and vague.” Emilio Ranzato was specifically not a fan of the Dark Side in “Episode VII.”
In “The Force Awakens,” Ranzato wrote, “the counterpart of Darth Vader, Kylo Ren, wears a mask merely to emulate his predecessor, while the character who needs to substitute Emperor Palpatine as the incarnation of supreme evil represents the most serious defect of the film.”
Ren and Supreme Leader Snoke failed “most spectacularly” in representing evil, the critic continued. In other words, you guys are no Darth Vader.
Continuing his rant against the bad guys, Ranzato wrote that the use of computer-generated imagery in creating Snoke’s appearance “is the clumsiest and tackiest result you can obtain from computer graphics.”
Also Read: 'Star Wars' On Pace to Overtake 'Avatar' as All-Time Box Office Champ
Ranzato referred to the film’s feel as more of a reboot, really, than an actual sequel — its intention.
“Not a classy reboot however, like (Christopher) Nolan’s ‘Batman,’ but an update twisted to suit today’s tastes and a public more accustomed to sitting in front of a computer than in a cinema,” he penned.
Finally, Ranzato is just about the only one in the galaxy not praising J.J. Abrams‘ efforts in reviving the franchise.
Abrams’ direction, he wrote, “is in fact modeled on the sloppiest current action films derived from the world of video games. The only merit of J.J. Abrams‘ film is to show, by contrast, how the direction of the previous films was elegant, balanced and above all appropriate.”
'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' Storms Hollywood for Epic World Premiere (Photos)
Hollywood rolls out the red carpet for "Star Wars: The Force Awakens"
Harrison Ford (with Calista Flockhart) reprises his iconic role of Han Solo.
Carrie Fisher is back as Leia.
Oscar-winning actress Lupita Nyong'o plays the mysterious Pirate Queen Maz Kanata.
"Star Wars" creator George Lucas passes the torch to "Force Awakens" director J.J. Abrams.
Lucas and wife Mellody Hobson make a memorable entrance.
Newcomer Daisy Ridley plays Rey, a scavenger on the desert planet Jakku.
Mark Hamill returns as Luke Skywalker, the role that made him a breakout star in 1977.
John Boyega stars as lead character, Finn.
Adam Driver plays villain Kylo Ren in the latest installment.
British actor Anthony Daniels is best known as lovable droid C-3PO, having played him in all seven films.
"Chi-Raq" filmaker Spike Lee and wife Tonya Lewis Lee.
R2-D2 and C3-PO walk the red carpet together.
The newest "Star Wars" droid, BB-8, rolls down the red carpet.
Carrie Fisher and daughter Billie Lourd, who also appears in the new film.
"Game of Thrones" actress Gwendoline Christie plays Captain Phasma in the new film.
"Black Panther" star Chadwick Boseman joins the red carpet chaos.
Stormtroopers march down the red carpet.
Peter Mayhew played Chewbacca in the original films and returns for the "Force Awakens."
A closeup shot of a new Stormtrooper.
"Shadowhunters" actor Dominic Sherwood and "Modern Family" star Sarah Hyland.
Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy and producer Frank Marshall.
Model and actress Kelly Rohrbach.
Stand-up comedian Patton Oswalt.
The calm before the storm.
Stormtrooper costumes on display at the premiere.
Covered tents line the street outside the Dolby Theatre.
A Darth Vader statue is transported onto the site.
An avid fan is transformed into a red Stormtrooper.
Fans fill the bleachers in front of the Dolby Theatre.
Bomb-sniffing dogs patrol the site on Hollywood Blvd.
Police dogs keep watch over the Hollywood Walk of Fame behind the premiere tent.
There was a heavy police dog presence.
'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' imagery and signage are displayed along the red carpet.
Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, George Lucas and J.J. Abrams join screaming fans amid heavy security
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Taking place in the Bangalow Showgrounds and historic A&I Hall, the festival is both an outdoor and indoor event launching for the first time on January 14 to 23, 2021. Screening feature films, documentaries, film concerts and short films, both local and international.
COVID-Safety Guidelines
Please stay away from the festival if you are unwell. Ticket-holders exhibiting or complaining of any cold or flu symptoms of any kind may be denied entry and excluded from the festival. COVID safety measures will be in place at all festival events including but not limited to physical distancing; signage relating to conditions of entry; NSW Government COVID safety messaging will be displayed throughout the festival; all ticket-holders must scan the festival's COVID-safe QR code and complete all fields as a condition of entry; in areas where queuing is likely, markers will be placed on floors/ground.
Bangalow Film Festival proudly presents...
EventTHE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMED with LIVE SCORE
The Adventures of Prince Achmed is the world's oldest surviving animated feature film (1926) and, in this wonderful event, this landmark silent film will be screened with an original score composed and played live by American-Australian jazz composer Phillip Johnston. Learn More
A&I Hall, 3 Station Street, Bangalow, NSW
Pricing $30.00 to $70.00
EventTHE DOG DOC
Called a maverick, a miracle-worker, and a quack, Dr. Marty Goldstein is a pioneer of integrative veterinary medicine. By holistically treating animals after other vets have given up, Goldstein provides a last hope for pet owners with nothing left to lose. Learn More
EventWHITE NOISE
The Atlantic's first feature documentary is the definitive inside story of the movement that has come to be known as the alt-right. Directed and shot by Daniel Lombroso in his directorial debut, this film takes the viewer into the terrifying heart of the movement -- explosive protests, riotous parties, and the rooms where populist and racist ideologies are refined, weaponized, and injected into the mainstream. Learn More
EventDINO DANA - THE MOVIE
Dino Dana The Movie finds 10-year-old Dana, who sees dinosaurs in the real world, completing an experiment that asks where all the kid dinosaurs are. Learn More
12.30pm - 2pm
EventJILL BILCOCK: DANCING THE INVISIBLE plus Q&A with Producer - Faramarz K-Rahber
Jill Bilcock: Dancing the Invisible is an unprecedented feature documentary about one of the world’s leading film artists – Australian film editor Jill Bilcock. This session also includes a fascinating Q&A with one of the film's Producers, Faramarz K-Rahber. Learn More
EventDARK CITY - Director's Cut
Enter a world where the night never ends. Where man has no past. And humanity has no future. A man awakens in a hotel near a dead body, possessing no memory of who he is or how he got there. Pursued by a dogged police detective and hunted by chilling figures known as The Strangers, he must uncover the secrets of his past, and the terrifying truth beneath the city where the sun never shines. Learn More
EventPAPICHA
Algiers, 1997. The country is in the hands of terrorist groups, seeking to establish an Islamic and archaic state. Women are particularly affected and oppressed by primitive diktas, who seek to take control of their bodies and control their passage through the public space. Learn More
EventDAISY QUOKKA - WORLD'S SCARIEST ANIMAL
When an unbearably adorable, eternally optimistic Quokka named Daisy wants to achieve the impossible, she enlists the guidance of a washed-up former champion, a grouchy Saltwater Crocodile, to help her prove that champions can come in all sizes. Learn More
ABOUT THE ORGANISER:Bangalow Film Festival Limited
Organiser Profile:
A trio of Bangalow locals have banded together to bring the village its very own film festival in January 2021. Christian Pazzaglia, Ben Alcock and Lyn McCarthy all have experience in mounting film events. Christian has worked internationally as a curator and producer of film programs and festivals, Ben is the co-founder of Bangalow’s Flicks in the Field and, Lyn is one of the founders of the Dendy Cinema chain and ex-General Manager of the Sydney Film Festival.
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During Superintendent Mike Kuhrt’s report to the board Tuesday, he said Wichita Falls ISD is beginning a rapid-testing program for COVID-19.
Kuhrt said the district did a dry run of the drive-through testing program Monday at the Carrigan Career Center.
”I think it went pretty well,” he said during Tuesday's noon special session.
”The goal is for us to offer a site and to give people another option for testing,” he said.
The tests are free, provided by the state and administered by nurses, Kuhrt said.
Check back with www.times record news.com for more on this school board meeting.
About 25 staff members were tested Monday, he said. Of those, 24 were negative, and one was positive. Another 30 had signed up for testing Wednesday.
Officials are still working out the details of how they will administer the program for testing staff members and students for the coronavirus.
“We'll come up with regular hours for staff or on as-needed basis for staff, and then we're going to come up with a system for schools for parents or for staff members to refer students to get tested," Kuhrt said.
Testing will be voluntary, he said.
Each kit comes complete with gloves and an N95 respirator, Kuhrt said. The person who has signed up to be tested gets a code on their cell phone, which the nurse scans in.
“They do a swab of your nose, and you can go park and wait for the results,” Kuhrt said.
The results take about 15 minutes to receive that way and about an hour if the person leaves the test site area, he said.
The test is relatively noninvasive and involves a front-of-the-nostril swab, Kuhrt said.
”It’s not one that touches your brain,” he said to chuckles.
Kuhrt said it's apparently a pretty accurate test for COVID-19.
“At least that's what the the state of Texas says," he said.
Test results will be reported to the campus and to the Wichita Falls-Wichita County Public Health District, Kuhrt said.
A negative test result does not necessarily mean a student or staff member will return to school, depending on symptoms, for instance, he said.
Kuhrt said the district is looking into offering COVID-19 vaccination through a provider to eligible WFISD staff members. Vaccination is also voluntary.
"There's a couple districts in the state that have started early programs with medical providers, and they've started vaccinating their whole staff," he said.
But they were part of some kind of special grant through a health care provider, Kuhrt said.
In other WFISD business:
WFISD may begin the process to name two new high school as early as this month, an official told trustees.
The schools are projected to open in fall 2024.
The four-to-six-month naming process begins with forming a planning committee of staff members, students, parents and community members, said Debby Patterson, executive director of school administration.
The committee will take nominations for school names through the district’s website and other means, and then make recommendations to trustees, she said.
”Ultimately, it is the board’s decision,” Patterson said.
Trustees can choose a nominated name or another one, she said.
WFISD teachers and other employees might get a pandemic-related pay boost.
Trustees asked WFISD Chief Financial Officer Tim Sherrod to bring recommendations for a stipend, a retention bonus or some other sort of extra pay for trustees to consider.
The idea is to boost morale and provide additional compensation for staff members’ service during the difficulties of the pandemic.
Cypress-Fairbanks ISD in the Houston area paid a one-time stipend of $500 to full-time employees and $250 to part-time employees during the pandemic, Sherrod said.
He said in 2012 WFISD paid a one-time stipend to full-time employees of $1,000 and $500 to part-time staff members for additional duties.
Workers such as bus drivers and custodians did not receive the payment, he said.
The total cost was $1.93 million, he said.
But trustees did not make any decisions about extra pay during Tuesday’s meeting. They are expected to take the matter up during a meeting Monday, Jan. 18.
In addition, the school board approved a calendar for the 2021-2022 academic year.
More:WFISD to form planning committee to pick names for new high schools
Trish Choate, enterprise watchdog reporter for the Times Record News, covers education, courts, breaking news, politics and more. Contact Trish with news tips at tchoate@gannett.com. Her Twitter handle is @Trishapedia.
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Tel Aviv Beach & Promenade
Tel Aviv's sea shore is 14 km long and it's all connected to one big promenade.
Since 2010, when Reading Promenade was opened, the entire sea shore of Tel Aviv is connected with bike trails from north to south allowing to enjoy a ride without crossing a single road.
Along the beautiful beaches we'll have a view of the different kinds of beaches in Tel Aviv and also ride on the first highway for bicycles including special traffic lights for bikes.
All the beaches in Tel Aviv are public and every beach has its own significance.
There are 3 dog beaches where it's allowed to unleash dogs.
Gordon beach is known as the sports beach.
Hilton beach is familiar with the LGBT community.
A religious beach that is separated from the others.
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Xbox Series X Confirmed for November Launch
By Michelle Ehrhardt 11 August 2020
But Halo Infinite Gets Delayed to 2021
(Image credit: Microsoft)
Everyone who’s been chomping at the bit to join Master Chief on his latest sci-fi adventure will be happy to know that Xbox today announced a firm release window for the Xbox Series X: this November. However, like a monkey’s paw granting a wish, the company also announced that Halo Infinite- the system’s biggest title- is getting delayed to 2021.
In some ways, this news isn’t wholly surprising. Both the Xbox 360 and Xbox One launched in November, and despite Master Chief being the de facto Xbox mascot, neither console had new, exclusive Halo games at launch. Still, the 360 differentiated itself from competition by coming out before the PS3 and for less money. But Halo Infinite was intended to bridge the gap between the Xbox One and Xbox Series X, and that game was likely to be a system seller.
Still, with the pandemic having hit supply lines hard earlier this year, many of us were wondering if the next generation of consoles would be delayed. Sony said earlier this year that it was planning to hit its expected PS5 launch window on time, and now it seems that Microsoft is one-upping them by announcing a specific release window, and one that matches its history.
Additionally, while Microsoft seems to have taken a backseat on exclusivity compared to Sony this generation, eventually allowing players to play its newer Xbox exclusives on PC while collaborating with other companies to bring former exclusives like Cuphead to their consoles, Halo Infinite was the only announced Xbox Series X launch game with a tie to Microsoft’s history, and so felt like its key point of difference when compared to other options. Without it, it’s tough to settle on a unique identity for the system’s launch library, or a reason why one would buy it over the PS5 or new components for their PC.
Still, Microsoft is promising “thousands of games” at launch, largely thanks to the Xbox Series X's impressive backwards compatibility. Backwards compatibility doesn’t necessarily present a strong reason for upgrading to new hardware right away, though some older titles- those bearing “optimized for Xbox Series X” branding- are expected to play better on the new console.
Halo fans will likely appreciate the 343 getting more time to tune up the game, as Halo: Infinite’s graphical fidelity earned it some fan backlash after Microsoft streamed a recent gameplay demo.
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Indonesia to spend less than expected of COVID-19 budget by year-end
Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati talks about the Indonesian economy at a seminar in Jakarta on Feb. 17. (Antara/Rivan Awal Lingga)
The government expects to spend around 95 percent of the total COVID-19 stimulus budget by year-end, less than the initial target, as it struggles to ramp up state spending to support an economy still badly hit by the coronavirus outbreak.
The government is planning to spend only Rp 664 trillion (US$47 billion), 95.5 percent of the COVID-19 stimulus budget totaling Rp 695.2 trillion, by the end of 2020, according to Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati on Monday.
The government had spent 62.1 percent of the total budget, at Rp 431.54 trillion as of the end of November, with the remainder expected to be spent in December.
“We will continue to disburse the budget including allocating reserve funds for vaccines,” she told reporters in a press briefing on Monday. “This will support the economy in the last month of 2020 after we accelerated spending in the third quarter.”
Southeast Asia’s largest economy plunged into recession for the first time in two decades as the government struggled to contain the outbreak and its economic fallout. The gross domestic product (GDP) is expected to shrink by 0.6 percent to 1.7 percent this year.
Government expenditure saw a 9.76 percent year-on-year (yoy) increase in the third quarter, a recoup from the second-quarter contraction of 6.9 percent yoy, driven by higher social and capital spending on efforts to fight the impact of the pandemic.
The government had been widely criticized for slow budget disbursement by health experts, economists and businesspeople during the early days of the pandemic.
Sri Mulyani stated in July that administrative issues had added challenges to the government’s efforts to disburse COVID-19 funds swiftly.
Read also: Administrative issues hamper COVID-19 budget disbursement: Sri Mulyani
According to the Finance Ministry, the government had only spent 41.4 percent, or Rp 40.32 trillion, of the Rp 97.26 trillion healthcare budget for the pandemic response as of Nov. 30.
The low spending is against the backdrop of Indonesia’s continuous rise in COVID-19 cases, having passed the half a million cumulative coronavirus cases on Nov. 23.
“If the healthcare budget is not fully disbursed, then it will be used to finance vaccine procurement,” Sri Mulyani said.
There is no set date as to when Indonesia will conduct mass vaccinations. State-owned pharmaceutical company PT Bio Farma is currently waiting for results from the phase three clinical trials of a COVID-19 candidate vaccine produced by Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinovac Biotech for the vaccine to be authorized for public use.
Meanwhile, the government has spent 88.7 percent, or Rp 207.8 trillion, of a total Rp 234.3 trillion budget allocated for social protection programs.
“We expect to spend 100 percent of the social protection budget by December this year,” Sri Mulyani added.
The government has also spent Rp 98.76 trillion, 86 percent, of the Rp 114.8 trillion budget to support micro, small and medium enterprises.
It has also spent 54.9 percent of the total Rp 65.9 trillion budget to support regional administrations.
However, the government has spent only 38.5 percent, Rp 46.4 trillion, of the Rp 120.6 trillion in tax incentives.
The lowest spending is recorded in the budget for corporate financing, which includes state capital injections and loans to state-owned enterprises (SOEs). The government has only spent Rp 2 trillion, 3.2 percent, of the Rp 62.2 trillion budget for this purpose.
For next year, the government will focus on healthcare spending, according to Sri Mulyani.
“We are focusing on healthcare spending next year so that people can go about their businesses while the virus still exists,” the finance minister said.
The government will also ramp up funding to conduct virus testing, tracing and treatment to better detect the virus spread in 2021, while also maintaining social protection programs so that people can be sufficiently protected while waiting for vaccinations during the outbreak, according to Sri Mulyani.
Bank Central Asia (BCA) economist David Sumual stated that the government should be open to the option of carrying over the stimulus to 2021 and should not necessarily aim to spend all of the stimulus this year as this may prove to be ineffective.
“The key question is no longer the size of the stimulus, but which sectors to support to make the stimulus more effective,” David told The Jakarta Post on Tuesday.
Separately, Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) deputy chairwoman Shinta Kamdani said recently that the government would need to continue providing the stimulus next year in a bid to support businesses and households.
“Any cut in the stimulus could have a detrimental effect on economic recovery in 2021,” she said.
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FOCUS WILL RUN A DIGITAL EDITION ON 15/16/17 DECEMBER 2020
FREE Registration Now Open
FOCUS, The Meeting Place for International Production, will return in December 2020 in a digital format for its sixth edition. The usual 2 day live event will be expanded to three days for the virtual edition and will run on 15/16/17 December.
In these fast-changing and challenging times for the creative screen industries FOCUS remains committed to offering a distinctive platform to connect, reconnect and share global production expertise.
FOCUS has established itself as an important date in the screen industry calendar and announced record attendance, exhibitor and programme numbers for the 2019 edition. Once again FOCUS will be aimed at all the creative screen industries – including film, TV, advertising, animation and games -and will continue to offer a plethora of filming solutions, potential partners and production intelligence for all types of project and all levels of budget, from pre through to post-production.
Registration is now open and a delegate pass will remain completely FREE, giving access to all strands of the digital event. At FOCUS 2020 delegates will be able to;
Attend an array of programme sessions, featuring leading industry experts and get up to speed on all the rapid developments in the screen industries.
Discover millions of dollars of filming incentives and get the most up to date advice on the current filming situation around the world.
Pre-schedule 1-2-1 online meetings with potential partners from every continent , including film commissions, agencies, locations providers and production services.
The FOCUS programme is developed in consultation with a Content Advisory Board featuring representatives from leading industry bodies. Members include the British Film Institute, British Film Commission, Pact, Directors UK, Advertising Producers Association, The Production Guild GB, ScreenSkills, UK Screen Alliance, Creative Europe Media Desk UK and Women in Film and TV. The content programme is presented in association with media partner Variety and sponsored by Production Service Network.
FOCUS Managing Director Jean-Frederic Garcia said: “Of course we would have loved to bring people together face to face, and we know we can’t completely replicate the unique atmosphere of our London event, but we are excited to bring the industry a virtual edition that will offer a lively forum to meet, network and share production expertise. We look forward to welcoming even more delegates from around the world to experience the flavour of our live event via our digital platform”.
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This bloke's ex wrote him an apology letter, and he sent it back graded and critiqued
We all know that when cheating is involved, shit can get messy. But this. This is something else.
Nick Lutz is a college student who broke up with his girlfriend after she cheated on him. When she ended up sending him an apology letter, Nick wasn't having a bar of it.
Instead of keeping the letter or throwing it out, he did something so much better. He took out a red pen and started marking it, pointing out errors and critiquing her statements.
He begins by pointing out her poor letter format, that her "introduction" is too long and that there's "lots of repitition".
He goes on to point out that she's missing details and her spelling is off.
The next critique was that she was using "useless fillers". She wrote "I just hope to God you have thought about me" and Nick responded with "I have not".
The final verdict? 61 out of 100, which equates to a D-. His final grading comment was that she had "a strong hypothesis but nothing to back it up". He ends the comment by saying "while this gesture is appreciated, I would prefer details over statements. Revision for half credit will be accepted".
But it keeps getting better. Nick was then suspended from university, after the letter, which he posted to twitter, racked up thousands of likes, shares and comments. His ex claimed that it was cyberbullying.
After a "long process", Nick was then let back into uni.
In the end, we reckon it was all worth it - this was a good laugh. This did all occur back in 2017, but whatever, this gag is timeless.
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Home > Programs > Skilled Trades > Electrician > Electrician Schools in Texas
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Find a Texas Electrician School
Last Updated April 2, 2020
At Texas electrician schools, the focus is all about making you ready to tackle energizing jobs that help keep this huge state moving forward. You can take advantage of the demand for trained professionals in this field with the right schooling.
In fact, getting started in an electrician training program is a sure sign that you're on track to a future with massive potential.
With electrician training at a school like Southern Careers Institute, you can develop the skills required for employment in a wide range of settings, from factories and businesses to residential properties and schools. Take the next step and learn more about becoming an electrician by exploring the available Texas electrician schools below!
Common Questions About Electricians in Texas
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4 Common Questions About Electricians in Texas
Becoming an electrician can open up all kinds of opportunities, especially in the Lone Star State. In a 2018 survey of Texas contractors, 78 percent said they were struggling to find enough tradespeople to fill open positions, and electricians were near the top of the most-wanted list. And with the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) predicting that the state construction industry will grow more than 20 percent between 2016 and 2026, the opportunities should continue to emerge for years to come.
With those facts in mind, check out the following answers to four popular questions about the electrical trade in this state:
1. How Do I Become an Electrician in Texas?
Many trade schools and career colleges in Texas offer training in electrical technology. You can opt for an associate degree program that takes two years or a diploma program that takes less than one year. The training is similar for both, but a degree program typically includes more general education courses.
Completing a program at a post-secondary school can lead to entry-level positions in the electrical field. It can also be good preparation for an apprenticeship, which you will need to complete in order to become fully licensed as an electrician.
Apprenticeships allow you to train on the job. You work under the supervision of a licensed master electrician, and you are paid for your time. You also receive some formal classroom instruction.
Electrician apprenticeship programs must be approved by the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR). Once you've been accepted to a program, you must apply to the TDLR for a license as an electrical apprentice or electrical sign apprentice.
Apprenticeships generally last four or five years. When you complete your training, you can take the state licensing exam to become a journeyman.
