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VA IG: CoreFLS failed on inadequate expertise, oversight
By Mary Mosquera
The Veterans Affairs Department should not award any more task orders related to its troubled new financial management system to the current contractor BearingPoint nor any other vendor until the department decides whether CoreFLS can be salvaged, a new report said.
'VA leadership needs to consider whether the CoreFLS project can meet the needs of the department or should be ended,' said the report from the VA Office of Inspector General.
VA leadership agreed with the IG's recommendations. The latest task order expired June 30.
The IG also criticized VA for inadequate oversight of the contract that would ultimately cost $472 million. VA has committed $249 million to date.
Yesterday's report follows an announcement last month that VA would phase out by Oct. 1 a pilot program designed to test the new $472 million financial management system at the Bay Pines Veterans Affairs Medical Center in St. Petersburg, Fla. Bay Pines is transitioning back to the previous financial management software. (GCN story)
The financial management system, the Core Financial and Logistics System developed by BearingPoint Inc. of McLean, Va., has been beset with problems with data conversion and system interfaces, some of which led to substandard patient care and services at the VA hospital.
The IG cited inadequate contracting and monitoring of CoreFLS deployment. Most of the VA legacy systems that must integrate with the new financial system contained inaccurate data because they had not been used properly.
'This may be a systemic problem throughout the Veterans Health Administration,' the IG report said. The effect of transferring inaccurate data to CoreFLS interrupted patient care and medical center operation. 'We are concerned that similar conversion problems will occur at other VA facilities if the conditions identified are not addressed and resolved nationwide,' the report said.
If CoreFLS can meet the department's needs, VA should develop a comprehensive Statement of Work and compete the requirement. Previously, VA noncompetitively awarded BearingPoint 22 task orders, for which the contractor developed the statements of work and cost estimates. VA accepted these without any independent evaluation of need or reasonableness. The IG said this was 'tantamount to issuing BearingPoint a blank check.'
VA should also ensure that it has the technical expertise to manage the project and that all its facilities have certified the accuracy and reliability of VA legacy systems and data that will be integrated with CoreFLS so similar conversion problems do not occur at other sites.
BearingPoint said it was reviewing the IG's report. "We are committed to CoreFLS, which is one of the most aggressive IT modernization efforts ever undertaken by the federal government," said BearingPoint spokesman John Schneidawind. "BearingPoint intends to continue to work with the VA and remains committed to this important project."
VA Secretary Anthony Principi established a board led by VA CIO Robert McFarland to examine the CoreFLS pilot program at Bay Pines and recommend what to do. Once the board decides on the future of the financial management system, VA will select a contracting officer technical representative separate from the project director to oversee CoreFLS requirements.
(Posted 12:14 p.m. and updated 3:57 p.m.)
Mary Mosquera is a reporter for Federal Computer Week.
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Category Archives: Giovanni Hidalgo
Guitarist Dennis Haklar & Percussionist Giovanni Hidalgo Journey Into Inner Worlds On New Album “Transcendance”
Guitarist Dennis Haklar & Percussionist Giovanni Hidalgo released their new album “Transcendance” on August 15, 2020. This collaboration between guitarist Dennis Haklar and Grammy award winning master percussionist Giovanni Hidalgo began as a studio improvisation, and developed into a journey to another world. Appearing on “Transcendance” is the beautiful and mysterious Steffie Moonlady adding her ethereal vocals. Moonlady was instrumental in the overall production of “Transcendance” which offers healing energy to our Planet during this challenging point in time.
“Transcendance” is a journey into inner worlds. It is the process of release through sonic meditation. Travel inward, unafraid, with full belief in yourself, knowing that what others think will not disturb or deter you. Tune into the vibrations of sound and transcend to the “Inner”.
Says Dennis, “Gio and I got together at my studio, ‘Europa’, in Orlando. We recorded a series of improvisations. The sessions were so intense that they lasted for days. I had hours of material to go through and sonically sculpt into what has become ‘Transcendance’. At first it was overwhelming sifting through the best of moments, but that is the beauty of improvisation, you never really know what will happen until you are in the moment. This is a 180 degree spin from trying to create music through online collaboration, or playing to previous recordings, or even to composed music. Improvisation is an art that can take a lifetime, or perhaps several lifetimes to get ‘right’. On the other hand it can happen effortlessly. The key is not to be restricted by expectations of the industry, not to play according to your genre.
Giovanni has a huge fan base in the Latin jazz genre, when he and Dennis did this they agreed to be themselves and not be restricted by anyone or anything. The pieces on “Transcendance” were not composed in the conventional sense of ABACAB form, or any form even remotely related to that. Essentially, the duo strove to create a new genre. The music is hard to classify, they will leave that up to the listeners…
Says Dennis, “Living with the tracks, I studied them and began to extrapolate what were the most powerful moments. I then added my sounds and created the transcendant textures. At the point where it began to really take on a life of its own I decided to bring in Steffie Moonlady to add her vocalizations rounding out the textures with a beautiful female touch. Once she completed her tracks, I presented it to Gio and asked if he was cool with his tracks. He came back to add some fine points, icing on the cake. The mixing took months to complete. On certain pieces, I had over 64 tracks to mix. Moonlady was very instrumental in helping me find the right balances, pans, and textures.”
Dennis Haklar first started performing music at Rutgers University. During this time, he joined the Improvising Structures Ensemble lead by minimalist composer Dan Goode. The group also featured jazz saxophonist Eric Kloss. They performed the music of John Cage, Terry Riley and others. After a few years playing with this ensemble he left to work as a session guitarist at Pyramid Recording Studio. He eventually became the chief engineer of the studio and worked with Gloria Gaynor, Kool and The Gang, Whitney Houston and many others. Dennis released his first solo work “Lizard’s Tale” as a composer, arranger, engineer and producer utilizing what he learned over the years. The album featured Larry Coryell, Jon Anderson, Mark Egan and Thierry Arpino. After working with Larry Coryell on “Lizard’s Tale”, Dennis got to know Larry Coryell better and they started working together more and more. They became close friends. Coryell asked Dennis to work on the final Eleventh House album “Seven Secrets”. He composed “Dragon’s Way” with bassist John Lee and played acoustic on the album.
During his career, Giovanni Hidalgo has worked with Bola Abimbola, Sikiru Adepoju, Art Blakey, Muruga Booker, Jack Bruce, Don Byron, Candido Camero, D’Angelo, Paulinho da Costa, Steve Gadd, Sammy Hagar, Kip Hanrahan, Zakir Hussain, Cassius Khan, Airto Moreira, Charlie Palmieri, Tito Puente, Hilton Ruiz, Paul Simon, and Carlos “Patato” Valdes. Hidalgo received a Grammy Award for his contribution to the album “Planet Drum” performed by an ensemble of the same name led by Mickey Hart of The Grateful Dead. He played on another one of Hart’s Grammy-winning albums, Global Drum Project and on the album Danzón (Dance On) by Arturo Sandoval which won the 1995 Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Performance. In May 2010, Hidalgo was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Music from Berklee College of Music.
“Haklar and Hidalgo seamlessly blend their talents across a sonic landscape that evokes a wide emotional range, at times both energizing and tranquil, resulting in an impressionistic feast for the ears. With its tasteful use of ethereal guitars, globe-trotting percussion parts, and spacey vocal flourishes, ‘Transcendance’ provides a vastly rewarding listening experience.” – Paul Sky
In closing Dennis has this to impart, “It is our hope that our music will give you a sense of inner peace. We are here together on this planet dealing with challenges as they happen. We all have the innate ability to Transcend. Reach inward and outward knowing that we are part of a something greater. Release by taking a moment out of your day through ‘Transcendance’. Love and Light!”
1. Bongui
2.Timba
3.Venus
4.Flamas Azul
5.Crystalline
6.Inner
7.Crotales
8.Mara
9.Shekere
10.Invo
11.Frames
Giovanni Hidalgo: All percussion including Congas, Tablas, Bongos, Chekere, Crystal and Metal Bowls, Shakers, Rainstick, Wooden Sticks, Bodhran, Bells, Chimes, Synthesized Percussion.
Dennis Haklar: Acoustic and Electric Guitars, Bass Guitar, Citera, Synthesizers including Roland Guitar Synth, Moog, Arp 2600 Modular Synth, Samples, Analog Tape Effects.
Stefanie (Moonlady) Haklar: Vocals, Processed Voices
Recorded at Europa Studio, Orlando, Florida 2020
Recording, Mixing, and Mastering Engineer; Dennis Haklar
Assistant Engineer; Stefanie (Moonlady) Haklar
Produced by; Dennis Haklar, Stefanie Haklar (Steffie Moonlady), and Giovanni Hidalgo
Compositions by; Dennis Haklar and Giovanni Hidalgo ©℗ 2020
Moon Phase Publishing (BMI) / Hidalgo Speaks Music (ASCAP)
Graphic Design (Album Cover): Erik Haklar
https://dennishaklar.com
Amazon Music:
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https://music.apple.com/us/album/transcendance-feat-dennis-haklar-giovanni-hidalgo-steffie/1527138426
https://play.google.com/store/music/album/Giovanni_Hidalgo_and_Dennis_Haklar_Transcendance?id=Bfhnlncj2lafdxiymqzgbt6oc6i&hl=en_US
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/dennishaklar
Press inquiries: Glass Onyon PR, PH: 1-828-350-8158, glassonyonpr@gmail.com
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The yearly Christmas eve tradition is Vision Australia's Carols By Candlelights in Melbourne.
Sadly this year the carols will look a little different, however will sound the same from the comfort of our loungerooms.
Plenty of Australian talen will be on stage for the broadcast on Channel 9 including Jimmy Rees (known also as Jimmy Giggle).
Jimmy has also kept himself busy with Facebook videos.
Jimmy spoke with Daniel on The Home Stretch about carols and the videos.
Photo: JakobGrayAus, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Ray Martin - The Forgotten Australians
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by Goldstrike Resources Ltd. | Nov 30, 2020 | News 2020
November 30th, 2020 – Goldstrike Resources Ltd. (GSR.V) (Goldstrike) is pleased to announce that a limited program of prospecting and geochemical surveying in 2020 has confirmed high-grade gold (Au) mineralization at its newly staked McMurdo property in southern British Columbia, Canada.
This includes in situ and float rock samples that assayed up to 175.9 g/t Au (5.13 oz/ton) from its newly expanded “Crown Point” zone. Significant assay results exceeding 10 g/t Au are presented in Table 1.
Table 1: Significant assay results from Crown Point and Decision Creek (>10 g/t Au)
Rock Sample ID Type Exposure Gold (g/t) Description
1880106 Grab Outcrop 47.4 20-30cm quartz vein with blebs of pyrite along margin of vein. Approx. 10% pyrite.
1880108 Grab Outcrop 175.9 2m-wide boudinaged quartz vein with massive pyrite seam along vein margin. Approx. 70% pyrite.
1880115 Grab Float 76 Quartz vein sample from tailings with patchy massive pyrite blebs. Approx. 60% pyrite.
Grab Outcrop 49.7 1.5m-wide boudinaged quartz vein with blebby pyrite. Approx. 20% pyrite.
1880032 Grab Outcrop 13.3 >2m-wide quartz vein with patchy-massive arsenopyrite and pyrite.
The program, designed to confirm the gold potential of the property, was successful in both extending historical gold showings and discovering new high-grade gold in quartz veins. A total of 33 soil samples and 74 rock grab samples were collected during the program. The results highlight the potential for significant precious metal mineralization in the area.
The Crown Point zone comprises a 400m x 300m area that contains auriferous quartz veins hosted in a micaceous grit unit. This area has been exposed following roughly 700m of glacial retreat since the turn of the 20th century, which provided company geologists with the opportunity to significantly expand the known historic mineralized zone. The quartz veins range from a few centimetres to 3m in width and contain irregularly disseminated pyritic mineralization throughout. Grab samples from these veins assayed up to 175.9 g/t (5.13 oz/t) Au.
Refer to this link https://goldstrikeresources.com/wp-content/uploads/CROWN_POINT_ZONE_MM.jpg for the 2020 Crown Point sample results map.
The gold bearing quartz veins are hosted in a micaceous grit unit that is repeated ~1,700m to the southeast where known historical gold mine workings occur. These historical workings host gold mineralization analogous to the newly discovered Crown Point gold showings. Both showings are located on the same axial trace of a regional antiform and are within property boundaries. First-pass sampling from the historic workings returned gold assays up to 76 g/t (2.22 oz/ton) Au from pyritic quartz veins, and anomalous gold-in-soil assays up to 88 ppb Au. The similar geological and mineralogical settings of the two showings indicate potential for significant southeastward expansion of the high-grade gold system at Crown Point.
Refer to this link https://goldstrikeresources.com/wp-content/uploads/GOLD_RESULTS_MAP_MM.jpg for the 2020 property-wide sample results map.
This is the first-time modern exploration methods have been employed to identify the gold potential of the McMurdo Property. Based on the strong results from this first-pass program, it is Goldstrike’s opinion that there is excellent potential for additional high-grade gold discoveries.
About McMurdo:
The McMurdo property is a regional grassroots exploration target, generated in-house by Goldstrike’s exploration team. The property covers 1,728 hectares (4,258 acres) of highly prospective geology located in the northern Purcell Mountain range of southeast British Columbia. The property is located 30 kilometres southeast of Golden, British Columbia and can be accessed via maintained forest service roads or by helicopter based in the nearby town of Golden. It is 100%-owned by Goldstrike Resources with no underlying royalties or payments.
The property is underlain by a thick sequence of Proterozoic marine sedimentary rocks exposed in the core of the northwest trending Purcell Anticlinorium. This anticlinorium is deformed by a complex series of thrust faults and folds running parallel to the northwest-southeast trending axial trace. The rocks exposed on the McMurdo property belong to the Horsethief Creek group and comprise a series of prominent grit and quartzite sedimentary members separated by shales and minor carbonate units. The Cretaceous Battle Range Batholith intrudes the sedimentary rocks approximately 10 km southwest of the property. Gold mineralization occurs mainly as pyritic quartz veins that strike northwest and are steeply dipping to the northeast. The quartz veins are typically confined to the coarser grained grits and quartzites. Replacement style lead-zinc-silver (Pb-Zn-Ag) mineralization is confined to the more finely textured carbonate and shale units.
Refer to this link https://goldstrikeresources.com/wp-content/uploads/McMurdo_Goldstrike_Resources_Presentation_Final_2020.pdf for the 2020 McMurdo presentation.
The area was first prospected in the late 1800s for gold and then shortly after for lead, zinc, and silver. The first gold discoveries were made in the early 1890s, and a small stamp mill was built on Decision Creek to treat gold ore obtained from the Burns and Dutchman mining leases. The present McMurdo property covers the former Burns mining leases and quartz-sulphide veins. At about the same time, the Crown Point prospect, comprising lead-zinc-silver replacement style mineralization, was discovered at the headwaters of McMurdo Creek. This prospect was periodically mined until the 1940s with a total of 762 meters of underground workings. Several minor gold showings were also discovered near the former Crown Point mine at this time.
In 1966, West Gate Mines completed the most recent documented exploration program focusing on gold in the area. West Gate’s work consisted of prospecting and re-sampling of historical workings, and recommended diamond drilling to follow up on results.
Commencing in the late 1970s, the area underwent regional exploration over a period of several years for SEDEX-style lead – zinc mineralization. A significant amount of geological, geochemical and geophysical surveying was completed, followed by exploration diamond drilling. Only a small portion of this work was completed on the McMurdo property, and most of the geochemical samples were not assayed for gold.
“The confirmed presence of abundant high-grade gold veins that have been revealed by glacial recession, combined with the lack of modern-day gold exploration techniques, shows that the McMurdo property has strong potential for a significant gold discovery. With road access to the claim block and proximity to the community of Golden BC, the economics of developing a deposit are clearly enhanced. We are looking forward to advancing this high-grade gold property”.
Daithi Mac Gearailt
Carl Schulze, P. Geo., Consulting Geologist with Aurora Geosciences Ltd, is a qualified person as defined by National Instrument 43-101 for Goldstrike’s Yukon exploration projects and has reviewed and approved the technical information in this release.
For new information from the Company’s programs, please visit Goldstrike’s website at GoldstrikeResources.com and sign up to receive news. For further information, follow Goldstrike’s tweets at Twitter.com/GoldstrikeRes, use the ”Contact” section of our website, or contact us at (604) 681-1820 or at info@goldstrikeresources.com
Statements contained in this news release that are not historical facts are “forward-looking information” or “forward-looking statements” (collectively, “Forward-Looking Information”) within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation and the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-Looking Information includes, but is not limited to, disclosure regarding possible events, conditions or financial performance that is based on assumptions about future economic conditions and courses of action; expectations regarding future exploration and drilling programs and receipt of related permitting. In certain cases, Forward-Looking Information can be identified by the use of words and phrases such as “anticipates”, “expects”, “understanding”, “has agreed to” or variations of such words and phrases or statements that certain actions, events or results “would”, “occur” or “be achieved”. Although Goldstrike has attempted to identify important factors that could affect Goldstrike and may cause actual actions, events or results to differ materially from those described in Forward-Looking Information, there may be other factors that cause actions, events or results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. In making the forward-looking statements in this news release, if any, Goldstrike has applied several material assumptions, including the assumption that general business and economic conditions will not change in a materially adverse manner. There can be no assurance that Forward-Looking Information will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on Forward-Looking Information. Except as required by law, Goldstrike does not assume any obligation to release publicly any revisions to Forward-Looking Information contained in this news release to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.
by Goldstrike Resources Ltd. | Oct 19, 2020 | News 2020
October 19th, 2020 – Goldstrike Resources Ltd. (GSR.V) (Goldstrike) is pleased to announce results from its first pass prospecting and geochemical exploration program at its newly staked Willie Jack property in northern British Columbia (BC). Located in the Atsulta Mountain range, this is an area that has been previously overlooked for its gold potential with no known historical hard rock gold showings.
The prospecting portion of the 2020 program was successful in discovering widespread high-grade gold mineralization in rock over a distance of 6 kilometers, with assays up to 164 g/t (4.78 oz/ton) gold (Au) and 257 g/t (7.50 oz/ton) silver (Ag).
The soil geochemical survey was successful in outlining a 4.5 km long gold-silver-arsenic (Au-Ag-As) soil anomaly with gold values up 0.8 g/t. Upon receiving the results Goldstrike immediately extended its land package to cover new target areas of potential mineralization. The prospecting and geochemical survey included the collection of 185 ridge and spur soil samples and 94 rock grab samples.
Refer to this link for the 2020 sample results map.
The Willie Jack property is located in one of British Columbia’s last frontiers and has had no documented modern-day gold exploration prior to Goldstrike’s 2020 summer program. Based on the quantity, grades, and aerial extent of auriferous samples discovered, Goldstrike’s team believes there is potential to delineate an extensive gold system in this area of previously un-recognized gold potential in British Columbia.
Project Generation:
The Willie Jack property is a grassroots gold target, generated in-house by Goldstrike’s team, and covering highly prospective ground in an underexplored area of northern British Columbia. The Goldstrike project generation team has a solid track record of discoveries, including the Plateau property in east-central Yukon Territory, and the recently staked Skelly property in northern British Columbia.
The 3,503-hectare property is 100%-owned by Goldstrike Resources with no underlying payments or royalties. The property is situated in the Atsulta Mountain range on the Kawdy Plateau in northern British Columbia, Canada. It is located 130 km NW of Dease Lake, BC and 70 km south of the Yukon-BC border.
Geology:
The Willie Jack property covers a strongly anomalous regional geochemical gold-arsenic-antimony (Au-As-Sb) signature within a geological setting that shows potential for both porphyry and intrusion-related gold mineralization. The property is situated at the headwaters of a historic placer gold-bearing creek and covers a Jurassic age granite pluton that intrudes Paleozoic sedimentary rocks. The area was briefly prospected in the early 1970’s for its copper porphyry potential but no assays were taken for gold.
Widespread gold-silver mineralization was discovered on the property in 2020. Grab samples of rock float material assayed up to 164 g/t Au and 257 g/t Ag, and bedrock samples returned values up to 13.9 g/t Au and 25 g/t Ag. Copper (Cu) values as high as 1.74 % were also obtained from bedrock samples.
Significant gold assays were returned from both granitic intrusive rocks and sedimentary rocks. The higher-grade gold values were returned from narrow, steeply dipping quartz-sulphide veins hosted in a propylitic-altered granite. Weakly anomalous gold values were also returned from granite-hosted gossanous fracture zones that contain disseminated fine grained pyrite. Auriferous samples obtained from the sedimentary rocks near the granite contact consisted of quartz-arsenopyrite veins and resemble gold skarn mineralization. Several soil sample sites covering 4.5 kilometers of the granite-sedimentary rock contact display an anomalous Au-Ag-As +/- Bi-Sb-Te (bismuth-antimony-tellurium) signature, further suggesting gold skarn mineralization. This anomaly may represent the lode source of the placer gold in Willie Jack Creek directly downslope, and remains a priority for the 2021 follow up program.
Refer to this link for the Willie Jack presentation.
Target Generation: Three new grassroots properties available for option
During this period of global pandemic and rising gold prices, Goldstrike’s team has been compiling and analyzing British Columbia’s vast geological and geochemical databases in order to generate gold targets in underexplored areas. While Goldstrike’s main focus will remain advancement of the Plateau Property, the company will continue to generate, develop, and option out grassroots gold properties in British Columbia and Yukon Territory.
Three properties were staked by Goldstrike Resources in 2020: the Skelly, Willie Jack, and McMurdo properties. All three of the properties are located in British Columbia and underwent reconnaissance-style exploration. Results of the Skelly property program can be found in the news release dated October 5th, 2020. Results are still pending for McMurdo property and will be released as assays are received and compiled.
“This is hands down the most successful grassroots, first pass exploration program completed by the company to date. The widespread, high-grade gold mineralization discovered in this remote underexplored part of northern BC is extremely encouraging. We have staked additional ground, thereby expanding the claim package in the area, and are excited to follow up on these new discoveries next season. The Willie Jack property has the potential to be developed into a district-scale discovery.
I am thoroughly impressed with our team’s results and achievements during this uncertain Covid-19 pandemic time period. I believe Goldstrike has positioned itself well to take advantage of the current gold bull market that continues to remain strong.”
Carl Schulze, P. Geo., Consulting Geologist with Aurora Geosciences Ltd, is a qualified person as defined by National Instrument 43-101 for Goldstrike’s Yukon exploration projects, and has reviewed and approved the technical information in this release.
Statements contained in this news release that are not historical facts are “forward-looking information” or “forward-looking statements” (collectively, “Forward-Looking Information”) within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation and the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-Looking Information includes, but is not limited to, disclosure regarding possible events, conditions or financial performance that is based on assumptions about future economic conditions and courses of action; expectations regarding future exploration and drilling programs and receipt of related permitting; and the plans for completion of the contemplated transactions with Newmont as set out above. In certain cases, Forward-Looking Information can be identified by the use of words and phrases such as “anticipates”, “expects”, “understanding”, “has agreed to” or variations of such words and phrases or statements that certain actions, events or results “would”, “occur” or “be achieved”. Although Goldstrike has attempted to identify important factors that could affect Goldstrike and may cause actual actions, events or results to differ materially from those described in Forward-Looking Information, there may be other factors that cause actions, events or results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. In making the forward-looking statements in this news release, if any, Goldstrike has applied several material assumptions, including the assumption that general business and economic conditions will not change in a materially adverse manner. There can be no assurance that Forward-Looking Information will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on Forward-Looking Information. Except as required by law, Goldstrike does not assume any obligation to release publicly any revisions to Forward-Looking Information contained in this news release to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.
October 5th, 2020 – Goldstrike Resources Ltd. (GSR.V) (Goldstrike) is pleased to announce results from a first pass reconnaissance exploration program at its newly staked Skelly property in northern British Columbia.
A first pass exploration program was conducted at the Skelly property during the summer of 2020 to evaluate the property’s gold potential. A prospecting and geochemical survey included the collection of 122 ridge and spur soil samples and 64 rock grab samples. Rock samples returned gold (Au) values up to 35.5 g/t (1.03 oz/ton) and silver (Ag) values up to 488 g/t (14.24 oz/ton) in quartz-sulphide veins. Soil samples revealed a property-wide enrichment in gold, arsenic (As) and antimony (Sb) with values up to 63.4 ppb Au, 5,218 ppm As and > 2,000 ppm Sb. On receiving these results Goldstrike immediately extended its land package to cover all new targets for potential mineralization.
The Skelly property is a grassroots gold target, generated in-house by Goldstrike’s team. The Goldstrike project generation team has a solid track record of discoveries, including the Plateau property in east-central Yukon Territory.
The 2,526-hectare Skelly property is 100%-owned by Goldstrike Resources with no underlying payments or royalties. The property is situated just south of the Yukon-British Columbia (BC) border, approximately 100 km south of Whitehorse, Yukon (YT) and can be accessed via the South Klondike Highway (Hwy 2) which extends through the property.
Skelly covers a geological and geochemical setting similar to the Golden Triangle district (300 km to the south). It is located in the northern end of the Stikine Terrane which includes the Stuhini volcanic package and is marked by strong, regional-scale gold-arsenic geochemical enrichment similar to that of the Golden Triangle district. The claim package is contiguous to Bessor Mineral Inc’s 14 km-long (8,178 ha) Golden Eagle property that hosts numerous high-grade gold-silver-quartz veins with several significant drill intercepts. Goldstrike’s team believes this highly prospective gold district has been overlooked and remains underexplored compared to other gold districts in British Columbia. Like the Golden Triangle, this district has potential to host a variety of deposits, including epithermal, porphyry, and volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) deposits.
Refer to this link https://goldstrikeresources.com/wp-content/uploads/sk_gsr_pres_vfinal.pdf for the Skelly presentation.
Two previously undocumented historic exploration shafts were discovered on the property. These shafts were sunk into 0.2 – 1.0 m wide quartz-sulphide veins, from which grab samples assaying up to 35.5 g/t Au and 488 g/t Ag. This series of auriferous quartz veins was sampled along a 100-meter northwest – southeast trending corridor hosted by a shear zone that parallels a granite/metasedimentary bedrock contact. Mineralized samples obtained from the shear zone returned gold values ranging from 0.24 g/t to 35.5 g/t. The shear zone and auriferous quartz veining remain open along strike, with strong potential for additional discoveries by detailed prospecting and soil geochemical sampling. Refer to the link https://goldstrikeresources.com/wp-content/uploads/skelly_results_gold.jpg for the 2020 sample results map.
Further to the discovery of the high-grade gold and silver quartz veins, lower-grade quartz-sulphide veins were discovered 950m to the east, with float grab samples assaying up to 0.28 g/t Au. Also, low-grade gold was identified in arsenopyrite-bearing granite dikes, with gold values up to 0.1 g/t Au. The Tintina Gold Belt hosts many intrusion-related gold deposits, and Skelly’s location at the southern end of it encourages targeting of this style of mineralization in follow-up exploration.
During this period of global pandemic and rising gold prices, Goldstrike’s team has been compiling and analyzing British Columbia’s vast geological and geochemical databases in order to generate several gold targets in underexplored areas. While Goldstrike’s main focus will remain advancement of the Plateau Property, the company will continue to generate, develop, and option out grassroots gold properties in British Columbia and Yukon Territory.
Three properties were staked by Goldstrike Resources in 2020: the Skelly, Willie Jack, and McMurdo properties. All three of the properties are located in British Columbia and underwent reconnaissance-style exploration. Results are still pending for the Willie Jack and McMurdo properties and will be released as assays are received and compiled.
“We are extremely pleased with the results from this first pass program. It proves yet again that the team can take conceptual ideas and generate properties that have strong mineral potential with solid gold and silver grades. In only three days the team was able to identify multiple zones of significant gold, silver and sulphide mineralization. These showings are not only ripe for follow-up exploration, but present many new exploration opportunities along known geological contacts. Upon receiving these results, we immediately staked additional ground to secure the area.
I await results from our other grassroots projects, the Willie Jack and McMurdo projects, with great anticipation.”
by Goldstrike Resources Ltd. | Jul 10, 2020 | News 2020
July 10, 2020 – Goldstrike Resources Ltd. (“Goldstrike” or the “Company) announces that subject to all regulatory approvals, Goldstrike has granted 1,760,000 incentive stock options to directors, officers, board advisors and certain consultants of the Company. Options issued pursuant to this grant to directors and officers shall vest immediately; options issued to board advisors and certain consultants shall vest for a period of 18 months with 1/6 vest each 3 months. All options have a term of 5 years and are exercisable at $0.24.
Daithi MacGearailt
For new information from the Company’s programs, please visit Goldstrike’s website at GoldstrikeResources.com. For further information follow the Goldstrike’s tweets at Twitter.com/GoldstrikeRes or contact Daithi MacGearailt by telephone at (604) 681-1820 or by email at info@goldstrikeresources.com.
by Goldstrike Resources Ltd. | May 5, 2020 | News 2020
May 5, 2020 – Goldstrike Resources Ltd. (GSR.V) is pleased to provide a corporate update regarding the status of the Company and its assets.
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Goldstrike corporate office in downtown Vancouver is currently closed. All staff are working from home and steps have been taken to ensure operations are proceeding as effectively as possible. Goldstrike will continue to monitor the situation and act within the guidelines and recommendations of the provincial, territorial, and federal governments in which it operates.
Plateau Property
Goldstrike’s 662 km2 Plateau Property, located 120 km east of Mayo, Yukon Territory, remains the Company’s flagship property and core asset. This newly discovered, district-scale gold system hosts high-grade gold along a 50-kilometre strike length in the underexplored Selwyn Basin. In addition to Plateau, the Selwyn Basin also hosts recent discoveries by ATAC Resources Ltd. of Carlin-type deposits at the Osiris project (1.68M oz gold (Au), inferred resource), and the carbonate-replacement-type Tiger deposit (464,000 oz Au, measured + indicated resource). The Selwyn Basin also hosts the Yukon’s newest and largest gold mine: Victoria Gold Corp.’s Eagle Deposit (3.3M oz Au, proven + probable reserves). Most recently, Seabridge Gold announced an agreement to acquire the 3 Aces gold project (located in the southeast corner of the Selwyn) from the Golden Predator Mining Corp. Due to these many new and evolving projects, industry and academic interest in the Selwyn remains strong.
Data Evaluation
Over the last year, Goldstrike and our team of consultants have been evaluating the massive data package that was obtained by Newmont during its option agreement term with Plateau from 2017 to 2019. This data includes airborne geophysical surveys, such as airborne EM (electro-magnetic), airborne magnetic and radiometric, and property-wide LiDAR surveys. Newmont also completed geochemical surveys, such as its proprietary regional stream sediment sampling (BLEG) survey and obtained more than 5,500 soil samples. Using this data set, Goldstrike’s goals are to further develop and expand known showings at Plateau, and to evaluate the mineral potential of underexplored areas of the property.
Access Improvements
Goldstrike has undertaken plans to improve access to the Goldstack zone (Discovery hole – 13.25 g/t Au over 17.5m,) to reduce or remove the need for helicopter support. The zone is located less than 1 kilometre from Goldstack Lake, the primary float-plane access point for the Plateau Property.
Future Exploration Plans
A 2018 orientation IP (induced polarization) survey at Goldstack indicated the zone displays a distinct and robust chargeability signature. The Company believes at this time that IP surveying is the most effective tool available for finding similar or larger zones of mineralization in the immediate area, and as such is designing a large-scale IP survey over the Goldstack area.
On a corporate level, the Company is discussing multiple options and structures to move the Plateau Project forward and build value. For more information, an updated corporate presentation can be found on our new website here.
Beyond Plateau
Goldstrike Resources continues to be a pure gold explorer. The Company is currently evaluating gold projects of merit across Canada and the United States with the intention of acquisition. The Goldstrike team is committed to grow the Company and build value for our shareholders.
Annual Filings
The company is pleased to announce that it has filed its audited annual financial statements and related Management’s Discussion and Analysis (the “MD&A”) for the financial year ended December 31, 2019 (collectively, the “Annual Filings”) on the System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval (“SEDAR”). To review a copy of the Annual Filings, please visit www.sedar.com.
“During these challenging times, our first and foremost priority is the safety and well-being of our staff. We are taking the time now to form strategies to safely and effectively execute meaningful work programs this season. We firmly believe that gold exploration in stable jurisdictions is where real value will be built for our investors. As the Company sits today, we have over $2M cash in the bank, just under 10M shares outstanding, and an excellent core asset. Having the right team, financial support and structure, we are uniquely positioned to seize opportunities as they present themselves”.
Goldstrike Announces Completion of Share Consolidation
by Goldstrike Resources Ltd. | Jan 17, 2020 | News 2020
Goldstrike Resources Ltd. (“Goldstrike” or the “Company) announces that further to its news release of December 23, 2019, the Company’s intention to consolidate its common shares (“Shares”) on a 20-old-for-1-new share basis (the “Consolidation”) has been accepted by the TSX Venture Exchange.
Prior to implementing the Consolidation, the Company had 190,343,723 Shares issued and outstanding and immediately after implementing the Consolidation, the Company will have 9,517,186 Shares issued and outstanding. No fractional shares will be issued as a result of the Consolidation. Each fractional share following the Consolidation that is less than one-half of a share will be cancelled and each fractional share that is at least one-half of a share will be rounded down to the nearest whole share. The exercise price and the number of Shares issuable under any of the Company’s outstanding stock options and convertible instruments, as applicable, will be proportionately adjusted in connection with the Consolidation.
Effective at the opening of trading on January 17, 2020 the pre-Consolidation Shares in the name of Goldstrike Resources Ltd. will be delisted and the post-Consolidation Shares will commence trading under the same name Goldstrike Resources Ltd. and same trading symbol of “GSR”.
Holders of Shares who hold un-certificated Shares (including Shares held through a brokerage account and/or not represented by a physical share certificate) have had their holdings electronically adjusted by the Company’s transfer agent or by their brokerage firms, banks, trust or other nominees. Such holders do not need to take any additional actions to exchange their pre-Consolidation Shares for post-Consolidation Shares. Letters of transmittal have been mailed to all registered shareholders holding share certificates with instructions on how to exchange existing share certificates for new share certificates. A letter of transmittal is also available on SEDAR. The Company’s new CUSIP number is 38154B208 and its new ISIN number is CA38154B2084.
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Assent and Dissent for Dementia Research
Black, Betty E.
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States
Search 18 grants from Betty Black
Search grants from Johns Hopkins University
CD177 suppresses breast-cancer development by inhibiting beta-catenin
HALF-PINT: Heart and Lung Failure - Pediatric INsulin Titration trial - CCC
Alcohol, the vagus nerve and multi-organ inflammation
Depression and Anxiety - Refining Efficacious Treatments
Interval exercise training as a therapy for endometrial cancer
Obtaining informed consent is a fundamental element of conducting ethical research. When a study requires the participation of adults who lack capacity to provide informed consent, such as persons who have dementia, investigators are faced with the ethical, legal and practical challenges of obtaining proxy consent and assent from potential participants. While the principle of respect for persons requires that those with diminished decisional capacity be given the opportunity to choose, to the extent they are able, whether to participate in research, consensus on the standards for assessing assent and dissent for research is lacking and no studies report the validity or reliability of standards to assess these abilities. This study has two specific aims: (1) identify the standards by which assent and dissent for research should be assessed in adults who lack capacity to give informed consent, and (2) based on those standards, generate a set of items that will form the basis of an instrument to assess assent and dissent in this population. This study will focus on assessing assent and dissent in persons who have dementia because of its high prevalence, its impact on society and the intense research effort directed toward persons at all stages of the syndrome. This study will use qualitative research methods, including interviews and focus group discussions with experts and other key informants on dementia, dementia research and research ethics, to define assent and dissent for research and identify standards for assessing assent and dissent in this population. These standards will be the criteria for measuring the decision making abilities needed to provide assent and for how to ethically respect dissent. Since empirical research on assent and dissent in adults is scarce, these methods provide data on which theory development and testing can be based. Scale development methods will be used to generate a set of items for an assessment instrument, the Assent and Dissent Assessment Tool (ADAT). The participating experts and other key informants will review and judge these items for content and face validity. This work serves as the foundation for future studies that will pilot test and finalize the ADAT and determine its reliability and criterion-related validity. Methods for accurately assessing assent and dissent for dementia research will increase the ability to protect the interests of potential study participants and support the ethical conduct of critical research. ? Project Narrative ? ? This study will focus on identifying standards for assessing assent and dissent for research in those who have dementia because of its high prevalence, its impact on society and the intense research effort directed toward it. Based on the standards identified, it will generate a set of measurement items that will form the basis for an instrument to assess assent and dissent for research in this population. Methods for accurately assessing assent and dissent for dementia research will increase our ability to protect the interests of potential study participants and support the ethical conduct of critical research. ? ? ?
Exploratory/Developmental Grants (R21)
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Special Emphasis Panel (ZRG1-HOP-S (90))
Silverberg, Nina B
R21 AG Assent and Dissent for Dementia Research
Black, Betty E. / Johns Hopkins University $176,776
Black, Betty S; Rabins, Peter V; Sugarman, Jeremy et al. (2010) Seeking assent and respecting dissent in dementia research. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 18:77-85
Rabins, Peter V; Black, Betty S (2010) Ethical issues in geriatric psychiatry. Int Rev Psychiatry 22:267-73
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NOTE: The policies, guidelines, terms, and conditions stated in this announcement may differ from those used by the NIH. Where this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) provides specific written guidance that may differ from the general guidance provided in the grant application form, please follow the instructions given in this FOA.
Disseminating and Implementing Patient-Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR) Evidence into Practice through Interoperable Clinical Decision Support
R18 Research Demonstration and Disseminations Projects
This Funding Opportunity Announcement invites R18 grant applications that disseminate and implement patient-centered outcomes research evidence in clinical practice by scaling computer-based, interoperable clinical decision support.
The first standard due date for the FOA is January 25, 2021.
All applications are due by 5:00 PM local time of applicant organization.
Generally, four months after receipt date.
Generally, four months after peer review date.
It is critical that applicants follow the Research (R) Instructions in the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide, except where instructed to do otherwise (in this FOA or in a Notice from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts). Conformance to all requirements (both in the Application Guide and the FOA) is required and strictly enforced. Applicants must read and follow all application instructions in the Application Guide as well as any program-specific instructions noted in Section IV and follow the AHRQ Grants Policy and Guidance found on the AHRQ website at http://www.ahrq.gov/funding/policies/foaguidance/index.html.
Applicants who propose the use of identifiable CMS data are advised to review NOT-HS-19-007 (https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-HS-19-007.html) for important changes to how applicants are to budget for the cost of this data.
When the program-specific instructions deviate from those in the Application Guide, follow the program-specific instructions. Applications that do not comply with these instructions may be delayed or not accepted for review.
1. Use the NIH ASSIST system to prepare, submit and track your application online.
2. Use an institutional system-to-system (S2S) solution to prepare and submit your application to Grants.gov and eRA Commons to track your application. Check with your institutional officials regarding availability.
3. Use Grants.gov Workspace to prepare and submit your application and eRA Commons to track your application.
Use Grants.gov Workspace to prepare and submit your application and eRA Commons to track your application.
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites R18 grant applications that disseminate and implement patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) evidence into clinical practice through clinical decision support (CDS). AHRQ seeks projects that scale interoperable CDS across different health care systems and technologies (e.g., different electronic health records) and that disseminate lessons learned about how to achieve CDS scalability and interoperability.
Definitions of Key Terms
Clinical decision support (CDS) provides patient-specific information and knowledge, enabled by health information technology (IT), to clinicians, patients, or other individuals to enhance health and health care (Mardon et al., 2014). CDS includes processes and mechanisms that aim to deliver the right information, to the right people, using the right formats, in the right channels, and at the right times during workflow (often referred to as the "5 Rights" framework; Osheroff, 2009). Well-implemented, electronic CDS can improve health care processes (Lobach, 2012). More recently, the Patient-Centered CDS Learning Network highlighted the importance of patients directly participating in the development and implementation of CDS so that the patient perspective can be better incorporated into the design of health IT systems.
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR) is comparative clinical effectiveness research of the impact on health outcomes of two or more preventive, diagnostic, treatment, or healthcare delivery approaches. PCOR produces not only clinical findings (e.g., thiazide diuretics are an effective first-line therapy for hypertension), but also evidence about the effectiveness of how healthcare is delivered. There are multiple sources of PCOR findings, including but not limited to those listed below:
AHRQ Effective Health Care Program (http://www.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/)
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (http://www.pcori.org/)
U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (http://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/)
Community Preventive Services Task Force (https://www.thecommunityguide.org/)
Scalability and Interoperability
For the purposes of this FOA, scalability is the concept of growth to accommodate new sites, end users, workflows, and platforms. Projects should focus on how CDS based on the same set of PCOR evidence developed for one setting can be extended to other settings and platforms while still meeting the CDS 5 Rights. Interoperability refers to the secure exchange of health information between systems without special effort on the part of users (see definitions and concepts at https://www.healthit.gov/topic/interoperability). Projects should focus on using health IT standards that promote interoperability and re-use of CDS resources for implementation by other healthcare systems (see AHRQ NOT-HS-19-020 available at https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-HS-19-020.html regarding use of Health Level 7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources or FHIR).
Since 2016, AHRQ has led a multi-component initiative with two broad aims: to advance PCOR evidence into practice through CDS and to make CDS more shareable, standards-based, and publicly available (see https://cds.ahrq.gov). The components of the initiative include:
1. Engaging a stakeholder community, including patients, clinicians, payers, and developers of CDS.
2. Developing prototype infrastructure, called CDS Connect, to author and share interoperable CDS through a publicly-available repository and set of tools.
3. Disseminating evidence into practice through grant-funded CDS demonstrations.
4. Evaluating the overall initiative.
While significant advancement has occurred relative to stakeholder engagement and prototype infrastructure for sharing CDS, CDS development and implementation continue in siloes, leading to redundant effort across healthcare systems that are developing similar CDS from the same set of evidence. This redundant effort has been estimated to cost the U.S. healthcare system $25 billion. (Johnston, 2003)
Health IT standards hold promise for advancing interoperability and re-use of CDS, thus potentially lowering the collective burden on healthcare systems to independently develop CDS. Standards such as HL7 FHIR and Clinical Quality Language (CQL) are gaining momentum and are helping healthcare systems define the data and logic required by CDS systems, which in turn promote interoperability and re-use. However, standards-based CDS still requires local adaptation, as even commonly adopted EHRs are locally customized and unique to each site.
A critical area of research, therefore, is how healthcare systems can effectively share and re-use standards-based CDS where differences exist among EHRs, workflows, and end users. While literature is beginning to grow in this space, showing how best to support adoption and uptake of CDS remains elusive (Mann, 2019). CDS research projects should contextualize dissemination and implementation of CDS accurately and completely.
In addition, the recently funded Patient-Centered CDS Learning Network identified patient perspective as important to include during CDS design and implementation. CDS projects should incorporate patient perspective in meaningful ways to ensure that CDS systems support patient-clinician relationships and shared decision-making.
Objectives and Scope
The ultimate goal of this FOA is to disseminate and implement PCOR evidence in clinical practice by scaling shared, interoperable CDS. To meet this goal, applicants must describe the following:
Demonstrating scalability: How the project extends existing CDS beyond the initial clinical setting or institution that initially developed the CDS to other sites with different EHRs, end users, work flows, and/or health IT platforms.
Promoting interoperability: How the project uses standards such as Health Level 7 (HL7) Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR), Clinical Quality Language (CQL), FHIR Clinical Guidelines (also known as ClinicalPracticeGuidelinesOnFHIR or CPGonFHIR), and others to facilitate consistent and replicable implementation of the CDS across different healthcare systems. Applicants are highly encouraged to use open source authoring (https://cds.ahrq.gov/cdsconnect/authoring) and testing tools (https://cds.ahrq.gov/cdsconnect/community/tech_resources) available through AHRQ’s CDS Connect project (https://cds.ahrq.gov/cdsconnect).
Disseminating CDS knowledge artifacts: How the project will develop and disseminate interoperable CDS knowledge resources (“artifacts”) for potential re-use by others, including how those resources will be FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Re-usable). Examples of CDS knowledge resources include CQL code, Level 2 and Level 3 representations of the CDS (Boxwala, 2011), and value sets. Applicants must also describe any supporting material appropriate for public dissemination, e.g., implementation guides and reports about pilot testing and evaluation. At a minimum, grantees will be required to use the CDS Connect repository to disseminate CDS artifacts and any supporting material, though grantees may decide to disseminate further, e.g., through other websites, peer-reviewed publications, scientific meetings, in addition to using CDS Connect. The CDS Connect repository has become essential to AHRQ's efforts to disseminate PCOR evidence into practice through CDS and has become the central location for disseminating AHRQ-funded, PCOR-based CDS. Further, the repository is supported by a diverse public work group that provides feedback on CDS Connect activities, resources, and infrastructure.
Incorporating patient perspective: How the project will incorporate patient perspective during the design and implementation of the CDS, including evaluating how the CDS was changed or improved because of patient input.
Contributing to a collaborative community of CDS developers and implementers: How the project will participate and contribute to a growing CDS community aimed at helping to share and re-use interoperable, patient-centered CDS. Examples of collaborative activities include: participating in the CDS Connect Work Group, actively reaching out to other grantees (once identified) to share lessons learned over the course of the projects, and collaborating on abstracts submitted to research meetings and conferences.
Choosing important clinical domains: How and why the particular CDS and clinical domain(s) were chosen. For example, what gap(s) in care are being addressed? How will the CDS impact patient outcomes? Why would the new settings receiving the scaled CDS want to use it? Applicants must describe the evidence-based practice that the CDS is meant to disseminate and implement (including the strength of recommendation and level of evidence, if applicable, and appropriate citations). At least one government-funded PCOR finding or study (e.g., PCORI, NIH, AHRQ Effective Health Care Program, U.S. Preventive Services Task Force) must be among the citations.
Using the Five Rights framework: How the CDS being developed and scaled meets the “Five Rights” framework. For example, how will the CDS be incorporated into workflow for clinical teams and for patient-facing applications, "life flow" for patients and caregivers? What aspects of user-centered design have been incorporated and adjusted to reflect the scaling effort to new users and settings?
Evaluating impact: How the project will frame and conduct an evaluation of the dissemination and implementation of interoperable CDS, including the hypotheses to be tested and measures to be used.
In addition, applications must include a detailed project timeline that shows major milestones.
Examples of highly responsive applications include but are not limited to:
Scaling previously developed and validated CDS from the grantee’s healthcare system to a different healthcare system that uses a different EHR
Using the CDS Connect Authoring Tool (or similar technology) to engineer new, standards-based CDS and demonstrating implementation in more than one channel (e.g., different EHR platforms, EHR platform plus mobile app)
Re-using CDS developed outside a grantee’s healthcare system (e.g., CDS developed elsewhere and publicly available on CDS Connect or another platform) and adapting the CDS to work within the grantee’s own healthcare system
Boxwala AA, Rocha BH, Maviglia S, Kashyap V, Meltzer S, Kim J, Tsurikova R, Wright A, Paterno MD, Fairbanks A, Middleton B. A multi-layered framework for disseminating knowledge for computer-base decision support. J Am Med Inform Assoc 2011:18(Suppl 1):i132-i139.
Johnston D, Pan E, Walker J, Bates DW, Middleton B. The value of computerized provider order entry in ambulatory settings. Center for Information Technology Leadership, 2003.
Lobach D, Sanders GD, Bright TJ, Wong A, Dhurjati R, Bristow E, Bastian L, Coeytaux R, Samsa G, Hasselblad V, Williams JW, Wing L, Musty M, Kendrick AS. Enabling Health Care Decisionmaking Through Clinical Decision Support and Knowledge Management. Evidence Report No. 203. (Prepared by the Duke Evidence-based Practice Center under Contract No. 290-2007-10066-I.) AHRQ Publication No. 12-E001-EF. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. April 2012.
Mann D, Hess R, McGinn T, Mishuris R, Chokshi S, McCullagh L, Smith PD, Palmisano J, Richardson S, Feldstein DA. Adaptive design of a clinical decision support tool: what the impact on utilization rates means for future CDS research. Digit Health. 2019;5:2055207619827716. Published 2019 Feb 6. doi:10.1177/2055207619827716.
Mardon R, Mercincavage L, Johnson M, Finley S, Pan E, Arora D. Findings and Lessons From AHRQ’s Clinical Decision Support Demonstration Projects. (Prepared by Westat under Contract No. HHSA 290-2009-00023I). AHRQ Publication No. 14-0047-EF. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. June 2014.
Osheroff JA, ed. Improving medication use and outcomes with clinical decision support: a step-by-step guide. Chicago, IL: HIMSS, 2009.
The number of awards is contingent upon funds availability and the submission of a sufficient number of meritorious applications.
The total costs (direct and indirect) for a project awarded under this FOA will not exceed $1,000,000 in any given year and $3 million for the entire project period
Funds may be used only for those expenses that are directly related and necessary to the project and must be expended in compliance with applicable OMB Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for HHS Awards (45 CFR Part 75) and the HHS Grants Policy Statement
The project period may not exceed 3 years.
42 U.S.C. 299b-37(b) authorizes AHRQ to make these awards to assist users of health information technology focused on clinical decision support to promote the timely incorporation of government-funded PCOR research findings into clinical practice and to promote the ease of use of such incorporation.
All applications submitted and AHRQ grants made in response to this FOA are subject to 45 CFR Part 75 (Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles and Audit Requirements for HHS Awards; http://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?node=pt45.1.75) , the HHS Grants Policy Statement (see http://www.ahrq.gov/funding/policies/hhspolicy/index.html), and the terms and conditions set forth in the Notice of Award.
The following types of Higher Education Institutions are always encouraged to apply for AHRQ support as Public or Private Institutions of Higher Education:
AHRQ's authorizing legislation does not allow for-profit organizations to be eligible to lead applications under this research mechanism. For-profit organizations may participate in projects as members of consortia or as subcontractors only. Because the purpose of this program is to improve healthcare in the United States, foreign institutions may participate in projects as members of consortia or as subcontractors only. Applications submitted by for-profit organizations or foreign institutions will not be reviewed. Organizations described in section 501(c) 4 of the Internal Revenue Code that engage in lobbying are not eligible.
HHS grants policy requires that the grant recipient perform a substantive role in the conduct of the planned project or program activity and not merely serve as a conduit of funds to another party or parties. If consortium/contractual activities represent a significant portion of the overall project, the applicant must justify why the applicant organization, rather than the party(s) performing this portion of the overall project, should be the grantee and what substantive role the applicant organization will play. Justification can be provided in the Specific Aims or Research Strategy section of the PHS398 Research Plan Component sections of the SF424 (R&R) application. There is no budget allocation guideline for determining substantial involvement; determination of substantial involvement is based on a review of the primary project activities for which grant support is provided and the organization(s) that will be performing those activities.
Applicant organizations must complete and maintain the following registrations as described in the SF 424 (R&R) Application Guide to be eligible to apply for or receive an award. All registrations must be completed prior to the application being submitted. Registration can take 6 weeks or more, so applicants should begin the registration process as soon as possible. Dun and Bradstreet Universal Numbering System (DUNS) - All registrations require that applicants be issued a DUNS number. After obtaining a DUNS number, applicants can begin both SAM and eRA Commons registrations. The same DUNS number must be used for all registrations, as well as on the grant application.
System for Award Management (SAM)– Applicants must complete and maintain an active registration, which requires renewal at least annually. The renewal process may require as much time as the initial registration. SAM registration includes the assignment of a Commercial and Government Entity (CAGE) Code for domestic organizations which have not already been assigned a CAGE Code.
Any individual(s) with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research as the Program Director(s)/Principal Investigator(s) (PD(s)/PI(s)) is invited to work with his/her organization to develop an application for support. Individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups as well as individuals with disabilities are always encouraged to apply for AHRQ support.
For institutions/organizations proposing multiple PDs/PIs, visit the Multiple Program Director/Principal Investigator Policy and submission details in the Senior/Key Person Profile (Expanded) Component of the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide. The AHRQ multiple PDs/PIs policy can be found at https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-HS-16-018.html.
A single PD/PI, or the multiple PD(s)/PI(s) combined, must devote a minimum of 20% full-time effort (i.e. at least 8 hours per week) in each given year of the project.
This FOA does not require cost sharing.
While there is no cost sharing requirement included in this FOA, AHRQ welcomes applicant institutions, including any collaborating institutions, to devote resources to this effort. An indication of institutional support from the applicant and its collaborators indicates a greater potential of success and sustainability of the project. Examples of institutional support would include donated equipment and space, institutional funded staff time and effort, or other resource investments. Applicant institutions should indicate institutional support by outlining the specific contributions to the project and providing assurances that their organization and any collaborators are committed to providing these funds and resources to the project. This information can be included at the end of the budget justification section of the application, but institutional support dollars are not to be shown/included in the detailed budget request.
The AHRQ will not accept duplicate or highly overlapping applications under review at the same time. This means that the AHRQ will not accept:
An application that has substantial overlap with another application pending appeal of initial peer review (see NOT-OD-18-197). If the sentence above is not true, and the Number of Applications field in the first table states that only one application is allowed, IC must insert a comment to change the sentence above to “Only one application per institution (normally identified by having a unique DUNS number or NIH IPF number) is allowed.”
Budget Component: Special Instructions for AHRQ applications
AHRQ is NOT using the Modular Grant Application and Award Process. Applicants applying for funding from AHRQ are to ignore application instructions concerning the Modular Grant Application and Award Process, and prepare applications using instructions for the Research and Related Budget Components of the SF 424 (R&R). Applications submitted in the Modular format will not be reviewed.
Introduction (not required) is limited to 1 page.
Specific Aims section is limited to 1 page.
Research Strategy section, including tables, graphs, figures, diagrams, charts, the dissemination plan, and the timeline is limited to 12 pages.
Applicants must describe their approach to using shared, interoperable CDS resources as a means of disseminating and implementing evidence into clinical practice. Specifically, applicants must address the following elements:
Demonstrating scalability: How the project extends existing CDS beyond the initial clinical setting or institution that initially developed the CDS to other sites with different EHRs, end users, workflows, and/or health IT platforms.
Promoting interoperability: How the project uses standards such as Health Level 7 (HL7) Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR), Clinical Quality Language (CQL), FHIR Clinical Guidelines (also known as ClinicalPracticeGuidelinesOnFHIR or CPGonFHIR), and others to facilitate consistent and replicable implementation of the CDS across different healthcare systems. Applicants are highly encouraged to use open source authoring and testing tools available through AHRQ’s CDS Connect project (https://cds.ahrq.gov/cdsconnect).
Disseminating CDS knowledge artifacts: How the project will develop and disseminate interoperable CDS knowledge resources (“artifacts”) for potential re-use by others, including how those resources will be FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Re-usable). Examples of CDS knowledge resources include CQL code, Level 2 and Level 3 representations of the CDS (Boxwala, 2011), and value sets. Applicants must also describe any supporting material appropriate for public dissemination, e.g., implementation guides and reports about pilot testing and evaluation. At a minimum, grantees will be required to use the CDS Connect repository to disseminate CDS artifacts and any supporting material, though grantees may decide to disseminate further, e.g., through other websites, peer-reviewed publications, scientific meetings, in addition to using CDS Connect. Current information about contributing to the CDS Connect repository can be found at https://cds.ahrq.gov/cdsconnect/governance and https://cds.ahrq.gov/cdsconnect/faq.
Choosing important clinical domains: How and why the particular CDS and clinical domain(s) were chosen. For example, what gap(s) in care are being addressed? How will the CDS impact patient outcomes? Why would the new settings receiving the scaled CDS want to use it? Applicants must describe the evidence-based practice that the CDS is meant to disseminate and implement (including the strength of recommendation and level of evidence, if applicable, and appropriate citations). At least one government-funded PCOR finding or study (e.g., PCORI, AHRQ Effective Health Care Program, U.S. Preventive Services Task Force) must be among the citations.
Generally, Resource Sharing Plans are expected, but they are not applicable for this FOA.
Do not use the Appendix to circumvent page limits. Follow all instructions for the Appendix as described in the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide. See NIH/NIOSH/AHRQ New Policy Appendix Guide located at NOT-OD-18-126.
When involving human subjects research, clinical research, and/or clinical trials (and when applicable, clinical trials research experience) follow all instructions for the PHS Human Subjects and Clinical Trials Information form in the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide, with the following additional instructions
Organizations must submit applications to Grants.gov (the online portal to find and apply for grants across all Federal agencies). Applicants must then complete the submission process by tracking the status of the application in the eRA Commons, NIH’s electronic system for grants administration. AHRQ and Grants.gov systems check the application against many of the application instructions upon submission. Errors must be corrected and a changed/corrected application must be submitted to Grants.gov on or before the application due date and time. If a Changed/Corrected application is submitted after the deadline, the application will be considered late.
For efficient grant administration, AHRQ grant administration procedures will be used and conducted in accordance with the terms and conditions, cost principles, and other considerations described in the HHS Grants Policy Statement. The HHS Grants Policy Statement can be found at http://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/grants/grants/policies-regulations/hhsgps107.pdf.
Pre-award costs are allowable. A grantee may, at its own risk and without AHRQ prior approval, incur obligations and expenditures to cover costs up to 90 days before the beginning date of the initial budget period of a new award if such costs are necessary to conduct the project and would be allowable under the grant, if awarded, without AHRQ prior approval. If specific expenditures would otherwise require prior approval, the grantee must obtain AHRQ approval before incurring the cost. AHRQ prior approval is required for any costs to be incurred more than 90 days before the beginning date of the initial budget period of a new award.
The incurrence of pre-award costs in anticipation of a competing or non-competing award imposes no obligation on AHRQ either to make the award or to increase the amount of the approved budget if an award is made for less than the amount anticipated and is inadequate to cover the pre-award costs incurred. AHRQ expects the grantee to be fully aware that pre-award costs result in borrowing against future support and that such borrowing must not impair the grantee's ability to accomplish the project objectives in the approved time frame or in any way adversely affect the conduct of the project.
All PD(s)/PI(s) must include their eRA Commons ID in the Credential field of the Senior/Key Person Profile Component of the SF424(R&R) Application Package. Failure to register in the Commons and to include a valid PD/PI Commons ID in the credential field will prevent the successful submission of an electronic application to AHRQ. See Section III of this FOA for information on registration requirements.
The applicant should pay particular attention to the SF424 (R&R) application guide instructions (https://grants.nih.gov/grants/how-to-apply-application-guide/forms-e/general-forms-e.pdf) concerning letters of support. Letters of support, recommendation, or affirmation from any entity or individual not directly participating in the project should not be included.
Upon receipt, applications will be evaluated for completeness and compliance with application instructions by the Center for Scientific Review, NIH and responsiveness by AHRQ. Applications that are incomplete or non-compliant will not be reviewed.
Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval of human subjects is not required prior to peer review of an application (see https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-HS-00-003.html). However, initiation of IRB review, if necessary or applicable, is strongly encouraged to assure timely commencement of research.
Although there is no immediate acknowledgement of the receipt of an application, applicants are generally notified of the review and funding assignment within eight (8) weeks.
Post Submission Material
AHRQ supports research, evaluations, and demonstration projects concerning the delivery of health care in inner-city and rural areas (including frontier areas), and health care for priority populations. Priority populations include low income groups, minority groups, women, children, the elderly, and individuals with special health care needs, including individuals with disabilities and individuals who need chronic care or end-of-life health care. 42 USC 299(c). Women and members of minority groups are included in all AHRQ-supported research projects involving human subjects, unless a clear and compelling rationale and justification is provided that inclusion is inappropriate, e.g. because of the lack of connection between the study and the health of women or particular minorities. Investigators should review the document entitled, “AHRQ Policy on the Inclusion of Priority Populations,” which is available at https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-HS-03-010.html. Applicants under this FOA should consider and discuss including priority populations in the research design as specified in this Notice.
Public Access to AHRQ-Funded Scientific Publications
Investigators should review the document titled ‘AHRQ Announces new Policy for Public Access to AHRQ-Funded Scientific Publications’, which is available at (http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-HS-16-008.html). For all research arising from AHRQ support, this policy requires that AHRQ-funded authors submit an electronic version of the author’s final peer-reviewed accepted manuscript to the National Library of Medicine's PubMed Central (PMC) to be made publicly available within 12 months of the publisher’s date of publication.
AHRQ Data Management Plan Policy
Investigators should review the document titled AHRQ Data Management Plan (DMP) Policy, which is available at (https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-HS-20-011.html). This policy requires applicants for AHRQ new/competing grants and research contracts to include a DMP for managing, storing and disseminating the primary data, samples, physical collections and other supporting materials created or gathered in the course of research funded by AHRQ, or state why data management is not possible, as a component of their grant application or research contract proposal.
Data Confidentiality
The AHRQ confidentiality statute, 42 USC 299c-3(c), requires that information that is obtained in the course of AHRQ supported activities and that identifies individuals or establishments be used only for the purpose for which it was supplied. Information that is obtained in the course of AHRQ-supported activities and that identifies an individual may be published or released only with the consent of the individual who supplied the information or is described in it. There are civil monetary penalties for violation of the confidentiality provision of the AHRQ statute. 42 USC 299c-3(d). In the Human Subjects section of the application, applicants must describe procedures for ensuring the confidentiality of the identifying information to be collected (see NOT-HS-18-012: Confidentiality in AHRQ-Supported Research). The description of the procedures should include a discussion of who will be permitted access to this information, both raw data and machine readable files, and how personal identifiers and other identifying or identifiable data will be restricted and safeguarded. Identifiable patient health information collected by grantees under this RFA will also be obtained and managed in accordance with the HIPAA Privacy Rule, 45 CFR Parts 160 and 164.
The grantee should ensure that computer systems containing confidential data have a level and scope of security that equals or exceeds that established by the HIPAA Security Rules if applicable (see HIPAA website in prior paragraph) and that established by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in OMB Circular No. A-130, Appendix III - Security of Federal Automated Information Systems. The applicability and intended means of applying these confidentiality and security standards to subcontractors and vendors, if any, should be addressed in the application.
Sharing Research Resources: Rights in Data
Unless otherwise provided in grant awards, AHRQ grantees may copyright, or seek patents for, as appropriate, final and interim products and materials developed in whole or in part with AHRQ support, including, but not limited to, methodological tools, measures, software with documentation, literature searches, and analyses. Such copyrights and patents are subject to a royalty-free, non-exclusive, and irrevocable AHRQ license to reproduce, publish, use or disseminate for any purpose consistent with AHRQ’s statutory responsibilities and to authorize others to do so for any purpose consistent with AHRQ’s statutory responsibilities. In accordance with its legislative dissemination mandate, AHRQ purposes may include, subject to statutory confidentiality protections, making project materials, databases, results, and algorithms available for verification or replication by other researchers. In addition, subject to AHRQ budget constraints, final products may be made available to the health care community and the public by AHRQ or its agents if such distribution would significantly increase access to a product and thereby produce substantial or valuable public health benefits. Ordinarily, to accomplish distribution, AHRQ publicizes research findings but relies on grantees to publish research results in peer-reviewed journals and to market grant-supported products. AHRQ requests that grantees notify the Office of Communications (OC) when an AHRQ-funded research article has been accepted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal. Researchers should submit manuscripts that have been accepted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal to JournalPublishing@ahrq.hhs.gov at least four to six weeks in advance of the journal’s expected publication date.
Regulations applicable to AHRQ grantees concerning intangible rights and copyright can be found at 45 CFR 75.322.
The mission of AHRQ is to produce evidence to make health care safer, higher quality, more accessible, equitable, and affordable, and to work with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and other partners to make sure that the evidence is understood and used.
AHRQ's priority areas of focus are available at: https://www.ahrq.gov/funding/policies/foaguidance/index.html.
Applications that are complete and responsive to the FOA will be evaluated for scientific and technical merit by an appropriate objective group convened in accordance with standard AHRQ peer-review procedures that are described in 42 CFR Part 67, Subpart A. Incomplete and/or non-responsive applications or applications not following instructions given in this FOA will not be reviewed. Only the review criteria described below will be considered in the review process.
Administrative Criteria: Upon receipt, applications will be evaluated for completeness by the Center for Scientific Review, National Institutes of Health, and for responsiveness by AHRQ.
Merit Review Criteria: Merit Review Criteria, as described below, will be considered in the review process.
To what extent will the project increase our knowledge about the interoperability and scalability of CDS across healthcare systems?
To what extent will the project increase our knowledge about the use of CDS-related standards in operational settings?
To what extent does the CDS address an important gap in quality of care? Will the CDS impact patient outcomes, improve patient-centeredness of care, and/or reduce clinical burden?
If the aims of the project are achieved, how will scientific knowledge, technical capability, and/or clinical practice be improved?
To what extent will the project advance our knowledge about how to meaningfully incorporate patient perspective early in CDS development and implementation (e.g., during design)?
Are the PD(s)/PI(s), collaborators, and other researchers well suited to the project?
If established, have they demonstrated an ongoing record of accomplishments that have advanced their field(s)?
If the project is collaborative or includes multi-PDs/PIs, do the investigators have complementary and integrated expertise; are their leadership approaches, governance and organizational structures appropriate for the project?
Does the team have specific expertise in standards that support CDS specification (e.g., CQL) and services (e.g., FHIR)?
Is the minimum effort level requirement of the PD(s)/PI(s) being met?
Are the proposed levels of effort for all key personnel appropriate for carrying out the project successfully?
To what extent will the project include new and innovative methods for scaling CDS implementations? Are the methods themselves scalable and repeatable?
To what extent will the project include new technologies (e.g., channels, formats) to deliver the CDS?
To what degree (i.e., level of effort) are patients included in the design and implementation of the CDS?
To what extent will the project disseminate CDS resources that are FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Re-usable)?
Does the approach build on the 5 Rights of CDS framework, including attention to workflow and user-centered design? How well does the approach balance the needs of patients, clinicians, and others when applying the 5 Rights framework?
How will the project document and disseminate lessons learned about any gaps in relevant health IT standards and the use of standards by commercial EHRs in operational settings?
Does the dissemination plan include posting CDS artifacts and any supporting material to the CDS Connect repository as required?
To what extent will the project leverage and adhere to appropriate health IT standards (e.g., HL7 FHIR R4 and CQL)?
Are the proposed framework and metrics for evaluating impact appropriate?
To what extent are users engaged in the adaptation and design of the scaled CDS?
Are the overall strategy, methodology, and analyses well-reasoned and appropriate to accomplish the specific aims of the project?
Are potential problems and alternative strategies presented?
Have the investigators presented adequate plans to address relevant biological variables, such as sex, for studies in human subjects?
Will the proposed organizational structure support scaling the CDS to new settings, sites, or systems that are different from where the CDS was originally developed, currently implemented, or being used?
If the application indicates partnering organizations, is there a history of successfully working together?
Is there evidence of institutional commitment and support from all proposed organizations?
Will the scientific environment in which the work will be done contribute to the probability of success?
Degree of Responsiveness
Reviewers will assess how well the application addresses the purpose and objectives of this FOA.
How responsive is the application to the special eligibility criteria, including the project requirements, noted in the FOA?
When the proposed project involves human subjects the committee will evaluate the proposed plans for the inclusion (or exclusion) of individuals on the basis of sex/gender, race, and ethnicity, as well as the inclusion (or exclusion) of individuals of all ages (including children and older adults) to determine if it is justified in terms of the scientific goals and research strategy proposed. For additional information on review of the Inclusion section, please refer to the Guidelines for the Review of Inclusion in Clinical Research.
Reviewers will evaluate whether the proposed budget is reasonable, and whether the requested period of support is appropriate in relation to the proposed research.
Inclusion of Priority Populations
Reviewers will assess the adequacy of plans to address the needs of both genders, racial and ethnic minorities (and subgroups). Reviewers will assess the adequacy of attention to AHRQ priority populations (see above discussion on Priority Populations in section IV.7 “Other Submission Requirements”).
Privacy and Security Protections for Patients
Reviewers will assess the resources and processes to be used to address privacy and security issues in the development and implementation of the intervention.
Applications that are complete and responsive to the FOA will be evaluated for scientific and technical merit by an appropriate Scientific Review Group convened in accordance with standard AHRQ peer review procedures that are described in 42 CFR Part 67, Subpart A. Incomplete and/or non-responsive applications or applications not following instructions given in this FOA will not be reviewed.
Applications will compete for available funds with all other recommended applications submitted in response to this FOA.
Responsiveness to goals and objectives of the FOA.
Relevance and fit within AHRQ research priorities, as well as overall programmatic and geographic balance of the proposed project to program priorities.
Information regarding the disposition of applications is available in the HHS Grants Policy Statement (see https://www.ahrq.gov/funding/policies/hhspolicy/index.html).
If the application is under consideration for funding, AHRQ will request "Just-In-Time" information from the applicant. Just-In-Time information generally consists of information on other support, any additional information necessary to address administrative and budgetary issues, and certification of IRB approval of the project's proposed use of human subjects. For details regarding IRB approval, applicants may refer to the "AHRQ Revised Policy for Institutional Review Board (IRB) Review of Human Subjects Protocols in Grant Applications" (https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/not-hs-00-003.html).
If all administrative and programmatic issues are resolved, a formal notification in the form of a Notice of Award (NoA) will be provided to the applicant organization for successful applications. The NoA signed by the AHRQ grants management officer is the authorizing document and will be sent via email to the e-mail address designated by the recipient organization during the eRA Commons registration process.
Any application awarded in response to this FOA will be subject to the DUNS, SAM Registration, and Transparency Act requirements as noted on the AHRQ web site at https://www.ahrq.gov/funding/grant-mgmt/index.html.
All AHRQ grant and cooperative agreement awards are subject to OMB's Uniform Grant Guidance, HHS’s “Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for HHS Awards,” (http://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?node=pt45.1.75), and the HHS Grants Policy Statement (see http://www.ahrq.gov/funding/policies/hhspolicy/index.html), and the terms and conditions set forth in the Notice of Award.
All applicants will be subject to a term and condition that applies the terms of 48 CFR section 3.908 to the award, and requires that grantees inform their employees in writing of employee whistleblower rights and protections under 41U.S.C. 4712 in the predominant native language of the workforce.
As necessary, additional Terms and Conditions will be incorporated into the NoA.
Accessibility Provisions for All Grant Application Packages and Funding Opportunity Announcements.
HHS recognizes that research projects are often limited in scope for many reasons that are nondiscriminatory, such as the principal investigator’s scientific interest, funding limitations, recruitment requirements, and other considerations. Thus, criteria in research protocols that target or exclude certain populations are warranted where nondiscriminatory justifications establish that such criteria are appropriate with respect to the health or safety of the subjects, the scientific study design, or the purpose of the research. For additional guidance regarding how the provisions apply to AHRQ grant programs, please contact the Scientific/Research Contact that is identified in Section VII under Agency Contacts of this FOA.
HHS funded health and education programs must be administered in an environment free of sexual harassment. Please see https://www.hhs.gov/civil-rights/for-individuals/sex-discrimination/index.html; https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/shguide.html; and https://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/publications/upload/fs-sex.pdf.
For additional guidance regarding how the provisions apply to AHRQ grant programs, please contact the Scientific/Research Contact that is identified in Section VII under Agency Contacts of this FOA.
In accordance with the statutory provisions contained in Section 872 of the Duncan Hunter National Defense Authorization Act of Fiscal Year 2009 (Public Law 110-417), AHRQ awards will be subject to the Federal Awardee Performance and Integrity Information System (FAPIIS) requirements. FAPIIS requires Federal award making officials to review and consider information about an applicant in the designated integrity and performance system (currently FAPIIS) prior to making an award. An applicant, at its option, may review information in the designated integrity and performance systems accessible through FAPIIS and comment on any information about itself that a Federal agency previously entered and is currently in FAPIIS. The Federal awarding agency will consider any comments by the applicant, in addition to other information in FAPIIS, in making a judgement about the applicant’s integrity, business ethics, and record of performance under Federal awards when completing the review of risk posed by applicants as described in 45 CFR Part 75.205 “Federal awarding agency review of risk posed by applicants.” This provision will apply to all AHRQ grants and cooperative agreements except fellowships.
When multiple years are involved, awardees will be required to submit the Research Performance Progress Report (RPPR) annually unless specified otherwise in the terms of the award. Grantees are required to submit expenditure data on the Federal Financial Report (FFR; SF 425) annually.
For details regarding annual progress report submission, refer to https://www.ahrq.gov/funding/grant-mgmt/noncomp.html. If instructions on the AHRQ website are different from the RPPR Instructions, follow the instructions on the AHRQ website. Annual progress reports are due 3 months before the start date of the next budget period of the award.
In addition to the annual progress report, recipients will be required to submit quarterly progress reports to AHRQ. Detailed instructions on additional reporting requirements will be provided with the grant award.
Expenditure data is to be reported on the Federal Financial Report (FFR; SF 425). AHRQ requires annual financial expenditure reports for ALL grant programs as described in the HHS Grants Policy Statement (https://www.ahrq.gov/funding/policies/hhspolicy/index.html). AHRQ implementation of the FFR retains a financial reporting period that coincides with the budget period of a particular project. However, the due date for annual FFRs is 90 days after the end of the calendar quarter in which the budget period ends. For example, if the budget period ends 4/30/2020, the annual FFR is due 9/30/2020 (90 days after the end of the calendar quarter of 6/30/2020).
A final Progress Report, final Federal Financial Report, and Final Invention Statement are required when an award ends. All final reports are due within 90 days of the project period end date. For further details regarding grant closeout requirements, refer https://www.ahrq.gov/funding/grant-mgmt/closeout.html.
The Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 (Transparency Act), includes a requirement for awardees of Federal grants to report information about first-tier subawards and executive compensation under Federal assistance awards issued in FY2011 or later. All awardees of applicable NIH grants and cooperative agreements are required to report to the Federal Subaward Reporting System (FSRS) available at www.fsrs.gov on all subawards over $25,000. See the HHS Grants Policy Statement (https://www.ahrq.gov/funding/policies/hhspolicy/index.html) for additional information on this reporting requirement.
Mario Terán, MD, MSc
Physician – Clinical Informatics
Division of Digital Healthcare Research (DDHR)
Center for Evidence and Practice Improvement (CEPI)
Email: Mario.Teran@ahrq.hhs.gov
Priti Mehrotra, Ph.D.
Email Address: Priti.Mehrotra@ahrq.hhs.gov
Office of Management Services
Division of Grants Management
Email: GMI@ahrq.hhs.gov
Recently issued AHRQ policy notices may affect your application submission. A full list of policy notices published by AHRQ is provided in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. Notices can also be found at AHRQ Grants Policy Notices. All awards are subject to the terms and conditions, cost principles, and other considerations in the HHS Grants Policy Statement.
This program is described in the Assistance Listings (formerly called the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance) at http://www.cfda.gov/ and is not subject to the intergovernmental review requirements of Executive Order 12372 or Health Systems Agency review.
Awards are made under the authority of 42 USC 299 et seq., and in accordance with 45 CFR Part 75 and other referenced applicable statutes and regulations. All awards are subject to the terms and conditions, cost principles, and other considerations described in the HHS Grants Policy Statement. The HHS Grants Policy Statement can be found at http://www.ahrq.gov/fund/hhspolicy.html.
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Parental Nightmares In Public Schools Are Real
Alicia Luke
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A California middle school science teacher was forced to stop passing out a graphic titled “The Gender Unicorn” that explained gender identity, gender expression, and attraction after parents weighed in.
It’s quite distressing that the unscientific “gender unicorn” handout was given out by a science teacher. It is complete bunk and has no place in health class, either, or anywhere in any school for that matter. Kudos to the principal for shutting it down.
Public schools aren’t just undermining parents with the curriculum. When children “decide” they “might” be transgender, parents better not object or else they will be treated as a threat to their own children’s well-being. https://t.co/uifLNsvlYs pic.twitter.com/QmwaiD46ZI
— Alicia F. Luke (@AliciaFixLuke) August 18, 2019
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As usual in matters such as these, California is leading the way.
These are children. And yet the teacher did not ask permission to hand this out. Most parents were outraged. The school estimated about 50 children received the worksheet. It turns out Alvarado was educating the children about his own life. He declared he rejects the term “Mr.” and prefers to be addressed with the newfangled “Mx.,” pronounced “Mix.” A school official quickly put a stop to it, but the damage was done.
In California, waiting until middle school for this boatload of propaganda is actually inappropriate! In May, the California Board of Education established a set of guidelines insisting schools should begin discussing “gender identity” in kindergarten. “While students may not fully understand the concepts of gender expression and identity,” the guidelines insist, “some children in kindergarten and even younger have identified as transgender or understand they have a gender identity that is different from their sex assigned at birth.” Schools apparently must leap to address the “harm of negative gender stereotypes.” More
Middle schoolers should not be asked by a teacher or any adult who they are “sexually attracted to” period.
First of all, it’s none of their business, second of all this is a discussion between parents and children at their parent’s discretion. This crosses the line on so many different levels.
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Greek Islands Secrets
Northeastern Aegean
Sifnos Island Attractions – Things to Do in Sifnos
Sifnos Island is located in the Greek Cyclades Islands, in the Aegean Sea. It’s renowned for its serene atmosphere yet lively nightlife. Although a more tranquil island when compared to Santorini and Mykonos, Sifnos’ tourism has grown over the last several years, making it a favorite destination when Greek Island hopping. Some would say it’s a place to recharge one’s batteries, largely because of its beautiful and relaxing beaches, but there are also lots of Sifnos Island attractions and things to do.
Sifnos Island Attractions
For one thing, it is highly recommended to stroll through the many villages of the island, as they are a pleasure to take in and photograph. This is especially true of Apollonia (the capital) and Kastro, a castle town. But there’s so much more…
Kastro Village
Kastro Village is host to to The Archaeological Museum of Sifnos. As mentioned above, Kastro is a castle village which houses the museum in a medieval, two-story building on the eastern side of the island. The museum opened in 1986 and displays incredible island exhibits from numerous excavation sites. These findings demonstrate life on Sifnos during the various eras, including a marble sculptured head of Kouros from the 6th century B.C.
The Church of the Seven Martyrs is another popular attraction in Sifnos, also located in Kastro Village. It rests atop the rock formation, true to Cycladic architecture, that literally sits on the sea, and it is and incredibly picturesque scene, which is why it is likely the most photographed place of the island. Stairs along the rock link it to the main island. This church is generally opened to the pilgrims on religious holidays and so, it would likely be closed to the majority of tourists. However, it’s worth a visit to enjoy the view and take memorable pictures.
The Folklore and Pop Art Museum of Sifnos is located in Apollonia‘s town square and is a museum dedicated to life as it was on the island. You’ll find old arts and crafts from needlework to wood carvings and, of course, pottery and pottery tools, among many others, that show the daily life of the past locals. The museum is open for tourist season, from April to October.
The Monastery of Prophet Elias Ipsilos is another important site that won’t disappoint. This monastery is located in the center of the island and sits high on its tallest peak at 690 meters! There are tourist accommodations and underground galleries, too.
Chrissopigi
Another one of the must-see Sifnos Island attractions is the Monastery of Panagia Chrissopigi. Built directly atop an older church in the 16th century, this church is extra special to its people, who believe it is the island’s protector saint. The site is a beautiful one, as it rests on the waters, and it is home to a very important icon that was found by local fishermen.
Chrissopigi Beach, on the island’s southern side, is just by the monastery. This is a family friendly sandy beach on which to spend a lovely day.
Exabela
The Monastery of Panagia Vryssiani is also home to the Ecclesiastical Museum which exhibits various religious items such as gospels, Byzantine icons, the embroidered coat of Kassiani, and many ecclesiastical manuscripts, among other important items. Items in the iconostasis date back to the 1750’s.
In Platis Gialos is the Monastery of the Virgin Mary of the Mountains (Monastery of Panagia Vounou), which was build in 1813.
Platis Gialos is also home to the island’s most popular family friendly beaches. This is a party organized beach with soft sand that goes on and on and offers water sports. There are numerous taverns to enjoy great meals and drinks.
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DISPATCH, HE'S GOT A MINIGUN!
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By Fuzzknuckles,
August 27, 2015 in Debates & Discussion
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"(most notably they only record the most serious crime committed in a single incident so a mass shooting with one fatality and twelve serious injuries would be recorded as a single murder whereas in the UK it would be recorded as a minimum of thirteen separate crimes)"
Where did you learn this? Doesn't seem right to me.
From the FBI's own blurb for the UCR (https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2012/crime-in-the-u.s.-2012/violent-crime/violent-crime)
"The data presented in Crime in the United States reflect the Hierarchy Rule, which requires that only the most serious offense in a multiple-offense criminal incident be counted. "
So yes, the US really do ignore the majority of multiple felonies with their primary method of recording.
Yes, but no.
Hang on a minute, nothing you've posted there actually disputes the factual nature of that paragraph you've just posted. It's simply a case of "well, crime in the UK is underreported" which is true, but would be true of basically any nation you care to mention.
The UK is underreporting their crimes or downplaying the severity to make it look better for themselves.
And the US doesn't? I mean, as you can see above the FBI explicitly state they report multiple felonies as single felonies in their own summary for their data set so they've basically outlined not only that they massage the figures but exactly how.
The UK's main crime survey isn't reliant on police reporting either, which range from excellent to astonishingly poor depending on what region you happen to be in. I did state that pretty clesrly in my post.
To say nothing of the fact that your country has taken draconian levels of spying on its citizenry
Notwithstanding the questionable relevance of this comment, it's worth pointing out that the UK tops the US on a number of the major freedom indices. Americans always seem to make vapid claims about the UK being an Orwellian surveillance state but they're mostly utter bollocks.
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Sivis, the UCR does follow that criteria but there are many other components the U.S. government and local police use to measure crime. We also have the NIBRS and NCVS. National incident based reporting system NIBRS is a much more effective measure and it looks as close to 60 different crimes, but the issue is most smaller police departments can't afford to comply with it. Everyone uses the NCVS though which are victimization surveys that ask people if they've been victims of a crime. The UCR is sh*tty but we do have other means.
Edited August 29, 2015 by Irviding
UCR seems to be the most frequently referenced from what I've seen.
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It's not my country so i mind my own business. However, if i had to go to the US to live there, and i could have access to guns legally, i would probably buy a few.
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I hate to bump a old thread, but I rather do it for this topic. I don't understand, why can't my/ this country(USA) can't create some common sense gun control laws. I don't know whats the matter of the citizens of the USA. There is a cycle of dumbness in this country when it comes to crime. Why were people like loser David Roof and f*ck face Vester allowed to have guns given they had criminal / behavioral histories? Criminals SHOULDN'T have the rights to buy or obtain guns. Only law biding citizens should be allowed to have guns. I found out after the deaths of Parker and Ward that employers can't tell other employers if a person has a history behavioral issues. How crazy is that? I am not talking about socially award people. I talking about those people who are looking to start something when nothing is there. That is what Roof and Vester were. An employee and employer should have the right to know if a person has a violent behavioral history toward others.
I dislike the modern America with this narcissism , twitter, facebook, and selfies. Why can't we talk about the important things and get things done. We well hear about some actors awards , some diva's outfit, deflate gate, from overpaid people. Yet in America, we eat this up social media. Don't get me wrong , there is nothing wrong with liking those things and having fun, but I just feel we are ignoring the many issues in America that be fixed, only if we just focused long enough.
A common theme in US media:
Shooting deaths happen.
The media / America mourns for 1 or 2 days.
Next they talk about , lets have a discussion about gun control for about a day or so.
At least 2 days later the event of a gun killings are forgotten.
Next news story.
FACT: Virgina Tech, Sandy Hook shootings, the kid who killed people just because he couldn't get laid the church killings, the gas station Texas cop death, and Alison Parker and Adam Ward deaths could have been prevented, with smart gun control laws, yet we are just waiting for another killer to do it all over again. I hate the media because they are part of the problem, they set the agenda on what we think about.
I've seen death videos before, but Alison and Adams deaths were something different. Never have I seen people on TV or even record(POV) get shot. To be fair I've seen video of two cops killing at guy , shooting him multiple times, but that situation was different. It makes me think how other deaths. Vester's POV , video makes me think how David Roof, killed those 9 people in that church. The pure brutality, of shooting someone innocent person. If you gather all the facts, Alision Parker got it worse of the 3. Some jealous f*ck shot her multiple times(at least 6 times), Adam(at least twice) just because he couldn't move on with his life. Roof, did the same thing. Lame ass, took out his hate on people because his life sucked and no direction. Both racists on the opposite side of the same coin.
I am not against banning all guns, because I've read many horror stories that the media doesn't report of people home invasion stories. People should have the right to defend themselves in their home from would be killers, rapists, stick up men.There are crazies out there. Maybe in a perfect future, devoid of crime, I would feel we should ban guns. I just feel like there was something, I could have done stop these deaths. When ever I read on the internet or watch on TV, it always hurts me when innocent people getting cut short , re guard less less of race or ethnic background.
Edited September 23, 2015 by N7Operative84
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I respectfully disagree regarding pro gun control.
Obviously gun control does not work in America unfortunately. Kinda ironic that Chicago is #1 at gun control here in the states but has the the most gun violence in America? Im sick and tired of cops and criminals only having guns and the common tax payer like us are screwed over. There is a damn good reason in the constitution that is says "the right to bear arms shall not be infringed". Additionally, if we do have these gun free zones, it is only going to provoke weirdo's into targeting those places. Why is that? Simple, it is because they have the upper hand...why do you think all of these kids in Chicago are doing it? If we were armed like we were intended to be, people would think twice because they do not want to roll the dice and now they are putting their lives at risk. People such as Dr. Ben Carson agree with this as well. Of course it is not going to stop weird people from doing weird things...but wouldn't be better if we had more of a likelihood to survive as well? Another silly argument is that "Oh how come other countries like the UK etc etc are fine without it" America is culturally different from places like that. (Especially places like Chicago aka "Drillanois") We have a problem with teens that are immersed with "Drill" music and actually believe they are real gangsters such as Chief Keef, Lil Durk, Lil Reese, to name a few. And as a black man myself, it does not help that there was generations and generations of bad parenting (or non existent parents because they grew up with the same mentality.)
If liberals are trying to ban/limit the types of guns, only cops and criminals would have guns. (Which is funny because many famous liberal politicians have some sort of armed security at their properties)
Why should boneheads be the only armed? #WakeUp&SmellTheCoffee
Kinda ironic that Chicago is #1 at gun control here in the states but has the the most gun violence in America?
It's not really irony, it's simple logic.
Firstly, I don't think your statement here is factually accurate. Chicago doesn't even appear on the list of the 100 US cities with the highest violent crime rates per capita (stats here), Chicago proper doesn't rank in the top 100 US cities for murder rates per capita (stats here) though two of its neighbourhoods are ranked between 10th and 20th, and Illinois ranks 14th for firearm deaths by state and 22nd for firearm deaths per capita by state.
Chicago may be a city which sees higher levels of firearm related violence than other urban areas of a similar size in the US, but there are other factors which influence that. A prohibition on gun shops inside the city borders is not really an example of "gun control" given that the city does not have any more stringent regulation of possession of weapons that elsewhere in the state, and neighbouring counties do not ban gun shops. Add to that endemic problems with organised crime...
Then you have to take a look at why the gun shop ban was instigated- it was a response to exceedingly high levels of firearm-enabled crime. Has it worked at reducing that crime? To be frank, no it hasn't, but pretending that the ban is a cause of the crime rather than the effect of it is spectacularly disingenuous.
Im sick and tired of cops and criminals only having guns and the common tax payer like us are screwed over.
Thing is, though, they aren't. Even in states with fairly stringent regulations on legal market firearm purchases, grey market, private-sale guns are essentially unregulated. Pretty much the only time private purchasers buying from individual sellers will ever be exposed to any legislation, state or federal, that even resembles gun "control" is when they either apply for a concealed or open carry permit or if they go through the judicial system.
There is a damn good reason in the constitution that is says "the right to bear arms shall not be infringed".
There was a good reason the constitution enshrined the right to bear arms...in 1791. The same reason there was a good reason for enshrining the right to raise militias in 1791, which isn't something we see very much of, is it?
It's also worth noting that the Supreme Court has consistently said that the right to bear arms is not unlimited and does not prohibit regulation of firearms at the whims of either federal government or states. For a group of people who bang on about constitutional rights, many deregulation proponents lack any contextual understanding of the constitution or any coherent knowledge of the Supreme Court's role in interpreting it.
Additionally, if we do have these gun free zones, it is only going to provoke weirdo's into targeting those places. Why is that? Simple, it is because they have the upper hand...
This is a "chicken little" fallacy; shootings don't disproportionately target explicitly gun-free zones so the notion that limiting these zones would reduce shooting incidents is illogical. Additionally, when mass shooting incidents do occur in zones permitting concealed or open carry, the frequency with which armed citizens have actually responded to an event let alone contributed to stopping one is so small as to be effectively nonexistent. Bystander Syndrome tends to stop armed people from actually responding anyway, so it's largely an exercise in futility from a practical standpoint.
If we were armed like we were intended to be
Are you saying here that numerous Supreme Courts have been wrong in their interpretation of the constitution but you're right?
Another silly argument is that "Oh how come other countries like the UK etc etc are fine without it" America is culturally different
The US is indeed culturally different; firearm violence is an endemic part of US culture that's worshipped with a practically religious furore. Consumption of violent media, music glorifying gang violence and the suchlike exists in many Western countries; many Western countries have similar problems with gang violence, though usually not on quite the same scale. The US suffers with poorer basic levels of mental heathcare, a higher disparity between rich and poor and a few other factors which influence the comparatively stratospheric firearm crime rates, but the biggest factors are simply that guns are incredibly easy to obtain for just about anyone, the notion that firearm ownership is an inalienable right regardless of behaviour or competency is basically ingrained into the US psyche, and very few people actually have any coherent training in safe use of weapons. The whole point in legislating on the issue is supposed to be to remove or dramatically limit access for the lowest common denominators whilst ensuring that law-abiding individuals capable of using weapons responsibly are completely unaffected. You look at the statistics for accidental firearm deaths in the US and tell me that, as a society, people don't need better understanding of weapon safety.
If liberals are trying to ban/limit the types of guns, only cops and criminals would have guns.
This is a straw man on two counts.
One, most "liberals" as you call them (I.E anyone not in the NRA's back pocket) don't actually want to ban guns at all, or limit the guns themselves. What they want to do is limit the accessibility of weapons to try and mitigate the huge number of "going postal" style murder committed by people who, for whatever reason, simply "snap". These murders effectively only occur because the individual in question has easy access to a firearm; they're far less prevalent in countries where firearm laws require a shooting to be premeditated (I.E separating ammunition and unloaded weapon). These kinds of murders outweigh instances of individuals legitimately shooting intruders or assailants in self-defence by a truly astronomical factor.
Two, several case studies where weapons have been subject to greater regulation in the wake of violent incidents have shown long-term drops in the level of gun violence. True, these cases are typically not directly relatable to the US case, but the "only cop and crims have guns" argument is largely nonsense if you actually look at the statistics of where criminals obtain firearms. The vast majority of guns used in violent incidents are grey or black-market weapons; grey-market ones being private purchases and black being generally stolen or trafficked. A crackdown on the private sales of guns will go some way to negating their availability; similarly more coherent rules on storing weapons make them harder to steal.
As an interesting aside, eight of the last fourteen mass shootings have involved legally-owned, shop-bought weapons to which the perpetrators had direct access, including several which were owned directly by them, so there's clearly a fundamental problem in the ability of US authorities to vet people.
As a further aside, I'm of the view that if more Americans were capable of extracting themselves from their societally induced groupthink and viewing the whole debate with a bit more objectivity there would be more coherent support for sensible measures to remediate some of the endemic issues.
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The problem has nothing to do with gun control, and everything to do with the social disease America has which makes it the only country in the world to mass produce ideologically motivated civilian killers.
It's not even that they're "Crazy" or "Snap". They have a habit of publishing manifestos they've clearly put thought into, where they explain who exactly it is they hate, and why.
So long as you keep deliberately ignoring that and going "well I guess they were just crazy nothing we can do about it" it will keep happening. With guns, or bombs, or rocks.
Edited October 12, 2015 by CBH
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it's funny how anti-gun people think they can just slap on a law that says you can't use guns, that will stop criminals from using guns.
if they are criminals, then they will break the damn law anyway!
Edited October 14, 2015 by Niobium
This tired old line borders on the idiotic. Firstly, no-one is suggesting that "slap[ping] on a law that says you can't use guns" is a viable response, and to pretend as such is patently ridiculous. Secondly, as the majority of weapons used in the commission of violent crime (excluding stuff like familial shootings) are either stolen or grey-market private purchases, additional restrictions on how weapons are stored and how they can be sold by private individuals absolutely does limit criminals' access to firearms.
i was talking about the people who are completely anti-gun and want to ban guns entirely. i was not talking about people who just want to be more strict when it comes to purchasing and selling guns.
I don't think those people actually exist to any meaningful degree though.
As Sivis said people who want to totally ban guns entirely are not really a relevant factor in this debate. You do see them on the far left in America, maybe 5-6% of the American population might think that you should totally ban guns outright.
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Here in the UK, where guns are tightly controlled, there are far, far fewer shooting deaths than in the US. Not just because there's less people, but because there's less guns.
Yes, it's that simple. We don't have as many bombings, either. Or other forms of domestic terrorism.
Bryce Williams had hands and feet. Do you think, if he didn't have a gun, he would have gone out there and tried to kick and punch three people to death?
f*cking morons.
Ohhhhhh you really shouldn't have mentioned Firearms Licensing in the UK.
1: There are millions of guns in the UK. All legally held. In my police force area alone there are 40,000 people with shotguns and around 8,000 with rifles. That would be a much higher percentage if rifles were as easy to obtain as shotguns are.
2: The licensing system works fine here, however it has so much red tape that it literally costs private owners, businesses and legitimate companies a lot of money due to the way it is licensed.
3: The UK has less of everything because we are a lot smaller than the US, that is pretty obvious, and forcing someone to own a license in order to own a gun dramatically cuts how many people want to go through the effort for that. I can guarantee you that if for some miraculous reason everyone in the US was happy with having a license system like ours. I bet you that at least a quarter if not more would rather just give them up altogether. What does that tell us? Well it tells us that people love to own firearms, however some don't love it enough to have to put up with the bureaucratic licensing systems.
4: Licensing Departments cost a LOT of money. With a lot of staff layoffs and public sector jobs being lost they seem to be more likely to ease up on certain restrictions just to be able to cope with workload.
5: There is no doubt there is a demand for firearms for sporting purposes alone, people enjoy it, and enjoy it safely. They have to because they will get it taken away from them. If we could still own pistols and semi-automatic rifles in the UK the economy would be better off for it. There is a lot of money and business involved and often we get totally ripped off by certain firearm types because we have to specifically modify them for the UK market.
6: We still have terrorism just as much as the US, ever heard of Lee Rigby? And for shootings by legal owners, Derrick Bird or Raoul Moat? All pretty recent. It still happens, no matter how tight restrictions are. There is nothing truly stopping these people from developing into people like that.
7: I agree that the US has a sh*tload of firearms in circulation and no form of licensing system is a flaw, you are obviously going to get those firearms being abused. But they have a right to own them to defend their lives, us in the UK don't. Even if a licensing system were to be put in place in the US it still would not account for the already existing firearms in circulation. Unlicensed shotguns are still being found today from when they weren't on licenses. We can never find them all. Meaning, it is a futile effort. Any softer licensing such as waiting on background checks for new firearms couldn't hurt. But a trustworthy sport shooter shouldn't constantly have hurdles once they have already owned and shot firearms for many years safely. Make it harder to get your first one, but from then on, no more pointless waiting periods and restrictions. Once you own a gun, it shouldn't matter if you own 20, you only have two hands you aren't more of a threat. As long as they are stored safely. Which even though you have to by law in the UK, you can never know for sure people are storing them correctly until their 5 year license runs out and you go round to check on them. Safe storage by law is a good idea but I believe most responsible firearm owners already do that in the US.
Besides, licensing will cost the government far too much to ever implement something like what we have in the UK.
It's pretty simple. Unless you're a cop, a soldier or a licensed hunter that hunts for trade, not for sport, YOU. SHOULD. NOT. HAVE. A. GUN.
8: So the following people shouldn't have access to guns?
-Gamekeepers for slaughter of animals
-Vets for humane dispatch
-Farmers to protect crops and livestock
-Vermin shooters to reduce overpopulation
-Clay pigeon shooters
-Historical Collectors
-War reinactors
-Registered Firearms Dealers
-Manufacturers and distributers of firearms
-Teachers and instructors of safe firearms usage.
-Film companies for rental
-Universities for study
-Section 5 transportation carriers
-Airport staff or boat crew for signalling
-Olympic target shooters (can't even shoot their equipment in the UK anyway)
-Lastly and most importantly, sporting and target shooting enthusiasts at home office approved clubs.
I probably missed a bunch. So that leaves me to my next point.
9: You are a f*cking lunatic with no bearing of common sense whatsoever and a complete waste of space. A monumental piece of amphibian bum-rubbish.
10: Lemonade tastes nice.
Edited October 15, 2015 by Daz
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I started to visit this site daily. It is addicting to watch the number go up every day. You can also use this to make bets with your friends. "Will it be over 11,000 by the end of the year?"
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I'll just leave this here... interesting tie-in with Islam at the end.
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The Islam tie-in just came off as crass TBH (I know he's trying to be satirical).
What really got me was some of those adverts. Honestly, humour me here--do ads like that really run in mainstream US media? I mean the adverts in Front magazine (which featured topless alternative female models) were about 10 times more tasteful and respectful of women than the ones depicted in that video. Whilst I don't have a lot of time for Maher he does raise a good point about sexuality and its role in US media. There's a massive disconnect between the hyper-sexualised media the US seems to have and the opinions of Americans, many of whom hold to traditional values and are religiously involved. He's definitely right in saying that, in the US, it seems as though everyone is getting sex. Sex is really just a natural thing between two people. It's there to get us to procreate, and that's it. I don't think it should be glorified, nor do I think it should be stigmatised (not saying it should be wholly without regulation but normal, consensual, safe sex is nothing to be ashamed of--going by the Talmud masturbation is probably worse). At the end of the day America's relationship with sex is confused. On the one hand it's plastered all over the media and shamelessly used to sell products; on the other hand it's been demonised by the religious right.
It's a similar thing regarding psychotherapy. It seems as though everyone's in counselling in the US and you're all into "talking things through", but that just doesn't corroborate with reality. These murderers are extremely isolated and almost always in dire need of intervention from mental health professionals. America makes out as though it's all about therapy, but still manufactures these nutters who feel so angry towards society that they go on shooting sprees. I don't put a lot of faith into psychology or psychotherapy but I find it maddening that a country with such an emphasis on psychiatry can have such a pitiful mental health service.
Edited October 19, 2015 by Failure
It was certainly hyperbolic... you see ads like that but they are rarer than he portrays in the video.
Yeah I get that now, mate. Thanks for confirming.
I'm largely supportive of the US and don't think it's as bad as people make out in many respects. It's not perfect but in a country of that size you're doing to get incidents more often. I'm not going to pretend that the US has a perfect relationship with guns but I'm not going to dramatise it either.
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It's less about blue balls and more about men feeling entitled to a woman. It's more that society broke a contract by not handing them a girlfriend and they want to punish everyone.
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I like how Bill Maher was close to making a relevant point, but failed to deliver, and then just went ahead and brought up dem ebul mooslems. What an ideological garbage dump of a TV show.
dem ebul mooslems. What an ideological garbage dump of a TV show.
let's stay focused.
I think the gun control point about our vastly overstimulated culture of Winners vs. Losers has real merit.
for a long time now I've been resigned to the fact that our gun problem isn't really guns; it's our unique American culture.
the Islam jab is an aside... he's trying to get cheap laughs from his Libtard crowd.
but it's not entirely baseless, either.
you'd think their extreme sexual repression might have something to do with the most negative aspects of their culture among many other factors of course. in a long line of bad ideas, you'd think that covering young women from head to toe in f/cking shopping bags might have adverse affects on your young men. I understand that you're dismissive of Maher's sh/tty attitude and delivery but I don't think it's the most ridiculous thing he's ever said, either.
Edited October 20, 2015 by El Diablo
nah he tends to get booed for his blatant Islamophobia.
It makes perfect sense, but only if you ignore centuries of Sunni v. Shiite violence, complex socioeconomic conditions, and a century of poor geopolitical decisions that have destabilized the Middle East, leading to the rise of Islamist terrorism. I mean, if you asked say, a Zulu tribeswoman why there is so much gun violence in America, I doubt she'd argue it's because we've been squeezing women into oppressive, ill-fighting cocktail dresses. I'm also not sure most Muslims are as sexually-repressed as we might think, either.
It just goes to show how easy it is to convince people of anything, something as simple as a small agreeable audience can quickly change someone's view or leave a wrong impression. Either side of any debate snowballs further by only listening to what they want to hear.
To be honest, I don't think there is a finite easy answer. Not one reason for it. I believe that a lot of things all work together to produce mass shooters. Not getting laid might be a minor fraction of it, but obviously it can't be the majority or else every virgin would be trying to shoot some place up. I think it's just a complicated cocktail of many negative traits that all work together to result in a shooter. It doesn't happen as often as you think, so it must be a pretty rare chance to have all the ingredients to end up as someone who could do something like that.
It makes perfect sense, but only if you ignore centuries of Sunni v. Shiite violence, complex socioeconomic conditions, and a century of poor geopolitical decisions that have destabilized the Middle East, leading to the rise of Islamist terrorism. I mean, if you asked say, a Zulu tribeswoman why there is so much gun violence in America, I doubt she'd argue it's because we've been squeezing women into oppressive, ill-fighting cocktail dresses. I'm also not sure most Muslims are as sexually-repressed as we might think, either.if you guys think men in the Middle East don't get pussy if they want it you are severely mistaken, srs. That isn't even being funny or facetious, it's actually disgusting how subjugated women are to men's desire in the gulf for example. Rise of Isis now too forget kt Edited October 20, 2015 by Irviding
Yeah saying that traditional religious communities are all sexually repressed is not factual really. This is why what Maher said at the end of his piece was baseless, even if he was just trying to be funny.
I mean who's more sexually repressed: the rabbinical student who sleeps with his wife basically every day (except for the seven days a month of abstinence due to ritual purity laws) and is surrounded by women in modest dress, or the lonely university student with intimacy issues who gets no sex but is surrounded by young, beautiful women in generally modern or revealing dress.
That's not to say that these communities all have healthy attitudes regarding sex. Indeed, what Irv says has merit (as do virtually all of Irv's posts).
Also the practice of forcing women to wear the niqab so that they're completely covered up is a facet of Wahabism, the breed of Islam which Saudi Arabia was able to export to madrasas all over the Sunni world. Many Muslim women don't cover their faces and just wear the headscarf and dress modestly, which basically aligns with most traditional monotheistic communities. Misogyny is a massive problem in many parts of the Islamic world but generalisations don't help--we need to look at the reality of the situation and empirical evidence if we're to get anywhere towards understanding how Islam as a whole treats women and not conflating this with attitudes particular to Wahhabi/Gulf communities.
Back on topic: Mel is onto something regarding this feeling of entitlement amongst young men. I mean if you take a young man who is already a sociopath (and sociopaths sadly just arise in human populations, this is just a fact of nature) then I can see how feelings of isolation and sexual frustration could lead to him acting out violently against random people whom, due to his narcissism and anger at wider society, he perceives as pawns in a game stacked against him. Ultimately this doesn't get us anywhere because it all boils down to sociopathic tendencies. Without a predisposition to sociopathy I don't see how murdering innocent people randomly can even be conceived of as an option. I mean ideological murder like terrorism is a different thing because this generally involves the perpetrator having been led astray and heavily brainwashed to the point that everyone who doesn't follow said ideology (or is an "inherent enemy" of it by virtue of race, sect, or whatever) is fair game.
Without that initial sociopathy I don't think anyone's capable of committing a massacre. Sexual repression, the society in which the attack takes place, isolation, depression...These are all triggers that can lead to the act given the prior existence of sociopathy in the perpetrator's mind. Again, I don't know much about pscyhology or sociology, nor do I have much faith at all in either subject; this is just my line of thinking on the matter.
this is disingenuous, in addition to being untrue.
if you think Maher is a boob I can't convince you otherwise but he's anything but Islamophobic.
if he's Islamophobic than he's no more-so than he is Christianphobic.
Bill Maher preaches against sh/tty ideas and dogma, not groups of people. he sits down with current and former Muslims and talks at length with them about the issues with their society and how it might be possible to peacefully resolve them through the support of rational Islamic moderates.
yeah, he likes to crack wise and make crappy jokes about religion which extends to Islam being the hot-topic right now. if anything he's just Dogmaphobic but he practices it very evenly. I'm pretty sure he's ripped up Catholics much worse than he's ever ripped up Islam.
...and now we're totally offtopic.
I think there's a line between cutting wit and sarcasm, and generally coming across as an ignorant tool. Maher crosses that line quite frequently with his comments on religion.
does he really??
I don't think his religious criticisms are without warrant, let alone without heavy merit.
he's not talking out of his ass. he hates bad ideas regardless of their origin.
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Open access at the national level: A comprehensive analysis of publications by Finnish researchers
Janne Pölönen*, Mikael Laakso, Raf Guns, Emanuel Kulczycki, Gunnar Sivertsen
Information Systems Science, Helsinki
Open access (OA) has mostly been studied by relying on publication data from selective international databases, notably Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus. The aim of our study is to show that it is possible to achieve a national estimate of the number and share of OA based on institutional publication data providing a comprehensive coverage of the peer-reviewed outputs across fields, publication types and languages. Our data consists of 48,177 journal, conference and book publications from 14 Finnish universities in 2016-2017, including information about OA status, as self-reported by researchers and validated by data-collection personnel through their Current Research Information System (CRIS). We investigate the WoS, Scopus and DOI coverage, as well as the share of OA outputs between different fields, publication types, languages, OA mechanisms (gold, hybrid and green), and OA information sources (DOAJ, Bielefeld list and Sherpa/Romeo). We also estimate the role of the largest international commercial publishers compared to the not-for-profit Finnish national publishers of journals and books. We conclude that institutional data, integrated at national and international level, provides one of the building-blocks of a large-scale data infrastructure needed for comprehensive assessment and monitoring of OA across countries, for example at the European level.
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author = "Janne P{\"o}l{\"o}nen and Mikael Laakso and Raf Guns and Emanuel Kulczycki and Gunnar Sivertsen",
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Open access at the national level: A comprehensive analysis of publications by Finnish researchers. / Pölönen, Janne; Laakso, Mikael; Guns, Raf; Kulczycki, Emanuel; Sivertsen, Gunnar.
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Pölönen J, Laakso M, Guns R, Kulczycki E, Sivertsen G. Open access at the national level: A comprehensive analysis of publications by Finnish researchers. Quantitative Science Studies. 2020 Aug 17;1-33. https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00084
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Yayoi Kusama x Veuve Clicquot La Grande Dame 2012 limited edition bottles
By: Erica Fong
It might not seem like there’s much to celebrate this year, but perhaps the new limited edition Yayoi Kusama x Veuve Clicquot La Grande Dame champagne bottles will change your mind.
A collaboration between the French champagne house and Japanese avant-garde artist, the bottle aims to celebrate the new vintage (La Grande Dame 2012) while sending a cheerful message to the world with its unique and colourful design.
Photo: Veuve Clicquot
Kusama’s signature polka dots grace both the cuvee’s case and bottle – this time arranged as champagne bubbles – with a swirling flower motif that symbolises “vital energy, love and celebration of life,” according to the Veuve Clicquot website.
This isn’t the first collaboration between Yayoi Kusama and Veuve Clicquot. Back in 2006, the artist had given the original portrait of Madame Clicquot the Kusama treatment for a Tokyo charity auction, and comparisons between the artist and Madame Clicquot herself have been drawn ever since.
Twist with Madame Clicquot! By Yayoi Kusama (Photo: Veuve Clicquot)
Kusama has also created a floral sculpture called ‘My Heart That Blooms in the Darkness of Night’ that wraps around the La Grande Dame 2012 bottle, which is available in a limited run of 100 pieces only.
A post shared by Veuve Clicquot (@veuveclicquot) on Sep 8, 2020 at 3:05am PDT
The new limited edition Yayoi Kusama x Veuve Clicquot La Grande Dame champagne bottles will launch on 23 September in Japan with a special pop-up at Isetan Shinjuku (23-29 September) and are priced at ¥25,740 (approx. HK$1,878) per bottle.
For more information on its release, check out veuveclicquot.com
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Chapter I. Gigawhat?
If you don’t follow energy or environmental news closely, you might be surprised by the breathless enthusiasm surrounding batteries these days. No offense to your vintage Furby, but we’re not talking about AAs – or even the high-tech lithium-ion battery in your smartphone – but a diverse cast of energy storage technologies,[note]It’s not just electrochemical batteries that can charge and discharge energy. We’ll explore some of the many other effective, ingenious, and occasionally bizarre energy storage technologies in a later post. For now, please enjoy this sneak peek: [/note] built at every scale, from small systems in homes and businesses to football field-sized batteries in the Australian desert.
But first, let’s define some essential terms. Note that in the energy sector, “reliability” and “resilience” have different, very specific meanings. Feel free to skim this section and return later as necessary.
Energy Storage – Technology that stores potential energy for later use. The most common of these is the electrochemical battery, which itself comes in various forms. Other energy storage technologies include pumped hydropower, compressed air, thermal storage, and many more.
Battery – A device that stores energy in one or more electrochemical cells, and discharges it in the form of electrons flowing from its negative terminal, or anode. Batteries can be single-use (e.g. alkaline) or rechargeable (e.g. lithium-ion, lead-acid, etc.). Of course, the larger-scale applications we’ll be discussing on this blog use only rechargeable batteries.
Reliability – A power system’s ability to maintain consistent electrical service. This system could be anything from a multi-state section of the electric grid to a tiny off-grid solar system. The fewer interruptions a system experiences, the more “reliable” it is.
Resilience – A power system’s ability to quickly and effectively bounce back from a service interruption. A section of the grid is “resilient” if it can quickly restore power after a blackout. A home, apartment building, or community center is “resilient” if it can provide its own power during a grid blackout, such as from a solar + storage system.
Solar + Storage (AKA Resilient Solar) – Shorthand for a paired solar photovoltaic (PV) and energy storage system. Most solar systems can operate during blackouts only if they are paired with energy storage. Therefore, in order to be considered “Resilient Solar,” a system must include energy storage.[note]There are exceptions to this rule. For example, some solar inverters feature AC plugs which, under good solar conditions, can be used to charge smartphones during a blackout. But for the purposes of this discussion, “Resilient Solar” always includes solar and storage.[/note]
Congratulations! You now know more about energy storage than 99% of Americans. However, you might still be wondering what exactly is so exciting about batteries.
Energy storage is revolutionizing the way energy is produced, delivered, consumed, and valued. If managed properly, this revolution will fundamentally transform the energy sector in five ways. The energy storage revolution will:
Finally enable the transition to a majority-renewables grid;
Abandon today’s boring, antiquated, mostly uni-directional grid for the dynamic grid of the future;
Grant individuals unprecedented control over their energy profiles;
Electrify the transportation sector; and
Vastly improve resilience during blackouts.
That’s a lot to take in, and far too much to dig into in one blog post. Fear not – stay tuned right here for new posts that will treat these impacts with the time and respect they deserve.
Enough with all this blather. How will batteries affect NYC?
To date, New Yorkers haven’t seen many cutting-edge energy storage systems installed. That’s about to change, thanks to Governor Cuomo’s new energy storage commitment – the country’s most ambitious at a whopping 1.5 gigawatts by 2025.[note]To be clear: this is the most ambitious per capita energy storage goal of any state.[/note] In terms of peak power output, that’s the equivalent of over 4.3 million solar panels.[note]Using 345-watt PV panels.[/note]
This commitment also aims to employ 30,000 New Yorkers, and is essential to New York’s twin goals of a 50% renewable grid by 2030 and an 80% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
Suffice it to say that New York is leading the way on energy storage and renewable energy – or, rather, New York will lead the way. First comes the hard work of getting these technologies deployed at scale. That’s where you come in.
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IDeaS Awards 2020 Cornell Revenue Management Scholarships
IDeaS awards six new scholarships to advance the careers of hotel revenue leaders from around the world
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MINNEAPOLIS—April 23, 2020—IDeaS, the world’s leading provider of revenue management software and services, today announced the 2020 IDeaS Cornell Revenue Management Scholarship recipients, continuing its ongoing scholarship program to foster professional development in the field of revenue management.
IDeaS 2020 Cornell Revenue Management Scholarships – Working in partnership with the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration within the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, these scholarships present hospitality professionals with the opportunity to earn online certificates developed by senior Cornell faculty leaders. Global winners include:
Advanced Hospitality Revenue Management – Jason D’Agostino, revenue manager, Visions Hotels LLC, USA and Ms. Hathairat Naenkwaen, director, OTA Partnerships, ONYX Hospitality Group, Thailand
Hotel Revenue Management – Ilia Ivanov, front office manager, Anya Premier Hotel Quy Nhon, Vietnam and Mr. Ewan Neveling, sales manager, Hilton Garden Inn & Homewood Suites by Hilton Calgary Downtown, Canada
Data Analytics 360 – Ms. Maria de Fatima Guinea Higueras, revenue management senior analyst, Casa Andina Hotels, Peru and Mr. Derek Taube, revenue manager, Island Hospitality Management, USA
Shaping the careers of future revenue management leaders – As a member of the advisory board of the Leland C. and Mary M. Pillsbury Institute for Hospitality Entrepreneurship at Cornell University’s SC Johnson College of Business, School of Hotel Administration since 2018, IDeaS’ Dr. Ravi Mehrotra, continues to support and educate future leaders in the field.
Derek Taube, revenue manager, Island Hospitality Management, USA, said: “In this unprecedented time for the hotel and lodging industry, independent hotels and management companies are transforming the way revenue management is conducted. I am grateful to IDeaS for the opportunity to participate in the Data Analytics 360 executive education program through Cornell University. My studies will help provide me with the tools, resources, and knowledge needed in my career and organization at such a critical and pivotal period in the industry.”
Hathairat Naenkwaen, director, OTA Partnerships, ONYX Hospitality Group, Thailand, said: “It is an honor to win the scholarship from Cornell University and IDeaS Revenue Solutions, the global leaders in the field. I am very excited about the program which will add method to my expertise in revenue management. The course will not only allow me to pursue more challenging career opportunities, but also facilitate mentoring a new generation of revenue management and distribution leaders more effectively.”
Dr. Ravi Mehrotra, president, founder & chief scientist, IDeaS, said: “IDeaS’ mission to drive the future of revenue management is predicated on ensuring the brightest minds are given opportunities to lead. I couldn’t be prouder to honor these individuals. Through our work with the hospitality program at Cornell University we continue to bridge the gap between business and academia in order to recognize and promote the next generation of hotel revenue leaders, worldwide.”
For more information on the program or to apply for future scholarships, visit /about/scholarship/.
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IDeaS, a SAS company, is the world’s leading provider of revenue management software and services. With over 30 years of expertise, IDeaS delivers revenue science to more than 13,000 clients in 140 countries. Combining industry knowledge with innovative, data-analytics technology, IDeaS creates sophisticated yet simple ways to empower revenue leaders with precise, automated decisions they can trust. Results delivered. Revenue transformed. Discover greater profitability at ideas.com.
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The School of Hotel Administration, at the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, is shaping the global knowledge base for hospitality management through leadership in education, research, and industry advancement. The school provides management instruction in the full range of hospitality disciplines, educating the next generation of leaders in the world’s largest industry. Founded in 1922 as the nation’s first collegiate course of study in hospitality management, the School of Hotel Administration is recognized as the world leader in its field. For more information, visit sha.cornell.edu.
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ILA Calls for Ratification Vote
ILA President Harold Daggett today notified ILA locals covered by the Master Contract that a ratification vote on the proposed Six-Year Contract that was overwhelmingly approved by ILA Wage Scale Committee in early June will take place next Thursday, September 6 from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m.
“As your International President, I am pleased to inform you that on June 7, 2018, the ILA Wage Scale Committee overwhelmingly approved an extension to the Master Contract that will be effective October 1, 2018, through September 30, 2024,” wrote President Daggett.
“The International now seeks your ratification of this agreement,” President Daggett added.
The International has instructed all Locals involved in the ratification vote to make available to its members the terms of the agreement covered in President Daggett’s letter, and sent ILA Locals ballots and tally sheets, as well as the rules of procedure for the contract ratification vote. Locals are to make available to members in good standing for inspection, the membership list before the vote and observe the voting and tallying process.
ILA President Harold Daggett and the ILA Wage Scale Committee strongly encourages a “yes” vote on the six-year extension.
“The ILA has negotiated an extension that not only protects the benefits you already have but also enhances these benefits to ensure that you are compensated appropriately for all your hard work,” said President Daggett in his letter to ILA members. “I am particularly pleased with the jurisdictional protections that the ILA has negotiated that will ensure that your jobs will be preserved in the years ahead. I believe that this proposed extension represents a giant step forward in the collective bargaining history of the ILA.
“Even though I am extremely pleased with the proposed extension that the ILA negotiated, there is one final obstacle that must be overcome before the ILA can say that its members will be protected for the next six years, the ratification vote. I hope to have the ratification vote among ILA members in good standing in all ILA ports covered by the Master Contract on Thursday, September 6, 2018. The ILA Wage Scale Committee endorses the proposed extension to Master Contract and, on its behalf, I ask that each of you also approve the agreement by voting yes to its ratification,” wrote ILA President Daggett.
