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Multi-feature query language for image classification
Raoul Pascal Pein, Joan Lu
School of Computing and Engineering
Despite the major effort put into the creation of Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) systems during the last decade, the solutions available are still not satisfying for generic purposes. The most severe issue seems to be the so-called "semantic gap". It is feasible to define and use domain specific feature vectors on a low level and use this information for a similarity based retrieval. Yet, mapping these to higher level semantics remains difficult. This research investigates a domain-independent way of automatized image categorization. A CBIR query language is constructed to build query-like descriptors for each category to be learned. The proposed learning algorithm is based on decision-trees. The resulting descriptors are aimed to be understandable and modifiable by expert users. A case-study is presented to support these claims.
Procedia Computer Science
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2010.04.287
10.1016/j.procs.2010.04.287Licence: CC BY-NC-ND
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Pein, R. P., & Lu, J. (2010). Multi-feature query language for image classification. Procedia Computer Science, 1(1), 2549-2557. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2010.04.287
Pein, Raoul Pascal ; Lu, Joan. / Multi-feature query language for image classification. In: Procedia Computer Science. 2010 ; Vol. 1, No. 1. pp. 2549-2557.
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Production technology of early-Hellenistic lime-based mortars from a Punic-Roman residential area at Palermo (Sicily)
Giuseppe Montana, Luciana Randazzo
Scienze della Terra e del Mare
Risultato della ricerca: Conference contribution
The topic of this study was the mineralogical and petrographic characterization of lime-based mortars of Hellenistic-Roman age (3rd century BC), taken from a residential area located in the historical centre of Palermo, near the walls of the Punic-Roman Neapolis, recently brought to light by excavations carried out by the Soprintendenza BB.CC.AA. of Palermo at Palazzo del Gran Cancelliere (Palermo). The collected mortars have been analyzed by optical microscopy (PLM), X-ray powder diffraction analysis (XRPD) and scanning electron microscopy coupled with energy dispersive spectrometry (SEM-EDS). The study was aimed to define the “recipe” (composition of temper and binder, temper size distribution, temper/binder ratio), in order to assess the provenance of raw materials (supply site/area) and to acquire useful information in order to formulate "restoration mortars" that should be most comparable with the original ones, for replacements and/or integration. The mineralogical and petrographic investigations allowed to establish four different recipes used for the formulation of the studied floor and wall mortars in terms of both compositional and textural features. The aggregate resulted to be composed by different proportions of alluvial calcareous and siliceous sand or else by “cocciopesto”. Aerial lime based mortars (for the most part magnesium-bearing) have been used for wall coatings and decorations, while the use of pozzolanic binder was attested for floor covering. Furthermore, it is interesting to report an unusual mosaic floor manufactured with tesserae obtained from overfired limestone scraps (locally produced). Thus, ‘recipes’ having different functionalities were established. The sandy aggregate was quarried from the coastal alluvial deposits of the river Oreto, while the binder was mostly made by the calcination of locally available magnesian limestone or dolostone. It was found a satisfactory similarity with the more or less contemporary manufactures within western Sicily. It was also shown a substantial compositional and textural equivalence with the plasters used in the baroque palaces of Palermo demonstrating a remarkable continuity in the criteria of selection of raw materials, mainly dictated by the qualitative characteristics of locally available geomaterials.
Titolo della pubblicazione ospite
IX CONGRESSO NAZIONALE DI ARCHEOMETRIA - UN PONTE TRA ARTE E SCIENZA: PASSATO, PRESENTE E PROSPETTIVE FUTURE - RACCOLTA ABSTRACT
Montana, G., & Randazzo, L. (2016). Production technology of early-Hellenistic lime-based mortars from a Punic-Roman residential area at Palermo (Sicily). In IX CONGRESSO NAZIONALE DI ARCHEOMETRIA - UN PONTE TRA ARTE E SCIENZA: PASSATO, PRESENTE E PROSPETTIVE FUTURE - RACCOLTA ABSTRACT (pagg. 99-99)
Production technology of early-Hellenistic lime-based mortars from a Punic-Roman residential area at Palermo (Sicily). / Montana, Giuseppe; Randazzo, Luciana.
IX CONGRESSO NAZIONALE DI ARCHEOMETRIA - UN PONTE TRA ARTE E SCIENZA: PASSATO, PRESENTE E PROSPETTIVE FUTURE - RACCOLTA ABSTRACT. 2016. pag. 99-99.
Montana, G & Randazzo, L 2016, Production technology of early-Hellenistic lime-based mortars from a Punic-Roman residential area at Palermo (Sicily). in IX CONGRESSO NAZIONALE DI ARCHEOMETRIA - UN PONTE TRA ARTE E SCIENZA: PASSATO, PRESENTE E PROSPETTIVE FUTURE - RACCOLTA ABSTRACT. pagg. 99-99.
Montana G, Randazzo L. Production technology of early-Hellenistic lime-based mortars from a Punic-Roman residential area at Palermo (Sicily). In IX CONGRESSO NAZIONALE DI ARCHEOMETRIA - UN PONTE TRA ARTE E SCIENZA: PASSATO, PRESENTE E PROSPETTIVE FUTURE - RACCOLTA ABSTRACT. 2016. pag. 99-99
Montana, Giuseppe ; Randazzo, Luciana. / Production technology of early-Hellenistic lime-based mortars from a Punic-Roman residential area at Palermo (Sicily). IX CONGRESSO NAZIONALE DI ARCHEOMETRIA - UN PONTE TRA ARTE E SCIENZA: PASSATO, PRESENTE E PROSPETTIVE FUTURE - RACCOLTA ABSTRACT. 2016. pagg. 99-99
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Hiking to Mount Olympus
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Seabury Blair Jr. — Aug 17th, 1997
From grassland to glacier
By Seabury Blair Jr.
Sun Staff
Mount Olympus is a little giant you don't have to conquer to enjoy.
The highest spot on the Olympic Peninsula at 7,965 feet, it gives the backpacker the chance to look down on the ice of a living glacier without risking life and limb. It gives the climber the opportunity for plenty of thrills above. And it gives anyone with the strength and desire to hike 17 miles one of the best backpacks in the state.
You start at the Hoh River Visitor's Center in Olympic National Park, 578 feet above sea level. If you're backpacking, you'll probably finish your hike at Indian Rock or the Upper Moraine Trail, 5,000 feet above sea level. If you want to climb, you've got another couple of miles and, more importantly, another 2,965 feet up the mountain on ice and rock.
Plan to take five days -- two to get there, one to play around or climb and two to get home. Climbers and strong hikers can do it in three or four and really crazy people take two. One really crazy climber has gone from the visitor center to the summit and back in under 20 hours.
Five days is more fun, even if -- as frequently happens -- it rains in the Hoh River Valley. That's why they call it a rain forest.
Want a tip? Carry an umbrella.
It's ever so much more comfortable on these hot, muggy summer days to wear shorts and a tank top, hiking along under your umbrella, than it is to get all duded up in Gore-Tex or other heavy raingear. Skin, after all, is the only REAL breathable, waterproof fabric.
Besides, if you are lucky, you could get five glorious, sunny days. But even if you only see Old Sol one day, remember that it is the rain that gives us a real appreciation of clear blue sky.
The first 11 miles of this trail are about as flat as they get. Sure, you'll climb 100 feet or so the first mile, then drop back down to the river and the first good campsite. You'll scramble up short pitches from time to time, but most of the trail is flat.
Just past the five-mile mark, you'll run into Happy Four Shelter, an emergency shelter along the trail. If camping here, look for the best spots along the river behind the shelter.
The toughest climb in those first 11 miles is likely to be around 7.5 miles up the trail as you arrive at the site of a 1978 forest fire. Climb steeply over this hump and drop down to Olympus Guard Station, with excellent spots to camp around green, park-like meadows tended by Columbia blacktail deer and elk.
There's a seasonal ranger station there and just behind the cabin is the best water source, away from the glacier-silted Hoh River. There's also an emergency shelter. Making camp here means the backpacker faces a second day of climbing about 3,800 feet up and hiking 7.7 miles to Glacier Meadows.
An easier alternative is to hike 5.4 miles to Elk Lake and camp there, then day-hike on the third day to Glacier Meadows and the glacier's edge. This saves the backpacker the toughest part of the hike, the 2.3-mile climb to Glacier Meadows. Elk Lake has an emergency shelter.
Either way, the fun begins about halfway up the trail from Elk Lake to Glacier Meadows. You round a corner on steep mountainside and suddently, you're looking down onto the White Glacier, which angles down from Mount Olympus and Mount Tom.
The trail climbs to yet another corner where you can look up -- way up -- to the white hump of the Snow Dome on the Blue Glacier. It may seem to the backpacker that all the flatland has been left behind, but Glacier Meadows provides plenty of campsites. You'll also find two emergency shelters here.
There's not much point in carrying your backpack beyond Glacier Meadows. The trail to the Upper Moraine and Indian Rock climbs past a seasonal ranger station and forks. The right fork leads to Indian Rock, a smooth, red rock overlooking the snout of the Blue Glacier. You can climb on snow to the rock and look down into crevasses or up the vast expanse of the glacier to Glacier Pass.
Above, across the Blue Glacier, is the Snow Dome and summit of Mount Olympus.
The left fork of the trail leads along the crest of a narrow, rocky ridge that has been deposited by the glacier. This climber's trail scrambles along the lateral moraine and then drops steeply to the edge of the ice, usually providing a better spot to get onto the glacier in late summer.
Hikers should stop here. Going farther requires ropes and knowledge of glacier travel.
Besides, you can climb the rest of the way with your eyes.
Staff photos by Steve Zugschwerdt
RAIN FOREST: Dwarfed by their backpacks and centuries-old trees, hikers head down the Hoh River Trail to civilization.
HIGH BRIDGE: Backpackers look into the steep canyon of the Hoh River, about 13 miles up the Hoh River Trail.
LONG TRAIL: Hikers on their way to Olympus first pass Happy Four Shelter, top, in the Hoh Rain Forest -- which is actually more than five miles from the trailhead. At center, a hiker encounters a furry resident along the Upper Moraine Trail. Above, the view at the edge of the Blue Glacier includes Mount Olympus, right, and Glacier Pass, center.
R&R: Hike O' The Month
Rainier's Glacier Basin beckons By Seabury Blair Jr. Sun staff The trail 10.8 miles, round trip Day hike Allow 6 hours Pets, vehicles and weapons prohibited Carry water Getting there Follow Highway 16 south to Tacoma and take I-5 north to the Puyallup Exit, 135. Take Highway 167 ... [Read More...]
Hit 'em while you can
Mount Rainier tries to hide behind clouds above Mystic Lake. Photo by Seabury Blair Jr. Though long already, this splendid hike along the edge of a massive glacier that spills from the side of our state's highest peak may soon be beyond the ... [Read More...]
It's not that hard to climb Mount Olympus, but it takes time to plan your attack. By Seabury Blair Jr. Sun Staff Just about anyone can visit Mount Olympus, the summit of the Olympic Peninsula. You must take a minimum of four days. ... [Read More...]
HIKING BAILEY RANGE: The past and the present meet on a trail
Story and photos by Seabury Blair Jr. It is September, 1975. We are basking in the stunning beauty of the wild, untrailed Bailey Range in Olympic National Park for the first time. We carry backpacks that weigh more than 100 pounds, and the woman who ... [Read More...]
MR. OUTDOOR'S: High Divide for experts only, but worth effort to get in shape
Hike o' the month: High Divide Loop * Distance: 18.8 miles, round-trip * Time: 10 hours * Elevation Gain: 3,500 feet * High Point: 5,464 feet * Difficulty Level: Difficult * Best Season: Fall * Special rules: Pets, vehicles and weapons prohibited * Last hiked: April 2001 Now that you're in shape from all those summer ... [Read More...]
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NORDSTROM SHOOTING: Bank robbery suspect identified
— Sep 28th, 2000
BELLEVUE (AP) - A robbery suspect shot and killed by police in an upscale mall here fired the first shot, police said Wednesday.
A 23-year-old Bellevue man was fatally shot Tuesday at the Nordstrom Grill restaurant while officers were trying to arrest him after a bank robbery earlier in the day.
The dead man was Airen Lee Weaver, a King County medical examiner's spokeswoman said Wednesday.
Bellevue police identified the two officers as Mike Hetle, 33, and Dwight Hunter, 30. The officers fired about four times after the man they were pursuing fired at least two shots at Hunter, said Marcia Harnden, Bellevue police spokeswoman.
Lunchtime diners and employees ducked for cover.
"We were just enjoying our soup, and police stormed into the place and told everyone to get down, and the shooting started," customer Kathryn Akita told The Seattle Times.
The restaurant is on the second floor, near the men's suits department, in the upscale apparel store at Bellevue Square, a 200-store mall in the center of this city east of Seattle. Police were searching the mall after the robbery of a Bank of America branch a few blocks away.
A man entered the bank branch at 11 a.m. Tuesday, displayed a gun and told everyone to get down. He ran off with an undisclosed amount of money.
Shopping center officials were told shortly thereafter that he was seen heading toward the mall, said Jennifer Leavitt, mall vice president for marketing.
A man matching the robber's description entered the Nordstrom Grill, changed clothes in a restroom and took a table at the rear. He ordered a soft drink, vegetarian sandwich and a dessert and sat at a back table, fidgeting.
When the man saw the police, "he jumped up and pulled his gun and tried to make a break for the restroom. But he didn't get that far," Akita said.
Both officers were placed on paid leave. An internal police committee will evaluate the shooting.
Harnden said money was found in the man's backpack, but she did not say how much.
Because of the money, the man's description and the type of handgun he was carrying, police said they were certain he was the bank robber.
"You realize when you go out and you drive or fly in an airplane that something might happen, but not while having lunch in Nordstrom," said Akita. "It was a surreal experience."
Robbery suspect wounded by Seattle police
SEATTLE -- A man sought for robbing a woman at gunpoint in downtown Seattle was shot and wounded by a police officer Monday evening after a short chase on foot, police said. The man ignored orders to stop and, after about a block-long ... [Read More...]
PORTLAND: Alleged bank robber surrenders after standoff
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A four-hour standoff in downtown Portland ended Tuesday when police arrested an armed man who had barricaded himself inside an apartment complex after an attempted bank robbery, police said. The man was taken into custody without incident, said Sgt. ... [Read More...]
Robbery suspect shot and wounded in Tacoma restaurant
TACOMA - A man sought after a robbery at the University of Washington's Tacoma campus book store was shot and wounded Monday evening in a nearby restaurant. The man, reportedly in his 40s, was reported in critical condition in surgery Monday night at ... [Read More...]
Collision, injuries follow robbery call
A car driven by a Bremerton police officer responding to a taxi cab robbery collided with two other vehicles. By Ken Alltucker Sun Staff A taxi driver who was robbed at gunpoint in downtown Bremerton late Saturday night was shot at when he ... [Read More...]
Suspect in officer's fatal shooting to appear in court today
KENT (AP) -- A 28-year-old man arrested after a Federal Way police officer was shot to death is due in court today. Officer Patrick Maher, 46, was shot in the abdomen Saturday while he was scuffling with a suspect who grabbed the officer's gun. ... [Read More...]
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Gun dealer admits pocketing $20,000 in tax money
Derek Sheppard, Sun Staff — Feb 5th, 2004
Illegally selling guns and pocketing the tax money could cost a Bremerton firearms dealer more than 10 times the tax money kept from the government.
Eric Robert Barnes, 44, of Bremerton pleaded guilty Tuesday in Kitsap County Superior Court to one count of felony theft of sales taxes on guns he sold at gun shows throughout the Pacific Northwest.
Prosecutors say he pocketed about $20,000 in tax money customers paid on the $340,000 worth of guns he sold between 1995 and 2001.
Barnes is the owner of E&L Enterprises, a gun selling and smithing shop he ran out of his Bremerton home.
The state charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and as part of the plea, he agreed to pay the state $19,883 in restitution.
He pleaded guilty Jan. 23 to a federal felony charge of willfully failing to keep required records of a firearms sale by a federally licensed dealer, which carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
Firearms merchants are required under the law commonly known as the Brady Bill, enacted in 1993, to keep records of the sale firearms sales, notify the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives of the sale.
Sellers also are required to conduct criminal background checks on the buyer with the FBI, check to see if the buyer has a concealed pistol license, notify the police of the purchaser's residence and obtain approval from the police, or wait five days if approval is not received.
Charges were filed after an investigation by the ATF and state Department of Revenue discovered he had illegally sold the weapons and kept the tax money.
Barnes reportedly sold at least 179 guns at gunshows around the Northwest without conducting criminal background checks, without notifying ATF and violated other federal gun laws, according to court documents.
There was no indication that any of the weapons Barnes sold were used in any crimes.
He is scheduled to be sentenced June 7 for the state charge and May 21 for the federal charge.
Kitsap part of campaign against gun violence
SEATTLE (AP) Law enforcement authorities launched a new campaign Monday to combat gun violence in Western Washington, including an announcement that they're getting more aggressive about prosecuting gun crimes in federal court, where defendants face steeper sentences. "We're very serious about this message," ... [Read More...]
Lifting ban no big deal, gun sellers say
Sun staff and news services The expiration Monday of a 10-year federal ban on assault weapons means firearms like TEC-9s can now be legally bought a development that has critics upset and gun owners pleased. The 1994 ban, signed by President Clinton, outlawed 19 ... [Read More...]
Eight Indicted in Cigarette Probe
YAKIMA Concluding a four-year investigation, a federal grand jury on Wednesday indicted eight smoke shop operators in Idaho and Washington, alleging a scheme that defrauded the state of Washington of an estimated $56 million in cigarette taxes. The 88-count indictment charged smoke shop operators ... [Read More...]
Man convicted for firearm violations
RENO, Nev. (AP) — A federal jury here has convicted a Washington state man on four counts of firearm violations. Doug Brown, 60, of Longview, faces as much as five years in prison and a $250,000 fine for each count when sentenced May 31. Brown's arrest in ... [Read More...]
Gun rights advocates march on capital
OLYMPIA (AP) — Dozens of gun control opponents packed a Senate hearing Tuesday on several bills that would ban assault weapons, close the gun show loophole and ban weapons from the Capitol. In the largest committee meeting since the legislative session began Jan. 10, about 200 ... [Read More...]
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Posted on August 7, 2020 by lynnefrancophile
Except we hadn’t. Last week it was a case of a walk that seemed be non existent, this week it was a whole village!
I had looked at a little etang online and when researching information about it found a walk that passed by it. Google earth revealed a decent parking place next to the village church so having printed off the fiche for the walk it was all systems go. My meteo said some showers, his said no rain so off we went. Northwards this time into the Correze. I thought it was a bit odd that after passing Tulle we were on a road that I knew was on the northern side of the A89 autoroute but decided the bigger road was better than wiggling along those twisty lanes ‘i’m only the chauffeur’ doesn’t enjoy. At any moment I expected the GPS, usually a lover of goat tracks, to take us down a right turn. But that didn’t happen. On the main road in the middle of Gare du Correze our gps announced we had ‘arrived at our destination’. ‘No, we bloody haven’t’, I retorted. Lou checked the address he had entered which was indeed Saint Priest de Gimel but we weren’t in it.
Fortunately, on checking with the map and proving that the village was clearly marked south of the autoroute, we found we were near the D26 which should deliver us to the correct place. Of course, there is always trial and error. Not least when you are presented with a fork in the road that has both possibilities carrying the same road number! A short backtrack once I recognised we were on a part of the walk and once past the etang (thank goodness) we drove up a hill, around a bend and there was the tiny church on our right.
We parked up and tried to ignore the menacing black clouds coming from the direction we hoped to walk. Sensible shoes and raincoats we decided. I was very pleased to find a notice board with the name of the walk and the start of the yellow balise that would lead us around the five kilometres to come
The usual faff as forgotten bits are retrieved and then we began. The route was ‘sur la route’ until we got to the etang. The small hill we had just driven up, in fact. The Correze is logging country and we walked down between huge stacks of logs smelling gorgeous. Around them the grass verges were full of wild flowers. After our dried up straw like roadsides back home it was refreshing to see. As was the rain that started to fall!
By the time we reached the edge of the etang de Caux the rain had stopped, and so did we to enjoy the tranquil view of the water. Its owner clearly enjoyed it too, to the extent of slapping up a wire fence and three signs with various interdictions…no camper vans , no entry etc.
We took the hint and moved on. My researches had revealed this would be a walk on farm tracks, no slithering over rocky, plum smeared narrow paths between fields, and so it was. We walked up towards the plateau de Caux as my fiche told me. The etang could just be seen between the trees behind and below us.
The landscape was a mixture of woodland and fields with rocks and heathers beside the track as we climbed higher.
Finally the track flattened out with views of woodland and we came into s tiny hamlet. Caux, I believe. The first people we’d seen were chatting outside a house and waved us to the right as we searched in vain for a yellow balise.
With a bonjour and a merci we walked down past a precarious old barn and noticed a tiny yellow splash on one of its stones. Now we were on a main road and heading uphill…again. Himself wasn’t convinced we were going in the right direction but this bit I had seen several times on Google earth so strode forth!
Leaving Caux behind us we clung to the verge (more flowers) as the few cars that passed us drove at speed. The Correze has abandoned the experiment with a limit of 80kph and so you can whizz’ along at 90kph. Walkers beware!
Soon we reached the right turn for Vieillascaux. Thank goodness for the yellow balise on the road sign as Lou was convinced I was leading him on a wild goose chase. This road led us down, at first, past broom bushes and ripening blackberries
and then up to a farm. Another prominent yellow splash pointed us around the farmyard.
By now himself was striding away as usual. I was bonjour-ed by a young girl as I took a photo of her father’s (?) sign of protest about wind farms
I took several shots here as I love a cluttered farmyard and this one was pretty full of diverse objects. In contrast there were some very neat piles of wood, ready cut for the winter stove and weighted down with bits of the ubiquitous corrugated iron and large stones. A nearby logpile smelled wonderful
I knew from Google earth and my fiche that this track would eventually take us back to the church from where we started so I let Lou go ahead as I strolled along enjoying the sights and smells. The track alternated between tarmac and rough stony earth and at one point there was a wonderful perfume but I couldn’t identify from what. We were at the highest point of the walk and there was a warm breeze blowing and some blue sky appearing. Good to be alive kind of walking.
A helicopter suddenly clattered away to my left. Possibly monitoring forest fires? This is the dangerous time of year with high temperatures, random winds and careless humans. The path undulated and wandered between fields and woodland.
The woods were made up of several different deciduous species, some of which I even recognised.
Suddenly on my right a vista opened up with misty mountains in the far distance. I wished I had a compass so I could work out later with the map which ones they were.
We seemed to be in the final descent which was into a beech wood.
I love beech woods. They remind me of life back in the UK when I would pick bunches of leaves to steep in glycerine for winter displays. Around our village there are similar trees that confused me until a friend told me they are hornbeam.
The last part of the walk brought us back to the village through a farm. Possibly not a working one given the state of its buildings?
Once beautiful but needing repair. The immediate village, or hamlet, consists of this farm, three houses, a cross and a church.
There was a group of fat yew trees around the cross and I wondered if they signified the presence of a former graveyard but no amount of internet searching has revealed any information about the village or its church.
The church was locked and appears to be missing a bell or two. Its war memorial set into the church wall seems sadly neglected.
But someone must live here as a van turned up with a cherry picker on top and two workers emerged and seemed to be busy with internet cables as we were changing our shoes.
Lunch was on our minds and we hoped the small, possible parking space next to the etang would still be free. It was.
We ignored the wire fence and enjoyed the calm and the fact it had stayed dry after that first shower.
As to the mystery of the whereabouts of the real Saint Priest de Gimel? Well, we know it exists, we’ve been there…and, by proxy, so have you!
Le fraysse
Posted on July 30, 2020 by lynnefrancophile
It was meant to be a short walk followed by lunch and then, if we felt up to it, the rest of the walk.
It didn’t happen like that.
Firstly, the meteo told us it was going to be the hottest day of the year so far. Hmm, just the first part of the walk then. Secondly, when we arrived in Lissac, the departure point for this walk around the commune of Lissac et Mouret, there was no sign of ‘our’ walk on the information board outside the mairie.
There were four other walks, one of which bore the same name as the walk on the ‘fiche’ I was holding in my hand. No matter. The le fraysse walk on the notice board said it was facile, 6.5 km long and would take one hour and thirty-five minutes. Perfect. Just the right amount of walking to bring us back for lunch before the real heat of the day kicked in.
You can tell my nature tends to the optimistic! We got ourselves sorted, lots of water, sticks (thank heaven) and the copies of the map I had made. But I left the route of ‘my’ fraysse in the car. Bad move.
The blue balise was easy to find and we started to trudge up a steep hill away from the crossroads. Halfway up there was an expletive from the other half and back he went for his camera, forgotten and still in the car. I continued and dallied at the top taking photos of wayside flowers and a pretty view with a cross.
Up here we were amongst the older houses of the commune and there were lots of picturesque barns and drystone walls. We were to become well acquainted with them over the next ten minutes or so. The blue balises were still evident but kept sending us into front gardens or down grassy tracks to wire fences.
As we found ourselves having gone in a complete circle I made an executive decision. That trudge up the hill was also the first part of ‘my’ yellow route. Let’s follow that one and hope for more success. A fabulous kite flew low overhead and it seemed a good omen.
So off we went, comforted by the sight of a yellow balise painted on a telegraph pole. The track led down and I could remember the first bit of the instructions telling me that the road would become a grassy track and then a road again. And it did, so I was reassured that these yellow balises were ‘my’ yellow balises.
At the end of this first part we came back to the main road and were directed across it to a narrow low bridge crossing the Drauzou river.
I was amused by a ‘no swimming’ sign. The depth was just about sufficient for a paddle.
A young chap with his shoes off, deep in a book with headphones on, was sitting on the bank. There was a nice shady place just past him that might do for our lunch spot.
We turned right under the trees and I began to look out for the moulin de la fraysse but it was completely hidden although we could hear water tumbling over something, either a weir or the remains of its waterwheel. The path led us to our left and up between two fields. Up being the operative word. We had walked up, down and along one side of the river and the river was in a valley so common sense told us the other side of the valley would have to be climbed too. And climb we did
Looking back down…there was a lot more climbing to be done!
The path was easy to follow but upwards all the time. As we got to the edge of the woodland above the fields I pleaded for a stop to catch my breath.
Now the path ran along to our right. I was glad of our sticks which could hold back the brambles that tried to catch us and steady myself as we crossed large slabs of stone. This would be treacherous after rain, I decided, especially as the ground was littered with squashed wild plums. We came to a troop of sheep all huddled together in the shade of a tree. ‘I bet the ones in the middle are hot’, said Lou and laughed as he pointed out some more shade further along with not a sheep taking advantage of it. Sheep being sheep? I replied
Further on, still going up, we passed a tinkling ‘font’ on our right and a hamlet on our left. We were coming to Labadie, according to our map copies.
We left the brambles and squashed plums and walked (puffed) up a grassy slope towards a beautifully restored old house. From there we took the track on our left that linked the hamlet to le Causse St Denis. The clue is in the name. All our local causses are reached by climbing steep hills!
The road was still climbing but eventually it began to flatten. There was a turning on our right which, happily, our yellow balise ignored. The Pech de Saubie. I have never found a satisfactory translation for pech but peak seems about right!
Now the track was obviously going down gently through woodland. It was very pleasant and I was glad of my overly large floppy sunhat with its deep brim as the sun was hot and I was wondering if ‘Mr Mcgregor’s stomach was rumbling as it was well past one o’clock by now and he is franglofied enough to eat at midday normally.
Where the track joined the main road he was all for turning left and following it to Lissac but the yellow sign was saying go right. I suggested that, maybe, we had followed the yellow this far so why not give it a chance as it was sure to turn left soon and, hopefully, be more pleasant that walking beside the traffic in the sun. Sure enough, after a few metres there was the yellow bar on the back of a stop sign for a turning on our left. Further on at a fork between two roads in front of us there was a track leading away down the hillside. This isn’t on the map. I’ve looked. But there was a yellow sign on a telegraph pole! By now I had decided that ‘my’ le fraysse route was not a commune inspired walk. I had found it on the Figeac tourist site. Curious that the commune hadn’t thought to add it to their notice board though. Fit of pique?
Before plunging us back into woodland we had a lovely view across the Drauzou valley we had just crossed. It looks shallow but my knees could tell you different.
There goes Lou. He is shouting plums! The path got narrower and steeper and there were squashed plums again. We passed a couple of clusters of lovely old buildings where lanes came up from the main road and one had a magnificent covered well.
A dog behind a wire fence growled at me while I took pictures of a pretty wall.
As we slithered down the slope to the main road I noticed a portion of dry stone wall. Put there to hold the hillside back from the road below many years ago?
Once on the main road it was a only a short walk across the Drauzou again, not such a pretty bridge, and into the town. a left turn, up another steep slope(!), past the church and behind the mairie and back to the car parked next to the cemetery.
The car temperature read 47 degrees! And that hour and a half of walking had been two and half hours of walking. I needed my coffee! After drinking tepid water off we went to see if we could park in the shade by the pretty bridge. Sadly, the young lad was now stretched out asleep in ‘our’ spot.
Undeterred we turned for home. We knew of a couple of shady laybys set back from the road. So that’s where we ate lunch and i finally got my capuccino, in the shade of ‘les tilleuls’. We scorned the grass below the grove of lime trees, just in case, and set up our table and chairs behind the car. A little later a van pulled up in front of our car and let out a dog. The dog promptly used the grass. We were glad to be sat where we were. We were too knackered to move anyway!
On top of the Xaintrie
Another lake, another swimmer. But technically, this isn’t a lake or etang. It is a plan d’eau. Plan d’eau is a catch all term for a stretch of water used for leisure activities such as the river Cele at Marcilhac. The nearest one to our village is where the Cere widens and curves just before a small wier. A beach of sorts has formed on the outer side of the bend and is used by a nearby campsite. The one at Auriac looks like the manmade variety and we could see a rather plain embankment whose sole purpose appeared to be to hold the water back or in.
But I’m ahead of myself. Today’s trip started with a visit to the Puy de Bassin a few kilometres down the road from this particular plan d’eau. We had driven to Argentat taking the route of two weeks ago, the ‘fish farm road’ but from Argentat had taken the road northeast up across the Xaintrie, the old name for the area. Typically, the gps had ideas of its own about the route it should offer us and left the main road at St Privat and proceeded to take us down narrower and narrower roads until we had barely enough space to negotiate our way around occasional cyclists and even rarer oncoming cars. Mind you, the road from Darazac and through the forest Duzejouls was beautiful and when we drove past about five or six huge log stacks the car filled with the smell of resin.
‘i’m only the chauffeur’ hadn’t been able to find the Puy de Bassin, my intended first stop, on the car gps so we came to the plan d’eau at Auriac first. We drove on Into the tiny village full of slate roofed house and a slightly forbidding church and took the road for the Puy. As I had hoped the turning for it led to a decent tarmac road albeit narrow that took us to a parking area. Getting out of the car we could hear a humming noise and soon realised there was an enormous phone aerial nearby. Well, it is advertised as the highest point of the Xaintrie.
There were several information boards telling us about the flora and fauna. Otters (?) and booted eagles. And a sign for a six kilometre walk. Lou perked up at the thought while I didn’t. Well, not today anyway. Another time perhaps?
A wide track led up through the pine trees to a green space with a chapelle and a statue of the virgin Mary on a very tall column. There was also a rectangular stone thingy and an old fashioned camera set up pointing at the scene.
One of these edifices marks the green meridian which cuts through Paris. We cross it on visits to Aurillac (spelt differently!) and Puy Mary. I’ve read that to celebrate the millennium events were held in towns and villages along it.
(I wondered if the English translation was a touch of local French pique, letting les Brittaniques know they weren’t best pleased to lose out to Greenwich!)
We took photographs but couldn’t see the view as, despite being at the highest point, the surrounding forest blocked out everything. The chapelle was unlocked so we were able to go inside and look at the stained glass and memorial to the fallen of the two world wars. ‘Mort for la France’, this phrase is intoned at armistice ceremonies all over France after each name of the fallen for the particular community is read out. So always poignant to come across those words, especially in a beautiful place on a peaceful day. A group of children had clattered around the chapelle as we had arrived but only tried the door. Perhaps they should have been encouraged to go in and reflect.
There were none of the advertised picnic tables and with the six kilometre walk put off for another day it was back to the car under the humming aerial and back to Auriac.
Earlier we had driven past what we thought was a parking area for the plan d’eau but it turned out to be for the Sothys gardens nearby. Luckily there was some flattish land just above the water on our left so we drive onto it and parked. A bit anxious about the legality of that but the plan d’eau was just below us so we wouldn’t be far away if a jobsworth turned up and wanted order us off!
Picking our way carefully down the bank we found a bench perfectly placed for our picnic lunch. So beer out, himself, cappuccino made, myself, we relaxed and enjoyed the view. The swimmer made a circumnavigation and then seemed to disappear. We hoped he’d made it to the far side from where we could hear excited children playing in the water.
Lunch finished and the sun getting hotter as our shady patch wasn’t that shady anymore we decided to walk around the plan d’eau. I had read online there were ‘bornes’ placed along the walk with relevant information. It was thanks to one that I learned that there was a source that ran into the water. source always sounds so romantic but this appreared to be a ditch watched over by a few cows. Most if the others were pretty faded but we could just make out that we were passing a very old oak and later a very old chestnut.
The squeals and screeches were coming from children messing about with canoes next to a pontoon and some in the water by the “beach’. We spotted the official car park. Up this end there the obligatory commune tennis court and boule pitch as well as crazy golf. There was the municipal campsite which looked very inviting under its shady trees. One to remember for when times improve?
Benches and picnic tables were placed around and about and there was a holiday atmosphere as we passed groups also picnicking, sunbathing or fishing. All the things you envisage at a plan d’eau but surprisingly restful due to not being overcrowded despite it being mid July and school holidays.
Back at ‘our’ bench it was time to turn for home and pick our own route rather than that of our goat track loving gps. St Privat here we come, the less windy way!
Canal des Moines
Before we left the UK and retired to France my best friend and I decided to extend our regular lunch dates to include local places of interest that either neither of us or just one of us had visited. I remember she took me to Brookwood cemetery which may sound gloomy but, as she promised, is a beautiful place full of flowering rhododendrons if you go at the right time and is a very peaceful place for quiet reflection and long walks
Somewhere neither of us had visited was Farnborough Abbey despite knowing of its existence. This was quite ridiculous as both of us must have driven past it hundreds of times as it is on the main road less than three miles from the village where we had both lived for thirty years. (I say village because it had been back in the early 70s when we both moved there) The abbey was founded by the Empress Eugenie in the late 1800s as a place for contemplation but also as a final resting place for her husband Napoleon the third. So a French connection. We enjoyed our visit and I treasure a tiny silver pill box I bought as a souvenir of our day.
Similarly, over here we have an abbey a bit further away than three miles but still one that I have known about but never visited. Its most famous attraction is the canal des Moines, an amazing feat of 12th century engineering built to bring fresh water from the river Coiroux to the abbey. A distance of around two kilometres. Although founded near a spring the abbey required more water than the source could provide so a real case of necessity being the mother of invention.
With the one hour away driving rule this was a perfect choice. We drove past the signpost for the abbey every time we went to Malemort on shopping or medical exoedition. The gps was switched on in case there was a quicker way and, sure enough, it took us up a road we didn’t know which wound along a hillside looking down on a pretty valley. Aubazine sits on a hilltop amongst other hilltops.
There weren’t many places to park, holiday makers? ‘I’m only the chauffeur’ expertly slotted us into a space I wouldn’t have dreamed of trying, not far from the abbey.
Across the road behind us was s sign for the start of the canal so we joined a few other tourists walking in the same direction but at a distance as the new reality advises.
The start of the walk was a steep climb up a village street. I hoped this wasn’t indicative of what was to come! As we climbed higher we could hear the sound of water rushing over stones and there was the canal, tumbling down the rocks and into the valley below. I said we’d been climbing!
Up some steps, across a main road, past a lavoir and up another steep street. But, at the top, the proper start of the walk. There was a large information board and a smaller one reminding you of the dangers to come!
We had been warned. The walk was now flat with the canal moving gently on our left and a fabulous view of the thickly wooded hills on our right, between the trees growing on a very steep slope. Not a place to bring the grandson…yet!
Soon we were out in the sunshine with the rockface now on our left and an even more dangerous looking drop on our right. The praise in all the publicity for the rigorous hard work of the monks was becoming apparent the further we walked.
The path is well maintained and easy to follow. There are a few places where you have to clamber over a rocky outcrop but there are handrails to hang on to. Of course, out came the hand gel after each rail grab and I was very concerned by a chap I nicknamed the heavy breather who persisted in stopping behind me to catch his breath. I moved quickly away and hoped my ridiculously big floppy sunhat was giving sufficient droplet protection!
At one point there were metal hooks in the rockface and I remembered seeing a climbing logo on the map. Abseiling too?
We carried on with the sound of the river now below us amongst the trees. Finally, we caught sight of the water glistening as it rushed over the rocks. A little further on there was a path down to a wooden bridge over the torrent. Some children were enjoying that!
Now we were almost at the point where the canal joined the river. There was a sluice gate set between the rocks and an anxious step over the flow took you across to a place where you could see the river coiroux cascading down a waterful deep under the trees.
At this point we wondered whether to follow the footpath up to the calvaire and the point de vue. There was a washed out yellow balise on a tree trunk but the path didn’t look very inviting as it curved its way up the deeply shaded hillside with many tree roots looking ready to trip over the unwary walker. As we were not in walking boots we decided to give it a miss and return the only way possible…the way we had come.
The return always seems much faster than the outward journey and, thankfully, I’d lost my heavy breathing shadow. More photos, bien sur. And time to take the one that is on all the postcards of this walk.
Is this the corbelling the publicity talks about? In which case we’re walking over the void! We were blessed with fabulous weather and it was clear the holiday season was getting going. Further picnics may need to be taken on randonnees rather than tourist hot spots as infection rates are already on the rise again.
Back at the car lots of hand gel and thoughts of coffee. Luckily we were parked on the road we needed to take out of town. I had spent ages on Google earth looking for likely picnic spots, preferably near water and had even thought we may end up in a layby, albiet pretty, with a former railway building on it, on our route home. Finally I found a tiny etang and street view showed me it had a sign indicating its existence and google earth had followed the approach road as far as a big parking sign. So, hopefully, a legitimate place to picnic. Then the evening before the picnic I remembered that I had recently bought an ign map of the area. There was ‘my’ etang and, oh joy, an aire de repos icon.
A short drive along a windy (aren’t they all) road with views of more wooded hills and valleys and then the sharp left turn for the etang des saules, the willows pond.
There was the carpark as expected with just two cars. We parked in the shade overlooking the pond.
There were several rods around the pool and fishermen at both ends. We set up camp in the shade above and where we wouldn’t disturb the fish. We relaxed and watched the dragonflies and a lone duck, the only one to break the peace and quiet.
After lunch we wandered around the etang (I tried the toilets indicated on a sign but the door was locked!) and, of course, I chatted up one of the fishermen to find out what lived in the water.
He told me carp and pike but you could only take one of each home with you. Half-day and whole day permits could be bought at the mairie of the commune, no licence required. He spoke a little English when he heard my accent and as we left told us to ‘stay in France, ignore the Brexit!’. We intend too, we told him.
Picnic maker and researcher!
‘i’m only the chauffeur’ and parking expert. (He didn’t like the other photo)
Across the border…
Maybe because I was born under the sign of pisces I love being beside the water be it river, lake or sea. Having grown up under two hours away from family favourite beaches in the county that includes most of the Cinque ports it was perhaps odd that we retired to a landlocked department of France. But our commune is bisected by the Cere river and the Dordogne lies just over the hill behind the house. So still a lot of water about for this fishy soul to enjoy. Both the Cere and the Dordogne are home to ‘barrages’, an important source of hydro electricity. These help control the flow of what were once very dangerous rivers which could flood towns along the banks in times of heavy rain or melt water from the Auvergne from whence they both spring. In a civil defence exercise undertaken by our canton a few years ago we were told to be prepared for a disaster. On the allotted day we had a call from two councillors who announced solemnly that the big dam at Bort les Orgues on the Dordogne had burst and we had four hours to evacuate. In reality I’m not sure if four hours would be sufficient for the people ‘of the valley’ as our dance teacher refers to us, to grab precious possessions and head for the hills. Narrow country roads and a weight of fleeing traffic may mean we’d be safer sitting on the house roof and taking our chances!
Anyway, in the context of the picnic days out and the charm of sitting beside the Cele on two occasions meant I set about exploring the lakes of Correze, a department known for its thick forests and multiplicity of rivers and lakes and that starts on the edge of our commune at the top of that hill. I began by searching the department’s tourism site which listed lacs et etangs (ponds). Then it was google earth to see where one could park …or not, and if there was any shade, a priority in July and August.
I came up with two possibilities, Etang de Ruffaud and Etang de Laborde. Laborde looked the more intimate of the two and offered parking closer to the shore. There was information about both of them on various fishing sites but a photograph of people playing on the little beach of Laborde as opposed to a footnote about swimming being forbidden at Ruffaud swung it towards the smaller pond. Google maps showed a route we knew well towards Tulle and then hang a right across country just south of Saint Fortunade. Further websearching revealed another possibility that was probably more interesting scenery wise. Get ourselves to Argentat and then follow the eastern side of the Dordogne up to the Barrage de Chastang, over it and then across in a westerly direction to La Roche Canillac, the nearest village to the etang.
So that is what we did…or nearly didn’t do! We each have our own pet weather forecasters. We had woken up to wall to wall grey as himself calls it and although my forecast said sun by eleven o’clock, his said no sun until two in the afternoon and the possibility of some light rain. Decisions, decisions! In the end we decided to go. This hour from home idea means we could come back without regrets if it all went belly up. The road ‘past the fish farm’ is a favourite of the cycling son and i could see why. It winds through the woods, past said fish farm in its delightful little combe, and then up into the high pastures and the village of Mercoeur. After a few kilometres of flattish land the road swoops down into the valley just along from Argentat. The town is unremarkable but is visited for its stunning quayside lined with picturesque houses. All our visitors get taken there to wander and eat the fabulous icecream on offer!
The road along the Dordogne was new to us and not very busy. It wound around through trees with tantalising views of the river all the way. We passed the Barrage de Argentat, a rather ugly interruption of the bucolic landscape and then came to the Barrage de Chastang.
It was an awesome site and my photograph doesn’t give a sense of how tiny you felt standing below it knowing about the weight of water and power behind it. Lou asked if i wanted to stop on the way over to take another shot but I didn’t. Travelling over dams makes me feel anxious and those expanses of still deep water always seem to me to smack of something sinister. So a quick shot from the car window!
The road on the other side was narrower and twistier than I had expected but not busy which was a relief as I was on the river side of the car as we climbed steadily upwards next to an ever increasing drop to the water but with stunning views glimpsed between the trees. As we neared La Roche Canillac i got a bit confused and therefore not very good with road directions. I knew there was a lower Roche and an upper Roche and it seemed silly to climb to the upper Roche when we would have to come down again. ‘I’m only the chauffeur’ mutters about twisty roads! Happily just when we thought we had taken the wrong road a village sign informed us we were in La Roche Canillac and at the next t-junction there was a sign for the etang.
Down the hill, a turning on the right and we had arrived. And the sun had come out. There was a large grassy car park with just one car but no shade so I directed Lou around the etang to a track under the trees. He was a bit uncomfy about parking there but as there was no one around and no traffic on the track I assured him we would be ok for now…at least until we had a coffee. Table and chairs set up, coffee made, we sat and enjoyed the view despite a rather chilly breeze coming off the water.
A lady cyclist arrived, leaned her bike against a nearby tree, stripped off and slipped into the water. Brrrrr. We watched as she did a slow lap of ‘our’ end of the etang. There was a line of buoys which we assumed demarcated the swimming zone. When she climbed out just below us a conversation started. She told us it wasn’t that cold and she was used to it. She swam every morning and evening and ‘it is my element’. She went on to explain the etang is privately owned but allows the public to use it. A fishing association manages the sale of permits from the boathouse we could see and it would be open in the afternoon as a buvette.
Then she went off to sit in the sun to dry off. We decided that a move into the sun would be preferable for our lunch and so we adjourned to the grassy bank next to the boathouse. By now there were some other swimmers enjoying the water and it was very pleasant to sit in the sun under some very tall pine trees enjoying the relaxed atmosphere.
Despite the sunshine (brownie points to my meteofrance app) the breeze was still fresh so, after lunch and a pause we decided to walk around the pond or as far as was possible. Our local informer had told us the track where we had been parked originally became very wet further on because of the logging lorries. So we made for the other side where another logging track meant it was an easy walk and I soon lost Lou as I stopped to take photos.
It was lovely strolling along next to the water and exciting to see waterlilies blooming. Beside the track were young chestnut saplings and beneath the mostly pine trees not much scrub. Clearly well managed woodland which is important given the incidence of forest fires in the area.
Around the top of the etang the track left the waterside for a short distance but we soon saw where to find it again, negotiating a large tree trunk obviously placed to dissuade quad bikes and the like, I imagine. Here the track was grassy in places and very damp but passable.
We were soon back at our coffee stop and ready to start for home. Back in the car a decision to return via Saint Fortunade was made as the roads were straighter. A peaceful place to visit again but I think I’ll pass on the swimming!
This time… Marcilhac sur Cele
Marcilhac sur Cele was so pretty we were always going to go back.
In the interim I did my much loved researching online to find out more about the Abbaye Saint Pierre. Founded in the ninth century by Benedictine monks from Moisssac, by the 12th century it had become rich and powerful and even tried to take Rocamadour into its possessions. When the hundred years war ravaged the area it was destroyed by the English troops. Rebuilding work in the 15th century came to nothing as the Protestants burnt it down during the French wars of religion. After that the reformation and French revolution finished any influence it might have had. Nowadays there is fund raising to restore as much as possible with the village cure even persuaded to do a parachute jump! A secondhand organ was found and donated by Craggvale parish in Manchester.
There is an emotional comment about the English making restitution for the damage done in the Hundred Years War on the Abbey website. We used to hear a lots of comments about that war and wonder how deep that scar goes locally! All these events mean the abbey is an amalgam of its history, some of it standing as picturesque and formidable ruins and a lofty interior containing that organ.
We drove across the causse once more, poppies still there amongst the fields where haymaking was finally happening now the weather had dried up. Down into the gorge of the Cele with its breathtaking limestone cliffs and into the village ‘place’.
Not many cars parked which was a relief as the school holidays were approaching but the confusion of deconfinement meant many children had never actually gone back.
I led Lou along the riverbank and showed him the archway we had to duck through to arrive behind the abbey (the result of a swift recce the last time we were this way).
At this point we lost each other. It is ever thus. Cameras in hand we wander about taking photos, nosing around in corners and then happening upon each other eventually. The village is much tinier than I had expected but a positive jewel containing some beautiful old buildings aside from the abbey. I couldn’t find any brochures about the place as the tourist office was shut.
The tourist office!
I was keen to know if it was ever flooded as the buildings go right down to the river. Plus did the abbey control the salt route as several had along the Dordogne in medieval times when salt was an expensive item? Marcilhac is on the Santiago de Compostela route but then so many villages lay claim to that in this area I tend to think it is a tourism ploy rather than a reality. Even Gagnac has the familiar scallop shells pasted on lamp posts etc to show the ‘way’, a detour to Rocamadour from Figeac.
Back at the car the picnic was unloaded but not the table and chairs as we had noticed picnic tables next to the plan d’eau. Lou went to bag a table while I visited the epicerie for some postcards. I found some fabulous cherries for sale too….dessert!
There was a gang of lads with canoes and a radio on the grass by the water but not too loud so the peaceful atmosphere was maintained. An ouvrier was eating his packed lunch at the next table and wished us bon appetit. Lou’s beer had been remembered so all was good. Over lunch we watched the world go by and listened to the frogs…again and the Abbey clock sounding the quarters.
“I wouldn’t fancy swimming in that’, said Lou, nodding at the slowly moving and very green water. I had to agree it didn’t look inviting but the setting is fabulous. The village and its riverbank are dwarfed by the towering limestone cliffs that rise up on the far side.
Lunch over, rested and curiosity satisfied…for now, we made for home. But first we crossed the river just beyond the village and followed the road we had noticed that ran at the bottom of that towering ‘falaise’. It took us back past the village (but no suitable place for a photo) and then up into the forest of Marcilhac. Eventually we circled back to Saint Sulpice, a village clinging to the vertiginous hillside. We took the road up and out of the village and eventually came to a ‘point de vue’. Photos were taken, poppies included!
We didn’t go to Marcilhac sur Cele the next time. We did something completely different.
When we first came to this area in the early 90s we discovered an unusual bar cum gallery in St Cere called Casino.
Unbeknown to us at the time the tiny elderly couple who came out from behind the scenes when we walked in, switched on lights and watched us suspiciously as we wandered around had opened the casino back in 1945 as a bar and music venue. It soon became famous and had been referred to as the Olympia of the Lot, as a comparison with the more well known concert hall in Paris. We knew none of this and looked at the wierd and wonderful collection of art works by Jean Lurcat, a famous tapestry maker and resistance radio worker during the last war working out of his nearby chateau at St Laurent les tours and the modern, more gentle water colours of Gilles Sacksick.
The black and white photographs of a chap called Robert Doisneau took our eye, especially as it is Lou’s favourite medium. We pondered the link with our local social centre called after him. Over the years we have seen several exhibitions in St Cere and collected quite a few books of his work. Exploring the history of the owners of the casino they had been the centre of a coterie of artists, photographers and musicians who exhibited and played at the bar. It was Jean Lurcat who encouraged them to include an art gallery (for his work, bien sur) in 1947 and after Doisneau interviewed Lurcat for the magazine le point, he too became part of the St Cere scene.
All of which brings me to our next destination. Sadly the casino is no more. The elderly couple passed on, both surviving to a great age and, despite promises that the casino would continue albiet in a reduced form, not a lot has happened in recent years and it remains closed.
But, I discovered another place in the region connected to Doisneau. Although not from this area he enjoyed taking his holidays here with his wife and friends. A photograph of them waiting on the platform of the station at Carlux became an iconic image due to being taken in the early years of paid holidays and, more importantly, the last summer before world war two began.
I had googled earthed (my favourite form of stalking) a few years back and the station looked forlorn and as if it was about to be demolished. Now, however, Google revealed it to be very smart and calling itself La gare Robert Doisneau, a complex of the tourist office, a gallery dedicated to Doisneau and a cafe which had opened in 2018. Plenty of parking and only an hour from home. Bingo!
The railway track is now a voie verte, a mainly cycling route along part of the Dordogne valley. We chose a sunny day and ‘only the chauffeur’ braved the twisty road to Souillac he doesn’t like to drive. We were equipped with masks and took a picnic as I still didn’t (and don’t) feel safe eating out although bars and cafes are once again open.
The two galleries devoted to Doisneau were interesting for explaining about his life and connection with our region but the photos were mainly holiday snaps. The girl on the tourist office/gallery desk seemed unaware that there is a big Doisneau exhibition down in Bram near Carcassonne at the moment. It has been extended until September due to confinement so we still hope to get to it, fingers crossed.
There is a third gallery used for temporary exhibitions which we shuffled around but weren’t very impressed with. Outside the sun shone down and although there was a grassy carpark beyond the tarmac one it didn’t offer any shade so we decided to go and look for some.
Malheursement, the spot I had picked because Google showed a sign saying aire de repos had been taken over by a private canoe company and the shady riverside was roped off. So back to the main road to hunt for a picnic place. From my internet searching I knew it was going to be hard. This road is busy in summer and is more about moving tourists from one destination to the next rather than letting them dally. We saw one possibility and after a fruitless search further on turned back. A camper was parked up under the trees but there were two picnic tables available. Ultimately we set up our own in the best shady position.
We found ourselves eating next to the voie verte where it crossed the main drag and I think there was more traffic along that than on the road. All styles of bikes and riders. It gave me a real sense of the holidays having started despite schools still theoretically being open. We watched the world go by, on two wheels and four; enjoyed the butterflies and birdsong and the view of a village church spire.
There were even some poppies!
On y va
Well, the weather cheered up and so did I. It is the fourteenth of July and a diminished parade has taken place in Paris although the patrouille de France did its colourful flypast comme d’hab. We have been out for a picnic every week for the past five weeks and it is fast becoming an institution. Mr McGregor has taken to asking ‘and where are you taking us next week?’ I have purchased four new maps and discovered in the process that ign have started condensing two previous issues into one so I seem to have duplicates of some areas nearby. Tant pis, the cycling son always wants a map to take on his rides when here. So a run down on the visits so far..
Monteils (not to be confused with another bigger place further on)
I scanned the map of part of the Cele river, a valley we haven’t explored despite it being relatively close to home, and studied the fields etc bordering the river. I found a symbol I didn’t know and the legend stated it was an ‘aire de repos’.
A squint at Google earth showed there was a track down to the river next to a bridge over it to monteils. Fingers crossed there was enough room to park. Picnic bag packed and telling myself if it proved a disaster we weren’t far from home, off we went. I had picked a Tuesday as it seems a quiet day usually and the weather forecast was good. A pretty drive across the causse with poppies glowing on the verges. The ‘i’m only the chauffeur’ groans every time I shout ‘poppies!’. When we used to drive down to our holiday home here, the autoroute was being built, slowly, so we would drive past banks of newly turned earth where the poppies in May and June were stunning…and I would shout…!
As we left the main road to drop down to the Cele valley the grandeur of the scenery became apparent. High cliffs of limestone on either side of the river with trees clutching any earth in the cracks and clefts. This was looking promising.
We drove around Marcilhac sur Cele, a village whose name I knew but one we hadn’t been through before. It looked promising too. At last the turning for the bridge. Down the track on the right, I insisted. Cautiously, himself drove down. And there it was. The aire de repos complete with an information board and picnic tables. We parked up and I set up the table to make coffee. Lou explored and came back to say the odd tepee thing was a BBQ. I had thought it was kids’ play apparatus. Further exploring revealed an embarkation point for canoes with a slipway provided. (checking the map later I saw the symbol for that too!)
There were trees along the riverbank which I hadn’t expected but I found a gap and moved the table and chairs to give our lunch a waterside view. Lou asked for beer…oops! Something to add to the list for future outings. Someone wandered down the opposite bank and called ‘bonjour’. ‘Checking us out’, I muttered. After that it was just us, the birds, the butterflies, jumping fish and croaking frogs.
There was very light traffic on the main road and almost nothing over the bridge. We snoozed in the sunshine until himself got bored and wanted to move on. So we did. Driving back to Marcilhac I asked if we could stop so I could do a quick recce of the ruined 9th century abbey, a possible next visit? We turned into the tiny centre and there was a lovely ‘place’ under huge plane trees and a grassy bank down to the plan d’eau.
‘We could have picnicked here’, said Lou. Next time? I replied
what day is it? what month is it??
Posted on June 12, 2020 by lynnefrancophile
as a retired person i am used to asking my fellow retiree, aka mr mcgregor, what day it is as they all seem to blur together sometimes. especially in the school holidays when my various activities are on holiday too. but since the arrival of doom virus and the following confinement all over europe i am having great difficulty not only with which day is it but which month it is. yesterday i looked at the calendar and found myself disbelieving it was the eleventh day of june. june? JUNE? how can that be?
confinement hit us in mid march, the day before my birthday and on the day we should have left to go on a short break to a pretty town in provence. since then we have had to come to terms with not making any trips, at first the permitted distance was a kilometre from home then one hundred kilometres and now as far as the french border….but no further. we have had to carry pieces of paper to prove who we are, where we live and where we are going. Later more shops opened and we started going to them wearing our masks and now almost everywhere is open but we can’t assemble with more than nine other people. while grappling with all that who had time to notice that er…time was passing.
we have had a beautiful spring which saved a lot of us from extreme depression but now the early summer is pretty wet and gloomy which is having an effect on my morale and, no doubt, on other peoples’ too. a normal june (will there ever be a normal june again?) would find me making sausage rolls as the various group activities drew to a summer closure.
the rock crowd would be having its annual ‘assemblee’ followed by a bbq and rock soiree. later there would a pizza night up at hugo’s fabulous place in the hills with music and dancing into the early hours.
the homework club would be organising a meeting to ‘faire le point’ and a picnic on the banks of a local plan d’eau to round off the school year.
my monthly ‘ladies wot lunch’ would be meeting for the last time before september, sharing plans for the summer and family visits. the weekly english/ french group would be trinque-ing a verre and wondering how to hang on to the vocabulary we had learned. gym classes would draw to a close. i don’t know how they celebrate the end of the year as it was my first year with this association and what a strange year.
only secours populaire would be soldiering on but they would be discussing the closure of the antenne in august although the weekly distribution alimentaire would go on just as it has done all through this awful time.
and we should have been doing a ‘collecte’ this month to replenish supplies!
the village fete committee would be selling tickets for the fete de la musique on midsummer’s day or the weekend closest when we would all convene for a meal in the ‘place’ for a catch up and ‘bopping’ to the accordian music provided.
and our crazy kiwi friend up on the hill would be celebrating christmas in summer as she has done ever since landing in our lives, borrowing our elderly christmas tree in a pot!
that’s a normal june. and normal june would have followed a normal may and a normal april. we did do some of the usual things around easter which this year fell in april. traditionally we always get out the garden furniture from the cave on the easter weekend and we did.
but it didn’t follow a week of cleaning and readying the gite for the hoped for summer clients. with travel restrictions in place for the forseeable future there seemed no point. even when things eased up in may i replied to a tourist office enquiry that we would not be opening.
i really don’t feel like cleaning up after strangers and the cleaning has to be much deeper than usual and there are various procedures to be put in place. i couldn’t face it.
in may we managed to get out and buy the veg and flower plants to keep us busy and to bring a little normality into our days. but it was odd not to have any visitors. may is often a month when family or friends choose to come and stay.
the weather is good, the countryside looks stunning and the children are in school so everywhere is reasonably calm and getting around is enjoyable. we did catch up on jobs that needed attending to that we couldn’t do under the confinement but that was soon achieved.
and now here is june. the bars and restaurants are open but as we are both in the susceptible over 70s group the advice for us is stay close to home as before with only occasional sorties!
we had talked back in the winter about maybe camping this month, the quiet but warm month, at a pretty spot below puy mary about ninety kilometres away from here. we discovered it when playing broom waggon to gav on one of his long bike rides a few years ago. we liked the village and went back to the campsite later on the same summer.
but the last thing we want to do now is share a sanitary block with other people, something that we happily did before however antiquated the facilities. the sale and rental of camper vans is going through the roof according to the news as people realise the efficacy of being able to take a holiday but remain in their own, hopefully, healthy bubble. our tent couldn’t provide that and as far as i know campsites are only opening for camper vans.
and so it was a shock to realise that half the year has slipped away. and all i can remember doing with any regularity is the daily search of the news for the death rates and infection rates as we all yearn to see them diminish and bring an end to this fear that we are all living under. plus my daily posting on facebook of my garden wander to keep my spirits up.
oh, and the weekly facetime homework club with a couple of eleven year olds plus instagram…plus……. an interior and screen orientated life.
but…. this won’t do! this way lies depression and a waste of days. so i have decided that we need to get out. safely, of course, but out! i announced this to mr mcgregor as we drove to a medical appointment the other day and enjoyed the scenery we hadn’t seen for three months. how about a day out somewhere, taking a picnic to some tranquil spot in the countryside preferably near one of our many rivers where we can sit and stare and maybe find a quiet walk as well? ‘not more than an hour’s drive’ demanded himself. he knows how i can get carried away and we end up driving for ages. so at last i can dig out the maps, play around on google earth to see if places match up to my imagination….like a ‘normal’ june….. now i just need the weather to cheer up….
then…on y va!!
once around the block
Posted on April 29, 2020 by lynnefrancophile
we went for a walk the other afternoon. so? i hear you thinking. well, due to the confinement, or lockdown as english speakers call it, going for a walk is not the simple or, dare i say it, enjoyable experience it once was. before setting out you, or in this case both of us, have to fill out the attestation that must accompany an individual on every step beyond the perimeter of home. exercise is allowed but cannot be undertaken for more than an hour and can’t be more than a kilometre from home. lou has been around the block a few times and when i googled the furthest point it transpired it was 100 metres over the kilometre. we hoped the gendarmes wouldn’t have google maps to hand if we were challenged.
identification has to be carried as well. early on it was a subject of hot debate on various facebook groups as to whether brits needed to carry passports or if driving licences would do. we take both as lou say our address is on our driving licence which seems a sensible precaution. eventually we were ready to set off.
as we approached the end of our drive the neighbours called a greeting. we often chat over the fence and discuss various garden plants and sometimes even swap some. it seemed odd keeping well back and shouting the length of their garden. just then friends from further up the hill, a mother and daughter, walked out from under the railway bridge and also called out a cheery bonjour. they made to step towards us and we instinctively moved back. this was all so unreal and so unlike our usual greeting which would have been kisses all round.
reassuring each other ‘tous va bien’ and a final shout of ‘seulement un heure’ from the neighbours we headed off. turning round the first left we passed a neighbour’s barn. this barn had been the venue for a repas de quartier, the first ever held since we moved here. these repas are jolly affairs where the neighbours in a particular corner of the commune meet up for an evening of food, drink and chat. ours was organised by a chap who is a chef by trade and lives opposite said barn. he cooked up paella and the rest of us brought along the aperos, salads, desserts and alcohol, of course. it was a lovely evening and we got to know people we had previously only nodded to. i pondered ruefully that it may be a long time before we can enjoy such a gathering again.
by now lou was pacing ahead, comme d’hab, while i stopped to take photos. about now i began to feel very vulnerable. all my previous lockdown excursions had been in the car and here i was maskless and not inside my metal bubble. but around the next bend the beauty of a bank of iris made me forget those misgivings and begin to enjoy being outside and stretching my legs further than the limits of our garden.
we had said to ourselves just a quick walk up to the ‘horse’ field, so named for our grandson because of the white horse that lives in it. highly original!
by the time we got there, several photos later (butterflies, barn doors, arum lilies…) we decided to carry on around the block as we still had forty minutes in hand. the road looked as if there had been a snowstorm. thick white blossom from the nearby poplar trees carpeted it from side to side.