Apprenticeship programs are popular, so they can be difficult to get into. Taking formal training at a trade school first can be a good way to improve your chances.
2. What Licenses Do I Need?
For most types of electrical work, you must be licensed by the TDLR. A license enables you to work anywhere in the state.
There are several types of licenses, each of which requires passing an exam. You'll also need to complete a certain amount of supervised work experience. (Note that 2,000 hours is roughly equivalent to one year of full-time work.) Here's how things stack up:
Journeyman electrician—8,000 hours
Journeyman sign electrician—8,000 hours
Journeyman lineman—7,000 hours
Residential wireman—4,000 hours
Maintenance electrician—8,000 hours
You can also choose to become licensed as a residential appliance installer. No experience is required, but you will have to pass an exam.
In order to become a master electrician, you must be a journeyman electrician for at least two years, complete 12,000 hours of supervised on-the-job training, and pass an exam. Master sign electricians have similar requirements.
All types of licenses must be renewed every 18 months. The TDLR also requires all licensees (except residential appliance installers) to complete four hours of approved continuing education for license renewal.
3. How Much Could I Earn?
In 2018, the average annual salary for electricians in Texas was $50,977, according to TWC.
But earnings can be even higher depending on your specific location. For example, TWC says that electricians in the Gulf Coast Workforce Development Area made an average annual salary of $56,420 in 2018. And electricians in the South East Texas Workforce Development Area had average earnings of $59,598.
4. What Is the Job Outlook for This Career?
Electricians have excellent prospects in Texas. TWC says employment in this trade is expected to increase more than 17 percent statewide between 2016 and 2026, resulting in more than 10,600 new jobs. Job growth rates are expected to be even higher in certain regions of the state. For instance, the Rural Capital Workforce Development Area and the North Central Workforce Development Area both have projected increases of more than 36 percent.
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The Trail Went Cold – Episode 70 – Tabitha Tuders & Heaven LaShae Ross
May 2, 2018 October 11, 2020 Magill Foote
April 29, 2003. Nashville, Tennessee. 13-year old Tabitha Tuders leaves her house for school and is last seen walking through her neighbourhood towards her bus stop. Tabitha never boards the bus or arrives at school and when she fails to return home that evening, she is reported missing. Less than four months later, another young girl goes missing when 11-year old Heaven LaShae Ross also disappears after leaving her home to catch the school bus in Northport, Alabama. Shae’s remains are discovered underneath an abandoned house three years later, but her death remains unsolved and Tabitha Tuders is never found. On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we examine two unsolved cold cases involving girls who vanished under very similar circumstances and the possibility that they might be connected.
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Tanzer on Shapps speech: ‘It was about how grateful the industry should be’
14 Oct 2020by Jennifer Morris
Mark Tanzer
Abta’s chief executive has criticised transport secretary Grant Shapps’s statement to the organisation’s convention this morning as “retrospective”.
“It was about what has been done and how grateful the industry should be for that… I don’t think it took on board that we are still in the middle of this crisis,” said Mark Tanzer after the appearance.
“The furlough may have saved jobs but it’s about what’s going to happen for the next six months as well. And it’s really critical that we do have support.
“The travel corridors he mentioned – they’re mainly shut at the moment. They may be open in theory but if you look at where we can actually go, there are very few places and moving to a much more regional approach is crucial.
“We have the three tiers so we must be able to apply those tests to international destinations as well.”
Tanzer particularly took issue with Shapp’s comments around testing: “Although he said an awful lot of work had gone in to testing, we’ve seen none of the results of that. And we absolutely have to hit the ground running with this testing regime if we’re going to move out of this.
“[The taskforce] seems to have just disproved various theories. You can’t do a day 0 test on arrival because of a-symptomatic cases.
“If it’s taken six months to establish that that’s not huge progress.”
“We need to know not just the medical but how the logistical side of it is going to work.”
Tanzer further described Shapps’s response to a question about sector-specific support as “very worrying”.
“He [Shapps] is the secretary of state for transport. I understand other sectors will be queuing up too, but he has to go in and bat for this sector.
“When we were looking at Heathrow expansion and Brexit all the talk was about aviation as a global necessity. Where is the evidence of that now?
“He needs to be talking about not just getting people on planes as an industrial sector, but as a key strategic asset that we have to maintain. These companies won’t be around to do that if they don’t get support now.”
Finally, Tanzer said he was “concerned” by Shapps’s remarks about Brexit aviation access to Europe.
“A year ago when we were coming up to potentially no-deal we had a standstill agreement that for a year whatever the outcome, aviation rights to be able to fly back and forth to Europe would be in place.
“He [Shapps] was suggesting we were waiting for a proposal from Europe that that will be the case and if it is we will reciprocate.”
Tanzer said it was essential we had clarity around that so as not to deter bookers.
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Rainbow Six Siege is about three and a half years old. In its fourth year of activity and twenty-eight additional operators later, Siege is still going on as strong as ever. All good things must come to an end, right? That may be true, but Ubisoft is not planning on letting Rainbow Six Siege stop any time soon. According to Alexandre Remy, Rainbow Six Siege will be transitioning to the PS5 and next-gen Xbox, whatever that may be. When talking to Daily Star, Remy said that they “don’t want a sequel whatsoever.”
While that may sound like a disgruntled and frustrated man, he is in fact quite the opposite. Remy actually wants Rainbow Six Siege to grow to a roster of more than 100 playable characters. As it stands now, the game has 49 operators, so they are half way there. Surely, by then we will be well into the next generation of consoles, and maybe even the one after that. Luckily, Ubisoft has a plan to bring Siege all the way there.
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“The reason behind this is we don’t want to segregate our community between the different platforms. In an ideal world tomorrow, we’d love players from every platform to be able to play together. We are approaching next-gen with the same spirit. We’ve been asking how can we make the player base of Siege today be able to migrate – if they want to migrate, that is – but also make this cheaper [than buying a new, next-gen copy of the game] as much as possible or through backwards compatibility.” Remy also says that they are early on in conversations with Mircosoft and Sony on this big transition.
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Source: Daily Star
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What Does It Take to Create an Artist or Two?
Alberto Giacometti- Walking Man II, 1960 National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Enid Haupt Art ©2018 Alberto Giacometti Estate/VAGAat ARTS, NY/ADAG, Paris
Alberto Giacometti was one of the most iconic sculptors of the last century. His brother Diego, one year younger, who loved nature and had a wild spirit, was there by his side. They were sons of a Swiss painter, so they were both introduced to art from birth. Two Brothers, Four Hands: The Artists Alberto and Diego Giacometti, a picture book biography by iNK author Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan, lavishly illustrated by Hadley Hooper, shows how these brothers tackled life and art as a team and left the world an extraordinary body of work.
Becoming an artist requires a lot of study and experimentation and, yes, failure. Alberto is influenced in Paris by his surrealist artist friends who believe art should express imagination, not reality. Alberto tries it for a while, as Diego starts doing carpentry. World War II intervenes. A discouraged Alberto goes home to Switzerland while Diego toughs out the war in Paris guarding their studio. Upon Alberto's return to Paris after the war and the arrival of his soon-to-be wife Annette, Alberto starts sculpting something never before seen.
"Alberto's skeletal, lonely figures are survivors. They rise up courageously from these ruins of war. People are moved by the truth in Alberto's sculptures. They express a new spirit in art."
But Alberto does not create these sculptures alone. "Diego fashions thin constructions of wire to support the willowy figures. He builds bases to balance them on their outsized feet......His hand touches every sculpture." Fame and fortune come to Alberto but he dies too soon.
Yet Diego carries on alone: "As if his hands decide for him, he starts making more objects, furniture so magical that one sees sculpture and forgets its function."
Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan have crafted a poetic story as true and lean as a Giacometti sculpture. At the back of the book is a photo of Alberto's famous "Walking Man" with suggestions about how to look at it and what can be seen. What can't be seen in Two Brothers, Four Hands: The Artists Alberto and Diego Giacometti, but can be felt throughout, is the love and devotion between two brothers and the authors' and illustrator's love and respect for their legacy.
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Sarah Sze in Glasstress 2017, Venice
11 May - 26 November 2017
Organised by Fondazione Berengo
Curated by Dimitri Ozerkov, Herwig Kempinger, Adriano Berengo
Returning to Venice for the 57th Venice Biennale, GLASSTRESS brings together 40 leading contemporary artists from Europe, the United States, the Middle East and China in an ambitious exhibition exploring the endless creative possibilities of glass. Conceived by Fondazione Berengo, the project takes place in two exceptional historic locations: Palazzo Franchetti in Venice and a converted furnace in Murano.
Sarah Sze has collaborated with glass masters to create a site-specific installation composed of shards, Cotissi, informed by her experience of working in the furnace. Her intervention traces the confines of the Palazzo Franchetti with a delicate, but strong line of shards of glass circling the architecture and echoing the shades of blue and green of the Laguna.
Talking about the project, Sze comments: "I think what's really exciting about being in the furnace and being in the studio here in Murano is that it's about making materials live. It's the fundamental point of being a sculptor: how do you breathe new life into materials? How do you make them live in the moment?"
Image: Sarah Sze, Cotissi, 2017
Glass and concrete, dimensions variable
Photo credit: Francesco Allegretto
Courtesy Fondazione Berengo
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Why eggs? Why lilies? Easter traditions explained
For most Christians, Easter is the most important day of the year. However, when it comes to traditions such as decorated eggs, lilies and Peter Cottontail, even the most seasoned Easter celebrants may have questions. Several years ago we got some answers from a variety of United Methodist experts.
How do decorated eggs relate to Easter?
According to Eastern Orthodox tradition, Mary Magdalene visited the Emperor Tiberius and showed him an egg as a way to talk about the Resurrection of Jesus.
"One version of this story," says the Rev. Taylor W. Burton-Edwards, former director of worship resources for United Methodist Discipleship Ministries, "is that the egg was white to start with, that the emperor scoffed that resurrection was as likely as the white egg turning red, and then it did turn red. Another version is that the egg was red to begin with, as a sign of the blood of Christ."
Orthodox icons often portray Mary Magdalene holding a red egg or a flask of myrrh. Burton-Edwards notes, "Iconography means 'icon writing,' not 'icon painting,' and that the images 'written' here were intended to convey ideas and theology more than factual stories." The egg itself was already a sign of new life in Eastern cultures.
"The flask of myrrh in her other hand, usually also in a reddish hue, was a sign of Mary's presence at the tomb to anoint Christ's body for burial," he adds. "If (Mary) needed to be a sign of both death and resurrection, she might hold both items. If she needed to be a sign more of one than the other, she might hold only one."
The origin of people coloring and decorating eggs is not certain. Some sources report the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Persians and Romans colored eggs for spring festivals. In medieval Europe, people offered beautifully decorated eggs as gifts. In Russia and Poland, writes Pamela Kennedy in The Symbols of Easter, people spent hours drawing intricate designs on Easter eggs. In early America, children colored eggs using dyes made from bark, berries and leaves.
As the story of Christ's Resurrection spread, Kennedy adds, "people saw the egg as a symbol of the stone tomb from which Christ rose. They viewed the hatching birds and chicks as symbols of the new life Jesus promised his followers."
What is the origin of the Easter egg hunt?
In England, Germany and some other countries, children rolled eggs down hills on Easter morning to symbolize the rolling away of the stone from Jesus' tomb. British settlers brought this custom to the New World. In 1814, Dolley Madison, the wife of President James Madison, introduced the most famous Easter egg roll, which still takes place annually on the White House south lawn.
How did the Easter Bunny become associated with this sacred Christian season?
Ancient Egyptians, according to Kennedy, believed the rabbit was responsible for the new life that abounded in the spring.
"An old European legend says that the hare, a relative of the rabbit, never closed its eyes. Since it watched the other animals all night long, the hare became a symbol of the moon. The hare was soon connected with Easter because the holiday's date depends upon the full moon."
According to other sources, 18th-century German settlers introduced "Oschter Haws" (Easter Hare), the character many children know as the Easter Bunny, to America. Pennsylvania Dutch settlers prepared nests in the barn or garden for Oschter Haws. On Easter eve, the rabbit laid his colored eggs in the nests. (In Germany, Oschter Haws lays red eggs on Maundy Thursday.)
Why do some hold sunrise services in cemeteries?
Different groups may have different answers.
Some sources state that a Moravian congregation in Herrnhut, Saxony, had the first Easter sunrise service in 1732. After an all-night prayer vigil, the unmarried men went to the town graveyard to sing hymns of praise to the risen Lord. The next year, the entire congregation joined them. Moravian missionaries spread the tradition around the world.
Burton-Edwards cites an ancient tradition recorded in The Apostolic Constitutions in 380 in Syria. Early Christians held a vigil of prayer on Holy Saturday in cemeteries where Christians were buried.
"Keeping watch with these dead in Christ was in a way also keeping watch with Christ who was in the tomb on this day, awaiting resurrection. It appears to have been a way of identifying themselves with the 'voices under the altar' in Revelation, crying out, 'How long?'" This was more than a memorial service or paying respects to the dead. Burton-Edwards terms it "a true vigil—a watch with the dead in Christ awaiting the celebration of the Resurrection of Christ and the return of Christ to raise and judge all the dead."
The practice of the early Christians may have informed some traditions in the United States. Burton-Edwards, who grew up Southern Baptist, says, "We regularly did sunrise services in a large cemetery on Easter morning. For us, it was also a way of proclaiming the Resurrection of Christ and awaiting the resurrection of the dead."
How did lilies come to be Easter lilies?
The Easter lily is a relatively new tradition - first brought to the United States in 1882 from Bermuda. The large, pure-white blossoms remind Christians of the pure, new life that comes through the Resurrection of Jesus.
According to legend, Kennedy writes, when Jesus prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane, the flowers bowed their heads in grief and pity. "But the proud lily would not bow its lovely white head.
"The next day, the lily discovered that Jesus was going to be crucified. The flower felt so miserable about how it had acted ... that it bowed its head in shame. To honor the Lord Jesus and to show its sorrow, the lily has grown with a down-turned blossom ever since that first Good Friday."
*This story is adapted from a piece written by Barbara Dunlap-Berg, former internal content editor for United Methodist Communications.
This story was first published April 20, 2011.
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Suki Hawley
Suki Hawley is an American indie filmmaker and a partner in the production and distribution company RUMUR. Either solo or with Michael Galinsky, she's directed low-budget fictional narratives, but has mostly concentrated on documentaries in recent years.
To learn more about this filmmaker, please visit the official website of her company RUMUR.
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UNFPA Supplies COVID-19 update - 16 April 2020
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UNFPA is working with governments and partners to avoid or minimize shortages of contraceptives and life-saving maternal health medicines―all in close coordination. Together, we are working to prioritize supply requests, orders, shipments, production schedules and other operational aspects of procurement. We aim to ensure product availability in countries.
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Asus ROG Phone 3 Review: Mobile Gaming Redefined
October 16, 2020 1 By urbantechnoobs
As the name suggests, the ROG Phone 3 is the third iteration of ASUS ROG’s highly-acclaimed gaming smartphone.
Since the first iteration, ROG has launched this premium gaming smartphone with a lot of gaming-centric accessories. At launch, ASUS unveils the ROG Phone with the Kunai, Aero Active Cooler, Gaming Dock, and a couple more accessories that enhances not just the gaming experience, but also its overall user experience. Another unique feature of the ROG Phone family is its Air Triggers. These are pressure-sensitive sensors on the side of the phone that act as additional buttons that can be configured for each game.
The ROG Phone 3 is available in three variants. There’s the Strix version with 8GB memory and 128GB storage. Another is the base version with 12GB of memory and 256GB of storage. And the one that stands above them all, the ROG Phone 3 with 16GB of memory and a hefty 512GB for storage.
On this one, we’ll focus on the top model, the ROG Phone 3 16GB/512GB version.
Design: Stealthier than ever
Leaving the poppy gaming accents of the past ROG Phones, the ROG Phone 3 presents itself not only as a premium gaming smartphone but also as a classy premium everyday smartphone.
As the premium mobile gaming device of ASUS, the ROG Phone 3 is well protected from front to back with a Corning Gorilla Glass 6, which not only provides top-notch protection but also gives it a classy feel. Both of the sides are filled with either buttons or Type-C ports. On the right-hand side are the Air Triggers, volume control buttons, and the power button which also acts as the lock button. While on the left-hand side are the Type-C charging port and the AeroActive Cooler port. Both of these ports are in a single cut-out for the AeroActive Cooler attachment. Charging while using the AeroActive Cooler 3 is still possible, as it has a pass-through USB-C port; it also has a passthrough 3.5mm audio port for external audio devices. Going back, the bottom side of the ROG Phone 3 has a lone USB 2.0 Type-C port that can be used for data transfers, charging and USB Type-C audio devices.
The ROG Phone 3 is fitted with a flat 6.59“ screen that doesn’t follow an edge to edge design, which is common on other premium smartphones in its price point. Since the first ROG Phone, ASUS has opted for this kind of display to be able to arm its premium gaming device with dual front-facing stereo speakers. This time around though, ASUS takes an overall subtle approach on accents, which is very noticeable on the speaker grilles of the ROG Phone 3. The top and bottom speaker grills now come in black which makes them blend with the bezels.
The subtle elements continue on to the back of the device, as the AeroDynamic System vents are now smaller compared to its predecessor’s. However, its rear camera setup is a bit longer now, as ASUS equips the ROG Phone 3 with a triple-camera setup. The RGB equipped ROG logo retains its center placement. For those who don’t know, the logo on a ROG Phone is equipped with RGB lighting that can be customized through ROG’s very own Armoury Crate software.
Overall, the subtle design elements of the ROG Phone 3 propel it from being just a premium gaming device to a top-notch flagship everyday smartphone that has gaming in its core. However, with a 240g weight in its belt and 9.9mm thickness, the ROG Phone 3 maybe one of the heaviest flagship smartphones of this generation.
Display: Gaming at 24 more Hz
The previous flagship gaming device of ASUS, the ROG Phone 2, was outfitted with a 120Hz display, which was one of the best displays in its generation. While this generation’s ROG Phone 3 adds in 24Hz more to its display spec, pushing the display refresh rate to a blazing 144Hz.
As we’ve mentioned, the screen size of the ROG Phone 3 is 6.59“ diagonally, which is similar to that of the ROG Phone 2. It is an AMOLED display that has a 1080×2340 resolution with a 19.5:9 aspect ratio. There will be no hindrances to video consumption, as the ROG Phone 3 does not have a notch or a hole-punch for its front camera. Unfortunately, though its screen offers a large viewing area, some video content may not be outputted entirely on the screen due to its aspect ratio.
Furthermore, ASUS tuned the ROG Phone 3’s display to support constant 144Hz, 120Hz, 90Hz, or 60Hz refresh rates. However, out of the box, the ROG Phone 3 has its refresh rate on auto by default, but it can easily be configured to the user’s preference via the display settings. ASUS has done a great job in calibrating the display settings of the ROG Phone 3 resulting in a worthwhile experience for us, as we never experienced any stutters or jitters during our time with the ROG Phone 3, even when the display was set to 144Hz mode.
On paper, the AMOLED display of the ROG Phone 3 will be able to reproduce up to 1.07 billion colors or a near 113% of the DCI-P3 color gamut, as it is tuned to be Delta-E < 1 accurate and is also HDR10+ certified. Though with a wider color gamut and sharp color accuracy, ASUS still picked a toned-down color setting for the ROG Phone 3’s default profile. The colors weren’t intense but weren’t dull as well.
While the color profile can be changed through the display settings, we have opted to go with the default profile as this is what a retail version would look and feel out of the box. During our time with the ROG Phone 3, we never saw any color anomalies like color shifts or the infamous black crush on its AMOLED display. We’ve been following the ROG Phone 3’s black crush issue since the first time we saw it on the ASUS mobile phone community, Asus ZenTalk. A number of users have experienced a black crush issue, which renders the ROG Phone 3’s panel to output heavy pixelation on black or dark screens. Fortunately, ASUS has already rolled out a software update that has a dedicated fix for the said issue.
Moving on to display brightness, according to its spec sheet, it has a peak brightness of 1000 nits and an outdoor brightness of 650 nits, which translates to great outdoor usability. For us, that’s something exceptional and very acceptable for a flagship smartphone that has a heavy focus on gaming. ASUS has also packed the ROG Phone 3’s AMOLED display with a number of features that help lessen eye strain. In fact, the display on the ROG Phone 3 has a Low-Blue-Light and Flicker Reduced certification from TUV Rheinland. This means less eyestrain during long gaming sessions.
And giving the winning advantage to gamers, the 144Hz display on the ROG Phone 3 boasts a 25ms touch latency and 18ms slide latency. This means that the touch latency of the ROG Phone 3 will allow a more precise reaction in first-person shooters like PUBG mobile and Call of Duty: Mobile, to name a few. Additionally, with its lower slide latency, users will experience an overall smooth performance. As such, our gaming time with the ROG Phone 3 was the best gaming experience we currently have with a gaming smartphone.
Lastly, ASUS has also equipped the ROG Phone 3 with a fast and accurate in-display fingerprint sensor that never failed us even in outdoor scenarios.
Camera: Plus one
ROG Phone 3 was specifically built to be a top-notch gaming smartphone, no doubt about it, but it also has some nice shooters in its arsenal.
The rear shooter of the ROG Phone 3 is a triple-camera setup that utilizes Sony’s IMX 686 sensor. This triple-camera setup has a 64MP wide-angle camera which is accompanied by a 13MP ultrawide and a 5MP macro camera. The 64MP camera has an f/1.8 aperture 1.6 µm effective pixel size. Though the pixel size is not that large compare to other smartphones that focuses on mobile photography, the effective pixel size of the ROG Phone 3’s camera is enough to capture exceptional images even in low light conditions. Meanwhile, the 13MP second camera features a 125° ultrawide angle that has Realtime-distortion correction capability. The third camera is a macro camera that can focus on subjects really well even at the 4cm mark.
Along with the previous shooting options of its predecessor’s camera software, ASUS has added some new options to this generation’s camera software, with the Pro Mode, Free Zoom, Wind Filter, and Acoustic Focus taking the spotlight. All these new additional features are geared to improve the video quality of the ROG Phone 3. This strengthens the claim that this is not just your typical premium gaming smartphone, but it’s a gaming smartphone that’s a worthy vlogging smartphone as well.
Overall performance: A challenger is needed
Being the first smartphone to harness the power of the SnapDragon 865 Plus 5G mobile platform that has a 7nm, 64-bit octa-core processor, the ROG Phone 3 has the upper-hand when it comes to gaming and computing performance with its CPU able to run at 3.1GHz.
ASUS partners the ROG Phone 3’s fast CPU with a 16GB LPDDR5 memory. As we’ve mentioned, there are two other variants with different memory size and storage capacity. The 16GB/512GB variant is what we have and it is the one that stands above them all, with a whopping 649,212 score on AnTuTu Benchmark. Its 3DMark Slingshot Extreme benchmark score cements its place as the gaming smartphone to beat this generation, with a 9193 graphics score on OpenGL ES 3.1 and 9194 graphics score on Vulkan.