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Because the pot of money for the arts portfolio remains unchanged. What does it mean to be an Australian in times like these. Gillian Candler's Nature Heroes - conservation for kids environment author interview. With so many Christmas parties and so many friends to see, it can be a challenging season for the sober.
The Book Show brings you in-depth conversations with the best fiction writers from Australia and around the world. Sarah has over a decade of experience in arts and literature broadcasting at RN. The two British authors have used elements of Shakespeare's tale in their latest novel.
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Joan Armatrading interview in Sydney [HD] Life Matters, ABC Radio National
First up the arts are entering the post-Brandis era. Let's meet the man who could shape that future and we'll find out what this music means to him. So what are the passions, enthusiasms and ambitions that our new Minister brings to the job. And can he undo the anxieties and distress of so many people in the arts following the recent changes to arts funding? Senator, welcome to books and arts. Well I love Earth, Wind and Fire.
I mean the Australia Council reaches all nahional artists who by definition live in states so why it's coving both bases. Now let's talk about why we fund the arts because I take it that you're a free-trader. Let's look at your other interests in the arts. So there are no formal recommendations to government as such at the moment.
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Ni No Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom
Ni No Kuni 2 Special Editions and Season Pass Revealed
When a Prince becomes a King.
byVikki Blake
Posted Aug. 9, 2017, 12:28 p.m.
Update: Bandai Namco has now officially revealed the various editions of the game, and they vary quite a lot between the US and Europe.
Europe's editions are as described below, costing £84.99 for the Prince's Edition and 139.99 for the King's Edition.
In the US however, it's a different story. A $74.99 Premium Edition will include the game, steelbook, 3D papercraft kit, music collection CD, an exclusive DLC sword, Dragon's Tooth. That means no season pass.
For $199.99, the Collector's Edition will get you all of that, plus an art book, a "Chibi Mechanical Rotating Diorama", a Lofty plush, a making-of Blu-ray, a 3D papercraft display case, and the season pass.
In the US, a $60 Day One edition will include the base game and "Special Sword Set DLC" including 5 swords. In the Europe, that's a pre-order bonus.
The season pass itself remains a bit of a mystery. Priced at $20/£20, it will include two unspecified "large" DLC drops down the line, and extra items.
Pre-orders are now open across the world. No details on Australian special editions were available at time of writing.
Ni No Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom will be available in two special editions - Prince's Edition, and King's Edition - and both editions will come with bundled with an as-yet-unspecified season pass.
Images depicting the special edition contents popped up briefly on publisher's Bandai Namco's official Twitter account, before being pulled a short time later without explanation.
Image credit: NeoGAF
The Prince's Edition looks as though it'll ship with a physical copy of the game, an "exclusive" steelbook case and Making Of Blu-ray disc, plus a season pass.
Precisely what the pass will include remains to be seen, although director Akihiro Hino has previously clarified Ni No Kuni II will not feature any multiplayer content.
The King's Edition comes with all the contents of the Prince's Edition, plus an 148-page artbook, a vinyl record, and a 20cm tall Evolution of a King diorama figurine that also doubles as a music box to play Ni No Kuni II's main theme.
Availability and prices for the special editions have not yet been released, but given the PEGI information on the cover shown in the images, it looks as though it's at least coming to Europe.
The RPG sequel - which was first revealed during 2015's PlayStation Experience - was originally scheduled to release in November. However, Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom was recently pushed back to January 19, 2018.
For more on the sequel, here are 12 things you need to know about Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom.
Vikki Blake is a very jumpy survival horror survivalist. You can find her twittering over at @_vixx and twitching at twitch.tv/vixxiie.
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Horror Artist Junji Ito Was Involved With Silent Hills
byLucy O'Brien
Posted Sept. 28, 2015, 11:04 a.m.
Famed horror manga artist Junji Ito was collaborating with Guillermo del Toro and Hideo Kojima on their doomed Silent Hills project.
del Toro made the revelation on Twitter, saying that both he and Kojima were fans of the "undisputed master of horror in Japan".
JUNJI ITO, undisputed master of horror in Japan (along with Hino and Tsubaki) and our collaborator in SILENT HILL (S) pic.twitter.com/D9ypKBhVk5
— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) September 27, 2015
Kojima and myself are fans. pic.twitter.com/Jbp7qtRGfo
del Toro went on to say that Ito's 2002 manga GYO was the only comic to "make him jump."
The revelation is a further blow to those who were holding out for the too-good-to-be-true project, which was unceremoniously cancelled as a result of the souring relationship between Kojima and Silent Hill publisher Konami.
May it live on in our hearts.
Lucy O'Brien is Entertainment Editor at IGN’s AU office. Follow her ramblings on Twitter.
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Tax payers need to know how PSBs write-off bad loans: HC
Disclosure involved an element of public interest; tax payers have right to know.
Written by Utkarsh Anand | New Delhi | June 24, 2015 1:57:18 am
Why should public sector banks (PSBs) not disclose details of cases where they have written off thousands of crore of rupees as bad debts? After all, these banks do not only function on deposits from people but their equity capital is also structured on the tax payers’ money.
Observing this, the Delhi High Court has prima facie held as bad the PSBs resistance in divulging information about the entities which availed the benefits of their loans being written off as bad debts or unrecoverable amount. Justice Rajiv Shakdher, during a recent hearing, observed that this disclosure involved an element of public interest and tax payers have a right to know the manner in which PSBs sanctioned them.
The judge noted there were several cases wherein the banks wrote off debts to the tune of Rs 100 crore or more while the government kept infusing tax payers’ money in the form of equity capital.
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Justice Shakdher questioned the rationale behind stonewalling such queries under the Right To Information Act and said: “Prima facie, in my view, this information may have to be disclosed.”
The court was hearing an appeal by the State Bank of India, which challenged a Central Information Commission order to supply to an RTI applicant information about total NPAs written off during 2004 and 2013. The bank told the court it has a fiduciary relationship with the account holders and the information would hence be exempted from disclosure under Section 8(1)(e) of the RTI Act. But the court said: “The petitioner is undoubtedly a nationalised bank, which has on its own showing written off as NPAs, its loan accounts having outstanding of Rs 100 crore or more. The sheer extent of the write off would in my view, perhaps, inject an element of public interest in the matter, which is the exception provided for in Section 8(1)(e)”.
It, however, decided to further examine the matter considering the dissenting views taken by the Central Information Commission and the courts in the past and issued a notice to Kochi-based RTI applicant Raju Vazhakkala.
As per another RTI filed by Mumbai-resident Richie Shoaib Sequeira, the banks have written off over Rs 15,000 crore during 2003-08. The PSBs refused to reveal names, claiming it was an invasion into the borrowers’ privacy and was not in public interest.
Sequeira has filed a PIL in the Supreme Court, pointing out there is no guidelines by the finance ministry and the RBI for writing off such loans. Further, the Debts Recovery Tribunals could recover only 32 per cent of the outstanding amount in 2001-07. The PIL is pending.
According to information procured by another RTI activist, Sanjay Shirodkar, around 14 PSUs such as SAIL, Coal India, ONGC, Bank of Baroda, NTPC and Airports Authority of India had showed more than Rs 7,500 crore as bad debts between 2006 to March 2012.
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Huddersfield Town match reports
A new era begins to take shape
Boosted by new recruits, with 3 on the pitch and one on the bench, Town’s resilience prevented a technically superior Brentford from scoring for the second time this season and secured a very well earned point as the Cowleys recalibrated their squad in ways which may only become clear over the next few months.
A flawless debut by Stearman, a very promising introduction for Toffolo to the rigours of the Championship and glimpses of Smith Rome’s youthful talent, despite a totally anonymous first half, were encouraging and an early reassurance that the disastrously wasteful recruitment which has all but destroyed any lasting Premier League legacy will not be repeated.
Bar a very late scare as the team rather wilted as they clung on to their reward, Brentford’s rightfully lauded front 3 were largely frustrated by a dogged home side who have been shipping far too many goals of late.
A relentlessly dull first half suited the struggling Terriers and provided an ugly but necessary platform against high flying visitors who will be hungrily looking above them at a team who, pre-Christmas, were nailed on automatic promotion winners seemingly imploding.
Easy on the eye but rather ponderous in the final third, the visitors caused few problems before the break despite having the lion’s share of possession and a predictable defensive block from the hosts worked well. With 2 debutants in the back four, up against a seriously talented attack, the turgid fare can be forgiven and particularly if it translates in to a solid foundation for survival.
While Brentford’s lack of penetration was a little surprising, Town’s inability to muster any sort of threat was frustrating and the hard working Campbell cut a forlorn figure unsupported up front. Needs must, however.
Smith Rowe, starved of the ball but too often unavailable to receive it, looked on as the game completely bypassed him; he improved in the second half but it was probably the wrong game for his introduction as Town focused almost entirely on quelling their opponent’s flair, sacrificing commitment to attack.
It was something of a surprise, possibly not least to the Bees, that Town started the second half on the front foot and enjoyed a 15 minute period which should have seen them take the lead.
A bright start brought an early corner and encouraged the somnolent crowd for the first time. An excellent ball from Chalobah nearly released Grant but the somewhat out of form leading scorer couldn’t quite control and the opportunity passed.
It wasn’t long before his next one which proved to be something of a turning point. Smith Rowe, now a little more prominent, was set free down the right and his low, well hit cross evaded a dozing centre half and fell to the feet of Grant, 6 yards out. The pre-Christmas Grant would have buried the chance but he blasted over instead. Perhaps the reported interest in the striker died in that moment.
Smith Rowe had a reasonable effort comfortably saved and the wind in Town’s sails dwindled thereafter.
Sensing the moment for the home side had passed, Brentford reasserted control and began to dominate the ball again. Still over elaborate and lacking crispness once higher up the pitch, they were subdued by a defence marshalled by the experienced centre back pairing and a disciplined shape.
Mental and physical tiredness started to take their toll, however, and an under hit pass by Grabara to Schindler created avoidable danger. The visitors were unable to take advantage but were encouraged that cracks were appearing.
Schindler stopped a Brentford break on the halfway line to earn a booking and was a little fortunate not to be shown a second with a clumsy foul just minutes later and a visibly wilting Town were now clinging on in some desperation.
With just minutes left, Brentford’s big opportunity arrived. Clever, quick passing freed Dasilva on the right but the youngster’s well struck shot hit the upright and away to safety with Grabara beaten.
A defeat would have been hard on Town who fought valiantly and particularly hard on Stearman who simply didn’t put a foot or head wrong in a debut which will rank among the best ever for the Terriers. Remembering how early mistakes tarnished the unfortunate Elphick, the ex-Blade’s consummate display carries genuine hope and his vast experience can only help the bid for survival.
A game which attracted just one booking and a paltry 2 minutes added time in the second half pointed to an absence of the gamesmanship the Cowleys have found necessary to employ for their entire tenure (not least down at Griffin Park), and possibly reflected a greater trust in a team with, finally, their own choice of player integrated.
It is no mean feat to blank a clearly talented, if somewhat underwhelming on the day, Brentford team twice in a season where they may finally, and hopefully, be rewarded with a shot at the top league their unique approach deserves. Doubly so if elevation thwarts the ambition of our neighbours.
If the wastrels can be offloaded and maybe another new face introduced in the 10 days of useful preparation time ahead, the pervading gloom attending the dismal Stoke and Barnsley performances could be vanquished and a brighter future secured.
We live in hope.
(And that’s it from me until 29/2. 60 today and heading off to this place for a few weeks)
Sucked back in
An already hugely challenging season took another nosedive at Oakwell with a completely unacceptable first half performance only slightly redeemed in the second period as Town took to the air in a failed attempt to force a result.
After a relatively bright opening, the visitors’ sluggish, disjointed and shapeless efforts shocked their large away following in to an angry and justified reaction as they sloped off sheepishly towards them.
Until Barnsley’s opener after 14 minutes, which should have been stopped either by better defending by Brown on Brown or better goalkeeping by Grabara who should have stopped the cross, the game had reflected the lowly positions of the protagonists; poor final balls from the hosts undermined occasionally competent approach play while the visitors carried no threat.
Once they conceded, however, Town deteriorated alarmingly. Second to every ball, panicked in and out of possession and devoid of ideas or intent, only Barnsley’s inability to translate overwhelming superiority in to chances saved the visitors from the ignominy their display deserved.
Home supporters could at least see what their team was attempting to do and what little guile was evident came from the men in red. Jacob Brown gave his namesake Jaden a torrid time but the youngster, who has struggled to find form after his return from injury, wasn’t helped by a less than committed Grant in front of him. The leading scorer is rarely effective when playing with his back to goal but provided no discernible contribution down the left and was rightly hauled off at the break.
In the middle, Chalobah’s endless desire for time on the ball which simply isn’t available in the Championship had predictable results, though he wasn’t helped by static team mates. As he occasionally showed in the second half, there is a powerful presence in there somewhere but Town surely don’t have the time to allow him to develop in to what he may become.
Aside from Stankovic, who demonstrated calm whilst many around and in front of him were consumed by inertia, and O’Brien, who was not, the performance had no redeeming features and had all the hallmarks of failure and doom.
Being only one behind, however, offered some hope. It was barely conceivable that Town could be anything other than better in the second half, and so it proved if only to a limited extent.
Brown was hooked at half time along with Grant though the Cowleys had quite a few choices over who should pay the price for the woeful display. Given their histories, the role of saviours thrust upon Mounié and Hadergjonaj was ironic but both made a difference in a second half where Town were, at least, competitive.
The improvement from dreadful to mundane hardly lifted the spirits but at least there seemed to be a semblance of purpose which had been entirely absent before the break. Still, no attempt on goal emerged from the basic competence suddenly acquired and after 20 minutes of futility, Barnsley extended their lead with a rare moment of quality in a humdrum derby.
Kachunga was easily beaten by a piece of trickery by Oduor on the half way line and after side stepping O’Brien lifted an excellent ball to Brown on the left. The winger double his assists with a fine first time pass to Chaplin who finished coolly.
What appeared to be a fatal blow was rendered irrelevant one minute later when a poor Bacuna cross was dealt with inadequately by a home defence which appeared increasingly vulnerable. The ball fell invitingly to O’Brien who lashed a first time half volley in to the top corner to put the game back in to the same position.
Desperation set in for both teams as the game descended in to an unsightly tussle befitting two relegation threatened rivals.
Town, largely on the front foot, launched high balls forwards for Mounié at every opportunity with any pretence of gaining midfield control long abandoned. Hadergjonaj made a difference on the left and the introduction of Koroma added a threat completely absent with Kachunga. In hindsight, he should have been the third half time substitute but it was telling that both full backs failed to finish the game. Kachunga’s ineffectiveness was simply switched to the right as Bacuna filled in at right back.
Mounié had a good effort smartly saved following an uncharacteristically deft turn in the area while Campbell’s flying volley which just cleared the bar would have been an excellent equaliser.
For the most part, however, the Terriers toiled and struggled to overcome Barnsley’s play halting tactics and time wasting; ploys which no Town supporter can complain about given our antics under the Cowleys.
Diaby was very fortunate to only be booked for a rash, dangerous challenge on O’Brien but the referee was simply awful in the second half and failed to spot a clear push on Mounié late in the game which should have lead to a penalty. Such a decision would have been soft but the offence was committed. The players’ infuriation with the referee was growing and several dissent bookings were deserved but so were a few home indiscretions which went unpunished.
The equaliser didn’t come, Barnsley squandered a couple of breakaway opportunities and a low quality derby came to an end with the hosts taking 3 deserved points and the visitors in no doubt that their efforts were unacceptable to the packed away end.
The extended bounce gained by the appointment of the Cowleys is undoubtedly at an end but they surely deserve some patience. So far, they have been able to add one free agent to a hugely damaged squad, lifted the team out of the relegation zone and overcome significant handicaps on the way. Hopefully, they will be able to add to the two signings illegible for yesterday’s game, a left back is urgently needed, and rediscover a winning formula.
The stains of the last few weeks need washing away quickly.
All stoked up
A barely functioning Huddersfield Town side began the 20s with not so much a roar as a whimper against an organised, physical Stoke City who deservedly put their feeble relegation rivals to the sword.
As if being hauled back in to an increasingly tight battle at the bottom was not bad enough, any lingering hopes of capturing the Family Club of the year award disappeared when sections of the home support responded to arch provocateur James McClean with chants relating to a disbanded terrorist organisation as if the peace negotiated at the end of the last century hadn’t happened. 400 years of tragic Irish history distilled in to 3 words. But nobody should expect nuance from a crowd.
Illiterate politics and history aside, New Year’s Day proved to be a bleak return to the shapeless, incoherent early season performances thought to be long gone under the new management regime. The fragility of the revival under the Cowleys was comprehensively exposed; a limited, unbalanced squad succumbed to the ravages of a bruising festive period and, individually and collectively, mustered a display brimming with error, weakness and torpor.
Mental and physical fatigue should apply equally to both sides but while Stoke, who did have the luxury of rotation, appeared unaffected and impressively strong, Town visibly wilted from the off with a notable drowsiness in possession and a startling lack of awareness out of it.
The resilience evident, even in defeat, in the Cowley brothers’ previous outings evaporated and while it is difficult to excuse a performance littered with ineptitude, it was so out of character that the hope is that a combination of a resurgent opposition and overwhelming strain produced a one off capitulation which can be fixed.
Clutching at any passing straw, a case can be made that all of the progress made under new management was derailed by a deadly combination of factors which rendered defeat inevitable.
Individuals, notably Simpson, Hogg, Stanković and Grabara, made a succession of unfathomable errors in the space of just 90 minutes and others contributed to those in at least two of them.
Stoke are now, finally, managed by someone with the ability to organise and motivate a squad with significantly more talent than their league position would suggest and the new influences are taking effect.
Despite acknowledging that our principal goal threat operates far more effectively from the left, Grant was played in a front 2 and constantly lost possession in probably his worst performance in a Town shirt. The persistence with 4 4 2 until late in the game was a glaringly obvious error; without Kachunga’s defensive work disruption to the team was inevitable, but the Cowleys took the wrong option.
At crucial points in the game, a quite dreadful referee and his assistants failed to give the home side two clear penalties or punish a foul on Mounié with a second yellow card.
None of these negate the fact that a single goal separated the sides at half time, yet the visitors should have buried their hosts before the break. Without a single effort on goal, a feeble response to Stoke’s physical superiority and an inability to impose any semblance of authority, being down by just one self inflicted concession was a massive relief.
From the avoidable concession of a corner in the first minute until the Potters hit the bar in first half injury time, Town looked abject, disjointed and lacking players prepared to take individual responsibility, with the possible exception of O’Brien whose energy was utterly wasted on the left of a tragically inadequate, insipid and slow midfield.
On the right, Bacuna occasionally rose above his sulking display with flashes of skill but his confusion with Simpson which contributed to the veteran slicing an attempted clearance straight to Powell to set up Vokes for an easy opener was his main impact on a day when he seemed impervious to instruction from the dug out. Bordering on insolent, don’t be surprised if he is rewarded with a lengthy spell staring at Danny Cowley’s back.
Stoke’s goal scorer terrorised Town’s defence with a display which mixed aggression, anticipation and know how; Schindler and Stankovic battled gamely on the whole but were comprehensively dominated.
Everywhere you looked, problems were evident and each compounded the other.
Grant was playing with his back to goal as a co-striker and anything fed up to him bounced off him at a variety of angles and invariably conceded possession. In the middle, Chalobah was slow to react, hesitant to challenge and largely uncomfortable in possession. Alongside him, Hogg’s work rate was undeniable but his effectiveness was almost entirely lacking. As a pairing they were horribly out classed by Joe Allen who buzzed around with purpose and intent.
With O’Brien and Bacuna exiled to the sides, creativity was largely absent and the visitors constantly succeeded in playing between the flat lines of our midfield and defence. Lacking Kachunga in front of him, Simpson had an afternoon to forget while young Brown tried to subdue the powerful Campbell on the left; he was successful to an extent but became more ragged as the game progressed.
The formation was clearly flawed from a very early stage of the game, evidently unable to cope with Stoke’s superior physicality and energy and hugely contributed to a first half almost entirely devoid of threat from the home side. Other than a couple of free kicks from deep, the only move of any note came down the right and resulted in Grant being clearly pushed in the area as he went for Simpson’s cross.
After such a wretched first half, the events of the first 5 minutes of the second were bewildering. Grant, finally in a position facing the goal, brought a save from Butland which translated in to a corner he lifted high in to the area for Mounié to climb for and head home.
Minutes later, Mounié was tripped by Lindsay. Having already been booked, the defender was extremely fortunate not to be dismissed but the lenience of the referee towards the men from the Potteries was a particularly baffling feature of an altogether bizarre afternoon.
Bacuna delivered a reasonable but not particularly threatening free kick which Butland decided to fist away rather than gather and the ball ricocheted off Batth who had no chance of avoiding conceding an own goal.
It was barely comprehensible that after an abject first half when they should have been already well beaten, Town found themselves in the lead. The Germans probably have a word for the mixture of joy and bewilderment which engulfed three and a half sides of the stadium. Fortunately, English provides the noun for what it turned out to be; a chimera.
Within minutes, Stoke were level. While Hogg was fouled in the build up, his hesitation invited a challenge and set Campbell away down the right and he had the simple task of picking out Powell in the area to finish smartly.
Normal service was resumed and Stoke had shrugged off set backs which would surely have overwhelmed them not too long ago and Town were about to hand them a lead they would not be relinquishing again.
A relatively innocuous free kick towards the edge of the area was eminently defendable until Grabara decided to intervene by rushing to the edge of his box and attempt a punched clearance which flopped on to the welcoming foot of Campbell who lobbed smartly in to the vacated net.
Following the examples set by Simpson, Hogg and Grabara, the hitherto reliable Stankovic then allowed a high punt forward to bounce with Vokes ready to pounce on his lack of decisiveness. The big forward nodded the ball in to the path of Campbell who, again, finished with lethal composure.
To rub copious amounts of salt in to the wounds, McClean strolled smiling to a last minute corner in front of his goaded abusers, played a short corner to Lee Gregory, received the ball back and then played in the ex-Halifax striker in behind a sleeping Grant to curl in the fifth.
After the early, out of context, flurry at the beginning of the half to establish their fragile, unlikely and undeserved lead, Town had collapsed and offered little resistance other than a decent Grant free kick which was well saved by Butland.
An exceptionally bad day with barely a redeeming feature (a single high point earned Mounié a man of the match award which the rest of the team were probably pleased to avoid) emphasised and illuminated both the structural weaknesses of a club trying to recover from at least 2 years of decay and misjudgement and the huge task in front of the Cowleys. Perverse comfort may be drawn from the fact that so many errors, dismal performances and rank decisions resulted in the loss of one game, rather than spread over a month.
There wasn’t even a decent bloody sunset.
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Home » Celebrities » Joe Exotic Asks Kim Kardashian for Help Getting Presidential Pardon
Joe Exotic Asks Kim Kardashian for Help Getting Presidential Pardon
Joe Exotic is hoping Kim Kardashian West will help get him out from behind bars. In a new handwritten letter obtained by ET, the 57-year-oldTiger King star, who is currently in prison, writes to the 40-year-old reality star and criminal justice reform activist, asking for her help in getting a presidential pardon from President Donald Trump.
Joe is currently serving a 22-year prison sentence after being convicted of plotting a murder-for-hire against Big Cat Rescue owner Carole Baskin, among other charges. As of March 2020, he is incarcerated at FMC Fort Worth in Texas and in June 2020, Carole received control of Joe’s zoo property.
“I know you have never met me and may never want to however I do believe that you hold the values of our justice system dear to your heart,” Joe writes in the letter dated Nov. 4. “I am writing you this letter not as Joe Exotic but as the person Joseph Maldonado-Passage, asking you to please help me by just taking 10 minutes out of your life and placing a call to President Trump to look at my 257 page pardon it’s all the evidence I’m innocent and ask him to sign my pardon so I can return home to [my husband] Dillon [Passage] and my father.”
He added, “I have lost 57 years of work, my zoo, my animals, my mother has died, my dad is dying and I’ve been taken away from my husband who I love dearly. Everyone is so busy making movies, getting interviews, selling stuff and dressing up like me that everyone forgot I’m a real live person in prison and kept from even telling my own story for something I didn’t do.”
Joe asks Kim to give him a phone call, promising, “No one even has to know you did it.”
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In addition to her work with criminal justice reform, Kim, who has been successful in getting several prisoners pardoned, has also shown she’s a big Tiger King fan. Back in October, the mother of four and her friend, Jonathan Cheban, dressed up as Carole Baskin and Joe Exotic for Halloween with her kids as tigers.
Kim expressed an interest in the series back in March, tweeting, “Wow the amount of texts I’ve gotten about Tiger King since I tweeted about it all have mentioned their belief that Carol killed her husband! What are your thoughts? Do you think Carol killed him?”
Baskin’s Big Cat Rescue offered to have Kim come visit their sanctuary, but she never responded publicly to the invite.
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Home » World News » From vaccine roll out in January to abolishing tiers by Easter – how 2021 is the year we’ll defeat Covid
From vaccine roll out in January to abolishing tiers by Easter – how 2021 is the year we’ll defeat Covid
A COVID vaccine has changed everything – finally giving a silver lining to the end of this pandemic.
The roll-out of both the Pfizer and Oxford jab spells the end of the restrictions that have crippled the economy and people's mental health.
But change won't happen quickly, officials warn, and there is still room for more lockdowns.
Professor Jonathan Van-Tam, England's Deputy Chief Medical Officer, said we couldn't yet have a "massive party, throw our masks and hand sanitiser away and say it's behind us like the end of the war".
Dashing hopes of a speedy rollout for the whole nation, the top professor also said it will take "months not weeks" and warned that low uptake of the jab will "almost certainly make restrictions last longer".
Behaviour over the Christmas break will also have a “big impact” on how long it takes for life to return to normal, the lead researcher behind the Oxford jab has warned.
Sarah Gilbert, professor of vaccinology at the University of Oxford, said life could be “more or less” back to normal by next summer – but that depends on the severity of the outbreak in the new year.
But Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he has "high hopes" the vaccine would allow life to return to normal.
And the Health Secretary Matt Hancock said 2021 would give us a "summer we can enjoy".
So given the prospects of mass vaccination in Britain, how could 2021 pan out?
Before the majority of the population can get vaccinated, there is the winter to get through.
Professor Chris Whitty, the Chief Medical Officer for England, said this month that “for the next three months, I want to be very clear, we will not have sufficient protection”.
The PM said that it will be “long, cold months” before even all the most vulnerable are protected from the virus.
“So it’s all the more vital that as we celebrate this scientific achievement we are not carried away with over-optimism or fall into the naive belief that the struggle is over,” he told a press conference on December 2.
For now England is in a tiered system which restricts social contacts depending on how many cases there are in each area.
NHS bosses warned Boris Johnson that any relaxation of restrictions in England’s tier system may trigger a third wave.
And that would come at the busiest time of the year for hospitals, in January and February.
Prof Hunter said there are "big uncertainties" about the implications of having allowed families in some areas to get together for Christmas Day.
He said: “Some increase in transmission is almost inevitable.
“Because schools are closed and many leisure venues will also be closed a Christmas surge should be containable. Clearly by January 14th, we will know who was right.”
Prof Hunter said: “After the start of the year we will start to see gradual relaxation of the restrictions probably starting by the end of January.”
This might look like a nationwide lift of certain rules, such as the 11pm curfew on pubs.
Or areas may be moved down the tier levels, with ministers reviewing whether areas need to move up or down the ranks every 14 days.
But Liam Smeeth, a professor of clinical epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said he thinks "a further circuit breaker in January or possibly February is likely to be needed", given the festive period.
The PM has said the legislation of the tiered system has a “sunset" clause – or expiry date – of February 3 – which is when MPs have the ability to vote it out.
SRING
Prof Hunter said if we relax too much in December and January, the epidemic will grow again and it will "elongate the crippling restrictions into the spring".
However, he said: “I am actually quite optimistic that by spring the worst will be behind us, providing we hold our nerve for the next six to eight weeks.”
Mass vaccinations will be in full swing across the UK by the spring time thanks to the approval of the Oxford and AstraZeneca vaccine this week.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the UK now has enough doses ordered to vaccinate the entire population.
He also said that the vaccine would mean the day on which restrictions are lifted can be brought forward.
NHS boss Simon Stevens said that the bulk of jabs for at-risk people who need it most will be done by April.
And the Chief Scientific Advisor, Sir Patrick Vallance, said on "V-day": "I would expect spring time, April, something like that, you would start to see some return towards normality."
Prof Hunter said: “As we move into spring and as vaccines are more widely taken up, I suspect that we will see more authorities moving into lower tiers and perhaps the appearance of a new Tier zero."
Currently only the Isle of Scilly is in Tier 1, the lowest level of restrictions that allows indoor mixing with other households.
Millions were plunged into Tier 3 and 4 restrictions from midnight – forcing pubs and shops to close for three quarters of the country.
Local authorities can apply for rapid coronavirus tests to screen thousands of people in order to speed up the process of moving out of Tier 3.
Mass testing did wonders for Liverpool, the city used for a pilot study of the "lateral flow tests".
How are the tiers decided?
Decisions on tiers are made by ministers based on public health recommendations informed by the following factors:
Case detection rate (in all age groups and, in particular, amongst the over 60s);
How quickly case rates are rising or falling;
Positivity in the general population;
Pressure on the NHS – including current and projected (3-4 weeks out) NHS capacity – including admissions, general/acute/ICU bed occupancy, staff absences; and
Local context and exceptional circumstances such as a local but contained outbreak.
Mr Johnson and his sidekick Professor Whitty have visions of Easter becoming the first opportunity to come out the worst Covid-19 restrictions.
This optimism was further bolstered after the vaccine was approved, with Education Secretary Gavin Williamson saying Covid-19 will be defeated by the spring.
Mr Johnson said it was now “sure and certain” that life could start returning to normal in 2021, possibly by the spring.
But a combination of community testing, vaccines and social distancing measures were still necessary, he said.
“As we do all this we are no longer resting on the mere hope that we can return to normal next year, in the spring, but rather the sure and certain knowledge that we will succeed and together reclaim our lives and all the things about our lives that we love,” he said.
If MPs vote to keep the tier system, it will stay in place until the end of March.
Ministers have not given much indication of what they expect to happen from Easter onwards, but the general tone is promising.
The Health Secretary Matt Hancock said on BBC Breakfast on December 2, after the vaccine was approved: “I’m confident now with the news today that from spring, from Easter onwards, things are going to be better and we’re going to have a summer next year that everybody can enjoy.”
He even admitted a few days later he had already booked a holiday to Cornwall for summer 2021, saying: “I do have high confidence that the summer of 2021 will be a bright one without the sort of restrictions."
The Government’s coronavirus vaccine tsar has also predicted Britons will be able to go abroad on summer holidays next year.
Kate Bingham said that while the virus would never completely disappear, by the summer of 2021 “we should be in a much better place to get on planes”.
Prof McKee said: “I suspect we will be able to put the more severe restrictions behind us by next summer.”
With the potential of scrapping social distancing, it gives hope for gatherings of more than just a couple of dozen.
Next summer will be a “different world” for weddings and the event industry, Boris Johnson said on December 3.
Dr Scally said: "The ability to run major events involving large crowds will very much depend upon the level of cases being found in the community. "
He said there will be people who cannot get it due to clinical reasons, for example pregnant women.
There will also be those who chose not to take it, up to one quarter according to recent surveys.
"Thus, there will be plenty of opportunities for the virus to spread amongst the community", Dr Scally said.
Prof Hunter also said that as we move into summer, "we get better at spotting super spreader events early”.
This suggests events that give the virus the chance to spread rapidly, such as concerts, festivals and football matches, might still be dangerous territory.
However, ministers hope the rapid Covid tests will offer the return of "mass gatherings", by making sure those going are negative on the day of the event.
In the summer of this year, coronavirus cases dropped to their lowest levels, with single figure daily deaths.
Experts say the virus is less able to spread in the summer climate; the heat and sunlight kills the virus, and people spend more time outside.
However, the four months of restrictions from March to July probably contributed to the record low R rate.
A YEAR’S TIME
It’s difficult to predict what state the UK and the rest of the world will be in by this time next year because it rests so heavily on what happens now.
Even if all goes swimmingly well, Prof Hunter said: “I'm quite convinced we will be seeing cases this time next year. Not so many I hope, or hospitalisations and deaths. But it will still be around.”
Prof Smeeth said ideally most of the population will be immunised by a vaccine by next winter.
"Life won’t ever be the same as it was before Covid-19, but it will feel a whole lot better than now", he said.
Of the other seven vaccine candidates under the Government's belt, the ones from Oxford University and Moderna are most likely to be approved next.
The World Health Organisation, echoed by a slew of experts, have said the virus is going to be with humanity forever – even if a vaccine is found, because it is so established now.
On December 2, Prof Van-Tam admitted "we will never eradicate coronavirus", but urged Brits to take the jab if they want their dreams of a return to normal life to come true.
He added: "I think we may get to a point where coronavirus becomes a seasonal problem – I don't want to join too many parallels with flu – but possibly that is the kind of way we would learn to live it."
But in the absence of a vaccine, the disease would likely have become milder over time as people develop some natural immunity towards it.
Like other coronaviruses, SARS-CoV-2 will most likely be seen as a cause of the common cold.
The "pandemic" tag will probably be dropped once enough immunity from vaccination has built up and the virus no longer remains a global threat – which will happen "in due course", Prof McKee said.
Experts suspect that mask wearing will remain prevalent, even if mandatory laws are dropped.
Dr Head said: “There may be some need for longer-term infection control measures, such as continuing to wear masks when entering a higher-risk environment such as hospitals."
Prof Hunter said: “It wouldn't surprise me even if face as rules are lifted, people will continue to wear them because they feel safer.”
Dr McKee said “we may never go back to exactly the same situation as before” in various aspects of life.
He said: “People have realised the benefits of working from home and not travelling to meetings that can be held on Zoom."
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Home » News » AMD to Power Two Cray CS500 Systems at Army Research Centers
AMD to Power Two Cray CS500 Systems at Army Research Centers
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Today Cray announced that the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) has selected two Cray CS500 systems for its High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) annual technology procurement known as TI-18. The Army Research Lab (ARL) and the U.S. Army Engineering and Research Development Center (ERDC) will each deploy a Cray CS500 to help serve the U.S. through accelerated research in science and technology. The two contracts are valued at more than $46M and the CS500 systems are expected to be delivered to ARL and ERDC in the fourth quarter of 2019.
We’re proud to continue to support the DOD and its advanced use of high-performance computing in providing ARL and ERDC new systems for their research programs,” said Peter Ungaro, CEO at Cray. “We’re looking forward to continued collaboration with the DOD in leveraging the capabilities of these new systems to achieve their important mission objectives.”
Cray has a long history of delivering high-performance computing technologies to ARL and ERDC and continues to play a vital role in helping the organizations deliver on their missions to ensure the U.S. remains a leader in science. Both organizations’ CS500 systems will be equipped with 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors and NVIDIA Tensor Core GPUs, and will provide access to high-performance capabilities and resources that make it possible for researchers, scientists and engineers across the Department of Defense to better understand insights and enable new discoveries across diverse research disciplines to address the Department’s most challenging problems.
We are truly proud to partner with Cray to create the world’s most powerful supercomputing platforms. To be selected to help accelerate scientific research and discovery is a testament to our commitment to datacenter innovation,” said Forrest Norrod, senior vice president and general manager, Datacenter and Embedded Solutions Business Group, AMD. “By leveraging breakthrough CPU performance and robust feature set of the 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors with Cray CS500 supercomputers, the DOD has a tremendous opportunity to grow its computing capabilities and deliver on its missions.”
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Press Release: Apple iPhone 5
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Here is the press release on Apple iPhone 5:
Thinnest, Lightest iPhone Ever Features All-New Aluminum Design, Stunning 4-Inch Retina Display, A6 Chip & Ultrafast Wireless
SAN FRANCISCO—September 12, 2012—Apple today announced iPhone 5, the thinnest and lightest iPhone ever, completely redesigned to feature a stunning new 4-inch Retina display; an Apple-designed A6 chip for blazing fast performance; and ultrafast wireless technology*—all while delivering even better battery life.** iPhone 5 comes with iOS 6, the world’s most advanced mobile operating system with over 200 new features including: the all new Maps app with Apple-designed cartography and turn-by-turn navigation; Facebook integration; Passbook organization; and even more Siri features and languages.
“iPhone 5 is the most beautiful consumer device that we’ve ever created,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. “We’ve packed an amazing amount of innovation and advanced technology into a thin and light, jewel-like device with a stunning 4-inch Retina display, blazing fast A6 chip, ultrafast wireless, even longer battery life; and we think customers are going to love it.”
iPhone 5 is the thinnest smartphone in the world, with an all-new 7.6 mm anodized aluminium body that is 18 percent thinner and 20 percent lighter than iPhone 4S. Designed with an unprecedented level of precision, iPhone 5 combines an anodized aluminium body with diamond cut chamfered edges and glass inlays for a truly incredible fit and finish.
The new 4-inch Retina display on iPhone 5 delivers even more pixels than iPhone 4S, making the already incredible Retina display even better. By making the screen taller, not wider, iPhone 5 is just as easy to use with one hand so you can tap, type and scroll the same way you always have, while enjoying even more of your content including amazing apps optimized for the larger Retina display, widescreen HD video, a full five days of your Calendar and more of every web page.
iPhone 5 supports ultrafast wireless standards including LTE and DC-HSDPA, so you can browse, download and stream content even faster. To support the latest LTE technology, Apple has pioneered a unique single-radio LTE solution that provides blazing fast speeds while fitting perfectly into the new remarkably thin design. iPhone 5 features dual-band 802.11n Wi-Fi support for a wireless experience up to 150 Mbps.***
The all-new A6 chip was designed by Apple to maximize performance and power efficiency to support all the incredible new features in iPhone 5, including the stunning new 4-inch Retina display—all while delivering even better battery life. With up to twice the CPU and graphics performance, almost everything you do on iPhone 5 is blazing fast for launching apps, loading web pages and downloading email attachments.
The 8 megapixel iSight camera is the most popular camera in the world and with iPhone 5, it’s even better. The new camera is completely redesigned with incredible optical performance, yet amazingly it’s 25 percent smaller than the camera in iPhone 4S. The new iSight camera in iPhone 5 features a sapphire crystal lens cover that is thinner and more durable than standard glass with the ability to provide crystal clear images. The new panorama feature lets you capture jaw-dropping panorama images of up to 28 megapixels by simply moving the camera across a scene in one smooth motion. New video features include improved stabilization, video face detection for up to 10 faces and the ability to take still photos as you record. A new FaceTime HD front facing camera makes FaceTime calls incredibly clear and can also be used for self portraits and recording 720p HD video. iPhone 5 also allows you to share photos with friends and family using iCloud’s Shared Photo Streams.
iPhone 5 features the new Lightning connector that is smaller, smarter and more durable than the previous connector. The all-digital Lightning connector features an adaptive interface that uses only the signals that each accessory requires, and it’s reversible so you can instantly connect to your accessories. The Lightning-to-30-pin Adapter is also available to connect iPhone 5 to legacy 30-pin accessories.****
iPhone 5 introduces new enhanced audio features including a new beam-forming, directional microphone system for higher quality sound, while background noise fades away with new noise canceling technology. iPhone 5 now includes support for cellular wideband audio for crisper word clarity and more natural sounding speech. Wideband audio will be supported by over 20 carriers worldwide at launch. iPhone 5 comes with the new Apple EarPods featuring a breakthrough design for a more natural fit and increased durability, and an incredible acoustic quality typically reserved for higher-end earphones.
iPhone 5 comes with iOS 6, the world’s most advanced mobile operating system with over 200 new user features including: an all new Maps app with Apple-designed cartography, turn-by-turn navigation and an amazing new Flyover view; Facebook integration for Contacts and Calendar, with the ability to post directly from Notification Center; Passbook, the simplest way to get all your passes in one place; new Siri features, including support for more languages, easy access to sports scores, restaurant recommendations and movie listings;***** Siri and Facebook-enabled apps like Photos, Safari® and Maps; and Shared Photo Streams via iCloud.
iPhone 5 comes in either white & silver or black & slate, and will be available in the US for a suggested retail price of $199 (US) for the 16GB model and $299 (US) for the 32GB model and $399 (US) for the 64GB model. iPhone 5 will be available from the Apple Online Store (www.apple.com), Apple’s retail stores, and through AT&T, Sprint, Verizon Wireless and select Apple Authorized Resellers. iPhone 5 will be available in the US, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore and the UK on Friday, September 21, and customers can pre-order their iPhone 5 beginning Friday, September 14. iPhone 4S will also be available for just $99 (US) and iPhone 4 will be available for free with a two-year contract.****** iOS 6 software will be available on Wednesday, September 19 as a free software update.
iPhone 5 will roll out worldwide to 22 more countries on September 28, including Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.
* LTE is available through select carriers. Network speeds are dependent on carrier networks, check with your carrier for details.
** Battery life depends on device settings, usage and other factors. Actual results vary.
*** Based on theoretical speeds, actual speeds may vary.
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"Trade turnover between our countries already tops $25 billion, but it is our task to reach the amount of $100 billion," Erdogan said at the opening ceremony of the MAKS 2019 international aerospace show in Zhukovsky, Moscow region.
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Cooperation between Russia and Turkey will give a boost to aviation and space technologies, he said.
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The jaw-dropping trailer for the ‘RHOA’ reunion proves that the ladies certainly didn’t need to be in the same room to bring the drama.
“Here I am, fabulous and ready to slay,” NeNe Leakes says, as the highly-anticipated trailer for The Real Housewives of Atlanta reunion kicks off. “Get into it, girls.” And that, they do. In the 45-second sneak peek at the three-part Season 12 reunion, which kicks off on Sunday, May 10, Kenya Moore can be seen interrogating Marlo Hampton while the other ladies watch with shocked looks on their faces. “When have you ever had a man on this show, other than the one you and NeNe were f***ing at the same time?” she asks.
Porsha Williams then goes after Eva Marcille, who Porsha claims threw shade at her baby. “First of all, I will never forgive you for ever speaking on my child,” she screams before leaning into the camera, as host Andy Cohen sips on his cup of coffee while glaring at the screen. “Do you see me? Do you hear what I am saying?” she yells.
Eva, 35, says, “I never spoke on your child”, but Porsha, 38, fires back, “Yes, the f*** you did”. And that’s not all. Afterwards, Kandi Burruss takes some jabs at NeNe, 52, when she says, “I’m embedded in your motherf***ing brain, bitch. And you’re gonna keep knowing me.” But NeNe’s not having any of it. She reacts by yelling “bye” and shutting down her video feed. The women ask what happened before Cynthia Bailey complains that she can’t see NeNe anymore.
Want to see more? The Real Housewives of Atlanta reunion airs on Sunday, May 10, at 8pm on Bravo. Part 2 will follow on May 17 with Part 3 airing on May 24.
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Blair Nimmo and Alistair McAlinden of KPMG LLP were appointed as Joint Administrators of White Crane Hire Limited.
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Blair Nimmo and Alistair McAlinden of KPMG LLP were appointed as Joint Administrators of Whyte Crane Hire Limited (“the Company”) on 18 February 2020.
Established in 2001 by the Whyte family, Whyte Crane Hire Limited provided lifting services and mobile crane hire to customers across a range of business sectors including oil and gas. The Company operates from two leased premises, located in Aberdeen and in Grangemouth.
Historically profitable, the business has suffered from declining turnover and profitability in recent years as it faced increasing competition and challenges in securing work at a sufficient margin to cover the high fixed costs of the crane fleet.
The directors sought to address these financial issues and injected personal funds in order to meet critical payments. Despite these actions, trading performance deteriorated further and the resultant losses and cash flow pressures meant the directors ultimately concluded that the business could not continue to trade and placed it into administration.
As a result of the administration appointment, all 11 employees have been made redundant.
A separate company operated by the Whyte family, Whyte Crane Services Limited, will continue to operate and is unaffected by the administration.
Blair Nimmo, Joint Administrator and KPMG’s UK Head of Restructuring, said:
“Despite the extensive efforts of the Whyte family, Whyte Crane Hire Limited was unable to continue trading in light of significant liabilities and cashflow difficulties, having been affected by the challenging market conditions in the Scottish construction and oil and gas sectors. This has led to the redundancies which have been announced. We will be working closely with Skills Development Scotland via their PACE team to support all affected employees during this difficult time.”
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Top 10 Sexiest Heaven's Lost Property Characters
5:00 PM July 26, 2016
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Heaven’s Lost Property has brought many of us fans numerous laughs and a unique cast of characters. Above all, they’re characters that will most definitely be remembered for their looks. It’s in large part due to the presence of the angeloids in this series. They present a distinctive aspect and terminology to the harem genre.
We’ve looked at all the possible characters for this list and we’ve ranked them not just solely on appearance, but also personality since that can be equally as sexy. On that note, let’s get cracking on the Top 10 Sexiest Heaven’s Lost Property Characters, shall we?
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10. Chaos
Right off the bat, we’re going to talk about a second generation angeloid type epsilon, who served as one of the vital antagonists in season two. Chaos is the first, second generation angeloid of her kind. She comes complete with new features and abilities that were considered to be unmatched by the first generation models. Chaos takes the appearance of a lovely blonde-haired girl, with purple eyes and is dressed in religious garb, giving her the appearance of a nun.
Chaos could be considered a Yandere at times. She can go from looking innocent to a maniacal killer within one beat of a heart. Chaos is a conflicted angeloid on all levels and she is often asking her enemies “what is love?” As the story evolves you come to see that she is very much a sympathetic character. Once she is shown what true love really means, that’s when her personality shines. She’s less dramatic and far more caring. Her previous disposition is the reason why she is not any higher on this list. Nevertheless in her older form, she has the qualities of a sexy female.
9. Harpy 1 & Harpy 2
Our next selection is a devilishly delicious pair of Harpies, who are simply known as Harpy 1 and 2. There really isn’t much difference between the two angeloids outside of their hair color. One has short green hair and the other has short sandy blonde colored hair. The girls have thick black and white wings with a similar color schemed body suit that emphasize their ample bust. They’re a type gamma angeloid and their class is an interceptor. Minos, the sadistic master of synapse is their lord and they will do anything for him, including hurting Nymph and trying to kill Eishirou Sugata.
What makes these girls stand out is their snarky traits and overly obedient nature towards Minos. Despite their naturally negative perception towards humans, they really are a sexy duo. If you can look past their enhanced claws and focus on their nasty demeanor you might actually find these harpies attractive. The snickering faces and the dominating personalities should be enough to put these ladies over the top. Their rugged nature, combined with their sex appeal is an excellent concoction for some of us to enjoy.
8. Eishirou Sugata
The countdown continues on with our first male selection to be on this list. That’s right; this list isn’t going to be exclusively female, even though it certainly has enough talent for it. Eishirou Sugata is the president of “The New World Discovery” club and one of the two main male protagonists in the series. Unlike Tomoki, Sugata is less of a pervert and more of a constructive dreamer. His club's goals are to investigate the black hole in the sky. Throughout the series, he is often seen trying to fly up in the sky with various attempts through his creative contraptions.
Sugata is usually shown with a neutral look on his face, unless there is something that piques his interest, such as the angeloids or the “New World” high in the sky. He’s got wispy white hair and delightful aqua green eyes that is sure to make some fans melt. He’s very much a brilliant visionary. Throughout the series, he is seen sporting the school uniform and rectangular glasses. Sugata is a highly eccentric individual but is very intelligent, two traits that seem to go hand in hand. His looks mixed with his knowledge and determination is his biggest assets and it’s not something that can go unnoticed.
7. Hiyori Kazane
After a brief mention of a human character, we’re going back to the angeloids. This should come as no surprise given that the angeloid plot is central to the story. Speaking of story, this next addition contributes a large role in the Heaven’s Lost Property movies. Interestingly enough in the first movie, her hair was black and then in the second movie her hair color was changed to match that of the manga, which is a navy blue. Hiyori Kazane is an angeloid type zeta. Her class is weather and time, and her wings are weather resistant.
Hiyori is a gentle and timid angeloid who is fond of growing crops. Her deep blue eyes and kindly shaped facial features make her super adorable. She is one character that we would have loved to see really expanded on in the anime. In the second season, during the fifth episode, it did foreshadow that she would have some sort of significant role. Hiyori joins The New World Discovery club to get closer to her love interest Tomoki. Like the majority of angeloids she is gifted with a near-perfect body. On top of that, she is blessed with a thin frame with nicely shaped hips and a large bust; it’s no wonder Tomoki has to fight all these urges.
6. Tomoki "Tomoko" Sakurai
Our next pick is somewhat of a unique pick because of the gender-bending rules of Tomoki Sakurai. Tomoki is able to transform into a female version of himself, called Tomoko. This is all done with the assistance of Ikaros and Nymph most notably, and a device. For this list, we will do something special and talk about ‘both characters.’ They both have similar personalities; in fact, the only real difference is their appearance.
Starting off will be the male counterpart, Tomoki. He has a very perverted nature, going as far as installing periscope pipes all around his house so he could peep on the girls that came over. Despite his perversion, he is a gentle and sincere human being. He has black hair and soft brown eyes. Tomoki is noted for being rather short for his age, as even Sohara is taller than he is. Regardless of everything else, he is a good looking guy and if you can get past his perversion, he is a quality male. Tomoko is no slouch herself and uses her good looks to get deeper into the girls locker room. He portrays her as a ditsy girl and takes advantage of the females in her presence. However you like him/her, they’re a real treat for the eyes!
5. Astraea
At the midway point of the list and we have had some great selections. Up next is an angeloid who made her debut in season two of Heaven’s Lost Property. Her type is delta and she is a close combat angeloid. Astraea plays on several tropes, the dumb blonde with the large breasts in the prevalent one. The reason given as to why she is such an airhead is that she was given low processing power. What she was awarded in return was to be a powerhouse of a fighter.
Astraea was sent down from Minos who resides high above the sky. Her mission was to finish what the harpies could not. Once Tomoki realized what Astraea’s intentions were Tomoki was concerned. However, Nymph calmed the situation by simply noting that Astraea is a “blithering idiot” and has nothing to worry about. Astraea has a similar outfit to Ikaros except that her attire is blue and white. She has long blonde hair that drops down to her ankles. Her purple-red eyes contrast so magnificently with her hair that it stands out as being one of her best qualities. Apart from that, a quality that could rival that is her loyalty and protective nature towards Ikaros and especially Chaos. If you can put aside her vacuous tendencies then she is really one sexy angeloid.
4. Nymph
Progressing on our list, we have come to a type beta angeloid who specializes in electronic warfare. Nymph made her debut in season one, episode six of the anime. She is summoned by her then master, Minos to go retrieve Ikaros from her fall to the earth. Initially, Nymph is condescending and harsh to the human race, referring to them as “bugs” and often treating them like dirt. However due to certain instances in the anime, she grows fond of Tomoki and Ikaros. Nymph is brilliant but isn’t as well-equipped as Ikaros when it comes to head on battles. She often uses her stealth and hacking abilities to her advantage.
The adorable pint-sized angeloid stands at 139 cm and weighs in at a minuscule 29 kg, making her the smallest angeloid in the series. She has long blue hair tied in twin-tails, pale skin, and large deep-blue eyes, reminiscent of some oceans. What’s even better is that she has irregular sized hips and thighs to further stimulate the viewing audience for such a petite individual. Nymph makes strides in terms of personality starting out as a rather cold angeloid and eventually turning into the sweet and sometimes shy character as we know her. She makes waves with her utterly cute appearance, superior intelligence and bashful nature towards Tomoki following a disaster.
3. Ikaros
How can we top our last selection? It’s not going to be easy but here we are with a type alpha angeloid by the name of Ikaros. She is a battle class female who meets up with Tomoki in the first episode of the series. Tomoki makes a type of ‘bond’ that is called imprinting, which is symbolized by the invisible chain that is tied to her collar and Tomoki’s hand. Ikaros has a lousy understanding of the human emotion due to her high battle processing capability. Oddly enough, that’s one of the reasons why we find her lovable. It’s her trials and tribulations as she tries to fully grasp emotions, while all but falling in love with Tomoki in the process, is what makes for a captivating story.
Ikaros is undoubtedly one sexy angeloid. She has long pink hair and a beautiful set of emerald eyes. She, like nearly every female member of the anime, has an exceptionally curvy body that makes her simply desirable. Another strong trait that she possesses is her sheer devotion to Tomoki and her more than welcoming ability to please her master. She was there to willingly help Tomoki transform into Tomoko, to further spread his perverse acts on several females. Needless to say, it makes many males and females envious of Tomoki’s situation.
2. Mikako Satsukitane
Rounding it out to our number two choice is a student council president who is a member of The New World Discovery club. Mikako Satsukitane is a tall and well developed purple hair goddess, who is considered to be rather sadistic at times. She is a childhood friend of Eishirou Sugata and has a considerable crush on him. Mikako is an heiress to the Yakuza and she brings a manipulative side and violent behavior, most notably towards Tomoki. She thrives off of putting that poor guy in many distressful situations, all for her pleasure.
Mikako is very wealthy and is seen in a variety of upper-class clothing. That makes her stand out from the rest of the main cast of characters. Does anyone remember her wrestling attire in the second season? My goodness, she is evil but what an attraction she is. Even though her intentions of malice are there for satisfaction, she does have a certain aura of maturity and intelligence that is hard to match for many of the humans in this anime. She may be a little dangerous but she is unquestionably sexy in every facet of that word. If she was partnered with a masochist, they would get along until the end of time.
1. Sohara Mitsuki
Our number one choice brings us the dreamy girl next door type by the name of Sohara Mitsuki. What makes this even more interesting is that she does indeed live next door to Tomoki. Isn’t that what every youthful male dreams of, is to have a beautiful girl living next door. What makes her so enchanting is her lush brown hair tied into a ponytail and those striking brown eyes she possesses. Sohara is represented awfully well in the breast category. She has the largest bust not only in Tomoki’s harem but the entire series. Now how’s that for a childhood friend who can visit you at any given moment? Not a bad deal in many cases.
Sohara may be gullible and more often than not falls for Tomoki’s debauched pleasures, but doesn’t that add an extra layer to her? After all, she does get him back with several ‘karate-chops of doom’ for comic relief. Regardless of her physicality, Sohara does have several steamy dreams involving Tomoki and herself that almost feel like they're actually from Tomoki. On that note, Sohara could very well be the most perverse of the main cast. Above all, she has a kind heart and is capable of showing her support for her friends and loved ones. With all the fan service that comes with her, we feel it’s only right to put her at number one.
There you have it, folks, another list down and another discussion to be had. What did everyone think of it? Do you feel Sohara was worthy of being the number one choice? Her exquisite nature was too much for us to ignore. It’s no wonder Tomoki was always trying to devise a perverted plan to get with her.
There isn’t a large supplement of characters in this anime but there’s certainly enough to warrant a top 10 list. We would love for you to share with us your sexiest character from this anime in the comments section below. You honestly can’t go wrong!
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Trudeau government unveils environmental assessment review panel
By Canadian Press. Published on Aug 15, 2016 5:36pm
The federal Liberals have announced details of a long-promised review to examine environmental assessments for projects from pipelines to new mines.
Environment Minister Catherine McKenna said Monday a four-person panel has been asked to study how the assessments are done to ensure decisions are based on sound science, avoid duplication and serve and involve the public.
The review was included in the mandate letter McKenna received from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau when she was appointed to the post last fall.
Neither industry nor environmentalists have been happy in recent years with the way environmental assessments are done. One side says they are too complex and lengthy, while the other says they don’t protect fragile ecosystems and leave out important considerations.
During the federal election, Trudeau spoke about the need to reform a process that he said had lost the trust of Canadians. That promise was repeated in the throne speech.
The first Liberal budget committed $16.5 million over three years to improve consultations already ongoing and support First Nations involvement.
The new review promises extensive opportunities for pubic input, as well as direct consultation with interested organizations. Meetings are to be held in areas where projects have been through an environmental assessment.
The panel will be led by Johanne Gelinas, a former federal commissioner of environment and sustainable development.
Retired Teck Resources vice-president Doug Horswill and environmental and aboriginal lawyers Rod Northey and Renee Pelletier round it out.
The panel is expressly instructed to engage with First Nations individuals and groups. It is also instructed to work together with other reviews being done by Fisheries and Oceans, Natural Resources and Transport Canada.
The panel is to begin next month and finish by the end of January.
Environmental groups welcomed Monday’s announcement.
“This review marks the beginning of a rare opportunity to build a next-generation environmental assessment law for Canada,” said a statement from Jessica Clogg of the West Coast Environmental Law Association. “With widespread conflict over projects like oil pipelines and dams, the stakes have never been higher.”
Stephen Hazell of Nature Canada said in a release he was pleased by the panel’s makeup and terms of reference.
“We look forward to working with the panel in the coming weeks to develop proposals for the next generation of laws to ensure that development is sustainable and nature is conserved.”
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James Morrison (8) And Tom Ennis - James Morrison And Tom Ennis (Vinyl, LP, Album)
Label: Topic Records - 12T390 • Format: Vinyl LP, Album, Mono • Country: UK • Genre: Folk, World, & Country • Style: Celtic
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How to Get Windows Media Player to Play Amazon MP3 Songs
By Ashley Donohoe
Amazon sells MP3 songs that are compatible with most media player applications. When you download a song, you can use a program called Amazon MP3 Downloader to automatically download songs to a specific folder and import them into iTunes or Windows Media Player. If you haven't downloaded Amazon MP3 Downloader, or you haven't configured the program to import songs, you can manually play your Amazon downloads in Windows Media Player.
Open the Amazon MP3 Downloader and click "View Download Folder" below the program's toolbar. If you do not have the software installed, click "Start" followed by "Music" and double-click the "Amazon MP3" folder.
Double-click the folder for the artist that you want to play, then double-click an album title to view the included MP3 songs.
Right-click the song you want to play and select "Play With Windows Media Player" in the menu that appears. The song will begin playing in Windows Media Player.
Amazon: MP3 Music Downloads: Getting Started
Amazon: Using the Amazon MP3 Downloader
If you want to automatically add future Amazon MP3s to your Windows Media Player library, open Amazon MP3 Downloader and select "Preferences" from the "File" menu. Select "Add it to Windows Media Player" under "When an item finishes downloading," then click "OK" to apply your changes.
Ashley Donohoe has written business, technology and education articles professionally since 2010. Having a background in business and technology, she has completed undergraduate studies in business and computer science along with a Master of Business Administration.
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Eric Dolphy - Out To Lunch (Blue Note, 1964, 2014)
Dexter Gordon - Bouncin' With Dex (Steeplechase Re...
James "Blood" Ulmer - Revealing (In+Out, 1977, rel...
Kris Davis - Massive Threads (Thirsty Ear, 2014)
Jon Lundbom and Big Five Chord - Liverevil (Jon Lu...