(i had read about a red alert for poplar allergy sufferers.) just here we had a chat…at a safe social distance… with a gentlemen who was restoring the roof of the barn next to the house he had bought a couple of years ago. once again, i thought about how we would have shaken hands, agreed we were anglais and spent some time in idle talk if the virus wasn’t hanging over us plus the time allocation of our jaunt.
along the ridge, under a fabulous oak just bursting into leaf, down the hill and a swing left over the railway line. no trains for weeks now which we miss but the local cats are enjoying as they strut along the tracks as if they own them.
then we crossed the main road by the old farm house being restored.
about now i became aware of a bird singing away in the trees to our right. i was convinced it was a nightingale but was waiting for its familiar ‘peeep, peeep, peeep’…and as we turned onto the track across the fields it came! so a nightingale to complete the feast of the senses.
all along the walk i had been excited by all the briar roses out in bloom. i started off thinking they were a type of wild mock orange blossom but my new app on my phone identified them as roses.(thanks, bro) whatever they were they were beautiful.
by now i had lost lou what with photos and identifying plants with the app. checking my watch i began to hurry up. an hour isn’t long enough to take in everything but it certainly concentrates the mind and senses. this part of the walk takes you between fields that lead down to the river cere. one was full of buttercups while the one opposite give views across the river and up to the hills above the village
this path is often the start of my bike rides but those aren’t allowed at the moment unless the bike is being used to go shopping. the river comes in sight briefly where it is joined by the mill race.
we have a mill at port de gagnac. now it is a wood mill but our neighbour who lives to the east of paris remembers it being a flour mill in her childhood and the miller covered in flour looking like a ghost. the millrace lives up to its name and rushes through its banks and after heavy rain will flood into the farmer’s field.
this one!
and we got back within the hour…just
yesterday our prime minister gave a speech outlining the new conditions for deconfinement. we won’t need the attestation anymore after 11th may if we are designated as living in a green zone but if our area is designated red….it will just be around the block for the duration!
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03.04.2019: blockescence plc: portfolio company gamigo AG acquires gamepublisher WildTangent Inc. in the form of an asset deal
Wednesday, April 3, 2019 — Disclosure of an inside information acc. to Article 17 MAR of the Regulation (EU) No 596/2014
April 03, 2019 | 00:26 CET/CEST
blockescence plc: portfolio company gamigo AG acquires gamepublisher WildTangent Inc. in the form of an asset deal
WildTangent is a leading publisher of casual games based in Bellevue, Washington State (USA)
Attractive asset deal; WildTangent publishes over 4,000 games and makes a positive contribution to EBITDA of the gamigo group from day one after the acquisition
Great potential for synergies with gamigo's game publishing activities
Valletta, 3 April 2019: The gamigo AG - a portfolio company of the blockescence plc (WKN: MT0000580101; Symbol: BCK, "blockescence") and one of the leading online games publishers in North America and Europe - has today, via it's 100% subsidiary gamigo Inc. acquired substantially all assets of the US games publisher WildTangent Inc. ("WildTangent"). The purchase price is in the mid-single-digit million US dollar range. The parties have agreed not to disclose the exact purchase price. The assets include, among others, a portfolio of over 4,000 games, which are distributed via the company's own platform and in close cooperation with leading computer and laptop manufacturers. The acquired business of WildTangent is expected to contribute to gamigo group's revenues with a mid-single-digit million US dollar amount in the current financial year and to positively contribute to the gamigo group's EBITDA from the date of acquisition.
In addition to the positive financial figures, gamigo expects the acquisition to generate significant synergies with gamigo's current gaming activities and portals. WildTangent operates a gaming platform with more than 4 million visitors per month, a network of more than 400 game developers and publishers, a substantial customer base, as well as contracts for the distribution of the games portfolio via leading computer manufacturers.
Information and Explanation of the Issuer to this News:
With this acquisition, gamigo AG continues its series of successful acquisitions using the consolidation potential of the market. Based on its platform strategy, synergies between gamigo and the acquired companies can be leveraged and thus contribute to the further profitable growth of the group. With the current acquisition of the WildTangent assets as well as the Trion Worlds assets at the end of 2018, gamigo significantly strengthened its position in the USA, one of the world's largest gaming markets. blockescence holds 38% of the shares and 53% of the voting rights of the gamigo AG and is planning to increase it's stake.
CEO Remco Westermann: 'We are very happy about this successful acquisition which enabled gamigo to further expand its market position in the USA. WildTangent is profitable from day one after the acquisition and will contribute directly to gamigo group's operating profit and as a result of that also add to blockescences results. The acquisition allows gamigo to further leverage economies of scale as well as synergies.'
About blockescence plc:
blockescence is a strategic investment holding that focuses on a 'buy, build & sell' strategy of rapidly growing companies within consolidating TMT sectors. The blockescence portfolio companies grow through acquisitions as well as organic growth. New technologies are actively being used to create USP's and improvements in efficiency within the portfolio companies. One example is the implementation and the roll-out of the Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT or blockchain technology) to create competitive advantages within the portfolio companies. blockescence has its headquarter in Valletta (Malta), holds daughter companies in Switzerland and Germany, and is listed at the Frankfurt stock market as well as on XETRA.
This release may contain certain forward-looking statements based on current assumptions and forecasts made by the management of blockescence or its affiliated companies. Various known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors could lead to material differences between the actual future results, financial situation, development or performance of blockescence and its affiliated companies and the estimates given here. Neither blockescence nor its affiliated companies assume any liability to update these forward-looking statements or to adapt them to future events or developments.
edicto GmbH
Axel Mühlhaus / Dr. Sönke Knop
Phone: +49 69 9055 05 51
E-mail: blockescence@edicto.de
blockescence plc
Soeren Barz, Head of Investor Relations
Email: info@blockescence.com
Web-Page: www.blockescence.com
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Team Singapore Athletes Power Through Training While Fasting In Ramadan
Rilek1Corner > Agama > Team Singapore Athletes Power Through Training While Fasting In Ramadan
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athletes, fast, Islam, Muslim, ramadan
The second a text message came from her family members to inform her it is time to break fast, silat exponent Nurul Shafiqah tucked into her cup of mango yoghurt.
For the past few weeks, the 23-year-old two-time world championship bronze medallist has been training for about an hour and a half on a near-empty stomach in the late afternoon, before pressing on with another high-intensity session for two hours in the evening at OCBC Arena.
In between, she has an hour’s rest to recharge and digest her food.
With the SEA Games in Kuala Lumpur fast approaching, most of Singapore’s national athletes are already shifting into high gear as they aim to peak in time for the regional multi-sport event in mid-August.
For Muslim athletes, observing the fasting month of Ramadan is not an excuse to slow down. “Training is as per normal regardless of the fasting month, as we still train two times a day five times a week, with our break only over the weekends,” said Nurul Shafiqah, a Nanyang Technological University undergraduate.
Still, it makes training all the more gruelling, she admitted. “There is definitely more (hunger). We do have a pre-dawn meal, so it isn’t that bad, but at times, I do feel like I have no energy,” said Nurul Shafiqah. “Despite that I keep on pushing and my coach too, pushes me to the limit regardless.
“My aim for this SEA Games is to at least win a medal. It’d be nice to stand on the podium to win something for Singapore.”
While sparring on an empty stomach represents a challenge on its own, grappling the urge to stuff herself with food when breaking fast is another battle altogether. “Even though (the training) intensity is high, I try to avoid eating heavy,” said the sports science student.
“I usually go for things like banana bread and yoghurt and nothing too heavy as I’m scared to train on a full stomach. I usually go for an easy meal.”
To forget about her growling stomach, Nurul Shafiqah distracts herself by committing her mind to her silat training. “There’s always the (training) processes to focus on, so in a way it’s a distraction from the hunger and thirst,” she said.
TURNING “NOCTURNAL”
For national track cyclist Mohamed Elyas, the intense cardiovascular effort needed in his sport means that his training is best held after breaking fast. For close to a month now, the 21-year-old begins training at 9pm and returns home by 1am.
Said Elyas: “For me, for the entire fasting month, I’d train during the night for about two or three hours after breaking fast. I eat a regular meal at the stipulated time by sunset, and sometimes I go to the mosque first.”
“But when I’m going to do a big set, a little more time is needed, so I come out earlier and go out for training first. If not, I’d finish my prayers first and then come out for training for an hour or two at Seletar Road,” said the 2016 Singapore National Road Racing Champion.
Instead of training in the day as he does usually, Elyas has had to make adjustments to his body clock during Ramadan. “I don’t really change my training programme that much because I simply train at night. I have my meals and am able to drink through training,” said the national rider.
“I’m still able to maintain my intensity and volume through the month, so I’m not so worried about losing my form or not peaking during the Games,” he added.
Much like Shafiqah, the track cyclist’s main battle lies in the mental challenge of staving off the added exhaustion from fasting. But the 21-year-old, said he gets an added boost, spiritually.
“In my case, I draw strength by asking help from God because when fasting you’re fulfilling your religious obligations,” added Elyas. “I believe that God will help us if we keep our faith, and that’s how I get through my training while fasting.”
PROPER NOURISHMENT IS KEY: SSI
Singapore Sports Institute (SSI) dietician Cheryl Teo recommends several options for both athletes to sustain themselves during Ramadan. “Depending on their training programmes, some athletes might train just before breaking fast. In this case, Iftar will double up as a post-training recovery meal, best eaten within half an hour of training for maximum recovery benefit.”
“If it is not possible to have a meal within half an hour of training, dates and milk would also make an excellent recovery snack – dates because it is a rapid digesting carbohydrate; milk because it has the full recovery package of protein, fluid, electrolytes, and carbohydrates,” said Ms Teo.
As athletes generally sweat more during training, Ms Teo also emphasised the importance of proper hydration for athletes who fast during training. “Shafiqah’s training programme requires her to train again after Iftar. During this time she will need to maintain her hydration and energy.”
Ms Teo added: “Useful options to have during training include coconut water, diluted fruit juice with added salt, or non-gassy sports drinks.”
“To recover after training … a smoothie made with nutrient-dense foods such as nut butters, avocado, Greek yoghurt, milk, and banana would help her meet her energy intake for the day, and fulfil her post training nutrient requirements.”
Nanyang Polytechnic’s Sport and Wellness Management lecturer Damien Lee however, cautioned against overexertion for fasting athletes. “In general, our human body still allows us to go on with some physical activities while hungry, but maybe not at the optimum intensity,” said Lee.
“(Athletes) have to be mindful and be aware of some of the risk and perhaps take it a bit easier or else their muscles may not be able to perform at their optimum.”
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RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Oct 25, 2013
By Citizen M | Published: October 25, 2013
TODAY: EEC summit sees Russia rigid on barring Ukraine from Customs Union; LGBT writers plan to release ‘underground’ book; U.S. espionage accusations dismissed; tenth anniversary of imprisonment of former Yukos head; Kremlin wants Rosneft money; Tolokonnikova investigation request denied.
The Eurasian Economic Community summit was held in Minsk yesterday, with Turkey and India both expressing a desire for closer ties; many saw the summit’s main significance as its being ‘the last opportunity for [President Vladimir] Putin to convince his Ukrainian counterpart Victor Yanukovych that joining the Customs Union is a better idea than integrating with Europe’. This report, however, quotes the President as having said that it was now ‘impossible’ for Ukraine to join. Putin also suggested that the Customs Union be expanded, and that the Eurasian Economic Community be gradually dissolved. Today marks the tenth anniversary of the arrest of former Yukos head Mikhail Khodorkovsky – ‘a turning point in Russia’s history’, says Boris Nemtsov. Marking the anniversary, a former CFO at Yukos writes in The Guardian to represent ‘thousands of Yukos shareholders whose assets were stolen’. Khodorkovsky himself has a piece in the New York Times, in which he reflects on what has and has not changed over the past ten years of his imprisonment.
Unless his probation term is cut, anti-corruption leader Alexei Navalny will not be allowed to run for office until 2028. A collection of stories by Russian LGBT writers, titled ‘Gay Propaganda’ and edited by Masha Gessen, will be distributed throughout the country ‘via underground activist networks’. Russia ‘angrily’ dismissed accusations of espionage from the U.S., after suspicion arose over the head of a Kremlin-run cultural exchange program. Authorities in Mordovia have turned down Nadezhda Tolokonnikova’s request to open a criminal case against the deputy head of her former penal colony. http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/mordovia-authorities-dismiss-tolokonnikovas-demand-to-prosecute-prison-official/488434.html ‘Putin is no more worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize than Syrian President Bashar Assad,’ argues Michael Bohm. http://www.themoscowtimes.com/opinion/article/a-nobel-prize-tailor-made-for-putin/488451.html
Gazprom has completed its first solo offshore project – the Kirinskoye field off the island of Sakhalin. The government is searching for a way to grab a share of the ‘billions of dollars’ accumulated by Rosneftegaz in recent months, demanding a $4.9 billion payment in relation to the THK-BP takeover deal. BusinessWeek looks at what was missing from the raft of energy deals Russia signed with China this week: namely, ‘a long-term agreement to sell China natural gas through a dedicated pipeline’.
PHOTO: Russia’s President Vladimir Putin (R, front), Belarus’ President Alexander Lukashenko (L, front) and other participants walk before posing for a family photo as they attend the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council at the Palace of Independence in Minsk, October 24, 2013. REUTERS/Mikhail Klimentyev/RIA Novosti/Kremlin
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RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – July 5, 2012
By Citizen M | Published: July 5, 2012
TODAY: Pussy Riot start hunger strike as judge rules defense must speed up; HRW decries new law to brand NGOs foreign agents; travel ban being mulled for authors of said bill; the future of the Kremlin Rights Council; Orlov acquitted. St Petersburg agrees to gay march; Communist TV; toxic spill injures 3; Russian language law in Ukraine causes uproar; McFaul’s slangy tweet provokes annoyance
The three imprisoned members of anti-Putin feminist band Pussy Riot have gone on hunger strike, following a court decision that would dramatically reduce the amount of time their defense has to study case materials. The lawyer for defendant Nadezhda Tolokonnikova told the Moscow Times that the court’s decision was clearly politically motivated. The police have detained a number of the group’s supporters who staged a protest performance at the Tagansky District Court. Human Rights Watch has issued a statement urging Russia’s State Duma to reject the proposed amendments to NGO classification which would see foreign-funded groups referred to as foreign ‘agents’. It has been reported that a travel ban could be imposed on the authors of the bill if opposition activists have their way. This article suggests that Kremlin Human Rights Council president Mikhail Fedotov may have succeeded in persuading Lyudmila Alexeyeva to remain on the beleaguered committee. Memorial head Oleg Orlov has been acquitted of defaming the lawyer of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov. Jailed businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky has apparently given the money he gained in compensation from the ECHR to charity.
St. Petersburg authorities have unexpectedly sanctioned an LGBT march for 1,000 people on July 7. The Communist party (which does not appreciate comparisons with homosexuals) plans to launch its own TV station. Russia’s leading anti-drug figurhead Evgeny Roizman has issued a warning to citizens about the dangers of synthetic marijuana or ‘spice’. There has been a toxic chemical spill at a factory in St. Petersburg, resulting in the poisoning of three people.
‘Russia must understand that the situation in Syria is leading towards a collapse, to terrible and grave violence’: the words of British Foreign Secretary William Hague. The Kremlin has denied it has discussed the future of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad with Washington. The decision to make Russian an official language in Ukraine has apparently been met with riots. The U.S. Ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul, has strayed into another Twitter row.
PHOTO: Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova in court for a hearing on June 20. (Vladimir Filonov / MT)
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Contemporary Medical Pluralism in Burma
Monique Skidmore
Centre for Creative & Cultural Research
Every day in Central Burma, Burmese people engage with their pluralistic medical
system. As with medical systems all over the world, in Central Burma, confusing,
competing and contradictory logics govern the use of this medical system by
Burmese people. Central Burma can be defined as the deltas and valleys of the
Ayeyarwady River, where the population is divided between the large population
centres of Yangon, Mandalay, Pathein and Mawlamyaing and the many villages
that surround the river and its tributaries. The aim in this chapter is to present
a cultural understanding of the ways in which Burma’s pluralistic medical system
has been transformed through the past century or so. It examines the relationship
between private and public healthcare systems and controversy about the use
and provision of humanitarian and in-country aid, before examining transnational
and cross-border forms of health provision accessed by Burmese people in their
search for affordable and curative medicines. It seeks to make more complex
analysis of the provision of health care by considering how users encounter and
negotiate their way through the Burmese medical system. Finally, it considers
some of the longer-term consequences that a lack of the right to health is bringing
about in Burma
Dictatorship, Disorder and Decline in Myanmar
M Skidmore, T Wilson
ANU E Press
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Janitorial Training: Safe Handling Of Cleaning Products
They’re the unsung heroes who keep schools, offices, restaurants, hospitals and other frequented places clean and sanitary. Janitors work hard and put themselves at greater physical risk than some would imagine.
Janitors and cleaners sustained 19,097 injuries while at work in 2018, according to the most current U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data. This includes 320 incidents involving chemicals from the cleaning products they come into contact with every day.
How can you keep janitors and cleaning staff safe when using cleaning products?
The Dangers
Cleaners, sanitizers and disinfectants are the tools of the trade, but they are not one in the same. In general, disinfectants and sanitizers are more hazardous than cleaners.
According to the Occupational Safety And Health Administration:
Cleaners remove dirt through wiping, scrubbing or mopping.
Sanitizers contain chemicals that reduce, but do not totally eliminate, bacteria, viruses and molds from surfaces.
Disinfectants contain chemicals that destroy or inactivate microorganisms that cause infections.
Often, the chemicals in these products are caustic, flammable or poisonous. They can irritate the skin and cause rashes and burns.
Vapors and gasses from these chemicals can irritate or burn the eyes, nose, throat or lungs and cause coughing, wheezing, trouble breathing, sore throat, headaches, nosebleeds, dizziness and trigger asthma attacks.
Long-term exposure to some chemicals can cause cancers and other health problems.
Janitorial services company owners and employees play an important role in ensuring the safe handling of cleaning products.
As owners and managers, you need to provide safe workplaces with good ventilation for janitors who use cleaning chemicals. You should also provide the right personal protective equipment (PPE), which at minimum includes protective clothing, gloves and safety goggles.
OSHA recommends custodial businesses develop and regularly use janitorial training programs to teach front-line workers how to safely handle cleaning products. OSHA says janitorial safety training should:
Caution workers not to mix cleaning products
Ensure workers know which cleaning chemicals must be diluted and how to do so correctly
Review and train workers on the use and storage of chemicals and cleaning agents
Review and train workers on emergency spill procedures
Review and provide the proper PPE
Ensure all containers of cleaning products and chemicals are labeled correctly to identify their contents, hazards and expiration dates
Run ventilation systems as needed during cleaning tasks to create sufficient air flow and prevent the buildup of harmful vapors
Provide workers with a place to wash up after using cleaning chemicals
Importantly, you must also maintain Safety Data Sheets (SDSs) for all hazardous chemicals and cleaning products you use and keep SDSs readily available for workers.
According to OSHA, SDSs should list hazardous chemicals in the cleaning products; potential health issues and symptoms associated with chemicals in the cleaning products; related first-aid measures for exposure; the right PPE to employ when using the chemical; and the correct clean-up procedures for spills.
After cleaning staff training, janitors must use cleaning products responsibly. They must treat all chemicals and cleaning products carefully and with respect, reading labels and following directions for using the products safely.
When products call for dilution, they must use the chemicals exactly as directed by the label’s instructions and not overuse concentrates in an attempt to create a “stronger” cleaning product.
Cleaning products should also never be used to wash the hands or body parts, but proper hand washing is mandatory after using cleaning chemicals, especially before eating, drinking or smoking.
Notably, janitors must never mix different cleaning chemicals together, as it could create dangerous chemical reactions and release hazardous gases.
Bleach, one of the most common household and industrial cleaning products, poses a particular danger. When mixed with ammonia, it creates mustard gas. Bleach also creates other harmful gases when mixed with glass/window cleaners, chlorinated powder cleansers, drain cleaners, hydrogen peroxide, chlorinated disinfectants and vinegar.
While owners need to keep track of SDSs, janitors need to know how to correctly and safely store chemicals and cleaning supplies.
Storage areas should be well-ventilated and kept cool. Stacking boxes and containers too high is hazardous, and powders should be stored above liquids. Within storage areas, cleaning products and chemicals should be kept out of direct sunlight and out of the reach of children.
Janitors on break should not eat, drink or smoke near stored chemicals and cleaning supplies. Nor should they store food and beverages alongside chemicals and cleaning products.
Proper Practices and Equipment
Finally, OSHA recommends that you investigate and invest in new cleaning practices and cleaning equipment that reduces the reliance on chemicals to keep spaces clean and sanitary. These include microfiber mops, cloths and dusters; chemical-free or green cleaning products and systems; high-filtration HEPA vacuums; hands-free mops; and preventative measures, such as mats inside and outside of buildings to keep out tracked dirt.
There are more than 19,000 health-and-safety-related incidents annually, making janitorial work deceptively dangerous. The costs for workers’ compensation claims can quickly cut into your bottom line if you don’t run safe operations.
Workplace Safety for Property Managers
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It’s Not All Golden: What Rules Do You Live By?
by Susan | Jul 29, 2016 | essay, inspiration | 0 comments
I’m one of those people who thinks that a lot of human behavior is governed by rules that are so ingrained we don’t even realize we are following rules and may not be able to articulate them once we do.
The Golden Rule, the underlying principle of the Charter for Compassion, suggests that we should “Treat others the way you wish to be treated yourself.” When we aren’t practicing the Golden Rule we are probably following a different rule. Some have even been given names:
Iron Rule: Do unto others before they do it to you
Brazen (Brass) Rule: Do good to others so that they will do good to you
Silver Rule: Do unto others as they do it to you
Rule of Gold: Whoever has the gold makes the rules, as described in this “Wizard of Id” cartoon
Stone(Age)Rule: Do unto others in any way that seems to serve your interests
Physicist Carl Sagan — host of the original “Cosmos” in the 1980s — wrote a chapter about these rules in “Billions and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the End of the Millennium, ” the last book he wrote just before his death in 1996. He observed a couple of additional rules:
Finally, I should mention two other rules, found throughout the living world. They explain a great deal:
Suck up to those above you, and abuse those below. This is the motto of bullies and the norm in many nonhuman primate societies. It’s really the Golden Rule for superiors, the Iron Rule for inferiors. Since there is no known alloy of gold and iron, we’ll call it the Tin Rule for its flexibility.
The other common rule is: Give precedence in all things to close relatives, and do as you like to others. This Nepotism Rule is known to evolutionary biologists as “kin selection.”
Although Sagan doesn’t give it a catchy name, I’ll propose that last one could be called the Rule of Blood.
Here’s a exercise we lead at the peaceCENTER. When you read the newspaper today — or perhaps when you’re reading a novel or watching a film — keep these rules by your side and try to figure out which rules the characters are following. It’s enlightening. How would the scenario change if the Golden Rule was being followed?
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The history of SacredSheetMusic.com
Read how it all began from the printing ministry of C & L Enterprises to the digital downloads of SacredSheetMusic.com!
In 1986 two musicians, Duane Ream and David Parker, had a dream of publishing quality, conservative, sacred music. Duane and David incorporated in May of 1986 under the name C & L Enterprises, Inc. of Greenville. The "C" stood for Duane's wife Candice and the "L" stood for David's wife Linda. That first year they produced two books, a medium voice vocal solo book entitled Soloist 1 Medium Voice and an advanced piano book entitled HymnNotes 1 Advanced. They enlisted the talent of the finest composers and arrangers they knew contracting names like Mac Lynch, Faye Lopez, Joan Pinkston, David Warren, Duane Ream, Becky Bonam, Gina Sprunger, Joan Love Parker, Mark Parker and many more to write the piano hymn arrangements. Duane and David collaborated on most of the vocal solo settings. In 1989 Duane felt the need to focus on other pursuits and he stepped down from C & L Enterprises. The Soloist and HymnNote series would conltinue to grow to thirty-three (33) books and multiple octavos offerings before the printing aspect of "C & L," as it was called, was discontinued in 2010. Seeing the handwriting on the wall in 2007 David launched an internet online store, SacredSheetMusic.com, and began transitioning all the C & L selections actually owned by C & L to the new site. Vendors were brought on board as the dynamics of the company changed. The original C & L business model was as an independent publisher where arrangements from the "outside" were either purchased outright by C & L or licensed on a royalty basis to print. When transitioning to the internet C & L Enterprises, Inc. of Greenville (now DBA SacredSheetMusic.com) simply became another vendor at its own website and other publishing individuals and companies came on board as independent vendors. In 2010 the final C & L publications were liquidated below cost and the printing aspect was completely shut down.
In November of 2013, the original SacredSheetMusic.com website broke during a transition to a more modern server process. The original site was built on software that quickly became dated and incompatible with new technology. After clear, providential direction, new developers contacted SacredSheetMusic.com and offered to rebuild the site from scratch. On April 1st, 2014 the new, bare-bones SacredSheetMusic.com launched. Stage 2 of development was completed on August 1st, 2014 when SacredSheetMusic.com launched the capability of bringing on new vendors - see "New Vendor Application Process." Stage 3 was completed in November of 2014 when the foreign language counterparts of the SacredSheetMusic.com site in Spanish, German and French launched. Currently there are approximately 3000 musical selections from close to 70 vendors now available at the website with over 6,000 new selections that will be added by the Spring of 2017 from the Lorenz Corporation. The process of continually improving the SacredSheetMusic.com website is constantly ongoing. We have developed a "clutter free" website that quickly directs the customer to needed resources. The SacredSheetMusic.com taxonomy (search process) is second to none in the online industry. We ARE the online, sacred sheet music equivalent of Amazon Marketplace or eBay allowing approved vendors to come on board and personally sell their own music. We have wonderful tools unique to the digital download industry to help teachers/customers such as the "SacredSheetMusic Share-A-Piece" resource. We continue to set goals and undergo projects to improve the website for both customers and vendors. A tremendous debt of gratitude goes to Mr. Matt Bennett for his incredible skill and knowledge in developing the new SacredSheetMusic.com to its current status. His patience in this collaborative process has been invaluable. SOLI DEO GLORIA
Dr. David G. Parker, President & CEO
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Fighting together to protect the oceans and marine wildlife
Sharks are the most underappreciated animals in the oceans, and their importance in the ecosystem is fundamental; we need to step up our measures to protect sharks. Raise your voice to stop shark finning across Europe!
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Salty Warriors is a nonprofit organisation founded to empower people who are fighting for the conservation of the marine ecosystems. We support, gather, connect and carry on initiatives in the belief that together we can make a greater impact in our fight against the threats that have pushed our oceans to the brink of collapse: plastic pollution, acidification, overfishing and climate change.
We are a collective of creative and enthusiastic people who, because of their job or interest, are in constant connection with the ocean. Among us there are pro divers, surf instructors,marine photographers and many more. The ocean is our playing field and we are all in love with it.
We have this one thought: that people naturally protect what they love. That you cannot love what you don't know. This is our mission. To spread the love we share to everybody in our reach.
Why Oceans
The ocean is where all life came from. Home to an estimated two billion species, marine habitats contain by far the greatest diversity of life on Earth.
The ocean feeds more than one billion people. Many of the world's poor rely on it for food and income through small-scale local fisheries. If managed responsibly, it could help to feed the 9 billion people projected to be on earth by 2050.
The ocean regulates the global climate and makes the planet inhabitable. Its thermal mass and currents buffer temperature, absorb solar radiation and create freshwater rainclouds.
The ocean is the primary lung of the planet. The photosyntesis of the marine flora produces more than half of the oxygen in the atmosphere and absorbs the carbon dioxide we cannot breathe.
The Plastic Pollution Crisis
It was engineered to last. And it does it very well.
With bad recyclable properties, low primary production cost and a break down time of hundred of years, all plastic ever created is still around.
Mass production of plastics began around 70 years ago and has been growing relentlessly, with current figures of 270 million tonnes per year produced globally and a waste production often exceeding that number. In 2015, 275 million tonnes were discarded and 8 million tonnes went to the ocean environment. That is a fully-loaded truck every minute.
Million tonnes of plastic ever produced
Million tonnes used just once
Million tonnes recycled and still in use
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Million tonnes enter the oceans yearly
It is estimated that, at the current pace, plastic will outweight fish in the ocean by 2050.
At the brink of collapse
Plastic is an alien material that cannot coexist with life:
Animals get entangled in abandoned ghost nets and starve to death or die of their injuries. They mistake plastic for food —turtles eat primarily jellyfishes, quite similar to plastic bags— or simply ingest the tiny pieces together with the plankton, the base of the marine food chain.
Bigger pieces choke their digestive system, while microplastics are carried up through the chain —eventually to we humans— releasing toxic chemicals that are harmful to life.
Plastic harms the health of coral reefs, which are dying of diseases carried by it. Waste accumulation blocks the sunlight and the vegetation cannot photosynthesize.
And this is only the short version of it.
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Conservation Efforts
We are on a mission — and it's big. SeaWorld is committed to supporting and finding ways to protect our environment for a better future.
SeaWorld is committed to protecting the environment and preserving our future by inspiring others to act . SeaWorld San Diego and our company actively supports environmental conservation by providing financial and scientific support to organizations focused on animal rescue and rehabilitation, conservation education, habitat protection, and species research. Additionally, the SeaWorld & Busch Gardens Conservation Fund has donated more than $17 million, supporting animal conservation projects on all seven continents across the globe, including coral reef restoration, preventing coastal erosion, habitat protection and simply keeping our oceans clean.
We actively support efforts protecting our oceans and coral reefs, seeking sustainable food sources for park guests and our animal, as well as our on-going animal rescues.
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As part of our efforts to inspire our guests to protect the world we live in, SeaWorld is dedicated to responsible food sourcing. As part of that policy, we commit to only provide humanely raised and sustainably harvested food at SeaWorld and Aquatica. Here are a few of the commitments our company has made towards sustainable and humane food sourcing:
A continuing commitment to serving seafood sourced from either sustainably managed fisheries or aquaculture in all park restaurants; Expand park menus to include more plant-based options for guests.
A commitment to source produce from local farms when and where possible.
A commitment to sustainably source all coffee served to our guests and ambassadors.
A commitment to purchase all commodity pork cuts, such as ribs and loins, from suppliers who have announced a commitment to humane farming practices like those who have published targets for conversion to group sow housing.
All eggs, including shell and liquid eggs, are sourced from cage-free chickens since the end of 2017.
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Home > ETDS > Doctoral Dissertations > 721
The Stability of Ferrate(VI) in Water and Its Impacts on Disinfection Byproduct Precursors
Yanjun Jiang, University of Massachusetts AmherstFollow
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John E. Tobiason
Ferrate has been proposed as an alternative pre-oxidant in drinking water treatment for many years. Despite extensive studies that examined ferrate oxidation of specific contaminants, little research has been done on the impacts of ferrate in raw waters that include natural organic matter (NOM) and bromide, and that are also treated with coagulants and chlorine. The future of ferrate as a potable water treatment chemical depends on its ability to achieve adequate disinfection while minimizing the formation of disinfection byproducts (DBPs) under these realistic scenarios.
In this work, laboratory-scale treatment studies were conducted to (1) clarify the stability of ferrate in natural waters under various conditions, (2) re-examine the ability of ferrate to oxidize bromine species, (3) explore the interactions of ferrate and coagulants in controlling DBP precursors, and (4) compare ferrate with ozone as alternative pre-oxidants.
Results showed that ferrate decay was catalyzed by ferrate decomposition products. Solutes capable of forming complexes with iron hydroxides retarded ferrate decay. In natural waters, NOM and bicarbonate inhibited the catalytic effects of ferrate decomposition products and stabilized ferrate.
Ferrate can oxidize bromide forming bromine and bromate, and in natural waters total organic bromine (TOBr) was also detected. The highest levels of bromine and bromate were formed at lower pH and in the absence of phosphate. Nevertheless, under environmentally relevant conditions, the formation of bromate and TOBr would not be a problem for ferrate application as their concentration levels are quite low.
The effectiveness of ferrate oxidation in combination with conventional treatment on DBP precursor removal was investigated. Results showed that intermediate-ferrate treatment (i.e., conventional treatment followed by ferrate oxidation) was most effective followed by pre-ferrate treatment (i.e., ferrate oxidation followed by conventional treatment) or conventional treatment alone, and the least effective was ferrate oxidation alone.
The effects of ferrate and ozone pre-oxidation on DBP formation from subsequent chlorination or chloramination were comparable at equivalent doses for most DBP species. Ozone led to higher haloketone and chloropicrin formation potentials than ferrate. The relative performance of ferrate versus ozone for DBP precursor removal was affected by water quality, DBP species, and oxidant dose.
Jiang, Yanjun, "The Stability of Ferrate(VI) in Water and Its Impacts on Disinfection Byproduct Precursors" (2016). Doctoral Dissertations. 721.
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations_2/721
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Brominated Vegetable Oil (Making orange soda look more like OJ)
By moleculeoftheday on May 7, 2010.
When you mix bromine with another molecule that has a carbon-carbon double bond, the bromine can add across the double bond.
The bromine atoms are very heavy - about 80 times as heavy as a hydrogen atom, or 7 times as heavy as a carbon atom. Bromination usually gives you a molecule that has higher density than the parent molecule.
Vegetable oil - which has a density of about 0.9 grams per milliliter - can be made as dense as water (i.e., 1 gram per milliliter) by adding the right amount of bromine.
Brominated vegetable oil can give an emulsion in water that is opaque and visually pleasing - it turns up in all kinds of opaque sodas and sugar/sport drinks. Is it OK to ingest bromine? Just about everyone gets away with the small amount he takes in from the occasional soda, but it's definitely possible to ingest too much - awhile back, there was a case of a person who drank as much as a gallon a day of BVO-containing soda. Turns out, he got bromine poisoning!
Basic concepts: polar and non-polar molecules.
What list of basic concepts would be complete without a primer on polar and non-polar molecules? You'll recall that chemists live in a world made up of atoms and various assemblies and modifications thereof, which are, in turn, made up of protons, neutrons, and electrons. Protons (which have…
Trans Fats (Kinky fat)
There are two kinds of fatty acids: saturated and unsaturated. Saturated fatty acids have no carbon-carbon double bonds (-CH=CH-), they have only (-CH2-CH2-) single bonds. Notice that carbons only involved in single bonds have one more hydrogen than those involved in a double bond. They are "…
Bad Gas Math
This has been mentioned elsewhere - like on the Machinist blog on Salon (where I first saw it) - but I can't resist saying something about it myself. And I'll also chip in a little bit of originality, by also criticizing some of the people that I've seen criticizing it. The story is, there's a…
Benzene in soda: update
We've covered the FDA failure leading to their overlooking benzene in soda pretty often (at least if pretty often means here, here, here, here, here, here and here). It's like the guy who went to the doctor complaining of pain in his belly. "Ever have it before?" the doctor asked. "Yes, twice" the…
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By plus profilo servisi (not verified) on 16 Jan 2011 #permalink
great example of formation of a vicinal dihalide for the undergraduates. I am going to use this in my lectures. thanks alot
By organic chemistry (not verified) on 25 Feb 2011 #permalink
so how come that no ones concerned about the ingestion of alkylating agents (which alkyl bromides are) which are potentially genotoxic. Have these things been tested?
By Tony Ward (not verified) on 19 Jul 2011 #permalink
Good to have you back blogging on a regular basis. I'm glad I still had the RSS in my feed reader :)
By azmanam (not verified) on 07 May 2010 #permalink
Jeeze! "2 to 4 liters per day" doesn't sound so far out of the range of normal consumption. I always thought that "brominated vegetable oil" sounded dangerous - now I KNOW it is!
By Rough (not verified) on 07 May 2010 #permalink
I'll second the "good to have you back".
By shane (not verified) on 07 May 2010 #permalink
third it.
By brook (not verified) on 08 May 2010 #permalink
Good to see you back
By chemoptoplex (not verified) on 19 May 2010 #permalink
A fatal flaw was that they failed to have any representative posts ready to go up when the blog went live.
Had they done so, and had the content been surprisingly acceptable, the reception might have been better.
Instead we get this "Hi! Welcome to ShillBlog!" (crickets) and everyone, quite reasonably, expects the worst.
By saç ekimi (not verified) on 11 Jul 2010 #permalink
Isn't bromination stereospecific? If so why did you draw wavy bonds?
By prz (not verified) on 18 Jul 2010 #permalink
I just found this blog and love it! But it's not daily, like the title promises. Any chance it can be?
By Katherine (not verified) on 27 Jul 2010 #permalink
Would brominated oleic acid be considered a saturated fat?
By Ed (not verified) on 06 Aug 2010 #permalink
wonder how easy it would be to make. Sounds like you could just mix bromine water and veggie oil :P
coolsciencetech.blogspot.com
By Jordan (not verified) on 08 Aug 2010 #permalink
do we have this kind of soda on store shelf today?
By mded (not verified) on 16 Aug 2010 #permalink
2 to 4 liters a day is normal consumption? Really? If you're drinking that much soda a day I think you have worse problems. It's all sugar.
By jj (not verified) on 20 Aug 2010 #permalink
Bromine poisoning, what would be the effects of that thing! I bet that he wasn't keen to drink soda after that!
By reveillon (not verified) on 29 Aug 2010 #permalink
VX (Kills bugs and people dead)
A US Army base in Utah was locked down for some time on Wednesday, because they discovered that they (transiently) misplaced a container of VX - a potent chemical weapon. Like they used in The Rock! A neurotransmitter called acetylcholine (or ACh) helps your muscles contract, as well as regulating…
When you mix bromine with another molecule that has a carbon-carbon double bond, the bromine can add across the double bond. The bromine atoms are very heavy - about 80 times as heavy as a hydrogen atom, or 7 times as heavy as a carbon atom. Bromination usually gives you a molecule that has higher…
Dapoxetine (No, it's supposed to do that!)
If you take or are close to someone who takes antidepressant medication, you're probably aware that one class, the SSRIs, is particularly prone to causing sexual side effects. These effects can run the gamut from inhibition of libido, to erectile dysfunction, to a diminished or complete inability…
Slentrol/Dirloapide (Got a fat dog?)
Wow. It's not just anticancer drugs for dogs, there are also "lifestyle" drugs. They think they're people! Just like people obesity drugs, they're intended for short-term use, coupled with a diet and exercise plan. I really don't understand. It's not hard to put your dog on a diet. See here if you…
Palladia/Toceranib (Dog cancer drugs)
A few months ago, a tyrosine kinase inhibitor anticancer drug for people, this month, one for dogs. It is made to treat cutaneous mast cell tumors, which apparently account for about a quarter of dog cancers. I know a lot of people drugs end up in pets, but do pet drugs ever end up crossing over…
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SubTopic Network automation
SDN, machine learning could lead to intelligent networks
The next step for SDN is to integrate network analytics and machine learning to result in automated, intelligent networks. But first, humans need to trust the technology.
Jennifer English, Site Editor
The notion of open networking continues to gain traction, as service providers and, increasingly, enterprises become...
more comfortable with the prospect of disaggregation and commoditization.
Now, as machine learning and AI begin to evolve, the next step is for organizations to integrate networking with tools that will further automate the network, said Mathieu Lemay, founder and CEO of Inocybe Technologies, an open networking technology provider based in Montreal.
To find out more about what this shift may mean for enterprises and service providers, Lemay and John Zannos, Inocybe's chief revenue officer, discussed the evolution of open networking, the necessity to trust machines and the progression toward automated intelligent networks.
Editor's note: This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity.
The industry has varying definitions of 'software-defined networking.' How do you define it?
Mathieu Lemay: Basically, I'll lump it all under flexible and programmable networks. For Inocybe, it's more about open networking than it is about SDN, per se, even though we come from an SDN background. It's about the programmability of the network and the dynamicity of the fabric.
Mathieu Lemay
In the past, people were operating networks. Now, it needs to be machines. As we get more connected devices, we'll need to have more advanced and intelligent networks. That will have a more machine-to-machine approach to it. So, for us, SDN actually takes the underlying flexible programmable network approach. I'll make it all-encompassing by saying it starts with programmable data planes and finishes with intelligence and AI.
John Zannos: You have to know how the network behaves to have the ability to manage it in an automated way. That ultimately leads to an automated, intelligent network, where you layer in machine learning that consumes collected analytics and then directs the controller.
How far in the future are intelligent networks with well-integrated machine learning?
Lemay: The challenge with machine learning in networks is most of the network challenges we face today -- network outages from human error -- can't be learned by the machine. We have a little bit of a Catch-22. In order to have proper intelligent networks, we need to stop touching them. We need to stop -- or minimize -- human intervention in networking before we can start making the network intelligent. But the problem with operators is they don't trust the intelligence. So, there's this little circle where the network admins don't trust the software, and the software doesn't trust the network admins.
Is there a clear next step to overcome that disconnect?
Lemay: I think it will be gradual adoption. The push for cloud and IoT and the need to no longer do things manually will be a driving change, because without that [large] scale, people will always resort to manual intervention, which will continue to be an issue. I think this change in the way we live and how networking is becoming a fundamental part of our communication patterns and devices is going to drive automation. And that automation, of course, will no longer need to involve humans. That's when things will start to run smoother.
Zannos: I think we're going to see inequality in terms of adoption. We'll see some entities, companies and market segments moving quickly, just because the amount of traffic and devices will be overwhelming for them to manage manually. And I think carriers are going to move quickly, given the size and complexity of their organizations.
What are the required skill sets for this type of architecture?
Lemay: The big challenge is skill sets are changing from network admins or network operators to more of a programmer profile. But the problem is you need to find a programmer with the network knowledge or a network admin with the programming knowledge. They are two distinct sets of skills, and finding a marriage of both is extremely challenging in the industry. That has created some of the adoption barriers to these technologies.
Zannos: One of the challenges we've encountered is the networking industry has always been one of professional emphasis on vendor products. In a world where you disaggregate the appliance and bring software-defined skill sets into the equation, not only do you need a programmer mindset, but you need the individual to understand more than just a particular vendor's portfolio of platforms.
What kind of customers are coming to you?
John Zannos
Zannos: First and foremost, the biggest tier-one service providers come to us for targeted help with certain projects. That's not our primary focus, though. We're seeing tier-two and tier-three carriers that are interested in our ability to simplify the problem and talk about use-case problems.
On the enterprise side, we're seeing key segments in financial services and retail. Another group we're starting to see materialize is natural-resource companies, because they're deploying localized networks. One last group, which is a specialty niche for us, is satellite and space companies that are trying to figure out a better way to manage the connection between land and satellite.
How do you work with customers' existing or legacy networks?
Zannos: At the core, we recognize the world is going to be a complex hybrid world, so we help people deploy open source [options] in specific projects. With legacy environments, there are parts customers leave alone, parts they migrate to white box switches and parts where they come to us for specific use cases. Many tier-two and tier-three carriers are more interested in starting at specific beachheads.
Lemay: You might start with more of a legacy approach to the problem, but then you'll start introducing white box switches, and then integrate with the controller and other components. That's how people are ramping up their networking; it's not a rip-and-replace approach.
What we bring is sanity and consistency in how you create all these components. You might be using OpenDaylight to build an SDN controller, an IoT controller and a LAN controller -- you'll have a variety of components in your environment. With us, customers have a consistent approach to that, so they don't end up having a variety of versions unmaintainable across the environment. The whole lifecycle is managed, as is the whole update cycle.
What else should readers know?
Zannos: I think the most important thing is the reality of 5G, IoT and cloud makes it impossible to think about a network managed manually in the near future. So, if you accept that as reality, you need to be thinking about how to get a programmable network, how to incorporate SDN, and how to ultimately get to data analytics and intelligent networks. There's not going to be a reduction in the number of network devices or in the amount of data flying across the network.
Lemay: People should start experimenting and taking bite-size approaches to the problem. I highly recommend against overall architectures that boil the ocean and solve world hunger. Instead, focus on the different use cases you're trying to solve.
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Who Will Decide the Georgia Election?
Both parties are pouring millions of dollars into the state in the hopes of turning out a handful of voters.
By Christina Cauterucci
Jan 04, 20215:40 AM
Early voting in Atlanta in December. Megan Varner/Getty Images
It is not an exaggeration to say that Georgia voters currently hold the fate of the nation in their hands. The two runoffs in the state will determine partisan control of the Senate: Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock must both beat incumbent Republican Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, respectively, in the Jan. 5 election to give the Democratic Party the bare majority it needs to accomplish anything in Joe Biden’s first term as president. Never before has the balance of the country’s legislature remained undecided for so long after a national election.
And it’s difficult to predict which party will prevail. The conventional wisdom about runoffs no longer seems to apply. Usually, when there’s a runoff election in Georgia, lots of people who voted in November don’t show up to vote again in January. But by the end of December 2020, turnout for early voting was just slightly behind what it was for the general election. “There have always been huge drop-offs,” said Charles Bullock, a professor of political science at the University of Georgia. “But we’ve never been the center of the political universe, either.”
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Bullock, who has been at UGA since 1968, says he’s never seen anything like the full-force campaigning that began shortly after the November election. Campaigns and PACs have sunk enormous sums of cash into the state in hopes of turning out just a few thousand more voters here and there. In a set of races that could be swung by so many different demographics, subdemographics, and idiosyncratic slices of voters, everyone’s getting courted. Spending on the two races is nearing $400 million—a sum, dispensed in two months, greater than the cost of any of the 2020 Senate races that began a year or more before Election Day. Georgia residents are finally getting the full swing-state treatment: Television stations are airing five or six political advertisements back-to-back at every commercial break. Households are receiving multiple paper mailers per day, every day. Fair Fight, the voting rights group founded by Stacey Abrams in the wake of her 2018 gubernatorial bid, saw its weekend volunteer roster more than double after Georgia’s presidential race was called for Biden.
Jansen Killian, a 21-year-old recent graduate of Georgia Southern University and political director of the Georgia Association of College Republicans, said she’s inexplicably received several mailers from the Democratic candidates, who apparently haven’t perfected their voter targeting mechanisms. (Or maybe hope to capture Killian’s vote based on her age and gender.) Killian has been working on Loeffler’s campaign for several months, and she’s met activists from all over the country who’ve effectively moved to Georgia in recent weeks to volunteer with one or more campaign. “The entire nation is in Georgia,” she said. To voters she’s met who say they’re tired of political ads dominating their televisions, radios, and mailboxes, “I’m like, ‘You guys, we’re kind of in charge of the entire Senate.’ Everyone’s saying, ‘We gotta save America!’ I think that’s a little intense, but it’s really cool to be involved in an election like this.”
The massive funding and national consequences of the two campaigns are just part of why the outcomes of these races are hard to predict. There’s the pandemic, of course, which has messed with the go-to tactics of traditional political campaigns. There’s Trump, who upended the usual dynamic of down-ballot candidates riding the coattails of a popular candidate at the top of the ticket. Trump fared worse than the Republican Senate candidates in Georgia, which could be good news for the GOP with Trump off the ticket this week.
“Biden won by about 12,000 votes. Kennesaw has a population of 41,000 students.” — Daniel Coley, Kennesaw State student and Georgia director of the Campus Election Engagement Project
And according to Bullock, Democratic candidates have historically fared poorly in Georgia runoffs, even if they led in their general elections. Runoff voters are usually older and whiter than those who turn out for a general election. (The runoff system was set up to disenfranchise Black voters, and so far it appears to be functioning as intended.) Democrats are hoping that Warnock, the Black senior pastor of Martin Luther King Jr.’s former church, will motivate Black voters to overcome the obstacles of the pandemic and voter suppression efforts to vote a second time.
Democrats don’t just need to match their general election results to win on Tuesday. They need to exceed them, by a lot. Perdue bested Ossoff by nearly 100,000 votes in November; in the other Senate race, the combined vote share won by the six Republican candidates was greater than the eight Democrats’. But some advocates are focusing their messaging on a different November number: the approximately 12,000 votes that put Biden over the top. To many Georgians excited by the prospect of a new political future for their state, that slim margin of victory says any given group of voters could potentially swing the outcome of the runoff this week.
Daniel Coley, 20, is an undergraduate at Kennesaw State University and the Georgia director of the Campus Election Engagement Project, a nonpartisan organization that promotes student voting. After the general election, he made triumphant use of Biden’s margin of victory in his pitch to fellow students to vote again in the runoff. “Biden won by about 12,000 votes. Kennesaw has a population of 41,000 students,” he said. “It really, really puts it into perspective for a lot of people. So now I’m running around saying, ‘Hey, remember you said your vote doesn’t matter or doesn’t count? Look at this number! It’s incredibly small!’ ”
Georgia’s recent history of rising youth voter turnout has Coley especially hyped for the possibility that he and his peers could decide the future of the Senate. In November, Georgia youth (people ages 18 to 29) made up 20 percent of the electorate—the greatest share of any state. And of the 76,000 people who’ve registered to vote after the registration deadline for the November general election—in other words, people who couldn’t vote in the general election but may vote in the runoff—more than half are under 35 years old.
“I tell a lot of people, ‘This was a very close election, and a very pivotal election, and now you voting has put Georgia in the history books,’ ” Coley said. He is slightly worried that youth turnout could be stymied by winter break, which has most students off campus until after the runoff, but said his organization’s campus representatives did a lot of student outreach before the break, and continue to send emails to students through faculty members. One student representative planned to send a postcard to her fellow undergraduates at their home addresses, hoping to convince them to vote early in person or send absentee ballots from home. “Young people actually like getting mail,” Coley said.
Democrats will also need a strong turnout from voters of color, who handed Biden his victory, to beat the Republican incumbents this week. The party had a hard time turning out Black Georgians for early voting in some rural areas of the state, but there are signs that the difference between the November electorate and the January one won’t necessarily favor the GOP. By late December, according to the CEO of Democratic data firm TargetSmart, Black voters made up about 40 percent of the nearly 68,000 people who didn’t vote in the general election but had already voted in the runoff. Only 27 percent of the Georgians who cast votes in the general election were Black.
Asian American turnout, which TargetSmart says increased by 91 percent from 2016 to 2020, was essential to Biden’s win in Georgia, too. Asian American and Pacific Islander voters are a small minority in the state, but 238,000 eligible voters are plenty able to swing a close race. (Though they are a politically and ethnically diverse demographic group, AAPI voters overwhelmingly supported Biden in November.) The nonpartisan National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum employs canvassers in Georgia who speak 11 AAPI languages, including Tamil, Cantonese, Vietnamese, and Urdu. Along with a team of volunteers, they made 18,000 phone calls to AAPI women voters in advance of the November election. They are continuing their phone-banking, text-banking, and a multilingual postcard campaign in the lead-up to the runoffs. So far, they’ve held 275 individual phone-banking shifts and made more than 8,000 calls for the runoffs, with an 80 percent commit-to-vote rate among the people they’ve reached.
Bianca Jyotishi, NAPAWF’s Georgia organizing manager, said the organization tries to reach women before they’re even eligible to vote. Canvassers contact and enroll new immigrants, permanent residents, and refugees in trainings on political activism, “so by the time they are citizens, voting is just another dinnertime conversation,” Jyotishi said. “We’re really working to normalize voting within our communities because so many of us grew up without that, myself included.”
Sometimes, NAPAWF’s canvassers will encounter a woman who declines her voter education materials because, she says, her husband votes for her. In other households, the men in the family—husbands, sons, fathers—will answer the door or the phone as a kind of gatekeeper, requiring canvassers to give them their spiel before notifying the female family member that someone is trying to reach her. “What has been really helpful is our languages. Being able to speak in that person’s language is monumental in our work,” Jyotishi said. Once, a man on the phone was about to hang up on a NAPAWF representative when the canvasser asked, based on his last name, if he spoke Bengali. He did, and the conversation continued in Bengali. He eventually passed the phone to his wife, who said she usually lets her husband answer the phone because she isn’t confident in her English language skills.
NAPAWF doesn’t advocate for specific candidates, but Jyotishi says Georgia’s high AAPI turnout in November has heightened many voters’ excitement for the Senate runoffs. “Honestly, our people are really excited to have a leader who doesn’t refer to the global pandemic as ‘the China virus,’ ” she said. Loeffler, too, has blamed China for the pandemic and accused its leaders of infecting Trump. Perdue has mocked Kamala Harris’ first name, which is of Sanskrit origin. Asian American voters who expect a modicum of cultural respect from their elected officials are struggling to find it on the Republican side of the ballot.
Republicans, meanwhile, aren’t exactly heading into the runoffs as a united front. A small but possibly consequential slice of Georgia voters split their November tickets between Biden and a Republican Senate candidate: Biden got about 100,000 more votes in Georgia than Ossoff did, largely from Georgians in suburban, white, highly educated, higher-income precincts. These voters were likely motivated less by the thought of Biden getting anything done, which he’d need a Democratic Senate majority for, than by a desire to remove Trump from office. This is why the close margin in the presidential election doesn’t necessarily portend good news for Democrats. Then again, the split-ticket voters who just wanted Trump out of office may stay home, since Trump’s already out, unless they’re particularly excited about the prospect of a Republican Senate and a government that does absolutely nothing.
Killian, the College Republicans leader, says she knows a lot of people who split their November ticket between Biden and a Republican. She also saw one Trump-supporting woman post on Facebook that she intended to abstain from the January runoffs because she was angry about the Georgia Republican Party’s unwillingness to overturn the state’s election results and give its electoral votes to Trump.
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If enough Trump loyalists in Georgia sign on to the president’s feud with state Republican officials, and obey pro-Trump lawyer Lin Wood’s call to boycott the runoff to send a message to the GOP, they could hand the election to one or more of the Democratic candidates. This narrative of Trump-driven GOP self-destruction, tantalizingly floated by many a political reporter, relies on the dubious assumption that a significant number of Trump voters are willing to hand Democrats a unified government—during a time when, their chosen leaders assure them, the country is sliding into anarchy and also socialism—just to make a point.
On the beef with the Georgia Republicans who didn’t do enough to deliver Georgia to Trump, Killian is telling angry Trump supporters, “ ‘Hey, we’ll put that on pause, and we’ll come back to it. Please go to the polls. This is not a time to become complacent,’ ” she said. “I would think that maybe they’re just upset, and by the time Jan. 5 comes around, they’ll lick their wounds.” And the woman who’d posted that she was joining the Republican boycott? “I Facebook-stalked her the other day,” Killian said. “She was like, ‘I did go vote.’ ”
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PORTRAITS OF HIS HIGHNESS THE AGA KHAN III
Copyright: National Portrait Gallery, London
by Elliott & Fry, half-plate negative, 1911. (C) National Portrait Gallery, London
By Elliott & Fry, Vintage Print. (C) National Portrait Gallery, London
by Dorothy Wilding, bromide print, 1953. (C) National Portrait Gallery, London
by Walter Stoneman, bromide print. (C) National Portrait Gallery, London
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Literary Reading: Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah, Aga Khan III – Titles, Decorations and Honours Conferred on 48th Ismaili Imam; 72 Year Reign Spanned Six British Monarchs and Seventeen PM’s
Voices: Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah, Aga Khan III – Eloquent Persian Quatrain by 48th Ismaili Imam Graces a 1923 Invitation For Talk About Imamat
Literary Reading: Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah, Aga Khan III – Defender of Islam, Activist for Justice and Equality, Confidence Booster, And Deliverer of Joy
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Literary Reading: Hazrat Imam Sultan Muhammad Shah, Aga Khan III – A “Mendicant” Who Transformed a Dream into Reality and Stirred the Soul of a Bitter Critic
Literary Reading: Hazrat Imam Sultan Muhammad Shah, Aga Khan III – Links to Movies at British Pathe
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Literary Reading: Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah, Aga Khan III – Successor and a Son Reflect on Accomplishments of the 48th Ismaili Imam
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Azeem Maherali
Great Portraits … thank you for sharing as I have not seen these ones before.
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Ya Ali Madad!
Thank you so much for sending to me this Forward. The old memories come my mind watching the Pictures of Our Mawla Bapa, Imam Sultan Mohamed Shah (Peace Be Upon Him). It makes me feel sad that He is no longer with us physically, but the NOOR of Hazrat Ali is ever present on earth through his successor, Mawlana Shah Karim.
Kind regards and Ya Ali Madad!
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The Wisconsin Army Cadets is a military career exploration program for young men and women ages 13-20 years old.
The Mission of the Wisconsin Army Cadets is to provide safe, high quality, high adventure military training and career experiences to youth in a structured military-like environment.
The Vision of the Wisconsin Army Cadets is to be the #1 Army oriented Cadet Program in the Midwest known for quality in training, exemplary Cadets, and service to our community.
The Wisconsin Army Cadets, established in 1992 by COL Brain Blahnik and Mr. Dave Grimm, has more than 25 years of experience in training and teaching the thousands of youth that have come through our program. We are a non-profit organization chartered by Exploring and the Wisconsin Army National Guard, HHC 2/127th Infantry, Appleton, WI. Approximately 30% of our Cadets join the US Armed Forces, including three appointees to West Point Academy! While we are not a recruiting organization for the US Armed Forces, a Cadet who joins the military will have a tremendous foundation for their military career.