With a decked out internals and two front speakers that are optimized by Dirac, the ROG Phone 3 16GB/512GB variant brings a new level of gaming experience and immersion to the table. It can easily max out the settings of popular mobile games like Mobile Legends, League of Legends, Call of Duty: Mobile, PUBG Mobile, and surely other games that you would want to throw at it.
The latest mobile game, Genshin Impact, was where we saw the ROG Phone 3’s temperature shoot up to 55C, which slowly climbed up to 58C while we were traversing the world with its graphics settings set to the highest possible level and the 60fps mode turned on. The graphics-intensive world of Genshin Impact and its 60fps mode were the reasons that required us to use the Aero Active Cooler. With the Aero Active Cooler 3 on, the Armoury Crate gains a level 3 X mode, which cranks up all the performance bar of the device.
The X Mode of the ROG Phone 3 comes in 3 levels, with the first two easily accessible without an Aero Active Cooler, while the level 3 will only be enabled once the cooler is attached. To simplify, the level 3 X Mode provides an almost 5% increase in the overall performance of the ROG Phone 3.
In our all-out gaming session which is a mix of MOBA, FPS, and MMORPG games, the ROG Phone 3 with its 144Hz mode enabled and its screen brightness at 80% was able to last for 7 hours and 30 minutes. While in our typical daily usage scenario which consists of web browsing, scrolling through and updating our social media channels, and 4 to 5 hours of video call via the Facebook Messenger app, it lasted for a day with a bit of juice left in its tank for another day of light usage.
These performance scores wouldn’t be possible if ASUS did not carry over the 6000 mAh battery of the previous generation’s ROG Phone 2 to this generation’s ROG Phone 3. And with ASUS’s optimization on its battery management, the ROG Phone 3 on 144Hz mode was able to last for 110 hours on idle. This could’ve been longer if it wasn’t for the alarm that I kept forgetting to turn off.
Lastly, charging the 6000 mAh battery of the ROG Phone took an hour and thirty minutes to get it to 100% from a totally depleted state. ASUS chose to maintain the 30W HyperCharge technology that was seen in previous generations to be able to pack in a large capacity battery. This old generation charging technology also helps lessen the degradation of its battery, thus prolonged battery life. Additionally, to further prolong the battery life, ASUS has included some nifty battery features into the ROG Phone 3. These battery features allow users to enforce a charging limit to the battery or change its charging speed. The charging limit feature is like a signature battery setting of ASUS, as this can be seen on some of their laptop products.
Is the ROG Phone 3 for you?
With massive storage and memory configuration, a SnapDragragon 865+ at the helm, and a stellar implementation of 144Hz display, the ROG Phone 3, without a doubt, is a gaming smartphone that can power through any tasks or games that you would throw at it.
And it’s not just a decked out gaming smartphone, the ROG Phone 3 is well equipped not just for gaming, but for other mobile tasks as well. It’s equipped with capable a capable camera system that is further improved by unique ROG features, which enhances its photo and video quality, making it a capable smartphone for mobile photography and videography. The added video features also make this device a great vlogging and content creation weapon.
So if you’re someone who wants to experience the smoothest gameplay on a mobile device and you want to take your gaming experience to a whole new level, or you just want a capable smartphone that can help you with content creation, then there’s no mistake about it, the ROG Phone 3 16GB/512GB variant is the next smartphone that should be in your arsenal.
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Gatz Tries a Novel Approach to Fitzgerald
by Michael Feingold
Shepherd and crew get lit. Joan Marcus
Attention, downtown theater troupes: If you propose to employ a methodology that I find totally unreasonable, I recommend following the plan adopted by Elevator Repair Service in its latest offering, Gatz (Public Theater). First, choose material that consistently holds my attention: ERS has chosen F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel, The Great Gatsby, every sentence of which is spoken onstage in Gatz, and every sentence of which is a pleasure to hear. (Gertrude Stein said that Fitzgerald was the only writer of his generation who “wrote naturally in sentences.”)
Second, be sure to make the untenable metaphor in which you encase your material sufficiently audience-friendly for me to find it at least partly viable. ERS’s idea, neither an adaptation of Gatsby nor, as some have said, a dramatization of the act of reading it, sometimes suggests a running visual commentary. The troupe transmits Fitzgerald’s text through the image of an ordinary office guy (Scott Shepherd), who, when his desktop computer goes down, inexplicably takes up a paperback of Gatsby and starts reading aloud, instead of turning to non-computerized tasks. As he moves further into the book’s first-person storytelling, his co-workers stop interrupting him with papers to shuffle and instead start spouting the dialogue of the various characters encountered by Fitzgerald’s narrator, Nick Carraway.
They never precisely “become” these characters, any more than the drab office they inhabit (set by Louisa Thompson) becomes Gatsby’s cavernous Long Island mansion. To some extent, they maintain office activities, office decorum, and flat-toned office voices even while finding themselves sucked deeper and deeper into Fitzgerald’s sordidly glamorous, emotionally messy, morally troubling tale of lavish lives and disastrous loves in Jazz Age America, now so quaintly antique. If they stuck strictly to office behavior, the performance would be a simple put-down, predicated on a tidy cuts-both-ways irony: See how drab and monotonous our drudging workaday lives are; see how campily self-destructive Fitzgerald’s people are, with their cartoon-rich lifestyles, their corny romantic notions, and their equally corny anything-goes cynicism. They lose; we lose; life’s so sad.
But that’s not exactly the point, because the line between text and action, between Fitzgerald’s dryly precise phrases and the casual clutter with which ERS surrounds them, turns out to be an extremely wobbly one. Journalists have imagined seeing various scenarios in Gatz: The reader’s co-workers pick up interest in the story from hearing him read, or his own growing interest leads him to imagine them as the characters. But nothing that literal occurs onstage, any more than it would in a real office, where any employee who started to read aloud while everyone else was trying to work would certainly get sacked by noon.
Functioning neither as a metaphoric counter-image nor as a literal framework for the action of Fitzgerald’s novel, ERS’s odd office seems to serve as a dreamlike meeting ground: In this familiar but hazily defined space, the more intense passions of the novel’s figures can bleed through, erratically, into the humdrum world that today’s readers inhabit. We all know this office, though none of us has ever been in one that functioned, or rather dysfunctioned, quite like it. Almost before the “employees” have slid under the novel’s spell, Mark Barton’s lighting has started using desk lamps and fluorescents to map Fitzgerald’s shifting moods. And from the outset, sound designer Ben Williams (who also speaks a few minor roles) has been sitting at a desk downstage right, busying himself with a notebook computer, glaringly unlike the narrator’s outdated desktop, that mixes business-day ambient sound with effects evoking the era of roadsters and bootleggers.
The result neither comments on Fitzgerald nor dramatizes the experience of reading him. Instead it offers us the option, as it were, of observing how some imaginary office folk might dream they were embodying his book, or of dreaming it along with them by just listening to the words. This gives an exact opposite for the simple act of reading, with its unmediated effect on the reader’s imagination. At the same time, the staging rebukes the collective experience of theatergoing: Gatz’s climaxes are those of prose in a book, not of a stage work; its physical action, rarely literal, is all mediation, comment, distraction—an outside world at war with an audiobook. Visually and sensually, the show’s peak comes when Tom Buchanan takes Nick to a drunken party at the apartment he keeps for his trysts with Myrtle; the summit of the novel’s first half, Gatsby’s epic party, at which he and Daisy finally reunite, seems dragged-out and muted by comparison.
That doesn’t constitute a criticism: ERS wasn’t attempting a straightforward adaptation, which would involve finding dramatic equivalents for the narrative’s high points. Instead, they want us to take the book as book, and simultaneously to accept a theatrical (not necessarily dramatic) experience that they’ve mingled with it. Some perception, and much occasional pleasure, comes from the mingling, but little real illumination, and even less deep connection to the novel’s emotional events.
Hearing the entire book spoken aloud, though, does reveal the source of its durability: It’s two books in one. Gatsby’s idealized love for Daisy, like his emptily luxurious life, is a romantic daydream, a dirt-poor kid’s fantasy of wealth and elegance. Nick, who comes to love Gatsby for his total faith in this dream, also exists to ironize it; he knows the selfish realities of Tom and Daisy’s upper-crust world too well to share the dream. Readers get the romantic thrill and its sardonic corrective in a single serving, sometimes perfectly blended in one of those infallible Fitzgerald sentences.
Fitzgerald didn’t need ERS to create that effect. Yet he owes them something for their cockeyed, Gatsby-like, faith in his text. Particularly, he owes much to the doggedness of Shepherd, whose voice, understandably, gets a little gray with fatigue in the last quarter of this seven-hour event, but who never loses variety or a feeling for verbal nuance. What intentions fuel ERS’s experiments with great American novels remains an open question; whether such experiments are worth pursuing remains a bigger one. But with Gatz, particularly given Shepherd’s manifest devotion to this enormous effort, nobody can accuse them of not loving the great works they tackle.
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Organized thieves targeting nut producers
David Castellon
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The theft of $500,000 worth of pistachios last month from Horizon Nut Company south of Tulare was just a latest in a series of high-value nut thefts that have occurred across California in recent years.
And the theft from Horizon on Nov. 13, along with another attempt 10 days earlier to steal $280,000 worth of pistachios from Setton Farms in Terra Bella has prompted meeting today in Visalia for members of the tree nut industry to discuss the problem, share information and find out how to prevent such thefts.
“What you’re seeing now, this is a more sophisticated crime ring,” committing these thefts, said Roger Isom, president and chief executive officer of the Western Agricultural Processors Association, a Fresno-based trade association for the tree nut industry.
His organization, along with American Pistachio Growers, are putting on the Tree Nut Theft Emergency Summit this morning at the Visalia Wyndham Hotel — formerly the city’s Holiday Inn.
“We literally put this together in two weeks,” after word got out about the incidents last month at Setton Farms and Horizon, Isom said.
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He said members of California’s nut tree industry haven’t shared a lot of information in the past, and the purpose of the Visalia event is to change that, he said, adding that while organizing the summit he learned about nut thefts in California that he previously hadn’t heard about.
Among the speakers at the summit will by Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux, who said that at in Tulare County he knows of two successful, large-scale pistachio thefts on July 20 and 21 from Setton Farms in which the thieves made off with a combined $452,000 worth of nuts, and last month’s Horizon Farm theft.
“We have pretty much an organized crime syndicate operating up and down the state of California, as well as nationally” stealing nuts, he said, adding that the thieves involved aren’t just stealing small amounts of nuts to make a few hundred dollars but instead are making off with a couple of semi-truck trailers full of nuts at a time.
And they’re a sophisticated bunch, in some cases hacking a U.S. Department of Transportation website where truck drivers bid to haul loads and later calling the unsuspecting drivers and telling then to take their loads of nuts to alternate locations.
Another method is to hack into the nut buyers, including Costco, and change the delivery destinations there, while a third method has involved forging manifest documents and giving them to truck drivers who are complicit in the thefts, Boudreaux said.
Whatever the method, truck drivers are showing up with legitimate-looking manifests, and the unknowing nut processors have loaded the trucks, unaware that thefts were occurring until the loads failed to show up where they were supposed to a few days later, he said.
Boudreaux said the nuts stolen from Horizon were supposed to go to Costcos in North Carolina, while the ones stolen in July from Setton Farms were supposed to go to Costcos in Washington State.
As for the Nov. 3 theft attempt at Setton Farms, Boudreaux said that because his department had worked with the company to improve security after previous thefts there, including another one last year, workers determined something was amiss with a pistachio pickup, and sheriff’s deputies were called, resulting in the arrest of a truck driver.
The sheriff wouldn’t disclose his name, but he said information from the man helped investigators confirm they are dealing with a nut theft ring.
These sorts of high-dollar nut thefts are relatively new, said Isom, noting that they started occurring across the state about three years ago, after prices for nuts — including walnuts, pistachios and almonds — jumped significantly, as demand for them grew in the U.S. and overseas.
Domestically, that demand has been fueled by news of the health benefits of these nuts, while overseas the demand is being fueled by growing middle-class populations in some countries, including China and India, and those people are buying more nuts, Isom said.
“What you were seeing before, that is what I wold call a ‘common criminal’ — somebody trying to make a quick buck, $100 to $200” stealing small amounts of nuts, he said. “What you’re seeing now, this is a more sophisticated crime ring.”
Calls Wednesday to Horizon Nut Company weren’t returned.
As for where the stolen nuts are ending up, that’s not clear, said Isom, noting that he has heard of some stolen walnuts ending up in Detroit, and Boudreaux said his deputies have tracked a truck hauling stolen nuts of New Mexico.
In some cases, stolen trucks and trailers used to steal nuts have been found abandoned and empty in Los Angeles, Isom said.
Boudreaux, whose department has been working with the FBI and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Cargo Task Force, said some of the nuts have been loaded onto ships for transport overseas.
In fact, he said, and last year a load of pistachios stolen from Setton Farms was tracked to the Port of Los Angeles, where half the load had been loaded onto a ship headed to Saudi Arabia before authorities arrived. They arrested four suspects and recovered the other half of the load.
“Pistachios is a huge commodity. We have a couple of large drying and distribution plants, They are among the largest in the nation, running a couple of hundred trucks a day,” said Boudreaux, estimating that large pistachio thefts have probably totaled about $1 million this year in Tulare County.
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Juniper estate: great wines from a family owned winery
Juniper Estate is a boutique family-owned winery located in Wilyabrup, which is the heart of the remote, environmentally pristine Margaret River winegrowing area that lies in the southwestern corner of Australia which lies about 270km south of the state capital, Perth. This wine sub-region holds significant historic importance to Margaret River, where the first vineyards were planted, wineries were built and are home to a large number of famous, small vineyards.
The vineyard was planted in 1973 which has extensively grown over the years and it uses the sustainable, organic principles in the vineyards
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Juniper was founded by the late Roger Hill and his wife Gillian Anderson to produce wines that would rank among the best in Wilyabrup and even beyond. Wilyabrup, the successful sub-region of Margaret River is particularly famous for its red wines. But they also make white wines, rose wines and dessert wines of the highest quality.
State-of-the-art technique
While making the wines, control of the process is a critical factor to make the premium wines. The Juniper Estate has a state-of-the-art winery and a temperature-controlled barrel room built in 1999. The fruit is treated optimally in the winery with the help of modernized tools like the refrigeration and storage equipment. The batches are kept small and are treated separately, evaluated and blended which makes the entire process a boutique operation. The wines are made in the Margaret River style of depth and elegance with careful use of oak, which adds on to the complexity.
The grape varieties grown at the Juniper’s are Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Malbec, Merlot, Tempranillo, Shiraz, Petit Verdot, Chardonnay, Semillon, Sauvignon Blanc, Riesling and Fiano, while their signature wine is Cabernet Sauvignon.
98 Tom Cullity Drive, Cowaramup, Western Australia, 6982, Australia
Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Malbec, Merlot, Tempranillo, Shiraz, Petit Verdot, Chardonnay, Semillon, Sauvignon Blanc, Riesling, Fiano
98 Tom Cullity Drive, Cowaramup, Western Australia, 6982, Australia See it on map
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Other wineries in Western Australia
The Western Australia region has a long wine tradition and a number of wineries which will open up the real taste of its wines
Happs Estate Wines
A family-run winery that makes around 40 wines and has a large pottery
575 Commonage Road, Dunsborough, 14032, 6281, Australia
Upper Reach
Best small cellar door winery at Swan valley
77 Memorial Avenue, Baskerville, Western Australia, 6056, Australia
Harewood Estate Wines
Four vineyards in the Great Southern, Australia
1570 Scotsdale Rd, Denmark, Wa, 6333, Australia
Windows Estate
A small, family winery where the owner does all the vineyard work alone
4 Quininup Road, Yallingup, 14032, 6282, Australia
Other Wineries close to Juniper? Browse other Wineries in Margaret River or Wineries in Western Australia
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Wednesday 30 Oct 2019 @ 16:37
Innovative ecological scheme to reduce flooding in Leicestershire
Natural Flood Management measures introduced to slow and store water at Narborough Bogs Nature Reserve in Leicestershire.
Work starts this week at Narborough Bogs Nature Reserve to test natural ways of managing flood waters.
The Environment Agency have teamed up with Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust, Natural England and Heriot-Watt University to pilot innovative Natural Flood Management (NFM) measures to slow and store water at Narborough Bogs Nature Reserve in Leicestershire.
As part of the works, and in keeping with the regular woodland management on site 10 trees will be felled to create openings in the woodland canopy. The wood will be orientated across the woodland floor in a way that it blocks the flow route of flood water from the River Soar and holds it in the wet woodland area for longer. Wood piles will be used to block up old withy beds that transfer water through the woodland and a wooden bund will be created at the end of an old oxbow lake. All features have been designed to have the maximum ecological benefit and compliment the nature reserve setting.
The project is part of a £15 million national NFM programme which in addition to delivering flood risk and environmental enhancements, aims to contribute to the growing evidence base for NFM.
As these natural flood management techniques are relatively new there will also be a PhD opportunity at Heriot-Watt University to evidence the effectiveness and also to help develop guidance on how larger NFM schemes can be designed and optimised.
Narborough Bogs is one of four sites in the Leicester area where this approach is being piloted. At the other sites ponds are being created to store water and tree planting used to slow overland flows. Each site will be monitored with changes in water levels and ecology closely scrutinised to see how effective the NFM measures are.
Environment Agency Project Manager, Alex McDonald said:
This is a great opportunity to pilot natural flood management and to really understand the multiple benefits it can deliver. We’ve been working closely with our partners to make sure our designs marry with the ethos of the nature reserve and we hope that we will be able to show through our monitoring that we have been able to benefit the ecology of the reserve as well as reducing flood risk downstream.
Leicestershire & Rutland Wildlife Trust Conservation Officer Ben Devine said:
As a result of historic changes in hydrology and pressures from surrounding development such as roads and railway lines, Narborough Bog has dried-up significantly over the years. We are delighted to be working with the Environment Agency and others to improve the watercourse for the benefit of wetland wildlife and local communities downstream.
Natural England Freshwater Advisor Martin Banham said:
Narborough Bog Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) contains some amazing wet woodland and reed-bed. Wild, transient, boggy and rare - wet woodlands are now some of our least common wooded habitats. This project is helping the wet woodlands thrive by absorbing more water, whilst keeping the sensitive flower meadows free of fertile river mud.
Atkins Project Manager Ian Morrissey said:
We’re very excited about this project as it will allow us to apply learning and innovation from previous NFM schemes to deliver multiple benefits that align with the landowner’s needs.
Heriot-Watt Associate Professor in Physical Geography, Dr Ian Pattison said:
Although becoming increasing popular, NFM is still a fairly new approach, and we are pleased to be working with the Environment Agency and its partners on the Soar NFM project, to build up the evidence for the effectiveness of different types of NFM interventions. Furthermore, we hope to develop models which can be used to bring more strategy and design to the approach when applied at the catchment scale.
Channel website: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/environment-agency
Original article link: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/innovative-ecological-scheme-to-reduce-flooding-in-leicestershire
Successful first year for waste crime taskforce despite pandemic
The Joint Unit for Waste Crime celebrates its first anniversary of cracking down on criminals and gangs who commit serious and organised waste crime.
Environment Agency invests £48 million in projects to benefit fishing
The EA has published its Annual Fisheries Report.
The future for environmental regulation: Green growth not red tape
Sir James Bevan, Chief Executive of the Environment Agency, delivered a speech this morning at the Westminster Energy and Environment Forum.
Consultation launched on new nuclear power station design proposed for UK
The Environment Agency is consulting on its assessment of the UK Hualong Pressurised water reactor design.
Planners give green light to Otter Valley project
A project to help a river valley adapt to climate change and create an internationally important wildlife reserve now has planning permission.
Improvements to Ironbridge flood defences reduce risk of flooding
Improvements make the World Heritage Site in Shropshire even more resilient to flooding.
New £5 million project to save woodlands
Natural England’s LIFE in the Ravines project is launched today with £5 million of funding.
Successful restoration of Cornwall’s River Camel
Big changes were made to the River Camel and De Lank River tributary to address years of decline.
Plans for Tenbury Wells flood scheme unveiled in virtual event
A virtual engagement event launched this week for the Tenbury Wells community to find out about the proposed flood risk management scheme for their town.
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SDCC: The Writers' Turn: More Teen Comics
Melissa Wiley
Something that jumped out at me at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con was the abundance of panels that focused on comics and graphic novels for teens—so many YA-centered panels I wasn’t able to attend them all. But I did make it to two of them: Comics for Teens and the art-focused Teen Comics Workshop I […]
Something that jumped out at me at this year's San Diego Comic-Con was the abundance of panels that focused on comics and graphic novels for teens—so many YA-centered panels I wasn't able to attend them all. But I did make it to two of them: Comics for Teens and the art-focused Teen Comics Workshop I wrote about yesterday. Despite the similar titles, these were radically different panels, each lively and fascinating and full of awesome.
Comics for Teens was all about the writers. The panelists were Cecil Castellucci (Plain Janes), Hope Larson (Mercury), Gene Luen Yang (Level Up), and Nate Powell (Swallow Me Whole), and the moderator was prolific YA author Scott Westerfeld (Leviathan). These are authors whose books I have enjoyed immensely—especially Gene Yang's American Born Chinese and Level Up.
The authors spoke movingly about the readers they write for: teens, who lead, as Scott Westerfeld put it, "intense lives" and have intense responses to what they read.
Westerfeld asked each of the panelists to begin by sharing a letter from a reader in response to one of their books. Cecil Castellucci read a really moving epistle by a teenager who described herself, with vivid examples, as a worrier—and said that reading The Plain Janes was a transforming experience for her, and helped her battle her anxiety. Gene Yang told the audience about a long and earnest letter he received from a boy who had disliked certain aspects of American Born Chinese; the reader felt Gene had "harped on differences" too much. What touched Gene was the time and thought this reader had put into the letter; it meant a lot to him, as a writer, to have someone engage so deeply with the work.
What struck me about each of the letters (some were read aloud, others paraphrased) was that the readers had made such deep connections with the characters in these books—sometimes positive connections, and in the case of Gene's reader, a critical one—but all of them personal and vivid.
The panelists spoke also about boundaries in YA fiction. Scott Westerfeld sees YA as having fewer boundaries in regard to genre and form: "All my YA can be shelved together," he pointed out—the realistic fiction right beside the fantasy.
But Hope Larson spoke of language and content boundaries. She used the word "bitch" in her middle-grade graphic novel, Chiggers, which means some school librarians will not put it on the shelves.
Cecil broached the issue of moral lessons in YA: "Just because a book is written for youth," she said, "doesn't mean it needs to teach a lesson. Teens can smell a moral a mile away."