David Murray - NYC 1986 (DIW, 1986)
Mixcloud # 1
Sun Ra - The Soul Vibrations Of Man (Saturn, 2012)
Ferrian/Pissavini/Quattrini Trio featuring Sabir M...
Harold Mabern - Right On Time (Smoke Sessions, 2014)
James Brandon Lewis - Divine Travels (Okeh, 2014)
Machine Mass feat Dave Liebman - INTI (Moonjune, 2...
To celebrate its 75 anniversary, Blue Note Records will be releasing their “Top 100” albums on remastered vinyl records. Their selections are not without controversy but the opening selections for March seem hard to criticize. (Label chief Don Was interviewed by pretentious audiophile Michael Fremer part one, part two) I was curious about the records, but despite what Was says they are still quite an outlay, vacillating between 18 - 25 dollars on Amazon. I couldn’t pass up one of my all time favorite albums however, Eric Dolphy’s Out to Lunch. Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder’s legendary studio on February 25, 1964 with Dolphy on alto saxophone, bass clarinet and flute, Freddie Hubbard on trumpet, Bobby Hutcherson on vibraphone, Richard Davis on bass and Tony Williams (barely 18 years old) on drums. The music is extraordinary moving from the angular Thelonious Monk tribute “ Hat and Beard” to the flute driven “Gazzelloni” and the unique “Straight Up and Down” the music is wonderfully modern and must have been startling at the time. It remains fresh to this day and deserves all of the accolades it has garnered. Out To Lunch - amazon.com .
Labels: Bobby Hutcherson, Eric Dolphy, Freddie Hubbard, jazz, Richard Davis, Tony Williams
Dexter Gordon - Bouncin' With Dex (Steeplechase Records, 1976)
Between his move to Europe in the mid 1960’s during his stellar run with Blue Note Records and his triumphant return to America in the late 1970’s, legendary tenor saxophonist made scores of records for a number of labels. This is a studio album recorded in 1975 with Gordon in the company of Tete Montoliu on piano, Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen on bass and Billy Higgins on drums. “Billie’s Bounce” has a swinging uptempo performance with Dexter soloing at length and nice spots for piano and bass. Two versions of the ballad “Easy Living” feature Dexter patiently caressing the melody in a tender fashion with subtle accompaniment. “Benji’s Bounce” has a hard and strong swing that digs deep in the bass and drums department. There is a fleet section for piano, bass and drums and then Gordon and Higgins trade phrases to finish the tune. The vaguely exotic “Catalonian Nights” has an interesting rhythmic feel and Dexter just plows right through it, demonstrating how adept he is at adapting his playing to the circumstances, weaving through the backdrop like a boss. There is also some nice soloing for bass and drums. They all have a blast on the Miles Davis composition “Four” swaggering through the bebop classic as Dexter takes an excellent driving solo before once again trading solos with Higgins to close. Dexter Gordon recorded a large amount of music for the Steeplechase Records label during the 1960’s and 70’s. This might stand as one of the best, as he and the band are fully engaged in the music that they are creating and do it with confidence and bravado. Bouncin' With Dex - amazon.com
Labels: Billy Higgins, Dexter Gordon, jazz, Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen, Tete Montoliu
James "Blood" Ulmer - Revealing (In+Out, 1977, released 1990)
Guitarist James "Blood" Ulmer made his name playing with Ornette Coleman and remians indebted to the saxophonist's theory of harmolodics where harmony and melody are equal and each musician has the utmost freedom available. This was Ulmer's first session as a leader although it apparently was not released until 1990. Joining him on this recording is George Adams on tenor saxophone, Cecil McBee on bass and Doug Hammond on drums. There are four lengthy songs, two per side on the original LP and Ulmer is beginning to develop his trademark spiky and sharp tone that he would use to great effect on following LP's like Tales of Captain Black, Black Rock and many others. Adams' rough and burly tone works very well within the context of the music. He is grounded in the blues but is wide open to Ulmer's developing musical conception. "Raw Groove" in particular shows the dynamism of the whole group working together, where McBee and Hammond lock in together to form a fine rhythm team leaving the other two to develop improvisations. In conjunction with the harmolodic philosophy Ulmer doesn't quite provide accompaniment when another musician solos, but weaves in his own phrases in accordance with what the other musicians are playing. This was a very interesting album, Ulmer was building his sound and developing rapidly and he would even have a major label contract for a brief minute in the early 1980's. He would soon considerable reputation as a guitarist who can play in any context or situation you can imagine. Revealing - amazon.com
Labels: Cecil McBee, Doug Hammond, free jazz, George Adams, James "Blood" Ulmer, jazz
Pianist and composer Kris Davis has made a big impact on the jazz scene in a very short time. Completely at home playing either traditional or progressive jazz, she is at her best when combining the two. She is able to use her own personal conception of music that comes to the fore most clearly on “Ten Exorcists” where she keeps repeating a hypnotic percussive pattern like musical Morse code. There are several rhythms going on at once, so it is hard to discern whether she is using overdubs or is just a master at juggling different lines of musical thought. She uses fast stabbing notes that resolve into a fractured fantasia of piano, played both inside and outside the instrument. On the title track “Massive Threads” there is a light rainfall of piano notes to begin this piece sounding excellent and becoming fast enough to leave the listener disoriented (in a good way) before giving way to storming thunderclouds of bass chords. Davis works with dynamism quite well, from loud ringing slabs of bass end of the piano to soft and enigmatic. Short fragments and improvisations including a spare version of Thelonious Monk’s “Evidence” are woven between the longer sections building the music into a coherent whole. Massive Threads - amazon.com
Labels: jazz, Kris Davis
Sound American, edited by Nate Wooley, has an issue devoted to jazz asking musicians what is and is not jazz and providing space for musician-on-musician interviews.
The new Point of Departure is available with a wide range of features, interviews and reviews.
Ethan Iverson explores the relationship between Louis Armstrong and Miles Davis.
Sony Legacy is previewing the upcoming release Bootleg Series Vol. 3 over the next several days.
Labels: Ethan Iverson, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Nate Wooley
Jon Lundbom and Big Five Chord - Liverevil (Jon Lundbom/Hot Cup, 2013)
Guitarist Jon Lundbom leads a wonderful band on this in concert LP featuring Jon Irabagon on alto and soprano saxophone, Bryan Murray on tenor and baritone saxophone, Moppa Elliott on bass, Dan Monaghan on drums and Matt Kanelos on keyboards. Opening the album, “The Difference” is an uptempo performance that has a nice swinging feel. Lundbom’s guitar and the drums develop an intense and strong groove, before Irabagon’s saxophone enters in a quasi-free interlude. “Tick-Dog” perhaps a spiritual successor to Sonny Sharrock’s “Dick-Dog” features guitar and saxophone probing, before bass and drums muscle into the scene followed by wild saxophone and drums which take off for the stratosphere. Kanelos’ electric piano opens “Our Sun” playing off Monaghan’s drums to create a hypnotic groove-intense musical field. Long tones of saxophone lead the band into an exciting full throttle improvisation. “Now’s the Time/Maypole Dance” opens teasing the bebop standard with streams of stuttering saxophone. Moving into the second section, Irabagon digs even deeper, howling over great guitar, bass and drums accompaniment. Nice fluid guitar, bass and drums rocking out hard “First Harvest/Evening Shadows” along with sweet blasts of intense horn. “Bring Forth the Battalions” has Lundbom front and center playing spiky guitar only to be met by hammering saxophone with a ball-peen ferocity. They really do not let up for the full length of this double album and at the end patience is rewarded with the deliriously fun “Have You Ever Seen a Woman as Big as Martha?” with Irabagon developing a circular saxophone sound that builds in force until it overwhelms. This album was uniformly excellent and is a wonderful example of the type of forward thinking jazz that leaves the jazz-is-dead naysayers in the dust. Liverevil - amazon.com
Labels: Bryan Murra, Dan Monaghan, free jazz, fusion, jazz, Jon Irabagon, Jon Lundbom, Matt Kanelos, Moppa Elliott
During the 1980’s tenor saxophonist and bass clarinet player David Murray made dozens of recordings for a variety of labels, but few match the strength and wealth of ideas displayed on this one. This is a thrilling and consistently well played album where Murray sticks to tenor saxophone in the company of James “Blood” Ulmer on guitar, Fred Hopkins on bass and Sunny Murray on drums. “Red Car” opens the album in a confident manner featuring Murray’s swaggering saxophone with hints of rhythm and blues leading a brawny and self assured manner. “Long Goodbye” by Butch Morris is a slow and haunting musical painting of loss with Murray accenting the sadness with wails of high pitched saxophone. “Kareem” is a tough grinding performance like a portrait of life on the city streets. Murray spools out a long muscular saxophone solo, moving way out over Ulmer’s prickly guitar. Presumably dedicated to the legendary saxophonist Ben Webster, “According to Webster” is very exciting performance where Murray swings hard as he builds the energy higher and higher, absolutely killing it, erupting wave after wave of thrilling sound over a powerful backdrop. “Patricia” opens with droning bass and Murray developing a spiritually tinged tone. Building a shrill tone reminiscent of Spiritual Unity period Albert Ayler, abetted by sharp and jagged guitar playing. Finally, the lengthy “Light Years” caps off the album with the band blasting out of the gate and allowing for a guitar spotlight and a section for bowed bass. But the real star is Murray who dishes out a mighty force of nature solo that is just outrageous in its excitement. Recently there have been a couple of great boxed sets of David Murray’s Black Saint/Soul Note recordings. Hopefully his DIW recordings can get the same treatment, and gems like this can get the attention they deserve. N.Y.C. 1986 - amazon.com
Labels: David Murray, Fred Hopkins, free jazz, James "Blood" Ulmer, jazz, Sunny Murray
Mixtape1 by Tim Niland on Mixcloud
1. Machine Mass w/ Dave Liebman - Centipede
2. Brian Charette - If
3. James Brandon Lewis - No Wooden Nickles
4. Jared Gold - Cubano Chant
5. Harold Mabern - My Favorite Things
6. Franklin Kiermyer - Astrophysical
7. Prince Lasha w/ Sonny Simmons - Ghost of the Past
8. Jon Lundbom & Big Five Chord - The Difference
9. David Murray - Red Car
10. Matt Wilson Quart w/ John Medeski - Some Assembly Required
11. Ben Allison - D.A.V.E.
Let me know if this works... Tim.
This is one of the more of the more more rare Sun Ra LP's, apparently recorded at The Jazz Showcase in Chicago during the late fall of 1977. On side one the music begins with flutes swirling along with barely perceptible percussion amid a decidedly murky recording quality. Suddenly, the drums pick up the pace and volume before cutting out and introducing Sun Ra's spoken word litany, "The Universe Speaks." Ra develops a call and response chant with hand claps that build into a combination revival meeting and space chant. Sun Ra counts off all of the plantes in the solar system and invokes heaven before he takes to the organ to end Part One. Part two ushers in the larger Arkestra with Ra's droning organ playing off against punchy trumpet. This continues until the saxophones enter and two of the band's heaviest hitters, altoist Marshall Allen and tenorist John Gilmore alternate between peals of some of the most ear-splittingly raw free playing with Ra's begin by comparison organ. This is an odd recording but it can be engaging at times, be it Sun Ra's slightly pretentious monologue to the scalding instrumental sections, all tied together by Ra's bizarre liner notes which speak of astrology and the search for the missing 13th zodiac sign. The Soul Vibrations Of Man - amazon.com
Labels: free jazz, jazz, Sun Ra
Ferrian/Pissavini/Quattrini Trio featuring Sabir Mateen - The UneXPected (NotTwo, 2013)
This collective band consists of Sabir Mateen on tenor saxophone and clarinet, Stefano Ferrian on alto and tenor saxophones, Luca Pissavini on bass and Andrea Quattrini on drums. This is a disc length album of spontaneous music which was recorded live at the Novara Jazz Festival in 2010. The music ranges from the farthest out free jazz to subtle moments of swing. There are some excellent exchanges of saxophone and clarinet on The Unexpected” while the scalding improvisation of “No Questions For Tomorrow” leads into the surprisingly lyrical “Smoking the Past.” All of these separate threads are woven together on “The Dewey Song” an epic improvisation packed with strong soloing and complex interplay that leaves the listener exhausted but wanting more. I was originally drawn to this disc by Sabir Mateen, who is one of my favorite musicians. He plays as brilliantly as expected, but so does the rest of the group who play all out and do whatever it takes in service of the music. The Unexpected - amazon.com
Labels: Andrea Quattrini, free jazz, jazz, Luca Pissavini, Sabir Mateen, Stefano Ferrian
There has ben some great writing and interviews across the Internet lately, here is a short recap.
Peter Hum has a well written review of drummer Billy Hart's new album, and follows it up with a great post which highlights choice albums from Hart's career as a bandleader.
After a short hiatus, journalist and musician Hank Shteamer returns with another installment of his Heavy Metal Bebop series featuring an interview with Andrew Hock.
Underrated drummer and bandleader Franklin Kiermyer is interviewed in conjunction with his new album Further.
Matthew Shipp is profiled in The Guardian as the "The jazz pianist still messing with our minds."
Allabout jazz interviews the new head of Blue Note Records, Don Was.
Pat Metheny is interviewed regarding his new album Kin.
Anil Prasad presents a lengthy interview with legendary pop producer Joe Boyd.
Labels: blogs, interview
Coming on the heels of his excellent 2013 release Live at Smalls (one of my top ten albums from last year) pianist Harold Mabern seems ready to keep a good thing going by once again reuniting with John Webber on bass and Joe Farnsworth on drums in a live setting. Mabern is a veteran musician and plays with absolute authority and the trio is well accustomed to each other. The program is a varied one, ranging from a deep and powerful version of "My Favorite Things" with Mabern's strong playing recalling McCoy Tyner's work on John Coltrane's famous version of the song. Be the trio is beholden to no one and makes a fine statement of their own on this performance. From this to the Laverne and Shirley theme song (!) "Making our Dreams Come True" is a wide leap, but you get the feeling that they could make do with almost any raw material. But it is the jazz standards that show them at their finest, like on a melodic version of "Seven Steps To Heaven" with Mabern pounding out a percussive version of the well known melody, before drifting into a fine improvised section. They wrap thing up with a blistering version of "Cherokee" and they run through the classic bebop standard with speed and mastery. This is a very fine album, and is highly recommended to fans of mainstream jazz. Right on Time - amazon.com
Labels: Harold Mabern, jazz, Joe Farnsworth, John Webber
Buffalo, NY native saxophonist James Brandon Lewis has a conception of music that is as modern as tomorrow, while his gospel roots have a connection to the spiritual jazz of Pharoah Sanders and John Coltrane. He says that being paired with veteran downtown improvisers William Parker on bass and Gerald Cleaver on drums was “a humbling experience” but he holds his own in admirable fashion. “Divine” opens the album with a personal saxophone sound that has a touch of the coarseness of Albert Ayler, a lonely haunted sound, but one that is also at home playing in a melodic fashion, fitting in well with the thick bass and light percussion. “Desensitized” features ripe trio playing developing a complex rhythmic foundation. Lewis builds a fine swirling pattern of improvisation and there is ample support from the unbeatable team of Parker and Cleaver. There are a couple of episodes of music with spoken word accompaniment where the trio performs with the poet Thomas Sayers Ellis on tracks “The Preacher’s Baptist Beat” and “Organized Minorities.” But the focus of the disc is on the trio and their interaction throughout the album. An excellent example of this is “Wading Child in the Motherless Water” where the raw and sharply pointed saxophone Lewis conjures is spun out at length, building with both power and grace. He manipulates repetitive blocks of sound until he has constructed his own launching pad that can blast him into mighty flights of improvisation. Following hot on its heels is “A Gathering of Souls” which begins with the band playing in a pliant and flexible manner. Patience is once again the key to Lewis’ success as constructs a lengthy solo with a firm raw nature and a white-hot flame over blazing bass and drums. This was a very well played album by a talented newcomer on the jazz scene. It is a pleasant surprise that a major label will support a truly progressive musician and allow him to record challenging music with a team as talented as Parker and Cleaver. Let’s hope this is a trend that continues. Divine Travels - amazon.com
Labels: free jazz, Gerald Cleaver, James Brandon Lewis, jazz, William Parker
Machine Mass feat Dave Liebman - INTI (Moonjune, 2014)
Machine Mass is a very interesting experimental fusion band formed around core members Michel Deville on guitar and electronics and Tony Bianco on drums and loops. Joining them on this particular album is the well known jazz musician Dave Liebman, here playing tenor and soprano saxophones as well as wood flute. This album was recorded in Pennsylvania in 2012 live in the studio with no overdubs which is impressive considering the complex electronic and acoustic elements at play. The most obvious reference point for this music may be the electric jazz fusion of Miles Davis, especially when Liebman held down the saxophone chair in the Davis groups of the early 1970’s. This new version of the Davis/Joe Zawinul standard “In A Silent Way” touches on this, but in a very oblique way. With Liebman on flute along with electronics and subtle percussion, the group is able to touch on the enigmatic nature of the original recording. But they are also capable of rocking out with impunity, especially Delville, who can hold his own with anyone on the progressive scene with towering riffs and majestic soloing best exemplified on the opening tracks “Inti” and “Centipede” and the slow building “Elisabeth.” Bianco, who has helped craft two extraordinary John Coltrane tribute albums with Paul Dunmall acquits himself quite well here, driving the music along and using the looping technology to develop wider percussion textures. This album worked very well, coming off as both exciting and enjoyable, using spontaneous improvisation to create excellent music, most of which were first takes. Inti - amazon.com
Labels: Dave Liebman, fusion, jazz, Machine Mass, Michel Deville, progressive rock, Tony Bianco
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Sunflower triptych
Paul Cezanne's 'Black Clock' and 'Railway Cutting' (2002)
Note: Initially, an art lover responds emotionally to a painting...its color, subject, feeling, design. Gradually, inevitably, analysis begins. But the feeling for the painting's beauty and poetry never fades, grows deeper...as meaning slowly emerges (web addresses for the two paintings may be found at the end of this essay).
During a two-year period, 1869-1871, a youthful Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) painted "The Black Clock," a still-life, and "The Railway Cutting," a landscape. Despite the different genres, they clearly reveal in remarkably similar ways, the emotional, psychological and spiritual pressures and motivations so fundamental to Cezanne's genius.
In terms of sheer artistic mastery and expressive force, the still-life is the greater painting, with massively interlocking, classical compositional forms, significant color, painterly thickness of paint paste, and strong contrasts of light and dark. The landscape is more thinly painted, more loosely-constructed, less condensed in form; a less massive, more open composition, as might be expected of a landscape.
Both, however, are equally profound in expressive significance. The main compositional schemes of both paintings are the same, based on a contrast -- and conflict -- of objects on the left sides of the pictures with objects on the right. The two sides are separated by a central gulf that is particularly evident in the railway cutting, for which that painting is named.
In the still-life, the two separated objects are a conch shell on the left and the black clock on the right; in the landscape, a house on the left, Mt. Ste. Victoire to the right (the first of many depictions of the mountain by Cezanne).
The organic irregularity of the seashell's form, its light cream color, red, fleshy, mouth-like opening and troubled presence contrast strongly with the insistent, brooding, rectangular evenness of the black clock, and its round white face minus any hands. Similarly, in the landscape, the house on the left is, like the shell, a tan-cream color, with a light-red roof and hapless demeanor contrasting with the darker blue, brooding, irregular shape of the mountain on the right. Both the clock and mountain have a darkness of mood and color that threaten the shell and house.
The organic forms of nature (shell and mountain) and geometric forms of man (clock and house) have been reversed in location in the two paintings, but the symbolic meaning of the objects remain in their left (shell/house), right (clock/mountain) orientation.
The left side of the paintings represent a troubled, vulnerable aspect; the right side, a dominating, even over-bearing aspect. Another way of saying this, is that the objects on the left side of the pictures are in an emotionally subservient position to -- suffer because of -- the objects on the right side. In one sense, it is possible to say the left sides of the pictures are feminine, based on the nature of the forms (the female shell, the house equating with hearth and home); the right side masculine (the power and physical presence of the clock and mountain). More about this later.
The shell is anguished in its spiky, curving shape and rough paint application, as well as its placement against a nearly pitch-black background...the only area of background blackness in the painting. The red "lips," leading into the interior of the conch, gape in suffering reaction to the implacable clock.
The stolid, self-contained clock, deeply resonant in its blackness, is the dominant element in the composition despite its lack of bright color. The clock represents a dark, controlling presence in Cezanne's mind, governing behind the scenes of the other, lighter objects before it on the chest or table top. The shell, a white cup, a lemon, a white cloth, a small curving, light object (perhaps a woven knick-knack box or oval cap) and somewhat darker, slender vase, form a foreground "family group" separated from the dark clock, though connected with it by compositional overlapping and the related lightness of the circular white clock face. Each item is as irreversibly, inevitably locked by Cezanne into every other object and the composition as a whole, as every rock has its position in a mountain range, every star in the sky.
In the landscape, the small house to the left is the vulnerable equivalent of the sea shell. With two dark dots of windows (eyes) above a dark dot of a door (mouth), it's end wall is like a face, as startled by its confrontation with the mountain on the right as the shell is depressed by the clock in the still-life. The house occupies its own little tawny hill on the left, while the blue mountain seems to be part of, though obviously behind, a similarly colored hill on the right. Separating the two key elements in this psychic drama, is the dark railway cutting that literally bifurcates, with a dark wound, the tan hill, severing and separating the house on the left from the mountain on the right, creating for each their own world.
There are only two things that join the house and mountain, aside from their being significant compositional elements in the same painting. One is the psychic energy, the intense feeling that resonates between them, as the mountain seems nearly to "look" at the house with a scowl of harsh threat, from which the house recoils in woe.
The second link is the tiny, rectangular, white gatehouse midway between them at the bottom of the hills, silhouetted against the red-blackness of the railway cutting. Strikingly, this tiny outbuilding with its triangular roof, is the equivalent of the white cup in the still-life painting, and, despite their small size, both are the ultimate "heroes," focal points, psychologically and compositionally speaking, of "The Railway Cutting" and "The Black Clock."
Interestingly, the gatehouse in the landscape, in its overlapping relationship with the curving, dark railway cutting, is similar to the cup's overlapping of the shell, with its curving, overall shape and "mouth" so very much like the curving shape of the cutting.
In the most important expressive, symbolic aspect of both paintings, the white gatehouse and white cup seem mediating elements between opposing forces, or tiny offspring of those forces that will one day grow into the majestic artistic and personal synthesis that is the achievement of Cezanne's genius as a mature artist. In essence, these two small, white objects are early symbolic personifications of the Cezanne to be, once the conflicting forces within him are more resolved into a dynamic, if troubling, whole, rather than antagonistic opposites.
For, Cezanne will gradually meld, if never entirely reconcile, the conflicting aspects within himself, utilizing the violence and emotional force manifested in early work like "The Murder" and "The Rape" to animate and fire, instill a burning poetry and significance in all the works of his later, and in some respects, more classically-oriented vision.
The house and shell, then, may be seen as emotional, even feminine, aspects of Cezanne's character, and might also symbolically represent his mother; while the mountain/clock are darker, intruding elements that threaten to dominate, like his father, Cezanne's more vulnerable humanity and personal needs.
Cezanne's mother was more supportive of the artist as a person and an artist. His father, much less so, wanting his son to be a lawyer. In fact, Cezanne was so intimidated by his father that he was later afraid to let him know he had married Hortense Fiquet. Cezanne's father, however, at his death provided an inheritance that supported Cezanne for the rest of his life, allowing him to paint without the financial distress that so afflicted the lives of his contemporaries, Van Gogh and Gauguin...no small thing, in terms of assistance and ultimate paternal benevolence.
The house -- the archetypal place of shelter, comfort and family domesticity -- could easily represent, in part, Cezanne's mother, with the threatening Mt. Ste. Victoire, the father. In the still-life, the female vulva-like forms of the shell, could be the mother; the dark reserve of the clock, the father. The two paintings, in this sense, may represent Cezanne's struggle for survival, caught, like the white cup and white gatehouse, between the two conflicting parental positions.
But, in the final analysis, all of the painted objects essentially represent forces of light and darkness, conflict and attempted resolution, within Cezanne that have been created and shaped by his experiences of life, within the family and without, as well as by his genes and the genius that was God's gift to a young Provencal boy who would grow to be one of the world's great artists.
A further note about "The Black Clock." The lemon, central in the composition, pairs in a way, with the cup, as the key elements in the "birth" of the new Cezanne. And, in their pairing, they represent a microcosm of the essential duality of the painting as a whole. The lemon, its axis angled sadly downward toward the cup, seems, despite its rich yellow, despondent compared to the dignified, almost sprightly, uprightness of the cup.
From behind them sturdily rises a tall, slender, crystalline vase that triumphantly opens at the top like the petals of an unfolding flower, as if supporting the development of the newly emergent Cezanne. Its stem-like, vertical shaft also serves as a line of separation, a divider "protecting" the shell from the clock. This buffering function of the vase is reinforced by what seem the scalloping, light-violet and golden bars of a vertical mirror frame behind the shell and clock.
Significantly, these half-dozen vertical elements of the mirror and the vase emerge not only from the area of the cup and lemon, but the end of the shell, overlapped by the cup. Thus, the shell, cup and lemon form a certain unity with the vase and mirror frame...a zone of human feeling and aspiration beyond the moment's pain (caused by the clock).
The cup itself, as a form, is quite stable, dignified and thickly, convincingly painted with great presence and self-possession (as is the gatehouse in "The Railway Cutting") compared to the "suffering" of the shell (and the house).
As the cup and lemon, aided by the vase and mirror that seem to rise from them, suggest and point to the future development and salvation of Cezanne, so the white gatehouse indicates a way out of the spiritual and emotional darkness of the railway cutting to an open, unclouded blue sky that fills nearly half of the picture space. A leafless tree atop the hill, and directly above the gatehouse, seems its extension, reaching for the freedom and fulfillment of the sky.
We witness in these two paintings -- as in all Paul Cezanne's work -- an artist of stature baring his soul, using the material of reality (selected and arranged by his thoughts and feelings) to come to grips with the conditions and challenges of his life and what it means to be an artist.
Needless to say, Cezanne was probably not fully aware -- if at all -- of what he was expressing. He simply responded, in works of high aesthetic and expressive achievement, to profound, unspoken emotional pressures and spiritual needs. This is what artists do. Great artists do it brilliantly.
Revealingly, the fold of white cloth in front of the black clock partially hides the lemon and the knick-knack container. This tiny "mountain" of light cloth (more a slumping mound) seems another blocking device created by the artist (along with the vase and mirror frame) to isolate the clock in its own dark pictorial zone, keeping it from further threatening the shell and its offspring, the white cup.
However, this upper fold of cloth seems thoroughly cowed by its placement at the foot of the clock (and is a form exuding its own kind of suffering, similar to the conch shell on the left). It assumes nearly the form of a supine, cowering "creature" trying to disappear, melt into the surface of the chest. A knob of this fold of cloth linked with and just to the right of the lemon, has the same shape and downcast longitudinal axis as the lemon (a somewhat clumsy, strangely placed, blotted black shadow in this fabric knob suggests almost the "eye" of the cowering white "creature" in the cloth).
It "wants" to emotionally support the lemon and white cup, but is too close to the black clock's dangerous sphere of influence to provide anything more than a passive blocking function.
Compositionally speaking, this bunched cloth breaks up the even, horizontal edge of the chest on which all of the objects rest, creating an irregularity of form similar to that of the shell, but it is farther to the right in the picture, further encroaching on the area of dominance by the clock.
Interestingly, this fold of fabric is just the top portion of a large white cloth, occupying perhaps one-third of the picture space and draping to the bottom of the painting, which supports, both compositionally and metaphorically -- in its whiteness -- the most positive, glowing elements (shell, cup, lemon, vase) of the still-life, as well as the entire psychological/spiritual drama taking place atop the chest.
One might think the evolution of the artist's soul, as difficult and troubled as it was, would be a symbolic, expressive emergence from darkness rather than from light. Indeed, that is the reality of Cezanne's journey. There is plenty of darkness in Cezanne's painting generally, as in his heart, but, the size and extent of the foundational white cloth is somewhat surprising (its lightness is "wounded," however, by two dark, vertical shafts of strongly contrasting black shadow. A smaller, angular shadow accent in the cloth under the cup also suggests a certain momentary destabilization of the cup's foundation, adding tension to its existence. There is, however, a horizontal wedge of grey-blue paint under the cup that supports and separates it from the potentially disruptive shadow).
With the white cloth significantly larger than the black clock, it's as if the painter is tapping some rescuing zone of enduring psychic or spiritual light that underlies all creativity, all life and the world, beyond the darkness.
Paul Cezanne's painting "The Black Clock" may be viewed at:
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/scripts/tsearch.pl?t=black+clock&type=2
"The Railway Cutting" may be seen at:
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/scripts/tsearch.pl?t=railway+cutting&type=2
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Our New Common Market
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Back in the days when Britons got on with Europeans (a lot of us still do) we called it the Common Market.
Alas, Cummings and Johnson have forced us all to pack up our stalls and leave the Common Market (or European Union)
But in a parallel universe, the one all of us Travel nuts inhabit, there is a much bigger market still, the World Travel Market.
The way it was: WTM in London
Which I’ve admired from afar for years but not been able to get to because of The Man who wouldn’t give me the time off.
This year though I’m my own Man and as for getting there all I’ve got to do is travel to the West Wing of New Murty Demesne.
This year’s Virtual World Travel Market won’t have the bright lights and entertainment of London.
And the Great Old City only grows in our affections because we can’t get there.
But I’ll thrust my London mementoes to the front of my desk, chief among them my Peter Pan piggy bank.
And only promote my international keepsakes when meeting up with the representatives from Jamaica to Japan.
Life as a Wanderer is a different normal to most at the best of times and while these are anything but we’ll make the best of it.
We’ll have the staple of travel fairs, the presentations, talks and stall visits.
And the meeting up between old friends who see each other every second week of November in London.
Now you know what they say, if we can’t get out to see the world let the world come to us.
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Football’s back – take your pick
12th September 2020 13th September 2020 funtime65
Now it all depends on whether you’re American, English, Irish or Australian who all embrace their football game.
It’s in the human DNA you see since the day Cain decided to kick Abel’s skull into a ditch.
So here are some thoughts on some of the teams I’ve adopted from my travels.
Off Pat
New England Patriots: I don’t know if you’re allowed it but I adopt all the American sports teams wherever I go.
It does make it easier to pick a winner if you’ve got the New York Jets (my Long Island cousins’-team), the Washington Redskins who are now looking for a new team, and the Denver Broncos.
It’s just that you go with the team where you spend the most time… and that was my summer after university in Boston.
All’s Well: Celtic v Motherwell. www.celticfc.net
And I had little choice growing up in Glasgow in the Seventies where Catholics and Protestants didn’t mix to choose Celtic.
Particularly as my Great-Uncles had built Celtic Park.
But Scots kids were allowed too to have an English team and I chose Liverpool.
Forward fast to the Nineties, had a son on Merseyside and it came full circle with The Son and Heir becoming a fully-fledged Red.
GAA-GAA
Prize guys: Donegal
In Ireland, soccer (football) was known as a Garrison game, a preserve of the occupying British Army.
And Gaelic Football, Camogie (the female version) and the stick game hurling were the Irish sports.
I could pick any of Donegal, my Dear Old Mum’s county, Dublin where I worked for 13 years or Co. Wicklow, my adopted home.
But as my Mum drummed it into us as kids that Donegal was the best place on Earth.
And that the rest of Ireland hate serial winners Dublin, it has to be Donegal.
What’s up your sleeve?
My bonds with Western Australia started when my parents took me back a jersey of the West Coast Eagles. Minus the sleeves of course.
And continued when I joined a Top Deck booze bus to the Oktoberfest in Munich and discovered they were all Aussies and Kiwis.
Fast forward six months and Brownie and Smutley had arrived on my Aberdeen doorstep and went on to set up a WA colony there with their friends.
My one and only Aussie Rules football game was with an English guy at Surrey’s cricket ground, The Oval.
I remember Collingwood were one of the teams but don’t recall the other.
Collingwood are the New England Patriots, Dublin or Manchester United of their country.
Everybody else dislikes them unless you’re one of them.
MEET YOU ON THE PITCH
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Green for go to these countries
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And I’m already swotting up on New Zealand www.newzealand.com Thailand https://www.tourismthailand.org/landing and Vietnam https://vietnam.travel/home.
The UK is putting in a traffic light system for countries as we ease out of lockdown.
Greece is the answer to our prayers
And my favourites are all green-lighted for return:
Austria https://www.austria.info/en Barbados https://www.visitbarbados.org Croatia www.croatia.ie Germany https://www.germany.travel/en-mobile/index.html and Greece http://www.visitgreece.gr and https://athensattica.com are all go.
Out of quarantine
Translated that means returning travellers need not quarantine for 14 days.
I’m just glad Home Secretary Priti Patel finally listened to me.
Just swimmingly In Tenerife
You won’t have to be an amber gamblers either if you’re visiting a country on this list:
Australia, Belgium, Canada and Denmark France, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Portugal, Singapore, South Korea, Switzerland and Spain.
Or cycling in the French Pyrenees
The hit list
And there’s been more than a sprinkling of love from most of them… https://visitbelgium.com, https://visit-canada.ca, https://www.visitdenmark.com, https://about-france.com/visit-france.htm, http://www.italia.it/en/home.html, https://www.holland.com/global/tourism.htm, www.visitportugal.com, www.myswitzerland.com and https://www.spain.info/en_GB/ https://www.spain.info/en/informacion-practica/oficinas-turismo-embajadas/turismo-exterior/oficina_de_turismo_en_dublin.html.
Bad luck though if you’re stopped at red:
Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Egypt, India, Israel, Mexico, Morocco, South Africa and the US.
With the last two turning my clown into a frown.
Having set in train all my trips this year around these countries I’m having to make do with North Berwick beach these past couple of months.
Barbados hotpots
You see I don’t fancy much being one of half a million on Bournemouth beach.
Give me one of Barbados’s beaches, and I’m reminded now of a tub of chicken stew and bottles of Banks beers in Bathsheba, St Joseph East… Let’s rumba in Barbados and My kiss with Rihanna.
Of course the beach is a Bajan’s dining room where the locals put up bars like we do brollies.
And where the flying fish jump out of the sea and onto your plate.
Fish of the day
There are many different varieties of cutters including liver, cheese, ham, egg and more.
Clubbing together: Club Barbados on the Platinum Coast
Or even easier are their fish cakes… do like a local and order a ‘bread and two’. On a bun.
The Bajans will be only too happy to show you how to cook up a treat…
And if you like it hot then here’s how they scare up a Pepper Pot… https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCUwplS8uhaieGiL_50XhJCg.
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My Sporting Weekend – Rugby’s back in New Zealand
It was a rite of passage at my rugby-playing school in Scotland…. going to watch the touring New Zealand All Blacks in Edinburgh.
And I was counting down from weeks out to see Graham Mourie’s all-conquering rugby team finish off their itinerary at Murrayfield.
And listening to Timmy Teague’s promises that he would go onto the pitch and do the pre-war Haka war dance with the players.
How I felt on a rugby field
I got a flashback of Timmy as I heard of the return of rugby to the Land of the Long White Cloud with the Highlanders beating the Chiefs 28-27.
Highlanders’ fling
A thrilling match with the Highlanders stealing it at the end.
And best of all it was played out in front of 20,000 rugby nuts, with no need for face masks or social distancing.
The Land of the Long White Cloud
Nirvana, and a country where we’ll all be flocking to www.newzealand.com when we get the chance.
I have a hankering to visit Mangaotaki and the other locations used by Peter Jackson for Middle-Earth in Lord of the Rings.
Where my old colleague and singing partner from Rising Star Karaoke Bar https://www.universalorlando.com/web/en/us/things-to-do/entertainment/rising-star-karaoke and Aaawlando… Orlando, the rollercoaster capital Eoin played rugby.
Lord of the throw-ins?
‘Mr Brightside’ loved it and also learned the Haka… every rugby team in New Zealand practises it in training.
Stick your tongue out
Timmy could have done with some practical too… he was hopefully out of sync.
But he did do it. And the police allowed him back in to watch the second half of the game.
Hakademic really
He’d have been as well missing it. Scotland were hammered.
The All Blues: Not quite the same and Scotland take a beating in Dublin
But there’s nothing new about that.
Now you want to explore how to get out there.
Jimbo and Tommy Bowe. www.emirates.com
Well, I’d always recommend G Adventures www.gadventures.co.uk while check major airlines for flights and conditions.
MEET YOU AT THE GAME
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The Sunday Sermon – Covid covert love
7th June 2020 7th June 2020 funtime65
Thou shalt not covert thy neighbour’s ass – The Ten Commandments
Aussie Di was on the next bus, Contiki https://www.contiki.com/six-two/bus-tour-seating-strategy/, and as everybody in coachworld knows Topdeck https://www.topdeck.travel and Contiki should never mix.
Only Di had golden shoulder-length hair and a smile as bright as the sun.
And I was the envy of all the bronzed Aussie dudes at the party because for the first time in my life I got the girl.
Longing for the Alps
All of which longings across a coachpark in Austria in the Eighties came flooding back to me.
As I digested the Covid times survey which said that four out of five of us are keeping our lovin’ to our own households just now.
I have oft times returned to those two carefree summer trips to the Oktoberfest and Austria.
And particularly when I have passed through Munich https://jimmurtytraveltraveltravel.com/2019/08/01/hungry-and-thursday-the-munich-beerfest.
Sound of Music sites in Salzburg with my blonde for life, Sarah the Scary One
The magic bus
And in Austria with www.topflight.ie, Soll Mates and all across the Alps https://www.google.ie/amp/s/jimmurtytraveltraveltravel.com/2020/04/27/rainy-days-and-songdays-yodeleeeee/amp/
Coach rides are still the best, and most economical, way for 18-35 year-olds to see the world.
I’d look back at other Topdeck routes between drinks on the coach which was reconditioned to include a kitchen, with the top deck bunks.
Got there: Port Elizabeth, South Africa
South African dreams
And I vowed that one day I would get down to South Africa, an ambition I realised last year when I visited Nelson Mandela’s state, the Eastern Cape https://www.southafrica.net/uk/en/ and What’s new pussycat? and Day in the life of a township.
I’d go again in a heartbeat.
And, in truth, it’s that sweaty mass of humanity (rather than the sweaty mass of the Son and Heir’s dirty washing) I miss most in this lockdown.
For the record I tried to revive my holiday romance with Di when I returned home.
Who’s for a beer? Topdeck
Difficult though it was with me in Aberdeen in Scotland and Di 400 miles south in London.
The prospect of the Topdeck reunion on the horizon kept me going though through all those cold Scottish nights.
Plenty more fish
When the time came I made our appointment in Trafalgar Square near the South African Embassy where a protest was taking place to free Nelson Mandela.
But Di was nowhere to be seen.
She was though at the reunion later in Earl’s Court (where else?).
With her Scottish boyfriend!
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Flyday Friday – Etihad and Emirates
Their colours are unmistakable – the superstars of the Etihad and Emirates.
Only I’m not talking about the footballers of Manchester City and Arsenal here but the staff.
And guess who only put the wrong picture on the wrong airline… I think I’d had too many shandies at a liquid lunch.
Of course plane spotters and frequent fliers know that it’s chocolate brown and purple for Etihad www.emirates.com.
And cream and red for Emirates www.etihad.com.
Emirates rates
But I’m not here to talk about airline uniforms, though there would be no harm in it, and I will get back to you on that.
More importantly these behemoths of the skies are only getting us flying again.
Emirates will begin flying to and from Dublin from June 15.
Among 16 other cities to Dubai, the others being Bahrain, Manchester, Zurich, Vienna, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, New York JFK, Seoul, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Jakarta, Taipei, Hong Kong, Perth and Brisbane.
Check Emirates’ website for conditions and prices and keep updated on Ireland’s travel rules.
There are worse ways to spend an afternoon than aboard an Etihad airplane in Dublin Airport.
Getting the full VIP treatment and winning air miles. Only I haven’t cashed them in yet.
But I will when the Scary One lets me get travelling again… and, no it’s nothing to do with COVID.
I’m eating alone
There’s always a big welcome from our friends at Etihad and they have introduced Wellness Ambassadors to deal with your every flying need.
Aer Lingus, the model airline
I’m flying the flag
I’ve spent many a happy afternoon in the company of Ireland’s national airline carrier Aer Lingus https://www.aerlingus.com/html/home.html.
They showcased their own livery rebrand and new uniforms in the last couple of years.
And they continue to keep us occupied and enamoured with foreign destinations.
Virtually for now such as through Seattle and the Olympic National Park.
Green for go
And the brilliant blue water blue water at Lake Crescent and hiking routes through Hoh Rain Forest only make us more impatient to get on that flight out to Seattle.
See www.visitseattle.org and https://jimmurtytraveltraveltravel.com/category/deals/.
Now back to my lockdown indulgence, my complete series of Frasier.
MEET YOU IN THE SKIES
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Mind the Gap Year in Australia
27th May 2020 26th May 2020 funtime65
It’s the right of passage for English students which is denied their neighbouring Scots – the Gap Year.
Immortalised in The Inbetweeners 2, the Gap Year is when English school-leavers take a year out before starting University.
And it is expected that it will be even more popular next term instead of sitting at home and studying digitally.
The other Perth… Western Australia
I spent a year of my own studies with the bold Australians, only these Aussies were refugees from Munich’s Oktoberfest.
Who turned up unannounced on my doorstep in Aberdeen www.abdn.com Aberdeen – a light in the north asking to stay for the weekend and leaving a year later.
They did, of course, give me an open invitation to go out and see them.
But I imagine looking for a Peter Smith or Steve Brown in Perth, Western Australia, might be difficult.
See you Down Under
Bridge not too far: The iconic Sydney Bridge
Recent changes to the Working Holiday Maker Visa means British and Irish travellers can stay for up to three years.
While you can get yourself lost deliberately in this huge country in your campervan.
You never stop learning so it might be time for that Gap Year I never got.
Smutley and Brownie… you have been warned. Visit www.australia.com.
Oh I wish I was a Wild West hero
Of course those of us left disenfranchised by the lockdown can do what dreamers have been doing for decades, lose themselves in America’s Wild West.
And here’s me getting on ma hoss and riding away into the Plains www.colorado.com and The New Frontiersmen.
Colorado’s is Big Country and free and the best way to see it is at your own pace…
Spa partners
Everything in the Garden is rosy
Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs is gratis as are some of the natural spas.
Such as Conundrum Hot Springs. Which reminds me of a fall-out I had with an Aussie in our group.
You know the type who claim that people are trying to take their photo of the Rockies.
Seems you can’t escape them anywhere.
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VE Day – The unknown soldiers
8th May 2020 8th May 2020 funtime65
They make easy targets for class warriors but on days of military commemoration, like today VE Day, the British Royal Family are entitled to raise their heads high.
Prince Philip was first lieutenant (second-in-command) on board the HMS Wallace during the Allied invasion of Sicily in 1942.
When the Luftwafffe began their bombardment of the waters.
Another war… but the same sacrifice
Yeoman Harry Hargreaves revealed back in 2003 how Philip duped the enemy and saved the ship and all on it.
By persuading his captain to drop a raft overboard, set it alight, and deceive them into bombing that instead.
And so as Prince Charles, whose own military career is distinguished, laid a wreath today at Balmoral to the Fallen, and the Queen spoke to the Nation…
It is well to remember that we wer all in the same fight in World War II. And now.
My Great-Uncle Willie
What we all do after we get out of this we’ll have to wait and see, and there will be a clamour for sun and sand.
My friends in the Caribbean take note.
While some will seek remote holidays, others adventure, while still others walking holidays.
And all are on my list.
But I will, as I’ve always done, continue to visit the places and commemorate those who fell in war around the world.
Cavernous destruction… in Flanders
Like I did when I was invited to lay the wreath at the daily Last Post commemoration at the Menin Gate in Ieper (Ypres).
Where my Great Uncle Willie lies in a graveyard of identically-sized crosses (no hierarchy in death).
And where I was the first of his relatives to see him, plant a wooden cross and say The Lord’s Prayer.
His brother Patrick has his name inscribed among the tens of thousands of missing on the arch at Thiepval.
Everyone a hero: Great-Uncle Pat and the Missing at Thiepval
I have been fortunate enough to trot the globe but I have never felt as moved.
Or deeply grateful than when I knelt before Great Uncle Willie’s grave.
And though I never knew him, or those he fought with or against, I commend them and those who care for their last resting places.
And not just today but every day of every year.
Trench warfare: At The Somme
I visited the World War I battlefields, Ieper and The Somme with GTI, the Group Travel Specialists https://gtitravel.ie and In Flanders fields.
And also visit www.visitflanders.com and https://www.visit-somme.com/great-war
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Cruiseday Tuesday – Classic Amadeus
25th February 2020 25th February 2020 funtime65
Continental Europe is the great treasure on our doorstep but it is caught in something of a musical time warp.
Walking the Camino I stopped off at a wayside inn where they were tapping their feet to the Falco (who?) song Rock Me Amadeus.
Which is my circuitous way of flagging up the building of river cruise ship Amadeus Cara for next year.
Blue for you: The Danube
The new cruise ship boasts 73 spacious luxury cabins (17.5m²) and 12 AMADEUS suites (26.4m²).
Yes, you’ll be rolling down the river but you’ll also have plenty to do including:
– Modern fitness area
– Hair and massage salon
– Panorama Restaurant
– The Panorama Bar which offers space for events and talks and where the AMADEUS musicians perform every evening
– Lift between decks
The maiden voyage of AMADEUS Cara will be the 8-day Danube Rhapsody cruise from/to Passau at the end of April 2021.
For the remaining season, the cruise ship will be travelling on the Danube to the Black Sea, as well as between Amsterdam and Basel on the Rhine.
River of dreams: With Herself in Amsterdam
And you all know what I think of Amsterdam… Pictures of Amsterdam.
Prices start from £499.00 per person, cruise-only on a three-night ‘Interlude on the Danube’ itinerary, based on 16 August 2021 sailing.
This round-trip from Passau is the perfect taster for anyone new to river cruising.
Prices start from £1,699.00 per person on a Three Rivers Cruise, based on 2 September 2021 sailing.
Rhine for any season
Travel along the Rhine, Main and Danube on a sailing that includes a transit of the Rhine-Main-Danube Canal and the chance to visit the fairytale streets of Rothenburg ob der Tauber.
For more information or to make a booking, call on 0808 115 8312 or email sales@amadeus-rivercruises.co.uk
Princess diary
I’ll drink to that: Princess and Medallion
Princess Cruises is increasing by six months the Australia and New Zealand season of the 2,670-guest Sapphire Princess.
The ship will now arrive in Australia on May 1 and sail Down Under for 12 months.
This adds a total of 47 new cruises from five major Australian cities to the season.
The ship was previously scheduled to sail in Asia from May-October.
Sapphire Princess will arrive into Perth (Fremantle) following a multi-million dollar refurbishment. The full season comprises 171 port calls including:
Night at the opera: Sydney
· A 10-night Coral Coast voyage sailing from Perth (Fremantle), visiting West Australia’s coastal destinations such as Broome, Geraldton and Exmouth. Departing May 4, 2020.
· A 17-night Northern Explorer between Sydney and Perth (Fremantle) visiting destinations such as Geraldton and Cairns. Departing Perth (Fremantle) on June 8, 2020
· Roundtrip voyages to Fiji from Brisbane and Sydney including a 12-night Fiji cruise sailing from Sydney visiting Dravuni Island and Lautoka. Departing June 25, 2020
· Australia Circumnavigation voyages from Sydney, Adelaide and Perth (Fremantle) including an inaugural 28-night Round Australia cruise out of Adelaide.
Beach life: In Fiji
Visiting Port Lincoln, Kangaroo Island, Port Arthur, Hobart, Sydney, Brisbane, Yorkeys Knob, Alotau, Darwin, Kimberley Coast (Scenic Cruising), Broome, Geraldton, Perth (Fremantle), Margaret River (Busselton) and Adelaide.
Departing from Perth (Fremantle) 10 August, 2020
The new cruises are on sale from Thursday, February 27.
Sapphire Princess will receive MedallionNet WiFi from June 4, offering guests the fastest Wi-Fi at sea.
And I love my little Princess. Cruiseday Extra – Loyal to my Princess.
Visit www.princess.com.
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Flyday Friday – Holiday World
24th January 2020 24th January 2020 funtime65
Must fly… I’m scooting around the 30th Holiday World.
The annual Travel Extra fair which has moved onto Dublin from Belfast and Limerick.
And I’m catching up with a fleet of Travel providers if that’s the right collective noun.
So that’s me with Colombia Charges D’Affaires Patricia Cortez Ortiz.
Colombia hat
In my Colombia hat. And you thought it was a Panama Hat.
Well Panama used to be a part of Colombia so it really should be called a Panama hat.
There are various ways to get to Colombia with a stop-off.
I’d recommend through Amsterdam with my old pals at KLM… www.klm.com,
And maybe stop the night… Pictures of Amsterdam and George Clooney and Amal’s Amsterdam hotel.
Free coffee: With Ethiopian’s charmingly named Free at Ethiopian Airlines’ stand
While, of course, here’s Free, my new Ethiopian pal.
Ethiopia and other destinations
And here’s some really good offers which are as good as free.
Ethiopian Airlines www.ethiopianairlines.com has a these destinations from Dublin…
Its capital Addis Ababa: From €501.
Victoria Falls: From €552.
Sao Paolo: From €804.
Kilimanjaro: From €519.
I got a headstart for this weekend of Travel networking at the Wendy Wu lunch Hungry and Thursday – Chinese Wu Year and www.wendywutours.ie yesterday.
Where I talked all things up in the sky and down on the ground.
All the world: Finnair & El Al, Wendy
Wu, Bandanaman. Emirates
With Wendy’s flight partners Emirates www.emirates.com and www.elal.com.
Emirates sale
Just a reminder that the Emirates sale ends January 26 which, through this funk of drink, I know is Sunday.
So Emirates has these round trip deals:
Bangkok from €519.
Dubai from €549.
Kuala Lumpur from €569.
Phuket from €679.
Perth from €1119.
Sydney from €1119.
El Al of a country
The big news at El Al http://www.elal.com is the three non-stop flights from Dublin to Tel Aviv from May 26 from €326.
Now I’ve seen Israel from the Red Sea and the Dead Sea… and right up close with www.gadventures.com.
And personal, across the River Jordan The water of life, Petra, and the sands of time where the Israelis say John the Baptist baptised Jesus.
Although the Jordanians say it was further into their country.
And yes I’ve seen it too from atop Mount Nebo where Moses saw the Promised Land.
Next stop Israel
But couldn’t get in because he’d fallen out with God.
I’m making sure I’m staying on HIS right side as a Eucharistic Minister.
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So that I can fulfil a lifelong ambition to visit Israel https://www.touristisrael.com/visit-israel/.
Maybe this year, God willing, whoever He or She may be.
Wham bam, thank you Hamam
Atoll tale – the Maldives
The water of life, Petra, and the sands of time
Day in the life of a township
South Africa’s prize boy from the township
Pictures of Amsterdam
A walk through the ages… Tenerife
Swhisskey on the rocks
Malta pleaser
The Boat D’Azur
Secret Portugal
Why German trains always run on time
George Clooney and Amal’s Amsterdam hotel
Dresden’s renaissance
SPORTUGAL
The call of the fjords
A Royal Party
In defence of… cruises
I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out To Here
Cruiseday Tuesday… The Princess’s Medallion Man
Cruiseday Extra – Loyal to my Princess
Messi around on the water
I belong to Glasgow
Edinburgh – an old friend
Aberdeen – a light in the north
Desperate Dan and Murty the Minx in Dundee
Carole King… you’re Beautiful
A pilgrim’s prayer
Small roads lead to Rome
Let’s rumba in Barbados
My kiss with Rihanna
Ready, steady GOAT… racing in Tobago
City delights – Dublin
Horsing around at the Dublin Horse Show
Belfast’s rich tapestry
Belfast Chilled
Flowerscourt
Monaghan’s country roads
Rugby central, it’s the InterCon… what a Ledge!
#DontCancelPostpone
Holiday Snaps – Coronavirus
Like a Greystones cowboy… in Texas
Holiday Snaps – Gardaland, Marrakech, Dubrovnik
Crocus gold… Valentine’s in Amsterdam and Ireland
Iceland – land of fire and skiing
Oscar bravo to Korea
Holiday Snaps – At your fingertips
My Sporting Weekend – your adopted team
My Sporting Weekend – Virtual Van Dijk
My Sporting Weekend – More Muirfield please
My Sporting Weekend – Rugby’s VAR and away days
My Sporting Weekend – Records
My Sporting Weekend – Washington Nationals
My Sporting Weekend – Marathons
Sporting weekend – Old Firm madness
This Sporting Weekend… Andy Murray
Get on your bikes – cycling around the world
Strictly Jim Dancing – with Judy Murray
Flyday Friday – Airline angels with wings
Flyday Friday – Trains and automobiles
Flyday Friday – Iceland rocks
Flyday Friday – Shannon’s Irish Coffee?
Flyday Friday – Glasgow Airport belongs to you
Flyday Friday – It’s Baltic
Flyday Friday – Yoga and New Delhi
Flyday Friday – The New Year Down Under
Flyday Friday – Canada, eh?
Black Flyday Friday coming with Emirates
Flyday Friday – the Northern Lights
Flyday Friday – days at the airport
Flyday Friday – Abu Dhabi do
Flyday Friday – El Al
Flyday Friday – Aer Lingus at the double
Flyday Friday – Das airport toilets Herren und Damen
Flyday Friday – Ryanair flyin’ where?
Flyday Friday… avert a Greek tragedy
Flyday Friday – Virgin vs plastic
Flyday Friday – Emirates and the Rugby World Cup
Flyday Friday – Ryanair
Flyday Friday – Dubai
Flyday Friday – Flying the flag
Flyday Friday – Madeira
Flyday Friday… Norwegian would!
Emirates and ref Nigel on airplane etiquette
It’s low-fare Lingus… from €39.99
Thank you Norwegian
Abu Fhabi
Etihad and Dancing Dad
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Random thoughts on living well where I don't belong
Happy Birthday “Beijing”
Chinese Language / November 21, 2014 by Jo / 2 Comments
No, today is not the birthday of the founding of Beijing. That happened too far back in history to be able to pinpoint a date. Recorded history goes back around 4000 years and Peking Man dates back more than 200,000 years.
So why wish “Beijing” a “Happy Birthday?”
Well, because it was 36 years ago that the Chinese government decreed that henceforth all Chinese words written in English should use the Pinyin Romanization system instead of the Wade-Giles or Yale systems.
Peking became Beijing.
Canton became Guangzhou.
Mao Tse-tung became Mao Ze-dong.
Chou En-lai became Zhou En-lai.
36 years ago today, the Wall Street Journal published an article announcing and explaining these changes to its confused readers. Here’s how journalist Barry Kramer reported it:
“Foreigners reading about China in their own language may soon be scratching their heads over references to Chinese personalities such as Mao Ze-dong and Jiang Qing, or places such as Zhongqing and Beijing. Beijing’s State Council has taken another step toward simplification of China’s cumbersome written language by ordering that all publications printed in China in English, French, German, Spanish, and other Roman-alphabet languages use only a standard phonetic transliteration system, called Pinyin, to spell names and places.”
You can read the entire Wall Street Journal article on the Today in WSJ History page here.
I wrote about the difference between Peking and Beijing (spelling, of course) in post back in 2010, explaining that the characters didn’t change, only the approved romanization of the characters:
The more complicated (and accurate) response is that in Chinese it didn’t really change. Before the 1970’s the name of the city in characters was 北京, and those characters are still the name of the city today. What changed in the 1970’s was the official pronunciation of those two characters.
The character 北 means ‘north’ or ‘northern.’ The character 京 means capital, so the two characters together mean ‘northern capital.’ The problem lies in the pronunciation of those two characters. In the dialect of northern China (around Beijing) they are pronounced bei and jing. In Cantonese (the dialect of Guangdong Province and Hong Kong) they are pronounced pe and king. Since written Chinese is ideographic, two people who speak different dialects can look at one character and both will know what means, even though they would pronounce them differently. This is the case with Beijing.
So as I said at the beginning, Happy Birthday “Beijing!”
Beijing or Peking?
Imagine Learning Chinese without Pinyin
What ever happened to ‘Peping’?
The Nationalist changed the name to Peping (Peiping, Beiping) when they moved the capital to Nanjing. Jing (king) means “capital” and since it wasn’t the capital anymore it couldn’t be called “northern capital.” So they changed Jing (king) to Ping, which means “peace.” When the Communists came to power they moved the capital back north and Beiping (Peiping, Peping) — Northern Peace — became Beijing (Peking) — Northern Capital once again. As the British say, “Brilliant!!”
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6 edition of Disabled yet denied found in the catalog.
Disabled yet denied
bureaucratic injustice : hearing before the Special Committee on Aging, United States Senate, One Hundred First Congress, second session, Washington, DC, July 17, 1990.
by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging.
Published 1991 by U.S. G.P.O., For sale by the U.S. G.P.O., Supt. of Docs., Congressional Sales Office in Washington .
Insurance, Disability -- United States,
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Series S. hrg. ;, 101-235
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Slovakia’s Netflix users gain access to Czech content
Bratislava, Slovakia – This week marks a big victory for Netflix subscribers in Slovakia and the Czech Republic.
Until recently, Slovak Netflix users were not able to access films and TV series dubbed or subtitled in Czech language. Many considered this is a gross injustice, as only 25 titles are dubbed or subtitled in Slovak language out of the 4.500 available to the country’s Netflix subscribers, compared to several hundred titles dubbed or subtitled in Czech – and keeping in mind that Czech and Slovak are arguably as close as two languages can get and almost entirely mutually understandable.
Despite Netflix pledging to regularly add new Slovak content, the last subtitles added on the streaming platform date back to 2017, according to local daily Dennik N.
Unhappy movie lovers decided to take matters into their own hands and launched the petition #NetflixCzechoslovakia to right this wrong. Thanks to a good media coverage and to the support from like-minded Netflix users, more than 5.000 people eventually signed the petition asking for Slovak Netflix subscribers to be given access to Czech-dubbed or subtitled content. “Netflix does not communicate with our region, and that is why we have launched the petition”, said blogger Ľubomír Tuchscher.
And on Monday, the administrator of the Filmtoro movie website Tomáš Vyskočil – who co-launched the petition – announced that the initiative was successful: Slovakia’s Netflix users now have access to movies and series with Czech dubbing or subtitles.
“It’s a huge success for Slovakia”, he wrote, even though “we will not know exactly whether this decision was a result of the petition” until Netflix officially confirms it. The U.S. streaming platform had repeatedly ignored past requests on the matter and has yet to officially respond to the petition.