From Recruit to Cadet
Upon joining the program, a Recruit is expected to attend monthly weekend drills. After completing a very challenging four day Basic Cadet Training held annually in October, a Recruit earns the title of Cadet, and the right to wear the modified Army uniform, excel through the ranks and hold leadership roles. During monthly weekend drills Cadets develop self confidence, mental and physical discipline, leadership, teamwork and communication skills in an environment where hard work and accountability are the standard. We strive to live by the Cadet Core Values of Loyalty, Duty, Respect, Selfless Service, Honor, Integrity and Personal Courage.
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The Department of Defense has published directives and instructions that direct the Armed Forces to support, to the extent as may be possible, Nationally Organized Youth Groups. Each branch of the Armed Forces and the Coast Guard are guided by these policies, and in turn, each has issued regulations which provide local Commanders with guidance and the necessary authority to provide such support. This support varies from service-to-service, and may include: shipboard cruises, orientation flights, training aids and manuals, permissive no-cost orders for active military personnel participating in cadet activities, and in most cases, facility utilization for training. This guidance and authority is published in the following:
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Southwest’s Tentative Deal With Pilots May Be in Jeopardy
Mary Schlangenstein, Bloomberg
- Oct 03, 2016 6:30 pm
Airline pilots have not had this much leverage in a long time, and it seems they want to use it. This is fine as long as carriers keep reporting massive profits. But if the industry suffers another downturn, airlines are going to have a tough time paying pilots so much money.
Southwest Airlines Co.’s tentative labor agreement with its pilots, reached after more than four years of negotiations, may be in danger now that Delta Air Lines has a pending deal that would pay its aviators more.
The Southwest Airlines Pilots Association is seeking to reopen some sections of an accord reached Aug. 29, union President Jon Weaks said in an interview Monday. Southwest Chief Executive Officer Gary Kelly is considering a request from the union for a meeting, Weaks said.
“It is better for all parties to negotiate this now and have a clean tentative agreement process and a conclusion,” Weaks told pilots in an e-mail Monday. “There is a lot of mutual incentive for the company and SWAPA to fine-tune the current TA for changing industry dynamics and the needs of both parties.”
Pilots at major U.S. airlines typically seek industry-leading pay in contract talks, and Southwest’s union said it had succeeded in that goal before the Delta agreement on Friday. For Southwest, securing a contract settles questions about rising labor costs and will enable the carrier to use improved compensation as a recruiting tool.
Southwest didn’t immediately respond to a telephone call and e-mail seeking comment.
United Contract
In addition to the new Delta agreement, a contract extension approved by United Continental Holdings Inc. pilots earlier this year includes a provision that will boost their pay if Delta pilots secure a more lucrative deal. That would give both United and Delta pilots higher pay for the life of the Southwest contract.
The union expects that Southwest will want to re-do a section of the contract that gives the carrier the right to enter limited marketing partnerships with other airlines for its nascent international operations. Unlike an earlier accord rejected by pilots last year, the current agreement doesn’t include the names of any potential partners. That means the union would have the right to consider each tie-up separately, Weaks said, instead of as a group.
Southwest wants such partnerships, including interline or codeshare agreements, because they can enable airlines to sell tickets on each other’s flights and boost revenue at little or no extra cost.
Pay Percentages
Pay for Southwest pilots would increase 29.4 percent compounded over the term of its four-year tentative accord, while Delta aviators would get a cumulative 30.2 percent raise over the same time period under their Sept. 30 agreement in principle, according to the Southwest union. Pilots at both carriers must approve the pending contracts, with Southwest’s 8,400 aviators voting Oct. 8 through Nov. 7.
The two-year extension approved by United pilots in January included a 13 percent pay hike this year followed by a 3 percent increase in 2017 and 2 percent in 2018.
Failure of the Southwest agreement also could re-open a dispute over whether the company can fly the newest version of Boeing Co.’s 737, which is set to arrive next year. The union maintains pilots can’t fly the 737 Max under the current labor accord and has sued Southwest over the issue. Southwest believes it can operate the Max now.
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Photo Credit: A Southwest Airlines first officer stands in front of one of the carrier's 737s. Southwest's pilot union wants to reopen negotiations with management now that Delta is close to codifying a more lucrative deal with its pilots. Stephen M. Keller / Southwest Airlines
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U.S. Coast Guard Interdicts 4 Migrants, 2 Suspected Smugglers 30 Miles Off Florida Coast
By Space Coast Daily // August 4, 2019
All six people were transferred to U.S. Customs and Border Protection
The Coast Guard interdicted the 37-foot pleasure craft, “Bada Bing,” with three Brazilian migrants, one Jamaican migrant and two suspected smugglers Tuesday approximately 30 miles east of Hollywood. (Coast Guard image)
MIAMI, FLORIDA – The Coast Guard interdicted the 37-foot pleasure craft, “Bada Bing,” with three Brazilian migrants, one Jamaican migrant and two suspected smugglers Tuesday approximately 30 miles east of Hollywood.
The Coast Guard Cutter Paul Clark (WPC-1101) crew located the pleasure craft with six people aboard during a patrol and safely embarked two Brazilian adult males, one Brazilian adult female, one Jamaican adult male and two potential smugglers.
All six people were transferred to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
“People should never trust these criminal organizations with their lives,” said Petty Officer 1st Class Nicolas Rodriguez, Coast Guard 7th District operations branch.
“Attempting to smuggle yourself into the country via the maritime environment is both extremely dangerous and illegal. With the consistent danger these smuggling ventures present, our crews and partner agencies remain persistently vigilant to protect lives and enforce federal laws.”
The Coast Guard Cutter Paul Clark (WPC-1101) crew located the pleasure craft with six people aboard during a patrol and safely embarked two Brazilian adult males, one Brazilian adult female, one Jamaican adult male and two potential smugglers. (Coast Guard image)
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Cruyff's first defeat in the League | sports
It was the penultimate day of the 73-74 League and Barca was a mathematical champion. I visited Atlético, champion of the previous year, with the desire to stay a more undefeated day. He had exactly 26, all since Johan Cruyff arrived, in the eighth. Before that he had lost his departures to Elche, Vigo and San Sebastián. Since the great Dutch appeared, everything was a triumphant march that included that famous 0-5 in the Bernabéu and the victory at the Camp Nou against Atlético with his unforgettable acrobatic goal. That first Cruyff was a prodigy.
The record without defeats in the League was 28 consecutive days. Madrid had it from 68-69, who aspired to crown without losing when he fell in Elche on the penultimate day. Barça wanted to overcome it. It was important to leave the Manzanares undefeated. Then he would have to receive Valencia and visit Las Palmas. The goal of setting it to 29 seemed at hand. The pitfall was the Manzanares.
For his part, Atlético was like a motorcycle. He came from his tremendous semifinal with Celtic and all the rojiblanca flock was happy and excited. Recall: three expelled in Glasgow by referee Babacan, despite which the match ends 0-0. Then, 2-0 in the second leg that gives the pass to his first European Cup final, in which Bayern will wait for him.
And there was nothing funny about being one more step on the road from Barça to a record. The mere mention seemed a grievance. In addition, he could not be neglected: he needed to stay at least a quarter to go to the UEFA Cup if he lost the final and, although he was second, he only separated two points from the fifth.
So on the eve there is emotion. The game is going to be played on Saturday, April 28. The final against Bayern will not be until May 15, so there is no reason to reserve players. Juan Carlos Lorenzo, coach of Atlético (the “among firefighters do not step on the hose”) practice on Friday the contract to the offside trap that characterizes the Barça de Michels. Capón and Heredia are in charge of appearing from behind to surprise. All that is told by the press the next day, so there were no secrets.
Michels arrives proud and generous in praise for Cruyff: "Channel the game and guarantee 20 goals," he says. At the time, 20 goals were an enormity. Cruyff puts on modest skin: "I'm just one more." Reina, who that summer had gone from Barça to Atlético, says: "I look forward to seeing myself before them." He does not regret having left just when Barça was going to win the League: "Here we go for the European Cup."
The Manzanares is filled with an anxious audience. Atletico makes hallway to Barça, which when it travels in turn puts itself in hallway to applaud Atleti. In his adventures against Celtic he had all of Spain on his side. There is happy atmosphere.
The Atleti plays with: Queen; Melo, Heredia, Eusebio, Capón; Adelardo, Luis, Irureta, Alberto; Ayala and Garate. Michels sacrifices Rexach to give entry to Gallego and strengthen the defense: Sadurní; Rifé, Torres, Costas, De la Cruz; Juan Carlos, Gallego, Asensi, Martial; Cruyff and Sotil.
The Aragonese Referee Well, with which the public will be impatient in the first part by the gameplay. The contract is not working out. There are arrivals, startles, good stops, but no goal before the break. The public claims to Ufarte, what Lorenzo attends, taking him out in 54 by Alberto to attack with three. The second half is more moved. In 69 enters Baker by Capón. In 77, still with 0-0, Rexach enters Torres. Barça also wants to go for the game.
Follow the 0-0 at 85 when it starts to rain. It seems like a sign, because just then Melo sneaks into the area and Rifé turns him over. The penalty is final. Luis transforms it with his usual serenity. Barça is stirred and launched into attack. But in '89, a pass from Gárate to Heredia breaks the advanced line and arrives 2-0. Lorenzo's contract has worked. The second goal shines the victory because, Gilera will write the next day in ABC, "Winning for a penalty is always little and debatable …".
The red and white parish is happy: it is a great omen for the next final. Madrid has been done a favor, but for once it doesn't matter. Cruyff praises: "Atlético has a European level of football." And he had it. Two weeks later he was one minute away from winning the European Cup.
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12 - 16 August 2012
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Quantum Communications and Quantum Imaging X
Wednesday - Thursday 15 - 16 August 2012 Conference Committee
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Monday 13 August Show All Abstracts
Session PMon: Posters-Monday
Location: Conv. Ctr. Exhibition Hall B2
Conference attendees are invited to attend the poster session on Monday evening. Come view the posters, enjoy light refreshments, ask questions, and network with colleagues in your field. Authors of poster papers will be present to answer questions concerning their papers. Attendees are required to wear their conference registration badges to the poster sessions. Poster authors, view poster presentation guidelines at http://spie.org/x30293.xml.
Positive-negative turbulence-free ghost imaging experiments
Paper 8518-30
SPDC correlated photon source filtered for narrowed bandwidth using volume Bragg grating
Correlated single photon pairs are the product of a non-linear process called Spontaneous Parametric Down Conversion (SPDC). Traditional SPDC produces correlated pairs broadened to several nanometers. A volume Bragg grating can be used to extract a narrow bandwidth from an otherwise broad spectrum beam. We apply this emerging technology to our non-degenerate and otherwise broadband SPDC single photon source. We compare the source properties for the single-pass and multi-pass cases by embedding the volume Bragg grating in a cavity. The SPDC wavelengths are selected to be suitable for both long distance transmission in a fiber and for quantum memory.
A "plug-in" source of polarization-entangled photon pairs for practical quantum information applications
Experimental demonstration of an entanglement microscope
We propose entanglement microscope based on the principle of quantum metrology. Entanglement microscope is differential interference contrast microscope using NOON state. We report the experimental demonstration of entanglement microscope by using 2 photon entangled state, and confirm the improvement of signal to ratio compared to the classical microscope. It is expected that this research can be applied to non-invasive measurement for biological samples.
Quantum processing through a manifold of dark states
Quantum Processing through a Manifold of Dark States Santosh Kumar and Deepak Kumar School of Physical Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi-110067, India We consider a network of N single-mode electromagnetic cavities connected by optical fibres. Each cavity contains a single three-level atom which can be addressed by a control laser. We find that under certain conditions, the system possesses a large number of degenerate dark states. By manipulating intensities and phases of control lasers on the cavities, one can pass adiabatically among these dark states. The network operates as a N -level quantum system in which one can generate computationally useful states by protocols of external controls. We obtain numerical results to demonstrate operations like the transport of states and generation of Fourier-like states.
Engineering of spectral properties of two-photon states, preliminary results
We present an experimental implementation of spectral properties engineering on biphoton light, emitted via ultrafast type II spontaneous parametric down conversion (SPDC), based on the shaping of the pump pulse spectrum and propagation of the emitted correlated photons through dispersive media [1, 2]. Spectral properties of a biphoton state are fully characterized by the two-photon spectral amplitude (TPSA) [3-7]. Exploiting the group velocity dispersion (GVD) induced by the passage of optical fields through dispersive media, an energy to time two dimensional Fourier transform of the TPSA is operated [8-10]: this returns a technique to reconstruct TPSA through a temporal measurement among the delay between the laser pulse emission (trigger) and the detection times of the two correlated photons. Exploiting this kind of measurement it is possible to deeply resolve the interference pattern in the shape of TPSA. In this research we report on the conditions under which subtle structure on TPSA spectra can be deliberately engineered via modulation of the pump beam spectrum. 1) W. P. Grice and I. A. Walmsley, "Spectral information and distinguishability in type-II down- conversion with a broadband pump", Phys. Rev. A 56, 1627 (1997). 2) T. E. Keller and M. H. Rubin, "Theory of two-photon entanglement for spontaneous parametric down-conversion driven by a narrow pump pulse", Phys. Rev. A 56, 1534-1541 (1997). 3) M. V. Fedorov, M. A. Efremov, A. E. Kazakov, K. W. Chan, C. K. Law, and J. H. Eberly, "Packet narrowing and quantum entanglement in photoionization and photodissociation", Phys. Rev. A 69, 052117 (2004). 4) Yu. M. Mikhailova, P. A. Volkov, and M. V. Fedorov, "Biphoton wave packets in parametric down-conversion: Spectral and temporal structure and degree of entanglement", Phys. Rev. A 78, 062327 (2008). 5) P. A. Volkov, Yu. M. Mikhailova, and M. V. Fedorov, "Spectral Entanglement in Parametric Down-Conversion with Nondegenerate Frequencies", Advanced Science Letters 2, 511 (2009). 6) G. Brida, V. Caricato, M. V. Fedorov, M. Genovese, M. Gramegna, and S. P. Kulik, "Characterization of spectral entanglement of spontaneous parametric-down conversion biphotons in femtosecond pulsed regime", EPL 87, 64003 (2009). 7) P. J. Mosley, J. S. Lundeen, B. J. Smith, P. Wasylczyk, A. B. U'Ren, C. Silberhorn, and I. A. Walmsley, "Heralded Generation of Ultrafast Single Photons in Pure Quantum States", Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 133601 (2008). 8) S. Y. Baek, O. Kwon, and Y.-H. Kim, "Nonlocal dispersion control of a single-photon waveform", Phys. Rev. A 78, 013816 (2008). 9) M. Avenhaus, A. Eckstein, P. J. Mosley, and C. Silberhorn, "Fiber-assisted single-photon spectrograph", Opt. Lett., 34, 2873 (2009). 10) G. Brida, V. Caricato, M. V. Chekhova, M. Genovese, M. Gramegna, and T. Sh. Iskhakov, "Testing ultrafast twophoton spectral amplitudes via optical fibres", Optics Express Vol. 18, Iss. 12, pp. 12915-12922 (2010).
From high visibility thermal light ghost image to Popper's uncertainty concern
By using a novel detection scheme of "phase-selection", thermal light ghost images of both single slit and double slit were observed with ∼100% visibility, which means an EPR type nonlocal position-position determination. The observed 100% contrast image-forming correlation is the result of two-photon interference. The nonlocal interference nature of thermal light then allowed us to revisit the historical challenge of Popper's thought experiment, which concerns the uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics. Realizing Popper's experiment, apparently, the measurement showed (equation). However, it does not mean a violation of the uncertainty principle. Although the experiment was done with thermal light, once again, we have shown, (equation), i.e., the measurement of two photons is different from that of one. This talk we first show that a high visibility ghost image could be achieved by using thermal light when we apply a novel detection scheme with manipulating phase-selection. The two different yet indistinguishable alternative ways of triggering a join-detection event by two independent photons, i.e. the correlation GAB⁽²⁾ can be extracted from the G⁽²⁾ measurement. Where for a thermal light ghost image, the transverse normalized second-order correlation function is given by (equation) and (equation) Here we created new virtual logic circuits (Pos-Neg identifiers), which are realized by programming on the TCSPC circuit, to process the photodetection events. (equation) where A and B represents two photon detectors in the object beam and reference beam. These four coincident counts are of one "shot". The accumulations of "shot by shot" finally yield the four correlations, RPP=∑j RjPP , RPN=∑j RjPN, RNP=∑j RjNP, and RNN=∑j RjNN. The mutual-correlation is then retrieved from Rcorr- Ranti= RPP + RNN - RPN - RNP. Furthermore, by using this new scheme we can investigate the Popper's experiment with thermal light, comparing the result with using entangled photons, we draw a conclusion that even though the ghost imaging is done by thermal light, the two-photon interference rules the joint detection measurement as well as in the entangled photon case, and it is essentially different than the single photon interference.
Capacity approaching codes for photon counting receivers
Wednesday 15 August Show All Abstracts
Session 1: Quantum Imaging
Quantum computing based on optical interference: from analogue to digital novel implementations (Invited Paper)
We have recently demonstrated how the "nature" of optical interference can be exploited to solve complex problems, as factoring large integers [1]. This works inspired us to take advantage of multi-photon interference based on n correlated measurements in order to perform at the same time an exponential number of computations in an exponentially large "multi-mode" space [2]. By exploiting correlated measurements we are able to simulate entanglement-type correlations for quantum computing purposes, as demonstrated in the case of second order interference with a thermal source [3]. We analyze the "computational power" of n-photon quantum interference based on generalized SH-HOM and Franson interferometers. Our work paves the way to multi-photon quantum computing networks where the output can be measured by correlated measurements in the polarization base. [1] V. Tamma et al. Phys. Rev. A Rap. Com. 83, 020304 (2011) [2] V. Tamma and Y. Shih, Computational power of multi-photon interference and correlated measurements, to be submitted [3] H. Chen et al., New Journal of Physics 13 (2011) 083018
Subwavelength photolithography and microscopy (Invited Paper)
Paper 8518-1
It is well known that the classical schemes for microscopy and lithography are restricted by the diffraction limit. For example, the precision with which a pattern could be etched in interference lithography is limited by the wavelength of the light. In this talk we will discuss schemes to overcome this limit in optical lithography and microscopy schemes.
Quantum superresolution imaging in fluorescence microscopy (Invited Paper)
(Canceled)
Experimental realization of superresolution imaging using quantum optics has been elusive despite significant interest to this subject. We experimentally demonstrate quantum imaging beyond diffraction limit in fluorescence microscopy using a technique relying on photon antibunching in non-resonant fluorescence. Antibunching microscopy enables superresolution imaging of regular fluorophores at room temperature, which makes quantum imaging relevant to life science microscopy.
Ghost imaging experiment with sunlight compared to laboratory experiment with thermal light (Invited Paper)
We wish to report here the first successful experimental demonstration of ghost imaging using the sun, a natural thermal source, as a light source. Most importantly, the sunlight does not have speckles and the sun is also a near field source. When the speckle-to-speckle correlation theory fails to interpret this experimental result, the quantum theory of near-field thermal light ghost imaging explains this experimental result very convincingly and also clarifies the physics of near-field thermal light ghost imaging from the fundamental level. From the application point of view, sunlight-based ghost imaging is very important and useful in distant imaging applications.
Virtual ghost imaging with Bessel beam illumination (Invited Paper)
Session 2: Quantum Communications I
Incompleteness and limit of security theory of quantum key distribution (Invited Paper)
It is claimed in the many papers that a trace distance: $d$ guarantees the universal composition security in quantum key distribution (QKD) like BB84 protocol. In this introduction paper, at first, it is explicitly explained what is the main misconception in the claim of the unconditional security for QKD theory. In general terms, the cause of the misunderstanding on the security claim is the Lemma in the paper of Renner. It suggests that the generation of the perfect random key is assured by the probability $ (1-d)$, and its failure probability is $d$. Thus, it concludes that the generated key provides the perfect random key sequence when the protocol is success. So the QKD provides perfect secrecy to the one time pad. This is the reason for the composition claim. However, the quantity of the trace distance (or variational distance) is not the probability for such an event. If $d $ is not small enough, always the generated key sequence is not uniform. Now one needs the reconstruction of the evaluation of the trace distance if one wants to use it. One should first go back to the indistinguishability theory in the computational complexity based, and to clarify the meaning of the value of the variational distance. In addition, the same analysis for the information theoretic case is necessary. The recent serial papers by H.P.Yuen have given the answer on such questions. In this paper, we show more concise description of Yuen's theory, and clarify that the upper bound theories for the trace distance by Tomamichel et al and Hayashi et al are constructed by the wrong reasoning of Renner and it is unsuitable as the security analysis. Finally, we introduce a new macroscopic quantum communication to replace Q-bit QKD.
Photon information efficient communication through atmospheric turbulence
Optical communication at many bits/photon is possible with bandwidth expansion, and at many bits/sec-Hz with bandwidth-efficient signaling. Previous work has shown that 10 bits/photon capacity at 5 bits/sec-Hz over a vacuum-propagation channel requires 189 low-loss spatial modes at Holevo capacity, and 4500 modes at the capacity limit for on-off keying modulation with a direct-detection receiver. These results, however, neglect the presence of atmospheric turbulence. In this paper we present lower bounds on the ergodic capacity of the turbulent channel for transmitters that use M-element spatial mode sets composed of either focused beams, Hermite-Gaussian modes, or Laguerre-Gaussian modes.
Quantum channel capacity for OAM-based free-space optical communications
Inspired by recent demonstrations for OAM-based single-photon communication, we construct the density operator, based on OAM eigenkets, and propose the quantum channel model suitable for study of the quantum communication over atmospheric turbulence channels and corresponding quantum error correction. The quantum channel model is derived from OAM eigenkets' transition probabilities. By using the Holevo-Schumacher-Westmoreland (HSW) theorem, we adopt the proposed model to determine the OAM quantum channel capacity in the presence of atmospheric turbulence.
Remote communication of quantum state information without entanglement (Invited Paper)
We present a scheme to commute the information of a quantum state (qubit C) from place A to another B (Alice and Bob), which is in a mixed or pure state. The communication is achieved via a shared two-qubit quantum channel between A and B. The quantum correlation of the quantum channel is weaker than the entanglement. When Alice makes a Bell measurement on the unknown qubit (C) together with Alice's qubit (A), the Bob's qubit will collapse to a state (B′). When the correlation matrix of the two-qubit state of the quantum channel is of full-rank (rank 3), complete information of the quantum state of qubit C is stored in the Bob's state (B′). Here the non-zero quantum correlation is necessary for the channel, but the entanglement for the quantum channel is not necessary required.
Qudit communication network (Invited Paper)
Optical coherent states can be interpreted as d-dimensional quantum systems, or qudits of even superposition of pseudo-number states. Cross-Kerr nonlinear interaction can generate the maximal entanglements of pseudo-phase and pseudo-number states from two opticl coherent states. Extended network of these entangled coherent states is a qudit cluster state and can be used as qudit communication network for d-dimensional teleportation or multi-user quantum cryptographic network.
Thursday 16 August Show All Abstracts
Session 3: Quantum Communications II
Unveiling optical hidden correlations: the illusionist game (Invited Paper)
The quantum illusionist: a game with correlations between Gaussian states A.Meda,M. Genovese,G.Brida, I.P.Degiovanni, S.Olivares, M.G.A.Paris Optical correlations at the quantum level represent a resource for the development of technologies overcoming the limits of the classical physics, with very promising opportunities for future widespread applications [1, 2]. These results, besides paving the way to new technologies, also permit deeper insights in quantum world. Here we will show, both theoretically and experimentally an innovative scheme that exploit correlations between Gaussian beams of light: the optical illusionist game. In the game, an “illusionist” ask to the public to measure correlations between two uncorrelated light beams, excited in the same Gaussian state [3], mixed in a beam splitter (BS). Both in the presence and in the absence of the BS, no correlations arise between them. However, the illusionist can identify the presence of the BS, by means of a correlation measurement, when the public is asked to insert the BS behind the illusionist’s back. Here we unveil the trick and the physics that explain these counterintuitive correlations of quantized light. References [1] Bouwmeester, D., et al. The Physics of Quantum Information: Quantum Cryptography,Quantum Teleportation,Quantum Computation (2000). [2] Genovese,M. Research on hidden variable theories: A review of recent progresses. Phys.Rep.413,319-396 (2005). [3] Ferraro, A.et al. Gaussian States in Quantum Information (2005)
Air to ground quantum key distribution (Invited Paper)
Quantum key distribution (QKD) provides new measures of information security. However, as the range is limited, satellite based systems are desirable for global scale applications. As a preparatory experiment we demonstrate a BB84 key exchange from an airplane moving at 80m/s over a distance of 20km to an optical ground station featuring a 40cm telescope. For that we integrated a QKD transmitter and receiver with an existing system for free space optical laser communication. Observing sifted key rates of 145Bits/s with a quantum bit error rate of 4.8%, this experiment becomes a precursor for satellite based and thus global scale QKD.
Techniques for performing a quantum communication uplink to satellites (Invited Paper)
Satellites offer the means for extending quantum communication and quantum key distribution towards global distances. We will outline the proposed QEYSSAT mission proposal, which involves a quantum receiver onboard a satellite with quantum signals sent from the ground towards the satellite. We will present our recent studies on the techniques that will help enable to perform quantum links from ground to space. This includes experimental results on demonstrating ultra-high loss quantum transmission, as well as studying the effect of the fluctuating optical link on quantum signals and how these fluctuations can actually be exploited to improve the link performance.
Quantum simulation of Josephson effect in trapped ions (Invited Paper)
A quantum network with atoms and photons (QNET-AP) (Invited Paper)
Session 4: Entangelment and Multiphoton Interference
Two-particle quantum transmission (Invited Paper)
Two-photon interference is a fundamental phenomenon in quantum mechanics and stands at the base of numerous experimental observations. Here another manifestation of this phenomenon is described. A way of measuring this new manifestation is discussed.
Experimental study of symmetric single photon heralding efficiency in a type-II spontaneous parametric down-conversion process in a PPKTP crystal (Invited Paper)
Generation of spatially pure photon pairs in a multimode nonlinear waveguide using intermodal dispersion (Invited Paper)
We present a versatile dispersion-based technique to control the spatial characteristics of photon pairs produced via spontaneous parametric down-conversion in multimode nonlinear waveguides. This technique has been employed in a source of spatially pure near-infrared photon pairs based on the type-II process realized in a multimode periodically poled potassium titanyl phosphate (PPKTP) waveguide. Diffractive measurements of the beam quality factors in the heralded regime have confirmed that the photons are indeed generated in well-defined transverse modes. The generated photon pairs have been used to prepare polarization entanglement in the Shih-Alley configuration, shown to violate Bell's inequalities without spatial filtering.
Preparation of N-photon qubits from incoherent thermal fields (Invited Paper)
A new-type of Franson interferometer with thermal light has been created to prepare $N$-photon qubits. We has also applied a novel detection scheme with manipulating phase-selection, with which we can observe Frason-type correlations from the two-photon qubits with visibilities more than 71\%. The success of two-photon qubits offers a perspective for producing a large number of N-photon qubits for practical quantum computing.
Session 5: Quantum Technology I
Quantum-inspired bio-sensing with nitrogen-vacancy color centers in diamond (Invited Paper)
Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) color centers in diamond have demonstrated all the key properties needed to build room temperature quantum computers, including single shot readout and long range entanglement. However these properties also enable NV diamond to be used to probe spins in biological molecules with more sensitivity and spatial resolution than is possible with other sensors. In this talk, the uses of NV diamond for sub-diffraction imaging, and for the detection of spins outside of the diamond lattice will be reviewed.
Experimental investigation of the X-shaped spatio-temporal correlation of twin photons via sum frequency generation
In this work, we report about the experimental observation of an ultra-narrow temporal correlation (6 fs) of twin beams produced by a type I BBO and detected by the inverse process of sum-frequency generation. The ultra narrow localization occurs thanks to the huge spectral bandwidth involved (≥600nm) and the preservation of the phase-conjugation of the twin beams in the set-up. By adding a spatial shift in the near field between the phase-conjugated twin beams, the temporal correlation measurements give hints of the presence of the "arms" featured by the biphotonic amplitude.
Experimental realization of an approximate partial transpose for photonic two-qubit systems (Invited Paper)
The partial transpose by which a subsystem's quantum state is solely transposed is of unique importance in quantum information processing from both fundamental and practical point of view. In this work, we present a practical scheme to realize a physical approximation to the partial transpose using local measurements on individual quantum systems and classical communication. We then report its linear optical realization and show that the scheme works with no dependence on local basis of given quantum states. A proof-of-principle demonstration of entanglement detection using the physical approximation of the partial transpose is also reported [Lim et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 160401 (2011)].
Demonstration of adaptive quantum estimation with photons (Invited Paper)
We will report the first experimental demonstration of adaptive quantum estimation (AQE): optimally estimating a quantum state or a value of the parameter that specifies the quantum state. The angle of a half wave plate that initializes the linear polarization of input photons is estimated using AQE. The statistical analysis of these results verifies the optimality of AQE. It is expected that AQE will provide a useful methodology in the broad area of quantum information processing, communication, and metrology. We will also introduce our recent progress on optical quantum circuit, and solid single photon source using tapered nano-optical fiber.
Quantum limits of super-resolution via sparsity constraint (Invited Paper)
We discuss the ultimate quantum limits in compressed sensing, a new technique which allows for accurate reconstruction of so-called "sparse" signals even when the sampling rate is far below the Nyquist limit.
Session 6: Quantum Technology II
680-890nm spectral range of nickel-nitrogen and nickel-silicon complex single centres in diamond (Invited Paper)
Fluorescent emitters in nanodiamonds are considered to be a valuable resource for emerging fields such as quantum communication, quantum photonics, nanoscopy and biological imaging. In this paper we report a wide range of narrow bandwidth ( about 1.5 nm) spectral emission lines of different single defects (nickel, nickel-silicon and silicon) at room temperature, from 700 to 900 nm in the same sample. The centres were created by chemical vapour deposition of nanocrystalline diamond. The great variety of emitters produced in one sample could facilitate the realization of test-bed for quantum optics experiments, as well as could allow building efficient devices for optical interconnection, quantum information processing and sensitive metrology.
Bounds on parameter estimation precision for optical ranging systems (Invited Paper)
NASA is currently developing the capability to operate optical communications links for deep space missions. This has spurred interest in adding optical ranging capabilities to a deep-space terminal. In this paper, we investigate the precision achievable with two optical ranging systems in the low-flux signal-return regime typical of a deep space link. The first uses an intensity-modulated single-photon counting system, and is the scheme currently proposed for use in future deep-space missions. The second uses a coherent frequency-modulated continuous wave system. We compare the systems and draw comparisons to coherent microwave systems currently used by NASA.
Tomography of a high-purity narrowband photon from four-wave mixing in atomic vapour (Invited Paper)
We demonstrate the efficient heralded generation of high purity narrow-bandwidth single photons using four-wave mixing in a hot atomic vapour. Employing optical homodyne tomography, we fully reconstruct the density matrix of the generated photon and observe a Wigner function reaching a value of zero without correcting for inefficiencies. The narrow bandwidth of the photon produced is accompanied by a high generation rate yielding a high spectral brightness. The source is therefore compatible with atomic-based quantum memories as well as other applications in light-atom interfacing. This work paves the way to quantum state engineering of collective atomic excitations.
Dual-channel, single-photon upconversion detector near 1300 nm (Invited Paper)
Upconversion of 1.3-micron photons and detection using silicon avalanche photodiodes (Si APDs) can produce high photon detection efficiencies (PDEs) with low dark count rates. We demonstrate a novel two-channel device based on a phase-modulated, periodically poled LiNbO3 waveguide that mixes 1302-nm signal photons with two pump beams at 1556 and 1571 nm. Both channels showed high PDEs with very low dark counts. Using wavelength- to time-division multiplexing in this dual-channel device, we produced clock rates that exceed the timing-jitter-limited rates of a system based on one Si APD. Higher clock rates are of interest for improved quantum communication systems.
Photonic quantum technologies (Invited Paper)
Quantum interference in microgravity with Bose-Einstein condensates
Interferometry with quantum gases in microgravity can be exploited to probe fundamental concepts of quantum mechanics and general relativity. Interestingly, matter-wave interferometry offers itself as a possible test of the universality of free fall. We describe the fundamental aspects of quantum interference with Bose-Einstein Condensates evolving over time in an asymmetric Mach-Zehnder-type interferometer. Such aspects have been demonstrated in a recent experiment performed within the QUANTUS collaboration [1]. [1] H. Muetinga and the QUANTUS Team (http://www.zarm.uni-bremen.de/space-science/fundamental-physics/projects/quantus.html), to be submitted
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FCC orders ISPs to supply accurate broadband coverage maps
Aug 5, 2019 | STATESCOOP
Internet service providers will have to provide the Federal Communications Commission with detailed geospatial maps of their coverage areas, rather than just covered census blocks, after the commission voted to change the submission process last week.
The vote will establish a new “Digital Opportunity Data Collection” service, which was hinted at in June as FCC chairman Ajit Pai’s answer to critics of the current data-collection process. Once the collection goes into effect, ISPs will be forced to submit maps with polygonal outlines of their coverage areas — including different polygons for each combination of download speed, upload speed, and service-providing technology — within six months to the FCC.
The new, more granular mapping process will be a step forward for the FCC in the eyes of many broadband advocates, who have admonished the agency over inconsistent collection and mapping in the past. Currently, ISPs are only required to provide service in a small area of a census block to count as providing service to the whole block. Using this methodology, Pai, a former Verizon lobbyist, was in May criticized by his fellow commissioners for promoting potentially misleading broadband access statistics. Last fall, state and local broadband employees drove thousands of miles to prove that major ISPs like Verizon overrepresented their coverage areas.
“The FCC has taken a good first step toward improving the accuracy of its broadband-deployment data,” S. Derek Turner, director of the internet advocacy group Free Press, said in a public statement. “The new Digital Opportunity Data Collection process should address the most common complaint about past agency mapping efforts: the potential for overstating deployment in certain rural areas. Free Press has long called for better broadband deployment data from the FCC, and we’re cautiously optimistic that today’s reforms will enhance accuracy while maintaining the public’s full access to this critical information.”
Broadband, Federal Communications Commission (FCC), internet service providers (ISPs)
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Taming of the Review
Season Preview (2019-2020)
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Radiant Vermin
There’s No Place Like Home — Or Is There?
February 24, 2020 February 23, 2020 / Taming of the Review / Leave a comment
by Annie Sadovsky Koepf
A universal desire is that for a comfortable home and hearth that provides a reprieve from the outside world. As you enter Live Theatre Workshop for Radiant Vermin, by Philip Ridley, you’ll notice that the stage is presented as an unfinished home. Even before the play starts, two of the actors are peeking out from backstage. Has the play already started? No, but the intrigue has.When the curtain rises, we are introduced to a young couple earnestly searching for a new nest for the baby on the way. Jill, played by Samantha Cormier, and Ollie, played by Steve Wood, are an English couple who really want a home of their own. Worldwide, the dream of home ownership often remains just that: a dream. In this play, however, the couple magically receive a letter saying they have won a new home.
Steve Wood as Ollie, Samantha Cormier as Jill, and Leslie J. Miller as Miss Dee. Photo courtesy of Live Theatre Workshop.
Of course they are skeptical. Who wouldn’t be? They drive to the area with unfinished homes and the project in disrepair. Miss Dee, played by Leslie J. Miller, meets them. Is she the magical fairy godmother? After convincing them to sign, the house is theirs. Of course, it is unfinished, but Dee assures them that Ollie can do all of the physical repairs while Jill can decorate and lovingly make it a home. The first night in the home is like camping with no water, electricity, or heat, but they are excited by the possibilities! They see a campfire outside, and realize that there is a homeless encampment in the project. Suddenly noises are heard downstairs and Wood goes to investigate. Of course it is one of the homeless, and what ensues makes us question to what lengths good people will go to realize their dreams. At the end of the evening, Jill’s catalog perfect vision of a kitchen magically appears. But how, and at what cost?
Director Maryann Green has done a masterful job with casting. Cormier, Wood, and Miller work together to weave this fanciful tale that makes us suspend our disbelief and think that magic really can happen. The characters are multidimensional and relatable. Cormier and Wood are brilliant as they use no props, but we have no problem seeing the baby, or going up and down the imaginary stairs with them. During one scene, they play three of the couples in their neighborhood with rapid fire delivery that is so convincing, it left my head spinning. I couldn’t believe how instantaneously they could change from one character to the next and back again. Miller plays not only Miss Dee, but also a homeless woman, Kay. Her portrayal of Kay is extremely touching and poignant. As she is the only homeless person that we actually get to meet, it gives a face and persona to those with whom we rarely connect — many of us even avert our eyes when we see them on the street.
The actors engage the audience from the beginning. The fourth wall, the invisible division between the actors and the audience, is broken repeatedly in the play. We are not innocent bystanders. Cormier even invites us to raise our hands at one point to see if we agree with her. When she is giving one monologue about her background as a Christian and her dealings with the homeless she addresses us, and makes eye contact with the audience. We are made to realize that it is not only the actors dealing with the homeless in the play, but our own engagement with them in our own world that we must thoughtfully consider.
The set, costumes, and lighting all are very understated but powerful. That being said, we are not distracted by them. It is the story and the acting that takes center stage. The entire production crew has to be commended for allowing the story to take center stage through the subtle way that they each supported this vision. Often less can be more, and it is definitely true in this production.
This delightful dark comedy is definitely a story for our time. The issues of home affordability are paramount to all young people. Homelessness and how we treat those who are not the same as us is a daily cause for debate and discussion. But tantamount in today’s world is the increasing disconnect between what we say our core values are, and how we either act in ways that support or undermine those values. Finally, we must ask whether the end justify the means, and how greed affects us both individually and collectively. Yes, this play is very timely and begs all of us to reflect, soul-search, and answer those questions for ourselves.
Radiant Vermin runs Thursdays through Saturdays at 7:30 PM, and Sundays at 3:00 PM through March 28. Ticket prices are $15. LTW’s box office is 520 327-4242, and the website is livetheatreworkshop.org.
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Tannie&tannie
Not every trek can be a Great Trek
Tannie & Tannie: The play.
Tannie & Tannie Northern Tour 2019-20
Tanniemail sign-up
Tannie & Tannie Tour. Autumn 2019 & Spring 2020.
Tannie and Tannie are leaving. Escaping the damned earthquakes and the water that bursts into flame. The cantankerous aunties will leave their home – a place once strong and flat and stable – and embark on a journey – like their ancestors did before them. Before they go, there’s just time for a story or two about ghosts and gods and the bleddy British, then, off they’ll go on their trek. But. Not every trek can be a Great Trek.
Our teaser trailer – made from still photographs by Jody Cliffe
The tour is made possible through Arts Council England Funding.
We also send our grateful thanks to our excellent supporters:
Tannie & Tannie was first performed on Wednesday 14th and Thursday 15th November 2018 at DINA Venue, Sheffield.
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Tannie & Tannie production photos by Jody Cliffe
Tannie & Tannie is a new play by Claudine Bennent. Performed by Claudine Bennent and Melanie Crawley. Directed by Sarah Spencer.
“we are treated to mesmeric immersive storytelling delivered by Bennett and her co performer Melanie Crawley.” – Deborah Egan O.B.E, Director – DINA Venue
“Poignant, funny, sad, interesting and intriguing. Really well written and beautifully performed.” – Tim Holmes, Director – Festival 23
Tannie & Tannie is a warm-hearted tale of ordinary, hard working people faced with the most difficult decision of their lives. Set in rural South Africa, it tells the story of two ‘Tannies’ (Afrikaans for ‘aunties’), storytellers of their community who are forced to leave their home of many decades to take their chances in the wilderness on a ‘trek’ – a journey that echoes the Great Trek of South African settlers in the 1800’s as well as every mass migration since and every potential human displacement in the future.
Tannie and Tannie are the storytellers of the town. Their place in the world – once strong and flat and stable – has become riddled with earthquakes and water that bursts into flame. They tell the audience about the community they once knew having crumbled as people have fled and those left behind have descended into desperation.
You’ll join the Tannies at midnight as they attempt to finish their packing and as they try to decide where to go while mourning the loss of the lives and memories they must leave behind. Before they go, there’s just time for a story or two about ghosts and gods and the bleddy British, then, off they’ll go on their trek. But. Not every trek can be a Great Trek.
The play is suitable for all although there is some swearing and it is not aimed specifically at children.
Claudine Bennent is a performer, theatre maker and teacher.
Claudine is the writer + co-producer of ‘Tannie & Tannie’ and plays ‘Tannie’
Claudine graduated from the University of Cape Town, South Africa, in 2005 with her BA in Theatre and Performance. Claudine worked as a freelance actor, singer, director, writer and teacher for numerous theatre, film and television companies in South Africa; including the National Children’s Theatre (The Secret Garden, Aladdin, Stuart Little).
In 2007, she caught the comedy bug and began performing stand-up and improv comedy at venues throughout Johannesburg, Cape Town and Pretoria until 2009, when she moved to Sendai, Japan to teach on the Japan English and Exchange (JET) Programme.
Whilst learning how to use chopsticks properly, she developed her Vocal Training for Teachers Workshop delivered at training conferences and meetings, delivered an improv comedy workshop at the annual art show, performed with an acapella group to raise funds for charity, and established Sendai Night Live (a variety show to raise funds after the 2011 Sendai Earthquake).
Claudine relocated to Sheffield in 2013 and has been cursing the weather ever since. Her most resent projects include The Local (Edinburgh Fringe 2017, The Rutland Arms), The Vagina Monologues (for SheFest at Theatre Delicatessen, Sheffield), and scripting and directing Foolish Mortals at the Lantern Theatre.
www.claudinebennent.com
Claudine is a member of Equity and Spotlight
Melanie Crawley is an actor, voice artist, producer, designer and writer
Melanie is the Producer of ‘Tannie & Tannie’ and plays ‘Tannie’
Melanie appeared most recently as The Mayor in ‘Final Night, Mayor’ by John Hunter as part of Sheffield Theatres’ Making Room Crucible Studio Takeover; as Kath in ‘Classless’ by Paul Kenny, a radio play commissioned as part of Pete McKee’s ‘This Class Works’ exhibition and as Lord Montague in Romeo & Juliet at Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester all in 2018.
Previously, she appeared in ‘Three Post-Apocalyptic Comedians Walk Into A Bar…’ in 2017 a performance she also wrote, produced and directed – commissioned by Rebuild Festival.
Other recent appearances are: Joan for Tesco’s ‘Food Love Stories’ campaign, in ITV’s ‘Coronation Street’ as Court Clerk, and as Blodwyn in Peter Huntley’s series of radio sketches: ‘Dylan and Blod Talk about Dai’ for Cornucopia Radio. In 2016 she appeared as Betty in the northern UK premiere of ‘In a Forest, Dark and Deep’ by Neil LaBute, at Salford Arts Theatre (GM Fringe) which she also produced and designed.
Melanie is also an audio book narrator and has narrated and produced six novels to date, all available on Audible.
www.melaniecrawley.com
Melanie is a member of Equity and Spotlight.
Sarah Spencer is an actor and director.
Sarah is the director of ‘Tannie & Tannie’
Sarah Spencer graduated from Arden School of Theatre in 2008 and has been working in Theatre and Film as an actor and director since then, notably appearing in cult film: ‘Harold’s Going Stiff’ as Penny Rudge.
Sarah served as Creative Director and a trustee of the Lantern Theatre for four years during which time she directed ‘A Few Good Men’ and ‘The Crucible’ among other plays, which received rave reviews.
Currently, as well as directing Tannie & Tannie, Sarah is managing the Merlin Theatre in Sheffield and is co-directing and acting in Twitch productions.
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What's Next for Jason Pierre-Paul?
A look at the early stages of what may be a very long and difficult recovery for Jason Pierre-Paul
by Jene Bramel, July 8 2015
Photo: Robert Deutsch, USA TODAY Sports
pierre-paul has finger amputated, skin graft
UPDATE: Shortly after I published this feature, Adam Schefter posted images from Jason-Pierre-Paul's medical record. They showed Pierre-Paul underwent amputation of his right index finger and had a skin graft to his lower right forearm. Multiple media members have since confirmed the amputation.
As discussed below, despite avoiding traumatic amputation at the time of the injury, the length of time Pierre-Paul has been in the hospital and reports of extensive burns to his hand suggested a very severe injury. The decision to have the amputation -- which included his entire finger and knuckle -- was reportedly Pierre-Paul's and done to accelerate his recovery time. That suggests his index finger may have been damaged so badly that grafting wasn't an acceptable option.
The amputation, which will end worries about infection (though any post-surgical wound can be infected), scarring, contracture, loss of function in the remaining tissue of the finger, doesn't mean Pierre-Paul is completely out of the woods, however. The image from the operating room schedule also shows Pierre-Paul had a skin graft to the lower part of his right arm today. It's possible he's had other grafts already or will need them shortly.
UPDATE #2: Late Wednesday evening, Ed Werder reported Pierre-Paul has multiple thumb fractures (again, not a surprise given the severity of the blast injury) and has undergone multiple surgeries.
Please read on for my earlier thoughts on Pierre-Paul's rehab and recovery...
Details are limited on Jason Pierre-Paul’s hand injury, but Dan Graziano and Adam Schefter reported that Pierre-Paul suffered burns to his palm and three fingers after a fireworks accident on July 4. Initially, the tone on Twitter was one of relief that Pierre-Paul didn’t lose his hand or any fingers.
JPP has burns on palm, 3 fingers. 1 finger could have nerve damage. Didn't lose any fingers, team thinks he'll be OK, per @DanGrazianoESPN.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) July 6, 2015
Though Pierre-Paul has yet to allow anyone connected with the team to visit him in the hospital, the consensus among media members is that the injury will not be career-threatening. That may prove true, but it’s too soon to know how much Pierre-Paul will be affected by his injury.
While Pierre-Paul may have avoided a traumatic amputation of his fingers or hand, burns to the palm and fingers – especially those necessitating a multiple day hospitalization – can be devastating to hand function.
Burns and explosive injuries to the hand are troublesome for lots of reasons.
why pierre-paul's injury is significant despite no loss of fingers
The muscles, tendons, nerves, and joint capsules of the hand are protected by a layer of skin but not much else. Any loss of skin and flesh exposes those structures, all of which are specific and critical to control the fine motor function of each finger and hand. The blast and burn injury to Pierre-Paul’s fingers and palm may have irreparably damaged any of those structures or fully exposed them.
It’s no surprise that Pierre-Paul remains in the hospital four days after his injury. Fireworks injuries are rarely clean, stitch, and splint situations. The wounds have to be carefully debrided – that is, cleaning out any debris and removing tissue that hasn’t or will not survive the injury. Often, these wounds must be debrided more than once. The medical team has to monitor the injury closely for signs of infection and for swelling which can cut off blood supply to healthy tissue.
Skin grafting or moving flaps of skin over the open wounds is done as early as possible, but cannot be done until the wound is free from any dead tissue or infection. The sooner skin grafting is done, the better, but surgeons have to be certain the area is ready to accept the graft.
Grafts heal remarkably quickly. They often regenerate blood supply within seven days. But successful grafting is only the first phase of healing. Injuries like Pierre-Paul’s often shrink or contract in time as the wounds scar. Such contractures and scarring are particularly tough around the palm. But any contractures around the joints of the fingers will affect the ultimate function of the hand. Splinting, special gloves, and early physical therapy may limit the extent of the scarring, but are unlikely to prevent it entirely.
Without knowing the severity of Pierre-Paul’s injury, it’s hard to know how extensive his treatment has been. But four days in the hospital – and his unwillingness to allow the team to see the full extent of his injury with an ongoing contract situation – is telling. And Jason Cole of Bleacher Report reported two days after the injury that Pierre-Paul would need skin grafts.
can pierre-paul recover?
While it’s entirely my own speculation, it seems likely that Pierre-Paul’s injury was bad enough to require debridement and grafting. At minimum, such an injury will require multiple weeks of recovery, splinting, and rehab. There’s very little chance he’ll be ready until the later stages of training camp. Cole also reported the Giants are considering putting Pierre-Paul on the NFI list, which would keep him out of action for at least six weeks of the regular season.
Unfortunately, there’s no guarantee Pierre-Paul will be recover to near baseline function. Though I saw multiple tweets suggesting hand injuries weren’t as devastating to pass rushers as skill position players, don’t minimize the importance of hand use to a defensive end. Engaging the offensive line, shedding blocks, and ripping and swimming in pass rush all require strong and flexible hands. There's a good argument that strong, heavy hands are as important as an explosive first step for a pass rusher.
Pierre-Paul may recover well enough to handle those tasks – or play with a splint fashioned to allow him to do so. Hopefully, he’ll recover quickly and fully, but there’s likely still a long road ahead.
I'll have more on Pierre-Paul as more details emerge.
IDP implications
If Pierre-Paul isn't ready for the regular season -- and I think it's likely he won't be -- the Giants lose a vital member of their pass rush. Damontre Moore has yet to prove himself a capable two-way player, but will be forced to take more base defensive snaps. Robert Ayers flashed last season, but the Giants undoubtedly hoped he'd be a rotational player again this year. Rookie Owa Odighizuwa has lots of promise, but rookie defensive linemen require lots of developmental time. There has also been talk the Giants could use Cullen Jenkins outside on base downs. There are options for New York, but no clear replacement for their pass rush. That may also affect the secondary. Fantasy owners should move on Moore (high variance DL2) and Ayers (high floor DL2) now and watch the early camp notes on Odighizuwa closely.
Check back for more injury analysis throughout training camp and the regular season. Also, follow on Twitter @JeneBramel for breaking injury news, commentary and analysis of this injury and others around the NFL.
More articles from Jene Bramel
Gameday Injury Expectations: Week 17
Injury Expectations | Midweek Update | Week 17
Monday Injury Rounds: Week 17
More articles on: IDP
IDP Matchups to Exploit and Avoid: Week 17 - Larkin
IDP Sleepers, Week 17 - Settle
IDP Dynasty Sleepers, Week 17 - Tietgen
More articles on: Offseason
The Week in NFL News - 7/23 - Bloom
Coronavirus and the NFL: What to Expect as Players Report - Bramel
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Engine and Engine Dispatch
Breaking Changes In Engine 20.1
Brian J. Miller
Note: If you are upgrading from a version of Engine before 2019.1, please see this Breaking Changes for 2019.1 article. Everything in that article will apply as well.
Here's a list of things that have been changed/removed in 20.1:
Switch default of UsePlayerForTinCanLaunches (to "true") so that Tin Can launches go through the player by default.
In previous releases Tin Can packages were launched directly to the course content URL without the normal player delivery context. This setting was added in 2017.1.26.864 as an improvement to Dispatch with the default value being "false" to maintain backwards compatibility. Switching the default in this release is intended to make the launch + delivery mechanism consistent across all learning standards. For courses that might rely on being delivered directly the value of the setting should be set to `false`.
Drop IE 8 support
As Engine attempts to keep up with modern web browser implementations and security requirements it has become increasingly difficult to support very old browsers. In this version the jQuery dependency was upgraded to fix a CVE that was reported in the previously used version. Additionally the process for minifying the various client side JavaScript will no longer take precautions to support IE 8.
The development team decided this was an appropriate time to move to the latest main release of that library and drop support for IE 8. It is very likely that additional versions of IE such as 9 and 10 will be dropped from the next major release as Engine moves to only support Microsoft Edge in the future. All IE support should be considered deprecated with likely removal in the next major release.
Use timestamp from xAPI statement for registration update dates
In previous versions, when an xAPI statement was received for a launched registration and we rolled up information from it to the registration, we would use the time from when that rollup happened as the basis for completedDate and lastAccessDate. In most cases this was basically identical to the timestamp the course put on the statement.
However, in some cases, especially with our new on-demand registrations, we may have statements that are processed at a time later from when the course set the timestamp. That could make the completedDate incorrect in situations where minutes or hours difference may matter. We now will use the timestamp from the statement as the basis for these dates on the registration, as it more accurately reflects when the action happened for the user.
If you don't want this change in behavior, there is a new setting, UseStatementTimestampInRegistrationUpdates, which can be used to restore the previous behavior.
.NET Engine is now a "Web Application" rather than "Web Project"
As with the change in browser support, the development team is attempting to modernize the Engine product and codebase to prepare it to support newer (or future) technologies (such as .NET Core and .NET 5). This change was made to facilitate that slow transition. Expect additional changes of this nature, as we deprecate support for older versions of the .NET framework.
Here is a list of things changed only for customers using Engine Dispatch:
POST /destinations, PUT /destinations - POST can only create and PUT can only edit
In previous versions of Engine, the v2 API endpoints for manipulating Dispatch destinations were not well aligned with the rest of the API with respect to creating and editing of those records. This changes those API resources to be consistent with how those methods work in other resources. If you were previously using the PUT verb to create destinations, you will need to switch to using POST.
Learner IDs for dispatch registrations will now be prepended with the destinationId in order to ensure uniqueness. Previously, Engine was using only what was sent by the LMS launching the dispatch package.
One side effect of this would be that the same learner could be counted as two different unique users in your user counts for licensing purposes, if they launch a dispatched course for the first time after the upgrade to Engine 20.1 during your license year.
There is a new setting, DispatchPrependDestinationIdForLearner, which can be used to turn off this new behavior and revert to how it worked previously. However, there is the possibility of learner id collisions. If you think disabling this behavior is necessary, you might consider re-enabling it once you reach the end of your license year.
If you are using the Offline extension to Engine:
We have tried to simplify and improve the way that mobile applications interact with Engine for the Offline Extension. This release has major changes to the workflow on the Engine side, and for the mobile application. Upgrading to this release will require changes your mobile application and downloading the course packages to the device again.
Breaking Changes in Engine 2019.1
New Release: Rustici Engine 20.1 is now available
Cookieless Content Authorization in SCORM Cloud (Content Vault)
SCORMEngineSettings.config File Overview
Multi-Sco Course
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Tag: Decathlon
Plague Diaries – Week#13
Binary Choices
Well, this weekend was supposed to mark our annual pilgrimage to a random mountain range in Europe to test just how slowly an ageing man can cycle up their slopes. This year we had chosen to base ourselves in Bormio, Northern Italy and within striking distance of such iconic and formidable climbs as the Passo dello Stelvio, Passo di Gavia and Passo di Mortirolo.
Bormio also just happens to be in Lombardy, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak in Italy and one of the worst affected regions, so we knew almost as soon as flight and accommodation confirmations started to come back that there was a real possibility the trip would be off.
And then it was…
Everyone now seems to have got their money back, so no damage done, other than the fact we missed out on our little adventure.
And when I say everyone got their money back, I mean that advisedly. What has started out as a half dozen or so annual pilgrims, had mushroomed to a trip of over 20 lads and lasses by the time we started nailing down the finer details.
Others, it seemed had somehow been drawn in by our tales of masochistic flailing, the prolonged torture of uphill grinding, the blood-frothing shredding of lungs and legs, acute intestinal distress, hypothermic exposure and intense sunstroke (often within hours of each other), metaphysical confrontations with Harley-Davidson gangs and e-bikers and, to top it all, the chance to pay a princely sum to partake in a bike-destruction lottery at the uncaring hands of airport ground crews.
Now our low-key, sojourn had taken on new dimensions and was starting to look suspiciously like an official-unofficial club trip.
While additional bodies opened up the possibilities of different options, both in terms of travel and organising ourselves once we got there, I couldn’t help but feel (based on no evidence whatsoever) that the additional numbers would irrevocably and inevitably change the very essence and nature of the trip. Perhaps for the better, but there was also the possibly that change would be for the worse too.
I also had the feeling (again based on no evidence whatsoever) that three times as many people would lead to a disproportionate and much more than threefold increase in opportunities for crashes, mishaps, mechanical failures, punctures, maladies, falling out’s and other associated, unforeseen incidents. Then again, that’s just the viewpoint of one curmudgeonly, pessimistic, anti-social, introvert. In reality, I’m sure it would have been good. Different maybe, but hopefully still enjoyable.
Who knows, we might even get the chance to finally test this theory, should we all sign up for another shot next year and the World can manage to stay relatively healthy.
Back at home, Thing#1 has been in the market for a new bike for a while now, a desire cemented by some recent adventures au velo on borrowed wheels. As a result I was co-opted in to finding her “dream machine” (or traumfahrrad, for the Teutonically-minded out there.)
Let me start by clarifying that, we’re not talking about a thoroughbred, skinny-tyred, racing machine here. I think Thing#1 had a vision of serenely gliding along towpaths wearing a floral summer dress, floppy straw hat, over-sized sunglasses and open-toed sandals, while regally upright astride a gleaming bike, complete with a basket on the front crammed with a picnic blanket, fresh baguettes, chilled wine and happy, over-excited puppies.
In fact this last detail seemed to be the prerequisite for considering any bike (the basket on the front, not necessarily the blanket, bread, wine and happy puppies.)
From a more practical standpoint and from the perspective of living at the top of a seriously long and steep hill, surrounded by rather lumpy terrain in all directions, I was looking for something that offered more than a single chainring and a handful of gears and preferably wasn’t reliant on coaster brakes. It would be a bonus if the bike came complete with mudguards and dynamo-driven lights, but this was never going to be a deal breaker.
A hybrid bike was the order of the day and after extensive sleuthing and digging around the Internet, we decided that Decathlon’s Elops Hoprider 100 was the best value for money at a reasonable £299.99 (Oh! plus £14.99 for the all important basket.)
Of course, choosing the actual bike and actually buying it are two completely different things in a time of pandemic. Apparently, all those stories about there being a boom in cycle sales during lockdown are true. The Decathlon website reported the bike was out of stock, they had restricted bike building capacity and so there was a limit on the number of bikes they could supply, with the counter being reset every day at 11.00am.
We tried unsuccessfully sniping the website on several days, tracked and traced alternatives, but all to no avail. New bikes apparently, are about as common as hen’s teeth, or, to update the idiom slightly, I could use Thing#2’s lament about the impossibility of finding “pissing Miso paste in a lockdown.” She does have a charming turn of phrase. Must have learned that from her mother…
Last Monday, with lockdown easing, we actually paid an early morning visit to the now re-opened local Decathlon store and saw for ourselves row upon row of empty racks, where they’d sold almost their entire stock of bikes, with no idea of when they’d be getting a re-supply.
We wandered across to the local Halfords just on the off-chance and joined the social distancing queue. There we had to wait twenty minutes for the mechanics to finish up with their latest customer – a dad paying to have a puncture on his sons bike fixed and the tyres inflated. There may have been an outbreak of bike riding, but there’s been no corresponding increase in even simple cycling self-sufficiency, it seems.
When we finally got into the store we were initially attracted by the My Buddy pink unicorn or green dinosaur balance bikes, but sadly, we quickly determined they didn’t have them in Thing#1’s size.
The only other likely candidate was a single, Apollo Excelle, marooned and forlorn in an otherwise empty rack. It was the right size, had 18 gears and V-brakes. It was an inoffensive white.
The critical question …
“Could it take a basket?”
“Did they have a basket?”
“Would they fit a basket?”
I didn’t want to push our luck and ask if they had any baguettes, chilled wine or happy, over-excited puppies.
“How much is the bike?”
“Sold. We’ll take one.”
After a bit of key rattling and screen prodding, “Sorry, we’ve got none in stock. Actually, that ones been on display for about 3-years now, it’s the last one we have and I don’t know if we’ll be getting any more.”