Hope said that with her book Mercury, the editor asked for the villain to get his comeuppance—not just get away. "Is the world moral or chaotic?" she mused, suggesting that in books for kids, people want to see a moral landscape in which good prevails over evil.
Nate Powell, too, had an editor who wanted certain characters in his book "brought to justice." There seems to be a sense (among readers? librarians? publishers?) that in YA and children's books, people should not "get away with doing terrible things."
The panel also discussed the particular challenges of writing graphic novels and comics vs. writing prose novels, and how the illustrations carry narrative responsibility. Cecil felt that her work for Minx, the now-defunct DC Comics imprint aimed at girls, was part of a frontier effort, venturing into new territory. She drew a parallel between Minx and early wagon-train pioneers, who sometimes didn't survive their journey but helped blaze a trail for later settlers. This made me think of some of the very strong female characters we've seen in graphic novels of the last two or three years; Vera Brosgol's stunning Anya's Ghost and Raina Telgemeier's Smile (which won this year's Eisner Award for Best Teen Publication) come to mind.
There was a strong sense among the panelists that the demand for teen comics and GNs is very high, although parents and librarians don't always embrace this medium. (This posed an interesting contrast to the Comics in the Library panel I attended the next day, at which several enthusiastic comics-loving librarians shared their strategies for building graphic novel collections in their respective library systems.)
What I enjoyed most about this excellent panel was how smart and thoughtful and fired up these writers are, all of them: they love their audience, they are clearly burning to tell the stories they are telling, and they are crazy about the medium—so rich and full of possibilities. Cecil spoke with passion about connecting with YA readers because teens are at a time of their lives when they are "experiencing things for the first time"—everything is dramatic and fraught with meaning and (as Scott Westerfeld put it) intense. Hope Larson said she writes the books she would have liked to read as a kid. I had the sense that this was true for all the panelists.
Something else that struck me about this panel—an observation reinforced by four days of exploring publishers' booths in the hall—is how few of these really wonderful YA comics and graphic novels are coming out of traditional comics publishers. Chiggers and Mercury are published by Simon & Schuster/Atheneum. Gene Yang publishes with First Second, a Macmillan imprint; Anya's Ghost is also a First Second book. Nate Powell's Swallow Me Whole is published by Top Shelf Productions. Raina Telgemeier's Smile is a Scholastic book. Cecil Castellucci is, as far as I know, the only one of the panelists to have published a YA with one of the Big Two comics publishers—the aforementioned, now non-existent DC Comics imprint, Minx.
DC and Marvel may be missing the boat when it comes to the YA boom, but the breadth of talent on this panel makes it clear that there will be no shortage of smart, funny, compelling, and truth-speaking comics and graphic novels in the months to come.
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Colts hosting weekly drive-thru food pantry at Lucas Oil Stadium
by: Staff Reports
Posted: Oct 5, 2020 / 10:52 PM EST / Updated: Oct 5, 2020 / 10:54 PM EST
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The Colts are helping Hoosiers in need. The team hosted a Gleaners Food Bank drive-thru food pantry on Monday at Lucas Oil Stadium.
Colts team members and staff volunteered their time.
Gleaners has seen a large increase in the number of people needing help during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We have a lot of families during this pandemic that are in this position for the first time. We’ve estimated about 40% of them have never needed food assistance before. So that can be a frightening situation to find yourself in, don’t know how to navigate the system, reluctant to ask for help, so hopefully we can make it a little bit fun by being able to see the players and being out here, but really, the purpose is just to feed people.”, Sarah Estell, Senior Director of Communication, Gleaners Food Bank said.
The Colts will host a drive-thru food drive every Monday in October at the stadium.
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Needles, Bobbins, 'Dignity' & More
As you contemplate where summer travels will take you this year, you never know where you may find sewing and quilting public art sculptures. Here are a few examples (found in the United States) if you are on the lookout for outdoor artwork:
Artist / Designer: Dave Stevens (October 4, 2002)
West 8th Street & Broadway
Located in Garment District Place, this sculpture depicts a tall stainless steel threaded needle stitching into a large red button. The button is red with four holes and is placed at an angle sloping downward toward the north side of the sculpture. The button is bolted to two black angled metal forms. The needle enters the south button hole at 60 degree angle to the ground. Only the lower 2.5 ft. of the needle are hidden by the button and black supports. The metal white thread is looped through the eye of the needle. A bronze dedicatory plaque is attached to the north side of the concrete base. The needle symbolizes the buildings nearby which were the heart of Kansas City’s garment district and once made over 25% of the clothing in the United States.
ROSETTE BOBBIN
Artist: Vaughn Randall
The West Campus/Alys Stephens Center trail features Rosette Bobbin by Vaughn Randall, a large cast-iron sculpture installed in 2006. Visit the UAB Reporter's custom Google Map to see more. UAB’s campus is home to more than 35 statues or sculptures, housed behind residence halls, in green spaces, by libraries and in the Mini Park, among other places. Many are works by well-known artists, like Italian sculptor Giuseppe Moretti, creator of Birmingham’s famous Vulcan statue, and Frank Stella, Brad Morton and Be Gardiner. This spring, walk one of three two-mile trails to glimpse some of the beautiful outdoor public art on UAB’s campus. Each trail takes about 30 minutes to walk — perfect for a cool morning before work, during the lunch hour with co-workers or after hours while waiting for traffic to die down.
Designed by Sculptor Dale Lamphere
Located on a bluff between exits 263 & 265
on Interstate 90 near Chamberlain, South Dakota
Representing the rich Native American culture of South Dakota, the 50-foot Native woman gracefully wears a dress patterned after a two-hide Native dress of the 1850s. She holds outstretched a quilt featuring 128 stainless steel blue diamond shapes designed to flutter in the wind. During the day, her star quilt – a representation of respect, honor and admiration in Native American culture – glitters in the sun with color-changing pieces that move with the wind. At night, LED lights cause the diamond shapes to glow in the night sky, casting a peaceful presence easily visible from the Interstate. The statue was a $1 million gift from Norm and Eunabel McKie of Rapid City to all people of South Dakota. The couple announced the gift in 2014 to celebrate South Dakota’s 125th anniversary of statehood
GARMENT WORKER
Artist: Judith Weller
555 Seventh Avenue (or Fashion Avenue)
between 39th and 40th Streets (in midtown Manhattan)
This permanent sculpture is a realistic rendering of a garment worker, wearing a yarmulke and hunched over a hand-operated sewing machine. The figure is modeled after the artist’s father, who was a machine operator in New York’s garment industry. “When I was a little girl, I recall seeing him at work,” Weller explained. “I utilized what I know of him as well as my memory in creating the sculpture.” The sculpture was created to commemorate the Jewish garment workers, the backbone of Jewish life in New York at the turn of the century.
Hancock County Ohio: Alvada, Arcadia, Arlington, Bluffton, Findlay, Fostoria, McComb, Mt. Blanchard, Mt. Cory, Rawson, Van Buren and Vanlue
Download the Barn Quilt Trail & Map
Take a step back to Hancock County’s and Northwest Ohio agricultural roots with a scenic Barn Quilt tour. All of the county’s 17 townships have a barn quilt on display, with a minimum of 86 quilt squares scattered throughout Hancock County. A statewide movement in barn quilts sparked Barbara Gabriel of Arcadia to create one for her own property. After donating another one for the Hancock County Fairgrounds, Barbara soon found herself working with the Arts Partnership and county’s Convention & Visitor’s Bureau. Interest kept growing from there and Barbara soon found herself very busy producing barn quilts for many different people across Hancock County. Read about the first quilt trail and view the complete Map of Quilt Trails across the contiguous United States.
Is there something special to see in your community or state, where others would enjoy visiting? Let me know and I'll add it here.
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Inquiry finds racial bias, bullying in Iowa football program
FILE - In this Oct. 26, 2013, file photo, Iowa head coach Kirk Ferentz talks with Iowa Athletics Director Gary Barta before an NCAA college football game against Northwestern at Kinnick Stadium in Iowa City, Iowa. The Iowa football program’s culture has suffered from racial bias against Black players and bullying by a small number of current and former coaches, according to an investigation report released Thursday, July 30, 2020 (Brian Ray, File/Associated Press)
By Ryan J. Foley | AP
July 30, 2020 at 2:45 p.m. UTC
IOWA CITY, Iowa — Facing a scathing report that detailed racial bias against Black players in his program and bullying behavior by some of his assistants, Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz said Thursday he would not be making any staffing changes as he apologized and promised to overhaul some of his policies.
University of Iowa President Bruce Harreld said the critical report by an outside law firm showed the “climate and culture must and will change within our football program.” Ferentz apologized to former Black players at a news conference and promised to build on changes made in recent weeks to improve their experience.
“This review brings us face-to-face with allegations of uneven treatment, where our culture that mandated uniformity caused many Black players to feel they were unable to show up as their authentic selves,” Ferentz said. “I want to apologize for the pain and frustration they felt at a time when I was trusted to help each of them become a better player, and a better person.”
The report said four unidentified current and former coaches — including at least two still on staff — were accused of bullying, demeaning and verbally abusing players and would be considered for potential disciplinary action.
Ferentz called the behavior unacceptable, saying it crossed the line from “demanding to demeaning.” But he said he thought that those responsible could make changes.
Iowa athletic director Gary Barta and Ferentz said that no football assistants, including Feretnz’s son, offensive coordinator Brian Ferentz, would lose their jobs. Barta said any punishments would be handled confidentially, in accordance with state law.
Barta also said that Kirk Ferentz, who has led Iowa since 1999 and is the longest-tenured head coach in college football, had his full confidence to lead the program. At the same time, Barta acknowledged that Ferentz’s philosophy, The Iowa Way, had become “perceived by many as ‘the white way.’”
The university hired the Husch Blackwell law firm in June to review the program after dozens of former players, most of them Black, spoke out on social media to allege racial disparities and mistreatment. Their activism came as protests against racial injustice swept the nation following the death of George Floyd and after attempts to raise concerns inside the program resulted in only minor changes.
Last month, the program cut ties with longtime strength and conditioning coach Chris Doyle, awarding him $1.1 million in a severance agreement. Several players had cited Doyle as the major source of their mistreatment, an allegation he has denied.
But the review, which included interviews with 111 current and former players and employees, found the cultural problems went beyond Doyle and were systemic.
Ferentz called Doyle an “outstanding coach” at Thursday’s news conference. But he said he erred in giving Doyle too many responsibilities that gave him tremendous power over players.
The report found that Black players were promised a “family atmosphere” during their recruiting, but found a different reality after they arrived in Iowa City. Many did not feel welcome or supported in the rule-bound program, where the ideal player “was built around the stereotype of a clean-cut, white athlete from a midwestern background.”
Players reported that they were long not allowed to wear “do-rags,” tank tops, earrings or other jewelry in the football building and were discouraged from getting tattoos or having certain hair styles. Coaches said the rules promoted a professional appearance, but Black players said they felt singled out, isolated and forced to suppress their personalities.
It was so widely known they faced extra burdens that several players and staff repeated a common saying to investigators: “If you make it through the Iowa football program as a Black player, then you can do anything.”
Ferentz eliminated rules on jewelry and hats and instructed his staff not to critique hair styles or tattoos last year after an athletic department review raised racial bias concerns. After meeting with players last month, Ferentz dropped other rules on personal appearance and his long-standing ban on their use of Twitter.
Black players cited instances where they faced harsher discipline than white players for similar infractions and other double standards. While they were told not to kneel during the national anthem, white players donned “Make America Great Again” hats and presented Donald Trump with a jersey during a 2016 campaign event, the report noted.
The report did not determine whether Black players were singled out for drug testing at a higher rate than white players, an allegation that players made but Ferentz denied. But it found that the program’s intense monitoring of players’ body weight and sleep patterns added to their anxiety.
Players who did not meet their target weights were constantly pressured to gain or lose pounds and those who didn’t get enough sleep at night — as measured by a sleep band they wore — could be “called out” during team meetings. Ferentz said he has taken steps to relax those rules as well.
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We Combed the Instant Oatmeal Aisle for 9 That Meet Our Standards
By James Sherlock / April 24, 2018
Instant oats are an ideal breakfast for hectic mornings. They’re easy to make, portable, delicious, and (usually) pretty healthy. Sure, you could make your own overnight oats or homemade instant oatmeal jars, but there’s something convenient about a grab-and-go packet that you can stash in your bag and eat at your desk.
But, here’s the thing: it’s overwhelming to head to the store and pick out a pack of oatmeal that’s healthy and will also taste great. When I went to Target and Fresh Market, I counted over 50 varieties of instant oatmeal!
And, even though oatmeal seems like a “healthy” choice, not all brands made our health cut. Certain types were way too high in calories and sugar—we were looking for oatmeal that had less than 250 calories and 12 grams of sugar per serving. Surprisingly, even brands with a health halo—like Bob’s Red Mill—didn’t fit the bill. Their Apple Cinnamon Instant Oats had 270 calories and packed 13 grams of sugar in a single-serve packet. Similarly, Kodiak Cakes Wild Blueberry Instant Oatmeal had 270 calories and 16 grams of sugar in a 1-cup serving.
To even the playing field and limit the massive in-store selection, we opted for oatmeal in the same flavor profile (I went with brown sugar and cinnamon-esque flavors), prepared them according to the package directions, and then compared the texture, quality, and balance of sweet and salty in each. Here’s what we tried, and what we thought. Warning: we were ruthless.
Note: While all of these meet our nutritionist’s guidelines for added sugar and calories, some options have artificial colors and/or flavors. We’re not huge fans of anything artificial, here, so we can’t quite call these picks Cooking Light nutritionist-approved. To help you make the best choice, we’ve noted which brands have these in each section—though if you want to steer completely clear of anything artificial, it’s best (and cheapest) to simply make your own instant oatmeal packets (more on that, below).
Quaker Maple and Brown Sugar
Our tasters agreed that this tastes like a “classic bowl of oatmeal.” It’s not too sweet, or overpowering, but it’s decidedly an upgrade from plain-Jane oats.
Final verdict: This oatmeal is yummy, and it’s easy to find at most grocery stores. Plus, it’s inexpensive ($2.59 for 10 packets). We declared this breakfast staple our runner-up.
Quaker Brown Sugar and Cinnamon Steel Cut Oats
Steel cut oats have a reputation for being hearty and healthy, but tasters remarked that this tasted like a “cobbler topping” and “cake batter.” Others said that this was way too sweet, and “more like dessert than breakfast.”
Final verdict: If you have a major sweet tooth, but you’re trying to cut back on sugar, this is going to be your jam.
Nature’s Path Brown Sugar and Maple
Our tasters did not care for this brand. Some savage comments?
“Bland.”
“I don’t know if these are steel cut oats, but it has none of the ‘tooth’ of homemade. It’s way too mushy.”
“Gluey, gummy and gross.”
This was our clear winner! Everyone seemed to love the sweet, but balanced, flavor, and each pouch has just 100 calories, 210 mg of sodium, 1 gram of sugar, and 3 grams of fiber thanks to the flaxseed.
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Six Weeks Of Fighting
Six weeks of fighting in disputed Nagorno-Karabakh
Duniya News-2 months before
Armenia and Azerbaijan, two former Soviet republics in the Caucasus, have accused each other of initiating deadly clashes that broke out on September 27 in their decades-long territorial dispute.
Ethnic Armenian separatists seized the Nagorno-Karabakh region from Baku in a 1990s war that claimed 30,000 lives. Since then, clashes have occurred repeatedly.
Azerbaijan s defence ministry says it launched a "counter-offensive" to protect the population, while separatist ...uthorities claim the troops bombed the regional capital Stepanakert.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Nagorno-Karabakh authorities declare martial law and military mobilisation, while Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev also declares martial law and a curfew in Baku and several cities.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a firm supporter of Azerbaijan, on September 28 calls on Armenia to end its "occupation" of Nagorno-Karabakh.
The next day Armenia says a Turkish F-16 fighter jet that took off from Azerbaijan shot down an Armenian warplane.
Turkey denies the claim. Moscow, which has a military alliance with Yerevan, urges Ankara not to "add fuel to the flames" by encouraging Baku s campaign.
On September 30, Russia says fighters from Syria and Libya are being deployed to the conflict.
Azerbaijan s leader vows to pursue military action until a full Armenian withdrawal from the disputed territory.
Armenia expresses readiness to work with international mediators to reach a ceasefire with Azerbaijan.
On October 4, fighting intensifies, with Stepanakert and Ganja in western Azerbaijan under fire.
On October 6, Armenia s Pashinyan says Turkey s encouragement of Azerbaijan is to blame for the outbreak of fighting and is confident of Russian support.
The following day, separatist authorities say half of the enclave s 140,000 inhabitants have been displaced.
On October 8, the Ghazanchetsots (Holy Saviour) Cathedral, an iconic site for the Armenian Apostolic Church in Karabakh, is bombed.
On October 10, after Russia-mediated talks, Armenia and Azerbaijan announce a ceasefire, but it is broken as soon as it takes effect, both sides blaming each other.
Yerevan says it "reserves" the right to hit any infrastructure or military site anywhere in Azerbaijan.
Two days later, Azerbaijan vows to avenge the deaths of 13 civilians in an overnight missile strike on Ganja. Armenian separatists justify their riposte by accusing Baku of targeting civilian infrastructure.
On October 18 a new humanitarian truce is immediately breached. Armenia and Azerbaijan again blame each other.
After the UN Security Council calls for respect of a ceasefire, Armenia s prime minister on October 21 rules out a diplomatic solution.
The following day Putin says the death toll in more than three weeks of fighting is "nearing 5,000". The officially confirmed number of fatalities remains below one thousand.
On October 26, a third ceasefire collapses and Armenia and Azerbaijan trade accusations of violating it within minutes of it coming into force.
On October 31, the Armenian Prime Minister asks Putin to start "urgent" consultations on the assistance Russia could provide.
Moscow declares its readiness to provide the "necessary" assistance to Armenia if the fighting spreads into Armenian territory.
On November 2, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet raises the possibility that war crimes have been committed due to "indiscriminate" attacks against civilian populations.
- Azerbaijan claims to have taken Shusha -
On November 8, Azerbaijan claims its troops have captured the key town of Shusha in Nagorno-Karabakh, in what, if confirmed, would be a major victory.
Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire strained by recriminations, fighting reports Duniya News - 3 months before
Azerbaijan claims capture of key Karabakh town, Armenia denies Duniya News - 2 months before
Armenia, Azerbaijan agree to end weeks of fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh Duniya News - 2 months before
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VS Review – Catgirl Doctor vs Dorm Room Cat-Girl
July 9, 2020 /
Do you love catgirls? Then you’re going to love this special review, which pits two books together to show just where each one shines. In a way, they’re two good tastes that taste better together!
I got the idea for this post after having just finished the second book we’re going to discuss. On my Twitter timeline, I see this post:
Alright, folks!
We gotta settle this!
The best #OELN catgirl!
Aiya vs Silva!@CSJames16 vs @BrandonBVarnell!
May the battle begin! pic.twitter.com/5p0W4BAtKS
— Ine Airlcana (@IneAirlcana) July 4, 2020
Well hot damn. Both of these books are solid. Both of these books approach the tropes and trappings of demi-humans with feline features in different ways. One is Catgirl Doctor, written by heavyweight lightnovelist Brandon Varnell. The other is The Dorm Room Cat-Girl, written by relative newcomer C. S. James. What I find interesting about both of these titles is that objectively, I don’t feel I can say one is better than the other (full disclosure – I rated both of them 4 stars on Amazon.) The way their stories and content are handled, however, may lead to the individual reader preferring one over the other, and that’s where the real meat of my discussion will be.
Synopses:
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Chris Redford is a college student in a stylized San Diego who is training to be a “catgirl doctor” which is like a human doctor only focused on catgirls, or like a vet but only focused on catgirls. One day he saves a catgirl from the rain. She’s skiddish because she was kidnapped, and she escaped but other catgirls might not have. The focus is primarily on Chris coming to terms with his new partner, and her needs both as a catgirl and as a trauma survivor.
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Hiroshi is a high school student who comes across a cat in the rain. He does his best to take care of her, but sadly she dies to a cold. This cat goes to a bizarre dimension where a cat-god the size of a van offers her a 10th chance at life (because cats have 9 lives, haha) if she can get Hiroshi to love her, since love is the one magic that this Cat-God can’t naturally harvest himself. To make this easier, the cat (named Aiya by the boy) comes back as a human, but not quite – now she’s a catgirl! The focus here is more a fish out of water story is Aiya learns how to become a human and hide her catlike attributes, and as she learns that love comes in more than one form.
Catgirl Doctor is the first in a series that is alleged to lead to a harem for the main male lead. By comparison, Dorm Room Cat-girl is a self contained story, although there is room for sequals or spin-offs as the writer may feel necessary. Both rely on a world that has tropes found in Japanimation; while Catgirl Doctor takes place in San Diego there’s a teacher wearing Gothic Lolita, for example, and a bully is referred to in-character as a “Tsundere” – a popular loanword in some circles, but a word unlikely to be used outside of those. By comparison, the entirety of Dorm Room Cat-girl takes place in Japan, even as it has the occasional slip that shows it was written by a non resident. It borrows heavily from anime about school life, as well as shows like Cat Planet Cuties and My Monster Secret.
Brandon Varnell’s work is at times darker, and definitely sexier, than the competitor here. There is a focus on the erotic content, complete with a couple of sexual scenes. By comparison, the story C. S. James chooses to tell uses romances for comedic purposes, avoiding anything that might be considered overtly “lewd.” It deals with some serious topics, such as death and betrayal, but it’s always with a bit of comedy to make it all go down a bit easier.
If artwork is going to sway a reader, they’ll probably want to give the nod to Mr. Varnell, who has teamed up with Liremi Art. There are some full page inserts that are exceptionally well done. Mr. James does include character art in the back of his book which I believe is attributed to Steven D. Newman (that’s who gets design credit for the cover, anyways.)
Which character has the better catgirl? The one in the Dorm Room, but this isn’t the fault of the competition. Because Dorm Room Cat-girl is a completed work, the reader gets to spend more time with the character Aiya, understand what motivates her, and see her thought processes as she adjusts to human life. The character development in Silva from Catgirl Doctor focuses more on her adjusting to life as a “catpanion” and as such there isn’t as much chances to see her and how she interacts with the world. There is little doubt, knowing the author’s style, that this will change in future installments.
Which one should you, the reader, get? I mean, you can buy either for the price of a coffee at your favorite coffee shop, or read both with a Kindle Unlimited subscription. So why not take a plunge? I felt both of them were fairly solid, and I’m sold on both checking out more of C. S. James’s work as he publishes and the second book of Mr. Varnell’s when released. Ultimately, though, I think the question is: do you want a story with erotic content, or with comedic? That’s going to be the one true decisive outlier here.
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Spaghetti, meatball products recalled for undeclared allergen
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WASHINGTON (WFLA) — About 700,125 pounds of spaghetti and meatball products are being recalled due to misbranding and undeclared allergens.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Friday the recalled products contain milk, an allergen that is not declared on the product label.