Whereas Netflix counts roughly 50.000 subscribers in the Czech Republic, there are only 15.000 Netflix users in Slovakia, a too small amount according to experts to go through the trouble of translating and dubbing the entire Czech content into Slovak language.
Besides Czech services platforms operating cross-border (such as Aerovod, Mall TV, Stream, etc.), other similar international services and on-line streaming platforms have improved the availability of their content to both Czech and Slovak users.
On iTunes, for instance, Czech and Slovak subscribers can watch nearly half of the over 5.000 titles available in their own languages. HBO has already granted the access to their Czech version to Slovak subscribers and “all titles contain Czech subtitles”, according to HBO representative in Slovakia Bohuš Mäsiarik.
Netflix has been available in the Czech Republic since 2016, upending the consumption habits of tens of thousands of Czech viewers in the course of a few years in a country where half of the population reportedly admitted illegally downloading movies and series on the internet.
In May last year, the first festival dedicated to online TV and series content was held in Brno: the ‘Serial Killer’ festival, inspired by Berlinale’s Drama Series Day and Cannes Festival’s TV section, showcased TV fiction from all across Europe as well as series produced by Netflix, HBO and Czech Television, among others.
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School-wide assembly features different events
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The Pom team performs at the start of the assembly, occurring on February 13.
By: Sara McEvoy, Reporter
The traditional Winter Break assembly took place on February 13 this year. It opened with a performance from the Pom team while the band played music.
Afterwards, students watched the Mr. Kaneland contestants participate in a game of musical chairs. Following club and sport recognition, the percussion band team performed on garbage bins. The drummer rolled his way into the center of the gym with three large garbage bins to start their performance. As he removed smaller bins from the large ones, new drummers were added to the performance, and a drummer in a Santa Claus costume jumped out of one of the bins.
Teachers then took on seniors in a game of dodgeball, and the seniors were victorious. When the game came to a close, the Pom team stepped out and performed another routine.
A highlight of the assembly was the orange passing game, in which the players are supposed to pass an orange through their line using only their chins, trying to get it all the way down and back, but it ended with the teacher’s row actually passing the orange along using their mouths.
“I didn’t know what games were planned; it was a surprise, and it was awkward, but I did it for the students’ enjoyment,” math teacher Rosemary Wisniewski said.
The last event that took place was Leap Frog, and the assembly ended with the Kaneland victory chant that was led by the cheerleading team.
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HIPAA O365 Controls - Controls implemented for the UW-Madison Health Care Component
In early 2019, the HIPAA Executive Board at UW-Madison approved the implementation of the following controls for the UW-Madison Health Care Component.
At UW-Madison, the HCC comprises the “covered entity” to which HIPAA regulations apply. To reduce the risk of inappropriate disclosure of sensitive and restricted data, the campus HIPAA Executive Board has approved the implementation of additional controls affecting Office 365. These controls include:
Restrictions on auto-forwarding email from wisc.edu addresses.
Auto-forwarding to domains outside of the UW-Madison Health Care Component and/or the UW-Madison Affiliated Covered Entity is not permitted. Auto-forwarding between our wisc.edu addresses and these domains creates a potential for HIPAA Privacy Rule violations. The control was implemented for the HCC in 2020.
See also: HIPAA O365 Controls - Domains approved for O365 auto-forwarding within Health Care Component
Prohibited use of Basic Authentication.
Modern Authentication (also called Password Security at UW-Madison) provides additional security controls when compared to Basic Authentication, including no longer storing O365 credentials locally in email clients. It also allows the use of Multi-Factor Authentication. This significantly reduces the likelihood of credential compromise associated with O365 accounts. The control was implemented for the HCC in 2020.
Prohibited use of the POP email protocol.
Post Office Protocol version 3 (POP3) is an older email protocol that does not support Modern Authentication. The control was implemented for the HCC in 2020.
Allow Local IT to better control email clients through the use of distributed Conditional Access.
Conditional Access is the tool used within O365 that leverages user and device identity to make decisions, and enforce organizational policies. This could prevent a user from connecting to email and exposing sensitive data if using an unsupported email client or out of date operating system. This control is actively being investigated and will be deployed in the future.
Enforce encryption on mobile devices used to access wisc.edu email accounts.
This control is dependent on a Mobile Device Management solution to be implemented for campus. MDM is being investigated and will be deployed in the future.
Develop and implement policy for data segregation, archiving, and use when individuals transition into new roles but continue utilizing the same wisc.edu email account (to prevent individuals from retaining access to PHI after a transition/termination of employment).
This control is actively being investigated and will be deployed in the future.
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These Inspiring Youngsters from Kerala Are Going Back to Their Roots by Cultivating Organic Navara
Unnikrishnan R·
In this fast-moving world, nobody has time. When it comes to lifestyle, everything has changed drastically. In the olden days, every house had its own designated area for agriculture. Paddy, vegetables and other necessary items would be cultivated there. But today, all the things we need for a house are found in sealed tins. This has also compromised our health.
However, the description given above is not true for a group of men from Nooluvalli, Thrissur. Sumesh and his friends have a story of triumph to tell. These friends have cultivated a special type of paddy called Navara, which is a medicated kind of rice. The doctors prescribe Navara for various diseases. It helps in the management of debilitating neuro-muscular diseases as well as certain types of arthritic and auto-immune diseases.
Sumesh, who is an assistant film director and has worked for movies like ‘Olipporu’, is part of a 12-member group that includes private company workers, government employees and even students. The desire in these young minds is strong, so finding time for agriculture is not a difficult task for them.
Sumesh is the leader of this group.
“The specialty of Navara rice is that it is Kerala’s own breed. In Kerala, only a few people cultivate Navara and because of this, the result is limited. However, it has high medicinal value. The food we eat is for health only. So in that aspect, Navara is the first choice when it comes to health,” he says.
Another specialty of the cultivation process is that chemicals or other pesticides never come in contact with the crop at any point. The only thing used is something called ‘Jeevamritham’, which is made of cow dung and cow urine. Here also, the young farmers from Nooluvalli were specific about one aspect. The cow, from which the cow dung is collected, is never given cattle feed during the period, so as to make the dung chemical-free. Only grass is given as food during this period. ‘Jeevamritham’ is used to get rid of insects. This also increases the number of worms in the soil.
The time period from planting the paddy seedling to harvesting the Navara rice is around 60 to 75 days. After the harvest, the paddy is taken to mills in Palakkad. It is here that the later process takes place. The shale of the paddy is removed and the bran remains on the rice, thus retaining its medicinal value. There is a misconception that the bran often increases the starch level, but in case of Navara rice, it is this bran that provides health to the users. Coming to the sale, there is no agent or dealer in between the farmers and customers. Thus, quality, quantity, and cost find a harmony here.
Sumesh and his group have won the Karshaka Sree Award from the Mattathur Gram Panchayat. Sumesh started the Navara cultivation around five years ago. But for the last three years, his friends are also part of the farming. Sumesh’s brother Sujith, Mukesh, Sudheer, Ranjith, Shibin, Vivek, Vipin, Vijeesh, Binoj, Aneesh, and Anoop are the others behind this effort.
The Navara story of these young men from a village has now reached Kochi’s largest hyper market too. Lulu Mall, after hearing the story of these young farmers and understanding the value of Navara rice, is selling the product through its stores. The packing is also done by the producers. Even though the main season for consuming Navara is the Malayalam month of Karkkidakam, using it every day would keep diseases at bay.
“The sale at the Lulu outlets shows that non-resident Indians are also aware of the medicinal value of this rice. Thus, importing of the rice also becomes an important area. By doing this we wanted to convey to the public that it is not too difficult to produce the rice we consume or use. We want everyone to go back to the olden days when we cultivated what all we needed ourselves. Over dependence on other States for our daily food should be decreased,” he says.
This initiative by these youngsters is worthy of emulation. Kerala should reduce its dependence on other States like Andhra Pradesh for rice and must become self-sufficient. Hopefully, this initiative will inspire more of us to do the same.
For Organic Navara products, please contact Sumesh Mundakkal on 9400164648 or mail to [email protected]
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Unnikrishnan R
Unnikrishnan R is a Reporter with The Kochi Post.
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Ketodontist Podcast- Episode 11: Keto Mythbusting with Tyler Cartwright of Ketogains (Part 1)
Welcome to Episode 11 of the Ketodontist Podcast! SUPER excited for our guest today. His name is Tyler Cartwright. He is leads the group KetoGains alongside previous show guest Luis Villasenor. This is part 1 of 2.
Tyler has a fascination with learning, reading, and self-improvement as a person. It's truly a bit of an obsession for him - with a personal library which currently clocks in at just north of 2300 books! At his heaviest he weighed in at 505 lbs, and set out on a journey of self-discovery and leveraged his love of learning with his backgound in science to arrive at a ketogenic diet as a tool for his weight loss. After over a decade of eating a ketogenic diet, and having lost 295 pounds, he has helped to move the Ketogains community forward as one of the most successful communities of contextualized thought on the use of a ketogenic diet and the applications for fat loss, sports performance, and how to help people transform their lives. The Ketogains clients have lost in excess of 20,000 in the last 18 months, and countless lives have been changed because of his insight, common-sense, and practical applications to diet, health, training, and living.
How Tyler has lost almost 300 lbs over the last decade.
Tyler's past struggles with his weight.
How Atkins was a great start for him, and how his nutrition has evolved from there.
How he met Luis and how they ended up collaborating for KetoGains.
How Keto seems to attract Questioners and Rebels (ie Gretchen Ruben's The Four Tendencies)
Why people get so hostile or defensive when discussing nutrition.
Why "Lazy" Keto works, until it doesn't.
Why there is almost no such thing as "unprocessed" food anymore.
Why extended fasting may not be a great idea for some folks.
Links and Resources mentioned in the Show
www.ketogains.com
www.ketogainsbootcamps.com
Gretchen Rubin's The Four Tendancies Quiz: https://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/3706759/Gretchen-Rubin-s-Quiz-The-Four-Tendencies
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Metallica Lose Twice at 2020 Billboard Music Awards
Photo by Ross Halfin
Metallica didn't emerge as the heroes of the day at the 2020 Billboard Music Awards on Wednesday (Oct. 14). Out of the two nominations the veteran metal band received, each ultimately went to a different artist.
The categories for which Metallica found themselves nominated were Top Touring Artist and Top Rock Tour. After all, when the band hits the road, Metallica treks are often ranked among the highest-selling rock tours.
But that didn't seem to matter come award time at the Kelly Clarkson-hosted Billboard Music Awards this year. Metallica lost out to both Elton John and Pink.
Pink captured the Top Touring Artist award from fellow nominees the Rolling Stones, Ed Sheeran, Metallica and Elton John, as Billboard reported. Elton won Top Rock Tour ahead of both the Stones and Metallica.
The event's big winner was rock-indebted rapper Post Malone, who began the 2020 BBMAs as the artist with the most nominations. When all was said and done, Posty took home nine total Billboard Music Awards. Those were Top Artist, Top Male Artist, Top Billboard 200 Artist, Top Hot 100 Artist, Top Streaming Songs Artist, Top Rap Artist, Top Rap Male Artist, Top Rap Tour and Top Rap Album for Hollywood's Bleeding.
Of course, one could assume that Wednesday's losses are no skin off Metallica's collective back. They've faced bigger slights before, such as when the James Hetfield-led act lost 1989's Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance to none other than Jethro Tull.
Head here to see the full list of 2020 Billboard Music Awards winners.
All Metallica Songs Ranked
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La Dolce Vino
Wine, food, travel: what could be sweeter
Port Styles
Sherry Styles
A Pairing to Love
Posted on February 14, 2014 Updated on August 18, 2016
Valentine’s day is Friday. For us it’s a night to stay in, cook up something rich and decadent and indulge in a chocolaty dessert, say, in the shape of a heart. (When else can I use all my heart-shaped bakeware?)
This year I made a flourless chocolate cake with ganache and hazelnuts and then went in search of a wine to match. This particular cake is made with dark chocolate, which keeps it from being overly sweet, and whipped egg whites so it has a surprisingly light texture. It calls for something that matches its delicacy but needs to be slightly sweeter. Port is a classic pairing, but I also love the port-like wines of Banyuls and Maury in the Roussillon region of southern France. This 1998 La Coume du Roy Maury worked perfectly.
Maury is a tiny appellation within Roussillon that sits just inland from the Mediterranean and gets its name from the picturesque village of 900 people tucked in amongst the garrigue (wild scrub) and schist-covered foothills of the Pyrenees. It’s one of the hottest, driest regions in France (325 sunny days per year) but perfect for producing lusciously ripe grapes. While dry red and white wines are made here, the region is known for its long tradition of making sweet, fortified vin doux naturel.
The process of making these wines is said to date back to 1299 when the king of Mallorca granted a patent to the Catalan alchemist Arnaldus de villanova who had perfected the method of using grape spirit to halt fermentation. At that time Roussillon was under Spanish rule and eventually became a center of production for this type of wine. One of the marked differences between these wines and Port, is that in Maury and Banyuls the wines are often aged in open oak barrels or glass demijohns, which exposes the wines to oxygen and heat and results in rancio flavors of dark fruit jam, fruit cake and walnuts. They also often have less alcohol than Port (around 16% compared to Port’s 20%).
Founded in 1850, La Coume du Roy is one of the oldest wineries in Maury and is currently being run by the sixth generation of winemakers, Agnes and Jean-François Bachelet. They make a variety of wines styles including dry red, white and rosé, sweet Muscat and both oxidized and maderized (heated) vin doux naturels. The 1998 La Coume du Roy Maury is made using 100%, late-harvested Grenache grapes. Yields are kept low at 20 hl/ha, ensuring each grape is concentrated with loads of flavor and sugar. The must then spends 10 months in fermentation tanks before being pressed and aged in oak barrels for 10 years. These wines can age for a century or more, so a mere 14 years in bottle is young. The wine still retains its dark red color, with only some of its garnet-tinged age appearing in the rim. This is delicious on its own with flavors of black cherry, plum, cocoa, and cedar, but an ideal match with this dark chocolate cake.
Flourless Chocolate Cake with Toasted Hazelnuts
10 ounces bittersweet or semisweet chocolate, chopped
1 1/4 cups (2 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, diced
10 large egg yolks
Ganache:
8 ounces bittersweet or semisweet chocolate, chopped
1 1/2 cups hazelnuts, toasted, coarsely chopped
Position rack in center of oven and preheat to 350°F. Butter 10-inch-diameter springform pan with 2 3/4-inch-high sides. Line bottom of pan with parchment paper round. Place chocolate and 1 1/4 cups butter in medium metal bowl. Set bowl over saucepan of simmering water; stir until mixture is melted and smooth. Remove bowl from over water; cool to lukewarm, about 10 minutes.
Using electric mixer, beat egg yolks and 1/2 cup sugar in large bowl until very thick and pale yellow in color, about 5 minutes. Beat in vanilla and salt. Gently fold chocolate mixture into yolk mixture. Using clean dry beaters, beat egg whites and remaining 6 tablespoons sugar in another large bowl until peaks form. Fold 1/3 of beaten whites into chocolate mixture. Fold in remaining whites in 2 additions. Transfer batter to prepared pan.
Bake cake until tester inserted into center comes out with moist crumbs attached, about 45 minutes (cake will be puffed and soufflé-like while baking). Cool cake in pan on rack 15 minutes (cake will fall in center). Run knife around cake sides to loosen; press edge of cake down to make level with center. Remove pan sides and cool cake completely. DO AHEAD Can be made 1 day ahead. Cover and store at room temperature.
Combine chocolate and cream in medium metal bowl. Set bowl over saucepan of simmering water and stir until chocolate is melted and mixture is smooth. Remove bowl from over water; let stand until ganache cools slightly but is still pourable, about 5 minutes.
Place cooled cake on rack set over rimmed baking sheet. Pour 1/2 cup ganache over top of cake. Using offset spatula, quickly spread ganache over top and sides of cake. Freeze cake 3 minutes. Pour remaining ganache over top of cake. Working quickly but gently and grasping pan bottom and rack together, slightly tilt rack with cake from side to side, allowing ganache to flow evenly over top and down sides of cake; smooth sides with offset spatula. Press hazelnuts onto sides of cake to adhere. Chill cake until ganache is set, about 1 hour. DO AHEAD Can be made 1 day ahead. Cover with cake dome and keep refrigerated. Let stand at room temperature 45 minutes before serving. Read More http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Flourless-Chocolate-Cake-with-Toasted-Hazelnuts-and-Brandied-Cherries-237344#ixzz2tG1ONtnK
This entry was posted in Maury, vin doux naturel.
What to Drink During a Polar Vortex?
Posted on January 10, 2014 Updated on March 29, 2014
This week a blast of Arctic air pushed the thermometer down to single digits and wind chills to well below zero. People threw water into the air and watched it turn to snow, and Niagara Falls froze solid. These frigid temps may be a bit extreme, but it’s just this kind of cold, icy weather that we have to thank for a rare and remarkable dessert wine. Ice wine (or Eiswein as it is known in Germany and Austria and Icewine in Canada) is the golden elixir that results when grapes are left on the vine well into the winter and harvested only when they freeze. Needless to say, production is miniscule and fraught with difficulties, making these wines very rare and usually very expensive.
The practice of making wine from frozen grapes may have begun with the Romans, but documentation dates it to 1794 in Germany. For almost two centuries it remained something of an oddity until the 1960s when technological innovations allowed for easier pressing of frozen grapes. For obvious reasons it’s made only in cold climate regions. Besides Germany and Austria ice wine is now produced in Canada (Ontario and British Columbia), Michigan and New York in both the Finger Lakes region and the North Fork of Long Island.
Only high-acid grapes are used: Riesling, Vidal Blanc, Sylvaner, Gewurztraminer and Cabernet Franc. Once the freeze sets in, a team of pickers rapidly descends on the vineyard to harvest. It’s back-breaking, bone-chilling work that usually happens in the early morning hours. Harvest time depends entirely on the weather; sometimes it’ll be as early as December, but it can be as late as February. In Germany the temperature has to drop to 19.4 ° F, while in Canada it’s 17.6°F. Some years the thermometer never dips low enough (as happened in Germany in 2006 and 2011), and no eiswein at all will be produced.
Freezing the grapes is actually a means of removing the water, leaving behind rich, intense must of concentrated sugars, fruit esters and acids. Only healthy grapes are picked as any infected with Botrytis cinera (or noble rot) would have been harvested earlier and used to make either beerenauslese or trockenbeerenauslese. So there is no hint of botrytis, just a lusciously sweet wine with fresh fruit flavors.
Two reasonably priced half bottles I found were Heribert Boch’s Trittenheimer Altarchen Riesling Eiswein, from 2008, $40, 8.5% abv, and Henry of Pelham Riesling Icewine from the Niagara Peninsula in Ontario, Canada, $60, 9.5% abv.
The Heribert Boch is a true Eiswein from the Mosel region of Germany. The wine was a deep golden color, almost amber, and tasted of apple cider, ripe pear and peach. The fruit here was juicier with mouth-watering acidity. The Henry of Pelham Icewine on the other hand was strikingly pale, and the flavors of pear, apricot, and candied oranges were a little more intense and focused.
Both were delicious and would be perfect all on their own. Or you could try as I did to pair them with some salty cheese: a Zamoran (manchego), an aged Gouda and a softer, farmhouse cheese from Ireland called Ardrahan. A nice blue cheese would work well too as the salty and sweet play nicely off each other. Either way these wines show the magic that can be conjured from the cold.
This entry was posted in Icewine.
An Unexpected Wine on a Cold Winter’s Night
Posted on December 14, 2013 Updated on March 29, 2014
On a recent snowy evening my husband and I popped into our local gastropub for a late, post-movie bite. Alder is the newest restaurant from Wylie Dufresne, who first gained attention at 71 Clinton Fresh Food before opening WD-50, his innovative restaurant on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. This is where he unleashed his inner mad scientist, using techniques from the school of molecular gastronomy to create dishes such as deconstructed eggs benedict with deep fried hollandaise and aerated foie gras. At Alder, the atmosphere is more casual with a smaller menu that falls under the category of upscale pub food. Dufresne has scaled back the molecular gastronomy aspect, but his signature playfulness is still evident. He’s taken traditional pub fare and added asian accents. A pedestrian sounding pub cheese is actually made by simmering wine, garlic, shallots, thyme, bay leaf and cloves and then mixing it with cheddar, cream cheese, mustard and miso. The pigs in a blanket are Chinese sausages wrapped in hot dog buns that have been flattened through a pasta maker then wrapped around the sausage and served with Japanese mustard and sweet chili sauce. Beef tongue has the unusual accompaniments of smoked yucca, pickled cippolini, and chimichurri dashi. The flavors feel familiar, comforting, and most of all delicious.
The wines too are in line with the more casual gastropub ambitions. It’s a small but well-curated list with an emphasis on value, which means wines from lesser-known regions like the Jura, Roussillon, Jurancon, and the Languedoc. Most bottles are under $100. Dessert wines were conspicuously absent in print, but when I asked our server she told us that they did indeed have a dessert wine, though only one. But what a wine it is—a 2007 Vin de Constance from Klein Constantia in South Africa. It seemed fitting too, during this week of remembering Nelson Mandela to raise a glass of wine from his country and drink a toast to such a remarkable man, especially since this was his favorite wine.
Constantia is a small wine region southeast of Cape Town (really a suburb now). Nine producers make wine from vineyards that sweep across a large amphitheater facing False Bay. They’ve been making wine here since in 1685, and although dry whites and reds are made, it is the sweet dessert wine that originally brought fame to the region. In the 18th and 19th centuries it was a favorite among European aristocracy, including Frederick the Great, King George IV and Napoleon Bonaparte, who ordered it during his exile on St. Helena. Even Jane Austen suggested a glass of Constantia for its “healing powers on a disappointed heart.” In the late 1800s, however, phylloxera and powdery mildew decimated the area’s vines. The vineyards were sold to the government and the dessert wine production came to a halt. There things stood until 1980, when the Klein estate was bought by Duggie Jooste, who set out not just to revive the vineyards but also to recreate the famous dessert wine that hadn’t been made for nearly a century.
Klein’s new Vin de Constance is based on the original Constantia wine and made from Muscat de Frontignan. A small portion of the grapes (10%) is picked early to make a base wine with high acidity. The rest of the grapes aren’t picked until late in the harvest season and are allowed to raisin on the vine, with no help from botrytis. Picking is done by hand in tries, or passes through the vineyard, with only those grapes that have sufficiently dried being selected. Three passes are usually required. The raisined grapes are then pressed and the must placed in 500 L barrels for fermentation where they remain on their lees for up to four years. Klein’s first vintage was from 1986, but wasn’t released until 1990. Following Klein’s lead Groot Constantia began producing their own version called Grand Constance, and Buitenverwachting have their 1769.
The Vin de Constance at Alder was from 2007, considered one of the best years of the decade. The long, dry growing season produced a rich, silky wine with deep concentrated flavors of orange marmalade, apricot, honey, raisins and spice balanced with a nice taut streak of acidity. Neal Martin of Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate gave it 97 points, the highest rating a South African sweet wine has ever received. It didn’t pair well at all with the root beer pudding my husband ordered. But quite frankly, the wine was so remarkable and delicious, it was best savored all on its own. Look for Klein’s distinctive, bottom-heavy 500 cl bottles that run around $55 and drink a toast to South Africa and the man who set an example for us all.
This entry was posted in South Africa and tagged Alder, Klein Constantia, South Africa, Vin de Constance.
Of Dinosaurs and Wine
Posted on December 7, 2013 Updated on March 29, 2014
A mere 50 miles east from some of France’s most famous vineyards in the Côte d’Or of Burgundy, lies what could easily qualify as country’s most obscure, least-heralded wine region, the Jura. Even to French wine drinkers the area’s distinctive wines remain relatively unknown. A few years back, however, they caught the attention of the wine cognoscenti in the U.S. and have been popping up on the wine lists of adventurous sommeliers ever since.
If the area is known at all it’s usually as the source for the term Jurrasic, named for the ancient limestone mountain range dating from the time when dinosaurs thrived. It turns out that the limestone, clay and marl soils provide the perfect base for growing vines. Burgundy’s signature grapes—Pinot Noir and Chardonnay—are grown here too, but the region’s uniqueness stems from wines made from grapes grown nowhere else: the reds from Poulsard (Ploussard) and Trousseau, the whites from Savagnin, often aged under a veil of yeast (sous voile), similar to how some sherries are aged, and known as Vin Jaune.
Most of the region’s wines are dry, and even though some have sherry-like flavors they are not fortified. Some producers, however, do make a little known fortified sweet wine called Macvin. It can be red, rosé or white, but all are made in similar fashion: by halting fermentation with the addition of marc brandy, usually in a 1/3 marc to 2/3 wine proportion. The resulting wine is sweet, and the alcohol is potent, somewhere between 17 and 22% abv. The wines are then aged in oak for up to six years, lending a woody, roasted walnut character.
Chateau d’Arlay is one of the famous vineyards of the region and is, in fact, said to be the oldest vineyard castle in the country. It produces mostly dry wines with only a small percentage devoted to sweet wines. Their white Macvin is made from 50% Chardonnay and 50% Savagnin but is unlike any white wine, sweet or otherwise I’ve ever tasted. The aromas alone tell you you’re in for something different, with scents of roasted walnuts, pie crust, orange and lemon peel, hazelnuts, honey, pineapple and pears. The wine is full bodied, but a tangy acidity keeps it lively. The flavors are a swirl of complexity with marzipan, pears, lemon marmalade, baked apples, honey and walnuts, but there is an unusual tartness to it too. It’s an intriguing, unique wine. We poured our half bottle of Chateau d’Arlay Macvin with a baked pear crumble made with dates, raisins and walnuts.
Baked Apple/Pear Crumble (Adapted from StraightUpFood)
1/2 cup walnuts
2 pitted dates
Diced fruit:
3 apples or pears, peeled and diced
Apple/Pear sauce (that will be tossed with the diced fruit, above):
2 apples/pears, peeled and dice
¼ cup raisins
¼ teaspoon nutmeg
Topping: Blend the walnuts and dates in a food processor until the texture is similar to Grape Nuts. Spoon into a small bowl and set aside.
Filling: Toss the 3 peeled, diced apples with 1 tablespoon of lemon juice and set aside in a bowl. Next, in the food processor, blend all of the sauce ingredients: 2 apples, 2 tablespoons of lemon juice, 6 pitted dates, raisins, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Toss this mixture with the sliced apples.
Bake: Place the fruit filling into a 2-quart baking dish and sprinkle with date-nut topping. Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes.
Preparation: 15 minutes; cooking time: 45 minutes; serves: 4
This followed a main course of homemade pizza with eggplant, artichoke hearts, peppers, onions, roasted garlic and capers accompanied by a Pater Sardus Arrugo from Sardinia.
This entry was posted in Jura.
What to Pair with Pumpkin Pie?
Posted on November 26, 2013 Updated on March 29, 2014
‘Tis the season for Thanksgiving wine lists when experts recommend their best bets for what to pair with the meal’s myriad, complicated flavors: turkey, gravy, stuffing, sweet potatoes, Brussels sprouts and cranberry sauce. Favorites include Beaujolais crus, Rieslings, and Pinot Noirs, all wonderful choices, but that is where the lists usually end. So what to serve with the pumpkin pie? Give your holiday that extra special touch by serving a dessert wine that’s been specially chosen for the holiday’s signature desserts?
Pumpkin pie is by far my all-time favorite and even when I don’t think I have any room left I will find a way for a slice of this. Pumpkin pie is creamy, not to mention the dollop of whipped cream on top, and wonderfully rich with autumnal spices like cinnamon, cloves and allspice. What’s needed is a wine that blends with the spices and isn’t too over-the-top sweet.
Blandy’s Five Year Old Verdelho, $25. Madeira is a great choice due to its signature high acidity that cuts through all that richness. A drier style such as Verdelho with it’s nutty, dried fruit flavors would work well. These wines tend to be less sweet than the Malmseys or Boals, but still have a fair amount of residual sugar. In the world of fortified wines this is relatively light bodied with notes of dried fruits (raisins, punes and figs) and toffee, caramel and candied ginger. Its acidity not only cuts through the rich creaminess but also has the surprising effect of refreshing the palate, which, at this point in the meal, comes as a welcome relief. Its burnt orange color, too, couldn’t be better coordinated. And if you don’t manage to finish the bottle, no worries, due to the intentional oxidation and heating during the aging process, these will keep for next year’s celebration, or the one after that or the one after that. Blandy’makes wines that are readily available here in the U.S.
Falchini Podere Casale I Vin Santo del Chianti, $25. This wine is made from Trebbiano and Malvasia grapes that have been dried and aged in oak and cherry casks for many years. It is softer and more viscous than the Madeira but still has a bright acidity to keep it from being cloying. Flavors of candied orange, caramel, cloves and almonds work perfectly with the sweet spices of the pumpkin pie.
With its rich nutty sweetness pecan pie calls for something that can stand up to its intensity.
Lustau Pedro Ximenez “San Emilio” Sherry, $29. Lusciously sweet, with silky, rich flavors of raisins, dried figs, dates, molasses and walnuts, this wine gets its concentration from Pedro Ximenez grapes that have been dried out in the sun for 4 to 10 days. The flavors are further concentrated by aging in the solera system that allows for controlled oxidation in barrels. If you wanted to forego pie altogether and just sip your dessert this would be the wine to have.
Graham’s 20-year-old Tawny Port, $55. Rich and smooth, with notes of roasted walnuts, dried fruits and butterscotch, a 20-year tawny is the pinnacle of this style. The age indicated on the bottle is the average amount of time the wines have spent in wood casks. Extended wood aging slowly turns the wine a pale amber or brown, and its flavors develop from bright red fruit to concentrated dried fruit and caramel. Twenty years is the peak of a tawny’s evolution, when the tannins soften and the flavors come together to create a complex yet harmonious wine. Once opened these can be kept for about a month or two in the refrigerator (recorked of course).
There are many wines that pair well with apple pie, but if you want to keep things all American (or how about at least all North American?) than two choices come easily to mind.
Inniskillin Vidal Icewine Niagara Pearl 2008, $54 for a half bottle (375 ml). Made from frozen grapes, icewine was originally a specialty of Germany and Austria, where it’s known as eiswein, but has turned out to be a popular wine to make in the cold climates of Canada and northern New York and Michigan. The grapes are picked while frozen on the vine, thus removing most of the water and concentrating the sugar and flavors of the grape. Some of Inniskillin’s icewines are oak aged, but his one is not, retaining the grapes fresh fruit flavors. This golden wine is silky sweet but with a refreshing amount of acidity and tastes of apricots, pears and honey.
Hermann J. Wiemer Riesling Late Harvest Finger Lakes 2012, $30. More time on the vine translates into a sweeter, richer wine with deeper, more concentrated flavors. The Riesling grape is famous for retaining its acidity, which is critical for dessert wines, keeping them wine fresh and lively. Hermann J. Wiemer is a well-known producer from the Finger Lakes region of New York, and the wine’s flavors of ripe apple, pear and honey pair perfectly with that quintessential American dessert—apple pie.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged Hermann J. Wiemer, Icewine, late-harvest Riesling, Madeira, PX, Tawny Port, Vin Santo.
Sherryfest
Posted on October 9, 2013 Updated on July 15, 2015
Suddenly sherry is cool again, and perhaps no one deserves more credit for restoring its reputation than Peter Liem, a wine writer known for his champagne expertise but more recently has taken up the cause of Sherry. Last year he and Jesús Barquín, founder of Equipo Navazos, published Sherry, Manzanilla & Montilla, one of the most comprehensive books about sherry to hit U.S. bookstores in decades. It was while planning for the book’s launch party that Liem and Rosemary Gray hit on the idea for Sherryfest, a three-day event with dinners, seminars and a Grand Tasting. This year it featured 27 bodegas and more than 160 sherries.
A highlight for me was a masterclass on amontillado, a style of sherry in between a fino and oloroso. Presenting the wines was an all-star line up of producers from Barbadillo and Osborne, along with Beltran Domecq, whose family has been in the sherry business for generations and is the president of the Jerez DO regulatory board. He also just published his own book on sherry. Peter Liem and Carla Rzeszewski, former Wine Director of The Spotted Pig, The Breslin, and The John Dory Oyster Bar, poured the wines.
The most poignant aspect of this tasting was in seeing how these wines evolve as they age. Life for an amontillado begins as a fino or manzanilla (a fino aged in the township of Sanlucar de Barrameda near the sea). Finos are the lightest of all sherries and are made using the solera system of fractional blending. Newly made dry wine from the Palomino grape is mixed with wine from the previous vintage, which itself is mixed with older vintages, and so on. For finos this process can last from three to eight years, all the while aging under under a layer of flor. This blanket of yeast not only protects the wine from the oxygen but also interacts with it in a way that gives finos and manzanillas their distinctive citrus and toast flavors (not oxidative since it is protected from the air) as well as their refreshing zip (the yeast consume glycerol, which gives wine a fuller mouthfeel).
Amber-colored Amontillados
After a few years of aging some finos or manzanillas may lose their flor. Sometimes this happens naturally, but more often the producer will add a few degrees of alcohol to stop its growth. The sherry is then further aged in barrels where it ages oxidatively. Producers will age them anywhere from 8 to 40 or more years. The longer it spends in barrel the more concentrated the wine becomes. The sherry darkens in color and grows in complexity, developing aromas of toffee, nuts, dried fruits and orange peel to add to the yeast and citrus notes from its life under flor. In the Osborne Amontillado I even detected the scent of grapefruit. The wines may sometimes smell as if they are sweet, however, they remain completely dry.
This process was most clearly demonstrated with three sherries from Barbadillo: Manzanilla en Rama, Amontillado Principe and Amontillado VORS. Barbadillo is one the largest producers in Sanlucar with 17 bodegas housing more than 65,000 casks. Their main manzanilla, Solear, is aged for 7 years under flor. A small portion of this wine is then aged another year before being bottled straight from the barrel without filtering (the en rama part). This is their Manzanilla en Rama and is the wine that is used to make the Amontillado Principe, which is turn is aged to make the Amontillado VORS. Compared to other manzanillas the en rama has a more intense yeasty aroma and is a lot more complex with camomile, citrus and sea spray notes. To become the amontillado it will spend another eight years in barrel without its flor and exposed to a small amount of air. The result is a darker amber color and concentrated aromas of salted caramel, nuts and dried figs, with the underlying yeast and citrus notes still coming through. The aromas suggest that the wine may taste sweet, but it is bone dry. The ultimate expression of this wine is the Amontillado VORS, which is aged a total average of 40 years. Only about 300 bottles are made every year, and it is truly an exceptional wine: full bodied and rich but still lively and precise with notes of caramel and dates that lasted forever. Alongside my tasting note I simply wrote “delicious!”
The VOS and VORS wines are made is very small quantities and much more expensive but are a real treat. VOS stands for Vinum Optimum Signatum (or Very Old Sherry) and VORS for Vinum Optimum Rare Signatum (or Very Old Rare Sherry) and have been aged 20 years or more and 30 years or more respectively.
Easier to find and definitely more affordable is the Valdespino Tio Diego Amotillado. Valdespino is a top producer whose fino Inocente is also fantastic. Valdespino is one of the few producers who own their own vineyards. These two wines are made from grapes grown on the Macharnudo Alto vineyard, known for its pure albariza soil. Fermentation takes place in American oak barrels rather than stainless steel tanks, which is more common, and they use indigenous yeasts. The wines are extraordinarily complex and (I’m repeating myself) delicious.
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Posted on October 4, 2013 Updated on May 1, 2014
So, a blog about sweet and fortified wines, possibly the most under appreciated and least popular styles of wine in the country. I may be vying for the fewest-readers-of-a-blog-in-history award, but I hope not. Because within these categories are some of the finest, most complex wines made, many with the potential to age for decades (Madeiras and some Sauternes can last for more than a century). They are often painstakingly difficult to make, requiring enormous investment of effort, time and care on the part of the winemaker.
With nearly every wine-producing country in the world making a sweet or fortified wine, each with its own distinctive grape or winemaking method, the list of wines is long: off-dry Chenin Blancs from the Loire Valley, fortified port-like Banyuls from the south of France, luscious dessert wines from Tokaji, Hungary, long-lived Madeiras from Portugal, late-harvest Rieslings from Germany and botrytised dessert wines from Sauternes in Bordeaux. That’s just a small sample. It seems a shame then to let these wonderful wines go unappreciated. There is a time and a place for every style of wine and that holds true for sweet and fortified wines as well. My aim here is to explore the possibilities and shine a spotlight on these delicious, finely crafted, artisanal wines. I hope you’ll find ways to incorporate them into your life and seek out this section on the wine list the next time you go to a restaurant. Mostly, I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.
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Download file | Play in new window | Duration: 23:33 | Recorded on February 28, 2016
My hope for this series is that each episode builds as an iteration on those previous. Depending on your impression (and my patience for editing) this episode may or may not become the standard for the podcast.
In this episode, you have a compilation of three letters received in response to my questions:
What do you do, and why?
What does Work mean to you?
I have listened to each letter dozens of times while editing, and found a lot of joy in their unique perspectives (honestly, not trying to sound pedantic). I was afraid however, that no one wants to listen to three, long (~10 minute) monologues in a row, which led me to an interesting task of finding similarities and stringing these three responses together.
For anyone who prefers to hear each letter in full, please look for “Episode 01B” which includes Chris, Habiba, and Josh, without interruption.
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A guide for finding Biblical studies and Christianity-related resources and information
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The New Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible by Katharine Doob Sakenfeld (Editor) The New Interpreter's® Dictionary of the Bible (NIDB) in five volumes provides the best quality in contemporary biblical scholarship on a comprehensive range of topics from the Old and New Testaments, the Deuterocanonical books, and from contextual studies of the ancient Near East and the Greco-Roman worlds and their literatures. The dictionary contains maps, charts, and illustrations to further clarify the written material. The biblical text used is the NRSV translation. A diverse group of 900 scholars from 40 countries have contributed 7100 fresh new articles with 8400 entries including persons, places, things, theological concepts, and much more. These contributors were selected by the editorial board for their expertise in their field and for the quality of their scholarship in publication. Special care was taken to select authors who could provide a variety of perspectives from different theological traditions (Protestant, Catholic, Jewish), diverse theological trajectory (conservative and liberal), and from the social locations of gender, ethnicity, and race. Topics are listed in alphabetical order from A-Z and evenly divided among the five volumes. The main entry (in bold) includes a pronunciation guide. Hebrew and Greek origins of the entry follow, with transliteration. Longer articles contain an introduction that summarizes the topic and include a helpful outline to guide the reader. Articles conclude with a short bibliography and cross references to related articles. In each definition, authors strive to incorporate as many biblical instances of the term as possible in the given amount of space, and to discuss the theological, social, or ecclesial implications of the topic, so that the definitions are practical aids to the tasks of preaching, teaching, and study of the Bible. Volume Structure; 1. A - C 2. D - H 3. I - Ma 4. Me-R 5. S - Z Readers who are trained in ancient languages will appreciate the discussion of Hebrew and Greek terms, while at the same time, readers who are not familiar with Hebrew or Greek should not have difficulty following the articles, because transliteration and complete definitions are used throughout. "The New Interpreter's Bible Dictionary combines the latest biblical scholarship with the practical needs of pastors, teachers and students in a way that will deepen their understanding and enliven their experience of the living Word in scripture." Rev. Jim Harnish, Hyde Park United Methodist Church, Tampa, Florida "I'm looking forward to the New Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible so I may continue with the work of the church. I've read many articles already, and it is very helpful when you are working on a sermon, a presentation, or preparing for a Bible study class." Rev. Evelene "Tweedy" Navarrete-Sombrero, Holbrook United Methodist Church, Holbrook, Arizona
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Alleged Russian Troll Farm Slaps Robert Mueller with Demand to See ‘Largely Secret’ Rosenstein Memo
Ronn BlitzerJun 25th, 2018, 4:23 pm
Concord Management and Consulting, one of the companies that Special Counsel Robert Mueller charged for allegedly carrying out an elaborate scheme to interfere with U.S. elections, responded on Monday with a motion to dismiss the indictment against them.
Interestingly enough, they use an approach similar to what former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort unsuccessfully used against Mueller in his own case. They claim that Mueller never truly had the authority to indict them in the first place.
Like Manafort, they argue that their case doesn’t fit the bill of possible ties between the Trump campaign and the Russian government’s efforts to interfere with the 2016 election. They claim that the indictment doesn’t allege that they’re part of the Russian government, nor does it accuse them of coordinating with the Trump campaign.
In a footnote, Concord recognized that the August 2017 memo from Rosenstein to Mueller could have theoretically authorized Mueller to look into them, but it “remains largely secret and appears to be an after-the-fact justification to bolster an unlawful appointment order.” Continuing that line of thinking, they state that they should get to take a look at the memo:
And if the Special Counsel does rely on the Memorandum to support his jurisdiction here, Concord, consistent with its due process rights, should be permitted to view it and contest the Special Counsel’s assertion.
In Manafort’s case, Mueller ended up releasing a redacted version of the memo that revealed portions that related to the former Trump campaign manager. If history repeats itself, we may learn more of what the memo says.
Also like Manafort, Concord is arguing the that charges against them are improper because Mueller’s very appointment was improper,. While Manafort claimed that the Manafort’s Appointment Order was too broad, however, Concord Management is claiming that the Constitution itself prohibited Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein from appointing him under any circumstances.
To support that, they argue that the special counsel regulations under which Mueller was appointed are themselves invalid. As a result, they claim, “the Deputy Attorney General’s appointment order does not and cannot act as a proxy for an unconstitutional delegation of the Federal Government’s prosecutorial powers.”
They assert that Mueller wasn’t appointed by the president or by someone who had Congressional authorization, and therefore was in violation of the Appointments Clause of the Constitution. The 1999 Special Counsel regulations, in fact, were presented to Congress in testimony by then-Attorney General Janet Reno and Deputy AG Eric Holder.
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(763) 568-7343 7900 International Dr.
Bloomington, MN 55425
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Mike is an attorney with Atlas Law Firm. Mike is an experienced bankruptcy attorney having honed his skill at one of the largest bankruptcy law firms in Minnesota. Mike is able to provide his clients with much more one-on-one attention than attorneys at large firms with hundreds of clients. Mike assists his clients in deciding if bankruptcy is the best remedy for their debt problems, and if so, what chapter of bankruptcy best suits their needs and goals. Prior to helping people file bankruptcy, Mike worked for two Chapter 7 Trustees. He has broad experience assisting individuals and...
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I create comprehensive estate plans that take care of families, their assets and honor their values. Wills, Trust, Health Care Directive, Powers of Attorney. We protect your assets, including your pets. We also manage Probates and Estate Administration.
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Life presents many legal complications…who will you turn to if you need representation? At Daniels & Wymore, PLLC we are a full service law firm providing representation to businesses and individuals. Our tremendously experienced and capable team of professionals can help counsel you and your business through any legal matter, whether you are starting a business, and you need us to draft the necessary business documents, or you need litigation representation, or estate planning or you need help defending your home from foreclosure. It doesn’t matter whether you are an wealthy entrepreneur, the start up business, or the average individual...
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(612) 466-0040 3572 117th Ln NE
Minneapolis, MN 55449-5842
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(612) 421-2175 12800 Whitewater Dr #100
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(651) 895-2945 4940 W 77th
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I was a late bloomer. I didn't even start on my undergraduate degree until I was 35. Perseverence pays off, however. I made it all the way through undergrad and law school and have been practicing since 1994. Much of that time was spent as a solo practitioner, but I have a colleague who is an equal owner with me. My practice is limited to estate planning (wills and trusts), probate, guardianship/conservatorships and all aspects of family law (divorce, custody, child support, spousal support, property division, etc.)
Mary P. Mooney
(612) 721-6749 3148 38th Avenue South
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(612) 424-1624 1624 Harmon Place
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Todd handles matters in Wills, Trusts, and Estates; Family Law; and Civil Litigation. He also provides pro bono representation to youth in foster care in association with the Children's Law Center of Minnesota. Before moving to Minnesota, Todd practiced law in Denver, Colorado in the areas of Municipal Law and Litigation. He also gained experience in Civil Rights Law while interning with the United States Department of Justice and the University of Iowa Clinical Law Programs. Todd is a graduate of Tulane University and the University of Iowa College of Law. He was born and raised in Independence, Iowa.
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(612) 294-2200 11100 Wayzata Boulevard
Estate Planning and Family
University of Saint Thomas
Chelsea Barr is a family law and estate planning attorney with a desire to help families navigate some of the most stressful and sensitive times of their lives.
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(612) 767-1856 2915 Wayzata Boulevard
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(763) 445-2648 11670 Fountains Dr.
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(952) 474-4406 5101 Thimsen Ave STE 204
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Tracy Irene Nightingale
(952) 525-2214 5775 Wayzata Blvd
Estate Planning, Divorce, Family and Insurance Claims
Barbara Kristiansson
(612) 672-3600 100 South 5th Street
Richard Dana Borland Jr.
5200 Willson Road
Free ConsultationEstate Planning, Business and Elder
William Peper
B.S. University of Minnesota, 1984
J.D., Washington University in St. Louis School of Law, 1992
Richard Bardy
(952) 476-5995 101 Lake St W
Wayzata, MN 55391
Margaret D. Green
(612) 708-9767 222 N. Second Street Suite 300
Lucas Thompson
(612) 466-0010 901 Marquette Ave, Suite 1675
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Western New England College and Columbia University
Elizabeth Cloutier
(612) 332-5100 12 S 6th St
Estate Planning, Appeals, Bankruptcy and Business
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HomeNews and ViewsAMR diagnostic innovators supported with new investment workshop from Longitude Prize
AMR diagnostic innovators supported with new investment workshop from Longitude Prize
London, 16 September 2020 – Medtech innovators and developers are invited to share experiences with people who have built successful medtech businesses and those that have invested in them. The second Longitude Prize Sprint workshop will be on 30 September 2020.
The interactive webinar will explore what medtech companies need to do to attract investors including venture capitalist and philanthropic organisations.
The Longitude Prize Sprint series aims to accelerate the development of rapid diagnostic tests to tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR), through improved knowledge of regulatory approval pathways, a greater understanding of funding and investments and better manufacturing and distribution of innovative products.
The new, virtual workshop is the second in a series of free seminars for medtech developers from innovation foundation Nesta Challenges, home of the Longitude Prize. The Longitude Prize is a £10m prize fund that will reward a team of researchers that develops a rapid point-of-care diagnostic test that will help conserve antibiotics for generations to come.
Ruth Neale, Longitude Prize Project Manager, Nesta Challenges said:
“The Longitude Prize launched in 2014 to drive forward the development of rapid, accurate, point-of-care diagnostic tests to slow the rise of antimicrobial resistance through improved antibiotic stewardship. In six years, medtech innovators across the world - from Britain to the US, India to Israel, Sweden to Canada – have made great strides in advancing new diagnostics. One of the greatest barriers these developers face is securing reliable, sustainable investment – often when they need it most. The Longitude Prize Sprint workshop will help attendees understand what investors are looking for and learn from colleagues who have found success with their own medtech startups”.
Dr Satya Dash, Member, Board of Directors, NCL- Venture Center, Pune, India, who will be moderating the workshop said:
“Medtech product development is inherently risky. It requires long gestation periods with significant inputs of capital to build and scale a medtech product. Funding is the oxygen, a critical component that drives product development during the long gestation period. Medtech startups and SMEs need to deploy a range of strategies to secure funding from multiple sources - government, philanthropic, bank loans and venture capital. After the success of the inaugural Longitude Prize Sprint last month, this virtual workshop will provide valuable insight for diagnostic developers in markets around the world.”
Speakers include Dr Chandrasekhar Nair, Co-founder, Bigtec/Molbio (India). Dr Nair will speak about his personal journey in building BigTec/Molbio; how he gained the investment that he needed and the keys to the success of a highly challenging product development process. Other speakers include Colin Denver, CEO, SpeeDx (Australia), Dr Abel Ureta-Vidal, serial entrepreneur, and founder of Eagle Genomics (UK), Dr Julie Rosser, founder, PreGenerate (Austria), Radha Kizhanattam, Partner, Unitus Ventures, India, and David Gill, Managing Director, St John’s Innovation Centre (UK).
The technical webinars are open to any individual, business or organisation working to develop new diagnostic tests in the field of AMR. Following each of the webinars, Longitude Prize competitors will gain exclusive access to additional expert support, with sessions tailored to their needs.
The free Longitude Prize Sprint Building Medtech Companies: Learn how to attract investment to fund product development and scale your company workshop takes place on 30 September 2020 at:
1400 British Summer Time (BST)
1500 Central European Time (CET)
0600 Pacific Daylight Time (PDT)
0900 Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)
1830 India Standard Time (IST)
Register and attend for free at http://longitudeprize.org/sprint
The Sprint programme is free and will consist of a mix of Sprint Workshops and Sprint 1:1 Expert Support and is perfect for people and teams working in the field of AMR diagnostic test development.
On 7 August 2020, we brought together top experts from across the world to explore the subtle and distinct variations in regulatory standards for med-tech products across different geographies, especially between developed and developing countries. With 70 international attendees, featuring a mix of Longitude Prize competitors, researchers and other players in the product development space, we had a lively call full of learning and debate.
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Firefighter Dies In Crash En Route To Fire At Air Force Base
Filed Under:Firefighter Death, Vandenberg Air Force Base
LOMPOC (CBSLA.com) — A Ventura County firefighter on his way to help battle the blaze threatening Vandenberg Air Force Base died Wednesday morning after the water truck he was in crashed.
Fire Engineer Ryan Osler was a passenger in a fire water tender truck that rolled over near a roundabout on Highway 246 near Purisima Road, according to a California Highway Patrol collision report.
(credit: KEYT)
Osler was trapped inside when the vehicle crash, the report said.
A second firefighter was hospitalized in serious condition, according to Ventura County Fire Department spokesman Steve Swindle. They were the only two occupants in the truck.
The truck was en route to help fight the Canyon Fire on Vandenberg Air Force Base.
“Our collective hearts are broken at the loss of our friend and brother Ryan. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family,” Fire Chief Mark Lorenzen said in a statement.
Osler, an 18-year veteran of the department, was in his 30s and a second-generation firefighter, Swindle said. He is survived by his wife and two children.
The department’s flags were ordered to half-staff and the department will don mourning bands in Olsen’s memory, Lorenzen said. Funeral arrangements are pending.
A procession of Ventura County Fire Department trucks led the way to a funeral procession later Wednesday afternoon.
He was remembered by colleagues as a talented firefighter and devoted family man.
“He was a very good firefighter,” said Ventura County Fire Department Capt. Ron Oatman. “[But] he had that balance of saying, ‘You know what. It’s time to go home and spend time with my family.”
Osler’s late father was also a Ventura County firefighter.
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Home Blogs Adam West – The Sad Passing Of A True American Icon.
Adam West – The Sad Passing Of A True American Icon.
David J Harris
Adam West iconic TV star of the sixties show ‘Batman’ passed away on Friday the 9th June after a short battle with leukaemia. William West Anderson was born on September the 19th 1928 in Walla Walla, Washington and started his acting career in 1959.
Without a shadow of a doubt Adam West’s portrayal of Batman in the 1960s ABC series and feature film is easily the most revered and recognisable version throughout the world, over a colossal 50 year period. Batmania started in 1966 catapulting Adam West and his co-star Burt Ward to overnight success but within a two-year period the bat signal had all but faded and ABC TV cancelled the show. This left Adam West in the same predicament as being typecast much like the late great Fred Gwynne of ‘The Munsters’ fame. Unlike Fred Gwynne though Adam West wholly embraced the adulation from fans from every new generation that tuned into the series with re-runs that have spanned over the past five decades.
The colorful pop-art-esque show filled with vivid colourful graphics containing the words ‘POW!’, WOW!, WHAM! and ‘BAM’ that filled the screens in fight scenes was accountable for a huge increase in the sale of colour TVs. Adam once said in retrospect he should have gone right out and endorsed colour TV sets as he and Burt Ward received a pittance for likeness in toys and other memorabilia. Not only was Adam West’s representation of Batman the most recognisable, the Batmobile created by George Barris is easily one of the best loved TV cars of all time. It’s also the second biggest selling toy car by the Corgi manufacturer selling approximately five million units worldwide. Barris who himself passed away in 2015, once told me in 2010 that he and Adam West remained friends long after the series had aired, as they were intrinsically linked by conventions, classic car shows or TV anniversary spin offs. I can recall George telling me at his custom shop in Los Angeles that you couldn’t meet a more wonderful and genuine guy than Adam West whilst proudly showing me his vast collection of Batman memorabilia.
The kitsch-laden success of the Batman TV show had stars queuing to play parts in the popular TV series. Adam West worked along some greats of the time. Eartha Kitt, Vincent Price, Ceser Romero, Liberace and even the legend that is Bruce Lee appearing in it’s three season run. All one hundred and twenty episodes were only released three years ago on DVD and Blu-ray due to legal complications with the studio owners much to the delight of dedicated Batman fans.
In recent years Adam appeared as Mayor West in Family Guy and was last seen on British TV on ITV’s ‘Through The Key Hole’.
Adam’s family have released this statement
“It’s with great sadness that we are sharing this news…Adam West passed away peacefully last night after a short but brave battle with leukemia. He was a beloved father, husband, grandfather, and great-grandfather. There are no words to describe how much we’ll miss him. We know you’ll miss him too and we want you to know how much your love and support meant to him throughout the years. Hug your loved ones today”.
– The West Family
On a personal level I find it hard to describe the emotion I feel at losing my first ever TV hero however I can recall that he is the only star that I’ve met personally that I felt myself totally lost for words and he quipped “It’s ok son, I knew what you were going to say anyway!” with that he shook my hand and beamed the biggest smile that I will always fondly remember.
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The Sadness is almost unbearable. For those of us who grew up in the 60s and 70s, although the cinema has given others, very good in theirs, it was he who gave us many joys in childhood and we waited week after week the outcome of situations that astonished those who were children, Rest in peace, Batman.
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Matildas star Sam Kerr and her teammates will head towards the China virus crisis.
Matildas headed for deadly virus outbreak
by Tom Smithies
21st Jan 2020 10:14 AM
CONCERN is growing over the rapid spread of a deadly and mysterious virus centred on the Chinese city where the Matildas are due to kick off their Olympic qualifying campaign in 13 days' time.
World health chiefs are poised to declare the spread of the so-called coronavirus as an international emergency this week, after three people died and more than 200 have been infected.
But Chinese football bosses reportedly have no plans to stop Sam Kerr and her teammates from travelling to the area, failing to move the Olympic qualifying games due to be staged in the city at the heart of the outbreak.
The mystery virus emerged in the city of Wuhan last month, where the Asian Football Confederation is about to play the qualifiers for the 2020 Olympic women's football tournament.
Officials from Football Federation Australia have been in constant contact with Australian diplomats in China since the outbreak of the disease, which has been linked to the SARS virus that killed 750 people across the world in 2003.
But China's state-run Xinhua news agency quoted a source at the Chinese Football Association as saying there were currently no plans to move the games.
Medical staff transfer patients to Jin Yintan hospital in Wuhan, Hubei, China. Picture: Getty Images
The new epidemic is a unique strain that originally was believed to have emerged in a seafood market in Wuhan.
It has been identified as a coronavirus, one that is communicated from animals to humans, but after recent cases it has now been confirmed by Chinese health officials as moving between humans.
Sam Kerr and the Matildas are due to play three games in Wuhan. Picture: Getty Images
The outbreak has spread to countries beyond China, while in Wuhan itself, temperature-checking machines have been set up around the city for residents to test themselves for feverish symptoms.
Headed by Samantha Kerr, who opened her goalscoring account for new team Chelsea at the weekend, the Matildas are due to play Taiwan on February 3, Thailand three days later, and China on February 9, all at the Five Rings Sports Centre in Wuhan.
The team will have its own chef and a beefed-up security presence, but is likely to have rely at least in part on local produce.
FFA and the players' association have been approached for comment.
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Home Milwaukee Opinion: Voters decided. Let’s move forward together
Opinion: Voters decided. Let’s move forward together
Alder Chantia Lewis
Election officials look over ballots as the recounting of presidential ballots in Milwaukee County begins on Nov. 20, 2020 in Milwaukee. Tom Lynn for Wisconsin Watch
Chantria Lewis. Photo supplied.
The basis of our democracy is that we pick our leaders — our leaders do not pick their voters. In our democracy, ‘we the people’ means voters of every color and creed, background and zip code, no exceptions.
This election season, once again, all eyes were on Wisconsin. For the second time in a row, the Badger State played a pivotal role in sending someone to the White House. Wisconsinites from up north to Milwaukee’s north side turned out in record numbers despite this pandemic and efforts by Republicans to endanger our health and put up barriers to our votes.
The margin was definitely too close for comfort — and there is no denying that people got swept up in fears about the election being disrupted, or the vote being tampered with — but by all accounts the Wisconsin election was one of the most secure and transparent in history. Free and fair elections are a hallmark of our democracy, and our election officials, clerks, and poll workers deserve a round of applause for ensuring that everything went smoothly.
Wisconsin’s election officials have counted and verified our votes applying the laws, customs and safeguards used in every election. And even though it was clear that ‘we the people’ elected Joe Biden, President Trump still wanted to relitigate the election by desperately trying to sow doubts about the votes cast by Black, Indigienous, young, and new Americans in Milwaukee and Dane Counties.
Republican leaders like U.S. Senator Ron Johnson and Assembly Leader Robin Vos serve the people of Wisconsin and the Constitution. Their complicity in President Trump’s schemes are a violation of their sacred oath and our rights as voters — and we will not forget. They now need to do their duty, acknowledge Joe Biden as President-elect, and move forward to tackle the COVID pandemic instead of spending time entertaining President Trump’s baseless claims.
It’s time to put politics aside and get to work for working Wisconsinites. We have real problems to face across the Badger State, alarming numbers of new COVID cases and casualties, and our families are struggling to make ends meet with no support from the GOP in sight. All our leaders — at the federal, state, and local level, whether newly elected or returning for another term — need to unite around our shared goal of moving our state forward.
Donald Trump won Wisconsin four years ago on a promise of bringing back jobs and boosting economic prospects for working people. Instead he cut taxes for the top 1 percent, started damaging trade wars, and blocked progress on policies like raising the minimum wage. This time around, Wisconsinites voted for a different path, and cemented our status as a key presidential swing state. Whichever party wants to win here in the future needs to fight for real solutions and enact policies that put money in the pockets of working Wisconsinites, not wealthy corporations.
There will be plenty of time for debate about where to take the Wisconsin economy. But we should celebrate the smooth elections and the commitment to a peaceful transition of power that’s the hallmark of our democracy. Wisconsinites will continue to stand with and for each other to see the will of the people prevail, swear in Joe Biden and move forward together to ensure we do everything to tackle this pandemic and invest in our economic well being. The people have voted, their voice has been heard. Now let’s get to work.