Channelling her inner Sid the Sloth, Thing#1 turned to me and lisped, “Ah, the lasht dandelion.” And so, Dandelion the bike got its name.
“Can we have that one?”
I don’t know why, but they seemed strangely reluctant to sell us the bike, but then just as suddenly relented. The search was finally over and now Dandelion has a new home (and a new basket) and is jostling for space in a frankly too full bike shed.
It”s been out twice already, once for an ultra-unofficial Flat White Ride along the river to Backyard Bikes, situated under the Tyne Bridge. As well as providing staging and support for the Prof’s Backstreet Boys cycling-tribute act, it turns out Backyard Bikes are also purveyors of very fine coffee and cake too.
I’m sure more adventures (preferably with coffee and cake) await.
Once again the weather this weekend looked slightly better on the Sunday rather than Saturday – where early forecasts highlighted the potential for thunderstorms. (Some intense reading around the subject following our scary descent off the Galibier last year has convinced me Vittoria Rubino rubber (or any other tyres for that matter) are absolutely no protection whatsoever from a random lightning bolt.
So … Saturday or Sunday? … heads or tails? … in or out? … yin or yang? … Ant or Dec?
Hmm, tails-out-yang-dec apparently, I would be riding Sunday.
It was a murky, misty start on what would prove to be a cool day, with a fine misting rain courtesy of the low, dripping cloud draped over the hill tops. The valley floor was a little clearer as I started out upriver. I was almost immediately gifted a group of two other cyclists to chase through Blaydon and then, immediately afterwards, another pair to reel in and pass on the way to Crawcrook. It’s always good to have a bit of an incentive to pick up the pace, even if my quarry had no inkling they were actually in a race.
I crossed the river at Wylam, passing through Ovingham and Stocksfield before looking for a route out of the valley, stopping briefly to shed my jacket before the hills began in earnest.
I crossed the A69 en route to the Newton climb, the road noticeably busier than in recent weeks and a sign of the lockdown easing. From there I picked up our standard route, up through the plantations, before working my way through to Matfen, with a just a slight detour and turnaround on Miller’s Lane when progress was blocked by a gate. We may well have been that way before and I’m pretty certain there’s a route through, but I wasn’t in the mood for wrestling with gates and wasn’t sure where the track led, so I turned around and traced a route back to the main road.
From Matfen through to the Quarry turn the road markings had disappeared under shoals of loose gravel and stone chippings. It looks like we’re going to have a new stretch of tarmac to look forward to here soon. The same can’t be said for the stretch between the West Belsay Farm junction and the Snake Bends. I was hopeful this was due for a little remedial re-surfacing too, but it appears they may have done the stretch leading down to the junction instead. Too be fair that was the roughest bit, it’s just I wouldn’t be travelling over it today.
I looked in on the cafe at Belsay as I rolled by, it looked busy with a couple of groups of cyclists hanging around outside (well, they were either cyclists, or civilians with a high-viz fetish). I didn’t see anyone I knew, but wasn’t really looking to stop either, I was heading home now.
All was good until I started the steepest section of the Heinous Hill, following a long curve in the road and not noticing a long, thin, rusted iron rod in my path, just as my front tire rode over it. The rod rolled away and took my wheel with it and I came down in a clatter. Ooph!
Luckily I was travelling uphill at about 5 mph, rather than sweeping down at 5 or 6 times that speed and I escaped with nothing more than a bashed and bruised knee, sore wrist and injured pride.
The worst thing was getting going again on the steep incline, but I finally managed and made it the rest of the way home without further incident and only the smallest loss of blood and skin.
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“Moist is a State of Mind”
Club Run, Saturday 8th June, 2019
My ride (according to Strava)
Total Distance: 88 km/55 miles with 422 m of climbing
Riding Time: 3 hours 40 minutes
Average Speed: 23.8km/h
Group Size: 7 riders, no FNG’s
Temperature: 12℃
Weather in a word or two: It rained. Lots.
Ride Profile
Be thankful for what you’ve got, Willie DeVaughn once sang. Maybe he had the right of it, too…
I complained about the weather being dry, but grey, dull and chilly for the past few weeks and, in response good old Mother Nature took note and upped her game … giving us a full night and day of perpetual rainfall.
Conditions were so bad that, unlike last week, I only so one other brave/foolish (delete as applicable) rider on my trip across to the meeting point. In direct contrast though, there were maybe a dozen runners out and pounding the pavements. Maybe they’re like slugs and snails and only come out when it’s wet?
Main topics of conversation at the meeting point:
I spotted G-Dawg and Taffy Steve in the multi-storey car park where they were sheltering from the rain and bumped up the kerb to join them. As I drew to a halt, I was immediately informed UCI Extreme Weather Protocols were in place and, as the highest ranking official of the Flat White Club present, Taffy Steve had already declared it to be a Flat White Ride.
Crazy Legs rolled in behind me. “Lovely weather. You know what I’m going to suggest?”
“Already decided, mate,” Taffy Steve told him. “Flat White Ride.” Although nothing more than a formality, it was good to have the decision ratified by the Flat White Club President himself.
We were joined by the Garrulous Kid, OGL and Sage One, the relative newcomer who has joined us to help her train for a London to Paris charity ride.
“How’s the training going?” I wondered.
“Hmm, well, it isn’t really, I’ve been on holiday for 3-weeks.” In fact the last time she’d been out with us was the last time we’d had such dreadful weather. Things were so bad then, she’d made her boyfriend meet her half way home and bring her some dry socks!
Despite the rain, the Garrulous Kid was wearing little else but a £5.99 Decathlon jersey.
He tried to convince us it was waterproof. “Yeah right, ” G-Dawg, declared, “It’s waterproof. Until it gets wet.”
Still, Crazy Legs commended the Garrulous Kit on his shiny, clean shoes (they were wet), while I wondered if his chain might not emerge from the ride actually cleaner than it had been going in.
Despite the rain, G-Dawg was wearing his usual dark glasses.
“Can you actually see anything through them in these conditions?” Crazy Legs wondered, before declaring, “You look like a blind man. In fact, you look like that feller from Peter’s and Lee.”
Ooph! Dangerous ground, but luckily, neither of us could remember any Peter’s and Lee songs, so we felt we dodged a bullet and avoided a very, very, unfortunate earworm.
But then, deep in the bowels of a depressing, dank, dark, multi-storey car park, G-Dawg started to mouth half-remembered words like some strange incantation and, hesitantly at first, those words joined up with a formless tune and a song began to unfold. Then with gathering force, as synapses clicked and sparked and the words came back to him in a rush, he started to royally serenade us:
I’m so alone, my love without you,
You’re part of everything I do,
When you come back, and you’re beside me,
These are the words I’ll say to you,
Then, a big intake of breath, before belting out …
Welcome home, welcome,
Come on in, and close the door …
Aagh! Now I remember that song, the kind of thing grannies and parents buy in their droves to keep it hanging around in the charts. My young life was blighted and my soul was scarred by this kind of thing. Peters and Bleedin’ Lee, Demis bleedin’ Roussos, Nana bleedin’ Mouskouri, Jennifer bleedin’ Rush and Tony bleedin’ Orlando and his bleedin’ Yellow Ribbon. Dark, dark days.
Luckily the earworm didn’t immediately take and we quickly scuttled off into the rain to put as much distance as possible between it and us.
As a (fairly) interesting aside before we go, Lennie Peters, aka Gary Hall, or Leonard George Sargent (but surprisingly never known as Lucky Lennie) was blinded in one eye in a car accident when he was five years old. He was blinded in his other eye when someone threw a brick at him when he was sixteen. Just be thankful for what you’ve got.
After a while the Garrulous Kid bolted away and disappeared up the road. I assume he’d finally realised that it was raining, quite heavily and he was heading home for a jacket. Or, perhaps he was intent on breaking his own record for the shortest club run ever. I then wondered if his mother would let him out again, or ground him in case he caught some nasty sniffles.
We briefly discussed taking a different route so he wouldn’t be able to find us when he tried to catch up. But only briefly.
Well, for just ten or fifteen minutes, anyway.
At one point I heard Taffy Steve asking Sage One how her training was going for the big ride…
And then we were at Relief Station#1, the cafe at Kirkley Cycles, where the Garrulous Kid, more sensibly attired in a rain jacket now, rejoined our small, select group.
Main topics of conversation at coffee stop#1:
I ordered an unfeasibly large scone with a mug of coffee and (as I would later learn) double-fisted my way to the table with my haul. The scone looked like it had been zapped with an incredible growth ray-gun, as it overhung the plate, piled up like a pale mole-hill. It was so big that, when I cut into it, the middle was still warm, although it had probably been out the oven for a good couple of hours. Fabulous. All that and I got change from a fiver too. I’ll come here again.
The in-house dog appeared to hoover up a few stray crumbs and stopped to give Sage One’s helmet a desultory lick in passing.
“The dog’s licking your helmet,” I informed her, but our infantile, schoolboy humour wasn’t quite as funny as when it was just the boys involved. Still, I had to try.
Speaking of the fairer sex, Crazy Legs confessed he was still traumatised after being on the Metro on Thursday night, when it was mobbed by an army of shrieking, cackling, guffawing, middle-aged wimmin’, recently disgorged from the Spice Girls concert at Sunderland’s Stadium of Light. Heavily bladdered on an excess of Prosecco and spirits, raucous and bellowing out tuneless, badly remembered Spice Girls hits, interspersed with banter that would make even Roy Chubby Brown’s ears burn, the hordes of haridans were, by all accounts, a fearsome and intimidating sight.
Crazy Legs had stuck his ear buds in and tried to look as innocuous as possible as he slunk down into his seat, before abandoning the Metro at the earliest opportunity.
Sage One had been amongst the concert-goers, reliving her own past glories, but she too had been shocked by the behaviour on display and admitted the sight of far too many, far too-tight, Union Jack mini-dresses, over-spilling with bulging, pallid and wobbling flesh was, in her professional opinion, “just minging.”
Taffy Steve thought a contingent of these drunken Geordie wimmin’ should be immediately parachuted into Portugal, where he thought they’d sort out the England football hooligans in short order.
For my own torrid tale of public transport, I recalled a late night journey from a music festival in Loch Lomond to Glasgow, on a bus with a bunch of drunken Scotsmen who were so enraptured by a football game in which Italy had trounced England, they’d spent the entire journey gleefully singing:
“Y’ Italee, Y’Italee, Yooze hae ne’er been fooked, til yae’ve been fooked by Y’Italee …”
Like Crazy Legs, I’d spent uncomfortable moments slunk down in the seat, hoping to pass unnoticed.
The Garrulous Kid followed up with his own anecdote about a school bus trip. It wasn’t particularly amusing, but after hearing this, Crazy Legs sat back in astounded amazement, then reached across the table to shake the Garrulous Kid’s hand, before thanking him profusely.
The Garrulous Kid took the profferred hand, but looked somewhat bemused.
“Eh? What?”
“Thank you,” Crazy Legs repeated, “That’s the first time you’ve ever told a story that’s been in any way related to what we’d actually been discussing. It makes a pleasant change to know you can follow the thread, rather than hurling something completely random into the conversation, such as the toilets on the Space Station are so good because they’re made by German engineers.”
Crazy Legs then noted my skinned knuckles and wondered if I’d been in a pub brawl. I had to admit to a rookie mistake, when changing the brake blocks on my single-speed, I’d run the rear wheel up to check the brakes weren’t catching, only to find the only thing catching was the back of my hand on the spinning tyre. It had only taken off the top layer of skin and I hadn’t even noticed until I washed up afterwards, but the wounds had scabbed over quite dramatically and the injuries looked much worse than they were.
Taffy Steve suggested bladed spokes were particularly lethal if you caught your fingers in them. I agreed, having once tried to adjust a rubbing mudguard while cycling up a steep hill and receiving a fearsome crack across my knuckles for my stupidity. I’m still amazed I managed not to fall off during that particular escapade.
With time moving on and a need to fit in another cafe stop, we decided to push on again, zipped up and braced ourselves for the worst, before leaving the warm, welcoming confines of the cafe for the rain outside.
OGL left our group to head directly to our second cafe rendezvous, while the remaining six set off for a loop around the Gubeon, to get a few more miles in.
Crazy Legs tried out a few Spice Girls songs, but it really wasn’t working for him. Half way round and I started to think I was hallucinating, as I was certain I heard the Garrulous Kid qualify one of his statements with the postscript, “well, in my opinion, anyway.”
Apparently not though, as G-Dawg picked up on it too. “You should try using that ‘in my opinion’ phrase more often,” he suggested, “It makes you sound less like an opinionated dick.”
“Perhaps, even try an ‘in my humble opinion’,” I added, even as I realised you had to walk before you can run, or, just be thankful for what you’ve got.
As we closed on coffee stop#2, Sage one was struggling and Crazy Legs encouraged us to push on while he dropped off the front to escort her.
A mile down the road and seemingly oblivious to this interaction, the Garrulous Kid finally noticed our sextet had become foursome and pondered if we should wait. Taffy Steve applauded his concern for others, but did point out that they’d been adrift for 15 minutes or so and he’d only just noticed.
We pressed on, there was a slight quickening of the pace and then we were rolling into the cafe for some temporary relief from the rain.
Main topics of conversation at coffee stop#2
Crazy Legs arrived and declared he was slightly moist, but glowing.
“Moist is a state of mind,” Taffy Steve growled and left it at that. No, I don’t know what he mean’t, either.
Cultural barriers and regional misunderstandings dominated our discussion. As a teacher in Canada, OGL said he got peculiar looks by encouraging his pupils to always carry rubbers, of course meaning erasers and not prophylactics. Meanwhile, Crazy Legs reported being subject to gales of laughter in New Zealand whenever he talked about a super-computer-router, three words that all rhymed in his mind, but not in theirs.
Our Antipodean friends would (incorrectly, of course) refer to a router as a rowter. To them, a rooter is something completely different, as evidenced by Taffy Steve’s relish in declaring, “let’s go root in the ute,” in a pronounced Strine twang.
According to Crazy Legs, being loaded up with two cocktails, one in each hand, or I guess a giant scone and mug of coffee, is known as double-fisting in parts of the States. Needless to say, but double-fisting is not a skill you should admit to in a British bar.
Or then again … maybe it is?
Taffy Steve was amused by the thought that in America, there was an overwhelming number of wankers, who did’t know what a wanker was. This he thought was ironic, which just added fuel to the fire as “they don’t do irony, either.”
Crazy Legs remembered that the Garrulous Kid claims dual citizenship of the American colonies, having been born in either Norf, or Sowf Carolina (I forget which.) He asked the Garrulous Kid how he thought he would fit in, if transplanted across the Atlantic.
Seamlessly and effortlessly, according to the Garrulous Kid, although I’m not sure the Americans would truly appreciate just how honoured they would be to have such a humble and self-effacing paragon in their midst.
When we thought we’d dallied long enough so G-Dawg wouldn’t get into trouble for arriving home to early, we set out into the deluge once again.
I’m fairly certain on the ride back I heard Crazy Legs asking Sage One how the training was going …
Meanwhile, we all agreed these miserable, wet days, perversely produced some of the most enjoyable rides. Then, in short order, I was following G-Dawg through the Mad Mile and swinging away for my trip home.
On the drag up past the golf course, with the rain still tapping impatient fingers on my helmet and water dripping off the end of my nose, I was a little startled by a loud burst of chimes that I finally recognised as a distorted, amped-up version of “Greensleeves.” I seemed to be in the presence of either the regions most optimistic, or most desperate ice-cream seller.
After crossing the bridge, I stopped for pee and was just re-mounting when a one arm cyclist whirred past, the left hand sleeve of his Way of the Roses jersey, completely empty and flapping in the wind. He asked if everything was ok, I assured him it was, so he kept going.
He was evidently heading the same way and I started tracking him, but kept getting delayed, first at a level crossing and then at some traffic lights. I finally caught up with him when it was his turn to be stopped, at the lights in Blaydon.
“Lovely day for a ride,” I offered by way of a greeting.
He was remarkably chipper and cheerful and just happy to be out on his bike, whatever the weather. We swapped ride info – he’d just ridden out to Corbridge and back, a solid 40-miles plus.
I waved him away and slid past, but I was held up at the next roundabout. He timed his arrival to coincide perfectly with a gap in the traffic and sailed past me, as I pushed off from a standing start and tried to clip in again. I then trailed him up the first part of the Heinous Hill, until he took a sharp left and, with a cheery goodbye, dropped down to Pedalling Squares, the cycling cafe, for some much deserved cake and coffee. (I assume).
I can’t imagine how difficult it must be to ride with just one arm: balance issues, braking and changing gear, unable to climb out of the saddle, unable to signal to traffic and the burning question I might have had the courage to ask if we’d ridden further together – how the hell do you cope with a puncture?
Just be thankful for what you’ve got, eh?
I pushed on to the top of the hill to end a short, but enjoyable ride. Despite the weather … or, just maybe, because of it.
Right, I’m away next week for a short holiday, hopefully the weather can raise its game for when I get back … but I’m not holding my breath.
YTD Totals: 3,785 km / 2,352 miles with 47,875 metres of climbing
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Texas A&M Women Beat Texas; Tight Racing the Story of the Night in Austin
The A&M women are leaning heavily on youth this season, but seniors Sarah Henry (above) and Sammie Bosma paced the team with two wins each on Friday night in Austin. Archive photo via Tim Binning/TheSwimPictures.com
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The Texas vs. Texas A&M rivalry, even with the two separating conferences prior to the 2012-2013 season, has been easily one of the most truly-competitive rivalries in college swimming for the last decade.
On Friday, that rivalry was renewed, and with both teams relying heavily on youth, A&M topped Texas, in Austin, by a margin of 169-131. That marked a second-straight win for the Aggies in this dual-meet series.
Both teams entered the meet undefeated, though the Longhorns’ schedule had been much tougher up until this point (including a sweep of Cal and Stanford last weekend).
The Aggies started out hot early, winning the 200 medley relay 1:39.84-1:40.24. After the two teams’ anchors hit the water nearly identically, it was the Aggie senior Sammie Bosma who pulled away with a blazing 22.20 split on the freestyle leg to make the difference in the race.
Another senior went big for the A&M women in the second race of the day, where Sarah Henry out-battled Kaitlin Pawlowicz in the 1000 free 9:43.35-9:44.31. Those two were well out in front of the field, and traded leads several times in the race. Pawlowicz was in front setting the pace through900 yards, but in the last 100, it was the former National Teamer and 5th-year senior Henry who had the final burst, splitting 54.61 to Pawlowicz’s 55.88 to win.
After that, the meet leveled out a little with the teams trading wins back and forth in a series of very competitive races. Texas’ Madisyn Cox won the women’s 200 free in 1:47.61, ahead of A&M’s Sarah Gibson in 1:48.83. Gibson had an unusual pacing, with a 26.89 final 50 yards after going 28.0-27.9 on the two preceding 50’s.
Next up, in the women’s 100 backstroke, A&M freshmen Beryl Gastaldello (54.18) and Lisa Bratton (54.62) beat out Texas sophomore All-American Tasija Karosas (54.70) in another very good race. The two Aggies were both season-bests in that swim.
An event later, Texas star Gretchen Jaques won the women’s 100 breaststroke in 1:00.72. That wasn’t a season-best for her, but she is the fastest in the nation this year. In a matchup of top 10 teams, almost every race had to be won by beating an All-American, and this was no difference as Jaques out-matched A&M’s Sycerika McMahon (1:01.43) and Franko Jonker (1:03.17) with a very well-paced swim.
As an indication of how well Jaques is swimming this year, that’s already her second time under 1:01 this season. Last year, she only achieved that at the Longhorns’ big rest meets: the Texas Invite, Big 12’s, and NCAA’s.
In that back-and-forth stretch of events, A&M continued to build their lead with more 2-3-4 finishes than the Longhorns, but in the 200 fly, Texas took a big chunk of that back.
They finished 1-2-3 in the race, led by a 1:58.88 from Kelsey Leneave that is right on her season-best. That gave the Longhorns the maximum 16-3 margin in the event and pulled them back into the meet.
A&M’s top finisher in that race was Emily Neubert in 4th with a 2:03.99. This is a hole in A&M’s lineup after graduating Cammile Adams and Caroline McElhany, both top-8 finishers at NCAA’s last year.
That would be as close as Texas came, though, as after the drubbing in the 200 fly, the Aggies went on a seven-eent run to break the meet open. Sammie Bosma won the 50 free in 22.82, beating out the young Texas duo of Rebecca Millard (23.29) and Brynne Wong (23.37).
Next up was the 1-meter diving event, where A&M sophomore Madison Hudkins just edged-out, by fewer than four points, Texas’ strong duo of Meghan Houston and Emma Ivory-Ganja.
Bosma won again coming out of the break with a 49.71 to again top Millard (50.14). Bosma took that race to task early, splitting 24.0 at the 50.
The National Teamer Bratton took a win in her specialty event, the 200 backstroke in 1:54.92. She just edged out Texas’ Tasija Karosas (1:54.97) in that race, and those times rank them 4th and 5th, respectively, in the country so far this season.
In a rare break from the every-race battle at this meet, Sycerika McMahon (2:12.25 – 200 breaststroke) and Sarah Henry (4:47.21 – 500 free) put up back-to-back wins for the Aggies by margins of over two seconds.
The Frenchwoman Gastaldello then got her second win of the meet with a 53.81 in the 100 fly: another very, very close swim as Texas’ Kelsey Leneave (53.88) closed hard to make this a photo finish.
Texas broke the run when the All-American Ivory-Ganja won the 3-meter event fairly easily by 25 points ahead of Hudkins. Her teammate Madisyn Cox followed that with a 1:59.64 in the 200 IM, making her the lone double-winner for the Longhorns on the night.
A&M closed the meet out winning the 400 free relay 3:20.40-3:21.65. Bosma (50.08 leadoff) and MIllard (49.70 on a rolling start) were again the leaders for their respective relays. There was also one really noteworthy swim from Texas’ 3rd-place “B” relay in that event: Makayla Markey, who anchored in a 50.55 split. She didn’t go a flat-start lifetime best in the 100 free as a freshman last season, but that split (two tenths better than she’s been on a flat start) is an excellent early sign that she’s caught on to Carol Capitani’s training.
Though the final score of 38-points difference wasn’t all that close, there were a lot of places where a tenth or two could’ve resulted in huge swings in this meet, so don’t be fooled by the final score. Both teams had season-best results, but whether by design or accident, the visiting A&M women had more – and that was the difference in the meet.
Both teams will now go back and train for two weeks before they host mid-season invites beginning November 20th. For A&M, that’s the Art Adamson Invitational, and for Texas, that’s the Texas Invite.
Full meet results available here.
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I thought Denninghoff was supposed to be back with Texas this year?
Karosas has been filling in the backstrokes very well, regardless.
Reply to floppy
floppy – she’s on the roster as a redshirt senior, not sure why she didn’t swim at this meet.
bobo gigi
Great day for Frenchwoman freshman Béryl Gastaldello! 2 individual wins for her!
And she will be also very useful for Texas A&M sprint freestyle and medley relays because she can swim sprint freestyle, butterfly and backstroke at almost the same level. Even though I think butterfly is perhaps her best stroke. Anyway, it was her best stroke last summer in long course (59.40 in the 100 fly).
Cool to see she has adapted herself very quickly to yards swimming. It was not taken for granted.
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Chronicle AM -- January 17, 2014
by psmith, January 17, 2014, 04:50pm, (Issue #818)
Reentry/Rehabilitation
State & Local Executive Branches
Washington Initiative 502
Washington's attorney general has dealt a body blow to the statewide legalization of marijuana commerce there, medical marijuana continues to keep state legislatures busy, a New Mexico town and county pay out big time for a horrid anal search, heroin legislation is moving in Kentucky, and more. Let's get to it:
Washington Attorney General Rules Localities Can Ban Marijuana Businesses. In a formal opinion released Thursday, the Washington attorney general's office held that "Initiative 502 as drafted and presented to the voters does not prevent local governments from regulating or banning marijuana businesses in their jurisdictions." The ACLU of Washington said the attorney general's opinion is mistaken and it "will go to court if necessary" to see it overturned, while the state Liquor Control Board, which is charged with implementing I-502 said that the "opinion would be a disappointment to the majority of voters who approved the law."
Marijuana Reforms Will Be on the Legislative Agenda in Louisiana Again This Year. State Rep. Austin Badon (D-New Orleans) has already introduced House Bill 14, which would dramatically lessen the state's draconian marijuana penalties, and further-reaching bills could be forthcoming. The Badon bill passed the House last year before dying in the Senate.
Pennsylvania Medical Marijuana Bill to Get Hearing This Month. State Senate Law and Justice Committee Chairman Chuck McIlhinney (R) said Thursday he had scheduled a public hearing for January 28 on a medical marijuana bill introduced this week. The bill, Senate Bill 1182, is cosponsored by Sens. Daylin Leach (D) and Mike Folmer (R).
Hawaii House Speaker Says State Needs Dispensaries. House Speaker Joe Souki said Wednesday that the lack of places for medical marijuana patients to obtain their medicine was "a gap in the law" that needs to be addressed. That patients can use medical marijuana but have no place to obtain it is "an anomaly," he said. Addressing dispensaries is a "humanitarian" issue, he added.
Utah Poll Finds Narrow Majority for Medical Marijuana. A new Salt Lake Tribune poll has 51% of Utahns supporting medical marijuana, but 67% opposing decriminalization or legalization.
Georgia Poll Finds Narrow Majority for Medical Marijuana. A new InsiderAdvantage poll has 51% of Georgians supporting medical marijuana "in very specific instances, such as in a liquid form to reduce seizures from young children." Some 27% were opposed, and 22% undecided. "The key here is that any legislation must be on a limited basis. That said, Republicans and Democrats both support this legislation by well over 50 percent, while independent voters are close to a majority as well," said Matt Towery, president of InsiderAdvantage and a former legislator.
Kentucky Senate Approves Bill to Reduce Overdose Deaths, Increase Trafficking Penalties. The state Senate Thursday approved Senate Bill 5, which would create more treatment beds for heroin users and lengthen prison sentences for heroin and methamphetamine traffickers. A similar version of the bill passed the Republican-led Senate last year, but stalled in the Democratic-led House. The bill would require the state Medicaid program to cover several inpatient and outpatient treatment options for people addicted to opiates, including heroin and prescription painkillers. It also would divert some of the state's hoped-for savings from a 2011 prison sentencing reform package to expand treatment programs. But the bill would also stiffen penalties for people convicted of trafficking in larger quantities of heroin, methamphetamines or both, requiring them to serve at least half of their prison sentences before they are eligible for shock probation or parole.
New Mexico Town, County Pay Out Big Time for Forced Anal Searches of Drug Suspect. A Deming, New Mexico, man who was subjected to a hospital anal exam involving three enemas, a colonoscopy, and being forced to defecate in front of police and medical personnel in a fruitless search for drugs will get $1.6 million in damages in a settlement from Deming and Hidalgo County. David Eckert will most likely win additional damages from a local hospital where doctors agreed to perform the exam.
Charles Colson Task Force on Federal Corrections Funded in Federal Spending Bill. The omnibus federal spending bill filed this week and expected to pass quickly includes $1 million to establish the Charles Colson Task Force on Federal Corrections, an independent, bipartisan grouping that will examine a number of challenges facing the federal correctional system, including overcrowding and ways to minimize growth, violence behind bars, rehabilitation, and reentry. Colson was a Nixon administration official jailed in the Watergate scandal who became a prison reformer in the wake of that experience.
Spurred by Attorney, Bermuda's Medical Marijuana Debate Heats Up. Attorney Alan Gordon's online petition to have the Bermudan government allow emergency access to medical marijuana for cancer patients has spurred considerable notice on the island, with National Security Minister Michael Dunkley and Gordon publicly clashing over the law and whether Dunkley can act. Click on the link to see Dunkley's comments and Gordon's well-publicized written response.
Vietnam Sentences Three Drug Offenders to Death; Iran Executes Six. And the resort to the death penalty against drug offenders continues. According to the anti-death penalty group Hands Off Cain, three Vietnamese men charged with heroin trafficking got death sentences, while Iran, the world's leading drug offender execution, hung another six.
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Another prediction comes true....
by Steve Sarich (not verified), January 17, 2014, 07:26pm
Just as the legislature is trying to end medical cannabis in the state of Washington in favor of their I-502 Liquor Control Board model, which we predicted three years ago, another of our predications has been proven correct. The bill was so poorly written (thanks DPA!) that 95% of the state will not have access to any of the recreational stores. Even the Democratic Attorney General claims that any lawsuit to force these cities to end their moratoriums will certainly fail.
Despite the lack of any stores, the legislature is still trying to force patients into a recreational model that even 502 supporters are now claiming will fail.
All this sounding familiar Phillip? Do you remember us discussing this at some length?
Steve Sarich
Cannabis Action Coalition
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Newt's Emerald by Garth Nix
Published by: Katherine Tegen Books
To celebrate Truthful Newtington's eighteenth birthday her father has invited the people she loves most in the world, her three cousins, Edmund, Stephen, and Robert, for a family dinner. The five of them have a wonderful repast where Truthful's father regales them with stories of his time at sea. Though his weather magic does accidentally bring on a real gale. Yet a small squall will soon be the least of their worries. While Truthful won't inherit the famous Newtington Emerald until she's in her twenties, her father brings it out from it's hiding place and they are all mesmerized by it's worth as a stone and it's power as a magical artifact. But the unthinkable happens and the emerald is stolen. Truthful's father is taken to bed and he blames the three young cousins. In an attempt to clear their names they vow to Truthful that they will solve this heist and restore her father's health. Frustrated that she can't go out into the world and try to find the emerald for herself Truthful concocts a plan. She was supposed to leave for her Great Aunt's house in London in a few weeks to be presented and have her first season. What if she just left a few weeks earlier and used that time to find the emerald? Dragging her begrudging maid Agatha along, Truthful has no idea of the adventures and dangers that await her in the thriving metropolis. With her Great Aunt's help they concoct a male identity for Truthful based on a distant relative so that she may move freely in the quest for the emerald. Truthful's alter ego soon has a compatriot, a Major Charles Harnett. Yet working with him so closely he's bound to find out the truth of her secret identity and her heart. Little does she know that no one is as they appear.
In his author's note Garth Nix freely admits that Newt's Emerald started out as a plot contrivance of another very different sort of book. I have to wonder if perhaps it should have stayed that way. It's like someone told him Regency sells really well and he went to his trunk and dusted off the skeletal remains of that previous book, forgetting that there's a reason trunk books stay in the trunk. Also, for a Regency book to sell, perhaps get the Regency right? Seriously, I CAN NOT stress this enough. If you are writing a period book, even if it's fantasy during a certain period, you need to know the societal conventions and mores so that IF you decide to break them you at least know that you are. Nix needed to spend more time actually doing research instead of re-reading all of Georgette Heyer and Patrick O'Brien. Or at least re-read all of Austen, instead of just a few. Austen wrote six books yet Nix had time to read all twenty-one books in the Aubrey-Maturin series? Not to mention all twenty-six Heyer Regency romances! I'm not slamming these books, it's just they are written after the fact by modern authors. To get an actual feel about the period read books from that period. There's more then one reason people revere Austen, and one is how she perfectly captures the time period in which she lived!
Or how about a reference book? What Jane Austen Ate and Who Charles Dickens Knew by Daniel Pool will fix such glaring errors of Truthful being improperly addressed. She is the eldest, and in fact only daughter of Admiral Newtington and therefore should be addresses as Miss Newtington, never Miss Truthful, which anyone who read Pride and Prejudice should know! Jane Bennet is addressed as Miss Bennet because she is the oldest, while Elizabeth, being younger, is addressed as Miss Elizabeth Bennet. But that is if Truthful wasn't a peeress. Instead she should be addressed as Lady Truthful Newtington, NEVER drop that Newt! I mean you can find this by simply googling "how to address a lady in the regency period" and seeing as Nix seems too busy to even provide a full glossary for his readers and tells them to use google, well the LEAST he could do is abide by his own ruling. But this doesn't even come close to the faux pas of Truthful dancing with men she has never been introduced to! What heathen society is this I'm reading about. This is not good ton! And this doesn't even scratch the surface of the sartorial errors. Gloves in the house! Bonnets at the dinner table! You'd look ridiculous carrying a reticule from room to room in your own house! And has Nix EVER seen a Regency silhouette, voluminous skirts my eye! The waist doesn't drop till 1820 with the skirts not going wide till 1825!
But the glaring errors weren't my only problem with the book. The fact that it goes on overly long was one, which I thought might be fixed reading the original novella, PS, it wasn't, because it was exactly the same and I was basically tricked into reading this book twice. Also I might have been a little more forgiving of Nix's lackadaisical attitude to the Regency if he had bothered to create a world that was interesting. Or at least logical. Reading other reviews I saw time and time again that the number one criticism of this book for those who aren't Regency obsessives was the lack of a convincing system of magic. Worldbuilding is KEY no matter if you are tweaking an already extant world or creating a new one. But seeing as Nix couldn't even properly reflect reality how can he be expected to create an entirely new magic system? There's obviously fairies, but how do they figure in? Glamors are key but how exactly do physical charms break them? Then there's weather magic... so one might assume that there is elemental magic... just where does this come from? How is it used? You can't just drop things all over the place and not explain them. Is magic primarily in the upper classes? Is it exclusive to women or men or are they equal? Just something please. Some basic rules. Like focus on the elemental magic, go with that. Build on that. Just build something. ANYTHING! BUILD YOUR WORLD! And what's with the talking to animals?
If we strip away all the fripperies as Nix sees them, such as historical accuracy and worldbuilding, we are basically left with Twelfth Night. I've never been a big fan of girls dressing up as boys to go fight or save the family honor or protect themselves. It's always seemed cliched and unbelievable and most of all trite. Which is probably why I hate Shakespeare's Twelfth Night so much. It's entirely unbelievable to me that Viola could pass as Cesario. Therefore I don't believe that Truthful could pass as the Chevalier. Yes, they make a big to-do that this wouldn't work without that little bit of glamor, but seriously? Ugh. I know it's all about saving the family honor and being a hero, or heroine as the case would be, but it's just so played out. And the falling in love with the hero while in disguise, gag me now. When it came out that her "disguise" actually makes her look like her cousin Stephen, I almost banged by head against the wall. Damn you Shakespeare and Twelfth Night! This is a hackneyed story. This type of story is over, it's done. It should have been killed off in 1985 with the horrid movie Just One of the Guys. Yes, there might be someone out there who could bring some originality to it, but it's not Nix and it's definitely NOT Newt's Emerald.
What made me even more annoyed with the cross-dressing trope was that all the adults in Truthful's life seemed to be in the know and were indulging her with a wink and a nudge. Excuse me? Her guardians were indulging her impropriety and the possibility of her being ruined? It just seems too unlikely. This wasn't exactly a time when people shook their heads and said "kids will be kids." This was a time following a very harrowing war with danger still lurking in the shape of French foreign agents and well gosh darn it all, let Truthful risk her life if she's having some fun. While yes, the only character I actually liked in the book was Truthful's Great Aunt Ermentrude because while appearing respectable she really was an exotic and wild old doyenne who sat around with scimitars and wore fezzes, she made an effort to be conventional in the eyes of society. So while, yes, she herself might conceivably be a little indulgent in Truthful's behaviour, I really think she should be more concerned with her great niece's welfare and reputation. By the time Ermentrude and Charles's aunt, Lady Otterbrook, are conspiring to make a match of the two young ones they seem gleeful with innuendo and sly asides. This isn't the French Court before the revolution people! This is staid old England, and while it was more human than some history makes it, there's just no credibility in the version that Nix is presenting us. There is just annoyance and a lot of rage reading. Twice over in my case.
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‘The Midnight Sky’ Review: Want To Take A Nice Soothing Nap? Then Watch This George Clooney Directorial
The Midnight Sky, directed by George Clooney and written by Mark L. Smith, tells two stories that are happening simultaneously. One is that of Augustine (Clooney) who is making a Hail Mary attempt to establish contact with a space station in order to apparently save a kid and the other is that of a space station that is charting its way back to Earth. And although both of these narratives are interesting on paper, their on-screen execution is dreary, unnecessarily slow-paced, oddly structured, and frankly speaking, in the wrong genre.
There are good movies. There are bad movies. There are average movies. I have a lot of fun writing about bad movies and I also have fun watching them, to be honest, because they’re unintentionally hilarious. I don’t give it any points for that but I do derive a sense of pleasure from nitpicking them. Good movies are, well, good and I enjoy watching them, talking about them, and going into insane detail about the subtext, its relevance, and whatnot. But when it comes to average movies, I don’t know what to do about them. Most of them have good stars so the acting is alright, they have a decent budget so the overall look of the film is okay, and even some of the storytelling is bearable. However, when you look at it from a macro perspective, it just feels like shit. The Midnight Sky is one such movie.
The Midnight Sky is directed by George Clooney. The screenplay is by Mark L. Smith and is based on the book Good Mornign, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton. The music is by Alexandre Desplat, cinematography by Martin Ruhe, editing by Stephen Mirrione, casting by Lucy Rands and Rachel Tenner, production design by Jim Bissell, art direction by Tim Browning, Claire Fleming, Jonathan Opgenhaffen, and Nic Pallace, set decoration by Maudie Andrews and John Bush, costume design by Jenny Eagan, hair and makeup design by by Jan Sewell, sound design by Randy Thom, and visual effects by Framestore, ILM, Nviz, and One of Us. It features George Clooney, Felicity Jones, David Oyelowo, Coilinn Springall, Kyle Chandler, Demián Bichir, Tiffany Boone, Sophie Rundle, and Ethan Peck. The story revolves between Augustine’s (Clooney) attempts to contact anything that’ll help him apparently save Iris and Sully (Jones) and her team’s attempt to return to Earth.
The Midnight Sky is so busy reaching its twisty end that it forgets to build up the characters and their relationships.
I get it. These are two stories about survival that are happening simultaneously and are somehow going to converge. One is grounded and the other is cosmic. Cool. But what about the characters in them? Why the hell should I care about any of them? Augustine is really similar to Robert from I Am Legend. He’s the sole survivor on Earth and he’s doing scientific shit for the sake of survival. However, where Robert gets these heart-wrenching monologues and gut-punching moments of inhumanity, Augustine gets nothing. For a major chunk of the first act, he hobbles around, in the second act, he hobbles around some more, and in the third act just guess what he does? He hobbles some more. He is supposed to be in this redemptive arc but he never feels like a person worthy of it. Just because the situation he’s in is miserable, doesn’t mean the person can or should be redeemed.
Same goes for the space crew. There’s nothing relatable, likeale, or hate-worthy about them. They’re just dry people with no charisma, no charm, no smartness, nothing. There’s one science-y bit where they feel like genuine astronauts trying to figure out a catastrophic problem. The dialogue-writing is good. The to-and-fro between all of them has some flavour. And then again they go back to doing stupid-ass stuff. Don’t get me started about the non-scientific conversations because they’re truly unbearable. There’s an ongoing conversation about what’s going to be Sully’s daughter’s name. I am aware that it was a last moment thing and was retrofitted into the script because Felicity was pregnant, for real, and that’s sweet. But you can see how last moment of a decision it must’ve been because it just doesn’t fit in with the direness of the situation they’re in at all. All it does is waste precious time which could’ve been used to develop any of the characters.
The Midnight Sky is a spiritual Solaris sequel that should’ve been The Grey meets Interstellar. Instead it’s just boring.
The potential in this film was astronomical. From the get-go, it feels like a spiritual sequel to Clooney’s Solaris as he’s all alone and slowly losing his mind throughout the course of the movie. But unlike Solaris, that psychological horror is turned into some soft, introspective drama that does no good. And the surprising thing is that even that is thrown away and the movie becomes a survival story in an icey landscape with wolves circling around, just like Liam Neeson’s The Grey. However, even that is thrown away because, spoiler alert, he survives it all pretty easily. Why? I have no clue. Like the ingredients are there spread in front of Clooney and he just doesn’t see it. I think he was a little too busy pulling off the cosmic, space-walking related stuff, which he does very well, but just like the Earth related story, it doesn’t have any sense of tension.
In this movie, there’s global warming, cancer, meteor attacks in space, and a pregnant woman. And if you still can’t create tension, then that says a lot about your ability to direct. A lot of it is visually striking, yes, but that’s because ILM is involved in it. What else does it have to offer? The answer is sleep. There are a few loud bangs here and there. Apart from that, The Midnight Sky is so dull that it is soothing (Kudos to Desplat’s score, I guess). You can just put this shit and find yourself dozing off despite all the pent-up anxiety inside you due to 2020. Jokes apart, it’s structured so poorly. None of the events, on Earth and in space, line up in a way to complement each other. They just happen in isolation and that’s it. But the production design and set design are good. It won’t improve your viewing experience but I can appreciate the work that’s gone into it.
Everyone from George Clooney to Felicity Jones are great but their talents are horribly wasted due to the lacklustre direction and writing.
How can you bring in Felicity Jones, David Oyelowo, Kyle Chandler, Demián Bichir, Tiffany Boone, and put yourself in the movie and make it suck, George Clooney? It’s just sad. Yeah, they all say their lines properly, they shed tears on cue, they look like they’re struggling when their characters are struggling, they look like they’re in trouble when their characters are in trouble, and that’s about it. That’s good acting. But it doesn’t hit you on an emotional level because the characters and the premise are so hollow. I don’t blame them for doing these roles. I am sure it must’ve seemed like a good film to do. I blame the director and the writer for putting them through this without realising how they’re wasting their time. Here’s to hoping that they got a fat cheque at the end of this ordeal and some clarity about choosing their scripts.
Usually I don’t say much about casting decisions about who in their right minds thought that casting Ethan Peck as a young George Clooney was a good idea. Kaunse angle se woh banda George Clooney lagta hai bhai? If they had shaved Clooney and dyed all his black or brown, it would’ve worked, to be honest. But no, cast someone who neither acts nor looks like Clooney to be his younger version. Great. Fantastic job peeps!
There’s no reason to watch Netflix’s The Midnight Sky unless you’ve been having sleepless nights. Put it on and you’ll undoubtedly go to sleep. But if you want to stay awake and consume quality stuff, then steer away from this and try other Netflix properties like Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom or Sweet Home or Ariana Grande: Excuse Me, I Love You or AK vs AK. You’re welcome.
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Pfander-Kairanvi Agra debate of 1854
Maulana Rahmatullah Kairanvi: Turkish Facets of his Life and Work
By: Syed Tanvir Wasti
The article mainly deals with life and works of Maulana Rahmatullah Kairanvi whose erudite religious works were published in Arabic, Persian and Urdu and also translated into English, Turkish and other languages. There are papers in German and English by Christine Schirrmacher dealing with the Pfander-Kairanvi Agra debate of 1854 based on the material of her dissertation. Two exhaustive sources in Urdu also offering details dealing with the historical characters as well as the cultural milieu of the time. Rahmatullah Kairanvi also took up his pen against the missionary onslaught. Kairanvi wrote 18 books that were published from Delhi, Agra and Istanbul. Kairanvi’s books have been translated into several languages. Among his earlier works are the books Ibtal al-Taslis [The Refutation of the Trinity], written in 1854 but first published in Delhi in1875, and ‘Ijaz-i ‘Iswi [The miracle of Jesus] published in Agra in 1854. Kairanvi’s most important and well-known work is the book titled Izhar al Haqq [The Demonstration of the Truth], was first published in Arabic in Istanbul in 1864.Read More →
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June 9, 2019 In Athletic Performance, Holistic Health, Mitochondria, NAD, NAD+, NADH, Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, Uncategorized By Wally Taylor MD
NAD+ Revitalize Your Mitochondria
NAD+ Key to Mitochondrial Function, Longevity, Peak Athletic Performance?
IV infusion of NAD+ is gaining popularity among athletes due to the observed mitochondria ATP production that follows. Improvements in endurance, strength, stamina and athletic performance have been observed.
Treatments with combinations of vitamins and other nutrients by the intravenous or IV route of administration is gaining in use throughout the country. Although still controversial, there are reasons to believe that the IV rout of nutrient administration offers some distinct advantages over diet and even oral vitamin and nutrient supplementation. Since the blood stream carries your nutrients to your cells, there is no more direct or complete way to deliver these nutrients than by direct IV infusion.
Many different vitamins and nutrients have been used in this setting. One nutrient that we offer at the IV nutrient center at Texas Integrative Medicine in Austin, Texas, is Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide-usually shortened to NAD+.
NAD+ is rapidly becoming a favorite especially for individuals looking to improve mitochondrial energy production and all the many benefits associated with lots of healthy and highly functional mitochondria pumping out lots of your primary energy molecule-ATP.
NAD+ has been given IV safely for many years. In high dosages it has been shown to eliminate cravings and reverse addiction to opiates, alcohol and other substances. Whereas, in the past, IV NAD+ was given over several hours, recent trials have demonstrated that rapid IV NAD+ infusions are safe and effective, if not somewhat uncomfortable to receive. Combining higher doses of NAD+ (we use individual infusions of 500 mg NAD+ per session) with a fast infusion of a multivitamin IV containing B vitamins, vitamin C as well as amino acids and vital minerals (a total of 23 different vital nutrients in total) may enhance the NAD+ transportation into the mitochondria and delivers many vitamins and minerals necessary for healthy cellular and mitochondrial function.
Receiving larger doses of NAD+ in this way improves the NAD+/NADH ratio and boosts mitochondrial oxygen utilization signifcantly. Individuals receiving this combination of NAD+ and fast IV MultiVitamins have reported increased energy, increased strength, increased mental clarity, increased endurance, increased potency and improved mood. Studies of NAD+ have shown that NAD+ protects DNA and has anti-aging effects including increased numbers of circulating stem cells.
A series of IV infusions of NAD+ and fast IV MultiVitamins may provide advantages over a single infusion, especially initially. After an initial series, maintenance treatments every several weeks may help to maintain the beneficial effects.
To see if you might be a good candidate to receive this Peak Performance Package or to schedule your treatment contact our office at 512-800-5309 today.
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Dr. Taylor practices integrative medicine at Texas Integrative Medicine in Austin, Texas. After obtaining a degree in Zoology from the University of Texas in Austin and obtaining a general medical doctorate degree from University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas he completed a general medical internship and residency training in head and neck surgery ENT and allergy. After 20 years service in the US Army Medical Corps and practice in Colorado and Texas he founded Texas Integrative where he now offers a functional/holistic approach to disease which treats the entire individual instead of each separate symptom. He has taken this integrative approach to chronic illness for the past 25 years. His special interests are chronic, complex illness due to environmental toxin exposures such as mold, germs, chemicals, toxic metals and harmful electro-magnetic radiation. He has found more satisfying results using this Systems BioIndividualized approach. He is board certified by the American Board of Anti-Aging and Regenerative Medicine and the American Board of Otolaryngology.
His center, Texas Integrative Medicine, also offers IV nutritional services and detoxification protocols to healthy individuals to prevent disease, maintain peak wellness and maximize athletic performance.
Texas Integrative’s motto is “Health and Wellness from Head to Toe”.
November 11, 2018 In Biotoxins, Black Mold, Chronic Fatigue, Chronic Illness, Detox, Digestive Health, Environmental Illness, Environmental Pollution, Environmental Toxins, Fatigue, Holistic Health, Inflammation, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Limbic Retraining, Lyme Disease, Mast Cell Activation Disorder, Mast Cell Activation Syndrome, Methylation Pathway, Mitochondrial Cell Danger Response, Mycotoxins, Philosophy of Care, Stealth Infection, Stress Management, Stress Relief By Wally Taylor MD
Book Review: TOXIC-Heal Your Body-by Neil Nathan, MD
Book Review: TOXIC Heal Your Body by Neil Nathan, MD-Victory Belt Publishing Inc. 2018
As a physician treating multi-symptom chronic, complex illness (CCI) caused by environmental illness arising from the cumulative exposure to a wide variety of environmental toxins, I have been finding Neil Nathan’s book, TOXIC, to be a very useful resource for patients and practitioners alike. It is a valuable message of hope and healing.
Dr. Nathan has been treating this rapidly enlarging group of patients for a handful of years longer than I have, and he has created a tool box and approach to treatment that has proven extraordinarily successful. Many of my diagnostic and treatment protocols align closely with those of Dr. Nathan; in fact he has been a mentor to me over the past few years.
” In my experience, the two major causes of overwhelming sensitivity are mold toxicity and Lyme disease (with its co-infections). Neil Nathan, MD
In the introduction of Part 2, he admits that of all the environmental toxins that contribute to chronic illness in his patients, he finds the worst to be indoor mold toxins and infection with Bartonella bacteria. This is probably surprising to some who might have assumed Borrelia spirochete infection (Lyme disease) to be at the top.
Dr. Nathan makes a clear distinction between the direct toxicity effect of environmental toxins and the sensitivity effect of the body to toxins which he ascribes to the nervous system. I would include the body’s immune system as a source of this sensitivity effect, as well.
In the midsection of his book (chapters 8-20) Dr. Nathan lays out strategies for “rebooting the system”. He chose this computer metaphor as an apt comparison of how in CCI it is often necessary to reboot various body systems before a state of wellness can return.
Dr. Nathan clearly explains the role of mast cells (a component of the immune system) in perpetuating many of the chronic symptoms of this complex illness as he explains Mast Cell Activation Syndrome which is getting lots of attention nowadays.
Dr. Nathan helps the reader understand the critical role played by the digestive system in CCI and the intimate connection between the digestive system and the nervous system (gut-brain connection) mediated in part by the important vagus nerve.
“Getting the intestines to work well again is an integral part of treatment, but this outcome may be difficult to achieve until the primary causes of illness have been adequately addressed.” Neil Nathan, MD
Dr. Nathan has had a close academic relationship over the years with Dr. Robert Naviaux. In chapter 8, he summarizes beautifully the concept of the Cell Danger Response, as developed by Dr. Naviaux and the team of scientists with whom he is associated. Although the science gets a bit “deep”, I really recommend this to patients and providers as well.
Dr. Nathan reaches upon his 47 years of treating patients with chronic illness to present in a very tender way that this illness is very real and that the prospect of total recovery is absolutely achievable. I honestly believe that many folks suffering from illness as well as there family and friends will be able to use his narrative to achieve a deep level of understanding and renewed optimism for the future.
“Because I have seen this process work for hundreds of patients, this is also a book of hope-realistic hope for really, really sensitive and sick patients.” Neil Nathan, MD
In the Afterword Dr. Nathan offers a message that is very close to my heart and one that I know many of my patients will relate to. I think the best way for me to share this is to offer a direct quote from the author. “Mother Earth is looking more and more like my chronically ill and sensitive patients. If I were to apply the paradigm expressed in this book to her, I would immediately find the specific chemical toxins that were making her sick, remove her from those exposures (how I do not know), and detoxify her. I would find ways to reboot those systems that are not functioning properly so that she could thrive again. … We must come together to do this. We must reach out, talk with one another, and reestablish real connections to begin this process of neurological rebooting on a planetary level.”
He sprinkles in helpful case studies to illustrate many of his points for emphasis.
Veteran practitioner of environmentally acquired illness and author, Neil Nathan, MD
In my opinion, Dr. Nathan’s book, TOXIC, will prove to be a paradigm changer for those affected by and attempting to treat chronic complex illness. I can’t recommend it highly enough.
May 19, 2018 In AutoImmune Disease, Biotoxins, Black Mold, Chronic Fatigue, Chronic Illness, Chronic Pain, Detox, Digestive Health, Dirty Electricity, ElectroSmog, EMF Health, Environmental Illness, Environmental Pollution, Fatigue, Functional Medicine, Holistic Health, Hormone Health, Inflammation, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Limbic Retraining, Limbic System, Lyme Disease, Mitochondria, Mycotoxins, Stealth Infection, Stress Management, Stress Relief, Tick Borne Disease, Toxic Heavy Metals, Uncategorized By Wally Taylor MD
Is Stress Making You Sick?
Tina’s Story
Tina recently came to see me as a new patient in my clinic. Tina had always been a worrier and she had battled feeling anxious and having trouble sleeping through the night for years. These had been manageable problems for her. Then something happened that changed things for Tina in a big way. Tina’s young adult son was convicted of a serious crime and he was facing imprisonment at exactly the same time that her husband was laid off from his job of twenty five years.
Almost overnight, Tina began to experience a dramatic increase in anxiety, a sense of hopelessness and marked increase in her insomnia. She suddenly would experience a sense of panic. She began to notice a host of new gastrointestinal complaints including diarrhea, heartburn, loss of appetite and bloating after eating certain foods. She started noticing trouble remembering names and finding words. She could not stay focused and was always forgetting why she had come in to a room looking for something. She noticed that her muscles and joints ached almost all the time and she began to experience frequent headaches. She had an overwhelming sense of fatigue and felt like she could not get out of bed on some days. It seemed like she would cry over anything. Tina told me that she wanted her life back.
Prescription medicines are often not the answer to chronic, complex illness
I see folks like Tina in my practice of chronic, complex illness due to environmental toxins almost every day. Often patients like Tina are told that there is nothing wrong with them other than they are under too much stress. This is not the case. Usually the basic blood tests and xrays don’t show much, if any, abnormality. Indeed life stress is often the straw that breaks the camel’s back when a person, like Tina, is struggling with disease due to progressive, on-going exposure to environmental toxins such as viruses, germs, molds, toxic chemicals like pesticides, toxic metals like mercury, and toxic electromagnetic energy from wifi’s and other electronic devices.
Reversing Chronic Fatigue Requires Addressing Three Areas
I have learned that to help someone like Tina return to her former state of wellness, I must help her address three things. First, we must try to identify ENVIRONMENTAL TOXINS that she is suffering from in order to stop exposure and eliminate them from her body. Second, we must identify why she manifests an increased sensitivity to the toxins. This is called her BIOTERRAIN. An individual’s bioterrain is what makes that individual act like a canary in the coal mine. The third thing that has to happen to return an individual like Tina to a state of wellness involves correcting an impairment of the body’s stress center known as the LIMBIC SYSTEM.
Correcting the limbic system is the subject of this blog post.
The Limbic System is the Motherboard of Our Brain’s Computer
The limbic system is that part of the brain that controls our sympathetic nervous system (FIGHT, FLIGHT, FEAR, FREEZE) and our parasympathetic nervous system (REST, DIGEST, REGENERATE, REPAIR). It is made up in part by the hippocampus, hypothalamus and the paired amygdalas. The limbic system is interconnected with the smell brain or rhinencephalon and is wired to almost all of the other systems of the body including the immune system, endocrine/hormone system/digestive system, energy system and higher brain systems emotions and problem solving. It is like the motherboard of our brain’s computer. The limbic system is especially susceptible to injury or impairment by environmental toxins and infections. In Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome or CIRS as described by Dr. Ritchie Shoemaker, injury to the limbic system accounts for much of the pathology that he describes in his protocol. Limbic system injury also explains much of the pathology described by Dr. Richard Horowitz in Multiple Systemic Infectious Disease Syndrome or MSIDS.
In centuries past when the world was not a toxic place as it is today, the limbic system would respond to THREAT with fight, flight, fear and freeze such as a fire, an attack by a wild animal-something obvious. The sense of panic caused a response that helped the individual survive that threat. The limbic system would then return fairly quickly to a state of rest, digest, repair, regenerate. Unfortunately, the situation today is that the limbic system gets stuck in a setting of perpetual threat (fight, flight, fear, freeze). This is also called SYMPATHETIC OVERDRIVE. When this happens the limbic system generates false signals that cause real and measurable changes of the various systems under its control. The immune system is off, the hormones are off, digestion is off, mitochondrial energy production is off, and your higher brain functions are off. In short the whole body is in a state of disease.
Although I have known for years that stressful life events would trigger real disease, I used to think, naively, that elimination of the stress would allow the limbic system to return to a state of normalcy. I now understand that except in rare circumstances, this is not the case. I now understand that although it is important to 1. identify and remove the environmental toxins and 2. reverse the person’s increased sensitivity to toxins, it usually requires resetting or reprogramming the limbic system to completely clear the symptoms. This process is fairly easy to learn but requires much repitition to accomplish.
Limbic System Retraining is not Difficult but Requires Repitition
There are a number of ways to accomplish this. Some call it STRESS MANAGEMENT. The term I like to use is LIMBIC SYSTEM RETRAINING.
Some of the most successful programs that I have found to accomplish limbic system retraining are Lindsay Mitchell’s Vital-Side program ( https://vital-side.com ), Annie Hopper’s Dynamic Neural Retraining ( https://retrainingthebrain.com ) and Ashtok Gupta’s Amygdala Retraining ( https://www.guptaprogramme.com ). These are not the only systems or ways to reset an impaired limbic system but simply methods that have worked for my patients frequently in the past. Other systems that may be beneficial are HeartMath, Emotional Freedom Technique/tapping, NeuroBio Feedback and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing/ EMDR. There are a number of other techniques that may also help.
To learn more about how you can recover from chronic, complex illness, I welcome the opportunity to work with you and my team of healers at Texas Integrative Medicine in Austin, Texas.
Dr. Taylor practices integrative medicine at Texas Integrative Medicine in Austin, Texas. After obtaining a degree in Zoology from the University of Texas in Austin and obtaining a general medical doctorate degree from University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas he completed a general medical internship and residency training in head and neck surgery ENT and allergy. After 20 years service in the US Army Medical Corps and practice in Colorado and Texas he founded Texas Integrative where he now offers a functional/holistic approach to disease which treats the entire individual instead of each separate symptom. He has taken this integrative approach to chronic illness for the past 25 years. His special interests are chronic, complex illness due to environmental toxin exposures such as mold, germs and chemicals. He has found more satisfying results using this Systems BioIndividualized approach. He is board certified by the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine. His motto is “Health and Wellness from Head to Toe”. www.texasintegrative.com office phone-512-800-5309.
February 26, 2018 In Biotoxins, Chronic Fatigue, Chronic Illness, Chronic Pain, Detox, Environmental Illness, Environmental Pollution, Fatigue, Functional Medicine, Holistic Health, Inflammation, Light Therapy, Lyme Disease, Mitochondria, Mycotoxins, Oxygen, Sauna, Sauna Therapy, Stealth Infection, Stress Relief, Tick Borne Disease, Toxic Heavy Metals, Uncategorized By Wally Taylor MD
Announcing OxySauna Detox Treatments
New 21st Century treatments combine three proven modalities to clear body toxins and lower counts of harmful germs into a quick and affordable treatment session.
With the move of Texas Integrative Medicine to our new, larger clinical facility in Rollingwood, West Austin, we are very pleased to announce that we now offer OxySauna treatments in our clinic to the public. OxySauna, a name coined by clinic founder, Wally Taylor MD, combines full spectrum infrared sauna with delivery of large amounts of oxygen simultaneously. Treatments that last up to 40 minutes are available in packages at the clinic.
OxySauna treatments combine full-spectrum infrared sauna with oxygen to maximize detoxification and improve immune function.
The treatments combine sauna detox utilizing the Therasage Thera360 individual sauna with non-rebreathe oxygen technology to deliver oxygen to the tissues and cells. This sauna provides both near- and far-infrared wavelengths of light featuring Therasage’s proprietary exclusive Natural Earth Element Full Spectrum Infrared heating panels, with Tourmaline gem stones, to generate an abundance of negative ions, and bathe your body from every angle in gentle full spectrum Infrared frequencies and negative ions, with no exposure to harmful EMF’s. (https://therasage.com/products/thera360-portable-sauna?variant=36294711244)
Studies demonstrate that near-infrared photons interact with the cytochrome C receptors in your mitochondria to liberate nitric oxide which opens blood vessels and has been shown to kill bacteria and viruses (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3442839/). Far-infrared photons excite water molecules in the body to heat the body from the inside out. Studies demonstrate that elevating the core body temperature is useful to eliminate harmful germs and toxins and helps explain why sauna heat therapy has been used for centuries as a healing modality.