The affected products were produced on January 5 and January 12 of this year and were shipped nationwide to warehouses for distribution and retail. Products under recall have establishment number “EST. 794M.”These are the impacted products:
Chef BOYARDEE Mini pasta shells & meatballs, Pasta and Meatballs made with Pork, Chicken and Beef in Tomato Sauce: 14.75-oz. cans with package code 2100700500 and Use By Date 12/26/18
Libby’s Spaghetti and Meatballs MADE WITH PORK, CHICKEN AND BEEF IN TOMATO SAUCE: 14.75-oz. cans with package code 2100701200 and Use By Date 01/02/19
Del Pino’s SPAGHETTI & MEATBALLS MADE WITH PORK, CHICKEN AND BEEF IN TOMATO SAUCE: 14.75-oz. cans with package code 2100701200 and Use By Date 01/02/19
Hy-Top Spaghetti and Meatballs Made with Pork, Chicken and Beef in Tomato Sauce: 14.75-oz. cans with package code 2100701200 and Use By Date 01/02/19
Food Hold Spaghetti & Meatballs MADE WITH PORK, CHICKEN AND BEEF IN TOMATO SAUCE: 14.75-oz. cans with package code 2100701200 and Use By Date 01/02/19
Essential EVERYDAY Spaghetti with Meatballs Made With Pork, Chicken and Beef in Tomato Sauce: 14.75-oz. cans with package code 2100701200 and Use By Date 01/02/19
The Pennsylvania-based company Conagra Brands, Inc. issued the recall after it was notified by an ingredient supplier that bread crumbs used in the products potentially contained undeclared milk.
If you purchased these products, you should throw them away or return them.
More information is available on the USDA’s website.
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First contribution to the doryctine fauna (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Doryctinae) of Farasan Archipelago, Saudi Arabia, with new records and the description of a new species
Yusuf A. Edmardash‡, Usama M. Abu El-Ghiet§|, Ahmed M. Soliman¶#, Zarrag I. A. Al-Fifi§, Neveen S. Gadallah‡
‡ Cairo University, Giza, Egypt
§ Jazan University, Jazan, Saudi Arabia
| Desert Research Center, Cairo, Egypt
¶ Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt
# King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Corresponding author: Neveen S. Gadallah ( n_gadallah@hotmail.com )
Academic editor: Kees van Achterberg
© 2020 Yusuf A. Edmardash, Usama M. Abu El-Ghiet, Ahmed M. Soliman, Zarrag I. A. Al-Fifi, Neveen S. Gadallah.
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation: Edmardash YA, Abu El-Ghiet UM, Soliman AM, Al-Fifi ZIA, Gadallah NS (2020) First contribution to the doryctine fauna (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Doryctinae) of Farasan Archipelago, Saudi Arabia, with new records and the description of a new species. ZooKeys 977: 41-74. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.977.56314
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The doryctine wasp species (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) of Farasan Archipelago (Saudi Arabia) are studied here for the first time. Six species are reported, of which Mimodoryctes arabicus Edmardash, Gadallah & Soliman is described and illustrated as a new species. Neoheterospilus sp. is most probably a new species but further collecting should be done to obtain the female. Four species are new records for Saudi Arabia as well as for the whole Arabian Peninsula: Dendrosotinus ferrugineus (Marshall, 1888), Hecabalodes anthaxiae Wilkinson, 1929, Mimodoryctes proprius Belokobylskij, 2001, and Rhaconotus (Rhaconotus) carinatus Polaszek, 1994. The newly recorded species are re-described and illustrated.
Afrotropical region, Braconidae, Doryctinae, Doryctini, Hecabolini, Heterospilini, Mimodoryctes, Rhaconotini
The Farasan Archipelago is situated in the southern part of the Red Sea ca. 40 km west of mainland of Jazan mainland coast (Saudi Arabia) [16°41'48"N, 42°7'20"E] (Muoftah 1990; Strumia and Dawah 2019), and has a width of approximately 120 km in SE-NW direction (Alfarhan et al. 2002). A total of 36 big and small islands make up the Farasan group of Islands (Alfarhan et al. 2002), the largest of which is Farasan Al-Kabir (= Greater Farasan, see Fig. 1) (369 km2) (Strumia and Dawah 2019). In 1996 Farasan Al-Kabir was established as a protected area by the Saudi Wildlife Commission (SWC), for conserving and restoring animal wildlife, especially the only remaining wild population of Arabian gazelle (El-Demerdash 1996; Alfarhan et al. 2002). Although Farasan lies within the Afro-Asian phytogeographical zone, the floral elements recorded to have the affinity with the Afrotropical, South Palaearctic (Mediterranean) and Oriental regions (Strumia and Dawah 2019). There are no weather stations located in any part of the archipelago, the climate data is therefore is collected from Jazan meteorological station (Alfarhan et al. 2002). The Farasan Archipelago is characterized by the long hot season extending from April to October, and a short mild one (from November to March), with the mean annual temperature is 30 °C, and the mean relative humidity in winter 70–80% and in summer 65–78%.
Map of Farasan Archipelago.
Among the most important factors that makes Farasan Archipelago unique is the presence of two important Mangrove populations, Avicennia marina (Forssk.) (Acanthaceae), and Rhizophora mucronata Lam. (Rhizophoraceae), with their ecological and highly productive littoral biotopes which are important as a refuge for many small animals, birds and fish (Mandura et al. 1987). The flora of Farasan comprises 245 species in 152 genera and 52 families (http://ffa.myspecies.info/taxonomy/Term/12). Vegetation along the shoreline of Farasan and Al-Sajid islands is dominated by Avicennia marina, whereas Zifaf and Dumsuq islands are dominated by Rhizophora mucronata along with Avicennia marina. Vegetation in sandy beaches is dominated by halophytes, such as Aeluropus lagopoides (L.) (Poaceae), Cressa cretica L. (Convolvulaceae), Halopeplis perfoliata (Forssk.) (Amaranthaceae), Limonium axillare (Forssk.) (Plumbaginaceae), and Zygophyllum spp. (Zygophyllaceae) (Alfarhan et al. 2002). Communities of Vachellia flava (Forssk.) (Fabaceae), Blepharis ciliaris (L.) (Acanthaceae), Commiphora gileadensis (L.) (Burseraceae), Euphorbia fractiflexa Carter & Wood (Euphorbiaceae), and Salvadora persica L. (Salvadoraceae) are also present in almost all the major islands (Alwelaie et al. 1993).
The Doryctinae Foerster, 1863 is one of the richest, most diverse and most speciose subfamilies of the family Braconidae, second only to Microgastrinae in species richness (Shaw 1995; Marsh 1997; Yu et al. 2016). There are more than 2000 described species in ca. 198 genera and 15 tribes (Braet 2016; Yu et al. 2016; Chen and van Achterberg 2019), and the true number is estimated to be ca. 3000 species. The genus Heterospilus Haliday is the most diversified genus in terms of species number and host range (Belokobylskij et al. 2004; Yu et al. 2016). They are mostly distributed in tropical and subtropical regions and are especially diverse in the Neotropical region (Shenefelt and Marsh 1976; Belokobylskij 1992; Marsh 1993, 1997; Marsh et al. 2013). The definition of the subfamily is problematic (Chen and van Achterberg 2019), as is not supported by the use of morphological characters alone, because of the presence of homoplasies (Belokobylskij et al. 2004). It should be revised on the basis of molecular studies (Zaldívar-Riverón et al. 2006, 2008).
Dorytines are cyclostome braconids, diagnosed by the following combination of characters: fore tibia with row or (rarely) cluster of stout pegs along the anterior edge that are distinct from regular setae; hind coxa often with basoventral tubercle; epicnemial and occipital carinae present, which are rarely absent; propleuron with a large, dorso-posterior flange just above the fore coxa, and extending slightly over the ventro-lateral corner of the pronotum; ovipositor strongly sclerotized, distinctly darkened apically; dorsal valve of ovipositor double nodus subapically more or less developed (Quicke et al. 1993; van Achterberg 1993; Marsh 2002). One of the main characters that was traditionally used within doryctine genera is the relative length of basal sternal plate of T1 (= acrosternite sensu Belokobylskij 1995). This structure can be short and sessile, or long and petiolate (Belokobylskij 1995; Marsh 1997).
The first attempt to study the evolutionary relationships between the genera of Doryctinae was carried out by Belokobylskij et al. (2004) using morphological characters of 143 genera. However, most of the relationships could not be resolved with the characters used, resulting in an inability to propose a higher classification the subfamily Doryctinae. The monophyly of Doryctinae was also not recovered in some studies, whether based on morphological characters (e.g., Belokobylskij et al. 2004), or on molecular analysis (e.g., Dowton et al. 1998; Zaldivar-Riverón et al. 2007, 2008; Sharanowski et al. 2011), or on a combined morphological and molecular analysis of cyclostome braconids (Zaldivar-Riverón et al. 2006), and so it remains in doubt (Chen and van Achterberg 2019).
Species of the subfamily Doryctinae are not only diverse morphologically but also in their biology (Belokobylskij et al. 2004). From available host records, they are exclusively idiobiont ectoparasitoids of concealed or semi-concealed larvae of wood boring insects, including xylophagous beetles, Lepidoptera and sawflies (van Achterberg 1993; Belokobylskij et al. 2004), termites (Isoptera), and even (as exception) Embioptera (Shaw and Edgerly 1985). A few are known to be phytophagous in seeds (Marsh 1991; de Macêdo and Monteiro 1989; Marsh et al. 2000). Recently, several genera have been discovered to be gall inducers, while others are suspected of being predators of gallers (Zaldívar-Riverón et al. 2007, 2014). In Costa Rica, an unusual biology was discovered in species that are inquilines in figs, where they exhibit an extreme sexual dimorphism that resembles that of chalcid fig wasps (Ramírez and Marsh 1996; van Achterberg and Marsh 2002). A relatively few species are involved in different methods of biological control (Quicke 2015).
No taxonomic studies on this subfamily have been conducted in the Arabian Peninsula. Only three doryctine species have previously been reported there, Rhaconotus arabicus Belokobylskij, 2001, Zombrus anisopus Marshall, 1897 (Saudi Arabia) (Marshall 1900; Fahringer 1930; Fischer 1980; Belokobylskij 2001), and Doryctophasmus ferrugineus (Granger 1949) (United Arab Emirates, Yemen) (Belokobylskij 2015).
The present study is based on specimens collected from Farasan Islands (Al-Sajid), using sweeping net and light trap. The specimens including the types of the new species are deposited in the King Saud University Museum of Arthropods, Plant Protection Department, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (KSMA). Genera were identified using Belokobylskij and Tobias (in Tobias et al. 1995), Belokobylskij (2001, 2006), Marsh (2002) and Belokobylskij et al. (2004). On the species level, several available keys, as well as original descriptions were used, like (arranged chronologically): Marshall (1900), Fischer (1968), Papp (1987), Belokobylskij (1983, 1994, 2001, 2006), Polaszek et al. (1994), Belokobylskij and Tobias (in Tobias et al. 1995), van Achterberg and Polaszek (1996), Shaw (1997), van Achterberg and Walker (1998), Shi et al. (2002), Belokobylskij and Maeto (2008), and Tang et al. (2013). The identification of Rhaconotus carinatus was confirmed by Andrew Polaszek who kindly examined the holotype (BMNH).
Morphological terminology follows Sharkey and Wharton (1997), Marsh (2002) and Marsh et al. (2013). Wing venation terminology is based on van Achterberg (1993). Body sculpture terminology follows Harris (1979). In the laboratory, the material was studied using a Leica M205 C stereomicroscope. The colour photographs were taken using a Canon EOS 70D camera attached to a Leica MZ 125 stereomicroscope. Individual source images were then stacked using HeliconFocus v.6.22 (HeliconSoft Ltd) extended of field software. Measurements of body parts were made with an ocular micrometer. Further image processing was done using the software Adobe Photoshop CS5.1 (v.12.1 X32) and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom v.5.2 Final (64 bit) [Ching Liu]. The Farasan map (Fig. 1) was plotted from satellite images of Google Earth (accessed 23 October 2019) using ArcGis 10.3, and colored with photoshop Cs6, the scale bar applied only to the magnified map.
Global distribution is based on Yu et al. (2016), in addition to some more recent literature. For tribal classification, we follow Chen and van Achterberg (2019).
F = antennal flagellomeres; mtn = metanotum; ODL = diameter of ocellus; OOL = ocello-ocular line (distance between the outer edge of a lateral ocellus to the compound eye); POL = post-ocellar line (distance between the inner edges of the two lateral ocelli); SOS = sides of scutellum; T = metasomal terga. Fore wing: 1-R1 = Radial vein; 1-SR+M = first sector of sectio radii amalgamated with media; 2-SR = second sector of sectio radii veins; 2-Cu = second sector of cubital vein; 1-, 2- and 3-M = first, second and third sectors of media, respectively; 3-SR = third sector of sectio radii veins; C+Sc+R = costa, subcosta, and radius amalgamated into one vein; Hind wing: R1= radial vein; SR = RS = sectio radial vein; SC+R = subcosta and radius amalgamated into one vein; other veins have the same names as the fore wing.
Systematic accounts
Tribe Doryctini Foerster, 1863
Genus Dendrosotinus Telenga, 1941
Dendrosotinus Telenga, 1941: 80. Type species: Dendrosoter ferrugineus Marshall, 1888, by original designation.
Dendrosotinus ferrugineus (Marshall, 1888)
Figures 2A, B, 3A–D, 4A–C, 5A, B
Dendrosoter ferrugineus Marshall, 1888: 247, ♀.
Re-description of female
Body length: 4.8 mm; ovipositor length: 1.4 mm; fore wing length: 2.85 mm.
Dendrosotinus ferrugineus (Marshall), ♀: A dorsal habitus B lateral habitus.
Head (Fig. 3B–D): Slightly wider than mesosoma (1.18×); coarsely rugose dorsally; temple with weak concentric striations, shiny; face coarsely rugose medially, weakly striated laterally behind eyes. Gena rugate above and smooth, with few punctures below. Head constricted behind eyes in dorsal view. Temple 0.58× as long as eye height. POL 1.6× OD, 0.95× OOL. Diameter of antennal socket 2.5× distance between socket to eye edge. Longitudinal eye diameter 1.1× its transverse diameter. Eyes slightly notched opposite to antennal base. Malar space 0.4× eye height, 1.1× as long as basal width of mandible. Face width 0.75× its height including clypeus. Anterior margin of clypeus bended forward, slightly convex; hypoclypeal depression 0.9× distance between depression and eye. Tentorial pits small. Antenna broken (with 10 flagellomeres after being broken); scape short, 1.45× as long as its apical width; F1 5.0× as long as its apical width. Occipital carina thin and sharp, complete dorsally, but not meeting hypostomal carina ventrally.
Dendrosotinus ferrugineus (Marshall), ♀: A ventral habitus B head, dorsal view C head, frontal view D head and mesosoma, lateral view.
Mesosoma (Fig. 4B, C): 1.9× as long as its maximum height. Pronotum with 6–7 transverse elements. Mesoscutum slightly and gently elevated above pronotum, coarsely rugose, moderately setose. Notauli deep, crenulate; lateral lobes of mesoscutum and anterior end slightly convex. Mesoscutellum about as long as its base, sparsely granulate, with sparse, short whitish setae. SOS smoothly rugate; mtn scrobiculate, with small rounded protrusion postero-medially overlapping base of propodeum, 0.4× as long as mesoscutellum. Propodeum coarsely rugose at basal two-thirds, transversely foveolate at posterior third, with postero-median projections, with long, fine whitish setae laterally and posteriorly. Mesopleuron weakly rugose above, smooth and shiny below; sternaulus short, weakly crenulate, not reaching lateral ends of mesopleuron. Metapleuron strongly areolate.
Dendrosotinus ferrugineus (Marshall), ♀: A fore and hind wings B mesosoma, ventral view C mesosoma, T1 and T2 (part).
Wings (Fig. 4A): Fore wing with pterostigma 4.3× as long as its maximum width; metacarpe ca. as long as pterostigma. Vein r arising from middle area of pterostigma, 0.5× straight 3-SR, 0.55× 2-SR, 0.75× m-cu; r-m present; discoidal cell 1.9× as long as wide; 3-M entirely unsclerotized; 1-CU1 0.3× as long as 2-CU1, 1-M straight; 1-SR+M slightly curved; M+CU1 straight. Fore wing fringed with short fine setae along its costal and apical margins; hind wing entirely fringed with longer fine setae.
Legs (Fig. 5A): Fore femur 2.1× as long as its maximum width; fore and middle tibiae with row of short, thick dark spines along their inner margins; fore tibia with a comb of widely separated short spines distally. Hind tarsus 1.2× as long as hind tibia; hind basitarsus 0.9× as long as remaining hind tarsomeres combined; 2nd tarsomere 0.48× as long as basitarsus, 1.6× as long as telotarsus (excluding arolium).
Dendrosotinus ferrugineus (Marshall), ♀: A hind leg (tibial spines indicated) B propodeum and metasoma, dorsal view.
Metasoma (Fig. 5B): Apical width of T1 2.3× as wide as its basal width, 1.3× its median length, densely roughly foveolate; length of T2 + T3 combined 0.7× its basal width, weakly longitudinally striated medially at basal two-thirds, smooth laterally and apically. Remaining tergites smooth and shiny. Ovipositor sheath, ca. as long as metasomal length, 2.88× as long as T1, 1.1× as long as mesosomal length, 0.6× fore wing length.
Color (Figs 2A, B, 4A): Head and mesosoma dark brown, metasoma reddish brown, with reddish antenna; palpi pale yellowish, legs yellowish, with dark brown telotarsi. Ovipositor red, with black apex; ovipositor sheath black. Wings hyaline, with pterostigma dark brown, yellow at basal half; parastigma yellowish; all wing veins dark brown. Hind wing with paler veins.
Material examined
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. 1♀, Jazan, Farasan Islands, Al-Sajid; 16°51'25.46"N, 41°55'58.78"E; 10 Nov. 2017; Usama Abu El-Ghiet & El-Sheikh leg.; LT [KSMA].
General distribution
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia-Hercegovina, France, Greece, Israel, Italy, Russia, Spain, Turkey, former Yugoslavia (Yu et al. 2016), Saudi Arabia (Farasan Islands) (new record).
Tribe Hecabolini Foerster, 1863
Genus Hecabalodes Wilkinson, 1929
Hecabalodes Wilkinson, 1929: 105. Type species: Hecabalodes anthaxiae Wilkinson, 1929, by original designation.
Hecabalodes anthaxiae Wilkinson, 1929
Figures 6A–E, 7A–E
Hecabalodes anthaxiae Wilkinson, 1929: 106, ♀♂.
Body length: 4.2 mm; ovipositor length: 2.35 mm; fore wing length: 2.5 mm. (we re-describe this species in full because of the short original description of Wilkinson (1929)): Dark brown, except for the yellowish hue on lateral sides of T1 and T2 as well as apex of T2 (Figs 6A, B, 7E); antenna orange, scape slightly darker (Fig. 6C); legs dark brown (except for the yellowish base of fore tibia, and all tarsi), telotarsi darker. Fore wing subhyaline, with distinct infuscation along marginal cell (Fig. 7D).
Hecabalodes anthaxiae Wilkinson, ♀: A dorsal habitus B lateral habitus C antenna (broken at tip) D head, dorsal view E head, frontal view.
Head (Figs 6C–E, 7A): 1.3× as wide as its median length, slightly wider than mesoscutum; coarsely rugose; head behind eye broadly rounded; temple 0.6× as long as eye height in dorsal view; POL 1.6× OD, 0.9× OOL; eye with few scattered short setae; malar space 0.4× as long as eye height, 1.2× as long as basal width of mandible, malar suture absent; face smooth laterally just behind eyes; face 1.5× as wide as eye width, 0.8× as long its length combined with clypeus; hypoclypeal depression more or less quadrate, ca. as wide as its distance from eye; occipital carina complete dorsally, not meeting hypostomal carina ventrally; antenna broken; scape twice as long as its maximum width; F1 6.5× as long as its apical width, 1.2× as long as F2; ocellar triangle with base longer than lateral sides. Mesosoma (Fig. 7A–C): 2.3× as long as its height; pronotum with two sharp transverse carinae dorsally; mesoscutum gently rounded above or at the same level of pronotum when seen from lateral view, flattened on disc, densely rugose, finely alutaceous laterally; notauli indistinct; mesoscutellum slightly convex, truncate at apex, finely sculptured, with a number of thick carinae laterally; mtn 0.4× as long as mesoscutum, with a short longitudinal median carina and 2–3 oblique submedian carinae on its depressed anterior part, convex postero-medially; propodeum finely and sparsely granulate, with two short postero-medial, parallel carinae, 0.3× as long as propodeal length, median longitudinal carina of propodeum absent; mesopleuron finely punctate, with irregular spaces in between, shiny; precoxal sulcus shallow, irregular, running ventrally along almost the entire length of mesopleuron. Fore wing (Fig. 7D): 3.6× as long as its maximum width; pterostigma 1.7× as long as maximum width; vein M + CU1 slightly curved; 1-SR+M nearly straight; vein r-m absent; vein r arising at basal third of pterostigma; 2-SR 1.75× as long as r, slightly longer than m-cu, 0.6× as long as 1-SR+M; 1CU1 0.2× as long as 2CU1. Hind wing (Fig. 7D): With fringe of long, fine setae along apical and anal margins; vein 1-M 1.7× as long as 1-rm. Legs. Hind coxa (Fig. 7C) 1.7× as long as wide, without distinct basoventral tubercle, finely punctate especially ventrally, with some fine whitish setae distally and laterally; hind femur 2.6× as long as wide; hind tarsus 1.1× as long as hind tibia; hind basitarsus slightly shorter than rest of tarsomeres combined; second tarsomere 0.55× as long as hind basitarsus, 2.2× as long as telotarsus (excluding arolium); outer edge of hind tibia with long, fine whitish setae. Metasoma (Figs 6A, B, 7E): 1.3× as long as head and mesosoma combined; T1 and basal half of T2 with distinct interrupted longitudinal striae, somewhat dotted in between; T1 1.5× as long as its apical width; T2 0.9× as long as its apical width, 2.7× as long as T3; posterior half of T2 finely reticulate, T3–5 (except posterior margin of T5 smooth and shiny), finely reticulate; T6 entirely smooth and shiny. Ovipositor sheath about as long as or slightly longer than metasoma (Fig. 6A, B), and the fore wing as well.
Hecabalodes anthaxiae Wilkinson, ♀: A head and mesosoma, lateral view B mesosoma and metasomal T1 C mesosoma, ventral view D fore and hind wings E metasoma, dorsal view.
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 1♀, Jazan, Farasan Islands, Al-Sajid; 16°51'25.46"N, 41°55'58.78"E; 10 Nov.2017; Abu El-Ghiet & El-Sheikh leg.; LT [KSMA].