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Front page - The U-boats - Listing of all U-boats
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Ordered 25 Mar 1935
Laid down 15 Sep 1935 F. Krupp Germaniawerft AG, Kiel (werk 557)
Launched 17 Jul 1936
Commissioned 12 Sep 1936 Kptlt. Ernst Sobe
12 Sep 1936 - 14 Feb 1938 KrvKpt. Ernst Sobe
4 Nov 1936 - 22 Dec 1936 Kptlt. Harald Grosse
15 Feb 1938 - 17 Aug 1938 Kptlt. Hans Pauckstadt
5 Sep 1938 - 28 Oct 1938 Kptlt. Hans Pauckstadt
26 Oct 1938 - 28 Sep 1940 Kptlt. Wilhelm Rollmann (Knights Cross)
29 Sep 1940 - 22 May 1941 Oblt. Fritz Meyer
23 May 1941 - 19 Nov 1941 Oblt. Karl-Otto Schultz
20 Nov 1941 - 15 Jun 1942 Oblt. Gerhard Remus
16 Jun 1942 - 1 Feb 1943 Oblt. Horst-Arno Fenski (Knights Cross)
2 Feb 1943 - 11 Jun 1943 Oblt. Karl-Heinz Hagenau
12 Jun 1943 - 5 Aug 1943 Ltn. Eduard Aust
7 patrols
12 Sep 1936 - 31 Aug 1939 2. Flottille (active service)
1 Sep 1939 - 31 Dec 1939 2. Flottille (active service)
1 Jan 1940 - 30 Sep 1940 2. Flottille (active service)
1 Oct 1940 - 1 Nov 1940 21. Flottille (school boat)
2 Nov 1940 - 5 Aug 1943 24. Flottille (training)
Successes 19 ships sunk, total tonnage 91,989 GRT
2 warships sunk, total tonnage 1,770 tons
2 ships captured, total tonnage 4,957 GRT
1 warship a total loss, total tonnage 595 tons
Sank at 2155hrs on 5 August 1943 in the Baltic Sea at Memel, in position 55.43,7N, 21.06,5E after a collision with the U-boat tender Lech. 4 dead and 39 survivors.
Loss position
See the 24 ships hit by U-34 - View the 7 war patrols
The wreck of U-34 was raised on 24 August 1943, taken to Lindenau-Werft in Memel and probably scrapped after decommission on 8 September 1943.
General notes on this boat
12 Dec 1936. U-34 took a supervisory role in the German Operation Ursula in Spanish waters during the Civil War. The boat, under the command of Kptlt. Harald Grosse, sank the Spanish submarine C-3 on 12 Dec. 1936. See this article on the incident.
2 Aug 1940. Dutch submarine O-22 (J.W. Ort) sighted U-34 in the North Sea SW of Norway at 07.50 hrs, (Rollmann), but was unable to get close enough to launch an attack.
Men lost from U-boats
Unlike many other U-boats, which during their service lost men due to accidents and various other causes, U-34 did not suffer any casualties (we know of) until the time of her loss.
We have 3 emblem entries for this boat. See the emblem page for this boat or view emblems individually below.
Elephant Trampling Churchill
Sharks Teeth Painted on Bow
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Daniel Morgan and Bruce Taylor
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U-Boat Operations of the Second World War - Vol 1
Wynn, Kenneth
German U-Boat Losses During World War II
Niestle, Axel
Hitler's U-boat War
Blair, Clay
There was another U-34 in World War One
That boat was launched from its shipyard on 9 May 1914 and commissioned into the Imperial Navy on 5 Oct 1914. The Naval war in WWI was brought to an end with the Armistice signed on 11 Nov, 1918. Read about SM U 34 during WWI.
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Irish Fair of Minnesota
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This annual event will feature drink specials, snacks, Irish Dance, a silent auction, whiskey walk, pub quiz, and live musical performances.
Harriet Island
http://www.irishfair.com
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
The Louisiana Heritage Fair showcases unforgettable music on multiple stages, delicious Louisiana cuisine in two large food areas, and crafts artisans from the region and around the world demonstrating and selling their work.
Congo Square
http://www.nojazzfest.com
Old Spanish Days
Old Spanish Days Fiesta is a beloved Santa Barbara tradition that has continued for nearly 90 years. It fosters a unique spirit among locals as an important coming together which encourages community cooperation, celebration, and growth.
Downtown Santa Barbara
http://www.oldspanishdays-fiesta.org
Each June, the international fashion community honors the best and brightest in American design at the CFDA Fashion Awards.
65 Bleecker St, 11th Floor New York, New York 10012
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Leavenworth Oktoberfest
Oktoberfest in Leavenworth is the next best thing to being in Munich! We have four venues with live entertainment and Free Shuttles. What ever you do, don’t miss our Keg Tapping Ceremony, then hang around and check out the music.
Leavenworth, Washington 98826
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Dragon Festival
Lake Phalen Park in St. Paul, Minnesota, comes alive again, with two days of colorful, traditional dances and music to showcase the performance arts of Asia. Dances from the ceremonial to the theatrical and are as varied as the performers' costumes!
Lake Phalen Park
http://www.dragonfestival.org
Spotlight Ball
Hubbard Street’s annual gala benefit brings together hundreds of notable personalities from Chicago’s business and creative communities, the company’s world renowned artists, alumni and more for dinner, cocktails, auctions and dancing.
Fairmont Chicago Millennium Park Hotel
200 North Columbus Drive Chicago, Illinois 60601
http://www.hubbardstreetdance.com/spotlightball
Join us in Tower Grove Park for the region’s premier multicultural celebration, featuring over 40 ethnic food booths, non-stop dance and music, arts and crafts, and an international bazaar with unique gifts from around the world.
Arsenal and Grand Blvd. St. Louis Park, Minnesota
http://festivalofnationsstl.org
Folkmoot USA
Folkmoot is an international folk festival held since 1984 in Waynesville, North Carolina and surrounding communities. During its history, the two-week event has featured around 200 groups from approximately 100 countries.
112 Virginia Avenue Waynesville, North Carolina 28786
http://www.folkmootusa.org
Native Treasures Indian Arts Festival
Join us for Native Treasures: Indian Arts Festival, Santa Fe’s only museum-quality Indian art show and sale. Over 200 Native American artists participate, each of whom is specially invited by the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture.
Santa Fe Convention Center
201 West Marcy Avenue Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501
http://www.nativetreasures.org
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“I’m ashamed of . . .” How would you fill in the blank? How does that shame manifest in your behavior and relationships? Discover the origins of shame, its many faces, and how to evolve toward courageous self-acceptance.
Shame is universal. It touches every age, gender, and ethnicity — from a child who wets the bed to an adult who messes up on the job.
Shame operates at your core, often playing out in a debilitating combination of aggression, withdrawal, and perfectionism.
But how can you address shame if you have difficulty acknowledging or talking about it?
In this week’s episode of The Living Experiment, we discuss shame openly, flushing it out of hiding and into the light of day.
We talk about where shame comes from, how men and women feel it differently, and how it impacts relationship dynamics. We also suggest steps for moving from shame toward compassionate self-acceptance and insight.
“Shame” Episode Highlights
The life-long and inescapable human condition of shame (3:25)
Defining (and differentiating) shame and guilt (6:30)
The three primary behavioral expressions of shame (7:25)
Secondary and tertiary consequences, including communication problems (7:50)
The subtle differences between imposing shame and offering compassionate guidance (10:00)
How shame that develops very early in life can manifest in our adult lives and relationships (12:50)
Perfectionism as a response to childhood shame (14:25)
Shame as a potential outcome of a religious upbringing (15:15)
How your own sense of worth influences the way you accept or judge others (17:55)
Dr. Marilee Adams’ “Choice Map” and the two paths — judger or learner — we can take in any stressful situation (18:45)
Gender-specific shame triggers and responses (23:55)
Dallas’s early experience with shame, and the shadow it cast (26:00)
Pilar’s experience of shame resulting from childhood sexual abuse (29:50)
How (and why) we make sense of irrational thoughts and situations, and why that’s not always healthy (31:00)
How shame shows up in human behavior (33:50)
Dr. Brené Brown’s outing of the universal, destructive experience of shame (37:45)
Shame-based morality vs. the natural consequences of potentially problematic actions, such as over-consumption of porn or food (38:45)
The power of acknowledging and exposing sources and feelings of shame (42:20)
How Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy can help people evolve traumatic experiences (44:20)
“De-cloaking” — risking the truth about yourself with close friends, and the positive feedback loop that can create (47:10)
How to re-frame and diminish shame with self-awareness and compassion (53:00)
Making peace with your life experiences — good and bad — to more fully understand and accept yourself and others for who they are (55:40)
How a difficult divorce can catalyze the work of self-discovery (57:25)
The vicious cycle of poor communication between men and women – women’s unarticulated desires leading to men’s misguided efforts to fulfill them — and how to reverse the pattern (1:00:00)
Framing failure without shame rather than denying failure happened (1:05:00)
Suggested experiments for the week (1:08:20)
Identify and compassionately acknowledge your shame.
On a piece of paper, write “I have shame about . . .” and list all of your feelings of shame. On the last line of the page, write, “And it’s OK.”
Calling shame by its name and accepting yourself sets the stage for growth.
In the moments you feel shame, change the questions you ask.
The next time you’re tempted to go down a path of self-retribution (e.g, why am I so stupid; what’s wrong with me; what will people think?), ask neutral, non-judging learner questions such as: “What just happened?” “What’s useful here?” “What do I want now?” “What would I like to have happen?” “What can I learn?” “What am I actually responsible for?” “What’s possible?” “What are my choices?” “What would be the best use of my time, energy, and attention now?”
Embrace shame-tinged experiences as fertile ground for growth and self-honoring rather than self-reproach.
Look for opportunities to reframe shame-based experiences from your early life to reclaim your sense of worth as a human being now.
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From Experience Life magazine, “Shutting Shame Down”.
Excerpts from Dr. Carl Jung’s The Red Book, in which he says “Shame is a soul-eating emotion.”
Dr. Marilee Adams’ Choice Map, and Pilar’s Experience Life article, “Lines of Inquiry”, on Dr. Adams’ inquiry-based approach to processing any experience.
Research on vulnerability, courage, worthiness, and shame from Dr. Brené Brown’s books, her “Listening to Shame” TED Talk, and her website.
A round-up of wisdom from Brené Brown from Experience Life magazine, including her thoughts on shame and the gifts of imperfection.
Dallas Hartwig’s article, “Porn, Shame, and Doughnuts”, perceiving behavior through the lens of natural consequences rather than morality.
Gershen Kaufman’s book, Shame: The Power of Caring.
More about EMDR therapy from the EMDR International Association website.
The Work — a method developed by Byron Katie for identifying and questioning the thoughts that cause your suffering, and for transforming uncomfortable feelings into productive self-exploration.
Caroline Knapp’s book, Appetites, in which she encourages women to get in touch with their authentic desires, and to move beyond shame’s limiting clutches.
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Warriors silence Houston 119-106 in game one
By FELICIA D. PURCELL
Special to the News-Gazette
Houston struggled containing Kevin Durant, one of the Warriors four All-Stars and he lit up his opponent finishing as the top scorer for the with 37 points. (COURTESY OF WARRIORS.COM)
For the first time in four years the Golden State Warriors weren’t the top seed with the homecourt advantage in the Western Conference Finals, and some cast them as underdogs.
However, predictions are made to be broken and Golden State made everyone forget that Houston was the top seed, winning the Western Conference Finals Game 1 119-106.
It was an offensive clinic just as expected, with lots of open jumpers and 3-pointers as both teams fought neck to neck going into halftime tied at 56. Golden State could have led by as much as six points at the half but costly turnovers and fouls prevented them from doing so.
Houston struggled containing Kevin Durant, one of the Warriors four All-Stars and he lit up his opponent finishing as the top scorer for the with 37 points.
James Harden led Houston with 41 points, 5/9 from three-point line and seven assists. Chris Paul chipped in 23 points, 11 rebounds and three assists and Clint Capela had 12 points, 6 rebounds and 2 blocks for the Rockets.
“We knew they were going to come out with a lot of energy especially after that long layoff, so we tried to take that first punch and keep fighting,” said Kevin Durant afterwards.
The Rockets finished the first quarter with a 30-29 lead, but the Warriors outscored the Rockets 63-50 in the second half.
Klay Thompson discussed Golden State’s winning formula postgame.
“Just play hard, we know James is an all-world scorer, he’s going to make shots over us we just try to stay solid and keep up with each other.”
Rockets head coach Mike D’Antoni talked about the mix that makes Golden State so successful and how it caused his team to unravel in the second half.
“They’re obviously champions for a reason if want to beat them we have to be mentally sharper. KD is tough and he was on tonight; hey you can live with that, but you can’t live with that and then make mental mistakes and that’s what we do, the combination of the two is devastating.”
Thompson knows and appreciates this.
“We’re lucky we have so many playmakers on this team, I mean every position, we got a guy who can shoot, pass and dribble and when you’re just moving on and the open man take the shot, make the cut, it’s that simple. It’s beautiful to be a part of but it’s even better to watch.”
Thompson was the second leading scorer for the Warriors with 28 points, including five three-pointers and four rebounds. It was a relatively quiet night for Steph Curry who rounded it off with 18 points, 6 rebounds, 8 assists and 2 steals.
Stealing one in Houston is big but Kevin Durant knows the Rockets are chomping at the bit and will be locked and loaded for Game 2 on Wednesday.
“This team never stops, Houston ain’t never stop they’re always in the game with the three-point shots, so we just try to play a calm steady game, get good shots every time down and defend on the other end.”
Game 2 will tip-off this Wednesday on TNT 6 p.m.
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3.1: Tangents and the Derivative at a Point
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UCD Mat 21A: Differential Calculus
3: Differentiation
Position and Average Velocity
Instantaneous Velocity
Contributors and Attributions
In this section, we strive to understand the ideas generated by the following important questions:
How is the average velocity of a moving object connected to the values of its position function?
How do we interpret the average velocity of an object geometrically with regard to the graph of its position function?
How is the notion of instantaneous velocity connected to average velocity?
Calculus can be viewed broadly as the study of change. A natural and important question to ask about any changing quantity is “how fast is the quantity changing?” It turns out that in order to make the answer to this question precise, substantial mathematics is required.
We begin with a familiar problem: a ball being tossed straight up in the air from an initial height. From this elementary scenario, we will ask questions about how the ball is moving. These questions will lead us to begin investigating ideas that will be central throughout our study of differential calculus and that have wide-ranging consequences. In a great deal of our thinking about calculus, we will be well-served by remembering this first example and asking ourselves how the various (sometimes abstract) ideas we are considering are related to the simple act of tossing a ball straight up in the air.
Preview Activity \(\PageIndex{1}\):
Suppose that the height s of a ball (in feet) at time t (in seconds) is given by the formula \(s(t)=64-16(t-1)^2\).
Construct an accurate graph of \(y=s(t)\) on the time interval \(0 \le t \le 3\). Label at least six distinct points on the graph, including the three points that correspond to when the ball was released, when the ball reaches its highest point, and when the ball lands.
In everyday language, describe the behavior of the ball on the time interval \(0<t<1\) and on time interval \(1< t<3\). What occurs at the instant \(t=1\)?
Consider the expression \(AV_{[0.5,1]}=\dfrac{s(1)-s(0.5)}{1-0.5}\).
Compute the value of \(AV_{[0.5,1]}\). What does this value measure geometrically? What does this value measure physically? In particular, what are the units on \(AV_{[0.5,1]}\)?
Any moving object has a position that can be considered a function of time. When this motion is along a straight line, the position is given by a single variable, and we usually let this position be denoted by \(s(t)\), which reflects the fact that position is a function of time. For example, we might view \(s(t)\) as telling the mile marker of a car traveling on a straight highway at time \(t\) in hours; similarly, the function \(s\) described in Preview Activity 1.1.1 is a position function, where position is measured vertically relative to the ground.
Not only does such a moving object have a position associated with its motion, but on any time interval, the object has an average velocity. Think, for example, about driving from one location to another: the vehicle travels some number of miles over a certain time interval (measured in hours), from which we can compute the vehicle’s average velocity. In this situation, average velocity is the number of miles traveled divided by the time elapsed, which of course is given in miles per hour. Similarly, the calculation of \(AV_{[0.5,1]}\) in Preview Activity 1.1.1 found the average velocity of the ball on the time interval \([0.5, 1]\), measured in feet per second.
In general, we make the following definition: for an object moving in a straight line whose position at time \(t\) is given by the function \(s(t)\), the average velocity of the object on the interval from \(t=a\) to \(t=b\), denoted \(AV_{[a,b]}\), is given by the formula
\[A V _ { | a , b ] } = \frac { s ( b ) - s ( a ) } { b - a }\]
Note well: the units on \(AV_{[a,b]}\) are “units of \(s\) per unit of \(t\),” such as “miles per hour” or “feet per second.”
Activity \(\PageIndex{2}\):
The following questions concern the position function given by \(s(t)=64-16(t-1)^2\), which is the same function considered in Preview Activity \(\PageIndex{1}\)
Compute the average velocity of the ball on each of the following time intervals: \([0.4, 0.8], [0.7, 0.8], [0.79, 0.8], [0.799, 0.8], [0.8, 1.2], [0.8, 0.9], [0.8, 0.81], [0.8, 0.801]\). Include units for each value.
On the provided graph in Figure \(\PageIndex{1}\), sketch the line that passes through the points \(A=(0.4, s(0.4))\) and \(B=(0.8, s(0.8))\). What is the meaning of the slope of this line? In light of this meaning, what is a geometric way to interpret each of the values computed in the preceding question?
Use a graphing utility to plot the graph of \(s(t)=64-16(t-1)^2\) on an interval containing the value \(t=0.8\). Then, zoom in repeatedly on the point \((0.8, s(0.8))\). What do you observe about how the graph appears as you view it more and more closely?
What do you conjecture is the velocity of the ball at the instant \(t=0.8\)? Why?
Figure \(\PageIndex{1}\): A partial plot of \(s(t)=64-16(t-1)^2\).
Whether driving a car, riding a bike, or throwing a ball, we have an intuitive sense that any moving object has a velocity at any given moment – a number that measures how fast the 4 object is moving right now. For instance, a car’s speedometer tells the driver what appears to be the car’s velocity at any given instant. In fact, the posted velocity on a speedometer is really an average velocity that is computed over a very small time interval (by computing how many revolutions the tires have undergone to compute distance traveled), since velocity fundamentally comes from considering a change in position divided by a change in time. But if we let the time interval over which average velocity is computed become shorter and shorter, then we can progress from average velocity to instantaneous velocity.
Informally, we define the instantaneous velocity of a moving object at time \(t=a\) to be the value that the average velocity approaches as we take smaller and smaller intervals of time containing \(t=a\) to compute the average velocity. We will develop a more formal definition of this momentarily, one that will end up being the foundation of much of our work in first semester calculus. For now, it is fine to think of instantaneous velocity this way: take average velocities on smaller and smaller time intervals, and if those average velocities approach a single number, then that number will be the instantaneous velocity at that point.
Each of the following questions concern \(s(t)=64-16(t-1)^2\), the position function from Preview Activity \(\PageIndex{1}\).
Compute the average velocity of the ball on the time interval \([1.5, 2]\). What is different between this value and the average velocity on the interval \([0, 0.5]\)?
Use appropriate computing technology to estimate the instantaneous velocity of the ball at \(t=1.5\). Likewise, estimate the instantaneous velocity of the ball at \(t=2\). Which value is greater?
How is the sign of the instantaneous velocity of the ball related to its behavior at a given point in time? That is, what does positive instantaneous velocity tell you the ball is doing? Negative instantaneous velocity?
Without doing any computations, what do you expect to be the instantaneous velocity of the ball at \(t=1\)? Why?
At this point we have started to see a close connection between average velocity and instantaneous velocity, as well as how each is connected not only to the physical behavior of the moving object but also to the geometric behavior of the graph of the position function. In order to make the link between average and instantaneous velocity more formal, we will introduce the notion of limit in Section 1.2. As a preview of that concept, we look at a way to consider the limiting value of average velocity through the introduction of a parameter. Note that if we desire to know the instantaneous velocity at \(t=a\) of a moving object with position function s, we are interested in computing average velocities on the interval \([a, b]\) for smaller and smaller intervals. One way to visualize this is to think of the value \(b\) as being \(b=a+h\), where \(h\) is a small number that is allowed to vary. Thus, we observe that the average velocity of the object on the interval \([a, a+h]\) is
\[AV_{[a,a+h]}=\dfrac{s(a+h)-s(a)}{h},\]
with the denominator being simply \(h\) because \((a+h)-a=h\). Initially, it is fine to think of \(h\) being a small positive real number; but it is important to note that we allow \(h\) to be a small negative number, too, as this enables us to investigate the average velocity of the moving object on intervals prior to \(t=a\), as well as following \(t=a\). When \(h<0\), \(AV_{[a,a+h]}\) measures the average velocity on the interval \([a+h, a]\).
To attempt to find the instantaneous velocity at \(t=a\), we investigate what happens as the value of \(h\) approaches zero. We consider this further in the following example.
Example \(\PageIndex{1}\):
For a falling ball whose position function is given by \(s(t)=16-16t^2\) (where \(s\) is measured in feet and \(t\) in seconds), find an expression for the average velocity of the ball on a time interval of the form \([0.5, 0.5+h]\) where \(-0.5<h<0.5\) and \(h\), 0. Use this expression to compute the average velocity on \([0.5, 0.75]\) and \([0.4, 0.5]\), as well as to make a conjecture about the instantaneous velocity at \(t=0.5\).
We make the assumptions that \(-0.5<h<0.5\) and \(h\), 0 because \(h\) cannot be zero (otherwise there is no interval on which to compute average velocity) and because the function only makes sense on the time interval \(0 \le t \le 1\), as this is the duration of time during which the ball is falling. Observe that we want to compute and simplify
\[A V _ { [ 0.5,0.5 + h ] } = \frac { s ( 0.5 + h ) - s ( 0.5 ) } { ( 0.5 + h ) - 0.5 } \]
The most unusual part of this computation is finding \(s(0.5+h)\). To do so, we follow the rule that defines the function \(s\). In particular, since \(s(t)=16-16t^2\), we see that
\[s(0.5+h)=16-16(0.5+h)^2 \\ =16-16(0.25+h+h^2 )\\ =16-4-16h-16h^2\\ =12-16h-16h^2 . \]
Now, returning to our computation of the average velocity, we find that
\[AV_{[0.5,0.5+h]}=\dfrac{s(0.5+h)-s(0.5)}{(0.5+h)-0.5} \\ =\dfrac{(12-16h-16h^2 )-(16-16(0.5)^2 )}{0.5+h-0.5} \\ =\dfrac{12-16h-16h^2-12}{h} \\ =\dfrac{-16h-16h^2}{h} .\]
At this point, we note two things: first, the expression for average velocity clearly depends on \(h\), which it must, since as \(h\) changes the average velocity will change. Further, we note that since \(h\) can never equal zero, we may further simplify the most recent expression. Removing the common factor of \(h\) from the numerator and denominator, it follows that
\[A V _ { [ 0.5,0.5 + h ] } = - 16 - 16 h\]
Now, for any small positive or negative value of \(h\), we can compute the average velocity. For instance, to obtain the average velocity on \([0.5, 0.75]\), we let \(h=0.25\), and the average velocity is \(-16-16(0.25)=-20 ft/sec\). To get the average velocity on \([0.4, 0.5]\), we let \(h=-0.1\), which tells us the average velocity is \(-16-16(-0.1)=-14.4 ft/sec\). Moreover, we can even explore what happens to \(AV_{[0.5,0.5+h]}\) as \(h\) gets closer and closer to zero. As \(h\) approaches zero, \(-16h\) will also approach zero, and thus it appears that the instantaneous velocity of the ball at \(t=0.5\) should be \(-16 ft/sec\).
For the function given by \(s(t)=64-16(t-1)^2\) from Preview Activity 1.1.1, find the most simplified expression you can for the average velocity of the ball on the interval \([2, 2+h]\). Use your result to compute the average velocity on \([1.5, 2]\) and to estimate the instantaneous velocity at \(t=2\). Finally, compare your earlier work in Activity \(\PageIndex{1}\)
In this section, we encountered the following important ideas:
The average velocity on \([a, b]\) can be viewed geometrically as the slope of the line between the points \((a, s(a))\) and \((b, s(b))\) on the graph of \(y=s(t)\), as shown in Figure \(\PageIndex{2}\).
Figure \(\PageIndex{2}\): The graph of position function s together with the line through \((a, s(a))\) and \((b, s(b))\) whose slope is \(m=\dfrac{s(b)-s(a)}{b-a}\). The line’s slope is the average rate of change of \(s\) on the interval \([a, b]\).
Given a moving object whose position at time \(t\) is given by a function \(s\), the average velocity of the object on the time interval \([a, b]\) is given by \(AV_{[a,b]}=\dfrac{s(b)-s(a)}{b-a}\). Viewing the interval \([a, b]\) as having the form \([a, a+h]\), we equivalently compute average velocity by the formula \(AV_{[a,a+h]}=\dfrac{s(a+h)-s(a)}{h}\).
The instantaneous velocity of a moving object at a fixed time is estimated by considering average velocities on shorter and shorter time intervals that contain the instant of interest.
Matt Boelkins (Grand Valley State University), David Austin (Grand Valley State University), Steve Schlicker (Grand Valley State University)
3.2: The Derivative as a Function
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Fresh Water Leak Discovery Off Hawai’i Island Raises Hopes for Renewable Water Resource
November 25, 2020, 4:19 PM HST
* Updated November 25, 4:24 PM
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Deploying the surface-towed marine controlled-source electromagnetic (CSEM) system. PC: University of Hawai‘i.
The surface-towed marine controlled-source electromagnetic (CSEM) system in the ocean. PC: University of Hawai‘i.
University of Hawai‘i Research Affiliate Faculty Eric Attias at Wailupe Beach Park on O‘ahu. PC: University of Hawai‘i.
Illustration showing a multilayer conceptual model of the transport mechanism of fresh groundwater. PC: University of Hawai‘i.
Illustration of the surface-towed marine controlled-source electromagnetic (CSEM) system. PC: University of Hawai‘i.
A study by the University of Hawai‘i showed that twice as much fresh water is stored offshore of Hawai‘i Island – more than previously thought. The recent findings mapped by UH researchers with Hawai‘i EPSCoR ‘Ike Wai project revealed an extensive reservoir of fresh water within the submarine southern flank of the Hualālai aquifer.
Substantial volumes of fresh water are transported from onshore to offshore submarine aquifers along the coast of Hawai‘i Island. This mechanism may provide alternative renewable resources of fresh water to volcanic islands worldwide.
“Their evidence for separate fresh water lenses, stacked one above the other, near the Kona coast of Hawai‘i, profoundly improves the prospects for sustainable development on volcanic islands,” said UH Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) Dean Brian Taylor.
Through the use of marine controlled-source electromagnetic imaging, the study revealed the onshore-to-offshore movement of fresh water through a multilayer formation of basalts embedded between layers of ash and soil, diverging from previous groundwater models of this area. Conducted as a part of the National Science Foundation-supported ‘Ike Wai project, research affiliate faculty Eric Attias led the marine geophysics campaign.
“Our findings provide a paradigm shift from the conventional hydrologic conceptual models that have been vastly used by multiple studies and water organizations in Hawai‘i and other volcanic islands to calculate sustainable yields and aquifer storage for the past 30 years,” said Attias. “We hope that our discovery will enhance future hydrologic models, and consequently, the availability of clean fresh water in volcanic islands.”
Co-author Steven Constable, a professor of geophysics at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, who developed the controlled source electromagnetic system used in the project, said, “I have spent my entire career developing marine electromagnetic methods such as the one used here. It is really gratifying to see the equipment being used for such an impactful and important application. Electrical methods have long been used to study groundwater on land, and so it makes sense to extend the application offshore.”
Kerry Key, an associate professor at Columbia University who employs electromagnetic methods to image various oceanic Earth structures, who not involved in this study, said, “This new electromagnetic technique is a game-changing tool for cost-effective reconnaissance surveys to identify regions containing fresh water aquifers, prior to more expensive drilling efforts to directly sample the pore waters. It can also be used to map the lateral extent of any aquifers already identified in isolated boreholes.”
Two-times more water
Donald Thomas, a geochemist with the Hawai‘i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology in SOEST who also worked on the study, said the findings confirm two-times the presence of much larger quantities of stored groundwater than previously thought.
“Understanding this new mechanism for groundwater…is important to better manage groundwater resources in Hawai‘i,” said Thomas, who leads the Humuʻula Groundwater Research project, which found another large fresh water supply on Hawai‘i Island several years ago.
Offshore fresh water systems similar to those flanking the Hualālai aquifer are suggested to be present for the island of O‘ahu, where the electromagnetic imaging technique has not yet been applied, but, if demonstrated, could provide an overall new concept to manage fresh water resources.
The study proposes that this newly discovered transport mechanism may be the governing mechanism in other volcanic islands. With offshore reservoirs considered more resilient to climate change-driven droughts, volcanic islands worldwide can potentially consider these resources in their water management strategies.
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Plesiosaurs on the rocks: the terrestrial capabilities of four-flippered marine reptiles
Maurice Wilson's charming c. 1958 painting of plesiosaurs coming ashore, from the Daily Mail Boys Annual (note "boys": girls aren't allowed to be interested in prehistory. Get out of our tree house!). Such depictions were commonplace until a few decades ago, but are all but extinct now. So what's happened to the idea that plesiosaurs could venture onto land?
Until comparatively recently it was not uncommon to see depictions of plesiosaurians* on rocks and beaches as if they had hauled themselves from the sea like breeding sea turtles or basking pinnipeds. Such restorations have a long history. Some of the earliest marine reptile palaeoart shows plesiosaurians on beaches or very shallow water, and we've even seen land-based plesiosaurians in feature films and documentaries, including notable sequences in When Dinosaurs Roamed the Earth (1969) and Walking with Dinosaurs (1999, below).
*Why 'plesiosaurians' rather than 'plesiosaurs'? Though a common vernacular, the term 'plesiosaurs' is potentially confusing as it could either refer to a number of marine reptile clades (e.g. plesiosauroids, plesiosaurids) or body plans (plesiosauromorphs). 'Plesiosauria' has a less ambiguous meaning as it specifically refers to the clade encompassing rhomaleosaurids, pliosauroids and plesiosauroids, so it might be a preferable catch-all term this marine reptile clade.
Today, it's much rarer to see plesiosaurians depicted outside of the aquatic realm. For... reasons, I'm restoring a number of marine reptiles at the moment, so I've been wondering if it would be acceptable to revive artwork of these creatures on rocky shores, beaches and other coastlines, if only to bring some variation to my marine scenes. As usual, this inquiry began with a literature crawl. Because 19th century palaeoart suggests palaeontologists once imagined these animals as routinely emerging from the waves, I expected marine reptile papers to be full of discussion about the terrestrial prospects of plesiosaurians, perhaps with an in-depth analysis of the concept bringing an end to the artistic tradition of depicting them on land. The transition from imagining plesiosaurians as semi-aquatic to fully aquatic seems to have happened organically, however: if there's a watershed paper or significant debate behind this, I've missed it. Richard Ellis' 2003 book Sea Dragons - perhaps the closest thing we have to an all-encompassing introductory review of marine reptiles - seems to confirm my independent findings, portraying plesiosaur terrestrial abilities as highly doubtful, but also a question without a firm answer in scientific literature.
Jurassic plesiosaur Cryptocleidus sits around the coasts of the Oxford Clay Sea in 1999's Walking with Dinosaurs. Uploaded to Youtube by user MARTINEZZZ365.
The idea of plesiosaurians leaving water has been strongly tied to historic uncertainty about their reproductive habits. It stands to reason that, if plesiosaurians laid eggs, they must have somehow dragged their way out of the sea to construct their nests (Taylor 1981, 1986). The notion that plesiosaurians could have given birth to live young is pretty old (e.g. Seeley 1896) but scant evidence of their reproductive strategies prevented dismissal of land-based nesting habits until relatively recently. We now have evidence of live birth in plesiosaurian relatives (nothosauroids, Sander 1988; Renesto et al. 2003; Cheng et al. 2004) as well as a true plesiosaurian (a polycotylid, O'Keefe and Chiappe 2011), and so we needn't imagine plesiosaurians hauling out onto beaches to lay eggs, turtle-style.
But I'm going to keep pulling at this thread. While their capacity to give birth to live offspring eliminates the behavioural necessity for leaving water, it does not, in itself, demonstrate that plesiosaurian anatomy was functionally incapable of land-based locomotion, or that they did not leave the sea to find refuge or seize prey - orca style - from shorelines. After all, viviparity does not mean that seals, sea otters or even manatees have committed to a fully aquatic life (a voluntarily beached manatee deserves a citation - see Motani et al. 2015). Is there a cogent functional argument for why plesiosaurians might struggle out of water that will let me (and others) escape painting nothing but blue and green pictures?
How plesiosaurians might have moved on land
Our discussion will be aided by first outlining what we might realistically expect of a walking or crawling plesiosaurian. No one, for instance, predicts that plesiosaurians could stride around like sea lions or the plesiosaur in When Dinosaurs Roamed the Earth. Their flipper skeletons were essentially inflexible so they were incapable of being articulated into a walking limb. This precludes walking on their hands and feet in the way that eared seals can. They were also likely incapable of bouncing along in the manner of true seals, where the flexibility of the spine is used to 'hump' their way forward while powerful, gripping claws pull and steer them around. Plesiosaurian bodies were pretty rigid - their robust gastralia and ribs are sometimes superficially compared to turtle shells - and likely incapable of the twisting and bending necessary to bounce their way over shorelines. And in lacking claws, the only contribution their flippers could make to crawling would be crude pushing and lifting actions.
True seals, such as the grey seal (Halichoerus grypus), are far less terrestrially proficient than the eared seals (sea lions, fur seals etc.) and have to bounce or drag themselves around when ashore. Large claws on their flippers help in this activity (and are also useful for scratching). Grey seal cow photo by Georgia Witton-Maclean.
If plesiosaurians could leave the water at all, we have to imagine something more akin to turtle locomotion: using their flippers to push and pull themselves along while lying on their bellies. Their weight and a likely inability to clear their bodies entirely from the ground predicts that much of their energy would go into overcoming drag incurred by their wide bodies and tails. Terrestrial plesiosaurians would need to make full use of their powerful flipper downstroke muscles (soundly evidenced by the enormous muscles of their chest and the underside of their hips; see Carpenter et al. 2010; Araújo and Correia 2015) to lift their bodies and propel themselves forward. The exact motion of their flippers remains controversial, but is likely to have been a wingbeat-like action (Taylor 1986; Carpenter et al. 2010; Liu et al. 2015; Muscutt et al. 2017) that may have been enough to shove plesiosaurians over shorelines. The picture we're building here is of a slow and laborious means of locomotion. If plesiosaurians did intentionally leave water, they almost certainly visited locations inaccessible to terrestrial predators.
Polycotylid Dolichorhynchops bonneri demonstrating a fairly typical plesiosaurian torso and flipper construction. At face value, the retention of four limbs and stout limb girdles looks like terrestrial locomotion shouldn't be too hard for these guys - they certainly look more terrestrially capable than many other marine tetrapods. From Carpenter et al. (2010). Scale bar is 1 m.
I also think we should rule out raw body size as a compelling reason to doubt land-based locomotion in plesiosaurians. There's no reason to regard plesiosaurians as atypically heavy compared to other marine animals (Everhart 2000, Henderson 2006) and, indeed, their general lack of pachyostosic skeletons might make them lightweight compared to some other aquatic tetrapods (e.g. Street and O'Keefe 2010). Many species were probably within the mass ranges of living species known to transition between land and sea. The known maximum limit for this lifestyle is set by bull elephant seals which, according to Wikipedia, reach 3,000 - 4,000 kg. We don't have many plesiosaurian mass estimates to compare this figure to, but a few noteworthy values are Everhart's (2000) predicted mass of 2.8 tonnes for a 9 m long plesiosauroid, and Henderson's (2006) 217 kg 3 m Cryptocleidus. Truly giant plesiosaurians - 10 and 11 m long individuals - are beyond the masses of big elephant seals (Henderson 2006), but this still leaves plenty of small and mid-sized species at or below the mass threshold of marine species that we know can venture onto land, assuming they have the right adaptations. For me, our question is most appropriately addressed through assessment of anatomy and functional morphology, not a priori judgements about size.
Scrutinising the model
The bar we've set for plesiosaurian terrestrial locomotion is thus pretty low: even if they can only shamble up a beach we could consider our conditions met. But how feasible is even this laborious means of getting around on land? To cut to the chase: not very. There are multiple aspects of plesiosaurian anatomy that probably precluded even very basic terrestrial capabilities.
Plesiosaurian flippers, for instance, seem poorly suited for use on coastal substrates. Semi-aquatic species such as turtles, seals and terrestrially-roaming fish have a degree of jointing or articulation in their forelimbs which transforms them from flippers or paddles into walking limbs (Mazouchova et al. 2013, also see this post on the potentially amphibious ichthyosaur Cartorhynchus). A jointed limb performs considerably better on loose substrates (such as those common on beaches, mudflats and other shoreline locations) because it enables greater control of force distribution as animals move. Immobile flippers tend to skim over or dig into sand or mud, while jointed limbs can respond to yielding substrates to maximise lift and propulsive forces. Where substrates have already been disturbed, fixed-shape flippers can struggle to get any purchase at all (Mazouchova et al. 2013).
The evolution of the plesiosaurian flipper - represented here with early sauropterygians (A - B) and true plesiosaurians (C - D) involves the development of tightly fitting bones and removal of joint mobility. This makes for a superior flipper for an underwater flier, but compromises their terrestrial capacity. Image and caption from Storrs (1993).
Assuming these findings apply to plesiosaurians - and there's no reason they shouldn't - their effectively immobile flippers present a major barrier to terrestrial activity. Plesiosaurian flippers lack both obvious bony joints or significant cartilaginous regions that would allow them to flex, so they best fit those modelled flippers which skid around or dig into the substrates they're meant to traverse. We must consider that their flippers are married to animals that are already encumbered by large size and weight, as well as the additional difficulty of drag forces operating on their bodies as they moved forward. It is not hard not to imagine a beached plesiosaurian like a heavy vehicle stuck in sand, spinning its wheels as it tries to move forward.
The issues with plesiosaurian limbs do not stop there, as their limb girdles are also ill-equipped for supporting their weight on land. While augmented ventrally to accommodate big downstroke muscles, the upper regions of plesiosaurian shoulder and pelvic girdles are only weakly developed. This isn't unusual for aquatic species as a major role of expanded upper limb girdles - specifically the scapulae of the shoulder, and ilium in the hips - is stabilisation of the limb girdles during terrestrial locomotion (some readers may recall us discussing this recently in context of another marine reptile, Helveticosaurus). But while adequate for life at sea, on land these small girdle elements provide only weak girdle support and thus impede locomotion, and this was probably true for plesiosaurians. Though retaining a connection between the ilia and sacral vertebrae, the articulation is weak and ligamentous, and thus unsuited to weight-bearing (O'Keefe and Chiappe 2011). Similarly, their small scapulae leave little space for muscles associated with stabilising the shoulder against the body, and the shoulder is poorly braced for terrestrial locomotion (see Rieppel 1989 for discussion, also Araújo and Correia 2015). We thus have flippers ill-suited to land-based locomotion attached to limb girdles which are maladapted to weight-bearing. These are not the features of animals that were regularly hauling themselves onto shorelines.
Pelvis of Brancasaurus brancai in lateral (A) and medial (B) view, from Carpenter et al. (2010). Note the extremely narrow ilium: this structure articulates with the vertebrae overlying the hip to act as an important brace for the pelvic girdle during terrestrial locomotion, so its small size does not bode well for the prospects of plesiosaurs leaving water.
And there are further impacts from the reduction of the scapula to be explored. The muscles that elevate our heads and necks are anchored to our scapulae as well as our vertebrae, so the size of bones making up our shoulders dictates how large muscles important to neck elevation and control (e.g. the trapezius, levator scapulae) can be. Plesiosaurians famously have large necks and/or heads, but lack the weight-saving adaptations seen in similarly-proportioned land animals, such as pneumatic tissues and reduction or displacement of neck musculature towards the body (e.g. Taylor and Wedel 2013, also see this discussion of the lifestyle of Tanystropheus). Their necks and heads must have thus been heavy compared to those of large necked or big-headed terrestrial reptiles**, so we might expect substantial shoulder bones to anchor massive neck elevators if they were routinely leaving water. This casts their tiny scapulae as the exact opposite of what we might expect if these animals were routinely crawling around on land.
**To put some numbers on this, Henderson (2006), modelled plesiosaurian heads and necks with tissue densities of 1.05 g/l, about 1.5 times heavier than a value we assume for a bird or bird-like dinosaur.
The pectoral region and musculature of Rhomaleosaurus, modified from Araújo and Correia (2015). While the humerus is well muscled, the scapula is proportionally tiny compared to the chest, which has implications for shoulder stability and carriage of the head and neck.
Plesiosaurians could have developed an alternative approach to supporting the weight of their heads and necks out of water, such as bulking up the muscles surrounding their neck vertebrae. If so, we could predict structures equivalent to withers (elevated vertebral spines over the shoulders related to expanded neck musculature) in species with particularly large heads and necks. Such structures are not to be found plesiosaurians however, so I don't think this idea is compelling. This being so, it looks like neither the shoulders or anterior trunk vertebrae provide sufficient space for the powerful neck muscles needed to elevate their necks and heads on land for sustained periods. The impact of struggling to lift their heads for long intervals could include further impedance to their locomotion (additional drag, difficulty overcoming obstacles) as well as exposing their facial tissues to abrasion and other damage.
Ventral view of rhomaelosaurid Meyerasaurus victor, as figured by Smith and Vincent (2010). Note that the extensive bones of the chest, hips and gastric regions are entirely unfused: like many secondarily marine animals, plesiosaurian skeletons were likely far more cartilaginous than their terrestrial ancestors. Scale bar is 1 m.
A final, but no less significant, consideration for our inquiry is the high volume of cartilage associated with the plesiosaurian skeleton. A glut of unfused bones and loosely fitting contours between closely associated elements betrays a skeletal system held together primarily through extensive amounts of cartilage tissue. This includes areas of relevance to land-based locomotion, such as the shoulder and hip joints, the limb girdles and the region between the gastralia and ribs. In water, these softer connections wouldn't cause any issue, but on land the flexibility and softness of cartilage might weaken skeletal support and strength. The hypothesis outlined above posits that land-based plesiosaurians are essentially moving around with brute force, shoving their large masses around with motions of their flippers against large drag forces. Under this scenario, a relatively rigid and uncompromising skeletal frame would be ideal, whereas one with large volumes of cartilage would make movement less efficient.
What about small-bodied plesiosaurians?
Without any aspects of plesiosaurian anatomy looking incompatible with terrestrial activity, we might need to play a biomechanical get-out-of-jail-free card to prevent abandonment of this concept altogether: small body size. Inescapable rules of scaling mean that a given bauplan, expressed at smaller size, can perform biomechanical feats impossible for bigger individuals. Might small plesiosaurian species or juveniles exploit greater relative tissue strength ratios, lower body masses and improved muscle power:weight ratios to haul themselves onto land, leaving only larger plesiosaurians confined to water?
The pliosaurid Thalassiodracon hawkinsi is one of the smallest plesiosaurians known at c. 2 m long, and yet it bears all the same hallmarks of incompetent terrestrial abilities as its larger relatives. Are the virtues of small size enough to justify thinking animals of this size could leave the water? Photo from Wikipedia, by the paleobear, CC BY 2.0.
I must admit that I'm skeptical even here. Anatomically speaking, small plesiosaurians have the same terrestrially-inhibited anatomy as their larger relatives: inflexible flippers, high cartilage volumes, and low weight-bearing capabilities for the body, head and neck. Smaller size could make all the difference, but size alone is of ambiguous significance to predictions of extinct animal behaviour. It's clearly a factor in what fossil species could and couldn't do, but it should not overshadow better-established relationships between form and function when considering extinct animal lifestyles (see also: flight in giant pterosaurs). So while small size theoretically makes terrestrial locomotion more achievable for an aquatic animal, it's ultimately circumstantial evidence for this behaviour and not an especially compelling counterargument.
And as a final, closing thought on this, it's also worth considering that plesiosaurians were generally large-bodied creatures. Genuinely small species (such as the c. 2 m long Thalassiodracon hawkinsi) are rare and even their offspring were large (e.g. 1.5 m calf lengths in 4.7 m long mothers - O'Keefe and Chiappe 2011). Mesozoic shorelines were probably not swarming with small plesiosaurians even if they did have superior terrestrial capabilities, because by and large plesiosaurians weren't small creatures.
Bring on the blue paints
So, should palaeoartists get back to painting plesiosaurs out of water? Sadly, no. Any notion that plesiosaurians were capable of hauling themselves onto land is not only unnecessary in light of what we know of their reproductive biology, but also contradicts much of what we understand about the functional morphology of semi-aquatic animals. Their four-flipped construction looks a little more terrestrially-capable than the body of a whale or ichthyosaur, but I suspect an accidentally beached plesiosaurian would be in just as much trouble as these more classically-shaped marine forms. History shows that we can make beached plesiosaurians look half convincing in art, but it's a hollow victory: the science is not on our side.
I still find it odd that there isn't a more detailed discussion of plesiosaurian - or maybe broader sauropterygian - terrestrial capability in marine reptile literature. After all, many clades generally regarded as relatives or even ancestral to plesiosaurians are regarded as semi-aquatic (e.g. nothosaurs, Helveticosaurus) and there has to be an interesting story there regarding the progressive abandonment of land. Hopefully, studies along these lines will be performed before we're much older. But for the time being, I'll be restoring all my plesiosaurians in water, where they almost certainly belonged. I'll leave you with this painting of Pliosaurus kevani in their rightful habitat.
Pliosaurus kevani large and small, at home in the sea. Junior is particularly happy that it doesn't have to venture out onto land, probably because it's always freezing cold getting out of the water, and pliosaurids were surprisingly wimpy about that sort of thing. #palaeofact
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Led by the mockingly named One Shot Wade, the Problem Children are a mid-sized undercity gang. One of their main activities is organlegging, as well as salvaging and selling used cyberware (from corpses both fresh and long buried). As such, they have a close connection to a noted undercity chop shop, run by Doc Todd. The PC’s also run a taxi stand franchise, Prometheus Cab Co, which operates throughout much of the city as both a legit venture, and a screening service for prospective organ “donors.” The PC’s recently allied with their street gangs neighbors, the Mad Martians, against the more powerful Black Shadows. They are hemmed in on their other sides by uppercity struts and city boundaries. Wade and MM boss Yoleus eventually came to the conclusion that the only logical expansion was outwards, into new turf, instead of constantly fighting along their shared border. Alone, neither gang could stand up to the might and wealth of the BS, but together, they’ve had a fair number of successes, aided especially by certain shadowrunners known to operate in their circles. Wade recently avoided a grisly fate in a hospital ambush set by BS leader Long Pig, barely escaping with his life. Wade planned a major heist against BS’ money laundering chain in response, with the help of safe cracker and escape artist Ut-Napishtim. Having suceeded at this, they then raided the final BS redoubt, and a team of shadowrunners killed LP, as well as other members of the BS leadership, effectively dissolving the gang.
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More on the enigma of blindness and psychosis
A long-standing enigma in psychiatry has been why no-one has been able to find someone who has both congenital blindness and a diagnosis of schizophrenia. The newest and most comprehensive archive study to date has just been published on exactly this issue although it raises more questions than it answers.
Evelina Leivada and Cedric Boeckx from the University of Barcelona in Spain conducted an extensive medical literature search and did come up with some cases of congenital blindness and schizophrenia – 13 in total, although only two case studies (outlining a total of four cases) were found which were convincing enough to be unaffected by other serious problems, like severe genetic disorders.
And these remaining four were hardly straightforward and as one report was from 1943 and the other from 1967 where standards of both vision and psychiatric assessment were significantly short of modern standards.
Notably, all cases of co-occurrence were from blindness due to eye problems or where blindness happened relatively late (after 6 years of age). No cases were found were people had a diagnosis of schizophrenia and were congenitally cortically blind – where blindness was caused by problems with the brain’s visual system.
What this new study provides is weak evidence for the possibility of certain sorts of blindness coexisting with a diagnosis of schizophrenia and more comprehensive support for the curious finding that blindness seems to reduce the risk of developing psychosis.
It’s worth noting that what is really needed is a prospective epidemiological study of psychosis in blind people. However, researchers have been searching for congenitally blind people with psychosis since the issue of non-co-occurrence was first seriously raised in the 1980s and none have been found. Based on the rates of occurrence for each condition, the combination should be fairly common. This suggests that hypothesis of protective effects of congenital blindness needs to taken seriously.
The Leivada and Boeckx paper goes on to speculate about neuropsychological reasons why congenital blindness might protect against schizophrenia (essentially, changes in the interaction between key visual system components and the language system) and, somewhat less convincingly, genetic reasons – as just extrapolating likely genes from case studies is very speculative and both the eye and brain develop from the same cells during embryo development so it’s not clear shared genes won’t just reflect generally impaired neurodevelopment.
I have to say, I find the concept of schizophrenia to be a fairly useless, but if the increasingly plausible hypothesis that congenital blindness protects against psychosis is confirmed, it has interesting implications for those that argue that psychosis is nothing but the result of marginalisation, stigma or difficult life circumstances where biological explanations are irrelevant.
Blindness, clearly would increase your chances of all of these, and so on this theory, we would expect an increased rate of psychosis, but this doesn’t seem to be the case.
It’s not that marginalisation, stigma or difficult life circumstances aren’t causal factors in developing psychosis, they clearly are, but ignoring neuro-level explanations outside these effects is equally as narrow as suggesting that they are the only relevant influences.
Link to ‘Schizophrenia and cortical blindness’ in Frontiers.
Author vaughanbellPosted on November 15, 2014 November 15, 2014 Categories Integrating, Togetherness
10 thoughts on “More on the enigma of blindness and psychosis”
How likely would it be that researchers could find undiagnosed cases of schizophrenia? I’m just wondering if congenital blindness could in any way mask the condition or confuse physicians (especially 10 or 15 years ago) so it would remain undiagnosed.
Bill Cornelius says:
Blind people miss visual social cues. Maybe the record for sound is more durable than that for sight so sound can/could be more easily reviewed for verification. I understand one of the criteria for schizophrenia is the overlapping or confusion of sight-sound-smell. With less input, there’d be less chance of misinterpretation. How can a schizophrenics mental CPU speed be rated?
Elizabeth Reed says:
That’s not one of the criteria for schizophrenia…it sounds like you’re thinking of synesthesia.
Jason West says:
I think the claim was that sight reduces down unnecessary synapses, like is done as people enter into adulthood, and without sight more brain matter is retained. In schizophrenia too much is lost. I don’t think there is a CPU speed, if there was it might be related to dopamine levels. With schizophrenia and mania, thoughts can go too fast, get all jumbled up and meaningless (or overly meaningless and psychotic) and overlap each other often faster than the speed of vocalizing them. This is not productive like a fast CPU might be. If the CPU overheats and fails; that might be a better analogy. I’m bipolar, mania, true mania, is a very bad thing.
Derek Goldsmith says:
There is another explanation whereby emotion reading skills have been compromised by visual misinterpretation
of facial expression in the first months of life. Congenital blindness prevents this, a full explanation is given at
http://WWW.opendot.co.uk
nancylebovitz says:
I’ve seen a claim that at some some of what looks like mental problems are actually mental reactions to sensory problems.
Sorry, I can’t remember the book. If I remember correctly, it had a description of someone who seems to be paranoid but actually had a vision problem which made it seem as though stationary objects were coming at him.
Neurrito says:
A key to psychosis is abberant filtering of thalamocortical information. If this pathway is already misfunctioning in the case of someone with congenital blindness, then it follows that they probably couldn’t have overabundant activation of it as is thought to occur in psychosis.
Angel Jimenez says:
This lends credence to a theory I once had concerning the nature of schizophrenia. I have what I consider to be an uncanny ability to see faces in many textures. I was always able to see the “man in the moon,” but one night, while stoned, I spotted a face in a weird table we had that was made up of crushed shells embedded in plastic. I found dozens. The more I looked, the more I found. None then or to date were very human-looking–they were mostly impish. But what if a schizophrenic isn’t aware that his mind is picking up on these images. I propose having a clinician take an ordinary image and show the schizophrenic that, “hey, I can spot faces too and they never hurt me.” The pictures can be created with a mask that can be superimposed on them to better enable the viewing of the “faces.” I would call it a therapeutic Rorschach where the therapist sees things similar to those seen by the patient.
Iszie says:
…see no evil, manifest less evil?
see www. opendot.co.uk for how sight and the missing fear pheromone is the cause of the problem
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2 min readCracks Emerge in the Cloud
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Singapore — As individual computer users increasingly access the Internet from different smartphones, tablets and laptops, many are choosing to use online cloud services to store and synchronize their digital content.
Cloud storage allows consumers to retrieve their data from any location using any device and can provide critical backups in the case of hard disk failure. But while people are usually vigilant about enacting security measures on personal computers, they often neglect to consider how safe their files are in the cloud.
Now, findings from a team led by Jianying Zhou of the A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research in Singapore promise to improve the security of popular online services and better protect users by revealing hidden flaws associated with an important cloud storage feature — the ability to share files with friends, co-workers or the public.
Sharing content is an attractive way to let far-flung colleagues view and collaborate on projects without using email attachments, which often have strict file size limitations. Data sharing can be: public, with no access controls; private, in which the cloud service provider authenticates sharing through login controls; or ‘secret’ uniform resource locator (URL) sharing where people without an account on the cloud service can access data by following a specific web link.
The A*STAR-led researchers analyzed the security of three well-known cloud service providers — Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft SkyDrive — and found that all three had vulnerabilities many users might encounter. They uncovered several risks related to the sharing of secret URLs. Because URLs are saved in various network-based servers, browser histories and Internet bookmarks, frequent opportunities exist for third parties to access private data. Furthermore, the URL recipient may send the link to others without the data owner’s consent.
Another danger lies in the practice of URL shortening — reducing long web addresses to brief alphanumeric sequences for easier sharing on mobile devices. Although the original URL may point to a privately shared file, shortening changes this address into plain text unprotected by encryption. Zhou also notes that because short URLs have very limited lengths, they are susceptible to brute-force attacks that can dig out supposedly secret files.
Zhou explains that the root cause of cloud security problems lies in the need to balance usability with privacy protection. “Users should be careful when they share files in the cloud because no system is perfectly secure. The cloud industry, meanwhile, needs to constantly raise the bar against new attacks while keeping the service as functional as possible.”
Article adapted from an A*STAR news release.
Publication: Security Concerns in Popular Cloud Storage Services. Cheng-Kang Chu, Wen-Tao Zhu, Jin Han, Joseph K. Liu, Jia Xu, Jianying Zhou. IEEE Pervasive Computing (2013): http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6648580
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South Australia commits to apprentices and Skilling Australians Fund
Australia is now a step closer to meeting its skills needs with South Australia signing on to the Turnbull Government’s Skilling Australians Fund (SAF) National Partnership Agreement.
Assistant Minister for Vocational Education and Skills, Karen Andrews said the signing of the National Partnership Agreement with the South Australian Government signals the start of a joint commitment to provide thousands of new opportunities for Australians through apprenticeships and vocational education pathways.
The SAF will provide an estimated $1.5 billion to create up to 300,000 additional apprenticeships and traineeships.
Under the SAF, the South Australian Government will match federal investment to boost vocational education and training and grow apprenticeship numbers.
“Projects agreed between the Federal and State and Territory Governments will help arrest the decline in apprentices and trainees that began in 2012 under the previous Government,” Minister Andrews said.
In addition to the funds available through SAF, South Australia will collect a per capita share of the $50 million sign-on payment, which the Government announced in the May Budget.
“Skills shortages are a significant issue facing South Australia in a range of areas, but the Turnbull Government is committed to addressing this alongside the South Australian government,” Minister Andrews said.
“I’m working closely with South Australia to finalise projects to jointly fund that will ensure a growing number of apprentices and trainees in the coming months and years.”
Under this Agreement, states and territories will match funding for SAF projects and are required to maintain their skills funding. This will ensure states and territories do not withdraw funding from the VET system.
“The Turnbull Government stands ready to work collaboratively with all states and territories to build the number of Australian apprentices and trainees; their contribution to business and industry cannot be overstated.”
Supporting apprentices and Skilling Australians Fund in NSW
Australia’s embarking on a massive recruitment push for new apprentices, as New South Wales signs on to the Turnbull Government’s Skilling Australians Fund (SAF) National Partnership Agreement.
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ACT throws its support behind Skilling Australians Fund and apprentices
Apprentice numbers in the Australian Capital Territory are set to grow following the ACT Government signing the Turnbull Government’s Skilling Australians Fund (SAF) National Partnership Agreement.
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2013 Group Rating Annual Safety Training
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AMC's Debbi Morgan Clarifies Previous Tweets Stating: "Yea, We've Been Canceled!"
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This evening in a series of tweets, Daytime Emmy winner, Debbi Morgan (Angie Hubbard), who early on Saturday, took to Twitter to send a message to her loving fans that she is just a disappointed as they are of the status of season two of All My Children ending with “Thanks for the memories”, clarified further on Sunday when prompted by fans inquiries as to what she meant exactly since no official announcement came from Prospect Park on if the soap opera was definitely not coming back at this time.
Morgan was asked, Does this mean they finally gave u confirmation that it won’t be back? Not surprised, but why can’t they just tell us?” Debbi revealed, “Yes, my manager was given the news by PP’s lawyer…” And as to how everyone was doing involved with AMC, Debbi added, “Well, we’re all pretty much sad now for real since we’ve definitely been told that’s a wrap!”
Another of her twitter followers then asked, “So does this mean the web series got canceled? I haven’t read anything about it online. :(” To which Debbi responded, “Yea, we’ve been canceled.”
As you can see, once Morgan made the tweets, they spread like wild-fire being re-tweeted by many fans following the situation as to the status of All My Children, and those who thanked Morgan for clarifying and sharing their sadness about Pine Valley.
All My Children ran on ABC till September 2011, and then was revived online by Prospect Park when it debuted on April 29th of this year!
So, what do you think of Debbi Morgan’s responses/tweets that All My Children is not returning? Share your thoughts below!
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I think it’s very kind of her to be honest and let us know. She is a class act. She deserves to win an Emmy for her performance on the AMC reboot. I hope she gets it. I wish her all the best.