Combining the benefits of full-spectrum sauna with enhanced oxygen delivery may substantially increase the beneficial effects. Oxygen is necessary to effectively kill bad germs in white blood cells (http://mbio.asm.org/content/2/5/e00141-11.full). Many anaerobic bacteria cannot survive in an environment of increased oxygen (obligate anaerobes). Increased delivery of oxygen to tissues has been shown scientifically to increase ATP production by your mitochondria. This ATP is necessary to power your systems of immunity and detoxification.
Much of the science of the beneficial role of increased oxygen for the body was worked out by German physiologist, Manfred Von Ardenne, and published in his work Oxygen Multistep Therapy published by Thieme publishers. (https://www.thieme.com/books-main/complementary-medicine/product/1272-oxygen-multistep-therapy). This treatment modality has been recently popularized in the EWOT treatments (Exercise with Oxygen Treatments) that have become quite popular for training and longevity which are also available at the Texas Integrative Medicine clinic facility.
From the LiveO2 website which is the leading manufacturer of EWOT systems in the United States (https://liveo2.com/ewot/)
“EWOT (exercise with oxygen therapy) is a method of breathing higher levels of oxygen during exercise in order to increase the amount of oxygen in your blood plasma. If done correctly EWOT can produce many desired effects in as little as 15 minutes a few times a week.
When you deliver and utilize more oxygen to your cells you:
Increase the energetic status and efficiency of your entire body
Experience improvement in tissue and organ function
Stimulate your immune system, reducing the probability of future illness
Reduce inflammation in the body, starting with the vascular system and joints
Produce the energy of youth, creating short-term health and longevity.
These benefits are just a few of the many positive results that come from EWOT.”
The full-spectrum sauna plays a similar role as the exercise in EWOT yet offers some distinct advantages over the exercise.
Treatments can be purchased singly or in packages. It is best to experience a series of treatments (two or three per week) over a period of weeks. For a limited time Texas Integrative is offering 50% off your first treatment session. Call 512-800-5309 to schedule your OxySauna treatment session today.
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Assassination of Iran’s top nuclear scientist ‘involved 62 people including 12 gunmen’
November 29, 2020 admin Lifestyle News photo
Remarkable detail of the elaborate plot to assassinate ‘prominent and distinguished’ Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh has been leaked – as the rogue nation claim Israel is behind the hit.
Fakhrizadeh – dubbed the ‘father’ of Iran’s bomb programme – was shot dead in his car by 12 highly-trained assassins following an explosion in the city of Absard, 50 miles east of Tehran.
The killers – which included a pair of snipers – formed part of a 62-person group of plotters. The remaining 50 people were responsible for logistical support.
Extraordinary detail about Fakhrizadeh’s final moments have been revealed by Iranian journalist Mohamad Ahwaze who claims he received leaked information from the country’s authorities.
Fakhrizadeh’s death sent tensions in the regions skyrocketing as Iran has repeatedly blamed Israel’s national intelligence agency Mossad for the the assassination – with several prominent figures vowing revenge.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei – who has the final say on all matters of state – yesterday said Iran’s first priority after the killing was the ‘definitive punishment of the perpetrators and those who ordered it.’ He did not elaborate.
And, in an intervention that risks inflaming conflict even further, a former head of the US’s Central Intelligence Agency labelled the assassination a ‘criminal’ act and branded it ‘highly reckless’.
John Brennan – who was director of the CIA from 2013 to 2017 under President Barack Obama – said he did not know who was to blame for the murder of Fakhrizadeh but said it ‘risks lethal retaliation and a new round of regional conflict’.
One American official and two other intelligence officials also told the New York Times that Israel was behind the attack.
Mohsen Fakhrizadeh – dubbed the ‘father’ of Iran’s bomb programme – was shot dead in his car by 12 highly-trained assassins following an explosion in the city of Absard, 50 miles east of Tehran. Pictured: Ebrahim Raisi – head of Iran’s judiciary – and family members of Fakhrizadeh stand by his body
Remarkable detail of the elaborate plot to assassinate ‘prominent and distinguished’ Iranian nuclear scientist Fakhrizadeh has been leaked (pictured) – as the rogue nation claim Israel is behind the hit
The killers – which included a pair of snipers – formed part of a 62-person strong group of plotters. The remaining 50 people were responsible for logistical support. Pictured: The aftermath of the assassination
Extraordinary detail about Fakhrizadeh’s final moments have been revealed by Iranian journalist Mohamad Ahwaze who claims he received leaked information from the country’s authorities. Pictured: The aftermath of the attack
Ahwaze said the attack was planned for a roundabout in Absard, at the foot of a tree-lined boulevard which enters the city. Pictured: The aftermath of the attack
Mohsen Fakhrizadeh (left) was killed in an ambush involving an explosion and then machine gun fire on a road between the countryside town of Absard and the capital of Tehran on Friday. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (right) has vowed revenge
Ahwaze said the attack was planned for a roundabout in Absard, at the foot of a tree-lined boulevard which enters the city.
The team had been watching Fakhrizadeh, and knew that he was going to be driving from Tehran to Absard on Friday.
The mountain retreat of 10,000 people is where many well-off Tehranis have second homes, and Fakhrizadeh, 59, had a villa there.
The 12 assassins – described as being highly-trained and assisted by ‘security and intelligence services abroad’ – were deployed to Absard while the remaining 50 people in the 62-person strong group helped with logistical support. He did not specify whether they were in Iran, or abroad.
Servants of the holy shrine of Imam Reza carry the coffin of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, in Mashhad, Iran
A coffin with an image of Iranian nuclear scientist Fakhrizadeh, can be seen among the servants of the holy shrine of Imam Reza in Mashhad
Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf (centre) chairs a closed session in the capital Tehran to investigate the killing of Fakhrizadeh
Mourners are seen during the funeral procession of Iran’s assassinated top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh at Imam Reza Shrine
Mourners are seen during the funeral of top nuclear scientist Fakhrizadeh in Mashhad, Iran, on November 29
Protesters burn pictures of US President-elect Joe Biden and President Donald Trump during a demonstration against the killing of Fakhrizadeh
Protesters burn US and Israel flags during a demonstration against Fakhrizadeh’s assassination. Iran has blamed Israel for the attack
A group of demonstrators clutch signs – one reading ‘down with Israel’ – as they gather to protest the assassination in Tehran
Demonstrators are seen gathering at a protest site in Habboubi Square in Iraq’s southern city of Nasiriyah on Saturday
A Hyundai Santa Fe with four passengers, four motorcyles and two snipers were waiting for Fakhrizadeh at the scene of the ambush – along with a booby-trapped Nissan pickup.
Half an hour before Fakhrizadeh’s convoy of three bulletproof cars arrived, the electricity was cut off to the area, Ahwaze reported. The team were in place when the first car passed the roundabout.
As the third car passed, the Nissan exploded, damaging electricity poles and transmitters, according to a state TV report from the area on Friday night.
The force of the explosion from the bomb hurled debris at least 300 meters, state television claimed.
The second car, containing Fakhrizadeh, was then shot at by the 12 assassins, including two snipers.
The gunmen with the hit squad opened fire on the cars, and an intense gunfight ensued, according to Sepah Cybery, a social media channel affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.
Ahwaze tweeted: ‘According to Iranian leaks, the leader of the assassination team took Fakhrizadeh out of his car and shot him and made sure he was killed.’
The hit squad then vanished, having sustained no losses to their team, Ahwaze reported.
Iran’s Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Ebrahim Raisi pays respect to Fakhrizadeh on Saturday alongside the slain scientist’s family
Residents told state television that they heard the sound of a big explosion followed by intense machine gun fire as Fakhrizadeh’s bodyguards fought back.
They knew the man they were protecting had for years been Mossad’s number one target.
A police helicopter landed in the area to transport Fakhrizadeh and others to the hospital, according to a video posted by a resident who said ‘several people are dead.’
When members of Fakhrizadeh’s security detail arrived in hospital, they were surprised to find that there was no electricity, after the power had been cut. They are then transported to Tehran.
The masters of ‘wet work’: Israeli agents are feared for covert assassination ops
Israel has often favoured covert ‘wet work’ tactics against its enemies – including assassinations.
The country’s national intelligence agency Mossad has been accused carrying out attacks on members of Palestinian fundamentalist group Hamas in recent years.
Prominent Iranian figures have also been targets – several of which have been nuclear scientists.
Within the agency is an elite unit known as Kidon – or ‘tip of the spear – which is widely-understood to be responsible for assassinations.
The group has been dubbed an ‘an elite group of expert assassins’ – but little is known about them or how they operate.
Alleged Mossad attacks tend to be quick and clean, including killings where the assassin is on the back of a motorcycle for an easy getaway.
Mossad hits are also usually outside of Israel – further reducing the chances that the attacks will be tied to the state.
Choosing the assassination target is a complicated process involving Mossad itself, the Israeli intelligence community and those in the highest seats of Government.
The military can also play a role in picking a target.
Below are some alleged – and confirmed – attacks against Iranians by the Israeli state.
February 12, 2013 – Hassan Shateri – who went by the pseudonym Hussam Khoshnevis – was a major general of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.
He was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Syria.
January 11, 2012 – Iranian nuclear scientist Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan was assassinated in a motorbike bomb attack in Tehran. Mossad are allegedly responsible.
November 12, 2011 – General Hassan Tehrani Moghaddam was killed – along with 17 other Revolutionary Guard members – in an explosion at a missile base in Tehran.
Moghaddam was the mind behind Iran’s ballistic missile forces.
Iranian officials themselves have insisted the explosion was an accident and said there was no Israeli involvement – but some reports have accused Mossad of being behind it.
July 23, 2011 – Iranian electrical engineer Darioush Rezaeinejad was allegedly killed by a Mossad operative on a motorcycle in Tehran.
He helped to develop high-voltage switches used in nuclear weaponry.
January 12, 2010 – Iranian Physicist Masoud Alimohammadi was killed in a car bomb.
A man later appeared in court claiming Massad hired him to kill Alimohammadi. US officials rubbished the allegations.
At 10.28am EST (7.30pm local time) on Friday, the Iranian foreign minister, Javad Zarif, said that ‘an eminent Iranian scientist’ had been killed, with the suspected aid of Israel.
Fakhrizadeh’s body lay in a flag-draped, open coffin at a mosque on Saturday in central Tehran, where Iran’s chief justice, Ebrahim Raisi, prayed over his body in a public spectacle of mourning.
His death sent tensions in the region skyrocketing as Iran accused Israel of trying to provoke a war by killing the scientist – who Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu once called out in a news conference saying: ‘Remember that name’.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday called Fakhrizadeh ‘the country’s prominent and distinguished nuclear and defensive scientist.’
Khamenei – who has the final say on all matters of state – said Iran’s first priority after the killing was the ‘definitive punishment of the perpetrators and those who ordered it.’ He did not elaborate.
John Brennan – who was director of the CIA from 2013 to 2017 under the administration of president Barack Obama – said he did not know who was to blame for the murder of Fakhrizadeh but labeled it a ‘criminal’ act.
In a letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and the UN Security Council on Friday, Iranian envoy, Majid Takht Ravanchi wrote: ‘Warning against any adventuristic measures by the United States and Israel against my country, particularly during the remaining period of the current administration of the United States in office, the Islamic Republic of Iran reserves its rights to take all necessary measures to defend its people and secure its interests.’
The proxy war between Israel and Iran has predominately remained in the realm of verbal hostility and threats.
Israel is suspicious of Iran’s nuclear capabilities – and seeks to reduce the impact of its allies and proxies.
The country has been accused of using covert ‘wet work’ tactics in its mission against Iran – including assassinations.
Friday’s attack comes just days before the 10-year anniversary of the killing of Iranian nuclear scientist Majid Shahriari.
Tehran blamed that attack on Israel too as it came at the height of Western fears over Iran’s nuclear program.
Hossein Dehghan – who is a presidential candidate in Iran’s 2021 election as well as an adviser to its supreme leader Ali Khamenei – echoed the claim that Israel was behind the attack.
‘In the last days of their gambling ally’s political life, the Zionists seek to intensify and increase pressure on Iran to wage a full-blown war,’ Mr Dehghan wrote, appearing to refer to US President Donald Trump’s last days in office.
It comes amid fears that the Trump administration could order a strike on Iran in the weeks before the president relinquishes power to President-Elect Joe Biden.
Dehghan added: ‘We will descend like lightning on the killers of this oppressed martyr and we will make them regret their actions.’
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani also said Israel was to blame for the ambush in a televised speech on Saturday, and said Iran would retaliate for the killing of Fakhrizadeh-Mahabadi at ‘the proper time’.
Rouhani said: ‘Our people are wiser than to fall in the trap of the Zionist regime (Israel) … Iran will surely respond to the martyrdom of our scientist at the proper time.’
Rouhani said that Fakhrizadeh’s death would not stop its nuclear program, something Supreme Leader Khamenei said as well.
Tehran’s foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif had suggested Israel was behind the attack, in which he said ‘Terrorists murdered an eminent Iranian scientist’.
Zarif wrote on Twitter: ‘This cowardice – with serious indications of Israeli role – shows desperate warmongering of perpetrators.
Former director of the US Central Intelligence Agency John Brennan called the assassination of Fakhrizadeh-Mahabadi, a top Iranian nuclear scientist, ‘criminal’ and ‘reckless’
‘Iran calls on the international community – and especially the EU – to end their shameful double standards and condemn this act of state terror.’
Israel declined to immediately comment on the killing of Fakhrizadeh-Mahabadi.
Donald Trump retweeted the New York Times article claiming one American official and two other intelligence officials confirmed that Israel was behind the attack.
He also retweeted Israeli journalist Yossi Melman who called the killing ‘a major psychological and professional blow for Iran’.
‘Mohsen Fakhrizadeh has been assassinated in Damavand, east of Tehran according to reports in Iran. He was head of Iran’s secret military program and wanted for many years by Mossad. His death is a major psychological and professional blow for Iran,’ Melman had tweeted.
Brennan also took to Twitter, claiming that while he did not know who was to blame for the murder of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, it was ‘a criminal act’.
‘This was a criminal act and highly reckless. It risks lethal retaliation and a new round of regional conflict,’ he tweeted.
‘I do not know whether a foreign government authorized or carried out the murder of Fakhrizadeh.
Iran’s vow to seek revenge on Fakhrizadeh’s killers comes amid fears that the Trump administration could order a strike on Iran in the weeks before the president relinquishes power to President-Elect Joe Biden
‘Such an act of state-sponsored terrorism would be a flagrant violation of international law & encourage more governments to carry out lethal attacks against foreign officials.’
Brennan noted that Fakhrizadeh was not a designated terrorist nor a member of Al Qaeda or the Islamic State group, designated terror groups which would be legal targets.
A strong critic of President Donald Trump, Brennan urged Tehran to ‘resist the urge’ to retaliate and ‘wait for the return of responsible American leadership on the global stage,’ a reference to November 3 election winner Joe Biden, who will replace Trump on January 20.
Brennan was director of the CIA from 2013 to 2017, under the administration of president Barack Obama and then-vice president Biden.
Brennan did not take part in Biden’s election campaign and has not appeared to be involved in his preparations for taking office on January 20.
But early this week Biden named Brennan’s former deputy director at the CIA, Avril Haines, as his director of national intelligence.
The United States military on Friday said it had deployed the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (its flight deck, pictured on Wednesday) to the Persian Gulf alongside other warships in order to provide ‘combat support and air cover’ for soldiers withdrawing from Iraq and Afghanistan
The decision to deploy the Nimitz (pictured on Wednesday) to the Persian Gulf was reportedly made before the killing of Fakhrizadeh
The United States military on Friday said it had deployed the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz to the Persian Gulf alongside other warships in order to provide ‘combat support and air cover’ for soldiers withdrawing from Iraq and Afghanistan.
The decision to deploy the Nimitz to the Persian Gulf was reportedly made before the killing of Fakhrizadeh.
Israel has so far declined to comment on the death of Fakhrizadeh-Mahabadi.
Israel has long been suspected of carrying out a series of targeted killings of Iranian nuclear scientists nearly a decade ago.
Fakhrizadeh-Mahabadi was named in UN sanctions resolutions because of his work as head of Iran’s Organization of Defensive Innovation and Research group in 2007.
The US charges that the organization – known by its Farsi acronym SPND – oversees nuclear-relevant research for Iran and is active in the training of new scientists.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu named Fakhrizadeh-Mahabadi as boss of the SPND during a news conference in 2018.
In 2007, he was revealed to be the chairman of the Field for the Expansion of Deployment of Advanced Technology (FEDAT) in a leaked Iranian document.
The FEDAT was the cover name for the organisation behind Iran’s nuclear weapons programme.
The leaked document purported to show the country’s four-year plan to develop a uranium deuteride neutron initiator.
Fakhrizadeh led Iran’s so-called ‘Amad,’ or ‘Hope’ program.
Israel and the West have alleged it was a military operation looking at the feasibility of building a nuclear weapon in Iran. Tehran long has maintained its nuclear program is peaceful.
The International Atomic Energy Agency says that ‘Amad’ program ended in the early 2000s. IAEA inspectors now monitor Iranian nuclear sites as part of Iran’s now-unraveling nuclear deal with world power.
Senior Israeli officials this week predicted ‘a very sensitive period’ in the coming weeks – ahead of President-Elect Joe Biden’s inauguration.
In a bid to be cautious, Israel is reportedly preparing for potential retaliation from Iran, Axios reports.
Earlier this month, Trump held an Oval Office meeting where he was ‘talked out of’ launching strikes on Iran after a previous UN report showed a massive increase in nuclear stockpiles in breach of the Obama-era pact which Trump abandoned in 2018.
Defence sources told The New York Times that Trump asked for options on a bombardment – likely to have targeted Iran’s foremost nuclear facility, Natanz.
And just last week, a report by the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) showed Iran has fired up advanced uranium centrifuges installed at its underground Natanz site.
Tehran was revealed to be pumping nuclear fuel into high-tech IR-2m machines at Natanz, in contravention of an international deal to only use first generation IR-1 machines.
The assassination of Fakhrizadeh has lead many to speculate that he is ‘Iran’s nuclear Qassem Soleimani’.
Soleimani, a major general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was assassinated in a US drone strike in January this year.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu once warned the world to ‘remember that name’
The deputy leader of Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah movement said on Friday that the response for the assassination of Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was in Iran’s hands.
‘We condemn this heinous attack and see that the response to this crime is in the hands of those concerned in Iran,’ Sheikh Naim Qassem said in an interview with Al Manar television.
He said Fakhrizadeh was killed by ‘those sponsored by America and Israel’ and said the assassination was part of a war on Iran and the region. Iran pointed the finger at Israel after Fakhrizadeh was killed in an ambush near the Iranian capital Tehran on Friday. Israel declined to comment.
Earlier this month, Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said Iran’s allies in the region should be in a state of high readiness in case of any ‘American or Israeli folly’ during the remainder of U.S. President Donald Trump’s term.
Asked whether Israel could attack Lebanon during that time, Qassem said he did not believe so but that if it did Hezbollah was ‘fully prepared’ for a confrontation.
Israel and Hezbollah last fought a war in 2006.
Qassem said it was unlikely there would be a direct strike on Iran as it would ‘ignite the whole region’.
‘We cannot rule out the possibility of a limited attack and the Iranians are ready for this and more, but I don’t see an all-out war on the horizon,’ he said.
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Balance it out!
March 2, 2009 The Badger 1
As an anti-war campaign, it would not make sense to support Hamas. Hamas of course believe a military resistance to be the only solution. As you know, for Hamas a state of war is a state of victory and every dead child a martyr.
This is not compatible with what you stand for: human beings must always be treated as ends in themselves. But I am surprised: as a pacifist and campaigner, how can you boast that, after Dr. Azzam Tamimi justified suicide bombing in Arts 2, only one person spoke out against him?
No need to take offense on behalf of Dr. Tamimi: he is proud of his position. He made no exception in his talk at Arts 2. That USSU allowed him to come on campus does not allow him decrease from the controversial elements of his presence.
The Student Occupation was in solidarity with Hamas. Stop the War Coalition are in solidarity with Hamas, and have been so for years. Dr Azzam Tamimi speaks on behalf of Hamas. On the first discussion, a girl from Stop the War Coalition called for solidarity with Hamas, Hezbollah, Syria and Iran. Will somebody please, please tell her, that as a young woman, she would have no voice in a state run by Hamas, Hezbollah, Syria or Iran. The pictures hung around the walls of A2 were Hamas tactics: using the dead, the scorched, the impaled to score political points. The speakers who continually spoke out against Egypt, Saudi Arabia as pawns of “American Imperialism” are following the Hamas argument.
Many, like me, came to the occupation to condemn the war crimes committed by Israel. Many who believe Palestinians are as much the victims of Hamas as they are of Israel. Yet none of the speakers and none of the discussions at the Student Occupation made that distinction: the one between the Palestinian people and Hamas. There was no voice for those who also condemn both Israel and Hamas.
I believe you when you say you do not support terrorist activities. This may have all been out of the Student Occupiers’ control – a triumph of passivism, not pacifism. It is very easy for big campaigns to exploit students. For example, one of the speakers, John Molyneux, also from Stop the War, at the start of his talk asked the occupiers to sign a petition against his recent arrest. He equated this to “the principle” of standing in solidarity with Gaza. Here he used the suffering of Palestinians, and the good will of the Occupying Students for his own political gains.
Every view in a conflict should be given a voice. If the Student Occupiers want to support Hamas, they have that right to. But they cannot delude themselves into thinking this was an all inclusive campaign. Those who refused to sign the Occupation petition, were seen as war sympathisers.
The Occupation believed it could claim the status quo on an anti-war campaign against Israel, yet it refused to present a coherent, multi-sided debate at any one time. This alienated more people than those brought into solidarity.
Maybe it was a case of bad speakers, a lack of organisation, and an absence of knowledge in Middle Eastern politics. It is a shame that student campaigners can still romanticise the Orient (as their colonizing forefathers did) and not question what it is they are campaigning for. Hamas’ military resistance against Israel has nothing to do with the Student struggle against University Management.
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Interesting point about romanticism of the orient, I have never thought about modern day politics in that light.
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Mastiff on Agility Course
I want to stand up and applaud for him!
By Karen B. London PhD, December 2015, Updated July 2016
An English Mastiff running an agility course is well-received by an enthusiastic crowd. So many dogs competing in agility are a blur of feet and fur, presenting a serious challenge to their human handlers to keep up. This dog is more mellow and a great deal slower than a lot of other dogs, but his efforts are appreciated. His body is not perfectly suited to the sport, but he does it anyway, and that’s what makes it so beautiful.
It’s a bit like watching a weight lifter compete in figure skating or a shot putter attempting to run a marathon. It’s clearly not the perfect match between body type and event, but just participating is admirable. In this case, the English Mastiff is not breaking any speed records, but he completes the course.
I love how the handler works to build the dog’s enthusiasm with patience and an upbeat energy. The dog continues at his pace, not looking overly exuberant, but showing no signs of reluctance either. My favorite part is the slow, methodical approach he takes with the weave poles. I imagine that for many handlers whose dogs tend to miss a pole or two, this surefire approach has its appeal.
I love seeing a dog from a rarely-represented breed competing in agility. As long as a veterinarian approves a dog for the activity, I’m all for it. (I mention this because not all large, big-boned dogs can safely handle the jumping and other demands of agility.) A good quality of life is about participating and having fun, NOT about being the fastest or most skilled out there.
I’ve seen tons of Border Collies and other herding dogs compete in agility, along with a variety of other breeds. I have fond memories of teaching a beginning agility class years ago with both a Newfoundland and an Italian Greyhound attending. It was fun for all the humans to see different breeds negotiate the obstacles and show clear preferences. The Newfie loved the table most of all, while the IG was a huge fan of the tunnel.
Agility is for every breed, including mixed breed dogs, but it’s certainly the case that not all types of dogs excel in the same way at the sport. It’s a joy to watch any dog take part if they have a willingness to do so.
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Bosch Expands Braking Product Lines to Cover More Than 2.1 Million Vehicles
By The Brake Report April 12, 2019 No Comments
BROADVIEW, Ill. – Bosch has added new parts coverage in March and April for more than 2.1 million vehicles in operation in North America. The new SKUs fit select vehicles including Audi, Chrysler, Honda, Lexus, Ram Trucks and more.
Thirty-eight new SKUs were added to the Bosch QuietCast™ Brake Pad, Bosch Blue Brake Pad and Bosch Severe Duty Disc Brake Pad product lines. The new part numbers extend coverage to late-model Domestic, European and Asian vehicles in operation in the U.S. and Canada, including the 2016-2018 Mazda CX-9, 2016-2017 Honda Accord, 2014-2018 Jeep Cherokee, 2015-2017 Lexus NX200t and NX300h models among others.
Fifteen new SKUs have been added to the QuietCast line, extending coverage to more than 2.1 million vehicles in operation. The new part numbers include synthetic lubricant with all applications and a hardware kit on select applications. Bosch QuietCast Brake Pads are developed for the generalist who works on all makes and models all day long.
Twenty-two new SKUs have been added to the Bosch Blue Disc Brake Pad product line, covering more than 1.8 million vehicles in operation. The pads feature multi-layer shims that provide superior noise dampening and are designed to deliver quality and performance. Bosch Blue Disc Brake Pads are ideal for the shop owner who is looking to provide customers with the best value.
One new SKU has been added to the Bosch Severe Duty Brake Pad product line, extending coverage to 10,000 late-model domestic vehicles in operation. Bosch Severe Duty Disc Brake Pads use an advanced semi-metallic and ceramic copper-free friction formula and multi-layer shims for best-in-class performance, quiet operation and longevity.
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Barra McGrory Pursues Dying Man Over ‘On The Run’ Letter
A former republican prisoner who may have only days or weeks left to live is facing trial for an offence committed in 1977 because the Northern Ireland Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Barra McGrory claims that the ‘letter of comfort’ given to him by the Blair government promising no prosecution was issued in error.
The case is almost a replica of the controversy surrounding John Downey, the alleged IRA bomber, whose trial on murder charges arising from the 1982 Hyde Park bombing collapsed when his lawyers argued successfully that the ‘comfort letter’ he had received protected him from prosecution.
Barra McGrory, North’s DPP – wants to prosecute a dying man and tear up his ‘comfort letter’ promising no prosecution
It emerged later that Downey’s ‘comfort letter’ had been issued by mistake since he was wanted by British police when it was issued and the affair has pitched the legal and political authorities in Britain into an embarrassing controversy, while the Cameron government’s decision to set the other ‘comfort letters’ aside has raised charges that the British are reneging on an important agreement made during the peace process negotiations with Sinn Fein.
Sixty-seven year old Michael Burns from North Belfast has terminal COPD, a progressive lung disease which makes it harder to breathe with age, and is now receiving palliative care, which means that doctors have effectively given up hope of reversing the disease and are now focusing on making his final days comfortable.
Sources familiar with the case say that the prosecuting authorities have refused to consider dropping the case on health grounds even though Burns may not live long enough for a trial to happen.
His lawyers intend to challenge the DPP’s claim, which essentially revolves around the question of whether the PSNI made a mistake when Burns was issued with one of the so-called ‘comfort letters’ and what they should have done once they realised a mistake had been made.
They will maintain at a hearing scheduled for mid-April in the Belfast High Court that withdrawing the ‘comfort letter’ now, over a decade after it was issued and long after they realised it had been issued in error, amounts to an abuse of process by the North’s legal authorities. The authorities’ failure to act once the mistake had been identified means that the letter should stand and that Burns should not be charged or tried.
The North’s DPP, Barra McGrory will, it is understood, counter-argue that Burns should never have received a ‘comfort letter’ in the first place because he was wanted by the police in Belfast when it was issued and that therefore the letter had no standing.
It is not clear just whether this case will set a precedent for others who received the ‘comfort letters’ since the letter issued to Michael Burns was one of three that the authorities now claim were issued by mistake. Nonetheless it is likely to have an impact on the growing controversy surrounding the matter with concern growing that it could have an adverse impact on the peace process.
As far as the other 225 letters are concerned the Cameron government, boosted by a recent House of Commons committee report, has withdrawn them and asserted that they are legally worthless.
As reports emerge of further possible PSNI and British police action against those issued with the letters, dissident republicans are likely to argue that the British have reneged on an important part of the peace deal and that Sinn Fein is powerless to stop them. So far Sinn Fein has remained silent about the affair, at least in public.
The ‘comfort letter’ issued to Michael Burns was sent to him on June 18th, 2003 and like the other 227 letters said that there were no warrants out in his name, that he was not wanted by the police in Northern Ireland for arrest, questioning or charge.
Burns had been living south of the Border since 1977 when he left Belfast after an apparent shooting incident. Not long after his move he was arrested and convicted for an armed robbery and served eleven years in the republican wing of Portlaoise jail.
During this time the RUC applied for his extradition on charges of attempted murder and possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life, an offence which the Northern authorities say happened in 1977. The extradition bid was refused and when he was released he remained south of the Border until the ‘comfort letter’ was issued to him, after which he returned to his native north Belfast.
Sources familiar with the case say that the PSNI moved against Michael Burns, arresting him and charging him with attempted murder and firearms offences, before the trial of John Downey collapsed in February 2014. Confirmation of this claim has proved elusive but if true this suggests that the moves against John Downey and Michael Burns may have been part of a strategy to undermine the ‘comfort letters’ rather than a coincidence.
Movement in the case against Michael Burns has been delayed thanks to a lengthy wrangle between his lawyers and the legal aid authorities in Belfast over payments to barristers involved in the abuse of process action. The legal aid officials refused to award a payment commensurate with the complex task of preparing legal arguments and no barrister at the Bar Library would take the case on.
Burns’ lawyers sought a judicial review of the legal aid decision and last week Mr Justice Treacy ruled in Burns’ favour, thereby opening the door to what will be a closely-watched tussle in the never-ending controversy over the ‘On-The-Run’ letters.
Whether Michael Burns will still be around when it happens is, though, another question.
(My thanks to Peter Sefton who tipped me off about this story and was the first to blog about it.)
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Wen Jiabao meets leaders of central, eastern European nations
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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (4th L front) poses for a group photo with governmental leaders from central and eastern European countries in Warsaw, Poland, April 26, 2012. (Xinhua/Pang Xinglei)
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao met early Thursday with counterparts from Latvia, Serbia, Slovenia and Bosnia and Herzegovina on the sidelines of a Chinese and central and eastern Europe leaders’ meeting.
Wen told Latvian Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis China encouraged its own enterprises to invest in Latvia, and hoped Latvia could offer assistance and convenience to the Chinese investment.
China attached importance to its cooperation with Latvia in transportation and logistics, which improved traffic flow between Europe and Asia, Wen said.
Dombrovskis said there was still huge potential in China-Latvia trade relations. Latvia hoped to use its geographic advantage to make the trade links even closer.
During a meeting with Serbian Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic, Wen said the two countries enjoyed a huge potential in infrastructure cooperation, and he called for the successful completion of the bridge project across the Danube in Belgrade to set an example for cooperation in the region.
China was ready to offer help to Serbia in planning its economic and technological development park, improving industrial competitiveness and boosting exports, Wen said.
Cvetkovic said Serbia would work to further promote bilateral cooperation, which had already nurtured major accomplishments in economic cooperation.
When meeting with Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa, Wen said Slovenia had a sound industrial and technological foundation. China welcomed its investment in China’s market and also encouraged Chinese firms to do business in Slovenia.
He also said China was willing to work with Slovenia in infrastructure construction in central and eastern Europe, explore the re-export issues and develop the regional market.
Jansa said China was Slovenia’s key partner for cooperation. Slovenia would like to work with China to realize balanced and sustainable trade growth, and enhance infrastructure and technology cooperation.
In meeting with Bosnia and Herzegovina Chairman of the Council of Ministers Vjekoslav Bevanda, Wen said China would continue to support that country’s effort to develop its economy and improve people’s livelihood.
He said the two countries should give full play to the bilateral trade and economic committee and forums, step up company-to-company, tourism and cultural exchanges, boost trade and investment cooperation, and build regional transportation networks.
Bevanda appreciated China’s assistance and support, saying his country welcomed China to take part in its infrastructure and energy development.
Wen started his official visit to Poland on Wednesday. Poland is the last leg of a four-nation Europe tour that included visits to Iceland, Germany and Sweden.
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Jim Tews is “The Opener”
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Jim Tews is a stand-up comedian from Cleveland looking to take the next step in his career, and this online video series with HBO Labs called "The Opener" documents that process. Sort of. Not really. But it’s a funny look inside the comedy world, with episodes featuring Ian Bagg, Jen Kirkman, Maria Bamford and others. Ian Bagg gave Tews fashion advice. Maria Bamford reveals the secret to finding success is a straight line. Jen Kirkman took time during her Cleveland visit to explain the L.A. comedy scene. Today’s episode has him struggling with the idea of adding a guitar to his act. Enjoy this typically deadpan look at how Tews attempted to get stage time in Los Angeles with the Walsh Brothers:
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Chanukah-Blessing18: Modim: Recognition or Gratitude?
in i-Attach: Amidah by admin on 05 Feb, 2009 0 Comments
“Ha’tov shimcha u’l’cha na’eh l’hodot”- “Your Name is ‘The Beneficent One’ and to You, it is fitting to give thanks.” There is a difference between “hakarat ha’tov”, recognition of how I have benefited (from another) and “hoda’ah”, thanks, or gratitude.
When the four kings defeated the five kings in Genesis, Abraham’s nephew, Lot, is captured. Og, the giant, tells Abraham that his nephew was taken captive. Og did not act in order to help Abraham, but his true motive was that Abraham would fight to save Lot, get killed, and then Og would be able to marry Sarah, Abraham’s wife.
His intentions were evil, however, his scheme fails. Abraham wins the war and saves Lot.
Four hundred and sixty years later, Moses has to go into battle against the army of Bashan whose king is Og, the giant. Moses was scared, not because Og was a giant, but because he realized that he owes Og some degree of Hakarat ha’tov. Og helped Abraham despite of the fact that his intentions were evil. Does Moses need to thank him? Definitely not! But he does need to acknowledge that his debt to him.
With human beings, we all have to have hakarat ha’tov to those from whom we benefited, no matter their intentions and motivations. We must acknowledge that we benefited from another human being or even from a situation that was created through them. But, we are not obligated to thank them. We often feel that there is a discrepancy between the recognition we should acknowledge and the gratitude we should show a person, as people’s agendas often lack integrity and transparency.
When it comes to God, every time we have hakarat ha’tov for something He does for us, we also have to show hoda’a. With God, there is never a contradiction between the thanks and the recognition.
That is why “u’l’cha na’eh l’hodot”, to You, it is pleasant, and it is fitting to give thanks.
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Adding hemp provision to farm bill was key to passage, says Farm Bureau official
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A top official with the American Farm Bureau Federation said Monday that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Addison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellTrump has talked to associates about forming new political party: report McConnell, Schumer fail to cut power-sharing deal amid filibuster snag McConnell keeps GOP guessing on Trump impeachment MORE's (R-Ky.) provision to legalize hemp played an instrumental role in passing the farm bill last month.
"That was key to getting the farm bill done," Andrew Walmsley, director of congressional relations, told Hill.TV's Krystal Ball during an interview. “At the end of the day that was a priority for leader McConnell.”
He said inclusion of the provision helped set the stage for expanding the hemp industry amid rising demand for cannabidiol (CBD) oil, which has become increasingly popular for treating common ailments like pain without the mind-altering effects of marijuana and certain pharmaceutical drugs.
“CBD oil is a big thing," Walmsley said. "There’s a lot of products we utilize for hemp but we can’t grow it here. We can’t manufacture it and utilize American-grown products, so the farm bill changes that.”
President Trump Donald TrumpLil Wayne gets 11th hour Trump pardon Trump grants clemency to more than 100 people, including Bannon Trump expected to pardon Bannon: reports MORE signed the 2018 farm bill into law last month after it passed Congress with strong bipartisan support.
The bill will provide billions of dollars in aid to U.S. farmers hurt by the trade war with China. The legislation also includes a provision that effectively removes hemp from its long-held status as a Schedule I drug under the Controlled Substances Act.
McConnell has long advocated for legalizing hemp. He once called it the “bright spot in agriculture’s future.”
In the 2014 farm bill, McConnell helped pave the way for hemp cultivation pilot programs and commercial sales in his home state of Kentucky. More than 3,000 acres of hemp are now being grown across the state, and McConnell said the fiber brought in more than $16 million in product sales last year.
Walmsley said he isn’t sure whether the hemp market will boom over the next several years as predicted, but he remains hopeful. According to cannabis market research firm New Frontier Data, federal legalization could triple the overall hemp market to $2.5 billion by 2022.
“We always don’t want to overhype things. We don’t know what truly the market will look like, but farmers are going to start having the opportunity to start playing the hemp under certain conditions within their state and we’ll see if the market takes off,” Walmsley said.
However, following the legalization of hemp, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a statement indicating that it could crackdown on products containing cannabis and cannabis-derived compounds like hemp.
FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb stressed that the agency reserves the right to regulate products containing cannabis and said it would take action against businesses making claims about the therapeutic potential of CBD products that haven't been approved.
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Home News Benjamin Lim's mother experiencing mental breakdown claims TOC's editor
Benjamin Lim's mother experiencing mental breakdown claims TOC's editor
The Online Citizen’s (TOC) editor, Terry Xu, has gone on a local forum to chastise trolls and the People’s Action Party’s Internet Brigade for causing Benjamin Lim’s mother to have a “mental breakdown” because of all the false accusations they have been spreading about the 14-year-old boy’s family.
“If anything were to happen to the mother, I hope all of you can sleep properly at night,” he warned them, and asked the moderators at HardwareZone’s forum to better moderate unfounded allegations against the family.
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Popular radio DJ claimed misuse of flag picture was fake and created to malign foreigners
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Four days ago, the website All Singapore Stuff posted pictures of some people misusing our State flag at the Levelz condominium situated in Farrer Road. Following a police report that was made of the pictures in circulation, it was uncovered that the deplorable act was committed by a junior diplomat from the Embassy of the State of Israel.
Subsequently, the Israeli Ambassador was summoned by the Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Embassy released a media statement soon after expressing that it was “appalled to learn of deplorable behavior displayed by one of its junior staff members and expresses its sincere apologies”.
Considering the close and friendly relationship between Singapore and Israel and also to reflect the severity with which Israel views this incident, the Director General of Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has instructed that requisite strong disciplinary procedure be adopted against the individual.
MFA has accepted the Embassy’s apology, but cautioned that “the misuse of the Singapore flag is a serious offence. All persons, including diplomats and foreigners in Singapore, must respect and abide by our laws and regulations.”
When the pictures of the Singapore flag being used as a tablecloth were being circulated, popular radio DJ, Joe Augustine chimed in on the topic claiming that the picture was fake.
“This website is manipulating you to hate! I believe this a FAKE photo and article shared with malice! Don’t get trolled. Look carefully. The “stars” have been added in (you can tell because the definition of the stars isn’t consistent with that of nearby objects – there’s no crescent. And the white part is a whole SEPARATE piece of cloth! Some people are saying that this calls for a police report. I think they’re right – against the people inciting you to hate!! Unbelievable!”
He has since admitted that his original post was factually inaccurate and that he had been proven wrong, but he asked readers of that website to exercise caution, because the site uses “a “style” that is used to highlight stories about foreigners” to cast them in bad light.
His clarification in full:
“Based on the latest news from the Israeli Embassy here in Singapore, I was WRONG on this. Very wrong!
As far as I am now aware, this has turned out to be true. It took four days for this to surface but this picture is apparently of a “junior staff member” at the Israeli embassy using the Singapore flag. The ambassador has since apologized for what is really a pretty dicky thing to do.
But now to me – I accused the website of manipulating you to hate by posting this photo that I mistakenly called fake. I was as sure about this as I’m sure the website was it was true. On the authenticity of the photo I was wrong. (Quick grab a screenshot – Joe admits he was wrong).
But on the subject of sowing hate… as much as I don’t want to promote the readership of the site, you probably have to read the postings of the site to see that there certainly is a “style” that is used to highlight stories about foreigners.. Or should I call them alleged foreigners (I have Singapore born Ang Moh friends). If no malice is intended, then they might want to make sure that none is done.”
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Child care scholarships available for Tucson and South Tucson families
The scholarships can be applied to past due child care bills, registration fees and ongoing tuition.
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The city of Tucson is using CARES Act funding to provide scholarships for child care during the pandemic.
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Families in Tucson and South Tucson who are struggling to pay for child care due to a COVID-related event may qualify for a short-term scholarship to cover those expenses.
Tucson mayor and council approved the use of $500,000 of the city's federal CARES Act funds to create scholarships for these struggling families. Peg Harmon, the CEO of Catholic Community Services of Southern Arizona, said they'll be in charge of dispersing the funds, and she said they'll begin as soon as the city transfers the money.
“For many working families, having reliable and safe child care, particularly during the pandemic, can be the difference between going back to work or staying home,” said Tucson Mayor Regina Romero. “The scholarships will help low-income families pay for safe child care, giving them peace of mind when they leave home to provide for their loved ones.”
Harmon said families who have experienced the loss of a job, illness or a furlough are candidates for the scholarship. She said the funds can cover past-due child care bills, registration fees and ongoing tuition for children 12 or younger till the end of December 2020.
"As we know, the pandemic won't be over on Jan. 1, and families are going to still need to work and their children are going to still need to be cared for, and so we are trying to identify other financial resources," said Harmon.
She said they're looking for additional financial backing to continue the program.
The maximum amount available per child will be $2,275, but Harmon said she expects some people won't need the full amount. She said that on average infant care costs $1,010 a month and the prices decrease with a child's age. With that in mind, she said her goal is to help 300 families. Harmon said around 220 families were interested in the scholarships Thursday. According to a press release, families who have not been given state or federal COVID-19 relief will be prioritized.
"The need for these programs — and a permanent program frankly like this — is pretty substantial," said Harmon.
According to the application, the child care center receiving the funds from Catholic Community Services must be an Arizona Department of Health Services or Arizona Department of Economic Security licensed facility.
Catholic Community Services will be accepting applications through mid-December.
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The University of California Rally Committee’s members are the official guardians of Cal Spirit and Traditions. They serve as the ambassadors of the University, and as such, are students who loyally dedicate themselves to the furthering of the Spirit of California. The Committee has much to offer to its members. Whether you enjoy yelling your heart out for the Golden Bears, learning about the University’s fascinating history, or coordinating some of the largest and most successful events on campus, the Rally Committee enables you to preserve and promote the California Spirit. Members receive neither monetary reward nor academic credit for committee participation. Instead, members receive the satisfaction of knowing they are a part of something great – something that makes a difference in the campus community and in other students’ lives. The Rally Committee promotes and protects the spirit that sets the University of California Berkeley apart from any other school in the country.
Below is a slideshow detailing some of the symbols we maintain, as well as events we organize.
The California Banner
The California Banner is one of the most visible symbols of Cal spirit as it is used at various rallies and events, as well as being hung about the student section at all football games!
The Big “C” on Charter Hill is one of the most renowned symbols of California Spirit. The Rally Committee is the official guardian of this symbol. We protect it from pranks and repaint it often. There are many opportunities to join the Director of Security in venturing to the Big C to help repaint it. The hike is fun, and the view is always beautiful.
Card Stunts were invented at the University of California in 1910 and have been a tradition ever since. The Committee designs the shows, sorts the cards, sets up the cards before football games, and collects the cards during halftime and after the game. The Director of Card Stunts plays a huge role in instructing Committee members on how to sort, set up, coordinate, and collect cards.
The California Victory Cannon
The California Victory Cannon, donated by the Class of 1964, is fired from its platform on Tightwad Hill by our two Cannoneers. The Cannon is fired at the beginning of each home football game, after each score, and after each victory. As a member, you have the opportunity to serve on Cannon Crew and help fire the California Victory Cannon!
Cable Car Rally
This rally occurs on the Monday of Big Game Week. We join Cal Band, Cheer Team, and Oski in riding a cable car through the streets of San Francisco, singing Cal songs while being cheered on by alumni and Cal fans as we ride by. It finishes with a small rally in Union Square.
The Cal Flags
The Rally Committee has custody of the official Cal Flags. The flags are run out in front of the football team when they take the field, waved when Cal Band plays a Cal Song, and waved at other rallies and sporting events. As a member of the committee, you have the opportunity to wave as the football team enters the stadium, or wave during a quarter of the game.
Noon Rallies
At noon on Fridays before each home game, a rally is held on the Sproul Hall Steps. Cal Band, Dance Team, Mic Men, Oski, and the Rally Committee all join together for a short rally, to catch people on their way to and from class and pump them up before the game the following day.
Night Rallies
These traveling rallies begin at Bowles Hall, make their way through Greek row, and run down through each Unit, usually coming to an end on Upper Sproul plaza. Cal Band, Dance and Cheer, and the Rally Committee spread Cal Spirit by singing songs as the rally winds along through the night.
Bonfire Rally
Held in the Hearst Greek Theatre on the eve of Big Game, the Bonfire Rally is one of the most stunning displays of the Spirit of California that one can find at this University. Enjoyed by thousands of students and alumni alike, this bonfire is a key component in firing up our fellow Californians before the Big Game.
Homecoming Week celebrates and honors the people of the University of California Berkeley. The Rally Committee works closely with the Cal Alumni Association to present an all-inclusive week for students, alumni, and parents. Homecoming Week events include the Homecoming Showcase Rally, Bear Schticks - a showcase of comedy student groups on campus - and the Homecoming Night Rally, which showcases Cal spirit through various campus groups and performances.
Big Game Week unfolds during the week preceding Big Game, and is the Rally Committee’s premier week of rallies and activities to celebrate our rivalry with Stanfurd University. Big Game Week features campus decorating, Cable Car Rally through San Francisco, Tree-Chopping Rally, a night rally, “Get the Red out” canned food and t-shirt exchange drive, and culminates with the Big Game Bonfire Rally.
Charter Week
Charter Week commemorates the University of California's founding on March 23, 1868. The week features Charter Games held on Memorial Glade and a speaker series.
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‘There will be changes’: Vic Premier’s pledge on COVID rules
News State Victoria News ‘There will be changes’: Vic Premier’s pledge on COVID rules
2:27pm, Oct 8, 2020 Updated: 5:52pm, Oct 22
Pop-up testing clinics have been set up in Kilmore, north of Melbourne, after the positive cases. Photo: AAP
Premier Daniel Andrews has reassured Victorians that some COVID rules will be eased on October 19, despite Melbourne appearing unlikely to hit the tough targets required.
The state had 11 new cases of coronavirus on Thursday.
Six were connected to known outbreaks – including the cluster at Kilmore, in regional Victoria. The remainder are still under investigation.
Under the state government’s plan towards a “COVID normal”, Melbourne needs a 14-day average of five cases to move to the next step, which involves retail and some hospitality venues reopening and the five-kilometre limit being scrapped.
The city must also have no more than five mystery cases within the same period.
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It was initially predicted that Melbourne’s virus numbers would fall to those targets by October 26, but Mr Andrews brought the date forward to October 19.
Melbourne’s 14-day average stands at 9.7 cases, while it has had 14 mystery cases between September 22 and October 5.
Regional Victoria’s 14-day average, meanwhile, rose slightly to 0.4 on Thursday, with the addition of the Kilmore case. There is also another case in the Murray River town of Mildura, although health authorities believe this is a false positive.
Country Victoria has had no mystery cases in the two-week period.
On Thursday, Mr Andrews said it was “highly unlikely that nothing will change” come October 19.
“There will be some changes, the exact nature of those changes, we will need to look at,” he said.
“We will do whatever’s safe.
“But what people won’t welcome, either from an intellectual point of view or from an emotional point of view really, are steps being taken that are not safe. That just runs the risk of setting us all back.”
Victoria’s deputy chief health officer Allen Cheng said there would be a “day-by-day assessment of the situation” about winding back further restrictions.
“Every unknown source case represents at least one person who gave it to them, so we still are concerned about that,” Professor Cheng said on Thursday.
“That’s, I think, the figure that concerns me most at this stage.
“We still have a little way to go, so we just need to keep an eye on those and continue to investigate those to see where they might have got it from.”
No more cases were added to the Chadstone outbreak on Thursday.
Authorities have been hustling to contain an outbreak linked to the Butcher Club at Chadstone Shopping Centre, which has infected 31 people and spread to Frankston in the south-east and Kilmore.
Victorian authorities are cautiously optimistic the Chadstone cluster has been contained.
“There weren’t any new cases from Chadstone yesterday, so we have a total of 31 cases,” Professor Cheng said.
“We’re still looking, so there’s all the shops that are getting doorknocked and [staff] encouraged to get tested.”
The Kilmore cluster began when a person infected with COVID-19 linked to the Chadstone outbreak dined at the town’s Oddfellows Cafe, in a breach of restrictions on September 30.
Hundreds of people who visited the cafe between September 30 and October 3 are self-isolating after a staff member contracted the virus. Hundreds in the town have been tested in the past two days.
Some 15,298 tests were conducted across Victoria on Wednesday.
Mr Andrews urged any Victorian with symptoms – no matter how mild – to be tested.
“It’s not the detection of a positive case that’s the problem – that’s exactly what we need,” he said.
“It’s about the spread of this virus without us knowing – that’s what can set us back.”
Victoria had no virus deaths on Thursday, its second day this week without adding to its pandemic toll. That stands at 809, while the national figure is 897.
There are 17 Victorians battling the virus in hospital, including one person in intensive care.
According to The Age, they include the manager of the Chadstone butcher shop, who was rushed to hospital on Tuesday after his condition deteriorated.
Also on Thursday, for the first time since June 9, Victoria had fewer coronavirus cases than NSW. The northern state had 12 infections, including a fourth mystery infection in two days.
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Feedly unveils collection sharing, public aliases and profiles
by Ben Woods — in Apps
Content curation platform and RSS aggregator Feedly has today launched a range of new features aimed at making it a more collaborative reading platform.
Announced on stage at the Evernote conference, today’s updates lay the groundwork for additional social-oriented features coming in 2015. Among the changes is the option to have a public-facing ‘profile’ page and alias, which is really there to support a new collection sharing feature.
This, as its name suggests, allows users to create and share collections with friends, family, fans or, well, anyone. Collections, of course, are feeds grouped around a certain topic, curated by the user.
As of today, there are collections from handpicked “thought leaders”, Feedly said, adding that “passionate users” will be invited to use the feature in the coming weeks. Within three months, all Feedly Pro users should get access to the feature and then it will be rolled out to Feedly’s full 15 million members sometime in Q1 next year.
A more collaborative future
The idea behind the push is to unlock the power of shared knowledge, a company spokesperson explained to TNW.
We have a huge community on Feedly – 15 million registered users – but there has been no way for that community to interact with each other on our platform. Feedly connects to over 40 million sources and people have been curating these amazing lists of the best sites in myriad topics, but that knowledge has remained locked up in each person’s Feedly.
We believe knowledge is additive, and that we can learn better the more we can interact with one another, so we’re beginning to build collaboration tools into Feedly. This is a first step in that direction.
A spokesperson for the company assured us that, while the platform will be offering more collaborative options, you’re not obliged to share your lists.
We’re not going to force anyone to open up and expose what they read, of course, and users will still be able to use Feedly as they always have. Reading has traditionally been something solitary, and we definitely respect that.
➤ Feedly
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A Coronation Dinner
By The Real Cambridge
Queen Victoria’s Coronation Dinner – Parkers Piece 1838
With the Queen’s diamond jubilee almost upon us, I am tempted to compare the famous Coronation Dinner that took place on Parker’s Piece on Thursday 28th June 1838.
Early that year the great and good of Cambridge formed a committee to discuss how the town would celebrate the Coronation of Queen Victoria. Despite the fears of Rev Mr. Hose that ‘moral evil would attend the plan of having so many on Parkers Piece’, it was soon agreed “that the dinner, to be given to the poor, to celebrate the Coronation of her Majesty, be conducted on Parker’s Piece”. Each Parish in the town was tasked with selecting suitable adults and Sunday school children to invite and providing Stewards, Carvers, and Waiters to attend the dinners.
The day began with a service at Great St Mary’s. Then between 12 and 1pm Sunday Schools from all the local parishes, waving their parish flags, started their processions to the Piece. 2,700 Sunday School children, attended by 300 Sunday School teachers, marched from all over the town to Parker’s Piece where they were joined by the 12,000 local people who had been invited to attend the dinner.
Who exactly attended the dinner we are unsure but, given that others paid to watch the dinner and that the workhouse poor were excluded (although the children were allocated a shilling per head to have meat on Coronation day) we can assume that it was the respectable and deserving classes that were invited.
Class was no embarrassment to the Victorians. With the lower classes accommodated at over 70 tables on The Piece, the upper classes that had ‘subscribed’ to the fundraising were invited to purchase tickets to watch the event. The event cost £1,767 14 shillings 10 pence.
So where did the ‘better’ classes sit to watch the diners?
The Independent News reported that ‘A spacious and lofty wooden orchestra was raised in the centre of The Piece, capable of holding 100 musicians. An extensive framework, with seats on all sides, encompassed the orchestra from whence the more respectable inhabitants could have a commanding view of the dinner. Surrounding this was a green area, forming a Promenade for the accommodation of the humbler classes.’
Dinner was served to 15,000 at 2pm, and included:
1608 plum puddings
1029 joints of meat
72lbs of mustard
140lbs salt
125 gallons of pickles
4500 loaves of bread
99 barrels of best ale
100lb tobacco
6lbs snuff
It is a relief to hear that the behaviour of the poor was exemplary.
After the dinner, at 5pm, people progressed to Midsummer Common for ‘Rustic Games.’
I am not sure how much be can believed from the account of the games but it is documented that these included:
‘The Newmarket Baulk or How to Rise in Life – well soaped scaffold poles, stuck up indifferently out of the perpendicular, will be climbed for, by youthful and unsophisticated Cantabs, for Breeches, Legs of Mutton etc.
Jumping in Sacks – A distance of 50 yards, by six men. Each man to jump in a 4-bushel sack (to be provided by himself for the occasion). The winner to received a new pair of boots, second best a hat, the third a pair of shoes.
Bobbin for Oranges in Wash-Troughs – By twelve youngsters with hands tied behind them, to be approved of by the committee at the time. No one need apply whose mouth is more than 12 inches wide – or who can drink a bucket of water at one draught.
Races – Twelve men (not less than 14 stone weight) to run 100 yards. All complexions eligible (no bandy legs). First a new pair of boots, second a pair of cord trousers.’
At 7pm a Helium Balloon ascended from Butt Green, much to the amazement of all – the wind taking it to Fulbourn from whence it was somehow got back, by air, to Cambridge.
At 10pm fireworks were let off on ground adjoining the Town-Gaol (where the current Queen Anne car park stands today).
The display consisted mainly of rockets ‘displaying gold and silver rain, coloured fires and golden snakes, terminated by a rich and splendid design in the pyrotechnic art representing the imperial crown surrounded by an appropriate inscription ‘ Long Live the Queen’.
A grand and memorable day for all. How will Cambridge do on 5 June 2012?
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Posted on July 17, 2010 by billysuperstar111
Jesse is really excited because the entire family is going to Disneyland and leaving him home alone to bang his girlfriend in peace. He has trouble shooing everyone out except for Stephanie, who’s so excited about her upcoming trip to the magic kingdom that she’s having a manic episode.
As soon as the family’s finally gone, Jesse calls up his woman, Samantha, who he has apparently been dating for a month even though she’s never been on the show before. They play tennis and then he takes her home and offers to make her fried chicken. Ok, so that’s the third Uncle Jesse fried chicken thing in as many episodes, which I think qualifies it as a character trait. Man, I thought that Uncle Jesse was a shallow character because it seemed like his whole persona could be summarized by his hair, his love of Elvis and his constant pining for hot poonana. But I just wasn’t looking deep enough. He also likes fried chicken.
So Jesse and his woman are preparing to get down and get nasty when, unbeknownst to them, the family returns to the full house. Apparently their flight was cancelled because of fog. Why were they even flying? Disneyland’s not really all that far from San Francisco. For all the cost and trouble of flying your whole family, I think you’d just as soon drive. It wouldn’t even take much longer. But anyway, whatever.
Stephanie is all mopey so Danny tries to cheer her up by promising “family fun night”. Stephanie is inconsolable and runs up to her room, prompting the audience (with the help of a big teleprompter, I’m sure) to go, “aww.”
Jesse discovers that the family has come home when he walks in on Joey and the girls eating his romantic dinner spread. That’s right, they just walked into the kitchen and immediately started eating Jesse’s dinner.
So not only does Jesse get robbed of his only opportunity to shout expletives when he busts a nut, but his dinner gets eaten, too. Shitty.
So Jesse and Stephanie are both all bummed out because of the cancelled trip to Disneyland. They both sulk during family fun night, although you can’t really blame them for not having a good time when everyone else’s idea of family fun is a group sing-a-long of “If You’re Happy and You Know It.” That’s seriously what they do for fun. That’s fucking crazy.
Stephanie runs up to her room again and DJ goes to talk with her as family fun night officially disbands. Meanwhile, Jesse is trying to make a plan with Samantha about when he’s finally gonna get to give her the business when the baby rolls up. Nothing spoils a woman’s reproductive urges quite like an ugly baby.
DJ gives Stephanie a pep talk about not getting what you want and the episode with the cereal commercial is mentioned. Wow, they sited an incident from another episode! I’m amazed! Anyway, DJ has a talk with Stephanie and then Danny comes in and talks with her, too, and then the music comes on. One thing that’s interesting about this talk is that Danny is really assertive about making both DJ and Stephanie say that they enjoyed family fun night even though it’s pretty clear that Danny’s idea of family fun sucks ass even when there’s not a canceled trip to Disneyland involved. I mean, a fucking sing-a-long? Who does that?
So Stephanie’s problem is resolved but Jesse’s persists. He parleys with Joey about the quality of living in the full house. One of Jesse’s points is that living in the full house is like having three kids but without the tax write-off, to which Joey replies, “technically you could if you married Danny.” Oh, poor, innocent Joey, so blissfully unaware of the plight of the oppressed…
Jesse details his existential angst but Joey’s not much help because he’s a useless idiot. In the next scene Jesse is sleeping when Samantha comes in all ready to bang him.
All of a sudden the girls come in one by one, making demands, and then the other dads enter the scene and it quickly becomes clear that Jesse is having a dream. Each of the characters appears and repeats a single line over and over again, (“Help me with my homework,” “You’re their Uncle,” etc.), so there’s not much too it, but the sequence goes on like they had minutes of airtime to kill. First they all enter the room, then they keep disappearing and reappearing, then they’re all grouped together in front of a fisheye lens, then each of them has an individual fisheye lens shot, then they’re all in front of the lens together again, all the while repeating the same line of dialogue over and over again.
The only other remarkable thing about this scene is that both of the Olsen twins appear at once, I guess because in Jesse’s mind, two of the baby would be even more anxiety inducing than just one. Or maybe the director just thought, “since we got two of this kid, we might as well use ‘em both.”
In the morning the other Dads come in to Jesse’s room only to find a note that says he’s left and he doesn’t know when or even if he’ll be back. Oh, man, what a cliffhanger!
Firsts: Audience goes, “aww,” an incident from a previous epsidoe is acknowledged, both Olsen twins onscreen at once.
31 Responses to Season 1, Episode 19, “The Seven-Month Itch-Part 1”
Wouldn’t this also be the first “To Be Continued” episode?