Sudan (Wilkinson, 1929), Saudi Arabia (Farasan Islands) (new record).
This species has not been collected during the 90 years or more since Wilkinson described the holotype from Sudan in 1929.
Tribe Heterospilini Fischer, 1981
Genus Neoheterospilus Belokobylskij, 2006
Neoheterospilus Belokobylskij, 2006: 151. Type species: Neoheterospilus koreanus Belokobylskij, 2006, by original designation.
Neoheterospilus sp.
Figures 8A–E, 9A–G
Description of male
Body length: 2.25 mm; fore wing length: 1.7 mm.
Head (Figs 8C–E, 9A): 0.7× as wide as its median length, distinctly wider than mesoscutum (1.3×). Head below eyes distinctly straight when seen from frontal view. Vertex distinctly smooth and shiny; frons superficially finely punctate, interspaces smooth. Head behind eyes gently rounded when seen from dorsal view; temple smooth, with few scattered setae, 0.6× eye length. Ocelli placed in an equilateral ocellar triangle. POL 1.6× OD, 1.0× OOL; diameter of antennal sockets 1.4× distance between socket and eye. Eye glabrous, slightly emarginate opposite to antennal sockets, 1.1× as high as broad. Malar space 1.1× as long as basal width of mandible, 0.4× as long as eye height; malar suture absent. Face slightly convex, very finely sculptured laterally, nearly smooth medially, with few scattered setae; its width 0.8× height of eye, and 1.2× as wide as its height. Clypeus very thin, transverse, moderately arched at free margin; hypoclypeal depression moderate, semi-oval, its width 0.6× face width. Occipital carina thin, complete dorsally, reaching hypostomal carina ventrally. Antenna slender, filiform, pointed at apex, without spine, 21-segmented, hardly longer than body length; scape nearly smooth, rather short, with few scattered setae, 1.2× as long as wide; flagellum densely setose, F1 slender, straight, 4.9× as long as its apical width, ca. as long as F2; penultimate segment 6.0× as long as F1, 0.7× as long as apical flagellomere.
Neoheterospilus sp., ♂: A dorsal habitus B lateral habitus C head, frontal view D head, dorsal view E antenna.
Mesosoma (Fig. 9A–C): Almost smooth, lateral lobes of mesoscutum finely sculptured to alutaceous, not depressed, 1.9× as long as its height. Pronotum rather short, nearly straight, smooth, collar with longitudinal median and lateral carinae. Mesoscutum distinctly high, more or less perpendicularly elevated above pronotum; its maximum width 1.5× as wide as its middle length; median lobe of mesoscutum, slightly, but straightly protruding forwardly. Notauli wide and deep anteriorly, shallow and thinner posteriorly, broad anteriorly and meeting posteriorly before posterior margin of mesoscutum, distinctly foveolate. Prescutellar area in the form of two subquadrate plates, separated medially by a thin linear suture, mostly smooth, 0.4× as long as mesoscutellum. Mesoscutellum slightly convex at anterior half, with very fine lateral carina, its basal width 0.7× its median length. Subalar depression smooth, nearly rounded. Sternaulus moderately deep, straight, smooth, running along median area of lower part of mesopleuron. Metapleural lobe relatively large, nearly smooth, gently rounded posteriorly just above hind coxa. Propodeum smooth, nearly flattened, laterally carinate, with two short, posterior sublateral, oblique and slightly curved carinae at base as well as a median straight one, 0.1× as long as propodeal length; basal sublateral carina could also be seen, 0.4× as long as propodeum length; propodeal spiracle relatively small.
Neoheterospilus sp., ♂: A head and mesosoma, lateral view B mesosoma, dorsal view C mesosoma, lateral view D hind leg and metasoma (part), lateral view E fore wing F hind wing G propodeum and metasoma, dorsal view.
Wings (Fig. 9E, F): Fore wing 3.8× as long as its maximum width, 0.75× as long as body length; r arising near to the middle of pterostigma; Radial cell long (not shortened); metacarpus longer than pterostigma; r 1.4× as long as maximum width of pterostigma; 3-SR 0.85× r, forming with it an obtuse angle; 3-SR 0.2× as long as SR1, straight; trace of 1-SR+M distinctly lower than 2-SR+M (very hardly seen to be measured); m-cu slightly curved; brachial cell broadly opened distally. Hind wing 4.6× as long as its maximum width, costal cell absent, Costal vein stigma-like subbasally. Whole edges of both wings surrounded with relatively long fringe of setae.
Legs (Fig. 9D): Hind coxa 1.2× as long as its maximum width, with small, but distinct baso-ventral tubercle; hind femur narrow, without blister dorsally, 4.2× as long as its maximum width; hind basitarsus 0.3× as long as hind tibia; hind tibia with weak blister near to the middle, second tarsomere of hind leg 0.64× as long as hind basitarsus.
Metasoma (Fig. 8A, B, 9G): Nearly glabrous, except for very few fine long setae laterally, 2.7× as long as its maximum width, 1.1× as long as head and mesosoma combined. T1 widened from base to apex, its apical width 2.1× its basal width, 1.0× its middle length, with small basal dorsope; with baso-median smooth area that narrowed posteriorly, not reaching middle of tergite, with very weak, irregular longitudinal striations that are obscured medially; T1 1.4× as long as propodeal length; T2 with a trace of short, semi-circular smooth area baso-medially; median length of T2 0.8× its basal width, 0.8× as long as T1 and 1.8× as long as T3, sculpturing as in T1, but very superficial and weaker. T3 ca. 2.0× as wide as long, with short, thick, widely separated longitudinal striations at base. Remaining tergites smooth and shiny.
Color (Figs 8A, B, 9E, F): Body generally reddish yellow, with head distinctly darker; antenna with scape and pedicel as body color, flagellum dark brown to black; maxillary and labial palpi pale brown; ocellar triangle black, last metasomal tergites dark brown to black. Wings hyaline, fore wing pterostigma and veins dark brown.
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. 1♂, Jazan, Farasan Islands, Al-Sajid; 16°51'25.46"N, 41°55'58.78"E; 25 Jan.2017; Usama Abu El-Ghiet & El-Sheikh leg.; LT [KSMA].
Although it cannot be matched with any of the species keyed out by Belokobylskij in his paper of Neoheterospilus (2006), it should not be described as new until females are collected (Belokobylskij, pers. comm.).
Saudi Arabia (Farasan Islands) (new record).
Tribe Rhaconotini Fahringer, 1928
Genus Rhaconotus Ruthe, 1854
Rhaconotus Ruthe, 1845: 349. Type species: Rhaconotus aciculatus Ruthe, 1845 (by monotypy)
Hedysomus Foerster, 1863: 238. Type species: Hedysomus elegans Foerster, 1863 (by original designation)
Hormiopterus Giraud, 1869: 478. Type species: Hormiopterus ollivieri Giraud, 1869 (by monotypy)
Euryphrymnus Cameron, 1910: 100. Type species: Euryphrymnus testaceiceps Cameron, 1910 (by monotypy)
Rhaconotinus Hedqvist, 1965: 8. Type species: Rhaconotinus caboverdensis Hedqvist, 1965 (by original description)
Rhaconotus (Rhaconotus) carinatus Polaszek, 1994
Figures 10 (A–C), 11 (A–E)
Rhaconotus carinatus Polaszek in Polaszek et al., 1994: 79, ♀.
Female: Body length: 4.5–4.8 mm; fore wing length: ca. 3.1 mm.
Generally dark reddish brown, with posterior margin of T4 and T5 yellowish in color (Fig. 10A, B) (in some specimens, head reddish, with black ocellar triangle); antenna with scape dark reddish brown, pedicel and basal half of flagellum reddish, rest of flagellum dark brown. Legs and palpi are pale yellowish (except dark brown telotarsus). Wings (Fig. 11D) hyaline, with slight, hardly seen fumigation behind pterostigma; pterostigma brownish, with pale basal and apical ends; veins brownish, with basal three-fourths of C+SC+R, basal two-thirds of 1-R1, and basal half of M+CU1 are pale brownish in color; ovipositor reddish, slightly dark at apex, ovipositor sheath black (Fig. 10A, B).
Rhaconotus (Rhaconotus) carinatus Polaszek in Polaszek et al. 1994, ♀: A dorsal habitus B lateral habitus C head and mesosoma, lateral view.
Head (Figs 10C, 11A, B) finely sculptured, with few scattered fine whitish, semi-erect setae when seen from dorsal view; face finely punctate, with distances between punctures, smooth medially just beneath antennal bases, and above hypoclypeal area, with denser appressed setae. Temple 0.6× eye height. Antenna 35-segmented. Mesoscutum (Figs 10C, 11C) with fine reticulation except nearly smooth posteromedially; propodeum finely reticulate, longitudinal median carina hardly seen just at base, as well as two shorter ones baso-laterally. Metasoma (Fig. 11E) with T2 and T3 fused, separated by a strong curved suture or groove, after which the longitudinal striations became weakly visible; T5 simple, broadly rounded posteriorly. Ovipositor sheath ca. as long as metasoma (Fig. 10A, B).
Rhaconotus (Rhaconotus) carinatus Polaszek in Polaszek et al. 1994, ♀: A head, dorsal view; B head, frontal view C mesosoma, dorsal view D fore and hind wings E propodeum and metasoma, dorsal view.
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. 1♀ & 1♂, Jazan, Farasan Islands, Al-Sajid; 16°51'25.46"N, 41°55'58.78"E; 7 Jan.2017; Abu El-Ghiet & El-Sheikh leg.; sweeping net [KSMA]; 1♀, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Jazan, Farasan Islands, Al-Sajid; 16°51'25.46"N, 41°55'58.78"E; 10 Nov.2017; Abu El-Ghiet & El-Sheikh leg.; LT [KSMA].
Cameroon, Ghana, Madagascar, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Togo (Polaszek et al. 1994), Saudi Arabia (Farasan Islands) (new record).
Based on Polaszek et al. (1994) and van Achterberg and Polaszek (1996), our species differs from the African specimens in having the pterostigma distinctly infuscate medially, with pale basal and apical ends (distinctly infuscate in the African specimens); antenna 35-segmented (26–33 in the African specimens); lateral lobes of mesoscutum moderately setose (largely glabrous in the African specimens); propodeum finely reticulate, with a hardly visible median longitudinal carinae as well as two very short sublateral ones (almost smooth anteromedially in the African specimens, see fig. 30 in Polaszek et al. (1994) and fig. 366 in van Achterberg and Polaszek (1996)).
Genera with uncertain tribal relationships
Genus Mimodoryctes Belokobylskij, 2001
Mimodoryctes Belokobylskij, 2001: 749.
Mimodoryctes proprius Belokobylskij, 2001, by monotypy.
Mimodoryctes arabicus Edmardash, Gadallah & Soliman, sp. nov.
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Figures 12A–E, 13A–D, 14A–E
Holotype: Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. ♀, Jazan, Farasan Islands, Al-Sajid; 16°51'25.46"N, 41°55'58.78"E; 10 Nov. 2017; Abu El-Ghiet & El-Sheikh leg.; LT [KSMA].
Description of holotype (female)
: Body length: 4.0 mm; ovipositor length: 1.0mm; fore wing length: 2.5 mm.
Head (Fig. 12C–E): 1.3× as wide as its median length, densely transversely striated in dorsal view; face coarsely rugose; frons not concave, without median carina, just a smooth slim area medially extending from between behind antennal bases, reaching clypeus; gena finely, obliquely striated; vertex and face sparsely setose. Temple roundly constricted behind eye, 0.5× as long as eye height. Clypeus coarsely rugose. Ocelli small; ocellar triangle with base 1.5× as long as its sides; POL 1.6× OD, 0.8× OOL. Eyes 2.1× as high as its width, with sparse short setae. Malar space 0.5× eye height, 0.6× basal width of mandible. Face width 0.9× eye height; hypostomal depression small, rounded, its width 0.9× distance of depression from eye edge. Head gently narrowly rounded behind eye when seen from frontal view. Antenna slender, broken (with 11 flagellomeres after being broken); scape short, 1.9× as long as its apical width; F1 slightly curved, 6.0× as long as its apical width, 1.1× as long as F2.
Mimodoryctes arabicus Edmardash, Gadallah & Soliman, sp. nov. ♀: A dorsal habitus B lateral habitus C antenna (part) D head, dorsal view E head, frontal view.
Mesosoma (Fig. 13A, B): 2.4× as long as its height. Mesoscutum not elevated above pronotum in lateral view. Pronotum with weak transverse carinae; mesoscutum flattened, coarsely rugose, with irregularly scattered fine setae, with a nearly smooth postero-medial area. Notauli indistinct. Mesoscutellum slightly convex to nearly flattened, ca. as long as its basal width, finely transversely puncticulate. Propodeum not areolate, with an incomplete median sulcus that is branched laterally giving off irregular oblique ridges. Mesopleuron coarsely rugose above, smooth with some fine punctures ventrally; sternaulus deep, nearly straight, extending along the entire ventral margin of mesopleuron.
Mimodoryctes arabicus Edmardash, Gadallah & Soliman, sp. nov. ♀: A head and mesosoma, lateral view B head (part) and mesosoma, dorsal view C fore leg (fore tibial spines indicated) D fore and hind wings.
Wings (Figs 13D, 14A): Fore wing 4.3× as long as its maximum width; metacarpus slightly longer than pterostigma (1.17×); pterostigma 4.7× as long as its maximum width; r arising from middle of pterostigma; 2-SR 1.5× r; 2-SR 0.3× SR1; m-cu distinctly antefurcal; vein 1cu-a postfurcal; distance between cu-a to 1-M 2.0× as long as cu-a; vein M+CU distinctly curved away from 1–1A; 1-CU1 0.4× 2-CU1; r-m not tubular, with wide bulla; 2-SR+M present. Hind wing with three hamuli on R1; vein SC+R 0.7× as long as vein C+SC+R; vein M+CU slightly longer than vein 1M (1.14×); vein m-cu interstitial, directed towards wing base.
Legs (Figs 13C, 14B–D): Hind coxa 2.4× as long as its maximum width, with a small rounded tubercle basoventrally, finely alutaceous, with a medio-ventral smooth and shiny area extending subbasally to apex; hind femur 2.6× as long as its maximum width, finely alutaceous, with some fine long hairs; outer edge of hind tibia with fine, long outstanding setae, ca. as long as tibial maximum width; hind tarsus ca. as long as hind tibia; hind basitarsus 0.7× as long as second-fifth tarsomeres combined.
Mimodoryctes arabicus Edmardash, Gadallah & Soliman, sp. nov. ♀: A fore wing (part), presence of r-m indicated B hind leg and metasoma (part), lateral view C hind coxa, lateral view (basoventral tubercle indicated) D hind coxae, ventral view (basoventral tubercle indicated) E propodeum and metasoma, dorsal view.
Metasoma (Fig. 14E): slightly longer than head and mesosoma combined (1.1×). T1 distinctly gradually widened from base to apex, without spiracular protuberance, without basal carina; apical width of T1 3.0× its basal width, 1.2× as wide as its median length. T2 1.2× as wide as its middle length, with very weak median, slightly wavy, sulcus, 3.1× as long as T3. T1 and T2 (except posterior half of T2) densely granulose; posterior half of T2 and rest of tergites are smooth and shiny. Ovipositor distinctly shorter than metasoma, Ovipositor sheath 0.5× metasomal length, 1.7× T1 length.
Color (Figs 12A–C, E): Body dark reddish brown, with head and antennal flagellomeres lighter in color; palpi reddish brown. Legs dark reddish brown, except for pale yellow to ivory bases of tibiae and tarsi (except dark brown telotarsi). Wings hyaline, with slight infuscation under metacarpus as well as veins linings; veins dark brown with the following veins are pale: M+CU1 (except apically), 1-M, apical two-thirds of 2-CU1, m-cu. In hind wing, only 1r-m and distal half of 1-M are dark brown, rest of veins are pale.
The most important character separating the new species, M. arabicus, from the Algerian species M. proprius Belokobylskij is the presence of vein r-m of fore wing (Fig. 14A) (absent in M. proprius). Other characters can be summarized as follows: vertex transversely strigated without dense granulations between the striae (Fig. 12D) (in M. proprius dense granulations between striae could be seen); malar space relatively short, 0.6× basal width of mandible (Fig. 13A) (longer in M. proprius, 0.9× basal width of mandible); mesosoma 2.4× as long as high (Fig. 13A) (twice as long as high in M. proprius); propodeum with curved striations especially laterally (Fig. 13B) (densely striated in M. proprius); metasomal T1 and T2 densely rugulose-striated (Fig. 14E) (densely striated longitudinally in M. proprius); T4–6 finely sculptured at base (Fig. 14E) (in M. proprius the larger part of T3 with fine granulation, T4–6 with very weak granulation at base); body color dark reddish brown, including the legs except for bases of tibiae and all tarsi pale yellowish (Fig. 12A, B) (in M. proprius, body pale reddish brown, yellow in places, with the legs same as body with all tibiae yellowish at bases and apices); hind wing vein M+CU 1.2× 1-M (1.4× in M. proprius).
The absence or presence of vein r-m of the fore wing has been found to be a polymorphic character for four genera: Afrospathius Belokobylskij & Quicke, Leluthia Cameron, Pareucorystes Tobias, and Platydoryctes Barbalho & Pentiado-Dias. However, this character has not yet been recorded in Mimodoryctes Belokobylskij (see Belokobylskij (2001)), and this was later confirmed in Belokobylskij et al. (2004) in their phylogenetic study of the doryctine genera based solely on morphological evidence. However, in the absence of other reliable diagnostic characters, the situation is considered in the present study to be the same as in the above-mentioned four genera.
Mimodoryctes proprius Belokobylskij, 2001
Figures 15 (A–D), 16 (A–E)
Mimodoryctes proprius Belokobylskij, 2001: 750, ♀.
Re-description
Body length: 3.6 mm; length of fore wing: 2.75 mm.
Head (Fig. 15C, D): 1.4× as wide as its median length, somewhat angulate behind eye in frontal view, roundly narrowed after eyes in dorsal view. Transverse eye diameter ca. twice as long as temple in dorsal view. Vertex with transverse curved striations with rugosity between striae (Fig. 15D). Face densely punctate, with fine, inwardly directed whitish setae, as well as thicker and shorter sparse setae on vertex. Temple gently rounded behind eyes, ca. 0.5× eye height. Ocelli small, ocellar triangle equilateral; POL 1.1× OD, 2.4× OOL. Eyes 1.2× as high as its width, glabrous. Malar space 0.4× as long as eye height, 1.6× as long as basal width of mandible. Face slightly wider than eye height (1.1×); hypostomal depression of moderate size, rounded, its width as long as its distance from eye edge. Antenna slender, with apex missing, 18-segmented, appearing shorter than body; scape 1.9× as long as its apical width, slightly longer dorsally than ventrally, F1 slightly curved along outer side, 6.3× as long as its apical width, slightly longer than F2 (1.2×); F3 straight, slightly longer than F4 (1.2×).
Mimodoryctes proprius Belokobylskij, ♀: A dorsal habitus B lateral habitus C head, dorsal view D head, frontal view.
Mesosoma (Fig. 16A): 3.0× as long as its height. Mesoscutum gently and roundly elevated above pronotum. Pronotum with weak transverse carinae on the disc, without any processes, deeply concave posteriorly; mesoscutum flattened, sparsely setose, finely granulose anteriorly and laterally, coarsely rugose medially; notauli hardly seen; scuto-scutellar sulcus in the form of oval longitudinal depressions separated by carinae. Mesoscutellum ca. as long as its basal width, finely granulose on the disc, rugose laterally, sparsely setose apically. Propodeum without distinct areas, finely granulose at base, rest of it coarsely obliquely reticulate-rugose, sparsely setose laterally. Mesopleuron sparsely, superficially punctate above, finely granulose below, sternaulus superficially finely punctate, with row of 3–4 fine setae.
Mimodoryctes proprius Belokobylskij, ♀: A mesosoma and T1 (part) B fore and hind wings C hind coxa, lateral view (basoventral tubercle indicated) D hind coxae, ventral view (basoventral tubercle indicated) E metasoma, dorsal view.
Wings (Fig. 16B). Fore wing 3.7× as long as its maximum width. Metacarpe 1.1× as long as pterostigma. Pterostigma 4.3× as long as its width; r released from the middle of pterostigma; 2-SR ca. as long as r; r-m absent, m-cu distinctly prefurcal; distance between cu-a to 1-M 0.1× cu-a length; 1-CU1 0.4× as long as 2-CU1; M+CU1 straight to slightly curved; 2-SR+M present, unsclerotized. Hind wing m-cu prefurcal.
Legs (Fig. 16C, D). Hind coxa 1.35× as long as its maximum width, densely alutaceous, with a small rounded tubercle basoventrally; hind femur 2.7× as long as its maximum width, finely alutaceous. Outer edge of hind tibia with a row of widely separated spines; hind tarsus slightly longer than hind tibia, 1.1×; hind basitarsus 0.8× as long as 2nd -5th tarsomeres combined.
Metasoma (Fig. 16E). 0.95× as long as head and mesosoma combined. T1 gradually widened from base to apex, 1.3× as wide as its middle length, without median longitudinal carina, with dense, close longitudinal striae, granulose in between; T2 distinctly broader than T1, 1.3× as wide its median length, longitudinally striated at anterior 0.7 length, followed by small, finely granulated area, then smooth at posterior margin, with very weak, hardly seen transverse curved sulcus medially; T1 0.7× as long as T2. Rest of tergites finely alutaceous, and smooth apically. Metasomal tergites sparsely setose. Ovipositor 0.4× as long as metasomal length, 1.8× as long as T1.
Color (Figs 15A, B, 16B). Body dark brown, with somewhat lighter head (face) and mesoscutum; eyes whitish. Legs dark brown, with yellowish tarsi (except dark brown to black telotarsi). Ovipositor red, black at tip; ovipositor sheath black. Fore wing with dark brown pterostigma, whitish at base; veins dark, with M+CU1 (except dark apically), 1-SR+M, m-cu and 2-SR+M, apical half of 2-CU1 membranous.
2♀, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Jazan, Farasan Islands, Al-Kosar; 16°40'5.75"N, 42°08'51.62"E, 25.I.2017; leg. Abu El-Ghiet & El-Sheikh; LT [KSMA].
Intraspecific variation
The Saudi Arabian specimen differs from the Algerian one in the following: Vertex with transverse curved striation with rugosity between , frons and face coarsely rugose, weakly striated below eyes; temples weakly concentrically striated (vertex, frons densely striated, temple densely granulate); POL 1.6× OD, 0.95× OOL (1.3× OD, 0.75× in proprius); malar space 0.9× basal width of mandible (1.1× in M. proprius); ovipositor sheath 0.5× as long as metasomal length, 1.8× as long as T1 (0.35× metasomal length, 1.5× T1 in M. proprius).