Thursday, November 7, 2013 @ 3:52 PM Robin Strasser on Possible End of AMC/OLTL: ‘‘Prospect Park Believed and Invested In Us and Deserve Respect For That!’’ When pressed for comment on any plans for a formal announcement on the future of either soap, a Prospect Park representative stated, “No announcement planned.” IF, PP is not ready to make an ”it’s over” announcement then they are still working on it, hopefully.. I feel PP dose not want to give up their dream and will silently keep trying until the last drop of sweat falls.. From past years and what we’ve all… Read more »
jimh(leave it to beaver)
Honestly, i wish you were right…i wasnt 100% into the revivals but OLTL was improving near the end…On the bright side at least we got to see them again even for a short time and we should all be thankful for that…
Prospect Park : guttless show business weasles!
jaybird369
Daisy…MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY!!!!! ABC are weasels, also. ABC REALLY stands for Arrogant Backstabbing Cowards. Inept Assholes!!!!!
What a bust. PP hurry get Hulu or Hulu Plus.. They should have let it die with ABC.
Think I kind of Knew it , but still was hoping it wasnt true. SAD for both my soaps. I still thank PP for trying to do SOMETHING to save them, but wish they would have told us! #AMC #OLTL
prospect park could have at least made a public announcement……………………smh
Very disappointing news………but I have to say, it wasn’t the same when it came back online. I tried to get in to it, but I just couldn’t. So it’s not that much of a surprise to me, I had a feeling.
I will certainly miss “my kids”….but I’ve gotten used to not seeing them. A large part of my life is missing now.
Said it from the beginning……….there was no way for Prospect Park to make any money. The core audience for soaps is not tech savvy and will not learn about computers to watch it online……
Well, it is Y&R for me. Hope to see more AMC actors start there. David needs to go to Y&R. David, Cara, and Oliver could all go to Y&R. I hope ABC daytime continues to fail. I hope all talk shows fail. It is time to let go and hope our favorite actors get added to an existing soap except for GH. I will never forget the fun I had watching AMC. Thanks, Agnes. Thanks for trying PP. It has been a long time coming but I have actually become interested in Y&R. I like watching shows online but some… Read more »
well, i’m sure to tell you, then, that GH is doing better than it has done in years and even the much-reviled The Chew has hit the 3-million mark (not saying i’m happy about this or understand it, but it’s true) for the first time. ABC daytime is in great shape and nowhere near failing.
We never should have let up on ABC/Disney, Soap Warriors!!!!! It’s time to step it up again!!!!!
moshane58
Not surprised, What makes me so damn mad they said they are involved in a lawsuit with ABC but they are making a series for ABC. You know they can’t shelved them and still pay ABC millions every year. So they have to be back in ABC’s hand. But we will hear all kinds of lies they are not. My hopes that Frank and Ron will do something with them. Michael hope you can gets some answers for us regarding Ron and Frank.
Liz Arnold
I’m too sad for words.
Diane Dunn
Ok, so my lighthearted post from yesterday sounds like I don’t care… but I really do. This stinks. Without knowing all the facts it is impossible to comment any further than – I am really sad to hear of this, sad to see our actors, crew, writers etc out of work again, and mad that PP didn’t clue us in on this at all.
I love Debbi Morgan but something about this just rings false…sorry it does…there has been NO MENTION of it from other people that includes OLTL people…and was it cancelled or shelved….which as i have stated before means two different things… personally i believe PP is just trying to get the lawsuit settled befpre making any rash decisions…and people wont even let them do that….the lack of support from fans is mindblowing…they brought them back…yeah it took a year but they did bring them back and showed more respect to the soap opera then ABC ever did…I really doubt they cancelled… Read more »
BTripp
What a let down. Everyone involved did everything they could to make these shows work and now they are gone again. More jobs lost again. Now I kinda wonder if Michael E Knight, Susan Lucci, and Alicia Minshew were smart not investing their time in the reboot because they saw the writing on the wall. Oh well it was fun while it lasted. RIP again AMC and OLTL.
This is RIDICULOUS!! Thanks PP for keeping our hopes up, only to crush them yet again!!!! I knew we couldn’t count on them to continue on!!!! Thanks for ruining the characters of Todd, Star & John as well on OLTL!! ABC & PP REALLY REALLY SUCK!!!! It’s amazing how NBC & CBS STAND BEHIND & SUPPORT their remaining soaps!!!!
I guess it´s time to put R.I.P. back on.
I just feel sad for the staff losing their jobs (AGAIN) and I feel sorry for the fans of both shows.
For the SECOND time PP screwed all those people over, they made them hope (TWICE) and took it all away….. Do the execs still have their jobs?
What a giant mess ABC and PP made of this entire thing. Very sad. I was enjoying the re-load. Now what about OLTL? Will that suffer the same fate? Too bad ABC could not just admit they made a huge mistake and bring them both back. Heartbreaking for millions of fans.
Wow I really do not understand
I hope oltl is cameing back
it is a great soap
Prospect Park are pathetic. Thanks Debbie for your honesty!
Llanviewer717
This is heartbreaking news. We have lost our beloved shows once again. I have loved OLTL since it first aired on TV and have truly enjoyed the online version of AMC. I’m sure there will be a great deal of anger directed at PP. Perhaps it is deserved. I don’t know. From my stand point, I am grateful they tried after the owners of the shows threw them away along with us fans. I have to thank everyone who tried to make this work. Thank you to PP and the casts and crews who worked so hard to keep out… Read more »
Mary SF
I get that PP had to inform all the actors and crew first, but in this day and age of social media it is unfortunate the news gets out before PP can give an official statement to the fans. After so many supported their attempt to bring these soaps back to life, there should have been a more respectful way of ending things–
So the idiots at pp sued Abc. This altered Gh storytellings. So are still holding a ridiculous lawsuit for a show they could not keep on the air for 6 months. Oh well my Abc will get back the rights.
It is beyond sad to lose AMC and OLTL once again. But I’m very grateful to PP for bringing them back, even though it appears not to have worked out for the long term. Without PP, we wouldn’t have seen either show again. And although at times the reboots were uneven, I thought the heart of both shows was there, and we got the chance to see some old “friends” again, and we also got to see some pretty good new talent. And, for me, the PP reboot of AMC in particular was so much better than the show had… Read more »
“The villians of this piece are the ABC execs.” Amen!!!!!!!!!! I have not and will not forget that fact. And I pray that millions of other fans remember that fact as well. I have not and will not knowingly support anything produced by or associated with the alphabet network or the mouse company. I know there are thousands of other people who do the work, “make it happen”, and I have nothing against any of them. But, their bosses caused this mess and I will have nothing to do with either company. I strongly hope other viewers take the same… Read more »
Barbara t loves One life to live
I feel the same way, PP tried they are the only ones that did, for that I am grateful, I will always blame Abc and I won’t have anything to do with the rat network again, Other then GH, I hope they have to have new Talk shows till the ends of time having to cancel every one of them, They had a wonderful afternoon line-up and because of greed they killed the best afternoon they will ever have, The Chew is so painfully stupid, Having to watch a minute at the end waiting for GH to come on makes… Read more »
B.J.
Thanks, boes… you’ve summed up my feelings so well.
I will so miss these shows, and I’m grateful for PP’s efforts to save them.
ABC is dead to me.
Not happy about it and I guess the same goes for OLTL..PP is such a disappointment.. They got our hopes up once more only to be shot down again.. I think our soaps weren’t in capable hands. I think PP didn’t know which end was up. I my opinion I think these two soaps would have done much better on another cable channel on the t.v. Not a happy camper about this at all!
Well, I’m not surprised to hear this news. We all can assume that OLTL has been cancelled as well. I feel that Prospect Park had no idea what they were doing. This is unfortunate for all the fans who fought so hard to get the shows back. They didn’t uphold the same level of integrity and quality of writing we’ve been used to when they were on ABC. I’m also upset that they made GH change the three OLTL characters to new characters and the shows aren’t even returning. I’ve gotten use to their new characters now. Well, maybe ABC… Read more »
This is one of the fastest crash and burns I’ve ever seen. The shows premiere at the end of April, get cut back in mid-May and go on hiatus in June. Those in charge were seasoned television executives who supposedly know how to plan and budget. The tell-all on this one will be a must-read. Who will get the exclusive?
JeffyJC
Has more to do with the fact that they were not getting the views needed to pay for the show. They thought they would get it, but they didn’t. I don’t know how many posts I have read with AMC/OLTL fans saying that they are not watching it, ans complaining about the show (just like they did when it was on ABC)
That’s my point. PP supposedly budgeted (and announced) 160 episodes per season per show. They actually produced around 40 of each. You need time to (re) build an audience. It’s obvious NOW that they were totally underfunded and should not have proceeded at this time. They over promised and under delivered.
The real heroes are the cast and crew who came back on the cheap to deliver for the fans. I salute them!
Sad that it was not able to continue. The thing with Hulu (and other websites) they know every IP address that goes to their site. They know how long you stay and how many times you watch a particular show. (What they don’t know is how many people from that IP address are watching) I watched episode 22 of both show last night. And when I went their it was all set up at episode 22, like it knew I watched episode 21 a few weeks ago. If it was getting the views that it needed to pay for the… Read more »
PP shouldve done revival movies of both soaps…at least 3 a year…then they couldve made money by renting out their studio/sets when not using them to other entertainment companies to use for commercials ect. AT LEAST THEY TRIED…LETS BE GRATEFUL FOR THAT!!!
Now can the OLTL characters come back to GH…plus GH should bring David Hayward( AMCs Vincent izzary?) to the series and make him a new love interest for Laura(if we get Genie back) then after Laura marries him he turns out to be a Cassidine no one knew existed!!!
Tony Polar
THANK you to Debbi Morgan who is the only one who stepped up to the Plate and gave us the said news that most certainly SHOULD have emanated from Prospect Park!
They should have kept to oltl characters on gh, that kept oltl alive. With katie canceled. Would to see both shows back on abc.
Prospect park are pathetic flakes. They are a bunch of clowns. Abc will never bring back amc and Oltl. Abc will never admit their mistake. debbi morgan at least, you were honest. we. All love you for your honesty.
I am hoping that PP can still make this happen and bring back OLTL and AMC. After we all thought it was over when OLTL went off the air, PP continously kept on trying to figure out how to get them on the net. And they did. Unfortunately, they bit off more than they could chew. They were trying to fit this daytime media into 4 days a week for a half hour. Then quickly changed to 2 days a week for 30 minutes. That’s like watching a nighttime program in one sitting. These shows were fighting an uphill battle… Read more »
What a huge mess. Yes, Mk, the biggest problem in this for me -aside from the multiple cancellations – is that the cross over characters. GH was just really starting to integrate some of the better characters and I have no doubt that a couple AMC characters would have found their way to Port Charles eventually too. I suppose that once PP officially cancels the shows and ABC and PP settle whatever their legal issues are (it always seemed to be much ado about absolutely nothing), that FrankenTodd could become Todd again and I’d prefer Starr over Kiki but if… Read more »
“this is a sad day, for now”
I personally didn’t enjoy the production quality or stories of the new online versions, and I quickly tuned out, because I wanted to remember these two great shows as they once were, not shells of their former selves. However, having said that, I’m sad for the people whose livelihoods have been adversely affected by all of this. All of the time and energy these writers and actors and production staff put out to try to resurrect these two great shows! Now, the Llanview 3 debacle seems so much more irritating because we could be enjoying our favorite ONE LIFE characters… Read more »
I could not be angrier at Prospect Park. They could have asked for fans’ support ot help them, or at least been honest with us and communicated. I absolutely loved the new All My Children. I was hoping OLTL would improve, a little too much aimed at the young 20s and teens watching, but I loyally viewed. I am crying now. Also, PP could have been more honest with everyone so that Starr ad gang would be on GH. I felt ABC was in the wrong, but this loses us 3 characters we loved. I’m sick, just sick about this.
I never really watched AMC, but I followed it in the press and occasionally tuned in. My show was OLTL. I was as sad for the faithful fans of AMC as I was for fellow-OLTL watchers when the shows were given the ax by ABC. Likewise, I was heartened when PP announced that, indeed, the shows were coming back via the internet. I overlooked many glitches because this was a bold experiment that no one else was willing to try and pull off. At times, it was painful to watch, but I loved my show and believed, that given time,… Read more »
The facts, and numbers speak for themselves. PP relaunch of AMC and OLTL and the reality is that numbers don’t lie. ABC role in the demise of the relaunch, or their attempts, efforts behind the scenes or in the “air waves of the twitter sphere, etc…..”will have to now be determined in a legal manner,that the fans have no friend of the court briefs. Get real people!!!!!The relaunch was a disaster! !If it aint on the page it aint on the stage!!!!!!Despite having the best people in daytime, the beginning shows spelled doom, for me. AMC had David Canary back… Read more »
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Beloved stars from All My Children, One Life to Live and General Hospital will reunite for ABC Daytime: Back on Broadway, a one-night-only streaming concert benefiting Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. The free streamed event can be viewed on the Broadway Cares website beginning at 8 pm Eastern on Thursday, February 11.
Additionally, the event can be seen on Broadway Cares’ YouTube Channel, ABC-owned television stations’ 32 connected TV apps on Amazon Fire TV, Android TV, Apple TV, Roku and each of the eight stations’ websites around the country, including abc7ny.com and Good Morning America’s Facebook page..
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The star-studded lineup will include performances by All My Children’s Bobbie Eakes, Melissa Claire Egan, Vincent Irizarry, Eva La Rue, Susan Lucci, Cameron Mathison, Eden Riegel, Chrishell Stause and Walt Willey, One Life to Live’s Kristen Alderson, BethAnn Fuenmayor, Kathy Brier, Kassie DePaiva, David Gregory, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Catherine Hickland, Mark Lawson, Hillary B. Smith, Jason Tam and Brittany Underwood; and General Hospital’s Bradford Anderson, Brandon Barash and Anthony Geary..
For the February 11 streaming special, viewers can expect to hear a bevy of Broadway classics and jazzy standards. The streaming event will be directed by John Dietrich, who also directed each of the live stage performances.
Dedicated fans also will have the opportunity for one-on-one virtual meet-and-greets with their favorite soap stars on Saturday, February 13. Further information on tickets and the lineup of special guests will be announced later this month.
From 2005-2011, the stars of ABC Daytime took the stage at New York City’s Town Hall one night each year for ABC Daytime Salutes Broadway Cares. The evening featured dynamic production numbers, heartfelt ballads and hilarious skits. Now, 10 years after that final performance, the iconic ABC Daytime actors revisit their performances as they help raise money for those impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
When the event began in 2005. it was for a one-night benefit concert to celebrate All My Children’s 35th Anniversary. With overwhelming support from fans, the event continued for six more years and included cast members from One Life to Live, General Hospital and co-hosts of The View. Over its seven-year run, ABC Daytime Salutes Broadway Cares raised an incredible $1.85 million.
“This event is truly one of a kind,” Broadway Cares Executive Director Tom Viola said. “We are so thankful to the stars from ABC Daytime for joining us again as we relive moments from this delightful tradition, while helping to provide lifesaving medication, healthy meals and emergency support to those struggling during this ongoing pandemic.”
“It was such an incredible privilege and joy to join my fellow co-stars to perform in the seven ABC Daytime Salutes concerts to benefit Broadway Cares/ Equity Fights AIDS,” said former All My Children star Susan Lucci. “There are no fans like ABC Daytime fans. Their love and support continue to astonish us. We can’t wait to share these special performances with them and help raise money for so many in need during this difficult time.”
Lucci also shared her excitement on her Instagram account expressing: “We’re getting the fans and cast back together!!! Join us on Thursday, February 11 at 8pm for “ABC Daytime: Back on Broadway”—a fabulous online event revisiting seven years of singing, dancing and plot twists, featuring your favorite ABC Daytime stars. And it’s all to help Broadway Cares support our friends and neighbors who are struggling during this pandemic. Watch the stream at
broadway-cares.org, to join the fun! I hope to see you there!”
So excited to hear about the ABC Daytime Back to Broadway event? Let us know in the comment section, and check out the announcement from The View’s Whoopi Goldberg below.
BREAKING! Queen of @theview @WhoopiGoldberg announces ABC Daytime: Back on #Broadway will stream on February 11. Theatre and Soap fans alike are sure to swoon over performances of Broadway hits and parodies by @Susan_Lucci and stars from AMC, OLTL, and GH. https://t.co/Nxa3X2oJcx
— Broadway Cares (@BCEFA) January 14, 2021
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During former All My Children, B&B and GH star, Jacob Young’s podcast, Real Conversations with Jacob Young, he welcomed his good friend and former Pine Valley cast mate, Eva LaRue (Ex-Maria, AMC, and Celeste, Y&R).
At the very top of the episode, LaRue revealed she and her daughter Kaya tested positive for Covid-19. She shared, “We thought we had dodged a bullet, but sure enough, on New Year’s Eve, we both tested positive.”
“Oddly enough,” she goes on to say, “I really feel like we’ve been so sick of being scared to death of the invisible monster underneath the bed all last year, always looking over our shoulders.” Eva added, “Nobody knows which one they are. Are they someone who’s going to survive it or succumb to it? Or have residual effects? All we can do is pray for the best.”
However, LaRue has been trying alternative methods of helping her with Covid-19 via IV treatments. “I’ve got this amazing integrative doctor who I’ve been working with for a long time, and I know a lot of people are like, ‘No, we only do Western medicine,’ and that’s fine, I love Western medicine… but integrated medicine and Western medicine have to go hand in hand, in my opinion. Because, I just feel like, we need to open our minds to what is new and what is out there.” So because of that, Eva has chosen to receive these treatments to hopefully starve off any long term effects of Covid.
In addition, Eva told Young she has hopes for the new primetime All My Children reboot that is in the works: “I have my fingers crossed that they’ll be doing something with this new Pine Valley show.” Remember, the Santos family and the Kanes are said to be the epicenter of the revival, so perhaps LaRue will be a guest-star on it, since she is also close friends with two of the EP’s, Kelly Ripa (Ex-Hayley, AMC) and Mark Consuelos (Ex-Mateo, AMC)!
Send your well-wishes to Eva and her daughter, Kaya and let us know would you love to see LaRue on the ‘Pine Valley’ primetime reboot? Comment below.
Huge news that could bring back a new updated version of daytime’s All My Children to primetime!
ABC is eyeing a revival of Agnes Nixon’s long-running beloved series that ran for 41 years on the network and then saw an online reboot from Prospect Park that lasted only one season.
According to Deadline, former AMC stars Kelly Ripa (Ex-Hayley) and Mark Consuelos (Ex-Mateo) will executive produce along with Andrew Stearn and Agnes Nixon’s son, Robert Nixon.
The series is currently in the early stages of development, but what has been revealed is: the reboot will be written/executive produced by Leo Richardson (Katy Keene, Star), and it will center on a young journalist with a secret agenda who comes to expose the dark and murderous history of a town named Pine Valley only to become entangled in a feud between the Kane and Santos families. The series explores all the secrets that come with the Kane and Santos family names.
In the new incarnation, Pine Valley, will feature a new generation of characters and some old favorites. As of this moment, no original cast members have deals, but the plan would be to have them make appearances, plus Ripa and Consuelos could also make a cameo. Of course, many are already pondering if Susan Lucci (Erica Kane) might actually be a mainstay on the new primetime series; since the Kanes are one of the core families in the reboot.
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Pine Valley plans to continue the original series’ tradition of tackling difficult social issues of our time and being inclusive, which the show was known for under the iconic Agnes Nixon’s storytelling.
Of note is that Stearn is also a lifelong fan of AMC and has been the driving force behind the reboot. In fact when he was deciding between ABC Signature and one other studio for an overall deal, he chose ABC Signature because it was going to allow him to pursue his dream of rebooting All My Children. It was then he started tracking down the rights to the soap. As soap fans know, the rights to AMC reverted back to ABC after Prospect Park’s online version fell apart.
Later, after meeting with a number of writers to helm Pine Valley, Stearn went with Richardson, who had worked on the British soap EastEnders in his native Britain. Stearn also got on board the estate of Agnes Nixon, with son Robert Nixon joining the project as an executive producer.
So what do you think of “Pine Valley”, the All My Children primetime reboot being in development? Share your thoughts via the comment section below.
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Suckling calf breeders are asking the Quebec government for help as pandemic decimates industry
Published Thursday, November 26, 2020 7:49AM EST Last Updated Thursday, November 26, 2020 7:50AM EST
Dairy cows are seen at a farm Friday, August 31, 2018 in Sainte-Marie-Madelaine Quebec. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz
MONTREAL -- Milk-fed calf farmers are asking for emergency help from the Quebec government after the COVID-19 crisis caused the closure of restaurants and markets and halted tourism and exports in the region.
The group representing the 117 milk-fed calf breeders in Quebec cites data provided by the government organization the Centre d'etudes sur les couts de production en agriculture (CECPA), the Financiere agricole du Quebec and the Union des producteurs agricoles (UPA).
The data suggest that the losses suffered by farms amount to 11 per cent per animal sold for the past seven months, while producers' margins are often around 1 per cent.
The losses has costs producers several thousand dollars per month.
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Therefore, farmers are asking for direct assistance of $121 per calf to get through the crisis because they say the income security programs in place do not meet the exceptional needs of businesses.
According to the Producteurs de bovins du Quebec, last year, 100 per cent of the 80,000 Canadian milk-fed calves were produced in Quebec.
A typical farm produces about 940 suckling calves per year.
The largest processing plant employs the equivalent of 550 people mainly dedicated to this meat.
The decrease in the production of milk-fed calves would push milk producers to find other outlets for their male dairy calves and for dairy by-products, according to Les Producteurs de bovins du Quebec.
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Kookies and Milk
(Disclaimer — I don’t like the word “kook.” I think it’s lame and archaic. But it fit as the blog’s headline. “Tweakers and Milk” doesn’t have the same ring. -P.Ho)
This past Saturday Darlene, her brother Warren and I went up to L.A. to hit some favorite haunts and while in Sherman Oaks we spotted a new cupcake place called “Puddin’ Out.” I confess I didn’t get the double entendré until today. Whatever. it takes more than a clever name to be a good cupcake shop, and this one wasn’t.
Oh. I get it…!
The shop was cramped and messy, typical of a mom & pop joint in a struggling strip mall. The selection of cupcakes was modest and I’m still not sure of the exact cake/frosting combos. Why? Because the twitchy dude behind the counter appeared to have been dividing his time between selling pastries and building a meth lab in the back.* I got a red velvet cupcake, Darlene a “Boston mumble mumble” cupcake (that’s how Twitchy identified it) and Warren got an “ice cream cupcake” which was just a hard muffin-shaped cookie cup with ice cream in it. None of us were particularly impressed with our choices. In fact, we’ll never visit again.
*Clearly I’m just kidding. But wow — all of us came away with the same hyperbolic scenario. So there you are.
Meh. I’ve had better.
Now, unlike Puddin’ Out, we had actually scheduled a visit to Milk in Hollywood. I’m glad we did. Milk is probably as close to a “dairy” as I’ll get (a “dairy,” to all you Western young’uns, is what “malt shops” in the Midwest were called 50 years ago). Besides ice cream concoctions, Milk offered soups, salads, sandwiches, coffee beverages and a variety of baked goods.
Love the logo.
It was typical L.A.: lots of hipsters paying 20% more than they should for food in a trendy joint. But to defend Milk, their ice cream was pretty damn good.
Counter culture.
Still digesting the cupcakes from earlier, Darlene and I showed rare restraint and split a trio of Milkies (mint chocolate, peanut butter & chocolate and white chocolate/strawberry bonbons) and an ice cream sandwich. The bonbons were good but the sandwich was exceptional. The meriques (the “sandwich” part) were surprisingly sweet and there were Scrabble tile-sized chunks of toffee embedded in the ice cream.
Milkies!
Mmm… texturey….
I’d like to visit Milk again, but with an empty stomach and a serious sweet tooth to conquer. Next on the list would be their grasshopper ice cream sandwich or banana butterscotch bars. And their cookies and brownies looked really good.
All the while I was there, I couldn’t help but to think of the grade-school rhyme, “Milk milk lemonade… around the corner fudge is made.” Indeed, around the corner of the front counter, they were making brownies and scones.
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Don't they have pudding too at that cupcake place? Jenn and I were curious about it, but now I guess we can skip it.
justJENN says:
Man, Paul, you had me til the poop reference.Next time call me when you come up, I want ice cream sandwiches too. YUM.
KleoPatra says:
i am laughing, still, in retrospect, after reading this. SO FUNNY! The tweaker/twitchy/meth lab stuff… oh, i know the types only too well. Hilarious.Too bad the cupcakes stunk at Puddin' Out. The premise sounded good… pudding in the middle of a cupcake would be dreamy!As for Milk, their grasshopper ice cream sandwich or banana butterscotch bars both sound super. Lookin' forward to when you're tryin' those babies out.i never'd heard that "milk, milk, lemonade" rhyme before… it cracked me up.Hope the other fave haunts you visited proved less "kooky."
marias23 says:
whoa, that looks yummy. i wish i were in LA!
you had me at "scrabble tile-sized chunks of toffee." that. sounds. amazing.
Bavarian Erin says:
I'm not yet convinced anyone in Hollywood actually eats that stuff. Surely all the stuff in the case is for display/torture purposes only, right?
LOL – your description of the guy behind the counter cracked me up.
You're making me salivate…I am convinced that there are few pleasures, if any, better than ice cream.Even though it's a cold winter day in London (there's snow in the north!), ice cream is all I can think about.
Our Man Horn says:
jodi — They had a bin of puddings at Puddin' Out, IIRC. If (and it's a big 'if') we go back, I'd try the pudding.justjenn — I'm all about the poop references. We'd love to hook up and explore quirky spots with you! Same goes if you come to town, too!kleopatra — Thanks!marias23 — 'Twas yummy… at Milk. We would've tried a lot more stuff but Puddin' Out was still in our stomachs.grace — The toffee pieces were embedded into the ice cream, so they were a total surprise!bavarian erin — Oh they eat it, but then they hit the "trendy even for LA" gym for 3-4 hours… or just get lipo. I think I was visibly drooling when I took photos of the display case.kristen — Thanks! I'm about 60% sure he wasn't a tweaker. But while waiting for us to complete our order, he was stripping copper wire out of some appliance power cords.Joke.sean — Yeah, for some reason folks in colder climes love themselves ice cream. New Hampshire and Maine had as many ice cream shops as 7-Elevens. Took a whole day to figure out what a "frappe" was, too (don't look at me that way — this was before Starbucks unveiled their Frappuccinos).
I'm off to LA…Why does LA have all these yummy places when no one eats there?
wow your pictures came out really good. what type of camera did you use?
Sharon–I'm thinking people eat out more in L.A.?? Immediately afterwards, they work out for two hours to work it off… I'm just guessing.Melinda–Thanks. The photo was taken with a Nikon D40x.
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Audu Maikori wins N10 million lawsuit against Kaduna government
The Chief Executive Officer of Chocolate City Audu Maikori on Friday June 5, won his lawsuit against the Kaduna state government over the violation of his human rights. The Chocolate City CEO had filed a N10 billion lawsuit against Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State and the state government in 2017, accusing them of violating his human rights following his arrest for his report on the purported killing of five College of Education students in Southern Kaduna. Maikori who later apologized for posting the false story which he said was relayed to him by his driver, was arrested and subsequently transferred to Force Headquarters in Abuja for interrogation following a petition was filed by the Kaduna State Government. He was eventually released on bail and cleared of any complicity by the Police Force headquarters. He was however rearrested and taken to Kaduna where he was detained for four days before being charged to court. Maikori was later granted bail by the court on health grounds. Following a fundamental human rights enforcement counter-lawsuit the record label boss filed, he has now been awarded damages of N10.5m by a three-man panel of the court who unanimously upheld the ruling of the Federal High Court holding the actions of the Kaduna State Government as unlawful and unconstitutional. Audu Maikori acknowledged the court judgement by retweeting some posts on his Twitter handle. The post Audu Maikori wins N10 million lawsuit against Kaduna government appeared first on Linda Ikeji Blog.
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After a first term of historic accomplishments, extraordinary challenges, Commissioner Jessica Vega Pederson hits ground running for second term
Commissioner Jessica Vega Pederson was sworn in Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021, for her second term representing Multnomah County’s Third District serving southeast Portland between SE Cesar Chavez Boulevard and SE 148th Avenue.
Commissioner Vega Pederson handily won re-election after serving four years on the Board of County Commissioners — a term punctuated by her focus on equity in environmental policies, transportation, and the historic and overwhelming passage of Preschool for All. During her first term, she also took on the challenges presented by pervasive and persistent community needs, including the COVID-19 pandemic and an ailing economy, wildfires, and national outcry for racial justice.
In light of those challenges, Commissioner Vega Pederson, a working mother of two and long-time east Portland resident, has continued to work with others to find solutions — including solutions rooted in community empowerment, particularly among Black, Indigenous and other communities of color.
“She is so skillful in understanding the depths of problems our community faces and particularly communities of color,” said Tony DeFalco, incoming executive director of Latino Network. “She is truly able to take that understanding and develop concrete solutions. She brings different stakeholders to the table and moves steadily towards action. And that’s even more challenging in this day and age, but she is able to continue to find pathways in getting to action.”
Since taking office in January 2017, Commissioner Vega Pederson — just the third Latina commissioner in Multnomah County’s 166-year history — hit the ground running on initiatives focused on equity.
In the hours after President Donald Trump announced the United States would withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement, the Multnomah County Board, led by Commissioner Vega Pederson, passed the “100% by 2050” resolution, committing the County to fully transition to 100 percent renewable electricity by 2035 and fully renewable energy by 2050.
Redlining policies that discriminated against people of color by pushing them into neighborhoods with more industrial emissions and major roadways with higher diesel pollution, as well as into parts of the County with fewer sidewalks and less frequent public transportation, led Commissioner Vega Pederson to champion an Environmental Justice Resolution in 2018. The resolution commits the County to improving environmental health for historically marginalized residents and includes meaningful engagement with affected communities.
Vega Pederson's body of work also includes social equity in infrastructure. She serves as the co-chair of the Earthquake Ready Burnside Bridge Project. She championed work through the Getting There Together Coalition, a close partnership with regional transportation partners to center social equity, climate and pedestrian safety.
“We were looking at prioritizing projects throughout the entire region,” said Washington County Commissioner Pam Treece, who co-chaired the Get Moving 2020 task force alongside Vega Pederson. “Commissioner Vega Pederson sought genuine collaboration among partners and never missed a meeting,” Treece said.
“And she did all of this while also working on Preschool for All. She has the ability to read people in the room; to understand where others are coming from and to be inclusive in the way she works with others. She is a bridge builder. She’s authentic. Plus, she’s just nice and fun.”
When a new, low-barrier shelter slated to open on Southeast Foster Road was met with concern by neighbors in late 2017, Commissioner Vega Pederson created a steering committee composed of neighborhood association representatives, social service advocates and business owners. The group forged a “Good Neighbor Agreement” that helped push past misconceptions about how shelters operate and affect neighborhoods, while establishing expectations and clear communication guidelines.
Neighbors who once raised questions eventually cheered the shelter’s opening and even volunteered, helping to prepare meals and welcome shelter guests.
Last fall, in the final year of her first term, Commissioner Vega Pederson celebrated an historic investment — eight years in the making — in the passage of Preschool for All.
“Multnomah County faces atrocious opportunity gaps for young people of color,” said Sadie Feibel, Latino Network’s deputy director of programs. “There’s very low access to affordable preschool, particularly preschool that is culturally responsive and affirming. There’s lack of affordability and lack of slots.”
Preschool for All, crafted in true partnership with Black and Brown communities will give 3- and 4-year-olds in Multnomah County access to tuition-free, high-quality, developmentally appropriate and culturally responsive preschools. It also invests in living wages for preschool teachers and assistants.
The model has garnered national headlines from publications such as the New York Times and USA Today as a potential model for a nationwide preschool expansion program.
“Passing the measure with all of the community-based policy development behind it is a true game changer for young children of color, providers and parents, particularly mothers,” said Feibel.
The coming year will focus on giving every child in Multnomah County that chance to thrive with implementation of Preschool for All; transportation funding, climate change, air quality, houselessness and behavioral health.
“And the even larger issues facing society,” said Vega Pederson at a virtual ceremony on Thursday, January 7 when she was sworn in by Circuit Court Judge Nan Waller. “Racism, income inequality, stimulus and assistance for small businesses and our struggling economy,” she said, work that must be accomplished with partners at the state and federal level.
Vega Pederson thanked her husband Aaron, and two children, her partners and staff who helped support and accomplish so many initiatives.
Vega Pederson thanked her husband Aaron, and two children, her partners and staff who helped support and accomplish so many initiatives. She also acknowledged the tremendous work lying ahead after pro-Trump supporters stormed the U.S Capitol during President-Elect Joe Biden’s electoral certification on Jan. 6.
“The riots in DC were an unprecedented armed insurrection — and totally predictable,” said Commissioner Jessica Vega Pederson. “They were the culmination of 4+ years of repugnant, racist, anti-democratic work of Trump and his enablers and mark a dark day in our history.
All of these events motivate me to keep doing more to create and shape a world where every person has an equal chance to thrive and where we don’t shy away from the big challenges that confront us around economic justice, racism, our climate crisis and strengthening our democracy.
We need to keep the lessons of 2020 at the forefront of our minds and use those lessons as our motivation this year and beyond.”
“We are benefiting from someone who is a problem solver, and deeply invested in listening and understanding the needs of the community and tireless in her work,” said DeFalco. “I’m excited to see her continue in her role on the County commission. For low-income people and people of color in the County, we need this kind of leadership more than ever.”
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By Mike / On January 18, 2012 / In Knowledge
It took a trip to Denmark for me to understand Occupy Wall Street. I was at the GOTO conference in Århus, talking to another attendee from the States about the protests, which were still quite new. I expressed the common concern that the protestors hadn’t defined a win condition. What was their deliverable? What did they hope to gain?
His answer resonated with something I believe Dr. King said about the purpose of passive resistance. It is a kind of meditation, a non-action that could only irritate someone who hates you, intended to bring that hatred to the light of day, to show the world as their hatred washes over you in waves.
The government, he assured me, will demonstrate the contempt it has for its citizens. How eerie that promise seems in hindsight, yet how empowering. It is with memories of batons and pepper spray fresh in our minds that we proffer the next empty protest, a vessel to be filled with hatred.
And fill it they have, as Wikipedia and other sites go dark today to protest the Anti-Internet bills before Congress. Everyone’s favorite new Twitter feature, Dick Costolo, jumped in early to further demonstrate his inability to communicate by calling the idea “foolish.”
Senator-cum-MPAA CEO Chris Dodd stepped up with some nice inflammatory rhetoric, accusing protestors of trying to “punish their users or turn them into their corporate pawns” with a protest that “is yet another gimmick, albeit a dangerous one, designed to punish elected and administration officials who are working diligently to protect American jobs from foreign criminals.”
How my heart bleeds for the hardworking men and women of power! When the people who actually do things for a living refuse to do those things because they don’t like the way you treat them, that’s communism isn’t it? If the world’s current and former communist countries are any example, I think we can say that’s the opposite of communism, which is what America is meant to be all about.
I finally got around to watching Ben Kingsley’s epic Ghandhi biopic on a flight back to the Netherlands from Australia, and I reflected on the common misconception that I’ve abandoned the United States, or am some kind of “anti-American socialist.” The truth is, it’s hard to see something when you’re standing on it.
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Thread starter Kirkhill
A good news story that speaks partly to what we are talking about http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/teen-first-nation-drinking-water-1.3563110
Good on the youngster. I hope they can figure out how to maintain a dozen just like him. As we've noted before, the issue is not just one of supplying the plant but of finding the people to operate and maintain it. And allowing people to take pride in their efforts.
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And ensuring the pool of such keeners grows to avoid having only a few keeners getting so good that they get poached away to bigger, higher-paying jobs without leaving keen replacements behind.
WRT an airbridge to the high arctic, there might be some opportunity for a cost sharing arrangement. There are plenty of bush pilots still operating around the sort with everything from surplus C-130's retired from the USAF to DC-3's and smaller aircraft.
If the Canadian Government were to supply the airframes and a bit of basic infrastructure in the north for private operators in return for these carriers being "on call" for government work, we could have a standardized fleet of aircraft and pool of trained operators ready to go at short notice. While it might be nice to spring for dozens of C-130's, those aircraft might not be economical for private operators (mostly because it is probably difficult to fill the cargo hold with paying freight for a plane that size). Some of the smaller transport planes that vendors have been flogging for the FWSAR would probably be the 80% solution.
jollyjacktar
I'll throw it here as it's a winter use vehicle adaptation. On display at the Polaris booth at CANSEC was this motorcycle called a Timbersled. I can see this being the wet dream of all sorts of soldiers.
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Plus the Russian battle buggies!
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/21206/russian-commandos-debut-arctic-combat-buggy-that-looks-right-out-of-fast-and-furious
Looks kind of fun
Oddly, I was on the same website, but came across a different vehicle. The Standard 8X8 chassis was developed as a private venture to build a family of high mobility cross country vehicles. One of the first demonstrated was a vehicle carrying a 20mm Vulcan cannon for SHORAD (the same cannon carried by the M-163), but the concept was expanded to include proposals for transport trucks, artillery prime movers and so on.
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/21002/excalibur-was-a-vulcan-gatling-gun-wielding-air-defense-vehicle-straight-out-of-g-i-joe
With wider diameter tires (or even very enlarged "Rollagon" type wheels) it probably would make for a cheaper MTV, and as a "Family of vehicles" would provide that logistical commonality and economy of scale when buying and using them.
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Thucydides said:
Further to your posting,for your perusal and comment.
https://www.thinkdefence.co.uk/supacat-terrain-mobility-platform-atmp/
https://www.thinkdefence.co.uk/multidrive-vehicles/
https://www.thinkdefence.co.uk/esarco-vehicles/
Horse's mouth: ;D
https://supacat.com/products/
Army.ca Myth
One of the best all terrain vehicles I've seen in action in the arctic is the Leopard tank, which the Germans designed to go all the way to Moscow in case of 'Eastern Front II'.
The CB-90 is supposed to be quite good in snow as well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR37pYAA0HY
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The [US] Army is looking for a new all-around vehicle that can swim, climb and charge through snow
By: Todd South 17 hours ago
BAE Systems is one company vying to replace the more than 40-year-old tracked, Small Unit Support Vehicle for the Army, Marines and National Guard. They're offering the modernized BvS10, which comes in armored and unarmored versions. (BAE Systems)
After more than 40 years of service, the robust little all-terrain vehicle that can climb mountains, ford rivers and churn through snow needs replacing.
And the Army, Marines and National Guard are asking industry to give them a new ride.
Back in June, Army Contracting Command officials put out a Request for Information for industry to share what they think can replace the Small Unit Support Vehicle, a tracked vehicle that’s been in service since the mid-1970s.
At one point, there were 1,100 of them in the U.S. military inventory. Now, only a few dozen remain, mostly in service in cold weather areas such as U.S. Army Alaska.
The new program to replace the SUSV has been dubbed the “Joint All Weather All Terrain Support Vehicle," or JAASV.
https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2018/08/30/the-army-is-looking-for-a-new-all-around-vehicle-that-can-swim-climb-and-charge-through-snow/
LoboCanada
Just licence out 500 to someone in Canada for extra $, its not like you can't use these everywhere.
What ever happened to this project? Not supposed to even start til 2020/2021 but I read of different tests and experiments of Light Over Snow Vehicles?
Single source contracts appear to be the only way we get decent equipment, just saying.
We used these a lot in Norway in the winter, and they are awesome. :nod:
No doubt we are going to attempt to recreate Bobcat 2.0
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Colin P said:
What's wrong with that? The original Bobcat did go into production . . . of a sort.
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Reviving an old thread, based on an interesting article from Strategypage:
Sea Transportation: Saving The Sevmorput
The world’s only nuclear-powered non-military ships are operated by Russia These include five nuclear powered icebreakers and one cargo ship, the Sevmorput While Russia is building five new nuclear icebreakers, the first one completed has run int
While a nuclear powered, semi icebreaker LASH (Lighters Aboard Ship) might be a bit much, given the extreme conditions that it is ment to operate under, the Sevmorput is perhaps the most reasonable solution possible for the arctic. Certainly Canada is now moving towards developing small, modular nuclear powerplants, so we could indeed go that way if desired, but even without nuclear power, this type of ship seems ideal to provide logistics support to the far North for most of the year. The use of on board lighters allows you to send supplies even into shallow waters, and the Sevmorput also has several on board cranes so it can transfer cargo containers and other supplies and equipment to a dock as well.
One thing that "we" collectively don't have a real handle on is how to support large scale operations in the arctic. Thinking about ships like this could be one way to extend our reach.
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Desgagnés runs with embarked barges (can't remember if any are powered) and tugs for Northern resupply.
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Kings’ DeMarcus Cousins fined $25,000 for throwing mouthpiece
By Kurt HelinOct 31, 2016, 6:25 PM EDT
If you bet the under on “will DeMarcus Cousins get fined by the league within the first week of the regular season,” got to the window and collect your winnings.
Saturday night beat Minnesota in a close game at home, but not before Cousins fouled out on a charge/block call with :37 seconds left in a three-point game. He was livid with the call, walked about a dozen rows up into the stands, and threw his mouthpiece to the ground in frustration.
For that, Cousins was fined $25,000, the league announced Monday.
That’s the going rate for a thrown mouthpiece (it’s what Stephen Curry got in the NBA Finals).
Cousins also was assessed a technical foul for the incident, giving him two techs on the season. In the first week of games.
All that said, the Kings are 2-1 and Cousins and new coach Dave Joerger are getting along well. Plus the new building in Sacramento is great, so all is right with the world for all DeMarcus cares.
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The Media Tourist
A spin through the latest movies on the road of pop culture!
By Neil Pond Movie Reviews
A Bumpy Road
Idiotic Ice Cube buddy comedy covers well-worn movie terrain
Starring Ice Cube and Kevin Hart
Directed by Tim Story
PG-13, 100 min.
Ah, the buddy-cop action comedy—where would Hollywood be without it?
Well, we’d certainly be without this idiotic pair-up and its many better predecessors, from Beverly Hills Cop to Men in Black.
After all the “prestige” pictures, the heavy lifters, of any previous year are on their hopeful way to awards-ville, January is when Hollywood takes a load off and lets the dogs out, returning to a menu of table scraps and leftovers after the gut-busting big-screen excesses of the Thanksgiving-to-Christmas holiday season.
Ride Along stars rapper-turned-actor Ice Cube as a gruff, tough Atlanta cop trying to derail the engagement of his sister (Tika Sumpter) to a high school security guard (Kevin Hart) whose ambition is to become a real policeman.
So James (Cube) invites Ben (Hart) to “ride along” with him on a typical day to prove he’s got the chops to be a cop—and to become his brother in law. Wouldn’t you just know they encounter all sorts of hilarity…and manage to crack the case of an underworld criminal warlord that James has been pursuing for years?
If it sounds like you’ve seen it all before, you have. The script, a group collaboration that feels like a sampler platter of mismatched-partner ideas, checks off just about every cop-movie cliché in the book, walks into one predictable situation after another, and grabs for every low-hanging joke-fruit that comes within reach.
Everybody makes a crack about Ben’s diminutive size (“He’s about a chromosome away from being a midget,” grumbles James). There are “comedic interludes” outside a biker bar, inside a strip club and at a shooting range. The big, explosive showdown-shootout happens—where else?—in an abandoned warehouse.
Hart’s a funny guy, although I can certainly see how his high-pitched, screechy, hyperactive, slapstick-y, infantile shtick might not be some people’s cup of tea. He’s clearly the star of the show, although Ice Cube might get the bigger billing.
Director Tim Story, who directed two Fantastic Four movies plus the comedies Barbershop and Think Like a Man, fares much better here with the humor than the action, which is clumsy and clunky in contrast to the film’s easier, more natural riffs and rhythms when Cube and Hart are playing off each other.
None of the people who hooted and howled at the screening I attended appeared to be the least bit troubled that Ride Along, its high-spirited ha-ha’s punctuated with gunfire and bullets, was released as the nation was absorbing news of the latest school shootings, in Roswell, N.M., and Philadelphia, Pa., and just a couple of weeks after one movie patron pulled out a gun and killed another in Tampa, Fla.
Laughter, it’s been said, can be a healing force. There’s nothing as lofty, or as noble, as healing in Ride Along—just a quick roll in a barrel of cheap, hollow laughs down a familiar, forgettable road that we’ve traveled many times before.
—Neil Pond, American Profile Magazine
Tagged buddy comedy, cop movie, Ice Cube, Kevin Hart, neil pond, Ride Along, Tika Sumpter, Tim Story
2 thoughts on “A Bumpy Road”
Thaddeus Wert says:
Every time I saw the trailer on TV, it was incoherent and incomprehensible.
Neil Pond says:
Thad, it didn’t get much more coherent or comprehensible up on the big screen.
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We are ready to send 500 Bodo youths to fight against Pakistan: Hagrama
Mohilary announced an ex gratia of Rs five lakh to the family of Moneswar Basumatary, CRPF jawan who was killed in action during terror attack in J&K
by ANUP SHARMA
GUWAHATI , February 25, 2019 1:08 pm
Image: Northeast Now
Insurgent-turned-politician Hagrama Mohilary has offered to send 500 Bodo youths to counter the situation that followed in Jammu & Kashmir, particularly after the Wednesday’s terror attack by Jaish-e-Mohammed that left 44 CRPF jawans killed and over a dozen injured.
Also read: Assam CM announces Rs 20 lakh for martyr Moneswar Basumatary’s family
Mohilary, who heads the Sixth Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) under the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution, said this while interacting with media persons at Kalgaon village under Tamulpur in Baksa district.
Mohilary was visiting the house of Moneswar Basumatary, the CRPF jawan who was killed in action during the Jaish-e-Mohammed’s terror attack on a CRPF convoy at Pulwama in Jammu and Kashmir.
“We are ready to send 500 Bodo youths to Jammu & Kashmir to face the situation created by the terror attack of Jaish-e-Mohammed. If the Central government allows this, we will send them. The salary of these youths will also be paid by the BTC administration,” said Mohilary.
It may be mentioned here that Mohilary had led the Bodo Liberation Tigers (BLT), the dreaded armed outfit who fought for an independent Bodoland. In 2003, the then Central Government signed Bodo Accord with the BLT and a territorial council was created granting autonomy under the Sixth Schedule for development of the areas under the council.
Mohilary also announced an ex gratia of Rs five lakh to the family of Moneswar Basumatary.
Earlier, Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal announced an ex gratia of Rs 20 lakh to the family of Basumatary.
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Banditry: Arewa Group drums support for Army’s Operation Sahel Sanity
…. Expresses confidence in COAS Buratai’s decisive leadership
The Arewa Youth Security Network (AYSN) has called on Nigerians to support the Nigerian Army’s recently launched Operation Sahel Sanity, labelling it as a success already.
In a statement signed by Secretary-Gerneral, Comrade JImoh Jibrin, on Tuesday, the Northern group also expressed confidence in the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai for the initiative which neutralized over 100 bandits within seven days.
As part of efforts to end banditary and other crimes in Katsina, Kaduna, Zamfara, Sokoto and Niger States, Lt. Gen. Buratai flagged off the latest military operation last week in Faskari, Katsina State.
Addressing troops at Special Army Super Camp IV in Faskari, Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Gen. Abayomi Olonisakin, on Monday, commended the exercise, optimistic that “banditry would soon be a thing of the past”.
And according to AYSN, like in terrorism, the armed forces have again stepped up to this challenge with aplomb.
While commending the military for their sacrifices and proactive, the Arewa group called on Nigerians, especially leaders of thought, political leaders and religious institutions and the local communities to join hands with the army to tackle this menace.
On their part, the group, however, urged the troops not to relent in their efforts especially now that they are recording tremendous progress against the bandits.
It is with great pleasure that we at the AYSN welcome the recently launched operation Sahel Sanity by the Chief of Army Staff. It is indeed a welcome development that has started yielding positive fruits.
The idea behind operation Sahel Sanity is to rid the North West zone of banditry, cattle rustling and other forms of criminality bedevilling that region. In the short time this operation was launched part of the successes recorded is the rescue of several kidnap victims, neutralization of some armed bandits, recovery of arms and ammunitions plus recovery of over 700 cattle and hundreds of sheep.
This success may look somewhat insignificant to those of us living in the cities like Abuja and Lagos, however to those on ground in the local communities, who have had their kidnapped relatives returned and their stolen cattle returned to them. Locals who now have confidence to return to their farms this is quite significant to them.
For a better appreciation of what the military is dealing with here, it is important that we quickly visit the genesis of this problem. The effect of climate change on the world is not only environmental but also economical. What we are witnessing now are the effects of climate change on the world that scientist predicted and warned about several years ago but unfortunately it appeared the world did not really heed the advice.
Due to climate change desert encroachment has continued to increase especially up north in the Sahel region. The contention for land between Pastoralist and farmers has become more intense as fertile land continues to decrease due to desertification. Nigeria has had its fair share of conflicts between farmers and pastoralist.
Unfortunately the conflict between farmers and herders kept getting more complicated due to several factors amongst them, greater human use of land for non-agricultural purposes, consistent shift in human and livestock population.
In the last decade since the war against Boko Haram started in the north east, there has been an international dimension to the once purely rural communal clashes amongst pastoralist and farmers. Since the military in the last 5 years started making profound progress against Boko Haram/ISWAP. Many of the fighters have fled to other parts of the country especially the north western part of the country.
What started at first as cattle rustling, quickly graduated to full time banditry, kidnappings and other forms of criminality. As the army was making progress in the north east. Many of the terrorists fled with heavy weapons and ammunitions to join their fellow in the forest of the North West, from there on. It wasn’t the same communal conflict anymore.
It is important we understand this background in order to appreciate the enormity of the task and how well our military has done.
Most of these problems are mainly socio economic problems that, had they been properly managed by previous governments and policy makers , we would not require military intervention today. Unfortunately as it is now, seems all is now left for the military to clear the mess.
As it was with the Boko Haram issue, our great men and women of the Nigerian armed forces have stepped up again to this challenge. They have now made the eradication of banditry and all sorts of criminality in the North West a task that must be done.
Whilst we commend the military for their sacrifices and proactive effort in setting up the operation Sahel sanity, it is important to call on all Nigerians, especially leaders of thought, political leaders and religious institutions to join hands with the Nigerian army to tackle this menace once and for all.
It is time the people of the north irrespective of political or religious affiliations to come together and give full support to the army to tackle this issue finally. The army needs the support of the communities to share information of activities of bandits in their localities. The military requires support of the communities in exposing those shielding and supporting the activities of these criminals.
Without the support of the local communities it will be a herculean task to win the battle against these criminal. Let us in the north now rally round the army and support them to execute the order of President Muhammadu Buhari to end banditry and all forms of criminality in the North West zone within a matter of days. All hands must now be on deck to make this task achievable within the envisaged time limit.
We not unaware that some enemies of the President who are envious of his laudable achievements in many sectors in the country are unhappy and may want to continue to sponsor terrorist and criminals to destabilize the region , hoping to dent the image of our President. Our consolation is in the fact that we know that Nigerians are wiser and can see through their evil machinations.
We call on the army not to relent in their efforts especially now that they are recording tremendous progress against the bandits. We want to use this opportunity to commend the Chief of Army Staff Lt Gen TY Buratai for the great initiative of setting up super camps. It is a noble concept that has yielded great results including the neutralizing of over 100 bandits in the North West within the first few weeks of set up.
From this we can see that the military is fully ready and united in the fight against banditry in the North West. It is time for all citizens of the region to come together and support the efforts of the military so that life can return to normal in this areas because without security of lives and property we cannot be talking about any We call on the army not to relent in their efforts especially now that they are recording tremendous progress against the bandits of progress or development.
God Bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
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Sudbury's MR55 reopened following crash that killed a pedestrian Friday morning
Chelsea Papineau CTV Northern Ontario Digital Content Specialist
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Published Friday, November 27, 2020 7:46AM EST Last Updated Friday, November 27, 2020 10:08AM EST
SUDBURY -- Sudbury police say a 38-year-old man has been killed in a crash involving a pickup truck on MR55 early Friday morning.
"Just before 3:45 a.m. this morning, Friday, Nov. 27, we received a call regarding a serious motor vehicle collision on MR55 approximately half way between Balsam Street and Big Nickel Road in Copper Cliff," Greater Sudbury Police Service said in a news release.
The crash involved a pedestrian and a pickup truck.
"The 38-year-old man (pedestrian) involved in the collision was pronounced deceased on scene," said police. "The man’s name will not be released out of respect for his family’s wishes."
No details have been given about the cause of the crash or if any charges are pending.
"Our traffic management unit is conducting an investigation into the collision and the investigation is ongoing," police said.
Anyone with information about the crash is asked to call police at 705-675-9171 or submit anonymously through Crime Stoppers at 705-222-TIPS or online.
There was a second fatal crash on Highway 17 in McKerrow, just one kilometre west of the Highway 6 junction. Read more on that story here.
Police, Fire and EMS are attending to a serious MVC involving serious personal injury on MR55. The W/B lanes are currently closed to all traffic. Additionally, the E/B direction has been reduced to one lane. Please avoid the area. ^smy
— Sudbury Police (@SudburyPolice) November 27, 2020
A male pedestrian was killed in a crash on MR55 in Sudbury on Friday morning. Nov. 27/20 (Jaime McKee/CTV Northern Ontario)
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Palace keen on Yedlin
Date: 8th August 2019 at 4:30pm
Crystal Palace could make a last ditch effort to snap up Newcastle United full-back DeAndre Yedlin, according to the Chronicle (14.16).
The Magpies need to offload players before the transfer window shuts at 5pm, or face the risk of leaving first team talents out of their 25 man Premier League squad.
And the local outlet has suggested that £30,000-a-week [Spotrac] Yedlin is attracting interest from the Eagles.
To be fair, this one makes a lot of sense. The Toon Army have wrapped up a deal for Swedish defender Emil Krafth, as confirmed by the club themselves, and that would leave them with three right-backs, including Javier Manquillo. As a result, it would be a smart idea to move one on, especially with that 25 man squad limit looming over them. Yedlin is a decent enough player, but chances are he wouldn’t be missed too greatly. The American averaged a pass completion rate of just 71.9% last season, as per Whoscored, as well as just 0.3 successful dribbles per match. For an attack-minded wing-back with the pace he possesses, those stats are disappointing to say the least, and if they can move him on, bring in a tidy little fee, and ease their personnel worries, then it can only be a positive thing.
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Echoes of the Getaway
Echoes of the Getaway Behind the dark shadows of the Valley
Author Name: Ravindra Prabhat | Format: Paperback | Genre : Literature & Fiction | Other Details
Title: Echoes of the Getaway
Product ID: 161548-1339232-NA-NED-T0-ESTH-REG-IND-DIY
The Popular Hindi novel “Kashmir 370 Km”. Written by famous Indian novelist Ravindra Prabhat & Translated in English by Gautam Roy, which tells the story of Kashmir's social fabric collapsing over time. It also explores the shameful and frightening historical aspects of Kashmir. Tale of elopement of a Kashmiri pundit family from Kashmir and with this entwined the sub plots of deterioration and disintegration of social fabric of Kashmiri society with time, insights of golden and dark chapters of ancient and contemporary political, social and cultural history of the valley, terrorism, conspiracies and evil designs of a foreign state to destabilize the whole region, sufferings of the common citizens and greed for power and money of the unscrupulous, corrupt leaders combinedly form a powerful narrative of the novel titled “Echoes of the Getaway”.
Ravindra Prabhat
Ravindra Prabhat is a Hindi novelist, journalist, poet, and short story writer from India. He has worked as an editor and screen play writer. He was born in the village of Mahindwara, Sitamarhi, India. He raised and received primary education there. He obtained higher education in geography honours from B. R. Ambedkar Bihar University in Muzaffarpur, he later studied Master of Journalism and Mass Communication (MJMC) from the Uttar Pradesh Rajarshi Tandon Open University, Allahabad. Some of his works have been translated into other languages and published in various literary magazines and anthologies. He has been writing since 1987 in various subjects. He is also chief editor of Parikalpana Samay (Hindi Monthly Magazine). He is a realistic poet, often writing about social topics and human suffering. His work often touches on human suffering and social issues. He has written and edited works on Hindi blogging, and has also published his writing in the form of a blog. He started blogging in 2007, and has published fiction as well as reviews of other blogs. He is a founding member of the Parikalpna Award, a blog literary award in India. It is presented by the magazine Parikalpana Samay and the Non-governmental organization Parikalpnaa. The first Parikalpna Award was presented on 30 April 2011.
Books Published-
(1) Ham Safar (1991) (his first Geet-Gazal collection in Hindi)
(2) Mat Rona Ramjani Chacha ( Gazal collection in Hindi,1999)
(3) Smriti Shesh (Poetry collection in Hindi, 2002)
(4) Taki Bacha Rahe Loktantra(2011) ISBN 9788191038583 (Fiction, Hindi)
(5) Prem Na Hat Bikay (2012) ISBN 9789381394106 (Fiction, Hindi)
(6) Dharati Pakad Nirdaliya (2013) ISBN 9789381394519 (Fiction, Hindi)
(7) Lakhanaua Kakka(2018) ISBN 978-93-83967-40-7(Fiction,Bhojpuri)
(8) Samakalin Nepali Sahitya (critical writings,essays and interviews,1995)
(9) Hindi Bloging Ka Itihas (2011) ISBN 978-93-80916-14-9 (Hindi)
(10) Hindi Bloging: Abhivyakti Ki Nai Kranti (2011) ISBN 978-93-80916-05-7
(11) Hindi Bhasha ke vividh ayam (2018) ISBN 978-93-84397-67-8 (Hindi essays collection)
(12) Kashmir 370 Kilometre (2019), ISBN 9781647609320 (Fiction, Hindi)
(13) Dayitva Vodh Aur Lok Vyavhar (2020), ISBN 9781647832902/ Motivational Book, (Hindi & English)
(14) Social Medea Aur Ham (2020), ISBN9781648055621 (Hindi)
Website-ravindraprabhat.in
Contact Email Id- ravindra.prabhat@gmail.com/
Mobile No. 9415272608/6307607007
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Troubled coach Smith arrested, violated Civil Protection Order
He appeared in Delaware Municipal Court via video conferencing from the Delaware County Jail Friday morning where a pretrial hearing was scheduled for June 5 at 2 p.m. In an audio of the 911 call, Courtney can be heard telling a dispatcher that Zach "came up behind me and tried to get into the school before I did".
Championship play-off report: Aston Villa 2-1 West Brom
Villa won a penalty four minutes later when midfielder Jack Grealish was brought down by defender Kieran Gibbs and Abraham, on loan from Premier League side Chelsea , held his nerve to slot the ball in for the victor. Gayle, West Brom's top scorer this season, was sent off two minutes from time for a second yellow card, meaning he will miss the second leg at The Hawthorns on Tuesday.