It’s a 7+ hour drive from SF to Disneyland. Do you want to be trapped in a car with Joey for that length of time?
justforfullhouse says:
Not to mention extra time due to traffic. Meanwhile, the flight is only like 1 hr and 20 mins.
Audience already “aww”d in the third episode.
Leroy Cook says:
suddenly everyone is a critic. my question is why didnt they wait for the fog to go away at the airport…and take a later flight? you are still, in my opinion, the certified full house expert.
Zozo says:
You can see Stephanie’s cavities in the fisheye shot of her. Maybe it was an inspiration for the episode about her trip to the dentist?
Also, it looks like you can see the shadow of the camera behind them in the fisheye shots. Plus, Danny looks extra creepy in the fisheye.
Jimmy Callaway says:
Also, Samantha was played by Chelsea Noble, also known as Mrs. Kirk Cameron. Jesus loves Full House.
SteveInSanDiego says:
What a stupid comment. Please leave Jesus out of your idiocy.
You don’t have to be so hateful when you’re defending the honor of Jesus. I’m sure he would prefer quite the opposite.
I saw Jesus two month’s ago at my grandmother’s funeral. He was just…hanging…around.
I think that he got nailed the night earlier…
Vee Langs says:
anyone else get the feeling that the olson twins mother only brought the cute one with her for the audition and then told the producers “oh hey! there’s two of her!”
seriously, i know they’re very similar as kids and now adults but as babies that one was disguting
there’s a “cute” one?
They supposedly got the part because they were the only babies that didn’t cry at the audition.
Jesus, Dave Coulier has one pointy ass chin.
The fish eye shots are horrifying.
The Olsen on the right making the “mean face” is seriously channeling a kewpie doll version of Chucky.
ahahaa that Michele on the right does have an evil look on her, she looks so terrifying! 😀
Corannhena says:
I was thinking the same thing basically, like she looks like a possessed doll from a horror movie.
Mother of God, that fish eye of Danny will be in my nightmares…
Danny’s face in 3d=nightmare fuel 😀
How could anyone think the Olsens were cute? I mean, they’re uglier here than on their worst day as adults…
At least Nicky hasn’t corrected the grammar on this one. All other corrections are appropriate. It wasn’t the first “aww,” and Disneyland is a hella long way from San Francisco.
dum fuk says:
yea fuk broads who corect grahmer fucken dumass bitch shuld shut her face and get back in the kitcen fucking idot get a brain morans
LisaIhatefreakinbobsaget says:
Dear God in heaven- the picture of those Olsen twins-the child on the right…..I laughed for 10 minutes straight. Then I copied it, cropped it to just the one diabolical looking one, and text pictured it to my kids with the tagline “Obey your master!”
Oh yeah that’s a meme waiting to happen. Could even surpass Grumpy Cat in popularity.
Flora Fauna Maryweather says:
This comment cracked me up.
I should watch this episode again because I don’t remember what caused Joey and Danny to say “it’s your turn” or “you’re their uncle.” lol “you’re their uuuuuuuuuuuncle”
How nightmarish for those poor kids to have to pretend they liked a family sing-along with creepy Danny after a cancelled trip to Disneyland. And D.J. was suspiciously mature about it, even giving Stephanie a lecture about not always getting what you want. She was ten years old! I’m forty-two and I would be seriously down if my Disneyland trip got cancelled.
Jesse is a dick. He lives in that house because his sister died and helps out his poor sad brother-in-law with 3 small daughters, and leaves because he can’t hump everything in sight. I like how he doesn’t discuss his problems, either. I like how a lot of these people don’t discuss their problems, they just hack up some scheme, and when it doesn’t work then they attempt to talk things out. Wouldn’t it just be easier to talk in the first place? For a family that’s so obsessed with family values, you’d think they’d behave a little better.
Samantha’s eyebrows are just as bushy as Danny’s are.
That picture of Stephanie from the fish eye thing is scary but funny at the same time ;D
El Chimpo says:
The Magic Kingdom is in Disney World in Florida.
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On the back foot
Berating the Herald
Why Lee is banned from interviews
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 7:23 pm, May 19th, 2009 - 122 comments
Categories: auckland supercity, mt albert - Tags: melissa lee
Rumour has it Melissa has been banned from giving formal interviews by National’s leadership but what’s the harm in answering a few questions from a reporter? Let’s see:
Garner tries to tempt her into repeating her motorway comments but she doesn’t need the help.
She is totally self-centred. Notice how all her stories are about how people love her personally. Not how they like National policies or how she has learned something from them. The story she tells of two long-time voters who were convinced by their 7-year old to change to support her instead is classic. Melissa, you can have them. In fact, you can have all the voters who vote according to advice of 7-year olds.
About 4 minutes through she basically says people are anti-supercity
“people are concerned about it whether they will have actually representation on it”
“they like the idea of the former Mt Albert Borough Council”
“a lot of people kind of have this idea that they’re not going to have a say”
“the main thing people in Mt Albert are worried about is whether the 12, umm, the 12…”.
Then she has a mini mental collapse, not because she realised she is disasterously off-message, but because she doesn’t know the details of the proposal.
No wonder they’re not letting her go to tonight’s supercity meeting.
Don’t buy this rubbish about ‘other bookings’ that she can’t name. She’s not going because they can’t trust her not to have another brain explosion.
Kudos to TV3 for putting up the whole interview (before 6pm!).
122 comments on “Why Lee is banned from interviews ”
Tim Ellis 1
Nice spin, Eddie. The real reason Lee isn’t going to the supercity meeting is that it was a jack-up by cityvision’s chairman of eden/albert (who I understand lives in Parnell), who didn’t even invite her, but made sure Norman and Shearer were coming along.
Daveo 1.1
Nice spin, Tim. You’ve even recycled National’s “jack-up” line. I wonder, if Lee has all these prior engagements that are more important than fronting to a debate then why won’t she say what they are? Looks like Lee’s handlers don’t trust her to front up in public.
Oh, and 4 minutes in – that’s painful. If you watch nothing else people, watch from 4 minutes in. Ouch. Trainwreck.
Pascal's bookie 1.1.1
It’s not spin daveo.
Tim is just speaking from the heart.
Which gives an insight into the way lowly banking auditors talk and think.
Hence the econopocolypse.
Eddie 1.1.1.1
Play nice, pb.
Eddie 1.2
Hmm where did I read ‘jack-up’ today? Oh yeah Melissa Lee’s press release. Original thought – fail.
The Voice of Reason 2
Cheers for the post, Eddie.
I could not believe it when I saw it. Can’t wait for it to hit YouTube. Where was her mind? Where was her minder? If I was on her team, about thirty seconds in I’d have pretended I was Dipomatic Protection Squad, shouted gun, and shoved her into the nearest vehicle I could commandeer.
Bye Melissa, thanks for playing.
Already on there – go to our channel – thestandardnz
Chris G 2.2
and if the minder had been standing watching the interview with Paul henry where she failed about 5 times in a row to lie about the ‘South Auckland’ slur … Upon Henrys 5th ask of ‘So did you believe it at the time?’ they would have shouted:
“For Fucks Sake Melissa, Lie already!!”
Then exploded then and there when she Failed.
deemac 3
you could almost feel sorry for her except that her massive ego means she can’t see how incompetent she is. The things that have tripped her up are standard political stuff that anyone aspiring to office should be able to cope with, not unfair media tricks. Truly gruesome!
It makes me wonder why the Labour Party, the Greens, and the media are paying so much attention to her, if they’ve already written her off.
Because like any trainwreck you don’t want to look but you just can’t resist. There’s something oddly compelling about the whole thing.
If you’re trying to imply all the attention is because she’s a threat or something, well, you’re on your own there Tim.
Philonz 4.1.1
It’s Sarah Palinesque. You just have to keep watching to find out what crazy thing she’ll say next. There’s also the worry that some people might actually vote for her.
Anita 4.2
Because 2011 is more important that Mt Albert. Can they make Lee’s flaws colour National and Key? Can they turn her into a lame duck for the next 2.5 years?
Tim Ellis 4.2.1
I wouldn’t be so sure Anita. The media haven’t focussed on Mr Norman or Mr Shearer yet. They’ll have their turn in the limelight.
Labour can only shield Mr Shearer by having every front bencher dig into Lee in press release after press release, and setup after setup (like this evening’s meeting at the school) for so long.
There’s an amusing degree of hypocrisy from commenters (including Eddie) who claim that Lee is being gagged, when she’s had more appearances in the media by a large factor than her Labour Party opponent, and almost every time Labour are mentioned in a Mount Albert story, it’s either Mr Goff, Mr Mallard, Mrs King, or Mr Hughes fronting the story instead of Mr Shearer.
Anita 4.2.1.1
I’m not saying that Labour’s tactics will be effective 🙂
You asked why Labour would still focus on her if they had genuinely written her off, I answered that question.
Oh dear, still on the ‘any publicity is good publicity’ fallacy are we Tim?
I’m not seeing Shearer being sheilded at all, he just doesn’t keep fu*king up on camera.
Pascal's bookie 4.2.1.3
point. laugh.
So are all candidate meetings set ups Tim? Or just ones where Lee might have to defend govt policy?
It’s not the opposition’s (or the media’s) fault your candidate sux Tim, or that the govts policy is hard to defend at the moment.
Tim Ellis 4.2.1.3.1
No, PB, not all candidate meetings are set-ups. Just the ones organised by Labour Party activists in which the Labour and Green candidates are given a day to prepare, while the National Party candidate has to chase up the morning of the meeting, only for the national party’s candidate’s response to the meeting request gets included in a Green Party press release.
Yes it was a set-up. Would David Shearer and Russel Norman walk into a meeting prepared by the Business Roundtable?
I assume the media were at this meeting. I don’t doubt they will be able to confirm that pretty much everybody there were either Green or Labour Party activists.
Lee has much better things to do with her time than walk into Labour Party set-ups, PB.
There is an auckland university candidate’s meeting on tomorrow night, which has been organised well in advance. There will be many other candidate meetings organised during the campaign. Lots of opportunities for undecided voters to show up and see the candidate. Walking into a Labour Party jack-up isn’t one of them.
Pascal's bookie 4.2.1.3.2
Oh noes the greens have efficient media strategy and Labour party members are setting up meet the candidate meetings!
It’s an election campaign Tim. It is kind of obvious that Lee needs time to get up to speed on the issues, I’ll grant you, and it’s a shame that the government that she is a part of is leaving her in the dark about policy, but that’s not the opposition’s fault.
And you may have noticed that the greens and labour are hardly working hand in glove to defeat Lee. As she herself said, Norman entering the race is the only chance she’s got.
Eddie 4.2.1.3.3
Tim. You’re funny because you run the lines like an insider then you write things like “Would David Shearer and Russel Norman walk into a meeting prepared by the Business Roundtable?”
Of course they would. Orgs like the Business Roundtable and the unions – they’re the ones who organise nearly all candidate meetings. They’re the orgs with the motivation. Yeah, candidates go even when the host organisation is from the other side, it’s normal. There’s heaps of vid on Youtube of people like Garrett union-held candidate meetings.
On second thoughts, an insider wouldn’t be so blatant in running the lines. Sorry, I retract that.
mickysavage 4.2.1.4
She is the worst candidate I have seen, whether for a by election or a general election. She is meant to be one of National’s up and coming stars and was supported to counter the links that Labour has with the ethnic communities.
She is incompetent, Raymond Huo is Labour’s equivalent candidate and he is intellingent, personable and sophisticated, everything she is not.
Why is there a debate about this? Has reality somehow changed?
DeeDub 4.2.1.4.1
Her maiden speech should have been a dead giveaway…. turgid hardly covers the tone.
Ego=10 Talent=2
Anita 4.2.1.4.2
mickysavage,
I’m not at all sure you’re right. I’ve seen some dreadful small party candidates, and some pretty bad larger party ones too. Take some of the Labour candidates in safe National seats, and vice versa, last year they would’ve buckled at least as badly under this kind of pressure.
She is probably the worst candidate in a serious contest in quite a while.
She also has the potential to be the highest profile srcew up for a candidate in quite a while, not just in terms of the Mt Albert outcome but also the flow on.
National couldn’t’ve won with anyone else, so perhaps the risk was worth taking. The stakes are pretty high, for her political career if nothing else.
Trevor Mallard 4.2.1.5
The only time I have commented in MSM on Lee it was when TV3 interviewed me on the Lee NZonAir matter as former Broadcasting Minister.
Tim our candidate fronts. John Keys handpicked one doesn’t. Last night once again we saw why she shouldn’t.
Now it is too late to change.
inpassing 4.3
written her off, Tim, nay—for goodness sake… how could ego be written off in the newly minted ego-centric-city!!!
So informative.. positively futures.. wot!
serpico 5
And people wonder why politicians are despised.
Ms X 6
35 ‘you knows’ – this woman was on television?
Did you notice the “eh!” at the beginning too? I reckon she’s working very hard to sound like a kiwi born-and-bred.
Who are the two Nats in the background?
Plus, is “old ladies baking pies for me” supposed to be a signal that the National core hasn’t abandoned her? It sounds like heartland National to me.
DougL 7.1
Looks like John Carter and Jackie Dean
Yeah I wasn’t going to mention that but cut the sentence because the flow was already bad enough – they’re David Carter and Nikki Kaye.
edit: John Carter… still think it’s Nikki Kaye but there are several short blondes
illuminatedtiger 8
Why didn’t she just stick with presenting TV?
felix 8.1
Yeah, she’s such a natural in front of the camera…
Daveo 9
I repeat: Trainwreck.
http://www.3news.co.nz/News/PoliticalNews/Lee-too-busy-to-debate-super-city-with-Mt-Albert-opponents/tabid/370/articleID/104864/cat/68/Default.aspx
“are you homeless?” , jesus, anyone not in smart clothes is homeless?
Daveo 9.1.1
I know, I know. Some serious poor judgement from Key in forcing her selection.
felix 9.1.1.1
I find it hard to believe she was selected for conception.
dave 10
Wrong Eddie. You`re too close to the action to see the wood from the trees.
Eddie 11
The expression is ‘can’t see the forest for the trees’, your version makes no sense.
Yeah, TV’s great, I feel like I could reach out and touch Lee. Oh, isn’t that what you mean?
Not sure the what forest (or wood or whatever) you think I’m missing is. Are you saying that while I’m writing about the individual mistakes in Lee’s fu#kup-a-day campaign voters are saying ‘boy, I love a candidate who’s consistent, even if consistently incompetent’?
michael 11.1
Dave’s problem is he’s been reading too much whaleoil. Still ringing people up and accusing them of writing for the standard Dave?
the sprout 12
Stunning. What were National ever thinking.
Sorry Eddie, meaning cant see the wood for the trees is the actual idiom. If you dont know what an idiom is, ask some of your Mt Albert mates,. I know exactly what you’re missing even if you don’t, and it has nothing to do with ” individual mistakes in Lee’s fu#kup-a-day campaign”.
andy 13.1
Here is my idiom about Lee’s tv appearance:
She can’t think straight
can’t tell arse from elbow
Between A Rock And A Hard Place……………!!!!111!
Captcha: silicon mother
Eddie 13.2
We say ‘forest for the trees’ in my parts’ and you wrote ‘wood from the trees’ it was confusing.
wtl 13.3
yeah, but you said ‘wood FROM the trees’ the first time… wood, forest, same thing
you’re all making one fundamental mistake, and that’s to take this former student journalist and serial prank caller seriously.
andy 13.4.1
‘Back To The Drawing Board’ then cause she ‘Can’t Cut The Mustard’
Zetetic 13.5
dave reminds me of this kid I knew growing up.
He came to school one day and said ‘I’ve got this awesome dog, he’s so cool, you should all be so jealous’
‘Let’s see this dog’ I said
‘Nah, you can’t just believe’ he said
Turned out dude didn’t have a dog.
Front up with whatever you’re talking about, dave. Or I’ll just assume you’re a kid boasting about a dog he doesn’t have.
Killinginthenameof 13.6
What dave is trying to tell you is that he is having trouble reconciling between Lee’s daily fuck ups, and his delusional belief (as supplied by DPF and failoil, see: useful idiot) that Lee is going to win.
Tim Ellis 14
Eddie, anybody would think that you’re an insider from some of the lines you’re running. Off topic I know, and it wasn’t meant as a thread-jack, but to respond to your claim that I’m an insider, the answer is no.
Tim you “protest too much”.
These idioms are fun 🙂
But that is the last on this thread, off to watch the Lee clips again. They need a David Attenborough nature documentary voice over or a sports commentary mash up…
Tim Ellis 14.1.1
Andy, I’m responding because I think it was r0b who pointed out a while back that I hadn’t denied whether I worked in the national party research unit. In fact I had denied it and chose to ignore further references to it and when I ignored it people accused me again of having such a role and said it was suspicious that I hadn’t denied it.
Eddie 14.1.1.1
Tim. I know you’re not, just teasing 🙂
andy 14.1.1.2
Tim, you work so hard for the Nats (pro bono) and your arguments seem to come straight from inside the Nats spin department, it does make one wonder. But fair enough, you just defend the indefensible for fun… 🙂
Chris G 14.1.1.2.1
Is that altruism being evident in right-wingers? surely not.
lprent 14.1.1.2.2
I’m going to start banning for speculation on where people work shortly. I find it unproductive to spend my bus time on. Chews my bandwidth for no real info.
John Dalley 15
Melissa Lee. “The gift that just keeps on giving”
burt 15.1
John Dalley
If you google ‘The gift that just keeps on giving site:www.whaleoil.co.nz’ you will find that catchy phrase has some serious political baggage attached to it.
But if National exonerate her in a whitewash inquiry over the next few years I’ll join you in demanding whale adds her to his elite squad.
lprent 15.1.1
Yes the baggage is Whale. Serious? Hardly
Frankie 16
Other candidates were invited to attend the “super city ” meeting three days ago and were informed that all candidates from the major parties were attending (including Melissa Lee)
toad 17
Melissa Lee’s most significant contribution in that interview was:
I’m all over the place
That’s gotta be the one thing she has said in this campaign that has been correct.
gingercrush 18
DeeDub. You know crap. Lee’s maiden speech was superb and got a standing ovation from all sides of the house. . Post-maiden speech she has been a disaster. But that maiden speech was very good.
She is a train wreck. And to think a few weeks back I was trying to say she was talented to Gobsmacked. Though I would actually like to hear from Shearer. He is the front runner. Everyone literally agrees he is likely to win this election. So why aren’t the TV news and radio stations and newspapers seeking questions and answers from him. Having interviews with him etc etc. Yes there has been a few. But this is the man that will win Mt. Albert. Shouldn’t we actually know who he is?
Chris G 18.1
Farrar seems to know a lot about him GC. Why, surely you have already read his smarmy posts about Shearer being a supposed mole?
gingercrush 18.1.1
I thought Whaleoil was spinning the supposed mole story. Yes I am aware what the right-wing blogs have been saying about Shearer, I find it rather meaningless. The fact is the media should be doing its job and lettings us the public know exactly who this guy is that will be in Parliament in a months time. Its fair enough, they’ve targeted Lee. But its now time to learn who the hell is Shearer.
lprent 18.2
It is a local campaign. So shearer is doing his work locally. Go to Mt Albert and you will find both him and his campaign everywhere.
Whereas it is hard to find anything from national apart from hoardings
Philonz 18.3
Fair point gc. Lee was not the best choice for a bi-election which would be the focus of intense national coverage. The tactics of both National and Labour are puzzling. Lee seems to be there without support, digging herself a hole. Shearer might be campaigning but can barely be seen behind the party muscle that labour seem to be wheeling in to Mt Albert. I swear I’ve seen more pictures of Goff, King, Mallard, Chauvel et al than Shearer himself, and he’s the one that’s supposed to not be busy with other parliamentary business..
It is one of the few ‘joys’ of being in opposition. When ministers are fiddling with their portfolios, the opposition’s heavy hitters are relatively free. Did you ever consider why governments usually lose by-elections?
Frankie 18.3.2
You obviously have not driven through Mt Albert – you will see plenty of pictures of David Shearer and you will more than likely see the man himself talking to local groups and engaging with ordinary citizens, in a coherent and personable manner.
Philonz – you need to take a drive through Mt Albert. Not only will you see plenty of pictures of Shearer you will most likely see the man himself out and about talking to the people and meeting local groups.
Eddie all your posts sound like Labour spin. You know there are accusations all over the blogosphere instigating you as working directly with Labour. Therefore,You can’t possibly accuse Ellis of spinning things for National when you do the exact same thing with Labour. Tim, this isn’t the “Tim Ellis Show”, you need to shut up sometimes. You can’t defend Lee she has been a walking disaster. Most on the right have simply given up and been keeping their mouths shut. I think you should do the same.
“You know there are accusations all over the blogosphere instigating you”
Theres probably accusations all over the blogosphere that Elvis is alive also GC… Maybe you should go look at them??
Well I actually don’t care for the accusations of who The Standard people work for. I find it all dumbfounding. I tend though to think that people who are accused of being insiders themselves shouldn’t go attacking others for being insiders for a different political party. That could be applied to many blogs including PA, Kiwiblog, WOil (requires moderation so can’t mention it) and of course this blog. If these blogs actually just kept that to themselves we the people who frequent blogs would be better off as a result.
by all over the blogosphere you mean whaleoil and his clones. anyone who knows the characters he’s talking about knows what a joke it is.
Notice how GC breathlessly goes from “accusations all over the blogospher” to working for the Labour party.
Your missing that vital middle step, call it premise 2 if you like, the bit that proves what you have just claimed is true.
I didn’t intend on asserting Eddie was working with the Labour Paty that wasn’t my intention. . My point is when you are accused of spinning for the Labour Party you can’t in turn accuse others of spinning for the National Party. So if I made it look like I was accusing Eddie of being in the Labour Party. I therefore apologise because it wasn’t my intention.
Killinginthenameof 19.3.1.1
Fair enough. I tend to think the works for labour\national thing is a bit done to death.
He isn’t. But talk all you like elsewhere on the topic. However I would suggest that you discontinue doing it here
Fair point about not having a go at Tim in that way. I should have left it at ‘stop running the lines’.
No Lee-way 21
There was an ad about the meeting in last week’s Central Leader. She has no excuse for not knowing there would be a meeting on the Super City
Will de Cleene 22
The Sarah Palin Effect?
jarbury 23
Will….. the similarities are quite disconcerting.
Anita 23.1
Care to list them?
felix 23.1.1
Anita, if you followed the Palin campaign closely you’ll be noticing mannerisms, speech patterns, and almost carbon copy reactions to situations in Lee.
I know you think people are only comparing them because they’re both women, but please just look past their gender for a moment.
Anita 23.1.1.1
I didn’t pay enough attention to Palin’s campaign to see them 🙂
I am curious as to why people make this link because they are different in such significant ways, and the similarities people talk about are also true of other candidates. Sure I’m interested in a gendered analysis, partly because I wonder how women who are politicians have to behave to succeed.
felix 23.1.1.1.1
Some of their similarities may be shared by some other candidates.
That doesn’t diminish the comparison in any way.
Philonz 23.1.2
There’s also a certain desperation by the media to see her fail miserably.
felix 23.1.2.1
Yep, and in both cases that’s a reaction to the candidate’s overt contempt for public scrutiny.
Frankie 23.1.2.2
And she certainly is not disappointing them
Irascible 24
Vacuous, woolly headed, vain, egotistical, shallow and a good example of what happens when the auto-cue lights go out in front of the news-reader.
Here was a woman articulating the public’s view of the Hide destroy the cities policies while desperately trying to toe the indefensible party line – “cue the “mind has gone blank” plea as the auto cue dropped out of sight and left her mind a perfect blank.
Sorry Timmy you can’t defend this performance she even makes Key sound articulate!!!
The Glob that is The Gisborne Herald 25
I just reeled from watching the melissa brain fart moment.
She wasn’t having trouble answering questions.
She was having trouble with her hair.
if she’d turned up to the meeting her hair would’ve hijacked her again and again so naturally she was doubled booked, a session at Rodney Wayne and she’ll be champing at the bit.
captcha: cures their
Steve Withers 26
In context, the brain fart isn’t a big deal. People have that sort of thing happen all the time. What does matter is what is said in the more coherent moments. Most of what Melissa Lee says in this clip is fairly reasonable. Her language could be a little more sensitive. I’m not sure calling people “old ladies” is going to make them feel warm and happy. That’s the same sort of lack of finesse displayed in the south Auckland moment. It’s fixable. But what is relevant is that this person was the choice of Party HQ for fronting National in a high profile campaign.
I’ve got to this thread late and haven’t read all the comments but will say this.
I have been a candidate in two general elections and in two local body elections. The simple fact is that a candidate should move heaven and earth to attend public meetings that have your competition present. Just last year there were meetings that our local electorate organisation only found about a few days prior but we made frantic efforts to get to them. I also remember hearing of meetings arranged by the “enemy’ which were probably stacked with other parties’ supporters and were not hugely in our favour. But the bottom line is that you “man up’, attend, and sell your policies and party. I don’t care what Melissa Lee had planned or who planned the meeting. Her attendance was mandatory.
Maynard J 28
I thought tv3 were being right bastards. People must cock up all the time, but it never gets played, since they only have limited time and it is a waste of time to show people struggling to put a sentence together. To make that the story – what does that show? I don’t think that what we saw is indicative of her skills or suitability as a Mt Albert MP, unless you want to try a tenuous ‘under pressure’ angle.
I don’t know, maybe that has never happened before and they always get their lines right all the time, but I would be surprised.
Suppose it was illustrative of the mess being created by rushing through the supercity without a decent plan and without letting the public know what is really going on, but that was not the angle tv3 took at all.
It made me cringe to watch her have a brain fade, but anyone who has had to do any public speaking on the hoof (e.g. sales presentations, staff meetings etc) would know it happens from time to time. (Unless it only ever happens to me).
gobsmacked 28.2
Maynard J
I agree to some extent. Lee’s bumbling should not have been the lead story, when there are more serious issues around.
But it’s worth pointing out that she’s not just a newbie candidate. She’s an MP, and will still be an MP after she loses the by-election. She will continue to make decisions about our lives, at our expense. So that limits my sympathy. She is not up to the job, but is going to keep it.
To Tim and the spinners:
John Boscawen (ACT) fronted up to the meeting, at a day’s notice. A Labour-Greens-ACT-Libertarianz jack-up is a conspiracy theory too far.
Gobsmacked, I don’t think that Mr Boscawen turning up is very relevant. I doubt he is in very high demand and/or had many other things to do.
I understand that of the 50 people there, almost all of them were wearing party rosettes or were media. Not a very useful way to spend a couple of hours talking to the converted or non-voters.
gobsmacked 28.2.1.1
So Melissa Lee doesn’t want to face questions at public meetings, doesn’t want to face the media (see the secret campaign launch and the cancelled Radio Live interview at the weekend), and falls apart when a reporter catches up with her.
But she does want to carry on being an MP. Why?
Garner threw her a life line when she lost it and she started talking over him. I suspect he thought ‘well F you, I tried to help’.
I was sympathetic to her having a ‘moment’ until she just ploughed on through and over Garner. Then lost is again. If she had let him talk she could have reset or changed tack.
She used her journalist attack training on a Journalist.
I thought asking the guy if he was ‘homeless’ was the most uncomfortable cringe moment.
Tim Ellis 28.4
I thought tv3 were being right bastards. People must cock up all the time, but it never gets played, since they only have limited time and it is a waste of time to show people struggling to put a sentence together. To make that the story – what does that show? I don’t think that what we saw is indicative of her skills or suitability as a Mt Albert MP, unless you want to try a tenuous ‘under pressure’ angle.
I agree Maynard J. Mr Garner appears to have been getting his own back because Lee appeared on Close Up last week instead of TV3. TV3’s coverage last night was malicious in my view.
Mr Garner produced a blog on Thursday titled “Lee the Loser”. It seems he has made his mind up on the result. I suppose it saves having to pay for a poll to be done, but it’s a bit arrogant to reach the conclusion before talking to voters.
Maynard J 28.4.1
If there is one media thing I hate, it is the revenge thing. The Dom Post has or had a weekly ‘Feslier award’, named after the guy who thought he had all the media beat over some OIA request, and then got found out. As the ‘free press’ the high and mighty Spiteful God look is not a good one. Just ask Winston Peters.
pat – yes indeed. When that happens there is nothing you can do. First time I have seen it happen to an MP though, they always have something to say!
Tim Ellis 28.4.1.1
That’s quite true, Mr Maynard. Mr Peters did become a bit of a victim of media pack-mentality treatment that was probably disproportionate to his crime. He didn’t help things at all by being so truculent with the media, though.
Sorry Tim Ellis TV3 provided a long intro showing Melissa Lee handing out leaflets and asking people if they were homeless – it was not all Lee losing it. A fair coverage of her mornings work I would have thought!
Nick said: I don’t care what Melissa Lee had planned or who planned the meeting. Her attendance was mandatory.
Whatever it was she had planned, it wasn’t important enough for her to tweet about.
Zaphod Beeblebrox 30
Its strange that someone who was a journalist herself and a promising MP has become so frazzled that she is unable to get any of her message across.
Then again, it might just say something about the fact that she was up against it from the start. All her talking points about the supercity could be interpreted as arguments AGAINST what is being proposed. She has obviously decided that it is a waste of time trying to argue against decentralisation of services and gone with the safe ‘I support local democracy’ line.
It will be interesting if the rest of the Auckland Nat/ACT MP’s can perform any better when they have to front up. They will need to be good.
Similarly, how does one talk to 300 families who are having their houses bulldozed or he many more whose lives will be disrupted by eight-ten years of construction through the neighbourhood.
She would have to be a politicial genius to perform what is asked of her.
felix 31
It’s probably not correct to call her a train-wreck, given the Nat’s attitude to public transport.
6 car motorway pile-up might be more appropriate.
Gettin a flat tyre on the cycleway perhaps?
quadboik 32
If you’d seen Lee’s performance this afternoon in the University of Auckland quad, the answer to this post’s headline would be self-evident.
Tim Ellis said
“There is an auckland university candidate?s meeting on tomorrow night, which has been organised well in advance”
Hey Tim maybe she should’ve “prior engagment” ed this one aswell…
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10573458
gobsmacked 34
Meanwhile, here’s a gem. Funniest blog post title ever?
http://poneke.wordpress.com/2009/04/25/dpf/
But then, Poneke was hardly alone. Back in April, everyone was proclaiming that Lee would be a top quality candidate for National (well, not everyone, but … *cough* … modesty forbids …) 🙂
None of the pundits seem to have bothered doing the slightest bit of research first. Like, asking her questions.
Pat 35
The attacks on Lee are getting out of hand now. The racist petition thing is just plain stupid.
Duncan 36
Oh man. This is just horrible to watch, and I’m a lefty.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/video.cfm?c_id=1&gal_objectid=10573458&gallery_id=105719
Yeah, she’ll probably pick up a sympathy vote now.
felix 36.2
So her angle now is “Look, I’ve already apologised once and it’s not my fault if you’re all too stupid to understand that”.
The woman has nothing but contempt for anyone who hasn’t joined her fan club. It’s a really ugly quality and she’s no good at hiding it. Why? Because she sees nothing wrong with holding that attitude and therefore no reason to hide it.
Tip for her handlers (don’t worry team, only a few weeks to go):
If you think you’ve given an apology but everyone else is still waiting for one, then your apology was not very convincing and repeating the same phrase will not make it more so.
She has a tin ear.
I said up thread, asking the guy in the clip if he was homeless = Fail. Calling old ladies, old = Fail. Not repeating apology = Fail.
Lovin the ‘end the drug war’ sign in the background. Good stuff.
bilbo 37
Ye Gods the state of our tertiary students is rather depressing.
There’s a certain Lord-of-the-Flies ugliness to the whole thing.
Having organised political debates at uni’s before, I’m bloody surprised DPF and John Carter let her attend.
They must’ve known that she’d be targeted after her racist comments about a large number of Aucklanders aswell as the disingenuous ones about Mt Albert people.
And of course the ethnic students, they (Lee/DPF/NAT) are targeting won’t get involved since they have better things to do at University.
So no sympathy for Lee, except that her ego is clouding her judgement and the advice from NAT people is flawed so far.
She should stick to invited guests only functions, like her Election campaign launch.
Anyone see shearer’s waffle (Garners words) regarding the super city tonight on 3?
He was pathetic and made no sense at all.
Lee must at last see the fog clearing if this idiot is allowed to speak unaided on the campaign trail
SPC 41
I wonder how experienced a politician one would have to be to cope with the road issue and the Super-City issue without any advanced briefing … she was set up to fail.
If there was any careful calculation to it (beyond there are Asians in Mount Albert) was it placing an Asian and a woman at that in this situation – possibly to gather Asian and women loyalty to National (because the other side were criticising the poor woman) – people in a tough situation dealing with tough issues …
I hope not. In my opinion this government will be like the one of 75-84 and 90-99 and do immense harm to our nation and this time it really should be three strikes and they get depatched and politically buried once and for all.
GOOD NEWS: Melissa Lee is no longer banned from giving interviews.
Bad news: When she finally talks to the media …
she announces she has already given up.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/stories/2009/05/22/1245b06e9ed2
So, who should National supporters vote for now?
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Advocacy. Culture. Heritage. News.
Kushti sarlo.
Thank you for joining us around the yog. Please pour yourself a cuppa. We’re happy you’re here.
This is a safe space where we can share and enjoy some good conversation and laughs.
This blog is not only for Roma. Anyone who counts us as a friend is welcome.
We have organized four ways to connect: Advocacy. Culture. Heritage and News.
Advocacy: For two+ years we have been involved in New Zealand working to bring a cultural appropriation issue to the attention of the government. Bob Lovell Kamulo has led this campaign to get The Original Gypsy Fair to drop the use of “Gypsy” in all their marketing, trademarking and business registations. You’ll find there’s a petition, other supporting documents and updates on this site.
Culture: With Halloween season approaching we will be seeing a lot of examples of how far people will go to present a fantasy of Romany/Gypsies.
Heritage: Our heritage is very important and can be subtly undermined. Yet there’s a wonderful burgeoning of talented writers, artists, dancers, playwrights and poets who are telling their stories.
News: In the news we’re reading and seeing that racist abuse by state governments in U.K. and Europe is on the rise, activated from behind the smokescreen of the global pandemic.
Parruke Tute/Thank you.
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The problem with ‘The Original Gypsy Fair’ and Mr Jim Banks
In the recent NZ Herald article on businesses appropriating Romani culture, Jim Banks of The Original Gypsy Fair (a company that appropriate Romani culture) was quoted as saying that his parents were ‘full-blooded gypsies’.
However, he then goes on to say:
“they [Romani] are not a group or a race like New Zealanders or Filipinos, they might as well be a motorcycle gang” (Excuse me while I lol)
Firstly, Jim, you know you can google it right? If you’re having trouble with that, here’s a good link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_people
Secondly, he then goes on to say; “Gypsy is a lifestyle, not a breed… if I want to say gypsy, call my business gypsy, I have every right to.”
So, which is it, Jim?
Are you, in fact, ‘full-blooded Gypsy’ (implying ethnicity) or is being Gypsy/Romani simply a lifestyle choice?
I’ll answer for you as you seem to be confused.
1. Ethnicity is not a lifestyle choice.
2. Fetishism and appropriating a culture and its symbols, words, dress and modes, is racism. Period.
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I’m reminded that Hitler and the Nazis had plans for when they invaded England. It’s an historical fact that all UK Romany Gypsy family names, including my Lovell’s were recorded by the Nazis along with UK Jewish family names to be rounded up and sent to the Death camps. It took only one Romani great grandparent to justify extermination, whereas two Jewish great grandparents qualified a Jew to the same fate.
The fact is we Roma survive and adapt in a world that often hates our race as the Nazi’s did during WWII to wipe us out. Yes, I’m proud of how my people, my Elders suffered great hardships and prejudice just for being Romany/Gypsies. We Roma, as a people have never, as far as I’m aware, become terrorists or made others suffer at our hand.
And yet, 74 years later we are fighting. We have much to do in the battle for ethnic rights for Romani/Gypsies in New Zealand. Okay, it looks like The Original Gypsy Fair (non-Rom/Gypsy) has removed the UK Rom Photos from advertising posters and marketing. But they are still trading and operating as Gypsies, aided by Tourist brochures and websites. The local newspapers give them whole pages on the fair and brands it with iconic prestige. This is absolute rubbish, of course.
Knowing the story of this fair and how it came into being is based on commercializing the Romantic stereotype of Gypsy life, the reasons, unfortunately very much alive in the minds and eyes of the mainstream culture. It is offensive and insulting. I ask the question; How long do we stand back and remain a hidden people, until we are no longer anything?
Genocide comes in many forms, not just gas chambers. We need to unite and fight with pen and paper, on computers and in social media. We must educate non-Rom that we are a true ethnic Romany/Gypsy people with same ethnic rights and human rights under UN charters granted to all other ethnic minorities.
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How can Rom move forward in a hostile world?
A New Year’s message of unity by Bob Lovell Kamulo
In 2019, we are called to unite as One, everywhere
We do not need one leader or leaders who preach from afar about how and what will be done, or about how many years since the Roma Union was started. Has it gained us as a people any real respect? No. It may have made gains for a few, but for whom and when and will it last? We still have to prove we are decent law abiding people rather than the negative stereotype. You know the score – thieves and non-tax payers and so on. Need I say more? Then there’s the romantic stereotype. You’ve all heard it – “Proper Rom are lovely, it’s the half breeds that are the problem!” All Rom would be guilty as none are pure blooded anyway. DNA tests prove this beyond any doubt, so please no more arguments.
We must stop the infighting
We as an ethnic people are not doing ourselves any favours with infighting that occurs on social media sites, such as Face Book, Twitter, WhatsApp, etc. There is an increase in divisions among Rom groups each claiming more knowledge of Rom culture and language over fellow Rom.
It is especially sad when one reads posts that go like this –
“Oh I’m 100% Rom and have been brought up the Rom way.”
Or, “I don’t accept people who have only found out though DNA tests they have Rom blood – ratt.”
“Yes, they might have some Rom blood, but haven’t lived the life.”
There are many Rom groups unions, coalitions even guilds getting grants
But where are we, the everyday Rom on the puv? It’s either non-Rom academics telling us or a few chosen Rom academics and through the arts telling us as well. Again, where are the ordinary Rom to be seen? There are many of us out there doing good work for Rom ethnic rights yet remain in the shadow of the greats. Why?
We hear too often talk of coalitions and flags, meaning Romani – Roma/Romanichal/Kale
Which brings me to our Traditional Traveling people – Irish & Scottish ethnic Travelers. And now New Agers, also referred to as hippies due to dropping out and who have no claim to that ethnic status whatsoever, having taken up an itinerant lifestyle and travel about in vans. This group in the UK now outnumber Rom and Traditional Travelers. One only has to go out and drive around the UK as I have and you will find this is the case. A situation that is happening in other countries as well. It’s a practice so prevalent in the UK that the term Gypsy as it is under law can now mean anyone living an itinerant lifestyle.
All this confusion about who are Gypsies has contributed to the situation we now face
And requires a huge effort by all of us who have Romani blood lines (this includes those who through no fault of their own have only just discovered they have Rom ratt.). Who has the right to deny anyone with however much or little Rom blood? None of us have that right to refuse our own from being a part of our people wherever in the world we live today. As we all know many of us have family stories of our Rom children being taken by non-Rom officials and these children are then brought up by non-Rom. This, very much like what has happened to many ethnic and indigenous people such as in Indigenous Canadians, Aboriginals in Australia, American Indians and so on.
Many of us are active in fighting in our own corner
Even here, way down in the South Pacific – likely the most far flung of places – one can find a few Rom aided by other Rom in countries like Canada, US and the UK. We challenge misappropriation of our culture and the use of Rom imagery and the term Gypsy by people who are not Rom in anyway, but use us to earn money. To me this is a gross insult to all of us. More so to the memory of our Puri Folkie who suffered so much prejudice just for being born Rom/Gypsies.
The old stereotypes of the Romani/Gypsies were often written by non-Rom authors
And yet the writings of the Baro Ryes – great gentlemen and woman in the UK who wrote and published accounts over the past 150+ years continue to influence many. These accounts have been based on flimsy fact gathering. People such as, John Sampson, George Borrow, Dora Yates, Frances H Groome, Hubert Smith, Charles Leland and others who established the Gypsy Lore Society (GLS), published journals of mostly Welsh and UK Romany with family lines and stories of “supposed” Gypsy life. Much of this writing is based on highly selective hearsay and not from fact gathering at all.
Our people back then could hardly read or write
They had no real way of checking this writing of the Rye’s. It’s only in recent times we openly question their writings, as most of us nowadays have had some education as in a non-Rom education. We certainly all need to question the Rye’s and the GLS’s so-called “facts” of us as an ethnic people. These books by the Rye’s are still in wide circulation and used by some in the study of our people. Do we just stand back and allow this to continue as it spreads like a cancer on the true facts?
We must Nai bista – never forget the over 500 thousand Rom murdered by the Nazis
The Nazis used guns and death camps. Today the enemy is likely the greedy corporations that appropriate the term Gypsy with an eye for the $dollar and to get rich quick. Then we have other groups who often use the term “tribal” then turn this metaphor into Gypsy. Do we allow this? No, we cannot. It’s unacceptable as another form of genocide of Rom by the use of the pen. Never mind, the old saying “the pen is mightier than the sword” is very true today for Rom. We can use the pen just as well as the ones who appropriate our culture to make a living out of it.
Not all is doom and gloom for we Rom
Three prominent Rom have received awards in the UKs New Year’s Honours List. Dr. Ian Hancock received an OBE for his work on Romani and community development, and also Kim Maloney, Honorary President of LEEDSGate, UK. While young Romani Toby Gorniak received an MBE for his work with youth, founding The Street Factory in Plymouth, UK. We must stand proud of and celebrate what can only be seen as a victory for Rom ethic rights worldwide.
How do we fight back?
Always without abuse and racial put downs, but with facts, honesty and with dignity. Together we can overcome adversity. Without it we are in danger of slipping into the tribal mire and fog of confusion and hatred that is very much alive worldwide today.
Savvo Romani ker O Boktalo nevo bersh.
Bob Lovell.
In New Zealand January 2019.
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A little more than a year ago, Bob Lovell started a petition protesting New Zealand’s Original Gypsy Fair’s cultural appropriation of copyrighted imagery for commercial exploitation by non-Romany. In all honesty Bob admits, “It has been a great worry for me here in New Zealand, as we Romany/Gypsies are few on the Pov – ground.”
How d id it all begin? “When I first approached these Original Gypsy Fair people, it was clear within minutes that there were and never have been any true Romany/Gypsy travelling with this fair.” However, Bob persisted, “I suggested to them that in my eyes and in my culture, it was insulting and basically is an abuse of we Romany/Gypsy People world-wide, not just in New Zealand.”
Their disparaging remarks would have been enough to galvanize any Romany/Gypsy activist into action. But for Bob, the unlawful use of his close friend, Mr. Barrie Law’s photos was his stake in the ground moment.
And so, this year, “We started the hard work of writing up a petition, letters to New Zealand Government Ministers, a Facebook page and a blog”, said Bob. The result? Our letter has reached the desks of two New Zealand government ministers. The news item was picked up by Al Jazeera. We’ve garnered a dedicated following from around the world on social media on other blogs and twitter feeds by human rights and criminal justice advocacy. With the result that the copyrighted photo has now been replaced with a generic graphic.
“Our overall goal”, says Bob “is educating non-Romany/Gypsies that we Rom are an ethnic minority, world-wide and the citizens of many countries, protected by the UN under ethnic and cultural rights.” The campaign is gathering steam and with high response rates on social media added to the mix, support is still growing.
A last word of thanks from Bob, “Parruka tute ta Bokt” to everyone for their support.
There’s more work to be done. Stay tuned for further details.
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Travellers’ Times Article
Travellers’ Times in the UK has printed a good story on The Original Gypsy Fair and its misuse and theft of Roma/Gypsy identity.
Stop Stealing our cultural identity say
New Zealand Romani campaigners.
In the Travellers’ Times article, Mike Doherty, the Editor writes:
The campaigners believe that the use of ‘Gypsy’ in ’The Original Gypsy Fair’, a commercial event which is part of the New Zealand van and truck culture circuit – run by businessman Jim Banks – trivialises and appropriates their culture, heritage and identity, and is a form of “romantic racism”.
While Bob Lovell Kamulo has this to say to the New Zealand Government.
We would kindly request the New Zealand government uphold its commitment to defending cultural and race relations, human rights and ethnic diversity with a legal review that removes the language “Gypsy” from all registered business names.”
We thank Travellers’ Times and Mike Doherty for their continued support. We’ll have another update coming soon.
Author pushapencilPosted on November 21, 2018 November 21, 2018 Categories Activism, Gypsy, New Zealand, Romany, UncategorizedLeave a comment on Travellers’ Times Article
Why non-Roma businesses shouldn’t use the term ‘Gypsy.’
by Cliff Harvey
The term Gypsy is commonly used in all manner of brand-names, products, and product descriptions. It has become synonymous with a free-spirited, wandering lifestyle, and thus, is evocative for those people who use it. But the use of the term by non-Romani people is incredibly problematic.
Gypsy is an exonym for the Romani people. This means that it was a name given to the people by those external to the culture, in this case, Europeans who mistakenly thought the Romani people were Egyptians, and thus, this became shortened to ‘Gyptian’ and eventually ‘Gypsy’. This takes on other forms too, like Gyppo (or Gippo/Jippo), which have negative connotations, and lends itself to the pejorative ‘gypped’, meaning ‘cheated’ or ‘swindled’. While most people would agree (at least when they become aware of the etymology) that using ‘gypped’ to describe being cheated or swindled is flat-out racist, the use of Gypsy, it would seem, is seen as less clear.
Romanticising and caricaturising ethnicities is a form of racism
Romanticising a lifestyle and the inevitable stereotyping that occurs, is in itself a form of discrimination. It is discriminatory because Romani have been systematically persecuted for their entire existence. Being Romani-Gypsy was, until recently a very precarious existence!
Many of our forebears could not openly practice their customs, dress, or language, and so, to see those things poorly imitated now by new-agers and modern-day hippie types is incredibly hurtful to Roma.
Romani have endured systematic oppression, criminalisation, and genocide for around 1000 years since the diaspora from northern India. They have been criminalised by race, forbidden in many places from owning land, enslaved (Romanichal, English and Scottish Romani, were rounded up and sent to the Americas as slaves), and killed.
As recently as 70 years ago, 25-50% of Europe’s Romani population were killed in the Porajmos (Holocaust), and many had been victims of periodic pogroms in eastern Europe.
This discrimination still occurs in more latent ways. Romani are the largest ethnic minority in Europe and bear some of the worst socio-economic statistics in the Union. For example, while 17% of Europe’s population overall is considered at risk of poverty, 80% of Roma face the same risk.
Romani still suffer systematic, societal, and individual persecution, especially in Europe, but also in other countries such as the US, Australia, Canada and here in New Zealand.
Testament to this casual persecution and ostracisation is the loss of language, and traditional names and customs. The reason why so many of the Romani population in countries like New Zealand, descended from Romanichal forebears have distinctly ‘normal’ surnames like Cooper, Lee, or Smith; names, taken to avoid persecution.
Using ‘Gypsy’ and imagery associated with Romani is cultural appropriation
Using the term Gypsy to describe a business ethos, product, or fashion statement of some type is clearly a case of racial appropriation. There is typically no consideration for the plight of Romani throughout history, nor for the continued oppression they receive, in Europe especially. Thankfully, people are now waking up to caricaturising of Romani and other ethnicities at Halloween and the backlash against ‘gypsy’ costume (and war bonnets, ‘blackface’ etc) and yet, having a ‘gypsy fair’, or a ‘gypsy caravan’, or ‘gypsy-style’ that caricatures Romani customs, tradition, and dress, seems to fly under the radar.
A common retort is that the word simply does not mean the same thing anymore, but that argument holds no water. The very identity that people are trying to claim and evoke stems from Romani, misidentified as Egyptian, and thus called Gypsies. It is almost identical to calling oneself an ‘Indian’ because you like dream catchers and wearing a feathered head-dress… or even worse, calling that lifestyle ‘Injun-style’.
Much of the ‘Gypsy’ lifestyle simply conflates many minority and indigenous cultural memes with a mish-mash of new-age concepts…that’s why you see dream-catchers, crystals, poi, and many other things labelled as ‘gypsy’.
It is not the prerogative of non-Romani to determine the fair use of racial exonyms and pejoratives.
Many Romani do self-identify as Gypsy. This has occurred for many reasons, namely that as Romani were referred to as that for so long, it became a lingua franca, so to speak, and something that others could also understand. Try telling someone that you are Romani and they will, more often than not, simply stare back blankly. Whereas, say, Romani-Gypsy and they’ll at least have some idea. But it is also a way to reclaim the disempowerment of being misidentified, ridiculed, and caricaturised. That’s why, it’s not so much a case of the word itself being offensive (unlike Gypped, which is!) but that the use of it, especially for commercial purposes, by non-Rom, is.
If you slap the name of an ethnicity onto a product, you’re profiting by appropriation
Think of a few hypothetical examples:
Imagine a food truck that served faux Kosher cuisine, replete with yarmulke wearing serving staff and called itself ‘Kike Caravan’. Would that be OK?
What about a bunch of pakeha wearing fake moko, and wearing grass skirts, calling a restaurant ‘Hori Hangi’….
Or a bunch of people dressing up in blackface and touring the country in the ‘Original Negro Fair’ because they liked African American culture and traditional music and felt that they had a ‘negro-soul’.
I think you get the point…
There is practically no other racial grouping for which caricaturising, appropriation of cultural icons, or the blatant use of racist terms (like gypped) is still so accepted.
Now, I understand that a lot of people don’t really think much about it, and don’t mean any harm.
The question though, is not whether someone is racist by ignorance, the bigger question is, are you brave enough to change your actions when you learn more about us?
I have contacted several people about their use of Gypsy, and the reaction has typically been heartening. Several have immediately changed their twitter or Instagram handles or made commitments to change product names. Others, even those who claim to be holistic or spiritual, have instead come back with patronising responses like “well we’re all the same deep down”, or “I feel like I have a gypsy soul/was gypsy in a past life” (excuse me while I throw up in my mouth just a little), or that ‘the word means different things to different people”.
Uh uh. No, it doesn’t. Gypsy means Romani. Any implication that it simply means a free-spirited traveller doesn’t hold up to scrutiny when the etymology of the word is clearly from Rom, misidentified, into Egyptian and subsequently, Gypsy
So, just don’t.
There are better words to use, like traveller, carny/carnie, showie, new-age, wanderer, nomad etc. And I guess, at the end of the day, you have to ask yourself, do you want to be on the right side or the wrong side of history?
Cliff Harvey is a clinical nutritionist, researcher, and educator.
Cliff is passionately interested in ethnogenetics, history, and genealogy and is of mixed Irish, English, Scots, and Romani descent.
He was a pioneer in the use of low-carb and ketogenic diets in Australasia from the late 1990s and his research has included the use of Medium Chain Triglycerides to induce ketogenesis and mitigate symptoms of carbohydrate withdrawal, and the determinants of carbohydrate tolerance. He now focusses mostly on writing on a wide variety of topics, teaching, and research into metabolic adaptations to diet and mind-body healthcare.
He is the author of eight books including The Carbohydrate Appropriate Diet, The Keto-Appropriate Diet, and the Aston-Wylie Book Award Finalist Time Rich, Cash Optional.
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A Small Victory
Copyrighted Vardo photos have been removed from posters of The Original Gypsy Fair.
Looks like our efforts with the New Zealand government is paying off. The removal of the copyrighted images is a great result for our cultural misappropriation campaign and protest against The Original Gypsy Fair (OGF). It’s a small but important step. The first time OGF have listened to our concerns.
My thanks for this team of activists. Frances Roberts Reilly for posting, tweeting and Facebooking the petitions, comments and blog updates. Phil Ford for his steady hand on the tiller, guiding us. And a kushti welcome to Cliff Harvey who’s a wordsmith and advocate here in New Zealand for Roma.” Just so you know, we’re all Roma/Gypsy folkie.
“Romanticising a lifestyle and the inevitable stereotyping that occurs, is in itself a form of discrimination. It is discriminatory because Romani have been systematically persecuted for their entire existence.” Cliff Harvey, Romani Advocacy.
We’ve a lot further to go. I’m grateful for your support.
Parruke Tute. Thank you.
“Stop immediately using the name Gypsy be it a registered business name or otherwise.” Bob Lovell Kamulo.
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Unfair to Romany/Gypsies
Letter to the Editor, New Zealand Herald
Here is my letter to the Editor of the New Zealand Herald protesting the season opener of The Original Gypsy Fair on November 17th, 2018 in Orewa, New Zealand.
I am Bob Lovell Kamulo, New Zealand born Romany/Gypsy, responding to the article, “No lawns or power bills for travellers at Original Gypsy Fair” by Laurel Stowell published in January 2018. As the “Gypsy Fair” gears up for its season opener in Orewa on November 17th, 2018, I am protesting in the strongest terms the appropriation of Romany/Gypsy culture by New Age hippies.
This “Gypsy Fair” is a great insult to the Roma/Romany Gypsy people worldwide. Our history is one of suffering great hardship and so much discrimination just for being born a Gypsy. For example, 500,000 Sinti Roma Gypsies were murdered by the Nazis at Auschwitz in WWII. Over hundreds of years our race has suffered discrimination and racist attacks with state sponsored separation of families, forcible emigration and worse. This continues today in many countries where our people are citizens.
Yet we have these New Age Hippies here in New Zealand travelling around trading as the “Original Gypsy Fair”, earning a living by pretending to be Gypsies. These hippies are making a living by romanticizing our culture. This must stop.
The “Original Gypsy Fair” is trading as a registered New Zealand business, trademarked and owned by Mr Jim Banks. This Fair was started some 20 years ago by an English couple who set it up on arrival in New Zealand. The couple in question are not Gypsies nor have they ever lived as Gypsy people. To date no true Gypsy has ever joined the Fair. Rather, the Fair has invited other like-minded people who want a free-wheeling lifestyle with “No lawns or power bills.”
If your readers know of our history and sufferings, perhaps this year, they will support us and stop this Romany Cultural Appropriation. And this newspaper will remove the “Original Gypsy Fair” ad from its event listings page.
Bob Lovell Kamulo
http://www.trueromany.blog.
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Fukushima Tokyo Earthquake Book
Aging Population, Abandoned Houses
Tony Smyth May 18, 2015 Blog
Japans population has been falling since the peak in 2008. There are now about a million people less than at that time. If current trends continue the population will have fallen by one third by 2050. This will affect every aspect of the country’s society, economy, culture and polity.
Millions of young Japanese are putting off marriage and childbirth until their thirties and very few have more than one child.
The population of Tokyo is still growing, as young people from the countryside are attracted by its higher salaries and exciting nightlife, but that has meant that many towns and villages in the countryside are rapidly depopulating. Some schools in the countryside have only a have dozen students.
Another problem related to this is that there are many abandoned houses, even within the capital. In many cases the original owner had died, and their offspring lived elsewhere. As of 2008 there were 7.57 million vacant homes, or 13.1 percent of all houses in Japan, up from 3.94 million in 1988. The rate is expected to rise to 23.7 percent in 2028. This figure includes houses waiting to be sold or rented out, though that can be difficult in a country where most prefer new housing.
The present tax system encourages people to build new homes and keep whatever structures they have on their land, no matter how unsightly and dangerous it has become. At present, homeowners pay a mere one-sixth of the standard property tax. However, this tax shoots up six fold when a home is demolished.
This is the main reason why those who inherit old houses are loath to demolish them. Japan is stuck with this problem until the tax law is changed.
Tony Smyth. Irish. Years lived in Japan: 30 years and counting. Teaches English and does NLP/hypnotherapy for a living.
‘Fukushima and the coming Tokyo earthquake: and what it will mean for a fragile world economy’ is his first book. There will be a sequel to it eventually.
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The Continuity Girl
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A comic love story in which the discovery of a long-lost version of a cult movie sheds light on a 45-year-old love affair between a Hollywood filmmaker and a real-life Loch Ness monster hunter
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Here, as promised, is the first part of the interview shot by Alex Breeze at Coventry's Big Comfy Bookshop. Questions courtesy of Heather Kincaid.
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Useful English Reference Works
This resource list is a work-in-progress and more links and materials will be added shortly.
For extra language support, please sign up for the course "3.02.085 - Additional Grammar Practice" on Stud.IP. This is a digital guide to key language areas that contains a range of explanations and practice materials. It is in the process of being developed further and will be updated regularly.
Monolingual online dictionaries
Macmillan English Dictionary. A very good free option for advanced learners, with featured words and clickable pronunciation guides. You can set the default option for British or American English here.
There is now a thesaurus function integrated into the Macmillan dictionary as well.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Online. With useful corpus examples for each word.
The Cambridge Dictionary website links to a number of useful dictionaries and reference guides. You can also set English-German and German-English options.
Cambridge Advanced Learner's dictionary. This is the default resource. It has a handy browsing function and each entry offers both British and American pronunciation.
Cambridge Learner's Dictionary (A2-B2 resource)
Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. You can toggle between English and American English on the main search bar. The [paid] Oxford Learner’s Dictionary of Academic English (OLDAE) is also highly recommended.
Collins English Dictionary. A good all-rounder. There is also a thesaurus function and an English-German option. And a Scrabble list!
Vocabulary.com. Definitions with up-to-date real world examples from sources such as the New York Times.
Merriam-Webster. The standard American English work. It also has a thesaurus function.
Oxford English Dictionary. Known as "the definitive record of the English language". It contains etymology and history as well as definitions. The university has a subscription which you can access while logged into the campus network.
Ozdic.com. A useful collocations dictionary and reference work, with a straightforward interface.
Urban Dictionary. A crowd-sourced reference for slang, colloquial expressions and very modern English.
Other useful online resources for grammar, vocabulary and expression
English Grammar Today is another option on the extensive Cambridge Dictionary website. It functions via a search box as well as an A-Z browsing function - useful if you don't know the exact term for what you want! British English only.
There is also a useful Grammar Guide from Oxford Dictionaries - the interface is slightly less crowded than the Cambridge version. British English only. (Note that the explanations are less detailed than in English Grammar Today.)
Collins Easy Learning English Grammar is a print resource that is also freely accessible online. (Just look for the table of contents on the left. It begins with parts of speech.) The resources are available as (paid) e-books as well.
Grammaring.com* - start with the list of topics.
*What sort of site is this? To quote: "Grammaring.com is a shortened version of the e-book The Grammaring Guide to English Grammar. While it does not contain timeline diagrams, quotes, and exercises, which come with the e-book version, it has some extra features that make it a practical resource for intermediate to advanced students of English as a second or foreign language."
The Internet Grammar of English is an online course in English grammar written primarily for (British) university undergraduates - it is very helpful if you'd like more information from a linguistics perspective.
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Academic Phrasebank. This database, created by John Morley at the University of Manchester, has an extensive collection of useful phrases for academic speaking and writing. There is also a version that can be purchased and downloaded for off-line use.
The Academic Word List and the Oxford Phrasal Academic Lexicon are both useful word collections linked to dictionary entries.
SKELL - Sketch Engine (language corpora software) for language learning. The simplifed student interface has a lot of interesting options for exploring and describing authentic language use. (If you don't really know how to use a corpus, then this is a good place to start.)
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* Michael Swan. Practical English Usage. 3rd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
This is an excellent reference grammar for students. It is also available as an e-book and as an app (Android/Apple/Windows).