Algeria (Belokobylskij, 2001), Saudi Arabia (Farasan Islands) (new record).
Saudi Arabia is a large arid land, covering the major part of the Arabian Peninsula, with an area of ca. 2,250,000 km2 (Aldhebiani and Howladar 2015). It is characterized by different ecosystems and is considered as one of the richest areas of biodiversity in the Arabian Peninsula, as its flora is formed by a mixture of Afrotropical, Oriental, and South Palaearctic (Mediterranean) elements (Aldhebiani and Howladae 2015).
From a biogeographical point of view, the position of Saudi Arabia is on the frontier between the Palaearctic and Afrotropical regions, as the Arabian Desert being a strong ecological barrier. The Farasan Archipelago (east of the Saudi Arabia-Yemen border) is considered to be more closely related to the Afrotropical region, with a high floristic diversity in relation to other parts of Saudi Arabia (Alwelaie et al. 1993; El-Demerdash 1996; Alfarhan et al. 2002).
In the Afrotropical region, the subfamily Doryctinae is represented by 234 species in 39 genera (Yu et al. 2016). Only three doryctine species are reported to occur in the Arabian Peninsula, Rhaconotus arabicus, Zombrus anisopus (Saudi Arabia) (Marshall 1900; Fahringer 1930; Fischer 1980; Belokobylskij 2001), and Doryctophasmus ferrugineus (United Arab Emirates, Yemen) (Belokobylskij 2015). In the present study, six doryctine species are added to the Arabian Peninsula fauna and Saudi Arabia (Farasan Archipelago), of which Mimodoryctes arabicus Edmardash, Gadallah & Soliman, and most probably Neoheterospilus sp. (until being confirmed by the collection of females) are new species. Most of the collected species are exclusively Afrotropical. This is closely correlated with the floristic composition of the area under study (Farasan Islands) as has been reported by many authors (e.g., Alwelaie et al. 1993; El-Demerdash 1996; Alfarhan et al. 2002).
In the present study, Hecabalodes anthaxiae Wilkinson, 1929 is recorded from Saudi Arabia, a species not recorded anywhere since it was originally described from Sudan (Wilkinson 1929).
The absence or presence of vein r-m of the fore wing has been found to be a polymorphic character for only four genera: Afrospathius Belokobylskij & Quicke, Leluthia Cameron, Pareucorystes Tobias, and Platydoryctes Barbalho & Pentiado-Dias. However, this character is absent in Mimodoryctes Belokobylskij (see Belokobylskij (2001)), and this was also confirmed in Belokobylskij et al. (2004) in their phylogenetic study of the doryctine genera based solely on morphological evidence. However, in the absence of other reliable diagnostic characters, the situation is considered in the present study to be the same as in the above-mentioned four genera. On the other hand, the number of segments in maxillary and labial palps can also be hardly counted especially in dry specimens, because the basal first and sometimes second segments can be very short and are very difficult to see separately in dry specimens (Belokobylskij, pers. comm.), and in our opinion, this character should also be considered as a polymorphic character for this genus.
Because of the rich biodiversity of Saudi Arabia, more species of this subfamily and others are expected to occur. Therefore, further collections and studies are needed to clarify the distribution of this group of wasps in other parts of this large country.
Sincere gratitude to Sergey Belokobylskij and Kees van Achterberg for their valuable suggestions and assistance and for critical reviews of the manuscript. Thanks also to Andrew Polaszek (UK) for confirming the identification of Rhaconotus carinatus. Sincere thanks to Adrian Pont and Andrew Polaszek (London) for their linguistic revision of different parts of the paper.
The authors are grateful to Saudi Wildlife Authority (SWA) officials in Farasan Islands National Park for the support and facilities provided during the field work. Sincere appreciation also extended to Deanship of Scientific Research in Jazan University for its funding of this research project no. 37/7/00014.
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Breaking: Former Minister Sam Momah is dead
Former Minister of Science and Technology, Major General Sam Momah (Rtd.) is dead.
He died on Wednesday afternoon after complicated diabetic issues.
Momah’s death came after celebrating his 77th birthday on July 6 during which he launched his 13th book titled: “Restructuring to save Nigeria from post-oil disintegration.”
His death was confirmed in a tweet by Lifeline Care Association, a not-for-profit organisation offering free emergency rescue services to victims of road traffic accidents, where Momah was serving as a Grand Patron.
“We regret to announce the passing of our Grand Patron, Maj. Gen. (Dr.) Sam Momah (rtd.) – the father to our Founder, Dr. Nkem Momah. His passing occurred yesterday,” the tweet reads.
“His many contributions and unflinching commitment to the growth of our Charity and service to the nation at large will forever be cherished.
“We kindly request your prayers for his peaceful repose and consolation to the family at this time. May God grant his gentle soul eternal rest by His side. Amen!”
The one- time Adjutant General and Commander, Training and Doctrine Command was also the pioneer Director at National War College.
He is survived by a wife, children, and grandchildren.
Afenifere leader, Senator Fasanmi is dead
Senator Ayo Fasanmi, the national leader of Afenifere has died at 94.
The All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain died yesterday night, July 29 after a brief illness in Osogbo.
His death was confirmed by his Personal Assistant, Tope Adebayo on Thursday morning.
More NDDC contracts beneficiaries on Akpabio’s list
From Victor Oluwasegun and Tony Akowe, Abuja/ THE NATION
Top government officials are Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) contract beneficiaries, a document by Minister of Niger Delta Affairs Godswill Akpabio has shown.
This is besides the senators and House of Representatives members on the list communicated to House of Representatives Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila by Akpabio.
The document also contains project descriptions, local government areas, proposed contractors, contact details (including phone numbers), project sources and dates of award’.
The beneficiaries, according to the document, include two former Delta State governors, top Federal Government officials, the police, other security agencies, the judiciary, traditional rulers who got contracts worth billions of dollars over the years.
The list did not state the amount of the contracts given to the beneficiaries.
In the accompanying letter dated July 23, 2020 Akpabio said: ” It has always been known that the two chairmen of the committees on NDDC in both chambers yearly exhibit unusual influence to the exclusion of committee members and even the management of the NDDC in appropriating funds to details embellished in the budget after passage of line items at the plenaries.”
In the House, about 30 members would be appearing before the Committee on Ethics and Privileges over the allegations bothering on execution of over N100 billion in the controversial 2018 emergency projects awarded by the NDDC.
Gbajabiamila had during Thursday plenary referred the minister’s letter to the House Committee on Ethics and Privileges for further investigation.s
Stella Immanuel busted as a quack COVID-19 doctor
Dr Stella Immanuel has been exposed as a fraud after claiming that the discredited hydroxychloroquine drug is a tested cure for COVID-19.
Immanuel and a group of Trump frontline doctors went to Washington D.C. where Immanuel gave an impassioned speech testifying that the drug is efficacious.
She claimed she had treated 350 patients in her clinic also called all doubters scientific fraud.
But that is what she is being called, as a torrent of reactions followed her testimony.
One commenter wondered how she became a COVID-19 doctor when she is licensed to be a pediatrician.
In one of the reactions to her video statement, she was linked to a fraudulent multi-level marketing VoIP phone scam 5 linx. She claimed then to be a millionaire in her promotion of the scam. The owners of 5 linx were indicted and sent to prison.
Meanwhile, Facebook has blocked her account and Youtube has also blocked the video as it violates its rules.
Facebook blocked her for conveying misleading information about COVID-19 cure. In response, Immanuel said:
Stella Immanuel speaks in Washington D.C.
Nigeria says Madagascar’s COVID-Organics useless against COVID-19
By Abujah Racheal/Abuja/ PM NEWS
COVID-Organics, Madagascar’s herbal drink, touted by President Rajoelina as a cure and prevention for COVID-19 has been found ineffective.
The sobering verdict was given by Nigeria’s government on Thursday.
According to health minister, Osagie Ehanire, the herbal drink did not show any evidence that it had real curative properties against COVID-19.
Ehanire spoke at the 52nd Joint National Briefing of the Presidential Task Force (PTF), on COVID-19.
According to him, the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Research and Development (NIPRD), has shared its final report on the evaluation of the COVID Organics.
He said that the initial report showed that its main ingredient is the same as Artemisia annua.
“While the preparation at high dose showed activity in reducing the frequency of cough, it did not show any evidence that it has real curative properties against COVID-19.
“However, we shall continue to support all genuine efforts toward finding local COVID-19 cures,” Ehanire said.
Magu opens defence with 34-page documents to Presidential panel
Ibrahim Magu, the suspended acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday opened his defence before the Presidential Panel probing allegations of corruption against him with 34-page documents submitted to the panel.
Magu was with his lawyer, Wahab Shittu when the 34-page document with 100 annexure were presented for his defence.
The Justice Ayo Salami-led panel is probing Magu for various corruption allegations, one of which was his inability to explain the whereabouts of interest accrued to N550bn recovered funds.
Magu reportedly appeared before the Justice Ayo Salami-led panel around 1pm and was still there as of 6pm, as he is explaining to the panel how recovered assets were disposed of and how monies seized from looters were kept.
The Punch quoted a top source at the EFCC as saying that “Magu arrived at the Presidential Villa along with his lawyer and some aides. However, only Magu and his lawyer were allowed inside the main hall. They have been there for the last five hours.
“Magu presented a 34-page letter which was spiral bound with 100 annexure including pictures. We are hopeful that he will be able to convince the panel that all the allegations levelled against him are trumped up.”
It earlier gathered that Magu’s attempt to to submit the same documents earlier on Monday was rejected by the panel.
Magu had said some of the recovered vehicles were auctioned to the Presidential Villa, the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, the Federal Inland Revenue Service and others.
The suspended EFCC boss stated in the letter that the agencies had not paid the funds but the Federal Government had agreed to deduct the money from their financial allocations.
20 dead, 604 new cases: Nigeria’s latest COVID-19 figures
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control announced on Thursday 604 new cases of COVID-19 for the country.
Twenty states and the Federal Capital of Abuja accounted for the new figure.
The national total is now 38, 948 cases.
The death toll also jumped by 20 overnight to 833. It was 813 on Wednesday.
Lagos also still led the entire country in confirmed cases, having a third of the total for the day.
It recorded 203 new cases for a new total of 14,009.
Oyo state recorded 87 new cases and the Federal Capital Territory of Abuja got 79.
Here is the breakdown for all the states:
Lagos-203
Oyo-87
FCT-79
Edo-41
Osun-35
Ogun-24
Rivers-22
Kaduna-22
Akwa Ibom-20
Plateau-18
Ebonyi-9
Imo-8
Enugu-5
Kano-5
Cross River-5
Nasarawa-3
Borno-2
Ekiti-2
Bauchi-1
38,948 confirmed
16,061 discharged
And the infographics for the cumulative cases, till date:
How suspended NSITF management misappropriated N48bn – Ngige
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, on Tuesday, alleged that the suspended management of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF), misappropriated N48 billion.
Ngige made the allegation at an investigative hearing at the House of Representatives on the alleged illegal suspension of the management of the agency.
The minister claimed that the management withdrew the amount through fake contracts, proceeds of which were recycled into private pockets.
According to him, there were also irregular payments of salaries and allowances of N10 million not in line with the condition of service of the organisation or any reference to the Office of the Minister.
He also claimed that the suspended management went on leave abroad in first class with their spouses and paid themselves N9.8 million each without the approval of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation.
Ngige further accused them of engaging the services of legal practitioners at the sum of N180 million without the approval of the Attorney-General of the Federation.
He added that they also spent N146 million on vehicles, and on May 31, 2020, awarded 30 contracts worth N332 billion, splinted into smaller components of N49 million.
According to the minister, the splitting of the contracts was to enable the transactions fall within the threshold allowed by law for the management to award.
Ngige stated that the suspended NSITF management spent N570 million on health insurance outside the National Health Insurance Scheme.
He added that since 2012, the NSITF had not submitted records of its audited accounts to the Office of the Auditor-General of the Federation, in line with the extant laws.
The minister noted that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had since dragged the NSITF management to court on corruption charges.
On the alleged illegal suspension of the NSITF management, Ngige said that their suspension was approved by President Muhammadu Buhari, following his recommendation.
However, when asked to tender documentary evidence of the presidential approval, the minister only showed a letter to the lawmakers, but refused to tender it as evidence.
Ngige told the lawmakers that he would consult with the President before tendering the letter approving the suspension.
Pondei won’t face panel again, says Gbajabiamila
Our Reporter/ THE NATION
Acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) Kemebradikumo Pondei will no longer appear before the House of Representatives panel probing him the agency’s Interim Management Committee (IMC), Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila, said on Monday.
Speaking after Prof Pondei was taken to a hospital after he fainted at the probe venue, Gbajabiamila directed the panel to use documents he already tendered to the panel to reach its conclusion.
Prof Pondei, who is the managing director of the agency’s Interim Management Committee (IMC), collapsed while he was being grilled by the panel over allegations bordering on the mismanagement of funds.
Wishing Pondei a quick recovery, the Speaker apologised over the poor condition of the hearing room which was stuffy.
He said: “We wish him well. I have been here barely five minutes and I am already sweating profusely. So, I do understand and apologise to everybody here for the poorly conducive atmosphere. I want to say at this point and make it clear, that it is not an adversarial hearing. It is not even inquisitorial.
“It is a fact-finding mission for the people of Nigeria. Just to make things better and we should handle this as such. No one is under inquisition. The fact must come out and that is why the committee is doing what it is doing.
“Because of these conditions in this hall, we don’t need to hear further from the acting MD because he has already submitted his written report. I think you can use the documents to do the work that needs to be done.
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Montagu, The Aesthetics of Roman Eighteenth Century Sculpture
Few art historians would dispute that Jennifer Montagu is one of the most distinguished scholars of Italian (mostly Roman) Baroque sculpture. Besides her many articles and published lectures, her books include what is (and probably will remain for years to come) the most thorough study of a single sculptor, the monograph on Algardi and catalogue raisonné of his oeuvre (1985); the model edition of Le Brun’s influent ‘conférence’ on the expression of passions, with an extensive analysis of Le Brun’s ideas (1994), originally her PhD thesis; the Slade and Mellon lectures, respectively, Roman baroque sculpture: the industry of art (1989), and Gold, silver and bronze: metal sculpture of the Roman baroque (1995); a second book on Algardi for an exhibition in Rome curated by her, Algardi, l’altra faccia del barocco (1999); and Bronzes (1963), an irresistibly inviting introduction to a subject few people cared about at the time of its publication, small bronze sculptures, a topic which Jennifer Montagu would revisit often, with ever fresh, surprising, insights.
From the Eleventh Horst Gerson Lecture held in memory of Horst Gerson (1907-1978) in the aula of the University of Groningen on November 8, 2001.
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RICH INTERVIEWS: WESHOYOT ALVITRE ARTIST/COLOURER FOR SOVEREIGN TRACES: NOT (JUST) (AN) OTHER VOL. 1
First Comics News: You worked on the story “Deer Dancer” who is the Deer Dancer?
Weshoyot Alvitre: Deer Dancer is a poem written by Joy Harjo. I envisioned this mythic type spirit as Deer Woman, who goes into this bar, and entrances everyone there, makes them question everything in their lives in how they each react to her boldness. And then she disappears and whats left is the stories of how each person there saw her and reacted to her presence. I think the poem ties directly into Deer Woman mythology, where the concept a deer woman is presented to reflect the things that could pull us from whatever path we are on in life, and also to remember the old ways. I also wanted to touch on the issues of alcoholism, MMIW as a result of alcohol, and the female. So there are nuances of the detrimental effects, the realism of what can happen to native women in rural settings, etc.
1st: What are the symbols you drew on the back of the woman’s hand?
Weshoyot: I actually really wanted to emphasize the authorship of Joy Harjo on this piece. I was given 3 poems to choose from. At that time, I had never read anything by Joy Harjo. I read them and Deer Dancer immediately stayed with me. I couldn’t stop thinking about how she described so many things and the mystery that laid in that poem. That particular page, is a portrait of Joy I found online, and I believe the marks on her hand was a henna tattoo, but I am not entirely certain. She used it as an author photo for a few things. I chose this particular image though, as I felt like she possesses this strong voice, almost masculine in the way she writes about viewing the ‘Deer Dancer’. I imagined her as a patron at the bar, observing, but also knowing that this was not an ordinary woman, but one of myth. The way she writes is almost something of a ceremony. I wanted to add that element to the visuals, so that there was less division between the mythical and the real, as I feel that if you are sensitive enough, you see these nuances in your day to day. The tattoo design is an attempt to tap into that primitive thinking we all have within ourselves and something she’s tapping into in her descriptions. I was hoping it made the reader stop and wonder why I devoted a singular page spread to her, who she was, etc. And hopefully, if they are familiar with Joy’s work, they will realize it is her. And if they are unfamiliar with the work, perhaps a little digging will make them realize its an homage to her as a woman, writer, and storyteller. After working on this project, I dove into her writing and she is one of my favorites because of her truths and eloquent way of expressing herself.
1st: What do you think about to achieve the amazing looking deer that you do?
Weshoyot: I grew up on a large open piece of land with Deer. There were not many people unless we went into town, so I spent my first 5 years or so wandering the open land, trails, etc and really able to observe, listen and have that quiet that no one is allowed these days. I am forever grateful for that time as I feel it heightened the sense I use as an artist, in observations and in translating nuances into my drawings. I remember we would see them at a distance, and often see their tracks, but they were elusive and had sharp hearing. I referenced images of deer and combine them with those memories. I thought about the things a deer would think about out in the snow, looking for small amounts of food to eat, and knowing if they weren’t careful, they could be food. Eat or be eaten. I wanted to bring that sense of heightened anxiety and feeling of life/death that they always have, to the people in the bar and the deer dancer woman. My goal was to parallel the deer and the woman and the sense of fear, juxtaposed with unnatural grace. A deer in its environment is seen as graceful and delicate like a woman can be perceived. And yet, that deer may be on alert, graceful because it’s trying to move silently without being seen or heard by predators, trying to be as careful as possible to preserve its life. I wanted to show that, because I feel like that is what it’s like to be a woman. You may be perceived as one thing when the things going through your mind are completely the opposite. And I think something that we humans don’t pay attention to, or inebriate ourselves from being turned into these acts of self-preservation, of identifying distractions or gut feelings of uneasiness. We are no different from deer.
1st: What type of person do you draw the Deer Dancer as?
Weshoyot: I wanted to draw her as someone who walks in that place, disrupting the day to day normalcy that’s settled. So many of the people are there to either escape the day, escape the responsibility in their lives, so they drink to get a break. I wanted to have her as a figure who saw past all this from the minute she walked in, and got straight to the point and shocked everyone, making everyone take a look in the mirror. I feel like that’s what this poem does, and how its created in the character of the deer dancer.
1st: How do you think the expressions on the bar’s occupants are seen as?
Weshoyot: I feel like some are angered, some are shocked, some are reveling in it. Everyone has a different reaction to unexpected boldness, and I hope those individual reactions are shown in the bar occupants.
1st: The coloring is subdued was this on purpose for a reason?
Weshoyot: Yes. Ultimately I was trying to capture that cold, desolate feeling of a bar out in a rural place. I imagined this bar far north, in the snow. Where it’s not just a place to drink, but a rare place of socialization…a place to find warmth, in alcohol, in companionship. I imagine living in a place, such as Alaska or Canada, makes one long for the company of people sometimes, to break the open space and silence, that draws so many people there. I also wanted a strong bold palette of the woman’s red dress, amongst neutral tones in the bar, and also the stark white of the snow. This, partially to tie into the sexuality, and to potentially tie it into a dialogue of Native woman, sacredness, and MMIW. So yes, the coloring was very purposefully done.
1st: What was “The Moon of Letting Go” about and how did you illustrate the main character to look?
Weshoyot: ‘The Moon of Letting Go’ is a story by Richard Van Camp. It was imagined as a graphic novel, and the pages in existence were for a publication pitch. Its currently on hold but something we would like both like to finish in the future. Richard gave me some wonderful reference photos of his to use for characters, so there was a lot of guidance on his behalf for the look.
1st: How do you feel your work on the “Tenth Muse” influenced your comic book career?
Weshoyot: I feel like my experiences on that book showed me what not to do. While on that book, I got the experience of sexism at San Diego Comic-Con, of a project that despite a contract, would never pay me for my work, of how people may wine and dine you, but self-preservation is key. I learned a lot in a small amount of time, and glad I removed myself from that company. It is the textbook example of how new talent in comics are taken advantage of with disillusion of grander, and how many are chewed up and spit out and bitter because of it.
1st: What comic book that you have not worked on would you most like to?
Weshoyot: I always say that I would love to work on an ECHO storyline, with David Mack writing. The character he created struck a chord with me when Native Female representation in comics was non-existent. Hellboy or Umbrella Academy would also be dream projects
1st: What are you currently working on?
Weshoyot: I am currently working on a video game called “When Rivers Were Trails”, a book for Penguin’s new imprint KOKILA, written by Cherokee author Traci Sorell and a few side projects with Lee Francis & Native Realities.
1st: What is the tattoo of on your right arm and why did you decide to get it?
Weshoyot: The tattoo on my lower right arm is of a petroglyph called the ‘Hemet Maze Stone’. It is located in Hemet, Ca. and has been attributed to the tribes in an around the area, including the Tongva and Cahuilla. My dad used to have a photo of it framed in our home growing up, and I used to sit and trace it over and over again. It is believed to be tied into the creation story and the universe. I had wanted to get it as a tattoo since I was a teenager.
1st: What does your being Tongva/Scott-Gaelic mean?
Weshoyot: My dad is Tongva, and my mom is Gaelic and Scottish. So while I relate to my Native heritage and ID as Tongva, I always make a point of saying I am mixed and that my mom is Scottish.
1st: Would you like to encounter the Deer Woman?
Weshoyot: I ‘m not sure. And I am not sure that I haven’t already encountered her, or many like her.
1st: What would you like to say to those who have enjoyed your comic book work?
Weshoyot: Just to thank them for taking the time to read the work, and that I hope my images and writing allow for stories to come across. Thank you for being supportive of my voice and art.
SMASH PAGES Q&A: WESHOYOT ALVITRE ON ‘SIXKILLER’ AND MORE
Weshoyot Alvitre has been working in comics for years now as a writer, artist and colorist. She’s drawn covers for Satellite Falling, 10th Muse, and Tribal Force, drawn stories for Once Upon a Time Machine and Tales of the Mighty Code Talkers, and contributed to Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream. She’s colored Tribal Force and the upcoming Scout: Marauder, co-edited and contributed to last year’s acclaimed Deer Woman: An Anthology and has drawn the cover for the upcoming ninth volume of the acclaimed Dirty Diamonds anthology.