Madrid Open - Novak Djokovic vs Jeremy Chardy Preview & Prediction
The 20-time Grand Slam victor then saved match points in the 12th game before sweeping through the tiebreaker to record his 1 200th career win. "Roger is playing really well on clay so I am really happy", said Thiem. The Serb will now take on Marin Cilic , the ninth seed, who overcame the loss of the first set against Laslo Djere to win in three. Djokovic leads 17-2 in the head to head with the Bosnian and has won the last three showdowns in a row.
Jofra Archer's pace and accuracy provide Joe Root with a 'headache'
He showed glimpses of his ability while making ODI and Twenty20 global debuts against Ireland and Pakistan last week. Meanwhile, after the completion of the Cricket World Cup , England will play the home Ashes series against Australia from 1st August to 16th September.
Donald Trump fetes 'unstoppable' Red Sox at White House
But the Patriots have not been able to find a date that works yet. On Monday, Zineb Curran, the vice president of corporate communications for the Red Sox , told ABC News that the team supports and respects Cora's decision."We are grateful to our ownership for creating a culture where we discuss these issues openly and encourage individual decision making", he said .
Madrid Masters Day Seven: Djokovic and Nadal accurately priced as favourites
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Ander Herrera thanks Man Utd fans in farewell interview
Herrera was asking for a big pay rise to stay at Manchester United but an offer he found acceptable was never made. Earlier, TUKO.co.ke reported that Herrera is reportedly on his way to join French champions Paris-Saint-Germain from Premier League side Manchester United .
Is Aaron Rodgers going to be on Game of Thrones?
In fact, reports suggest that Rodgers himself will be featured in the episode. And just in case that tweet wasn't a good enough hint that he's going to be making a cameo , he came out and actually admitted it during an interview on the red carpet before the Kentucky Derby.
Silverstone to host MotoGP until 2021 after another full re-surface
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Pep Guardiola says Manchester City are prepared for 'crazy' title-race finale
I didn't expect it when we were seven points behind against this Liverpool to be in the position we are now. Analytic-phobes look away now but City are more or less matching their expected goals (xG) projection, which is 91.5, while Liverpool are outperforming it: their xG is 77.8.
Arsenal keeper Petr Cech explains ‘remarkable’ Chelsea ‘dream’ after Europa League win
It's a final and we will try our best to win". "The club needs to win a trophy, the players as well". "I don't know. If Hazard is thinking that the history here is finished, then in his mind it is finished ". 'I can try to speak to him but it is not easy . I am not in charge of the renewal of the contract so I am not able to answer. "I live in this club, so I come here every single day".
Suarez out of Copa del Rey final after surgery
There has been increased speculation the on-loan Sassuolo forward will move back to Italy at the end of the season after struggling for form with the Catalan giants. Uruguay begin their campaign against Ecuador on June 16. Suarez scored 25 goals in 49 matches this season, second only to Lionel Messi on the scoring list.
Folau code of conduct hearing into day two
Yet despite being hauled before RA and Waratahs' executives for "discussions" about the post previous year, Folau was given no sanction. It is D-Day for Israel Folau and Rugby Australia - but what will his future entail? The Australian newspaper reported RA chief executive Raelene Castle wrote to players last month telling them that the organisation respected their religious beliefs.
Neymar banned for three matches for lashing out at fan
The French football federation's disciplinary commission added a suspended two-match ban to its punishment. But PSG are unhappy with the ruling and are looking to get the decision overturned. PSG clinched its sixth Ligue 1 title in seven years on April 27 but has not advanced past the Champions League's round of 16 in Neymar's two seasons in Paris, with the Brazilian striker missing both games against Manchester United this season and one of two round-of-16 matches against Real ...
Seahawks release Baldwin, Chancellor
Baldwin is widely expected to retire. The news was expected for the 31-year-old Chancellor, who sat out all of last season with a neck injury that was described as career ending. "There is a real chance that Baldwin, one of the Seahawks' best and most popular players, has played his last National Football League down, a source said Friday".
Liverpool players push bodies to limit for Premier League finale
City like to be on the front foot, too: they've scored the first goal in a whopping 83 percent of their games, with Liverpool trailing (just 68 percent) and the rest of the division in the dust. "It was a week of miracles, of big football moments, and from our point of view if there could be a big football moment on the weekend, that would be nice", he said .
Oleksandr Usyk pulls out of heavyweight debut
Usyk, the consensus 2018 fighter of the year, suffered a torn right biceps on Monday during a training session, forcing him to withdraw from his first fight at heavyweight, manager Egis Klimas told ESPN on Tuesday. Usyk and Takam were set to be the main event of a card that was set to air on DAZN, which now may be up in the air due to the World Boxing Super Series winner's bicep injury.
Gautam Gambhir denies Atishi’s allegations
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Federer survives match points to beat Monfils
Yes, Thiem has played a lot more clay events in recent years than Federer (and indeed, pretty much everyone), and yes, Thiem's level this season has been strong, but I am struggling to make a case for Thiem at the prices. Monfils even had match points at 6-5, but Federer smashed his way back to deuce. He won the Rotterdam title in February. Losing just four points on first serve, Rafael Nadal played some of his best tennis of late thumping American Frances Tiafoe 6-3, 6-4.
Will Barton-Seth Curry confrontation results in four technical fouls
I can't be letting people put their fingers in my eyes. The Trailblazers would stay in the lead for most of the game and rarely looked in danger and that was because they got production from every player who played extended minutes. "I ain't trippin off that". Hopefully no suspension for that. "I think if I [did something to get] suspended, I would probably have gotten ejected". In what was the first blowout of the series, the Nuggets stifled the backcourt duo of Damian Lillard and CJ ...
World Number One Osaka Survives Scare To Reach Last 16 In Madrid
But for now, I feel fine, so I think it's good. "This match was on my racket because she (Sorribes Tormo) doesn't really have the game", Osaka told a news conference. Stephens, who announced her engagement to U.S. soccer worldwide Jozy Altidore last week, goes on to face former world No. 1 Victoria Azarenka. I think everything went very well for me today.
Nadal on the up again, Ferrer ends career in Madrid
Felix had great results on clay Challengers previous year and played well against Denis Shapovalov in the first round here to set Nadal clash where he had no chance, losing serve four times from ten opportunities offered to Rafa and creating nearly no damage on the return.
Kyler Murray's contract makes National Football League decision look even better
Rookie mini-camp for the Cardinals begins on Friday. The deal also included a signing bonus of more than $23.59 million, and the salary-cap hit was set at $6.39 million. But after his outstanding season at Oklahoma, Murray chose to only pay professional football. He also ran for 1,001 yards and capped off his final collegiate season by winning the Heisman Trophy.
Solskjaer says Manchester United will 'recruit smart' this summer
James Garner , Dylan Levitt, Arnau Puigmal, Tahith Chong , Angel Gomes and Mason Greenwood have all trained with the first team this week so it looks as though they could feature against Neil Warnock's men at Old Trafford. He has become one of the leaders in the Red Devils squad and insisted last week that the club's players needed to take responsibility for their poor season and the sacking of Jose Mourinho .
76ers storm past Raptors, force Game 7
The Australian 22-year-old swept away days of personal attacks to be at his dominant best and keep the Philadelphia 76ers alive in the National Basketball Association playoffs with a 112-101 victory over the Toronto Raptors. J was wearing the uniform (a 1982 40-point loss to Boston). Leonard paced the Raptors with 14 first-half points, but Toronto shot just 3 of 17 from beyond the 3-point arc before the break.
Manchester United to battle Bayern Munich for Paulo Dybala
Manchester United will vie for massive signings this summer , in order to bolster their squad for next season. United would also have to sell one of their star attackers, perhaps Romelu Lukaku, to make the deal possible, as per the abovementioned publication.
Salah back for Liverpool's final charge at the title
Klopp said left back Andrew Robertson and captain Jordan Henderson should be fit to play after knocks during the game against Barcelona , but striker Roberto Firmino will miss out again. Klopp was rather less forthcoming, however, when asked whether this Sunday could be Daniel Sturridge and Alberto Moreno's final home game for the club.
Celtic linked with bid for Jose Mourinho, other clubs also keen
Celtic are seeking a permanent replacement for Brendan Rodgers, who left the club earlier this season to join Leicester City. A move to Celtic would offer the Portuguese a chance to add to his trophy haul, with Saturday's 3-0 victory at Aberdeen sealing the club's eighth consecutive league title.
Indian Premier League: Delhi Capitals beat Sunrisers Hyderabad by two wickets
With DC requiring two runs to win off the last three balls, Mishra was desperate to get off strike. They will play against Chennai Super Kings in Vizag again to decide the second finalist of IPL 2019 who will play against Mumbai Indians on May 12.
Australia paceman Jhye Richardson out of World Cup
He is being replaced with Kane Richardson in the 15-man squad for the cricket's biggest tournament. Richardson dislocated his shoulder during Australia's five-match one-day worldwide series against Pakistan in the United Arab Emirates, but was named in their 15-man World Cup squad subsequently, with the hope that he'd be able to recover in time for the premier event in England and Wales.
Australia set for marathon home summer
Sadly for Aussie fans, with the men's team in India for the ODIs, and with the hosts celebrating Republic Day on January 26, there will be no global men's fixture on Australia Day. Allan Border Field will be the host venue for the first worldwide matches of the summer to be held in Queensland in early October, as the world champion Australian Women's team step up their preparations for the 2020 ICC Women's World Cup in Australia from February next year.
Oakland's Mike Fiers no-hits Reds in 2-0 victory
Additionally, the right-hander entered the game with a 6.81 ERA. More importantly, Fiers received two brilliant defensive plays behind him. He has made a name for himself with a series of outfield assists while also displaying above-average speed on the basepaths.
Hamilton tightens the gloves for battle with Bottas
Ferrari knows that the gaps in both the constructors' and drivers' championships can not get much bigger if it is to have a realistic chance of turning things around in the title chase: and the only way to ensure it remains master of its own destiny is to go out there and produce a flawless weekend.
Warriors' Kevin Durant out for rest of Rockets series
Stephen Curry , himself with a finger injury, and the struggling Klay Thompson will now have to carry the load against the Rockets if the Warriors want to reach the Western Conference finals. Durant will be re-evaluated next week. Only Draymond Green could fall down while drawing an offensive charge and receive a technical foul by the time he got up.
Charlie McAvoy suspended 1 game for Josh Anderson hit
McAvoy is a first-time offender and despite the bad hit, the fact that he was assessed a minor on the play, coupled with the importance of the playoffs, a one-game suspension is just right for this situation. But the 22-year-old D-man is bound and determined to use the down time as a positive in the middle of a Stanley Cup run that's approaching a month-plus grind of intense, every-other-day hockey.
Bruins to open Eastern Conference finals on Thursday
The man advantage wasn't always advantageous for Boston in the second round, giving up numerous shorthanded chances to the Blue Jackets, but the Bruins seemed to tap into their risky power play they held during the regular season for Game 1.
NBA Playoff Betting Preview and Free Pick: Sixers-Raptors Game 5
Embiid looked like he was limping to the end of a season in which he had once displayed dominant form. Game 5 between the Sixers and Toronto Raptors is set for 8 p.m. Between the Sixers' strong duo, Tobias Harris , and Jimmy Butler , who's always ready to step up in a big game, I think Philadelphia gets the job done and pulls off the upset against the Raptors.
Gattuso and Bakayoko in sideline spat at San Siro
Spanish winger Suso opened for Milan on 37 minutes with the game springing to life in the second half with Fabio Borini tapping in the second on 67 minutes. We wear a glorious shirt and have to do the right things. I waited seven or eight minutes, he still had not put on his shin pads so I made that choice.' Bakayoko joined Milan on a season-long loan from Chelsea in August, 12 months after moving to Stamford Bridge in a £40million transfer from Monaco.
Federer impresses on return to clay
Top-ranked Novak Djokovic advanced to the third round of the Madrid Open with a 6-4, 6-2 win over Taylor Fritz on Tuesday. Dominic Thiem , on a high after winning the Barcelona Open, moved into round three when Reilly Opelka retired after losing the first game of the final set.
Ronaldo Calls Out Double Standards Over Messi When Barcelona Lose
In fact, Ronaldo claimed that he wasn't surprised that the Reds emerged victorious from the match. He added: "Although you would like more for a semi-final, and we could have had more, we haven't and we have just got to deal with that". "The level of the Premier League I think is clear", said Chelsea manager Maurizio Sarri, whose turbulent first season in England could finish on an unexpected high with a top-four place already secured.
Brighton will delay Man City title celebration
They add that further tests are required on Thursday, but "the player and Liverpool medical staff believe there is no serious damage". Liverpool's game against Wolverhampton will air on NBC while Manchester City's match at Brighton & Hove Albion is on NBCSN.
Three UK players set to attend NBA Draft Combine in Chicago
The New York Knicks , Cleveland Cavaliers and Phoenix Suns have the best chance (14 percent) of landing the Duke megastar, thanks to the flattened lottery odds as part of a revamped system for deciding the order of the June 20 draft.
From Brazil: Official statement denies Arsenal agreement
Edu played four seasons at Arsenal, from 2001 through 2005, and played a key role in Arsenal's Invincibles era, especially the undefeated 2003-2004 season. Once in place, Edu will work alongside Sanllehi overseeing all technical aspects of the club, from player recruitment and contract renewals to coaching practises and the academy.
Solskjaer 'exasperated' by Man United winger Martial's attitude
Graham Roberts has suggested on Twitter that Tottenham Hotspur should not sign Anthony Martial from Manchester United in the summer transfer window. The graphic showed Martial's goals to games ratio from his first four years at Old Trafford and compared it to former United stars Ryan Giggs, David Beckham and Cristiano Ronaldo.
White House suffers embarrassing typo as it welcomes baseball's World Series champions
More than half of that $91 billion is based on the White House's estimates for costs FEMA could incur in years to come. If that doesn't end up being the play of the year, I can't wait to see what tops it. But Cora doesn't want the visit to the White House to be about him or to focus on his home land. Trump has always been a racial lightning rod, from his tepid response to the violence of white nationalists to his stark anti-immigrant rhetoric throughout his time in office and campaigning.
Officially ruled out for Game 6 in Houston
Many feared the worst and believed Durant may have suffered an Achilles injury, but ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski reported last night the team had ruled that out as a possibility. Durant has taken over the playoffs for the two-time champions. If that's the timetable, that could keep Durant out for the entirety of the Western Conference Finals if they're able to push past the Houston Rockets.
Addison Russell rejoins Cubs after 40-game Major League Baseball domestic violence ban
It's unclear what the corresponding roster move will be to make room for Russell, but David Kaplan has indicated that perhaps Ben Zobrist and/or Daniel Descalso will be moved to the IL. He helped the Cubs win the World Series three years ago, batting.238 with 21 homers and 95 RBIs in 151 games as the team snapped a 108-year championship drought.
Cart for Daly at US PGA Championship
The 53-year-old American has been allowed to use a cart at the Bethpage Black course due to his injured right knee which he says makes it extremely hard to walk down hills. "The whole thing (stinks)", Daly said. Brooks Koepka does not sound too concerned about whether he wins the PGA Tour's Byron Nelson tournament this week as long as leaves the Big D for the Big Apple with his game in good shape.
Streaking Red Sox hit with David Price injury
The Boston Red Sox (16-18) had a chance to reach the.500 mark for the first time in 2019, but saw that opportunity slip away for now with a 4-1 loss to the Baltimore Orioles . Cora explained over the weekend the is skipping the White House visit because he is unhappy with the way Trump has handled the aftermath of Hurricane Maria , which ripped through Cora's home country of Puerto Rico in September 2017.
Mumbai Indians training like no other team for IPL 2019 finals
The CSK management will be anxious about the form of several of their batsmen. Suresh Raina and Shane Watson played ill-advised shots against the spin on a slow turner, and CSK simply could not build any momentum. Who will prevail: the experienced, or the exuberant? That may get you to a score of 150-160 which can be a match-winning score. Faf du Plessis , Suresh Raina and MS Dhoni hold the key to the defending champions doing well with the bat.
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World Risk Poll: Cybercrime revealed as major cause of global worry
This week marks the launch of the World Risk Poll encompassing data from 150,000 people from across 142 different countries to illustrate the greatest sources of risk in their daily lives.
The first of its kind study was commissioned by Lloyd’s Register Foundation, an independent global charity that supports research, innovation and education to make the world a safer place.
Cybercrime ranked as one of the biggest causes of global worry, with almost everyone who uses the internet being fearful about some aspect of it. Online fraud costs the world $600 billion per year, 0.8% of global GDP, mostly via scams eliciting personal financial information such as credit card details.
Over half of people (57%) see misleading information (‘fake news’) as the greatest concern, followed by fraud (45%) and cyberbullying (30%). The UK sits above average regarding concerns around misinformation and online fraud, at 62% and 69% respectively, making the global top 10 when it comes to countries most worried about these issues. It is beaten only by Portugal (78%), France (74%) and Spain (71%).
The World Risk Poll shows that internet users in some regions were much more likely than others to worry about receiving false information online. Concern was more prevalent in regions where factors such as high economic inequality and ethnic, religious or political polarisation tend to exist, rendering weaker social cohesion and trust.
Nearly one in three (30%) of internet users worldwide said they worry about online bullying. This figure was somewhat higher among women (32%) than men (28%), but differed most substantially by age group. About one in three internet users between the ages of 15 and 29 (34%) said they worry about online bullying, compared with about one in five of those aged 65 and older (21%).
Says Professor Richard Clegg, Chief Executive, Lloyd’s Register Foundation:
“The Lloyd’s Register Foundation World Risk Poll represents the views of 98 per cent of the world’s population on safety and risk, including many people whose voices have never been heard before. Knowing what people think will help us to identify gaps between peoples’ thoughts about risk and their experiences of threats to their safety.
“We can use this data to work with communities and empower people to take action most likely to reduce harm – that saves lives and helps them feel safe.”
Lloyd’s Register Foundation believes that by applying insight to better understand and manage the risks facing us all, we can make our world a safer place. For more information on the World Risk Poll or to further explore the risks and worries facing countries around the world, go to www.lrfworldriskpoll.com
71% of people globally are fearful of cybercrime
Worldwide, 45% of those who have used the internet or social media in the past month said they worry about online fraud
62% of Brits concerned about fake news, whilst 69% fear online fraud
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Bringing Beans to School Cafeterias, Classrooms
Kelly Atterberry and Carol Miles want kids to know beans.
Kelly Atterberry shows off a few beakers full of beans. Photo courtesy of Atterberry.
Dry beans, that is. This fall, Atterberry, a graduate student in the Department of Horticulture with Dr. Miles, is helping fourth and ninth graders in two Whatcom County schools harvest the small, but mighty, crop they planted before summer vacation. Atterberry established the bean gardening project as part of a science education and hands-on learning tool for students, in conjunction with her Masters degree research project. She is curious about how plant science and nutrition education influence kids’ bean choices in the lunchroom.
Dishing up the hearty pulse crop
The USDA requires schools to serve at least a half a cup of pulse crops (such as dry beans or peas) weekly. To help schools meet this requirement, Atterberry suggested several recipes that use dry beans, including fiesta lasagna made with tortillas instead of noodles, cheese beans that are baked with chunks of apple, a black bean dip for vegetables, and a hearty creamy cranberry bean salad. The schools chose one recipe–the cheese beans–to serve for her study, and Atterberry is measuring how much students eat or toss using a plate-waste analysis. Atterberry is measuring consumption prior to and after her classroom education program.
“Our main goal is to make an impact: increasing awareness of healthier eating behaviors with students,” said Atterberry. The hope is that if students know how healthful dry beans are to eat, this will improve their attitude towards eating them, and consumption will increase.
In recent years, fewer than 10 percent of children in the U.S. met the national food guide recommendations for vegetable consumption, and this, the team believes, has contributed to high rates of diabetes and heart-disease-related deaths. Dry beans — high in protein and fiber but low in fat — are not only a nutritious option for students, but an affordable one for schools on tight budgets, according to Whatcom County Food$ense Extension Coordinator LeeAnne Riddle who helped establish the project.
“If you can get kids excited about eating beans, it benefits both their personal health and the school system overall because it’s so economical,” she said.
Drew Betz, extension educator and director for WSU Whatcom County Extension, began working on bringing bean education into communities with Miles and Riddle a few years ago after hearing a keynote speaker talk about the pulse crop at a conference. “The Bean Team” decided they wanted to encourage more bean consumption and education across all income levels and age demographics. Betz said they even worked with 4-H kids on a garden project to learn how well different bean varieties would grow in their community.
“What’s great about this new project is that in addition to learning about how beans grow in the fields, we are looking at it through the entire life cycle– from plant to plate to what doesn’t get used,” Betz said. “It’s great to do it in an interdisciplinary approach that brings together the human and agricultural sciences.”
From Farm to School
Atterberry and Miles also put emphasis on the importance of working with Washington farmers to establish a local market (the schools) through the grassroots Farm to School effort. In partnership with Willowood Farms on Whidbey Island, the Rockwell heirloom bean is growing in the school gardens. The ultimate vision is to source locally grown beans for lunchrooms in the county, said Miles.
Atterberry strolls through a field of beans.
While it’s relatively easy to carry out plant-based studies (to test fertilizers, pesticides, cultivars, etc.), Miles said when she looks at the dry bean education and consumption project she sees the complexity of policy, human behavior, and food choices.
Atterberry is optimistic that a holistic approach will help yield a better understanding of the potential of using dry beans in school cafeterias and the effectiveness of experience-based education. In mid-September students tasted the bean dishes for the first time. Atterberry will ultimately leave the attitude and consumption results to science. But there’s no denying she also hopes that when equipped with bean education and tasty choices, if kids try it, they just might like it.
This article has been adapted from its original presentation in Washington State Magazine. Read more on dry beans here. Learn more about horticultural research at Mt. Vernon Research and Extension Center at http://mtvernon.wsu.edu/.
-Rachel Webber
Human and Robot Team-up for High-tech Harvest
Many Washington tree fruit growers dream of a day when automated technology helps bring in the harvest. Manoj Karkee, assistant professor with the Center for Precision and Automated Agricultural Systems (CPAAS) at Washington State University, believes that day will soon be here.
Karkee and his team of WSU scientists recently won a $548,000 U.S. Department of Agriculture grant to develop tree fruit harvesting technology in which robots and humans work side-by-side.
Sensors measure force and pressure during hand picking of apple. Photo credit Long He.
“Due to the complexity of fruit identification in an orchard environment, collaboration between human and machine is very important. This is what’s unique,” Karkee said. “When the robot can’t deliver, humans will step in and vice versa.”
Growers keen on technology
The cost of seasonal labor is increasing and the availability of a semi-skilled labor force continues to become more uncertain. But will growers embrace robotic fruit harvesting?
“Growers are very, very interested in this technology and ardently await it,” Karkee said. “In three to five years we hope to have a prototype to demo in the field, and in another five years be able to point to where growers can adopt the technology.”
When apples are in clusters or obscured by leaves and branches, a robot requires complex algorithms and long computational time to identify them. Humans, on the other hand, can very quickly identify fruits in these situations. When the two work together in a mobile system in the field, the fruit is identified in real time faster than by either human or machine alone.
Karkee will develop specialized robotic methods to harvest fruit with consideration for things like the delicacy of the fruit and the dynamics of picking fruit by hand.
Materials, methods to mimic human hand
Conceptual human machine interface for collaborative fruit identification. Image credit: Manoj Karkee and Mark De Kleine.
To develop a prototype, Karkee and his team, which includes Karen Lewis, Changki Mo and Qin Zhang, will determine how best to detach fruit from the tree – pull? rotate? twist and pull?
The researchers will study growth patterns of various types of apples. They will record and analyze videos of hand motions taken during manual picking as well as analyze force and pressure data recorded by sensors placed on the hand. This knowledge will be transferred to a robotic hand for a highly efficient fruit removal system.
A complementary project directed by Karkee will identify materials that best mimic the human hand in order to create a robotic hand that won’t damage fruit. Funding for the research was awarded through the National Robotics Initiative, a joint program of the National Science Foundation, USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, National Institutes of Health, and National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Learn more about agricultural automation and precision farming at http://cpas.wsu.edu/.
-Sylvia Kantor
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The WHO has declared the novel coronavirus a global health emergency.
Update (Original Publication date Jan. 28, Updated Feb. 12): WHO Chief Adhanom Ghebreyesus has declared the coronavirus a global health emergency. He said the decision was reached not because of the situation in China, but because of, “what is happening in other countries.”
On Feb. 12 the number of infections totaled around 42,000 in China and around 400 globally based on data of the WHO. Of the approximately 1,000 that have died, all have been in China – with one exception.
2019-nCoV – is the official shorthand name of the novel corona virus, which was first identified in the Chinese city of Wuhan on Dec. 31, 2019, and is currently spreading worldwide. On Feb. 11, a team of WHO-experts declared an official name for the new coronavirus disease: COVID-19 — making sure not to reference Wuhan. COVID-19 stands for Corona Virus Disease 19.
Another fact: The China Guangzhou Center for Disease Control and Prevention identified recently that a DNA sample collected from the door handle at the home of a novel coronavirus patient tested positive for the disease.
Weeks ago the World Health Organization (WHO) – increased its global risk assessment of the coronavirus to “high,” while the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) in Germany still classified the risk in Germany as “low”, despite the first cases being confirmed in Munich.
The RKI now says that single corona viruses are likely to continue to emerge in Germany, but that risk to the general public is still relatively low. The organization warned, that this assessment could change quickly.
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In order to effectively protect oneself from coronavirus, one should apply the usual infection protection measures for droplet infections. A crucial component of this is thorough hand hygiene. Hand sanitizers used should at least have limited virucidal efficacy.
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Based on previous findings, the virus has a so-called basic infection rate of about 2.5. This figure indicates the average number of people infected by a person who is already ill. By comparison, the rate for measles is between 15-18 and 5-7 for polio, and the figures show that 2019-nCoV is at the lower end of the range, roughly on par with the influenza virus, which has a baseline of infection rate of 2-3.
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Kolomoisky Admits Donetsk and Lugansk “Republics” Viable
In another jab at Kiev’s leadership, Ukrainian oligarch Kolomoisky announced that the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republic have proved themselves viable and that their leadership can win an election under Ukrainian law.
The governor of the Dnepropetrovsk region spoke just a few hours after his private army took over the office of a major state-owned oil company in Kiev.
“We have two entities that we do not recognize – the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics – but they have established themselves, much to our regret. They exist. They have their leaders, people who run these entities. Parts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions somehow live on. About 1.5 – 2 million Ukrainian citizens remain there and somehow they survive in these conditions,”- said Kolomoisky, as reported by Vzglyad.
“Therefore, in parallel with the big negotiations that took place in Minsk and where Putin, Merkel, Hollande and Poroshenko met, representatives of DPR and LPR also attended. These were big negotiations, but other than that, perhaps, other negotiations should be carried out as well, that will implement these Minsk agreements,” he added.
Kolomoisky is governor of the Dnepropetrovsk region (yellow). To its east are the Donetsk and Lugansk regions (frontline in orange)
Kolomoisky noted that Ukraine affirms its commitment to the Minsk agreements, but to date he does not see the implementation of these agreements at the middle and lower levels. Arms pullout, the ceasefire – all this comes with great friction, the oligarch said.
“But let’s look at the situation from the other side, from the side of the DPR and LPR. There have been pseudoelections, Zaharchenko and Plotnickiy won them. They now are the power there: captured, usurped, but it is power “- Kolomoisky said.
“Those who would vote against them, there is no such people, they all left, everyone who could. I have no confidence that if we now hold elections under Ukrainian law, the people there would not vote for Zaharchenko and Plotnicky,”- he said.
On Saturday, the president of Ukraine Poroshenko said that Ukraine should implement reintegration of the “occupied” areas, and recognition of the elections in the Donbass would be possible only if they are held under Ukrainian law.
Kolomoisky’s business empire spreads exactly throughout the regions between Kiev and the rebellious East and South. Last night Odessa was shaken by two loud explosions, one of them reportedly in a local military enlistment office. The city became the stage of the May 2 massacre of 2014 and has been the target of business-raiding forays by Kolomoisky’s private army.
The Poroshenko-Kolomoisky standoff, so far is completely ignored by major Western media amid reports that Ukrainian oligarchs’ maneuvers aim to secure greater bits of the latest IMF loan to the country.
Crimean blogger ColonelCassad argues that Kolomoisky’s bold actions may be a manifestation of squabbles between US groups trying to control events in the Ukraine. In his opinion the party of the “hawks” may use its CIA and Pentagon leverage to accelerate events leading to a new bout of hot war in Donbas. This goes against the will of the White House and the State Department which are betting on a protracted conflict, aimed to exhaust Russia’s support for the breakaway regions.
With Ukraine looking ripe for yet another forcible government change, there is an obvious urgency about using its remaining resources.
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Donald Trump Destroyed Anthem Protesters With One Tweet
otwadmin January 8, 2018 0
The anti-Americans protests that swept across the NFL were a disgrace.
Over the season, many protesters were shamed into standing.
However, Trump just sent out a strong reminder why it was unpatriotic to kneel for the anthem in the first place.
Trump tweeted out a picture of a woman and a baby honoring the tombstone of a fallen soldier.
From Breitbart:
President Trump once again set his sights on protesting NFL players, in a Thursday morning tweet.
As the NFL gets ready to begin its postseason play this upcoming weekend, Trump captioned a tweet of a woman and child on the ground, mourning near the grave of a soldier. In the caption, Trump wrote: “So beautiful…Show this picture to the NFL players who still kneel!”
Donald J. Trump on Twitter
So beautiful….Show this picture to the NFL players who still kneel! https://t.co/tJLM1tvbvb
The president has made his feelings toward anthem protesters well-known this year. In late September, at a political rally in Alabama, the president called protesting players “SOBs,” and said he wished their team owners would fire them.
That speech sparked a backlash, as more than 200 NFL players, coaches, and executives protested during the anthem the following Sunday.
However, since that time, the number of protesting players has dwindled to the point that in Week 17, only a dozen players took part in some form of anthem demonstration.
Several of the anti-American protesters also embarrassed the country abroad by kneeling for the Star-Spangled Banner, then standing for the British and Mexican national anthems.
For their reprehensible behavior, the protesters were awarded $90 million from the owners for activist causes.
From The Hill:
The NFL […] reached a nearly $90 million agreement with players’ representatives to provide financial support for the players’ community activism efforts.
The Washington Post reports that a source close to the negotiations says the agreement will provide nearly $90 million for causes deemed important by the players between the agreement’s signing and 2023, with a particular focus on issues facing the African-American community.
Goodell himself has said that the league believes players should stand for the anthem, but has made no effort to punish players who choose not to.
[T]he president again attacked the league for a rumored plan to keep players in the locker room during the national anthem to prevent on-camera protests.
“The NFL is now thinking about a new idea — keeping teams in the Locker Room during the National Anthem next season,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “That’s almost as bad as kneeling! When will the highly paid Commissioner finally get tough and smart? This issue is killing your league!”
It’s a shame the NFL realizes it has a problem on its hands but refuses to do anything to rectify it.
At least patriotic Americans haven’t lost sight of what the flag represents.
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Mike Browne, Deputy Director
Mike@OneWisconsinNow.org
Want More Cronyism, Corruption and Incompetence From Gov. Walker’s Administration? Republican Fast Track Effort To Gut State Anti-Corruption Laws Will Deliver
Four Letters, W-E-D-C, Show What Happens When Anti-Corruption Laws Don’t Apply
MADISON, Wis. — One Wisconsin Now Executive Director Scot Ross blasted the latest fast track Republican efforts to gut state anti-corruption laws, saying it is a prescription for more of the kind of cronyism, corruption and incompetence Wisconsin has endured from Gov. Scott Walker’s Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC).
“Removing anti-corruption protections from Wisconsin’s civil service laws is an invitation for more scandal, more incompetence and more cronyism in state government – something we have seen all too much of in recent years,” said Ross. “Four letters provide a vivid example of what happens when anti-corruption protections are removed: W-E-D-C.”
Despite multiple assurances from Gov. Walker and Republican legislative leaders to the contrary they are now proposing to change Wisconsin’s civil service laws, first adopted to protect state workers over a century ago. A bill on the legislative fast track, Senate Bill 285, would allow Republicans to pack state government with political cronies by replacing objective measures for qualifying for appointments with resumes and centralize hiring in the state Department of Administration, headed by a political appointee. In addition, political appointees in agencies would be able to lay off employees without regard to seniority and dole out bonuses at their discretion, promoting favoritism for cronies.
Ross noted that in creating Gov. Walker’s WEDC – the state poster child for the cronyism, corruption and incompetence of his administration – civil service protections were stripped from employees. A report by One Wisconsin Institute exposes the scope of the four years of failure at WEDC, finding businesses whose owners, directors or employees contributed to the campaign of Scott Walker received over sixty percent of dollars awarded by the jobs agency.
Independent audits of Gov. Walker’s WEDC found an agency plagued with incompetence and questionable practices. The agency lost track of millions of dollars in state loans to businesses, failed to confirm aid recipients were fulfilling the terms of their agreements, and failed to follow basic accounting practices.
Meanwhile media reports uncovered how a risky $500,000 loan that never should have been given found it’s way to a $10,000 contributor to Gov. Walker’s 2010 campaign under direct pressure from his Secretary of the Department of Administration and his then chief of staff. The business has gone under, the loan was never repaid and subsequent investigations have shown basic safeguards for issuing loans were ignored and supporting documents were riddled with false or incomplete information.
Ross concluded by asking legislators to ponder one simple question in their deliberations on the bill, “Do you really want more of this? Because the people of Wisconsin deserve better from their government.”
One Wisconsin Now specializes in effective earned media and online organizing to advance progressive leadership and values.
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Lower plasma insulin levels during overnight closed loop in schoolchildren with type 1 diabetes: potential advantage?
Schierloh, Ulrike; Wilinska, M.; Pit-Ten Cate, Ineke et al
in PLoS ONE (2019), 14(3: e0212013), 1-11
Background Studies have shown that overnight closed-loop insulin delivery can improve glucose control and reduce the risk of hypoglycemia and hence may improve metabolic outcomes and reduce burden for ... [more ▼]
Background Studies have shown that overnight closed-loop insulin delivery can improve glucose control and reduce the risk of hypoglycemia and hence may improve metabolic outcomes and reduce burden for children with type 1 diabetes and their families. However, research so far has not reported insulin levels while comparing closed-loop to open-loop insulin delivery in children. Therefore, in this study we obtained glucose levels as well plasma insulin levels in children with type 1 diabetes to evaluate the efficacy of a model - based closed-loop algorithm compared to an open-loop administration. Methods Fifteen children with type 1 diabetes, 6-12 years, participated in this open-label single center study. We used a randomized cross over design in which we compared overnight closed-loop insulin delivery with sensor augmented pump therapy for two nights in both the hospital and at home (i.e., 1 night in-patient stay and at home per treatment condition). Only during the in-patient stay, hourly plasma insulin and blood glucose levels were assessed and are reported in this paper. Results Results of paired sample t-tests revealed that although plasma insulin levels were significantly lower during the closed-loop than in the open-loop (Mean difference 36.51 pmol/l; t(13)=2.13, p=.03, effect size d= 0.57), blood glucose levels did not vary between conditions (mean difference 0.76 mmol/l; t(13)=1.24, p=.12, d=0.37). The administered dose of insulin was significantly lower during the closed-loop compared with the open-loop (mean difference 0.10 UI; t(12)=2.45, p=.02, d=0.68). Conclusions Lower insulin doses were delivered in the closed-loop, resulting in lower plasma insulin levels , whereby glucose levels were not affected negatively. This suggests that the closed-loop administration is better targeted and hence could be more effective. [less ▲]
Small RNA profiling of low biomass samples: identification and removal of contaminants
Heintz-Buschart, Anna; Yusuf, Dilmurat; Kaysen, Anne et al
in BMC Biology (2018), 16(52),
Background: Sequencing-based analyses of low-biomass samples are known to be prone to misinterpretation due to the potential presence of contaminating molecules derived from laboratory reagents and ... [more ▼]
Background: Sequencing-based analyses of low-biomass samples are known to be prone to misinterpretation due to the potential presence of contaminating molecules derived from laboratory reagents and environments. DNA contamination has been previously reported, however contamination with RNA is usually considered to be unlikely due to its inherent instability. Small RNAs (sRNAs) identified in tissues and bodily fluids such as blood plasma, have implications for physiology and pathology, and therefore the potential to act as disease biomarkers. Thus, the possibility for RNA contaminants demands a careful evaluation. Results: Here we report the presence of small RNA contaminants in widely used microRNA extraction kits and propose an approach for their depletion. We sequenced sRNAs extracted from human plasma samples and detected important levels of non-human (exogenous) sequences whose source could be traced to the microRNA extraction columns through a careful qPCR-based analysis of several laboratory reagents. Furthermore, we also detected the presence of artefactual sequences related to these contaminants in a range of published datasets, arguing for a re-evaluation of reports suggesting the presence of exogenous RNAs of microbial and dietary origins in blood plasma. To avoid artefacts in future experiments, we also devise several protocols of contaminant RNAs, define minimal amounts of starting material for artefact-free analyses, and confirm the reduction of contaminant levels for identification of bona fide sequences using ‘ultra-clean’ extraction kits. Conclusion: This is the first report of the presence of RNA molecules as contaminants in RNA extraction kits. The described protocols should be applied in the future to avoid confounding sRNA studies. [less ▲]
Isolation of nucleic acids from low biomass samples: detection and removal of sRNA contaminants
Sequencing-based analyses of low-biomass samples are known to be prone to misinterpretation due to the potential presence of contaminating molecules derived from laboratory reagents and environments. Due ... [more ▼]
Sequencing-based analyses of low-biomass samples are known to be prone to misinterpretation due to the potential presence of contaminating molecules derived from laboratory reagents and environments. Due to its inherent instability, contamination with RNA is usually considered to be unlikely. Here we report the presence of small RNA (sRNA) contaminants in widely used microRNA extraction kits and means for their depletion. Sequencing of sRNAs extracted from human plasma samples was performed and significant levels of non-human (exogenous) sequences were detected. The source of the most abundant of these sequences could be traced to the microRNA extraction columns by qPCR-based analysis of laboratory reagents. The presence of artefactual sequences originating from the confirmed contaminants were furthermore replicated in a range of published datasets. To avoid artefacts in future experiments, several protocols for the removal of the contaminants were elaborated, minimal amounts of starting material for artefact-free analyses were defined, and the reduction of contaminant levels for identification of bona fide sequences using 'ultra-clean' extraction kits was confirmed. In conclusion, this is the first report of the presence of RNA molecules as contaminants in laboratory reagents. The described protocols should be applied in the future to avoid confounding sRNA studies. [less ▲]
Can health indicators and psychosocial characteristics predict attrition in youth with overweight and obesity seeking ambulatory treatment? Data from a retrospective longitudinal study in a paediatric clinic in Luxembourg.
Pit-Ten Cate, Ineke ; Samouda, Hanen; Schierloh, Ulrike et al
in BMJ Open (2017), 7(9),
ABSTRACT Objectives: The current study aimed to identify factors that could predict attrition in youth starting ambulatory treatment to control or lose weight. Design: retrospective longitudinal study ... [more ▼]
ABSTRACT Objectives: The current study aimed to identify factors that could predict attrition in youth starting ambulatory treatment to control or lose weight. Design: retrospective longitudinal study Setting: paediatric clinic: ambulatory treatment program Patients and measures: A youth sample (N=191; 89 boys; age 7-17 years) completed measures of demographic characteristics, health and psychosocial traits before starting an ambulatory weight management program. Anthropometric and biological markers related to obesity were also obtained. Test of mean differences and regression analyses were used to investigate the relationship between these variables and attrition after one year. Results: Chi-square and t-test results showed both psychosocial and health indicators differentiated between participants who continued attending the treatment program and those that dropped out. More specifically, youth that dropped out of treatment were significantly older, had higher BMI-Z scores, higher levels of insulin, triglycerides and HOMA-IR, reported poorer health and more conduct problems, and were more dissatisfied with themselves and their bodies before starting treatment. Results of regression analyses revealed that weight status (anthropometric and biological markers), age and body dissatisfaction predict attrition (overall prediction success 73%; prediction success for continued attendance 90/91%; prediction success for dropout 42/44%). Conclusion: Attrition, but especially the continued attendance in treatment, can be successfully predicted by age, weight status and body dissatisfaction. For patients who present with one or more risk factors, careful consideration is needed to decide which (combination of) in- or outpatient program may facilitate prolonged engagement of the patient and hence may be most effective in establishing weight loss. [less ▲]
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Besides painting and work as costume designer, Oscar also enjoys writing: Research based on symbols, history of art and artistic techniques; scripts giving life to characters who inhabit the imaginary and history - Ex: "The Fairies", 1999 our in 2001 “In Memory of Women of the Royal House of Braganza”; books that approach the art to children, such as "Diary of One Dream", 2005; fantasy stories which subsequently have been adapted to plays - "The Orn Prince/The Three Insignias", 2006; detailed reflexion defense of his paintings:"Slve Regina" and "VIRTUES OF THE SOUL AS ECLIPSED BY THE DIVA MADONNA" are some of the latest examples.
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Sir Philip Pullman announces the Young Artist Competition prizewinners in the online OAS Open Exhibition 2020
Welcome from Lucy Stopford, Chairman of Oxford Art Society
‘I really am left with a great deal of hope for the future of the visual arts if it’s in the hands of young artists like these’ Philip Pullman (Oxford Art Society Young Artist Competition Judge 2020)
Harriet Eagle, Exhibitions Manager; Lucy Stopford, Chairman and Sir Philip Pullman holding the winning Young Artist Competition entry
Welcome to the Oxford Art Society’s first online exhibition. Browse our interactive catalogue to enjoy a spectacular selection of superb artwork from around the county.
This virtual exhibition is brought to you thanks to the tireless efforts and expertise of our Exhibitions Co-ordinator Harriet Eagle and Website Manager Lin Kerr, together with the Oxford Art Society, the artists who have submitted such fantastic work, and our guest selector Esther Lafferty from Oxford Artweeks.
We are enormously grateful to Philip Pullman for judging our 2020 Young Artist Competition, generously sponsored this year by the Lucy Group and Art Collector Jeremy Mogford. Sir Philip’s profound and highly original observations when selecting the winners demonstrate the understanding of an artist expressed with the eloquence of one of our most acclaimed writers. A passionate supporter of the Arts, when involved in The Big Draw, Sir Philip wrote: ‘Drawing helps us see better’. His insights help us see better and it is my great pleasure and privilege to share them with you today:
‘I think there is a great variety of talent here, and I was immensely cheered to see the energy and imagination of these young artists. It wasn’t at all easy to make a choice.
In the end I think it was the formal values that swayed my decision. A picture, whether it’s a painting or a drawing or a print, is of course partly subject matter and partly form, but if it’s going to be looked at with pleasure for a long time to come, there must be something in the design – the shapes – the colours – the way the canvas or paper is filled that gives delight in itself. If our eye catches it across a room it should give us a little jolt of pleasure, no matter how familiar it’s become.
First Prize: Fergus Laidlaw – The rat race
The picture that struck me most vividly the first time I saw it, and continues to do so as I look at it again, is No. 300.A, The Rat Race. A satirical view of a serious subject, no doubt, but the energy and invention with which these spare black silhouettes fill the space is exhilarating. One small but telling point: the artist depicts the figures as moving to our left. If we flip it in our minds and have them moving right, the effect would be quite different. Psychologically, we interpret rightwards movement as being heroic, sympathetic, morally justified, likely to be successful, a righteous battle against overwhelming odds, that sort of thing. Movement to our left seems colder, less sympathetic, and so on. Quite possibly this has something to do with the way we read and write, and would not hold in literary cultures where the action of the eye moves in the opposite direction, but it seems true for us; and film directors and comic artists realised this quite early on in the development of their art forms. Anyway, this artist has got it right, and altogether I found it a highly impressive piece of work.
Second Prize: Lizzie Wheeler -The harbour
The picture I’d put in second place is 145.A, The Harbour. It could hardly be more different in tone and style: this is pure pleasure, with its gentle colours and simple shapes, but again it’s the inventiveness with which they’re placed and the lively energy with which they work against and with one another that makes it so delightful. I don’t think the eye would tire of this for a long time. As the impressionists and all their widely varying successors have shown us, there’s nothing wrong with pleasure. Dufy, too, was a great painter of harbours.
Third Prize: Sasha Palfreyman – A tribute to Venice
My third choice is different again, and bears out the great variety of tone and style here. It’s No. 275.A, A Tribute to Venice. Venice must be the most frequently depicted city in the history of art, but it’s not hard to see why. This is not a grand Canaletto or Guardi view of the splendours of sunlight on glittering water and glowing architecture, it’s a view from an unusual angle of one of the innumerable little canals and pathways behind the famous magnificence. An everyday scene – washing on a line, people passing by, open doorways, friends talking in an open window – but everything works so well: the tall narrow shape is just the kind of view we have of those narrow waterways, the asymmetric skew of the gondola is perfectly rendered. I liked it very much.
I think all the artists should be warmly congratulated, and so should you for making this exhibition possible. I really am left with a great deal of hope for the future of the visual arts if it’s in the hands of young artists like these.
(Sir Philip Pullman)
The Young Artist Competition Exhibition Display
Despite the limitations of the Coronavirus Pandemic, Harriet Eagle and Lucy Stopford created a mini display of the entries for the Young Artist Competition.
Here are a few photos showing some of the work that was entered.
Top left: Chase Marsden – The Menagerie
Bottom left: Bethany Aliwell – See the struggle
Right: Gabriella Bailey – The Supper
Left: Freya Doggett – Untitled
Top centre: Elizabeth Wasmuth – Student strike
Bottom centre: Fergus Laidlaw – The rat race
Right: Diana Avadanii – Fragile
Top: Laura Eagle – Undergrowth
Left: Lizzie Wheeler -The harbour
Right: Lucy Fricker – Vessels-nudes
Top: Elizabeth Wasmuth – Student strike
Bottom: Tahli Rickets – We are Home
Exhibitions manager Harriet Eagle adjusting the display
Our congratulations to the winners and thank you to all our entrants who took part in the 2020 Youth Artist Competition of the Oxford Art Society Open Exhibition; and also to those entrants who were able to delivery their work for the display.
And a special thank you to Sir Philip Pullman.
Lucy Stopford
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Punch down blocks are used for when you need to run wires long distances, typically between distribution points ( things like the MDF, or Main Distribution Facility, otherwise known as the main telco room on the primary floor of the building), comms closets, and the like.
This handy punch-down impact tool is spring-loaded for terminating twisted pair cable into 110-style patch panels, connecting blocks and keystone jacks. Dual function blade (cut/punch) for cutting wire or pushing into IDC terminal. … The blade can be stored in the pocket at the bottom of the tool (sharp edge first).
What hardware is used to connect opposing posts on 66 blocks? Bridging clips are used to connect the two center terminals, connecting the left-hand side of a split block with its right-hand side, thus completing the circuit. The clips form the point of interface between the subscriber and the provider.
Cat 5 cable and RJ-45 jacks have eight wires. … Therefore, you can run both ethernet and telephone over the same wire, and still have two wires left over. In fact, you could run two Ethernet jacks from a single cat-5 cable, or four telephone lines (though I don’t know why you would run multiple phone lines.)
A 110 block is a type of punch block used to terminate runs of on-premises wiring in a structured cabling system. The designation 110 is also used to describe a type of insulation displacement contact (IDC) connector used to terminate twisted pair cables, which uses a punch-down tool similar to the older 66 block.
On a 66 block incoming wires are typically punched down on the left side of the block starting from the top. Each wire is punched down to the first pin in a row with one wire per row. The order of the pairs is blue, orange, green and brown with the white wire from the pair being punched down on top.
A 66 block is a type of punchdown block used to connect sets of wires in a telephone system. … The term 66 block reflects its Western Electric model number. The 25-pair standard non-split 66 Block contains 50 rows; each row has four (M) or six (B) columns of clips that are electrically bonded.
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Why should you not leave more than 1 inch of exposed cable before a twisted-pair termination? The exposure of the cable can cause transmission interference between wires. … The cables or wireless links that provide interconnection between the entrance facility and MDF, and between the MDF and IDFs.
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Caldara: To get rid of bad cops, start with their unions
June 10, 2020 By Jon Caldara
Did government unions kill George Floyd?
The police officer who is charged with the murder of George Floyd had 18 complaints filed against him with the police’s internal affairs department, an average of one a year.
A study published a year ago in the American Economic Journal reviewed the predictive value of civilian complaints to future misconduct. Their conclusion: “We find a strong relationship between allegations and future civil rights litigation, especially for the very worst officers. The worst 1 percent of officers, as measured by civilian allegations, generate almost 5 times the number of payouts and over 4 times the total damage payouts in civil rights litigation.”
The study’s takeaway: “These findings suggest that intervention efforts could be fruitfully concentrated among a relatively small group.”
What they’re saying in English is those few cops that get the most citizen complaints filed against them are the most likely to misbehave, costing the city gobs in cash judgements and community good-will. So, fire those bad apples before, not after, they spoil the whole bunch.
This is echoed by simple common sense. If only that was possible.
Over the years I have asked my law enforcement friends about “bad cops.” By that I mean guys who just don’t have the temperament to be police officers, not cops taking bribes. I’ve been told that cops usually know which fellow coworkers are going to be dangerous cops. And that the problem usually weeds itself out. Nobody wants to be partnered with a jerk and sooner or later he gets the idea and leaves the force. And maybe that works more often than we could ever know. But obviously it doesn’t work all the time.
Firing a cop, like firing a public school teacher for cause, is nearly impossible thanks to their union contracts. In government-delivered education the problem is so rampant the bureaucratic work-around has been dubbed the “dance of the lemmings.” Since you can’t fire a bad teacher you just keep transferring him to other schools and smaller posts where he can do less damage. This is fine until the damage is robbing your child of an education, from which your kid may never recover.
It is inexcusable. Yet it is systematic and accepted thanks to the union.
It is the nature of government unions to protect the worst employees from getting canned and prevent the best employees from being rewarded. The key word in collective bargaining is after all, “collective.” We treat everyone the same, pay everyone the same as if people are robots.
Look no further than layoff policies in these contracts. Should there be budgetary layoffs, most contracts require those with least seniority to get the hook first, instead of the worst performing.
I’ve seen contracts that say that if there are two employees on the same bottom level of the seniority totem pole and one needs to get laid off, a coin toss will choose who gets the ax. Not performance reviews, complaints or commendations, a flip of the coin decides which teacher prepares your kid for life, which cop carries a gun and patrols your neighborhood to protect you.
This is more than an insult to hard-working, more qualified cops. It is a danger to citizens.
Many police union contracts prevent the immediate interrogation of a police officer after he is involved in an alleged crime, giving him time to “cool down,” and allow the accused cops access to some information civilians can’t get prior to their interrogations.
Overwhelmingly police officers are among the best this country has to offer. Contrasted to the military’s job to kill people and break things a cop’s job is extremely nuanced and complex. His daily challenges could be as varied as comforting parents trying to find a lost child, intervening in a delicate and explosive domestic situation, making a nanosecond decision on whether to pull the trigger, and as we have seen recently, accept vile hatred from people throwing rocks at them while keeping cool. All skills few have.
We need to treat them as the professionals they are, not as automatons. Their superiors should be able to fire the ones who are a bad fit and reward those who show merit befitting the professionals they are.
Police should be free agents, not unionized factory workers.
Jon Caldara is president of the Independence Institute, a free market think tank in Denver.
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Penny Stocks to Watch: Novan Inc.
Novan Inc. Is a clinical-stage biotech company working on utilizing its platform known as Nitricil. This platform can help in multiple industries including dermatology, healthcare, infectious diseases and more. In addition, the company also has a product known as SB206, which is a topical antiviral gel. This substance is currently in a Phase 3 clinical trial. At the end of October, the company reported its Q3 financial results. In the results, the company announced that its drug Nitricil can have a positive effect on treating Covid-19.
John Gay, CFO of the company, stated that “while over the past few months we have raised capital to progress our lead asset for molluscum and provide an expected cash runway past our targeted toppling results for our B-SIMPLE4 trial, maintaining our listing on NASDAQ remains a critical priority for the company. We continue to pursue a course of action intended to allow us to work toward regaining compliance in a manner that we believe is in the best interests of the company and its stockholders.”
While data from the trial regarding Covid will not be fully completed until Q2 2021, it does look promising in the interim. Of course, NOVN stock is considered to be a more volatile penny stock to watch. Analysts at H.C. Wainwright have placed a $1.50 price target on the penny stock. That’s 183% higher than Tuesday’s closing price.
Penny Stocks to Watch: Biolase Inc.
Biolase Inc. is a biotech company working in the medical device field. The company states that it produces medical devices that can be used in dentistry and general medicine. One of its key products is a proprietary laser technology that incorporates more than 259 patented technologies to aid in patient recovery. The company has stated that it has sold these devices in as many as 80 countries around the world. In its Q3 2020 financial results, the company announced some exciting numbers. While revenue did drop by around 24% year over year, sequentially, it more than doubled. In addition, the company announced that it was able to raise around $18 million in an equity financing deal.
Todd Norbe, CEO of the company, stated that “our significantly improved third quarter revenue was driven by several factors, including 95% of dental offices having reopened in the United States, dental procedure levels having reached 70-80% of their pre-covid levels, and the fact that our product portfolio reduces the risk of infectious pathogens.”
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For the quarter, net revenue came in at around $6.5 million. This represents a quarter over quarter growth rate of 124%. In addition, the company managed to lower its operating loss from $4.9 million in Q3 2019 to $3.7 million in Q3 2020. Maxim Group has a $1 price target on BIOL stock right now; 170% higher than its current levels.
Penny Stock to Watch: Express Inc.
Express Inc. is a popular retail clothing company that saw its stock shoot up by 10.5% during intraday trading on December 1st. One of the main reasons behind this comes as Black Friday and Cyber Monday only recently passed. With this, many retail penny stocks were able to significantly climb in value. As a major retailer based in the U.S., the company has a major e-commerce presence as well. In addition to this, Express Inc. is supposed to release its Q3 financial data on Thursday, December 3rd. During its second quarter of this year, the company posted some less than stellar results. In the quarter, it reported a quarterly loss of around $1.48 per share. This is an earnings surprise of around 30% above expectations.
In addition, the company ended the quarter with around $245 million in revenue. This is roughly half of the revenue it brought in during the previous years second quarter. While this may be painting a dreary picture of Express Inc., the company could turn it around in the upcoming quarter. Of course, a lot depends on what it reports in the latest earnings quarter, but there’s no way of knowing until we see it. In the past month, shares of EXPR stock have shot up by a staggering 190%. Whether or not this momentum can continue remains unknown. But, with this information in mind investors can decide whether or not EXPR stock is a penny stock to watch. It should also be noted that Wedbush placed a $2.50 target on the penny stock; nearly 50% higher than current levels.
Penny Stocks To Watch: NanoVibronix Inc.
NanoVibronix Inc. has been one of the companies to watch, off and on over the last few months. Back in September, NAOV stock made a parabolic move following news that the U.S. FDA exercised its Enforcement Discretion to allow the distribution of the company’s UroShield device in the United States. UroShield® is an ultrasound-based product that is designed to prevent bacterial colonization and biofilm on indwelling urinary catheters and increase antibiotic efficacy. The penny stock jumped to highs of $1.48 but quickly gave back those gains during the weeks to follow.
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This week, however, the company has turned some heads once again. NanoVibronix announced positive findings from an independent evaluation of its UroShield® device on patients who have used the device for up to two years. The company said that results have been submitted to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence for review and consideration.
“As part of our ongoing engagement, we submitted these findings to NICE as part of the process for attaining ‘official guidance’ from the organization, an important step in providing access to all NHS patients at risk of catheter associated urinary tract infections. We believe that these findings should also reinforce our efforts in the U.S. and other target markets.”
Brian Murphy, CEO of NanoVibronix.
Keep in mind that NAOV is one of the low float penny stocks. This is likely a reason why there’s been more volatile action in its market. Despite not having a price target, Dawson James does have a Buy rating on the stock. It should also be noted that though this is the most recent, it is from 2019. So whether or not that will actually hold weight now is up to you.
Penny Stocks to Watch: Cellectar Biosciences Inc.
Cellectar Biosciences Inc. is another one of the big gainers on December 1st, rising by around 20% by EOD. In the past month, shares of CLRB stock are up by around 33% which is quite substantial. For some context, the company works as a biopharmaceutical business focused on the development and commercialization of various drugs used to treat cancer. It’s main substance known as CLR 131 is a phospholipid drug conjugate or PDC. This drug is being studied for its potential to aid in the chemotherapy sector. On November 9th, the company reported its Q3 2020 financial results for the period ending on September 30th.
In the results, James Caruso, CEO of the company, stated that “we continue to make good progress towards the fourth quarter initiation of the CLR 131 pivotal study in our lead heme-oncology indication. Our recent FDA guidance meeting was most encouraging and we look forward to providing greater details in the near term.” In terms of its financials, the company ended the quarter with around $18.8 million in cash on hand. In addition, it stated that R&D expenditures stayed at a steady $2.7 million over the previous quarter.
With a net loss of around $3.9 million, the company is working on building out a better financial standing for itself. In the meantime, the company states that it is planning on completing the Phase I/II trial of its CLR 131 drug. With all of this in mind, it could be considered to be a penny stock to watch, meanwhile Oppenheimer has set a lofty CLRB stock forecast. The firm has a $5 target set on the penny stock, almost 230% above Tuesday’s closing price.
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Professor | Distinguished University Scholar | Peter Wall Institute of Advanced Studies Associate | Faculty Fellow, Green College
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History of Philosophy | Philosophy of Science and Technology
Ph.D. University of Illinois–Chicago
PWIAS Associate and a Faculty Fellow of Green College
History of philosophy of science; relations of history of philosophy and history of science after Kant; science and technology studies.I work mainly in the history of philosophy of science in the early twentieth century; I am particularly concerned to understand the place of philosophy of science in the analytic philosophy over the course of the twentieth century.
Objectivity in Science: New Perspectives from Science and Technology Studies (Springer, 2015)
The Cambridge Companion to Logical Empiricism (Cambridge UP, 2007)
Logical Empiricism in North America (U Minnesota P, 2003)
Carnap’s Construction of the World (Cambridge UP, 1998)
The Origins of Logical Empiricism (U Minnesota P, 1996)
“What Good is a (indeed, this) History of Pragmatism?: Thinking Historically about Pragmatism and Pragmatically about History” at an author-meets-critics session on Cheryl Misak’s The American Pragmatists at the CPA meeting, Victoria, June 2013
“Of Troubled Marriage and Uneasy Colocation: Thomas Kuhn, Epistemological Revolutions, Romantic Narratives, and HPS” at joint session of the PSA and HSS on 50 Years of Kuhn’s Structure, November 2012
The O’Neill Lectures in the History of Philosophy, University of New Mexico Department of Philosophy, Spring 2012
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