* John Stevens. Handbuch des englischen Sprachgebrauchs: ein Ratgeber für Zweifelsfälle. 2rd ed. (rev.) Stuttgart: Klett, 2012.
A very useful collection of explanations.
Grammar Practice Works - Advanced
* Martin Hewings. Advanced Grammar in Use with Answers: A Self-Study Reference and Practice Book for Advanced Learners of English. 3rd ed. (rev.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
One of the classic collections of practice activities. (Note that it is at times extremely British!)
* Mark Foley and Diane Hall. Advanced learners' grammar: a self-study reference & practice book with answers. Harlow, Essex: Longman, 2011.
* George Yule. Oxford practice grammar advanced: with answers. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008 ed.
** Michael Swan and Catherine Walter. Oxford English Grammar Course: Advanced. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Draws on the material in Swan's reference grammar, as he is a co-author. Once of the best options for truly advanced learners.
Grammar Practice Works - Intermediate
If you find yourself needing to brush up on the basics, the following works are recommended.
* Raymond Murphy. English grammar in use: a self-study reference and practice book for intermediate learners of English. 4th ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
There is also a mobile app for all operating systems.
* Mark Lloyd and Jeremy Day. Active grammar: level 3. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
(One of the few upper-intermediate practice works directly targeting the teen/young adult market.)
* Malcolm Mann and Steve Taylore-Knowles. Destination C1 & C2: Grammar & Vocabulary. Ismaning: Hueber (Macmillan), 2008.
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Academic writing exercises and information
* Academic English Online has an excellent selection of practice tasks.
* The resources at Global Pad (Warwick University) are also good for developing a range of academic skills.
* The resources from Using English for Academic Purposes for Students in Higher Education (Andy Gillett) provide a very helpful overview.
* The Guide to Grammar and Writing has useful practice tasks dealing with a number of different topics.
* The Academic Writing in English website put together by Lund University in Sweden also contains a lot of useful information about common writing issues.
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If you live in Portland, your lights may now be partly powered by your drinking water. An ingenious new system captures energy as water flows through the city’s pipes, creating hydropower without the negative environmental effects of something like a dam.
Small turbines in the pipes spin in the flowing water, and send that energy into a generator.
“It’s pretty rare to find a new source of energy where there’s no environmental impact,” says Gregg Semler, CEO of Lucid Energy, the Portland-based startup that designed the new system. “But this is inside a pipe, so no fish or endangered species are impacted. That’s what’s exciting.”
For water utilities, which use massive amounts of electricity, the system can make it cheaper to provide clean drinking water. Utilities can either use the power themselves or sell it to a city as a new source of revenue.
“We have a project in Riverside, California, where they’re using it to power streetlights at night,” Semler says. “During the day, when electricity prices are high, they can use it to offset some of their operating costs.”
In Portland, one of the city’s main pipelines now uses Lucid’s pipes to make power that’s sent into the grid. Though the system can’t generate enough energy for an entire city, the pipes can power individual buildings like a school or library, or help offset a city’s total energy bill. Unlike wind or solar power, the system can generate electricity at any time of day, regardless of weather, since the pipes always have water flowing through them.
The pipes can’t generate power in every location; they only work in places where water is naturally flowing downward with gravity (if water is being pumped, the system would waste energy). But they have another feature that can be used anywhere: The pipes have sensors that can monitor water, something that utilities couldn’t do in the past.
“We made electrical infrastructure really smart over the last 20 to 25 years, but the same hasn’t happened in water,” Semler says. He points to the example of a pipe that burst near UCLA last year, wasting a staggering 20 million gallons of water in the middle of California’s crippling drought.
“They didn’t really know that the pipe burst until somebody from UCLA called,” Semler explains. “Our pipe can get indicators like pressure, a leading indicator for whether a pipe is leaking or not. So before it bursts and before we waste all the water, there are onboard information systems that water agencies can get to more precisely manage their infrastructure.”
Sensors in the pipe can also monitor water quality, making sure it’s safe to drink.
The company hopes to work with cities to install new systems as old pipes wear out. They’re also hoping to expand to the developing world. “It’s a great source of remote power,” says Semler. “So in places outside the city that don’t have an electrical grid, you’re able to use the system to generate energy.”
The biggest potential for the new system may be in places like California, where 20% of total energy use goes into the water supply—and even more electricity will be used as cities start to install desalination plants. With the pipes, utilities can generate some of their own much-needed power.
“There’s a lot of energy in going into making sure we have safe clean drinking water,” Semler says. “Our focus is really on helping water become more sustainable.”
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Massive Coalition Opposes House GOP Attempt to Eviscerate Transit
By Ben Goldman
The House Ways and Means committee has just passed a bill that would kick transit out of the highway trust fund, casting aside a 30-year history of providing a dedicated funding source for federal transit programs. Transit instead would be funded by a transfer from the general fund, which would have to be offset by cuts elsewhere to avoid raising the deficit. As US PIRG’s Dan Smith said yesterday, this is like saying that transit funding will come from the Tooth Fairy.
House Ways & Means' Dave Camp (R-MI) and Sander Levin (D-MI) do not see eye to eye on funding transit. Photo: ##http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/GJhPtTFcxsH/Chairman+Council+Economic+Advisors+Testifies/EbR3qGVpFTW/Sander+Levin##Zimbio##
The attack on transit has drawn opposition from an unprecedentedly broad coalition of over 600 groups, including many that do not often find themselves on the same side of an issue. Opponents of the bill include noted transit advocates APTA and T4America, and traditionally pro-highway groups such as AASHTO and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
The conservative Club for Growth has even gone so far as to make the entire House transportation package a key vote, meaning members will be rewarded for opposing the bill. Rep. John Campbell has already said he has changed his position on the package, and Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA) laughed at the prospect of getting a positive rating from Club for Growth for “the first time in a while.”
An amendment proposed by Rep. Earl Blumenauer, which would have removed the provision altering transit’s revenue source, was defeated along party lines during mark up this morning. However, two Republicans — Erik Paulsen of Minnesota and Vern Buchanan of Florida — broke ranks with their party and voted against the underlying bill. The bill passed anyway by a vote of 20-17.
Despite repeated attempts by Republicans to present the bill as placing transit funding on surer footing, the bill drew vocal opposition from Democrats such as ranking member Sander Levin, who said it “undermines the very structure of the Highway Trust Fund.” Blumenauer said the bill relied on “fantasy accounting” to justify a $40 billion transfer from the general fund to cover transit, and McDermott bemoaned the lack of long-term thinking behind the bill.
Rep. Charlie Rangel of New York even asked Chairman Dave Camp if there was a precedent for the Ways and Means committee to demand a complete restart of transportation authorization efforts. When informed that there was not, Rangel responded, “Well, you can be a leader, then.”
The letter from coalition members opposing the Ways and Means bill is after the jump.
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The Internet Trap
Whether we are checking emails, following friends on Facebook and Twitter, catching up on gossip from TMZ, planning holidays on TripAdvisor, arranging dates on Match.com, watching videos on Youtube, or simply browsing for deals on Amazon, the internet pervades our professional and personal environments. The internet has revolutionized our lives, but at what cost?
In The Internet Trap, Ashesh Mukherjee uses the latest research in consumer psychology to highlight five hidden costs of living online: too many temptations, too much information, too much customization, too many comparisons, and too little privacy. The book uses everyday examples to explain these costs including how surfing the internet anonymously can encourage bad behavior, using social media can make us envious and unhappy, and doing online research can devalue the product finally chosen. The book also provides actionable solutions to minimize these costs. For example, the book reveals how deciding not to choose is as important as deciding what to choose, setting up structural barriers to temptation can reduce overspending on e-commerce websites, and comparisons with others on social media websites needs to be cold rather than hot. The Internet Trap provides a new perspective on the dark side of the internet, and gives readers the tools to become smarter users of the internet.
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In The Internet Trap, Ashesh Mukherjee uses the latest research in consumer psychology to highlight five hidden costs of living online: too many temptations, too much information, too much customization, too many comparisons, and too little privacy.
"Five traps to watch out for relate to temptation, information, customization, comparison, and privacy … How can traps be avoided? Mukherjee says an occasional "internet detox" may be in order … Recommended for upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, researchers/faculty, and practitioners."
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"Practitioners and students alike will love The Internet Trap. It offers a fresh and novel take, informed by consumer psychology research, on the pitfalls of Internet-based communication. It is sexy and smart."
Angeline Close Scheinbaum, Stan Richards School of Advertising & Public Relations, The University of Texas at Austin
"At a time when everyone is discussing the digital revolution, The Internet Trap runs contrary to popular form and offers a fresh perspective on the Internet."
Suresh Ramanathan, David R. Norcom ’73 Professor of Marketing, Mays Business School, Texas A&M University
"If you ever wondered whether the Internet has made your life better or worse, this provocative and compelling book is for you. The Internet Trap uses the latest research in consumer psychology to describe the pitfalls of the Internet and what you can do to avoid them."
Bernd Schmitt, Robert D. Calkins Professor of International Business, Columbia University
"The Internet has fundamentally changed how we work, live, and play. Ash’s book provides a thought-provoking analysis of these changes based on research in marketing and consumer psychology. As people, employees, employers, or parents, we can all use The Internet Trap as a guidebook for finding a better balance in our lives."
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Chapter 1 : Too Many Temptations
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Man arrested, fined for refusing to follow COVID-19 orders in Langford
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VICTORIA -- A Vancouver Island man has been arrested and fined after allegedly refusing to wear a mask and being verbally abusive to staff at a Langford gas station.
Police were called to the Peninsula Co-op at 2320 Millstrearm Rd. at 3:30 p.m. Monday for a man causing a disturbance.
West Shore RCMP Const. Nancy Saggar said the complaint was for a man who was not wearing a mask and was acting verbally abusive to staff.
The manager at the Co-op says that other customers were supporting staff and were asking the man to put a mask on or leave.
“That’s about the point he got belligerent about it, so he started shouting rules and regulations a little louder, resisting any sort of advice,” said Jeremy Teskey, manager of the Co-op gas station. “Some of the customers were getting a little bit belligerent at him, unfortunately.”
He said the man wasn’t responding to their requests to put a mask on.
“Which is really all we are looking for, we are just trying to keep everybody safe in the store,” he said.
A 40-year-old man from the West Shore was arrested and given a $230 fine under the COVID-19 Related Measures Act.
“He was later released on an undertaking to attend court for the charge of causing a disturbance,” said Saggar.
The gas station wasn’t the only place the man allegedly caused a disturbance Monday.
Video has surfaced on social media showing the same man acting belligerently to staff at a Starbucks on Helmcken Road in View Royal on Monday.
In the video, which was a taken at about 12:30 p.m., an employee can be heard asking a man to “stand on a square” to maintain physical distance from staff and other customers.
“I don’t stand where people tell me,” the man is heard saying. “I keep my distance and that is the law. If someone says stand and right here ... I am not your property.”
The employee then tells the man the store is following the provincial rules and regulations.
“You can’t tell someone where someone[can] stand on private properly,” the man can be heard saying.
James Whitney was at the Starbucks when the incident was unfolding and heard a man raising his voice at staff.
“The manager came up and he started to berate her about the rules and the law and where he could stand,” said Whitney.
“She was very polite and very calm,” he said. “The fellow was a big guy and towered over her.”
Whitney recorded the incident and posted it to Facebook. The video had been viewed over 80,000 times by Tuesday afternoon.
“It’s unfortunate for the staff that they have to put up with this daily,” said Whitney.
West Shore RCMP confirmed the man in the Starbucks incident is the same man they arrested at the Co-op.
On Wednesday, police said they again tracked down the man and issued him a second ticket under the COVID-19 Related Measures Act for failing to wear a face covering at the Starbucks.
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Markets: TSX awakes with a jolt
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Dec 29, 2010 • December 29, 2010 • < 1 minute read
The TSX — closed since Dec. 24 — made up for a bit of lost time today with a 66-point gain and a close of 13,449, a two-year high. Rare earth companies were among the top gainers after China — where about 95 per cent of rare earth metals are produced — announced new export quotas on the metals used to produce televisions, smartphones and other high-tech gadgets. Gold rose $4.50 to close at $1,411 an ounce, while crude oil dipped slightly but remained above $91 a barrel. The Dow Jones and Nasdaq each managed small gains and the Canadian dollar closed at 99.93 cents US.
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Enhancing Police Responses to Children Exposed to Violence: A Toolkit for Law Enforcement
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), Yale Medicine Child Study Center, International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP)
Police officers are frequently the first responders to situations that pose threats to the safety and well-being of children and families. This toolkit provides practical tools and resources to assist law enforcement agencies in building or enhancing effective operational responses to children exposed to violence (with or without a mental health partner).
Questions and Answers About the National Survey of Children's Exposure to Violence
David Finkelhor, Heather Turner, Sherry Hamby
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
Presents an overview of the National Survey of Children's Exposure to Violence (NatSCEV), the most comprehensive nationwide survey to date of the incidence and prevalence of children's exposure to violence.
Childrens Exposure to Intimate Partner Violence and Other Family Violence
Sherry Hamby, David Finkelhor, Heather Turner, Richard Ormrod
This bulletin discusses the data on exposure to family violence in the National Survey of Childrens Exposure to Violence (NatSCEV), the most comprehensive nationwide survey of the incidence and prevalence of childrens exposure to violence to date, sponsored by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Polyvictimization: Childrens Exposure to Multiple Types of Violence, Crime, and Abuse
David Finkelhor, Heather Turner, Sherry Hamby, Richard Ormrod
A large proportion of children surveyed (38.7 percent) reported in the previous year more than one type of direct victimization (a victimization directed toward the child, as opposed to an incident that the child witnessed, heard, or was otherwise exposed to). Of those who reported any direct victimization, nearly two-thirds (64.5 percent) reported more than one type.
Juveniles Who Commit Sex Offenses Against Minors
David Finkelhor, Richard Ormrod, Mark Chaffin
This Bulletin draws on data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation's National Incident-Based Reporting System to provide population-based epidemiological information on juvenile sex offending.
Evaluating Children's Advocacy Centers' Response to Child Sexual Abuse
Theodore P. Cross
The Bulletin examines the role these centers play in child abuse investigations and suggests ways that the centers could improve services in the future.
Child-Pornography Possessors Arrested in Internet-Related Crimes: Findings from the National Juvenile Online Victimization Study
Janis Wolak, David Finkelhor
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), Crimes Against Children Research Center (CCRC), Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
"The goals of the National Juvenile Online Victimization Study were to survey law-enforcement agencies within the United States to count arrests for internet-related sex crimes committed against minors and describe the characteristics of offenders, the crimes they committed, and their victims. This report focuses on a representative national sample of arrested offenders who possessed child pornography."& The report includes major findings and conclusions from this sample as well as recommendations and resources for law-enforcement and prosecutors."
Successful Program Implementation: Lessons From Blueprints
Sharon Mihalic, Abigail Fagan, Katherine Irwin, Diane Ballard, Delbert Elliott
This bulletin, distributed by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, presents findings from a process evaluation of exemplary violence prevention and drug prevention programs that have been evaluated in rigorous, controlled trials. Critical components of program implementation are identified.
Internet Sex Crimes Against Minors: The Response of Law Enforcement
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), Crimes Against Children Research Center (CCRC)
This report synthesizes the information collected from the National Juvenile Online Victimization Study and provides an overview of arrests, types of crimes, characteristics of offenders and ways that the criminal justice system is handling internet sex crimes against minors.
Juveniles Who Have Sexually Offended: A Review of the Professional Literature
Sue Righthand, Carlann Welch
Forward: "The authors of Juveniles Who Have Sexually Offended have diligently mined the research literature to provide a comprehensive and annotated account of the characteristics of juveniles who commit sex offenses and their families, and the type of offenses they commit. A broad array of clinical assessment tools, including psychological testing, are described, and a thorough discussion of recidivism rates and issues is presented. The Report concludes with a review of treatment approaches and settings and a look at program assessment.
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David Huizinga, Rolf Loeber, Terence Thornberry, Lynn Cothern
This bulletin discusses findings that indicate preventing delinquency requires identification of risk factors that increase the likelihood of delinquent behavior and protective factors that enhance positive behaviors.
Online Victimization: A Report on the Nation's Youth
David Finkelhor, Janis Wolak
This report describes the responses of youth who were surveyed about their use of the internet and experiences while online, which includes exposure to unwanted sexual material and harassment. It also highlights the need for both public and private initiatives to make the internet safer for youth.
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The Black Student Union has been working since last semester in preparation for Black History Month and has organized different events such as Rep Your Roots Day and a Swahili phrase raffle. The group has also organized a Black History Month Assembly which will take place during fourth period on Wed Feb. 28.
Every day during the announcements, a different black historical figure has been highlighted, building up to the assembly. According to BSU members, each figure was deliberately chosen due to the fact that they are uncommon, overlooked figures that were very important in the fight for civil rights and other sociopolitical movements, like gay rights.
“I’m kinda tired of hearing about all of the popular African American figures,” said Zaire Mayfield. “We need to talk more about the ones we don’t really hear about because all of them deserve to be known.”
“Most of the people I found, I didn’t even know existed,” said Olivia Atlas about the daily short biographies that are read over the P.A. system. Atlas wrote each of the biographies.
On Rep Your Roots Day Feb. 9, students wore different traditional African patterns on skirts, dresses and other attire.
The BSU also held a raffle in which participants were asked to recite the Swahili word/phrase of the week or recall some information about a black historical figure that was announced. In exchange for a correct answer, the participants were given a raffle ticket.
At the assembly, students will perform songs and dance routines, spoken word, and poetry. All of the performers have auditioned and are rehearsing every day at lunch. All of the participants will be dressed in some form of traditional African patterns and cloths.
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Takeaways from the Polish DPA's decision on personal data processing
On Sept. 10, Poland’s data protection authority, the Personal Data Protection Office, issued its highest fine of 660,000 euros to retail company Morele.net for infringing on the principle of integrity and confidentiality, Article 5(1)(f), and the rules on security of processing, Article 32(1)(b)(d) and (2), of the EU General Data Protection Regulation.
Key takeaways from this decision relate to the UODO’s interpretation of “the state of the art,â€� which, under the GDPR, needs to be considered when implementing technical and organizational measures appropriate to the risk of processing.
In 2018, Morele suffered a data breach that affected approximately 2.2 million clients. Data accessed included client names, phone numbers, email and delivery addresses. A subset of 35,000 users also had loan applications exposed. Morele only learned of the breach after some of its clients reported phishing SMSes that were allegedly sent by Morele.net and contained a link to a fake payment gateway. Hackers blackmailed the company for ransom and, when Morele refused, the stolen personal data was sold online. In response to the breach, the company eliminated technical vulnerabilities, helped the affected data subjects and cooperated fully with the UODO and the police.
The UODO acknowledged satisfactory post-breach cooperation but found the infringement of the GDPR’s principle of integrity and confidentiality and the rules on security of processing contributed to the data breach, all of which posed a high risk to the rights and freedoms of Morele’s clients.
How to interpret ‘the state of the art’
The UODO recognized the GDPR does not require technical and organizational measures to eliminate processing risks (which would be impossible), but it does require those measures to be appropriate to the risks, taking into account the “state of the art� and the cost of implementation.
The GDPR demands security of personal data processing is brought up to the “state of the art� level but does not specify in any detail what that requires. In this decision, the UODO provides some assistance in determining the meaning of the “state of the art� within the GDPR. It states that, in constantly changing market conditions, controllers and processors should treat the ISO standards as a reliable benchmark for IT security (including those ISO standards that have not been published in Polish). Further elements of the framework, which should be consulted when determining the current “state of the art,� include recommendations and guidelines from organizations specializing in information security, with the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity, National Institute of Standards and Technology, and Open Web Application Security Project referred to as examples.
Authentication and access control
The UODO stressed that an appropriate authentication and access control are essential security measures, as indicated in the standard PN-EN ISO/IEC 27001:2017- 06. In determining the “state of the artâ€� in that respect, the UODO referred to ENISA’s “Guidelines for SMEs on the security of personal data processing and the OWASP’s Top 10 Application Security Risks – 2017,â€� which strongly recommend a two-factor authentication for accessing systems that process personal data.
In Morele’s case, two-factor authentication was introduced only as part of the breach response. The UODO saw it as a failure to provide appropriate technical safeguards in Morele’s IT systems that contributed to the successful hacking attack.
Appropriate monitoring
The UODO reinforced the point that, to satisfy the requirements of Article 32 of the GDPR, the access control mechanism should always be chosen following a thorough risk assessment, and its ongoing appropriateness should be regularly tested and evaluated (as also recommended in ISO/IEC 29115:2017/07, NIST 800-63B: “Digital Identity Guidelines: Authentication and Lifecycle Management and OWASP Top 10 Application Security Risks – 2017�).
In the UODO’s opinion, Morele fulfilled that requirement only partially: It monitored the measures implemented to protect known vulnerabilities but failed to assess whether, overall, the implemented technical measures were appropriate to the risks posed by the processing. The UODO noted that the company was processing personal data on a large scale that involved a high level of risk to the rights and freedoms of data subjects and meant that the level of monitoring had to be increased to the level appropriate to such risks. The UODO found that, despite carrying out some forms of security monitoring, the company failed to react in a timely manner to unusual patterns in the network traffic: it remained unaware of an increased network activity for a period of four months. The UODO saw it as falling short of the security level appropriate to the risk, considering the “state of the artâ€� security standards recommended — e.g., in ENISA’s guidelines on monitoring traffic to and from the IT system. The UODO concluded that, had the monitoring of Morele’s IT systems been appropriate to the risks, it should have detected the vulnerabilities of its one-factor access control, as well as the unusual network traffic.
The determination of the “state of the artâ€� in security of personal data processing is an ongoing technical, organizational and legal task for businesses subject to the GDPR. This decision may provide some support in identifying the required level of IT security. The references to security frameworks and guidelines indicate a general approach to a risk-based interpretation of the “appropriate technical and organisational measures,â€� and we may well see further references to information security guidelines made by DPAs in other jurisdictions. NIST Cybersecurity Framework and NIST Privacy Framework (once completed), as well as country specific documents, provide some possible examples of useful points of reference for organizations considering how to comply with the GDPR’s rules on confidentiality, integrity and security of personal data processing.
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Town Music: The Impermanence of Time
A Final Culmination of Joshua Roman’s Fermata Residency
Friday, December 11, 2020, 7:30PM
This season, Town Music explores how digital spaces can enhance our experience of art, rather than simply remind us of what we are missing. The series looks different this year, as do so many things. This performance marks the culmination of Town Music Artistic Director Joshua Roman’s Fermata residency, the first offering in this year’s Town Music series. It has been an experiment in what we can achieve when faced with circumstances that require radical adaptability. Throughout the past twelve weeks, Joshua has explored the process of creation and transformation for digital spaces, bringing us along on this journey of discovery. In this final feature presentation, he has curated a special evening of music featuring seven otherworldly and meditative performances.
From “Quartet for the End of Time” to pieces written this year in response to the pandemic, and stops in between, four local chamber musicians and Joshua himself consider the feeling of time being stretched or displaced, an occurrence that is all too familiar these days. Join us for an affecting evening of chamber music from phenomenal local musicians that will leave a lasting impact.
Noah Geller (violin), Mara Gearman (viola), Joshua Roman (cello), arx duo (Mari Yoshinaga and Garrett Arney – percussion)
Robert Honstein: Evergreen (commissioned for arx duo)
Fading Light (mvt I) [digital premiere]
TJ Cole: Ping-Pong Shooting Star from “Playtime” for string sextet
Joshua Roman: Two Entries from the Musical Journal (commissioned by the ProtoStar Group in response to the pandemic)
Un Amour Lointain
Untitled Entry [digital premiere]
Olivier Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time
Louange à l’immortalité de Jésus (mvt VIII)
Erik Satie: Gymnopédie no. 2
Ian Gottlieb: Forever, My Grace…
…is all the particles of dust, drifting on a desert wind (mvt V)
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UK and EU seal Brexit trade deal after settling fishing dispute
Britain and the EU have sealed a Christmas trade deal, securing a new economic and security partnership that both sides hope will finally end years of Brexit acrimony.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Ursula von der Leyen, European Commission president, agreed the deal after nine months of negotiations, culminating in Christmas Eve haggling over fishing rights.
It will come into force on January 1, guaranteeing tariff-free trade on most goods and creating a platform for future co-operation on issues such as crime-fighting, energy and data sharing.
In a sign the deal might calm the bitter debate on Europe that has dominated British politics for decades, Nigel Farage, Brexit party leader, declared: “On the big stuff, the war is over.â€
Sterling traded near its highs of the year against the dollar on Thursday as expectations grew of a deal announcement. The currency rose 0.5 per cent in early London trading to $1.3559.
Although it will not come close to replicating Britain’s existing trade relationship with the EU — the UK is leaving the customs union and single market — the deal is likely to be welcomed by business groups.
The deal means the two sides have negotiated an amicable divorce, which should help to alleviate potential chaos at the border on January 1, when trade will become subject to customs declarations and checks.
It is the biggest trade agreement the UK is likely to strike: in 2019 Britain sold £294bn of goods and services to the EU — 43 per cent of the country’s total exports. More than half of UK imports, worth £374bn, came from the 27-country bloc.
However, the deal does little for services and Pascal Lamy, former head of the World Trade Organization, noted this was the first trade negotiation in history that started with free trade and focused on erecting barriers.
The deal was sealed after all-night talks on the allocation of post-Brexit fishing rights in UK waters which dragged into Thursday afternoon. Mr Johnson and Ms von der Leyen held four “very frank†negotiating sessions on Wednesday, officials said.
Another final sticking point was about cars: Mr Johnson sought a deal to help UK-based Nissan and Toyota factories develop electric cars with parts imported from Japan, which might have attracted heavy tariffs.
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Jennifer Aniston will be there for Friends fans—even when they least expect it. On Thursday, the Morning Show actress, 50, subbed in for Ellen DeGeneres to guest host her daytime talk show, which is filmed on the same Warner Bros. Studio lot in Burbank, California, where Aniston spent a decade shooting Friends.
In honor of the return to her old stomping grounds, Aniston decided to stop by the sitcom’s Central Perk set, which is still maintained for tours. It’s there that the recent SAG Award winner shocked unsuspecting superfans. “I know, it’s the cruelest thing in the world,” she said to a pair of fans, jolted by Aniston popping up from behind the coffee shop’s couch, shouting “espresso!”
“Are you really here, is this real?” asked another extremely starstruck tourist, to which Aniston joked, “I live here.” Along the way, Aniston had some fun giving a hard time to fans whose answer to “Who’s your favorite character?” wasn’t Rachel. “I’ll pretend I didn’t hear that,” she said to a group of Phoebe and Monica aligners.
As far as Aniston returning to the famous soundstage to film a reboot of Friends, the cast has teased that a reunion of sorts is in the works—but not something scripted that will see the stars reprising their roles. During an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in October, Aniston told the late-night host that “something is happening”—though she clarified at the time that “we don’t know what that something is.”
Marta Kauffman, co-creator of the beloved NBC comedy, spoke to reporters at the Producer Guild Awards earlier this month, shedding light on reunion possibilities. “If it was the right thing, if it were the six of them together reflecting, talking about their experiences and the episodes, then I’m totally behind it,” she said. Kauffman also said that if there is a reunion, they hope to have it on HBO Max—WarnerMedia’s upcoming streaming service, which will be home to all 10 seasons of Friends in May.
And though it’s been rumored that the show’s stars—Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt Le Blanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer—and the series’ creators, Kauffman and David Crane, have been in talks for a reunion project on HBO Max, Kauffman again said that nothing had been confirmed yet.
This story originally appeared on People.com by Benjamin VanHoose.
Honor of the return to her old stomping grounds, Aniston decided to stop by the sitcom’s Central Perk set, which is still maintained for tours. It’s there that the recent SAG Award winner shocked unsuspecting superfans. “I know, it’s the cruelest thing in the world,” she said to a pair of fans, jolted by Aniston popping up from behind the coffee shop’s couch, shouting “espresso!”
“Are you really here, is this real?” asked another extremely starstruck tourist, to which Aniston joked, “I live here.”
Along the way, Aniston had some fun giving a hard time to fans whose answer to “Who’s your favorite character?” wasn’t Rachel. “I’ll pretend I didn’t hear that,” she said to a group of Phoebe and Monica aligners.
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Fairy-Tale Elements in Silas Marner
The main fairy-tale element in Silas Marner is found in the story of Silas and Eppie. Remember the paragraph which launches the main plot:
‘In the early years of this century, such a linen weaver, named Silas Marner, worked at his vocation in a stone cottage that stood among the nutty hedgerows near the village of Raveloe, and not far from the edge of a deserted stone-pit’.
This opening has some of the essential features we expect in a fairy-tale: its compactness, its air of authority, its establishment of essential detail. The location of Marner’s cottage and the suggestion of timelessness are other appropriate details. The ending, too, is a typical fairy-tale one, reminiscent of hundreds of endings in children’s stories, where the good characters live happily ever after:
‘O father’, said Eppie, ‘what a pretty home ours is! I think nobody could be happier than we are’.
The details, the style and the tone of these passages convey the impression that we are in the world of fairy story where the good characters, having been tested, emerge to live happily ever after. Between the beginning and end of the novel, numerous passages take us far away from anything we might expect to find in a realistic novel, and into the magical world of the Brothers Grimm or Hans Christian Anderson:
‘Turning towards the hearth, where the two logs had fallen apart and sent forth only a red uncertain glimmer, he seated himself on his fireside chair and was stooping to push his logs together when, to his blurred vision, it seemed as if there were gold on the floor in front of the hearth. Gold! – his own gold – brought back to him as mysteriously as it had been taken away!’
Fairy-tale elements are scattered freely throughout the novel and gold is a dominant influence on the action, as it is in so many fairy-tales: other features worth mentioning are the themes of loss and discovery, of death and rebirth, restoration, regeneration and transformation. The mystery of Eppie’s identity is also relevant here, as are the many secrets long hidden but at last revealed. The extremes of good and evil represented by some of the characters should also be noted, as should the motif of stolen, buried and recovered treasure. Finally, it is significant that Eppie appears on New Year’s Eve. This accords with the ancient superstition that luck commonly turned with the New Year. For Silas, Eppie’s arrival fulfils the old prediction of ‘third time lucky’. Two previous entrants to his home brought ill-luck with them; now Eppie is to transform his life for the better.
However, we have to agree that if Silas Marner were simply a fairy-tale, it would scarcely have achieved its classic status. It is, of course, much more than that. While the fairy-tale elements are numerous, it is the solid grounding of the story in the actual and familiar sights, sounds and events of everyday life that makes the story so credible. Raveloe and its immediate environs are compellingly presented in realistic detail:
‘…… orchards looking lazy with neglected plenty; the large church in the wide churchyard; which men gazed at lovingly at their own doors in service time; the purple-faced farmers jogging along the lanes or turning in at the Rainbow; homesteads, where men supped heavily and slept in the light of the evening hearth and where women seemed to be laying up a stock of linen for the life to come’.
The atmosphere of Raveloe is presented to us in concrete detail. Its inhabitants impress themselves unforgettably on our consciousness with their diverse personalities and rich, distinctive speech. The most striking instances of this are found in the Rainbow Inn scenes (Chapter 6). Here the leading personalities of the district drink, argue and gossip:
‘The pipes began to be pulled in a silence which had an air of severity; the more important customers, who drank spirits and sat nearest the fire, staring at each other as if a bet were depending on the first man who winked; while the beer drinkers, chiefly men in fustian jackets and smock-frocks, kept their eyelids down and rubbed their hands across their mouths as if their draughts of beer were a funereal duty attended with embarrassing sadness’.
Realistic scenes like this one are common throughout the novel where very real characters speak very realistically against a realistic background. George Eliot pays great attention to the thought processes of her characters and constantly renders these with great fidelity. One very good example of this is the way in which she traces the pattern of reflection forming in Dunstan’s mind as he enters Marner’s cottage and finds nobody there:
‘If the weaver was dead, who had a right to his money? Who would know where the money was hidden? Who would know that anyone had come to take it away?’
Her realistic treatment of the way in which people’s thoughts can be influenced is also very well illustrated in the affair of the pedlar’s earrings:
‘On the spread of enquiry among the villagers, it was stated with gathering emphasis that the parson had wanted to know whether the pedlar wore earrings in his ears, and an impression was created that a great deal depended on the eliciting of this fact. Of course, everyone who heard the question, not having any distinct image of the pedlar as without earrings, immediately had an image of him as with earrings, larger or smaller, as the case might be, and the image was presently taken for a vivid recollection, so that the glazier’s wife, a well-intentioned woman, not given to lying, and whose home was the cleanest in the village, was ready to declare, as sure as she ever meant to take the sacrament, that she had seen big earrings, in the shape of the young moon, in the pedlar’s two ears’.
George Eliot once argued that ‘a man or woman who publishes writings, inevitably assumes the office of teacher or influencer of the public mind’. In Silas Marner she has a stark lesson for her audience: there is a strong implication in the novel that the lives of the poor have a lot more to recommend them than those of the rich and also that the attitude of the poor towards the important issues of living are often more valid than those of their social superiors. There are also many contrasts made in the novel between the ‘high’ and ‘low’ characters. Silas and Godfrey Cass are both deeply involved in Eppie’s fate, but, while Silas makes all the right decisions, Godfrey, who should know better, makes all the wrong ones.
Finally, in dealing with Eppie’s choice of a humble marriage rather than the life of a lady in the Cass household, George Eliot combines realism with one other classic fairy-tale motif. This time, however, the usual fairy-tale ending does not quite materialise. If Eppie is Cinderella, she does not achieve the same result as her fairy-tale counterpart, and the reason for this lies in her own conscious choice. Her rejection of ease and privilege in favour of life with Silas and her working-class husband makes explicit her refusal to play the role of Cinderella:
‘I shouldn’t know what to think on or to wish for with fine things about me, as I haven’t been used to. And it ‘ud be poor work for me to put on things, and ride in a gig, and sit in a place at church, as ‘ud make them as I’m fond of think me unfitting company for ‘em. What could I care for then? …. I like to working folk and their victuals and their ways’.
The ideal fairy-tale ending generally implies that happiness and material wealth are synonymous. However, here we have a young heroine, Eppie, who can declare with great feeling:
‘I’m promised to marry a working-man, as’ll live with father, and help me to take care of him’.
Her arrival in the story may have carried strong associations from the world of fairy-tales, but the life she has eventually chosen for herself is clearly to be based in the real, everyday world.
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The Universal Law of Sacred Purpose
THE SCALES OF JUSTICE: OF WORTH AND OF THE UNIVERSE, IN BALANCE
Universal Law is a creation of the Mother to align us with the Divine Mind, Heart and Will — how things work in the higher realms — the knowing of a higher level of ethics and lovingkindness.
The Universal Law of Sacred Purpose helps us to understand the essence of who we have chosen to be and our sacred mission in alignment with the expanded vibrations and increased frequency on Earth now.
Our sacred purpose is the core of Who We Are, our joy, not something to be limited.
https://secureservercdn.net/166.62.107.55/699.af8.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/1_law-of-purpose.mp3
Heavenly Blessings Radio Show ~ The Universal Law of Sacred Purpose with Sanat Kumara
Meditation begins at 13:49, Sanat Kumara at 30:40 minutes
We are witnessing a global movement, our hearts, minds and will slowly coming into Divine Right Alignment, and the discovery of collective sacred purpose.
Collective Ascension is the embracing of heart conscious ways of being, joyful, peaceful assistance for the Mother in the restoration of Her Plan of Love (1), the rebirth of societies on Earth in Divine Alignment.
In the teachings through Linda Dillon, channel for the Council of Love, we learn all energy that emerges from the heart of One has sacred purpose, expression and direction — that every atom, every subatomic particle — everything throughout the Universe has sacred purpose.
As we move into the higher realms of consciousness, we are coming to understand heart consciousness, heart knowing, Divine Sacred Purpose.
The Universal Law of Sacred Purpose helps us clarify our purpose, our expression in this lifetime, our alignment with the Love.
Align with sacred purpose and the feeling is of being in the Eternal flow,
in harmonious Divine Creation, in joy.
Often, along the way, we find obstacles to release, blockages that are not of love.
These obstacles, the false grids and our core issues, can be looked on as gifts, knowledge as to what is limiting us, so we may move into the flow of Divine Sacred Purpose.
Acknowledging and feeling our old emotions
is allowing ourselves to be healed, to be Loved, beloved.
Often we can feel — our ego can feel — afraid.
When we re-assure,
appreciate mental and
emotional bodies, our ego,
we begin to heal and to operate
in the higher vibrations and frequencies,
and the bringing of our ego into balance occurs,
allowing us to be the embodiment of our sacred purpose.
Feeling and letting go with forgiveness, compassion and gratitude our doubts, judgements, worries, addictions, limitations — understanding the false grids, entrenched old beliefs, and our core issues, mental emotional constructs not of love — helps move us into the flow of our Divine sacred purpose, the sheer energy of peace, Love, joy.
The Universal Law of Sacred Purpose helps us to discover the uniqueness of who we have chosen to be, our mission, our purpose, our plan within the Mother’s Divine Plan.
Our Planetary Logos and Keeper of Universal Law, Sanat Kumara (2) tells us that all energy that emerges from the heart of One, in whatever form, has sacred purpose, expression, direction connected to our completion and continuity.
He says the purpose of All existence is to Love, to be of joy, and find our way Home through the heart.
Home is understanding and knowing heart consciousness,
alignment with the Universal Laws, the Laws of Love,
and our Divine Sacred Mission and Purpose.
An Invocation for the Universal Law of Sacred Purpose
I invoke Sanat Kumara, our Planetary Logos, and Keeper of Universal Law
and the Universal Law of Sacred Purpose for clarity of my sacred mission and purpose,
Who I Am, my essence of peace, Love, joy, balance.
(1) The Mother’s Plan, Her Individual/Family Plan, Self is All:
To be our creator selves, assuming the mantle of our Divine Authority,
in charge of our life, thoughts, feelings, actions, behaviours, steps, environments,
in alignment with the Love, the Divine Mind, Heart and Will, in service,
sacred purpose and harmony with each other.
(2) Sanat Kumara is also known as Ahura Mazda to ancient Persians, as the Ancient of Days to ancient Hebrews, as Subramanya to ancient Hindus, and as Quetzlcoatl, the one who gave the Mayans their calendar.
Sanat Kumara is our Planetary Logos and Keeper of Universal Law.
“Transcript: Sanat Kumara Discusses the Sacred Law of Purpose, August 13, 2013, Part 1/2,” https://goldenageofgaia.com/2013/08/17/transcript-sanat-kumara-discusses-the-sacred-law-of-purpose-august-13-2013-part-12/
Much gratitude to Linda Dillon,
channel for the Council of Love
Greater Understanding of
The Universal Law of Sacred Purpose helps us to understand the essence of who we have chosen to be, our sacred mission in alignment with the expanded vibrations and increased frequency on Earth now.
Our sacred purpose is the core of Who We Are,
our joy, not something to be limited.
Discovery of sacred purpose can emerge from meditation. Hearing terms such as pathfinder, artist, healer or communicator is good indication of sacred purpose, Sanat Kumara (1) says through Linda Dillon, channel for the Council of Love.
We can ask for expansion of that knowing, details of what that looks like, the magnificence, wonder, beauty of what that is.
Our sacred purpose is something to contemplate, meditate on often, to gather more and more information about — that deep fundamental knowing — and is in our hearts, has been anchored within us for eons.
As a human collective we are learning to adhere to Higher Law, Original Law,
to the only Law that has meaning and that is Law of the Universe,
the framework of operations from Mother/Father One.
It is our way Home.
What is occurring on Earth at this time — the framework for Earth — is for each of us, but it is also for All.
Sanat Kumara, our Planetary Logos and Keeper of Universal Law, says it’s important we understand this and that he is here to explain, in specific detail, how things work.
It is his golden joy, his sacred purpose, to be able to do this, and he says in our hearts, minds and bodies we do know this, that we are very ready to hear and incorporate these understandings.
Sanat Kumara says human law was once a reflection of Love, Divine Justice, Fairness, Balance, of how to operate, but that went terribly awry.
As we are releasing the illusions of the old third dimension we are at the same time reaching that point of knowing where we can adhere to a higher, cleaner level of Love — ethics, integrity and behaviour.
SK says we are here to keep our behaviour Loving
but also to understand how to create.
The Universal Law of Purpose:
Everything throughout the Universe has purpose. Every atom and subatomic particle, everything has purpose. (This is something that has been forgotten.)
The Universal Law of Sacred Purpose includes, embraces, embodies self-determination and choice.
Within that, in alignment with the Mother’s Plan, there isn’t a lot of choice, but there are variations.
How this Law Works
The Law of Sacred Purpose is the same for the atoms that compose a table, a planet, the hair on our head or the lack thereof, our blood, skin, heart, mind, our entire being.
We are an integrated person, a human that has many of these fibres and particles coming together in Divine Purpose to serve us, to assist us in the fulfillment of Who We Are, what our promise is, what our heart’s desire is, what we choose to do.
On Venus, where Sanat Kumara is from, this learning has been incorporated for a very long time but in the beginning they, too, had the same questions and struggles.
SK says for us to leave the worry to him, and to simply allow this knowing to float within us, to be anchored deeply not only within our heart, but within our very bones.
Daily meditation, sitting still, is important for the integration of this understanding and knowing, the integration of these energies.
Alignment with Sacred Purpose
We create flow, alignment with sacred purpose, by letting go (forgiving our self) our core issues of sorrow, shame, anger, fear and the entrenched beliefs, the hatred, judgement, doubt, worry, anxiety, worry, limitation, control.
When things seem not to be working, we feel like we are not in the flow, we are at a ‘red light’ that is indication we need to look deeper within — to align with our heart consciousness, forgiveness, compassion, gratitude for self and others — not the old patterns of lack of self-worth, lack of self-love, “I’m not good enough” or other similar thoughts.
No need for high drama but to backtrack, regroup, until we are in the flow — ‘green light’ again — with our self, higher self, Universal Self, guides, forgiveness, compassion, gratitude.
Every thought, action, opinion that is not of peace, love and joy is not in alignment with Universal Law.
Universal Laws are birthed from Love.
Every Universal Law is Love.
Our forgiveness, compassion, gratitude — peace, Love, joy — for everyone we have met and meet on our journey is being in alignment with sacred purpose.
Understanding the joy, the gratitude for the knowing of our sacred purpose, is important.
We, in the knowing of our sacred purpose,
are the unfoldment of the Mother’s Plan for Gaia,
just as all of nature is harmonious creation, fulfillment.
We make it difficult for ourselves if we are not clear what our sacred purpose is.
Sanat Kumara welcomes us to sit in the sacred chamber of our heart with him and allow the knowing of our sacred purpose to come forth in alignment with the Universal Law of Sacred Purpose.
Our sacred purpose is unique to each of us and SK is here to answer our questions.
He says:
Rejoice in the knowing of — the gratitude for — our sacred purpose.
It is of Love, of joy, of One, and with this
we are creating a Universe of Love,
a multiverse of Love.
The sacred purpose of this planet, Gaia, was never density.
In the Mother’s Plan, Gaia was to be a planet of play for Her Angels.
Originally, the third dimension was for a physical experience that could be as short as thirty seconds or as long as three thousand years.
When we as humans assumed form, over millions of years, the density became enormous, but was this was not an error in the Mother’s Plan.
We, as humans, have been practicing creation, greed, control, lack, limitation, hatred, war, famine, for all of these things are creations.
Are they of love? No, and therefore, they cannot be sustained.
When we create something, when we collect the molecules and they are not in accordance, not only with our sacred purpose but with the Mother’s Purpose that She has assigned Her Grander Plan, if it is not in alignment, it will not be sustained.
We have come to Earth, into this density in our mastery, not only in this lifetime but many lifetimes. We did not simply begin to assume our mastery in the last hundred years. We have been working on this for a long while, and if not on Earth, then elsewhere.
We have come to dispel the density, so not to be caught in the quagmire, the mud of that density, not to lie down, and be sucked into a sinkhole.
We came to abolish the density, to assist the Mother and Gaia in the Restoration of Her Plan, and in the restoration of that Plan, is our plan.
This is a chapter of our existence — a very exciting chapter — a chapter that includes adventure and Ascension, creation, Return to One, but it is only a chapter.
We ask, “Why do we experience, feel so pulled down by the density?”
In answer:
Without experience, it is difficult to break it. This is why so many of us have experienced and experience the density.
Many humans are completely oblivious to the heaviness of the false grids, the paradigms and they do not seek freedom because they are not awake, because the density is like a cloak to embrace, to hold near and dear.
This does not make it real.
The rest of the Universe is waiting for Earth to complete her Ascension process — Gaia’s sacred purpose — so that they can also make their jump to their next level.
When the Mother said in Her Infinite Creation, “I would like a place for My Angels to play,” Gaia, who up until that time was in the form, the energy, the fullness of an archangel said:
“Mother I will do it. It would be fun for me. I will assume this physical reality form, I will not forget Who I Am but I will play at this for awhile, and I will have such diverse beauty, even more.”
So the Mother gave her, infused her with Her Idea, with the energies to bring forth this planet of ultimate beauty, but it was never part of the Plan that Gaia would simply be Eternal, that she would always be in this form, or that the humans would be here indefinitely, forever.
It was intended to be evolution, soul evolution, and as the density upon the planet became heavier, the adjustments to the Mother’s Plan and the intensity of Her Energy to Gaia, to Earth, to humanity to ascend — to come back full circle to where they were intended to be — grew.
Ascension,
our journey,
is for us to continue on,
for us to be able to experience
the freedom of form, different realities, dimensions.
When this is anchored, the pattern, the re-patterning, the grid, the model of Love is set, then other planets in this Universe with similar struggles can take the energetic imprint of Gaia, of humanity, so they, too, may rise back to the place of Love, back to a place of greater consciousness.
Sanat Kumara Tells Us
“Love is a form of consciousness.
“It is complete consciousness, and do not confuse consciousness and heart consciousness and Love consciousness with intelligence.
“There are planets that are phenomenally advanced and highly intelligent, but they have not perfected the anchoring of that grid of Love.
“That is the sacred purpose of Gaia and all upon her.
“It is the beauty of Love, and yes, they (the other planets) are waiting in the wings.”
Ascension work is not for any of us to live in sorrow, but to acknowledge our heart sorrow, then to allow it to go, to be healed.
The atrocities to Gaia, war, famine, the meanness, the cruelty to each other, we cannot witness, be in our hearts, and not feel grief and sorrow.
The key is to let that go — to forgive our selves and everyone — to raise ourselves into the Love, to acknowledge not in fault, blame, guilt but also not to be foolhardy and say, “Well I will just pretend that didn’t exist or that didn’t happen.”
Acknowledging our grief
helps with our understanding and
contributes to the collective will to shift,
to not be in that place of destruction.
The core of Who We Are, our original idea, our sacred purpose in its multitude of definitions, is the Essence of Who We Have Chosen To Be.
Even if we are a ball of sheer energy,
our Essence is phenomenally beautiful, but also defined.
It is our uniqueness.
Some of us will decide to stay for hundreds, for thousands of years to see the rebirth of Gaia, the cities of light, to see Love blooming in every form.
But some of us who will say,
“No, I am leaving. I am going to be that ball of energy and I am going to spiral throughout deep space waving to the Mother, knowing that it’s not quite yet time to go Home, and I’m going to assume another form. Maybe I’m going to be Andromedan, maybe I’m going to be a comet, maybe I’m going to be a planet. Maybe I’m going to be a dolphin on Sirius, or a whale.”
The option for renegotiation, without leaving our form in terms of dying, is right here.
Shapeshifting and doing whatever feels good in the moment was part of the joy of original form, angelic or otherwise, that we could pop into Earth try on a human form, male, female infant, adult, elder, even a full mountain range, a drop of water in the ocean, or the entire ocean.
These options, the ability to pop in and out, jump in and out, and try on these forms the same way children play dress-up, that was the intent.
To be human, and to be on Earth, means that we have the availability within the realm of human experience of twelve dimensions, including the third.
During this time of illusion and during this time of change many have divorced themselves from the third dimension and said, “I never want to go there again” but of course they are referring to the false third, to the false illusions that grew up in the third dimension.
The third dimension, as it is being cleaned up, is where we can experience, not only free choice, but physicality, and in physicality have the experience of all the various dimensions.
This is not unique to our situation and it is exactly what has been experienced in the past.
When we say, “I don’t want to be in the old third. I know that it is fading, that it is not real, oh and by the way, I go to work there because that is where the work is, but I hate it.”
That is why Archangel Michael has been so clear with all of us that part of our Ascension process is making peace, not only with the old third, but also coming to embrace what we would call, and refer to, as the New cleaned-up third.
When we close our eyes, and we think of beauty, are there fairies resting on the flower petals, those wonderful sparks of light flying free?
Do we see, feel, smell the pine forests and the dampness of Earth near the creek, the richness of the soil in spring, the sweetness of a baby’s giggle, of their first steps and first words?
These are of the third dimension, joys not to be eradicated,
gifts directly from the Heart of the Mother.
We are systems busters, breaking the systems and the illusions of the old third, but not eliminating the experience of the beauty of Gaia which is a clean third dimensional experience.
From that place in body we have a physical experience, able to embrace the magic, the alchemy of the fourth, the beauty, the creativity of the eighth, the mastery of the eleventh.
Is it a lot to incorporate? Yes, but we are to have fun, and when we start applying the Laws, we see there are no limitations.
The key here is, as we go forward,
as we doubt ourselves saying, “I am not in my mastery yet”
SK says, “Yes you are. Accept it and the key is Loving your self.”
The Plan — not simply our individual sacred plan that we be in alignment with Divinity and with our Divinity — is what Ascension is.
The Collective Purpose of Humanity, of Ascension
It is moving into heart consciousness, the restoration of Love.
It is the alignment with sacred purpose.
It is how we began, the alignment of our heart, mind, will, with the Heart and Mind and Will of Mother/Father One.
Universal Law is Not Complex
It is about alignment; it is how to never be dismissive of people, but to be dismissive of false ideas.
We can surrender, allowing alignment to emerge, not only from our subconscious and unconscious, but into our conscious.
We are receiving messages, insights, direction, guidance all the time, and every now and then, a very strong nudge.
Surrender is the Complete Opening of Our Heart
Very often the human beings, and particularly because the reference has been used in terms of war or conflict, surrender tends to be linked with defeat, when in fact, surrender is victory.
Who or what are we surrendering to?
We are surrendering to our beloved sacred self, to our unique Divine Sacred Purpose.
A visual is lying on the floor or on our bed, arms and legs akimbo, saying, “I give up. I surrender.”
We have all, everyone of us, had moments where we have felt this way, that feeling of defeat, “I can’t go on anymore.”
A Way to Surrender
Surrender the way we would do in an incredible Love relationship, the kind we either have or that we dream of.
Lie down and say, “I surrender. I will hear. I will allow.”
Let the voices come and the understandings speaking to our heart.
The Ego
The key to not getting stuck in ego is simply to Love it.
Love it, and then Love it some more. We are not out to destroy ego. We are here to assist in the bringing of ego into balance.
Ego is a delightful part of the personality that tends to need, especially during transition, a tremendous amount of reassurance.
By reassuring the ego, our mental and emotional body that they are not being shut down, we can operate in the higher vibration of clarity.
Our sacred purpose is unique to each of us, part of the grand mosaic of the Mother’s Plan.
Rejoicing in the knowing of, in gratitude for,
our Divine Sacred Purpose, we are here to create
a Universe of Love, a multiverse of Love.
To Finish, Sanat Kumara Has This to Say
“All energy that emerges from the Heart of One,
in whatever form, has sacred purpose, expression,
direction that is connected to your completion and continuity.
“The Sacred Purpose Law is the understanding in the Universal sense
that the purpose of all existence is to Love, to be of joy,
and find your way back Home.
“But in that and within that — so there are many clauses to this Law — is,
What is your sacred purpose? How does your purpose, your expression
in this lifetime as a fragment of your broader journey,
align with the Law of Love?”
Invocation for the Law of Sacred Purpose
I invoke Sanat Kumara and the Law of Sacred Purpose
for activation and clarity, with my self in alignment with All,
in the embodiment of Love, of Divinity, of creation,
of Ascension in physicality on Gaia,
inter-dimensionally Now.
(1) “Heavenly Blessings: The Universal Law of Sacred Purpose with Sanat Kumara, Part 1/2,” August 13, 2013, https://goldenageofgaia.com/2013/08/13/heavenly-blessings-the-universal-law-of-sacred-purpose-with-sanat-kumara-part-1-2/
“Heavenly Blessings: The Universal Law of Sacred Purpose, Part 2/2,” August 13, 2013, https://goldenageofgaia.com/2013/08/13/heavenly-blessings-the-universal-law-of-sacred-purpose-with-sanat-kumara-part-2-2/
in alignment with the Love, the Divine Mind, Heart and Will,
in service, sacred purpose, harmony with each other.
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Category: Student Essays
Soo Bahk Do in a Teenager's Life
April 1, 2012 by briancorrales, posted in Student Essays
Last summer when I started Soo Bahk Do. I was a wimpy slouched over kid. I was just coming off a school year were I had to switch schools twice do too kids picking on me. I was really shy and did not have a lot of confidence in my self. My Mom wanted me to do a Martial Art. After hearing about Wasatch Martial Arts I decided to start. Now I am testing for green belt and I cant help but look back and see how amazing it has been and what I have taken away from the class.
I have noticed when walking down the hallways how my posture has changed. I used to hunch over and stroll down the hallways and I looked like and easy target. When starting Soo Bahk Do I was pushed to have a better posture. Now I notice when I walk down the halls of West High I no longer slouch. I feel like this proud young man.
I have also learned how to defend my self. In 8th and 9th grade I was constantly picked on. Kids would make fun of my voice, push me over, and punch me and many other things. I am glad to say that at West that has not happened but if it were I would know how to defend my self. If someone where to punch me out of the blue it makes me happy that I would know what to do.
Soo Bahk Do has also made me think more about philosophy. How there are the heavens, the earth, the fire and water. And how those are all incorporated. How strength does not come from ones arm but from the waste. I just think that is fascinating.
While reading over my paper it hit my what Soo Bahk do is to me. It is not a sport, activities or a hobby. To me Su Bahk Do is a way of life. The impacts that it has on all aspects of my life. Training in Su Bahk Do has so many more implications than maybe just playing basketball. That what makes Soo Bahk Do so special and how it makes me proud to be a person who trains in Soo Bahk Do.
— Written by Jack Schweibert, 6th Gup Soo Bahk Do
Grace – Cho Dan Essay
February 4, 2012 by briancorrales, posted in Student Essays
What Soo Bahk Do Means To Me
Grace - Cho Dan
Soo Bahk Do means a lot to me. Soo Bahk Do has helped me become a stronger person both mentally and physically. Soo Bahk Do has helped me mentally because, I have to do things in Soo Bahk Do that I wouldn’t normally think I can do but when I try I am able to do it. If I didn’t have my mind telling me that I can’t do something I wouldn’t be troubled by the voice in my head saying “stop that’s wood” for me I just need to get over the voice that says that. Although I need to work on that still Soo Bahk has helped me a lot with that. Soo Bahk Do has helped me physically because I have gotten so much stronger and more flexible. My whole body has definitely gotten stronger, I am able to do pushups and situps more easily. When I am stronger I feel better about myself and I feel as if the better I feel about myself the more confident I am about myself the better I do while training Soo Bahk Do. My flexibility has also increased and although I am not the most flexible person I will continue to work on it. Soo Bahk Do has become part of my life, in fact it has become a lifestyle. I used to just go to class and only think about it right before and right after class but now I often think about how what I’m doing will help me during Soo Bahk Do. I think I have kept on training Soo Bahk Do for all these years because I really love it! I started Soo Bahk Do when I was five in Sun Valley, Idaho with Master Whitcomb when I moved back from Sun Valley to Salt Lake City I was disappointed that I could not do Soo Bahk Do any more. When I was in third grade Master Corrales decided to open his own school in Salt Lake City when I heard that I was very excited. Even though sometimes I feel as if it is too hard I know that it is making me stronger and that stronger is better. Soo Bahk Do has also helped me in life out of Soo Bahk Do because I have missed a lot of soccer for Soo Bahk Do and even though I am missing soccer I have gotten in shape for soccer while I am training Soo Bahk Do. When I go to soccer we have to do sit-ups if we mess up and I find that they are a lot easier to do after training Soo Bahk Do because we do sit-ups in Soo Bahk Do. Soo Bahk Do has also helped me a lot in my school life. It has helped me be more disciplined with my homework and school work. I have learned how to be able to work really hard at something even though it is hard or I do not want to do it. This is a great lesson for me because it would be only too easy to give up a lot of things just because I am struggling with them, instead if I stick with things I will get good at them and then they become more fun. Through my Soo Bahk experience I have met Master Corrales, Mr. Snarr and Mr. Rios. They all have helped me to progress and become the martial artist that I am. Master Corrales is definitely one of the reasons I have continued to train Soo Bahk Do. He has helped me a lot. He has told me that he will only let me test for my Dan if I am ready. He said I am ready to test and I believe him. He has helped me especially to understand that I am going to need a balance in my schedule because I have so much going on. He told me, “You can’t run too fast for too long eventually you have to slow down.” Master Corrales has also helped me to understand that there is so much more to Soo Bahk Do than just going to class and training because you have to have a balanced diet also. Having to have a balanced diet for Soo Bahk Do is an excuse to have a balanced diet in life and that is really good for me. Sa Bom Nim Corrales told our class that our plate of food should always be colorful and that if it is naturally colorful it is most likely a very healthy meal. Mr. Snarr is a very exciting person that is very fun to train with because he makes sure that I know that he is there to help me achieve my Dan. Mr. Snarr has helped me because he has helped me to understand that breaking is just breaking a big piece of paper. He. Mr. Rios has helped set an example of what I need to look like because he truly is a Dan. I have found that when I train Soo Bahk Do if I was tired or not feeling well before I often feel better after I train. Soo Bahk Do is a sort of healing method for me. I think Soo Bahk Do is a very good thing for me to do when I don’t feel so good because it is a natural way to feel better. For me I am always very proud when people say they do karate or something and I can say that I do Soo Bahk Do because Soo Bahk Do is special and it is not just about fighting there is an art to it and it is as if it is almost a dance. I feel like sometimes you are peaceful while training Soo Bahk Do and sometimes you are not. Training can help me deal with my problems. I like the balance of the two because training one way can help me deal with one problem I might have and training the other way can help me deal with another problem. Overall, Soo Bahk Do has become one of the things that I hope to continue because I hope that if I continue training I will continue to become a better and stronger person. Soo Bahk!
What Soo Bahk Do Means to Mia
January 20, 2012 by briancorrales, posted in Student Essays
By MiaBella Brickey
Age 12, Cho Dan
Mia's first time wearing her dobok as a Cho Dan.
Ms. MiaBella Brickey is our senior Cho Dan with a unique story. She is an inspiration to many in our community and a joy in the dojang. Below is her essay she wrote during her Cho Dan test:
What Soo Bahk Do means to me is strength (I have become much stronger), balance (I have learned how to be ‘heavy’ or ‘light’), safety (I have learned how to protect myself), being prepared (I have learned to be one step ahead of my opponent), and making good decisions (I have learned how to do the right thing). I started Soo Bahk Do in third grade. What it meant to me then is very much different from what is means to me today. Back then, Soo Bahk was a class for me to go to every week and it was something I liked doing with my friends. I had fun pairing up with my friends and working on my ‘one-steps’. I thought it was something I was just going to try, I didn’t know that I would keep training. I didn’t think that I was good enough to become a red belt. I grew to love and understand the art, but really I did not realize the deeper meaning of Soo Bahk Do until I was a green belt. As I became stronger and as my understanding of the art grew, I found myself loving it more and more. I started to realize that I could become a black belt and I began to feel more confidence in my abilities. I began to believe that I was actually good at it!