Michigan State University Press has just published Sovereign Traces Volume 1: Not (Just) (An)Other, which includes a poem by Joy Harjo that Alvitre adapted and illustrated. Native Realities Press has also just released Sixkiller #1 by Lee Francis and Alvitre. A new series that Francis described as “Alice in Wonderland meets Kill Bill in Cherokee country,” the book is a stunning writing debut by Francis. The two projects also represent Alvitre’s best work to date, beautifully rendered with dynamic page designs, and make the case that Alvitre is no longer a promising young artist – she’s arrived. Her influences can be seen in her pages, but the result isn’t derivative of anyone and her work is simply stunning. She was kind enough to answer a few questions.
I always like to start by asking people, what brought you to comics?
I think the ultimate thing that brought me to comics is story. When I was a kid, I loved animation. I loved The Little Mermaid. I was obsessed with that film as it was unlike anything I had seen before. I asked how it was made. The story, the songs, the colors – the animation was just wonderment to me at a young age. Then my mom bought me a small graphic novel adaption of it. They had broken it down, probably using key frames from the animated piece. And in that moment, the breakdown of singular images to tell the same story hit me like a ton of bricks. After that, storytelling through sequential art became my passion. It took me many years to understand how animation worked, how comics worked, etc. but it really spurred my interests and directed them through the first 15-20 years of my life.
So what is Sixkiller? What is the book to you?
Sixkiller is a bit of a revenge book. It takes place in Indian country, and revolves around the main character Alice, coming to terms with her sister’s murder. It ties in mental health issues, and crosses lines of what’s real and whats on the other side of reality. The book to me is a jumping ground to try some new things with my art style, and also something new in interpreting this setting.
When Lee first mentioned this, what made you interested in drawing the book?
When he pitched the idea to me, he said it was like Alice in Wonderlandmeets Kill Bill. I have always been a huge fan of both, and quite honestly, I thought it was rather bold of Lee to describe it that way, as I had sort of pegged him as a safe, superhero style writer. He surprised me with this, I won’t lie. That unexpected boldness combined with the writing skills I knew he had got me very excited about the project. Years ago, while I was in college, I did a few pages of a darker Alice in Wonderland-style story. I still have the pages and have always been a bit fond of them. So having an excuse to dive back into a similar realm was very enticing to me, especially with the overlapping Native elements, like the living fetishes. I have always been a huge fan of the original illustrations of the book done by John Tenniel. They’re detailed and dark, despite them being for a children’s book. I told Lee outright I wanted to try to mimic a bit of that dense inkwork for this book. And from years of studying Victorian Illustration, I felt like if given the time, I might be able to pull it off.
How do you and Lee work together? What’s your working relationship like?
I think we are both excitable, a bit neurotic, but with common goals in mind. We were both super excited when we initially got this project off the ground, and of course we often are working on multiple projects at once. So this particular book did get pushed back during production. However, I feel like the art and final visuals of the book are some of the best work I personally have put out, and something that I am really proud of to have in the Native Realities library. I love working with Lee as he gives me a lot of freedom to take the book in the direction of my choosing. I appreciate that he trusts me to do that with his writing. And I also feel that he gives some very good editorial feedback during the process and afterwards, so we have really discussed the entire issue and book thoroughly and its something very thought out in the end. I have a lot of respect for his viewpoints and his writing. So I would say its a pretty damn good working relationship. The fact he is flexible with my art style time frame helps matters too. I couldn’t realistically do this style of art on a monthly book, and I appreciate him respecting that, so we have a beautiful product in our hands at the end.
How long and how big is this series?
That I am not entirely sure. I told him I am in it until the end. It does have an end, but I will leave that up to Lee to answer more thoroughly.
Just to turn to another project of yours, for people who don’t know, what is the story of deer woman?
The story of Deer Woman, from what I understand, is a solitary figure of oral history and storytelling. The concept of a deer woman appears in many traditional stories. In many, she is a lone creature, luring men, predominately, away from the true paths in life they should be following. She is a reminder of how straying from original teachings (in regards to family, in regards to treating other people, life choices) can be detrimental to your health, your well-being and ultimately, your life. She overlaps many teachings, and I think in that, she is an incredible muse and jumping ground for Indigenous storytelling.
How did you get involved with Deer Woman: An Anthology?
I was working with Lee and had met Elizabeth LaPensée through him. He put a call out looking for a co-editor for an unnamed book, and because the assembly, creation of a book from an editorial standpoint really interested me, I threw my hat in the ring. I was in journalism in high school and the behind the scenes work, in regards to organization/page layout/etc. is something I really love. Lee then let me know what the project was, and the fact Elizabeth was heading it, and it just felt like a dream project.
What was that process like? How was the work divided between you?
I think Elizabeth handled the majority of the workload. I feel like I was there as a shadow, an assistant, to see how she did things, to help give input into the layout, and also into the pieces made for the anthology. We had a few submissions that felt better suited for another anthology, so there was some editing in regards to choosing art and story that really supported the concept of Deer Woman, but also something that formed reflecting the strength and tenacity of Indigenous women as storytellers and as artists. The organization felt very organic, stories and art would come in, and we would discuss, and absorb each piece. The power in that was that with each finished submission, you could see this amazing energy growing, knowing these stories would all be within a book cover, and that it would be in the hands of more people than just ourselves. It was powerful being a witness to watching it take shape and materialize.
Could you talk a little about your contribution to the book?
My contribution to the book happened a bit by accident. It was something I created, that needed to be said and put down on paper – but I wasn’t entirely sure through what means it would ultimately be published. Elizabeth felt that it would serve best within this anthology and so I really trusted her. My piece is on Missing and Murdered Indigenous women. It was a piece I did before learning about recent cases, before Wind River, but seemed even more striking after cases like those. I put myself in a dark place. I thought about the cycle of being a woman, through life and death and birth. I thought about unifying blood within, from being native to being human, to how it is a sacred color. There are a lot more things I could write about my piece, my thoughts on it are incredibly dense, and I tried to minimize the words and images, but do so in a way that would hopefully make a strong impact. I sat with it a long time before doing art for it. And I sat with the words for a long time before finally committing the final version.
You’re also part of a group show that’s opening in Minneapolis, Bring Her Home: Stolen Daughters of Turtle Island.
Yes, I submitted, with approval, the 3 pages of art I did for the Deer Womananthology to this show. It was hand selected by Angela Two-Stars, whose grandmother was a victim of MMIW and who is also the curator of the show. I was fortunate enough to speak with her on the phone prior to the show opening. Her vision for the work supporting the show is that it presents the issue at hand, but also shows hope, and does not exploit the pain or the issue. I have a lot of respect for what she has done with this show, and the incredible talent she has hanging on the walls. I am honored to have my art within it.
You have a story in Sovereign Traces Volume 1 that just came out. How did you end up adapting and illustrating Joy Harjo’s Deer Dancer?
I was asked by Elizabeth LaPensée if I would like to contribute and of course I said yes. She gave me several pieces to read through and to choose from to illustrate. Joy Harjo’s piece spoke to me. I couldn’t get the visuals out of my head and so I told her I wanted that piece. I’m rather embarrassed to admit I was not familiar with her writing. I didn’t take but one Native studies class in college. They just didn’t offer them. But after discovering her voice through this poem, I went on a ravenous Amazon book buying spree and ordered several of her books. The way she writes is something else entirely. Its absolutely inspiring, hits so many feelings I have experienced but perhaps not been able to put words to. She is one amazing woman and I would love to do more art in response to her words in the future. I was honored to have been able to work on this particular poem for Sovereign Traces.
I know that you’re working on a few different projects. What are you working on now and what are you thinking about going forward?
As always, I have my hat in a few different areas. I am currently working on a children’s book through Penguin, written by Traci Sorell, who is of Cherokee heritage. I am also working on a video game with Elizabeth LaPensée. I am continuing on several projects for Lee Francis and for Native Realities as well. Moving forward, in comics, I really want to lend my art to telling stories which I feel are important in current representation as native peoples. I also want to provide my own personal perspective on historically based material. I didn’t have any Native artists, writers or examples to look up to growing up. Most books about Natives, were not written or illustrated by Native people. So I am doing my small part to try to change that so my children have a different experience with representation when they grow. I find that doing the work I do is very healing for me in many ways. Eventually I would like to do a graphic novel based on my tribe, the Tongva of Los Angeles basis, and to bring light to some of their stories, and people, specifically Toypurina, which is not well known to current people living here in the state of California.
WESHOYOT ALVITRE, ILLUSTRATOR OF “SIXKILLER” COMIC
Last week, the first copies of Sixkiller, the latest comic from Native Realities press, were sent out across the country. Described as “Kill Bill meets Alice In Wonderland” by author Lee Francis IV (Laguna Pueblo), the comic tells the story of Alice Sixkiller, a Cherokee girl on a quest to avenge the murder of her sister. Alice has schizophrenia, and her journey involves coping with her condition as she encounters beings from the stories and legends of her tribe. Francis is the founder of Native Realities press, which publishes books and comics by and about Indigenous people.
Sixkiller is illustrated by Tongva-Scottish artist Weshoyot Alvitre, a veteran illustrator of comics, books, and video games, including several with Native Realities. I spoke with Alvitre about her part in creating the world of Sixkiller.
Stacy Pratt (FAAM): Lee Francis describes Sixkiller as “Kill Bill meets Alice in Wonderland set in Cherokee country.” How did you come up with a style for your illustrations, especially the main character, Alice Sixkiller?
Weshoyot Alvitre (WA): The minute I heard the pitch to this story a light in my brain went on that maybe…just maybe I could try something I have always wanted to try with the art style in this book. I have always been a huge fan of the original illustrations to Alice in Wonderland. I had always wished there were more drawn, as they both complement the writing style of book but also make it weirder and more iconic than anything ever could have. There have been many artist renditions of the book over the years, but the odd proportions, fantastical imaginings and whimsy of those original illustrations really have held ground over time. I told Lee from the beginning that I wanted to try to pay homage to the original Alice illustrations. I had seen Jeremy Bastian call back to this era of illustrations in his Cursed Pirate Girl series and his style overall. I had been working in a lot of Victorian reproduction work for some commercial art I was doing years prior to the book. I felt like I had enough under my belt to attempt it and create a style I had not yet played with before. The timeline for this book also allowed me that artistic freedom. I don’t think I could have tried this on a monthly book. It’s rather time-consuming.
FAAM: It takes a long time to produce a comic book. How long were you working on Sixkiller, and what made you decide to take it on?
WA: I was working on Sixkiller on and off for over a year I think. We had one project fall through, and Sixkiller was then pitched. But I was also working on various side shorts, coloring Tribal Force [also from Native Realities], and doing some of my own pieces as well. Lee allowed me the time not only to play with the style but get it down before I started on final pages as well. I think after I drew up the initial cover teaser image to issue #1, I realized that the style I wanted to have for the book could actually be brought to life. I had worked with Lee on various things before, so I trusted him as a writer. But when I read the script to issue #1, he actually surprised me as I didn’t expect a book quite this dark and gritty behind the guy who is so upbeat.
FAAM: You and Lee aren’t Cherokee, but this comic is set in Cherokee country. How did you approach working with the traditions of a different Indigenous nation?
WA: Lee let me know from the start he was using several colleagues of his as reference and overview for this story, for language and alphabet research, etc. for future issues. I have trust that when Lee does a story, he will stand behind it 100% and not only do his homework but also make sure it has been read over thoroughly, and various cultural sensitivities are well discussed. We actually made a change to one of the pages in this book, and it was in regards to how one of the women in the book was shown. He not only addressed concerns about how a woman may perceive it but also hit on the fact that some of our readers will be trauma survivors. And I think after seeing a response to Deer Woman [also from Native Realities], it was eye-opening in how to handle future books and readership.
Art from Sixkiller. Photo courtesy of Native Realities and Weshoyot Alvitre.
We had a few conversations on the best way to handle the original image visually, so we were respectful to a variety of potential triggers. Being a woman myself and a storyteller, I felt the original image helped to move the story along, but I had not thought about how hard it may be for some to see, even in the comics medium. And so it was changed, and a lot of that approach to sensitivity was from Lee having various conversations from many aspects of readership.
In regards to this story taking place in Cherokee country: It is something I considered before taking the book on. I never want to step on toes or into tribal customs or stories that are not my own. With that being said, I also feel the need to help bring a modern story like this to fruition, to give representation where there is none. I feel that both Lee and myself really put time and energy into doing justice to the people we are creating within the story. And I hope that this book gives a representation of modern Native voices where there is currently such a lack of it in the comics medium. I can only try the very best I can. And if I miss something, I hope that a future dialogue can be brought up to discuss better ways to create or represent.
FAAM: Most Native people recognize the Tongva, but your nation doesn’t currently have federal recognition. How has that affected you as an artist working with Indigenous-based projects like this one?
WA: Honestly for the longest time, I refused to attach my name to any Native projects. Growing up was a combination of seeing my dad in his ties with Native issues, and the effects and complications of intertribal and governmental politics in regards to federal recognition, legitimacy, funding and forwarding representation and sovereignty. In school, I was constantly pulled in “Indian Education” taught by non-natives or called out in various opportune times in classes from elementary school all the way into college as “the Indian” in class. In college, I was constantly trying to find merit and portfolio based art scholarships because I did not qualify for any of the many Native based ones due to the lack of federal recognition and tribal ID #. It wasn’t until I was interviewed by Michael Sheyashe many years after I started working in comics, and was not only introduced to more working Native artists within comics, but also this voice of the Indigenous perspective that so many of us had that worked so well in the sequential art genres [that she began working on Native projects].
The issue of federal recognition, or lack thereof, still affects me in some ways. I was just sent an invite to be included in a show within the Santa Fe Indian Market, but I won’t qualify due to my lack of tribal credentials in regards to federal recognition. I learned early on that sovereignty is something no one and no government can take away or interfere with. Although there are currently stirrings within younger generations of Tongva here in southern California for federal recognition, after decades of mudslinging and fractured factions, it still has wrinkles to work out. I do hope the work I create is an example of the person I am and a reflection of how I was raised. I am currently working on putting my own voice to stories from my tribe, and I hope I can devote my time and energy in the future to breathing life back into our people, as it is much needed.
FAAM: The #drawthisinyourstyle challenge based on Alice Sixkiller was great! What was it like to see renditions of this character you lived with for so long come across your social media?
Yes! I was really surprised to have so many amazing artists do their own renditions of the character. I had been advertising the book on and off for the last year, but I figured it would be some time before I saw a response or got feedback on her. So to have some of my favorite current Native comic artists, like Dale Ray Deforest and Shaun Beyale, try their hand was quite the compliment!
FAAM: You have several projects going on right now, including When Rivers Were Trails. What can you tell us about them?
>Yes, currently I am doing a book with the Cherokee writer Traci Sorell, for Kokila Books, which is the newest imprint from Penguin. I feel so blessed to be working with Namrata Tripathi on this, as she is heading this new imprint. The goal is for much-needed diversity in literature for children and young adults, which is exactly what Lee Francis is doing with Native Realities in the comics medium. So I feel so honored to be working on projects for both these areas with the same goals in mind. I am also working on the video game component to the Lessons of Our Land curriculum by the Indian Land Tenure Foundation with recent Guggenheim Award recipient and celebrated game designer Elizabeth LaPensée. The game is called When Rivers Were Trails. This game is being described as a “Native Oregon Trail” in which you play as a Native character during the 1890s and experience the effects of westward expansion and colonialism and see the resiliency of people of the era. The game is set to work with classroom education and reach 400,000 students. I was fortunate enough to write in a few scenes as well, to give representation to my tribe, so it felt good to be allowed space to test my writing chops.
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A Decade of Middle School Mathematics Curriculum Implementation: Lessons Learned from the Show-me Project (Hardback)
Edited by Meyer, Margaret R.; Langrall, Cynthia W.; Associate editor Arbaugh, Fran; Webb, David C.; Hoover, Murrel Brewer
Intends to document the work of the Show-Me Project (1997-2007) and to highlight lessons learned about curriculum implementation. This title is suitable for readers such as state and district mathematics supervisors, middle grades mathematics teachers and administrators involved ...in curriculum reform, as well as mathematics teacher educators.
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A FIVE-YEAR STUDY ON THE FIRST EDITION OF THE CORE-PLUS MATHEMATICS CURRICULUM (Hardback)
Edited by Schoen, Harold L.; Ziebarth, Steven W.; Hirsch, Christian R.; BrckaLorenz, Allison; Series edited by Dougherty, Barbara J.
A volume in Research in Mathematics Education Series Editor Barbara J. Dougherty, Iowa State University The study reported in this volume adds to the growing body of evaluation studies that focus on the use of NSF-funded Standards-based high school mathematics curricula. Most pre...vious evaluations have studied the impact of field-test versions of a curriculum. Since these innovative curricula were so new at the time of many of these studies, students and teachers were relative novices in their use. These earlier studies were mainly one year or less in duration. Students in the comparison groups were typically from schools in which some classes used a Standards-based curriculum and other classes used a conventional curriculum, rather than using the Standards-based curriculum with all students as curriculum developers intended. This volume reports one of the first studies of the efficacy of Standards-based mathematics curricula with all of the following characteristics: The study focused on fairly stable implementations of a first-edition Standards-based high school mathematics curriculum that was used by all students in each of three schools. It involved students who experienced up to seven years of Standards-based mathematics curricula and instruction in middle school and high school. It monitored students mathematical achievement, beliefs, and attitudes for four years of high school and one year after graduation. Prior to the study, many of the teachers had one or more years of experience teaching the Standards-based curriculum and/or professional development focusing on how to implement the curriculum well. In the study, variations in levels of implementation of the curriculum are described and related to student outcomes and teacher behavior variables. Item data and all unpublished testing instruments from this study are available at www.wmich.edu/ cpmp/evaluation.html for use as a baseline of instruments and data for future curriculum evaluators or Core-Plus Math
Future Curricular Trends in School Algebra and Geometry: Proceedings of a Conference (Hardback)
Edited by Usiskin, Zalman; Andersen, Kathleen; Zotto, Nicole; Series edited by Dougherty, Barbara
Proceedings of the Second International Curriculum Conference sponsored by the Center for the Study of Mathematics Curriculum (CSMC), held May 2-4, 2008 at The Field Museum and on the campus of the University of Chicago --Pref.
Language and Mathematics Education: Multiple Perspectives and Directions for Research (Hardback)
Edited by Moschkovich, Judit N.
A volume in Research in Mathematics EducationSeries Editor Barbara J. Dougherty, Iowa State UniversityMarketing description: Issues of language in mathematics learning and teaching are important for bothpractical and theoretical reasons. Addressing issues of language is crucial f...or improving mathematicslearning and teaching for students who are bilingual, multilingual, or learning English. These issues are alsorelevant to theory: studies that make language visible provide a complex perspective of the role of languagein reasoning and learning mathematics. What is the relevant knowledge base to consider when designingresearch studies that address issues of language in the learning and teaching of mathematics? Whatscholarly literature is relevant and can contribute to research? In order to address issues of language inmathematics education, researchers need to use theoretical perspectives that integrate current views ofmathematics learning and teaching with current views on language, discourse, bilingualism, and secondlanguage acquisition. This volume contributes to the development of such integrated approaches to research on language issues in mathematicseducation by describing theoretical perspectives for framing the study of language issues and methodological issues to consider when designingresearch studies. The volume provides interdisciplinary reviews of the research literature from four very different perspectives: mathematics education(Moschkovich), Cultural-Historical-Activity Theory (Gutierrez, Sengupta-Irving, & Dieckmann), systemic functional linguistics (Schleppegrell), andassessment (Solano-Flores). This volume offers graduate students and researchers new to the study of language in mathematics education anintroduction to resources for conceptualizing, framing, and designing research studies. For those already involved in examining language issues, thevolume provides useful and critical reviews of the literature as well as recommendations for moving forwa
Mathematics Curriculum in Pacific Rim Countries - China, Japan, Korea, and Singapore: Proceedings of a Conference (Hardback, illustrated edition)
Edited by Usiskin, Zalman; Willmore, Edwin; Series edited by Dougherty, Barbara J.
The CSMC is one of the National Science Foundation Centers for Learning and Teaching. This volume contains the proceedings of the First International Curriculum Conference sponsored by the Center for the Study of Mathematics Curriculum (CSMC).
Language and Mathematics Education: Multiple Perspectives and Directions for Research (Trade Paperback / Paperback)
A FIVE-YEAR STUDY ON THE FIRST EDITION OF THE CORE-PLUS MATHEMATICS CURRICULUM (Trade Paperback / Paperback)
Variability is the Rule: A Companion Analysis of K-8 State Mathematics Standards (Trade Paperback / Paperback)
Edited by Iii, John P. Smith; Smith III, John P.
A volume in the series: Research in Mathematics Education. Series Editor(s): Barbara J. Dougherty, Iowa State UniversityIn response to No Child Let Behind, states have developed mathematics curriculum frameworks that outline their intended curriculum for grades K-8. While some ha...ve indicated that districts or individual schools may use their framework as a model for specific curricular programs, others have taken a more prescriptive or even mandatory stance. Collectively, these frameworks present a sense of the national mathematics program and what we expect students learn.This volume follows The Intended Curriculum as Represented in State Mathematics Curriculum Standards: Consensus or Confusion? (Reys). While the Reys volume focused on number and operations, algebra and reasoning strands, the Smith volume analyzes geometry, measurement, probability, and statistics strands. It also presents an analysis what verbs used tell us about the cognitive demand of grade level expectations. This volume, even more than the Reys volume, emphasizes the theme of variability in the content, expression, and clarity of grade level expectations across the states.As the nation moves toward implementation of the Common Core Standards, this volume highlights some of the challenges teachers and other school personnel face in interpreting mathematics grade-level standards as goals for classroom teaching. The shift from 50 state standards to one document does not resolve this basic challenge.
Future Curricular Trends in School Algebra and Geometry: Proceedings of a Conference (Trade Paperback / Paperback)
Variability is the Rule: A Companion Analysis of K-8 State Mathematics Standards (Hardback)
A volume in Research in Mathematics EducationSeries Editor Barbara J. Dougherty, Iowa State UniversityIn response to No Child Let Behind, states have developed mathematics curriculumframeworks that outline their intended curriculum for grades K-8. While some haveindicated that di...stricts or individual schools may use their framework as a model forspecific curricular programs, others have taken a more prescriptive or even mandatorystance. Collectively, these frameworks present a sense of the national mathematicsprogram and what we expect students learn.This volume follows The Intended Curriculum as Represented in State MathematicsCurriculum Standards: Consensus or Confusion? (Reys). While the Reys volume focused on number and operations, algebra and reasoning strands, the Smith volume analyzes geometry, measurement, probability, and statistics strands. It alsopresents an analysis what verbs used tell us about the cognitive demand of grade level expectations. This volume, evenmore than the Reys volume, emphasizes the theme of variability in the content, expression, and clarity of grade levelexpectations across the states.As the nation moves toward implementation of the Common Core Standards, this volume highlights some of the challengesteachers and other school personnel face in interpreting mathematics grade-level standards as goals for classroom teaching.The shift from 50 state standards to one document does not resolve this basic challenge.
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