My class and I ended up with the opportunity to go to California where I competed in a sparring competition. I hadn’t done a lot of sparring and in my final bout I was paired with a boy who was older and bigger than I was. I was scared and nervous, but did my best. Although I did not win, I did win third place! I was so proud of myself! Soo Bahk Do has helped shape me to become the person I am today. Master Corrales has helped me to understand and embrace the concept of “peaceful confidence”, and has helped me with my flexibility and my overall fitness. I have become stronger by being disciplined with my forms and my stances and in becoming healthier by respecting my body and eating correctly every day. What I mean is, I have been eating healthy food not junk food. That is why you don’t want to do drugs and drink to much alcohol because what you eat or drink plays a big role in your life! You have to understand that everybody has their bad days and everybody has had the thought of not wanting to go to class or even wanting to quit. I’ve had those days, but I have never thought about quitting. Soo Bahk Do is too important to me. Every time I would think about that, I would say to myself, “Are you really just going to give up like that?” or “Is that really the best sidekick I can do?” Knowing that I am almost a black belt, I think that giving up now would be the worst decision I’ve ever made. I’m so close and I’ve worked so hard to get this far that I can’t even imagine quitting. That’s not the kind of person I am. For example, there used to be six of us that were testing in April and I remember Master Gibbons calling us the six pack… Now there’s only four of us, and were all extremely excited to accomplish something that we’ve all been working on for so long. My friends that are testing with me are awesome when it comes to supporting you, they help me when I need it, they give me advice when I ask for it. Soo Bahk Do is something I look forward to every week and I enjoy it a lot. Master Brian Corrales has inspired me for so long, and Mr. Snarr has taught me to be confident in myself. Mr. Rios is what I want to look like when I’m an E-Dan and I will always look up to him. He is always working hard and giving class a lot of effort. He is usually the one that is sweating the most after class. And he stinks. 🙂 Mr. Snarr always shows incredible discipline and is a huge mentor. He is always encouraging me with my breaks and helps me polish my technique. Master Corrales is the master of discipline. He expects and encourages 110% from me every day. Master Corrales is also a great mentor. Master Corrales has helped me to believe that a person’s physical size is not as important as ones mental strength and determination. He has taught me that through hard work and discipline that I can become anything I want to be. Soo Bahk Do has also helped me with my schoolwork. For example, I used to hate taking tests. I would get so worked up over them and because of the pressure; I would not do very well. Soo Bahk Do has taught me that if I try hard enough and set my mind to it, I can do it, and I can succeed.
Soo Bahk Do is like another world for me. I can go to class and just forget about my day, or my problems. I become one with the art. I think that some day Soo Bahk Do will not only change my life but it will help me to change the lives of other people, too.
I think that every body should try to do Soo Bahk Do. I think it will change a lot of people’s minds about Martial Arts. A lot of people think its just kicks and punches and fighting. But really it’s not! It is so much more. It is a way of life. It is a way of being successful and a way of being healthy throughout life. Soo Bahk Do is one of the best decisions I ever made. Master Corrales told me, “You can’t run too fast for too long.” He told me that because I have a busy schedule. I know that sooner or later I will not be continuing with one of my sports, but I hope I can continue Soo Bahk for a very long time. I am very lucky to be able to train Soo Bahk Do and I’m very lucky that I have such a great instructor.
That is what Soo Bahk Do means to me.
A Student's Perspective of Soo Bahk Do Philosophy
March 23, 2011 by briancorrales, posted in Student Essays
Dear Corrales Sa Bom Nim,
The three key concepts I will specify are 1)CHUNG JIK; Honesty 2)SHIN CHOOK; Tension Relaxation and 3)CHUNG SHIN TONG IL; Concentration. These three concepts are my favorites at this time in my MOO DO training because I feel it impossible to assess my past, presence, and future performance without being honest with myself and others. As I face a SHIM SA I must concentrate on the skills necessary for advancement and balance that concentration with the wisdom of the SIP SAM SEH; ‘Bent and stretched, open and closed, Let nature take its course…Skill will take care of itself.’ The natural and essential movement of my lungs teaches me of the continual concept of SHIN CHOOK.
The benefits of the eight key concepts are the high definition and unity they bring as a SOO BAHK DO practitioner incorporates them into his art. They are the keys to WEH GONG, NEH GONG, and SHIM GONG. One of the key concepts-HIM CHO CHUNG; Control of power directly expresses this benefit. Without YONG GI; Courage, IN NEH; Endurance, and KYUM SON; Humility-the combat is over before it begins. In order to fight in justice and rightness we must fight as God gives us the light to see right, then our action philosophy takes over and we preserve life and freedom with the appreciate movement, applying the key concept of WAN GUP; Speed Control.
1975 seems like a pivotal time in the history of SOO BAHK DO MOO DUK KWAN in the United States and around the world, as our style and school reached a more perfect unity and standard. While Kwang Ja Nim Hwang Kee studied ancient texts and different martial art styles, the Federation and Dan pedigrees ensured a tradition with a heritage and a future.
The five MOO DO values are driven for me by KI SOOL; Technique- because of the detail and precision of movement which pushes my mind to remember the history; YEOK SA, appreciate the Tradition; JON TONG, and live by the Philosophy; CHUL HAK, as I work and learn in the DO JANG, where I balance Discipline/Respect; NEH KHANG WEH YU, and develop etiquette with others.
The Ten Articles of Faith on Mental Training are harmonized in the three flags we salute before any training. I am an American and saluting this flag reminds me of my loyalty to my country, obedience to my parents, and love for my wife, all who are Americans and many who were American soldiers. Saluting the Republic of Korea flag reminds me to cooperate with my brothers, respect my elders, be a faithful student and teacher, and be faithful with friends. And lastly, saluting our flag reminds me to face combat in justice and honor, never retreating, and finishing what I start.
James R. Jefferies
Your student
Courage by Eoghan
June 17, 2010 by briancorrales, posted in Student Essays
The following essay was written by Eoghan Knibbe (10 years old) for his red belt test:
Courage is something that everyone needs to grow and progress. Without courage, we cannot earn the rank of our age. A forty year old might have the progression of an infant if he has no courage. We need courage to break through the mental barriers leading to maturation. Some barriers may be thicker than others, but we can get through them all if we have enough courage to break them down. Soo Bahk Do is a great trainer of courage. It teaches you not to be afraid to surge forward in life.
It teaches us how to build up strength to go uphill instead of downhill. A board may not be exactly the same as a mental barrier, but they definitely complement each other. It takes the same courage to do a class presentation, that it does to get up and break a board. This is how I add the courage aspect into my daily life.
Yong Gi
May 6, 2009 by briancorrales, posted in Student Essays
By: Libby Hunt
Yong Gi is the Korean way of saying courage. Yong Gi means a lot. It means standing up for yourself and your friends, not running away from your fears, holding that pose until your arms and legs sting with pain. That is Yong Gi!
I try to show Yong Gi in Soo Bahk Do. It’s harder than you think it is! When we are just standing, I try not to fidget, I try to focus. When we have to hold a pose, I try not to let my arms drop and I try to look straight ahead. I also have a fear of breaking boards. I think that I will hurt my foot or I won’t break it. That is a fear I have to face to be a 3rd gup.
I have used Yong Gi all my life. I had to tell my friend to include me. I had to go up in front of the whole school and do a form for Putting on the Arts. I had to go up in front of my whole acting class and sing a song. But, after I did all these scary things, I realized they are fun. My friend now includes me and I have more fun.
I think Yong Gi is important because if you never face your fears you’ll never learn how to get past them. It’s important to get past your fears because you need to have fun in life. I try to use Yong Gi a lot at Soo Bahk Do and at home. I will try.
HAVE YONG GI!
Moo Do By Jacob Jefferies (4th Gup)
April 15, 2009 by briancorrales, posted in Student Essays
There are many parts of moo do that we’ve learned about in Soo Bahk Do training such as courage (yong gi), concentration (chung shin tong il), endurance (in neh), honesty (chung jik), and humility (kyum son).
First, I am focusing on concentration (chung shin tong il). I have been concentrating on having better stances in class and on learning new forms. Concentrating also helps me be more prepared and when I’m prepared, people look up to me. My teachers reward me for my hard work. When I concentrate I don’t have to do extra work. When I concentrate in piano I can play better. When I concentrate when I’m shooting baskets I can get more points. When I concentrate when making scrambled eggs they don’t get burnt. When I concentrate on carving, my fingers don’t get cut. When I’m concentrating on breaking boards, I don’t get bruises and I can break the boards. When concentrating, you get lots of confidence.
Honesty (chung jik) is another part of Soo Bahk Do that I try to always do. Even though if you do something wrong you may get punished, you can learn with the mistake you made. You can be rewarded by being honest. If you don’t tell the truth the first time, the problem grows and you get into a bigger heap of trouble. If you tell the truth the first time, you don’t have to get in all this trouble. Sometimes, I don’t practice piano like I should, but when my mom asks me about it, I tell the truth. My mom isn’t disappointed in me when I’m honest. People can trust you when you’re honest. One time at school, I was playing freeze tag with some friends. I wasn’t honest about being frozen and they figured it out and I had to be “it”. From this, I learned a lesson.
Finally, I want to talk about courage (yong gi). I showed courage in church by bearing my testimony in sacrament meeting this month. There were a lot of people there, maybe 350 people. I was happy to share my testimony even though it was a big group and I had to walk up to the stand by myself. Other kids followed my example.
I think I should advance to 3rd Gup (red belt). I want to finish what I started. I feel motivated to go to my destination. Soo Bahk Do makes me feel better by letting me focus and know something about self-defense. I feel good about Soo Bahk Do and that I should keep trying. When I do this – when I finish, I go on to the next thing, the next level and try harder. This is why I think I should be a red belt.
How I have reflected the Moo Do Philosophy in my life – Joshua Jefferies (4th Gup)
In my life I have reflected Moo Do in many ways. I have always done this, but even more so after joining Soo Bahk Do Moo Do Kwan. These are some ways of showing Moo Do in my life.
Showing respect to others is very important in Soo Bak and in life. I try to show respect to my parents, teachers, and peers whenever possible. I do this by obeying my elders and following what they tell me to do. A recent way I have showed this was last Friday when a guest came to stay at our house over the weekend. I was home alone and although I did not want to help clean and prepare for this person, I did want them to be in a clean environment. It was a last minute job that I probably could have avoided but I did not complain, did my jobs well, and I even asked if there was anything else I could do to help. By doing this, my mom and I were able to finish the jobs we needed to do.
I am loyal to my friends and other peers by helping them and listening to what they have to say. I am trying to improve on this right now. As Assistant Senior Patrol Leader in my scout troop, our Senior Patrol Leader and I have been trying to encourage another scout to come more often. We are now planning a campout directed towards him to encourage him in scouting. We hope this will get him more involved so we can be better friends.
By following Moo Do I learn and grow in many ways. I have learned Yong Gi (courage), Chung Shin Tong Il (concentration), In Neh (Endurance), Chun Jik (honesty), and other values. I practice these every day, but I worked on honesty just last night, as I was looking for a book I accidently saw our web protection password. I knew that for my safety that this was not something that I should know. I told my parents about how I had seen the password on accident and she changed the password, this experience helped me be more honest, and helped me to be safe.
I also have really been working on my humility and on finishing what I have started. I recently showed this in my schoolwork. About three weeks ago although I did not want to admit that I was failing my History and Math classes and was almost in denial. But I humbled myself to the advice of my parents and teachers and worked hard. I did not want to fail those classes so I voluntarily stayed after school, redid my assignments, and did extra credit work. The term ended this past Friday and I passed both classes with B’s.
Because of Moo Do I have been able to learn many special things about Soo Bahk and other things in life. These values and concepts have helped prepare me for my rank advancement and I think I am ready both mentally and physically for this test. I am ready to take on the responsibility of a red belt and realize that I am someone else’s pier and someone else’s elder and truly believe that I can help others the way I have been helped .This understanding has and will also help me go further in Soo Bahk Do and other fields of life.
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Hito Steyerl: Medya and Kassem Mosse: Combat Zones That See
WED, Apr 6, 2016
Floor Three, Susan and John Hess Family Theater
In this lecture-performance, Hito Steyerl lays out fragments of texts, ideas, and images to consider contemporary visual blindness and contemporary war. She cites Harun Farocki’s idea, developed in his film Eye-Machine (2002), of suicide cameras, devices that are fitted into missiles, home in on the target, collide with it and continue to broadcast images after the explosion. In Steyerl’s eyes, these cameras have mushroomed across the millions of lenses installed in mobile phones, zombie cameras, multiplied and incorporated into the owners’ movements and emotions.
As a counterpoint to Steyerl’s meditation, a sound environment by artist Kassem Mosse collages real, transmitted, and fictional sounds with music. The choice of material avoids the sensational and the sounds of industrialized combat in favor of consumer technologies in war time: the soft crackle of fire, the sound of money transfers, the low whirring of hard drives filled with video footage, the tweet from a cellphone on the front lines, the rustle of plastic blowing in the wind, rubber soles stepping on ashes, the soft noise of camera lenses zooming in on distant shapes and figures, and the digital artifacts of skype conversations.
This event is part of a series of public events, lectures, and talks organized in tandem with Laura Poitras: Astro Noise.
Event tickets are required ($10 adults; $8 members; students and seniors). Please note: This event has reached ticketing capacity. A limited number of standby tickets may be available at the admissions desk on a first-come, first-served basis. The standby line will open one hour prior to the program's start time.
The Susan and John Hess Family Theater is equipped with an induction loop and infrared assistive listening system. Accessible seating is available.
Learn more about access services and amenities.
Illustration from Hito Steyerl, "Medya: Autonomy of Images," 2016, Astro Noise: A Survival Guide.
Laura Poitras: Astro Noise
Feb 5–May 1, 2016
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Rishabhayan (The Story of the First King)
by Acharya Mahapragya
The story ofTirthankara Rishabha has travelled across generations of Jains. Acharya Mahapragya, the tenth Acharya of the Jain Swetambar Terapanth, presents it to us in a composition of 2000 verses. Tracing the evolution of human civilization as it grew from a society based on need to one attached to material possessions, the epic depicts the search for truth and the role of renunciation and sacrifice.
As the first king, Rishabha does his primary duty of ensuring the well-being of his subjects. But one spring morning, a small thought about the withering of flowers triggers deep reflection in him: Is there more to life than reigning over a kingdom? To discover the meaning of life, he renounces his kingdom and wanders up to the Himalayas, thus introducing the idea of monkhood to the world. With enlightenment comes the realization that all living beings have a soul that is indestructible and permanent and that true happiness lies in freedom from all attachment. Thus evolve the pillars of Jainism based on introspection and non-violence.
Capturing the subtle dilemmas of the human soul caught in the mesh of existence, this translation by eminent translator Sudhamahi Regunathan offers the classic in a contemporary idiom, something to read aloud and savour for both the general reader and the scholar alike.
Acharya Mahapragya was the tenth Acharya of the Jain Swetambar Terapanth sect and one of the most widely respected Jain thinkers in the world. He received his education under the guidance of Acharya Shree Tulsi, who launched the Anuvrat movement in 1949 to rid the world of violence and hatred and to free religion from sectarianism. A multidimensional personality and a renowned scholar of Indian and Western philosophy and religion, Acharya Mahapragya walked more than 100,000 km on foot over his lifetime and visited 10,000 villages to spread the message of non-violence. He recently passed away at the age of eighty-nine. He is the author of numerous books, including Understanding Joy and Sorrow, Transform Your Self, The Happy and Harmonious Family, and The Family and the Nation with A .P. J. Abdul Kalam.
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With Monsoons of Data, Healthcare's Salvation Just May Be Blockchain
Jill Richmond
For almost a decade, hospitals have been waiting for Electronic Health Records to usher in a bright and shiny new era of standardization and high-quality health care. But while federal laws and incentive programs have made health care data more accessible, the vast majority of hospital systems still can't easily (or safely) share their data. As a result, doctors are spending more time typing than actually talking to patients. It's literally burning them out. Physician burnouts jumped from 45 to 54 percent between 2011 and 2014, according to a Mayo Clinic study. What is the number one thing those doctors would change? Streamlining the EHR process.
Beyond this, closed book-keeping and medical record repositories prevent effective interoperability and collaboration between different healthcare providers. This unfortunate setback is mission-critical for people who might be sick when traveling, for instance, or relocate and simply cannot retrieve basic medical records. �
Getting the "it" right in what needs to change is about building patient-centric models in healthcare that can transform lives and unify disparate stories which enable a longitudinal health journal. �And the most popular strategy circulating among healthcare technologists is blockchain.
For a quick refresher, blockchain is the distributed accounting platform that makes cryptocurrencies like bitcoin possible. While blockchain is best known for powering bitcoin, it's really a generic tool to keep secure data in a distributed, cryptographically secure ledger-and control who has access to that ledger. Rather than having one central administrator that acts as a gatekeeper to data-a list of digital transactions-there's one shared ledger, but it's spread across a network of synchronized, replicated databases visible to anyone with access, which gives it unprecedented security benefits. Hacking one block in the chain is impossible without simultaneously hacking every other block in the chain's chronology. This makes blockchain incredibly appealing to the doctors and hospitals that need secure access to a patient's entire health history.
In essence, something that was built and designed to control structures of finance is now solving the larger problems in the world. Consider that 20 percent of �the total US health expenditure is pure economic waste. So a technology that was principally built for finance can now solve some of the most prescient issues of our time. �With some of the most interesting rainmakers in healthcare below.
Blockchain's primary strengths, particularly in the healthcare sector, are grounded in its security and how it makes HIPAA compliance feasible for patients and providers. From ensuring the confidentiality of patients' electronic health information to identifying security threats and protecting against disclosures and pure reconciliation.
Patientory's use of blockchain technology helps affiliated healthcare organizations achieve zero data breaches. It achieves HIPAA Security Rules by maintaining a security compliance team, protecting relevant electronic systems and using encryption to control data access.
The company aims to deliver population-health management solutions that assist healthcare organizations in boosting clinical outcomes through physician-coordinated care. A patient-centered protocol supported by blockchain technology, Patientory is changing the way patients manage their health histories and interact with clinical care teams. �Being able to coordinate care essentially alleviates unnecessary services and duplicate tests with lowering costs and improvements in efficiencies in continuum care.
In speaking with Perianne Boring, Founder & President of the Chamber of Digital Commerce, "Healthcare offers one of the greatest and most immediate opportunities for blockchain technology to make an impact. The current system has not evolved to match the complex needs of modern patients, and the demand for greater data security and reduced costs has never been more apparent. We've dedicated a large part of our DC Blockchain Summit to furthering the adoption of blockchain in healthcare, including co-sponsoring the Blockchain in Healthcare Code-A-Thon with HHS/ONC, which is the first ever blockchain code-a-thon sponsored by a U.S. government agency. This is truly a historic milestone for the industry."
Capital One worked with Gem (a company whose tagline is to make complex data sharing simple) in late 2016 to deliver a successful prototype of the full life cycle of a medical claim on the blockchain. �"We believe this technology - combined with our client-centric approach to understanding our clients' needs - will not only help healthcare providers and payers more efficiently and securely manage healthcare claims, but also could be applied to other aspects of the healthcare revenue cycle to overcome system interoperability challenges that have been an industry pain point for decades." Patrick Moore, Executive Vice President and Head of Capital One's Treasury Management's Product Management group.
Gem, also launched Gem Health, a network for developing applications and shared infrastructure for healthcare powered by the Ethereum blockchain, and announced that Philips Blockchain Lab, a research and development center of healthcare giant Philips, was the first major healthcare operator to join the Gem Health network.
The company intends to leverage blockchain technology to address this enormous trade-off between patient-centric care and operational efficiency by creating a healthcare ecosystem connected to universal data infrastructure. The Gem Health blockchain network includes identity schemes, data storage, and smart contracts applications that execute against shared data infrastructure.
Gem Founder and CEO Micah Winkelspecht, who is bullish on the healthcare industry's faster adoption, said, "The industry is staring at a giant wall of new types of data and the gravity of patient records is a matter of life and death. The current systems are in crisis mode and are woefully unprepared for this real trifecta of big data analytics , IoT and machine learning, they have zero infrastructure. There really is an enormous opportunity here if we can just leverage it. Healthcare is going to adopt a lot faster than finance because the pain and the opportunity is a lot greater and we have witnessed some of the most disrupted players be the first at the table. �A blockchain to run the entire healthcare continuum: the free and instant transfer of healthcare data."
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Sassoon’s Poetic Protest against the War
Sassoon’s views on the war are very correct as he has had experience in several battles and knows what the First World War was like. In his point of view in the poems, everyone whether they be blind, deaf, injured e. t. c, can all play a part in the war and do a duty. He expresses this in the verse where he says, ‘There’s such splendid work for the blind. This line I find striking.
Sassoon knew about the terror and intense atmosphere of the war but he is saying that the people who were killed in the war died to save the country and it’s people.He expresses this constantly throughout his poems. ‘The General’ describes the relationship between the general and his soldiers. The general does not experience the front line attacking and so does not understand what the soldiers go through. He is harsh with them and doesn’t take to account about how they feel and how they are coping. The General was determined to win the war and so drummed as much energy into the soldiers as he possibly could. This was an advantage to the soldiers, as they needed to be kept on their feet with positive attitudes, leading them towards success.
Now the Soldiers he smiled at are most of em dead’ suggests the general’s character is friendly, but he does not think of the soldiers as humans. Sassoon expresses the message that the general is sending out to his soldiers. The final two lines of the poem are sarcastic. From this poem, you can tell that there are a lot of criticisms made towards the generals. I feel the general was to blame for the fate of the soldiers because he was the one who forced them to fight up front and without his influence they would have not attended there.The Generals dominant, unjust behavior caused the death of his soldiers.
The long pause in the before the last line of the poem indicates irony towards the General. In this poem, Sassoon uses soldiers’ slang such as ‘swine. ‘ By doing this, it gives the audience knowledge of the background and social class of the soldiers. Using slang is effective in this poem and adds force. ‘Suicide in the trenches’ is a very powerful poem. It tells the audience about the stress and torment the soldiers went though, ending up at breaking point and not being able to take the strain any more.They end their lives thinking it’s for the best for them so that they can rest in peace and leave the nightmare behind them. Sassoon wrote this poem with bitterness and sorrow, putting all his emotion into it, for he too had been there himself.
In the first verse, Sassoon uses simple language, which describes a soldier who ‘grinned at life in empty joy,’ meaning that he is happy with his life. Sassoon describes the depressive life of the soldiers and how they turned to alcohol, which acts as a depressant, taking away the soldiers intelligence. This abuse of alcohol drove them to suicide as they depended on it.In the last verse, Sassoon is talking to the audience.
He is angry about how they think that the soldier’s lives were a bed of roses and looking on them with ‘kindlingeye,’not accepting that these incidents occurred. ‘Sneak home and pray you’ll never know’ quotes that they are lucky and should be grateful that they never experienced such conditions. He treats the audience like hypocrites, targeting his anger onto them.
‘Does it matter? ‘ includes a sarcastic statement to Sassoon’s readers. The fact is that one would care if they lost any part of their body, meaning by Sassoon that it obviously would matter to the person.I feel that Sassoon is deliberately doing this to make an attack on followers of the war. Sassoon in his heart wants to help the sick and the injured, letting his audience know what disasters occurred. In this poem, Sassoon is drawing anger towards the war. In his verses, he is giving sympathy towards the soldiers, wanting to help them.
He tells the audience of his poem just how bad the war was, clearly reflecting that it makes people feel guilty of how they do not realize the torture and pain the soldiers went through.There is such splendid work for the blind;’ quotes a sarcastic meaning here. The attitude of Sassoon here indicates that whether you are blind, deaf or disabled in any shape or form you can still be of use to the world which I feel is arrogant by Sassoon as he does not have to live and experience the torment of being disabled. In this poem, Sassoon is attacking a positive attitude, telling the soldiers all is not over for them as they can still be of use. I find the final verse most striking. It is a flashback of the nightmares the soldiers experienced in the war.He is saying that now all that can be put behind you and forgotten for they can now drink and be merry now the war is over. He is reassuring the soldiers that no one will insult them for they are grateful to them that they saved them and fought for their country.
Sassoon compares the past to today. ‘And people won’t say you’re mad’ which people possibly called them in the time of the war, but their attitudes have now changed towards them for without the soldiers, who knows what terrible events could be happening in this country today? Would the country be controlled by some dictator?They have that to be thankful for. ‘The Hero’ expresses the contrast between a mother’s opinion of her dead son and the different opinion’s of the son’s fellow officer’s. Whilst reading this poem I felt compassion and sympathy towards the mothers who had lost their nearest and dearest during the war.
In the third verse, Sassoon changes the style of the poem. It is if he has changed his mind about the dead for it contains abusive language about the dead boy, thus calling him a ‘useless swine. ‘ Sassoon does this to protest against the way the soldiers were opinionated and treated.I think that Sassoon feels that it is his role to tell the mothers who lost their sons, the truth about what happened. From his experience of being a soldier, he may have witnessed seeing a general act this way and so feels it is his duty to follow the lead.
‘Great Men’ is a sarcastic poem, describing the men who seemed to stay out of the fireball of the war as weak and cowardly. Sassoon is angry that the real fighters of the war gain little respect while the others who stayed out of it get all the credit. The second verse, in my view contradicts the first because sarcasm is used more and harsher than in the first verse.He is telling the marshals and ministers to stop and think about treating the ‘real fighters’ and to start paying them respect and gratitude.
Sassoon dislikes the way the Ministers, Princes and ‘Great Men’ of a high status have a high opinion of themselves. Sassoon quotes, ‘Why can’t you keep your mouthings for the dead? ‘ meaning that why don’t these people talk and express their thanks and thoughts about the soldiers to the nation instead of them receiving all the glory when in truth and honesty should belong to the soldiers who lost their lives for their country.Go round the simple cemeteries; and then talk of our noble sacrifice and losses to the wooden crosses’ quotes that the ‘Great Men’ should visit the soldiers graves and apologize for their behavior against them which makes these last two lines of the poem forceful. Out of all of the poems by Sassoon, I find ‘The Hero’ to be the most striking. The use of language that Sassoon uses to put his message across is very convincing. The poem involves the reader, making them feel thankful for not experiencing such trumours.Sassoon has a clear way of making his audience place themselves into the mothers’ position, which I felt bereavement when reading.
Sassoon wrote this poem with a lot of depth and the impact it has is very strong. The issue of ‘death’ and ‘loss’ is a very traumatic experience for people. People, who have experienced death, can relate to the mother’s feelings towards their dead sons. In all of Sassoon’s poems, the final verses are all protesting against the war.
Sassoon gives all the last verses the most impact.He does this so that the audience remembers the rebellious accusations Sassoon has on the war and to give the ends of the poem a climax. He mentions the soldiers and how unfairly they are thought of, for they deserve much more respect and gratitude for what they have done. Sassoon is angry with the ungratefulness of his audience. I think that he feels the soldiers should be rewarded with a higher status than that of the Ministers and ‘Great Men’ for it takes a brave and compassionate man to take his own life for his country.
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René S. Garcia, Jr.· February 3, 2013
It’s difficult to explain how to appreciate Wrong, except to advise audiences to let go of preconceptions and try not to read too much into the film. Perhaps some of the strange goings-on have a deeper, farther reaching meaning, but audiences will probably never be able to definitely figure them out. Furthermore, having meaning would defeat the purpose of absurdist humor. So while aimed at a niche audience, those that fit it will enjoy this fun little movie.
Dolph Springer (Jack Plotnick) wakes one morning to find his dog, Paul, missing. Unable to find him, Dolph tries to go about his normal routine. Throughout the day he runs into his gardener who tries to explain why Dolph’s palm tree has spontaneously turned into a pine tree. Dolph also goes to work for a few hours at a job where the emergency sprinkler system continually runs, pouring down constant water everywhere while he tries to work. It’s not until Dolph is contacted by Master Chang (William Fichtner) that Dolph understands what’s happened to Paul.
From the very beginning, watching a van burn while firemen stand around idly by a fire truck while yet another fireman has a bowel movement nearby, Wrong defies comprehension. Later, audiences are treated to ironic alarm clocks, characters that seemingly come back from the dead, and an impossible work environment. Less absurd are the eccentric characters that populate the film, like Dolph’s neighbor, Mike (Regan Burns), who refuses to admit he likes to jog. There’s also Emma (Alexis Dziena), who works at the local pizza restaurant and indulges Dolph’s concerns about the restaurant’s logo. It’s definitely an odd world that writer/director Quentin Dupieux has created; one that’s not meant to be understood necessarily, but instead simply experienced.
In many ways, Wrong is a simple film, and that translates to the visuals as well. Yet the cinematography is never uninteresting; in fact, there’s a beauty in the simplicity. The camera’s presence is strong throughout, pulling focus on what’s necessary in deliberate ways, creating a sometimes surreal environment.
Those looking for a traditional movie experience will be sorely disappointed. There’s no tangible sense of story structure. Moreover, Dolph is a weak protagonist; he’s continually acted upon by the story rather than the other way around. Even the absurdity strains its entertainment value, rendering the majority of the film as a kind of nonsense that viewers can’t hope to expect anything that happens.
Yet, amazingly, Wrong comes together in the end in a satisfying manner. It won’t matter that a character came back from the dead or that a portion of what viewers just watched never really happened. For audiences that can appreciate this kind of film it will be enough that the main plot is resolved intelligibly. For the rest, Wrong is a challenge, but it’s a good first step toward building an appreciation for absurdist humor and Dupieux’s work in particular.
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To Live Ancient Lives signals a sharp redirection of Puritan studies. It provides the first comprehensive study of Puritan primitivism, defined as the drive to recover and return to church and society the ordinances of biblical times. This work traces a campaign to purify English Christianity of postapostolic accretions from the Henrician Reformation to the Great Migration of 1630 and through the first five decades in New England. Taking their bearings from a special past, Puritans were not concerned with the future in a modern sense. The Great Migration was not intended as an errand to reform the world or inaugurate the millennium, but as a flight to a free world in which long-lost biblical rules and ways could be reinstituted. Drawing on hundreds of sermons and tracts, Bozeman demonstrates how the search for the long-lost helps to identify Puritanism as a discrete order within Protestant dissent, and he locates that movement within the larger spectrum of restorationist Christian movements and of Western mythology. Originally published in 1988. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
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Focusing on sites of key significance and the world’s first civilizations, Ancient Lives is an accessible and engaging textbook which introduces complete beginners to the fascinating worlds of archaeology and prehistory. Drawing on their impressive combined experience of the field and the classroom, the authors use a jargon-free narrative style to enliven the major developments of more than three million years of human life. First introducing the basic principles, methods and theoretical approaches of archaeology, the book then provides a summary of world prehistory from a global perspective, exploring human origins and the reality of life in the archaic world. Later chapters describe the development of agriculture and animal domestication and the emergence of cities, states, and pre-industrial civilizations in widely separated parts of the world. With this new edition updated to reflect the latest discoveries and research in the discipline, Ancient Lives continues to be a comprehensive and essential introduction to archaeology.
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In recent years, British Museum curators have collaborated with scientists and medical experts to find new ways of studying ancient Egyptian mummies. Ever-developing, non-invasive scanning techniques have produced astonishing results, allowing us to understand more clearly how people lived and died in the ancient Nile Valley. Piecing together key biographical data and information, it has been possible for the first time to discover more about who these people were in ancient Egyptian society, their status and beliefs. Eight significant mummies are 'explored', each carefully selected to tell a different story. They include a young female temple singer, an unknown man of high status, and a child from the Roman era. For each of the mummies featured, a personal profile is built up, leading on to an investigation of a particular aspect of life or death in the ancient society to which they belonged. Diet, disease, personal adornment and childhood are just some of the themes covered and help to remind us that all the mummies were once living people. CT scans have revealed a wealth of information, such as the health problems that the individual must have suffered during life, age at death and sometimes cause of death, the manner of mummification and on occasion irregularities in the process. Illustrated throughout with astonishing CT images (segments and 3D models), the book reveals each stage of the virtual unwrapping. As each layer is removed, the reader is able to observe the bandages, skin, muscles, skeleton and internal organs, as well as any objects placed inside the mummies. Technology is transforming our understanding of these past inhabitants of the Nile valley, refining previous interpretations and providing answers to long-held questions. In some cases, we have at last been able to 'see' the person behind the mask.Funerary objects are also highlighted for context: for example, non-invasive imaging of the contents of canopic jars; analyses of embalming substances, and identification of wood species and pigment types used in coffins. The majority of the material is drawn from the British Museum's extensive Egypt and Sudan collections. With over 200 specially commissioned photographs, Ancient Lives, new discoveries sets out to shine a new light on the past.
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Today, Michigan is home to many different animals and plants. Yet nearly 12,000 years ago it was home to very different kinds of animals and flora. Huge mastodons and mammoths roamed through southern Michigan. Whales, walruses, and giant rodents swam in the lakes, and shaggy musk oxen grazed in the woodlands. Now, 2000 years later, all but their fossils are gone. Ancient Life of the Great Lakes Basin provides a one-of-a- kind look at ancient life in the Great Lakes. Written for the layperson and for the professional with biological or geological interest in the Great Lakes region, the book describes most of the common fossils found in this region. Detailed illustrations help identify many of the fossilized organisms that can be found today. Among the most interesting illustrations presented in the book are Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen's conceptions of what the fossilized creatures may have looked like when they were alive. In addition, color illustrations by van Frankenhuyzen depict spectacular scenes of ancient life in the Great Lakes area. The book begins with a brief review of biological and geological principles and then offers a framework for the study of the fossil record. Methods of collection, preservation and maintenance of fossils are also presented. Throughout the book, common fossils found today embedded in rocks and other solid matter are emphasized. J. Alan Holman is Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology in the Michigan State University Museum, and Professor of Geological Sciences, Michigan State University.
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by Richard Carufel | Aug 30, 2018 | Marketing, Public Relations
New research from buy-side ad platform Sizmek reveals the extent of brand safety concerns among marketers, with 38 percent admitting to having delivered an ad on a controversial or unsafe web page.
The study, which surveyed over 500 decision-making brand marketers across Europe and the U.S., also showed that only 61 percent of marketers currently have a third-party brand safety solution/partner in place on their digital campaign.
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There are many drawbacks involving the original Qolsys IQ Panel System. It is a fairly bulky panel, and it isn't a sleek as most of the newer "tablet-like" panels. The original Qolsys IQ Panel has a built-in 3G communicator, and 3G communicators can no longer be activated for montiroing service. The newer Qolsys IQ Panel 2 Plus has a built-in LTE communicator, which can be activated for monitoring service. It's also worth nothing that LTE networks are expected to remain in-service for many years to come. LTE communication is faster and more reliable than 3G communication, which is a major plus when communicating with Alarm.com. The Qolsys IQ Panel also does not support Bluetooth disarming, while the IQ Panel 2 does support this feature.
The original Qolsys IQ Panel only has a standard Z-Wave controller, while the IQ Panel 2 Plus has a Z-Wave Plus controller. Therefore, you will get better smart home automation performance by using a Qolsys IQ Panel 2. The original Qolsys IQ Panel can only support 319.5 MHz sensors, and it does not offer any encryption support. The newer Qolsys IQ Panel 2 Plus can support one of three legacy sensor frequencies (319.5 MHz, 345 MHz, or 433 MHz), and it can also support PowerG Sensors, which utilize military-grade 128-bit AES encryption. You cannot use PowerG Sensors on the original Qolsys IQ Panel. It is also impossible to live-stream compatible Alarm.com Security Cameras on the original Qolsys IQ Panel. However, the newer Qolsys IQ Panel 2 does support live-streaming for compatible Alarm.com Security Cameras. Lastly, the original Qolsys IQ Panel does not support partitioning, while the Qolsys IQ Panel 2 Plus supports up to four (4) partitions.
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[MUSIC PLAYING] Hi, DIYers. This is Michael, from Alarm Grid. And today, I'm going to answer the question of whether or not there are better security systems than the original Qolsys IQ panel. And the answer to that question is, yes, there are better systems than the original Qolsys IQ panel. Now, I have the original Qolsys IQ panel right here. This was the first system released from Qolsys, and it's a pretty outdated system. It's not very commonly used today, and there are many panels that we would recommend over this one. I have it up here for you to see. It's a pretty fat panel. It's pretty big. It's pretty bulky. It's got some weight to it. It's not as aesthetically pleasing as some of the newer, thinner, more tablet-like panels that we have available. So, this isn't something we would recommend. And it doesn't offer all the features that newer panels would offer, so this isn't one that we would normally go with. It has actually been replaced by the IQ Panel 2 Plus, which I have right here. As you can see, it's a lot slimmer, it's a lot thinner, it's got a sleeker design. It's got a tamper right now. But as you can see, it's got a slimmer design, and it's more user-friendly. Just looks better on your wall. So this is one we would definitely recommend. As far as this one goes, it lacks the features of the newer IQ Panel 2 Plus system. The IQ Panel 2 Plus has PowerG support. PowerG sensors have a range of about 2,000 feet away from the IQ Panel 2 Plus in an open air environment. That's an incredible range. You can use that in a larger home, or a business without issue. And there's even a PowerG repeater, if you really need to extend the range. They're also encrypted sensors. They use a military grade, 128-bit AES encryption with the PowerG sensors. So that's a big reason to get the IQ 2 Plus. The original IQ panel, which I have here, it only supports 319.5 megahertz sensors. And it cannot support any encrypted sensors, so you won't be able to use encryption on the original IQ panel system. Now, Qolsys did release these S-line 319.5 megahertz sensors for the IQ 2 Plus system. Those will use S-line encryption. And they are backwards compatible with the original IQ panel, but they won't utilize S-line encryption. If you use those 319.5 megahertz sensors, you won't get any encryption, if you're using this fat, original IQ panel system. So that's something to keep in mind. Also, if you're looking to get a system that uses HomeKit, this will not do it. The IQ Panel 2 Plus won't do it either. We're hoping it may be added at some point. But right now, the only system we have that can do HomeKit is the Honeywell Lyric Controller, right here. Also, the DSC Iotega can do it, but it doesn't offer end-user programming. So, if you're looking to get a HomeKit alarm system, the system to use with HomeKit devices, we would strongly recommend the Honeywell Lyric controller, right over here. Another thing to keep in mind-- the original Qolsys IQ panel, it has built-in Z-wave, but it's just standard Z-wave. You're only going to get the standard Z-wave hops. You're not going be able to take advantage of Z-wave Plus devices. You can use Z-wave Plus devices with the original IQ panel, but they're only going to operate as standard Z-wave devices. Now, if you have the IQ Panel 2 Plus, you'll be able to use the Z-wave Plus devices, and you'll get the full benefit of Z-wave Plus. So, that's another reason to get the IQ 2, if you want to take full advantage of Z-wave Plus for smart home automation. Another important thing-- the original IQ panel system, it is 3G cellular communication-- 3G. And the 3G sunset is approaching, alarm.com will no longer allow activations for 3G communicators. So, if you were to get this somewhere, you would not be able to activate this system for monitoring service, which is a pretty big deal because you want your security system to be monitored. Now, the IQ Panel 2 Plus, all of those systems have built-in LTE communicators. LTE stands for Long Term Evolution. It's going to be around for decades from now. It's a great way to future-proof your system, and it's built right in. You don't need to add a communicator to the system. And since it's LTE, you'll be able to activate it for monitoring service and activate it for use with alarm.com. So you can control the system remotely. But since the original IQ panel system only has a 3G communicator, you can no longer activate it for monitoring service, so that's something very important. Another thing to keep in mind-- if you have alarm.com security cameras, a lot of them allow for live streaming on the newer IQ Panel 2 Plus system. You can livestream your cameras and actually view the footage right from the panel itself. The original Qolsys IQ panel system-- it doesn't support that. You won't be able to livestream your cameras from this system. So if you get the IQ Panel 2 Plus, and you have a compatible alarm.com security camera, you'll be able to stream it right from the panel itself. In fact, if I go over here onto the menus here on the system we have pulled up, you can actually see there is a camera section right here. We can play cameras. Our cameras aren't set up at the moment, but that's where you would go. You would be able to livestream right from the panel, right there. And one last thing, or a couple of other things I do want to mention. The original Qolsys IQ panel, it does not support partitioning. This is a single partition system. You can't do partitions. The IQ Panel 2 Plus, it supports up to four partitions. So you can section off your system and have some sensors armed and able to trigger alarms on the system, while others will remain bypassed or inactive-- whatever you want to call it. But you don't get partitioning support on the original Qolsys IQ panel. You do get it on the IQ Panel 2 Plus. And one last thing. The original Qolsys IQ panel does not support Bluetooth disarming. If you're going to set up Bluetooth disarming for your phone when you get within range of your system, you can have your system automatically disarm if you have the Qolsys IQ Panel 2 Plus. You can't do that on the original Qolsys IQ panel. This does not support Bluetooth disarming. So, those are several reasons why there are better systems than the original Qolsys IQ panel. We recommend the Qolsys IQ Panel 2 Plus. Or if you're looking for a HomeKit system, we'd recommend the Honeywell Lyric controller. If you found this video helpful, please give it a thumbs up below to like the video, and subscribe to our channel for future updates. And if you have any questions, send us an email to support@alarmgrid.com. And check out our website-- alarmgrid.com. Thanks, have a great day.
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Keith Killgo, drummer, vocalist and one of the founding members of the jazz-fusion group, the Blackbyrds, has been a part of the metamorphosis that has taken place in the world of jazz. From the age of four years old, he studied piano--going on to train with Roberta Flack. Although the piano was his first instrument, his affinity for the drums was exhibited early in his music career. By the time, he was eleven he had played drums with Sonny Stitt, Stan Getz, Miles Davis, Woody Shaw, Bill Hardman, Art Blakey’s band and Eddie Harris. Killgo entered Bradley University in Illinois where he became a part of the Joe Henderson Quintet, along with Stanley Clark, Hal Galper and Woody Shaw
ARTICLE: MULTIPLE REVIEWS June 27, 2016
Montreux Through The Decades: Jazz Recordings, Part One
By IAN PATTERSON
To celebrate Montreux Jazz Festival's 50th edition in 2016, and as a posthumous tribute to the festival's founder, the late Claude Nobs, All About Jazz is launching a new column entitled Montreux Through the Decades, which will periodically present reviews of officially released live recordings from MJF, from its first edition in 1967 to the present. ...
ARTICLE: ALBUM REVIEW May 2, 2016
Howard University Jazz Ensemble: HUJE 2015
By JACK BOWERS
In 1975, Howard University, a bulwark of higher education in our nation's capital since 1867, formed its first Jazz Ensemble and named a young trumpeter / educator, Fred Irby III, as director. One year later, Irby ushered the ensemble into a recording studio to verify its prowess, a tradition that has continued uninterrupted for forty years. ...
NEWS: PERFORMANCE / TOUR November 15, 2007
Keith Killgo Named Music Director of "A Pryor Experience"
Rain Pryor Launches New Jazz Cabaret WASHINGTON, DC -- Keith Killgo, veteran Blackbyrds drummer and vocalist is themusic director for 'A Pryor Experience', a new jazz cabaret performed by the award-winning actress, Rain Pryor. The bi-racial daughter of the late and legendary comic icon Richard Pryor and a militant Jewish woman, Rain produced and starred in ...
By KEITH KILLGO
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A Dedicated Headphone Amplifier.
If you would rather go small and low power here is a solid state headphone driver you could build an amplifier around.
If you like to listen to tube amplifiers you can buy one on eBay and listen to it through speakers to your hearts content. If you like listening to headphones you can plug them into a solid state amplifier and listen to your hearts content. If you would like to listen to tube amplifiers through headphones you are out of luck because the old tube amplifiers don't have headphone jacks.
STOP THE PRESSES!
It seems I was wrong. I received an email informing me that tube amplifiers with headphone jacks were made by Scott, Fisher, and others. They didn't find it necessary to fully load the output when the speakers were switched off. Some designs connected a 25 ohm resistor to the 16 ohm tap and others used values as high as 100 ohms. This was apparently sufficient to damp the inductive kick and prevent oscillation. If you are fortunate enough to own one of these amplifiers you really don't need to build this project. Of coarse you may want to just for the fun of it.
Potential Problems with Headphone Jacks on Tube Amplifiers?
That speakers on/off switch could be a problem. Every solid state amp has one but I have never seen one, although I now know they do exist, on a tube amp. An S S amp acts more like a regulated power supply than a tube amp. The amp output supplies what ever amount of current is demanded by the combination of load resistance and output voltage. The voltage remains uneffected by load resistance. There is no such thing as impedance matching. That's why there are not separate terminals for 4, 8, and 16 ohm speakers on a solid state amplifier. If the load is an open circuit there is no current but the voltage remains the same; it does not rise to component damaging values.
A tube amp on the other hand is matched to the speaker impedance. If you have 4 ohm speakers you have to connect them to the 4 ohm tap on the output transformer not the 8 or 16 ohm tap. Moreover tube amps do not like operating into an open circuit. The design engineers were smart enough to keep them from going into oscillation but there is a distinct possibility of damaging the output transformer. If you turned on your tube amp and left the speaker switch off you might turn the volume up all the way in an attempt to hear something. The output tubes would be driven between saturation and cutoff and this would cause the inductance inherent in the output transformer winding to generate high voltage spikes, possibly as much as 2000 volts, which could cause the transformer windings to arc over and ruin the transformer. When a load is on the secondary this effect is damped and these dangerous voltages are not generated. This load does not have to be equal to the normal speaker impedance but can be somewhat larger depending on the design. And so I no longer believe that you will never see a tube amp with a headphone jack.
Another way it could be done. The speakers off switch could totally shut down the power output stage and the headphones could be driven by a circuit similar to the output stage in this project. I don't think this was ever done in a commercially available amplifier.
Modern headphones have an impedance of 100 ohms. They only require about 50 millivolts to drive them to a normal listening level. (As opposed to the hearing destroying level some people listen at in their cars.) That's 2.2 milliwatts; believe it or not. Even if somebody wanted to listen 20 dB higher than that it's still only 22 milliwatts. It doesn't take much power to drive headphones.
The 100 ohm impedance and the small amount of power means that an output transformer is not necessary. (The headphone amp for the original 4 ohm Koss phones did need one.) Some engineers might come up with other ways but my approach was to use a cathode follower. The tube I selected was a 6CG7. When you look up this tube in the Sylvania tube manual it refers you to the data for a 6SN7. So it is a 9 pin mini version of that venerable tube.
I set up the circuit on the breadboard and gave it a listening and distortion test. It sounded really good and measured less than 0.1% distortion. All without any negative feedback applied except that inherent in the cathode follower itself.
Noise below normal listening level.
Magnetic Phono Input,
Auxiliary Input,
more than 80 dB.
Frequency response plus or minus 1 dB,
8 to 26000 cycles.
Distortion at 10 dB above normal listening level,
If I were to put the whole article on one page it would take a long time to download over a dialup connection. I have broken it up into smaller parts. This way you can read what ever you want to and skip the rest.
Schematic diagram and circuit description.
Parts list and where to buy them.
Construction details.
A heart in love with the beauty
of glowing tubes never grows old.
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The Contemporary Art Market is not what it was 20 years ago. It has undergone profound structural changes, with evermore artists (from 5,400 artists to nearly 32,000 today) and evermore artworks (from 12,000 lots offered to 123,000) and it has grown and expanded geographically, from 39 to 64 countries active in auctions. It has accelerated with the fluidification of remote transactions and is now the most dynamic and profitable segment of the entire Art Market. In 20 years, the number of auction houses participating in the Contemporary Art Market has almost doubled, the number of specialized sessions has tripled, and the number of lots sold has multiplied by six.
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Contemporary Artists from China, Japan and Korea… from Africa and the African diasporas… from Latin America and the Middle East… are today all operating in a market that has not only opened internationally, it has opened to female artists and a whole range of alternative narratives with substantial cultural and symbolic significance. This challenge to Western hegemonic narratives of Art History has opened new horizons for thousands of artists around the world. Since the start of the 21st century, the question of diversity has been at the heart of debates, and at the root of major developments within the Art Market.
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The Contemporary Art Market is a market under the influence of a number of different factors including passion for art, soft-power ambitions, financial speculation, fashion and of course nowadays, the massive influence of the digital sphere in terms of marketing, coolhunting etc.. Today social networks (the new influencers), pop stars, luxury and streetwear brands play an active role in the popularization of artists. They contribute to the orientation of tastes, just as art critics used to do. Online presences have played a vital role in countering the impacts of the Covid crisis, and have proved absolutely essential for a number of major market players. In reality, the Contemporary Art Market has just passed an important milestone in 2020, a milestone that represents the true beginning of its digital revolution.
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This extraordinary progression is driven by the passions that Contemporary Art elicits, but it is also based on the confidence that it has won. Nowadays, collectors no longer necessarily prefer work by dead artists, and they allow themselves to be convinced by new techniques, new art forms and new influences by living artists. Today, at a time of unprecedented crisis, the Contemporary Art Market is still galloping forward. Indeed, it's the segment that adapts fastest to changes and the one that lends itself best to online sales.
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A D D I S O N U P H O L S T E R Y
Addison Upholstery will be closing early the 24th and 31st. and will be closed Dec. 25-26 and Jan 1-2. We will return to normal hours starting Jan 4th.
We wish you Happy Holidays and please stay safe!
Addison Upholstery is a family business that has been serving the Dallas - Fort Worth metroplex for over 15 years.
Daniel first opened his doors as Daniel's Custom Furniture in 1997, specializing in carpentry and made to order furniture pieces. He decided to focus on upholstery and started Andy's Upholstery on Trinity Mills and Josey Lane. He moved to the current location on Trinity Mills at Midway Road in 2003 as Addison Upholstery. It was named for its close approximation to Texas' busiest independent airport, Addison Airport. Back in the day when people used phonebooks, he wanted to be at the top of the list! How business saavy!
Daniel's youngest son, Long, took over the business in 2017. This picture is from when their youngest daughter, Swan, ran the business from 2012-2017 and she hasn't updated it because Long hates pictures! They all enjoy working together, but if it ever sounds like they're yelling, don't fret. Vietnamese is an animated language!
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Banksgiving: Delivering Big Surprises to Customers Who Give Back to Their Communities
Do you remember the last time someone genuinely thanked you? Went out of their way to recognize your contributions and express their gratitude? Chances are that heartfelt phone call from your BFF, warm email from a coworker, or plate of cookies from your neighbor was a welcome surprise that put a smile on your face for the rest of the day.
Now, can you imagine if that heartfelt token of thanks came from your bank?
It’s rare that companies take the time to thank their customers these days. In fact, it’s become the norm for customers to feel unappreciated — waiting in line or holding on the phone to conduct transactions and feeling nickel-and-dimed by hidden fees. It just doesn’t seem right.
That’s why Ally Bank created Banksgiving — a time of year when we strive to say “thank you” in a big way, by personally recognizing some of our amazing customers and surprising them with gifts that support their families and the causes they are passionate about this holiday season.
This Banksgiving, Ally representatives surprised unsuspecting customers who called in to our service center, asking how we could help them beyond their banking needs. Then we fulfilled their special requests.
We granted wishes big and small — from a set of baseball tickets to a new car — all to help customers who help others.
Banksgiving Highlights
Angel’s Story
Angel Fitchett lives in Houston, TX and is an army veteran and a single mom with an adopted 12-year old daughter. She volunteers for the Abundant Harvest Food Truck, providing meals to the homeless, senior citizens, those affected by natural disasters, and others in her community.
Volunteering has been a part of Angel’s life since she was a child, and she believes that giving back is an opportunity to teach her daughter how to help make the world a better place.
By talking with Angel, we learned that Abundant Harvest had just moved to a new facility, so our Banksgiving surprise included delivering brand new appliances to the organization to support their mission of feeding people in need. We also learned that Angel had recently sold her house, and she and her daughter had been living in a hotel during the transition, so we gifted her one year’s rent to help bring the family home for the holidays and give them a fresh start for the new year.
Ryan’s Story
Ryan Galle is a care coordinator at Central City Concern, a Portland, Oregon based center that helps recovering addicts get healthy and transition back into society. As a care coordinator, Ryan makes sure that patients at the center are connected with a group of doctors and mental health professionals that can help to improve their well-being as they recover. He lost his dad to addiction and thus feels a strong sense of purpose in helping others overcome addiction.
For his dedication to this important cause, Ally’s Banksgiving gift to Ryan included a donation to help ten people complete treatment at Central City Concern. Outside of his work at the center, Ryan is an avid baseball fan and he runs a local softball league. So, as an added treat, we surprised Ryan and his wife with a VIP trip to see a Red Sox vs. Yankee game in Boston.
Vince’s Story
Vince Horiuchi is a dance educator who brings the art of break dancing to underserved communities and students in Los Angeles. When funding was cut to one school where he was working, Vince began a YouTube channel to continue to reach his students. He says that when children learn to express themselves through movement, they build a strong sense of self-worth and confidence that influences their daily lives and leads to improved classroom behavior.
Ally learned that Vince struggled to travel from school to school with his equipment in an older car. So, for Banksgiving, we gifted Vince a new car to make it easier for him to connect with students. We also donated the funds needed to bring back visual and performing arts programs to the El Monte school district for the 2020 school year.
This Banksgiving, Ally wants to thank all of our customers — especially those who are helping to make their communities a better place.
See last year’s Banksgiving surprises.
Check out more details about Banksgiving.
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Consultation 101: What You Should Be Asking and Avoiding
by Michelle McKelvey
photo by UberImages/iStock/Getty Images Plus
On top of uncovering a client's beauty wishes, a successful consultation develops rapport and assures the client that they're in good hands. That said, there are a number of points you should be addressing, and some you should be avoiding during the initial consultation. We chatted with a few industry notables to get their top tips on nailing a consultation.
What's one question you always ask?
"Every question is equally important. I let the guest talk, and even if they say they don't know what they want, I stay quiet for a bit so it forces them to tell me what they are happy with and what they're unhappy with."—Amanda Epstein, Matrix artistic educator
"What is it that you don't want?"—Ivan Rodriguez, BioSilk hairstyling ambassador
"I always ask how often they shampoo and heat style their hair—those two factors have the biggest effect on the quality of the hair and the longevity of the service."—Cali Trostel, Rusk master colorist
How long is your average consultation?
"I typically allow five-seven minutes for the consultation. Considering all visual aids available to hairstylists today—Instagram, Pinterest, etc.—the consultation can be expedited a bit."—Eric Fisher, Aquage platform artist
"My consultations typically take 15-20 minutes. There comes a point when you say too much during a consultation, and it's either because you are unsure or the client is unsure. Have confidence in your abilities and if the client is truly unsure, that's where we step in as professionals."—Amanda Epstein
How do you address a client's hair concerns during consultation?
"Diagnosis and initial communication allow you to develop trust, empathy and sometimes even a friendship that goes beyond being behind the chair. It's easy to address an areas of concern once you've reached that level."—Ivan Rodriguez
"I start off all of my consultations by asking clients to tell me one thing they love about their hair, and then one thing they really want to change. This often leads to their most pressing likes and dislikes so I know that those are the issues we should be prioritizing."—Cali Trostel
What's something you try to avoid during consultations?
"Always try to avoid interruptions. Avoid answering your phone or looking at the person next to you. Give 100 percent of your attention to your client, especially during the consultation."—Eric Fisher
"Always avoid putting the previous hairdresser's work down. Remember, this is a first impression. Do not ever lower yourself by belittling another person's work."—Travis Parker, L'Oréal Professionnel artist.
Do you factor in consultation time for your appointments?
"If it's a new guest, I will not book the consultation at the same time. Most people don't know what they want done, and if they do, it's usually not a one-step process. I will do a test strand at the time of the consultation, but it's important to get all of the facts and then we can book the appropriate amount of time for an appointment on another day."—Amanda Epstein
"I add on an extra ten minutes with each client for the consultation. It's important to have a good booking tool for organization."—Ivan Rodriguez
"I prefer to have clients come in for a consultation prior to booking them for an appointment. I typically do this during the processing time of another client."—Cali Trostel
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Personality Profiles
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Brenna Peterson makes the most of senior year
Ella Bartlett, Editor in Chief
Winter cheerleader and lover of language Brenna Peterson is a senior who has a lot to look forward to in her last semester at Ames. Just as her season of cheer has ended, she has more time to get more involved in clubs like Garden Club, Key Club, and Senior Senate. And this spring break she is going on the Spain trip.
“17 other students with Mrs. Billings and Mrs. Deam are going,” Peterson said. They are leaving Thursday the 19th, and this will be Petersen’s first time out of the country.
“My hostess is Ana Clemente. She’s 17, like me,” Peterson said. “I’ll get to tour their hometown of Segovia [and] follow them around [during] the school day.” One significant difference between Ames and Segovia is the amount of history. Peterson added, “They are known for aqueducts and the castles.”
Next year, she plans to continue her exploration of languages at ISU. “[For a major] I’m undecided. Maybe Spanish. I really love languages, [and] I might pick up another language on the way.”
She is open to other majors as well, but she knows she probably won’t continue sports or cheerleading. “This is my first and only year [in cheer]. It’’s been a lot of fun… we had little sisters/little brothers, and it’s helped me to know more people.”
With cheer now a fond memory of the fall season, Peterson said she’d like Garden Club to take precedent. “Planting is one of my favorite things,” Peterson said. She also will have more time to spend on her violin.
Then, in less than 3 months, it will all be over. “It’s incredibly strange,” Peterson commented about how soon her high school career is ending. With the Spain trip, garden club, orchestra, and many other activities still left on her plate, Peterson knows she will make the best of her last weeks in high school.
“Just yesterday, it was the start of freshman year,” Peterson said. “It’s sad and exciting at the same time.”
Ella Bartlett, Editor-in-Chief
Ella Bartlett likes to write just about anything that is remotely interesting or strange. She is ecstatic about being Co-editor in Chief with William Fowler,...
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Why is hands-free technology imperfect?
On behalf of Anderson, Moschetti & Taffany, PLLC | Oct 12, 2020 | Motor Vehicle Accidents |
New York drivers understand the need to stay focused on the road. After all, distracted driving makes up an enormous share of driving-related crashes and fatalities. But sometimes, there are situations in which a driver must use a handheld device. Rideshare and delivery workers are among these people.
Hands-free technology exists as an attempt to address the dangers of using a handheld device while driving. It has some successful points, but unfortunately, there is still a long way to go.
Hands-free tech addresses visual and physical distractions
The National Safety Council says hands-free technology cannot offer a driver full protection. The biggest flaw exists at a fundamental level as well, making it difficult to address and fix.
This flaw involves the three categories that most distracted behaviors can fit into. They include cognitive, visual and physical distractions. For example, driving by another car wreck can serve as a visual distraction. Dropping something on the floor of your car and reaching down to pick it up is a physical one. Cognitive distractions involve anything that takes your mind off the task at hand: in this case, driving.
Cognitive distractions continue to be an issue
Hands-free devices allow you to use your phone with voice commands and dictation. Since you do not have to look at the screen, it cuts down on visual distractions, too. Unfortunately, they enable the use of handheld devices, which are a cognitive distraction at their base.
Until hands-free devices find a way to address this issue, they cannot guarantee driver safety. If you got injured by a distracted driver, you can take a look at our page on handling the aftermath of a car crash. Getting back on your feet after a wreck is often a time-consuming and expensive process. It helps to have experts on your side.
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